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‘Lost’ tops list for best 2005
Jam! Showbiz – True story – I was going to use this space to declare Bono and Bill Gates the Persons of 2005. Right after sending away for tickets to The View. And heading to Brokeback Mountain with Mike Bell. Alas, Time magazine trumped my plans, slapping Bono and

Make money matters a New Year s resolution
Chester County Independent – Many people resolve to be more financially savvy at the start of the New Year. But how do you do it? These days everything is more expensive, and carefully monitoring income and expenses is key. Perhaps you want to learn how to make your money go

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Real estate transactions
Charleston Post Courier (subscription), SC - Dec 25, 2005 Monarch Development LLC sold Unit B, 22 Corinne St. Johnny R. and Martha L. Freeman sold 5039 Baptist Hill Road, Meggett to Robert B. Vanness for $300,000.

St. Martha's wins Gulf Coast title
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL - Dec 20, 2005 St. Martha's point guard Luke Whitacre was the only player who had been with Tope for three years and has become the leader of the Knights.
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VH1 s Big In 05 Awards Airs Tonight, Features Numerous Reality TV Stars (Reality TV Magazine)
For the fourth time, VH1 will pay homage to the biggest people, the biggest moments and the biggest crazes of this year with the VH1 Big in 05 Awards, premiering Sunday, December 4 at 8PM ET/PT….

A new dimension to reality TV (Rediff.com)
Production house Miditech brings newer dimensions to reality TV.

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Didn’t See That Coming (TheStreet.com)
Five story lines that didn’t play out as expected in 2005.

Search ALL NEW. TRY IT! (TV Guide News Gossip)
After a long, hard season on NBC’s The Apprentice: Martha Stewart , Dawna Stone became the first (and last) winner of the one-shot reality series. Despite some complaints by Martha and her execs that she lacked creativity, Dawna beat out Bethenny Frankel ( whose Q&A can be found here ) for the title after pulling together her final fashion-show task.

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Did Martha Stewart Pick The Wrong Apprentice? (Reality TV Magazine)
When we watched The Apprentice Martha Stewart finale, we kept thinking that everything was leading up to Bethenny Frankel being hired. Bethenny appeared to pull off the perfect event on her last task, while Dawna Stone had problems with the…

SCOURGE OF THE APPRENTICE NEDS (Daily Record)
THESE shocking photographs expose the ned culture that is wrecking communities across Scotland. Vicious little hoodlums, some less than 10 years old, were filmed hurling bricks and bottles at a bin lorry.

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It’s a shame that “The Apprentice: Martha Stewart” didn’t catch on the way its star and its producer (“Survivor’s” Mark Burnett) thought it would.

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Full Text
Longmont FYI – LONGMONT Many observers say the key to the American work force in the 21st century will be knowledge workers those with innate skills and talents that cannot be transferred overseas or outsourced. While the creative class, as author Richard

ABC’s Final Kickoff
MSNBC – If you caught last night’s football game between the New England Patriots and the New York Jets, save the virtual ticket stub. It was the last Monday Night Football installment to air on Disney ‘s (NYSE: DIS) ABC. After 555 shows, the primetime

Memoirs of a Geisha
Lexington Herald-Leader – The geisha was as central as the samurai to the exoticism that once enshrouded Japan and gave rise to expressions such as “the mysteries of the Orient.” But she never became part of Japan’s movie mythology, possibly because Akira Kurosawa was more

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Donald Trump, Penis Patch Most Favorite Spam Subjects (Security Pipeline)
Donald Trump and “penis patch” were the most popular subject lines used by spammers this year, AOL says in a Top 10 spam subjects list.

Spammers Are Getting More Sophisticated, Devious and Dangerous, Says AOL (Direct Marketing Association)
December 29, 2005 Does Donald Trump really want you? Is your mortgage application ready? Can you lose 6-20 inches in one hour with a body wrap? Did Lisa send you to the wrong site?

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Jeff Probst signs new 'Survivor' contract
USA Today - Dec 8, 2005 Mark Burnett, the show's executive producer, welcomed Probst's decision to remain as host and producer, lauding his contributions to the "ever-evolving game

Sports Columnist Dan O'Neill
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, MO - 21 hours ago But to quote Mark McGwire, we're not here to talk about the past, we're here to talk about the Frustrated in their attempt to sign AJ Burnett, the Cardinals

GM OK with Pirates pitching
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - Dec 21, 2005 had enough starting pitching that they traded Dave Williams and Mark Redman without So could another prospect, Sean Burnett, who impressed as a rookie in 2004
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Report: Bethenny Frankel supposed to be Stewart’s ‘Apprentice’ winner 
Reality TV World - Dec 27 9:17 AM
The 6-year-old granddaughter of Stewart’s top adviser, Charles Koppelman, blurted out the final result in a roomful of contestants before Wednesday night’s finale aired on NBC, sources told the Post.Save to My Web

With World War II Memoir, a Literary Legacy Continues 
Los Angeles Times - Dec 27 12:18 AM
Michael James skirted Navy rules to keep his journal. Now, it joins the canon of one of America’s most famed intellectual families.Save to My Web
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Spearfish cage team turns table
Rapid City Journal – Last Friday night, the Spearfish High School boys basketball team scored just nine points in the entire first half in losing to Sturgis 35-30. But Tuesday night, the Spartans poured in 10 points in the first two minutes of action against Lead

Another stellar showing
Brunswick News – Highlighting Glynn Acad-emy’s 2005 sports year was the amazing performance of the Red Terrors’ and Lady Terrors’ golf teams. Both the GA boys and girls squads cruised to their second consecutive Class AAAAA state championships on Jekyll Island with

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Reality TV Magazine s Top Ten Best Reality TV Shows Of 2005 (Reality TV Magazine)
The Year 2005 proved to be another great year for reality TV. Sure there were a fair share of notable reality TV flops during the year which brought out the standard media declarations of the death of reality TV, but…

Jacko: Reality TV (Yahoo! Launch UK & Ireland)
Michael Jackson is to feature in a US reality TV show in 2006, according to reports.

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Residents in for ‘the long haul’ to help Katrina victims
Pensacola News Journal – Four months after Hurricane Katrina barreled into Waveland, Miss., City of Milton employees still are helping the beachfront community s government rebound. Some Milton workers recently spent a week in Waveland repairing a sewer lift station. More

Colleagues honor judge for her diligence, dedication
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel – It’s a joke among fellow jurists that

Permits and Transfers: Permits & Transfers
Daily News-Record – The following building permits, for at least $100,000 each, were recorded in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County. Harrisonburg Massanutten Technical Center, renovations and additions, 325 Pleasant Valley Road, $300,000. City Exchange LLC, renovations

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CNBC’s flagship show takes a new tack
MENAFN – NEW YORK — Most people who care about morning television are waiting to learn whether Katie Couric will leave NBC’s top-rated Today show and possibly succeed Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather as anchor of the struggling CBS Evening News. But there’s a

‘Four Brothers’ DVD fully loaded
Jam! Showbiz – John Singleton is an intriguing American filmmaker. You could argue that his stunning 1991 debut film, Boyz N The Hood, was the peak of his career. So it is instructive to survey more of his distinctive work, including the made-in-Toronto Four

CBS announces ‘Survivor 12′ to return to Panama, feature ‘Exile Island
Reality TV World – The network made the announcement at the conclusion of last night’s Survivor: Guatemala finale , with Survivor host Jeff Probst presenting a Survivor: Panama preview that stated that Panama will, for the first time in five seasons, drop the

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It’s a shame that “The Apprentice: Martha Stewart” didn’t catch on the way its star and its producer (“Survivor’s” Mark Burnett) thought it would.

A list of workplace realities (Kansas City Star)
We pause in the paroxysm of gift opening that has come to characterize this day and focus on gifts from Donald Trump and Martha Stewart.

Big Brother Africa Goes to Nigeria (AllAfrica.com)
When popular continental reality show Big Brother Africa ended amidst celebration for Zambian winner Cherise, fans across the continent were quick to ask, “what comes next?”

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New park, no windfall for Cards
Atlanta Journal Constitution – A new ballpark means new revenue. In St. Louis, however, is doesn’t mean a new budget. The Cardinals, who are footing much of the cost of the new Busch Stadium, are keeping their payroll at about $92 million. That’s still about $12 million more than

Adding names like these has to spell improvement
Pioneer Press – T he Royals have done the impossible. On the same day, they signed two players with names that are harder to pronounce than mine. In a moment, we ll get to the wisdom of the Royals Friday signings (hint: unlike many, I like these moves). But

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Donald Trump Sued by Real Estate Brokers 
San Francisco Chronicle - Dec 14 6:42 PM
Donald Trump is being sued for $1.3 million by three real estate brokers who say he has failed to pay them in full after the profitable sale of land and apartments he owned on the former West Side Manhattan rail yards. The lawsuit centers on the…Save to My Web

Randal Pinkett trumps Rebecca Jarvis to become The Donald’s fourth ‘Apprentice’ 
Reality TV World - Dec 16 9:32 AM
Last night’s NBC broadcast of The Apprentice 4′s season finale ended as many viewers had long expected it to — with Donald Trump telling Randal Pinkett , a 34-year-old consulting firm owner from Somerset, New Jersey, “you’re hired.”Save to My Web
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Critic’s Notebook: Fashion Is Two Clicks Behind
New York Times – Let’s suppose that Chanel were alive today and just starting out. What would she do to drum up sales for her frocks? Embed them in an episode of “Desperate Housewives?” Lend one to Kiera Knightley for the Golden Globes? Somehow these options seem

I Heard Some Things
FOX News – Legendary actor Robert De Niro was none too pleased after a New York regional paper painted him as a legal angel to cop-killer suspect actor Lillo Brancato Jr. last week. “Mr. De Niro’s sympathy lies exclusively with Officer Enchautegui’s family and

3 possible sites named for slot-machine parlor in Philadelphia
Courier-Post – PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Chicago-based company has named three possible sites for a slot-machine parlor in the Philadelphia area, two on the Delaware River waterfront and the third in South Philadelphia. Greg Carlin, president of Midwest Gaming

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Martha Stewart selects Dawna Stone as her ‘The Apprentice’ winner (Reality TV World)
Last night’s live finale of NBC’s The Apprentice: Martha Stewart reality series ended with the domestic diva selecting Dawna Stone , a 37-year-old women’s sports magazine publisher from St. Petersburg, FL, to join her Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia corporation.

Jacko: Reality TV (Yahoo! Launch UK & Ireland)
Michael Jackson is to feature in a US reality TV show in 2006, according to reports.

Reality TV: ‘Miss Seventeen’ named (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
On Tuesday’s finale of MTV’s “Miss Seventeen,” the girls deliver speeches to Seventeen magazine reader contributors and staff, where they each give heartfelt, tear-jerker stories about their reasons for competing.

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MediaPost – THINK YOU HAVE A ENOUGH ways to getting to

Lights, camera, vlog
Asia Media – From the Internet counter-culture which spawned blogs and podcasts comes the newest thing in new media: vlogging. In short video diaries and homemade

Networks eye telenovela translation
Denver Post – Telenovelas, those melodramatic serials that are staples of Spanish-language television, are soon to become English-language network

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The Apprentice Martha Stewart Finale (Reality TV Magazine)
It’s decision time for the final two candidates on NBC’S The Apprentice: Martha Stewart, which will be broadcast live from Chelsea Television Studios, December 21 from 9-10 pm ET….

BOOKIES TAKE 1M REALITY TV BATTERING (Daily Mirror)
BOOKIES have shelled out more than 1million to lucky punters in the reality TV Christmas betting bonanza. Viewers raked in nearly 800,000 after The X Factor’s Kate Thornton announced Shayne Ward’s triumph on ITV and Carol Thatcher won in I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here.

The committee (MLive.com)
Members of Grass Lake’s Cool City process committee: Lorene Adams, Jason Bruneel, Mark Burnett, Phil Coppernoll, Karen Dadaghian, Sue Darwin, Tammie Eilola, Mike Fensler, Skip Freysinger, George Husak, Heidi Kirby, Patti Lyons, Matt Moore, Kerene Morrissey, Tom Nolte, Larry Ostrander Jr., Rich Rabeler, James Stormont, Rod Walz and Sandy Wymer.

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