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Meghan Markle doesn’t have a big family, and as we all know, her father probably won’t be in the running for world’s best parent any time soon. But she’s close with her mother, Doria Ragland — and according to reports, the two might get even closer.

Depending how trustworthy you find tabloids, there is growing evidence that Ragland is preparing to move to London to be closer to Meghan, her only child. According to Express, she’s “beside herself with excitement” about the move, which will reportedly happen next month.

“She is getting ready to move to London. I think she will be going as soon as possible,” a friend of Ragland’s, who of course could not be named, apparently told Express. “She also fell in love with England and told me when she got back that it’s somewhere she believes she too could happily live.”

Another source told the paper that Meghan and her mother are “inseparable.”

It’s not impossible that a move might be coming: Ragland, 61, quit her job at an L.A. mental health clinic in May. She was a social worker focusing on geriatric patients, and also taught yoga on the side.

Of course, some people see the news about Meghan’s mom as a precursor to Meghan and Harry becoming parents themselves. “Following rumours that Meghan and Harry will start a family of their own in the near future, it makes sense that Ragland would want to be much nearer her daughter,” Harper’s Bazaar wrote. (Not to add to that speculation, or anything, but this might be a good time to point out that when they first got engaged and a BBC reporter asked them if they planned to have children, Harry said, “Of course.”)

In an essay published in Glamour last summer, Meghan cited her mother as one of the women who changed her life. She praised her mother’s “life-long sensitivity to nurturing and caregiving” as well as her “free spirit.”

“We can just have so much fun together, and yet, I’ll still find so much solace in her support,” she wrote. “That duality coexists the same way it would in a best friend.”

Tesla CEO Elon Musk apparently tried (unsuccessfully) to work with Nintendo on an in-car version of Mario Kart.

On Twitter earlier today, Musk was asked about the potential of making certain games playable in Teslas. Specifically, someone asked about Mario Kart.

“How about a version of Mario Kart where you can play against random people who are also charging their car at the moment?” asked @rocketisfine.

“We tried,” replied Musk. “Nintendo won’t license it to us.”

Mario Kart isn’t the only game people want to play in their Teslas, either. Another Twitter user asked about the possibility of putting Steam in Teslas. It doesn’t sound like Tesla has looked into that yet, but Musk responded, “That would be cool.”

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The idea of playing video games in a Tesla isn’t as far-fetched as it may seem. In August, Musk announced that some classic Atari games would be made playable in Teslas. He delivered on that promise in October, and readers can watch IGN play games like Missile Command and Centipede in a Tesla.

Nick Santangelo is a freelance writer based in Philadelphia. He loves video games and sports, but not sports video games. Follow him on Twitter.

Rejoice, fellow Canadians, for the day we’ve all been waiting for is finally here.

Tim Hortons has launched a rewards program after a year of testing. Consumers who join the program can have a free coffee, tea or baked good after every seventh visit — in honour of founder and NHL icon Tim Horton’s jersey number.

The coffee and tea rewards can be any size, and all baked goods except Timbits and bagels are included in the program. All visits where customers spend over 50 cents qualify for the program, but more than one visit can’t be logged in the same half hour period.

The company plans on expanding the products that can be redeemed through the Tims Rewards program going forward, according to Bloomberg.

“Tim Hortons has some of the most loyal guests in Canada and Tims Rewards allows us to say thank you,” Alex Macedo, the company’s president, said in a news release. “We heard from our guests that a new rewards program had to be easy to use and redeem, that’s why we offer both a reusable card and a digital friendly app.”

Customers who have accumulated awards can choose to use them later, and bank up to five at a time, with unused rewards expiring 120 days after being obtained, iphoneincanada.ca reported.

The company said it hoped to start a loyalty program last spring, following high-profile disputes with franchisees that shook many people’s trust in the chain.

“Ultimately why we launched this program was a reaction to the voice of our guests,” Mike Hancock, the company’s COO, told Bloomberg. “We listened to our guests and they said this is something that they wanted.”

Many of Tim Hortons’ competitors have had loyalty programs for some time — McDonalds has paper cards that customers can add stickers to that give them a free drink after they’ve accumulated seven stickers and recently expanded their program to include app functionality, while Starbucks has had its own unique card and app rewards program for years, though the company revamped their program this week to provide different reward tiers.

People interested in joining the new program can get a plastic swipe card from a Tim Hortons location, or download the newest version of the franchise’s phone app to use as a card and track how close you are to your next reward. People with iPhones or Android phones can also add a virtual card to their digital wallets to use instead.

The company says the program will also debut mobile offers and discounts going forward.

Who needs Roll-Up-The-Rim’s supposed one in six prize chances when you now have a guaranteed freebie after seven?

Although we’re still holding out for the car….

OKLAHOMA CITY – Lauren Haeger’s arm and bat powered top-seeded Florida to a 4-0 winover No. 5 LSU in the first winner’s bracket game on day two of the 2015 Women’s College World Series, Thursday evening at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium.

For the second straight day, Haeger gave her team the lead with a home run and then held her opponents at bay in the circle. The NFCA First-Team All-American’s fifth-inning two-run long ball gave the Gators (57-6) a 2-0 lead and then she held the Tigers (51-13) to just one hit over the final three innings to earn her 12^th shutout of the season.

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Haeger allowed five hits, struck out four and did not walk a batter to earn her 30^th win of the season and 71^st of her career. The home run was her 18^th in 2015 and 70^th career-wise.

She wasn’t the only one who played a role in the win. UF recorded 10 hits, three from junior Kirsti Merritt (3-for-3) and two apiece from freshman Nicole DeWitt (2-for-4) and senior Aubree Munro (2-for-3). Dewitt homered and scored twice. Defensively, two key first inning plays by Taylor Fuller at third and Kathlyn Medina at shortstop erased a no-out bases loaded threat.

Before Haeger’s long ball broke the scoreless deadlock, both teams loaded the bases in the first and could not score. Florida’s Kelsey Stewart led the game off with a triple and after a strikeout the Gators had the bases full, but a pop up and a strikeout of Bailey Castro by Carly Hoover ended the threat.

In the bottom half of the frame, the Tigers first three batters singled off Haeger to load them up. However, the NFCA First-Team All-American bore down and induced two ground balls to end it, the second of which was a 6-3 tag and throw double play to end the frame.

DeWitt’s first WCWS home run and second of the season made it a 3-0 ball game in the sixth. A throwing error on a double steal closed out the scoring for the Gators. 

Hoover suffered the defeat for the Tigers. She went 5.2 innings, allowing three runs on eight hits with four strikeouts and four walks. Kelsee Selman closed out the game, surrendering an unearned run on two hits with a walk and strikeout.

With the win, Florida earns a day off and a trip to the semifinals on Sunday, May 31 at 1:00 p.m. ET, while LSU moves to the loser bracket and will play at 9:30 p.m.

— Photo courtesy of Gatorzone.com

VAUGHAN, Ont. — Canada’s Wonderland says the amusement park north of Toronto will feature a record-setting roller coaster when it opens for the 2019 season.

It’s called the Yukon Striker, which Canada’s Wonderland bills as the “longest, fastest and tallest dive roller coaster in the world.”

The park says it will be the first such dive coaster in Canada and the 17th at the centre in Vaughan, Ont., placing it among the world’s top three amusement parks with the most roller coasters.

Yukon Striker will zip along more than 1,100 metres of mountainous track and include a 90-degree, 75-metre drop into an underwater tunnel.

Canada’s Wonderland says the Yukon Striker will claim several world records, including the longest, tallest and fastest dive coaster at 130 kilometres per hour.

The ride will be part of the park’s Frontier Canada section, which will depict the Yukon backcountry during the Klondike Gold Rush era of the late 1890s.

This week General Motors announced the closure of assembly plants including Oshawa (Ont.), Lordstown (Ohio) and Detroit-Hamtramck (Mich.) by the end of 2019, eliminating 6,200 jobs in the Great Lakes manufacturing region. While the sustained lows of the DOW industrial average could indicate GM is bracing itself for the possibility of a looming recession, the upcoming closures are part of a long cycle of the manufacturing sector flexing its mobility in the interest of profits over the long-term security of workers and the cities they call home.

GM executives announced that some workers on the U.S. side of the border will be given the option to relocate to other GM facilities. Plans are underway to increase production at GM’s Flint assembly where the company’s line of trucks is produced. GM has suggested that Flint, formerly known as “Vehicle City,” is one of the locations U.S. workers may opt for relocation. Ohio was one of the remaining Midwestern strongholds resisting anti-union legislation, though workers from the Lordstown assembly will be redirected into a right-to-work state to compete for jobs with laid-off Detroit-Hamtramck workers.

Despite the Oshawa Unifor local’s collective bargaining process with GM in 2016 — resulting in concessions on pensions in exchange for long-term investments to secure jobs — Canadian workers will not be relocated to GM’s two remaining Ontario sites in St. Catherines and Ingersoll.

When manufacturing jobs are relocated or eliminated, people suffer the consequences of unemployment. However, the loss of manufacturing also takes a deep toll on the cities manufacturers leave behind, producing neighbourhood disparity reflected in economic and subsequent racialized segregation and municipal disinvestment. We need only to look to the past to see how.

Auto towns: a cycle of boom and bust

Flint, once home to 220,000, offers a strong if overstated example. Today, Flint’s 102,400 remaining residents have sustained decades of automotive plant closures, the Great Recession and a $5.5-billion dollar reduction in state tax revenue once directed toward civic maintenance.

Worn from the impacts of automotive corporate disinvestment beginning in the 1970s and 30,000 job losses, residents of Flint have most recently endured further state disinvestment that contaminated the majority African American city’s water supply. The majority of Flint residents were without safe household drinking water for upwards of four years.

Since the water crisis, residents have been effectively restricted from moving away from Flint for lack of economic mobility due to racialized income disparity, and major decreases in property values resulting from surrounding vacant and blighted homes, ill-maintained infrastructure and deeply underfunded public services. The upcoming reorganization of GM workers to the Flint truck assembly plant is indicative of the increasing precariousness of once-stable manufacturing jobs, and the 21st-century re-emergence of the company town, caught in a cycle of boom to bust, to re-occupied homes in disinvested neighbourhoods.

In 1979, Detroit’s Chrysler-owned Dodge Main facility was shuttered. GM secured a land deal with the City of Detroit and State of Michigan and bought the plant in 1981. The purchasing agreement enacted eminent domain on 465 acres of Poletown, a densely populated neighbourhood of working-class Eastern European immigrants and African American autoworkers surrounding Dodge Main. In exchange for GM’s US$1 land purchase, the city demolished 1,500 homes, 16 churches, a hospital, 144 businesses and a school.

The demolition displaced 3,500 residents to enable GM’s development of the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly, coldly referred to as the Poletown Plant by residents. Razing Poletown was a futile effort that destroyed a neighbourhood in a nostalgic attempt to reproduce economic stability that was never secure to begin with.

The future of Oshawa

GM’s 100 years in Oshawa without a doubt provided a foundation for the city’s growth and regional economic stability within the Golden Horseshoe. Unlike Flint and Lordstown, Oshawa’s diversity of manufacturing in aerospace and robotics industries, food processing and chemical production will provide relative economic stability even with the loss of GM.

Laid-off GM employees who remain in Oshawa will have to find new employment in non-automotive industries within the city or relocate for work, though the city’s property market will not be implicated the way Lordstown, a strictly automotive economy, will be. To be clear, Oshawa’s housing market will continue to attract attention from prospective buyers priced out of buying in Toronto. The relative economic mobility afforded to those who sell their homes in Oshawa offers no room for comparing Oshawa with the deeply devalued housing markets in Detroit or Flint.

With Oshawa’s portfolio of manufacturers, the GM closures offers workers in this sector an opportunity to collectively organize for increased job security and community benefits that could secure a more equitable future for workers. In Detroit, for example, the 2016 implementation of a community benefits ordinance (CBO) ensured developers proactively negotiate with community members on terms of agreement before city council will approve development or major land sales. An Oshawa CBO agreement could include negotiating for corporate investment in public amenities, or the employment of impacted community members in a new development.

Unite auto workers across borders

These closures around the Great Lakes Region demonstrate a climate of fairweather manufacturing deeply unaccountable to organized labour and past government collaboration. The combination of state financial and corporate disinvestment that has increased unemployment and left municipal infrastructure crumbling or demolished is a devastating coupling of state and corporate partnership not to be overlooked.

To prevent further losses in the manufacturing sector, automotive workers need to demand legislation that socializes ownership of the sector and enables the cross-border organization of workers that reflects the multinational scale of the automotive industry. This requires provincial and federal cooperation with autoworkers and related unions, and would grow our public assets through the accumulation of manufacturing facilities, technology and property. After all, modern automotive production requires a regional manufacturing sector to build a car — not a single city or country.

Although decisions made by corporations like GM tend to be multinational in scope, the expansion of North America’s automotive manufacturers globally impacts workers most in their own communities, in Canada, the U.S., Mexico and overseas.

Strong government intervention that acknowledges the important role of manufacturing in building economically and socially sustainable communities is what workers need to cease the devastating effects of capital disinvestment in their cities, neighbourhoods and workplaces.

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LIVE from 10AM: 15% off Everything at eBay UK Using Code: PRESENTS

Missed out on Black Friday deals? eBay UK has discounted everything by 15% on orders over £20 starting from 10AM this morning and ending at tomorrow midnight. We hand-picked the best deals, all of which beat Black Friday prices. For instance, during Black Friday sale Nintendo Switch standalone console was priced at £249.00. Today you can get it at just £237.99. Don’t forget to enter the code PRESENTS at checkout.

• Head straight to eBay and use code PRESENTS to get 15% off everything

Alternatively, check my hand-picked deals below:

• HOT: Nintendo Switch Neon Red/Neon Blue console – was £279.99, now £237.99
• HOT: Nintendo Switch Console Pokémon Lets Go Pikachu Bundle with Poke Ball Plus – was £334.85, now £284.85
• HOT: Nintendo Switch Console Pokémon Lets Go Eevee Bundle with Poke Ball Plus – was £334.85, now £284.85
• HOT: Red Dead Redemption 2 (PS4) – was £49.85, now £42.37
• HOT: Red Dead Redemption 2 (Xbox One) – was £49.85, now £42.37
• Nintendo Classic Mini NES – was £49.99. now £42.49
• Sony Playstation Classic Mini – was £89.99, now £76.49
• PS4 Pro 1TB Console & Red Dead Redemption 2 bundle – was £349.99, now £299.99
• Nintendo Switch Super Mario Odyssey bundle – was £320.00, now £272.00
• Xbox One S 1TB Battlefield V Deluxe Edition – was £199.99, now £170.00
• Nintendo Switch Diablo III Limited Edition bundle – was £334.99, now £284.74
• Sony PlayStation VR (PSVR) V2 with Camera, VR Worlds and Astro Bot – was £189.99, now £161.50
• LEGO Super Heroes Flying Fox Batmobile Airlift Attack Playset 76087 – was £49.99, now £42.50
• Forza Horizon 4 Xbox One – was £26.85, now £22.83
• Mario Rabbids Kingdom Battle Gold Nintendo Switch game – was £25.99, now £22.10
• Bang & Olufsen BeoPlay H9i Over-Ear headphones – was £324.99, now £276.24
• DELL G5 15.6″ Intel Core i5 GTX 1060 gaming laptop 1TB HDD and 128GB SSD – was £899.00, now £849.00
• Oculus Rift Virtual Reality headset – was £349.99, now £299.99

Editors notes: If you’re unsure whether a deal from eBay is good or not, you can find the product on Amazon and head over to CamelCamelCamel, which is an Amazon price tracker with price history charts that will show you the highest, average and lowest price of an item. Minimum spend is £20 and the maximum discount is £50. T&Cs apply.

Red Dead Redemption 2 Online Beta Now Live

Rockstar Games will begin inviting players into the online beta starting from 27th November, 2018. Those who buy/bought the Ultimate Edition of Red Dead Redemption 2  are able to play from 27th November 1:30PM UK time. From today, everyone who played the game on October 26th (launch day) will join them. On Thursday, those who played the game between October 26th and 29th (launch weekend) will be allowed to play until eventually, all players who own Red Dead Redemption 2 can join in.

IGN Exclusive: Red Dead Redemption 2: Ultimate Edition (PS4) for £83.40

Use our exclusive discount code IGN4 to instantly receive a redeemable digital key in your email for Red Dead Redemption 2: Ultimate Edition (Xbox One) for £73.22 and play the online beta as soon as it starts at 1:30PM. To put this deal in perspective, an Xbox One Digital Key for Red Dead Redemption 2: Ultimate Edition is currently listed for £89.99 at Amazon.

PS4 users, follow the steps (in order) below:

• Purchase £50 PS Network Card for £45.44 w/ code IGN4
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• Login to PS4 here and redeem Network Card codes
• Add £14.99 to your wallet and purchase Red Dead Redemption 2 from the PS Store for a total of £83.40. 

Editors notes: You can also use our exclusive Cyber Week discount code IGN4 at SCDKey up until the end of November to get 4% off Digital PC and Xbox One games, Xbox Live and PlayStation Plus subscriptions, and more.

Amazon Exclusive: Red Dead Redemption 2 with Collectible SteelBook PS4 / Xbox One for under £50

If you can wait a couple of days to play the beta, then grab one of the cheaper alternatives below:

• Red Dead Redemption 2 with Collectible SteelBook (PS4) – was £59.99, now £49.99
• Red Dead Redemption 2 with Collectible Steelbook (Xbox One) – was £59.99, now £49.99

Today’s Best Deals

Get £15 Cashback at GAME with TopCashaback, Including Call of Duty: Black Ops 4

How does it work?

• 100% cashback up to £15 at GAME, means that TopCashback will refund 100% cashback up to £15 spends at GAME.
• E.g. spend £49.99 on ‘CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS 4’ and get £15 cashback. Purchases over £15 will receive a maximum of £15 cashback.
• The 100% cashback up to £15 at GAME offer end date is 02/12/2018 23:59.

How to receive cashback?

• Sign up on the right of this page, once signed up you’ll be redirected to TopCashback’s offer page
• On the offer page you will see the offer information, hit the “Get Cashback” button, you’ll then be redirected to GAME’s website .
• Once on GAME’s website make your purchase as normal.
• After you’ve made your purchase, you should see your cashback pending in your account within 1 week. Once payable you can withdraw the cashback to your bank account.

Half Price Audible Membership for 4 Months

4 Month Audible Membership for £3.99 per Month (usually £7.99 per Month)

Love books? With Audible it’s easy to tune into audiobooks wherever you are. By streaming or downloading books onto the free Audible app you will be able enjoy your favourite titles on the go, in your car or even at the gym. You can opt-out of this deal at any time.

• Get 50% off an Audible Membership for 4 Months. Join Audible for just £3.99/month. Offer available until 14th December 2018.

3 Months of Amazon Music Unlimited for 99p (usually £23.97)

Amazon Music Unlimited is usually £9.99 a month, or £7.99 a month if you’re an Amazon Prime member, which means you’ll be saving a load of money with this Amazon Black Friday deal. Amazon Music Unlimited has 40 million songs in its arsenal, with new releases everyday from today’s most popular artists. By nature, the streaming service is compatible with Amazon’s smart speaker devices.

• Get 3 Months of Amazon Music Unlimited for 99p. This is a limited time offer. The promotional offer of 3 months for £0.99 is valid from November 15, 2018 through January 2, 2019 and redeemable towards an Amazon Music Unlimited Individual Monthly Plan.

Free Currys PC World Voucher with Huawei Mate 20 Pro, P20 Pro or P20

Receive a complimentary Currys PC World gift card worth £40 when you purchase the Huawei Mate 20 Pro, P20 Pro or P20 on a pay monthly contract. To claim the voucher you will have to enter your email here before purchasing the contract. The further information on how to get your reward will be communicated to you via email and your contact details will not be stored or used for any other purpose. After you have competed this step, chose a mobile contract deal that is right for you.

• Enter your email here for £40 Currys PC World voucher

Huawei Handset Deals at Carphone Warehouse:

• Huawei Mate 20 Pro
• Huawei P20 Pro
• Huawei P20

Save on Amazon Devices

Even though Black Friday and Cyber Monday already ended, major retailers such as Amazon are still keeping some of their most popular items on sale. Check out the list of the best deals on Amazon devices.

Amazon Echo Speakers and Bundles:

• Echo Dot (3. Gen.) – was £49.99, now £24.99
• Echo (2. Gen.) – was £89.99, now £54.99
• Amazon Echo Input, Black with Ultimate Ears MEGABOOM 3 Wireless Bluetooth Speaker, Night Black – was £204.98, now £169.99
• Amazon Echo Input, Black + Ultimate Ears BOOM 3 Wireless Bluetooth Speaker, Night Black – was £164.98, now £129.99
• Echo Dot 3rd Gen with Amazon Smart Plug Bundle – was £74.98, now £34.98
• Echo with Amazon Smart Plug Bundle – was £114.98, now £64.98

Get up to 25% off TVs at Amazon

You can chose anything from 24-inch HD to 65-inch 4K Ultra HDR smart TVs, and more. Head to Amazon to view the full selection that includes popular brands, such as Hisense, Toshiba and Philips. If you want to have a look at more TV deals, check our roundup of the best Cyber Week TV deals here.

Hand-picked deals:

• Philips 75″ 4K Ultra HD Smart TV with HDR Plus (2018 Model) – was £2,500.00, now £1,999.00
• Philips 65″ 4K Ultra HD Smart TV with HDR Plus (2018 Model) – was £800.00, now £599.00
• Philips 50″ 4K Ultra HD Smart TV with HDR Plus (2018 Model) – was £450.00, now £399.00
• Hisense 65″ 4K Ultra HD HDR Smart TV (2018 Model) – was £699.00, now £569.00
• TCL 50″ 4K Ultra HD HDR TV (2018 Model) – was £499.00, now £379.00
• TCL 43″ 4K Ultra HD HDR TV (2018 Model) – was £499.00, now £329.00
• Toshiba 32″ HD Ready Smart TV with Freeview Play and Built In DVD Player (2018 Model) – was £269.00, now £229.00

The Best Broadband Deals in November

If you’re in the market for a broadband deal, whether it is superfast fibre. brodband and TV bundles or just standard broadband, then check the best Black Friday offers on them below:

• Compare the best Broadband deals using our comparison site
• FIBRE  Vodafone Superfast 2 Broadband (63MB average speed) with £50 voucher – £25 a month for 18 months, £25 a month thereafter. £0 setup costs. 18 month contract applies. Offer ends 29/11/2018.
• NOW Broadband: Fab Fibre and Anytime Calls 3 (36MB average speed) with £50 voucher (Argos, John Lewis, Tesco) – £23.50 per month for 12 months,  £9.99 setup cost.

IGN Exclusive: CyberGhost VPN for Only £1.60 per Month

Recently, VPNs are becoming increasingly popular because they can ensure your security and privacy when browsing the web. CyberGhost VPN is also a great VPN to access American Netflix from the UK and paying £1.59 per month on top of your current Netflix subscription to get all of the Netflix content you get in America is definitely worth it. This exclusive deal for IGN readers makes it the cheapest VPN available right now which is compatible with Netflix.

Read our guide on how to get American Netflix content in the UK.

• IGN Exclusive: CyberGhost VPN 4-year subscription deal – £1.60 per month, £19.20 billed annually (80% off).

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• IGN Exclusive: PureVPN 1-year subscription deal – £2.33 per month, £27.96 billed annually (73% off).

Amazon Black Friday Deal: Amazon Music Unlimited for 99p

3 Months of Amazon Music Unlimited for 99p (usually £23.97)

Amazon Music Unlimited is usually £9.99 a month, or £7.99 a month if you’re an Amazon Prime member, which means you’ll be saving a load of money with this Amazon Black Friday deal. Amazon Music Unlimited has 40 million songs in its arsenal, with new releases everyday from today’s most popular artists. By nature, the streaming service is compatible with Amazon’s smart speaker devices.

• Get 3 Months of Amazon Music Unlimited for 99p. This is a limited time offer. The promotional offer of 3 months for £0.99 is valid from November 15, 2018 through January 2, 2019 and redeemable towards an Amazon Music Unlimited Individual Monthly Plan.

Save 25% off Selected Laptops

In the market for a new laptop? It’s your lucky day, as early Black Friday deals can save you up to 25% off makes such as Acer, Lenovo, HP and more.

Hand-picked deals:

• AORUS X7 DT v8 17.3” FHD Gaming Laptop – (Intel i7-8850H, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD + 1TB HDD, NVIDIA GTX1080 Graphics Card) – was £2999.00, now £2,549.99
• GIGABYTE AERO 15X 15.6” FHD Gaming Laptop – (Intel Core i7-8750H, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, NVIDIA GTX1070 Graphics Card) – was £2199.00, now £1,799.98
• ASUS ZenBook 13 UX331UA-EG005T 13.3″ Full HD Laptop – (Intel Core i5-8250U, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD) – was £899.99, now £699.99
• ACER Aspire 7 15.6″ FHD Gaming Notebook – (Intel Core i5-7300HQ, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Graphics) – was £749.99, now £599.99
• ASUS VivoBook 15.6″ Full HD Laptop – (Intel Core i5-8250U Processor, 4GB RAM + 16GB Intel Optane Memory, 1TB HDD, NVIDIA MX130 Graphics Card) – was £599.99, now £499.99

Save up to 57% off Norton Security Antivirus Get Norton Antivirus for great value during Black Friday, The Norton Security Deluxe antivirus package will provide protection for up to 5 devices against viruses and ransomware, as well as encrypt the data you send and receive on public WiFi. It is reduced for Black Friday from £69.99 to £29.99.

• Norton Security Deluxe Antivirus (1 Year, 5 Devices) – was £69.99, now £24.99
• Norton Security Premium Antivirus (1 Year, 10 Devices) – was £79.99, now £34.99
• Norton Security Basic Antivirus (1 Year, 1 PC) – was £29.99, now £24.99
• Norton Security Standard Antivirus (1 Year, 1 Device) – was £49.99, now £19.99

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Unbeaten two-time defending national champion Tufts University continues to be the pacesetter atop the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Division III Top 25 softball rankings.

Tufts (38-0) extended its victory streak to 40 games, dating back to the final two games of the NCAA Championship Series last May, and holds the No. 1 spot for the 11th week this season and 14th consecutive week. The Jumbos have now won 71 of their last 72 and have received every first-place vote going back to last April. They have been ranked first in 15 of the last 18 polls and 20 of the last 24.

The next three teams remain unchanged for the third straight week, with Texas-Tyler (37-1), East Texas Baptist (31-2) and Luther (35-3). Trine (33-2) joins them in the top five, replacing Virginia Wesleyan (29-6), which dropped five spots to 10th after two losses as the top seed in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference tournament.

Last year’s Division III runner-up Salisbury (30-6) won four straight to move up two places to sixth, while Emory (31-7) gained two spots to seventh and Wisconsin-Whitewater (32-6) surged five places to No. 8.

Rowan (34-4) finally stopped its steady climb up the rankings, but remains in the top 10 at No. 9, and won its first New Jersey Athletic Conference tournament contest on Tuesday behind Beth Ann Hyland’s one-hit gem.

Washington (33-11) University had the biggest fall this week, eight places to a tie with Hope (27-7) for 20th, while Alfred (31-3) kept up its winning ways for the second-best gain (four spots) to 18th.

Overall, 12 teams in rankings have win streaks of 12 or more games.

No. 23 Fontbonne (27-9) and No. 25 Wisconsin-Eau Claire (25-16) join Ramapo (25-11-1) and William Paterson (27-9-1) in the receiving votes category as the newcomers this week.

Birmingham-Southern, Simpson and Wisconsin-La Crosse, meanwhile, are the three teams that dropped out this week.

The NFCA Division III Top 25 Poll is selected by eight NCAA Division III head coaches representing the eight NCAA regions. Current records are listed, with first-place votes in parentheses.

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