Whitney Thompson

Whitney Thompson is the first full-figured girl chosen to win America's Next Top Model. She was born in Born: September 26, 1987 in Atlantic Beach, Florida, USA.

Whitney Thompson is the first plus-size model to win the reality-based TV show America's Next Top Model. Thompson began her modeling career at 15 in her home state of Florida, appearing several times on the cover of her local "Jacksonville" community magazine. Thompson is 5'10" and a US size 10. She was 20 at the time of her appearances on ANTM. Thompson is the first plus-size model to appear on the cover of Seventeen magazine, on the July 2008 issue.

Autumn/Winter Fashion Trend 2013-2014

Here, we’ll take a look at a few winter style tips to help you navigate this season’s must-have trends. Are you ready for winter? The winter is nearly here for the most people in the country, so the question is: Are you prepared? Not only to survive the season and its cold weather, but to look great in the winter. The magazines are full of methods and tips to help you with this cold weather, but I’m here to show you what is trendy and how to keep yourself warm this cold season. It’s important not to neglect the way you look, even if you have to wear a thick coat.

Kingston in BBC's top-5 university towns | The Kingston Whig-Standard

    A good college party town combined with the culture and sophistication universities can bring has helped our neighbors in Kingston be named in the top five college towns in the world. Madison, Wisconsin was the only American city along with Cambridge, England, and cities in Chile and Sweden.

Kingston, Ontario

     This is a great honor for Kingston, home of Queen's University and the Royal Military Academy. Kudos to Kingston !
Kingston in BBC's top-5 university towns | The Kingston Whig-Standard

Tara Lynn on Spain Elle

She is back!! Welcome back Tara Lynn.

Plus size model Tara Lynn is one of three cover models to grace the November 2013 issue of ELLE Spain. Tara Lynn shares the spotlight with actress Paula Echevarria and journalist Sara Carbonero. Each woman was selected for different reason but according to the writers at ELLE Spain, they’re a trio of stars who fans identify as real women.

On the November cover of ELLE Spain, the stunning beauty is wearing a leather jacket. Once inside, she’s wearing pencil skirts, leopard prints, denim and outerwear.

Plus-size beauty Tara Lynn stuns in the new cover story shot by photographer Xavi Gordo for the November 2013 issue of Elle Spain. Styled by Inmaculada Jimenez, Tara sports stylish basics for the Fall 2013 season, showing off her sexy curves. Makeup looks are courtesy of David Carreiro.

JFK: In a Twitter-less World, Kennedy Slaying Was a Media Event

    In today's busy-body world of social media, news travels very fast but in 1963 it likely took a little longer for people to discover the President had been shot and killed in Dallas. Not that much longer though as the media of the day worked very hard with the technology available.

     Such an event was clearly a "FLASH" on the AP and UPI teletypes clanging away in newsrooms. The rarely used designation was the highest category of news sparking an ear-catching ten-bell serenade from the wire machine. Reporters today have never seen a teletype or stood there reviewing the miles of paper it produced.
    In fact the newsrooms of today are quiet like a library with the subdued lighting of an opium den. Gone are the crusty editors barking out orders or the frenzy of operating at Twitter-like speed in a non-digital age.
    In newspapers it literally was "stop the presses" as the media sought to turn on a dime and get the information out quickly through the means used at the time.
    Television came of age during the assassination and for days print blanketed the story.

Camelot's End Just Moments Away

 

    I was attending Brookview Elementary School in Irondequoit NY that day but unlike many schools, we were not told what had happened. It wasn't long before we were home and watched it all play out on television including the spectacle of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV.
    Yet there was no video of the shooting of the President except for the Zapruder film that surfaced later.   Imagine the excruciating detail we would see today.
     A lot of water under the bridge in the fifty hears since but the enormity of the event can be seen in that everyone....I mean everyone who was of age....remembers where they were that day.
Rieder: If JFK had been shot in the social media era

WDT: Nurse Cleared But Faces Tough Employment Prospects

   And what office does Dawn Harrison go to get her reputation back ?  Cleared by a grand jury that found no basis to indict, the 46 year old RN likely faces dim employment prospects due to allegations she tampered with records to redirect prescription drugs while working as a traveling nurse this year at the Watertown hospital.
     Since grand juries usually indict a ham sandwich, the failure to indict is telling, but in our war on drugs society, no one will take the chance on someone who Googles up that kind of information.
      I wouldn't make that hire in my business. It's just too risky and could attract too much attention.
Watertown Daily Times | Traveling nurse cleared of stealing meds from Watertown hospital

WDT: Indian River debates choice of school logo

   I'd like to see Watertown change its sports name as use of the Cyclone is grossly insensitive to the many victims of tornadoes in the United States.  I want all Red Devils and Blue Devils gone as they seek to establish a religion.
     No more "Beavers", too sexually charged.  I am sure our astute readers can think of more things to offend.
Watertown Daily Times | Indian River debates choice of school logo