Mam, I was like clueless first of all because I had no idea like what to study and what not. It was mentioned like drama, poetry, fiction, just like that it was mentioned and I don't know what all should be covered under those topics. Only after going through other syllabus provided in the Aditya Karva app only then I got a clear idea like okay all these should be should have been included in that. So only then I got a clear idea Mam and firstly it was like it was very challenging for me to complete all those things Mam but gradually I had I was able to cope up with the pace Mam. In your every single video lecture it was very crisp, important, efficient and effective and it is very easy to understand things even the complex concepts are made easy by you. So that made me to choose this app particularly Mam. I'm very happy to see you Mam. Same year, same year and firstly a big congratulations from my Sai. How should I address you like Sai, Shushma what should I say? I'm feeling nervous Mam. Okay okay I think Shushma looks better. It's just a beautiful name so I would like to call you by that name. So Shushma how do you how are you feeling after qualifying next? How is how that feels? I didn't even expect this Mam. Now I'm like over the moon Mam. I'm very very happy. Wow that is amazing and I am so glad that you know you were able to achieve it and we did it together in this journey. I was able to provide some help so thank you so much for choosing us and thank you so much for you know taking out time for this interview. I am very very sure that the question and answers that we are going to share in this couple of more minutes is going to prove very beneficial to students who are preparing for net or aspiring to sit for this exam. So firstly I want to know more about you where are you from and what have you done in your graduation post-graduation and what made you choose UGC net? Yes Mam. Mine was a science background Mam. I have taken bypass in my intermediate and then in my under graduation I have taken EEH that is advanced English communicative English and history and then I have done my masters in English language and literature and have started my UGC net preparation in November 2022 Mam. I have taken the subscription and I have taken subscription for six months and then I got 79 percentile in my first attempt. I did not get qualified in that and then this was my second attempt Mam in December 2023. My masters got completed in September 2023 that is very recently so I got two months or so for my preparation. So this is this. Oh wow and from where have you done your graduation and post-graduation which college? Undergraduation from Government Degree College Anantapur Mam and post-graduation from Sri Padmavati Mahila Visra Vidyalayam that is in Tirupati and both are in Andhra Pradesh Mam same state. Okay okay same state great and what made you all inspired you to pursue your career and as a lecturer like since you were a science student why the shift? Mam my mother is a lecturer and Mam and she is my greatest inspiration so even I thought of becoming like her. Wow that is that is wonderful and so I have a couple of questions for you regarding your net prep and how did you plan your entire you know how did you cover the entire syllabus. So firstly I would want to ask Sushma that you know how was your study routine like so when you were preparing for net so for how many hours did you study and how did you like plan your preparation like did you study for like the full day just one subject or did you also study paper one with it. Yes Mam as I have said earlier I have started my preparation in November 2022 so then it was the beginning of my third semester Mam so I was not able to manage both my college works and UGC net preparation so I had to wake up early in the morning like four or six four or so and had to study for three to four hours and get back to college and come back to hostel and get my college works done and then give investing my time in UGC net preparation Mam like I used to study six hours Mam while I was doing my masters and in my fourth semester it was very hard for me to cope up with both the works so I stopped my preparation it was like simultaneous like I used to complete modules from both paper one and paper two Mam like it was like a simultaneous preparation but I was not able to complete all the modules for my june exam so I was able to complete 90% of the syllabus for paper one but I was not able to complete half of the lessons in British literature Mam that first module so I have taken capsule course also because I was left hardly with 23 days or so Mam so I have taken capsule course again and I tried very hard to cover all those modules and with whatever conference I have I have appeared for the exam but it's okay I have not qualified for the first time because I know I have accepted it because I have not covered everything I have not covered all the modules so with a positive attitude I have restarted it fresh in the month of October 2023 so in October 2023 again I have taken the subscription and then initially I used to study for nine hours Mam because it was really vast syllabus to cover I used to take every single audio lecture I used to take notes for every single audio lecture so it it was it was really hard for me so I used to spend nine hours initially and then after completion of this British literature module it reduced to six hours Mam because I have completed a greater part from the modules of paper one in my june preparation only so that benefited me so that's wonderful yes and what like what notable difference did you observe between the two attempts that you gave Mam in the first attempt not all the questions are so familiar and it was like just an attempt and analyzing the question paper like in which areas the questions will be asked and all but this time it was like very very familiar Mam every single question looked so familiar to me and I was very confident approaching all those questions and attempting all those questions Mam this time I was very confident wonderful and it is so nice to hear from you that you felt so confident when you sat for the paper because that actually showcases that you put in so much effort and you were all well prepared to crack this exam and how did you balance your preparation for paper one and paper two both yes Mam I focused more on paper two Mam and after completion of all the modules in from paper two I started revising them with that revision I have included this preparation for paper one Mam so simultaneously I used to do that Mam division for paper two and starting these modules from paper one so that's how yes great great and which unit did you find most challenging in paper one and what was your strategy to you know prepare for that unit yes Mam this mathematical aptitude and data interpretation map it was like very challenging to me so I've watched a few videos in YouTube Mam I have taken those videos help so I was able to solve those problems in the exam which were given Mam okay so Burlik how much importance do you think mathematical reasoning logical reasoning DI play in paper one and do you think that somebody who is not very good with mathematical portion can also secure decent marks uh Mam it depends Mam if they are good at in different areas other than this mathematical aptitude that is a scope there is a chance of getting secure securing good marks in a genetic exam but they should be very confident of other areas so absolutely you have to balance your weakness with your strengths right so true so true and as far as paper two is concerned so like how did you approach like we first asked chronology based questions because this time there were a lot of chronology based questions did you like remember dates or what what approach was there Mam again it was very challenging to me to remember all those two dates because there many works many authors and many dates to remember so the only thing that has helped me a lot is sequencing Mam your way of explaining things in a sequence so I remember things very well in a sequence so whenever I get a question which were based on chronology I use just use this technique Mam like there was a question from Thomas Hardy Mam like arrange the novels in the order chronological order right so the other time I was like okay just let me recollect in which sequence have determined the most in which sequence Mam has explained this so that has worked out Mam wonderful wonderful and I think that is the best approach also nowadays to we are also starting with this story form in chronology we are giving like stories to students but then remembering in a sequence is way better than trying to remember publishing dates of these works because it is very very challenging like you cannot remember it even for a day so exam that the Yad Rakhna is extremely difficult so which topics areas do you think or do you consider most important and UGC net paper to like any any modules do you think which are very very important I think theories and moments moments and concepts and then and they are repeated questions from the from those areas Mam and then in British literature more questions are asked from after the LGBT period it was so surprising I thought Shakespeare will be very important from that perspective but it was like it was not like that so after the LGBT period it was there were so many questions it is important right right and literary theory as you mentioned I would want to also ask that it is often considered to be the most challenging topic for UGC net assurance because it is not taught in bachelors and masters so what was your strategy or approach when you prepared for that yes mam it's very hard to remember all those members who will be included in all those moments and theories and the terms coined by them so the only thing I tried is practice and practice and multiple times of revision so I just believed in revising things multiple times and I started waking up early in the morning like for us who I have said earlier so I tried to remember all those things even on the exam day also I got up early in the morning because I don't want to regret after coming back from my examination so I just wanted to give my 100% so I studied every single minute for that I invested all my time in that so remembering things is very important for clearing UGC net exam so getting up early in the morning will work mam definitely absolutely because it is so peaceful that you can put in all your energy in learning and recalling those information and after reviewing the paper to syllabus for the first time like when you decided that okay you're going to appear for UGC net so you must have gone through the syllabus prescribed by UGC so when you went through that syllabus so what was the first step that you took like you know the syllabus and now how did you decide that okay this is how I'm going to plan my preparation mam I was like clueless first of all because I had no idea like what to study and what not it was mentioned like a drama poetry fiction just like that it was mentioned and I don't know what all should be covered under those topics only after going through other syllabus provided in the adhita karva app only then I got a clear idea like okay all these should be should have been included in the in that so only then I got a clear idea mam and firstly it was like it was very challenging for me to to complete all those things mam but gradually I had I was able to cope up with the pace mam pace that's that's that's really nice and I really you know I really feel good that the syllabus that we have displayed on the app kind of gave you that blueprint and okay this is what you have to cover in what not so how did you research and select the online coaching platform that best suited your needs like why did you opt for us there were so many other people out there so how did you choose yes mam I used to watch your videos in my undergraduate education level also mam so then I got to know about this app which is helpful for you using it so in in your every single video lecture it was very crisp important efficient and effective and it is very easy to understand things even even the complex concepts are made easy by you so that made me to choose this app particularly mam okay okay thank you thank you so much I'm glad that we could be of help in your preparation and another interesting question that I have in mind which I would want to ask is you know a lot of students that face this challenge in preparing notes for UGC-Net because you know syllabus is so vast so what was your note making strategy like did you make notes how how did you make it and how did you revise from then yes mam as I have mentioned earlier I have noted every single audio lecture I have started making notes for that so there I have started noting every single important point and then like like bullet points also so then I have started revising them multiple times so that's it mam okay okay so you noted everything and you think that making notes is very very important for this example yes if you if do you think that somebody who doesn't make notes can also succeed is there any other alternative way in general sense it depends man but when it comes to UGC-Net exam it's very vast the syllabus is very vast so it's better to make notes it would definitely help you not only for UGC-Net exam and we can we can appear for set and jls and jls and dl so that notes will be of great help yes mam great help so true so true and how many mock tests did you attempt before the exam like like did you go through the mock test section of the website or did you also go through previous year papers I have not gone through any of the previous year question papers mam because you were giving the questions from previous years like in the in every single audio lecture so I was just even I have to make a note of them and then I have appeared for mock tests also mam and that boosted confidence levels so that was like a quick revision for me that's that's true that's true and how did you handle that last minute anxiety and pressure that you feel when exam is just a week or 15 days away yes mam in the last few weeks I have stopped covering new topics mam and I was left with European literature half of the lessons were not covered but still I have to take a step and I've stopped the preparation and then I have started revising multiple times so this time I was very very this time I am very very confident that I have covered a lot I have studied a lot and I have invested a lot a lot of time and I have revised multiple times so there is no such thing like tension or anxiety mam so I was very confident and appeared for the exam that's wonderful and like while you were there in the exam hall and you saw those tough or unfamiliar questions so how did you tackle those questions like did you find that inspired inspired of the fact that you've done so much preparation you've done multiple revisions were you able to like attempt all the questions or were there questions which you found tough and you found okay this is unfamiliar to me yes mam most of the questions look so familiar but there are few questions which I don't find familiar but with whatever knowledge I have acquired from that app with the notes and all I was able to solve all those questions also mam I was able to answer all those things with the knowledge I have acquired you've had right right so looking back is there anything that you think you would have done differently in the preparation like were there any mistakes that you made and you regret I don't think so mam but I would have spent a little more time so that I could have cleared JRF also so this time I would work on that mam I'll rectify that wonderful wonderful and we would love to see you in that list of JRF achievers next time and I would personally be really really happy you're such a sweet student like I've just seen your face and it is so innocent and there's this very little cute vibe that you send across to people you meet so I wish you all the very best for all the future endeavors that you are going to embark and I'm definitely going to see your name in the next JRF list I'm very very sure and the wish you know I really really wish that not just in JRF but in life in general whatever you aim for you were able to achieve you're able to find courage to move on that path with full dedication and perseverance and send my best wishes and regards to your parents as well and give them a big hug from my side for bringing up such a sweet daughter and thank you so much for taking out time for this interview I'm really really happy yes mam it was pleasure talking to you mam and and a great a big thank you for you for giving me this opportunity to thank you directly for making my dream come true mam thanks a lot thank you thank you it means a lot and I'm really happy that we and like our entire team was able to sketch out a course which was helpful in your preparation I really believe that you know the like 80 to 90 credit definitely goes to the student because he's the one or she's the one who's putting in effort to learn those notes to you know sit for hours and prepare to burn that midnight oil but then if right guidance is given then the journey becomes way more smoother so I'm I'm happy that you chose us and we were able to help you and assist you in this process thank you so much thank you thank you okay thank you so much bye bye bye bye


Welcome to digital asset news to get top stories in crypto and bring out a bite-sized pieces today Just as the thumbnail suggests Bitcoin is on a surge, but there's some things we really need to take a look at as far as what to be careful for So we're gonna do a quick market recap We're gonna take a look at four reasons why this could happen and is an ETF that bad Also, we're gonna flip the script a little bit We're gonna talk about the future and we're talking about why NFTs and why they're so popular We're gonna talk about how to NFT and how to evaluate these things and everything in between Before we get into that, let's take a look at the market cap recap real quick Now I know that's lately we've been doing this a little bit more in-depth I want to try to condense this so we can shorten up the videos. You're busy. I'm busy. So let's just make this Work as best as possible. So first things first Market cap 2.3 trillion. We're up 1% that's not too bad. Bitcoin price is going Bananas, I mean, it's almost I think almost hit 58,000 now we're 57,360 But there's some things we really should be careful for we're using trade this in trade the chain for sentiment analysis They play sentiments for me pretty good for what's gone up You know a good gosh two thousand and like no time almost three thousand like no time at all So I mean we can keep this up not too bad now The question is though did all this market cap flow into all so we'll take a look at the coins themselves And in all honesty in the last 24 hours, no not really everything's gone into Bitcoin in the seven days Bitcoin has gone up 16 percent Ethereum in a week going on three tether. No, he cares XRP 8% poke it out 9% up for the week But for the last 24 hours not too much that anything at all really it's all pretty much been the king crypto Except for phantom may pretty good, but that's exactly what's going on. So The real question is is why why is this going on? Why is it happening right now? So let's just take a look at just a little piece of data and I can just tell you right now Here's the the Bitcoin the two hour and I'm not a big TA person But it is interesting to take a look at as far as like the RSI and then where things are going so we can see that This I guess this morning. It's in the 12 we could see that it was a pretty big enormous candle after everything Let me blow this up so you can see it So as we came around here and look at this wick 55 Almost 55 8 right around here and then all of a sudden just in a matter of no time Again two hours. We went from 56 all the way up to 57 5. That's a pretty good price action In just two hours and you can make 2000 bucks And of course right after that We're in a green candle and see how we're just teetering on this RSI meaning that we're overbought But it just kind of came out a little bit because of this a little pullback And now here we are at this I guess it might be a doji or correct me in the comment section But it looks like there's a little indecision right now But it seems that's a little bit of the momentum is fading and after something like that I can see exactly why so That's what we have as far as that But if we take a look at somebody like plan B who you know, where are we going and this guy's been pretty right? For quite some time. I mean with his stock to flow. It's a little off I mean he says right now the stock to flow should be a hundred K But based on his analysis, he's saying that this he's like look Bitcoin's below 34. This was actually on June Triggered by Elon Musk energy FUD. There's more fundamental reasons that we can see weakness in June and possibly July My worst case scenario for 2021 of this August 47 K and he hit that He actually hit that number worked out pretty well September. He says September is gonna be a mad bad month I think everybody knew that or everybody thought that I've been talking about it forever And yeah, it was 43 K and then just like we talked about I've always said Q4 is gonna be fireworks and we see it right now We see a little bit of a run and he's saying hey October is 63 K November is 98 K and December is 135 K again. This is not the stock to flow. He's made this very clear This is just on his analysis just his TA And what the data shows so I'm like great. I can definitely see that again There's a little bit of things to be afraid of so We take a look at that Also, if we take a look at the past past and we just did this about a week and a half ago or so it's been just like this and I like to look at the past to see where we're going and in 2016 It almost mirrors 2021 again We had a dip or a pullback in May pretty pretty severe for the time. It looks kind of ridiculous now I even know how small it is and then we had a pullback or dip in July Dip is a temper then one pair of bollock. So that was major last September pullbacks or dips What happened in 2021 same thing Dip in May July September and then what happened? Well parabolic and I think that's kind of where we're going right now Again, is everything gonna go up forever? No, but in the long run, I think we're doing okay But the big thing then is okay. Well with all these things going on. What's the reason for all this happening? well, it's a good question and This was an article this was from JP Morgan and their their brainiacs over there said, you know This is why we think things are going on and really I'll just sum it up like this There was really just three reasons that they talked about the first one was everything that has to do with Clarity and then we had drone Powell and we had Gary Gensler come on say hey We're not gonna ban it. So that was one that was huge. I think to push the narrative The second reason was lightning now working in all Salvador things are really picking up over there And the third reason is Inflation and we see it coming all around even drone Powell says hey, we thought it was a transitory Guess not so we have more of that so people want a hedge and they're not getting into gold We talked about this they're putting into gold 2.0, which is Bitcoin and the fourth reason comes down to this little thing called an ETF and The ETF sounds great In theory, but there's some caveats. I think everybody needs to be aware of so first of all I've been hearing this this song of dance forever about a Bitcoin ETF coming on and never has but now it seems like That might actually come to pass because of all the regulation all the things that are coming about again I think the SEC and the central bankers. I don't really care so much about crypto so much as CVD season stablecoin so Here's the story and I want you to keep an open mind about what could potentially happen And really we're gonna talk about the short term in the long term So this was a good article talks about this was from Pantera CEO, which is Dan Moorhead. He says the day before a US Bitcoin ETF launches I'm gonna take some ships off the table. That's essentially what he's saying So what he's talking about here is why would a Bitcoin ETF be so dangerous and he just says look he goes We heard this song and dance in 2017. I was around at this time I heard that that a Bitcoin futures was gonna launch by the by the CME and everybody's super excited like this Can be awesome because now institutional money is here. They're gonna prop it up. Well, guess what happened the launch day It was December 17 2017 and that essentially was the top and this was actually a quote From Moorhead and he says all during 2017 the markets were rallying rallying with the mantra When the CME lists Bitcoin future or go on the moon the markets did rally 2000 plus percent until the very day the futures was listed and then we saw Bitcoin winter, right? And then on top of that we also took a look at some of the big news Which was a Coinbase had their direct listing it became a public company and that was on April 14th And what happened on April 14th? Well before that we went all the way up from below 20,000 all the way run up to 65,000 it was pretty great pretty great time and the Bitcoin price was you know 64 863 and guess what happened as soon as Coinbase launch Well, during that time that was April 14th if we take a look here. Let's see. Let's go back Service going good. Good. Good. This looks like the peep the peep April 12 13th 14th And then all of a sudden boom down it goes and up a little bit and then down down down And we saw this huge pullback and again, it was all about this great news We're finally getting adoption. Everything is great. So now here comes along this Bitcoin ETF Which people do believe it's actually gonna happen. It's gonna happen potentially at the end of this month or the next month We will see But they're like look if this happens again this could be the start of the negative and Even Andreas Ansonopoulos one of the Bitcoin. Oh geez the guy's been here for a very long time says Hey, I'm totally against it, but his reasoning isn't about price He was his is about the ecosystem and how it will damage But to finish this all up and we'll get into why it's actually good and then Speculators believe a US based ETF would allow investors from the country to invest and real Bitcoin would be obtained by these funds Making the currency even more scarce because with this ETF as opposed to a futures like CME futures This is going to be a potential ETF futures as well, but you have to have Physical Bitcoin has to be purchased by somebody some institutions have to purchase They have to hold it the ETF you can get into that You don't have to hold it and institutional investors can potentially like, you know Big money players can get in but Somebody has to hold Bitcoin and that means if somebody's holding Bitcoin That means that no one no one can actually sell it because they have to hold it So that's actually a good thing. But remember this golden silver ETFs were not helpful to precious metal markets and actually suppress the price of gold and silver because of Manipulation so this past March three North American Bitcoin ETFs were approved by Canada securities regulators and everything was pretty good I mean, we've had some pretty good and I was in March and we saw a pretty good bump until April funny timing though, isn't it? so The thing is about this is a lot to unpack here But when you take a look at all the pros and cons everything else.  Can this market be manipulated? absolutely look that the market cap of Traditional equities stocks is over a hundred trillion. So how easy would it be to manipulate this market down and around everything else? Because we're only at 3 2.4 trillion. It's extremely easy. It is extremely easy. So am I worried about this a little bit? But only in the short term because in the long term, it's not gonna matter It's not gonna matter whatsoever, but there is some caveats and that's what I want to talk to you about right now So with this one, just remember that back in 2017 ICO days Institutions weren't here and we're just goofing around. They just pretty much laughed at us and now no one's laughing now Now it's a little bit more serious and this is the Bitcoin world Holdings and you can see all the different companies micro strategy being one of the big ones like blow this up so you can see it Tesla Galaxy digital Voyager square Marathon Coinbase and from all these people and they got they own a lot a lot of Bitcoin It's only 1.083% and then you've got countries and governments known Bitcoin Bulgaria says it owns 1% I don't really believe that this was an article Bulgarian government actually owns three billion. This was in 2017. They seized it for some kind of a legal manufacturer or somebody And they probably I don't know if they still have it still they probably sold it off But if they do own it, hey, that's 1% that's tied up great Don't know if they'll all the boo-no's Ukraine El Salvador with all the talk about that is only point zero zero three the Georgia government, you know One point two four percent. Okay, maybe and then you got private companies like block one tasos stone ridge I was one another almost percent and then ETFs of course grayscale the coin shares The three IQ the ones we talked about from the Canada. That's almost four percent So you add that up four three four five six that's six percent. I mean give or take a percentage somewhere around there So that is pretty good. So again This is a lot different than it was back in 2017 again. They have to hold physical Bitcoin Yes, they can still manipulate it and things can go a little bit wonky So the question is do you want to be one of those people that just trades and bounces around and does whatever are you just say? You know what I Know what I got? I think I'm gonna hold on to my crypto assets because if they're gonna they're gonna do these things How long can they possibly do it now? It could go pretty long could not but I don't see that actually happening Especially in this time frame. So for me Not investment opinion or not investment advice is the best opinion I'm going to hold on for quite some time because I just don't see if there is manipulation I could worry about it or I could just hold and sit back and just pick my spots and have my little exit strategy or do Loans or do staking or do DeFi or do whatever else I want to do to create those funds And it's all up to it's all up to you and what you want to do is what's best So that's what we have for that article. Let me just think about that in the comment section Let's go on to our next piece where we talk about Why NFTs and this was a it's a pretty good article But let me backtrack real quick The reason why the transition to this is first of all I send this tweet out a couple days ago, and I said at this point does anybody not believe that Bitcoin is going to be around a hundred K by the end of the year I mean I mean further than that we've seen we've got regulatory clarity people are getting out of gold everything We just talked about right there and then an ETF coming about which again, they got to hold it So they might manipulate a little bit But I think they what they really want to do is they're gonna manipulate They want to manipulate a little bit so they're so their clients can get into it But they've already done that that that Wyckoff model has already been it's already coming out of it So if we see like that they've already done the manipulation They probably want to get in as low as they can then they'll just blast off and that'll that's what it'll be Hopefully so the question then is if that's what's happening. What about Some other things that might be much better returns and that leads me to this point Which was this was an article about Allen giant creative artist agency Thanks deal with whale zero xv1 and the question is well, who cares who cares about this It's gonna make a lot of sense in a bit. So Zero xv1 partners with creative artist agency to bolster advisory partnership. First of all, who is creative artist agency? Well, that is these guys Creators are creative artist agency or CAA American talent and sports agency based in Los Angeles. Who cares? This is why we care Creative artists agency entertainment sports agency and as of 2007 right now 2021 it had a client's list that included near monopoly of a list actors writers and directors You got everything from Dave Bautista Jessica Chastain George Clooney Blow the college clink close Tom Cruise everybody you want to think of and that's just the a list Hollywood actors Not just the sports. Oh, here's music Barry Gibb, okay Oh, Barry Gibb Green Day little Wayne Ludacris cheese and then everything else that you want to think about So when we talk about like they need to deal with this guy Or this entity or this person this lady whoever it is. Why? Well, this is why on Friday CAA told the Holly reporter that it's an deal with the OXB and it aims to help monetize their collection of NFTs Through licensing and brand partnerships. You see this guy right here with this person They bought a ton of super expensive NFTs. They probably weren't that expensive back then and He's been holding on to me. Just you know has a nice little Twitter account just talks about this I got this this this this and What CAA did is they reach out to me go? Hey, what we're gonna do is we want to we want to license that intellectual property In regard to all the NFTs you have so isn't that interesting? So all these goofy all these goofy Pictures that we make fun of and we don't really understand. I mean some of us do I'm trying to I'm sorry to round my head around it All those things that we have those can now be licensed So when people take a look at and they say well, what is the utility here for an NFT? Well, if you want to use that if you want to use that in a movie if you want to use that in a series If I want to use that in on a newspaper print or whatever else it is or on the internet You got to pay somebody something and that's intellectual property and with the CIA here since they have they are big into that arena They say hey, we want to use one of these NFTs will pay you X amount Sure, and for the time that you can do it he can use it forever I mean really and he can pass it on to his kids really wanted to and then also you know It's great about that is that every different property of the NFT that he bought? It is legible on the blockchain and they can prove that this person bought it and they can't really take it away Unless of course he sells it which I think would be a bad idea So if we take a look utility, that's a pretty big utility for all those goofy little pictures that we have out there that were like what the heck and and actually This is from crypto stash, and he's one of the eight or nine people I recommend in my in my comment section or my Description it's like it's it's him and coin bureau and digital Dave and Alex and all those guys This is the thing about stash, and he says it and it's pretty pretty smart He goes if you think NFTs are a fad, which I did Wait till they hit mainstream gaming the concept of owning your skins guns characters instead of renting them from the game makers Every gamers dream, and then somebody writes in they go hey stage He says that hey stash is a bot He posts the same tweets every few weeks because he can't come with anything original, and I said you know what? My my response was this it was it's a good thing He has a bot or someone else that tweets out because people like me They need to see this because they didn't see the first one or the fifth one or the 20th one or whatever else it is So that makes sense to me. So yeah, so we have that little piece right there It makes a lot of sense and then I said this I'm go I said hey this was yesterday I said I'm gonna feature NFT products on my channel Coming up, but here's the criteria because I feel like just like we can evaluate cryptocurrency's digital assets We can take a look at you know who's the team behind it? What is the utility? What is the community like you know all that all the good stuff with the tokenomics? What does it do we can take some of that and we can start to evaluate? Non-fungible tokens or NFTs and say okay. Well, this is my criteria I felt like this is a very good start first of all I said just name out your NFT project that has utility additional mensing launchpad rewards gamification Talk to me about the community if they have a thousand or more That's that's the minimum that they have to have on discord if they have more than 10k That's good and more than 25k 25,000 people. That's great The community drives everything because it gets people talking and they branch out more people buy more people get into it Makes sense and also I said the last criteria is this the floor price has got to be less than 0.2 ETH or is about to launch soon because I mean in reality We could let me bring this up We could we could go to open C and we could say like the very top one the floor price is Geez seven ETH for this one right and it hasn't really even I don't think it's really launched that much or it's just about to begin Crypto toad 7.3 the humanoids, which I probably will buy it's zero point seven That's the base floor price and then seven one point two zero point two eight for the official serials Okay, so we can do all those things but and maybe like like the doge pound and cyber conglomerate things Maybe that's gonna be worth. I don't know a hundred ETH in the future I have no idea but the goal is is to get in on the ground floor I think the best thing to do is try to look at a little bit back and See which ones are launching and zero point two ETH. I I think for a lot of people won't break them So I kind of look at it like this when I'm thinking about Investing into NFTs. This is how I see for me. I'm not saying for you But I feel like I've got my holding portfolio and that's like 90 94% some around there. I'm not gonna touch it. I'm just gonna buy and hold and I'm gonna do like I talked about I'm gonna have my exit strategy go from there. What else I'm gonna trade a little bit Maybe two or three percent maybe four percent and then the gambling which could be NFTs could be like one or two percent, right?  That's why I call it gambling because on this one NFTs There's a lot of products out there, but I can see where things could go pretty well. So That's where I see things going and again also my NFTs This is all Ethereum based on open C and of course, I mean you can do some things and and you know Minted through through Matic and stuff like that. It's not as expensive, but it's still pretty damn expensive I bought an NFT yesterday and it was about about a hundred bucks. Okay, and To mint it was like 90 bucks and I'm just telling you I'm like Geez, I mean, it's almost the same thing. So I mean if I'm gonna buy a cyber Kong's right for 10 ETH, I don't really care about a hundred dollar gas fee, right? But I'm not I'm just a normal person. So I don't have that much Just to kind of gamble on that so when I take a look at is well, what's the next thing? So I could take a look at I'm not mechaverse Not cyber Kong's look at something like this like this is Solon art as so just Solana It's where you can it's Solon art.io. I'll link in the description and you can find a lot of good Projects that are being launched on Solana. Look at this global market cap 7-day volume some of these let's see Solana is about 150 right now So you're looking at that's still pretty pricey for some of these well 20 and you're looking at that's like three grand So and so forth. So yeah, that's that's not that's pretty high on some of these things But you can always look around again. What's the utility and so on so forth? But and then to mint these it's I mean, it's not that not that expensive. Also. I just bought a An NFT on Cardano and as opposed to open see where I'm gonna spend 90 bucks per every single NFT On this one. It was a fraction of a Cardano. So on these things. I mean, I can understand where Things are going. I don't know what's gonna happen in the future as far as NFTs But I can just tell you like this if I'm looking to get into something I want to get into something at the very base lower Floor and then kind of build up from there if I screw up and I just say that one didn't work out I thought I did my homework and utility was there and community was there and it was less than that But it just didn't work out didn't work out. But if I spread things around my workout again This is just my gambling portfolio. That's that's what it is. So look, I know that was a lot But I'm excited about Where the space is headed and I can kind of I can definitely see now how NFTs Most of them also some actually have utility just for the story that we saw about Copyright intellectual property you can mint on these things you can have a launch pad You can gamification all that good stuff and that's all out there And I think this is if you want to really give it a name. It's ICO 2.0 That's really what it is that risky, but that's it. So look if you stuck me all the way in thanks I really appreciate it. If you like today's show give it a thumbs up. That'd be great I'll consider subscribing a lot of things to talk about are very time-sensitive and that's all for today So thanks so much. I appreciate it. See you in the next one


Thanks, Angela. And thank you so many of you for being here. It's great to see people from all around the world in addition to coast and see a lot of familiar faces. So it's a pleasure to be able to have the chance to talk with you about some of my work today. And before I begin with talking specifically about refugee resettlement rhetoric in Minnesota, I want to just give you a little background on how this project came to be because that's an interesting story in of itself. So this started back in spring of 2018 or actually fall of 2018. There was a grant opportunity made possible by the Council of Independent Colleges and the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and that grant was called Humanities Research for the Public Good. And what that meant was, hey, they said, look, we need to both sort of celebrate and support humanities research and also think about how that kind of research really can inform public conversations. And so I was excited to be able to think about how, how I could develop a project that would fit within that initiative. So I acquired three key things, three key components. One, you had to use a library or archive collection from your home institution right so from Gustavus. You had to have a community partnership that could help you think about how you would actually put the research into the public realm, and it had to include undergraduate students in the research process. So those three components were both all compelling to me but also put together a really collaborative project. And so I want to make sure and at the end, I will try to name just a handful of the people that have been involved in this project from its beginning, but I also speak specifically to the student involvement. So the other part of the component of this grant, it was a $10,000, and was that you had to do a public presentation of that research in some form. So in the fall of 2019 after I'd received a grant, I taught a class on the rhetoric of immigration, and the reason that we came the topic is because in our archive here at Gustavus we have the Lutheran Church archive materials, and one box. And that collection is a series of papers from the Lutheran Resettlement Service centered around this period of time that I'll be talking about today 1948 to 1952 post World War two, helping to resettle refugees from Europe into the United States. And part of a class that I taught I these most of these students not all were in that class, and they were part of the process of examining the papers in the archive, looking at the discourse right because I'm a communication studies professor thinking about the language and the rhetoric that's used. So what could we learn from this period of time. And so the students really dug in, and one of the things that really excited them was this public presentation of the research. In addition, we ended up going to the Minnesota Historical Society, and also the immigration history research archives in Minnesota at the University of Minnesota to help supplement some of the materials we had here in our archive. The public presentation component was really important to these students. It raised the stakes for their research a little bit it wasn't they were going to just write a paper they were also going to have to put what they discovered and what they were analyzing into the public space. We conceived of and developed an exhibit for public presentation. That was going to go up in May of 2020, as you imagine it did not happen in May of 2020 but it is up now. So if you do happen to be in St. Peter it's going to be up at the treaty site history center here in St. Peter Minnesota which is managed by the Nicolette County Historical Society, and that's right on 169 as you come into St. Peter from the north, and you can see a picture of some of the posters that are in that exhibit and some of the materials so it's been a really inspiring project and some of the students have even come back to be able to see the exhibit that they initially started working on back in fall of 2019. In addition, I did note on this one slide here about our also worked with me one summer on a presidential research faculty student research collaboration grant that gets Davis makes possible so we worked one summer to further analyze the research and build presentation for academic conferences and publications. So it's truly been a collaborative effort, and I'm really excited to be able to share some of the work that the students developed and some of the material I'll read from today or share with you. And here I was also instrumental in putting together so I want to make sure she gets a shout out for that. So in 1947, nearly a million European residents, Europeans resided in displaced persons camps in Austria Germany or Italy, unable to return their to their homelands after World War two ended. That same year, anticipating an influx of immigration stemming from this humanitarian crisis, Minnesota Governor Luther young doll called on his constituents to support resettlement of these refugees declaring. We in the state or the second and third generation pioneers of the upper Midwest, and we can understand and feel kinship for these pioneers the delayed pilgrims of the 20th century. Within a year the United States passed federal legislation to admit 200,000 displaced persons to the United States. Now that 1948 displaced persons act legislation may have made immigration possible, but it didn't make it easy. It relied on two key mechanisms. One states had to organize a process for resettling displaced persons within their borders, and American individuals or organizations had to guarantee housing and work for any displaced person they sponsored. The resettlement advocacy campaign in Minnesota offers insight into how one state government working closely with religious agencies, conscripted Americans as participants in the right resettlement process. Students and I examined public advocacy materials including brochures radio broadcasts and advertisements that advocated for Minnesotans to open up their homes and workplaces to European immigrants. What stood out to us were the ways that displaced persons were described, the advocacy materials focused on what a displaced person, what made the displaced persons a good fit for Minnesota and characterize them as good neighbors and good workers. So to understand why this discourse was so important, I'll first describe some of the historical context for resettlement. And then I'll discuss the themes that show up in the resettlement materials and how and show you some examples of how displaced persons were characterized in order to encourage people and organizations to sponsor them. And at the end, because this is an alumni college presentation I also will talk a little bit about Gustavus's participation in the displaced persons resettlement program during that period of time. So in 1945, more than 10 million people have been displaced by the war from their homes around Europe, including Russian prisoners of war, Jews, freeing, Jews fleeing prosecution, concentration camp survivors forced laborers from access occupied countries displaced Germans and people from Baltic states fleeing Soviet occupation. The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration spearheaded the effort to repatriate over 8 million people back to their homelands, but not all displaced persons were welcomed in their home country or felt safe to return. After five months nearly 1 million refugees remained most of whom are resided in Allied management, Allied managed displaced persons assembly centers, known colloquially as DP camps. Eastern Europeans in particular, including Catholic Lithuanians Protestant Latvians and Estonians found the return home impossible as the USSR invaded and occupied their countries of the group seeking resettlement in the United States. In addition to the Jewish refugees, the majority were Eastern European originating from Poland, the Baltic states in Yugoslavia, over 70% of displaced persons admitted to the United States between 1945 and 1952 came from countries that were then occupied by the Soviet Union. Implementation in the United States of the Displaced Persons Act required public participation, not just public agreement. It depended on Americans willingness to sponsor, house and employ displaced persons in order for any displaced person to even be considered for resettlement in the United States and affidavit of support. Similar to what you, you see here this is an example of a form that someone filled out indicating their willingness to serve as a sponsor this was Harry Hansen who is a farmer here in St. Peter. They could fill out an affidavit affidavit of support demonstrating that they could provide housing and they could provide work. And then, and they also had to assure right that the new, the arriving displaced person would not become quote unquote a public charge right so they were really wanted to make sure that the state would not become responsible financially for any refugees that were arriving in the United States. With the help of state run commissions, voluntary groups, and religious organizations, a publicity campaign for DP resettlement advocated for supporting displaced persons. The Displaced Persons Commission continually emphasize that quote, the displaced persons program was the American people's own program in a very personal sense, since the American people took these new Americans into their homes and communities, one quote. The inviting participation wasn't straightforward. America's isolationist stance toward immigration and proceeding decades drove the need to persuade Americans who are disposed to be generous to DPs but we're fearful of the economic and social impact they might have if admitted. The isolation in the 1920s was defined by closed door policies that allowed only immigrants of certain ethno national backgrounds and placed restrictive quotas on those groups deemed quote worthy of admission and capable of becoming American. Southern and Eastern Europeans in particular were seen as unable to quote transcend their ethnic identities, unquote when entering American society. In the 1920s restrictionists believe that if these groups were allowed to enter American democracy could not be sustained. And this form is another example of the assurance right against the public charge a letter that would be signed sort of an affidavit from a sponsor. And this 1938 survey provides a poll just a sort of pre World War two glimpse at American attitudes towards immigration and resettlement. So they were, you know, folks were asked, what is your attitude towards German Austrian and other political refugees coming to the US 67% said with conditions as they are we should try to keep them out. Now of course this is one point in time this is 1938 right but it is reflective of some of the, you know, attitudes that have an advocacy campaign around resettlement would need to navigate in order to make the case for people to sponsor immigrants. In Minnesota in particular. We were experiencing a shortage of labor following World War two agriculture. In particular a major industry here in Minnesota lacked the labor force necessary to produce it full capacity in post World War two economy. Thousands of farmers across the state were worried because their farms were empty, and some were leaving the farmland altogether because it was too difficult to maintain. So this need for help led to, you know, a campaign sort of focusing a lot also on the labor that displaced persons could provide. Minnesota was noteworthy among states in the United States for its displaced persons resettlement infrastructure. Under the leadership of Governor Luther Young doll Minnesota took steps to ensure that displaced person resettlement within its borders. And this led to the even the passage of Displaced Persons Act in 1948 in other words, Minnesota was ready to go as soon as that legislation passed because they had started to network and work with a variety of agencies, primarily religious organizations around the state in order to set up an infrastructure and a plan for being able to support and resettle refugees. In his faith, Governor young doll promoted a strong quote Christian conscience and his close relationship with religious organizations became beneficial in calling upon the people of Minnesota to take action and resettling displaced persons. They also circulated a survey around the state to over 100,000 people through clergy to find out what would be our capacity right for sponsoring and resettling displaced persons. They, they learned that it would be about 2000 based on that initial survey. But by 1952 they had resettled in Minnesota, over 6000 close to 7000 refugees in Minnesota. Luther young doll in particular in 1950 right emphasized this as democratic work. So this was something that he was very supportive throughout his governorship and writes quote is that he said to us in Minnesota displaced persons program has become an outstanding example of teamwork for democracy. And the cartoon there is from a newspaper in Minnesota that sort of stressed again trying to frame displaced persons as not a threat but actually a central to democratic advancing democracy in the United States. See, some, you know, someone had sent in a question before the talk today about numbers so I wanted to give you a little bit of a sense of numbers as reported by the Lutheran resettlement service so one of the one of the religious agencies that was involved in resettlement was the Lutheran resettlement service of which we have the records here at the status. So in those reports you can see some of the statistics that they tracked over over time so in 1952, which is the end of the program right the Lutheran resettlement service for service itself recorded that they had resettled 1800 people or 1822 people in Minnesota so had come through their network. Many of those were in, and the majority were in rural communities like St. Peter. And to put that in perspective this report from 1951 somebody actually wrote on this report and handwriting was like oh 5331 is not accurate it's actually closer to 6000. And as I said by the end of the displaced persons act in 1952. They had resettled close to 7000 people in Minnesota. And nationwide to put it in a little bit of perspective 1950 so halfway through this period of time about 160,000 people have been resettled in the United States, and by the end that number was about double. So by 1952, there were between 300,000 people settled across the US. And additional data from those reports which are fascinating to read in their entirety but I didn't want to make a million slides about data because I mostly am a discourse analyst not a data analyst but to give you a sense of the this again the sense of how many people were resettled more in rural communities versus urban communities because that emphasis on agriculture, and that St. Peter for Lutheran resettlement service was right one of the top three cities for resettling across the United States. So, Northfield St. Peter and Oatana were the top three. And you can also see sort of a breakdown by church affiliation. And this is throughout the state. The number around. This is a 1950 and I don't have reports for every year so that's why this data isn't complete. So two years into the program, about 111100 Lutheran families from had resettled in the area. So importantly though, not everything was good news in terms of resettlement so because of the overwhelming number of agricultural labor is needed in the Midwest displaced persons often had little choice but to relocate to farms.  But these kind of orientations were not entirely successful at avoiding conflict, right, so some sponsors misunderstood contract agreements, and the extent to which displaced persons would actually be skilled and agricultural labor, right so someone might show up to work on your farm, and and then you discover that maybe they don't actually have the skill set that you need so that led to some conflict and frustrations. Similarly displaced persons would arrive and settle on a farm and maybe living in a chicken coop without much insulation and it's right to lay their head, and they were a family of four so sometimes the accommodations were pretty difficult, or perhaps we're also not treated as neighbors or as friends but rather as labor in ways that were complicated so some of the bad communities also promote prompted organizations like Lutheran Resettlement Service to be a little bit more responsive and to try to be more involved in sort of following up with host locations and supporting the both the displaced persons and the sponsors. But it was a complicated history so I want to make sure we're not also. We can celebrate both the infrastructure and the value of Minnesota's resettlement but also recognize the complexity of the actual day to day experience that people had. The most world war two refugee resettlement campaign that we analyzed includes pamphlets radio advertisements and newspaper articles produced by the national and Minnesota displaced persons commissions, the church World Service and local Minnesota refugee refugee resettlement agencies, these texts distributed throughout Minnesota provide a lens into the local resettlement process and the discourse that enabled it. The campaign focused on portraying displaced persons as good Christian anti communist Europeans fleeing the wrath of the Germans and the looming oppression of the Soviet Union. Baltic refugees were also given special consideration because many were quote skilled agricultural and forestry workers a demographic highly desired in this part of the world at that time. The label itself was ubiquitous right that was typically how the refugees were framed and referred to from newspaper headlines to advocacy pamphlets to government reports displaced persons was a common place label for European refugees that denoted quote anyone forced by Nazis or fascist to leave his country to work for the German war effort in World War two, or anyone deported and held away from home for religious racial or political reasons. In addition to the displaced adjective functioning as an accurate depiction of refugees circumstances, it also carried a rhetorical value for resettlement advocacy. The term foregrounded the contingent experience of European refugees, de associating the refugees from any particular ideology place or culture resettlement advocates focused on DPs, statelessness and homelessness, effectively erasing the refugees from the advocacy narrative ambiguity around their national origins enabled advocates to emphasize displaced persons is just like us, and is possessing the qualities celebrated in the lore of Minnesota pioneers hard working and skilled, but in need of a place to put their talents to work. So one prominent metaphor used was the idea of neighbor displaced persons as neighbors featured in documents addressed to both displaced persons and their perspective hosts. Neighbor explicitly foregrounded the similarities between displaced persons and their Minnesota sponsors. Resettlement service demonstrates a prime example of this in their pamphlet called on being good neighbors new neighbors new friends. In this handout distributed to Lutheran congregations throughout Minnesota LRS the Lutheran resettlement service characterized displaced persons is only quote as different from each other as the people living on your block, or as the people who attended Sunday services are radio advertisements similarly upheld that displaced persons were possessed possessed quote warm heartedness and neighborly characteristics of the American people unquote. This discourse of sameness argued that displaced persons would arrive with the shared traits including religious affiliations and skipped over potentially the arduous process of integrating people of different backgrounds cultures and languages into their communities. The term neighbor suggested affability and relatability with differences only in small traditions or daily routines, but not in values or culture. Neighbor rhetorically locates displaced persons in proximity to Minnesotans in a non threatening way, imagining displaced persons is having already assimilated into Minnesota cultural norms, regardless of how disparate cultural norms maybe across the state of Minnesota alone. Neighborhood articulates neighbor articulate sameness without offering specificity about what is the same, like any good narrative this ambiguity invites the audience to identify with the other, and right on to them their own values beliefs and stories about how their specific relationship will unfold by constituting displaced persons as possessing non specific values that align with those Minnesotans. The advocacy materials dampened Minnesotans anxieties about the displaced persons integration into their communities, reducing the perception of any potential adjustment or discomfort that one would have to navigate in a changing neighborhood. Another prominent frame was displaced persons as assets or laborers. The identification with displaced persons was further secured through this shared civic virtue, agricultural skills and work ethic. In local newspapers headlines proclaimed DPs proposed as labor source for state farms which would quote solve a serious employment problem for farmers. The refugees were framed as an invaluable resource to Minnesotan farms experiencing a labor shortage as a result of the war. Not only were they suitable to become Minnesotans, but they would also stimulate the state's economy. Our human center centered around the idea that displaced persons themselves would be a net gain for the US. In a paper article was quoted as saying the country stands on the whole to gain more than it loses from European refugees, commoditized for the benefit of US and local economies, displaced persons were depicted as quote job makers not job seekers. They were imagined as uniquely helpful for the US economy in direct refutation of concerns that they would take jobs from Americans by establishing the usefulness of DPs resettlement rhetoric, welcome to them for their contributions to the advancement of the economy.  They have undertaken many steps to enable themselves to fit better into their new homes. They have devoted much of their camp time to studying language and vocational and specialized training. Many have supplemented old skills with new ones, and quote they will make splendid citizens. Finding DPs as an asset constituted their identity in terms of their utility for their new country. As one newspaper describe them, useful citizens continuously rhetoric highlighted the economic benefit that DPs would bring to the country. They need us but we need them to their skills their devotion to democracy one through hardship and suffering their labor and their Christian leadership or all assets we can use. And a consumerist economy value is emphasized displaced persons were described as quote a good by and a good bargain displaced persons were further monetized quote if we act soon enough we can probably get the cream of most of these groups on quote resettlement advocates and arguing that DPs were a good return on investment for the American economy. They said right refugees coming as a sound financial investment. It won't cost us too much to to bring them over and in fact, it will actually stimulate the economy. And rhetoric articulated resettlement as an exchange the please DPs were given a place to live employment and security, and Americans received new labors for their economy. So these, this is a point in class where I would say now let's talk a little bit about how these things are framed. And what are some of the implications right of identifying displaced persons in these kind of prominent frames right both kind of a moral argument that they are, you know, just like we're going to be able to settle into our communities and we'll all be, you know, singing camp songs around the fire, and also, you know, an economic argument right that they're able to support and advance the economy. Right, these were really prominent frames that responded fittingly to the context right to help make a case for resettlement. But I think it's also important right and we've talked about extensively with students like what are some of the implications of this kind of frame for thinking about displaced persons and refugees in particular. So just offer a few of those now before we talk a little bit about Gustavus. First, the idea of privileging sameness right so that sort of sameness troops in the neighborhood metaphor that comes through really sort of can cement the idea that sameness is a necessary pre condition for humanitarian aid to refugees. Is it need it be right how similar must we be, or be able to identify with someone in order to be able to help them. Right and so there are sometimes some drawbacks right to emphasizing sameness over difference. There's an emphasis on the economics right the economic and labor value of refugees may work well here in this circumstance where there was actually a demand for workers. But it can also be a problematic when humanitarian needs and economic conditions don't align. It can be harder to make the case that, you know, one should be helped for their for their need, as opposed to write our economic need. In terms of providing the aid right so thinking a little bit about how that economic argument right centers and thinks and labels people as an economic commodity as opposed to as a person. And that's sort of one of the other sort of big implications that we have talked about with students extensively is the what the ways in which sometimes this rhetoric could actually be dehumanizing right and actually in one newspaper article we read a person and a resettlement advocate actually noted that the language of displaced persons itself was kind of an impersonal and cold blooded. And it might unmonish people to remember that these people are individual human beings right so that even the need to sort of explain or remind people that what we're talking about are not.  And we have to think about how to navigate integrating them into our communities in more complex ways. Discourses that allied differences can sometimes also prevent us from preparing for the challenges and needs of resettlement. So language and cultural differences can breed complex. And they can also make that kind of connection and integration more difficult. And this discourse of, you know, they're, they're ready to go they're ready to come and support us also neglected right issues of trauma related to right the violence and the dislocation that refugees and the relocation that refugees had to bear. So, but I do want to end on a happy note so also we'll share a little bit about right some of the favorable ways in which Gustavus was involved in resettlement over the years. So this is probably my favorite part of the presentation today for this audience. So many of you are I'm sure familiar with Edgar Carlson who was former president at Gustavus, and I believe his daughter is here today too so I'm so pleased that she's able to join us. So, President Carlson was actually actively involved in supporting and welcoming displaced persons to Gustavus. This particular slide actually shows a letter that he wrote in July of 1949 to a local pastor here in Nicollet County informing him of a workshop for pastors and a parish education workshop, specifically a piece of it was specifically to talk about displaced persons and encouraging people to learn about how they can sponsor and be involved. Right, so one quote from the letter he says the general purpose of this program would be to let pastors and people in the churches, churches know how they can get displaced persons convince them it's not too much trouble to try and give them firsthand acquaintance with some people who have already come. So, President Carlson was instrumental and sort of networking within the regional community but also helped to bring displaced persons and sponsor them directly to Gustavus. And one of the first that we can see that he helped sponsor was Artur's Kovara who was an operatic tenor had previously performed at the Vienna Opera House, which those of you who may be our fans of opera know that that's not small. That's not a small role to have performed. And you can actually hear there are a couple of recordings from Kovara available on YouTube that you can pull up. So he came to Gustavus and taught voice at Gustavus and also the first opera at Gustavus was taught by Artur's Kovara. Carlis Kovmanis also taught as a mathematician at Gustavus and my understanding is he also taught Russian, occasionally on the sides, but he taught for a number of years at Gustavus, and also helped to support bringing other displaced persons to Gustavus and to the community, including a well known painter Waldemar Gutmanus and Gardner and we believe also a baker and there may have been at least one other. We're still trying to find out some of this information, some of which is being researched by Eileen Holtz who's also here today, looking at some artists from Nicollet County and that that history. Carlis Kovmanis was a painter when he came over to Gustavus when he came over, or when he was applying to come over. He apparently listed on his application that he was a grounds crew painter to try to increase the chance that he would find employment, even though he is a canvas painter landscape. And so when he came over here initially was painting walls and buildings, until it was learned that he had the capacity to also teach painting at Gustavus. And he also worked with Kovara on set design etc for the opera so. So a number of folks were involved. There's also. Thank you to Joanna Swanson Joanna Carlson Swanson who's here today. This is a painting of the living room of a button art Edgar Carlson's place here in St. Peter, and on the wall behind them as a painting of old main that was done by Kovmanis. And as a thank you to Carlson for his support. And so that painting, from my understanding, did for a long time, hang on a wall here at Gustavus. This is as though during a period of disruption called a tornado it may have ended up in a closet, and is, we do know where it is, but it isn't some disrepair, and does need to have some treatment.  And a final sort of Gustavus connection that I just wanted to mention before I wrap up because I'd love to hear questions and commentary from you all. When I opened when we open the exhibit in the fall. At that time, a gentleman from who lives in Pennsylvania reached out and saw an ad for the exhibit and said, Oh, I have been looking for my family. I came to the United States and specifically to St. Peter when he was four years old as displaced persons and they lived on a farm outside of in St. Peter. And he also said, we were not able to track down the particular family that he resettled with, but he had kept the trunk that his family brought all of his possessions with over to the United States which was stamped with the Gustavus logo and label, because it was shipped or sort of journeyed over here care of good monies. So that he graciously donated the trunk to the Nicollet County Historical Society so it's part of the exhibit right now, but another kind of connection to Gustavus past that I thought was an important thing to share so I'm going to open it up and I'll close the slideshow there are so many other connections and stories that have come from the exhibit but I wanted to just make a special thanks to I mentioned there are a lot of people who've been involved in this project from start to finish and these are a handful of names and I fear I have probably left many others off. I also want to thank of course the Nicollet County Historical Society for the exhibit so with that I would


allows challenging mankind to test its truthfulness. Why would Allah say, create the universe with strength and we are its expander? Why would Allah refer to the clouds in the Quran as the heavy laden clouds and they look like they're weightless? There are ways to discover these things and somebody did. But at the end of the day, anything that was listed in the Quran was not demonstrably true till it was demonstrated. The Quran didn't edify anyone. It was, hey, science eventually discovered this and then somebody said, oh yeah, here's where in the Quran it says something like that or something can be interpreted this way. And in those places where it didn't line up as well, well, that metaphor, that's interpretation.