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Breaking The Fast a/k/a Breakfast Talent That Left Us Last Year While waging my never ending desire to keep my electronic files orderly I ran across a list of some of the talented people who helped to shape my view of the world, memories, life experience, etc. One of the things that’s so wonderful about artists of any variety, is that their talent needn’t appeal to everyone. What one deems artistic is very subjective. Have you ever gone to a hood I cherish. The televi sion shows in which they appeared may have been responsible for giving my yearning for country living. Good, solid, friendly neigh borliness are what these actors portrayed. Frank Cady (96) - A veteran actor, best known for his role as general store owner, Sam Drucker, on Green Acres. Though I never really paid attention to his name in the credits, Of This & That Trenesia Y. Stubbs Columnist emml:trenesia@pstel.net movie with someone who hated a film you enjoyed? We’re not even able to always put our fingers on what made that perfor mance exciting and another excruciatingly boring—but our reactions are definitive ly our own. Anyway here are some of the people on that list of fallen stars. Ernest Borgnine (age 95) - A leading man with a Cheshire Cat smile and impish eyes. Yes, I mean Mr. Borgnine. He wasn’t your typical Hollywood leading man and few would have called him handsome, but he won Oscars for his roles in such films as Marty and From Here to Eternity. Mr. Borgnine also leant his voice of Mermaid Man on SpongeBob SquarePants). Talk about diverse. The last role I enjoyed him playing was the “records keeper” in RED with Bruce Willis. Jack Klugman (90) - Perhaps most remembered for The Odd Couple and Quincy M.E., Klugman was also a favorite with hugely diversified roles under his belt. He did impassioned really well in his mostly television roles. I remem ber feeling so sorry for his Oscar Madison character. The following actors were a part of my child Mr. Cady’s face was a wel comed character on Petti coat Junction, The Beverly Hillbillies and The Adven tures of Ozzie and Harriet. Andy Griffith (86) - A television icon and one of America’s favorite small screen dads. I think I and a lot of other people had the feeling that they knew Andy—whether as his down home Sheriff Taylor in Mayberry, R.F.D. or the suave and sleuthing lawyer, Ben Mattlock, Mr. Griffith managed to engender confi dence. I know a number of people who truly mourned the loss of Andy Griffith, including myself. Los ing him seems like a very important part of America’s culture has left us. It de lighted me to no end to find my Mayberry friends on network television when we arrived here. You just gotta love country. George Lindsey (83) -’’Goober” on The Andy Griffith Show, was this star’s best known role. While his character may have seemed goofy, Goober was a good man to have on hand for a game of check ers or to have check under the hood of your car. Phyllis Diller (95) - What a funny-looking funny lady Ms. Diller was. I always wanted to meet her hus band, Fang, whose’ char acteristics were often the subject of performances. It feels kind of weird that someone who caused such uproarious laughter would die in her sleep. What a character she created! Robert Hegyes (60) - Best known for playing Juan Epstein and Ron Paillo (63) as innocent class clown, Arnold Horschack were “Sweathogs” on Welcome Back, Kotter. Why exactly was “up your nose with a rubber hose,” so funny back then? What we choose as entertainment can shape our outlook on life, our perceptions of things we encounter and even how we view ourselves. I know nothing—or at least next to nothing—about the personal lives of the actors who have shared my life. I don’t really want to know about their personal lives. Their lives, for me, are on the screen, small or large, and sometimes on the stage. That’s enough, when an actor practices their craft well. I’ve run out of both time and space, so I’ll sound a newsprint Taps for musi cians in a future installment of fallen stars. Break’fast comes from breaking the fast (going for about 7-10 hours of not eating during the night). There are many that extend this period out longer and do not break the fasting period until lunch or dinner, and this can be okay if it’s not done every day, “espe cially when we ate too much the evening or day before.” This helps us bum off the ex cess fuel to keep our deposits to our fat cells in check. You have probably expe rienced it or heard someone say that when they eat cereal for breakfast that they seem to stay hungry. This comes from the insulin the cereal (or a breakfast made up primarily of high carbs/sugars) has caused to pour into our bloodstream for glucose distribution. The insulin transports the sugars off and continues to look for more, thus giving us a sugar low causing us to have intense sugar cravings. This is the fuel we have told our system it can expect for the day when we fed it this for breakfast. When we try to get it to shift over mid-day, we are apt to feel shaky until our body shifts over to a more steady form of energy, “complex carbs, dietary fat and stored fat.” For Breakfast: I like to kick off the morning with some fruit, “since this assists your body’s natural detox pro cesses.” Other then this, I like a breakfast that largely consists of fat and protein, (this morn ing I had eggs poached in water, 1 slice of bread and 1/2 of a guacamole). A breakfast primarily consisting of proteins and fats, “gives you a steady fuel that will last and avoids sugar spikes that lead to fat storage.” If you want this ben efit but want your diet to have a cholesterol lowering benefit, eat a little oatmeal or (drink a soluble fiber supplement such as Benefiber) to force the body to pass the bile (bile breaks down fat) out through your waste, causing the liver to have to make new bile and it makes new replacement bile from cholesterol. This is the process that statin chugs try to mimic. If you eat or drink some thing sugary, avoid any caf feine as this causes a sugar trap Your Health by Wade Yoder Master Trainer & Fitness Nutrition Specialist m your blood due to temporary insulin insensitivity caused by the caffeine. I personally be lieve this is where a lot of our problems with blood fats/cho lesterol, diabetes, and belly/ organ fat is coming from. We get to tell our body what energy it can expect by what we choose as starter fuel in the morning. It does not matter as much for someone that is going to be highly active after breakfast but “VERY MUCH” applies to someone that has a desk job or is going to be inac tive over the next few hours. “Sugar is torture to a body that has to set still!” “A sugary or carb loaded breakfast is like high octane fuel that bums out rapidly and dies, while protein, fat and complex carbs are like logs that continue to emit a steady heat for hours” SALE OF SURPLUS PROPERTY Crawford County will be accepting sealed bids for the purchase of: (1) Hyster Lo Boy Trailer 25 ton New Pump, Hydraulic Ramps Bids must be received on April 8th, 2013 no later than 4:00 p.m. All bids shall be received at the Crawford County Administration office located at 1011 Hwy 34In. Roberta, Georgia 31078. Crawford County has set reserves in the amount of $5,000.00. Item can be viewed Mon-Fri 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the County Shop located at 10 Hortman Mill Road, Roberta, Ga 31078 Properties offered “as is” with no warranty. For any additional information please call 478.836.3782. Legislative Update by Rep. Robert Dickey This past Thursday marked the end of the 2013 Leg islative Session when the House completed the 40th and final legislative day. This last day of Session is known as "Sine Die', a Latin term meaning "without assigning a day for further meeting". The last week of Session is always extremely busy with long days and many committee meetings. Although I am still busy going back over all of the legislation passed by the General Assembly, here are several key legislative ac complishments that I want to bring to your attention. One of the most important bills we passed this Session was HB 106 - the state budget for Fiscal Year 2014, which runs from July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014. Totaling $19.92 billion in state funds, this budget is balanced as mandated by our state constitution. I am very pleased with our budget for next year given our current economy. Serving as Vice Chair of the General Government Appropriations Committee offered me the opportunity to be fully invested in the workings of our state budget. Georgia's budget is extremely complex with many areas of the budget dependent on our federal government mandates and recipro cal funding. Education and healthcare are the largest drivers in the state budget. Over 50 percent of state funds are appropriated to education and 20 percent are appropriated to healthcare. The budget includes $244.1 in funding for K-12 construction, vocational equipment, and new school buses statewide. It also includes $7 million for technology infrastructure upgrades at local school systems. Next year's bud get will increase all Hope Scholarships and Grants by three percent. It adds $4.3 million to the GBI and Georgia Department of Natural Resources to retain experienced, certified personnel. Our physician resi dency training will have an additional $489,475 for expansion of this program to keep our residents train ing in Georgia. Additional road projects throughout our state will be funded for $25.7 million. Are there budget items I wish could have been added or in creased? Yes, but keeping a balanced, but yet working budget is of the foremost importance. Another major piece of legislation was House Bill 372, the HOPE Grant Expansion. This bill returns the eligibility requirement for the HOPE Grant from a 3.0 GPA to a 2.0 GPA for students attending techni cal colleges in Georgia. This will return the HOPE Grant requirements to what they were in 2011. The change in this requirement should result in over 4,000 new students attending the state's technical colleges. This increased enrollment will help fill vacant em ployment positions throughout the state that require technical skills like plumbing, electrical contracting, and HVAC. Crawford County is fortunate to have a technical school campus, Central Georgia Technical College, in our county, which provides much needed adult education, continuing education, and custom ized business and industry services. Senate Bill 136 improves the safety at Georgia's lakes, rivers and other waterways that are used for recreational purposes. As Georgia's population has increased over the years, so to the number of boating and jet ski accidents that occur each year in the state. Just last summer, three young boys died in accidents on Lake Lanier. Kile Glover was struck by a jet ski on Lake Lanier, and brothers Jake and Griffin Prince were killed after an intoxicated boater collided with their family's pontoon boat on Lake Lanier. This bill, known as the "Kile Glover Boat Education Law" and "Jake and Griffin BUI Law", passed both the House and the Senate in hopes of preventing similar acci dents and is awaiting the Governor's signature. House Resolution 529 will create the Georgia Music Industry Study Committee. Many successful art ists have started in Georgia, including James Brown, REM, the B-52s, Luke Bryan and Lady Antebellum. Our Middle Georgia area shares in this rich heritage. Unfortunately, most of Georgia's music talent leaves the state to produce their music. The Georgia Music Industry Study Committee will look for ways that we can help encourage these talented musicians to stay in Georgia. The committee will research the entertain ment programs and infrastructures of other states, study the issues fac ing Georgia's music industry, and ex plore strategies that will ensure growth in the state's exist ing music industry. HR 529 recognizes our Georgia artists for the economic value they bring to our communities, and seeks to inspire others to take ad vantage of the many opportunities the Georgia Music Industry has to offer. I was fortunate to have three Pages from Craw ford County on Sine Die - Audrey and Sydney Dyer, daughters of Darryl and April Baxley, and Lindsay Turner, daughter of Wade and Lisa Turner. These girls worked tirelessly until late in the night distributing updated pieces of legislation and other important information to all members of the House. Now that the 2013 Legislative Session has ended, all bills which passed both the House and the Senate have been sent to Governor Deal for his consider ation. Our state constitution stipulates the Governor has 40 days to sign or veto legislation. As much as I enjoy the responsibility of being in Atlanta during Session, I am grateful to be home back in my district visiting with each of you. I was grate ful to be at home to celebrate Easter Sunday with my family and at my church. I encourage you to visit my website www.voterobertdickey.com for continual up dates, email me at rdickey@dickeyfarms.com, or call my office 478-836-4362.1 am working on an end of Session newsletter which will highlight more details of this past Session. Thank you for your prayers and confidence in me as your State Representative. Robert Dickey