LONDON, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- Summer Caregiving and Financial Support Relieves Stress for Working Families

Working parents are declaring their freedom this summer from day-to-day worries
about conflicts between childcare and work. With children out of school on
holiday, finding safe and affordable childcare becomes a concern for many
working families. To help employees still work and provide for their families,
many U.K. companies are offering child and back-up care support as part of their
Employee Assistance Programmes (EAPs) and work-life benefits packages.

According to research by Working Families, 60 percent of all mothers in the U.K.
work full-time. Adding to that, fathers in the U.K.  

JENA, Germany, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Jenoptik's Lasers Material Processing
division will in future be represented in the Asian market with a laser
application center, in close cooperation with the Korean company Telstar-Hommel
Corp.. Byung-Hoon Im, President and CEO of Telstar-Hommel, and Michael Mertin,
CEO of JENOPTIK AG, signed the shareholders agreement for JENOPTIK Korea Corp.,
on July 2nd. Telstar-Hommel will hold 33.3 percent of shares in the company
which is headquartered in Pyeongtaek (Gyeonggi Province). With 66.6 percent,
JENOPTIK AG will be the majority shareholder.

With the joint company, Jenoptik is boosting its direct presence in Asia.  

LONDON, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

Frost Sullivan has conferred two prestigious awards on Veolia Water Solutions
Technologies (VWS). The 2008 Frost Sullivan European Pharmaceutical Water
Wastewater Treatment Business Development Strategy Leadership Award, lauds VWS
for its successful strategies that have enabled it to consolidate its position
as one of the leading process water and wastewater solution providers for the
pharmaceutical industry in Europe.  

LYON, France, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- Novel Vaccine IMOJEV(TM) for the Prevention of Japanese Encephalitis in
Children and Adults Living in Asia

Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of sanofi-aventis group, (EURONEXT: SAN
and NYSE: SNY), announced today that it has filed marketing authorization
applications in Thailand and Australia for IMOJEV(TM), its single-dose vaccine
against Japanese encephalitis (JE). This novel vaccine is aimed for the
prevention of JE in children and adults living in endemic countries in Asia.
Three billion people live in countries where JE is endemic1.

Japanese encephalitis is a viral infection that affects 30,000 to 50,000 people
each year in Asia, of which 10,000 die.  

BERLIN, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- President of Germany's Top Action Game Developer to Explore Future of Gaming
Graphics

Cevat Yerli, CEO and President of Crytek, creators of the famous CryENGINE and
the top rated action games Far Cry and Crysis, will deliver a track keynote at
this year's Game Developers Conference(R) Europe (GDC Europe). In his keynote
The Future of Gaming Graphics, Yerli will inspire attendees with the story of
Crytek's success in developing of high-end 3D-game technology for the PC and
next generation consoles as well as shed light on the future of rendering in the
next 3-5 years.

As a German based company, we are proud to participate in GDC Europe in Cologne,
said Yerli.  

BERLIN, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- Seminar Attendees to get First-hand Experience With LANscape(R) Pretium(R)
EDGE Solutions

Corning Cable Systems GmbH Co KG, part of Corning Incorporated's (NYSE:GLW)
Telecommunications segment, will feature its new LANscape(R) Pretium(R)
Evolved-Density, Growth-Enabled (EDGE) Solutions, high-density preterminated
optical solutions for the data centre environment, at the Corning Data Centre
Seminar in Munich on July 9.

The conference in Munich opens the 2009 Corning Data Centre Seminar series,
which will also visit the Netherlands (Eindhoven, Sept. 24) and the United
Kingdom (London, Oct. 15).

The Munich Corning Data Centre Seminar will gather professionals involved in the
design, operation and management of data centres.  

MANCHESTER, England, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- With Photo

United Utilities has scooped the top national award for responsible business
practice. The organisation, which keeps the taps flowing and loos flushing for
seven million customers in the North West as well as operating and maintaining
electricity and gas networks, has won the coveted Business in the Community
(BITC) Company of the Year Award.

HRH The Prince of Wales, President of BITC, hosted the Awards for Excellence
ceremony at a garden party reception at his Clarence House home. Only seven
companies were eligible to enter the ultimate Company of the Year award
category.  

PARIS, France, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Essilor is pursuing its external growth
strategy through a number of recent transactions in Europe, North America and
the Middle East.

Essilor has acquired all outstanding shares in De Ceunynck, a major player in
the Belgian market where the company is BBGR's long-time distributor. De
Ceunynck, which has a prescription laboratory near Antwerp and 92 employees,
generated EUR17 million in 2008 revenue. The current management team will remain
in place.

In the United States, Essilor is continuing to expand its network with the
acquisition of Barnet Ramel Optical ($10.8 million in revenue), Apex Optical
($2.7 million), ABBA Optical ($2.2 million) and Vision Pointe Optical ($1.1
million).  

Any road with a loose surface like or gravel or snow can develop ripples that make driving a very shaky experience. A team of physicists from Canada, France and the United Kingdom have recreated this "washboard" phenomenon in the lab with surprising results: ripples appear even when the springy suspension of the car and the rolling shape of the wheel are eliminated. The discovery may smooth the way to designing improved suspension systems that eliminate the bumpy ride.

"The hopping of the wheel over the ripples turns out to be mathematically similar to skipping a stone over water," says University of Toronto physicist, Stephen Morris, a member of the research team.

The Amazon River has been around for 11 million years ago and in its shape for the last 2.4 million years ago, according to a study on two boreholes drilled in proximity of the mouth of the Amazon River by Petrobras, the national oil company of Brazil.

Until recently the Amazon Fan, a sediment column of around 10 kilometres in thickness, proved a hard nut to crack, and scientific drilling expeditions such as Ocean Drilling Program could only reach a fraction of it. Recent exploration efforts by Petrobras lifted the veil, and sedimentological and paleontological analysis on samples from two boreholes, one of which 4.5 kilometres below sea floor, now permit an insight into the history of both Amazon River and Fan.