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NEW YORK (AP) — The government says gasoline will be cheaper this summer than previously expected thanks to a drop in the price of oil.

The Energy Department says drivers should pay an average of $3.79 per gallon at the pump from April through September. That’s down 16 cents from last month’s outlook and not that dramatic an increase from last summer’s average of $3.71 per gallon.

This month’s forecast is a reversal from previous warnings of a sharp rise in gasoline prices. The government had said last month that gasoline prices in May could jump above a monthly average of $4.01 per gallon.

Oil prices have dropped about $7 per barrel since April 2.

The national average for gas has declined 17 cents since early April to $3.76 per gallon on Tuesday.

When Amazon started making their infrastructure and IT processes available outside the company firewall in 2006 it was a tipping point of sorts for business consumerization of the cloud.  Companies of all sizes leveraged a variety of Amazon Web Services to store data, stream video, run online stores and a ton of other things.

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The latest sell-off, which followed a similar rout on Friday, left the FTSE 100 Index down 1.8% at its lowest closing point so far in 2012.

The turmoil was triggered after the leader of Greece’s left-wing Syriza bloc said he will try to forge a coalition government that would tear up the austerity deal that underpins the country’s 240 billion euro (£190 billion) bail-out.

Alexis Tsipras’ radical plans would likely see Greece default on its debts and be ejected from the single currency.

While it is far from certain that he will win enough support to form a government, another round of general elections next month now seems increasingly likely, casting more doubt on the future of Greece.

There were similar falls on other markets, with Germany’s Dax down nearly 2%, France’s Cac-40 nearly 3% lower and the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the United States more than 1% lower as the London market closed.

The euro was sold off on currency markets amid the worries over the future of the eurozone.

The pound now buys 1.24 euro – a three-and-a-half-year high against the single currency.

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A lot of modern day technology has been applied in the designing of furniture these days. The science that deals with the creation of furniture that actually suits the contours of the human body so as to prevent the hazards of improper posture, is called “ergonomics”. The ergonomics of the place have to be kept in mind prior to zeroing onto a certain kind of furniture. Long hours of work test your ability to concentrate and focus on work.

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The 2012 Mercedes-Benz GLK350, a new crossover sport utility vehicle has a retail price of $43,715 and gets 16 miles per gallon in the city and 22 miles per gallon for highway driving, on display at the First Hawaiian Auto Show at the Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu.

The First Hawaiian Auto Show at the Hawaii Convention Center    Hawaii Convention Center Latest from The Business Journals Follow this company features exotic sports cars, classics, economy and other vehicles in 200,000 square feet of space.

The show, sponsored by First Hawaiian Bank    First Hawaiian Bank Latest from The Business Journals Follow this company and the Hawaii Automobile Dealers Association    Hawaii Automobile Dealers Association Latest from The Business Journals Follow this company , started Friday and ends Sunday.

About 350 vehicles are on display, but one of the focuses of the show this year is vehicles that get 40 miles per gallon of gas. And t

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I meet Mustafa and Kamal on Avenue Bourguiba, where they protested in January 2011 to get rid of the dictator who ruled their country with an iron-fist for 23 years. Tunisia has changed a lot since then – and celebrated its 56th independence day last week as a free nation. Both men said they will be out again to consolidate the gains of the revolution. “We couldn’t have [talked like this] before, no way,” says Mustafa, a 25-year-old originally from Tabarka in the north of Tunisia. “The only thing I could have told you is how great Ben Ali is, what a good man he is.”

But how independent is free Tunisia from the grips of its former colonial master and its allies? A demonstration last week by a group of fringe fundamentalists calling for sharia law has got some secular Tunisians in a funk again, as well as worrying the French, who are opposed to Ennahda. An opposition politician told me there are even rumours of a French-supported coup. It is clear that the next stage of western connivance in the subjugation of the Tunisian people is the widespread media and political fear over the democratically elected Ennahda party, which is Islamist. B

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