23
07
2008
Posted by: blreber in Diigo
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CherryPal out sweetens Apple with 2W, ultra-cheap PC | The Register
tags: technology, computing, computer, cool
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Here’s how you to get to CherryPal. Gather up all of the hot technology buzzwords – cloud computing, going green, communities – and mush them together into something about the size of sandwich.
CherryPal has unveiled a device that’s billed as a cloud computer. Don’t be intimidated by the name. We’re just talking about a PC that runs on an ultra low-power chip from Freescale instead of one of those hot jobbies from Intel or AMD. That energy-friendly chip helps CherryPal keep its computer small and cheap – an ideal combination, we’re told, for attracting youngsters to something different.
Fine details on CherryPal’s approach remain tough to gather because the company doesn’t plan to reveal the full breadth of its assault on the PC market until the third quarter. For now, it’s only showing off the hardware.
The CherryPal folks stripped out 80 per cent of the usual PC innards, leaving a case, a chip, a couple USB ports and a monitor port. The system runs on a Power architecture-based 400MHz Freescale mobileGT MPC5121e chip, ships with 4GB of Flash storage and has 256MB of memory. The operating system of choice is a tweaked version of embedded Linux (Debian).
Best of all, perhaps, the unit chews through a mere 2 watts. (Not a typo.)
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22
07
2008
Posted by: blreber in Diigo
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21
07
2008
Posted by: blreber in Diigo
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17
07
2008
Posted by: blreber in Diigo
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10
07
2008
Posted by: blreber in Diigo
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20 Simple Ways to Eat Healthy on a Budget | StrongLifts.com
tags: diet, health, nutrition, budget, toblog
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1. Buy Whole Foods. Unprocessed foods are cheaper and more nutritious than processed foods. They also give you total control over the ingredients. Avoid anything that comes from a box 90% of the time.
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2. Buy Cheap Proteins.
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3. Buy Frozen Fruits & Veggies.
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4. Buy Generic Food.
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5. Buy Supplements.
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6. Buy in Bulk.
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7. Buy In Season Fruits & Veggies.
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8. Buy Calorie Dense Foods
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9. Buy Discounted Meat.
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10. Buy From Local Farmers
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11. Buy Everything from 1 Place
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12. Drink Tap Water
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13. Clip Coupons
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14. Get The Customer Card
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15. Check the Unit Price
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16. Eat Less Total Calories
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17. Avoid Impulse Buying
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18. Stop Buying Food Outside
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19. Prepare Your Own Food
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20. Grow Your Own Food.
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09
07
2008
Posted by: blreber in Diigo
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BB Rows (Madcow)
Further discussion on the barbell row.
tags: madcow, bb_row, exercise, fitness, weightlifting, toblog
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Rows: Well, the best way to do them is to start with the bar on the floor every single rep. Your middle back will have slight bend to it. You pull the bar off the floor quickly with the arms, and by a powerful arch of your middle back. You finish by touching the bar to your upper stomach or middle stomach. At no time is there any movement of the hips or knees, no hip extension at all, all that bends is the middle back and the shoulders and elbows.
This is hard to do and you have to have good muscular control to do it, or you’ll end up straightening up at the hips along with the arching of the back. But if you can master doing them this way you will get a big back. This works because the lats actually extend (arch) the middle back in addition to other functions, just like with glute-ham extensions compared to leg curls…you always get a stronger contraction when you move both the origin and insertion of a muscle, flexing it from both ends so to speak.
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The bar returns to the floor after each rep. The bent row is actually best done as an explosive movement and the bar is moved fast. I have trained many people who could do this exercise with 350 or more lbs. I myself have done reps with 425, Ed Coan, who also knows how to do them properly, has done reps with over 500lbs without his back ever coming above parallel with the ground. That is stronger than Dorian Yates or Ronnie Coleman, by the way.
I did rows with Coleman once, actually, and I was far stronger than he was. He could not do more than 350lbs strictly although he could do over 500lbs by standing almost all the way up at the completion of each rep. Ed Coan is probably the strongest person on these, although one power-lifter I trained did manage 525 for a double done strictly.
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Rows look at an anatomy chart. if the sca and upper arms are held in a constant position, shortening of the lats WILL result in arching of the middle and upper back. i AM NOT saying that the lats are primarily responsible for upper back flexion… what i am saying is that they can assist in this.
i also HAVE done EMG work on various different rowing techniques… and there is not doubt that rows performed as i describe them will activate the lats more completely than done any other way i have ever seen. i have done EMG work on a large quantity of people for rows… and ive always found that these kind of rows activate the lats most completely. and besides, even if you dont buy the fact that they activate the lats better, hell, you can always be content with the fact that your getting an erector workout.
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BB Rows (Madcow)
tags: madcow, weightlifting, bb_row, exercise, fitness, toblog
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EliteFitness.com Bodybuilding Forums - View Single Post - Bill Starr’s 5 x 5 program… Variation per Madcow2 (thanx) So here it is! K up now!
tags: madcow, fitness, exercise, Power_shrug, weightlifting, toblog
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Okay, so I’ve said before that regular shrugs are a waste of time. These are the best version out there and the best trap developer around. No one who has ever done these has ever once gone back to a regular shrug (at least I can’t think of anyone and certainly no one that I’ve trained). Visible results in the mirror are guaranteed in 2-3 weeks.
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This exercise is very result producing as are all the olympic lift variations when it comes to back/trap development - the back was made for dynamic pulling.
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You’ll need straps and you should start light and build up over a period of a few weeks. Higher rep ranges are fine (8-15) for these and I really think they lower weight for higher reps make these a good bit less taxing on the central nervous system than working down to 5s and 3s
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A bit on technique - first, the traditional starting position is high on the thighs with the knees flexed slightly and the torso also slightly forward with shoulders over the bar. My descriptions kind of alternate between this version and a variation done from a lower position (hang) just above the knees. Less weight can be used in the lower variation but for athletes not training the traditional olympic lifts and looking to accrue some benefits to explosion and longer range dynamic pulling similar to the clean this is a good variation for training. It’s basically a heavy clean pull from the hang. So depending upon what you are looking for give these a shot.
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05
07
2008
Posted by: blreber in Diigo
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TESTOSTERONE NATION - Shut the Hell Up and Listen
tags: t-nation, dave_tate, weightlifting, exercise, fitness, self_improvement, inspiration, toblog
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1. Have a destination (goal) but keep the specifics to yourself. Do you even have a goal?
2. The world is full of pricks who can only criticize. Are you one of them?
3. Use a program designed for your goals. Is your program leading you to your destination?
4. The things you hate to do are the things you need to do most. Are you doing them?
5. If you’re not making progress, it may be your attitude that needs adjusting. Are you willing to change?
6. Your time and energy are limited. Are you wasting them by talking shit on the forums?
7. Become a fanatical believer in your cause. Do you really believe you’ll succeed?
8. If you’re afraid of breaking any of your precious eggs, don’t expect too many omelets in your life. What are you willing to sacrifice in order to achieve your goals?
9. There are people who are better than you, and who know more stuff than you. Are you listening to them?
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03
07
2008
Posted by: blreber in Diigo
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