LONDON, March 19 /PRNewswire/ -- NHS Choices (http://www.nhs.uk), the digital 'front door' to the NHS launches a new Good Food package aimed to help people achieve a healthy, tasty and satisfying diet, and an improved knowledge of the nutritional content of the food we eat.

Based on NHS accredited information, the Live Well package (http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/loseweight/Pages/Goodfoodhomehome.aspx) enables users to access reliable and information on good food and healthy diet in seconds, and provides them with clinically approved guidance on achieving a healthy and satisfying diet via informed nutritional choices. This Live Well bundle is one among a range of new additions to the NHS Choices' extensive Live Well section.

In oceanography studies, the iron needed to fertilize infrequent plankton blooms in High Nutrient, Low Chlorophyll (HNLC) regions was assumed to come almost entirely from wind-blown dust.

That's not the case in the North Pacific, say Phoebe Lam and James Bishop of the Earth Sciences Division at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

They report that the key source of iron in the Western North Pacific is not dust but the volcanic continental margins of the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Kuril Islands.

GAINESVILLE, Florida, March 19 /PRNewswire/ --

The Institute for Public Relations today introduced the Essential Knowledge Project, an online guide to the best research into how organizations build and manage relationships with customers, communities, employees and other stakeholders.

"There is science beneath the art of public relations -- a tremendous amount of research conducted over the years on all aspects of creating and sustaining public opinion, attitudes and relationships," said Frank Ovaitt, Institute president and CEO. "Our goal is to make that knowledge more accessible not only to public relations professionals, but also to the stakeholders they serve."

The Arctic - pristine natural wilderness, unmolested by human touch? Not really. While early explorers claimed they could see 200 KM mountain peaks that certainly isn't the case today. In winter months, the Arctic actually has some of the dirtiest air in the world. It turns out even those early explorers may have been romanticizing the cleanliness a bit.

Scientists know that air pollution particles from mid-latitude cities migrate to the Arctic and form an ugly haze, but a new University of Utah study finds surprising evidence that polar explorers saw the same phenomenon as early as 1870.

“The reaction from some colleagues – when we first mentioned that people had seen haze in the late 1800s – was that it was crazy,” says Tim Garrett, assistant professor of meteorology and senior author of the study. “Who would have thought the Arctic could be so polluted back then? Our instinctive reaction is to believe the world was a cleaner place 130 years ago.”

OAK PARK, Michigan, March 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Azure Dynamics Corporation (TSX: AZD) (LSE: ADC) ("Azure") a leading developer of hybrid electric and electric powertrains for commercial vehicles, today announced it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with a leading manufacturer of aerial boom trucks for the electric utility, telecommunications and contractor markets. The MOU includes the branding, marketing and sale of Azure's Low Emission Electric Power ("LEEP") systems within the electric utility and telecom markets.

LONDON, March 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Solcara, the market-leading provider of software for the control, management and searching of digital information, has been helping AstraZeneca manage its interactions with the media through the use of Solcara Communications Centre.

AstraZeneca, one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies, is a truly international company, and is active in over 100 countries, with its corporate office in London and major Research & Development (R&D) sites in Sweden, the UK and US. AstraZeneca's media relations team wanted a system that would create an accessible international benchmark for consistent media relations across all continents.

PARIS, March 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext and NYSE: ALU) will hold a web press conference on Thursday, March 27th to announce groundbreaking new technology which will enhance the foundation for fixed and mobile network transformation to meet demand for advanced broadband services.

The web press conference will take place March 27 at 7am PST/10am EST/3pm CET (i) and will be hosted by Basil Alwan, President of Alcatel-Lucent's IP business.

To access the session please use the following information:

Participant Passcode: IP Strategy

DIAL-IN NUMBERS

PARTICIPANT TOLL FREE (from the US): 800-779-1694

PARTICIPANT TOLL (International): + 1-210-234-0000

WEBCAST URL: http://alcatel-lucent.acrobat.com/webcast/

LONDON, March 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- Findings Reveal That a Third of Data Centre Managers are Failing to Prioritise the Reduction of Power

According to research announced today by Global DataCenter Management (GDCM) and Quocirca, organisations in Europe and the US are failing to meet green objectives due to an apparent breakdown in communications between the corporate board and IT management level.

PLEASANTON, California, March 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- Spigit combines business intelligence with crowdsourcing to help decision makers separate the signal from the noise

The rise of social networking has created whole new opportunities for enterprises to engage their customers and generate new ideas, often leaving decision makers with more choices than answers. Today spigit, the leader in social productivity software for enterprise innovation, introduces IdeaSpigit, the only solution that quantitatively analyzes customer feedback and uses automated idea graduation to help decision-makers quickly and automatically market-test new initiatives.

BURLINGAME, California, March 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- Users Can Buy Credits for Inexpensive VoIP Calls, SMS messages, Virtual Gifts and Content While Also Enjoying Free IM, e-mail, Photo and Profile Sharing

mig33, the global mobile social network, today announced a prepaid mig33 Credits platform for its more than 11 million users around the world. Also today at Spring VON.x 2008, mig33 CEO, Steven Goh, will participate in the "Social Networking: Keeping Everyone Together" panel at 11 a.m. You can visit mig33 at Booth # 734 at Spring 2008 VON.x.

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