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Allie Finkle, Blast From the Past.
Im a bit of a sucker for free books, but when I got a package from Meg Cabot with the latest Allie Finkle book, Blast From the Past, I had a moment
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How the Sky Became Digital
A Grand and Bold Thing: An Extraordinary New Map of the Universe Ushering in a New Era of Discovery by Ann K. Finkbeiner Reviewed by W. Patrick McCray American Scientist When asked in 1991 what he would do with the next generation of ...
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LA Times/Envelopes Pete Hammond Joins Nikki Finkes Deadline.com
Deadline.com is expanding its film and television awards coverage for the 2010-2011 season and beyond. Mail.com Media Corporations Jay Penske and Deadline.coms Nikki Finke today announced the hiring of Pete Hammond, the well-known Los Angeles ...
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Spending Stories: Richard Johnson and Other $1M Offers at THR
Talk about burying the lead -- in the lead.In a piece that declares that t he gossip sheet Page Six is dead, the Village Voice offers up details about the Hollywood Reporter offering Page Six editor Richard Johnson $1 million to jump ship and ...
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Gas shut-off valves for seismic areas
Posted by JFinkGas + Earthquakes = Trouble. These dirt-simple valves automatically cut off the gas supply to your house in the event of an earthquake.
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SAG Notice Without Explanation: More Members To Lose Health Insurance
Here's what the Screen Actors Guild leadership posted on its website without providing any further explanation than what you see below. And Backstage is reporting that more detrimental changes to SAG's health plan are on the way. The reason is because ...
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CHART OF THE DAY: Surprise! UberTwitter Is The Most Popular Twitter Client
Remember when we thought Twitter was going to crush all the third party Twitter applications ? Hasn't happened.The most popular Twitter client going is UberTwitter for BlackBerry, according to a sampling of Twitter's API done by coder Ed Finkler . ...
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AZEK now in Home Depot
Posted by JFinkI went to Natick, MA the weekend before last to help my brother do some work on his kitchen. We took the obligatory drive to the local Home Depot to pick up a little of this and a little of that, and...
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A Grand and Bold Thing
Disillusionment in the early days of the trouble-plagued Hubble Space Telescope led famed astronomer James E. Gunn to dream of creating a million-galaxy digital sky survey.
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Grist: Wright Homes Go Begging
Even after slashing millions of dollars off the prices, two rare homes built by Frank Lloyd Wright remain unsold.
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Amanpour Offers Bitter-Clinger Variation To Explain Beck Rally Success
Christiane Amanpour just sealed her victory as recipient of my Obama Parrot of the Week Award . . That's the dubious prize I give out to on my local TV show to the media member most ardently echoing the Obama party line. The moderator of This Week ...
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Will Jon Hamm Dance at Tonight's Emmys?
Spoiler Alert: If you want to know nothing about how tonight's Emmy Awards might open, do not read this. If you can handle the knowledge that a dance number might kick off the show, then good news! Deadline's Nikki Finke hears tonight's awards will ...
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REMINDER: LIVE-BLOGGING THE EMMYS
Come for the cynicism... Stay for the subversion... Add your comment.Warning: Not for the easily offended or ridiculously naive.Emmys start at 5 PMPT Sunday. Nikki will be live-snarking. Nellie will be analyzing. Ray will be interrogating. Deadline ...
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner: Don't pop the bubbly yet for Women's Equality Day
It's Women's Equality Day , the date marked to celebrate women getting the right to vote in our nation 90 years ago today. It's both hard (and easy in some sad ways) to believe that it was just 90 years ago that women got the right to vote in our ...
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How astrocoders have mapped the universe
In A Grand and Bold Thing, Ann Finkbeiner tells the backstage story of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which has made the best-ever map of the universe
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Finkler Question - Howard Jacobson
He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one... Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, ...
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Swine Flu Pandemic: Rehearsal for the Future?
Pediatricians are warning parents that the swine flu is expected to return this year and are urging them to take the necessary precautions.
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The Continuing Problem of Military Suicides [Dispatches from the Culture Wars]
Another cost of war that we rarely think about is discussed by Paul Reickhoff, founder of Iran and Afghanistan Veterans of America:[W]e lost 32 active duty soldiers to suicide in the month of June. That's just the Army, that's just active duty, ...
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HBOs Nikki Finke Show Loses Its Showrunner
HBO has fired showrunner Cynthia Mort from the upcoming Diane Keatonstarring show Tilda about a "a powerful female online showbiz journalist with a no-holds-barred reporting style" over clashes with Keaton and producer Bill Condon (which is high
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Child abuse declines nationally in spite of economic deterioration
Child abuse declined nationally in 2008 compared to 2007, according to a new report by the Crimes against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire. Sexual abuse declined 6 percent, physical abuse 3 percent and neglect 2 percent.read ...
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Sandra Bullock Would Like Another Oscar Please [Trade Roundup]
So soon! They get greedy so easily, don't they. Also today: Conan's TBS move isn't exactly paradise for his writers, friction on the set of the Nikki Finke show sounds about right, and lots of casting news.More
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Good thing or transparent ploy
A new law will require doctors to give patients alternatives to in-house imaging. But physician John Finkenberg says the tests done by the MRI machine in his office are too important to outsource.
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To Nikki Finke: Come Speak at TheGrill
Dear Nikki,We have known each other for a very long time, much longer as friends than as enemies.With a view to that relationship I would like to invite you to be a keynote speaker at our upcoming entertainment leadership conference, ...
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No Easy Pieces: Sloan Telescope Builders Battled Moths, Balky Software and Broken Mirrors
Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from A Grand and Bold Thing: An Extraordinary New Map of the Universe Ushering In a New Era of Discovery by Ann Finkbeiner (on sale August 17 from Free Press). The book chronicles the development of the ...
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Catholic Actor Fired for not Doing Sex Scenes
Neil McDonough, the Roman Catholic actor who lost a lead role for his adamant refusal to perform heated love scenes, will star and produce in a new series about a cop turned priest.According to the Catholic News Agency, McDonough, who has played ...
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How astrocoders have mapped the universe
In A Grand and Bold Thing , Ann Finkbeiner tells the backstage story of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which has made the best-ever map of the universe
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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: "A Grand and Bold Thing"
If you do a search of articles on Universe Today, you'll find that a large number of our posts reference the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. SDSS is a comprehensive survey to map the sky, using a dedicated 2.5 meter telescope equipped with a 125- megapixel ...
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Hollywood Embracing Sweden's Lisbeth Salander
According to a report from Deadlines Nikki Finke , Noomi Rapace, who played Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish adaptation of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo , has quickly become Hollywoods newest sensation. Though the film was released in Sweden in ...
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To Infinity . . . With a Map
In "A Grand and Bold Thing," Ann Finkbeiner recounts how the wide-field telescope of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey produced a remarkable guide to the universe. Timothy Ferris reviews.
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'Far more lethal' About 1,500 kids die at the hands of a caregiver each year
8-18-2010 National:Depression. Psychosis. Stress. Feelings of being overwhelmed. These are just some of the factors that drive women to kill their children. Such crimes evoke horror and clash with traditional notions of women as natural, nurturing ...
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