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		<title>Trends of Green Christmas: Tree Leasing</title>
		<link>http://christmasnewswire.com/2010/07/31/trends-of-green-christmas-tree-leasing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would you lease your Christmas tree? That&#8217;s a growing trend on the U.S. West Coast these days. Entrepeneur Joan Grandizio, who lives in Aliso Viejo, California, is hoping to persuade Orange County, California folks to lease their Christmas trees this year rather than buy a cut pine or artificial variety.
Her company, To Go Green Live [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opryland Planning a Christmas Comeback</title>
		<link>http://christmasnewswire.com/2010/07/26/opryland-planning-a-christmas-comeback/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite massive flood damage, Gaylord Opryland Resort officials said they will be reopened and ready for a bigger and better holiday season.
On Wednesday, Opryland workers put on Santa hats and started hanging 2 million Christmas lights.
Gaylord held an elaborate news conference complete with dancing elves to get the message across that the resort will reopen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manning Featured on Hallmark Keepsake Ornament</title>
		<link>http://christmasnewswire.com/2010/07/13/manning-featured-on-hallmark-keepsake-ornament/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning is a man of many identities. He&#8217;s a Super Bowl champion. A New Jersey resident. A delicious Sandwich. Manning will now and forevermore be a Christmas ornament.
Hallmark released the company&#8217;s 2010 Keepsake Ornaments &#8220;holiday preview&#8221; this past weekend (July 10-11). Included are figurines of New York Giants quarterback Eli [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tennessee Media Reports Default of Celebrate Santa</title>
		<link>http://christmasnewswire.com/2010/06/18/tennessee-media-reports-default-of-celebrate-santa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Local media in Gatlinburg, Tennessee are reporting that the promised payments by Celebrate Santa to cover costs of two years worth of Claus-related conventions has not been made. WBIR-TV and the Mountain Press both report of the default by Joe and Mary Moore of the promissory note they provided in March as news of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toys R Us Launches Christmas Club</title>
		<link>http://christmasnewswire.com/2010/06/17/toys-r-us-launches-christmas-club/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Toys R Us, the nation-wide toy retailer struggling in recent years from relentless competition from Walmart, has launched its Christmas Savers Club, a throwback to depression-era tactics used by many retailers to build holiday sales. The plan is designed to help parents save for holiday toys, and to guarantee that they will spend those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Chirstmas Center to Open New Historic Exhibit</title>
		<link>http://christmasnewswire.com/2010/06/15/national-chirstmas-center-to-open-new-historic-exhibit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Christmas Center will open a new exhibit on Saturday, July 10, 2010 featuring the Santa Claus Oath traveling display and photographs. The new exhibit will include information on Santa Claus portrayers of historical significance throughout the last century. This permanent exhibit will be donated to the National Christmas Center by the Santa Claus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY Times Reports Elf the Musical Coming Soon</title>
		<link>http://christmasnewswire.com/2010/06/14/ny-times-reports-elf-the-musical-coming-soon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times is reporting that a musical version of the movie &#8220;Elf&#8221; is headed to Broadway:
A musical adaptation of the 2003 film “Elf,” which starred Will Ferrell as a human raised among Santa’s little helpers, will help kick off the holiday season on Broadway in November with a limited run at the Al [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday World Owner Passes Away</title>
		<link>http://christmasnewswire.com/2010/06/14/holiday-world-owner-passes-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will Koch, owner of Holiday World, the family-oriented theme park, passed away Sunday at the age of 48 due to complications related to Type 1 diabetes. Since the 1997 closure of Nashville&#8217;s own Opryland theme park, Holiday World in nearby Santa Claus, Indiana has become a popular alternative, and worth every minute of the three-hour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outdoor Decorating Trends Increase</title>
		<link>http://christmasnewswire.com/2010/06/09/outdoor-decorating-trends-increase/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People&#8217;s passion for holiday and seasonal decorating is moving outside. In 2009 Americans spent nearly 40 percent of their annual seasonal decorations budget on new outdoor decorations, up from only 22 percent back in 2004, according to a recently released report from Unity Marketing, Christmas and Seasonal Decorations Report 2010 UPDATE. 
Overall sales of outdoor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environmental Group Wants to Replace Rockefeller Christmas Tree</title>
		<link>http://defendchristmas.com/2010/04/28/environmental-groups-wants-to-replace-rockefeller-christmas-tree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s more green than a Christmas tree? Not cutting it down in the first place, says a pro-environment group petitioning Rockefeller Center to end its holiday tree-lighting ceremony.
The group, Save a Giant Tree, hopes to collect 10,000 signatures to persuade Rockefeller Center management to replace the tree with artwork fashioned from recycled materials.
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		<title>Mommy&#8217;s Little Piggy Comes Home to A Christmas Story House</title>
		<link>http://christmasnewswire.com/2010/04/26/mommys-little-piggy-comes-home-to-a-christmas-story-house/</link>
		<comments>http://christmasnewswire.com/2010/04/26/mommys-little-piggy-comes-home-to-a-christmas-story-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ian Patrella, better known in Christmas lore as the kid brother Randy (Mommy&#8217;s little piggy) in A Christmas Story, is coming home to the house in Cleveland where the movie was made. During the months of July and August Patrella will be there to greet tourists who pay to visit the house-turned-museum. (No word on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Santa Community Grapples with Issues of Integrity</title>
		<link>http://christmasnewswire.com/2010/04/26/santa-community-grapples-with-issues-of-integrity/</link>
		<comments>http://christmasnewswire.com/2010/04/26/santa-community-grapples-with-issues-of-integrity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Defending Santa.com has published a timeline of events tied to the latest episode of fraud in the community of Santas. The timeline shows how a large gathering of Santas called Celebrate Santa fell apart amidst charges of corruption, mismanagement of funds, and dishonesty that has shaken the Christmas-centric countryside surrounding Gatlinburg, Tennessee. 
In 2011 Hollywood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forced Christmas Music Measure Dies in California</title>
		<link>http://defendchristmas.com/2010/04/20/forced-christmas-music-measure-dies-in-california/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Californians apparently weren’t feeling the Christmas spirit during Merry Susan Hyatt’s five-month carol initiative signature collection effort.
The measure failed Friday when the final signature count turned out to be only half a percent of the required 433,971, according to the secretary of state’s office. In all, 2,176 signatures were collected in California between Nov. 2 [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Forced Christmas Music Measure Dies in California", url: "http://defendchristmas.com/2010/04/20/forced-christmas-music-measure-dies-in-california/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>National Day of Prayer Ruling Could Be Bad for Christmas</title>
		<link>http://christmasnewswire.com/2010/04/15/national-day-of-prayer-ruling-could-be-bad-for-christmas/</link>
		<comments>http://christmasnewswire.com/2010/04/15/national-day-of-prayer-ruling-could-be-bad-for-christmas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to DefendChristmas.com a Wisconsin Federal judge&#8217;s ruling that a 50-year tradition of a National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional could cause a debate to erupt over the government&#8217;s recognition of Christmas as a national holiday. The Freedom from Religion Foundation, long a foe of recogizing Christmas, applauded the ruling based a lawsuit in which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Christmas Next?</title>
		<link>http://defendchristmas.com/2010/04/15/is-christmas-next/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A federal judge in Wisconsin has declared that the 50-year standing tradition of a National Day of Prayer violates the &#8220;establishment clause&#8221; of the First Amendment which creates a separation of church and state. 
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		<title>Santa Group Gloats Over Failure of Santa Convention</title>
		<link>http://christmasnewswire.com/2010/04/14/santa-group-gloats-over-failure-of-santa-convention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent news of a convention for professional Santas failing has put most of the professional Santa community up in arms &#8212; except for one group, AorbsInc. A Vice President for the group slammed the City of Gatlinburg for saving the 2010 convention and the President of AorbsInc claims competing associations of professional Santas are &#8220;cut [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Santa Frauds: Celebrate Santa Saga Worsens</title>
		<link>http://christmasnewswire.com/2010/04/09/santa-frauds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The owners and organizers of Celebrate Santa, one of the largest Santa-related gatherings on record, have deleted Facebook groups and altered event websites in an effort to hide evidence of corruption associated with the latest Celebrate Santa Festival held last month in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. According to DefendingSanta.com, Internet groups of professional Santas are up in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gatlinburg Saves Santa Convention</title>
		<link>http://christmasnewswire.com/2010/04/07/gatlinburg-saves-santa-convention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Gatlinburg Convention Center has issued a statement to defend against charges levied at them for conditions at a convention of professional Santa Claus’ held last month. Rumors of fraud and corruption aimed at organizers of the Celebrate Santa Festival held in Gatlinburg, Tennessee have circulated online since the close of the convention last month. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worlds Largest Santa Parade Makes it Back to Canadian TV</title>
		<link>http://christmasnewswire.com/2010/04/06/worlds-largest-santa-parade-makes-it-back-to-canadian-tv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After nearly three decades, the Santa Claus Parade is coming back to CTV. 
CTV announced Tuesday that it will broadcast the popular parade exclusively on November 21. The last time the parade aired on the network was in 1981. 
CTV Toronto&#8217;s sister station, CP24 will also provide exclusive live coverage of what is known as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating the Standards of Santa</title>
		<link>http://christmasnewswire.com/2010/04/05/celebrating-the-standards-of-santa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Defending Santa.com tells the story of Santa Wendell, a gruff man transformed once putting on the red suit. Sadly, not every man inside the suit acts as Santa should act. This first in a series of articles explores the standards we as parents and children expect of the Santas we see. 
Click here to read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illinois City to Fine Residents with Christmas Lights Still Up</title>
		<link>http://defendchristmas.com/2010/02/19/illinois-city-to-fine-residents-with-christmas-lights-still-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Officials in an Illinois city said residents slow to take down their Christmas lights have only a little more than a week before they face possible fines.
The seasonal decoration ordinance in Aurora, which took effect in 2006, states that outdoor holiday decorations may not be up more than 60 days before or after their celebrated [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Illinois City to Fine Residents with Christmas Lights Still Up", url: "http://defendchristmas.com/2010/02/19/illinois-city-to-fine-residents-with-christmas-lights-still-up/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Santa: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Do No Math</title>
		<link>http://christmasnewswire.com/2010/02/19/santa-see-no-evil-hear-no-evil-do-no-math/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DefendingSanta.com follows up on the sad story of corruption in the world of professional Santas. Last year a business running a Santa convention took funds supposedly for a non-profit group through the sale of Santa Claus Oath plaques. The business, Jolly Old Elf LLC who operates the convention under the name of Celebrate Santa, allegedly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FFRF Mockery Prompts Candidate to Action in Illinois</title>
		<link>http://defendchristmas.com/2009/12/26/ffrf-mockery-prompts-candidate-to-action-in-illinois/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 01:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Freedom From Religion Foundation continues to promote peace of the season by mocking religion &#8212; all in the name of freedom of speech. That&#8217;s their argument after a candidate for public office in Illinois tried to remove the customary atheist rant from right in front of the Christmas tree at the state capitol a [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FFRF Mockery Prompts Candidate to Action in Illinois", url: "http://defendchristmas.com/2009/12/26/ffrf-mockery-prompts-candidate-to-action-in-illinois/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Athiest Complaint Leads to Removal of Angels, Stars from Christmas Trees</title>
		<link>http://defendchristmas.com/2009/12/23/athiest-complaint-leads-to-removal-of-angels-stars-from-christmas-trees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no place for angels atop Christmas trees, according to one California man who successfully lobbied for the removal of religious symbols at county buildings after spotting a yuletide decoration last week.
Stars and other religious emblems were ordered removed from Christmas trees in all government buildings in Sonoma County on Monday following a complaint by [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Athiest Complaint Leads to Removal of Angels, Stars from Christmas Trees", url: "http://defendchristmas.com/2009/12/23/athiest-complaint-leads-to-removal-of-angels-stars-from-christmas-trees/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>US Government Uses Joseph and Mary Imaging to Promote Census</title>
		<link>http://defendchristmas.com/2009/12/19/us-government-uses-joseph-and-mary-imaging-to-promote-census/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A poster showing Mary and Joseph heading to Bethlehem for a census and the birth of Jesus is raising eyebrows among some evangelicals, who consider it an inappropriate use of Christian symbolism for the headcount the government will conduct next year. 
The posters, created by the National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO), have been [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "US Government Uses Joseph and Mary Imaging to Promote Census", url: "http://defendchristmas.com/2009/12/19/us-government-uses-joseph-and-mary-imaging-to-promote-census/" });</script>]]></description>
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