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Europe's Week Ahead: Economic Growth in Focus
The week ahead will provide early indications of the state of global economic growth in July, with business surveys in China and the euro zone. ARM Holdings and Credit Suisse report earnings data too. Nina Bains and Sara Sjolin report.
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November 12, 2004
Is compulsive spending ruining your life? According to a recent Gallup poll, the average American owes $29,000 in credit card debt, and last year, 1.6 million U.S. households filed for bankruptcy. Dr. Phil has advice for avoiding credit card catastrophes this holiday season.
Retail Therapy
Katie, a college senior, ran up $10,000 worth of debt on her father's credit cards. "Katie knows how to play me like a violin," says her dad, Ron.
Compulsive Shopper
Dan can't stop buying Star Trek and other collectibles, and has racked up nearly $30,000 in credit card debt. His wife, Jeri, is threatening divorce because his spending is out of control.
What's behind Dan's obsession?
"We Live Like Millionaires"
Lynette, who lives the phrase "Shop 'til you drop," has over $38,000 in credit card debt. She bought 10 cars in five years, and worries that she's setting a bad example for her daughters.
Lynette's agreement with Dr. Phil.
The Simple Life
This phenomenal family has their finances under control and challenges America to live their modest lifestyle.

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Friend Exchange Rates
I wonder what the exchange rate is on Dunbar's number.
Popularized by Tipping Point, Dunbar's number suggests that there's a limit to social cognition. Roughly speaking, 150 people can form a tight social group; any larger and closeness suffers. Inasmuch, we sacrifice intimacy and trade familiarity for breadth. Is there an optimal social mix?
I'm not critiquing Dunbar's accuracy or claiming we cap our friendships at 150 people. (My 800 Facebook "friends" might think ill of me for saying so.) But, I inherently feel a physical limit to my intimate capacity: it's impossibly difficult to know — to really know — a certain number of people.
To achieve such feats in friendship, I trade intimacy for connectivity. There are ten people I have always been close with (family included), and another twenty or so that are close friends. Call it thirty.
Using 150 as a benchmark, this leaves 120 slots. Using my 800 Facebook-friends as an indicator of my extended network, this means that 800 fit into those 120 intimate slots. Very roughly speaking, I trade one close friend for 6.67 acquaintances.
By comparison, consider someone like Gary Vaynerchuk or Robert Scoble. Assume each has thirty close friends. Both hit the 5,000-friend limit on Facebook. That's at least 42 acquaintances per close friend slot. That's a lot of people. Both are connected to thousands more.
I wonder at what point, between the 800 I have and the 5,000 (and more) they have, can they not keep track of, let alone remember, those acquaintances.
What if I were to try to know — to really know — those 800 people I'm connected with. How far could I get?
Or would I just lose intimacy with everyone?
Is that what we're doing to ourselves?


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Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt Got Married At Her 50th Birthday Party?
February 19th, 2019
Jennifer Aniston was born on February 11, 1969. Best known for "Friends," acting runs in the star's family. Her mother Nancy Dow was an actress, and her father, John Aniston, has been on "Days of Our Lives" since 1985. She and Dow, who has since passed away, were estranged for a number of years, but reconciled in 2005.
A graduate of New York's LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, Aniston began her career on the stage. Then, in 1990, she was cast as Ferris Bueller's sister in the TV adaptation of the beloved movie. The series only lasted one season, and she went on to make her film debut in 1993's "Leprechaun."
Her big break came in 1994 when Aniston landed the role on "Friends." Playing the lovable Rachel Green resulted in Aniston taking home an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. Along with her cast mates, Aniston became one of TV's highest-paid stars, earning $1 million per episode during the end of the show's run.
Aniston continued to appear in films during her time on "Friends," which ended in 2004. He credits included "The Object of My Affection," "Along Came Polly," and "The Good Girl," among others. After "Friends" ended in 2004, she made such movies as "Rumor Has It," "The Break-Up," "Marley & Me," He's Just Not That Into You," "Horrible Bosses," "Just Go With It," "Wanderlust," "We're The Millers," "Mother's Day" and "Office Christmas Party," among many others.
Aniston received some of the best reviews of her career for 2014's "Cake," in which she plays a woman suffering from chronic pain. Though nominated for a Golden Globe, Critics' Choice Movie Award, and Screen Actors' Guild Award, she was surprisingly snubbed by the Oscars in early 2015. In addition to her acting work, Aniston has endorsement deals with such brands as SmartWater, Aveeno and Emirates Airline. Aniston is also heavily involved in philanthropic endeavors, including her work for St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. The actress also previously received GLAAD's Vanguard Award and hosted the first-ever Stand Up to Cancer telethon.
In 2000, Aniston wed Brad Pitt. The couple divorced in 2005, after he met future wife Angelina Jolie while filming "Mr. & Mrs. Smith." Despite Aniston and Pitt's relationship ending a decade ago, Gossip Cop continually busts wrong tabloid stories about the former spouses.
Following her divorce from Pitt, Aniston had several high-profile relationships with famous men, including Vince Vaughn, John Mayer, and her "Wanderlust" co-star Justin Theroux. In 2012, Theroux and Aniston got engaged and wed three years later. The actress has expressed in many interviews that she isn't interested in having children, despite the tabloids often alleging that the actress is pregnant. By February 2018, Aniston and Theroux had announced they had split.
Aniston can next be seen co-starring in the war drama, "The Yellow Birds." She's also attached to star in the beauty pageant comedy "Dumplin'" and a sequel to "We're the Millers."
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White supremacist fliers found in Connecticut neighborhood driveways
Several hundred papers were found
Several hundred papers were found
White supremacist fliers found in driveways and mailboxes Monday morning in Norwalk, Connecticut have caused alarm.
Several hundred printed fliers, enclosed in plastic sleeves and weighted down with gravel, were tossed into driveways with the following message:
"We must secure the existence of our race and a future for white children. MAKE AMERICA WHITE AGAIN." It lists a website run by a man named Mike Enoch, who the Southern Poverty Law Center characterizes as an "alt-right" extremist. Alt-right is a recent term describing the white nationalist movement.
One resident, who asked that her name not be used, gathered up several fliers from her driveway and from neighbors and filed a complaint at Norwalk police headquarters.
"The police took it very seriously, they brought me to a room to interview me," the woman said. "They said they will canvas the area to see if anyone has cameras on their homes."
Another Newtown Avenue resident, who declined to give his name, appeared less concerned.
"People have the right to say what they want," he said. "I don't think this will win them any friends, but they they have the right to do it."
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Traditional Medicine and Pseudoscience in China: A Report of the Second CSICOP Delegation (Part 2)
Special Report
Wallace Sampson and Barry L. Beyerstein
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 20.5, September / October 1996
This is the second of a two-part report of a recent CSICOP delegation to the People's Republic of China. In this article the authors describe their participation in a symposium on pseudoscience in China, held in Beijing, and their further interactions with practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Shanghai.
In Part 1 of this report (SI, July/August 1996) we discussed the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and our observations of how it is practiced today in the People's Republic of China. We also described research we had observed during our visit to China that is attempting to identify those empirically verifiable portions of TCM that could be incorporated into scientific medical practice. This opportunity was afforded us by an invitation from the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) to visit various centers in China and to participate in a symposium on pseudoscience held in Beijing in June of 1995. In this article we address the broader topic of the growth of pseudoscience in China, and present additional observations of-TCM as seen in centers in Shanghai.
The CAST Symposium
Part of our stay in Beijing was occupied by a seminar sponsored by CAST and the State Science and Technology Commission. There, Chinese scholars and physicians described the problems created by pseudoscience in their country. These authors and their fellow member of the delegation (Andrew Skolnick of the Journal of the American Medical Association) traded similar experiences from the U.S. and Canada. We had expected this to be one of the highlights of our trip, and we were not disappointed. CAST had assembled an impressive roster of social, physical, and medical scientists from various parts of China who described the obstacles that belief in Qigong1 and some of the extreme claims of TCM have put in the way of their efforts to improve scientific literacy. From these presentations we achieved many insights that would otherwise have been much more speculative.
All Chinese speakers at the symposium made a clear distinction between 'internal Qi' and 'external Qi.' The former equates roughly to what we would call 'psychosomatic medicine'; while believers consider the latter to be a supernatural life force that, like psychokinesis, can affect matter outside one's body (believers refer to this as 'special ability' or 'extraordinary functions of the human body'). Belief in this dubious power was repeatedly defined at the symposium as China's major pseudoscience problem. Qigong was briefly outlawed during the cultural revolution (1966-1976) because it seemed too spiritual for the reigning Marxist materialists. It has since managed to stage a comeback by masquerading as a science. Qigong masters and their disciples routinely defraud the public with conjuring tricks and falsely present themselves as spiritual healers (Lin et al., in press). Honest practitioners of TCM eschew such deceptive practices, but they still adhere to the mystical notion that an imbalance of internal Qi energy underlies all illness. Many of the TCM doctors we interviewed still believe that specially gifted healers can use their external Qi to cure diseases by restoring the balance of a sufferer's internal Qi.
A few Chinese scientists we met maintained that although Qi is merely a metaphor, it is still a useful physiological abstraction (e.g., that the related concepts of Yin and Yang parallel modern scientific notions of endocrinologic and metabolic feedback mechanisms). They see this as a useful way to unite Eastern and Western medicine. Their more hard-nosed colleagues quietly dismissed Qi as only a philosophy, bearing no tangible relationship to modern physiology and medicine.2
The first group of speakers at the CAST symposium concentrated on external Qi. After Chinese investigators and the earlier CSICOP delegation had exposed several prominent Qigong masters as charlatans (Alcock et al. 1988), the government was persuaded to crack down on their ilk (some have gone underground, but many still continue to enjoy protection provided by high-level state officials). We did not determine the extent of the crackdown, but we learned that many Qigong masters are still active, especially in the countryside. We were also told that we would not be able to observe any masters or 'special ability' children because they would no longer cooperate. This was disappointing but it is a tribute to our hosts' debunking efforts that local performers are now too wary of being caught, as they were when exposed by James Alcock, James 'the Amazing' Randi, and the other members of the first CSICOP delegation.
Mr. Lin Zixin, the retired editor of China's Science and Technology Daily and a CSICOP Fellow, was one of our principal hosts. At the symposium, which he helped organize, he discussed the extent of belief in pseudoscience in China. He credited the 1988 CSICOP delegation with helping to tarnish the reputation of the Qigong 'superman,' Xiao, but admitted much remains to be done. He compared widely held superstitions about the power of external Qi in China to the beliefs that inspired the Japanese sect, 'Aum Shinri Kyo' (the cult that attacked the Tokyo subway with nerve gas). Mr. Lin, one of China's top scientific journalists and policy experts, described the extent of superstition in China as shameful and a threat to the nation's technological development. Scientific literacy is more important than ever as China tackles the arduous task of modernizing its economy, he said, but superstition continues to impede progress. Mr. Lin firmly reiterated his organization's support for CSICOP's efforts to combat pseudoscience worldwide.
Professor Qui Renzong of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences compared the development of American and Chinese pseudoscience. He drew parallels between the concept of external Qi and the mysterious nonmaterial forces posited by parapsychologists, such as psychokinesis and extrasensory perception. Professor Qui echoed Mr. Lin's assertion that the Qigong movement has had a negative influence on Chinese society. Professor Qui lamented the fact that it has also been psychologically damaging for some devotees, and that even some scientists have been duped into believing in the power of external Qi-for example, an ardent promoter is Professor Qian Xuesen, China's foremost rocket scientist and a former professor at the California Institute of Technology. Professor Qui concluded with the memorable phrases: 'It's only your private experience, if it is not repeatable,' and 'pseudoscience is an infinite regression of excesses.'
Professor Wang Guozheng of the China Society for Dialectics of Nature continued the theme that pseudoscience is becoming a major social problem. He described his investigation of 'seeing with ears,' a trick similar to the 'blind reading' exposed by Martin Gardner in his famous article on the 'peek-down-the-side-of-the-nose' ruse.3 Professor Wang ended this inquiry when he concluded that it was a worthless fad that would disappear on its own. Apparently it did not, despite its affront to official Marxist dialectical materialism. In ten years, not one claim had been substantiated, yet popular belief continued to grow. Such concerns led Professor Wang to found the Society for the Protection of the Scientific Spirit. Its aim is to promote scientific attitudes and combat the growing influence of pseudoscience. The society has encountered opposition from paranormalists, such as when a Qigong advocate who was rejected as a speaker at one of its meetings disrupted the proceedings by trying to force his way onto the program physically. It seems Chinese skeptics are vulnerable to many of the same tactics as those endured by their Western counterparts.
Dr. Zhang Tongling, professor of psychiatry at Beijing Medical University, presented her research on negative effects of Qigong practices. She believes that there is no such thing as Qi, but she found that some vulnerable people, drawn into the Qi subculture, have been harmed psychologically by obsessional involvement with these breathing, meditative, and movement exercises. Dr. Zhang now runs a clinic for former Qigong extremists. Her study of 145 cases from ten provinces found that these casualties were relatively well educated- about half were high school graduates or above. Forty-four were classed as workers, thirty-nine were government employees, thirty were students, and thirty-one were engaged in scientific research. The group was found to be highly suggestible and their symptoms were related to various alleged effects of Qi contained in books they had read. Dr. Zhang described their responses as a form of mental illness, probably the result of latent psychiatric problems that were exacerbated by fanatical immersion in Qigong exercises. Many of these problems looked like those we would call hysterical or psychosomatic symptoms (Shorter 1992). For example, they reported feeling Qi surging through various parts of their bodies, and some would experience overwhelming lassitude that they attributed to Qi suddenly draining from their bodies. In other cases, experiences were provoked that were psychotic, including visual and auditory hallucinations, delirium, and feelings of being possessed by animal spirits. Some exhibited symptoms we would classify as paranoid, such as the conviction they were being harmed by the master's power or that Qi had imbued them with extraordinary skills and a mission to cure diseases or save humanity. Some patients felt elated, perhaps manic, after their prolonged exertion, while others were left uncomfortably anxious, depressed, and suicidal. The severity was the worst in those who spent many hours per day immersed in Qigong exercises and in those with a long history of preoccupation with religious or superstitious pursuits. Dr. Zhang's portrayals were reminiscent of people we had encountered who were obsessed with alien- abduction fantasies or had become fanatically immersed in Transcendental Meditation, Scientology, or irrational health schemes, leading at times to behavior that bordered on the delusional.
Professor Guo Zhengyi, deputy director of CAST, has visited the United States where he studied organizations dedicated to spreading pseudoscience. In his talk, he compared them to similar movements in China. He described a Mafialike network in China that has spread its influence by promoting (allegedly real) magical powers and fortune-telling in conjunction with acrobatic shows. These shady figures bill themselves as the future of science but, like pseudoscientists everywhere, they mangle all valid scientific principles. Their lucrative scams include Qigong demonstrations composed of fake acts of clairvoyance, superhuman physical strength, and ' possession by animals.' Professor Guo likened the practices of these roaming hucksters to practices that were common in feudalistic times, a theme that was taken up by his colleague, Dr. Yuan Zhong. Dr. Yuan emphasized that official materialist doctrines have merely suppressed, not eliminated, the strong desire of the masses to believe in ancient spiritual entities and magical powers. The pseudoscientific patina of Qigong has allowed these old religious beliefs to reemerge in a way that is less likely to arouse official ire. Dr. Yuan referred to Qigong as a pseudoreligion, one that is growing as the regime relaxes its demands for strict ideological conformity. Occasionally, the chicanery of some of these impostors reaches proportions that spur the government to intervene. The official responses were not spelled out, but we discovered in private conversation that these tricksters are usually warned and fined.
Professor Zu Shuxian of Anhui Medical University was one of the most trenchant critics of Qi as a medical concept. Having done postgraduate training in epidemiology at the University of Virginia, he was well qualified to discuss why problems of medical quackery are worse in developing countries. Particularly in rural areas, folk-healing traditions and modest education make it difficult for people to distinguish between legitimate and bogus doctors. In addition, developing countries have as yet little in the way of consumer movements that could help protect citizens from quacks. Dr. Zu denounced the press for promoting quackery and for its apparent inability to distinguish between scientifically valid and sham treatments. He lamented the tendency to credit patient satisfaction instead of rigorous testing as the measure of therapeutic success. Fraudulent medical institutions are now competing with legitimate ones for money, while government funding for university research is diminishing. Once again, China's problems parallel our own.
Also familiar to us was an interruption by a student at this session. He complained that scientifically trained Chinese physicians do not spend enough time with patients and do not offer enough emotional support, and that this feeds the popularity of quacks.
Beyerstein, Sampson, and Skolnick delivered papers dealing with various aspects of fraud and pseudoscience in health care and the proper methodology for testing putative treatments.
The CAST conference made it apparent, as Michael Fumento has titled his recent book, that science is under siege-not just in North America and Europe, but in China, as well.4 There, as here, superstition, quackery, and pseudoscience have infiltrated academia, and some prominent scientists and philosophers are among the leading apologists. Their appeal to ancient magical ways of thinking, cloaked in pseudoscientific language, sounded depressingly familiar to us. In China, pseudoscience is becoming increasingly competitive with science for public support and government funding. The extent to which Chinese criminal elements have used superstition and pseudoscience to bilk the gullible public was news to us, however. Chinese academics are becoming more aware of possible psychological harms resulting from involvement with pseudoscience and quack sects and cults. In 1994, awareness of these growing problems led the Chinese government to issue a proclamation decrying the rise of superstition and pseudoscience and the erosion of science education (Sagan 1996). It seems that for many Chinese, the concept of Qi supplies an all-encompassing vision of life and its role within the cosmos as a whole. Qi has become a comfortable explanation for everything. Unfortunately, something that purports to explain everything explains nothing.
On to Shanghai
After a day spent trekking the Great Wall, our tour of China then moved on to Shanghai. There we were hosted by friends of CAST officials who were academics, but not themselves associated with scientific institutions. They were able, however, to introduce us to a variety of practitioners of TCM. Before exploring local TCM facilities, we were given a chance to interact with conventional biomedical scientists during a most interesting tour of the brain research laboratories at Shanghai Medical University. The research problems, techniques, and apparatus we encountered at this well-equipped institute were familiar to us; and the work we discussed with these Chinese neuroscientists revealed that they are working at the forefront of their fields. After this tour, our focus shifted back to TCM.
We next visited the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and its affiliated Shu Guang Hospital-the largest TCM complex in China. The views expressed there were somewhat different from those we had encountered at the Beijing TCM Institute (Beyerstein and Sampson 1996), especially with regard to integration of scientific and traditional medicine. At the Shanghai institute, where the primary mission was the teaching of TCM, the president, Dr. Wang Ling Tai, was also a gastroenterologist who practices scientific biomedicine. As in Beijing, we were told that TCM was requested by less than twenty percent of the patient population. (It seems that self-medication with herbs is more pervasive in the country as a whole, however. The fifteen-to-twenty-percent figure refers to those patients who choose to see a TCM doctor.) After a long and enjoyable meeting with Dr. Wang, we were shown through the complex, which appeared similar in setup to the clinic complex in Beijing. We were shown a major manufacturing facility for antibiotics that we were told were derived originally from traditional herbal medicines. This aspect of TCM made sense to us because we knew that penicillin, for example, was derived from molds that had long been used in European folk remedies (there are frequent historical references to use of moldy bread for dressing dirty wounds).
While in Shanghai, we also toured the largest herbal pharmacy in China. TCM diagnosticians occupied booths around the periphery of each floor in this multistory building, while herbalists busily moved about the center, filling prescriptions according to the diagnosticians' recipes. With rapid, animated movements, they grabbed handfuls of dried vegetable and animal matter from rows of drawers stacked in massive cabinets that resembled floor-to-ceiling library card files. The ingredients were dropped somewhat unceremoniously on hand- held balances and then mixed on large sheets of paper. These were then folded into dispensing packets and sold to waiting patients, mostly for preparation as herbal teas. The measurements struck us as rather imprecise by Western pharmaceutical standards, but greater accuracy might have been illusory because a perennial problem with herbal remedies is that the concentrations of active ingredients in the raw materials can vary greatly from source to source (due to climate, soil conditions, etc.). Also on sale were a variety of over-the-counter remedies that we also saw in department stores, corner pharmacies, tourist centers, and airports throughout China. Some of these, to our dismay, included preserved bear gall bladder, ground horns and penises of various wild animals, and other animal parts apparently sold primarily for their alleged ability to enhance sexual potency.5
We also saw North American ginseng prominently displayed in these stores — it is highly valued in China. Although many bold therapeutic claims are made for ginseng, its scientifically demonstrated effects are more modest. Its complex chemistry stimulates several bodily systems. Ginseng can act as a pick-me-up in a number of ways: it produces caffeinelike effects in the central nervous system, enhances carbohydrate metabolism and glycogen synthesis, and may stimulate the heart because it contains some digitalislike components (similar to those found in the common foxglove). It also has histiminic activity, and it contains steroids that can affect the hormonal system (Siegel 1979).6
At the Shanghai traditional pharmacy, we encountered for the first time TCM doctors who still use the ancient technique of pulse diagnosis (see WallnÜfer and von Rottauscher 1975). People are said to have fifteen different pulses detectable by traditionally trained healers although these have never been demonstrated scientifically. For us, the doctor placed his fingers on the pulse, stared vacantly into the distance for about a minute, as if absorbing its meaning, and then told us our diagnoses (none of which was accurate). He then wrote a TCM prescription for an off-the-shelf concoction that we filled at the counter. We were also diagnosed by a woman who held our hands and placed a small electrical probe at various points on our palms. From our muscle spasms, grimaces, and verbal descriptions of the tingling sensations, she arrived at a diagnosis, again one that would be news to our family physicians back home.
A Meeting with Professors of TCM
Our main conference in Shanghai was with about a dozen prominent TCM physicians affiliated with Shu Guang Hospital. Here, the flavor was quite different from the CAST symposium in Beijing, skepticism being much less pronounced. The Chinese doctors, most of whom had scientific medical training in addition to their traditional specialties, each gave brief introductory statements. The session was then opened for discussion and questions. We can best describe the event with a sample of our questions and the answers given. We asked our questions as naive Westerners, but with a perspective of scientific inquiry. The answers, as will be evident, highlighted the differences between the scientific outlook and that of TCM. The answers are not verbatim in every case because some were conveyed through a translator.
Q: How are the roles of Western-trained and TCM physicians different?
A: One example is a woman with cancer who failed with Western treatments and was then treated with TCM and lived four years longer than expected. [This exemplifies one of our major conclusions, namely that TCM still relies predominantly on anecdotal evidence-its practitioners exhibited very little understanding of the need for controlled clinical trials. Most of the group seemed to lack knowledge about how to do scientifically valid evaluations of their techniques.]
Q: Do you treat different cancers differently, or do you use the same treatment for all?
A: Every case is different, and treatment is different. [Ironically, TCM sees all disease as resulting from the same cause (Qi imbalance), but it sees each patient's case as unique. This answer also illustrates TCM's preoccupation with surface manifestations rather than trying to reveal a more limited number of underlying pathological processes that might manifest themselves in a wider variety of symptoms.]
Q: How do the different cancer remedies work, and what are the biochemical mechanisms for combatting cancer cells?
A: We are trying different methods to prevent cancer, especially in high-risk breast cancer patients — 17,000 professional women. [Perhaps something was lost in translation.] Many traditional medicines are static. TCM is developing. We are examining curative effects and theoretical basis. We regard the patient as oneness. Every patient is 'a small world.' A major reason for interest in natural developments is traditional Chinese herbs. People are panicking about environmental chemicals, effects now being reversed by TCM. There are breakthroughs. Look at TCM from the Chinese perspective. We say, 'Water the ponies [peonies?] well.' [For example, pay attention to internal stresses of the patient.] Rather than killing cancer cells, increase internal factors to bring one into balance. TCM doctors see a change in the patterns of things. TCM treats imbalance of the negative and positive sides of things. [In other words, it does not treat disease processes per se.] TCM works well in circulatory disorders — it corrects blood circulation. [This was typical of many answers we received in that it sidestepped the original question and substituted a rambling string of metaphors instead.]
Q: How about ephedra - herbs containing ephedrine - are there two concepts of how it works - pharmacological and TCM?
A: We have adopted several new ways of treating, and that is one [a probable translation problem, so we tried again].
Q: What is the rationale for the treatment with ephedra?
A: We have a division here - TCM and Western ways. Doctor recommends the method - surgery, medicine, or TCM - and the patient decides. Most doctors would use Western medicine first for acute problems, then TCM if needed. Such as with gallstones: operation first, maybe we would use TCM afterward. Same with cancer. Doctors agree on how to combine them. [It was apparent we were not going to obtain a direct answer, and so we moved on. The gist of the remainder of this part of the discussion was that TCM is seen as a way of strengthening the body to resist disease in general, not a means of combatting specific diseases.]
Q: [To a nephrologist (kidney specialist) who also uses TCM.] How does TCM treat a new disease or change as new concepts of disease arise? Does TCM change?
A: We combine TCM and Western medicine in treatment of kidney disease, but we have different ways in different phases of the illness. At first, we use TCM to prevent progression. In later stages, we also adopt Western ways. We also use TCM in transplants. [Again, we did not pursue this indirect answer.]
After the question-and-answer session, several TCM physicians tried to clarify earlier comments with the following statements:
Because of difficulties with cults, we have different definitions [for Qi, etc.]. TCM and Western medicine have sharp differences in their concepts.
Practice speaks the loudest. Results count most. Science is not absolute; it has its limitations, and is also developing. So, each has its own advantages. For example, Western [medical] science used to be [exclusively?] biological. Now it is biological and societal. Combining the biological, psychological, and societal occurred 1,500 years ago in China. Western medicine is developing in the same way. TCM was ahead of Western medicine.
TCM works and cures where Western medicine does not; Western medicine is more toxic,7 so they are complementary and can learn from each other. We hope TCM and Western medicine can help and understand each other.
Western proponents say they know what works and now present a body of knowledge. Another way to look at it is that TCM considers the macro or whole body; Western medicine considers the micro. TCM does not apply to all cases; it is better for recuperative and chronic cases.
Patients understand this and know where to go. TCM has not only a philosophy, but a background. It is bidirectional. Both TCM and Western medicine concern homeostasis; TCM includes heart and spirit. From the lab perspective, TCM can improve senile dementia, especially Alzheimer's [disease]. Some biochemical levels return to baseline. We also see aging retarded in humans and animals, and there are other neurochemical and immune changes as well.
A notable exception to the generalities presented by most of the rest of this group of TCM physicians was a discussion we had with Dr. Yan De Xin. A scientist who studies the chemistry of traditional herbs, he expressed the belief, in private conversation, that many traditional medicines will be found to contain active ingredients of interest to scientific medicine (some of this has already happened - see, e.g., Lewis and Elvin-Lewis 1977). But, unlike most of the sentiments expressed during the Shanghai conference, Dr. Yan was only willing to grant that efficacy on the basis of scientific trials. He has been trying to extract possibly active ingredients from a number of traditional herbs and to subject them to proper double-blind tests. His understanding of what needs to be done was impressive but, like researchers everywhere these days, he has been hampered by funding shortages.
Our meeting with this group of TCM experts ended with a formal dinner, each of the numerous courses flavored by a different Chinese herb used by traditional Chinese physicians. It was explained to us that TCM makes little distinction between the health-giving properties of foods and medicines.
External Qigong
Although we saw no external Qi demonstrations in China, both of us have observed such exhibitions in the large immigrant Chinese communities in our home cities. One was at an American Medical Student Association meeting in San Francisco, April 8, 1995. It was performed by Effie Poy Yew Chow, R. N., for an audience of about one hundred students. She seemed to advocate a combination of Ju Jitsu, suggestion, and 'applied kinesiology.'8 She also claimed (but could not demonstrate), as we heard in China, that Qigong masters can transport Qi energy several thousand miles to alter the molecular structure of water. The students seemed to enjoy the lecture and, surprisingly, none challenged Ms. Chow's rather extreme claims. Barry Beyerstein had an equally unfulfilling encounter with a famous Qigong master in Vancouver.9 Previously, this author's brother, Dale Beyerstein, had investigated some prominent TCM practitioners in the Vancouver area and found them dangerously wanting in medical knowledge (D. F. Beyerstein 1990).10
Looking back at our discussions with TCM proponents in China, it often seemed that our questions and their answers came from two different worlds. It soon became apparent to us that this is equally true when the scientific and traditional medical communities in China try to communicate. This was obvious in the wide gap between the remarks of the academics and physicians gathered by CAST in Beijing, and the answers given by most of the TCM physicians we encountered in Beijing and Shanghai. The former spoke in terms we could understand, emphasizing the requirement to support claims with evidence and the need to understand such demonstrable effects TCM might produce in terms of scientifically verifiable biological mechanisms. Although the speakers at the CAST meeting in Beijing tended not to demean TCM during their presentations, several of them dismissed it in private conversations. The rest refrained from making rationalizations for TCM.
The statements of the TCM physicians, on the other hand, tended to be rambling, global, and tangential (this was not merely a language barrier, for many of them spoke excellent English). The traditionalists were difficult to pin down because when they had no available answer, the question would be redirected. While TCM physicians downplayed the importance of statistical approaches and placebo-controlled clinical trials, they did not hesitate to enlist such data when it seemed to their advantage. We came away with the strong feeling that the TCM community, with a few exceptions, does not really understand the power of the placebo effect nor the need for double-blind clinical trials. They seemed not to comprehend why we were not impressed by testimonials or anecdotes about individuals who had recovered after TCM treatments. Many claims seemed inflated, such as that for TCM's effectiveness in Alzheimer's disease and AIDS (see, e.g., Hou 1991). In the end, we were left with the same sense of frustration we often felt after arguing with advocates of 'alternative medicine' at home. Both exhibit an essential vagueness when explaining the mechanisms presumed to underlie their treatments. Both are prone to assume that metaphors count as explanations and that anecdotal evidence can substitute for systematic verification of claims.
Several speakers in both Beijing and Shanghai laced their discussions with political references, for example, to the evils of feudalistic times, the unwillingness to be subjected to logic (dialectics), and inhibitions to social progress. It seems that the practice of TCM and the concepts of internal and external Qi place China in a dilemma. Advancement of these ideas, especially overseas, increases China's prestige and is a matter of cultural pride. Yet the inherent mysticism and magical thinking in these notions are an embarrassment to the Marxist rationalism of the government and to the scientific community as a whole. Furthermore, the growing involvement of criminal elements in paranormal spheres, as occurs to some extent in all countries, is considered a growing threat to social order. Overall, we perceived a delicate balancing act, between toleration and encouragement of TCM on the one hand, and attempts to restrict its more extreme manifestations, such as external Qi quackery, on the other.
We ended our tour unconvinced that Traditional Chinese Medicine has objectively proven its claims to cure any specific diseases. Acupuncture has some mild analgesic [lowered sensitivity to pain while conscious] properties and Chinese herbs have already yielded to scientific analysis some useful drugs - undoubtedly more will follow. We could find no scientific support for the use of cupping, moxibustion, and acupuncture for infectious diseases, deafness, and congenital deformities. We acknowledge the emotional comfort Chinese patients suffering from chronic or fatal disorders receive from TCM ministrations, but we saw no evidence to back up the oft-heard assertion that TCM actually works where Western medicine has failed. Insofar as TCM offers a degree of comfort and hope for those in difficult situations, it seems to perform a similar role to those of vitamin supplements, chiropractic, homeopathy, naturopathy, and therapeutic touch, our homegrown Western pseudomedicines.11
"Qi" is the name Chinese philosophy gives to a scientifically undetectable "force" or "energy" believed to permeate everything in the universe. TCM asserts that imbalances in the flow of Qi in anatomically unverified "meridians" are responsible for disease, fatigue, etc. Acupuncture, Chinese herbs, massage, etc., supposedly restore well-being by rebalancing the flow of this mystical essence. Qigong is a set of mental and physical exercises akin to those ofÊTai Chi Chuan and Ai-ki-do that also promise spiritual and physical benefits by channeling this mysterious energy. With its mental disciplines and postural and breathing exercises, Qigong has long been practiced as a form of self-hypnosis that claims to promote relaxation and general health, much in the manner of certain yoga exercises. These days, practitioners of this aspect of the discipline call it "internal Qigong" to distinguish it from the much more dubious "external Qigong," which has enjoyed a dramatic rise in popularity in China and in the West. Devotees of external Qigong claim they can control the Qi force beyond their own bodies to debilitate their foes, achieve the sorts of allegedly psychic feats familiar to Westerners, and diagnose and cure physical ailments. Qigong masters have become rich and powerful in China, filling massive sports arenas for their demonstrations of magic and faith healing. Chinese skeptics who have exposed these Qigong hoaxers were among the hosts of the delegation that included these authors (Lin et al., in press).
As an example of why scientific physicians consider external Qigong to be quackery, take the following advertisement for a "Qigong Herbal Pillow" that appeared in the September 1994 issue of the English-language magazine, China Today, published in Beijing by the China Welfare Institute. The pillow, which sells for U.S. $198, is claimed to be effective for high and low blood pressure as well as for "insomnia, diseases of the heart, brain, and blood vessels." It also allegedly "reinforces the kidneys," relieves rheumatism, "builds up the spleen," "stops pain," aids digestion, and "energizes the mind." According to the manufacturers, it is a "small-radar Qigong bionic device" that "works by utilizing the synchronicity of global and human magnetic fields and of trace elements, and through the magnetization of Chinese herbal medicines." Invented by the Qigong master Wang Shibo, it incorporates a "high-energy Qigong tube" that is supposed to generate its own power from the user's speech, breathing, and heartbeat. This causes it to vibrate in therapeutic ways; and its radiant power can help users "develop their special bodily abilities" (a common euphemism for psychic powers). The pillow is sanctioned by the Bai Zi Yuan Shen Qigong Research Institute and, according to the ad, it is effective for three years.
Gardner, M. 1981. Dermo-optical perception: A peek down the nose. Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 63-73. (Originally published in Science, February 11, 1966.)
Fumento, M. 1993. Science Under Siege: Balancing Technology and the Environment. N.Y.: William Morrow.
While we are quite prepared to accept that certain herbal remedies contain biologically active ingredients that could be useful in medical practice (some have already met this criterion of scientific proof (see Lewis and Elvin-Lewis 1977), we see no such value in those concoctions made from organs of endangered species. Their rationale, as we point out in Part 1 of this report, is purely that of "sympathetic magic," the basis of all superstitious practices (see Note 6).
A good example of the "sympathetic magic" aspects of TCM (the belief that "like begets like") is that the price paid for ginseng root is not determined by the concentration of its active chemical ingredients. Rather, it is determined by the degree to which the variegated root structure resembles a human body. Roots with a greater number of distinct parts that can be seen as a head, torso, appendages, etc., fetch a higher price.
Wherever we went, TCM doctors tended to emphasize the toxic side effects of Western drugs while glossing over the well-known fact that herbal medications have potential toxicities of their own (Tyler 1985). Many "natural" plant substances are virulent poisons; others can have serious side effects for the digestive, cardiac, pulmonary, hepatic, renal, and nervous systems. A major drawback among traditional herbalists of all ethnic stripes is their insufficient education concerning these potential harms.
"Applied kinesiology" is a scientifically discredited technique for reading the "muscle weakness" that allegedly follows (instantaneously) exposure to certain presumed pathogens (refined sugar, food dyes, preservatives, and fluorescent lighting are favorite culprits). This pseudoscience should not be confused with the authentic discipline of kinesiology, which is the scientific study of the control of bodily movement.
A recent meeting of the B.C. Skeptics in Vancouver, B.C., Mr. Ge Yingcai, a famous Qigong master and healer who had immigrated to Canada. Mr. Ge had promised to demonstrate, under double-blind conditions, his ability to make distilled water taste sweet by irradiating it with his Qi energy. The audience was disappointed and annoyed, however, when, after a rambling two-hour lecture, the master announced that he was now too tired to participate in the controlled test. Mr. Ge said he had a degree in nuclear physics from Beijing University, but his interactions with several professors of physics in the audience revealed significant gaps in his understanding of basic science. Likewise, in discussion with Dr. Kirsten Emmott, a physician member of the B.C. Skeptics, Mr. Ge exhibited deficiencies in elementary medical knowledge. For instance, he had no comeback when Dr. Emmott pointed out that his claim to diagnose disease in his clients' organs by feeling pain in the corresponding ones in his own body was doubtful because the organs he referred to have no nerve supply that could signal such sensations (even if his organs could somehow magically resonate with those of his clients). Although Mr. Ge had specifically agreed to produce scientific studies to substantiate his conceptions of disease and his claimed cures, all he could deliver were the usual testimonials from satisfied customers.
The B.C. Skeptics were similarly frustrated when they issued a challenge to be scientifically tested to the Qigong master Yan Xin during his North American tour in 1990. Yan's associate, Wu Xutian, wrote saying that the skeptics only remained dubious because they had never seen a real Qigong master in action, but he declined to show them what his supposedly real colleague could do. In his letter of rejection addressed to Dale Beyerstein, Wu condescendingly dismissed the skeptics challenge: ". . . Dr. Yan Xin and I are not interested in the very low level test which was very popular in China ten or fifteen years ago. He is busy on some cooperating research subjects with several important organizations in U.S." Wu suggested the skeptics should be content with some "scientific" papers by Yan which he enclosed. As usual, the claimed effects of Qigong were extremely unlikely by conventional scientific standards but were not published in peer-reviewed journals of any international scientific standing.
Dale Beyerstein, who suffers from diabetes, dropped several obvious hints in describing his complaint for each TCM doctor he visited (he listed the textbook symptoms but did not mention the word "diabetes"). He even prominently displayed his "Medic Alert" bracelet while having his pulses read, but none of the TCM doctors picked up on his diabetes (none even asked what the clearly marked bracelet was for!). The herbal remedies that were prescribed for Dale differed at the different offices and some of them would have been medically dangerous for a diabetic to take.
Many scientifically trained physicians accept that chiropractic manipulations could be beneficial for certain purely musculoskeletal complaints. However, medical scientists remain dubious about the underlying rationale for chiropractic still espoused by most of its practitioners. These theoretical "explanations" continue to fly in the face of scientific knowledge in the fields of anatomy and physiology (Jarvis 1987). Chiropractors who still insist that all diseases stem from spinal misalignments ("subluxations"), and can therefore be cured by joint manipulation, remain open to charges of pseudoscience. The same is true of the many chiropractors who continue to reject the germ theory of disease, oppose basic immunization, and use scientifically discredited diagnostic devices.
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No, not Martin the actor, but the late Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen — on a book cover.
On Wednesday evening on the subway in Washington, I spotted a young man with shirt sleeves rolled up and tie loosened — obviously heading home from a long day at work.
He was plugged into his iPod and equipped with the requisite — these days anyway — laptop and BlackBerry. Nothing unusual about that sight, but what was a little out of the ordinary was that with all that high-tech gear, he was reading "old media" — a book. But what really caught my eye was its title: "Way to Happiness: An Inspiring Guide to Peace, Hope and Contentment," by Archbishop Sheen. First printed in 1954, it was reprinted by Alba House and released in 1998.
It seems words written by an archbishop from the last century can still resonate with a member of the millennial generation.
And by the way — many folks might know this — Martin Sheen the actor has often told the story of taking his stage surname from Archbishop Sheen because he admired the churchman's style on his popular television broadcasts.


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Community Garden Coalition presents Birmingham Bike Tour
by Gail Harper Yeilding, Community Garden Coalition for Birmingham
On October 26, the Community Garden Coalition in partnership with Birmingham Botanical Gardens and Alabama Bike Coalition collaborated to celebrate National Food Day by a bike tour of Birmingham's Community Gardens.
Armed with dahlia decorated helmets and bikes, CGC members made their way through the streets of Birmingham. Starting and ending at Freshfully, the tour included MPower Community Garden, South Avondale Community Garden, Jones Valley Teaching Garden, Norwood Orchard and Norwood Teaching Gardens. At each stop, a representative farmer from each garden gave a tour and various treats including: dahlias, cider, basil and Lenell's now famous rosemary bourbon cider.
With a crisp, Fall morning, it was the perfect way to see just some of the many community gardens popping up in Birmingham.
Many thanks to all who participated as well as each community garden that contributed a little something from their garden.


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These are concerns that people with heart failure often have. They may help you draw up a list of questions for your physician or healthcare team.
- What should we expect within the next few weeks, months and years? How is the condition likely to progress?
- What are some specific ways that daily life will change? Can I or my family member still work, play golf, have sex, do the laundry? (fill in whatever activity you're wondering about)
- What are the three most important things we can do to manage this condition?
- What strategies have other patients found useful for motivating themselves to eat better, exercise, stop smoking, etc.?
- What will happen if I or my loved one slips back into old habits?
- Do you recommend a cardiac rehabilitation program? If so, where will it take place? How often?
- We're having trouble keeping the medication schedule straight. Is there any way we can simplify it?
- A certain medication (name it) is causing side effects that are hard to deal with. Is there some way to minimize those side effects? Is there another equally good medication available?
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Video Captures Violent Brawl Over Overhead Space On Southwest Flight
A flight from Dallas to Los Angeles was delayed after a passenger had a disagreement about overhead space which turned violent, according to Fox News. One passenger started arguing with the flight attendants about the overhead compartments and was eventually asked to deplane.
The man refused to leave the plane and eventually the pilot ordered all the passengers off the aircraft to resolve the situation. At that point, another passenger pleaded with the man to leave the plane so everybody else could head to Los Angeles. The man took exception to the request and spit on the other passenger sparking a fist fight. Fox 4 obtained video of the fight, which was posted to Snapchat by another passenger, who claimed the delay caused them to miss their connecting flight.
The 20-second video shows the two men exchanging blows while passengers try to move out of the way. The men were eventually separated, and everybody had to exit the plane.
Southwest Airlines confirmed the altercation and said police were handling the situation.
"On March 2, Southwest Airlines flight #8 scheduled Dallas Love to Los Angeles was delayed departing due to an altercation between two passengers. The passengers involved were deplaned and local law enforcement took over from there. The safety and comfort of our Employees and passengers is our top priority," a company spokesperson said.
After a one hour delay, the flight finally took off, with a little bit of extra space in the overhead compartments.


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ABC News – As Samsung airs TV ads poking fun at those that waited in line for the iPhone 5, the legal shots between the companies continue.
A little over a month after a California jury recommended Samsung pay over $1 billion in damages to Apple for patent infringement, the judge in the case has lifted the ban on Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1.
While the jury did find Samsung guilty of copying a number of features of Apple's products in the case, they didn't find the Galaxy Tab 10.1 to infringe on a design patent. Samsung had asked for the sales ban to be lifted, and last night Judge Lucy Koh dissolved the injunction.
Samsung is taking on Apple's iPhone 5 in a separate case. On Monday, Samsung's lawyers added the iPhone 5 to its original filings, which held that Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch infringed on two of its mobile broadband patents. This second court case between the two tech giants is set to go to trial in March 2014.
"There is good cause to allow Samsung to amend its infringement contentions to add the brand new iPhone 5 as an accused device in this lawsuit," the document filed by Samsung's attorneys states.
"We have always preferred to compete in the marketplace with our innovative products, rather than in a courtroom. However, Apple continues to take aggressive legal action that will restrict market competition," Samsung said in a statement. "Under these circumstances, we have little recourse but to take the steps necessary to protect our innovations and intellectual property rights."
Apple declined to comment when reached by ABC News.
The war between the two tech giants, analysts believe, will only get fiercer. "The Samsung vs. Apple war is getting uglier before it gets better," market analyst Patrick Moorhead told ABC News. "Samsung views Apple as a threat to their long-term survival and will do what it takes weaken them. Samsung will spend billions to do this as their company is under attack."
But even if the public doesn't follow the legal dispute, they won't be able to escape the ads. Samsung has taken out print and video ad space all over to push its Galaxy S III over Apple's new iPhone 5. Ultimately, there's no avoiding the war.


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West Melbourne, FL Home Saga OngoingAugust 14, 2009 at 17:13 | Posted in Bits and Pieces, citizens fighting city or towns, property values, taxpayers can you fight city hall, West Melbourne, FL | Leave a comment
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There is some hope for life returning to a degree of normalcy at our home. I had written a letter to a local TV station (I will not name until they make a decision) and posted several posts here on the conditions as a result of the sewer lift station construction. The amount of hits I have received is encouraging that word is out. I hope it helps anyone else facing such a mess and disruption to their lives in addition to the financial pain. I am also perfectly aware that much of the tracking is by the folks at City Hall wanting to see what exactly I am posting and therefore forcing them to prepare for the inevitable. I am not someone who wanted to be a political activist. I never was such a person but obviously I have been forced to become one. The photos show the landscaping and clean up of our yard. I have to state here that the gentlemen assigned to us to be responsible for getting the project done have gone out of their way to get it done. I realize that much of this big push is due to my speaking at the City Council meetings, posting here and on Twitter, as well as a letter of inquiry from the TV station to City Hall. The cypress trees were a more expensive alternative to what they intended to put there but it was acknowledged that maintaining hedges would be expensive over the long run – something I brought up. I suggested the trees would be less likely to have branches that might damage the antenna system also. I also admit that when the bulldozer broke a large section of our driveway, they poured a new one the same day without us having to mention or discuss it even with anyone. Again I attribute this to the new attitude of actually supervising the job — and again the two men assigned to do this have done their jobs well. For all of the folks who hate to see certain ethnic workers on a job site, I want to refute some of those issues here. These fellows were all legal and they were gentlemen. They were also very hard workers with no swearing, no raudy behavior, and they cleaned up after themselves daily! I believe in giving credit and Kudos where owed.
All of that said, the bottom line is a financial one to us. How the project was handled originally was a publicity nightmare, a lesson in rude, obnoxious city employee attitudes, and an elitist attitude also by a city mangement. None of that can be changed. What was done was done. And unfortunately no amount of landscaping will change that we now have the view from our front windows of a sewer lift station. Stand in the street and look at our house and you see a sewer lift station. Trees and hedges only go so far, curb appeal is now destroyed. Given a choice of the same house with a sewer station or without, obviously buyers will not choose the sewer lift station. The reality is that our finances are therefore impacted by the City's decisions. We had no voice in the decision and now we are the ones whose future is impacted. Our home was like most Americans a big portion of our lives. After all, our governments claim home ownership is a major part of the American Dream. This is now our nightmare we get to live and relive every day.
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Bridges from the past. Presented by Captain Nathaniel A. Wesson UDC chapter #2396, Decatur County, TN. Savannah, Fundco Printers, 1991. 238 pp.
Decatur County, TN: water use survey, TN-Tombigbee corridor study. Auburn, AL, Auburn University Water Resources Research Institute, 1981. 15 pp.
Decatur County, 1980-1987: an economic analysis. Nashville, TN Dept. Emp. Sec., 1988. 12 pp.
Decatur-Meigs County Tomorrow (TN). Economic development agenda. Decatur, Decatur-Meigs County Tomorrow, 1988. 18 pp.
Goodspeed's history of TN (Decatur County, pp. 814-819, 880-894). Goodspeed, 1887.
Schaffer, Daniel. The Bussell log house: a historical perspective. Norris, TVA, 1983. 12 pp.
Seeber, R. Clifford. A manual of public service agencies in Decatur [& other] counties. Murray, KY, TVA, 1942. 118 pp.
Service sector business opportunities report: Decatur County, TN. Knoxville, TVA, 1989. 53 pp.
Soil survey, Decatur County, TN. Washington, D.C., US GPO, 1941, 1955.
TN Dept. Transportation [county maps] issued periodically.
TN Valley Authority. Land Acquisition Dept. Background appraisal study, KY reservoir area. Knoxville, TVA, 1939, 1944. 12 pp. (vol. 4, Decatur County).
US Geol. Survey [topographic maps] issued periodically. Quadrangles: Holladay, Sugar Tree, Daniels' Landing, Parsons, Jeannette, Scotts Hill, Perryville, Pope, Thurman, Bath Springs, Clifton.
Water use survey, TN-Tombigbee corridor study, Decatur County, TN. N.p., US Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District, 1981. 9 pp.
Wilson, Charles W. Mineral resources summary of the Thurman Quadrangle, TN. Nashville, TN Div. Geol., 1970. 7 pp.
Younger, Lillye. Decatur County. MSU Press, 1979. 135 pp.
Younger, Lillye. The history of Decatur County, past & present. Southaven, MS, Carter Print., 1977, 1978. 452 pp.
Community information, Parsons, TN. Prepared by the Office of the Mayor, City of Parsons & West TN Ind. Assoc. Jackson, the association, 1988. 28 pp.
Younger, Lillye. People of action. Jackson, Brewer, 1969. 68 pp.
Scotts Hill, TN, sesquicentennial, Oct. 2-5, 1975: history, 1825-1975. Scotts Hill, n.p., 1975. 124 pp.
A souvenir of the Scotts Hill Church of Christ homecoming, new church house completed, Sunday, May 29, 1960. Scotts Hill, n.p., 1960. 25 pp.
Turner, Gordon H. History of Scotts Hill, TN. Southaven, MS, Carter Print., 1977. 436 pp.


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Students in a technical education program supported by the World Bank in Antioquia, Colombia.
I spoke about how the World Bank engages with youth, the largest demographic in the world right now. In an auditorium at the headquarters of the World Bank in Washington, D.C., young professionals, recent graduates, and college students were eager to find out how the Bank is helping and working with them. As a young person from a developing country, I could relate to their challenges and frustrations.
To end poverty by 2030, helping youth reach their potential will be instrumental.
We know that Africa and South Asia have the highest concentration of youth.
"India must take advantage of having a young population. Never doubt the possibilities for this country," said World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim to youth when he visited India in March. He asked them to build a company like Infosys and lift people out of poverty. While visiting Romania this month, Kim asked world leaders to invest in education to spur future economic growth.
Investing in youth and working with them is imperative because 43% of the world's population is 25 years or younger, and young people are shaping the present and future.
Africa alone has more than 200 million people ages 15 through 24. When I spoke with Shantayanan Devarajan, chief economist for the World Bank's Africa region at the time in February, he told me, "Africa is the youngest continent. The current youth of Africa are not only important for Africa but also for the world." When he interacted with Ghanaian youth via Google+ Hangout on Feb. 15 to talk about economic development, he told the online audience that "youth are doing a tremendous amount on their own."
That's true.
That's why the Bank is funding numerous projects to help youth use their passion and make social change. From helping to fight corruption globally to tackling sanitation issues in Pakistan to bringing them together to help fight violence against women in Latin America or South Asia, the Bank is working with youth worldwide to face global challenges while strengthening their prospects for the future.
The World Bank Group relentlessly engages with youth across the globe. On a daily basis, we use social media to engage, inform, and inspire youth in more than 100 countries and in over 10 languages. Overall, we engage with more than a million people via social media; 80% of them are from developing countries, and their typical age is 24. We know they are outspoken and educated and they care about good governance, jobs, education, clean water, and clean air. We know that the future youth want can only be achieved by engaging with them.
We also know that we could engage even better. Tell us in the comments what we could do to improve.
The current environment decay
The current environment decay in Africa can only be fought and corrected by Africans. The youth have a significant role to play because we are the direct casualty of these menace. Engaging the youth in the locals, villages will be a great boost in the overall fight.
The current environment decay
The current environment decay in Africa can only be fought and corrected by Africans. The youth have a significant role to play because we are the direct casualty of these menace. Engaging the youth in the locals, villages will be a great boost in the overall fight.
It is imperative that the
It is imperative that the youths should be the focus of the world, if the world must survive, they are the untapped resource that may very well implode on the existence of the world. Entrepreneurship, training, passion development, these are critical ways to secure their focus. The youths are full of energy, and according to Newton's law of motion, energy is neither created nor destroyed, but converted from one form to another... If we dont help them focus the energy on development, they will naturally self-destruct, taking the rest of the world down with them.
some of the pertinent issues
some of the pertinent issues had been pointed out. In Africa, that we have about 200 million people ages 15 through 24, where most Leaders are corrupt, selfish and lacking conscience. For Instance Nigeria, all the students in the state and federal universities are at home due to strike and the Government are not doing anything reasonable to put a stop to it. are we not youth? what do you expect from such youths that have been deprived of Quality Higher education and this is not happening only in Nigeria but also in some countries in Africa....May God help us.


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History to be made: W-G teacher named 'Ohio History Teacher of the Year'
Each year, graduating seniors at Waynesfield-Goshen High School are asked if any particular teacher had a positive influence on their academic career.
Most often, the name mentioned is high school history teacher Joe Foster.
Now, those voices are being heard at the state level.
On Thursday, the Gilder Lehman Institute of American History announced Foster as the 2012 Ohio History Teacher of the Year.
"It is very humbling," Foster said. "My favorite thing about teaching is looking back at students and knowing you touched their lives. That feeling is priceless."
To be a nominee for the award, candidates had to be nominated by a student and a staff member. Waynesfield-Goshen Schools aide Deb Johns and graduating senior Jessica Reimesch were responsible for Foster's nomination.
A panel of teachers and administrators from throughout the state evaluated the nominees based on use of primary documents in the classroom, the level of inspiration provided to students and career achievements in education. Examples of a long-term and short-term lesson plans had to be submitted.
The short-term plan submitted for Foster was a project where students were required to use primary resources to find out information about a person of their choice from the Civil War.
The student then had to do a presentation in first person of their selection. The long-term project submitted was a fundraising foundation started at the school last year to provide funding for efforts to preserve Civil War battlefield sites.
Foster will receive $1,000 for the award and will be given a certificate of recognition. In addition, an archive of books and historical resources will be given to the school in his name to the school library. He will be honored in a ceremony to be announced at a later date.
With his selection, Foster will now be considered for the National History Teacher of the Year Award, which includes a $10,000 award.
Foster, who is in his 12th year of teaching at Waynesfield-Goshen Schools, came to the district after one year of substitute teaching in the Bowling Green area. He graduated from Union High School in southeast Ohio and from Bowling Green State University with a degree in political science. He is licensed in all social studies areas.
Foster and his wife, Carrie, live in McComb. At Waynesfield-Goshen Schools, he teaches American history, world history, government, economics and Civil War at the high school level.
Foster said he tries to enable students to get involved in their assignments so they can take ownership and responsibility of them.
"My philosophy is I have a mixture of lecture and class discussion," Foster said. "I try to get the students involved as much as possible. I try to get the students to picture the people they are learning about rather than just remembering a name. If they can understand the type of person the individual was, then they can understand what they did and why they did it."
Foster said the award is all-encompassing.
"This is a district-wide award," Foster said. "I look around here and see a lot of other teachers who have been here longer that I have learned from. It is a collaborative effort."


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Thought it might be interesting to see what size cases are the most popular.
What is your preferred case size?
Posted 20 February 2013 - 05:02 AM
Edward "Vapor-X" Crisler
Sapphire North America PR Represenative
"I don't play when it comes to gaming"
Posted 20 February 2013 - 05:24 AM
I have a very large (about twice the size of a full tower) case as my primary, and a bitfenix prodigy (large ITX) as my secondary.
Prefer the large case for a massive watercooled tri-gpu build, but definitely prefer lanning with the smaller one
The Hive
i7 3930k @ 5GHz 24/7 32Gb Corsair Dominator @ 1866MHz
Asus Rampage IV Extreme 3x EVGA 670 FTW @ 1300MHz Core boost
256Gb Crucial M4 - Boot Drive 4x2Tb HDD Raid 5 - Data Storage
CPU, Motherboard, GPU and RAM watercooled by MIPS and Heatkiller
Heavily Modified XSPC Cube Case
Posted 20 February 2013 - 06:35 AM
well it is the preffered case, not the case you have currently so i guess most people choose the full tower?
i like to have a full tower but i dont own one because it is to expensive to afford a decent full tower case.
so i guess i'd go for the full tower ;P
You can get the weeny out of the war, but you cannot get the war out of the weeny
Rest in peace my good old gtx 480, you deserved it
Thinks he has a weeny worthy of war.
Posted 20 February 2013 - 06:53 AM
As big as I can get.
Current System
[CPU] Ryzen 5 system --- [CASE]Bitfenix Colossus Venom Edition
PC Audio System (Speakers) Triad InRoom Silver's --- (DAC) Schiit Modi 2 --- (AMP) Emotiva A-100 --- (Headphones) Sennheiser Momentums
Posted 20 February 2013 - 07:20 AM
The biggest full tower l can find.
At the time it was the HAF X
Posted 20 February 2013 - 07:31 AM
I would prefer a full tower but my pc room is space limited so I use a mid tower, so I guess mid tower is my vote.
Posted 20 February 2013 - 10:22 AM
Cooler Master HAF X all the way
CASE: Cooler Master HAF X full tower MOBO: Gigabyte 970A-D3 CPU: AMD FX 6300 COOLER: Asetek 570LX 240MM MEM: 2x4gig Kingston Hyper X 1600MHz
HDD: WD Cavair Black 500gig GPU: EGA Nivida GTX 650 2gig Monitor:Dual Acer 21.5 1920x1080 PSU: Corsair CX500 V2
Posted 20 February 2013 - 12:14 PM
You know the more I look at ITX building with our series getting ready to start soon, the more I like the ITX builds. Full towers are cool to work in but for having a computer at my desk I love the small footprint of the ITX, plus it is very possible to build a real brute of a system in an ITX.
Edward "Vapor-X" Crisler
Sapphire North America PR Represenative
"I don't play when it comes to gaming"
Posted 20 February 2013 - 12:27 PM
I've never had a large case... I just dont like the idea of having a HUGE case and lately I've been liking them smaller and smaller....
I had Micro-ATX for a long time and used cases like the Ultra Micro-fly and Raidmax Ice Cube...
Now I have been building them with mini-itx hardware and mini-itx cases with slim drives... just ordered a Fractal Design Node-304 to rebuild my server
Commodore64....playing Crysis on high
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Posted 20 February 2013 - 02:45 PM
I used to have a couple full tower cases but anymore I think I prefer mid tower cases. I think as long as I don't have a part that really requires the space, a mid tower is more practical overall. It's easier to move around mostly, also easier to clean I think, cleaning a computer that's full size but with parts that could fit in a mid tower fine is just creating unnecessary work I think.
Posted 20 February 2013 - 03:36 PM
Micro ATX is a nice size externally, fits anywhere without occupying too much space... shame about the lack of space internally
Processor AMD Phenom II X6 1055T @3.2Ghz
Cooler Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo
Memory 8GB 1.48V 1600Mhz DDR3 Crucial Ballistix Tactical
Motherboard Asrock N68C-GS FX
Graphics XFX HD 7950
Storage 1TB WD Caviar Blue HDD, 240GB Kingston Hyper X SSD, Thanks OCC & Kingston, makes a big difference
Optical Disk Drive Sony Optiarc DVD/CD ReWriter
Power Supply Cooler Master GX 650W Bronze
Case Cooler Master CM690, Akasa 4 port USB front panel (MOAR USBs )
Posted 20 February 2013 - 04:09 PM
Big, bigger, biggest. I find cases are like the saying, "any task will immediately fill the time (in this case space) alloted". Even the likes of the Cosmos 2 will close in quickly if you let it.
Just one dysfunctional enthusiast's OCD's opinion
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ANAHEIM, Calif., Jan. 24, 2013—Shure Incorporated today announced it has partnered with Channel IQ, the leading provider of online pricing intelligence and channel monitoring software, to help protect the Shure brand and ensure adherence to the Company's sales policies.
"Our brand is our most valuable asset, and we need to do whatever we can to protect its integrity," said Mark Humrichouser, General Manager of the Americas Business Unit at Shure. "We want to help our dealers continue to grow their businesses in the short- and long-term. Our partnership with Channel IQ will enable us to monitor and act upon violations of our sales policy, which will allow us to provide those dealers who support the policy with a more stable business environment."
Channel IQ monitors the Internet and filters a vast amount of online pricing, brand, and trademark information, providing manufacturers like Shure with timely updates about online retail activity, competitive intelligence, and potential trademark infringement.
"We are pleased to have been selected by Shure to tackle the challenge of upholding the integrity of their products and services online," said Wes Shepherd, founder and CEO at Channel IQ. "By staying on top of what's happening in the marketplace by monitoring authorized and unauthorized activity, they are strengthening their relationship with their network of trusted dealers. We're delighted to provide our services to a market leader like Shure, and help them strengthen and manage their online sales channels."


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Today's Highlight in History:
On Feb. 23, 1863, British explorers John H. Speke and James A. Grant announced they had found the source of the Nile River to be Lake Victoria. (This finding was disputed by Speke's colleague, Richard F. Burton, who felt that proof was lacking, but the lake is now considered the Nile's source.)
On this date:
In 1836, the siege of the Alamo began in San Antonio, Texas.
In 1848, the sixth president of the United States, John Quincy Adams, died in Washington, D.C., at age 80.
In 1861, President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrived secretly in Washington to take office, following word of a possible assassination plot in Baltimore.
In 1870, Mississippi was readmitted to the Union.
In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt signed an agreement with Cuba to lease the area around Guantanamo Bay to the United States.
In 1927, President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill creating the Federal Radio Commission, forerunner of the Federal Communications Commission.
In 1945, during World War II, U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima captured Mount Suribachi.
In 1954, the first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine began in Pittsburgh.
In 1965, film comedian Stan Laurel, 74, died in Santa Monica, Calif.
In 1970, Guyana became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations.
In 1981, an attempted coup began in Spain as 200 members of the Civil Guard invaded Parliament, taking lawmakers hostage. (However, the attempt collapsed 18 hours later.)
In 1992, the XVI Winter Olympic Games ended in Albertville, France.
Ten years ago: In West Warwick, R.I., relatives of the victims of a deadly nightclub fire were allowed to walk up to the charred rubble to pray and say goodbye. Norah Jones won five Grammys, including album and record of the year.
Five years ago: Defense Secretary Robert Gates and other U.S. officials held daylong meetings with Australian leaders in Canberra. Former United Auto Workers president Douglas A. Fraser died in Southfield, Mich., at age 91.
One year ago: President Barack Obama, speaking in Miami, sought to confront public anxiety over rising gasoline prices as he promoted the expansion of domestic oil and gas exploration, as well as the development of new forms of energy. Former U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan was appointed the joint United Nations-Arab League envoy on the Syrian crisis.
Today's Birthdays: Actor Peter Fonda is 73. Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Fred Biletnikoff is 70. Author John Sandford is 69. Singer-musician Johnny Winter is 69. Country-rock musician Rusty Young is 67. Actress Patricia Richardson is 62. Rock musician Brad Whitford (Aerosmith) is 61. Singer Howard Jones is 58. Rock musician Michael Wilton (Queensryche) is 51. Country singer Dusty Drake is 49. Actress Kristin Davis is 48. Tennis player Helena Sukova is 48. Actor Marc Price is 45. Actress Niecy Nash is 43. Rock musician Jeff Beres (Sister Hazel) is 42. Country singer Steve Holy is 41. Rock musician Lasse (loss) Johansson (The Cardigans) is 40. Actress Kelly Macdonald is 37. Actress Emily Blunt is 30. Actor Aziz Ansari is 30. Actress Dakota Fanning is 19.
Thought for Today: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." – Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (1901-1978).


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This class is designed to get you to speak. More likely than not you have studied English for a long time, yet you find it difficult to string a sentence together. Why? No, it's not because you are bad at learning languages. You are reading this aren't you?
That means that you can understand the language, the main issue is that you haven't had a chance to practice speaking and are therefore terrified at the prospect of speaking to a native speaker.
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Dr. David Platt rounds out Missions Emphasis Week
Bestselling author and pastor Dr. David Platt commissioned Liberty University students at Friday's convocation to present their lives as "blank checks" and to surrender their gifts and talents to be used in ways that will advance the kingdom of God. Platt was the final speaker for Liberty's Missions Emphasis Week.
Platt is the pastor of The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Ala., and author of the bestselling book "Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream," which challenges readers to consider how today's Christians have manipulated a God-centered gospel to fit our human-centered preferences.
|Platt signs copies of his book, 'Radical,' following convocation.
Platt began his message with several statistics about spiritual and physical needs around the world. There are currently more than 4.5 billion unsaved people in the world, he said, and today alone, 26,000 children will die of either starvation or preventable diseases. If that is true, he said, Christians have no time to "play games" in the church or in their own lives -- humans have a master who demands radical sacrifice and a mission that warrants radical urgency.
"I want to call you to abandon your plans and your dreams, your ideas, your possessions, all of your hopes of living out a nice, comfortable, middle class American Christianity -- I want to call you to abandon it all to make the glory of Christ known among every nation in the world," said Platt. "I want to show you that there is no better way you can spend your life than making his worth known among all people."
Platt read a parable from Matthew 13:44 as an example: "The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field."
"Inside he knows that he has found something that is worth losing everything for," said Platt. "… We have found someone who is worth losing everything for, He is that good, He is that satisfying, He is that wonderful and He is that worthy."
Platt earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Arts in journalism (A.B.J.) from the University of Georgia. He earned his Master of Divinity, Master of Theology, and Doctor of Philosophy from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He has been married to his wife, Heather, since 1999. They have two sons, Caleb and Joshua.
Liberty holds Missions Emphasis Week each semester to give students an opportunity to hear the stories and testimonies of missionaries and to consider God's will for their own lives as it applies to missions. This year's theme was "Ethnos," a Greek word meaning "nation, people group or tribe."
In additional to the featured convocation speakers, more than 100 representatives from 60 missionary organizations set up displays in Arthur S. Demoss Learning Center. Other events included interactive seminars, prayer meetings and a food festival.
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