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The role of mesenchymal stem cells in the treatment of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease
GREGOIRE, Céline ; Louis, Edouard ; BRIQUET, Alexandra et al
in The Biology and Therapeutic Applications of Mesenchymal Cells (in press)Detailed reference viewed: 108 (60 ULg)
Di Giovanni, Nicolas ; Meuwis, Marie-Alice ; LOUIS, Edouard et al
Scientific conference (2016, July 07)Detailed reference viewed: 21 (6 ULg)
In the quest of robust biomarkers for inflammatory bowel disease phenotypes using GC×GC-HRTOFMS
Di Giovanni, Nicolas ; Meuwis, Marie-Alice ; LOUIS, Edouard et al
Conference (2016, June 28)Detailed reference viewed: 17 (1 ULg)
Investigation of the possible effect of sampling on human exhaled breath sample integrity
Pesesse, Romain ; Stefanuto, Pierre-Hugues ; SCHLEICH, FLorence et al
Poster (2016, May 30)Detailed reference viewed: 17 (2 ULg)
Discrimination between inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) phenotypes by GC×GC-HRTOFMS
Di Giovanni, Nicolas ; MEUWIS, Marie-Alice ; LOUIS, Edouard et al
Conference (2016, May 30)Detailed reference viewed: 12 (1 ULg)
Proteins in early CRC stages - from proteomic discovery to immunohistochemistry tissue distribution characterisation
QUESADA-CALVO, Florence ; Meuwis, Marie-Alice ; Bertrand, Virginie et al
Poster (2016, February 19)Detailed reference viewed: 23 (7 ULg)
Characterization of human exhaled breath for non-invasive detection of diseases by GC×GC-TOFMS
Pesesse, Romain ; Stefanuto, Pierre-Hugues ; SCHLEICH, FLorence et al
Conference (2016, January 28)Detailed reference viewed: 33 (5 ULg)
Le syndrome thyro-gastrique auto-immun : actualités cliniques et thérapeutiques
VALDES SOCIN, Hernan Gonzalo ; SID, Sélim ; LUTTERI, Laurence et al
in Vaisseaux, Coeur, Poumons (2016), 21(4), 11-15Detailed reference viewed: 20 (8 ULg)
Familial thyrogastric autoimmune syndrome : a study of 22 kindreds
Sid, Sélim ; LUTTERI, Laurence ; BEGUIN, Yves et al
in Abstract book - 20th Annual Congress of the Belgian Society of Internal Medicine (2015, December)Detailed reference viewed: 25 (2 ULg)
Comparison of serum fractionation methods by data independent label-free proteomics
Baiwir, Dominique ; Mazzucchelli, Gabriel ; Smargiasso, Nicolas et al
in EuPA Open Proteomics (2015), 9
Off-line sample prefractionations applied prior to biomarker discovery proteomics are options to enable more protein identifications and detect low-abundance proteins. This work compared five commercial ... [more ▼]
Off-line sample prefractionations applied prior to biomarker discovery proteomics are options to enable more protein identifications and detect low-abundance proteins. This work compared five commercial methods efficiency to raw serum analysis using label-free proteomics. The variability of the protein quantities determined for each process was similar to the unprefractionated serum. A 49% increase in protein identifications and 12.2% of reliable quantification were obtained. A 61 times lower limit of protein quantitation was reached compared to protein concentrations observed in raw serum. The concentrations of detected proteins were confronted to estimated reference values. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 76 (12 ULg)
QUESADA-CALVO, Florence ; Meuwis, Marie-Alice ; Bertrand, Virginie et al
Conference (2015, October 27)Detailed reference viewed: 14 (6 ULg)
Fistula plug in fistulising ano-perineal Crohn's disease: a randomised controlled trial
; ; et al
in Journal of Crohn's and Colitis [=JCC] (2015)Detailed reference viewed: 17 (0 ULg)
Syndrome thyrogastrique autoimmun (STGA) : la gastrite auto-immune isolée (GAI) et celle associée à Helicobacter (Hp) ont des caractéristiques anatomocliniques différentes
VALDES SOCIN, Hernan Gonzalo ; MESUREUR, Thierry ; POLUS, Marc et al
in Abstract book - Annales d'Endocrinologie - 32ème Congrès de la Société Française d'Endocrinologie (2015, October)Detailed reference viewed: 52 (7 ULg)
When it is not inflammatory bowel disease: differential diagnosis
Louis, Edouard
in Current Opinion in Gastroenterology (2015)Detailed reference viewed: 34 (3 ULg)
Optimising the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Unit to Improve Quality Of Care: Expert Recommandations
Louis, Edouard ; ; et al
in Journal of Crohn's and Colitis [=JCC] (2015)Detailed reference viewed: 26 (4 ULg)
Prioritizing likely causative genes in GWAS identified risk loci for immune-mediated inflammatory disorders using cell-type specific eQTL information.
Docampo Martínez, Elisa ; Fang, Ming ; Dmitrieva, Joelia Borisnova et al
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Background/Purpose: Immune-mediated inflammatory disorders (IMIDs) share many genetic risk factors. Pleiotropy may exist at different levels and most of the underlying mechanisms are still to be uncovered ... [more ▼]
Background/Purpose: Immune-mediated inflammatory disorders (IMIDs) share many genetic risk factors. Pleiotropy may exist at different levels and most of the underlying mechanisms are still to be uncovered. GWAS have identified hundreds of risk loci for IMIDs but causative genes have been identified in only a handful of cases. Recent fine-mapping efforts indicate that only a minority of risk variants are coding. This suggests that most risk variants will be regulatory hence affecting disease risk via eQTL effects. Methods: To aid in the identification of causative genes for IMIDs, we generated transcriptome information (HT12 arrays) for six blood cell types (CD4, CD8, CD19, CD14, CD15 and platelets) and intestinal biopsies at three anatomical locations (ileum, colon, rectum) for 350 healthy Caucasians. The same individuals were genotyped with SNP arrays interrogating > 700K variants, augmented by imputation from the 1KG project. To detect cis-eQTL we tested variants within 0.5 megabase windows centered on the tested probe. The nominal p-value of the best SNP within a cis-window was Sidak-corrected for the window-specific number of independent tests. The corresponding best, Sidak-corrected p-values for each probe were jointly used to estimate their respective false discovery rate.To identify likely causative genes in GWAS identified risk loci variants and also better understand pleiotropic effects, we (i) developed a method that quantifies the correlation between "disease association pattern" (DAP) and "eQTL association pattern" (EAP) and provides an empirical estimate of its significance, and (ii) evaluated the effect of fitting known risk variants as covariates in the eQTL analysis following Nica et al. (2010). We applied both approaches to celiac disease (CE) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and the second one to type one diabetes (T1D), multiple sclerosis (MS), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and psoriasis (PSO). Results: We detected > 16000 significant cis-eQTL, with a degree of sharing between cell types ranging from 38 to 90% highlighting the utility of our multi-tissue panel. GWAS variants were drivers of ciseQTL effects across the different tissues in 399 tests (23.6%), mostly in CD4 cells, and pinpointing 64 new gene-disease associations (3.7%). The number of shared loci and shared eQTL were highly correlated (rho=0.66).RA and SLE showed the highest degree of sharing. Conclusions: We identified new potential candidate genes for IMIDs and characterized pleiotropic effects through ciseQTL mapping in GWAS loci. These findings could shed a light on IMIDs pathogenesis and co-occurrence. Latest results will be presented. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 75 (10 ULg)
Comparison of early stages of colorectal cancer by label free proteomics
QUESADA CALVO, Florence ; MEUWIS, Marie-Alice ; Bertrand, Virginie et al
in Acta Gastroenterologica (2015, February 27)
Introduction and objectives: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most frequent cancer in women and the third in men. Identification of the mechanisms of progression in these early CRC stages is ... [more ▼]
Introduction and objectives: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most frequent cancer in women and the third in men. Identification of the mechanisms of progression in these early CRC stages is important to develop new diagnostic and therapeutic tools. Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded (FFPE) specimens are materials that enable proteomic clinical research. Hence our aim was to address the comparison of FFPE samples from early CRC stages patients using shotgun proteomic analysis. Methods: We performed a retrospective study on 36 CRC tissue samples (pT1N0M0, n=16 and pT2N0M0, n=20) compared together and with 40 control tissue samples (20 patients with diverticulitis, using paired inflamed (DI) and healthy tissue (DH)). Each tissue slice was macrodissected to enrich in epithelial cells. We used FFPE-FASP kit (Expedeon) for sample preparation and protein digests were analyzed using 2D-nanoAquity UPLC separation online with Q-Tof Synapt HDMSTM G2 using ion mobility as additional separation. We performed protein identification and differential analysis using Progenesis QI for proteomics (Nonlinear Dynamics). Results and discussion: We selected 149 proteins differentially distributed between T1 and T2 CRC stages which were not significantly different between CRC and DH or DI. Only 30 proteins were significantly more abundant in T1 versus T2 and 119 were distributed inversely, with a minimum fold ratio of 2. Among those, ATP synthase subunit beta, Aspartate-tRNA ligase, Haptoglobin and Kininogen were identified. . Moreover, we validated Kininogen and 3 others proteins with a significant differential distribution between pT1N0M0 and pT2N0M0 stages by immunohistochemistry. Conclusion: This FFPE retrospective study comparing T1 and T2 CRC highlighted proteins already previously identified as potential CRC biomarkers. These proteins may reflect important early changes in cancer development and may help understanding early tumor progression. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 187 (23 ULg)
Potential Proteomic Biomarkers Associated with Mucosal Healing and Relapse Prediction after IFX Withdrawals in Crohn's Disease
MEUWIS, Marie-Alice ; QUESADA CALVO, Florence ; Baiwir, Dominique et al
in Acta gastroenterologica (2015, February 26)
Introduction and objectives: In Crohn's disease (CD), there is a discrepancy between clinical activity of the disease (symptoms) and intestinal healing. However absence of tissue healing is associated ... [more ▼]
Introduction and objectives: In Crohn's disease (CD), there is a discrepancy between clinical activity of the disease (symptoms) and intestinal healing. However absence of tissue healing is associated with the risk of relapse and tissue damage progression. Endoscopy is costly and invasive. Hence biomarkers correlating with intestinal healing could improve disease management and potentially decrease the number of endoscopy when patients are in clinical remission. Aim: We aimed to identify potential biomarkers associated to CD mucosal healing and relapse after IFX withdrawals by a shotgun label-free proteomic study. Methods: We used the STORI1 clinical trial cohort (n=103) aiming at identifying markers associated to relapse prediction after Infliximab treatment withdrawals. We used serum samples of patients in clinical remission (at base line). We grouped these according to the degree of intestinal healing seen at endoscopy or according to relapse occurrence during the 28 month follow-up and composed pooled samples. We performed depletion of the 20 most abundant plasma proteins on each serum pools and ran a proteomic label-free differential analysis using 2D-nanoUPLC-MSE HDMS Synapt G2 for data acquisition. We performed different statistical analysis. Moreover, a Gene Ontology annotation was also performed for the potential biomarkers highlighted. Results and Discussion: We identified analysing these depleted serum pools 430 different proteins and 188 proteins common to all samples. Among these, 40 were found with a significant differential abundance in the groups compared. We selected some among the most significant one (ratio>1.3) or being by nature consistent with the context of this study (sample origin and clinical question addressed). For example, the C-reactive protein (CRP) was found with a significant Ratio of 2 between Relapsers and Non Relapsers. The other potential biomarkers associated to mucosal healing or to relapse prediction, were selected for further validation by Western Blot analysis (WB), routine laboratory tests and also by a Mass Spectrometry based technology: multiplexed selected reaction monitoring (SRM). Multiplexed SRM will enable quantitative analysis of these candidates in each individual patient as well as WB tests. Conclusions: This research strategy and the validation results on potential biomarkers associated to mucosal healing or relapse after treatment cessation in this cohort of CD patients, as well as tests done on other CD patients, might provide new opportunities for patient follow-up test developments. The next step is to perform SRM validation on the STORI cohort and design signatures using these potential biomarkers SRM data for prognosis power evaluation. 1. Louis E, Mary JY, Vernier-Massouille G, et al. Maintenance of remission among patients with Crohn's disease on antimetabolite therapy after infliximab therapy is stopped. Gastroenterology 2012;142:63-70 e5; quiz e31. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 113 (6 ULg)
High-density mapping of the MHC identifies a shared role for HLA-DRB1*01:03 in inflammatory bowel diseases and heterozygous advantage in ulcerative colitis.
; ; et al
in Nature Genetics (2015), 47(2), 172-9
Genome-wide association studies of the related chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) known as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis have shown strong evidence of association to the major ... [more ▼]
Genome-wide association studies of the related chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) known as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis have shown strong evidence of association to the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). This region encodes a large number of immunological candidates, including the antigen-presenting classical human leukocyte antigen (HLA) molecules. Studies in IBD have indicated that multiple independent associations exist at HLA and non-HLA genes, but they have lacked the statistical power to define the architecture of association and causal alleles. To address this, we performed high-density SNP typing of the MHC in >32,000 individuals with IBD, implicating multiple HLA alleles, with a primary role for HLA-DRB1*01:03 in both Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Noteworthy differences were observed between these diseases, including a predominant role for class II HLA variants and heterozygous advantage observed in ulcerative colitis, suggesting an important role of the adaptive immune response in the colonic environment in the pathogenesis of IBD. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 65 (17 ULg)
Selective glucocorticoid receptor modulator compound A, in contrast to prednisolone, does not induce leptin or the leptin receptor in human osteoarthritis synovial fibroblasts.
MALAISE, Olivier ; ; QUESADA CALVO, Florence et al
in Rheumatology (Oxford, England) (2015)
OBJECTIVE: Glucocorticoids are powerful anti-inflammatory compounds that also induce the expression of leptin and leptin receptor (Ob-R) in synovial fibroblasts through TGF-betasignalling and Smad1/5 ... [more ▼]
OBJECTIVE: Glucocorticoids are powerful anti-inflammatory compounds that also induce the expression of leptin and leptin receptor (Ob-R) in synovial fibroblasts through TGF-betasignalling and Smad1/5 phosphorylation. Compound A (CpdA), a selective glucocorticoid receptor agonist, reduces inflammation in murine arthritis models and does not induce diabetes or osteoporosis, thus offering an improved risk:benefit ratio in comparison with glucocorticoids. Due to the detrimental role of leptin in OA pathogenesis, we sought to determine whether CpdA also induced leptin and Ob-R protein expression as observed with prednisolone. METHODS: Human synovial fibroblasts and chondrocytes were isolated from the synovium and cartilage of OA patients after joint surgery. The cells were treated with prednisolone, TGF-beta1, TNF-alpha and/or CpdA. Levels of leptin, IL-6, IL-8, MMP-1 and MMP-3 were measured by ELISA and expression levels of Ob-R phospho-Smad1/5, phospho-Smad2, alpha-tubulin and glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase were analysed by western blotting. RESULTS: CpdA, unlike prednisolone, did not induce leptin secretion or Ob-R protein expression in OA synovial fibroblasts. Moreover, CpdA decreased endogenous Ob-R expression and down-regulated prednisolone-induced leptin secretion and Ob-R expression. Mechanistically, CpdA, unlike prednisolone, did not induce Smad1/5 phosphorylation. CpdA, similarly to prednisolone, down-regulated endogenous and TNF-alpha-induced IL-6, IL-8, MMP-1 and MMP-3 protein secretion. The dissociative effect of CpdA was confirmed using chondrocytes with no induction of leptin secretion, but with a significant decrease in IL-6, IL-8, MMP-1 and MMP-3 protein secretion. CONCLUSION: CpdA, unlike prednisolone, did not induce leptin or Ob-R in human OA synovial fibroblasts, thereby demonstrating an improved risk:benefit ratio. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 39 (21 ULg)


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Dominic, Bella, McKenna, Ayden and Erin – names appearing on the five rubber bracelets worn around Jenny Formica's left wrist. These five names represent more than children battling cancer.
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USDOT issues new Transportation Alternatives Guidance
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JUNE 5, 2015: Safe Routes to School allocations top $1 billion; states keep moving on TAP funds
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APRIL 7, 2015: Broad support for the Transportation Alternatives Program
MARCH 25, 2015: Ask your Senator: Speak up for Safe Routes to School
MARCH 19, 2015: Two new bills advance funding and safety for Safe Routes to School, bicycling, and walking
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The Pirate Bay in TPB: AFK (Away From Keyboard)
We review the story of the website and adventures of its three Swedish founders
The film shows how much support for The Pirate Bay there is. When the PRQ host was raided in 2006 it was back online within three days and welcomed back with a demonstration. "In your face Hollywood", said Sunde.
But to Sunde, the website is not about Hollywood or the music industry, it is a "generic medium for distribution of all types of files". He says that the industry needs to work with it and with filesharing, and use it to the advantage of artists.
Propaganda punches start being thrown. The Pirate Bay is accused of being funded through rightwing money, of being Neo Nazis, something that pains Sunde. "If people listen to you," he says, "you should use that for doing good." Sunde is the public face of the organisation, and according to Warg he has no other involvement with the website.
Neij, who is involved with the day to day management of the website says that The Pirate Bay's office is an IRC chatroom. "We tried to get organised," he says, "but we failed every single time."
State prosecutor Hakan Roswall says that The Pirate Bay charged $500 a week for an advert and was running 64 unique ads at the time of the raid. He estimates that over a 52 week period a profit of $1,700,000 would be produced. "It's a commercial business," he adds. According to the founders he has worked this out wrong and in fact the website was running just four adverts. Roswall is convinced that they will all be convicted.
In April 2009 the District Court came to its decision, by which time Warg and Neij were overseas. All four, including financial backer Carl Lundström, were sentenced to a year in prison for "assisting copyright infringement".
Sunde says it is "insane" and questions whether it is a joke. He watches as the judge awards over $4.5m against them. Talk of appeals begins immediately and the judge, Norstrom is accused of bias and involvement with the Swedish Association for Copyright.
His reasoning for not making this clear? He does not have one. He does, however, seem to be linked very deeply into the organisation. The court said that this was no problem. The Pirate Bay appealed.
Around this time The Pirate Bay started to establish links with the Pirate Party, because attacks on its servers would be "political censorship on the highest level".
Around that time Sunde and Linus Olsson launched Flattr, a Swedish based microdonation provider that could have helped the music recording industry by funding its creative artists.
The documentary provides insights into The Pirate Bay and its founders, as well as what makes them do what they do and what they do it with.
What they actually use is little more than a handful of resources. You could walk off with The Pirate Bay in a wheelbarrow, as it is just four CPUs with 12 cores. What the documentary shows is how important it is to them and how much it means to the entertainment industry. It is well worth a watch.
TPB: AFK began filming in 2008. It was directed by Simon Klose and is released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license through websites including The Pirate Bay.
You can watch it on iPlayer or Youtube, and you can donate to it through its website. µ
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Kayaking is a good way to enjoy being on the water and to get exercise. In the case of some fast-moving rivers, a kayak is the only way to travel on the water. More and more paddlers are moving away from traditional hardshell vessels and to inflatable kayaks, because these waterborne craft are more portable and easier to store than hardshell kayaks. Many paddlers are glad to trade a few extra minutes of inflating and deflating their kayaks for the ability to take them places that are inaccessible with hardshell kayaks.
Before purchasing an inflatable kayak, the consumer should do some homework. In order to successfully purchase the right product, consumers must consider the type of inflatable kayak they prefer and how they plan to store and carry it. They should also be familiar with inflatable kayak specifications, parts, and the accessories that they need to go along with their vessels. By planning ahead and doing some research, a consumer should be able to find the right inflatable kayak from an online source such as eBay.
Considerations in Buying an Inflatable Kayak
Before shopping for an inflatable kayak, the consumer should consider the types of inflatable kayak available and how the kayak is to be stored and transported after purchasing it. Consumers are more likely to be satisfied with their purchases over the long term if they consider these important points.
Types of Inflatable Kayaks
The type of inflatable kayak that a consumer purchases depends on how he or she plans to use the kayak. Each different type of inflatable kayak is designed with one or more specific uses in mind.
Touring Kayak
Inflatable touring kayaks are long and thin, a design that is meant to reduce the effort involved in travelling through flat water. It is possible to use touring kayaks in both freshwater and ocean water. Many touring kayaks have a rudder or are rudder-compatible for easier steering.
White Water Kayak
Inflatable white water kayaks are shorter and wider than touring kayaks. The moving water transports the kayak, requiring less propelling effort from the user. The width of the kayak gives it stability, and the reduced length makes it easier to navigate around obstacles such as rocks and fallen trees. Inflatable white water kayaks may also feature scupper holes to drain water from the cockpit and d-rings for securing bags.
Sea Kayak
Inflatable sea kayaks largely fall under the broader category of touring kayaks since they are long and thin. However, inflatable kayaks designed for use on the sea are likely to have added features such as scupper holes for drainage and d-rings for securing bags.
Fishing Kayak
Inflatable fishing kayaks are between the widths and lengths of touring kayaks and whitewater kayaks, and they are more rounded at the front and back. This makes them stable enough to fish from and sleek enough to propel by paddle. They also have a number of special features geared towards fishermen, such as rod holders, an anchor cleat, bait bucket, and tackle compartment.
Sit-On-Top Kayak
Inflatable sit-on-top kayaks feature an elevated seat that places the kayaker on top of the vessel rather than in its cockpit. This design makes these kayaks well-suited to recreational use. Like fishing kayaks, inflatable sit-on-top kayaks are wider than touring kayaks. This makes them stable enough for fishing or even scuba diving, but many kayakers like the design for leisurely paddling.
Storage and Transportation of an Inflatable Kayak
Two of the main advantages of inflatable kayaks over hardshell ones is that they are easier to store and transport. A deflated kayak takes up very little storage space and often packs small enough for carrying in a large backpack. However, consumers should keep in mind that the more heavy duty the inflatable kayak is, the less compact it is when deflated. This is because the material is thicker. Therefore, the consumer must balance the packability of a kayak with the quality of its construction.
Inflatable Kayak Specifications
After deciding on the type of inflatable kayak to purchase, the consumer can consider the different specifications for the kayak type. It is important to take factors such as seating, material, length, and weight into account before making a buying decision, but some of these may not vary a great deal depending on the type of kayak a consumer has settled upon.
Seating in the Kayak
Inflatable kayaks may have single, double, or triple seating. The seats run in a column the length of the kayak. White water kayaks usually are of the single-seat variety, although some do have double seating. Touring kayaks can often accommodate two or three passengers. Those planning to share paddling duties with others should look at inflatable kayaks with double or triple seating. Seat backs may be inflatable, or they may be foam attachments.
Material of the Kayak
The primary material in an inflatable kayak may be hypalon, polyurethane, nylon, or PVC. Hypalon is more durable than the other materials, but it also weighs more. The other materials also tend to be more rigid when the kayak is inflated. Consumers must decide whether they prefer greater durability or stability when choosing amongst inflatable kayaks made from different materials.
Length of the Kayak
The length of an inflatable kayak depends largely on the type of kayak. White water kayaks tend to be about 3 m long, while touring kayaks can be 5 m long. Length is an important specification regarding how the kayak is meant to be used, but there is little variance once a consumer has decided to buy a certain type of inflatable kayak.
The weight of an inflatable kayak is an important specification for those who plan to hike with one. Heavier inflatable kayaks are generally made from thicker material and are therefore more resistant to puncture. Those who plan on carrying their inflatable kayaks should still aim for a lighter weight despite the greater likelihood of the kayak receiving a puncture. It is usually possible to patch a hole.
Inflatable Kayak Parts
It is important that consumers be familiar with the parts of inflatable kayaks before purchasing them. Knowing the parts and how they operate answers many questions consumers may have about using these products. The table below lists the commonly-found parts of inflatable kayaks.
Air Chamber
Many air chambers; fill with air when kayak inflates; puncture results in a single air chamber draining rather than whole kayak
Valves or Stems
Where user fills kayak with air and drains it; each air chamber has a valve or a stem; valves are wide and stems narrow
Some inflatable kayaks have them, and others do not; these inflate as well if they are present
Enable users to affix different accessories and parts to the kayak; good for tying down bags or non-inflatable backrests
Steering Devices
Can be a rudder, skeg, or strake; common on different types of inflatable touring kayaks
Scupper Holes
Self-bailing holes that drain water from inflatable kayaks; a good feature for paddling in rough water
Not all inflatable kayaks have all of the parts described in the table. An inflatable white water kayak, for example, is not likely to have any steering devices, since the water propels the vessel. If certain parts are not present, it is sometimes possible to purchase them as separate attachments.
Inflatable Kayak Accessories
As important as an inflatable kayak is to enjoying self-propulsion on the water, paddlers need more than just their kayaks. Along with inflatable kayaks, consumers must purchase a few accessories, such as paddles, life vests, air pumps, storage bags, and patch kits, if they do not already have them.
The paddles for inflatable kayaks function the same way as in hardshell kayaks. Inflatable ones tend to be slightly wider than hardshell kayaks, so consumers should purchase slightly longer paddles. Most consumers purchase inflatable kayaks for their portability, so they may also wish to consider four-piece paddles that break down nicely for easier carrying.
Life Vest
Although it is not necessary to propel an inflatable kayak, every paddler should wear a life vest while on the water. Also known as a personal flotation device, a life vest may be made out of buoyant materials, or it may also be inflated to create buoyancy. Paddlers end up in the water more frequently in white water, but owners of any type of kayak should wear a life vest while on the water.
Air Pump
There are air pumps specially designed for inflatable kayaks, so not just any air pump suffices. Inflatable kayaks require delivery of low-pressure air in the range of 3-5 psi. Air pumps may either be hand- or foot-operated. The former are considered more efficient, and the latter more comfortable to use.
Storage Bag
Storage bags are not necessary for some paddling situations, but many kayakers need to carry items with them on the water. A storage bag is waterproof, keeping clothes, camping items, and electronics dry even if the bag ends up in the water. Many storage bags maintain air in them when they are sealed, so they float in the water should they wind up there.
Patch Kit
Many inflatable kayaks come with a puncture repair kit to close any holes the kayak receives. Some puncture repair kits may not be suitable for certain paddling situations, like white water expeditions. Consumers should make sure their puncture repair kits can close a large puncture and keep it closed for a sustained period of time.
Buying an Inflatable Kayak on eBay
You can find inflatable kayaks at local outdoor sporting goods shops. eBay also offers a large selection of inflatable kayaks. You can easily search the website for the type of inflatable kayak you want by going to any eBay page and entering an applicable term such as "inflatable touring kayak" into the search bar. You can also use a broader search term, such as "inflatable kayak". There are likely to be more listings, but you should be able to sort through them to find inflatable kayaks that appeal to you.
You can choose to narrow a search by using the website's advanced search feature. This can help you locate inflatable kayaks within a specified price range or location of seller. The website also offers other filter options, so that you can find new or used inflatable kayaks or kayaks based on how many seats you want.
Before making a purchase on eBay, it is important that you take the time to understand the seller's background. The feedback the seller has received from previous customers can help you make a decision about whether or not you want to go ahead with a purchase.
Inflatable kayaks make paddling in their favourite spots a great deal easier for many kayakers. Other kayakers still using hardshell kayaks and those interested in taking up the sport can purchase inflatable kayaks if portability of their vessels is important to them.
Buying the right inflatable kayak can be challenging, but buyers should be successful if they do some research beforehand. It is important for consumers to consider the type of inflatable kayak they would like to purchase and how capable they are of storing and carrying a particular inflatable kayak. Consumers should also pay attention to an inflatable kayak's specifications, including its parts, seating options, the material from which it is made, its length, and its weight.
The website eBay offers a wide selection of inflatable kayaks that are available in the new and used conditions and incorporate the features that kayakers are looking for. Consumers can find just the right kinds of inflatable kayaks they need on eBay to enjoy paddling in places they could not reach before.


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Why won't Bill Moyers speak to Robert Caro?
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Is Johnson & Wales worth it?
I'm thinking of going to culinary school for baking and pastry. Right now Johnson & Wales in RI is the front runner. My question: is JWU worth it, or should I be looking elsewhere? [more inside]
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Who is this person to the right of General Abrams? With the sharp part and black glasses on the very far right.
A companion for Infected ?
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Robert Johnson-inspired Hip Hop
A few weeks I had to listen to a drunken guy drone on about hip-hop. There was one thing he said that caught my interest. He mentioned that there were tracks based on Robert Johnson samples. So what are the tracks and who does them?
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Halloween Cupcakes
Easy to make rich dark chocolatey Spider and Spiderweb Cupcakes, perfect for a Halloween party and fun to make!
I'm not really sure how it became October……but it's suddenly here. Heck, it's actually half over! HA I thought I better get a move on some Halloween treats before it passes me right by.
It all started when I stopped at World Market about a month ago. I just love that store, especially at Halloween! They have so much fun decor, party supplies, food and even Halloween wine and beer.
I picked up these cute spider cupcake stands.
So, I baked cupcakes! Genius, I know right? lol
I mixed up a batch of Perfect Cupcakes using a mix 'recipe' using a box of Duncan Hines Dark Chocolate Fudge topped them with Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting tinted orange and chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting.
Spiderweb Cupcakes
- spread a little orange frosting on top of cupcake with an offset spatula.
- using a tube of Wilton Black Decorator Icing and a #5 Round Icing Tip and coupler, draw 3-4 circles on top of orange frosting
- using a toothpick pull outward from the center black circle to the outer circle to create your cobweb, repeating around the cupcake about six times .
Boo and Eek Cupcakes
- spread a little orange frosting on top of cupcake with an offset spatula.
- use a tube of Wilton Black Decorator Icing and a #5 Round Icing Tip and coupler, to write the words Boo or Eek
Spider Cupcakes
- spread a little chocolate frosting on top of cupcake with an offset spatula.
- set cupcake in small bowl and cover frosting with black sanding sugar (pour loose sugar that falls in bowl on to next cupcake or back in container)
- place 2 edible icing eyes on top
- set cupcake in spider cupcake holder.
If you're feeling extra indulgent, fill a 16″ decorator bag with frosting and using a #7 tip, squeeze a little frosting into each cupcake before decorating.
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Have you done any Halloween baking yet? if not are I'd love to hear what you are planning on making!
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Love those cupcake holders. How cute are they. I'm not into frosting on cupcakes (yeah!) but this look so adorably scary
FYI I found those cute cupcake holders at Target, too! (In case you don't live by a World Market!) 🙂
These are too fun!! I love the googly eyes on the spider. 🙂
Wow, these are awesome! Great photos too!
Perfect Halloween cupcakes! So fun and festive 🙂
Love those stands!! I wish we had a World Market around here.
Cheryl, those cupcakes are WAY cute! I need to nab some of those spider stands.
Cuteness! I love the spider stands!
Love these Cheryl…..especially that sweet and goofy spider. So excited for Halloween over here!
Those spider legs are the cutest things ever…sigh. WHERE DID October go?!
Love your cupcakes.
How creatives these cupcakes are!!!! Specially love the spider with the cupcake holder as it legs….
great timing, Cheryl. I am doing a round up and these are just what I need! happy halloween.
Absolutely adorable! So wonderfully fun- my kids enjoyed just looking at the pictures of the cupcakes- they didn't even have to taste them!
these are so fun! I love the spider cupake holder, what a fantastic idea. EEEEEEEEEK is right – in a good way.
cute cupcakes, those spider stand are so fun! Yes, where did October go?
The spiderweb cupcakes are adorable — I'm definitely going to have to borrow that idea this Halloween.
Cutest~spookiest~happiest~scariest~Halloween cupcakes ever!
LOVE the wood cake stand!
What a HAPPY kitchen you must have!
Wish I could come watch you bake!
Love these! Your photos are awesome!
My kids would be ALL over these- fun!! Thanks Cheryl!
Yes, my goodness! October is nearing it's end and I'm still wondering where my September went! These cupcakes are so cute and fun and I love that spider cupcake holder (your fuzzy little purple bugs and spiders are adorable too!)
These cupcakes are so creative & look delicious too! I'd love to try something like this sometime. I need more patience!
I love that store, I always mange to find something I want every time I go. I love those spider cupcake stands and the funny little eyes too.
I love these! You're so creative Cheryl. If only I had your mad skillz… ; )
Each cupcake is as darling as the next!
These are great and your pictures are awesome! I love World Market…one of my favorite stores!
These photographs deserve to be published in a book/magazine! Wow! Stunning!!!
Your spider cupcakes are precious. I love going into World Market they always have the most fun odds and ends. I'll have to run in there and pick those spider stands up. What a hoot!
Please tell me how you did the photo with the spider and the words on the right and in 2 different colors. I need to learn more programs. Great photos.
These are flippin' amazing and I am absolutely in love with your styling.
You are brilliant. Yes, you are! 🙂 Fun, Cheryl!
Oooh spooky! They look scarily scrumptious.
so cute!!
These are too cute! I love the contrasting colors and simple design. The spide cupcake stands are fantastic. I think I will be picking some up today! Thanks for sharing.
LOOOOVE those spider cupcake holders! I have never seen them before but they are super cute!
I love those spider cupcakes!!! Too, too cute, Cheryl!!!
I just LOVE the spider stands~what a great find! Your styling looks like it should be in a magazine! Everything is just BOOtiful:)
Too cute. I bought those same cupcake holders at Hobby Lobby a few weeks ago.
These are so cute, Cheryl! I was just thinking this morning that I haven't made anything fun for Halloween… I think I need to fix that this weekend!
Love these Cheryl!
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OMG!! I love that little spider leg cupcake stand. I would love for you to stop by and link up your spider cupcakes to More the Merrier Monday. It lasts through Wednesday so you have plenty of time to link up. I also have a link party for Halloween projects that I would love for you to link up to as well.
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The first camera I have ever shot with was my mother's Kodak Instamatic 177XF. It happened to me to work as a photographer in the 90's, but I always had problems working by myself (not having the skills to do that marketing thing; socializing and stuff; and thus, feeling discouraged) and I didn't care to find a partner. What I needed was someone to promote my work, or to have learned how to deal with people.
After a long period of time having different and unsuccessful jobs, I started teaching English. It happened by chance, but many opportunities were quickly showing up, and I decided to move on with it. It's not photography, but I can say I still do something I love. I have always liked English, so it never gets old. And most things I've learned through reading, including photography, were written in English.
The first contact I've ever had with photography literature was in the 80's. The husband of a distant relative of mine gave me a photography guide composed of two magazine-sized and four less-than-A4-sized books. Each one of the magazine-sized books was divided in many sections, like cameras, lenses, flashes, framing, darkroom, techniques, pro-photographers' galleries, etc; and the other four books focused on specific photo subjects. Only photos and commentaries on them. One was about people, another was about women, another one, about nature, and one more about architecture. I loved that kit. Later on, when I was able to understand some English, I could compare them with many other guides and I realized that they were quite complete and technically accurate. Really good stuff for Brazilian standards. It was probably the translation of an American guide.
Now, the first contact I've ever had with photography literature, in English, was in 1993. I lived in a city called Natal, RN. I was riding my bicycle when I decided to stop at a newsstand located at a supermarket for a quick look at the magazines as I used to do. I wasn't looking for anything in particular and didn't intend to buy anything, but while I was browsing, I saw that beautiful red glossy cover magazine with lots of SLRs on it, standing on the top shelf. It was the December's 1993 edition of Petersen's PHOTOgraphic magazine. I was in awe, thinking, "Wow, look at this!" I had never seen such an appealing cover (uncommon to Brazilian magazines at that time) and that rich content in terms of equipment. I decided to buy a compact Collins Gem Eng-Port Port-Eng dictionary and a calculator in the same week I bought that magazine, and spent the whole month trying to translate most of the magazine's content and converting feet to meters, inches to mm and cm, and pounds and ounces to kgs, and even dollars to royals (our currency, or 'real/reais' in Portuguese). I continued to buy issues of that magazine for the next 6 months. At first, equipment ads, camera and lens guides and articles, and shopping catalogs where the sections I read the most.
In 1996, I was living in Guarabira, PB, and the owners of a photo shop in Natal called me and invited me to move back there and work as a minilab operator. That was my first job. I got to know the folks there because they didn't have access that kind of magazines and I used to go there and take mine and talk about photography, and we enjoyed that a lot and we became friends. While I was working there, I had the chance to handle some very nice cameras like the Nikon F3, FM2, Minolta Maxxum 9xi, and some others from Pentax. Canon was rare.
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My fifth digital camera. Second love story. Bought a wideangle adapter lens for it. The camera died in salt water. It was quite frustrating because I was unusually careless this day. No one puts electronics on top of just-a-little above the water strip of sea rocks. It was at the other side where the water hits the reef, but a strong wave hit it and spilled on the camera.
Qualitywise, the body and the lens are acceptable. The sensor is very good. The EVF is very bad (short relief, plastic eyecup, small opening, bad optics), almost unusable, but not because of its res per se. The LCD is not that bad, but I'd prefer a 3:2 screen because I don't like the 16:9 ratio for photos. For the price and for the sensor, it was a good buy.
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- Aiptek Pocket DV My first digital camera ever. It already recorded video, but no audio and only 10 fps. An image of it is quite rare (http://www.comparestoreprices.co.uk/images/ai/aiptek-pocket-dv-camcorder.jpg).
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- Sonora Love My first film camera. It was sold with a 110-format 20-exp film strip already in place, and when you took the camera to develop at one of Sonora's labs, you received another one. Of course, it didn't take a couple of cameras until I decided to disassemble it. Quite a piece of crap, but for a kid and as the FIRST OWN... http://www.flickr.com/photos/rodrigov/5172794186/in/photostream/
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