Those counterrevolutionaries who were not executed were subjected to reform through labor, a euphemism for slave labor, and participated in the intensive work which began on railway and road construction and water conservation schemes. The most important of the latter was the vaunted Huai River flood control project, which has been the subject of praise in all the accounts of fellow travelers who have visited China.

Ku Ts'ai, who was a friend of the famous dramatist K'ung Shang-jen (1648-1718),³ happened to be visiting Ho-feng in western Hupeh in 1703 and describes how the people there celebrated the feastday of Kuan-kung in one part of the city.

According to this classification, carotid plaques were assigned as fibroatherotic (type V) and complicated (type VI).

That was unusual because Barnesville is a place like most low cost housing areas where people did not only know wone another but are nosely to the point of finding out each others business.