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World's biggest travel flops
The key to any successful vacation is in the planning. The same can be said for making a vacation destination a thriving hot spot. But as it turns out, many tourist attractions werent thought out that well. Case in point: Revel Casino. After two years in business, the luxury resort and casino in Atlantic City just announced that it would be closing its doors forever in September.
And while this seems to be a big fail, it isnt the worst travel flop on record.
Shockingly, there are lots of hotels, entertainment parks, and even beaches that have proved the saying the devil is in the details. We rounded up the worst travel flops ever.
Hope you didnt bet on this baby becoming a winner. Only two years after opening its doors, Revel Casino will shut them for good next month. The $2.4 billion glass-covered casino sits on the north end of the Boardwalk. The goal was for the luxury resort to help provide a much-needed boost to the declining gambling scene in Atlantic City. However, it never turned a profit. After declaring bankruptcy twice the last time in June the company finally decided to wind down the business. The last roll the dice will be September 10.
Talk about getting built up, just to get knocked down! Thats exactly the case with this hotel debacle. In June, MGM began what will be a yearlong demolition project of the only portion of the $8.5 billion dollar, 67-acre CityCenter development that never got completed. TheFoster + Partners-designedHarmonwas set to be a dazzling high-rise, but production was halted in 2008 when construction defects were discovered. Responsibility over the $400-million in damages has since turned into a legal nightmare. And now the 26 floors of the unfinished 47-floor tower are being deconstructed for scrap metal. This just might be Vegas ultimate Strip tease.
The Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea was originally planned to be the tallest hotel on earth. The architectural plans were pimped out in every way including seven restaurants that would be situated at the 100-foot peak and spin in tandem over the Pyongyang skyline. It was supposed to be unveiled the first time by the World Festival of Youth and Students in 1989. Delays were blamed on the lack of raw material supplies. In 2008 an Egyptian company tried to bring the derelict building back to life. The second unveiling was set to coincide with Kim II-Sungs 100 th birthday, but it remains unfinished and unoccupied to this day.
Delay, delay, delay is normally a tactic used by lawyers. But it seems that the contractors in charge of getting Berlins new airport up and running have adopted the saying. The plan for Brandenburg is to replace both the Schonefeld and Berlin Tegel airports. And with more than 27 million annual passengers, it was projected to be the one of the busiest in Europe. Originally slated to open in 2010, the project has been waylaid by poor construction and planning not to mention corruption. Corrective work on the airport is going to take an estimated 18 months before construction can resume. Management has stated that it should be ready by 2015, but insiders hint that the date will be closer to 2019.
This artificial archipelago of small islands was dreamt up by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai, to look like the map of the world. And his hope was to turn the World Islands into the playground for the rich and famous. Construction of the 300 islands made entirely of dredged sand began in 2003. But when the financial crisis in the real world, it brought production of this $14 billion-dollar fantastical world to a halt. To date only two of the islands have come to fruition.
With more than 2,600 miles of oceanfront and a location closer to the equator than Rio de Janerio, you would think Chile would be a beach-goers paradise. However, the Humboldt Current, which streams from the Antarctic tip of South America to Chiles western seaboard, is especially frigid and keeps sunbathers at bay. In 2006, the San Alfonso de Mar resort thought of a way around the icy situation by creating the Crystal Lagoon the worlds largest swimming pool. Situated in front of the sea, it spans 19 acres and contains 66-million gallons of temperate water. Its so large even sailboats are able to cruise around insid e it. But with over $2 billion in construction costs and $4 million just for its annual maintenance, it's questionable whether this pool will propel Chile's tourism or ever make a profit.
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Global travel buyers converge in PH for PHITEX
Some 209 travel buyers from all over the world, 130 Philippine travel companies and 200 local travel sellers are expected to attend the 13th Philippine Travel Exchange (PHITEX 2014) as the country gears up for heightened travel opportunities under the Asean economic integration.
This years travel exchange, which opens today at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City, has a theme, Innovate and Integrate, Empower and Engage.
PHITEX 2014 seeks to demonstrate the countrys even more competitive stance in meeting the demands of the ASEAN integration slated in 2015, while continually promoting travel and tourism in the Philippines. The conference is set to provide a venue for foreign buyers of travel products to discuss business with Philippine tourism suppliers.
Leading the team of empowered speakers during the PHITEX 2014 Educational Seminars is the Chief Operating Officer of TPB Domingo Ramon C. Enerio III on Strengthening The Strategic Alliance Between The Tourism Promotions Board And Its Stakeholders Towards A Challenging Future.
Henry Tenedero, council director for international learning styles will speak on High Impact Techniques To Get Better Value Of Your One-On-One Business Meetings while Ricardo De Vera, MBA/CSP Certified International Consultant will talk on A Call for Cohesiveness: When Management And The Sales/Marketing Teams Effectively Align and Sustain Their Creative Productivity.
Cecilio Tuanquin, sales and operations head, Samsung Electronics Philippines Corporation, will discuss Learning for the 21st Century-Innovation Strategies From The Game Changers.
Tess H. Mauricio, OIC Marketing and Promotions of TPB and PHITEX Project Director, said there will be post-event tours that will not only focus on leisure but will also be travel for a purpose.
While the tours will primarily be for leisure, these will also involve activities geared towards sustainability and preservation of the environment for the next generation, added Mauricio.
The post-event tours include trips to Laoag/Vigan, Tagaytay/Puerta Galera, Puerta Princesa, El Nido, Legazpi/Sorsogon, Boracay, and Bohol/Cebu, incorporating social tourism activities such as tree planting, building of houses, coral transplant and mangrove protection, among others.
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9 African Wrestlers Will Miss World Championships Because of Ebola Travel Restrictions
Ebikweminomo Welson of Nigeria (in red) takes on Amit Kumar Amit of India at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland on July 29. Seven Nigerian wrestlers will not be able to attend the World Wrestling Championships in Uzbekistan.
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By Jessica Plautz2014-09-01 15:07:28 UTC
The effects of the Ebola outbreak have reached into the world of sports. Nine athletes will not be able to attend the upcoming world wrestling championships because of travel restrictions intended to control the spread of the virus.
The annual World Wrestling Championships are scheduled for Sept. 8-14 in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. FILA, the governing body of wrestling, said the Uzbekistan health ministry has recommended wrestlers from affected West African countries not be invited.
The ruling affects seven wrestlers from Nigeria and two from Sierra Leone, according to FILA.
The decision follows similar travel bans imposed by China and Russia ahead of the recent Youth Olympic Games and judo worlds.
FILA President Nenad Lalovic says "our sympathies go out to the affected wrestlers, coaches and fans."
The current outbreak of Ebola could exceed 20,000 cases, according to officials with the World Health Organization (WHO). More than 1,500 people have died from the disease.
Ebola is spread only by contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person. The severity of the disease if contracted, however, is motivating action by authorities around the world. WHO's roadmap estimates it will take six to nine months to fully respond to the outbreak.
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Why This Company Wants To Take You On a Balloon Ride To The Edge Of Space
If Jane Poynter has her way, a regular person will be able to ride up to the edge of space quicker than they could take a commercial flight across the country--without the hassle of a lengthy security line.
Her company, World View Enterprises, is pioneering travel to the top of the atmosphere. The entire journey should take about four hours, no anti-gravity training required.
Sound crazy? Not to a new crop of entrepreneurs eyeing the final frontier of tourism. Richard Bransons Virgin Galactic enterprise has been making headlines for several years. Yet while the thrill-seeking Branson pursues commercial flights on spaceships with rocket engines for the heart-stopping price tag of $200,000, World Views plans are somewhat more modest.
Thats because the company isnt aiming to turn average individuals into astronauts. Instead, World View is perfecting a sub-orbital flight to 100,000 feet (airplanes usually cruise at about 31,000) via a pressurized capsule pulled up by a high-altitude balloon and parafoil. The idea is to float up and glide back. Its a gentler experience than a rocket launch in which astronauts are subject to 3g force--survivable, but not without special gear and training. There will be a fully stocked bar, Poynter adds, laughing, So you can get your beverage of choice. Vodka and Tang, perhaps?
Joking aside, World View is getting close to making this a reality. In June, the company successfully completed a scaled test flight (10% of the actual size) of a balloon and the companys Parawing (patent pending). The journey broke the world record for highest parafoil flight when the balloon rose to 120,000 feet and came back down to 50,000 when it transitioned to the parafoil, validating the system the company plans to launch (couldnt resist) to voyagers in 2016. Indeed, the companys already booked its first reservations at $75,000 per seat.
I am somebody driven by big ideas, Poynter asserts, And space travel is huge. Poynter may sound brash, especially considering shes not as familiar a face as Branson, but shes been working on this in some form for more than 20 years.
A pivotal event for Poynter occurred when she was one of the eight researchers sealed into the Biosphere 2 for two years and 20 minutes. It was one of the very first commercial space ventures, Poynter explains, because the sealed environment was created specifically to see if it could support human life elsewhere, not unlike being sealed in a spaceship and traveling through the universe.
A more moving realization dawned on Poynter from that experience. We were really part of [that biosphere] viscerally and literally, completely dependent on plants for oxygen, drinking the same water, growing our own food really changed the perspective on world we live in, she says. Poynter likens that "a-ha moment" to ones shes heard from astronauts who initially are intent on exploring space, but find themselves looking back at the Earth and are gobsmacked by the view of that small blue and white ball that is home. It is that change in perspective that is firing the engines of this company, Poynter contends, I want to give it back to people.
While she was in the Biosphere, Poynter and a fellow crew member Taber MacCallum began working on a business plan that would become Paragon Space Ventures. In a TED talk, Poynter frankly admits that many have been quick to criticize the Biosphere experiment as a failure because the oxygen levels dipped so low at one point that the crew suffered from sleep apnea and other health problems.
But Poynter and the others, like good entrepreneurs, took the failure and pivoted. The rapid iteration, to find the lost oxygen and regain the precious balance needed to sustain life, makes Poynter view the entire experiment as a success. Emerging and starting a business, even one that was bootstrapped with credit cards, was kind of fun, she says.
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Fighters travel to South Africa for world cup
Sept. 3, 2014, midnight
A TEAM of four from Ballarat will leave Australia on Thursday bound for the Kyokushin Karate World Cup in South Africa.
Mohammad Rezaie and Shannyn Johnstone-Ward.
A TEAM of four from Ballarat will leave Australia on Thursday bound for the Kyokushin Karate World Cup in South Africa.
Fighters Shannyn Johnstone-Ward and Mohammad Rezaie will represent the green and gold in the championships, while Ballarat sensei Steve Hardy is national coach and wife Monica a team manager.
Hardy said both Johnstone-Ward and Rezaie were Australia's best chances of success among a team of 12 competitors.
"I can't imagine them not going very well, but you never know," Hardy said.
"Our biggest competition will be the professional fighters from Russia, Kazakhstan and the Europeans. They are really dangerous because they pretty well do karate full time."
Rezaie has overcome a recent broken arm to take part in his first world cup .
The Kyokushin Karate World Cup is held in Durban on Saturday and Sunday.
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Highlands is to pilot Fujitsu's super-fast computer network
A pilot project is to link a high performance computing (HPC) network hub in Inverness and Easter Ross with computer clusters in other parts of the UK, as well as in Europe, China, Japan and the US.
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The IT giant Fujitsu, which has bases in the Highland capital and Alness, is to launch the four-month trial of the super-fast computer service with The Highland Council and Energy North, the trade group of over 200 members in the oil and gas, renewable energy and nuclear industries.
HPC can handle and analyse huge amounts of data at high speed, giving businesses and research institutions unprecedented problem- solving power that will accelerate and improve their work. Among its countless uses, HPC can advance medical research and treatments, develop climate change technology, create complex simulations and animated graphics and carry out rapid mathematical calculations.
Fujitsu, which will fund the pilot, says it has been inspired by proposals for a Highland Science Skills Academy which is aimed at growing science, IT and technology careers.
With HPC in the Highland region, Fujitsu and other companies would be able to consider establishing research and development operations in the area, which would be a catalyst for bringing new, highly-qualified posts to theremote region.
The system will use a portal to connect initially to a HPC cluster in Wales and, ultimately, to a pilot scheme in Northern Ireland, and Fujitsu operations at Hayes in Middlesex, as well as facilities in Europe, Japan and the US. Drew Hendry, Leader of The Highland Council, said HPC would open up a "new world of potential" for Highlands businesses.
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Reneuron on track for clinical milestones as studies get underway
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Stem cell therapy group Reneuron said it remains on track with the first patients having been dosed in two its clinical trials.
The phase II trial for the ReN001 cell therapy candidate for stroke disability and the phase I trail for ReN009 cell therapy candidate for critical limb ischaemia have both begun.
The ReN001 trial is on course to have generated six month follow-up data by the end of 2015, while ReN009 study should give results in the first half of next year.
Chief executive officer (CEO) Michael Hunt said that Reneuron's core therapeutic programmes remain on track towards "further important clinical milestones" over the next 18 months.
"In particular, the commencement of dosing of patients in two new clinical trials, in stroke and limb ischaemia, marks another significant step in Reneuron's evolution into a fully-fledged clinical development business and a leading player in the increasingly exciting field of cell therapy and regenerative medicine," Hunt said.
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Central biobank for drug research
Sep 01, 2014 The biobank comprises three cryotanks, equipped with cooled protective hoods, and a transfer station from which the sample containers are transported via a rail system. There is enough space for approximately 60,000 samples. Credit: Fraunhofer IBMT
For the development of new drugs it is crucial to work with stem cells, as these allow scientists to study the effects of new active pharmaceutical ingredients. But it has always been difficult to derive enough stem cells of the right quality and in the right timeframe. A central biobank is about to remedy the situation.
Human stem cells allow scientists to assess how patients are likely to respond to new drugs and to examine how illnesses come about. For a few years now, it has been possible to take tissue samples from adults and use reverse programming to artificially produce stem cells, which have the potential to create any kind of cell found in the human body. Before this discovery, pharmaceutical researchers had to use adult stem cells or primary cells, which have a more limited potential. Another option is to use stem cells derived from human embryos, but quite apart from the ethical considerations these cells are available only in limited diversity. The new technique makes it possible for instance to reprogram adult skin or blood cells so that they behave in a similar way to embryonic stem cells and can become any type of cell. "These are known as induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells for short," says Dr. Julia Neubauer from the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering IBMT in St. Ingbert, Germany. Although an increasing number of local biobanks have emerged in recent years, none of them fulfills the requirements of the pharmaceutical industry and research institutions. What is needed is a supply of 'ready-to-use' stem cells, which means large numbers of consistently characterized, systematically catalogued cells of suitable quality.
At the beginning of 2014, the IBMT teamed up with 26 industry and research partners to launch a project aimed at establishing a central biobank the European Bank for induced pluripotent Stem Cells (EBiSC) to generate iPS cells from patients with specific diseases or genetic mutations (http://ebisc.org/). Six months into the project and the first cells are available for use in the development of new drugs. By its three-year mark, it is hoped the project will be in a position to offer over 1000 defined and characterized cell lines comprising a hundred million cells. Such quantities are needed because a single drug screening involves testing several million cells. The main biobank facility is being built in the English city of Cambridge and an identical "mirror site" will be set up at the IBMT's Sulzbach location in Germany.
Gently freezing cells
The IBMT was brought on board for EBiSC by virtue of the comprehensive expertise it gained through participation in the EU's "Hyperlab" and "CRYSTAL" projects. For EBiSC, IBMT scientists are responsible for freezing the cells and for automating cell cultivation and the biobank itself. For an efficient long-term storage of functional stem cells, they have to be cooled down to temperatures of below 130 degrees Celsius in a controlled way. The scientists have to prepare the cells so they can survive the cold shock of nitrogen gas. The IBMT has, for instance, developed technologies that allow cells to be frozen in an extremely gentle way. "Cells don't like being removed from the surface they are grown on, but that's what people used to do in order to freeze them. Our method allows the cells to stay adherent," explains Neubauer.
Just as with foodstuffs, stem cells depend on an unbroken cold chain to preserve their functionality and viability. The scientists store the cells in special containers or cryotanks each measuring one by two meters. To remove a particular sample, the scientists have to open the cryotank. The problem is that this exposes all the other samples to warmer ambient air, causing them to begin to thaw out. "It's just like when you go to your refrigerator at home it's not a good idea to leave the door open too long," says Neubauer. She and her colleagues at the IBMT and industry partner Askion GmbH have together developed a stem cell biobank complete with protective hoods that protect the other samples whenever the cryotank is opened. In addition to maintaining the temperature, the hoods help keep another key shelf-life criterion, humidity, at a constant level.
Flawless freezing is important, but it is just as important to automate the whole process. "That not only guarantees consistency, it's what makes it possible to provide large quantities of cells of the required quality in the first place," says Neubauer. And the scientists' cooling process already boasts a finished technology. In their automated biobank, each cell sample is labelled with barcodes to allow them to be tracked. The samples travel along a conveyor belt to the individual cyrotanks, and a computer monitors the entire freezing and storage process.
Now the scientists are working on automating cell cultivation or the multiplying of the cells. There are essentially two possible approaches. One is to use robots that translate each preparation step into a mechanical one. The other is to use stirred bioreactors that provide free-moving cells with the ideal supply of nutrients and oxygen. Both technologies feature in the IBMT's portfolio. "By the time the project is completed, we'll know which is the better method for what we're trying to do," says Neubauer.
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