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Five Things to Know Today, Nov. 28

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Had enough turkey? Welcome back from the Thanksgiving break. Here are some things to know as you head into Monday and a new week.

The weather: Rain, and there's no escaping it -- the chance of precipitation is 100 percent, and we may get as much as two inches. The low tonight will be about 38 degrees, and we may have some snow mixed in with the rain tomorrow.

Gas prices are still dropping. The average in Georgia for a gallon of regular is $3.196, and nationwide it's $3.30. Prices reported for Lilburn to www.georgiagasprices.com for the last 24 hours ranged from $3.08 (at QuickTrip, 4900 Stone Mountain Hwy near Stone Drive) to $3.19 (at Shell, 5474 Lawrenceville Hwy NW at Rockbridge Road).

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A great way to help the library: Shop for the holidays and help the Gwinnett library system, an especially good thing in a time of tight county budgets. The library system has a deal with Amazon, Barnes & Noble and BetterWorldBooks that gives the library a percentage of the sale at no cost to you, if you log on to those sites through a specific link. You can save the link as a favorite or find it at the library's website. If you're shopping those online stores for the holidays anyway, it's a great way to help out our libraries with just a click or two.

Twilight. There's a rare evening showing Tuesday in the AMC movie theater chain's Sensory Friendly Films series which caters to people with autism and other developmental disabilities by leaving the lights up a bit and toning down the volume. The shows are generally on Saturday mornings, with films for younger kids, but this week they're running Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 that may be of interest to your teen or young adult on the autism spectrum. Or, you know, to you! The closest participating theater is AMC Discover Mills.

Happy birthday to Jon Stewart, host of "The Daily Show." Born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz in 1962 and raised in New Jersey, he started doing stand-up comedy after college and hosted a series of shows on Comedy Central and MTV in the 1990s before taking over Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" in 1999.


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