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Help Fund The First Raw Vegan Organic Patisserie In Paris
Meet the delightful Violaine Bergoin, who is a lady on a mission; she wants to open the first raw vegan organic patisserie in Paris.
Paris, until now, is definitely not known for it's health foods, indeed it's a city renowned for its rich and super sweet desserts, and whilst they certainly look and taste heavenly, it comes at a cost; our health!
Violaine 33, is passionate about healthy living and wants to share it with the world. She's a qualified raw chef, and achieved her degree at 42 degrees. Violaine also studied art in England as well as interior design. All of this has helped her become a very talented raw chef, who has a very creative eye for making her raw delights look super beautiful.
After discovering the raw food diet years ago, Violaine's since had a dream to open a raw patisserie. But this is a very costly venture, and she needs our help.
Can you help fund her business to become a reality? If you can afford anything to help her out, even $5, this will all add up to help her achieve her goal.
Please watch her video, I did and I'm already a fan! I know there's loads of campaigns to get behind, but this lady and her dream is special. Violaine is super adorable and her raw cakes and treats look amazing. I love her attitude and her aspiration.
Please check out this link to take you to her funding page. You need to go to the top of the right hand side where it says FR and click on it and choose 'Anglaise' to turn it into English.
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America's Largest Milk Producer Files For Bankruptcy – Cow's Milk Is Inhumane & Unhealthy
In Brief
- The Facts:
Dean foods, the largest milk producer in the United States has filed for bankruptcy.
- Reflect On:
Independent media and activists around the world do have the ability to make change, and this is one of many examples. The world is waking up, even in the face of massive censorship of information. We are more powerful than we know.
Dean Foods, the largest milk company in the United States has recently filed for bankruptcy. The reason? Because Americans, and people all of the world for that matter, are not drinking as much cow's milk as they used to. Brands that seem to be growing and having success are the ones who are now offering dairy free options. Oat milk, for example, saw U.S. sales rise 636% to more than $52 million over the past year, according to Nielsen data. Sales of cow's milk dropped 2.4% in that same time frame.
Chief Executive Officer, Eric Beringause stated: "We continue to be impacted by a challenging operating environment marked by continuing declines in consumer milk consumption." He's right, the demand for cow's milk has dropped nearly 50 percent since 1975.
So, why are people doing this? Well, it's happening for a number of reasons. First of all, the industry is full of animal cruelty. Cow's are forcefully impregnated so they can produce milk, and their babies are taken from them for beef so the milk can be drained from the cow so humans can drink it. This causes tremendous heartache. Cows are living in poor conditions where they constantly suffer both emotionally and physically. Furthermore, they can often be abused by workers, but the conditions they live in on factory farms is already seen as abusive to many.
Not only are we starting to become aware that our milk-drinking habit is one of the most cruel industries that exists on Earth, we are realizing waking up to the fact that 80 percent of the Amazon rainforest destruction is the result of grazing animals for meat and dairy production. It's one of the main sources of environmental degradation and pollution on our planet. It is destroying our Earth, and the waste is polluting our environment and waterways at an alarming rate. 90 percent of soy used, which is also creating massive amounts of deforestation, is used for animal feed, not humans. So, animal product consumption is clearly the biggest factor when it comes to deforestation and environmental degradation, yet there doesn't seem to be enough emphasis put on it like there is for C02. Why?
When it comes to the health aspects, I remember being in shock when I came to the realization that we were the only animal on the planet who drank the milk of another animal. Furthermore, we are the only species on the planet that drinks milk after weaning.
There are multiple studies showing that drinking milk from a cow leads to an increased mortality rate and actually makes bones more prone to fracturing, not less. One example would be this giant study from researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden. How ironic is this given the fact that milk has always been marketed to humans as necessary from strong bone health? Calcium is available in high quantities in a number of planet, how come we weren't marketed with that?
One thing milk protein does is trigger metabolic acidosis. This happens when the body produces too much acid and becomes very acidic, which can be caused by multiple things, including the absorption of casein found in animal protein. Casein makes up almost 90 percent of the protein in a cow's milk. When the body experiences this type of acidosis, it actually forces the body to compensate by leaching calcium from the bones to help neutralize the increased acidity. This became known to me through the work of Dr. Colin Campbell, an American biochemist who specializes in the effect of nutrition on long term health. He is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University. Scholars like Campbell are vital to the world, because they are among the few who actually examine and study nutrition and health, something that our modern day medical industry completely ignores. You can watch a video of him explaining, here.
Dr. Campbell also discovered that animal protein (casein) can accelerate and "turn on" cancer, while plant based protein has the opposite effect. You can read more about that and which him explain in this article.
If we look at all other animals who don't consume the milk of another animal or after weaning, it is because they do not have the enzymes to break down the sugar found in milk. We are no different, and this explains why in some ethnic populations around the world, lactose intolerance is present in 90 percent of the population. A staggering 70 percent of the world's population has some degree of lactose intolerance.
Humans actually never had this enzyme, and to digest the sugar in cow's milk, we had to develop the LTC gene, which was acquired by mutation. This is the lactase gene, which allows us to process lactose as adults. Clearly, we are not doing what is natural and in accordance with our bodies. I first came across this information from Katherine S. Pollard, a PhD at the University of California, San Francisco, in this lecture.
That being said, some people might have evolved and developed on cows milk just fine, which is why this information may not apply to everybody but overall, it definitely appears we are doing something unnatural.
More doctors are waking up, The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) recently submitted a citizen petition with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to change labeling on cheese to include a cancer warning.
The petition states:
High-fat dairy products, such as cheese, are associated with an increased risk for breast cancer. Components in dairy such as insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1) and other growth hormones may be among the reasons for the increased risk for cancer.
To ensure that Americans understand the potential significant risks, and resulting long-term costs, of consuming dairy cheese products, the FDA should ensure that the notice above is prominently placed on product packaging and labeling for all dairy cheese products.
The list goes on and on, what's presented in this article is simply a tidbit with regards to why big milk is going out of business. People are waking up.
When it comes to health and cruelty, it's not just dairy, it's also meat-eating as well. It's very in-humane, not all that healthy, and is also destroying our planet.
You can read this article for more information about that: Another Study Suggests That Human Beings Are Not Designed To Eat Meat
The Takeaway
It's great to see the dairy industry forcing to transition, although there is still a long way to go, it's quite clear through the efforts of various forms of activism around the world that more people are becoming more empathetic, compassionate, and caring about our treatment of animals and the planet. These are qualities our world certainly needs more of. In conjunction with the massive amount of animal cruelty that's being exposed, awareness with regards to the health and environmental consequences of consuming dairy are also skyrocketing.
We are more powerful than we know, and at any time, if we come together, we can change the game big time.
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One of Stanford's Most Successful Remote Viewers Shares What He 'Saw' About The Origins of Humanity
In Brief
- The Facts:
Joseph Mcmoneagle, one of the most successful Army-trained remote viewers, peered into the past to look into the possible origins of human history. He saw that we were created by intelligent beings in what he called a 'laboratory.'
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Why is the mainstream story of human history still limited to Darwin's Theory of Evolution? Why have so many discoveries, like giants, and life on other planets, been completely concealed and brushed off as a conspiracy theory?
The true origins of human history remain a mystery, but that's not what mainstream academia would have us believe. Since Darwin, human evolution and 'the survival of the fittest' has been pushed on the population as some sort of scientific truth, despite the fact that it remains a theory with multiple loopholes and 'missing links.' If you question it, in some circumstances, you are almost considered a nut.
This continues to happen in many different fields of knowledge; when you question beliefs that have been ingrained for so long you get a harsh response, and in some cases, you're liable to be fined, put in jail or at the very least you receive tremendous amounts of hate and censorship. What we don't hear about is the fact that there are several hundred scientists, if not several thousand, who have spoken up against the scientific validity of the theory of evolution. I recently wrote an article about more than 500 scientists coming together to reject Darwin's theory of evolution and explain why it's not really valid at all.
Our DNA Originated Somewhere Else
Even one of the founding fathers of DNA, Francis Crick, believed that human DNA must have originated from somewhere else in the galaxy, whereby "organisms were deliberately transmitted to earth by intelligent beings on another planet." You can read more about that here. I also recently wrote about a paper that was published by 33 scientists in the Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology Journal suggesting that the flourishing life during the Cambrian era (Cambrian Explosion) originated from the stars.
"With the rapidly increasing number of exoplanets that have been discovered in the habitable zones of long-lived red dwarf stars (Gillon et al., 2016), the prospects for genetic exchanges between life-bearing Earth-like planets cannot be ignored. " (The study)
There is a great little blurb from Cosmos Magazine, one of the few outlets who is talking about the study.
Serious inquiry into the origins of human history are not encouraged in the mainstream. Yet as we dig a little on what's being done, there is a lot to find out, with new theories and discoveries that seem to be popping up every single year. Modern day education is hardly keeping up with this, and in fact continues to promulgate old theories and notions that have long been disproven. As a result, nobody beyond ardent self-motivated researchers are learning about new developments or have any knowledge of these viewpoints.
Opening Our Minds
The suppression of the discoveries of giant humanoid skeletons falls directly into this category, though the secrecy that wraps up the Smithsonian is a topic for another article. Suffice it to say that successful cover-ups of information are possible in part due to the phenomenon of 'cognitive dissonance', which speaks to the extreme discomfort that a piece of information that disrupts the worldview you grew up with can have on you. Many of us have and do experience this, including myself. In today's day and age, it's important to practice overcoming the discomfort to keep an open mind.
Consider entertaining new ideas without necessarily accepting them, just give them a chance to swirl in your mind a bit. With new information constantly emerging at a rapid pace in all fields, an open mind is what serves us best. If we stay closed and refuse to even look at or acknowledge evidence that contradicts what we believe, we will never advance towards actual truth, and simply be caught up in an agnostic state while never really getting to the bottom of the questions that are naturally on our mind.
The StarGate Program
The StarGate program was co-founded by Russell Targ (watch his banned TED talk about ESP here), Hal Puthoff, who is now a member of the 'To The Stars Academy' with Tom Delonge, and other notable names who have worked on Deep Black Budget programs within the U.S. government. They are currently spearheading an effort to let the American public know that UFOs are real and that there is sufficient evidence to suggest that, as Louis Elizondo says, "we are not alone, whatever that means."
The StarGate program investigated parapsychological phenomenon like remote viewing, telepathy, telekinesis, and clairvoyance. The program yielded high statistically significant results and was used multiple times for intelligence gathering purposes. A lot of interesting information came out of the literature that was declassified in 1995 after the program ran for more than two decades.
It was a complete mystery why the program was shut down: remote viewing, for example, which is the ability to describe the physical characteristics at a given location irrespective of distance, was found to be repeatable, even more than findings in the hard sciences, with a success rate of over 80 percent. Remote viewing was how the rings around Jupiter were actually discovered by Ingo Swann before NASA was able to measure them. You can read more about that here.
To summarize, over the years, the back-and-forth criticism of protocols, refinement of methods and successful replication of this type of remote viewing in independent laboratories has yielded considerable scientific evidence for the reality of the [remote viewing] phenomenon. Adding to the strength of these results was the discovery that a growing number of individuals could be found to demonstrate high-quality remote viewing, often to their own surprise. . . . The development of this capability at SRI has evolved to the point where visiting CIA personnel with no previous exposure to such concepts have performed well under controlled laboratory conditions." (source)
The Breadth Of Remote Viewing
There are examples in the literature, from remote viewers looking at classified Russian technology during the cold-war era, locating a lost spy plane in Africa and the prediction of future events. Yes, along with remote viewing comes the ability to view into the past, and view into the future. Obviously, this gets tricky, especially if we look at quantum physics, which works in tandem with parapsychology. In quantum physics, experiments have also shown how what happened in the past can change the future, and what happens in the future can change the past, on a quantum scale. You can read more about that here.
There were multiple people working within the Remote Viewing Program, which was conducted at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in conjunction with multiple intelligence agencies, and one of them was Joseph Mcmoneagle. Many of these people, after decades in the program, continued on with their research and experimentation long after the program was declassified. Joseph was one of the most successful Army-trained remote viewers, and one of the original members of project Stargate. He was actually awarded the Legion of Merit for "producing crucial and vital intelligence unavailable from any other source" to the intelligence community.
The Origins Of Humanity
In 1983, McMoneagle worked with Robert A. Monroe, founder of the Monroe Institute in Faber, Virginia, which provided basic out-of-body orientation for many of the military remote viewers. There, he conducted a session seeking to discover the origin of humanity. As the late great author and researcher Jim Marrs points out in his best selling book Our Occulted History points out:
During the 129-minute session, he described a shoreline on what appeared to him to be a primitive Earth. He later estimated a time of about thirty million to fifty million years after the time of the dinosaurs. Cavorting on this shoreline was a large family of protohumans-hairy animals about four feet in height, walking upright and possessing eyes exhibiting a spark of intelligence despite a somewhat smaller cranial capacity. Two things surprised McMoneagle in this session. These creatures appeared to be aware of his psychic presence, and they did not originate at that location.
McMoneagle described his experience in his 1998 book, The Ultimate Time Machine:
This particular species of animal is put…specifically in that barrier place…called the meeting of the land and the sea…I also get the impression that they're…ah…they were put there. They mysteriously appeared. They are not descended from an earlier species, they were put there (by a) seed ship…no, that's not right. Keep wanting to say ship, but it's not a ship. I keep seeing a…myself…I keep seeing…oh, hell, for lack of a better word, let's call it a laboratory, where they are actually inventing these creatures. They are actually constructing animals from genes. Why would they be doing that? Can we do this yet…here and now? Like cutting up genes and then pasting them back together. You know, sort of like splicing plants…or grafting them, one to another…Interesting, it's like they are building eggs by injecting stuff into them with a mixture of DNA or gene parts of pieces.
He described these creatures as delicate-looking aquiline-featured humanoids, unclothed, in possession of a prehensile tail and large "doe-like" eyes. They seemed to be using some sort of light that McMoneagle had a hard time describing, but eventually described it as a "grow light."
Marrs got the impression that it was like someone tending to a garden, and planting seeds, but "there isn't any concern about the seeds after they are planted…It's simply like…well…put these seeds here and on to better and bigger business. No concern about backtracking and checking on the condition of the seeds. They can live or die, survive or perish." The session ended with him moving closer in time and perceiving these beings growing in size and ability, eventually becoming herding humans.
The surveillance of and interference with humanity is documented in the lore of almost all civilizations that have roamed the planet. Although some have called this mere 'interpretation,' it reminds me of people referring to the confirmation of spiritual and metaphysical realms as a result of quantum physics. It is simply labelled as an interpretation due to the fact that it upsets so many belief systems and long-held preconceived ideas.
The Takeaway
The story of human history has a lot of holes. From the UFO extraterrestrial phenomena to the discovery of strange skeletal remains, to the rejection of Darwinism all the way to the existence of intelligence ancient civilizations like Atlantis, and others that thrived possibly millions of years ago, we are like, as author Graham Hancock coined, a species with amnesia. But perhaps we are starting to remember. Perhaps our only two explanations are incorrect, or perhaps they're both correct, combined with other factors. The point is, what we've been told is not true, and the recognition of that fact will lead us on the path towards true discovery, and away from the concealment and manipulation of information and truth.
I'm not saying this is how humans are created, perhaps it is just some sort of glimpse into something much bigger that took place billions of years ago?
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Thousands Gather To Mark The 33rd Anniversary of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act
Government's gift to Pharma of liability-free vaccines puts children's health at risk states Children's Health Defense (CHD) Chairman, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Washington, DC – Thousands of advocates for children's health will gather Thursday at the Vaccine Injury Epidemic (VIE) Event on the National Mall to mark the 33rd anniversary of National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA). The rally on Nov. 14th will spotlight the devastating impact NCVIA has had upon the state of children's health. While children continue to be injured by vaccines daily, vaccine makers cannot be held accountable, thereby eliminating incentive for vaccine safety.
In his remarks, RFK, Jr. will address the ramifications of NCVIA and honor those whose lives have been impacted by vaccine injury and death. "It's time to call out Congress, the CDC, and drug companies for allowing industry profits to trump children's health," said Kennedy. "There is no crisis more urgent than the epidemics of chronic health conditions among our nation's children."
Following NCVIA's passage creating the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP), the childhood vaccine market sparked a gold rush for Pharma as more vaccines for routine childhood illnesses were developed. Coterminous with the burgeoning vaccine schedule, chronic health conditions in children rose from 12% to 54%. As vaccine industry profits grew to $50 billion annually, so did diagnoses of asthma, autism, ADHD, allergies, anxiety, depression, diabetes, obsessive-compulsive disorder and auto-immune diseases. Here are the facts:
- An HHS-funded study found only 1% of vaccine injuries are reported.
- Despite NVICP's high burden of proof and two out of three claims dismissed, over $4.2 billion has been paid for claims of vaccine injury or death.
- The vaccine-injured find NVICP to be a years-long, litigious program with no jury, discovery and precedent. While medical bills mount, the injured are up against DOJ lawyers and HHS "Special Masters" that act as judges.
- The Department of Justice and the NVICP are accused of fraud and obstruction of justice in the Autism Omnibus Proceeding.
- The Institute of Medicine reports that the vaccine schedule as recommended has never been studied for long-term health effects despite independent research suggesting that unvaccinated children are healthier.
- Modern medicine acknowledges that not everyone responds the same to vaccination and the "one size fits all" vaccine policy is not science based.
Children's Health Defense's created these six steps to vaccine safety. RFK, Jr. interviews are available upon request.
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Rockies' closer LaTroy Hawkins celebrates 1,000th major league appearance
LOS ANGELES — The applause inside the visitors' clubhouse was loud and sustained as the Rockies celebrated closer LaTroy Hawkins late Saturday night.
They also presented him with a signed bottle of Dom Perignon.
And why not? It's not often that a teammate joins a baseball fraternity that includes the likes of Mariano Rivera, Dennis Eckersley, Hoyt Wilhelm, Trevor Hoffman and Goose Gossage.
The 41-year-old Hawkins made the 1,000th appearance of his major-league career, becoming just the 16th pitcher to hit that magical mark. For the record, he has 124 saves and has pitched 1,428 2/3 innings in his career.

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Selleck, WA-Old School
Posted 11 April 2007 - 01:08 PM
the first time was me and a couple friends. and just like teens get, we were curious. so we went driving and werent bothering anyone. but then we drove passed this house and this lady came out screaming, swearing and chasing us with a shotgun. it is not something that happens very often. so we drove away.
the next time, we were driving passed the school and we saw this man in the window and he turned off the lights. we were a little freaked and we decided to turn off the car because our lights were really bright. so when we turned them off, we notcied that the guy was still in the window and was staring at us. when he noticed that we noticed him, he jumped back. and cameshooting out of the front door and starting chasing us. While he was chasing us, he was screaming help me! help me! so we stopped the car and asked what was wrong. he pulled out a knife and told us to let him in or he would pop our tires. so we just drove off really fast.
that was the final time we went there but its so weird because everytime we did go there, people were always out and around at 1 in the morning and who really chases after people. these arent just coincidences and thats crazy. someone please tell me why selleck is so scary.
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Posted 24 April 2007 - 07:21 PM
Is there someone in particular I could get permission from to do this...I don't want to be asked to leave.
Any help is appreciated.
Posted 26 April 2007 - 10:28 AM
WSPIRer, email me at email@example.com and we can see if it would be a good fit for us to meet up and look at the cemetary. I used to go there as a small child and have always been facinated with it. Just recently found it again after several failed attempts over the years. I have a friend in town who can help ensure our safety if we choose to go. I too want to preserve cemetary history.
I would like to know if anyone knows where the Selleck cemetery is...in the town of Selleck. I do cemetery transcriptions (photograph the headstones and write down details from them too) and submit them to www.rootsweb.com.
Is there someone in particular I could get permission from to do this...I don't want to be asked to leave.
Any help is appreciated.
Posted 07 July 2007 - 06:26 PM
Hi! I just barely heard about the town Selleck, and since you live there, I'm glad you were able to give some history of the town. A few weeks ago, my friend got off work late, but wanted to get some pictures of the historical school building after hearing about its history. He's always been real interested in local historical buildings like in Issaquah, Seattle, etc. He went out there with a friend and when he got out to take a picture of it, a man came running out yelling at him to leave, flood lights came on everywhere and he couldn't see. The man ran to him and grabbed him, and put a weapon up to him (I don't know if it was a gun or knife). Once he got away from this man, he got in his car and sped away. I'm just curious.. You say that you have never approached anyone with weapons or aggression, but here is a story of that. And that is pretty strange that some residents stay up at all hours walking around a school building, and with flood lights? Doesn't all this egg on teenagers to come back?
I realize this is a late reply to you. I have just renewed my interest in replying to some of these blogs because again we are being inundated with midnight visitors. As this was in Oct. I am not sure who it was who followed you. We do have neighborhood watch. The town formed the watch just after we moved in Feb of 2003. Police officers came out to a town meeting and heard our concerns. Their advise to us was the following. We were instructed to take license plate numbers and car discriptions, keep a log of what the activity was, call the police if necessary. Sometimes cars were followed to get the numbers. I doubt that anyone held a weapon to you, they may have come out of the building, yelled at you and a spot light was shown on you. In Oct at 9 p.m. it is pitch dark and most of the residents are home so to have an unidentified car pull up and stop in front of your house (yes a family does live in this building) would cause you to take notice. After having this done so many times, some with vandelism, some with rude behavior, some with obnoxious vulgar language, some with loud horns, peeling out, driving through the fields running over landscaping and destroying it, some with gravel sprayed all over vehicles, some approaching us yelling threats, using racial slurs, all for fun, excitement, and something to tell your friends we are very weiry of this behavior. So if you come out with nothing on your mind but to take pictures, fine, please try to do this in daylight hours, if we see you, we may come out to chat and answer questions. If it is after dark or like lately, 2, 3 or even 4 o'clock in the morning, we will do as instructed, take your license number, description and call it in. We'll let you explain it to the police. Let me ask you, how would you feel if someone pulled up in front of your house, stopped the car, got out, and started to take pictures at 9 o'clock or later. Night after night this goes on. What would you think, what would you do? We have no idea what the intent is. All of these stops are not picture taking excercies, most are more mischievious or harmful. Some who come to take pictures are trying to get pictures of ghosts, that do not exist. The figures that you see in the windows, and the shawdows you see behind the curtains and the voices you hear coming from the building are the resisdents who live there. They are a man, his wife, their 9 year old daughter (who this activity scares) and the residents older brother. The building is old and the houses are old yes, they will remain so as they are on the historic register. We just want peace and quiet after dark, not to be interrupted and awakened by those seeking thrills. Remember we are not driving to your residence, these folks are driving out of their way to our homes to bother us. Should we ignore them. I think not. I do know that if you were to drive around neighborhoods, yelling, cursing, taking pictures, etc in the incorperated areas at these hours, the police would be on you in a heart beat. So why should we be considered so different, because we live where we do? Also because this applies to the picture taking I just want you to know. Some graduates recently came out here in a limo and politely asked if they could get a picture in front of the school and were gladly accomdated. People come out here all of the time and take pictures, thats cool, I personally answer questions all of the time, if the people who drive the cars through stop to talk. I don't mind even late at night. I am sure I have spoken to some of you. I will say that after many late nights week after week of this we can get cranky and out of sorts, however I have yet to see anyone carry a knife, shotgun, or weapon of any kind. We are stepping up our neighbor watch activity and we are calling the police, our homes and neighborhood is important to us. Our childrens well being is important to us. We do not like that they are awakend and scared. I know that you think your motives were innocent and most likely they were, however after night after night of 2,3,4, or more cars coming through in singely or in groups, with either two or more people in them, yelling, honking, speeding, cursing, threatening, what would you do? Nothing? Wait to see what happens, wait for them to stop get out of the car, throw rocks, break windows, damage property, maybe even hit one of the residents in the building injuring them? Should we wait for this, No, I don't think you would either. For example last night, I was up late watching TV, about 2 a.m. I am hearing horns honking, I am thinking it is the neighbor, but then I notice tail lights stopped in front of the school. I get up to check it out and they speed off. About 2 minutes later here they come into the town again, drive around the block approach the school with the headlights off, what would you think? out for an innocent night of picture taking? When I approached they sped off, however I did get the license number and they were reported. Later at about 3 a.m. here comes another vehicle, speeding through town, speeding around the corner, luckily no one was in the road or they would have been hit. We were out there they did not stop. Do you think they were just out for an information seeking evening. So where is the happy medium? You want pictures, we are having our peace disturbed nearly every night. What is so hard about coming out in the daylight hours to get your pictures and ask questions that you may have? Do you all creep around downtown Seattle late at night taking pictures of historical buildings or Issaquah? And if someone was grabbed like you say putting what was thought to be a gun or knife next to them why was the police not notified. That is pretty serious. I think it was probably a flash light and I think the story was embellished to impress you. No one has ever been grabbed, followed maybe, had a spot light pointed at them, yelled at, approached to find out why they were there, maybe, but threatened? Grabbed? Please respect our town and we as the people who live here. Thank you for your time.
Posted 07 July 2007 - 07:40 PM
so I was in Selleck recently and I got online to look up history of the town just because it was creepy and fun to go! We didnt speed through the town we just drove through just to see the eerie school. Now I wonder why we were followed out of the town by a station wagon with his/her lights turned off? If you people like to answer questions about your town and want good people to come there why do people of the town chase them away. It makes for a good story and influences our friends to go out there to see what may happen to them. We were not visiting the town late at all, it was maybe 9 in the evening. I have always heard scary stories about the town and the people that live in it. For example: There is a noose hanging off the water tower. Why is there a noose of all things hanging in our cute little town? After reading all of this it just doesnt make any sense to me... I am just saying that when kids and teens are playing in the woods and there are approached by people of the town of selleck and told to get the BAD_WORD out of there. People are making this town to seem like its a nice place to go and visit but in reality I know people that have been chased out or had weapons drawn on them. I am just a citizen of a neighboring town that doesnt believe any of the grand things said about selleck.
I realize I am answering this late, however in light of the recent rise in late night activities by those of you who want to have FUN I feel it is time to answer some of these and set the record straight. You start off with because it is creepy. Why? because the school, and houses are old? This place is on the historic register because they are old and a national treasure. Part of history. You may not have been speeding through town, but it was 9 o'clock or after and in Oct it is pitch dark, and we do have neighborhood watch. So we watch and maybe you were followed so we could get your license number. That is part of our neighborhood watch, to get license numbers,so we can report any mischief. And did you stop to ask questions? No! You kept driving, why, because it was dark and you were scared. How do you think we feel when cars drive through town late at night. We have had many and not with innocent motives. That is why we are out there, to protect our property, and peace and quiet. If you would come out in the light of day and look at the water tower, you would see that this is not a noose, WOW imaginations. It is a rope that has broken loose. The rope was attached to keep the windmill from damage from strong winds. No one wants to climb up there and take it down, would you? The windmill was put up about 4 years ago after it was found in a field. It was added to the town as an attraction and is part of the history of the old mill on another part of the property. After being harrassed by many people driving into town at all hours of the night, after dark, we are stepping up the neighborhood watches. This has been going on for quite some time now. One or more cars sometimes as many as 4 and up to 8 one night come in at a time, stop in front of the school, yell, scream, honk their horns, curse, threatened, name call, calling out to the unseen ghosts, speed through town, drive through the fields destroying landscaping, throwing eggs, foodstuffs, rocks, breaking windows, disturbing our sleep, our peace and quiet, scaring the children who are awakened by these activities. The school is NOT haunted, a family lives in it. The voices you hear, people you see, shadows you see behind the curtains are the people who live there. They come to the windows when you who are seeking FUN stop or speed by honking hours and yelling. They are a man, his wife (who is Philapinno thats the accent you are hearing) their 8 year old daughter who is scared by these activities and the mans older brother. They are being harrassed because and only because they live in the building, they are thought to be the ghosts seen by many, how rediculous. They will come to the windows and yell out at you, show their spot lights on you. They are trying to let you know that real people live there. Just like you who were too scared to stop because you did not know what would happen, we are concerned by people driving into town that late at night, we do not know what their intent is, especially when there is more than one car at a time. For example last night, I was up late watching TV about 2 a.m. I hear honking, I look out to see two sets of tail lights stopped in front of the school. When I go out to check, the lady who lives in the school was already out there and the cars left. We were talking and about two minutes later here they come again. This time they drive around the block, approach the school with the lights off, just like you, we were concerned. Do you think they were just having innocent fun or up to something. We can't take the chance, we came out into the road, they sped off, however we did get the license number and reported it to the police. Later at 3 a.m. another car comes in, speeding through, speeds around the block and around the corner in front of the school. Lucklily we were out of the way and were not hit. This is what we are trying to avoid, someone getting hurt. Someone throwing things through the windows of the school possibly hitting one of the residents and injuring them. They are not ghosts, they are real people. Or running over a pet, or person just to have FUN..Let me ask you this. I am sure you live in a nice safe neighborhood, but maybe not. How would you feel if night after night cars would drive to your house specifically for FUN and honk their horns, yell, scream, curse, threatened, call out racial slurs, throw things at your house, speed, make noise, run over your lawn, get out of their cars approach your doors. Wouldn't you be scared? I know you probably thought you were not doing anything like this. However because it happens nearly every night we can't take the chance that just one of you is out sightseeing. Because the largest percentage of the cars are not. So we take the license numbers of all who come in late at night and keep a log of activity. We formed a neighborhood watch in Feb of 2003 because of this. Sorry if you think we are mean because we are protecting our property, families, and homes. Sorry if this is in the middle of the night and interrupts your FUN. You are welcome during daylight hours and if anyone is out side we would be happy to answer questions. You can see more in the daylight too. You may see that we are not so different from you. Remember we are not driving to your nieghborhood. These people are driving miles out of their way in the middle of the night to our neighborhood to harrass us and have FUN. You are coming here, we are not bothering you and we will protect our community, by taking license numbers, pictures, descriptions, and log activities and report these to the police. The police have recently decided to follow up on these reports and visit you parents with our concerns. So please, you are welcome to come out in the daylight hours to visit, chat, look around, take pictures. Remember we are like any other community, we have families, pets, lives and just like everyone else we like our homes, peace, quiet. If you come with anything other than good intentions sorry we are taking information and reporting any suspicious behavior. So be it, we are weary, this is not a new thing and has been going on long enough. We would like it to stop, so we can get on with our own lives just like you. I have lived here for nearly 5 years and what you are hearing about weapons is not true, think about it, if anyone was approached with a weapon or grabbed, don't you think they would have called the police, this is serious. Besides why would we risk retallation from someone who had a real weapon. Rumors are dangerous and we do not want to be victoms of rumors any longer. Also just so you know, because this town is on the historic register the owners of the property do keep it up, do keep the meadows mowed, landscaped, and attended to. Also they add features of a historic nature such as the windmill. We recently had to turn the lights off on the cross that was errected in memory of the owner of the property. His son, (who is the man who lives in the school with his family) put the cross up in memory of his father and people seeking FUN thought it was creepy and kept vandilizing it, so his memory of his father had to be turned off so as not to draw attention so vandals would leave it alone, how fair is that? Thank you for your time.
Posted 01 August 2007 - 06:52 PM
Well after having some time to read some of this thread I am happy to learn so much about this town. Like I mentioned I only knew about it 20 years ago when my friend died helping some other friends move and was electrocuted moving a CB antenna.
I had no idea of the history and am happy to hear that it has a nice small town. I had not idea that someone opened the town.
It is sad to hear about how others treat the town.
I hope to drive by some day just to see how it looks today.
Hey, Cmdr Starska: good to know we travel in overlapping circles. Hope your wife is doing ok. We missed you at the haunted house in 2006 and hope you and she are doing well. Maybe you can come out at visit us in Sammamish this year.
To the public at large:
I am pleased to know that such a simple query has received so much attention. Unfortunately, I fear a little too much attention:
Seattle Times Article, July 31, 2007 (Old mill town a vestige of the past )
I understand that folks have been coming out to Selleck for years before I ever wrote this original question on the net- primarily because I had exhausted my internet resources for information.
I was, however, glad to see that someone has taken notice of the town and offered a brief and revealing glimpse into its storied past. I have written off the interest in the building that has drawn so much attention to the "Fun-House Effect" that I originally cited. Unless there was something else before the town was founded, there is no lore that anyone has been able to cite that would support a heavy haunting such as I would have suspected from the feelings I got.
I sincerely hope that the town doesn't suffer significantly for the attention it has received. Truly, I hope that it prospers from good press and reputation.
So, if you read this (and yes, I know, you can't always re-cork a genii) please only show your best side to the folks of this little town in the foothills. If you're curious, talk to a townsperson or go to the historical society in Black Diamond. Above all, be kind and sane, and don't assume.
Posted 02 August 2007 - 04:55 AM
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Posted 30 September 2007 - 07:49 PM
Later that night we received calls from the cops saying they recovered a couple of our things from the men but not the camera and the story the men told the cops is that we were threatening them with weapons and they were the victims which makes no sense when u have 7 kids with no weapons on them and who are all emotionally shook and 5 hillbillies with guns and axes at their houses like we said.
For all the people from Selleck that blog on here and say that your normal people who just don't like being bothered:
People come to see you because you are CRAZY!
Instead of chasing down innocent people who simply enter your town and turn around and then pulling guns and axes and committing armed robbery while threatening our lives maybe you should simply walk over to the car as they enter your town and politely tell us that the land is private property and that you have had a problem with vandalism so can you please leave. We would have been more than happy to oblige and Im sure the majority of people will be . But I doubt you are capable of that because you guys instead insist on acting nuts when anyone enters your town which then makes people want to go back and tell other people to come and see the crazy crackheads who live there. You are not victims you are aggressors. People would probly come drive around my cul de sac if we always were outside ready for people and did other weird antics described in this blog by people of Selleck. YOU HAVE MADE YOUR CITY A PLACE FOR TEENAGERS WHO WANT EXCITEMENT
Also if I was you i would actually make a sign that says PRIVATE PROPERTY instead of just having some random white line on the road that means nothing to outsiders because we never knew it was private land until the police came. OR construct a gate with a keypad where anyone who lives there can type in the code and get inside but outsiders cannot.
Basically Selleck is a town that the world would be better off not having because i dont think you contribute to society in any way except committing felonies.
My Group of friends will accept APOLOGIES from the people in Selleck who happen to read this but most likely I will just receive DEATH THREATS from ignorant people.
I dont advise anyone to visit this town unless you wish to be murdered because the men said that we may have gotten away but the next people are dead and I believe it.
Anyone who was with me and reads this please add anything that I forgot cuz it was one crazy night that seems so surreal
Posted 02 October 2007 - 08:52 PM
Now I am sure that not everyone is like this in Selleck, but the five men there that night most diffidently were. They said that kids go there for fun( mind you, we did not do ONE thing. We barely got five feet into the town.), but what right do they have chasing us, pointing a gun at us, and dragging my friends out of the car. Why cant we through the oh they just did it for fun right back? They have absolutely NO justification for their barbaric actions. They were sick sick people who said they were doing it for Selleck, but in reality acted as if this was their entertainment for the night. Who does that?
People in Selleck are seriously creepy/crazy people. When they were yelling at us they said that they are like normal people living their normal lives . And I dont really doubt that, but Im sorry ..I have never met people who do these kinds of things.
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Posted 02 November 2007 - 12:50 PM
JK23- You are right- nothing can justify what these idiots did to you and your friends. These losers sound like they are looking for trouble and you came along at just the wrong time. You have a right to be on the road to Selleck, it is a county road. Also there are houses for sale along the route to Selleck, that any person has a right to look at. I am sure no one in Selleck designated that guy and his loser friends the "Guards" of the town. The problem is the people before you who vandalized and disrespected the area around the school. Now there are these idiots who see an opportunity to try to scare anyone who comes down the road. I don't blame the King County sheriff deputies who don't want to go back there after dark, would you? I was young once, and something like this would attract me and my friends just out of curiousity. I know that most of the people of Selleck are working people who just want to be left alone. I just hope no one like you or your friends become victims when these loser's want to take it to the next level. I am sure you are angry and would like to get revenge on these scumbags, but maybe this is a good lesson to learn and not return to Selleck. I am sure there is other illegal things going on back there that the scum of Selleck are involved in, so let them live in their own crappy world.
Ya there's nothing to argue...........nothing can justify what they did. And who seriously stands outside waiting for someone to come to to their town, thats just pathetic! Maybe they need to work more because it seems they have a little too much extra time on their hands that could be put to better use like spending time with your wife and kids
Edited by DukeofBoogie, 03 November 2007 - 04:30 AM.
Posted 03 November 2007 - 04:47 AM
It's been quite some time since this thread has dealt with anything paranormal. There's good info in here. People should definately take a look before heading out to Selleck. However, things have gotten off topic. I let it go for awhile hoping it would get back, but alas..... For these reasons, I'm locking this thread.
JK23, if your story is true, then what happened was wrong. If it where me, I'd have pressed charges. I've mention here before though, that people should really maybe consider staying out of Selleck after dark. A ghost hunt is not worth getting hurt over. There are other Haunted Locations, that are safer, and probably legal to visit. All it takes is a little searching, and sometimes a coulpe $$ to get in.
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Chris Brown's belated apology.
When I was at primary school I remember a particular teacher would often repeat the old adage "If you've got nothing good to say, don't say anything at all." Smart advice. Perhaps someone should have passed the message on to Chris Brown, who recently released an apology for the now infamous incident between himself and then girlfriend Rihanna.
In the two minute video, Brown, who pled guilty to the charge of felony assault in June, apologized to his fans and promised he was taking steps to ensure that his behavior will not be repeated. All the right words, but something is missing.
Perhaps, it's because I'm slightly cynical or because it seems as though he's reading from a prompter, or simply because it took six months to conjure up a two minute statement, or maybe because a few days prior he was photographed wearing a $300,000 necklace with the word "Oops!" hanging from the chain.
Brown mentions that his lawyers advised him not speak about the "incident" as he calls it, until all the legalities had been settled. Maybe its the skeptic in me but I couldn't help but agree with my boss when he said this was simply an attempt to win back support from sponsors,investors and more importantly the devastated teenage girls who are rapidly looking for another star to fill his spot.
Rewind to last month when Brown surfaced with another video of himself, a lot less apologetic, proclaiming that he wasn't a monster, while addressing the "haters". Oh and let's not forget his classy plug for a new album to be released-- right about now actually. Hmmmm, coincidence much?
Like I said before I'm a tad cynical, but let's be honest for those that read the very detailed police report it seems as though this was not the first time such an "incident" occurred, and who knows what would have happened if events hadn't unfolded under the spotlight.
Brown himself was raised in a home where domestic violence took place, in a 2007 interview with Tyra Banks he sounded as though his childhood experiences affected him greatly. "I treat them [women]differently," he said. "I know I don't want them to go through..or put a woman through what that person put my Mom through."
Sadly it could be a case of the cycle of abuse repeating itself, studies have shown that children who witness violence are more likely to be violent when they grow up than those who have not (The National Clearinghouse on Family Violence). It's also very easy to forget that Brown is only 20 years old. I am by no means justifying his actions, although he is a young man, he is still a man, still aware of his actions and the difference between right and wrong.
Although I'm not entirely convinced by his public plea, I hope that for his own sake he really is seeking some kind of help for his issues, to better himself and the teens who once idolized him. Instead of releasing videos via youtube perhaps he should take some more time off from the spotlight in order to battle his demons and if possible at a much later time attempt to salvage his reputation.
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Romney pitches to GOP fence-sitters
Mitt Romney has been courting Rep. Aaron Schock for months now. He even showed up as a surprise guest to celebrate the Illinois Republican's 30th birthday over what Schock described as "heavy hors d'oeuvres" at a private residence in downtown Chicago in May.
But Schock, one of about a dozen House members attending a meeting with Romney Wednesday, is still on the fence.
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Schock's reluctance to endorse — and the lingering questions in his mind about Romney — may help explain the larger story about why Romney has yet to seal the deal with GOP lawmakers and the Republican electorate as a whole.
The key question for Schock is whether Romney is tough enough to withstand the coming onslaught from President Barack Obama's campaign. That's how Schock frames his decision, and it's a question that is no doubt weighing on the other lawmakers slated to attend the Romney briefing Wednesday.
"What I'm going to be looking for from him … is what his response will be to the primary election attacks as well as the general election attacks that are going to be mounted if he is the nominee," said Schock, who professes to "know all too well" how Illinois-based Obama campaign guru David Axelrod can turn a quality candidate into mincemeat with a big bankroll.
"That's the Chicago style," Schock said of campaigns focused on tearing down the opponent.
While some high-profile conservatives have told POLITICO in recent weeks that they are willing to look beyond Romney's past positions on social issues — and his support for a Massachusetts plan that helped inform Obama's national health care law — no one is ready to look past the perceived weakness in any candidate.
There's too much at stake, and some Republicans fear that Obama could have success in portraying Romney as unprincipled. That's how Texas Gov. Rick Perry is attacking him now: "You can't lead a nation by misleading the people," taunts one Perry ad that highlights Romney's changing positions.
But as POLITICO noted this week, Perry's had trouble racking up endorsements from members of Congress, including Texas delegation members who have fought with him in the past over a variety of issues. According to a list compiled by The Hill newspaper, Romney had 31 congressional endorsements as of Oct. 18, Perry 10, Newt Gingrich five and Ron Paul three.
Most of the lawmakers POLITICO reached out to for this story declined to be interviewed — even meeting with a candidate can unintentionally give the impression of an endorsement. But it's an opportunity for Romney to make his case directly to a small group of lawmakers who are at least open to his message.


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How Does Aging Affect Cancer? Einstein Awarded $2.8 Million Grant to Answer NCI 'Provocative Question'
Professor, Department of Medicine (Pulmonary Medicine)
Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health
Professor, Department of Genetics
Focusing diagnostics and therapeutics on those most likely to benefit is a key to successful intervention at both the public health and clinical levels. The translational goal of the Spivack laboratory is to identify individuals at particularly high risk for lung malignancy, and selected non-malignant lung diseases, upon whom to focus smoking/toxin exposure cessation (primary prevention), chemoprevention (secondary prevention), and early disease detection efforts (disease screening, tertiary prevention).
The laboratory is currently exploring individual Gene x Environment signatures as susceptibility markers by exploring quantitative gene (mRNA) expression phenotypes, and the DNA sequence, methylation, microRNA, and other epigenetic features potentially underlying these expression phenotypes, in vitro and in human populations. This is performed in the setting of defined tobacco, diet, and other exposures. There are both mechanistic and translational components to the studies.
Mechanistically, the role of epigenetic variation in promoter regions in the 5' and 3' regulatory regions of carcinogenesis and oxidant pathway genes is being explored in vitro, using human genomic DNA reporter constructs, and native gene regulation models. High resolution technologies include the realtime quantitation of native mRNA and microRNA by the laboratory's RNA-specific strategy (patented); the tagged-bisulfite genomic sequencing strategy to determine single base resolution CpG methylation status (tBGS, patented); an experimental strategy for assaying microRNA binding to mRNA, for determining the role of miRNA in candidate gene regulation (patented); and evaluation of functional consequences of DNA methylation detail, using a novel patch reporter construct (patented). A new method to engineer methyl-cytosines into the epigenome has recently been developed.
Whole (epi)genome approaches to identify molecular events unique to lung cancer are being completed, which will represent one of the initial cross-platform 'omics level discovery examinations of lung tissues. The execution of each individual discovery platform involves expert local collaborators and cores in (epi)genetics and genomics, and the "integromics" is critically reliant on Einstein strengths in informatics and biostatistical analyses.
Translationally, human lung carcinogenesis biomarkers are being established by pairing laser capture microdissected lung with several unique, non-invasively collected surrogate specimens developed in the laboratory. These include mRNA expression signatures from brush-exfoliated buccal mucosa cells, microRNAs detected in exhaled breath condensate representing first reports for a new exhaled airway biomarker class, and exhaled metabolomic signatures. These airway-derived specimens continue to accrue from a sampling (currently n>1000) of a population assembled in a lung cancer case-control context. The specimens are being studied with a view toward developing non-invasive assays in populations.
The overall aim is to develop informative non-invasive risk profiling, preventive, and early disease detection strategies for the lung in human populations.
Work is funded by ongoing NIH, DoD, and Foundation support.
Clinical Specialties
Selected Publications, as of June, 2018:
Dong X, ShiN, LeeM, ToroR, Gravina S, Han W, Yasuda S, Wang T, Zhang Z, Vijg J, Suh Y, Spivack SD. (2018) Global, integrated analysis of methylomes and transcriptomes from laser capture microdissected bronchial and alveolar cells in human lung. Epigenetics 10.1080/15592294.2018.1441650, 2018.
Mullapudi N, Ye B, Suzuki M, Wang T, Fazarri M, Han W, Shi M, Marquardt G, Lin J, Wang T, Keller S, Zhu C, Locker J, Spivack SD. Genome-wide methylome alterations in lung cancer PLoS ONE, Dec. 2015.
Lin J, Marquardt G, Mullapudi N, Wang, T, Han W, Shi W, Zhu C, Keller S, Zhu C, Locker J, Spivack SD. Lung cancer transcriptomes refined with laser capture microdissection. Am J Pathology 06.028. 2014 .
Han W, Shi M, Spivack SD. Site-specific methylated reporter constructs for functional analysis of DNA methylation. Epigenetics 4; 8(11), 2013.
Shi M, Han W, Spivack SD. A quantitative method to identify miRNAs targeting an mRNA using a 3'UTR RNA affinity technique. Analytic Biochem 1;443(1):1-12, 2013.
Alberg AJ, Brock MV, Ford JG, Samet JM, Spivack, SD. Epidemiology of lung cancer. In Evidence-based Practice Guidelines. Diagnosis and Management of Lung Cancer (ACCP position statement). CHEST. May 2013;143(5 Suppl):e1S-e29S. doi: 10.1378/chest.12-2345. PMID: 23649439.
Tan XT, Marquardt G, Shi M, Han W, Spivack SD. High throughput library screening identifies phytochemical inducers of phase II mutagen/oxidant metabolism enzymes GSTP1 and NQO1 in human lung cells. Am J Resp Cell Molec Biol, 46(3): 365-71, 2012.
Brock GJ, Moschos S, Spivack SD, Hurteau GJ. The 3' prime paradigm of the miR-200 family and other microRNAs. Epigenetics (6:3, 1-5), 2011.
Tan XT, Shi M, Minna JD, Han W, Spivack SD. Candidate phytopreventive agent modulation of phase II metabolism enzymes GSTP1 and NQO1 in human bronchial cells. J Nutrition, 140(8): 1404-10, 2010.
Tan, XT, Wang T, Xiong S, Kumar SV, Han W, Spivack SD. Smoking-related gene expression in laser capture microdissected human lung. Clin Cancer Res, 15(24): 7562-70, 2009.
Han W, Tang T, Reilly AA, Keller S, Spivack SD. Gene promoter methylation analyses from exhaled breath, with differences in smokers and lung cancer cases. Resp Res, 10:86 epubl, 2009.
Tan X-L, Moslehi R, Han W, Spivack SD. Haplotype tagging single nucleotide polymorphisms in the glutathione S-transferase P1 gene promoter and susceptibility to lung cancer. Cancer Detection Prev,32:403-415, 2009.
Tan X-L, Spivack SD. Dietary chemoprevention strategies for induction of phase II metabolism: a review. Lung Cancer,65(2):129-37, 2009.
Hurteau GJ, Carlson AJ, Spivack, SD, Brock GJ. Restoration of E-Cadherin expression by over-expression of the microRNA hsa-miR-200c via reduced expression of the transcription factor TCF8. Cancer Res. 67:7972-76, 2007.
Hurteau, GJ, Spivack SD, Brock G. Parallel identification of miRNA and target mRNA by combined informatics and qRT-PCR approaches: application to has-miR-200c. Cell Cycle 5(17):1951-56, 2006.
Han W, Cauchi S, Herman JG, Spivack SD. Methylation mapping of DNA by tag-modified bisulfite genomic DNA sequencing. Analytic Biochem. 355: 50-61, 2006.
Cauchi S, Han W, Kumar SV, Spivack SD. Haplotype-environment interactions regulating the human GSTP1 promoter Cancer Res. 66(12): 6439-6448, 2006.
Kumar SV, Hurteau GJ, Spivack SD. Validity of mRNA expression analyses of human saliva. Clin. Cancer Res. 12: 5033-39, 2006.
Spivack SD, Hurteau GJ, Jain R, Kumar SV, Aldous KM, Gierthy JF, Kaminsky LS. Gene-environment interaction signatures by quantitative mRNA profiling in exfoliated buccal mucosal cells. Cancer Res, 64:6805-6813, 2004.
Spivack SD, Hurteau GJ, Fasco MJ, Kaminsky LS. Phase I and II carcinogen metabolism gene expression in human lung tissue and tumors. Clinical Cancer Research, 9:6002-6011, 2003.
Material in this section is provided by individual faculty members who are solely responsible for its accuracy and content.
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Aircraft carrier games thrown off by wet floor
The No. 4 Ohio State Buckeyes and Marquette Golden Eagles were set to tip off their seasons at 7 p.m. Friday on the USS Yorktown in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.
But any open-air game is subject to change.
The Carrier Classic was one of two aircraft carrier games to be called off Friday because of condensation on the court.
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The announcement was made nearly an hour after the game was set to start.
"In the best interest of the players, we're not going to play the game," Ohio State coach Thad Matta said on NBC Sports Network. "The condensation just keeps coming back."
Both Matta and Marquette coach Buzz Williams cited safety as the chief reason for deciding not to play the game. Players from both teams warmed up on the court for 20 minutes while officials waited for cooler temperatures to reduce condensation, but neither coach was comfortable after the period elapsed.
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Williams said he wasn't sure whether the game would be played at a later date, but he wasn't optimistic about the odds of finding another date.
"I don't know how we could reschedule it within this current calendar," Williams said.
How bad was the floor? Let Marquette forward Steve Taylor show you (thanks to Sporting News' Ryan Fagan for the video).
Probably not the best way to demonstrate the playing conditions after Williams harped on player safety, but we're sure glad Taylor pulled that move.
Georgetown and No. 10 Florida didn't fare much better. The Hoyas and Gators were able to get through one half at the Navy-Marine Corps Classic in Jacksonville, Fla., but the game was called after the floor started to resemble a Slip 'N Slide.
The canceled game won't count toward either team's record, according to Florida Today's David Jones.
Maybe now we can get back to holding basketball games in arenas.


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Our global economy has jumped from crisis to crisis, making it difficult for even the most powerful companies to turn a profit.
In order to survive, CEOs have had to completely re-evaluate their strategies — over and over again.
In a new report, "The Most Adaptive Companies 2012," Boston Consulting Group identifies what companies have fared the best in our turbulent economy, and how they did it.
BCG looked at 2,500 American public companies and found that demand, industry position, profitability, and market expectations have become increasingly unstable and volatile over time — and the trends are accelerating.
Overall, companies covered in the study grew their market caps eight-fold during stable quarters, but lost a full third of that value in turbulent times. The most successful companies were able to better adapt to economic conditions and bounce back.
BCG identifies four common behaviors of the most adaptive businesses, and gives examples for each:
- The ability to find signals in customer data, and use them to innovate in real time.
Target's vast customer data has allowed it to target people at inflection points, like marriage, pregnancy, or graduation, and boost sales, even through the financial crisis.
- Continuous experimentation, and rapid incorporation of their successes.
The way 3M generates new products, designating time for employees to innovate, providing multiple sources of internal seed capital, and accelerating successful experiments allows for rapid progress.
- An organization of flexible units, rather than a rigid hierarchy.
- The use of a variety of external partners while keeping a uniform company standard.
Companies like Sears — which was just dropped from the S&P 500 — and Blockbuster didn't respond to disruptive innovators, and have paid the price. Others, like JC Penney, have seen new strategies fall flat, and now they're playing catch up in a particularly difficult environment.


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MINNEAPOLIS -- Alex Wimmers is the latest Minnesota Twins pitching prospect sent for Tommy John surgery.
The Twins said Wimmers had the ligament replacement operation on his right elbow performed Thursday in Minneapolis by team physician Dr. Dan Buss.
The right-hander was Minnesota's first-round draft pick in 2010, out of Ohio State, but he has logged only 62 1-3 innings in the minors. He's been plagued by both control and arm problems. Wimmers made only two starts this season, one for the Gulf Coast League rookie-level team and one for Double-A New Britain.
Right-hander Kyle Gibson, the Twins' first-round draft pick in 2009, is also recovering from Tommy John surgery. His operation was last summer. Gibson recently began his comeback, with the Gulf Coast League affiliate in Fort Myers, Fla.


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With all the glitz and glamour she has encountered during her reign of (The) Fame, it's hard to believe that her rap lyrics are not about a day in the fabulous life of Gaga.
Gaga's producer, DJ White Shadow, prompted fans earlier this week via Tweeter to create lyrics for a "Trap" beat he mixed. Trap is a sub-genre of rap where an 808 Roland drum machine is used on the beat and vocals are resampled and the pitch is adjusted to extreme levels.
Extra bonus points for whoever writes a song about @ladygaga
— DJ WHITE SHADOW (@DJWS) September 19, 2012
The beat went up on his SoundCloud as he waited for the best song to roll in.
After a few hours later DJ White Shadow uploaded the finished song, claiming that the winner of the contest wished to remain anonymous.
The vocals were slow and slurred or pitched-down so that the rapper could not be identified. Cleverly, a random fan decided to re-upload the song, but with pitch levels adjusted back to normal revealing a female vocalist. It turned out to be none other than Lady Gaga, who had made her rap debut.
No one knows for certain if this track will be featured on her upcoming album ARTPOP. But one is for sure, this is just a slice of what's to come from the pop queen.
-Maria Bonello, 92.3 NOW/New York
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