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Nebraska Furniture Mart, The Digital Entertainment Group (DEG) will present Best Buy, “Nebraska Furniture Mart and Amazon.com”with Retailer of the Year awards tonight at its 14th International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) of receipt.

The trade group, composed of content providers and electronics manufacturers, established the awards to recognize excellence in promoting and merchandising of digital entertainment products and Blu-ray Disc during the past year.

Best Buy has taken the national retailer of the year in the equipment category for his “visionary approach to merchandising and display and support for new technologies,” said DEG.

“Nebraska Furniture Mart”écopé Regional Retailer of the Year honors in the hardware for its support of complete lines of all categories of equipment and demonstrations of new technologies.

The Retailer of the Year for the software went to Amazon.com. DEG has said its members voted overwhelmingly for the online retailer for its innovative approach to driving 3D Blu-ray, as well as creating new promotions for consumers behind EST, VOD and MOD.

In addition, Panasonic and Sony Electronics has received Emiel N. Petrone Digital Innovation Award, in memory of the founding president of the DEG, at the sight, the source and sound categories. The latter went to Sony Electronics for the STR-DA5600ES 7.1 channel network multiroom A / V receiver, while Panasonic has taken the original view and the respective awards for his solid 50-inch Viera TC-P50VT25 TV 3D plasma 1080p DMP-BDT100 3D full HD Blu-ray Disc.

DEG also awarded honors to six Creative Excellence 2010 Blu-ray Disc for their overall sound and picture quality and features that best demonstrate the value-added nature of this format. The winners are:

A Title · Theater of the Year: “Avatar,” Extended Collector’s Edition, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment;

As · Classic of the Year: “The Sound of Music” 45th Anniversary Edition, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment;

A title œ the year: “Lost: The Complete Collection,” Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment;

A? Noncommercial title of the year: “Life” (Narrated by David Attenborough), BBC / Warner Home Video;

As · Music of the Year: “The Promise: The Darkness On The Edge Of Town Story”, Columbia Records / Sony Music Entertainment, and;

A • 3D title of the year: “Disney’s A Christmas Carol,” Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment.

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Miss America 2011 crown won by Miss Nebraska Teresa

Miss America 2011 crown won by Miss Nebraska, Teresa Scanlan. She is a 17-year-old young lady from Nebraska became the youngest winner of the Miss America 2011 in 90 years on Saturday. She won the crown after beating 52 other young women from across the United States.

She was the youngest Miss America since the pageant’s first competition in 1921, when Margaret Gorman of the District of Columbia won at age 15.

Teresa Scanlan won a $50,000 scholarship and a yearlong run with the crown. On Saturday night at the competition at the Planet Hollywood casino resort in Las Vegas, giving the Cornhusker State its first-ever win at the pageant.

Teresa Scanlan, a recent high school graduate from the western Nebraska town of Gering, planned to study American politics at Patrick Henry College in Virginia. She is also willing to attend law school, become a judge and eventually a politician, according to her pageant biography.

Scanlan won after strutting in a black bikini and a white evening gown, playing “White Water Chopped Sticks” on piano and telling the audience that when it comes to Wikileaks, security should come before public access to government More Pictures

Teresa Scanlan, Miss Nebraska (Photos, Video)

Miss America 2011 Winner: Teresa Scanlan, Miss Nebraska (Photos, Video)

Miss Nebraska, Teresa Scanlan is the Miss America 2011 Winner; photos and video are below. She was crowned on Sat. Jan. 15, at the 90th annual pageant at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas and chosen from the 53 contestants. The program hots were Chris Harrison of The Bachelor and Brooke Burke of Dancing With the Stars.

Details, pictures, and video are below after the jump.
Miss America 2010 Caressa Cameron (Miss Virginia) relinquished her crown to the 2011 winner. According to her official biography, Teresa Scanlan is 17 years old, and is from Gering, Nebraska. She is the youngest contestant in the pageant’s history to win. She graduated from Scottsbluff High School and will attend Patrick Henry College in the fall of 2011. For her talent competition she performed on piano. During her year long tenure, her issue of focus will be “Eating disorders: A generation at risk.”

For more on the winner see: Gering teenager crowned Miss Nebraska

More photos, video and high quality images of all of the winners and finalists can be seen here: Miss America 2011 Winner and Finalists, including evening gown, swim-suit competition pictures.

Here is the full list of the Miss America 2011 Finalists

Winner: Miss Nebraska – Teresa Scanlan
1st Runner Up: Miss Arkansas – Alyse Eady
2nd Runner Up: Miss Hawaii – Jalee Fuselier
3rd Runner Up: Miss Washington – Jacquie Brown
4th runner up: Miss Oklahoma – Emoly West

Semi-Finalists

***Judges’ Choice

Miss Oklahoma – Emoly West
Miss Nebraska – Teresa Scanlan
Miss Texas – Ashley Melnick
Miss Rhode Island – Deborah Saint-Vil
Miss Utah – Christina Lowe
Miss Washington – Jacquie Brown
Miss Arizona – Kathryn Bulkley
Miss Hawaii – Jalee Fuselier
Miss Virginia – Caitlin Uze
Miss Arkansas – Alyse Eady
Miss California – Arianna Afsar

***America’s Choice
Miss New York – Claire Buffie
Miss Delaware – Kayla Martell

***Contestants’ Choice
Miss Kentucky – Djuan Trent
Miss Oregon – Stephenie Steers

Preliminary Winners

Night One
Miss Hawaii – Jalee Fuselier, Lifestyle & Fitness
Miss North Carolina – Adrienne Core, Talent

Night Two
Miss Rhode Island – Deborah Saint-Vil, Talent
Miss Alabama – Ashley Davis, Lifestyle & Fitness

Night Three
Miss Nebraska – Teresa Scanlan, Talent
Miss Oklahoma – Emoly West, Lifestyle & Fitness

For more images as well as complete list of competitors see: Miss America 2011 Contestants

Watch video below.

There were 53 contestants representing the 50 states, Puerto Rico, the District of Colombia and the Virgin Islands who were whittled down to 15 semi-finalists and 7 finalists. The 2011 judges were Joy Behar, Dr. Debbye Turner Bell (Miss America 1990); Marc Cherry, Tony Dovolani, Marilu Henner,Taryn Rose and Mark Wills.

The duties of the newly crowned winner, according to the Miss America Organization’s Web site, are spend the year on a national speaking tour, traveling some 20,000 per month, to a different city every other day, as an advocate for her chosen issue, or platform, as it is officially known. Platforms which previous winners have advocated include homelessness, domestic violence, and literacy.

The beauty pageant sponsored yearly by the Miss America Organization is comprised of talent competition, swimsuit and evening gown competition. Every year, the organization awards more than $45 million in scholarships at local, state and national levels, making it, internationally, the largest provider of scholarship assistance exclusively for young women.

Miss Nebraska wins 2011 Miss America pageant

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 17-year-old from Nebraska has become the youngest winner of the Miss America crown in 90 years after beating 52 other young women from across the United States.
Teresa Scanlan won a $50,000 scholarship and a yearlong run with the crown at the competition Saturday night at the Planet Hollywood casino and resort in Las Vegas.
She is the youngest Miss America since the pageant’s first competition in 1921, which Margaret Gorman of the District of Columbia won at age 15.
Miss Arkansas Alyse Eady won $25,000 as first runner-up, while Miss Hawaii Jalee Fuselier won $20,000 for third place.
It was the pageant’s 90th anniversary.