My pleasure to introduce David Davenport, the author of rugged individualism dead or alive. 0 also Research Fellow at the Research Institute and previously the president of pepperdine university. David, thank you very much for coming to share this with us. [applause] thank you, george, and ladies and gentlemen, its a pleasure to be with you today. Occurred to me as we collected up yet one more spring rain and were competing with the warriors playoff game and i assume the giants and the dodgers game, i dont need to give a talk on rugged individualism. You are rugged for show up. Youre also brave to come and hear an academic talk of many good stories i think. Scholars and academics can one i heard recently was at a Scholarly Panel i was attending, and the moderator of the panel was a federal judge, and he said, you know, we have some of us during referring to himself who are as Teddy Roosevelt himself a rigged individual once said, were in the arena. Our face is covered with dust and blo