Mike died in 2001 of heart failure. His twin brother Ray who shared an apartment in Los Angeles together found Mike laying dead on the floor. Two days later Ray died of kidney failure. There's something so beautiful about that - twins, who despite everything, came and left this world together.
so I have a new workout, or should I say "In ADDITION TO" what I am doing.
My New workout according to Darren:
Monday: Legs and shoulders, calves (.5 of cardio)
Tuesday: Cardiio (45 minutes hard)
Wednesday: Back and biceps (.5 of cardio)
Thursday: Training off
Friday: Chest and triceps, abs (.5 of cardio)
Saturday: Ballet
Sunday: Spinning
"Only one body part per week and not working out 2 days in a row. You will have to learn how to train harder than anyone in that gym.
You will only do 2 sets and 2 exercises per body part so thats 4 sets per body part once a week. After you go home you need to write
down what you did or you can bring pen and paper to the gym. You will try to increase weight on every exercise every week. In a year
you should be doing twice as much weight as you are doing now. If you can make it to 12 reps you need to increase the weight. Dont go
below 8 which means it is too heavy. "
Legs - Squats (free weight, hack or smith machine) 2 sets
Extensions 2 sets
Shoulders - Seated dumbell presses 2 sets
Side lateral raises 2 sets
Calves - Standing raises 2 sets
Seated 2 sets
Back - Pull down to front 2 sets
Seated pulley rows 2 sets
Biceps - Machine Curls 2 sets
Dumbell seated curls 2 sets
Chest - Incline dumbell presses (bench almost flat) 2 sets
Cable, Machine or dumbell flys 2 sets
Triceps - Try to do dips 2 sets
Press downs 2 sets
Abs - Use a machine and load up the weights to make it hard. 2 sets
Legs raises on decline slant board holding hands on bench behind neck.
The way you work all 2 sets is you do the first set between 8 - 12 reps until failure.
Then you wait about 15 seconds, 3 or 4 breaths, lower the weight by about 25%
and then do the second set to failure. Your workout wont even take 25 minutes and
you will know you are doing in right when after the 2 sets you will be out of breath and
will need to rest 5 minutes before going to the next exercise.
This workout was derived from Mike Mentzer who was considered to be the smartest man
in bodybuilding and former Mr. Universe in the 1970's.
Two great bloggers in the universe who are my pals are @calinative & @tiffanybbrown
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Lately, I think I've lost my regular blog mojo to micro blogging services like twitter and plurk. Something about the immediacy of typing my rants, snarks and moments of fleeting insight just when they pop into my head appeals to me. I also love being able to catch up with the up to the minute happenings of the world around me. Micro blogging has made regular blogging seem cumbersome. But I suspect that's a feeling for me that will fade in time.
But this isn't a post about that. It's a post about something I learned WHILE microblogging. A friend on Plurk asked the people in his network what their Myers-Brigg personality type was, and to take the test here, if they chose to. At the time I could not for the life of me remember what my personality type was, so I decided to take the test again.
I'm an INFJ. And reading the profile told me everything I already knew.
I'm reclusive. Private. Complicated. Intuitive. Caring. Nurturing. And generally not open to letting too many people into the soft gooey center of me (or any other parts, either). I'm also very stubborn about what I believe, and inclined to go with that, even if it seems foreign or even absurd to people around me.
The highlights/lowlights from my obsessive reading on the type on a quiet Saturday night:
INFJs are deeply concerned about their relations with individuals as well as the state of humanity at large. They are, in fact, sometimes mistaken for extroverts because they appear so outgoing and are so genuinely interested in people -- a product of the Feeling function they most readily show to the world. On the contrary, INFJs are true introverts, who can only be emotionally intimate and fulfilled with a chosen few from among their long-term friends, family, or obvious "soul mates." - Introverted iNtuing Feeling Judging, by Marina Margaret Heiss.
Counselors are scarce, little more than one percent of the population, and can be hard to get to know, since they tend not to share their innermost thoughts or their powerful emotional reactions except with their loved ones. They are highly private people, with an unusually rich, complicated inner life. Friends or colleagues who have known them for years may find sides emerging which come as a surprise. Not that Counselors are flighty or scattered; they value their integrity a great deal, but they have mysterious, intricately woven personalities which sometimes puzzle even them. - About Four Temperaments - Keirsey.com
INFJs operate within themselves on an intuitive basis which is entirely spontaneous. They know things intuitively, without being able to pinpoint why, and without detailed knowledge of the subject at hand. They are usually right, and they usually know it. Consequently, INFJs put a tremendous amount of faith into their instincts and intuitions. INFJs have uncanny insight into people and situations. They get "feelings" about things and intuitively understand them.
Consequently,
most INFJs are protective of their inner selves, sharing only what they choose
to share when they choose to share it. They are deep, complex individuals, who
are quite private and typically difficult to understand. INFJs hold back part
of themselves, and can be secretive. - Potrait of an INFJ
What's your personality type? Does it fit you?
DETAILS
ARTIST: Rebecca Webb
POSITION: Film curator, ArtPower!, UCSD
WEB SITE: artpower.ucsd.edu
KEY QUOTE: “I'm really interested in raising the profile of San Diego in the film world. I'm excited to bring educational, entertaining experiences to San Diegans, and then, hopefully, raise our profile internationally.”
By Adam Loberstein
STAFF WRITER
July 6, 2008
Understanding Rebecca Webb starts with the answer to a simple question:
Rebecca Webb, founding film curator of UCSD's ArtPower!, looks to bring an interactive film experience to San Diego; here, she sits in the new film and performance venue, "The Loft."
“What is a film curator? That's a good question,” said Webb, the founding film curator for UCSD's presenting organization ArtPower! “A lot of people – when I'm here, anyway – say, 'Oh, do you work in a library or something?' ”
For most film curators, that something could be a museum. But that would be a role of a more inside-the-box film curator – a box that Webb has every intention of breaking out of. She's the brand new curator of a brand new program, and plans on using her creative reign to the fullest.
“As a film curator here, I get to design a program,” Webb said, seated on a couch on the second floor of the new Price Center East expansion. “It's not only film. It's really film experience. I'm designing interactive film experiences for the community here and the community at large.”
Webb, 41, came to UCSD by way of Harvard University, where she worked for five years, her activities ranging from serving as the managing editor of a political science journal to exhibiting her photography. She moved to San Diego a year ago this month – thanks largely to a professor she met at Harvard.
“He was teaching (at Harvard), but he's actually tenured here at UCSD,” Webb said. “I moved here because of him. We're getting married – he's my fiance.”
The “he” is UCSD political scientist Lawrence Broz. The couple was in a long-distance relationship for two years before Webb and her 7-year-old son, Jack Henry, moved to San Diego.
The transition from Harvard to UCSD hasn't been perfect for her, but it's been close.
“The only thing I don't like is having to drive everywhere,” Webb joked. “I used to ride my bike all the time.”
Webb studied painting and printmaking at Tufts University/The Museum School just outside Boston. After brief stints displaying her paintings in Haiti and Miami, she made her way to New York City. She lived there for 11 years, working on such well-known films such as “Pi” and other documentaries.
With experience in all walks of art – she's been a film editor and producer, a post-production supervisor and a new media producer – Webb officially made the transition to her post as ArtPower!'s film curator in January.
Webb calls the premise of her program a desire to create an interactive experience for her viewers.
“I'm really focusing on how the audience engages with the process itself,” she said. “We're having a program called 'Night at the Foovies,' where I'm going to be showing a film called 'The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover.' And we're going to be eating the food that's in the film. So, really, it's the full experience.”
The “Night at the Foovies” program will take place Feb. 20 in the new – and not quite finished – Loft. The Loft, Webb said, will be a lower-key, causal kind of an environment where people can have a drink and get something to eat as they watch a film (or see a performance).
Webb has a variety of themes she plans on focusing on, ranging from how cinema and architecture relate to each other to a furthering development of the student film festival – she hosted the university's first one in May.
Her “Iraq Inside Out” series, which will debut Jan. 22, will offer a look at the Iraq War through differing lenses.
“I'm bringing director Deborah Scranton out for 'Bad Voodoo War,' ” Webb said. “In her work ... the soldiers there in Iraq film their experiences, and then she takes their footage and incorporates it into her film here.
“Then, I'll be showing a film by an Iraqi documentarian, and an Iranian feature film director. So, we get to look at the different contrast.”
Starting Oct. 5, Webb's “The Press Rewind” series will present student films made by such well-known filmmakers as Robert Zemeckis and George Lucas.
“We want to show the students where they came from, to give them hope,” she added.
That's her focus. With all of her experiences, Webb says the thing that excites her most is getting to bring the work of her students to life.
“As an artist myself, I know the struggles that you encounter,” she said. “To give students an opportunity to show their work, and to help them with their careers – I just think that's really exciting.
“I've worked in galleries before and shown my own work, so I felt looking forward that this was a culmination of my film passion and desire to help other artists.”
My sister is leaving to return to LA tomorrow, but before she went - she wanted to have a pre birthday mini celebration. She knows I'm likely to be hiding in the very back of my cave this weekend.
I LOVE Julianne Moore. Everything she has performed in has been SMART and Challenging. This movie is of the same ilk. It's well edited (interesting black space interjected between scenes), the photography was AMAZING, it was well written, took its time to develop....the subject matter is DARK and CHALLENGING. I thought it was simply brilliant. If you have the courage to see this, it is well worth it.
Based on the award-winning book, director Tom Kalin (Swoon) tells the incredible true story of Barbara Daly (Julianne Moore), who married above her class to Brooks Baekeland (Stephen Dillane), the dashing heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. Beautiful, red-headed and charismatic, Barbara is still no match for her well-bred husband. The birth of the couple's only child, Tony, rocks the uneasy balance in this marriage of extremes. Tony (Eddie Redmayne) is a failure in his father's eyes. As he matures and becomes increasingly close to his lonely mother, the seeds for a tragedy of spectacular decadence are sown. Spanning 1946 to 1972, the drama unfolds in six acts, as the Baekelands' pursuit of social distinction and the glittering 'good life' propels them across the globe. Co-starring Hugh Dancy and Elena Anaya.
For the past few weeks I've been walking in the garage at work. It keeps me shaded and there is a pretty good breeze that comes through.
A coworker saw me walking and asked if she could join.
"Of course," I said.
This week we were joined by another coworker who I assume was either invited by her, or asked if she could join us.
During these walks we talk about life, family and anything under the sun besides work.
I find that I have been looking forward to these walks the last couple of days. It's been a great way to network with my coworkers and get to know them without having to force ourselves to talk about work conversations.
Try it on your job, you may get to know some pretty interesting people.
