In an interview with Construction Digital, Argot Ansons of Leighton Asia explains how the company has teamed up with LNS in a joint-venture project that will give millions of people in Hong Kong access to cleaner water. The LNS Joint Venture is working together to build a new sewage treatment infrastructure for Victoria Harbour. The first HATS (Harbour Area Treatment Scheme) project was completed in 2001. The HATS 2 project is focused on providing treatment to the remaining 25 percent of the sewage that is generated by the northern and southwestern sides of Hong Kong ...

In an interview with Construction Digital, General Manager Bill Williams explains how the BoDean Company has become one of the foremost suppliers of quality crushed rock and asphaltic concrete in the Napa County and Santa Rosa areas of Northern California over the last twenty years. Williams sees a bright future ahead for the company, with a strong commitment to the environment and a continued emphasis on customer satisfaction. "Moving forward we strive to continue to strengthen our efforts at sustainability. On May 11th we will be celebrating a solar 'Flip the ...

GoldenRest, a nationwide retailer of adjustable beds, is proud to announce that they're an officially sanctioned business of the Better Business Bureau. "We are most pleased to be joining the Better Business Bureau," says Vice President of sales Tim Ziehwein. "We value building trust with our customers, and our BBB accreditation gives our customers confidence in our commitment to maintaining high ethical standards of conduct." BBB-accredited businesses must adhere to the BBB's "Standards for Trust," a comprehensive set of policies, procedures ...

Energy Digital takes a look at Downer New Zealand, a diverse organization that traces its 140-year roots back to the former New Zealand Ministry of Works, under which much of New Zealand's current infrastructure was developed. Established by respected engineer Arnold Fielder Downer in 1933 as Downer & Co., the company has seen various transformations over the years, moving from public to private, and undertaking over thirty mergers and acquisitions in just the last few decades. For the better part of the 20th century, Downer operated as a construction, civil engineering ...

Energy Digital takes a look at Goliath Snubbing, an owner operator company with over 23 years of combined snubbing experience working throughout Alberta, Canada, and offering limited service to British Columbia and Saskatchewan. Owners Trevor Sopracolle and Garrett Radchenko, along with newly appointed supervisor Graham Fraser, are snubbing trade journeymen recognized by the Canadian government. Although Goliath is a relatively new operation, starting up in 2009, the company has been expanding quickly while earning a reputation among industry peers. With a perfect safety ...

Energy Digital takes a look at Poseidon Nickel. Western Australia is the world's fourth largest nickel province, but the nickel bust in the late 1980s saw a decrease in price for base metals, resulting in the closing of several nickel mines throughout the region. In the late 1990s, Western Mining--later acquired by BHP Billiton--began selling off the nickel mines to independent mining companies seeking to use new technologies to revitalize nickel production in Western Australia. Startup company Poseidon Nickel acquired the Windarra Mountain nickel mine from BHP Billiton ...

Carrentals.co.uk, the website which helps Brits to save money on car hire in over 10,000 destinations around the world, has announced new rental prices available on its site for vehicle rentals in Murcia. The Spanish city is popular with Brits wanting a long weekend of culture and good food and the car hire comparator has a choice of new deals on show with pickups from the airport. Exploring Spain is best done by rental car since local public transport in cities like Murcia can be somewhat hit and miss. Carrentals.co.uk specialises in helping travellers to maximise their ...

"Target Practice" tells the "what if?" tale of 5 friends on a fishing trip who discover a hidden training camp for homegrown terrorists and suddenly find themselves waging a bloody battle for survival in the wilderness. It's also an extremely impressive success story for a low-budget independent film. Helmed by writer/director Richmond Riedel, who has been an editor on such studio films as "The Back-Up Plan," "The Break-Up," and "Friday Night Lights," and TV shows such as "CSI: Miami" and "Burn Notice," ...

For a taste of a very British tradition, head down to the Cotswolds for the Tetbury Woolsack Races on the upcoming spring bank holiday. The action takes place on Monday May 30th, with the town holding a street fair to celebrate the hard work of competitors and a huge number of spectators cheering on those involved. While official races have only been running for about 30 years, it is believed that the practice of pacing up the hill in Tetbury carrying a woolsack has been going on since the 17th century. In a statement, the organisers of the event explained: "The ...

Bournemouth is getting ready to welcome Mick Jones and his band Big Audio Dynamite for a show at the O2 Academy next month. The former Clash guitarist and singer reunited with the group earlier this year after more than a decade apart and they have announced a series of dates around the world. Big Audio Dynamite will play the Old Fire Station on Thursday June 23rd, the day before they go on stage at Glastonbury Festival. The south coast gig is likely to act as a warm-up concert for the event, so attendees will effectively be able to enjoy a set that would otherwise ...

Simon Evans will take the stage at the Rosehill Theatre on Friday May 27th, sharing his hilarious Fridge Magnet tour with a Lake District audience. His contribution to last year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival was highly acclaimed and he is also one of the stars on Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow. Evans's brand of comedy is outrageously dry and his wit has seen him recruited to collaborate with some of the top comics in the UK, including Dara O'Briain and Lee Mack. But his appeal stretches beyond our borders, having enjoyed sell-out gigs all over the world. In ...

The O2 in London will host a special performance by acclaimed US comic Jerry Seinfeld next month. Taking the stage on Friday June 3rd, the former star of Seinfeld is sure to entice legions of fans to the capital for the show, which is his first date in the UK in over a decade. While the comedian is doing an extensive tour of his home country, the performance at the O2 is the only available option in the UK this year. He is widely revered for the eponymous TV series Seinfeld, which he wrote alongside fellow comedy legend Larry David. The programme was a break ...

Vincent Clerc will be one of the high-profile athletes taking part in the Orangina Beach Rugby competition in Paris next month. The French international winger currently plays for Stade Toulousain, but he will be allowed to take part in this fun and exciting tournament at the Palais Omnisports Paris Bercy on Friday June 3rd. Clerc will be joined by Christophe Dominici and Serge Betsen in lining up for the event, with six teams involved in total. The organisers revealed that the Paris spectacle has been organised after successful competitions in Marseille and Toulouse ...

Most people will choose their computer screen cleaner without giving it much of a thought. They will simply pick up the one that they can grab most easily on the store shelf, or they will get something that they know from a flashy television advertisement. However, if you choose your PC display cleaner like that, the least that might happen is that your screen will not get clean at all. The most that can happen is that you can end up permanently damaging your screen altogether. To put it simply, you have to choose your computer monitor cleaner with care. Here are some ...

Taylor Morrison will be the exclusive builder in Avalon at Cinco Ranch, a gated enclave and the fourth prestigious Avalon community for Taylor Morrison in the Houston area. While Cinco Ranch has gated custom-home neighborhoods, Avalon at Cinco Ranch is the first gated neighborhood to be developed in Cinco Ranch by a volume builder offering homes priced from the $400,000s. "Avalon at Telfair opened last year, in the middle of a deep national recession, with an overwhelming response and record sales on opening weekend and home buyers waiting for new sections," ...

The Unlock Club is actively seeking resellers, who are interested in earning extra money with no upfront costs. When you become a reseller with The Unlock Club, you are working with a global network. Offering mobile cell phone unlocking service to over 220 countries, 800 mobile phone carriers, and over 8,000 mobile phones, The Unlock Club is an industry innovator and an industry leader. Making use of the Blackberry unlock server means that Blackberry phones can be freed from SIM restrictions. The value of a phone is greatly increased when it's been unlocked, and roaming ...

Sony Ericsson offers the one-of-a-kind Xperia PLAY, a PlayStation certified Android smartphone. This full-featured smartphone comes complete with bona fide game controls. You can get your game on wherever you go with the Xperia PLAY. You'll have the choice between pre-loaded games and an ever-growing list of additional amusements that you can download. The very latest Google apps are included with the Xperia Play, which means you can always find your way. Use hands-free Google Voice Search to call, text, and utilize other functions of this android mobile phone that even ...

Shutterfly, a leading Internet-based social expression and personal publishing service, today releases its new line of birthday cards and stationery. With more than 120 new birthday invitations and a new assortment of corresponding thank you cards, Shutterfly's birthday stationery collection features traditional, as well as bright and bold styles, that complement celebrations for all ages. Finding and sending the right birthday party invitation has never been easier. "Birthday invitations should reflect the style and personality of the guest of honor, so choose ...

RTOG reports on the largest trial to-date for patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma demonstrating the importance and feasibility of prospective molecular analysis of tumor tissue although finding that patients received no additional benefit from dose-intensive temozolomide as compared to standard adjuvant temozolomide after combined temozolomide and radiotherapy. The integration of tumor analysis with the clinical trial and international collaboration, major components of this unprecedented study, will significantly impact future trial design, ultimately leading to ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – In the first head-to-head comparison of the three most common drugs used at the time of a kidney transplant to prevent organ rejection, researchers found that the least expensive drug – at one-half to one-fifth the price – is as safe and effective as the other two, according to a paper published by University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers in the May 19, 2011, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Based at UAB, researchers in the INTAC trial spent three years following 474 patients who had undergone kidney transplants at 30 U.S. transplant ...

Alexandria, Va. – The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) today highlighted several studies in a press briefing from among more than 4,000 abstracts publicly posted online at www.asco.org in advance of ASCO's 47th Annual Meeting. An additional 17 plenary, late-breaking and other major studies will be released in on-site press conferences at the Annual Meeting. The meeting, which is expected to draw approximately 30,000 cancer specialists, will be held June 3-7, 2011, at McCormick Place in Chicago, Ill. The theme of this year's meeting is "Patients. Pathways. ...

Philadelphia, PA, May 18, 2011 – Abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) in women of reproductive age may be due to a wide range of disorders or pathologies. Until now, there has been no universally accepted method for classifying such patients, which has impeded basic science and clinical investigation, as well as the practical, rational, and consistent application of medical and surgical therapy. As the result of a stringent 5-year review process, a multinational group of clinician–investigators with broad experience in the investigation of AUB has now agreed on a classification ...

A human genetic variant associated with an almost 30 percent reduced risk of developing severe malaria has been identified. Scientists from the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg, and Kumasi University, Ghana, reveal that a variant at the FAS locus can prevent an excessive and potentially hazardous immune response in infected children. The study appears in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics on May 19. Severe malaria is a major public health burden in Sub-Saharan Africa, where approximately one million individuals die each year as a result ...

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet; the saying is perhaps a testament to the acute sense of smell that is unique to mammals. Paleontologists have now discovered that an improved sense of smell jumpstarted brain evolution in the ancestral cousins of present-day mammals. The research will appear in the 20 May 2011 issue of the journal Science, which is published by AAAS, the international, nonprofit science society. The findings may help explain why mammals evolved such large and complex brains, which in some cases ballooned 10 times larger than relative body ...

Mammals first evolved their characteristic large brains to enable a stronger sense of smell, according to a new study published this week in the journal Science by paleontologists from The University of Texas at Austin, Carnegie Museum of Natural History and St. Mary's University in San Antonio. This latest study is the first to use CT technology, similar to medical scanners, to reconstruct the brains of two of the earliest known mammal species, both from the Jurassic fossil beds of China. The 3D scans revealed that even these tiny, 190-million-year-old animals had developed ...