<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - bell-ringer</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/bell-ringer</link><description>Newsvine - bell-ringer</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:35:36 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 15:15:53 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Wis. mini horse rings bell for Salvation Army</title>
<description><![CDATA[Tinker may be miniature &#8212; as in a miniature horse &#8212; but he's a big money raiser for the Salvation Army.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carrie Antlfinger]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Carrie Antlfinger]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/30/15574081-wis-mini-horse-rings-bell-for-salvation-army</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/30/15574081-wis-mini-horse-rings-bell-for-salvation-army</guid><category>us</category><category>odd</category><category>odd-news</category><category>salvation-army</category><category>us-news</category><category>tinker</category><category>bell-ringer</category><pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:27:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6f926224-5b40-4924-8537-aa604d5ef8c2.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="280" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6f926224-5b40-4924-8537-aa604d5ef8c2.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="84" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Nov. 17, 2012 photo Tinker, a miniature horse, rings a red bell for the Salvation Army outside a craft fair in West Bend, Wis. with his owners Carol and Joe Takacs. Salvation Army officials say Tinker  raises 10 times more than a regular bell ringer. (AP Photo/Carrie Antlfinger)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=976f04b0-736c-42ed-ba39-3461d0175a50.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="280" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=976f04b0-736c-42ed-ba39-3461d0175a50.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="84" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Nov. 17, 2012 photo Tinker, a miniature horse, greets crowds with a Thank You Merry Christmas Sign outside a craft fair in West Bend, Wis.  Tinker, a big money raiser for the Salvation Army, uses his mouth to ring a bell and holds up this sign after donations. Salvation Army officials say a good kettle for a couple of hours brings in about $250 and for the same time period Tinker has been known to bring in $2,500. (AP Photo/Carrie Antlfinger)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=2e920170-a385-453e-889e-039c94df533e.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="358" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=2e920170-a385-453e-889e-039c94df533e.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="172" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Nov. 17, 2012 photo Tinker, a miniature horse, rings a red bell for the Salvation Army with his owner Carol Takacs in West Bend, Wis. Takacs says his name was Tinker when she and her husband got him and they couldn't have named him better if they tried. (AP Photo/Carrie Antlfinger)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Gold Coin Dropped In Salvation Army Kettle Worth $1,400 </title>
<description><![CDATA[BROOMFIELD, Colo. (AP) -- A valuable gold coin dropped into a Salvation Army kettle outside a Colorado Wal-Mart resembles similar rare coins donated across the nation.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[maddad]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[maddad]]></source><link>http://maddad0467.newsvine.com/_news/2010/12/25/5714314-gold-coin-dropped-in-salvation-army-kettle-worth-1400</link><guid>http://maddad0467.newsvine.com/_news/2010/12/25/5714314-gold-coin-dropped-in-salvation-army-kettle-worth-1400</guid><category>charity</category><category>salvation-army</category><category>dropped</category><category>christmas</category><category>us-news</category><category>kettle</category><category>valuable</category><category>donated</category><category>gold-coin</category><category>bell-ringer</category><category>1400</category><category>similar-rare-caoins</category><category>1983-south-african-krugerrand-coin</category><pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2010 01:17:34 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Salvation Army Kettle Stolen </title>
<description><![CDATA[ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Money intended to help struggling families was stolen from Walmart while the bell ringer was on a bathroom break.

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<dc:creator><![CDATA[maddad]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[maddad]]></source><link>http://maddad0467.newsvine.com/_news/2010/12/08/5610909-salvation-army-kettle-stolen</link><guid>http://maddad0467.newsvine.com/_news/2010/12/08/5610909-salvation-army-kettle-stolen</guid><category>money</category><category>struggling</category><category>suspect</category><category>stolen</category><category>help</category><category>crime</category><category>salvation-army</category><category>us-news</category><category>kettle</category><category>caught-on-video</category><category>bell-ringer</category><category>intended</category><category>one-hundred-dollars</category><category>no-comment</category><category>bathroom-break</category><category>famlies</category><pubDate>Wed, 8 Dec 2010 13:04:59 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title> Police: Christmas-hating Ohioan swipes red kettle</title>
<description><![CDATA[A man who claimed to hate Christmas shoved a Salvation Army bell ringer to the ground and swiped one of the charity's red kettles stuffed with hundreds of dollars, police said.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[patsym546]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[patsym546]]></source><link>http://patsym546.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/30/3567970-police-christmas-hating-ohioan-swipes-red-kettle</link><guid>http://patsym546.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/30/3567970-police-christmas-hating-ohioan-swipes-red-kettle</guid><category>police</category><category>man</category><category>salvation-army</category><category>christmas</category><category>us-news</category><category>robbed</category><category>hates</category><category>bell-ringer</category><pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:10:31 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The First Noel the Police Did Arrest</title>
<description><![CDATA[A Salvation Army bell ringer sang "The First Noel" while shoplifting Christmas ornaments on his break, police said. Sean M. Sayers, 33, Anderson, was arrested Wednesday on a misdemeanor charge of conversion.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/12/06/1146713-the-first-noel-the-police-did-arrest</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/12/06/1146713-the-first-noel-the-police-did-arrest</guid><category>theft</category><category>odd</category><category>odd-news</category><category>salvation-army</category><category>us-news</category><category>bell-ringer</category><category>first-noel"</category><pubDate>Thu, 6 Dec 2007 23:01:52 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Police: Bell Ringer Sang Carol While Shoplifting</title>
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"A Salvation Army bell ringer sang "The First Noel" while shoplifting Christmas ornaments on his break, police said."
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vernon Lee]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Vernon Lee]]></source><link>http://vernonlee.newsvine.com/_news/2007/12/06/1146597-police-bell-ringer-sang-carol-while-shoplifting</link><guid>http://vernonlee.newsvine.com/_news/2007/12/06/1146597-police-bell-ringer-sang-carol-while-shoplifting</guid><category>salvation-army</category><category>us-news</category><category>shoplifting</category><category>bell-ringer</category><pubDate>Thu, 6 Dec 2007 21:50:05 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Bell Ringer Ordered Out of Shelter</title>
<description><![CDATA[A homeless man thought he was doing some good by standing at a supermarket for 10 hours a day to get shoppers to donate money into a red Salvation Army kettle.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Curran]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[John Curran]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/11/29/1131065-bell-ringer-ordered-out-of-shelter</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/11/29/1131065-bell-ringer-ordered-out-of-shelter</guid><category>odd</category><category>homeless</category><category>odd-news</category><category>salvation-army</category><category>us-news</category><category>bell-ringer</category><pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:08:57 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/9500c2fa-b3df-4cb5-be38-0cba0d661f86.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="347" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/9500c2fa-b3df-4cb5-be38-0cba0d661f86.jpg" width="120" height="177" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Paul Tucker places money from a donor in the Salvation Army pot in front of the Price Chopper in Barre, Vt., Thursday, Nov. 29, 2007. Because he took a job as a Salvation Army bell ringer at the supermarket instead of finding a place to live, the homeless man has been told to leave a shelter. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs">nul</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title> Is Ebenezer Scrooge Alive and Well in Corporate America? </title>
<description><![CDATA[This Christmas season, Target Corporation continues it's hard stance "No Solicitation" policy in banning the Salvation Army from setting up it's kettles at local Target Stores.  A ban that was first instituted in 2004.  ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graphic Knight]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Graphic Knight]]></source><link>http://graphicknight.newsvine.com/_news/2006/12/05/469702-is-ebenezer-scrooge-alive-and-well-in-corporate-america</link><guid>http://graphicknight.newsvine.com/_news/2006/12/05/469702-is-ebenezer-scrooge-alive-and-well-in-corporate-america</guid><category>business</category><category>target</category><category>holiday</category><category>donations</category><category>volunteer</category><category>giving</category><category>salvation-army</category><category>christmas</category><category>red-kettle</category><category>meijer</category><category>scrooge</category><category>bell-ringer</category><category>bah-humbug</category><pubDate>Tue, 5 Dec 2006 16:45:39 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>