Comparative oncology is the study of cancer that naturally occurs in animals, to help find treatments and cures for humans, as well as animals. Through collaboration by researchers of animal and human medicine, comparative oncology seeks novel and innovative approaches to discover treatments and cures for cancer faster and more cost-effectively. In 2006, Wassong's cocker spaniel and longtime companion, Puccini, was stricken with melanoma, the same dangerous skin cancer that humans endure. Her dog participated in clinical trials as part of a partnership between veterinarians ...

Heartwork is an online retailer (www.heartwork.com) supporting start-ups and small businesses with office furniture and accessories. We believe in good design and that a considered workplace is a better workplace -- one that can be both more productive and enjoyable. Whether you are working alone, in pairs or in teams, your space should reflect your company's culture and support how you work best. New Product Launch: No.1 Monitor Stand came about because Heartwork's first client was frustrated with imported monitor stands that had a lot of extra parts detracting ...

Building on the success delivered by the 40-port Compact Flash (CF) duplicator introduced at the beginning of 2012, U-Reach has since broaden its offerings along the Intelligent 9 CF line, starting at 3-target CF904S and extending to 120-port CF9120S. Consumers learned about CF cards since the early days of PDAs, and even more became familiar with the media as digital cameras started to surface more than a decade ago. Nowadays, CF cards are ousted (except for a handful of SLRs) by smaller and less expensive Secure Digital (SD) cards in digital cameras; however, there ...

Dakota Dental in Apple Valley, Minnesota, will be hosting a Halloween Candy Buy Back event on Tuesday, November 6, from 3:00 to 6:00 pm. Open to children from the community, patients or not, the Apple Valley Dental Clinic will trade cash and prizes for candy. Family dentists Dr. Bennett Isabella and Dr. Shelley Wakefield know that tooth decay goes into overdrive during the holidays. Plaque feeds on sugar and then produces enamel-destroying acid, resulting in tooth decay and possible dental emergencies. To prevent the damage tooth decay can cause, Dakota Dental recommends ...

Green Leaf Inn (GLI) announced today the launch of its Wanted Sweepstakes to be held during USGBC's Greenbuild International Conference and Expo on Nov. 14-16, 2012 in San Francisco, Calif. The Wanted Sweepstakes was designed to help Greenbuild attendees offset their carbon footprint. All participants will have two Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) retired in their honor. "In this case, two isn't a small number," said Catherine McQueen, co-owner of GLI. "Two RECs are equivalent to the avoidance of CO2 emissions of 114 gallons of gasoline or the ...

Jason Jannati, one of the three co-founders of greeNEWit, has accepted a special invitation to join the 2012 Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour. Jannati will travel the nation, speaking to various youth between the ages of 16 to 24 about being a successful entrepreneur in today's economy. At the first event for Jannati, he will speak to 300 youth at 9:00 a.m. on October 22, 2012 at Cuesta College located at 1504 Colusa Rd., San Luis Opisbo, California. The audience will include students from Cuesta College, Cal Poly University and community members. 
 
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Six stars of Chicago's Joffrey Ballet will join the West Michigan Symphony on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 10 and 11, for a celebration of stunning dance and choreography with "Stars of the Joffrey Ballet." Saturday's concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday's concert will take place at 3 p.m. Both performances will be held in the majestic Frauenthal Center for Performing Arts in downtown Muskegon. The West Michigan Symphony will transform the Frauenthal Theater into a performance space that can accommodate a large orchestra and full-stage ballet floor ...

Streaming live on the Co-Creator Radio Network (www.co-creatornetwork.com) on Tuesday, October 23, at 11 a.m. Pacific time/2 p.m. Eastern time, on her show "Why Shamanism Now?: A Practical Path to Authenticity," shaman and founder of the Last Mask Center for Shamanic Healing Christina Pratt tells listeners that mastering the art of shamanic journeying requires that you first learn to craft a good question that, like key in a lock, opens a realm of information you previously had no access to. According to Pratt, a good question provokes an answer that addresses ...

Famed Beverly Hills Dermatologist, Dr. Ronald Moy, has brought his highly-advanced DNA EGF Renewal skincare line and facials to the famed Ritz Carlton Kapalua Spa in Maui. Visitors and residents can now truly embrace the timeless spirit of the island with the clinically proven anti-aging protocol, which combines regenerative human Epidermal Growth Factors and restorative DNA Repair Enzymes to erase the damage caused by too much fun in the sun and to reestablish a more youthful glow for years to come. Individuals in need of sun damage control, anti-aging treatments, or ...

Mindsharp, a SharePoint Education company, announced today the expansion of its new Partner Program with the addition of Apptix, the premier provider of hosted business communication, collaboration, and IT solutions to businesses of all sizes. Headquartered in Herndon, VA, Apptix has been in operation for over a decade and currently serves hundreds of thousands of users around the world. This addition to Mindsharp's Partner Program gives their customers access to Apptix's reliable Cloud-based SharePoint solutions. Apptix benefits by expanding the capabilities of its ...

RI Kitchen & Bath (RIKB), an award-winning design/build firm specializing in residential kitchen and bath renovations, announces the launch of its new Cooking Club beginning Tuesday, October 24, 2012 from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm in the RIKB Showroom kitchen at 139 Jefferson Boulevard in Warwick, R.I. Private Chef and cooking instructor David Dadekian of Eat Drink RI will lead the interactive cooking demonstration along with a representative from Blackbird Farm of Smithfield, R.I. On the menu are flatiron steak and country-style pork rib entrees. Cost for this event - ...

This weekend NAACP Award winning actress Tisha Campbell-Martin, celebrated her birthday with a private affair hosted by her husband, Daytime Emmy Award nominee Duane Martin. The festivities took place in Studio City at Xen Lounge, the new hang out spot for Hollywood A-List celebrities including Denzel Washington and Will Smith. Photographer to the stars, Louis Cuthbert, was on hand to capture all the action. Academy Award winner Denzel Washington showed up incognito under a baseball cap and beard. Celebrity Deejay Teck Holmes supplied the tunes for the star-studded birthday ...

LSS Life Safety Services, an industry leader in passive fire protection inspection services such as fire and smoke damper inspections, fire door inspections, and firestopping, has been awarded a position on Business First's "Fast Fifty" list for the fifth consecutive year. The "Fast Fifty" is an award that honors the fifty fastest-growing independently owned and privately held companies within Louisville and the surrounding areas. This year, the "Fast Fifty" included companies that have earned at least a 27% growth rate, which was up from the ...

Today, search engine Metro5 http://metro5.com/ has announced the launch of it's open BETA program. The idea behind Metro5 is to deliver a set of up to 50 relevant results for each web search query, while taking social influence into account when ranking these results. There are many search engines available on the web, who claim to be the most relevant, fastest and user friendly. However, none of them rank websites by user popularity. Here is where Metro5 is different. Metro5 enables users to vote for or against websites using their Twitter account, meaning users can ...

Inlanta Mortgage is delighted to announce the addition of fourteen employees, including four sales and ten support staff in the past month. The company has hired 76 new employees 2012. The Newington, N.H. branch added new Branch Manager Carol Zink-Mailloux and Jennifer St. Cyr as an administrative loan assistant. At the Manchester, N.H. branch, Jonathan Wagner joined the team as a loan originator and Martin Wilson as a marketing assistant. The Madison, Wis. branch also expanded with the addition of Loan Originator Steve Radlinger and Receptionist Samantha Warden. Other ...

Louise, a mail carrier in Kaneohe, Hawaii, searches for, an elderly customer on her delivery route who has mysteriously vanished. A bizarre series of events begins to unfold, shattering Louise's peaceful existence. She is forced to draw on strengths she didn't know she had, to stay one step ahead of a madman. She solves the mystery of the missing woman...and two other unsolved police cases. Laurie Hanan is the proverbial island girl. She grew up in Kaneohe and Kailua until the age of eleven. Her family moved to the Mariana Islands, where she attended middle and high ...

Vascular BioSciences was recently awarded a NIH SBIR/STTR Phase I Commercialization Assistance Award to develop the CAR peptide as a therapeutic adjuvant. CEO David Mann remarked, "The NIH SBIR/STTR Phase I Commercialization Assistance Award is a helpful step forward in commercializing our CAR peptide therapeutic adjuvant. We look forward to working with Foresight Science and Technology to develop a market entry strategy for our products." The National Health Institute (NIH) issues a Niche Assessment Program for those that wish to stimulate commercialization. ...

San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed and Councilmember Kansen Chu will officially welcome Valin Corporation to the San Jose community with a ribbon cutting ceremony that will take place on October 25th at 11:00 a.m. at 1941 Ringwood Avenue. Valin Corporation, a privately held, employee-owned company, recently moved from its Sunnyvale, Calif. location to a larger, 56,840 square foot office and research and development facility in San Jose. "I'd like to thank Valin for choosing to locate in San Jose and investing in our community," Mayor Chuck Reed said. "As the Capital ...

Southern Dermatology & Skin Renewal Center, located at 4201 Lake Boone Trail, Suite 207 in Raleigh, NC will hold a Holiday Open House on Wednesday, December 5 from 8am to 6pm. The event is open to the public. Attendees can tour the facility, learn about the services offered, and meet representatives from Allergan, NIA 24, Neocutis and Glytone, who will be providing information about their best-selling products. Bring a friend and enjoy light hors d'oeuvres, prizes, skin care demos, makeup stations and sales on Bioserum, Botox, makeup and skin care products, laser ...

WPDLR will make its official debut in Sin City in just three days at the Driving Sales Executive Summit and 13th Digital Dealer Conference & Exposition. WPDLR will celebrate the debut by hosting three events during their time in Las Vegas including two separate "Spin to Win Night" events and an official 'Pawn Star' appraisal of a vintage Louis XIII de Remy Martin bottle turned donation to the Southern Nevada Susan G. Komen Affiliation in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. WPDLR does not only want to announce that their latest digital platform surpasses ...

On Monday, November 5, 2012 attorney Lance A. Harke, a founding partner of the Miami Shores-based commercial litigation and consumer class action law firm of Harke Clasby & Bushman LLP, (www.harkeclasby.com) will lecture on "Truth in Advertising in American and Jewish Law." The lecture is a part of the series, "American Cases through the Eyes of the Talmud," sponsored by the South Florida Center for Jewish Ethics. Harke will speak to students on the topics of Truth in Labeling and False Advertising. "I am honored to be speaking to law students ...

The Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC), in partnership with the Bears Den Trail Center, invites the public to attend a long-distance hiking workshop on Saturday, November 10, 2012 from 7:30a.m. - 4:30p.m. at the Bears Den Trail Center, located at 18393 Blueridge Mountain Road, Bluemont, Virginia. The workshop is free and open to all ages. Advance registration is required. The Appalachian Trail (A.T.) is one of the longest continuously marked footpaths in the world, measuring roughly 2,180 miles in length. An estimated 2-3 million people visit the Trail every year, and ...

Trading carbon credits is quite a straightforward process and is comparable to buying and selling shares in a stock market, as it is paper based. However you need to be guided by a professional who will advise you on what's best to buy for your particular goals and personal financial viability. The problem for first time Carbon Credit investors is finding the right company with which to buy or sell through, and deciding at which price to buy or sell them at. It's also important to be conscious of the different types of credits that are available on the market and how ...

In a move designed to benefit the respective strategic direction of two banks, the parent company of Orange County Trust Company announced today it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Hudson Valley Investment Advisors from Provident New York Bancorp. Orange County Trust has expanded its trust and investment services in the last eighteen months while, just last month, Provident announced it was launching a revamped wealth management service that would parallel its banking focus in the lower Hudson Valley and the New York metropolitan area. This convergence of strategies ...

Snapper Rock, a premier UV50+ children's swimwear line, will be presenting its newest collection filled with casual beachwear and additions to its protective swimwear at the ENK Children's Club from October 21 - 23. Offering a cool and comfortable style mixed with a fashionable yet protective aesthetic, Snapper Rock is sure to appeal to all retailers. Snapper Rock's newest Beachwear collection features the ever-adorable after sun Baby Toweling onesies to keep your little tots comfortable and warm, while the Sundresses and Swim Bags are the perfect accessories for finishing ...