In addition to shark attacks and boredom-related deaths due to mid-season baseball, the summer months are the time of food poisoning. If you live in Florida or California, you should be especially vigilant, as you are susceptible to all three (the most baseball teams, the most shark-infested beaches, and—according to the CDC—the most restaurant outbreaks of food poisoning, with a combined 143 in 2007).

In all, the CDC estimates that food-borne diseases every year cause approximately 76 million illnesses, 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths (salmonella alone costs the United States upwards of $5 billion annually in medical care and lost productivity).

One can only imagine the sheer volume of liquid effluvium generated by these 76 million people.

LONDON, July 23 -- Albany Software, http://www.albany.co.uk/, a pioneering
developer of electronic payment software solutions for direct Bacs payments,
today announces it is the first company to submit a payment via the new UK
Faster Payments Service Direct Corporate Access system by making a donation to
the Barclays supported charity, Practical Action.

VIENNA, Austria, July 23 --

- Andie MacDowell and Carl Lewis Will Attend

- Press Conference on July 24 at 11 p.m. at the Palais Niederosterreich in
Vienna

WORLD AWARDS MEDIA, the State of Lower Austria and the SUPERFUND Investment
Group invite you to the international press conference for the first SAVE THE
WORLD AWARDS 2009 on July 24th at the Zwentendorf Nuclear Reactor.

DALLAS and BARCELONA, Spain, July 23 --

- Innovative web services technology NTRsupport Pro remote support offers IT a
significantly more profitable business model

ASHLAND, Massachusetts, July 23 --

- PubMed-Indexed EpiDerm SIT Video - Free Online Training Tool for
ECVAM-Validated Test Method

MatTek Corp., today announced the availability of a video version of its 2008
ECVAM-validated EpiDerm(TM) SIT non-animal alternative test method for
determining the human skin irritation potential of chemicals, including cosmetic
and pharmaceutical ingredients.

LONDON, July 23 -- Misys, the banking and healthcare software group, reported
continued growth despite the turmoil in financial markets.

The group’s full year results have been boosted by a market beating
performance at its Allscripts/Misys healthcare joint venture in the US.

In a video interview, CEO Mike Lawrie conceded there are some areas of weakness
such as the Treasury and Capital Markets business.

We did not close some of the deals that we had anticipated closing. Fortunately
we are getting some of those closed now in this new year.

LONDON, July 23 --

- More Than 1/3 of Total Online Retail Transactions Occur in the Workplace

- 8 in 10 U.K. Internet Users Now Access Online Retail Sites

comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today
released the results of a study of U.K. online retail activity, based on data
from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service. The report found
that 35 percent of spending at online retail sites in the U.K. occurred from
work locations, based on a five month average ending May 2009.

(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080115/COMSCORELOGO)

Online Shoppers Browsing at Home, Buying at Work

SINGAPORE, July 23 -- ICIS pricing, the world’s leading price reporting
service for the global chemical industry, has launched a new weekly price report
for polyethylene (PE) pipe grade resins covering the Middle East and South Asia.
The report arrives at a time of growth in the use of PE pipe grade in water
supply and irrigation, and delivery of oil and gas.

The report covers two industry-grade high density polyethylene (HDPE)-based
pipe resins: natural (PE80) for non-pressurised applications and black
compounded (PE100) for pressurised applications. Price assessments include CFR
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), CFR East Mediterranean and CFR India, as well as
news commentary.

LONDON, July 23 -- In the current economic climate, every small to medium
business (SMB) is looking for ways to reduce IT costs without compromising
business security. Backing up business crucial data securely to an offsite
location has become more of a mandatory compliance need rather than a
nice-to-have feature. Restoring data as and when required in case of any
unforeseen disaster is crucial for business continuity.

GUANGZHOU, China, July 23 --

An experienced entrepreneur will see business opportunities everywhere, be it a
way to provide a good just a little bit cheaper, or a way to give more people
access to something they didn’t previously have access to, what matters is
being in the right place at the right time; where business is being done and
opportunities are being made. The Canton Fair provides this exact convenience by
putting visitors at the center of the world’s manufacturing. From the Visa
application process to the actual event, Canton Fair takes its visitors right
there to where the action is.