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Kiwi company House of Travel is helping to connect Samoa to the modern world by donating computer equipment and skilled labour to a college in Apia.
House of Travel Holdings donated 85 second-hand computers, monitors and servers, plus a week of IT technician Adrian Millers time to Chanel College, a struggling Catholic school which now has the capacity to get its students online.
For Adrian, who had never travelled to the Pacific Islands before, it proved to be a life-changing experience.
"It felt amazing to do something selfless, altruistic, knowing that I was part of something that was beneficial to so many people. Im sincerely grateful for that experience. Ive always wanted to do something like that and my company gave me that opportunity."
Formerly Christchurch-based but now in Wellington, Adrian jumped at the opportunity when his employer sought volunteers for the work, part of a larger, ongoing project being led by Kiwi John Ryan. He and his wife are former volunteer teachers at the school.
Adrian and John had just five days to set in place the infrastructure to enable the college to get connected and Adrian has been following up with school staff in Samoa since his return to New Zealand to test the system and guide teachers there to getting it up and running.
"When I volunteered to go to Samoa I didnt really think about how the work I would be doing would impact on the college and its staff, students and the community. It started to sink in as the work over there progressed," Adrian says.
"I realised that donating my skills and expertise were a lot more valuable than donating $20 would have been - it will make a huge difference to the people there and its great to be part of helping to upskill the Samoan people to bring them into the technical age.
"Many people there have no computer skills at all. Being able to get on the internet is basically a human right these days and has the potential to make a huge difference to the likes of students at Chanel College. It will open up many opportunities for them in the future."
The hospitality and kindness of the Samoan people made the experience all the more meaningful for Adrian who says being immersed in the local culture was a real eye-opener and something he will never forget.
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Workers on Monday setting up scaffolding around MetLife Stadium to hold advertising for the Super Bowl.
Sports ticket brokers know that the night of the two National Football League conference championships, as well as the day after, usually are moving days prices moving on up, that is, as some giddy fans of the two teams headed to the Super Bowl cant wait to buy tickets no matter what the cost.
But as Prominent Ticket chief executive Lance Patania stayed up late Sunday night on his computer after the Denver Broncos and then the Seattle Seahawks advanced to the Feb. 2 game at MetLife Stadium in the Meadowlands, he noticed, well, almost nothing a pattern that continued throughout Monday.
Its weird how dormant it is, said Patania, whose company is based in Glen Rock. Nobodys pulling the trigger yet.
While the initial get-in-the-door price of more than $2,000 is an all-time high, Patania said, its not as if the small number of sales has left sellers panicked into lowering their price.
Its simple economics that when you see [Monday] morning there are 1,900 seats on the market, and [late Monday afternoon] there are over 4,500, that should drive the price down immediately, Patania said. So somethings wrong with this market.
TiqIQ.com spokesman Chris Matcovich whose company tracks such secondary ticket markets as Stubhub, which generally parallels prices being offered by brokers agreed that the lack of a bump in the first 24 hours after the conference title games was surprising.
After looking over the numbers for this year from previous years, I think $1,500 will be a reasonable buy point in Week 2, unless demand from Broncos and Seahawks fans picks up, Matcovich said of prices for upper-level seats.
That would be roughly on par with each of the more recent Super Bowls, said SeatGeek spokesman Connor Gregoire, who agrees that the ticket-cost trend is likely to fall by next week. The average ticket sale price for last years San Francisco versus Baltimore game in New Orleans, Gregoire notes, slid from a peak of $3,445 just after the conference championships, to just $1,551 per ticket on the day of the game.
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Seconds after a power failure shut down last years Super Bowl game in New Orleans, Bill Laboss phone in New Jersey began vibrating with calls.
My BlackBerry almost fell out of my pocket, said Labos, who works for the electric utility charged with preventing a repeat of the blackout at this years National Football League championship between the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos outside New York City.
We cant let that happen here, Labos was told by his boss, Ralph LaRossa, president of Newark, New Jersey-based Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG)s utility.
In the 12 months since, Labos has worked with stadium engineers, consultants and New Jersey sports officials to be sure it doesnt.
Power failures have plagued at least four high-profile sports games including the Super Bowl since 2010, dimming the glow of good feelings such events are supposed to generate for their host cities. More than 108 million people watched the blackout debacle at the New Orleans Superdome.
We were, in a way, robbed of a celebration of a successful Super Bowl, Doug Thornton, Superdome general manager, said in an interview this month.
Because the 2013 blackout was blamed on a failed switch, electrical equipment inside and outside the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, has been inspected, upgraded, backed-up and tested repeatedly to make sure all systems -- from high-voltage cables to circuit breakers -- are as fail-proof as possible.
There are redundancies to our redundancies, Brian McCarthy, a spokesman for the NFL, based in New York, said in a telephone interview.
In September, Labos supervised a 12-hour full-power test at MetLife Stadium simulating the Super Bowl.
Nothing tripped. Were confident we are going to withstand the load, he said.
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This will be the biggest, baddest, best Super Bowl in the events XLVIII history. It is my Super Bowl guarantee, because this is my town, where the stars of sports and entertainment flock to shine and deserve the biggest and brightest stage.
It is also Steve Tischs town and Steve Tischs guarantee:
The Super Bowl is being held in the greatest metropolitan area in the world, the co-owner of the Giants told The Post Monday.
The governments of New Jersey, New York State and New York City have cooperated in an unprecedented way to make this happen.
We are as ready as we possibly can be.
As New Yorkers and New Jerseyans, we are prepared for any and everything.
We are prepared to host the best Super Bowl ever.
It is also personally very exciting to have Elis big brother leading one of the teams.
I am very proud to be a part of what promises to be an unforgettable event viewed around the world.
Get some sleep this week. The fun starts Monday.
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According to statistics, up to August 1st, 2013, clinical trials on stem cell research publicly registered on the website of Clinical Trial have reached 4704, among which 213 were from China. Though it is far from 2805 of the US, Xu Xiaochun, the director of INCOSC and founder of Boya Life, insists that gap between China and developed countries in stem cell research field is not big -- "we are almost starting at the same time, since the key technology of stem cell has just got breakthrough in recent two or three years, and the development history of the whole industry is just 20 years."
"This is an original contribution in science which is most likely to be accomplished by China!" Xu Xiaochun stated briefly. The next few years will be the critical period for the development of global stem cell industry, and China is not to miss this valuable but fleeting opportunity.
A "gold mine" of USD400 billion is to be discovered
Who will be the next Microsoft? Even Gates himself admits that this company will surely come from the field of biological medicine, and it has been a consensus in the industry that stem cell industry is one of the cores and the most promising modules in the field of biological medicine.
In global market, stem cell technology and its development has been crazily pursued by international capital market in recent years, and relevant market value of stem cell concept stocks listed in NASDAQ only has exceeded USD30 billion. It is predicted by experts that the potential market of global stem cell industry will be about USD80 billion within the next two years, and reach up to USD400 billion around 2020.
In China, the stem cell industry also has bright prospects. According to the research reports from the institution named First Capital, the stem cell industry of China has formed a complete industry chain from the upstream storage to the downstream clinical application, and it is predicted that the income of stem cell industry in the coming 5 years will increase to RMB 30 billion from the current RMB 2 billion, at the average annual growth rate of 170 percent.
For many people, the stem cell, with the ability to repair and generate all human cells, has not been a strange concept. However, there are still some widespread misunderstandings in society about the cognition of stem cells in clinical application.
"Stem cell application doesn't only mean the storage of stem cells, but it has many downstream applications. Moreover, stem cells can also be used as a tool for new medicine research and development as well as other personalized medicine." Xu Xiaochun told the journalist that, Boya Life, founded by him, is such a group starting from stem cell research, turns the view to the whole field of biological economy while constantly extending upstream and downstream on the industry chain.
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Umbilical cord stem cell banking can be expensive and controversial, but Jamie and Ben Page decided to bank their daughter, Harlow's stem cells just in case.
"We had heard about cord blood banking and talked about it a lot and thought let's just go for it and have it just as a backup," Jamie Page said.
They did need it. Harlow had cancer in her uterus.
"On the ultrasound they immediately saw that there was a mass in her abdomen about the size of a grapefruit," Page said.
After a year of chemo, the tumor was gone. Doctors wanted to keep it that way.
"So, when the doctors found out we actually had her own stem cells, they were very excited," Page said.
Oncologist Elaine Morgan says those stem cells helped Harlow.
"I think that her umbilical cord cells were used as a boost to her own cells when we harvested her to have adequate cells for reconstitution," Dr. Morgan said.
Dr. Morgan does not advocate private cord stem cell banking at birth to be saved for a healthy baby's later use, because it's not clinically useful and it's expensive.
The Pages paid almost $2,000 for the initial banking fee, plus an extra $125 per year.
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It wasn't just in the recent Ashes whitewash that Dave Warner batted above his average.
On the red carpet for the Allan Border Medal awards night the big-hitting opening batsman admitted that when it came to girlfriend Candice Falzon, he's batting above average there too.
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Ms Falzon and the other wives and girlfriend of Australian cricketers strutted into the annual cricket awards on Monday night, held for the first time in Sydney.
Wearing a lace and gold gown by Western Australian designer Alchemy, Ms Falzon turned heads as she entered Doltone House.
"I've been very fortunate to wear this dress tonight," she said.
Captain Michael Clarke's wife Kyly, who's hoping to design clothes herself, was wearing a sheer embellished navy gown adorned with sequins.
The quirky number was a collaboration between Ms Clarke and designer Daniela Stephanie.
"She's done a fantastic job. We were after something that was sexy but demure, something chic and classic," the glowing brunette said as light ricocheted off her diamond bling.
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Two days before Christmas, the Red Lion boys' basketball team lost a game.
The Lions haven't lost one since their 50-45 setback to Central York.
Red Lion is riding a 10-game winning streak as the York-Adams League heads into the final third of its season.
The victories during the run include a signature triumph over York High, a team that Red Lion hadn't beaten since the 2009-10 season.
The Lions count on balanced scoring and a defense that is ranked second in the league.
Three Red Lion players are averaging in double figures. Mike Fox, a senior, is the team leader at 17.8 points a game. He's followed by Stone McCreary (11.0) and Evan Miller (10.5). Fox, according to York Dispatch records, has 927 career points.
McCreary and Miller have combined for 66 3-point baskets.
Defensively, the Lions are holding opponents to 43.1 points a game. Jason Rebuck, who is averaging 7.2 points game, is a strong rebounder and defender in the post and Head Coach Steve Schmehl lauded the defense of guard Austin Huson following the Lions' 62-40 victory over Dover.
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When Hersheys girls basketball team walked off the court on Dec. 20 after a 33-25 loss to Lower Dauphin, the Trojans were 1-6 overall and scratching their collective heads.
Now, Hershey is one of the hottest teams not only in Mid-Penn Keystone play, but also around District 3.
The Trojans won for the eighth time in nine games on Monday night, beating the approaching Polar vortex with a 48-35 Keystone win over visiting Susquehanna Township.
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Hershey got back to .500 in the division at 6-6, and improved to 9-7 overall. It trails front-runner Mechanicsburg by five games, but has played major spoiler here lately with wins over Palmyra and Trinity.
Susquehanna Township, which never led Monday, had its 3-game winning streak snapped and slipped to 6-5 in the Keystone and to 8-8 overall.
Like Hershey, the Indians have been relegated to Keystone spoiler. And Hanna will get a chance to throw a major monkey wrench into the race; the Indians play first-place Mechanicsburg on Jan. 27 and again on Jan. 31.
Hershey and Hanna are still thinking postseason; Trojans are 25th in the latest District 3-AAAA power rankings the top 20 teams qualify and the Indians are 12th in the latest District 3-AAA power rankings, with the top 18 teams getting a bid.
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