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Treadwright Retreads Ultra Grip 2 On BFgoodrich KO Tires
Are Recap Tires As Good As New?
Do recaps have a place in the off-highway world? We wanted to find out, so we ordered two sets of remanufactured 31x10.50-15s from a well-established company called Treadwright.
Why two sets? The Treadwright Ultra-Grip 2 has the same tread design as the company's M/T but has crushed walnut shells imbedded into the rubber that break out, making numerous small biting edges to enhance snow and ice traction. Ours were on BFGoodrich KO casings that provided three-ply sidewall protection. All Treadwright tires are subjected to a vigorous inspection program prior to recapping. Treadwright offers many different sizes as well as tread patterns.
We mounted one set on some Mickey Thompson Classic 8-inch-wide aluminum wheels and the second set on the newly released Mickey Thompson black powdercoated aluminum "SideBiters." We spun each wheel on the balancer before mounting the tires, and they ran extremely true. When mounted, the Treadwrights took about four ounces per tire on average to balance.
A Jeep YJ that gets driven 90 miles a day on a high-speed interstate highway, plus weekends on backcountry logging roads to get to favorite hunting areas, was our primary test vehicle, along with our past project "Ain't It Grand-er" Grand Cherokee. Montana road conditions demand a versatile tread to adequately handle dirt, gravel, mud, pavement, snow, slush, ice, washboard, and potholes at any speed, and often all within a mile or two.
On the highway, the M/T tread design is very stable. The tires rolled straight and predictably, with no tendency to get pulled into the seams at the center and edge of the road or into cracks along the road. At low speeds, we could feel low-frequency vibrations from the tread that increased to a noticeable growl at highway speeds. The noise is louder on asphalt than concrete. The tread blocks are aligned more perpendicularly than diagonally across the tread with little overlap from one row of blocks to the next, which probably contributes to both the low-speed vibration and high-speed noise. Tread squirm is minimal at lowered air pressures, and the tires are very stable, both on packed dirt and loose gravel. Cornering at higher speeds than prudent on loose gravel was very stable, with smooth, controlled drifting and no tendency to suddenly break loose in the marbles.
In half a foot of cold, dry snow, the tires compress the snow and grip well because the perpendicular lines of the tread blocks act like paddles on a snowmobile track. This traction more than compensates for the noise of the design. In the snow, slush, and ice of winter storms on the highway, the tires felt stable. They provided some warning by feeling twitchy well before spinning when we were going too fast or hit some extra-slippery ice. At slower speeds, the tires could be made to slide or spin, but they would regain traction quickly when braking or acceleration was moderated. In general, the M/T is a good tread on snow, but average on ice.
After nearly 6,000 miles, the tread depth indicated they should last at least 50,000 miles with the use we were giving the M/Ts.
We then switched to Treadwright's Ultra-Grip 2 tires and put a few thousand miles on them. Since the M/Ts and Ultra-Grip 2s are identical (other than the walnut shells in the Ultra-Grips), we ran a test to see if the walnut shells made any difference. We found a steep, icy driveway that was built to about a 12-percent grade. There was no challenge in four-wheel drive, so we idled from flat ground up the driveway in two-wheel drive numerous times to the point of slippage: first with the Ultra-Grip 2 tread tires, then with the M/T tread. The Ultra-Grip 2 with the walnut shells regularly got us about 62 feet up the drive before spinning to a stand-still. The M/Ts only averaged about 47 feet. We are sure that this corresponds not just to climbing traction but to stopping distance. That improvement in ice traction can save a life if you don't push the limits of the tread.
These inexpensive, remanufactured tires are welcome in our on- and off-road world. They work every bit as good as other popular brands for dirt and snow traction and highway stability
Winter is as tough on wheels as it is on tires. As we expected, the Mickey Thompson Classics got tarnished and pitted even though we made a considerable effort to keep the wheels clean of road salts. The SideBiters showed no signs of deterioration, and they are the only wheel we've ever used that actually looked better the dirtier it got. The dirt highlighted the aggressive angles in the design that were otherwise camouflaged by the excellent powdercoating.
Tire: Treadwright Ultra Grip 2 on BFG KO casings
Size: 31x10.50/15
Type: Radial
Max load rating (lb @ psi): 2,270 @ 50
Tread: 3-ply polyester, 2-ply steel
Sidewall: 3-ply polyester
Weight (lb): 42
Tread width (in): 7 3/4
Tread depth (in): 19/32
Static loaded radius (in): 30.24
Revolutions per mile: 667.3
Tire Pressure In Ice And Snow
We get to do a lot of ice and snow driving in our Montana hide-out. Each year, "they" seem to keep adding days to the months of February and March. Pretty soon, I expect them to have 45 days each, and naturally they've got to get them someplace, so they will take them away from July and August. OK, did I make my point? We do a lot of ice and snow driving. It's pretty common knowledge that snow driving is a lot like driving in sand, in that you want to stay on top of the snow, especially deep snow. Sure, it's great to be able to dig down to solid ground, but once the snow is over about one third of your overall tire height, that front axle makes for a terrible snow plow. The lower the air pressure, the wider the footprint and the more flotation. Makes driving in deep snow so much easier. But what about roads that just have a few inches of snow on them or are icy? Does lower pressure work as a traction benefit or a hindrance?
During a recent tire test, we played around with air pressure on some 31x10.50-15s while trying to climb a hill-a very slick hill of smooth glare ice, ice rink-type ice. We started out with a normal street pressure of 31 pounds and made a high mark, then progressively lowered the air pressure in about 10 pound increments. Our next pass up the hill was only about two thirds the distance. Must have been a fluke, since more tire on the ground equals more traction, right? OK, try it again with the same results. Now we're down to about 10 psi and some great flexing tires. Didn't make it half the distance this time. Why? Again it had to do with ground pressure. The less the tire contacted the road's surface, the more psi it exerts. This high ground-pressure footprint makes for better traction.
This can also relate to lightly snow-covered roads. The higher ground pressure that a narrow tire exerts allows the tire to dig down to a more solid footing for better traction. So when it's deep snow, lower the pressure and use the widest tire you can run, but on the ice, keep the pressure high and consider a bit narrower tire.
-Willie Worthy
Tire Balancing With Centramatics
We are believers in balancing tires. Yes, it is a pain and expensive, especially when weights are subject to being knocked off by trail obstacles. But balancing has more benefits than just a smoother ride. An unbalanced tire will actually skip when going down the road, causing an uneven wear pattern, which in turn leads to fewer miles out of the tires. The vibrations that an out-of-balance tire sets up are transmitted to the wheel bearings and steering components, which in turn shortens their life. Some styles of aluminum wheels just don't take clip-on weights very well (or even not at all), and the weights sure don't enhance the appearance of the wheel for those concerned with such things. We've also found that some belt shifting takes place over the life of the tire, so what is "in balance" when new will most likely be "out of balance" at a later time.
We have been looking at the ads for Centramatic wheel balancers for quite some time now and really wondering if they did work as claimed. For those not familiar with them, these are flat discs with an outer ring that contains some type of magical balancing material in them. The discs mount between the brake rotor or drum and the wheel. Actually, there is no magic involved. The ring contains a material called Durametal that is a hardened lead alloy along with a synthetic oil to cut down on friction, which allows the material to move to a point, when rotating, opposite of the heavy spot on the tire/rim. The material starts moving and places the tire in balance from about 20 mph and up. They come four to a set and are around $200. Kind of pricey when you first look at it, but the last time we had some tires balanced, the price was $56 for four tires. Being that the Centramatics basically will last forever, and come with a 5-year warranty, it doesn't take much math to figure out how quickly they will pay for themselves.
Did they work as advertised? Well, yes, and kind of, and most likely would have even better if we had used a wheel with greater backspacing. We used them on a set of aluminum wheels which ran true and in close to perfect balance without the tires. They had 3 1/2 inches of backspacing in order to clear the steering knuckles that we were using. A wheel with more backspacing, such as most late-model vehicles use (like 4 1/2 to 5 inches) would have placed the balance ring closer to the center, or actually a bit over center, for a better average weight distribution. The balance going down the interstate was close but not perfect. Swapping the tires front to rear made an improvement, and we finally narrowed it down to one tire that had an above-average balance need of 5 ounces. So it seems the 15-inch version of the Centramatics are good up to about 4 ounces on a rim with the previously mentioned 3 1/2 inches of backspacing. Our guess is that on a larger-diameter rim, or one with more back spacing, the Centramatics can do a much better job.
We're going to keep running them even after we had the tires balanced in a normal manner, as they make for a great fine tuning tool as the balance of the tire changes with use. In fact, we liked them enough that we're going to order up another set and try them on a different tire/wheel combination Oh, one strange thing we did notice: while at our favorite fast food drive-through, we heard this strange noise that took us a minute to figure out. Seems that at slow speeds, as the balance media moves around in the ring, it make a grinding sound that echoed off the building's walls. We never did hear it on the trail.
-Willie Worthy
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Not 10…12. What is this, some kind of metric backlash? As a kid, I remember when they tried to teach us the metric system and everyone was like, whatever. It never took hold because we never had to use it. I vaguely remember some controversy over it back then.
Perhaps this children's educational piece was a result of that controversy. I found it at the defunct Google Video of the Day blog and they attribute it to Sesame Street but I think it has much more of The Electric Company look to it. The psychedelic animation is very much in the tradition of Heinz Edelmann and Milton Glazer.
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But in Queens since 2005, at least five people have been convicted of, or pleaded guilty to, committing a very different kind of hate crime — singling out elderly victims for nonviolent crimes like mortgage fraud because they believed older people would be easy to deceive and might have substantial savings or home equity.
And this month, Queens prosecutors charged two women with stealing more than $31,000 from three elderly men they had befriended separately. The women, Gina L. Miller, 39, and Sylvia Johns, 23, of Flushing, were charged with grand larceny as a hate crime.
This approach, which is being closely watched by prosecutors across New York State, has won Queens prosecutors stiffer sentences, including prison for criminals who could otherwise go free, even after draining an elderly person's savings. Without a hate crime, theft of less than $1 million carries no mandatory prison time; with it, the thief must serve for a year and may face 25.
The legal thinking behind the novel method is that New York's hate crimes statute does not require prosecutors to prove defendants "hate" the group the victim belongs to, merely that they commit the crime because of some belief, correct or not, they hold about the group.Continue reading the main story
"Criminals that prey on the elderly, they love the elderly — this is their source of wealth," said Kristen A. Kane, a Queens assistant district attorney.
Led by Ms. Kane, who runs a specialized elder fraud unit, the efforts have made the Queens district attorney, Richard A. Brown, a leader in finding new uses for hate crime laws, prosecutors in other jurisdictions say. Scott Burns, executive director of the National District Attorneys' Association, said he had not heard of another office using hate crimes as Queens does.
Neither had Kathleen B. Hogan, president of the State District Attorneys Association. But she looked into the efforts after hearing about it from a reporter, called it "an epiphany" and said she would suggest it to the group's committee on best practices. Some New York prosecutors, who asked not to be named because they did not intend to criticize colleagues, said that while the approach intrigued them, they were waiting to see if convictions were overturned on appeal before considering it.
The strategy has never been tested in appellate court; many of those charged have pleaded guilty, waiving their right to appeal. But Queens trial judges have allowed it against defense lawyers who argue that the hate crime charges are inappropriate.
Some people concerned about the prevalence of more classically understood bigotry say that new uses of the hate crime law could ultimately dilute its power. The main purpose of the law, said Steven Freeman, legal affairs director at the Anti-Defamation League, is to stiffen penalties for crimes that inflict additional fear on marginalized groups like ethnic or religious minorities or gays.
New York's law is ambiguous. It says prosecutors must prove only a crime was committed "because of a belief or perception regarding the race, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, religion, religious practice, age, disability or sexual orientation of a person."
But the language that opens the legislation clearly focuses on hate: "Crimes motivated by invidious hatred toward particular groups not only harm individual victims but send a powerful message of intolerance and discrimination to all members of the group to which the victim belongs."
For Ms. Kane, there is no debate. "We don't have a whole lot of tools," she said. "We should utilize what the legislature has given us."
It all started with Sunshine. That was the nickname of Nancy Jace, who bilked five elderly men out of $250,000, pretending to romance them and persuading them to pay for fictitious family emergencies. Ms. Kane was frustrated when Ms. Jace, 37, pleaded guilty in 2004 and served just six months in jail.
When a similar defendant came along, Ms. Kane had an idea. Shirley Miller, 43, who hoodwinked four elderly men out of $500,000, became the first New Yorker charged with grand larceny as a hate crime against the elderly. She pleaded guilty and served four months, but would have faced one to three years if she had not paid $175,000 in restitution. In 2006, Sherry Kaslov, 30, pleaded guilty to similar charges; she served four months and was hit with 10 years of probation.
Those sentences may not sound huge, Ms. Kane said, but the hate charge gave her extra leverage in plea bargaining. By winning felony pleas and probation, prosecutors ensured that repeat offenders would receive strong sentences.
The cases kept coming. In 2006, Natasha Marks, 20, was convicted of swindling more than $1 million from an 86-year-old man as a hate crime, including taking out a $550,000 mortgage on his house; a fugitive, she faces two to six years. Wando Delmaro was sentenced to 10 years after pleading guilty to a hate crime: posing as a water-company employee and distracting elderly people while accomplices burglarized them.
The next year in Brooklyn, a high-profile case bolstered Ms. Kane. Michael Sandy, a gay man, died after robbers chased him into traffic. One defendant testified that he was gay. The judge ruled that he could still be charged with a hate crime since prosecutors said he went after Mr. Sandy believing gay men were easier to rob. Jurors convicted him but later complained that they did not think the hate crime applied.
Then there was Alexandra Gilmore, 37, who took $800,000 from Artee McKoy, 93, a retired barber and old friend of her late father who had Alzheimer's disease. She stole his house and tricked him into refinancing another. She pleaded guilty last year and is serving two to six years.
Maria Thompson, Mr. McKoy's daughter, wanted Ms. Gilmore to get even more time. Her father died in 2008, and she is still struggling in court to get control of his estate. In the meantime, the house where she grew up is foreclosed and padlocked. She cannot enter to sort her father's possessions or find a photograph to remember him by. She has no idea if she and her four siblings will ultimately inherit any equity in the home, which had been fully paid off before the scheme.
Mr. McKoy's own kindness inspired the scheme, said Ms. Thompson, 69, who works as a greeter at Wal-Mart. When Ms. Gilmore's father died, he lent her money to avoid foreclosure of her own house, revealing that he had savings, "and then she ripped him off," Ms. Thompson said.
Ms. Kane got another crack at Ms. Jace. She is now serving 8 to 24 years for defrauding a series of landlords, a sentence stiffened by her plea to the earlier hate crime. Ms. Kane did not charge one this time.
"Most victims were elderly," she said a bit ruefully, "but not all."Continue reading the main story


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Luke Ronchi scored a 70-ball 88 on his Test debut as New Zealand went on the attack after a woeful start to close on 297-8 on day one of the second Test against England on Friday.
Jimmy Anderson became the 12th player - and first from England - to pass the 400-wicket barrier in Tests by removing Martin Guptill and Kane Williamson for ducks in the third over, reducing the Black Caps to 2-2 at Headingley.
Opener Tom Latham (84) led New Zealand's recovery only to be upstaged by wicketkeeper-batsman Ronchi, who came to the crease with his team struggling on 144-5 and struck 13 fours and three sixes in a flamboyant innings.
"I was trying to enjoy it as much as I could," said the 34-year-old Ronchi, who was drafted in as a replacement for injured allrounder Corey Anderson.
"It could be my one and only Test - I'd have hated to go out there and not play my natural game."
Latham and Ronchi - who put on 120 runs for the sixth wicket, at nearly five runs an over - fell to Stuart Broad in the space of three balls in the final hour, leaving the match evenly poised going into day two.
England lead the two-Test series 1-0.
New Zealand launched a recovery by maintaining their trademark aggressive approach that is more akin to one-day and Twenty20 cricket - captain Brendon McCullum (41), for example, smashed his first ball for six over extra cover and Ronchi was on course for the fastest century by a Test debutant. Nearly 70 per cent of the runs came in boundaries.
With rain forecast for later in the test and New Zealand needing a victory to square the series, the tourists didn't really have another option.


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Yesterday we asked, if The Undertaker had another match in him, who would be the best opponent for him at WrestleMania 34? The answers were wide ranging, but John Cena remained the top pick for what makes the most sense, since those two haven't met at WrestleMania, plus Cena could take the loss without it hurting him. Next up was "nobody," with last year's send-off and Taker at 52 years old, many of you are good with him being done in the ring. In third was Sting, another opponent who fans have always wanted to see face Undertaker, but with both over 50 years old, the match itself could be a disaster.
AJ Styles was mentioned (as someone who could carry Taker), along with Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns, two guys The Deadman would want to get revenge on. The names changed within the match, but a lot of responses involved Undertaker in a triple threat match to take some of the in-ring burden off of him.
Thanks to everyone who responded, below are some of the best comments:
Si Nicholls:
"Kane in a double retirement send off match."
"Most sensible match would be with John Cena, simply because he's never faced him at WrestleMania. It wouldn't even matter who won. The match itself would be huge. We never got the coveted Sting-Undertaker match so this would be a close second."
Josh Mack:
"The Undertaker should not return to have another match."
Wooo Nation!!!:
"Well... The Undertaker has been ducking La Parka... FOR YEARS!!!
(Just saying.)"
Mr Bobbins:
"Nobody. If they are absolutely insistent on having him compete at 'Mania then it only makes sense to throw him in with Reigns and Lesnar, make it a triple threat, have Taker win the belt, he gets a victory back over the only two guys to beat him at 'Mania, vacate it the next night on RAW and then stroll off into the sunset to enjoy his retirement. Done. Happy ending."
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SAN FRANCISCO: Phone numbers and email addresses belonging to some 6 million Facebook users have been improperly shared due to a software bug, the social network said Friday.
But no financial or other information was revealed to others, and there was "no evidence that this bug has been exploited maliciously," Facebook said in a security note, adding it was "upset and embarrassed" by the glitch.
Affected users were being notified by email, it said, while stressing that the practical impact was likely to be "minimal," partly because improper data sharing would only have occurred between users who already had some connection.
"We take people's privacy seriously, and we strive to protect people's information to the very best of our ability," it said, but added: "Even with a strong team, no company can ensure 100 percent prevention of bugs."
In this case, the bug "may have allowed some of a person's contact information (email or phone number) to be accessed by people who either had some contact information about that person or some connection to them."
The unwarranted sharing would have occurred when a Facebook user went to download an archive of their Facebook account through the social network's Download Your Information (DYI) tool, it said.
"They may have been provided with additional email addresses or telephone numbers for their contacts or people with whom they have some connection," according to the security note.
It continued: "We've concluded that approximately 6 million Facebook users had email addresses or telephone numbers shared."
"We currently have no evidence that this bug has been exploited maliciously, and we have not received complaints from users or seen anomalous behavior on the tool or site to suggest wrongdoing."
"Although the practical impact of this bug is likely to be minimal since any email address or phone number that was shared was shared with people who already had some of that contact information anyway, or who had some connection to one another, it's still something we're upset and embarrassed by."


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Expenses claims for the BBC's top 99 managers totalled nearly £169,000 in the three months between April and June, up 1 per cent on the previous quarter.
This includes an increase of nearly a third in the amount paid on hotels to reach more than £29,000, and almost £7,000 spent on train fares between London and the north of England for eight top executives at BBC North alone.
Ben Stephenson, the controller of TV drama, saw his salary go up from £161,600 to £195,000, a hike of 20.6 per cent.
Inflation-busting pay rises also went to two of the BBC's human resources directors, Richard Thurston, who now earns £126,100, an increase of 13.5 per cent, and Karl Burnett, whose salary went up 9 per cent to £121,100.
Jenny Baxter, controller of production for news, received an extra 4 per cent, taking her pay to £121,200.
The BBC said that three of the executives were awarded the pay increases because they had taken on extra responsibilities, while Mr Thurston had received a "staggered" rise to reflect the fact that he has now assumed his full role.
The quarterly expenses and salaries report, released on Thursday, also shows that the Corporation is continuing to spend thousands of pounds on train travel between London and Manchester for senior managers at BBC North in Salford.
BBC Sport, Radio 5 Live and the BBC Children's department moved from the capital to the corporation's new offices at MediaCityUK just outside Manchester last year, and BBC Breakfast followed in April this year.
Peter Salmon, the £375,000-a-year director of BBC North, received an additional £28,495 in relocation allowances in the past financial year.
However, executives based in Salford are still regularly shuttling back and forth to London, the figures show.
The top eight managers at BBC North together spent £6,880.95 on train travel between London and the north of England between April and June. This is the equivalent of more than £835 each.
The BBC said managers used conference calling wherever possible, but there were occasions when a face-to-face meeting in London was essential.
All staff are told to travel the cheapest way possible, although the Corporation's official policy states that this may on occasion be first class.
Other expenses claims made by BBC executives included far-flung travel, nights out and more than £19,000 on taxis.
Mark Thompson, the former director-general, spent almost £5,800 flying business class from London to San Francisco in June with the BBC's future media director to meet leaders of digital companies such as Apple.
Alan Yentob, the BBC's creative director, flew to Cannes for the annual film festival at a cost of £206. His hotel bill was £415.
Katie Taylor, head of entertainment for the Corporation, spent more than £184 entertaining Corporation staff and freelancers while covering this year's Eurovision song contest in Baku, Azerbaijan.
A BBC spokesman said: "Expenses have risen by 1 per cent this quarter but are down 8 per cent on the previous year.
"They remain within a range that is proportionate to running a media organisation of this size. We continue to be mindful of how we spend public money and to drive down costs wherever possible."
The next tranche of BBC executives' expenses to be released is likely to show a sharp rise as it will cover the period of the Olympic Games, when managers from BBC North regularly travelled to and stayed in the capital.


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It It actually works. To be honest I really didn't think it would. I don't need another ad blocker app that advertised that it would block ads on safari and in apps, but after I spent 2.99 on it, I found out that it didn't. This one on the other hand works perfectly. Simply search the Internet for "dns list future minds ad blocker". You're find a Reddit Page that links to list on github. (There are several so any that seem to be updated somewhat regularly will do.) Import that list and start the ad blocker. If the ads on the website or app you want aren't blocked, simply enable dns logging on the ad blocker app, then open the dns log right after the ad pops up and block the links on the top of the list. Boom. It took me about 5 mins to block the stubborn ones. Most of them were gone as soon as I imported the list from github.
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StoneWolf Casino was opening a BBQ restaurant right off of their casino floor and needed a iconic brand. BBQ in Oklahoma is serious business and most of the restaurants are named after Bubba, Earl, Brad, Steve and even Uncle Leo. Stone Wolf wanted to carry the "Wolf" theme from their casino into their new BBQ joint.
First, ICG was tasked with coming up with the restaurant's name. Putting a name to a permanent establishment is not a easy task. You want to love it more than your first child. It usually comes with about 300+ branded pieces that you have to look at daily. So, out of 28 possible names, we landed finally on Howler's.
Stonewolf is a small but sleek casino with a modern feel. We wanted the logo to communicate BBQ but feel like it belongs in this boutique modern feeling casino. So, sans the red and white checkered table cloth. As the work on the brand continued so did the evolution of the tag line. It was really quite obvious.
Wolf + Food + Advertising folk + random singing = Howler's, Hungry like a wolf.
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Health systems are under increasing pressure due to the increasing incidence of complex chronic diseases. These are often linked to changing demographics and modified dietary patterns. Understanding the functioning of the human microbiome is opening new ways of treating many of such diseases as the microbiome has recently been described as a key biological interface between human genetics, and lifestyle and environmental conditions.
Modulating the human microbiome based on personalised diets for personal health needs, is expected to provide new solutions for better health and boost innovation, leading to positive economic outcomes.
This workshop "Personalised nutrition for better health – targeting the microbiome" of October 10 & 11 - 2017, aims to promote the development of precision medicine that includes also the development of microbiome targeted actions through personalised nutrition. The convergence of personal connectivity and health monitoring with understanding how diets impact the microbiome which influences the individual health status, is just the start of a transition of healthcare of the future.
This workshop also seeks to promote understanding across relevant scientific, regulatory, and commercial communities and contribute to an innovative sector and preventative medicine based on targeting the gut microbiome.
Information on the previous workshop be found here (only in Dutch).
Find more information on this event here.
KVS – Brussels City Theater, Arduinkaai 7 - Quai aux Pierres de Tailles, 1000 Brussels - kvs.be
Participation is upon invitation only & free of charge - registration is mandatory.
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This workshop is organised back-to-back with the workshop on 'ELIXIR Innovation and SME form on Food and Nutrition Data - Targeting the Microbiome' in which innovative companies focusing on probiotics, food, health,... will be brought together and interaction between companies and academic partners will be stimulated. This ELIXIR-workshop is organised by ELIXIR Belgium and ELIXIR Europe. You'll find more information on the programme and registration on the website of ELIXIR.


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Plan, Research, Innovate and Connect!
Today's guest blog comes from AmeriCorps VISTA '12-'13 Alum Latrice Dudley of Atlanta, GA, a social entrepreneur and nonprofit professional passionate about leaving people and places better than she found them. Connect with her via email.
I grew as a social entrepreneur in AmeriCorps, but my path toward social innovation began when I was in college working as a student coordinator for a division in my university's College of Arts and Sciences. Not long after I started working, I was encouraged to create an event to mark the anniversary of an important social justice occurrence. Without much forethought, I took on the event—coordinating the event space, musical performances, travel, catering and keynote speaker. With the event just eight weeks away, I approached the dean of the department where I worked and told him I needed funds to pay for the event. He approved $300 dollars of department money and instructed me to fundraise the rest. By my own doing, I was stuck with an unfunded budget. Producing a $5,000 event on a $300 budget seemed impossible—especially with only sixty days to secure $4,700 in support.
I coaxed my way onto the calendars of other campus administrators and faculty, soliciting sponsorship. Admittedly at the time, I was fueled by nervous excitement and desperation. I successfully raised the $4,700 to cover the event expenses, and I was fortunate enough to revisit the same sponsors the next year. This experience served as a valuable lesson. I fully understood the importance of planning, research, and relationship building. My AmeriCorps term inspirited me with the right attitude to become even more involved in social enterprise to better my community.
Social innovation is taking initiative to plan, organize, market and employ opportunities and resources to address a social problem. It takes courage to do so, and since the experience, I have programmed five original community initiatives. AmeriCorps catalyzed me to continue learning how to build community by collecting resources and "getting things done." I would like to share with you some of the techniques and knowledge I have gathered along the way through my experience planning initiatives in college, AmeriCorps, and professionally.
Planning is mandatory.
Develop your social venture plan (otherwise known as a business plan), know how to present it well and stick to it. This takes spending time in your "creative space" to explore solutions to the problem you wish to solve. You want to think of at least three possible solutions or improvements and be prepared to critique them by comparing and contrasting. You likely will end up with a synthesis of your best ideas from the three. Release the idea of scarcity: focusing on the perceived scarcity of things results in mediocre solutions. Believe that the things you need to be successful are out there; it is merely up to you to successfully market your needs to others and convince them to appropriate resources you need to achieve your goal.
Research is essential.
Schedule a "think tank" with some good people in your life, buy some poster board and markers, and outline people, places, and things that will help you achieve your vision. List other organizations that have goals and values similar to your plan and people who are aligned with your mission. Brainstorm businesses and corporations that could possibly have an incentive to support you financially or through in-kind donations of their time or supplies. Write down friends and acquaintances who can offer experienced advice related to your new project and have informational interviews with them. Ask yourself what challenges you may face, how you may avoid them, and what remedies you would utilize to alleviate the challenge.
Convincingly talking about your plan is critical.
Knowing how to convincingly talk about your plan is critical when navigating the new relationships you will form to see your plan through. Relationship building takes fearless gumption along with some grace and tact. Fearlessness is valuable but can be dangerous, therefore keep in mind the culture of the people you solicit for help. When going into a discussion, always know more about a person or organization than they know about you and your project. This will arm you with information to use in the conversation about how this particular person or organization aligns with your mission.
Managing your energy is key.
At some point you will see your vision unfolding, and you will feel very excited, but you will also grow tired from all the work you are investing. Remember, it's not about managing time. We all have the same 24 hours. Manage your energy. Know when to invest it. Innovation drives the successes of social initiatives and our future depends on the courage we exercise today. Our work is our daily devotion to the human spirit that we love.
Many of the service-oriented ideals I hold dear to my work were cultivated when I served as a VISTA member. Perseverance, courage, charity and citizenship drove my service term making it meaningful and rewarding and ensuring that I never gave up. AmeriCorps members have been providing capacity building and direct service to America's nonprofit organizations and public agencies for two decades. Today, more than 80,000 AmeriCorps members serve annually using social entrepreneurship as a vehicle for change. Take a moment and reflect on our national impact. Can you remember how wonderstruck you felt when you realized thousands of people were dedicated to service? Use that information to keep you grounded in that there are so many alums and other individuals out there that are willing to help you. AmeriCorps Alums are ideally suited to run social innovation programs after AmeriCorps, and I hope to make a connection with more alums. Connect with me and other alums on LinkedIn.
Latrice Dudley and AmeriCorps Alums Communications Coordinator, Maria Caruso, partnered during their AmeriCorps VISTA terms on a nonprofit fair at Martin Luther King, Jr. High School in Atlanta, GA to honor Dr. King's legacy.
August 27, 2014 3:06 pm
Ms. Dudley, I love how you turned $300 dollars into $5000 for your University's awareness event (RTR!). That is an amazing testimony to walking in faith and not by sight and of course keeping an optimistic mind set as you go. The exert on managing your energy was necessary for me to see because we do all have the same 24 hours in a day, but it's what we do with them that counts/matters. I really need to focus on utilizing my creative-space & taking more advantage of "think tanks"-Napoleon Hill could not have said that better himself. Thank you for sharing Ms. Dudley!


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Ronaldinho puts luxury home on the market for the World Cup…at €11,000 a night
Money may not be an issue for Brazilian star Ronaldinho, but the creative midfielder spotted a clever business opportunity for the upcoming World Cup.
The former AC Milan man was left out of Brazil's panel of players hoping to win the tournament on home soil, but he put the personal disappointment to one side and still hoping to make a nice windfall out of the World Cup by making his luxury home in Rio available to rent during the tournament.
Advertising the listing via his official Facebook page, Ronaldinho announced that his five-bedroom mansion in Barra da Tijuca, referred to as '#CasaR10', will be available to rent for the princely sum of R$34,148 per night – more than €11,000 for the duation of the competition.
The property website AirBnb describes Ronaldinho's home as a high standard house capable of sleeping eight, with guests having access to all of the owner's amenities: sauna, spa pool, barbecue, home theatre, gourmet kitchen with balcony, cellar, special refrigerator for beer, fireplace, office, zen massage or yoga room, garage for three cars, and a "unique stage" for performing samba music on.
"Hi guys," he wrote on the Facebook page.
"Taking advantage of the movement of these next few months I'm putting my house in Rio for rent."
"It is a beautiful house where I had many good experiences with my friends and family. Take a given, there is Airbnb. Hugs. #Casar10"
The footballer will be watching the football action from his home in Belo Horizonte.
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The Laurel Highlands is a region in southwestern Pennsylvania made up of Cambria County, Fayette County, Somerset County and Westmoreland County.
The actual geographic feature is approximately fifty-five miles southeast of Pittsburgh, the Laurel Highlands center on Laurel Hill and Chestnut Ridge of the Allegheny Mountains. The mountains making up the Laurel Highlands are the highest in Pennsylvania, with Mount Davis in Somerset County the highest point in the state at 3,213 feet. Because of the elevation, weather in the Laurel Highlands are generally cooler and wetter than in most parts of the state.
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Due to the rising costs of prescription drugs, some people are forced to skip doses or avoid purchasing the medication that could save their lives.
We intend to help those people get their meds (for free in many instances) to ensure they can control their health.
The Rx Advocacy Program, a prescription assistance program, was created to help those who are on high cost prescription drugs and cannot afford them, regardless of income or insurance.
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- Qualify with or without insurance
- Qualify regardless of income level
- Brand name and high cost generic drugs
- No age limitations (Medicare recipients can qualify)
- No cost to apply
- Low monthly membership fee: $50
- Not just for first time users
- Ongoing supply (not limited to 2-3 months)
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"I have good insurance but was still paying $800 out of pocket each month for my daughter's prescriptions. Now thru the Rx Advocacy Program, I pay the small membership fee and am saving hundreds each month."
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We have been able to advocate for nearly every brand name and high cost generic drug. However, we have been particularly successful in advocating for the following ailments and their respective medications:
High Cholesterol
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"After being turned away by various advocacy programs, I was skeptical about this one but decided to give it a try. I am so thankful I did! I am now saving hundreds of dollars each month. Thank you!"
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STEP 1 – Tell Us About Yourself
Call us at 1-855-569-6337. We will ask you basic questions regarding yourself, your household and health insurance carrier (if any), and will enter the information into our partner portal.
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An advocate from our partner organization will email you within minutes of talking to us and filling out the application. Then, you will receive a phone call within 48 business hours of submitting the application. During the call, the advocate will discuss your specific situation and explain how the program works.
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If the Rx Advocacy Program is able to assist you with your prescription drug costs, our partner will confirm it with you and will explain the next steps for getting your medications.
STEP 4 – Communicate with Your Doctor
You will likely need to communicate with your doctor and the advocates to validate your prescriptions.
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Once you are a member of the Rx Advocacy Program, your prescription drugs will be mailed to you directly or you can pick them up from a local pharmacy (in some cases, the meds will be mailed to your doctor's office).
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Weiser Hotel Wrocław is located close to the centre of Wrocław, not far from the E67 road, connecting Wrocław with Warsaw, and E261 road, connecting Wrocław and Poznań. Guests can drive to Wrocław's Old Town in just 7 minutes from the hotel, while the Wrocław Główny railway station is 10 minutes' drive away.
The hotel offers comfortable, air-conditioned rooms and apartments, fitted with a computer and an LCD TV. Room facilities also include free wired internet access, a tea/coffee set and a work desk.
Fully air-conditioned, Weiser Hotel Wrocław features an underground garage and a car park. Wi-Fi access is free in all public areas of the hotel.
Guests of this Hotel can also benefit from a wellness centre with an indoor swimming pool, a sauna and a gym. The centre is open every day from 18:00 until 22:00 and is available free of charge.
The on-site restaurant, Rosso Nero Ristorante, offers 120 seats and serves excellent Polish and Italian specialities. Every morning, a rich buffet breakfast is served at the Quality hotel.
Located between the reception desk and the restaurant, Lobby Bar is a perfect place for both private and business meetings.
Weiser Hotel Wrocław offers professional organization of conferences, seminars and business meetings. The property houses a conference centre with a separate lobby, a bar and 4 multifunctional conference rooms, equipped with modern audiovisual facilities and free Wi-Fi access.
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All of our doctors will help you deal with acute and long-term health problems and illnesses. This will always involve advice on how you can help yourself, often problems can be dealth with on the phone, sometimes it will involve treatment in the surgery or medication, and at other time a referral to local hospitals may be necessary.
Book Ahead AppointmentsFor any ongoing medical problems a patient will be able to book ahead up to 4 weeks in advance with the doctor of their choice by speaking to the reception staff. For the best chance of booking an appointment with the doctor of your choice at a time convenient to you, we recommend booking ahead as options may be limited the shorter the notice for an appointment.
On the Day AppointmentsIf a patient contacts the surgery wanting to see a doctor that day, we will arrange for one of the doctors to ring you back to plan the best way to help. This may mean coming down for an appointment with the doctor, but it may be that the matter can be dealt with on the phone, or by arranging for a prescription to be collected, or for some tests to be done. Please be aware that all calls from a doctor will be on a withheld number or from a mobile that does not receive incoming calls.
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We will do our best to fit the patient in with the doctor of their choice but this may not always be possible as each doctor will only be able to see a certain number of patients in a morning or afternoon.
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Clearwater, Fl. Police and Codes Enforcement Officers paid it forward to a 93 year old Margo Chauncey who was in need of assistance with her home that was not up to codes.
In 2012 Chauncey was victimized and assaulted and met Clearwater Police Sgt. Tim Downes who arrested her assailant. They became friends through the process of of court and the Officer helping her to get her life back together.
Sgt. Downes once again came to her aid after she got a citation for a codes violation for not having her house painted. The Clearwater Police Department posted the following story ontheir favebook page along with some photos:
Clearwater Police and Clearwater code compliance staff teamed up today to help an elderly woman whose house came into conflict with code issues. The 93-year-old woman, who was the victim of a violent home invasion four years ago, was pleased to see the group of workers show up to paint her house and clean up her yard. Solid waste workers also came to lend a hand as well, and the paint was donated by Sourini Painting of Clearwater. Vicki Fletcher from code compliance and Sgt. Tim Downes of our burglary unit were instrumental in helping pull off the project, and workers from both areas came to help and spent the day at her house. Code compliance workers even gave her a new cane, and the Tampa Bay Rays sent a gift package to her. Thanks to all of those who helped make a difference in this woman's life!


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My name is Chris. I am super frugal and child-free by choice. I am a moto-journalist who loves motorsports; from drag racing, riding enduros, hot-rodding my '73 Dodge Challenger to dirt-roading Baja bugs. My passion is riding and building vintage Harleys. My GOD-given purpose on this Earth is to make a difference in the lives of others, convince people to put Jesus first in their lives and to use my talents to accomplish GOD's plan.


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Caffeine and Running Performance – The Latest Research
My articles the last few weeks might have been a bit disappointing if you are looking for a quick and easy way to boost your performance.
We saw that abdominal exercises aren't all they're cracked up to be (though hip strength is underrated), and the newfangled compression gear popular in running stores today might squeeze out a marginal benefit, though that's not certain.
But the good news is that we're looking at a reasonably reliable performance-booster today: caffeine! Caffeine has long been known to increase endurance, but the details of how, why, and when it can boost endurance are being revealed in some clever new studies published in the last few years.
The Research Behind Caffeine for Runners
Caffeine and exercise perception
The first study we'll look at was done by Susan Backhouse et al. at Leeds Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom.1 Her study attempted to figure out whether the performance boost from caffeine has psychological roots.
Twelve "trained" men who had abstained from caffeine for three days were given a baseline endurance test on an exercise bicycle, as well as a psychological quiz to estimate how "aroused" (i.e. energized) they felt and to gauge their overall mood before and after the endurance test. The subjects then participated in two 90min trials: one in which they were given caffeine beforehand, and one in which they were given a placebo. Again, they were administered the "mood quiz" before and after each test.
Interestingly, physiological markers like oxygen consumption and heart rate were no different between the "caffeinated" and "decaffeinated" trials, but the cyclists' perceptions were markedly different. In psychologist-speak, they reported feeling more aroused and having a more pleasurable mood—in normal-speak, they felt better.
Unfortunately, for some reason this study didn't actually measure raw performance in the exercise trials, so we'll have to turn elsewhere to see if the caffeinated athletes really were performing better or just felt like it.
Caffeine and running performance
Fortunately, a study published just a few weeks ago by Todd Astorino and other researchers at California State University addresses the issue of whether caffeine actually helps athletes perform better.2
Using a similar procedure to Blackhouse et al., sixteen men (eight of them trained athletes, eight of them recreational athletes) completed two 10km cycling time trials, one after consuming caffeine, and one after consuming a placebo.
Unlike the previous study, arousal was not significantly different, but both groups reported feeling better vs. the placebo condition, although only the recreational athletes' reports reached statistical significance (despite the averages of the two groups being very similar—alas, the problems of small sample sizes!).
More importantly though, this study found that performance increased by 0.3-2.0% over the 10km time trial (corresponding to about a 4-24 second improvement).
How much caffeine is optimal
Both of the previous studies used doses of 5-6 mg/km of caffeine—that's milligrams of caffeine per kilogram of body weight, so 6 mg/kg would work out to 360 mg of caffeine if you weigh 60kg (132 pounds).
For reference, that's three cups of coffee, which has somewhere in the neighborhood of 120 mg of caffeine per cup. That's quite a bit of coffee, enough to cause some serious pre-race jitters if consumed an hour before a race or workout, as was the protocol in these studies.
Can you get away with less?
Whether caffeine's effects on performance are dose-dependent(i.e. increase with larger doses) was the subject of another study published last month by Ben Desbrow et al. at Griffith University in Australia.3 His study used sixteen well-trained cyclists who underwent three 60min cycling time trials: one control, one after a 6 mg/kg dose of caffeine, and one after a 3 mg/kg dose.
Fortunately for the jitter-averse, Desbrow et al. found a 3-4% improvement in both caffeine dosesover the placebo, but no significant differences between the doses.
Desbrow's study also asked the participants to rate their perceived exertion levels and found no difference between the different dosage levels. So the subjects always felt they were giving the same effort, but in the "caffeinated" state, they ended up going faster!
Does caffeine have the same effect on those runners who are caffeine addicts
One common criticism of research into caffeine and performance is that researchers are essentially measuring the detrimental effects of caffeine deprivation: since 90% of the population consumes caffeine in some amount on a daily basis, and since most studies require participants to abstain from caffeine for several days prior to the endurance test, the "control" group is really a caffeine-deprived group, which could skew results because caffeine withdrawal may reduce performance.
Until March of last year, no studies had confronted this criticism. Luckily, the research group at Griffith University turned out another study which used quite a clever design to address this issue.4
Twelve well-trained cyclists undertook four experimental trials. For each trial, the subjects abstained from all dietary sources of caffeine for four days. Each of these days, they were instructed to consume capsules given to them by the researchers, which contained either a placebo or caffeine, depending on the trial.
On the day of the endurance test (a 60min cycling time trial), the subjects were given another capsule to consume before the test, which was again either a placebo or caffeine. So, there were four separate conditions: two in which the subjects were deprived of caffeine for four days, and two in which they were not. This design allowed the researchers to determine whether the performance "boost" was really a performance drop due to caffeine deprivation.
The results were good news for coffee drinkers: In both cases (caffeine deprived and not), a 3 mg/kg dose of caffeine improved endurance by about 3% vs. the placebo. And whether the subjects were caffeine deprived or not made no difference in the performance boost!
Research short comings
However, there are still some shortcomings in all of these studies. Small sample sizes are the bane of nearly all studies on caffeine and performance, and none of the ones we looked at today used actual runners.
Another reservation I have about all of these studies is that they were all essentially laboratory time trials. I'd like to see some research done on runners in an actual race. Maybe a jolt of caffeine just makes sitting on an exercise bike in a lab more bearable!
While we didn't look at the specific ways caffeine can boost performance in this article, we have detailed the 6 ways caffeine can boost your performance here
How you can use caffeine
In any case, if you are looking for a quick way to boost performance, a large cup of coffee an hour or so before a race or workout just might do the trick.
If you do want to give it a shot, recall that Desbrow's work showed that a dose of 3 mg/kg was just as effective as a larger dose. So you can do the math if you want to get technical, or just drink a big mug of coffee—an average-sized runner would need between 1.5 and 1.75 standard 7-oz. cups of coffee (or about one 200mg no-doze tablet if you want to cut to the chase) to get the right dosage.
As with any "intervention," it makes sense to test it out in a workout before you gulp down coffee before your next marathon, only to find yourself searching frantically for a port-a-potty five minutes before the race!


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I often wonder if there is a method to riding the subway and securing a seat on a crowded train? You get on, eyeball whether a seat is available and check out if you can squeeze into it or not?
I was riding downtown on the 4 train around 3 pm on a Tuesday. The train was chock full.There sat a man, large but not overly so, taking up not only his seat but maneuvering his body to take over another 1½ seats. That's not the surprising thing, you see that all the time.
What is surprising is how no one wanted to challenge this rude behavior. This is behavior that some people feel entitled to. Like at the Union Square movies, seeing the top box office hit on a Saturday night, putting your coat and shopping bag on the seat next to you and then daring some one to ask  you to move it.
As the train continues making its stops down from 86th street the car gets more and more crowded and the man does not move and no one asked him . The woman next to me eyed me and we raised our eyebrows in disbelief.
Finally at 14th street a middle-aged woman boarded the train, moves through the crowded aisle, looked straight at this hog of a man and asks him to move, very politely!
With that the entire row opposite them broke  into applause as she sat down and smiled.Observations


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