Love Ranch Trailer
“Love Ranch” is a story of raw emotions in a world where boxing and prostitution intersect from critically acclaimed director Taylor Hackford. The film is written by Mark Jacobson, a prolific journalist whose magazine stories have been adapted to other media, including a piece on Frank Lucas that was the basis for the film “American Gangster.”
Helen Mirren and Joe Pesci running a whore house? Sold.
DAZED & CONFUSED MAGAZINE | JUNE 2011 ‘AGE OF CRAZINESS’
June’s Global Activism Special concentrates on the struggle for freedom around the world, featuring missing Chinese artist and social critic Ai Weiwei on the cover, and publishing one of his last interviews before he was detained by the government. The magazine also spends a few days with …the underground resistance fighters of Burma’s brutal dictatorship, hears street artist JR’s account of his art revolution in Tunisia, and profiles some of the Middle East’s young activists fighting for a new tomorrow. The June issue also features interviews with Jesse Eisenberg, David Byrne and Dan Budnick.
Check out this week’s OTB Challenge test: The Core Fusion Shock Your Body Test! Remember, you don’t have to have entered last week to be eligible for this week’s prize (sweet Core Fusion DVDs!). So get to it!
You can post your submissions here or email Rachel (sheditandgetit(at)gmail(dot)com) to be added to the Tumblr group.
This week’s challenge is brought to you by Core Fusion, and we have our first weekly prize!
Core Fusion is a series of workout classes that take the fundamentals of Lotte Berk and pilates to the next level for a totally unique workout experience. It’s taught at Exhale Spa locations throughout the country, but for those of us who don’t live in big cities, Core Fusion DVDs are available. Rachel has written about them extensively on Shedding It, because after losing major inches and noticing a huge difference in her body during her one-month commitment, she’s obsessed. There are several DVDs, but the people at Core Fusion were cool enough to donate two DVDs to us: Thighs and Glutes and Pure Abs and Arms.
Outside the Box Challenge Week #2: The Core Fusion Shock Your Body Test. Last week, you got your hands dirty. This week, it’s time to get sweaty! For this challenge, you have to try a new workout: it can be a new machine at the gym (like the poor, neglected rowing machine), a new DVD, a class you’ve never tried before, or just a new and different way to do cardio or strength training. To make sure you really shock your body, it should be something you haven’t done for the past three months!
Everyone who submits an entry to this week’s challenge (regardless of whether you entered last week) is eligible to win one of the DVDs. We’ll pick the winners at random from all the eligible entries this week!
You have until 11:59 PM PST on Sunday, March 14 to submit your entry! Get to it!
I recently got an email from reader Meghan:
I’m at a basic level of fitness now, and I joined Planet Fitness (I don’t know how familiar you are with their franchise) and I love their 30 minute circuit room, but I have no idea how many reps/how much weight to use on the machines. They have trainers there to help, but they’re only around during the day when I’m at work.
If you know any good workout plans, or where I could look them up, it would be great! I love the trainerpack ipod videos for home workouts but I’m looking for a gym routine now!
I’ll teach you how to create your own routine! For strength workouts, the general rule is to pick a weight that is challenging by around the 8th rep. I would start with three sets of 10-12 reps for any given exercise, but as my trainer says, don’t limit yourself to a number! If you feel like you can do a few more reps on a given set, do them. But, if things are TOO easy, you may have to up your weight.
Try to focus on two muscle groups for each workout rather than trying to hit all of them on the same day (you risk overtraining certain muscles anyway). Pick two to three exercises for each muscle group. Here’s a good schedule, based on the one my trainer made for me:
Choose from: Bench Press (with dumbbells or machine), Incline Bench Press, Dumbbell Flys (or use machine), Push-ups, Bicep Curls, Hammer Curls, Concentration Curls
Choose from: Side Lateral Raises, Shoulder Presses, Upright Rows, Rear Delt Pec (machine), Lying Tricep Extensions, Tricep Dips, Tricep Dips off Smith Machine
Choose from: Lat Pulldowns, Seated Rows, Rows under Smith Machine, Back Extension (machine), Shrugs
Choose from: Squats, Lunges, Straight-Leg Deadlifts, Standing Calf Raises, Abductor (machine), Adductor (machine), Leg Press (machine)
On strength days, I still warm up with 10-20 minutes of cardio, depending on how much time I have. On the off days, I do light cardio or rest. I also sometimes switch it up and do circuits. These are great! To create your own circuit workout, alternate the above moves with 1-5 minute bursts of cardio. Your heart rate will be up the whole time, but you’ll get some good toning moves in, too. For the cardio, choose from:
Let me show you what a sample strength/cardio circuit workout would look like on a bicep/chest day:
That workout would take you around 35-40 minutes, and I guarantee you’d be sweating the whole time!
Citizens of Great Britain,
The wealth of the United Kingdom has now turned into the personification of many of its problems. The top earners now buy their way into the governments favour and bankers who helped precipitate the previous crisis received £850 Billion of your own taxes while the poor are left to starve and suffer. While the financial sector is poised to distribute record profits and bonuses to its cronies and accomplices, the government has decided that the average hard working citizen must suffer record levels of austerity and hardship to pay for this disaster.
Internationally, the governments of the UK have also supported some of the world’s most bloodthirsty tyrants. From Margaret Thatcher’s support of the Chilean fascist Augusto Pinochet, to Tony Blair’s recent pledge of solidarity to Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak during the uprising. The sales of tear gas, machine guns and arms components to these regimens over the last two years show that the foreign policy of the United Kingdom has been one of continuing empire which has been implemented at the expense of some of the world’s most vulnerable people and financed by the hard-earned money of desperate British citizens. The history of the United Kingdom is one of continuing empire, provocation and war.
We in Anonymous sense your displeasure and we also note the ever increasing tide of propaganda and the iron fist of the state being used more and more often to put down dissent before it begins. The law is no longer the protector of the citizens, but the protector of the wealthy few from the many who have very little. It is almost impossible to fight the government when working inside the laws that the government makes because, more often than not, such laws are designed to prevent those with legitimate grievances from doing this. Justice is now merely a commodity which only the wealthy can afford.
Anonymous is aware of the anger that seethes under the facade of your country’s diplomatic image. We hereby incite your people to rebellion against the establishment which has suppressed you generation upon generation. It is time to take a stand and realise that solutions will not be found in the corruption of mainstream politics. You must seize the opportunity to rally for freedom. Anonymous stands with you in this struggle and will fight alongside you in the battle for permanent change. Let your enemies stand forewarned.
We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not Forgive.
We do not Forget.
