We talked to quite a few doctors. The survival rate from that variant of cancer was rated very highly(depending on how quickly the cancer was caught). All of them said there’s no problem if the Chemotherapy was given.
My mom did have problems later on with regards to that but that was the side effect of the cancer treatment and her prior spleen removal. And some residual virus acting up because of the lack of immune system.
But that was nothing to do with the cancer treatment in itself.
We had run a lot of tests for mom when she had some issues later ( with her exhibiting Alzheimer’s like symptoms)
But it turned out it was with her lack of immunity w.r.t her spleen removal and immunotherapy worked pretty well.
Not saying it’s the case for every patient but @bekloppt , I see your posts regarding your mom. It might well be worth checking out her immune system. It might have just gotten compromised leading her to exhibit that particular behaviours.
A violin worth more than £150,000 was stolen from a London pub - with police appealing for help to find the 285-year-old instrument. The violin belongs to a member of the London Philharmonia Orchestra who was in The Marquess Tavern in Islington on 18 February when it was taken.
It was made in Florence in 1740 - and described by its owner as “incredibly precious” and “priceless”, the Metropolitan Police said. The owner, 30, reported the theft to police on the evening it was stolen - but it has still not been found. CCTV images from the pub show a man wearing a hat leaving with the instrument in its case.
PC Michael Collins, from the Met’s local policing team, said: “We’ve been working hard to try and locate the suspect and are releasing this CCTV in an effort to help identify them as soon as possible.”
SURPRISE! Bruce Springsteen has stepped in to pay for the funeral expenses and compensation for the families of the victims of the devastating Texas flash floods for their emotional and financial losses, leaving fans VERY EMOTIONAL…
"If you think Elon Musk has peaked, you don’t understand what’s coming."
Starlink is about to connect the entire planet with internet speeds up to 10 Gbps, that’s 50x faster than your average cable connection. No wires. No infrastructure. Just satellites and global domination.
Right now, Starlink already has:
• Over 6,000 satellites in orbit (largest satellite network in history)
• Coverage in 75+ countries
• Over 3 million users and growing
• Latency as low as 25 ms (good enough for gaming and trading)
• Revenue projected to hit $30-50 billion/year once fully deployed
Most people think Tesla made Elon rich.
Starlink will make him untouchable.
This isn’t just faster internet.
This is control of the digital gateway to Earth, every country, every remote village, every island, every plane, every yacht, every battlefield.
Billionaire Baloney ^^^
Where? When?
I imagine the tree was very old and therefore probably sacred. It has been known for trees to be cut down here.
Yeah, there was a book I read many years ago by Alex Kerr, it might have been dogs and demons, where he talks about the difference between the nature loving imagery in Japan and the extensive destruction of its environment, the stereotypical image of focus on presentation and the reality of their architectural designs which are often resulting in buildings that are just blocky, overly neon laden cases.
Yes, the idea of Japan being some kind of nature loving paradise is a standing joke among foreign residents in Japan. There’s hardly a river here that hasn’t had it’s banks and, in some cases also the river bed, covered in concrete slabs.
Whale meat again?
They don’t say what the school’s objection was. I’m going to bet that it was she wasn’t wearing regulation school uniform.
Schools in the UK are nothing if not needlessly petty.
I read this as ‘at Rugby school’. I’m pleasantly surprised to find it’s been co-ed for 30 years. British public schools moving into the twentieth century, what!
I wonder what the balance is between morality and financial in terms of becoming co-ed.
Story by Reuters
Two men were each jailed for over four years on Tuesday for cutting down Britain’s ‘Sycamore Gap’ tree, a much-loved and well-known global landmark whose dramatic silhouette had featured in a Hollywood movie.
The sycamore, estimated to be almost 200 years old, stood at the centre of a dramatic dip in the landscape alongside the historic Hadrian’s Wall in northern England, making it a popular spot for photographers, hikers and even marriage proposals.
Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, were found guilty last month of travelling from their homes in the middle of the night in September 2023 to deliberately cut it down with a chainsaw.
They filmed what prosecutors described as a “moronic mission” on Graham’s mobile phone and later bragged about it, before the pair’s friendship descended into acrimony as the widespread anger at their actions became clear.
Both had denied any involvement in the felling of the tree, which featured in the 1991 film “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves” and also damaged part of Hadrian’s Wall, built by the Romans almost 2,000 years ago and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Graham and Carruthers did, however, accept their responsibility when speaking to probation officers, their lawyers said. Carruthers’ lawyer Andrew Gurney described it as “drunken stupidity”.
Sentencing them to four years and three months in prison, Judge Christina Lambert told the men they had cut down the tree out of “sheer bravado”.
The National Trust, a heritage conservation charity which looks after the site, said last August there were signs of life at the base of the tree, giving hope it might live on.
Last week, the Northumberland National Park said the largest part of the tree would go on display in an installation located not far from where it once stood
Story by Alex Ross
Letting out a sigh, the experienced police detective who brought the Sycamore Gap tree fellers to justice momentarily mulls over the question put to him before turning back to the journalist.
“What do you think?” he asks, before repeating himself to the half-a-dozen-or-so reporters in the room: “What do you think of the value?”
Detective Inspector Calum Meikle is giving a media briefing before the much-anticipated sentencing of Adam Carruthers and Daniel Graham, after both were found guilty of cutting down the iconic tree that once stood tall on Hadrian’s Wall.
The smartly-dressed detective was in charge of the investigation that led to the conviction of the motley pair, and now he’s being put on the spot on the value of criminal damage given prosecution in court; £622,191 to be exact.
When another journalist in the featureless meeting room at Northumbria Police’s headquarters, on the outskirts of Newcastle, says he was shocked how high the figure was, Det Insp Meikle quickly responds “were you?”
Then, if anyone at the briefing needed an illustration on worth of the tree to the region, maybe to the world, the police officer, a son of a forester, delivers it.
“When you consider how famous that tree is, how much of a draw, it’s on the Hadrian’s Wall, it’s just up from The Sill [Northumbria National Park visitor centre], people would visit for numerous reasons,” he says.
“For a lot of people, it means so much, so can you really realistically put a tangible value on something like that?”
Det Insp Meikle might not openly say it, but there is a sense that this investigation mattered more than any other over his two decades in policing.
With his father’s line of work, running a private forestry company spanning the north of England, and his own knowledge of agricultural work, he was the perfect fit to lead the investigation.
While the world reacted in horror, then anger, over the chopping down of the famous tree, Det Insp Meikle admits he was under pressure to deliver; there was also, he says, “personal pride” involved.
Every family or social event he went to, the same questions would be asked.
“I think it would be fair to say that none of us really anticipated just how big this was to become,” he reflects. “I tried to put things to one side and make sure that I’m focused upon the task in hand.”
The investigation started with two arrests; a 16-year-old boy and a man in his 60s were arrested, before both were later told they faced no further action.
Then, around two weeks after the tree had been chopped down, a “single strand of intelligence”, probably a tip-off, came in. It named then-best friends Graham and Carruthers, and said they retained part of the tree.
Attention turned to the pair, considering their “capability and capacities”, before automatic number plate recognition cameras linked a vehicle with the area around the Sycamore Gap tree.
“The intelligence bore fruit,” says Det Insp Meikle.
Dawn raids were carried out on the pair’s homes. Carruthers lived on a yard at an old fuel depot connected to RAF Kirkbride airfield. Graham lived in a caravan just a stone’s throw from Hadrian’s Wall near Carlisle.
During the arrests, a mobile phone was discovered in one of Graham’s clothes pockets. On it, officers found a grainy video - a key moment in the case against the pair.
“When we first found it, it was just a black video with sound. However, once we had that enhanced, that then provided us with the shocking images that we’ve all now seen,” says Det Insp Meikle.
He adds: “As you can see from the video itself, it’s very apparent that as the person filming moves back, it shows us that fantastically famous outline of the tree and the stem that goes out to the right, and it is undoubtedly the Sycamore Gap tree, so… it was very pleasing to have that.”
The pair were calm in police interviews, neither would admit their involvement in the cutting down of the tree.
Carruthers later claimed that on the day of the damage, he had gone to a shopping centre an hour-and-a-half away with his newborn child and partner, before deciding to turn around and go back home.
Graham said he had been “stitched up”.
But over the months that followed, as more evidence piled up against the pair, the pressure began to show. Graham even reported his friend to the police on the eve of the trial. As they both gave evidence in court, it was clear the friendship was no more.
The jury didn’t take long to find them guilty.
“Sitting and listening to what they were saying only confirmed to me that my job had been successfully completed,” says Det Inp Meikle.
Job done, conviction sealed - but was there an ounce of frustration, no one still knows why they did it.
Bets gone wrong, a grudge against the authority and the tree being taken as a “trophy” for Carruthers’ newborn are just some of the theories put forward.
“I try not to get personally frustrated,” says Det Con Meikle. “I would say that the community, especially the local community, are increasingly frustrated in the fact that they don’t know why this has taken place, quite understandably.
“I am just happy to have delivered the two people that I know are responsible.”
Pushed on his own theory, Det Con Meikle remains professional and will not speculate.
When one journalist suggests that, as the two defendants cut down trees for a living, the prize of the Sycamore Gap tree was too irresistible, the police officer does respond.
“I would counter that in the fact that if you’re into that line of business, agriculture, you actually have a respect for nature and trees, so to then go and cut down one of the most famous trees would probably go very much against your line of work and your personal ethic.”
What next for the pair? They face a lengthy time in jail, but what about their lives?
“I think it’s dramatically changed their lives,” says Det Con Meikle. “Going forward, it’s up to them how they then make recompense for what they’ve done.”
And what about the law, and the protection of trees?
“This whole incident will raise further legislation,” says Det Con Meikle. “Because trees aren’t afforded the same protection that an ancient monument does. So whilst Hadrian’s wall is an ancient monument. The tree itself wasn’t.”
Graham and Carruthers were each jailed for four years and three months at Newcastle Crown Court on 15 July.
It’s a long sentence, but I would hope it would be a deterrent to others.
Maybe it’s time to start banging up property developers whose listed building magically burn down.
That 39 year old looks older than me!
