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Certain movie stars seem to have a star quality about them that makes them feel a bit untouchable, while others can kick back on the couch across from anyone from Jay Leno to Barbara Walters and still maintain the sort of “aw shucks” attitude that has guys ready to go drinking with them and girls wishing that they could date them. And sometimes, that sort of charisma means that even a half-cooked script will result in the sort of film that has tons of audiences there, excited to see what’s going on because they wish there was someone that cute in their own lives.
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It seems as though HDTV is on everyone’s lips lately, whether it’s the latest computer advertisements talking about the display quality of various laptops to satellite and cable companies trying to talk up their service to customers who have invariably made the investment in this new technology and found it more than satisfactory. And it makes sense to make the switch to high definition, because there is actually a difference. For anyone who might feel a little bit taken aback at first and assume that the technology in place is not actually worth the investment, it is often helpful to look at the actual facts behind high definition, which will prove in just a short amount of time that it’s an entirely different sort of technology altogether.

Satellite TV services in general have really come a long way since being the laughing stock of the television service provider market (which was, arguably, the case some 15 or 20 years ago when satellite technology was still in its infancy). The number of current subscribers is at an all-time high and it is well above even what the most optimistic satellite advocate would have forecast a few years back, and what’s more is that new subscribers continue to flow in at a truly astonishing pace…

There’s an old and often forgotten movie from the 1990s featuring Matthew McConaHot and Ellen DeGeneres where he’s the subject of the very first reality television show. She’s in charge of the film crew, and is surprised that audiences are so interested in seeing a regular person’s life. She definitely doesn’t want to be messing with him, but the higher-ups have better ideas, and start placing obstacles in his life to boost ratings. He, of course, is clueless the entire time.
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Rocket: Soyuz-U; Payload: Progress M-05M (Progress P37); Date: 28 April 2010, 1715 UTC; Launch site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The Progress cargo spacecraft was accurately placed on the target orbit for another mission to the International Space Station.
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has passed its most significant mission milestone to date, the Mission Critical Design Review, or MCDR. This signifies the integrated observatory will meet all science and engineering requirements for its mission.
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SEAKR Engineering, Inc. announced that SEAKR’s Application Independent Processor (AIP), which is a component of Cisco’s IP Routing in Space (IRIS) payload hosted on Intelsat’s IS-14 GEO communication satellite, has successfully passed In-Orbit-Testing.
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Northrop Grumman Corporation reported financial results for the first quarter 2010.
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