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Bruce I have just read your post, I will be adding my prayers with those here. May you receive God healing touch!
That is great news and I'll pray that you are accepted into the program. One day at a time.... Happy Holidays to you and your family.
Bruce, the following article was on the CTV online news here in Canada, this evening. Thought you might find this interesting.
Here's a link to the article.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/new-therapy-hopes-to-slow-deadly-form-of-brain-cancer-1.2702024
And the article itself, below:
New therapy hopes to slow deadly form of brain cancer
Denis Raymond hardly goes anywhere without his backpack.
But it isn't any ordinary bag: it contains a device called the Optune, which connects to wires that run along the inside of his shirt, and are attached to electrodes on his head.
The technology creates a small electromagnetic field that is directed towards the brain and is being tested for the treatment of a form of brain tumour -- glioblastoma -- which sees most patients die within one to two years of their diagnosis.
Raymond, who was diagnosed with the fast-spreading cancer more than two years ago, signed up for a trial of the device after receiving traditional treatments.
The math teacher needed to shave his head in order to attach the six electrodes, which deliver the low-intensity jolts of electricity that doctors hope are disrupting the division and reproduction of cancerous cells.
Besides lugging around the backpack, and dealing with the large batteries that last only three hours, Raymond says the device is "non-invasive" and he doesn't "feel a thing when it's on."
And in his case, the results have been positive. Patients with glioblastoma are typically given 15 months to live, but Raymond has outlived that prognosis by 13 months. He also still works as a math teacher, and has a maintained an active lifestyle that includes hiking and biking.
"The doctors, every time I meet them, they say nothing new: 'You're doing awesome. Everything is good, keep doing what you're doing,'" said Raymond.
"As it stands there has not been a change in the past year."
Raymond is one of nearly 700 patients with glioblastoma who was involved with trials of the new electromagnetic therapy.
A study funded by Novacure, which produces the Optune, found that 315 patients involved in the trials, who also underwent traditional chemo-radiation therapy, saw "significantly prolonged progression-free and overall survival."
Dr. Garth Nicholas, an oncologist at the Ottawa Hospital's Cancer Centre who led the Canadian arm of the trials, said the device gives physicians "another option" for patients with glioblastoma, which he described as "very difficult" to treat.
"This is a field where there are infrequent advances in treatment, and where it is rare to have a new development that improves the survival of patients. Anything in that regard is certainly welcome," said Nicholas.
The study indicated that the device adds on average about three months to a patient's life expectancy, results which Nicholas classified as "modest."
"It is far from being a cure, but it is another step in the right direction and some patients truly benefit," he said.
But for people like Raymond, a few extra months could make a huge difference.
"When you are looking at -- with the best treatment -- a medical survival of 15 months, three extra months is very significant," he said.
Nicholas said the device could also prove to be useful in the treatment of other forms of tumours.
"There is no reason to expect that this will not potentially work for other types of tumours, and we are on the brink of a whole host of studies that will look at this device in other cancers," he said.
Bruce. So good to hear from you. Know that you are always in our thoughts and prayers.
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Microsoft sets stage for massive Windows 10 update strategy
Credit: Microsoft
Uses updates to enable -- and re-enable -- Windows 7 and 8.1 PC's for next move: auto-downloads of Windows 10 upgrade bits
By Gregg Keizer
Computerworld
January 7, 2010
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Microsoft has been preparing Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 PCs for a more aggressive Windows 10 upgrade strategy that the company will kick off shortly, according to the developer of a tool that blocks such upgrades.
"Over Thanksgiving weekend I started getting reports that the Windows Update 'AllowOSUpgrade' setting was getting flipped back on on a number of peoples' PCs, and it keeps re-setting itself at least once a day if they switch it back off," said Josh Mayfield, the software engineer who created GWX Control Panel. The tool was originally designed to make the "Get Windows 10" (hence GWX) applet go away after Microsoft installed it on consumer and small business Windows 7 and 8.1 PCs starting in March, then activated in June.
"This is new behavior, and it does leave your PC vulnerable to unwanted Windows 10 upgrade behavior," he said.
Mayfield has been tracking Microsoft's various moves since last summer to keep his GWX Control Panel up to date with new features required to block the upgrade from appearing on PCs, and from automatically beginning the install process.
The latest update to GWX Control Panel, which shifted the version number to 1.6, added background monitoring so that users did not have to repeatedly relaunch the app to detect changes in Microsoft's upgrade strategy. Mayfield released GWX Control Panel 1.6 -- which is a free download -- on Nov. 24.
Concurrent with the release of GWX Control Panel 1.6, Mayfield began hearing from users that their PCs were being switched from a "do-not-upgrade-to-Windows-10" status to a "do-upgrade" state, often multiple times daily.
In an interview Friday, Mayfield said that the Windows 10 upgrade setting switcheroo on Windows 7 and 8.1 PCs was apparently due to continued updates that Microsoft has shoved onto the older devices. The Redmond, Wash. company has repeatedly re-served its original GWX app to PCs, often with undocumented changes, even if the machine already had the app, or even if the user had managed to uninstall it previously.
"Microsoft has released this update several times," said Mayfield. "It doesn't change the name of the update, but every version is new, with new binary files."
Also in play, said Mayfield, were updates to the Windows Update client on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 PCs that Microsoft has also pushed to customers: Windows Update was refreshed last week for both Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.
Documentation for the Dec. 1 updates to Windows Update did not spell out all the changes, but did state, "This update enables support for additional upgrade scenarios from Windows 7 to Windows 10, and provides a smoother experience when you have to retry an operating system upgrade because of certain failure conditions. This update also improves the ability of Microsoft to monitor the quality of the upgrade experience."
There's more to those updates than that, Mayfield argued. "They're telling [the PC's] Windows Update client that this computer can be upgraded to Windows 10," Mayfield said. "[The Windows Update client] is constantly checking settings several times an hour. It's fully aware of the Windows 10 upgrade."
The Get GWX updates and the more recent refreshes to Windows Update on Windows 7 and 8.1 are running in tandem, Mayfield said. "They're working together," he argued. "They're laying the groundwork for something."
That "something" is likely the next step in an unprecedented scheme by Microsoft to boost adoption of Windows 10.
In late October, Terry Myerson, the Microsoft executive who runs the Windows and devices teams -- dubbed the "More Personal Computing" group -- outlined how Microsoft would try to convince users of Windows 7 and 8.1 to upgrade to Windows 10. Rather than wait for customers running the older editions to request a copy of the new OS -- the original idea from the summer -- Microsoft will instead begin to automatically send the upgrade to PCs via Windows Update, the default security maintenance service.
The new push will be a two-step process, with the first kicking in this year, the second in early 2016. First, Microsoft will add the Windows 10 upgrade to the Windows Update list on Windows 7 and 8.1 systems as an "optional" item. That list can be examined by users, letting them choose -- or not -- each optional update.
Sometime next year, Microsoft will shift the Windows 10 upgrade from optional to the "recommended" list. Updates on that list are automatically downloaded and installed on most PCs.
While the Windows 10 upgrade delivered as a recommended update will automatically begin the installation process, the user will be able to refuse the OS change early in the process. "Before the upgrade changes the OS of your device, you will be clearly prompted to choose whether or not to continue," Myerson promised in October.
Microsoft is counting on a large portion of users to allow that upgrade to proceed.
Many Windows users, however, are not yet ready to upgrade to Windows 10, and are tired of being bombarded with the nagging messages to change operating systems. That includes Mayfield, who wants to remain on Windows 7, a desire that prompted him to create GWX Control Panel.
Because he's been closely monitoring how Microsoft force-feeds the upgrade to Windows 7 and 8.1 devices -- necessary to keep his app in step with Microsoft's changes -- he's become an expert on what the company has been doing, often surreptitiously, to prepare PCs for Windows 10 and execute its "get-Windows-10" game plan.
By monitoring his own test PCs -- eight all told -- and from the reports he's received from GWX Control Panel users, Mayfield has concluded that Microsoft is manipulating Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 PCs with behind-the-scenes changes, part of its effort to ensure Windows 10 ends up on as many devices as possible.
Microsoft's original GWX app, for example, does more than just display an icon in the Windows 7/8.1 taskbar and let customers "reserve" a copy of the Windows 10 upgrade. "It's pushed down three different processes that each had different jobs and were unrelated to the icon," said Mayfield Friday. Currently, his GWX Control Panel monitors 10 different Windows settings that may leave a Windows 7/8.1 PC "potentially vulnerable to unexpected Windows 10 upgrade behavior," Mayfield wrote in a Nov. 26 guide to his app.
Microsoft keeps changing those settings, sometimes adding new ones, without the user knowing, Mayfield said. For example, users have reported that their prior GWX Control Panel settings have been overridden by recent updates from Microsoft. In some cases, even Mayfield has been unable to figure out which components of Windows 7/8.1 were responsible.
It's unknown whether Microsoft has, in fact, begun placing the Windows 10 upgrade on older OS-powered devices as an optional item in Windows Update. Microsoft has declined to provide more information than what Myerson gave out on Oct. 29 about the timetable for the upgrade hitting Windows Update. "We will soon be publishing Windows 10 as an 'Optional Update' in Windows Update for all Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 customers," Myerson said five weeks ago [emphasis added]. "Early next year, we expect to be re-categorizing Windows 10 as a 'Recommended Update.'"
The lack of reports online, including on Microsoft's own Windows 10 support forums, argues that the company has not yet started adding the upgrade to Windows Update on Windows 7/8.1 PCs.
The first move may happen as soon as Tuesday, Dec. 8, which is the month's already-scheduled "Patch Tuesday," the day Microsoft historically serves up security updates. Microsoft often uses Patch Tuesday to deliver other, non-security updates.
In Mayfield's eyes, the background machinations conducted by Microsoft's GWX app and the recent changes to the Windows Update client on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 systems are clues that the company is preparing for the upgrade reaching the optional list.
The GWX Control Panel app can be downloaded from Mayfield's website. While the app is free, Mayfield does accept donations from appreciative users via PayPal. But he's not getting rich from those donations. "I get a donation from about one in every thousand downloads," he said Friday.
When users allow GXW Control Panel to run in the background, what Mayfield called "Monitor Mode" -- and which debuted in version 1.6 -- the app detects any behind-the-scenes changes Microsoft makes to Windows 7 or 8.1 to grease the wheels for the Windows 10 upgrade. Users can then use GWX to restore the PC's settings to a "do-not-upgrade" state.
GWX Control Panel detects any changes to a Windows 7 or 8.1 PC that Microsoft has made to enable an upgrade to Windows 10. Version 1.6 now watches in the background for those changes.
Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld.
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3012278/microsoft-windows/microsoft-sets-stage-for-massive-windows-10-upgrade-strategy.html
Good to hear from you. You sound much better albeit long way to go. Hope you get in the program and fully recover.
Thanks again for the good advice.
Mery Christmas and Hope you and your family have a Happy New Year.
Get Well!!!!!
Go Bless!!!
Long time here, too, Bruce .. thank you again for this one ..
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=46306163
MSE is the only one i've used since and all smooth sailing .. my computer guy also
suggested laying off Windows 10 for sometime, and am, so also thank you for this one
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=118954635
seriously, no idea why i happened to come here first thing today, lol,
one of the best mysteries of life for me lately .. damn glad it happened
oh, and reading of bride Karen, .. excellent, please, say hi .. enjoy, Daddy Cool
" Good Morning, EarlyRiser ~ good to seeya posting " .. !!
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2972298/microsoft-windows/10-reasons-you-shouldnt-upgrade-to-windows-10.html
Almost shutdown my computer access to many files. Good thing I could remove 10 after loading it.
Would like some feedback on windows 10 before I download it.
Thank you
What a fantastic surprise
and you sound so good, look forward to having you back in 2016.
Say hello to your wonderful bride for us.
Bruce,
You and I have only exchange emails 2-3 times in the last several, years. BUT, you have always been there to help me. Thank you again.
My prayers and best wishes are for you and your family.
Jake
Our thughts and prayers are with you. Thank you for the update. Feel free to share with the group or dont share- whatever works for you.
Duncan
Thoughts and prayers are with you...
Best wishes and good luck, you have been in our prayers.
Bruce, I do hope you are able to get into the Shands Hospital research program. You sound so much better now than you have since your illness began. We all trust your future news will positive. Our prayers are with you. . .
Newly
I will say that the chemicial and radioactive treatments
I have been taking since Feb have been keeping me tired and off key response to my environment. I have now been off that standard treatment for 6 weeks and have a more solid ability to write.
Going to see a surgeon from Shands Hospital in step one of the starting the research case of this disease.
BT
Bruce, it's good to see you here. My Christmas wish for you is that you do indeed get into the Shands research program and that a year from now you can tell us all how much better you are feeling.
Cush
Hi Bruce...So great to read your note and the update. It's terrific you have a good chance at the reasearch program. I will keep praying for you and Karen and send wishes for a wonderful Christmas season. Let 2016 be the year you beat this cancer!
Bruce, how great to hear from you. You sound much better than last time you posted. I sincerely hope you get into that research program right across the street, as I believe the Duke program had much success. This gives you a second shot at a total reversal of your prognosis. We are all pulling for you and miss you. Very best of luck. . .
Newly
Bruce. You can always pm me and I can call you but please watch first.
I have ZERO faith in the current medical propaganda machine that worships $$$$$$$$$$$$ instead of healing.
Please watch ...............
http://www.cureyourowncancer.org/
The Rick Simpson Story: Healing Cancer with Cannabis
That's great news Bruce, I hope and pray that that will happen.
God speed buddy!
Good to here from you Bruce, hang in there my friend, we're all praying for you.
" Bruce, Thank you so-much ~ Odds do-seem to be in your favor ...
Many Prayers for ya, my friend .. !!
Great to hear from you Bruce. We are all pulling for you.
Has been a long time since I have posted
My health is currently at the end of treatment as it has reached the point where treatment severely damages the body's anti-infectious ability to function. Sometime during the next 4 months the cancer should return with a double in size for each two week period. Max time 4 months. 15,000 diagnoses per year and 15,000 die within 14-19 months. Zero survivors.
As for the Duke research program, it ends this month and I never had the recourance that would have gotten me in there. I currently am being seen by the VA hospital. The incredable news is that right across the street is Shands (University Of Florida) Hospital who hired a doctor who was on the Duke cancer research for my cure and he will be starting Shands' research program for my disease next month. There is a serious chance he will take at the original $700K worth of paid for treatment me as patient #1 and start me in January. They have the first 5 months worth of my records and The odds are that I may actually survive.
I want to thank every one of the over 500 members who are watching this site for my progress. I will try to keep the site up to date on my progress.
Thank you folks
Bruce Thompson
Nemmind. Solution was simple after all. Went to Pictures, picked out one of my many scenics, clicked it to post it as wallpaper and wah-lah . . . (yes I know) there it is. Problem solved.
Once again damn Bing stole my home page. I have battled it and gotten Firefox back, it wasn't easy for me. But now my wallpaper is blank, a black page. I am easily confused. How do I simply regain control of my wallpaper?
Thank YOU!!!!!
I send her the link.
Hopefully she does or someone here posts the link.
Thanks for letting me know.
I don't have FB account either. Not sure if Bruce's wife checks this board for him.
There are several good articles in the link you posted.
I don't have Facebook or I'd post this link .............
https://www.google.com/#q=cannabis+brain+tumor
I'm going to try to keep this short .............
I'm not saying it's a sure thing but I am saying the odds with cannabis is not only greater you aren't feeding your body such high dose of poisons your hair falls out.
One of those links even the government admits cannabis works which is something they no longer can deny.
Problem is there is a propaganda machine operated by the US government to protect Corporations and the Cancer Treatment CASH MACHINE that has been in operation for way to long.
I could go on and on but EDUCATION is the key!
I hope someone will post the link there.
Thanks ciciagt, I'm still going to hold out hope.
For those interested in following Bruce's cancer fight, here is a FB post by his wife today.
Karen Forsythe Thompson
Today at 4:06am
Good news! Bruce's blood work came back good enough to do one more round of chemo! Praise God! His Dr says any more chemo after this will cause more harm - complete loss of hs immune system- than good. We know that once the chemo stops this aggressive deadly cancer always comes back, so we are thankful for this extra month. Your prayers, calls, cards and visits help us so much. Bruce's spirits are good, but he is unable to much, he is weak and tires easily. We appreciate all your prayers, we put our trust in God, knowing He holds us close to Him, and He gives us the strength to fight this battle.
https://www.facebook.com/Bruce-Thompson-Glioblastoma-Fight-725371917561421/
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Correct on the voltage and amperage concerning a power supply but the battery longevity is based on the battery mAh rating. With the higher power supply amperage the battery may charge faster but not last longer.
Thank you, Dan!! I did some quick research and found this which reiterates what you just said:
Current too high – If the adapter has the correct voltage, but the current is higher than what the device input requires, then you shouldn’t see any problems. For example, if you have a laptop that calls for a 19V / 5A DC input, but you use a 19V / 8A DC adapter, your laptop will still get the 19V voltage it requires, but it will only draw 5A of current. As far as current goes, the device calls the shots, and the adapter will have to do less work.
As long as the voltage is same it should not be a problem. The laptop will only draw as much amperage as it needs. The new battery will probably last longer due to the increase in available amperage.
I purchased a replacement power supply for a Dell 1525 laptop on eBay. The power supply that came with the laptop is 19.5V & 3.34A. The power supply the eBay vendor sent me is 19.5V & 4.62A.
How bad will the new power supply fry my Dell 1525 laptop?
Here is the link to a picture from today ...
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=895836783833524&set=o.725371917561421&type=3
Darn it, I'll get a card out tomorrow, thanks.
The latest on FB site for Bruce:
Karen Forsythe Thompson
September 23 at 4:13am
Bruce's MRI was for the most part good. No sign of a tumor coming back, just a little more cancer around where they took out the first tumor. The bad news are his blood counts. He barely qualified for the next round of chemo that starts Thursday. His blood is crashing, the Dr. felt this will probably be his last chemo treatment. The rest is all very grim. Thanks for all the prayers and also for remembering Bruce's birthday this Friday P.O. BOX 333 Trenton, FL 32693.
https://www.facebook.com/Bruce-Thompson-Glioblastoma-Fight-725371917561421/timeline/
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