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CODE OF ETHICS: Seek Truth <5*? Report It - Minimise Harm - Act Independently - Be Accountable. Where the press is free and every man able to read,, all is safe. Thomas Jefferson 4 THE GEORGIA POST ti •• • - * p. z w. * OFTHIS & THAT Trenesia Stubbs You’d think wed know better by now H ere’s a thought. Our elected officials in Washington, all of them, are playing mo nopoly with our lives and footsies with cor porate America in general. In short—government is all that it’s ever been—largely flawed and best kept under skeptical eye of those doing the electing. Else the folks ultimately responsible for the entire mess—voter, for electing and setting loose what we should already know to be inherently imperfect. I’ve just, literally, returned from visiting my too year old great, great aunt in Louisville, Georgia (around Augusta way). She’s beautiful. I wish you could see her smile. Anyway, she’s in full control of her faculties and exercising her way to full strength. Members of my family were sitting around the dining room table as Auntie spoke of her one hundred years of living. She’s seen the advances of this nation a long way. When Auntie excused herself to go take a nap I began thinking about the mess our country is in. My racing thoughts touched on this and that and I was pretty ticked off by the time I wanted to take a nap, too. I started thinking of the political machinations in the United States of America and what messes we’re in the middle of now. You might wonder why I address our nation by her full name. It’s a bit of tongue in cheekiness. We cer tainly are not living in anything remotely like states united into a nation. Critical thinking is defined as: disciplined thinking that is clear, rational, open- minded, and informed by evidence. Boy, have we missed that boat! We have enough issues to address, like not step ping up to police the world; “physician heal thyself, remember? People in our country are struggling through recovering from natural disasters; families whose livelihoods have been sacrificed to callous po litical machinations; civil liberties are being chipped away at via social media and a knee jerk reaction to the terrorist attacks on September n, 2001. Think of the pages and pages and pages of foreclo sure notices in our countries newspapers for years. Guess All of those homeowners what? weren’t people buying those homes they couldn t pe0 pie afford. in § they couldn’t afford. Remember? That was the charac terization initially. Have any of the banks and other financial institutions made any real reparation for stealing people’s homes even though they them selves are responsible for the real estate meltdown that kick started losses of jobs and homes? So talk of shutting down the government because of political tug of war just isn’t sitting right with me. Well, there’s a bunch of stuff that’s not sitting right with me concerning the current state of affairs. Look at the Affordable Care Act. It’s a hurried mess. No doubt. However, I seem to recall some in the politi cal arena baldly declaring that they wanted Presi dent Obama to fail. During his first term. Hellllooooo! If he fails, we fail. I remember read ing, seeing and hearing “He has no experience” over and over ad infinitum, ad nausea. So, don’t you think a spirit of cooperation from all of our repre sentatives might have been in order? We needed some of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act. Implementation is a big land mine for everything the government decides on. That’s what I mean when I say shouldn’t we know better by now? None of these concepts issues are new. The middle class, however, seem to be detri mentally affected. We’re losing homes, jobs, educa tions, medical attention, opportunities and futures while talk of shutting down the government ramble out of the mouths of any of them folks; from either persuasion. Our representatives are representing their respective ideologies. Let me tell you something, it wasn’t ideologies that made fair market value a useless term. It was all of us. It was the voter who ran an errand rather than voting. It’s the people who declare morality and values staying eerily quiet while Grand Theft Auto 5 is released and one of the “best” television shows on television today is Breaking Bad depicting a school teacher who decides to deal drugs to pay his medical bills. Oh, there are so many things looking back at our country’s development that looks disturbingly like we’re moving backward. Next week we’ll take a look at the inversion of want versus need. TRENESIA STUBBS is a contributing columnist for the Georgia Post. Contact her at trenesia@psttel.net All of home- weren’t buy- homes Opinions expressed by writers on this page are their own alone. Ahhh, taking some time to breath T aking a few days off last week was something I really needed to do for myself, my san ity and for everyone else around me. When you reach a certain point, you know it is time for some down time. With events and other things to cover, this past weekend was really the only time we could man age it in trying to work around my schedule at the newspaper. I am thankful for a husband who understands all the craziness associated with my chosen career where schedul ing is concerned. The past few weeks were not only busy but emotional with many ups and downs and many people I know who lost loved ones, so my brain really needed some time off to just be and not have to think about much of anything. I tried not to answer my phone un less it seemed really important and thanks to not getting a good signal it was easier to unwind from social me dia somewhat as well. Seems not mat ter how many times you tell someone you are taking time off, they still want you to answer questions concerning the newspaper. That’s quite alright, comes with the territory and I don’t mind at all since there was nothing I could really do from my location at the time. Most questions had to do with upcoming things anyway. When we take time off, we love the beach. It is just relaxing, sitting listen ing to the waves go out and come back in again. Nothing soothes my soul quite like walking on the beach and I feel close to God as you survey the majesty of it all. A shell collector, I can walk a long ways just looking at or searching for shells. I don’t keep them all, just the ones which are unique. Otherwise, we would not be able to carry them all home. We found many shells last week to add to our collection and to spark our memory of this trip. We have a small camper and take our furbaby with us. I think she enjoyed it as much as we did. She ran up and down the beach chasing birds, crabs and anything else that caught her fancy. At night David built a fire for us to sit by, roast mashmallows and talk. Just looking at the stars is peace ful. At camp, Roxie had to be tied on a rope which she was not thrilled about but accepted, until getting tangled up and getting aggravated. She was tired out at night. We even got to have lunch with her at a restaurant someone recommend ed which was pet friendly on the patio. That was a first for her and us and it was kind of neat. We even ordered her a kid’s hamburger which she gulped down. Mainly we cooked in though and just SI DAY AT A TIME Victoria Simmons enjoyed being away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. On Sunday we left early because I intended on covering the Comforting Quilters Blessing of the Sandy Hook Quilts. If everything had gone as it should have we would have made it in plenty of time. But as you know things don’t always run smoothly. We had to wait in line to pump out the tanks at the dump station before leaving the camp and wait in line to gas up before leaving. David then decided to use the navi gation system on his phone in an effort to find a shortcut and get back some of the time we had already lost. This turned out to be a big mistake as the system had us going into town onto side streets and then bringing us back onto the same highway we had just left. Made no sense at all. There came a certain point when we realized we were not going to make it on time so I called Tami to cover for me. Thank you Tami. I still wish I could have made it though, because it was such a special project by the Comforting Quilters group. It was a labor of love for them and blessing the quilts before they are delivered in November was something that needed to be done and the group wanted to do. Everyone says it went well and I am truly glad. We are bombarbed with negativity in every direction we turn so the good that people do gives us hope for this world. There still are good people We are bombarbed with negativity in every direction we turn so the with good hearts who have a sense 7.7. 77 . of community. Too good that people do gwes badoure i e cted US hope for this world. officials in Wash ington are out of touch with their constituents. They need a dose of real life and need to come down off their high horses. Each of them needs to be replaced with someone who truly loves the country and wants to do what’s best for the whole, not just themselves or certain interest groups. We need to speak out and I do not believe it to be a waste of time. It is only a waste of your time if you quit trying. Of course, taking time off means that when you return you have a lot of catching up to do and Monday was that day for me. Phone calls to return, fires to put out and email to answer. Almost makes you regret taking off, and I did say ’’almost”! But, regardless I am glad we got to spend some relax ing time away. Hope that you do that every now and then as well. It is good for the soul. Wishing you a blessed week. VICTORIA SIMMONS is publisher of The Georgia Post. Contact her at vsimmons54@ gmail.com THURSDAY OCTOBER 3, 2013 How a muscle cell grows (Hypertrophy) Most of us would like a little more muscle for either, extra strength, shape or simply for better economy of movement or in other words, to have more strength and energy so that whatever we have to do in our daily grind does not wear us out, and that we can have a little steam left to do the fun things in life with the ones we care about.” When our muscle cells expand (hypertrophy) through increased stretch and tension, they simply become stronger, firmer, and have added space inside them to hold more | muscle energy (glycogen). The above is the way our muscle . n lit * K\ YOUR HEALTH counters and adapts to a new stress placed on the muscle(s) and is also why something that used to be hard to lift, push, pull, press, walk, climb, etc. becomes much easier when done consistently and over a period of time, especially when we gradually increase resistance. Recovery: this is something that is very important to the muscle and strength building process. When muscle cells get put under a stress they’re not used to, it causes little micro tears in the muscle and this is why we need nutrition, rest and recovery time to allow our body the time it takes to patch up these muscle cells with amino acids from the proteins in our diet. When our body repairs these muscle cells with this amino acid patch paint, creating new pro tein in the muscle “what we have is a microscopically stronger expanded muscle cell.” It’s important to increase these muscle or endur ance building stresses over a period of time due to the breakdown process that happens to the muscle proteins in our body. This broken down protein has to be removed (a lot like the waste around a construc tion site) and if there is too much waste in a short period of time, “it can cause things to get clogged up,” and in this case it would be an overload on your kidneys! I read recently about a lady who’s trainer pushed her way too hard on her first workout and the next morning her urine was the color of Dr Pepper. She was an insurance agent in Atlanta, and with the type of job she had, “her body was probably not close to being prepared for the type of workout her trainer put her through.” Once your muscle is recovered, (usually within 1-2 days) it is ready to be worked again either for the purpose of keeping it at its current strength and size or you can slightly increase the stress to increase strength and muscle size, “this depends on your fit ness goals.” The size of the muscle group worked and intensity of the workout can have a bearing on the amount of recovery time needed. One of the largest contributing factors to the loss of stamina, strength and performance and the overall aging process is atrophy aka the shrinking of our muscles whether skeletal muscle or the muscles that make up our vital organs and the main two factors to this “our diet and inactivity.” Our body adapts to inactivity by shrinking muscle and vital organs (muscle atrophy), but our body also adapts to gradual increases of stress by strengthen ing our muscle(s) through the hypertrophying of our muscle cells. Let’s live a hypertrophy lifestyle so that our quality of life will not atrophy. WADE YODER is a Master Trainer & Fitness/Nutrition Special- ist.Contact him at Vclub@comsouth.net Q=[mnni[sT®TiHi[i Him Budget meetings Editor, The Georgia Post: Dear newspaper, the reason people do not show up for budget meetings is not because they are not concerned but because they know that it does not matter if 1 or 1,000 show up; their taxes will go up. I attended some meet ings when I lived in Dallas, Tx and they were a waste of time. I don’t know how many called Congress recently to defund Obam- acare, but it was a waste of time because liberals get their way in taxing us more. Charles Sanferrare Question: When was last time fire hy drants in the city and county were checked or have they ever been? Can some mem ber of the fire department an swer this for our readers please? Thank you. Come on now we need to know what you would like us to ask about city or county govern ment. HCIje (Georgia jposrt is published every week by Crawford Publishing, LLC. Floyd Buford - President Victoria ’’Vicky” Simmons - GM/Publisher vsimmons54@gmail.com or byronbuzz@pstel.net Renee Goggins - Layout/Graphic Design Robbie Robertson - Distribution Carey Lee - Sports Photography Denisia Stallings, Student Assistant Tammi Walberg, Reporter Contributing Columnists: Trenesia Y. 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