LONDON, May 28 /PRNewswire/ --

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Mr Site and PayPal today announce joint plans for a year-long campaign of customer events with the first being called 'Roots To Business Success.' These will take place throughout 2008 and 2009 at locations throughout the British Isles including London and Dublin (other locations to follow)...

BRISTOL, England, May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Now you can bring the fun and thrills of the amusement park with you, as Majesco Entertainment Company (NASDAQ: COOL), an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, today announced Wonder World Amusement Park for Nintendo DS(TM). The portable companion to the Wii(TM) title releasing later this year, Wonder World Amusement Park for DS is being developed by Majesco Studios and will be in stores in PAL territories in early 2009.

Superconductivity was discovered in 1911 and has perplexed, astounded and inspired scientists since, but to most it can be thought of as "frictionless" electricity. In conventional electricity, heat is generated by friction as electrons (electric charge carriers) collide with atoms and impurities in the wire. This heating effect is good for appliances such as toasters or irons, but not so good for most other applications that use electricity.

In superconductors, however, electrons glide unimpeded between atoms without friction. If scientists and engineers ever harness this phenomenon at or near room temperature in a practical way, untold billions of dollars could be saved on energy costs.

That's a big "if." Superconductivity is still impractical in routine engineering use because it requires a very cold environment attainable only with the help of expensive cryogens such as liquid helium or liquid nitrogen. Past discoveries have helped scientists inch their way up the thermometer, from superconductors requiring minus 452 degrees Fahrenheit (or 4.2 Kelvin) to newer materials that superconduct at around minus 200 degrees F (138 K) Ñ still frigid, but substantially warmer and more practical.

The snowball Earth hypothesis posits that the Earth was covered from pole to pole in a thick sheet of ice for millions of years at a time. 635 million years ago, an abrupt release of methane from ice sheets that extended to Earth's low latitudes spiked global warming and ended the last "snowball" ice age, say researchers. The researchers believe that the methane was released gradually at first and then very quickly from clathrates - methane ice that forms and stabilizes beneath ice sheets.

Also called marsh gas, methane is a colorless, odorless gas. As a greenhouse gas, it is about 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide. When the ice sheets became unstable, they collapsed, releasing pressure on the clathrates. The clathrates then began to de-gas.

This transition "from 'snowball Earth' into a warmer period shows the compelling need for research on abrupt climate change in Earth's history," said H. Richard Lane, program director in NSF's Division of Earth Sciences.

LONDON, May 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Contractor Extends Technology Partnership Established in 2001

New build, refurbishment and fit-out contractor Interior Services Group plc (ISG) has signed a new three-year corporate deal with BIW Technologies (BIW) to use its Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration platform.

ISG operates in the UK, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, and first used the BIW system on a multi-million pound project for a City of London law firm in 2001, signing its first corporate deal with BIW in November that year.

BOSTON, May 28 /PRNewswire/ --

RISI, the leading information provider for the global forest products industry, today announced the launch of a free daily email update with top lumber and panel industry news headlines. This free email is part of Crow's Lumber & Panel News Service -- a comprehensive news service dedicated to the North American wood products industry. The service is produced by the editors of Crow's Weekly Market Report -- the longest running softwood lumber and panel price reporting service in the industry. Crow's Lumber & Panel Update will provide subscribers headlines on the latest lumber news and wood products industry developments -- market shifts, mergers and acquisitions, price changes, project news and more.

LONDON, May 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Joint Venture invests USD $6 million in Batam Island Concession Project

Cascal N.V. (NYSE: HOO) ("the Company"), a leading provider of water and wastewater services in seven countries, today announced that its 50% joint venture PT Adhya Tirta Batam is making an additional investment to construct a new water treatment plant in Duriangkang, located on Batam Island in Indonesia. The new construction is the third stage in the development of an integrated Duriangkang potable water system and follows the completion of earlier modules built in 2001 and 2004. The new treatment plant will have a capacity of 11.5 million gallons per day, equivalent to a population of almost 200,000, and is expected to commence operations in April 2009.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, May 28 /PRNewswire/ --

Today, Playlogic Entertainment, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: PLGC) an independent worldwide publisher of entertainment software, held its annual Meeting of Shareholders in Amsterdam. 63% of the shareholders were represented. Topics of the meeting included; re-election of the board of directors, a report of past year performance, current developments and general outlook for the year 2008.

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A full-year 2008 financial outlook was given during this meeting. In 2007 Playlogic released 7 games, for 2008 the company expects to release 15 games (29 SKU's) on several platforms.

"The universe is a big place, and weird things can happen. I was flipping through archived Spitzer data of the object, and that's when I noticed it was surrounded by a ring we'd never seen before, "said Stephanie Wachter of NASA's Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology about a mysterious infrared ring a dead star that displays a magnetic field trillions of times more intense than Earth's.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope detected the ring around magnetar SGR 1900+14 at two narrow infrared frequencies in 2005 and 2007. The ringed magnetar is of a type called a soft gamma repeater (SGR) because it repeatedly emits bursts of gamma rays.