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HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL Taking the heat off your heart By DR. GUY REED Chief of Cardiology, MCG Cardiovascular Center Getting all hot and both ered isn necessarily good for your heart. During times of extreme heat, those with heart dis ease or who take diuretics and high blood pressure medicine are more suscep tible to heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Heat exhaustion occurs when a person is overex posed to heat, resulting in loss of body fluids and salt. Symptoms include weakness, heavy sweating, nausea, gid diness, dizziness, collapse, fatigue, and cool, clammy, SALE From page 6A 7:30-9 p.m. Attendees can also preview the quilts and other items that will be sold in a live auction the follow ing day. Saturday’s activities open with a free sausage and pancake breakfast from 8- 10 a.m. The live auction of quilts and other handicrafts and goods begins at 10a.m. and lasts until mid-after noon. The day is spiced with a hand quilting demonstra tion, children’s activities, sale of homemade crafts, and a savory lunch featur ing barbequed chicken, pie, ice cream, and peach cob bler. Vegetarian options are available at Friday’s supper and Saturday’s lunch. More than 30 hand and machine stitched quilts will be auctioned at the event, including the custom designed special quilt of the year. This year’s signature quilt features colorful batik fabrics pieced together to portray three large stained glass windows on a black background. A second fea tured quilt is topped with a single piece of fabric into which intricate designs have been quilted. In addition to quilts, the live auction includes home made baby blankets, comfort ers, and woodcrafts. All auc- DOBSON From page 6A Does he have any special needs? Dobson:That’s a great question, and the answer is yes. When one child is a stick of dynamite and the other is an all-star sweet heart, the cooperative, gen tle individual can easily be taken for granted. If there’s an unpleasant job to be done, he may be expected to do it because Mom and Dad just don’t have the energy to fight with the tiger. When it is necessary for one child to sacrifice or do without, there’s a tendency to pick the one who won’t complain as loudly. Under these cir cumstances, the compliant POWELL From page 6A Even his disciples misinter preted his kingship for the mother of James and John earlier petitioned Jesus to let her sons preside in His mm Wt frvM mktino the needs S Mi 111 HIP m 2tsr Cintuhvl nVnw %S['' wchurch| New Life Church and Sunday, August 26th 10am & 11:30am Ray Of Hope Ministries Tuesday, August 28th 7pm Slimmer Revival 2007 Sunday, sept 2nd 10am & n:3oam Special Drama by Drama Ministries Tuesday, Sept 4th 7pm Looking for a ray of hope? Come allow God to turn your life around. New Life Church is conveniently located off 1-75 exit 134. 2089 US Hwy 41 South Perry, GA 31069 478-988-9158 - www.nlop.org Call for transportation in Perry Area Nursery Provided red or flushed skin. Those suffering from heat exhaus tion should immediately go inside. Rest, cool liquids to drink and cool baths are rec ommended. If left untreated, heat exhaustion can become heat stroke, a life-threatening condition in which the body becomes dangerously over heated. Symptoms include: faintness, headache, loss of consciousness, body tem perature at or above 104 degrees Fahrenheit, rapid pulse and symptoms of heat exhaustion. Victims of heat stroke should seek immedi ate medical attention. Those at risk of heat exhaustion and heat stroke tion items have been created and donated by Mennonite artisans and friends from across the southeast and by Amish and Mennonites from across the country. “Mennonites are known for the quality of their work, their friendliness, and their giving hearts. The Peach Cobbler Auction is an event I try not to miss,” Carla Schissel, annual participant, said. Relief Sales are unique celebrations organized by Mennonites across the United States and Canada to benefit MCC, a cooperative relief and service agency of 25 North American church groups founded in 1920. MCC’s worldwide efforts include refugee and famine relief, agricultural and com munity development, educa tion, health care, and peace concerns. The sales also ben efit Christian Aid Ministries, a similar relief organization of the Amish. “We hope the day will be memorable - a day of view ing and purchasing excel lent craftsmanship, eating good food, connecting with old friends, and making new ones,” Maynard said. The 2007 Peach Cobbler Mennonite Relief Auction will offer: ■ Brunswick Stew Supper and Silent Auction, Friday, 6 - 7:30 p.m. ■ Hymn Sing, Friday, 7:30 boy or girl comes out on the short end of the stick. The consequences of such inequity should be obvious. The responsible child often becomes angry over time. He has a sense of powerlessness and resentment that sim mers below the surface. He’s like the older brother in the parable of the Prodigal Son, told by Jesus. He didn’t rebel against his father. He stayed behind and ran the farm while his irresponsi ble brother squandered his money on fun and games. Who could blame him for resenting little bro? His response is typical of the compliant, hard-working sibling. I strongly recommend that parents seek to balance the scales in dealing with kingdom, one on His right hand and one on His left. But Jesus had another mis sion. He came to destroy the powers of darkness that enslave the souls of men and condemn them to hell. His kingdom was not of this Pastor Anthony Baldwin & need to protect themselves. Some tips include: ■ Stay out of direct sun light. ■ Stay in air-conditioned areas. ■ Take cool baths or show ers. ■ Place ice bags or wet towels on your body, and sit or lie near a fan. ■ Avoid strenuous activ ity. ■ Wear lightweight, light colored, loose-fitting cloth ing made of natural fibers. ■ Drink plenty of fluids, such as water, vegetable juic es and iced tea. ■ Avoid alcoholic bever ages or drinks with a high salt content. - 9 p.m. ■ Preview of Saturday’s live auction items, Friday 6-9 p.m. ■ Free Pancake & Sausage Breakfast, Saturday, 8-10 a.m. ■ Live Auction, Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - mid-afternoon ■ Lunch with barbequed chicken, peach cobbler, pie, soft ice cream, and a veg etarian option, Saturday beginning at 12 noon ■ Children’s activities, quilting demonstrations, Saturday ■ Ten Thousand Villages (a Virginia Highlands non profit store) fairly-traded products made by artisans around the world: holiday ornaments, jewelry, baskets, shade-grown coffee and musical instruments, avail able for purchase Friday and Saturday ■ Homemade arts, crafts, and food donated by area Mennonites, available for purchase Friday and Saturday Mennonites live and work in more than 60 countries around the world. The Mennonite church has been in existence for more than 475 years, and its members are known for their belief in adult baptism, a strong peace stand, and a commitment to meeting human needs in local communities nearby and around the world. the compliant child. Make sure he gets his fair share of parental attention. Help him find ways to cope with his overbearing sibling. And, within reason, give him the right to make his own deci sions. There’s nothing simple about raising kids, is there? Even the “easiest” of them needs our very best effort. Dr. Dobson is founder and chairman of the board of the nonprofit organization Focus on the Family, P.O. Box 444, Colorado Springs, CO. 80903; or www.family. org. Questions and answers are excerpted from “The Complete Marriage and Family Home Reference Guide” and “Bringing Up Boys,” both published by Tyndale House. world but of the one to come. He came not in the arms of might but in the strength of love. Editor’s note: Author Billy Powell will be hospitalized this week for treatment of a heart condition. This col umn is a reprint. t Speakers: Pastor Tim Gray LOCAL Gen. Petraeus' pivotal report There redly is no par ticularly informative historical precedent for Gen. David Petraeus’ upcoming public assess ment of Iraq. Perhaps we are enter ing new historicd terrdn, where the commanding generd’s pivotd strategic gambit is a media event. And media event it is. With its certdn long-term glob d import and short-term politicd impact, Petraeus’ report meets a hustling television exec’s primal requirement: drama. When the spotlight strikes his face and he begins to speak, we will witness drama in large letters. No one, however, should confuse the general’s appearance with entertain ment. The quick commentators will dub his report a histori cd pivot. That will be true, but only in a narrow sense. Despite the sensationalist headlines and hyperbolic fretting, given the decades of terror and the centuries of political fossilization afflicting the Middle East, the trend lines in The War on Terror are astonishingly good. Trends are the great truths behind pivotal moments, and Petraeus is aware of that. Since 9-11, America has made great strides in addressing at the fundamentd level the social pathologies that seed Islamo-fascist ter rorism. In short form it is this: The choice between tyrant and terrorist is no choice. Modernity requires a degree of socid consensus and economic liberdization. Iraq is thus a radical experi ment in modernity in a vital region afflicted by economic fdlure, tribd factiousness and oil-dollar powered feu ddism. Petraeus is aware of those positive trends, as well as the inevitable catastrophes that ultimately produce vic tory. Petraeus’ pivotal moment Dvddv i . -1» rKnfil Downtown Merchants BIG SALE SATURDAY! 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I recall visiting with an intelligence officer in the Pentagon during the Persian Gulf War in February 1991. He pointed to a television monitor tuned to CNN and quipped, “That’s cur rent intelligence.” It was narrowly framed, poorly contextualized, emotion dly charged and anecdotd intelligence, but his wise crack was dead-on - a live camera relaying pictures from the battlefield backed by breathless commentary is current intelligence. The Gulf War and Clinton’s end less campdgn preceded the Internet’s expansion and video cell phones. Instant today is faster than 10 years ago. Petraeus’ report is a creature of this instanta neous and pervasive media. For better or worse, he is responding to the condition and using the condition, War doesn’t operate on media time or political cal endars. Petraeus’ report will address that fact. The Baghdad clock and the Washington clock run at dif ferent speeds. The Baghdad Clock is ponderously slow and painfully incremental. 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At a news con ference earlier this week, Maliki said: “There are American officials who con sider Iraq as if it were one of their villages, for exam ple Hillary Clinton and Carl Levin. They should come to their senses.” Petraeus will give all poli ticians an opportunity to come to their senses. Style always counts. I am certain he will be honest, disciplined, sobering and judicious in his presenta tion. As for substance, I’ll wager he will ask for the antithesis of the instant: patience. Instant experts will demand numbers, and odds are Petraeus will have mathematics and graphs. He may address semi-quan tifiable factors like the num ber of trained and equipped Iraqi troops, the number of qualified Iraqi senior and mid-level military officers who can plan and lead their own operations, and the number and locale of police precincts judged competent and minimally corrupt. But the gist of his mes sage will be what military veterans call GUTINT gut intelligence. GUTINT says sticking with the effort in Iraq is crucial if we want a more peaceful and prosper ous 21st century, for Iraqis, Americans and every one else on the planet. To find out more about Austin Bay, and read fea tures by other Creators Syndicate writers and car toonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www. creators.com. ctf'ug'E s'A.'vi'ifgs srtofßTE wqoxei 926 t arroll St. • IVitn.CiA '1069 478-224-8888 7A A244K. 52476 152457 ’ 52456 '24-: