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Please excuse the novel here... I tend to try to explain myself so clearly that I go overboard, so sorry about that. Also, sorry if this is in the wrong category; I wasn't sure where to put it.
I grew up in a pentecostal Christian household, Assemblies of God to be exact (extremely evangelical believe-every-word-in-the-Bible-exactly group, for those who aren't familiar with it). I remember being told things specifically like "You don't have a conscience; that's the Holy Spirit telling you you're sinning." I remember thinking, "Yeah, because I'm incapable of figuring out when I'm doing something wrong on my own... Riiight."
I knew what hell and demons and Satan were even in early elementary school. I have vague memories of speaking with my school guidance counselor about a ("real," as in not from a movie or a show but documentary style) exorcism I had witnessed. I remember being told horror stories from a youth leader about her experience with demons, which included physical assault on her. I still fear the idea of hell and I've always had a very strong fear of demons (which hasn't gone away).
Anyway, during my journey away from religion entirely I began to be confused by my own thoughts. When I no longer really believed that a God existed and I wondered, "What if I'm wrong? What if I go to hell because of this?" I've had a lot of fear even about just coming to terms with even using the word "agnostic" to describe myself.
Something similar is when I think of things like the fact that I'm going to make sure I have a wedding ceremony with absolutely no mention of God or religion of any sort, something in my head sort of mocks me by saying, "You're just trying to be difficult and defiant." I know that's not true; why would I risk eternity in hell if I really thought it existed? I don't know what that voice is though, or where it's coming from.
Those thoughts aren't always in the front of my mind by they are, and I just keep wondering if they're "God is trying to tell me I'm wrong" or if it's a totally normal human response because leaving a religion can be a scary experience on its own and my brain just needs to relearn things.
I'm not sure if anyone else has this problem, but in a way I'm hoping so because maybe someone could help me understand my "own" thoughts/why I'm having them. Is it normal? I don't really even know if this will make sense to anyone else.
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I think that was me with the archaeology discussion. A few ideas come to mind and they really are things that Christians take for granted but make no actual internally consistent sense. But I am a bit wiped out for today. I'll try to make time to get to you tomorrow.
Okay, so sorry about the delay, the last few days were pretty crazy. Here are a few things:
Evil would be a part of the Christian god.
One of the first reassurances you can find about the internal inconsistency of Christianity, is that the belief that God is all-knowing causes problems for what is called Theodicy, or "the problem with evil". In order for God to be all-knowing, and timeless, he would have had to existed for trillions and trillions of years worth of time having the knowledge of evil in his mind. It is actually infinite time, but it helps to throw in a ridiculously large number out there. At this time, there would be no evil anywhere other than the mind of God. If evil is in the mind of God when it is nowhere else, it makes evil a part of God, because it will always be in him and it always was in him. It was never introduced to him, and that is all the difference. Humans are introduced to ideas, but an idea that originates from someones mind is a part of them.
The Christian god would be an unknowable stranger.
The second issue with the omni-infinite problem is with God being infinite yet knowable. If God is infinite, then the finite can only know and relate to a finite amount of him. There is a threshold for the finite, and anything past that is just unrelatable and unknowable. This makes there be an infinite amount of God that would be completely unknowable forever. The Eastern Orthodox, and the Catholic church try to interact with this problem through *Divinification and Theosis for the west. But the real issue is that it means that even the greatest saint that ever lived, has only known infinitely less than .000000000000000000000000000000001% of God. If you knew less than .000001% about a person, could you really claim to know that person? Someone couldn't even claim acquaintance with such a low percentage. Knowing someone's name is more of a percentage than that. People couldn't know the Christian God.
*As far as I can remember, the Catholics say that God can be known through spiritual means that allow you to be finite yet be able to have infinite comprehension of experience, whereas the Orthodox say that you infinitely transform into a more and more divine type of human and forever begin to know God in a deeper infinite way. However, the belief is that the actual essence of God can not be known, but only the radiation produced by his essence known as energies can be known.
A few of the important books of the Christian Bible (Biblical Canon) are only there on account of unreliable tradition.
Even in the early Church, there were plenty who did not accept certain books as being inspired scriptures, while others were accepted. Now, what I have to mention here, is that most books you will hear about being left out of the bible were consistently considered forgeries by most early Christians. However, some books in the bible had questionable authorship. The bible should be smaller to play it safe, yet protestants reject the tradition of man, but do not apply this rejection of tradition to reflect on a smaller biblical canon. The book of Hebrews, and Revelation should be under no circumstances considered as definitely inspired. The people who said it should be canon also believed in transubstantiation the supremacy of Church tradition and in the authority of the Archbishops/Patriarchs. Not to mention that a number of these books which made it into the accepted list for the early Church still look pretty questionable in terms of authorship to people looking at the language used in them.
There is no way that God can be all-just and Jesus pay for your sins.
Suppose sin is as bad as portrayed by the bible. The Bible states that God made it law that the wages of sin is death. If this is the case, after the heinous crime known as sin has been committed and the just thing to do is to punish, God instead decides to forgo justice! The reason is in order to receive personal benefit from said criminals. God either obstructs justice due to personal feelings (love) or God obstructs justice for his glory, which we call "personal gain". Either way the loophole made for it is not only a neglect of justice, but it is a downright obstruction. And the notion of perfect justice is the only thing that gives the hell notion any credibility.
The story is that Jesus/himself takes the penalty since the penalty must be dealt out. But either God is just and sends everyone to hell and nobody can die for your sins, or God isn't just and knowing that the just punishment for mankind has to be hell, he obstructs justice by creating a new loophole that violates the intent of that law. The intent of the law that says: "the wages of sin is death" is not "the wages of sin is either death for you, or someone who wants to die for you (but someone has to die that is all that matters)" It isn't that. Circumventing the intent of that law to fulfill it on a technicality is pretty sleazy. So doing this would mean that it is okay to circumvent justice for the right reasons. It means sin can't be as big of a deal as portrayed if it isn't enough to cause God to not want to show mercy. But to get the picture of what is going on here and why it is unjust, compare it to reality: If a judge made a loophole to get out a convict for personal gain after the crime was committed, and the criminal was to stand trial, that would be obstructing justice. The loophole was created by God, after many "saved people" like the apostles, Abraham, Moses and others sinned. If the cross was instituted after those people had sinned, it is an obstruction of justice because they deserved punishment.
2 Peter 3:9 makes it a mistake for God to send anyone to Hell
If as the Bible says "God does not want anyone destroyed" (2 Peter 3:9), and he has full power to rehabilitate every person, then there is no reason for hell whatsoever. Unless God desires something less than perfect. Because a desire for something opposite of what is supposed to be, is a less than perfect desire. So if people are supposed to go to hell for their sins it poses a problem. Nothing perfect would desire somdething opposite of what is supposed to be. God isn't supposed to have less than perfect desires, so the obvious would be that nobody is supposed to be punished in the first place. This is internally inconsistent with what the bible states is going on.
Not an inconsistency, but important also:
1 John says most professing Christians are hellbound
The book of 1 John provides a clear litmus test for early Christians to determine if those in their midst were children of God or children of the Devil. It provides an exhaustive list of criteria, and says that those who do not live pious lives are not "stuggling Christians" but rather children of Satan. It indicates some sort of spiritual enlightenment which enables a person to have a different than human nature which enables more loving behavior, the incapacity to hate, and the incapacity to continue in sinful living. There are no indicators of this kind of enlightenment in the Christian population that exceeds any other kind of inspiration found in other religions. Such an enlightenment would be clearly able to be distinguished as beyond human in nature. As of this moment, Ghandi has shown more restraint and doesn't even have this enlightenment claimed only to be provided to the children of God. 1 John is very short, easy to read and of 5 chapters, the last being closing comments, 1-4 contain this clear litmus repeated ad nauseum through the whole document.
That's quite a treatise John - I don't have time to comment on all of it, but let me say just a couple of things. You said that evil was never introduced to god, and I don't dispute that - it couldn't have been introduced, as, a) that would require an outside source, and b) he created it himself, he clearly said so:
"I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things."
Isiah 45:7
You further stated - and don't misunderstand, we're in complete agreement here, I'm just elaborating on your comments - "some books in the bible had questionable authorship." It's amazing how many!
Moses did not write Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers or Deuteronomy, which all purport to be, "According to Moses." Remove these, and the rest of the Old Testament has no foundation.
Further, "Matthew," "Mark," "Luke" and "John" (son of Zebedee) did not write the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John - these were written anonymously, and the above names ascribed to them later.
If those nine books were removed from the Bible, due to their being psuedepigrapha (texts whose claimed authorship is unfounded), there would be no mention of a creation, no Garden of Eden, no Adam and Eve, no flood, no Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, no Exodus, no ten commandments and no mention of Jesus born of a virgin and dying on a cross. The nine books that describe these events - basically, the crux of the entire Christian religion - were written entirely by people whose identity, knowledge of the subject matter, and qualifications - or motivations for that matter - are completely unknown to anyone.
pax vobiscum,
Yeah, it all comes crumbling down like a house of cards as you look deeper down the rabbit hole.
Just a heads up though, the Isaiah passage is just poorly translated.
The Hebrew word רַע had such a broad range of meaning from harm and disaster to evil, that context was necessary for an ancient Hebrew speaker to identify the right meaning. In this case the context is neutral, so while the interpretation of evil is possible, it is not definite, nor is it likely that it would be meaning the kind of evil addressed in theodicy, so I just avoid it.
RE: "רַע" - that's easy for you to say --!
RE: "while the interpretation of evil is possible, it is not definite" - I don't avoid such inconsistencies, I jump on them with both feet! Hey, as Andy Griffith used to say in his comic monologue, "It's in the book!" which to me, means that it's fair game. The translators who compiled The King James Bible clearly believed it to be the correct translation sufficiently, that they included it, which means that millions and millions have read it as such, which, whether or not it's correct, means that it has become an established part of doctrine. If we were to go through the Hebrew and toss out any words or phrases of questionable translation, do the same with the Aramaic, then the Greek, then the Latin, and finally, the English, who knows with what we'd be left? I personally found a translation error in the second chapter of Genesis, from the Latin to English - who knows how many, many more there are?
If there is a god, however, and if he is omniscient and omnipotent, then he should have foreseen the translation issue and "inspired" a correction prior to publication. Ergo (I've always wanted to say that!), if there's an omniscient and omnipotent god, the passage is correct, as written - if there isn't, then the Bible is just a collection of personal suppositions - what we'd probably call blogs today - so why should anyone care whether or not it's correct?
Are you sure you don't mean, "theo-idiocy"?
I am going to try to convince you otherwise, but I will send you a message about it with some more details.
If you look at the overall usage of "evil" in the KJV, it has a wider usage than "sinister". To deal with problem with רַע, and it not having a perfect english equivalent, it was pretty much just across the board translated as "evil" for even the most benign uses. For instance, Gen 37:20 is properly rendered "dangerous/wild". Everyone just kind of knew that the bible's use of a word is a bit different than its normal use. Kind of like how today words mean different things in Christianese than they do in modern English. Grace, for example. It isn't talking about God's ballet skills lol. ;).
Anyway, Christians from Catholic/Orthodox to Protestant do not believe that translations need to be perfect. The KJV was made because they believed the Roman Church translations were poor and misleading. Only a small few believe the KJV translation is perfect.
The argument that "God would intervene if he was there" will just fall on deaf ears because people are so used to the idea that translations can have errors.
RE: "translations can have errors" - as, it would appear, can the works of "inspired" authors --
Who are you talking to, dizzy? I can't figure out the indent.
One other thing I would mention is that they are all your own thoughts. However what we call this is cognitive dissonance. You can have thoughts that don't make sense, or are based out of false premises. Dissonance is the distress experienced when they conflict with others.
Own these thoughts as your thoughts, but address them as well. You have a lot to sort out still. They are based from premises, and those premises need to be evaluated and tested for validity. If you are still having them, then your mind has not been fully convinced of their invalidity. Make sure they are invalid.
You really have to remember that if 'God' exists, and is 'good' - as we are led to believe by all forms of Christians - then 'He' will judge you based not on your doubts, but on the way you have lived your life.
If you have objectively treated other people as you would wish to be treated OR (to the best of your knowledge) if you have looked at each difficult scenario that you have come up against in life and taken the course which you've judged to be that which does the least harm, then the 'God' as defined by Christianity should judge you benevolently*.
As long as you do your best to do no harm, whether 'He' exists or not is a moot point.
*I set aside the debate regarding whether the Christian 'God' is in fact a 'good' and/or 'forgiving' presence. Much of the Bible would suggest that 'Satan' is in fact less destructive than the Christian 'God'.
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Employers are also making larger contributions to HSAs to encourage people to pick these plans: 43% of employers contribute a fixed amount to the HSA for each participant (average: $500), 40% make contributions based on completing a wellness program (average: $400), 21% put seed money into new accounts, 12% make matching contributions, and 10% make contributions based on progress toward a health goal. Only 14% make no employer contributions. Don't leave free money on the table. Find out what you'd need to do to qualify for employer contributions, and factor in your employer's contribution to an HSA when picking a plan. See What to Know About Health Savings Accounts for more information. Better tools to compare health care costs. It has always been difficult to compare prices for medical procedures, especially because each insurer has different deals with providers. 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Bikini waxing may mean the end of pubic lice
Pubic lice, the crab-shaped insects that have dwelled in human groins since the beginning of history, are disappearing. Doctors say bikini waxing may be the reason.
Waning infestations of the bloodsuckers have been linked by doctors to pubic depilation, especially a technique popularized in the 1990s by a Manhattan salon run by seven Brazilian sisters. More than 80 percent of college students in the U.S. remove all or some of their pubic hair - part of a trend that's increasing in western countries. In Australia, Sydney's main sexual health clinic hasn't seen a woman with pubic lice since 2008 and male cases have fallen 80 percent from about 100 a decade ago.
"It used to be extremely common; it's now rarely seen," said Basil Donovan, head of sexual health at the University of New South Wales's Kirby Institute and a physician at the Sydney Sexual Health Centre. "Without doubt, it's better grooming."
The trend suggests an alternative way of stemming one of the globe's most contagious sexually transmitted infections. Pubic lice are usually treated with topical insecticides, which once included toxic ones developed before and during World War 2. While they aren't known to spread disease, itchy skin reactions and subsequent infections make pubic lice a hazardous pest.
Clipping, waxing and shaving the groin destroy the optimal habitat of pubic lice. The practice has helped spur sales of depilatory products for companies such as Procter & Gamble Co. and Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc.
The global market for depilatories was worth $4.69 billion last year, according to London-based Euromonitor International Ltd., which estimates sales increased at a 7.6 percent average annual clip the past decade. Cincinnati-based P&G, Slough, England-based Reckitt Benckiser and Energizer Holdings Inc., based in St. Louis, dominate the market, which Euromonitor predicts will reach $5.6 billion by 2016.
A majority of college men and women in the U.S. and Australia remove all or part of their pubic hair, researchers at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, reported in a 2011 paper, citing surveys and research by other scholars. In the U.K., 99 percent of women older than 16 years remove some hair, most commonly from the under arms, legs and pubic area, a 2005 study found.
Brazilian waxing took off internationally in the early 2000s, possibly spurred by the attention it was given on television shows such as Sex and the City, said Spring Cooper Robbins, a senior lecturer and sexual health researcher at the University of Sydney.
About a block from New York's famous Fifth Avenue shopping strip, women in fur coats and Louis Vuitton handbags are filing in and out of a beauty salon on a recent Friday afternoon. They perch on metallic silver and red floral sofas in the reception located in a Midtown Manhattan office building, waiting for a woman dressed in white to escort them to a waxing room.
The shop run by Jonice Padilha and her sisters Jocely, Janea, Joyce, Juracy, Jussara and Judeseia may be ground zero in the war on pubic lice. Growing up in the Brazilian coastal city of Vitoria, the sisters, like other women there, routinely waxed their pubic hair off to accommodate the ever shrinking bikinis worn on the beach.
In 1994, they introduced the waxing technique at the J Sisters nail salon they opened in 1986. Things exploded from there, Padilha said.
About 200 clients a day, including celebrities such as Sarah Jessica Parker, come for treatments ranging from complete hair removal to custom designs. Regulars returning every four weeks pay $75 for a Brazilian. Men of all ages and sexual orientation are going for the "Sunga" wax, a $90 treatment in which all pubic hair, including on the testicles, is removed.
Hygiene and comfort are key reasons customers keep coming back, she said.
"It's like a freedom," said Padilha of the salon's signature bikini wax treatment. "When we started the salon 26 years ago, we never thought it would be a success."
Nor was it expected to aid in the fight against pubic lice, she said.
"Pubic grooming has led to a severe depletion of crab louse populations," said Ian F. Burgess, a medical entomologist with Insect Research & Development Ltd. in Cambridge, England. "Add to that other aspects of body hair depilation, and you can see an environmental disaster in the making for this species."
Pubic lice, known scientifically as Phthirus pubis, infest about 2 percent to 10 percent of the human population, researchers at East Carolina University said in a 2009 study.
Incidence data aren't kept by the World Health Organization in Geneva because the gray, six-legged, millimeter-long louse doesn't transmit disease, and national authorities such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and U.K.'s Health Protection Agency don't collect the information.
Researchers instead track pubic-lice infestations from surveys and records kept by clinics such as Donovan's, which receives about 35,000 annual patient-visits annually.
"Historically, it's been very difficult to get incidence data on pubic lice simply because people don't like to report it," said Richard Russell, director of medical entomology at Sydney's Westmead Hospital. "In over 40 years, I could count on two hands the number of people who had brought pubic lice in for identification and admitted to knowing what they were."
A 2003 study of sexually transmitted infections in Australia found pubic lice was the most common symptom-causing ailment, with at least a third of people experiencing an infestation at some point in their life. Most people self-treat the problem with a topical lousacide bought from pharmacies, Donovan said.
Ten years ago, U.K. doctors noticed a dwindling in cases of pubic lice even as patient numbers and prevalence rates of other sexually transmitted infections increased.
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Janet Wilson, a consultant in sexual health and HIV, linked the trend with the growing popularity of pubic hair removal she and colleagues observed among patients attending the genitourinary medicine department at the General Infirmary in Leeds, northern England.
In a letter to a medical journal in 2006, they noted patients began getting a procedure known as the "Brazilian," in which all but a small strip of hair is removed. Women and men who have sex with men took up the practice initially. Now, heterosexual men are doing so also, Wilson said.
She and colleagues are analyzing patient records to see if it's lowered rates of pubic lice further, and will present their latest findings at a medical meeting in May, she said.
"We put the flag out, so to speak, if we see a case of pubic lice nowadays," Wilson said in an e-mailed response to questions. "The 'habitat destruction' of the pubic lice is increasing and they are becoming an endangered species."
One in seven American men ages 25 to 34 years have had their body hair waxed, according to a Mintel Group Ltd. report published in October 2011.
"Now there are tutorials about the proper - and safe - way to shave the chest, arms, or groin depending on how hirsute the individual may be," the report said.
Waxing, shaving and plucking hair can cause skin trauma, breaching its protective barrier and potentially aiding the spread of other sexually transmitted infections, said Cooper Robbins at the University of Sydney. Non-sterile depilation products and procedures increase the infection risk.
A 20-year-old Australian woman with poorly controlled diabetes was hospitalized with a life-threatening bacterial infection of her genitalia following a routine Brazilian wax, doctors reported in 2007, noting a lack of published data on infectious risks.
Ingrown Hairs
"No matter what type of hair removal is used, there is the risk of ingrown hairs," Cooper Robbins said. "That also creates the opportunity for infection."
The female louse needs to mate only once to remain fertile throughout her lifetime and can lay eggs every day. Once hatched, the young lice begin feeding straight away, gorging themselves with blood until discovered, according to Cambridge entomologist Burgess.
Lice species that inhabit the human body generally stick to certain domains, with head lice staying near the scalp, body lice preferring to hide in clothing between blood-meals on the body, and pubic lice lingering predominantly in the course hair of the pubic and perianal areas, said Russell at Sydney's Westmead Hospital.
"In the case of fairly hirsute men, they will move up the hair of the stomach which connects to the pubes and sometimes get into chest hair," he said. "In both men and women, they occasionally get into the axillary hair under the arms."
The pubic louse is closely related to the gorilla- afflicting louse, Pthirus gorillae, from which it probably diverged 3.3 million years ago, researchers said. The life cycle of the female pubic louse ends if it's unable to find a suitable place to lay eggs, Russell said, making it plausible that pubic hair removal is reducing populations of the insect.
"It makes sense from the point of the view of the biology of the beast, but how you'd ever find out, I don't know," Russell said in a telephone interview. In the case of pubic lice, "habitat destruction is a good thing," he said.


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We totally understand if you missed the news about UK girl pop group Girls Aloud reuniting and releasing a new single. Hey, we wouldn't even have noticed if our friends over at PopCrush didn't tell us about it.
While we'd probably never add any of Girls Aloud's tracks to our playlist -- unless we were trying to date a twenty-something bird from Berkshire, of course -- we are happy the group is getting back together. Mostly because it means we'll get to see more sexy shots of the hot ladies that make up the group, including today's crush, Nadine Coyle.
The 27-year-old singer/actress/model hails from Northern Ireland, and she's probably the sassiest girl in the group. Her relationship with Girls Aloud superstar and former 'X Factor' judge Cheryl Cole is reportedly a rocky one, and it was rumored that Coyle's desire to go solo may have been what broke the band up in the first place.
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This guide explans how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on an Ubuntu 10.10 server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines that use a logical volume (LVM). KVM is short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine and makes use of hardware virtualization, i.e., you need a CPU that supports hardware virtualization, e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V.
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In theory, curling up in your bed to indulge in endless relaxation during an exhausting pregnancy may seem like a dream, but in reality being placed on bed rest can come as a shock, an inconvenience, and may feel like a challenging sentence rather than a much deserved break while growing your baby. "Active contractions, bleeding, ruptured membranes, and placenta previa are the most common reasons that doctors call for bed rest in as many as one in five of their patients." Once these or other symptoms come up, bed rest is prescribed to keep baby in the womb for as long as possible. Lengths of bed rest for pregnant women can vary greatly, from a couple of weeks to nearly the entire duration of pregnancy. It is important, once your doctor or midwife instructs bed rest, that you discuss clear parameters for what you can and cannot physically do. Some moms-to-be may not even get out of bed, while others are still allowed to prepare light meals and move around their house on a limited basis. Here are seven tips for coping with bed rest during pregnancy.
1. Stay Connected, Seek Support
Bed rest can be very isolating, since you'll be spending a great deal of time alone while everyone else remains on-the-go. If you have other kids, depending on how restricted you are, you'll need to enlist the support of your partner, family or friends to help care for them. Share your condition with close friends and loved ones, and arrange to have visitors in person, or at the very least, via phone. Take advantage of kind offers for groceries, errands, childcare, cleaning, etc. The Web also a way to connect with other women who are on bed rest, to discuss everything from good movies to how to handle the stresses and family crises' that go hand in hand with bed rest. Sidelines provides international support for families experiencing complicated pregnancies and facing premature birth. Yahoo! offers a Bed Rest Book Buddies group, and Babycenter offers a Bed Rest Club. If you're on an extended bed rest, you will want to reach out to like-minded women who know how you feel and share your experience to help you get through this difficult time.
2. Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
When you keep things in perspective, and realize you couldn't be performing a bigger miracle or more important task than growing a human being, bed rest becomes more manageable. Even if you only have glimpses of this awareness, it will help get you through. Also keep in mind that this is a finite amount of time that will come to an end, and the result will be the birth of your child. If your anxiety over possibly having a premature baby is getting the best of you, ask your doctor if they can recommend a phone therapist or support group. Distract yourself by doing something productive: knitting your baby a blanket, compiling a scrapbook for your older children that you've never had time to do, order baby essentials online and finish with your preparations for welcoming your baby home.
3. Work from Home
Bed rest obviously forces many women (and their caregivers) to leave the workplace, which may cause even more stress due to financial losses. If your doctor or midwife approves of you working from your bed, have a conversation with your employer to see about setting up shop from home. Depending on your profession, many jobs may be performed via phone or email. If your particular job isn't work-from-home friendly, consider asking your company for a temporary position that is. If you are on an extended bed rest for many months, you may even consider applying for online, telecommuting positions to earn an income.
4. Read, Relax, Research
If this is your first child, you will soon realize that your "me-time" as a parent becomes virtually nonexistent. Use this time to watch movies you've always wanted to watch, or to get lost in novels you've never had time to indulge in. Contact your local library regarding book delivery services for those who are confined to the home, get a subscription to Netflix so you can have movies delivered on a rotating basis. This is also a great time to start reading about labor and delivery, write your birth plan, hire a doula, and even look into taking child birth and newborn care preparation classes online.
5. Self-Improvement & Exercise
If you don't have a laptop computer, rent one or borrow one from a friend, as it will be a vital portal to the outside world. Have you always wanted to learn a foreign language or take a course in graphic design? Bed rest is a great opportunity for self-improvement. Enroll in online courses and check some items off your bucket list. You may also spend this time writing the novel you've never had time to author, or finally crafting that patchwork quilt that has always eluded you.
Exercising your brain and mental health will help you cope with bed rest, and exercising your body to the extent you're allowed will keep you in good health as well. Ask your doctor for exercises you may do in bed (many women are not allowed to exercise at all while on bed rest), to help keep you in shape and to promote circulation.
6. Get Pampered
Getting a prenatal massage, a manicure and pedicure, or a facial may do wonders for your outlook while on bed rest. Again, be sure to ask your doctor or midwife if all of the above are allowed, given your specific condition. Call your local spas and ask them to refer you to massage therapists, nail technicians and facialists who make house calls — or ask friends for referrals.
7. Bond with Your Husband/Partner/Children
In today's demanding world, many families are running around at a frantic pace which leaves little time to connect with loved ones. Being placed on bed rest can result in a lot of family stress and strife as the dynamics and routine of your household are turned upside down — and there's little left in your control while you depend on others for care. There's nothing romantic or glamorous about bed rest, (sex is usually completely out of the cards), but it does force you to slow down, or come to a severe halt in your daily life. The silver lining of bed rest may be sleeping in and enjoying breakfast in bed with your partner in the middle of the week, or curling up in bed and watching late night movies — teaching your child how to sew or play Chess, and bonding with your family in ways you never previously had time for.


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But a Longview-based company has a way to turn that oil field trash into something useful — roads and new drilling pads.
Scott Environmental Services Inc. uses a process that stabilizes and solidifies solid drilling waste. It was initially developed for federal Superfund sites as a way to safely lock up contaminated soil.
"They were looking at processes that encapsulate the waste for thousands of years," said Blake Scott, president of the company.
Every foot of earth drilled creates about 1.2 barrels of drilling waste, and about half of that is solid waste, according to the American Petroleum Institute.
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Those solids include mostly the bits of rock formations that have been drilled through, but there are also salts or metals such as barium, chromium, lead, mercury, selenium, silver and zinc.
And it all has to go somewhere, often a landfill.
Other times drilling waste is treated and buried on site, or if it's not harmful, is spread across the ground and acts as a fertilizer.
David Burnett, a director and research coordinator at Texas A&M University's Department of Petroleum Engineering, said the product has been tested by the university in West Texas for about four years, where it's held up to traffic and severe weather patterns.
"We monitored to see if there was any dust or leaching," Burnett said. "It was sterile. It was absolutely perfect."
The process could be used to build new county roads that have been battered by oil and gas traffic, although it hasn't been.
"We've never done any county roads," Scott said. "We've done many, many pads and a tremendous amount of lease roads. The operator likes to reuse their waste because of the benefit they get out of it. Company A's waste always stays on Company A's leases. They maintain control of their waste."
The companies also reduce the material they have to buy for ranch roads and pads, as well as eliminate costs of trucking and disposing of solid waste.
Scott has clients in Madisonville in Madison County, an area on the eastern end of the Eagle Ford formation that's becoming known as the Eaglebine — where the Eagle Ford meets the Woodbine Sandstone.
It's also active in East Texas, where drillers are working in the Haynesville Shale, in the Granite Wash in the Panhandle, and in Oklahoma, Louisiana and Utah.
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But it doesn't have any South Texas clients yet.
Burnett said he hopes that operators in the Eagle Ford and Permian Basin in West Texas will take an interest in the idea of using drilling waste for new pads or roads as a way to reduce truck traffic and landfill use, as well as be more environmentally friendly because of the reduction in spill risk.
"If you want to be an accommodating neighbor, you try to reduce the activity," Burnett said. "It's the lifecycle costs. You're having to pay for a landfill at some point. It's a solution but it's just not the cheapest. What everyone is looking for in the shale is the cheaper the better. We'd like them to look for 'the better the better.'"
Scott said the pricing varies depending on how remote the location is, but is competitive with traditional disposal methods when the cost of building new roads and drilling pads is considered.


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The state's most recent boom arrived in 1968 with the discovery of a massive oil reservoir at Prudhoe Bay. Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) would create one of the largest pipeline systems in the world. Before work could begin, environmental concerns and land rights issues had to be addressed. Alaska Native rights that had long been a back-burner topic were suddenly in the fore. Officials were virtually forced to deal with aboriginal land and resource claims that had remained unresolved since statehood.
On December 18, 1971, Congress passed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, legislation that would create 13 regional Native corporations and village corporations all over the state. Every Alaska Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut person of at least one-quarter Native heritage would qualify for membership. In 1971, they numbered about 80,000, including those Alaska Natives who lived outside of Alaska. The corporations shared a sum of $1 billion and were asked to select 44 million acres of land. In exchange, Alaska's Native people would surrender any rights to future claims against the government.
While plans for the pipeline had been in the works for years, construction officially began on January 3, 1974, when the first federal right-of-way grant was issued. On April 29, road builders began work on the North Slope Haul Road (now the Dalton Highway), linking the Yukon River to the North Slope. During peak pipeline construction, 20,000 people were employed on what was called the largest privately financed construction project in history. The total cost came to $8 billion, including building the Valdez terminal, before it was completed in 1977.
The pipeline stretches 800 miles from Prudhoe Bay on Alaska's North Slope, to Valdez, the northernmost ice-free port in North America. Since pipeline startup on June 20, 1977, until 2006, the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, the operator of TAPS, has successfully transported over 15 billion barrels of oil, and the current flow represents approximately 17 percent of total U. S. oil production.
The "rainy day" account known today as the Alaska Permanent Fund safeguards the state against downturns in oil revenues. It also allows the people of Alaska to share annually in their state's oil wealth through a trickle-down plan that taps the fund's investment earnings. The brainchild of former Gov. Jay Hammond, the plan was approved by voters in 1976 and established in 1980. The language provided that "at least 25 percent of all mineral lease rentals, royalties, royalties sales proceeds, federal mineral revenue-sharing payments and bonuses received by the state be placed in a permanent fund, the principal of which may only be used for income-producing investments."
Once a year every man, woman, and child who has lived in Alaska for at least one year, and plans on staying, receives a Permanent Fund Dividend check, known among Alaskans as the "PFD." To calculate the amount for distribution, the formula takes half of the approximate average of the Fund's realized income for the last five years and divides that among qualified applicants. The Alaska Permanent Fund has become a model studied the world over.
Another milestone in Alaska history took place in 1980, when President James E. Carter signed the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, placing more than 104 million acres of land in federal protection, creating and adding to national parklands and refuges. Today, less than 1 percent of Alaska's 365 million acres is held in private hands.
In the 21st century, the state has become a melting pot. Its 2005 population of 655,435 people includes new Alaskans from nearly every continent. Alaska's modern economy is driven by several basic sectors: exports including petroleum, mining, seafood and forest products, tourism, international air cargo, as well as the military, and state and federal governments. The travel and tourism industry has quietly and surprisingly become the state's largest private sector employer, accounting for 39,420 direct and indirect jobs, bringing $1.15 billion in labor income along with $1.6 billion in visitor spending. Oil and gas supplies have proven lucrative; since 1965, the state has collected more than $53 billion in unrestricted oil and gas revenues.
The Alaska Department of Community and Economic Development reported that 2005 commercial fishing revenues came to nearly $1.7 billion. Total production value of minerals came to $1,357.4 million, according to the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Survey. Finally, Alaska's location still serves a strategically important mission for the United States military, with both Army and Air Force bases in Fairbanks and Anchorage, and U.S. Coast Guard stations along the coasts.
Alaska continues to prove itself the best purchase that the United States ever made. Far from the first impression of Americans in 1867, Seward's Folly, locked in snow and ice, represents home-sweet-home to its residents and a dream destination for visitors from all over the world.


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Energy StudiesEnergy Studies is about energy and its sources, as well as how to best use our resources to provide energy to consumers. Having a consistent supply of energy has become a necessity for most people in the world, and Energy industry professionals work to balance the often-conflicting goals of inexpensively supplying energy and the need to conserve natural resources, protect the environment, and develop renewable energy sources, such as wind power and solar power.
Most scientists agree that we will run out of fossil fuel sources "soon," although there is a lot of debate about when. According to the Natural Environment Research Council in Great Britain: "With today's technology, and at the current rate of consumption, there are only about 40 years supply of gas and oil left in the ground. However, extraction and location techniques are improving all the time, so the estimates are getting longer and longer every year. There is 200 years' worth of coal left, but again, more and more is being found all the time."
Despite the inconclusive evidence, it is clear that we need to develop efficient and affordable sources of alternative energy, especially renewable sources. Most alternative energies are also less polluting because they don't contribute to global climate change, air and water pollution, or smog. Therefore, Energy Studies is socially important because it seeks ways to conserve the resources we have, to develop new and better resources, and to do so as cheaply as possible while still protecting the environment and our health.
The Academic Requirements
Energy Studies is a broad term, and academic programs may focus on a number of aspects of the field, including energy policy, energy law, energy development, production and/or extraction. Those production and/or extraction are technical fields and likely to be found within the Engineering Department of most schools.
A more general Energy Studies curriculum will examine the various scientific, political, environmental and socioeconomic factors that influence energy regulation, development and policy. Students will learn about energy and its sources, the economics behind resource extraction and use, and the technology and policy behind the development of alternative energy sources. Many programs require a good deal of science and engineering coursework, students should be mathematically and technically astute, good problem-solvers, and willing to work in a team to solve problems. Students will also learn about the ethical and economic aspects of Energy Studies.
Here are some courses that we've seen:
- Environmental Studies
- Resource Planning
- Marketing
- Principles of Energy and Environmental Physics
- Environmental Modeling
- Alternative Energy Technologies
- Economic and Policy Analysis
- Residential/Light Commercial Energy Analysis
- Energy Efficient Methods
- Principles of Accounting
- Energy Law
- The Economics of Energy
- Environmental Earth Sciences
Professional Outlook
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, those who are involved with electric utility firms are responsible for the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity. Coal is the dominant fuel used in electricity generation; however, "Scientists also are conducting considerable research into renewable sources of electric power-geothermal, wind, and solar energy." Energy is so important to everyday life that it is heavily regulated by the government. "The electric utilities industry, for example, is currently restructuring in an effort to promote efficiency, lower costs to customers, and provide users with an increased number of service options."
Since the need for a consistent energy supply is constant, employees in utility firms often work odd hours, such as night shifts or holidays. Employees must also work overtime to accommodate peaks in demand and to repair damage caused by the unexpected (storms, outages, etc.).
About 13% of workers in the industry work in management, business and financial operations. Engineers develop technology to improve the efficiency of energy production and transmission, as well as creating new sources of energy or ways of extracting resources. Management, engineering and research positions require advanced degrees and at least some job experience. Most of the time at work will be spent in an office of the plant or a similar environment.
Here are some job titles that we've seen, including some of the organizations that offer them, all of which included a requirement for experience in Energy Studies:
- Business Analyst: Electric Trading(Southern California Edison)
- Manager of Rate/Pricing Design (Southern California Edison)
- Risk Analyst (Energy Mission Marketing & Trading)
- Risk Reporting Analyst (Exelon Power Team)
- Supply Analyst (Summit Energy)
- Sales in Energy - Houston (EFCO Consultants, Inc.)
- Energy Engineer (Resource Consulting Group)
- Energy Credit Risk Analyst (Leafstone Technology Group)
- Energy Developer (Parallel Partners)
- Systems Integration Manager/Director (Robert Half Techology)
- Mechanical Designer (Onsite Energy Service)
- Network Administration Manager (Sakonnet Technology)
- Alliance to Save Energy
- American Solar Energy Society
- Boston University, Center for Energy and Environmental Studies
- Chicago Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
- Chughtai, Osman and David Shannon. "Fossil Fuels" Presentation. No date.
- Dice Tech Jobs
- Earth Energy Society of Canada
- Energy Jobs - Search by "Energy"
- Energy Program Publications
- environmentalcareer.com
- Fairmont Press
- International Energy Publications
- Lane Community College, Energy Management Technician Program
- Natural Environment Research Council, of BSS
- New York Institute of Technology, MS in Energy Management
- The Electricity Forum - Editor's Choice of Energy Management Books
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Energy Jobs
- University of California, San Diego, Center for Energy Research
- University of Otago, Energy Studies Program
- University of Sheffield, MSc in Energy Studies
- World Energy Efficiency Association


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