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The Father-Daughter Dance – Daughters take the lead
How do you explain science to your family? How has science helped your health or relationships? We talk about this and gut microbes with the amazing Dr. Kat Milligan-Myhre at the SACNAS National Convention in San Antonio. We also had the pleasure of speaking with Minerva Contreras who was presenting her work in neuroscience at the convention and was also a speaker at a live taping of Story Collider.
Follow Dr. Kat, Minerva Contreras & SACNAS on twitter
@Napaaqtuk
@minicontreras
@sacnas
Check out Ed Yong's "I Contain Multitudes" Youtube Channel to learn more about the world of microbes.
Image Credit: Dr. Kat Milligan-Myhre
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(Dr. Regina) Welcome to Spark Science where we share stories of human curiosity. I'm your host, Regina Barber DeGraaff, astrophysicist and avid TV watcher. This episode is our first SACNAS show of the 5th season. SACNAS stands for the society of the advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in science. It has grown in the last four decades to be the largest organization dedicated to supporting racial and ethnic inclusion in STEM, science, technology, engineering, and math.
The annual convention is the largest gathering of scientists of color in the nation. Spark Science attends every year and I had the honor of interviewing key note speakers. This show was recorded on location at the convention at the San Antonio Texas. Now, sit back, relax, and let's learn together.
>> [Speaking in foreign language.] Good afternoon I'm Dr. Katherine Keenan Actor Milligan Myhre. My student usually call me Dr. Kat. It's a little bit easier. I'm an assistant professor at the University of Philosophy in Anchorage. I've been there for three years.
(Dr. Regina) You were a SACNAS lunch keynote speaker today. You just did that. I really really enjoyed your story about really trying to explain to your family what you were doing in college.
(Dr. Kat) I was in the lower 48 for over 20 years. I'm from Kotzebue so it's very different from the lower 48. My mentors would try to ask me, "What questions I would I like to ask?" I would say, "What questions are you working on? That's what I'll work on." I didn't have an idea of what a scientist could do. I wasn't looking for research questions when I was growing up. It wasn't until I got into the lower 48 and started working in research that I realized, what you could do with this information, what you could do with the tools given in a traditional science education.
Now, when I have students that come to my lab, we have at least 5 different projects going on in my lab. I'll sit down and I'll go through each one. Then I'll ask them, "Which one of these are you interested in? What aspect do you want to study?" Some students take whatever project I happen to be working on. Other students will come to me with their own project.
(Dr. Regina) I was a grad student too. As a grad student you sit there and whatever my advisor says I will do. I don't have these big ideas. You're right. You don't have a basis to develop those big ideas. Where are they going to come from? Another thing I wanted to talk to you about, what are those other projects that you offered?
(Dr. Kat) I have a student that studies kombucha for example. He brews his own kombucha and says he thinks there are microbes in kombucha that can probably be beneficial and I want to figure out what those are and what kind of activity they have. From that we built a project around identifying microbes in kombucha and then figuring out what, if any of them have helicobacter activity. We chose helicobacter because his partner is Alaska native and I'm Alaska native and we're both really involved in the major causes of illness in Alaska natives.
There happens to be a microbe that causes cancer, helicobacter, it's a Gram-negative bacteria that causes ulcers but in a small subset of people it causes cancer, gastric cancer and colon cancer. Those happen to be two cancers that are highly prevalent in Alaska natives. We are trying to compare these different home brew recipes and find out if any of them are able to support any of these microbes and are more amenable to perhaps using this as a probiotic in kombucha.
(Dr. Regina) That is awesome.
(Dr. Kat) I'm really excited about that project.
(Dr. Regina) What do you do when you're trying to explain these projects and you're trying to explain them to even just undergrads that you're working with?
(Dr. Kat) That's part of my talk, too. I'd go home and tell these things to my dad and he'd be like, OK, his eyes would glaze over. I get that [laughing.] When I talk to undergrads, I like working with freshman because I can tell them the proper way to hold a pipette.
(Dr. Regina) It's like working with an empty slate.
(Dr. Kat) Yes. I can train them exactly how I want. When I talk to freshman and high school students, I work with a lot of high school students, I tell them, "Look, what we're really interested in are these microbes that are in our gut. Those microbes live in really complex communities with thousands of members just like you have an important job in your community, these microbes have an important job in their community." Not just within the community itself, but then they're also affecting the host.
What we're studying is the relationship between those microbial communities and the host. For the host, we use the immune system as our read out. How are these microbes changing the host via the immune system? When we think about the host, we not only look at the immune system, we also look at how they're developing. So, how big are they getting? Do their internal origins look correct? Because, we can see through these fish because they are transparent.
Then we can look at their behavior too because the microbes also affect the way that the behavior develops in the fish. We can see how much time they spend close to other fish or we can see how far they travel. That tells us how timid they are or how bold they are. I focus on this relationship between the microbes and their host and how they affect development.
(Dr. Regina) There's a lot of new research coming out in neuroscience about how the gut is affecting your brain and how those things are connected.
(Dr. Regina) For more information about this, check out our student blog post about recent studies that suggest a link between gut microbes and Alzheimer's disease.
(Dr. Regina) Is there anything that you've used in the past or now or are thinking about using that has to do with pop culture in your science?
(Dr. Kat) I'm actually really excited that Ed Young was at the … [laughing] he wrote a good book, I Contain Multitudes, I tell my students to read that book. It tells the story of the microbe research from the point of view of the scientists that are doing the research while also telling about the science behind those stories. It's a really nice tool to be able to explain why these things are so important.
The other thing is that Ed Young has is a series of videos, the I Contain Multitude series, my favorite one to show at the beginning to my microbiology class is a show that he did with Jack Gilbert talking about what would happen if we took away all of the microbes. It's this apocalyptic view. It also gets the point across that microbes are a really important part of our everyday life.
(Dr. Regina) Ed Young is a world-renowned science journalist who writes for the Atlantic. Here is the clip that Dr. Kat was referring to.
>> Microbes may be tiny but they have a profound effect on our lives. Most thought of bacteria as germs, as bad guys, and yet only a few hundred kinds or so are known to cause disease. The vast majority of them are innocuous or beneficial even. Just look in the mirror. Your face, your skin, your mouth, they are covered in gardens of microbes that are stopping more dangerous species from colonizing.
Your guts are homes to thousands more species that are eating your food for you. Or perhaps, you are eating their food for them. All told, there are at least as many microbial sells on my body as there are native human cells which means, at best, I'm just half the person that I think I am. If it's even me doing the thinking at all.
(Dr. Kat) Then, Rob Knight gave a really neat TED Talk a few years ago. The TED Talk book that came from that is just a really easy way to see where microbiology work has come from and where it is going in the future.
(Dr. Regina) Has your dad seen any of those, I Contain Multitudes? You could say, "Hey, I saw Ed." Did you get to meet him right after the talk?
(Dr. Kat) Yeah. It was really fun. I haven't shown my dad these videos. I want to the next time I go home. I'm wanting to. My parents have a computer but the internet service has been slow. They just finally upgraded to faster internet service. Now I can be like, "Dad, look at all of these great things!" I have shown him pictures of my little fish moving around.
(Dr. Regina) I want to thank you for talking to me. I do want to say that your talk was very inspiring.
(Dr. Kat) Thank you.
(Dr. Regina) I know you hear that a lot, inspiring.
(Dr. Kat) I don't. This is my first time giving a big talk like this. I was really happy. A student came up to me afterwards and said she was considering dropping out of her science research. She listened to my talk and was inspired to stay. Honestly, I almost cried. 200 people who were standing around after, this is the first time I've been able to give a talk like this.
It was inspiring to hear the stories from the students that were coming up to me afterwards talking about their struggles and where they've been and where they hope to go. Hearing that my talk helped them realize that it was possible and that the things that they're working on are worthwhile, it just, it was really moving for me.
(Dr. Regina) That is so, I'm like smiling ear to ear. You're emotional, like, that's awesome. Thank you so much for talking to me.
(Dr. Kat) Yeah. It was a pleasure. I'm so glad to have met you.
(Dr. Regina) Follow Dr. Kat on Twitter @napaaqtuk. Spark Science will be back with more from the SACNA convention, the number one convention with the focus on inclusion in STEM.
(Dr. Regina) Welcome back to Spark Science. This episode is our first SACNAS show of the 5th season. The annual convention is the largest gathering of scientists of color in the nation. Story Collider is a podcast featuring person stories related to science. They came to the national SACNAS convention in San Antonio. I had the opportunity to interview a student who spoke at the live taping.
(Minerva) My name is Minerva Contreras or Minerva Contreras as you would say in Spanish. I was born in San Diego but I grew up in Tijuana, Mexico. I went to school for biotech engineering in Mexico, specifically in Queretaro at University of Autonoma La Queretaro.
(Dr. Regina) We were talking earlier that you were born in San Diego you studied in Mexico, do you have family in Mexico?
(Minerva) I do. I have a lot of family there.
(Dr. Regina) What made you want to do that? What made you want to apply to an undergrad? Did you have ideas of being a scientist already, like fighting cancer?
(Minerva) I actually didn't find my passion for science until I was a little older, so around 21 or 22 years old. I went to art school actually. I went to film school because I wanted to do something creative, you know, something that would spark like a creative side of me, a story telling side. I thought filmmaking was great so I went in to do that.
(Dr. Regina) How far did you get into that industry?
(Minerva) Not far at all. I was there for three years. I got an associate's degree and then, maybe like 6 months before graduating, I started reading, literally. I'm just going to graduate because you have to finish what you start.
(Dr. Regina) I like that comment though because I think a lot of the scientists and the science majors I talk to on this show is, we all kind of hit that wall where things get so hard, things are very clearly planned out, you go to university and you have a syllabus and you have a series of classes that you have to take. Then, you hit this part where it's not as well planned out and you have to problem solve or you have to do things on your own and it's hard to finish things that you start. That's kind of the accomplishment to science is actually finishing projects that you start.
(Minerva) Something definitely changed in me. I finished because I knew I had to finish the filmmaking associate's degree in LA. But I did not go to graduation because I wanted to feel proud of whatever I was going to graduate from.
(Dr. Regina) You mean you didn't feel proud so you didn't go to graduation?
(Minerva) No. I'm not going to pursue it, you know. I don't want to stay here in this industry.
(Dr. Regina) Did you regret that ever?
(Minerva) No, I feel like I don't regret it because I want to get there, you know? I want to graduate and be super proud of my degree and now I think that I will be.
(Dr. Regina) So you're in film school and stuff happens within your family health wise. You start reading about what happens in the brain.
(Minerva) My parents got divorced when I was 11. My dad was always kind of particular I guess. Odd in a way. I always had a feeling but I didn't really know how to define what was wrong with him until, I guess, when I was older. One day I got a call from him saying he needed to see me. I was in LA in my art school. He lived in Tijuana. I knew I had to go. So, I just went.
When I got there he was just completely out of himself. He started like, showing me around his house, it was a huge mess, the house. This was the house I grew up in so I knew the house but he started showing me the house as if I had never been there before and pointing out every stain on the floors and on the walls and on the ceilings, every piece of trash, talking to me about the meaning behind all of these things.
Then he said that "they" were out to get him and everything had been placed or arranged that way by "them." I didn't know how to react, you know? So, I left, feeling very worried and very confused. I think in my mind I was just like, "There has to be a scientific explanation to this." So, that's what I did. He's very lonely, he was very lonely and he had no one. I think I was one of the persons that he was actually like more open to. Even then, it didn't seem like he trusted me all that much. I had to figure out a way of learning about what was going on with him and then trying to solve this huge problem and help him.
I eventually hypothetically diagnosed my dad with paranoid schizophrenia. I really got into science because of that. I start reading about the brain, and then it kind of like, went from wanting to help him to just literally finding my passion. Now I'm more into the neurobiology of everything, not specifically schizophrenia.
(Dr. Regina) That opened the door a little bit, and you're like, oh, these other things.
(Minerva) Right. Yes.
(Dr. Regina) You're here at SACNAS and you're actually presenting research. Now you are an undergrad and you want to go and get a degree in, is it neurobiology?
(Minerva) Yes. Neuroscience, neurobiology specifically. Today I'm going to be talking about neurodegenerative disease called FXTAS, fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome. We used cast proteins to rescue the cellular pathology of the deceased.
(Dr. Regina) That's a lot of words that I don't understand. So, start from the beginning. Exactly what is that that you just said?
(Minerva) So, are you familiar with Cas promotions? CRISPR-Cas9?
(Dr. Regina) A little bit but give out listeners, this is new, this is new technology that is actually very amazing and like moving forward very quickly.
(Minerva) It's fascinating. It's a gene editing technique basically. For the disease that we're studying, there's this pre mutation that leads to neurodegeneration at the age of 50-55. So your whole life can go through and you're fine and then you're 50 and then you start having these weird neurological symptoms. Which are like tremor ataxia, problems with memory, etc.
We were trying to see if this protein, and it was engineered at the lab that I worked at, the Lowe's lab at UCSC to target RNA. Its CRISPR-Cas9 is able to edit genetically. Then the lab engineered it to be able to edit RNA.
(Dr. Regina) I know that you weren't super proud of your filmmaking degree but there must have been skills that you got that aid you, that actually make you, I think, really valuable to your teams in neuroscience, or to your class. What are those things that you've maybe noticed?
(Minerva) I think what has been most valuable is the story telling part of it. It's common that as a scientist, you can't really find a way to be able to communicate all of your great discoveries to the general public. I think that's a huge problem because it really segregates us from the rest of society. Not in an arrogant way, it's just we really don't know how to communicate our findings in a simple or relatable way. I'm really passionate about that actually. I've been trying to get more into that which is one of the reasons why I am doing this in the first place.
(Dr. Regina) The story collider and talking to me.
(Minerva) Yes.
(Dr. Regina) Which I'm very approachable. [Laughing.]
(Minerva) Yes. [Laughing.]
(Dr. Regina) I think somebody can write a story or maybe tell a story to their friend. But to actually be able to really communicate it to people is a separate thing. Both those things are something that you're bringing to science that you should be proud of, that you did graduate from filmmaking.
What are your goals then? You're going to graduate. You're looking to grad school. What do you want to do in grad school? What is your passion, your mission in life?
(Minerva) I really want to get into the molecular biology of the brain. I'm super passionate about how the brain works. I think I owe my need to understand everything to the fact that I wasn't 100% able to understand my dad. It's kind of like, you know, if you look at it like psychologically, I'm trying to fulfil that, you know?
I'm so passionate about science and I had no idea about this part of me until I was 21 or 22, you know? I feel like if everyone was a little bit more open to just listen to simple science, it's actually really relatable, they would get as excited as I did. You don't have to pursue a scientific career but I feel like the world needs to be aware of what's going on scientifically and I want to be a part of that.
(Dr. Regina) Thank you so much for talking to me, because that was really inspiring. I hope you are proud of your filmmaking and your communication skills because that is something that is very valuable in your field.
(Minerva) I'm trying to be. Thank you.
(Dr. Regina) We'd like to thank Dr. Kat and Minerva for taking the time to talk to us at such a busy convention. You can follow Dr. Kat on twitter @napaaqtuk. If you'd like to learn more about SACNAS, check out their website sacans.org. The I Contain Multitudes series can be found on YouTube and it's based on the book by Ed Young. It was produced by HHMI Tangled Bank Studios in association with Room 608, Inc.
Spark Science is recorded on location in Bellingham Washington at Western Washington University the producers are Suzanne Blaze, Regina Barber DeGraaff, and Robert Clark. Student editors are Julia Thorpe and Andra Nordin and Sarah Cokely. Additional editing is done by WWU video services. Spark Science is sponsored by WWU and created in partnership with KMRE. Thank you for joining us. If you want to listen to past episodes, visit sparksciencenow.com. If there is a science idea you are curious about, post a message on our Facebook page or Tweet us @sparksciencenow.
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Podcast, Season 5 biology, Dr. Kat, ed yong, fathers, gut, microbes, Milligan-Myhre, Minerva Contreras, Neuroscience, sacnas, schizophrenia, science, Science communication


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Shoes of asylum seekers, left behind.
Two weeks ago I spoke over the phone with three people who had recently come to the border to seek asylum in the United States. One of these was a man from El Salvador who told me that he and his wife and two children had had to leave their village after the local gang leader told the man that the gang wanted to "rent" his nine year old daughter.
"We left the next day," he told me, "I have an uncle in Atlanta who told me that he would take care of us while we did the asylum process. We have no where else to go."
A woman that I spoke with was at that same shelter. She was from Nicaragua, and she told me that she had lived in the United States for almost twenty years.
"I went home to bury my dad and overstayed my travel permission, so they (the US authorities) wouldn't let me back into the country," she explained, " But I have an eleven year old living in Texas, and with all that is going on, I need to be with my daughter."
The other woman I spoke with was from El Salvador. She spoke softly, but was clearly furious about how she and her family had been treated by the US agents.
"We crossed the river and it was freezing cold. The patrol showed up and we surrendered and told them that we were seeking asylum. They wouldn't let us talk to them, they didn't care about our reason for being there. They just told us to give them our things. They poured out our drinking water, and the kids were shivering, but they wouldn't give us our jackets back. The agents just ignored us. They drove us to the international bridge and made us walk into Mexico. It was 2 a.m. and on the Mexican side of the bridge there were a bunch of men with guns sitting in a truck, staring at us. We were terrified, but we must have looked so pathetic that they thought we weren't worth fooling with," she told me.
The three families were a part of the more than 10,000 people that the border patrol has "expelled" since March 21st, when the government assumed that emergency public health measures issued by the Center for Disease Control gave them the right to bypass long-standing immigration law. The new policy, while outrageous, given our nation's meager, yet important previous commitments to provide safety for those seeking political asylum, is not surprising. After all, ours is the country that cold-heartedly separated children from parents, that left those families who managed to remain together languishing in cages for days on end, in conditions likened to torture.
Ours is the country in which children died in while in border patrol custody.
It is a depressingly short route from separating children from their parents, to refusing to even consider offering safety to people fleeing for their lives. The pretext for this new policy is the COVID19 virus, but the plan to seal the border from asylum seekers has been in place since just after the 2016 election. The effort by advocates over these past weeks to defend our nation's asylum policy has been extraordinary, especially given the strictures of "remain in place." There are numerous cases filed in federal court, official complaints establishing the record of abuse have been lodged with the government, and other efforts are going forward.
Those of us who have had the honor of working on behalf of the asylum seekers, however, realize just how important it is to this struggle for these suffering men, women, and children to be seen, to be heard, and to be known. The practice of immediately expelling people effectively "disappears" the asylum seekers, as it is very difficult to even find them in the murkiness of the Mexican border. It has become nigh unto impossible to lift up the plight of these people.
There are 2,500 asylum seekers who continue to live in a tent camp in Matamoros. They were not expelled, but rather made to "remain in Mexico" for the course of their asylum process. Many, many people from the US have visited with them over the past year and a half. While these 2,500 displaced people are only a small part of the millions of people who have been forced to flee their homelands, what makes this Matamoros community special is that they are not strangers to us. They are friends who have trusted us with their stories, who invited us into their tents and into their lives.
For some of us, these were one-time encounters that lasted perhaps an hour or so; for others, the visits have been a daily part of their lives for months on end. However brief, the visit was powerful. For while the asylum community, like any other collection of human beings, suffers with its own foibles, it is also gifted with people who have learned to navigate a world of unseen terror, of uncertain futures, and of deep loss. Just standing in the same space with someone who lives through that can only inform our own lives.
In all of the conversations that I have had with people seeking asylum, a significant aspect of their survival mechanism was an unstinting trust that the people who populated a nation of law (as so many described the United States), having heard the circumstances that brought them to the southern border, would offer them and their families a safe place to live. No one was coming north to look for a free handout (which, in case you do not know this, does not exist). They were simply looking for a place where they could watch their children safely grow up.
Our nation's heart has hardened, at least under the present leadership. The federal government has taken the law and twisted it and turned it to serve one purpose—that no one's plea for asylum will be heard, at least in the foreseeable future. Indeed, if the expulsion program continues, we won't even know that there are people knocking on our nation's door, pleading for help.
Citing public health concerns covers a multitude of sins, but even as the hounds of plague, and, then, probably, famine, nip at our collective global heels, the plight of this community of people should not be allowed to fade from the public's attention. In my own Jewish/Christian tradition, neither epidemics nor wars nor any calamity removed the obligation to care for the stranger. Indeed, in our traditions, the practice of hospitality is considered a blessing more for those who offer it than for those who receive it. Likewise, dire curses are attached to those who fail to honor this obligation. Our nation's new practice of expelling the stranger, without the slightest regard for their well being seems to fall in line with the curses (Exodus 22:21–24, for just one sample).
At the end of one of the phone calls that I had last week, a woman asked me "If my family and I cross the Rio Grande, and this time avoid the border patrol and make it to my grandfather's place in the United States, will the first time that I got caught affect my (asylum) case?"
Her desperation was heart breaking. I told her that I didn't know about asylum law. I did know biblical law, though, and so told her, "Well, if you make it to Brownsville, your family is welcomed to stay with us."
She thanked me, graciously, saying, as is the custom, "Que Dios te bendiga."
April 19, 2020 Michael Seifert

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1919 : The Singapore Centenary and its Celebration
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Centenary Day took place on 6 February 1919 and marked Singapore's hundredth year as a colonial port-settlement. It was celebrated as a public holiday filled with official festivities and fanfare. This display features photographs and publications produced for the occasion.
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On Paper: Singapore before 1867
28 Sep 2019 – 22 Mar 2020
Through carefully preserved records from not only the collections of the National Library and the National Archives of Singapore, On Paper presents a rare treat to all who are interested in our nation's past.
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The Rare Collection Gallery
The Rare Collection Gallery showcases treasures from the National Library's Rare Materials Collection of valuable research materials on Singapore and Southeast Asia. Comprising over 15,000 books, journals, manuscripts, maps, photographs and ephemera, many of the items in the collection were inherited from the National Library's predecessors – the Singapore Library (1844–1874) and the Raffles Museum and Library (1874–1960). The collection is also further enhanced by recent donations from institutions and individuals.
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Donations of library materials to the National Library play a significant role in adding diversity and depth to our collection and are instrumental in assisting the library to obtain notable National Collection items. This Donors' Gallery was set up to acknowledge our donors and showcase their donations. On display is a small selection of materials which provides a glimpse of the variety of materials that have been gifted to the National Library over the years.
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Script & Stage – Online Exhibition
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Possess the Air: Love, Heroism, and the Battle for the Soul of Mussolini's Rome
by Taras Grescoe
Windsor, Ontario: Biblioasis, 2019
$22.95 / 9781771963237
Reviewed by Angela Clarke
Taras Grescoe's Possess the Air: Love, Heroism, and the Battle for the Soul of Mussolini's Rome is a timely non-fiction study of populism and historical responsibility. Set in Rome during the Mussolini years (circa 1920-1945), this nonfiction book deftly documents the rise and fall of Il Duce and the fascist movement he created. While the story of fascism's rise is the catalyst to this novel, Grescoe offers an unusual vantage point from which to assess Benito Mussolini's firm hold over Rome: the American School at Rome, a lofty watchtower from which to spectate the unfolding of Mussolini's regime.
The American School itself is inhabited by elite academics and intellectuals as well as the children of America's privileged. They are brought together to immerse themselves in, study, and imbibe the ancient ruins that are a living testament of the greatness of the Roman past. The American School at Rome, a bastion of entitlement, is an excellent setting for this story. It enables Grescoe to summarize and clarify the two fundamental truths regarding the perception of Italy and the people of Italy commonly held among the well heeled and elite of the time. These truths are two conflicting co-existing viewpoints, seemingly incongruent, held by Americans and Europeans until the 1970s.
The American Academy (School) in Rome on completion in 1914
A group at the American Academy in Rome, 1920s
The first truth was that the ancient past of Italy was the embodiment of taste and learning and that by living among its ancient ruins one could seek to comprehend, if not even transcend time to learn, the greatness of Rome. The art, architecture, and archaeology of this Rome could be bought at a price and taken back to America to become a monument to the great families who had the wealth to purchase it. Their collections still populate the great museums of the United States and are a visible reminder of the power and privilege of the great monied families of the first half of the twentieth century.
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The second truth, seemingly contradicting the first, was the deep disregard and even distain and prejudice that Americans maintained for the "unwashed" Italian peasantry. Grescoe notes that American elites were coming to Rome en masse to buy art, walk among the ruins, and transform institutions such as the American School into rarified centres of classical learning for the rich and powerful and members of the academy. But the freedom to come and go from Italy enjoyed by American elites in Rome was not reciprocated. Despite Americans availing themselves of the charmed world of Italy's cultural patrimony, simultaneously academic and governmental institutions in their own country actively restricted Italian immigration. An act of 1924 restricted the number of Italians allowed into America at 6,000.
The setting of the American School of Rome allows Grescoe to unveil further fascinating revelations. First, the degree to which classical studies were part and parcel of elite culture. The school was the preserve of the privileged Americans; a place where an educated and monied New World elite could study and interact with European aristocrats. From this perspective one can see how luminaries and literary lions such as Thornton Wilder, the sculptor Nancy Cox-McCormack, George Bernard Shaw, and our main character the writer Lauro De Bosis studied while joining the rich and privileged for teatime and literary salons.
Bust of Benito Mussolini by Nancy Cox McCormack, 1925
Second, Grescoe reveals that the American School was funded by wealthy financial institutions, specifically J.P. Morgan, and that the administration of the school was directly connected to the board of directors of this financial house. Even more, J.P. Morgan supported Mussolini's rise both spiritually and financially, giving him millions to fund his endeavours even while actively expressing reservations regarding Mussolini's behaviour. Concern was voiced increasingly by the J.P. Morgan administration that Il Duce was becoming unruly, aggressive, and unnecessarily expansionist — and yet the money continued to flow. Finally and most potently, Grescoe reveals how academic scholarship in the fields of archaeology and history supported the political ethos of Mussolini's regime. Grescoe dispenses with the notion that the American School was a paragon of academic objectivity; in fact, it was politically allied with Mussolini. Grescoe demonstrates brilliantly how Mussolini courted scholars, and in turn how scholars courted Mussolini to work together to restore the greatness of Rome and support the growth of his power.
Nancy Cox-McCormack with her sculpture of Mussolini. Courtesy of Times Wide World Photos
Grescoe's revelation of American School's enthusiasm for Mussolini is insightful. He shows how the school aligned itself with Mussolini's politics. It benefited greatly from this alliance and Mussolini received academic cachet and respectability for his ambitions. For both, Rome itself was a projection and a dream. Together they envisioned that Rome under Mussolini would resurrect the Classical Age that reached its powerful apex under the leadership of the Emperor Augustus Caesar. Grescoe offers an effective case study of the use and abuse of history: foreign and Italian scholars alike at the American School published academic works that employed Roman antiquity to reinforce and approve of Mussolini's ambitions.
Taras Grescoe grew up in Vancouver
However, as Grescoe notes, while Mussolini embarked on a resurrection of Rome's grandeur, focusing on architectural restoration, development, and excavation of ancient monuments, his work was so greatly overextended and rapidly executed that much of his building plan never reached the quality of the ancient Roman original. In fact, many of his projects had a detrimental effect by exacerbating the existing instability of many of the ancient ruins in Rome, Ostia, and Pompeii.
Possess the Air is well-paced and rich in historical insights from this period. Grescoe describes Mussolini's rise and his increasing hold over Rome in a leisurely manner that seems to mimic the tranquility of the affluent Americans who studied at the school and strolled in the sunshine through Rome's Janiculum, the ancient and affluent district of the city. The turn of the tide against Mussolini is described in a more staccato pace, while his fall from grace, after he makes his claim on Egypt, is frenetic. Grescoe describes this deftly. True to form, Mussolini employed the scholarly research of Egyptologists to reinforce Rome's aggressionist policies against Egypt, by claiming that Rome had always been a major formative influence in the splendour and power of Egypt, rather than the reverse. Mussolini's aggressive expansion into Africa resulted in a slow realization in the court of popular opinion that his leadership was neither virtuous nor the embodiment of his magnanimity. By the time Mussolini allied himself with Hitler, his perception as a great strong man and worthy successor to Augustus Caesar had lost its momentum and believability. Although Mussolini celebrated the 2000th anniversary of the birth of Augustus in September 1937 at great expense, the allure of his regime was over, as was American financial support for his policies — and eventually also the American School's blind support.
Lauro De Bosis. Courtesy of Lauro De Bosis Papers, Houghton Library, Harvard University
There is much to this story. While the life of a central figure was deeply affected by Mussolini's rise and fall, Possess the Air is much more universal than can be conveyed by the experiences of a single life. Lauro De Bosis (1901-1931), the hero of the story, was the former director of the American school in Rome and its New York City equivalent, the Italian American Society, which, as Grescoe notes, was used by Mussolini to facilitate fascist expansion into America. Originally a supporter of Mussolini, De Bosis – whose mother was a New Englander — became an antifascist activist and finally a martyr to the cause by learning to fly an airplane specifically to deposit anti-fascist flyers over Italy, a mission that led to his death.
While De Bosis is a noble figure, the story is not so much about his life as about historical responsibility, and what occurs in its absence. Grescoe effectively breaks through our illusions of true historical objectivity, and in the process reminds us that in times of change, turmoil, chaos, populism, and polarity, any essence of objectivity is quickly dispensed with, even in the institutions of academia, where we expect to find it the most. While the message of Possess the Air is universal and pertinent, discerning readers will find in it a mimic of our times. For the purposes of this story it just happens to take place in Rome under Mussolini.
Taras Grescoe, right, interviewed by Michael Nardone at La Petite Libraire Drawn & Quarterly, Montreal, October 2019
Angela Clarke
Dr. Angela Clarke is Director of the Italian Cultural Centre, Vancouver, and also Curator of Il Museo there. Her academic specialties include women, religion, and the domestic decorative art of Italy. Her interest in Italian material culture focuses on ceramics, textile, and mosaic. She has written about the material culture of the Italian Renaissance, especially Italian maiolica ceramics and the female-oriented arts and crafts traditions. She has curated the work of contemporary Canadian and European artists and is author of two museum catalogues: Heroine of A Thousand Pieces: The Judith Mosaics of Lilian Broca, and Family Lines: Lesbian Family Heraldry, An Achievement of Arms.
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Moratorium Will Save Borrowers Average of $6,949
While the coronavirus pandemic has posed financial challenges for many over the past nearly two years, student loan borrowers have enjoyed some relief in this period. In March 2020, the government paused student loan payments and interest on eligible federal loans.
Since then, the student loan moratorium has been extended five times, most recently through May 1, 2022. (UPDATE: The moratorium in early April was extended for a sixth time, through Aug. 31, but this study was based on the May 1 end to the pause.) This long-term, zero-interest forbearance is resulting in major savings for borrowers — $145 billion in total, according to Student Loan Hero researchers.
Analysts estimate the typical borrower in active repayment will have kept $6,949 that would have otherwise gone to their student loans — including $834 amid this extension.
Eligible borrowers in active repayment across the U.S. will have kept $145 billion in their pockets by the time the student loan moratorium is due to expire early in May 2022. The average student loan borrower in repayment will save $6,949 during the 25-month student loan forbearance period.
Student loan borrowers in the District of Columbia, Alaska and Washington are estimated to have saved more per resident than in all other states. However, when adding up the total savings, the amounts are greatest in California, Texas and New York.
The amount of money that student loan borrowers are expected to save represents 0.08% of the national gross domestic product (GDP) and 0.08% of total personal income.
The moratorium extension from Jan. 31, 2022 to May 1, 2022, will save borrowers $17 billion, with an average per-borrower savings of $834.
Student loan borrowers will have kept $145 billion in their pockets
Americans owe more than $1.71 trillion in student loans. Although not every borrower was in active repayment when the student loan moratorium began, the group that was will reap major savings — $5.8 billion a month, for a total of $145 billion over 25 months, according to Student Loan Hero researchers.
In total, analysts estimate the typical student loan borrower in active repayment will have kept an extra $6,949 after the 25-month moratorium. While between 300,000 and 500,000 borrowers chose to keep making payments on their student loans during this time to cut down on their principal, others may have used that money for emergency expenses, living costs or their own savings.
However borrowers chose to use this money, it was likely a welcome relief during the coronavirus pandemic.
How much Americans are saving during the student loan moratorium
Estimated borrowers in active repayment each month (millions) 20.8
Estimated monthly amount saved (billions) $5.8
Estimated amount saved over 25-month moratorium (billions) $144.5
Estimated average amount saved per borrower in repayment over 25-month moratorium $6,949
Borrowers in D.C., Alaska and Washington are saving at least $8,400
While the average student loan borrower in active repayment is saving $6,949 during the moratorium, that number is higher or lower by state depending on what borrowers' pre-moratorium payments looked like.
According to Student Loan Hero findings, borrowers in the District of Columbia will have saved the most when the moratorium is complete, with an average savings per borrower of $9,700.
Borrowers in Alaska and Washington also will have reaped relatively high savings at $8,665 — $8,409, respectively. Before the pandemic, borrowers in D.C. paid an average of $388 a month in student loans, while borrowers in Alaska and Washington state paid $347 and $336, respectively.
On the flip side, borrowers in North Dakota, Mississippi and Arkansas saved $5,289, $5,629 and $5,673, respectively. Residents of these states had average monthly payments of $227 or lower.
California, Texas and New York top list of states that saved most
Along with estimating the amount of money saved per borrower, Student Loan Hero took a look at how the student loan moratorium has impacted states as a whole.
According to the analysis, California has been infused with more than half a billion a month — $584 million, to be exact — that would have otherwise been earmarked for student loan payments. Texas and New York follow at $477 million and $366 million, respectively, in total student loan money saved each month.
For the most part, analysts found that states with bigger populations had greater savings, since they likely had a larger number of student loan borrowers. In fact, the five most populous states comprise 36% of the total savings per month.
Meanwhile, Wyoming, North Dakota and Vermont — among the least populated states — saw significantly lower monthly savings. Borrowers in these states saved a monthly total of $7 million, $9 million and $11 million, respectively.
Having highest total savings doesn't mean moratorium has had greatest impact on that state's economy
According to the Student Loan Hero analysis, the amount of money withheld from student loan payments represented 0.08% of the national GDP and 0.08% of total personal income.
Between April 2020 and September 2021 — the latest available data — the savings from the student loan moratorium totaled nearly $104 billion. By the time the moratorium ends in 2022, those total savings are expected to reach $145 billion.
Moratorium savings as a percentage of GDP, total personal income
Student loan moratorium savings from April 2020 through September 2021* (billions) $103.8
U.S. gross domestic product from April 2020 through September 2021* (billions) $130,075.1
Total personal income in the U.S. from April 2020 through September 2021* (billions) $122,887.3
Moratorium savings as a percentage of GDP 0.080%
Moratorium savings as a percentage of total personal income 0.084%
*Latest available data at the time of publication
Despite having the largest cash infusion, California's savings only represent 0.06% of their state GDP, the fourth-lowest among the states.
Mississippi's economy enjoyed the biggest benefit from the moratorium, as its estimated infusion of $880 million over the April 2020 to September 2021 period represented the equivalent of 0.08% of its GDP and 0.08% of total personal earnings within the state.
Of course, these numbers will differ by borrower, and the interplay between state size, average monthly payment and each state's economy is complex. While the pause in student loan payments might have represented a drop in the bucket for some, it may have been a serious financial lifeline for others during this difficult time.
REPORTERS: Looking for state-specific data on the moratorium savings as a percentage of GDP or total personal income? Contact [email protected]
Most recent extension will save borrowers $17 billion
Since the student loan moratorium began in March 2020, it was extended five times, twice by the Trump administration and three times by the Biden administration. Most recently, it was set to expire at the end of January 2022 when the current administration extended it again through May 1, 2022.
This added three-month extension was significant for borrowers, representing a savings of $17 billion in student loan payments overall — and $834 per borrower. Notably, the Biden administration initially indicated that the extension through January would be the last. However, the White House news release on this latest extension doesn't use similar language, so stay tuned.
If you owe federal student loans, make sure to sign in to your accounts and review your information, including your:
If your payments are burdensome, you might consider applying for an alternative repayment plan, such as income-driven repayment or extended repayment.
Federal Student Aid also offers forbearance and deferment options on a case-by-case basis. Speak with your loan servicer about your options, but remember that interest will accrue on most loan types during normal forbearance periods.
Refinancing your student loans might be another avenue worth pursuing, particularly if you have strong credit and a stable income. Interest will resume on federal student loans when the moratorium ends, so it might make sense to refinance your loans for better rates. (Still, note that refinancing federal loans makes them private — and you'll lose access to their benefits. Before doing so, make sure it's the right decision for you.)
Student Loan Hero analysts first estimated the amount that student loan borrowers would have spent on student loan payments absent the moratorium. Researchers used anonymized credit reports of LendingTree users in the first quarter of 2020 to calculate the average student loan payment for those with active payments. Analysts multiplied that figure by the estimated number of federal loan borrowers in active repayment each month between April 2020 (when the moratorium began) and May 2022 (when the moratorium is scheduled to expire).
Next, analysts used U.S. Department of Education data to project the number of borrowers who would have made payments absent the moratorium. Researchers found the average percentage of borrowers in repayment between the first quarter of 2017 and the first quarter of 2020. Analysts multiplied that by the number of federal loan borrowers at the end of each quarter to estimate the number of borrowers in repayment each month within that quarter. Future months were calculated by multiplying the three-year average change in borrowers, quarter over quarter.
In addition, analysts compared the amount of money that would have gone to student loan payments to the gross domestic product of the nation and each state, as well as to the total amount of personal income. This period covered the second quarter of 2020 through the third quarter of 2021. The data came via the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis — the latest available data at the time of publication.
Correction: Because of a data error, the average savings per federal student loan borrower was incorrect in the initial version of this study. The figure has been updated based on the latest extension.
source: studentloanhero.com
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Watch the Trailer for the Documentary About Ursula K. Le Guin
Margaret Kingsbury 05-14-18
In 2016, journalist Arwen Curry kickstarted a documentary about Ursula K. Le Guin, which received more than twice the goal amount. Now, two years later, she's released the first trailer for "Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin." And it looks beautiful. The trailer shows interview excerpts from Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood, and Theodora Goss, among others, and features Le Guin herself explaining magic and the creative process. Curry was able to collaborate with Le Guin in the years preceding Le Guin's death in January. She combines those interviews with archival footage as well as interviews with Le Guin scholars and fans.
I can think of no other contemporary author whose richness of thought compares to Le Guin's. I cannot wait to watch this documentary, tissues handy, and sink deeper into the life and body of work of one of the greatest authors of our time.
"To learn to make something well can take your whole life," Le Guin says at the end of the trailer. "And it's worth it." (cue tears)
Here's the documentary trailer. What do you think?
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this is my javascript, that refreshing my tabel data with calling an AJAX :
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This problem happens when the table on my modal is refreshed using ajax, i dont know why this happen.
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A: There is an answer in the stack page you mentioned: @Paul Tomblin. I don't know whether or not it is the answer of that question, but I guess (95%) that it's the answer of your question.
Suppose your content is in a class named ajax_content; you should run this code when the ajax request completes:
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This code assures that all divs, spans, etc. with the ajax_content class will be resized. Remember that the ajax_content class should have the scroll: auto; attribute.
If you want to resize the whole page, you can use the answer I mentioned on that page:
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Ineffective. Although President Museveni assented to the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act in 2015, the law is yet to be fully operationalised, as many children waste away with the abuse of such substances, writes Stephen Kafeero writes.
My guide leads the steep climb in the sweltering afternoon heat. Three earlier attempts have been futile and this time, I have been advised to try and blend in.
A man wearing a red baseball cap, a T-shirt that was once white and now brownish and a pair of torn pants, staggers about. He turns unto a verandah and falls. "That is the worst case of the guys you are looking for," my guide mutters.
We are in Muzana Zone, Kisenyi 1 Parish, one of Uganda's drug havens where underground selling and trafficking of jet/aviation fuel, glue, marijuana, heroin, cocaine and other such substances, thrives.
I discover that the staggering man is George William Kizito. The building whose verandah he is leaning on one of the remaining few condemned structures that will soon give way to developments that are quickly engulfing what was once a major slum. Kizito seems epileptic and speaks inaudibly. He shakes feverishly. Uncontrolled saliva pops out of his mouth.
On the opposite side of the road, on the stairs of an arcade, about 20 boys, the youngest about 10 years old or younger, lounge. Each has a sack and either a bottle or a rolled piece of cloth held to their mouth. All are sniffing on something, interrupted occasionally when one has to speak.
Kizito is a legend. No one can point to a time when he arrived in the area. He walks like a zombie, only that he doesn't have much energy. The community awaits his death.
Last year, efforts were made to find his family and when that failed, he was brought back to the streets to live his last days. His wish, residents say, is to be buried in a public cemetery.
The communities tolerate, support or turn a blind eye on children sniffing fuel, glue and other substances in the open. The children, in fact, support a thriving business in scrap metal. For as low as Shs100, the boys—all are boys—(we were told some girls are involved too but we did not encounter any) clean, run errands, collect used plastic bottles and scrap metal.
A kilogramme of plastic bottles they collect costs Shs100. The aviation fuel, glue and other chemicals they use makes the boys lose a sense of dignity and they trudge through the filthiest of garbage in search of what to sell without fear or shame.
Many have deep cuts on their arms and legs sustained as a result of working without any protective gear. Money to buy food is not a big concern for many of the boys and men on the streets who sniff fuel and glue. Majority are mentally impaired and, therefore, have no problem eating leftovers from restaurants or to scavenge in dumpsites. Almost every penny they earn is used to buy more fuel and other substances for sniffing.
Fred Zziwa aka Wasswa aka Minister, arrived in Kisenyi in 2006. He says he was in Primary Five when a bitter fight with his nephew forced him away from the home of his brother, who was taking care of him. He is famous for his ability to clean and run errands.
Out of the Shs6,000 he earns per day, Zziwa says he buys ekikomando (chappati and beans), water for Shs200, and a cloth dipped in aviation fuel at Shs300 and marijuana (sada) for breakfast.
We ask why he needs the drugs as part of his breakfast.
"If I don't take it, I feel abnormal and if I take it like I do and then stop for may be two days, when I resume, I feel sick until I consume enough to be high again," he answers.
He dodges the question of the source of the fuel or the names of those who sell to him. The stories of a number of his colleagues we spoke to were similar.
There are about 400 children sniffing chemicals in Muzaana alone and the number in the area has gone down from more than 1,000 because of the developments that continue to push the boys away to neighbouring slums, says Muhamadi Magambo, a community mobiliser.
But how do these substances, including highly controlled aviation fuel, make it to the open market? At Entebbe airport, two companies, Vivo Energy Uganda's Vitol Aviation and Total Uganda, supply aircrafts with fuel.
Supply trucks deposit the fuel at the main storage tanks located at the side of the cargo terminal. Underneath, there are pipelines that transfer the fuel to the tarmac, where the aircrafts are refuelled. A knowledgeable source says it is virtually impossible to siphon fuel from the storage tanks because they are heavily guarded.
The siphoning of the fuel, our source says, happens on the tarmac when the holes are being cleaned and through the trucks that transfer the fuel to the aircrafts.
"Also, the trucks that bring the aviation fuel to the tanks are not completely emptied and what remains is removed between Entebbe and Kampala or in major towns to Mombasa," he adds.
We sought an explanation from both Total Uganda and Vivo Energy Uganda two weeks prior to the publication of this story.
On the other hand, Total Uganda's Chris Mayende declined to comment on the issue and referred Sunday Monitor to a colleague, who we were unable to get by press time.
Away from the main airport, we were informed that the Entebbe Military Airbase is a major transit point for aviation fuel that makes it to the open market. Rogue army officers, we have established, in connivance with some criminal businessmen, steal the fuel and sell it to dealers.
We spoke to current and former workers at the airbase, who detailed how the operation works.
Some of the fuel meant for the army activities is, for example, openly sold by a businessman at Entebbe Taxi Park in Kitoro to taxi operators. The aviation fuel is usually transported to Kampala, where it is on high demand.
"It's the officials themselves that sneak it out. First of all, some top officials are never checked at the check points. Those who take it in bulk are top guys. During servicing, the tanks have to be emptied. The process is not complicated, they just put in 20-litre jerrycans and take," one said.
Others, we have established, connive with the guards.
A major purge was conducted, our source says, and many soldiers engaged in the practice were arrested. Those arrested in Entebbe were detained at the nearby airforce barracks in Katabi, while others were detained in places where their alleged crimes were committed.
In countries such as Australia and Russia where young people abuse aviation fuel, for example, there is an ongoing serious national conversation about the same. Not in Uganda.
In some areas in Australia, the issue has since been termed as an "unfolding public health emergency".
A study by Australia's Northern Territory Health Department last year targeting anyone thought to be sniffing aviation fuel found nine out of 10 young people tested with elevated levels of lead in their blood, with one young person clocking in at 17 times over the acceptable limit.
Commenting on the study in the ABC publication, NT Centre for Disease Control acting director Charles Douglas, observed that the effects of aviation fuel sniffing are long-term and some are irreversible. The fuel, he added, could lead to behavioural disorders, liver and kidney damage, and even death.
Dr David Basangwa, the executive director Butabika mental hospital, says users of aviation fuels and other such chemicals, find themselves unable to live or function without the said substances.
"Unfortunately, the organic solvents—these chemicals they sniff act for a short time— and they run out of the body. That is dangerous for the users because they have to repeatedly use them. It becomes very dangerous because sometimes they take in so much that they get organ damage," Dr Basangwa says.
He says 30 per cent of the admissions at Butabika are due to abuse of substances such as Toluene and aviation fuel.
On average, Uganda spends Shs50,000 daily on an addiction patient in a public facility, says Dr Basangwa, and the cost is higher in private facilities. This caters for accommodation, meals and professional care.
The shortest time a patient can be handled and released from hospital is 60 days. A patient is consequently put on an outpatient programme.
On April 9, 2015, President Museveni assented to the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act (NDPSA), but the law is yet to be fully operationalised. It has also been criticised for having a penal focus and not prioritising the welfare of persons who use drugs.
The Act, among other things, criminalises acts associated with narcotic drugs, 'recruiting' or 'promoting' the smoking, inhaling, sniffing or other use of such substances and owning, occupying or being 'concerned in the management' of any premises used for the cultivation, sale or manufacture of such substances.
"Overall, the NDPSA conflates support for people who use and inject drugs (PWUIDs) with the criminal law and even the limited health services provided under such a framework are rendered meaningless and effectively inaccessible…the essence of the Act is to treat PWUIDs as criminals who need to be locked up instead of viewing them as human in need of assistance," notes Edward Muhwezi, a counsellor at Uganda Harm Reduction Network.
At our spot in Kisenyi, Kizito is fast asleep by the time we leave. It is, however, a matter of years, months or even days before the younger boys addicted to the substance get to his level.
In Kisenyi, Kampala, a man only identified by our sources as Musiramu is the wholesaler, who distributes to a network of mainly women, who sell directly to the street children and other users.
With the exception of those who run their operations in their retail shops, the other dealers operate on the street and off verandas of buildings. They have bottles of less than 10 litres and when they run out, they go back for more.
Accounts from the people we spoke to suggest a symbiotic relationship between local authorities, the police and the dealers. Every weekend, the dealers in fuels, heroin and cocaine, pay a stipend to the area local police and other local leaders in a system called "reporting".
"Even if there is serious operation ordered from the police headquarters or other top government officials, the dealers are tipped off beforehand," our source said.
Local police and the other authorities, our sources add, are also used to intimidate and punish those who attempt to disrupt the trade.
"The LC1 chairperson and police get paid and even if some officers are transferred, the practice remains because an entire force is not moved. Those who remain inculcate the new officers, especially the OC [Officer in Charge] into the system," an area resident, who requests not to be named for fear of repercussions, says.
Aviation fuel is the most sought after, but it is expensive and its supply is unreliable. Interactions with users and community workers revealed that some dealers have since introduced new chemicals or mix the aviation fuel with other chemicals for maximum profit and to satisfy the never ending demand.
We obtained samples of the most widely sniffed and sold chemical in the area and submitted it for testing and analysis.
Two scientists, Joram Patrick Mugisha and Thomas Okoth from Uganda Industrial Research Institute helped to analyse the sample we bought from Kisenyi.
Findings contained in their January 10 report submitted to Sunday Monitor indicate that the substance, now widely sniffed on the streets, is no longer aviation fuel but Toluene.
Toluene (methylbenzene, toluol, phenylmethane) is an aromatic hydrocarbon commonly used as an industrial solvent for the manufacturing of paints, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and rubber.
It is found as an ingredient in gasoline, acrylic paints, varnishes, lacquers, paint thinners, adhesives, glues, rubber cement, airplane glue, and shoe polish. At room temperature, toluene is colourless, sweet smelling, and volatile liquid.
"The chemical is poisonous when its fumes are unintentionally or deliberately inhaled, ingested. It is also poisonous when applied through transdermal absorption [through the unbroken skin]," Mr Mugisha says.
Dealing in Toluene is lucrative given that its purchase is not as restricted as that of the most sought after aviation fuel.
We contacted Desbro Uganda Ltd, a chemical and allied products company and one which, according to our sources, is the leading importer of industrial-grade toluene, but they had run out of the product.
We were informed a new consignment would be in the country in two weeks' time.
Available literature suggests that Toluene intoxication due to intentional inhalation can lead to death. Daily abuse for several years may cause significant problems in mobility, brain, lung, eye, and liver injuries can occur in users. Some physical damage may improve if exposure to toluene stops, although brain damage may be permanent.
After getting results of toluene, we submitted fuel samples obtained from Vivo Uganda to the Uganda Research Institute Lab for comparison.
Findings indicate that Kerosene and Jet A1 are of the same chemical composition. AV GAS contains toluene (the suspected sniffing agent). Literature findings show that AV GAS comprises of (5-25 %) of toluene as an octane rating enhancer.
"The abuse of AV gas could be attributed to the presence of toluene and similar derivatives which impart the sweet aroma. The abuse of Toluene on its own may potentially present a more lethal effect to the users," Mr Mugisha noted in the second report.
A brain of a 12-year old, for example, can resemble that of an 85-year-old if the former has been sniffing Toluene for at least 3 years.


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Bible verses about Atonement for Sin
Leviticus 5:17-18
Sin requires some sort of punishment (for example, Deuteronomy 19:11-13, 21; 25:1-3). To avoid punishment—receiving the penalty of the law—action must be taken to remove the guilt. In the Old Testament, offerings were performed to cover the penalty (see Leviticus 4-6), along with restitution in relevant cases. Those who sinned defiantly and neglected the required atoning sacrifice were "cut off," remaining in their guilt.
Under the New Covenant, guilt is addressed by having sin washed away by the blood of Jesus Christ. Calling for humility, James commands believers to "cleanse your hands" and "purify your hearts" as requirements for entering God's presence (James 4:8-10). "Hands" represents action (i.e., stop doing wrong things), while "heart" signifies thinking (i.e., stop thinking bad thoughts). This cleansing is required for salvation (John 13:8; Titus 3:5). Water baptism symbolizes our redemption, in which our guilt is washed away, and we arise to newness of life (Acts 22:16; Romans 6:1-6).
Blood corresponds with the stain of guilt, but it is also the means of atonement for sin. Sprinkling with blood can both cleanse and consecrate (Leviticus 16:18-19; I Peter 1:2). Faith in the blood of Christ is the ultimate remedy for human guilt, bringing full and final atonement to those who believe (Romans 3:23-25).
Martin G. Collins
What Must We Do When We Recognize Our Guilt?
Leviticus 16:8
The Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) is a Sabbath of solemn rest, set apart by its unique requirements to afflict one's soul and do absolutely no work (Leviticus 23:26-32). Within its instructions are a few rituals that make it even more extraordinary. Chief among these is the ceremony of the two goats found in Leviticus 16, part of a larger cleansing ritual performed once a year by the high priest.
With the passage of time and the difficulties of translation, the instructions for the two goats are far less clear to us than they were to their original recipients. In particular, the Hebrew word azazel, used for the second goat (Leviticus 16:8, 10, 26), is surrounded by speculation and contradictory assertions. A common belief among Sabbatarians is that azazel is the name of a wilderness demon. From this foundation springs the conclusion that the azazel goat—often translated as "scapegoat"—represents Satan.
If we solely use the Bible as our source, we will find no definitive statement for azazel representing Satan. What appears instead is that Satan—whose original name was Helel—has coopted the term to apply to himself in the same way he coopted one of the titles of Jesus Christ, "light-bringer" or "light-bearer" (Lucifer), for himself (see Isaiah 14:12; II Peter 1:19; Revelation 22:16). Yet it is not possible for Satan to be a part of the atonement God provides for His people, a role that can be fulfilled only by the Savior.
Strong's Concordance does not define azazel as a name at all, instead giving the meaning as "goat of departure." It identifies two roots for this word, the first of which means "goat" or "kid" (#5795). The second root (#235) means "to go away, hence, to disappear." The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon says it means "complete removal." These definitions not only fit with the Hebrew, but they also align with the instructions in Leviticus 16.
But to start with azazel as the name of a fallen angel—representative of Satan—is, at best, to begin with a conclusion, and at worst, to base crucial understanding on an apocryphal tradition. When we look at the totality of what Scripture says, a very different picture emerges.
There is wisdom in not basing a doctrine on the meaning of a word, since meanings can change or become lost with time. A far more solid foundation beyond a word's common definition must be laid. Moving past the definition of azazel, then, another foundational principle of Bible study is that significant matters—especially doctrinal ones—must be established by "two or three witnesses." By comparing what the azazel goat accomplishes with the rest of God's revelation, its role—and thus, its identity—becomes clear. There is no second, let alone third, witness for Satan playing a role within this chapter or in the atonement for sin.
Who Fulfills the Azazel Goat—Satan or Christ? (Part One)
The death of Christ provided—once and for all—the sacrificial blood needed to atone, reconcile, or justify all repentant sinners to God. However, justification is a process that involves prior, current, and future applications to the sinner (Romans 8:33; 2:13; Galatians 5:4-5) and relates to the beginning of conversion, its continuation, and its culmination. Romans 5:1 uses an aorist passive participle to convey the act of justification, indicating an action being performed upon us by someone else (God). Because man continues to sin after his initial justification, to remain properly aligned or reconciled with God, he must continue to repent and overcome so that he might continue to be justified (Hebrews 2:1-3; 9:28; 10:26-27).
Are You Justified?


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Gari Melchers Home and Studio, also known as Belmont, is a National Historic Landmark and historic house museum at 224 Washington Street in Falmouth, Virginia.  This much-altered 18th-century house was the home and studio of the popular American artist Gari Melchers (1860–1932) from 1916 until his death.  It was given to the state of Virginia by his widow, and is now administered by the University of Mary Washington.  It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965, commemorating Melchers' influential role in bringing American art to European attention.

Description and history

Gari Melchers Home and Studio is located just west of the center of Falmouth, on the south side of Business United States Route 17.  The property is , roughly bisected by County Road 1001, which provides access to the main house.  The house is a two-story wood-frame structure, its main block five bays wide, with a two-story ell extending it to the left, and a polygon-sided sunroom to the right.  The oldest part of the house was built sometime in the mid-to-late 18th century, and achieved much of its present form during the ownership of the Ficklen family, which owned it from 1825 to 1916.  In that year it was purchased by Gari Melchers and his wife Corinne, both artists, for $12,000. The stone studio building on the grounds, and a stone garage, both date to the period of the Melchers' ownership, and the summer house was added by Mrs. Melchers sometime after her husband's death in 1932.  After she died in 1955, Mrs. Melchers bequeathed the property to the state; it includes most of the couple's possessions in the house.

Gari Melchers was a popular, if not particularly innovative, painter, who was trained in Europe.  In 1882 one of his paintings was accepted by the Salon of Paris, the most prestigious art exhibition of the period.  Gari and Corinne Melchers settled at Belmont in 1916.  His best known works include the murals depicting War and Peace in the rotunda of the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.  Melchers' work contributed to a general increase of interest in the fine arts in the United States.

Unlike most historic homes in the commonwealth of Virginia, it is not furnished with antiques that correspond to the house's origins. Rather, it is a snapshot of the international tastes and lifestyle of a famous artist, and is fully furnished with the unusual European antiques and objects Melchers and his wife collected. It is also an art museum with about 1,600 works of art, about 500 of which are Melchers' paintings. Other works of art include his sketches and studies, works by other artists he collected, and paintings by his wife.

See also
List of National Historic Landmarks in Virginia
National Register of Historic Places listings in Stafford County, Virginia
List of single-artist museums

References

External links

Gari Melchers Home and Studio, at University of Mary Washington

National Historic Landmarks in Virginia
Museums in Stafford County, Virginia
Historic house museums in Virginia
Art museums and galleries in Virginia
University museums in Virginia
Biographical museums in Virginia
Artists' studios in the United States
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Houses in Stafford County, Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Stafford County, Virginia
University of Mary Washington
Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Virginia
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
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Q: Cyberduck CLI - How to prevent duck asking for authorization when uploading to dropbox I've been experimenting with using Duck CLI to upload files to Dropbox in Windows 10 64-bit.  If I submit a request like:
call duck --assumeyes --username abcd --password 1234 --upload "dropbox:/Test Folder" "Test.txt"

then it prompts me for the OAuth2 token and a browser tab appears with the authorization code.  I supply this and the upload starts.  All good.  I want to bypass this and use a code that I have generated without the prompt.  I tried:
call duck --assumeyes --password <generated key> --upload "dropbox:/Test Folder" "Test.txt"

but I still get the prompt and browser tab.  I want the whole upload to proceed with no prompts.  What am I missing?
As a matter of interest, this works as required (with no prompt being issued):
curl -X POST https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/upload ^
  --header "Authorization: Bearer <generated key>" ^
  --header "Dropbox-API-Arg: {\"path\": \"<DestinationFolder>\",\"mode\": \"add\",\"autorename\": true,\"mute\": false}" ^
  --header "Content-Type: application/octet-stream" ^
  --data-binary "@<filename>"

but the upload speed is only around 1.4Mb/s.  Using Duck it is 11 Mb/s, so eight times faster!

A: Please try to use your email address registered with Google as the username parameter. This way the OAuth tokens are found in the login keychain (macOS) or credential manager (Windows).


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Although kilts were originally exclusively for men's formal dress, styles and fashions have changed to include kilts for women, children and babies.
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Förvandlingens ö (originaltitel: The Island of Dr. Moreau) är en film från 1977 i regi av Don Taylor. Filmen bygger på romanen Doktor Moreaus ö från 1896, av H.G. Wells.

Handling
Andrew från det förlista skeppet The Lady Vain hamnar på en ö där Dr. Moreau utför experiment för att få fram människoliknande djur.

Referenser

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Filmer 1977
Amerikanska science fiction-filmer
Amerikanska filmer baserade på böcker
Galna vetenskapsmän på film
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The 2022 Fanatec GT2 European Series is the second season of the GT2 European Series. The season began on 1 April at Imola Circuit in Imola and ended on 16 October at Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet.

Calendar
The 2022 calendar was released during the annual SRO press conference on 10 October 2021, featuring six rounds. The Red Bull Ring and Circuit Ricardo Tormo marked additions from the 2021 schedule, while the event at the Hockenheimring was not renewed for 2022. On 29 October 2021, another change to the schedule was announced, moving the opening round from Monza to Imola and staging the event one week earlier.

Series News
The points format received an update for the 2022 season. Only the best five rounds from each team would count towards the overall championship.

Entry List

Race results
Bold indicates overall winner

Championship standings
Scoring system
Championship points are awarded for the first ten positions in each race. Entries are required to complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points.

Drivers' championships

Notes:
  – Entry did not finish the race but was classified, as it completed more than 75% of the race distance.

References

External links

GT2 European Series


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Honda Motor and LG Energy will construct an EV battery plant in the United States
admin2 / 29 August 2022
Honda Motor Co of Japan and LG Energy Solution Ltd of Korea announced on Monday that they will establish a new lithium-ion battery plant for electric vehicles in the United States.
Battery manufacturers are looking to expand production in the United States, where a shift toward electric vehicles (EV) is likely as the country implements stricter regulations and restricts tax credit eligibility.
The investment will be $4.4 billion, according to the two companies in a statement, with the batteries being supplied exclusively to Honda facilities in North America to power Honda and Acura EV models.
The two are expected to form a joint venture before constructing the plant, with construction beginning in early 2023 and mass production beginning by the end of 2025.
They stated that the location has not been finalized, but the Nikkei business daily reported that they are considering Ohio, where Honda's main factory is located.
The United States government has been pushing policies to increase battery and EV manufacturing in the country.
This month, President Joe Biden signed a $430 billion climate, health-care, and tax bill that would make electric vehicles assembled outside of North America ineligible for tax breaks.
California announced last week that by 2035, all new vehicles sold in the state must be electric or plug-in electric hybrids.
According to the two companies, a combination of strong local electric vehicle production and timely battery supply would put them "in the best position to target the rapidly growing North American EV market."
LG Energy Solution, which primarily develops lithium-ion battery materials and next-generation batteries, also provides EV batteries and has joint venture agreements with General Motors, Hyundai Motor Co (005380.KS), and Stellantis.
Panasonic Energy Co, a subsidiary of Panasonic Holdings Corp and a major Tesla Inc supplier, announced in July that it had chosen Kansas as the location for a new battery plant with an investment of up to $4 billion.
Honda announced earlier this year that it intends to launch 30 EV models globally and produce approximately 2 million EVs per year by 2030.
(Adapted from Bloomberg.com)
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Q: Is there any analysis for this series $\phi=\sum_{n_1, n_2,n_3 \in Z}^\infty e^{-\sqrt{n_1^2 + n_2 ^2+n_3^2}}$ Is there any analysis for this series $\phi=\sum_{n_1, n_2,n_3 \in Z}^\infty e^{-\sqrt{n_1^2 + n_2 ^2+n_3^2}}$? This one seems like an extension of Riemann Theta Function where it takes a square root for each term. I also see posts from here but it only works for one variable and $0<s<1$, and I can change this series similarly by Mellin transform as
$$
\phi=\sum_{n_1, n_2,n_3 \in Z}^\infty e^{-\sqrt{n_1^2 + n_2 ^2+n_3^2}}=\frac{1}{2\pi i}\int_{c-i\infty}^{c+i\infty}\sum_{n_1, n_2,n_3 \in Z}^\infty \frac{\Gamma(x)}{(\sqrt{n_1^2 + n_2 ^2+n_3^2})^x} dx
$$
However, I don't know what to do next. Is there any way to solve this integral? Or are there any resources I can refer to? Thank you so much!

A: A computationally attractive integral representation of (even more general) $$\Phi_k(\alpha)=\sum_{n_1,\ldots,n_k\in\mathbb{Z}}e^{-\alpha\sqrt{n_1^2+\ldots+n_k^2}}\qquad(\alpha>0)$$ may be obtained using the following integral (a Laplace transform): $$e^{-\sqrt{s}}=\frac1{2\sqrt\pi}\int_0^\infty t^{-3/2}e^{-st-1/(4t)}\,dt.$$
We get, after the substitution $t=\pi/(\alpha x)^2$,
\begin{align*}
\Phi_k(\alpha)
&=\frac1{2\sqrt\pi}\int_0^\infty t^{-3/2}e^{-1/(4t)}\left(\sum_{n\in\mathbb{Z}}e^{-\alpha^2 n^2 t}\right)^k\,dt
\\&=\frac\alpha\pi\int_0^\infty e^{-(\alpha x)^2/(4\pi)}\vartheta(1/x)^k\,dx,
\end{align*}
where $\vartheta(x):=\sum_{n\in\mathbb{Z}}e^{-\pi(nx)^2}$ is a "theta function", with known $\vartheta(1/x)=x\vartheta(x)$.

Here is a numerical experiment using PARI/GP to illustrate the efficiency. In the code
myexp(x)=if(x<-default(realbitprecision),0,exp(x));
mytheta(x)=1+2*suminf(n=1,myexp(-Pi*(n*x)^2));
optheta(x)=if(x<1,mytheta(1/x)/x,mytheta(x));
myint(f,h)=h*(f(0)+suminf(n=1,f(n*h)+f(-n*h)));
term(n)=2^hammingweight(n)*myexp(-sqrt(norml2(n)));
foo(h)=myint(x->myexp(x-myexp(2*x)/4/Pi)*optheta(myexp(-x))^3,h)/Pi;
goo(m)={my(r=0);forvec(n=vector(3,i,[0,m]),r+=term(n));return(r)};

the function goo(m) computes the partial sum $\sum_{-m\leqslant n_1,n_2,n_3\leqslant m}$ of $\phi=\Phi_3(1)$, while the function foo(h) computes the integral for $\Phi_3(1)$ obtained via the substitution $x=e^y$ from the "theta" integral above, using the (simple) trapezoidal rule with step $h$; the remaining functions are for some sort of "optimization". The computations using foo(h) give $$\phi=\underbrace{25.39268269326689073}_{h=0.1}\underbrace{60512162955540324466}_{h=0.05}\underbrace{338930111641124451230483735111+}_{h=0.02}$$ (in fact foo(0.02) gives $104$ correct digits of $\phi$, and foo(0.01) gives $211$ correct digits).
The computations using goo(m) are much slower (especially w.r.t. the time taken): $$\phi=\underbrace{25.39268}_{m=20}\underbrace{269326689073}_{m=50}\underbrace{60512162955540324466338}_{m=100}\underbrace{930111641124451230483735111+}_{m=200}$$ (here goo(200) gives $84$ correct digits of $\phi$).


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