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Thursday, February 22, 2007

TV RATINGS - 2/18/2007

TV RATINGS - 2/18/2007

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Sunday TV Ratings
February 18, 2007

Takeshi's Castle 12.0
It Started with A Kiss 10.4

SOP Rules 16.0
ASAP '07 17.4

Your Song 13.6
Magic Kamison 12.9
Lovespell Presents: Click Na Click 13.7

S-Files 10.2
The Buzz 16.4

Mga Kwento ni Lola Basyang 15.5
TV Patrol Linggo 20.6

StarStruck The Next Level 19.5
Goin Bulilit 21.0

Mel & Joey 21.4
Rated K: Handa Na Ba Kayo? 24.5

All Star K! 21.0
Sharon 12.7

Daddy DiDoDu 18.4
Sunday's Best 8.1
Sunday Night Box Office 12.0

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ABS-CBN IMPROVES THEIR RATING LAST SUNDAY, feb.18

ABS-CBN Channel 2 got a high percentage of 18.2 in the
AGB Nielsen Mega Manila Ratings last Sunday. This was
2.3% higher than GMA's audience share of 15.9%. The
said rating was in the scope of 11:45am-9:30pm.

ABS-CBN dominated the daytime ratings of the Sunday
game. The biggest winner was ASAP O7 ALIW THEATRE LIVE
which got 17.4% against SOP's 16%. Lovespell and Your
Song also had their victories against Magic Kamison
with almost 1% of differences. Kris' revelation about
her problems with husband James Yap made a landslide
win with 16.4% against S-Files which only got 10.2%.
TV Patrol Linggo had grasp higher rating than SFiles.
TV Patrol got 20.6%. It has also beaten GMA's Lola
Basyang (15.5%) & Starstruck (19.5%).

On the other hand, Goin Bulilit remains number 1 on
its timeslot with 21% of audience share.

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February 17, 2007 TV Ratings

14.4 Pilipinas, Game Ka Na Ba?

13.2 Takeshi's Castle

23.3 Wowowee

23.4 Eat Bulaga

16.3 Nagmamahal Kapamilya

12.2 Startalk

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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Couple plan to tie the knot in graveyard

02/19/2007 | 04:49 PM

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PACIFIC, Mo. - It's not the traditional "till death do us part," but Scott Amsler and Miranda Patterson believe getting hitched in a graveyard is just thinking outside the box.

Come September, the Illinois couple expects to pledge their undying love among the dearly departed in this St. Louis suburb's city cemetery, even though those who approved the request are dead set against seeing it become a trend.

The wedding wouldn't be out of character for Amsler, 27, a computer expert for a financial company by day and rehabber of old hearses by night.

The graveyard, he said, just has a certain tranquility and thriftiness for nuptials the young couple insists will be small, private and traditional — except for the bagpipes, Amsler's refurbished hearse and the throng of eternally silent witnesses.

"People are going to think how they want. I don't actively try to convince people that my interests are normal or logical," Amsler said. "I'm not a freak or Satan worshipper or cult member. It just goes with our theme."

Deep down, the couple said, it just seemed right.

Amsler and Patterson, who recently moved to Collinsville, Ill., became an item not long after they met in November 2005 at a birthday party where Patterson, 21, was to have been the celebrant's blind date. Amsler showed up in a retooled hearse that caught Patterson's eye.

"I wanted a ride in it but I chickened out at the last minute," she said.

By their first date weeks later, on New Year's Eve, Patterson knew Amsler was the one. Not long afterward, she quit her factory job in Sullivan, Mo., and moved in with Amsler in Troy, Ill.

Amsler proposed last June, affixing to the side of the 1965 hearse — which the two call "Edgar" — a plate with a simple message: "Will you marry me?" Seconds later, the ring slid onto a crying Patterson's finger.

She received Edgar as an engagement gift and had only one stipulation: The wedding had to be outside, in a gazebo.

Her worries were laid to rest while she and Amsler drove to her dad's house. While traveling on Interstate 44, Patterson spotted a gazebo on a hilltop, only to find it was in a graveyard. No worries.

"The view was just gorgeous," she said. "I said, `This is where I want to get married.'"

When the couple called last fall for permission to use the three-acre cemetery, which dates to the Civil War, City Clerk Jo Ann Hoehne told them the local cemetery committee would have to decide.

"When I spoke to them, they were just a normal young couple who wanted to have a wedding some place they thought was nice and serene for a very small, intimate wedding," Hoehne said. "They weren't any cult group or anything like that."

Bill Hohman, a 71-year-old alderman on the cemetery panel, wasn't sure what to think.

"It's strange to me. This is kind of an unusual thing around here," he said of the country town where the roughly 5,700 residents "roll up the sidewalks at nine o'clock, and everyone goes to bed."

The committee last month signed off on the couple's request despite concerns about the appropriateness of the setting for the occasion — and fears that a burial might be scheduled for the same time.

Hohman, though, vows to introduce a measure to make Amsler-Patterson nuptials the last among this town's tombstones. "Once the horse is out of the barn, you have to have an ordinance," he said.

But Patterson said she and Amsler have respect for the living and the dead.

"We're not going to do anything stupid or horrible. We just want to have a wedding," she said.

"Some of the ladies I work with said, `Are you crazy? Why would you get married in a cemetery?' Does it matter where we get married, just as long as we get married?" - AP

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