I would second Avocado oil for high heat cooking, high in MUFAs. Also good for uses where you want a tasteless oil like mayo if you don't enjoy the taste of extra virgin olive oil.
Extra virgin Olive for low heat application.
Definitely want to avoid Cottonseed as it contains a chemical used as male contraception (unless you want that!)
I can point you to some of the studies on calcium removal. [1] They don't create a well defined protocol, though doctors have formed their own. I take 600mcg K2 MK-7 and 200mcg of K2 MK-4. I alternate between Magnesium-lysinate-glycinate-chelate (bound to L-Lysine and L-Glycine) and Magnesium Citrate. Since I am listing papers I have to point out that I am not a doctor and this is not medical advise. This method has been working slowly for me and faster for others, likely due to epigenetic and environment factors. I take these things with fatty meals to allow D3 binding and absorption.
I'm wondering why the entire southeast of the US was left out of the analysis? I'd have imagined ATL or Miami would have enough data to add to the report and cost of living is fairly low even in comparison to many of these other cities.
I went through a round with hired.com and I'm based in Atlanta. While you can specify that you're not willing to relocate the selection of potential employers looking for someone here was seemingly low. It wouldn't surprise me if there was very little to no matches for whatever reason. I feel like Atlanta is a tech hub but some days it doesn't want to act like it. I would think Miami is somewhat similar with Nashville coming close behind but there aren't any concrete explanations. All I can really do is speculate from anecdotal evidence.
Anecdotally, Atlanta has a great tech scene. I'm earning SF salary and comp, and my cost of living is extremely cheap. The culture here feels much more heterogenous, too.
Atlanta has a lot of fintech and medical tech companies, and it sports a cottage startup scene at Georgia Tech and the ATDC. We've seen a number of local startups do really well: Airwatch, MailChimp, etc.
This is amazing! I've wanted to do some "citizen science" project in waterways around me. For instance, building cheap sensors that detect temperature/water level/salinity/particulates/etc that are so cheap as to be basically disposable.
The sensor itself could probably be made for less than $10 these days using various arduino modules, but I'm stuck on how to have the sensors communicate back to a "base station" to collect the information. Cellular-based would probably have great range but who wants to have a phone plan for each sensor! Zigbee may be an alternative, but it may require line of sight. Obviously it'd also have to be low power to work on a LiIon battery, or possibly have a solar panel to harvest power.
I believe the only way to make change is to show our impacts on our environment. And local government doesn't have the tech expertise, money or political willpower to suggest that "local business" may be destroying our health (when it's creating jobs!).
Anyone have any tech suggestions or organizations that do this sort of thing?
Search for "M2M" (machine to machine) communications.
There's a lot of this going on over old 2-way paging networks. It's how the non-vaporware "Internet of things" works. There are thousands of air conditioning compressors, refrigeration units, elevators, pumping stations, and other boring but important pieces of infrastructure sending their short messages every few minutes. Often they're plain text, something like "Pump 1: OFF. Pump 2: ON. Inside temp: 71. Outside temp: 52. Faults: NONE." There are little M2M modules for such communication. They tend to be rugged, reliable, and cost a few hundred dollars.
Some of these use cellular service. There are special low-data-rate M2M plans for this. AT&T charges $3.33 a month for 1MB/month if you pay by the year. If you have a protocol that doesn't bloat its data traffic by using HTTP, HTTPS, XML, JSON, and other data hogs to send a few bytes of payload, this works out well.
There's something new called LoRa.[1] This is a standard for low-bandwidth wireless network devices with a claimed 10 mile range. Data rates range from 300 bps to 50 kbps. They run in the 900MHz ISM band, so they have good building and foliage penetration, although the range then drops to a claimed 2-3 miles. Units start around $56 on Digi-Key. There are Internet gateways available, so that many of the little cards can be connected to the wider world.
$250 for this module, and $12/month for the satellite usage.
For the sensor itself, that's a simple micro controller for under $10, and a $5 sensor, a battery pack, solar panel, and a most likely, a few resistors. Costs add up quickly if you don't want to run out and replace the batteries, and if you want it to phone home.
It's pretty amazing that AT&T charges that much per MB; that's close to market for satellite M2M. Of course, the terminals for cellular M2M are considerably less expensive.
There are cellular network providers that specialise in IoT applications, where you pay monthly per device and data transferred. This is the first one from a search for "IoT Cellular": http://www.aeris.com/technology/aerconnect/
If you could get people to install an app on their phone, you could use Bluetooth LE to passively collect the data as they walk past. There's a few asset tracking solutions that use this approach, such as Tile: http://www.wired.com/2013/08/tile-a-better-way-to-find-your-...
I'm looking at something similar at the moment, but in agricultural areas where line-of-sight is inhibited only by foliage and terrain. For my purpose, it's OK to collect an SD card every so often, but I've toyed with the idea of an ESP8266 and a directional antenna to e.g. a mobile broadband router, probably again with an antenna upgrade.
Earlier today, I found [1] which - amongst other things which you might be interested in - calls out a venture [2] to establish a network of 'citizen scientist' type flood sensors across the UK. Their scheme looks to be a network of radio-to-Internet gateways which support a number of independently-deployed sensor nodes.
I am a hydrographer in the NT working out in very remote areas- Phone reception is rarely possible for such monitoring sites. Currently we use satellite Comms. to relay water data home, but this is very expensive and prone to failure.
I'm wondering if you, or anyone else, has some ideas on long range communication strategies for large areas (NT is 1.4 million km2).
The area we are required to cover generally means sites are chosen based on accessibility rather than operational importance — it would be great if we could expand the network with low maintenance loggers capable of communicating long distances.
Which operator are you using? We've found L-band to be very reliable and does not suffer from any of the attenuation issues found in Ku. And heavy spreading on the return path provides for an even more resilient link.
Disclosure: We'll be offering an L-band satellite gateway for IoT this summer.
We currently use Iridium. On Ku band I beleive. I'll look further into this and see what our options are for L-band.
Outernet looks like a great project. How small of a satellite can be used to achieve the connection? Any more info/documentation on the L-band gateway?
It's heavily dependent on river/climate conditions. During the dry most loggers will only need to be polled once every hour. However, during the buildup and wet, the stations would ideally be sending back every ~5 minutes.
The dataplan on some look very reasonable, like $1/MB/Month, but the hardware itself seems cost prohibitive.
I mean, the Dash costs $59 or the Electron at $39 just for the board to send over 2G? You can get a disposable cellphone for < $10 complete with LCD screen and that worm eating game!
I guess I'll just need to wait another year or two until economies of scale kicks in...
I've been supporting hydrological data collection for over two decades. When I first started in the early 90's, there was no clear defined trail on 'how to do it'. I learned over time what works and the right way to do it. I'd like to make a few comments.
You mention about cheap 'disposable' sensors. Truth be told, no reliable sensor is truly cheap. In sensing, we look at repeatability, accuracy and resolution. In the design of a sensor we also look at interfacing and field calibrations.
Field data collection systems are comprised of several parts. Power, Sensing, Data Logging and Telemetry. It's interesting, different vendors of this equipment take different approaches. Everything revolves around the abilities of the data logger. Let's look at several:
Hobo: http://www.onsetcomp.com/products This is a pretty good company. The sensors have good accuracy. The products are reasonably priced. However, you are locked into their products and limitations. I've seen Hobo used by students in course work.
I built a very similar thing in the US. I don't know where these fans or hepa filters are sold, but I buy a standard 20" boxfan at walmart ($16ish USD), and a 3M Filtrete AC filter in 20x20x1" size (also ~$15USD). These come in different ratings, so I buy the "allergen reducer" rating or higher.
Also, it's fairly well known by this point that there's an altered microbiome in Autism. Would be fascinating to see a transplant study done if the risk is so low.
Maybe they can create an incentive to create new antibiotics? I've heard there are few if any in the pipeline since they are not profitable to pharma companies and resistance is increasing alarmingly fast!
The GAIN Act was passed last year which provides incentives for new anti-infectives. The DISARM Act is another one being looked at that would make it easier for hospitals to use the latest and greatest antibiotics.
Ah! Good to hear they are legislating towards a bit more progress. Do you know if any pharma companies have re-entered antibiotic research since GAIN passed? I believe there's only a small handful of them left.
Not to mention creating new drugs without implementing any rational controls over their use in humans and livestock is like pouring more gas on the fire.
But I digress about leaving science to legislators....
Extra virgin Olive for low heat application.
Definitely want to avoid Cottonseed as it contains a chemical used as male contraception (unless you want that!)