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Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling

Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the...

Word of the week – elysian

Word Of The Week

elysian – adjective, often capitalized of or relating to Elysium blissful, delightful Example Sentence: “The summer, in some climates, makes possible to man a sort of Elysian life.” (Henry David Thoreau, Walden) Did you know? In classical mythology...

Word of the week – videlicet

Word Of The Week

videlicet – adverb that is to say : namely Example Sentence: The restaurant is famous for several dishes: videlicet, arroz con pollo, olla podrida, and carne asada. Did you know? The abbreviation of “videlicet” is “viz,” and people often...

Consumer Confidence Holds Steady After October Plunge

Current Events, E-Commerce, Internet Usage

Despite continuing gloomy economic conditions in the US, consumer confidence declined only slightly in November – slipping 2.3 points to 34.7, compared with 37.0 in October – on future expectations that local economies will improve, according to the most...

Online Retailers ‘Resilient, Not Immune’ to Challenging Holiday Season

E-Commerce, Holidays

More than half of online retailers (56.1%) expect their holiday sales to increase at least 15% over last year – although last year’s survey had found that three-fourths (77.5%) expected their sales to grow more than 15%. “Online retailers are...

Q3 Internet Ad Revenues at Nearly $5.9 Billion

Current Events, Digital Marketing

Online advertising revenues reached almost $5.9 billion for the third quarter of 2008 – an 11% increase over the same period in 2007 and two percent higher than Q2 results, according to the latest report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and...