Don't Bet Against Joe Calzaghe

Joe Calzaghe thinks he'll still be #1 after facing Mikkel Kessler on Saturday.

It’s the biggest fight that planet earth has to offer on Saturday night.

When Joe Calzaghe and Mikkel Kessler step through the ropes and square off at the Millenium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales they will do so in front of a live crowd in the neighborhood of 50,000 as well as a worldwide television audience.

And the critics tell you boxing is dead.

Calzaghe is of course the long reigning WBO and The Ring Magazine champion whereas Kessler holds the WBA and WBC titles. Ever since promoter Frank Warren first announced the match back in July of this year the boxing world has waited with baited breath for this fight to happen.

But the biggest question in everyone’s mind is this: “Who will win?”

Well, it says here that Joe Calzaghe will make easy work of Mikkel Kessler. And why would you disagree?

Joe Calzaghe hasn’t lost since 1990. Yes, that’s right, 17 years as both amateur and professional. Greatness came early and the young Calzaghe entered the record books as the only British amateur boxer to hold three ABA titles at three different weights while compiling an amateur record of 110-10. Since ending his amateur career and turning professional in 1993 on a Frank Bruno undercard, Calzaghe has gone unbeaten with 10 straight years as champion, 20 successful title defenses and he’s amassed a record of 43-0 (32) KO’s.

Former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis thinks that Joe Calzaghe might just be one of the best fighters that Great Britain has ever produced.

“He has a very unusual style,” says Lewis of the southpaw Calzaghe. “He has great rhythm, great hand speed and great movement. He throws punches from different angles and you know, you throw a punch and he hits you three times.”

When asked to compare Calzaghe to the best fighters in the pound-for-pound ranks, Lewis, who has seen Calzaghe fight in person many times, was even more glowing in his praise.

“I don’t see any fighter that fights like him,” says Lennox. “I’m telling you, he’s got quick hands and he’s always throwing punches. His punch rate is incredible.”

Just ask Jeff Lacy about hand speed and punch rate. Despite Lacy’s excuses for losing against Calzaghe in March 2006, Calzaghe tattooed him with over 1,000 punches. Maybe that had something to do with him losing?

Excitable HBO boxing analyst Max Kellerman says this about Calzaghe. “If you look at the history of boxing, very few fighters, far fewer than most people realize, have ever gone through say, ten straight top-10 contenders without a loss. Joe Calzaghe is undefeated in his professional career and he’s been fighting world class opposition for over a decade!”

Most will tell you that Joe Calzaghe was a natural from the very time that he first laced up a pair of boxing gloves at only nine years of age. His father, Enzo, has always trained his son, and he echoes the sentiment that Joe was very good from the very beginning.

“I remember the very first day I took him down to the gym,” says Enzo. “The trainers’ name was Mark Williams. I said to Mark, ‘Do you mind if we come in? Joe wants to have a go at boxing.’

“Mark said, ‘No problem.’ “And after a quick look he said, ‘Enz, he’s been boxing for years.’ “I said no he hasn’t.” Mark said, ‘You’ve got a very open class kid there.’ “I didn’t even know what open class meant. I said what does open class mean? He said, ‘Very good.’ “I said, Oh, that’s great. I liked that.”

And that’s the day the boxing career of Joe Calzaghe began.

The fight against Kessler will take place on Calzaghe’s home turf in Wales and for him it will be his biggest and most important fight in front of his own fans. Kessler, the anti-hero in this epic, is coming in from Denmark.

Lennox Lewis, who fought around the world, at home in front of his British fans and also in Wales when he beat Frank Bruno, knows a lot about the often times raucous fight crowds in Great Britain.

“The British sports fans love him,” says Lennox of Calzaghe. “He is their hero. He loves the sport, he wants to prove himself and every time he steps in the ring he is always fighting for respect. British fans are very passionate about boxing and very passionate about their heroes. Calzaghe has great support from the fans right now.”

While you won’t find a nicer guy outside the ropes than Joe Calzaghe, inside the ring he is a tiger. After the first round against Jeff Lacy he went back to his corner, sat on his stool and said to his father of Lacy, “He ain’t shit.” Calzaghe then went on to humiliate Lacy in a fight that many figured Joe would have no chance in.

So what does Calzaghe himself have to say about the man he will face in just a few days?

“I think his record speaks for itself,” says the Welshman. “He’s undefeated, he’s young. He’s at his peak. He’s 39-0, so of course all the statistics add up to him being potentially my toughest fight. But potentially being the toughest fight and actually being the toughest fight is two different things.” And then Joe Calzaghe smiles.

As it stands, Calzaghe is a 2-1 betting favorite but those odds figure to get even closer by the time the first bell rings on Saturday night.

So where should the bettors put their money?

“I’m one hundred-percent confident that I’m going to win this fight,” says Calzaghe. “This is why I picked this fight and why I pushed for this fight, and I think I can do a good job on this guy. You know, he’s potentially the toughest fight of my career, but I’m hoping it’s not going to be the toughest fight of my career. As long as I prepare like it’s going to be the toughest, it won’t be the toughest.”

By all accounts, Calzaghe has trained like a banshee for this fight. He has been known to fight down to the level of his opposition and he has admitted that he has had trouble “getting up” for fighters like Sakio Bika or Peter Manfredo who he perceived to be less than the best competition. But for this fight that will likely not be an issue.

“I’m looking for big fights, big performances, and to get there I need a fight that I get up for,” says “The Pride of Wales” as he is often referred to. “After twenty-five years in boxing you have to motivate yourself…so these are the sort of fights that I want to fight.”

In this story, the last word goes to Enzo Calzaghe who has seen every fight and every fighter that his son has faced in the past 25 years. He has seen every punch in training and in the actual fights and here are his thoughts:

“It doesn’t matter what Kessler brings to the table,” says Enzo.

“If Joe comes in at one-hundred percent, I don’t have to worry one damn bit because at the end of the day, Joe boxes his own fight. Kessler will be his own self...and Kessler stands no chance with Joe Calzaghe. Joe’s better because he’s boxed people like Kessler before. Ask Kessler if he’s boxed anyone like Joe. I very much doubt it indeed.”

You can bet on it.


October 2007

HUNT THE BOEING-a closer look

Remembering 911.....

Pentagon
Hunt the Boeing! And test your perceptions!

As everyone knows, on 11 September, less than an hour after the attack on the World Trade Centre, an airplane collided with the Pentagon. The Associated Press first reported that a booby-trapped truck had caused the explosion. The Pentagon quickly denied this. The official US government version of events still holds. Here's a little game for you: Take a look at these photographs and try to find evidence to corroborate the official version. It's up to you to Hunt the Boeing!

Question No.1

Image : Space Imaging Image : U.S. Department of Defense

The first satellite image shows the section of the building that was hit by the Boeing. In the image below, the second ring of the building is also visible. It is clear that the aircraft only hit the first ring. The four interior rings remain intact. They were only fire-damaged after the initial explosion. Can you explain how a Boeing 757-200, weighing nearly 100 tons and travelling at a minimum speed of 250 miles an hour* only damaged the outside of the Pentagon? *250 mph when landing, 600 mph in flight.

Question No.2

Image : U.S. Marine Corps, Cpl. Jason Ingersoll Image : U.S. Army

The two photographs in question 2 show the building just after the attack. We may observe that the aircraft only hit the ground floor. The four upper floors collapsed towards 10.10 am. The building is 26 yards high. Can you explain how a Boeing 14.9 yards high, 51.7 yards long, with a wingspan of 41.6 yards and a cockpit 3.8 yards high, could crash into just the ground floor of this building?

Question No.3

Image : U.S. Army

The photograph above shows the lawn in front of the damaged building.

You'll remember that the aircraft only hit the ground floor of the

Pentagon's first ring. Can you find debris of a Boeing 757-200 in this

photograph?

Question no.4

The photograph in question 4 shows a truck pouring sand over the lawn of the Pentagon. Behind it a bulldozer is seen spreading gravel over the turf. Can you explain why the Defence Secretary deemed it necessary to sand over the lawn, which was otherwise undamaged after the attack?

Question No.5

Image : Space Imaging

Image : U.S. Department of Defense, Sgt. Rudisill The photographs in Question 5 show representations of a Boeing 757-200 superimposed on the section of the building that was hit. Can you explain what happened to the wings of the aircraft and why they caused no damage?

Question No.6

When asked by a journalist: "Is there anything left of the aircraft at all?" "First of all, the question about the aircraft, there are some small pieces of aircraft visible from the interior during this fire-fighting operation I'm talking about, but not large sections. In other words, there's no fuselage sections and that sort of thing." " You know, I'd rather not comment on that. We have a lot of eyewitnesses that can give you better information about what actually happened with the aircraft as it approached. So we don't know. I don't know." When asked by a journalist: "Where is the jet fuel?" "We have what we believe is a puddle right there that the -- what we believe is to be the nose of the aircraft. So -"

The quotations in Question 6 correspond to statements made by Arlington County Fire Chief, Ed Plaugher, at a press conference held by Assistant Defence Secretary, Victoria Clarke, on 12 September 2001, at the Pentagon. Can you explain why the County Fire Chief could not tell reporters where the aircraft was?

Question No.7

Images : U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Jason Ingersoll 1 et 2

The two photographs in question 7 were taken just after the attack. They show the precise spot on the outer ring where the Boeing struck. Can you find the aircraft's point of impact? (To view the photos in detail, download these enlargements: 1 and 2)

How did you do?

Did you find the Boeing? Can you still defend the official version of events?
> Well done! Remember to get in touch with master of illusion, David Copperfield. He'll be glad to hear from you!

You found the official version lacking in something (like a Boeing, for example):
> If you begin to question whether a Boeing really did crash on the Pentagon then, no doubt, you'll be wondering what happened to the aircraft that disappeared. You will probably ask yourself why the US government even told you this story in the first place and you'll start asking yourself lots of other questions besides. Don't worry! This is perfectly normal!

Source: www.reseauvoltaire.net - The photographs are official images and available on US army sites - See also "L'affaire du Pentagone" - Translation: Mr Sly - NB: Appearing on bookshelves end of March, the investigation by the Chair of the Réseau Voltaire into the September 11 attacks, examining the Bin Laden networks and American secret service involvement.

Source: http://www.asile.org/citoyens/numero13/pentagone/erreurs_en.htm

911 Ripple Effect-new dvd overview

The “911 Ripple Effect” Has Begun Media Complacency, Explosions, External Equipment, And More… A Synopsis of 9/11 Ripple Effect, by Debbie Lewis
	The long awaited follow-up to the controversial documentary “911 In Plane Site” is now available globally. With the release of “911 Ripple Effect” comes new information and analyses put forth by noted eyewitnesses, former military, pilots and independent researchers. As more and more people are realizing the inconsistencies in the media version of the happenings on September 11, 2001, William Lewis and Dave vonKleist, the documentary’s producers, fervently hope to light a proverbial fire under the population so that they will rise up and demand a new, independent investigation both for the victims of September 11th, but most importantly for the survivors.
	With the use of on-the-street interviews, each segment is introduced as citizens of “Any town USA” tell what they heard and saw as that catastrophic day in our history unfolded. You know the stories, but what did we REALLY see?
“911 Ripple Effect” presents evidence and information about images shown to the world that were described to us by the media, but the twist is, these very images do not support the “official” story the media and government continue to tell. Even these stories have changed to fit the terrorist-riddled version of tragedy in the United States. VonKleist and Lewis provide some fairly damning reports, especially by Pentagon Correspondent Jamie McIntyre of CNN, Marc Birnbach of FOX News, and a reporter for the BBC, that are in direct conflict with the “official” versions. McIntyre, nearly five years later, is heard trying to explain away statements he made during live, first coverage broadcasts, Birnbach disappeared from FOX News for several years, and has now returned, and the BBC reported the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 nearly twenty minutes earlier than the actual collapse.
WTC Survivor William Rodriguez	William Rodriguez, World Trade Center survivor and eyewitness, tried to do his civic duty by contacting the FBI with what he knew. He told of a massive explosion in the sub-basement that “pushed us upwards.” Rodriguez was one of 14 witnesses to this explosion, and as he started to discuss what was going on with others present that day, there was another explosion above, a plane crashing into the building. His comments were misrepresented by an ABC affiliate to make Rodriguez appear to be describing the explosion caused by the plane impacting with the upper floors of One World Trade Center, when in fact, he was unmistakably describing a separate basement explosion prior to the plane impact. He kept quiet; believing the information was under investigation, only to find it had been mysteriously deleted from the 9/11 Commission Report.
There are several indications that the planes that slammed into the World Trade Center Buildings were not commercial airliners at all. That is what Birnbach, as well as witnesses on the ground, said during live, first coverage. In captured images, both video and photographs, of U.A. Flight #175, there appears to be some type of “external piece of equipment” attached to the underbelly, as well as a bright anomalous flash preceding the crash. Independent researcher Phil Jayhan exposed this standout piece of evidence almost four years ago, and the Lewis/vonKleist team ran with it; revealing it in their first documentary “911 In Plane Site.” “Ripple Effect” shares interviews with former military, pilots and other independent researchers asking questions and conducting an extensive analysis of this massive three-dimensional “appendage” that did not belong on a commercial flight. However, Lieutenant Colonel John Marks of Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri gives viewers an on camera show-and-tell of what the U.S. military calls a “rocket pod,” which makes one wonder if this could be the “extra equipment.” Jayhan, vonKleist and Lewis have taken a beating over “the flash and the pod,” but have stuck to the evidence, much to the chagrin of certain individuals involved with the 911 Truth Movement, many of whom advocate for the exclusion of certain key pieces of evidence, much like the omissions of the 911 Commission Report. However, the evidence stands on it’s own and is supported in this new documentary by interviews with Col. George Nelson, Major Glen MacDonald, Glen Stanish, Jim Fetzer, and others.
	Jim Marrs discusses the similarities of the official story to that of the Northwoods Document of 1962. This document was planned by the then Joint Chiefs of Staff in an effort to gain the manipulated support of the United States population in a war against Cuba. Never enacted, however, the similarities in the plan to those of the tragedy surrounding 9/11 are not lost to those who have read the document.
The events centering around the “Twin Towers” were not the only anomalies that day. The “plane” that crashed into the Pentagon and the devastation there is in question, as well. The external “E-ring” struck at the Pentagon withstood the plane crash; “E-ring” windows were in tact, for nearly thirty minutes before it collapsed. No identifiable pieces of plane were seen cluttering the lawn. What’s so odd is that a plane of that size would leave no large pieces of wreckage, no wing parts, no tail section, no plane seats, no passenger luggage, nothing of the sort, yet we were told that a Boeing 757 hit the Pentagon. The live, first coverage at the Pentagon does not bear out the official story there, either.
	Jamie McIntyre reported, live, that he saw no large pieces of plane anywhere at the site, yet, last year he says he was there and photographed plane pieces. “Ripple Effect” puts forth the audio evidence for your discernment, as well as other inconsistencies surrounding the events at the Pentagon.
	What happened at Shanksville, PA is also in question. If a plane had crashed in the field, as was reported, the wreckage would have been “contained.” However, the Shanksville wreckage was spread for miles, and there was a huge crater left behind, indicating that it was not a “simple” plane crash. Witnesses, there, heard what sounded like a “missile,” and as reported, most pieces of the plane wreckage recovered could be held in your hands.
And what about the “master-mind” behind the attacks in question? Circulating the Internet last year was a very surprising e-mail by independent researcher Paul Sheridan that revealed that the FBI was not looking for bin Laden in regards to this particular terrorist attack. The Muckraker Report did a follow-up article, calling FBI Agent Rex Tomb to verify this finding. Tomb revealed that, indeed, there was not enough evidence for the FBI to add the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 to bin Laden’s “wanted poster.” These discrepancies, and many others, are presented in a viewer-friendly documentary that should be a wake-up call to the world. The end of the film calls us all to take action, to make a stand, wake up and save our nation. With all the evidence provided in this new documentary, one has to see just how much the media and government version simply does not add up, yet we are still being spoon fed the same old story, and expected to believe it. Lewis, vonKleist, and many others have more questions and are looking for the answers. We should all take note and make our own inquiries. Get active, get up off the couch and demand the truth be told at once. If we do not take charge of our own future, who will?

The Last Supper at 16 billion pixels

Can't get to Milan to see Leonardo Da Vinci's masterpiece "The Last Supper?" As of Saturday, all you need is an Internet connection. Officials put online an image of the "Last Supper" at 16 billion pixels - 1,600 times stronger than the images taken with the typical 10 million pixel digital camera.

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The high resolution will allow experts to examine details of the 15th century wall painting that they otherwise could not - including traces of drawings Leonardo put down before painting.

The painting below will travel on the internet at amazing 16 billion pixels!!!
Click the paintings below for the link.
Note: You should have DSL connection at a minimum of 384 kbps to fully use and enjoy the detail. If you are not, forget it...super "bagal"(slow) ng detailing..

How to unlock locked windows XP

There is a way (despite Microsoft claims that there's NO way aside from reinstalling a fresh copy of XP) to log 0n to your Windows XP system if ever you've forgotten all your users account passwords and don't have any administrator account to enter the system.

The truth is you don't need to install expensive 3rd party software or don't even need to be an expert to enter your locked XP system. What you just need is your Windows XP installer disc and your locked system to have an optical drive (of course). This is very handy if you forgot your administrator password and don't have any access to other account with administrator rights or if you're friend have also forgot his password.

Here's what you'll do if ever you forgot all your User Account's password and you thought (including Microsoft) that you can no longer enter your System.

1. Put the Windows XP installer disc into the optical drive (CD/DVD) and restart your PC.


2. Press any key when prompted with "Press any key to boot from CD", then wait for the "Welcome to setup" screen to appear, just press enter.


3. Then press F8 to agree on the license agreement.


4. On the next screen, you will be prompted to repair or install a fresh copy of Windows XP. You just need to select the locked Windows XP installation you want to enter (If you've more than one Windows XP installed) and press "R".


5. The system will then reboot after setup checked the disk and copied setup files (Just wait for the system to reboot). And when it reboots, don't press any key when prompted to "Press any key to boot from CD".


6. The setup will be automatically start the setup process. This is the most important steps, you need to wait for the setup to install the devices. Press the combination of SHIFT+F10 when you see the words "Installing Devices" at the bottom of the shown remaining minutes of the setup to finish.


7. After that, a command console will be open, where in you need to type "NUSRMGR.CPL" (Without the quotes).


8. You will be then given access to the User Account window similar to the control panel where you will delete or edit your forgotten password. Choose remove if you need to enter the system without entering password or edit if you want to change your forgotten password.


9. After you delete or edit your account password, close the command windows and let the setup to finish. (You will also be needing to enter the XP product key if prompted)


10. When setup is finished, system will reboot and you'll be automatically enter your system if you choose to delete the password or need to enter your new password if you just edit your forgotten password.


11. That's all! You now have entered your locked Windows XP system.tnx to hezron m from rcv
    

MP3 WATCH

Manufacturer Specifications

* Support MP3 and WMA music format
* Portable U Disk
* Recording function
* Repeat from A-B Model
* EQ: 5Ms
* Wireless stereo earphone
* Stereo Bluetooth Earphone compatible with Mobile and Computer
* MP3 Solution: Sigmatel 3504a
* Watch Movement: Citizen 2035
* Bluetooth solution of Earphone: CSR
* Bluetooth Solution of Watch: CSR
* Wafer Glasses made in Japan
* PU Strap made by Bayer
* AL Case
* Water and Shock resistance

Features

* Memory: built-in 2GB
* Power: Build-in rechargeable 3.7V polymer lithium battery
* Continuing playing time: 4 Hours each time after full charging
* USB transmission Speed: USB2.0
* MP3 Bit: 32Kbps-320Kbps
* WMA Bit: 32Kbps-192Kbps
* Recording spot-check frequency: 16KHZ
* Record time: 260 Min for 128MB
* Frequency range: 20-20KHZ
* Operation System: Windows Me/2000/XP/Mac OS8.6 or more
* Standard for Bluetooth: V1.2, Support Hs/HF, A/V Profiles
* Standby time of Bluetooth Earphone: 150Hs
* Time of continuing use for Bluetooth earphone: 6Hs
* Transmission Distance: 10M
* Charging time: 2Hs

What is C4?

Everybody is talking about c4-gloritta blast is alledgedly cause by a c4 explosion. What is C4, let us find out what it is....

Twenty years ago, most people didn't have any idea what C-4 was. Recently, it has become an all-too-familiar term, popping up in newspapers and on television all the time. In October 2000, terrorists used C-4 to attack the U.S.S. Cole, killing 17 sailors. In 1996, terrorists used C-4 to blow up the Khobar Towers U.S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia. In December 2001, a man smuggled similar material, hidden in his shoes, onto a commercial airliner. C-4 has also been used in many of the Palestinian suicide bombings in Israel and the Israeli-occupied territories. In this article, we'll find out what this powerful material is and see how it can wreak such destruction.

C-4, or composition 4, is one variety of plastic explosive. The basic idea of plastic explosives, also called plastic bonded explosives (PBX), is to combine explosive chemicals with a plastic binder material. The binder has two important jobs:

• It coats the explosive material, so it's less sensitive to shock and heat. This makes it relatively safe to handle the explosive.
• It makes the explosive material highly malleable. You can mold it into different shapes to change the direction of the explosion.

C-4 Ingredients RDX - 91 percent Di(2-ethylhexyl) sebacate - 5.3 percent Polyisobutylene - 2.1 percent Motor oil - 1.6 percent

The explosive material in C-4 is cyclotrimethylene-trinitramine (C3H6N6O6), commonly called RDX (which stands for "royal demolition explosive" or "research development explosive"). The additive material is made up of polyisobutylene, the binder, and di(2-ethylhexyl) sebacate, the plasticizer (the element that makes the material malleable). It also contains a small amount of motor oil and some 2, 3-dimethyl-2, 3-dinitrobutane (DMDNB), which functions as a chemical marker for security forces.

To make C-4 blocks, explosives manufacturers take RDX in powder form and mix it with water to form a slurry. They then add the binder material, dissolved in a solvent, and mix the materials with an agitator. They remove the solvent through distillation, and remove the water through drying and filtering. The result is a relatively stable, solid explosive with a consistency similar to modelling clay.

Just as with other explosives, you need to apply some energy to C-4 to kick off the chemical reaction. Because of the stabilizer elements, it takes a considerable shock to set off this reaction; lighting the C-4 with a match will just make it burn slowly, like a piece of wood (in Vietnam, soldiers actually burned C-4 as an improvised cooking fire). Even shooting the explosive with a rifle won't trigger the reaction. Only a detonator, or blasting cap will do the job properly.

A detonator is just a smaller explosive that's relatively easy to set off. An electrical detonator, for example, uses a brief charge to set off a small amount of explosive material. When somebody triggers the detonator (by transmitting the charge through detonator cord to a blasting cap, for example), the explosion applies a powerful shock that triggers the C-4 explosive material.

When the chemical reaction begins, the C-4 decomposes to release a variety of gases (notably, nitrogen and carbon oxides). The gases initially expand at about 26,400 feet per second (8,050 meters per second), applying a huge amount of force to everything in the surrounding area. At this expansion rate, it is totally impossible to outrun the explosion like they do in dozens of action movies. To the observer, the explosion is nearly instantaneous -- one second, everything's normal, and the next it's totally destroyed.

The explosion actually has two phases. The initial expansion inflicts most of the damage. It also creates a very low-pressure area around the explosion's origin -- the gases are moving outward so rapidly that they suck most of the gas out from the "middle" of the explosion. After the outward blast, gases rush back in to the partial vacuum, creating a second, less-destructive inward energy wave.

A small amount of C-4 packs a pretty big punch. Less than a pound of C-4 could potentially kill several people, and several military issue M112 blocks of C-4, weighing about 1.25 pounds (half a kilogram) each, could potentially demolish a truck. Demolition experts typically use a good amount of C-4 in order to do a job properly. To take out one 8-inch (20.3-centimeter) square steel beam, for example, they would probably use 8 to 10 pounds (3.6 to 4.5 kilograms) of C-4.

People apply C-4's explosive power toward all kinds of destruction. One common application is military demolition -- soldiers pack it into cracks and crevices to blow up heavy walls. It has also been widely used as an anti-personnel weapon, in battle and in terrorist attacks. In Vietnam, for example, soldiers used a number of C-4-based bombs and grenades. One notable weapon, the claymore mine, consisted of a C-4 block with several embedded ball bearings. When the C-4 was detonated, the ball bearings became deadly flying shrapnel (this sort of weapon was also featured in the movie Swordfish).

Unfortunately, C-4 will keep making headlines for years to come. Because of its stability and sheer destructive power, C-4 has attracted the attention of terrorists and guerilla fighters all over the world. A small amount of C-4 can do a lot of damage, and it's fairly easy to smuggle the explosive past light security forces. The U.S. military is the primary manufacturer of C-4, and it tightly guards its supply, but there are a number of other sources for similar explosive material (including Iran, which has a history of conflict with the United States). As long as it is readily accessible, C-4 will continue to be a primary weapon in the terrorist arsenal.

Wonders of BANANA

This is interesting. After Reading this, you'll never look at a banana in the same way again.

Bananas . Containing three natural sugars - sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber, a banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy. Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout. No wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the world's leading athletes. But energy isn't the only way a banana can help us keep fit. It can also help overcome or prevent a substantial number of illnesses and conditions, making it a must to add to our daily diet.

Depression : According to a recent survey undertaken by MIND amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood and generally make you feel happier.

PMS : Forget the pills - eat a banana. The vitamin B6 it contains regulates blood glucose levels, which can affect your mood.

Anemia : High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production of hemoglobin in the blood and so helps in cases of anemia.

Blood Pressure : This unique tropical fruit is extremely high in potassium yet low in salt, making it the perfect to beat blood pressure.
So much so, the US Food and Drug Administration has just allowed the banana industry to make official claims for the fruit's ability to reduce the risk of blood pressure and stroke

Brain Power : 200 students at a Twickenham (Middlesex) school were helped through their exams this year by eating bananas at breakfast, break, and lunch in a bid to boost their brain power. Research has shown that the potassium-packed fruit can assist learning by making pupils more alert.

Constipation : High in fiber, including bananas in the diet can help
restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives.

Hangovers : One of the quickest ways of curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey. The banana calms the stomach and, with the help of the honey, builds up depleted blood sugar levels,while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your system.

Heartburn : Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief.

Morning Sickness : Snacking on bananas between meals helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning sickness.

Mosquito bites : Before reaching for the insect bite cream, try rubbing the affected area with the inside of a banana skin. Many people find it amazingly successful at reducing swelling and irritation.

Nerves : Bananas are high in B vitamins that help calm the nervous system. Overweight and at work? Studies at the Institute of Psychology in Austria found pressure at work leads to gorging on comfort food like chocolate and crisps. Looking at 5,000 hospital patients, researchers found the most obese were more likely to be in high-pressure jobs The report concluded that, to avoid panic-induced food cravings, we need to control our blood sugar levels by snacking on high carbohydrate foods every two
hours to keep levels steady

Ulcers : The banana is used as the dietary food against intestinal
disorders because of its soft texture and smoothness. It is the only raw fruit that can be eaten without distress in over-chronicler cases. It also neutralizes over-acidity and reduces irritation by coating the lining of the stomach.
Temperature control: Many other cultures see bananas as a "cooling" fruit that can lower both the physical and emotional temperature of expectant mothers. In Thailand , for example, pregnant women eat bananas to ensure their baby is born with a cool temperature. Seasonal = Affective Disorder (SAD) : Bananas can help SAD sufferers because they contain the natural mood enhancer tryptophan. Smoking: Bananas can also help people trying to give up smoking. The B6,B12 they contain, as well as the potassium and magnesium found in them, help the body recover from the effects of nicotine withdrawal. Stress : Potassium is a vital mineral, which helps normalize the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and regulates your body's water balance. When we are stressed, our metabolic rate rises, thereby reducing our potassium levels. These can be balanced with the help of a high-potassium banana snack. Strokes : According to research in "The New England Journal of Medicine,"eating bananas as part of a regular diet can cut the risk of death by strokes by as much as 40%! Warts: Those keen on natural alternatives swear that if you want to kill off a wart, take a piece of banana skin and place it on the wart, with the yellow side out. Carefully hold the skin in place with a plaster or surgical tape! So, a banana really is a natural remedy for many ills. When you compare it to an apple, it has four times the protein, twice the carbohydrate, three times the phosphorus, five times the vitamin A and iron, and twice the other vitamins and minerals. It is also rich in potassium and is one of the best value foods around. So maybe its time to change that well-known phrase so that we say, "A banana a day keeps the doctor away!"

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