your faculty, staff, students, board members, family, friends, and especially our dear graduates, whom we are celebrating today. I welcome you to the celebration of all that you have accomplished in your journey at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary. Graduates, you are completing a challenging course of study. You have deepened your understanding of the ways of God and gained greater understanding of your particular calling as leaders, participating in God's reconciling mission in the world. Your journey at AMBS has given you the challenge and the gift to learn how to think biblically, theologically, pastorally as peace builders, how to adapt and improvise as leaders, announcing hope against the backdrop of global upheaval. Our sacred text reminds us to mark the important events in our lives, to hold festivals that praise God because of God's steadfast love and faithfulness that is always at hand. So we give thanks to God today. Dear graduates, we thank God for you and we celebrate all that you have accomplished in your persistence and hard work. We celebrate you for all the ways that each in your own way enriched this learning community. And we celebrate in anticipation of the ways that you will apply what you've learned here in the world by the power of the Holy Spirit as witnesses to the redeeming love of God shown to us in Jesus. Let us pray together. O God, creator, redeemer and sustainer, we thank you for this day. We come to you on this day that is a culmination of achievement and yet a day of commencement, the first day of living more deeply into a vocation, a way of living in the world as people who live by faith and in hope, who bear witness to God's love and grace, God's peace and justice. Teach us to call those around us to be tender toward the inbreaking of God's Spirit that brings healing, hope, renewal and joy. Today, as we pray, we do so with the awareness that our entire lives are before you. Come be among us, gather us together in your spirit as we worship and celebrate all that you have empowered our graduates to accomplish and all that you will yet accomplish through them by the grace of our Lord Jesus. The scripture reading is John 13, three through 17. Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things in his hands and that he had come from God, was going to God, got up from supper, took off his outer robe and tied a towel around himself. He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was tied around him. He came to Simon Peter who said to him, Lord, are you going to wash my feet? Jesus answered, you do not know now what I am doing, but later you will understand. Peter said to him, you will never wash my feet. Jesus answered, unless I wash you, you will have no share with me. Simon Peter said to him, Lord, not my feet only, but my hands and my head. Jesus said to him, one who is bathed does not need to wash except for the feet, but is entirely clean and you are clean, although not all of you, for he knew who was to betray him, for this reason he said, not all of you are clean. After Jesus had washed the feet and put on his robe and had reclined again, he said to them, do you know what I have done to you?   For I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. Very truly I tell you, slaves are not greater than their master, nor are messengers greater than the one who sent them. If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them. We will read the same passage in Amharic. We will read the same passage in Amharic. We will read the same passage in Amharic. We will read the same passage in Amharic. We are delighted to welcome Dr. Nelson O'Kanya as the 2024 and AMBS commencement speaker. Dr. O'Kanya is known the world over as a leader deeply committed to disciple making and leadership development. He is the president of World Serving Leaders, the non-profit division of the Center for Serving Leadership based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. And he also serves as the chair of the Global Mission Fellowship, a 74 member global network facilitated by Mennonite World Conference. Previously, Dr. O'Kanya served as a pastor and the president of Eastern Mennonite missions. A trained executive and leadership coach, he holds a master of divinity degree from Eastern Mennonite Seminary and a doctorate in intercultural studies from Fuller Theological Seminary. Dr. O'Kanya lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania with his spouse, Carmen Horst O'Kanya, who is pastor of James Street Mennonite Church and their two sons, Barak and Isak. Please join me in welcoming Nelson as he brings us the message, the great reversal, the impact of leadership on culture. You made it, right? Congratulations. Whatever it took for you to get here, you are here. You crossed over and we celebrate you for that. President Borsha. Dean, faculty members, board members who are here, staff, students, members of the community and you graduates. Today, we gather here to celebrate your achievement. You have worked hard and you are here today. And so for that matter, we join together to celebrate you as you mark the transition. From this beautiful campus, where you are shaped and formed and equipped to a more fuller engagement into ministries and leadership of various sorts in your communities and around the world. When President Borsha invited me to speak at this commencement, I was in South Africa training with our partner there, Oscar Suvali. As he does the work in mediation, election monitoring, and I came alongside of him to do leadership training. Dr. Borsha said, and I'm gonna quote here, you would be free to say whatever you believe to be inspiring to our diverse group of students as they move into leadership in the church and other service related organizations around the world. And so when he said, I'll be free to choose, I wondered how do I make that choice? But I believe that there was a place. Actually, when I received the email, I had just completed visiting a settlement outside of Soweto, which is a Southwest township, short Soweto, where the epicenter of the freedom movement in South Africa began among students, which was famously depicted in the movie Sarafina, if anybody saw that in 1992. In that place, as I watched what was going on in this small settlement called Cliptown, Cliptown, South Africa is a debilitated place, dilapidated its place. There's so many things going on there. I saw power lines, live power lines lying on the ground, tapped from a transformer across from the shopping centers, no toilet facilities, no running water, buckets outside, children walking long distances to go to school. I stood there with a friend that is a community leader, but also another student, a friend of mine who is doing a PhD in theology. As we reflected on what we were seeing, I could not help but connect with the irony of it all. I grew up in one of the, actually the second largest slum in Nairobi called Madari Valley. And there we had the same exact thing that I was seeing in front of me. But that was way back in 1990s and 20s, early 2000s. But here we are in 2024. The irony of Cliptown is that this place is where the Freedom Charter was signed in 1955. The Charter that now formed the Bill of Rights in the current South African institution, I mean constitution, what happened to Cliptown? So I was wrestling with these questions. Leadership had abandoned it. And I began to imagine what is possible here? Can something different happen in this place? So I was wrestling with the whole notion of leadership and what leadership can do. Leaders and leadership can do to change situations like that. That's when I received that email. And so within that framework of imagining what is possible, John 13 jumped right at me. And I took my phone, as we have them these days, and read, and I'm sure the biblical scholars would love this, I read it many times. I read it many times trying to glean what is this text about. And then it jumped at me. Look at what's happening, what is possible here? Now for the last four years, I've spent time around the world in the leadership space with pastors, with military leaders, yes generals and police captains. I've spent time with governors. I've spent time in social sector, training in Africa, in Asia, and here in the United States. So I know one or two things about leadership. And I began to reflect on what kind of leadership would change a situation like this. So today I am going to be drawing this reflection from a number of sources. I'm going to read scripture, which has been read to us before. I'm going to refer to some biblical scholars who have made some commentaries on the book of John. And then I'm also going to draw from personal experiences as well as social sciences, especially in leadership and organizational theories that we have seen before. And so those are kind of my sources that I'm going to bring into this conversation this afternoon. Let me begin by referencing one of the scholars that has really caught my attention. Edgar Schein, with Peter Schein in their book, Organizational Culture and Leadership. Peter and Edgar have proposed or advanced theory of culture that talks about the multi layers of culture, particularly what they call the artifacts, the things that you see when you go into a culture. And then espouse values that people practice in cultures. But more importantly, what is deep in terms of conceptualization, what are some of the assumptions that form what you see? Now, that is the one that you will never see because it's deep. Actually, they say it recedes into the subconscious, but it has a driving force on what you see. So as I reflected on this, I was drawn to a number of stories that I am going to share with you this morning. The first story I want to share with you about leadership and maybe some assumptions that have shaped the leadership comes from a friend, now I will call him a friend of mine who teaches at the University of Notre Dame now. He used to teach at Duke Divinity School, Emmanuel Cattangoli. Manuel Cattangoli is a Ugandan. I think he's both, he had a hood parent and a tootsie parent from Rwanda or Burundi. But Cattangoli wrote a book when I was pastoring a church outside of Washington DC in Maryland, a capital Christian fellowship. And when he wrote the book, NPR, National Public Radio, figured out that he needed to appear for an interview. And the book was called Mirror to the Church, the Christian faith, the resurrection faith after the Rwandan genocide. And he said this in that interview. In the case of Rwanda, the blood of tribalism ran deeper than the waters of baptism. And when I heard that, I said, who is that? I want to find this guy. So I called him at Duke, I was a pastor, very unassuming, so I called him at Duke and I said, I'm a pastor here in DC and I'm wondering, he actually answered the phone, which shocked me, I didn't expect him to do that. So I asked him, can you come and share with our congregation about what you just wrote about the Rwandan genocide? And he said, I will. So we had him come to DC and we had about 500 people gathered from 45 different nationalities listening to the stories that he was sharing with us about the genocide. But most recently, I've been reading his book, The Sacrifice of Africa. And in that book, I have a few quotes here. I want to follow him a little bit to see how this is shaping my sharing today. And so in Katongole, like myself, has been plagued and wondering about the wars and the violence that he experienced in his motherland, continent of Africa. And he wondered, is there something deeper than what we're seeing? Is there a script? Are there some assumptions here that we need to examine? And then he came across a book entitled King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild, published in 1999. And in that book, Katongole discovered something. King Leopold II of Belgium had owned a land in Congo. The second largest African country with a vast amount of resources. And I was speaking this before the generals and the police force and some ministers in DRC last year in three locations where we're talking about this. And so Adam Hochschild looked at that at what King Leopold had done. And Katongole quotes him and says, King Leopold's Ghost is a story of personal ambition, greed and brutality, violence, set in the context of colonial Africa history. The violence and the brutality in Leopold's Congo were not simply isolated or pathological exceptions committed by a few of a zealous colonial agents. They were part and parcel of the rubber economy, which was the very rationale and more than both in its design and implementation. Thus, a metaphor for Africa raising the key issues, not only foundational narratives but of transmission and reproduction of social memory. How has this shipped how people remember and what they think about leadership? He continued more importantly, at the heart of Africa's inception into modernity is a lie. Modernity claims to bring salvation to Africa, yet the founding story of the institution of modern Africa ejects Africa itself. This story has shipped colonial Africa and continues to ship and drive the success of institutions, the nation state. He concludes weirdly, this is why a new future in Africa requires much more than strategies and skills to solve the problem of nation state politics. It requires a different story that assumes the sacred value and the dignity of Africa and Africans. And is thus able to ship practices and policies or new forms of politics that reflect the sacredness and dignity, end quote. A new story that forms and ships people's memories, how people think and conceive reality. A new story, that story is the story we see in John 13. John provides that story to us. It was read to us already, so I will not take a long time to read it again. But we are told that around the Passover, the time that the Jewish people reflected back to this story of liberation, this story of freedom, this story that allows them to be set loose from hard labor, more bricks, less straw, that story of liberation. They celebrated that every year. Interestingly, Monday began the Passover, right?  In that context, John tells us, Jesus moved out of the public ministry and draws his people into this small space. I don't know what it looks like in the upper room. So John 13 to 17 is this interaction with Jesus, with this intimate group of people that he brought together. As we celebrate this time of liberation, in fact, John, for those scholars here, you're all here, I see you. You know how that happens in John, Jesus dies on the same night, right? The lamps are being slaughtered, which is different from this noctis. He is the Lamb of God that takes away sins of the world. Jesus draws these people into a new reality, an alternative narrative, a narrative that turns leadership upside down. So what does Jesus do in this? Jesus, as they begin to eat, gets up, and does the unthinkable, it begins to wash the disciples' feet. In the synoptics, we read Jesus already said in Luke 22, and Mark 10, and Matthew that leadership is service, leadership is service, leadership is service. And Jesus begins to wash their feet. And so in here, we see a model of leadership that is not motivated by greed, violence, plunder, self-serving, but by giving others. In leading like Jesus, Ken Blanchett, Blanchett and Hodges write, the most persistent barrier to leading like Jesus is the heart motivated by self-interest, self-interest. As I travel around the world, I was told that there are places where people would get to do leadership. They say it's our time to eat.  It's your time to serve. It's your time to serve. The service that is motivated by love. Because the text says Jesus loved his own, and he loved them all the way, all the way. And knowing his love for the people that he served, he laid down his life for them. Now self-interest, humble service, guided, shaped his assumption of leadership and the practice of leadership. Jesus invites them into this space to shape them differently, so to speak, to equip them, to give them a different narrative of service. In his commentary on John, F. F. Bruce sheds light on some of this reversal, he writes, a who substituted, subsisted in the form of God, took the form of a servant. By doing so manifested the form of God on earth more perfectly than would otherwise been possible. I like what he says next. The form of God was not exchanged for the form of a servant. It was revealed the form of God was not exchanged for the form of a servant. It was revealed in the form of a servant. The form of God was revealed in the form of a servant. Jesus loved his disciples. He loved them to the end. He humbly served them as a servant. Not only did he do that, he actually gave his life for them. Here one more biblical scholar that I'm gonna read. So he's a Samaritan, all right. Richard B. Hayes writes on this, death. Jesus' death is depicted by John in a manner closely analogous to Pauline thought as an act of self-sacrifice, sacrificial love that establishes a cruciform life as the norm for discipleship. As the norm for discipleship. A cruciform life that cannot be so, so, so far away from what I've seen the leadership practice be around the world. The cruciform life, he actually notes, the call to lay down one's life may be broader, may have broader implications than those explicitly articulated in the new commandment. Right, Hayes? Along these lines, I argue that the cruciform life of selflessness laying down one's life ought to be the form of leadership. And Abaptists know that, right. Hayes again, the love in question is not merely personal affection. It's expressed in servanthood for those members of the group as definitively modeled in Jesus' act of foot washing. So here we go, a clear sense of identity. Jesus knew who he was. He had a clear sense of identity. He knew where he'd come from and he knew where he was going. Therefore, this is important for leaders. When we get into leadership for what we can get, whether it is time to eat or to be validated, that form ought to be reversed. That's why I call this the greatest reversal. That's what Jesus shows us here. He has a clear identity. He knows who he is. He does not need to prove anything to anyone. The Father knows him. He knows the Father. He does this unthinkable thing. And therefore, so how does a serving leader lead?  We don't see that in this text. Actually, we see Jesus doing something very different. He leads while serving Peter. He serves while leading Peter. He does not get out of the role. He tells Peter, if you resist, of course, in leadership change, some of us have been part of that changing, leading change in various sectors. There is a resistance. If you have not yet seen it, you will. But I believe you have. There's going to be resistance. But how do we overcome that? How do we overcome that? Jesus shows us a way here. Ron Heifetz in his book, Leadership, one of his books on leadership. He has written many of them. But I have it quoted here. I'm not gonna read it. He says, people don't necessarily resist change. But say they resist loss. So if you're going to lead change, think about that. And probably this is what's going on here. Peter is wondering, is losing something here? What is going here? This is not supposed to be done. But Jesus says, what, now this is my reading. I can make some harmonitical move here. Jesus is saying, you know, this here, I'm offering you something much better, a relationship with me. And if you don't want to participate in what I'm doing here to bring you into that, to show you the way, then you don't belong here. And then Peter says, okay, now do it my way. Jesus, no, no, no. We're gonna do this here. This is a good conversation taking on. There's a place in John 13, a model of leadership. And how do we change when the resistance is there? Graduates, I don't wanna take a lot of your time, but this really caught my attention very deeply. Because as I see you, as I look at you, and I remember, I was just in the Philippines last month, with 26 congregations, integrated minority churches of the Philippines. And all the pastors and the leaders in the bishops. And I was looking at them, and this is much smaller, I mean, a newer congregation or a newer church in the Philippines and Indonesia, and I was looking at those pastors. How are you gonna approach leadership? Jesus showed us a model. This model, friends, does not promise. I wish I didn't have to say it, but it's a costly model. We've seen leaders who have followed that. Dr. Martin Luther King. We've seen leaders who have followed that. Father Romero in El Salvador. So he offers us a new model, a new modus operandi. So what is the path forward? This is why it's complete. Friends, you have been shaped on this beautiful campus with an abaptist value in theology, ethics, biblical interpretation, leadership, and all that. As you go, I pray that you may love deeply, all the way, that you may love deeply the people you serve, and that you may serve them humbly. Go forth in that call and serve the world that God so loves. Congratulations, amen. Please, this afternoon, to present the 22 individuals who comprise the 2024 graduating class of Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary. Four candidates will receive the graduate certificate in theological studies. One candidate will receive the graduate certificate in spiritual formation, spiritual direction. Four candidates will receive the master of arts in Christian formation. Six candidates will receive the master of arts, theology, and global Anabaptism. One candidate will receive the master of arts, theology, and peace studies. And six candidates will receive the master of divinity. Thank you, our soon to be graduates, for choosing AMBS as a place to learn and continue your preparation for ministry and peace building. Our community has been enriched by your presence among us. We send you forth with God's blessing and pray that God's spirit will empower you for the ministries to which you are being sent. At this time, I invite President Dave Bushart to come to the podium to confer the certificates and degrees. President Bushart, I now present to you 22 candidates who have followed courses of study prescribed by the faculty of the Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary. By action of the AMBS Teaching Faculty and the Board of Directors, they are hereby recommended for their certificates and degrees. Will the candidates for the graduate certificate in theological studies and the candidate for the graduate certificate in spiritual direction please stand? Upon the recommendation of the faculty and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary Board, I confer upon you the graduate certificate with all the rights, privileges, and obligations pertaining thereto, of which the diploma you will receive shall be written testimony. May you use these rights and privileges as befitting disciples of Jesus Christ, servants of God, and ministers of the church in the power of the Holy Spirit. Will the candidates for the Master of Arts in Christian Formation, for the Master of Arts Theology and Global Anabaptism, and for the Master of Arts Theology and Peace Studies please stand? Upon recommendation of the faculty and by the virtue of the authority vested in me by the Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary Board, I confer upon you the Master of Arts with all the rights, privileges, and obligations pertaining thereto, to which this diploma that you will receive shall be written testimony. May you use these rights and privileges as befitting disciples of Jesus Christ, servants of God, and as ministers of the church in the power of the Holy Spirit. And now will the candidates for the Master of Divinity degree please stand? Upon the recommendation of the faculty and by the authority bestowed on me by the Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary Board, I confer upon you the Master of Divinity degree with all the rights, privileges, and obligations pertaining thereto, of which this diploma you will receive today shall be a written testimony. May you use these rights and privileges as befitting disciples of Jesus Christ, servants of God, and ministers of the church in the power of the Holy Spirit. At this time, I'll invite the graduates to stand as a group and begin to prepare and walk as we rehearsed. They will come forward. So go ahead and begin making your journey around the room. They will be coming forward in a little bit as their names are called. I ask you to please hold your applause until all the graduates have returned to the seats. After that, we will stand and create an exuberant and joyous ruckus for all of them. I will read each name, including those who are not able to be here today. Deborah J. Coates in absentia. Colleen Avila Geyer in absentia. Elia Giselle Gwiti, Carrie Ann Mast, Christina Elizabeth Raybergen, Mizgana Alamayo Ischete, Janeth Kaby Magiri, Talasha Kym Yoder, Jonathan Wesley Zirkel, Bethlehem Zekala Roba, Addis Kidan Kitacho Abriham in Ethiopia, Andalwika Zego Balca in Ethiopia, Israel Tesfaye Berhe in Ethiopia, Aschalo Asefa Fikadu in Ethiopia, Diriba Amanu Sori in Ethiopia, Indunge Asefu, Elena Marie Dubkowski, Isaiah Wondley Friesen, William David Funk, Matthew Craig Peterson, Suzanne M. Short, Megan Wiebersch. And now, let us stand and make a joyful noise to celebrate the 2024 graduates of AMBS. You may be seated. Celebrated hymn writer Adam Tice, who received a Master of Arts in Christian Formation from AMBS in 2006, wrote the text of the choral piece that a group of faculty and staff have prepared for our graduates and guests. Adam began writing hymns during his AMBS studies at the encouragement of Dean and Professor Emerita Rebecca Slough, including the text for every word and every breath. May these words invite all of us into the fullness of Jesus' life and being and into the newness of God's creation. God of endings and middles and beginnings. Thank you for what has been for the gift these graduates have been to the AMBS community, for their humility, humor, insight on learning, for music and food and testimonies and laughter shared and foreshared tears as well. How blessed we have been. Thank you for what is, for this celebration of work accomplished, papers and projects to finish, or nearly so. Tests taken, boxes checked off, for the pleasures of graduation, many wads worth bells ringing in joyful cacophony. Applause given and received, smiles so big, they make our cheeks ache. And thank you too for what is yet to be, for plans unfolding, calls emerging directions clarifying, for strengthened and strengthening ministry and all the ways your kingdom is coming here and now in ways large and small through the hands and hearts and minds of these beloved ones. We name them before you now and trusting them into your care. Deb, Giselle, Carrie, Christina, Miscana, Janet, Talasha, John, Biti, Adiskadan, Andawake, Israel, Ascalio, Dereba, Ndungae, Elena, Isaiah, Billy, Matthew, Sue, Megan, bless them. Bless them in ways they can recognize and know in this moment. Bless them in your hidden ways that go beyond their knowing. Bless them so thoroughly that they can never go where your blessing is not. So that when their sense of themselves as leaders feels tentative or uncertain, you will draw them near to the one who rightly claimed the authority you gave. And when they are tempted by authoritarianism, no matter how subtle, you will draw them near to the one who stooped to serve. Bless and strengthen them for the paradoxical leadership this world so desperately needs. And guard them, God. Protect them from what would do them harm. Heal in them what needs healing. Strengthen what is newly emerging.  In you, I am so well pleased. We pray all this in the name of Jesus, the Christ, our teacher and leader, and through the power and companionship of our advocate to your own Holy Spirit. Amen. The recessional, you are welcome to join us in the lounge in Waltener Hall for a further time of refreshment and fellowship. Graduates, please receive this benediction. Go into the world doing what the Lord requires, living with kindness and justice, and with the grace of God, you are welcome to join us in the lounge in Waltener Hall for a further time of refreshment and fellowship. Graduates, please receive this benediction. Walking your path humbly with God. May you know the strength and tender mercy of God, flowing gently, covering you with love and grace. As God's beloved children, go in peace and joy as friends of Jesus and you will be blessed. Amen.


In this video, I'll be showing you how to set up your chart for day trading or investing as fast as possible. So if you enjoy the video, like and subscribe. I will also link all the best tools for day trading and investing in the description. So without further ado, let's get started. So the first thing we're going to do is click on this little arrow at the bottom. And then we're going to type in a name. We can put day trading. Now we have a blank layout so we can add everything that we want, but we'll be starting with the charts. To select a chart, just go over here in new window after you can go into chart depending if you use TWS or you haven't, your charts are going to be looking pretty different from this one. But also there's going to be multiple settings that you do want to remove if you're going to use it for day trading or investing because it's too much cluster on your chart. So what you can do to do this is go over here into this low wheel click settings. Then we're going to jump into this section and make sure that everything is properly done. So these are my current settings. So I did remove the market clock chart value label because if you start putting everything and click apply, you're going to see that you have like this little thing. Then you have like more things on this side over here. And the more you add the less you see of your chart. So you go back, click settings, and then you're going to click pretty much everything. The only thing that I leave is going to be the horizontal crosshair line. So I do like this. And this is just going to be like this arrow, this crosshair pretty useful to just go and check what's the price at a certain level.  And on the right side, you're going to see the price that it's at. So going back into settings, we're going to remove everything. So horizontal crosshair line. That's totally fine. Intersection between trading date. That's fine. Prior close is pretty important bypass parameter window, margin area, crossair. And then you're going to go to view and make sure that these are selected. So if you're not selected, even if you have selected something in the prior window, it just won't appear on your chart. So you want to make sure that it's selected over here. So we can see this line. It is the prior day close. If it's not click, you're not going to see it even if it's selected in the other section. By the way, at any point during this video, don't forget to check out the links in description. I did link all the best tools for day trading and invest. So let's get back to the video. So you're going to do prior day close. Also, if this margin is too tight over here, we can see right now it's really zoomed in. It's hard to know if you're actually looking at the last trading bar. So what you can do is just go over here at the bottom and just zoom it out. So now you have some space over here and you really see what's going on. So going back into settings, what we're going to do here is just go a bit more at the bottom and make sure that if you want to change your font, it's going to be over here. And you also need to check this custom font so you can select the one you want. I like to have it at 12 so I can see something that I do want to make sure is that I remove the toolbar in chart frame. So if you have it, you're going to see these button over here. I want to make sure that they're not there. And I'm definitely not going to be trading from this over here. So you click hidden apply, it's going to be done. So for the rest of the section over here, this is how it's done. If you want to see your arrows on your chart. So when you trade, you want to see, you know, when you have an execution or you sent an order, these are going to be all over here. So show live order show filled order show canceled order. I personally never want to see my execution of my chart. It just makes me emotional. So I have nothing selected over here. So going into the next section, this is going to be important. Allow more than 500 bar. This is just when you zoom out, you're able to see as much time as possible. This is going to be more important if you're looking at like the one minute. You want to make sure that you see as many bar as possible. Otherwise, if it's not selected sometime, it's just going to allow you to zoom back just a bit instead of using a full chart and seeing every bar that you really need. And the next thing show selected time. So this is just normal line grab sensitivity. So this is if you're putting a horizontal line or anything on your chart, how sensitive is it to grab it sometime? You rather have it at low. Otherwise, every time you move over, you click somewhere near, it just grabs it and then just moving all over the chart. And also something I like to have is show sub chart security selection dialog. So the following thing over here is the up, down arrow key action. So this is on a keyboard. So if we do OK, then we go over here. So if I put the up button on my keyboard, it's going to zoom. And then I can zoom out with the bottom one. So this is just an easy way to just zoom in or you can just zoom out. So it's a good way to go around your chart. Not having to really use your mouse that much. I have it selected. Otherwise, you can use it to, you know, move your active order. This could be dangerous because sometimes if you tap on your keyboard without really realizing it, you could change the order that you have. The following thing over here is just the body outline. And this is what we saw over here. So when I click like this, you can see that this is the outline is selected on a specific bar. You can have it in a different way, but this is the setting that I have. So going back over here, this is how it's done. You can have also a vertical strip. I think it's a little odd, but body outline is the best way to go. What I did for this chart is pretty interesting because on TWS, when you click on your chart, it automatically makes a trend line. You can see now we are over it.  I just find it really confusing. So what I did is I just went on a line like this and I did change trend line color and you can see over here that it's just black. So it's not showing on anything like this. So going back into setting, the next thing you're going to do is go into chart color. And this is where you could change everything that you want on your background. So this is going to be your background. You know, what color are we looking at when it comes to this? You can do apply. And now we see we have like a gray chart. If you prefer gray, that's how it's going to be done. I prefer to have it as almost a black one. It's all can go to RGB and then I can just or HSL and just put it a bit darker. And now this is already better.  And these are going to be the grid line. So you can just go over here, select a dark color and then just click apply. And now, you know, we're back to a normal chart. If you'd like to change the bar color, so the up bar and also the down bar, it's going to be over here. I know some people like to have the green as white and then you just click and it's going to be exactly like that. So you can really customize everything you want. Now, if you want to add an indicator, the way you do this, it's going to be like this.  So I personally like to have VWAP on my chart. So it's going to be entity volume weighted average. And then you can just apply. So if you change the stock or anything like that, you can see now you have VWAP and if you would prefer to change the color like I did over here, what you need to do is just go into edit, you're going to go into studies. And then you have the selected indicator that you want. You can click on intraday VWAP change. And if you would like to have it a yellow instead of a purple or a blue, just do over here. OK. And now it's fully done. So some other things that you can do if you go back into chart for parameters, you can have your custom time period. So if you always want to see the five minute or the three minute, these are going to be done over here. So right now, something that's important for me is the volume. Otherwise, you know, you don't know how much volume is going to be on your chart, and this is just in chart parameter. So prior close is selected crosshair bar detail zone. So some other things that are quite important when you have these setting dialed in.  So I want to remove the scale fit study. So why this could be an issue is if you're using a certain study that's lower than the price or higher is going to cut on your chart. So a good example of this would be Bollinger Band and you're going to what you're going to do is you're going to click ignore study instead of having it as scale to fit study. So click ignore and you can see now that like it's going to leave more space for your margin at the top or the bottom. So just like this, even if DNA care is pushing through, it's not going to matter at least the price. You're going to be fine to see it if you prefer to have it otherwise. And also keep chart up to date. So this is so at least, you know, it's always moving to the next bar. Show data outside of regular trading hours. If you don't have this, what's going to happen is, you know, everything is going to be together and you're not going to have the pre or post market data. And this is where having extra bars between the two prices could mean something. So if you go back to settings and then you're going to have over here, it was at one bar. If you put it to something like nine, you're going to be able to see that now it's going to show you some gap between the different type of day. So you're going to go back into settings and then I'm going to put it back to either a one or a two. We're also going to be removing this indicator. So you're going to go back into study and then we're going to remove the Bollinger ban because it feels a bit too much on this chart. If you're going to go back into chart parameters and also add the pre and post market data. So you're going to click show data outside of regular trading hours. And then we're going to click. OK. And now your chart is going to be fully done. So this is how I personally use my charts. And every time you open a new one, normally it's going to save to the last chart that you have. It's just the indicator that you're going to need to add again. But overall, all your settings are going to be done. So thanks for watching. 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So I'm starting off By just organizing her desk this little area right here my daughter She definitely has requested me to do some type of a reading cozy area for her And I definitely want to make that happen for her I have been collecting all the things that I'm going to need to make her a little reading nut But for right now, I'm just going to go ahead and get to Semi-cleaning and organizing in her bedroom So if any of you guys are new here and are here for the first time again, my name is Brittany I'm actually a mom of three girls I have a nine three and a one year old and I'm in my second year of homeschooling you guys This has definitely been a crazy year so far But you guys I'm not going to lie with all of my struggles and the life challenges that has been facing us Our first quarter of this homeschool year. I really still Stand firm behind my decision and continuing our homeschooling journey It has truly been a blessing in our home and we're continuously making it work We're going through these up-and-down waves and yeah, you guys So right here I'm just showing you guys all the items that I got from five and below some of the things I collected for Brielle's reading nook and just little things I want to bring into my Home office now my shared homeschool space with my daughter I'm really blessed to be able to have this extra room within my house This room we was going to use it for a spare bedroom for my youngest daughter when she was born But we decided to room share so this really left an open space upstairs for me to have an office Which I love I love having it But as the kids are getting older and our homeschool journey has began I really am going to see this room change and Evolved just around our family and our needs and right now you guys I think this might end up being our permanent homeschool space So I'm really excited to see this area transform for me and for my family I know I did another video showing you guys me setting up my downstairs And I know I'm changing and ever evolving within this first or the second year of my homeschool But I find that that's the only way to survive is just to Move and to change as things aren't working for you in whatever season or whatever flow you're going through So right now, um, I'm really enjoying having Brielle upstairs with me before I set her desk up here She actually was doing her homeschool work on this little rug on the floor and I was like, you know what Brie? Let's put your desk in here. Let's go ahead and make this thing official. So Yeah, I'm really happy and excited to have her right here next to me In this room is typically where I do film and I edit and I do all of my like mommy Paying the bills and all that type of jazz, but um, yeah, I'm really enjoying having her right in here next to me Okay, you guys right now. I'm going to show you how I am starting I guess as far as like record keeping and how I keep record of all of my daughter's work throughout the school year I live in a state of Georgia and we're not required to have a portfolio But I just like to make one. I see a few Portfolios that a lot of homeschooler moms made and I really enjoyed it So how I start off my portfolio or how I have started off in the past is what I do is I just take like either the heading or Like the title of whatever curriculum I'm using especially the main curriculum And I put it in sheet protectors and as the quarters go by I pick out about Four samples each quarter to put inside of her portfolio If you guys want like a more in-depth view of my daughter's portfolio and how I made it last year I would definitely show you her third grade portfolio that I made with her end of the year report and everything like that Here is Leia's little I guess this is not really a portfolio for Leia because she's in preschool But this is a keepsake folder that I wanted to make for her So what I did was I used this regular 50 cent composition book and I'm just going ahead and I'm stapling in any Type of like art projects any type of like worksheets Anything that we do that I just want to keep and I want to hold on to it I have been putting it inside of this composition book a lot of these printables You guys are actually seeing our free pen and printables from top schooling that net and I love them I love all of the free resources that they have That is definitely my go-to when I just want to print off a worksheet or something fun for Leia to do And another thing I do is I just always just give her just regular plain white paper This right here you guys is the cutest brown bear Activity that I found on top schooling that net where she was able to color each of the items from the brown bear book We pasted on to popsicle sticks. It definitely was a fun project for her to do Okay, you guys right now I am going to show you some of the fall books and the things that I have Just getting ready to set up on my bookshelves downstairs. I am very excited for fall you guys I'm ready for this season But I have enlisted the help of my husband to help me move my bookshelf back upstairs Because like I said earlier in the video, we no longer use this downstairs area as our home school space just with the new schedule changes and things like that in the morning when we wake up we will have Breakfast I will do preschool time. We will have Bible We will do a lot of our readings and our read-alouds. We just close you up on the couch a lot Sometimes I find myself we watch documentaries our mornings are very very laid-back after we finish our reading We will go outside. So this area downstairs is not really utilized For home school the way that I intended it to which is you know, it's perfectly fine So what I'm doing is I'm taking all this stuff that I don't use downstairs And I'm bringing it back upstairs in my home school space to Reorganize this all over again. So this is how the home school room slash my office is looking right now on day two The only thing that I really have to do is I have a few finishing touches and I have to put back all of my books and Some of the decor item I want to put on the wall back onto my bookshelf So I'm really excited about reorganizing and really making this space come alive I think I might do like some color coordinating with the books and just really make it look nice and fun upstairs Okay, you guys now that I have all the books organized and looking good I'm gonna go ahead and hang up my daughter's corkboard. You guys this corkboard has been all over my house And I love it right now We're actually doing our amazing Africa unit and I'm gonna go ahead and put our world map on here our map of Africa and Just some other things that we're doing for Africa However, I'm leaving space on here for my daughter. She must put like doodles and things like that She can put it on there as well. So you guys this is a real-life raw moment I'm showing you inside of my homeschool closet at this point. You're seeing this closet We have only homeschooled for six weeks and it already looks crazy all over again, but you guys I'm gonna get it right back in order So this right here is the original cart that I use when I'm downstairs When we do like our morning time our Bible time. This is the cart that I pull from so originally I had my daughters have two separate carts But I just found that it was easy just to go ahead and combine both of my carts So right now what I'm going to do is I'm going to organize and get everything together for what I use for downstairs and Keep it on this cart everything else. I'm gonna go ahead and follow away and make a permanent home for it upstairs Okay, you guys with me being in the false spirit I went ahead and I purchased the next purely preschool for Alaya and also two for Alana for us to do our purely preschool fall I went ahead and I laminated all of my science and my health cards and I have this unit are ready to go I'm not gonna start this unit within this first quarter as we're wrapping it up I will pick it up in our second quarter and I'm so excited to get started with our purely preschool Again, my daughters love it. So this is how downstairs is looking you guys I tidied it up a little bit and This is how it's gonna be for now on it looks kind of bare, but I'm enjoying it So here is all of the fall books that I went ahead and I put on our bookshelf down here I cannot wait to dive into all of these Wonderful fall books with my daughters I can't wait to have our poetry tea time as you can see my daughter Brielle. She's very excited about Decorating this little area. I found this little garland with these cream pumpkins on it at Hobby Lobby The last time that I was there So I went ahead and grabbed them up because I thought they would look really cute on our bookshelf that we have Downstairs. So here is my daughter decorating it and she's getting a little frustrated, but she sure is doing an awesome job This right here is my morning basket you guys and nothing's really changed everything is still the same in our morning basket We finished our book a long walk to water and now we're moving on to packs you guys. It has definitely been a fall favorite I'm so happy. This was our next chapter book and we really are enjoying this lovely adventure about packs and Peter Okay, you guys before I end today's video I wanted to give you a little mini tour of our new home school room slash my home office space This is Brielle's desk where I keep all of her crayons and her pencils on it Here is our home school schedule and her to-do list that I write out for her every day Here is her latch mate, which we keep all of her main curriculum in and she is definitely loving it and enjoying it Here is our home school cart you guys that I keep our amazing Africa our purely preschool on here Just any books that we need that we're reading at the time I also keep our living art lessons where we do our art at I have our drawing paper Some more books and printables for Leia. I have Leia's learning folder her counting bears And I also have a matching game for Leia to play with as well when the cart is in its original home I do keep all of our library books here right here in this basket. So you guys here goes our new home school space I am really loving it. I am really enjoying it Just making this area you guys has gotten me pumped and ready for our second quarter you guys I really hope you like today's video as always Please don't forget to comment like and subscribe and I will see everybody in my next one. Bye


Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States, Mrs. Reagan and Mr. Neil Reagan. President Reagan, Mrs. Reagan, Governor Thompson, Mrs. Gilbert, Dr. Tucker, members of the board of trustees of Eureka College, distinguished visitors from time incorporated, colleagues in the college and university presidency, members of the Eureka College faculty, staff, and students, and friends of Eureka College. It is an honor and privilege to present for the purpose of an introduction the distinguished editor-in-chief of time incorporated, Mr. Henry Grunwald. Mr. President, Mrs. Reagan, Governor Thompson, distinguished guests, friends, faculty members, students, trustees of Eureka College. Let me say, first of all, how very happy my colleagues and I are here today to be here with you. It's a great pleasure and a privilege. I've been anticipated because I wanted to salute the most distinguished alumnus of Eureka College on his birthday, but I think we can do it again. I also wish to say happy birthday to Eureka College itself, which is 129 years old today. Now, the president is somewhat younger. Indeed, the correspondents who cover the White House report that Ronald Reagan is younger today than when he first came into office three years ago. And that certainly seems entirely true. The mystery is how he does it. I think it must have something to do with the fact that he likes his job and is trying to keep it. We, at time, are extremely honored that the president has accepted our invitation to inaugurate the time-distinguished speakers program. And if I may, I would like to say just one word about that program. When Time Magazine publishes a cover story about an individual, it is an expression of our belief that news and history are made by people and best told through them. There's an old debate that we used for it was talking covers. The edges will be given twice a year at colleges or universities chosen by the speakers themselves. And these speakers will be drawn. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Mr. Grunwald, thank you very much. Governor Thompson, President Gilbert, distinguished guest here, the faculty, the administration, the trustees who might be present, federal citizens, and students of this wonderful college. I want you to know that this has been a day that, if I said Neil, you wouldn't know who I was talking about. My brother Moon and I will long remember. It's a day of warmth and memory, a day when the good things that have happened in our lives all seem very close and very real again. We've just come from Dixon, where I attended my biggest birthday party ever. It was the 34th anniversary of my 39th birthday. And I had what every man who has that many candles on his birthday cake needs around him, a large group of friends, and a working sprinkler system. And now we're here for Eureka's birthday. Legend has it that after Ben Major led a wagon train here, he's not got ax into the first tree he felled and said, here we'll build our school. And that was, as you've been told, more than 129 years ago. And just to end any speculation going on among the undergraduates, no, I was not a part of that original wagon train. It's always wonderful to return to Eureka. People ask me if I'm looking back at my college years, if I can remember any inkling that I would someday run for president. Well, actually, the thought first struck me on graduation day when the president of the college handed me a diploma and my diploma and asked, are you better off today than you were four years ago? Besides being wonderful, coming back to Eureka is also a great temptation. Sitting in a college audience can sometimes be dangerous duty. Something about your youthfulness and the bright, fresh hope it symbolizes makes guest speakers like myself very free with their reminiscences and very reluctant to sit down. You've heard, I'm sure, that I like to tell an anecdote or two. Well, life not only begins at 40, so does Lumbago and the tendency to sell the same stories over and over again. But I promise I'll try to be brief today. So rest easy. You're lucky. I have to be in Nevada tonight. But I don't want to miss this opportunity to share with you some thoughts on the changes that have happened to America in the 50-odd years, and some of them were odd since I left this campus, and to offer to some thoughts on how we can shape those changes to serve the cause of human freedom, to inspire not burden those who come after us. I can't think of a better occasion for such reflections. In addition to Founder's Day, here at Eureka, we're also marking the first in a series of speeches sponsored by Time Magazine to commemorate its 60th anniversary. For 60 years, Time has lived up to what Henry Loose and Britain Haddon envisioned when they founded the magazine in 1923. A weekly digest of news, put together with much more care and perspective than is usually possible under the deadline pressure of daily journalism. Well, if it's important for news organizations like Time to keep in mind the value of perspective, you can imagine how important it is for those of us in public life to remember that proximity to daily events can be as much a handicap as an advantage in understanding their meaning. And that's what struck me when I was thinking about what I wanted to say here today. The ease, the unknowing grace with which my generation accepted technological and political changes that so radically transformed our world. We didn't know then that ours was to be one of those infrequent generations that would preside over a great transition period. We went in a single lifetime, literally, from horse and buggy to space travel. In 1932, for example, I graduated from Eureka and landed a job in radio. Though I didn't realize it at the time, I had become part of the communications revolution that was shrinking the dimensions of my world even more than radio successor television would shrink your own. Already, my generation's sports idols, celebrities, newsmakers, and heroes had come in large measure from the world of radio. It seemed a perfect career choice. Yet, if I'd only stopped to think about it, I would have remembered back in my boyhood days, just a few short years before, when my friends and I followed our neighborhood genius around town in Dixon trying to pick up radio signals with his jerry-rigged crystals, aerial, and headphones. Can you imagine our sense of wonder when one Sunday afternoon down by the river there in Dixon, we heard the sounds of radio for the first time, an orchestra playing over K-D-K-A several hundred miles away in Pittsburgh. And yet it took only a few years for that sense of wonder to dissolve. Radio, which was heard in only 60,000 households in 1922, was heard in almost 18.5 million households by 1932, my graduation year. By that time, of course, the market had crashed, the depression years were upon us, and over those radio sets, now sitting in every parlor and living room in the nation, came the rich, reassuring tones of Franklin Roosevelt. All of us who lived through those years can remember the drabness of the depression brought. But we remember, too, how people pulled together that sense of community and shared values that belief in American enterprise and democracy that saw us through. It was that ingrained American optimism, that sense of hope Franklin Roosevelt so brilliantly summoned and mobilized. It was a time of economic emergency, and there seemed a certain logic to arguments that the national government should take on to itself new and sweeping prerogatives. In the grip of that emergency, many of us could not see the enormous and sometimes harmful, oftentimes harmful, political changes that this expanded role for the government would bring. Once again, as I look back, the rapidity of that political change was astonishing as the change brought by technology. At the start of that era, government collected in taxes a dime out of every dollar earned. Two-thirds of that dime went to state and local governments with only one-third to Washington. Today, government at all levels is collecting more than 40 cents out of every dollar, and the proportion is completely reversed with two-thirds of that going to the federal government and only one-third for state and local governments. My generation was a bit surprised to realize that the federal government called upon in an economic emergency was becoming an obstacle to economic progress. In addition to damaging the autonomy of local and state governments, usurping the rights of the people, the public sector had grown so large it was consuming our national wealth, discouraging energy and initiative, and suffocating the spirit of enterprise and resourcefulness that had always been at the heart of America's economic miracle. In the Depression years and thereafter, Matt, we forgot that first founding lesson of the American Republic that without proper restraints, government the servant becomes quickly government the master. I call it an American lesson, but actually it's much older. Cicero believed that the budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled. And since that time, many nations that failed to heed the words of that wise Roman have been brought to their knees by governments that borrowed and taxed their citizens into servitude. But some peoples, like our founding fathers, revolted under such oppression. No one would understand better the danger of unchecked government power than those men. I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive, Jefferson said. I remember quoting a few of those warnings long after I had left radio for films, television, and after dinner speeches. And by that time, this reformed new dealer could add one of his own, that a government agency is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth. And yet, even as the decades of the 50s and 60s went by and more Americans shared my concern, government grew like topsy. In the decade of the 70s, federal spending tripled, taxes doubled, and the national debt reached almost a trillion dollars. Government bureaus, agencies, and employment roles kept multiplying. It had become too easy for politicians to promise more, to win more, to spend their way to election victories. Fortunately, that juggernaut of big government has now been slowed. During the last three years, we've brought skyrocketing spending back to earth and reduced that enormous momentum toward big government. It wasn't easy, but measure the results by our ability to achieve what people once said was impossible. Federal spending growth has been cut by more than half. Government regulations have been cut by more than a quarter, and taxes on working Americans have actually been reduced and indexed to the rate of inflation. A working family earning $25,000 has $1,500 more in purchasing power today because of the cut in taxes and the lowered rate of inflation. Today, economic recovery is in full swing, but I hope we can use these moments of reflection today to understand the hard lessons we've learned since the Depression about the growth of government. We need some basic reforms that will protect us against government's all-too-powerful tendency to grow and grow. For one thing, it's time for the federal government in the best federalist tradition to learn something from successful experiments in the state and local laboratories of governments. The evidence from states and many municipalities is overwhelming. The executive branch needs a powerful weapon to cut out port barreling and special interest expenditures buried in large catch-all appropriation bills. It is time the Congress gave the president the authority to veto single-line items in the federal budget as governors can do in 43 of our 50 states. And second, politicians at the national level must no longer be permitted to mortgage your future by running up higher and higher deficits. The time has come to force government to live within its means, and I repeat my call today for making a balanced budget a constitutional amendment. When the Constitution was ratified, Thomas Jefferson voiced a regret that it did not contain a clause prohibiting the federal government from borrowing. And finally, our tax system is now a nightmare of tangled requirements and twisted priorities. The American people want and deserve a tax code that is fair, rewarding, and simple enough to be understood by someone other than an army of green-shaded accountants and lawyers. Now, you know, I've been told that Einstein had to have help filling out his 1040. But now, in addition to the technological revolution marked by inventions like radio and the political revolution brought on by the sweeping new scope of federal power, there has been an additional development worth noting. That is the emergence of America's international role, our sudden designation as the champion of peace and human freedom in the struggle against totalitarianism. We didn't seek this leadership. It was thrust upon us. In the dark days after World War II when much of the civilized world lay in ruins, Pope Pius XII said, the American people have a genius for splendid and unselfish action. And into the hands of America, God has placed the destinies of afflicted humanity. Throughout World War II and most of the post-war era, though the adversaries changed from Hitler to Stalin, there was still basic agreement on the moral imperative of defending freedom and the self-evident differences between totalitarian and democratic governments. But that broad consensus of the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy years began to break down in the 60s and 70s, partly in response to the Vietnam tragedy and era of paralyzing self-rule out just and legitimate uses of American power, even acts of self-defense. The consequences of America's retreat were not long in coming. All of you can remember a few years back when the tragedy of the Iranian hostages was fresh in our minds. When around the world, especially in Afghanistan and Central America, Soviet expansionism proceeded unchecked. When our defenses had declined dramatically and some nations thought they could threaten or harm the United States with impunity. We've changed this. We're trying to see to it that American citizens, and it doesn't matter whether they're navy pilots in the Gulf of Sidra or medical students in Grenada, can no longer be attacked or their lives endangered with impunity. You know, Jean Kirkpatrick, our ambassador to the United Nations, has a wonderful story to explain how fundamental this reversal has been. She says that when she arrived at the UN, someone asked her what would be different from our administration's foreign policy. Well, she said, we've taken off our kick me sign. She was asked, does that mean if you're kicked, you'll kick back? Well, not necessarily, she replied, but it does mean that if we're kicked, at least we won't apologize. Yet it goes beyond just self-defense. When I spoke to the British Parliament a year and a half ago, I said our cause was human freedom, and so it has been. In Lebanon, in Central America, we've tried to bring a new honesty and moral purposefulness to our foreign policy to show we can be candid about the essential differences between ourselves and others while still pursuing peace initiatives with them. As I've said before, the democracies have their own serious injustices to deal with, but this should not prevent us from making the crucial moral distinctions between pluralist systems which acknowledge their own wrongs and shortcomings and systems that excuse their defects in the name of totalitarian ideology. Our willingness to speak out in these distinctions is the moral center of our foreign policy. For us, human freedom is a first principle, not a bargaining chip. To fail to publicly enunciate the differences between totalitarian and democratic systems of government would be to forsake this moral high ground. Peace remains our highest aspiration. And that's why arms control isn't enough. Arms reduction is our goal. And may I interject right here, I, a few years ago, stood in this exact spot and made the announcement then that we were going to ask for arms reduction meetings with the Soviet Union to reduce the number of strategic nuclear weapons we both held. But then, as we have tried to communicate to the people of the Soviet Union, would it not be better to do away with nuclear weapons entirely? I think our new realism is an important means to this end. Just as important, it reestablishes the basis of that broad foreign policy consensus that existed in the pre-Vietnam era when we understood the moral imperatives of defending freedom and the importance of taking totalitarian powers seriously. You know, I've heard mentioned an observation by a distinguished French intellectual, Jean-François Rivelle, on this point. Mr. Rivelle points out that some people are embarrassed to call the struggle between democracy and totalitarianism by its own name and prefer euphemisms like the competition between East and West or the struggle between superpowers. And here I want to point out that the political revolutions we've seen in America in domestic and international policy are only a reflection of a deeper trend, a trend that directly concerns the world that you have been part of here at Eureka, the world of ideas. There has been a dramatic turnabout among the intellectuals. For most of my adult life, the intelligentsia has been entranced and enamored with the idea of state power. The notion that enough centralized authority concentrated in the hands of the right-minded people can reform mankind and usher in a brave new world. Well, I remember hearing one commonly held view of the Roosevelt era, that all societies were moving toward some modified form of communism. Well, we know now that the trend in America and the democracies has been just the other way. In the political world, the cult of the state is dying. So too, the romance of the intellectual with state power is over. Indeed, the excitement and energy in the intellectual world is focused these days on the concerns of human freedom, on the importance of transcendent and enduring values. In economics, for example, the Nobel Prizes to Frederick von Hayek, Milton Friedman and George Stigler attest, the free market is again becoming the focal point. In political philosophy, a whole generation of intellectuals, led especially by French thinkers like Revelle, Jean-Marie Benoit, Guy Sorman, are rejecting the old cliches about state power and rediscovering the dangers such power poses to personal freedom. Russian intellectuals ranging from majestic figures like Alexander Solzhenitsyn to noble crusaders like Vladimir Bulkovsky have brought new attention to the horrors of totalitarian rule and to the spiritual desert that is communism. Here in America, this revolution has been spearheaded for 30 years by intellectual presences like William F. Buckley's National Review. It's been supplemented recently by what's called the neoconservative revolution led by Irving Kristol, Midge Dector, Norman Potorets and others. In many ways, this counter-revolution of the intellectuals was predated by one of the most vivid events of my time, an event whose meaning is echoed in today's disenchantment with communism. It involved, coincidentally, an editor of Time Magazine, Whitaker Chambers, who in public testimony in 1948 named former high U.S. government officials as spies. He was not believed at first, but the inexorable power of the truth was slowly felt, and overwhelming evidence led a jury to convict one of those former officials of perjury. In Chambers' autobiography, Witness, he added a sequel. Chambers marked the beginning of his personal journey away from communism on the day that he was suddenly struck by the sight of his infant daughter's ear as she sat there having breakfast. And then he said he realized that such intricacy, such precision could be no accident, no freak of nature. He said that while he didn't know it at the time, in that moment, God, the finger of God, had touched his forehead. And that is why Chambers would write that faith, not economics, is the central problem of our age, and that there exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God. The western world does not know it, but it already possesses the answer to this problem, he said, but only provided that its faith in God and the freedom he enjoins is as great as communism's belief in material power. Chambers' story represents a generation's disenchantment with statism and its return to eternal truths and fundamental values. And if there is one thought I would leave with you today, it is this. For all the momentous change of the last 50 years, it is still the great civilized truths, values of family, work, neighborhood, and religion that fuel America's technological and material progress and put the spark to our enduring passion for freedom. We're lucky to live in a time when these traditional values in the future, this sense of hope has been reawakened in our country. Yet we have so much more to achieve, from assuring continued economic growth to developing space, America's next frontier, to keeping the peace and extending the borders of freedom. You in this room can play a personal part in these next chapters of human progress. Now I know you have a sense of excitement about all of this and that's why it strikes me as odd people say today that college students are too conservative. Well I think the truth is that you've discovered early in life what it took another great American writer Scott Fitzgerald many tumultuous years to discover. Toward the end of his life he would write to his daughter in college about the importance of what he called the fundamental decencies. My generation of radicals and breakers down, he said, never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness. I hope you'll remember that and something else that Scott Fitzgerald once said that America is a willingness of the heart. In the past half century America has had its flirtation with statism but we're returning now to this limited government the defense of freedom faith in the future and in our God. With these values as guides the future can be even more breathtaking than the last 50 years because it will hold out not only the promise of sweeping improvements in mankind's material conditions but progress in the spiritual and moral realm as well. And that's why I hope that 50 years from now when the magazine asks you for your reflections you'll be able to recall an era exciting beyond all your dreams. Believe me there are great days ahead for you for America and for the cause of human freedom. Thank you very much. God bless you and may God bless this campus beneath the elms. Thank you. Mr. President and I would like to say thank you on his behalf and indeed thank you from all of us. Mr. President as usual we do not need to say anything after you visit with us. Your love for the college and its spirit is evident and as usual we are honored beyond our words for your visit. In the earliest days of Eureka College there was a motto that the president has shared with me as well and that was that Eureka College was a small college with a worldwide influence. Needless to say these last three years have been experiences that have recalled for us that tradition and that motto. I must take the liberty of the chair at this platform just for one moment to introduce some new very special international friends of Eureka College who are adding to the worldwide influence. I would like to ask Mr. Haseeb Sabah the chairman Mr. Sabah has made a significant contribution to the Reagan Scholarship and a significant pledge for the future in his interest in the international phase of this program to have you with us today.


It's a fairly grand-sounding title that I might not quite live up to. I've heard to be talking about a project that was very close to completion, as things have happened, the world being as it is, everyone being really busy. I'm going to be more sort of talking about a project that's going to happen, about which I've done some initial investigation, just some background to the kind of world I work in. I work for this company called Wood, which is an enormous but it has a multi-disciplinary environmental assessment business unit that I work for and I work for the historic environment team. We do some archaeology, no digging, but we do some consultancy, monitoring, reporting. We do all that sort of built heritage work. We also do a bit more environmental assessment, working with a range of disciplines, I think that's one of the people to produce quite large-scale assessments and also I work a lot with architects and landscape designers to do multi-disciplinary architectural landscape design. Sometimes it's about mitigation and sometimes it's about heritage-led designs and trying to create new things that work with archaeology and heritage in the right way. But what strikes me in coming to work in this sort of company every now and a year is the way that we all collaborate and how that collaboration could maybe be restructured or rethought of as a kind of hybridity instead because all these sites that we go and look at, they involve people from different disciplines going to look at the same places and that's really, really interesting to me to start with. We all look at slightly different things. I need to apologise to Lara here who in the paper this morning said, how much you hate before reading out slides and I'm going to do exactly that. How much we all look at slightly different things when we get to these sites. We think about those things in slightly different ways. We keep slightly different notes and then we give slightly different advice and then we write, I've written slightly different reports but we write quite different reports at the end of going to these exact same places as part of the same project and what I got to thinking when I was sitting in one of these big planning meetings with a multi-disciplinary team of 20 people was that there must be things that other people write down that are good archaeology, useful archaeology, but that aren't part of what we write down when we go to sites. Somehow there's been that split. Other people are doing archaeology and vice versa of course. We must be writing stuff down when we go to sites of archaeologists. That will be at least to other people but I don't know what that is so I've been trying to talk to as many people about it as possible. Now I couldn't notice about my background. I've worked a lot as an archaeologist and as a consultant my academic background is a bit more to do with archaeology and art and trying to look at the crossovers between those, the ways that those can impact each other's working practices and I sort of got my grounding here in the shopping centre that I spent four years in not literally four years in and around learning about it and following the public artists to a part of the five million pound public art project that went alongside this development and I looked a bit at their work sure but actually I was following the process of the making stuff so I spent a lot of time walking around this place with lots of different artists and being amazed at how as I said before we go to the same place and we see different things. I might be interested in the typology of the bins in the park. Someone else is interested in how different people are sitting around and so on and that found its way into their art and into my archaeology and that's why you see me here hugging most away. It's not just about a love of 1960s stuff. I was taking this idea of art and archaeology affecting each other to create a project that will mitigate the idea of permanent solid material archive to try to create a temporary federal archive by recording the various textures of this underpass on my body. You can see a screw pressed into my face and things like that. It's all interesting I guess, a bit strange but it's all archaeology. It's all a version of archaeology that's been inspired by a lot of time working with artists as is this photo that yes you will recognise if I haven't taken the photo and where I did some work trying to create a in sort of the opposite of the previous project make a solid archive of the first google street view image of this new residential and other stuff development just outside Cambridge so I found this photo that's going to go to Google and here I am tracing the exact same bit of the floor and that's interesting and it's fun and it's archaeology. It's archaeology that's been inspired by a lot of time working with artists. I do a lot of other stuff that's kind of maybe looks a bit more familiar a bit more normal I do this sort of a lot of tours a lot of public events where I go and explore places with groups of people and try to give them theme to look at in these sites so we're very much following an architectural interpretation process from going to observe things through to making some form of conclusion about what the future could be but it's sort of looking at the stuff we would normally look at as an archaeologist we look at say I'm not sure if objects as exactly what we look at as signs or trying to find history views sounds that sort of thing in this case we suppose that between rich and poor so we can do a kind of fun thing on site but and that's had some real tangible outputs for instance this is a project I did in Thornton Heath South London when we did one of those walk-arounds this is with local people as part of a consultancy for a forthcoming then forthcoming regeneration project of the shopping street this person was looking for beauty if you can imagine archaeologists looking for beauty public archaeologists that in terms of the public you are being archaeologists looking for beauty making these sorts of notes and what that turned into was this redesign of various bits of the high street so taking what was a fairly well standard not necessarily interesting although I can see that it's quite good looking in a way camphor and turning it into something that looked nicer one of the things that people highlighted but also has this sort of map connecting the area into the wider London that sort of thing also that came out of that piece of consultancy that is another example you see here one thing that people highlighted a lot was this idea that the shopping centre was land but they didn't want the whole thing to be cut down and rebuilt so you see for instance this row of just coloured shops in the centre that was it's not quite some architects just don't push this far to you but that as a result of that art and archaeology approach to consultancy that's another one as well I don't need to say about that one so is that a hybrid practice well yes it is a hybrid practice that is entirely the result of me playing around a bit with what archaeology can be and what it can do and what we should do on site based on having spent a long time working with artists initially sort of copy their ideas and then maybe stealing their ideas a bit and then finally sort of feeling the confidence to fully adopt those inspired fully adopt that inspiration into my archaeology with the kind of rigor it takes to be a proper thing how have we done to build this into environmental assessment is that I as with many of us can find some of the day job a little bit so I'd like to think about I don't think about how you do what we do differently really quite differently and I like to start from that that point of just how people do do certain things on site in different ways and what I've been doing over the last month or so is just engaging with a few different disciplines within my office and trying to get some idea of that start point I mentioned before what we do on site what we look at what we write down and what the outcomes of that are and why they're different between different disciplines and where the archaeology is in what other people are doing on site it was only fair to put some of my own notes in I think our builders in my experience are very very individual in my note taking I quite like just to write write notes down in a book this is a piece of building's work I quite like to write notes in such like I can sort of we understand how I be walking around the building afterwards when I come to the notes that's but it can be very different for different people we're also at work trying to get rid of all that sort of thing with the scope people to work very very differently and trying to move on to this sort of as we collect that that thing that some of you are probably familiar with where you go there's a link to our GIS and you put points in and take photos and it locates them and you fill forms in that sort of thing and it's all very interesting but my first reaction to this is it's massively restricting what I like to do on site and how I like to be an archaeologist on site making me look down at the iPad instead of be be part of the archaeological landscape so I went and spoke to transport and to move from our transport team to see what I would get if I asked them for some site notes and this is what I got it's a map with lots of numbers written on it this is about a project to try to work out the logistics of a future move around town of some very large thing something they've done is they've gone and understood this whole area of I guess in terms of how wide the roads are whether there is any access restrictions on something moving around this space at some point in the future they also do a lot of other things observing traffic speeds and driver behavior measuring footways location of road signs lamp columns ballards observing cyclists pedestrian behavior the condition of the carriageway and then traffic data collection like the number of left and right terms at a junction and all of this can be archaeology it's all archaeological it's all either descriptions of material and space or some sort of analysis of people's relationships to that space but it has a completely different end point which is a transport strategy related to a particular event or a whole new bit of town I've also been speaking to noise this is about monitoring advance of construction and operation of a new site starts up with the technical details about the recording equipment but then it talks about the weather but they talk about the bird star and the animals in sheds traffic on the nearby a-road and the tractor driving through a distant field and then goes on to talk about to describe a survey point it is a quite static survey this isn't somebody walking around somebody with a noise meter trying to work out what it is that has triggered any movement in that on that meter being that sort of recording the outputs are fairly technical easily readable by those who need to do it but they also have things that I find kind of amazing like the only real description of the area that the survey happens is that they take a photo of the listening equipment which I think is absolutely great it's technical like this graph show but there is a huge really interesting archive of stuff behind it all these thoughts about what it is to be in that space at a particular time and lastly I've been talking to landscape designers this is what their notes look like they look a bit like what archaeologists look like much much neater which is maybe not a surprise these notes talk about planting they talk about access they talk about everything around these buildings maybe just because they're landscape designers but they it's interesting how they don't start to talk about the building and try to think about it also this sort of thing we're talking about the different planting and trying to phase it and I think these landscapers who I've been speaking to seem to me to be the closest to archaeology I think one of the papers before mentioned that very close link between the landscape design and archaeology what we see in those plants we see a much more holistic view of the contemporary site including both buildings and planting also they write about access how the sites are used who is there how they're moving around it fixes back to photography it's also a future thinking it's really interesting to hear that landscape designer talking about how one of things they do on sites not just loading down what's there but spend time in that space pacing out potential future interventions just to get that idea of a kind of bodily experience of that space that doesn't quite exist yet what can we learn from this right well we already collaborate with all those disciplines so things aren't in a terrible place already we are already all the same projects but can we maybe think about moving beyond collaboration into doing this thing that I've called called hybridity but it's maybe just something slightly different some themes that go between all those different those different approaches to space landscape and design sorry landscape design and transport will be interesting for me that on site thinking specifically about the future both of those think about sites in motion and movement through space and accessibility noise to me feels more static and measured but it's obviously very complex and ephemeral and with that that photo of the listening equipment and then the loading down the bird's song and the tractor driving in the field has some sort of if it's not too far not too much perspective and then pastoral beauty to it that maybe I don't quite see with the transport landscape design and noise are relatively subjective transport seems to be more objective but there are lots and lots of blurred edges between all of these different things is there a case for hybrid practice well if we add all these things up what maybe strikes me is the difference between heritage consultancy and the contemporary archaeology I think all of those different disciplines are telling contemporary archaeological stories but people who are on site who are who have archaeological degrees and archaeological backgrounds are calling themselves heritage people and doing something called heritage which seems to be intentionally excluding a lot of these different takes on site and basically carrying it down to noting down the locations of things that we can probably expect to be in a place and their condition for some sort of later use of consultancy when we overlay all those different sets of site notes we get what looks to be like a deep archaeological analysis it's not just theoretical it is directly useful for work with say setting or conservation area assessment and lots more sites slightly overrun so I've just got one last slide that I'm just going to read out for you at the level of site work we absolutely can be hybrid surveyors and aim for more holistic readings of places and spaces that will do more than connect the limited data we have to collect to write the reports to write the reports we're expected to write archaeologists I think are particularly well placed to recognize and adapt this kind of total reading of sites because I think when you put all together you get something that looks to be like archaeology anyway but some others I think if we think about hybridity it's a collaboration in certain circumstances we can be more than the sum of our parts I realize there's not much of a conclusion but it's the start of a project and maybe it's some future EAA I can tell you about how it's all um worked hopefully it is crossed um thanks