(Best Syndication News) - Blizzard Entertainment announced that they would be releasing a 350-page book containing almost 800 pieces of artwork from their video games such as Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo. Insight Editions is the publisher of the new The Art of Blizzard book. The artwork will cover some of the company’s never-before-seen work on unpublished projects.

In Southern California, at Gallery Nucleus, a special engagement will be held on January 12, 2013 between 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. The event will celebrate the release of The Art of Blizzard book. Over 60 pieces of artwork will be on display at Nucleus until February 3, 2013. A $5 entrance fee at the door will be required, but if guests dress up in costume, they can get in at no charge.

(Best Syndication News) - Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. announced today that actress Kaley Cuoco will debut in a Toyota commercial, which will air during Super Bowl XLVII. Toyota is also offering a chance for the public to appear in the commercial by posting a photo of themselves on Instagram or Twitter with the hashtag #wishgranted. The photo could be chosen to appear in this year’s Super Bowl within the Toyota advertisement.

Kaley Cuoco stars in the award-winning CBS TV show, “The Big Bang Theory.” Toyota is not giving out details or specifics about the commercial, but they hint that Cuoco’s comedic abilities make her ideal for the role in this commercial.

(Best Syndication News) It was a good week on Wall Street, and that translated into higher mortgage interest rates (see the mortgage rate charts below). JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and HSBC were among the banks raising their loan rates.

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The December jobs report provided the optimism to keep alive the rally spurred by the fiscal-cliff compromise. Stocks were higher on news that businesses added 155,000 new non-farm jobs last month. Economists expected 150K new jobs and the November figure was revised upward to 161,000 new jobs.

(Best Syndication News) - The San Bernardino Public Library will be hosting a Civil War re-enactment celebrating 150 years since Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. The library will have free “living history” programs throughout the month of January to bring history alive.

On January 12, 2013, between 10 a.m. until 4 p.m., the Feldheym Central Library (located at 555 W. 6th Street in San Bernardino) will have American Civil War Society members dressed up as Confederate Soldiers, Union Soldiers, and Civilian Corps from the Civil War era. The American Civil War Society is one of the largest nonprofit groups to reenact this particular historical period in California. The group will also have re-enactors portraying Abraham Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln, General and Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant, and General Robert E. Lee. This is a family friendly event and is intended to educate students about Civil War history.

(Best Syndication News) - Ubitus Inc. announced that they would be bringing console and MMO video games to play through Google TV. The company will be demonstrating their cloud gaming technology for the Google TV platform at the 2013 Consumers Electronics Show (CES) this week.

As bandwidth quality continually improves, Ubitus sees the potential for delivering video games over the Internet directly to TV sets, which the company considers a central component for home entertainment. Lags in streaming intensive video games smoothly have hindered full integration of cloud gaming services to TV sets. Ubitus claims to have overcome this problem.