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Meandering r Musings •If you haven’t already had occasion to click on some of the Google search site’s inventive ways of spelling Google or com memorating some event, do so. They’re called Google Doodles. Here’s an example, the first drive-in theatre. Did you know that during the Of This & That Trenesia Y. Stubbs Columnist email:trenesia@pskl.net. Aerobic Vs. Anaerobic Exercise? 1950’s there were approxi mately 5,000 drive-in the atres throughout the United States? Or that the first drive-in theater was opened on June 6, 1933, by Richard Hollingshead Jr. in Camden, New Jersey? Mr. Hollings head didn’t call his new way of viewing movies a drive-in theater; but rather, he called it the ”park-in” movie the ater and the cost for a ticket was 25 cents per vehicle and 25 cents per person. That item sure took me back. Drive-in theatres were a great way to watch a mov ie. Going to the concession stand was always fun after watching the little animated film of dancing goodies. My favorite animated snack inducement was a hot dog dram major leading a parade of the things you could get to crunch, crack, slurp and slather. Yum! Babysitters weren’t need ed as there was a playground for restless children to go to. Okay, sometimes you’d get settled in only to find that you were parked at a dud speaker and you’d have to move to another parking slot. When I got to dating age the walk to the conces sion stand was a grand op portunity to giggle through comparing notes on my date with my fellow double dat ing counterpart. Check out the Google Doodles when you have time. • A very hearty thank you to everyone who came on out the cold windy morn ing of this past Saturday to celebrate our Re-Grand Opening at the new location of The Korean Martial Arts Academy. When we moved onto the Square in 2009 and had our Grand Opening, it was the same type of day— cold (I mean really cold) and windy. I’m not sure what the type of auspicious con nection might be, I’m just happy that some of you were brave and willing to join us in it long enough for the rib bon cutting. Brrrrrr! • On the topic of brrrrrr I find myself continually confused on what weather to expect; particularly when we’ve got 70° degrees one day and dip into 30 and 40° degree weather on the same day or very shortly after ward. I found it ironic, too, that we had harsh weather warnings one week prior to Severe Weather Awareness Week. Growing up in hurri cane-prone Miami, Florida taught me to be prepared ahead of time so as to avoid the mad rush in the stores. Laying in canned supplies, a first-aid kit, updated contact information in written form, important documents sealed in plastic or safety deposit box, gas or charcoal grill for cooking, important photo graphs and other keepsakes stored in plastic and boxed, etc., etc. • There have been a couple of topics I’ve wanted to share with you that finally coalesced into a single topic. When did models parading around in lingerie become a prime time network televi sion event? The Victoria Se cret fashion show television special, as a concept, is way over the line in my mind, yet I heard no hue and cry as to its inappropriateness. In fact, the only controversy associ ated with the production had to do with Native Americans outraged by the headdress a model was meant to wear as part of her costume because it was disrespectful to their culture. • I thought the incident was a perfect time to educate the general public on the meanings and importance of traditional Native Ameri can headdress rather than taking offense. February is Black History Month. While watching a network out of Columbus, GA recently I thought it was really neat that one of the spots they ran highlighted the local Columbus men, women and institutions that played a part in the struggles and suc cesses of the American black experience. You may want to be on the look-out this month to learn more about that experience. • I’m wrapping up this column so I can attend the Roberta-Crawford County Chamber of Commerce Business Expo and Annual Banquet. It is my sincere hope that you are committed to supporting our local busi nesses and civic organiza tions. The business owners are your neighbors, pew mates, and our community’s employers. Go online when you have an opportunity and look through the Cham ber’s membership directory: http://www.robertacrawford- chamber.org/ Until next week, then. Over the past 20+ years of being in the health club business, I have seen many advancements made to exer cise routines, supplements, exercise equipment, in-home exercise routines, etc. Many fell by the wayside as fads that never gained traction in large part due to it not giving the rapid results they made people think they would get. There are, however, some things that remain the same and give substance to why almost any exercise routine works. 1. Rapid continuous movement builds endurance and your aerobic/cardio vascular capacity 2. put ting your body under more strain than it’s used to builds strength. 3. Eating a good diet and drinking plenty of water helps you with either of the above. The Cardio vs Strength Myth: throughout the years it has been common prac tice to separate these two whether mentally or in actual practice, but the lines are gradually blurring and I’m really happy to see this. You see when 1 & 2 are combined together you can build both in synch with each other. You can build size and strength even if you exercise slow, but your endurance will not be very good and I’m a firm believer that only after endurance comes quality strength, tone or muscle size. Think about it like this, if you get out in the yard whether at work or play and you do something rapidly and you tire easily, is it your strength or cardio that needs strengthening, “or is it both?” If you would do this same activity on a regular basis, your body will fairly rapidly condition itself to handle this new level of activity. Example: if there is a hill that is fatiguing to you, “if you start walking it con sistently and sometimes rapidly,” before long your regular pace will seem very easy. Rapid movement through the same distance builds muscle and (rapid movement carried out for a longer session) will build strength and endurance, “ex ercise is as simple as that”, it’s cheap, it’s easy and the basics still work as good as they did in the caveman or hunter gatherer days. Try this: Get a set of dumbbells, “whatever weight feels right for you,” and do a deep squat touch ing them on the floor beside your ankles, keeping your back straight, then thrust back up raising them above your head, repeat until you get tired. Take 15-30 second breaks and repeat for at least 3-4 sets, (increase these sets according to your capability). You can gradu ally increase your speed or weight of your dumbbells to increase resistance. Remem ber to always warm up with a few sets that don’t cause you to strain at first. If you can do these sets for about 10 minutes a day, “you will begin to see results that far outweigh walking alone.” The added muscle and tone not only looks much better then a shrunken shape, “it also helps slow the aging process and speeds up me tabolism!” If we #1: keep it simple and use movements that involve the larger muscle groups; #2: do them more rapidly; #3: with less rest, and; #4: gradually increase the load (added weight/ resistance) we can have the benefits from both the aerobic/cardio and anaero bic/strength training! 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Robert Dickey The last two weeks under the Gold Dome have proved to be very important weeks of the 2013 Legislative Session. During the fourth week, committees met to consider legislation, Chief Justice Carol Hunstein delivered the State of the Judiciary Address and we approved the Amended Fiscal Year 2013 state budget. Chief Justice Carol Hunstein is only the second woman in history to serve as a permanent member of the Georgia Supreme Court. Her speech focused on the state’s ongoing criminal justice reforms. These reforms first started in 2011, when the General As sembly created the Special Council on Criminal Jus tice Reform. Since then, the council has worked dili gently to find ways to protect our citizen’s safety and hold offenders accountable, all while keeping an eye on the financial impact to the state budget. According to Chief Justice Hunstein, HB 1176 is already produc ing positive results for the state with the expansion of the number of state drug and mental health courts as well as the number of substance abuse and mental health treatment centers. Since the criminal justice reforms for adult offenders has begun to produce positive results, the special council is now looking into ways to better handle youth who break the law. Nearly 2,000 children in Georgia currently live in a youth prison, youth jail, or state residential program, such as a group home. More than half of these children were sent to these state facilities for committing non-violent offenses, and 25 percent are there for misdemeanor or status offenses that would not be a crime if committed by an adult. All too often, children are sent to these facilities because of a lack of community based programs. This program unfortunately puts some non-violent children on a path to adult criminality. Given that it costs the state $91,000 per year to house one child in a correctional facility and that 65 percent of the children in these facilities will commit another offense within three years of getting out, it seems clear that taxpayers are not getting their money’s worth. After hearing from Chief Justice Hunstein, I am eager to help look for ways that the state can better handle troubled youth. We also passed the Amended Fiscal Year 2013 state budget. Each year the amended budget takes into account the difference between the expected revenue used to create the fiscal year budget and a more ac curate estimate obtained halfway through that fiscal year. The AFY 2013 state budget reduces current state spending by $26.3 million. Despite this reduc tion, we are still able to make the budget meet the growing needs of the state by adjusting some of the state’s revenue sources and enacting budget cuts to most state agencies. We were able to eliminate cuts to the Georgia Youth Science and Technology Centers and to soften reductions to key education programs. Last week we took up several pieces of legislation that may directly affect our community. I helped sponsor House Bill 101 which will make it easier for our state’s non-profit organizations, such as our Relay for Life, to raise money by selling food at local events. Georgia law requires food service establish ments to obtain a food service permit from the state before selling food to the public. While Georgia al ready exempts food sold at fairs or festivals from this permit requirement, it does not exempt food sold by nonprofit organizations at other short term events. HB 101 would change this so that nonprofit organiza tions could sell food at events lasting five days or less without having to get a food service permit from the state. Nonprofit organizations would, however, still have to comply with all local government permitting requirements. House Bill 59 will help increase public safety by reducing the number of false alarms reported to law enforcement, which would allow our first responders to focus their resources on those truly in need. This legislation requires an alarm monitoring company to use a second contract for alarm verification if its first attempt is unsuccessful. If the second contact is reached and the alarm went off in error, then any dispatched law enforcement can disregard the report and continue with their regular duty. No second veri fication call would be required, however, if the alarm monitoring company has video or audio verification of a fire alarm, panic, robbery-in-progress or crime- in-progress. It is important we utilize law enforce ment wisely. Reducing the number of responses to false alarms will help communities throughout the state, do just that. Please feel free to contact me if you have any ques tions or comments about legislation being consid ered in the General Assembly. You can email me at robert.dickey@house.ga.gov or at my capitol office at 404-656-0287. When you are in Atlanta, I hope you will come by and visit with me. My office in Atlanta is in the Coverdell Legislative Office Building directly across from the Capitol - Suite 607G. Thank you for allowing me to serve as your repre sentative. Representative Robert Dickey District 140 J
