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The Trouble With Hoverboards and Lithium-Ion Batteries
2015-12-14 16:06:04| TechNewsWorld
As I'm writing this, a few more hoverboards have caught fire, and they now are banned on most domestic airlines, suggesting that shipping these things fast could be a problem. Australia even has put out a specific warning on hoverboards. The biggest problem is that a lithium ion fire in a large battery pack like this could burn down your house, and that would be an ugly end to holiday festivities.
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The Wall Street Journal: Shoppers flock to buy online, and that's trouble for UPS
2015-12-11 10:01:48| Air Courier - Topix.net
United Parcel Service Inc. is straining to handle a surge in online sales that has resulted in more holiday volume than it had expected, causing a wave of disruptions that could spell trouble for the holiday season. ground packages based on their normal shipping transit times last week fell to 91%, according to an analysis of millions of packages by software developer ShipMatrix Inc. During the same week last year, the on-time rate was 97%, which is UPS's usual average during nonpeak months.
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The Wall Street Journal: Shoppers flock to buy online, and that's trouble for UPS
2015-12-11 09:59:03| Trucking - Topix.net
United Parcel Service Inc. is straining to handle a surge in online sales that has resulted in more holiday volume than it had expected, causing a wave of disruptions that could spell trouble for the holiday season. ground packages based on their normal shipping transit times last week fell to 91%, according to an analysis of millions of packages by software developer ShipMatrix Inc. During the same week last year, the on-time rate was 97%, which is UPS's usual average during nonpeak months.
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Chinese glacier retreat signals trouble for Asian water supply
2015-12-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Over the years, Qin Xiang and his fellow scientists at a high and lonely research station in the Qilian Mountains of northwest China have tracked the inexorable effects of rising temperatures on one of Chinas most important water sources. The thing most sensitive to climate change is a glacier, said Dr. Qin, 42, as he slowly trod across an icy field of the Mengke Glacier, one of the countrys largest. In the 1970s, people thought glaciers were permanent. They didnt think that glaciers would...
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Trouble Brews After Man Named 'Bud Weisser' Arrested For Trespassing At Budweiser Brewery
2015-12-07 20:07:36| Beverages - Topix.net
A man named Bud Weisser was arrested for trespassing on the premises of the Budweiser brewery in St. Louis, Missouri. According to FOX 2 St. Louis , the 19-year-old would-be beer-brewer entered a secure area at the historic Anheuser-Busch Brewery after hours last Thursday.
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