Top 10 Black Friday Deals on Social Media

Black Friday is a lot like Facebook — you’re either obsessed with it, or you try to avoid it at all costs. It’s also equally as fast and crowded, which is why the two are so perfect for each other!

This year, social media has become a great platform for many big companies hoping to cash in on the big day. Some are running contests for gift cards or exclusive pre-madness shopping sprees, and some are donating to charities each time a customer checks in to a store on location networks.

Although many participate in Black Friday shopping for the thrill or experience, technology has made it easier and — dare I say it — a little more fun. Here are some of the big campaigns to look out for.

1. Amazon

Amazon is promoting its Countdown to Black Friday on its Facebook page.

The company is offering one Gold Box deal along with multiple Lightning Deals appearing and expiring throughout each day this week. Things such as an LG 32" HDTV for $308.99 or Halo Reach on Xbox 360 for $29.96 are among the many deals on the site.

Top 10 Black Friday Deals on Social Media

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16 Online Resources for Preparing the Perfect Thanksgiving

Whether you plan to whip up a lavish feast for your in-laws or stick with the kids table, there are always ways to prepare for Thanksgiving. The tips below can help absorb some of the holiday stress, even if all you plan to do is stuff your face and watch football.

Read on to discover 16 online resources that can help plan a successful and fulfilling Thanksgiving holiday.

1. Invites: Before you even start planning the menu, make sure to send out a memorable invite or reminder card. Try exploring Someecards if you’re up for something witty and bold. If not, an interactive card is sure to keep guests on their toes for the big reunion.

2. Food Prep: Practice your cooking skills in advance by viewing the Food Network’s Thanksgiving Live! show on Nov. 20. Experts will offer tips, solutions and recipes for cooking the best meals. Act quickly to add your own questions or to tune in live via Skype.

3. Travel: Whether you’re traveling 10 or 3,000 miles for turkey day, it’s important that you make travel cheap and efficient. Use the GasBuddy mobile app to discover the cheapest gasoline prices in your vicinity.

4. Décor: As the leaves begin to fall and the weather chills outside, you’re concerned with making sure it’s warm and cozy inside. If you don’t have a fireplace, there’s an app for that. Then spice it up with a variety of DIY centerpieces that feature mother nature’s finest elements. Finally, make sure each person is accounted for by personalizing your table’s place settings.

5. Cooking: It’s turkey time! Are you sure you know what you’re doing? If not, Butterball has the best tips, like how to pick and cook a turkey, complete with videos and step-by-step guides — as well as a telephonehelpline for last-minute kitchen emergencies. Still lost? This interactive quiz from Bon Appetit helps plan your meal depending on timeframe and number of guests.

6. Vegetarian: There are plenty of healthy and meatless alternatives for those PETA or calorie-conscious guests. Or try a non-traditional protein option, like pork or roast beef.

7. Entertainment: Instead of zoning out in front of a football game or answering the same old questions from Aunt Kathy, try a playing a game that involves everyone. Go on a scavenger hunt, or play a game likeFictionary – which bring out the competition in my family.

8. Leftovers: Rather than waste that half-eaten turkey, prepare it for a variety of meals over the following week.

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A Day That Stands Alone in History

Just as Sept. 11 was unthinkable, Sunday was inevitable: the 10th anniversary of a day that stands alone. In history. In memory.Three-thousand six-hundred fifty-two days have now passed. At 8:46 a.m. — the time when the first plane slammed into 1 World Trade Center — 87,648 hours will have gone by. Another 5,258,880 minutes. Another 315,532,800 seconds.

Once more, the families gathered at ground zero, where 2,749 died, and in Washington and in Pennsylvania, paying tribute to the 224 who died there.

Once more, there was an outpouring of grief. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said that the attacks had turned “a perfect blue-sky morning” into “the blackest of nights."

He added, “We can never unsee what happened here.”

President Obama read Psalm 46, which talks about God as “our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble,” and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York read from President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union address, the famous “four freedoms” speech — freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want and freedom from fear “anywhere in the world.”

Former President George W. Bush quoted Abraham Lincoln on the casualties in the Civil War as Mr. Bush commemorated those who died on Sept. 11. “I pray that our heavenly father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement,” Mr. Bush read, quoting from a letter Lincoln wrote in 1864 to a mother whose five sons had died in the war.

“President Lincoln not only understood the heartbreak of his country, he also understood the cost to sacrifice and reached out to console those in sorrow,” Mr. Bush said.

There were also long moments of silence, first at 8:46 a.m., when American Airlines Flight 11 struck 1 World Trade Center, and again at 9:03 a.m., when United Airlines Flight 175 smashed into the other tower. Another silence — at ground zero and at the Pentagon — came at 9:37 a.m., when American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into what had been considered the unshakable nerve center of the world’s most powerful military.

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Three GOP leaders with three ideas on the debt

For Republicans, the debt talks have shown three leaders calling three different plays, each trying to push and pull congressional Republicans in his direction. So far, all three have failed to find a plan that all of them can support.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) declared on June 19 that there wasn’t enough time to approve any of the plans to raise the government’s debt ceiling by the Aug. 2 deadline. He proposed a short-term hike to buy more time.

Two days later, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) declared short-term deals a non-starter and said “there are no votes” for any grand bargain including higher tax revenue.

The next night, House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) snuck into a secret meeting with President Obama to launch an effort for a “big deal” including hundreds of billions of dollars in new revenue.

McConnell, Boehner and Cantor say they are on the same side and never publicly criticize one another. But for the past five weeks, each has appeared to play to different audiences inside the Grand Old Party, with different motivations, according to aides and Republican lawmakers.

With an eye on history, Boehner has repeatedly sought to throw the “Hail Mary” pass by getting a massive deal that would create a path toward reining in runaway debt.

With an eye on the 2012 elections, McConnell privately has doubted Boehner could get Obama to agree to a large spending-reduction plan with no tax increases, so he worked on back-up plans.

With an eye on the 87 freshmen who propelled the GOP into the majority, Cantor served as the protector of the House conservative flank.

This chasm has emerged as the key stumbling block in ongoing efforts to cinch a final deal to avert a potential federal default. Only in the past 24 hours have they appeared to encircle the same plan: a revised version of McConnell’s idea for a temporary increase. Even that faces obstacles. On Saturday, Obama again pronounced his staunch opposition to such an idea.

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Norway Incident

Norway is accustomed to seeing itself lauded as the healthiest, wealthiest and most peaceful country in the world. On Friday, that changed. The horrific events of that day have left the country in mourning. Its enviable position at the top of so many league tables for wellbeing is now clouded by a tragedy of a kind that no parent, no relative, no friend should ever endure. We send our condolences to all those who have lost loved ones. The bombing in Oslo that left the city looking like a war zone was followed by the slaughter of dozens of young people, members of the Norwegian Labour youth league, on the island of Utoya, 15 miles west of the capital. They had been unable to find a hiding place from the man armed with a gun whom they believed was a helpful policeman.

At the time of writing, it is unclear whether Anders Behring Breivik, the 32-year-old suspected of both attacks, had accomplices. He is Norwegian born and well educated; he ran his own company cultivating vegetables and reportedly lived with his mother in an affluent area of Oslo. Until Friday, he must have appeared an average model Norwegian citizen, possibly even abiding by what is known in Scandinavia as Jante Law, the Nordic version of tall poppy syndrome. It was invented by Aksel Sandemose, a Danish-Norwegian author in the 1930s. It satirically describes how, since the collective and equality are so important in Scandinavian societies, there are rules to inhibit self-glorification. Rules that, it seems, Anders Behring Breivik has now broken in the most terrible manner.

By a terrible irony, the young people who have lost their lives did so precisely because, in attending a summer camp, they wanted to be active and engaged citizens. It would be a huge disservice to them if the anti-immigrant rhetoric of which Anders Behring Breivik was apparently fond stokes greater antipathy to Norway's immigrants. In times of chaos, it is all too easy to turn on "the other" in our midst.

Scandinavia in particular has developed a strain of political discourse that has given rise to parties that many would categorise as on the extreme right; some have won seats in parliament. The hard-right Swedish Democrats, for instance, entered parliament for the first time last September with 20 seats. Actions such as those that ripped into Norwegian society on Friday cannot be allowed to boost the support of those advocating division, discrimination and violence.

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Pasadena

Pedestrian robbed at gunpoint by three men

Three men robbed a 65-year-old man early Monday as he walked along Lake Avenue, authorities said.

The man was walking on Lake Avenue near Santa Barbara Street about 4 a.m. when he noticed a dark-colored sedan drive past him and turn onto Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena police Lt. Rodney Wallace said.

When the pedestrian reached the intersection, three black men wearing dark clothing confronted him, the lieutenant said. One of the men pulled a handgun and demanded money.

When the victim told the robbers he had no money, one of them reached into his pocket and helped himself the the victim's wallet before all three fled, Wallace said.




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Ted Danson Joins 'CSI'

Score one for the good guys.

The CSI team is about to get a much-needed boost from a new lead investigator played by Ted Danson. Danson will replace Laurence Fishburne, who left the CBS procedural drama in May after joining the cast two years ago to fill the void left by former star William Petersen.

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"You can create a new character on the page, but until the perfect actor comes along and breathes life into it, it's just words," said executive producer Carol Mendelsohn. "We're very excited Ted Danson came along."

Entertainment Weekly reports that Danson—who's won several Emmys for his work on Cheers and Damages and currently stars with Zach Galifianakis on HBO's Bored to Death—won the role over actors including Tony Shaloub, Robin Williams, and John Lithgow.

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"From the moment we all started talking about the role, it was clear he couldn't be more perfect," said executive producer Don McGill. "Intelligence, wit, warmth, depth of character, and emotion, he brings it all. And now he'll have to bring latex gloves, too."

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100 Million Dollar House...so big you need a plane to cross the lawn

A Russian billionaire investor paid $100 million for a French chateau-style mansion in Silicon Valley, marking the highest known price paid for a single-family home in the U.S.

The purchase of the 25,500-square-foot home in Los Altos Hills, Calif., underscores the strength of some luxury properties in an otherwise depressed housing market.

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12-Year-Old Genius Expands Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Thinks He Can Prove It Wrong

Could Einstein's Theory of Relativity be a few mathematical equations away from being disproved? Jacob Barnett of Hamilton County, Ind., who is just weeks shy of his 13th birthday, thinks so. And, he's got the solutions to prove it.
Barnett, who has an IQ of 170, explained his expanded theory of relativity — in a YouTube video. His mother Kristine Barnett, who admittedly flunked math, did what every other mother would do if her genius son started talking mathematical gibberish. She told him to explain the whole thing slowly while she taped her son explaining his take on the theory.


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Former truck driver deciphers top secrets of first atomic bombs

Two decades after helping to design the first atomic bomb, Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project, was asked to describe how he felt after the bomb's first test. "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky," he quoted from the Hindu scripture, Bhagavad Gita, "that would be like the splendor of the mighty one. Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds."

When bombs that he helped design were unleashed over two cities in Japan in August 1945, they detonated at temperatures 10,000 times hotter than the surface of the sun. So began the Atomic Age, a period that would blow apart our ideas about warfare and technology, send the Americans and Russians into a perpetual state of fear, and set the world on a course of nuclear power, the unintended effects of which are being felt once again in Japan.

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Unrest in north africa

Three people were killed in clashes between Tunisian security forces and youths rioting in central Tunis Saturday, an Interior Ministry official told Reuters.

The official, who declined to be named, said another 12 had been injured in the clashes, which he said occurred after a riot orchestrated by loyalists of ousted President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. He said about 100 people had been arrested.

"Those who were arrested have admitted they were pushed by former Ben Ali officials," he said. "Others said they were paid to do it."

A Reuters witness had earlier seen Tunisian soldiers fire into the air and use tear gas in an effort to disperse dozens of youths, many carrying sticks, who were breaking shop windows near Tunis's Barcelona Station.

The North African state's crime rates have soared since a popular uprising toppled Ben Ali on January 14, and security officials often say his supporters are trying to destabilize the country.

The clash followed a large protest late Friday against the make-up of the post-Ben Ali interim government. During that, security forces fired in the air to disperse protesters who burned tyres and threw rocks.

Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi told Al Jazeera television police seized a car and its driver with $60,000 in cash which he said was being distributed to thugs.

"We have been facing a lot of difficulties lately, as if there is a ploy to destabilize the interim government ... Next week will be decisive in bringing about a road map" for a transition to democratic government, he said.