Archive for January 2009
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Kara DioGuardi
Kara DioGuardi (born December 9, 1970) is a living legend in the music industry. She is an American songwriter, record producer, and singer who has contributed to a long list of internationally successful popular songs in the light pop-rock genre. Besides, she is a new and fourth on the eighth season of American Idol. DioGuardi has worked with Celine Dion, David Archuleta, Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Christina Aguilera, and Paula Abdul, American Idol’s other female judge.
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American Idol is Back!
It’s back! The beast of all television beasts, the gigantic FOX sea monster, the Seacrestian evil enterprise, has returned from its half-year hibernation to once again wreak havoc on TV ratings and the lives of the American people.
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Model Alexandra Kosteniuk Wins Chess Championship
Alexandra Kosteniuk, the best women’s chess player in the world flipped a dirty diaper into the trash as she pondered her next move after a dominating year.
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How to get a Windows 7 Beta key
The official sites are not displaying links to download the Windows 7 Beta anymore. They tell the users that the beta release has been postponed because of the high demand. The interesting thing though is that the servers that are distributing the keys are still online and that keys are still handed out. The problem is that those servers are not used to the amount of traffic that they are currently receiving and that an error message will be shown most of the time before a valid Windows 7 Beta product key will be displayed. Here is what you need to do:
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Check4Change, C4C
check4change (aka C4C) is a simple Mozilla FireFox extension that allows you to periodically check a web-page for updates.
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Cheryl Holdridge, former Mouseketeer, dies at 64
Cheryl Holdridge, a popular Mouseketeer on “The Mickey Mouse Club” TV show in the 1950s, has died. She was 64.
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Flat Stanley, Flat Stanley project
Flat Stanley is the title character of a 1964 children’s book (ISBN 0-06-009791-4) by Jeff Brown (1925 – December 3, 2003). other books by Jeff Brown in this series:
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Thyroid gland, how it works, diseases, problems and treatment
The thyroid is one of the largest endocrine glands in the body. This gland is found in the neck inferior to (below) the thyroid cartilage (also known as the Adam’s apple in men) and at approximately the same level as the cricoid cartilage. The thyroid controls how quickly the body burns energy, makes proteins, and how sensitive the body should be to other hormones.
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Thyroid Problems and Obesity
When one is discussing the various causes of weight gain, thyroid gland dysfunciton ought to pop up into the conversation. That is because the thyroid gland, which is shaped like a butterfly and is located right below the Adam’s apple, outputs crucial hormones that essentially regulate the body’s metabolism.
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Thyroid Dysfunction and the Obesity Epidemic
Dr Marc Hyman, who is a leader in the emerging field of Functional Medicine, has written a persuasive article on the causative link between thyroid gland dysfunction and overweight, which we reproduce here. Robert Griffith, Editor
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