Health insurance reform passed Congress, but health insurance doesn't equal health care. One in five children in the U.S. live in poverty and millions of children don't have access to regular check-ups and timely health care visits when sick. Through a new social media-driven campaign, the Children’s Health Fund (CHF) and Clorox are working to change this and connect kids to ongoing health care with the click of a mouse.
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Jump in, said Comal County Judge Danny Scheel, as County and city officials, local business owners and residents jumped in the Comal River to celebrate reopening the city's popular rivers. The Guadalupe River from Canyon Lake through the city of New Braunfels and the Comal River are open again for the summer.
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As many as one in five U.S. teens suffers from disabling mental illness. Throughout Mental Health Awareness Month in May, BeSmartBeWell.com highlights the issue of mental illness in teens and tells the stories of two teens who moved from diagnosis through treatment and recovery.
What does mental illness look like in teens? It looks like Colleen, who’s battled depression and anxiety since she was 13, and Katie, who struggled with addiction in her early teens. Mental illness in teens looks just like the kid next door – studies show nearly half of all youth will experience a mental disorder at some point in their lives.
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Eagle Brand®, uno de los productores estadounidenses líderes en leche condensada azucarada, ha unido fuerzas con Ingrid Hoffmann, conductora de Simply Delicioso y Delicioso del Cooking Channel en Telefutura/Univision, para iniciar una búsqueda con alcance nacional a fin de encontrar recetas de autor en los Estados Unidos. Estas pueden consistir en preferencias modernas o recetas pasadas de una generación a otra, pero que siempre complacen a una multitud. El Concurso de Recetas de Autor Eagle Brand es una llamada a los cocineros hogareños para que exhiban sus recetas y sus creativas producciones de recetas para días festivos clásicos; el gran premio será de $10,000 y el plazo para presentarse vence el 10 de enero del 2011.
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This July 4, America’s national Independence Day celebration will mark 30 spectacular years on air. The multi-award winning A CAPITOL FOURTH, broadcast live from the West Lawn of the United States Capitol, will kick off the country’s 234th birthday with a musical extravaganza like no other, topped off by the most dazzling display of fireworks anywhere in the nation!
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What happens when you put today’s true coffee innovators and legendary roasters together with leaders from hospitality, cuisine and equipment: entrepreneurs, executives and experts with strong opinions, and the knowledge and experience to back it up?
You get The Great Coffee Debate: a first-of-its-kind, frank, often surprising conversation about premium coffee’s present and future, held October 28 at The International Culinary Center in New York City, hosted by illycaffè, the premier Italian coffee brand and The International Culinary Center.
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Acclaimed comedian and actor Jon Lovitz is talking candidly for the first time about living with severe plaque psoriasis through a national disease awareness campaign called Are You Serious?™. Psoriasis is a chronic autoimmune condition which causes red, scaly plaques on the skin and affects nearly 7.5 million Americans, including Lovitz, who struggled with the condition for 10 years before getting its symptoms under control. Through his distinctive comedic style, Lovitz illustrates several of the everyday challenges faced by people with psoriasis in TV and radio public service announcements (PSAs), an entertaining song parody performed to Maroon 5’s famous hit, “This Love,” and an educational website – SeriousAboutPsoriasis.com.
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En esta temporada de fiestas muchas familias Hispanas estarán preparándose para las celebraciones tradicionales que son parte fundamental de su herencia cultural, como las posadas, parrandas y la Nochebuena. Aunque estas son tradiciones entrañables, puede ser costoso prepararlas y la situación económica de los últimos años ha cambiado para siempre los hábitos de compra de los Hispanos.
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The wait is finally over. Six Flags Over Texas, celebrating its 50th anniversary season in 2011, is proud to announce the official launch of the most anticipated ride of the year— the NEW Texas Giant. This super hybrid coaster is all new from the ground up boasting the steepest drop of any wooden coaster in the world at 79 degrees; three bank turns at more than 90 degrees and a state-of-the-art steel track that zips riders through an unforgettable, white knuckled 1½ minutes of breathtaking twists and turns from start to finish.
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The Pepsi Refresh Project is giving America the power to decide how to fund good ideas, big and small, that help refresh our world. Only four months in, the Pepsi Refresh Project has funded over 100 projects and injected more than $5 million back into local communities. With 32 new grants and $1.3 million awarded each month, the impact of the Project is growing exponentially, reaching cities and towns in more than 30 states so far.
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In low-income neighborhoods, there is an average of just one book for every 300 children. And 80 percent of preschools and afterschool programs serving kids ages 3-7 have no age-appropriate books for their children.
Compare that to middle-income neighborhoods, where each child has an average of 13 books.
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The Starkey Hearing Foundation and its Israeli partners concluded today its Israel-Palestine Hearing Mission of Peace in the West Bank region, fitting more than 1,000 Palestinian children and adults with hearing devices. The Starkey Hearing Foundation hopes the three-day effort will promote greater communication and understanding among the local communities through improved hearing.
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