Perez Hilton Throws Another Epic Event

Kanye West performing at Perez Hilton's One Night in Austin Presented by Dell. (PRNewsFoto/Dell) AUSTIN, TX UNITED STATES 03/24/2009

24 Mar 2009 11:00 Africa/Lagos


Perez Hilton Throws Another Epic Event

SURPRISE PERFORMANCE BY KANYE WEST CLOSES SXSW

INCREDIBLE PERFORMANCES FROM LITTLE BOOTS, LADYHAWKE, YELLE AND MORE

AUSTIN, Texas, March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Famed Blogger and music enthusiast Perez Hilton partnered with Dell to bring his signature "One Night In..." series to Austin for a second time during the 2009 SXSW festival on Saturday night. Hilton hosted the most anticipated party of this year's SXSW in a pink dazzling, "perez-licious" get-up and wrapped up the festival with a surprise performance by Kanye West.


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The party kicked off with comedian Margaret Cho, followed by surprise act Indigo Girls. The night carried on with performances by amazing artists including Ladyhawke, Yelle, Little Boots, Solange, Ida Maria, Thunderheist, Rye Rye, Natalie Portman's Shaved Head, Aaron LaCrate, Kraak and Smaak and Jeppe.


"It was all about the music, and we had some of the most amazing women and divas from all over the world, and from all different musical genres, performing on one stage - on one truly special night," said Hilton. "Dell really knows how to throw a party and that was evident by the great crowd and energy that this event produced."


Kanye West, Amber Rose and Perez at Perez Hilton's Event Presented by Dell. (PRNewsFoto/Dell) AUSTIN, TX UNITED STATES 03/24/2009

The audience was in for a huge surprise when Kanye West rocked the stage with a 30-minute set jam-packed with hits about half way into the party. The awe-struck crowd went crazy. The venue was filled with music enthusiasts, artists and celebrities alike. The star-studded event was host to actress and musician Juliette Lewis, actress/fashion designer/musician Taryn Manning, actor Ethan Suplee from the cast of "My Name is Earl," Jamie Burke, the new face of ck one, and Mandy Lauderdale.


The "One Night In..." series, which premiered in Austin last year, has boasted a stellar array of international acts and has been credited with ushering a host of new talent into the spotlight. Artists that have performed throughout the series have included: Katy Perry, Lady GaGa, The Ting Tings, Estelle, Mika, Eric Hutchinson, and N.E.R.D., to name a few. Since its debut, Perez Hilton has taken "One Night In..." across the globe with events in Toronto, New York City and Liverpool.


As a part of their partnership with Hilton, Dell is bringing the party to Perez fans worldwide with in-depth, exclusive online coverage of the event at the Dell Lounge. To watch band performances, red carpet moments and behind-the-scenes footage, sign up at www.delllounge.com/perez to get a secret link that will grant VIP access to the party via the web.


"Dell inspires people to look at technology as an expression of style and individualism," said Susan Kittleson, Director of Americas Consumer Marketing for Dell. "We're thrilled to team with Perez Hilton to support great music and make content available to people who are passionate about music."


In the back of the venue Dell provided a Dell Lounge Playground with a full swingset and slide. In addition, a Dell Mini bar was set up allowing attendees to update their social networking pages and more. Additional sponsors who helped make the event a success included Alize, Dos Equis, Cafe Bustelo, FUZE Beverage, FIJI water, Tito's Vodka, Red Bull and Parkside Restaurant.


About Dell:


Through innovative experiential programs like last year's Dell Summer Rocks music festival tour featuring the Dell Dome, and now Perez Hilton's One Night in Austin, Dell helps passionate fans celebrate the beautiful collision of technology and music. Products like the Dell Inspiron Minis and Wasabi handheld wireless printer and shopping experiences like the Dell Design Studio are redefining value, personalization and customization for connected mobile lifestyles.


About Perez Hilton:


Cubano and Miami Native Perez Hilton is the Internet's most notorious gossip columnist. The LA Times calls Perez, "like US Weekly, the Star, the Enquirer and Life & Style all rolled into one sweet yet snarky, sagacious yet salacious gay man." Perez was named the #1 Web celebrity for 2007 and 2008 by Forbes Magazine and as one of the 15 most influential Hispanics in the US by People en Espanol.


Since launching in 2004, PerezHilton.com has become one of the leading go-to sites for celebrity news. In February 2008, eMarketer identified perezhilton.com as one of the top 5 websites for college aged women, beating out MySpace! The UK's prestigious Observer newspaper named perezhilton.com (#6) one of the 50 most powerful blogs. In May 2008, Perez kicked off a daily nationally syndicated radio show in 7 of the top 10 markets in North America. Perez has also become a celebrity in his own right. In 2007 he premiered his own show, What Perez Sez on VH1. Appears on television (ABC, CNN, E! News, Dateline, NBC, MTV, VH1, and Much Music); and has been featured in the L.A. Times, The Wall Street Journal, Paper Magazine, CBS News, US Weekly and InTouch Weekly and many more. Recently Master P. launched his mobile website at m.perezhilton.com, now his gossip gangsters can be updated anywhere they go!


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Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands opens 60th edition of Keukenhof in Lisse

Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands opens 60th edition of Keukenhof in Lisse


LISSE, March 19, 2009 /PRNewswire/ — By baptizing the new Spring Garden tulip, Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands officially opened the 60th edition of the international flower exhibition, Keukenhof, on March 18. In this jubilee year the theme 'USA, New Amsterdam: New York, 400' strengthens the bonds of friendship with the numerous American visitors, as well as Dutch discoverer Henry Hudson. Approximately 10 percent of customers purchasing tickets from the Keukenhof box office originated from the United States. And four centuries ago, Hudson stepped ashore on what is now Manhattan — on behalf of the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the Dutch East India Company, who in those times ruled the seas — thus establishing New Amsterdam, later re-named New York. It made Hudson and the Dutch indirectly responsible for establishing the city as we know it today.

In the past six decades Keukenhof has enjoyed a warm interest from the members of the Royal Family. On May 2nd, 1972, then Queen Juliana and the Prince Consort Bernhard celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary and in 2001 Princess Maxima made her first public appearance at Keukenhof.

Emphasizing the theme for 2009, Prof. Dr M.J. Cohen, Mayor of Amsterdam, and Congressman Maurice Hinchey, addressed the audience.

Spring Garden is a Darwin-hybrid tulip, bred by Plant Research International Wageningen from a Madame Lefeber and a tetraploide and furthermore upgraded by Fluwel in Burgerbrug. Natural blooming is around end of April.

America in flowers
The 2009 theme is impressively showcased by a portrait of the world famous Statue of Liberty in flowers, a scene measuring 26 by 17 yards, which incorporates more than 50,000 flower bulbs.

Keukenhof 2009 has designed an American-themed route starting with the Hudson River at the park's entrance. From there a swaying path of blue grape flowers illustrates the two streams of New York, and leads the visitors along recognizable American locations such as Brooklyn, Harlem, and Wall Street. A walk of fame pictures a.o. present former First Lady Laura Bush, as well as James Last and Manhattan in flowers.

In the 32-hectare historic park, some seven million tulips, hyacinths, daffodils, and all other spring bulbs exuberantly grow. This year the park will be open from March 19th until May 21st.

For further information:
Keukenhof, Annemarie M.M. Gerards-Adriaansens, pr manager,
+31 (0)252 465505, fax: +31 (0)252 465565
a.gerards@keukenhof.nl

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World Fashion Awards Announces Winners in Moscow

The World Fashion Week's Channel is still under construction, but you can watch the shows and so much more on their YouTube Channel.

“World Fashion Awards honors individuals
and entire cultures who make fashion memorable”

20 Mar 2009 12:55 Africa/Lagos

World Fashion Awards Announces Winners in Moscow

MOSCOW, March 20 /PRNewswire/ -- On March 18, 2009, the World Fashion Awards ("WFA") named the best of the best in the Russian fashion industry. The ceremony was held in Moscow and was broadcasted worldwide by the World Fashion Channel.


The special World Fashion Award for Professional Achievement went to Alexander Shumsky, President of Russian Fashion Week ("RFW") and head of Artefact Communications Agency -- the prominent Russian PR company specializing in luxury, fashion, travel and lifestyle.


"We honored Alexander Shumsky as a pioneer who did the basic things that developed the Russia fashion industry. His Russian Fashion Week is the only professional event in Russia with a record of fashion discoveries and great influence on the whole market," said Igor Udalov, President of World Fashion Channel on the ceremony.


Russian Fashion Week, which began in 2000 in Moscow, is renowned as the biggest fashion event in Eastern Europe. RFW is famous for discovering new fashion talents and for showcasing the best Russian and ex-Soviet Union designers as well. Russian Fashion Week, which is held every April and October, is supported by the Russian Federation Ministry of Culture and features several international shows each season. Designers such as Vivienne Westwood, Jenny Packham, Jeremy Scott, Julien Macdonald, Matthew Williamson, La Perla, Frankie Morello, Armand Basi and Agatha Ruiz de la Prada have all showcased their collections in Moscow at RFW.


Internationally renowned Russian designer Slava Zaitsev received the Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding career spanning nearly 50 years. Slava Zaitsev just turned 71 years old and still holds a top position in Russian fashion. He was nicknamed Red Dior by the international media for creating glamorous collections during the era of the Soviet Union. Slava Zaitsev and his son Egor, who is famous for his avant-garde collections, are participants in Russian Fashion Week. Slava Zaitsev is also the founder of the Lamanova Fashion Contest which every year since 1998 has been awarded to Russia's best young designer.


The World Fashion Awards was founded by the World Fashion Channel in 2008 to recognize the most important people in fashion in Russia. The World Fashion Channel is an international satellite TV channel about fashion and headquartered in Switzerland with representative offices in Milan, Moscow, Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, Istanbul and Los Angeles. Russia is one of the key markets for the World Fashion Channel which reaches over 1 billion viewers in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Launched in 2005, the World Fashion Channel covers the latest fashion events, recent fashion and style news, current fashion trends, the lives of top models, backstage stories, photo session reports and designers' biographies along with celebrity red carpets, retro fashion returns, music videos and the best fashion shows from the most acknowledged designers.


For more information:

Maria Popova, RFW International Affairs Director
popova@artefact.ru
Artefact Communications Agency
Tel: +7 (495) 232-14-75/76/77/78
http://www.rfw.ru/




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CONTACT: Maria Popova, RFW International Affairs Director,
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All Humour is Caused by Just Eight Patterns

Is there humour in the picture of the woman kissing the monkey dressed as a man?

20 Mar 2009 10:00 Africa/Lagos

All Humour is Caused by Just Eight Patterns

CARLISLE, England, March 20/PRNewswire/ -- Evolutionary theorist Alastair Clarke has today published details of eight patterns he claims to be the basis of all the humour that has ever been imagined or expressed, regardless of civilization, culture or personal taste.


"All it takes is the surprise recognition of one of these patterns to trigger humour," says Alastair Clarke. "Sometimes a single pattern is the cause but just as often combinations of two or three are recognized simultaneously. Theoretically there is no limit to the number of patterns that may combine to make a person laugh."


Clarke has stated before that humour is based on the surprise recognition of patterns but this is the first time he has narrowed them down to eight specific types.


"Some of the patterns are quite simple and easy to understand. The most basic is what we call positive repetition, which just means that something is repeated in a similar form with the same purpose. The repeated item can be anything - an action, an entity, or a property.


"Then there's opposition, in which something is turned against itself. You might think of this as seeing a reflection in a river or turning an arrow back to point in the other direction, creating a pattern of symmetry.


"Another is what we call 'scale,' where we take something and repeat it in a different size. The item remains the same but the scale it's on changes, which is a common way to form a visual pattern.


"Unfortunately not all the patterns are quite so intuitive. Completion, qualitative recontextualization, translation, division and applicative recontextualization make up the remaining five.


"While it may seem bizarre to some, these few patterns are the real stimulus that makes us laugh, regardless of the content of the sit com we're watching or the funny story we're being told.


"They've also played a vitally important role in the evolution of the ingenuity of the human race. Their unconscious recognition has enabled humans to develop an intellect capable of analysis and invention on an unprecedented scale."


Clarke's findings are published today in a book entitled The Eight Patterns Of Humour, part of a series based on his Pattern Recognition Theory. A free eBook is available at http://www.pyrrhichouse.co.uk/eightpatterns for a period of 30 days.


"The book describes the eight patterns in detail and then goes on to explain precisely what people find amusing in more than a hundred different types of humour, demonstrating the unparalleled universality of the theory."


Clarke's research is based on the observation of many thousands of instances of humour. The analysis of ten thousand of these is to be made freely available on the internet as The Humour Ten Thousand during 2009. For more information visit http://www.pyrrhichouse.co.uk/research.


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Notes to editors:


Alastair Clarke is an evolutionary theorist living in Cumbria, United Kingdom. He was educated at Oxford and London universities. http://www.pyrrhichouse.co.uk/alastairclarke


Alastair Clarke is available for interview.


Source: Pyrrhic House

Contact: Nicola Hern t: +44(0)7980-098652, e: nicola@herncommunications.co.uk

Beyonce's 'Diva' is America's #1 Dance Record!

18 Mar 2009 18:56 Africa/Lagos

Beyonce's 'Diva' is America's #1 Dance Record!

Superstar's Latest Single From I AM...SASHA FIERCE Rockets To Top Of Billboard's Dance Single Club Play Chart

NEW YORK, March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Pop superstar Beyonce has rocketed to the #1 slot on the Billboard Dance Single Club Play chart with "Diva," the latest single from her best-selling I AM...SASHA FIERCE album. Beyonce's sister Solange is closely following her sibling on the same chart with her own hit single -- "T.O.N.Y." -- at #11.


Released as a digital download and CD single on January 20, 2009, "Diva" has already been certified as a Gold ringtone by the RIAA.


An audacious video for "Diva," lensed by acclaimed director Melina Matsoukas, premiered on iTunes on December 22 in tandem with the video for "Halo," the third single from I AM...SASHA FIERCE.


Cowritten and produced by Beyonce, the irresistibly hypnotic dance track provocatively redefine "Diva" as the "female version of a hustla."


After reaching #5 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart, "Diva" bulleted up the Hot 100 to #19, earning Beyonce her 16th Top 20 single. A genuine crossover success, "Diva" has reached #2 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart, #3 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and #19 on the Billboard Hot 100.


"If I Were A Boy," the first single from I AM...SASHA FIERCE, held down the #1 spot on the Billboard/iLike digital chart for 16 straight weeks, the longest run in the history of the chart.


Beyonce
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CONTACT: Yvette Noel-Schure, Columbia Records, New York,
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Americans Spend More Time Looking in the Mirror as Unemployment Rate Soars

19 Mar 2009 10:20 Africa/Lagos

Americans Spend More Time Looking in the Mirror as Unemployment Rate Soars

Perfectly pressed pleats, shiny shoes, neatly manicured nails; Americans focus on being well suited for the interview process

SAN FRANCISCO, March 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The footage and photos are compelling. Over 3,700 job hungry Americans in their finest "interview suits" queue around hotel corridors and spill into Manhattan streets anxiously waiting to enter a job fair two weeks ago. With employment losses exceeding 600,000 a month for three straight months for the first time since 1939, interviewing for a job has taken on an entire new level of importance for most of the country.


In a nation where casual Friday in the workplace has trickled into a five-day-a-week norm at many companies, a plethora of unemployed Americans are being forced to make a paradigm shift and give their approach to interviews a "fresh coat of paint." A well-pressed suit, polished shoes and a new haircut are suddenly "musts" when scores of other applicants are competing for the same position and so much is at stake.


Oliso, a high-performance iron manufacturer headquartered in San Francisco, makes it its business to ensure that Americans look their best. "An appropriate moniker for this era is 'The Iron Age' - as in, Americans are breaking out their irons, many for the first time, in record numbers to ensure they look their absolute best before heading off to an interview," reports Ehsan Alipour, president of Oliso Irons. "As the saying goes, 'you only have one chance to make a good first impression,' and perhaps this has never been more important to Americans than right now," Alipour continued.


In addition to the focus on fastidiousness, another result of the current economic state is that Americans are forgoing trips to the dry cleaner in exchange for the cost-free exercise of pressing their pleats at home. Dry cleaning costs combined with the gas required to get to the dry cleaner, are pushing this cash-strapped nation to dust off their old iron or invest in a new high tech, high-performance one.


Oliso Smart Irons offer the following tips to those in search of the immaculate image when heading out for a job interview. If there are problems with the outfit you plan to wear, the time to fix them is not when the interview confirmation finally lands in your Inbox.


-- Plan ahead!
-- Shop in your closet: Most don't have the resources to purchase a new
suit. Take a hard look in your closet at what you already own. Rather
than buy something new, dress up or stylize your old suit with a
different shirt, tie or scarf. This can bring an entire new look to
an old outfit.
-- Wrinkles are wrong. Showing up for an interview in the "perfect"
outfit that is wrinkled tells your perspective boss that either you
don't care or that you are too lazy to iron it. Use the vertical
steam feature on your iron to steam out your suit jacket while it's on
the hanger. Wrinkles will fall out in tough-to-fix areas such as the
arms, shoulder and back of the jacket. There is no need to pay for
the cleaning of a suit at the dry cleaner when all it needs is a quick
freshening up with steam.
-- If your closet is cramped, chances are you are going to need to steam
out or iron your outfit before wearing it, even if it's still in the
bag from the dry cleaner.
-- Polish your shoes. Even if you think they don't need it, a good polish
to an old pair of shoes makes them shine and appear brand new.
-- Make sure your socks match your shoes and suit, and are thigh high.
You don't want an interviewer to be distracted by your bare leg when
you cross your leg during an interview and your pants leg rides up.
-- Short skirts (above the knee) have no place in the interview process
even if it's part of a suit.
-- Remove your nose ring and/or tongue ring if you have them. If you have
tattoos that are visible, do your best to cover them. Right or wrong,
why take the chance that the person interviewing you may not be a fan
of such things. You can always reveal these once you get hired, if
it's appropriate.



For these and other tips for looking your best for a job interview, visit www.oliso.com


Source: Oliso Smart Irons

CONTACT: Jennifer Gear of Cogent Public Relations, +1-781-937-3489,
jennifer@cogentpr.com, for Oliso Smart Irons


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