MUNICH, Germany, July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The Management Board of Giesecke & Devrient GmbH, Munich, today decided to cease delivering banknote paper to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe with immediate effect.

The company has taken this step in response to an official request from the German government and calls for international sanctions by the European Union and United Nations.

"Our decision is a reaction to the political tension in Zimbabwe, which is mounting significantly rather than easing as expected, and takes account of the critical evaluation by the international community, German government and general public," explains Dr. Karsten Ottenberg, Chairman of the Management Board and CEO of Giesecke & Devrient GmbH.

Lilacs, though native to East Asia and Southeast Europe, were brought to North America by the first settlers and were sold in American nurseries as early as 1800. The oldest living lilacs in North America may be those at the Governor Wentworth estate in Portsmouth, N.H., believed to have been planted around 1750. In 1767, Thomas Jefferson recorded his method of planting lilacs in his garden book, and in 1785, George Washington noted that he had transplanted lilacs in his garden. Today, over two million lilacs are sold annually in the U.S., accounting for over $13 million in wholesale sales.

Lilacs are a part of U.S. history and in honor of that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently developed and introduced three new cultivars of lilacs. Honoring the patriotic role lilacs have played in U.S. history, the new shrubs have been dubbed 'Betsy Ross', 'Old Glory', and 'Declaration.'

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute has sequenced the equivalent of 300 human genomes in just over six months, reaching a staggering 1,000,000,000,000 letters of genetic code that will be read by researchers worldwide and aiding in the quest to understand the role of genes in health and disease.

The amount of data is remarkable: every two minutes, the Institute produces as much sequence as was deposited in the first five years of the international DNA sequence databases, which started in 1982.

The Institute has major roles in projects such as The 1000 Genomes Project, The International Cancer Genome Consortium and the second round of the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, all of which will depend on DNA sequence to uncover genetics variants that are important for human disease. Next-generation sequencing is also enabling the Institute's own research portfolio.

LONDON, July 1 /PRNewswire/ --

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- Life-Size Topiary Elephant Herd Transported by JPM Eco Logistics, the UK's Greenest Haulage Company

'Dragons' Den' stars Deborah Meaden and Theo Paphitis, along with their joint investment JPM Eco Logistics have made it possible for a herd of 13 life-size topiary elephants to tour the UK throughout the summer as part of 'The Survival Tour'. Designed to raise awareness of the plight of Asian elephants and the threat posed by man to their natural environment, the tour is a joint collaboration between the charity 'Elephant Family', The Royal Parks Foundation and the World Land Trust.

IRVINE, California and LONDON, July 1 /PRNewswire/ --

Endeavors Technologies, the pioneer in application streaming and virtualization technology today announced it has been selected by Everything Channel as a CRN Emerging Tech vendor for its Application Jukebox product. CRN's Emerging Tech list captures companies that are delivering high margins for solution providers with innovative and easy-to-use technology that undercuts industry giants.

LONDON, July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- MrTed Limited, the leading solution provider of Talent Acquisition Solutions, announced today the completion and successful migration of their primary data centre to Interoute in Geneva for MrTed's core solution, MrTedTalentLink(TM).

MrTed chose Interoute in Switzerland, Geneva because of their global infrastructure and its forward thinking approach to platform architecture, design and security. Interoute impressed MrTed with its optimisation approach towards operational efficiency, availability, security and its ability to react quickly as our business needs change. The technology and services delivered by its data centres meets MrTed's business requirements today and offers the scalability to grow as MrTed's business evolves rapidly.

NEWTON, Massachusetts and MANHATTAN BEACH, California, July 1 /PRNewswire/ --

TripAdvisor LLC, the world's largest travel community and an operating company of Expedia, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXPE), today announced it has acquired VirtualTourist.com, Inc., a leader in user-generated travel content since 1999, and OneTime.com, Inc., a leader in travel booking comparison. Including VirtualTourist(TM) and OneTime(TM), the TripAdvisor(R) Media Network now attracts nearly 32 million unique monthly visitors.*

NAPA, California, July 1 /PRNewswire/ --

Senetek PLC (OTC Bulletin Board: SNKTY), a Life Sciences company engaged in the development of technologies that target the science of healthy aging, today announced that effective with the termination of its marketing agreement with Triax Aesthetics LLC for Pyratine-6(TM), all promotion, sales and distribution of Pyratine-6(TM) would be controlled and managed directly by the Company.

LONDON, July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Manpower Software plc, a leading provider of workforce optimisation solutions, is pleased to announce it has appointed Allen Swann to serve as Business Development Director and a member of the Board of Directors with immediate effect.

Allen Swann commented: "I am very pleased to be offered this opportunity to join the Board of Directors. My association with the company over the past 2.5 years has highlighted how important a role Manpower Software plc is playing in helping the UK Healthcare market more effectively utilise its staff, reduce costs, improve patient care and improve working lives. There is an immense opportunity for the company to continue to make a difference."

REDMOND, Washington, July 1 /PRNewswire/ --

- Built on customer criteria, Select Plus facilitates centralised and decentralised purchasing of Microsoft software and services with a single, organisationwide agreement.

The new Microsoft Select Plus Volume Licensing programme offers larger companies with multiple business units flexibility in purchasing, streamlined licence management, and reduced time and potential costs of renegotiating licensing agreements.

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