LONDON, March 10 /PRNewswire/ --

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Award winning email service provider Database Group Interactive will provide a new series of Executive Briefings and Seminars on the topics of email strategy, multichannel marketing, and data insight. The first session on Friday 20 March will focus on Strategic Planning and will present new benchmark findings of customer response trends across various economic sectors.

The 20 March seminar will include group discussion on key issues faced within e-marketing departments for planning effective campaigns, including business objectives priorities, ROI benchmarking, and tactical briefing, led by DBGi's Chairman Richard Lees.

NEW YORK, March 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Leading Glaucoma Experts are Working Together to Provide Tips to Help Prevent Vision Loss as Glaucoma Prevalence is Rising Rapidly Across the Globe

On the second annual World Glaucoma Day (March 12), leading global glaucoma experts are working together to help educate patients diagnosed with glaucoma and those who may be at risk for the condition. Glaucoma is a worldwide epidemiological challenge affecting approximately four percent of the global population with an estimated 50 percent of glaucoma cases remaining undiagnosed. Research shows that by 2010, an estimated 60.5 million people globally will be living with either angle closure glaucoma (ACG) or primary open angle glaucoma (POAG).

LONDON, March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- A new website will help local government and community activists to get better broadband services in their areas. They will be able to use it to identify local needs and develop the strategies to bring superband speeds to the whole UK.

Visitors to the Point Topic BroadBand Geography site will be able to click on a map of the UK and see how much broadband there is in each of the 12 government regions and nations and the 434 local authority areas.

For every one of these areas the site shows the number of consumer and business broadband lines, the take-up of broadband per household and per head of population, and the proportion of homes in the area which can get the higher broadband speeds.

HOUSTON, March 12 /PRNewswire/ --

Endeavour International Corporation (NYSE-Alt: END) (LSE: ENDV) today reported net income to common stockholders for 2008 increased to US$45.7 million or US$0.32 per diluted share as compared to a loss of US$60.3 million or US$0.49 per diluted share in 2007. Revenues in 2008 increased more than 47 percent to US$260.4 million from US$176.1 million in 2007. The company reported adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of US$176.5 million from US$124.1 million in 2007. Discretionary cash flow for the year was US$120.8 million.

AUSTIN, Texas, March 12 /PRNewswire/ --

Excite! the event for experiential, exhibition and live marketing has announced a strategic partnership with MeetingTechOnline (MTO), the premier educational event for technology buyers and sellers in the meetings industry. MTO Summit, which tours US cities including Washington, Chicago and San Francisco, will co-locate with Excite! this June in Earls Court, London.

Excite!, formerly Exhibiting Show, attracts an audience of over 3,000 event marketers, organizers and agencies and with its regular line-up of innovative exhibitors and solutions providers and massively popular seminar program.

Want to start an argument among shark paleontologists?   Ask whether Carcharodon carcharias, the great white shark, evolved from the line that produced Carcharodon megalodon, the largest carnivorous fish known, or from the broad-toothed mako shark.

The mako camp contends megalodon, which grew to a length of 60 feet, should have its genus name switched to Carcharocles to reflect its different ancestry.  A study in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology says the mako proponents are right and concludes megalodon and modern white sharks are much more distantly related than paleontologists initially believed.

A new dating method found that "Peking Man" is around 200,000 years older than previously thought.  So how did he adapt to the cold of even a mild glacial period?

The Zhoukoudian, China, site of the remains of Homo erectus, commonly known as "Peking Man", was found to be 680,000-780,000 years old. Earlier estimates put the age at 230,000-500,000 years old.

Homo erectus is considered to be the ancestor species to humans and the first species that left Africa and moved into Asia. The "Peking Man" site, discovered in the late 1920s, was among the first found for Homo erectus and shaped the thoughts on the age and behavior of the species.

Researchers have found evidence suggesting that stars rich in carbon complex molecules may form at the center of our Milky Way galaxy - and it helps solve a mystery.   Namely, why have telescopes never detected carbon-rich stars at the center of our galaxy even though they have found these stars in other places?

This discovery is also significant because it adds to our knowledge of how stars form heavy elements like oxygen, carbon and iron and and then blow them out across the universe, making it possible for life to develop.

Researchers in Japan have turned to mathematics to build a computerized 3D model of the female trunk that could help lingerie and other clothes designers make more sensuous, comfortable, and better fitting product ranges.

According to Kensuke Nakamura of Kyoto Institute of Technology and Takao Kurokawa of Osaka University, identifying body shape components is critical for designing close-fitting products, whether underwear, everyday clothes, or safety garments.

Research at the new School of Creative Arts Therapies at the University of Haifa: Drawing enhances emotional verbalization among children who live under the shadow of drug-addicted fathers 

"The use of art seems to help with verbalizing trauma. It is usually difficult to express the trauma through speech, yet the body remembers it," said Prof. Rachel Lev-Wiesel, Head of the Graduate School of Creative Arts Therapies who carried out the study.