Local Top Model: From Runway to Business World (First Coast News)

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — She worked the runway and made history by becoming the first full-figured model to win “America’s Next Top Model.” The First Coast’s own Whitney Thompson impressed judges to win the 10th cycle, now she’s launching her own line of beauty products.

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Reality Bytes: ‘Project Runway,”America’s Top Model’ air finales this week (Colorado Daily)

This season s Project Runway crew. Now, only three remain. Who s gonna win this thing? The suspense is not killing us.

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Homebuilders Are Increasing the Use of "Virtual Model Homes" to Drive Sales and Cut Costs During the Recession (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

Today’s struggling economy is driving the use of innovative technologies in new home sales and marketing. A growing trend is the use of Virtual Model Home Tours to replace the use of expensive model home complexes in communities across America.

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ITTY BITTY BITS: Naomi’s reality show; ‘Centric’s Leading Women’; Taylor Lautner vs. Kanye on ‘SNL.’ (Eurweb)

*Naomi Campbell is reportedly in talks to host a new British reality series in the vein of “America’s Next Top Model.” Her rep confirms to Britain’s Daily Mail that she is currently considering the job but has yet to sign up.

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TV-Desi Inks Deal With Geo Television Network as the First Distributor in Canada to Deliver Geo’s Three Top Rated … (Marketwire)

PLAINVIEW, NY–(Marketwire – December 14, 2009) – TV-Desi, a subsidiary of NeuLion, Inc. ( TSX : NLN ) and the leading provider of South Asian television programming in North America, is proud to be the first platform in Canada to launch Geo TV, Geo News and AAG TV. TV-Desi welcomes Geo TV, Geo News and AAG TV to its diverse channel menu serving the Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi markets in …

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Intelligroup Positioned in Leading Industry Analyst Firm’s 2009 Magic Quadrant for SAP Outsourcing, North America (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Intelligroup, Inc. , an information technology and outsourcing services provider principally focused on enterprise resource planning and extended ERP solutions, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the SAP Outsourcing Magic Quadrant report. Â The 2009 “Magic Quadrant for SAP Outsourcing, North America” by Gartner, Inc. assesses SAP applications outsourcing service providers …

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Trains chug into America’s Packard Museum (Dayton Daily News)

Model trains and Christmas go together like peanut butter and jelly, but the folks at America’s Packard Museum decided to mix antique automobiles with model trains for the holidays.Museum board member Mike Mereness came up with the idea.

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Golf retailer drives long in downturn (Fort Worth Business Press)

Golf Etc. of America Inc.’s top executive credits the company’s steady growth over the past several years to a willingness to work with the recession, instead of against it.

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Niemann: A list of my top 10 inventors and what I think they would want for Christmas (Quincy Herald-Whig)

PEOPLE ALWAYS ask me, “What’s the best invention of all time?” They’re looking for that one perfect answer that’s going to settle the debate once and for all.

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Louisiana serves as model in teacher assessment (Washington Post)

LAFAYETTE, La.– In the fluorescent glow of Room 46 at J.W. Faulk Elementary School, second-year teacher Shannon Bower saw big challenges ahead for her fourth-graders who are struggling in reading and math. “I do what I can,” she said during a recent class. “I move them up a little, but I can’t d…

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