How can Children Track Santa on Christmas Eve?

'NORAD Tracks Santa' – as we all know- is the annual Christmas entertainment program of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) under which, every year on Christmas Eve, Santa Claus is followed from the time he leaves the North Pole to give presents to the children all around the world! NORAD, with the help of its volunteers, handles millions of telephone calls and mails to give all the children and their parents information about the locations crossed by Santa Clause. These calls and mails start floating in since Christmas Eve. With the technology spreading high and wide, now there are many other means through which children cam track Santa on Christmas Eve! Lets know, thus, how to track Santa on Christmas Eve with all these new media and means!

Websites and other Media to Track Santa!

Apart from the newspapers, radio, television broadcasts in North America that feature 'NORAD Tracks Santa' as one of the most important part of weather updates on Christmas Eve, many websites and social media networks are there to help in the task of tracking Santa Clause on Christmas Eve! These include the following.

NORAD Tracks Santa Website- The official website of NORAD- NORAD Tracks Santa – uses high tech systems like radar, satellites, Santa cams and fighter jets to track Santa. The kids countdown village of this site also offers new holiday game every day till the Christmas Eve i.e. December 24.

Facebook Fan Page of NORAD Tracks Santa- The Facebook Fanpage- NORAD Tracks Santa- has seven lakh plus fans who not only gives real time track of Santa from Christmas Eve but keeps you and your children updated about every new thing reagrading Santa and how to track him!

Twitter@NoradSanta- This is again the official page of NORAD Tracks Santa @NoradSanta for the very fresh and up-to-the-minute information about Santa's journey on Christmas!

Google+ Page for NORAD Santa- Beginning this year, this is the new media for tracking Santa- the Google+ NORAD Tracks Santa page.

Hotline to Track Santa on Christmas Eve- Telephone Number!

While the children all over the world can start tracking their favorite Santa from 12:00 a.m. MST on December 24, 2011- on the website as Santa prepares for his flight, they can even talk to a phone operator to know about Santa's current location starting 4:00 a.m. MST (6:00 a.m. EST)! They can do this by dialing the toll-free number 1-877-Hi-NORAD (1-877-446-6723) and even by sending an e-mail to noradtrackssanta@gmail.com

Unique Celebrity Christmas Ornaments and Decorations 2011!

Christmas is a special occasion for all- whether it be common people  who also become the happiest people on the earth or be it the celebrities whose Christmas celebrating ways are watched by the whole world! So, how are celebrities celebrating Christmas 2011? Let's have a glimpse of the same here with these celebrities stories- the stories of grand Christmas decorations and unique celebrity Christmas ornaments!

White House Christmas Decorations 2011!

White House Christmas decorations for this year were unveiled on November 30 in Washington, DC. The Christmas decoration theme for White House this year is - “Shine, Give, Share” There are 37 Christmas trees all over the White House which also includes the official 18-foot 6-inch balsam fir tree in the Blue Room that honors Blue Star military families. This year, President Barak's dog – popularly called the first family's dog- Bo has all attentions. There are Christmas ornaments representing Bo and also a topiary of Bo which is made with plastic and is placed in front of the fire place in the Library.

2011 White House Christmas Ornament!

Justin Bieber- Mariah Carey Video 'All I Want For Christmas is You' to Release on 30th November!

The joint venture of Justin Bieber and Mariah Carey- the Video 'All I Want For Christmas is You' will be released on Wednesday, 30 November, as revealed by the teenage singing heart throb Justin Bieber through tweeting. Justin Bieber tweeted- "BIG NEWS! Me and @MariahCarey will debut 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' Video WORLDWIDE on the Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting. #4DAYS."

Mariah Carey - Justin Bieber

"All I Want for Christmas Is You" video is a part of Bieber’s "Under the Mistletoe." The video is based on Carey song 'All I Want For Christmas is You' from her 1994 smash hit album "Merry Christmas." and is directed by Sanaa Hamri. This Justin Bieber- Mariah Carey video has been filmed only a few weeks ago at such locations as Macy’s etc. Justin Bieber, the 'Fa La La'-singer is quite excited and said to MTV News, "Mariah Carey is doing it with me! It’s incredible. So excited," he said. "We wanted Mariah from the beginning, but we kind of thought it was really hard, so we didn’t really push the idea. But she’s on my label, so we reached out to some people, she got in contact with us, and Randy Jackson was actually at the studio with us, and I was like, ‘Yo, you think you can help get Mariah on the Christmas album?’ And he was like, ‘I’m actually going to see her in New York on Monday,’ and I was like ‘Yo, go do that!’ "

Mariah Carey's dog Jill E. Beans is also a part of the video and will be seen inside a sleigh in the same. Carey tweeted- "Shooting the final take of ‘All I Want.’ duet with suprise appearance by Jilly Beans & directed by my friend, the wonderful Sanaa Hamri.” Her follow-up tweet acknowledged her personal milestone as she said “Happy anniversary to MERRY CHRISTMAS II YOU!!"

The video 'All I Want For Christmas is You' will be released during the live transmission of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting. It will feature performances by several other artists too.

Christmas Offers- Mobile Phone Offers for Gifts!

Christmas Phone Offers

Everyone has to give Christmas gifts to many a people. So, its obvious that they look for attractive Christmas offers to get best deals. If you are planning to give mobile phones to your loved ones as Christmas gifts this year, Bestcontractmobilephonedeals have brought together a huge collection of Christmas offers this season.

A mobile phone can be an excellent gift idea, both for others as well as for yourself! Pick one from this site's list of Christmas Offers. Their offers include Free SIM, mobile broadband at lavish discounts, free gifts including Sony PS3, Nintendo Wii, LCD TV, and Laptops. Choose the most opulent offer amongst a plethora of exclusive deals comprising of Contract, PAYG as well as SIM Free phones with reduced call tarrifs, free SMS and more. They also claim to deliver your chosen phone gift right at your doorstep.

To check this Christmas phone offers, visit bestcontractmobilephonedeals They have it all- from Samsung Galaxy S, HTC Desire HD, and Nokia N8 to Blackberry Torch 9800, Blackberry Bold 9700, BlackBerry 8520 Curve and Apple iPhone 4.

Free Elvis Christmas Album in Next Week's Mail on Sunday

Elvis Presley Album: Christmas Peace

The Mail will give away an early Christmas gift to all its readers - a CD featuring 15 of Elvis Presley’s greatest Christmas songs FREE inside every paper with its Sunday issue next week! The tracks on Christmas Peace include White Christmas and Silent Night taken from the two albums of festive music recorded by The King. There is also a holiday single which he released in 1966.

The complete list of the Christmas Peace CD include:

1. White Christmas
2. Here Comes Santa Claus
3. Blue Christmas
4. Santa Claus Is Back In Town
5. Silent Night
6. I’ll Be Home For Christmas
7. O Come All Ye Faithful
8. Santa Bring My Baby Back
9. O Little Town Of Bethlehem
10. The First Noel
11. Winter Wonderland
12. If Every day Was Like Christmas
13. On A Snowy Christmas Night
14. The Wonderful World Of Christmas
15. It Won’t Seem Like Christmas (Without You)

Source: Mail Online

Mariah Carey Christmas Album 2010 in Making!

Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” is probably the best modern day Christmas-time track. Her fans are eagerly looking forward to hear more of her Christmas music, as Carey is reportedly working on a Christmas album for the second time in her career. All of Mariah's fan are praying for the double time success for her second Christmas music album just like her first album! The new Mariah Carey Christmas Album 2010 will have six new songs and a remix of her previous "Big Hit" song.

Mariah Carey’s last Christmas album was released 16 years ago. Carey, rumored to be pregnant with her first child with her husband, Nick Cannon, is also performing a concert in Brazil this week. She wrote on her blog, “Ola! Just landed in Brazil! .writing lyrics in the car on the way to the hotel w /a few nice big lenses + cars cutting us. Off to bed affap when I get to the hotel! Can’t wait to see the fans @ the show after I get a morsel and some sleep! Love you Brazil!.” her fans can also expect to watch Carey in the coming weeks and months if she becomes an Idol judge.

Source: RnB Music Blog

30% of Christmas lights are a serious safety hazard, EC warns

Calling it a "wake up" call, the European Commission (EC) warned that on average, just more than 30 per cent of Christmas lights sold in the European Union (EU) had increased risks of electric shock, fire hazard or both.

"If we are going to 'keep the lights on' at Christmas, consumers need to be confident that there are no compromises on safety," European Consumer Protection Commissioner Meglena Kouneva was quoted as saying in an EC media statement issued on December 2 2009 at the presentation of a report on Christmas light safety.

The report presented the conclusions of a joint market surveillance project that involved authorities from Hungary, Germany, Slovakia, Slovania and the Netherlands. Testing had been carried out between November 2007 and May 2009 on 196 random samples of Christmas light chains across the entire price range, the media statement said.

Many of the lighting chains that had been checked, had failed multiple technical or administrative tests.

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