LONDON, March 7 /PRNewswire/ -- With one download players can access the BackgammonMasters Game Lobby in 14 different languages including French, German, Spanish, English, Portuguese, Danish, Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish, Greek, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, and now Bulgarian. To switch from one language to any of the 14 languages offered, players simply log in to the All-in-One Game Lobby and click on the country flag representing their desired language.

MANCHESTER, England, March 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- A Staggering GBP120,000 Spent on Smoking Cigarettes

Recent research from leading financial services provider, Co-operative Insurance (CIS) has found that the average British smoker spends just over GBP2,000 a year funding their smoking habit - that's a breathtaking GBP121,000 in a lifetime!

Taking into account that on average a single person smokes 436,800 cigarettes from 21,840 packets purchased, CIS is urging consumers to finally kick the habit and save some money this National No Smoking Day (12 March).

LONDON, March 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Bury FC fans are currently the most environmentally friendly supporters in the country by taking the top spot in FA Cup sponsor E.ON's 'Carbon League' table. Supporters of the League Two club top the table after saving the most carbon emissions per fan than any other team this season.

The 'Carbon League' table forms part of E.ON's season-long carbonfootyprint.com campaign - an initiative designed to reduce the environmental impact of The FA Cup. Since the First Round of the Cup in November 2007, football fans across the country have been pledging to make simple energy saving measures to offset the 45,000 tonnes of CO2 produced by the competition. So far over 50,000 pledges have been made by football fans.

A cool morning breeze keeps the mosquitoes down as we pack our kayaks and gear for today’s paddling journey. It is day four of our holiday, with two days driving up from Vancouver to Cache Creek, past the Eocene insect and plant site at McAbee, the well-bedded Permian limestone near Marble Canyon and onto Bowron Provincial Park, a geologic gem near the gold rush town of Barkerville.

The initial draw for me, given that collecting in a provincial park is forbidden and all collecting close at hand outside the park appears to amount to a handful of crushed crinoid bits and a few conodonts, was the gorgeous natural scenery and a broad range of species extant.

LONDON, March 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- Acquisition Will Strengthen ERP Vendor's Position in Key Vertical Markets

Solarsoft Business Systems announced today that the board of Chelford Group plc ("Chelford") has agreed to recommend an offer by Solarsoft Acquisition Limited ("Solarsoft") to acquire Chelford.

Chelford, a company admitted to trading on AIM (a market operated by the London Stock Exchange), provides specialist solutions in the areas of supply chain management, ERP, manufacturing, warehousing and distribution, asset tracking and financials. Since admission to AIM in 2000, Chelford has become a leading provider of enterprise solutions based upon its own intellectual property SAP, Microsoft and CODA software products.

SANTA CLARA, California, March 7 /PRNewswire/ --

Finesse Solutions, LLC, a manufacturer of measurement and control solutions for life sciences process applications, and Nova Biomedical, Waltham, MA, a world leader in biotechnology process monitoring announced the first TruBio(TM) OS plug-in for OPC connectivity between TruBio(TM) OS and Nova BioProfile 400, 100 Plus, Basic 4 and Basic 2 analyzers. Both companies confirmed that a TruBio(TM) OS plug-in for OPC connectivity to the Nova Flex is currently in development.

Ben Shneiderman of the University of Maryland, one of the world’s leading researchers and innovators in human-computer interaction, says it’s time for the laboratory research that has defined science for the last 400 years to make room for a revolutionary new method of scientific discovery.

He calls it Science 2.0. We couldn't agree more.

Yet he has apparently never read this website. He says Science 2.0 combines the hypothesis based inquiry of laboratory science with the methods of social science research to understand and improve the use of new human networks made possible by today’s digital connectivity. Through Science 2.0, the societal potential of such networks can be realized for applications ranging from homeland security to medical care to the environment.

Following last week’s study suggesting that new generation antidepressants aren’t all they’re cracked up to be, a special report in this week’s BMJ asks do we really know the truth about antidepressants? Or statins? Or any other drug on the market?

Lack of access to data is an ongoing problem in the United States, despite passage of the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act (FDAAA) of 2007, which requires clinical trials to be registered in a public database, write Jeanne Lenzer and Shannon Brownlee.

Although it’s a positive step towards greater transparency, the act may not reduce the likelihood of dangerous or ineffective drugs remaining on the market as much as some people might have hoped, they warn. For example, not all trials have to be registered and access to full data is also constrained by trade secrecy laws.

In an important step towards a greener global future, Australia and China signed a formal international agreement for clean coal research today in Beijing.

The agreement, between CSIRO and China’s Thermal Power Research Institute (TPRI), will see TPRI install, commission and operate a post combustion capture pilot plant at the Huaneng Beijing Co-Generation Power Plant as part of CSIRO’s research program.

Post combustion capture (PCC) is a process that uses a liquid to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from power station flue gases and is a key technology that can potentially reduce carbon dioxide emissions from existing and future coal-fired power stations by more than 85 per cent.

A brain network linked to introspective tasks -- such as forming the self-image or understanding the motivations of others -- is less intricate and well-connected in children, say researchers. They also showed that the network establishes firmer connections between various brain regions as an individual matures.

The scientists are working to establish a picture of how these connections and other brain networks normally develop and interact.