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WATERFORD, Ireland, Dec. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- This holiday season, to celebrate the Let There Be Peace theme introduced to the 2013 Waterford Crystal Times Square New Year's Eve Ball, Waterford and Times Square New Year's Eve are inviting friends around the world to share what it is that peace means to them. Select sentiments will be included in the Waterford toast given during the live New Year's Eve Celebration in Times Square to over a million revelers on-site and online via...

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- 429 Records is set to release "STARLIGHT," an all new collection of compositions by celebrated songstress Joan Armatrading. "STARLIGHT" is a collection of 10 songs which emphasize her unequaled prowess as a singer and arranger. Always the consummate songwriter, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, Armatrading explores new vocal phrasing technique with "STARLIGHT" which add new emotional dimension and depth to her always incisive...

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Kpop star Psy's juggernaut video 'Gangnam Style' recently became the most viewed video in the history of YouTube. Viki, the global TV site powered by fans, today released an infographic that reveals how the music video moved around the world since it started taking off in August of this year. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121218/SF29627-INFO-a) Data for the infographic was taken from Viki's analytics dashboard, which...

Jump manual is a vertical jump increasing program by Jacob Hiller who claims to make a person’s vertical jump up to 10 to 25 inches. Chicago, IL (PRWEB) December 17, 2012 Jump Manual, the vertical jump training system by Jacob, has received many critical analyses and questions about its effectiveness since the program can be directly related to the professional life of athletes and national players of many countries. Jacob has received a certificate in vertical jump training and works...

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Dec. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Steven Spielberg's Lincoln and the musical Les Miserables strike resonant tones for many Americans, particularly those million-plus lawyers practicing in the United States. I am one of those million. Like thousands of attorneys since Abraham Lincoln's death, I have tried to apply his recorded wisdom into my everyday law practice. Les Miserables, based on the novel by Victor Hugo, has been a mainstay of the theatre for almost thirty...

ATLANTA, Dec. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bounce TV (www.bouncetv.com), the fastest-growing African American network in television, has added a special second screen component to complement the world premiere of A forever JONES Holiday on Tuesday, Dec. 18 at 9:00 p.m. ET. A forever JONES Holiday is Bounce TV's first non-scripted original special and features breakout Gospel group forever JONES readying and performing their uplifting GRAMMY®-nominated hit music - a diverse mix of Pop,...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Dec. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- "WARHOL WOULD HAVE LOVED TO BE AT THIS PARTY," said Ultra Violet, Andy Warhol superstar and artist who attended the fast becoming legendary party hosted by Walter Otero Contemporary Art at the Bass Museum of Art on Saturday, December 8(th), during Art Basel week in Miami Beach. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121214/FL30195-a ) (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121214/FL30195-b ) "This event is by far the best...

SILVER SPRING, Md., Dec. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The life of Clark Rockefeller exhibits a bizarre twist on the traditional American success story... not because he had the last name of American royalty, but because the story was a total fabrication. The lifelong con man who effectively masqueraded as a member of the famously rich Rockefeller family for more than 16 years was in reality a poor country boy from a tiny mountain village in Germany. Obsessed with America, Hollywood, and...

EAGAN, Minn., Dec. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota (Blue Cross) has received a 2012 CLIO Healthcare gold level award for its "Tomorrow" ad, one of two national gold awards given this year for video entries. The commercial uses humor, real life scenarios and a song parody to motivate Minnesotans to make healthy changes today. Viewers are then directed to the Blue Cross website, where they can find information to get started making healthy...

LONDON and MIAMI, December 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- - The BE OPEN Forum at Design Miami/ reveals the sensory visions of today's most innovative designers Imagine if you could design a product that appealed to the sixth sense - something that felt intuitively 'right'. This is the focus for the BE OPEN Foundation's research over the next year, a project that launched at the 2012 London Design Festival with a series of events about sound. On Saturday 8 December, the...