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Big recall of gel fuel for firepots
![<span style="font-size: small;">WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a half-million bottles and jugs of gel fuel used in outdoor ceramic patio decorations known as firepots are being recalled.</span>](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-06/252465780-22141723.jpg "<span style="font-size: small;\">WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a half-million bottles and jugs of gel fuel used in outdoor ceramic patio decorations known as firepots are being recalled.</span>")
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a half-million bottles and jugs of gel fuel used in outdoor ceramic patio decorations known as firepots are being recalled.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission says the pourable gel fuel can ignite unexpectedly and...Tags: Consumer Confidence, Washington, DC
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Car Clinic
10am-11am, Sunday www.carclinicnetwork.com It's hard to believe that a successful businessman's first intelligible phrase was "Hot car, Momma," but it gets easier when you know the man in question is Bobby Likis. A two-year-old Bobby uttered these words...Tags: Apple iPhone, Hospitals and Clinics, Telecommunication Service, Vehicles, Ford Motor Co.
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ANALYSIS-U.S. food labels seen heating up North America meat war
Reuters* U.S. meat labeling rules slashed Canada livestock exports * United States seeks to make meat labels stricter * Canada threatens possible retaliation By Rod Nickel and Theopolis Waters WINNIPEG, Manitoba/CHICAGO, May 21 (Reuters) - The United...Tags: Mexico City, World Trade Organization, National Government, Lobbying, Government
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Dollar resumes upward trek, Bernanke key to more gains
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - The dollar rose against the yen on Tuesday after a minister rowed back on remarks suggesting the Japanese currency had weakened enough, but gains were capped before testimony from the head of the U.S. central bank. Speculation the...Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Career and Workplace, Inventories, Giorgio Napolitano, White House
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Payvia buys mobile marketing firm Mogreet
Mobile payments company Payvia Inc. has acquired Mogreet, a Venice mobile marketing start-up. The companies declined to disclose the financial terms of the deal. The Mogreet team will join Los Angeles company Payvia, and Mogreet founder and Chief...Tags: Online Media Industry, Cox Media Group, Inc., Marketing, Business, Consumer Goods Industries
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Chicago's GrubHub to merge with Seamless
One company was founded in Chicago by hungry software engineers, the other in New York by hungry lawyers. Both were looking to replace restaurants' paper takeout menus with Web-based technology. Now the two rivals are joining forces. GrubHub, one of...
Tags: Chicago Restaurants, Companies and Corporations, Groupon, Inc., Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation
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Yahoo's rise in Asia offsets risk from Tumblr bet
ReutersSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's $1.1 billion acquisition of blogging service Tumblr will be a test of her ability to revive the aging Web portal. Luckily for her, her performance may be graded generously. Mayer faces...Tags: Google Inc., Sociology, Social Media, Yahoo! Inc., News Corp.
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Deadline today for Do Not Call registry
INDIANAPOLIS - Today is the next deadline to sign up for Indiana's Do Not Call registry. Since January, the state attorney general's office says it has received more than 5,000 complaints about telemarketing calls from live operators or prerecorded...Tags: FBI
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Obama urges Myanmar to stop violence against Muslims
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged the president of Myanmar on Monday to halt violence against a Muslim minority but praised economic and political reforms in the formerly pariah nation that is emerging as a U.S. ally in China's backyard....Tags: Barack Obama, Prisoners and Detainees, Game Playing, Career and Workplace, White House
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Local software company grows with nonprofit niche
TidewaterBizThe founders of a Virginia Beach software company recognized a shift toward more relationship-driven fundraising in the nonprofit sector, and created a better system to manage donor and marketing data. “The nonprofit software market is highly...Tags: Microsoft Corporation, Media Industry, United Way of South Hampton Roads, Business Enterprises, United Way
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What do we eat? New food map will tell us
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Do your kids love chocolate milk? It may have more calories on average than you thought. Same goes for soda. Until now, the only way to find out what people in the United States eat and how many calories they consume has...
Tags: Organic Foods, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, National Government, Health and Safety at School, Nutrition
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Peoples Gas seeks surcharge to pay for $2.5 billion pipe replacement program
Peoples Gas has dropped its request for automatic rate hikes on home heating bills to pay to replace aging pipes below city streets. Chicago's Peoples Gas is floating legislation in Springfield that would add a surcharge onto utility bills to pay for a...Tags: Nicor Incorporated, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior (tv program), Ameren Corporation, Home Heating
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