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		<title>More Bad Santas Coming to the Big Screen</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Defending Santa.com is starting to report on the reaction from the Christmas world on the news from Variety that a movie project is underway to tell the story of The Santa Wars. 
Once upon a time a small number of professional Santa Clauses formed an association called the Amalgamated Order of Real Bearded Santas. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disney’s A Christmas Carol…or is it Dumb and Dumber?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The maker of Forrest Gump and The Polar Express now brings us A Christmas Carol, starring Jim Carrey as Scrooge. Is the Walt Disney Company up to remaking a classic done and redone many times before? Read the official review here.
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		<title>CBS Announces New Animated Christmas Special</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CBS has gone back to a famous story from 1897 for a new animated Christmas Special. “Yes, Virginia,” to air Friday, December 11th (8:00-8:30 pm ET/PT) is based on the true story of Virginia O&#8217;Hanlon, an eight-year-old girl who inspired the most famous newspaper editorial of all time by asking, &#8220;Is there a Santa Claus?&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Santa Holds Annual Interview with the Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once a year and only once a year Santa Claus sits down with the media. And as usual, Santa has a lot to say. 
In a year with a troubled economy with folks all over suffering from lost jobs, lower income, and higher prices Santa says the odds for a merrier Christmas are better than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Natalie Cole Headlines Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The annual Christmas concert of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir this year features guest artist Natalie Cole and historian, writer and narrator David McCullough. The famed holiday program draws 80,000 attendees over four days each December and is featured nationwide on PBS. Free tickets for the event will be distributed by lottery via the events page [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Truce in the Santa Wars!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Santa is listening. After enduring days of controversy following a series of articles about turmoil in the world of professional Santas action has been taken by members of the Santa community to remove negative information and promote peace. 
Please read more at DefendingSanta.com
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		<title>Professional Santa Leader Put on Naughty List</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Santa is in trouble &#8212; at least a Santa known as Jeff Germann.
Germann is Vice President of AORBs &#8212; officially known as the Amalgamated Order of Real Bearded Santas. For over a year an anonymously operated website called SantaCheck.com has been upsetting many of the folks in the professional Santa world because it would call [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glenn Beck’s Christmas Sweater — For Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Glenn Beck has released 3 books in 5 months &#8212; and this may be the best of the set. If only because it gives us a break from the usual Beck fare. This illustrated children&#8217;s version of Beck&#8217;s Christmas book of the same title tells the story of what Christmas is all about being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Santa Wars: What Santa Can Do About It</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fourth and concluding installment on the fiasco at Celebrate Santa, a major convention for professional Santas that has been mired in controversy and charges of corruption, has been posted at DefendingSanta.com. This article largely discusses the aftermath of a sad week-long examination of the world of professional Santas and what can be done to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gift Cards Going High Tech for Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Depot, of all people, is going high tech with their new gift card this Christmas. 
When a customer receives one of the company&#8217;s interactive gift cards, he or she can go to a special Web site, enter the gift card amount and hold the gift card up to a webcam. The webcam will show [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost Santas: Silent, Sad and Seriously Angry</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/christmasheadlines/~3/pdNi0-IFqAc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anonymous Santas speak out to DefendingSanta.com about the conflicting reports and charges of misdeeds coming out of their largest convention ever, Celebrate Santa. Celebrate Santa was to be a gathering of the red-suited brethren and their Mrs. Clauses to help Santas ply their craft and to take the &#8220;Santa Claus Oath&#8221;. Ironically, the Oath is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Professional Santa Claus Community Up-in-Arms</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 09:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fallout from a story posted at DefendingSanta.com is rocking the world of professional Santas. Charges of mishandling funds intended for a charity have expanded to include blasphemous talk against the widely adopted &#8220;Santa Claus Oath&#8221;. 
The Santa industry has a sad history of infighting between groups vying for leadership &#8212; and jobs. This latest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrate Santa Fractures on Charges of Corruption</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Celebrate Santa, a for-profit convention sponsor for the professional Santa Claus industry, is fracturing amidst allegations of fraud and mismanagement of funds. “Santa Joe” Moore and his wife, “Mrs. Mary Claus” Moore, owners of the Jolly Old Elf Company and Celebrate Santa, are documented in a web of conflicting stories that have led to mass [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kmart Offers Christmas Discounts to the Unemployed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Retailers may be seeing some improvement in their businesses, but they have one big challenge ahead: A lot of their customers are still out of work. 
So Kmart has come up with a novel way to hang on to those customers until they&#8217;re back at work and spending freely by giving them discounts now. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retailers Not Hiring Much for Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long lines and poorly stocked shelves may well await holiday shoppers this season. According to an annual hiring report from Challenger, Gray &#038; Christmas, a Chicago-based outplacement agency, retailers will be hesitant in adding seasonal employees to their staff this year.
Despite some signs of economic turnaround, retailers will look to maintain margins in what is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Tree Harvest Up, Prices Down</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Oregon Christmas tree harvest increased last year but prices fell, along with the number of jobs.
The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported this week that Oregon growers cut and sold 7.34 million trees with a value of $110.1 million in 2008.
Total sales were a slight improvement from $109.3 million in 2007 while the 2008 harvest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sears, Kmart Re-introduce the Christmas Club</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sears and Kmart chains are trying to entice customers to start saving for the holidays early with a Christmas Club card program.
Shoppers who join the program can add money on a regular basis to their cards and receive a 3% reward, up to a $100 value, based on the value of the balance Nov. 14.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Santa Claus, Indiana Getting Serious About Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The southern Indiana town of Santa Claus will be getting serious about celebrating Christmas this year. 
Organizers say a major addition will be a 1.2-mile light display at Lake Rudolph Campground &#038; RV Resort. It is expected to open Nov. 20 featuring 20- to 30-foot-tall scenes that tell the story of Rudolph the Red Nosed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Shoppers Ready to Buy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Christmas there was no doubt the Scrooge in shoppers took a bite out of merchant merriness. But what will Christmas 2009 be like? A new survey says that shoppers might be willing to loosen the purse strings.
&#8220;We are seeing for this holiday season a ray of conservative optimism,&#8221; said IRI Consulting &#38; Innovation President [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dates for Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party Announced</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dates for the 2009 edition of Mickey&#8217;s Very Merry Christmas Party, held annually at the Magic Kingdom park in the Walt Disney World resort, have been announced. This year&#8217;s festivities will include &#8220;Mickey&#8217;s Once Upon a Christmastime Parade,&#8221; featuring dancing snowflakes, toy soldiers, a horse-drawn sleigh, floats, and holiday-dressed characters, &#8220;Holiday Wishes-Celebrate the Spirit of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gaylord Texan Tells the Timeless Tale of ‘How The Grinch Stole Christmas!’ in ICE</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In celebration of its fifth year hosting the awe-inspiring ICE! exhibit, Gaylord Texan brings to life a brand new attraction &#8211; the Dr. Seuss holiday classic &#8220;How The Grinch Stole Christmas!&#8221; In a series of colorful scenes straight out of the original storybook pages, Gaylord Texan&#8217;s ICE! attraction will brilliantly showcase how the &#8220;Whoville-hating&#8221; Grinch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Most Popular White House Ornaments Announced</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The White House Historical Association has announced the top five most popular White House Christmas ornaments (conveniently reveal in time for the decorating season). They are:
1. The 1989 ornament featuring the presidential seal commemorating the bicentennial of the presidency. 
2. 1999&#8217;s Abraham Lincoln ornament. 
3. From 2000 the ornament celebrating the 200th anniversary of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Christmas Movie Planned for CBS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hallmark Hall of Fame has started production on its next presentation for CBS, &#8220;A Dog Named Christmas.&#8221;
Bruce Greenwood (&#8221;Star Trek&#8221;), Noel Fisher (&#8221;The Riches&#8221;) and Linda Emond (&#8221;Julie &#038; Julia&#8221;) are set to star in the holiday movie based on Greg Kincaid&#8217;s novel.
&#8220;Christmas&#8221; centers on Todd (Fisher), a developmentally challenged young man with a penchant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Christmas Tree Coming from Arizona</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas is already on Ted Bechtol&#8217;s mind. He&#8217;s now picked the tree that will stand outside the US Capitol this holiday season. Bechtol is superintendent of grounds for the Capitol. He reviewed ten final candidates for the tree and chose an 85-foot blue spruce from Arizona&#8217;s White Mountains.
Bechtol didn&#8217;t spend too long making up his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Store Planned for Santa Claus, Indiana</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SANTA CLAUS, IN &#8212; A new attraction in Santa Claus, Indiana is under construction and is scheduled for an August opening. The Santa Claus Christmas Store will be located in the Kringle Place Shopping Center. Owned and operated by Philip Koch and his Santa Claus based company HO HO HOldings, LLC, the store features over [...]]]></description>
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