Halloween and pumpkins.

Halloween is consider as the scariest day of the year. Nobody can imagine Halloween without pumpkins for jack-o-lanterns and decorations. The pumpkin is most often
associated with Halloween, but there are other fruits and vegetables which has a very strong connection to this holiday. In England and Ireland, Halloween lanterns were originally carved out of turnips and large beets and faces of demons were cut into vegetables.People carried these lanterns and placed them by their doorsteps to frighten away evil spirits.
When Irish immigrants arrived in America, they found pumpkins abundant and much easier to carve than turnips so the tradition of turning pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns began.
In the Victorian era the apple played a significant role in determining a young girl’s future: she slipped an apple under her pillow on Halloween eve so she was sure to dream of her sweetheart.Apples were also used to foretell the identity of the man she was to marry. At midnight on Halloween a girl would stand in front of a mirror and brush her hair three times while eating an apple. It is said the image of her future husband would appear in the mirror over her shoulder.
In Mediterranean countries rosemary was placed over the cradle of babies to protect them. It was often burned with juniper and thyme as a means of cleansing the room of bad spirits and witches. Rue was hung from doorways and windows to ward off evil spirits to prevent them from entering the house.
Salvia, also known as meadow sage, was considered a symbol of immortality and was planted on graves in cemeteries to symbolize eternal life.
Salvia, also known as meadow sage, was considered a symbol of immortality and was planted on graves in cemeteries to symbolize eternal life.
Did you know that around 90 to 95 percent of the processed pumpkins in the United States are grown in Illinois?

The twilight episode: "A game of pool".

I never watched the twilight episodes , but this one was interested and i really like it. The great Fats Brown is a long time death pool-shooting legend and nobody believes he can be beaten. On the other hand Jesse, pool-shark, believes he is the best player on the world even better than Fats Brown but how he can't prove it when the guy is dead. One night, he is pissed and he yells out his problems into a empty pool room and the call goes out to the long dead Fats Brown who comes back to earth and accepts Jesse’s challenge. Fats Brown doesn't want to play for money, he instead offers Jesse a real winner take all stake; if he wins, he lives to tell about it. If he loses, he loses his life. Jesse ultimately learns that even being a legend has its price when he wins the game only to find that after his own death he must constantly prove how good he is by playing the living players, like himself, for the duration of his eternity as a kind of a sentence.

The twighlight zone.

This movie is about a Henry Bemas who works for the bank as a teller. He is a "nut- reader", and he reads at work instead of doing his job, because his wife doesn't let him read at home. He is so crazy that he reads anything with the letters on it. One day at the job he had walked down to the vault to get some privacy with his reading, and later he found out that something horrible happened to the world. The H-bomb exploded on the outside when he was reading article about the H-bomb inside the vault.He was the only one who had survived this catastrophe. First thing came to his mind was to take his life away, but hes eyes cached the label with words "public library" on it.That automatically changed his mind, and he got excited about it. Now nobody was in his way to read all the books on this world, and he had all the time to read all these books in his entire life. At this point he was the happiest human being on this world. But evil didn't finished his work yet. What he didn't expected was that his glasses had completely broken, and that was the and of the world for him. I didn't really like the end because it was very cruel to him. I didn't like his wife acting as she hide the book from him and then with a smile let him open the book to read it, and when he opened the book all text was destroyed.I like the beginning of the movie as he couldn't count the money to his customer. At this point everything looked like real life to me, but at the end it was very sad and unreal.

environmental contamination by humans

All life on Earth depends on water. Contamination of rivers, lakes, seas, and precipitation poses serious environmental problems. Human activity is threatening quality of water. The burning of fossil fuels releases air-polluting compounds and large amounts of carbon dioxid into the atmosphere. The chemical reactions of these compounds with water alter the delicate balance of conditions for life by affecting water pH. Acid precipitation has killed fish and damaged other forms of life in lakes and streams, and it also changes soil chemistry and has negatively affected some forests. Major product of fossil fuel combustion is carbon dioxide which stays in the atmosphere. Some carbon dioxide is taken up by plants for their photosynthesis and about 30% is absorbed by the oceans. An increase of carbon dioxide is expected to change ocean chemistry and harm marine life and ecosystems.

Anabolic steroids

Anabolic steroids are synthetic variants of the male hormone testosterone.As prescription drugs,they are used to treat general anemia and diseases that destroy body muscle. Some individuals abuse these drugs,with serious consequences. Overdosing may cause liver damage leading to cancer,or alter cholesterol levels and lead to high blood pressure,increasing the risk of cardiovascular problems.Use of these drugs can reduce sex drive,infertility and breast enlargement in men. Use in women has been linked to menstrual cycle disruption and development of masculine characteristics and in teens can cause stunting growth.

Down syndrome

People with Down syndrome usually have a life span shorter than normal.Down syndrom was named after John Longdon Down,who characterized the syndrome in 1866.What causes Down syndrome? Normal human has 23 chromosomes pairs.They are numbered from 1 to 23.
So all together normal human has 46 chromosomes.People with Down syndrome have instead of 46 chromosomes one more chromosome number 21,so instead two chromosomes 21they have three chromosome 21.This condition is called trisomy 21. Trisomy 21 is the most common chromosome number abnormality. People with Down syndrome exhibit varying mental retardation. However,some individuals with the syndrome live to midle age or beyond,and many are socially adept and able to hold jobs. A few women with Down syndrome have had children,though most people with the syndrom are sexually underdeveloped and sterile.

Health

Low-fat diet . Before beginning a low-fat diet, it is important to understand that some fats are essential for good health. Fat is necessary for storing energy and absorbing certain vitamins. A diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol will yield the best health benefit. Keeping track of how much fat is in our diet, we need to know read nutritional labels on the food we buy. Low-fat diet should include no more than 65 grams of fat each day. To loose weight ,it is necessary to exercise enough to burn more calories than the body consumes. Eating in smaller, more frequent portions is important. Simple changes like switching to skim milk ,avoiding fried foods,and substituting traditionally high-fat dairy products such as sour cream and cream cheese with fat free version or yogurt helps with low-fat diet. In low-fat diet many people mistakenly believe if they eat only foods labeled low or reduced fat that they are following a low-fat diet. In low-fat diet less than 30 % of a pearson's total caloric intake should come from fat. People attempt to eat a low fat-diet to lower total fat and cholesterol to reduce health risk such as heart disease and also to achieve weight loss.