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- Intrabench a Provider of CRM and Accounting Software has Implemented and Made Available the UK VAT Change in it's Software.

The result of the recent UK VAT changes is that many companies are now struggling to cope with software upgrades and accounting changes which will come into effect from Monday the 1st of December. With the SaaS model, a change can be made to a central system which instantly benefits all users of the software. Companies that are not using a SaaS model may have to upgrade their software themselves and pay high costs for consultancy as well as deal with any problems that arise when the change takes place.

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Endeavour International Corporation (Amex: END) (LSE: ENDV) today announced that Leiv L. Nergaard has been appointed to a position on the company's board of directors.

Our growing presence in Norway required a board member who has served in leadership roles in the nation's energy and financial markets, said William L. Transier, chairman and chief executive officer. Leiv has an extensive background in executive management roles within the oil and gas sector and a proven record of business and board associations. His insight and knowledge will be invaluable as we move forward with our Norwegian exploration program.

With hard bony shells to shelter and protect them, turtles are unique and have long posed a mystery to scientists who wonder how such an elegant body structure came to be. 

Since the age of dinosaurs, turtles have looked pretty much as they do now with their shells intact, and scientists lacked conclusive evidence to support competing evolutionary theories. Now with the discovery in China of the oldest known turtle fossil, estimated at 220- million-years-old, scientists have a clearer picture of how the turtle got its shell. 

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- The Chancellor's recent mandatory 2.5 per cent reduction of VAT rate requires businesses to locate, scrutinize, and adjust thousands of spreadsheets

Trintech Group Plc (Nasdaq: TTPA), a leading provider of integrated financial governance, transaction risk management, and compliance solutions offers a comprehensive solution for businesses wanting to rapidly locate and adjust spreadsheets to be compliant with the recent 2.5 per cent VAT rate reduction. By proactively inspecting spreadsheets and detecting potential VAT errors, companies can avoid fines and penalties following tax recovery audits performed by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.

Saturn's moon Enceladus may indeed hide an underground reservoir of water.

Scientists at Jet Propulsion Lab in California, the University of Colorado and the University of Central Florida in Orlando teamed up to analyze the plumes of water vapor and ice particles spewing from the moon. They used data collected by the Cassini spacecraft's Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS). Cassini was launched from the Kennedy Space Center in 1997 and has been orbiting Saturn since July 2004. 

The team, including UCF Assistant Professor Joshua Colwell, found that the source of plumes may be vents on the moon that channel water vapor from a warm, probably liquid source to the surface at supersonic speeds.   The team's findings are reported in Nature.

Globally every year, obese people waste billions on food products that 'imply' that they aid weight loss, but are totally ineffective, says a nutritional expert on British Medical Journal (www.bmj.com) today. 

Professor Lean from the University of Glasgow, is hopeful that a new European Union (EU) Directive on Unfair Commercial Practices, adopted this year in UK, will finally protect vulnerable consumers who are tricked into to buying useless food products or supplements in attempts to combat their disease. 

Unlike medicines, food products that are marketed for health reasons are not subject to the same stringent research trials and control, and consumers are often misled. 

Take out carbon credit politics and misplaced technical concerns, says the World Agroforestry Center , and existing technology that could effectively monitor carbon storage in developing country landscapes could save more carbon than closing 1,400 coal-burning power plants.

When broadcaster and health campaigner Anne Diamond reviewed some videogames earlier this year, her damnation was so scathing that it overshadowed The Byron Review, a major government-commissioned report on the subject. Fast forward eight months and the leading health campaigner is now working with researchers to test a theory that certain casual games may actually help weight loss and she's recruiting volunteers for a clinical trial to put the theory to the test.

This study was prompted by work already undertaken in the U.S.

No one needs to tell Disney, who brought the likes of Herbie the Love Bug and Lightning McQueen to the big screen, that cars have personalities.   A study co-authored by a Florida State University researcher says it has confirmed through a complex statistical analysis that many people see human facial features in the front end of automobiles and ascribe various personality traits to cars -- a modern experience driven by our prehistoric psyches.

Researchers, product designers and, of course, filmmakers have long toyed with the idea that cars have faces, but this study is the first to investigate the phenomenon systematically. The study will be published in the December issue of the journal Human Nature.

Media coverage of clinical trials does not contain the elements readers require to make informed decisions. A comparison of the coverage received by pharmaceutical and herbal remedy trials, reported in BMC Medicine, has revealed that it is rarely possible for the lay public to assess the credibility of the described research.