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We follow the guidelines set by the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, which says children should see a pediatric dentist by their first birthday or within six months after the first tooth has erupted.
Early visits help to ensure positive dental experiences and provide prevention-focused patient and parent education. It will also establish your child with a dental home and gives parents access to after hours dental related emergency care.
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Without a healthy set of baby teeth, your child will have trouble chewing and speaking clearly. That's why caring for baby teeth and keeping them decay-free is so important.
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Pediatric dentists are the pediatricians of dentistry. Pediatric dentists have two to three years of specialty training following dental school and limit their practice to treating children.
Pediatric dentists provide primary and specialty oral care for children from infancy through adolescence, including those with special health needs.
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For your convenience, we've listed some questions you may have regarding your child's dental care. If you don't find an answer to your particular question here, you are more than welcome to call us at (904) 372-3260. We will be more than happy to help. Or you can email us, and someone from the BeanTeam will promptly answer your question.
Are thumb- and Pacifier-Sucking Habits Harmful for my Child's Teeth?
A checkup every six months is generally recommended. However, your pediatric dentist may recommend a different schedule based on your child's personal oral health.
Dental sealant is a thin, plastic coating painted on the chewing surfaces of teeth. Sealants help to prevent decay in the pits and grooves of back teeth. They do not prevent decay on all surfaces of the tooth. Proper brushing and flossing is still necessary, or decay can develop.
Water in Duval County is naturally fluoridated to optimum levels. Ingestion of fluoride through the food chain and water system is sufficient for proper dental development in this county. At home, however, water filters may remove some or all fluoride from your tap water. Check with the filter manufacturer or have the water tested if you have concerns regarding the level of fluoride. Bottled water may contain fluoride, depending on where it was bottled and what type of filtration was used in that process. The fluoride in toothpaste and anticavity mouthrinses can also help minimize dental decay, and even stop the progression of decay, if used with proper brushing and flossing techniques.
Thumb and pacifier habits will generally become a problem only if they go on for a long period of time. Forcefulness and duration of the habits are important factors in determining their effect on the teeth and jaws. Most children stop these habits on their own; but if they continue into the school years, your pediatric dentist may recommend a mouth appliance or a visit with an orthodontist.
There is very little risk in dental X-rays. Pediatric dentists are especially careful to limit the amount of radiation to which children are exposed. The use of a lead apron and digital radiography ensures safety and minimizes the amount of radiation.
Helping your child brush and floss regularly will play a crucial role in preventing tooth decay. Limiting the frequency of juice, milk, soda, candy and certain snacks will also play a big part in preventing dental decay. Visit the dentist regularly, beginning with the eruption of the first tooth. Proper oral hygiene, when added to regular dental visits and a balanced diet, will help give your child a healthy smile for a lifetime.
What Should I Use to Clean My Infant Child's Teeth?
A toothbrush will remove plaque bacteria that can lead to decay. Use any soft-bristled toothbrush with a small head. A brush designed specifically for infants would be best. Brush at least once a day, preferably twice, and always before bedtime.
Before teeth erupt, clean your child's gums with a soft infant toothbrush, or with moist cloth or gauze. After teeth begin to appear, start brushing twice daily using nonfluoridated toothpaste and a soft, infant toothbrush. Use fluoride toothpaste in very small amounts only (about half the size of a grain of rice) for children between the ages of 1 and 2. For children from 2 to 5 years old, use a pea-sized amount of toothpaste. Brush your child's teeth or assist with brushing. Remember that it takes many years before children are old enough to brush their teeth effectively on their own. Supervision is also important to ensure that they don't swallow excess toothpaste.
A soft-plastic, custom-fitted mouthguard fabricated by a pediatric dentist or orthodontist can protect teeth, lips, cheeks and gums from sports-related injuries.
The most important thing to do is to find the tooth. Hold it by the crown (top) rather than the root, and try to reinsert it into the socket. If that is not possible, put the tooth in a glass of milk. Take your child and the glass immediately to the closest emergency room or pediatric dentist.
First, rinse the irritated area with warm salt water. Place a cold compress on the face if it is swollen. Give the child acetaminophen for any pain, rather than placing aspirin on the teeth or gums. See a dentist as soon as possible.


The old ideals or tenets of indie cinema started to wash away, once the middle of the 00's were underway. Distribution platforms changed, DV cameras became more affordable and above all, anyone thought they could make a film. The market became saturated and people's eyes diverted to niche corners, vying for attention. Which is to say that it takes something very special or daringly bold to garner a lot of attention. More so when the feature waving it's hand is a student film, wandering on the festival scene. Yet that's exactly what Tilman Singer's debut feature, Luz, does: it demands your attention, focus and patients. Qualities that feel in short supply these days.
At a desolate German police station, existing in some undisclosed time and space, cab drive Luz (Luana Velis), enters in a trance-like state. Covered in a series of cuts, two police officers (Nadja Stübiger and Johannes Benecke )are immediately suspicious of her arrival. Desperately wanting to find out tragic event transpired earlier in the evening. Only there are two problems: she's speaking Spanish and keeps repeating the same sacrilegious prayer over and over again.
Meanwhile, across town, in an empty bar, 2 patrons attempt to connect. Nora (Julia Reidler) is perhaps a bit too intoxicated and in an overly share-y mood. Dr. Rossini (Jan Bluthardt) is more reserved, but too kind to rebuff the advances of a beautiful woman. Specially one so eager to tell him a tale. So much that he's willing to continually disregard his constantly buzzing pager. All is not what it seems and everything collides with the police station story, in ways both all too convenient, as well as rather perplexing.
While it certainly won't win any awards in terms of the story it tells, Luz injects a fair deal of creativity and ingenuity into each scene, to make it memorable. The bulk of which resembles something close to performance art theater, gradually morphing into something that would bring Lars von Trier to tears. Which is to say the movie includes a technique comparable to the Brechtian starkness of Dogville. The difference here is the way that it's employed. For Luz, at it's heart, is part reconstruction flashback.
In order to figure out what brought her to the police, the two officers (Olarte, a translator and Bertillion, his superior) re-purpose a meeting room. They set chairs up to represent a cab, complete with a propped up rear view mirror. In a hypnotized state, courtesy of Rossini, she begins to act out the events of the night and a strange and brilliant transformation begins to unfold. Ybfortunately, to delve any further, is to spoil the best surprises that lay within. If not for anything else, Luz is a technical marvel. Even though it achieves that states by looking fully into the past. Besides the brilliant staging and an audaciously clever sound design, the single greatest thing going for the picture is how it was shot: on 16mm.
Again, a simple and obvious choice is implemented so perfectly, it's difficult to image the film being made any other way. So many other "throwbacks" settle for filming on DV and try as they might to cover it, the inherent fakeness to the format robs those movies of their authenticity. On the other hand, Luz could just as easily be transferred to VHS and pawned off as a long lost gem from the 70's or 80's.
Those above decades also inform the pacing. Luz is almost entirely steeped in mood and atmosphere. Where coherence and succinct plotting take a backseat. It's a bold gambit, yes. One that could collapse at any moment. What keeps it from doing so, is Singer's assured hand at the helm. Though it only runs a merciful 70 minutes, it'd be easy to argue for an additional scene or two. Trying to navigate specifics of why is hard, but the crux of the proceedings focuses on a case of possession. Just not in the sense you'd normally expect. Part of that's due to a deep dive into the realm of dream logic. Yet, not the easily digestable form seen in Inception. No, this is something more obtuse and extremely specific. Think Zulawski's Possession, only by way of Fulci and then filtered through Tarkovsky and you're in the right ballpark.
Unlike 2018's Housewife, which came off as nonsensical for the sake of being nonsensical, Luz feels incomplete by using dream logic as a crutch. It would be easy to complain that embracing the insanity further, would have been welcome. Knowing the budgetary limitations in place, it's commendable they were even able to get as far as they did. The movie is by no means perfect, but it is awe inspiring. The level of detail and crafting involved on the production is astounding. And while it isn't the sort of thing to set the world on fire, this is the kind of picture that people will pick apart and study for some time to come. Luz works because it shows conviction and tenacity, while respecting the history of cinema, can lead to something special. Even coming from someone who has barely begun to flex their creative muscles.


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Home • Crime in the U.S. • 2016 • Crime in the U.S. 2016 • Tables • Table 20
by Age, 2016
[13,055 agencies; 2016 estimated population 257,118,573]
Data Declaration
Offense charged
and over
65 and
8,481,602 190,575 681,701 7,799,901 4,902 42,347 143,326 127,828 164,010 199,288 269,618 294,446 295,134 297,815 304,569 310,118 316,603 1,446,803 1,178,723 917,096 633,112 550,673 454,140 293,893 140,568 96,590
Total percent distribution1
100.0 2.2 8.0 92.0 0.1 0.5 1.7 1.5 1.9 2.3 3.2 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.7 17.1 13.9 10.8 7.5 6.5 5.4 3.5 1.7 1.1
Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter
9,427 60 682 8,745 0 5 55 93 198 331 503 511 493 467 475 433 469 1,745 1,152 788 515 412 323 195 136 128
Rape2
18,802 1,190 2,952 15,850 30 331 829 514 561 687 794 736 652 664 608 522 532 2,360 2,266 1,907 1,409 1,187 886 586 369 372
76,503 2,898 15,339 61,164 20 368 2,510 3,123 4,367 4,951 5,448 4,726 4,052 3,517 3,303 3,034 3,044 11,787 7,911 5,229 3,158 2,585 1,911 984 325 150
305,985 7,158 22,362 283,623 148 1,839 5,171 4,130 5,049 6,025 7,317 8,246 8,843 9,975 10,675 11,003 11,345 53,322 44,445 35,037 24,412 20,872 17,108 11,251 5,399 4,373
165,376 7,646 25,513 139,863 193 1,596 5,857 5,243 6,117 6,507 7,889 7,320 6,411 5,971 5,857 5,862 5,952 27,290 21,721 15,852 9,789 8,327 6,110 3,448 1,360 704
Larceny-theft
839,617 29,321 107,287 732,330 476 6,207 22,638 20,954 26,589 30,423 34,793 31,534 28,229 26,698 26,858 27,111 28,192 133,335 111,662 85,045 58,510 52,166 41,687 26,092 12,164 8,254
7,827 1,165 2,030 5,797 99 414 652 351 276 238 187 207 200 196 186 181 211 965 860 722 501 408 426 287 152 108
Violent crime3
410,717 11,306 41,335 369,382 198 2,543 8,565 7,860 10,175 11,994 14,062 14,219 14,040 14,623 15,061 14,992 15,390 69,214 55,774 42,961 29,494 25,056 20,228 13,016 6,229 5,023
Violent crime percent distribution1
100.0 2.8 10.1 89.9 * 0.6 2.1 1.9 2.5 2.9 3.4 3.5 3.4 3.6 3.7 3.7 3.7 16.9 13.6 10.5 7.2 6.1 4.9 3.2 1.5 1.2
Property crime3
1,081,387 40,956 147,350 934,037 783 8,512 31,661 29,385 36,501 40,508 46,090 41,888 37,463 35,346 35,341 35,609 36,910 173,238 143,464 108,311 72,708 63,702 50,094 30,696 13,960 9,217
Property crime percent distribution1
100.0 3.8 13.6 86.4 0.1 0.8 2.9 2.7 3.4 3.7 4.3 3.9 3.5 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.4 16.0 13.3 10.0 6.7 5.9 4.6 2.8 1.3 0.9
Other assaults
859,316 39,768 102,694 756,622 1,321 10,824 27,623 19,949 21,673 21,304 20,131 21,251 22,747 26,351 27,986 29,328 30,162 139,697 117,671 94,570 67,678 58,012 46,809 28,940 14,115 11,174
Forgery and counterfeiting
45,067 105 967 44,100 1 11 93 107 237 518 1,239 1,936 2,124 1,527 1,659 1,718 1,772 8,806 7,379 5,927 3,597 2,741 1,902 1,027 460 286
101,980 771 3,680 98,300 4 119 648 660 964 1,285 2,147 2,807 3,224 3,135 3,323 3,557 3,665 18,800 16,411 13,101 9,169 7,475 5,480 3,296 1,533 1,177
12,688 49 540 12,148 0 6 43 49 157 285 593 753 640 587 587 555 532 2,235 1,625 1,217 921 761 565 332 146 99
Stolen property; buying, receiving, possessing
74,895 1,866 8,679 66,216 8 272 1,586 1,857 2,354 2,602 3,224 3,173 3,003 2,843 2,885 2,842 2,934 13,500 10,945 8,072 4,901 3,666 2,341 1,202 456 229
156,186 12,524 31,181 125,005 534 3,253 8,737 5,663 6,457 6,537 6,573 6,281 5,727 6,137 5,955 5,737 5,717 24,087 18,506 13,316 8,433 6,933 5,400 3,353 1,606 1,244
Weapons; carrying, possessing, etc.
124,741 4,800 15,452 109,289 203 1,377 3,220 2,734 3,551 4,367 5,407 5,502 5,251 5,623 5,828 5,576 5,519 22,344 15,765 11,263 6,858 5,324 3,946 2,694 1,313 1,076
Prostitution and commercialized vice
30,509 48 396 30,113 1 4 43 54 95 199 772 1,032 1,251 1,357 1,419 1,320 1,361 5,855 4,477 3,303 2,427 2,181 1,565 960 456 377
Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution)
40,546 3,237 6,723 33,823 107 876 2,254 1,267 1,074 1,145 1,214 1,149 1,123 1,095 987 1,013 896 4,459 4,373 3,892 3,021 2,827 2,734 2,172 1,316 1,552
Drug abuse violations
1,250,650 12,067 78,330 1,172,320 91 1,737 10,239 12,096 20,639 33,528 57,653 61,810 58,365 55,548 54,681 53,861 53,677 231,196 174,620 127,217 80,183 65,702 50,589 29,799 12,136 5,283
2,916 23 203 2,713 2 0 21 33 65 82 113 132 120 92 97 89 88 396 311 241 215 231 226 132 112 118
Offenses against the family and children
70,072 1,048 2,738 67,334 96 255 697 581 533 576 805 918 1,165 1,300 1,560 1,955 2,288 12,741 13,608 11,416 7,369 5,389 3,647 1,865 789 519
806,369 87 5,135 801,234 8 9 70 225 1,243 3,580 10,260 15,436 19,384 29,998 32,006 33,203 34,106 149,864 114,804 91,267 69,029 63,734 57,107 41,309 22,607 17,120
Liquor laws
186,047 3,058 29,073 156,974 9 267 2,782 4,404 8,044 13,567 27,689 29,826 24,901 4,392 3,324 2,687 2,533 10,395 8,803 8,060 6,837 7,662 8,288 6,460 3,274 1,843
Drunkenness
300,473 455 3,805 296,668 14 35 406 521 907 1,922 5,137 6,405 6,913 10,524 9,897 9,949 9,591 44,260 39,462 33,807 27,676 29,718 28,417 19,950 9,716 5,246
294,345 19,949 52,315 242,030 498 4,964 14,487 10,521 11,221 10,624 9,678 8,961 8,896 10,766 10,199 9,906 9,524 41,020 33,043 26,114 19,078 17,910 16,060 11,224 5,470 4,181
Vagrancy
19,873 151 622 19,251 3 23 125 119 166 186 532 496 520 437 514 460 522 2,637 2,284 2,260 1,721 1,968 2,070 1,650 791 389
All other offenses (except traffic)
2,585,233 30,487 123,257 2,461,976 886 5,639 23,962 23,543 30,647 38,580 56,283 70,462 78,265 86,121 91,249 95,745 99,396 471,985 395,354 310,741 211,764 179,652 146,649 93,794 44,082 30,434
440 24 74 366 0 6 18 14 19 17 16 9 12 13 11 16 20 74 44 40 33 29 23 22 1 3
Curfew and loitering law violations
27,152 7,796 27,152 - 135 1,615 6,046 6,186 7,288 5,882 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
1 Because of rounding, the percentages may not add to 100.0.
2 The rape figures in this table are aggregate totals of the data submitted based on both the legacy and revised Uniform Crime Reporting definitions.
3 Violent crimes are offenses of murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes are offenses of burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson.
* Less than one-tenth of 1 percent.
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Arrests, by Age, 2016
In 2016, 92.0 percent of all individuals arrested were adults (18 years of age and over). Adults comprised 89.9 percent of all persons arrested for violent crimes and 86.4 percent of persons arrested for property crimes.
Adults accounted for 93.7 percent of persons arrested for drug abuse violations.
In 2016, 25.9 percent of persons arrested for arson were juveniles. More than half of those juveniles (57.4 percent) were under the age of 15.
Persons between the ages of 25 and 29 accounted for 17.1 percent of all arrestees in 2016.


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Planning scandal: Labor keeps up pressure on Matthew Guy
By Noel Towell
The State Labor government will move a motion in Parliament to keep the pressure on Opposition Leader Matthew Guy over the Ventnor land planning scandal.
Labor will use its numbers to pass a 'censure motion' on Mr Guy, after a vast trove of documents revealed he directed officials to settle a court case with a $2.5 million payout because he was afraid he would lose his job as Planning Minister.
Mr Guy continued to fight back against Labor on Wednesday morning, accusing Premier Daniel Andrews and his senior ministers of being "obsessed" with the Coalition, instead of being focused on governing the state.
How Matthew Guy's $2.5m settlement was hidden from investigators
With just five parliamentary sitting days left before the state election in November, the government's motion looks set to dominate proceedings for much of this week's remaining sessions.
The motion will call on Mr Guy to resign and pay back the ultimate cost of the settlement to taxpayers of $3.5 million, which includes legal costs.
But the motion, if passed, will not oblige the Opposition Leader to do anything, and would simply note for the record the displeasure of the majority of the house with his conduct.
Deputy Premier James Merlino was on the attack again on Wednesday morning, accusing Mr Guy of lying about decisions he made when the government was being sued by the developers involved in the rezoning of land on Phillip Island in 2011.
Mr Merlino shrugged off concerns over the government's decision to break with long-standing convention and release cabinet documents from a previous government.
"It is not the usual practice to release 80,000 documents, but this is in the public interest, this calls into question the judgement and the character of the leader of opposition and potentially criminal behaviour, misconduct in public office," the Deputy Premier said.
"We're going to pursue these matters over the next couple of days."
Manager of government business, Jacinta Allan said, there had only been two censure motions put forward in the lower house in the past two terms of government.
"It does demonstrate the seriousness of this matter," the Public Transport Minister said.
"But it's an opportunity for the Leader of the Opposition to answer the questions that he is so desperately trying to duck and avoid answering."
Ms Allan continued trying to bring other Liberal frontbenchers into the controversy, suggesting Robert Clark and Michael O'Brien, the Attorney-General and Treasurer respectively at the time of the scandal, had questions to answer.
Labor swings the wrecking ball at Guy, again
But Mr Guy returned fire on Wednesday morning.
"Labor is spending their time as a government talking about me," Mr Guy said.
"They're the government. They're not talking about crime in our city, cost of living pressures, rampant congestion.
"What sort of government is this, that spends its time talking about the Opposition, not about Victorians?"
The government's censure motion will be debated on Thursday.
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"We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind." So begins A Very Queer Family Indeed , which introduces us to the extraordinary Benson family. Edward White Benson became Archbishop of Canterbury at the height of Queen Victoria's reign, while his wife, Mary, was renowned for her wit and charm-the prime minister once wondered whether she was "the cleverest woman in England or in Europe." The couple's six precocious children included E. F. Benson, celebrated creator of the Mapp and Lucia novels, and Margaret Benson, the first published female Egyptologist. What interests Simon Goldhill most, however, is what went on behind the scenes, which was even more unusual than anyone could imagine. Inveterate writers, the Benson family spun out novels, essays, and thousands of letters that open stunning new perspectives-including what it might mean for an adult to kiss and propose marriage to a twelve-year-old girl, how religion in a family could support or destroy relationships, or how the death of a child could be celebrated. No other family has left such detailed records about their most intimate moments, and in these remarkable accounts, we see how family life and a family's understanding of itself took shape during a time when psychoanalysis, scientific and historical challenges to religion, and new ways of thinking about society were developing. This is the story of the Bensons, but it is also more than that-it is the story of how society transitioned from the high Victorian period into modernity.


Earl Dizon is a beloved bookseller at Green Bean Books in Portland. He serves on the PNBA Awards Committee and spreads the love of books off-hours as a volunteer at his local library, too. Multnomah County Library recently featured him in their Volunteer Spotlight.
Currently reading: Just finished Agatha Christie's The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories and I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip by John Donovan, one of the earliest LGBTQ YA novels.
Green Bean Books hosted a therapy llama on St. Patrick's Day, and I think that (like almost everyone) the llama felt like Earl's close friend by the end of the visit.


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The Law Commission has detailed a series of proposals with the intention of making the current right-to-manage setup quicker and easier to use.
RTM describes the process whereby homeowners with long leases on flats can take responsibilities for management functions from landlords on a "no-fault" basis.
The commission has identified problems with the system as it currently stands, saying that the process in taking over management is too expensive, technical, slow, restrictive, and uncertain.
It intends to counter this with the following reforms: Extending criteria so that houses can qualify for RTM; permitting multi-block RTM and removing commercial space restrictions; reducing the number of notices leaseholders must serve; introducing deadlines for the exchange of information between the landlord at the RTM company; making costs more balanced; and giving the tribunal exclusive jurisdiction over RTM disputes.
Commercial and common law commissioner Stephen Lewis says: "The RTM process is not working at the moment and change is needed.
"This is a very practical project and we've been focused on developing proposals that make sure the right to manage is more user-friendly, particularly for leaseholders.
The Welsh government's minister for housing and local government Julie James comments: "RTM has not been widely adopted in Wales, and we have heard anecdotal evidence that the procedures are difficult and allow freeholders to obstruct the wishes of leaseholders attempting to exercise the right.
"We want to make it easier for leaseholders to take ownership of managing their property and we welcome the Law Commission's proposals to reform the process".
Housing minister Heather Wheeler adds: "This government is determined to reform the leasehold sector to better support homeowners. This includes making it easier for those who wish to exercise their RTM and take direct control of their block.


Small, flat-headed sparrow with a small bill and a buffy wash on the face and breast. The eyeline is dark and wider toward the back of the head. The eyebrow is brighter than the rest of the face.
Juveniles have similar features as adults, but with less distinct markings.
Song is a fine, hissing grasshopper-like buzz, starting and ending with a faint "tik."
Small, flat-headed sparrow with a small bill. Overall rather buffy with a gray cheek patch and a dark eyeline that gets wider toward the back of the head.
Juveniles look like adults, but tend to be buffier overall with less distinct markings.
Buffy orange face and chest.
Black streaks on sides and flanks, and occasionally across chest.
Pinkish brown nape streaked with chestnut.
Juvenile similar to adult, but buffier and with less distinct markings.


Augsburg tram 8002. This is a MAN type M8C from 1985. Photo by Erik Hjelme 23 September 1995.
The tram type Augsburg M8c has two drivers' cabs and doors on both sides, so it doesn't need a proper turnaround loop. These are the only Augsburg trams with two cabs. Augsburg is already trying to get rid of these high-floor types. Some of them have been sold to Elblag in Poland and some others to Darmstadt. There were originally 12 of these trams and five were already sold 2012-13.
Picture from Augsburg Hauptbahnhof 9.10.2015 by Ilkka Siissalo.
Same M8c tram as above, seen from the other side.
Inside view of an M8c tram. The lady in the picture is train photographer Sanna Siissalo.
Picture from near Augsburg Hauptbahnhof 9.10.2015 by Ilkka Siissalo.
Augsburg tram 408. This is an old Rastatt GT4 from 1951, renovated/modernised in the 1970s.
Photo by Erik Hjelme 23 September 1995.
Augsburg tram 809. This is of the type MAN GT8.
Augsburg tram no.826 is a Siemens Combino, here on the street Herrmannstrasse on line 1 to Göggingen. These Combinos were delivered to Augsburg 1999 to 2004 and there are 41 of them in use.
Picture 9.10.2015 by Ilkka Siissalo.
The same Augsburg tram no.826 at Herrmannstrasse on line 1 to Göggingen.
Same Siemens Combino as in the pictures above, but now at Königstor. This shows well the remarkable length fo the Combinos, up to 45 metres in this configuration.
Even newer than the Siemens Combinos, this is a Bombardier CityFlex tram. Augsburg got 27 of them 2009-2011. The tram is extremely long.
Picture from Göggingerstrasse in Augsburg 9.10.2015 by Ilkka Siissalo.
Another one of the Bombardier CityFlex trams, the no.881 is here stopping at the tram stop Kongress am Park by the Göggingerstrasse.
Picture from Göggingerstrasse in Augsburg 11.10.2015 by Ilkka Siissalo.
A new Solaris Tramino tram of the city of Braunschweig is turning in the loop in front of Braunschweig main station.
Dresden has today 14 tramlines and close to 200 trams. The network is operated by the Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe, a part of the city itself. After the communist times the tram network was in a desolate condition and it is a wonder how nicely services have been restored by now.
This tram no.2626 is a Bombardier Flexity Classic 8 axle version. There are also similar 12 axle variants.
Picture from Dresden Washingtonstrasse 16.7.2018 by Ilkka Siissalo.
The same tram 2626 seen from behind.
No.2607 is a similar Bombardier Flexity Classic 8 axle versionas depicted above, but it has tapings advertising DVB's own bus services.
Class 6000 Hannover tram in front of main railway station. Photo in August 1996 by Ilkka Siissalo.
Class 6000 Hannover trams run in the city center underground in a metro like fashion. While stopping at the high metro style platforms, they only open a part of their doors, thereby creating a level low-floor entry for passengers. While stopping at the street level stops, the trams can also open the lower part of their doors together with stairs. Photo from one of the metro-like underground stations in August 1996 by Ilkka Siissalo.
The classic tram of Leipzig, a Tatra T3 from communist times long gone by. These trams were once abundant across all of the communist block countries of Europe, but nowadays an unmodernised Tatra T3 like here is a rarity - although this one has at some point of time received at least new lamps and a more modern line number and destination sign system. Tatra wagons are nowadays used in Leipzig mostly only at rush hours and mostly as three wagon trains as here. Notice how the second, similar Tatra T3 has its pantograph down as it is used merely as an addtonal unmotorised wagon.
Picture from Leipzig Hauptbahnhof 16.7.2018 by Ilkka Siissalo.
As mentioned above, old Tatra T3 trams are mostly used in Leipzig today as three wagon trains. Typically the last wagon is a new one with a low-floor section. These low-floor new trailer coaches were first made for the city of Rostock, but as Rostock received more and more of new trams and could get rid of its communist-time Tatra wagons, they could sell some of the new trailers to Leipzig. This trailer wagon is a Bombardier 4NBWE built in 2013 for Rostock.
Some of the same modern Bombardier trailer coaches have already received the newer blue and grey livery of Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe.
Another "triplet" composed of two very old Tatra T3 trams and one modern Bombardier trailer.
This long and modern tram no.1205 is a 12-axle Bombardier NGT12-LEI delivered in Leipzig in October 2005.
No.1219 is a similar 12-axle Bombardier NGT12-LEI as shown above. This one was delivered in February 2007.
The same tram 1219 as shown above, but here stopping at the Leipzig main station tram stop. The NGT12-LEI is a remarkably long tram. It's 45 metres long.
Tram 1146 is of the type NGT8. It was Leipzig's first modern low-floor tram type. They were built bu Düwag, Waggonbau Bautzen, ABB and Siemens. There are 56 of them and they were delivered 1994 to 1998.
In 2003-04 there were still not enough modern trams in Leipzig and there was not enough money to buy a large series of some of the most common Western German types, so the Leipzigers started making their own new trams. The model became known as the Leoliner or NGTW6L. They were built by the company LEOLINER Fahrzeug-Bau Leipzig GmbH. Two prototypes appeared on the streets of Leipzig in 2004 and from December 2005 to 2009 a total of 50 Leoliners were taken in use. They were not very good trams, there were a lot of troubles with them, but they are still in 2018 in use on lines 3, 7, 11 and 14, on all other lines as a coupled pair, but on line 14 normally solo. This is a solo Leoliner on line 14.
A pair of Leoliners on line 7.
This tram no.1007 is one of Leipzig's most modern trams. It was built by the company Solaris in what formerly was the German city of Breslau, but what today is Wroclaw, part of Poland. It is of the type NGT10-XL and this is still one of the prototypes, the first of which were delivered in 2016. It's 38 meters long and can take 220 passengers.
München tram 2009. This is a class P tram built by Rathgeber 1967-69. A two car set can take 315 passengers. Most of the class P trams have been taken out of service by now.
München tram 2104 of a newer lowfloor type. This is an ADtranz tram of the type GT6N, known in München as the type R2. It has space for 157 passengers, of which 58 have a seat.
München tram 2207 is an Adtranz GT8N2 from the year 2000.
Photo by Ilkka Siissalo 16.11.2012.
Front part of a similar Adtranz GT8N2 from the year 2000. This is a type specifically designed for München. It's a four part tram with 8 axles. MVG has 20 of them.
Rostock tram 715. This old ex-DDR type is nicknamed "two rooms and a kitchen", Here the tram is coupled to an additional trailer.
Photo by Erik Hjelme 27 july 1995.
The city of Ulm has currently only two tram lines and actually they also are just end to end, one long line. There was earlier a plan for five lines, but a local voting turned it down. All the trams are Siemens Combinos or the newer Siemens Avenios. Avenio is the successor model built based on the Combino.
This tram no. 44 is one of the Combinos, here on line 1, just leaving the main station.
Picture from Ulm Hauptbahnhof (main station) 14.9.2016 by Ilkka Siissalo.
Two Combinos, numbers 43 and 49 stopping on line 1 at the main station.
Zwickauer tram no.904 is of the type MAN GT6M from 1993.
Photo by Alfred Slotosch in 1995.


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Q: Creating Table with variable name in Amazon Redshift Trying to automate a job and have a dynamic table name with the following format:
sales_yyyymm where yyyymm is last month's date.
Has anyone done it?

A: You cannot do this in SQL in Redshift AFAIK.  When I've needed to have automation of this kind it is the job of the external to Redshift automation tool to provide the table names if they are variable.  Redshift runs the SQL, the external tool generates the SQL.
A word of warning - Redshift is very good with big tables and does ok with small tables.  The process you are laying out has the possibility to make many very small tables and want to treat them as if they are a big table.  There are a number of issues that can crop up if you do this (assuming you are).  Since the minimum storage size on Redshift (block) is 1MB and that these are multiplied out over columns and slices - a table of a few thousand rows can take up a lot of space.  This affects disk storage, disk IO, and overall complexity of the query plan.  If you plan on making 10,000 tables of 10,000 rows each I promise you are going to have a bad time.

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I recently stayed for 5 nights at the Lighthouse Court Hotel for my wedding. The first two nights were spent in a standard king room and the three remaining nights were spent in the Hemingway Suite. I was impressed by both. The standard king room was bright, spacious, and clean, offering ample space for all of our belongings (and centerpieces). The Hemingway Suite was incredible. I've stayed at many hotels on the island, and this is by far the best value and most unique room I've had the pleasure to stay in. The views of the Hemingway Home and Key West Lighthouse were absolutely breathtaking.


Last month we reported that Evolution Studios, the makers of Sony's PS4 racer Driveclub, was being dismantled upon the release of the last DLC, "Finish Line" (the title of which no one knew the true meaning of until then). Previously owned by Sony, the studio was shuttered as part of a restructuring effort. But someone else was interested in saving it!
That someone else is the company Codemasters, which will be absorbing Evolution Studios and its entire team. Codemasters currently makes the F1 series as well as Dirt Rally.


Originally brewed for a guy called Mike who wanted a pale ale, so we brewed one for him and it turned out good. So we brewed him some more, and put some in bottles too. A strong pale ale loaded with Simcoe, Centennial and Mosaic hops and a little bit of malt.
Easy drinking well balanced pale ale.


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A Quick Guide About the Oxygen Compressor Machine
Home / Oxygen Compressor / A Quick Guide About the Oxygen Compressor Machine
In the prevailing condition of coronavirus, most patients need pressurized oxygen to fulfill the oxygen intake level in their lungs. Due to the depletion in oxygen levels in patients, oxygen concentrators are in high demand. An oxygen compressor machine also works as an oxygen cylinder, that's why it can also be used to balance oxygen levels in the bloodstream.
With the increase in demand, people tend to buy the oxygen compressor machine to breathe conveniently. If you are going to buy the one, be vigilant of fraud. Make sure that the oxygen concentrator is properly working or not. In this blog post, we will discuss the functions of an oxygen concentrating compressor along with its uses.
The function of Oxygen Compressor
The working function of an oxygen concentrator compressor is similar to a window air conditioner. When air enters into the compressor, it's changed into another form before moving it out. Moreover, it purifies the air to filter out all other gasses from oxygen. This pressurized oxygen will then be used to balance oxygen levels in the patient suffering from poor oxygen levels in the blood.
Let's glance at the steps of the functioning of an oxygen compressor machine.
Takes air in through an inlet.
Compress air to keep it concentrated.
Use of electrical interface for adjustment of delivery settings.
Removing nitrogen, and other unwanted gases.
Deliverance of purified compressed oxygen air to lungs.
What are Oxygen Compressors Used For?
There are various purposes for using an oxygen compressor machine. Some oxygen concentrators are helpful in the medical field, while others are in the industrial sector. Doctors usually recommend patients inhale pressurized oxygen from the compressor to maximize oxygen absorption in the lungs.
If you often have less oxygen in your bloodstream, keep an oximeter to check the oxygen saturation level. But don't use an oxygen concentrator compressor excessively. According to doctors ' advice, make sure to use your compressor to fill the oxygen shortage in the bloodstream and lungs.
The following are some acute conditions in which you need to look for an oxygen compressor for sale.
Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS)
Besides these chronic conditions, you might need an oxygen concentrator for the treatment of chronic diseases. However, you need to use an oxygen concentrator only for the short-term in an acute while for long-term in chronic disorders. Here are some chronic problems in which you should also inhale from the compressor.
Despite the medical field, compressors are widely used for industrial purposes. For instance, you can use an industrial oxygen compressor to provide pressurized oxygen for the synthesis of a substance like cement and pharmaceutical products. Moreover, you can also use an industrial oxygen compressor to inflate the tires of your car.
Airoxy is a high-quality oxygen compressor, having a 5 liter per minute capacity. You will not have to worry about its work principle as it's electronic. Besides, it consumes 320W power without producing noise greater than 48dB. Airoxy oxygen compressor machine prices are also budget-friendly and it is quite lightweight and portable.
That's all for an oxygen compressor. If you are looking for an oxygen compressor for sale, feel free to pick Airoxy. It's ideal for fulfilling all your medical needs. Improve your oxygen saturation level by using this oxygen concentrating compressor.


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Munchausen Syndrome by Accident
Do we need a name for that thing where you take your child to the doctor but your child can't or won't talk and so you give the doctor all your observations and interpretations, and diagnoses and treatments get made based on that? Well, maybe not just on that, exactly; I'd like to believe that doctors make their own observations and can see things for themselves that we as laypeople might not necessarily know about. But it feels like we are describing our children and others are making decisions based solely on those descriptions.
It's empowering, sure, to be believed and accepted as an expert on your child. But it's also scary as hell.
Because unlike someone who is creating medical drama for a child out of some psychological need for attention, the parents I'm talking about -- well, me, specifically -- don't want to create drama. We'd like our kids to be healthy. We just want to take care of them, like any other parent. But when you have a kid who, say, doesn't feel pain like most kids, or doesn't have the kind of abstract understanding that comes in handy when articulating physical and mental and emotional health, or has language skills below what medical professionals expect and demand (leading those docs to turn their confused gazes onto you for clarification) ... what do you do?
You give your best guess, is what you do. You've been thinking about this stuff tons before that appointment. Maybe you try to coach your kid to say that thing you talked about in the car, and then maybe you just say it yourself. You hope you're right. You pray you're right. You wish you had a magic wand that, just for five minutes, would allow you to have a serious and detail-filled debriefing with your child so you'd know you're right.
And sometimes you decide to let it go, it's all in your head, you're being overprotective ... and you're wrong, wrong, wrong. Like the time I interpreted my son's vague complaints of a tummy-ache when he got home from school each day as more related to academic stress and girl trouble than any physical ailment, and it turned out to be an ulcer that would ultimately rupture and require emergency surgery. I beat myself up pretty good about missing those signs -- yet if I had brought him into the doctor earlier and claimed he was having stomach problems, and he'd been his usual inexpressive self, not answering questions or maybe denying that pain he'd already forgotten about, would the doctor have ordered tests or medication or surgery? Should a doctor act in that situation? Would even I be sure that I wasn't making all this up?
I recently had the uncomfortable experience of talking to professionals about a young person's deteriorating mental and emotional health, and the feeling that I was gaslighting the poor kid was overwhelming, even as I knew that things weren't right and crisis mode was appropriate and the afflicted one was incapable of coherent self-expression. I know so well from parenting kids with developmental differences how enormously open to interpretation behavior is, and how many different things it can mean, and how dangerous it is to assume that your interpretation is the right one. Yet my interpretation was being used to determine things like medication and hospitalization. How can that be? How can it be any other way?
It's a dilemma, and one that will continue until they invent one of those Star Trek thingies where you run a device over a person and it automatically tells you everything that's wrong. Meanwhile, the pressure will continue to be on us parents to make our guesses as educated as possible and make sure that it's not all, or in any small way, about us. Good luck with that.
For When You Need a Good Cry
Had fun putting this Songs That Make Us Cry (and Songs to Cry To) playlist on YouTube in conjunction with our Parenting Roundabout podcast episode on things that make us cry. I find that country story songs are the ones that really jerk my tears — "Christmas Shoes," of course, which is the musical equivalent of a crowbar to the tear ducts, but "Don't Take the Girl" and "He Didn't Have to Be" both legitimately made me teary. I was kind of amused to see how a couple of sad songs from the old days, "Sylvia's Mother" and "Operator," are pretty obsolete because no one goes to an operator for information anymore or gets nagged by one to put in forty cents more for the next three minutes. Ah, memories.
Anyway, enjoy a listen and a weep — there are both happy and sad cry songs — and let me know in the comments what songs should be added on.
The Parenting Roundabout Oscars Live-Tweet
Or, how we managed to stay awake through five hours of gowns and golden statues. Listen to the Parenting Roundabout Podcast at parentingroundabout.com.
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The Mauro 10-Point Comfort Scale for Oscar Dresses
Over my years as a parent—and maybe particularly as the parent of kids with special needs, one of whom I regularly had to get down on the floor with as he was growing up, even at parties, even at church—I've come to value comfort and practicality in outfits over fanciness and sleekness and cleavage and slits and highness of heel. And while I appreciate that your average starlet can't exactly wear sweats to the Oscars (I'd be among those dinging her if she did), I still look at some of those super-fancy dresses and wince at how uncomfortable and potentially disastrous they will be over the hours that these women will be sitting there waiting to win, lose, or present.
In the interest, then, of rewarding those who do manage to be both comfortable and stunning, and to penalize those who have sacrificed their own comfort for a bit of red-carpet flash, I am submitting my official version of the Mauro 10-Point Comfort Scale, on which I will be rating dresses at the Oscar shebang. Join me, won't you? And add your own suggestions and specifications in the comments.
The Mauro 10-Point Comfort Scale
by Terri Mauro
Award one point for each yes answer to these questions:
Cleavage: Can she sneeze or slouch without risking a wardrobe malfunction?
Slit: Can she cross her legs without flashing a worldwide audience?
Hemline: Can she cross her legs at all?
Tightness: Can she sit for three hours without passing out or sustaining serious bruising to the midsection?
Frills: Will she have direct back-and-ass seat contact without having to sit on a peplum, huge bow, or scratchy petticoat?
Simplicity: Is it conceivable that she could use the restroom without having assistants along to undress and dress her?
Bareness: Is her back covered enough to avoid pattern rash from a fabric-covered auditorium seat, or sweat from a leather- or plastic-covered one?
Shoes: Can she walk to the stage to accept an award without risking a heel caught in a skirt or a twisted ankle?
Train: Can she move freely without worrying about somebody constantly straightening out the back of her skirt (or what's getting caught up in it)?
Accessories: Do the earrings and hairstyle look like they could be worn for hours without giving her a headache?
Then subtract one point for each yes answer to these questions:
Does this look like a particularly nice mother-of-the-bride dress?
If that color looked that way on you, would your mother have told you not to wear it?
Does it look like something she just had hanging out in her closet? Or you might have in yours?
Is there a regrettable accessory? (See especially: belt)
Is it just, somehow, not appropriate to the occasion? (Can range from a too-short skirt to, say, a swan costume.)
Loving 'Parks and Rec'
This post is a bit off the parenting topic, except to say that any show that can hold my attention amongst all my personal chaos of family and freelancing has something pretty special going for it, and Parks and Recreation has been that sort of recreation for me, one of the few Mom Things that everybody knows to stay out of the way of. I've been thinking of putting together a list of my ten favorite episodes for the upcoming ending of the show (sob!), but since there are too many I thought I'd narrow it down by making it a Valentine's Day-inspired list of romance-related episodes. For me, that mostly means Leslie and Ben, because they're adorable and their relationship makes me happy. A few other couples, platonic and otherwise, do make it in, though. My unofficial list:
"Flu Season" (Season 3, Episode 3). Because this was my first episode of Parks and Rec, and the one that made me fall in love with it, and the one where Ben fell for Leslie. Amazon | Hulu
"Indianapolis" (Season 3, Episode 6). Because the idea that it is possible for a nice and positive person to break up with you in a way that is so nice and positive that you don't realize you're broken up with is both funny and sweet, and Leslie's litany of the times she's been broken up with is just funny. ("Skywriting isn't always positive.") Amazon | Hulu
"Fancy Party" (Season 3, Episode 9). Because what other sitcom would allow such a completely impromptu, un-thought-out, unnecessary wedding between two main characters, where no one was pregnant or drunk or the victim of a wacky misunderstanding, and actually go through with it? The fact that Andy and April remained crazy about each other and crazy in general for the rest of the series is awesomesauce. Amazon | Hulu
"I'm Leslie Knope" (Season 4, Episode 1). Because even when they're breaking up, Leslie and Ben are adorable. Love that the box Ben uses when he reveals he knows that they have to break up (to keep from torpedo-ing her City Council bid, since he's technically her boss and their dating is against the rules) ends up having a recurring role in their romance. Amazon | Hulu
"End of the World" (Season 4, Episode 6). Because of Leslie's scene with Ron, where she confesses that if the world was really ending, she'd want to be with Ben, and Ron points out that unfortunately, it's really not; and because of the very sweet friendship moments underlying all the bluster and buffoonery of Tom and Jean-Ralphio's End of the World (and the money) party. Amazon | Hulu
"The Treaty" (Season 4, Episode 7). Because Leslie and Ben's attempt to just be friends runs so hilariously amok into global war, and oh, c'mon, you crazy kids, just get back together. And because it's the middle of a perfect trio of episodes making just that happen. Amazon | Hulu
"Smallest Park" (Season 4, Episode 8). Because after it's clear that not only can't they be exes and friends, they can't even be co-workers, Leslie finally respectfully asks if Ben would be willing to say "screw it," resume their romance, and accept the consequences. (Spoiler: He would.) Amazon | Hulu
"The Trial of Leslie Knope" (Season 4, Episode 9). Because of the ending, with the nerdiest but most perfect declarations of love that completely fit these two. Amazon | Hulu
"Halloween Surprise" (Season 5, Episode 5). Because when you get a surprise marriage proposal, it's not at all unreasonable to request a few moments because you "need to remember every little thing about how perfect my life is right now." Amazon | Hulu
"Leslie and Ben" (Season 5, Episode 14). Because although this was a much more traditional wedding episode than "Fancy Party," with all sorts of obstacles and hijinks, the ceremony was beautiful and sweet and perfect. Parks and Rec, I love you and I like you. Amazon | Hulu
You can hear me discuss these episodes and more Valentine's themed entertainment on this week's Parenting Roundabout: Round 2 podcast. [UPDATE 2/14/16: And for more Parks and Rec goodness, join Catherine and I for our current Round 2 Parks and Recreation marathon.]
How 'Cougar Town' Restored My Faith in Comedy
As the parent of a young adult with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, I'll admit, I can be pretty humorless about the topic of alcohol use during pregnancy. I have no patience for anyone who wants to split hairs. This is a 100 percent preventable birth defect. We know exactly how to avoid it. News reports about how maybe this much is okay, maybe that much is okay, just make steam come out of my ears. You might be able to smash your baby's head against the wall a few times before causing permanent brain damage too, but why in the world would you?
Still, our society and our entertainment is pretty heavily invested in the idea that abstaining from drink is a fate worse than death. That's certainly the worldview of Cougar Town, a show that revolves around a group of friends in a Florida cul-de-sac whose most common communal pastime is polishing off bottles of wine. Jokes have revolved around the size of the container Courteney Cox's character uses as a wineglass. Funny jokes. I love the show, despite the fact that I gave up alcohol not too long after adopting my son when it became tough to relax and enjoy a substance that broke my kid's brain. (It's not like I was ever much of a drinker anyway. The line between feeling good and feeling sick was always pretty thin. No way could I keep up with the cul-de-sac crew.)
Cougar Town is one of those rare good-natured comedies — like Parks and Recreation — that just leaves me feeling happy, like I've spent some good time with fun friends. But I'll admit, I was worried when at the end of last season, one of the wine-swilling characters turned out to be pregnant. I wasn't looking for the show to turn into a crusade against drinking during pregnancy or anything; it's not that kind of show, and shouldn't be. But these are characters one might reasonably expect to be among the hair-splitters on the topic of fetal alcohol exposure. If the season resumed with Laurie explaining how she had determined how many glasses of wine she could safely swig, or grandma-to-be Jules laughing about how she drank when she was pregnant and her son turned out OK, I'd never be able to watch the show again, or with the same pleasure. And I would miss it.
So huge thanks and kudos to the Cougar Town writers for, in the usual amiable way of the show, just ambling right around the issue. The season picked up with Laurie late in pregnancy and lamenting her inability to drink. Her friends tried abstaining with her and were unable to, but there was no suggestion that she should join in (or preaching that she shouldn't). In the second episode, she had the baby, keeping this from being a season-long concern. Maybe I should worry about whether she's going to drink while breast-feeding, but you know what? I'm going to let that slide.
I'm just going to be happy that, at a time when those with serious concerns about special needs are regularly admonished not to hold comedy to any standards at all, Cougar Town has shown that you can avoid issue-baiting and still be funny. Turns out it's not that hard to avoid pissing people off.
[I also talked about this on the Parenting Roundabout Podcast: Round 2 this week, along with Snowpocalypse, the Super Bowl, Oscar scheduling, and books I may or may not have read. Listen in, and subscribe on iTunes for weekly episodes on parenting and entertainment.]
The Mauro 10-Point Comfort Scale for Oscar Dresses...


The 'Selene' robe is a modern take of the Isabella robe. With kimono style sleeves, a flattering collar and a shorter hem. Feel like royalty every morning in this luxurious style. Pair with the 'Lily' cami and 'Everly' short for a complete look or mix and match with our polyester and knit sets!


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13 Bizarre Differences Between STAR TREK and Its Wacky UK Comics
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Posted By Dan Greenfield on Jan 7, 2017 | 0 comments
Even weirder than Spock's Brain. In the best way.
By RICH HANDLEY
IDW Publishing's Library of American Comics imprint has released the second volume of its Star Trek: The Classic UK Comics reprint collection. (Click here for a SNEAK PEEK.) The three-book hardcover set is making available all of the long-forgotten Star Trek comic strips published from 1969 to 1973 in the pages of various weekly British comic-strip magazines and children's annuals.*
Fans who remember these lost tales will be amazed at how well they've been cleaned up compared to their initial presentation on faded newspaper print. Those new to the strips might wonder if they've suddenly overdosed on cordrazine.
These serialized weekly strips were published concurrent with the early years of Gold Key's Star Trek comic line. Prior to IDW's efforts, they've never been reproduced aside from a few pages reprinted decades ago in fanzines.
From Vol. 1
Those unfamiliar with the strips might be put off at first, as they are remarkably different than the 1960s television series. These were produced during the earliest days of Star Trek, when the TV series' UK premiere was still six months off. As such, the writers and artists were largely in the dark about the show's characters, dialogue, themes and visual aesthetics. The results were often hilariously off the mark.
This doesn't mean readers will not enjoy reading them. On the contrary, they're wonderful fun—it's their "offness" that makes them so readable. They're unique in the annals of Star Trek, surpassing even Gold Key in their sheer weirdness, and they deserve the proper reprinting they're finally receiving. But they are undeniably weird. How so?
Here are 13 Bizarre Differences Between Star Trek and Its Wacky UK Comics:
The crew yelled out all their lines! Everyone aboard the Enterprise must have been super-excited at all times! They were always yelling! Every time they spoke, they did so with exclamation marks! Every! Single! Line! Had! An! Exclamation! Mark! At! The! End! Plus, they sure liked to express their exasperation in space-y terms! "Great Jupiter!" "Bursting novas!" "Thundering spacejets!" "Streaking comets!" "Sufferin' starships!" There was never any doubt they worked in outer space! It could have been worse, though! Had Star Trek been a series about accountants, they would have yelled things like "Fixed assets!" "Balanced sheets!" and "By the general ledger!"
Kirk surrendered to alien invaders at the drop of a hat. The comic strips' version of James Kirk was apparently all bark and no bite. Although he rushed into situations headlong, phaser at the ready and more than willing to kill, he was also quick to surrender if his opposition put up any kind of fight. Robots commandeering the Enterprise? Surrender. An alien vessel opening fire? Surrender. A robe-wearing politician threatening Kirk with a knife? Surrender. A crippled child armed with a broken slingshot demanding that Kirk hand over the keys to the Enterprise, Earth, and the entire Space Federation? Surrender.
No one seemed aware of the Prime Directive. As noted, Kirk tended to rush into any conflict with guns blazing, and Spock frequently shared his thirst for blood. He also exhibited a marked lack of tolerance for differing opinions. If an alien culture were doing something that offended his Space Federation sensibilities, its leaders were unquestionably wrong and needed to be taught an Earth lesson. At no point would anyone in the crew point out that actions such as involving the Enterprise crew in local conflicts, altering the course of a culture's natural evolution, or outright invading a planet would blatantly violate General Order One—primarily because it's doubtful the writers had any idea it existed.
Kirk was sometimes a Redshirt. In early strips, Kirk wore a yellowish-orange outfit, somewhat close to the color of his onscreen tunic. Later on, he began wearing a red uniform, likely due to a change in colorist. This may explain why he so often surrendered—Kirk realized his red outfit made him much more likely to die during a dangerous mission. Then again, security guards tended to sport blue uniform shirts instead of red, while others, including David Bailey (from The Corbomite Maneuver, who was, oddly, a regular character in the strips) and Sulu wore green. It could be that Kirk was mixing up tunic colors to confuse enemies and thus reduce the likelihood of crew deaths.
The terminology and technology were vastly different. Given the writers' unfamiliarity with the TV show, not to mention their having been from the United Kingdom, it was pretty standard for the strips to employ the wrong names for weapons, gadgets and pretty much everything else. Earth was part of the Space Federation. The starship was called the Universe Space Ship Enterprise. Its bridge was called the command centre (note the British spelling) and the control sector. Transporters were teleportation units. And so forth. Moreover, references to battle terminology, navigation, and weaponry made the Enterprise seem more like a World War II submarine than a futuristic starship.
The Romulans sported beards and rounded ears, and dressed like ancient Romans. The televised Romulans were based on the Roman Empire, of course, as evidenced by their names and military titles (centurion, for instance). But they weren't actual Romans—they were aliens, and the Vulcans' long-lost cousins. The strips' creators apparently didn't realize this, as the Romulans had human facial features, dressed like they'd just wandered in from the set of Ben-Hur, and forced captured enemies to fight in an arena.
Klingon plots were often devised by evil scientists. On television, the Klingon Empire was a martial culture in which control was maintained via military might. In the strips, the (purple) Klingons—who tended to be drawn with receding hairlines and oversized foreheads, prophetically mirroring their more modern-day appearance, sans cranial ridges—frequently used science to defeat their archenemies. Typical dastardly Klingon plots included transferring a person's mind into another individual's body, creating vapor clouds to assassinate political delegates, and hypnotizing starship personnel to do their bidding.
Names, nicknames, and species were incorrectly identified from time to time. Thankfully, this didn't happen often—but when it did, it was great for a laugh. In the very first installment and a few others thereafter, James Kirk was called "Captain Kurt," while later strips misspelled Uhura's surname as "Uhuru" and identified Spock as a "Vulcanite." What's more, many stories saw the crew calling McCoy "Mac" instead of "Bones."
The Enterprise's shuttlecrafts looked like they'd been borrowed from other franchises. On the TV series, the USS Enterprise contained a number of smaller, simply designed vessels used for planetary missions, including the Galileo. In the early strips, however, the starship housed a large fleet of multi-colored vehicles—space bugs, repair wagons, exploration rockets, pursuit ships, rescue capsules, etc.—that seemed to have been cribbed from Gerry Anderson's TV shows and pulp magazines like Amazing Stories and Astounding Science Fiction. Later tales featured a never-ending armada of same-named (and quickly destroyed) Galileos.
The Enterprise was nuclear-powered and had a crew of thousands. The Enterprise on television utilized clean matter-antimatter engines and required dilithium to control a warp drive system's power. Not so in the strips: this sucker was radioactive, with glowing nuclear energy rods stored in a central power complex. The engines were so dangerous to be around that personnel had to wear special protective suits when opening the starship's cobalt containers. Additionally, the show's 430-member crew ballooned to several times that number in the strips.
The Enterprise routinely visited other galaxies. The Enterprise's U.S. adventures were always limited to within the Milky Way, unless under unusual circumstances (such as the Kelvans modifying the ship's engines to allow extragalactic travel), since our galaxy was surrounded by an energy barrier that messed with navigational systems, caused extreme sensory distortions, and increased psychic abilities. The British crew, however, visited new galaxies on a regular basis—galaxies with such imaginative names as Galaxy T-21, Galaxy 517, Galaxy M-674, the Gamma Galaxy, and the Omega Galaxy.
The crew often battled giant creatures. The Enterprise crew was no stranger to giants on TV, as they met the Greek god Apollo, faced the witch Sylvia in giant-cat form, and even encountered a humongous Spock in the animated series. But in the strips, giants seemed to be everywhere—and they looked just like Earth creatures both real and mythical: eagles, snails, ants, spiders, lizards, mantises, flying reptiles, even cyclopses. In one story, clearly riffing on Land of the Giants, the crew faced off against… a giant humanoid housewife named Gorda, who nearly vacuumed them to death.
Everyone called Kirk "Skipper." Don't be confused as you begin reading the British Star Trek strips and notice that everyone aboard the Enterprise addresses Kirk as "Skipper." You haven't inadvertently picked up a collection of Gilligan's Island comics. It's simply a British thing. Although "skipper" is also a common nickname for the master of a vessel in the United States, Kirk's crew always called him "captain" onscreen, or "Jim" if they were close.
Star Trek has long been praised for its lofty ideals, its optimistic vision of the future, and its inspiring messages of hope, peace and infinite diversity. Sadly, you'll find very little of that in the British comic strips. But it's important to remember that these stories represent a different era. They're lost gems with many facets and a unique perspective, an eccentric corner of Trek history that fans need to experience.
Rich Handley is the editor of Hasslein Books. His work includes Planet of the Apes: Tales from the Forbidden Zone (Titan Books), Watching Time: The Watchmen Chronology, Timeline of the Planet of the Apes, Lexicon of the Planet of the Apes, Back in Time: The Back to the Future Chronology, A Matter of Time: The Back to the Future Lexicon, and five essay anthologies for Sequart about Planet of the Apes and Star Wars. Rich has contributed to IDW's five Star Trek comic strip reprint books, Sequart's New Life and New Civilizations: Exploring Star Trek Comics and The Cyberpunk Nexus: Exploring the Blade Runner Universe, and ATB Publishing's Outside In Boldly Goes. A former reporter for Star Trek Communicator, he has written numerous works for Lucasfilm's licensed Star Wars universe and contributed to many magazines and websites, including 13th Dimension.
*Here's the rundown by hardcover volume:
Vol. 1 reprinted storylines #1-17 (from Joe 90: Top Secret issues #1-34, TV21 and Joe 90 #1-38, and TV21 #39-64), as well as the 1969 Joe 90: Top Secret Annual.
Vol. 2 features storylines #18-30 (from TV21 issues #65-105 and Valiant and TV21 issues #1-42), plus a supplemental story presented in the 1971 TV21 Annual.
Vol. 3, coming later this year, will complete the run with storylines #31-37 (from Valiant issues #43-118), along with the 1972 Valiant Summer Special, the 1972 and 1973 TV21 Annuals, the 1978 Mighty TV Comic Annual, the 1979 TV Comic Annual and other goodies.
Each volume will also include supplementary materials (full disclosure: written by yours truly).


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How Laura Vandervoort Feels About Being Back In The Supergirl Universe
Jessica Rawden
Published: Feb. 16. 2016 11:19 AM
We recently learned that Smallville actress Laura Vandervoort would be heading to CBS' Supergirl. The actress formerly played Supergirl on the hit CW series about Superman, and while she obviously won't be reprising the same role on the freshman CBS drama, the upcoming gig will playfully wink at her own role in the Supergirl universe. Recently, Laura Vandervoort explained how she feels about about being back in the Supergirl universe. Here's what she had to say in a recent interview:
Of course, it's a little strange, but at the same time, it's a new show and it's a different character. It's not the same Supergirl. She just has the same name and history, but they're portraying her differently than we did on Smallville. I think it's great. I think it's nice to change things up. It is a lot of fun. It's a wink at the audience when I'm with Melissa [Benoist] in a scene, with everyone knowing that history. It's great.
Laura Vandervoort recently spoke with Collider about her upcoming guest stint, but what I enjoy most about her attitude is her willingness to go with the flow and use the popularity that came with her CW gig as leverage to stay relevant in the TV world. After all, the timing worked out great. Her series Bitten was cancelled in December. Season 3 has already been filmed and is airing, so Vandervoort had some free time on her hands. The actress says when she met executive producer Andrew Kreisberg, she expressed interest in the new series, and the gig just landed in her lap.
On Supergirl, Laura Vandervoort is set to play Indigo, a brand new character in the Supergirl universe. We don't know a ton about who she will be playing, but we do have a few details, including knowing that Indigo will actually be a living computer, who is described as "strong-willed" and is thought to be a bit more of a baddie than a good guy. Since Laura Vandervoort often plays the heroine on TV, this should be an interesting gig for the well-liked actress.
Laura Vandervoort obviously isn't the only actress who once played Supergirl to pop up in CBS' own Supergirl. In fact, Helen Slater, who portrayed the character in the fondly remembered 1984 movie Supergirl, has also popped up in a couple of episodes of Supergirl, playing Kara's adoptive mother Eliza Danvers. (She also appeared in a couple of episodes of Smallville.) So, clearly the writers and creators enjoy nodding at the characters history on the screen.
Vandervoort's gig on Supergirl will be recurring, and she's set to first pop up on the series in Episode 15, which will air on February 29. You can catch new episodes of Supergirl on Monday nights at 8 p.m. ET, only on CBS. In addition, you can check out what else the networks have coming up with our midseason TV premiere schedule.
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Klein Engersen ist ein Ortsteil der Ortschaft Engersen und der Stadt Kalbe (Milde) im Altmarkkreis Salzwedel in Sachsen-Anhalt, Deutschland.

Geographie
Klein Engersen, ein Dreieckplatzdorf mit Kirche, liegt vier Kilometer südwestlich von Kalbe (Milde) und 1½ Kilometer östlich von Engersen in der Altmark. Im Westen fließt der Neugraben und im Süden der Neue Neugraben. Der Heitberg südlich des Dorfes ist etwa 46 Meter hoch, der Pickelsberg im Norden hat eine Höhe von etwa 56 Metern.

Geschichte

Mittelalter bis Neuzeit
Im Jahre 1238 wurde Klein Engersen erstmals als Engerbu parvum iuxta Calve erwähnt. Graf Siegfried von Osterburg und Altenhausen gab in diesem Jahr beide Dörfer an Abt Gerhard von Werden und Helmstedt zurück. Weitere Nennungen sind 1473 Lutken engersbw, 1506 lutken engerßbo, 1541 Lütken Engersheim und Lütken Engersbu, 1687 Lütken Engersen und 1804 Klein Engersen.

Eingemeindungen
Ursprünglich gehörte das Dorf zum Arendseeischen Kreis der Mark Brandenburg in der Altmark. Zwischen 1807 und 1813 lag es im Kanton Zichtau auf dem Territorium des napoleonischen Königreichs Westphalen. Nach weiteren Änderungen gehörte die Gemeinde ab 1816 zum Kreis Gardelegen, dem späteren Landkreis Gardelegen.

Am 20. Juli 1950 wurden die Gemeinden Klein Engersen und Groß Engersen zur Gemeinde Engersen im Landkreis Gardelegen zusammengeschlossen. Mit der Eingemeindung von Engersen nach Kalbe (Milde) am 1. Januar 2010 kam der Ortsteil Klein Engersen zur Stadt Kalbe (Milde) und zur neu gegründeten Ortschaft Engersen.

Einwohnerentwicklung

Quelle, wenn nicht angegeben, bis 1946, 2015 bis 2018

Religion
Die evangelische Kirchengemeinde Klein Engersen, die früher zur Pfarrei Groß Engersen gehörte, wird heute betreut vom Pfarrbereich Estedt im Kirchenkreis Salzwedel im Bischofssprengel Magdeburg der Evangelischen Kirche in Mitteldeutschland.

Kultur und Sehenswürdigkeiten
 Die evangelische Dorfkirche Klein Engersen ist ein flach gedeckter spätromanischer Feldsteinbau, bestehend aus rechteckigem Schiff mit eingezogenen quadratischem Chor. Die Bauernfahne aus dem Jahre 1675 gehört zu ältesten erhaltenen preußischen Fahnen. Sie konnte 2014 durch die Unterstützung vieler privater Spender, Sponsoren, Vereine und Stiftungen rekonstruiert werden.
 Auf dem Kirchhof im Osten des Dorfes befindet sich der Ortsfriedhof.
 In Klein Engersen steht ein Denkmal für die Gefallenen und Vermissten des Ersten Weltkrieges.

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Einzelnachweise

Ort im Altmarkkreis Salzwedel
Ehemalige Gemeinde (Altmarkkreis Salzwedel)
Geographie (Kalbe (Milde))
Gemeindeauflösung 1950
Ersterwähnung 1238

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Why they come: Food doesn't grow here anymore
Opinion // Commentary
Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
Flor Micaela Jorge Santizo, whose husband has left to find work in Mexico outside her home in Nenton, a village in Guatemala's western highlands May 28. She noted that drought and unprecedented winds have destroyed successive corn crops, leaving the family destitute.
DANIELE VOLPE /NYT
To understand why President Donald Trump's new sanctions and other flailing to end Central American immigration aren't working, step into the dark, melancholy hovel of Ana Jorge Jorge.
She lives in Guatemala's western highlands in the hillside village of Canquintic, near the town of Nentón, and she's a widow because of the American dream.
Her husband, Mateo Gómez Tadeo, borrowed thousands of dollars and migrated north to the United States several years ago after his crops here failed. He found work in Alabama cutting flowers but then caught an infection and died, leaving hungry children back home and a huge debt hanging over the family.
Two of their sons, 7 and 14, soon died as well, apparently of malnutrition-related illnesses. Jorge Jorge pulled another son, Juan, out of school in the second grade so that he could work in the fields and help pay off the debt. If it isn't paid, lenders will seize the family land.
If any family understands the risks of traveling to the United States, it's this one. Yet Juan, now 11, is talking about trying to make his own way north. And Jorge Jorge, while terrified at the prospect of losing him, approves.
"I say, 'Go,'" she said bleakly. "'There's nothing here, so go.'"
I'm on my annual win-a-trip journey, in which I take a university student on a reporting trip, and we've come to Guatemala to report on migration. My student winner, Mia Armstrong of Arizona State University, and I have heard from innumerable Guatemalans that the most fundamental driver of emigration is desperation — and, to an extent that most Americans don't appreciate, this desperation often reflects drought and severe weather linked to climate change.
"Food doesn't grow here anymore," Jorge Jorge said. "That's why I would send my son north."
There are other factors as well, and the despair also reflects a marginalization of Mayan communities that goes back hundreds of years, presided over in the capital by an incompetent kleptocracy. But climate change is aggravating the desperation.
"The weather has changed, clearly," said Flori Micaela Jorge Santizo, a 19-year-old woman whose husband has abandoned the fields to find work in Mexico.
Both her children, Isamara and Vidalia, died as infants in the last couple of years, Vidalia just six months ago.
So the paradox is that American carbon emissions are partly responsible for the wretchedness in Guatemala that drives emigration, yet when those desperate Guatemalans arrive at the U.S. border they are treated as invaders.
Yes, of course: It's time to note the standard caveat that it's impossible to link any particular drought or hurricane to long-term climate change. But that feels like a hollow excuse when you're facing a young mom who has lost both of her children because of impoverishment from drought.
As they see their own crops wither, families watch luckier households build new homes or buy motorcycles because of money sent back by a relative working in the U.S.
Guatemalans understand the peril — in Jorge Jorge's village, six people have died recently while traveling to the U.S. But the risk is preferable to remaining in a desiccating land that seems without a future.
There's some evidence that aid programs can help farmers adjust to climate change and reduce the desire to emigrate. But Trump is choosing to cut those aid programs while denying climate change.
"My husband is in the U.S. because there is nothing here," Rosa Mendoza Raymundo, 35, of the village of Tierra Blanca told me. "It's a sadness that our community has no water. That's why people are leaving."
She said her husband, Pascual, also took their daughter, Susanna, 17, because the trafficker offered a 30 percent discount if he brought a minor — to take advantage of the American practice of releasing a parent with a child. Now Pascual is cleaning houses in Kansas City, Mo., and Susanna is attending school (she had dropped out in the third grade in the village).
Mendoza Raymundo pointed to her 4-year-old, Pedro, and offered with resignation, "If we make enough money, we'll send him to the U.S. as well."
Across some scorched corn and tomato fields, Julio Mateo Mateo, 42, explained why two of his sons left for the United States: "They said, 'There's no rain. There's nothing for us here.'" One son, Edvin, is now in Seattle, working 12 hours a day, seven days a week, and sending money home. The other son, Domingo, was caught in March and is expected to be deported.
A third son, now 14, will be the next to try his luck. Remaining as crops fail and children suffer is not an option.
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General News Fri, 8 Jun 2018
Nyantakyi boy demands $15m 'bribe'
Unsatisfied with the $1 million they were supposed to receive as their 'payment' in the attempted $12 million bribe scandal as captured in the latest expose by ace investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, Abu, a special aide to embattled Ghana Football Association (GFA) President, Kwesi Nyantakyi, asked his boss to tell the supposed Tiger Eye PI's "investors" to round up the money to $15 million.
In an apparent expectation of a windfall consumed by greed and avarice, Abu had said the $1 million to be shared with Nyantakyi was too small and requested additional $1 million and later said it should be rounded up to $15 million, with his boss, the GFA president, endorsing the $15 million cash.
The proposal was made when Nyantakyi and his 'business friends' were on their way to the airport to catch a flight.
When driving to the airport after fruitful deliberations on investment opportunities in the Ghana Premier League and some potential government contracts, precisely road contracts in the northern part of the country, Nyantakyi's boy had made it clear that the amount the two of them were going to get from the entire arrangement was 'small' and thus he (Nyantakyi) should try to convince the investors to increase the amount, to which the beleaguered GFA president obliged, moving on to plead with the investors to raise the initial $12 million to $15 million so that they would be able to take care of other people.
Allegedly, the GFA boss was to use the $11 million to influence President Akufo-Addo with an amount of $5 million, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, with $3 million and one minister of state with $2 million, to have them award certain contracts to the "investors."
The latest Anas expose titled, 'Number 12' which was premiered at the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC) on Wednesday, June 6, 2018, affects the entire football industry in Ghana, from the Ministry of Sports, the GFA, the National Sports Authority (NSA), the domestic league, the women's league, the Black Stars and Starlets, and the Referees' Appointment Committee.
It shows match officials, executives of NSA, GFA and protocol officers of the Sports Ministry, and 15 referees. Notable among the referees are Samuel Suka, Robert Sarfo Mensah, suspended NSA boss, Eric Mohammed, Justice Opoku, Amofa Sarkodie. They were captured recklessly trading their conscience and integrity for various amounts of money, goats, sheep, cooking oil, bags of rice, among other items, with the pledge of manipulating games, facilitating travels for some unqualified individuals and placing some players, including Hearts of Oak captain, Thomas Abbey, onto the Black Stars team.
Mr. Nyantakyi described as the "Godfather" of the sophisticated network of bribe-taking sports personalities, was initially approached by the supposed investors for sponsorship of the Ghana Premier League but Mr. Nyantakyi eventually diverted to politics and other investment matters as he sought to convince the investors who turned out to be Tiger Eye PI agents, that he had what it takes to influence President Akufo-Addo, his Vice, and the business community in Ghana.
The investors, who unknown to Nyantakyi, were undercover journalists, promised a $15 million sponsorship deal for the league.
Even though Article 15 of the GFA code of Ethics titled Commission states: "Officials are forbidden from accepting commission or promises of such commission for negotiating deals of any kind while performing their duties unless the presiding body has expressly permitted them to do so. In the absence of such a presiding body, the body to which the official belongs shall decide," Mr. Nyantakyi found a clever way to sidestep integrity and standards by suggesting to establish a firm that will serve as the broker of the deal and part away with a commission between 20 and 25 per cent.
Ghanaians Shocked
Thousands of Ghanaians thronged the AICC on Wednesday and Thursday to view the one hour thirty minutes documentary, and were utterly shocked to see how people appointed to serve the state and soccer fans betrayed the beautiful game for various amounts of money and items, including $60,000 initially given to Nyantakyi by the 'investors' for the premier league sponsorship deal.
They could be heard screaming and chanting "Nyantakyi oo Nyantakyi" as the documentary was screened and the corrupt officials shown taking their bribes in cabs, private cars, hotel rooms and dressing rooms of some football clubs.
The GFA is defending the act, saying that until they get the video recording, the suspects cannot be faulted.
Source: dailyguideafrica.com
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Must We Believe In Absolutes?
God sometimes gets a bad rap about rules in the Old Testament, but God's laws were purposeful and always for one's good. A child will say the same about an unselfish parent's rules as they mature. We must be sensitive what we claim to be absolutes from God's perspective. Does the Bible really teach women cannot be pastors? Does the Bible really teach God tortures forever those who do not desire to live with Him forever after death? God forbid one seeker is driven to despair or unbelief because of disputable images of God.
Our vocabulary suggests unbelief in absolutes is impossible. To use the word "tragedy" suggests there is some standard of good or bad. Parenting is impossible without believing some actions are right and other actions are wrong. Who wants to be around children that have no sense of morality? A family or society without shame is chaos.
It is an absolute that there is a Creator or there isn't a Creator, so Christians and Atheists stand together. Personally, I prefer whoever is making the absolutes have a complete understanding of how things are. The Judge must be PERFECT and not just stating an opinion. No absolutes aren't much of an option logically or relationally. There is no basis for moral duty, no right for justice, my actions don't count, I don't count. Absolutes absolutely but whose?