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Officers' Quarters: The great raid size debate, part 2 {WoW}
Nov 9th 2010 11:48AM OS-3D-10m ... originally that was much much harder then the 25 man version by a HUGE margin. So yes, Blizzard can make 10's harder then 25's. People seem to conveniently forget that 10's now are tuned easier then 25's cause they drop a lessor tier of gear.
Consider 10m hard modes vs 25m normal mode. Which is easier? the 25 man normal without a doubt.
If the difficulty is _exactly_ the same the question will come down to "how hard is the content". If the content is silly easy, then 10 mans will be the way to go. If the content is hard, as it should be, then 25 mans will be the way to go.
Why? cause in 10's individual performance is more crucial then in 25's. In 25's, there are more players around to carry your sorry ass ergo making success more likely. In a 25, I really don't care that 3 window lickers are eating dirt ... in a 10, having just one of my healers down makes a big difference.
Lichborne: The lowdown on diseaseless blood tanking {WoW}
Nov 2nd 2010 8:10PM "I'm surpised at how much agro I can hold sometimes with D&D, strikes, and the big red explody thing."
More Big Red Explody things ... please! Well Played DK Tank + My Frost Mage + Ramps + Multi-pack pulls = screen covered in yellow floaty numbers.
Level 61, Ramps, circular area between bosses ... tanks got 3 packs + pat and I nearly hit 3k dps ... it almost brought tears to my eyes :-). So for the love of all that is good ... more BB's and D&D and spread the DS love around so I can go balls to the walls AoE DPS ... please :-)
Lichborne: The lowdown on diseaseless blood tanking {WoW}
Nov 2nd 2010 8:02PM "Why are people spending SO much time and effort trying to avoid using what is, arguably, the core concept of the the class?"
Why do you care what a "core design concept" is anyways? Design != Reality in a lot of cases. The "Tanks" job is to ... well ... TANK. If they can do a better job tanking without using diseases then for the love of God don't try to discourage them.
So yea, nobody but the Dev's care about "core concept" ... the only "core concept" that players really care about are the main goals of the game: Kill Shit, Don't Die ... nuff said.
Officers' Quarters: The great raid size debate {WoW}
Nov 1st 2010 7:41PM "This statement alone is reason enough why 10mans >>>>> 25mans for cataclysm"
Not really. 1 crappy person in a 25 man raid is 4% of an issue. 1 crappy person in a 10 man is 10% of an issue. So crappy people are a BIGGER issue in 10 mans.
Also, your choices are more limited, class wise, in a 10 man. Although Blizzard states that they want you to be able to do an raid with 4 druids, 4 pally's and 2 rogues, I doubt you will be doing any progression with that sort of a make up.
In 25 mans, 1 mage + 3 locks vs 3 mages + 1 lock is not much of a difference. In a 10 man, 1 mage + 1 lock vs 2 mages vs 2 locks is going to be vastly different.
So yea, 10 mans where tuned easier cause they were designed for a Tier lower gear ... plus the fact many folks take higher tier geared back to 10's which gives them an even more bias slant towards 10's being easier.
I have the OS3D-10 achievement, gotten back when it was hard ... and it was HARD. If they tune the 10mans' like that, this change is not the death to 25's ... it's death to 10's.
Cataclysm raid progression update {WoW}
Oct 26th 2010 6:45PM Why down vote the guy? It's a legitimate complaint, people don't like to run content, they just want welfare epics.
On the flip side, just because there is gear progression doesn't mean you have to follow it. Skill > Gear and if you can avoid standing in fire, spec correctly, use your abilities correctly, and don't make the same mistake twice, you don't *have* to be fully in dungeon blues to do dungeon heroics ... and you don't have to be in full dungeon heroics to normal raids, etc, etc.
That's the way it's always been. Back when we got server first for Kara, a good chunk of our gear was green ... where as other guilds continued to fail even after they were fully blue'd out.
Granted, Blizzard does put in "Gear Check" bosses at which point you have to have the gear ... but having said that, great guilds need far less gear then window licker guilds (yea, I went there).
Officers' Quarters: Scorched by raider burnout {WoW}
Oct 26th 2010 1:06PM There is a world of difference between "hardcore" and "casual", but in this case, to stop after Lady and not do Lootship? That brings casual to a WHOLE new level considering lootship is easier then Marrow or Lady.
Even though the guild is supposedly _casual_, I would venture to guess that more then the new guy want to go farther then 2/12 in ICC at this stage of the game. I think that's the real problem ... defining exactly what _casual_ is.
Is _casual_ doing 2/12? is it doing 6/12? is it not raiding at all? is it doing doing 10's instead of 25's?
Does _causal_ mean you don't bother with fish feasts or flasks? Does _casual_ mean you can bring a PvP spec to the raid? Does _casual_ mean that if you wipe more then twice your calling it cause it's just not really that important?
Casual vs Hardcore ... I think those are just PC terms used when you don't want to take responsibility for your actions ... or you want to disparage another group.
Officers' Quarters: Raiding addons aren't optional {WoW}
Oct 19th 2010 1:34PM Y'all going about this in the wrong way by trying to tell the user: Curse is Safe.
Regardless of whether it is or isn't, that's not going to work.
What will work? Having somebody he trusts sending him a file with all the addon's he needs to run. It's really that simple. If he won't take a file from the Guild Leader or the Raid Leader or an IRL friend, then his issues are deep seated and you pretty much need to write him off.
Arcane Brilliance: Getting your mage up and running in 4.0.1 {WoW}
Oct 18th 2010 12:04PM Wow .. why down vote a perfectly good question? You guys are morons (mostly).
Before the patch I was around 30ish and was abusing Dungeon Finder + Blizzard + Permafrost .. great fun and big numbers. After the patch, no more blizzard ... no more mage armor ... no more mana gems .. no more fun.
Tried both fire and frost and during those 30-44ish range, I had serious mana problems. Turns out that Hot Streak / Brain Freeze are both TERRIBLE talents to take in that range. Why? cause mana starved mages need AM proc's for the free damage. This happened faster for fire cause hotstreak is lower in the tree then brain freeze.
So the answer to the question is not necessarily what is the *best* spec, but more: what talents to I avoid at first? Answer: Brain Freeze or Hot Streak ... at least at the start.
With Frost, once I got a couple of points into enduring winter, I no longer had severe mana issues, and ergo, was able to take Brain Freeze and enjoy the harder hitting free proc's (which are still few and far between) instead of needing the constant AM spam.
Patch 4.0.1 not only changed the end game, it changed how we get to the end game and the difficulties along the way. So yes, there is a huge need for a leveling spec guide, the type that says: Spec A for 1-2x, Spec B for 2x to 4x, Spec C for 4x to 8x, etc, etc.
So while a level 80 spec is pretty cut and dried, getting to level 80 is a different story with different challenges along the way.
Drama Mamas: Transgender bullying {WoW}
Oct 15th 2010 2:48PM Why does it matter if somebody calls you a girl or guy?
Coming out, Staying in ... that's a personal decision and really not something for a video game. If you feel some *need* to come out, that's a personal issue. If you are happy with who you are, then there is really no need to "correct" somebody else when they mistake you for a he/she/dog/cat/cow/manbearpig.
I am sure folks are going to vote me down, especially the activist GLBF group (or whatever the initials stand for) which is really sad. Why? cause it always seems that the groups that preach "tolerance" of others are generally the most intolerant group of all ... to the point of being labeled "extremists".
The point is, if your comfortable with who you are, there is really no need to push it into the face of other people. I don't react to the color of a persons skin when I meet them, but I do react to how they speak, dress, and act. If somebody is going "out of their way" to speak, dress or act differently to prove some point, or make some statement that spells trouble to me.
You don't have to "hide in the closet" but in general, what you pull out of the closet to wear should fit the circumstances. You don't pull out your $300 suit to go do yard work, and likewise you don't need to pull out your "cross gender" decision to anybody but close friends.
How you dress in life, or what gender your partner is, or how many years you spent in prison are really nothing I, or most people, care to know in the game ... it's not phobic behavior, it's just not pertinent to the situation at hand.
It would be wise of people that preach tolerance to actually have some tolerance when it comes to the views of other people. You can hardly call yourself "tolerant/accepting" if you don't accept people that are opposite of you ... and you need to adjust your behavior to not offend those people.
That's right, now I am really going to get voted down ... it's just as much the responsibility of the "tolerant" group to be sensitive to the feelings of the intolerant group as the other way around ... otherwise, how can you claim to be any better then them?
Guild size cap and the WoW Insider reader guild {WoW}
Oct 7th 2010 12:00PM A) Does it really matter if they are 99.9% accurate or 99.8% or 99.7%?
That's 1 (or 2 or 3) in every 1,000 guilds. Considering the number of guild out there, that doesn't sound far fetched in the least. Bank Guilds, Alt Guilds, Twink Guilds, PvP Guilds, Dead guilds, etc, etc.
B) "Doesn't consider guilds already split"
That doesn't make Blizzard statement any less true. If the guild is already split, then the change doesn't affect them now does it?
So of the uber large guilds, how many of those chars are seldom used alts? hmm? So guilds might end up with a policy of 1 to 2 alts. Oh well, life a bitch huh?


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Few of us think twice about what we flush down our toilets. For some, however, it's a source of infinitely renewable energy that could power our future sewage plants, and more. Speaking at the British Science Festival today, experts from Northumbrian Water and Newcastle University spoke of their shared commitment to harnessing the energy inherent in our waste – literally, the power of poo.
"It takes a lot of energy to treat a metre cubed of waste water," explains Professor Tom Curtis, Professor of Biological Engineering at Newcastle University. "But that waste water contains even more energy than it takes to treat it!"
Curtis and colleagues are currently working with Northumbrian Water to find the best and most efficient way of extracting that energy to make the water treatment process a sustainable, even profitable venture. Currently, they are trialling a hydrogen Microbial Electrolysis Cell (MEC), a fuel cell that produces hydrogen gas from raw sewage. This hydrogen gas is a valuable fuel, worth about six times as much as methane, the main gas produced by older methods of sewage treatment.
"Northumbrian Water is industry leading in terms of this kind of sustainable power," says Commercial Director Dr Maxine Mayhew. With 2.6 million customers, and 400 water treatment plants, the process of treating waste water results in a massive 1.6 million tons of sludge per year. Fifteen years ago, that would have been dumped at sea. With the sense that they were, literally, wasting their waste, Northumbrian Water began to use treatment methods that produced gas from their sludge, that in turn could produce power. By doing this, they became the first waste water company in the UK to make use of all the sludge produced by their plants to generate energy.
Now, their aim is to make this energy production even more efficient. The UK uses about 2% of its energy treating waste water, says Curtis, a percentage of our energy bill that could be eliminated by using Microbial Electrolysis Cells. Mayhew believes that by 2015, a fifth of all power used at Northumbrian Water will be from biological sources – and further in the future, they could power themselves completely.
From an academic point of view, Curtis is blunt about the rate at which such renewable energy-producing systems are being developed, relative to the need for sustainable energy.
"If we go at the rate of one PhD at a time, it will take twenty or thirty years to see this kind of energy production implemented in the UK," he says. "We just don't have twenty or thirty years!"
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Hello I am looking for a source of stinging nettle roots or rhyzomes. I would like to add them to our edible wild plant garden. Any info would be great!!! Thanks |
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- Posted by fatamorgana Zone 5/6 (My Page) on Sat, Feb 19, 11 at 10:22
Urtica dioica or stinging nettle is not native to North America. You'd be best to direct queries about that one to the Herbs forum but since I'm one of the regulars there, I'll answer here. You can find stinging nettle seed at most vendors that sell medicinal herb seed. Plants only at the few that specialize in herb plants. Try Horizon Herbs or Richters for plants. Of note, stinging nettle is not a friendly plant. It will "bite." Do not plant it any place you want to walk near or weed near. And most people on this forum would consider stinging nettle an invasive, alien species and would not encourage its planting. I would suggest looking to see if there are others in your nearby area looking to get rid of nettle before buying and planting any yourself. I've gotten HEAPS of nettle that way. FataMorgana |
The subspecies gracilis is native to North America. Some older references call it U. gracilis or U. procera or otherwise consider it a variety of U. dioica. The native subspecies tends to be more slender with subcordate or rounded leaf bases, and fewer stinging hairs. The European subspecies has leaves that are deeply cordate at the base. Not something I would consider invasive since nettles prefer disturbed waste ground that is high in nitrogen, although it is widely regarded as a weed. Some other places to look for it is along trails, on floodplains, and where old fields border woods. |
- Posted by simplegreenguy none (My Page) on Tue, Feb 22, 11 at 7:09
Thanks for the nice response. After reading more about them Im not sure I want them in my yard . I will look in my area so I can just harvest some leaves. |
- Posted by susanlynne48 OKC7a (My Page) on Tue, Feb 22, 11 at 8:12
An alternative to Stinging Nettle and an edible plant itself belonging to the same family, is Boehmeria cylindrica, or False Nettle. It does not have the stinging hairs, and is also a host plant for the Red Admiral butterfly. Susan |
- Posted by shadylane5 (My Page) on Tue, Mar 15, 11 at 11:37
I read in "Mother Earth" that gardeners use Stinging Nettles to add nitrogen into their soil. Thus said to give high leavels. Used in composting I'm guessing, for they do give a nasty welp. |
- Posted by annakiledj none (My Page) on Sat, Aug 24, 13 at 18:59
Hi I need fresh nettles. Anyone has them? |
- Posted by wisconsitom 4/5 WI (My Page) on Wed, Aug 28, 13 at 9:36
Wood nettle-Laportea canadensis-is also a native version. And as some have pointed out, stinging nettle is indeed a native plant and is a required element in the landscape for some butterfly species. Having said all that, there's nothing quite like an arm or a leg full of nettle stings on a hot, humid day. Place with care! +oM |
I keep a patch of nettles for the butterflies. But it isn't in a spot I weed for any reason, so I don't get into it. It hasn't increased much in size for the past dozen years or so, so I woudn't call it invasive. It's the native variety. Sandy |
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It's been a LONG time since I've posted and I apologize. I used a black salve cream for 3 skin cancers (over a period of 3 years) basal cell and squamous cell. Not ONE has come back. Sadly when I had surgery TWICE before, the cancer returned within a year.
This is the product that the pharmaceuticals DO NOT want you to know about...I SWEAR!!! They have raided almost all companies who sell it, and try to shut them down because it WORKS! After reading a book on how cancer treatments are being hushed and witheld from us, my eyes were opened. I had no idea how the pharmaceuticals work with the FDA to HIDE possible cancer cures from the public. Why? GREED? You will NEVER find the black salve approved by the FDA. Why? The herbs are so cheap to make and copy, that the competition would be way too much for the money hungry( Big Pharma) and could put many out of business, cutting in to the pockets of the filthy rich! Did you know that it costs around 500 MILLION to get a product approved by the FDA, and the studies are done by those they choose. So how do these small companies stand a chance? I read that the US has around a 3% cancer cure rate overall. That means that our current treatments will give people a 97% death sentence ie, chemotherapy overall. There are so many natural/alternative treatments that have helped thousands with cancer. For example, the Gerson therapy is being raved about by everyone lately and thousands who are being given 6 months to live are cancer free! Anyway, this black salve stuff is awesome for skin cancer and for checking suspicious lesions, moles, etc. I know someone who has been using black salve for over 20 years and not ONE cancer has returned. I have tried several brands but only a couple that have worked and that I trust. The black salve attacks abnormal cells and leaves healthy cells alone for just about everyone. I am sure there are exceptions. I put it on all suspicious lesions and so far only 3 on my face that were diagnosed as basal cell, and one possible squamous cell that reacted. The other moles that I have did not react at all. When you put it on, it will burn if there are unhealthy cells ie cancer. And if there are not any, you will just get a mild redness or nothing at all will happen at all. After a few days, it will form a scab and within about 15 days my cancer came out. I then had a clean wound that began to heal. No infection has ever been reported with it that I know of, and I emailed over 30 people who have used black salve( who left their emails on forums). NOT one had one thing negative to say. I have heard it has around a 97.9- 98% cure rate. It does burn a bit, but I REFUSE to let surgeons slash my face anymore... ESPECIALLY when it did NO good but give me a higher risk for spreading the cancer. Many are saying now that each time you get a biopsy, you may be risking the spreading of cells. If you guys want to get a video on how people have removed cancerous breast tumors and skin cancers with this stuff, go to simpledefeat.com and look at the tumorx dvd's. You will not believe your eyes! I didn't use the tumorx. I used the cansema, but they both have similar ingredients. I know people who have put this stuff on herpes and one even on genital warts...OUCH... and they swear by it. They said this was the only thing that made the herpes not come back. I have not tried it as I don't have herpes, thank goodness, but thought it was interesting that it worked for them. I asked the manufacturers who sell black salve and they said they can not recommend it for herpes or genital warts. In fact, if one thinks they have cancer they should get checked by their doctor first to verify it is cancer. And then follow up once the cancer falls out to make sure it's all gone. Melanoma is nothing to mess around with. This will work on Melanoma as well, from several I have spoken to. I know people who have melanoma who had surgery first and then used the salve. Guess what?? The salve found areas that the surgeon missed. But if you use the salve first, you should then follow up with your doctor to make sure it's all gone. Melanoma can kill you within 5 years diagnosis, so don't wait. You want that monster out of your body! Anyway, amazing product and I am glad I tried it. |
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This is the HERB forum. I think this should have been posted to HERBAL Forum --- or is this another advertisement in the guise of a thread? |
Oh, you're right. I'll copy and put in the herbal forum. Sorry! No, not an advertisement. |
- Posted by daisyduckworth Aust (My Page) on Sun, Oct 1, 06 at 3:16
As a sufferer from several kinds of skin cancers (had 5 removed only a couple of days ago, from my hands), I have to say this sounds like a lot of hooey, and I'm not impressed. If there were really some magic cream that could kill cancer cells, I ask myself why haven't the doctors snapped it up by the truckload? My GP happens to be part of a specialised skin cancer clinic, and he's very broad-minded about alternative treatments and the like (we've had some interesting conversations about herbs), but I doubt he'll be using this stuff on his patients. Not on yours truly, anyway! Neither of us believes in magic wands. My GP won't touch any cancers on my face. For those, it's off to a specialist with me. Yes, I've had surgery, including skin grafts, for skin cancers, and the results were instant and brilliant. You have to look very closely to see any scars. If one in particular hadn't been surgically excised, I'd no longer have a nose or one eye. With that confronting me, you wouldn't have persuaded me to experiment with any salve, black or otherwise! Perhaps it works on some surface cancers, but I doubt if it works on those which actually eat away at skin and muscle tissue - those ones MUST be surgically removed before they remove parts of you. There are many, many different kinds of skin cancer, some more aggressive and dangerous than others. A biopsy is the only sure way of diagnosing them correctly, and the treatment much depends on the diagnosis. I don't think anybody should muck around with skin cancers at home. These are things best left to the experts. |
I just met a man who was a champion surfer during the early 60's. He was missing most of the left side of under his chin, left side of his neck and some of his upper shoulder.... from removing a skin cancer. I STILL believe in herbalism as a complimentary therapy... AND USING SUNSCREEN!!!!!! I wouldn't shut out any kind of therapy, seems to be closeminded... get the best of both worlds. And I DO think that if you shut out western medicine for skin cancer, make sure you write a good will, it's a quick killer. |
Daisyduck, I was in the dark with all of this and wondered why the doctor didn't tell me about it as well. I finally found out from the holistic MD that I see. He said they can not prescribe medicine not approved by the FDA. He saw how it took away my skin cancers and wanted to use it for his patients, but he could get his licensed pulled if he recommended it. Do you know how much it costs to get something approved? Try around $500 MILLION. And guess who does the studies? The pharmaceuticals. So why won't the pharmaceuticals begin studies on this and get the FDA to approve? Because it costs nothing to make and sells for less than $50.00. If there is no money in it, or the competition is too great, the pharmaceuticals aren't interested and therefore it won't EVER get approved by the FDA. Guess how much it costs to make a pill approved by the FDA? usually around.05 to .27 cents. Then guess how much you are charged? It's all about greed! If you think the FDA is on your side and concerned for your wellbeing, they would have gathered "truck loads" of cigarettes off the shelfs YEARS AGO!. Instead, the pharmaceuticals paid millions to hush those who were doing studies in the 1930's that proved there was a link between lung cancer and tobacco. In fact, the major networks ran commercials saying that cigs were doctor recommended. The major networks are mostly owned by pharmaceuticals, so if anyone dared to go on TV to share their cancer cure, it would be pulled immediately. About 85% of all lung cancers are attributable to cigarette smoking, making it far and away the predominant risk factor. Why would they want a cure for a multi billion dollar industry...GREED!!! Did you know that Doctors in Germany and Mexico have said that many of the FDA and politicians have sent their loved ones to other countries because they have alternative medicines that they know have worked for cancer. They have seen the studies that prove people are getting help with their cancer. These studies are hidden from the public, but since they own stock in these hidden studies, they KNOW there is hope OUTSIDE the US. We have a 3% cure rate for cancer. Chemotherapy will end up killing one because it destroys bad and GOOD cells. It's just a bandaid...SAD statement for those of us who want to believe in our country! |
rwja I totally agree with you on the FDA... corrupt as hell. I just googled Black Salve and read what I could find on it. Mostly it was just sales sites. And I read the Quack Watch site on black salve. I found what the quack watch site said interesting. I found almost nothing on how the Black salve works... just stuff saying that it does. What Quack watch said was that Yes, it works on cancerous surface cells, but basically, lord help you if it's deep in your skin. Which I have heard that most skin cancers do... bury deep quickly and spread. So, if you can get it quick enough, the black salve could help... just like burning off any skin cancer. I once was in a foreign country and had a mole that suddenly started growing like mad, I went and had it burned off promptly..... probably wasn't skin cancer, but I fear it is in my future, having a redhead's skin. My opinion is STILL use it in conjunction with western medicine. If you are expecting skin cancer like I am, keep some around the house to get it quickly... but then if it's too late, use the Western medicine. |
You've heard of glucosamine and osteoarthitis. First started being used "outside" of the USA, the only reason dr's here started taking it seriously was because of all the fuss arthritis suffers made about it. Now they've made a multi million dollar industry out of it. I realize nothing works for everyone, but it works for me and I've seen what it has done for my FIL who "had been" on prescription pain medicine. If more patients started demanding alternative medicines dr's would have no other choice. Besides if it won't kill me to try it, like some pharmaceuticals eventually could, it can't hurt. God put the herbs on this earth for a reason and not just to make our foods taste better or our surrounding areas smell prettier. I don't care if this is an advertisement...how else is the word going to get out, the media sure isn't going to buck the system (pharms buy a lot of advertising and they aren't going to bite the hand that feeds them) JMHO |
There are many testimonies at althealthtalk.com forum. Don't trust Quackwatch all of the time. They are entangled with the big pharma too! |
This is the herb forum,not a health forum. |
Hopefully this will be the last post on this topic, as it is the herb forum!!!, but I will say this, as an over all holistic minded individual who grows his own food, there are many corrupt areas in the government and commercial food suppliers, as well as the drug companies/FDA. Quack watch is known to be funded by the drug companies, do a search and you will see. As far as black salve goes, I searched and found they use some very strong herbs like bloodroot, burdock root, chapparal, and graviola to stimulate the immune system. From what i saw on an info site called www.blacksalveinfo.com it actually does get to deep tissue cancers, not just surface stuff, as there were pictures to show it clearly. I am glad that they are using powerful herbs to help people, not just knock off medications that come from chemically adulterated plant compounds! OK, enough said about this topic, let's please move on :) |
Chris, since you joined today, what gives you the right to come in here, state YOUR opinion, then tell US to move on? Kinda pompous and dictatorial to me... just wondering where you get the testicles? |
Dear Heathen1, Sorry, I didn't know that I had to be of a certain "sign up age" to voice my thoughts. I happen to be someone who has read the threads in this forum for quite some time, as MANY people do I just read and don't make comments, but for some reason I felt like voicing my opinion yesterday, which is part of the purpose of any forum! So regarding your comment of ME being pompous and dictatorial...lighten up and take a look in the mirror. Its people like you who make people like myself stay silent on forum boards. As you wrote: |
I dunno... I don't come on and voice my opinion and then say basically, welp, there's my opinion, no more please! If that's the only way you can state your opinion, maybe it's better if you did stay silent. I may be a little touchy, due to the pretty polar feelings in here, either pro-FDA or if you don't always jump on the prepackaged herbal cure bandwagon, you are an 'FDA lover'. There apparently is no room for people who have caution towards both sides. |
- Posted by herblady49 Z6 PA (My Page) on Wed, Oct 18, 06 at 13:44
Dr Andrew Weil, MD talks about this salve in his book "Spontaneous Healing" pages 48-51 and gives it a great review. |
Just posted this month on Quack Watch: 'Doctor disciplined for use of black salve. Jerome W. Craft, M.D., a surgeon who practices in West Palm Beach, |
Here is a link that might be useful: The Story
- Posted by shades_of_idaho z4/5 ID (My Page) on Wed, Feb 7, 07 at 19:13
Hi, I know this is old news but just found this thread. I MUST stick up for rwja2004 and the use of Black Salve. I have been using it for over 4 years now. The doctors wanted to cut off my nose because of the tumor on it and then do skin grafts. Having already been through many skin cancer surgeries I said no. They already removed my eye lid because of another tumor and 5 surgeries to repair what they had to remove and the tumor STILL came back.I used the Black Salve on it and it is GONE!! I will post a link for those that are not too squeamish to look. This is just a few of the tumors and skin areas affected with diagnosed skin cancer. Pictures of my scalp was Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Gone now but I do continue to test it every 6 months or so. And JudyB. I know this law suit you posted about it partly true except if you do a snopes on it you will see that a good part of it was staged. I will trust my skin to Black salve before I trust it to a doctor again. More people need to know about this stuff. The herbs can be bought online very cheep and you can make up your own salve. Chris |
Here is a link that might be useful: Two Albums Black Salve treatments
With skin cancer like that I hope you are under the care of a physican. Do both if you want but for goodness sake see a Dr. That's horrible. I do belive in some herbel meds and I also used to work in the nursing field so I believe in western meds too. Why kill when you can overkill. Use both. |
- Posted by shades_of_idaho z4/5 ID (My Page) on Thu, Feb 8, 07 at 15:32
Amazon ,Thank You for your concern. There is no need for me to see a doctor now. I am all healed up and except for a couple tiny , pin head size basil cell,tumors on my forehead which I will get soon my face is cancer free for now. I STILL am not pretty and I do not wear make up but my skin is as nice as can be. The black salve cleared up all of the cancer that the doctors were not able to kill for the last 30 years. The good thing about the black salve is if you looked at the pictures it does not quit working until it gets to the bottom of the abnormal cells. Then it heals very fast leaving very little scaring. The bad thing is it can be painful. The salve works and I will never be with out it. They can take it off the market but now I know how to make it myself and they can not remove what it is made from. It is so cheep to make and works so well. I Thank God a friend told me about it before I let the doctors cut my nose off. Thanks Again for your concern. Chris |
Here is a link that might be useful: All healed up now!!!
Chris, Sorry it took me so long to follow up on your message. How are you doing now with the basil cell? I was pleased to hear that it helped you as well when the medical professionals couldn't. |
- Posted by irene 33411(email@example.com) onWed, Mar 2, 11 at 14:13
I need info about black salve and prices. Irene. |
- Posted by fatamorgana Zone 5/6 (My Page) on Wed, Mar 2, 11 at 16:47
Please speak to a medical professional if considering such preparations. I've read some pretty scary stuff about "black salves" and I wouldn't recommend dabbling about with the stuff at all. FataMorgana |
Here is a link that might be useful: Black Salve warnings
- Posted by David(email@example.com) onTue, Mar 29, 11 at 17:56
Black Salve is going to be attacked by Stephen Barrett, M.D. and the FDA because it cannot be patented. The people who have lost an excessive amount of tissue and suffered disfigurement suffered because Stephen Barrett, M.D., the FDA and Oncologist throughout the world allowed the people to become consumed with fungus what you people refer to as cancer. It doesn't matter how old you are, if you have any new growths or spots appearing on your skin it is nothing more than fungus. There are hundreds of types of fungus and they can create minor skin spots or sun spots or aggressive tumors or growths. The longer a person waits to treat these growths the more tissue that will be destroyed with the use of black salve. On Stephen Barrett, M.D. site the people reported had serious fungal infections and they were not going to get better on their own. Maybe an Oncologist could have done a neater cleaner job but let's face it, the Medical field is virtually useless when it comes to treating and especially curing cancer. Stephen Barrett, M.D. is right when is says skin cancer is easily cured through medicine, but the cases he reported who used black salve and were disfigured where not examples of people who would have been cured through western conventional medicine. If you people will view skin cancer as fungus you will all become much more effective at taking care of yourselves instead of putting your health in the hands of people who promote only patented products for treatments instead of products for cures. Skin cancer is skin fungus, nothing more. Treat it ASAP with black salve or by your doctor with conventional medicine, the longer you wait the more damage you will suffer. Black Salve is just as effective and safe as western medicine, the Stephen Barrett, M.D. report is nothing more than advertisement for western medicine. Common sense is the key. There is not one medical fact printed on the internet in regards to cancer outside of my own articles and blogs. I have been exposing frauds like Stephen Barrett, M.D.,medical science, the medical industry including the con man Kevin Trudeau and all the gimmick forms of natural medicine for 17 years. There are cures, gimmicks and patented products. If you want to know the truth you have to demand the truth. Please sign this petition demanding the truth and cures that cannot be patented. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Will medicine and science use cures that cannot be patented? No, not without your help.
If a medicine cannot be patented by a company thru the FDA like traditional herbal or folk medicine then it will not be excepted medicine in Western Medicine. Some things work and some things don't. But it is that way in both herbal medicine and in Western Medicine. Personally we should all demand to know the truth. And the FDA has not been willing in the past to test weather some herbal medicines will work or not because it is not patentable. |
Well the problems stems from the fact that alternative doctors and practitioners are only allowed to use placebo herbal products. Products that would never pass a double blind study. Alternative doctors are nothing more than licensed snake oil salesman and the FDA, medical industry and science have created them. As far as I am aware in my 17 years of studying healing and cures, Black Salve is the only herbal product that will pass a double or triple blind test. If there are others, I would love to know about them. The medical industry will not adopt cures because consumers will not demand them. There are only 278 consumers so far willing to demand cures, cures that require no products. Black Salve isn't a cure, it is only a very effective treatment. Unless it can eliminate systemic fungus with the external fungus thought to be cancer it will only treat what it comes in contact with. I believe people are afraid of signing the petition I posted earlier under David. I posted that without an account here and to post this reply I had to create an account. Maybe if people will stand up for cures and actual immunity the day will come when science and medicine will make healing a priority instead of profit. I hope people reading this will stand up. |
Here is a link that might be useful: If you would like to have cures made available to the public, Please sign.
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@ David (email@example.com) How dare you go around trying to convince people skin cancer is a fungus, it's utterly insane and dangerous to say things like that. Skin cancer like all cancers are simply normal cells that have gone wrong and grow into tumors. That is scientific fact! Show me one piece of evidence, such a a peer reviewed scientific study that shows it's a fungus. You can't because it isn't. And to everyone using black salve. I have no doubt in some cases it works. But in many others it doesn't. I bet most people who use it are told they have skin cancer but some quack when didn't do a biopsy and probably knerw it was just a growth that would be easily removed with Black Salve, Don't get me wrong, if I had a small non cancerous growth I wanted rid of I would try the Salve, but I no enough about cancer to know that this is no magic bullet. If you have used Salve and it has worked for you then great, but do not go around spreading nonsense that has no scientific grounding. It's dangerous and irresponsible. And whoever that was trying to defend the doc who burnt off the ladies face by saying it was staged. Face it, he burnt off a ladies face, there is no excusing that. Stuff goes wrong with all treatments at times, black salve is no exception, stop kidding yourself that the medical establishment has a conspiracy to keep black salve out of medicine because it would lose the big pharma money. It's not used because all it is is a corrosive substance that burns a portion of flesh away and there are far more contollable and safe ways to do this. Black salve can work, but if applied wrong, mixed wrong, or if the batch was made from base ingedients that happened to be more potent than normal it can cause massive damage. Thats why it's not an approved treatment, |
- Posted by fatamorgana 5/6 (My Page) on Thu, Feb 13, 14 at 17:25
Please take this discussion to the Herbalism forum. It is better placed there. FataMorgana |
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- Casey
- September 01, 2012 - 10:51
Thanks for the education on salmon spawning:) How can you compare thousands of anglers getting a few salmon each season to thousands of fishermen making a living for their families and keeping their historic communities alive? Your perspective is limited to say the least! Tell us how a single angler adds thousands of dollars to the economy each year. At best it is just turning over money that is already in the region, not new money brought in be exporting salmon. Salmon fishermen from NS came over to the Humber River for years, camped out in their trailers with their NS beer and in many cases their own groceries. Outfitters are few compared with the number of people who have and want to use this resource to provide their families with a much needed income. Of course we are all to swallow this Gardnert Pinfold study as if there could be no self serving groups like yours involved.Look at these numbers a bit closer and see what you come up with. For hundreds of years commercial salmon fishing was carried out in NL, with gillnets set from Northern Labrador and around the island. There were still a lot of salmon in the rivers. For the last 20 years there have been next to no gillnets, yet people like you claim there are no salmon in the rivers. Somebody is missing something here.I suspect the salmon is not as well understood as you would have us believe. Maybe you can go to White Bay in late June and let the locals show you how many salmon there are, with no one allowed to catch one for the table. It really is sickening to see what has happened to outport NL, and people like you play a part in that. Thren there is that great value of catch and release, where a big grown man gets to hook a salmon, torture it for hours and then finally drag it to shore and release it. A bit out of touch with reality most would say. How would you like it if someone snagged a hook in your lip and dragged you around for hours? That salmon may survive but may never recover. People like you and your group have got propoganda, government and big money on your side and that is how you are robbing the people of the outports of their resource. Sleep well!
- Get Real
- September 06, 2012 - 19:42
It's really simple Casey. Angling is a sustainable activity, generating revenue in the economy and allowing ALL citizens of the province to practive an activity of traditional and cultural importance. Netting is unsustainable and can only be practived by the privildged few. Salmon fishermen come here from all over the world, bringing in new money, and the recycled money you refer to is kept within our province instead of being spent on trips elsewhere. If you feel there are flaws with the audited independent study, raise some funds and conduct your own. Stocks are nowhere near pre-moratorium levels. I've been to White Bay in June, both before the moratorium and since, and speaking from first hand experience, the populations there are a shadow of what they were previously. I didn't decimate the salmon stocks - the commercial fishermen did. They have noone to blame but themselves for allowing the stocks to be depleted to the levels they are. I was one of the voices calling for the closure of the commercial fishery, and as I recall, the commercial interests were either asking for money in compensation (which the vast vast majortiy accepted) or fighting for the right to catch the last salmon. There are no salmon that I'm aware of being dragged around by the lip for hours, releases, when done responsibly, are completed in minutes, with no harm done to the salmon. Don't lump conservationists in with those that abuse the resource. I'm sure that salmon prefer being played for a short period over being suffocated in a gill net. I sleep well, knowing that I played a part in saving a resource that was destined to go the way of the great Auk and the Newfoundland wolf. My grandchildren will have the opportunity to enjoy the same recreational activities I do. Due to the greed of the few, they won't have the opportunity to commercially harvest salmon as has been done in the past. I'm sure that sits just fine with you. Your type are never satisfied until they extract any possible profit for themselves regardless of the price to others, let alone the resource. Thankfully, that thinking is dieing off.
- Casey
- September 07, 2012 - 16:55
How is angling generating revenue for the people of the outports? Oh I know all that revenue is used to upgrade their roads and get indusrty started, right? Yea it really is simple. LOL. Thanks for the advice on getting my own study done on the stocks, lots of reality there. Gill Netting was used for generations to provide an income for outport people so why couldn't it do so again? Why do people like you want to shut-down a way of life forever? I don't suppose it would have anything to do with greed or selfishness, no couldn't be. Also I feel priveled to be in contact with a real NL hero who is working diligently to save the last Atlantic Salmon from those greedy outport fishermen. I no longer work in the fishery, however, I am concerned that our wonderful federal government and people like you are working to destroy what is left of outport NL. No you didn't decimate the stocks but people like you sure played a role in shutting down any chance the outport people have of going back to a sustainable fishery. I would not expect a full fledged commercial fishery, but at least a fishery at some level. Someting is wrong in your estmates of the stocks, because if you take all those ginets from the coastline for 20 years then there has to be a lot of salmon and there is. Asd for compensation it was a pittance compared to what could be made in a viable and heathy fishery
- Casey
- August 24, 2012 - 14:39
A very small subset? Get real. Years ago salmon fishing stood next to Cod as the mainstay of NL. Many have left but some remain. Do you honestly believe that all Atlantic Salmon go up river year after year? The profit from sports fishing goes to a few lodge eperators. Then there are those real men who like to catch and release, get real yourself. Try berry picking.
- Get Real
- August 28, 2012 - 16:33
Years ago there were 20X as many salmon in our rivers and yes Casey, commercial fishermen are a very small subset of users of the resource. 15,000 anglers in NL, hundreds of guides and dozens of outfitters, all enjoying the resource with mimimal destruction of the stocks. A single angler adds hundreds if not thousands of dollars to the economy at a cost of 4 -6 fish maximum (a maximum amount of between 60 - 80,000 fish, but in reality less than 1/2 that are killed). A recent study by Gardner Pinfold put the value of salmon angling in NL at over $32 million. To earn the same amount at $3 pound with a 8 lb average (and that's being generous), commercial harvesters would have to destroy 1.3 million fish annually to equal that amount. That's over 1/2 of the estmated total population of wild salmon in our province. That is clearly not sustainable. It's your type of thinking that has reduced our once abundant stocks to the pitiful few there are today. I'll give you a free biology lesson in addition to economics. Salmon spawn only in rivers, and yes, they do go up the rivers year after year. 'Get real' indeed. I think that you Casey, could use a dose of reality. It doesn't agree with your delusions of abundance.
- Casey
- August 02, 2012 - 16:27
Yes Mr. Taylor there is an alternative to farmed salmon. It is called a Commercial Salmon Fishery. People of the NE coasdt have been reporting huge numbers of salmon in the harbours and coves around NL for years now, yet they can't catch one for the table. Fishermen in the French Islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, and In Greeland can catch salmon but not NL's fishermen. If they do they are branded asd criminals. These so called Salmon Preservation groups need to start telling the whole story. There are lots of Atlantic Salmon around NL and the people of the outports should be able to make a living from their own resource.
- Get real
- August 06, 2012 - 14:26
Salmon stocks have not returned to a level sufficient to maintain a commercial harvest. Anecdotal accounts from 'people' on the NE coast does not agree with the data from counting fences. Fishermen are only a very small subset of those that use salmon. Those few that want to harvest for profit wish to do so at the expense of the enjoyment of thousands. That's simply not right, nor would doing so be the best use of the resource. It is absurd as suggesting cutting down the trees in a park so that a saw mill operator could profit. Paul, stop defending the indefensible. Nobody is opposed to aquaculture, they are only opposed to open pen aquaculture. If the industry cannot farm fish in a manner that does not affect the environment or other species negatively, they should bot be doing it. You seem to be suggesting that Canada's environmental standards should be lowered to allow our industry to compete with third world producers. Sorry, but no insudtry is worth lowering our standards to those levels.
- Mark Ham
- August 01, 2012 - 09:50
Is there any reason to believe that facts and science would influence the message a minister wants to deliver?
- Paul
- August 01, 2012 - 09:41
Mr. Taylor claims that land based systems are a viable option for the salmon farming industry based on recent research in Virginia. That would be great if it proves to be true. however for many years, opponents to salmon farming have claimed that land based systems are the way to go when in fact they have not been...the cost of pumping water itself is prohibitive, in the scale of operations required to produce the amount of salmon that the market demands. here is a scholarly article (not an op ed...) on the subject...http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652608001820 IF alternate methods do prove viable, you can bet that the industry will try them out for themselves. but up to now, its been a hallmark of industry opponents , to call for transition to land based or closed containment systems, when it was simply not a viable option to do so, and which would have been the end of the industry...which I do believe is the ultimate goal of the anti-salmon farming lobby.
- Paul
- August 01, 2012 - 07:55
if there has only been one documented case of ISA in Wild salmon, yet its prevalent in farmed salmon, what is his problem? its obvious that the risk of transmission from farmed to wild salmon is low based on his own statement. its also low for the very fact that wild salmon are not concentrated like farmed salmon, which is a key factor to it being a problem with farmed salmon in the first place. let us not fly off with fear and paranoia. careful examination of facts is necessary. ISA does originate in wild fish. ALL diseases that farmed fish experience originate in the wild environment, just that when farmed fish become exposed, they can become infected and transmit to others because of the density in the cages, or poor site location, poor husbandry, etc...conditions absent outside the cages. If the NL salmon industry was not taking steps to avoid ISA, it would have wiped out the industry long ago. The fact that its only now, and only a small number of fish on one site, that its been detected before spreading further, speaks volumes for how well the industry is run in NL.


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I have spent all day searching for the answer to this question, confident that someone has the answer, but everytime I find a similar question, there is never a resolution. Hopefully, we can find an answer this time.
I have polyline that graphically represents a pipe. Obviously, the polyline can not contain data for a pipe: size, material, insulationtype, insulationthickness, schedule, etc. So, I have created a custom object with all of the appropriate properties, methods, events, etc that I need for it to behave as a pipe. My custom object has a reference to the actual polyline with a Handle property stored as a long(since AutoCAD objects can not be serialized). I referenced an AU 2008 class by Jeffery Geer (A Pattern for Storing Structured Data in AutoCAD Entities CP401-2) to get me as far as I am.
My object is marked serializable. I serialize it to binary and attach the binary in 127 byte chunks to the xRecord of the polyline object. My code works AWESOME!!! Thanks Jeffery.
However, as soon as I attach this binary xrecord, I get the following message when I try to save the drawing:
"One or more objects in this drawing cannot be saved to the specified format. The operation was not completed and no file was created"
I assume that since this was an AU course that some one has tried this at some point and knows how to bypass this error, but I can not find anyone willing to admit it. Does anyone here want to stake a claim to my praise?
When I was stacking with xrecords some time ago I
got the same message
I solved this issue by passing SendStringtoExecute "_audit N "
at the end of adding xrecords I know it's not so elegant way but
it worked on A2010 for me try it too if you want
You might want to further define what you mean by "custom object". That can cover a lot of ground, from block references to managed dotNET classes to ObjectARX custom objects.
Sorry. Yes, you are correct. Somebody else told me the same thing a short while ago. Without getting into too much proprietary information, allow me to expound upon my concept.
In AutoCAD 20 years ago, hypothetically speaking, if I wanted to draw a line that represented a plumbing pipeline, I would probably draw a polyline on a plumbing pipeline layer...done. All other data was probably handled with notes and specs, but no real data was stored on the line itself.
Enter the modern data rich environment of today...
I have been tasked with creating a drawing that behaves like the original (a polyline on a pipeline layer), but that has knowledge of it other pipeline data (size, material, schedule, etc.) My original thought was to create custom ObjectARX objects to do the job, but 1) I am not a C++ developer, and 2) It seems like overkill for the end goal. However, I can not inherit from a polyline object, add additional properties/methods/events, and still expect AutoCAD to persist it to the DWG database. So, I created a custom object class in C# that has all of my pipeline properties/methods/events that also happens to have a polyline property referencing the AutoCAD Polyline. So, I want to persist my object properties into the polyline and likewise the DWG.
xData seemed like a good place to start. I placed each property into a result buffer and it worked great. Problem - it has to come back out in the same order it went in. Not a problem if I only had one object to work with, but I have close to 20 different custom objects, most of them based on blocks rather than polylines. All of their properties are different and yet I wanted to create a more simplified way of getting the information. Plus I was concerned about the 16K limit.
xRecords were intriguing, but initially looked like a bigger xData storage, so I initially ignored it.
I knew I could serialize to an external file, but then I would run the risk of the 2 files being separated at some point.
Then I read an article about storing serialized binary chunks into an xRecord. Wow! It works great until I tried to save. AutoCAD views those objects differently and refuses to save the DWG.
Now, since my original post, I have since learned that it is the properties of my object that cause the failure and not necessarily the serialized binary xRecord. My file can be saved and I now have persistent data, as long as I only use strings, integers, longs, and doubles. As soon as I start adding object reference properties, it all falls apart, but I am working through it.
And, because of what a nightmare I have had trying to make this all work, I will post some code samples when this is all over. But, in my opinion, this is the next best thing to custom objectARX. Throw in some drawable overrules and life is grand (I don't actually need them, but I almost wish I did)...Not! This is hard enough.
All interesting stuff and I'm surprised it hasn't come up on these forums before (that I can find).
So what's the solution? I'm creating blocks, via a jig, that hold extra data via xRecords. I also append data to the NOD that relates to the whole drawing.
My guess is that somewhere through the reams of added information I've tacked onto the blocks, CAD falls over and decides it doesn't want to play. The SendStringToExecute(" audit n "); method, as Hallex suggested, works but will confuse the user when they try and repeat the last command.
As the database.Audit() method isn't implemented yet, I would presume that the course of action would be to fix the xRecords that CAD throws a wobbly over (although they can't be that broken, as an Audit with no errors or fixes solves the problem).
I've looked over my xRecords and the only data I store that isn't in your list of approved types is booleans. Would the fix be to replace the bool with a string, or even 1s and 0s?
Now I've said it, it sounds like an easy fix, albeit one that shouldn't be necessary.
After 2 1/2 weeks of hell, I settled on one conclusion, storing binary chunks on an Xrecord does not work. The AUDIT just removes all of my xrecords from the file, thus defeating the purpose. So, I decided to serialize to XML and store XML strings to the xrecord. They still have to be chunked because there is a 1024 character string limit, but it works. It works AWESOME!!! It even handles all custom class object references as well. You just can't serialize an AutoCAD object onto an AutoCAD object, which makes sense. Here is a sample of the serialization to xrecord:
public void XMLSave() { using (MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream()) { XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Valve)); serializer.Serialize(stream, this); stream.Position = 0; TextReader reader = new StreamReader(stream); string xmlString = reader.ReadToEnd(); ResultBuffer data = new ResultBuffer(); data.Add(new TypedValue((int)DxfCode.Text, this.GetType().FullName)); while (xmlString.Length > 0) { string buffer = ""; if (xmlString.Length >= 1024) { buffer = xmlString.Substring(0, 1024); xmlString = xmlString.Substring(1024); } else { buffer = xmlString; xmlString = ""; } data.Add(new TypedValue((int)DxfCode.Text, buffer)); } Database db = HostApplicationServices.WorkingDatabase; using (Transaction tr = db.TransactionManager.StartTransaction()) { acadBlockRef = tr.GetObject(acadBlockRef.ObjectId, OpenMode.ForWrite) as BlockReference; if (acadBlockRef.ExtensionDictionary == ObjectId.Null) acadBlockRef.CreateExtensionDictionary(); using (DBDictionary dict = tr.GetObject(acadBlockRef.ExtensionDictionary, OpenMode.ForWrite, false) as DBDictionary) { if (dict.Contains("KW_PID")) { Xrecord xrec = tr.GetObject(dict.GetAt("KW_PID"), OpenMode.ForWrite) as Xrecord; xrec.Data = data; xrec.Dispose(); } else { Xrecord xrec = new Xrecord(); xrec.Data = data; dict.SetAt("KW_PID", xrec); tr.AddNewlyCreatedDBObject(xrec, true); xrec.ObjectClosed += new ObjectClosedEventHandler(OnDataModified); xrec.Dispose(); } } tr.Commit(); } data.Dispose(); } }
Sorry about the formatting and lack of comments, but this really does work. You just reverse the process to get it back:
public static Valve XMLOpen(ObjectId objId) { Valve retval = null; Database db = HostApplicationServices.WorkingDatabase; XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Valve)); using (Transaction tr = db.TransactionManager.StartTransaction()) { BlockReference acadObj = tr.GetObject(objId, OpenMode.ForRead) as BlockReference; if (acadObj == null || acadObj.ExtensionDictionary == ObjectId.Null) { tr.Abort(); return retval; }
using (DBDictionary dict = tr.GetObject(acadObj.ExtensionDictionary, OpenMode.ForRead, false) as DBDictionary) { if (dict.Contains("KW_PID")) { using (Xrecord xrec = tr.GetObject(dict.GetAt("KW_PID"), OpenMode.ForRead) as Xrecord) { if (xrec != null) { using (ResultBuffer rb = xrec.Data) { if (rb != null) { using (MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream()) { TypedValue[] tvs = rb.AsArray(); if (tvs != null) { if (tvs[0].TypeCode == (short)DxfCode.Text) {
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