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SBA Unveils New Website and Launches SBA Direct

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SBA Unveils New Website and Launches SBA Direct - A New Tool Delivering Personalized and Targeted Resources SBA.gov Demonstrates Agency’s Commitment to Transformation – Giving Small Business Owners Quick and Easy Access to the Resources they need to Succeed and Create Jobs WASHINGTON – As part of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s mission to ensure that small business owners and entrepreneurs have access to accurate, timely and helpful information, SBA Administrator Karen Mills today unveiled a newly re-designed SBA website. The new site also features the launch of SBA Direct, a dynamic new web tool with a variety of personalization features that will help small businesses start-up, succeed and grow. “With the launch of the new SBA.gov, we have reached a significant milestone in how the agency has evolved in using interactive web tools, social media and blogs to engage with, and better meet the needs of small business owners,” said SBA Administrator, Karen M

GIZMODO.com: One Hundred Naked Citizens: Leaked TSA Body Scans

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One Hundred Naked Citizens: One Hundred Leaked Body Scans At the heart of the controversy over "body scanners" is a promise: The images of our naked bodies will never be public.  U.S. Marshals  in a Florida Federal courthouse saved 35,000 images on their scanner. These are those images. A  Gizmodo  investigation has revealed 100 of the photographs saved by the  Gen 2 millimeter wave scanner  from Brijot Imaging Systems, Inc., obtained by a FOIA request after it was recently revealed that  U.S. Marshals operating the machine  in the Orlando, Florida courthouse had improperly- perhaps illegally -saved images of the scans of public servants and private citizens. We understand that it will be controversial to release these photographs. But identifying features have been eliminated. And fortunately for those who walked through the scanner in Florida last year, this mismanaged machine used the less embarrassing imaging technique. Yet the leaking of