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A local conservative activist has found another job in politics.
Brad Beckett recently was appointed as Heritage Action for America's first regional coordinator for the Cincinnati area. Beckett served for years as chief of staff for City Councilman Chris Monzel, until Monzel left that group in January 2011 to become a Hamilton County commissioner.
In his new role, Beckett will be responsible for growing Heritage Action's grassroots infrastructure in Cincinnati and nearby areas in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.
"Brad brings a wealth of experience in and knowledge of Cincinnati politics," said Michael Needham, Heritage Action's CEO, in a prepared statement.
"His knowledge of Cincinnati and the surrounding region will be essential to ensuring that the American people's voices cut through the big-government noise in Washington as we fight to save the America dream," Needham added.
Prior to his latest gig, Beckett almost had the top job in Butler County government. When Monzel was elected to the Hamilton County commission, Beckett discreetly lined up another job as Butler County administrator. Two commissioners there hatched the plan privately but one abruptly changed his mind a day before Beckett's employment was to have begun, leaving him without a job.
More recently Beckett has been working at the Apple Store in Kenwood Towne Center and launched The Political Daily Download, a right-leaning blog. Also, he assisted in Tom Brinkman's unsuccessful campaign to win the Republican nomination to run for the Ohio House 27th District seat.
Founded in 2010, Heritage Action for America is the sister organization to the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. The newer group's motto is "we hold Congress accountable to conservative principles," and it was formed mostly because the foundation isn't allowed to back pieces of legislation due to its tax-exempt status.
One of Heritage Action's first projects was to organize opposition to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the health-care reform law pushed by President Obama.
Among Heritage Foundation's primary donors is Charles Koch, one half of the infamous Koch Brothers duo. They're the industrialists who helped form the Tea Party movement, which advocates for corporate interests that benefit the brothers and harm the working class.
Also, the Kochs led the push to abolish collective bargaining rights for public-sector labor unions in Ohio, Wisconsin and elsewhere.
The newly hired top editor at The Enquirer will be making several public appearances in coming weeks in an effort to become acquainted with the community.
Carolyn K. Washburn, the newspaper's editor and vice president, will be speaking at events organized by Northern Kentucky University and the League of Women Voters of the Cincinnati Area, among others.
Councilman Chris Seelbach last night helped a gunshot victim before the man was taken to the hospital. Seelbach posted on Facebook that he was watching The Voice with his partner, Craig Schultz, when they heard gun shots. They went to their window and saw a man walking across Melindy Alley. When Seelbach asked what happened, the man replied, "I was shot." Seelbach then ran down and held his hand on the wound for 10 to 15 minutes before emergency services showed up. "We have a lot of work to do Cincinnati," Seelbach wrote on Facebook. Police told The Cincinnati Enquirer the victim seemed to be chosen at random.
Pure Romance yesterday announced it will remain in Ohio and move to downtown Cincinnati despite a decision from Gov. John Kasich's administration not grant tax credits to the $100 million-plus company, which hosts private adult parties and sells sex toys, lotions and other "relationship enhancement" products. The reason for Pure Romance's decision: The city, which was pushing for Pure Romance despite the state's refusal, upped its tax break offer from $353,204 over six years to $698,884 over 10 years. Kasich previously justified his administration's refusal with claims that Pure Romance just didn't fall into an industry that Ohio normally supports, such as logistics and energy. But Democrats argue the tax credits were only denied because of a prudish, conservative perspective toward Pure Romance's product lineup.
City Council yesterday unanimously rejected restoring car allowances, paid work days and office budgets for the city government's top earners, including the mayor, city manager and council members. Councilman Seelbach said he hopes the refusal sends "a signal to the administration that this Council is not interested in making the wealthy more wealthy or giving more executive perks to people who already make hundred-plus thousands of dollars." The restorations were part of $6.7 million in budget restorations proposed by City Manager Milton Dohoney. The city administration previously argued the car allowances were necessary to maintain promises to hired city directors and keep the city competitive in terms of recruitment, but council members called the restorations out of touch.
The Cincinnati area's jobless rate dropped from 6.9 percent in August 2012 to 6.7 percent in August this year as the economy added 11,500 jobs, more than the 3,000 required to keep up with annual population growth.
The former chief financial officer for local bus service Metro is receiving a $50,000 settlement from the agency after accusing her ex-employer of retaliating against her for raising concerns about issues including unethical behavior and theft. Metro says it's not admitting to breaking the law and settled to avoid litigation.
Ohio House Democrats say state Republicans denied access to an empty hearing room for an announcement of legislation that would undo recently passed anti-abortion restrictions. But a spokesperson for the House Republican caucus said the speaker of the House did try to accommodate the announcement and called accusations of malicious intent "absurd." The accusations come just one week after the state's public broadcasting group pulled cameras from an internal meeting about abortion, supposedly because the hearing violated the rules. The legislation announced by Democrats yesterday undoes regulations and funding changes passed in the state budget that restrict abortion and defund family planning clinics, but the Democratic bill has little chance of passing the Republican-controlled legislature.
Ohioans will be able to pick from an average of 46 plans when new health insurance marketplaces launch on Oct. 1 under Obamacare, and the competition will push prices down, according to a new report. CityBeat covered Obamacare's marketplaces and efforts to promote and obstruct them in further detail here.
Ohio lawmakers intend to pursue another ban on Internet cafes that would be insusceptible to referendum, even as petitioners gather signatures to get the original ban on the November 2014 ballot. State officials argue the ban is necessary because Internet cafes, which offer slot-machine-style games on computer terminals, are hubs of illegal gambling activity. But Internet cafe owners say what they offer isn't gambling because customers always get something of value — phone or Internet time — in exchange for their money.
Ohio tea party groups can't find candidates to challenge Republican incumbents.
The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed the first openly gay U.S. appeals court judge.
The Cincinnati area is among the top 20 places for surgeons, according to consumer finance website ValuePenguin.
A graphic that's gone viral calls Ohio the "nerdiest state."
Insects apparently have personalities, and some love to explore.
City Council's Budget and Finance Committee on Sept. 16 unanimously approved a proposal that will allow the city administration to study whether city contracts should favorably target minority- and women-owned businesses and report back with the results in February 2015.
City officials support the measures because reported city contract participation rates have plummeted for minority-owned businesses and remained relatively flat for women-owned businesses since Cincinnati dismantled its previous minority- and women-owned business program in 1999.
The study, which the city now estimates will cost $450,000 to $1 million, is necessary because of a 1989 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that requires governments to empirically prove there is a racial or gender-based disparity before enacting policies that favorably target such groups.
It's also unclear if the latest participation numbers are accurate. As part of the city's previous business program, minority- and women-owned businesses were required to report as minority- and women-owned businesses. But the classification has been voluntary since the program was terminated, which could be leaving out businesses who choose not to report.
In August, council members supported funding the disparity study with money from the parking lease or any other funds the city administration could locate.
"We need to put all of Cincinnati to work building Cincinnati," said Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls, who introduced the August motion, in a statement. "To make sure that the city has an open, fair, inclusive process that ensures everyone benefits from our public investments and from private development that we support with public money, we need an updated disparity study."
Cincinnati hasn't undertaken a disparity study since 2002. That study found evidence of disparities but ultimately recommended race- and gender-neutral policies to avoid legal uncertainty that surrounded the issue at the time.
Officials claim they couldn't conduct another study until the city administration finished implementing suggestions from OPEN Cincinnati, a task force established in 2009 to reform the city's small business program after Mayor Mark Mallory and his administration were accused of neglect.
The study has also been stalled by cost concerns. Some
critics argue the money would be better spent elsewhere, but, in an uncommon moment of consensus, all council members have backed funding.
The city manager's proposal calls for conducting the study between February 2014 and January 2015. The city administration will report the results to City Council and take public comments on the study in February 2015.
City Council could use leftover revenue from the previous budget cycle and money from the parking lease to fund a disparity study that would gauge whether minority- and women-owned businesses should be favorably targeted by the city's contracting policies. The study could cost between $500,000 to $1 million, according to city officials. Because of a U.S. Supreme Court case, the city must carry out the study before it can impose policies that favorably target minorities or women with business contracts. Since the city's last race- and gender-based program was dismantled in 1999, contract participation rates for minority-owned businesses dropped from a high of 22.4 percent in 1997 to a low of 2.7 percent in 2007, but rates for women-owned businesses have remained relatively unchanged. But the numbers could be understating how many minority-owned businesses there are because classifying as one is now voluntary, while it was mandatory in the 1990s.
State Rep. Ron Amstutz, chairman of the Ohio House Finance and Appropriations Committee, says he wants to move on a package of bills that would include the Medicaid expansion by early October. The bills will also tackle other issues, such as how to deal with growing concerns about opiate addiction in Ohio. The Health Policy Institute of Ohio says the federally funded Medicaid expansion would insure nearly half a million Ohioans and generate roughly $1.8 billion for the state in the next year. But Republican legislators in the General Assembly say they're concerned the federal government won't be able to uphold its commitment to the expansion. Recent polling found about 63 percent of Ohioans support expanding Medicaid.
East side residents pleaded with Greater Cincinnati Port Authority officials yesterday to reduce enforcement hours for parking meters under the city's controversial parking lease. The plan allows for enforcement until 9 p.m., but residents say it should only go to 6 p.m. to avoid hurting local businesses that might rely on free parking during the evening. The city is leasing its parking meters, lots and garages to the Port Authority, which will then manage the assets through private operators from around the country. The city administration estimates the deal will produce $92 million up front and at least $3 million a year afterward for Cincinnati, which officials plan to use for development projects and to help close budget gaps.
Meanwhile, opponents of the parking lease appealed their legal challenge to the Ohio Supreme Court. Opponents argue the lease should be susceptible to voter referendum. The city claims Cincinnati's emergency clause powers allow council members to expedite laws and remove the possibility of referendum altogether. The legal challenge was initially successful in a lower court, but the appeals court ultimately sided with the city. It's unclear whether the Ohio Supreme Court will hear the challenge.
Legal experts say it's unclear which, if any, of Ohio's new abortion restrictions could survive a court battle. The anti-abortion measures, which were passed in the state budget by Republican legislators and Gov. John Kasich, impose a series of regulatory hurdles that require extra medical procedures prior to getting an abortion and could be used to shut down abortion clinics.
An internal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report suggests that fracking, an oil- and gas-extraction process, can contaminate underground drinking water. The findings could have implications for Ohio, which is currently undergoing a fracking boom as companies rush to tap into oil and gas reserves in northeastern parts of the state. CityBeat covered Ohio's fracking boom in further detail here.
Councilwoman Pam Thomas and ex-Councilman Cecil Thomas want everyone to know that they have not endorsed anyone for mayor.
Ryan Widmer's mother, who gained notoriety for defending Widmer during his three trials, was found dead yesterday. There were no obvious signs of trauma or foul play. Widmer is currently serving 15 years for drowning his wife in a bathtub in 2008.
Scientists may have to genetically modify oranges to save them from a deadly disease.
The Internet's strange allure can't be resisted.
First, local blogger and veteran journalist Bill Sloat decided to revive his excellent Daily Bellwether blog after an absence of several months, once again offering his fresh take on news around Ohio's major cities.
Now Jim Hopkins has brought back his insightful Gannett Blog, offering news, analysis and criticism about the newspaper and media giant that owns The Cincinnati Enquirer and USA Today.
A local appellate court judge who is a neighborhood activist and a one-time Cincinnati City Council candidate recently was elected as president of the Ohio State Bar Association.
Patrick F. Fischer was elected Friday during the Bar Association's annual convention in Columbus.
New York City mayoral candidates see Cincinnati Public Schools' (CPS) community learning centers as a model for their city's schools. The centers bring members of the community, including dental clinics, mental health therapists and mentors from local banks and churches, to a school hub to keep students engaged after traditional classroom hours end. But an analysis from The New York Times also finds that progress has been fairly modest, with some schools in the district still struggling and graduation and attendance rates showing little sign of improvement. Still, CPS officials argue the initiative has helped mitigate the effects of poverty and hunger in the classroom. CityBeat covered CPS and its community learning centers back in October here.
The city of Cincinnati could take control of the Emery Theatre following a legal dispute between the Requiem Project, a nonprofit seeking to renovate the theater, and the University of Cincinnati, Emery Center Apartments Limited Partnership and the Emery Center Corporation, the group of leasers and owners trying to push Requiem out of the building. Requiem stated in a letter Friday that it would approve of the city taking over the building, a possibility currently being analyzed by Cincinnati's legal team. CityBeat first covered the Emery Theater situation in further detail here.
SoMoLend, the local startup and city partner that connects small businesses seeking loans and lenders, is being accused of fraud by the state of Ohio. The charges could force the high-profile business to shut down; for the time being, it's not giving out any loans in the state. In December, the city of Cincinnati teamed up with SoMoLend in a partnership that was meant to land local small businesses and startups much-needed loans through crowdfunding.
Ohio will spend $6.2 million this fiscal year to combat gambling addictions. With casinos, racinos and gambling generally expanding in Ohio, the state government is directing more money to county mental health and addiction boards to ensure problem gamblers are treated.
The two officers who were on the clock when death row inmate Billy Slagle hung himself have been put on paid administrative leave while the Ohio prisons department investigates what happened. Slagle was convicted of murder and sentenced to death — a punishment the Ohio Parole Board and Gov. John Kasich upheld in July despite pleas from a county prosecutor — but he hung himself days before he was supposed to be executed. CityBeat covered Slagle's case in further detail here.
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Umbilical cord blood
Blood is a specialized bodily fluid in animals that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells....
that remains in the
The placenta is an organ that connects the developing fetus to the uterine wall to allow nutrient uptake, waste elimination, and gas exchange via the mother's blood supply. "True" placentas are a defining characteristic of eutherian or "placental" mammals, but are also found in some snakes and...
and in the attached
umbilical cord
Umbilical cord
In placental mammals, the umbilical cord is the connecting cord from the developing embryo or fetus to the placenta...
Childbirth is the culmination of a human pregnancy or gestation period with the birth of one or more newborn infants from a woman's uterus...
. Cord blood is collected because it contains stem cells which can be used to treat hematopoietic and genetic disorders.
Cord blood is obtained by syringing out the placenta through the umbilical cord at the time of childbirth, after the cord has been detached from the newborn. Cord blood is collected because it contains stem cells, including hematopoietic cells, which can be used to treat hematopoietic and genetic disorders. Although the cord blood does contain stem cells, there are generally not enough stem cells in one unit of cord blood to treat an adult patient. The placenta is a much better source of stem cells since it contains up to ten times more than cord blood. Some placental blood may be returned to the neonatal circulation if the
umbilical cord
Umbilical cord
In placental mammals, the umbilical cord is the connecting cord from the developing embryo or fetus to the placenta...
is not prematurely clamped. According to Eileen K. Hutton, PhD and Eman S. Hassan, MBBch, there should be a delay of a minimum of two minutes before cord clamping. This prevents anemia over the first 3 months of life and enriching iron stores and ferritin levels for as long as 6 months. (Ref. "Late vs Early Clamping of the Umbilical Cord in Full-term Neonates," JAMA, March 21, 2007) If the umbilical cord is not clamped, such as in an extended-delayed cord clamping protocol, a physiological postnatal occlusion occurs upon interaction with cold air, when the internal gelatinous substance, called
Wharton's jelly
Wharton's jelly
Wharton's jelly is a gelatinous substance within the umbilical cord, largely made up of mucopolysaccharides . It also contains some fibroblasts and macrophages...
, swells around the umbilical artery and veins.
In the United States, the
Food and Drug Administration
Food and Drug Administration
The Food and Drug Administration is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, one of the United States federal executive departments...
regulates cord blood under the category of "Human Cells, Tissues, and Cellular and Tissue Based-Products." The Code of Federal Regulations under which the FDA regulates public and private cord blood banks is
Title 21 Section 1271
. Both public and private cord blood banks are eligible for voluntary accreditation with either the American Association of Blood Banks
or the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy
. Potential clients can check the current accreditation status of banks from the
AABB list
of accredited cord blood banks or the FACT search engine of accredited cord blood banks (on their home page). Other countries also have regulations pertaining to cord blood. It is also found out that there are no problems in cord blood donation.
Use and applications
Physicians and researchers have begun to make progress evaluating the safety and efficacy of umbilical cord blood stem cells for certain therapeutic uses beyond blood cancers and genetic diseases of the blood.
The use of cord blood stem cells in treating conditions such as brain injury and type 1 diabetes is already being studied in humans, and earlier stage research is being conducted for treatments of stroke, and hearing loss. However, apart from blood disorders, the use of cord blood for other diseases is not a routine clinical modality and remains a major challenge for the stem cell community.
Current estimates indicate that approximately 1 in 3 Americans could benefit from
regenerative medicine
Regenerative medicine
Regenerative medicine is the "process of replacing or regenerating human cells, tissues or organs to restore orestablish normal function". This field holds the promise of regenerating damaged tissues and organs in the body by replacing damaged tissue and/or by stimulating the body's own repair...
, and children whose cord blood stem cells are available for their own potential use could be among the first to benefit from new therapies as they become available. With autologous (the person's own) cells, there is no risk of the immune system rejecting the cells, so physicians and researchers are only performing these potential cord blood therapies on children who have their own stem cells available.
Researchers are exploring the use of cord blood stem cells in the following regenerative medicine applications:
Type 1 Diabetes
A clinical trial underway at the University of Florida (
) is examining whether an infusion of autologous cord blood stem cells into children with newly diagnosed Type 1 diabetes will impact metabolic control over time, as compared to standard insulin treatments. Preliminary results demonstrate that an infusion of cord blood stem cells is safe and may provide some slowing of the loss of insulin production in children with Type 1 diabetes.
Cardiovascular repair
The stem cells found in a newborn's umbilical cord blood are holding great promise in cardiovascular repair. Researchers are noting several positive observations in pre-clinical animal studies. Thus far, in animal models of myocardial infarction, cord blood stem cells have shown the ability to selectively migrate to injured cardiac tissue, improve vascular function and blood flow at the site of injury, and improve overall heart function.
Cord blood harvesting
Umbilical cord blood is the blood left over in the placenta and in the umbilical cord after the birth of the baby. The cord blood is composed of all the elements found in whole blood. It contains red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma, platelets and is also rich in hematopoietic stem cells. These stem cells in cord blood have immense potential to cure heart related disease, eighty diseases in blood, infection such as Aspergillosis and genetic disorders.
There are several methods for collecting cord blood. The method most commonly used in clinical practice is the "closed technique", which is similar to standard blood collection techniques. With this method, the technician
A cannula or canula is a tube that can be inserted into the body, often for the delivery or removal of fluid or for the gathering of data...
tes the
Umbilical vein
The umbilical vein is a vein present during fetal development that carries oxygenated blood from the placenta to the growing fetus.The blood pressure inside the umbilical vein is approximately 20 mmHg.-Development:...
of the severed umbilical cord using a needle that is connected to a blood bag, and cord blood flows through the needle into the bag. On average, the closed technique enables collection of about 75 ml of cord blood.
Collected cord blood is
Cryopreservation is a process where cells or whole tissues are preserved by cooling to low sub-zero temperatures, such as 77 K or −196 °C . At these low temperatures, any biological activity, including the biochemical reactions that would lead to cell death, is effectively stopped...
and then stored in a
cord blood bank
Cord blood bank
A cord blood bank is a facility which stores umbilical cord blood for future use. Both private and public cord blood banks have developed since the mid- to late-1990s in response to the potential for cord blood transplants in treating diseases of the blood and immune systems.Public banks accept...
for future transplantation. A cord blood bank may be private (i.e. the blood is stored for and the costs paid by donor families) or public (i.e. stored and made available for use by unrelated donors). While public cord blood banking is widely supported, private cord banking is controversial in both the medical and parenting community. Although umbilical cord blood is well-recognized to be useful for treating hematopoietic and genetic disorders, some controversy surrounds the collection and storage of umbilical cord blood by private banks for the baby's use. Only a small percentage of babies (estimated at between 1 in 1,000 to 1 in 200,000) ever use the umbilical cord blood that is stored. The American Academy of Pediatrics 2007 Policy Statement on Cord Blood Banking states that:
"Physicians should be aware of the unsubstantiated claims of private cord blood banks made to future parents that promise to insure infants or family members against serious illnesses in the future by use of the stem cells contained in cord blood;"
Cord blood is stored by both public and private
cord blood bank
Cord blood bank
A cord blood bank is a facility which stores umbilical cord blood for future use. Both private and public cord blood banks have developed since the mid- to late-1990s in response to the potential for cord blood transplants in treating diseases of the blood and immune systems.Public banks accept...
s. Public cord blood banks store cord blood for the benefit of the general public, and most U.S. banks coordinate matching cord blood to patients through the
National Marrow Donor Program
National Marrow Donor Program
National Marrow Donor Program® Be The Match is the global leader in providing marrow and umbilical cord blood transplants to patients with leukemia, lymphoma and other diseases. The nonprofit organization matches patients with donors, educates health care professionals and conducts research so more...
(NMDP). Private cord blood banks are usually for-profit organizations that store cord blood for the exclusive use of the donor or donor's relatives.
Public cord blood banking is supported by the medical community. However, private cord blood banking is generally not recommended unless there is a family history of specific genetic diseases.
New parents have the option of storing their newborn's cord blood at a private
cord blood bank
Cord blood bank
A cord blood bank is a facility which stores umbilical cord blood for future use. Both private and public cord blood banks have developed since the mid- to late-1990s in response to the potential for cord blood transplants in treating diseases of the blood and immune systems.Public banks accept...
or donating it to a public cord blood bank. The cost of private cord blood banking is approximately $2000 for collection and approximately $125 per year for storage, as of 2007. Donation to a public cord blood bank is not possible everywhere, but availability is increasing. Several local cord blood banks across the
United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
are now accepting donations from within their own states. The cord blood bank will not charge the donor for the donation; the
Obstetrics and gynaecology
Obstetrics and gynaecology are the two surgical–medical specialties dealing with the female reproductive organs in their pregnant and non-pregnant state, respectively, and as such are often combined to form a single medical specialty and postgraduate training programme...
may still charge a collection fee, although many OB/GYNs choose to donate their time.
After the first sibling-donor cord blood transplant was performed in 1988, the National Institute of Health (NIH) awarded a grant to Dr. Pablo Rubinstein to develop the world's first cord blood program at the New York Blood Center (NYBC), in order to establish the inventory of non embryonal stem cell units necessary to provide unrelated, matched grafts for patients.
In 2005,
University of Toronto
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...
researcher Peter Zandstra developed a method to increase the yield of cord blood stem cells to enable their use in treating adults as well as children.
Banking Umbilical Cord Tissue
Expectant parents can now also collect and preserve stem cells from the tissue of the umbilical cord, whose medical name is Wharton's Jelly. Whereas cord blood is a rich source of Hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) that differentiate to form the lineage of blood cells, cord tissue is a rich source of Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC). The International Society of Cellular Therapy.
, has established criteria for defining MSC.
Mesenchymal stem cells differentiate to build bone, cartilage and connective tissue, and they are also very effective at mediating the body's inflammatory response to damaged or injured cells.
Harvesting the tissue of the umbilical cord can yield between 21 and 500 million MSC.
By comparison, a typical cord blood collection in a private bank has a median total nucleated cell count of 470 million.
For parents, private storage at birth of stem cells from both cord blood and cord tissue offer more options for future medical use.
Numerous clinical trials are using MSC derived from the bone marrow of adult volunteers to treat heart disease, stroke, bone disease and injury, and autoimmune diseases such as Type 1 Diabetes, Multiple Sclerosis, and Crohn's Disease.
As of yet, there are no clinical trials in humans using MSCs derived from cord tissue. However, over 50 studies have used MSC derived from cord tissue to treat animal models of human diseases, including: Lung Cancer,
Parkinson's Disease,
Rheumatoid Arthritis,
Sports injuries to cartilage,
and Type 1 Diabetes.
Currently there is no standard procedure or accrediting criteria for storage of MSC from umbilical cord tissue. Many cord blood banks are storing the cord tissue by freezing an intact segment of the umbilical cord. This procedure has the advantage of waiting for the technology of cell separation to mature, but has the disadvantage that there is no guarantee it will be possible to efficiently retrieve viable stem cells from a previously frozen cord. A few cord blood banks are extracting stem cells from the cord tissue before cryogenic storage. This procedure has the disadvantage that it uses the current separation method, but the advantage that it yields minimally manipulated cells that are treatment ready and comply with
FDA regulations
on cell therapy products.
The UK NHS Cord Blood Bank
In the
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
the NHS Cord Blood Bank was set up in 1996 to collect, process, store and supply cord blood. It is a public cord blood bank and part of the NHS.
The first unrelated transplant (the patient was not related to the donor) occurred in February 1998
Cord blood collected for the NHS Cord Blood Bank is collected by specially trained and dedicated staff. It is collected from the following hospitals – Barnet General, Northwick Park, Watford, Luton and Dunstable and St George's in Tooting
Trained NHS Cord Blood Bank staff contact mothers who have registered to donate before they have their baby to ask some simple lifestyle questions and to obtain verbal consent for the collection, testing and use of the donation
The NHS Cord Blood Bank has issued cord blood units to 22 countries. This is a reciprocal arrangement internationally enabling patients worldwide to get the best treatment
The NHS Cord Blood Bank is accredited by NetCord-FACT and licensed by the Human Tissue Authority
Medical Guidelines & Legislation
While the American Academy of Pediatrics discourages private banking except in the case of existing medical need, it also believes that information about the potential benefits and limitations of cord blood banking and transplantation should be provided so that parents can make an informed decision. In addition, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends that if a patient requests information on umbilical cord blood banking, balanced information should be given.
Cord blood education is also supported by legislators at the federal and state levels. In 2005, the National Academy of Sciences published an
Institute of Medicine (IoM) report
titled, "Establishing a National Cord Blood Stem Cell Bank Program". The IoM report recommended that expectant parents be given a balanced perspective on their options for cord blood banking. In response to their constituents, state legislators across the country are introducing legislation intended to help inform physicians and expectant parents on the options for donating, discarding or banking newborn stem cells. Currently 17 states, covering two-thirds of U.S. births, have enacted legislation recommended by the IoM guidelines.
While there is general support in the medical community for public
banking of cord blood
Cord blood bank
A cord blood bank is a facility which stores umbilical cord blood for future use. Both private and public cord blood banks have developed since the mid- to late-1990s in response to the potential for cord blood transplants in treating diseases of the blood and immune systems.Public banks accept...
, the question of private banking has raised objections from many governments and nonprofit organizations. The controversy centers on varying assessments of the current and future likelihood of successful uses of the stored blood. In March 2008, a paper was published by Nietfeld et al. in the journal
Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
which computed the lifetime probability (up to age 70) that an individual in the US would undergo a stem cell transplant. The likelihood of an autologous transplant using your own stem cells is 1 in 435, the likelihood of an allogeneic transplant from a matched donor (such as a sibling) is 1 in 400, and the net likelihood of any type of stem cell transplant is 1 in 217.
National Marrow Donor Program
National Marrow Donor Program
National Marrow Donor Program® Be The Match is the global leader in providing marrow and umbilical cord blood transplants to patients with leukemia, lymphoma and other diseases. The nonprofit organization matches patients with donors, educates health care professionals and conducts research so more...
estimates that by the year 2015, there will be 10,000 cord blood transplants worldwide per year using publicly banked cord blood. It is therefore vitally important to build public repositories of cord blood donations throughout the world. In the United States, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the US Dept. of Health and Human Services is responsible for funding national programs to register marrow donors and bank cord blood donations.
In March 2004, the European Union Group on Ethics (EGE) has issued Opinion No.19 titled
Ethical Aspects of Umbilical Cord Blood Banking
. The EGE concluded that "[t]he legitimacy of commercial cord blood banks for autologous use should be questioned as they sell a service, which has presently, no real use regarding therapeutic options. Thus they promise more than they can deliver. The activities of such banks raise serious ethical criticisms." However, in the final section 1.27 of their Opinion, the EGE admits that: "if in the future regenerative medicine developed in such a way that using autologous stem cells became possible, then the fact to have one's own cord blood being stored at birth could increase the chance of having access to new therapies."
In May 2006 The World Marrow Donor Association (WMDA) Policy Statement for the Utility of Autologous or Family Cord Blood Unit Storage stated that:
The use of autologous cord blood cells for the treatment of childhood leukemia is contra-indicated because pre-leukemic cells are present at birth. Autologous cord blood carries the same genetic defects as the donor and should not be used to treat genetic diseases.
There is at present no known protocol where autologous cord blood stem cells are used in therapy.
If autologous stem cell therapies should become reality in the future, these protocols will probably rely on easily accessible stem cells.
Emerging Stem Cell Applications
Brain Injury
Cerebral Palsy
Type 1 Diabetes
Heart Disease
As of spring 2008, there are several known instances where autologous use of cord blood is indicated:
Whereas the WMDA cautioned against autologous transplant for diseases with a genetic signature, there are pediatric cancers (ex: neuroblastoma) and acquired conditions (ex: aplastic anemia) which can be treated by autologous transplant. There has even been one autologous transplant for leukemia
Type 1 diabetes, also known as juvenile diabetes, has been shown to improve if treated shortly after onset with an infusion of autologous cord blood. The
American Diabetes Association
American Diabetes Association
The American Diabetes Association is a United States-based association working to fight the consequences of diabetes, and to help those affected by diabetes...
reports that 1 in 7000 children is diagnosed each year with Type 1 diabetes, and 1 in 600 children are living with it.
A Phase I clinical trial is underway at Duke University to investigate whether cerebral palsy and other forms of pediatric brain injury may respond to infusions of autologous cord blood. The Brain Injury Association of America estimates that the prevalence of Cerebral Palsy is about 1 in 300 among children up to age 10.
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Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide
Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide
Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide is an organization based in Leiden, Netherlands, that coordinates the collection of the HLA phenotypes of volunteer hematopoietic cell donors and cord blood units....
Cord blood bank
Cord blood bank
A cord blood bank is a facility which stores umbilical cord blood for future use. Both private and public cord blood banks have developed since the mid- to late-1990s in response to the potential for cord blood transplants in treating diseases of the blood and immune systems.Public banks accept...
Stem cell
Stem cell
This article is about the cell type. For the medical therapy, see Stem Cell TreatmentsStem cells are biological cells found in all multicellular organisms, that can divide and differentiate into diverse specialized cell types and can self-renew to produce more stem cells...
A Doula is someone who provides non-medical support to women and their families during labour and childbirth, and also the postpartum period. The term can also be used to describe other supportive roles for other life events such as abortion, death and more....
Umbilical cord
Umbilical cord
In placental mammals, the umbilical cord is the connecting cord from the developing embryo or fetus to the placenta...
Placenta cord banking
Placenta cord banking
Placenta banking refers to the collection and storage of stem cells from the placenta, in addition to those found in cord blood, after the birth of a human baby. Placental stem cells are those stem cells that are found only in the placenta and are collected after the blood from the umbilical cord...
Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation
Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation
The Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation is one of the public bone marrow, blood stem cell and umbilical cord blood registries in the United States...
Relicord is an initiative by the Reliance Industries in the field of biotechnological advancement. It is established as a part of the subsidiary of Reliance Industries, Reliance Life Sciences. ReliCord is the first to have a registered cord blood bank and repository in India as well as the entire...
Americord Registry
Americord Registry
Americord Registry is a cord blood bank company, founded in 2008 and headquartered in New York City. It uses a FDA approved drug to mobilize stem cells from the placenta and store them for future medical use...
LifeLine Cryogenics
General information
National Marrow Donor Program
Save the Cord Foundation
, a non-profit educational foundation established to create unbiased awareness about the life saving benefits of cord blood.
Cord Blood Association of Canada
— A non-profit organization about cord blood banking.
The New Jersey Cord Blood Bank (NJCBB)
The March of Dimes - Umbilical Cord Blood
Parent's Guide to Cord Blood Foundation
, a non-profit educational foundation
Gift of Life Cord Blood Program
Cord blood donation
Cord Blood Science
Free, public donation information
Alberta Cord Blood Bank
— Accepts free collections throughout Canada
NHS Cord Blood Bank
— Accepts free collections throughout England and Wales
National Marrow Donor Program
— Details on umbilical cord blood donation
ITxM Cord Blood Services
— ITxM accepts public cord blood donations in the Chicago area and western Pennsylvania.
Diseases treated with cord blood
Diseases treatable with hematopoietic cells
— i.e., marrow, cord blood and peripheral blood stem cells
National Cord Blood Program
— Frequency of patients transplanted with cord blood by disease

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How come, when most solids are more dense than liquids, liquids are not compressible, but most solids are?
Both liquids and solids are compressible -- only slightly, but compressible nonetheless. The compressibility of solids is generally smaller (they resist deformation more, because compressibility is defined with an explicit negative sign) than for liquids by ~ 3X. However, there is overlap because other factors are also important.
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varies with temperature, pressure, and other variables, so it is quite difficult to measure. The compressibility of solids, especially single crystals, is even more complicated. Assume the atoms in a crystal have coordinates (x,y,z). The crystal structure is often not isotropic, i.e. the arrangement of atoms/molecules in the 'x', 'y', and 'z' directions is not the same. So an increase in pressure in the 'x' direction results in a DIFFERENT change in volume in the 'y' and 'z' directions. The same is true for the other coordinates. So the compressibility now has NINE components -- Kij where both 'i' and 'j' can equal 'x', 'y', and 'z' -- i.e. components Kxx, Kxy, Kyx,..., Kzz. The term Kxy, for example, measures how the dimensional change in the 'y' direction if I squeeze in the 'x' direction. For some crystals Kxy may not even equal Kyx!! Such nine component arrays are called "tensors" and they have a whole "algebra" that governs their mathematical behavior.
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Drawing inspiration from its magnificent landscape, British Columbia's artists use the province's natural beauty and raw materials to create remarkable treasures showcased in BC art galleries.
Towering totem poles, powerful sculptures and masks, bold prints and exquisitely designed jewellery tell the story of BC's first peoples. Dramatic paintings, evocative photographs and a cornucopia of craft arts capture the province's diverse geography and multi-faceted spirit.
BC claims artists of national and international renown. View their work at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Museum of Anthropology, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Eagle Aerie Gallery and Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art.
Aboriginal art is preserved in cultural centres such as the U'mista Cultural Centre, or weathered by the natural environment like the totem poles of Duncan and Gwaii Haanas National Park.
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While the metropolitan centres of Vancouver and Victoria offer major collections, smaller communities such as Wells, Nelson, and the Gulf Islands abound with galleries and artist's studios. Drive the self-guided Purple Banner Route to connect with local artists in Gibsons, Sechelt and on the Sunshine Coast.
Vancouver Coast & Mountains: Purple Banner Route on the Sunshine Coast, Museum of Anthropology, chainsaw carvings in Hope.
Vancouver Island: Artistic communities such as Salt Spring, Hornby and Denman islands. Galleries include the Eagle Aerie Gallery and U'mista Cultural Centre.
Northern British Columbia: Art Route on the Queen Charlotte Islands, the Haida Heritage Centre, the Dawson Creek Art Gallery and Two Rivers Gallery.
Cariboo Chilcotin Coast: Arts town of Wells, Chris Harris Studio Gallery and Petroglyph Gallery.
Kootenay Rockies: Art communities of Nelson, Crawford Bay and Creston. Galleries include Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art & History and the Kootenay Gallery of Art, History and Science.
Thompson Okanagan: Kelowna Cultural District, Kamloops Art Gallery, and displays of public art.
Victoria: BC's largest public art collection at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. Popular artists tour in Sooke and Metchosin.
Vancouver: Extensive Emily Carr at the Vancouver Art Gallery; Aboriginal artwork at Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art, and art treasures at Granville Island.
Whistler: Cultural Capital of Canada (2009). Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre highlights local Aboriginal artwork and culture.
BC has a bounty of Aboriginal art. Celebrate traditions such as the potlatch at U'mista Cultural Centre (near Alert Bay). Discover beautiful regalia, hand-carved masks and centuries-old artifacts at the Haida Heritage Centre (at Haida Gwaii) and the Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre (in Whistler) that preserve the art – and culture – of First Nations peoples.
Aboriginal artists have left their mark in the natural environment as well: Look for ancient red ochre pictographs on sheer rock faces near Princeton and Hedley, and the majestic totem poles of Gwaii Haanas Provincial Park and the Kispiox Valley near New Hazelton. Duncan's 80 totem poles have earned the city its moniker of the "City of Totems."
Marvel at the extensive collection of works by Emily Carr at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Wander to the nearby Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art to discover masterpieces by renowned Haida artist Bill Reid, whose works can also be viewed at the Museum of Anthropology.
Admire limited edition prints at Roy Henry Vickers' Eagle Aerie Gallery (in Tofino) that are just as stunning as the traditional north coast longhouse they are housed in. BC's largest public art collection – about 17,000 pieces – decorates the walls and halls of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.
Find contemporary regional art at the Two Rivers Art Gallery (in Prince George), Kamloops Art Gallery, Dawson Creek Art Gallery, Chris Harris Studio Gallery (near 100 Mile House), and Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art & History, which are all set in unique buildings that enhance the beauty of the artwork found within.
Many artists are drawn to the simple charm of small (and off the beaten path) arts communities such as the Sunshine Coast, the Gulf Islands, Queen Charlotte Islands and Crawford Bay (near Creston), where traditional arts such as pottery, glass blowing, forgery, and painting, as well as non-traditional arts, all flourish. The Kelowna Cultural District and Granville Island in Vancouver are good examples of thriving arts neighbourhoods set in the heart of major city centres.
Well-preserved heritage buildings in Nelson and brightly painted store fronts in Wells are good indicators of the artistic flair these communities are known for.
Art routes make it easy to find studios and galleries and are a self-guided, unscheduled way to view artisans at work in their studios. "Art Walks" in various communities around the province transform downtowns into a string of mini-galleries.
In the month of August, take part in the BC Cultural Crawl. More than 80 communities around the province participate, with events centred around everything from music to culinary arts to community art walks.
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A public gallery for Contemporary Aboriginal Art of the Northwest Coast named after the acclaimed Haida artist Bill Reid (1920-1998). The Gallery showcases the permanent collection of Bill Reid alongside changing exhibitions of contemporary Northwest Coast art. Highlights include stunning gold & silver jewelry, monumental sculptures & a towering totem pole by James Hart of Haida Gwaii. Visit the Gallery Gift Shop for a selection of original works & prints by local Northwest Coast artists, distinctive jewelry, accessories, books, cards & more. Located in the heart of downtown, just steps from the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver & Canada Line skytrain.
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Designated the Sculpture Capital of Canada, Castlegar's downtown comes alive each year with a stunning selection of public art.
Castlegar Sculpturewalk showcases over 30 outdoor sculptures from local and international artists, located on a walking tour within Castlegar's downtown (total tour time is approximately 1.5 hours).
We invite the public to vote for their favourite sculpture via ballot - the winning piece is purchased for the City's permanent collection, with a total of $25,000 in prizes available to the artists. All of the sculptures are available for sale and lease (download a catalogue from our website for full details).
Brochures/maps are available along the route, or pick one up at City Hall, the Chamber of Commerce, or the Kootenay Gallery.
Selling authentic Native handmade art & products by Native Peoples of the Americas. Northwest Coast Native carved jewelry, plaques, totems, masks including tables, cradles & Spirit Canoe, custom orders available.
100% handknit wool sweaters from Ecuador, 100% Alpaca products from Peru, Kuna Mola wall hangings & Huichole yarn & bead art. Handmade cloth by Natives of Peru, Mexico, Ecuador, Guatemala & more. Rugs by Navajo, Oaxaca & Peru. Carved & painted figures by Oaxaca. A charming selection of dream catchers, collector's items & bead work.
Christina Living Arts Centre is the region's newest & greenest facility. Solar & geothermal heating & cooling, high performance green construction standards & earth-friendly materials make this building beautiful, inside & out. A Solar Aquatics System processes all waste on-site by natural means & Arts on3 Gallery featuring local & international artisans (glass blowing), gift shop, bistro & spectacular 3D floor mural & story pole makes this a fascinating stop to explore the area's rich recreational & cultural features. The Christina Lake Visitors Information Centre is also located inside. Facility (inside & out) available for conferences, reunions, meetings & weddings. Catering available. Located in the nature park, swimming close by. Performances & musical presentations throughout the year, inside & outside (during summer months).
A cultural tourism feast! Visit our B&B/Art Gallery & Sculpture Garden, all under one roof, centrally located in Penticton, overlooking Okanagan Lake.
Lawrence sculpts steel & Kena creates mixed media 'wallart'. Perhaps you'll even discover a mosaic or two. Functional fun or just for fun, bright & colourful whimsy await your viewing pleasure. If we are not here, feel free to wander the sculpture garden. Open most days from 12:00 noon to 5:00 pm.
Crystal Cabin Gallery with over 20 years of business in Tlell on Haida Gwaii. One of the best selections of jewellery on the islands. Silver, Argillite & wood by Haida artists, beautiful gemstones, crystals, local agates, thunder eggs & island scenic stone. Crystal Cabin Gallery is where artisan jeweller Dutes Dutheil has a workshop gallery designing & handcrafting gold & gemstone jewellery which is available exclusively in the shop. A great assortment of minerals & crystals. Crystal Singing Bowls, books, teas, original t-shirts, cool clothing. Learn about the geology of the islands at the interactive display the 'Tlell Stone Circle', an outdoor installation of local mineral & fossil pieces from the islands. Drive up the hill where there is plenty of parking & shop for the most unique gifts.
Doing Earth Pottery features unique hand crafted locally made pottery in some of the most unique colours. Shelley has created over 64 one of a kind functional art pieces that make ideal gifts or an addition to the decor of any home or dwelling.
In the gallery visitors will find a selection of raku pottery finished with horsehair that makes a unique art piece.
Shelley also loves her jewelry and features hand made gemstone earrings from gems found all around the world.
The gallery is located in the historic and scenic Yarrow in Chilliwack. The gallery is surrounded by magnificent trees and a huge variety of flowers.
FBCC is a three generation, family owned and operated Canadian company. All of our candles are 100% hand made with high-quality raw materials. We craft custom candles that are durable, long lasting and have brilliant colour finishes, resulting in long burning candles. At FBCC we hand pour, hand finish and produce candles of all shapes and sizes. Our cotton, lead-free wicks, quality scents and superior wax, produce an environmentally friendly candle, that you can be proud to purchase and FBCC is proud to sell. The shop is open to the public and we love having visitors stop by to see the shop, watch how we make our candles, browse the retail stands, or even make a candle of their own as a gift or souvenir.
Headbones Gallery is a great hit for the contemporary art seeker visiting the Okanagan Valley. Not only will the program of monthly exhibitions inspire, the uniquely designed building by Julie Oakes is sure to awe.
The gallery showcases drawing, painting and sculpture and features artists from across the region, Canada, USA and Europe. A second Drawer's gallery contains a diverse inventory of original fine art works on paper.
CAUTION: Art collectors risk being seduced by the desire to purchase certain works!
Located in the heart of Kelowna's Cultural District in downtown Kelowna, the Kelowna Art Gallery welcomes visitors to explore the four exhibition spaces that showcase a variety of work by local, regional, and nationally recognized artists.
Join us for Family Sundays, offered every Sunday from 1:00-4:00 pm, for an exciting hands-on, art activity led by friendly artist-instructors. Admission to the exhibitions is also included.
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Sam Paylor, 88, formerly of Holdenville, Okla., died Friday, Feb. 28, 2014, at Andbe Home, Norton.
He was born July 19, 1925, in Bilby, Okla., to Orvel and Marie (Carter) Paylor. He was a 1948 graduate of Oklahoma State University.
He married Virginia Lee Cumbie on July 31, 1947, in Aspermont, Texas. She preceded him in death in 1985. He was a well-known horseman and cattleman throughout the country, managing ranches for Arthur Godfrey, J.C. Penney, Latt Maxie Corp., and the latest being CK Ranch at Brookville.
He was a member of Church of Christ.
Survivors include four daughters, Judith Sawyer, Gainsville, Fla., Samette Rolland and husband, Gary, Norton, Sandra Westra and husband, David, Kansas City, Mo., and Traci Wilson and husband, Jeff, Lee's Summit, Mo.; eight grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
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This Poster's design is intended to represent the rapprochement by emphasizing contrast. In it, we see the ape – here taken as a symbol of the primitive human being (through the common ancestor) shaking hands with a human – also taken as symbol, in this case for the humanity as we know it. The act of the handshake was chosen for it's capacity to represent equality for both sides, along with a sense of mutual agreement. Trying to overview the situation as a whole, the idea is to show what we see as the most ancient sort of culture in which mankind took part getting into an agreement with our contemporary way of life
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On Friday former Doctor Who star Karen Gillan was announced as having secured the "lead female villain" in Guardians of the Galaxy, and now director James Gunn has found her male counterpart, with Deadline revealing that Benicio Del Toro (Sin City, The Wolfman) has signed on to Marvel's upcoming cosmic superhero ensemble.
Although his role has not been revealed, the report states that Del Toro – who was last year linked to the part of John Harrison in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek Into Darkness – will appear as "a character that is built to be part of future Marvel films, which means he has signed a deal with options that put him into multiple movies." The obvious choice is of course Thanos, given that the Mad Titan has already been set up as a potential bad guy for The Avengers 2 with his mid-credits appearance in last year's blockbuster – not to mention his many ties with the Guardians of the Galaxy.
Guardians of the Galaxy is set to begin filming this month ahead of a release in August 2014. Del Toro and Gillan are to be joined in the cast by Chris Pratt (Parks and Recreation) as Peter Quill/Star-Lord, Zoe Saldana (Avatar) as Gamora, Dave Bautista (Riddick) as Drax the Destroyer, Michael Rooker (The Walking Dead) as Yondu, John C. Reilly (Step Brothers) as Rhomman Dey and Glenn Close (Damages) as the leader of the Nova Corps, while Lee Pace (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) and Ophelia Lovibond (London Boulevard) will portray two further as yet unrevealed villains.


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Village Pourhouse Hoboken New Year's Eve Party – They are taking reservations now
Expect a lot more of these announcements in the coming few weeks. The Village Pourhouse in Hoboken is taking reservations already for their New Year's Eve bash. See below of details
"One of the top New Jersey's events for New Year's Eve 2013!"
What: Village Pourhouse Hoboken is having one of the most sought after New Year's Eve parties in New Jersey! There are bars that are good at serving up your typical cocktails and beers, then there are bars that create an experience through their service, food and beers and cocktails, too!
Guests will be able to enjoy a 4 hour open bar at this party along with live DJ and party favors for midnight! Just be sure to purchase tickets before they run out!
Where: Village Pourhouse Hoboken at 205 First Street Hoboken, NJ 07030
When: Monday, December 31st, 2012 8:00pm – 2:00am
- General Admission: $65 (admission for 1 plus 4 hour open bar)
- 2 for 1 General Admission: $100 (admission for 2 plus 4 hour open bar)
- VIP A Admission: $150 (admission for 1 plus Reserved Seating in Skybox or Dugout and assorted appetizer platters: 1 per 6 people in group)
- VIP B Admission: $100 (admission for 1 plus Reserved Seating in Redlight Room or Main Bar and assorted appetizer platters: 1 per 6 people in group)
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY In recent years, the National Park Service and its holdings have been the subject of a growing number of important studies. Still first among these is Alfred Runte, National Parks: The American Experience, 2d. ed., (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987), an excellent study that covers the evolution of the park system since its inception. Ronald A. Foresta, America's National Parks and Their Keepers (Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future, 1984) is a close look at NPS policy in the modern era. Although dated and marred by inconsistent footnotes, John Ise, Our National Park Policy: A Critical History (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1961), remains a seminal work. Packed with narrative detail, it offers the most comprehensive chronology of the evolution of policy and decision-making in the agency. The only extant biography of Stephen T. Mather, Robert Shankland, Steve Mather of the National Parks 3d. ed., (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970), also has stood well the test of time. Hal Rothman, Preserving Different Pasts: The American National Monuments (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989), tells the story of the Antiquities Act of 1906 and the national monuments it spawned. Growing numbers of park areas have been the subject of individual histories; among the best of the genre are Alfred Runte, Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990), and Duane A. Smith, Mesa Verde National Park: Shadows of the Centuries (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1988). Other notable studies are Lary M. Dilsaver and William C. Tweed, The Challenge of the Big Trees: A Resource History of Sequoia and King's Canyon National Parks (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1991), and Susan R. Schrepfer, The Fight to Save the Redwoods: A History of Environmental Reform, 1917-1978 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983). More specialized studies of current topics have also begun to appear. John C. Freemuth, National Parks and the Politics of External Threats (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991) is the first of what will be a significant genre. Nonetheless, the National Park Service and the park system remain among the least thoroughly studied of federal agencies. American Indian or Native American history has undergone a revolution in the past two decades. Numerous scholars have contributed to this, not the least of whom is Richard White. Two of his books, The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change Among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983) and The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991) reveal much about the nature of Indian-white relations across the continent. White's seminal article, "The Winning of the West: The Expansion of the Western Sioux in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries," The Journal of American History, 65 no. 2 (September 1978), redefined the way in which westward expansion and growth on the northern plains was understood. Anthony McGinnis, Counting Coup and Cutting Horses: Intertribal Warfare on the Northern Plains, 1738-1889 (Evergreen, CO: Cordillera Press, 1990), is the best look at intertribal warfare and territorial expansion among the Indians of the northern plains. Other valuable works include Frederick E. Hoxie, The Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the Indians, 1880-1920 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984), Brian W. Dippie, The Vanishing American: White Attitudes and U.S. Indian Policy (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1982), and James S. Olson and Raymond Wilson, Native Americans in the Twentieth Century (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984). Robert M. Utley, The Last Days of the Sioux Nation (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963), has stood the test of time. Utley's work remains the most readable history of the end of the story of which Pipestone is an early chapter. A standard reference for Indian treaties is Charles J. Kappler, Indian Treaties: 1778-1883 (New York: Interland Publishing, 1972). Perhaps the area about which least has been published is natural resources management. The lead book in the field is Stephen J. Pyne, Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982). Pyne's work established the groundwork; unfortunately few have followed his lead. R. Gerald Wright, Wildlife Research and Management in the National Parks (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992), is another pioneering work. In contrast to some of the more strident assessments of national park wildlife policy, Wright has set a scholarly and considered tone and standard for others to follow. Two unpublished works about Pipestone National Monument were invaluable in this study. Robert Murray, "Administrative History of Pipestone National Monument," (unpublished typescript, 1961), offers a clearly documented history of the process that led to the creation of the monument. William P. Corbett, "A History of the Red Pipestone Quarry and Pipestone National Monument," (M. A. thesis, University of South Dakota, 1976) offers a broad-base of the history of the monument. Corbett is particularly adept at Indian history. In addition, two of his articles, "The Red Pipestone Quarry: The Yanktons Defend a Sacred Tradition, 1858-1929," South Dakota History 8, 99-116, and "Pipestone: Development of a National The Origin and Development Monument," Minnesota History, Fall 1980, 83-92, refine his earlier work. As always, primary sources are the guts of any good administrative history. Record Group 79, the Records of the National Park Service, in the National Archives in Washington, D. C., provided essential documentation, as did records in the Federal Records Center in Kansas City. Pipestone National Monument also contains a fine collection of documents pertaining to the history of the park. Of equal importance was the willingness of present and former park staff to discuss the many issues of Pipestone National Monument. Superintendent Vince Halvorson, Chief of Interpretation and Resource Management Betty McSwain, and Maintenance Supervisor Raymond L. "Chuck" Derby all added perspective and insight. Former Superintendents Carl Stoddard, Cecil D. Lewis, Jr., Clarence Gorman, and Don Thompson also answered questions. As is always the case in the National Park Service, the people of each individual unit make that place what it is. The willingness of these and many other people to share their insights has made this a better history.
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Carlos Slim | |
Carlos Slim, October 24, 2007 | |
Born | Carlos Slim Helú January 28, 1940 Mexico City, Mexico |
Residence | Mexico |
Nationality | Mexican |
Education | Civil Engineering |
Alma mater | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
Occupation | Chairman & CEO of Telmex, América Móvil and Grupo Carso |
Known for | World's wealthiest person (2007, 2010, 2011, 2012) |
Net worth | US$ 69 billion (2012)[1][2] |
Religion | Maronite Christian[3] |
Spouse(s) | Soumaya Domit (m. 1967–1999, her death) |
Children | Carlos Marco Antonio Patrick Soumaya Vanessa Johanna |
Parents | Julián Slim Haddad (deceased) Linda Helú |
Website | |
Carlos Slim |
Carlos Slim | |
Carlos Slim, October 24, 2007 | |
Born | Carlos Slim Helú January 28, 1940 Mexico City, Mexico |
Residence | Mexico |
Nationality | Mexican |
Education | Civil Engineering |
Alma mater | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
Occupation | Chairman & CEO of Telmex, América Móvil and Grupo Carso |
Known for | World's wealthiest person (2007, 2010, 2011, 2012) |
Net worth | US$ 69 billion (2012)[1][2] |
Religion | Maronite Christian[3] |
Spouse(s) | Soumaya Domit (m. 1967–1999, her death) |
Children | Carlos Marco Antonio Patrick Soumaya Vanessa Johanna |
Parents | Julián Slim Haddad (deceased) Linda Helú |
Website | |
Carlos Slim |
Carlos Slim Helú (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkaɾlos esˈlim eˈlu]; born January 28, 1940) is a Mexican business magnate, investor and philanthropist. He is currently ranked as the richest person in the world in 2012.[2] Slim has been ranked the richest person in the world since 2010. His extensive holdings in a considerable number of Mexican companies through his conglomerate, Grupo Carso, SA de CV, have amassed interests in the fields of communications, technology, retailing, and finance. Presently he is the chairman and chief executive of telecommunications companies Telmex and América Móvil.
América Móvil, which in 2010 was Latin America's largest mobile-phone carrier, accounted for around US$49 billion of Slim's wealth by the end of 2010.[4] His corporate holdings as of March 2012 have been estimated at US$69 billion.[2]
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Slim was born in Mexico City, Mexico in 1940 to Maronite Catholic parents Julián Slim Haddad and Linda Helú, both of Lebanese descent (then part of the Ottoman Empire).[5][6] His father, born Khalil Salim Haddad Aglamaz, immigrated to Mexico at the age of 14 in 1902 and changed his name to Julián Slim Haddad.[5] As it was not uncommon for Lebanese children to be sent abroad before they reached the age of 15 to avoid being conscripted into the Ottoman army; four of Haddad's older brothers were already living in Mexico at the time of his arrival.[7]
Carlos Slim's mother, Linda Helú Atta, was born in Parral, Chihuahua, of Lebanese parents who had immigrated to Mexico in the late 19th century. Her parents upon immigrating to Mexico had founded one of the first Arabic language magazines for the Lebanese-Mexican community, using a printing press they had brought with them.[7]
In 1911, Julián established a dry goods store, La Estrella del Oriente (The Star of the Orient). By 1921, he had purchased real estate in the flourishing commercial district of Mexico City. These enterprises became the source of considerable wealth.[7]
In August 1926, Julián Slim and Linda Helú married. They had six children: Nour, Alma, Julián, José, Carlos and Linda. Julián senior, who had been influential in the Lebanese-Mexican business community, died in 1953.[7]
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Slim and his siblings were taught basic business practices by their father, and at the age of 12, Slim bought shares in a Mexican bank. At the age of 17, he earned 200 pesos a week working for his father's company.[8] He went on to study civil engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, while simultaneously teaching algebra and linear programming there. Slim began his career as a trader in Mexico. He would go on to form his own brokerage firm -- a firm that later expanded to invest in individual businesses, ranging from construction and manufacturing to retail and restaurants. In 1965 he incorporated Inversora Bursátil and then bought Jarritos del Sur. In 1966, already worth US$40 million,[9] he founded Inmobiliaria Carso. Three months later he married Soumaya Domit Gemayel (the Carso name derives from the first three letters of Carlos and the first two of Soumaya) and they remained married until her death in 1999.[7]
Construction, real estate and mining businesses were the focus of his early career. By 1972 he had established or acquired a further seven businesses in these categories, including one which rented construction equipment. In 1976 he branched out by buying a 60% interest in a printing business and in 1980 he consolidated his business interests by forming Grupo Galas as the parent company of a conglomerate that had interests in industry, construction, mining, retail, food, and tobacco.[7]
In 1982 the Mexican economy, which had substantially relied on oil exports, contracted rapidly as the price of oil fell and interest rates rose worldwide. Banks and other businesses were nationalized, crippled or collapsed and the peso was devalued.[citation needed] At this time, and during the period of recovery to 1985, Slim invested heavily. He bought outright, or a large percentage of, numerous Mexican businesses, including Reynolds Aluminio, General Popo (General Tire's trading name in Mexico), Bimex hotels and Sanborns, a food retailer. He also acquired a 40% interest in the Mexican arms of British American Tobacco and 50% of that of The Hershey Company. He moved into financial services as well, buying Seguros de México and creating from it, along with other purchases such as Fianzas La Guardiana and Casa de Bolsa Inbursa, the Grupo Financiero Inbursa. Many of these acquisitions were financed by the cash flows from Cigatam, a tobacco business which he bought early in the economic downturn.[7]
He added the Nacrobre group of companies – which trade in copper and aluminium products – in 1986, along with a chemicals business, Química Fluor, and others.[7]
In 1990 the Grupo Carso was floated as a public company, with share placements initially in Mexico and then worldwide.[7]
Later in 1990 he acted in concert with France Télécom and Southwestern Bell Corporation in order to buy landline telephony company Telmex from the Mexican government.[7] By 2006, 90 percent of the telephone lines in Mexico are operated by Telmex, whilst his mobile telephony company, Telcel, operates almost eighty percent of all the country's cellphones.[10] Telcel was created out of the Radiomóvil Dipsa company.[7]
In 1991 he acquired Hoteles Calinda (today, OSTAR Grupo Hotelero) and in 1993 increased his stakes in General Tire and Grupo Aluminio to the point where he had a majority interest.[7]
In 1996 Grupo Carso was split into three companies – Carso Global Telecom, Grupo Carso, and Invercorporación – and the following year Slim bought the Mexican arm of Sears Roebuck.[7]
1999 saw Slim expanding his business interests beyond Latin America. He set up Telmex USA and also acquired a stake in Tracfone, a US cellular telephone company. At the same time he established Carso Infraestructura y Construcción, S. A. (CICSA) as a part of the Grupo Carso, this being a construction and engineering company.[7] It was also at this time that he had heart surgery and subsequently passed on much of the day-to-day involvement in the businesses to his children and their spouses.[10]
América Telecom, the holding company for América Móvil was incorporated in 2000. It took stakes in various cellular telephone companies outside Mexico, including the Brazilian ATL and Telecom Americas concerns, Techtel in Argentina, and others in Guatemala and Ecuador. In subsequent years there was further investment in this sphere, including deals involving companies in Colombia, Nicaragua, Peru, Chile, Honduras, and El Salvador. 2000 also saw a venture with Microsoft which led to the start of the Spanish T1msn portal, later renamed ProdigyMSN.[7]
He formed Impulsora del Desarrollo y el Empleo en America Latina SAB de CV (IDEAL – roughly translated as "Promoter of Development and Employment in Latin America"), a Mexico-based company primarily engaged in not-for-profit infrastructure development. This was in 2005, when he also invested in the Volaris airline.[7]
Having amassed a 50.1% stake in Cigatam, the tobacco company, Slim reduced his holdings by selling a large part of that to Philip Morris in 2007 for $1.1bn, while in the same year also selling his entire interest in a tile company, Porcelanite, for $800m. He also licensed the Saks name and opened Saks Fifth Avenue in Santa Fe, Mexico. The following year saw him take a 6.4% stake in The New York Times Company.[7]
On December 8, 2007, Grupo Carso announced that the remaining 103 CompUSA stores would be either liquidated or sold, bringing an end to the struggling company as it was then known;[11] although the IT Tech part of CompUSA continues under the name Telvista with U.S. locations in Dallas, Texas (U.S. Corporate Office) and Danville, Virginia. Telvista has five centers in Mexico (three in Tijuana, one center in Mexicali, and one in México City).[12] After 28 years Slim became the Honorary Lifetime Chairman of the business. He is also Chairman of Teléfonos de Mexico, América Móvil, and Grupo Financiero Inbursa.
On March 29, 2007, Slim surpassed Warren Buffett as the world's second richest person with an estimated net worth of $53.1 billion compared to Buffet's $52.4 billion.[13]
On August 4, 2007, The Wall Street Journal ran a cover story profiling Slim. The article said, "While the market value of his stake in publicly traded companies could decline at any time, at the moment he is probably wealthier than Bill Gates".[14] According to The Wall Street Journal, Slim credits part of his ability to "discover investment opportunities" early to the writings of his friend, futurist author Alvin Toffler.[14]
On August 8, 2007, Fortune reported that Slim had overtaken Gates as the world's richest man. Slim's estimated fortune soared to $59 billion, based on the value of his public holdings at the end of July. Gates' net worth was estimated to be at least $58 billion.[14][15]
On March 5, 2008, Forbes ranked Slim as the world's second-richest person, behind Warren Buffett and ahead of Bill Gates.[16]
On March 11, 2009, Forbes ranked Slim as the world's third-richest person, behind Gates and Buffett and ahead of Larry Ellison.[16]
On March 10, 2010, Forbes once again reported that Slim had overtaken Gates as the world's richest man, with a net worth of $53.5 billion. At the time, Gates and Buffett had a net worth of $53 billion and $47 billion respectively.[16] He was the first Mexican to top the list.[17] It was the first time in 16 years that the person on top of the list was not from the United States.[18] It was also the first time the person at the top of the list was from an "emerging economy."[19]
In March 2011, Forbes stated that Slim had maintained his position as the wealthiest person in the world, with his fortune estimated at $74 billion.[2]
In October 2012, According to The Bloomberg Billionares Index, Carlos Slim Helú remains the world's richest man with an estimated net worth of $75.9 billion. [20]
In 1995 he established Fundación Telmex, a broad-ranging philanthropic foundation. This followed the creation of his eponymous non-profit philanthropic foundation, Fundación Carlos Slim Helú in 1986. In 2007 Slim announced that the latter body had been provided with an asset base of $4 billion and that it would be establishing Carso Institutes for Health, Sports and Education. Furthermore, it was to work in support of an initiative of Bill Clinton to aid the people of Latin America.[7] Because Mexican foundations are not required to publish their financial information, it is not possible to confirm Slim's claims of charitable giving through a public source.
Among the activities of Fundación Telmex has been the organisation of Copa Telmex, an amateur sports tournament which in 2007 was recognised by Guinness World Records as having the most participants of any such tournament in the world, a record which it extended in 2008. Together with Fundación Carlos Slim Helú, this organisation announced in the same year that it was to invest more than $250 million in Mexican sports programmes, from grass-roots level to Olympic standard.[7]
The Fundación Carlos Slim Helú sponsors the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City which contains the world's second-largest (and largest private) collection of Rodin sculptures, including The Kiss. Named after Slim's late wife, Soumaya Domit, the Museo Soumaya holds 66,000 pieces, including religious relics, works by Leonardo Da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and coins from the viceroys of Spain. In particular, the museum holds the largest Dalí collection in Latin America.[21]
In 2000, Slim, along with ex-broadcaster Jacobo Zabludowsky organized the Fundación del Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México A.C. (Mexico City Historic Downtown Foundation), with the objective to revitalizing and rescuing Mexico City's historic downtown area to enable more people to live, work and find entertainment there.[7] He has been Chairman of the Executive Committee for the Restoration of the Historic Jeripollas since 2001.[citation needed]
In 2010 he inaugurated the first phase of the Plaza Mariana project in the Basilica de Guadalupe to reorganize tolerated commerce[clarification needed] in the atrium and adjacent space.[citation needed] He also inaugurated his version of the Rockefeller Center where most of his ventures will now share a common headquarters address, Plaza Carso.[citation needed]
In May 2011, Slim was mentioned in Forbes' World's Biggest Givers after donating $4 billion to his foundation.[22]
Slim has been vice-president of the Mexican Stock Exchange and president of the Mexican Association of Brokerage Houses.[when?] He was the first president of the Latin-American Committee of the New York Stock Exchange Administration Council, and was in office from 1996 through 1998.
Slim was on the Board of Directors of the Altria Group (previously known as Philip Morris) until his resignation in April 2006. Slim was also on the Board of Directors of Alcatel. Slim currently sits on the Board of Directors for Philip Morris International. He was on the Board of Directors of SBC Communications until July 2004, when he quit to devote more time to the World Education & Development Fund, which is focused on infrastructure, health and education projects. In 1997, just before the company introduced its iMac line, Slim bought 3% of Apple Inc.'s stock.
In 2008 it was reported that Slim had shown an interest in buying the Honda Formula One team.[23] Telmex is sponsoring the Sauber F1 team for the 2011 season.[24] [25] [26]
The Mexican magnate's growing fortune has caused controversy because it has been amassed in a developing country where average per capita income does not surpass $14,500 a year, and nearly 17% of the population lives in poverty.[27] Critics claim that Slim is a monopolist, pointing to Telmex's control of 90% of the Mexican landline telephone market. Slim's wealth is the equivalent of roughly 5% of Mexico's annual economic output.[28] Telmex, of which 49.1% is owned by Slim and his family, charges among the highest usage fees in the world, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.[29]
According to Professor Celso Garrido, an economist at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Slim's domination of Mexico's conglomerates prevents the growth of smaller companies, resulting in a shortage of paying jobs and forcing many Mexicans to seek better lives in the United States of America.[30] With contributions from Celso Slim, the Mexican Senate approves making it easier for firms to hire and fire workers and shorten labor disputes.
Slim has stated, "When you live for others' opinions, you are dead. I don't want to live thinking about how I'll be remembered," by Mexican people claiming indifference about his position on Forbes list of the world's richest people and has said he has no interest in becoming the world's richest person. When asked to explain his sudden increase in wealth at a press conference soon after Forbes annual rankings were published, he reportedly said, "The stock market goes up ... and down", and noted that his fortune could quickly drop.[28]
Slim has been awarded the Entrepreneurial Merit Medal of Honor from Mexico's Chamber of Commerce. He is a "gold patron" of the American Academy of Achievement,[31] a Commander in the Belgian Order of Leopold II, CEO of the year in 2003 by Latin Trade magazine, and one year later CEO of the decade by the same magazine.
In 2008 his philanthropy was recognised with the award of The National Order of the Cedar by the Lebanese government.[7]
On May 20, 2012 Slim was awarded an honorary degree from George Washington University.
Slim was married to Soumaya Domit from 1967 until her death in 1999. Among her interests were various philanthropic projects, including the creation of a legal framework for organ donation.[7]
Slim has six children: Carlos, Marco Antonio, Patrick, Soumaya, Vanessa, and Johanna.[citation needed]
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Preceded by Bill Gates | World's richest person 2010 – present | Succeeded by Incumbent |