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Its decline to virtual extinction in the wild is primarily attributable to unsustainable, illegal trapping in response to worldwide demand for the cage-bird trade. This threat continues despite the fact that the whole population is now confined within a national park and has been the subject of a specific conservation programme. The park and programme have, however, suffered from repeated mismanagement and corruption. In 1999, while black-market prices soared (US $2,000 in mid-1990s), an armed gang stole almost all the 39 captive individuals in the park awaiting release into the wild. These serious problems are compounded by habitat loss. With the population now at such a critically low level, other threats may include genetic erosion, interspecific competition, natural predation and disease.
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Has anyone had recent sucess using the HIPAA process to remove medical collections??
Nope they just verified mine
one did change to a 0 balance but other then that
it didn't do any good, I think the CRA's are getting wise to
the way HIPAA works.
I still do see some success from others posted on the process, but it does seem to have slowed quite a bit.
I'll give it another shot around the first and see if that helps any
I just got a $900 medical bill deleted from both Transunion and Experian using the HIPAA process on the first try. You must follow the process exactly.
I'm currently working on my first and only HIPAA medical debt that has been PIF since 2007. I have disputed this with the CRA's and sent GW after GW and this company won't budge. I sent the first HIPAA letter off a few weeks ago and the CA sent me a real generic letter and didn't include any of the info. I demanded they provide as they are required by law. At this point I decided (today) to go ahead and file a complaint with the BBB and see if that gets me anywhere. I'll wait and see what happens after that to see if I should continue with the res of the HIPAA process or not.
Good luck to you, I like reading about those that have had success with the HIPAA method.
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I just got a $900 medical bill deleted from both Transunion and Experian using the HIPAA process on the first try. You must follow the process exactly.
Yes the process still works! TU deleted 2 UNPAID med collections! I received the letter this past Friday. I'm still waiting to hear from EQ. I'm assuming they don't have anything because they would've responded by now. I'm just patiently waiting on my 30 day mark to hit! I'm not even bothering with EX as of now. I'm also waiting on a response for my DW's disputes for TU and EQ
Let me update my last response by saying that
although on account was updated to show a zero balance (falls off in feb anyway)
the newer one from May of this year was removed
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Comic for Monday, May 16, 2011
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The Goo
Shade, Part 1
Shade, Part 2
Relations, Part 1
April Fools Week
Relations, Part 2
Part 1 - Open The Box
Part 2 - Read The Rules
Part 3 - Set Up The Pieces
Part 4 - Play The Game
Part 5 - Knock The Board Over
Part 6 - Scattered Pieces
Part 7 - Fist Fight
Part 8 - Clean Up
Flipping Cardboard
Lady Mysterious
II slooF lirpA
Squirrel Diplomacy
Lunchtable Revelations
Part 1 - Martial Arts Crew
Part 2 - Elliot's Crew
Part 3 - Ellen's Crew
Tam Eh Tedd
Part 1 - Walk In The Park
Part 2 - Missing Persons
Part 3 - Interviewed By The Devil
Part 4 - Into The Dungeon
Part 5 - The Truth About Grace
Part 6 - The Brewing Storm
Part 7 - Fallen From Grace
Part 8 - Humanity
PB Special Features
Sleepy Time
Second Life
The Child Left Behind
Red Alert
Moping Squirrel
Intro to South
Party Recruiting
Even More Recruiting
Party Fashion
Family Reuinion
Part 1 - Arrivals And Presents
Part 2 - Bending Genders
Part 3 - Festivities
Part 4 - Hold On Hope
Hidden Genesis
In The Shadows
The New Students
Susan Draws The Line
Squirrel In The Classroom
Part 1 - The Trials Of Susan
Part 2 - The Statue
Part 3 - Pent-Up Magic
Part 4 - Evil Monkey
Part 5 - Moperville News
Part 6 - Weregirl
Part 7 - The Dark Clouds Gather
Part 8 - Talon vs. Scythe
Part 9 - Wrath of God
Part 10 - Pandoras Box
Indiana Elliot And The TOSF
T-Minus The Demon Ally
Hammerchlorians - 1
Hammerchlorians - 2
Hammerchlorians - 3
T-Minus Dark Allegiance
New And Old Flames - 1
New And Old Flames - 2
New And Old Flames - 3
New And Old Flames - 4
New And Old Flames - 5
New And Old Flames - 6
One Way Road
Legends of Celida
Death Sentence - 1
Death Sentence - 2
Death Sentence - 3
Death Sentence - 4
Death Sentence - 5
What Is Love
The End Of Spring
Power Fantasy
Rocks Fall Nobody Is Hired
By The Numbers
Duel Of The Discs
There Be Whales Here
There Be Whales Here Pt 2
There Be Whales Here Pt 3
End Of An Era
End Of An Era pt 2
Family Tree
Summer Moments
Guest Comics #1
Guest Comics #2
Squirrel Prophet
SP - Part 2
SP - Final Battle
So A Date At The Mall
So A Date - Part 3
So A Date - Part 4
So A Date - Part 5
EGSNP - Question Mark
Q&A 7 - The Requestioning
Part 1 - Legacy
Part 2 - The Will of Magic
Part 3 - Reply Hazy
Part 4 - Everyone Needs To Talk
Part 5 - The Reservoir
Part 6 - Maybe Sisters
See? Noah didn't
abandon Justin to the dragon in the previous comic!
He just made the potentially hazardous assumption that the dragon would follow him!
Granted, that doesn't sound great, but it has been confirmed that Justin is
good at kicking dragons
even as a pony
), so he presumably would've maybe possibly been okay for a bit on his own!
...Okay, yeah, Noah should probably get Justin an apology muffin or something for that one.
In any case, the dragon effectively forfeited by flying off, so Justin can now technically claim to have won a fight against a dragon. He'll have to limit any and all details to having kicked it, but that should still be useful conversational ammunition at social gatherings.
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THREE critics groups announced their lists today – The Boston Society of Film Critics, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the New York Film Critics Online.
Thanks to LA, Zero Dark Thirty is no longer the only game in town – Los Angeles honored the French import Amour as best picture, while NY and Boston went with the frontrunning Zero.
Acting awards were all over the road, but most prominent among all names today were not one but TWO names from "The Perks Of Being A Wallflower" from Boston – longtime PNR fave Ezra Miller took top honors from the BSFC for Best Supporting Actor, while co-star Emma Watson took the runner up slot in the Supporting Actress category. Neither have been considered serious candidates for the Golden Globes or Oscar by the Oscar pundits; now, with Boston's track record showing they are usually a decent barometer of potential bigger award nominees, 'tis time for the pundits to rethink their candidates lists.
Here are the full list of winners from all three organizations:
New York Film Critics Online
Best Picture: Zero Dark Thirty
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Best Actress: Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Best Supporting Actor: Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables
Breakthrough Performer: Quvenzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Debut Director: Benh Zeitlin,Beasts of the Southern Wild
Ensemble Cast: Argo
Best Screenplay: Mark Boal, Zero Dark Thirty
Best Documentary: The Central Park Five
Best Cinematography: Claudio Miranda, Life of Pi
Best Film Music or Score: Django Unchained
Los Angeles Film Critics Association:
BEST PICTURE: Amour
Runner-up: The Master
BEST DIRECTOR: Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master
Runner-up: Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
BEST ACTRESS (TIE): Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook; Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
BEST ACTOR: Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Runner-up: Denis Lavant, Holy Motors
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Amy Adams, The Master
Runner-up: Anne Hathaway, The Dark Knight Rises & Les Miserables
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Dwight Henry, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Runner-up: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
BEST SCREENPLAY: Chris Terrio, Argo
Runner-up: David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
BEST EDITING: Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg, Zero Dark Thirty
Runner-up: William Goldenberg, Argo
BEST ANIMATION: Frankenweenie
Runner-up: It's Such A Beautiful Day
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM: Holy Motors
Runner-up: Footnote
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Roger Deakins, Skyfall
Runner-up: Mihai Malaimare Jr., The Master
BEST DOCUMENTARY: The Gatekeepers
Runner-up: Searching For Sugar Man
NEW GENERATION AWARD: Benh Zeitlin, Beasts Of The Southern Wild.
BEST MUSIC SCORE Winner: Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Runner-up: Jonny Greenwood, The Master
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN, Winner: David Crank and Jack Fisk, The Master
Runner-up: Adam Stockhausen, "Moonrise Kingdom
DOUGLAS EDWARDS EXPERIMENTAL/INDEPENDENT FILM/VIDEO AWARD: Leviathan
Boston Society of Film Critics:
Best Picture: Zero Dark Thirty
Runners-up: Runner-up: Amour and Moonrise Kingdom
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Runner-up: Denis Lavant, Holy Motors
Best Actress: Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Runner-up: Deanie Yip, A Simple Life
Best Supporting Actor: Ezra Miller, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
Runner-up: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
Best Supporting Actress: Sally Field, Lincoln
Runner-up: Emma Watson, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Best Director: Katheryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
Runner-up: Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master
Best Screenplay: Tony Kushner, Lincoln
Runner-up: Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Moonrise Kingdom
Best Cinematography: The Master, Mihai Malaimare Jr.
Runner-up: (TIE) Robert Yeoman, Moonrise Kingdom; Claudio Miranda, Life of Pi
Best Documentary: How To Survive A Plague
Runner-up: The Queen Of Versailles
Best Animated Film – Frankenweenie
Runner-up: ParaNorman
Best Film Editing: Zero Dark Thirty, William Goldenberg and Dylan Tichenor (in honor of Karen Shmeer)
Runner-up: Argo, William Goldenberg
Best New Filmmaker: David France, How To Survive A Plague
Runner-up: Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Best Ensemble Cast: Seven Psychopaths
Runner-up: Moonrise Kingdom)
Best Use of Music in a Film: Moonrise Kingdom, Alexandre Desplat, Mark Mothersbaugh
Runner-up: Django Unchained, music editor Robb Boyd, music supervisor Mary Ramos
Stay tuned to PNR's Red Carpet Monitor – more critics groups announce this week, along with the Golden Globe nominees on Thursday!


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A rundown tennis club (and that's putting it politely) in a freezing climate which, with one indoor court, has in recent years produced more top-20 women players than the entire United States. (Yes, you read that correctly.) My 2006 visit to Spartak—the original article is here—helped inspire the book.
Inside the Hothouse: Audio Slideshow
Spartak can be summed up in one word: tekhnika (technique). Every moment, every resource is devoted to helping players with the most essential task: hitting the ball correctly. Or, to put it a different way, to building a reliable, fast skill circuit. To do this, they
- Slow it down. Just like the violinists at Meadowmount, the Spartak players do their swings in slow-motion. All players also follow the same warmup routine—which starts with simple eye-hand drills where they bounce the ball and catch it—whether they are five years old or, as I saw, a world top-ten player.
- Imitate. They swing without the ball quite a lot, a drill called imitatsiya. The ball, in their view, is a distraction. The point is to make the swing—to fire the circuit properly.
- Games can wait. The rule at Spartak is that players can only compete after three years of practice – a rule that would never fly in the states, but which, if you think of it in terms of skill circuits, makes perfect sense. Competition introduces a gigantic new variable, where skill circuits matter less than the score. As a Spartak coach told me, "Technique is everything. If you begin playing without technique, it is big mistake. Big, big mistake!"
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[...] our lucky day: here is Dinara Safina, current world number one player, taking her first swings at Spartak. We all know how great she became. The question is, did she have some special gift that separated [...]
I love seeing the Spartak Academy. This has changed the way we teach at the Edge Tennis Academy. I thought the kids would really resist at first but they really loved the "imitatsiya". We spent the whole practice hour shadowing forehands on the first day and 50 minutes on the second day. The last ten minutes the "beginners" I was working with were crushing the ball in over and over. I am sold.
i am hamza blue from pakistan i am playing tennis here in pakistan but i want to play higher in russia i want to come there plz anybody help me there….


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Jefferson's Great Gamble tells the incredible story of how four leaders of an upstart nation--Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and Livingston--risked the future of their country and their own careers; outwitted Napoleon Bonaparte, the world's most powerful ruler; and secured a new future for the United States of America.
For two years before the Louisiana Purchase, the nine principal players in the deal watched France and the United States approach the brink of war over the most coveted spot on the planet: a bustling port known as New Orleans. And until the breakthrough moment when a deal was secured, the men who steered their countries through the tense and often beguiling negotiations knew only that the futures of both nations were being questioned, and that the answer was uncertain.
Jefferson's Great Gamble is an extraordinary work that redefines one of the most important and overlooked events in American history. Charles A. Cerami reveals the untold thrusts and parries of the Louisiana Purchase, an event that was not just a land sale, but thirty months of high drama, blandishment, posturing and secret maneuvers by some of the most powerful and crafty men of their time. Utilizing original correspondence and firsthand accounts, Cerami paints a vivid and engrossing narrative enriched by the words of the men whose talents and weaknesses kept the negotiations alive during the most unsure moments.
When Thomas Jefferson took office as president of the United States in 1801, Louisiana was at the front of his mind. Jefferson knew that the future of the country hinged on its right to navigate the Mississippi River and have access to New Orleans. His hopes for maintaining this right were almost completely dashed when it was discovered that Napoleon had secretly forced Spain to give the Louisiana Territory to France, and that he had troops on the way to take possession of New Orleans.
Jefferson's only hope to stop the takeover lay in a great gamble: convincing Napoleon that the United States was willing to go to war over the port city. Jefferson knew that war might fracture the new country, which at the time had roughly one thousand men in its army. He was therefore faced with not only convincing Napoleon that the United States was ready to fight, but bluffing him into thinking that it could win that battle.
To execute his plan, Jefferson turned to his brilliant but troubled foreign-relations team. James Madison, the wily secretary of state, devised with Jefferson a disinformation strategy that was remarkable for its ingenuity and effectiveness. Robert Livingston, the American envoy to France, struggled to negotiate with French officials while being disdained and ignored by Jefferson and Madison, his political rivals. And as the final negotiations approached, James Monroe found himself sailing to Paris with the key to how the United States would execute the endgame.
Napoleon was bombarded by contradicting opinions from his two closest advisors. François de Barbé-Marbois, the impeccably honest finance minister, pushed toward a sale to raise money for a war with England. Charles-Maurice de Tallyrand-Périgord, Napoleon's witty and corrupt chief advisor, pushed him to hold on to the colony, a position he believed held long-term benefits for France, if not for Napoleon.
To read Jefferson's Great Gamble is to experience the tense days and nights leading to a decision that changed the face of the world. From the early American infighting to the heated French negotiations to the battle needed years later to secure the purchase, this new history is a story of dedicated men, each driven by love of country, who created an event that Robert Livingston called "the noblest work of our lives."
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Charles A. Cerami is the author of eleven books, including Benjamin Banneker: Surveyor, Astronomer, Publisher, Patriot and A Marshall Plan for the 1990s. Ceramis articles have been published in The Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, New York Times, Foreign Policy, The Spectator (of London) and Swiss Review of World Affairs.
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Book Description Sourcebooks, Inc., 2003. Book Condition: New. Brand New, Unread Copy in Perfect Condition. A+ Customer Service! Summary: Arriving for the 200th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase, Jefferson's Great Gamble is an extraordinary work that redefines one of the most important and overlooked events in American history. Charles Cerami tells for the first time how four founding fathers of an upstart country--Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and Livingston--successfully outwitted the world's most powerful ruler to secure a new future for America. Utilizing original correspondence and firsthand accounts, Cerami digs beyond textbook history to reveal not just a land purchase, but 30 months of high drama, blandishment, posturing and secret maneuvers by some of the most powerful and crafty men on the planet. In the tradition of The Founding Brothers, Jefferson's Great Gamble focuses on the people whose unique personalities changed history. The tense days and nights come to life through the eyes of such key players as Robert Livingston, the mistrusted U.S. envoy; Talleyrand, Napoleon's witty and corrupt chief advisor; James Madison,the wily and secretive secretary of state; Napoleon Bonaparte, the conqueror of Europe; James Monroe, the extraordinary envoy who risked his country's future in one act that could have ended his career, and Thomas Jefferson's as well; and Thomas Jefferson, whose vision and determination led him to gamble his presidency and the nation's future several times, and emerge victorious. This new history reveals startling information never before unveiled, with a grand drama that captures the gripping intrigue. Bookseller Inventory # ABE_book_new_1570719454
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Victoria Church, Jack, will celebrate homecoming May 4. Sunday School will begin at 9:45 a.m. and morning worship will begin at 11 a.m. Buddy Hood will speak. There will be special music by The Victoria Choir led by Reatha Mandello and other members of Victoria also will present special music. A covered dish lunch will follow the morning worship service. Donnie Marler is pastor.


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August 05, 2011
Evolution Theatre seeks local playwrights for bicentennial festival
Evolution Theatre Company will celebrate the city's bicentennial with a 2012 playwrights festival.Continue Reading
The troupe is seeking submissions from central Ohio writers for its Bicentennial Playwrights Festival.
The focus: stories about "Ohio's fabulous Capital City."
Posted by Michael Grossberg on August 05, 2011 03:19 PM
July 29, 2013
MadLab nurtures young talent with "exciting" Short Play Festival
MadLab member Stephen Woosley admits it: He feels envious of the nine young high-school students whose new works are being showcased the Young Writers Short Play Festival.Continue Reading
"I'm so envious of their talent and their future. It's fun watching their excitement and watching them learn and grow," Woosley said.
"When the writers first come in and as we go through it, we feel the excitement."
MadLab Theatre is presenting a repertory line-up of nine short plays in the second annual festival, which continues through Aug. 10 at Madlab Theatre and Gallery,
"The festival is becoming a part of what MadLab is," Managing Director Michelle Batt said.Posted by Michael Grossberg on July 29, 2013 04:38 PM


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We meet for a Play Day the 2nd Saturday of every month.
weather permittingsubject to change without notice
We start between 9:00 and 10:00 am at
Walnut Hill Park. Bring a chair or you can sit on one of the park
benches. Remember to bring plastic baggies to pick up doggie poop. Be
prepared to keep your dogs on leash or in a crate (when not chasing
down discs). As friendly to people as most of our dogs are, they are not
always friendly to each other.
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happy and healthy. Our activities include informal play days where members
and visitors exchange training tips, demonstrations for schools and
community events, and competitions for everyone from the beginner to the
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Demos? - Yes! The DDDC is available! We do numerous disc dog demonstrations
each year for worthy animal causes/events in and around the DFW area. If you
are a city related organization, all we ask for in return for our dynamic
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Many thyroid cancer patients are initially unaware that they have the disease. Often, a lump is found on the thyroid during a routine physical exam or while taking an image of their neck for other conditions. In the vast majority of the population, a lump is simply an infection or other benign condition of the thyroid. However, about five percent of the time, the nodule can be cancerous. Every year 20,000 new cases of thyroid cancer are diagnosed in the United States. Women are three times more likely to have thyroid cancer than men. Thyroid cancer is most common after 30, but it can develop at any age.
There are four types of thyroid cancer:
- Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma
- Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma
- Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma
- Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma
Most patients do not experience symptoms. However, some may feel enlarged lymph nodes or nodules in the neck or have difficulty swallowing or speaking. Although other conditions can also cause these symptoms, it is best to have a physician examine you.
A combination of symptoms, medical history, physical exams, and tests are used to determine a diagnosis. Thyroid nodules are often found during a routine physical examination. Your doctor might feel an abnormal lump on the front of your neck.
- The TSH blood test measures a pituitary gland hormone that stimulates the thyroid gland. If the TSH level is increased, the thyroid gland may not be functioning properly. Additional blood tests are needed to measure other thyroid hormones. Both pituitary and thyroid tests are required to confirm that the problem is located in the thyroid gland.
- T4 and T3 by RIA are blood tests also used to measure thyroid function.
- A thyroid scan measures the amount of iodine the thyroid can absorb.
- Thyroid ultrasound uses painless sound waves to create an image of the thyroid gland and identify nodules. Ultrasounds can show if a nodule is solid or a fluid-filled cyst, but it cannot determine if a nodule is benign or malignant.
- Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy (FNA). A needle is placed into the thyroid nodule, the cells are aspirated, and then examined under a microscope to determine if a nodule is cancerous.
The most important treatment for thyroid cancer is to completely remove the tumor along with the remaining thyroid gland (total thyroidectomy). Surgeons at the Thyroid Cancer Program are experts in the treatment of thyroid tumors. Using this type of therapy, the majority of cancers will be either cured or controlled and less than 20 percent will show progression. Most of the time, residual cancer can be treated with additional surgery or radioactive iodine. For resistant tumors, external beam radiation may be prescribed or the patient may be entered into a clinical trial with newer therapies or receive some existing targeted chemotherapies. Fortunately, most patients have an excellent prognosis when treated early by experienced physicians.
Radioactive Iodine
Radioactive iodine treatment has been prescribed for over 50 years and is often used to destroy residual thyroid tissue as well as any thyroid cancer that is remaining. It may be administered by swallowing a capsule after an individual has been off their thyroid hormone for a number of weeks (endogenous withdrawal protocol) or following two injections of Thyrogen while the patient remains on thyroid hormone. The patient must be on a low-iodine diet for two weeks before the therapy and are usually hospitalized for two days in isolation in order to avoid environmental contamination with radioactivity. Two days after the radioactive iodine is given, thyroid hormone therapy is resumed if the patient has stopped their thyroid hormone. A full body scan is done at two days and seven days following the therapeutic doses of radioactive iodine in order to detect residual thyroid tissue. Since surgery removes the vast majority of thyroid tissue, much of the radioiodine will not be absorbed and will leave the body primarily through the urine. Small amounts will also be excreted in saliva, sweat, tears, vaginal secretions, and feces. Nearly all the radioactive iodine will leave the body during the first two days after the dose has been given.
Side effects are minimal and typically transient. The most common side effects include decreased taste, nausea, inflammation of the salivary glands or dry eyes. Nuclear medicine staff and your endocrinologist will provide you with more information should this be part of your thyroid cancer treatment.
External Beam Radiation
External beam radiation uses radioactivity from a high energy X-ray machine to destroy cancer cells. Malignant cells receive a high dose of radiation for approximately five minutes, during a six- to eight-week course of treatment. Side effects are fatigue, redness in the treated area, hoarseness or difficulty swallowing
Targeted Therapies
Unlike other cancers, traditional chemotherapy has not been shown to be beneficial in the treatment of thyroid cancer. For thyroid cancers that have become resistant to radioactive iodine or which continue to progress despite surgery and/or external beam radiation, a number of new medications that target the biochemical abnormalities in thyroid cancer are available. Although none of these therapies are currently approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of thyroid cancer, a number of clinical studies have shown that they are reasonably effective in halting the progression of the tumor. As part of the Southern California Thyroid Cancer Consortium, Cedars-Sinai's Thyroid Cancer Program physicians are well versed in the administration of targeted therapies and are kept abreast of current clinical trials on the west coast.
Following surgery or other treatments, regular follow-up visits with an endocrinologist are very important to check for the return of cancer to the thyroid or the spread of cancer cells to other organs in the body. Monitoring of thyroglobulin levels with periodic blood tests is key to proper treatment. Consistently high levels of thyroglobulin can signal a return of the cancer. Depending on the size of the tumor, the rate of growth or how close it is to other organs, a physician may recommend further imaging diagnostics and treatment. Thyroid cancer can recur as late as 20 or 30 years after the original diagnosis or treatment, although if a patient remains cancer free for five years, the recurrence rate decreases.


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Yes, exactly, "triples" implies "ordered triples". (1, 2, 1) is NOT the same as (2, 1, 1).however, the answer works it out to not hold.
It goes as follows:
Set u = (u1, u2, u3), then
= (k+m)(u1, u2, u3)
= ((k+m)u1, (k+m)u2, (k+m)u3)
ku + mu
= (ku1, ku2, ku3) + (mu1, mu2, mu3)
= (ku3 + mu3, ku2 + mu2, ku1 + mu1)
since these are not equal, this axiom does not hold.'
Now, I don't understand why these two are not equal?
Can we not further simplify:
(ku3 + mu3, ku2 + mu2, ku1 + mu1)
= ((k+m)u3, (k+m)u2, (k+m)u1) ?
That way, does it not equal = ((k+m)u1, (k+m)u2, (k+m)u3)) ?
or is it not equal because the order of the triple is different?
I'm quite confused and any help would be much appreciated!
Have a great day all


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