Paul Palmer, proud to be a pisces man

How creative are you? If your answer is, “Not very,” don’t be so sure. Let’s knock the mystique out of creativity today.

I was visiting some friends recently, and we were sitting around the table talking about creativity. At one point, the woman whose home we were in shook her head and said, “When they handed out the creativity, I guess I was out to lunch. I’m just not very creative.”

Now all around me was evidence to the contrary. We had just finished a delicious meal she had created. The food was both nutritious and appealing to the eye. Her home was a picture of warm colors and casual comfort, a welcome haven. Everywhere you looked, there were small touches that spoke of her attention to detail, her love of harmony, and her creative spirit. But because she hadn’t dazzled the worlds of music or art, she couldn’t see her own creative genius.

You know, being creative just means bringing something new into the world. It could be an object or an idea, simple or complex, as long-lasting as the Taj Mahal or as transient as a sandcastle.

One of the world’s most creative thinkers, Albert Einstein, once said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” So if you want to be more creative, exercise your imagination as you might exercise your dog. Take it out for a good run every day. Let it off the leash and see where it goes. Practice “What if” thinking and break up your routines.

Paul Palmer

Affirm your creative spirit, and watch it bloom!

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Dr. Cooper’s Term Paper Advisor Site has the below paper and
over 150 other term papers on and about Beowulf. His site is
located at www.TermPaperAdvisor.com.

Beowulf Man Or Myth – Sample Term Paper Many of Old English
poems glorified a real or imaginery hero and tried to teach the
values of bravery. Beowulf was written during the Anglo-Saxon
period of English Literature. The Anglo-Saxon period was a time
of fierce battles in which human strength was measured by the
ability to control the reaction to fate through evil and
courage. Beowulf was written in Old English as an epic poem. Old
English described a real or imaginery hero and tried to teach
the values of bravery. Folk would be used as an example in epic
of Beowulf. Beowulf was passed on from person to person. Epic
can be a general hero, in this case Beowulf, who usually
involved in a series of actions. Author exaggerates on the
character of Beowulf, the story is a fantasy, because it is hard
to believe that the character of Beowulf would be able to kill a
monster like Grendel with his bare hands. Beowulf possesses the
superhuman abilities, the amazing power to hold his breath under
water for an umlimited period of time. Some readers as myself
feel that this characteristic seperates from the realistic
nature of the story and gives the impression that Beowulf is
more like a myth than a man. So with all this in mind, in the
epic Beowulf he’s portrayed as almost inhumane, so was he indeed
a man or merely a myth? ….

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Dr. Mike Cooper
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A few years ago, I took a class at ETSU: Biology and Beyond which was a course that dealt with education on HIV and the history of AIDS. I wanted to learn more about the disease so I signed up for the class. It was one that would forever change my life. While taking the class, I was not only able to hear the stories of extraordinary people but I also learned of their horrific, yet heroic lives after discovering they were living with HIV. Today, our global community ignores the fact that HIV and AIDS is on the rise again and as the memory of those lost to AIDS seemingly fades in the eyes of our leaders; their voices should forever be heard throughout the world.

HIV and AIDS are as different as Night and Day, HIV is Life and AIDS is (still) a death sentence.

You can live with HIV but you will die of AIDS. You can fight the battle as hard as your body will allow but AIDS will win the war. While our leaders refuse to spend more money and time on prevention, people continue to die and AIDS is gaining ground on us as a global community.

We haven’t found AIDS to be contained at any point since its first appearance in 1981, when the CDC learned of the epidemic that would later be referred to as AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). By the year 2000, an estimated 36.1 million people were living with HIV/AIDS and an estimated 800,000-900,000 people were living with the virus in the United States. According to statistics posted at http://www.one.org , 38 million people are now infected by HIV/AIDS. While some say there is progression toward finding a cure, many are blinded by facts that simply don’t exist. While some will convince themselves it will not affect them or their lives, an estimated 2.8 million people died in 2005 and in that same year, an estimated 4.1 million people were infected with the virus (2006 Report on the Global AIDS epidemic, UNAIDS, May 2006). With rising numbers once again, eventually this disease will affect you or someone you know.

The timeline of the disease is staggering and those lives that have been affected by HIV and AIDS include far more than the names we will all remember. I have the permanent stories of Kimberly Bergalis, Elizabeth Glaser, Debbie Runions, and a precious little boy named Ryan White forever in my mind. All of these individuals seemed to live with great bravery yet they have died in vain if this country doesn’t begin to take a stand now.

I really believe that tomorrow will come with a hellish vengeance if today we ignore what we should’ve done yesterday about this disease.

There’s no question about it. When I first signed up for the Biology and Beyond Class, I thought there would eventually be a cure for AIDS. However, by the end of the semester, after I spent time working at a local hospital where there were patients diagnosed with the disease, I saw their vision. There wasn’t one. It’s ironic really, many of those people living with HIV, and later even in the face of death, felt as if they were just the early victims. They knew others would follow and those who died, knew the tomorrow they wouldn’t see held the same for many more victims as they started to battle for their own last days. The reason is apparent now but back then, it wasn’t that clear to me. HIV and AIDS patients knew there was too much of a stigma attached for full awareness to ever be successful. This is thanks to misdirected political agendas and it still exists today.

In 1992, Elizabeth Glaser addressed the Democratic National Convention and stated, “Exactly 4 years ago, my daughter died of AIDS. She did not survive the Reagan administration. I am here because my son and I may not survive 4 more years of leaders who say they care but do nothing.” She later went on to say, “America Wake up. We are all in a struggle between life and death.”

Elizabeth Glaser pleaded with our leaders in 1992 and all who were in attendance heard her but chose to do nothing. Today, we sit at a standstill as our elected and appointed officials decide how to spend more money and more time just to avoid accepting responsibility. I absolutely believe that tomorrow will come with a hellish vengeance if today we ignore what we should’ve done yesterday about this disease. There is no doubt in my mind.

While state and federal leaders spent hours opposing online wagering, ironically, they were gambling with the lives of those who could’ve used their support and would have appreciated the appropriated funds to work toward the fight against AIDS. Instead, our government chose to play craps with human lives and people continued to die.

The fact is, Americans have been led to believe through silence that the AIDS epidemic was on a road that would soon end when in actuality; the spread of HIV has apparently taken a U-Turn when you look at the shocking numbers above.

Let Us Stop This Disease Before It Stops All of Us Who Are Left

While I was a student at ETSU, I had the opportunity to meet Debbie Runions who became an advocate for the education and prevention of AIDS. Debbie, after just one sexual encounter became very ill three weeks later and three months later tested positive for HIV. That was in 1992. She too, addressed the Democratic National Convention in 1996 and she too was heard. Our politicians then simply pushed forward in another direction. Debbie died in October of 2005.

When I heard her speak at ETSU and later had the opportunity to sit down and talk with her, I discovered what her life had been like after she was diagnosed with HIV. She talked openly and honestly about her disease. She surprised me when she talked about the fact that she was thankful she had been given the opportunity to have the disease because of what it had allowed her to do. I learned later that was Debbie. She radiated optimism. Debbie knew her fate was sealed yet she chose to make the most of the life she had to live while she could live it even if it would be within the parameters and limitations of living with the virus.

Debbie’s story will always be imbedded in my mind. I can honestly say after hearing her speak, I was deeply humbled and truly feel she made a profound difference in so many lives. She had a gift to give through her message and her spirit will live on forever but her hope for political intervention may not.

While our politicians have been slinging mud at one another, their efforts could’ve been redirected in a more positive light. Instead of ministers on television running around with an entourage of followers running up astronomical bills on lavish lifestyles, they too could help. Instead of picking up prostitutes on their congregation’s dollars, they could make a choice to spend their money to save a family ridden by poverty and AIDS.

Our country and the entire global community must understand, this disease doesn’t just pick out favorites. It attacks people of all races, young and old, straight and gay. The disease is not interested in what you look like, who you’ve slept with, or what drug you’ve put in a needle. This disease takes hostages and then slowly but surely, begins terrorizing them with the stigma of the disease itself and the fear of dying.

We do have an epidemic on our hands. While our leaders have gone from one issue to another, people have gotten sick. While meetings were conducted to decide something as frivolous as whether or not Americans could have the freedom to gamble online, more people died. While a television evangelist took his body guards out for another four thousand dollar outing, countless people clung to their one dollar a week and still others were left in the epitome of poverty because of the high cost of health care and medications for a person living with HIV.

What have we decided holds value in this country? Does a human life no longer hold any substantial meaning to those in political office with the means to do something to help mankind? Apparently not, but as Americans, we have an obligation to do something to help. This is our world and our problem.

We no longer have the Debbie Runions and Elizabeth Glasers to speak out at the Democratic Conventions. Now it is up to everyone else to lead by their example. Visit ONE and start doing your best to make a difference. Global AIDS and extreme poverty is more important than who’s sleeping with whom. It’s far more detrimental to our society than any online gambling campaign just to prove a political point and it is certainly more important than listening to the ramblings of a television evangelist asking for your money so he can go buy his methamphetamines.

Isn’t it time after all the pleading from those who had their lives cut short that we finally take a stand? Isn’t it time we demand for our government to take the initiative to fight extreme poverty and Global AIDS? Isn’t it time for a day of reckoning? The debt we’ve paid to this global crisis has already been way too high. It’s time this country took a stand on the important issues at hand. It is time for retribution.

Susan Alvis
http://www.articlesbase.com/politics-articles/aids-isnt-going-away-tomorrow-will-come-with-a-hellish-vengeance-97275.html

Home schooling is sweeping the United States and abroad. According to the National Center for Education Statistics for 2004, 2 million children are being home schooled in the United States alone! You are maybe asking yourself what is home schooling? Or more importantly what does it take to be a home school parent?
Home schooling is simply educating your child or children at home with you, the parent, as the educator. You do not receive federal funds and your child or children are not enrolled in a public or private school.
A home school parent by definition is a parent that has taken on the task of educating their child or children at home and I want to discuss the three most important things any parent should know and the ten things any parent should consider before taking on the task of home schooling their children.
I have been a home school parent for four years and with each year our home school has had its ups and downs and I have learned a lot about myself and my children.
The most important thing that I have learned is to trust God in this awesome task of educating and raising my children to be all that God wants them to be!
The second most important thing for a home school parent to learn is that God created our children to be a one of a kind creation, with distinct personalities and traits. I am so thankful that everyone is different with different interests. What a boring world this would be if everyone was the same! Your children are no different, learn to appreciate their uniqueness. What works for one does not always work for another, be flexible. The sooner you learn that the easier your home schooling experience will be.
The third most important thing I have learned is to teach my children to respect and appreciate their siblings and other people’s interests and talents. For example, my middle daughter loves to write and has many wonderful stories she loves to tell and write about, but my oldest daughter, who has a passion for math and science, does not even like to write much less think of a topic or a story to write about, so she will ask her 6 ½ year old sister for some ideas to get her started and likewise if my middle daughter has a problem with her math she will ask my oldest daughter for help, so they are learning to appreciate each other. Believe me, when you and your children learn this important principle your home school experience will go smoother.
I hope that these three important principles have not scared you from trying home schooling with your own children. It is truly a wonderful experience in being a parent. If you are considering home schooling here are some things for you to consider:
1. It takes time to teach, prepare lessons, field trips, park days, soccer league, etc.

2.Every home school parent needs to take time out. If you don’t you will be with your child 24/7 and that will lead to burnout.

3.You can home school rather inexpensively, but some curriculums or extra curricular activities can add up.

4.You, the parent, are responsible for seeing that your child socializes with friends at different events that your local home school support group set up or finding different socialization opportunities in your community.

5.The regular cleaning and laundry still have to be done and you might find yourself rearranging your cleaning schedule around school time.

6.Home schooling works better if both parents are in agreement.

7. Do your children respect you? Only you can answer that. If they don’t respect you they will not listen to you.

8. Home school for one year at a time. Don’t look to far ahead, you will get overwhelmed.

9.Are you intimidated about teaching?-Many curriculums offer teacher’s guides and DVD’s to assist you and you will find that other parents will help you if they have been through the subject before.

10.Make sure you get involved in a local home school support group. Some areas have more than one. It is encouraging to know that you are not alone and your support group will help and encourage you when you are experiencing a hard time.

Making the decision to home school can be a very difficult one and should not be taken lightly. It is a personal decision and no one can make it for you, but I hope that you will take into consideration some of the things that I have mentioned.

Home schooling takes courage and it can be a long journey but there is joy in the journey! Happy Home schooling!!!

Hope Smith
http://www.articlesbase.com/homeschooling-articles/being-a-home-schooling-parent-an-insiders-look-57360.html

Before dealing with the topic of the Lips in Quran versus Bible versus sciences, it is mandatory to remember that the total words in the Bible are 788,280 while the total words in the Quran are 77,473. It follows that, the Bible is more than 10 times the Quran word-wise.

The Lips are mentioned 121 times in the Bible (KJV) and once in the Quran, i.e. the Bible mentions the Lips 121 times more than the Quran

In other words, the Bible has the potential of more than 10 times (word-wise) and 121 times (subject-wise) than the Quran to talk about the Lips.

The Lips in the Bible:

The Bible says:” For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil”; Moses said: “I am of uncircumcised lips”; Isaiah said: “I am a man of unclean lips”; The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips and will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips

In addition, the Bible cites that the leper (a patient with skin disease) shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, “Unclean, unclean”. The Bible also says that: There are Swords, indignation, fruit and calves in their lips,

And Poison especially the poison of asps is under their lips.

The lips of a strange woman:

Proverbs 5:3

For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

Moses said: “I am of uncircumcised lips”.

Surgeons say that Circumcision is for the Penis not the Lips!

Exodus 6:12

And Moses spake before the LORD, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?

Exodus 6:30

And Moses said before the LORD, Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?

Isaiah said: “I am a man of unclean lips”.

Isaiah 6:5

Then said I, Woe is me! For I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips:

The leper (a patient with skin disease) shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.

Leviticus 13:45

And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.

What are in their lips?

Swords, in Psalm 59:7

…swords are in their lips:

Indignation in Isaiah 30:27

Behold, the name of the Lord cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

Fruit in Isaiah 57:19

I create the fruit of the lips;

Calves in Hosea 14:2

…so will we render the calves of our lips.

What are under their lips?

Poison in Psalm 140:3

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips.

The poison of asps in Romans 3:13

Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

Other meanings about the Lips:

Leviticus 5:4 … pronouncing with his lips to do evil,

1 Samuel 1:13 … her lips moved

2 Kings 19:28…I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips,

Job 2:10 … In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

Job 33:3 … my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.

Psalm 12:2

They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

Psalm 12:3

The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

Psalm 22:7 … they shoot out the lip,

Proverbs 7:21 …with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

Proverbs 10:13

In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

Proverbs 10:21

The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

Proverbs 14:23

In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

Proverbs 18:20

A man’s belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.

Proverbs 24:2

For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

Ecclesiastes 10:12

The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

Song of Solomon 4:3

Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.

Song of Solomon 4:11

Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

Song of Solomon 5:13

His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.

Song of Solomon 7:9

And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.

Isaiah 28:11

For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

Isaiah 29:13

Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me,

Isaiah 37:29 therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips,

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

Lamentations 3:62

The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

Ezekiel 24:17

Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.

Ezekiel 24:22

And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

Habakkuk 3:16

When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones

Matthew 15:8

This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

Mark 7:6

He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

Hebrews 13:15

By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

1 Peter 3:10

For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:

Beautiful meaning:

Psalm 31:18

Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

Psalm 34:13

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

The Lips in the Quran:

On the other hand, the Quran says that: Does the man think that no one sees him?; Allah gives him two eyes, a tongue and a pair of lips and guided him on the two paths of good and evil, yet he has not scaled the height?

Surah 90: 7-20

7] Does he (man) think that no one sees him?!

8] Have we not given him two eyes?

9] And a tongue, and a pair of lips?-

10] And guided him on the two paths (of good and evil)?

11] Yet he has not scaled the height.

12] What could let you know what the height is!

13] (It is) the freeing of a slave,

14] or the giving of food in a day of hunger

15] To an orphaned relative

16] Or to a needy person in distress;

17] So that he becomes one of those who believe, charge each other to be patient, and charge each other to be merciful.

18] Those are the companions of the right.

19] But those who disbelieve in our verses, they are the companions of the left,

20] With the fire closed above them, (vaulted over, all round).

Back to the main topic of my series of articles (1- 63); this is my question to you smart readers: “Is the Quran quoted from the Bible “?

Prof.dr. Ibrahim Khalil
http://www.articlesbase.com/science-articles/the-lips-in-bible-and-quran-151011.html