Project Runway Justice From www.beautyschoolsdirectory.com/blog Last Wednesday night on Bravo TV, Jillian Lewis, Rami Kashou and Christian Siriano had a walk-off to decide who would be named the winning designer. Didn't you hear Christian say he had walked around his apartment in the model heels for hours? In fact, Christian was the only-stand out designer this season. And no, Christian wasn't always the most likeable designer. Christian drove off a winner in his 2008 Saturn Astra.

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Ark Therapeutics cash at year end 65.1 mln stg vs 48.4 mln UPDATE From Hemscott (Adds CEO, CFO comments) LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Ark Therapeutics, the UK-based healthcare group focused on vascular disease and cancer, announced that cash levels and investments at the end of its financial year were 65.1 mln stg vs 48.4 mln. The company booked full-year pretax loss for the year ended Dec 31 of 20.0 mln stg vs 19.1 mln, on revenues of 1.1 mln stg compared with 0.3 mln last year. It said net cash outflow from operating activities for the year was 18.0 mln stg, compared...

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BSD party serves success From Burlington Hawk Eye There were quite a few cocktails served at the Burlington Steamboat Days fundraiser Shake the Chill party Friday night, if you can liberally twist your definition of the word "cocktail." "We're going to be partying all night long," said Burlington resident Stephanie Orth. Former Burlington resident Kathy MacDonald was in town from Albany, N.Y., to visit her family and couldn't miss out on a chance to enjoy a Steamboat Days party. MacDonald is planning on taking her mother back to New York...

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Genus pretax up 28 pct as efficiencies offset feed prices up on ... From Hemscott (Thomson Financial) - UK-based animal genetics company Genus Plc reported first half pre-exceptional pretax profits up 28 pct to 13.9 mln stg compared with 10.9 mln last time as the company said cost cutting has reduced the impact of feed prices caused in a large part by US policy over biofuels. Sales were up 4 pct to 120.4 mln stg compared with 116.1 mln last time, and first half adjusted pre-exceptional EPS was up 21 pct to 16.5 pence/share compared with 13.6 pence last time. The company...

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Prelude to Geneva From Manila Standard Today MICROSOFT is pulling out all the stops ahead of a crucial meeting in Geneva to determine if the default file format in its MS Office 2007 suite becomes an international standard. It is against the backdrop of this week's International Organization for Standardization (ISO) meeting on the OOXML format that we can better appreciate Microsoft's announcement last Thursday that it would be more open about sharing information on its products and technology. Earlier, Microsoft had flown foreign...

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