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New Years is a great time to look back over the previous year and make an inventory. Make an inventory of all the things you've done right so you know to keep doing them. And make an inventory of things you've done not-so-right that you'd like to improve on. This is one of the greatest things about New Years: the opportunity to let bygones be bygones and to start anew on things you wish you could.

One thing, though, that people don't often think about when they're making New Years resolutions is things they'd like to fix in their relationship with their significant other. Every relationship has its' ups and downs. This doesn't mean that it's a bad relationship. But it does mean there's room for improvement. Even if your relationship isn't under a lot of stress or if you feel your relationship is doing just fine, here are a few relationship resolutions for you to consider that will help improve your relationship. After all, what harm could a little improvement do in your relationship?

New Years Resolutions for Your Relationship

1) A little less talk and a lot more action. Every couple talks to each other about things they'd like to do more. They'd like to get tickets to the music hall or go to their favorite lake more. Forget about talking about them. Pick one or two of the easiest or most important things and actually do them. Make it a priority this year.

2) Spend more time together.?When you look back on your life, you probably won't say that you wished you spent more time at work. You'll probably say that you wished you spent more time with your loved ones. Don't risk looking back with that regret. Start this year off right and make a resolution to spend more time together.?

3) Make more memories. In a previous post about holiday gifts your lover will love I wrote about how I am a fan of giving memories for gifts instead of giving things you can buy from a store. This year, make a resolution to make more memories together. Take that vacation you always wanted or do that project on the house together. Whatever you do, make sure it makes memories.?
4) Fight less. This is one most couples want to do anyway. Every couple has one thing that they perpetually argue about: in-laws, children, money, etc. You've argued about ever since you two were together and you haven't fixed it yet. It's likely that you won't resolve it anytime soon, either. Instead of arguing about it over and over again talk with your spouse about how you can both handle the conversation next time it comes up. This will help you to fight less about it and begin the year talking about the difficulty in a positive way.

Remember, New Years resolutions are meant to point you in new directions and create new possibilities. The same can happen with your relationship. Make a resolution to focus on your relationship more this year and who knows what direction you'll be pointed in next year.?

Source: http://blog.themarriageandfamilyclinic.com/2012/12/new-years-resolutions-for-your.html

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iMore hall of fame: Apple and Mobile Safari

When Steve Jobs introduced the original iPhone on the Macworld stage in 2007, he teased it as a revolutionary phone, a widescreen iPod, and a breakthrough internet communicator. Back then, many people were excited about the idea of an Apple phone. In hindsight, the phone app turned out to be one of the least exciting things about the iPhone. Part of that is because we had mobile phones before. From flips to candybars to phone apps on Palm and BlackBerry devices, making phone calls from even a wide-screen, multitouch iPod was nice, beautiful even, but not really revolutionary.

Mobile Safari was, however, an absolute breakthrough.

At the time Palm had Blazer, BlackBerry had their browser, and Windows Mobile had Pocket IE, and all of them stank. They couldn't render HTML properly. They couldn't render CSS properly. And JavaScript? Forget about it. Third party browsers were better, sometimes via proxy, sometimes by trying to implement their own rendering engines. But they still stank.

Safari on the iPhone changed all that. It didn't support Sun's Java, Adobe's Flash, Microsoft's ActiveX or Silverlight, Real, or any plugin for that matter, but as history has proven, that was a smart choice. It enabled better performance, longer battery life, and greater stability and security for all the native web technology Safari did support. Apple also created a new way to interact with the web, part of the overall multitouch interface in general, that used gestures instead of key-presses, to scroll with a swipe, to zoom with a pinch, to link with a tap. Apple made the mobile web usable.

It was so usable, so good, that it allowed Steve Jobs to take the WWDC stage just a few months later and announce Mobile Safari as the first (and only at the time) development platform for the iPhone, and web 2.0 + AJAX apps as first (and only at the time) apps. It wasn't anywhere nearly as "sweet" a solution as Jobs and Apple hoped or promised -- jailbreak app development continued, and Apple ended up releasing a proper, native SDK -- but it was powerful and flexible. It enabled a lot of phenomenal developers to make a lot of phenomenal software, from todo lists to social networks, utilities to games.

Apple even maintained a directory on Apple.com, showcasing the many web apps available for the platform, all made possible by Mobile Safari. (Last updated in December of 2010.)

The arrival of native apps in June of 2008 obliterated the short-term future of web apps, though some media properties still flirt with them. Apple has kept up Mobile Safari's development, however. They added Web.app so we could put web apps our Home screens, UIWebView so we could embed web pages and browsers in our apps, the Nitro JavaScript Engine so that even complex sites would still load fast, iCloud integration so all our web stuff is available everywhere, and they brought it to the iPad as well. UIWebView in particular, is used in a wide range of popular and needful apps, for good and for ill.

Mobile Safari's impact was so large, in fact, when the time came for Google to make both the original Android browser and Chrome, they went with WebKit. When Palm reinvented Blazer for webOS, they went with WebKit. When BlackBerry bought a new browser, they bought the WebKit-based Torch. When Microsoft brought mobile Internet Explorer out of the dark ages... well, they stuck with Spyglass but they were forced to up their previously stagnant game to compete with WebKit.

In a very real way, it changed the face of both the web and mobile, two of the most important technologies of the last decade. For all of those reasons, and in thanks to the the WebKit team, Safari team, and the developers at Apple who made it such an outstanding experience on the iPhone, it's fitting that the first ever inductee into iMore's hall of fame is one of the first, and still one of the most important apps in the history of iOS, and one crafted by the company that created the platform -- Mobile Safari.

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NHL, players union spend day on conference calls

Commissioner Gary Bettman and the league would like to reach a deal no later than Jan. 11, which would allow a 48-game season to begin Jan. 19.

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Lots of questions, but still no answers in the NHL labor fight.

The league and the players' association spent much of Saturday talking to each other via conference call. The conversations were strictly for the purpose of sharing information regarding the new contract offer the NHL made to the union late Thursday.

The initial thought was that the sides would get together Sunday in New York to hold official negotiations for the first time in weeks, but those weren't scheduled before discussions ended Saturday.

Staff level calls were expected to resume Sunday, which could include face-to-face talks at some point, but no actual bargaining meetings have been set.

"Some more informational sessions in the morning,'' NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly told The Associated Press regarding Sunday. "Nothing planned beyond that.''

The union pored over the latest NHL proposal aimed at ending the lockout that reached its 105th day Saturday and saving the delayed hockey season. The league would like to reach a deal no later than Jan. 11, which would allow training camps to start the following day, and a 48-game season to begin Jan. 19.

Saturday's conference calls were scheduled Friday night so the union could ask league officials questions about the nearly 300-page proposal. Whether enough progress will be made to lead to face-to-face talks remains to be seen.

The sides haven't gotten together since Dec. 13 with federal mediators. Bargaining sessions with only the NHL and union involved haven't been held since Dec. 6, when talks abruptly ended after the players' association made a counterproposal to the league's previous offer. The league said that offer was contingent on the union accepting three elements unconditionally and without further bargaining.

The NHL then pulled all existing offers off the table. Two days of sessions with mediators the following week ended without any progress made.

The players' association's executive board and negotiating committee went over the new proposal during an internal conference call Friday.

A person familiar with key points of the offer told The Associated Press that the league proposed raising the limit of individual free-agent contracts to six years from five -- seven years if a team re-signs its own player; raising the salary variance from one year to another to 10 percent, up from 5 percent; and one compliance buyout for the 2013-14 season that wouldn't count toward a team's salary cap but would be included in the overall players' share of income.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because details of the new offer weren't being discussed publicly.

The NHL maintained the deferred payment amount of $300 million it offered in its previous proposal, an increase from an earlier offer of $211 million. The initial $300 million offer was pulled off the table after negotiations broke off earlier this month.

The latest proposal is for 10 years, running through the 2021-22 season, with both sides having the right to opt out after eight years.

The lockout has reached a critical stage, threatening to shut down a season for the second time in eight years. All games through Jan. 14, plus the Winter Classic and the All-Star game already have been called off. The next round of cuts could claim the entire schedule.

The NHL is the only North American professional sports league to cancel a season because of a labor dispute, losing the 2004-05 campaign to a lockout. A 48-game season was played in 1995 after a lockout stretched into January.

It is still possible this dispute could eventually be settled in the courts if the sides can't reach a deal on their own.

The NHL filed a class-action suit this month in U.S. District Court in New York in an effort to show its lockout is legal. In a separate move, the league filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board, contending bad-faith bargaining by the union.

Those moves were made because the players' association took steps toward potentially filing a "disclaimer of interest,'' which would dissolve the union and make it a trade association. That would allow players to file antitrust lawsuits against the NHL.

Union members voted overwhelmingly to give their board the power to file the disclaimer by Jan. 2. If that deadline passes, another authorization vote could be held to approve a later filing.

Negotiations between the NHL and the union have been at a standstill since talks ended Dec. 6. One week later, the sides convened again with federal mediators in New Jersey, but still couldn't make progress.

The sides have been unable to reach agreement on the length of the new deal, the length of individual player contracts, and the variance in salary from year to year. The NHL is looking for an even split of revenues with players.

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Michigan Passes Law to Protect Social Media Accounts

Michigan passed a bill on Friday that prohibits employers and schools from asking employees and students for login information to their personal social media accounts.

House Bill 5523, signed by Governor Rick Snyder and introduced by state Rep. Aric Nesbitt, "prohibit[s] employers and educational institutions from requiring certain individuals to grant access to, allow observation of, or disclose information that allows access to or observation of personal internet accounts."

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This means an employer or institution cannot require that you provide them with your username or passwords for sites like Facebook and Twitter. The bill is known as the "internet privacy protection act."

?Potential employees and students should be judged on their skills and abilities, not private online activity,? Snyder said in a press release.

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Michigan isn't alone in adapting laws to the changing Internet social sphere.

Earlier this year, Delaware banned public and private schools from requiring students' social media account information. The bill passed through the House in a unanimous vote. Months earlier, Maryland introduced a similar bill that would particularly benefit student athletes.

In September, California passed a law that barred companies from asking its workers to surrender their social media account passwords.

Will bills and acts similar to these become more commonplace in our local and national legislature? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.

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'Fiscal cliff': Finger-pointing furiously, Congress slouches toward deadline

Speaker Boehner, who called the House back into session Sunday evening, said Thursday it was up to the Senate to act, while majority leader Reid spoke on the Senate floor of a 'dysfunctional' GOP caucus.

By Gail Russell Chaddock,?Staff writer / December 27, 2012

House Minority Whip Rep. Steny Hoyer of Md. gestures during a news conference in Washington, Capitol Hill, Thursday, where he urged House Republicans to end the pro forma session and call the House back into legislative session to negotiate a solution to the fiscal cliff.

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In a last bid to avert the "fiscal cliff," House Speaker John Boehner (R) of Ohio is calling the House back into session for votes on Sunday evening, but without a sign from either side of the aisle of a new offer that might make a breakthrough possible before the Jan. 1 deadline.

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Instead, the leadership of both houses of Congress engaged in a flurry of finger-pointing Thursday, with each saying the other was to blame for the likelihood of the deadline being missed to avoid the fiscal cliff of tax hikes and spending cuts.

It's all up to the Senate, Mr. Boehner told House Republicans in a conference call in the afternoon, in a reprise of his comments after failing to get necessary party support last week for his own "Plan B" fallback maneuver while negotiating with President Obama. The House acted back in August to stop all the tax-rate increases and replace mandated spending cuts, or the sequester, with "responsible spending cuts," he reiterated. "These bills await action by the Senate."

"Once this has occurred, the House will then consider whether to accept the bills as amended, or to send them back to the Senate with additional amendments," he added. "The House will take this action on whatever the Senate can pass ? but the Senate must act."

Meanwhile, Senate majority leader Harry Reid, who had called the Senate back into session on Thursday, blasted Boehner and a "dysfunctional Republican caucus" for the deadlock.

?It?s obvious what?s going on. He?s waiting until Jan. 3 to get reelected to speaker, because he has so many people over there that won?t follow what he wants,? he said in a floor speech opening the Senate.

The way to avert the fiscal cliff is for the House to pass a bill that extends the Bush tax cuts for all but those families earning more than $250,000 in income, he added. The bill passed the Senate last July with no Republican votes.

So, with just five days to go before some $600 billion in tax hikes and spending cuts take hold, congressional leaders are hunkering down in bargaining positions back to where they were before the August break. But at the same time, leaders on both sides of the aisle say that there is flexibility in the system to come to terms even after the Jan. 1 deadline expires.

One approach is for Congress to pass a stopgap measure akin to a ?continuing resolution,? which is used to continue spending at current levels until Congress can complete work on a new spending bill, said House minority whip Steny Hoyer (D) of Maryland, after a briefing with reporters on Thursday.

If Congress was close to a deal but ran out of time to draft the legislative language needed to implement it, a 10-day extension could avert the cliff, he said. If Boehner allowed a floor vote on extending all the Bush tax cuts except for those over $250,000, ?I think it would pass,? he said.

Another might be for President Obama to direct the Treasury to delay tax hikes unilaterally, until a deal is finalized, a strategy President George H.W. Bush used for a limited period of time when a tax deal with Congress appeared imminent.

On Wednesday, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner made a similar proposal when he told Congress that the nation would run up against its debt ceiling on Dec. 31, but that he would use ?exceptional measures? to avoid the US breaching its borrowing limits for at least another month.

?The message from Geithner is that the world is not going to end on New Year?s eve, that there?s some flexibility in the system,? says Ross Baker, a congressional expert at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N. J.

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Peru's mysterious Nazca Lines form a labyrinth

Some of the Nazca Lines, mysterious geoglyphs that span a vast swath of the rugged Peruvian desert, may have once been a labyrinth with a spiritual purpose, a new study suggests.

The new insight, published in the December issue of the journal Antiquity, came because two archaeologists decided to use a decidedly low-tech method to understand the sand drawing's ancient secrets: by walking it.

At the time the Nazca Lines, which span 85 square miles (220 square kilometers), were drawn, "people were not looking at this stuff from the air, they were looking at stuff from the ground level," said Timothy Ingold, a cultural anthropologist at the University of Aberdeen, who was not involved in the study. "To appreciate what they might have meant to ordinary people, then you have to walk them."

While that seems like an obvious first step, in actuality, very few archaeologists have studied the Nazca Lines from that vantage point, because most of the pictures drawn out by the lines are only visible from foothills above or from space. ['Nazca Lines': Aerial Photos Reveal Mysterious Stone Structures]

The Nazca Lines have been a mystery since they were first discovered in the 1920s by Peruvian archaeologist Toribio Mej?a Xesspe. Long-forgotten people from the Nasca culture created the drawings between 200 B.C. and A.D. 500 by brushing away the dark top layer of barren desert to reveal the light, sandy soil underneath, wrote Clive Ruggles, an archaeologist from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, in an email. The dry, windless climate has preserved most of the carvings ? hundreds of depictions of animal shapes such as jaguars and monkeys, as well as geometric designs ? to this day.

But just why ancient people created the Nazca Lines has been an enduring mystery: Some archaeologists have suggested it was an alien landing strip, a primitive sun calendar, or an irrigation system.

"There is no simple answer. Different geoglyphs were clearly created over a significant period of time and almost certainly had a variety of meanings and purposes," Ruggles wrote.

Concerns about degradation of the mysterious geoglyphs prevented most traffic through the region since the 1990s. But when Ruggles and Aberdeen colleague Nicholas Saunders came upon a previously undiscovered set of lines north of the Nazca desert in 1984, they wondered whether the geoglyphs might reveal their secrets from a more terrestrial point of view.

Starting in 2007, Ruggles and Saunders spent 150 days walking 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) of the ancient carvings. They found the newly uncovered geoglyph was a single line that radiated out in a mystifying, confusing pattern, with a series of sharp, disorienting turns leading up to a mound whose purpose remains unknown. What's more, the meandering line was in pristine condition, leading the archaeologists to conclude that the paths that were carved out were rarely, if ever, used.

Many labyrinths have a spiritual purpose, so one possibility is that the paths weren't walked at all, but instead were intended for the passage of gods or spirits, Ruggles wrote. For instance, in the 5th century B.C. Herodotus mentions a vast Egyptian labyrinth that served as a mortuary temple, while the Hopi indians saw labyrinths as symbols of Mother Earth.

The researchers note this is still just speculation, Ingold told LiveScience.

"We still have absolutely no idea what these people were doing or what the point of it was," Ingold said.

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China tightening controls on Internet

BEIJING (AP) ? China's new communist leaders are increasing already tight controls on Internet use and electronic publishing following a spate of embarrassing online reports about official abuses.

The measures suggest China's new leader, Xi Jinping, and others who took power in November share their predecessors' anxiety about the Internet's potential to spread opposition to one-party rule and their insistence on controlling information despite promises of more economic reforms.

"They are still very paranoid about the potentially destabilizing effect of the Internet," said Willy Lam, a politics specialist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. "They are on the point of losing a monopoly on information, but they still are very eager to control the dissemination of views."

This week, China's legislature took up a measure to require Internet users to register their real names, a move that would curtail the Web's status as a freewheeling forum to complain, often anonymously, about corruption and official abuses. The legislature scheduled a news conference Friday to discuss the measure, suggesting it was expected to be approved.

That comes amid reports Beijing might be disrupting use of software that allows Web surfers to see sites abroad that are blocked by its extensive Internet filters. At the same time, regulators have proposed rules that would bar foreign companies from distributing books, news, music and other material online in China.

Beijing promotes Internet use for business and education but bans material deemed subversive or obscene and blocks access to foreign websites run by human rights and Tibet activists and some news outlets. Controls were tightened after social media played a role in protests that brought down governments in Egypt and Tunisia.

In a reminder of the Web's role as a political forum, a group of 70 prominent Chinese scholars and lawyers circulated an online petition this week appealing for free speech, independent courts and for the ruling party to encourage private enterprise.

Xi and others on the party's ruling seven-member Standing Committee have tried to promote an image of themselves as men of the people who care about China's poor majority. They have promised to press ahead with market-oriented reforms and to support entrepreneurs but have given no sign of support for political reform.

Communist leaders who see the Internet as a source of economic growth and better-paid jobs were slow to enforce the same level of control they impose on movies, books and other media, apparently for fear of hurting fledgling entertainment, shopping and other online businesses.

Until recently, Web surfers could post comments online or on microblog services without leaving their names.

That gave ordinary Chinese a unique opportunity to express themselves to a public audience in a society where newspapers, television and other media are state-controlled. The most popular microblog services say they have more than 300 million users and some users have millions of followers reading their comments.

The Internet also has given the public an unusual opportunity to publicize accusations of official misconduct.

A local party official in China's southwest was fired in November after scenes from a videotape of him having sex with a young woman spread quickly on the Internet. Screenshots were uploaded by a former journalist in Beijing, Zhu Ruifeng, to his Hong Kong website, an online clearing house for corruption allegations.

Some industry analysts suggest allowing Web surfers in a controlled setting to vent helps communist leaders stay abreast of public sentiment in their fast-changing society. Still, microblog services and online bulletin boards are required to employ censors to enforce content restrictions. Researchers say they delete millions of postings a day.

The government says the latest Internet regulation before the National People's Congress is aimed at protecting Web surfers' personal information and cracking down on abuses such as junk e-mail. It would require users to report their real names to Internet service and telecom providers.

The main ruling party newspaper, People's Daily, has called in recent weeks for tighter Internet controls, saying rumors spread online have harmed the public. In one case, it said stories about a chemical plant explosion resulted in the deaths of four people in a car accident as they fled the area.

Proposed rules released this month by the General Administration of Press and Publications would bar Chinese-foreign joint ventures from publishing books, music, movies and other material online in China. Publishers would be required to locate their servers in China and have a Chinese citizen as their local legal representative.

That is in line with rules that already bar most foreign access to China's media market, but the decision to group the restrictions together and publicize them might indicate official attitudes are hardening.

That comes after the party was rattled by foreign news reports about official wealth and misconduct.

In June, Bloomberg News reported that Xi's extended family has amassed assets totaling $376 million, though it said none was traced to Xi. The government has blocked access to Bloomberg's website since then.

In October, The New York Times reported that Premier Wen Jiabao's relatives had amassed $2.7 billion since he rose to national office in 2002. Access to the Times' Chinese-language site has been blocked since then.

Previous efforts to tighten controls have struggled with technical challenges in a country with more than 500 million Internet users.

Microblog operators such as Sina Corp. and Tencent Ltd. were ordered in late 2011 to confirm users' names but have yet to finish the daunting task.

Web surfers can circumvent government filters by using virtual private networks ? software that encrypts Web traffic and is used by companies to transfer financial data and other sensitive information. But VPN users say disruptions that began in 2011 are increasing, suggesting Chinese regulators are trying to block encrypted traffic.

Curbs on access to foreign sites have prompted complaints by companies and Chinese scientists and other researchers.

In July, the American Chamber of Commerce in China said 74 percent of companies that responded to a survey said unstable Internet access "impedes their ability to do business."

Chinese leaders "realize there are detrimental impacts on business, especially foreign business, but they have counted the cost and think it is still worthwhile," said Lam. "There is no compromise about the political imperative of controlling the Internet."

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Euro zone crisis batters holiday sales prospects

LONDON (Reuters) - Shoppers in euro zone nations battered by years of recession and crisis are on the hunt for bargains, delaying their purchases until the last minute, or simply not buying at all as post-Christmas sales get underway.

Britain and Sweden appeared to buck the trend, however, with the number of people visiting shops on Wednesday, the day when clearance sales traditionally start, well up on last year and sales volumes high.

In southern Europe, where the economic crisis has hit hardest, sales were down, in some cases quite substantially, according to an informal Reuters survey.

In Greece, whose economy has been shrinking for five years, retail turnover in December is expected to have fallen by about one fifth compared to a year ago, according to Vassilis Korkidis, chairman of the country's retail trade association.

"Unfortunately, yet another year has been marked by poor Christmas sales. I hope that 2013 will put an end to the economic war we have been fighting for five straight years now," Korkidis told a Greek television station.

Athens' main shopping streets were buzzing with people before Christmas. But many shopkeepers complained that families merely came for a walk to enjoy the warm, sunny weather.

BIG REDUCTIONS

Spain's biggest department store, El Corte Ingles, has not officially started its winter sales, but is already offering discounts on selected items such as flat-screen televisions.

Shopkeepers were expected to offer big reductions when clearance sales officially start next month in an attempt to generate some interest from customers after two straight years of falling retail sales.

"The Christmas campaign didn't take off the way it was expected to and we know sales are down compared to 2011 though we don't have the figures yet," said Ainhoa Garcia, spokeswoman for the Spanish Commerce Confederation.

For Italy, another victim of the euro zone crisis, this Christmas will go down as "the worst in the last 10 years", according to the Codacons consumer organization, with spending down by as much as 20 percent compared with a year ago.

Italian families were buying fewer and cheaper presents and even recycling last year's Christmas decorations.

An exception to the downturn was spending on food, which rose 5 percent as Italians remained reluctant to give up on elaborate Christmas meals.

In France, a special promotion by supermarket group Intermarche resulted in the sale of 45,000 tins of caviar, three times more than last year.

But with a month of winter sales beginning on January 9, the outlook is less rosy. Only 48 percent of shoppers are planning to participate, according to a poll by market research firm Harris Interactive.

In relatively prosperous Germany, the outlook was better. Shoppers had waited until the last minute before making their purchases, but a sharp pickup in the week before Christmas was expected to continue into the New Year, the German retail association said.

SALES MOMENTUM

"More and more often, Christmas presents are being bought only just before Christmas," said Stefan Genth, head of the HDE retail association, which represents 100,000 members.

Revenues from Christmas shopping are expected to amount to about 80.4 billion euros, an increase of 1.5 percent from the year-earlier period, HDE said.

"We expect sales momentum to continue between Christmas and New Year," HDE spokesman Stefan Hertel said.

Post-Christmas clearance sales in Britain appeared to get off to a strong start, as cash-strapped shoppers rushed to grab bargains.

Initial reports indicated footfall had risen over 20 percent across the country on Boxing Day, the day after Christmas and the traditional start for clearance sales.

More retailers than ever before had begun sales on Boxing Day to maximize the time they were open for shoppers, said a spokesman for the British Retail Consortium.

"Customers are extremely savvy, even more so in these difficult conditions," he said.

Leading British department store chains like Marks & Spencer , Debenhams and John Lewis began clearance sales online on Christmas Eve.

John Lewis said online sales in the first hour were up 70 percent on 2011, while sales on Christmas Day rose 40 percent.

Gisela Bruem-Cedergren, sales chief at department store Ahlens City in Stockholm, said turnover and number of visitors on the first day of post-Christmas sales hit record highs.

"We hit a record, the day's total turnover was our best ever for a Boxing day," she said in the Swedish capital.

"When we opened, customers ran straight to the perfume department near the entrance, grabbing bottles at random so they flew all over the place," she said. "We were a bit shocked."

(Reporting by Rosalba O'Brien and natalie Huet in London, Edward Taylor in Frankfurt, Dominique Vidalon in Paris, Danilo Masoni in Milan, Harry Papachristou in Athens, Clare Kane in Madrid and Anna Ringstrom in Stockholm; Editing by Erica Billingham)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/euro-zone-crisis-batters-holiday-sales-prospects-154323490--sector.html

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Bush spokesman Jim McGrath said Wednesday, Dec. 26. 2012 that doctors at the Houston hospital where Bush has been treated for a month remain ?cautiously optimistic? that he will recover. Still, no discharge date has been set, and McGrath says that doctors are being cautious because at Bush?s age ?sometimes issues crop up that are beyond anybody?s ability to discern or foretell.?(AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)" align="left" title="FILE - In a Tuesday, June 12, 2012 file photo, former President George H.W. Bush, and his wife, former first lady Barbara Bush, arrive for the premiere of HBO&#039;s new documentary on his life near the family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. Bush spokesman Jim McGrath said Wednesday, Dec. 26. 2012 that doctors at the Houston hospital where Bush has been treated for a month remain ?cautiously optimistic? that he will recover. Still, no discharge date has been set, and McGrath says that doctors are being cautious because at Bush?s age ?sometimes issues crop up that are beyond anybody?s ability to discern or foretell.?(AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)" border="0" /></a>HOUSTON (AP) ? Former President George H.W. Bush has been admitted to the intensive care unit at a Houston hospital &quot;following a series of setbacks including a persistent fever,&quot; but he is alert and talking to medical staff, his spokesman said Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/10-things-know-thursday-104756375.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/EpMuWKAQ2N5t7RNUvbXIvA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/173c34c06960d824240f6a706700227b.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Cars make their way slowly on the eastbound lanes of Interstate 696 near Central Park Boulevard in Southfield, Mich., Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 26, 2012 (AP Photo/The Detroit News, David Guralnick)" align="left" title="Cars make their way slowly on the eastbound lanes of Interstate 696 near Central Park Boulevard in Southfield, Mich., Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 26, 2012 (AP Photo/The Detroit News, David Guralnick)" border="0" /></a>Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and stories that will be talked about Thursday:</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/10-things-know-thursday-104756375.htmlWed, 26 Dec 2012 22:50:24 -0500Associated Press10-things-know-thursday-104756375<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/10-things-know-thursday-104756375.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/EpMuWKAQ2N5t7RNUvbXIvA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/173c34c06960d824240f6a706700227b.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Cars make their way slowly on the eastbound lanes of Interstate 696 near Central Park Boulevard in Southfield, Mich., Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 26, 2012 (AP Photo/The Detroit News, David Guralnick)" align="left" title="Cars make their way slowly on the eastbound lanes of Interstate 696 near Central Park Boulevard in Southfield, Mich., Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 26, 2012 (AP Photo/The Detroit News, David Guralnick)" border="0" /></a>Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and stories that will be talked about Thursday:</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/cliff-looms-kicking-washington-style-190538562--politics.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/8.bbCXksqfdhBlX_08QOJw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/ee54cb70391ab724240f6a7067002c83.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, file photo, speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, joined by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., left, speaks to reporters about the fiscal cliff negotiations at the Capitol in Washington. Lawmakers probably could enact a compromise quickly and easily if Republican leaders let Democrats provide most of the votes. By trying to pass his plan with GOP votes alone, Boehner could afford to lose only two dozen of the 241 House Republicans. His private head-count found nearly twice that many defectors, party insiders say, forcing Boehner to give up without seeking a formal vote. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)" align="left" title="FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, file photo, speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, joined by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., left, speaks to reporters about the fiscal cliff negotiations at the Capitol in Washington. Lawmakers probably could enact a compromise quickly and easily if Republican leaders let Democrats provide most of the votes. By trying to pass his plan with GOP votes alone, Boehner could afford to lose only two dozen of the 241 House Republicans. His private head-count found nearly twice that many defectors, party insiders say, forcing Boehner to give up without seeking a formal vote. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)" border="0" /></a>WASHINGTON (AP) ? When it comes to the nation&#039;s budget challenges, congressional leaders are fond of saying dismissively they don&#039;t want to kick the can down the road.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/cliff-looms-kicking-washington-style-190538562--politics.htmlWed, 26 Dec 2012 22:39:25 -0500Associated Presscliff-looms-kicking-washington-style-190538562--politics<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/cliff-looms-kicking-washington-style-190538562--politics.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/8.bbCXksqfdhBlX_08QOJw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/ee54cb70391ab724240f6a7067002c83.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, file photo, speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, joined by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., left, speaks to reporters about the fiscal cliff negotiations at the Capitol in Washington. Lawmakers probably could enact a compromise quickly and easily if Republican leaders let Democrats provide most of the votes. By trying to pass his plan with GOP votes alone, Boehner could afford to lose only two dozen of the 241 House Republicans. His private head-count found nearly twice that many defectors, party insiders say, forcing Boehner to give up without seeking a formal vote. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)" align="left" title="FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, file photo, speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, joined by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., left, speaks to reporters about the fiscal cliff negotiations at the Capitol in Washington. Lawmakers probably could enact a compromise quickly and easily if Republican leaders let Democrats provide most of the votes. By trying to pass his plan with GOP votes alone, Boehner could afford to lose only two dozen of the 241 House Republicans. His private head-count found nearly twice that many defectors, party insiders say, forcing Boehner to give up without seeking a formal vote. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)" border="0" /></a>WASHINGTON (AP) ? When it comes to the nation&#039;s budget challenges, congressional leaders are fond of saying dismissively they don&#039;t want to kick the can down the road.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/large-powerful-storm-heads-east-least-6-dead-203054068--finance.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/0pod4MASlLmLx2WeruT8LA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/534b456253cad424240f6a7067005bcf.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Murphy High School teacher Leland Howard tries to salvage items where his algebra classroom once stood in a temporary building at Murphy High School as residents clean up and assess the damage from a Christmas Day tornado Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012 in Mobile, Ala. With only a handful of injuries and no deaths reported statewide from the storms, the head of the state&#039;s emergency response said it was difficult to fathom how the toll wasn&#039;t worse. (AP Photo/G.M. Andrews)" align="left" title="Murphy High School teacher Leland Howard tries to salvage items where his algebra classroom once stood in a temporary building at Murphy High School as residents clean up and assess the damage from a Christmas Day tornado Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012 in Mobile, Ala. With only a handful of injuries and no deaths reported statewide from the storms, the head of the state&#039;s emergency response said it was difficult to fathom how the toll wasn&#039;t worse. (AP Photo/G.M. Andrews)" border="0" /></a>A powerful winter storm system pounded the nation&#039;s midsection Wednesday and headed toward the Northeast, where people braced for the high winds and heavy snow that disrupted holiday travel, knocked out power to thousands of homes and were blamed in at least six deaths.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/large-powerful-storm-heads-east-least-6-dead-203054068--finance.htmlWed, 26 Dec 2012 22:37:58 -0500Associated Presslarge-powerful-storm-heads-east-least-6-dead-203054068--finance<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/large-powerful-storm-heads-east-least-6-dead-203054068--finance.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/0pod4MASlLmLx2WeruT8LA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/534b456253cad424240f6a7067005bcf.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Murphy High School teacher Leland Howard tries to salvage items where his algebra classroom once stood in a temporary building at Murphy High School as residents clean up and assess the damage from a Christmas Day tornado Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012 in Mobile, Ala. With only a handful of injuries and no deaths reported statewide from the storms, the head of the state&#039;s emergency response said it was difficult to fathom how the toll wasn&#039;t worse. (AP Photo/G.M. Andrews)" align="left" title="Murphy High School teacher Leland Howard tries to salvage items where his algebra classroom once stood in a temporary building at Murphy High School as residents clean up and assess the damage from a Christmas Day tornado Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012 in Mobile, Ala. With only a handful of injuries and no deaths reported statewide from the storms, the head of the state&#039;s emergency response said it was difficult to fathom how the toll wasn&#039;t worse. (AP Photo/G.M. Andrews)" border="0" /></a>A powerful winter storm system pounded the nation&#039;s midsection Wednesday and headed toward the Northeast, where people braced for the high winds and heavy snow that disrupted holiday travel, knocked out power to thousands of homes and were blamed in at least six deaths.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/asian-markets-rise-amid-optimism-over-japan-032147722--finance.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/wbH9NjZUI4tXWo7yJbt18Q--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/2dd2fa4e69c2da24240f6a7067005d57.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="A woman walks by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012. Asian markets have risen amid optimism that Japan?s new leaders will stimulate its sluggish economy. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)" align="left" title="A woman walks by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012. Asian markets have risen amid optimism that Japan?s new leaders will stimulate its sluggish economy. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)" border="0" /></a>BEIJING (AP) ? Japanese stocks surged to their highest level this year as Asian markets rose Thursday on optimism a new Japanese government will stimulate its sluggish economy.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/asian-markets-rise-amid-optimism-over-japan-032147722--finance.htmlWed, 26 Dec 2012 22:21:47 -0500Associated Pressasian-markets-rise-amid-optimism-over-japan-032147722--finance<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/asian-markets-rise-amid-optimism-over-japan-032147722--finance.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/wbH9NjZUI4tXWo7yJbt18Q--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/2dd2fa4e69c2da24240f6a7067005d57.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="A woman walks by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012. Asian markets have risen amid optimism that Japan?s new leaders will stimulate its sluggish economy. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)" align="left" title="A woman walks by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012. Asian markets have risen amid optimism that Japan?s new leaders will stimulate its sluggish economy. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)" border="0" /></a>BEIJING (AP) ? Japanese stocks surged to their highest level this year as Asian markets rose Thursday on optimism a new Japanese government will stimulate its sluggish economy.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/turmoil-hits-egypts-tourism-175701229.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/JwM34NVqdp1aisN.f5.0Xw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/49d6182c533dd124240f6a706700d326.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 file photo, Tourists ride in horse carriages past one of the Great Pyramids in Giza, Egypt. The past month saw a drop in tourists to Egypt, scared off by scenes of protests and clashes over the constitution, in new pain to a crucial industry gutted the past two years by turmoil. Tourism workers worry things won?t get any better even now that the charter has been passed: Egypt?s power struggles threaten to erupt into more unrest at any time, and some fear Islamists will eventually try to rein in alcohol and beach tourism. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)" align="left" title="FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 file photo, Tourists ride in horse carriages past one of the Great Pyramids in Giza, Egypt. The past month saw a drop in tourists to Egypt, scared off by scenes of protests and clashes over the constitution, in new pain to a crucial industry gutted the past two years by turmoil. Tourism workers worry things won?t get any better even now that the charter has been passed: Egypt?s power struggles threaten to erupt into more unrest at any time, and some fear Islamists will eventually try to rein in alcohol and beach tourism. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)" border="0" /></a>CAIRO (AP) ? At Egypt&#039;s Pyramids, the desperation of vendors to sell can be a little frightening for some tourists.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/turmoil-hits-egypts-tourism-175701229.htmlWed, 26 Dec 2012 22:09:52 -0500Associated Pressturmoil-hits-egypts-tourism-175701229<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/turmoil-hits-egypts-tourism-175701229.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/JwM34NVqdp1aisN.f5.0Xw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/49d6182c533dd124240f6a706700d326.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 file photo, Tourists ride in horse carriages past one of the Great Pyramids in Giza, Egypt. The past month saw a drop in tourists to Egypt, scared off by scenes of protests and clashes over the constitution, in new pain to a crucial industry gutted the past two years by turmoil. Tourism workers worry things won?t get any better even now that the charter has been passed: Egypt?s power struggles threaten to erupt into more unrest at any time, and some fear Islamists will eventually try to rein in alcohol and beach tourism. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)" align="left" title="FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 file photo, Tourists ride in horse carriages past one of the Great Pyramids in Giza, Egypt. The past month saw a drop in tourists to Egypt, scared off by scenes of protests and clashes over the constitution, in new pain to a crucial industry gutted the past two years by turmoil. Tourism workers worry things won?t get any better even now that the charter has been passed: Egypt?s power struggles threaten to erupt into more unrest at any time, and some fear Islamists will eventually try to rein in alcohol and beach tourism. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)" border="0" /></a>CAIRO (AP) ? At Egypt&#039;s Pyramids, the desperation of vendors to sell can be a little frightening for some tourists.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/stranded-winter-storm-tips-fliers-203001027--finance.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/2x6x1K_AsWYvipAmmhTZIQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/8ed9a73553b7d324240f6a7067008f61.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012, file photo, a passengers reacts as she talks on her phone at Midway airport in Chicago. A massive winter storm is disrupting travel plans for tens of thousands of fliers trying to get home after Christmas on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. Snow, thunderstorms, sleet, tornados and high winds have grounded planes in the nation&#039;s midsection and are expected to slow operations on the East Coast. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)" align="left" title="FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012, file photo, a passengers reacts as she talks on her phone at Midway airport in Chicago. A massive winter storm is disrupting travel plans for tens of thousands of fliers trying to get home after Christmas on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. Snow, thunderstorms, sleet, tornados and high winds have grounded planes in the nation&#039;s midsection and are expected to slow operations on the East Coast. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)" border="0" /></a>NEW YORK (AP) ? A massive winter storm is disrupting travel plans for tens of thousands of fliers trying to get home after Christmas. Snow, thunderstorms, sleet, tornados and high winds have grounded planes in the nation&#039;s midsection and are expected to slow operations on the East Coast.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/stranded-winter-storm-tips-fliers-203001027--finance.htmlWed, 26 Dec 2012 22:04:30 -0500Associated Pressstranded-winter-storm-tips-fliers-203001027--finance<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/stranded-winter-storm-tips-fliers-203001027--finance.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/2x6x1K_AsWYvipAmmhTZIQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/8ed9a73553b7d324240f6a7067008f61.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012, file photo, a passengers reacts as she talks on her phone at Midway airport in Chicago. A massive winter storm is disrupting travel plans for tens of thousands of fliers trying to get home after Christmas on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. Snow, thunderstorms, sleet, tornados and high winds have grounded planes in the nation&#039;s midsection and are expected to slow operations on the East Coast. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)" align="left" title="FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012, file photo, a passengers reacts as she talks on her phone at Midway airport in Chicago. A massive winter storm is disrupting travel plans for tens of thousands of fliers trying to get home after Christmas on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. Snow, thunderstorms, sleet, tornados and high winds have grounded planes in the nation&#039;s midsection and are expected to slow operations on the East Coast. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)" border="0" /></a>NEW YORK (AP) ? A massive winter storm is disrupting travel plans for tens of thousands of fliers trying to get home after Christmas. Snow, thunderstorms, sleet, tornados and high winds have grounded planes in the nation&#039;s midsection and are expected to slow operations on the East Coast.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/fees-undermine-fliers-ability-compare-fares-162700594.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/daaJ.oWUKtXCw1LMb6umXw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/466c10cf52f1d024240f6a7067008dfc.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="FILE - This Dec. 21, 2012 file photo shows travelers walking to a ticketing desk at O&#039;Hare International Airport in Chicago. For many passengers, air travel is only about finding the cheapest fare. But as airlines offer a proliferating list of add-on services, from early boarding to premium seating and baggage fees, the ability to comparison-shop for the lowest total fare is eroding. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)" align="left" title="FILE - This Dec. 21, 2012 file photo shows travelers walking to a ticketing desk at O&#039;Hare International Airport in Chicago. For many passengers, air travel is only about finding the cheapest fare. But as airlines offer a proliferating list of add-on services, from early boarding to premium seating and baggage fees, the ability to comparison-shop for the lowest total fare is eroding. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)" border="0" /></a>WASHINGTON (AP) ? For many passengers, air travel is only about finding the cheapest fare.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/fees-undermine-fliers-ability-compare-fares-162700594.htmlWed, 26 Dec 2012 21:59:52 -0500Associated Pressfees-undermine-fliers-ability-compare-fares-162700594<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/fees-undermine-fliers-ability-compare-fares-162700594.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/daaJ.oWUKtXCw1LMb6umXw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/466c10cf52f1d024240f6a7067008dfc.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="FILE - This Dec. 21, 2012 file photo shows travelers walking to a ticketing desk at O&#039;Hare International Airport in Chicago. For many passengers, air travel is only about finding the cheapest fare. But as airlines offer a proliferating list of add-on services, from early boarding to premium seating and baggage fees, the ability to comparison-shop for the lowest total fare is eroding. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)" align="left" title="FILE - This Dec. 21, 2012 file photo shows travelers walking to a ticketing desk at O&#039;Hare International Airport in Chicago. For many passengers, air travel is only about finding the cheapest fare. But as airlines offer a proliferating list of add-on services, from early boarding to premium seating and baggage fees, the ability to comparison-shop for the lowest total fare is eroding. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)" border="0" /></a>WASHINGTON (AP) ? For many passengers, air travel is only about finding the cheapest fare.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/minn-soda-shop-rebuked-stocking-candy-smokes-190536683.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Tf_2z5bwh6.qI3KId6lZag--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/a80954556949d824240f6a706700fdf0.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Co-owner of Lynden&#039;s Soda Fountain, Tobi Lynden, poses for a photo alongside candy cigarettes, in St. Paul, Minn., Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. Lynden&#039;s Soda Fountain was cited for selling candy cigarette&#039;s to kids. The candy cigarettes are no longer displayed or sold. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Jeff Wheeler)" align="left" title="Co-owner of Lynden&#039;s Soda Fountain, Tobi Lynden, poses for a photo alongside candy cigarettes, in St. Paul, Minn., Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. Lynden&#039;s Soda Fountain was cited for selling candy cigarette&#039;s to kids. The candy cigarettes are no longer displayed or sold. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Jeff Wheeler)" border="0" /></a>ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) ? Owners of an old-school soda shop in St. Paul, Minn., are being warned to kick the habit and stop stocking novelty candy cigarettes.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/minn-soda-shop-rebuked-stocking-candy-smokes-190536683.htmlWed, 26 Dec 2012 21:58:37 -0500Associated Pressminn-soda-shop-rebuked-stocking-candy-smokes-190536683<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/minn-soda-shop-rebuked-stocking-candy-smokes-190536683.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Tf_2z5bwh6.qI3KId6lZag--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/a80954556949d824240f6a706700fdf0.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Co-owner of Lynden&#039;s Soda Fountain, Tobi Lynden, poses for a photo alongside candy cigarettes, in St. Paul, Minn., Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. Lynden&#039;s Soda Fountain was cited for selling candy cigarette&#039;s to kids. The candy cigarettes are no longer displayed or sold. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Jeff Wheeler)" align="left" title="Co-owner of Lynden&#039;s Soda Fountain, Tobi Lynden, poses for a photo alongside candy cigarettes, in St. Paul, Minn., Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. Lynden&#039;s Soda Fountain was cited for selling candy cigarette&#039;s to kids. The candy cigarettes are no longer displayed or sold. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Jeff Wheeler)" border="0" /></a>ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) ? Owners of an old-school soda shop in St. Paul, Minn., are being warned to kick the habit and stop stocking novelty candy cigarettes.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/peyton-manning-peterson-pro-bowl-001048748--nfl.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/DG7YOOSPdq3bQCqtJ.KroQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3B4b2ZmPTUwO3B5b2ZmPTA7cT04NTt3PTEzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/da9007146942d824240f6a7067004746.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="FILE - In this Dec. 23, 2012, file photo, Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning sets up to throw a pass against the Cleveland Browns in the fourth quarter of an NFL football game in Denver. Manning was selected to the Pro Bowl on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey, File)" align="left" title="FILE - In this Dec. 23, 2012, file photo, Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning sets up to throw a pass against the Cleveland Browns in the fourth quarter of an NFL football game in Denver. Manning was selected to the Pro Bowl on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey, File)" border="0" /></a>NEW YORK (AP) ? Peyton Manning and Adrian Peterson want to cap their sensational comebacks with Super Bowl appearances. For now, they can be proud of Pro Bowl spots.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/peyton-manning-peterson-pro-bowl-001048748--nfl.htmlWed, 26 Dec 2012 21:56:40 -0500Associated Presspeyton-manning-peterson-pro-bowl-001048748--nfl<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/peyton-manning-peterson-pro-bowl-001048748--nfl.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/DG7YOOSPdq3bQCqtJ.KroQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3B4b2ZmPTUwO3B5b2ZmPTA7cT04NTt3PTEzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/da9007146942d824240f6a7067004746.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="FILE - In this Dec. 23, 2012, file photo, Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning sets up to throw a pass against the Cleveland Browns in the fourth quarter of an NFL football game in Denver. Manning was selected to the Pro Bowl on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey, File)" align="left" title="FILE - In this Dec. 23, 2012, file photo, Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning sets up to throw a pass against the Cleveland Browns in the fourth quarter of an NFL football game in Denver. Manning was selected to the Pro Bowl on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey, File)" border="0" /></a>NEW YORK (AP) ? Peyton Manning and Adrian Peterson want to cap their sensational comebacks with Super Bowl appearances. For now, they can be proud of Pro Bowl spots.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/three-afghans-dead-blast-u-afghan-east-025409441.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Cp5_QorPYdU212DcA9nAOQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-12-27T025409Z_2_CBRE8BP0Y2X00_RTROPTP_2_AFGHANISTAN-VIOLENCE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Afghan policemen carry the dead body of a victim at a local hospital after a suicide bomb attack in Khost" align="left" title="Afghan policemen carry the dead body of a victim at a local hospital after a suicide bomb attack in Khost" border="0" /></a>KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed three people in an attack on a U.S. base in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the same base where a suicide bomb attack killed seven CIA employees three years ago. The Afghan Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in the eastern town of Khost, saying they had sent a suicide bomber driving a van packed with explosives to the base. &quot;The target was those who serve Americans at that base,&quot; said Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid. Afghanistan&#039;s NATO-led force said the bomber did not get into the base nor breach its perimeter. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/three-afghans-dead-blast-u-afghan-east-025409441.htmlWed, 26 Dec 2012 21:54:09 -0500Reutersthree-afghans-dead-blast-u-afghan-east-025409441<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/three-afghans-dead-blast-u-afghan-east-025409441.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Cp5_QorPYdU212DcA9nAOQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-12-27T025409Z_2_CBRE8BP0Y2X00_RTROPTP_2_AFGHANISTAN-VIOLENCE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Afghan policemen carry the dead body of a victim at a local hospital after a suicide bomb attack in Khost" align="left" title="Afghan policemen carry the dead body of a victim at a local hospital after a suicide bomb attack in Khost" border="0" /></a>KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed three people in an attack on a U.S. base in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the same base where a suicide bomb attack killed seven CIA employees three years ago. The Afghan Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in the eastern town of Khost, saying they had sent a suicide bomber driving a van packed with explosives to the base. &quot;The target was those who serve Americans at that base,&quot; said Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid. Afghanistan&#039;s NATO-led force said the bomber did not get into the base nor breach its perimeter. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/missing-girls-father-removed-vegas-courtroom-005905082.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/_RnVqfHojD4sL8oop74TOw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3B4b2ZmPTUwO3B5b2ZmPTA7cT04NTt3PTEzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/9cd1001369a0d924240f6a706700c20d.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="This booking photo provided by the Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas, Nev,. Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012, shows 50-year-old Brenda Stokes. Police in Las Vegas have issued a plea for information about 10-year-old Jade Morris after she failed to return home Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, from a shopping trip with a woman who is thought to be Stokes. Stokes was arrested that night and accused of slashing the face of a female co-worker at the Bellagio resort on the Las Vegas Strip. She made her first appearance in Las Vegas Justice Court Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Clark County Detention Center )" align="left" title="This booking photo provided by the Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas, Nev,. Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012, shows 50-year-old Brenda Stokes. Police in Las Vegas have issued a plea for information about 10-year-old Jade Morris after she failed to return home Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, from a shopping trip with a woman who is thought to be Stokes. Stokes was arrested that night and accused of slashing the face of a female co-worker at the Bellagio resort on the Las Vegas Strip. She made her first appearance in Las Vegas Justice Court Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Clark County Detention Center )" border="0" /></a>LAS VEGAS (AP) ? An outburst by the father of a missing 10-year-old girl marred the first court hearing for a casino card dealer accused of using razor blades to slash a co-worker&#039;s face at a blackjack table at an upscale Las Vegas Strip resort.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/missing-girls-father-removed-vegas-courtroom-005905082.htmlWed, 26 Dec 2012 21:42:42 -0500Associated Pressmissing-girls-father-removed-vegas-courtroom-005905082<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/missing-girls-father-removed-vegas-courtroom-005905082.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/_RnVqfHojD4sL8oop74TOw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3B4b2ZmPTUwO3B5b2ZmPTA7cT04NTt3PTEzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/9cd1001369a0d924240f6a706700c20d.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="This booking photo provided by the Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas, Nev,. Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012, shows 50-year-old Brenda Stokes. Police in Las Vegas have issued a plea for information about 10-year-old Jade Morris after she failed to return home Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, from a shopping trip with a woman who is thought to be Stokes. Stokes was arrested that night and accused of slashing the face of a female co-worker at the Bellagio resort on the Las Vegas Strip. She made her first appearance in Las Vegas Justice Court Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Clark County Detention Center )" align="left" title="This booking photo provided by the Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas, Nev,. Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012, shows 50

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