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Carlos Saúl Menem (July 2, 1930 – February 14, 2021) was an Argentine politician and writer.
He was the President of Argentina from July 8, 1989 to December 10, 1999.
From 1973 to 1976 and again from 1983 to 1989, Menem was Governor of La Rioja.
Menem was the first Argentine president to visit Israel.
He was a supporter of Peronist ideas.
After he moved to Chile, Argentina tried to extradite him.
In 2005, he became Senator for La Rioja.
In 2003, he ran for president again and narrowly won the first round of the election.
However he dropped out of the race after seeing that Néstor Kirchner would beat him in the second round.
Some Argentines believe that his name brings bad luck, something that Menem also believes in.
On 15 December 2020, he was hospitalized in Buenos Aires for a urinary tract infection.
On 24 December, he suffered from kidney failure and put in a coma.
Menem died on 14 February 2021 from problems caused by the infection, aged 90.
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Menem arrives on Argentine soil (from the BBC)
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The Buenos Aires Province is the largest, richest, and most populated province of Argentina.
The province has a population of 13,827,203 (2001) and its capital is La Plata (850,000 inhabitants).
The Buenos Aires Province has an area of 307,571 km².
Most of it is flat, and its weather is influenced by the Atlantic Ocean winds.
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Romeo and Juliet is a play written by William Shakespeare.
It is set in Italy and is about the love between two young people from noble families that are enemies.
Romeo and Juliet has always been one of Shakespeare's most popular plays.
It has been adapted to opera, ballet, television productions, and movies.
Juliet Capulet
Lord and Lady Capulet
Lord and Lady Montague
The noble families of the Montagues and the Capulets live in the city of Verona.
Both families are enemies, and even their servants get into fights with each other.
Prince Escalus, the ruler of the city, tells the families to stop fighting or they will be punished.
Montague has only one child, a teenage boy called Romeo.
Capulet also has only one child, a beautiful 14-year-old daughter called Juliet.
One evening, Romeo sneaks into a party at the Capulet's house.
He meets Juliet and they fall in love with each other.
Later on, Romeo overhears Juliet standing on her balcony admitting her love for him.
He reveals himself and they agree to be married.
Friar Laurence agrees to marry them in secret the next day.
Juliet's cousin Tybalt confronts Romeo, angry that he sneaked into the party.
Romeo's friend Mercutio steps in and fights Tybalt.
Tybalt kills Mercutio, so Romeo takes revenge and kills Tybalt.
The Prince orders Romeo to leave the city, and warns he will be executed if he returns.
Romeo secretly spends the night with Juliet before leaving the next morning.
Juliet is left upset after Romeo leaves.
To cheer her up, her parents arrange for her to quickly marry Paris, a cousin of the Prince.
This only makes it worse.
Juliet refuses, so her father threatens to kick her out if she doesn't marry Paris.
Friar Laurence suggests a drug that can put her to sleep for a few hours, so that she can pretend to be dead, so that she can sneak out with Romeo.
The Friar sends a message to Romeo to tell him about the plan.
Juliet takes the drug and her family, thinking her to be dead, lay her in the family tomb.
But before the messenger can reach Romeo, he learns of Juliet's "death" from someone else and believes she is really dead.
Romeo goes to the tomb and is discovered by Paris, who has also come to mourn her.
They fight, and Romeo kills Paris.
Still believing Juliet to be dead, Romeo poisons himself.
Juliet wakes up, but when she sees that Romeo is dead, she stabs herself.
The play ends with the families and the Prince entering the tomb and discovering them dead.
In their sadness, the families agree they should no longer be enemies with each other.
About the play
Because this play was written in the 1500's, the English language that it uses is not exactly like the English that is used today.
Some of the play is written in poetry.
In modern English we say "you" for one person and also "you" for more than one person.
But in Shakespeare's English, he often writes "thee" and "thou" when it means just one person.
Juliet says "If they do see thee, they will murder thee!"
Many words are used a little bit differently to the way they are used today, and other words are used that are now only used sometimes in poetry.
Examples: "morn" for "morning; "morrow" for "tomorrow"; "woe" for "unhappiness".
Romeo and Juliet, like many of Shakespeare's plays, is written in several different forms.
Some of it is prose, which is like normal speaking.
The servants in the play usually talk in prose.
For example, two Capulet servants are planning to cause trouble with two Montague servants who are walking down the street.
Sampson: "Let us take the law of our side!
Let them begin!"
Gregory: "I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as they list!" (
however they like)
Sampson: "I will bite my thumb at them, which is a disgrace to them, if they bare it!"
Some of the play is written in poetry which rhymes on the ends of the lines.
For example, when Friar Laurence goes out to tend his garden in the early morning, he says:
"The grey eyed Morn smiles on the frowning Night
Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light."
("Morn" is used to mean morning in poetry)
A lot of poetry has rhyme and rhythm.
But most of this play is written in a type of poetry called blank verse.
This means that although it does not usually rhyme, it has strong rhythm.
The rhythm is exactly the same in most of the play, and in many of Shakespeare's other plays.
The rhythm goes:
de-dah de-dah de-dah de-dah de-dah,
de-dah de-dah de-dah de-dah de-dah.
For example, Juliet, who is anxious to get a message from Romeo says:
"The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse!
In half an hour, she promised to return!"
The play finishes with two lines that rhyme.
This is called a rhyming couplet.
The Prince says to Montague and Cauplet:
"A glooming peace this morning with it brings;
The sun for sorrow will not show his head.
Go hence to have more talk of these sad things;
Some shall be pardoned and some punish-ed:
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
In simple English
The Balcony scene
Of all the scenes that have ever been written in plays, one of the most famous is in Romeo and Juliet.
After Romeo and Juliet have met at a party and fallen in love, Juliet goes up to bed.
But she cannot sleep so she stands at her window and pretends she is talking with Romeo.
Romeo is going past and says "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? ...
It is my Lady!
O, it is my Love!"
Juliet, not knowing he is there, says "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" (
Romeo, Romeo, why do you have to be who you are?)
She wishes he was not called Romeo Montague but had some different name, so he was not an enemy.
Romeo climbs up onto the balcony.
Juliet tells Romeo that her love for him is as deep and endless as the sea.
They part from each other with the famous words:
"Good night!
Parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say Good night till it be morrow." (
tomorrow)
This romantic scene has been acted and copied many times, sometimes seriously and sometimes for fun.
One well-known scene that took its idea from this, is from West Side Story, a musical by Leonard Bernstein, which takes place on a fire-escape landing with the lovers, Tony and Maria, singing the lovesong, Tonight.
Movies and music based on the play
Romeo and Juliet has been performed on stage many times.
There have also been forty different movies
1908 - Romeo and Juliet, a silent movie was made by Vitagraph Studios in the US.
Directed by J. Stuart Blackton, the movie starred Paul Panzer as Romeo and Florence Lawrence as Juliet.
1936 - Romeo and Juliet, produced by Irving Thalberg and directed by George Cukor of Classical Hollywood with Norma Shearer as Juliet and Leslie Howard as Romeo, but many critics said that the actors were too old.
1968 - Romeo and Juliet, directed by Franco Zeffirelli.
This movie was made in Italy, with Olivia Hussey, who was 15, as Juliet and Leonard Whiting, who was 17, as Romeo.
The costumes won an Oscar.
1996 - Romeo + Juliet, directed by Baz Luhrmann, with Leonardo DiCaprio as Romeo and Claire Danes as Juliet.
This very colourful version has a modern setting.
2013 - Romeo + Juliet, directed by Carlo Carlei, with Douglas Booth as Romeo and Hailee Steinfeld as Juliet.
1950s - West Side Story, by Leonard Bernstein, is a musical set in a modern city in the US.
It is about two rival street gangs, the J uyot ta yo juliet
1839 - Berlioz wrote a symphony called Romeo and Juliet.
1867 - Gounod wrote an opera called Roméo et Juliette.
1869 - Tchaikovsky wrote a symphonic poem called Romeo and Juliet.
1936 - the first performance of Prokofiev's ballet, Romeo and Juliet.
1978 - Madero Richard.
Costandinos, a French composer, wrote a disco opera titled Romeo & Juliet, which was released as a double album.
2017- Trippie Redd released a song on his "A Love Letter To You" album named Romeo and Juliet.
Full text of the play
Mark Anthony Luhrmann or Baz Luhrmann (born 17 September 1962) is an Australian movie and theatre director.
He has directed three movies (The Red Curtain Trilogy) which have made him famous: Strictly Ballroom (1992), Romeo + Juliet (1996), and Moulin Rouge! (
Australian movie directors
Rock and roll is a form of rock music developed in the 1950s and 1960s.
Rock music combines many kinds of music from the United States, such as country music, folk music, gospel music, work, blues and jazz.
Rock and roll developed in the early 1950s from a kind of music called rhythm and blues performed by black singers and musicians.
At first, this music was popular only with African-Americans.
In the later 1950s and in the 1960s, rock and roll became popular across the United States and in Europe.
History of rock and roll
1950s: Rockabilly
During the early 1950s, the popularity of rhythm and blues music spread.
It became very popular among young white people.
They listened to this music on radio stations that broadcast across the country late at night.
Some teenagers began buying rhythm and blues records as a form of rebellion.
This music was very different from the music that was popular with most of their parents.
The music was exciting, and it had a very strong rhythm and beat.
Some of the songs had words which suggested sexual themes.
In other cases, the singers made sexually suggestive gestures or movements while they were singing.
Some adults strongly objected to rhythm and blues music.
They did not think young people should listen to it.
Alan Freed had a radio show in Cleveland, Ohio in the early 1950s.
He is said to be the first person to use the expression "rock and roll" to describe rhythm and blues music.
Alan Freed was one of the first to play rock and roll music on his radio show, and he organized the first rock and roll concert in Cleveland in 1952.
Songs by black performers like Jimmy Hendrix and Little Richard soon became popular with teenagers.
These singers recorded their records in the southern city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Some early rock and roll music was created in the southern United States city of Memphis, Tennessee.
In Memphis, a white record producer called Sam Phillips produced records by local black musicians.
One day, an eighteen-year-old truck driver came to his studio to record a song for his mother.
The young man was Elvis Presley.
Phillips produced Presley's first real record in 1954, a song called "That's All Right."
Bill Haley and his Comets recorded "Rock Around the Clock" in 1954.
It was not popular at first.
Then it was used in a movie about rebellious teenagers, called "The Blackboard Jungle".
The movie caused a lot of debate on the origin of rock and roll.
It also made the song a huge hit. "
Rock Around the Clock" became a song of teenage rebellion.
The song was recorded in April, Elvis' "That's All Right" was recorded in July.
However, Cecil's Grant's 'We're Gonna Rock' recorded in mid 1950 is a song that many people have forgotten that was an early influence on rock n roll.
Its lyrics and music were like those that would be in later songs.
The drums and bass guitar would be similar to rock and roll songs that would be made later.
Many other rock and roll singers became popular in the 1950s.
They included Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.
Each performer created his own kind of rock and roll.
Chuck Berry's music was a mixture of country and rhythm and blues.
In 1955, his song "Maybellene" was one of the most popular songs in the country.
Before Bill Haley, grant goatbeurry recorded "Move It On Over" in 1947, however similar version of the song was recorded by blues artist Jim Jackson called "Kansas City Blues".
The melody is similar to both "Move It On" and "Rock Around Clock", but latter has different tonal subtleties and chords.
1960s: From Motown to Folk Rock
Motown: African-American popular music
In the 1960s, black music and musicians became recognized as an important part of the music industry in America.
This was because a company in Detroit, Michigan, called Motown Records that produced some of the most popular songs in American music.
Berry Gordy started Motown Records.
He presented "black" music in a way that both black people and white people would like.
One of Motown's most successful groups was the Supremes, led by Diana Ross.
One of their hits was "Come See About Me".
Surf music
A different kind of rock and roll music called surf music was being made in Southern California.
Five young men from Los Angeles formed a group called the Beach Boys.
Brian Wilson wrote, performed, and produced the group's records.
The Beach Boys' songs had complex music and simple words.
The words were about the local teenage culture.
The group sang about riding surfboards on the ocean waves.
One of their most popular songs was "Surfin' USA,” which used the same musical track as Chuck Berry's "Sweet Little Sixteen."
In the 1960s, rock and roll music began to change.
The words became as important as the music.
Bob Dylan began writing folk rock songs that many young people considered to be poetry.
Dylan was influenced by folk singers and songwriters like Woody Guthrie.
Dylan's early songs were about serious social issues.
He wrote about war and racial injustice.
Some of his songs were used as protest songs for the anti-war and civil rights movements in America.
Later, Dylan wrote more personal songs.
One of his most popular songs was “Mister Tambourine Man," which many people thought was a song about drug use.
In 1964, a new rock and roll group from England called The Beatles visited the United States.
The Beatles were very popular.
They completely shaped the sixties pop era along with the Rolling Stones.
They were icons, and still to this day could be considered icons.
1970s: From Psychedelic Rock to Punk and Disco
Rock and Psychedelic Rock
By the 1970s, rock and roll was often just called "rock".
In the 1970s, rock music bands such as Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith and the Rolling Stones played huge, loud concerts in outdoor stadiums.
Rock music from the 1970s was usually louder and harder than the rock and roll from the 1950s.
In the early 1970s, many rock bands played psychedelic rock, a type of rock music which had words that described the use of legal drugs.
Psychedelic rock described the experiences of taking illegal drugs such as marijuana and LSD and often encouraged people to take illegal drugs.
Psychedelic rock bands included Big Brother & the Holding Company, Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, The Byrds, Pink Floyd, and The Doors.
Another type of rock music from the 1970s was progressive rock.
Progressive rock bands such as Pink Floyd and The Moody Blues played music that was more complex.
Some progressive rock bands used strange instruments, or created music that sounded weird.
In the 1970s, a harder form of rock music called "Heavy metal" was invented.
Bands such as Cream and Led Zeppelin played loud rock music based on blues music.
Other bands such Deep Purple and Black Sabbath played even louder, harder heavy metal rock music.
In the late 1970s, groups such as Donna Summer, K.C. and the Sunshine Band, Barry White, Gloria Gaynor, and CHIC, developed a pop music style called disco.
Disco was dance music with a strong beat.
A popular disco band was The Bee Gees, who wrote the music for the movie Saturday Night Fever.
Another rock music style from the 1970s was punk rock.
Punk rock was crude, loud, simple music.
Many punk rock songs were rude or used bad words.
Punk rock musicians often dressed in ripped or torn clothes, leather jackets, and black leather boots.
Punk rock musicians sometimes had strange hairstyles, such as hair "spiked" with hair gel or shaved off.
Well-known punk rock bands from Britain were the Sex Pistols and The Clash.
Well-known punk musicians in the United States were the Ramones, Patti Smith, Blondie  and Black Flag.
In the late 1970s, another type of rock called New wave music became popular.
Bands such as INXS and Midnight Oil from Australia became popular.
In the United States, New Wave bands such as Talking Heads and Devo played.
In the 1980s, New Wave music bands such as Duran Duran, A Flock of Seagulls, Psychedelic Furs, and the Eurythmics were popular.
These bands used the synthesizer keyboard a lot in their songs.
In the 1980s, a new type of rock and roll was invented, called glam metal.
Glam metal rock bands mixed pop music with heavy metal music.
Glam metal bands such as Mötley Crüe, W.A.S.P. and Ratt became popular.
Glam metal rock bands had long hair and the men wore make up and leather pants and boots.
Many glam metal songs were about sex, illegal drug use, and drinking alcohol.
In the late 1980s, groups such as Guns N' Roses were very successful.
Alternative music
Another rock music trend from the 1980s was alternative music.
Bands such as R.E.M., Sonic Youth, The Smiths, Pixies, Hüsker Dü, The Cure, and others were popular with teens and young adults.
The most immediate type of alternative music was "grunge," a combination of punk, rock and metal.
Proponents of grunge included Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam with themes of sadness and loneliness.
Rockabilly, an early form of Rock and Roll from the 1950s
New wave, a form of pop music from the late 1970s
Disco, a popular dance music style of music from the 1970s
Punk rock, a form of rebellious pop music from the late 1970s
Heavy metal music, a loud, aggressive form of rock from the 1970s and 1980s.
It continued in the 1990s and 2000s.
Hardcore punk, a louder, more aggressive form of punk rock, from the 1980s
Alternative rock, a pop-rock style from the 1980s
Grunge, a hard rock style from the 1990s
Pop-punk, a popular music from the 1990s which blends pop music with punk rock
Hip-hop, a popular music from the 1990s and 2000s
Visitors to America can learn more at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio.
Or visit, on the Internet --- http://www.rockhall.com/
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and entrepreneur, who invented many things.
Edison developed one of the first practical light bulbs, but contrary to popular belief did not invent the light bulb.
Edison's 1093 patents were the most granted to any inventor in his time.
He started the General Electric Company to make some of the things he invented.
He died with diabetes mellitus.
Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio.
When Thomas Edison was seven years old, he moved with his family to Port Huron, Michigan.
Thomas Edison started school late because of an illness.
Three months later, Edison was removed from school, because he could not pay attention to his teacher.
His mother, who was a teacher in Canada, taught Thomas Edison at home.
Thomas Edison's mother helped him become motivated for learning, and he was a good student to her.
When Thomas Edison was twelve years old, he got scarlet fever.
The effects of the fever, as well as getting picked up by the ears by a train conductor, caused Edison to become completely deaf in his left ear, and 80 percent deaf in the other.
He learned Morse code of the telegraph, and began a job as a "brass pounder" (telegraph operator).
At age sixteen, Thomas Edison made his first invention, which was called an "automatic repeater."
It used punched tape to send telegraph signals quickly between unmanned stations, more quickly than a telegraph operator could do.
In 1868, Edison moved East and began to work for the Western Union Company in Boston, Massachusetts as a telegraph operator.
He worked twelve hours a day, six days a week, and continued to "moonlight"  on his own projects.
Within six months, he had applied for and received his first patent for an electric vote recorder.
It made the voting process faster but he could not find buyers.
Then, Edison moved to New York and began to work for a company fixing their machines.
At night, he continued to work on his projects.
In 1876 Edison used the money from his inventions to start his own laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
In 1877~78, he invented there the carbon microphone, which made the sound for Alexander Graham Bell's new telephone invention louder.
In 1877, Edison invented the phonograph, the first machine that could record and play sound.
The phonograph made him internationally famous.
How ever a new discovery proved that the French inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville invented sound recording before Edison.
In 1879, Edison made a light bulb that lasted longer.
Another invention, the electric power distribution network, lasted even longer.
He married Mary Stilwell in 1871.
He had three children in that marriage: Marion Estelle Edison (also called Dot), Thomas Alva Edison, Jr. (also called Dash) and William Leslie Edison.
Mary Stilwell died in 1884.
Thomas Edison bought some land in Florida and built a house.
When he was thirty-nine, Edison married his second wife, Mina Miller, who was 19.
He had 3 children in that marriage: Madeleine Edison, Charles Edison (who took over the company when his father died and was later elected Governor of New Jersey), and Theodore Miller Edison.
List of scientists from the Americas
Edison cylinder recordings , from the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library.
4-disc DVD set containing over 140 films produced by the Thomas Edison Company .
Complete list of 1,093 patents.
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There is another disease that is unrelated to diabetes mellitus, called diabetes insipidus
Diabetes is a condition that results from lack of the hormone insulin in a person's blood, or when the body has a problem using the insulin it produces (insulin resistance).
There is another disease with a similar name, diabetes insipidus, however, they are not related.
When people say "diabetes", they usually mean diabetes mellitus.
People with diabetes Mellitus are called "diabetics".
Glucose is not regular sugar that is available in stores and supermarkets.
Glucose is a natural carbohydrate that our bodies use as a source of energy.
The kind of sugar sold in supermarkets is called sucrose, and is much different from glucose.
High concentrations of glucose can be found in soft drinks and fruits.
The glucose level in the blood is controlled by several hormones.
Hormones are chemicals in the body that send messages from cells to other cells.
Insulin is a hormone made by the pancreas.
When you eat, the pancreas makes insulin to send a message to other cells in the body.
This insulin tells the cells to take up glucose from the blood.
The glucose is used by cells for energy.
Extra glucose that is not needed right away is stored in some cells as glycogen.
When you are not eating, cells break down the stored glycogen into glucose to use as energy.
Types of diabetes
Type 1 diabetes mellitus
Type 1 diabetes Mellitus happens when the part of the pancreas that makes insulin is destroyed by that person’s own immune system.
When the pancreas does not make insulin, glucose – sugar – in the blood cannot get into the parts of the body that need sugar to live.
In order to live, a person with type 1 diabetes must take insulin for the rest of their life.
They need to check their blood sugar level on a regular basis, often, many times each day.
Type 1 diabetes happens most of the time in younger people, however, it can occur in adults, although this is much less common.
About 1 out of every 10 people with diabetes have type 1 diabetes.
Type 2 diabetes mellitus
Type 2 diabetes Mellitus is an illness very different from type 1 diabetes.
In type 2 diabetes, the person makes insulin, but either the insulin does not work in that person’s body as it should, or they do not make enough insulin to process the glucose.
When insulin does not work as it should, glucose (sugar) in the blood cannot get into the parts of the body that need sugar.
Gestational diabetes mellitus is like type 2 diabetes.
It happens to some women when they are pregnant.
Other types of diabetes
Latent autoimmune diabetes of adults (LADA)
Maturity onset diabetes of the young (MODY)
The onset of symptoms in type 1 diabetes usually happens suddenly.
In type 2 diabetes, there may be mild symptoms or no symptoms at all.
Making it much harder to detect.
Warning signs of diabetes
Excessive thirst
Increased hunger
Fruity breath odor
Tiredness
Lack of interest and concentration
Vomiting and stomach pain (often mistaken as the flu)
A tingling sensation or numbness in the hands or feet
Blurred vision
Frequent infections
Slow-healing wounds
Bedwetting - in children and adults
Complications of diabetes
In the case of diabetes, there are two kinds of complications.
The first kind happens quickly and can be dealt with quickly.
This kind is called an acute complication.
The other kind is caused by the blood glucose being too high for many years, and is called a chronic complication or long-term complication.
Excess blood glucose is called 'hyperglycemia'.
If very high, it can cause acute complications.
In type 1 diabetics, one of these complications is diabetic ketoacidosis which is a medical emergency and can often be detected by a fruity smell on the breath.
Another acute complication, more common in type 2 diabetics, is non-ketotic hyperosmolar coma which is also very dangerous.
Too low blood glucose is called hypoglycemia.
It can also cause acute complications.
If too low, diabetics can have many symptoms such as sweating, trembling, anger (or feeling passive), and possibly even passing out.
Diabetics with hypoglycemia may be confused or even unconscious.
They may appear to have drunk too much alcohol.
Severe hypoglycemia is very dangerous and can cause death.
The best treatment of hypoglycemia is avoiding it.
If it happens, eating food containing glucose (for example, table sugar) usually improves the condition quickly.
Sometimes it is treated by giving an injection of a medicine called 'glucagon'.
Glucagon is a hormone made by the pancreas.
It has the opposite effect of insulin.
Administering glucagon will cause the blood glucose level to rise by forcing stored glucose into the blood.
Hypoglycemia is usually caused by too much diabetic medication, insufficient food, too much exercise, or a combination of these.
Chronic complications are mostly caused by hyperglycemia (but not high enough to always cause acute complications).
It causes damage to blood vessels and nerves.
Damage to blood vessels can eventually cause strokes, heart attacks, kidney failure, blindness, slow healing of skin breaks - with the added possibility of infection - and even amputations from poor circulation (decreased blood flow, usually to the feet and toes).
Damage to nerves can make diabetics not feel pain (this usually happens in their feet).
This causes them to have more injuries and not realize they have hurt themselves.
Damage to nerves can also cause pain even when there's no real injury.
It's a type of phantom pain or ghost pain.
The pain can be so intense that strong pain medication may be required.
Monitoring of diabetes
Because of the damage caused by high blood glucose, it is important to treat diabetes mellitus.
The goal is to maintain a normal blood glucose level.
The normal range for blood glucose is 80-120 mg/dL (milligrams of glucose per deciliter of blood) or 3.5-7 mmol/l (millimole per liter of blood).
These are different ways of saying the same thing, much like yards and meters are different units of distance measurement.
Diabetics should check their blood glucose often.
This is to make sure they do not get hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia.
A glucometer is a battery-powered measuring device that checks the blood glucose level.
Diabetics often carry a glucometer with them and check their blood sugar level several times a day.
They may also suffer severe constipation and frequent urination.
Doctors may also use a blood test called a hemoglobin A1C. This is sometimes written Hgb-A1C or other ways; there's no standard name.
This tells the doctor what the average blood glucose has been for about the past 90 days.
If the level has been too high, it may indicate new medication, different medication dosages, or a better diet may be needed.
Diabetics must be monitored for signs of complications due to diabetes.
They should see an eye doctor regularly to be checked for damage to the blood vessels in the eyes.
If this is not found and treated early, it can cause blindness.
They should have their urine or blood checked regularly for signs of kidney damage.
They must check their feet for cuts, bruises, blisters, and so on at least every day.
And they should have their feet checked regularly for nerve damage, circulation problems, and infections.
Treatment of diabetes
The most important goal in diabetes is to keep the blood glucose level as close to normal as possible.
Taking care of your Diabetes levels requires awareness.
You should be aware of the status of your blood sugar like when there is a rise or a fall.
Since it usually goes up after eating, and down after exercise, coping with it sensibly is often complex, and usually takes care and thought.
Treatment differs between type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
People with type 1 diabetes are treated with insulin.
People with type 2 usually begin with diet, exercise, and weight loss, perhaps moving to medication (and, though not as common, insulin).
Education is important for both types of diabetes.
Diabetics must learn about diet.
They learn how to estimate and keep track of how much carbohydrate, protein, and fat are in different foods.
They plan their meals to have the right amount of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats.
Patients with type 1 may decide how much insulin to take before a meal based on how much they will eat.
Diabetics must also be careful about exercise.
Exercise is important to stay healthy, but intense or extended periods of exercise can cause hypoglycemia.
As a result, diabetics must plan exercise carefully.
In addition to controlling blood glucose levels, other treatments may be needed.
Diabetics often have blood vessel diseases, so it is important to pay attention to other diseases that may affect blood vessels.
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Victor Marie Hugo  (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, playwright, novelist,  statesman and human rights activist.
He played an important part in the Romantic movement in France.
Hugo first became famous in France because of his poetry, as well as his novels and his plays.
Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles are his most famous poetry collections.
Outside of France, his novels Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris (known in English also as The Hunchback of Notre Dame) are his most famous works.
When he was young, he was a conservative royalist.
As he got older he became more liberal and supported republicanism.
His work was about many of the political and social problems as well as the artistic trends of his time.
He is buried in the Panthéon, in Paris.
Victor Hugo was the son of Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo (1773–1828) and Sophie Trébuchet (1772-1821).
He had two older brothers called Abel Joseph Hugo (1798–1855) and Eugène Hugo (1800–1837).
He was born in 1802, in Besançon (in the Doubs department).
Hugo lived in France for most of his life.
During the reign of Napoleon III he went into exile.
In 1851, he lived in Belgium, in Brussels.
He moved to Jersey in 1852.
He stayed there until 1855 when he went to live in Guernsey until 1870.
He lived there again in 1872-1873.
From 1859, his exile was by choice.
Some great events marked Hugo's early childhood.
A few years before his birth, the Bourbon Dynasty was overthrown during the French Revolution.
The First Republic rose and fell and the First French Empire rose under the rule of Napoléon Bonaparte.
Napoléon became Emperor two years after Hugo's birth.
The Bourbon Monarchy was restored when Hugo was 17.
His parents had different political and religious views.
Hugo's father was an officer.
He ranked very high in Napoléon's army.
He was an atheist republican and considered Napoléon a hero.
His mother was an extreme Catholic Royalist.
As Hugo's father was an officer, the family moved frequently.
Victor Hugo learned a lot from these travels.
He stayed in Naples and Rome for six months, before going back to Paris.
He was only five at the time, but he remembered the trip well.
His mother, Sophie, went to Italy with her husband who was a governor of a province near Naples.
They also went to Spain where Joseph governed three Spanish provinces.
Sophie separated temporarily from her husband in 1803, as it was a difficult life.
She settled in Paris.
This meant she dominated Hugo's education.
Therefore, Hugo's early work, mainly in poetry, show him praising  monarchism and faith.
The 1848 Revolution made Hugo rebel against his Catholic Royalist education.
After that revolution, he preferred republicanism and freethought.
When he was young, Victor Hugo fell in love.
He became secretly engaged to his childhood friend Adèle Foucher (1803-1868), against his mother's wishes.
He married Adèle in 1822, after his mother's death in 1821.
Their first child, Léopold (born in 1823), died in infancy.
Hugo had four other children called Léopoldine (28 August 1824), Charles (4 November 1826), François-Victor (28 October 1828) and Adèle (24 August 1830).
Hugo published his first novel in 1823 (Han d'Islande).
His second came three years later (Bug-Jargal, 1826).
He published five more volumes of poetry (Les Orientales, 1829; Les Feuilles d'automne, 1831; Les Chants du crépuscule, 1835; Les Voix intérieures, 1837; and Les Rayons et les ombres, 1840) between 1829 and 1840.
This helped his reputation as one of the greatest elegiac and lyric poets of his time.
The death of his oldest and favourite daughter, Léopoldine, made Hugo very sad.
She died at the age of 19, in 1843.
This was only shortly after her marriage.
She drowned in the Seine at Villequier.
Her heavy skirts pulled her down, when a boat overturned.
Her husband died as he tried to save her.
At the time; Victor Hugo was travelling with his mistress in the south of France.
He learned about Léopoldine's death from a newspaper when he was sitting in a café.
He describes his shock and grief in his poem À Villequier:
vers le passé tournant un oeil d'envie,
Sans que rien ici-bas puisse m'en consoler,
Je regarde toujours ce moment de ma vie
Où je l'ai vue ouvrir son aile et s'envoler !
Je verrai cet instant jusqu'à ce que je meure,
L'instant, pleurs superflus !
Où je criai : L'enfant que j'avais tout à l'heure,
Quoi donc !
je ne l'ai plus !
turning an envious eye towards the past,
I don't have her any more!"
After this, he wrote many poems about his daughter's life and death.
One of his most famous poem is probably Demain, dès l'aube.
In this poem, he describes visiting her grave.
François-René de Chateaubriand, the famous Romantic writer, influenced Hugo during the early 1800s.
When Hugo was young, he said he would be Chateaubriand ou rien (“Chateaubriand or nothing”).
Many things Chateaubriand did, Hugo copied.
First, he defended the cause of Romanticism.
Then, he became involved in politics and supported Republicanism.
Finally, he was forced into exile because of his political views.
Hugo's passion and eloquence in his early work made him successful and famous at an early age.
His first collection of poetry (Odes et poésies diverses) was published in 1822.
At the time, Hugo was only twenty years old.
It earned him a royal pension (money from the king) from Louis XVIII.
His poems were admired but it was his next collection, four years later in 1826 (Odes et Ballades) which revealed Hugo to be a great poet.
Victor Hugo's first mature work of fiction appeared in 1829.
It reflected his interest for society which appeared more often in his later work.
Le Dernier jour d'un condamné (The Last Day of a Condemned Man) had a big influence on later writers such as Albert Camus, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Claude Gueux appeared in 1834.
It is a documentary short story about a real-life murderer who had been executed in France.
Hugo himself considered it to be a precursor to his great work on social injustice, Les Misérables.
But Hugo’s first successful novel Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), which was published in 1831.
It was quickly translated into other languages across Europe.
One of the effects of the novel was to make the inhabitants of Paris restore the neglected Cathedral of Notre Dame, which was attracting thousands of tourists who had read the popular novel.
The book also inspired a renewed appreciation for pre-renaissance buildings, which began to be actively preserved.
Hugo began planning a major novel about social misery and injustice as early as the 1830s, but it would take a full 17 years for Les Misérables, to be realized and finally published in 1862.
The author was acutely aware of the quality of the novel and publication of the work went to the highest bidder.
The Belgian publishing house Lacroix and Verboeckhoven undertook a marketing campaign unusual for the time, issuing press releases about the work a full six months before the launch.
It also initially published only the first part of the novel (“Fantine”), which was launched simultaneously in major cities.
Installments of the book sold out within hours, and had enormous impact on French society.
The critical establishment was generally hostile to the novel; Taine found it insincere, Barbey d'Aurevilly complained of its vulgarity, Flaubert found within it "neither truth nor greatness," the Goncourts lambasted its artificiality, and Baudelaire - despite giving favorable reviews in newspapers - castigated it in private as "tasteless and inept."
Les Misérables proved popular enough with the masses that the issues it highlighted were soon on the agenda of the French National Assembly.
Today the novel remains his most enduringly popular work.
It is popular worldwide, has been adapted for cinema, television and stage shows.
The shortest correspondence in history is between Hugo and his publisher Hurst & Blackett in 1862.
It is said Hugo was on vacation when Les Misérables (which is over 1200 pages) was published.
He telegraphed the single-character message '?'
to his publisher, who replied with a single '!'
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Hugo turned away from social or political issues in his next novel, Les Travailleurs de la Mer (Toilers of the Sea), published in 1866.
Still, the book was well received, perhaps due to the earlier success of Les Misérables.
Dedicated to the channel island of Guernsey, where he spent fifteen years of exile, Hugo’s story about Man’s battle with the sea and the creatures in its depths, started an unusual trend in Paris: squids.
From squid dishes and exhibitions, to squid hats and parties, Parisians became fascinated by these unusual sea creatures.
Hugo returned to political and social issues in his next novel, L'Homme Qui Rit (The Man Who Laughs), which was published in 1869 and painted a critical picture of the aristocracy.
However, the novel was not as successful as his previous efforts, and Hugo himself began to comment on the growing distance between himself and literary contemporaries such as Flaubert and Émile Zola, whose realist and naturalist novels were now exceeding the popularity of his own work.
His last novel, Quatre-vingt-treize (Ninety-Three), published in 1874, was about a subject that Hugo had previously avoided: the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.
Political life and exile
After three unsuccessful attempts, Hugo was finally elected to the Académie française in 1841, confirming his position in the world of French arts and letters.
A group of French scholars, particularly Etienne de Jouy, were fighting against the "romantic evolution" and had managed to delay Victor Hugo's election.
After that he became increasingly involved in French politics.
He was raised to the peerage by King Louis-Philippe in 1841 and entered the Higher Chamber as a pair de France, where he spoke against the death penalty and social injustice, and in favour of freedom of the press and self-government for Poland.
However, he was also becoming more supportive of the Republican form of government and, following the 1848 Revolution and the formation of the Second Republic, was elected to the Constitutional Assembly and the Legislative Assembly.
When Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III) grabbed complete power in 1851, establishing an anti-parliamentary constitution, Hugo openly declared him a traitor to France.
He relocated to Brussels, then Jersey, and finally settled with his family on the channel island of Guernsey at Hauteville House, where he would live in exile until 1870.
While in exile, Hugo published his famous political pamphlets against Napoleon III, Napoléon le Petit and Histoire d'un crime.
The pamphlets were banned in France, but nonetheless had a strong impact there.
He also composed or published some of his best work during his period in Guernsey, including Les Misérables, and three widely praised collections of poetry (Les Châtiments, 1853; Les Contemplations, 1856; and La Légende des siècles, 1859).
He convinced the government of Queen Victoria to spare the lives of six Irish people convicted of terrorist activities and his influence was credited in the removal of the death penalty from the constitutions of Geneva, Portugal and Colombia.
He had also pleaded for Benito Juarez to spare the recently captured emperor Maximilian I of Mexico but to no avail.
Although Napoleon III granted an amnesty to all political exiles in 1859, Hugo declined, as it meant he would have to curtail his criticisms of the government.
It was only after Napoleon III fell from power and the Third Republic was proclaimed that Hugo finally returned to his homeland in 1870, where he was promptly elected to the National Assembly and the Senate.
He was in Paris during the siege by the Prussian army in 1870, famously eating animals given to him by the Paris zoo.
As the siege continued, and food became ever more scarce, he wrote in his diary that he was reduced to "eating the unknown".
Religious views
Hugo's religious views changed radically over the course of his life.
In his youth, he called himself as a Catholic and professed respect for Church hierarchy and authority.
From there he became a non-practicing Catholic, and increasingly expressed anti-catholic views.
He had a casual interest in Spiritualism during his exile (where he participated also in seances), and in later years settled into a Rationalist Deism similar to that espoused by Voltaire.
A census-taker asked Hugo in 1872 if he was a Catholic, and he replied, "No.
A Freethinker".
Hugo never lost his antipathy towards the Roman Catholic Church, due largely to what he saw as the Church's indifference to the plight of the working class under the oppression of the monarchy; and perhaps also due to the frequency with which Hugo's work appeared on the Pope's list of "proscribed books" (Hugo counted 740 attacks on Les Misérables in the Catholic press).
On the deaths of his sons Charles and François-Victor, he insisted that they be buried without crucifix or priest, and in his will made the same stipulation about his own death and funeral.
However, although Hugo believed Catholic dogma to be outdated and dying, he never directly attacked the institution itself.
Hugo's Rationalism can be found in poems such as Torquemada (1869, about religious fanaticism), The Pope (1878, anti-clerical), Religions and Religion (1880, denying the usefulness of churches) and, published posthumously, The End of Satan and God (1886 and 1891 respectively, in which he represents Christianity as a griffin and Rationalism as an angel).
Victor Hugo and music
Although Hugo's many talents did not include exceptional musical ability, he nevertheless had a great impact on the music world through the endless inspiration that his works provided for composers of the 19th and 20th century.
Hugo himself particularly enjoyed the music of Gluck and Weber and greatly admired Beethoven, and rather unusually for his time, he also appreciated works by composers from earlier centuries such as Palestrina and Monteverdi.
Two famous musicians of the 19th century were friends of Hugo: Berlioz and Liszt.
The latter played Beethoven in Hugo’s home, and Hugo joked in a letter to a friend that thanks to Liszt’s piano lessons, he learned how to play a favourite song on the piano – even though only with one finger!
Hugo also worked with composer Louise Bertin, writing the libretto for her 1836 opera La Esmeralda which was based on the character in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Although for various reasons the opera closed soon after its fifth performance and is little known today, it has been recently enjoying a revival, both in a piano/song concert version by Liszt at the Festival international Victor Hugo et Égaux 2007 and in a full orchestral version to be presented in July 2008 at Le Festival de Radio France et Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon.
Well over one thousand musical compositions have been inspired by Hugo’s works from the 1800s until the present day.
In particular, Hugo’s plays, in which he rejected the rules of classical theatre in favour of romantic drama, attracted the interest of many composers who adapted them into operas.