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I want to address an age-old water cooler question that Chris discussed in his post at Smart Football. Consider two RBs, both with identical YPC averages. One however, is a boom and bust guy, like Barry Sanders, and the other is a steady plodder like Jerome Bettis. Which kind of RB would you rather have on your team?
The answer is it depends. Essentially, we have a choice between a high-variance RB and a low-variance RB. When a team is an underdog team, it wants high-variance intermediate outcomes to maximize its chances of winning. And when a team is a favorite, it wants low-variance outcomes. Whether those outcomes occur through play selection, through 4th down doctrine, or through RB style, isn't important. If you're an otherwise below-average team, you'd want the boom and bust style RB. If you're an otherwise above-average team, you'd want the steady plodder. . . .
Further, even if the high-variance RB has a lower average YPC, we'd still want him carrying the ball when we're losing. This is due to the math involved in competing probability distributions.
That's just one aspect of it. He uses a handy chart for the distribution of runs for the various backs...
...and notes how curious it is that Tomlinson's distribution looks so much like that of the rest of the NFL. (This same thing ends up holding true for most backs.) What conclusions does Burke draw? With the usual caveats,
[w]hat amazes me is how similar they all are to each other and to the league average. . . . Usually, a RB needs 4 to 5 yards to just break even in terms of his team's probability of converting a first down. What we'd want to see on a RB's distribution is as much probability mass as possible to the right of 4 yards.
So if [Jerome] Bettis' distribution looks so much like Tomlinson's, how does Bettis have a 3.9 career YPC and Tomlinson have a 4.4 career YPC? As others have noted previously, the difference among RB YPC numbers primarily come from big runs. It's the open field breakaway ability that separates the guys with big YPC stats from the other RBs. Of Tomlinson's runs, 1.5% were for 30 yards or more. Bettis' 30+ yd gains comprised only 0.46% of his carries. The other RBs and the league average are as follows:
- [Jamal] Lewis 0.88%
- [Brian] Westbrook 0.93%
- [Adrian] Peterson 2.20%
Adrian Peterson's 2.2% figure is exceptional. It's interesting because it really suggests that what separates Peterson as a great runner is based on only 2% or so of his runs. Otherwise, he's practically average.
2. Courtesy of Brophy, I have added video of Mike Leach's "settle & noose" drill, which, it will be recalled, is both a great warm-up drill and works on teaching receivers to find holes in the zone and quarterbacks how to deliver the ball to them.
3. Tom Brady muses on life with Bill Belichick. As he tells Details:
"You'll practice on a Wednesday, and you'll come in Thursday morning and he'll have the film up there from practice," Brady says. "Sometimes, during practice, you throw a bad ball—that's the way it goes. But the video comes up and he says, 'Brady, you can't complete a g--damn hitch.' And I'll be sitting there thinking, I'm a [expletive] nine-year veteran, I've won three ---damn Super Bowls — he can kiss my... That's what you're thinking on the inside. But on the outside I'm thinking, You know what? I'm glad he's saying that. I'm glad that's what he's expecting, you know? Because that's what I should be expecting. That's what his style is."
(Ht Shutdown Corner).
4. Bruce Feldman chats with Norm Chow, who materializes into matter from various spectral rays to participate.
5. The NY Times's The Quad Blog chats with Dan Shanoff about, what else, his Tim Teblow blog.
6. Spencer Hall/Orson Swindle to SB Nation. When you get $7 million from Comcast, you better find ways to spend it, and I can't think of a better way than for SBNation (whose official name is "Sportsblogs, Inc.") to lure Every Day Should Be Saturday's Spencer Hall over, including away from the Sporting News. I like everyone else think this is a wise move for both sides, but one underrated aspect is that Mr. Hall/Swindle (Mr. Hall-Swindle? I kind of like that) will be able to focus on just one blog (and probably a book too), which should really let him flourish.
7. Holly over at Dr Saturday remembers Northwestern's magical 1995 season, which is still the only 10 win season in school history. This was a sort of epoch-changing season for NW -- though that is a very relative statement -- in that the Wildcats' history since has been considerably better. Indeed, two years later I saw them play in the Citrus Bowl against Tennessee (this was back in the "You can't spell Citrus without UT" days). Though, most of that game was spent marveling at the show Peyton Manning put on (408 yards, 4 touchdowns, no interceptions) as I sat there telling everyone around me what Peyton Manning's audibles would be (for some reason Northwestern thought it could play man coverage against Tennessee's receivers, so he kept checking to fades and slants). In any event, it is hard to overstate how strange but wonderful that 1995 season was for Northwestern. In football, sometimes the gods are with you.


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WASHINGTON – Virginia plans to begin allowing commuter buses to use the shoulders of Interstate 66 inside the Capitol Beltway as part of a pilot project aimed at reducing congestion along the heavily traveled route.
At a task force hearing on buses on shoulder lanes, Virginia and Maryland transportation officials briefed members about how they could ease congestion along Interstate 270 and I-66. The task force is part of the Transportation Planning Board at the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments.
Virginia Department of Transportation officials are considerably further along than Maryland. The agency hopes to begin its pilot program in 2014 along five segments of I-66 inside the Beltway.
Travelers are able to use the shoulders west of the Beltway during certain hours of the day.
"We were told to make sure something is up and running in 16 to 18 months", says Kanti Srikanth, director of transportation planning at VDOT.
The pilot segments would run:
- Eastbound from the Dulles Toll Road to Haycock Road
- Eastbound from North Sycamore Street to North Jacksonville Street
- Westbound from North Quincy Drive to North George Mason Drive
- East and Westbound from North Spout Run Parkway to North Nash Street
"That means there are fewer people driving in cars and those that continue to drive will receive the benefit of less competition on the road," says Arlington County Board Member Chris Zimmerman.
According to VDOT, the pilot program will cost about $2.1 million and would last 12 months.
"Our strategy on the planning level is find the money from existing projects," says Srikanth, who was confident the money would be there.
Meanwhile in Maryland, a similar project to allow buses to use the shoulder lane along I-270 between Interstate 70 and the Beltway is still several years away.
"The most important point is that this is a preliminary effort. We're just entering the game here," says Barrett Kiedrowski with the Maryland State Highway Authority.
"We just started this year ago. I am very pleased on where we've come," says City of Frederick Alderman Carol Krimm, who arrived at the meeting late because of traffic on I-270.
"The Maryland Department of Transportation is now considering the option on I-270, which is congested. But I would encourage the local counties to put this project in their Priority Letters," says Krimm, referring to the annual letter that counties send to the Department of Transportation to seek funding for a list of top local projects.
Officials hope a new state transportation funding package may help the effort along.
But during the state highway administration presentation, planners admitted several problems that have yet to be addressed. Among them are traffic choke points in Montgomery and Frederick counties and conflict points where buses would cross other traffic, like at an exit ramp.
In total, there would be 22 choke or conflict points, along with 17 spots along bridges where the shoulder would need to be lengthened or widened to allow buses to use them.
The highway administration does not have the money to study such problems, nor does it have the $3 million to $6 million the agency says it would cost per mile to improve the shoulder for bus travel.
The Monocacy Battlefield, a historic landmark in Frederick along I-270, poses another problem.
The presentation left one transit watcher dismayed at the lack of progress in Maryland, compared to those across the Potomac.
"You're going to see the difference between something that's very close to implementation and Maryland that's just starting to look at the concept," says Krimm.
"It took Virginia passing a transportation package before Maryland woke up and got something done. Maybe, once again, it'll take Virginia taking the lead on the bus on the shoulder pilot to get us in gear about doing it on 270," says Tina Slater, president of the Montgomery County Action Committee for Transit.
The task force plans to issue recommendations to the Transportation Planning Board early this summer.
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The losers, however, make themselves clear fairly quickly. Here are five electoral losers, on election night.
1. The California Republican Party: It's hard to overstate how much this party lost. The Democrats appeared to gain supermajorities in both houses of the legislature. Prop 40, a referendum the Republicans qualified and then abandoned to reverse state senate districts, failed (which, in the parlance of referendum, means the "yes" side won). This emphasized how the party wasted money it badly needs. The voters adopted two tax increase measures the party opposed, and voted down Prop 32, the limitation on union and corporate contributions that the party supported.
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2. Molly Munger: The wealthy civil rights lawyer spent tens of millions on a pet idea -- income tax increases to pay for schools. And her measure, Prop 38, was getting crushed, barely getting a quarter of the vote in early returns. Munger didn't just lose -- she lost in a way that discredited her idea, and created no movement for more direct-to-school districts local education funding. She might have been better off burning that money in the street.
3. Jerry Brown: The governor's Prop 30 measure won, which should also land him on the winner's list, but as your blogger has noted, a victory for Brown on 30 is full of political danger, since he now owns, at least politically, the state's thoroughly broken budget.
4. La Jolla hotels: If Mitt Romney, owner of a La Jolla beach house, had been elected president, he would attracted all sorts of folks -- media, White House staff, fans -- to La Jolla hotels. Now, local lodges won't get that bounce. The good news for those in La Jolla: no presidential traffic jams.
5. Voters who really care about the state budget: Yes, you think you want the budget balanced, but Californians proved again they couldn't care less. Prop 35, a measure that imposed costly new penalties and requirements related to human trafficking, passed overwhelmingly. And Prop 31, an overly complicated but sincere effort to rein in the budget, failed.


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10:12AM: Michael Grange tweets that the NHL has agreed to TWO amnesty buyouts prior to the 2013-14 season.
Grange also notes that the two sides have agreed on year to year salary variances of 20%
9:49AM: According to Damien Cox in the Toronto Star, the NHL has reportedly agreed to allowing TWO players from each team to receive an amnesty buyout.
Last week the league proposed ONE amnesty buyout,before 2013-14, that would count against the players share but not against the salary cap.
The player would still receive his money but it would not count against the salary cap.
Wade Redden is expected to be bought out by the Rangers.
The NBA CBA has a clause allowing teams FIVE years to use their amnesty clause on a player whose contract was signed before the 2011-12 lockout.
Adam Rotter: If there are two buyouts, and the Rangers are allowed to buy out Redden before the start of this season, I would think that Mike Rupp would be a strong candidate to be bought out before the start of next season. The cap is coming down and the time of paying over $1 million for fourth line players appears to be over. Rupp would have one year left on his deal at $1.5 million and Michael Haley, while not as polished a player or the locker room presence that Rupp is, is due $600,000 next season. John Tortorella is a big fan of Rupp, but it becomes a numbers game and unless Rupp makes a bigger impact on the ice, the team can't afford to pay him that much with other players needing that cap space.


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Sometimes the hardest part about getting involved in a new sport is the ability to try it out in the first place.
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Children involved in the program can ski or ride at Breckenridge, Keystone, Arapahoe Basin, Vail and Beaver Creek for free for up to four days at each resort.
First-timers will also receive a complimentary beginner ski or snowboard lesson and equipment rental that can be used from Dec. 2 to Dec. 15, 2013, or Jan. 5 to Jan. 31, 2014, as part of "Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month."
The School of Shred program was introduced by Vail Resorts in 2008 and is designed to help inspire a lifelong passion for the outdoors and an active lifestyle for kids throughout Colorado.
To sign up to receive the School of Shred pass for fifth- or sixth-graders, a parent or guardian will need to present documentation proving eligibility. This can be a report card, school ID indicating grade level for the current school year, or a valid birth certificate at any resort season pass office or any Front Range Vail Resorts' Epic pass sales location.
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The tours are offered twice a day during the week and three times a day on weekends and cost $49 per person.
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Snowsports and ski area leaders unite on Capitol Hill
On Sept. 24 and 25, board members from SnowSports Industries America (SIA), the snow sports industry's member-owned trade association, along with National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) board members, joined forces in Washington, D.C., to discuss how to grow participation and to lobby around regulatory and trade issues currently affecting the snow sports industry.
SIA and NSAA spent the day on Capitol Hill meeting with members of Congress and their key staff members focusing on five main issues: Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, Miscellaneous Tarriff Bill, TSA Policy for Avalanche Air Bag Canisters, Water Rights for Land Resorts and Immigration and Visas.
NSAA and SIA will also be working together in the future to expand the efforts of the snow sports participation programs Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month and Bring a Friend Challenge.
"Getting all of us to focus on the issue and share best practices is the best way to move the needle for the industry. The resorts and the equipment providers are symbiotically linked," said Stephen Kircher of Boyne Resorts and the NSAA board.
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Is the following correct?
- If something is provable for small sets in ZFC with Axiom of Universes ("For any set x, there exists a universe U such that x∈U.") then it is provable for any sets in ZFC (without Axiom of Universes).
I want to work in ZFC with Axiom of Universes, but I wish my results be downgradable to plain ZFC. Help?


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The Princess Bride is a 1973 adventure story by William Goldman. Goldman presents his novel as if it were a shortened version of a classic book by S. Morgenstern, a writer from the imaginary country of Florin. Goldman uses the façade of an original work as an excuse to make commentary on the style and action throughout the book.
In the introduction, Goldman claims he has had a lifelong relationship with the story A Princess Bride. He says that he was a late bloomer who could barely read until the age of ten, when his father, an immigrant from Florin, read him the novel while he was recovering from pneumonia. Afterward, Goldman became addicted to adventure stories and grew up to become a writer. As an adult, Goldman tried to read The Princess Bride himself and realized that his father had skipped over substantial boring parts. This inspired him to create an abridgment.
The main story of The Princess Bride begins with Buttercup, a girl who is so beautiful that people come from all around to see her. Buttercup thinks very little about them—largely because she is a rather dimwitted girl who has very few thoughts on any subject. If the young men get annoying, she asks the farm boy, Westley, to get rid of them. He says, "As you wish," and he beats up the other boys.
Eventually, Buttercup realizes that she is in love with Westley. When she tells him this, he immediately goes to America to seek his fortune so he can marry her. Before he leaves, he kisses her, and the kiss surpasses the greatness of all five of the highest-rated kisses since the invention of the kiss in 1642 B.C. Sadly, however, Westley's ship is attacked by the Dread Pirate Roberts, who is well known for killing his victims ruthlessly. Buttercup locks herself in her room for days to grieve. When she emerges, she is far and away the most beautiful girl alive. She says she will never again fall in love.
Prince Humperdinck, the leader of Florin, is a great hunter whose main interest is keeping and maintaining a Zoo of Death full of animals he can release and hunt. One day he is in his zoo when the doctor comes and tells him his father is dying. "Drat!" says Prince Humperdinck. "That means I shall have to get married."
Prince Humperdinck refuses to marry Noreena, the princess of Guilder, because she is bald. Count Rugen, Prince Humperdinck's only confidant, suggests marrying a commoner who is renowned for beauty. Rugen finds Buttercup, and Humperdinck agrees that she is stunning. She refuses to marry him, even under threat of death, until Humperdinck tells her he does not care whether or not she loves him.
Several years later, Buttercup is introduced to the people of Florin, and Humperdinck announces that they will be married. Afterward, Buttercup goes for a ride to ponder, in her dimwitted mind, the fact that she dislikes the prince. She is on her way home when she encounters three travelers: a Sicilian, a Spaniard, and a giant Turk. The Sicilian knocks her out, then frames people from Guilder as her kidnappers. He tells his companions that they are going to take Buttercup to Guilder and kill her in order to start a war.
In the boat on the way to Guilder, Buttercup jumps overboard and attempts to get away, but the Sicilian, Vizzini, manages to recapture her. However, he and his companions soon notice that they are being followed by a man dressed in black who surprises them with his strength and resilience. Vizzini takes Buttercup and the giant ahead, and he leaves the Spaniard, Inigo, to fight their pursuer.
At this point, the story flashes back in time to Inigo's childhood with his father, Domingo, a sword maker. When Inigo was a little boy, Domingo made a beautiful sword for a nobleman with six fingers, but the nobleman killed Domingo in an argument over the sword's price. Inigo swore he would get revenge, and he spent ten years building his strength and studying swordplay. Now he believes himself to be the greatest swordsman in the world, but he cannot find the...
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Resist the reflex to reach for a bottle of ibuprofen to reduce swelling. "Killing pain is fine," says Andrew Pruitt, author of Andy Pruitt's Medical Guide for Cyclists, "but deflating inflammation during the initial stages of injury may actually delay healing." In fact, anti-inflammatories inhibit enzymes called prostaglandis, which promote circulation to the injured area and increase tissue permeability, so your body's repair cells can clear out the wreckage. For the first 48 hours, use paracetamol, which is purely a pain reliever, says Pruitt, "so you don't suppress the healing process." After that, anti-inflammatories are fine.
Move it
Resting doesn't mean immobilising yourself in front of the TV. Take it easy on the injured body part, but stay in motion to keep blood flowing, which will help you heal faster and maintain fitness. You could try swimming, brisk walking, aquajogging or rowing depending on your injury.
Eat to heal
You may not be training, but your body still burns about 100 per cent more calories than usual when it's trying to repair an injury. "It's important that you feed your body what it needs to mend," says Dr Liz Applegate, author of Nutrition Basics for Better Performance. She recommends boosting your intake of protein, which builds muscles and soft tissues, to between 100g and 120g a day. Other recovery nutrients include iron to build blood; and zinc to speed-up wound healing - both are found in lean meat, whole grains and fortified cereal. If you fall off your bike and suffer road rash, vitamins A and C help create new skin and collagen. If you broke a bone, bump up your calcium intake to 1,500mg a day.
The one-to-two rule
For each week you can't train, spend one to two weeks rebuilding your base before returning to hard training. If you were off for three weeks, it could take as many as six before you can tackle another race.
Go solo
During the first weeks back after injury, limit group training where you may be tempted to push your pace. If you long for company, go with the group for the first few miles of bike or run training, then do your own thing.
Warning signs
It's natural to feel twinges when you return to training after injury, but they should fade as you warm up. If pain keeps flaring, back off. "The single most common cause of re-injury is doing too much too soon," Pruitt says. Your body may also be vulnerable to over-training when you're coming back from injury, so respect rest and easy days.


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No group has stepped forward so far to claim responsibility for a massive car bombing in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi that killed at least 45 people over the weekend in what appeared to be the latest attack on the Shiite minority in the country.
The blast Sunday tore into nearby buildings, wounding about 150 people, and authorities warned that the death toll could rise as rescue workers continued to search for bodies amid the rubble.
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::Anyway, how do you (and the Mrs.!) think the article should be organized?[[User:Zla'od|Zla'od]] 00:45, January 8, 2008 (PST)
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Is there a reason why the cleanup tag, wiki formatting, and grammar editing have been taken out and replaced by what seems to be basically the originally posted article? Vandrona 04:17, March 6, 2007 (PST)
- It looks like the original poster came back with corrections and re-posted a updated article. This wiped out the edits by others. The original poster may not have known that the article was updated.
- To he original poster: Please keep in mind that this is a community project. Always edit the latest version of an article. If you have a work in progress, please use the Template:Inprogress template. Andrew 05:14, March 6, 2007 (PST)
- It doesn't seem to have helped. My contributions to the article were deleted, together with the cleanup tag, without an explanation. Vandrona 10:10, April 19, 2007 (PDT)
This article reads like a homily, citing many sources that are of borderline relevance. The topic, I think, should be focused on the issue of what various Orthodox sources have to say about sexual issues. The nature of marriage is obviously the starting point (and didn't I hear that marriage is equal in dignity to the monastic life, not inferior to it as this article suggests?).
One important problem is the extent to which "the Church" can be said to offer a single, coherent answer to issues such as masturbation. I would be surprised to find many authoritative writings or sermons referring to it (more on undefined "temptations") but I'm sure they exist. The question then becomes, can such pronouncements be described as marginal to the church, or are they integral to it?
A more serious issue is that of "fornication" (read, nonmarital sex relations, presumed to be heterosexual and nonadulterous). Certainly any number of biblical and patristic citations thunder against it, and yet, the attitude of spiritual fathers who must deal with real-world relationships is not always so uncompromising. Do they (the confessors) too not represent the Church? Is it un-Orthodox to claim that such rules (like the question of polygamy, perhaps) owe as much to secular social mores as to universal moral principles?
Other topics which ought to be covered include homosexuality and birth control. Zla'od 00:32, January 4, 2008 (PST)
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Several times I have written things, only to have them deleted, with the only discussion being the comments in the summary box. Not only does this discourage me, and probably others, from contributing, but it seems unlikely to allow for a decent article to develop. May I suggest that try to agree here on how the article should look? Otherwise, the text will just revert to whoever has the most strident views and the most time.
So, what DOES Orthodoxy teach about sex? We desperately need a methodology for establishing this. On one hand, as I understand matters, the Orthodox faithful are not REQUIRED to believe anything that is not specifically mentioned in the creeds (which would include all sexual subjects except those pertaining to the Virgin Mary). Even matters specifically proscribed by the Bible (such as shrimp-eating) need not be assumed to be applicable.
On the other hand, there is the matter of Tradition. Certainly any number of authorities within Orthodoxy have made pronouncements of various types, which would yield a lengthy list of recommendations and prohibitions. The problem here is that it is difficult to establish which of these are to be included within the "Tradition." For example, I believe Chrysostom recommended marriage at a relatively young age (before military service for men), which strikes most people today as profoundly bad advice.
The issue of personal advice from one's spiritual father is another vexed issue. For many people, the Church "speaks" on such matters through this very personalized route, which does not well lend itself to being summarized, transcribed, or generalized about. By making pronouncements to the effect that the Church commands this or that, we perhaps render too concrete advice that is meant to be personalized. (Also, there seems to be some disagreement as to the appropriateness of approaching one's spiritual father for help with personal decisions such as who to date, or what to do with them while dating.
Anyway, may I suggest the following topics?
- The nature of romantic love
- The nature of marriage (Genesis, Cana)
- The nature and applicability of commandments pertaining to sex and marriage
- The theme of resisting lust and temptation
- Traditions of celibacy and fasting (from sex as well as food)
- A catalogue of sexual topics, mentioning which Orthodox authorities have taken which positions
- Examples of dating and relationship advice (I am aware of pamphlets)
- A floor-plan showing which sections of church might legitimately be used for sex, provided no other condition prohibited it (ha ha, just kidding on this one)
Your thoughts? Zla'od 17:15, January 7, 2008 (PST)
My .02
Hi, Zla'od! I'm Mike, Gabriela's husband. Welcome to Orthodoxwiki! I normally don't make comments or edit heavily, leaving that to my darling wife, but I am a longtime reader of Orthodoxwiki. I don't think we've had this much discussion on an article here on our humble little site for awhile! :)
I think first I want to say is that it is extremely important that articles stick to a certain mainstream Chalcedonian Orthodox POV. I'll give you an example:
On occasion, I do write articles on saints and when fancy strikes me, heresy and different religious movements. Awhile back, I wrote an article on Mormonism, complete with detailed descriptions of Mormon history and its theology. Fr. Andrew kindly directed me on how my article wasn't fitting with the rest of Orthodoxwiki, and that I needed to "Orthodoxize" it. So I went back and made points about how Mormon theology and history doesn't fit with Orthodox theology and the way we view ecclesiastical history. It is important that all articles follow with this theme.
Second, the Church practices oikonomia, which essentially means flexible observance of the canons. During confession, many priests exercise oikonomia when penitents seek out pastoral direction in special circumstances, and consequently, penances may be lower than what the canons prescribe. This does not say that the Church condones certain exercises such as masturbation, adultery, or fornication. However, the Church in her wisdom grants us this mercy because we are weak.
Let me give you an example: Christ said in both the Gospels of St. Mark and St. Matthew that couples should never divorce and re-marry, lest they commit adultery (though in St. Matthew's, Christ states that men and women can divorce on the grounds of fornication). Chrysostom in Homily 19 on 1 Corinthians VII states that while this is a law which Christ established, separations do occur, and that sometimes it is necessary for two people to separate in order to save both their souls. In perfect circumstances, they should stay together. But again, we live in a fallen world.
I hope these examples have given you a look into how we view things, and that unlike Roman Catholics, we aren't legalistic - but that doesn't make us libertines as some of your comments seem to express. These are just my views. I am not a priest or a theologian, I could very much be wrong. Things regarding these matters should be discussed with an Orthodox priest that you feel comfortable talking to.
I hope to be seeing you around the Wiki more often.
The Sinner Mike 18:33, January 7, 2008 (PST)
- Hello Mike, and thank you for the welcome. I do understand the "Chalcedonian bias" and in fact am trying to work within that. One point which I am very fuzzy on is the canons. What precisely do the canons says? Are they different from jurisdiction to jurisdiction? May one reject some or all of their prescriptions, and yet remain Orthodox? Assuming that some of the canons concern sexuality, these questions would be very important. Orthodox sometimes claim not to be as "legalistic" as the Catholics (does that represent a caricature?) but it seems to me that they do operate on the basis of rules (even if allowances are made for human frailty). If there are no rules, then we have no basis for saying (for example) that the Church opposes fornication or homosexuality or what have you.
- According to what I was told, the Greek word translated as "fornication" in the NT really means "prostitution." (After all, how could fornication--as distinct from adultery--be grounds for divorce? That makes no sense at all.) Of course many church authorities would oppose fornication in the modern sense of the word, no matter what the Greek of the NT meant. (And in fact many of the Fathers insisted on the authority of the Greek OT over the Hebrew original!) Here we come to an interesting problem. In what sense does "the Church" oppose fornication? Because it is in the canons somewhere? (But perhaps the canons contain other material which is no longer believed or observed...?) Because the majority of its authoritative figures believe this? Is it possible for a "liberal Orthodoxy" to exist--say, if a priest comes to a different conclusion about the matter of fornication? (Such disagreement apparently exists with respect to Universalism.)
- Anyway, how do you (and the Mrs.!) think the article should be organized?Zla'od 00:45, January 8, 2008 (PST)
- A few things to respond to, Zla'od.
- I don't know who told you that the Greek verb "to fornicate" in that specific passage is restricted only to prostitution (Matt 5:32). If we look at Attic Greek, where a large majority of Koine gets its "linguistic background," the word porneias (which is what Christ is using) is commonly translated in this case as "fornication" or "harlotry" (you can consult both Liddell & Scott Greek dictionary as well as Perseus online if you do not wish to take my word for it). Yes, it can refer to prostitution, but we have to look at circumstances and context, as most Greek writers usually are very specific, and will tell you that a certain person "accepted money" for sex, or "took it as a profession."
- This word was used interchangeably for both fornication and prostitution, but it does not mean that the ancients viewed prostitution (having sex for money) and fornication similarly.
- We can see this in Lysias (b. 458 B.C.), an Ancient Athenian forensic rhetorician. Lysias' job in Athens was writing speeches for plaintiffs and defendants in court cases. In most Ancient Greek city-states, men represented themselves, and there were no lawyers. So in order to give a good apology in court, they hired speech writers to write their statements before they addressed them to court.
- But I digress. Lysias once wrote a defense statement for a man who killed another man on the grounds that he caught said man and his wife in bed together performing the act (Against Eratosthenes). The verb which Lysias used in this case was porneo, and from this context, classicists have translated the verb as "to fornicate." To glean that Christ only meant that prostitution is the only element in the grounds for a divorce implies a poor understanding of how this word was used in the Greco-Roman world.
- Second, to really define the word canon, we have to look at Greek once again. The word kanon, which means rule, is different than the word for law, which is nomos. This does not mean that Orthodoxy has no rules or moral backbone behind it, where everyone is free to interpret the canons and do things willy nilly. To the contrary, we have had two millenniums full of martyrs who have died for what they and the Church believes to be right - spiritually and morally. However, the Church understands that not all people are the same and each circumstance is different. For example, it states in the kanons clearly that a person who has sex outside of marriage should be forbidden to receive from the chalice at Holy Communion for a certain period of time. However, a teenage boy who loses his virginity to a girl one night might be permitted to continue to receive Communion (provided that he repents), so as not to draw suspicion towards himself by other parishioners or even his family members. This not only ensures the security of the confessional and the confidentiality between the penitent and his spiritual father, it also provides the penitent with a way to get over his sin and move on without feeling ashamed to show his face in Church again, which is something good and profitable for his soul. (The example which I have given is of no known individual, but was discussed by me to my spiritual father regarding penances and confession).
- For the moment, I do not know how this article should be written. I really didn't have any qualms with it in the first place before this major edit took place. I thought that it gave a pretty basic rundown on our views on sex (i.e. that it should be kept in marriage, the virtues of celibacy as well as marriage, homosexuality, bestiality, etc.). Any major questions about sex that I have, I take up with my spiritual father.Mike 17:46, January 8, 2008 (PST)


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Felix fans 11 as Mariners rout Angels
Smoak's homer leads late surge on Opening Day
ANAHEIM -- Felix Hernandez really didn't need a wake-up call, not with Opening Day adrenaline already flowing and a new season underway. But when Mike Trout smoked a two-run homer before Hernandez had even retired his first batter on Monday night, the Mariners' ace snapped to attention.
"I was just ticked," Hernandez said after his club had rallied for a 10-3 victory over the Angels for their eighth straight season-opening victory. "Opening Day, two run-homer in the first inning? I was just, 'Really? Really, Felix? You have to go out there and do something about it.'
"After that I felt really comfortable. I was throwing a lot of strikes, just attacking the strike zone, and I guess it was working pretty good."
Hernandez wound up striking out 11 in yet another strong Opening Day performance, helping Lloyd McClendon win his Seattle managerial debut and getting his team off on the right foot as the Mariners blew the game open with six runs in the ninth.
The eight straight Opening Day wins is the longest streak in the Majors since the Reds won nine in a row from 1983-91. Not coincidentally, Hernandez has started seven of those games and is 5-0 with a 1.52 ERA after notching Monday's win.
The fact Hernandez bore down and held the Angels to just an unearned run and two more hits over the next five innings after Trout's blast didn't surprise anyone on Seattle's side.
"That's just Felix's nature," said catcher Mike Zunino. "He's the biggest competitor I know. I think he showed that a lot today and that's a good way to start the season."
It didn't surprise the Angels' 22-year-old star, either.
"Once we scored three runs on him," Trout said, "he flicked a switch and went to nasty mode."
Seattle's ninth-inning burst was built on a three-run homer by Justin Smoak and a three-run triple by Dustin Ackley. Smoak's shot to right field capped a 2-for-4 night that also included a double with three RBIs and three runs scored for the first baseman, who provided a big boost batting cleanup behind new second baseman Robinson Cano.
The Mariners banged out 11 hits -- including two each by leadoff hitter Abraham Almonte, Cano, Smoak and Ackley -- and plated 10 runs for just the third time on Opening Day in club history.
That offensive burst was a welcome sign for a team that has struggled offensively in recent years, but is looking to build now with a maturing young core surrounding new-addition Cano.
"Of course, it was just the first day," Smoak said. "But at the same time, I think a lot of us guys that have been here the last couple years, we know we need to take the next step. We're ready for it and we know what we're capable of doing. We just need to be consistent doing it and that's something we're all trying to do this year."
McClendon downplayed the significance of winning his first game with the Mariners ("Talk to me when I get to 500 wins," he said), but the new skipper was happy to note how his team rallied from a 3-2 deficit to score twice in the top of the seventh to put Hernandez in position to win the game and then blew it open late to ensure that victory.
"Given the history of what Felix has done for this organization and the battles he's had and the lack of wins, it's really special to see our guys come back and win the ballgame for him," McClendon said. "That was really special and I was really happy for Felix."
Hernandez was thrilled as well when Zunino tripled in the tying run in the top of the seventh and then scored on Almonte's double, pulling the Mariners into their first lead of the game before McClendon went to his bullpen for the final three frames.
"I was yelling a lot," Hernandez said. "I was so happy Zunino came through. He did an unbelievable job behind the plate tonight. I was throwing a lot of wild pitches and he was blocking and blocking. His hand is pretty bruised. We were on the same page every time and he did a great job. Not only Zunino, but everybody."
Hernandez was replaced after throwing 103 pitches, but the Mariners needed three relievers to get through the seventh after Trout lined a single off Charlie Furbush's leg.
Tom Wilhelmsen replaced Furbush with two on and two out and got Albert Pujols to line out to center to preserve the lead and wound up with a perfect 1 1/3 innings before handing off to Danny Farquhar to finish up in the ninth.
By that time, the Mariners offense had broken things open with four hits and three walks all coming with two out in the ninth. All nine Seattle batters contributed either an RBI or a run scored and they worked Angels pitchers for eight walks along with the 11 hits.
"I think that's going to sum up how we're going to have to be this year," Zunino said. "We're going to have to have games from everybody. We're going to have to play as a team, have collective efforts from everybody and if we can throw the ball like we did tonight and get good starts and hand the ball over to our 'pen, I think we're going to be alright."
Hernandez became the first pitcher in Major League history to start seven Opening Day games before his 28th birthday. He also broke Randy Johnson's club records with his seventh Opening Day start and his sixth in a row.
Hernandez has now recorded double-digit strikeouts 27 times in his career, including twice on Opening Day. The 11 strikeouts were the most ever recorded by a pitcher against the Angels on Opening Day.
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The UAW stinging from being unable to convince workers to unionize at Volkswagen's Tennessee plant is one thing. There's hurt over in Germany within VW's labor side over whether to even continue investment in Chattanooga.
Reuters reported today the head of VW's works council, Bernd Osterloh, is intent on stopping further investment in the company's only U.S. plant if there's no kind of unionization like a works council.
"I can imagine fairly well that another VW factory in the United States, provided that one more should still be set up there, does not necessarily have to be assigned to the south again."
Osterloh told a German newspaper any hopes of a future U.S. plant for VW, especially one in the South, would be under threat if there's no organization at Chattanooga.What isn't certain is whether that means VW's labor contingency will put road blocks in getting more product to the U.S. plant
Remember, it was former Chattanooga mayor and current U.S. senator Bob Corker who insisted there would be no 7-seat VW SUV built in Tennessee if the UAW won last week's vote. Volkswagen refuted that statement. And since the UAW's defeat, there's been no talk about the version of the CrossBlue concept being geared towards Chattanooga, even though there's space to expand that plant.
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My wife Nancy and I would like to introduce ourselves to you. We have been at Fruita Assembly of God for 35 years, and believe God's best for His church and this community are ahead of us. With great enthusiasm, we welcome you to this website, and to our church.
People attend church for a variety of reasons. Some like the music, others are more interested in the message, and some are simply looking for friendship...a place where they can belong. While all of those areas are an important part of any church's ministry, our primary purpose at Fruita Assembly of God, is to exalt the name of Jesus Christ, believing that as we worship Him, He will touch our lives and meet our needs.
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Oh lord we are BACK! I had to re-read the season finale from last year and, honestly, even though I wrote it, I'm so dizzy. Can't believe all that stuff happened in one episode . Let's break back in…
Previously, Katherine says Elena enjoys having both Stefan and Damon worship at her altar, Klaus was able to break the curse to reveal his vampire side (R.I.P Aunt Jenna), Damon was bitten by Tyler Lockwood and Stefan vowed to find a cure, but that mostly involved Klaus making him drink blood to go back to his vampy ways. And, of course, ELENA KISSED DAMON.
We open on a house in Tennessee. It's gorgeous. Farmhousey-porchy. A girl in a tiny tank and shorts is looking for her dog, Rudy, and suddenly Klaus appears in front of her, using an American accent. He swears he's not a serial killer but needs to use her phone. She's smarter than the average horror film girl and says she'll bring him out the phone, and when Klaus wonders why she's not trusting, she snarks that she's from Florida. But Klaus isn't having it, compels her, and suddenly she appears inside the house where her friend/roommate bitches about air conditioning but suddenly can't tell Klaus where Ray Sutton is, he's on the road. When Klaus presses, friend takes off running through the house..but of course, when she runs out the front door, Stefan is waiting for her. She weeps out that he's at a bar called Southern Comfort. Then Klaus tells Stefan to kill tank top fast, but to let roommate suffer. The screams echo as Klaus walks away.
As she so often is, Elena is awake in bed on nice sheets. She hauls herself up, and Kat Graham has apparently ditched the rest of her name. Elena throws open the drapes in Jere's room and tells him to get to work, Matt called. Jere hopes he'll get fired.
Elena talks to Caroline who wants her to not skip a party, and also call her mom due to an animal attack in Memphis. Alaric is looking sweaty and delightful messing over a juicer or something in the kitchen and it wouldn't take much at all for this to turn into the second-book-in-a-VC-Andrews scenario, amirite? Anyway, it's definitely vampires, Caroline says, though not necessarily Klaus. Elena begs her to 'keep tonight small'. Alaric fixes what I assume is his couch bed. This is problematic, you guys, especially when she asks if he needs a bedroom!!! But he says no and takes her in in those short-shorts. Anyway, it is, of course, Elena's birthday and he wishes her a happy one.
Damon soaks in a tub, and that girlfriend of his (forget her name) won't get him more champagne, he has to get it himself. Incredibly teasey cinematography makes you think you're going to see Somerhalder naked but no, that's only for Elena. She sees him, and he smugs that she should learn to knock. She's all business, with the 'we should check out yet another lead'. Damon won't let her go because Klaus might discover Elena's not dead, and sends her off. His work girl says she'll send him an address to look into.
The grill! Jere phone-Skypes with Bonnie, who's with her boring Dad's boring family. She just finishes saying he needs normalcy when lights flicker in the storeroom. Jere seems to know what this means and hustles Bonnie off the phone. Either Vickie or Anna is there, ominous and hovering over Jeremy but both disappear when Matt comes in, demanding to switch stations so he doesn't have to wait on Tyler and Caroline. They exposit that they're not dating, even though everyone thinks they are. "That's crazy!" Nervous giggle.
Aforementioned Southern Comfort bar. Klaus rolls right up to Ray Sutton, and, once he's identified him, ditches his American accent right-quick, and says Ray's type is hard to come by. Stefan compelled everyone else in the bar, so Klaus can explain that he's a wolf/vamp hybrid, and since Ray is a vampire, Klaus wants to know where his pack is. He says he can't compel Ray, but Stefan is ready with some scotch and some wolfsbane. Hands up if bad Stefan is your new favourite person!
Alaric – still sexy in baseball tee, and Damon show up at the location of the animal kill. I swear up and down that the way Damon asks if Rick's still sleeping on the couch means he's thinking along the same lines I am. Like, did you SEE Elena's short-shorts? So the guys go inside the house, check out the blood streaming over the walls, and then, cutesily – both bodies propped up nicely on the couch. SO creepy, but not as creepy as Damon explaining that Stefan puts the bodies back together when he's finished feeding, and proves his point by shaking one of the girls' heads off their bodies.
Elena bitches to Jeremy and Caroline that she has to fight Damon every time there's a lead on Stefan. Tyler is the guy in this situation, saying it's Elena's fault for kissing Damon, and though Caroline chastises him, he shrugs like Elena saying "it was a goodbye kiss" doesn't make a difference. Which it doesn't. As Elena leaves, Caroline gives the awesome line "Just because I tell you things, doesn't mean you're allowed to know them" but then gets mad that he's bringing 'Slutty Sophie' as his date to the party. Quit it with the woman-hating, Caroline. Anyway, they discuss how their incessant horniness is a problem. Intense stares, she sunnily hopes he gets lucky.
Damon is dousing everything in fasoline – until they somehow discover a trapdoor in the floor. At which point they realize one of the girls – or both? Are werewolves. Fire.
Bar. Stefan stirs wolfbane in Scotch and then, brutally, awesomely, stirs darts in the mixture and throws the darts at Ray. He's all Mr. Reasonable, which of course, amps up the creepy. Anyway, then someone compelled tells Klaus that Damon was at the farmhouse. Incidentally, my boyfriend just walked into the room, looked at Stefan, and said "Hey, it's TV Vampire Jacek!" (Lainey: Jacek does NOT look like that TV Vampire!)
So Stefan wants to leave to deal with it, Klaus doesn't know if he'll come back, and pouts that Stefan should be having fun.
Now – candles, Elena in a virginal white dress, and Damon looking at her while she confesses she might not not cry before the cake. Damon presents her with her protective necklace, and I can't help but love these two, even though he's rocking a bit of a mullet. BUT, I must protest the 'can you put on my necklace' move. Ladies, we been putting on necklaces for years, and if you pull this move, Elena, we both know why you're doing it. Anyway, they head down to her party.
Damon escorts Elena down the stairs like it's some sort of debutante ball. Now how many houses does this girl own now? Anyway, when she gets downstairs, it's a full-on kegger. Damon benignly compels a girl not to drink the good stuff. Elena pretends to be put out for one second before Caroline pulls her into the fray.
Jere and Matt prepare to smoke a joint. This should be interesting. Jere tells Matt about how he's been seeing 'things' since he came back from being dead. Matt slaps his knee like that's totally reasonable. Elena and Caroline wander in, pretend like they don't like the herb. Elena, in a two-years-ago throwback, goes to bitch out Jere.
Okay, the next ten seconds are hysterical. Alaric points out that he's a parents' worst nightmare- the chaperone from hell. Then Elena comes out in her I guess-not-jailbait-anymore dress, demands Damon's drink, and tells Alaric Jere's smoking weed again. Sometimes this show is only a few tweaks away from Strangers with Candy. Anyway, she sloshily asks Rick to talk to Jere.
Damon's girlfriend! Nobody's said her name yet, so as she complains that she's the last one at the studio, I realize she's gonna die tonight. Someone turns on a giant klieglight, and won't let her out of it. SO VERY META! Then it goes off, and I'm really feeling Scream-y about this whole thing. She runs, trips on a cable. Then Stefan appears in front of her. She lectures that 'we've' been looking everywhere for you, and he begins to vamp out at her…
Party. Caroline swigs from a bottle of something amber. What's the deal with Vampire hangovers? Right now she's jealous of Tyler grinding with Sophie. Matt comes over to commiserate with her, and he says the forbidden words "vampire" and "werewolf", so he jets. Then Caro compels Sophie to leave.
Outside, the old dudes talk. News reporter wants Damon to pick her up. He leaves, urging Rick to 'drink more'. Elena goes up into Damon's bedroom, where Caroline is about to drink blood. Elena wants to skip cake (BECAUSE SHE WAS LOOKING FOR DAMON IN HIS BEDROOM) and Caroline says she can't, she has to get on with her life. Elena bites out that she won't give up on finding Stefan, she just wants to know he's alive.
Elena, in Damon's what, closet? Sees that Damon's been tracking Klaus without her. She doesn't know why Damon wouldn't just tell her.
So Damon's at the news network, and Elena calls him to bitch. Little knowing what she's gonna have to bitch about. Anyway, Stefan meets Damon. These bitchy sessions between them are always entertaining. Stefan says let him go, Damon laughs at the idea that he'll ever let Stefan go. Anyway, Stefan has compelled Andie up to the catwalks, and then makes her fall off them to her death. Naturally. Having made his point, Stefan vanishes.
Jere in fantasy land. He's about to drive stoned, but the only person more stoned is Matt, so Jere's going to drive him, but Vickie appears in the car, begging Jere to help her. Matt sniffs as though he heard something, but it's not 'til Anna appears in front of the headlights that Jere realizes he's not driving anywhere.
Caroline (black dress, for those keeping track of the symbolism) snots through the party. Tyler's annoyed that Caroline won't say she actually wants to date him, they kiss really really hard, did anyone not know this was coming? She's not so horny, though, that she can't bitch at Damon for having missed the cake.
Damon, in his bedroom. So's Elena. She's in a fury, which he exacerbates by calling her an idiot. She's so furious, and finally Damon reveals. The victims aren't Klaus's, they're Stefan's. She doesn't want to believe it but Damon tells her the hard truth. Stefan that she knew isn't coming back – at least, not in her lifetime.
House of unsupervised wayward teens. Matt and Jere have progressed to the munchies portion of the evening. Matt takes the ice cream for the road. Then Matt asks why Jere said Vickie, and these two together never constituted a braintrust, did they? Matt takes Jere's 'Seeing her" to mean that he only sees her because he loves her. Poor Jere looks at Matt like "Wow, you suck, being the only non-supernatural in town"
Back at the bar, Ray is pinned to a pool table. Klaus, who has big plans for him, forces Ray to drink his own blood. Then, as Stefan watches, he snaps Ray's neck. Klaus tells Stefan it'll be easier and easier not to care about his old life, the more blood he drinks.
As Elena comes in, Alaric packs up, and the dumb reason he gives, rather than "You're never dressed, Elena!" is that he's not a good example. So, more or less the same thing then. He leaves her, which is pretty much awful, on her birthday.
Caroline and Tyler are about to have really, really hot violent sex.
Damon's mullet is more and more apparent as he trashes his bedroom. Then he seems to think of something.
Stefan, leaving the bar, is overcome with – is that remorse? Maybe. He pulls out his phone -
Elena has a beautifully drawn happy birthday card. Jeremy? Elena's phone rings, from 'caller unknown'. She says "Hello" a couple of times. She can tell that it's him. Swears he'll be okay. He says nothing…weeps and nods into the phone. It's obviously very heartbreaking.
Caroline dresses and leaves Tyler. She looks regretful. Why now? Possibly because she knows she's about to run into Mrs. Lockwood, who's all judgy. But not just that – Caroline goes to grab her purse, it burns her hand – and Lockwood takes the opportunity to shoot three tranq darts into Caroline's back.
So, like a normal day then.
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The way hunters speak and act in public makes an impression on non-hunters. Each hunter represents every hunter. Describing how "I stuck one but couldn't find it" in front of non-hunters is generally repulsive to them. Non-hunters can easily become anti-hunters based on the way hunters conduct themselves in public.
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- Total number of U.S. licensed hunters (all types of sporting arms) is more than 13 million.
- 33% of all licensed U.S. hunters (all types of equipment) hunted with archery equipment at least once in the last two years.
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Liberty University professor ranks in Top 10 on RateMyProfessors.com
Dr. Troy Matthews, assistant professor of Contemporary Issues at Liberty University, has been ranked No. 3 on RateMyProfessors.com's list of Top Professors of 2008.
The website allows students nationwide to rate their professors and post comments about them.
Receiving a total of 76 rankings, Matthews is described on the site by many students as one of the best professors on campus and someone who works to make learning fun.
Matthews, who also serves as Assistant Director of Christian/Community Service at Liberty, earned his Master of Religious Education from Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary in 1987. He went on to receive his Doctor of Education from Argosy University in 2005.
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The goal of early stage treatment is to remove as much of the cancer as possible, while preserving as much of the lungs and their function as possible. Additional treatment may help to prevent the spread or recurrence of cancer. The treatment plan will often include a combination of approaches based on the characteristics of the cancer, patient's age, general health, and prognosis.
Lung cancer is usually found in advanced stages, so treatment may focus on palliative care, managing symptoms caused by cancer, and maintaining as good a quality of life as possible. Advanced cancer treatments can be difficult, so have an honest discussion about the risks and benefits before getting started. Talk to your doctor about counseling or support groups. They can be beneficial for you and your family.
The healthcare team will be made up of a variety of health professionals including doctors, surgeons, nurses, and pharmacists. It is important to maintain contact with your medical team, adhere to recommended treatment, and go to any recommended appointments for best outcomes possible.
Lung cancer treatment includes:Lifestyle changesSurgeryChemotherapyRadiation therapyMedicationsOther treatments
Existing treatment protocols have been established and continue to be modified through clinical trials. These research studies are essential to determine whether or not new treatments are both safe and effective. Since highly effective treatments for many cancers remain unknown, numerous clinical trials are always underway around the world. You may wish to ask your doctor about participating in a clinical trial. You can find out about clinical trials at the US National Institutes of Health website.
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