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Unless you have lived under a rock, you know about Twitter. 

Twitter is my favorite way to communicate online. You can quickly and easily chat with a lot of people who you would not likely otherwise meet, much less communicate with. 

Twitter can be really lame as well. Many Twitter users like to tweet about mundane things – such as “I just washed my car” or something like that. I’ll admit, I tweet junk like this too. Only a small group of friends and family might slightly care. Emphasis on the word “might”. The rest of us would never pay attention to these types of meaningless updates, and that is why many people do not like Twitter. They think it

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Apple Vacations is changing carriers for its Cleveland-to-Caribbean trips

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Apple Vacations is changing airlines for its trips from Cleveland to the Caribbean beginning in early December.

The tour operator will still fly nonstop charters to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic and Cancun, Mexico, from Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. It’s just switching from using its sister company, USA 3000, to Frontier Airlines as the carrier for the flights.

Frontier offered Apple Vacations a spiffier plane and better pricing, President Timothy Mullen said Friday. Frontier will be using the same jet that USA 3000 deploys, an Airbus 320.

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NAPLES — Show them the money.

The Collier County Commissioners voted unanimously to ask the Economic Development Council to turn over its financial records to County Attorney Jeff Klatzkow, so that the records can be reviewed by county staff and Clerk of Courts Dwight Brock’s office.

The council has been receiving $400,000 of taxpayer money a year to support its operations. The money is given to the EDC in bi-monthly installments.

The EDC will officially dissolve at the end of the month. The decision came as a consultant released a strategic plan for the EDC, which recommended replacing the EDC with an entirely new, reinvigorated organization, supported entirely by private businesses. T

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Gold and silver futures rose the most since March 2009 as commodities and equities rallied amid optimism that European leaders will take steps to resolve the region’s debt crisis.

Every component rose in the Standard & Poor’s GSCI index of 24 raw materials, while the MSCI All-Country World Index jumped as much as 3.6 percent. In the previous three sessions, gold tumbled 12 percent, the most since 1983, on sales by investors to cover losses in other markets amid mounting concern that the global economy would slump.

“Gold is behaving like a classic commodity and is moving in tandem with the equity market,” Adam Klopfenstein, a senior market strategist at MF Global Holdings Inc. in Chica

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If you are getting ready to take the leap and start a new business, you better be doing so in a safety compliant way. This may be a point that you have overlooked, but it is an important point nonetheless.

Making certain your business starts with all the proper safety rules and regulations in place isn’t just a good idea for your business, but also for the people who will be around it. That’s where the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, come in.

OSHA is the organization that is part of the US Department of Labor that is responsible for the safety of all businesses in the United States. On

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