PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Monday December 12, 2005

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Monday December 12, 2005

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Joss Stone Is the Best Dog-Owner - Paris Hilton Is the Worst!

The 18-year-old singer beat off competition from Charlize Theron, Ashley Olsen and "Dancing with the Star's" John O'Hurley to become the planet's most canine-friendly celebrity. The online poll conducted by readers of The New York Dog Magazine and The Hollywood Dog Magazine voted Paris Hilton the World's Worst Dog Owner. Voters put the heiress in the doghouse for replacing her Chihuahua, Tinkerbell, with a ferret.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3100648

For Today's Die-Hard Racing Fans, New Documentary Wraps NASCAR's Past as Holiday Present

Before Daytona, before asphalt, before rules and regulations, before NASCAR, one man would gather a ragtag group of daredevils and dare to dream. The starters turned, there was a spark, then a roar, and legends were born. This holiday, "American Stock," a new brand dedicated to paying homage to the early days of NASCAR, introduces fans to a new DVD Series, "The Golden Era of NASCAR." The series traces NASCAR's humble beginnings back to the white sands of Daytona and red dirt clay of Southern Piedmont where NASCAR founder "Big" Bill France and his roving band of rebels and outlaws would grip it and rip it, white-knuckled and hell-bent all the way across the line to that checkered flag. This is the only DVD series that takes a hard and gritty look at NASCAR's history from 1936 to 1971, the early, formative years when the "greatest generation" managed to build stock car racing, judged as a third- rate joy ride for the working class, into what it is today -- the fastest growing spectator sport in the country. The four-and-a-half-hour series includes four DVD's.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3100404

CardPlayer.com to Launch Full Multimedia Experience From Live Poker Tournaments

Wondering who will be poker's next millionaire? CardPlayer.com, one of the web's largest poker information portals, will provide full multimedia coverage, including a new daily radio show, December twelfth through December sixteenth from the fifteen thousand dollar-buy-in Bellagio Five-Star World Poker Classic championship event.

Card Player Media Chairman and CEO Barry Shulman said "For those interested in following high stakes poker action in real time, there is no better place than CardPlayer.com, we're continuing to expand our tournament poker coverage to offer our viewers a full multimedia experience from the world's biggest tournaments."

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3100751

Speculators Force Natural Gas Prices to All Time High

Jon Huntsman, the founder and Chairman of Huntsman Corporation said today that traders on the New York Mercantile Exchange have forced the price of natural gas to all time highs -- exceeding fifteen dollars per million BTU's (British Thermal Units) -- severely hurting every U.S. natural gas consumer. Mr. Huntsman said, "This is a disaster for American industry, the American farmer and for the fifty five percent of Americans who heat their homes with natural gas. It is particularly painful for those on fixed incomes who simply cannot afford to pay prices that are double most of the rest of the world. And the most aggravating part of this whole fiasco is that it is absolutely not necessary. In the year 2001, natural gas inventories were lower than they are today, production and demand were at similar levels, and the price was two dollars and thirty cents per million BTU's.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3100655

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PRNewswire -- Dec. 12

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