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Thank you for making the 2019 Night at the Races such a fun, successful event for our school! We'll post the total funds raised on this page shortly. It's not too late to make a donation! Please visit our Online Donations Webpage.
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The Night at the Races is a community event. You can help make this fundraising event a HUGE success! Last year the generosity of the parents and community members made our Night at the Races event extremely successful; we raised $25,000!
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Tackling Scotland's health inequalities: A time for radical change?
In this paper, CHEX brings together some recent policy statements and research findings around health inequalities in Scotland, including recent reports from Audit Scotland and Scotland's Chief Medical Officer. These provide stark reading for anyone concerned with improving the health and wellbeing of disadvantaged communities. Within the documents there is a call for radical change in how Scotland tackles health inequalities. CHEX welcomes and supports this call for change together with greater recognition and backing for the contribution that community-led health approaches can bring.


text: Arsenic-in-Food-Products AAP.org > About the AAP > News Room > Arsenic in Food Products AAP FactsCommittees, Councils & SectionsChapters & DistrictsNews RoomCurrently selected News ReleasesHealth & Safety TipsAAP in the NewsAAP Press Room Media CenterAAP Conferences Press InformationMedia KitsEmbargoed Media ContentSocial Media Toolkit Donate NowCorporate RelationshipsAdvertise with AAPHelp/Feedback aaa print email share Facebook Twitter Arsenic in Food Products 9/19/2012 For Immediate Release: September 19, 2012 Article Body Consumer Reports published a report Sept. 19 on arsenic in foods made from rice. At the same time, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released the first part of what will be a much larger study of arsenic in foods. The findings are that arsenic is present in quantities that might increase an individual's life-time risk of cancer when children consume typical amounts of rice products. While additional research, including the results of the ongoing FDA study, will be needed to provide detailed recommendations, the American Academy of Pediatrics believes that at the individual level, offering children a variety of foods, including products made from oats and wheat, will decrease children's exposure to arsenic derived from rice. In addition, if parents raise questions about arsenic in juice products, they can be reminded that it is not necessary to offer children any juice in a well-balanced, healthy diet; and that for years the AAP has recommended limited intake of all sweet beverages, including juice. At the public policy level, the AAP will work with the FDA and other federal agencies to limit the use of arsenical compounds and participate in discussions about decreasing arsenic exposure through food and beverages. The AAP has collected resources for members to help them respond to parent concerns about arsenic in rice products. FDA:Arsenic in Rice FDA:Arsenic Q&A Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry: Arsenic FAQ ConsumerReports article, "Arsenic in Your Food" AAP speaking points on arsenic in rice (member log-in required) AAP Background on Arsenic AAP News article ## The American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 60,000 primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists and pediatric surgical specialists dedicated to the health, safety and well-being of infants, children, adolescents and young adults. For more information, visit www.aap.org. AAP Media Contacts


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Sinn Féin MEP Martina Anderson has called on the European Union to produce an action plan to tackle underage and binge drinking.
During a debate at the European Parliament in Brussels, Ms Anderson said recent events in Ireland, including the neknomination craze and the deaths of a number of young people, illustrates the need for an action plan.
"This action plan is designed to encourage prevention and health promotion and education, foster early diagnosis, improve access to treatment and provide continuous support to people and their families affected by alcohol related health and traffic accident issues.
"Harmful use of alcohol is the second largest lifestyle related cause of disease in our society and alcohol addiction is a risk factor in over 60 chronic diseases, including alcoholic liver disease (ALD), alcoholic chronic pancreatitis and almost all other digestive diseases, cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, obesity, Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) and neuropsychiatric disorders such as alcohol dependence."
Ms Anderson continued: "Across Ireland and Britain there has been a recent drinking craze sweeping through social media networks such as Facebook known as 'NekNominate'.
"Unfortunately in recent weeks, two young men have lost their lives in Ireland taking part in these stunts.
"It is clear that a lot more must be done to tackle what has become a culture of binge drinking amongst the young and old alike.
"Indeed, events in Belfast last week when 60 young people had to be treated at the Odyssey concert arena by ambulance services or taken to A+E for excessive alcohol consumption, only serves to further the urgency of this issue," she said.


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Simon W. M. John, PhD, who has dedicated his career to the understanding and treatment of glaucoma, has been awarded the 2013 Bressler Prize in Vision Science. Dr. John is a scientist at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, ME, where his lab studies the molecular features of complex diseases such as glaucoma, a major cause of human blindness.
Glaucoma gradually steals a person's sight without warning by causing damage to the optic nerve. Studying mouse models and patient samples, Dr. John's lab combines genetics with genomics, cell/molecular biology and physiology to understand how this damage occurs, and to develop methods for identifying new genes and the pathways that cause glaucoma.
"Glaucoma is certainly more common in the aging population, but it is important to bear in mind that all segments of the population are affected, including newborn children," said Dr. John recently. "Current treatments are not adequate," he continued. "They're all aimed at lowering the intraocular eye pressure, and they're not effective in all patients. By identifying the genes and molecular processes that contribute to the risk of developing glaucoma, our studies may suggest new pathways and targets for treatment."
Internationally recognized glaucoma researcher and clinician, George A. "Jack" Cioffi, MD, Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Ophthalmologist-in-Chief at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, said, "I applaud the Guild for recognizing Dr. John's seminal glaucoma research by awarding him the Guild's prestigious Bressler Prize."
Dr. John is a Senior Staff Scientist/Professor at The Jackson Laboratory, which he joined in 1995. He has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator since 1998. He also holds the position of Research Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology, at Tufts University School of Medicine. From 1991-1995, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Oliver Smithies, Excellence Professor of Pathology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He received his BSc in Zoology and Genetics from University College, Cardiff, and his PhD in Biology from McGill University.
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Since its founding in 1914, the mission of the Jewish Guild has been to help those with vision loss live with independence and dignity. The Guild is a not-for-profit, non-sectarian agency that serves persons of all ages who are visually impaired, blind and multidisabled. The Guild provides a wide range of programs and services that include clinical services, low vision rehabilitation, adult day health care, mental health services, education, and programs for individuals with developmental disabilities. The Guild also offers health plans to provide, manage and coordinate healthcare services so that people with long term care and other special needs can live safely at home.


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the 6th of October.
I keep seeing 10:10 each time i look at a clock.
Someone told me recently that 10:10 signify's new beginnings.
here's to new beginnings!
a few nights ago i had a manifestation drawing and dinner here with an amazing circle of people.
I explained how over the past year each time I wanted to see something happen I drew it out first as a visual for myself.
One of my beautiful muse friends, Amy Jenkins, taught me this before I moved to India.
I remember she asked me, "what do you want?"
-"Why? Get Specific."
-"So I can take care of myself, and go to India to make a film and share beauty and magic with others and share my life.."
She said, "Ok- draw it."
We were at a diner, on a napkin I drew myself sitting on a elephant with a camera filming, with bags of "funds- $" on either side of me to do it.
A few months later and this would be the reality.
India ended and after I returned I started to long for a place to call my own.
So again, I drew it.
If you saw my home now, you'd see it looks a lot like this, with the mountains in the window, tea cups on a tables, tarot on shelves, and magic littered around. :)
I've drawn out my most recent set of wishes and intentions, this includes the winter solstice in Mexico, Screenings in New York, SF and LA, finishing two major projects and nurturing and growing in a relationship by staying present and trusting.
In the circle everyone drew out their wishes, and Ben led verbal sharing of intentions and blessings for the group. Everyone really opened up and became so vulnerable, we're all just humans, and being able to express what you need and want is so important. Faith, being the main driving force behind anything.
I went to a workshop/circle in long beach recently and the doctor in the group said-
"Every time you doubt yourself it disempowers you"
i found a few other things from one of my wish books that stuck out to me.
it is the beginning of october.
what will you visualize for yourself from here on out?
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- Royal College of General Practitioners
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- University of Bristol
- University of Cambridge
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A low voltage high current rectifier diode, useful in applications where a low voltage drop is required.
The 1N5818T features a low voltage drop in a high current rectifier diode package. We've found it particularly useful for solar applications to prevent reverse current from leaking back into the cell when it gets dark.
It can handle up to 1A of current with maximum 30V reverse bias. The forward voltage drop is only 0.22V at 20mA current! Compared to the 0.77V of a typical silicon diode at the same current.


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Which is to say, we went to see How to Train Your Dragon today, and I adored it.
Now, I'm not going to claim it's the best movie ever made. The story is classic "misunderstood misfit saves the world and everyone discovers he was great all along" straight out of Disney, down to the absent mother. But another way to look at it is as about the bond between humans and animals, and being a sucker for the cute beasties, that's where it tugged successfully on my heartstrings. (Okay, maybe it's not a realistic portrayal of the human-animal bond, since dragons are, you know, fictional. But still. If you like boy-loves-dog stories, you'll really like this.)
Toothless, the dragon pictured above, is one of the most adorable creatures I've seen on film in a long time. The moviemakers did a lovely job creating an animal that's a reptile yet combines the most appealing characteristics of cats, dogs, and horses, and feels entirely real. (More real, even, than the humans, who are supposed to be exaggerated and caricatured.) The scenes where Hiccup first encounters Toothless, and the flying scenes, are visually gorgeous. And although the action sequence at the end is, again, not that original, well, it's DRAGONS! Do I really care about originality? No!
The thing is, though, that Toothless, in his cat-like elements, really really REALLY reminded me of my old black cat that we had to put to sleep last summer. REALLY. A LOT. So, um, I kind of cried almost every time he was on the screen. And totally sobbed at parts. Poor NLLDH is very kind to put up with my sentimentality. (It was kind of like seeing Finding Nemo and Ratatouille after my dad died - in both those movies, the main character is forcibly separated from his dad, and watching both, I sobbed and sobbed. Yeah. You all really want to go to the movies with me now, don't you?)


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Biden Tells Vets U.S. Keeping Iraqi Commitments
Vice President Joe Biden has told a military veterans convention in Indianapolis that insurgents in Iraq have failed in their efforts to undermine elections and the forming of a new government there.
Speaking Monday at the annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Biden said the United States will remain committed to helping the Iraqi people even after the last American combat troops leave the country this month.
Biden said the Iraqis are ready to take charge of their country and that troubles with negotiations among the leaders shows that politics -- and not war -- have broken out there.
About 50,000 U.S. troops are expected to remain in Iraq until the end of 2011 as a training and assistance force.


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Remember Jacob/
Today is the official release day of Limping But Blessed, Wrestling with God after the Death of a Child. Some of you have already received your book and you've provided encouraging feedback. Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts with me and with others.
Like most things related to this book, today is bitter sweet. I wish I was not one who had written a book about the death of a child. I wish I didn't know how any of this feels. At the same time, I'm incredibly thankful to have been able to complete the book, to feel like I wrote this along with Jacob's help, to be able to share Jacob with the world, and to hopefully help some people.
What I'd like most on the official release date of this book is for people to remember Jacob.
I want people to remember this incredibly happy, loving, beautiful red headed little scrawny kid. He loved to play outside, wear his cowboy boots with shorts, put on a superhero costume, and give big hugs. One of the things I love most about him is his affectionate and loving personality. I miss those hugs in the morning and the kisses goodnight.
One of our biggest fears as grieving parents is that people will forget Jacob or that his short life didn't matter. Just like we want all of our living children to make a difference in the world and to do great things - we want those children who have died to have significance and for their life to have meaning.
Today, there is no doubt Jacob has made a difference and his life will carry on with this book.
Thank you all for the ongoing support, love, and for spreading the word about Limping But Blessed.


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One of the great moments in American History was the opening of the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma Territory, which had been purchased from the Cherokees' in Indian Territory. The strip was 226 miles east to west and 58 miles north to south. Parts of the strip were opened for settlers at different times and the biggest event was the race for land in 1893 where the contestants for the were allowed to claim a quarter section (160 acres).
On the day of the run there were 100,000 people in Arkansas City the main starting point; three days later only 5,000 were still there. A hundred and fifteen thousand individuals registered for the run, but friends and relatives came along so as many as 150,000 made the run racing for the 42,000 claims. The land parcels were handled like homesteads and the winner had to be a citizen to get a patent for the land. Since Native Americans were not citizens they were not allowed in the race.
The name Sooners for Oklahomans comes from people who found ways to get claims before the official race began. Many cities and towns grew out of this the largest competitive event in history.
Our first stop in exploring the Cherokee Strip was Arkansas City, Kansas where the Cherokee Strip Run began for most people, others started at smaller starting gates including one in Perry, Oklahoma that also has a museum. The museum in Arkansas City is small, and the building it is in was originally a bowling alley. It is obvious they need money and are working to make improvements in their displays. The staff has hopes of making the museum a major tourist stop and they are running various programs to raise the necessary money.
At the time of the land rush the United States was in an economic depression with 18 percent unemployment. Pressure was on the government to do something to provide opportunities for those who were unemployed. The open land was seen as a chance for many people to start over and for others to get rich.
Contestants set off to claim land on horse back, in buggies, in covered wagons, on bicycles and some even on foot. Many were not well prepared and water and food was often in short supply. At the museum in Perry the story is told of Truman Daily of the Otoe-Missouria tribe who provided water and food for the rushers who seemingly had not taken into account their need for either in their haste to claim the land.
People died in the rush, no numbers are given, but the indications are that some killed others in arguments over who had the right to the land.
Equipment on display in Arkansas City from the run includes buggies, wagons and various kinds of farm equipment.
Besides covering the Cherokee Strip Run the museum has material on the history of Arkansas City, a stage and dressing rooms for plays, and on the outside of the building a one room school, a small rough looking jail and a Cherokee fort. The fort is made of large branches and the house made of straw. It looked like it would be dangerous if you tried to make a fire in it. Close by was an Indian Industrial School of 8,640 acres that was intended to civilize Indians by training them in white mans' ways. While at the school Native Americans were not allowed to speak their own language, had to wear white man's clothes and learn to make a living doing white man's jobs. Runaways were frequent. On the other hand it did give students some skills for living in the new world that replaced the one they had lost.
Oklahoma's Cherokee Strip Museum in Perry is a small building constructed from local stone and looks like it was intended to be a museum. Much of its charm of its exhibits is based on the use of old pictures coupled with personal reminiscences. The first panel is mammoth bones and flint points of the early Indians in the area. Then we learn about the Cherokees who always seem to get taken advantage of by the whites. They're given land; they follow the rules, turn into Americans and then lose their land. We also learned about the Osage and a group I didn't know about previously the Otoe-Missouria who came from Michigan. A set of their relics, beads and clothes are on display.
Next we were shown how cattle men used the Cherokee Strip to fatten their cattle before moving them up to the railroads in Kansas. There is a display of tools of the period. This museum does a lot with little by making good choices and presenting background to let the visitor know what was happening.
In the run of 93 there were Sooners who managed to get on the land early and claim choice spots. Towns grew up overnight because besides claiming homesteads people could claim plots in the future towns.
Rooms of the period have been created and furnished. A back porch, dental office, living room with musical instruments, general store, dress shop, doctor's office, kitchen, sheriff's weapons, and in the reception room various samples of furniture—desks, book cases of the period.
The big treat of the day for us was the fourth grade children who were bused in. They came wearing clothes like those in 1910, and carrying old fashion lunch pails with simple foods of the time. Their teachers were also dressed in period clothes. Next to the museum is a one room school house that regularly brings fourth graders in to experience a day in a one room school as it was run in 1910. The teacher had the discipline of the period down to its fine points. The boys and girls stood in separate lines, and marched into the room in order. They stowed their food and coats in the anti room, carefully seated two to a desk, given instructions on their behavior: including how to get permission to use the outdoor toilet.
We watched their penmanship class that included instructions on to use the inkwell, the old fashioned pen. Many were having trouble managing it. Later they were to get instruction from the McDuffie Reader and have a spelling bee. We were told by the docent that the children really like this experience.
We also stopped in Guthrie to visit their history museum that has many original objects, lots of personal accounts of life in the pioneer days and many items from the actual land rush. The museum also spends time on the five different occasions when land was made available. On the second floor is an account of more recent history especially the story of how the capital was stolen from Guthrie, the original capital and taken to Oklahoma City. Despite the professional layout and presentations we found the displays difficult to read and see because they kept everything so dark.


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In the Land Of The Bumbly Boo
The people are red white and blue
They never blow noses
Or ever wear clotheses
What a sensible thing to do.
In the Land of The Bumbly Boo
You can buy lemon pie at the zoo
They give away foxes
In little pink boxes
And bottles of dandelion stew.
In the Land of The Bumbly Boo
You never see a Gnu,
But thousands of Cats
Wearing trousers and hats
Made of pumpkin and pelican glue.
Oh the Bumbly Boo! The Bumbly Boo!
That's the place for me and you
So hurry let's run;
The train leaves at one
For the Land of the Bumbly Boo
The wonderful Bumbly Boo Boo Boo
The wonderful Wumbly Boo!
PS: To the teacher who, thinking this was my poem, said: "The last verse isn't necessary": I'm sorry but I didn't write this wonderful poem and although I often change my poems later, I'm afraid it's too late for Spike to do this now. However, your mistake gave him another laugh!


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On a Cuban government website, the former president could be seen repeating his warnings that nuclear war was imminent if the United States, in alliance with Israel, attacks Iran.
Castro said, "The use of nuclear arms in a new war implies the end of humanity.
"Any world government is obligated to respect the right to life of all nations and of the entirety of the world's people.
"Today, there is an imminent risk of war using this type of weapon and I do not harbor the slightest doubt that an attack by the United States and Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran would inevitably become a global nuclear conflict."
In July, the 84-year-old leader of Cuba's Revolution emerged from four years of seclusion following a 2006 illness that led to his ceding power to his brother, current Cuban President Raúl Castro.
Since July, Fidel Castro has made several public appearances, all repeating his dire predictions.


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I was reading Aleheads.com today and it had a feature titled "The Best Beer by State." Of course I checked out Iowa and found that something called Golden Nugget IPA from Toppling Goliath Brewing Company made the cut as the number one beer. I was surprised since there are some really nice beers brewed in Iowa that I've actually heard of and tasted. Beers from Peacetree and Millstream make some of my favorites. I checked several other beer websites and found that the beer is highly regarded on numerous beer websites. I did some research and it turns out that Toppling Goliath comes from Decorah, Iowa. Now, I've been to Decorah quite a few times lately and I've never seen nor heard of these fellas. So, this will give me something to do when I get through there. But maybe you and I don't have to wait to find out. It appears that their beer is available on tap at both Zombie Burger and El Bait Shop. Also, they will be at the Brewfest 2012 on July 14th at Principal Park. I also see from their webpage that they are breaking ground for what they claim will make them the largest brewery in Iowa. They also purchased bottling equipment, so I assume that with this sort of output that they will be looking to sell their beer in the usual retail channels. If they make good beer, then more power to them.
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Can't wait for you to try our Golden Nugget and other fun varieties! See you at the Brewfest this weekend!
Madison (Toppling Goliath Brewing Co.)
I've sampled quite a few of these brews at El Bait Shop and I have to say it is top-notch stuff.
Another great brewery in Iowa is a very good thing.


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A rowing team is called a "crew." The term "crew," as used in the American academic circle, may also refer to the actual sport of rowing.
Rowing can be classified according to the number of oars used. In sweep rowing, the participants only use one oar called a sweep oar. Sculling, meanwhile, is a type of rowing where a crew uses two oars. Sweep rowing hosts competitions for pairs, fours or eights, while sculling has rowing events for singles, doubles or quads. The distance set for secondary schools is often at 1,500 meters while master crews race at 1,000 meters. The standard length for Olympic races is at 2,000 meters.


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NFC Might Not Make It Into iPhone 5
Though it would certainly make a lot of sense for Apple to add support for near-field communication technology (NFC) to its next generation iPhone, it's probably not going to happen. That's the word from Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi, who believes Apple will forgo supporting NFC on its iOS devices until consumer adoption is certain and it's reached a critical mass with merchants.
Currently, a very few U.S. merchant locations support NFC-based payments, which means the ramp-up to a broad NFC infrastructure will likely be a long one.
"NFC-based mobile payments require NFC-capable POS terminals," Sacconaghi wrote. "Only 51,000 retail locations support contactless payments (per Verifone's 10-K); given that First Data alone deals with 4.1M merchant locations in the U.S. this suggests current penetration of just over 1 percent of merchant locations. Clearly, a higher critical mass is needed before mobile payments would take off.
To Sacconaghi. that means NFC is probably not an immediate top priority for Apple.
"We do not expect the iPhone 5 to feature an NFC-based payments solution, and instead expect Apple will evaluate and come to market with partners or a complete solution later, perhaps when NFC infrastructure is more established," he said in a note to clients. "We note that Apple did not release the first cloud-based music offerings, or the first 3G or LTE handsets, and entered mobile advertising only after Google bought AdMob–instead, the company has made its name from re-inventing MP3 players, smartphones and most recently tablets/netbooks, and would retain the option to eventually do the same with mobile payments."
Once NFC is ubiquitous and Apple moves ahead with NFC support in the iPhone, though, the opportunity is substantial–an incremental $4 billion to $9 billion annually, he estimates.
Sacconaghi's report follows similar assertions made to the Independent earlier this year by sources at some big U.K. wireless carriers who claimed Apple was forgoing NFC in the iPhone 5 because of the lack of a clear standard across the industry.


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Highlights of NIPS 2016: Adversarial Learning, Meta-learning and more
Our researchers at AYLIEN keep abreast of and contribute to the latest developments in the field of Machine Learning. Recently, two of our research scientists, John Glover and Sebastian Ruder, attended NIPS 2016 in Barcelona, Spain. In this post, Sebastian highlights some of the stand-out papers and trends from the conference.
The Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) is one of the two top conferences in machine learning. It took place for the first time in 1987 and is held every December, historically in close proximity to a ski resort. This year, it took place in sunny Barcelona. The conference (including tutorials and workshops) went on from Monday, December 5 to Saturday, December 10. The full conference program is available here.
Machine Learning seems to become more pervasive every month. However, it is still sometimes hard to keep track of the actual extent of this development. One of the most accurate barometers for this evolution is the growth of NIPS itself. The number of attendees skyrocketed at this year's conference growing by over 50% year-over-year.
Image 1: The growth of the number of attendees at NIPS follows (the newly coined) Terry's Law (named after Terrence Sejnowski, the president of the NIPS foundation; faster growth than Moore's Law)
Unsurprisingly, Deep Learning (DL) was by far the most popular research topic, with about every fourth of more than 2,500 submitted papers (and 568 accepted papers) dealing with deep neural networks.
Image 2: Distribution of topics across all submitted papers (Source: The review process for NIPS 2016)
On the other hand, the distribution of research paper topics has quite a long tail and reflects the diversity of topics at the conference that span everything from theory to applications, from robotics to neuroscience, and from healthcare to self-driving cars.
Generative Adversarial Networks
One of the hottest developments within Deep Learning was Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). The minimax game playing networks have by now won the favor of many luminaries in the field. Yann LeCun hails them as the most exciting development in ML in recent years. The organizers and attendees of NIPS seem to side with him: NIPS featured a tutorial by Ian Goodfellow about his brainchild, which led to a packed main conference hall.
Image 3: A full conference hall at the GAN tutorial
Though a fairly recent development, there are many cool extensions of GANs among the conference papers:
- Reed et al. propose a model that allows you to specify not only what you want to draw (e.g. a bird) but also where to put it in an image.
- Chen et al. disentangle factors of variation in GANs by representing them with latent codes. The resulting models allow you to adjust e.g. the type of a digit, its breadth and width, etc.
In spite of their popularity, we know alarmingly little about what makes GANs so capable of generating realistic-looking images. In addition, making them work in practice is an arduous endeavour and a lot of (undocumented) hacks are necessary to achieve the best performance. Soumith Chintala presents a collection of these hacks in his "How to train your GAN" talk at the Adversarial Training workshop.
Image 4: How to train your GAN (Source: Soumith Chintala)
Yann LeCun muses in his keynote that the development of GANs parallels the history of neural networks themselves: They were poorly understood and hard to get to work in the beginning and only took off once researchers figured out the right tricks and learned how to make them work. At this point, it seems unlikely that GANs will experience a winter anytime soon; the research community is still at the beginning in learning how to make the best use of them and it will be exciting to see what progress we can make in the coming years.
On the other hand, the success of GANs so far has been limited mostly to Computer Vision due to their difficulty in modelling discrete rather than continuous data. The Adversarial Training workshop showcased some promising work in this direction (see e.g. our own John Glover's paper on modeling documents, this paper and this paper on generating text, and this paper on adversarial evaluation of dialogue models). It remains to be seen if 2017 will be the year in which GANs break through in NLP.
The Nuts and Bolts of Machine Learning
Andrew Ng gave one of the best tutorials of the conference with his take on building AI applications using Deep Learning. Drawing from his experience of managing the 1,300 people AI team at Baidu and hundreds of applied AI projects and equipped solely with two whiteboards, he shared many insights about how to build and deploy AI applications in production.
Besides better hardware, Ng attributes the success of Deep Learning to two factors: In contrast to traditional methods, deep NNs are able to learn more effectively from large amounts of data. Secondly, end-to-end (supervised) Deep Learning allows us to learn to map from inputs directly to outputs.
While this approach to training chatbots or self-driving cars is sufficient to write innovative research papers, Ng emphasized end-to-end DL is often not production-ready: A chatbot that maps from text directly to a response is not able to have a coherent conversation or fulfill a request, while mapping from an image directly to a steering command might have literally fatal side effects if the model has not encountered the corresponding part of the input space before. Rather, for a production model, we still want to have intermediate steps: For a chatbot, we prefer to have an inference engine that generates a response, while in a self-driving car, DL is used to identify obstacles, while the steering is performed by a traditional planning algorithm.
Image 5: Andrew Ng on end-to-end DL (right: end-to-end DL chatbot and chatbot with inference engine; left bottom: end-to-end DL self-driving car and self-driving car with intermediate steps)
Ng also shared that the most common mistakes he sees in project teams is that they track the wrong metrics: In an applied machine learning project, the only relevant metrics are the training error, the development error, and the test error. These metrics alone enable the project team to know what steps to take, as he demonstrated in the diagram below:
Image 6: Andrew Ng's flowchart for applied ML projects
A key facilitator of the recent success of ML have been the advances in hardware that allowed faster computation and storage. Given that Moore's Law will reach its limits sooner or later, one might reason that also the rise of ML might plateau. Ng, however, argued that the commitment by leading hardware manufacturers such as NVIDIA and Intel and the ensuing performance improvements to ML hardware would fuel further growth.
Among ML research areas, supervised learning is the undisputed driver of the recent success of ML and will likely continue to drive it for the foreseeable future. In second place, Ng saw neither unsupervised learning nor reinforcement learning, but transfer learning. We at AYLIEN are bullish on transfer learning for NLP and think that it has massive potential.
Recurrent Neural Networks
The conference also featured a symposium dedicated to Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs). The symposium coincided with the 20 year anniversary of LSTM…
Image 7: Jürgen Schmidhuber kicking off the RNN symposium
… being rejected from NIPS 1996. The fact that papers that do not use LSTMs have been rare in the most recent NLP conferences (see our EMNLP blog post) is a testament to the perseverance of the authors of the original paper, Sepp Hochreiter and Jürgen Schmidhuber.
At NIPS, we had several papers that sought to improve RNNs in different ways:
- Ba et al. and Neil et al. enable RNNs to handle different time scales.
- Fraccaro et al. model uncertainty.
Other improvements apply to Deep Learning in general:
- Salimans and Kingma propose Weight Normalisation to accelerate training that can be applied in two lines of Python code.
- Li et al. propose a multinomial variant of dropout that sets neurons to zero depending on the data distribution.
The Neural Abstract Machines & Program Induction (NAMPI) workshop also featured several speakers talking about RNNs:
- Alex Graves focused on his recent work on Adaptive Computation Time (ACT) for RNNs that allows to decouple the processing time from the sequence length. He showed that a word-level language model with ACT could reach state-of-the-art with fewer computations.
- Edward Grefenstette outlined several limitations and potential future research directions in the context of RNNs in his talk.
Improving classic algorithms
While Deep Learning is a fairly recent development, the conference featured also several improvements to algorithms that have been around for decades:
- Ge et al. show in their best paper that the non-convex objective for matrix completion has no spurious local minima, i.e. every local minimum is a global minimum.
- Bachem et al. present a method that guarantees accurate and fast seedings for large-scale k-means++ clustering. The presentation was one of the most polished ones of the conference and the code is open-source and can be installed via pip.
- Ashtiani et al. show that we can make NP-hard k-means clustering problems solvable by allowing the model to pose queries for a few examples to a domain expert.
Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement Learning (RL) was another much-discussed topic at NIPS with an excellent tutorial by Pieter Abbeel and John Schulman dedicated to RL. John Schulman also gave some practical advice for getting started with RL.
One of the best papers of the conference introduces Value Iteration Networks, which learn to plan by providing a differentiable approximation to a classic planning algorithm via a CNN. This paper was another cool example of one of the major benefits of deep neural networks: They allow us to learn increasingly complex behaviour as long as we can represent it in a differentiable way.
During the week of the conference, several research environments for RL were simultaneously released, among them OpenAI's Universe, Deep Mind Lab, and FAIR's Torchcraft. These will likely be a key driver in future RL research and should open up new research opportunities.
Learning-to-learn / Meta-learning
Another topic that came up in several discussions over the course of the conference was Learning-to-learn or Meta-learning:
- Andrychowicz et al. learn an optimizer in a paper with the ingenious title "Learning to learn by gradient descent by gradient descent".
- Vinyals et al. learn how to one shot-learn in a paper that frames one-shot learning in the sequence-to-sequence framework and has inspired new approaches for one-shot learning.
Most of the existing papers on meta-learning demonstrate that wherever you are doing something that gives you gradients, you can optimize them using another algorithm via gradient descent. Prepare for a surge of "Meta-learning for X" and "(Meta-)+learning" papers in 2017. It's LSTMs all the way down!
Meta-learning was also one of the key talking points at the RNN symposium. Jürgen Schmidhuber argued that a true meta-learner would be able to learn in the space of all programs and would have the ability to modify itself and elaborated on these ideas at his talk at the NAMPI workshop. Ilya Sutskever remarked that we currently have no good meta-learning models. However, there is hope as the plethora of new research environments should also bring progress in this area.
General Artificial Intelligence
Learning how to learn also plays a role in the pursuit of the elusive goal of attaining General Artificial Intelligence, which was a topic in several keynotes. Yann LeCun argued that in order to achieve General AI, machines need to learn common sense. While common sense is often vaguely mentioned in research papers, Yann LeCun gave a succinct explanation of what common sense is: "Predicting any part of the past, present or future percepts from whatever information is available." He called this predictive learning, but notes that this is really unsupervised learning.
His talk also marked the appearance of a controversial and often tongue-in-cheek copied image of a cake, which he used to demonstrate that unsupervised learning is the most challenging task where we should concentrate our efforts, while RL is only the cherry on the icing of the cake.
Image 8: The Cake slide of Yann LeCun's keynote
Drew Purves focused on the bilateral relationship between the environment and AI in what was probably the most aesthetically pleasing keynote of the conference (just look at those graphics!)
Image 9: Graphics by Max Cant of Drew Purves' keynote (Source: Drew Purves)
He emphasized that while simulations of ecological tasks in naturalistic environments could be an important test bed for General AI, General AI is needed to maintain the biosphere in a state that will allow the continued existence of our civilization.
Image 10: Nature needs AI and AI needs Nature from Drew Purves' keynote
While it is frequently — and incorrectly — claimed that neural networks work so well because they emulate the brain's behaviour, Saket Navlakha argued during his keynote that we can still learn a great deal from the engineering principles of the brain. For instance, rather than pre-allocating a large number of neurons, the brain generates 1000s of synapses per minutes until its second year. Afterwards, until adolescence, the number of synapses is pruned and decreases by ~50%.
Image 11: Saket Navlakha's keynote
It will be interesting to see how neuroscience can help us to advance our field further.
In the context of the Machine Intelligence workshop, another environment was introduced in the form of FAIR's CommAI-env that allows to train agents through interaction with a teacher. During the panel discussion, the ability to learn hierarchical representations and to identify patterns was emphasized. However, although the field is making rapid progress on standard tasks such as object recognition, it is unclear if the focus on such specific tasks brings us indeed closer to General AI.
Natural Language Processing
While NLP is more of a niche topic at NIPS, there were a few papers with improvements relevant to NLP:
- He et al. propose a dual learning framework for MT that has two agents translating in opposite directions teaching each other via reinforcement learning.
- Sokolov et al. explore how to use structured prediction under bandit feedback.
- Huang et al. extend Word Mover's Distance, an unsupervised document similarity metric to the supervised setting.
- Lee et al. model the helpfulness of reviews by taking into account position and presentation biases.
Finally, a workshop on learning methods for dialogue explored how end-to-end systems, linguistics and ML methods can be used to create dialogue agents.
Jürgen Schmidhuber, the father of the LSTM was not only present on several panels, but did his best to remind everyone that whatever your idea, he had had a similar idea two decades ago and you should better cite him lest he interrupt your tutorial.
NIPS2016 Day 1: Poor @Goodfellow_Ian gets Schmidhuber'ed during educational GAN Tutorial session. pic.twitter.com/IeQzKcJYiv
— hardmaru (@hardmaru) December 5, 2016
Boston Robotics' Spot proved that — even though everyone is excited by learning and learning-to-learn — traditional planning algorithms are enough to win the admiration of a hall full of learning enthusiasts.
Image 12: Boston Robotics' Spot amid a crowd of fascinated onlookers
Apple, one of the most secretive companies in the world, has decided to be more open, to publish, and to engage with academia. This can only be good for the community. We're looking forward to more apple research papers.
Image 13: Ruslan Salakhutdinov at the Apple lunch event
Uber announced their acquisition of Cambridge-based AI startup Geometric Intelligence and threw one of the most popular parties of NIPS.
Image 14: The Geometric Intelligence logo
Rocket AI
Talking about startups, the "launch" of Rocket AI and their patented Temporally Recurrent Optimal Learning had some people fooled (note the acronyms in the below tweets). Riva-Melissa Tez finally cleared up the confusion.
#rocketai just drove me home. the team is just mind-blowing. so excited about Temporally Recurrent Optimal Learning, the next GAN!
— Soumith Chintala (@soumithchintala) December 11, 2016
#rocketai definitely has the most popular Jacobian-Optimized Kernel Expansion of NIPS 2016
— Ian Goodfellow (@goodfellow_ian) December 10, 2016
These were our impressions from NIPS 2016. We had a blast and hope to be back in 2017!


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This is actual dialogue (the conversation has been condensed for this comic) between a dancer and a manager from a club in DC. She sent me the audio recording of their conversation after she was asked not to return to work until her braids are taken out.
This is not an uncommon practice in strip clubs everywhere. The owner is never around to back up his "preference." In fact, a strip club owner is hardly ever at the club, and if he is he usually refuses to engage with the dancers. Unless a club is paying dancers as employees, they are not allowed to enforce a dress code. They are, however, allowed to have "preferences" for their independent contractors who have to pay the club to lease the facility to run their businesses as entertainers. Whenever management needs to reinforce anti-black "preferences" this is what they are trained to say. It is how it is, and it's racist.
Class-action lawsuits are a dime a dozen in this business, but all that ever comes of them is a modest check and (usually) a termination of your lease (they can't fire you, so that's how it's phrased). A lot of dancers just incur the cost of shitty, racist labor conditions because each club is more or less the same.
In conversation with the dancer who submitted this story, I still suggested legal action, because this is America and the common refrain to injustice is "sue the motherfucker." But she mused, "Would I really have a case if it's 'just a preference' and that I can 'do whatever I want when I own my own [strip club]'?"
So what do we do? Have any dancers successfully worked through this at their club? Let's talk about it.


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Mabel Hansen Onsgard
Mabel A. "Mae" Hansen Onsgard, was blessed with 95 years when she went to be with the Lord on February 4, 2018.
She was born March 13, 1922 in Beloit, the daughter of Knut and Margaret (Bakkerud) Haugen, having two brothers, Harold and Alfred Haugen and two sisters, Alice Onsgard and Irene Engen.
She grew up in rural Orfordville, WI on a dairy farm and lived her entire life in the Orfordville, Beloit and Evansville areas. She was a Christian who helped with many church activities as a member of Luther Valley Lutheran Church. She was proud of her Norwegian heritage and had traveled to Norway to visit her many relatives there.
Mabel married Herbert J. Hansen and was blessed with two sons, Robert G. and Ronald R. Hansen. Herb passed away in 1963. She later married Selmer M. Onsgard who passed in 2003. Selmer had previously been married to Mae's sister Alice, who passed in 1958, having one son, Donald R. Onsgard.
When Mae and Selmer married, these 2 families blended together in love and faith and all involved will be eternally grateful.
She is survived by her: sons Robert Hansen and Donald Onsgard, brother Harold Haugen, sister Irene Engen, grandson Erik Hansen, granddaughters Holly Hansen-Holyfield, Jennifer Hansen-Shanin, 7 great-grandchildren Elijah, Kaitlyn, Kellyann, Braden, Jackson, Erik and Lucas.
Mae was a loving and devoted daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. The world is a better place because she was in it.
Funeral services were held at the Newcomer-Silverthorn Chapel on the Hill, 3008 S Coon Island Rd, Orfordville, at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 8, 2018 with Pastor Josh Brumbaugh officiating. A visitation was held at 12:00 p.m. until the time of service at the funeral home on Thursday.
Burial will be in Luther Valley Cemetery.


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Having trained in computer science, Kirk came to realise it was the visual design of software and sites that he most enjoyed. So he rebooted his career - self-taught how to develop as an illustrator, designer and businessman.
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So far our team has decided on a set of values and we saw how they discussed the first one.
Now we join them as they get back from Starbucks to discuss again their values.
Problem Solving
The meeting starts again and once more I'm in charge of keeping time. John starts:
John – Hi guys! Welcome back! That was a nice coffee break. There's something I've been thinking about and I'd really like to talk with you guys about.
I would like to discuss how each of you feel about problem solving. If we are to keep continually improving we need a systematic way of solving problems. At least that's how I feel.
Jake - What do you mean by systematic?
John - I mean we need some way to archive the knowledge we gathered and the solution we had for each problem. This way we don't need to repeat ourselves when solving the same problem, or even when some other team in the company wants to solve it. I read about how Lean companies do it with A3 report cards and I really liked what I read.
Susan - Even though I never worked with a formal way of solving problems, I often thought that we should have a way of publishing our findings when we decide something.
Christian - Can you give an example?
Susan - Sure. In my last project we were using Python as our main language. Some team members had experience with Django, while others preferred to use a more low-level framework like CherryPy. Preferences aside, we were expected to provide real-time dynamic data to more than a hundred thousand concurrent users, so performance was a key constraint for us.
Jake - Wasn't there a benchmark you could use to decide?
Susan - We didn't find one, so we ended up doing a thorough comparison of some Python Web Frameworks with many different production settings (Apache, Nginx, you name it). The results pointed us in the right direction.
The thing is that even though it was very cool to learn all that on a personal level, I feel that we didn't leave behind any trail of this knowledge to other teams. Probably others have done this already, as was reported by our production team. If we don't have a formal way of solving problems like this, we are bound to repeat this effort time and again.
John – I couldn't have summarized it better. Thanks Susan for explaining what I meant. That's exactly it. Knowledge generation is a problem that I really care about. What about you guys? What do you think?
Jane - We have that in the Design team. We always leave behind reasons and the discovery made to achieve a certain standard. I thought that you guys did that as well. I most certainly think we need to standardize how we decide things. This is key even within our team.
Imagine me and Christian finish some UI definition together and we want to share with you guys. I expect that you'll want to know what were the assumptions and everything that led us to define the UI in the way it was defined, right? In order for that to happen there needs to be some mechanism to formalize knowledge. I really like this A3 thing, since I love sketching with pen and paper.
Christian - I don't have much to add except that whenever I work in Open Source Projects, each project has its own way of preserving knowledge. Wikis, evolution proposals, docs, release notes, you name it. The key thing is that all successful projects share this trait in common. They all keep their knowledge at heart. I think we should do the same. I'd realy like to try this A3 technique, if we can change it later if we don't like it.
Joseph – Hey, that's brilliant. We agreed already on changing any process that does not work to something better, didn't we?
All - YES!
John - Ok, we have a way to solve problems, but how are problems going to affect our work. I hear Susan has already worked here in the company using Stop the line methodology, right?
Susan – Yes, I did. And it was GREAT! The team used the motto: "The best time to solve a problem is RIGHT NOW!". I learned later that this translates to the Jidoka principle in LEAN methodologies. It means that whenever we have a problem we stop working in whatever we are working to solve that problem. It seems counter-intuitive, since we'll be "less" productive due to solving problems. The thing is even though this slows us down a little in the beginning, it speeds us up GREATLY in the long run.
Christian – What about bugs? Do we keep them in a bug tracker?
John - I reckon that if we keep solving bugs whenever we find them or whenever people report them, we should have 1 or 2 bugs open at any given time tops. Who needs a tracker to track 1 or 2 items?
Christian - Makes sense.
Joseph – So we as a team agree that whenever a problem arises the proper number of people in the team should stop as soon as possible to fix it and then find a way (at first an A3 report) to leave behind the knowledge on how it got fixed and why. Is that it?
All – Yep.
Joseph - Ok, I think we got our second value. The best time to solve any problem or defect is now.
Software Craftsmanship is a creative activity. As such we are confronted with problems and issues every day. It seems to be a good thing to just archive the issue in some way (bug tracker, tech debt card or any other way you can think of).
The problem with this is that the issues start building up and work starts to slow down. If you keep stopping the line whenever you find a problem, eventually the number of issues will decrease astoundingly. When the number of issues decrease, the speed of the team increases.
Refactoring code is one way to stop the line whenever you see code that is not clear. Fixing a bug you found while on another story is a way to stop the line. Acting on an integration problem with the customer is a way to stop the line. Introducing an improvement in the process is a way to stop the line. Anything that solves any problem RIGHT NOW is a way to stop the line.
There must be a way of publishing the results of problem solving in a way that people can benefit or refer to in the future. This leads to a better knowledge management and improved collaboration within the company. One suggested way of doing this is how scientists currently do: the scientific method. Since I already discussed it, I won't say anything further.
If anyone has any suggestions on problem solving or stopping the line, please leave comments.


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Kangen Water ™ – Our Healthy Water Recommendation
At this website, we attempt to provide you with good information about healthy drinking water. What could be more important to your health and wellness than the water you drink? After considering the many variables in the various types of drinking water, we have come to the conclusion to recommend Kangen Water ™ which is Ionized Alkaline drinking water made using an Enagic (r) water ionizer machine.
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Then, please join us on our VeryHealthyWater blog as we explore water, its important to our health, and why we recommend Kangen Water (tm) as our healthy water purification choice.
Water and Health – We Are What We Drink?
The water we drink today, together with the food we consume, becomes the us of tomorrow. What could be more important to our health and wellness than ensuring that we drink adequate quantities of high quality healthy water?
Water Basics – For Starters
On the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Healthy Water website, they state that water helps for these important purposes:
- Keep temperature normal
- Lubricate and cushion joints
- Protect spinal cord and other sensitive tissues
- Rid the body of wastes through urination, perspiration and bowel movements
Additional quantity of water is required in hot climates, with more physical activity, when running a fever and when having diarrhea or vomiting.
Healthy Water – Why Quality?
While much focus is applied to quantity of water consumed, often there is less focus applied to the quality of water consumed.
It is the premise of this website that not all water is the same. Not all water is as healthy to consume. Not all water is healthy water. While most water people consume may help sustain life, the type and quality of water can make a difference on the resulting level of wellness.
Healthy Water – Does it Really Matter?
We invite readers to decide for themselves whether the type of water and the quality of the water they consume matters. Answer for yourself, which of these choices would you desire to consume, knowing that with each choice, choice A and choice B are both water. Perhaps some distinctions will be more obvious than others.
Swamp water vs Fresh water
Municipal water vs Well water
Charcoal filtered municipal water vs Straight tap municipal water
Municipal water vs Bottled water
Water with Fluoride vs Water without Fluoride
Water tainted with agriculture chemicals vs Distilled water
Reverse Osmosis water vs Distilled water
Water with acidic pH vs Water with alkaline pH
Water with positive ORP (Oxidative Reduction Potential) vs Water with negative ORP
Micro-clustered water vs Water with normal clustering factor
Alkaline water prepared with droplets vs Alkaline water prepared with ionization
Water Variables – Many and Meaningful
Do you get the idea? There are a lot of variables in water. Some of the choices above are clear. Some may be debatable and different people who understand the choices may choose differently. Other of the distinctions are not as well understood by the general public for most people to make an educated choice. With many of the choices, the choice may be more of an academic exercise than a practical one because even though we know the "ideal", we may not have ready access to the technology or desired origin to obtain the desired healthy water.
The Water we Drink is More Than Just H2O
There is much more to consider in our quest for healthy water than a simple few parameters of water quality as reported by our community water department report. Even with perfect knowledge of contaminants and other water quality attributes, what comes out the tap or out of the bottle is NOT what we would like it to be. Were it so, we should expect all communities to produce what we could call "healthy water". But, there is in fact much variation even with good reporting and much technology and expense applied to the purification process. Alrington, TX for example is ranked as having the best rated water utility per the Environmental Working Group, and Pensacola, FL is ranked as having the lowest rated water utility. If knowledge led to results all cities could deliver healthy water when in fact all cities deliver water that has contaminants, and to varying degrees.
Is Healthy Water an Elusive Ideal?
If we are realistic in our assessment, we must admit the water we actually consume is less in quality than we desire it to be. Even when valiant effort is applied by consumers to improve upon the quality of water delivered to our homes and stores, by the few items of criteria in our list above, nearly every type of water falls short in one or more important attributes of water quality.
What Can be Done to Acquire the Best Water?
That is the question of the century, isn't it? And, that is the purpose of our website. To explore ideas about water. To propose considerations that should be made for what is healthy water. To suggest things that consumers can do to obtain healthy water. To provide information that is useful and practical in applying technology and approaches to improve the quality of water consumed. To lead to a better water. A healthy water.
What are some side effects that result from drinking unhealthy water?
Artificially alkaline water only neutralizes acidity where it has direct contact, like the stomach and upper bowel. When consumed daily, the upper bowel in particular becomes overly alkaline and side effects begin to appear. Most common are erratic heart behavior, hypertension, nervousness/anxiety, urinary tract and bladder infections, and stabbing side pains.
Which water systems create naturally alkaline water?
In nature, water flows down mountain streams and picks up alkaline minerals from rocks in the stream. Water systems that create naturally alkaline water work the same way. The water flows around a gravel bed to naturally pick up alkaline minerals. What's the best way to determine if an alkaline water system creates alkalinity naturally or artificially? Naturally alkaline water systems are typically much larger than the artificial variety and they do not use electricity.
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Great Blog!Water does more than just quench your thirst and regulate your body's temperature; it also keeps the tissues in your body moist. We all know how it feels when your eyes, nose, or mouth gets dry? Keeping your body hydrated helps it retain optimum levels of moisture in these sensitive areas, as well as in the blood, bones, and the brain…
Completely agree with this article..Water is essential to human life and the health of the environment.Similarly, many of our own uses depend on water quality that is suitable for irrigation, watering stock, drinking, fishing and recreation, and to meet cultural and spiritual needs.Hence it is important to ensure that the quality standards are high..
Water is a topic that interests me. I believe drinking lots of great water keeps me at maximum health, and my skin clear and vibrant. The more water I drink, the more energy I have. That said, I'm always trying to find out which water is healthiest.. I have heard of this machine and those who possess it have benefited from it. Looking forward to purchasing it.
I'd never heard of a water ionizer until about 4 weeks ago. A friend of mine said I should come by and pick up some water that she makes with a machine. Her family had been drinking it for about 5 months, and it had helped her Crohn's disease immensely.
After about a week, I decided to buy a machine. I wasn't happy at all with the price tag, but I didn't want to experiment with machines.Since drinking the water, my husband has noticed improved mood and energy. He has increased the frequency of his workouts, and is recovering much more easily.:-)
I am greatly impressed by this blog and your efforts in stressing the importance of quality water.. Its really mind-opening.. Will recommend everyone to read this article..
Excellent blog! Many people know that water is good for them, but what most of us fail to recognize is how good it really is for us!Healthy Water not only will proper hydration of the body improve our outward appearance but it can also help boost your energy , aid in weight management, and help flush the body of toxins more readily.
If you want pure water than what is coming out of the tap, you need to filter or purify it. Knowing which contaminants you want to remove will help you determine which technology is best. If your goal is to drink 100% pure water free of all contaminants, a drinking water purifier or machine is the way to go.Other long term ways are to protect your community's water sources. Make sure that the land around your water is not going to be developed and that your water supply will be protected from chemicals.
Nice blog! I always suggest for Water quality tests
will give information about the health of the waterway. By testing water over a period of time, the changes in the quality of the water can be seen. Parameters that may be tested include temperature, ph, turbidity, salinity,etc.
Of course drinking healthy water is key to a healthy body and a good complexion. But to acquire healthy drinking water, you don't always need to populate landfills with dozens of plastic water bottles. Instead, opt to fill stainless steel and glass containers with filtered tap water. If you're concerned, you can get your tap water tested to see if it contains heavy metals or other contaminants. I recommend you to check out the Environmental Working Group for information on your drinking water..
I have been using this machine for quite some time and the drinking water obtained is rich in minerals, purged of impurities, and ionized through electrolysis. Not only does it taste great and refreshing, but it also helps you avoid impurities AND save money! Go and grab it:-)
Good blog! It is very informative and useful..Hope to see more such stuff from you..Thanks
I don't drink tap water because I don't trust that it's 100% drinkable (regardless of the assurance I might be given). I use bottled water, but have since realized that it's perhaps not the most economical or the healthiest way to go about it. I'd like to use a filter of some sort instead, so it's great timing coming across information about your machine.
Gakita, I dread to think about the quality of the water coming out of my tap. In some ways, I don't want to know. I don't think I'll like what I find.
To admin, years ago, I read somewhere that some elements of the plastic in bottled water can leak into the water. I'm not sure how true it actually is, but I plan to look into it. I see you have an article – The Truth About Bottled Water – so will have a read.
The quality of water I drink definitely matters to me, especially after having grown up where there were water shortages and not the best of drinking water. Now I'm grown and in a resourceful position to choose, I go for the purest water I can find. I don't compromise on it – not knowingly anyway.
Yes, drinking impure water can cause lot of damage to your immune system. It is important to filter the water before you drink it, filtering kills all the impurities which can cause great harm to your body.
Drinking water that hasn`t been cleaned properly isn`t going to be health for us, and I believe in giving our bodies the greatest fuel we can. A great way to get started in the morning is to have a class of water,but if it`s not clean it will only hurt our bodies more than help them.
Water is our most important need, and having water that won`t provide that need for us, is very dangerous. I feel that we need to do something about keeping our water healthy, because it relates to our bodies as well. Thank you for the information.
Working hard to keep our health up and go to the doctor on a monthly basis is what I stand for. I can`t be consuming bad water that will just mess everything up and all the stuff I`ve been working hard for. I can`t wait to show my doctor the improvement I have done.
I really want to let my joints and parts of my body feel good. I hate the feeling when you get sore or your body starts aching but hearing these facts about our water and H20, I`m getting nervous.
I know I want Pure water, and I`m tired of the horrible things that come with the tap water. This unique blog article really helped me out, and I wanted to let everyone know about that. Thank you.
Pure water is what I am looking for, and having that water to keep my healthy is something important to me and my husband. I usually go on websites like this in order to hear whats going on, and find out good information about this topic.
I know I want Pure water, and I`m tired of the horrible things that come with the tap water. This unique blog article really helped me out, and I wanted to let everyone know about that. Thank you.
"Municipal water vs Bottled water" Now I really like that name for sure. And it is true! I mean the bottle water is everywhere these days and its what we use as the main subject matter.
This is a most useful cotnrbiution to the debate
I think that this is very true, "Rid the body of wastes through urination, perspiration and bowel movements" What do you guys think? I mean it makes a lot of sense and everything so I must agree with this article and blog post.
I think drinking from the tap water is gross. Something I am not interested in doing and I try not to do. Even though making coffee with it, is something that I have to admit to.
Looking through the water comparisons you've listed, I wasn't aware there were so many different qualities. I was only aware of hard tap water, soft tap water, filtered and bottled. The list you've made has made me question what I'm actually drinking.
I live in a hard water area so I don't drink tap water. I see what hard water does to the metal on my kitchen sink – it strips it. If whatever's in it can do that, I don't want it in my body. I don't use it on my face either. I drink and use bottled water on my face. I think healthy water definitely matters. I want to improve the quality I drink beyond the bottled variety.
We're mostly made up of water. As such I think it's important to really think about the quality of water we're putting in it. It's the second time today I've seen the word, "alkaline" in regards to water. I'm not going to ignore it this time. Will download the free ebook.
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The first thing I do when I wake up is drink a glass of water. I've always done that since my dad told me when I was a teen. It's made me appreciate water that much more. I believe the type and quality of water really does matter. It's like chocolate (which I happen to like too!) – there are varying qualities of it. It's no different with water. Water isn't just water.
I've learnt to value water highly because I lived for seven years in a country where good clean water was at a premium. Since my experience, I've never taken healthy water for granted. The quality of what I drink is extremely important to me because of it. I absolutely will not drink tap water.
I like to be in as much control of what goes into my body as possible. I do that with food, so I try not to compromise when it comes to water either. Drinking from the tap is a big no-no for me. I drink bottled but I've been wondering lately if I can do better than that in terms of quality.
Wow, I wasn't aware there were so many different types of water out there. Reverse osmosis water, positive ORP water, acidic/alkaline water? I've never heard of any of those. What are they, how are they different from (say) bottled water and are they much better for you?
Gavin, me too! I didn't know about any of the various types of water mentioned either. This is the first I've heard. All I really know about is bottled, filtered and tap water. Oh and I know tap water can either be hard or soft depending on where you live.
I know some types of water are better than others. For example, I'd take bottled water over tap water any day. Wouldn't drink tap water if you paid me. The others I'm not too sure about. I obviously wouldn't drink swamp water, but I don't have a clue what "water with positive ORP" is.
I'm of the mind that every city in the US has the responsibility to produce water that's as healthy as possible. I don't think it's a priority for some of them, which is understandable in the current economic climate. However, I don't feel it's ever truly been a priority for as far back as I can remember. As such, I've never left the quality of the water I drink in their hands.
For some people, water is just water. For me, it's heaps more than that. I drink ionized water and it's made a helluva lot of difference to my health – done me the world of good. It's the best quality water in my opinion. I'd never go back to what I used to drink. Never. Water really isn't just water and can truly vary in quality.
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Hanzell. It's such a seminal place. The sheer weight of its history can be paralyzing. After we'd won the business, we spent three days holed up at the winery's guesthouse, pouring through stacks of research, boxes of old photos and countless stories from the old days. We learned that the winery claimed many "firsts" -- first to use only French oak for aging; first to use inert gas to prevent oxidation; first to isolate malolactic bacteria. This unassuming little winery above Sonoma literally wrote the book for how wine is made in America.
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Look for Pink Sheep this Summer17th June 2014
If you are walking the Cleveland Way across the North York Moors this Summer you may be forgiven for doing a double-take as a variety of pink sheep pop up in villages, shop windows and tourist attractions along the route and around the North York Moors. Around 200 sheep, ranging from tiny earrings to giant sculptures, are going on display as part of the 'Lost Sheep in Pink Jersey's' campaign which runs from 20 June to 20 September 2014.
Businesses, individuals and schools across the North York Moors, Howardian Hills and Yorkshire Coast have given their backing to the campaign by making pink sheep - to reflect the colour of the National Park's heather moorland - and donating over 150 prizes. The campaign organisers hope it will introduce a fun element to people's days out but also encourage new and repeat visitors to the area.
To be in with a chance of winning one of the prizes, people need to spot three pink sheep and report their sightings at www.northyorkmoors.org.uk/pinksheep. People can enter as often as they like so long as it's with different sheep each time. Prizes range from accommodation and free days out at key attractions to local produce and a transparent pink glass bowl from Gillies Jones Glass.
Catriona McLees, Head of Tourism and Promotion at the North York Moors National Park Authority, said:
"I have been amazed and delighted at people's creativity in making pink sheep in all shapes and sizes and am really looking forward to spotting them over the summer months. The area's landscape and wildlife are a big draw but it is the people, businesses and attractions that make someone's visit truly memorable and entice them to come back again and again. I hope this campaign encourages people to take a closer look at the area and all it has to offer and would like to say a big thank you to everyone who has taken part."
The 'Lost Sheep' campaign is being sponsored by Bils & Rye, Dalby Forest Lodges, Raven Hall Country House Hotel, Robin Hood Caravan Park, Rosella Cottage