This is Michael Graham's 22nd year as the Santa at Tyson's Corner Center where, from Thanksgiving to December, he can be seen greeting children and some young adults during the holiday season, Tyson's Corner, VA, Wednesday, December 14, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)
Customers shop at a Best Buy store in Burbank, Calif., on Friday. This year's Black Friday rush was particularly lucrative for electronics dealers such as Best Buy, many of whom lured shoppers as early as Thanksgiving Day by offering midnight sales on deeply discounted items such as flat-screen televisions, smart phones and video games. (Associated Press)
Bruce Boudreau's message had become lost on a Capitals team that started 7-0-0 but has gone just 5-9-1 since then. Boudreau's record was 201-88-40 since becoming Washington's coach Thanksgiving Day 2007. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
Customers pile purchases into their carts at a Best Buy store in Burbank, Calif., on Black Friday. Cyber Monday, Green Tuesday and Magenta Saturday have become part of a color-coded shopping experience between Thanksgiving and Christmas. (Associated Press)
Joel Pizarro fills his cart with several TVs during a midnight doorbuster sale at Best Buy in Columbia Heights on Black Friday. Lines started forming at many stores early on Thanksgiving Day. Total sales at retail stores nationwide on Friday were a record $11.4 billion. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)
John Kinder, a member of the Posse of Pinal County Sheriff Department, secures a road on Nov. 24, 2011, while a search and rescue team works around the clock at the Superstition Mountains east of Apache Junction, Ariz., where small plane crashed the previous evening. All passengers aboard were killed, including a pilot father and his three children traveling for Thanksgiving. (Associated Press/The Arizona Republic)
Mason Binion, of Washington, D.C., at left and Tasha Johnson, of Washington, center, wait in line with other shoppers along 14th Street NW for the midnight opening at the DC USA Shopping Center in Columbia Heights on Thanksgiving day in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 24, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/ The Washington Times)
Gina Youngman, right, of New Canaan, Conn., reacts as her daughter Sarah, 15, from left, and friend Celina Sprague, of Washington, D.C., model hats at the Gap's Georgetown store on Thanksgiving day in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 24, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/ The Washington Times)
Wanda King, of Hyattsville, Md., attaches a mannequin's hand at the Gap's Georgetown store as shops open for business on Thanksgiving day in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 24, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/ The Washington Times)
