Black Friday 2013 at Wal-Mart

"Black Friday is our Super Bowl, and we plan to win." So said Wal-Mart's chief marketing officer Duncan MacNaughton. And exactly how does Wal-Mart plan to crush the competition this Black Friday?: By rewriting the old rules on everything from its door-buster deals to its price-matching policies. 

With Wal-Mart changing the rules of Black Friday, shoppers need to use new strategies to score the best deals, too. Here Alison Southwick and Dayana Yochim show you how to shop like a champ this Black Friday at Wal-Mart.

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Dividend stocks can make you rich. It's as simple as that. While they don't garner the notoriety of high-flying growth stocks, they're also less likely to crash and burn. And over the long term, the compounding effect of the quarterly payouts, as well as their growth, adds up faster than most investors imagine.

With this in mind, our analysts sat down to identify the absolute best of the best when it comes to rock-solid dividend stocks, drawing up a list in this free report of nine that fit the bill.

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Thanksgiving Recipe

Stuffing or dressing can be found on nearly every Thanksgiving table, but it’s one of the toughest holiday menu items to pull off well.

It’s too dry. It’s too wet. It’s under seasoned. It’s over seasoned. You get the idea: there’s always something just a little off.

Not to worry, we have you covered with four fantastic stuffing and dressing recipes. And we’re not stopping there - we’re going to give you a never-fail recipe for turkey gravy!

4 cups quality white bread, cubed

½ cup onion, minced

½ cup celery, chopped

¾ cup butter

1/8 teaspoon black pepper

1 teaspoon poultry seasoning

½ teaspoon dried thyme

½ teaspoon dried sage

1 egg, beaten

½ cup cream

Chicken or turkey broth

Saute onion and celery in the butter until soft. Combine the onion and celery with the all of the other ingredients in a large bowl. Add broth until moist. Stuff turkey, or place dressing mixture in an oiled baking dish and bake at 325 degrees for 40 minutes.

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Rarer than Panda

In the dust of the Gobi desert in China’s far west, ultra-modernity sweeps past an eddy of industrial history in one of railway transportation’s most remarkable close encounters. Hundreds of kilometres of track are being laid to connect the country’s bullet-train network with Xinjiang, a region bordering on Central Asia. Near Sandaoling, a grim and remote mining town on the edge of Xinjiang, the new line runs close to the world’s largest concentration of steam locomotives in active service.

The Sandaoling mine, which opened in 1970, is on a branch of the old railway line between Lanzhou and Urumqi. When the bullet trains start running, coal diggers in the area expect a boom; the plan is to dedicate the old line to freight, which should make transporting coal much cheaper. Every day Sandaoling uses steam locomotives to haul thousands of tonnes of coal out of the vast pit. Around 20 are still in use, far more than a trainspotter can expect to see at work in one place anywhere else.

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NYC's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

The big balloons soared along with the crowd’s spirits Thursday as the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade made its way through the streets of New York City.

There had been some concerns about whether the wind could keep 16 giant balloons grounded after a wet and blustery storm hit the East Coast a day earlier. But the cherished tradition prevailed when the New York City Police Department decided Thursday that winds were calm enough.

Balloons have only been grounded once in the parade’s 87-year history, when bad weather kept them from flying in 1971.

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Bitcoin under pressure

All currencies involve some measure of consensual hallucination, but Bitcoin, a virtual monetary system, involves more than most. It is a peer-to-peer currency with no central bank, based on digital tokens with no intrinsic value.

Rather than relying on confidence in a central authority, it depends instead on a distributed system of trust, based on a transaction ledger which is cryptographically verified and jointly maintained by the currency’s users.

Transactions can occur directly between the system’s participants at almost zero cost, without the need for a trusted third party or any other intermediary, and are irreversible once committed to a permanent and fully public record.

Bitcoin’s mathematically elegant design ensures that the money supply can increase only at a fixed rate that slows over time and then stops altogether. Anonymity, while not assured, is possible with the right precautions and tools. No wonder Bitcoin is so appealing to geeks, libertarians, drug dealers, speculators and gold bugs.

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Coment Ison likely didn't survive sun encounter

Comet Ison likely didn't survive its graze past the sun early this afternoon, astronomers say.

"It's not looking good for Ison in my opinion," said Phil Plait, an astronomer who writes for Slate's Bad Astronomy blog, during a Google Hangout organized by NASA Thursday.

"That's kind of my assessment too," agreed Karl Battams, an astrophysicist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., who runs the NASA-funded Sungrazing Comets Project.

Images from NASA's SOHO spacecraft at 1:12 p.m. ET showed long tails that appeared as though they could be fading toward the sun, and the head of the comet was no longer visible.

By 2 p.m. ET, images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft did not show the comet at all, to the surprise of Dean Pasnell, project scientist for SDO, who said the rocky material from the comet wouldn't be expected to evaporate that quickly.

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Sharkeisha: sucker-punching teen turns viral sensation

If you've been on the web at all in the past 24 hours, chances are you've seen the name "Sharkeisha" pop up.

She's gone viral on Facebook, has hit the top of Google's search results, and on Wednesday evening her name was at the top of Twitter's trending topics list, leaving many to ask: Who isSharkeisha and why is she so popular?

Unfortunately, her story is not a happy one.

Sharkeisha is the name of a young woman who appears in a violent Instagram video that started going viral on Tuesday night.

In the short clip, Sharkeisha is seen sucker-punching another young woman whose name appears to be Shay. 

"Sharkeisha, no!" friends call out repeatedly from behind the camera as the young women continues to fight. Eventually, bystanders intervene and pull the women apart as Sharkeisha screams obscenities at Shay.

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