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Empire Brewing Will Receive Federal Funding From The Senate to Expand Its Operations
Jul 24, 2014Empire Brewing Company in the US will receive federal funding from the Senate to expand its operations in Central New York. As part of the expansion, the brewery plans to establish a new bottling plant in Madison County, as well as a new ...
Tags: Empire Brewing, federal funding, Agriculture
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The US Will Set up Its First Gasoline Reserve, Creating 1m Barrels of Storage in Northeast
May 7, 2014The US will set up its first strategic gasoline reserve, creating 1 million barrels of storage in the Northeast to protect against storms like Hurricane Sandy, which wreaked havoc on fuel supplies in the region, officials said Friday. But ...
Tags: Gasoline, gasoline reserve
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The U.S. Government Announced Six States on Monday That Will Develop Test Sites for Drones
Jan 2, 2014The U.S. government announced six states on Monday that will develop test sites for drones, a critical next step for the march of the unmanned aircraft into American skies. Alaska, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Texas and Virginia will ...
Tags: test sites for drones, unmanned aircraft, US
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More Than Three-Fourths of The Honey Sold in U.S. Grocery Stores Isn't What Bees Produce
Dec 26, 2013More than three-fourths of the honey sold in U.S. grocery stores isn't exactly what the bees produce, according to testing done exclusively for Food Safety News. The results show that the pollen frequently has been filtered out of ...
Tags: honey, food safety, US, pollen
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Mobile Carriers Are Opposed to The Plan for a Smartphone 'Kill Switch'
Nov 25, 2013Mobile carriers are opposed to the plan for a smartphone ‘kill switch’ that would render smartphones inoperable after they are stolen, claiming that it could be misused by hackers to block critical services. New York ...
Tags: Stolen Phones, 'Kill Switch'
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FSIS Announce That It Had Found China's Poultry Slaughter System to Be Not Equivalent
Nov 12, 2013The US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has announced that it had found China's poultry slaughter system to be not equivalent and that the China-slaughtered poultry will not be imported into the ...
Tags: Poultry Slaughter System, Food
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Plan to Support Capital Region Apple,Cider Producers Were Pushed by Schumer
Nov 5, 2013Today, at the Golden Harvest Farms in Valatie, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer toured the farm's distillery and unveiled a new plan to boost the sales for New York’s over 20 existing hard apple cider producers and allow the over 650 ...
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Samuelsohn Finalized Its Acquisition of The Hickey Freeman Clothing Assets
Oct 24, 2013Samuelsohn, the premium menswear brand based in Montreal, finalized its acquisition of the Hickey Freeman clothing assets, license and Rochester manufacturing facilities. With the close of this landmark deal, the company becomes the ...
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The Competition for Most Successful 3D-printed Firearm Has Moved to Canada
Aug 13, 2013The competition for most successful 3D-printed firearm has moved to Canada, where a man known only as “Matthew” claims to have designed a 3D-printed rifle that withstood 14 shots. In a YouTube video published last Friday, the ...
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Canadian Mens Brand Samuelsohn Agrees to Acquire All of The Tangible Assets
Jul 20, 2013Samuelsohn, a premium menswear brand based in Montreal, announced that it has agreed to acquire all of the tangible assets of US-based Hickey Freeman, including the factory, from W Diamond Group, and will enter into a 40-year license ...
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The Senate Is Expected to Vote Next Week on an Immigration Bill
Jun 24, 2013The Senate is expected to vote next week on an immigration bill, and it is likely to pass after one last fight to give U.S. workers hiring preference over foreigners with H-1B visas. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Sherrod Brown ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Consumer Reports Calls CPSC on Linking to The Use of Defective off-Brand Batteries
Jun 23, 2013It's rare for a cell phone to explode or seriously overheat—but if it does, it can cause a fire or leave serious burns. Consumers Union, the advocacy arm of Consumer Reports, today joined a call by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), to have ...
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At That Point,H-1B Critic Grassley Found No Need for Niceties
Jun 3, 2013With his H-1B fight over and lost to the tech industry, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) lashed out in the minutes before the Senate Judiciary Committee's final vote on the controversial immigration bill late last month. It was late in the ...
Tags: Senate, Immigration Bill
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Consumer Reports Projected That 1.6 Million Consumers Were Victims of Stolen Phones
Jun 3, 2013Based on our latest nationally representative survey of adult Internet users, Consumer Reports projected that 1.6 million American consumers were victims of smart C theft in 2012. A variety of possible solutions are being proposed by law ...
Tags: Smart Phone, Consumer Electronics
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Reprogramming The Identification Number Could Be Punishable with a Prison Sentence
May 29, 2013Reprogramming the identification number of a cellphone could be punishable with a prison sentence of up to five years under the terms of a proposed law announced Friday. The Mobile Device Theft Deterrence Act of 2013 makes changing the ...
Tags: Law, Cellphone IDs, Computer Products