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The 10 Most Disturbing Episodes of Battlestar Galactica
?Like it or not, it's hard to deny that Battlestar Galactica certainly left its mark on television. Not since Babylon 5 has a sci-fi series so embraced long-running storyarcs, and worked so how hard to incorporate real world scenarios into a science fiction universe. But one thing can be said with no doubt whatsoever — this show is dark as shit. Aspects from the original series like cute robotic dogs, aliens, little boys going on adventures, and much more are replaced with characters with major flaws, tragedy around every corner, and not a single character was safe.
Reportedly, Sci-Fi Channel execs were upset at the amount of darkness and despair in BSG's first few episodes, and suggested to the writing staff that they show a happy time on the Galactica, like a party or something. So the staff rewrote the opening scene of "Acts of Contrition" to include a celebration — in this case the celebration of a pilot's 1000th landing. The Sci-Fi execs got their party… complete with a missile drone literally crashing the party, splattering 13 pilots across the bulkheads. Apparently, that was the last time execs tried to interfere with the plot of the series.
However, that scene is nowhere near as dark and disturbing as some of the things that take place during the series' entirety, as this list showcases. Now, there's no way the short space of this article to list every single dark point in the series; plus, trying to rank the horrible things that happen in these episodes is like trying to decide which invasive dental procedure you would like without anesthesa — we simply did our best. Warning: If you haven't seen Battlestar Galactica, there are a ton of spoilers ahead. Also: This list is kind of a bummer.
10) Collaborators
Emotions were running wild after the rescue from New Caprica — particularly ones of anger toward those who were thought to be collaborating with the Cylons. The episode opens up to deckhand and former New Caprica Police Captain Jammer kneeling inside of a launch tube, hands bound, in front of a group of six other people. He's tried by the group, consisting of some civilians as well as Sam Anders, Colonel Tigh, and Diana Seelix, and then convicted, and the group watches as he is sucked out of the launch tube.
It turns out this little group of six is a government-sponsored vigilante squad, tasked by acting President Tom Zarek with finding, judging, and executing known Cylon collaborators. With Jammer taken care of, they focus their attention on their next target: Felix Gaeta. Of course, we all know that Gaeta was the mole feeding the resistance information. Thankfully, Chief Tyrol was on the other side of Gaeta's information funneling operation, so when Gaeta describes his actions, Tyrol is able to confirm that indeed Gaeta was working for the resistance, saving Gaeta from a horrific death by launch tube. The idea that many people we have typically thought of as heroes turning into vengeance-seeking murderers is rather frightening, especially when we find out that the government (or what's left of it) is behind it all.
9) Razor
For those unfamiliar with the series, Razor was a Battlestar Galactica movie set mostly aboard the Battlestar Pegasus, chronicling the story of Admiral Cain right after the attack on the colonies, as well her assistant Kendra Shaw. As we've heard in stories told by her crew in BSG, the Pegasus had a disturbing and violent past, and the TV movie proves it.
We had previously heard from Colonel Jack Fisk that Cain murdered her previous XO when he refused to order a suicide mission. Of course, Fisk quickly changed his story and claimed it was a joke, but here we discover that Fisk told the truth as we witness Cain take Colonel Belzen's sidearm and splatter his brains all over the Pegasus CIC. But Cain's legacy was far from over.
Civilian consultant Gina Inviere was a network administrator on the Pegasus at the time of the attack. As it turns out, she was also a model 6 Cylon, and to add a little fuel to the fire, she was also Cain's lesbian lover. When it is discovered that she's a Cylon agent, needless to say Cain takes it a little hard. She unleashes Lieutenant Throne on Gina, a so-called "Cylon interrogator," and essentially tells him to do whatever he wants to her. As we find out later on, his methods include beatings, starvation, and gang rape.
The surprising part of Razor, though, is the demons that Kendra Shaw possesses. Throughout the film, she seems to be haunted by something dark in her past, often seeking out the comfort of hallucinogenic drugs for solace. We had previously learned from Pegasus deck Chief Peter Laird of the assault on the Scylla, a civilian transport that had escaped the Cylon apocalypse. It's Shaw's role in the Scylla massacre that is the source of her demons, as we discover that it was she who fired the first shot, personally executing a woman and her children. She eventually receives her redemption, sacrificing herself to destroy the Cylon facility and the first Hybrid.
Overall, Razor shows us just what is behind the evil of Admiral Cain and explains her actions, making her more of a pitiable creature rather than a pure villain.
8) Occupation
?When we think of suicide bombings, we think of a horrible act perpetrated by terrorists on innocents. Suicide bombings are cruel and cowardly, and seemingly inexplicable to anyone with a conscience. And then BSG had the "heroes" use them.
When we last left New Caprica, the Cylons had just invaded, the Fleet had turned tail and ran, and Leoban was on the hunt for Starbuck. "Occupation" opens up with scenes from across New Caprica: Ellen Tigh frakking her robot son in efforts to get her now cyclops-like husband out of a Cylon prison, an attack on a Cylon heavy raider by Tyrol and Anders, and most disturbingly, Kara Thrace sitting down for a beautiful meal with Leoban, where she calmly shanks him before sitting down and finishing her meal, literally bloody handed. As the episode goes on, we learn the insurgency is growing, and needs a larger and more effective form of attack. Former Viper pilot Duck (above), who apparently has lost his wife to the Cylons, volunteers to become a suicide bomber at the New Caprica Police graduation in hopes of killing Gaius Baltar. Of course, instead of sending a message to the Cylons, it instead strengthens their resolve. They crackdown on the humans, and in the next episode take a majority of the characters we care about prisoner. It's the first time in the series where it becomes hard to sympathize with the humans, who resort to terrorist tactics that so many people have condemned in the real world.
7) The Farm
"The Farm" opens with a bit of a shock — specifically, Starbuck getting shot while on Caprica. She awakens in the care of a doctor named Simon. While it looks like she is going to live, Simon relays the heartbreaking news that Kara's lover Sam Anders was killed during the attack that put her in the hospital. Then he Simon immediately suggests to her that she should really start working on the whole baby-making thing, much to Starbucks dismay.
Before long, and still under almost constant sedation, Starbuck wakes with a scar on her pelvis. The thing is, it's not her kidney that is missing, but her ovary. She eventually escapes once she sees Simon talking to a Number 6 and determines that he is indeed a Cylon, but then walks into the truly horrific aspect of the hospital — the Cylons' have created a baby-making factory, and numerous women, including resistance member Sue Shawn, are attached to some kind of big Cylon frak machine. In an act of mercy, Starbuck shuts down the machines, killing those attached to them, but we are given the impression that there are hundreds of such facilities scattered across Caprica and possibly the rest of the 12 Colonies.
6) The Ties that Bind
It was bound to happen. Eventually, someone would discover the identity of the Final Five. Of all the likeliest candidates to find out, Cally Tyrol was the only one who lived full time with her hidden cybernetic hubby. As Cally became more and more depressed with her lot in life, and more upset with her husband hanging out with his new buddies all the time, she took matters into her own hands and followed in the footsteps of many paranoid wives — she started spying on him.
She initially thought his extra-curricular activities were more along the lines of an extra-marital affair with Tori, but after a little more digging, she found the true Cylon nature of their relationship. Dazedly walking to the hangar after clubbing Tyrol with a wrench a la Gordon Freeman, it seemed like Cally was intending on killing herself and her toddler Nikki via a launch tube, but before she can close the door Tori shows up to talk her down. Finally, Tori is able to rescue little Nikki from his suicidal mother, but unfortunately for Cally, Tori whips out her pimp hand, bitch-slaps her, locks her in the airlock, and launches her into the frozen void of space like a meat Viper. The episode's final scenes are of her frozen corpse, eyes still open, while the Admiral informs her husband.
5) Blood on the Scales
Poor Felix Gaeta. If ever there was a character on Battlestar who could be classified as a shit-magnet, Gaeta would be a pretty strong candidate. In season 4, he ends up at the wrong place at the wrong time during a mutiny, and loses his leg for his troubles. That doesn't stop him from mutinying himself later with Tom Zarek, though, while angered over the decision of the Admiralty to join forces with the "good" Cylons.
Zarek's mutiny takes Adama and Tigh hostage, and Gaeta calls Roslin and tries to convince her to surrender. But Zarek takes it up a notch or two when he executes the entire Quorum of Twelve, the fleet's civilian government. While Zarek intends on executing Admiral Adama as well, Gaeta insists on a trial, even though it will inevitably find him guilty anyway. The sham trial indeed convicts Adama, and reluctantly Gaeta gives the order for Adama to be shot. But Roslin and the Cylon Basestar arrive and break up the mutiny, and Gaeta and Zarek replace Adama at the wrong end of a firing line.
This episode was the first time there was a large-scale battle of human versus human, with teams of marines storming the CIC and mercilessly gunning down members of the bridge crew. Not only were Gaeta and Zarek executed, but a large number of soldiers and civilians were hurt or killed, including Final Five member Sam Anders, shot while working to retake the ship and starting his strange transformation into something resembling a Cylon hybrid.
On a side note, one of the more disturbing images (and one that was used a lot during promotional material and previews before the episode aired) was of Admiral Adama with a target pinned to his chest, executed by firing squad. This of course turned out to be a nightmare dreamed up by Roslin, but that didn't stop producers from exploiting the hell out of it in the week between episodes.
4) Maelstrom
Thanks to the power of the interwebs, it was pretty much public knowledge that Starbuck was going to die at some point during the third season. I'm pretty sure that most people didn't know it was going to be like this, though.
"Maelstrom" begins with Starbuck asleep in her bunk, dreaming of hot, steamy Cylon love with none other than Number 2, Leoban Conroy. Apparently disturbed by her dream, she consults Helo, who refers her to an Oracle. Venturing down to Dogtown, she encounters the Oracle who essentially tells her that her mother is trying to speak with her through her dreams. Turns out Kara's mother Socrata used the Mommy Dearest book of parenting; cigarette burns, beatings and slamming of hands in doors were all favorites of Socrata, at least in the physical category of abuse. And when Starbuck became a newly commissioned officer in the Colonial Fleet, Socrata turned to verbal abuse. Finally having had enough, Starbuck left her cancer-stricken mother, never to return, and Socrata died completely and totally alone.
Starbuck continues to hallucinate throughout the episode, seeing herself as a child in the mirror, then facing down phantom Cylon Raiders while on patrol, at which point she gets knocked unconscious by an impact. It's then that she sees her mother one last time — Socrata, on her deathbed, finally shows some love for her daughter, and explains that death is not something to be feared, that it can be embraced, and that it is not the end.
Kara wakes up in her ship to Lee's pleading for her to pull up. She tells Lee calmly she will see him on the other side, that "they are waiting for me" just as her Viper explodes, with no sign of an ejection from the ship. Apollo has the solemn task of informing CIC that she is gone, and the episode ends with a devastated Adama mourning his "daughter."
3) Pegasus
For once, Galactica catches a break. While on patrol, Apollo and Starbuck encounter a fellow Battlestar, the Pegasus, under the flag of the slightly sadistic and certainly traumatized Admiral Cain.
Apparently, Pegasus "justice" is a bit more barbaric than Galactica's, with Cain allowing torture of her Cylon prisoner (see entry #9). We come to find out, that this unfortunate Number 6 has been beaten, starved and gang raped by Lieutenant Thorne and his Sunshine Gang, and their next stop is the cell of Cylon Sharon Valari. Helo and Tyrol arrive at Sharon's cell just as Thorn starts "interrogating" her — they inadvertently kill her rapist, getting them a first class ticket to the Pegasus brig and the wrong end of a firing squad. Of course, Adama is not about to have this, and thus starts the conflict between the commanding officers of the Galactica and the Pegasus. This episode is one of the first examples of human cruelty that is shown throughout the series, and was obviously written as an allegory for the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.
2) Revelations
It was a dark time for the rag-tag fugitive fleet. Wait, who am I kidding, it was almost always a dark time for the fleet. But at the time of "Revelations," things were going very badly. Adama and Roslin were missing, Starbuck was recently returned from the dead, and four Cylons were hidden among the members of the fleet.
The Basestar returns to the fleet with demands for the four Cylons hidden in the fleet, and they are finally revealed: Tori to Roslin, and Tigh to Adama, who outs the rest of the group. While Adama had been getting progressively more emotional as the series went on, now, finally betrayed by his best friend, we see him lose all composure, even worse than when he was dealing with the death of Starbuck. As he collapses sobbing to the ground, it's up to his son to finally step into his shoes; in this case, by holding the Cylons hostage in an airlock. This would be disturbing by itself, but this episode is far from over.
Finally, thanks to the help of Starbuck and the Final Five, the path to Earth has been found, and the fleet (the "good" Cylons' Basestar included) finally arrives at their destination. The air is jubilant as the ships fall into orbit around the lost world, and for once, all seems to be right in the world. In fact, this is one of the very few scenes of celebration in the whole series. And then they land, only to find Earth to be a burnt-out cinder, the victim of a deadly robot uprising similar to what happened to the 12 Colonies. The episode ends with a panoramic view of Earth, and the looks of despair on the faces of our main characters.
Being the last episode that was filmed before the writer's strike, there were serious doubts that the series would be able to come back to finish what it started. Apparently, had that been the case, the Earth they had landed on would have been our Earth, with the burnt out cityscape being what was left of a modern day New York City. Surprisingly, Edward James Olmos was not nominated for an Emmy for his performance in this episode, as his breakdown is one of the most heartwrenching scenes in the entire series up to this point.
1) Sometimes a Great Notion
So the Galactica ends up at Earth — an Earth that is extra crispy and uninhabitable. When "Sometimes" opens, we see the members of the crew exploring what was left of the once legendary planet, with Dualla getting particularly upset when picking up a set of children's toy jacks.
As the majority of the crew returns to the fleet, Starbuck and Leoban search the planet for the beacon that brought them there. As their search moves forward, it becomes apparent the beacon that brought them there was the emergency beacon from her own ship, which crashed on the planet with her decomposing corpse still sitting at the controls.
Meanwhile back at the Fleet, Dualla seems to have composed herself, returning to a normal, even a happier than normal version of herself. She even goes on a date with her estranged husband Lee Adama, and it seems that by the end of their evening they have taken large steps to repairing their marriage. She walks back into the officer's barracks after sharing a kiss with Lee, singing and almost euphoric, and then she suddenly pulls the gun from her locker and shoots herself in the head.
It's obvious that despair had a firm grip on the Galactica, as a drunken Adama mourns his daughter-in-law. As he walks the hall, all signs of military discipline are gone, with soldiers fighting each other, weeping in the halls, with the Admiral begging Tigh to kill him. It's easily the darkest episode of the series, and the image of the seemingly joyful Dualla killing herself is an image burned into the brains of every Battlestar fan. It's also one of the most disturbing episodes of television period.


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Webster defines aftermath as "something that results or follows from an event especially one of a disastrous or unfortunate nature consequence". It appears that you may have lost everything; you do not know where to begin putting the pieces of your livelihood back together. What is life suppose to look like after you "let go"? What do you do next? After you have identified that there is a problem, an offense has occurred, and the results are in and it is not looking good…someone has gotten hurt and that someone is…YOU…that someone was also me. Heartache can leave you feeling emotionally paralyzed and motionless to the point you are only functioning by memory of what you do every day. Things look terrible. Allow me to share with you that there is life after the storm!
The clean-up of the shattered pieces leaves you with two choices: you can try to put things back together and the memory of everything is in distorted pieces or you can take a deep breath, let it out slowly, and trust God to restore you back to a place that will make you forget that you ever lost anything! "And I will restore or replace for you the years that the locust has eaten—the hopping locust, the stripping locust, and the crawling locust, My great army which I sent among you" (Joel 2:25 AMP). Whatever YOUR locusts have been in your life, believe God's promise that He will "restore or replace" and God is not slack concerning His promises! Sometimes the storms of life that we face are warranted from the decisions we make and I can attest to that in my own life—that kind of restoration comes after true, Godly repentance. Do a "self-check" of your own life and ask God to show you any areas of un-repented sin and go to Him in prayer and seek forgiveness. If your storm has come by way of hurt, shame, brokenhearted, please forgive quickly, even when it hurts, and allow God to prepare your heart for restoration in the aftermath…BE FREE!
(I promise…it's a BEAUTIFUL thing!)

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Shelter For Homeless Women, Children Opens | Chillicothe, Ohio | Chillicothe Gazette
For eight local women and children, Saturday could not come soon enough.
The Daughters of Ruth homeless shelter, dedicated to serving women and their children, opened its doors at 4 p.m. Saturday. Four women, two with children, moved in.
"The two women with children are both expecting (pregnant) and one is due soon," said Nicole Wells, executive director of the faith-based group that turned a vision for a homeless shelter into a reality.
One of the women had been living in her car, and another had been bouncing around different homes.
"There's a great need in this community, and I think we'll be full most of the time," Wells said.
The shelter is a 24-hour-per-day faith-based operation that can house a maximum of five adult women plus their children. It operates in a home on Dayton Street owned by Freedom Life Center Church. Pastor Charlie Lindsey leased the home at no cost to help get the shelter off the ground. The group has received support from many volunteers while remodeling on the home, and joined forces with Chillicothe Carpet owners Penny and John West and their organization Women In Need.


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Sculpture October1998 Vol.17 No. 8
Arthur Ganson and His Elegant Mischief Machines
By Ann Wilson Lloyd
"Faster", 1982. Mixed media.
If motorized sculpture could be cast in dramatic roles, Rebecca Horns sporadically silent and staccato objects would fit nicely in existential melodramas à la Samuel Beckett; Bruce Naumans heavy irony and foreboding forms seem to embody Antonin Artauds Theater of Cruelty; and Jean Tinguelys lightly satirical fusions of parody and absurdity are naturals for the faux-cabaret atmosphere of Oskar Schlemmers Bauhaus stage. For the mechanized sculptures of Boston-based artist Arthur Ganson, however, all the worlds a stage.
Ganson, who is currently artist-in-residence at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), makes works so versatile they cannot be typecast. It is the spirit in his machines, their individuality and elegant wit, rather than any psychological, sociological, or ideological agenda, that defines them. His pieces borrow, or parody, widely to devise original virtuoso performances dramatizing the physics of movement and playing upon the escalating dance between person and machine. In the best postmodern non-tradition, their choreography draws from a cultures collective experience of tin wind-up toys and locomotives, angel wings and exploding chairs, inch worms, and the internal combustion engine. They also tap into signature movement stylings from innovators like Buster Keaton, Errol Flynn, Martha Graham, and even Twyla Tharp.
Ganson readily acknowledges the influence of other artists, notably Duchamp and Tinguely, as well as mechanical jesters like Rube Goldberg, and he occasionally celebrates them through wry titles (for example, "Homage to Tinguelys Homage à Marcel Duchamp", 1992). But Ganson takes his machines beyond previous kinetics via a precise formal aesthetic derived from obsessive crafting, practicality (he insists his machines actually work), and fine-tuned, authentic engineering skills that frequently become a visible part of the content. All the while, he keeps his materials purposely mundane and his methods accessibly low-tech; when MIT colleagues describe his work as elegant, they mean in the mathematical or economic, sense of the term. At no point does Ganson lose sight of the essence of his work, which is gesture.
"Machine with Roller Chain", 1996. Mixed media.
Gansons works from the past 20 years can be sorted into roughly two typesthose that outwardly express the gesture and those that seem to be thinking about it. "Cloud" (1978), an early example of the latter, is a piece with many, evermore refined, incarnations (for example, "Untitled Fragile Machine" and "Untitled Tall Machine", both 1997). These assemblages of interconnecting worm and spur gears, springs, cams, ratchets, and sprockets, most often made from spot-welded baling wire, are abstract and meandering mechanical doodles, sometimes hand-cranked and sometimes motorized. Other writers have noted how these intricate, delicate parodies of mental wheel-turning are like three-dimensional versions of Paul Klee-like meditations.
"Faster" (1982) comes from the other camp. This loopy pushcart was built for street use in the World Sculpture Racing Society, a dubious-sounding organization thought up by some of Gansons friends. The gesture here is not running, but handwriting. "Faster" writes its own admonishing script: as it is pushed, a mechanical hand slowly, jerkily, inscribes "f-a-s-t-e-r-!" on a pad of paper.
"Faster" is typical of how a mundane reference can inspire Ganson to build an absurdly elaborate construction. The swashbuckling "Machine with Cocktail Swords" (1996) performs a dazzling balletic duel with whirling (tiny red plastic) swords. The piece calls the bluff of all those old pirate movies and their posturing, macho swordplay. "Machine with Wishbone" (1992) reduces another mythic character to the bone. Pushed by a comparatively massive infrastructure and ridiculously intricate mechanical system, a tiny wishbone ambles along like a cowpoke with a bowlegged swagger, a gesture that was first parodied in early modern dance. As in many of his machines with multi-layered content, Ganson provides here not only arresting formal compositions, but metaphorical comparisons of scale and hairs-breadth dynamics.
"Inchworms" (1996) is another pushcart, more purposefully elegant than "Faster". Waist high, seriously constructed of handsome welded steel plate and chain drive, the carts sole purpose is to transport a rectangular tray full of azure feather boas. Writhing along through the fluff are three small metal mesh "worms" that amazingly contract side to side and turn their tiny steel connector "heads" in the same direction that the cart is pushed.
"Machine with Grease", 1992. Mixed media
Other works are less subject to narrative and more about a persistent search for the surprising, random consequences of material properties. Gansons two seductively gloppy pieces, "Machine with Oil" (1990) and "Machine with Grease" (1992), exploit the gesture inherent in viscousness, but are slyly suggestive in their self-lubricating, onanistic properties as well. "Machine with Roller Chain" and "Machine with Ball Chain" (both 1996) are similar but their imperative is more John Cage-ian, in that Ganson is simply using things that happen to move in interesting ways. Like recycling fountains, they present the random play of dribbling, puddling, snaking metal chains. Ganson reveals something of the tinkering-scientific way he works when he tells of his first pass at "Machine with Roller Chain". Initially envisioning the lumpy chain falling, blob-like, into the middle of a cradling arc, Ganson said he discovered that a curvature simply caused the chain to "glump to one side and turn around and around. It was completely boring." He decided to bend each side of the arc up into flanges. Now shaped by wide angles, the chain goes through many interesting permutations. It is the kind of direct physical cause and effect that most delights him.
"Machine with Ball Chain" also undergoes subtle changes. The longer it runs, the more the little balls rub against each other and develop a mellow sheen. "Ball Chain" in particular, with its patinated plate of industrial steel, graceful splayed legs and spout of curving copper, is very retro-techno looking, very knowingly "School of Pottery Barn." "Machine with 23 Scraps of Paper" (1996) is equally tasteful, equally meditative, equally detailed. The design is almost M.C. Escher-like, in the way the rectangular, gridded base of motorized worm gears transmogrifies its energy upward, into a cloud of delicate, white, torn-paper wings. The little wings flap convincingly, as if each were energized by anatomically correct muscles.
"Corys Yellow Chair" (1997), on the other hand, is like a manifested puzzle, with its exploding and reassembling miniature chair. This dazzling piece performs its own visual concept, as tiny gears and chains transform the chair into a starburst pattern, by tumbling six tiny parts outward, then repeatedly snapping them back into perfect form. Ganson recognizes the comic yet poignant quality of chairs. An earlier chair piece, "Machine with Chair" (1995), also performs an absurd acrobatic act. A life-size chair sits vulnerably in the middle of a track. A larger engine chugs along, clamps onto the chair with its mechanical arm, twirls it high overhead, passes beneath, then gently replaces the chair in the same exact spot. It is a Buster Keaton actof all the contemporary artists who aspire to Keatons sublime haplessness, only Arthur Ganson comes close.
"Corys Yellow Chair" (two views), 1997. Mixed media
Ann Wilson Lloyd is a frequent contributor to Sculpture.
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Oncor is seeking to raise electricity rates in Texas, according to a new filing with the Public Utility Commission of Texas. If approved, it would be the first rate increase in six years.
The Dallas-based electricity wholesaler -- the state's largest regulated utility -- filed for the rate increase on Friday. Company officials say the rates will help offset the cost of improvements to the grid, such as stringing hundreds of miles of new lines, installing thousands of poles, rebuilding aging infrastructure and using software to boost reliability.
Oncor's last rate review and increase was in 2011, Oncor spokesman Geoff Bailey said. Since then, he said Oncor has spent about $7.9 billion to upgrade and operate the electrical grid.
Oncor currently serves about 10 million Texans through 3.4 million electric points of delivery, Bailey said. It serves nearly 35 percent of the state from Midland in West Texas to Tyler in East Texas and from Sherman near the Red River to Round Rock in Central Texas.
The public utility builds and operates the distribution network that delivers power from the point of generation to homes and businesses. The power is sold through retail electricity providers, who sell directly to customers.
If the rate increase is approved, the typical Dallas homeowner will pay an additional $6.84 per month, Bailey said. That price is based on the average Oncor residential customer, who uses 1,300 kilowatt-hours of electricity per month and has a retail electric plan charging 9 cents per kilowatt hour.
The rate review will likely take about 6 to 9 months and go in effect in late 2017, Bailey said.
The rate review comes as PUC considers the purchase of Oncor by Florida-based NextEra Energy. Oncor's parent, Energy Future Holdings, declared bankruptcy in 2014, and last year, a judge approved a plan that would sell off its assets, including Oncor, which has remained profitable.
The PUC must decide whether the sale of Oncor to NextEra is in the public interest.
Oncor had originally planned to file for a rate review in June or July, Bailey said. NextEra included the potential rate hike in an application filed in November.
When cities learned of Oncor's plans, dozens of them filed resolutions to compel Oncor to file the rate review sooner, Geoffrey Gay, general counsel to Steering Committee of Cities Served by Oncor. The group is made up of about 150 cities, including Dallas, Fort Worth and Arlington.
Gay said Oncor's request for a rate increase is "excessive." He said the earlier filing puts cities in a better bargaining position, since the filing comes ahead of PUC's decision about NextEra. He said he's confident it will lead to a faster resolution for cities and more reasonable electricity rate for customers.
"Knowing we'll have a rate case no matter what, whether Oncor or NextEra, the decision was made 'Why don't we try to put these two things together with timing so we can maximize our position?'" Gay said.
He said public utilities usually request a larger rate hike than the one they receive.
"In all of the cases I've handled in my career, I've never known a company to get exactly what they ask for," he said. "They always get something less."
During the rate review, Oncor must justify the rate increase through investments they have made or will make to the grid, PUC spokesman Terry Hadley said. He said the commission also listens to the perspectives of rate payers, cities and other companies. The commission ultimately decides whether to approve, reject or modify the rate increase.


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Eco Church is A Rocha UK's award scheme for churches in England and Wales who want to demonstrate that the gospel is good news for God's earth, and St Martin's is part of it!
On behalf of the PCC a small working group started by Gary Askew, Colin Salt and Margaret Hyde have completed the free online survey looking to help the church to express our care for God's world in our worship and teaching; in how we look after our buildings and land; in how we engage with our local community and in global campaigns, and in the personal lifestyles of our congregation.
We are now looking towards gaining the prestigious Eco Church Award at Bronze level initially. The vision is for the church to care for creation as an integral part of loving their neighbours and following God faithfully.
The scheme is supported by A Rocha, Christian Aid, Tear Fund, The Church of England as well as the Methodist Church.
So far we have looked at small initiatives such as putting a notice on the church bulletin about environmental issues and getting the church web site linked to the Eco-church website.
What can you do?
We will be making suggestions on how to help throughout the year but here are some suggestions to start with.
- Carry out a lifestyle audit. See http://cdn.ecochurch.arocha.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Lifestyle-Lifestyle-Audit-v2.pdf
- Consider your domestic energy use. See http://cdn.ecochurch.arocha.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Lifestyle-You-and-Your-Energy-v2.pdf
- Consider how you travel, especially how you get to church. Could you walk or share a car with someone? See http://cdn.ecochurch.arocha.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Lifestyle-You-and-Your-Travel.pdf
There are loads more information and ideas on the Eco church website, http://ecochurch.arocha.org.uk/resources, or there are more ideas here http://cdn.ecochurch.arocha.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Community-and-Global-Engagement-How-To-Engage-With-Local-Sustainability-Groups.pdf
Would you like to get more involved see Gary Askew or Colin Salt for involvement at St Martins.As we mentioned in the previous articles have a look at phentermine.org.uk to learn about how phentermine works and the use of phentermine.


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Just a quick post to let everyone know I ported the controls of my LD game Vol to a touch interface and did an Android build. Do note though that the Android version isn't guaranteed to run or run very well on your device. I have a HTC OneX and it performs okay, at least for the purposes that I created it for, which is mainly to test the control scheme on a touch device.
You can download the .APK here.
Also here are some analytics because they're fun.
Session Time is time spent from starting a new game to game over, and the average is 388 seconds or 6 minutes 28 seconds. Not bad! I wish I was tracking analytics on my last LD game, had reports of over an hour before finishing.
More stats!
- The number of unique players in the last week is 166.
- 52% of players have 4GB of RAM
- Average RAM is 5041MB
- Windows 88% and Mac 12%
- 48% of players have 1GB VRAM
- Average VRAM is 925MB
Anyway, analytics are fun. You should use them in the next LD.
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Our hope for the future is not found in our current politics. We are paralyzingly encumbered by a politics of division and polarization. We must do better. Our republic needs a politics of harmonization and unity if we have any hope to deal with the astonishing challenges that await us.
As the world's oldest democracy with the most powerful economy and military, the future will bring great urgency for America to make its system of representative democracy work as it should. To imagine a 21st century Democratic Party is to imagine a 21st Century desperately in need of leaders of extraordinary character and wisdom. The 21st century needs a Democratic Party that will be a large and representative community of Democrats acting as a deliberative democracy. It is in such a Democratic community where leaders of extraordinary character and wisdom can emerge.
We need a 21st Century Democratic Party built on this mission: To prepare and to elect leaders who are of the people and who demonstrate exceptional leadership skills and civic virtue.
- Such leaders emerge from a bottom-up, grassroots process, rather than a top-down hierarchical process.
- They are known by their connection and service to meaningful broad-based communities and by their capacity to deal with conflicting points of view to find an avenue for consensus.
I like the TV ads for "Buddy" the carpet salesman who declares, "We don't want to make money, we just love to sell carpet." The 21st Century Democratic Party we need is one that can say, "We just love to make the system of representative democracy work as it is suppose to work." By focusing on making the system work as it should, Democrats will be elected in droves.
Each of Ohio's 88 counties has an independent Democratic Party organization structured according to a locally developed and locally approved constitution. The first step to imagining a 21st century Democratic Party, with a mission as stated above, is to envision a Democratic Party in Montgomery County where that mission is a reality.


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European Parliament OKs Funding for Free EU-wide WiFiFree WiFi for all is set to hit the EU in 2018 after the European Parliament approved to release 120 million euros in funding for the WiFi4EU project, aiming to provide free WiFi at some 6,000 cities across the Union.With 582 votes against 98, the European Parliament said the scheme will offer WiFi access "free of charge and without discriminatory conditions".The WiFi4EU initiative will offer high-speed Internet access at public services such as libraries, hospitals, public administration offices as well as at outdoor spaces accessible to the general public.
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We introduce electrochromic (EC) technology for modulating the transmittance of visible light and solar radiation in window apertures, with focus on recent work on foil-type devices embodying sputter deposited WO3 and NiO films joined by a polymer electrolyte. The purpose of this paper is to present a number of new and preliminary results showing that (i) double-sided antireflection coatings based on dip coating can enhance the transmittance significantly, (ii) tandem foils can yield a ratio between bleached-state and colored-state transmittance exceeding fifty, (iii) solar irradiance onto the EC device can enhance its charge insertion dynamics and thereby its optical modulation, and (iv) electromagnetic noise spectroscopy may serve as quality assessment of EC devices.
Conference Information: 5th International Symposium on Transparent Oxide Thin Films for Electronics and Optics Kanagawa, JAPAN, MAY 21-22, 2007


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Our work is customized to your exact needs, so your design options are virtually endless. If all that design freedom overwhelms you, you can choose from our Lifestyle Classic deck designs that can be easily modified to fit your space.
No, all of our work is custom designed, so we don't sell our plans.
We build with all types of wood and are experienced with treated wood, cedar, redwood, tropical hardwoods, and low-maintenance composites and synthetics. You have a full range of material to choose from.
Yes. We supply you with a detailed contract to protect you from any misunderstandings.
We offer two separate warranties to assure your satisfaction.
We are typically busiest during the spring into early summer (March – July), and again in September. We build year 'round.
Hopefully, we do. You can click on the Locations page to search by zip code.
Definitely. A representative will come to your home for a free design consultation. During the consultation, we'll discuss your needs, personal preferences and budget. After that complementary meeting, you can decide for yourself whether you want to proceed to the next step.
Since our projects are custom designed and built, square footage pricing is meaningless. There are so many variables that affect the final price (height off the ground, site conditions, material choices, local code requirements, complexity of design, etc.) that a simple square footage price would be misleading. However, if we have an office in your area, they will be happy to provide you with a free design consultation and an exact price.
Yes, our dealers carry at least one million dollars of general liability insurance, and their carpentry crews are covered by worker's compensation insurance.
Where a building permit is required by local code, Archadeck will secure that permit for you. You need this permit for three very important reasons:
The time frame varies depending on the season and the workload of the local office. Please contact your local office for more information.
It depends on the size and complexity of your project, the weather, and the workload of your local office. Normally, projects can be turned around faster in the fall and winter (as opposed to the spring, which is our busiest season). Your local office should be able to give you an approximate start and finish date, subject to weather conditions and materials availability.
As of January 1, 2004, wood treated with CCA (chromated copper arsenate), has been phased out for consumer use. ACQ (alkaline copper quat) and CA (copper azole) are the new formulations used for treating wood against termite damage and rot. The EPA has approved all treatment methods for safe usage in residential applications. In addition, wood alternatives and composite decking materials have become consumer favorites. Other popular pressure-treated wood alternatives include cedar and tropical hardwoods.
Screening materials are typically fiberglass or aluminum, in either silver or charcoal colors. We offer classic hand-stretched, screen panel inserts with aluminum or cedar frames, or a vinyl trim system (know as Screen Tight). There are other options for screening, including a UV option, heavy-duty pet screen, or very fine weave "no-see-um" screening to keep out the tiniest of bugs.


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Trump World has found its enemy: the Congressional Budget Office
Later today, Senate Republican leaders will unveil the latest iteration of their regressive health care plan, and we'll take a closer look at its details once it's released. In the meantime, however, proponents of the GOP's approach are hard at work – trying to tear down the Congressional Budget Office's credibility.
If all goes according to plan, the Republican bill will be unveiled today; it will receive a CBO score on Monday; and then the GOP-led Senate will vote on the proposal soon after. Of course, if that plan sounds familiar, it's because this is identical to the schedule created a few weeks ago by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) – a schedule that was derailed when the Congressional Budget Office found that the GOP legislation would take health care benefits from 22 million Americans.
This time around, Republicans are investing more energy in trying to convince the relevant players that the CBO's numbers are not to be trusted. The Huffington Post explained yesterday:
The White House attempted to discredit the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office on Wednesday, releasing a video that questions the accuracy of the agency's previous projections on health insurance coverage under Obamacare.
Issued as a heated health care debate continues on Capitol Hill, the administration seems to be arguing that because CBO estimates have been off before, there is no reason to trust its recent reports predicting that a Republican-led effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act would have devastating effects.
But just 10 seconds into the video, the White House instead managed to strain its credibility with a misspelling of the word "inaccurately."
Now, I'm aware of the dangers of throwing rocks in a glass house. I've been known to publish a few typos of my own from time to time, so I'm generally cautious about criticizing – or worse, mocking – others' typographical missteps.
Then again, my blog posts are not official White House materials, created to deceive the public about millions of Americans' health security.
Of course, while the typo was probably embarrassing for Team Trump, there are two broader angles to this that are worth keeping in mind.
The first is that the White House is wrong on the substance. Vox had a good report noting that the specific claims Trump World and its allies are making in the hopes of discrediting the Congressional Budget Office invariably fall apart under scrutiny and appear designed to deliberately fool people who don't know better. Ironically, members of the president's team, while trying to undermine the CBO's credibility, are actually undermining their own.
The second is the broader offensive against neutral sources of information. If the right wants to argue that the Congressional Budget Office isn't perfect, fine. It's run by a Republican director, who received an enthusiastic endorsement from HHS Secretary Tom Price, but no one argues that its analyses are always flawless. It makes projections based on available information, some of which are sometimes off.
But that's not the point the White House is trying to drive home. Rather, Trump World sees the CBO as an impediment to its political goals, so it's desperately trying to make the case to anyone who'll listen that when the Congressional Budget Office publishes analyses that cast Republican bills in an unflattering light, the appropriate response is to pretend that information doesn't exist.
In Trump's West Wing, independent sources of information are effectively an enemy to be preemptively attacked before they cause trouble. It's why the president and his aides attack news organizations with such vigor, as well as intelligence agencies, climate scientists, pollsters, and those who estimate crowd sizes at inaugural festivities.
The fact remains, however, that the problem with the GOP's health care gambit isn't the Congressional Budget Office; it's the proposal itself.


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Strategic Planning | Practice Assessments | Annual Plans | Management Programs | Fee Strategy
If you are like many dentists who would rather do dentistry than manage the business and supervise people, we can help. Our comprehensive array of leadership and strategic management services will enable you to lead your practice more effectively and make sound business decisions that direct your entire team toward success.
At Dental Practice Advisors, we define success as continuous business result improvement which reduces ownership stress, allows you to deliver high quality care to your patients and fully fund your retirement plan. We help you achieve this through sound business planning, paying close attention to where you are in relation to that plan and making timely adjustments as needed to stay on track.
These services include:
- Long-Term Strategic Planning
- Practice Assessments
- Annual Business Plans
- Monthly Management Programs
- Fee Strategy Consulting
Long-Term Strategic Planning
Organizations that are successful year after year clearly understand and actively pursue their ideal future vision. Most dentists spend the majority of their time working in the practice – and very little time working on the practice. Consequently, offices are missing valuable opportunities to improve their efficiency and profitability. We help you step out of day-to-day activities and identify your long-term goals and then adopt strategies and implement action plans required to achieve them.
Our one page strategic map process simplifies the seemingly complex and time-consuming process of strategic planning down into a few very manageable steps – identifying your core principles and values, crystallizing your high-level goals for the future and developing specific action plans that solidify the building blocks of your ideal future practice.
Practice Assessments
Analyzing short-term financial results alone may not indicate the true overall health of a practice – a complex set of systems, processes, and people. To properly assess a practice's health, we will use our skills and experience to break down key profit and expense drivers and examine operating systems, processes and talent to determine if they are likely to consistently deliver improved operational and financial results.
We offer several practice assessment services to meet your needs:
- Comprehensive Practice Exam™ – geared toward existing practice improvement
- Vital Signs™ – annual check-up
- Associate Readiness Review – to determine whether you can support an associate
- Front Desk Review – for operations efficiency and role clarity
- Due Diligence Review – a deep dive into the practice you hope to acquire
Annual Business Plans
One of the most important steps toward long-term success is to break goals down into annual, manageable parts that you and your team can understand and act upon. It provides the framework necessary to translate your overall objectives into specific and meaningful monthly goals for each segment of your practice.
Your Annual plan is one of the most effective business tools at your disposal. It provides decision makers with a dynamic tool to evaluate performance and make sound business decisions and adjustments throughout the year. It is supported by well thought out action plans that help your team members attain desired results. This process promotes accountability and keeps your entire team focused on continuous improvement.
Monthly Management Programs
DPA's management programs provide the complete performance picture and continuous support you need to effectively lead your practice forward. We provide a unique combination of monthly key performance statistics, enhanced management style financial statements, a monthly management memo which highlights variances and trends, and quarterly consultations that keep you fully informed and equipped to make course corrections at all times.
Our programs are tailored to your needs – comprehensive, summary or targeted to a specific problem. All levels of support integrate your annual plan, financial, payroll and practice management system information into one cohesive tool for proactive practice management. The output you receive is ideally suited to share with your staff members, so they develop an appreciation for how their efforts impact practice results. Many of our clients utilize this data as an integral component of their staff performance appraisal system.
Fee Strategy
Most dentists find the fee-setting process one of their most difficult and unnerving tasks. How do you know you are setting fees at a point that properly reflects the value provided while remaining competitive and staying in compliance with anti-trust law?
Dental Practice Advisors can show you how to create effective fee-setting processes that focus on using factors unique to your practice, such as clinical skills and advanced training; technology; procedure speed; variable lab and supply expenses; wages and fixed overhead costs; and your annual compensation goals as well as independent survey information on fee levels and market pricing trends.
We have helped hundreds of dentists gain confidence by understanding the relationship between their fees and the quality they provide. The result is a fee schedule that makes sense and can be reinforced by all members of the dental team. Our approach is three-fold:
- Fee Strategy Consulting – high level guidance
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25 August 2017
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I wish I'd seen this last week so I could have shared the "spoiler" BEFORE the eclipse...
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Youth Mobility Scheme 2014 for Japanese Nationals
For 2014 we have news about "Youth Mobility Scheme".
This category is specific for Japanese nationals who live abroad and will be available in January 2014.
The number of the vacancies will be 1000, and if your application is successful you will be able to live, work and study in the UK for up to 2 years.
The deadline for this application is to 4th January 2014.
The first 1000 applicants will be chosen at random.
IAM will send you on Wednesday 16 January if you have been chosen to apply.
If you are one of the chosen person, you will receive an email with all the information needed.
If you are in UK, you are not able to apply.
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Throughout 2016 and 2017, detailed design works will take place along the onshore cable route. These works will involve some site investigation campaigns and we have provided more detail on what each campaign will involve below.
Some of the equipment involved is also shown at the bottom of this page.
Full information on these individual topics is available by clicking on each of the headings, below.
Archaeology evaluation and Trial Trenching
General overview
An Archaeological Trial Trenching campaign will investigate the full route of the onshore cable corridor, including the fields adjacent to the landfall location and the onshore Substation and Intermediate Electrical Compound sites.
These works are required to ensure any important archaeological sites are identified and protected in accordance with planning policy and the commitments in the Triton Knoll Development Consent Order.
Trial Trenching is a trench digging technique used to establish the presence, condition and date of any archaeological remains which may be present.
The process usually follows non-intrusive investigations, such as assessments of aerial photography, desk-based assessments and / or geophysical surveys. In the case of Triton Knoll, geophysical surveys supported by investigations of existing data have determined the location and number of trenches required
Latest Update
Work got underway on Monday, July 31, 2017. If you would like to know more about these investigations, please see our Q&A document which should answer most queries.
If you have any further questions or issues you'd like to raise, or would like to know more, please contact us either by phone on 0845 026 0562 or by email firstname.lastname@example.com .
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Geophysical Surveys (Geophys)
General Overview
Geophysical surveys (or 'geophys' for short) may use a number of different methods and sensing instruments to collect information about the physical properties of land so that features in the subsurface can be identified. Readings are collected in a systematic fashion over a site, often covering large areas quickly.
Instruments can be handheld, pushed on a cart or pulled across the ground. The type of equipment is selected depending on the target object and site conditions. The results of surveys can be used to reveal water table depths, unexploded ordnance, underground services such as drainage pipes, or archaeological remains. Large areas can be covered in a single day using portable equipment.
These surveys are non-intrusive in that the surface of the land is undisturbed. However, crops growing above a certain height may interfere with the operation of the equipment.
Plant and Work Equipment
Indicative Sequences of Tasks
Trial Excavations (Trial Pits)
General Overview
Trial pit or trial trench excavations are carried out in order to study or sample the composition or structure of the subsurface, such as for pre-construction assessments or for archaeological investigations. Compared with light-cable percussion drilling or window sampling, this method of work is relatively quick but results in a greater surface area for reinstatement.
Trial pits are usually carried out when the ground is able to stand temporarily unsupported. Temporary shoring can be employed, for example where there is water present in the excavation or where in-situ testing is required.
Prior to commencing survey works the test location is hand dug to 1.2m to check for any buried services or other hazards. Following this a mechanical excavator is usually appropriate for excavating trial pits or trenches. Hand tools may be employed where underground services are known to exist.
Indicative Sequences of Tasks
Cone Penetration Testing (CPT)
General Overview
Site investigation using the cable percussive boring technique may be required in close proximity to where the cable route crosses obstacles such as main drains, river and roads and trenchless crossings are required.
The cone penetration test (CPT) is a common in situ testing method used to determine the geotechnical engineering properties of soils and assessing subsurface stratigraphy. The test is also called, Dutch Cone test. Due to its simplicity and efficiency, the cone penetration test is one of the most commonly accepted and used in-situ testing methods in geotechnical investigation worldwide.
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Cable Percussive Boring (Bore Holes)
General Overview
Site investigation use the cable percussive boring technique may be required in close proximity to where the cable route crosses obstacles such as main drains, river and roads and trenchless crossings are required.
Light-cable percussion drilling uses a mobile rig with a winch of between one to two tonne capacity driven by a diesel engine and a tripod derrick of about 7m height. The derrick folds down so that the rig can be towed by a four-wheel drive vehicle. In areas where there is restricted headroom or access limitations a demountable or low-headroom drilling rig can be used. This rig is brought to site in sections on a trailer and the equipment is re-assembled on site. In areas where ground conditions are soft or wet, a tracked vehicle may be utilised to reduce ground pressure and impacts on soils.


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The Republican Party is trying to rein in Donald Trump after his remarks saying that many Mexican immigrants are rapists and criminals. They don't want anyone to think the GOP is a racist party, even though history, and the fact that Trump is now running second in the polls, indicate otherwise.
7 thoughts on "Republicans Reply to Trump"
Ralph Nader thinks Trump can remain a problem for the GOP:
According to the latest poll His Trumpiness is the leading GOP contender. Which sounds just really, really scary until you notice that he's favored by only 15% of the mentally rightarded.
I am absolutely loving watching the GOP fracture, knowing they did it to themselves. They've been playing wedge issue games for so long that they drove deep divisions into their own party. Historically their power has come from their rock hard solidarity. But rocks are brittle
DTrump is an ass. Not only that, but DTrump is an obnoxious ass. The political incorrectness of DTrump is absofuckinglutely horrible! Have you ever noticed, DTrump has never known a truly good-hair day? DTrump is also very obscenely rich.
Meanwhile, DTrump tells the tasteless truth about how illegal migrants from south-of-the-border are, throughout the South-West (and the rest of the U.S.) multiple-offender sex-criminals, often against children … (conservatively) by the thousands.
Mostly because of how DTrump is telling the bald-faced truth, the rest of America's corporate media is demanding that EVERYONE reject that eversodistasteful truth, mostly because it is being so viciously disclosed by an abusively rich asswipe who is homesteading a genetically altered ferret on his head, The DTrump.
This American Corporate Media spin-plan seems to be working too. Instead of factually confirming the statistics, America's hoi-polloi are condemning the messenger. Flushing the asswiped DTrump. At least, that's what the corporate media is proclaiming. Meanwhile, the vote-counters are laughing their asses off.
Dan –
If you want to stop ethnic gangs, then outgrow your bigotry. THAT is the root cause – not someone's race, religion, or any other superficial difference.
We've had wave after wave of immigrants, when we marginalize them, deny them good jobs, etc, we create a breeding ground for crime.
We've had black gangs, Irish gangs, Puerto Rican gangs, etc. Can you imagine how US history would have been different if we'd welcomed Italian immigrants instead of being prejudiced against them? No Italian gangs would have meant no Mafia.
Of maybe we should just sent all those white Christians back where they came from.
DanD is an ass.
Know Nothingism has a long and (dis)honourable tradition in the United States (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing) ; Mr Trump is only one, if a prominent, manifestation. We even see examples of it on this commentary thread….
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Sticking with Workouts from last week's blog, I thought about "What makes a workout easier"…. Cute workout gear of course!!!!!…… Does anyone else find it easier to work out when you love your tennis shoes (Im an Asics girl myself) or when you have a workout outfit that makes you feel like Alex in Flashdance….. This got me thinking… What is my favorite workout attire?.... Im pretty basic on top: black, black and more black, but what Im really picky with is workout PANTS…. Leggings to be specific….. Leggings and I have a very long relationship- they have taken me through all of my pregnancies, through weight gain and weight loss, and through it all , we have continued to love each other..... They really are my go to….….. I've tried all different kinds but three brands have passed the test of time and are my go to, tried and true, ride or die workout/lounge, live in pants…. Here are my favs:
2. Victoria Secrets Knock Out High Waist Tights….. The name fits these- they are a knockout…. These leggings, you must check out… I wear these for all types of workouts- mall-walking, kickboxing, yoga, piyo- these are my go to… They smooth out everything and will not slip or move- they pass the Yoga stretch test…. They are more casual and have small details that make them "workout" gear… that doesn't mean I only wear to the workout …Nope , I wear these all over the place, but consider them on the casual side. Fit wise- they fit on the slightly smaller size.
3. Free People Capris….. Just call me a free spirit…. I love love love the brand Free People... the style and the look, but honestly the price vs how things hold up… doesn't impress me… that was UNTIL….. I found their capris leggings…. I have several different styles of these…. They are pricey but I love them and they have held the test of time…… They are more stretchy than both the above leggings but still smooth thing out and provide enough movement without slipping down. I also wear these as workout pants AND/OR, because they have super cute details, for a casual look…. The details on the legs add the perfect "little extra" to a casual outfit. The fit is slightly on the larger side.
Im such a boutique girl!!!! These can be bought at Nordstrom- link above but I bought mine from Too Blue Boutique!!!! A local shop!!! You must must must check them out!!! the styles, the look- such a gem!!! Soooo wonderful!!!! Let me know if you shop there and what are your favorite finds!!!!
Here is the website: http://tooblueboutique.com/
I have my mental list of boutiques and favorite places that I shop at....let me know if you'd be interested in my favorite shops......
WORKOUT gear- CHECK ✔. Give these a try if you are looking for an excellent pair of leggings or want to spice up your workout gear..…Let me know if you try them!!!….. Much Love!!!
Ashlee Sandstrom
1/22/2017 08:58:33 am
I totally agree with the Zella brand! Love how they hold up during a workout and with repetitive washing. I'm going to have to take a look at these other brands though. Thanks for sharing! You are looking amazing, as always!
1/26/2017 08:05:09 pm
Thank you Ash!!!!! Sooo glad you Love!!!! Definitely try!!!! Much ❤
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Do you ever struggle with your dreams for your life or finding some purpose for what you are supposed to be doing?
I know I have, being a self professed "goal junkie" I am forever trying new things, reaching for new stars, and going down various paths. Sometimes the path is organic and natural to who I am, other times I am trying to shove my square peg life into a round hole. Well if you are nodding then this week's post is for you! I am going to share three women's stories to encourage you to find your path and your purpose.
My dearest friend shared with me a dream for her life that she has had for a while but had not spoken into the universe until now. She wants to return to school to get a Master's Degree and become a licensed counselor. As soon as she said this, I said "Heck yeah! That is amazing." See, I have known this person for the last twenty years. We went to nursing school together, and at her core she is all about service to others. She was uniquely and wonderfully made to serve others, at the bedside of her patients, in ministry beside her husband, and in the not to distance future counseling clients with emotional wounds in their lives. It was such a great and obvious choice for her life, and I could not be prouder. She is setting out on a new path, one that aligns with her purpose and capitalize on all her experiences to date.
Another sweet friend of mine owns a small (but rapidly growing business) and is extremely active in all kinds of downtown revitalization projects. Her unique superpowers are inspiration and leadership. She is inspiring a community of business owners to support one another, residents to shop local, and is leading a together we can grow movement. She is inspiring beauty in forgotten downtown streets, instilling pride in the employees she hires, and the people around her. She never thinks small, she never thinks quit, and she is on a path to a million dollar business. It is a thrill to watch this journey.
While another close friend recently shared that she wondered if something was wrong with her because she never felt the need to "find her purpose" or to embark on some mighty career adventure. I had to chuckle, because she had already found her life's purpose forty-four years ago when she gave birth to her first son. All she ever wanted in her life was to be a good wife and a good mother. In today's standard of having it all, the perfect career, pencil skirt and blazer, with two perfect kids, soccer matches, and probably a dog it might appear that she is not measuring up. However, her path was raising three amazing boys, all who are college educated, kind, and productive in society. These are three of the best men I know. From her forty-four year old to her twenty-three old, they are just amazing. She fulfilled her greatest purpose without even having to know it. A special purpose that generates and shapes future thinkers, innovators, and society as a whole. Being a good mom, is exactly who she was supposed to be all along and I am so grateful for her influence in my life.
So what do these three women have in common? Purpose and path. See, when we find our purpose in life our path is straight and clear. Things seem to fit and we are able to work smarter, accomplish more, and achieve happiness. It does not mean the path will always easy, believe me I know getting a Master's degree is difficult, but the journey is worth taking. Running a business is really exhausting and stressful. I have been coaching my friend as she does her expansion, giving me a court side seat to the show. I am seeing the intricate moving parts, and it is long hours, back breaking, roll up your sleeves hard work, but it is also so rewarding for her to go from a one small shop operation to multiple locations and shipping internationally! And parenting, one of the greatest joys but definitely some of the toughest challenges filled with self doubt and "mom guilt" at every turn. The emotional toll can be downright visceral at times, and there is no option to quit and do something else.
So here is the take away, you too can find your purpose and path! These three ladies are awesome, and so are you. Be encouraged that no matter what your dream may look like, you can achieve it. Start with a pen and paper and write down everything that you think makes you special. What are your superpowers? What do people always come to you and say "how do you do …?" Chances are, your truest purpose lies in those questions you get asked all the time. For my one friend, people come with their life problems and need advice. For my second friend, everyone wants to know the secrets to her success in business. The third is always supporting her friends in their parenting, and mentoring newer parents now that she is done raising her kids.
Your purpose does not have to be something that seems glamorous or that Pinterest tells you it should be. It just has to be right for you. When it is, the rest will start to fall into place. I am a goal junkie, I love to try new things and check off boxes. I love a challenge and figuring things out (albeit usually the hard way), so I guess my superpowers are learning and doing. Yet, funny thing I usually do this learning because eventually it helps someone else, which then would explain why I am a professor and a coach. Hmmmm… and now I am sharing that learning with you. So this week look at your purpose, and then next week let's find focus and start setting some goals to achieve that purpose.
Until next week,
P.S. If you like what you read, check out some of my other blog post at wellfocusedlife.com or join me on Facebook at Well Focused Life. I would love to hear from you and celebrate your successes on the path to purpose!


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So, as orientation is just around the corner, I thought I'd give a few tips/ideas on what happens after you get accepted to medical school. Now, of course I only have experience with MUN for this, but from what I've gathered, most of these things are pretty general to Canadian medical schools.
1) Immunization records: Try to make sure you have your yellow immunization card, because almost all schools will require a childhood record. If you have lost the card (like we did) then call your elementary or high school public heath board and ask them to fax/mail the records. They will have full records because your parents were mandated by law to submit them, so they are a better bet than calling doctors. Also most schools will ask for some immunization blood tests, which your doctor can do for you.
2) First aid/CPR course: Your school will probably ask you to complete a specific course before you start medical school. Mine was a basic CPR for health professionals, and it took only a few hours and around 70 dollars to complete.
3) Fees: These are pretty self explanatory. Pay the fees (deposit and related fees) before whatever deadline they give you.
4) Registration: Register for your courses online (not too much flexibility here, they will likely just give you a list to register for). Also get a student email for the university.
5) Textbooks/Other things to buy: The school bookstore will post the list of books, but I would suggest talking to students in the Med2 pool, as they will tell you which books are really 'required' as well as where to get better deals (amazon seems to be the best answer so far). Some schools will give you a white coat, and some will ask that you bring a long and short white coat with you. Equipment will be sold to you once you reach the school, but again, take the Med2's advice on this in regards to what you actually need.
6) Attend Orientation: Unlike undergrad, orientation is mandatory for med students, which isn't too big of a hassle anyways 🙂
7) Assorted forms: There are a lot of other assorted forms that must go to your university or to the College of Physicians and Surgeons in your province. Make a note of their due dates, and make sure you send them to the right place. Joining the Facebook group for your year is a great way to make sure you stay updated on that stuff, so I'd recommend it.
8) Get a Line of Credit: The bank you use is up to you, though I would recommend Scotiabank's Professional Student Loan Program. Prime rate, and they give you a 5000 dollar gold visa that has a lot of great travel rewards.
So that's what medical school looks like post-acceptance, pre-oreintation. The immunization record if you don't have the yellow card is really the only stressful thing, and calling your school board will solve that. Otherwise, the 'problems' after that 'getting in' nonsense are pretty nice problems to have!


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Q: We have a 25 year old son who is covered as a dependent under my husband's group plan. He has a complex mental illness diagnosis. What are his coverage options once he turns 26?
A: Under the Affordable Care Act, starting in January of next year, no insurer will be able to turn your son down for coverage because of his mental health condition. Depending on his income, he may qualify for subsidized coverage in the state-based health insurance exchanges, where coverage of mental health and substance abuse services will be required as an essential health benefit. Or he may qualify for Medicaid under the health law's provisions that expand coverage to adults with incomes up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, or about $16,000 a year. States can decide whether to adopt the Medicaid expansion, but even if your state doesn't expand coverage, he may qualify for Medicaid under the current rules because he may be considered disabled if his illness is severe.


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Moving Type
Despite it's lack of kerning, this piece really speaks volumes. The choices in animation really improve in the second half, as the message builds up, when compared to the rather slow start.
I'm comparing this piece not to the GOOD animation from earlier, but to this one piece by Heebok Lee, who currently works at Prologue and was an inspiration to me (not the typeface, but the animation) when I had my fling with animated type:
It's interesting to see quality animated type come from After Effects but not from Flash. And a little disappointing. Especially considering that there's no real video in these pieces, and vector type will really improve the quality while keeping size down. The girl effect website itself, sleek as it is, could be a done in the same way as the video. We see type experiments being done here and there in Flash, like this one from a previous post, but hopefully more exciting and moving pieces will show up.
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You can access a list with links to all currently available chapters under the menu item Browse Catalog. Right now, we are in the course of adding to, modifying, and updating this content, so please return often to see how we are doing!
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I want to remind you that today is Primary Day here in Washington State, which this is the last day to get your primary ballot in the mail. In addition to all of the endorsements we've made in the primary, I'd like to highlight a few with critical importance to our members:
Cyrus Habib for Attorney General - A state senator with a 97 percent voting record on working families' issues, Cyrus Habib rose to the top of a crowded field of 11 candidates for this position. Cyrus has been a champion for fully funding our public schools, reducing college tuition, investing in a transportation system, basic protections for working families, and a more open and accountable state government.
Mark Miloscia for State Auditor - Mark has always stood with us on the need for increased transparency in state government. He strongly supported our DOC Assault Benefits Extension bill in 2016, and when the U.S. Supreme Court was considering the Friederichs vs. California Teachers Assn. case this last term, he signed onto an amicus brief supporting our position to oppose "Right-to-Work for less" in the public sector. He was also the only Republican running for statewide office this year to endorse Initiative 1433, the measure to raise our minimum wage and require employers to provide Paid Sick and Safe Leave for all workers.
Dave Upthegrove for Lands Commissioner- Dave Upthegrove is a King County Councilmember and a former state representative with a 97 percent lifetime voting record on labor issues. In his 12 years as a legislator, he served as Chair of the Select Committee on Puget Sound and Chair of the House Environment Committee and has demonstrated his commitment to protecting our environment and the beauty of our state, while also maintaining and improving our economic future.
Here is a comprehensive list of our statewide endorsements as well as who we endorsed in legislative races in your area.
Regardless of who you choose to vote for, your ballot must be postmarked by tomorrow, August 2. Please let me know if you have any questions by replying to this email or give me a call at 206-441-4860 x1262. We also placed a number of resources on our Election Resources page on our website.
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A company has a site in Europe and another one in Mexico. They are interconnected by a private leased line. Each site is locally connected to an ISP (ISP-EU in Europe and ISP-MX in mexico). Border routers are respectively ER-EU in Europe and ER-MX in Mexico. Providers have allocated prefixes α in Europe and β in Mexico. Providers are doing in-gress filtering (i.e. a packet with a source address non allocated by a provider is discarded by the first provider router).
In the rest of the document, a host A (resp. B) will designate a host in Internet (outside company network) close to the ISP-MX (resp. ISP-EU) with a metric linked to BGP announcement. C (resp. D) will represent an equipment in the Mexican (resp. european) part of the company network.
Inside the site, an IGP routing protocol allows all routers to know all internal prefixes.


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Today you would have been 6 months old, Miss Caroline.
It leaves me wondering what you would look like now. If you would have started any solids by now. What we would be doing together every day. What your laugh would have sounded like.
It hurts to be here without you.
All the same, you have changed your parents and everyone who knew you for the better.
I am proud of you always.
I can't wait to hold you again soon.
I love you.
Happy 6-Month Birthday.


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Honeymoon in streaming. A newlywed couple finds their lake-country honeymoon descend into chaos after Paul finds Bea wandering and disoriented in the middle of their first night.
Directors: Leigh Janiak
Duration: 87 min
Year of release: 2014
Genres: Horror
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