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NBC Source: This Will Be Final Season of Heroes
The following announcement doesn't come as a shock, but it's still disheartening for those of us that have watched Heroes from the start:
A source at NBC is confident this will be the final season of the show.
"There isn't much happening with this show in terms of audience, and giving it a 'final chapter' feel is something the network is considering to help allow the show to go out with a bang," the insider told airlockalpha.com.
During its first season, Heroes peaked around 15 million viewers. These days, it averages approximately six million.
Hiro represents the downfall of Heroes. The character has been wasted for three seasons now.
The show does have a loyal fan base, however, which includes some at NBC the source said. Just not anyone high up at the company.
"To keep a show like this going despite its numbers requires some nostalgic connection to it, and while there are a lot of people here who were part of bringing Heroes to the air, they are not in the decision-making capacities," said the insider, adding what many fans have feared for many months:
"I don't think this should surprise anybody. The writing has been on the wall for some time."
Nothing is finalized, of course. If Tim Kring is reading this right now, how would you advise him to improve the show in order to keep it on the air?
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Forgotten Gems: Street Fighter 2010 (1990)
Conquer a Galaxy with your bare hands! Twenty five years ago you ruled in the world of the street fighter. Since then you and your partner have created a formula that turns men into supermen.
Your partner is dead, the formula is stolen, and you’re out for revenge. You use your serum to transform into the most powerful man in the galaxy. You’ll cross the stars in search of the killers that changed your life forever. With your newfound strength and old street fighter training, you can’t wait for your final fight!
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Deadspace 3 by Ron Guyatt (A Tribute by Drew Struzan’s “The Thing”)
This will be part of the Deadspace Release party in Paris France on Feb 7th at Le Dernier Bar Avant la Fin du Monde in Paris, the one and only geek themed bar of the capital!
It is an official “very” limited edition print through EA and Geek-Art.com that pays homage to the great Drew Struzan and his poster for “The Thing”
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Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis in Natural Born Killers (1994)
Juliette Lewis is forever sexy.
Wallpaper Wednesday: Adventure Time!
Pixel Finn, Princess Bubblegum, Marceline, & Jake
Created by Nazmul Khan
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(1994). And there's another country: religion, the State and British identities.
In: Parsons, Gerald ed.
The Growth of Religious Diversity: Britain from 1945.
London, U.K. and New York, NY U.S.: Routledge in association with The Open University, pp. 85–121.
The purpose of this essay is to explore the general constitutional and political framework in which relationships between organized religion and the British state developed between 1945 and 1990. ... The concerns of the present essay will be focused by concentration on two pivotal areas of controversy: firstly, the position and role of the Church of England as an "Established Church" in connection with the political posititon of other religious groups; and, secondly, the role of religion in connection with national aspirations in the non-English parts of the United Kingdom, in Scotland, Wales and, above all, Northern Ireland.
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Panagia tou Harou
Panagia tou Harou is the name of the unique icon which depicts the Virgin Mary cradling the crucified Christ, rather than the Christ child, hence its name (haros in Greek means "death"). This icon is found in the church of St. John the Theologian, Leipsoi (Greece). The annual commemoration of the icon takes place on August 23 when the island of Leipsoi fills with pilgrims from all over the Dodecanese, to witness the procession of the icon around the entire island and see the annual blossoming of the dead bouquet of lilies on the icon.
In the 1940s, a lady was praying to the "Panagia tou Harou" icon. Her prayers were answered, and in gratitude placed a simple bouquet of lilies on the icon. These lilies withered but remained on the icon. In the following year, at the leavetaking of the feast of the Dormition (August 23), these lilies blossomed again and gave off a fragrance. Since then, this miracle occurs annually on the day of the feast.
- Leipsoi on Wikipedia to read more about the island
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Just a quick note to let you know about a fantastic new Google Earth layer based on London: A Life in Maps that a colleague in our web team has put together. You can download about 10 maps from the exhibition & view them as image overlays in Google Earth. [London: A Life in Maps Blog: Google Earth layer]Pretty fancy. They also use Google Maps to help organize a virtual exhibition.
And there is more. I enjoyed the video journeys through London, hung around a very nice conceit::
The story-line for each journey, portrayed through cabbies' voice-overs, is based on the idea of ‘appearances'. Appearances are the occasions when trainee taxi-drivers are tested by an examiner. [Videos]I particularly enjoyed the trip through South East London, where we lived for a while, starting out from one of our favorite places, The Horniman Museum (pictured), and finishing up at the British Library. En Route it passes, alongside much else, the notable Peckham Library [wikipedia], the Imperial War Museum, and a wall plaque for Charles Babbage. There are accompanying learning activities and a book.
I have not seen the physical exhibition at the British Library: this is an imaginative and engaging set of web presences which makes me want to see it.
Coda 1. The blog also talks about the importance of immigration to London and the role of maps in illustrating social issues and conditions. It points to a feature in the Guardian some time ago which uses maps to illustrate London's ethnic diversity (it claims that London is the world's most diverse city). Somthing that is on display in the video cab journies.
Coda 2. I mentioned another National Library exhibition a while ago, that of the National Library of Ireland on the life and works of W.B.Yeats. That was an engrossing exhibition with a meagre web presence. The Horniman Museum was founded by tea merchant Frederic Horniman [wikipedia]. And of course, his daughter, Annie Horniman [Wikipedia] [fuller biographical history from collection description of the Annie Horniman Papers at the John Rylands Library on the Genesis website] was a friend of Yeats and, importantly, financially supported the establishment of the Abbey Theatre.
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A bootstrap is a small strap or loop at the back of a leather boot that enables you to pull the entire boot on. In computers, to bootstrap (or "to boot") is to load a program into a computer using a much smaller initial program to load in the desired program (which is usually an operating system). In general usage, bootstrapping is the leveraging of a small initial effort into something larger and more significant. There is also a common expression, "pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps," meaning to leverage yourself to success from a small beginning
A boot loader, also called a boot manager, is a small program that places the operating system (OS) of a computer into memory. When a computer is powered-up or restarted, the basic input/output system (BIOS) performs some initial tests, and then transfers control to the Master Boot Record (MBR) where the boot loader resides. Most new computers are shipped with boot loaders for some version of Microsoft Windows or the Mac OS. If a computer is to be used with Linux, a special boot loader must be installed.
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The Croton-on-Hudson village board is holding a public hearing on resolution that would allow it to override the tax cap during tonight’s meeting.
“We have no intention of overriding, but it’s prudent for us to approve the enabling legislation to allow us to override it if, at the 11th hour, we have to,” said Mayor Leo Wiegman. “Last year, we got handed a big jump in our worker’s compensation bill after we concluded our budget hearing, because the state hasn’t changed it’s scheduled for when it tells you that stuff. They don’t tell you until it’s too late.”
Wiegman said the state worker’s compensation bill cost the village an additional $55,000.
“It would’ve, potentially, pushed over tax cap, but we went through the entire budget and were able to pull in just under,” Wiegman said.
Wiegman, who’s been mayor for just under four years, added that the village’s tax levy decreased in his first two years as mayor. He said the over the last three years, the village’s tax levy has increase by about half a percent.
- Sign the firm of O'Connor Davies, LLP for auditing services for the years June 1, 2012 through May 31, 2017. The village would pay the firm $43,500 in 2013, $43,500 in 2014 , $44,300 in 2015, $45,200 in 2016 and $46,000 in 2017.
- Execute a contract with Parcmobile USA for a license plate recognition system an on-line permit management system for the Croton-Harmon Train Station parking lot.
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Page 1Letter from William Castle to Linus Pauling. November 29, 1946.
Castle writes to thank Pauling for his letter and to discuss sickle cell research in greater depth. In so doing, Castle notes
that the literature is full of publications indicating that oxygen and carbon monoxide prevent blood sickling, and provides
greater details about his own work in determining the oxygen tension necessary to initiate sickling. Castle closes by indicating
that his future research interests include measuring sickling as a function of blood viscosity. Transcript.
Creator: William B. Castle
Recipient: Linus Pauling
Associated: George E. Burch, Jessie Boyd Scriver, Theodore R. Waugh
Date: November 29, 1946
Copyright: More Information
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"[Simon's] family is in Berlin now. He is worried about anti-Semitism. He is a Jew, and so is his wife (and the children).
We talked about Jews a while. He said Euken was brought to Gottingen instead of Stern because there are so many Jews there
already (Franck, Born, Conant, Goldschmidt) and they thought it better not to have another." Linus Pauling. Letter to Ava Helen Pauling. May 9, 1932.
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Nick Ritchie scored a hat trick to lead the Peterborough Petes to a 5-2 victory over the Ottawa 67’s Thursday night. The win breaks Peterborough’s eight game losing streak and increases Ottawa’s to five games.
Outshot 15-4 in the first period, the 67’s came out of the gate flat. Much time was spent in the Ottawa zone, but it wasn’t until the 15:24 minute mark that the Petes would be able to solve Clint Windsor. Alan Quine intercepted the puck on a failed clearing attempt and found Richie in the slot. Ritchie made no mistake but to snap the puck in behind Windsor in the Ottawa net. For the 17th time in 21 games this season, the 67’s gave up the first goal in the game.
Nick Richie would pick up his second goal of the night four minutes later on the powerplay knocking in an errant rebound into a wide open cage.
After regrouping from the 2 goal deficit in the first period, the 67’s came out with more urgency. The 67’s better play would be rewarded with their first goal of the game eleven seconds into their first powerplay opportunity. Steven Janes picked up his seventh of the season after skating hard to the net and tapping in a bouncing rebound.
Things looked good for the 67’s bringing the same intensity into the third period as the previous period. They were forechecking hard and took over control of the game… until the Petes scored two quick goals.
Stephen Nosad picked up the puck as the trailer, moved back and forth and beat Windsor on the backhand. Just 45 seconds later Ritchie would pick up his hat trick goal off a perfect cross-crease pass from Quine. It was a big night for Ritchie who just came back after missing 12 games with a shoulder injury.
The Ottawa 67’s would cut the lead in half after Cody Ceci was left wide open and scored easily on a wide open net. But that was all for Ottawa.
Ottawa native Slater Koekkoek wrapped up the scoring beating Windsor blocker side to give the Petes a 3 goal cushion.
The Ottawa 67’s fall 5-2 to the Peterborough Petes on the road. They travel back up highway 7 to host the Niagara IceDogs on Friday night at Scotiabank Place
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