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heres a article dr. michale colgan ( famous nutritionist ) aslo author of famous book optmium sports nutrition , sent me about nitric oxide ( i ask him his feeling on this )
I chose this topic as I have been getting a lot of questions about nitric oxide, so I thought everyone might like to know the real chemistry. There are several l-arginine products on the market claiming to raise nitric oxide levels. This is not really something you want to do if you want to preserve your brain. However, taking l-arginine supplements does not dramatically increase nitric oxide, despite the marketing hype, because the body has built-in controls. If it didn�t, every time you ate some protein food high in l-arginine, your body�s chemistry would be out of control.
Nitric Oxide
Nitric oxide is one of the many gaseous chemicals in the human body, which attest to the old jibe that we are full of hot air. It is manufactured by an enzyme called nitric oxide synthase, which turns the amino acid L-arginine into citrulline and nitric oxide, both of which serve multiple bodily functions. Throughout the brain, nitric oxide is an essential chemical messenger, which improves communication between neurons, release of neurotransmitters, and transmission and storage of information.1,2
Nitric oxide is also a free radical, what is called a reactive nitrogen species (RNS), but is relatively benign.1,3 Like many other biochemicals, however, it can multiply out of control. Then it cooks your brain. It happens like this. Various stressors, such as banging your head against a brick wall, cause certain defensive genes to turn on and cause the brain to manufacture pro-inflammatory gremlins called cytokines. These nasty little beggars stimulate the glial cells to produce large amounts of the inducible form of the enzyme nitric oxide synthase. The enzyme then gobbles up all the spare L-arginine and produces a ton of nitric oxide, which overwhelms other control chemicals and causes raging inflammation. Result: damaged brain cells all around.
If you bang your head ve-r-r-r-y carefully against a brick wall for years on end, as some martial artists do, then, after a while, the defensive genes continue to sleep through it, and no inflammation occurs. So you can take severe blows to the head without much damage. At least that�s the theory. Don�t try this at home.
By Thought Alone
You don�t need a wall or any other blunt object to cause brain damage. A typical brain stressor common to modern urban life, is the automatic fear and anger reaction at a near miss on the freeway. The wise realize they are unhurt, calm down immediately, and move back to the real purpose of life, a state of joyful ease. Those who let their emotions balloon into �road rage,� however, irreversibly damage their own brains.
Numerous animal studies show that fearful and angry thoughts readily cause brain damage, by the same process that occurs with the physical damage from banging your head on a wall. In a new study, representative of the evidence, De Cristobal and colleagues at Universidad Complutense, Madrid, restrained rats, but did not physically harm them. The rats went ballistic with fear and rage, and severely damaged their brains by excess production of nitric oxide.4
Being dumb animals, rats could not understand what was going on. Being not quite so dumb, we know that fear and anger do not exist in any object or situation, but are creations of our own consciousness. Thus, in any event where no physical harm occurs, we always have the choice to avoid negative emotions. By now gentle reader you are coming to appreciate, that by lifestyle choices alone, even your choice of thoughts, you can profoundly influence gene expression, and either protect or endanger the physical structure of your brain.
Physical Damage
Air pollution provides a good example of a physical brain stressor just as damaging as a brick wall, yet unfelt and invisible. It is also impossible to avoid in urban life. In a typical recent study by the Toxicology Department of the University of North Carolina, researchers measured the brains of new-born dogs exposed to the air pollution of Mexico City, and compared them with dogs living in an unpolluted area. The dogs living in polluted air, showed large increases in the enzyme nitric oxide synthase, with a consequent cascade of events that damaged neurons throughout the brain. They also showed deposition of plaque and neurofibrillary tangles, and increased apoptosis (cell death), very like those found in Alzheimer�s disease.5
Highly polluted cities such as Los Angeles, New York or Toronto produce similar brain damage in everyone who lives there. I have urged readers in previous books to arrange their lives so as to flee the city, to protect their health against cancer and cardiovascular disease. The new discoveries of unavoidable urban sources of brain damage, give you even more reason for doing so.
The Glutamate � Nitric Oxide Link
Fear, anger and air pollution, also damage the mitochondria and reduce the supply of ATP.2,4,5 The protective electric fences around outer cell membranes lose power, and unwanted substances leak into the cell. Particularly opportunistic is the neurotransmitter glutamate, responsible for fast, excitatory neural transmission, just the sort of brain activity that increases in fear and anger situations. Glutamate attacks what is called the n-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptors on neurons, making a sort of hole through which calcium and other nasties can leak into the cell.2
Calcium is very nasty when it gets into the wrong place, as anyone who has had a heel spur or a calcified artery can attest. In brain cells it converts an enzyme called xanthine dehydrogenase to xanthine oxidase, a process which produces a mass of superoxide free radicals.6,7 Then all hell breaks loose. The excess nitric oxide already being produced by the brain stressor, combines with the superoxide to make the extremely damaging free radical peroxynitrite (0N00-).6,7 Peroxynitrite damages mitochondria, DNA, other proteins in brain cells and any other tissues that get in its way.6,8
Some of these clues come from recent research on the brain damage caused by drugs such as methamphetamine, damage that is very like early Alzheimer�s. In a representative study, Imam and colleagues at the US National Center for Toxicological Research, in Jefferson, Arkansas, showed that peroxynitrite is the major culprit.8 With every step of evidence, science is tying the brain damage caused by a wide variety of stressors to the major forms of dementia.
Links To Alzheimer�s
Cholinergic neurons in the hippocampus of our basal forebrain, express the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. These cells are more primitive in evolution than cholinergic cells in the cerebral cortex. They evolved in the brains of short-lived, ferocious animals, and are designed for shorter, more violent life than those in the cerebral cortex. They have higher levels of nitric oxide, to speed neural transmission for violent action, and lower levels of endogenous antioxidants, because they did not have to last very long. So they are more vulnerable to damage, and are the first to go in neurodegeneration.
It is exactly these hippocampus structures that show the most damage in Alzheimer�s disease, with large numbers of dead and dying cells, amyloid plaque blocking neural transmission, damage to mitochondrial DNA, and useless tangles of neurofibrils.9 In cell culture studies, the amyloid plaque itself causes further release of nitric oxide, thereby creating a vicious and progressive cycle of damage.10 Alzheimer�s patients also have increased brain levels of inflammatory cytokines, which as we saw above, increase production of nitric oxide even further.11
Links To Other Dementias
Nitric Oxide Dangers ... a must read
Similar mechanisms have now been found in multiple sclerosis. Inflammatory cytokines stimulate glial cells to produce nitric oxide by way of the enzyme nitric oxide synthase, which then increases peroxynitrite to cause extensive mitochondrial damage.12 Bagastra and colleagues at Thomas Jefferson University, recently found excess levels of nitric oxide synthase in every one of the brains of deceased multiple sclerosis patients, but in none of the control brains of people who had died without brain disease.13 Induced Parkinson�s disease in animals in which the substantia nigra cells are deliberately damaged, shows the same pattern of enzyme activation.14 So does Huntington�s disease.15
Stroke patients also show large increases in inflammatory cytokines and nitric oxide synthase, even up to three months after the stroke.16 Cerebral ischemia (restriction of blood supply) is also related to excessive glutamate stimulation of the NMDA receptor, with elevation of intracellular calcium and induction of nitric oxide synthase, which then raises nitric oxide levels.7
There are now hundreds of similar studies in the medical literature. In a major review of the research in October 2000, renowned expert on brain chemistry, Vittorio Calabrese, of the University of Catana in Italy, shows how this process occurs repeatedly with the stresses of usual urban life. He also reviews numerous other studies, showing that damage caused by excess nitric oxide is crucially involved in Alzheimer�s, Parkinson�s, Lou Gehrig�s disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS) Huntington�s disease and multiple sclerosis.1 Other researchers have shown that the same process of damage is a major determinant of the dementia caused by stroke, and by other forms of oxygen deprivation of the brain, and of various forms of brain seizure.15,16 Finally, the same process is implicated in common forms of epilepsy.17
Overall, the evidence shows that the brain degeneration caused in almost every one of us by excess nitric oxide, is also a major part of all common dementias, stroke and even epilepsy. I have covered only a fraction of these new discoveries in this short chapter, but I hope it is a representative and convincing fraction. If you fail to protect the brain from excess nitric oxide, then all other efforts to maintain your intelligence will come to naught.
Protecting Yourself from Nitric Oxide
The discovery that excess nitric oxide is a major cause of the brain damage of usual aging, and of all major neurodegenerative diseases, has pharmaceutical companies scrabbling like rats up a curtain, to be first to market with drugs that inhibit nitric oxide synthase, the enzyme that makes nitric oxide in your body. To formulate these drugs, and to prove that they work, researchers have to give animals poisons that damage their brains in similar ways to the damage found in Alzheimer�s, Parkinson�s and other diseases.
One particular toxin that produces the same brain damage in the substantia nigra, and the same symptom as Parkinson�s, is methyl-phenyl-tetrahydropyradine (MPTP). This poison works in two major ways. First, it increases nitric oxide production. Second, it reduces ATP production by the mitochondria, thereby reducing power to the electric fences protecting brain cells and their receptors. The neurotransmitter glutamate then attacks the NMDA receptor, allowing calcium to leak into the cell and produce the superoxide free radical. Superoxide then combines with nitric oxide to make the free radical peroxynitrite. This Satan of free radicals promptly kills large numbers of cells in the substantia nigra, causing irreversible tremor, weakness, and loss of muscle, and eventually dementia.
From numerous animal studies over the last five years, we know that anything which inhibits nitric oxide synthase can stop this whole scenario. In a typical study, baboons were given the nitric oxide synthase inhibitor 7-nitroindazole. When subsequently given the poison MPTP, they were completely protected against cell death in the substantia nigra, and showed no physical symptoms of Parkinson�s.18 7-nitroindazole is not yet commercially available, and has some nasty side-effects. But simpler, non-toxic substances work equally well. Genistein, extracted from soybeans, specifically inhibits nitric oxide production.19 Genistein is also neuroprotective in mouse models of Lou Gehrig�s disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), and stroke, and in protecting post-menopausal women from Alzhiemer�s.20,21
Another inexpensive, non-toxic chemical that strongly inhibits nitric oxide synthase is allicin, extracted from garlic. In the latest study, Schwartz and colleagues at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in Israel, show that allicin also inhibits the transport of arginine, from which nitric oxide is manufactured. So this simple herbal offers double-whammy brain protection.22
A third non-toxic herbal that regulates nitric oxide levels is ginkgo. In animal experiments, ginkgo effectively prevents the changes in nitric oxide levels caused by induced brain trauma, such as subarachnoid hemorrhage.23 In studies of Alzheimer�s patients, gingko stabilizes, and in less severe cases, improves cognitive performance.24
The final herbal I want to include in this chapter is the known liver protective agent Silymarin (milk thistle extract). It does not inhibit nitric oxide production, but can indirectly stop nitric oxide turning into peroxynitrite. Silymarin specifically inhibits production of the enzyme xanthine oxidase which, as a side-effect, produces the superoxide radical, the other half of peroxynitrite.25
One of the so-called smart drugs, aminoguanidine, is also an inhibitor of nitric oxide synthase. This chemical has low toxicity and is now being tried against multiple sclerosis. In the mouse model of multiple sclerosis called, encephalomyelitis, aminoguanidine suppresses nitric oxide production very effectively and reduces the disease.26
Then there is aspirin. For the last 18 years most clients of the Colgan Institute over age 35, have been taking a baby aspirin each day to inhibit platelet aggregation and clot formation, and prevent heart attacks. Little did they know that they are also protecting their brains. Recent animal studies show that small amounts of aspirin, the equivalent in humans of one adult aspirin per day (325 mg), effectively prevent the rise in nitric oxide which occurs in response to fear and anger caused by stressors such as immobilization.4
Another non-toxic substance that inhibits the excess nitric oxide scenario, is the omega-3 fat, docosohexaenoic acid (DHA) in fish oil. This nutrient works by inhibiting release of inflammatory cytokines that trigger nitric oxide production by brain glial cells.27
Thus we have an arsenal of substances with virtually no toxicity which can stop nitric oxide running amok in the brain, genistein, allicin, gingko, silymarin, aminoguanidine, aspirin, and docosohexaenoic acid. Make sure that you only take these in conjunction with a good multiple vitamin and mineral program.
You need to add to these supplements by fleeing the city and its stressors. You also need to program your mind, as detailed in a chapter ahead, to eliminate negative emotions. Follow these steps plus the strategies in previous chapters, and your brain will likely be good for more than a hundred years.
1. Calabrese V, et al. NO synthase and NO-dependent signal pathways in brain aging and neurodegenerative disorders: the role of oxidant/antioxidant balance. Neurochem Res, 2000;25:1315-1341.
2. Bashkatova VG, Rayevsky KS. Nitric oxide in mechanisms of brain damage induced by neurotoxic effect of glutamate. Biochemistry, 1998;63:866-873.
3. Iadecola C, Alexander M. Cerebral ischemia and inflammation. Curr Opin Neurol, 2001;14:89-94.
4. De Cristobal J, et al. Aspirin inhibits stress-induced increase in plasma glutamate, brain oxidative damage and ATP fall in rats. Neuroreport, 2002;13:217-221.
5. Calderon-Garciduenas L, et al. Air pollution and brain damage. Toxicol Pathol, 2002;30:373-389.
6. Beckman JS. The double role of nitric oxide in brain function and superoxide mediated injury. J Dev Physiol, 1991;15:53-59.
7. Chan PH, et al. SOD-1 transgenic mice as a model for studies of neuroprotection in stroke and brain trauma. Ann N Y Acad Sci, 1994;738:97-103.
8. Imam SZ, et al. Prevention of dopaminergic neurotoxicity by targeting nitric oxide and peroxynitrite: implications for the prevention of methamphetamine-induced neurotoxic damage. Ann N Y Acad Sci, 2000;914:157-171.
9. Sugaya K. Glial activation and brain aging. Nippon Yakurigaku Zasshi, 2001;118:251-257.
10. Goodwin H, et al. Microglial release of nitric oxide by the synergistic action of beta amyloid and INF-gamma. Brain Res, 1995;692:207-214.
11. Tarkowski E, et al. Intrathecal release of nitric oxide in Alzheimer�s disease and vascular dementia. Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord, 2000;11:322-326.
12. Heales SJ, et al. Nitric oxide, mitochondria and neurological disease. Biochim Biophys Acta, 1999;1410:215-228.
13. Bagastra G, et al. Activation of the inducible form of nitric oxide synthase in the brains of patients with multiple sclerosis. Proc Nat Acad Sci, USA, 1995;92:12041-12045.
14. Wu DC, et al. Blockade of microglial activation is neuroprotective in the l-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydopyridine mouse model of Parkinson disease. J Neurosci, 2002;22:1763-1771.
15. Beal MF. Mitochondria, NO and neurodegeneration. Biochem Soc Symp, 1999;66:43-54.
16. Tarkowski E, et al. Intrathecal release of nitric oxide and its relation to final brain damage in patients with stroke. Cerebrovasc Dis, 2000;10:200-206.
17. Raevskii KS, et al. The role of nitric oxide in brain glutaminergic pathology. Vestn Ross Akad Med Nauk, 2000;(4):11-15.
18. Hantraye P, et al. Inhibition of neuronal nitric oxide synthase prevents MPTP-induced Parkinsonism in baboons. Nat Med, 1996;2:1017-1021.
19. Sheu F, et al. Suppression effect of soy isoflavones on nitric oxide production in RAW 264.7 macrophages. J Agric Food Chem, 2001;49:1767-1772.
20. Trieu VN, Uckun FM. Genistein is neuroprotective in murine models of familial amytrophic lateral sclerosis and stroke. Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 1999;258:685-688.
21. Kim H, et al. Attenuation of neurodegeneration-relevant modifications of brain proteins by dietary soy. Biofactors, 2000;12:243-250.
22. Schwartz IF, et al. Garlic attenuates nitric oxide production in rat cardiac myocytes through inhibition of inducible nitric oxide synthase and the arginine transporter CAT-2 (cationic amino acid transporter-2). Clin Sci, 2002;102:487-493.
23. Sun BL, et al. Effects of Gingko biloba extract on somatosensory evoked potential, nitric oxide levels in serum and brain tissue in rats with cerebral vasospasm after subarachnoid hemorrhage. Clin Hemorheol Microcirc, 2000;23:139-144.
24. Le Bars PH, et al. A placebo-controlled double-blind trial of an extract of gingko biloba for dementia. JAMA, 1997;278:1327-1332.
25. Sheu SY, et al. Inhibition of xanthine oxidase by purpurogallin and silymarin group. Anti-cancer Res, 1998;18:263-267.
26. Cross AH, et al. Aminoquanidine, an inhibitor of inducible nitric oxide synthase ameliorates experimental encephalopathies in SIL Mice. Clin Invest, 1994;93:2684-2690.
27. Perlmutter D. Functional therapies in neurodegenerative disease. J Appl Nutr. 1999;51:3-13.
28. Saito K, Yoshioka H. Protective effect of spin trap agent, N-tert-butyl-alpha-phenylnitrone on hyperoxia-induced oxidative stress and its potential as a nitric oxide donor. Free Rad Res, 2002;36:143-149.
anyway we can get some more specific information? you say an excess of nitric oxide cooks your brain but what is your definition of an excess? how much damage is actually done? I know you lose brain cells everyday so if a 200% nitric oxide increase kills another 5 cells a day it not exactly the same as say 50000 cells a day. I love nitric oxide but i love my brain more, only reason im asking
I have been taking L-Arginine plus L-Citrulline because it lowers my blood pressure and I was able to quit taking my blood pressure medicine. It L-Arginine causes brain damage then perhaps I should quit taking it and go back to taking my blood pressure medication. I have been off of my blood pressure for a few months now, the L-Arginine keeps my blood pressure in the 120's over 70's. Without it, my Blood pressure will soar up to 160/100. I really hate to go back to my blood pressure medication that was prescribed to me because it is expensive, and a lot of times it doesn't work as well as the L-Arginine. But, now I am afraid to take the L-Arginine because it might cause brain cell damage from what I read in your post. What do you think I should do.
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I.S.F.R. reviews The Case Against Fluoride
The International Society for Fluoride Research included this review of The Case Against Fluoride by Paul Connett, James Beck, and Spedding Micklem in their July-September 2010 publication.
Reviewed by C Vyvyan Howardd
University of Ulster, Coleraine, UK
SUMMARY: A review of The Case Against Fluoride: How Hazardous Waste Ended Up in our Drinking Water and the Bad Science and Powerful Politics that Keep It There by Connett P, Beck J, and Micklem HS summarises the historical, political, ethical, toxicological, and epidemiological scientific data behind drinking water fluoridation. The book concludes that, if proposed today, fluoridation of drinking water to prevent tooth decay would stand virtually no chance of being adopted, given the current status of scientific knowledge. Keywords: Book review: The case against fluoride; Fluoridation of water.
If you are interested in the fluoride debate you should read this book. However, more importantly, if you are disinterested in the fluoridation of drinking water or are strongly profluoridation, you must also read this book. The authors have produced a wellresearched, cogently argued, and very readable text that summarises historical, political, ethical, toxicological, and epidemiological scientific data behind drinking water fluoridation. For the historical aspects of fluoridation, the three scientific authors were greatly assisted by Peter Meiers of Saarbrüken, Germany. The authors stress that they are not arguing about the use of fluoride, for example in dentifrices, mouthwashes, etc., but about the intentional addition of fluoride to the drinking water supplies of populations. The book is divided into six sections, which are addressed below. The text is approachable by non-scientists and specialists, although an extensive technical bibliography is provided for those who wish to delve deeper.
Part 1: The Ethical and General Arguments Against Fluoridation: The requirement for the informed consent of the patient before administration of a medication is a basic human right. Yet with fluoride, which is added to drinking water as a therapeutic intervention, no such permission is sought or given. The process is enforced on every member of the population. The authors explore this fact in the context of medical ethics. Another aspect is the efficacy of fluoridation as a therapy, which, the authors argue, is marginal at best and deleterious at worst. The fluoride used for water fluoridation is not of pharmaceutical grade, but is in fact a chemical waste by-product. The lack of any rigorous studies as to the efficacy of fluoridation programs, the authors contend, means that the whole process is experimental. There is no control of 'dose' nor how much fluoride anyone receives from the water.
Part 2: The Evidence of Ineffectiveness: In this section the authors present a detailed examination of the literature on the efficacy (or rather lack of efficacy) of water fluoridation. Their findings, which include International data on dental caries over a number of years from various countries, both fluoridated and nonfluoridated, are mirrored by the September 2000 York Report, A Systematic Review of Water Fluoridation.1 It is clear that the improvement in dental health preceded the introduction of water fluoridation and has continued in those countries that have not fluoridated. Graphical evidence shows the lack of correlation between dental health and fluoridation status. In addition, a very important confounder not addressed in many dental studies is the positive correlation between average income and dental health. Older and more recent studies (since 1980) are discussed in detail, and the overall conclusion is that the claims for the effectiveness of fluoridation in protecting against tooth decay are greatly overstated.
Part 3: The Great Fluoridation Gamble: This section of the book is divided into two chronological periods, 1930–1950 and post-1950. A chronology is presented of the dates of knowledge of various aspects of fluoride gleaned from the dental, medical, and industrial literature leading up to the endorsement of water fluoridation by the US Public Health Service (PHS) in 1950. Discussion includes the use of fluoride as a therapy for thyrotoxicosis, reports of bone damage and fluoride, the fact that the PHS endorsed the use of fluoride before key studies had been reported and the possible intervention in the whole debate of big industry. The post-1950 part of this section outlines how the PHS decision was 'cemented in place' with the backing of false statements by Harold Hodge and the ignoring of a number of outcomes of critical longitudinal studies.
Part 4: The Evidence of Harm: This section constitutes a major part of the book (98 pages) and reviews the wide-ranging toxicological literature of fluoride. The topics addressed include: dental fluorosis, fluoride chemistry, physiology and biochemistry, neurotoxicity, endocrine disruption, bone fractures, osteosarcoma (a malignant tumour of bone), and renal toxicity. Also reviewed is the important 2006 US National Research Council Report, Fluoride in Drinking Water.2
Part 5: Margin of Safety and the Precautionary Principle: This short section discusses the assumptions that have been made in arriving at the margin of safety for fluoride. Various mistakes are pointed out. These include: adoption of an unrealistic end-point of concern, namely crippling skeletal fluorosis, and then using that to set a LOAEL (Lowest observable adverse effect level); use of an inadequate safety factor (the normal one for human safety was not used); and assuming that people only drink 2 L of water per day; not taking into account other sources of fluoride contributing to daily intake. It is widely accepted that too much fluoride damages health. The authors contend, convincingly, that the margin of safety of fluoride consumption is exceedingly low, when the evidence in Part 4 is considered.
Part 6: The Promoters and the Techniques of Promotion: The final section of the book visits some of the standard arguments deployed by the pro-fluoride lobby and then goes on to refute them in a series of 40 statements.
A complete discussion of water fluoridation requires knowledge of its history, the political pressures during that period of history, the toxicology of fluoride, and the epidemiological impact on exposed populations. This undertaking requires a great deal of effort on behalf of the non-expert. In this respect, the authors have done an excellent job in analysing the current knowledge base and presenting it in a fairly non-technical manner.
If we were to accept that those responsible for the introduction water fluoridation were acting in the genuine belief they were contributing positively to public health and wellbeing, what should we think now, over 50 years later, in the light of the evidence in this book? There are several aspects to any response. The ethical basis for exposing a whole population to a therapeutic agent without informed consent has to be called into question in the 21st century. We live in a far less paternalistic society now. The idea that a 'one dose fits all' can be applied to a whole population makes a mockery of all that is currently happening in medicine, where tailoring therapies to the individual is a major thrust of research. The admission that infants being fed formula milk made up with fluoridated tap water are being overdosed is a key example of the failure of the approach. We now know that fluoride acts topically on dental enamel, not systemically, which is another good reason for not administering it by ingestion. The margin of safety of fluoride is much lower than was originally envisaged. If any of the toxicological sequelae highlighted in the book—lowering of IQ in children, increased incidence of bone cancer in teenage boys, increased incidence of bone fractures, and thyroid gland dysfunction—are likely, then the argument for adopting a precautionary stance becomes overwhelming.
After reading this book, one is left with the strong impression that water fluoridation is an idea that is well past its 'sell by date' and that it should be rapidly phased out. What is now clear is that, if proposed today, fluoridation of drinking water to prevent tooth decay would stand virtually no chance of being adopted, given the current status of scientific knowledge The good news is that, unlike many other forms of pollution, fluoride will leave no persistent legacy if adding fluoride to drinking water is stopped. Nobody will die, nobody can really complain, and, if only a portion of the evidence presented in this book were to be sustained in the long term, then many thousands would benefit.
1 McDonagh M, Whiting P, Bradley M, Cooper J, Sutton A, Chestnutt I, Misso K, Wilson P, Treasure E, Kleijen J. A systematic review of water fluoridation. The University of York, report 18. York: NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York; 2000. Available from: http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/fluorid.htm.
2 Doull J, Boekelheide K, Farishian BG, Isaacson RL, Klotz JB, Kumar JV, Limeback H, Poole C, Puzas JE, Reed N-MR, Thiessen KM, Webster TF, Committee on Fluoride in Drinking Water, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies. Fluoride in drinking water: a scientific review of EPA's standards. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press; 2006. [Contract No.: 68-C-03-013. Sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency].
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We own this game.
No, not hockey, silly.
Curling -- so there's no reason North America shouldn't walk away from the Continental Cup, starting Thursday, with a victory over Europe.
That's the word from curling legend Ed Lukowich, who will steer the North American team in this weekend's $200,000 event in Medicine Hat.
"We think we own this sport," Lukowich said yesterday. "We figure every competition we go into we're going to win."
Why not? That's the way Americans enter golf's Ryder Cup, upon which the Continental Cup is based.
"Whether we have our heads in the sand or not, I don't know," he said. "But it has seemed to work over the years."
And look at who North America is throwing into the fire: Rinks skipped by Colleen Jones, 2004 national and world women's champion; Randy Ferbey, 2004 Canada Cup champ; Mark Dacey, 2004 national men's champ; Marie-France Larouche, 2004 national runner-up; Patti Lank, 2004 U.S. women's champ; and Jason Larway, 2004 U.S. men's champ.
But the European team isn't exactly full of slouches, either. It has Scotland's David Murdoch, 2003 European men's champion; Switzerland's Luzia Ebnother, 2002 Olympic women's runner-up; Norway's Dordi Nordby, 2004 world women's runner-up; Sweden's Peja Lindholm, 2004 world men's champ; Sweden's Annette Norberg, 2003 European women's champ; and Germany's Sebastian Stock, 2004 world men's runner-up.
And Lukowich has the unenviable task of figuring out who plays whom in the four points events (mixed doubles, team, singles and skins).
"Yeah, they're tough decisions but fun decisions," he said.
"When you have someone like Lindholm on the men's side, who has won three worlds before, obviously he's seen big teams like Kevin Martin and Randy Ferbey before and he's not afraid."
And everyone expects to see the Lindholm-Ferbey matchup in Sunday's men's skins final, worth an extra $25,000 for TV entertainment value.
It would be the first time the two titan teams have faced off in a meaningful game.
"Lindholm and Ferbey did play together in the final skins game of the Continental Cup last year but," Lukowich said. "You're right, they've never really played a really big match on the world stage, not even in the semifinals of a worlds.
"The closest they came was in 2001 at the Lausanne worlds. They played the final game of the round-robin and Lindholm won.
"But it wasn't a make-or-break game."
Lukowich agreed curling fans are interested in how a big game would play out against the two teams, which both have won multiple world championships.
And there's a good chance he'll make it happen.
But not necessarily.
"We as captains have to make that decision based on who is playing the best and who is hottest at that time," he said.
"But you also have to look at who has experience in that situation.
"A team could be playing hot in the event but may have very little experience playing in skins. Skins is a totally different game than real curling.
"I wouldn't want to toss a team in there that doesn't have any experience in skins games."
BRUST BURSTS THROUGH: Calgary skip Ralph Brust got into the win column yesterday at the national mixed championship in Prince Albert.
Brust and his Grande Prairie teammates, third Karen Powell, second Ken Powell and lead Tina McDonald, edged Newfoundland's Mark Nichols in the second draw of the week-long event.
Brust got deuces in the second and fourth ends and then stole a single in the fifth to take a commanding lead.
Brust lost again last night to Kamloops, B.C.'s Scott DeCap 7-3.


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Angie Martinez Discusses Unreleased Tupac Shakur Interview [VIDEO]
The posthumous, unreleased Tupac Shakur gems continue to hit the Internet. The latest one comes courtesy of Angie Martinez. The Hot 97 radio personality will discuss a previously unreleased interview with the lauded rapper today (Feb. 13) at some point during her 3PM radio show, which is live on Ustream.
Martinez sat down with MTV News staple Sway Calloway to share the story behind her first big interview with 'Pac. She flew out to the West Coast to interview Shakur during the famed East Coast vs. West Coast war and what she got was an intense conversation. So intense that she couldn't air the entire interview on the radio. "I was literally afraid that someone would die," Martinez says. "I thought that I would be making a bad situation worse."
The interview was at least two hours long, but Martinez only aired about 5-10 minutes of it. She saw Shakur at the MTV Video Music Awards the day after she aired it and had to address why she cut out a majority of their talk.
"I said, 'I'm really sorry I couldn't air the whole thing. I just personally couldn't sleep at night if I did that," Martinez reveals. Shakur was cool about it and said he understood.
The unreleased interviews will be the first of her Throwback Thursday series, which will focus on her classic interviews. The interviews will be on her new site, The Angie Review.
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Question time : is this worth getting for someone who only vaguely knows 3 of the 4 bands? Or is it a good idea to watch it anways....
Question time : is this worth getting for someone who only vaguely knows 3 of the 4 bands? Or is it a good idea to watch it anways....
A couple of my favourites...
I'm afraid I'm hopelessly mainstream when it comes to metal.
Mainstream media should steer clear of metal. They don't understand it, and metal never needed them.
I'm a surly old school metal fan (could you tell?). As far as I'm concerned, metal could have stopped evolving somewhere between 1986-1989 and we wouldn't be missing out on much today
Check out Manilla Road, Metal Church, Lillian Axe, Candlemass... for some of the best metal you've never heard.
Nearly the whole of the first page of this thread disagrees with you
I'm used to that
I agree that it's pretty 'tame' compared to the stuff in this thread, but to me there's some stuff in there that's a bit too extreme for me already...
There'll always be one guy who thinks whatever music list isn't "hardcore" or "metal" enough...
Rock Harz Festival.
Returning to Wacken, I predict a visitor's riot like on the 1997 (I think) Dynamo festival, where fans, feeling ripped off, set fire to the tent stage (and threw mud at Marilyn Manson!) any year now.
On a more positive road I'd like to agree with Thunderchild and order everyone here who does not own Candlemass' Epicus Doomicus Metallicus to go and buy it now. As in right now. It's that good. Seriously.
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We played Wacken in 2006. While I thought the organisation was quite good, there were some shenanigans among the crowd that really were unacceptable.
It's gotten too big for its own good. It's only a matter of time before it either implodes (like Dynamo did) or before something bad happens.
There are more metalheads than I expected!
I´ve been listening to a lot of Slayer and Revocation lately.
Went to Half Price Books and picked up Slayer's Hell Awaits. I was surprised that a redneck city would actually have metal. They even had a copy of Napalm Death Bootlegged in Japan, which I half regret not getting. But I really wish I had a record player and some decent vintage audio equipment now that I saw a $3.99 Ratt's Out of the Cellar LP. *sigh*
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The set list does look good. Will have to be next year, I reserve your couch in advance
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It's funny how things work out. Here we haven't seen a Silent Hill game in three years, since the Silent Hill: Shattered Memories reimagining for the PS2, PSP and Wii, and now in March, 2012, we'll have a cavalcade of releases. Konami's pretty much declared it a month of horror, starting with something old and then moving on to things that are new.
First is the oft delayed Silent Hill HD Collection. For $39.99, you can get a remastered version of Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill 3 for your PS3 or Xbox 360. Both games now have HD graphics, new voice acting and the ability to earn achievements or trophies.
Next up is the first original Silent Hill story since 2008's Silent Hill: Homecoming. Silent Hill: Downpour will finally be released on March 13, 2012 for $59.99. While being transported between prisons, an accident causes a inmate named Murphy Pendleton to be inadvertantly released in the deserted, resort town of Silent Hill. As we all know, any trip to Silent Hill is a bad trip, and PS3 and Xbox 360 owners will learn more about the town and Pendleton in their explorations.
Finally, the wave of horror wraps up with the least anticipated Silent Hill game, Silent Hill: Book of Memories for the Vita. It's out March 27, 2012 and will be $39.99. It's unique for a number of reasons, as it features a top-down perspective and the ability to play with other people. Your character finds a book that has his or her life story written in it, and you can change what happens by writing in it. It's unorthodox, to say the least, but it is being developed by WayForward, a developer who has yet to make a bad game, so let's hope for the best.
Even though I still own and have beaten Silent Hill 2 and 3, I think the Silent Hill HD Collection is the entry I'm most looking forward to in March. Which one do you want to play?
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2012 King of the Hill
Disc golf doubles tournament
About this tournament
2 seperate 1-day events in one weekend!
Friday (fun day)-Saturday(dubs tourney)-Sunday(singles tourney)
Friday August 3- "Friday Fun Day", casual round, ring of fire, putting games, BBQ dinner, other games, prizes, FUN! $10 includes greens fee, games & BBQ dinner! Pre-registration for Sat/Sun accepted and encouraged Friday evening :)
Saturday August 4- King of the Hill Doubles Tournament
Open, Adv, Int, Rec, Masters, Womens, (need 3 teams for a division)
Suggested to play highest partner division (Adv/Open team suggested to play Open)
$20 per person, all players get custom stamped tournament disc!
2x18, lunch break (Snack Shak will be OPEN for business!), CTP's, Ring of Fire, FUN FUN FUN!
Top Scoring Team will have the chance to shoot for $100,000 hole-in-one prize!!!
Sunday August 5- King of the Hill Singles Tournament-a PDGA C-Tier Event!!
Open, Adv, Int, Rec, Wms, Mstrs (need 3 people for division!)
$30 per person, all players get a custom stamped tournament disc!
(+$10 PDGA fee for non-PDGA members)
2x18, lunch break (buffet/hot plate available for purchase!), CTP's, Ring of Fire, FUN FUN FUN!
Top scorers & a couple lucky draws will play for the chance to shoot for $100,000 hole-in-one prize!
Sunday Afternoon- Crown the KING OF THE HILL overall winner
and the chance to shoot for $1 MILLION DOLLARS!!!!
Any questions please send Jamie a message here on the 'scene or call/text 903-1274. Can also call Hilltop Chalet at 346-1446 less
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Jamie Adams August 8, 2012 at 8:10am
2x $100,000 shots on Saturday: Louie Orozco & Dale Williams
Jamie Adams August 8, 2012 at 8:09am
results for saturday are up! If you are not 'linked' on DG scene to your results please send me your email and I will link your scores to your DG scene page. Thank you!!! :)
Jamie Adams August 8, 2012 at 7:08am
Results for Sunday Singles PDGA rounds here :
Jamie Adams August 4, 2012 at 8:25pm
Got a Rec player here that needs a partner!!! Come on up :)
Jeremy Boyd August 4, 2012 at 6:53pm
Anyone need a partner still? My potentials fell through and I kinda want to play...
Loren Benedict August 3, 2012 at 8:12am
ashten and i r gonna be partners should be a blast playin with with my lady hope u guys help me teach her some things im always tryin to help her improve
Jamie Adams August 3, 2012 at 5:27am
Cas! Friday Fun Day 7pm. Saturday & Sunday Check In/Registration 8a-9a. Mtg 9:15, Tee @ 10. 2x18 both days. Lunch will be available for purchase through the Snack Shack.
Casimir Abramczyk August 2, 2012 at 3:06pm
Jamie! Many thanks for your efforts supporting & endorsing DG in our State! Kuddos! And thanks for the skinny on KotH, but perhaps I missed it somewhere, could you please (re)iterate the start time of the events for this weekend? I'm hoping for a hall pass on Sat., concomitant a pard'ner.
Jamie Adams August 2, 2012 at 10:15am
King of the Hill Weekend is here!
Friday Fun Day, starting at 7pm. $10 gets you greens fees for your practice round(s), entry for fun games (putting, ring of fire, mini golf, cribbage-if the weather is crap- haha!), BBQ dinner, fun.
No partner yet? I had some people show up on Saturday morning last year looking for partners, and some partner no-shows, so it might work out for you!
Prizes and payouts are plump- no extra fees to be paid outta the pro purse. Come and get it! :) Portable basket, innova and hilltop schwag, sweet discs, its all good. See you there!
C. C. August 2, 2012 at 8:52am
Saturday dubs: partner "Brady I throw Farr," adv.
Are the boyscouts spotting for the tournament again?
Thad Murgatroyd August 2, 2012 at 6:58am
Thad M / RaggityAndy. Severson. Open
Adam Klein August 2, 2012 at 2:17am
What time does shindig start Friday? And sign me up for both days, thank you.
Loren Benedict August 1, 2012 at 7:13am
i need a partner! call me up 7443653 my lady is wanting to play as well
Jamie Adams July 25, 2012 at 5:13am
FYI: You may play both days, one day, just come Friday for the fun day, whatever!! $10 for Friday BBQ, games & fun, $20 per person Saturday and $30 per person Sunday. Saturday and Sunday entry fees include custom stamped disc players pack :)
Thad Murgatroyd July 24, 2012 at 8:44pm
me and a partner 43701 and i will work with rick to have it looking good
Joe Schacht July 20, 2012 at 11:35pm
sign me and my partner! james king beckner........49597


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The long-time leader of the country's largest public sector union will leave his post next year, setting up a succession race that could have significant implications for Democratic politics in the 2012 election.
In a letter to union members Thursday, Gerry McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), said he would not run for reelection next June at the union's Los Angeles convention after serving 31 years as its head.
With AFSCME as a powerful force among unions, the race could decide where and how labor spends its political capital in the coming years. Donohue told The Hill that that state lawmakers can be and should be just as important as their federal counterparts.
"We need to realign how we utilize our money and how we utilize our support. We have to be able to handle the home front as much as do Washington. If that means adjusting where we spend money and how we spend it, then yes," Donohue said.
AFSCME was one of the biggest political players in the 2010 elections, spending close to $12 million on independent expenditures, primarily in support of Democratic candidates, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a campaign finance watchdog group.
Donohue is in charge of the largest AFSCME state affiliate and said he would bring a perspective to the top post as a rank-and-file leader. He said it's important for the union to form relationships with politicians in both parties at all levels of government.
"We can win the White House and the Congress and lose our membership across the country. We have to be able to do both: grow the union and make it strong at home as well as in Washington," Donohue said.
Saunders was not available for an interview Friday but did issue a statement upon news of McEntee's retirement.
"I've just returned from joining our rank and file members in Ohio and will be back through Tuesday's vote to defeat Issue 2 — which remains Job #1. Next year, we will have plenty of time to debate AFSCME's future direction, but our focus now continues to be on protecting the rights of working men and women. We will never forget Jerry's leadership and commitment to working families. I look forward to working with him in the months ahead," Saunders said.
The AFSCME secretary-treasurer was referring to an Ohio voter referendum on legislation that curbs public workers' collective bargaining rights.


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Visitation will be held at 8-10 a.m. April 22 at St. Benedict's Catholic Church in Honaunau with a 10 a.m. Mass. Entombment will follow at Kona Memorial Park in Holualoa. The family requests casual attire worn and flowers are welcome.
She is survived by husband, Frank Arnise Sr. of Kailua-Kona; daughter, Francine (Kippy) King of Clearwater, Fla.; son, Freddy (Sawan) Arnise of Spring, Texas; brothers, Roger (Linda) Alcain of Captain Cook, Greg Alcain of Kealakekua, Benjamin (Barbara) Alcain of Pleasanton, Calif., Andres (Olena) Alcain of Napoopoo; sisters, Lucina Alcain and Norma Duterte, both of Napoopoo, Andrea Alcain of Ocean View; six grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins.
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Eek. DI is saying bye-bye, Ralph. It's not even close. But it's interesting that vote-wise, Chelsea & Mark are a distant third. Nobody knows how the final scores are tallied on the show, but if DI's scoring is any kind of a valid indicator, it could be believable that Chelsea & Mark could be Bottom 2, even with the extra 15 points.
I guess the good thing is, DI isn't always right (although it's been fairly accurate this season). Of course last week it couldn't have picked a worse time to be wrong I do think Ralph's time is up. I was surprised he lasted this long, and figured he'd make it to the final 4 at best. However, I wondered if maybe his fan base was bigger than I originally thought, or if he saw a surge in votes. If Chelsea/Mark aren't bringing in the votes, and it surprises TPTB, maybe they should try and understand why that is. Mark's been a disrespectful douche this season. He screwed Chelsea over. I don't know that I'm all that crazy about her, but there've been times I've pitied her. If they want ratings, send Mark home, or out in third, and watch his tantrum/trash talk show guest-style rampage. That'll get them ratings It's not like they're protecting his reputation by manipulating the show to keep him in. Everyone except his fans think he's a tool, a spazz, and a spoiled brat with an ego that makes me wonder how he can even fit in the ballroom anymore.
If it is true that Chelsea/Mark are in a distant third, despite trying to give them a huge advantage-way to go producers That worked well. And you've ticked even more viewers off in the process. Here's hoping they don't try and manipulate the scores next week to earn Mark his precious little mirrorball. If he and Derek aren't friends anymore, who cares if they match? Maybe that's why he's taking it so personal this season.


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So if somebody could help point in me in the right direction I would be grateful. I don't want to do any solder work so a Wii Clip compability would be good for the modchip (though I do know somebody who can solder, but I don't know if it's worth taking the risk or just using the darned Wii Clip). So if anybody could recommend me the best type of modchip for my Wii around, thanks!
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For a man who's keen to insist he's straight, James Franco sure does have a lot of interest in the gays (and I'm not hinting at anything there, as if he was gay Hollywood would probably be insisting he had nothing to do with anything that wasn't 100% straight). Franco's played gay in Milk and Howl, and the last two films he directed were both biopics of gay people.
One of those, The Broken Tower, about gay poet Hart Crane, premiered back in June at the LA Film Festival. However, despite Franco writing and starring in the movie, it's taken a while to find distribution because it's not about the most commercial subject matter and was shot in black and white. However now THR reports that Focus World, the digital distribution arm of Focus Features, have picked up the US rights to the movie and plan to bring it out in America on January 10th.
A few years ago the movie would probably have found it tough to get much of a cinema release at all, but with digital projection the cost of bringing movies out has dropped, allowing films like The Broken Tower to reach cinemas.
At the moment there's no news on when it might reach the UK, but a US release should certainly help it get picked up over here.
Oh, and in case you're wondering, the other biopic of a gay man Franco's directed is about Rebel Without A Cause star Sal Mineo. That's also awaiting distribution.


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Ten days into the federal government shutdown, lenders to small businesses are beginning to worry that they may have to stop closing on loans by the end of the month if the shutdown isn't lifted.
That's because the Small Business Administration, which backs loans to small businesses nationwide for things such as purchasing buildings, and establishing and expanding operations, went into hibernation on Oct. 1. And with it went a plethora of other agencies, some of them needed to process the loan applications.
So far, the shutdown hasn't been a significant roadblock to accessing credit for most entrepreneurs, but it could become one if it lasts much longer.
Rick Sanborn, CEO of San Diego-based Seacoast Commerce Bank, one of the most active lenders for the administration's real estate loans, said many lenders prepared for the shutdown by stuffing the pipeline with applications before Congress declared an impasse in its budget talks. The Small Business Administration responded in kind, scrambling to process them. The agency approved more loans in the last day before the government shutdown than it normally does in several weeks, Sanborn said. In the two weeks leading up to the halt in operations, the administration processed as many loans as it normally does in several months. Seacoast Commerce Bank was able to push through a month's worth of loan approvals, or about $15 million.
"Most of us went to the SBA as quickly as we could to get the approval numbers, so we have a pretty good backlog of loans that are already approved and are just waiting until escrow is closed," Sanborn said. "As long as this doesn't go longer than three or four weeks, we're OK, because we have a pretty good pipeline of loans that we can continue to fund. We can continue to fund all the loans that we believe we will close on in October."
That hustle didn't help commercial real estate loans, which go through a different approval process, said CDC Small Business Finance CEO Kurt Chillcott.
Meanwhile, the administration's microloan program has remained operable, since lenders don't need SBA approval for those, he said. California's Small Business Loan Guarantee program is a solid alternative for businesses in dire need of financing, he added. Firms can get several million dollars in loans through that program, at comparable terms and interest rates to the federal SBA program.
Still, if the shutdown lasts more than three or four weeks, Sanborn said, things will get scary. Not only will lenders be unable to get credit approval and guarantee numbers from the Small Business Administration, but they also won't be able to verify tax information with the IRS. That means no new loans for small businesses, unless they can get approved for conventional financing with typically higher interest rates and shorter terms.
Wells Fargo, the top lender for the SBA's 7(a) general loans, said in a statement to U-T San Diego that it will continue to accept SBA loan applications for real estate, construction, partner buyouts, equipment purchases and working capital. But the bank warns that it might be a while before those applications are approved. There is no telling how long it would take the SBA to catch up on those after it reopens, said Chillcott, whose 504 loans are typically processed within five days.
"This is really like a snowball that gains momentum and gets more destructive the longer it goes," he said.
Sanborn said business owners still applying for loans seem OK with the fact that they may not get approval for several weeks.
"We find it hard to believe that Congress isn't going to do something soon, even if it's kick the can down the road," he said.


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G-77 Developing Nations to Meet in Tehran in August
The 10th meeting of the Group of 77 (G-77) developing nations will be held in Iran August 19-21, with the aim of strengthening the economic independence of member states in a rapidly globalizing economy.
"The IFCC-X conference represents a significant step forward in strengthening mechanisms through which developing countries can achieve economic progress by engaging in South-South cooperation," said the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) resident representative in Iran, Francesco Bastagli.
Economic issues in developing states' globalization, information technology and review of cooperation will be the focus of discussion, he said, cited by the official Iranian news agency, IRNA.
G-77 was established in 1964 by seventy-seven developing countries, which signed the Joint Declaration of the Seventy-Seven Countries issued at the end of the first session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva.
Beginning with the first G-77 ministerial meeting in Algiers in 1967, which adopted the Charter of Algiers, a permanent institutional structure gradually developed which led to the creation of Chapters of the Group of 77 in Rome (FAO), Vienna (UNIDO), Paris (UNESCO), Nairobi (UNEP) and the Group of 24 in Washington, (IMF and World Bank). Although the membership of the G-77 has increased to 133 countries, the original name was retained because of its historic significance, according to the group's website – Albawaba.com
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To celebrate Valentine's Day, we launched a series of updates to the OutSystems Platform. I guess that for a lot of you, this is one of those gifts you'll be excited to use all year around.
There are so many mind-blowing improvements that we're even a bit ashamed of naming it 8.0.1. There's a great reason for that though: it works just as a patch release… our cloud users will start seeing their platform get updated with the new capabilities and our on-premises or hybrid customers can simply patch their installation and immediately benefit from all that is in there.
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The London theme was built with customization in mind, and it's very easy to transform it to your company's look. By going to the theme landing page (http://labs.outsystems.net/LondonTheme) and writing your company's web address in the customization section, the theme is personalized just for you – including colors and company logo.
And because the theme is all standard CSS3, it can be further customized for your specific needs. This is not only a great accelerator, but also an awesome way to learn the best way to extend a theme, and even understand, by inspection, how to create your own theme and share it with the community.
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Device testing made easy
It would be great if only a single device needed to be considered. But the fact of the matter is that with the proliferation of new devices appearing, each one with its own form factor, it is harder to ensure your user base will own the device you expect. Applications need to account for this.
Responsive design is a great approach to cover these needs with minimum impact to productivity, but it also implies that you need to test your applications across this wide range of form factors. To help accomplish this task, the OutSystems Platform 8 introduced an extremely simple way to test applications with different form factors. As an application is published and opened in the browser, you're immediately redirected to a screen that let's you choose which form factor to test in (with the usual standards bundled in). You can fine tune the form factor in which the application will be tested or immediately open it in a mobile device by scanning a QR code.
A new 100% smartphone theme
Smartphones present unique challenges in terms of application design and sometimes responsive is not enough. For those scenarios, you now have access to the new LondonMobile – a 100% smartphone theme. This theme takes advantage of advanced HTML5 and JavaScript optimizations making the entire smartphone experience more fluid, without having to know them. It also includes new smartphone-specific widgets (e.g. scroll to show more, right aligned menu for a more usable experience, toggles for checkboxes, …) making your applications a pleasure to use on small form factors.
A bunch of usability and productivity improvements
Smart suggestions
Whenever a value needs to be set in OutSystems, a list of suggested values is always provided to make your job easier. In version 8.0.1 we've made these suggestions even smarter, to better predict what is needed at each step of development.
Assign node usability
Applications in the OutSystems Platform handle huge sets of data going back and forth, in and out. Mapping transformations of this data is not always easy. To further help, we've improved the usability of the Assign node, so it is much easier to understand what each assign consists of.
Links around containers or web blocks
Did you ever want to make an entire area or section clickable?
Do you need large and rich touch areas in applications? Do you want to package rich, UI complex and reusable blocks that your team can reuse as buttons or links across applications?
If the answer to any of these is yes, you'll be happy to know that in this version any of these elements can be included inside a link widget, giving much more freedom when composing web applications. The use cases are so broad and powerful that we wanted to make sure this new "minor improvement" didn't go unnoticed.
Richer mobile list screens
When scaffolding a new mobile list screen, the default list is now created with a List Records (instead of the previous Table Records). This allows for richer list elements with much less work. Combined with the ability to have web blocks inside links, this allows you to design in detail the content of each one of your mobile list rows, fine tune it, make it reusable, and just drag it to be your list element. Not only is maintainability improved, you'll be much more focused on improving the user experience of your mobile app.
Improved widget navigation
To build a truly great application, a great UI is needed. We realize that developers spend a lot of time tweaking web and mobile screens, and in this version, we have improved how you select, move, and navigate widgets inside a screen. Understanding and navigating the hierarchy of widgets, while still maintaining the real preview, is now much more easily done just by clicking on the widget name right in the editor. And when you need to tweak the data source for your list or table, it is easily accessible right from the user interface.
Themes layout inheritance
In order to increase maintainability of your application and provide you better options when redesigning an application, both grids and layout web blocks settings on a theme are inherited. The outcome of this is that the actual layouts (Masterpages) used on a screen, are defined by the theme itself, instead of on a particular screen. By changing the applied theme, all the pages using that theme will see its layout updated.
Major Performance Improvements in 1-Click Publishing and Staging
The day-to-day of an OutSystems developer is spent making heavy changes on critical applications, over and over. The 1-Click Publish operation is a core part of this process, and one that is done dozens or hundreds of times per day.
Whenever you need to see the effect of changes to an application, be it UI, business logic, data model or integrations, the Outsystems Platform lets you do that with just one click. Getting your changes done in the model, uploaded as a new version in the version control system, getting highly optimized Java or C# code out of it, and then getting it compiled and deployed to the cloud or across your on-premises server farm is a heavy lifting job. Sure enough, having it automated is a big help.
Such a critical piece requires constant tuning for increased reliance and performance. On this version, we've taken a giant leap and introduced a huge increase in performance, not only in the 1-Click Publish process, but in a lot of the capabilities that rely on it's technology.
In this version, we've refactored the most lengthy part of the process (transforming / generating the model into highly performant code), achieving optimizations that decrease the time required for the entire 1-Click Publish process. This part of the process had an average performance improvement of 86%.
Overall, going from application change to application running is now up to 60% faster!
These improvements will be noticed on every operation that implies generating code out of your model. As such a similar level of overall improvements in the following operations can be expected:
- Publishing an application for the first time
- Making a change to an existing application
- Publishing existing modules, solutions or solution versions
- Staging applications between environments
Immediate test query
Along with these improvements in code generation, we've refactored one of the most important actions that, as a developer, you use every day. Testing a query, to check if you're doing everything right, debugging it or fine tune it against example data or different conditions before actually deploying the new version is done over and over again when you're developing. This operation usually took around 14 seconds.
Now it is immediate! Only depending on the ability of your database to handle it, of course.
Want It? Go Grab It!
Overall, these changes represent a huge productivity increase in daily work, allow you to test more often on all devices, and make the operation of staging an application to production even leaner.
Just head over to http://www.outsystems.com/home/downloads/ and get it installed on your private cloud, or ping back OutSystems to know when it will be available on your cloud subscription, if not already there!


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Morrowind:Ebony Mail
|This quest page is currently being rewritten as part of the Morrowind Overhaul Project.
The page is being rewritten and checked in several stages. All users are welcome to make changes to the page. If you make a change that is relevant to the project, please update this template accordingly, and make sure you have observed the project guidelines.
Quick Walkthrough[edit]
- Talk to Archcanon Tholer Saryoni for your duties.
- Travel to Mount Assarnibibi to visit the shrine there.
- Find the shrine at the top of the mountain in a ring of seven large stones and activate it to receive the Ebony Mail.
- Return to Tholer to complete the quest.
Detailed Walkthrough[edit]
Once you have completed the Pilgrimages of the Four Corners and achieved Master rank, find Archcanon Tholer Saryoni in his quarters in the High Fane in the Vivec's Temple Canton. He will send you to Mount Assarnibibi and visit the shrine there.
Mount Assarnibibi[edit]
Mount Assarnibibi is in the Molag Amur region of southeastern Vvardenfell, northeast of Mount Kand (which is north of Molag Mar). The shrine is at the top of the mountain in a ring of seven large stones. Activate the shrine to receive the Ebony Mail.
Return to Saryoni in Vivec to receive his acknowledgment of the pilgrimage (you get to keep the mail) and a promotion to Patriarch of the Tribunal Temple.
- Although Tholer retires to write some sermons, he still keeps his office in case you have not completed the main quest yet.
- Due to something the developers overlooked, it is possible to do the Pilgrimages of the Four Corners and Mt. Assarnibibi pilgrimage at any time - even if you aren't a member of the Tribunal Temple. Some of the Four Corners pilgrimages need to be done in order, and all four are required for the Assarnibibi pilgrimage to get the Ebony Mail. You can still go through the temple quests normally.
Quest Stages[edit]
These codes can be used along with the
Journal Console command and quest ID given within the chart to update the quest to a certain point.
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Mailbag: How would lefty Affeldt fit in?
Mailbag: How would Affeldt fit in?
-- Dan M., Indianapolis As of Monday morning, nothing was official with Affeldt yet, but all signs point to something getting done soon. The first impression is to like this move. The Reds didn't settle for giving a long-term deal to any of the slim pickings left among free-agent starters on the market. Instead, they agreed to a bargain one-year deal with a reliever, with thoughts of making him a starter again. Affeldt didn't have good numbers as a starter with the Royals (8-17 with a 5.41 ERA, in 42 starts), but it wasn't a very good team and his role was inconsistent between starting and the bullpen. Still, 28 years old and coming off his best year as a late-inning reliever for the Rockies, he has decent stuff -- a low-90s fastball and a good curveball. If he makes the rotation, the Reds have a nice lefty to give hitters a different look from all of their right-handers. If he doesn't, the bullpen has another solid addition for the late innings.
Harold, Hilliard, Ohio The Reds haven't announced they're leaving Florida. What they've done thus far is kick the tires on a potential site in Goodyear, Ariz. (pun intended). Consultant John Allen completed a two-day tour there last week. Obviously, Arizona is tougher to reach for Reds fans in Ohio, but you can't blame the team for exploring their options as their lease in Sarasota, Fla., runs out this October. Voters in the Gulf Coast city already rejected a November referendum to upgrade outdated Ed Smith Stadium. There aren't a lot of Florida communities publicly stepping up to embrace the team yet.
Arizona's Cactus League currently carries 12 teams and will increase to 14 when the Dodgers and Indians begin training out there in 2009 (the Indians are to train in Goodyear, too). The desert state has been economically more willing to host sites and could soon have more teams holding camps there than in Florida. More than likely, they would get a brand-new facility to play in. Another advantage for Arizona would be proximity. All but a couple of teams train in the Phoenix area, which cuts down on travel time and expenses for games while increasing the pool of potential opponents. The farthest trip would be two hours to Tucson.
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E-mail your query to MLB.com Reds beat reporter Mark Sheldon for possible inclusion in a future Inbox column. Letters may be edited for brevity, length and/or content.
But, with Florida comes history. The Reds have held Spring Training in the sunshine state since 1923, except for three years during World War II. Sarasota, where the team has trained since 1998, is a nice area and about a two-day drive or two-hour flight from Cincinnati. Arizona is several days away from here by car and four-plus hours by plane. Some in Sarasota -- realizing what they'd be losing if the Reds didn't return -- have tried stepping up with an alternative deal. On Tuesday, the county and city commissions will vote on a new proposal that could keep the Reds there. If it too is denied, the search for a new facility will definitely continue.In last week's mailbag response about Wayne Krivsky, you wrote: "Many believe you should evaluate a GM's performance over a five-year span before making determinations about his future." Really? Many people believe that? I'm not sure I can recall a GM getting a five-year grace period.
-- Chris G., Columbus, Ohio I think many believe it, but it doesn't always mean it works out that way. I wasn't saying GMs should get a five-year grace period. In the bottom-line results, instant-gratification-driven business of professional sports, no one is handed anything. I also know fans in this town have heard enough about five-year plans, which I also wasn't advocating. I should have done a better job explaining my point last week. This much is true: Most general managers don't inherit perfect or even near-perfect situations. They're usually hired to turn around lousy teams. Even in the win-now-or-else state of the game, that takes time -- especially for smaller- or middle-market teams. It takes at least one or two years to get rid of some of the bad players and bad contracts. It often takes three-to-five years for a new GM's draft picks to reach the Majors and either pan out or bust. There are inherited managers, coaches and front office staff that have to mesh with the new regime, if they're kept at all. Then, it takes formulating a philosophy and a plan for success and then sticking with it, despite potential bumps in the road. With Scott Hatteberg and Joey Votto both being solid first basemen, what do you think will happen with Andy Phillips? Will he start the year in Triple-A, or does he have a legitimate chance of making the team out of Spring Training?
-- Danielle K., New Jersey Outside of utility player Jeff Keppinger, the Reds really lack a right-handed-hitting first baseman at the big league level. Phillips, who will be in camp as a non-roster invitee on a Minor League contract, fits that bill, and therefore would have a decent shot, I'd think. Of his 67 games played for the Yankees last season, 57 were at first base in a platoon situation. The Reds seem to covet versatile guys (like Keppinger and Freel). Phillips can also play second and third base and the outfield. Just wondering what the latest is with Pete Mackanin? Has he landed a job for the upcoming season?
-- Mike J., Mount Prospect, Ill. Mackanin, who was 41-39 as an interim manager last season, recently accepted a scouting position with the Yankees and chose not to take the Reds' offer to remain in the organization. Correct me if I'm wrong. Didn't Jim Brower, who just recently signed with the Reds as a non-roster invitee, start his career with Cincinnati?
-- Michael J., Dayton, Ohio Brower's career didn't start in Cincinnati, but he did pitch for the Reds before. He spent the 2001 season split between Cincinnati and Triple-A Louisville.
Mark Sheldon is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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U.S. Department of Energy Honors OSRAM SYLVANIA for Support of Lighting Facts® Program
OSRAM SYLVANIA recognized for going "above and beyond" to integrate Lighting Facts into everyday business practices
Jul 15, 2011, 09:00 ET from OSRAM SYLVANIA
DANVERS, Mass., July 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) honored OSRAM SYLVANIA with a Special Recognition for going above and beyond typical consumer education efforts by integrating Lighting Facts into everyday business practices and demonstrating staunch commitment to product evaluation. OSRAM SYLVANIA was one of nine Lighting Facts partners recognized by the DOE at the Solid-State Lighting Market Introduction Workshop yesterday in Seattle.
The Lighting Facts program is a voluntary pledge that showcases Light Emitting Diode (LED) products for general illumination from manufacturers who commit to testing products and accurately reporting performance results according to industry standards. Because LED technology has the potential to cut U.S. lighting energy use by one-fourth, the Lighting Facts program was developed as a foundation for successful commercialization of this technology. The Lighting Facts label provides a simple and effective way to analyze energy efficiency, color temperature and other key information essential to evaluating products and identifying the best lighting options.
"As Americans continue their active transition to LEDs, it is our goal not only to develop high-quality and energy efficient lighting technologies, but also to ensure that consumers are well informed when evaluating our products," said Phil Rioux, general manager of Consumer Lighting LED Retrofits at OSRAM SYLVANIA. "With so many products on the market relying on varied qualitative metrics, the Lighting Facts program provides a layman's way for buyers to make educated LED decisions."
OSRAM SYLVANIA uses the Lighting Facts program and its associated label to highlight the company's superior product performance. Utilizing the results from the IES LM79 test, the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America's standard, ensures that there are accurate results behind the numbers on the label. Similar to a nutrition label, the Lighting Facts label provides a quick summary of product performance data, thereby providing credibility to the products, and cementing consumer confidence to adopt newly available lighting options.
About OSRAM SYLVANIA
OSRAM SYLVANIA is a leader in lighting solutions that feature innovative design and energy saving technology. The company sells products for homes, businesses and vehicles primarily under the SYLVANIA brand name, and also under the OSRAM brand. Headquartered in Danvers, Mass., OSRAM SYLVANIA is the North American operation of OSRAM GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens AG. For more information, visit www.sylvania.com or follow SYLVANIA on Facebook and Twitter.
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Testing Software inserts and operates board-tester-in-a-chip.
Press Release Summary:
Sep 28, 2011 - With ASSET® ScanWorks® platform for embedded instruments, engineers can select instruments they need, set parameters, and insert them into FPGA to function as circuit board tester. Program automatically generates all constructs for embedded tester, facilitates synthesis of instrument code into firmware, and creates software image of tester to program FPGA. Once inserted, ScanWorks FCT operates board-tester-in-a-chip from drag-and-drop interface to perform validation, test, and debug.
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ASSET's New FPGA-Controlled Test (FCT) Inserts and Operates a Board-Tester-in-a-Chip
Press release date: Sep 20, 2011
Richardson, TX - With new tools for the ASSET® ScanWorks® platform for embedded instruments engineers can simply select instruments they need, set their parameters and insert them into a field programmable gate array (FPGA) to function as a circuit board tester. Once inserted, ScanWorks FCT operates the board-tester-in-a-chip from a drag-and-drop user interface to perform validation, test and debug.
ASSET InterTech (www.asset-intertech.com) is the leading supplier of tools for embedded instrumentation.
"The ScanWorks FPGA-controlled test (FCT) toolset is the first in the industry to automatically generate, insert and operate a board-tester-in-a-chip," said Glenn Woppman, president and CEO of ASSET. "ScanWorks FCT can help at every phase in a product's lifecycle. For example, the tester might assist bringing up prototypes of a new circuit board design before firmware or operating system software is available. Or, the embedded tester could be deployed in manufacturing test operations, in repair depots or for troubleshooting purposes in the field. It can be used and removed to meet any engineering need."
Because of significantly escalating gate densities, FPGAs are an effective platform for embedded test and measurement functionality at a time when legacy external probe-based equipment like oscilloscope and in-circuit test (ICT) systems are providing less and less test coverage. Faster speeds and greater complexities have increased the electrical sensitivities of chips and boards to the point where a physical probe will not provide adequate test coverage or reliable results.
"Many circuit board design projects run into delays because the hardware on the board can't be validated and tested until the firmware or operating system software have been completed. ScanWorks FCT does not depend on any product software," said Al Crouch, ASSET's chief technologist for core instruments. "Designers can insert a board tester, bring up and wring out first prototypes of a circuit board design and then remove the tester. If it will be needed later in the lifecycle, it can be inserted again or part of it can remain in the FPGA."
ScanWorks automates practically all of the FCT process. Instruments or instrument functions are selected from a library and matched with a description of one of the supported FPGA devices which is contained in another ScanWorks library. After the user sets the configuration parameters on the instruments selected, ScanWorks automatically generates all of the constructs for the embedded tester, facilitates the synthesis of the instrument code into the firmware required by the FPGA and creates the software image of the tester to program the FPGA. ScanWorks then inserts the tester in the FPGA and provides a drag-and-drop user interface to operate and manage the tester. ScanWorks serves as a unified automated environment for the entire process.
FCT expands the already extensive non-intrusive validation, test and debug technologies that comprise the ScanWorks platform for embedded instruments. FCT's capabilities add to the coverage ScanWorks delivers with its other non-intrusive technologies, including boundary-scan test, processor-controlled test (PCT) and high-speed I/O (HSIO) validation. Now engineers are able to overcome the growing deficiencies of traditional legacy intrusive instruments and testers which are losing physical access for their probes.
Pricing and Availability
ScanWorks FCT will be available in December of 2011 from ASSET InterTech and its distributors. Development license pricing is $35,000. For product information, call 888-694-6250, fax 972-437-2826, e-mail email@example.com or visit www.asset-intertech.com.
About ASSET InterTech
ASSET InterTech is the leading supplier of tools for embedded instrumentation for design validation, test and debug. The ScanWorks platform provides automation, access and analysis tools in one environment. Users can quickly and easily validate and test semiconductors, circuit boards or entire systems during every phase of a product's life, including design, manufacturing/repair and field maintenance. ASSET InterTech is located at 2201 North Central Expressway, Suite 105, Richardson, TX 75080.
Alan Sguigna, ASSET 972/664-3105 firstname.lastname@example.com
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48" All Grill + Cart
Fisher & Paykel DCS outdoor Grills are designed to compliment any outdoor environment. Whether it′s fully built-in integration or the flexibility of a Grill cart, the DCS range takes performance to a new level.
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