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The secrect is basically wholesalers and dropshippers. They digg the big list with the best of them all and a crazy guy is giving it away. Yes here:

Atlantis Shuttle launch goes ahead

NASA moved ahead with plans to launch the shuttle Atlantis today, though a stormy weather outlook threatened to postpone the already-delayed mission to deliver a European science module to the international space station.
The shuttle's liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center was scheduled for 1:45 p.m. CST.
Seven astronauts have trained to deliver and install the $2.1 billion Columbus lab over an 11-day mission. The flight was twice delayed in early December by erratic fuel gauges.
Well before sunrise today, the launch team began to fill the shuttle's towering external fuel tank with super-cold hyrdogen and oxygen propellants. The four gauges responded to the modifications made by NASA over the past two months, showing no signs of problems.
"We appear to be over the hump," said NASA spokesman George Diller from the Launch Control Center.
The gauges are part of a safety system that could shut down the shuttle's three rocket engines in case of a fuel leak. If the engines ran dry of fuel they could explode.
Instead, today it was the weather than had the space agency on edge as it prepared to launch the first of a half-dozen shuttle missions planned this year.
Forecasters held to an outlook that included a 70 percent chance of unfavorable weather as a cold front approached. The same front spawned deadly tornadoes as it marched through the southeastern United States earlier this week...

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Chinese New Year. The Year of the Rat

Happy Chinese New Year! Thursday, Feb. 7 corresponds to Jan. 1 on the lunar calendar, which also marks the start of the Year of the Rat.

The Chinese have celebrated this festival for thousands of years and consider it as an important landmark in their lives. It was Emperor Han Wu Di (1121-771 BC) who first marked New Year's Day on the Chinese Lunar calendar. However, the story of the Nian - a mythical beast, which once allegedly terrorised villages in China on New Year's Eve - is also linked with the celebration of the festival.

To drive away the Nian, the Chinese people would paste red-paper couplets on their doors, light torches and burn firecrackers amidst rejoicings. Many of these practices form still part of New Year festivities today. Traditions die hard in the hearts of people.

Many weeks prior to the Chinese New Year, preparations begin feverishly. Families will clean the house thoroughly so that the household will be kept spick and span to welcome the New Year. On New Year's day itself, it will be most inauspicious to sweep the house because it is believed that, if we do so, we are sweeping away wealth. Moreover, the shopping centres bubble with activity as shopping for traditional New Year products (nianhuo) is like a ritual and constitutes an important part of the celebration. Several streets in the China Town area are converted into bazaars with stalls laden with nianhuo.

Lucky money and mandarin oranges

The social clubs (kwongs) organise their van shing (a thanksgiving ceremony) and host a dinner for the members of their respective clans. This is an occasion for them to meet and partake friendship. They weave their ties of kinship and fellowship.

New Year's Eve is the key note of the celebration. Families congregate for a traditional reunion dinner, and eat dishes with auspicious names such as fakai (a kind of algae, the Chinese name of which sounds similar to the phrase 'gaining wealth' and niangao (New Year's cake).

Many families stay up all night on New Year's eve. Firecrackers are lit at midnight to welcome in the New Year. It is believed that Zao Shen (the kitchen god) returns to Heaven to make an annual report on each household on New Year's Eve. The family shrine is laden with sweet offerings presented to this deity. Similarly, the devotees burn joss-sticks to welcome Cai Shen (the god of wealth) at the dawn of the New Year. Other offerings are also made to ancestors.

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Katie Rees is Arrested

Katie Rees found a new way to use her body last night.
The former Miss Nevada was arrested in Las Vegas for allegedly assaulting a police officer, TMZ reports.
The walking beauty pageant scandal was pulled over for a traffic violation. What went down? Well, it wasn’t Rees, for a change. But when cops attempted to arrest her, Katie began to elbow and kick them.
Police said they were just gonna cite Rees, but when she went all Mary Delgado on them, they had to take her in. FOX5 in Las Vegas broke the story.

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How to get legal Satellite TV on your computer in 1 Easy Step

From Satellite TV on your PC

This is what claims this website that converts your PC on a TV station. Yes, more than 3000 stations without any monthly payment, and legal. Is it baloney?

But does that work or not? How can you have satellite TV on your computer without any monthly payment and for only a one time fee of $49? Are you sure this is legal?

Yes it is legal: At one point it was stated that "Anything provided over the air is free" such as radio. What you are being charged for on Satelite services, is your dish's access to the network, but the satelite signal is there anyway, so if you have your own reciever (in this case internet), then you can legally get the signal and all the shows you want in your computer.

The brilliant thing is that you don't get crappy stations, but the big ones! fancy watching the super bowl? films? anything!

I say this is a must. I can watch tv on my own screen for only one payment of $49. Who woudnl't? You can get the software here.

From Satellite TV on your PC

Barry Morse dead at 89

LONDON (AP) — Actor Barry Morse, who played a detective pursuing the wrongly accused Dr. Richard Kimble in 1960s TV series "The Fugitive," has died, his son said Tuesday. He was 89.

Hayward Morse said his father died Saturday at University College Hospital in London after a brief illness.

Born in London in 1918, Morse trained at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and appeared in British repertory and West End theaters before emigrating in 1951 to Canada, where he became a regular on radio and television.

The actor's Web site estimated he played more than 3,000 roles on radio, TV, stage and screen over a seven-decade career...

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Waterboarding torture used by the CIA

At today's hearing at which the nation's top intelligence officials were reporting to the Senate Intelligence Committee on the threats facing the U.S., National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell was asked by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) about a quote attributed to him in a recent New Yorker magazine article which seemed to suggest he personally viewed waterboarding as torture.

McConnell said that when he was interviewed by writer Lawrence Wright, he did say that he personally would find it painful to have water drip into his nose but said he was basing that on his own anatomical peculiarities. He wasn't making a legal or value judgment about waterboarding.

He also described a 90-minute back and forth he had with the New Yorker writer as he tried to get the journalist to change the quote to, in McConnell's eyes, better reflect what he insisted he meant.

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Prop 91

Prop 91 aims to protect funds collected from gas taxes, drivers' licenses and vehicle registrations from being used for non-transportation purposes. But voters already approved Prop 1A, which effectively accomplishes the same thing.

This proposition remains on the table purely because the vote on 1A came after it was too late to make changes to the state ballot. The setup may be confusing, but the decision isn't: Even the original supporters of Prop 91 have abandoned it and recommend a "no" vote...

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Super Tuesday Results

Record absentee ballots may delay Super Tuesday results

The outcome of Super Tuesday, once seen as the decisive day in the Democratic nomination, may not emerge for days because of record early voting in California and other key states.

California has the most delegates at stake in today's primary - 370 delegates of the 2,025 needed to win the Democratic nomination - and is shaping up to be one of the closest contests between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Over the past week, Obama has been cutting Clinton's early lead but it remains unclear whether Obama's recent surge will be reflected at close of polls tonight in California or in the other seven states that allow early voting.

California state officials received more than 3 million votes in absentee ballots by late Monday night, a figure that could account for up to 40% of the turnout.

The laborious process of counting such votes by hand could continue on for days, delaying the official declaration. Up to 25% of the absentee ballots will remain uncounted tonight.

"I do not think we are going to be able to call California this evening unless one candidate does very well in the 'in-person vote'," says Michael McDonald, a politician scientist at George Mason University.

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How to download legally a movie to my computer...

Here we come again with the "How to... to my computer"

In this case we talk about NetMovieDownloads.com which is one of the biggest sites for movies, tv shows downlaods and also MP3.

The cool thing about this place is that it has one of the biggest library to choose, and also it is all high quality. Their customer service is regular, I haven't had big issues, they just take a little bit to answer and that's it really.

The price is pretty good for the service, just $1.37 a month, or a life time mermbership of $34.95 which is ridiculous. You can download all that high quality stuff for that ammount! and absolutely legal. I think that is probably one of the greatest deals on the net.

Head to this site and just follow the steps.

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