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Getting rid of the addiction is very hard to do.
Addiction means that people who take the drug cannot stop taking it, without bad consequences (as described below).
It's like people who want to stop smoking, but who cannot.
People who have taken sedatives may seem dull, and sleepy.
Since sleeping pills act on their ability to react, those who have taken such pills should not do the following:
Operate any machines
Drive a car
Drink alcohol (This may make the effect of the pill bigger.)
Some people are addicted to sedatives.
When they stop taking the sedatives, they may experience the following
Insomnia (being unable to sleep)
Restlessness
Anxiety (feeling fear)
Convulsions and seizures
ja:精神安定剤
Epilepsy is a chronic condition of the brain.
It is characterized by seizures that do not seem to have an obvious cause.
To the outside viewer, these seizures show as  episodes of heavy shaking.
Depending on the seizure, the shaking may be short and difficult to detect or it may be longer.
People with epilepsy are sometimes called epileptic, but it is the fit or seizure that is "epileptic".
There are many different forms of seizures, and there are also many different forms of epilepsy.
Most forms of epilepsy cannot be cured.
In most cases, drugs can make life easier for those suffering from it.
In very few  cases, (which are difficult to treat), surgery may help.
In some cases, only eating special things (called a diet) may help.
A special diet has been developed; it is called Ketogenic diet.
When it was developed, it was mainly used to treat certain children with epilepsy, before good drugs became available.
Today, it is used to treat certain cases where drugs do not seem to help.
Certain forms of the disease disappear after a time, they do for example only occur in childhood.
Epilepsy is not one condition.
Rather, it  stands for a number of health problems that all show in the same ways.
The condition is very common; about one percent of people worldwide (65 million) have epilepsy.
Nearly eighty percent of all cases occur in developing countries.
Epilepsy becomes more common as people age.
In the developed world, onset of new cases occurs most frequently in infants and the elderly.
In the developing world this is in older children and young adults.
Between five and ten percent of all people will have an unprovoked seizure by the age of eighty.
The chance of having a second seizure is between forty and fifty percent.
People get muscular seizures or convulsions.
People lose control over their body.
Feces may be released in the process.
They may fall to the floor and hurt themselves when they are standing or walking.
People may become unconscious.
Those affected are not aware of the seizure going on.
People do not remember or know what happened to them.
In some cases, people may sense that a seizure is about to occur.
This special feeling is called aura.
Afterwards, people may remember the aura, but not the seizure itself.
Most seizures only last a short time, the exception to this is called status epilepticus.
Such a status epilepticus can last over five minutes.
Reflexes do not work while people are having a seizure; they may also stop breathing.
People are tired after a seizure.
They may be confused.
Epilepsy is not a mental illness.
The condition is very common, and has been studied a lot.
Doctors only say someone has epilepsy, if that person has had at least two seizures, for which the immediate cause cannot be seen.
There are also seizures which are not caused by epilepsy.
There are drugs for many forms of epilepsy that make life better for those affected.
In about two third of the cases, taking one drug alone can make the seizures go away.
The remaining third is more difficult to treat, but in many cases, a combination of drugs can at least reduce the number of seizures.
In most cases, epilepsy is caused by scars in the brain.
Some forms of the condition are caused by genetic disorders, which may be passed on from the parents to the children.
Very often, the actual cause for an epileptic seizure is lack of sleep, too much alcohol, or other things that cause stress.
Many countries in the world say there are special rules for people who have epilepsy.
They need to be without a seizure for some time before they may drive a car.
They also need to take drugs to treat their illness.
In many countries, such people may not drive buses, taxis or trucks.
People having an epileptic seizure face a number of problems.
They hurt themselves during the seizure.
This includes broken bones, and wounds resulting from biting or hitting an object.
They produce an accident during the seizure.
This includes falling off a ladder, car accidents, and drowning while swimming.
In some cases, people stop breathing.
In such cases, the brain will be damaged, if the seizure lasts for a longer time, or there are multiple such seizures in a row.
During the seizure, neurotransmitters are released in the brain.
If their concentration is too high, the brain will take damage.
In many cases, risky behaviour can provoke seizures.
Such risk factors include
Alcohol, and other drugs
Famous people with epilepsy
A trout is a kind of teleost fish that belongs to the Salmoninae subfamily of the Salmonidae family.
There are many different kinds of trout.
They belong to the same family as the salmon.
Most trouts are fresh water fish.
They live in clear streams, rivers and lakes in America, Europe, and Asia.
It is possible to work out the difference between a trout and any other fish, by looking for a second dorsal fin (or adipose fin).
Also, you can find for spots in mature trout and parr marks in the young.
Tijuana (  or ; ) is a city in Mexico.
It is in the north of the country and across the border from California in the United States.
It is the largest city in Baja California.
Tijuana is well known destination for US Tourists.
19th-century establishments in Mexico
Tampa is a city in Florida, a state of the United States.
It has a population of about 384,959 people as of 2020.
Tampa is 3rd largest city in Florida, and the 52nd largest city in the USA.
People from Tampa
Brittany Snow (born 1986), actress
Derek Bell (born 1968), professional baseball player
Salha "Mama" Bobo (c. 1900 – 2001), Ybor business pioneer
Ray Charles (1930–2004), blind blues singer, pianist
Aaron Carter (born 1987), actor/singer
Oba Chandler (born 1946) murderer (lived there since early 80s)
Hulk Hogan (born 1953), actor/wrestler
Krall began to play the piano when she was four years old.
She began to play in restaurants when she was 15.
When she was 17, she won a Vancouver Jazz Festival scholarship (student money award) to study music at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
She later moved to Los Angeles to study with Jimmy Rowles.
In 1990, she moved to New York City.
Krall's 1996 album All For You, was a tribute (way to honour someone) to the Nat King Cole trio.
It was on the Billboard jazz charts for 70 weeks.
The album was considered for a Grammy Award.
She won a Grammy in 1999 for "Best Jazz Musician of the Year".
Her 2001 album The Look of Love was #1 in Canada.
It also won the Juno Award as Canadian album of the year.
Her 2002 album Live in Paris won the Grammy for Best Vocal Jazz Record.
Also in 2002, Krall won the Juno for Canadian artist of the year.
Her version of the Tom Waits song "Temptation" made #1 on the World Jazz Charts in 2004.
Heartdrops (1989)
Stepping Out (1993)
Only Trust Your Heart (1994)
All For You (1996)
Love Scenes (1997)
When I Look in Your Eyes (1999)
The Look of Love (2001)
Live in Paris (2002)
The Girl in the Other Room (2004)
Christmas Songs (2005)
Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival (2004)
Diana Krall's website
DianaKrallfans.com fan website
Diana Krall Lyrics
Diana Krall MusicBrainz
Musicians from British Columbia
Canadian pianists
The Juno Awards are awards given to Canadian musical artists and bands, similar to the United States' Grammy Awards.
The Juno awards were first presented in 1970.
International Album of the Year
New Group of the Year
Rock Album of the Year
Pop Album of the Year
Music awards
Half-Life 2 is a first person shooter video game created by the company Valve Corporation and released in 2004.
This game is the sequel to the original Half-Life video game which came out in 1998.
It is sold through the Steam platform also developed by Valve.
It is also available in The Orange Box, along with Half-Life 2: Episode One and Half-Life 2: Episode Two (sequels to Half-Life 2), Portal, and Team Fortress 2.
Half-Life 3 is currently in development.
Half-Life 2 is based on a game engine called Source.
There have been many other Source-based games, such as Portal, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, and Garry's Mod.
Half-Life was a very popular video game, and Half-Life 2 was also very popular.
Many reviewers believe Half-Life 2 is better than Half-Life and one of the best games ever made.
It took six years to create Half-Life 2 (from 1998 to 2004).
It was supposed to be released in 2003, but it was not ready.
Many fans were very angry and said Valve lied to them.
However, it did release the next year (2004).
It had much better graphics than Half-Life.
It also had more complicated non-player characters and more of a story.
Plot and Characters
In Half-Life 2, the player is Gordon Freeman (the same character as in Half-Life).
It begins about 20 years after the first Half-Life.
The Combine, a group of evil aliens, took over Earth and made humans their slaves.
Gordon Freeman wakes up on a train in a place named City 17.
He finds the resistance, some humans who fight the Combine.
In the game, he must help them and fight with them.
The game ends with Gordon Freeman stopping Doctor Breen, the evil human who is helping the Combine.
There are many important characters in this game other than Gordon Freeman.
Some are Eli Vance, who worked at Black Mesa with Gordon Freeman before the Combine came.
He is part of the resistance.
Alyx Vance is Eli's daughter.
She travels with Gordon in part of the game.
Doctor Mossman also worked at Black Mesa.
She works with the resistance, but is also a traitor who helps Doctor Breen.
Barney Calhoun was a guard at Black Mesa.
Now he leads the resistance.
Half-Life 2 official website
Steam website
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a 1974 American horror movie, based on real events.
It was directed by Tobe Hooper and stars Marilyn Burns.
It is the first movie of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise.
Snopes.com page talking about the movie's true-life basis
A tour of the shooting locations
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies
1974 crime movies
1974 horror movies
American serial killer movies
Movie remakes
Encryption allows information to be hidden so that it cannot be read without special knowledge (such as a password).
This is done with a secret code or cypher.
The hidden information is said to be encrypted.
Decryption is a way to change encrypted information back into plaintext.
This is the decrypted form.
The study of encryption is called cryptography.
Cryptanalysis can be done by hand if the cypher is simple.
Complex cyphers need a computer to search for possible keys.
Decryption is a field of computer science and mathematics that looks at how difficult it is to break a cypher.
A simple kind of encryption for words is ROT13.
In ROT13, letters of the alphabet are changed with each other using a simple pattern.
For example, A changes to N, B changes to O, C changes to P, and so on.
Each letter is "rotated" by 13 spaces.
Using the ROT13 cipher, the words Simple English Wikipedia becomes Fvzcyr Ratyvfu Jvxvcrqvn.
The ROT13 cipher is very easy to decrypt.
Because there are 26 letters in the English alphabet, if a letter is rotated two times by 13 letters each time, the original letter will be obtained.
So applying the ROT13 cipher a second time brings back the original text.
When he communicated with his army, Julius Caesar sometimes used what is known as Caesar cipher today.
This cipher works by shifting the position of letters: each letter is rotated by 3 positions.
Most kinds of encryption are made more complex so cryptanalysis will be difficult.
Some are made only for text.
Others are made for binary computer data like pictures and music.
Today, many people use the asymmetric encryption system called RSA.
Any computer file can be encrypted with RSA.
AES is a common symmetric algorithm.
Most types of encryption can theoretically be cracked: an enemy might be able to decrypt a message without knowing the password, if he has clever mathematicians, powerful computers and lots of time.
The one-time pad is special because, if it is used correctly, it is impossible to crack.
There are three rules that must be followed:
The secret key (password) must be as long as the secret message: if the message has 20 letters then the key must also have at least 20 letters.
The secret key must be random (e.g. KQBWLDA...)
The secret key must only be used once.
To send more than one message, a different key must be used for each one.
If these three rules are obeyed, then it is impossible to read the secret message without knowing the secret key.
For this reason, during the Cold War, embassies and large military units often used one-time pads to communicate secretly with their governments.
They had little books ("pads") filled with random letters or random numbers.
Each page from the pad could only be used once: this is why it is called a "one-time pad".
Encryption on the Internet
Encryption is often used on the Internet, as many web sites use it to protect private information.
On the Internet, several encryption protocols are used, such as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), IPsec, and SSH.
They use the RSA encryption system and others.
The protocol for protected web browsing is called HTTPS.
URL encryption mostly uses the MD5 Algorithm.
Various algorithms are used in the internet market depending upon the need.
FreeOTFE - Disk encryption
Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) - Email encryption
PuTTY - SSH encryption
Gelsenkirchen (UK: /ˈɡɛlzənkɪərxən/, US: /ˌɡɛlzənˈkɪərxən/, German: [ˌɡɛlzn̩ˈkɪʁçn̩]; Westphalian: Gelsenkiärken) is a city in Germany in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
It is about  north of Cologne in the so-called Ruhr Area.
About 269,000 people live there.
In the past it was dominated by coal mining and steel industry.
The city is famous for its football (soccer) club FC Schalke 04.
Official City Website
Official Schalke 04 Website
Gelsenkirchen Blog
Official MiR Website
Pseudoscience is anything that pretends to be science but is not.
Together, "pseudo-" and "science" mean "fake science".
Pseudoscience may fail one or more parts of being scientific.
Pseudoscience is not just an idea that is not accepted by the mainstream scientific community.
It is an idea not open to testing, no matter what evidence against it is available.
Despite the fact that the word pseudoscience means "false science", it is the openness to testing which is fundamental to science.
This is more fundamental than whether a theory is accepted.
After all, ideas have been proved wrong, though once they were believed to be true.
Obviously, science is not always right but always open to correction, which makes a clear difference between science and pseudoscience.
There is a difference, however, between pseudoscience and religion.
Astrology is a pseudoscience, because it pretends to be based on facts, but is not.
Religions make statements which are certainly not scientific, and are not meant to be.
Insofar as a religion makes no factual claims, it is not open to refutation.
When it does make factual claims it is vulnerable.
A good example is the decision of the Catholic Church to defend the ancient ideas of the heavens (Ptolemy) against the (then) new ideas of Galileo and Copernicus.
Types of pseudoscience
Ideas (more properly "hypotheses") about how nature works may be considered pseudoscientific for many reasons.
Sometimes, the hypothesis is just simply wrong, and can be demonstrated to be wrong.
An example of this is the belief that the Earth is flat, or the belief that human female skeletons have one more rib than men do.
Ideas such as these are considered unscientific because they have been proved wrong.
Sometimes, an idea might be true, but could never be demonstrated to be true, even in principle.
For example, suppose some people believe that the Earth and the universe came into existence last Thursday.
They claim that when the universe came into existence last Thursday, it was created with the appearance of being many millions of years old.
According to these believers, even our memories of two weeks ago are actually just the false memories that came along with the creation of the universe, which took place last Thursday.
Such a belief is considered pseudoscientific because it is not falsifiable—no experiment  could shed light on whether this belief is true or false.
Other types of pseudoscience are considered pseudoscientific because they are based on deception, even though the idea being used is not impossible.
Examples are people who claim to have made time travel devices, antigravity devices, or teleporters.
Scientists simply do not have the technology to build such things at present, even though they may be able to someday.
Some ideas are arguably pseudoscientific.
This means that some mainstream scientists consider the idea pseudoscientific and some do not.
Certain ideas about how the stock market behaves fall into this category.
Pseudoscience is not exactly the same thing as biased research, where the scientist has some bad motive (such as personal gain, fame, or financial profit) for promoting their findings.
It is also not the same as an untested hypothesis, which is an idea that scientists cannot test yet because they do not have the money or technology to do so.
The theories of quantum gravity are untested hypotheses: scientists can easily imagine experiments to test them, but they just do not quite have the technology to do so at this time.
Borderline pseudoscience
Examples of ideas which are not accepted by scientists, but which still have some credibility today: Dowsing (rhabdomancy, searching for water under the ground by "reading" a wooden stick) ; parapsychology or psychical research (communication in ways which is not accepted by science), psychoanalysis (wholesale acceptance of Freud's ideas).
Other pseudoscholarship
Pseudoscholarship is anything that pretends to be scholarly and academic but is not.
There are many kinds, including pseudoscience:
Pseudoarcheology is anything that pretends to be proper archeology but is not.
Pseudohistory is anything that pretends to be proper history but is not.
Pseudomathematics is anything that pretends to be proper mathematics but is not.
Pseudophilosophy is anything that pretends to be philosophy but is not.
Pseudopsychology is anything that pretends to be proper psychology but is not.
General source:  Dijksterhuis E.J. 1961.
The mechanization of the world picture.
West Coast, New Zealand
West Coast, Tasmania
The West Coast Eagles, an Australian Rules Football team.
In the time of Cold War the USA and the Soviet Union were enemies and thought the other side was going to attack them.
To dissuade the other side from attacking, both sides built many nuclear missiles to ensure Mutual assured destruction.
This meant a country that attacked would be destroyed.
Treaties were made to reduce the numbers of missiles to make everyone safer.
The pituitary gland (or hypophysis) is an important part of the endocrine system.
It is at the base of the brain between the eyes.
The pituitary is attached to the hypothalamus, which is also a gland.
The pituitary controls a whole range of vital functions by secreting hormones.
The pituitary gland consists of two parts: the anterior pituitary and the posterior pituitary.
It is functionally linked to the hypothalamus by the pituitary stalk (also called the infundibulum).
The hypothalamus releases factors down the pituitary stalk to the pituitary gland where they cause the release of pituitary hormones.
Although the pituitary gland is known as the 'master' endocrine gland, both of the lobes are under the control of the hypothalamus.
Hormones released
Anterior pituitary
The endocrine cells of the anterior pituitary are controlled by neurosecretion from the hypothalamus.
The anterior pituitary cells synthesizes and secretes these important endocrine hormones:
Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH): released under conditions of stress.
Increases corticosteroids.
Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH): regulates thyroid gland.
Growth hormone ('HGH'): stimulates cell division and growth.
Prolactin (PRL): stimulates milk production in breasts.
Luteinizing hormone (LH): in females, it triggers ovulation.
In males it stimulates testosterone (acts with next).
Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH): regulates development, growth, puberty, reproduction.
Intermediate lobe
Melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH): stimulates the production and release of melanin by melanocytes in skin and hair.
MSH signals to the brain have effects on appetite and sexual arousal.
Posterior pituitary
The posterior pituitary is actually an extension of the hypothalamus.
Neurosecretory cells in the hypothalamus have axons that go right down into the posterior pituitary.
The posterior pituitary stores and secretes the hormones produced by these neurosecretory cells:
Oxytocin, most of which is released from the hypothalamus: has effects on nerve transmission, and on females during and after birth.
Has a role in pair-bonding, mating and maternal behaviour.
Functions not yet entirely understood.
Antidiuretic hormone (ADH, also known as vasopressin): controls the reabsorption of molecules in the tubules of the kidneys.
Increases arterial blood pressure.
It plays a key role in homeostasis, and the regulation of water, glucose, and salts in the blood.
Oxytocin is one of the few hormones to create a positive feedback loop.
For example, uterine contractions stimulate the release of oxytocin from the posterior pituitary, which, in turn, increases uterine contractions.
This positive feedback loop continues throughout birth labour.
Miskolc is the third largest city of Hungary and the capital of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county.
Its population is 178.950.
Miskolc is in the north-eastern part of the country, east from the Bükk mountains, in the valley of the river Sajó and the streams Hejő and Szinva.
Its area is 236.68 km².
The first known people who lived in this area are the Celts.
The Hungarians came here in the end of the 9th century.
The area was named after the Miskóc family who were its owners, and it was first mentioned in 1210.
The family lost a war against King Charles I and the king took away their properties.
A castle was built in Diósgyőr (a town near Miskolc; it is now a part of the city) in the 13rd century.
It was the favourite castle of King Louis I who lived in the 14th century.
When Hungary was in a war with the Ottoman Empire, the Ottomans burned down Miskolc in 1544.
The Austrians also burned the city down in 1707 because Prince Francis Rákóczi, who started a freedom fight against the Austrians, lived in Miskolc for a while.
In 1724 Miskolc became the capital of the county.
The city developed.
In the 18th and 19th centuries the people built many important buildings: schools, churches and a theatre.
In the 1786 census (when they count the people) 14.719 people lived in Miskolc and there were 2414 houses.
After the first World War Miskolc became more important, because Hungary had to give Kassa, the other important city of the area, to Slovakia.
Miskolc became a centre of iron industry.
In 1945 Miskolc and Diósgyőr became one city.
In 1949 a university was founded in Miskolc.
Lots of people moved to Miskolc because they could find new jobs in the city.
In the 1980s more than 200.000 people lived here.
It was the second largest city in Hungary (the first was the capital Budapest).
Now Miskolc is the third largest, the second is Debrecen.
Miskolc is now an important cultural city and tourists like it too.
The theatre holds an opera festival every year.
The most beautiful parts of the city are Tapolca (with a famous warm water bath in a cave), Lillafüred (with a hotel which looks like a palace and is called Palace Hotel) and the castle of Diósgyőr.
City parts
The Avas is a hill (234 m / 780 ft high).
There is a TV tower, an old church (the oldest building in Miskolc) and a large housing estate (high houses with lots of flats) on Avas.
The Downtown is the centre of Miskolc.
The most important street is the Széchenyi street which is often called Main street.
There are lots of nice old buildigs and lots of shops here.
Diósgyőr
University Town
The University of Miskolc is a new university because it was founded in 1949.
Most universities in Hungary are older and have old buildings in the downtowns.
The University of Miskolc has a whole city part for itself, the buildings of the university and the houses in which the students live are in a lare park.
Lillafüred
Lillafüred is a small village outside Miskolc, but it belongs to the city.
The Palace Hotel, some caves and a nice waterfall are here.
Miskolc-Tapolca
Tourists like Miskolc-Tapolca because of its famous Cave Bath where people can bathe in warm water inside of a large cave.
The houses here are expensive.
The Boeing Company ( ) (NYSE: BA ) is an American company which makes aircraft and defense items.
The company was started in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington.
Boeing has grown to become very big.
It bought its main rival, McDonnell Douglas, in 1997.
Boeing moved its headquarters from Seattle to Chicago, Illinois in 2001.
Boeing is made up of many smaller parts.
These parts are called divisions.
The divisions are Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA); Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS); Engineering, Operations & Technology; Boeing Capital; and Boeing Shared Services Group.
Boeing is one of the biggest aircraft manufacturers in the world.
It is the second-biggest defense contractor in the world as of 2011.
Companies based in Chicago, Illinois
1916 establishments in the United States
The uterus or womb is part of the reproductive system of the female body.
The uterus is the place a baby grows for nine months during pregnancy.
It is a pear-shaped organ inside a woman.
It is behind the bladder and in front of the rectum.
The uterus weighs 70 grams.
The endometrium is the tissue that lines the uterus.
A hormone called estrogen makes the endometrium thick with blood and fluid.
This uterine lining gives the growing baby what it needs to grow.
The endometrium leaves the uterus as the monthly flow of blood (menstruation).
The endometrium will form again.
This happens every 28 days.
The number of days can be different for each women.
The fertilized egg will move through the fallopian tube and into uterus.
It will then attach to the endometrium.
The uterus is part the female reproductive system.
Other structures and organs that are part of the reproduction system are the vagina, ovaries and fallopian tubes.
The uterus has four main parts.
The fundus is the upper part of the uterus.
It has a rounded shape.
Another part of the uterus is the body.
The uterotubal angles are the parts connected to the Fallopian tubes.
The bottom part of the uterus is the cervix.
The uterus has three layers.
The outer layer is called the perimetrium.
It is a thin layer that surrounds the outside of the uterus.
The perimetrium is made of tissue made of epithelial cells.
The middle layer is the myometrium.
Most of the uterus is made up of the myometrium.
The layer on the inside is the endometrium.
The endometrium is made of secretory, ciliated, and basal cells.
The uterus is not in the same place for all women.
It is tilted forward in most women.
Other women have a uterus that tilts up or backwards.
The uterus is supplied by blood vessels.
Blood travels to the uterus through arteries.
The big arteries are the internal iliac arteries.
The big arteries branch off into smaller arteries called the ovarian artery and the uterine artery.
The smaller arteries give blood to all the layers of the uterus.
The blood returns to the heart and lungs through the veins.
The uterus is held in place by ligaments.
These are the anterior, posterior, lateral, uterosacral, and round ligaments.
The position of the uterus can vary depending on the contents of the bladder.
The uterus changes during the life of a woman.
It is inactive during childhood and old age.
During the time that a woman or girl can have a baby it is a very active organ.
It does many things.
It is where menstruation begins, it is the place where the fertilized ovum attaches, it is the place where the baby grows, it is the strong muscle that pushes the baby out during birth.
Cancer can form in the uterus.
But this is not common.
There are two types of uterine cancer.
These are endometrial cancer and uterine sarcoma.
Endometrial cancer can grow from cells lining the uterus.
Uterine sarcoma is a rare cancer that grows from cells in the smooth muscle of the uterus.
Other tumors can grow in the uterus that are not cancer.
One of these is a Uterine fibroid.
Abnormal uterus
A girl can be born with a uterus that is not normal.
When a woman has uterus that is not normal she can also have other organs that are not normal.
She may not know this until she wants to have babies.
Having a baby can be hard.
If a woman has a uterus that is not normal, she may not be able to have babies.
Many times the uterus can be corrected by surgery.
The uterus changes during pregnancy.
It grows with the baby.
It also has fluid and the placenta inside.
It starts small but it becomes very large.
It can hold as much as five to twenty liters.
The uterus is made of smooth muscle called the myometrium.
The cells of the myometrium grow during pregnancy.
Strong fibrous tissue grows on the outside of the uterus.
The myometrium grows at first but becomes thinner at the end of the pregnancy.
A doctor or nurse can feel the baby through the thinning uterus.
Uterine prolapse
The uterus can move down and be seen through the vagina.
This can happen after a woman has a baby.
Older women have this problem more than younger women.
Other things that make women have their uterus drop down:
A lower amount of estrogen after menopause
Being overweight
Coughing a lot
A tumor
Pushing too hard to have a bowel movement
Weak pelvic muscles
The uterus is removed by surgery for many reasons.
Removing the uterus is called a hysterectomy.
Surgery to remove the uterus may need to be done after having a baby.
This is because the woman may be bleeding heavily.
The uterus may need to removed because there is cancer growing in it.
Other animals
A uterus is present when an animal gives birth to live offspring.
Therefore, all mammals have a uterus except monotremes.
However, humans are almost alone in having a single uterus.
The other mammal which has a single uterus is the chimpanzee, our nearest living relative.
Other mammals have either wholly separated uteri or uteri which are fused along part of their length.
Cattle have two uteri.
The uterus of the horse is made of two short uterine horns.
The uterus of the horse is affected by hormones.
Horses can have an infection of the uterus.
The horse can also develop uterine cysts.
In an older female horse, there may be scarring in the uterus after they have their baby.
Damage to the uterus in the horse may make it unable to have babies.
The uterus in a female dog has two uterine horns.
The female cat has two uteri that join one cervix.
Marsupials have two uteri that connect to separate vaginas.
Satanism is a word that has several different meanings.
It can describe different religions and philosophies.
Sometimes the word Satanism is just used to say that the person using it does not like a group, but the group themselves do not think of themselves as Satanists.
Used like this, it is just used to say the speaker disapproves of a group.
A lot of groups, like Pagans, or even Protestants have in the past been called Satanists by some people.
The word is often used by people who do not know much about Satanists, who think that Satanism means the worship of an evil being called Satan, and that Satanists want him to win in a war against good represented by "God".
This is not true for most Satanists.
For them, Satan is only a symbol for the freedom to be themselves, and the word Satan is used as a symbol for man's inner desires and for knowledge.
These people read the writings of Anton LaVey and are sometimes called LaVeyan Satanists.
There are several modern Satanic groups of different types, with the most well known being the Church of Satan, created in 1966 by Anton LaVey, who also wrote The Satanic Bible.
Even though these types of satanists are atheists, meaning they do not believe in a higher being, they do practice magic.
They believe that there is no afterlife.
Other types of Satanists do worship Satan.
They are called theistic or traditional Satanists, because they believe their religion is older.
They believe their religion is similar to that of Witches.
LaVeyan Satanists
Church of Satan: The Official Web Site
First Satanic Church - Official Website
Theistic Satanists
Diane Vera's site about Theistic Satanism
Satan's Den
Decatur is a city in the American state of Illinois.
In the 2000 census, there were more than 80,000 people living in it.
Many people drive in and out of Decatur on Interstate 72.
There is a shopping mall in nearby Forsyth, a suburb of Decatur.
Decatur is the county seat of Macon County.
Macon County was the home of the young Abraham Lincoln, later U.S. President, for a short time.
The place where the Lincoln family built a log cabin and spent the winter of 1829-1830 is now a state park, the "Lincoln Trail Homestead State Park."
Elba () is third largest island of Italy, after Sardinia and Sicily.
The land area of the island is about 224 square kms.
The coastline is about 147 km.
The highest mountain is Monte Capanne at 1018 metres (3340 feet).
Elba and the other islands (Gorgona, Capraia, Pianosa, Montecristo, Giglio and Giannutri) of the Tuscan Archipelago are protected in the National Park of the Tuscan Archipelago.
The French island of Corsica lies about 50 km to the west.
Recently,the island has become famous for its wine.
The island is divided into eight communes: Portoferraio, Campo nell'Elba, Capoliveri, Marciana, Marciana Marina, Porto Azzurro, Rio Marina and Rio nell'Elba.
The island has a population of about 30 000 people.
The island was well known in to the last century for the iron resources.
Mines were created by the Etruscans first and (after 480 BC) the Romans.
After the end of the Roman Empire, the island knew barbarians and Saracens.
In the early 11th century it became a part of the Republic of Pisa.
In 1398, was sold to the Visconti family of Milan.
After a few years, the island was acquired by the Appiani, Lords of Piombino, who kept it for two centuries.
In 1546 part of the island was controlled by Cosimo I de' Medici.
He fortified Portoferraio and renamed it "Cosmopoli".
In 1577, the rest of the island was returned to the Appiani.
In 1603 Philip II of Spain captured Porto Azzurro and built two fortresses there.
In 1802 the island became a part of France.
Following the Treaty of Fontainebleau, French emperor Napoleon I was exiled to Elba after his forced abdication in 1814 and arrived at Portoferraio on May 3, 1814 to begin his exile there.
He was allowed to keep a personal guard of six hundred men.
Napoleon stayed on Elba for 300 days before he escaped and returned to France on February 26 for the Hundred Days.
Thanks to Napoleon Elba is well-known around the world.
In the Congress of Vienna the island was given to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
In 1860 it became part of the new unified Kingdom of Italy.
Elba Geology  a site about Elba's Geology.
War story about the WWII battle
Elba Island All information for your holiday on Elba Island
March 1 – Federalist James Ross becomes President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate.
March 7 – Napoleon captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
March 29 – New York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing slavery in the state.
July 7 – Ranjit Singh's men had taken their positions outside Lahore.
July 15 – In the Egyptian port city of Rosetta, French Captain Pierre Bouchard finds the Rosetta Stone.
July 25 – At Aboukir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottoman Mamluk troops under Mustafa Pasha.
November 9 – Napoleon overthrows the French Directory.
December – Napoleon becomes First Consul.
The Dutch East India Company is dissolved.
The Place Royale in Paris is renamed Place des Vosges when the Department of Vosges becomes the first to pay new Revolutionary taxes.
The American System of manufacturing is invented.
April 17 - Edward Williams Clay, American artist (d. 1857)
August 29 – Pope Pius VI, Roman Catholic pope during the French revolution. (
b. 1717)
Saint Helena of Constantinople, Roman empress and the mother of Emperor Constantine the Great
Saint Helena of Skövde, Swedish 12th century saint
The remote British-controlled island of Saint Helena
Saint Helena, a barrier island of South Carolina (United States)
villages and a city in the United States
St. Helena, Nebraska
St. Helena, North Carolina
June 3 – Thomas Becket named Archbishop of Canterbury.
July 15 – Ladislaus II of Hungary declared King of Hungary.
July 24 – Emperor Gaozong abdicated to Emperor Xiaozong.
July 25 – Emperor Xiaozong said to restore Yue Fei after his death.
October 13 – Leonora of England, queen of Alfonso VIII of Castile (died 1214)
Abd-el-latif, Baghdad traveller and writer
Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire (died 1227)
Muhammad of Ghor, Persian conqueror and sultan (died 1206)
Renier of Montferrat, Byzantine politician
Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford (died 1218)
February 10 – King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
June 27 – Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)
July 7 – Haakon II of Norway
August 6 – Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona
Heloise, lover of Pierre Abélard (born 1101)
Iziaslav III of Kiev
Ibn Zuhr, Arab physician (born 1090)
The Dutch and British conquer Gibraltar
February 5 - Anne Christine of Sulzbach
November 10 - Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden
May 3 - Heinrich Biber, Austrian composer
February 24 - Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer
October 28 - John Locke, English philosopher
North Africa is the Northern part of Africa.
It is usually made up of these countries:
Most of north Africa is desert, which means it is very dry and does not rain very much.
The predominant ethnic groups are Arabs, Berbers and Moors (mixed Africans and Arabs).
The biggest religion is Islam, meaning that most of the people are Muslims.
Regions of Africa
Sanskrit is an ancient Indian language.
It is a sacred language of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism and is the origin of most Indian languages.
Today, about 14,000 people in India use it as their daily language.
It is one of the 22 official languages of India.
Sanskrit is a standardized dialect of Old Indo-Aryan.
Its linguistic ancestry can be traced back to Proto-Indo-European.
The Indo-Aryan migration theory proposes that the Indo-Aryans migrated from the Central Asian steppes into South Asia during the early 2nd millennium BC, which brought the Indo-Aryan languages.
The main script used to write Sanskrit is Devanāgarī, but it can be written in the scripts of various other Indian languages and is sometimes written in the Latin alphabet.
This led to the Indo-European languages being recognized as a group of related languages.
Sanskrit literature includes poetry and drama.
There are also scientific, technical, philosophical and religious texts.
Sanskrit continues to be widely used as a ceremonial language in Hindu religious rituals and Buddhist practice in the form of hymns and chants.
The language has a very complex grammar, with eight grammatical cases, the grammatical genders, and three grammatical numbers.
Words are also described based on their qualities.
The language is considered highly scientific, as each word in a sentence can describe the number, gender, and action of the subject.
Dementia is a group of diseases with symptoms, which affect the way people think and interact with each other.
It can often be linked to a disease or damage done to the brain.
Very often, short-time memory, mind, speech and motor skills are affected.
Certain forms of dementia cause a change in the personality of the sufferer.
A person suffering from dementia will lose certain skills and knowledge they already had.
This is the main difference to other conditions affecting the mind.
People who suffer from learning problems, or lower intelligence will never acquire certain skills, people suffering from dementia will lose skills they have acquired.
Dementia is more common in older people, but younger people can be affected as well.
Certain forms of dementia can be treated, to some extent.
The most common form of dementia is Alzheimer's disease, which accounts for between 50 and 60 percent of all cases.
Other types include vascular dementia and lewy body dementia.
Decision-making ability
Orientation in time and space
Verbal communication
Dressing (may need assistance)
Routine activities (may become unable to perform household tasks)
Personality (inappropriate responses, lack of emotional control)
Some types dementia are reversible.
This means the damage can be undone.
Other types are irreversible.
This means that they cannot be undone.
Irreversible dementia is usually caused by an incurable disease, such as Alzheimer's disease.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease causes a dementia that gets worse quickly, over weeks or months, and is caused by prions. ,
other forms like encephalopathy or delirium may develop relatively slowly, over a number of years.
The two leading causes of dementia are Alzheimer's disease and Multi-infarct disease.
Glioma related tumors are another kmown cause.
Alcohol dementia, is sometimes associated with Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, and is caused by long-term or uncontrolled, heavy alcohol abuse.
Possible metabolic causes are such as liver failure or kidney failure; and chronic subdural hematoma.
Possible other causes may include brain infection by illnesses like meningitis leading in cases to viral encephalitis drug toxicity (e.g. anticonvulsant drugs).
A recent report by Science Daily says that researchers at the University of Bergen, in Norway have discovered a connection between Oral health and Alzheimers disease.
Economic elasticity is at elasticity (economics)
Something that is elastic can be stretched or deformed (changed) and returned to its original form, like a rubber band.
It tries to come back to its first shape.
The stress is the force applied; the strain'' is how much the shape is changed, and the elastic modulus is the ratio between those numbers.
A harmonica is small musical instrument that is played with the mouth by blowing into holes in its side.
Harmonicas are cheap and easy to play.
Harmonicas produce their musical sounds from the vibrations of reeds in the harmonica's metal case.
Harmonicas are used in blues music, folk music, rock and roll music, and pop music.
A special type of harmonica, the chromatic harmonica, is used in jazz and classical music.
Harmonicas are made in several different keys: G, A♭, A, B♭, B, C, D♭, D, E♭, E, F, and F♯. Each key can play a different range of notes.
How they are played
Harmonicas are played by blowing or sucking air into one side.
On this side, there are many holes.
Each hole has a different note.
Different notes are played when you blow or suck air.
Harmonica players
Bob Dylan is a famous harmonica player from the 1960s folk rock scene.
Willi Burger is a famous classical harmonica player.eez
Neil Young is a folk/grunge musician who plays the harmonica.
Steven Tyler, from Aerosmith, plays the harmonica.
Little Walter, one of the most well known blues harmonica players ever.
Yvonnick Prene is a groundbreaking jazz harmonica player.
Other Harmonica players
*Bluesharp players
Larry Adler
Matthias Broede
Jens Bunge
Hermine Deurloo
Maurício Einhorn
Adam Glasser
Howard Levy
Hendrik Meurkens
Richard Oesterreicher
Types of harmonicas
Another type of harmonica is the chromatic harmonica.
More songs can be played on it than a regular harmonica, because chromatic harmonicas can play more different notes.
Chromatic harmonicas have a button which moves a sliding bar.
By pressing the button, the player can play a larger range of notes.
Different names
todoarmonica.org
Virtual harmonica lessons HarmoPoint
Harmonica's blog
Harmonica Riff
The Straits of Florida (or Florida Straits) is a  strait between the Florida Keys and Cuba.
Geography of Florida
An electron microscope is a scientific instrument which uses a beam of electrons to examine objects on a very fine scale.
In an optical microscope, the wavelength of light limits the maximum magnification that is possible.
As electrons have a smaller wavelength, they can achieve a higher magnification, and can see very small objects - typically around 1,000 times smaller than those seen in an optical microscope.
The outline of objects, as revealed by the flow of electrons, is changed into a picture using visible light for people to see.
Electron microscopes were invented in Germany in the 1930s.
Types of electron microscope
Transmission Electron Microscope TEM
A beam of electrons is sent towards the specimen - some electrons are reflected, while some pass through.
Those that pass through are detected and used to form an image of the specimen at a magnification of about 500,000 times.
This microscope is more powerful than a light microscope.
Reflection Electron Microscope (REM)
Similar to a Transmission Electron Microscope, but the reflected electrons are detected.
By measuring the reflected electrons, some information about the surface of the specimen can be gathered.
Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope (STEM)
It combines the high magnification of TEM with the better surface detail of SEM.
It can be used to perform complex analysis on the specimen, which cannot be done using TEM alone.
Insomnia is when people cannot sleep for long or short periods.
A person with this problem is called an insomniac.
Insomnia can mean a problem with getting to sleep or a problem with staying asleep.
Insomnia is a symptom and not a disease or illness.
Different kinds of insomnia
Transient Insomnia: this lasts from one night to a few weeks.
Acute Insomnia: lasts from a few weeks to about six months.
Chronic Insomnia: lasts for years at a time.
There are many causes of insomnia.
As people get older, their sleep patterns change.
They will sleep shorter periods of time, but more often.
Younger people usually sleep longer.
Some insomnia issues are caused by stimulant drugs, such as amphetamine, cocaine and nicotine.
Coffee stimulates the body, and people tend to drink quite a lot of it when they are at work.
If they drink too much of it, they will have problems falling asleep in the evening. (
The same is true for tea, colas, or any other drink with caffeine in it.)
Some people worry a lot.
Their worries during the day will bother them at night.
They might have nightmares, or they may wake up sweating.
Some substances, like alcohol can have a bad effect.
It can be very hard to sleep after drinking a lot of alcohol.
The world may spin and there can be an urge to vomit as soon the person closes their eyes.
Drugs can also have this effect, even some "sleeping" pills.
A very rare disease called fatal familial insomnia prevents some people from falling asleep.
In this disease, a person can no longer sleep and after a while will die from being so tired.
It is caused by a protein similar to the one that causes mad cow disease which is a very bad disease that comes from eating infected meat.
People with disorders of their circadian rhythms often have trouble sleeping at normal times.
Insomnia is a common symptom of some mental disorders: bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, dementia and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
There are drugs available that can help treat the different kinds of insomnia.
In some cases, there are also certain herbs that can help.
A third way that seems to help is a type of therapy that aims at changing the behaviour of those affected.
The Airbus A320 family is a family of jet airliners.
It only has two rows of seats, which means it is a narrow-body plane.
The family is made by Airbus and it is made up of the A318, A319, A320 and A321, as well as the ACJ business jet.
The A320 family is made in Toulouse, France, and Hamburg, Germany.