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Jun 1, 2011 by News Gatherer
But the Bureau isn’t all about keeping tabs on fake boy bands, assessing threatening letters sent to Colonel Sanders, or probing Carl Sagan’s tenuous connections to Central American terrorists. They also launched numerous investigations into crazy supernatural stuff! The Vault’s features previously secret FBI documents looking into phenomenon usually reserved for Hollywood-style escapism. Here’s a look at some of the most fascinating real life X-Files.
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Jun 1, 2011 by News Gatherer
Creating CartoonsCan you find things to laugh about in normal, everyday life? Do you like to draw? This camp is for you! Take ideas from popular cartoons, learn how artists perfect their craft and by the end of camp you will be well on your way to becoming an amateur cartoonist.Ages 8–11 / July 25-29 / 9am-12pm / $79.
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Jun 1, 2011 by News Gatherer
It is 99.93% of all businesses in America.Why so broad a definition?So politicians, giant banks, and even the SBA can continue to claim they are focused on helping small businesses while totally focused on larger companies with more political donor power. This includes 28 million out of 28.1 million businesses in the U.S. in 2009 Australia passed the Fair Trade Act defining small business as less than 15 employees.Apparently it’s not impossible, but it is definitely inconvenient for those like the SBA, big banks and big government who regularly trot out companies of 50-500 employees and claim they are helping “small” business.The media needs to stop allowing the SBA, politicians and banks to simply feed them unproven claims of small business support without requiring that they first define the size of companies they see as “small”. Until the SBA embraces a reasonable definition of “small”, all claims that they help small businesses simply cannot be believed.The SBA defines “small” as “less than 500 employees”. (only 18,000 do not qualify), a constituency so broad as to be meaningless. The European Union has universally defined it at 50, and “Micro” businesses at 10. Until we have full disclosure on what size companies actually got the help, these claims should fall on deaf ears.Big is not small and the SBA has a responsibility to stop making claims without a meaningful definition. The SBA’s Size Standards white paper says it is “utterly impossible” to define the size of small business, then they go ahead and do it at 500 employees. It’s no different than defining all people under seven feet tall as “short”.
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May 31, 2011 by News Gatherer
It’s him again,’ and trudge away?” Well if he’s not going to take this seriously . We thought it was time to give them a rest.” Clearly keen to get something off his chest, he adds: “There’s a problem with the Daleks. They are the most famous of the Doctor’s adversaries and the most frequent. They have been defeated by the Doctor about 400 times. * Less than two years into the job, Doctor Who boss Steven Moffat is getting increasingly disillusioned with the Time Lord’s deadliest enemies. Which means they are the most defeatable enemies in the universe. Surely they should just see the Tardis approaching, say, ‘Oh. When asked about his plans for the Daleks, he gleefully announces in the Radio Times: “Actually, they aren’t going to make an appearance for a while.
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May 31, 2011 by News Gatherer
Eight hundred year old Vampire Nick Knight worked the night shift as a Toronto police detective, looking for redemption and a way to become human again. His special skills allowed him to solve crimes his colleagues missed, but also brought him into contact with dangerous vampires from his past who hoped to lure him back to his murderous old ways.
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May 31, 2011 by News Gatherer
has announced the official release dates and titles for Peter Jackson’s . For those who don’t know, the film is being split into two parts. Part one is titled and it will be released on December 14, 2012. Part two is titled and it will hit theaters on December 13, 2013. Both films are set sixty years before the events of trilogy and has a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) who joins up with a band of dwarfs to retrieve a great treasure from the lair of a powerful dragon. Warner Bros.
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May 30, 2011 by News Gatherer
For their new book, Ogas and Gaddam analyzed the results of 400 million online searches for porn and uncovered some startling insights into what men and women may really want from each other at least sexually. I spoke recently with Ogas.
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May 30, 2011 by News Gatherer
Dragon Quest never found quite the same popularity in North America as it did in Japan; the first game tanked badly enough that Nintendo resorted to giving away excess stock to sell Nintendo Power subscriptions. All four 8-bit entries did eventually make it to North America though, and it has gained a loyal following over the years.
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May 29, 2011 by News Gatherer
It can find the cheapest gas around, display movie times and just say “I’m hungry” and it will help solve that problem, too. Ford’s cool SYNC voice interface even works with apps — from entertainment to health, yes, there may be an app for that! — and the Navigation system does more than just get you where you’re going.
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May 29, 2011 by News Gatherer
A number of journalists — both from traditional media and “citizen journalists” — have also used the real-time information network to report from conflict zones such as Libya and disaster areas such as Haiti. Updated: Anyone who has been following the protests and revolutions in the Middle East for the past few months has probably heard of Andy Carvin, the NPR editor who has been using Twitter to curate news from the region. Now those who see Twitter as a powerful tool for real-time journalism have another example of how it can be done: reporter Brian Stelter has posted a thoughtful and compelling account of how he used Twitter to report on the aftermath of the recent tornado in Joplin, Missouri.