Hi you guys my name is Brittany and welcome back to my youtube channel. You guys in today's video we are just going to have like a old school chit chat video. I really wanted to just come to you guys today and talk about some like really good tips and advice before starting off your home schooling year. Today I had all intentions on sharing with you guys my um get it all done video where I organized all of like my curriculum and I got my home school room together and I prepared for like my kiddo's first day of school and all that jazz but I really felt like in my heart I wanted to post this video first. I really wanted to speak to that like first time homeschooling mom that's a little bit nervous about starting off their homeschool year and even me you guys even though I'm going into my fourth year of homeschool I definitely feel like I have a lot to learn. I am definitely not a veteran homeschool and I definitely feel like um I'm still learning. I'm still changing. I'm still evolving. I've made so many mistakes. If you guys followed along my homeschooling journey and you just watched some of my older videos you can see some of the mistakes that I made and um I definitely want to give you guys some tips and advice just from my personal experience and starting off your homeschooling year and I really hope that today's video will be like a sense of encouragement and um it will give you peace and starting off your homeschool year. So you guys my first tip of advice before starting off your homeschooling year definitely will be like my biggest tip of advice. If you don't take anything from this video just take this one tip. Homeschool mom, dad, parent, homeschool educator, whoever you are make sure you take care of yourself.  So however you fill your battery um self whether that be like through self-care prayer and meditation exercise if you like to read paint garden whatever you do to fill your cup please fill it up fill it to the rim and um start off your homeschool year rejuvenated and refreshed homeschooling is definitely not a sprint you guys it's a marathon and we have to be equipped and ready for this marathon. I definitely will say I have failed in this area all three of my past homeschooling years. I have neglected myself and I've failed to take proper care of myself. I have experienced burnout in all of my three years of homeschool when I really could have prevented it from just taking proper care of myself. One thing I definitely will say implementing my like Sabbath homeschooling schedule where I do that six weeks on one week off it really helped me last year in preventing out my burnout a lot more but I'm going to utilize my week off more effectively and I'm really going to take out that time to like recharge just take out one day for myself you guys and I encourage you to do the same take out that one or two or weekend whatever you can do for yourself to make sure that you are not pouring from an empty cup. Trust me it leads to destruction really really fast so I am definitely prioritizing myself this homeschooling year. My second tip of advice is do not start off your homeschool year feeling overwhelmed. If you feel overwhelmed more than likely you are feeling overwhelmed because you are not fully prepared and as August is right around the corner you guys you will be seeing everyone starting their first day of school the first day of school pictures and if you are quite not there yet ready to start your first day of school wait until September October November it is no race to when you actually start your homeschooling year especially for you guys who may have just had like new babies you added to your family whether you have a chronic illness and you're not at a hundred percent with your personal health or you may have had a death in your family or just any personal circumstance that may be preventing you from starting off your homeschool year in August please just take out that time for yourself for your family it's not a race it doesn't matter when you start or end really begin your homeschooling year I guess at peace and knowing that you are fully prepared to start that's one of my mistakes that I made in my first year of homeschool you guys I was ill prepared I felt like because you know the public school was starting in August I had to start I didn't have all of my curriculum ready for my oldest daughter and starting our first year of homeschool I really just put that pressure on myself to start just because I thought that was when I needed to start and I really could have eliminated it like that first month of being overwhelmed in my first year of homeschool if I just took my time and prepared everything I would have been better off just starting off in September you guys to really be honest and I learned that mistake the hard way my third piece of advice is at this point we have seen so many like new curriculum releases and we've seen a lot of people's curriculum choices and their plans and everyone's doing something unique and fun and different and it's so tempting at this point to really doubt your personal curriculum choices and decisions it's tempting to add in things that we don't need in our homeschool to buy this to buy that and I definitely want to say if you feel that step away and walk back while social media it's fun and it's engaging and it's a really good tool for us to gain information and reviews and new resources I feel like if it's used unproperly we can definitely fall into a bad rabbit trail you guys I have had such a bad habit and addiction with purchasing too much curriculum and this year you guys I have put my foot down on myself I have told everyone in this house my husband my daughter everyone in this house is going to help me hold me accountable to me not purchasing any unnecessary things that I don't need especially when it comes to like curriculum and I definitely will say don't second guess your plan for your homeschool don't worry if your plan looks a lot different put your blinders on you guys don't worry about what Sue or May or Johnny down the street is doing you focus on you your homeschool your kids and that includes me you guys if I'm doing something different that's inspiring to you and you may want to try it or things like that stay true to yourself and your plan don't allow other people to influence your decisions in your homeschool you know you and your kiddos best and definitely know that it's okay if you may do things a little bit differently than others stay true to yourself and do not doubt your choices in your homeschool now I definitely know it's times where you know you do have to make pivots and curriculum switches and you know that's just a part of the learning process to really be honest especially in your first years of homeschool you're really kind of getting used to different curriculums and resources you're still figuring your kids out and I feel like those courses are inevitable but if you already picked something just try stay true to it don't worry what everyone else is doing and focus on you and your kiddos my next piece of advice is before starting off your homeschool at least one to two weeks try to reestablish those routines that you have set in place such as like your chores your bed times your cleaning routines really get your kiddos back into like that habit before actually adding in your homeschool I really feel like it's overwhelming when you're trying to add in like your household systems and your chores and all that along with homeschooling so take out maybe a couple of weeks before starting off your homeschool year to reestablish those things in your household and that includes you mom like for me what I did was a couple of weeks before we actually started our homeschool year I made sure I did like a you know house reset where I reset at my home I did like a few deep cleaning projects I didn't totally like tear the house down you guys but I did tackle those main areas that I really wanted to like I deep clean my floors and my kitchen and I targeted like those high traffic areas so when I it was time for me like to really sit down with my kiddos and start our lessons I wasn't distracted by you know seeing a counter that I wanted to clean or a cabinet I wanted to reorganize I really made sure that at least the things that was in hindsight for me I reset my home I made sure my laundry room wasn't looking in shambles you guys I'm really bad about the laundry I try my best but that is definitely my Achilles heels in my home but I definitely caught up on laundry and I did all those little nitty gritty things so when it came time for me to do my kiddos studies I wasn't focused on like my household chores that I had to do another thing that is definitely great to do is at least meal prep if you are not the type of person to meal prep at least have a few meals are ready to go as far as like dinner lunch breakfast for at least your first week of home school you are going to be very happy that you did that because that's going to be one less thing you have to use your brain power for I'm not the best when it comes to actually like meal prep you know okay we're going to eat this Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday but what I am good at is making sure when I go to the grocery stores I have all of the items in my pantry to make like whether it be like spaghetti or chili or stir fry or whatever type of meal I want to make I make sure I have all of those ingredients and I just pick whatever day we're going to eat it and that works out for me so if you're a little bit more loosey-goosey with your meal plans like me at least like have a plan because it definitely is helpful because at the end of you know my home school one day you guys like I'm done I'm exhausted I'm not trying to think about dinner I'm not trying to think about anything and to already have those steps already prepared for me it really helped me in starting back my home school this year um my next thing and piece of advice will be is don't start off your home school year doing everything really take it easy um some people like to start off doing one kid at a time and starting off their home school um everyone does it a little bit different as far as starting off their home school year for me I like to start off just doing the core that's like math and language and reading and then I slowly add in like my history science and electives for my kiddos and that really has been helpful for me and I think I'm going to continue to do that and um whether however your soft start looks don't do everything you are bound to fall really just slowly ease into your home schooling year um my next piece of advice and this one you guys I am working on so hard is to put your phone down especially when you are in lessons um it really allows me not to be distracted um in putting my phone down uh I had a really bad habit with picking up my phone I had like notifications or comments that I was answering in the middle of like my lesson time and what I have been doing now is actually keeping my phone in a separate room um and that really has been helping me out I mean I know some people may not have to go to that extreme but for me I definitely do I have to definitely keep my phone away uh not have it there so I can be fully present for my kiddos in their lessons and then when it's my downtime of course you know I can do my little scrolling listen to my audible books and things like that but I definitely want to try to be more present in the moment this home schooling year and that's definitely something I am doing uh my next thing is just to really document your first day of school uh have fun celebrate it doesn't have to be all big and you know elaborate when it comes to like your first day of school you guys um I really keep it simple when it comes to our first day of school I just like to document our journey um one thing me and my oldest order has been doing since our first year of homeschool is every first day we have been making like homemade bookmarks and it's so much fun to make those bookmarks and then we use them throughout the home schooling year and um that's just one of our traditions we keep it really really simple I get each of the kiddos like one little special gift they see their new crayons and markers and things like that and you know that's pretty much it over here um we make a nice breakfast so we might have like pancakes or cinnamon buns or something like fun or a treat we typically don't have but other than that you guys that is like our tradition um I know you may see on Instagram like these big elaborate like first day parties and things like that and you don't have to do all that you guys just keep it simple celebrate your kiddos and um have a great first day of school um my next piece of advice and my last piece of advice is just to give yourself grace as you are kick starting like your new home schooling year um is definitely going to be some pivots and schedule adjustments and changes as you are getting used to like your curriculum and you're getting used to your flow you may be adding in a kid um in this home schooling year really just give yourself and your kids grace you will get back into the flow of things it takes six weeks to form a habit so just know if your first few weeks your first couple of months feel rocky it's okay you guys will kind of get into your groove and get back into things when it comes to home school um and you will make little pivots and changes and that's completely fine uh just really just try to stay consistent and take it one day at a time you guys this home schooling year i have two words of the year my first word of the year is for me to simplify and uh that was something i really have been working hard on is just to simplify our routine our curriculum our habits my next word is to connect i really want to prioritize this year connecting and we're connecting in three ways we are going to be connecting with god we're going to be connecting with our family and we're going to be connecting with our community so that is like my home schooling goals and my models this home schooling year and i really hope i can stay true to myself and i can stay true to my kiddos and honoring them and honoring our home school so you guys i really want to let you know um don't be nervous it's okay if you're nervous you've got butterflies in your stomach uh you're fearful of the unknown you can do this we all are going to have great home schooling years uh that's not going to eliminate the struggle or the the down days or the sad days but i definitely want to let you guys know you can do it i can do it we will have awesome home schooling years thank you guys so much for watching today's video and i look forward to seeing everybody in my next one bye


So in calculus, the concept of infinity becomes important. And one place it emerges is in the following. Suppose I want to find the limit as x approaches 0 from above of 1 over x. So I'll try out some x values that are close to 0, but always staying a little bit above it. 0.1, 0.01, 0.001, and I'll evaluate 1 over x. Now there is no number that these values approach, so there is no limit in the usual sense. However, these values have the property of getting larger and larger without bound. To record this observation, we say that the limit is infinity, and we record that using our infinity symbol. Sometimes we'll write this as plus infinity for specificity, because these are large positive numbers. And it is vitally important to remember that the symbol of infinity expresses the idea of a quantity that increases without bound. It is not a number. Similarly, we might ask what happens to the limit as x approaches 0 from below of 1 over x. So I'll take a look at x values that are close to but less than 0, negative 0.1, negative 0.01, negative 0.001, and I'll find 1 over x is minus 10, minus 100, minus 1000, and our values are becoming more and more negative without bound. And to record this observation, we say the limit is negative infinity, and write it using a negative infinity notation. If our infinity symbol indicates something that is becoming more and more, whether positive or negative, without bound, then we can also talk about the limit as x goes to infinity of a function. For example, let's look at the limit as x goes to infinity of 1 over x. So as before, we'll consider x values that are getting larger and larger and larger, and we'll calculate our 1 over x values. And here, these values do seem to be approaching a number. We round these to the same number of decimal places we get 0. And so this table suggests that the limit as x goes to infinity of 1 over x is 0. We can go a little bit further. Nothing significant would change if our denominator was x squared, or x cubed, or square root of x, or in general x raised to any positive power. And so this suggests the following theorem. If our exponent n is greater than 0, then the limit as x goes to infinity of 1 over x to the n is equal to 0. And if we combine this with all of our other limit theorems, then we'll be able to calculate many limits as x goes to infinity. For example, let's find this limit, and it will always be useful to determine what type of function this is. So remember, the type of function is determined by the last operation performed, and in this case, we're adding, and so this is a sum. So we can use our theorem about the limit of a sum is the sum of the limits. Now if we take a look at the individual functions here, this 3 over x and this 5 over x squared, we can rewrite those as 3 times 1 over x and 5 times 1 over x squared. And now these functions are constant multiples, and so we can invoke our constant multiple theorem. And now we're trying to find the limit as x goes to infinity of 1 over x and the limit as x goes to infinity of 1 over x squared, but we have a theorem that tells us the limit as x goes to infinity of 1 over x to the n. And that allows us to find our limit. As another example, we might find the limit as x goes to infinity of the square root of 1 plus 4 over x squared. And the type of function is determined by the last operation, and so this is a root and the limit of a root is the root of the limit and the limit of a sum is the sum of the limits and we can evaluate these limits directly. And this will give us a couple more indeterminate and determinant forms. Suppose the limit as x approaches a if some function is infinity, the limit of g is also infinity and the limit of h is l, some determinant number. Well, the limit of h of x over f of x, that's the limit of a quotient, is the quotient of the limits will be l over infinity. This is going to be determinant with the value of 0 and that's because I'm taking a number and dividing it by an increasingly larger and larger number. Likewise, I can take the limit as x approaches a of f of x over h of x. Again, this is the limit of a quotient, so that will be the quotient of the limits and this will have form infinity over l and this is determinant with the value of infinity. And then finally, the limit as x approaches a of f of x over g of x is indeterminate because it has form infinity over infinity and as with other indeterminate forms, we can often simplify these algebraically. So let's try and find the limit of a rational function. Since it's a quotient, we can find the limits individually, however, both numerator and denominator do have a limit of infinity, so this is an indeterminate form. Now, if we could somehow change this so our denominator has a non-zero limit, we can find the limit of the quotient and this leads to the following idea. If we have a rational function, we'll multiply the numerator and denominator by 1 over x to the n, where x to the n is the highest power of x in the denominator. So in this rational function, the highest power of x in the denominator is x squared and so we'll multiply numerator and denominator by 1 over x squared. And we'll do some algebraic simplifications and since this is the limit of a quotient, we can evaluate this as the quotient of the limits and get a limit value of zero. Now, let's also find some support for this answer numerically. So we're trying to find out what happens to this expression as x gets larger and larger, so we'll pick some large values for x at x equals 100 or 1000 or 10000. It appears we are getting values close to zero, which supports our claimed limit of zero. What about a more complex expression? So the highest power of x in the denominator appears to be x squared, but because it's under a radical, it's really the square root of x squared, which reduces down to x, since if x goes to infinity, if x gets larger and larger, x will be a positive number. So we'll multiply numerator and denominator by 1 over the square root of x squared, otherwise known as 1 over x, and then do some algebra to simplify the expression. And we'll apply our limit theorems to find our limit, which will be 3 over 1 or 3.


Good morning everyone. Good morning and welcome to the first full day of the sixth annual Theodore Roosevelt Symposium here on the campus of Dickinson State University. We are very glad that you're here. I want to just make a couple of announcements before I introduce our president, Mr. Costin, but before that I want to read a letter from Senator Kent Conrad. I want to acknowledge that the mayor of Dickinson, Dennis Johnson, is with us this morning. He will not be speaking this morning, but you will hear him later this afternoon at the statue dedication on the the lawn of the Stark County Courthouse. We also have students here, high school students from several surrounding communities, and I want to particularly welcome you and thank you for coming and joining us. That's really important to us. Students from Beech, North Dakota, from South Hart, from Richardson, and from Hebron, thank you for being here. I know you can't stay for all of this, but we have an exciting special program for you in other spaces on the university campus, and we all know that you'll have to get up at some point and leave, so thank you for being here, and I hope that this is an important stimulation to you and that when you think of the college you might attend that you consider Dickinson State University. This is the sort of thing that we do here and we're glad you're in our in our presence. Let me quickly read this letter from Senator Kent Conrad. He so wanted to be here. He called me last week and said that he was intending to come, but pressing legislative business concerning agriculture in Washington, D.C. kept him away, but he sent the following letter, October 28th, 2011. Greetings to the members of the Theodore Roosevelt Association, the Roosevelt family, and our guests from across the nation. Welcome to North Dakota. This is Dickinson State University's sixth annual TR symposium, and the Theodore Roosevelt Association's 92nd annual meeting. Each of your organizations are contributing to a deeper knowledge and appreciation of the tremendous legacy of one of our most remarkable presidents. This legacy will also live on through the creative efforts of the Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University. The Center has already created tremendous excitement and enthusiasm around this annual symposium. Your work to assemble Roosevelt's documents into a free and searchable on-live archive is an important contribution to our nation and its great tradition of presidential libraries. I understand that the launch of the digital library is scheduled very soon and I congratulate you on reaching this significant milestone. To everyone assembled for this symposium, I am pleased to have you visit and I hope that as you travel through Dickinson, Madora, and the Little Missouri River Badlands, you experience a taste of what inspired and transformed Theodore Roosevelt during his time here. I extend my best wishes for a successful symposium and annual meeting. Sincerely, Kent Conrad, United States Senate. So thank you, Senator Conrad. Before I invite D.C. Costin, our president up, I just want you to look around at these photographs. These are from our collection. Thanks to our relationship, our partnership with the Library of Congress and Harvard, I hope you'll go up and study them, and particularly, look at the high resolution. We're trying to digitize the Roosevelt papers with state-of-the-art technology and at the highest resolutions that are currently in use around the United States. We'll, of course, continue to update as technologies change, but of the 165,000-plus documents that we currently have digitized here, we'd selected just a handful for you to take a look at to get a sense of where we're headed. And if you have time for just a little, go over to that four page letter written by Theodore Roosevelt on September 8th, 1883. He wrote it the morning after his arrival in the Badlands on the night of September 7th, 1883. He wrote it to his wife, Alice. It begins, Dear Wifey. And it's his first impression of Western North Dakota. It's his first real impression of the American West. And it's a fascinating document. It was made available to us by our friend Wallace Daley of the Houghton Library at Harvard University. And then these photographs, of course, you see TR in 1903 at Yosemite on that 14,000-mile working vacation that he took in the spring of 1903. And here is Roosevelt in a New York studio, playing the cowboy in 1885. And this photograph, this panorama, which we're immensely proud of, is of the painted canyon scenic overlook just west of Bellefield North Dakota. We wanted to create this ambiance for our discussion of Theodore Roosevelt and the American West. Now, let me invite the president of this institution, DC Costin, to come forward and greet you. We're so glad you're here, President Costin. Good morning. As the train stopped in Little Missouri, Dakota Territory, about 3 a.m. Saturday morning, September 8, 1883, a somewhat frail, Harvard-educated, almost 25-year-old young man from the Eastern United States disembarked. He had come to shoot a buffalo. Now, I suspect that Theodore Roosevelt, having come to shoot a buffalo, really had no sense and no idea that this was the start of a set of adventures that would truly transform his life and ultimately have profound effects on the history of our nation, ultimately including having his visage literally carved in a stone, in stone about 275 miles south of here. Over the next several years in the North Dakota Badlands, as he ranched, hunted, led efforts to organize cattlemen, apprehended thieves, all those adventures, indeed living what he called the strenuous life, Roosevelt physically became the robust person we often see depicted. He also developed the confidence in himself that coupled with his education and formidable intellect, forced a leader who was bold, daring, and fearless, whether leading troops into battle, seeing through the completion of a canal in the malaria-infested isthmus that dramatically changed world commerce or any of his other accomplishments that you know so well. I'm reminded of something I learned from my high school mathematics teacher, Mr. Harry Swofford. Mr. Swofford at one time talked to us that there are two kinds of scents. There's book scents and there's horse scents and neither is of much value without a good dose of the other. I rather imagine that Roosevelt came with an incredible dose of book scents to North Dakota, but in a real sense and in a real way he got a heck of a dose of horse scents while he was here and that helped forge who he became. During this symposium you will be learning from a slate of distinguished scholars and authors much more about those times that Roosevelt spent in western North Dakota and their impacts on his life and indeed what it ultimately meant for our nation. Theodore Roosevelt's heritage is felt every day at Dickinson State University through the Theodore Roosevelt Center, through the honors leadership program here that is called the TR Scholars Program and in so many other ways. During coffee breaks and as you go to lunch today down at the Student Center I invite you to go to the left as you leave here and walk down to the concourse that's between this building and the Stockson Library. There is a display of the clues that were prepared for this week's Theodore Roosevelt scavenger hunt at Dickinson State University to introduce our students to the wonderful set of treasures that there are at this institution that celebrate Roosevelt. I think you will be amazed at how many things are there and it depicts the artwork, the programs and other things that are here. Dickinson State drawing on Roosevelt's legacy has been bold and daring as he was in the creation of the Theodore Roosevelt Center. What a dream for what many view as a small regional school sitting way out on the prairie to undertake digitizing and cataloging the writings, papers, documents, photographs of our nation's 26th president with the intent to make these works widely available both for scholars and for those whose avocational interests lead them to want to know more about Roosevelt. How wonderful it is that Harvard University, the Library of Congress and the U.S. Park Service have become partners with Dickinson State in this venture. Later today you will hear about the great progress to date on this project and get a preview of the treasures that are forthcoming. Another daring Dickinson State dream to have an endowed chair here dedicated to studies about Theodore Roosevelt. Supported initially through a challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Dickinson State and the Dickinson State University Foundation are well on the way to securing the funding necessary to establish this chair and to being in position to recruit a renowned scholar for this role. Again you will hear more about this during the symposium. And yet another bold initiative to host a symposium like this in Dickinson, North Dakota. Thanks to all of you for accepting Dickinson State's invitation to be here. We are especially honored that the Theodore Roosevelt Association accepted the invitation to hold its 92nd annual meeting in conjunction with this symposium. Thank you President Roosevelt has a little ring to it doesn't it. President Tweed Roosevelt of the Theodore Roosevelt Association and Executive Director Terry Brown for accepting the invitation and coming here. With the association we look forward to us to exploring additional shared goals and initiatives during these days together and indeed in the months and years ahead. I hope that you are taking in the full spectrum of events in the next few days. The presentations here, the unveiling of the Roosevelt statue this afternoon at the Stark County Courthouse, the symphony this evening, the trips to Medora and the Badlands.  By being here may your life be touched in the ways that Roosevelt's was and indeed we hope to touch the lives of students at Dickinson State every day. I want to say a special thanks to two people who have been tireless in organizing this program on your behalf. One is Clay Jenkinson who is the Roosevelt scholar in residence at Dickinson State. Clay, thank you for your leadership and what you have brought here and in all the things that you do and to Sharon Kilzer who's the project director for the Theodore Roosevelt Center. They have brought great passion and care in preparing for you a time that is that will be most enjoyable as well as a deep time of learning. Now I could go on and on however it's the group of speakers after me from whom you've come to learn. Welcome to Dickinson and to Dickinson State University where the West begins. Thank you. Thank you so much Dr. Costin we're so glad you're here with us and I just want to echo something you said. We appreciate of course Sharon and I appreciate your thanks but this is such a labor of love. Imagine Dickinson State University creating an initiative to digitize all of Roosevelt's papers and our partners are institutions infinitely more well-known and distinguished than this one. The National Park Service is a full partner, Harvard University is a full partner, the Library of Congress and others and in some limited little way we are going to be able to do something that not any one of those great institutions can do because we're going to have all of Harvard's TR papers but also the National Park Service and the Library of Congress and we're going to have all the Library of Congress Roosevelt related papers but also Harvard and so we're going to create a comprehensivity that will be matched nowhere else. The foundation of it of course is these great wonderfully curated and conserved collections at other institutions but we will be electronically knitting them together in a way that has never previously been possible. So just to take a single example if Roosevelt wrote 500 letters to Henry Cabot Lodge and Lodge wrote 600 back to Roosevelt they may be spread over five repositories. We can re-nip them electronically so that there is a continuous sequencing of something that a scholar previously would have had to go to four or five institutions to a mass and you'll be able to search this collection 24 hours a day whether you're in Saratoga, New York or Sri Lanka free with a search engine. It's not just an amazing achievement it's a revolution and we are not the founders of that revolution but we're thoroughly glad to be one small part of the digitization of American culture so believe me it's hard work but it is amazingly satisfying to be part of this project and you know if Roosevelt had a primary home on Long Island his secondary home certainly was the Badlands of North Dakota and so what better place to put the digital archive of Theodore Roosevelt then in the Badlands that he so loved so thank you. I thought last night was an outstanding beginning to our symposium Dr. West gave one of the most remarkable talks I've ever heard it was kind of troubling I had a hard time sleeping thinking about some of the things that he said it didn't put our hero in the best possible light as a young man some of Roosevelt's early intellectual associations were thoroughly conventional of the zeitgeist of his era he overcame most of them and he became a serious and nuanced mature thinker and policymaker but I thought it was an extraordinary way of setting the table and what was so remarkable for me you don't know of course what people are going to say until they say it but Dr. West never fails to be amazing but what I was hearing was a setup for Roger's talk and a setup for Ted White's talk and a setup for Patricia Limerick's talk and Simon Cordary's like all of the talks were sort of implied or being already teased out and the amazing things that he was saying and although we may disagree with some of what Dr. West concluded he set the table in just the way you want in a keynote.