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Jody Gnant stops broadcasting when she steps into the shower or goes places that ban cameras. Other than that, her life is an open video feed. Two months ago, the little-known singer and songwriter from Phoenix wanted to promote her sound, which she calls a cross between Janis Joplin and Jan Brady.
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Apollo Endosurgery Inc., an Austin company on the frontier of new surgery techniques, has raised $11.5 million to finish developing its initial products and test new ones.
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Richard and Andrea Flinchbaugh are building a bigger home in Round Rock and are trying to sell their home in the Forest Creek subdivision. It has been on the market since May, and they've dropped the price from $525,000 to $450,000.
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Laure Feld, President of American Mortgage Lending, Inc announced on Friday (October 5, 2007) that she will be co-hosting a new radio show called "Wayne and The Hot Finance Lady" on WMBD 1470 AM, in Peoria, Illinois.
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TOKYO — Nissan's ball-shaped electric vehicle can squeeze into tight spots without backing up because its wheels turn 90 degrees and the cabin part of the car can rotate in a complete circle.
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When financial planner Andrew Tignanelli's clients first came to him saying they were planning to buy financial products from AARP, he said he was thrilled.
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Sunday, October 07, 2007 Lately I've been getting that déjà vu feeling. If you lived in Texas through the S&L debacle of the late 1980s, you probably have, too.
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The college-savings game in Texas is getting an upgrade. On Nov. 19, OFI Private Investments Inc. — a New York-based subsidiary of OppenheimerFunds Inc.
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'Young Love," the longtime siren song of Madison Avenue, is being remixed as marketers increasingly turn their attention to consumers born when "45" meant music rather than the number after 44 and "Apple" meant fruit.
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Eric Madison Mills fell in love with Lianna Dudley on the front porch of her Longview Street bungalow in West Campus. "It was mid-spring when we were courting, so it was great weather," Mills says. "We'd go have a date and then hang out on her porch.
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AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFFSunday, October 07, 2007 Geoffrey Sowash, the owner of the Eclectic Gallery on North Lamar Boulevard, has put his home on the market for $1.9 million. He's not leaving town, he says. He's just downsizing, now that "my kids are grown up and out in the world.
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What:A pristine Colonial Revival house in the historic Pemberton neighborhood in Central Austin. A symmetry in the façade is a prime characteristic of Colonial Revival homes. On either side of the front door are two white columns and two large wooden windows, laid out in an identical way.
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The video Mary Canales created to sell her home was filmed in the cinema verité style, with a shaky hand-held camera wandering from room to room, occasionally bumping into an wall, dark bathroom or poorly lit corner.
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Offshore savings bank Bradford and Bingley International has released a new instant access sterling savings account paying 6.50% interest.
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Saturday, October 06, 2007 ORGANIC GROCERS Whole Foods board finishes investigation of Mackey posts The board of Whole Foods Market Inc.
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NEWARK, N.J. — Topps Meat Co. on Friday said it was closing its business, six days after it was forced to issue the second-largest beef recall in U.S. history and 67 years after it first opened its doors. The decision will cost 87 people their jobs, Topps said. On Sept.
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NEW YORK — Wall Street capped a huge week with a sharp advance Friday after the government's employment report for September and its revision of August's data cooled the market's fears of a recession.
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ALBANY, N.Y. — Banks are charging ever-higher ATM fees. But is $3 too much to bear? A new study by Bankrate Inc. found that the average ATM surcharge, typically charged to folks using another bank's card, has jumped to $1.78, the highest on record and 14 cents higher than last year.
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Dell Inc. confirmed Friday it will close its call center near Waco, cutting about 260 jobs there as part of its plan to pare its global work force by roughly 10 percent.
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TOKYO — If you grow old in Japan, expect to be served food by a robot, ride a voice-recognition wheelchair or even possibly hire a nurse in a robotic suit — all examples of cutting-edge technology to care for the country's rapidly graying population.
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DULUTH, Minn. — The recording industry won a key fight Thursday against illegal music downloading when a federal jury found a Minnesota woman shared copyrighted music online and levied $222,000 in damages against her.
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Friday, October 05, 2007 PHARMACEUTICALS Kentucky officials sue maker of OxyContin over costs of abuse PIKEVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky officials on Thursday sued the manufacturer of OxyContin, the prescription pain reliever dubbed "hillbilly heroin" because of widespread abuse in Appalachia.
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Merck & Co.'s Gardasil, the first inoculation against a cancer for women, could become the best-selling vaccine in history as the drug maker prepares to expand its use to men.
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Friday, October 05, 2007 Luxury men's salon rolling out the red carpet to nonmembers El Rey, a deluxe private men's club/spa/hangout on West Fifth Street, is opening its wrought-iron doors to nonmembers — at least those willing to cough up a fair amount of dough for high-level masculine...
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SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp. launched a Web site Thursday for managing personal health and medical information, jumping into an industry whose digital future is clouded by privacy worries.
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