The 2010 Canadian Music Week will be held in Toronto from March 11-13.  The 28th annual CMW hosts a conference, festival, awards show, trade show, and other special events. 

Canadian Music Week began in 1981, and has grown to become one of Canada’s largest and most influential media and music conferences. It draws top industry professionals to participate in a wide program of activities. Designed to stimulate the exchange of market intelligence, increase dialogue and provide networking opportunities, Canadian Music Week continues to present the ideal platform for more than 2,000 national and international delegates.

Sponsor Organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Campaign Website: www.AHRQ.gov/QuestionsAreTheAnswer
Volunteer Agency:  Grey New York

An estimated 1.5 million medication errors happen every year in hospitals, doctors’ offices, nursing homes and pharmacies, according to the Institute of Medicine. Research also shows that consumers who get more involved with their health care can greatly improve the safety of their care, but patients are generally unaware of what to do to help prevent medical mistakes. According to a survey conducted by AHRQ and the Kaiser Family Foundation, 57 percent of Americans do not believe that preventable medical errors occur often.

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Profile America -- Thursday, March 4th. FM radio as we know it began this week in 1941. That's when the first commercial FM station went on the air -- W47NV in Nashville. FM -- standing for frequency modulation -- was first proposed in a scientific paper written by Edwin Armstrong in 1922. By 1934, he demonstrated how FM was unaffected by static, unlike all the radio stations then on the air, which used AM or amplitude modulation. Critics said the idea was impractical. World War II interrupted the advance of FM broadcasting, which slowly began to gain popularity in the 1950s. Today, there are nearly 11,000 radio stations around the nation -- close to six-out- of-10 of them operating on the FM band. Profile America is in its 13th year as a public service of the U.S. Census Bureau.

Sources: Kane's Famous First Facts, 6299
www.history.com
Statistical Abstract of the United States 2010, t. 1095
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2010edition.html

Just Announced! 20th Annual International DJ Expo - August 16-19, 2010  Trump Taj Mahal, Atlantic City, NJ.  Details will be posted at DJTimes.com.

The 9th annual Billboard Music & Money Symposium will be held on March 4, 2010 at the St. Regis Hotel in New York.

This one-day event brings together the best minds from the music, legal, financial and Wall Street communities for an in-depth examination of the financial realities with which the music industry is contending. Don't miss the premier event for the music industry decision-makers, entrepreneurs and companies interested in providing funding for entertainment ventures.

"Billboard's Music & Money Symposium highlighted the need for a greater intersection between the creative and business visionaries, particularly in this time of evolving business models, great experimentation and dramatic change. Extremely worthwhile and informative." - John L. Simson, Executive Director, SOUNDEXCHANGE

Sponsor Organization: American Heart Association
Campaign Website: www.handsonlycpr.org
Volunteer Agency: Gotham Inc.

Each year in the U.S., EMS treats nearly 300,000 people who suffer cardiac arrest at home, at work or in public locations. In the absence of immediate, effective CPR, the chance of survival decreases 7 to 10 percent per minute.

An individual's survival depends greatly on receiving CPR from someone nearby. However, less than one-third of cardiac arrest victims get this help. Most bystanders are worried they might do something wrong or make the situation worse.

This campaign introduces Hands-Only CPR -- a two-step technique that involves calling 9-1-1 and pushing hard and fast in the center of the chest until help arrives. Bystanders are urged to act immediately, using this new technique, when an adult collapses.

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Sponsor Organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Campaign Website: www.ahrq.gov/realmen
Volunteer Agency: McCann Erickson Detroit

Men are 25 percent less likely than women to have visited the doctor within the past year and are 38 percent more likely than women to have neglected their cholesterol tests. Furthermore, men are 1.5 times more likely than women to die from heart disease, cancer and chronic lower respiratory diseases.

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Sponsor Organization: United States Olympic Committee
Campaign Website: www.DontBeAnAsterisk.com
Volunteer Agency: TBWA/Chiat/Day

In 2007, the federal government seized 56 underground steroid labs in the U.S., resulting in the confiscation of 11.4 million doses. The use of performance-enhancing substances is of primary concern in American sport.  No segment of sport – from professional to youth – is immune to this problem. With increasing media coverage on steroid use in sports, teen usage has become a matter of greater consequence.

Not only are steroids a potential health hazard, they raise many ethical implications.

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Sponsor Organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Campaign Website: www.AHRQ.gov/superheroes
Volunteer Agency: Casanova Pendrill

Hispanics are 38% less likely than non-Hispanics to have visited the doctor within the past year, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. In addition, more than a quarter of Hispanic adults have never had their cholesterol checked, two-thirds of Hispanics over 50 have never had a colonoscopy, and nearly 54 percent of Hispanic women over 40 have not had a mammogram within the last year.

The fact that one-third of U.S. Hispanics are uninsured, along with linguistic and cultural barriers, plays a role in these disparities, as shown in AHRQ’s recent National Healthcare Disparities Report. Studies have found that Hispanics often lag behind the general population in access to preventive care even when they are insured.

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The Nominees have been announced for the 25th Annual International Dance Music Awards (IDMA) – recognizing the industry’s best achievements for the year 2009. Winners will be announced live during Winter Music Conference in Miami Beach in March 2010.

Vote now for the best DJ, producer, remixer, radio station, artist, etc. of 2009.  Voting ends Friday, February 26, 2010.

Click wmcon.com/idmaballot/finalballot to cast your votes for multiple categories online.