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SUMMARY OF FINDINGS HOUSING TENURE 1995-96 AND 2002-03 Life cycle stages The proportion of households that own their home outright increases as the age of the reference person increases. Younger single persons (under 35) were least likely to own their home outright (4%), while couples with the reference person aged 65 and over were the most likely to own their home outright (89%) (Table 15). Younger single people were most likely to be renting privately (62%) and also had the highest proportion of any group in flats and apartments (42%). Younger persons in a couple relationship were more likely to move into home ownership than younger single people, with 54% of younger couple households owning their home with or without a mortgage. When couples have children they are more likely than younger couple only households to own a home. For couples with their eldest child under 5, 68% owned their home with or without a mortgage. This rose to 81% for couples with their eldest child aged 5 to 14, and 85% for couples with dependent children only and the eldest aged 15 to 24. HOUSING TENURE BY LIFE CYCLE HOUSING COSTS The composition of housing costs differs depending on type of tenure. In this publication, housing costs of owners comprise rates, both general and water, and mortgage repayments if the mortgage was initially taken out primarily to purchase, build or alter the dwelling. Owners that have a mortgage where the purpose of the mortgage when initially taken out was not primarily housing related, are categorised as owners with a mortgage, but their mortgage repayments are not included in their housing costs. For renters housing costs comprise the amount of rent paid. The mean (average) weekly housing costs for all households was $137 in 2002-03. There is, however, considerable variation in housing costs with 46% of all households paying $75 or less per week. For owners without a mortgage the average weekly housing costs were $25, which represented 3% of average gross weekly income for those households. Owners with a mortgage paid an average of $246 per week on housing costs, which represented 17% of their average gross income per week. Households renting from private landlords paid an average of $189 per week, representing 20% of their average gross income. Households renting from state and territory housing authorities paid an average of $81 per week, representing 18% of their average gross income. Changes since 1995-96 In real (CPI adjusted) terms average weekly housing costs across all households increased by 16% from $118 in 1995-96 to $137 in 2002-03. For owners without a mortgage, real average weekly housing costs increased from $24 in 1995-96 to $25 in 2002-03. For owners with a mortgage, real average weekly housing costs rose by 3% from $240 to $246. For private renters, real average weekly housing costs rose by 7% from $176 to $189. REAL HOUSING COSTS BY TENURE TYPE 1995-96 AND 2002-03 Housing stress People are often defined as being in housing stress if they have both relatively high housing costs and their income is ranked in the bottom 40% of the income distribution. In this publication the housing stress measure includes those with incomes between the bottom 10% and bottom 40% of the distribution of equivalised disposable household income. The incomes of many of the people in the lowest decile are not an appropriate indicator of the economic resources available to them (see paragraph 24 of the Explanatory Notes for details) and it is likely that many of them would inappropriately be regarded as in housing stress, were they to be included. Relatively high housing costs are those above 30% of gross household income (non-equivalised). Many higher income households pay more than 30% of their income on housing. However, they are excluded from the housing stress group because they often have more discretion to reduce their housing costs by lowering their mortgage repayments or moving to a cheaper dwelling. Using this definition of relatively high costs for people falling in the selected income range, 6% of people in households were in housing stress in 2002-03, with half of these people in rented dwellings. These proportions have changed very little since 1995-96. PEOPLE IN HOUSING STRESS(a), 1995-96 TO 2002-03 VALUE OF DWELLING In the SIH, owners were asked to estimate the value of their dwelling. The estimate they provided may differ from valuations made by accredited valuers or the actual sale price of the dwelling. The extent of the difference has not been measured and therefore some care needs to be taken when using these data. The proportion of total households with a mortgage outstanding increased from 28% to 33% over the period 1995-96 to 2002-03, and the proportion of dwellings owned outright declined from 43% to 36% (table 3). In 2002-03 the median value of the 5.3 million owner occupied dwellings was $250,000 (table 18), an increase of 31% on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) adjusted value of $191,000 in 2000-01, and a 52% increase on the corresponding value in 1995-96 (table 1). However, the CPI adjusted value of the median value of mortgage outstanding only increased by 19%, from $81,000 to $96,000, between 2000-01 and 2002-03, and by 37% between 1995-96 and 2002-03 (table 1). The dwelling value and the number of bedrooms were highest for couple families with both dependent and non-dependent children present. The median value of dwellings for this group was $300,000. On average these dwellings contained 3.8 bedrooms and housed an average of 4.6 people. The life cycle group that reported the lowest median value of dwellings was Lone persons under the age of 35. The median value for this group was $180,000 and on average the dwellings contained 2.7 bedrooms. The median value of dwellings for capital cities was $300,000 (table 21). The median value was highest in Sydney at $430,000, followed by Melbourne at $290,000. RECENT HOME BUYERS Almost 1.2 million households purchased their dwelling in the 3 years before the survey. These households are divided into first home buyers (36%) and changeover buyers (64%). The majority of recent home buyers bought an established house (78% of first home buyers and 77% of changeover buyers). The median value of recently purchased dwellings was $200,000 for first home buyers and $280,000 for changeover buyers (table 25). Housing costs, on the other hand, were higher for first home buyers than for changeover buyers, at $258 and $212 per week respectively (table 23). This is consistent with a higher proportion of first home buyers having a mortgage (91%) than of changeover buyers (66%). New dwellings had both a higher median value ($280,000) than recently purchased established dwellings ($235,000) and higher housing costs, with average weekly housing costs of $238 for new dwellings and $226 for established dwellings. DENDOGRAM OF SELECTED HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS LIST OF TABLES The following is a list of tables available in the linked data cube.
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By discovering one of the first mechanisms through which brain synapses are dismantled, an MIT neuroscientist has shed new light on how our brains eliminate connections between neurons. The work was reported Thursday, Oct. 23 on Science magazine's Science Express web site.
Co-author Morgan Sheng, the Menicon Professor of Neuroscience in MIT's Picower Center for Learning and Memory, says this information may lead to drugs that could prevent or minimize synapse loss associated with neurodegenerative disease such as Alzheimer's.
Sheng, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, studies the structural and functional connections in the brain and how they are altered during development and by experience. Synapses are eliminated all the time, especially in young developing brains, to balance out new synapses that form in response to experience and learning. The number of synapses in the adult brain stays pretty constant; there is less turnover than in the young brain. But exactly how the brain accomplishes this paring process is not well-understood.
"We focus on synapses because that is where information is processed and stored in the brain," Sheng said.
Synapse loss also is the hallmark of many neurodegenerative diseases. "If there were a way to prevent synapse loss, it could be quite useful," Sheng said. Sheng worked on this study with MIT postdoctoral fellow Daniel T.S. Pak, now assistant professor in Georgetown University's pharmacology department.
Synapse demolition is the job of proteins. Many proteins are made up of modules strung together like beads on a string. When proteins communicate with each other to form multi-protein complexes, the modules on one protein bind to short sequences on other proteins.
Often, this type of binding only occurs when the short sequences have been chemically changed by the addition of a phosphate group. A family of enzymes called protein kinases sticks these phosphates on the short sequences in a process called phosphorylation.
Serum-inducible kinase (SNK) is involved in cell cycle control in dividing cells. In the brain, cells do not divide, but SNK has taken on the function of degrading the proteins that make up synapses. Neurons talk to each other through electrical signals transmitted by synapses. When neurons are stimulated by electrical activity, SNK is produced and targeted to synapses, where it degrades certain synaptic proteins and severs the connection between adjacent neurons.
By inhibiting SNK, Pak and Sheng made neurons grow more synapses than normal. "When we used a molecular trick to inhibit function of the SNK protein kinase, neurons sprouted a lot more synapses. It's doable in a culture dish in the laboratory, but whether it's doable in the living brain, I'm not sure," Sheng said.
This work is supported by Howard Hughes Medical Institute and RIKEN-MIT Neuroscience Research Center.
A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on October 29, 2003.

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The proposed Marketplace Fairness Act requiring online sellers, no matter where they are located, to collect local tax on retail sales is gathering strong support in Congress and among retailers.
The law affects not just big companies like Amazon but small businesses including affiliate marketers for Amazon and other online retailers, says Geno Prussakov of the Affiliate Marketing Blog.
What the Marketplace Fairness Act Says
According to attorney Robert W. Wood, an expert on taxation, the proposed legislation offers a simplified means for the 45 states and 7,600 local sales tax systems nationwide to compel online or catalog retailers called "remote sellers" to pay local tax.
A 2002 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Quill vs. North Dakota held that states can require remote retailers to collect sales tax from customers only if the retailer has a presence in the state.
However, brick and mortar retailers who consider the lack of sales tax on many online sales an unfair competitive advantage continued to lobby for change.
The Amazon Tax
Nine states further complicated the issue recently by passing so-called "affiliate nexus taxes" also sometimes called the "Amazon tax." These states include Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island, with other states reportedly considering similar measures.
The tax requires any remote retailers with annual sales in the state exceeding $10,000 a year to collect tax if the sales were referred by an affiliate living in the same state.
In many cases, remote retailers have chosen to simply terminate relationships with affiliates in nexus law states, a measure so-far affecting about 75,000 small businesses, Prussakov estimates.
What Others Think
From the perspective of affiliate marketers like Prussakov, the new law, if passed, will be a good thing since it requires remote retailers to collect sales tax, where appropriate, at the time of the transaction just as local retailers do.
Amazon is also apparently now behind the law, which requires states to first simplify their own tax codes to make compliance easier for remote retailers.
Prussakov says the law essentially takes affiliate businesses out of the equation by making it irrelevant where sales referrals originate. However, others are concerned the law will still adversely affect small businesses that do retail online.
Despite another caveat in the bill exempting businesses with less than $1 million in annual remote sales from compliance, Ebay, the online auction company that works with small online sellers, is still concerned that small businesses will be hurt, reports Chris Morran of Consumerist.


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Why is Chipper Jones still considered a borderline Hall of Fame player?
You know what; I'm going to say it now. Just going to get it out of the way. You can leave all the nasty comments you want below, but here it is:
Drum roll please.
Chipper Jones was a better overall hitter than Derek Jeter and Cal Ripken Jr. He might have been the better overall player cause defensively; they are all about the same as well. Edit: Cal Ripken Jr. was the superior defender of the three.
Are you still reading? Do you think I'm crazy yet?
Stay with me here, we got a lot of stat crunching to do.
Let's dive in.
First off, let me say that, all three players are Hall of Fame caliber. Cal Ripken is already in the Hall, everyone says that Jeter is a sure HOF, but what about Chipper? It's been, and increasingly the past few years, a big debate. Is Chipper really a Hall of Fame type player?
And let me tell you why.
I'm going to give you a chart. It's full of stats on Chipper, Derek, and Cal. But I threw in a curve ball. The stats for an average Hall of Famer. Thanks to Baseball Reference.com, you can find anything you want.
This is not an article to say that Cal and Derek are not Hall of Famers. They are. I believe it and so does the world. I got to see Cal Ripken at an Orioles game one summer. They drove him around the field in a car as a tribute. I had seats right on the fence line, so it was a moment I'll never forget. I've seen Derek play and I've seen Chipper play. No, this story isn't about them not being Hall of Fame players; this story is about Chipper Jones being a first ballot Hall of Fame player.
The reason I chose Derek and Cal to compare to Chipper is simple. They are all three similar players, baseball personalities, and careers. All three have played for their team, their entire career. Do you know how rare that is? Cal Ripken played 21 seasons for the Baltimore Orioles. Chipper has played 17 seasons for the Atlanta Braves and Jeter has played 16 seasons for the Yankees. Let's be serious, they are going to finish with their respective teams as well. Given this day and age, I'd be inclined to bet they are the last to do so, that is compete on the same team their entire career. It's just unheard of. Everybody is out for the big bucks. For those three, it wasn't about the money. All three could have made larger money on the market. (Chipper even reduced his already guaranteed money in the middle of a contract so that the Braves could use the money to keep a star studded pitcher; ahem, Tim Hudson.) Do you know of anyone else that did that?
No, it wasn't about money. It was about winning, family, and friends. It was about what it should be about. Oh well, shall we carry on? Where was I?
Click to Enlarge!
The chart above gives you the key stat categories. I was going to spill it all out on paper, but you guys can read charts, right?
I went further and placed a point system with it.
Highest Number – 4
Lowest Number – 1
You get how it works. I did this for every category except seasons. Don't worry, it wouldn't change anything.
Totals came out to:
Chipper Jones – 31
Cal Ripken Jr – 23
Derek Jeter – 23
Hall of Fame – 15
Chipper is also the second best switch hitter of all time, statistically speaking. He's the only switch hitter with over a .300 average. Do you know how hard that is to do for that many seasons?
So tell me.
Why is he the Borderline Hall of Famer?


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Christopher Judd places Nexus, Hudson, and Maven in his "Ultimate Java Build System" stack:
"Now after all these years, I think I found the right solutions for Enterprise Java Builds. The solution involves 5 open source projects: Maven, Subversion, Hudson, Nexus, Sonar."
We're convinced that Nexus provides the best option for repository management, and as we continue to invest in the core of Nexus, it is good to see that people are starting to notice how essential a repository manager is during enterprise software development. On Nexus, Judd writes,
"[Nexus] enables you to publish both release and snapshot artifacts, provides different views into the respository and includes searching for artifacts even their contents. In addition, it can act as a proxy to external public Maven repository providing traceablity into where artifacts came from as well as improve download performance. Both developers and Hudson can use Nexus to keep their local artifacts up to date providing continious integration for everybody all the time."
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From the Oak: Let's hear it for the God!
Many are those that focus on female divinities, leaving male divinities in the shadows if they get mentioned at all. This is a shame. Here I will share my thoughts, stories and prayers on male divinities. Currently focusing on divinities placed in an atheist "graveyard".
Pleading with Hypnos
(An insomniac's Prayer to the God of Sleep)
Sweet voiced Muses, go to your dearest friend
I plea, to his sleepy hall in the cavern deep descend
where Helios' beams never reach nor cock crows
where neither creature wild nor creature tame impose
for there Silence dwells where doors dare not creak
nor branches sway, nor winds blow, nor alarms shriek.
There Hypnos in languor lies. Victim of some scheme
of Lethe he must be, for he has forgotten my esteem.
Beat upon his blanketed breast until his heavy eyelids rise
and his head lifts from its soft ebony pillow in surprise.
Then ask him what crime I have committed unaware
to cause him to deny me his bounty. Where did I err?
No sleep have I had, no rest nor dreams, fair or scare.
Ask the quietest of gods, to hear my heartfelt prayer.
"You who are the balm of the soul, pour forth thy brew
upon my weary form. Let not my mind unendingly review.
Give me peace and wondrous dreams in a comfy bed.
Please kind one, nothing black to cause me worry or dread.
In the morning when I arise feeling refreshed and sunny
I shall gift you, oh gracious Darkwing, with milk and honey."
I hail and honor Hypnos, father of dreams, gentle god of sleep,
and the Muses who relayed my prayer to the cavern deep!
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Jennifer Anne Sabado, Jennifer Sabado or just Jen Sabado, also known as Seth and Tora (after her characters),[clarify] is an artist
Jen is known for her creative and unconventional hybrid character designs.[clarify] She has also done some work for the World Tree role-playing game system.[1]
Jen created Thula, a minor character in the webcomic Spellshocked.
She is married to Mark Freid
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BEIJING (AP) — When more than 500 policemen swooped in to arrest 40 suspected gangsters in southern China last year, the alleged kingpin was a Los Angeles businessman who had hoisted an U.S. flag amid a crowd to welcome Xi Jinping, now China's president, to California.
Vincent Wu's children and lawyers say he's an upstanding, philanthropic Chinese-American entrepreneur who has been framed by business foes who want to seize his assets, including a nine-story shopping mall. But police in the southern city of Guangzhou say he was a ruthless mob boss who led gangsters with nicknames such as "Old Crab" and "Ferocious Mouth."
Wu is expected to stand trial within weeks in Guangzhou on charges of heading a crime gang that kidnapped rivals, threw acid at a judge, set fire to farmers' sheds, operated illegal gambling dens and committed other offenses. Wu has told his lawyers that police interrogators tortured him into confessing.
In the absence of an independent legal system, the truth may never emerge. And although Wu is a naturalized U.S. citizen, American diplomats have not been able to see him because China recognizes only his residency in Hong Kong, a semi-autonomous Chinese territory.
The case provides a glimpse into the often murky world of business in China. Widespread corruption means entrepreneurs can cozy up with police and run roughshod over the law, but they are also vulnerable if their rivals gang up with local authorities.
When disgraced politician Bo Xilai led the southwestern metropolis of Chongqing, hundreds of businesspeople were accused of involvement in organized crime; many were believed to have been tortured into confessing while authorities seized their assets. Bo was sentenced to life imprisonment last month for embezzlement, bribery and abuse of power, but allegations that the businessmen were wrongfully convicted were not aired at his trial.
Wu was detained in June last year in a dramatic pre-dawn operation involving hundreds of police across Guangdong province, which includes Guangzhou and Wu's hometown of Huizhou.
He is charged with getting an associate to throw acid at a judge who ruled against him in a lawsuit, and with ordering thugs to set fire to sheds owned by farmers who refused his offer of compensation to clear off land he wanted to develop. He's also accused of operating illegal casinos that raked in 48 million yuan ($7.8 million), and of attacking or kidnapping people who crossed him in various disputes. About 30 other people face related charges of gang crimes.
Wu maintains his innocence, his attorney Wang Shihua said. Prior to his detention, Wu had been praised by local Chinese newspapers for giving more than 20 million yuan ($3 million) to his hometown.
"My dad is a really good person at heart, especially to the people who are farmers and have not enough money to go to school. He's donated money to the elderly and to help build a road," said Wu's daughter, Anna Wu, in an interview from Hong Kong, where she has based herself to try to draw attention to her father's case. "But in China, money speaks louder than law… if you want to bring someone down, you can bribe the police and certain people to make it happen."
Huang Xiaojun, a former business partner of Wu's and one of his accusers, said it is Wu who exploited government corruption. Huang said Wu tried to kidnap him four times and sought to seize his share of their business by bribing court officials.
"He is a man with no morals and integrity," Huang said in a phone interview. "He's extremely good at playing or acting and confusing right and wrong."
Wu's lawyers want to use his case to test the Chinese government's resolve to stick by its stated opposition to convictions based on evidence extracted through torture. In a written record of a December 2012 meeting with his lawyers, Wu described being beaten, kicked and deprived of food and sleep as police tried to coerce him to sign a confession.
On occasion, Wu's arms were tied behind his back with a rope that was then strung from a ceiling beam — a torture method dubbed the "suspended airplane," he told his lawyers. If he fainted, he was woken with water or chemical stimulants.
"As soon as I did not cooperate, they hit me, hanged me," Wu told his lawyers, according to a copy of the deposition provided to The Associated Press by Wu's family.
Wu's legal adviser, Li Zhuang, said more than 20 witnesses also were tortured. During a pretrial meeting at the Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court on Monday, Wu's lawyers demanded that the court keep their testimony out of Wu's trial, which they expect to begin within a month.
An official at the Huizhou police bureau's propaganda department said he "had not heard" that interrogators might have tortured Wu.
Wu left China in the late 1970s as a stowaway to neighboring Hong Kong, where he obtained residency. He moved with his family to the U.S. in 1994, settled in Los Angeles and eventually became a U.S. citizen.
Even as an American, Wu spent most of his time in China, tending to his businesses and visiting Los Angeles twice a year, his daughter said. But she said he was also active in Los Angeles' Chinese-American business community; photos provided by her show him hoisting an American flag as he welcomed then-Vice President Xi Jinping — now the president — to the city early last year.
Chinese authorities have denied Wu access to U.S. officials, saying they regard him as a Hong Kong resident because he last entered China on a Hong Kong identity card.
U.S. officials have sent several notes to Chinese authorities about Wu's case, Wu's daughter said. U.S. Embassy spokesman Nolan Barkhouse said American officials were monitoring the case but could not comment out of privacy concerns.


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SFSU professor and OLPC-SF organizer Sameer Verma wrote a nice project summary in the latest Linux Journal titled OLPC: Are We There Yet? In it he discusses the state of the project, and what remains to be done before every child has access to tools for their own education.
Sameer writes from the perspective of his own efforts to promote olpc around the world, and that of the Bay-area education hackers who help with everything from testing hardware, Sugar, and peripherals (leggo my WeDo!) to supporting schools in other countries. Â It's a well laid-out piece, with pointers to how local groups can make a difference.


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NYC: Protestors Come Out Against Monsanto
If you happened to be walking around Lower Manhattan this morning, you might have noticed the anti-Monsanto chants echoing from Foley Square. In a protesting trifecta, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Big Food, and Food Democracy Now joined forces to support family farmers as the first phase of their federal court case against food industry giant Monsanto. The crowd of around 200 people included farmers from as far away as Maine as well as local food activists and chefs.
The case against Monsanto (Organic Seed Growers Trade Association et al. v. Monsanto) aims to protect farmers against aggressive lawsuit and crop contamination from Monsanto's genetically modified seeds. Organic and non-GMO crops can be severely damaged by the introduction of GMO seeds and farmers whose crops have been infiltrated are vulnerable to lawsuits from Monsanto who owns a vast majority of the genetics on commodity crops such as corn, soybeans and cotton.
Farmers' fear of being sued by the multi-billion dollar company is not unfounded. According to Monsanto, since 1997, it has filed 144 lawsuits against farmers and settled 700 other disputes out of court.
Today in Federal District Court in Manhattan, Judge Naomi Buchwald will hear complaints from farmers and determine whether or not their case against Monsanto will move forward. Protestor and organic farmer Deb Taft of Mobius Fields in Westchester, New York said she was "cautiously optimistic" about the outcome of this morning's hearings.
Many protestors felt it was an accomplishment in itself that the case has made it to Federal District Court. An unnamed protestor and chef at a local private school said he came out to stand with farmers who finally got their day in court. He has been wary of Monsanto since the mid 1980s, when the issues of genetically modified organisms were mostly talk, rather than reality.
While all of the protestors united around their distrust of and frustration with Monsanto, their specific reasons for being there were varied. Some were concerned with the lack of seed choice now that Monsanto has put many local providers out of business while others were concerned with Monsanto's global presence (Monsanto is currently being sued for biopiracy in India).
Protestors pointed to a long history of infractions on the part of Monsanto, which they demonstrated by creating a human timeline of the company's history. Monsanto genetically modified its first plant in 1982, but the company's story goes back to the beginning of the 20th century. John Francis Queeny, a pharmaceutical industry veteran, founded the company in 1901 and in 1902 Monsanto sold its first product to Coca-Cola — saccharin, the artificial sweetener that has been linked to cancer. Protestors this morning also referenced Monsanto's role as one of the companies that manufactured Agent Orange, an herbicide used by the U.S. Army in Vietnam that has been proven to caues severe health damage and birth defects.
But the protestors main focus today was the effect that that GMOs have on biodiversity and farmer livelihood. Andrew Faust, a permaculture teacher and founder of The Center for Bioregional Living in Ellenville, New York, urged consumers to use their buying power to boycott Monsanto products. Currently, advocacy groups working under the slogan "Right to Know" are lobbying for GMO labeling, which is already required in the European Union and China, and which Monsanto is fighting against.
According to a tweet from someone present in the courtroom, the judge will give her ruling on this morning's hearings, which ended around 11:30 am, by March 31st. Those interested in supporting the farmers' cause can sign Food Democracy Now!'s pledge to support America's farmers and donate to the Right to Know campaign.


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7-11 is sponsoring its own election poll by offering customers a free cup of coffee on Friday morning, September 28th, 2012. Just stop in between 6 and 10 a.m. and fill up a free cup of coffee in your choice of cup – red or blue.
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Future Health Biobank owns and operates two state-of-the-art laboratories; one in the UK and one in Switzerland. Both laboratories operate according to GMP quality requirements. The Swiss lab has been inspected by Swissmedic, and the UK lab is licensed by the HTA.
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Future Health was founded in 2002 following 3 years of international research. As of April 2019, they have processed over 150,000 cord blood & cord tissue samples from over 75,000 families.
Collection Kit
Future Health uses a purpose-designed cord blood collection bag, which already contains the correct volume of anti-coagulant (CPD) for cord blood, packed in individual aluminium sterile packaging with two needles for increased safety. Needles have optimal diameter to maximize the volume of blood collected.
Future Health provides its clients with a purpose-built collection kit for cord tissue that was designed in-house. The kit contains a preservation tablet and a new improved transportation solution, which will control any potential contamination from the birthing process and maintain the tissue in its optimum state.
Both collection kits are sterile and are suitable for C-Section use.
Transportation container
The cord blood and the cord tissue are transported in a thermally insulated shipping box designed by Future Health Biobank that is fully accredited by International Air Transport Association (IATA) for protection against adverse temperature and shipping conditions. It also bears the UN3373 label. The kits are then transported by medically approved couriers. The proprietary transportation box was designed by Future Health Biobank and built especially for them.
The transportation system was fully tested and accredited by an authorized external testing facility. Accreditation number: P1 650 Conform DHL / IBE G-07.004. The container includes gel packs and a temperature data logger to monitor shipping conditions.
Shipping Info
Future Health Biobank's base price includes shipping by approved medical couriers at no extra cost to the client.
Processing Method
Future Health Biobank processes cord blood in a designated purpose-built area of their laboratory called a "clean room" to ensure maximum sterility of the sample and prevent contamination. Future Health Biobank uses state of the art automated processing systems.
The processing kit is a single-use kit to prevent contamination and ensure sterility of the sample. The kit is designed specifically for the separation of the stem cell fraction from the remainder of the cord blood via a "volume reduction" method. Samples from all components of the cord blood (plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells and stem cells) are kept as part of the stored samples. This enables the use of all these components in the future.
The Future Health Biobank in-house microbiology laboratory conducts detailed microbiological and qualitative testing of the cord blood sample, including stem cell counts and viability. Maternal blood tests at birth are carried out using Serology and Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT – PCR).
Parents are provided with a certificate of results which includes notification of the storage period. This includes maternal blood test results and the number of viable leukocytes (CD45+) and Stem Cell (CD34+) count, as well as a certificate of storage. Thus our customers will receive the most accurate sample results possible.
Components Stored
Future Health Biobank separates the "buffy coat" fraction of the cord blood that contains the stem cells using the industry standard method of "volume reduction", so that they may be retrieved separately and used directly for transplantation. This is the method that is adopted by the vast majority of private and public banks and it is the industry gold standard.
In addition, Future Health Biobank also stores samples of plasma and the mononuclear cell fraction from the cord blood. These samples may be used for future testing, diagnostic purposes, tissue typing (histocompatibility testing) or any other future medical or diagnostic application, without disturbing the main sample.
Storage Method
• Final stem cell storage is in a cryobag with multiple compartments plus additional test sample segments. The multiple compartments allow for multiple uses of the sample. Each compartment is identified by a bar coded cryo-label.
• Before being placed in the freezer tanks, the cryobags are placed within a secondary protective overwrap bag, which is designed to prevent any cross-contamination between samples.
• Each cord blood sample is placed in a metal canister for enhanced mechanical protection and efficient heat transfer. The canister also has a metallic bar coded identification labels.
• The freezer tanks are filled with the vapour phase of cryogenic nitrogen, another protection against cross contamination of blood samples.
• The freezer tanks are capable of operating without electricity and there is 24/7 recording of storage condition parameters.
• The cord blood and tissue cells are stored in separate freezer tanks, in different storage locations. This is partly a security measure and partly a recognition that they may have separate medical indications for use.
Licensing & Accreditation
Future Health Biobank operates two separate laboratories, one in the UK and one in Switzerland.
Future Health Biobank is the UK's first fully accredited private Human Tissue Bank. It holds a full license from the Human Tissue Authority (HTA) (22503), a Blood Establishment Authorisation (BEA 21314) from the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and an International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO 9001:2008) quality management certification for its processes and systems.
Parents can rest assured that the service and facilities meet the highest standards. They were also awarded the prestigious Queens Award for Enterprise for International Trade in 2010. Future Health Biobank was also the first UK Human Tissue Bank to offer a service to collect and store cord tissue as well as cord blood.
The Future Health laboratory in Switzerland has a Swissmedic GMP license that follows FACT/Netcord guidelines to process and store umbilical cord blood and tissue for both autologous and allogeneic applications.
Clinical Experience
Future Health participates in a number of research projects in association with Universities that are related to stem cells from cord blood, cord tissue, dental pulp and adipose tissue. The projects range from improvements in processing and testing methods to the transformation of a stem cell into a specialised cell type.
1. If the cord blood fails quality control, there is no charge for processing.
2. The laboratories are protected by 24/7 security systems and security personnel on site.
3. In case of a "catastrophic" event, Future Health has a disaster recovery plan in place which allows all of their cryopreservation tanks to be relocated to another licensed facility until theirs is back to normal.
4. Having two different laboratories in separate strategic countries means twice the security for client's cord blood.
Community Service
• Discounts to medical doctors
• Discounts for twins
• Discounts for repeat clients
Prices are different for each country so please contact Future Health Biobank to get the latest price information and special offers.
Additional Services
Future Health Biobank also offers additional stem cell banking services:
- Dental pulp stem cell banking
- Adipose tissue stem cell banking
At the start of 2016 Future Health Biobank launched a new wing to their business in the form of a diagnostics division. This new area offer clients a range of screening tests which presently include:
- "Vision" [Non Invasive prenatal test which involves a simple blood test to identify a range of conditions such as Down's syndrome from as early as 10 weeks gestation]
- "Outlook" [Newborn screening test which identifies conditions such as lactose intolerance in babies and children using just two simple mouth swabs]


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"There's not a lot of standards out there — a lot of devices are designed fit for purpose," he said.
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Adam Bender covers telco and enterprise tech issues for Computerworld and is the author of dystopian sci-fi novels We, The Watched and Divided We Fall. Follow him on Twitter: @WatchAdam
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Perhaps the tourist-friendly metamorphosis was inevitable given the onslaught: Times Square is arguably the most visited place on the planet. Though counting unticketed crowds must be an inexact science, by most measures the intersection of Broadway and 42nd Street and the surrounding neighborhood is at or near the top of any destinations list. Crowds of half a million or more for popular events are not unheard of, and daily visits to the square run to around a third of a million. Once the heart of New York's carriage industry, the area has changed with the city, but is always a character itself in the drama of unfolding life in Manhattan.CaptionA dancer poses for a photograph as part of the "Dance as Art" photo project in Times Square in New York September 22, 2014. The project is a celebration of dancers and their place in the New York experience. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri (REUTERS)1 of 31Email to a Friend Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pinterest More GalleriesLife during the coronavirus pandemicGlobe staff photographers document the Boston area and beyond during this unprecented time. The gallery is updated weekly throughout the crisis. A funeral home copes with the surge during the coronavirus pandemicDuring normal times, Joe Ruggiero Jr. might hold 25 funerals a month; this April there have been 71. Due to a surge in COVID-19 cases, his family's funeral home in East Boston is so overrun that the tribute lounge and cafe normally used to display portraits of the departed has been turned into a makeshift storage space. A thin white sheet of plastic held together with binder clips is all that separates the hallway from the caskets. The white board in the office downstairs is overflowing with funerals. Three on Wednesday. Four on Thursday. Five on Friday. Joe Jr., his son, Joe III, and his daughter, Catie, work tirelessly to make sure that everything is as perfect as it can be in order to bring some comfort to families in grief. They solve an endless string of coronavirus riddles, like what do you bury someone in when their family can't go back into a nursing home to retrieve their clothing? Or how do you explain to families that they can't have more than 10 people inside at a time? The biggest one of course, is how do you console someone when you can't place a comforting hand on their shoulder? Families filter into Ruggiero Family Memorial Home all faced with the prospect of saying goodbye to a loved one without the comfort of an embrace. I photographed six funerals over three days, each death caused by COVID-19. A woman told me that her 100-year-old mother would have kept going if not for the virus. Her wake and funeral had six people in attendance. You could hear a pin drop in the chapel as they sat silently in rows of chairs spaced 6 feet apart. At the next funeral, there were a line of people in masks and gloves waiting outside to pay their respects to a 57-year-old father who was taken by COVID-19. Many used their cellphones to stream the funeral for those who couldn't be there. One family member just wanted people to see how serious this was so that they would stay indoors. Boston Globe staff photographer Erin Clark named Feature Photography Pulitzer finalist for 2020Patrick Lupien and Mariah LeMieux-Lupien knew they were going to be evicted from their apartment in Biddeford, Maine. The lapse was a matter of basic math: As Mariah put it, when you don't have it, you don't have it. Despite Patrick's $40,000 a year salary, the Lupien family became part of an often invisible group known as the "working homeless." Their story illustrates the growing housing inequality that is prevalent in America today. The family's hard road over the next six months - from eviction, to living in a campground, to homeless shelters, and then finally finding a home - offers a window into the insecurity and panic that comes with raising children on the brink of financial insolvency. Photos: One day on the front lines of COVID-19Jessica Rinaldi documented a Cataldo ambulance crew as they worked their 24-hour shift. Globe staff photos of the month, March 2020Here's a look at some of the best images taken by Globe photographers last month before the coronavirus grabbed the region's attention: the end of Elizabeth Warren's 2020 presidential campaign, L Street ice swimmers practicing at Dorchester Bay, soap box derby racing, the Boston Flower & Garden Show, and the MIAA high school winter sports playoffs. Click here to see images from COVID-19 coverage. 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Neptune's Moons and Rings
Neptune has moons. It also has rings, but its rings are different from Saturn's.
Neptune's largest moon is named Triton. Triton is much larger than any of Neptune's other moons. Triton is a very cold place, so the moon is covered with ice. Triton has geysers like the ones at Yellowstone Park on Earth. The geysers on Triton shoot out ice instead of steam. The geysers shoot ice 8 km (5 miles) high into Triton's thin atmosphere!
The rest of Neptune's moons are much smaller than Triton. Gerard Kuiper discovered a moon named Nereid in 1949. Other moons named Despina, Galatea, Larissa, Naiad, Proteus and Thalassa were found by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989. Five more small moons have been found. Three of those were discovered in 2002. Two more were found in 2003. The newest moons don't have official names yet.
Neptune's rings are much darker than Saturn's bright rings. Saturn's rings are made of ice, which reflects lots of light. Neptune's rings are probably made of rocks and dust. Rocks and dust don't reflect as much light.


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DETROIT – A man severely beaten in Detroit after accidentally striking a boy with his pickup truck is home after spending six weeks in hospitals.
Steve Utash was last at DMC Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan. Spokeswoman Cheryl Angelelli says Utash was discharged Thursday.
The 54-year-old tree trimmer from Macomb County was attacked by a mob after he got out of his pickup truck to help a 10-year-old boy on April 2.
Four men are charged with attempted murder. A 16-year-old boy is charged with assault and ethnic intimidation. Utash is white, his attackers are black.
Joe Utash tells WXYZ-TV that his father is grateful for the public's support, especially nearly $200,000 in pledges for his medical bills.