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Sunday, July 2. 2017Jordan Peterson UniversityThe Biggest Lie in Fitness And the Truth About Building Muscle and Losing FatSummer cocktails: Pimm's Cup CocktailFor summer get-togethers or any other festive occasion, along with beer and wine it's fun to have a cocktail theme, like one kind of pitcher cocktail. A Pimm's Cup Cocktail is a good example, a bit unusual in the US, and one you can serve by the pitcher-full. Some people add gin or vodka to the recipe, to provide a little backbone. From today's Lectionary: "The wages of sin is death.."Romans 6:12-23
Saturday, July 1. 2017Swing Time
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Fun book: A Field Guide to the Architecture of the American Home
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TrimaranAwkward-looking craft, but fun to use. As seen from the water last week
Outer Hebrides weather with Saturday Doggerel
I checked the weather for our trip: 40s (F) at night, high 50s (F) daytime. Some precipitation 21 out of 30 days/month in summer (more in winter). North Atlantic weather. I've done a few ship crossings in the north Atlantic and know what it's like: cool mist and drizzle, no need for sunscreen. Gwynnie lent me his waterproof Olympus. My Mom and Dad were partial to trips to northern climes. Dad wrote the poem below to document the habit (with a photo of the poet at the farm). Continue reading "Outer Hebrides weather with Saturday Doggerel"
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Friday, June 30. 2017A linguist's festivalThursday, June 29. 2017Jack Bruce (1943-2014)A chicken in every potNot long ago, that was like saying "Filet mignon" on every supper table. Connecticut's Henry Saglio, 'Father' of Poultry Industry. (h/t reader) Richard Feynman was a great manI first learned about Feynman from his Feynman Lectures on Physics. This was, and maybe still is, scripture for undergrads curious about Physics. What undergrad is not? Nobel prize and all that, but what Feynman could do best was to communicate, and he could communicate in humorous, self-deprecating, and humble ways. I believe that he truly believed that he wasn't too smart, just curious and persistent. Here's Feynman's speech titled What Is Science? delivered to the National Science Teachers Association, 1966, in New York City. He talks a lot about how his father inspired his curiosity. Read it. One quote:
For more fun with Feynman, his bestselling book Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
Thursday morning links
James Beard's Zucchini Bread recipe A little early for summer squash around here, but there it is Growing concerns over great white shark boom off Cape Cod Never swim in the sea New Hampshire: 80-year-old woman attacked by bobcat while gardening Never go outdoors World’s Oldest Fossil Is Almost As Old As The Earth – Life Was Present On Earth Much Longer Than Previously Thought Chores Lead to Happy Children. So Why Do So Few Parents Require Them? Superman Is Jewish And the new Superwoman is an Israeli “Non-Binary” Now Legal Gender Option In Oregon Fecal Bacteria Found in Starbucks Iced Drinks Restore your gut flora at Starbucks Government medical care in the UK: Let him die Death is always cheaper Why Isn't There An Uber For Air Travelers? Ask The FAA Bring Back the Matriarchy Well, I could argue that WE live in a matriarchy Racial physics In DC, D.C.’s massive Woodner apartment building has lived many lives—from fancy hotel to one of the last bastions of affordable housing in a gentrifying neighborhood. Now, it’s on the brink of another change. Progressive Business Owner on Living Wage Law: ‘The arithmetic doesn’t work’ Low wage jobs are not meant to be living wages. They are entry-level. Higher min wage laws drive jobs out of the country, or just close businesses. Wonderful only for unions who peg wages to min wage. Bummer: World Has Only Three Years Left To Stop Hotcoldwetdry Southern Poverty Law Center “extremist” lists used “to silence speech and speakers” - Politico shines a light on mega-wealthy SPLC and how it bullies its political opponents E-Cigarettes: When Regulatory Overkill Actually Kills Did Votes By Noncitizens Cost Trump The 2016 Popular Vote? Sure Looks That Way CNN Now Propagandizing Against Travel Ban By Using Refugee Expert... Elmo the Muppet The Expert Strikes Back - Review of 'The Death of Expertise,' By Tom Nichols Claire McCaskill Used Undisclosed Foundation to Pay for Dinner at Russian Ambassador’s House HAVE YOU HUGGED A FRACKER TODAY? The Witch Hunters People hate to think about the evil inside themselves. It's called "externalizing" Poll: Plurality Of Americans Supports Single-Payer Health Care, But… Well, 130 million Americans use some form of government medical coverage already Despite What You've Heard, The Senate Bill Doesn't Slash, Gut, Or Even Cut Medicaid Democrat/MSM Collusion v the First Amendment and Liberty Why Hollywood Celebrities Couldn’t Help Jon Ossoff Win in Georgia "It Is The Presstitutes, Not Russia, Who Interfered In The US Presidential Election" VDH: The Late, Great Russian Collusion Myth
The Left Espouses Dangerously Stupid Health-Care Rhetoric New Project Veritas Video: Van Jones Admits Russia "A Big Nothingburger" FAKE NEWS CNN EDITOR LED NEW YORK TIMES INVESTIGATION OF TRUMP-RUSSIA Does the UK need a second Glorious Revolution? ISIS Fighters Returning To Europe Are Struggling To Get Jobs Good grief Hmm: China’s National Oil Firm Cuts Off North Korea China babysitting a nasty baby Canada isn't taking rejected refugees Sweden Will Force Priests to Perform Gay Marriages Against Their Will That is called tolerance EUROPE'S WAR ON THE INTERNET - EU Levies €2.4B fine on Google Nice cottagePleasant waterfront summer cottage in New England, as seen on an outing last week. Either our boat was rocking, or I was. Or it was global warming tilting everything.
Wednesday, June 28. 2017The great Albert King: Wine and women is all that I craveQQQ‘Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.’ Charles Darwin, via an Aeon piece on the Dunning-Kruger Effect (how poorly-informed people tend to over-estimate their competence, while the best-informed tend to doubt themselves) Moral: Self-doubt is always a rational position, and a good foundation for a realistic self-confidence. Maggie's Farmers tend towards wholesome skepticism about everything, including oneself. Life in America: OinkHelped roast a 130-lb. hog this weekend for a pal's garden party. It's quite the project. Night before, our cooking team seasoned the cavity with spices, filled it with apples and oranges, then stapled the cavity shut and pinned the ears back. Ran the spit through the mouth and out the back end, then the heavy prongs on the spit to hold the pig firm and acouple of long lug bolts with large square washers to pin the pig to the spit. Then chicken wire wrapped tightly around the whole thing to hold it all together. After that, ten hours of tending the apple wood and charcoal fires in this corrugated steel contraption. Have to be careful because too much heat can set the pig on fire, and too little won't cook it. We figured keeping the temperature in there around 220-240 F. Slow cooking, and some smoking but not too much. After the first couple of hours, smoke can't penetrate anyway. You can not leave the thing unattended but it's good redneck fun with good company. More pig roasting below the fold -
Continue reading "Life in America: Oink" Eccentric movement in your strength training
Getting stronger entails breaking down muscle so it can regrow stronger and it seems as if the eccentric motion does a better job of that than the concentric although the latter tends to be where we feel we are working hardest. In the simplest example, when you do a barbell squat the squatting requires eccentric contraction for your quads and glutes, and the stand-up is concentric for them. Vice versa for the hamstrings. That's why your trainer may demand that, in a curl or bench press, for examples, you lower the weight to a count of 5 or 10 instead of letting gravity do more of the work. Some people call that "negative" training, or just say "control it down." Strength training offers a fun chance to brush up on your human anatomy. While most powerlifts engage the entire body to some extent (which is why they are efficient strength-training tools, like the deadlift), generally most of the work is done by specific muscle groups. Let's consider the bench press, which is designed to not be a full-body exertion but instead to isolate upper body muscles - chest, upper back, shoulders, and arms. The concentric and eccentric contractions of the bench are explained well here. You can see why your biceps get pumped during bench even though pecs and triceps do the lifting - the control down is an eccentric move for the triceps and pecs but concentric/stabilizing for the biceps. After all, you can't drop that barbell. The only place I can think of where you let gravity do most of the work is in the deadlift where the control-down is less important. You can almost let the bar drop. Fitness Defined: Concentric and Eccentric Contractions (and Why It Matters) Lowering weight during resistance training may make you stronger than the lifting How to pack on muscle with eccentric exercise - Eccentric training has lots of perks—and it’s easy to work it into your routine. Wednesday morning links
Image is a Rockwell NYC: This rundown building was once a posh mansion Why Get Married? A Conflict Between Convenience and Covenant Freedom to fool around: Guys like Open Relationships Men are pigs! We are born that way... Pediatricians, Experts Issue Hysterical Warnings Against Summertime Play Who are these pussified idiots? If kids don't break an arm, get poison ivy, get stung by bees, fall off jungle gyms, light firecrackers, eat bugs, and do all sorts of stupid things, then they aren't kids Daniel Day-Lewis Announces Retirement From Acting Want a $1 Million Paycheck? Skip College and Go Work in a Lumberyard DO FEMALE COLLEGE ATHLETES LACK MENTAL TOUGHNESS?
Wind Power’s Future in U.S. Could Be Thwarted by Grassroots Opposition Plus, "... science writer Matt Ridley to observe that when rounded to the nearest whole number, “there is still no wind power on earth.”' CHANGE! EPA moves to rescind Obama’s power-grabbing water rules Connecticut's Liquor Pricing Scheme Is a Bad Law That Just Won't Die Most business regs are designed to favor one group over another The Banana Republic of Illinois
MN Dem Lawmaker Admits Obamacare Is Piece of Crap During Town Hall Whistleblower sues Washington area’s largest charitable organization Aliens: News outlets took the bait Claire McCaskill, Who Claimed to Have Never Met With Russian Ambassador, Actually Attended Black-Tie Affair at His Home " Even Obama’s Democrat supporters are now acknowledging he knew about Russia’s hacking of the DNC and Podesta emails. They are acknowledging that he did nothing..." The FBI's boss is under investigation for possible Hatch Act violations Barack Obama Angering Many on Left With Extravagant Vacations Lefties love money too much Bernie Sanders: Capitalist Pig Like I said One Year Ago Today=> Loretta Lynch Met Bill Clinton on Plane in Arizona – Today She Faces Criminal Investigation House Committee approves spinoff of 30,000 workers from federal payroll The world is turning to crap for the Democrats How news organizations, including this one, unintentionally misinformed the public on guns It is never unintentional. It is supporting a false narrative Trump To CNN: “What About All The Other Phony Stories”? CNN PRODUCER ADMITS WITCH HUNT AGAINST TRUMP UCLA Institute Claims Trumpism Consolidates Power Through White Supremacy VDH: What Is The Alternative To Trump Derangement?
Goodwin: The media will do anything to bash Trump — and now they’re hurting Venezuelan President Threatens To ‘Liberate The Fatherland With Weapons’ State of ‘Collapse’: Italy Overwhelmed as 13,500 African Migrants Arrive in Past Two Days Invasions don't need armies anymore Tuesday, June 27. 2017"Progressive Traditional" design
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Tuesday morning linksThe $100 billion per year back pain industry is mostly a hoax The Secret Cold War History of a Ruined Long Island Estate For a daily testosterone fix I get my kicks on Sociopathic Boys 66 Cool hot rod video Kling: I say that academic economics is on the road to sociology. The War on Work—and How to End It - An agenda to address joblessness, the great American domestic crisis of the twenty-first century Buffett’s Vice Chair – Al Gore Is ‘An Idiot’ Who Just Got Lucky Obsessing About ‘Climate Change’ Affirmative action in med school admissions Mansfield speaks: Venerable Harvard professor laments the ruination of higher education UC San Diego Students Actually Protested Dalai Lama Over His Lack of Tolerance Dallas city councilcritter:
Feminist Mag Calls on White Women to Fight Supremacy by Aborting All of Their White Babies Seattle's Painful Lesson on the Road to a $15 Minimum Wage - The experiment has hurt low-wage workers, cutting their earnings by $172 a month. Amazon Robots Poised to Revamp How Whole Foods Runs Warehouses A Truck Stop Teaches Mark Zuckerberg That Politics Is Hard CNN producer says Russia story is bullshit Did the FBI retaliate against Michael Flynn by launching Russia probe? Byron York: On Russia, a senator's deception and a timeline of Trump frustration Three CNN Employees Resign Over Botched Trump-Russia Story Fired by CNN for fake news? Really? Sketchy Media Now Retreating From Sketchy Russian Conspiracy Reports… Central European Nations Unite Against EU on Migrants Sold their sovereignty for a bowl of lentils Monday, June 26. 2017ZazI had never heard of Zaz before now. Cool gal, but I do not believe a word of what she is singing. What normal gal does not want some Chanel in the closet?
Monday morning linksBest radar-detector/laser-jammer Pronghorn were almost perfectly fitted to the West Texas landscape. And then people started building fences. Pronghorns don't jump Life Before the Internet Administrators at diversity conference: Require implicit bias training on campus White women are the worst People Are Starting To Catch On To The "100% Renewable Energy" Scam Aussie Government Broadcaster Gives Climate Skeptics Airtime Is This Uber's "Theranos Moment"? Detroit Council Dunks on Taxpayers, Will Use School Funds for Basketball Arena - This is why Detroit can't have nice things. Bread and circuses for the masses Without illegals, who will clean our toilets? Faith Leader Urges Trump to ‘Guarantee’ Rights of Refugees to Enter U.S. Woman Totally Loses Her Mind Over Confederate Flag-Adorned Dukes Of Hazzard Car Tactics of Cultural Marxism’s Brownshirts A Cultural Revolution in Slow Motion
Sultan: Not all anger is created equal. Some anger is privileged rage. Black Trump Supporter Goes Nuclear on Maxine Waters ‘You Have Destroyed the Black Community With Illegal Immigration!’ The Unbearable Smugness Of Being…A Democrat It's the presumption of moral superiority For The NYT, only one party "seizes control" Blinded by bias Similarly, WaPo: The terrifying and terrible prospect of Justice Kennedy retiring neoneo: Trump, Julius Caesar, and killing tyrants TDS: NY Times Decides To Take Iran’s Side Against Trump The Republican Health-Care Mistake Goldberg: In a weird way, Washington is actually starting to work President Trump Calls For Enforcement Of Immigration Laws Restricting Welfare For Immigrants Same as Australia Simon: Trump Derangement Syndrome Has Become the New Plague Goodwin: Obama’s liberalism paved the way for Donald Trump President Trump Has Now Signed 40 Pieces Of Legislation As He Moves To Enact His Agenda Obama knew about Russian tricks, did nothing But meanwhile, MSNBC goes OCD: mentions ‘Russia’ 56 times in one hour program Shadowy Firm Behind the 'Trump Dossier' Refuses to Cooperate With Congress FBI appears to have been trying to damage Trump, so he got pissed Biggest news today: DEMOCRATS, FBI COLLABORATED ON TRUMP SMEARS EUROPE IS STILL AILING - A glimpse into the dark malaise behind the EU project. Sunday, June 25. 2017Hiking Trails across the USACodThe Atlantic Cod population of the western Atlantic was essentially extinct from overfishing. With a moratorium, it has recovered a bit but I have not seen a Cod from Cape Cod in many years.
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