"In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that roughly 1.7 million hospital-associated infections, from all types of microorganisms, including bacteria, combined, cause or contribute to 99,000 deaths each year"
I like http://longreads.com/ for my long articles. Right now, my favorite setup for reading long articles from the web is:
Nook Color + CM7.1 + InstaFetch Pro + Instapaper + Longreads.
The Longreads website integrates with instapaper, and the instafetch client will cache articles to the nook, so I don't have to be online to read. I haven't gotten around to playing with it, but I'm sure iPad + instapaper client would work well
Terremark does a great job on the physical facility, meeting compliance, and marketing to the government, but it's basically VMware.
VMware is easier for a non-cloud application to migrate to the cloud, which is the case for most existing government apps, but isn't as good a platform for building really large scale applications (e.g. you wouldn't want to run Google Apps on VMware)
There's room for both, but the real win for the new Amazon product is moving existing Amazon EC2 apps to a government-specific shard in a new AZ with minimal effort. This is more a 2-5 year thing than a 0-2 year thing.
I, too, am at a high risk- I've seen members of my family slowly move from "abnormal fasting blood sugar" to "type 2 diabetic" over the span of a decade.
What I'm working on for myself is a set of scripts to take all the data I have about my diet and my blood glucose and making a chart of blood sugar fluctuation. Think fitday+ blood glucose readings + gnuplot. I'm using it to figure out what exactly is driving changes in BG levels.
I think that there's a great amount of insight to be had if OP can aggregate a few thousand, or 10's of thousands users diet and blood sugar readings, specially when the users are at the cusp of "abnormal blood sugar" and "full blow diabetes".
Sad to hear mate – sometimes I'm happy I'm t1 myself, not t2.
I worked a research project back at the uni, where we set up an analysis tool for diabetics. The amount of data was a sore lack for researchers. You can hook up w/ roche et al, they have the data but it's kinda locked up.
Lemme know how you come along with the visualization and concept! @fdebong or fd at mysugr dot com.
Rats are omnivores, eating a nice, balanced diet like us humans. However, even if they were straight herbivores, they could still find plenty of fats. Nuts are a significant food source for small mammals and tend to be fairly high in fat content.
I wonder if diet plays a role. The only way you're getting 20 miles' worth of glycogen is from eating grains- which were domesticated just recently in human history. I'm not sure if that type of glycogen density was available before then. Maybe now we have the luxury of burning up 5kcals for a very long jog, but 100,000 years ago?
Diet almost certainly plays a role. The diet of the Tarahumara Indians (the subject of the 'Born to Run' book mentioned in the article) is practically meatless and consists of about 75% corn, with the rest made up mostly of beans and various types of squash. As a result their diet is about 80% complex carbohydrates, which is what allows them to run for those insane distances.
This doesn't seem to jive with the persistence hunting theory, since meat is one of the worst fuels for distance running (or any endurance sport).
"In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that roughly 1.7 million hospital-associated infections, from all types of microorganisms, including bacteria, combined, cause or contribute to 99,000 deaths each year"