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B'Elanna Torres was a Klingon-Human hybrid and former Maquis who served as chief engineer on the Federation starship USS Voyager under Captain Kathryn Janeway.
In 2371, while Starfleet was trying to capture the Maquis raider Val Jean in the Badlands, she and the rest of her Maquis crew were pulled 70,000 light years across the galaxy, deep into the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker's array and forced to merge with the crew of the Voyager during its estimated seventy-year journey home. Before serving as Voyager's chief engineer, B'Elanna had joined the Maquis right after dropping out of the Academy after years of disciplinary issues. (VOY: "Caretaker", "Parallax", "Prime Factors", "Extreme Risk", "Lineage")
Family and Academy years Edit
Early lifeEdit
B'Elanna was born in 2349 on the Federation colony Kessik IV to John Torres, a Human father and Miral, a Klingon mother. She spent much of her early life on Kessik IV, but because relations between the Klingon Empire and the Federation were not "too cordial" at that time, B'Elanna and her mother were the only Klingons on the planet. Although none of the other colonists voiced any negative opinions of B'Elanna, she felt that she and her mother were perceived differently; a feeling that made her uneasy and which she found hard to shake. (VOY: "Faces")
B'Elanna's alienation and the roots of her insecurities had their foundations at an early age in her life where she was teased for her appearance as a result of her Klingon heritage. When she attended grammar school she was tormented by a boy called Daniel Byrd who would point at her cranial ridges and tease her about being half-Klingon, calling her "Miss Turtlehead". This insult angered Torres so much until one day during recess she attacked Byrd while he was on the gyro-swing. Torres disengaged the centrifugal governor, which caused Byrd to spin so fast that he almost flew apart. Torres then yanked Byrd off the swing and "started pounding his little face" until their teacher, Miss Malvin, separated them. (VOY: "Juggernaut")
The alienation continued when her own father began distancing himself from them. At one time, when B'Elanna was on a camping trip with her father, her uncle Carl and her cousins Elizabeth, Dean, and Michael, she overheard her father complaining about her, likening her moody and angry behavior to that of her mother's, Miral, and that he had a hard time living with two Klingons. (VOY: "Lineage")
John Torres finally left the Federation colony and traveled back to Earth in 2354, when B'Elanna was five years old, never to return to his family again. For months after, B'Elanna cried herself to sleep every night, wondering what had made her father leave and if it was her fault. However, she never talked about her feelings of guilt and shame to anyone and eventually decided for herself that her father had left because she looked and acted Klingon. These kinds of set backs resulted in B'Elanna developing a thick skin, often punching her way through life. She often blamed her Klingon temper having gotten her in trouble all the time. She even attempted to change her appearance to look more Human; an insecurity that remained with her for most of her life, culminating in her trying to genetically alter all of her unborn child's Klingon features when she was pregnant with her daughter in 2377. (VOY: "Faces", "Lineage")
After her father left, B'Elanna and her mother lived on Qo'noS, the Klingon homeworld, for some time. Eventually her mother pulled B'Elanna out of the Federation school she was attending and took her to a Klingon monastery in order to teach her honor and discipline. (VOY: "Barge of the Dead")
However, B'Elanna and her mother, found it difficult to cope without John in their lives. Shortly before Miral returned to Qo'noS, B'Elanna left for Starfleet Academy, where she had a hard time fitting in, often getting into trouble with instructors and faculty. Within two years at the Academy, she was suspended once and had four disciplinary hearings against her. Even though quite a brilliant student and promising engineer, she eventually dropped out of the Academy in 2368, at the age of 19. (VOY: "Eye of the Needle")
B'Elanna never spoke to her father again after he had left them in 2354, until he initiated contact with her in 2377, after she had been stranded for nearly seven years in the Delta Quadrant. John tried to make amends and even though it was not easy for B'Elanna she tried to re-establish a relationship with her father. (VOY: "Eye of the Needle", "Author, Author")
One of Torres' favorite foods as a child was banana pancakes with maple syrup, which her grandmother would make for her. That beloved meal always put a smile on B'Elanna's face. (VOY: "Extreme Risk") Her other favorite foods included potato salad with paprika and fried chicken. (VOY: "Renaissance Man")
One time Miral took her to visit the Sea of Gatan, where she almost drowned. After her mother resuscitated her, she told B'Elanna about the Klingon beliefs of the afterlife, Sto-vo-kor, and Gre'thor. (VOY: "Barge of the Dead")
Starfleet Academy Edit
Beginning in 2366, Torres attended Starfleet Academy where she participated on the Academy decathlon team. (VOY: "Basics, Part II")
During her time in the Academy, she had four disciplinary hearings and one suspension. (VOY: "Parallax", "Extreme Risk") She also had to dodge several punches in the lab, which Chakotay later joked about, saying, "Only you, B'Elanna, could start a brawl in Astrotheory 101." (VOY: "Future's End, Part II")
During her time at the Academy, B'Elanna dated Maxwell Burke, however, their relationship did not last long. (VOY: "Equinox")
After a brilliant but troubled two years headed toward an engineering specialty, she dropped out at age 19. (VOY: "Caretaker", "Parallax", "Extreme Risk")
Her teachers included Commander Zakarian and Professor Chapman. Torres and Chapman argued constantly, so she was later surprised to learn that Chapman thought she was one of the finest students he had ever taught and was disappointed when she dropped out. He had placed a note in her permanent record saying he would support her if she ever reapplied. (VOY: "Caretaker", "Parallax")
In the Maquis Edit
After leaving the Academy, an angry young Torres eventually joined the Maquis in 2370, after former Starfleet officer Chakotay saved her life. From then on she formed a close friendship with Chakotay and she became one of his most trusted friends. At that point in her life, the Maquis became the closest thing to family she had ever had. Fighting Cardassians gave her the outlet she needed in dealing with her violent emotions. (VOY: "Dreadnought", "One", "Eye of the Needle", "Extreme Risk", "Nothing Human")
To help deal with her explosive and often violent temper, Chakotay taught her many Native American and spiritual techniques to help calm her emotions; he even trained her to speak to her "animal guide". To his surprise, she became the only person he'd ever known who tried to kill their animal guide. (VOY: "The Cloud")
Torres also formed a close friendship with Seska, a Bajoran crew member in Chakotay's Maquis cell. She considered Seska to be her best friend, long before finding out that Seska was really a Cardassian agent of the Obsidian Order. (VOY: "Maneuvers")
The first time Torres took a leadership role in the Maquis, she led her people into a cave that she thought was a Cardassian Military installation, but she mistook unstable mineral deposits for weapons signatures. There was a rock slide and she and her team was stuck there for three days. They finally dug themselves out with their bare hands before being rescued. (VOY: "Warhead")
In late 2370, the Cardassians deployed a sophisticated automated missile called the "ATR-4107" to destroy a Maquis munitions base. However, the missile failed to detonate and Torres, who nicknamed it Dreadnought, managed to board the weapon, spending nearly a month to completely reprogram the computer to work for the Maquis and changing its vocal subroutines so that the computer sounded like her. Without authorization from Chakotay, she sent Dreadnought to attack the Cardassian fuel station on Aschelan V, but an evasive attack route took it through the Badlands, where it inexplicably disappeared. Two years later, Torres eventually found out that, like Voyager, the missile had been brought to the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker entity. (VOY: "Dreadnought")
In 2371, when their ship, the Val Jean, was being chased into the Badlands by Gul Evek's flagship, the Vetar, it was mysteriously transported to the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker. After the crew was subjected to a painful examination, the crews of Voyager and the Maquis vessel were returned to their ships, with the exception of Torres and Starfleet ensign Harry Kim. Those two were sent by the Caretaker to an Ocampan settlement beneath the surface of a planet, where they were told that they were dying and needed medical care. Torres refused to cooperate and attempted to escape. Both Torres and Kim were rescued by the crews of Voyager and the Maquis. The Val Jean was later destroyed, and its crew, including Torres, joined the Federation starship USS Voyager. (VOY: "Caretaker")
USS Voyager Edit
The first year (2371) Edit
Since the two crews were stranded together in the Delta Quadrant, they were forced to work together as a single crew. Torres was initially assigned the provisional rank of lieutenant junior grade. Torres had difficulty getting along with the temporary chief engineer, Joe Carey, to the point of breaking his nose over plasma conduits. She was recommended as a replacement chief engineer by Chakotay. However, Kathryn Janeway opposed this decision. After Voyager became trapped in a quantum singularity, Torres proved her skills to Janeway and earned her respect. Janeway then made her chief engineer over Carey. (VOY: "Parallax")
Torres' quarters were on Deck 9, Section 12. (VOY: "Someone to Watch Over Me")
While exploring a nebula, Torres discovered that it was actually a living creature and that by entering the cloud-like being, Voyager had wounded it. Torres modified a nucleogenic beam and was able to heal the wounded creature. (VOY: "The Cloud")
While visiting the Sikarians, she learned that they possessed the ability to fold space and travel great distances. This would have greatly reduced the length of Voyager's journey, but the aliens refused to share their technology because of their prime directive. She wanted to steal the technology or make an illegal trade for it, but Janeway ordered her not to do so. She ignored Janeway's order and arranged a meeting with one of the aliens. She was shocked when Tuvok assisted her, but the technology was not compatible with Voyager. (VOY: "Prime Factors")
Later that same year, Torres was captured by Vidiians, who experimented on her. A Vidiian named Sulan, who had learned that Klingon DNA was resistant to the Phage, separated Torres' Klingon and Human DNA, creating two separate individuals, one of each species. The Klingon Torres gave her life to save the Human Torres and, once aboard Voyager, The Doctor was able to recombine both elements of Torres' DNA. (VOY: "Faces")
The second year (2372) Edit
The following year she was imprisoned by the Mokra Order while trying to secure tellerium. She was subsequently rescued by Janeway. Torres was also kidnapped by automated personnel units created by an extinct race to fight their wars. The units wanted Torres to help create new units because they had been unable to stabilize their power units. Torres was able to create a prototype from which they could create more units but she learned that their former creators had called off the war and the units refused to stop fighting, killing their creators in the process. As different units arrived from the other side of the war, a battle ensued. The new prototype that Torres had created would have allowed the Pralor robots to win the war against the Cravic robots. Torres destroyed the prototype and was beamed aboard Voyager while the units continued their civil war. (VOY: "Resistance", "Prototype")
Later, Voyager encountered the Cardassian automated missile called Dreadnought that Torres had reprogrammed while she was still in the Maquis. They found that it had been brought into the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker and was headed towards the inhabited planet Rakosa V, which it thought to be Aschelan V, the site of a Cardassian fuel depot. Torres was able to beam aboard it and, with some difficulty, destroy the missile. (VOY: "Dreadnought")
At first she refused to let The Doctor harvest some of her brain tissue to find a cure for the Phage when Danara Pel, a Vidiian scientist for whom The Doctor developed romantic feelings, was beamed aboard Voyager. Klingon DNA was resistant to the Phage and The Doctor believed this was the only way to help Pel. She later consented and it helped The Doctor retard the Phage in Pel. (VOY: "Lifesigns")
Torres and Kim had their consciousnesses captured in a Kohl hibernation status control by an evil entity known as The Clown. She was released to inform Janeway that if they tried to disable the program, the Clown would kill the Kohl captives and Kim. (VOY: "The Thaw")
During a physical encounter with the Kazon she accidentally projected The Doctor into outer space. (VOY: "Basics, Part I")
While stranded on a hostile planet when the Kazon took over Voyager, she helped rescue Neelix and Kes from a primitive tribe on the planet. (VOY: "Basics, Part II")
The third year (2373) Edit
While Voyager was transporting a group of Enarans, Torres began having dreams of genocide against members of their race known as "the Regressives". In her dreams, Torres was reliving the experiences of an Enaran named Jora Mirell. The real Mirell was transmitting her memories to Torres. After Mirell died, Torres confronted the Enarans who denied any knowledge of the event; they left, but not before Torres was able to transfer the memories to another Enaran. (VOY: "Remember")
In another encounter, Torres and Paris were attacked by unknown aliens. She was able to recover and get Paris back to Voyager for medical care. (VOY: "The Swarm")
Later that year, Torres was affected by the pon farr when Vorik, a Vulcan crewmate, tried to mate with her. This spurred her Klingon mating instincts which caused many problems. This also led to the first obvious hints of a relationship with Tom Paris. While under the influence of the pon farr, Torres and Paris shared a passionate kiss and intimate revelations about their feelings toward each other. But after fighting with Vorik in the ritual challenge which purged her of the fever, she only vaguely acknowledged what happened. (VOY: "Blood Fever")
Torres reprogrammed The Doctor's perfect holo-family into a more realistic example of family life, which caused him distress but ultimately gave him a better understanding of family life and its problems. She helped end the crew's imprisonment by the Nyrians when the crew was imprisoned on a bio-sphere ship. Torres reconfigured The Doctor's optical sensors so that he could detect passages that led to different biospheres. This enabled them to access a translocation system that allowed the crew to escape. (VOY: "Real Life", "Displaced")
She also took part in a holoprogram about a mutiny on Voyager that Tuvok had programmed as a training exercise for his security detail. The program turned deadly after being tampered with by Seska when she had been on the ship two years earlier. (VOY: "Worst Case Scenario")
The fourth year (2374) Edit
Torres had difficulty controlling her anger. She verbally attacked Seven finding it hard to believe she had no "sense of guilt" for her past as a Borg. While trying to modify the warp core, it became critical and had to be dumped. Paris and Torres left in a shuttle to retrieve it. Upon finding it, they discovered a Caatati trying to salvage it and, after a brief fight, the shuttle was destroyed with the two left in space in their spacesuits. As their air dwindled, Torres was forced to confront her true feelings and told Paris she loved him, just as Voyager, which retrieved the core from the Caatati, arrived to rescue them. (VOY: "Day of Honor")
She accompanied The Doctor on an away mission to save an another sentient hologram stranded on a disabled ship. Torres discovered that the hologram had killed the organics on the ship, and had gone mad. She was able to deactivate him before he killed her. (VOY: "Revulsion")
Torres was used as a pawn in an illegal trade of violent thoughts on the planet Mari. She was imprisoned for transferring violent thought to the citizens, but Tuvok proved her innocence. During the Hirogen takeover of Voyager, when they used the crew in various hunting scenarios, she was a pregnant resistance fighter carrying the baby of one of the German officers who had taken advantage of her. (VOY: "Random Thoughts", "The Killing Game, Part II")
An alien switched bodies with Paris and claimed his life aboard Voyager. For a time he even fooled Torres. (VOY: "Vis à Vis")
After examining a substance she had discovered on a toxic planet, Torres found that the substance was sentient and could duplicate lifeforms. She was one of the crew who allowed her DNA to be duplicated by the aliens so that they could experience consciousness. (VOY: "Demon")
The fifth and sixth years (2375-2376) Edit
Torres battled an alien space craft with a bio-neural interface in order to save Paris. Alice attempted to kill Torres by sealing a hatch in the shuttle and shutting off life support systems. Paris saved her. She fought the Vaadwaur, who, after reviving from stasis, tried to capture Voyager. Torres crashed on a planet where, in exchange for parts to repair the shuttle, she told Kelis, a poet, stories he later used to amuse the head of his planet. (VOY: "Alice", "Dragon's Teeth", "Muse")
In 2375, Voyager, using a Hirogen communication system, made contact with Starfleet. Torres became extremely depressed when she learned that most of her Maquis friends had been killed by the Dominion. She began taking unnecessary risks, such as using the holodeck with its safety protocols turned off. Along with Paris and Kim, she launched a new shuttle called the Delta Flyer in which they encountered the Malon species. During a battle with them, she devised a way to contain a gas leak and save the crew and the shuttle. This made Torres feel needed again, and her depression subsided. (VOY: "Extreme Risk")
The last year and the return home (2377-2378)Edit
Icheb became infatuated with Torres after he thought she was giving him signals that she was interested in him. Before that, Seven recommended Torres to help him study for the warp mechanics section in the Starfleet Academy entrance exam. (VOY: "Nightingale", "Imperfection")
Torres was in an accident and when in a coma she found herself in Klingon Hell, Gre'thor. There she met her mother, Miral, who told her that Torres' rejection of Klingon ways had doomed them both. When Torres woke up, she asked to be put into a coma again so she could save her mother. The Doctor did as she asked. Her mother is saved not by Torres dying for her or by performing Klingon rituals, but rather by Torres living a good life and being true to herself. (VOY: "Barge of the Dead")
She again confronted her Klingon side when she became pregnant. She was afraid to have a baby because she thought that the baby would suffer as she had during her childhood. She found out that the child had a deformed spine that The Doctor could correct genetically in the womb. When she saw a projection of the child and discovered it had Klingon ridges, she questioned whether she wanted the child. She asked The Doctor to make further genetic changes so that the child would not have Klingon features. She falsely altered a diagnostic test that convinced The Doctor that the changes were necessary.
Paris found out about the false report and stopped The Doctor from performing the procedure. He discovered that she blamed herself for her father having left her because she was Klingon. Paris convinced her that he would never do that and wanted a child just like her. She believed him and accepted the pregnancy. (VOY: "Lineage")
Voyager encountered a Klingon generational ship. They were on a quest to find the savior of the Klingon race, the kuvah'magh. The captain of the Klingon ship, Kohlar, believed her child to be the kuvah'magh. They initiated the self-destruct sequence which in turn caused a warp core breach and Janeway transported their entire crew on board to save them. Kohlar wanted Torres to help him convince his crew that her child really was their savior. When she was insulted by a Klingon warrior, Tom Paris accepted a challenge from him to defend her honor. The warrior collapsed in the battle and The Doctor discovered the Nehret, a fatal disease, caused the collapse. Because the Nehret is only contagious to Klingons, she and the baby became infected. Because of this Kohlar's group no longer believed the child could be their savior and they tried to take over Voyager, but failed. The Doctor discovered a cure to the Nehret using the baby's immune system. The Klingons finally came to believe that the baby was their savior and Janeway dropped them off on an uninhabited M-class planet. Torres and Paris considered the name Kuvah'Magh for their baby. (VOY: "Prophecy")
She wed Paris after an interstellar starship race that Irina, one of the participants, tried to sabotage and thereby destroy the peace in the area. She had joined Paris in the race because she wished to share his interests. A bomb was planted on their ship, but they were able to eject it in time. They married after the race. (VOY: "Drive")
After holograms used by the Hirogen became self-aware, they rebelled and killed many Hirogen. The holograms were led by Iden, who believed that all organics should be destroyed. After their holoprograms became unstable during a battle with the Hirogen and Voyager, Torres, an expert on holo-emitters, was kidnapped. At first believing that they only wanted to be left alone, Torres helped enhance their technology. Once she realized that Iden was bent on destroying organics, she stopped him with the aid of The Doctor. Torres asked Janeway to let the other holograms go and Janeway agreed. (VOY: "Flesh and Blood")
Torres built a polaron modulator that helped Voyager escape a void in space that trapped ships. (VOY: "The Void")
During the final battle with the Borg which led to Voyager's return home, Torres gave birth to her daughter Miral. (VOY: "Endgame")
Alien race encounters Edit
In 2375, Torres was attacked by a cytoplasmic lifeform that attached itself to her and used her organs to stay alive. The Doctor saved her using a hologram of a Cardassian doctor named Crell Moset. Torres refused to allow Moset to operate on her because he was Cardassian (albeit a holographic one). Moset was in fact a war criminal who had experimented on Bajoran prisoners. When Torres' condition became critical, Captain Janeway decided to let Moset operate on her, despite Torres' wishes. (VOY: "Nothing Human")
The previous year she had allowed her DNA to be duplicated by the bio-mimetic beings on the Demon planet. In 2375 her counterpart married the Paris duplicate, and later died from subspace radiation with the rest of the duplicated crew. (VOY: "Course: Oblivion")
Torres encountered the Malon again when she was part of an away team that entered a Malon vessel to shut it down before it exploded and contaminated space with theta radiation. She discovered that the rupture was made by a Malon named Dremk who wished to show the danger of transporting theta radiation. When he refused to let her seal the ruptured tanks, he attacked her and she killed him to save herself and Voyager. (VOY: "Juggernaut")
Toward the end of that year, B'Elanna met up with an old flame from Starfleet Academy, Maxwell Burke, who was stranded in the Delta Quadrant on the USS Equinox. The two ships came in conflict when it was discovered that the Equinox was killing sentient nucleogenic lifeforms for an energy source. The Equinox was finally destroyed and Burke was killed by the creatures. (VOY: "Equinox", "Equinox, Part II")
The Borg Edit
During Voyager's first contact with the Borg, she helped to engineer nanoprobes that were used as weapons against Species 8472, who had become a threat not only to Voyager, but to the Borg as well. When Seven, on board Voyager, attempted to assimilate the vessel after the Species 8472 threat had been eliminated, Torres created a power surge through Seven that disabled her. This severed Seven's link to the Collective. (VOY: "Scorpion, Part II")
She took part in the attempt to steal a Borg transwarp coil that would shorten Voyager's journey home. When Seven had been lured back to the collective in the heist, Torres manned the weapons systems allowing the Delta Flyer to rescue Seven. (VOY: "Dark Frontier")
During the last year of Voyager's trip home, Torres helped to deal another blow to the Borg. She, along with Janeway and Tuvok, allowed themselves to be assimilated by the Borg. But the assimilation was only of her body. She utilized an inoculation administered by The Doctor before the mission that kept her mind from being assimilated, and thus kept her from becoming a Borg drone. She implanted a pathogen into the collective which slowly brought various Borg drones out of the collective consciousness. This led to a Borg civil war. (VOY: "Unimatrix Zero")
Personal relationships Edit
- "Let's get one thing straight. I don't appreciate you or anyone else speculating about the kind of friendships I have, or who I have them with!" (VOY: "Revulsion")
Family Edit
B'Elanna was an only child of mixed heritage. Her father John Torres was Human, and her mother Miral was a Klingon, which has caused many trials and tribulations in her life.
Her grandmother on her mother's side, L'Naan, died when she was young, so she was taught to say the prayer of remembrance for her, and her great-grandmother (mother of L'Naan) Krelik. (VOY: "Eye of the Needle", "Prophecy")
On her father's side was her father's mother, her grandmother, who could always put a smile on her face, even when she was very depressed, by cooking banana pancakes. (VOY: "Extreme Risk")
Also on her father's side was her father's brother, her Uncle Carl. On a few occasions when she was young, her Uncle Carl took her and her father, and his children (her three cousins: Elizabeth, Dean, and Michael) to go camping and fishing. It was twelve days after the last of these camping trips that her father left her and her mother. (VOY: "Lineage")
Miral Edit
Miral and B'Elanna had a large fight in early 2366, and this was the last time she spoke with her mother until a decade later.
In 2376, while trapped in the Delta Quadrant, on the ten-year anniversary of their not speaking, B'Elanna was in a shuttle accident, putting her into a coma. While in the coma, she was sent to the Barge of the Dead, where she found out that her mother had died in the Alpha Quadrant and was being sent to Gre'thor. After discovering this, her crewmates were able to resuscitate her. She read several ancient Klingon texts, including the Eleventh Tome of Klavek from the paq'batlh, and concluded that she had to go back, as it was her fault her mother was being sent to the Klingon hell, for her not following Klingon traditions as her mother was supposed to teach her to do.
After working hard to persuade Captain Janeway to allow her to, and telling Tom that she would, she returned to the Barge by simulating her death. She asked to perform the transference ritual, so that her mother would go to Sto-vo-kor, for the honored dead, and B'Elanna would go to Gre'thor for her. When she found out that once in Gre'thor, even her crewmates couldn't bring her back from death, and despite the fact that her mother forbade it, she decided to do so.
Once in Gre'thor, which was a representation of Voyager, she argued with her former crew as well as her mother, demanding to know what they want from her. After begging and pleading, they finally made her understand that they didn't want anything from her – just her. She finally understood it, and she would be sent back to Voyager as "it wasn't her time." Her mother said goodbye, and that she'd see her again, whether it be in Sto-vo-kor, or when she came home, in the Alpha Quadrant. (VOY: "Barge of the Dead")
John Torres Edit
When B'Elanna was young, she was very close to her father. She said she "worshipped him", and their family was very close, if fragile, for a time. But after a couple years, B'Elanna's mother's Klingon attitude was wearing him down. When he began to be unable to take it, he scheduled a camping trip with his brother, and brought B'Elanna along.
On the camping trip, he confessed that it was getting harder and harder to live with Miral, and that his mother never thought he had what it took to love a Klingon woman, "and now he [had] two." When B'Elanna over heard this in her tent, she got angry, and later yelled at him for saying such things about her mother. But what she also said, which would haunt her for more than twenty years, was "If you can't handle it any more, why don't you just leave!" Twelve days later, that was exactly what he did, abandoning his family. For years, she believed she had planted the seed in his mind to divorce, and blamed herself, when in actuality it was a combination of multiple factors, which is often reason for the dissolution of many relationships. (VOY: "Lineage")
Years later in 2378, when Starfleet Command was able to establish consistent contact with Voyager using the MIDAS array, John sent a message to B'Elanna asking to speak with her. Although they would only have three minutes, he wanted to re-establish their relationship. During their brief conversation, they were able to catch up on her new family, and she was able to tell her father about her marriage to Tom and the fact that she was pregnant. (VOY: "Author, Author")
Relationships on board Voyager Edit
Chakotay Edit
Chakotay was always a true mentor to Torres and was perhaps the only person on the ship who truly understood her nature. (VOY: "Parallax", "Dreadnought", "Remember", "Extreme Risk", "Barge of the Dead")
In 2370, Chakotay saved B'Elanna's life, and she later joined the Maquis in its early stages. Chakotay soon realized B'Elanna's exceptional engineering abilities and the two became close friends. He even once tried to help her find her animal guide to help her deal with her emotional difficulties, but was shocked when she became the only person he knew ever to try to kill it. (VOY: "Dreadnought", "The Cloud")
When Chakotay's Maquis crew became stranded in the Delta Quadrant, Chakotay backed Torres for the position of chief engineer, knowing her abilities would make her perfect for the position. (VOY: "Parallax")
Although she never acted on her feelings, she was initially attracted to Chakotay. When the Botha came aboard Voyager and affected everybody's senses, she hallucinated about him, although B'Elanna was more 'attracted' to Chakotay as a mentor figure and the hallucination just combined that desire with her Human desire for affection and love. (VOY: "Persistence of Vision")
In 2374, Chakotay was forced to tell his Maquis crew, including Torres, that the Maquis had been wiped out by the Dominion. A year later, he would find out Torres had been suffering from a deep depression because of the loss and made Torres finally face her demons, helping her cope with her inner conflicts and emotions. (VOY: "Hunters", "Extreme Risk")
In 2377, Chakotay jokingly asked Torres if she had checked the warp core for cracks, as he noticed she had a certain "glow" about her, after finding out about her pregnancy. Later, Chakotay helped to bring Torres and her husband, Tom Paris, back together after they argued vociferously over their unborn daughter's Klingon heritage. (VOY: "Lineage")
Kathryn Janeway Edit
At first, she and Janeway did not see eye to eye. Torres thought Janeway was too stiff and set in her ways, while Janeway believed Torres to be a loose cannon. In the beginning, Torres felt like Janeway had set her up to fail by making her Chief Engineer. (VOY: "Parallax").
But later, Torres realized she couldn't have been more wrong. Deep down Janeway reminded Torres of her mother; she was as dedicated to Starfleet principles as her mother was to Klingon traditions. Janeway even, accidentally, employed B'Elanna's mother's pet name for her, "Lanna", when the younger woman made it back safely from a foolhardy, self-imposed mission. Despite their differences, Torres always remained loyal to Janeway. Eventually they would earn each other's respect and trust. (VOY: "Barge of the Dead")
The Doctor Edit
Although their doctor/patient relationship could be difficult at times – such as when The Doctor attempted to remove a cytoplasmic lifeform from B'Elanna using knowledge acquired from the hologram of Crell Moset, a Cardassian doctor who had committed various war crimes-, The Doctor and B'Elanna went on to develop a surprising friendship and working relationship, such as when the two brainstormed possible solutions to help reactivate Automated Unit 3947 when he was recovered and his power was running out. B'Elanna also helped The Doctor gain a better understanding of his new mobile emitter after he acquired it, clearly expressing her fascination with the new technology. Their relationship became so close that, when B'Elanna learned that she was pregnant, she asked The Doctor to be the child's godfather, to the point that, even when faced with the possibility that she could give birth to the child on Earth in Starfleet Medical, she made it clear that she wanted The Doctor to be the supervising physician rather than some stranger. (VOY: "Prototype", "Future's End, Part II", "Nothing Human", "Lineage", "Endgame")
Seven of Nine Edit
Although their initial confrontation didn't end well, and the two often agitated each other over the four years they were together on Voyager, they did respect each other's technical skills and had high standards and respect for each other when it mattered most.
When Seven was dying because her Cortical node was malfunctioning, to get away from The Doctor, she hid in main engineering. When Torres found her, she related that she also hid from The Doctor in Engineering, hating to be cooped up in sickbay. The Doctor then came in and found her, and said "I should've known she'd be the one to harbor a fugitive." Torres responded with "We 'difficult' patients need to stick together." (VOY: "Imperfection")
Harry Kim Edit
B'Elanna developed a special friendship with Harry Kim. She referred to him as "Starfleet" upon their first meeting and had continued to do so off and on over the seven-year journey (VOY: "Caretaker"). The two would often work together on projects and often socialize together when off duty (VOY: "Prototype", "Future's End, Part II", "Nothing Human", "Lineage", "Endgame"). B'Elanna was also keen to give Harry a letter from his parents and waited somewhat anxiously for the letter to be extracted from an alien transmission array. She comforted Harry when he thought he would not be receiving one. When a letter for Harry did arrive, she took personal charge of delivering it to him.
Romance Edit
Maxwell Burke Edit
While at Starfleet Academy she dated Maxwell Burke, who referred to her affectionately as "BLT", and loaned her a blue sweater that she never returned. B'Elanna used to call him petaQ occasionally and their relationship broke off with Maxwell's intention to leave Starfleet being the last B'Elanna heard of him. (VOY: "Equinox")
Tom Paris Edit
- "Given the volatile nature of their relationship, one might have predicted homicide rather than matrimony." - Seven of Nine
Torres had her first romantic flirtation with Tom Paris in 2373 during an away mission on a shuttlecraft. Paris asked her out on a date in the holodeck once he found out that she was not interested in the advances of Ensign Freddy Bristow. B'Elanna, aware of Tom's reputation as a ladies' man, turned him down flat. (VOY: "The Swarm")
When Ensign Vorik, struck with the pon farr, asked Torres to become his mate, she turned him down. Vorik took her face in his hands and unintentionally initiated a telepathic mating bond, giving her the "blood fever", inducing something similar to the pon farr in her. On the subsequent away mission and overcome by the intense urges accompanying the pon farr, she wanted to have sex with Paris, but he resisted her, because he realized that she was not in control of her actions. Tuvok rescued them and told Tom that unless he had sex with B'Elanna, she would die from the symptoms of the blood fever. When Vorik arrived and challenged Tom, B'Elanna took over and fought Vorik to end the pon farr. Later on the ship, Paris told her that he had seen her scary Klingon side, but was still interested and wouldn't mind seeing it again. Her last words as she left the turbolift were that he should be careful what he wishes for. (VOY: "Blood Fever")
She admitted her love for Paris when they both faced death during the incident with the Caatati. (VOY: "Day of Honor")
Torres and Paris often changed shifts so they could be close to each other. Their relationship was passionate, but they were not sure if their relationship would have a future. When it was discovered that a race known as the Srivani were performing experiments on the crew, Torres thought that their feelings for each other might have been caused by the experiments. (VOY: "Scientific Method")
In 2377, Torres married Tom Paris. She initially thought he proposed because the Delta Flyer II was about to blow up, but he replied that he was "still alive and still asking." Soon thereafter, they had their first child, Miral, as they arrived in the Alpha Quadrant in 2378. (VOY: "Drive", "Endgame")
Alternate B'Elanna TorresEdit
Holograms Edit
B'Elanna Torres has been holographically duplicated on a number of occasions.
- Recreations of crew members from Voyager and the Jupiter Station Holoprogramming Center were seen by The Doctor during a holographic malfunction in 2371. This simulation, or daydream, included B'Elanna. (VOY: "Projections")
- The entire crew of Voyager was recreated by Tuvok for his Insurrection Alpha program. (VOY: "Worst Case Scenario")
- The Kyrian Museum of Heritage in the 31st century used the program The Voyager Encounter to detail their encounter with the warship Voyager, as an aid to a history lesson. (VOY: "Living Witness")
- Lt. Barclay's recreated most of the crew of USS Voyager at the Communications Research Center on Earth for the Pathfinder Project in 2376. The Maquis crew members, including B'Elanna, were not wearing Starfleet uniforms. (VOY: "Pathfinder")
- In 2378, Seven recreated the crew of Voyager to perfect her social skills, including B'Elanna. (VOY: "Human Error")
- The Doctor's holonovel Photons Be Free was set aboard the USS Vortex and crewed by characters based on the crew of USS Voyager, albeit the names were change to protect the innocent. The character of Torrey was based on B'Elanna. (VOY: "Author, Author")
- The Doctor was forced to impersonate members of Voyager's crew during a crisis in 2378. One was B'Elanna. (VOY: "Renaissance Man")
Alternate realities and timelines Edit
In an alternate timeline created when Kes traveled back in time from 2376 to 2371, Torres was killed by an energy beam from the warp core. (VOY: "Fury")
In an alternate reality experienced by Kes, Torres was killed alongside Captain Janeway during the first Voyager and Krenim encounter. (VOY: "Before and After")
In 2374, after suffering devastating attacks from the Krenim, she stayed on board Voyager as part of a skeleton crew. (VOY: "Year of Hell")
In 2375, Torres was killed when Voyager crash landed on an Class L planet in an attempt to get home via slipstream. Events in this timeline were changed, however, when Harry Kim and Chakotay stopped the slipstream mid flight. (VOY: "Timeless")
When an anomaly shattered Voyager into different time frames, Torres discovered from a Chakotay seven years in her future that she would become part of the Voyager crew–something she found "pretty hard to believe." (VOY: "Shattered")
In an alternate 25th century timeline, after Voyager's return to the Alpha Quadrant in 2394, Torres became Federation Liaison to the Klingon Empire and was responsible for arranging Admiral Janeway's meeting with Korath. (VOY: "Endgame")
Chronology Edit
- 2349
- B'Elanna Torres is born on Kessik IV to John Torres (Human) and Miral (Klingon).
- 2354
- B'Elanna's father leaves.
- 2366
- Enrolls at Starfleet Academy.
- Has a short relationship with Maxwell Burke.
- 2368
- At age 19, drops out of Starfleet Academy.
- 2370
- Joins the Maquis shortly after their founding, after Chakotay saves her life.
- Forms a close friendship with Seska.
- Reprograms the Dreadnought to attack a Cardassian site.
- 2371
- Presumed dead when the Val Jean is lost in the Badlands; actually joins the crew of the USS Voyager in the Delta Quadrant with the provisional Starfleet rank of lieutenant junior grade. (VOY: "Caretaker")
- 2372
- Taken prisoner by the Mokra but later rescued. (VOY: "Resistance")
- Kidnapped and forced to engineer a 'prototype' for a race of robots, later rescued.(VOY: "Prototype")
- Has recurring nightmares about her time in the Vidiian Prison.
- Destroys the Cardassian missile Dreadnought. (VOY: "Dreadnought")
- Suffers Vulcan pon farr after being attacked by Vorik. (VOY: "Blood Fever")
- 2374
- Word of Voyager's survival reaches the Alpha Quadrant.
- B'Elanna receives news that the Maquis has been wiped out by the Dominion and secretly begins to run high risk holodeck programs with safety protocols off.
- 2375
- Enters a deep depression and suffers internal injuries from high-risk holoprograms, later treated with help from Chakotay. (VOY: "Extreme Risk")
- Attacked by an alien suffering severe injuries, but later saved by The Doctor with help from a holographic Cardassian war criminal Crell Moset. (VOY: "Nothing Human")
- Leads an away team to a Malon freighter to prevent theta radiation contamination. (VOY: "Juggernaut")
- Meets Maxwell Burke after Voyager encounters another Federation Starship, USS Equinox, lost in the Delta Quadrant. (VOY: "Equinox")
- 2376
- After a near death experience, journeys to Klingon Hell to save her mother's eternal soul. (VOY: "Barge of the Dead")
- Crash lands the Delta Flyer on a primitive planet and becomes the inspiration for a young poet's stories. Later rescued. (VOY: "Muse")
- Assimilated by the Borg during a mission to deploy a virus into the central plexus of a Borg cube to help free drones in Unimatrix Zero, later rescued. (VOY: "Unimatrix Zero, Part II")
- Helps Chakotay commandeer Voyager as part of Teero Anaydis' mind control plot. (VOY: "Repression")
Background information Edit
B'Elanna Torres was played by Roxann Dawson throughout the entire run of Star Trek: Voyager. A young B'Elanna was played by Jessica Gaona in VOY: "Lineage".
B'Elanna's nickname of "BLT" was said to have derived from her initials; however, it is unclear if B'Elanna has a middle name, or if this just reflects the L sound in the second syllable of B'Elanna.
Torres has the distinction of being the first female chief engineer as a series regular. The first female chief engineer shown on-screen was Sarah MacDougal of the USS Enterprise-D in TNG: "The Naked Now".
Regarding Torres' birthdate, she says in VOY: "Extreme Risk" that she was nineteen when she quit Starfleet Academy and, by 2376, it was ten years since she entered the Academy and ten years since she last spoke with her mother. (VOY: "Equinox, Part II", "Barge of the Dead") Torres quit the Academy in her second year, at age nineteen in 2368, which puts her birth year at 2349. The first draft script of "Caretaker" gave further indication as to Torres' age, noting, "B'Elanna Torres [is] a half-Klingon, half-Human woman in her twenties who is frantically working the consoles of the barely spaceworthy craft." A press release issued by Paramount on the launch of the series stated, "B'Elanna is a beautiful 25 year old woman who is half Human, half Klingon." This information would then place B'Elanna's birthdate at 2346, but this was not stated in the series itself. [1]
At the Voyager wrap party, held in 2001, Roxann Dawson described Torres' character journey on the show, stating, "She was an unruly teenager who grew into a woman, over the course of seven years." (citation needed • edit)
Early character photos of Torres showed her wearing the Starfleet provisional enlisted/noncom rank insignia. When she was promoted to chief engineer, she initially wore the provisional rank of lieutenant. This costume gaffe was corrected as of VOY: "Faces", and thereafter, Torres wore the rank of provisional lieutenant junior grade.
The bathing suit worn by Torres in the third season episode "Warlord" was later sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. [2]
Apocrypha Edit
In the Voyager relaunch book series, Torres traveled to Boreth and found her mother Miral alive. Miral then died and Torres decided to stay on Boreth and immerse herself in Klingon tradition.
In Full Circle and Unworthy, B'Elanna and Miral were revealed to be alive, after their "deaths" were established to throw off the pursuing Warriors of Gre'thor. B'Elanna and Miral then reunite with Voyager's first officer, Lieutenant Commander Tom Paris.
In A Singular Destiny set in 2381, Torres and Miral Paris' names were appended to a casualty list sent to Starfleet, listing confirmed dead in Sector 22093 as a result of the Borg attacks in the Alpha Quadrant.
In Unworthy, B'Elanna recreates the slipstream drive from memory and reunites with Voyager in the Delta Quadrant under Project Full Circle. She is then given the rank of Fleet Chief Engineer and returns to active duty. She is revealed to be pregnant in The Eternal Tide, and gives birth to her and Tom's son, Michael Owen Paris, in A Pocket Full of Lies.
In the alternate future in the Deep Space Nine Millennium book trilogy, Torres, along with Voyager and her crew, returned to the Alpha Quadrant at an unspecified time. As in the "real" timeline, she married Tom Paris. Sometime after returning to the Alpha Quadrant, Torres and Paris were both assigned to the USS Enterprise-F under Captain William T. Riker. However, Torres was killed along with the rest of the Enterprise's crew when she was lost with all hands during the destruction of Earth.
The epithet "turtle head" is also found in non-canon novels such as A Flag Full of Stars, used by xenophobic Humans on Earth against Klingons to make fun of their forehead ridges.
Her mirror universe counterpart appeared in the novel The Mirror-Scaled Serpent as the Supervisor of Ardana in 2371. She was previously the Intendant of Cestus III.
External linksEdit
- B'Elanna Torres at StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek website
- B'Elanna Torres at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- B'Elanna Torres at Wikipedia


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Note, all dividends are quoted as 12 month yields.
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This fund was introduced in early 2011 and has paid out handsome dividends ever since. The ETN tracks 30 energy and shipping MLPs with an emphasis on current yield. Despite its strong payout, the fund has only amassed $19 million in assets, as it seems that investors are content to stick to some of the older and more well-known MLP funds.
It should be noted that the returns of MLPY and other, similar funds, has been boosted by the recent rally in natural gas prices, which has seen a price increase of approximately 70%.
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REMX is one of the more unique ETFs to launch in the last few years, as the fund seeks to represent a slew of companies that are focused on mining, refining, and manufacturing rare earth/strategic metals. Charging just 57 basis points, REMX's near 7% yield has given it a wide popularity, as the fund trades nearly 80,000 times every day.
As far as performance is concerned, the fund has struggled in the past year; the trailing 12 months have seen REMX lob off nearly 45% of its price, a figure that cannot be ignored despite a massive dividend payout.
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Approximately 99% of the fund's portfolio lies with firms based outside of the U.S., with a big concentration in resource-rich Canada. Investors should keep in mind that as a small cap fund, GDXJ will tend to be more susceptible to market movements and is often more volatile that a large cap product.

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SS#2 SCS HCS HB 89 – Natural resources Changes numerous laws relating to natural resources. Includes provisions relating to:
STATE GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY (Section 37.970, RSMo) Specifies that it must be the policy of each department of the state to carry out its duties with full transparency to the public and any data collected must be available to the public in a timely fashion with reports and other information being easily accessible to the public. Each department must broadly interpret any request for information under the Open Meetings and Records Law, and must respond accordingly regardless of the format in which the request is made. Any failure to release information will be considered a policy violation and constitute a breach of the public's trust.
ESTABLISHES A COUNTY DRINKING WATER SUPPLY LAKE AUTHORITY IN SULLIVAN COUNTY (Sections 67.4500 -67.4520)
REAL-TIME BACTERIAL WATER QUALITY TESTING (Section 192.1250) The Department of Health and Senior Services must examine the feasibility of implementing a real-time water quality testing system for measuring the bacterial water quality at state-owned public beaches and must issue a report of its findings to the General Assembly by December 31, 2011.
PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY DISTRICTS BOARD OF DIRECTORS (Section 247.060) Includes various provisions relating to compensation of Board members.Specifies that the circuit court of the county having jurisdiction over the district is authorized to:(a) Suspend any member from exercising his or her office when it appears that the member has abused his or her trust or become disqualified;(b) Remove any member upon proof or conviction of gross misconduct or disqualification for his or her office; or(c) Restrain and prevent any alienation of property of the district by members in certain specified cases; andSpecifies that the jurisdiction conferred by these provisions must be exercised upon petition by any member or at the instance of any 10 voters residing in the district who join in the petition. The petition must be heard in a summary manner after 10 days' written notice to the member or officer who is the subject of the complaint.
STATE PARKS EARNINGS FUND (Section 253.090)Provides them any moneys remaining in the State Parks Earnings Fund at the end of the biennium will not revert to the credit of the General Revenue Fund.
PRIVATE LANDOWNER PROTECTION ACT (Section 442.014) The Private Landowner Protection Act is established which allows for the creation and enforcement of conservation easements designed to protect the environment or preserve certain historical, architectural, archaeological, or cultural aspects of real property. An easement may be created, conveyed, recorded, assigned, released, modified, terminated, or otherwise altered or affected in the same manner as other easements; and a court may modify or terminate an easement based on the principles of law and equity.An existing real property interest is not affected by a conservation easement unless the owner is a party to the easement or consents to it. A conservation easement will be valid in a number of situations that are specified in the bill which are not recognized by common law. Retroactive application is mandated to the extent allowed by state and federal law but cannot place any additional burden or obligation on any grantor or grantee, or on their successors, of a conservation easement.
MINING PERMITS (Sections 444.771 and 444.773)The Department of Natural Resources and the Land Reclamation Commission in the department are prohibited from issuing a surface mining or a water or air quality permit to any person whose mine plan boundary is within 1,000 feet of any property where an accredited school has been located for at least five years prior to the permit application. This provision does not apply to a request for an expansion to an existing mine or to any underground mining operation.Currently, the commission may deny a surface mining permit if it finds in any hearing, based on competent and substantial scientific evidence, that the interested party's health, safety, or livelihood would be unduly impaired by the issuance of the permit. The bill specifies that it must be in a public hearing and removes the provision placing the burden of proof on the permit applicant.
CLEANFIELDS RENEWABLE ENERGY DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS (Section 620.2300) An owner of a park consisting of at least 50 contiguous acres in which the property is subject to remediation under a clean-up program supervised by the Department of Natural Resources or the United States Environmental Protection Agency may seek to establish a clean fields renewable energy demonstration project by submitting an application to the Department of Economic Development for certification of the project.
ADMINISTRATIVE HEARING COMMISSION (Section 621.250) Specifies that the party must be aggrieved or adversely affected by the finding, order, decision, or assessment in order to file an appeal of a finding, order, decision or assessment by a state regulatory environmental commission with the Administrative Hearing Commission.Currently, the commission has discretion on whether or not to hold a hearing on an appeal request. The bill requires the commission to hold a hearing and make a recommended decision within 60 days of the date of the request or make a recommended decision within the 60-day period based on the stipulation of the parties, consent order, or agreed settlement or by the disposition in the nature of default judgment, judgment on the pleadings, or summary determination. The commission must issue its final decision on an appeal of a decision by the Director of the Department of Natural Resources within 90 days of the date the notice of appeal is filed. Prohibits a cause of action or appeal arising out of a finding, order, decision, or assessment of a state regulatory environmental commission from accruing in any court unless the party has already filed a notice of appeal with the Administrative Hearing Commission and received a final decision from the environmental commission in accordance with these provisions.
ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITS (Section 640.018) In any case in which the Department of Natural Resources has not issued a permit or made a permit decision by the expiration of a statutorily required time frame, the permit must be issued as of the first day following the expiration if all the necessary information has been submitted for the application and the department has had the information for the duration of the required time frame.All engineering plans, specifications, and designs prepared by a registered professional engineer that are submitted to the department as part of a permit application or modification must include a statement that the plans, specifications, and designs were prepared in accordance with all applicable requirements and must be sealed by the registered professional engineer.The department must designate a supervisory registered professional engineer for permitting purposes in environmental programs. Any applicant receiving written comments on an engineering submittal may request a determination from the department's supervisory engineer as to a final disposition of the department's comments. The supervisory engineer must inform the applicant of a preliminary decision within 15 days of the request and must make a final determination within 30 days.These requirements cannot be construed to require plans or other submittal to the department that come under a general permit or an application for a site specific permit to be prepared by a registered professional engineer unless otherwise required by state or federal law.
NOTIFICATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH RISKS (Section 640.128) The Department of Natural Resources must immediately notify the local public health authority and the Department of Health and Senior Services if it receives water quality test results voluntarily conducted and submitted by a permitted entity that indicate a potential risk to public health.
ASBESTOS AND AIR QUALITY (Sections 643.020 - 643.080, 643.191, 643.225, 643.232, 643.237, and 643.240 - 643.250)(1) Authorizes the commission or its authorized representative to enter upon any public or private property having material information relevant to an air contaminant source; (2) Adds renovation or demolition projects to the list of projects that the commission has authority to require corrective measures be taken to protect public health and the environment as it relates to asbestos abatement;(3) Removes the exemption from certain state asbestos requirements for asbestos certification and registration, including the $250 exemption application fee, for certain persons who are subject to EPA and OSHA asbestos regulations;(4) Reduces from at least 20 working days to at least 10 working days the period of time that a person must submit an application to the department in advance of an asbestos abatement or demolition project. Contents of the application are specified; and(5) Requires the analysis of asbestos air samples to be conducted according to EPA or OSHA standards. Currently, the analysis must be conducted according to OSHA standards.
JUDICIAL REVIEW (Sections 643.130 and 644.071) Any action seeking judicial review of a final decision made by the Air Conservation Commission, the Clean Water Commission, or the Director of the Department of Natural Resources must be filed in a court of appeals instead of a circuit court.Also includes provisions relating to:
CLEAN WATER NOTICE REQUIREMENTS AND FEES (Sections 644.036 and 644.054)
CLEAN WATER COMMISSION PERMITS AND APPEALS (Section 644.051)
AFFORDABILITY DETERMINATIONS (Section 644.145) The Department of Natural Resources must make a determination regarding the affordable to communities and their residents of permit requirements and other department decisions related to combined or separate sanitary sewer systems or publicly owned treatment works.
PRIVATE SEPTIC SYSTEMS (Sections 701.033 and 701.058) The Department of Health and Senior Services is authorized to provide technical assistance, guidance and oversight to a local authority that administers and enforces individual onside sewage disposal system standards. The provisions of the bill contain a nonseverability clause.The bill contains an emergency clause for provisions regarding state department transparency, county drinking water supply lake authority, real-time bacterial water quality testing, State Parks Earnings Fund, mining permits, clean fields renewable energy demonstration projects, environmental permits, notification of public health risks, consolidation of state services, judicial review, clean water notice requirements and fees, Clean Water Commission permits and appeals, affordability determinations on sanitary sewer systems, private septic systems, and the Missouri Energy Task Force. (Signed 7/11/11)
HCS HB 250 – Water well regulations. Specifies that any water system that exclusively serves a charitable or benevolent organization will be exempt from all rules relating to well construction except those applying to a multifamily well unless the well or pump installation for the well is determined to present a threat to groundwater or public health. Certain exemptions apply.No facility can be required to replace, change, upgrade, or alter an existing well constructed prior to August 28, 2011, unless the well is determined to be a threat to groundwater or public health or contains certain contaminant levels. (Signed 6/22/11)
CCS SS SCS HCS HB 430 – Transportation (See Transportation Law)
SCS HCS HB 578 – Disposal of used tires. Allows the state or any political subdivision or agency of the state to transfer possession and ownership of used tires, scrap tires, or tire shred to any in-state private entity to be lawfully disposed of or recycled if the tires or shred are not burned as fuel, except in a permitted facility, or disposed of in a landfill. (Signed 6/8/11)
CCS HCS SS SB 135 – Environmental protections Changes the laws regarding environmental protections.Includes provisions relating to State Parks Earnings Fund (Section 253.090, RSMo); Battery and hazardous waste fees (Sections 260.262, 260.380, and 260.475); Disposal of used tires (Section 260.269); Dry-cleaning facilities (Section 260.965); Coolers on rivers and waterways (Section 306.109); An underground petroleum storage tank operator training program (Section 319.130); Motor fuel tax (Section 319.132); Motor fuel measuring devices (Section 414.072 and Section 1); Water well regulations (section 640.116); and Environmental permits (Section 640.905)The bill contains an emergency clause for the provisions regarding the State Parks Earnings Fund, and the battery and hazardous waste fees. (Signed 6/22/11)


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My goal is be to at a 700 and beyond so that I can be a proud homeowner. I'm tired of renting and paying off other people's mortgages.
In 2000-2001, I allowed my love life to take precedence over the important things in life. I allowed him to use my cards and my credit and by the time I knew it, my score was in the low 500's "ouch". Well I learned my lesson.
I'm currently writing to companies and removing old complied with negative information from my credit report. I now have "one" card I use and pay religiously, I also have one car loan I pay religiously on too. I only have one collection item on my report that I will be paying very soon (thankfully it's a small amount)
Hopefully when you hear from me again I'll be reporting a better score
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Make sure they give you a LETTER OF DELETION after you've paid. Make them send you in writing that they will send you this letter before you send them any money. Also, even before that, make them verify that this is your bill. If they do, then make sure you tell them that you can't pay it all - debt collectors purchases these bills from the original company you owe for little or nothing and then charge the full amount of the debt. Negotiate; start low, be shameless!! :-). And when they say they will accept the payment that you negotiated, then you tell them you want the bill stamped PAID and then ask for a LETTER OF DELETION, not OF PAYMENT but DELETION. Your score will then rise faster than a roller coaster descends!
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I am new to the Fitness Challenge and I am ready to get started!
My current situation:
Discharged BK February 2011. I have spent most of 2011 opening up as many new accounts as I can, now I'm just going to sit back and maintain what accounts I do have.
I currently have 4 CCs and I am an authorized user on a Walmart card.
I currently have 3 personal loans with my Credit Union
My goal:
a Mortgage in 2013
I plan to achieve this goal by continuing to pay my bills on time and by paying down my current debt which I'm in the process of doing.
My 2011 goals:
1. Your FICO score goal for 2011: My ideal score would be 750+ but I'd be very happy with hitting 720 by the end of this year!
2. Your current FICO score(s): EQ 711
3. The steps you plan to take to achieve your goal: on-time payments, utilization below 9%
I have not reached my ideal score of 750+, but that is mostly because I'm still waiting to bounce back from the 6 cards I received last year, starting in July. I have surpassed 720 on all three and have no doubt that I can make it to 750 by the end of this year!
My 2012 goals:
1. Your FICO score goal for 2011: 750+ on all three
2. Your current FICO score(s): EQ 723 TU ??? EX FAKO 732 (Credit Sesame)
3. The steps you plan to take to achieve your goal: on-time payments, utilization below 9%
Additionally I plan to app for the last 2 cards I really want: Citi Forward and AmEx BCP. I'm in the process of gardening and paying down balances by May to try my luck at those apps!
01-13-2012 11:33 AM - edited 01-13-2012 12:15 PM
I've created a simple Excel file that has been helping me reach my financial goals.
Main goal: To have just a mortgage payment.
Last year I had 7 open accounts w/ balances, and with lots of planning (excel sheet) and predictability, I'm now down to 4 accounts. I have 2 auto payments ($4K & $15K) and 1 credit card ($1K), and mortgage($150K) currently.
Goals for 2012:
Best luck to all!
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20111 Goals
Reach 680 across all CRA.
I was able to make significant improvement over the 2011, thanks to the knowledge posted on this forum. My score as of 12/31 was 670 EQ & 671 TU.
2012 Goals
- Reach 700 across all CRA.
- Reduce my debt down to $0 (keeping one card at ~9%, for score optimization).
Working deligently this year to improve my scores. Some old baddies will fall off this year and I will increase my credit card limits. Lorking forward to this 2012!
Hey All!
This is my first post, and I've wanted to participate in this challenge for about a month now! I'm excited to carry out this task as my new year's resolution was simple. "To Be a Financial Adult".
Brief History-- I was financially illiterate. My family lived by the live for today because you're going to die tomorrow and you can't take it with you philosophy. Although highly intelligent people otherwise, this was the stupidest lesson they could have taught me. My parents finances currently are a nightmare that I can't begin to wrap my head around. Needless to say, spendthrift ways, a bad relationship, and living in perpetual denial landed me in a Chapter 13 by age 25 in 2009.
Today-- I was recently discharged from the 13 after paying back all my creditors at 100%, I am on track to graduate this year, and I have a well paying secure occupation. I make money, now what do I do with it? This is where my new year's resolution comes into being. I have taken the steps through the great advice of many on here, I read a TON over the christmas holiday and in a month raised my score astronically through some of the tips I gained.
Currently, my CR shows only student loans, the 13 discharge, and remaining creditors at 0 balance which majority will fall off in April and May. I have 3 small collection accounts that total less than 300$ combined, and I am in the process of goodwilling and PFD them away wish me luck. I have had 2 30 day lates in the last year with current accounts. This is from adminstrative oversight on due dates, I'm hoping that a goodwill letter will resolve that deficiency as well.
Finally, I have a car loan that is not reporting as I purchased it as a lease with gps device (excellent option for the credit strapped) and will have it paid in full by April. At that time, the company will report 24months of ontime payments to the 3Bureaus. The interest for the vehicle was a little high, but opportunity costs. It is my hope that if I can rid my report of the lates, post the payment history for the car, remove the CAs and let the remaining baddies fall off by June I will reach my goal. The only negative remaining will be the 13. Which is beneficial because will report as 3 years old this month, so I am in great shape I believe to keep on trucking. Any advice that you all have is welcomed, as I am a thirsty sponge.
Long Term--My goal is to buy a house. I make too much money not to be able to take advantage of the tax benefit. I think that I can try and secure a loan by August if my plan works as designed. Once I get myself out of this rut, its been 4 long years, I plan to stay out and be the financial adult I know I can! I will never purposefully put myself in this position again. Good luck to you all.
Starting Scores-- 11/28/11
Current Scores-- 01/7/2011
Goal -- 740+
I am going for 720!
01-13-2012 03:23 PM - edited 06-04-2012 09:44 AM
Due to a job loss in 2007, my 740 Credit Score got demolished. After a few hard years I am finally on the path to being able to reastablish my credit. In early 2010 I paid the small items off like store credit cards and old phone bills. Now I am tackling larger items like my school loans (on which I paid my last rehab payment in October) - although due to some sort of system change at Federal Student Loans, they have not assumed my loan again, so I'm still paying the collection company and waiting for that 13 years of positive pay history to make it's pretty mark on my FICO. My plan is to buy a home in 2012!
Hey Everyone!
So like many out there, I started out my adult life destroying my credit. I had no role models growing up when it came to money or credit. Then after realizing how bad I was at managing credit, I avoided it like the plague. Of course, that was not a long term solution. In 2008, I decided to start paying on my student loans for the first time. Then I got a secured CC that I put $1000 down for $1500 limit. After that I got my credit report, which of course was ugly. So I decided there wan't anything I could do at least for a few years but ensure that I kept paying my bills on time every month. In 2011 I found out about this site and the fico score. I was determined to educate myself. The last of my old negative crap finally fell off my report in 2011. I now have a few more credit cards and two car loans that are joint with my husband. I am very proud to have the scores I have. It has taken time and hard work, but I have started seeing the rewards that go along with being responsible with credit. I just got approved this week for a Discover Card with a $3500 cl. Now I just want to pay down my balances. Right now I have a utilization of 27%. My goal is to pay off all of my cards but one which I want to have below a 15% utilization by the end if the year. This year I will apply for no more cards. I will let my accounts age. Starting to think about the possibility of purchasing a home in the next few years. I am so thankful that I found this site and these forums. It is crazy how little I really knew before I did.
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When I first watched Princess and I, the ABS-CBN famous teleserye, I instantly remembered the Tausug attire Sablay. The costumes in the said teleserye is somewhat similar to my native attire which is called Sablay. There may be a lot of differences, but let's just take a look at the similarities.
Okay. Please do not compare my ugly face to Kathryn Bernardo's angelic face. I look like a slave beside her.
Much more that I looked like a beggar beside Ms. Gretchen Barreto. Gosh! Why do these people have to be so gorgeous?? T_T
The fabrics used are a different and some other details are a bit different but there really are similarities.
Sablay are mostly worn by modern Tausugs as an attire to weddings and other functions. The attire is supposedly to have a lot of colours in it. Gold jewelry is also to be worn as accessories to the said attire.Sorry for the bad resolution of my photos. >.< I just got them from my post here 'cause I am to lazy to upload another one! hahah
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A City worker who helped save the life of a seriously injured cyclist has called on people to sign up for "invaluable" first aid training as the number of similar accidents soars.
Gemma Tinson had done a St John Ambulance course months before coming to the rescue of the woman who fell off her bike in Richmond Park.
The 36-year-old, a compliance manager for a stockbroking firm, ensured the hurt woman was in the correct position and her airways were clear.
Ms Tinson, from Tooting, is a cyclist herself and was on her bike when she saw the woman crash to the ground at high speed going down a hill.
The trained lawyer said: "It should be essential for cyclists in London to learn first aid. I'm so very grateful that I was able to put my training to good use. Obviously, I would rather never had to use it but it was invaluable that day and I wouldn't hesitate to urge friends and family to take a first aid course. It really can make a difference and meant I didn't panic."
Department of Transport figures reveal a huge increase in cycling injuries in London, which has the highest cycling casualty rate in Britain.
More than 4,600 people were injured last year — an increase of more than 20 per cent on the year before.
St John Ambulance provides a first aid at work course which Ms Tinson completed in February this year.
The charity also launched a free first aid app for cyclists this summer.
It provides advice on how to treat the most common injuries and how to turn cycling equipment into first aid tools.
In Ms Tinson's case, she immediately realised the female cyclist was having a seizure and was "fitting".
She made the rider comfortable with the help of other bystanders then called for an ambulance. The woman had suffered deep cuts to her knee, a broken collar bone and fractured skull — even though she was wearing a helmet.
The pair have stayed in touch since the accident in July and the woman has been discharged from hospital.
Ashley Sweetland MBE, of the St John Ambulance cycle response unit, said: "We know the London cycling community looks out for each other, which is why we want to equip as many cyclists as possible with the first aid skills to help when the unexpected happens. Our new app should be as essential for cyclists as a puncture repair kit, and having it on their smart phones will help ensure no cyclist suffers because of a lack of first aid knowledge."


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NASP is National Archery In Schools Program. At last report, more than 1 million students at various schools throughout the US have been exposed to ad actually allowed to participate in archery. This is a fantastic effort by dedicated archers and teachers, school administrators, and especially the various state-level outdoor wildlife departments and archery organizations to spread the sport! Impressively, there has not been even ONE archery injury during this program's operations. That is a fantastic indication of just how safe target archery is. Norm McMinn, coordinator for Texas' NASP, has provided the following
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Our restaurant, "Terra Nostra", offers the traditional flavors of Mexican food for breakfast while at dinner you can experiment the taste of Mexican fusion cuisine.
Enjoy a typical breakfast with freshly baked bread from our own kitchen and order our traditional San Cristobal style chilaquiles, fresh chocolate, fresh orange juice or any other dish.
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Ride the longest and highest urban cable car in the world.
Take a ride on the longest and highest urban cable car in the world. Located in the Andes Mountains between Bolivia's capital, La Paz, and the highest major metropolis in the world, El Alto, the electric Mi Teleferico...
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Coney Island Love Letter
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The third of four plays from Chasing the Rainbow, a BBC Radio Drama initiative in the Midlands to find new writers from the black and Asian communities.
Chanda is visiting relatives in ENGLAND when her husband's body is found in their apartment in Montana.
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However I think that file size about 2 Mb is excessive for a simple clock. So I'll think on how to make it smaller...
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How to tell the chulha story
The Low Smoke Chulha has social, health, economical and environmental benefits. For effective buy-in to this stove proposition, these benefits need to be communicated to stakeholders. There are case studies available in the download sections for NGOs and sponsors to understand the impact of the stove on people's lives.
NGOs in turn need to communicate the benefits of the stove to stove-makers and stove-users. Posters put up in community centers of villages are a good way to spread the word about the Low Smoke Chulha. Similarly, the chulha benefits can also be communicated through group discussions, or one-on-one discussions, using posters and handouts. Such tools are available in the download section of this site.
How to engage local communities
How to identify communities and call for local entrepreneurs, a 3 step process.
1. Creating awareness and faith in the Low Smoke Chulha Generate an understanding about better alternatives to high pollution, traditional methods of cooking within the local community. Initial efforts need to focus on demonstrating time taken to cook, low fuel consumption and low emissions.
2. Mentor enterprising locals in setting up a Low Smoke Chulha business. Communicate the income generating potential of the Low Smoke Chulha by giving examples of successful entrepreneurs that have improved the quality of life of several households by providing affordable channels to procure the Low Smoke Chulha.
3. Provide guidelines for running a successful business. Provide market linkages, stress need for reliable after sales servicing and help link appropriate customized financial schemes to make buying easier for locals.
If you are interested in understanding the potential of the Low Smoke Chulha please see the Starting up section of this wiki.
How to find more chulha adopters
There are various ways in which a community can be introduced to the Low Smoke Chulha proposition. One of the easiest ways to demonstrate the positive qualities of the Stove is to make and install one for free in a public kitchen like that in a school, or in the home of a village member with good standing in the community.
Another useful way to promote the stove is to hold a cooking fair or workshop which not only shows how to use the stove, but also demonstrates how well it fits with local fuels sources and ways of cooking.
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Ambassador Roger Noriega in The Miami Herald:
Is El Salvador the next Venezuela?
Recent revelations about secret dealings by El Salvador's ruling party with street gangsters and international narcotraffickers have many in that country worried that they may be drifting toward the lawlessness that has spawned chaos in Venezuela.
Indeed, as Venezuela's oil aid dries up, the FMLN ( Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional) party might rely even more on the proceeds from criminal activities — putting El Salvador on the wrong side of U.S. anti-drug efforts. So, the stakes are high in the presidential run-off election on March 9.
Mauricio Funes was elected president in 2009 as a self-styled moderate who welcomed a positive relationship with the United States — distancing himself from hard-liners within the FMLN who cling to their radical-left ideology and guerrilla history.
Unfortunately, Funes adopted statist policies that have run up government spending and pushed debt to over 60 percent of gross domestic product. An economy that grew at an average annual rate of nearly 6 percent 15 years ago has been stuck around 1.5 percent during Funes' four-year term.
Even worse than the ruling party's economic record, documents have been leaked in recent weeks showing that Funes has had a longstanding secret pact with leaders of the bloodthirsty Mara Salvatrucha street gangs that have been responsible for a spiraling murder rate in recent years. Correspondence between Funes' office and a gang leader allude to payments, prison privileges and even jobs in the national police academy in exchange for votes for the FMLN candidate in 2009.
Other documents, videos and recordings reveal that Funes secretly used government funds and influence to induce gang members to negotiate a "truce" in 2012 that was supposed to end the bloody turf wars. In addition to providing cash incentives, the truce required police not to pursue the gangs in certain areas of the country.
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As featured in the Disney Pixar film WALL-E, this is an authentic and beautifully detailed LEGO version of the last robot left on Earth! Your WALL-E has all the right characteristics, including posable neck, adjustable head, arms that move up and down and side to side, gripping hands and rolling tracks even hold a plant in one hand. When you open his, you can tidy up the planet one bit of rubbish at a time! Nearly 10 years in the making, this LEGO WALL-E includes a booklet about the designer and the animated Pixar movie. When complete, WALL-E measures H18 x W16 x D16cm.
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