Friday, December 24, 2010

Holiday 2010: The year shoppers came back (AP)

Holiday 2010: The year shoppers came back (AP)

Holiday 2010: The year shoppers came back (AP)

Posted: 24 Dec 2010 06:29 PM PST

Bert Carpenter, of Jackson, secures two last minute Christmas purchases into his automobile, outside Cowboy Maloney's Electric City appliance store in Jackson, Miss., Friday, Dec. 24, 2010. Carpenter, who admits he is a last minute shopper each Christmas season, purchased the two televisions for his wife and daughter and earlier in the day bought a bike for his son as well as a number of DVDs. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - Shoppers came back in force for the holidays, right to the end. After two dreary years, Christmas 2010 will go down as the holiday Americans rediscovered how much they like to shop.

TSA probes pilot critical of airport security (AP)

Posted: 24 Dec 2010 05:59 PM PST

AP - Federal authorities are investigating a pilot who posted videos on YouTube that were critical of security at San Francisco International Airport, the pilot's attorney said Friday.

Have Cell Phones Killed the Landline Telephone? (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Dec 2010 12:10 AM PST

Time.com - Need further proof that cell phones have finally over taken landlines in communication's version of survival of the fittest?

On Hold at eBay: What Happened to Customer Service? (Time.com)

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 02:20 PM PST

Time.com - The company recently disconnected some of its toll-free customer service lines -- although it insists that service is actually getting better

Tragedy turns parents into successful activists (AP)

Posted: 24 Dec 2010 11:37 AM PST

In this photo taken Dec. 8, 2010 in Chicago, Michael and Mariann Stanton, sit in the living room of their home with items that display the logo of the foundation they created to honor their late son Danny. Four year-old Danny Stanton died from an epileptic seizure last year and since his death, his family has created the foundation to raise awareness of a little-understood medical condition called Sudden Death In Epilepsy, or SUDEP. They have put up billboards, created more than 8,000 informational SUDEP brochures for doctor's offices, hospitals and families; held fund-raising events to boost awareness and research dollars, and created a foundation that has garnered more than 10,000 followers on Facebook. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Epilepsy takes as many as 50,000 lives each year — grim statistics Mike and Mariann Stanton hadn't heard of until their 4-year-old son, Danny, became one of them.

Imam to tour nation promoting NYC Islamic center (AP)

Posted: 24 Dec 2010 03:51 PM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2010 file photo, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, executive director of the Cordoba Initiative, addresses the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Rauf, who is in the midst of a polarizing political, religious and cultural debate over his plans to build an Islamic center near the World Trade Center site, is planning to tour the nation to promote the plan. His first stop will be in Detroit on Jan. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)AP - The Muslim cleric who hopes to build an Islamic center near the World Trade Center site said Friday that he'll tour the country in an effort "to inspire interfaith understanding" for a project that has ignited explosive faceoffs between supporters and opponents.

Snow storm heading south, some flights canceled (AP)

Posted: 24 Dec 2010 05:52 PM PST

Sydney Baltyn, 9, slides off a snow jump as she sleds with her family at Stephens Lake Park in Columbia, Mo. on Friday Dec. 24, 2010. Christmas Eve snow blanketed the area allowing Greg and Michelle Baltyn to take their daughters Sydney, 9, and Molli, 6, sledding. (AP Photo/Columbia Daily Tribune, Gerik Parmele)AP - A Christmas Eve snow storm that blanketed parts of the Midwest was expected to bring rare Christmas Day snowfall to parts of the Southeast, prompting some airline flight cancellations and delays.

Santa braves sardines, tear gas on Christmas trip (AP)

Posted: 24 Dec 2010 06:06 PM PST

Dressed in a Santa Claus outfit, a diver swims with sardines at the Coex Aquarium in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Dec. 24, 2010. Christmas is one of the biggest holidays in South Korea, where over half of the population are Christians. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)AP - It's been a busy, busy day today for the plump man in red with wire glasses and a bushy white beard.

Lichtenstein, Warhol works stolen from NY home (AP)

Posted: 24 Dec 2010 11:43 AM PST

This undated photo provided by the New York City Police Department shows Roy Lichtenstein's 'Thinking Nude.' The print was stolen, along with a surveillance video recorder and other artworks by Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Carl Fudge, from a chic home in Manhattan's Meatpacking District between Nov. 24 and Nov. 28, 2010, while the owner was away during the Thanksgiving holiday. (AP Photo/New York City Police Department) NO SALESAP - Authorities are ramping up their effort to solve a Manhattan mystery: Who drilled a hole into the home of a beef fortune heir and stole a collection of iconic artworks by Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol?

First lady fields kid calls as NORAD tracks Santa (AP)

Posted: 24 Dec 2010 04:07 PM PST

Volunteers take phone calls and answer emails at the Santa Tracking Operations Center at Peterson Air Force Base near Colorado Springs, Colo., on Friday, Dec. 24, 2010. Lots of military secrets are hidden behind the gleaming walls of NORAD'S headquarters building, including this one: Just how do they get Santa's flight path onto their computer screens every Christmas Eve? Tracking Santa's travels is a celebrated tradition at the North American Aerospace Command, and it unfolds Friday for the 55th year. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP - Some kids who call NORAD on Christmas Eve to find out where Santa is hang up as soon as a volunteer answers the phone — probably because they expected a recording and not a real person, veteran Santa trackers say.

Big sister searches for missing Las Vegas dancer (AP)

Posted: 24 Dec 2010 01:55 AM PST

AP - Celeste Flores-Narvaez has retraced her younger sister's last known steps for days now, sacrificing rest, food and time with her children in her cross-country search for answers.

In Christmas tradition, Gulf Coast birds counted (AP)

Posted: 24 Dec 2010 03:01 AM PST

Cut off from the beach front by BP clean up efforts Chris Brantley, of Mandiville, Louisiana looks though a monocular for birds on the beach in search of oil deposits during the National Audubon Society's annual Christmas bird count on the Gulf Coast in Grand Isle, La., Saturday, Dec. 22, 2010. 60,000 bird watchers fanned out across the Western Hemisphere during the winter holidays to count birds in their regions and submit checklists for the Audubon Society's 110-year-old tally of birds at Christmas. (AP Photo/Sean Gardner)AP - As dawn breaks on the Gulf of Mexico, Hans Holbrook and Chris Brantley stomp onto the beach in rubber boots, telescopes and tripods slung over their shoulders, alert for signs of birds.

Christmas Eve dash caps banner shopping season (AP)

Posted: 24 Dec 2010 05:32 AM PST

In this Dec. 18, 2010 photo, shoppers are photographed on 34th Street, in New York. Call it Black Friday, Part II. Stores are rolling out the deals and expect to be swimming in shoppers on Christmas Eve as shopping stragglers take advantage of a day off work. For retailers, the last-minute rush caps a 'back-to-normal' holiday season. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Holiday procrastinators are preparing to zoom through picked-over stores, grabbing discounted sweaters and can't-go-wrong gift cards. If they can get a parking spot, that is. But you won't hear retailers complaining.

Midwest farmland prices soar due to strong prices (AP)

Posted: 24 Dec 2010 12:38 AM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2007, file photo an ear of corn sits on a stock as Tim Recker harvests a field near Arlington, Iowa. Increased commodity prices and strong demand have sent prices of farmland skyrocketing, making it more difficult for young and beginning farmers to get established but strengthening the balance sheets for those who own the land. ( AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)AP - Increased commodity prices and strong demand have sent prices of farmland skyrocketing, making it more difficult for young and beginning farmers to get established but strengthening the balance sheets for those who own the land.
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