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Andrew Lloyd Webber is a well-known English composer and impresario of musical theater. He has composed some of the most successful and popular musicals of all time, including "The Phantom of the Opera," "Cats," and "Jesus Christ Superstar."
His contributions to the musical theater world have earned him numerous awards and accolades throughout his career. A lot of people have been inquiring lot about Andrew Lloyd Webber and making various research about him on the internet.
This article talks about Andrew Lloyd Webber and everything there is to know about him.
Andrew Lloyd Webber Biography
He was born on March 22, 1948, in London, England. From a young age, he showed an aptitude for music and began studying at the Royal Academy of Music when he was just 9 years old. He later attended Oxford University's Magdalen College, where he studied history and literature.
Webber began his professional career as a composer in the late 1960s and early 1970s. His first major success came in 1971 with the rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar," which he co-wrote with Tim Rice. The show was a huge hit and cemented Webber's reputation as a rising star in musical theater.
In the years that followed, Webber continued to create successful musicals, including "Evita" (1976), "Cats" (1981), and "The Phantom of the Opera" (1986). "The Phantom of the Opera" in particular became one of the most successful musicals in history, earning numerous awards and becoming the longest-running show in Broadway history.
Throughout his career, Webber has won numerous awards and honors for his contributions to musical theater. He is one of only a handful of individuals to have received an EGOT (an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony award). In 1992, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts.
In addition to his work in musical theater, Webber has also written classical music and served as a producer and promoter of theatrical productions. He remains one of the most influential figures in the world of musical theater, with many of his shows still being performed around the globe today.
Andrew Lloyd Webber Age
He is 75 years old. He was born in South Kensington, London, United Kingdom on March 22, 1948.
Andrew Lloyd Webber Height
How tall is Andrew Lloyd Webber? Andrew Lloyd Webber has a height of 1.75m.
Andrew Lloyd Webber Parents
Who are the parents of Andrew Lloyd Webber? Andrew Lloyd Webber was born to William Lloyd Webber and Jean Hermione Johnstone.
Andrew Lloyd Webber Wife
He has been married three times in his life. His first marriage was to Sarah Hugill in 1971, but the couple divorced in 1983 after having two children together, a daughter named Imogen and a son named Nicholas.
In 1984, Webber married his second wife, soprano singer Sarah Brightman, who had starred in several of his musicals, including "Phantom of the Opera." The couple's relationship was often the subject of media attention, but they ultimately divorced in 1990.
Webber's current wife is Madeleine Gurdon, whom he married in 1991. The couple met while working on a production of "Aspects of Love" and have since had three children together, two sons named Alastair and William, and a daughter named Isabella.
Gurdon has largely avoided the spotlight, preferring to focus on her family and personal life rather than public appearances or involvement in her husband's work. However, she has been known to attend some of Webber's performances and events with him over the years.
Andrew Lloyd Webber Siblings
Julian Lloyd Webber is the brother of Andrew.
Andrew Lloyd Webber Children
Yes, he has five children from his three marriages. With his first wife, Sarah Hugill, he had two children: Imogen and Nicholas.
Andrew Lloyd Webber Instagram
His Instagram has over 225k followers on the gram. His handle is @andrewlloydwebber.
Andrew Lloyd Webber Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $1.3 billion.


Summary of Minnesota State Charter School Facility Law
In 1991, Minnesota passed the first charter school statute in the nation and started the first charter schools in 1992. In 1996, the Minnesota Legislature appropriated funds for a charter school lease aid grant program.
Lease aid grant statute
Minnesota law (Statute 124D.11, subdivision 4) allows charter schools to apply to the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) for building lease aid when a charter school has insufficient total operating capital revenue (as defined under section 126C.10, subdivision 13). The MDE must review and either approve or deny a lease aid application using the following criteria:
 1. the reasonableness of the price based on current market values;
 2. the extent to which the lease conforms to applicable state laws and rules; and
 3. the appropriateness of the proposed lease in the context of the space needs and financial circumstances of the charter school.
The State distributes these lease aid funds on a per-pupil basis. The amount of funds perpupil unit served for a charter school for any year may not exceed the lesser of
 1. 90 percent of the approved per-pupil cost or
 2. the greater of (1) the charter school's building lease aid per-pupil for fiscal year 2003, (excluding the adjustments under Laws 2002, chapter 392, article 6, section 4; this may not exceed $1,500 for these grandfathered schools) or (2) $1,200, generally for newer charter schools.
The requirement that charter schools pay at least 10 percent of their facility costs helps ensure that schools will lease appropriate and reasonable facilities. The building lease aid may not be used for custodial, maintenance service, utility, or other operating costs. Charter schools make up the difference between state aid and actual rent by spending general aid funds.
Application process
The process for obtaining facility aid includes the following steps:
 1. Charter schools determine that their facility complies with health and safety regulations, local building codes and provisions for persons with disabilities.
 2. The charter school then submits its lease contract to MDE for review on the basis of reasonableness and appropriateness. If the lease is satisfactory, MDE approves the lease facility aid. If building modifications are necessary and appropriate, those are often subsumed into lease payments over several years.
 3. The MDE makes lease aid payments to charter schools on a monthly basis.
State funding and Federal grant
For fiscal year 2004, $17,768,623 was appropriated in state lease aid funding and the total facilities lease aid appropriation for fiscal year 2005 is $22,236,119.
Minnesota is one of four grant recipients under the State Charter School Facilities Incentive Grants Program. Minnesota will use its Federal grant to enhance its charter school facility initiative by making building improvement grants, augmenting state appropriations for lease aid, providing technical assistance in selecting appropriate charter school facilities and disseminating information about best use of facilities.
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How can I calculate Vorticity (or any vector quantity) in cylindrical components in CFX-Post?
Some quantities, such as Velocity, can be generated automatically in cylindrical components by CFX-Post from the Turbo tab. For other vector quantities, such as Vorticity, you can create the expressions and new variables manually. Using Vorticity as an example the expressions are:
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theta = atan2(y, x)
VorticityAxial = Vorticity Z
VorticityRadial = cos(theta) * Vorticity X + sin(theta) * Vorticity Y
VorticityTheta = -sin(theta) * Vorticity X + cos(theta) * Vorticity Y
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- Bigfoot researcher: 'Human like us, only different'
 Study supposedly finds mythical creature contains human and "unknown" DNA
 - The whole Sasquatch thing may be moving from the realm of the weird to the level of "truth is stranger than fiction."
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 That will depend on how mainstream science responds to the impending release of a five-year DNA study apparently suggesting Sasquatch exists, and is not entirely human and not entirely non-human. It is, says the study's author, a hybrid cross of the two.
 The research was done by a team led by Melba Ketchum, a former veterinarian who moved into genetic research 27 years ago and runs DNA Diagnostics, Inc., based in Texas. Ketchum had hoped to see the results announced in a peer-reviewed scientific journal but they were "outed" last Friday by a note on the website of the Russia-based International Center of Hominology.
 The center's director, listed on the site as Dr. Igor Burtsev, wrote that Ketchum's findings prove Sasquatch or Bigfoot "is human like us only different, a hybrid of a human with unknown species."
 Reached by telephone Monday, Ketchum said the 50-page manuscript containing the research and DNA findings is still in peer review at a scientific journal. As for whether the premature announcement would impact that, she said, "I hope not. So far we haven't heard anything that says it's going to stop it." As for when the study might become public, she said, "in weeks instead of many months, that's for sure."
 Ketchum said the study had sequenced "three complete Sasquatch nuclear genomes" and determined the species is a human hybrid — "the result of males of an unknown hominin species crossing with female Homo sapiens."
 What does that mean in non-scientific terms? David Paulides of North America Bigfoot Research, one of several private groups and individuals who financed the DNA study, said the research makes one thing clear: Sasquatch isn't nonexistent and it isn't an ape. It's human. Or, at least, partly human.
 "It falls in the realm of human," Paulides said. "It has a human mother we can identify, that somehow evolved in the last 15,000 years, but in an unusual aspect of this we can't track the father or find out who the father is. Based on millions of DNA strains that exist around the world, the father doesn't exist.
 "The only species we can identify is human. The male that procreated is unidentifiable."
 Then what is it?
 "Some people out there have said we've used this word, 'angel DNA.' That is not true," said Paulides, a former police officer in San Jose, Calif. "But there is some very unusual aspects to that male DNA that cannot be explained right now."
 Ketchum's Texas lab didn't do all of the testing. She said 13 labs — at universities, state-run forensic labs and private-sector facilities — were involved in the process, which included blind studies "and repeatability on most of it." She said the labs tested 109 samples of all kinds — hair, tissue, blood and saliva.
 "And all of them had the same results," Paulides said. "If someone pooh-poohs it, they either haven't read (the study) or they just refuse to believe it."
 Another Sasquatch DNA-research project is under way at Oxford University in England but is entirely unrelated to the Ketchum study, said Thom Cantrall, a Sasquatch author who hosted an international Sasquatch symposium in the Tri-Cities area of Washington state last summer.
 "They're not working in concert at all," Cantrall said. "It's entirely different, with entirely different samples. Some of the samples are from the same people."
 The release of Ketchum's findings, Cantrall said, is "igniting a war" among different factions in the Bigfoot-believing community — those adamant that the creature is an ape or gorilla, and those who are convinced it's more human than not.
 The early announcement of Ketchum's research "has the ape faction totally up in arms," Cantrall said. "There's so much personal psychology involved here — people who have staked their reputation on (Sasquatch) being ape that they can't back away from that."
 Cantrall said he had "a tremendous fear" over what might happen to what he called "the Sasquatch population" over the coming months and years. If the creatures are indeed human, the government will seek to ensure their safety, he said, noting that federal protections for the spotted owl will seem "only miniscule" in comparison.
 "Really, the only protection (Sasquatch individuals) need is protection from being murdered," he said. "Because there's going to be that faction out there, too."
 Maybe. A September post on a hunting website referencing the two Sasquatch DNA studies ended with this little note: "PS: What gun do you think would be best for when I get my first Sasquatch tag?"
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Treeviews in Access Tutorial – Part 1 Basic – Loading information into Treeview
The Treeview is a great free part of the Microsoft Common Control Library that lets you create your own Treeview and tie your own data and events into the Treeview. It can present a lot of information in a limited space, and allows a lot more versatility in presenting your information. Combine this with the ability to use small icons for each individual record, you get maximum structure on data presentation.
This is part 1 in a series on how to use the treeview in Access.
This first video demonstrates how to add a Treeview into your form, and how to load information into it. Its all very basic, explained and coded from scratch, with detailed explanations. Later I will upload more advanced guides on the same topic, but this is intended to be a very easy getting started guide.

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43 comments on "Treeviews in Access Tutorial – Part 1 Basic – Loading information into Treeview
 1. Jessie says:
 Hi!
 I'm using your tutorial to create a tree in my database. I entered the loadTreeview code using my data, but when I tried to open the form, I get the following error:
 Run-time error '2465': Application-defined or object-defined error
 When I click "Debug", it highlights the following in your code:
 set tv=forms(frm_TreeView_Example").treeReqs.Object
 It seems the ".treeReqs.Object" isn't being recognized by my system. How do I change this?
 Thanks!
 - TheSmileyCoder says:
 Hi Jessie and welcome to my blog.
 I recently found out that not all combinations of Windows/Access will automatically add the reference to the treeview, when the treeview object is first inserted in a form (like it is done in my video).
 So start by checking your references, and make sure a reference is set to
 "Microsoft Windows Common Controls 6.0 (SP6)"
 If it does not occur in your list, try browsing for it, its usually installed in:
 "C:\Windows\System32\mscomctl.ocx"
 Hope that helps, and best of luck with your project.
 - Ben says:
 Hi
 I have the same problem as Jessie did but am still slightly lost.
 Unfortunately my programming knowledge is pretty basic and only goes as far as I have learnt for other adhoc stuff I have done, now that I am doing a treeview for the first time I am unsure how to make sure a referent is set to 'Microsoft Windows Common Controls'. Is this something I would do in the code or in the menu options somewhere.
 Apologies for the stupid question, I have tried googling to find out but to no avail!
 Many thanks
 2. Sidnei says:
 😀 Hi!
 I have a MS Access database with a Treeview control in a form. The application runs fine in my client machines but I'm using a 64bits Office 2010 to mantain it. As the control is not supported in the 64bit version of Office, I do not even open that form. Is there some workaround to this problem should I have to really modify something in the Treeview control with my MS Office 2010 64bit edition?
 Thanks!
 3. Samer says:
 Hi
 I tried to modify the example to present arabic data in the children nodes but it comes as ?????
 Need your help and support please
 Many thanks
 - TheSmileyCoder says:
 Hi Samer
 In design view, try right clicking the treeview, select "TreeCtrl Object" and then "Properties". In here there is a font tab, where you can see the fonts available. To be honest I don't know if that allows or does not allow you to use arabic letters. I have never tried using arabic letters, and don't even know how you guys manage to type them in a normal textbox.
 Best of luck with your project.
 - hello Samer,
 have you ever find a solution to your problem? coz i have the same problem but not "????", it shows garbage instead.
 waleed
 4. _EMAIL_ says:
 Hi I appreciate you providing this tutorial. I have a table with data of my own in which I am trying to get this to work but for whatever reason it won't run with the addChildren call within the first Do While Not loop
 addChildren tv, nodX, empData, empData!Name
 my first node works and creates the root name where mine is equal to 0 which i have here:
 Set nodX = tv.Nodes.Add(, , , empData!Name)
 I will copy and paste my code which is very similar to yours but when i run it I receive:
 Run-time error '13':
 Type mismatch
 when i click debug it highlights the addChildren call which I have provided above. Here is my code below that I have completed. Thanks again for your help.
 Option Compare Database
 'Within this module the LoadTreeview function is created so the code below runs when the Org_TreeView form is selected.
 Public Sub loadTreeview()
 'declaration of treeview as TreeView
 Dim tv As TreeView
 'sets the treeview and references where the treeview will be viewed by the user
 Set tv = Forms("Org_Treeview").TreeDesign.Object
 'clear all previous node information so only new info populates (for future changes to the tables)
 tv.Nodes.Clear
 'declare data in order to capture for the treeview
 Dim empData As DAO.Recordset
 'identifies that all data from the Employees table, ordered by OrgID to be used later by strFind
 Set empData = CurrentDb.OpenRecordset("SELECT * FROM Employees ORDER BY OrgID", dbOpenDynaset)
 'Declare variable which will find the data
 Dim strFind As String
 strFind = "OrgID =0"
 empData.FindFirst strFind
 'declare node
 Dim nodX As Node
 'Declare bookmark to store location of table
 Dim strBook As String
 'Create While loop in order to find data along with adding data to the Parent Node
 Do While Not empData.NoMatch
 Set nodX = tv.Nodes.Add(, , , empData!Name)
 'set bookmark during loop
 'strBook = empData.Bookmark
 'executes addChildren function which is declared and coded below "End Sub"
 addChildren tv, nodX, empData, empData!Name
 'restore location of bookmark after addchildren completes
 'empData.Bookmark = strBook
 empData.FindNext strFind
 Loop
 End Sub
 'Create Function in order to load child nodes which are OrgIDs >0
 Private Sub addChildren(tv As TreeView, nodParent As Node, empData As DAO.Recordset, lngParentID As Long)
 'Declare String variable used for Find method along with loading data from Table
 Dim strFind As String
 strFind = "OrgID=" & lngParentID
 empData.FindFirst strFind
 'Delcare node again
 Dim nodX As Node
 'Declare bookmark to store location of table
 Dim strBook As String
 'Do While loop loop until it doesn't have a match
 Do While Not empData.NoMatch
 'identifies location of node along with parent node
 Set nodX = tv.Nodes.Add(nodParent, tvwChild, , empData!Name)
 'set bookmark during loop
 'strBook = empData.Bookmark
 'recursively calls additional children
 addChildren tv, nodX, empData, empData!Name
 'restore location of bookmark after addchildren completes
 'empData.Bookmark = strBook
 'iteration to find next orgID #
 empData.FindNext strFind
 Loop
 End Sub
 - TheSmileyCoder says:
 Hi Perseus.
 Looking at your code, I am guessing that empDate!Name is NOT a numeric field. The AddChildren routine as it is currently is expecting a Long as the last argument. The definition for the AddChildren reads:
 Private Sub addChildren(tv As TreeView, nodParent As Node, empData As DAO.Recordset, lngParentID As Long)
 As the lngParentID argument you are passing empDate!Name in this line:
 addChildren tv, nodX, empData, empData!Name
 I am a bit confused. Are you trying to load more than 1 organisation as well as their employees?
 - Jeremy Vail says:
 Hi. Thank you so much for responding to my question. I am trying to create a demo tree view with employees and their directs. For example: John Doe is the root and then Jim Beam is his direct, then he has 2 directs, and then those 2 have directs of their own.
 5. TheSmileyCoder says:
 Ok. I presume they are both in the same table. I get a


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This book presents a study of the nature and origins of the dominant postwar approach to strategic nuclear arms control in an attempt to clarify it, distinguish it from others, and begin to explain the qualities which made it so attractive and eventually so widely accepted.
Table of Contents
Part One: Delimiting the Approach 1. Introduction 2. The Cambridge Approach Part Two: Arms Control as Political Instrument 3. The Age of Atomic Innocence 4. The Open World: Arms Control as an Instrument for Achieving Long-Term Political Stability Part Three: Arms Control as Security Instrument 5. From the Age of Innocence to the Balance of Terror: Nuclear Arms Control Thought Comes of Age Introduction 6. Arms Control Theorists of the 1950s Introduction 7. The Cambridge Approach Revisited and Reviewed the Theoretical Joining

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Keywords: Mazars, Thailand, IFRS, IFRS 17, TRG
23 April 2018
The following six topics were addressed in detail:
- separation of insurance components of a single insurance contract;
- boundary of contracts with annual repricing mechanisms;
- boundary of reinsurance contracts held;
- treatment of insurance acquisition cash flows paid (commissions) and future renewals;
- determining the quantity of benefits for identifying coverage units; and
- insurance acquisition cash flows when using fair value transition.
A working document was presented addressing 12 other submissions, classified in the following three categories:
- submissions that can be answered applying only the words in IFRS 17 (six questions),
- submissions that do not meet the submission criteria (four questions), and
- submissions that will be considered through a process other than a TRG discussion (two questions).
To fulfil the submission criteria, implementation questions:
- must be related to, or arise from, IFRS 17;
- may result in possible diversity in practice; and
- are expected to be pervasive, i.e. relevant to a wide group of stakeholders.
A summary of the TRG discussions can be consulted at the IFRS website.


Bar Code Scanning in ColorDesigner Plus
ColorDesigner PLUS can use bar codes in the following ways:
 1. Send UPC/EAN code of the paint base to dispenser software, to be scanned there.
 2. Scan UPC/EAN code of the paint base in ColorDesigner PLUS before dispensing.
 3. Scan the bar code on a paint chip to look up the color (instead of typing the color name or color number).
UPC/EAN code handling verifies that the operator has the correct paint base and can size, so it eliminates one cause of mistints. To support UPC/EAN code handling (either of the first two features), the paint line database (Electronic Formula Book or Color Matching Database) must contain the UPC/EAN code for each base-can size combination.
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Fading is a technique applied in behavior therapy, particularly behavior modification, as well as skill training settings, where an initial prompting to perform an action is gradually withdrawn until the need for it fades away.
The overall goal is for an individual to eventually not need prompts. As an individual gains mastery of a skill at a particular prompt level, the prompt is faded to a less intrusive prompt. This ensures that the individual does not become overly dependent on a particular prompt when learning a new behaviour or skill.
This approach built on studies in operant conditioning in which a new stimulus was presented alongside an existing one to which a response had been learnt. The old stimulus was gradually faded out, by a process of stimulus attenuation, its frequency or intensity reduced, and it was shown that this allowed the new stimulus to gain control of the response.


Fanfare band
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A fanfare band, fanfare corps, fanfare battery, horn and drum corps, bugle band, drum and bugle corps, or trumpet and drum band (including the German fanfarenzug, fanfarenkorps and regimentsblaserkorps, the Dutch tamboerkorps, trompetterkorps and jachthoornkorps, and the French batterie-fanfare and fanfare de cavalerie) is a military or civilian musical ensemble composed of percussion instruments, bugles, natural horns and natural trumpets (and sometimes even brass instruments). Fanfare bands are the descendants of the old medieval trumpet and drum teams that sounded fanfares on important occasions and are related to drum and bugle corps internationally.
Introduction and history[edit]
Fanfare Bands are a unique type of marching and military band that plays for entertainment, public occasions and gatherings as well as competing in various competitions. They evolved from the medieval ensembles of trumpets and drums, and in the ensembles of trumpets and timpani which were formerly common in the mounted bands of cavalry regiments.
Beginning in the late Middle Ages, trumpets and drums (usually snares and tenors) would sound fanfares to make important holidays or ceremonial events. These instruments would also serve as timekeepers in various towns, and announce various special events. Incorporated in mounted bands since the 12th century, timpani and trumpets or bugles were, from the middle of the 15th century, employed to motivate mounted troops in battle as well as on parade.
In the early 19th century, the natural horn came into being as a signalling instrument for the light infantry in France, Germany and the Netherlands.
The modern fanfare band first appeared during the 19th century, especially in Germany and France, but it is in Belgium where the first modern band was formed. Founded in 1806 at Izegem and currently known as the Koninklijke Stadsfanfaren Izegem (, it is the oldest and still performing Fanfare Band / Orchestra in the world.[1] At the same time, similar formations were also raised in the Netherlands. And by the late 19th century, fanfare bands became the official field music formation within the French, Dutch and Belgian armies, with the bugle replacing the fife in the infantry and other arms.
In the beginning of the 20th century, the Band of the Republican Guard began developing its own fanfare and bugle section under its director Gabriel Defrance, thus the band and bugles of the French Republican Guard's infantry and cavalry units are the predecessors of today's ensembles. French civilian fanfare bands adopted similar styles at the same time, with the bands being located in civil fire departments, which were patterned in the traditions of the French Army and Navy and thus sported similar instruments. In 1935 the Band and Bugles of the French Air Force under Claude Laty, then the band director, further developed the modern fanfare band and its standard instrumentation as the band created its own fanfare and bugle section with Maurice Bonnard, the band drum major at that time. In Germany the use of fanfare ensembles was restricted to civilian bands from the late 19th century onward, although the fanfare trumpets survived in military bands till modern times, including until the 20th century, mounted bands. These civil bands form the basis of today's ensembles. In the late 20th century even the use of the shoulder strap and the introduction of valved bugles and multiple tenor drums from the US revolutionized the ensembles and the instruments they use. Today several ensembles in France and Germany use brass instruments in addition to the standard instrumentation as well as the multiple tenor drum.
Just as France started its modern fanfare band tradition, then came the formation of the French Fanfare Band Union (UFF) and the Sports and Culture Federation of France (FSCF) which became the governing authority for the civilian fanfare bands and handled their competitive and artistic aspects. Today, these two organizations, joined by two other associations formed in later years, joinly handle the administration, cultural and competitive duties of these bands.
Only a few bands are active in the Armed Forces of the Netherlands today, as well as the affiliated ensembles sporting similar instrumentation, due to budget cuts in the military.
Fanfare bands composed of either single or multiple tenor drums, snare drums, natural horns, natural trumpets, fanfare trumpets (chromatic and herald) and bugles. Bass drums, cymbals, glockenspiels and timpani are sometimes added or are also permanent parts of the band instrumentation. The group is usually led by either a drum major or a bugle major that coordinates the timing and speed of the music being played. Only several bands in Germany add the turkish crescent as part of the ensemble. In France and the Netherlands, they are sometimes paired with brass instruments, and are led by a bandmaster (France only, optional in Dutch bands) with a drum major.
Fanfare bands are sometimes paired with other marching musical ensembles of varying instrumentation or combined with a corps of drums composed of fifes, flutes, bugles, fanfare trumpets and percussion to form a type of massed field music unit and in several cases also paired up with brasses and woodwinds. They may also exist as a sub-unit of any of these ensembles.
Mounted fanfare bands[edit]
These bands employ brass instruments, timpani when mounted and marching percussion instruments when dismounted, glockenspiels, fanfare trumpets, core de chasse and natural horns. These military bands are meant for the cavalry, and only a few exist today in the armies of France and Argentina. In addition to the cavalry of the Republican Guard, the Armoured Cavalry branch of the French Army maintains a mounted fanfare detachment for ceremonial occasions - the same case in The Netherlands, which sports a dismounted brass band of this tradition in the Army, as well as another similar band in the Royal Marechaussee.
A few such bands today in Germany are only performing as dismounted civil brass bands, with some wearing period uniforms. However a revival of the practice is underway in Lower Saxony, Germany. A newly founded brass band, the Helddragoner Brass Band, aiming to honor the legacy and traditions of the 16th (2nd Hannover) Dragoon Regiment of the Imperial German Army, got its horses and its very own drum horse in 2013 and when the training will be finished will become Germany's first ever military styled civilian mounted brass band, the first ever to be organized in recent years, dressed in military-style uniforms.
The tradition of the dismounted fanfare band is also carried on by the Fanfare Band of the Royal Marechaussee in the Netherlands. A few veterans and reserve bands there hold on to the historic fanfare and bugle band traditions of the Dutch military.
See also[edit]
 1. ^ 200 jaar Koninklijke Stadsfanfaren Izegem, written by the historian Jean-Marie Lermyte for Heemkundige Kring 'Ten Mandere', 2006
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Convert 29 mm to fractional inches
29 mm = 19/64 in
Result: 29 millimeters is about 1 9/64 of an inch.
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What is 29 mm in inches fraction?
The answer is 1 9/64 inches. The result is sometimes only an approximation of the real value because of rounding. But it's accurate enough for typical everyday measurements.
How to Convert 29 mm to fractional inches?
To convert 29 millimeters to an inch fraction, you need to first convert 29 millimeters to inches. Since 1 inch is equal to 25.4 millimeters, divide 29 by 25.4 to get decimal inches:
29 mm ÷ 25.4 = 1.1417 in
Then, let's convert the decimal value of 1.1417 inches to a fraction.
To convert 1.1417 inches to a fraction, use a ruler or a decimal to fraction conversion table to find the nearest fraction with a reasonable denominator (fractional inches usually have denominators that are powers of 2, such as 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64).
In this example, use a ruler to find the closest fraction.
Using a ruler, you can see that 1.1417 inches is very close to 1 9/64 inches.
Therefore, 29 millimeters is approximately equal to 1 9/64 inches.
See also
 1. 30 mm to inches fraction
 2. Convert 29 mm to inches
 3. 1 9/64 inches to mm
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n. Called granité in France and granita in Italy, an ice is a frozen mixture of water, sugar and liquid flavoring such as fruit juice, wine or coffee. The proportion is usually 4 parts liquid to 1 part sugar. During the freezing process, ices are generally stirred frequently to produce a slightly granular final texture. ice v.1. To chill a food, glass or serving dish in order to get it icy cold and sometimes coated with frost. 2. To spread frosting over the surface of a cake.
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Sundaes are guaranteed crowd-pleasers. That's because something wonderful happens when the satiny sauce meets a scoop of cold, creamy ice cream.


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Kraków scientists obtain breakthrough PET image
Polish scientists in cooperation with centres in Austria and Italy have obtained a breakthrough tomographic image of the world's first three-photon PET image.
The image, which could contribute to a better cancer diagnosis, was obtained with J-PET, a tomography scanners built at the Institute of Physics of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków by a team led by Professor Paweł Moskal.
The device differs from regular positron emission tomography scanners that produce images based on two photons (particles of electromagnetic radiation, without electric charge - PAP).
Scientists from the Jagiellonian University obtained the image in collaboration with colleagues from the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, the National Centre for Nuclear Research, the University of Vienna and the National Institute for Nuclear Physics in Italy.
The Jagiellonian PET (J-PET) scanner built at the Jagiellonian University as part of the ongoing project is a prototype of a medical Positron Emission Tomography imaging device. It combines the possibility of simultaneous scanning of the whole body with unconventional imaging modes.
The aim of the Jagiellonian PET (J-PET) project is to build a device that enables simultaneous imaging of the whole body. It is intended not only to locate neoplasms, but also to determine the degree of their malignancy and study the dynamics of metabolism and drug distribution.
The device is being built on the basis of technology developed at the Jagiellonian University, and the research team that develops it consists of physicists, computer scientists, electronics engineers, chemists, biologists and doctors.
According to the university, J-PET is a globally unique solution that will allow to implement treatment procedures based on precise diagnosis, which will be developed in the Jagiellonian University Theranostics Center (theranostics is a combination of therapeutics and diagnostics - PAP). (PAP)
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Water structures and climate change impact: A review
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CitationŞen, Z. (2020). Water structures and climate change impact: A review. Water Resources Management, 34(13), 4197-4216. _URL_
Climate change impact started to play significant role since the last three decades almost in every aspects of life especially on meteorological and climatological events and their impacts on water resources, which are managed by engineering structures. Its effects on hydro-meteorological data are assessed by means of available methodologies, but the climate change impact of engineering water structures (dams, culverts, channels, wells, highways and their side drainages, levees, etc.) are not treated equally. This paper provides the review of the necessary adaptation, combat and mitigation activities against the climate change for protection, construction or augmentation of the engineering water structures design capacity. Additionally, land use practices and geomorphological changes also trigger the climate changes on the engineering water structures. The main aim of this paper is to present the impact of such changes on the engineering water structure capacity, operation and maintenance.


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Douglas Acquah-Hagan; Spencer Aggrey-Bosu, pp. 74. MAM/Sektionen för Management, 2011.
This case study uses qualitative and quantitative analyses to examine the impact of the annual audits undertaken by the Audit Commission (hereafter the AC) at London Borough of Lambeth (LBL) on its management control system (MCS). The analysis reviews the audits undertaken between the years 2000 and 2010 and analyses the management reaction to these results to identify the impact on MCS.
The objective of the research was achieved by developing research questions which served as a research framework. The study focused primarily on three research questions: (1) have the audit scores of the AC influenced MCSs at LBL?; (2) how has the audit scores of the annual audits completed by the AC influenced the MCS of LBL?; and (3) why has the audit scores of the annual audits completed by the AC influenced MCS at LBL?. The theoretical framework used in this study focused on three bodies of literature: the work of the Audit Commission, auditing and audits scores, and MCSs. The thesis used content analysis to analyse LBL's submissions; audit results and recommendations; and improvement plans. Data for the analysis were collected via documentation, archival records, interviews, and direct and participant observation.
As a local government authority, LBL receives most of its annual finance from central government to deliver services to local residents and businesses. As a result the central government, through the AC, audits them every year to ensure that they are effective and efficient with their resources. Between the years 2000 and 2004, LBL audit scores were one star out of possible four stars and this represented considerable risk to its continuous survival. It is worth noting that a council with more than three consecutive score of one star is classified as a failing organisation and that council is taken into 'special measures' – a situation where the central government takes administrative control of the council. The trend of audit scores at LBL had indicated the council needed to improve in the areas of:
- Financial planning and monitoring;
- Service performance improvement in areas such as cultural services;
- Performance management processes; and
- Use of resources and internal capabilities.
After the audit recommendation of 2004, the council developed an improvement plan. This led to the implementation of the new financial control systems, performance management procedure and personnel control system. LBL's performance measurement imitates the balanced scorecard approach developed by Kaplan and Norton (1992). The reactions at LBL are congruent with the findings of Asel (2009) which demonstrated that organisations with high perceived uncertainty are more likely to change their MCS.
The research objectives limited the study scope which has opened opportunities for future research in local authorities such as: MCS as a package; the influence of other stakeholder; trade union contribution to MCS; and organisational leadership at local authorities. It is also worth noting that the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) is in a consultation process with an intention to outsource the work of the AC with effect from 2012/13 audits (_URL_).


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text: We propose an approach for estimating the probability that a given small target, among many, will be the first to be reached in a molecular dynamics simulation. Reaching small targets out of a vast number of possible configurations constitutes an entropic barrier. Experimental evidence suggests that entropic barriers are ubiquitous in biomolecular systems, and often characterize the rate-limiting step of biomolecular processes. Presumably for the same reasons, they often characterize the rate-limiting step in simulations. To the extent that first-passage probabilities can be computed without requiring direct simulation, the process of traversing entropic barriers can replaced by a single choice from the computed ("first-passage") distribution. We will show that in the presence of certain entropic barriers, first-passage probabilities are approximately invariant to the initial configuration, provided that it is modestly far away from each of the targets. We will further show that as a consequence of this invariance, the first-passage distribution can be well-approximated in terms of "capacities" of local sets around the targets. Using these theoretical results and a Monte Carlo mechanism for approximating capacities, we provide a method for estimating the hitting probabilities of small targets in the presence of entropic barriers. In numerical experiments with an idealized ("golf-course") potential, the estimates are as accurate as the results of direct simulations, but far faster to compute.


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- Workshop on SMOS for Space Wea...
Workshop on SMOS for Space Weather
16 Sep 2022
A hybrid event will take place from 12:00 to 16:00 UTC on 14 November 2022 to report on the results of ESA projects using SMOS data for Space Weather applications.
The SMOS Mission team at ESA is exploring an innovative application for SMOS data by researching how L-band data acquired by the MIRAS instrument can be used to retrieve measurements of Solar Flux and Total Electron Content in the ionosphere.
Discover examples of studies in which SMOS data are being used in this field.
Another goal of the workshop is to gather feedback from the Space Weather community and solar scientists about how SMOS data could support new products and future studies in the field.
The final agenda for the workshop will be issued on 31 October.
The workshop will take place at ESA's ESRIN facility in Frascati, Italy, and remote online attendance will also be offered.
Anyone interested in attending the workshop, either at ESRIN or online, must confirm their participation by 15 October, by contacting _EMAIL_


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Losing sleep over jail conditions
By Liu Kung-chung 劉孔中
Normal sleep is affected by many factors, such as the body's physiological, psychological and biological rhythms, and is also directly affected by environmental and climatological factors. Having an appropriate mattress and bedding can help eliminate a lot of the fatigue produced during the day and improve the quality of one's sleep.
The most important component in ensuring a good night's sleep is the bed. When selecting a bed, one should give careful consideration to its length and width, if it is smooth and flat, as well as whether it gives good support and is comfortable.
The bed's height is also important, but there is no consensus on what constitutes the ideal height. In principle, it should be at least 40cm high, but even if the number is agreed upon, there is still the issue of how to define it.
Some people think the height should be defined as the distance from the top bedding cover to the floor, and that it should be between 46cm and 50cm. The reason for this is that the ideal height of a chair is 40cm and when a person sits on the bed, they compress the mattress, thereby reducing the bed's height to about 40cm.
Furthermore, it is critical to have a bed that is raised off the floor because Taiwan is very humid and mattresses easily absorb moisture. In addition, dust, dirt, hair and other material on the floor attract bacteria, which are stirred up into the air as people walk around. Anyone who sleeps directly on the floor can inhale this dust, which will have a pejorative effect on their health.
These reasons firmly establish the physical and psychological importance of sleeping in a bed that is raised above the ground, which is why the US' Standards on the Treatment of Prisoners approved by the American Bar Association in 2010 states that "[c]orrectional authorities should provide each prisoner, at a minimum, with a bed and mattress off the floor."
By contrast, Taiwan's prisons do not provide prisoners with beds, subjecting them to even worse sleeping conditions than those experienced by their counterparts in China.
In 2011, China announced article 28 of its prison building standard, which stipulated the size and height of prison beds.
According to this article, inmates' beds should not be narrower than 80cm. It further states that bunk beds must not be in a room with a ceiling lower than 3.4m, single beds must be in rooms with a height of more than 2.8m. If there are cells on both sides of a corridor in the prison dormitories, the corridor must be at least 2.4m wide, and if there are cells on only one side, the corridor must be at least 2m wide, the article says. It also requires that the window-to-floor ratio not be less than 1:7.
Even in Japan — a country that is more densely populated than Taiwan — inmates receive far more humane treatment than in Taiwan. Japanese prisons provide 4.125m2 of dormitory space per person and 6.6m2 of individual cell space. In comparison, dormitory space in the US is approx. 2.75m2 per prisoner, while individual cell space is 7.39m2.
China has even higher standards. The average communal space per prisoner in medium-security prisons is 21.41m2, 21.16m2 and 20.96m2 in small, medium and large insitutitions respectively. In small and medium-sized high-security prisons, the space per prisoner is 27.09m2 and 26.80m2 respectively.
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new study is looking to artificial intelligence to address the opioid crisis by identify people who may be at risk for opioid overdose.
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University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University researchers are developing emergency medicine technology for the U.S. military that uses artificial intelligence.


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Build component library using Storybook
Storybook is an open-source tool for UI development that allows developers to build and organise UI components in isolation. It serves as a "workshop" environment where you can see how components look and behave in various states without needing to embed them in your application's main UI. This makes it easier to develop, test, and document components. Why should you use it?
Isolation: Develop components in isolation, which means that changes in one component won't affect others. Which means that to see how components look and behave in various states, we don't need to embed them and navigate to that particular user journey. Look at storybook for popular video sdk, Agora. You can see each component and the states / controls it provides.
Agora Storybook
You can see their entire storybook here
Documentation: Generate documentation automatically, making it easier to share how components should be used. Often other developers are unaware of pre-existing components and end up creating their own version, which becomes a maintenance challenge.
Interactive Playground: Provides an interactive UI to play with component properties (knobs).
Visual Testing: Supports visual regression testing to catch visual bugs. Often visual regressions are hard to test with traditional e2e testing, visual testing helps in removing the manual inspection
Getting Started with Storybook
To start using Storybook, you typically integrate it into a project that's already set up with a UI framework like React, Vue, or Angular. Here's how you can set it up in a React project:
Install Storybook:
If you have a React project set up, you can add Storybook by running the following command in your project directory:
 npx sb init
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Run Storybook:
After installation, you can start the Storybook server with:
npm run storybook
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This command will start the Storybook environment on a local server, typically accessible at http://localhost:6006.
Create a Story:
Stories in Storybook are JavaScript modules that define how to render a component. You write stories to display each state of your UI components. Here's an example of a story for a simple Button component in a React project:
 // Button.stories.js
 import React from 'react';
 import { Button } from './Button';
 export default {
 title: 'Button',
 component: Button,
 };
 export const Primary = () => <Button primary>Click me</Button>;
 export const Secondary = () => <Button>Click me</Button>;
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In this code title defines the name of the component group in the Storybook UI. Component is the actual component being documented. Primary and Secondary are variations of the Button component, known as "stories".
View Your Components in Storybook:
Once Storybook is running, you can navigate to its web interface where you will see the stories defined in your project. You can click on each story to view the rendered component and interact with it.
Documentation using Storybook
Storybook uses a feature called DocsPage to automatically generate documentation from your stories and code comments. Additionally, you can enhance documentation with Markdown or MDX (Markdown with JSX) to write narrative documentation.
Here's how you can document your components in Storybook:
 - Set Up Documentation
Ensure that @storybook/addon-docs is installed and configured in your Storybook setup. This addon is often included by default when you initialize Storybook in your project. It parses your component and its comments to generate documentation.
 - Write Component Comments
Use JSDoc style comments in your component code to document props, states, and any other relevant information. Storybook's Docs addon can then automatically generate documentation from these comments.
For example:
// Button.js
/**
 * Primary UI component for user interaction.
 *
 * @param {Object} props - Props for button
 * @param {string} props.label - The text that the button will display
 * @param {function} props.onClick - The callback function to call on button click
 * @param {boolean} [props.disabled=false] - Whether the button is disabled
 */
const Button = ({ label, onClick, disabled = false }) => (
 <button disabled={disabled} onClick={onClick}>
 {label}
 </button>
);
export default Button;
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 - Create Stories with Args In your stories, define args for your component to show different states and prop configurations. Storybook will use these args to render controls and actions in the DocsPage.
// Button.stories.js
import React from 'react';
import Button from './Button';
export default {
 title: 'Components/Button',
 component: Button,
};
const Template = (args) => <Button {...args} />;
export const Primary = Template.bind({});
Primary.args = {
 label: 'Click Me',
 disabled: false,
 onClick: () => alert('Clicked!'),
};
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 - Enhance with MDX For more detailed documentation, you can use MDX. Create an MDX file where you can mix Markdown text with live Storybook previews.
// Button.stories.mdx
import { Meta, Story, ArgsTable, Canvas } from '@storybook/addon-docs';
import Button from './Button';
<Meta title="Components/Button" component={Button} />
# Button Component
The Button component is used for user interactions.
## Props
<ArgsTable of={Button} />
## Usage
<Canvas>
 <Story name="Primary" args={{ label: 'Hello', disabled: false }}>
 {Template}
 </Story>
</Canvas>
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In this MDX file, Meta sets the component metadata, ArgsTable generates a table of the component's props, and Canvas and Story are used to render live previews.
 - Run and Review
Run Storybook to see your documentation in action. Navigate to your component in the Storybook UI, and you should see the generated DocsPage with your component's documentation, including the interactive props table and live examples.
Documentation makes it easier for developers to understand and use your component library effectively.
Storybook offers a robust platform for building, documenting, and testing UI components in isolation. By integrating Storybook into your development workflow, you can create a well-structured, easily navigable, and thoroughly documented component library. This not only speeds up the development process but also ensures a consistent design and user experience across your projects.
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. Duplicate records represent the records that matched with a good score - above the confidence threshold. One record of the matched pair is a duplicate that should be discarded and the other is the survivor record.
 In the second table, you can read statistics about the number of groups and the number of records in each group. You can click any column header in the table to sort the results accordingly.
How to import or export match rules
You can import match rules from the studio repository and use them in the match editor to test them on your data. You can also export match rules from the match editor and save them in the studio repository.
You can import match rules stored in the studio repository into the match editor and test them on your data. You can also export match rules from the editor and store them in the studio repository.
You can import and use match rules created with the VSR algorithm in the tMatchGroup configuration wizard and in the other matching components including tGenkey, tRecordMatching and the Hadoop matching components.
For further information, see the documentation of the matching components in the Talend Components Reference Guide.
Importing match rules from the repository
 1. In the match editor, click the icon on top of the editor.
 2. In the [Match Rule Selector] wizard, select the match rule you want to import into the match analysis editor and use on the analyzed data.
 A warning message displays in the wizard if the match rule you want to import is defined on columns that do not exist in the analyzed data. Ignore the message as you can define input columns later in the match analysis editor.
 For further information on the Simple VSR Matcher algorithm, see Rules with the VSR algorithm. For further information on the T-Swoosh algorithm, see Rules with the T-Swoosh algorithm.
 3. Select the Overwrite current Match Rule in the analysis check box if you want to replace the rule in the editor with the rule you import, otherwise, leave the box unselected.
 4. Click OK.
 The match rule is imported and the matching and blocking keys and /or survivorship rules are listed in the Matching Key and Blocking Key tables respectively.


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The first female potter to join the Abuja Pottery in the Department of Commerce and industry, under the then Colonial Nigerian Government; Ladi kwali earned herself a national honor of being the first Nigerian woman to appear on a Nigerian currency; Twenty Naira note.
Pottery was an indigenous female tradition in the Gwari region of Northern Nigeria where Ladi Kwali was born. She learned to make pottery as a young child taught by her aunt, using the traditional method of coiling and grew to be one of the historically celebrated icons in Nigeria today, and landing a spot of the Nigeria's twenty naira note.
Ladi Kwali OON, MBE learnt to make large pots such as water jars, cooking pots, and so on from coils of clay, beaten from the inside with a flat wooden paddle and she often decorated them with stylised figurative patterns, including animals like snakes, birds, and fish. These earthenware vessels and decorative techniques have been dated back to neolithic period; Following the region's traditional method, they were fired in a bonfire of dry vegetation.
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From her cultural tradition, where females were primarily responsible for pottery, Ladi Kwali's ceramics became "art objects". Ladi Kwali's pots were featured in international exhibitions of Abuja pottery, which was organised by Micheal Cardew (the then Pottery Officer of the Institution), in the year 1958, 1959, and 1962.
In 1961, Kwali gave demonstrations at the Royal College, Farnham, and Wenford Bridge in Great Britain, and also at France and Germany over this period. Her work was shown to great acclaim in London at the Berkeley Galleries; And,the Abuja Pottery was renamed the Ladi Kwali Pottery in the early 1980s.
Ladi lectured at universities abroad and was awarded a doctorate, even when she could not read nor write. Her pots were noted for their beauty of form and decoration, and she is recognised regionally as a gifted and eminent potter. Did you notice her beautiful pots on the twenty naira note?
Aside from the Honorary doctoral degree she also received from the prestigeous Ahmado Bello University, Zaria; she received many other recognition awards such as the "Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)", as well as the national honour of the Officer of the 'Order of the Niger'; many other awards that are uncountable.
Ladi Kwali really did well for herself in the Pottery Industry and has paved way for so many other Nigerian who have developed the industry over the years.


Aperture Tables, let the light through.
April 05, 2021
Aperture Tables, let the light through.
Since my earliest designs I have been inspired by colours and shapes.
"I was challenged by one of my customers to design a series of tables that could show off the legs more fully, as so many of my designs have interesting legs that are partly covered up by their solid, opaque table tops."
Transparency was achieved by using precision cut and beautifully machine-polished 12mm thick pieces of circular toughened glass; I wanted the base to reference the geometric interplay of the blades within a camera lens aperture.
By letting the light through, the table tops are almost invisible apart from the sheen of the surface and the graphic circumference line that is present due to the hardening and toughening process of the glass.
This perimeter line helps frame the base and delineate volume to the top and has a purity in its unbroken form that is referenced by the legs. Elegant tapering and narrow lines are made possible by fabricating the frame in stiff tubular steel and finished in pigments of navy blue or oxblood red.
Apertures are controlled by an iris that is built up of many thin metal blades that overlay each other in a circular fashion. Light passes through to a greater or lesser amount depending on how wide the aperture is opened by twisting the lens, allowing the iris blades to pivot and slide over each other, therefore further opening or closing the aperture. The centre hole appears round by using many blades, however for the purpose of my tables, only 3 or 4 legs are required, so I connected these points leaving a triangular or square aperture that is logically and simply defined by the number of legs.
Aperture Square Side Table in Navy Blue, shown here with an Alexander Calder inspired mobile. Photograph courtesy of NORHOR.
Details of the Aperture Square tables in navy blue and oxblood red.
Aperture Square Coffee table and Side table in navy blue, images courtesy of NORHOR.
The largest of the Aperture tables is the Console, made possible by elongating the circle into a lozenge shaped table top.
The aperture detail is repeated at either end of the stretched out top with a connecting bar that locks the frame together.
Aperture Console table in oxblood red, image courtesy of NORHOR.
The double aperture detail can be clearly seen from above in this image of the oxblood red Aperture console table.
Aperture Console in navy blue (although the console is steady, we provide a wall tie to secure the table if required). Image courtesy of NORHOR.
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(September 2, 2015)–Pittsburgh has seen its fair share of mandated wage proposals over the years from the minimum wage to the prevailing wage and even the living wage. Then too, the City recently enacted a mandated sick leave law that is a form of coerced compensation. To date there has been no "family wage" proposed, but perhaps that could be coming soon.
It's an idea that will be voted on in Spokane, Washington in a referendum this November. The basic premise is that employees should earn enough money to support their family's "basic needs and a limited ability to deal with future emergencies without the need of public assistance." Of course like all mandated wage proposals, this has all the trappings of feel good rhetoric without a hint of economic understanding.
The definition of family wage from the petition is as follows: "Family wage means a wage that provides for basic needs and a limited ability to deal with future emergencies without the need for public assistance. The City of Spokane shall calculate the family wage to include, but not limited to, basic necessities such as food, housing, utilities, transportation, health care, childcare, clothing, and other personal items, emergency savings, and taxes. The City shall calculate the family wage rate based on a household size of two with one person employed and the family wage rate shall not be less than the Self-Sufficiency Standard for Washington State 2014, as adjusted for inflation….. If the City of Spokane does not calculate a family wage, then eligible employers must provide, at minimum, a wage equal to the higher of either (1) three times the federal poverty guidelines for a family of two, or (2) any family wage rate previously calculated by the City of Spokane."
There are a couple of points about the Spokane petition worth mentioning. First, the provisions of the petition require any employer with more than 150 employees to pay the "family wage". This would essentially put into law that corporate and employer rights are subordinate to employee rights.
Secondly, the City is being forced by the courts to place it before the voters via referendum after 2,600 people signed a petition. It is not known, nor has been tested in court, as to whether the provisions of the petition conform to either the Washington State Constitution or its laws. Furthermore, the petition contains language that presumes to take away the right of affected businesses to challenge any part of the new law in court. Nor could employers assert any state or Federal laws that would overturn the restriction on their rights. It is outrageous that any legislation would contain a provision barring it from being challenged in a court of law. That alone should be enough for a dismissal.
Since there has not been a calculation of "family wage" by the City of Spokane, let's look at the Federal poverty level for a family of two in 2015—$15,930. Multiplying this by three, as required in the language above, sets the "family wage" at $47,790. The Self-Sufficiency Standard for Washington State (2014) for a family of two, one employed, is $44,806—adjusting for inflation raises that amount to at least $46,600. Note that the average of all workers in the Spokane metro area was only $43,000 in 2013. In fact many jobs at large organizations in Spokane are low paying with annual wages well below this level in the range of $25,000 to $35,000. Health occupations below registered nurse, many factory jobs, general office assistants, the hospitality industry, and low level management typically earn significantly less than $47,000.
Of course the intent is to force employers to pay enough so families would no longer need to collect public assistance. But how can a company afford to pay a low skilled worker, currently worth only $28,000 to them, $47,000 a year? Economic principles in a competitive market place will compel employers to pay wages commensurate with the value of the workers' productivity. When a company is forced to pay more than an employee is worth in terms of their production value, they must either pass on the higher costs in their prices, try to improve productivity, severely reduce all other benefits, or cut back on the amount of labor used—possibly all three. With the amount of increase the "family wage" law would entail, there is a little chance that productivity or prices can be raised enough or benefits cut enough to offset the higher wage costs, making reduction in the number of workers the only viable option.
Then the question arises: What will be the reaction of those skilled workers with experience and high productivity already earning at or above the family wage? Certainly they will push hard for a substantial raise to maintain workplace salaries that recognize differences in worker value. There might well be cuts to their benefits or hours to help pay for the big increase for the workers that were well below the family wage. And the workplace would become far less amiable. Many would undoubtedly leave absent some sizable pay raise.
All of this will conspire to raise labor costs at these firms. If they cannot pass those costs onto their customers through price increases, they may be forced to lay off enough people to keep those costs down, or in the extreme, close their doors. Either way there will be layoffs of mostly unskilled workers and a larger burden on public assistance.
The arbitrary cutoff of 150 employees will create its own problems. How do we know that a company with 180 employees, many of them low skilled, such as hotel or social service agencies, large department stores, etc. is better able to pay $47,000 for a low skill worker than a company with 140 workers? At market rates, the smaller company might be paying only $30,000 for the same job. It will give the smaller firms a competitive advantage in the market place and motivate larger firms to reduce their employee count to less than 150 through layoffs—again putting more people on social assistance rolls. Who is being served in this case?
It is not clear what governments that are affected by the law but who cannot dramatically reduce services, will do to cover the additional costs of the wage mandate. Higher taxes are almost a certainty. Will the citizens of Spokane consider the prospect of higher taxes as they are tempted to vote for this anti-business, feel good petition? What will hospitals do? They will have to raise prices substantially or see red ink flow in torrents. As a last resort they could slash services and lay off workers. Are voters willing to put up with lower quality and less available health care? Do Spokane residents believe state or Federal taxpayers will stand ready to bail them out of the mess they are about to make? That might be a poor bet.
This proposal is preposterous on its face. Forcing firms to pay the "family wage" will cause more problems than the backers realize. Presumably, the prospect of socking it to evil employers is reward enough for them. Consequences are apparently of secondary importance. As is the case with virtually every statist, anti-free market effort to replace market forces with government dictates, the results will be awful for workers and taxpayers. It will cause layoffs for those who can least afford it and cut off the bottom rung of the economic ladder for the low skilled, inexperienced people looking to enter the workforce.
We hope this ludicrous idea will go down in flames in the November vote in Spokane. If it does not the concept will undoubtedly spread and Pittsburgh will likely be targeted by the same groups pushing the Spokane referendum. Just recently, we were treated to a report from a left leaning group telling us that a Pittsburgh family of four needs $67,200 per year to maintain a modest life style. What the authors forgot to mention was that the median family income in Pittsburgh is only $53,800. That means a huge number of families would need a whopping raise if $67,000 was set by law as the minimum. Even the more modest $47,000 "family wage" in the Spokane scheme would be disastrous.
The country has enough problems without more self- inflicted economic wounds created by more laws dictating the wage levels.
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Frank Gamrat, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate
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JohnKenedy Data Access Layer Library
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JohnKenedy Library is a.NET 3.5 library. This library is an alternative approach to create n-tier database applications with ADO.NET and minimize the dependency of data access created by.NET.
The file consists of two projects:
 - JohnKenedy.DataAccess (Main Library)
 - JohnKenedy.DataAccessModule (Windows Application)
Main Features
 1. Easy to create different database connection (MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and one that uses Oledb) by using a single wrapper class named DataAccessLayer which can adapt to different connection type, command type, adapter type and so on.
 2. Automatically reads table information schema when required and stored in memory to prevent reading redundancy. This information is prepared by DataAccessTableDefinition which can be stored in ASP.NET session or used as a single instance in a Windows based application.
 3. Table schema is used for automation features (DataAccessTableManager, DataAccessTableDefinition, and DataAccessTableFiller).
 The features are:
 - Automatically create T-SQL Command for all tables
 - T-SQL Command for tables that contain Identity column can be adjusted to suit them and easily retrieve the identity value generated by database
 - T-SQL Command for tables that contain not nullable column can be adjusted so that when the programmer does not fill a value for not nullable column, library can automatically fill a default value for those columns
 - T-SQL Command for tables that contain string, Library will truncate string value if it exceeds the maximum character length.
 - T-SQL Command for tables that contain fix string (char/varchar) Library will adjust value length to the length required.
 4. Generate audit trail for every SQL statement (Insert/Update/Delete) that executes from this library, the audit trail can be associated to login user, could be stored in text file, database table or both. The job is done by DataAccessAudit class.
 5. Can generate classes to simplify user (which is only a wrapper) while accessing data in table. JohnKenedy.DataAccessModule Windows Application is the code generator.
 6. Users can create their own extended modules or library and put it in Plugin folder in JohnKenedy.DataAccessModule Windows Application. The Plugin consists of DLL files that inherit from ModuleExtendDefinition class. The Plugin adds new methods when generating codes. Programmers often have their own database model (several tables that relate to each other to create a functionality) and the model is often used by different projects that programmers created such as when storing Invoice in database, there will be a Header and Detail table, the programmers can write a new Plugin for that purpose, for example, named HeaderDetail.dll and put it in Plugin folder, and when generating codes, programmers specify a table to be Header and another table to be Detail, Header and Detail are called Role. Programmers often find that they are recreating models that they have created before, for example database model that stores historical information such as User Data that can change the user name, address, and so on. Programmers can actually write a new Plugin that generates code for retrieving the current data (name, address, etc.) and code for retrieving the data by date, for example, the user's name in the past (before change).
JohnKenedy.DataAccessModule can generate entity classes that are used directly from user interface for data operations or can be wrapped in Business Objects created by the user. JohnKenedy.DataAccess is the main library called by entity classes or can be called directly from Business Object. All crucial operations done in JohnKenedy.DataAccess are logged as audit trail and stored in Database. The audit process hides from the programmer.
JohnKenedy.DataAccessModule can generate different codes for different classes. The scenario is, user selects a module from module list display in JohnKenedy.DataAccessModule, and the module will display a list of roles and for each role, user must input a tablename. All these roles are used in the selected module. A module is a small system that utilizes one or more tables to perform a certain task.
JohnKenedy.DataAccessModule generates two classes for each table, Entity class and EntityCollection class. The code is adjusted based on the role the table has taken, each table may take different roles in different modules because two or more modules can use the same table.
Programmers can write their own module based on module occurrence every time they write an application. The code generated by JohnKenedy.DataAccessModule is fully utilized in methods prepared by JohnKenedy.DataAccess.
DataAccessTableFiller is a class that performs all Insert/Update/Delete methods. Because this class owns an object of DataAccessTableDefinition that stores information about the table, DataAccessTableFiller or we will call it filler from now on, uses this information to create an automatic T-SQL Command which is described in automation features. User gets a new instance of filler object, and then adds column value to the filler class. Then user just calls method start with GetInsertGetUpdate… or GetDelete… statement that creates IDbCommand objects with properties set for CommandText, Parameters, and CommandType automatically.
I often felt that I have rebuilt the same database model again and again and written codes for it again and again. That's why I think there should be some way in which we can actually create a tool to list all database models that we had created and then the tools can generate the same code for us.
Using the Code
To use the code, you should read the full documentation. In short, here is the way we use the library:
using JohnKenedy.DataAccess;
DataAccessLayer _dal = null;
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
 _dal = new DataAccessLayer(SqlServerType.MSSQL,
 if (DataAccessLayer.Manager == null)
 DataAccessLayer.Manager = _dal.GetDataAccessTableManager();
 else DataAccessLayer.Manager.DALLayer = _dal;
 if (DataAccessLayer.Audit == null)
 DataAccessLayer.Audit = _dal.GetAudit();
You see a DataAccessLayer object is created, this is the main object of this library. The object is created by passing two parameters, the first is an enumeration that tells which database type, the second is the connection string which in this example is retrieved from web.config.
What you see later is, we check if DataAccessLayer.Manager is null, this Manager property is an instance of DataAccessTableManager class. This object is used to store a collection of table definitions or instance of DataAccessTableDefinition. We check if it is null, and when we trace back to the code, the code automatically checks a session name. This session is used to store any DataAccessTableManager object created before. If session contains a previous one, the previous one is used so this minimalized the library to query database to check for table schema. If not, then we will need to create one and store it in Manager property, and the library will automatically store it to session.
This session behaviors also apply to DataAccessLayer.Audit property. This property is an object of DataAccessAudit class. This object is used to log audit trail in database table or in file. To modify the default setting for Audit, check DataAccessStringAndDefault.GetDefaultAudit() properties.
Insert/Update/Delete Operations
Suppose we have a table that looks like this:
JohnKenedy Library enables users to insert to this table, update, and delete without creating any SQL command. The SQL command will be generated by libraries automatically and it has several automation features as described in the Introduction section.
DataAccessTableFiller _filler = DataAccessLayer.Manager["MFood"].GetFiller();
_Filler.AddColumnValue("Name", "Chicken Soup");
_Filler.AddColumnValue("Price", 1000);
IDbCommand _command = _filler.GetInsertStatementFilterIdentity();
long _value2 =
The _value2 will contain the NoFood identity value. If the Name length is more than 50 characters, the text will be truncated to 50 characters length before the insert to prevent error. Although we don't supply a value for Status, the library will automatically add default value for column Status, the default value for int is 0, that's why the code will not error. The truncate and automatically add default value will be recorded in the Audit Trail. Read Preparing Audit Trail section to prepare Audit Trail for library in the Full Documentation (JohnKenedy DAL.pdf).
The example above uses DataAccess directly, in fact the programmer can use JohnKenedy.DataAccessModule tool to generate an entity class and entity collection code. The code for using the Entity and Entity Collection class, is given below.
Suppose we have MFood.cs and MFoodCollection.cs generated from JohnKenedy.DataAccessModule:
MFood _food = new MFood();
_food.Filler.AddColumnValue("Name", "Chicken Soup");
_food.Filler.AddColumnValue("Price", 1000);
long _value2 = _food.InsertIdentity();
Points of Interest
Feel free to use this library. Please let me know if there are bugs or suggestions. Thank you.
 - 10th July, 2008: This is the first release of this application.
 If there are changes in the library, I will update this article.
About the Author
John Kenedy S.Kom
Software Developer (Senior)
Singapore Singapore
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Go Through This Blog Before Purchasing a Pulley Lagging Rubber Sheet!!
A pulley lagging rubber sheet is a special layer of material that is attached to the shell of a conveyor pulley.
One of the primary functions for which many people choose to buy a pulley lagging sheet is because it provides, what many consider to be the best protection to the shell of a conveyor pulley.
It does so by dispensing excess friction, damage due to friction, and also water.
Currently, as a result of the sudden increase in the demand, manufacturers have started producing different types of pulley lagging sheets.
However, the main 2 kinds are:
· Rubber lagging (including grooved rubber lagging)
· Ceramic lagging
Each of these three main variants of pulley lagging has different specifications and purposes for which they are used, and needless to say, they have a lot of purposes.
But before discussing them in detail, let's first have a quick look at the significance of these sheets!
What is the significance of this kind of rubber sheets?
Slippage of a conveyor belt, if and when it happens can cause severe damage to both the drive pulley and the belt as well.
Repairing of such damages is not only ridiculously expensive, but they also require a lot of time in order to become fully functional again.
Thus, a business organization can lose a huge chunk of cash mainly as a result of this downtime.
For, a conveyor belt to function properly, one has to make sure that they do not have any trace of dust or leakage along the sides of the conveyor belt (one of the main reasons why a conveyor belt skirting rubber is used).
Not only that, but you also have to be sure that the belt has a good enough traction along with the drive pulley so that no incident of slippage ever occurs.
However, the main thing that affects the life span of any conveyor system is whether or not it has been sufficiently equipped for the purpose for which it is intended to be used.
This is because they have to function under many inconvenient conditions, like sludge and rain, which might cause slippage as a result of the friction between the belt and pulleys.
But these mishaps can easily be avoided by using a pulley lagging rubber sheet which is usually produced using special rubber compounds and provides some of the best water shedding performance along with excellent prevention against material build-up.
Guess that removes all questions related to the significance of these rubber products!!
Now, let's come back to discussing the different types of rubber pulley lagging, shall we?
 1. Rubber Pulley Lagging
This is one of the most popular amongst all other pulley lagging.
This is mainly because they are made up of a softer material that offers outstanding traction and also gives excellent protection against wear and tear.
They also provide protection to the pulley shell, and the conveyor belt also experiences a higher rate of friction.
What are the advantages of using these products?
One of the most crucial advantages of using a rubber pulley is that that can be given any shape and grooved into any pattern that you want.
This option gives this pulley lagging sheet optimum flexibility as per the purpose for which you intend to use them.
Yet another advantage, from the view of the consumer, is that these sheets are extremely affordable so that anyone can purchase them.
Are there any drawbacks?
There is only challenge that these products seem unable to overcome, and that is the fact that they have a limited operational life and therefore, needs to be replaced on a regular basis.
 2. Ceramic pulley lagging
This one is also an extremely common type of pulley lagging and has seen a tremendous rise in popularity.
What are the advantages of using this product?
Ceramic is preferred by many because of the fact that it is more hard and resilient than rubber.
It is also highly durable and can, therefore, withstand harsh conditions and resist any kind of abrasive material.
They are generally available in two types – smooth or dimpled, and both of them offer increased friction, grip, reduction in slippage etc.
And what about the drawbacks?
Probably the only issue that plagues the mind of consumers is that ceramic itself is extremely brittle and fragile.
Not only that they are also highly prone to formation of cracks, especially if anything gets caught between the belt and lagging.
In Conclusion…
If you are really serious about providing the best protection for a conveyor belt, look no further than buying a quality pulley lagging sheet.


Wide Briggs Mfg Concrete Weir
New McCrometer McPropeller Inline Meter With Data Collector
New Watchman Flume
New Montana Flume In Small Ditch
Temporary Pipe And Board Weir
Converting Logger Pressure to Depth & Storage/Flows
If you have a pipeline as part of your diversion, then an in-line meter with an integrated data collector can be installed. The data files from these units are
McCrometer McPropeller inline meter with data collector
easily readable in Excel, and the files can be sent directly to the Water Board to meet the requirements of SB 88.
What if you don't have a pipeline? Then your flow needs to be measured in the open ditch with a weir, flume, or orifice. These devices measure the flow but they don't record the data. To continuously record data, a submersible logging instrument must be used to measure the water pressure at the bottom of the box. These logging instruments are commonly put into stilling wells that are inside or outside the measurement device.
Flume with attached stilling well for water level logger
How are water pressure logger measurements converted to diverted flows or reservoir storage? Why does anyone even have to have an electronic pressure logger? Onset ComputerPMCIn-Situ,, and other manufacturers sell data loggers and water level loggers, not pressure loggers, so why is this post talking about measuring pressures at all?
Bluetooth Hobo Logger, cabled to recorder and barometric compensator unit – least expensive option for a single location
Loggers record pressure, because that is the easiest physical attribute to measure. A data logger in water does not know how deep it is, and it does not
 know how much flow is going by, or how much water is being stored in a reservoir. Pressures relate directly to static (standing) water depths, and then equations convert the depths to flows, or to reservoir storage volumes.
How is pressure converted to depth? It's an easy calculation – water that is one foot deep has a pressure of 0.4335 psi at the bottom. So, if your logger measures 1.60 psi, then the calculation to get depth is 1.60 psi / 0.4335 psi per foot = 3.69 feet of depth.
Note that water level loggers can be of two types. The least expensive are completely submersible, and do not compensate for barometric pressure. For an idea of the readings of barometric pressure in a measurement device, a 2 foot deep logger records a pressure of 0.8670 psi. Atmospheric pressure at sea level is about 14.7 psi, and high in the mountains may be 12.0 psi. Air pressure is much greater than those measured in ditches. Usually two of these loggers are used at once, one in the water, and one out of the water measuring only air pressure. This also eliminates the variability in pressure due to weather changes.
Stilling well in a weir
The second type of data logger compensates for barometric pressure at the same time water pressure is being recorded. That way, the water and air pressure data sets do not have to be combined before conversion to depths. These loggers were always more expensive until the Bluetooth Hobo water level logger came along; as of February 2019 I found that it is the least expensive option for a single location.
Now that you can calculate any depth, how do you convert depths to reservoir storage? That requires an Area-Capacity curve, also known as an Elevation-Storage curve. The points can be picked off the curve. For example, in the curve below, a depth of 8.5 feet would correspond to an elevation of 2,802.5 feet, and a reservoir storage volume of 30 acre-feet.
An owner of a reservoir with a capacity over 10 acre-feet must collect monthly storage values. That's easily done by hand. However, a reservoir with a capacity of 50 AF requires weekly measurement; over 200 AF requires daily measurement; and over 1,000 AF requires hourly measurement. That is really tedious to do by hand.
This is where an Excel spreadsheet can make the task a whole lot easier! The spreadsheets shown below are just for this. The first sheet helps translate a graph into a table of elevations and storage volumes. The second sheet translates collected pressure values into depth and storage values, for as many data points as needed.
For diversion ditches from a stream, how are pressures converted to flows? The logger is in a stilling well, usually a pipe connected to the inside or outside wall of the weir, flume, or orifice. It measures pressure, which is easily converted to depths.
As with reservoirs, Excel spreadsheets make the conversion process a whole lot easier. The sheets below have the rating curve for a suppressed weir, and the second sheet converts pressure to actual water depths over the weir boards. Even for thousands of hourly readings, the hourly flow volumes are quickly calculated and are ready to send to the Water Board:


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Machining cobalt-based dental alloys with tungsten carbide mills
Takahashi, M; Pasang, T; Conor, P; Ono, H; Tanaka, K
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Milling characteristics of dental alloys have been investigated and compared. The four differently configured tools used were made of cemented tungsten carbide. Most were uncoated but one was coated with a diamond-like carbon layer. The dental alloys studied were cobalt-chrome (Co-Cr) and cobalt-chrome-titanium (Co-Cr-Ti) alloys, fairly strong alloys. There is a requirement for a reliable test to evaluate the properties of dental tools by measuring the cutting forces during milling. A full characterization of dental mills is a difficult task, because the geometry of the mills is complex, with conical multi-cutting surfaces. In this study a more comprehensive understanding of the effects of cutting rate on cutting forces was achieved by varying the tool cutting speed and measuring the force on the workpiece as it was driven into the rotating tool at a fixed feed velocity. It was observed that the cutting forces were changed by varying cutting speeds. Side milling required lower forces than central slot milling. After milling the surfaces of the dental tools and dental alloy specimen were analyzed by scanning electron microscopy.


Love handles form when your body stores energy as fat above your hips. To get rid of them you will need to burn this fat by doing exercise that uses a lot of calories. When you have an excessive amount of fat anywhere on your body, exercising that particular area with sit ups, bicep curls or squats will not help. These exercises are used to build muscle and enhance definition while getting rid of love handles requires simply burning off the fat.
Burn Calories
Your main goal when trying to get rid of body fat stores such as the love handles is to burn as many calories as you can. Sit ups, crunches, and twists build muscle but they burn an insignificant amount of calories.
When trying to get rid of your love handles, you need to lower your body fat percentage. A calorie restricted diet combined with high intensity cardiovascular exercise (running, biking, swimming, tennis, basketball) will force your body to use its fat stores for energy.
Running or walking for even small distances will do a lot more than hundreds of sit ups or crunches if your body fat percentage is high: as is found in people who have love handles.
You will need to engage in some sort of cardio 3 – 5 times per week at 30 – 60 minutes per session in order to lose body fat. Remember that exercising more often and longer will yield quicker results.
After your cardio routine is on a solid foundation (meaning you're following it without skipping any days: 3-5 times per week) you need to start targeting your oblique and abdominal muscles to show definition.
You can do this at the gym on machines or at home with your own body weight (sit ups, crunches, leg lifts, twists). Doing hundreds of sit ups everyday is wasteful so do not go overboard.
Remember that the main rule to getting rid of love handles (which are stores of fat) is giving your body less calories than it burns by eating less and exercising more. If your body burns 2,000 calories every day and you only give it 1,500 calories of food, it will be forced to use body fat stores to get those extra 500 calories.
The Bottom Line
If your exercise routine is good but you go home to a bad diet, your results will be significantly delayed. The quickest way to get rid of love handles is through a combination of diet and exercise, not just one of the two.
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