The 2013 model-year vehicles and brands (in both luxury and non-luxury categories) with the lowest projected ownership costs were announced today by Kelley Blue Book www.kbb.com, the leading provider of new and used car information. These awards are based on Kelley Blue Book’s 5-Year Cost to Own data for new cars for the initial five-year ownership period.
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Emdeon Inc., a leading provider of healthcare revenue and payment cycle management and clinical information exchange solutions, today announced the expansion of Emdeon Clinical Exchange™, its technology-enabled solution designed to improve business and clinical outcomes and care continuity.
Emdeon Clinical Exchange encompasses products and services that are designed to unite healthcare communities. Today, hospitals, physicians, labs, payers and pharmacies use Emdeon’s leading healthcare information network to securely exchange health information over six billion times annually. These healthcare stakeholders are demanding greater connectivity to each other and the ability to facilitate comprehensive, end-to-end clinical information exchange.
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The Yankee Candle Company, Inc., the world’s largest manufacturer of premium scented candles, today announced the launch of its new Relaxing Rituals™ line. Each blend of three different essential oils creates a special fragrance combination designed to soothe the mind, body and soul and provide an easy relaxing ritual that fits busy lifestyles. The Relaxing Rituals™ line offers a variety of options for creating a fragrant relaxation experience that is uniquely customized for each consumer. The new line includes warmer oils, reed diffusers, votive candles and tumbler candles in four new soothing scents. Relaxing Rituals™ is available now at more than 557 Yankee Candle retail stores, www.yankeecandle.com and in select specialty retailers.
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Today, MedImmune Specialty Care division of AstraZeneca (MedImmune Specialty Care) announced it has joined with actress Tia Mowry to raise awareness about the importance of an annual flu vaccination. To kick-off the campaign, MedImmune Specialty Care and Mowry unveiled an online video, “I Insist!” (www.YouTube.com/InsistOnTheMist), which uses comedy to educate busy families about the importance of living a healthy lifestyle and making flu vaccination a priority. For Mowry, this includes vaccination with FluMistQuadrivalent, the first and only FDA-approved needle-free flu vaccine for eligible persons 2-49 years old. FluMist Quadrivalent is administered as a gentle mist sprayed into the nose, where the influenza virus usually enters the body.
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Today marks the opening of the official Munch year in Norway, 150 years after the birth of the painter.
To celebrate the painter and the inspiring Norwegian landscape Visitnorway is releasing a short film, to show the modern day scream experiences in Norway.
We want people to share and join the celebration by creating the longest scream in the world, says the Norwegian director of tourism, Per-Arne Tuftin. The film is showing the modern day scream experiences in Norway, the only difference is, this time it is all about the positive experiences in life that make you scream.
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The Ad Council, in collaboration with the U.S. Forest Service and the National Association of State Foresters (NASF), announced today the launch of a new series of public service advertisements (PSAs) featuring Smokey Bear designed to raise awareness about wildfire prevention. As a continuation of the longest running PSA campaign in U.S. history, the new ads include the well-known tagline, “Only YOU can prevent wildfires,” and for the first time feature Smokey Bear rewarding Americans with hugs after acting safely with fire.
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LeapFrog Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE:LF), the leader in children’s learning tablets, today announced the launch of the ultimate kids’ learning tablet, LeapPad Ultra. The new LeapPad Ultra is kid-tough and works with LeapFrog’s unique library of more than 800 life-changing content experiences designed or approved by LeapFrog’s learning experts. LeapPad Ultra is kid-ready right out of the box with LeapSearch™ by Zui™, a proprietary kid-safe web browser that parents can trust. Unique to LeapPad Ultra, the seven-inch DUO TECH™ high-resolution screen is designed to help children learn to write using a stylus while supporting interactive touch experiences. Additionally, LeapPad Ultra features a sleek new look, a long-lasting rechargeable battery, and front and back cameras and video recorders plus 8 GB of storage for photos, apps, videos and more.
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LifeProof, the award-winning maker of all-protective, everyday cases for smartphones and tablets, today announced the availability of the LifeProof nüüd case for iPad for $129.99 along with new accessories: Shoulder and Hand Straps for $34.99 and the LifeJacket for iPad for $59.99. Unleashing new freedom for mobile computing, the LifeProof nüüd case for iPad is water proof, dirt proof, snow proof and shock proof, and features a totally naked screen that provides a perfect tactile response and visual clarity. The LifeProof iPad case protects both iPad 2 and iPad Gen 3 devices.
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Avon Products, Inc. announced today that actress Megan Fox will serve as the face of Avon Instinct, a duo of fragrances for him and her. The fragrances will launch globally beginning this fall in Europe, followed by the U.S. and other regions in 2014. An iconic beauty and a smoldering presence on screen and off, Fox is the perfect fit for the intensely exotic new scents – lush, fruity floral for Her and woody aromatic for Him. Evoking the intoxicating feeling of losing inhibitions and indulging desire, Instinct is an ode to the kind of sensuality that Fox embodies.
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Epson global president, Minoru Usui, today announced PrecisonCore™, a next-generation inkjet printing technology poised to transform the printing business, providing the company with an unparalleled level of manufacturing efficiency to expand into high-potential new global markets. PrecisionCore builds on Epson’s longstanding reputation for output quality, at the speeds required for industrial and commercial printing. The technology will also be extended into the company’s office printing range.
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39 Honourees representing 24 companies have been shortlisted across 14 categories in the second edition of JNA Awards, the most prestigious awards programme in the jewellery and gemstone industry, JNA (Jewellery News Asia), main organiser of the JNA Awards, announced today.
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CHS Inc., the nation’s leading cooperative and a global energy, grains and foods company, is committed to continued growth that will drive economic value to its farmer owners and the rural communities in which they live, its leaders told attendees at its recent annual meeting.
“Our ultimate responsibility is to invent the CHS of the future by making the decisions, executing the investments and managing the financial health of this company in a manner that not only adds value for you today, but continues to pay off 10 and 20 years down the road,” CHS President and Chief Executive Officer Carl Casale told attendees. “Ultimately, it’s about taking actions today that will benefit tomorrow’s owner, the generations that are now playing in farm yards or buying their first blue FFA jackets.”
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