| 'It's Exciting Lighting' Battery-Operated 'Festive Sconce' Shines for ...
RAHWAY, N.J., Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The newest product of "It's Exciting Lighting(TM)" battery-operated wall sconces -- the Tiffany-inspired Festive Sconce - has taken the spotlight for the holiday shopping season. These unique and hassle-free wall sconces hang as easily as a picture -- requiring no holes, installation or wiring. "It's Exciting Lighting" wall sconces are battery-operated and come in a variety of models that fit any function and decor. More than 35 versions of the sconces are available within three primary categories: The "It's Exciting Lighting" products are available online at http://www.itsexcitinglighting.com. The sconces are frequently featured on the QVC network, with a September segment resulting in the sale of nearly 700 units in less than six minutes.
Retail Website Performance Put to the Test in Gomez's 'Merchant ...
LEXINGTON, Mass., Nov. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Gomez, Inc. unveils "Merchant Madness," (www.merchant-madness.com) a tournament designed to crown the online retailer that delivers the best web experience over the frenzied November holiday shopping season. Will the household brands reign supreme? Or will an underdog take the title? Gomez's "Merchant Madness" tournament pits the performance of 64 online retailers' websites(1) using a brackets system and the Gomez global web performance measurement network to track which retailers are delivering the best -- and worst -- web experiences to the millions of consumers shopping online. Those with the fastest, most available and most consistent websites(2) will move onto the next round. The "Final Four" match-ups will take place on Black Friday (Friday, November 23) with the last two retailers meeting in the finale on Cyber Monday (Monday, November 26.) Gomez will crown the retailer that achieved the best web experience on Tuesday, November 27.
Foreclosures Soared 79 Percent in 2007
Some properties may have received more than one notice if the owners had multiple mortgages.A late-year surge in the number of properties reporting foreclosure filings suggests that many are in the initial stages of the foreclosure process and could end up lost to foreclosure this year unless lenders or the government steps in, RealtyTrac said."It does appear that we're seeing a new batch of properties enter the process," said Rick Sharga, RealtyTrac's vice president of marketing.RealtyTrac is forecasting that the pace of foreclosure filings will remain steady, rather than accelerate during the first half of 2008."Assuming nothing else bad happens economically ... we will have exhausted the bulk of the worst-performing loans by the end of June," Sharga said, referring to adjustable-rate mortgage loans made to borrowers with poor credit.
Little city of Hué is soaked in war's history
Spent the morning under a corrugated metal awning watching the palm trees bend under the weight of the wind. Raining so hard you couldn't hear drops on the metal roof, just sheets of oily water, slamming out of the sky like someone slapping a hundred tambourines at once. At about 3 in the afternoon, I went hunting for a movie theater and found a strange cement building. Aside from the movie poster that had been glued to one of the cement columns out front, you wouldn't know it was a theater at all. After a brief and painstaking conversation with a man milling around on the street out front, I managed to determine that there was indeed a movie playing that night, and it may or may not be made in Hollywood, and it may or may not be in English, and it might play at 5:30, or possibly 7:30, and it'll (probably) cost around 25,000 Vietnamese dong (just over a dollar).
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Astronauts take risky spacewalk to fix space station's power system
Top managers gathered today to officially set a launch date and evaluate the latest shuttle problem, a kinked radiator hose in the payload bay.
The shuttle will carry up Tani's replacement, a French astronaut, as well as the European science lab, Columbus.
Today's spacewalk fell on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the launch of America's first satellite, Explorer 1. The very next day, Friday, will mark the fifth anniversary of the Columbia disaster. More articles Copyright 2008 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. .
10 years later, remembering the ice storm
Soon after my CNN phone interview, I received calls from as far away as Alaska calling and commenting on the ice storm. As the day progressed, the people who lost power started to head home. In early evening, Geiger finally lost its power. I'll never forget the sound as I closed the building. There was an eerie sound of gunshots with tree limbs snapping all around the building. Little did I know that for the first time since moving to Maine in 1955, we would not open our doors due to a lack of power on Friday. The challenge going forward was not only restoring our power, but helping our associates who, in some cases, were without electricity for two weeks. Amanda Guy, Lewiston We lost power quite late on that first day of the storm and, though Mom and Dad opened their homes to us, we did not want to travel too far in the storm at night.
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