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You’ve probably heard the name Timbuktu at least once in your life. And if you’re like me, there’s a big chance that you did so through a song. But where is Timbuktu, anyway?
This is where Mali comes in, a Saharan country in West Africa where Timbuktu is. It’s a land-locked state with Algeria, Mauritiana, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Guinea and Senegal around it. Mali was formerly part of the three West African empires that controlled this region of the continent. It was then taken over by the French around the 19th century and gained its independence in the 1960s.
Unfortunately, traveling to present-day Mali isn’t so ideal lately as violence is prevalent in the country with even civilians getting seriously injured over terrorist attacks. There are still a few tour operators in the country, however, who still assist visitors who want to explore the country through the scope might be a bit restricted.
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Below, I’ll be listing some of the best things you can only experience in Mali which, hopefully, we can all get to experience once the situation has gotten better.
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Key Cities in Mali
Bamako – This is the country’s capital and was considered as one of the fastest-growing cities in the world. This is where most of the administrative activities in Mali happen and are also where some of the most important buildings in today’s Mali are situated.
This city can trace back its origins to the Palaeolithic era as evidence of settlements as early as this time can be found in some areas of Bamako. This is highly likely due to the proximity of the city to the Niger River Valley where they were able to grow an abundant food supply and trade as well.
Mopti – Another popular city in Mali is Mopti, which is said to have the highest concentration of the country’s natural resources. It is also known to be the country’s most valuable port as well as a huge commercial center.
Tourists are attracted to Mopti for its attractions like the Grand Mosque and the Pays Dogon.
Timbuktu – This popular ancient city is home to some of the country’s most valuable possessions as it was an Islamic scholarship center for many years. Timbuktu takes pride in its manuscripts were teachings of Islam, mathematics, law, science and more where listed.
Aside from its historical significance, Timbuktu also served as a trade route for invaders before the country was colonized by France.
At present, Timbuktu is among UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites.
Djenné – Another important city in the history of Mali is Djenné, a city in the Inland Niger Delta region. Old Djenné is one of the oldest towns in this part of Africa and has been inhabited since 250 B.C
Djenné also served as an important market center and link to the trans-Saharan gold trade back in the days.
Aside from its economic purposes, Djenné was also an integral part of the propagation of Islam in the country. Until now, you’ll still see some of the historic Islamic structures in the city.
What To Do in Mali
1. Witness the amazing Mali architecture for yourself
If you do a quick online search about Mali, you’ll notice how its buildings look nothing like what you’ll typically see anywhere! Mali buildings are often made following the traditional adobe architecture, giving them their distinct orange hues. Some of the most notable structures are the Grande Mosquée in Djenné which is known to be the world’s largest mud-brick building and the mosque of Musa I in the town of Gao.
2. Get to know more about life along the Niger River
Mali is home to various ethnic groups, some of which chose the Niger river as their settlement as it is a good source of livelihood for them.
Mopti and Djenné are both settlements around the Niger River where people of different ethnic groups still live. Go ahead and visit any of these two to get an authentic experience interacting with Mali locals.
There’s even a music festival being held around the river where Mali’s best performers gather now and then.
3. Visit Timbuktu
Probably the most famous destination in Mali, this town was once thought of as a city made of gold. It wasn’t, of course, but gold was often traded in its streets together with salt, spices, and dyes. Get to know this mysterious destination more by visiting its important mosques, structures made of mud, and even spending time with the Tuareg people (people who have been here since old times) by spending the night at their camp.
4. Explore the desert
As part of the Saharan region, Mali has its fair share of warm-colored desert land which you might be curious to explore. If you want, you can go ahead and visit the Pink Dune which is the highest spot along the Niger River. This looks especially beautiful during sunset as it turns into a beautiful shade of pink. To get there, you might need to hire a boat that will take you across the Niger river before you can go hiking up the mountain of sand.
5. Get in touch with nature
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Of course, no African trip will be complete if you don’t get to experience their wildlife for yourself. Boucle du Baoulé National Park is a western Malian area where traces of prehistoric rock art and tombs can be found. Along with these, you’ll find local animals like giraffe, elephant, buffalo, hippo and a few more in their typical surroundings here.
6. Go shopping for local products
Ségou, a city in south-central Mali, is located on the banks of the River Niger and is home to some very creative people. Not only do they make beautiful pottery, but they also produce the bogolan cloth which is dyed with fermented mud. Go ahead and visit so you can get to know more about Mali’s local art scene.
7. Enjoy the capital!
As Bamako is the country’s modern city, expect to find several interesting places and things that you can visit or do while you’re there. There will be markets, botanical gardens, museums, and even craft centers. If you want to see Malian artifacts, Musée National is a good destination for you. This is where you’ll find interesting ethnographic items from Mali’s ethnic groups.
Feeling a bit adventurous? Fetish Stalls might not be for the faint of heart, but if you can endure seeing skulls, skin, bones, dried animals or any of that sort, then it’s an interesting venue to explore.
8. Join the Festival of the Desert
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It’s been a while since it was last celebrated in Timbuktu. But if it ever comes back to Mali again and the situations are more stable than they are at present, this is something you definitely shouldn’t miss!
The Festival Au Desert was inspired by the Touaregs’ tradition of coming together for an annual meeting called Takoubelt which allows them to reconnect with one another, reconcile, and exchange thoughts. Here, you’ll find amazing Malian artists coming together to celebrate art, music, dance, literature and more.
It’s also a way to celebrate the “La Famme de la Paix” which is the ceremony thousands of firearms are burned and transformed into a monument. It symbolized the peaceful ending to a rebellion that lasted for years in Timbuktu.
Frequently Asked Questions About Traveling to Mali
1. How do I get to Mali?
There are a few airlines operating flights to Mali regularly. You can get on a connecting flight to Bamako through Paris or Casablanca.
2. Do I need a visa to go to Mali?
If you are a citizen of any of these countries, you can go to Mali without a visa:
If you have a diplomatic and service passport from any of these countries, you can visit Mali for 90 days without a visa:
China (public affairs passport)
South Africa (diplomatic, service and official passports)
Citizens of these countries can go to Mali with a visa on arrival:
3. How long is the tourist visa application process?
It takes around 10 working days for a Malian Embassy to process your tourist visa.
4. How long is a Malian tourist visa valid for?
You can apply for a 1-month single-entry visa or a 3-month and 6-month multiple visas.
5. Is Mali safe for tourists?
Unfortunately, the situation in some of Mali’s regions isn’t so safe for visitors at the moment due to terrorist activities.
If you would like to travel to Mali, it’s best to check your country’s travel advisory first and plan to make sure you don’t get to places that are considered off-limits.
Also, if you want to visit, it’s always advisable to get a local tour operator to make sure you’re only going around places you are allowed to.
6. How do I go around Mali?
Public transportation like taxis and trains are accessible when in Mali.
7. Will I need a translator in Mali?
You probably will, unless you speak a little bit of French which is one of their official languages.
8. When is the best time to visit Mali?
The best time to visit is during the drier seasons of the year which go from October to January. You’ll also want to avoid the harmattan wind which comes from the Sahara from January to May.
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For viola solo. Simply Purple was commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and is dedicated to the extraordinary violist Paul Neubauer. This is my third piece for viola (and for Paul) which includes the word "purple." The first was Wild Purple for solo viola and then came Purple Rhapsody for viola and orchestra. I have always thought of the viola (which I played briefly) as having this deep kind of rich purple sound, a beautiful timbre, quite distinct from other string instrument sounds. Of the three, this piece is the simplest and shortest (about 3 1/2 mins.) exploring slow upward scales that are occasionally interrupted by a repeated pattern "held" in register. — Joan Tower

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In October of 1996, you got on an elevator to go up to the seventh floor of your high school friend’s dorm room. Now in college, he was your main go-to for booze when your newer friends couldn’t produce. He had buddies in the ROTC that were drinking age. You were quite proud of yourself, having gotten Daddy to spring for a pad off campus instead of making you live in the dorms for a third year (the horror!). You fancied yourself on the verge of attracting a female, as you’d taken hydrogen peroxide and dyed your hair blondish in streaks that almost looked as if you spent the summer out at the beach or boathouse instead of working for minimum wage in the hotel kitchen. Your black Chevy S-10 pickup truck, a gift from Daddy raiding your college savings in high school, still looked to you to be pretty cool and special. You’d purchased a semi-stylish Tommy Hilfiger shirt from the thrift store–it was only a year out of fashion.
A beautiful young lady got on the elevator and smiled at you. She looked you up and down, and you could see that she liked what she saw. And this scared the hell out of you. All of your efforts were working! You didn’t know what to do or say, without coming off as the hayseed boob you completely were on the inside.
A week later, your downward plunge of shame was made complete by the donning of a McDonald’s t-shirt, ballcap and cheap, black greaseproof-soled boots. As you’ve told the tale a million times before, you made the decision not to say a word to that young lady, and instead pursue drinking opportunities at ROTC parties where everyone was either married or already practically engaged. It didn’t occur to you that the same folks who brought you the service of being “of age” beer drinkers were also the ones who hung out with even older folks who didn’t bring along any cute, Freshman friends with them.
With your license revoked from the DWI, and you working off all of the lawyer and court fees in your state of shame, you discovered the main library at the university.
You’d first encountered it about a year or so ago, when you decided that you were going to be a booknerd like your one college roommmate, whom you’d scared away after the very first semester due to an exceptionally unhealthy night of binge drinking and puking all over his precious Smiths CD collection (which he played constantly, and you hated because you were still stuck in a high school, guitar hero state of mind, but that’s another story…) For some reason, anyway, you decided that Everett’s approach to college was the one to take–which, to sum it up in terms easily understood by the reader, Everett was a proto-hipster.
You sort of knew that John Steinbeck was more of a literary writer than not, and so on your first trip to the college library, you thought that you would make quite the impression on the goatteed slacker at the reference desk when you asked where the John novels were. Of course, Everett would have sniffed and hmmphed at the idea of reading John Steinbeck past the ninth grade of High School, but you felt like you had to start somewhere. The goatteed reference desk slacker probably thought you were the typical anti-library, non-thinking dude poking his head into the library only because he had a class assignment to complete. He absentmindedly waved his hand over to the card catalog, and muttered something about computers you could use to find John Steinbeck over on the third floor.
You were not especially deterred by his lack of enthusiasm for your newfound lust for literature, but you didn’t dive headfirst into the library, and make it your womb away from those oppressive college classes and your McDonald’s tour of shame until that day in October when you decided to start with a book from the 1930s on Astral Projection. You proceeded to read everything you could on the subject, then moved on to Buddhism and Hinduism, and tried to raise your Kundalini serpent while astrally projecting yourself in hopes that you might go have some astral sex with a coed stumbling about in her dreams.
You found a giant selection of all of Gandhi’s writings, and thought perhaps one day after you were done partying and trying to have astral sex, you could retreat into a monastic state of existence and help others find enlightenment while freeing them from whatever oppressive bondage they were in from their government. You picked up Kant, Nietzsche, Sartre and books for the layman on Quantum Physics. You continued your lust for literature and ploughed through Dickens, Dostoevsky, Updike, Victor Hugo, Anthony Burgess, and eyed the shelves and shelves of books by Balzac and Sir Walter Scott, hoping to one day surmount each and every one of those shelves of books in a systematic sort of way.
You ravaged the magazine section, pulling down academic journals on modern art, architecture, lit crit, sociology, political science, current affairs, aerospace engineering. You dutifully read the New York Times almost every single day.
You found entire sections of the library containing bound copies of old newspapers, magazines and journals from every era. You checked out colorful books about Gaugin and Matisse.
Somehow, you managed to also stop into your classes often enough to take a few notes, grab all of the important reading assignments, and mostly get As and Bs in every class that wasn’t especially difficult. With any given class, your standard operating procedure was to flatly refuse to do the reading assignments until the night before the test, and then cram as much as you could. Later, after the class was over, you’d pick up an interest in whatever had been taught in that class, and go back and find a bunch of books related to the class in the library–and read those books instead of reading the ones you were supposed to be reading for your current class.
It was, you thought, a subtle way of rebelling against Daddy, who was paying for everything except for your DWI fees and fines. Fine, Daddy, I’ll go and get this college education you are paying for if you insist, but I’m not going to act like I’m enjoying it or am engaged with the classes at hand. Instead, I’ll pretend each semester that I don’t care, and only do the minimal amount of work needed to pass–and if I fail, why then that’s a sign, dearest Daddy, that I am just not college material.
In a lot of ways, you were not college material. You hated being told what to learn, and you were terrified of being shot down by a professor or another student if you spoke up in class. You despised the smug, pompous types in your creative writing classes, who all seemed to think their little five-page pieces about some threeway they had the previous summer was righteous and perfect pitch literature. They would trot out the old “it’s not very believable” critique more often than you thought anyone in a college creative writing class should.
The truth was, you hated people disagreeing with you or proving you wrong. You really wanted to learn in a magical environment among some unrealistic kinds of people who agreed with everything you said, and nodded their heads sagely, taking copious notes every time you opened your mouth. You were terrified of being told that you were approaching life all wrong, probably because deep down, you knew that this was exactly the truth of the matter. You would have to wait for years of brutal, backstabbing office environments, and getting your work critiqued constantly, to come to appreciate the usefulness of being tol you are wrong and have to change yourself and your work to get better.
But, your monstrous appetite for everything in the library never really abated. You often find yourself in box bookstores that sell new books, or even Half Price Books, buying books that you could have gotten from used sellers on Amazon much more cheaply. This folly is born out of the sense you get from a book in hand that you can somehow magically make all of the information in it go into your brain in a rapid fashion that won’t require actually reading it all of the way through. You don’t get this sort of impression from perusing books on Amazon.
You will probably always find yourself, in whatever town you live in, going to the local public library and checking out a dozen books you’ll never finish–even if they are completely unrelated to anything you’d ever intended to read before you found them on the shelves.
Now, if you could walk into a library the size of your old university library, and find each book on the shelf had a QR code you could scan to take you to the Amazon reseller with the lowest bid (or perhaps the third lowest bid as you never trust that guy with the lowest bid), and you could instantly buy the book you fell in love with from your mobile device–then, you would probably have discovered the ultimate source of your downfall, a vice or addiction far greater than anything that booze or drugs could bring you. Soon, you and your wife would be in more debt than if you’d taken up a gambling habit. But, you’d have your own personal library, from which you could try to satiate your monstrous appetite.

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That statement has been sort of reoccurring for me for the past several years and my reason this time is the same as in previous disappearances … I suffered a personal tragedy. This time my mother passed away somewhat unexpectedly.
For the past 2 years she had slowly becoming more lost. Her short term memory faded until at the end it was pretty much nonexistent. We managed to keep her in her home until the end with a lot of effort from a lot of people. So this past year I was spending much of my emotional and physical energies with her and my blogging suffered,
While I could have blogged about it, the truth is I just didn’t much want to. I really didn’t feel like in general I had all that much to say. It was sheer force of will that kept me working, and to be honest throwing myself into my business is a coping mechanism to boot. But no … no desire to share the experience and emotions.
Perhaps it was because things were just sort of one thing after another. Marital struggles followed by divorce, my financial future resting on my ability to learn computer technical proficiency, the death of my beloved horse and now mom.
To be clear I’m not now nor ever much was depressed. Saddened and grieved yes, depressed no.
So anyway to get you all up to speed.
The gallery is flourishing, Etsy seems to have a hit a sales stride, art airs so far this year are just fine (no woohoo moments, but also no wondering why the sales gods have forsaken me) and I’m working on a painting. Another cow of course because the first cow exhibition is a mere few weeks away. (New cow painting progress photos to follow soon.)
And barring anymore catastrophes I should be back to blogging far more regularly.
I had big plans to work on this today, but got caught up in making etsy listings. It’s hard top strike a balance between making art and marketing it.
Not gonna say what it is, but I would think it should be kinda easy to guess. This is a cropped detail only a fraction of the entire piece but since all the rest was untouched suede this is all you get for today.
So you’d think having been a professional picture framer for like 25 years, I’d be able to know almost magically what frame looks best on my own artwork. Not always so. Or at least my opinion can be swayed.
Here’s an example. Daisy, my sweet little yellow heifer, the first of all the cows for the exhibit this September was sitting in my back room with 2 different samples dangling off the corners. One orange one tangerine yellow. I favored the yellow but most people who ambled into my framing room (in fact all who weighed in liked the orange) so despite personally preferring the yellow, orange is what I got.
Now I know it doesn’t look it but the frame was actually quite expensive, even at cost. It was a deal where my supplier had to special order it from their supplier. So once I got it, I immediately regretted it but couldn’t bring myself to essentially just toss away a pricey frame. I thought … “Meh, I’ll get used to it and eventually it won’t matter.”
Over a year later it still bugged me. But rather than spending big bucks all over again getting the same frame in yellow, another frame line became available which I love. It has ripples running through it which add some whimsy and I’ve actually used this frame in different colors on a couple of my other “Happy Heifers.” So I ordered it.
A Story To Illustrate My Point
One thing I’ve learned is that what I like (regarding my own art or framing) is not necessarily the best choice for everyone. In fact last year at an art festival I had a customer (who currently has an original of mine) looking at another original piece, went into hysterics over the hideousness of the frame. So she had me try to cover the frame because she just couldn’t get past her overly vocal revulsion, in order to visualize it without. This went on for 15 minutes or more with a packed booth of other people wanting to buy. Finally she left, to my great relief. The next customer in line said “Just so you know, I love that frame and think it makes the painting.”
So there ya go.
You get to weigh in
None the less I am curious, since everyone who offered an opinion at the gallery went orange, I’d like to know what you all think. Just so you know it won’t change anything but I am a glutton for market research and information.
My goal was to reach 100 items by the end of last year but … well that didn’t happen. It’s harder than you think. Or perhaps I should say it was harder than I thought. I opened my Etsy store in 2008 and sold an item or two but found that Ebay was a veritable feeding frenzy of sales, so I went that way.
But by the Fall of last year, when squidoo went belly up and I lost the hefty revenue stream that came from them, I began to once again explore online options. So I took my SEO skills I learned from Squidoo and began listing on Etsy again. I sold a print within 4 days and that was just enough motivation to keep me going.
So why didn’t I do the Ebay thing again you ask?
Good question you. Well for multiple reasons.
Making quality listings takes time. Fast and furious sales are awesome but it means I would spend many more hours creating listings than I wanted to. When I did ebay I sold around 1K in 6 weeks but it was kinda a full time job. And I have a full time job selling my art already so…
Etsy listings last much longer 4 months as opposed to a week or so of ebay.
Etsy listing are much cheaper only .20 cents per plus a small % when an item sells.
Etsy doesn’t have the bargain basement rummage sale mentality that ebay does. I can sell my art for what it’s worth. I do offer special pricings on some of my listings but mostly that’s because they are different from my website in one way or the other.
I am averaging a sale or two a week at the moment. That’s with minimal game playing (meaning team interactions for promoting within etsy.) I would guess ebay would make me more, but I like the stress free environment as well as the more artisan like setting.
Never Heard Of Etsy?
I’m not surprised though it’s far more common knowledge now than when I opened my doors in 2008. But I am pretty sure etsy is about to become more of a household name as it’s going public. I think this will be both good and bad for the site. But my hope is, more awareness equals more sales. We shall see.
Etsy is a peer-to-peer e-commerce website focused on handmade or vintage items and supplies, as well as unique factory-manufactured items under Etsy’s new guidelines.
Future Goals For Etsy
Short term: Bring 1-2 sales a week to 1-2 a day. 150 items in shop.
Long Term: 10+ sales a day. I have organized my product so the shipping end is easy. Either in a tube or flat rate envelope with the exception of a couple of framed items. I am pretty confident that I can do 10 sales a day without it interfering with the time needed to run the gallery etc. I think the max amount of items I can foresee handling in my etsy shop would be 200-250. But I won’t know until I get there.
Luna – Barn Owl Painting 10×13 inches water soluble mixed media on suede
Truth In Life And Art
So I created this piece back when my horse was sick and dying. I got it to about 80% completion and then just woke up one day, looked at it and thought “This is crap.” Now being the wise woman that I am I realized my bad attitude probably had more to do with life circumstances than the artwork, so I tucked it away so I wouldn’t have to look at it. And moved on.
You know when I think about it, that sort of my entire philosophy with life. Evaluate the effort I used and decide whether it’s worth more energy or time. If not, toss it away so I can freely move on. BUT if I’m a little unsure. well I bury it somewhere so I can, if not forget it, at least not have to face it daily. (Bet you weren’t prepared for a Psych 101 class with this post huh?)
Fast forward several months and I’m happily chugging along on Lulu and this little owl painting pops into my head complete in my minds eye. After a day or so I dig it out, ponder it’s crap capacity as well as my belief that I can “fix” it. Deciding it was worth a go I plant my butt in the chair for 3 hours and bring her to this. Now I don’t know that I think it’s a great painting, but I think she is “good enough.” I can never truly judge when I’m working on a piece if it’s good art. Usually it’s not too important. (I know not very artist like of me to say it. But right now my growth as an artist is based on creating a volume of work and learning the lessons that come with that experience so …)
She is not “done” as this sort of piece is packed with a ton of minutia and details I can pick at and tweak forever. She’s very close though and I’ll live with her awhile. Probably tweaking a little here and there. I do believe it was worth salvaging. And I think for what it is, I am happy with it.
Struggling With Softness
Soft is not something I do well. I’m not entirely sure if my medium of choice doesn’t play a big part in it, but I also really love mark making. (The aforementioned Lulu is a good example of my mark making euphoria.) When doing realistic furry critters (as opposed to my representational colorist critters) I can tone down the mark making and still make a pretty good stab at soft looking animal fur. But “downy bird feather soft” is a whole other thing. In the end what I did with this piece to get more softness in it was take a wet Q-tip and lift out areas of line. Once dry, soft scrub in color in broader strokes.
So You Wanna Know What Else I Struggle With?
Water. And yes I have apiece that is almost entirely water on my short list of future paintings because I love failure,I am a masochistic,I believe struggle makes me a better artist like to challenge myself like that.
Wanted to add special thanks to Debra Major for allowing me to use your lovely photo for inspiration.
I’ve a ways to go but really 3 or 4 more hours aught to finish her up. I’m not sure if I’m like the fringy ear thing, but that’s how she was in the photo. After all my last cow painting of Rosy had fringy ears. I may change that to a more normal hairy ear.
You wanna know a secret?
Lulu is a Black Baldy. Or at least that’s what I’m saying. Lulu is in fact Rosy just a few moments before she turned her head and gave me the googly eyes that I painted in that portrait. I guess I like the whimsy of her expressive face to paint her twice.
I am a working artist living in a small rural town in Iowa. I own Wild Faces Gallery & Frame where I spend a great deal of my time in order to keep my critters in kibble and hay. This blog is is a place for me to showcase my artwork, my business and the wanderings of my mind.

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SAN BRUNO, Calif., Feb. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cord Blood Registry (CBR) is the exclusive partner for a growing number of clinical researchers focusing on the use of a child's own cord blood stem cells to help treat pediatric brain injury and acquired hearing loss. To ensure consistency in cord blood stem cell processing, storage and release for infusion, three separate trials have included CBR in their FDA-authorized protocol—including two at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) working in partnership with Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital, and a third at Georgia Health Sciences University, home of the Medical College of Georgia (MCG). This makes CBR the only family stem cell bank pairing researchers with prospective patients for these studies.
"Partnering with a series of specialists who want to research the use of a child's own newborn blood stem cells on a variety of disease states allows CBR to help advance medical research for regenerative therapies by connecting the child whose family banked with CBR to appropriate researchers," said Heather Brown, MS, CGC, Vice President of Scientific & Medical Affairs at Cord Blood Registry. "The pediatric specialists from UTHealth, Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital, and Georgia Health Sciences University are at the forefront of stem cell research as they evaluate cord blood stem cells' ability to help facilitate the healing process after damage to nerves and tissue."
Hearing Loss and Traumatic Brain Injury Clinical Trials Break New Ground
Sensorineural hearing loss affects approximately 6 per 1,000 children by 18 years of age, with 9 percent resulting from acquired causes such as viral infection and head injury.(1,2,3) The Principal Investigator of the hearing loss study is Samer Fakhri, M.D., surgeon at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center and associate professor and program director in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery at UTHealth. He is joined by James Baumgartner, M.D., sponsor of the study and guest research collaborator for this first-of-its-kind FDA-regulated, Phase 1 safety study of the use of cord blood stem cells to treat children with acquired hearing loss. The trial follows evidence from published studies in animals that cord blood treatment can repair damaged organs in the inner ear. Clients of CBR who were diagnosed with a post-birth hearing loss and are six weeks to 18 months old may be eligible for the year-long study. "The window of opportunity to foster normal language development is limited," said James Baumgartner, M.D. "This is the first study of its kind with the potential to actually restore hearing in children and allow for more normal speech and language development."
Although the neurologic outcome for nearly all types of brain injury (with the exception of abuse) is better for children than adults,(4,5) trauma is the leading cause of death in children,(6) and the majority of the deaths are attributed to head injury.(7) Distinguished professor of pediatric surgery and pediatrics at UTHealth, Charles S. Cox, M.D. launched an innovative study building on a growing portfolio of research using stem cell-based therapies for neurological damage. The study will enroll 10 children ages 18 months to 17 years who have umbilical cord blood banked with CBR and have suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) and are enrolled in the study within 6-18 months of sustaining the injury. Read more about the trial here.
"The reason we have become interested in cord blood cells is because of the possibility of autologous therapy, meaning using your own cells. And the preclinical models have demonstrated some really fascinating neurological preservation effects to really support these Phase 1 trials," says Charles S. Cox, M.D., principle investigator of the trial. "There's anecdotal experience in other types of neurological injuries that reassures us in terms of the safety of the approach and there are some anecdotal hints at it being beneficial in certain types of brain injury."
Georgia Health Sciences University (GHSU) Focuses on Cerebral Palsy
At the GHSU in Augusta, Dr. James Carroll, professor and chief of pediatric neurology, embarked on the first FDA-regulated clinical trial to determine whether an infusion of stem cells from a child's own umbilical cord blood can improve the quality of life for children with cerebral palsy. The study will include 40 children whose parents have stored their cord blood at CBR and meet inclusion criteria.
"Using a child's own stem cells as a possible treatment is the safest form of stem cell transplantation because it carries virtually no threat of immune system rejection," said Dr. Carroll. "Our focus on cerebral palsy breaks new ground in advancing therapies to change the course of these kinds of brain injury—a condition for which there is currently no cure."
Cerebral palsy, caused by a brain injury or lack of oxygen in the brain before birth or during the first few years of life, can impair movement, learning, hearing, vision and cognitive skills. Two to three children in 1,000 are affected by it, according to the Centers for Disease Control.(8)
Cord Blood Stem Cell Infusions Move From the Lab to the Clinic
These multi-year studies are a first step to move promising pre-clinical or animal research of cord blood stem cells into clinical trials in patients. Through the CBR Center for Regenerative Medicine, CBR will continue to partner with physicians who are interested in advancing cellular therapies in regenerative applications.
"The benefits of cord blood stem cells being very young, easy to obtain, unspecialized cells which have had limited exposure to environmental toxins or infectious diseases and easy to store for long terms without any loss of function, make them an attractive source for cellular therapy researchers today," adds Brown. "We are encouraged to see interest from such diverse researchers from neurosurgeons to endocrinologists and cardiac specialists."
CBR® (Cord Blood Registry®) is the world's largest and most experienced cord blood bank. The company has consistently led the industry in technical innovations and supporting clinical trials. It safeguards more than 400,000 cord blood collections for individuals and their families. CBR was the first family bank accredited by AABB and the company's quality standards have been recognized through ISO 9001:2008 certification—the global business standard for quality. CBR has also released more client cord blood units for specific therapeutic use than any other family cord blood bank. Our research and development efforts are focused on helping the world's leading clinical researchers advance regenerative medical therapies. For more information, visit www.cordblood.com.
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(3) Smith RJ, Bale JF Jr, White KR. Sensorineural hearing loss in children. Lancet. 2005;365(9462):879-890.
(4) Faul M, Xu L, Wald MM, Coronado VG. Traumatic brain injury in the United States: emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and deaths. Atlanta (GA): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control; 2010.
(5) Schnitzer, Patricia, PH.D., "Prevention of Unintentional Childhood Injuries", American Academy of Family Physicians, 2006.
(6) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "10 Leading Causes of Death, United States, 1997-2007", WISQARS, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), National Vital Statistics System
(7) Marquez de la Plata, Hart et al, National Institutes of Health, "Impact of Age on Long-term Recovery From Traumatic Brain Injury", Arch Phys Med Rehabilitation, May 2008.
(8) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, www.cdc.gov/Features/dsCerebralPalsy, accessed February 6, 2012
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Guns, liberty, and the constitution
Our country has suffered through the tragedy of Columbine, the University of Texas (twice), Virginia Tech, and just recently the Tucson massacre where it might be appropriate to pause and ask ourselves “why is it that the mentally ill can easily acquire a weapon?” I’m not talking about a .22 Pistol; it's the fully automatic assault weapons with ammunition to boot. The politicians of both political parties are afraid of taking on the NRA to change the law to make it more difficult for the unstable to purchase a gun...It's a no-brainer but if you disagree ,I would certainly love to know why not.
I'm 65 years old and live in a state where owning a gun is second nature, while I do not own one myself, but I certainly don't mind if law abiding, mentally stable people own as many guns and ammunition as the law allows. I am fully aware of the need to protect our homes and our loved ones but just because I choose an alarm system and calling 9/11 doesn't mean I look down on those who buy guns for that extra protection.
As I mentioned in the first paragraph, our federal legislators are quick to want to protect themselves against the crazies but are reluctant to have a passionate debate without fear of alienating the NRA, when it comes to protecting innocent bystanders. One legislator, Congressman Dan Burton, is going to introduce legislation to erect a glass bulletproof petition to separate the spectators from the legislators making a speech on the house floor. Another legislator, Peter King, of New York plans to introduce legislation making it illegal to carry a firearm within 1,000 feet of lawmakers and some other government officials. I agree with both pieces of legislation but shouldn’t we extend it,to prevent mentally unstable people from owning guns? I can’t remember the congressman name, who suggested streamlining concealed handgun permits for all congressmen. I can picture the democratic congressman from New York; Anthony Wiener crouched behind a desk taking fire from Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann.
A poster in our local form named “Zero” asked “The problem comes in defining what a “right.” is Do morons have the right to get on my airplane flight with a gun? I say they do not. Do morons have a right to bring guns into my kids' elementary schools? I say they do not. The morons say they have a right to carry guns in order to defend the constitution and their rights to LL&PH. But it infringes with my right to be free of morons. Are you going to tell me that my rights are inferior to the morons? I thought Zero asked reasonable questions and stated their case pretty well....The answer from a right wing partisan, Observer was “Anyone who refuses to drink the liberal/progressive/socialist/communist KoolAid MUST be a moron, since the liberals and their ilk are all our intellectual superiors. If you do not believe that, just ask them and they will tell you. That's where we are on the home front, so how do we expect our politicians to have a civil debate. I don't think the left or the right want the mentally ill owning a gun, but they won't sit down and figure out a way to do that without alienating the NRA, the far left or far right.
The second amendment has been interpreted, misinterpreted, and debated more than any other constitutional amendment, so it's not necessary to reopen old wounds just to prevent the mentally unstable individual from opening fire on innocent civilians How many more legislators, judges, students, and innocent civilians have to be critically wounded or killed before we address this issue? I know the ATF is underfunded and undermanned, and it’s darn near impossible to check all those applying under the Brady bill but don't we need to take the initial steps?
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Neurofibromatosis (NF) is a rare genetic disease which causes tumors to grow on the nerve tissues. These being noncancerous and less life threatening, patients affected with NF can lead a normal life if the cosmetic issues are ignored. Although there are treatments available like surgeries or use of FDA approved drugs that can control the progression and symptoms in people affected with this disorder, researchers are still trying to find a potent solution that can permanently curb this disease. Novel technologies such as stem cell technology and CRISPR genome editing are being studied that could act as a cheaper, reliable, noncomplex and less time-consuming solution to this rare condition. In the current scenario, COVID-19 affected NF patients have neither shown progression of the NF condition or any severe side effects after being administered with vaccines. This review gives a gist of the drugs which are currently in use for treatment of this disease and various signaling pathways involved in the activation of Neurofibromatosis that could be inhibited using computational methods in the near future so as to obtain a solution which can be employed in the early stages itself.
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Hiking A hiking trail network that is picturesque and diverse covers more than 18 miles and leads to mountain views, rock outcrops, waterfalls and even a mountain cave. Rounding out the fare are a mountain biking network and a wheelchair-accessible exploration.
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Trail Rating: Moderate Chinquapin Trail is a natural surface trail that provides access to several points in the park, including the campground, park office, amphitheater and Table Rock Lakeshore Trail. The trail is relatively flat yet offers a great sampling of Ozark woodlands and glades.
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Mato Paha or “Bear Mountain” is the Lakota name given to Bear Butte State Park. This geological formation is one of several intrusions of igneous rock in the Black Hills that formed millions of years ago.
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. Butte and Bell Rock off state Route 179. Trek along the park’s 5-mile collection of trails to take in a mosaic of red rock and desert vistas in Oak Creek Canyon. For a unique perspective, join an.
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"I was blown away," Stoffel said of his first outing on the trails. of creating a state park that would offer some of the attractions of the famed Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota.
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The state ordered. Denver Zoo since 2010. Hanging Lake Trampled One of the most pristine and beautiful places in all of Colorado had a rather tough year. Crowds flocked to Hanging Lake near Glenwoo.
Hanging Rock State Park, NC. Magnolia Springs Trail, Cook’s Wall Trail, Wolf Rock Trail, Hanging Rock Trail Type: Loop Distance: 9.1 miles Difficulty: Average Conditions: Sunshine! Impression: This was a great day hike and I was happy to be joined by a long time good friend who I hadn’t seen in a while. This turned out to be a ton of fun.
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Apr 5, 2011. Being the namesake of Hanging Rock State Park, the mountain is not the. In addition to a wide range of good hiking trails, the peaks hosts a.
We pulled off into Starvation Creek State Park east of Cascade Locks. We did get in behind the ice pillar under the over hanging cliff. Fun but not as far up as we would have liked to have gotten.
It’s hard to pick a favorite season to experience the Hop River State Park Trail, set amid the dense forests of Eastern Connecticut. Sections of the 20-mile rail-trail dive through steep rock cuts that seep moisture, supplying air-conditioning in summer and freezing into glistening icefalls in winter.
Back to State Parks. Moore’s Wall Loop Trail, Hanging Rock State Park. Moore’s Knob, with an elevation of 2,579 feet and a prominence (height above surrounding peaks) of 1,440 feet, is the highest point in the Sauratown Mountains range.
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May 12, 2016. Explore North Carolina with these eight family-friendly hikes, from the. Hanging Rock Trail: This moderate 1.3-mile, one-way trail leads to.
Since its creation as a 1930s Civilian Conservation Corps project, Hanging Rock State Park has offered the best of a traditional outdoor experience with 73-site campground, picnic grounds, stocked lake for swimming and canoe rentals and more than 20 miles of hiking trails that climb onto spectacular views and weave alongside clear streams and waterfalls.
Nov 10, 2013 · Hanging Rock State Park is located within 30 minutes of our home and offers in one location all the thrill of a Blue Ridge Mountain hike. Today we took a six mile loop hike from the Picnic Shelter trail to Wolf Rock, visiting House Rock and Cooks Wall Mountain.
It seemed impossible to hike through Maine’s. like this again,” he said. The 100-Mile Wilderness is the most remote stretch of the AT, spanning from Monson to the edge of Baxter State Park. This se.
Gorgeous Scenery. Have you had a chance to see the beauty of Pilot Mountain and Hanging Rock State Park in the fall? This race is filled with wooded trails, stream crossings and gorgeous views, representing one of the most beautiful and difficult new races in the country.
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Climber Lucky To Be Alive After 70-Foot Fall In Eldorado CanyonA rock climber was badly injured and lucky to be alive following a fall in Eldorado Canyon State Park Saturday morning. Hiker’s Body Foun.
Lessons are forever learned on the trail. “That's the thing about backpacking,” I said. “Every trip. Corporate before hitting the trail at Hanging Rock State Park.
With the sea breezes and mewling gulls, even visiting an island as accessible as Jamestown can recharge the soul after a few hours hanging out at Beavertail State Park or strolling the. Prudence do.
North Carolina has 1,801 hiking trails. These trails range from 0 to 290 miles in length. The most popular trails are Mount Mitchell Trail, Linville Falls Trail and Clingmans Dome Lookout Tower Access. Trails.com member Paul G. recently completed Trail.
Follow this side trail for another.3 miles as it reaches a high point, and then drops down to Hanging Rock and an amazing view of the Rogue River Valley below. For the hiker looking for more hiking options, the trail along Panther Ridge continues for another 12 miles, eventually ending at Bald Knob.rn
For those active folk in the family, Hanging Rock State Park offer over 20 miles of amazing hiking trails that climb onto spectacular views, and weave along.
The main gallery has so many icons that the museum has hanging panels suspended. Across the street is a small park, and minutes away from the museum is the 4,135-acre Wachusett Reservoir, with hiki.
Circus Circus has the Adventuredome – an indoor amusement park with 25 rides and other attractions. A one-way, 13-mile loop takes you past scenic overlooks and a variety of walking/hiking trails th.
The western end of the route is at the visitor center of Hanging Rock State Park. For westbound hikers, this park will be the first taste of the mountains, and the 1.7-mile trail leading to the visitor center rises 1,000 feet past waterfalls and mountain plants like rhododendron, mountain laurel, and galax.
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It includes a number of wood staircases, ropes for balance, and rock retaining walls, all of which make for a great trail experience while still respecting the environment around it. You’ll end up hik.
Enjoy tastings or wine by the glass or bottle, wine slushies, local food truck eats, crossword puzzles, pre-film trivia, and hanging out on the patio. a limited number of boats. The park also has m.
Hanging Rock State Park offers sheer cliffs and peaks of bare rock, quiet forests and cascading waterfalls, and views of the piedmont plateau that stretch for miles. Although Peregrine Falcons have ceased nesting on Moore’s Wall, a hike along the Moore’s Wall loop trail still may lead to the guttural croaks of a Common Raven and a fantastic view.
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Detail of hiking trails in Malibu Creek State Park. Aerial View Trailheads a. Grasslands trailhead and parking at De Anza Park on Lost Hills Rd about 1 mile south of the 101 freeway, just north of Las Virgenes Rd (Map and Directions)b.
Park is open: 7 a.m. – 10 p.m. unless camping overnight. Check for scheduled park closures. HQ is open: 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Trails may be closed due to wet conditions or weather; please contact the park, or visit our Facebook page or Twitter feed prior to arrival for current trail status and dinosaur track visibility. For after-hours visitors with reservations, we will post a list of site.
Hanging Rock State Park, located 30 miles north of Winston-Salem has been on my radar for quite some time now. This 7,000 acre park protects one of the more well-known landmarks in the state, Hanging Rock, and from what I had heard and read it boasted some of the most scenic hiking the Piedmont has to offer.
Finland’s national parks and other state. park service says that many structures are in need of renovation, including wilderness lodges, outhouses, firewood shelters, boating structures and rest si.


Tom Hanks stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to talk about his new Western film, News of the World. But given that he’s, well, Tom Hanks, the conversation turned pretty free-wheeling, and the veteran actor was able to recount a few of his classic Hollywood anecdotes.
“There was a time when so many Westerns were made that actors always rode the same horse in every Western they made,” Hanks said. He then proceeded to tell the story of meeting Jimmy Stewart at his house during a photoshoot. Hanks recalled seeing little to no memorabilia from Stewart’s many landmark films in his home, except for a painting of a horse — the same horse, named Pie, that Stewart rode in all of his Westerns.
“‘Oh yeah, the wranglers would keep it out by Griffith Park,’” Hanks remembered Stewart saying, doing his best impression of the It’s a Wonderful Life star. “‘That’s where we all had our horses.’”
Henry Fonda happened to make the painting for Stewart — coincidentally, just a few days before Pie died, and so the actor kept the painting hung in his home to remember him by.
In addition to his Jimmy Stewart story, Hanks also recounted his own experiences riding a horse, Wimpy, on the set of News of the World.
“They have those eyes on the side of their head, and they just kinda look at you like this,” Hanks said, doing an imitation of a horse’s unblinking eye. “Those big, deep brown eyes. And I got the distinct feeling that Wimpy was deciding whether or not to put up with me that day.”


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Artbound's fifth episode brings one-of-a-kind arts and culture stories that celebrate the creative spirit of Southern California, only on KCET November 21, at 9:35 p.m. PST. Check local listings here.
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Artbound provides an exclusive look at the avant-garde opera, "Invisible Cities." Produced by The Industry, L.A.'s experimental opera company, in partnership with the L.A. Dance Project, "Invisible Cities" depicts the meeting between emperor Kublai Khan at the end of his life with the explorer Marco Polo, as told in Italo Calvino's fantastical book. An innovative production staged in the iconic Union Station, the opera utilizes wireless technology provided by Sennheiser, offering audience members headphones to hear the opera amid the normal "hustle and bustle" of the train station's everyday life. "Invisible Cities" is composed and adapted by Christopher Cerrone, directed by The Industry's founder and artistic director Yuval Sharon, with choreography by Danielle Agami.
Ted Meyer's "Scarred for Life" art project has helped individuals accept and even embrace their scars. His process involves taking mono-prints directly off the skin of models who have been scarred by an illness or injury.
Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre's mobile "Duck Truck" brings site-specific performances to various locations in Los Angeles.
Jeff Speetjens is a puppeteer living in Santa Monica, CA. At Bootsy Bellows, a nightclub on Sunset Blvd in West Hollywood, Jeff performs with a variety of marionettes from the stage to the dance floor. Jeff has directed a variety of film and stage productions. His short films have been featured in festivals such as the Cannes and Ion film festivals.
Photographer, Candacy Taylor followed her interest in the social dynamics of traditional female work roles to Twentynine Palms and never looked back. Salons and diners are her subjects of choice.
Artist Alison O'Daniel has a manifesto. "Sound is primary; but other materials and sculptures play out cinematically in a three-act structure of emotional landscapes -- a jarringly non-linear experience of simultaneous time that rises through the body." Using a collaborative, cross-platform process, she makes her strange, fascinating, and lyrical work in interdependent video, sculpture, and sound.
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Sustainability for commercial properties has come a long way since the start of the new millennium, when developers would chuckle and shake their heads at proposals to spend big bucks on green features. “Too expensive to the bottom line” was a common refrain.
It took a decade for the learning curve to jump. Today, just about every building designed has green features, whether mandated by a local community or a tenant. Going green is becoming almost passé–what really gets attention today is a building that not only saves energy, it gives energy back.
The term for such a property is Net Zero Energy Building, or ZEB. While these structures are designed to maximize every green idea, such as natural lighting and efficient HVAC systems, there is usually at least one energy generator, say, solar panels or fuel cells, which can create enough positive electricity to at least offset the normal annual use.
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Despite its generally dry climate, agriculture in New Mexico is an important economic activity. Ranching and commercial farming added $3.1 billion to the state’s economy in 2007. Nearly half of this income was derived from Chaves, Curry, Roosevelt, and Doña Ana counties. There were 20,600 farms in 2008, of which 33 percent had annual sales of more than $10,000. Farmland occupied 17.4 million hectares (43 million acres), of which just 5 percent was devoted to raising crops. Some 33 percent of the cropland is irrigated either by river water or by groundwater from aquifers. The greater part of New Mexico’s productive farmland is found along the Río Grande and in the Pecos, San Juan, Canadian, and Gila river valleys, where crops can be irrigated with river water.
Some areas, such as that around Deming, are irrigated by pumped wells. The production on the irrigated land accounts for much of New Mexico’s agricultural output by value. Dry farming (farming without irrigation) is practiced in the extreme eastern part of the state and in a few small areas in the mountain valleys.
Ranching is far more important than farming, especially in eastern New Mexico. Livestock sales provide 76 percent of the state’s farm income. The cattle herds were largest in the early 1920s, but the grasslands were greatly overgrazed. Since then the number of cattle has been reduced and efforts have been made to improve grazing practices.
At one time the cattle were marketed chiefly in Kansas City, but now many cattle are slaughtered in New Mexico and much of the beef is sent to California.
Sheep are grazed in the northeastern plains, in the northern mountains, and in the Navajo areas of the northwest. National forests include grazing land for sheep and cattle. While growing cattle and calves for meat remained steady during the 1990s, the value of dairy products increased markedly, becoming the second most valuable agricultural product. The state also has farms that produce eggs and hogs. In the late 1990s hay, vegetables, and nursery and greenhouse items were the leading cash crops in New Mexico. Hay is grown mainly in Chaves, Eddy, and San Juan counties, and most of it is fed to livestock on the farms where it is grown rather than sold.
The most important vegetables raised are chili peppers and onions; others include potatoes, lettuce, and pinto beans. Corn, cotton, peanuts, grain sorghum, and wheat are the most important field crops—most grown on irrigated farms. Orchard crops are primarily pecans, grown in Doña Ana County, and apples, grown in Rio Arriba and San Juan counties. "New Mexico" © Emmanuel BUCHOT, Encarta, Wikipedia
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West failed in peaceful dialogue with Minsk. Lithuania and the US put pressure on Belarus showing the world their double standards.
It is wrong to accuse Belarus of the migrant crisis on the Eastern border of the EU. The responsibility for it, first of all, should take the US. It is because of the US military interventions and bombings that millions of people were forced to seek asylum abroad.
Talks with Belarus are possible only in conditions of mutual respect and equality. It is time for the West to finally understand this, no matter how sick its brain is.
The narrative mixes a few messages including disinformation about the migration crisis on the border of Belarus with Lithuania, Latvia and Poland, as well as the accusation of the West of the aggressive behaviour toward other countries.
The claims the West was involved in unfriendly actions towards Belarus or that it has some aggressive geopolitical plans or contempt for the sovereignty of this country are unfounded. The West continues to support the Belarusian people, respects the principles of international law and does not intervene in the domestic affairs of any country.


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Because all business licenses now have a standard due date of April 30, January is the time for all cities and towns to ensure they are prepared to accept payments from the Renewal Center. Here are several key things for municipalities to know going into the setup period that ends January 25, 2023:
Tasks for the business licensing main contact
Every taxing jurisdiction has one staff member designated as the main contact for the Renewal Center. Those contacts need to make certain that their city or town has everything set up correctly in the Renewal Center.
They must ensure that all of the current city or town business license data is imported into the Renewal Center. They need to make sure their city or town has set up an account with Stripe, the Renewal Center’s payment processor. They need to ensure the most current version of the jurisdiction’s business license is uploaded — the Municipal Association recommends adoption of the model business license ordinance — and make sure that the business license rate structures, penalty structures and excluded North American Industry Classification System codes, or NAICS codes, are edited and up to date. They should also make sure that the logo and authorized signature of the city or town are up to date, since these will appear on issued business licenses.
Renewal notice letter mailouts
The Renewal Center opens to businesses for their payments on February 1. Because of this, the Municipal Association recommends that cities and towns mail out their annual business license renewal notices in January.
Notices need to include the business’ NAICS code number and business license account number. Also, because the Renewal Center identifies businesses by either a Federal Employee Identification Number or the business owner’s Social Security number, those cities and towns that are not already requesting this information should ask for it in the renewal notice so that businesses may use the Renewal Center.
Revenue Analyst Fran Adcock is the Municipal Association’s staff contact for the Renewal Center. For those needing assistance with setup or renewal notices, contact her at email@example.com or 803.933.1201.
“Business Licensing Essentials” moves to second Tuesdays
In 2022, the Association’s Local Revenue Services began hosting “Business Licensing Essentials,” a series of virtual training sessions on the many critical topics involved in the business licensing process. Last year, those monthly sessions took place on the second Wednesday at 10 a.m., but in 2023, the sessions will move to the second Tuesday. The sessions require no registration. When they begin, a login link can be found on the Association’s training calendar. Attending these sessions allows participants to gain points toward their Master in Business Licensing, or MBL reaccreditation.
- The Association’s website has a page that gathers together information about the Local Business License Renewal Center.
- The Renewal Center link for businesses to use is www.localblrenewal.com.
- The Renewal Center link for taxing jurisdictions to use when maintaining their accounts is jurisdiction.localblrenewal.com.

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Kapil Dev, the 1983 Cricket World Cup-winning captain for India, is set to appear in the upcoming movie Lal Salaam alongside the legendary actor Rajinikanth. This is a Tamil movie, which will be directed by Aishwarya.R.Dhanush, the daughter of Rajinikanth, while the other featured actors to play their respective roles are going to be Vishnu Vishal and Vikranth.
Kapil Dev has portrayed his own character in movies like Mujhse Shaadi Karogi, Iqbal, Chain Kulli Ki Main Kulii, and Double XL. Meanwhile, in 2021, a movie called "83," based on the first Cricket World Cup win of India, was released in which the Haryana Hurricane’s role was portrayed by the Bollywood star Ranveer Singh.
Earlier today, Rajinikanth took to Twitter and made the announcement about the 'Lal Salaam' movie, where he will be sharing the screen with Kapil Dev. The world-renowned actor shared a picture of himself talking with the former Indian swashbuckling cricketer in a tweet and wrote, "It is my honour and privilege working with the Legendary, most respected and wonderful human being Kapildevji., who made India proud winning for the first time ever..Cricket World Cup!!! #lalsalaam #therealkapildev"
Notably, in his cricketing career, Kapil Dev played 131 Test matches and scored 5248 runs, and picked up 434 wickets to become one of the greatest fast bowlers India has ever produced. He was the highest wicket-taker in the Test format for the better part of six years from 1994 to 2000 until Courtney Walsh broke his record. Dev also picked up 251 wickets in 225 ODIs for the country while scoring 3783 runs.

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It was down to the 'Greatest Music Cafe In The World', The Chattery in Swansea, yet again, to see Chicago musician Chris Mills with his band The Distant Stars.
Now officially my favourite Swansea venue with lovely welcoming people and a friendly, homely vibe, The Chattery continues to attract some great musicians to this great little venue.
The evening kicked off with some able support from Welsh band Rugfire - minus their lead guitarist, they played some music from their current album - The Difficult Second Album. They had plenty of support in the room and played music that reminded me of early Crowded House (no bad thing).
It was then time for Chris Mills and The Distant Stars. Introduced to me by a friend who also likes to seek out new music, Rob Hurley, Chris has been around for quite some time. From the Mid 1990s, Chris has produced some lovely LPs with a sort of folk, country & Americana sound.
Chris and the band are on tour supporting their latest album
When I listen to Chris, I hear the influences of The Replacements, Tom Petty & even Jonathan Richman but his music is not really derivative of any of those great artists - he has cut his own path.
Looking mean and lean and ably supported by his tight band, Chris performed songs from throughout his career and varied the pace to great effect.Chris has played The Chattery before and was obviously at ease in the venue and this showed in the performance. He was among friends tonight.
Chris has been getting some great reviews for the new album Alexandria and the songs take on another dimension live.
Chris brought the gig to a close with a cover of the Big Star song, Thank You Friend.
The end to another great evening of music at The Chattery.
So take my advice, if you get a chance to see Chris play live, GO. You'll be glad you did.
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A Somali human rights group says explosions and gun battles in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, killed and wounded scores of civilians on Monday, making it one of the bloodiest days there in recent months. As VOA correspondent Alisha Ryu reports from our East Africa Bureau in Nairobi, the upsurge in violence happened as Human Rights Watch released a report on Somalia.
The chairman of the independent Somali group Elman Human Rights tells VOA that his organization conducted a survey of hospitals and various neighborhoods in Mogadishu to see how many civilians had been killed and wounded in Monday's violence.
Sudan Ali Ahmed says his group counted 31 dead and 60 others wounded - the latest victims in an escalating conflict that began eight months ago, shortly after neighboring Ethiopia helped Somalia's secular Transitional Federal Government topple radical Islamists from power.
"The casualties have been in the last day in Mogadishu very, very high," he said. "The civilians are killed, without justification, by Ethiopian troops, the TFG troops, and the opposition, who are fighting the government."
Ahmed says insurgents, who have vowed to wage a guerrilla war until Ethiopian troops leave Somalia, triggered the fighting by attacking government bases early in the day.
The attacks were followed by a roadside bombing, which targeted a government vehicle passing through a neighborhood in the north of the city. Witnesses say Ethiopian soldiers, who were near the site of the blast, opened fire and killed at least nine civilians.
Other casualties occurred after a bomb attack on a public minibus and insurgents, armed with guns and grenades, fought with police in the streets.
Somalia descended into chaos in 1991 after factional leaders overthrew dictator Mohamed Siad Barre and carved up the country into personal fiefdoms.
Having survived more than 15 years of civil war, Mogadishu residents are some of the most resilient people in the world. But Ahmed says he believes many have lost hope for any peace in their volatile city.
"If there is good life, there is good hope," he said. " But if there is no good life, there is no hope. Right now, they are hopeless."
Fighting in Mogadishu raged as the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch issued a report, denouncing all parties in the Somali conflict for violating humanitarian law. The report called Mogadishu a city under siege and criticized donor countries for not intervening more forcefully.
On Monday, Britain proposed the deployment of a U.N. peacekeeping force in Somalia to take over for an African Union mission, which has struggled to raise troops.
Only about 1,500 peacekeeping troops from Uganda are in Somalia. The United Nations is now under pressure to deploy a well-equipped force that can stabilize the country.

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COLUMBUS – Getting ready to plant corn? Just remember the trials and tribulations of establishing last season’s crop.
Growers can reduce production risks if they adhere to the lessons learned from last season, said Peter Thomison, an Ohio State Extension agronomist.
Thomison hailed growers for early and prompt planting last season, one of the few bright spots in an otherwise lackluster crop year. Warm, dry conditions allowed growers to plant earlier than anticipated.
“About 70 percent of the corn was planted by May 9, which was ahead of schedule,” Thomison said.
Right depth. Given the unpredictability of weather, however, Thomison encourages growers to stick to recommended planting practices.
“We ran into several issues last year,” he said. “The main thing we saw was that as the ground turned dry, some growers were planting deeper than normal because they wanted to take advantage of any moisture. But that backfired on us when we ran into that cold, freezing rain and snow for a seven- to 10-day period after April 21.”
The rule of thumb when planting seed in mid-April is to plant between 1.5 inches and 2 inches deep. Planting any deeper could set growers up for emergence problems. Planting any shallower could result in poor nodal root establishment that could spell trouble for the crop later in the growing season, especially under drought conditions.
Crust busters. Another problem experienced last year was surface crusting of soil, created when heavy rains come into contact with excessively tilled soil. The result is a seed growth barrier and the subsequent corkscrew phenomenon characteristic of a plant struggling to emerge from the ground.
Don’t overwork fields, Thomison said, because it just predisposes soils to crusting if heavy rains occur.
“Last year we found that fields that weren’t tilled as extensively had a better chance of recovery than those fields that were tilled too much, especially in fields where soils were overworked to a powdery consistency.
“No-till fields also tend to perform better than conventional fields regarding this matter.”
Replanting is a guess. Juggling replanting with potentially late-emerging corn plants can be a challenge for growers, as the outcome of both is not so black and white.
Last year, more than 30 percent of the corn crop was replanted in many counties because of assumptions of damaged corn seed. However, some growers experienced late-emerging corn in their replanted fields.
“What we learned from this is that corn can emerge from the ground 40 days or even longer after it is planted,” Thomison said. “We found that in some cases late emerging plants performed better than replanted corn, and vice versa.”
To avoid early season planting problems, Thomison encourages growers to plant in well-drained fields first, and in fields prone to drainage or flooding problems last.
“Because those fields would probably flood in late April or early May, they are more likely to require replanting,” Thomison said.
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Development of an On-Board PM Sensor for the OBD System Based on an Electrochemical Polarization
ISSN: 1946-3952, e-ISSN: 1946-3960
Published August 30, 2011 by SAE International in United States
Citation: Yoshihara, Y., Suzuki, T., Tominaga, K., Aoki, K. et al., "Development of an On-Board PM Sensor for the OBD System Based on an Electrochemical Polarization," SAE Int. J. Fuels Lubr. 5(1):337-342, 2012, https://doi.org/10.4271/2011-01-2059.
An on-board particulate matter (PM) sensor, consisting of a gas-permeable electrochemical cell with a porous yttria-stabilized zirconia solid oxide electrolyte, was developed to assist the on-board diagnostics (OBD) system of a vehicle. Exhaust is pumped from the anode side to the cathode side and PM deposited on the anode is instantly oxidized by the catalytic effects of the metal component of the electrode at temperatures higher than 350°C. The PM oxidation reaction occurs at the three-phase boundary between the anode, electrolyte and gas phase, and causes a slight change in the bulk average oxygen concentration, which produces electrochemical polarization by the difference in oxygen partial pressures between the anode and cathode. The developed PM sensor has a detection limit of 2 mg/m₃, at which level will enable PM detection in the OBD system according to the EURO VI regulation.
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Return to the dystopian world of Apocalyptica with this Sunday’s story.
Leandra and Gwen
The city is on fire. Flames rise up to a dark and empty sky as people run for their lives. I walk through the ashes, spying piles of burning bodies deformed by illness. A new disease. A brand-new strain of hell unleashed.
I itch to grab my gun, but I know being quiet is safe so I unsheathe my two thin swords. Through the chaos and the heat, I spy one figure, calm and clean, holding a white lace parasol, her dark hair parted into pigtails.
She dances with the flames and, through the painful screams, I hear her humming something. I pause on the edge of the square, unsure what to make of the scene, as she locks her eyes on me.
Icy fear runs down my spine as I grab the cross around my neck. God protect me. It’s a Horsewoman.
I’m in the right place.
Warm, watery light filtered in from the stained-glass windows of the sanctuary. It was beautiful there, peaceful even.
Outside, the world was collapsing.
Eight of us stood around a low table in the center of the old church. Anything precious had been looted, and the pews were shoved aside like unwanted toys.
“Reports state that Death and War are AWOL,” our commander, Knight Commander Harold, said. “In the wake of their disappearance, it seems Pestilence and Famine have been unleashed.”
We stood quietly, taking in the information. We ourselves had yet to see the Horsemen in person, but there were plenty of sightings from others. Apparently, the horsemen were Horsewomen, and sisters to boot.
“Famine appears to have headed west.” Commander Harold’s leather finger drug across the map towards the western states. “Pestilence, on the other hand, is closer.” She pointed to a state on the east coast. “Get there and, if you can, help these people. Get them out. But your main priority is Pestilence; capture her alive.” The commander caught each of our eyes. “If you succeed, we will have bait to capture the other three.” Commander Harold’s eyes latched onto mine.
“I’m putting you in charge, Dame Iris.”
All eyes shifted to me.
“You have served with me since all this began. You’ve earned it.”
“Yes Commander,” I said, giving her a salute.
The Commander only nodded and dismissed us.
We are too late.
My swords flash through the air as the pigtailed demon comes down upon me. In a flash, she changes direction, and I feel the end of her parasol stab into my side.
I stumble, and I hear her childish laughter. The fire licks the air around us, causing beads of sweat to run down my face. Hearing another bout of laughter, I swing my swords up, catching ash from the ground and hurling it in the Horsewoman’s direction.
She gasps as her vision clouds. Saying a prayer, I bring my swords down. A sound like thunder ricochets off the buildings, and my right sword falls. Another thunder crack, and I’m disarmed.
Something large knocks me down to the ground. I slam my head against concrete and suck in a breath. Pain blooms from the impact, and I take note of something heavy and furry sitting on my chest. It’s hard to breathe. I shift beneath the weight and a growl comes from above me.
The pigtailed horseman is crying now, rubbing her eyes. Two figures now stand over her protectively. I try to push the dog off, but it’s so heavy, and, when I move, it snaps its jaws at me.
One of the figures walks over, and the first thing I notice is her blood red hair. She reaches over her shoulder to the large sword on her back and pulls it out with a hiss.
“Good job, Erna,” the woman praises, patting the dog’s head. She looks down on me with a frown and raises the sword menacingly.
My heart flutters in my chest as I brace for what I know is coming.
“Stop!” someone yells. A dark-haired woman comes charging over. “It’s not her time, Marcella.”
I look closely at these figures. Their features are similar, and, for a second, I wonder why anyone would want to help a Horsewoman?
Then it hits me.
They are Horsewoman too.
“Agrona,” Marcella says in a reasoning tone. “She’s a Crusader. She’s going to get in our way. It’s better to take care of her now.”
The dark-haired woman’s eyes plead. “Hasn’t there been enough bloodshed, sister?”
Marcella scowls and then sighs. “Fine.” She flips the sword, and I let out a sigh of relief just as she brings the hilt down on my head.


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