The true reckoning of a coach is his team, and the true measure of a teacher is the students. Football Coach Darrin Brown of La Costa Canyon High School ranks high on both of these scales. We were able to talk to the Head Coach for a while this month and find out more about his team and his students.
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(This is a Chapter Exerpt from a book on Investing Ghost written by Glenn Hefley -- this is chapter 7 -- Personal Investing Online)

Online access is the greatest development in the last century for personal investors. All levels of investing have benefited from this explosion of information and communication, but the personal investor has reaped the greater portion of the pie. Information and access to other investors, and investor groups have given the home researcher tools that use to take brokers and advisors decades to create and groom. This isn't to say that all of the information out there on the internet is "real" or "correct", but a good portion of it is, and there are more than enough resources to place you in decision making positions.

To be accurate, it really isn't the Information age, but rather the Communication age. The computer started out as a source of information storage and access. Spread Sheets were quite nice to crunch some numbers and databases for notes were good tools. When the computer was connected to the internet and given access to other investors however, it became a tool of communication. Email, news groups, news websites, personal and company blogs, as well as investor forums sprang up give the personal investor access to a huge community of people looking for real information.
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I don't believe I have seen a month go by without reading something in the media regarding some benefit provided by Ginseng. This month (March 2006) the media is crawling with the study, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, stating that women who were treated for breast cancer and then followed for up to 6 years, who had been using ginseng before their diagnosis were 30 percent less likely to die than women who had never used the herb.

In addition, breast cancer survivors who had started using ginseng after their diagnosis reported greater emotional well-being and a more active social life than those who never tried the herb.

That's a fairly enticing claim.
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Nutritional tips are every where. They are hanging around office conversations, news reports, and little booklets at the supermarkets. Several of them are good, and some of them seem to conflict with each other. For example there is a large rift between those that feel you should get all of your essential elements from your daily diet, and those that feel supplements are required. I try not to find myself on the extreme side of any debate, because one thing most of the experts agree on is that extremes in your health plan are anti-productive.

The staying power of many of these conflicts can be attributed to the fact that both sides are correct. For example -- this supplement debate; Those that feel supplements are not optimal and suggest that our diets should be enough to provide us with the essential elements we need, are correct. In fact, if you can change your diet enough to insure you are provided with the proper amount of every vitamin, it is much healthier for you. However, many of us simply can not adjust to that extent, and therefore must rely on dietary supplements. Some of us also have deficiencies in areas, despite our change in diet plans. Pregnancy for example, takes a lot out of the body, and prenatal supplements are highly recommended.
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Herbalism, also known as phytotherapy, has been around since... well since man really. There is some interpretive evidence that Neanderthals living 60,000 years ago in present-day Iraq used plants for medicinal purposes. Whether that is true or not is hardly a problem. For the last few thousand years, the use of herbs and plants as medicines has been well documented.

The use of and search for drugs and dietary supplements derived from plants have accelerated in recent years. Pharmacologists, microbiologists, botanists, and natural-products chemists are combing the Earth for phytochemicals and leads that could be developed for treatment of various diseases. In fact, many modern drugs have been derived from plants. Some examples are inulin from the roots of dahlias, quinine from the cinchona, aspirin from willow bark, and digoxin from the foxglove.

As of 2004, the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine started to fund clinical trials into the effectiveness of herbal medicine.

So what is the difference, if any, between using willow bark to cure a headache, or ginseng to bring back up the energy of our body, and eating a few bell peppers to enrich our supply of vitamin C, or using Ginseng as a flavor for a soft drink? Why is one considered a dietary, or culinary act, while the other considered rather risky hedge-doctoring?
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