Certainly in his early days here he did; not so sure about the last 10 years or so. Anyways, thankfully Win is still with us from time to time and hopefully will be for many years to come.
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Yes, I'm still here cranking along, and I check in often to see if I can make a contribution. But more often than not I learn something interesting to save away in my computer.
I hope Jim returns, and am surprised his son took down his website, if that's what happened. Jim clearly meant to leave a legacy with his website, and worked to enhance it.
ed, though - as Mark Twain illustrated - they can't always be relied on.
They may have moved him into a hospice, and the hospice probably won't let him get online. The average length of stay (ALOS) in hospice for pancreatic cancer is 31 days.
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Pancreatic Cancer Facts
In 2018 an estimated 55,440 Americans will be diagnosed with pancreatic can cer in the U.S., and over 44,330 will die from pancreatic cancer.
Pancreatic cancer is the 3rd leading cause of cancer-related death in the U nited States surpassing breast cancer. It is expected to become the 2nd lea ding cause of cancer-related death in the US by the year 2020, surpassing c olorectal cancer.
Pancreatic cancer is one of the few cancers for which survival has not impr oved substantially over nearly 40 years.
Pancreatic cancer has the highest mortality rate of all major cancers. 74% of all patients die within the first year of diagnosis. The 5-year relative survival rate for people diagnosed at all stages of thi s disease is 8%. However, the 5-year survival rate for people diagnosed at an earlier stage with local disease is 32%.
Endocrine tumors, affecting 6% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, have a younger median age at diagnosis and better prognosis.
Few risk factors for developing pancreatic cancer are defined. The risk for cigarette smokers is nearly twice that for those who have never smoked. Fa mily history of pancreatic cancer, chronic pancreatitis, alcohol use, obesi ty and diabetes are risk factors. Individuals with Lynch syndrome and certa in other genetic syndromes, as well as BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers, a re also at increased risk.
Pancreatic cancer may cause only vague symptoms that could indicate many di fferent conditions within the abdomen or gastrointestinal tract. Symptoms i nclude pain (usually abdominal or back pain), weight loss, jaundice (yellow ing of the skin and eyes), loss of appetite, nausea, changes in stool, and diabetes.
Treatment options for pancreatic cancer: Surgery, radiation therapy and che motherapy are treatment options that extend survival or relieve symptoms, b ut seldom produce a cure. Surgical removal of the tumor is possible in less than 20% of patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer because detection is often in late stages and has spread beyond the pancreas. Adjuvant treatmen t with chemotherapy (and sometimes radiation) may lower the risk of recurre nce. For advanced disease, chemotherapy (sometimes along with a targeted th erapy drug) may lengthen survival. Clinical trials are testing several new agents for their ability to improve survival.
Pancreatic cancer is a leading cause of cancer death largely because there are no detection tools to diagnose the disease in its early stages when sur gical removal of the tumor is still possible.
*Source for statistics: American Cancer Society: Cancer Facts & Figures 201
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His legacy is his work. He should be remembered, in part, by being, apparently, the 1st to use/publish the differential pair mirror load turnaround circuit, used in billions of units, designs.
As Fred Bloggs has pointed out, pancreatic cancer is particularly likely to kill you, but Jim's was detected early, which puts him in the group with a better - though still not great - chance of eventual survival.
He'd have other things on his mind than his web-site if he has survived this long.
Your doubt isn't any kind of evidence, one way or the other.
The fact that he isn't in the driver's seat doesn't mean he is no longer with us. Applying Occam's razor to a lack of information is not very useful. Better to get more information.
I thought there were a number of folks here who were in contact with JT other than through this group? Has all communications come to an end? I would expect his family to return phone calls and perhaps even emails.
His son took ownership of, and has dismantled his web site. If Jim was coming back, this would not have happened, in my view. Based on that fact, and the lack of communications leads me to the rational belief that Jim has died. That's just the way I see it. There is nothing to debate.
You miss the point that no online presence is required to maintain a domain registration and website for quite some time. Domains are registered for a year or two at a time, websites remain up until there is some issue about payment, and even that may never happen when the hosting is free or arranged by someone else.
So being in a hospice or being in hospital is no direct reason to take down a website and much less to change the ownership of a domain. That normally happens only while cleaning up the affairs of a deceased person. His son transferred ownership of the domain on Aug 11th, which is reason to believe that Jim has deceased some time before that. (it certainly would not have been first priority to contact the domain registrar)
At first, the website still remained live. We do not know what caused it to go down, it may be a result of the hoster not receiving payment and it could be his son sometime gets around to paying and the website will come back.
After all, when he did not want to continue the website, he could just have cancelled the domain registration immediately instead of transferring the ownership. When it was Jim's desire, still alive, to take down the website it would make no sense to also change the domain ownership.
and he made it clear here that he wanted it to stay up for a good while. We discussed it.
Who knows why Aaron has chosen not to inform any of us, and I expect he would have known Jim wanted the site up - but I don't know. At this point I doubt we ever will.
I think the only thing we can hope for is that Aaron intends to continue the website but is in some conflict with the hoster, even without knowing it (the hoster sent a request for payment on a channel he does not know about, and shut down the site upon not receiving payment in time).
That might be resolved sometime, and the site may be back up.
At first I believed that the domain had again been transferred, this time to a domain squatter (i.e. it had been cancelled by the registrant and then re-registered by the squatters as usually happens), but now it looks like what happened is that the personal details of the registrant were removed from whois (as one can request these days) but it has not been transferred. It still is at godaddy.com and the updated-date has not changed.
Not sure if anyone else mentioned it, but the latest snapshot of JT's web site on archive.org (Sept 20, 2018) while it had the latest page link (Behavioral Spice Elements) added the contents (SecretSauce.html) had not been made available - "access was forbidden".
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