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Today I decided to stop drink Coca-Cola and some other harmful to health soft drinks. Those soft drinks are: Coca-Cola, Diet Cola, Fanta, Soda, RC Cola and Pepsi. Why have I decided not to drink these products? Because of few reasons.
One of the reasons is harmfulness of those drinks. Without any doubts all those soft drinks are harmful to human's health.


According to research of several universities (including British University) all those drinks lead to the following diseases:

• - Heart disease
  
• - Obesity
  
• - Tooth decay
  
• - Cavities
  
• - Bones' fragile
  

Also, excessive consume of those fizzy drinks may lead to heart attack, diabetes and strokes. There is about 20 spoon-fulls of sugar in each bottle of soft drink and even more in the drinks like Gator aid. That much sugar is not good for human's health and can make one become very overweight quite rapidly. "Diet" drinks with aspartame are even worse. Technically, if one is using any of the diet coke products to avoid the sugar of the original drink, it is like substituting one health evil not just for another, but for a greater one. Aspartame, one of ingredients of diet products is a dangerous chemical drug. Also, Coca-Cola, Britvic's Pepsi Max, Diet Pepsi and all diet drinks contain sodium benzoate, known as E-211.

Concerns centre on the safety of E211, known as sodium benzoate, a preservative used for decades by the £74bn global carbonated drinks industry. Sodium benzoate derives from benzoic acid. It occurs naturally in berries, but is used in large quantities to prevent mould in soft drinks such as Sprite, Oasis and Dr Pepper. It is also added to pickles and sauces.

Sodium benzoate has already been the subject of concern about cancer because when mixed with the additive vitamin C in soft drinks, it causes benzene, a carcinogenic substance. A Food Standards Agency survey of benzene in drinks last year found high levels in four brands which were removed from sale.
THE INDEPENDENT (UK newspaper)

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Childhood is the best period in the life of the most people. Childhood always associates with fun, happiness, family and friends. So why do we always associate childhood with only good and kind memories?
In childhood everything seems less complicated, we don't look for the private benefit, and can be friends without any purposes, self-interests and politics. Have you ever noticed the difference between the profession that the child and the adult dream about? What child wants to be? - cosmonaut, engineer, scientific, teacher. And now let's think what an average adult wants to be? - banker, financier, manager, businessmen. What is the difference between the two opinions?
Child wants to build, to research, to discover new things, to improve the world. Why are all the kinds of superheroes like batman, spider-man and others so popular among the children? Because the target of these heroes is to help people, to fight against evil for the piece. They help people without any personal benefit for them. Altruism is their character and it's also the character of children.
However many adults don't want to do all these "stupid things" that the children want. The way they think is different from the child's one. Why do they need to improve the world if it's no gain for this? Adults want money, nice girls from the fashion magazines ( or boys ), cool cars, expensive clothes and luxurious life. In other words, we can say that children are the builders and adults are the parasites and spongers. Of course I don't mean all the adults, but the great part of them. And the other part like Einstein, Mozart, Leonardo da Vinci (and other not so famous people)are the people that continued being children in their soul even in the adult age.
In the childhood you think that the time is unlimited and you'll stay the child forever, but some day you find that you became an adult. And you can't romp with friends, race them one another and play cowboys. You can't do all these things because an adult should be imposing, grand and important and not childish and infantile. Suddenly you realize that you don't want to change the world any more.
All these thoughts are the result of my viewing the world and the people in this world. And I don't want to become an adult, but to stay a child in my soul forever!

Many of us use different kinds of E-mail clients. The most popular for today are The Bat!, Microsoft Outlook Express and maybe IncrediMail. Opera also has it's own E-mail client M2, a very useful thing, I must say. The only thing, that is not included in this client - the sounds. Here you can download funny E-mail client's sounds for your M2! Please, enjoy!

I think almost everybody has mobile phone. You don't need to be rich to have cellphone especially nowadays when the prices on it are getting lower and lower. But what about 10 years ago? What were cellphones look like 15 - 20 years ago? Guess when the cellphone on the picture has appeared in the market?!?! Answer in reed more!)

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A few weeks ago one my friend showed me Google Desktop 2.0 on his laptop. I heard about this program before, but never tried to use it. What I really loved in this program is the desktop sidebar, with small useful applications that show you weather, time, date, news etc. As I know such sidebar is included with Windows Vista, but there are also other programs that creating such sidebars, like Yahoo! Widgets or Thoosje Sidebar. The gadgets on the desktop are looking like that: --->

So I liked the Google Desktop Sidebar and decided to install the program. But later I thought: if I have Opera widgets, why do I need to download external programs to create the sidebar? The only problem was that Opera widgets are working only with the browser. I tried to find solution in Internet, but soon understood that it's impossible. However I wasn't disappointed, I also use Opera as Mail Client ( M2 ), download manager etc, so it's running almost all the time. So, what I need is to hide Opera into Systray, when I don't work with it. It was not so easy, as it seems !! I found that in previous versions there was shortcut combination: [Ctrl]+ [H], but since version Opera 9.5 it became: [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Shift]+[H] ! I wonder how is it supposed to hold 4 keys in the same time ?! I reprogrammed mine to [Shift] + [D] ) Also I created a button [Hide] ( to minimize Opera into System Tray )with a very useful widget ButtonMaker.

When I finish working with Opera I simply press the [Hide] button or use easy-to-remember shortcut combination [Shift] + [D]. After that, I downloaded different useful widgets from here: analog watch, calendar, reminder,news viewer, weather etc. For all the widgets I set the option Always Below. It means that the widgets are always below other applications on the Desktop! Also the widgets' icons in the taskbar disappear. So, it looks just like Google Desktop - we see only icon of Opera ( or of Google Desktop ) in systray .




P.S. Find 3 differences between the top picture and bottom one
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