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Urban Amenity: Pick Up UPS Packages at the Dry Cleaner or Pharmacy
2014-10-12 19:57:36| Trucking - Topix.net
Tired of coming home and seeing the "We Missed You" slip hanging from the door of your apartment building rather than receiving the package you had ordered online? UPS has an app for that. "The folks that live in cities-if they're not home and they don't have a doorman, they can't get a package," says Alan Gershenhorn, chief commercial officer at United Parcel Service .
Hot, dry weather in California stokes wildfire fears
2014-10-04 19:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The fall season has brought a wave of hot, dry weather to California, with parts of the state baking this weekend in triple-digit temperatures and officials expressing concern the summer-like heat could spark a massive wildfire. The scorching temperatures came from a high pressure system in the U.S. West and the arrival in Southern California of autumn's first Santa Ana winds, which carry hot air through mountain passes toward the coast, meteorologists said. In Los Angeles, thermometers in parts...
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Dry spell affecting sugar industry
2014-10-02 08:11:24| Sugar Industry News
The Fiji Sugar Corporation is already feeling the effects of the prolonged dry spell with the sugar industry now likely to process less than its target of 2 million tonnes of sugarcane this year.
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Knight Buys Dry Van Carrier Barr-Nunn
2014-10-01 22:17:40| Trucking - Topix.net
Truckload carrier Knight Transportation has acquired all of the outstanding stock of Barr-Nunn Transportation and certain affiliates effectively buying the company. The current management team at will remain in place and continue to operate the business under the Barr-Nunn name.
Aral Sea's Eastern Basin Is Dry for First Time in 600 Years
2014-10-01 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Once the fourth largest lake in the world, Central Asia's shrinking Aral Sea has reached a new low, thanks to decades-old water diversions for irrigation and a more recent drought. Satellite imagery released this week by NASA shows that the eastern basin of the freshwater body is now completely dry. "It is likely the first time it has completely dried in 600 years, since medieval desiccation associated with diversion of Amu Darya [river] to the Caspian Sea," Philip Micklin, an Aral Sea expert...
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