Legacy®, through an unrestricted educational grant from Genentech, launches two new resources devoted to helping smokers understand their risks for lung cancer and reducing their risks for mortality.
Lung cancer is the nation's number one cancer killer of both men and women, accounting for 28 percent of all cancer deaths. More Americans are killed by lung cancer than by breast cancer, prostate cancer, or any other cancer. Up to 90 percent of lung cancer cases result from smoking and no current treatment can cure lung cancer. Early detection is the key to better quality and longevity of life.
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John Hancock Financial Network (JHFN) is enhancing its Build4Success platform by offering a practice management component with valuation, business assessment, and coaching services for its top 250 financial representatives. This new enhancement focuses on helping more top financial professionals and advisors within JHFN’s national network understand the value and growth potential of their financial services practices as well as opportunities to enhance their relationships with valued clients.
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Over the past year Americans became acutely aware of the impact of oil spills on wildlife. For more than 30 years, Procter & Gamble’s Dawn brand has been dedicated to helping save oiled birds and marine wildlife from both natural and man-made disasters. Today, Dawn expands its three-decade commitment to helping rescue wildlife with the launch of its Junior Wildlife Champions education and activity program, asking teachers and parents to help Dawn engage one million elementary school-aged children between now and the beginning of the 2011-12 school year.
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You probably never heard of an electrical connector, but behind the scenes, it's doing amazing things – providing ignition on a rocket, helping to get winery grapes harvested on time, and providing the power to light up the Mardi Gras parade. So when your job entails ensuring that your $1.3 million dollar Mardi Gras float lights up in the nighttime parade — when you only have the one opportunity to shine — your electrical connectors are, to say the least, critical.
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Sharps Compliance Corp. (NASDAQ: SMED), a leading full-service provider of cost-effective management solutions for medical waste and unused patient medications, is helping medical and other healthcare professional offices like doctors, dentists, vets, clinics, tattoo studios, and skilled nursing or assisted living facilities save time, money and the environment with a “GREEN” alternative to their traditional medical waste pick-up service.
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PickAPowder.com, the friendly rivalry campaign between Trace Adkins and Richard Petty, is giving fans a chance to not only fight tough pain but also help children fighting for their lives and injured service members fighting for our country. Fans of BC and Goody\'s powders will notice new packages on the shelves branded with familiar faces and charity logos.The new packaging showcases the support of two charities personally selected by country music superstar Trace Adkins and racing legend and NASCAR Hall of Famer Richard Petty. With each purchase made between January 1 and March 31 of these specially marked boxes of BC or Goody\'s, fans of Richard Petty and Trace Adkins will be helping to give back to the organization affiliated with each man and each brand. To donate to these causes, visit www.victoryjunction.org or woundedwarriorproject.org.
In a global event, held in Tokyo, London & New York, Ricoh Company, Ltd., a worldwide leader in digital office equipment and advanced document management solutions and services, today announced an investment designed to aggressively accelerate its shift to a services business model as a key growth strategy, building upon its core foundation of industry-leading hardware and software technologies and document and IT-related services. To advance this shift, Ricoh plans to invest $300 million USD over three years in its global Managed Document Services (MDS) infrastructure, underscoring the company’s commitment to its continued partnership with its customers, helping them to grow their bottom line through effective document management, improved workflow and increased productivity.
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Thousands of poor youth in developing countries now have opportunities to escape poverty through education and vocational training with the HOPE--Helping Overcome Poverty through Education-- Fund provided by Children International, a U.S.-based humanitarian organization.
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With recent studies citing that mobile distractions such as texting can be even more dangerous than drinking and driving, parents are looking for answers on how to best educate and promote responsible mobile phone use to their teens. As part of her role in the LG Text Ed campaign, an educational program aimed at parents, Jane Lynch shot a series of entertaining and educational viral videos for LG Mobile Phones about mobile phone misuse. With the goal of educating parents about the importance of talking to their kids about responsible mobile phone use, the LG Text Ed video series addresses issues such as “sexting,” mobile harassment and text etiquette, while helping parents learn how to use mobile phones to communicate better with their kids. In the series finale, Jane drives right to the point and addressees the potentially damaging consequences of texting while driving.
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Help protect the environment with Sony technology & crowdsourcing. Using crowdsourcing in conjunction with existing Sony technology and your ideas, Sony and WWF have created the Open Planet Ideas initiative which encourages you to get involved and be creative and to submit your ideas on how technology could be repurposed and put together a plan to help protect the environment.
The best crowdsourced ideas will then go to Sony and a panel of experts to be realised and go towards hopefully helping to save the environment.
Open Planet Ideas - Using Sony technology to protect the environment.
If you think it’s too late to prepare your home for the winter months, think again! There’s no time like the present to continue cold weather home maintenance projects you’ve already begun in the fall. The tasks you have to complete don’t have to be overwhelming when you take the necessary steps to prepare one step at a time. National DIY expert and HGTV host Lynda Lyday will provide a helping hand with tips and tools for you to properly complete your top DIY projects.
Trojan®, one of the leading brands of sexual health products in the U.S., is giving American women and men a reason to spend more time in their bedrooms with the launch of TROJAN® VIBRATIONS, a new line of high quality vibrators with pleasure-enhancing, high-performance features. Powerful with soft textures and designed with a woman’s body in mind, the first product, Trojan® Vibrating Tri∙Phoria™, is the result of extensive consumer research and is helping women and men reach new sexual heights.
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