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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
The end product was an unofficial National Mens Day, in which men swim on top of inflatable women in frigid Lithuanian waters. The race was put on by M-1 radio station director Mindaugas Stasiulis whom, as the result of a survey, realized men deserved a day dedicated to them only.
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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
As featured on FOX 4 KC and New York Magazine, a circus elephant has been helping to pull cars and move debris. Cleanup continues in Joplin, Missouri, where a massive tornado leveled most of the city with 200 mph winds last week, and an unlikely helping hand has joined the relief efforts.
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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”.