Construction Digital, the top digital media source for global construction news and information speaks with urban and community planners from around the world about the trends are shaping the cities of the future. Trends such as infill and mixed-use development are common around the globe as planners look to revitalize underused and abandoned areas, turning them into thriving commercial centers. Another factor is creating truly walkable and livable communities. "Renewal of existing inner suburbs is critical to halting sprawl and maximizing the use of the city's assets ...

Construction Digital, the top digital media source for global construction news and information investigates two multi-family housing projects in Southern California, Casa Dominguez in Los Angeles and Ten Fifty B in San Diego. Though many feel that green building is for the wealthy, these developments are proving that sustainability is for everybody. "There's a great need for quality, affordable housing, not only here in California but throughout the United States, especially in the significant larger urban centers," says Jim Silverwood, President of Affirmed Housing ...

Food and Drink Digital, a top digital media source for global food and drink news and information reaching over 155,646 C-Level executives and more than 49,814 companies worldwide announces the launch of its newly developed Front of Book story featuring the top rated grocery chains around the world. The three grocery chains that are highlighted in the article are Tesco in the UK, Nakumatt in Africa and Safeway in the US. "Nakumatt is a Kenyan supermarket chain and as of November 2010, the head count consists of 27 stores across Kenya and employs over 4,000 people. ...

Food & Drink Digital, a top digital media source for global food and drink news and information reaching over 155,646 C-Level executives and more than 49,814 companies worldwide announces the launch of its newly developed Front of Book story featuring The World's Top Rated Restaurants. The article highlights exclusive restaurants located in Copenhagen, Denmark; Berkshire, England; Modena, Italy; Chicago, Illinois and Constantia, South Africa. The article says: "Noma offers Nordic gourmet cuisine that is not about olive oil, foie gras, sun-dried tomatoes or black olives. ...

Food and Drink Digital, a top digital media source for global food and drink news and information reaching over 155,646 C-Level executives and more than 49,814 companies worldwide announces the launch of its newly developed Front of Book story featuring the history behind three of the most popular fast food franchises. This article includes a brief, yet detailed account of how Taco Bell, McDonald's and Burger King got started. "McDonald's restaurants have been around since the 1930s consisting of car-hop drive-ins started by Ray Kroc. The menu was simple: hamburgers, ...

Food and Drink Digital, a top digital media source for global food and drink news and information reaching over 155,646 C-Level executives and more than 49,814 companies worldwide announces the launch of its newly developed Front of Book story featuring the process behind how to distill American whiskey. The article discusses four different types of American whiskey: Bourbon Whiskey, Rye Whiskey, Corn Whiskey and Blended Whiskey. "Most blended whiskies do not list an age. When a blended whiskey does list an age, each individual malt and grain whiskey must be at least ...

Green Smoke, the Premiere Brand of Electronic Cigarettes, is currently running a contest where participants can win substantial discounts, prizes and even an Apple iPad. Participants can earn product coupons for choosing the team they think will win the Super Bowl and can win an iPad by correctly guessing the final score. Each week, Green Smoke will reward participants who selected that week's winning teams. On Sunday, Green Smoke sent its first set of award coupons to all those who selected the Seattle Seahawks, NY Jets, Green Bay Packers, and Baltimore Ravens. Because ...

Next's directional new women's wear collection covers the A-to-Z of where fashion is heading for Spring 2011. It captures all the key trends and colour palettes seen on the international runways, while addressing the wardrobe needs of every modern woman. For a season in which pure brilliant white is identified as key, Next's WHITE HEAT story sizzles with must-haves and objects of fashion lust. Think cute shorts suits and the white skinny jeans without which no well-tended wardrobe will be complete. Or head for the BEACH HOUSE and relish Spring's sporty, ocean-fresh update ...

Spring Summer 2011 at Next is packed with fashion must-haves and contemporary classics designed to address the wardrobe needs of every modern guy. Themes range from the dapper modern formalwear of GIN & TONIC - distinguished by sheen fabrics, contrast piping or edging, and insert panel detailing - to dark edgy casualwear looks channelling the gritty vibe of traditional workwear. The VARSITY story evokes American college cool in hooded shirts, cardigans and campus jackets. BRIT CASUAL reworks the best of our indigenous style standards with upbeat nautical references. ...

A life-size Dalek, a 4ft tall vegetable (a yam), and gold dentures worth GBP6,500 are some of the more unusual items that have been left behind by guests at the Travelodge hotel chain*. And while it is questionable how these guests could have forgotten to take these particular possessions with them when they checked out, accidentally forgetting smaller, day to day items such as mobile phones, laptops and jewellery is a slightly more understandable occurrence. Quoted on the BBC news website, a spokesman from the hotel chain said that in 2010 they had seen a real increase ...

Getting in a serious car accident can be not only emotionally scarring and frightening, but can also lead to long-lasting physical pain and disability. Despite vast improvements in standard vehicle safety features, serious accidents can still cause intense bodily harm with permanent effects. These serious injuries can range from head trauma to spinal cord damage, many of which will affect your quality of life indefinitely. Whiplash is one of the most common injuries received in automobile accidents. Whiplash represents a wide-range of injuries to the head and neck caused ...

Driving under the influence of drugs is extremely dangerous. Drugs that can affect the ability to drive include both illegal and legal drugs. A new National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study shows that drugged driving may be more widespread than previously believed. Troubling NHTSA Numbers The NHTSA study, "Drug Involvement of Fatally Injured Drivers," shows that drug use in deceased drivers increased from 13 percent to 18 percent from 2005 to 2009. This figure represents drivers who died in car accidents and were subsequently tested for drugs. The study ...

The impact of a DUI conviction can hit a driver in many ways: license suspension, ignition interlock requirements, increased insurance rates, a criminal record and lost opportunities due to background checks should be a concern for anyone facing DUI charges. But legal fines can also place a significant burden on convicted drunk drivers, and Illinois drivers face an increase from $500 to $750 in administrative fees if they are found guilty of driving under the influence (Section 11-501 of the Illinois Vehicle Code) in 2011. For the most part, the new revenue will increase ...

Many people have never heard of synthetic marijuana, commonly known by the brand names K2 or Spice. It is an herbal product, which contains synthetic cannabinoids, which has been growing in popularity among teenagers and young adults. Synthetic or fake marijuana has been marketed most commonly as an herbal smoking product or herbal incense. When the product is consumed (usually by smoking it), it may have an effect similar to the intoxicating effect caused by THC, which is found naturally in cannabis. Any harmful or long-term effects from using K2 are not known. However, ...

Many seniors live on fixed Social Security income with no cost-of-living adjustments to help them get by. Hit with high medical and credit card bills, retirees are increasingly turning to bankruptcy as a solution to their financial problems. Senior Bankruptcy Statistics A 2010 study from the University of Michigan Law School found that people age 65 and older are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population seeking bankruptcy protection. According to AARP research, the number of Americans age 55 and older who filed for bankruptcy increased threefold from ...

Guoman Hotels has announced that it will be launching a Wizard of Oz themed Afternoon Tea at The Royal Horseguards Hotel in London's Whitehall in order to celebrate the launch of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Wizard of Oz, which opens at the London Palladium in February. To create an enjoyable evening of theatre and food, the hotel has designed an exclusive Wizard of Oz afternoon tea menu, ideal for enjoying prior to attending the musical. Conveniently located close to the London Palladium, The Royal Horseguards' Wizard of Oz Afternoon Tea has been designed by the hotel's ...

The National Trust, the Art Fund and National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) are delighted to announce that Pieter Brueghel the Younger's 'The Procession to Calvary' has been saved for the nation after an intensive three month fundraising campaign. The GBP2.72 million total was announced with the news of the NHMF grant of GBP1,034,000. Along with the Art Fund's GBP500,000 grant that kick started the appeal, over GBP680,000 from members of the public - many of whom were Art Fund and National Trust members - and nearly GBP510,000 from trusts and foundations, 'The Procession ...

As anyone who has ever tried to lose weight knows, there are a large number of different weight loss plans or "solutions" found online, and also many broken promises and programs that simply don't work. Most of these lose weight fast scams are very unhealthy, and can't back up any of their claims. And unfortunately for many people, this causes them to give up hope, and the fight to lose the weight that they so desperately want and need to lose. This is why finding a solution that really works, and a company you can trust, are so critical. Which brings us the HCG Diet ...

This is the reason they are accessorizing their mobile sets with the help of the different skins and other options available. However, surprisingly, the mobile phone accessory that is most in demand all around the world is the mobile phone ringtones. There are two reasons for the popularity of the free ringtones. Firstly, the mobile ringtones can be assigned to play versatile tunes and other sound tracks every time one receives a call or a message, which is a pleasant replacement of the routine beeps or rings emitted by the mobile phones. Secondly, the World Wide Web, has ...

The combined data from several NASA satellites has astonished astronomers by revealing unexpected changes in X-ray emission from the Crab Nebula, once thought to be the steadiest high-energy source in the sky. "For 40 years, most astronomers regarded the Crab as a standard candle," said Colleen Wilson-Hodge, an astrophysicist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., who presented the findings today at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle. "Now, for the first time, we're clearly seeing how much our candle flickers." The Crab Nebula ...

WASHINGTON -- Global surface temperatures in 2010 tied 2005 as the warmest on record, according to an analysis released Wednesday by researchers at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. The two years differed by less than 0.018 degrees Fahrenheit. The difference is smaller than the uncertainty in comparing the temperatures of recent years, putting them into a statistical tie. In the new analysis, the next warmest years are 1998, 2002, 2003, 2006 and 2007, which are statistically tied for third warmest year. The GISS records begin in 1880. The ...

In the outer reaches of our solar system lies a mysterious region far more remote and difficult to explore than the Australian outback. It remains the only part of our solar system not visited by spacecraft. Called the Kuiper Belt, this area beyond Neptune is home to the dwarf planets Pluto, Eris, Makemake, and Haumea. It also harbors thousands of smaller objects that form a second, icy asteroid belt (or more appropriately, comet belt). In this realm of perpetual twilight, the distant sun looks like just another bright star. A new telescope has begun to virtually explore ...

In 2003, the year a complete draft of the human genome was released, the U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute launched the ENCODE project (ENCyclopedia of DNA Elements), to develop an encyclopedia of the epigenome, that is, of all of the many factors that can change the expression of the genes without changing the genes. Four years later, the National Institutes of Health funded modENCODE (the Model Organism ENCylopedia of DNA Elements) to work out the epigenomes of two model organisms: the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, lurker among rotten bananas, and the ...

Coffee, that morning elixir, may give us an early jump-start to the day, but numerous studies have shown that it also may be protective against type 2 diabetes. Yet no one has really understood why. Now, researchers at UCLA have discovered a possible molecular mechanism behind coffee's protective effect. A protein called sex hormone–binding globulin (SHBG) regulates the biological activity of the body's sex hormones, testosterone and estrogen, which have long been thought to play a role in the development of type 2 diabetes. And coffee consumption, it turns out, increases ...

Scientists have developed Australia's first adult induced pluripotent stem cell lines using skin biopsies from patients with the rare genetic disease Friedreich Ataxia (FA). The study was conducted by the University of Melbourne and Monash Institute of Medical Research and is published in the current online edition of the international journal Stem Cell Reviews and Reports. It is the first time adult pluripotent stem cells, known as iPS cells have been developed for a specific disease in Australia, allowing for the development of new treatments for FA and related conditions ...