James Brodie, 19, went missing in 2003 after 64-year-old Marian Bates was shot dead at a family store in Arnold.

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The home of cable channels Food Network, HGTV and Travel Channel is tucked between the old Brown Squirrel Furniture Store and the Dead Horse Lake Golf Course at the foot of the Great Smoky Mountains in Knoxville, Tenn.

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"Second screen strategies that are just one of half a million apps on the App Store, I think they're dead, " Navin said.

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In another strong example of Microsoft's continued " investment" in PlaysForSure, it's pulling out of MSN Music, the big M's very own store for selling the not-completely-dead-yet music format.

ENGADGET: Microsoft quits the MSN Music store

First problem: Most people have no way to store that electricity onsite, so if the grid goes dead, the solar panels do too.

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I'm one of the latter set: The notion of entering a store on Black Friday is about as appealing to me as a dentist appointment in the dead of winter, but I'm quite happy to pick off some good online deals.

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