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CherryPal out sweetens Apple with 2W, ultra-cheap PC | The Register

tags: technology, computing, computer, cool

• 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.)

Password Chart

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A.Word.A.Day –grammatolatry

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• grammatolatry
• MEANING:

  noun:
  The worship of words: regard for the letter while ignoring the spirit
  of something.

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20 Simple Ways to Eat Healthy on a Budget | StrongLifts.com

tags: diet, health, nutrition, budget, toblog

• 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.
• 2. Buy Cheap Proteins.
• 3. Buy Frozen Fruits & Veggies.
• 4. Buy Generic Food.
• 5. Buy Supplements.
• 6. Buy in Bulk.
• 7. Buy In Season Fruits & Veggies.
• 8. Buy Calorie Dense Foods
• 9. Buy Discounted Meat.
• 10. Buy From Local Farmers
• 11. Buy Everything from 1 Place
• 12. Drink Tap Water
• 13. Clip Coupons
• 14. Get The Customer Card
• 15. Check the Unit Price
• 16. Eat Less Total Calories
• 17. Avoid Impulse Buying
• 18. Stop Buying Food Outside
• 19. Prepare Your Own Food
• 20. Grow Your Own Food.

BB Rows (Madcow)

Further discussion on the barbell row.

tags: madcow, bb_row, exercise, fitness, weightlifting, toblog

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

BB Rows (Madcow)

tags: madcow, weightlifting, bb_row, exercise, fitness, toblog

• Ok - think about how the body is meant to perform a rowing motion - like a rowboat or better yet a crew shell since this puppy is made for speed and setup most advantageously for each rower. They are pulling directly into themselves, meaning that they are perpendicular to the resistence (their torso for the most part is at 90 degrees to the plane of water which serves as the resistence). I will throw in the caveate that the torso is not stationary during the row and it is very much a full body pull but you do get the point. Your back’s primary rowing power is directly back. This allows the lats to be most heavily activated throughout the range of motion.

  Translating that motion into weights, the resistence for a weight is gravity which is on a vertical plane contrary to water’s horizontal plane - both are the respective sources of resistence. Where the rower was upright at 90 degrees to the horizontal resistence, the weightlifter’s resistence is now vertical - so 90 degrees to vertical means your back is horizontal to the floor.

  So that’s the essence of where the 90 degrees comes from.

• Moving beyond that, rowing is a fairly fundemental motion and with significant weight it is hard to stay perfectly still and I’d venture a bit unnatural - you will find there are more dynamic methods of rowing with a barbell out there but this is the base (see the Johnsmith182 sticky at meso’s training board linked here if you are curious - excellent read by the way - best 20 minutes you will spend: http://forum.mesomorphosis.com/showthread.php?t=12). So anyway, you tend to pull back a bit with heavy weight anyway and that is how rows should be done heavy and explosive. You should be accelerating that bar into your body. So someone starting at 90 degrees generally ends up cheating back just a bit and that’s okay.

  In addition, a lot of guys lack the flexability to keep their back flat and perform the exercise as they get near the 90 degree point. In that case you shoot for 90 degrees but you go to where your body is comfortable.

  The reason why I stress it is because we have all seen the dochebags in the gym standing almost vertical and rowing through a minute range of motion. This is . It doesn’t allow for proper activation of the lats since you aren’t pulling in but up, the range of motion is drastically reduced, and on top of that you wind up looking like a moron so there’s really nothing good to come of it.

• As for starting the motion at 45 degrees, I can’t say it’s optimal unless you can’t get any lower (in which case flexability work or core strengthening would be my suggestion depending on the issue causing this). If you start at 45 degrees and row hard, you’ll find yourself above 45 degrees at peak contraction and possibly significantly. Your range of motion is cut, your lats aren’t getting proper activation because you are no longer pulling in but pulling up and you will end up relying on other muscles to generate the momentum (and that necessitates further straightening of the back).

  So anyway, it’s a soft rule when I say 90 degrees. I am fairly flexible and I can get close but not a full 90 (you see this in the goodmorning too - everyone has a different range of motion). That said, the soft rule is meant to provide the necessary margin to correctly perform the exercise. There is a hard rule right behind it saying that you absolutely must come as close as you are able to the 90 degrees. Significant deviation compromises the exercise.

• Huge reply but it’s better to give someone the full explanation. Give it some thought and do some rowing in the gym the next time - performing the motion makes it crystal clear. Be sure to work on accelerating the rep. A rower accelerates the oar through the water working harder and harder throughout the range of the stroke. He doesn’t stop pulling hard once he gets the oar moving. This is critical to rowing success in the gym but watch your rib cage on the light ones.
• Hence the soft rule and hard rule in my post. If you have the flexability and a healthy back but experience discomfort in a low position (very few people get to 90 degrees but nearly every healthy human can do significantly better than 45)- you can almost certainly conclude that you are weak in the core.

  This is actually why a lot of bodybuilders row upright like they do (and my next sentence will reveal why I make fun of those who do it). The lack of deep squating and heavy pulling from the floor has left their core weak - all show and no go, a Ferrari body kit car with a 4 cylinder engine. Take your pick your core is the center of everything and it allows you to use your strength and power effectively. Plus it protects you from injury. Not something to leave weak.

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

• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.

TESTOSTERONE NATION - Shut the Hell Up and Listen

tags: t-nation, dave_tate, weightlifting, exercise, fitness, self_improvement, inspiration, toblog

• Points to Ponder

  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?

What are the tastiest ways to eat canned sardines? | Ask Metafilter

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