The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Thursday increased US rail traffic for October 2013.Intermodal traffic in October totaled 1,317,601 containers and trailers, up 6.8 percent (84,120 units) compared with October 2012. The ...
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More and more consumers and corporations are touting the benefits of "local" foods, often described as "sustainable," "healthy," or "natural." According to the trade publication, Sustainable Food News, "local" as a marketing claim, has ...
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Doug Miner will lose his job as a Patch editor next week, but he's not giving up on hyperlocal journalism. Instead, he's preparing to launch an independent website in his corner of St. Louis. Although Miner's site will be a one-man ...
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Grand Home Furnishings has opened three new stores following its acquisition of the four-store John Eye's Big Sandy Superstores in August. West Virginia television station WVNSTV reports the stores opened in southern West Virginia's ...
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The amount of data has increased so much in recent years that the metric system of measurement is on the brink of not being able to properly describe how much of it there is in the world. That's what Andrew McAfee, principal research ...
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The April switch in the NYMEX basis for distillates to ULSD from heating oil has led to decreased volatility in the Gulf Coast ULSD differential, the most liquid product Platts assesses in the Americas. The specification for the NYMEX ...
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The WEDA 04S is the latest addition to the Atlas Copco Portable Energy line-up of small submersible pumps primarily intended for the light construction and general equipment rental industries. The WEDA 04S is a 0.4 kW on-site sludge / trash ...
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Kansas Insurance Department has imposed a monetary penalty of $9,000 against an Ohio-licensed insurance marketing firm, Lead Generating Systems, for its unlawful insurance marketing practices. While issuing a cease and desist order, ...
Xiaomi paraded its new international figurehead on stage at a press conference late last week in Beijing, signaling to the world that the company is preparing to go global. Hugo Barra, the former Google executive Xiaomi poached last ...
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20-feet long and almost 10-feet high, this wedding chapel is completely original. Made almost entirely of?6,561-feet of?flexible white ventilation pipes by the?'crochet expert' Sandy de Lange and the architectural firm DUS?architects. This ...
Legitimate methods for the change of ground bring about expanded power, diminishment of compressibility, lessened hollowness and change in the ground water level condition. The vitality of the stabilization of the earth surface is the base ...
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There are too few data scientists in the world and education needs to change in order to maximise the true potential of data science, one of the leading authorities in the field has told Computing. "The answer is 'no', there aren't enough ...
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We're in the "decade of data" and it will "dwarf the revolution that came from the internet" and change every part of society across the globe. That's what one of the world's top data scientists, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, founder and ...
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Members of the International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) stand ready to assist people living and working in areas affected by the California Wildfires, to make sure they have access to clean, fresh, safe and reliable drinking water. ...
Ikea has teamed up with Save the Children and UPS to help refurnish 39 early childhood development centers in New York and New Jersey hit by Hurricane Sandy last year. The home furnishings giant said it will donate more than $100,000 ...
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