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Current Fellows in the Clinical Genetics Branch
Meet the current fellows in the Clinical Genetics Branch and learn about current CGB research training opportunities.
Rotana Alsaggaf, Ph.D., M.S. – Postdoctoral Fellow
Burak Altintas, M.D. – Postdoctoral Fellow
Kelvin C. de Andrade, Ph.D., M.Sc. – Postdoctoral Fellow
Megan Clarke, Ph.D., M.H.S – Research Fellow
Maria Demarco, Ph.D., M.P.H. - Postdoctoral Fellow
Matthew Gianferante, M.D. - Clinical Fellow
Sarah Irvin, M.S. - Predoctoral Fellow
Jung Kim, Ph.D. – Research Fellow
Tamara Litwin, Ph.D., M.P.H. - Postdoctoral Fellow
Marena Niewisch, M.D. – Postdoctoral Fellow
Leatrisse Oba, M.D. – Postdoctoral Fellow
Valencia Owens, B.S. - Postbaccalaureate Fellow
Maisa Pinheiro, Ph.D. – Postdoctoral Fellow
Carolann Risley, Ph.D., M.S.N. - Postdoctoral Fellow
Michael Sargen, M.D. – Clinical Fellow
Radhika Srivastava, B.A. - Postbaccalaureate Fellow
Ashley Thompson, B.S. – Postbaccalaureate Fellow
Mone't Thompson, B.S. - Postbaccalaureate Fellow
Youjin Wang, Ph.D. - Research Fellow
Catherine Wilsnack, M.S.W., L.M.S.W – Predoctoral Fellow
Rotana Alsaggaf, Ph.D., M.S., became a postdoctoral fellow at the Clinical Genetics Branch (CGB) in June 2018. Dr. Alsaggaf earned a B.S. in biological science with an interdisciplinary certificate in biomedical engineering from Colorado State University in 2009, an M.S. in epidemiology and preventive medicine with a concentration in human genetics in 2015 and a Ph.D. in epidemiology in 2018—both from the University of Maryland, Baltimore. As a predoctoral fellow under the mentorship of Shahinaz Gadalla, M.D, Ph.D., she conducted her doctoral research utilizing the United Kingdom Clinical Practice Research Datalink to evaluate the risk of benign and malignant tumors in patients with myotonic dystrophy type I and explore factors associated with their development. As a postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Alsaggaf continues to work with Dr. Gadalla on epidemiological and molecular analyses to inform cancer predisposition in myotonic dystrophy, and to study the role of telomere biology in cancer susceptibility.
Scientific Publications – Rotana Alsaggaf
Burak Altintas, M.D., joined the Clinical Genetics Branch (CGB) as a postdoctoral fellow in July 2019. Dr. Altintas earned his M.D. from Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey in November 2018. His research interests include pediatric hematological malignancies and cancer predisposition syndromes, including inherited bone marrow failure syndromes and RASopathies, as well as immunodeficiency syndromes. Dr. Altintas is working with Blanche Alter, M.D., M.P.H., senior clinician, and Lisa McReynolds, M.D., Ph.D., assistant clinical investigator, CGB, to investigate genotype-phenotype associations in patients with Fanconi anemia participating in CGB clinical studies and characterization of somatic mutations in patients with inherited bone marrow failure syndromes. He plans to do a pediatric residency after his time at the NCI.
Kelvin César de Andrade became a postdoctoral fellow in the Clinical Genetics Branch (CGB) after successfully defending his doctoral dissertation in May 2018. He first joined the branch in March 2015, while a student at the A.C. Camargo Cancer Center, São Paulo, Brazil, to complete the research component of his master's degree. As a postdoctoral fellow under the mentorship of Sharon Savage, M.D., Chief of CGB, Dr. de Andrade continues to study genetic and behavioral factors that could be associated with cancer risk, progression, and phenotypic variability in Li-Fraumeni Syndrome patients.
Scientific Publications – Kelvin César de Andrade
Megan Clarke, Ph.D., M.H.S., joined the Clinical Genetics Branch (CGB) as an NCI Cancer Prevention Fellow in September 2016. Dr. Clarke earned an M.H.S. in biochemistry and molecular biology in 2010 and a Ph.D. in epidemiology in 2016, both from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prior to completing her Ph.D., Dr. Clarke was a postbaccalaureate fellow in CGB working with Mark Schiffman, M.D., M.P.H., senior investigator, CGB, on human papillomavirus (HPV) molecular epidemiology and natural history studies. For her doctoral dissertation, Dr. Clarke analyzed electronic medical records to explore patient and provider factors related to HPV vaccine initiation and completion. She also pursued her interests in obesity and molecular epidemiology by investigating the influence of maternal body mass index and weight gain on cord blood DNA methylation patterns in genes related to cancer and obesity. Dr. Clarke was promoted to research fellow in 2019. Under the mentorship of Nicolas Wentzensen, M.D., Ph.D., Deputy Chief and senior investigator, CGB, she works on molecular epidemiologic studies of gynecological cancers, with a particular focus on etiologic biomarkers that have a high potential for improving early detection and risk stratification.
Scientific Publications – Megan Clarke
Maria Demarco, Ph.D., M.P.H., started her postdoctoral fellowship at the Clinical Genetics Branch (CGB) in May 2017. She joined the branch as a predoctoral fellow in September 2015, while working on her Ph.D. in epidemiology at the University of Maryland. Her main research interest is translational epidemiology, particularly focused on cancer screening and prevention. As a predoctoral fellow, Maria Demarco worked under the mentorship of Mark Schiffman, M.D., M.P.H., senior investigator, CGB, and Sam Mbulaiteye, M.D., senior investigator, Infections and Immunoepidemiology Branch, to study: (1) the high prevalence of HPV in sub-Saharan (Nigerian) older women, and (2) viral and behavioral co-factors of HPV progression to precancer with clinical implications in risk stratification. As a postdoctoral fellow Dr. Demarco continues to work with Dr. Schiffman on risk estimates and analyses to inform US cervical cancer screening guidelines.
Scientific Publications – Maria Demarco
Matthew Gianferante, M.D., joined the DCEG, as a postdoctoral clinical fellow. Dr. Gianferante obtained his M.D. at the Uniformed Service University in 2011 and completed his pediatric residency at Tufts Floating Hospital for Children in 2014. Dr. Gianferante is a Pediatric Hematology Oncology Clinical Fellow at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and an officer in the United States Public Health Service. He joins the division for the final two years of his clinical fellowship to study pediatric cancer genetic etiology. In the Clinical Genetics Branch (CGB), Dr. Gianferante will be working with Lisa Mirabello, Ph.D., senior investigator, CGB, and Sharon Savage, M.D., Chief and senior investigator, CGB, to investigate the disease-associated mutations in nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome families and pediatric medulloblastoma trios using whole-exome sequencing data.
Scientific Publications - Matthew Gianferante
Sarah Irvin, M.S., joined the Clinical Genetics Branch (CGB) in November 2017 as a predoctoral fellow. Ms. Irvin earned her M.S. in epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with a concentration in cancer epidemiology. Prior to joining NCI, Sarah worked as a consultant in the field of pharmacoepidemiology, and interned at Bayer AG in Berlin, Germany. Ms. Irvin is working under the mentorship of Nicolas Wentzensen, M.D., Ph.D., Deputy Chief and senior investigator, CGB, on projects investigating immune markers in cervical cancer development and the risk of ovarian cancer by subtype after exposure to multiple inflammatory exposures.
Jung Kim, Ph.D., joined the Clinical Genetics Branch (CGB) as a postdoctoral fellow in October 2016. Dr. Kim earned her Ph.D. in cancer biology from the Driskill Graduate Program in Life Sciences at Northwestern University in 2015, after which she completed a one-year postdoctoral fellowship working with Dr. Jindan Yu. Her doctoral and postdoctoral research focused on the transcriptional regulation of key signaling pathways in prostate cancer, including miRNA and epigenetic regulators. In DCEG, where she was promoted to research fellow in 2019, she is working with Douglas Stewart, M.D., senior investigator, CGB, to study the population genetics and phenotype of DICER1 and associated miRNA processing genes, and to analyze somatic genomic data of DICER1-associated malignancies.
Scientific Publications - Jung Kim
Tamara Litwin, Ph.D., M.P.H., joined the Clinical Genetics Branch (CGB) as a Cancer Prevention Fellow in September 2016. Dr. Litwin earned her Ph.D. in biological sciences in 2014 from the University of Cambridge through the NIH-Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program. She then went on to earn her M.P.H. with a concentration in epidemiology and biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2016. For her doctoral research, performed at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and with the United Kingdom Medical Research Council's Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Dr. Litwin used biophysical methods to investigate how DNA topology affects DNA interactions with topoisomerases and other DNA binding proteins. Dr. Litwin's research interests include the discovery and translation of biomarkers for risk prediction, prevention, and early detection of gynecologic cancers. She is working with Nicolas Wentzensen, M.D., Ph.D., Deputy Chief and senior investigator, CGB, on projects related to the molecular epidemiology of gynecologic cancers.
Scientific Publications – Tamara Litwin
Marena Niewisch, M.D., joined the Clinical Genetics Branch (CGB) as a postdoctoral fellow in May 2019. Dr. Niewisch earned her M.D. from Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen, Germany. She completed her residency in pediatrics at the University of Freiburg Children's Hospital, Germany in 2016, followed by a fellowship in pediatric hematology-oncology at Hannover Medical School, Germany. She has previously worked in clinical research focusing on myelodysplastic syndrome in children.As a postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Niewisch is working under the mentorship of Sharon A. Savage, M.D., Chief and senior investigator, CGB, and DCEG Clinical Director, to investigate genotype-phenotype correlations in dyskeratosis congenita and associated telomere biology disorders.
Leatrisse Oba, M.D., joined the Clinical Genetics Branch (CGB) as a postdoctoral fellow in March 2018. Dr. Oba earned her M.D. from the University of Brasilia, Brazil in 2001, and worked in clinical research for four years. She completed her residency in pediatrics in 2009 at Asa Sul's Regional Hospital, FEPECS, Brasília, Brazil. After her residency, she worked as a pediatrician and a clinical assistant in the Emergency department, collaborating with the Pediatrics Residency Program at the University Hospital of Brasilia and Asa Sul's Regional Hospital, Brazil. Dr. Oba first joined CGB as a special volunteer in December 2016, working with Maria Isabel Achatz, M.D., Ph.D., adjunct investigator, and Payal Khincha, M.B.B.S., M.S.H.S., staff clinician, on a collaborative project evaluating the effect of cancer treatment on the development of subsequent cancers in Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS) patients. As a postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Oba is working with Sharon A. Savage, M.D., Chief and senior investigator, CGB, and Dr. Khincha, continuing the study of radiotherapy and chemotherapy effects on LFS patients, as well as researching screening exam findings on LFS patients, and novel clinical findings in other cancer predisposition syndromes.
Valencia Owens, B.S., joined the Clinical Genetic Branch (CBG) as a postbaccalaureate fellow in September 2019. In CBG, Ms. Owens is working with Sharon A. Savage, M.D., Chief and DCEG Clinical Director, and Lisa J. McReynolds, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Clinical Investigator. She is also working in the DCEG Cancer Genomics Research (CGR) Laboratory under the mentorship of Seth Brodie, Ph.D., senior investigator. Ms. Owens graduated in August 2019 from the University of Minnesota where she completed her B.S. in psychology. As an undergraduate student, Ms. Owens worked at the STEM Cell Institute under Dr. Jakub Tolar, where she was involved in studies of childhood cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy (ccALD). Subsequently, Ms. Owens completed her capstone project in a neuroscience lab under Dr. Nicola Grissom at the University of Minnesota; she investigated correlations between learned behavior and the nucleus accumbens. As a postbaccalaureate fellow in CGB and CGR, Ms. Owens is working on functional studies of variants discovered in exon sequencing studies and will work on variant genomics using bioinformatic tools.
Dr. Maisa Pinheiro joined the Clinical Genetics Branch as a postdoctoral fellow in January 2017. She completed a Bachelor`s degree in biology at the State University of North Paraná, Brazil, and received her Ph.D. in genetics from the São Paulo State University, Brazil, in 2016. Her Ph.D. research was focused on evaluating whole exome sequencing data to identify novel candidate genes that predispose to familial breast and thyroid cancers. Dr. Pinheiro performed part of her thesis work at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network and the University of Toronto, Canada. Under the mentorship of Lisa Mirabello, Ph.D., senior investigator, CGB, her work in DCEG is focused on HPV genomic studies including the evaluation of HPV genome variation and its associations with carcinogenicity.
Scientific Publications - Maisa Pinheiro
Carolann Risley, Ph.D., M.S.N., joined the Clinical Epidemiology Unit in the Clinical Genetics Branch (CGB) as a postdoctoral fellow in July 2019. Dr. Risley earned an M.S.N. from the University of Pennsylvania and a certification as a women's health nurse practitioner in 1992. She is a cervical colposcopist and has practiced throughout the Northeastern and Southern United States. She earned her Ph.D. in nursing in 2019 from the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) under the mentorship of Drs. Mary Stewart and Kim Geisinger. Prior to completing her doctoral degree, she studied determinants of HPV vaccination uptake and provider recommendations. For her doctoral dissertation, she analyzed electronic medical records to examine racial differences in HPV 16 prevalence in women receiving cervical cancer screening in Mississippi. Dr. Risley serves as the co-PI of the STRIDES study (STudying Risk to Improve DisparitES in cervical cancer in Mississippi), a study led by investigators at UMMC, the Mississippi State Department of Health, and the NCI. The study is designed to evaluate risk of cervical precancer and to study novel biomarkers in women undergoing screening in Mississippi. Under the mentorship of Nicolas Wentzensen, M.D., Ph.D., M.S., Deputy Chief and senior investigator, CGB, and Megan Clarke, Ph.D., research fellow, CGB, Dr. Risley is conducting epidemiologic analyses evaluating HPV natural history and cervical cancer risk in this racially-diverse and underserved population.
Michael Sargen, M.D., joined the Clinical Genetics Branch (CGB) in July 2018 as a postdoctoral clinical fellow. Dr. Sargen obtained his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in 2013 and completed his dermatology residency at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. He subsequently completed a dermatopathology fellowship at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. Dr. Sargen is board-certified in dermatology and dermatopathology. He joins DCEG to study the clinical, histopathologic, and genetic characteristics of melanoma families. Dr. Sargen is also interested in genetic and environmental factors that modify melanoma risk within this patient population. In the Clinical Genetics Branch, Dr. Sargen works with Alisa Goldstein, Ph.D., senior investigator, and Margaret Tucker, M.D., scientist emerita, to investigate these questions as well as provide dermatology care to an American cohort of melanoma families.
Scientific Publications - Michael Sargen
Radhika Srivastava, B.A., joined the Clinical Genetics Branch (CGB) as a postbaccalaureate fellow in September 2019. Ms. Srivastava graduated with distinction with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Duke University in May 2019. For her undergraduate honors thesis, she evaluated the culturally driven maternal influences on children's language development through the Wilbourn Infant Laboratory at Duke. Her undergraduate research additionally focused on analyzing the mental health of orphaned and vulnerable children in a residential care program in New Delhi, India with the Duke Global Health Institute. At NCI, Ms. Srivastava is working under the guidance of Jennifer Loud, R.N., C.R.N.P., D.N.P., Assistant Branch Chief, CGB, to characterize different behavioral and genomic factors associated with patients with Li-Fraumeni Syndrome. She is also working to gain clinical exposure. She hopes to attend medical school after completing her fellowship at the NCI.
Ashley Thompson, B.S., joined the Clinical Genetics Branch (CGB) as a postbaccalaureate fellow through the NIH Undergraduate Scholarship Program in June 2018. Ms. Thompson earned her B.S. in biochemistry from Converse College, Spartanburg, South Carolina. Her undergraduate research focused on analyzing the molecular weight distribution of a commercially-available synthetic biocide, in order to ascertain its biological efficacy. Ms. Thompson is working with Sharon A. Savage, M.D., Chief and senior investigator, CGB, to determine if novel genetic variants in the regulator of telomere elongation helicase 1 gene (RTEL1) will result in alternative isoforms of the protein. The novel genetic variants will be studied for functional changes or changes in gene expression using RNA sequencing from patient-derived samples. Ms. Thompson is also involved with other genomic efforts in the Inherited Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes Study. She hopes to attend medical school to obtain her M.D./Ph.D. after her time at the NCI.
Mone't Thompson, B.S., joined the Clinical Genetics Branch (CGB) in November 2018 as a postbaccalaureate fellow in the inaugural Intramural Continuing Umbrella of Research Experiences (iCURE) program, a new NCI program that supports mentored research experiences in the multidisciplinary research environment of the NCI for qualified scientists. Ms. Thompson received her B.S. in biology from Bowie State University, during which time she worked on research involving the key signaling pathway modulations that precede the development of sarcopenia. Ms. Thompson is an aspiring M.D./Ph.D. student and is interested in cancer biology, treatment, and prevention. As a postbaccalaureate fellow under the mentorship of Sharon Savage, M.D., Chief and senior investigator, CGB, Ms. Thompson is working on different aspects of myotonic dystrophy and Li-Fraumeni Syndrome.
Youjin Wang, Ph.D., joined the Clinical Genetics Branch (CGB) as a postdoctoral fellow in June 2016. Dr. Wang earned her Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University at Buffalo, SUNY School of Public Health and Health Professions in 2016. Working with Dr. Jean Wactawski-Wende, her doctoral research focused on the interactions of genetic susceptibility, menopausal estrogen use, and calcium/vitamin D supplementation on fracture risk among postmenopausal women. Dr. Wang's research interests are to study the interplay of genetic and environmental factors in cancer risk and cancer treatment outcome. In July 2018 Dr. Wang was promoted to research fellow. She is working with Shahinaz Gadalla, M.D., Ph.D., Earl Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator, CGB, to evaluate the effect of pre-transplant molecular markers and genetic alterations on outcomes after hematopoietic cell transplantation and to examine the association between pharmaceutical agents and the risk of cancer.
Scientific Publications – Youjin Wang
Catherine Wilsnack, M.S.W., joined the Clinical Genetics Branch (CGB) as a predoctoral fellow in July 2019. Ms. Wilsnack earned her Master of Social Work (MSW) from the University of Pennsylvania and is a Licensed Social Worker. She previously earned a B.S. in psychology with a minor in hispanic studies and social and economic justice from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ms. Wilsnack's graduate research was focused on understanding the challenges faced by families with Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS), and she primarily has clinical experience working with patients and families with terminal illnesses in death, dying, and bereavement care settings. During her fellowship, she will continue to work on LFS related projects, as well as performing psychosocial research for Inherited Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes (IBFMS) under the mentorship of Sharon Savage, M.D., DCEG Clinical Director and Chief and senior investigator, CGB, and Dr. Allison Werner-Lin, University of Pennsylvania.
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Home Daily Feature Friday News: "Is the Iran-U.S. tinderbox about to ignite?"; "Trump's Collusion Confusion...
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Friday News: "Is the Iran-U.S. tinderbox about to ignite?"; "Trump's Collusion Confusion & Sarah Huckabee's Departure"; "Morrissey is a lawyer in the same way Trump is an entrepreneur"
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Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, June 14.
Escalating tensions put U.S. and Iran on collision course, experts fear ("Iran and the U.S. have sent mixed messages at different moments, but neither side appears ready to make major concessions in the showdown.")
Tankers Are Attacked in Mideast, and U.S. Says Video Is Evidence Iran Was Involved ("Two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman were crippled in the strikes, which Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blamed on Iran. Late Thursday, the Pentagon released a video it said showed an Iranian patrol boat removing a mine from one of the ships.")
Tanker owner seems to dispute U.S. account of Gulf of Oman attack
U.S. releases video purporting to show Iranians removing mine after tanker explosion
Is the Iran-U.S. tinderbox about to ignite? ("Trump's 'maximum pressure' campaign has collided head on with Khamenei's maximum resistance.")
The Empty Promise of Boris Johnson ("The man expected to be Britain's next Prime Minister makes people in power, including himself, appear ridiculous, but that doesn't mean he'd dream of handing power to anybody else.")
Tory Rivals Plot to Stop Boris Johnson From Winning Power in U.K.
I Don't Trust This Administration* With a Lemon Zester, Let Alone a War With Iran ("Mike Pompeo is fighting way above his weight class.")
As Trade War Hits, China Factories See Slowest Growth Since 2002
Trump to America: Who's Going to Stop Me? ("An unbound president invites more foreign election interference.")
Trump sees no national interest beyond his own ("Per Trump, the president should be held to the same standards as a businessman dealing with underworld goons.")
Trump upends long-held views on foreign election help ("American opposition to foreign involvement in elections dates back to the nation's founding, reflected in legal prohibitions and widely embraced norms.")
What a presidential president would say about campaign dirt from a foreign foe (How about a patriotic, non-treasonous president?)
Mitch McConnell, Too, Welcomes Russian Interference ("Or at least he won't let Congress do anything to stop it.")
Forget "No Collusion"—Trump Is Now Pro-Collusion
Fox's Judge Napolitano: Seems Trump 'Is Prepared to Commit a Felony to Get Re-Elected'
Trump Feels Empowered by Democratic Fear ("Just like in 2016, Democrats are concerned with what might happen, not what is happening.")
Trump puts GOP in tough spot with remarks on foreign 'dirt'
Federal watchdog agency recommends removal of Kellyanne Conway from federal office for violating the Hatch Act
A Republican finally reveals the truth about the GOP tax cuts ("We knew Republicans were lying about whether tax cuts would pay for themselves in 2017. Just as they lied about whether they paid for themselves under President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s, or under President George W. Bush during the 2000s, or in Kansas just a few years ago.")
Hill push to battle foreign election interference is stuck at McConnell roadblock ("The Senate majority leader has not allowed a vote on any of the bipartisan measures to strengthen election systems and make it harder for hostile powers to manipulate social media.")
Bye-bye, Sarah Sanders ("In fact: Sanders stood at the White House briefing room lectern and lied. That's not a matter of opinion. That's not a matter of bias. That's not a matter of analysis. It's a documented event.")
Sarah Sanders leaving White House at end of the month, Trump says ("The combative White House press secretary, whose tenure was marked by controversy and questions about her credibility, will be leaving after 23 months on the job, President Trump announced." They weren't "questions" about her credibility, they were outright LIES on her part, over and over again. God, the corporate media is pathetic.))
Highlights From Sarah Huckabee Sanders's Career of Deflection
Sarah Sanders' legacy: The death of the White House press briefing
Sarah Sanders failed in almost every aspect of the job
Jimmy Kimmel Sends Off Sarah Huckabee Sanders: She's Never Looked 'So Happy'
Should We Take These Early General Election Polls Seriously? $#!% No!
DNC announces lineup for first debate ("The Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced on Thursday the 20 Democrats running for president who will take part in the first debate later this month, with four left off the prime-time stage.")
'Let me make something 100% clear': FEC chair lays down the law on foreign help ("The head of the Federal Election Commission released a statement on Thursday evening reiterating, emphatically, that foreign assistance is illegal in U.S. elections.")
How pro-Trump media spun Trump saying he'd accept dirt from foreign governments in the 2020 election ("Conservative media claimed that Trump was just 'playing,' drew a false equivalence with the Steele dossier, and attacked Hillary Clinton")
Democrats Must Be Daring ("Too many are leaning toward their safest candidates rather than their favorite ones.")
Republican senator: Foreign interference is a serious threat, but I trust Trump's judgment (Thom Tillis is a spineless imbecile.)
Beto O'Rourke Calls For A 'Moonshot' To Combat Climate Change
The Cold Logic of Climate NIMBYism ("The uneven incentives of climate action are driving the world to inaction")
Utilities try to exploit local media to push bogus claims about rooftop solar
Employees turn their back on Agriculture secretary over being relocated to Kansas City ("Perdue announced earlier Thursday morning that the Economic Research Service, which provides research and statistical analysis for lawmakers, and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, which allocates federal research funding, will be relocated to Kansas City from Washington, D.C. — the final announcement in a process that began last year.")
Video: Mark Warner Says Trump Comments About Foreign Interference "extraordinary even in a Trump world"
Video: Pete Buttigieg Speaks in Arlington, Says We're In a "Once or Twice-in-a-Lifetime Moment Where an Era Begins"
House Passes Beyer Amendment To Require Increased Reporting On Unaccompanied Children From Federal Agencies
Meredith Watson's Attorney Replies to LG Justin Fairfax: "Fairfax refuses to answer questions in the Legislature and in the media. That says it all."
Fairfax says he was victim of 'blackmail' attempt; lawyer for accuser calls his claim 'defamatory' ("Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax said this week that he was the victim of a 'blackmail' attempt in February by a woman who is accusing him of rape.")
Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax calls for criminal investigation into sexual assault allegations against him
Justin Fairfax's lawyer formally asks prosecutors to investigate rape allegations against him
FWIW Virginia: About That Election on Tuesday
RAPID RESPONSE: RSLC Grasping to Show Signs of Life in Virginia
'Fightin' Joe' Morrissey is the perfect Democrat to take on Donald Trump ("Morrissey is a lawyer in the same way Trump is an entrepreneur. His law career rivals Trump University for sleaziness. During his time as a prosecutor and a defense lawyer, Morrissey was fined, jailed and suspended so many times that his law license was revoked for a decade. The sex scandal wasn't his first trip to jail. In 1991, he did five days for punching a defense lawyer in the face during a heroin trial. And then decorated his office with boxing gloves.")
Some of the Stupidest Republican, Right-Wing "Hot Takes" on Tuesday's Virginia Primary Elections
Governor, Democrats Plan Press For Gun Reform
Virginia gov announces public talks on gun control ("Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is announcing a series of public talks his administration will host in the run up to a July 9 special session on gun laws.")
Editorial: Changing license suspensions correct
Amazon's HQ2 prompts housing price spikes in Northern Virginia, Washington Post analysis shows ("In May, the average home price in Arlington County — the future of home of Amazon's second headquarters known as HQ2 — was $713,000, up about 7 percent from a year ago. And in April, the average price hit $742,000, or more than 11 percent above the same month in 2018, according to The Post's analysis")
Virginia Beach city manager disputes reports that gunman in mass shooting got into fights at work
GMU's Cabrera named Georgia Tech president (Maybe the next president will move GMU away from being Koch U?)
Virginia Beach tries to dispel "rumors" about mass shooting
Internal Norfolk report shows missteps before brutal beating at mental health office. City says it's not at fault.
Richmond Public Schools names new principals after removing 10
Updated forecast: Gradual clearing in wake of fast-moving storms
Joe Morrissey
Oil tanker
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815 - The architecture of cities: historical centers as cultural artifacts
Convener 1: Rezende, Vera (Universidade Federal Fluminense , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / Brasilien)
Convener 2: Souza, Célia Ferraz (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil / Brasilien)
The symposium discusses the architecture of Latin American cities and their historical centers as cultural artifacts. Centers contribute in various ways to cultural activity in the cities. First, the centers act as physical settings hosting museums, cultural centers, theaters for performing arts, and as an indoor or outdoor stage for shows. Second, their public or semi-public spaces constitute a centrality, translated into dynamic spaces of exchanges and meetings, attracting residents and visitors to fairs, markets, leisure, and popular cultural manifestations. The current performing movement "flash mob" demonstrates the importance of central areas for meetings that take place in streets, squares, or in public buildings such as railway or subway stations. Third, the city center can be seen as a place of historic or traditional architectural value, and as the result of multiple historical layers, preserves the urban memory and provides identity to the city and its residents.
The Latin American cities, their cultural heritage, and their historically built city centers, can be seen as changing urban forms, as a result of processes and policies. As such, the symposium addresses the following questions: Which cultural dialogues can be identified in the historic centers of the contemporary architecture of the city? Which processes are under way in city centers that result in changes for their architecture and for cultural urban life? Which public policies have been undertaken to ensure the vitality of the centers in different cities? This proposal for a symposium elects the city as a privileged place for constructing multicultural identities in Latin America, continuing the debate undertaken at the symposia "The Architecture of the City in America. Contemporary dialogues between local and global " - 51st ICA in Santiago, Chile, 2003 -, "The city in the Americas: Perspectives of the urban form for the XXI century" - 52th ICA in Seville, Spain, 2006-, and "The architecture of the city in the Americas: Changes and continuities in the centrality and the structure of contemporary urban form" - 53th ICA in Mexico City, 2009.
Keywords: architecture of cities, cultural artifacts, historical centers
10655 - Concessão Urbanística: projeto, comunicação e credibilidade Maleronka, Camila Austria / Österreich
10820 - Como obras de infraestrutura de saneamento modificaram hábitos culturais uma cidade. Huyer, Andre Brazil / Brasilien
11107 - O centro histórico de Porto Alegre(RS) em seus mapas Fialho, Daniela Marzola Brazil / Brasilien
11534 - Políticas Urbanas e Patrimônio Cultural: Paradoxos e Diálogos na Área Urbana Central do Rio de Janeiro de Lacerda Pessôa Borde, Andréa Brazil / Brasilien Sampaio, Andrea da Rosa
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Directed by Chris Moore, Blessed Are the Children is a film that looks at the situation of Traci (Ball), who, after a rather nasty break-up with her ex, finds herself knocked up and not only behind the firing line from her nastier-than-nasty mother but also dealing with a creepy set of protesters at the clinic where she's debating terminating the pregnancy… needless to say, this gal's got some problems! Not until after Traci's visit to the clinic do some very bizarre instances begin to surround her, and Moore uses a blend of chilling visuals and snarky humor to deliver this little bundle of joy to the masses.
The film unfortunately has its share of missteps, such as a bit of an issue with some uneven sounds – at times it sounds like the microphone was left in someone's pocket for a dialogue stretch, then BAM! We're blown out the back wall with a decibel-shaking protrusion of noise that could bust an eardrum. Also, there appeared to be some clunky deliverance of some actors' lines, and while it could air on the side of authenticity, it shouldn't have had a place in this presentation. However, the direction did produce some fairly creepy moments and I'll give it up to any guy sitting in the big chair that wants to tackle a subject as sticky as this one and turn it into something truly terrifying – just remember folks, it's only a movie!
At the end of it all, I'd definitely recommend Blessed Are The Children for those who would like an example on how to get some fantastic practical effects done on film all the while using a miniscule budget – give this one a peek when it crosses your path.


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The widower's children do not need a separate petition and will be included in the I-360.
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Section 204(l) of the Immigration and Nationality Act provides relief for certain I-130 beneficiaries when the petitioner dies after submitting an I-130 petition, but before the beneficiary receives lawful permanent residency.
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Netflix and Amazon Prime Video are the popular online streaming services worldwide that only offer English content but also a great collection of Spanish movies and TV series. But not all can pay for its costly monthly subscription fees. That is why free movies and TV series sites are getting popular these days. Most of the sites are available in English but Spanish viewers don't have to be upset as there are many Spanish movie streaming websites, for instance, Repelisplus.
Repelisplus is an already popular and well-established free Spanish streaming site. There was a time when this site was banned by the government and ISPs but as of now, Repelisplus can still be accessed at Repelisplus.vip. The movies and series on Repelisplus are available in Spanish and English movies and shows are also available with Spanish subtitles. The video quality, servers, UI, and everything about this site is great and that's what makes this site one of the best free sites to watch Spanish movies and shows for free.
RepelisPlus is also available for Android as an app so, users can enjoy it's all catalog on your mobile phone. But there are many more sites like RepelisPlus where you can also enjoy Spanish series and movies for free. Here, we are going to tell you many similar sites like RepelisPlus.
1 The Best Alternatives to RepelisPlus to Watch Movies and TV Shows in Spanish for Free 2021
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1.2 Series Danko
1.3 Series Gato
1.4 Vidcorn
1.5 PepeCine
The Best Alternatives to RepelisPlus to Watch Movies and TV Shows in Spanish for Free 2021
HD Full TV
One of the best alternatives to RepelisPlus is HDFull TV. The name is quite simple and easy to remember, but it is an excellent option to watch Spanish series and movies. Upon entering what we find are many ways to filter multimedia content. We can select a new series, new movies, or go directly to the section of new chapters of the favorite programs that you follow.
After getting the title of the series or the movie you want to see, you have two options i.e. watch it online thanks to its built-in player or download the video from the list of available servers. You can select the one that you like the most or that generates confidence. Regarding advertising, during the search for the video we want to see it does not interfere, but when activating the streaming video, pop-up windows of ads are generated that we recommend closing immediately to load the content faster.
In the download links, there will always be short URLs that generate more ads, by complying with the captchas you can have your link to download the video in less than a minute.
Series Danko
With a slightly precarious and perhaps old-fashioned interface, Series Danko is among the best RepelisPlus alternatives that have survived for many years from any part of the world. It is an almost infinite catalog in which you can watch a lot of Spanish movies and series that are available in Series Danko.
Despite being "reliable" and having a lot of content, the problem is that it costs a lot to get a fast playback in Series Danko, in fact, you could say that it just doesn't happen easily, we would have to test server by server until we find what works for enjoy our series or movie for free. The advertising is intrusive enough that you almost regret being on the platform, be careful of the pop-ups that remain open, they can bring you problems.
Series Gato
If you are an AdBlock user, Series Gato forcefully warns you that you are not welcome on its platform until you deactivate it. After overcoming this improvisation, you find a very organized interface and in a very friendly way with the users. we really liked it, considering that it is one of the few that filters the series according to those that are in emission and those that have already ended.
As an alternative to RepelisPlus, we see that it has a very useful search engine, it is easy to find what you want along with a lot of interesting suggestions that you can consider. But keep in mind that Series Gato is only about series, don't look for movies because you won't find them. It uses Openload for streaming and download links, be careful with the preview of the player, it does not work until you select the chapter, until then, it will only be advertising with what you find. The download links are arranged in a box with details of the video file, such as quality and language.
Vidcorn
Vidcorn is the alternative to RepelisPlus in which we have found many interesting things. A very complete catalog of series and films maintained by a community of subscribers that has seduced us and of which you can also be a part of. However, they host adult content which many users may find inappropriate. Something is very bad taste considering that these are websites that children and adolescents enter.
New titles are recorded content from the cinema, but films that are not as old and with more time in the archive are of excellent quality. We appreciate the filter to choose the host, the language, and the quality, it facilitates the search for the independent servers that feed the portal.
PepeCine
Last but not least alternative to RepelisPlus is PepeCine. The site can be accessed at PepeCine.com. even if you find another domain link, it will redirect to a common one so there is no problem. The experience is very simple, you don't need much knowledge to move around in this movie streaming site that does not allow downloading in all the movies and series in the catalog, but we think that the playback is very stable and of quality.
Advertising is not so intrusive on PepeCine, in fact, that's a plus point about it. The community chat option is really an amazing feature. You can ask questions and the one that is active will help you with your dilemma.
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Published in 2010, this 68 page e-book includes over 20 artists ranging from a 4-year old to a high school student and a nationally known professional collage artist to a Emeritus Professor and Chairman of a college art department. Explore over a dozen collage techniques with step by step instructions. Readers will learn about altering images in many ways including household cleaners, transfers, melting and more!
After purchasing you will be redirected to a page where you can download your copy of this PDF e-book.
Redfoxpress sells a collection of dozens of small artists' books dedicated to experimental, concrete and visual poetry, or any work combining text and visual arts in the spirit of dada or Fluxus.
Cutting Edges documents the new heyday of collage in current art and visual culture. Today's artists, illustrators, and designers are increasingly drawn to this artistic technique by the challenges of seamlessly melding traditional craftsmanship with skilled computer montage. They are not only composing a wide variety of visual elements, but are also deliberately omitting, deleting, and destroying them. This book is an inspiring collection of these unique examples of contemporary collage.
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The collage is the most important and influential artistic discovery of the twentieth century. The art-collage has been around for 100 years now but is still very much alive and thriving. Gallery [KG52] invited 21 artist from all over the world to participate in the exhibition Cut & Paste. Some have worked with collage for over 40 years and some just started out. The oldest artist is 66 and the youngest 19. Some artists are amateurs and some professionals. Many are well schooled while some are self taught. Something they all have in common is a sense of humour, playfulness and openness for the unexpected. This book includes their portraits as well as two longer texts about the theory and practice of collage in English and Swedish by Edvard Derkert.
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2021 popular Complicity: How the online North Promoted, popular Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery outlet online sale
A startling and superbly researched book demythologizing the North's role in American slavery
"The hardest question is what to do when human rights give way to profits. . . . Complicity is a story of the skeletons that remain in this nation's closet."—San Francisco Chronicle
The North's profit from—indeed, dependence on—slavery has mostly been a shameful and well-kept secret . . . until now. Complicity reveals the cruel truth about the lucrative Triangle Trade of molasses, rum, and slaves that linked the North to the West Indies and Africa. It also discloses the reality of Northern empires built on tainted profits—run, in some cases, by abolitionists—and exposes the thousand-acre plantations that existed in towns such as Salem, Connecticut. Here, too, are eye-opening accounts of the individuals who profited directly from slavery far from the Mason-Dixon line.
Culled from long-ignored documents and reports—and bolstered by rarely seen photos, publications, maps, and period drawings— Complicity is a fascinating and sobering work that actually does what so many books pretend to do: shed light on America's past.
Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank are veteran journalists for The Hartford Courant, the country's oldest newspaper in continuous publication. Farrow and Lang were the lead writers and Frank was the editor of the special slavery issue published by Northeast, the newspaper's Sunday magazine.
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is co-editor with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of African American Lives.
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COTTON COMES NORTH
"The ships would rot at her docks; grass would grow in Wall Street and Broadway, and the glory of New York, like that of Babylon and Rome, would be numbered with the things of the past."
The answer given by a prominent Southern editor when asked by The Times (London), "What would New York be without slavery?"
Fernando Wood thought his timing was perfect.
The election of an antislavery president had finally forced the South to make good on years of threats, and the exodus of 11 states from the Union had begun. Militant South Carolina was the first to secede, after a convention in Charleston five days before Christmas of 1860. Within weeks, 6 more states had broken off from the Union, and by the end of May, the Confederacy was complete.
As the most profound crisis in our young nation's history unrolled, Wood, the mayor of New York, America's most powerful city, made a stunning proposal: New York City should secede from the United States, too.
"With our aggrieved brethren of the Slave States, we have friendly relations and a common sympathy," Wood told the New York Common Council in his State of the City message on January 7, 1861. "As a free city," he said, New York "would have the whole and united support of the Southern States, as well as all other States to whose interests and rights under the constitution she has always been true."
Although many in the city's intelligentsia rolled their eyes, and the mayor was slammed in much of the New York press, Wood's proposal made a certain kind of sense. The mayor was reacting to tensions with Albany, but there was far more behind his secession proposal, particularly if one understood that the lifeblood of New York City's economy was cotton, the product most closely identified with the South and its defining system of labor: the slavery of millions of people of African descent.
Slave-grown cotton is, in large part, the root of New York's wealth. Forty years before Fernando Wood suggested that New York join hands with the South and leave the Union, cotton had already become the nation's number one exported product. And in the four intervening decades New York had
become a commercial and financial behemoth dwarfing any other U.S. city and most others in the world. Cotton was more than just a profitable crop. It was the national currency, the product most responsible for America's explosive growth in the decades before the Civil War.
As much as it is linked to the barbaric system of slave labor that raised it, cotton created New York.
By the eve of the war, hundreds of businesses in New York, and countless more throughout the North, were connected to, and dependent upon, cotton. As New York became the fulcrum of the U.S. cotton trade, merchants, shippers, auctioneers, bankers, brokers, insurers, and thousands of others were drawn to the burgeoning urban center. They packed lower Manhattan, turning it into the nation's emporium, in which products from all over the world were traded.
In those prewar decades, hundreds of shrewd merchants and smart businessmen made their fortunes in ventures directly or indirectly tied to cotton. The names of some of them reverberate today.
Three brothers named Lehman were cotton brokers in Montgomery, Alabama, before they moved to New York and helped to establish the New York Cotton Exchange. Today, of course, Lehman Brothers is the international investment firm.
Junius Morgan, father of J. Pierpont Morgan, arranged for his son to study the cotton trade in the South as the future industrialist and banker was beginning his business career. Morgan Sr., a Massachusetts native who became a major banker and cotton broker in London, understood that knowledge of the cotton trade was essential to prospering in the commercial world in the 1850s.
Real estate and shipping magnate John Jacob Astor—one of America's first millionaires and namesake of the Waldorf-Astoria and whole neighborhoods in New York City—made his fortune in furs and the China trade. But Astor's ships, like those of many successful merchant-shippers, also carried tons of cotton.
Cotton's rich threads can even be traced to an ambitious young man who dreamed of opening a "fancy goods" store in New York. The young man's father, who operated a cotton mill in eastern Connecticut, gave his son the money to open his first store, on Broadway, in 1837. But more important than the $500 stake made from cotton was the young man's destination and timing: Charles L. Tiffany had begun serving a city in extraordinary, and enduring, economic ascent.
As with any commodity, trading in cotton was complicated and risky. Businessmen, even savvy ones, lost fortunes, but some made their mark on the city nonetheless.
As cotton was becoming a staple in the transatlantic trade, Scotsman Archibald Gracie immigrated to New York after training in Liverpool, Great Britain's great cotton port. Gracie became an international shipping magnate, a merchant prince, building a summer home on the East River before losing much of his wealth. His son and grandson left the city to become cotton brokers in Mobile, Alabama, but their family's summer home, today called Gracie Mansion, is the official residence of the mayor of New York.
But beyond identifying the individuals who prospered from the South's most important product, it's vital to understand the economic climate—the vast opportunities for wealth that the cotton trade created, and that linked New York City so tightly to the South. Before the Civil War, the city's fortunes, its very future, were considered by many to be inseparable from those of the cotton-producing states.
Secession was not even an original thought with Wood, a tall, charming, three-term scoundrel of a mayor and multiterm congressman. For years, members of New York's business community had mused privately, and occasionally in the pages of journals, that the city would be better off as a "free port," independent of tariff-levying politicians in Albany and Washington. As America unraveled over the issue of slavery, many Northern politicians and businessmen became frantic to reach out to their most important constituency: Southern planters.
New York was not the only area in the North whose future was threatened by the growing secession crisis. In Massachusetts, birthplace of America, and the center of an increasingly troublesome movement called abolitionism, the Southern states' frequent threats to secede had become an ongoing nightmare for the leaders of the powerful textile industry.
By 1860, New England was home to 472 cotton mills, built on rivers and streams throughout the region. The town of Thompson, Connecticut, alone, for example, had seven mills within its nine-square-mile area. Hundreds of other textile mills were scattered in New York State, New Jersey, and elsewhere in the North. Just between 1830 and 1840, Northern mills consumed more than 100 million pounds of Southern cotton. With shipping and manufacturing included, the economy of much of New England was connected to textiles.
For years, the national dispute over slavery had been growing more and more alarming to the powerful group of Massachusetts businessmen that historians refer to as the Boston Associates. When this handful of brilliant industrialists established America's textile industry earlier in the nineteenth century, they also created America's own industrial revolution. By the 1850s, their enormous profits had been poured into a complex network of banks, insurance companies, and railroads. But their wealth remained anchored to dozens of mammoth textile mills in Massachusetts, southern Maine, and New Hampshire. Some of these places were textile cities, really—like Lowell and Lawrence, Massachusetts, both named for Boston Associates founders.
As the nation lurched toward war and the certainty of economic disruption, these industrialists and allied politicians wanted to convince the South that at least some in the North were eager to compromise
on slavery. A compromise was critical, for the good of the Union and business.
On the evening of October 11, 1858, a standing-room-only audience of politicians and businessmen honored a visitor at a rally at Faneuil Hall, long the center of Boston's public life. The wealthy and powerful of New England's preeminent city lauded the "intellectual cultivation" and "eloquence" of the senator from Mississippi, and when Jefferson Davis walked onto the stage, the Brahmins of Boston gave him a standing ovation.
Other American staples, such as corn, wheat, and tobacco, have a charged or even exalted status in our nation's narrative. And other resources—whale oil, coal, and gold—were the main characters in defining chapters of American history.
But cotton was king.
On the cusp of the Civil War, the 10 major cotton states were producing 66 percent of the world's cotton, and raw cotton accounted for more than half of all U.S. exports. The numbers are almost impossible to grasp: in the season that ended on August 31, 1860, the United States produced close to 5 million bales of cotton, or roughly 2.3 billion pounds. Of that amount, it exported about half—or more than 1 billion pounds—to Great Britain's 2,650 cotton factories.
By then, the Industrial Revolution had spread throughout Europe. Although small compared with Great Britain's, France's textile industry, centered in Lille, was also fed almost entirely by U.S. cotton, 200 million pounds' worth in 1858. And Southern cotton was important to textile industries in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Russia, Italy, Spain, and Belgium.
But most of the world's cotton went through Liverpool, the port nearest Manchester in Lancashire, the heart of textile manufacturing. Up until the end of the 1700s, Great Britain had imported most of its cotton from the Mediterranean, its colonies in the West Indies, and India and Brazil. But in 1794 Eli Whitney, the son of a Massachusetts farmer, patented his cotton gin (invented the previous year), and it changed the world.
The problem with cotton is its seeds. Nestled deep in the fibers of every fist-sized boll of upland cotton—the predominant type grown in America—are 30 to 40 impossibly sticky green seeds that must be removed before the white, fluffy fibers can be used.
Before Whitney patented his gin, it took one person an entire day to remove the seeds from a pound of cotton. The gin both mechanized and accelerated the process. The teeth of a series of circular saws "captured" the seeds, allowing the fibers to be pulled away from them. The device increased the production of cleaned cotton an astonishing fiftyfold. In seeking a patent for his invention, Whitney wrote to Thomas Jefferson, then secretary of state, explaining that by using the gin, "one negro [could] . . . clean fifty weight (I mean fifty pounds after it is separated from the seed), of the green seed cotton per day." Jefferson was one of the first plantation owners to order a gin.
Growing cotton suddenly became hugely profitable. Farmers across the South switched over to cotton, and within only about 15 years they were supplying more than half of Great Britain's demand for the product. Well before 1860, the relationship between Great Britain and the South had become ironclad.
A lot of cotton required a lot of slaves. In 1850, some 2.3 million people were enslaved in the 10 cotton states; of these, nearly 2 million were involved in some aspect of cotton production. And their numbers, and importance, just kept growing.
As early as 1836, the secretary of the treasury told Congress that with "less than 100,000 more field hands" and the conversion of just 500,000 more acres of rich Southern land, the United States could produce enough raw cotton for the entire world.
By the eve of the Civil War, Great Britain was largely clothing the Western world, using Southern-grown, slave-picked cotton.
In 1850, the South was home to about 75,000 cotton plantations. Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia each had over 14,500. The cotton states produced a staggering 2 million bales that year. Even people who saw the trade in action struggled to describe it.
In December 1848, Solon Robinson, a farmer and writer from Connecticut who became agriculture editor for the New York Tribune, visited the nation's largest cotton port. "It must be seen to be believed," Robinson wrote of the "acres of cotton bales" standing on the docks of New Orleans. "Boats are constantly arriving, so piled up with cotton, that the lower tier of bales on deck are in the water; and as the boat is approaching, it looks like a huge raft of cotton bales, with the chimneys and steam pipe of an engine sticking up out of the centre."
From New Orleans and the other major cotton ports—Savannah, Georgia; Charleston, South Carolina; and Mobile, Alabama—most of the cotton was shipped to Liverpool. If it did not go directly to Liverpool, it was sent to the North: to Boston for use in the domestic textile industry, or to New York City. From New York, it generally went to Liverpool, or elsewhere in Europe.
But this gives only the slightest hint of the role New York City and the rest of the North played in the cotton trade, or of the lengths the New York business community was forced to go to protect its franchise.
The Union Committee of Fifteen had called a meeting at the offices of Richard Lathers, a prominent cotton merchant. The organizers had planned to invite 200 people, and by written invitation only. But the group that thronged outside of Lathers's offices at 33 Pine Street, a block over from Wall Street, surpassed 2,000. In fact, offices across the street had to be quickly commandeered to accommodate the crowd, and even then the merchants, bankers, and others who gathered that Saturday afternoon spilled into the street.
This was hardly the first time that the worried business community had met to discuss strategies to smooth relations between North and South. But the Pine Street meeting on December 15, 1860, may have represented the group at its most panicky. South Carolina's probable secession vote was days away, and there was talk of Alabama following South Carolina. After that, who knew? The South had to be persuaded to stay in the Union until some kind of compromise in the slavery controversy could be found.
The very spine of nineteenth-century money and power attended the meeting. These "merchant princes" included:
•A. T. Stewart, a cotton merchant who opened the nation's first department store, called "the marble palace," on Broadway. Stewart was thought to be the wealthiest man in New York.
•Moses Taylor, sugar importer, banker, and coal and railroad magnate, whose extensive enterprises made him, for nearly half a century, one of the most influential businessmen in New York City.
•Abiel Abbot Low, whose A. A. Low & Brothers was the most important firm in the new and booming China trade.
•William B. Astor, son of fur and real estate mogul John Jacob Astor, the nation's first millionaire.
•Wall Street banker August Belmont, American agent for the Rothschilds of Germany, who married the daughter of Commodore Perry and whose passion for horse breeding led to the creation of the Belmont Stakes.
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Although the message is very, very important for everyone to know, I thought the writing was awful. Most of the book was written in a spiral pattern, i.e., didn''t we already touch on this point multiple times before? Where''s the chronology? Why so many unimportant details? The writing reminded me of a technique that I was taught back in 4th grade: do your research, write a single thought on a 3 x 5 card, sequence the cards, and turn the info into paragraphs. I think the entire book should have been led by a harsh editor who could draw the authors out of the muck and into the daylight. If I didn''t "have" to read if for book club, I would have put it down after the first chapter. It''s really too bad, because the message needs to get out into the mainstream!
It''s amazing it took so many years for these facts to ...
The North was more than simply "complicit". They conducted the transatlantic slave trade even after it was banned by the Constitution after 1808. It was said by more than one Southerner at the time that the North chastised the South over "negro slavery"... See more
The North was more than simply "complicit". They conducted the transatlantic slave trade even after it was banned by the Constitution after 1808. It was said by more than one Southerner at the time that the North chastised the South over "negro slavery" while the money they profited from transporting and selling captured Africans as slaves "jingled in their pockets". It''s amazing it took so many years for these facts to be "discovered" by these authors.
G C on a lake N of Dallas
Superb and very eye-opening. I wish everyone would see the deep untold truth.
This is a brave bold brilliant and deeply needed exposition of truth most people just do not know. It was never taught. I began studying the civil war about ten years ago. Being a southerner born and raised I always knew without any doubt that i couldn't be considered... See more
This is a brave bold brilliant and deeply needed exposition of truth most people just do not know. It was never taught.
I began studying the civil war about ten years ago. Being a southerner born and raised I always knew without any doubt that i couldn't be considered a hateful hurtful deeply prejudiced person.
I began to be really doubtful and skeptical of all the negative things that were piled upon southern people because I knew I wasn't hateful and I knew my family wasn't hateful and I didn't know anybody who is hateful and hurtful. Quite frankly I don't see any blatant racism here in the south where I live. I believe we all get along extremely well and I mean extremely well we get along fine and nobody seems to be hateful or prejudiced to any degree that could be considered hurtful. So I bought this book after spending probably three or four years studying the Civil War. Anyway I've gone too long on this.
I will simply say you can trust this book because no one would write it if it were not true. Think about that no one from way up north in Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Vermont and all that no one would write a book like this if it weren't true unless they were totally insane but there are three authors anyway you be the judge I'm done that's enough.
I didn't realize I could come back and edit my review just shortly after I submitted it. But after reading it I thought at least I should explain that I am quite a verbal person I go a little long I talk probably more than most people have the patience to listen to. But this book is a very brave and bold look at deep deep truth that nearly no one seems to know. It's absolutely the kind of illumination that gives me the desire to learn more and more of the history of my country and frankly the world. Ok thanks. G C
a good overview of slavery in the north and the other benefits to the north of slavery
The assertion has been made elsewhere that slavery as a whole was a major factor in the early economic growth of America and also Europe. That formal economic case is not made here, but much supporting evidence is provided in here of the impact of slavery on northern... See more
The assertion has been made elsewhere that slavery as a whole was a major factor in the early economic growth of America and also Europe. That formal economic case is not made here, but much supporting evidence is provided in here of the impact of slavery on northern business and culture, as well as actual slavery in the north. This impact is not news but this is a fine comprehensive compilation. Included is an extensive early history of actual slavery in the north, heavy participation of the north in the slave trade and manufacture of slave ships, a large northern textile industry using southern cotton produced by slavery. A majority of exports from the US were cotton and predominantly from northern ports. Annual financing was provided by northern banks for southern plantation planting cycles. Northern companies sold life insurance on slaves to southern plantations. Due to exceptionally strong economic ties to the south, the mayor of New York briefly proposed seceding from the union along with southern states.
Hank Lajoie
The Business of Slavery in the North
Growing up in New England, I was taught, as most of us were, about the South's reliance on slave labor, leading us to believe that we "northerners" were innocents in that business. What we were taught in school, however, is the history of the War Between the States, with... See more
Growing up in New England, I was taught, as most of us were, about the South's reliance on slave labor, leading us to believe that we "northerners" were innocents in that business. What we were taught in school, however, is the history of the War Between the States, with the south's addiction to slavery as the primary element of evil regarding that conflict. Northern states were not blameless, however. Many of the ships used in slave trade came from New England ports and many slaves were used in the north in a variety of ways no less despicable than the demands of King Cotton. The research has been around a long time, but this seems to be the most comprehensive account, ideal for the casual reader of history. Even those readers into slavery accounts should find this a good read.
Very relevant history ...
I recommend this book. It is a fair account of the American involvement in the African slave trade, which was primarily a New England and New York endeavor. Several old money New England fortunes were founded on the African trade in enslaved Africans transported to... See more
I recommend this book. It is a fair account of the American involvement in the African slave trade, which was primarily a New England and New York endeavor. Several old money New England fortunes were founded on the African trade in enslaved Africans transported to British North America and the Caribbean islands. This history is mostly ignored, and the South, which was solely a customer in these transactions, has been assigned all the blame.
It is a complicated story to tell here, but the authors remind us of the relationship of slavery to the East African export of elephant ivory to the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries supported manufacture of piano keys. The enslaved African carried the tusks to the coast for shipment and they themselves were sold to other buyers and transported offshore to the benefit of Connecticut piano key manufacturers.
Boothe
Very written, researched and documented.
This is a very well written treatise on the North''s obscene profits obtained through the slave trade itself, as well as procuring the source materials for Northern industry provided by slave based agriculture. As a bonus the "benevolent" Northern bankers,... See more
This is a very well written treatise on the North''s obscene profits obtained through the slave trade itself, as well as procuring the source materials for Northern industry provided by slave based agriculture. As a bonus the "benevolent" Northern bankers, manufacturers and mariners also profited handsomely from selling the finished goods that supported slavery. Well researched and well documented, this book is a real eye opener for those who still believe the Northern states were innocent with regard to abolishing slavery and altruistic toward the black people of their time. I purchased this book used in excellent condition after it had been "obsoleted" by the Fresno Free Library. Hmmm. I wonder why? The truth is never very popular, especially when it contradicts the official narrative.
a must read on slavery and the civil war
This book is a true eye opener about who is to "blame" for slavery in America. Guess what? It is not just the South, but the North must share the blame as well. It is written by three newspaper professionals (The Hartford Courant) who did extensive research on... See more
This book is a true eye opener about who is to "blame" for slavery in America. Guess what? It is not just the South, but the North must share the blame as well. It is written by three newspaper professionals (The Hartford Courant) who did extensive research on the topic and cited 14 pages of references to back up their claims. They also have a 16 page Bibliography of their research. The treatment of slaves in the North was shocking to me..........................I thought burning at the stake went out of style with the Salem witchcraft trials. Even more shocking was that the legal system pronounced very inhumane punishment on some slaves. This book talks about the triangle trade between the new world, Africa, and the Caribbean islands and South America. I thought it interesting that the ivory commerce in the North promoted slavery as well. So interesting and informative. A must read for anyone interested in slavery and the Civil War.
Must read book
Informative and very interesting well written
New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America (The American Moment)
Colin G. Calloway
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Q: Best Mac OSX and Windows Git Clients, servers and diff tools? I am currently looking for git clients for Mac OSX,
I have tried the following:

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*GitX (Didn't like it.. doesn't seem functional enough)

*Git Gui / GitK.. (Butt Ugly! i mean yuuuuuck! and not user friendly)

*Source Tree (By far the best but still lacking somewhat)

Is there a functionally equivalent nice looking "versions" or "cornerstone" like client for git?
or a finder integration thing like toroisegit?
Also i need to either implement a locking system or find a diff tool for VBA in excel spreadsheets?
How can i do either of these?
Oh also is there a way of managing a git server (gitosis or other) with a gui?
Thanks
Daniel

A: I have never found the need to manage a git server via the GUI since the server is just one big repo and the clients pull and push to it.  In my mind, there is no need for server management here but, we just barely scratch the GIT itch at our company currently.
As gui clients go give gitbox a whirl.  The layout and design is very simple and easily "fades away" when you aren't pushing and pulling.  It is what many of us use, plus it is free

A: I too looked for a GUI for a while...but couldn't find anything I liked.  In the meantime I used the CLI and now I doubt I'd switch even if a good GUI became available.  With the CLI there is no waiting for a GUI app to load, no logging in, and it's just fast...exactly what I was looking for but didn't know it.
For managing a server, possibly...Gitorious or Indefero

A: You can look at SCuMD git server (my branch). You can find it here:
https://github.com/OlegIlyenko/scumd
or just download distribution:
https://github.com/downloads/OlegIlyenko/scumd/scumd-0.1.0-SNAPSHOT.zip
It has very little dependencies on environment - it even does not require git to be installed (but it needs Java)!
In order to install and use it just follow these steps:

*

*Unzip

*Execute java -jar scumd-0.1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar. This will create default config in ~./scumd folder

*Now comes some configuration. Edit ~./scumd/scumd-config.xml and make it fit your requirements. At the beginning it can look like this:

<beans:beans xmlns="http://asolutions.com/schema/spring/scumd" xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd http://asolutions.com/schema/spring/scumd http://asolutions.com/schema/spring/scumd/scumd-0.1.0.xsd">
    <git-ssh-server port="1122" repositories-base="/home/YourUser/.scumd/git-repos">
        <default-server-key-pair />
    </git-ssh-server>

    <acl>
        <repository path="**/*.git">
            <groups allow="ReadWrite, Create" list="developers" />
        </repository>
    </acl>

    <simple-user-dao>
        <group name="developers">
            <user name="user1" password="secret" />
        </group>
    </simple-user-dao>
</beans:beans>

Now run java -jar scumd-0.1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar again and git SSH server will start and listen port 1122! You can login with user1 that has password secret. Typical git URL looks like this:
ssh://localhost:1122/my-project.git

More information about configuration and usage you can find in default config.
I think it's good solution for the server (even if it does not have GUI). But it much easier to setup and configure SCuMD than other git servers out there (as far as I saw).

A: Hey guys thanks for the great answers!
In the end i went with:

*

*Tower - (Mac GUI).. It's freaking awesome! http://git-tower.com

*Gitorious (Central repo anagement server hosted on our own box) awesome.. but a SERIOUS pain to get running! http://gitorious.org Heres the tutorial i used.
Works pretty well for us.. although i'd love to be able to buy a copy of Github FI but its V expensive :P
So i'll just use standard github for my open source repos!

A: Regarding your question about a Diff Tool for VBA, you could try VbaDiff. It's a tool I created for just this purpose, as I was having the same problems.

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I awaken with a nauseous pit in my stomach. Dread. Another day of work. Another day of monotony, of underemployment, of wasting my time and potential all for a steady paycheck.
I sit in meditation for five minutes while my tropical vanilla tea steeps. Thoughts and emotions flood the space I try to create. Dreams from last night of horses. I was a horseback rider as a girl and competed in hunter-jumper competitions. My subconscious holds on to my girlhood dreams and aspirations, the joy I felt on the back of a horse, the kinship I felt with the horses, something I struggle to find with my fellow humans. Relating to animals was always easier for me. Of course, we humans are animals too. Just not my species of choice, I suppose.
The microwave timer beeps my eyes back open. I blend my tea with some cacao beans and carob powder for a morning chocolate drink. I cannot discern if the nausea intensifies or not. All I know is the incredible sadness and despair that pervade my being. The sense that above all else I simply want to be home alone with my dogs and able to enjoy a smoothie bowl and do little else all day. I have no motivation for work, but the desire for financial independence gets me out the door.
I rely on my dad financially. He pays my rent and therapy bills. Naturally, I need therapy. I created a reality for myself here that I detest at the moment. I despise my own creation. What was I thinking? What was I thinking leaving Hawaii? Did I really think I'd find happiness here in the armpit of Louisiana?! I thought I'd have my relationship with my dad here, and that pulled me in. Since being here, that illusion has shattered into innumerable pieces.
He's dating a vapid younger woman. A classic midlife crisis precipitated by a toxic 33-year marriage to an alcoholic woman with borderline personality disorder, my mother. And of course, he could not be alone for a single second post-divorce, so he secured himself a young rebound chick already in place. They are engaged not six months post-divorce. Her ring is disgustingly ostentatious. I hate the way I sound simply describing the situation, but it's really something to see. It's something I choose not to see.
Being around them right now is too painful for me. Too painful for me to see my dad choosing and creating a reality with a striking resemblance to the toxic love triangle between him, my mom, and me. He's entered another love triangle with his fiancé and her mother, who are blatantly codependent. Umbilical cord still fully intact. I severed off from him now, and it hurts.
Now I get to sit in my sadness in this reality I chose and created. And, the mature, responsible, enlightened part of me knows I need to sit with it. I need to be in it, despite my compulsion to run. I do not wish to be the person who moves and moves and moves and can't hold down a job for longer than 6 months. Who can't finish a five-year doctorate program. I like to think I could have, but at the time, it was too much, and I was too miserable, and I did not know in my heart that it was what I wanted. I had to get out after my masters. Clearly, I have some healing to do to attract more positive environments and relationships.
I am here now healing. Back in my hometown, the place my dysfunction and beauty were born 26 years prior. I am here to heal the wounds of days gone past and to face the behavioral patterns that do not serve me. For now, I know I am staying put for today. I will steal moments of joy.
Watching a water droplet slowly slide down my windshield. I will admire the fast-moving blue-grey clouds above, those wisps of moisture that cruise overhead. I want to be a cloud just moving through. Of course, I am in a way if I step back far enough.
I am just passing through. We all are. Even the person born and raised in Monroe, LA who never leaves. He is here for a finite period of time.
What is consciousness attempting to learn through me today? What in God's name am I here to do? I've enjoyed writing for my entire life, so I write. I reflect. I express myself. I speak my truth. This is how I feel alive and valid in a world I do not understand. This is how I go on for today.
I laugh at myself for my dramatics and first world problems. I am blessed beyond measure. I know this. I know I will pull through and find peace within. But we must allow ourselves moments to feel despair. That I know. And I know it is progress to feel the despair in the moment, and not to wait and put it off until later. Because unaddressed negative emotion grows and festers. It crops up when we least expect it, twenty years into any addiction, you pick which one. A cancer diagnosis. Divorce. Suicide or homicide at its most extreme.
No, it is good to feel now, and to suspend judgment of how we feel. We are feeling, thinking beings after all, and all this is a natural part of human existence.


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The Parish Finance Council assists the Pastor in being an effective administrator of the parish temporal goods in order to accomplish the mission and goals of the parish. The Council consults with the Pastor in the administration of parish finances, budget, parish facilities and long-range financial development. The Council also collaborates with the Parish Pastoral Council in the accomplishment of the pastoral priorities.
Members are appointed by the Pastor. Members are fully initiated, active, practicing Catholics in good standing and members of the parish. They have experience in the areas of accounting, finance, administration, budgeting, property management, human resources or civil law.
Meetings are held the second Tuesday of every month at 7:30 pm in the second floor office. No meetings are held in June, July, August and December.
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Over 70-and-a half? What you need to know about the IRA charitable gift rollover.
Congress has extended and the president has signed the favorable IRA charitable rollover tax provisions for 2015 and made them permanent for future years. What should a donor over age 70½ do in order to get the benefit that IRA distributions will not be included in taxable income? Donors should follow the same general procedures for IRA charitable distributions as in the past —
Only direct distributions to charity up to $100,000 qualify as tax-free. Distributions in exchange for a charitable gift annuity or to a charitable remainder trust do not qualify.
It is especially important that the IRA distribution be made payable to the charity, not to you as the IRA owner and beneficiary. Otherwise, the distribution would not qualify for the favorable tax treatment. Advise your IRA administrator to make the distribution check payable to St. Clare or other charity, not to you.
Only distributions from traditional or certain Roth IRAs are tax-free; the law does not apply to other qualified retirement plans, such as 401(k) plans. However, you should consider consulting with your financial or tax advisor about the possibility of transferring funds from one of these other qualified plans to establish an IRA, with the distribution to charity coming from the newly established IRA.
Consult with your IRA administrator and tax advisor on the proper procedures for making a direct distribution to St. Clare of Montefalco Parish or School or another archdiocesan institution or qualified charity.
St. Clare Endowment Fund
St. Clare of Montefalco participates in the Archdiocese of Detroit Parish Endowment Fund Program. Currently there are two funds, one for the Parish and one for the School. The Funds are a resource that will grow with time and contributions. The purpose is to provide a vehicle for contributors to assist the future financial success of the parish and school. Once adequately funded, income from the Endowment Funds can be used for future operations, or for special ministries and programs as determined by the Pastor in consultation with the Parish Pastoral Council. Endowments are a common method of providing for the future financial stability of institutions such as colleges and churches.
The Archdiocese Endowment Program guarantees each contributing parish a 5.25% annual distribution of the value of that parish's share in the Fund, regardless of the actual performance of the Fund. The Archdiocese Endowment Foundation's larger investment pool enables participating parish endowment funds to take advantage of the guaranteed 5.25% annual return. Of course, for that annual return to be significant, St. Clare's Endowment fund requires contributions.
This program enables the members and friends of the Parish to make lasting gifts as part of their annual charitable contributions, or as part of their estate plan. Please consider St. Clare Parish and St. Clare School in your charitable gift planning.
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