Two part problem that need help with.
1. Jill arranged her baseball cards in 4 rows of 9 cards. Then she arranged them in 2 rows of 18 cards. How many other ways can Jill arrange her cards in equal rows?
2. Sam has fewer baseball cards than Jill. There are only three ways that he can arrange his cards in equal rows. Write all the possible numbers of baseball cards that Sam could have.
What is your answer for 2?
it says to use the info in the first problem to answer the second part.
What are the factors of each of these numbers?
how would the factor pairs change if Nancy had only 5 posters to arrange? explain.
What's the answer for the question?
Marlon has 4 baseball cards, Jake has 4 baseball cards and Sam has 3 baseball cards. Can you write a multiplication sentence to find how many baseball cards they have altogether? Explain.
Marlon has 4 baseball cards, Jake has 4 baseball cards, and Sam has 3 baseball cards. Can you write a multiplication sentence to find how many baseball cards they have altogether? Explain.


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Lions plan to promote Ben Johnson to TEs coach as Matt Patricia finalizes staff
Updated: Feb. 25, 2020, 4:00 p.m. | Published: Feb. 25, 2020, 4:00 p.m.
A Detroit Lions helmet sits on the bench before their NFL preseason game against the Buffalo Bills at Ford Field in Detroit, on Friday, August 23, 2019. (Mike Mulholland | MLive.com)Mike Mulholland | MLive.com
By Benjamin Raven | braven@mlive.com
INDIANAPOLIS -- Matt Patricia continues to finalize his staff but said the team would "probably" promote Ben Johnson to the role of tight ends coach.
When ownership announced that Patricia and Lions general manager Bob Quinn would be back in 2020, they did so with the public mandate for staffing changes. That mandate has been met with eight staffers moving on from the Lions since the end of the year.
"I think we talked about kind of just in general guys that have been brought on board," Patricia said on Tuesday from the NFL Scouting Combine. "We'll probably get that out pretty soon with everyone's titles and all the rest of that here coming up. Adding kind of a couple more pieces and still in the process of finalizing all that. Again, like Tyrone McKenzie, someone that we hired. Hank Fraley we moved to offensive line with Jeff (Davidson) leaving. We're going to move Billy Yates over back to the offensive side of the ball, he played offensive line back in the day so he's familiar with that.
"Ben Johnson was with us last year, we'll probably move him to that tight end role. We kind of just have some moving pieces, and get that all out as soon as we can."
Related: Lions 2019 review: T.J. Hockenson's historic start marred by unremarkable year for tight ends
Staffing departures included defensive coordinator Paul Pasqualoni, special teams coordinator John Bonamego, performance coordinator Harold Nash, offensive line coach Jeff Davidson, defensive backs coach Brian Stewart, tight ends coach Chris White and linebackers coach Al Golden.
The team hired Cory Undlin as its defensive coordinator, Brayden Coombs as special teams coordinator and reportedly Tony Carter as a defensive assistant, in addition to those listed by Patricia.
Johnson spent last season with the Lions as an offensive quality control staffer. He previously handled several roles while with the Miami Dolphins from 2012 to 2018. Those positions included offensive assistant, assistant quarterbacks coach, tight ends coach, assistant wide receivers and receivers coach. The former walk-on quarterback at the University of North Carolina for three seasons also coached tight ends while with Boston College in 2011.
Johnson will replace White, who was recently named to Jim Harbaugh's extended coaching staff at Michigan as an analyst. He's tasked with the challenge of getting more production out of Jesse James, not to mention the growth of last year's first-round pick T.J. Hockenson.
Related: Michigan football adds ex-Lions assistant, promotes strength coach
The Lions have invested heavily in the tight end position without much production in return. James, fresh off inking a $22.6 million deal, caught only 16 passes for 142 yards and no touchdowns. Hockenson's season was cut short due to an ankle injury, but his usage and production were inconsistent after a historic debut in Arizona. The two combined for 48 catches, 509 yards and just two touchdowns on the year.
"I think we have a really good tight end, who had a really strong rookie season (that) ended with an injury," Quinn said on Tuesday. "He's fighting back, so we're extremely happy to have him on our team and expect big things going forward."
Related: NFL combine 2020: Lions have invested heavily in TEs without much production in return
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My Jewish Feet
by Peggy Shinner
I have, according to a dubious assemblage of pundits, propagandists, and pseudoscientists, Jewish feet. What I thought was familial is, in the eyes of some, tribal. My feet are flat. They turn out. In podiatric lingo, they pronate. Pes planus, in medspeak and Latin. Liopothes, or "people with smooth feet," wrote Greek physician Galen, who was the first to describe flat feet in the medical literature.
When I was eight or nine, my parents took me to an orthopedist. He assessed my walk, took some measurements, prescribed orthotics. I suppose I wore them, but I don't remember. I felt ashamed. Wasn't walking as natural as breathing? How could I screw up? ("It should be noted," reads an entry in Reference. com, an online encyclopedia, "that … horses also develop flat feet.") Already I was round-shouldered and prepubescent. Too tall. Too smart. Unathletic. I scored in the lowest percentile for the number of knee lifts I could do while hanging from the bars in gym (ten).
My feet, or more specifically my walk, seemed to be a source of family tension. I walked like my father. My mother used to say we walked like ducks. When she walked behind us, she was amused by the similarity of our turned-out gaits. Something in her amusement suggested superiority. She had high arches. Aristocratic feet. Never mind that she wore heel pads in her shoes, sorry slabs of beaten leather. Or that she and my father both came from Russian-born parents who'd fled the pogroms. Her father was a sign painter, his a tailor. Somehow she was high class and we were low. We — father and daughter— were among the fallen, the downtrodden, the miserable flat-footed. Nate Shinner and his gawky daughter, one imprinting on the other.
Over the years my feet went unreformed. And later it was my lover, not my mother, who noted them. She too seemed amused — the way you're amused, smitten almost, by the most familiar traits of the one you love. We were walking back to the car after seeing a performance of Evita. My father, brother, and I in front, Ann and my great-aunt behind. My father was still shaken by the image of Eva Peron's coffin being carried across the stage. His sadness annoyed me. Did he have to be so self-absorbed? Did everything have to remind him of my mother's death, even though, at the sight of the coffin, I thought of her too? My mother's life, like Eva's, prematurely occluded (Eva was thirty-three when she died, my mother fifty-six — not nearly as young as Eva, but young enough).
Meanwhile, Ann, a few steps behind, had a different view. She and my aunt saw, not Eva's coffin hoisted above the shoulders of her grief-stricken followers, not Che Guevara singing "Oh, What a Circus" at the edge of the crowd, but instead parent and progeny traipsing down Randolph, lock-stepped in harmony. And they were tickled. Look at them. Can you believe it? They walk the same. Those Shinners. Three ducks in a row. We were so endearing.
So what's Jewish about my feet, planted under my desk and swaddled, for warmth and comfort, in SmartWool? I look down at them, and even through the socks I see the rounded contours of the first joints of my big toes. The bump on my left toe is bigger. Bunions, I suppose, but they've always been there, part of my geography. Once, at a sleepover, my cousin pointed at one of them and asked me what that was, but I had no idea what she meant. My feet were ordinary.
Or not. History has weighed in on my body, and I have come up . . . Jewish. The evidence? Since the Middle Ages, the Jewish foot has been characterized as ugly, misshapen, flat, even cloven, like that of the he-goat and his close relative, the devil. And just as I sit here wearing socks that disguise my feet, but not really, so too have shoemakers, throughout the centuries, concealed the Jewish foot, but barely, and enabled the Jews, with their telltale feet, to pass, sort of. (Shoemaking has long been a common trade among Jews. At the turn of the twentieth century, for instance, there were 730 Jewish shoemakers in Algiers and 2,890 in London.) How do you ( Jews) recognize each other? British writer Clive Sinclair was asked during a trip to Bulgaria in the early 1990s. Do you "give each other [secret] signals?" Sinclair paused for a moment before lifting his pant leg. "That's what we do," he deadpanned. "We show each other our cloven hooves."
And on it goes. English scholar and vicar Robert Burton, in his sui generis Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), singles out the Jew's pace, which he labels an infirmity. Johann Jakob Schudt, who chronicled the life of Jews in eighteenth-century Frankfurt, wrote of their "big heads, big mouths, everted lips, protruding eyes…bristle-like eyelashes, large ears, [and] crooked feet." Late nineteenth-century anatomist Hermann Schaaffhausen linked anatomy to social status and maintained that Jews walked with "the dragging gait of a lower-class individual." And Nazi caricaturist Walter Hofmann argued that because the archetypal Jew, constructed from wet clay, disobeyed divine orders and arose while the clay was still damp and soft, "the smarty developed after the first few steps extraordinary bandy legs, but also flat feet."
Whereas gay men are portrayed as limp-wristed, Jewish men — often seen as effeminate and oversexed at the same time — simply limp. "Be out! Be out!" (Der mub hinaus! Der mub hinaus!), a German folk song, "Borkum Lied," exhorts anyone with "flat feet, crooked noses, and curly hair" who might dare venture to Borkum, a North Sea resort island and German vacation spot. "Out!"
Some Jews have appropriated this hobbling image, viewing it with affection. In a 2000 GQ article about Jewish waiters, one man fondly recalls visiting Ratner's, a deli on New York's Lower East Side, with his grandmother. "No waiters ever walked like them. They walked like they were old, even when they were 25. It was almost like they had a walker." Adds another, himself the owner of a deli in Baltimore, "They schluffed their feet, like they had weights on them." Apparently the Jewish waiter served up not only food but, in time-honored fashion, suffering as well.
After Schudt and Schaaffhausen and the rest, I can't help looking at my feet differently. The lens has switched. The reflection's changed. The nose, yes, there's always been the nose, but I had that fixed, didn't I? I had that dead giveaway reconfigured. The hair too — not mine, mostly straight and nondescript—but S.'s, for example, which I've long admired: dark, curly, wiry, and undeniably Semitic. But now the feet — and, it turns out, the round shoulders, the unathletic build, the odor even (foetor judaicus, described as "goatish" by thirteenth-century German preacher Berthold of Regensburg and "faint-sweet" by the Nazis) — all are Jewish. All have been marked, catalogued, stigmatized, labeled. Buried in the public consciousness.
Once my friend J., a hospital chaplain, noted, with dawning measures of recognition and chagrin, that a rabbi she had met, with his pear-shaped body, fit a certain image she had of Jewish men. She and Ann and I sat in her living room and nodded. We all saw it, the picture she was looking at.
I glance at my feet again. Instinctively the toes flex and then curl under. My body, under the eye of history, is off-putting. I've become a voyeur, forced to step aside and take a peek at myself. It's not front-page news that our bodies are subject to social forces. I've lived my whole life with the collective distortions of my woman's body — a faddish assemblage of parts, a repellent but tempting port of entry. And certainly women are not alone in facing such scrutiny. Blacks, for example, have long had to carry, counter, reject, ignore, or falter under the burden of their supposedly simian bodies. But I never understood my body as Jewish, a racial construction, or more to the point, a parody, and the view is unsettling. Who is this flat-footed specimen?
In recent history a few celebrated Jews have been denied entry into the military. Albert Einstein, Hank Greenberg, Mel Tormé, Michael Bloomberg: all had flat feet, and all were found unfit for military service (Einstein in Switzerland), although Greenberg, initially classified as 4-F, was eventually inducted into the Army and served for four years in the Pacific during World War II. My father, flat feet notwithstanding, was sent to Mississippi for basic training. He'd never been to the South. He'd never even been out of Chicago. He grew up at the back of his father's tailor shop in Albany Park, where down the street at the little deli you could order petcha, calf's-foot jelly. After a few weeks at training camp, he deserted. There was a sign on an outhouse: "For dogs and jews." The other men called him hymie. (He told me this five weeks before he died, sensing, perhaps, that the game was up, and it was time to unload his secret.) His parents persuaded him to go back. They didn't want him to be rounded up. Arrested. This was the Good War. He was a good Jew. Soon he was shipped to France and wounded by shrapnel. There's a picture of him in his uniform. Dark hair. Slight smile. Private First Class Nathan Shinitzky. He looks very handsome.
My mother and I had gone shopping at Marshall Field's. The shoe department, lingerie, Misses, Junior Miss. On the fourth floor she bought me a charm bracelet strung with pennies, which I knew I should like but didn't. I preferred the rhinestone jewelry I'd stolen from my neighbor's house but had to return. Mr. Brown, my mother had said — a shadowy person of her own invention, a kind of warden of bad children — would come and get me if I didn't give it back. We had lunch in the Walnut Room, where I ordered the Field's Special Sandwich, a mountain of iceberg lettuce, sliced turkey, Swiss cheese, bacon, and Thousand Island dressing on rye. Now we were going up the escalator, carrying packages. A man behind us, casually and contemptuously, called us kikes. He was insinuatingly intimate. There were other people on the escalator, but it was as if his taunt had cleared a space around us and now we were alone. I felt a cold, obliterating numbness. I knew what the word meant — or, in any case, I knew it meant us. My mother stiffened. I looked at the back of her long wool coat. She seemed to tell me not to look around. I was eight years old, still pudgy with baby fat. The escalator climbed to the next floor and we got off. I had to hurry to keep up with her. We went home and lived the rest of our lives: menstruation, driving lessons, depression, Vietnam. My mother died twenty years later. The rabbi read the Twenty-Third Psalm at her funeral. I'm writing this.
Peggy Shinner teaches in the MFA program at Northwestern University, is a trained martial artist and a life-long Chicagoan. Her work has appeared in numerous journals.
Reprinted with permission from You Feel So Mortal: Essays on the Body by Peggy Shinner, published by the University of Chicago Press. © 2014 by Peggy Shinner. All rights reserved.
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Alceste és una òpera en tres actes de Christoph Willibald Gluck, amb llibret de Ranieri de' Calzabigi basat en Alcestes d'Eurípides. S'estrenà al Burgtheater de Viena el 26 de desembre de 1767. A Catalunya, s'estrenà el 31 de maig de 1889 al Teatre Líric de Barcelona.

Origen i context
Una altra òpera emblemàtica del seu repertori. En el pròleg, i dedicatòria al Duc de Toscana, formulà les seves idees respecte a la seva pretesa reforma de l'òpera: "Quan em vaig posar a escriure la música per Alceste, vaig resoldre en diferir enterament de tot abús, introduït tant per l'errònia vanitat dels cantants com per l'exagerada complaença dels compositors, que han desfigurat en gran manera l'òpera italiana i han fet dels més esplèndids i bells espectacles els més ridículs i tediosos entreteniments. He procurat restringir la música al seu veritable ofici de servir la poesia per mitjà de l'expressió, seguint les situacions de l'argument, sense interrompre l'acció ni ofegant amb inútils i superflus ornaments, i crec que s'hauria de fer així, de la mateixa manera que l'elecció de colors afecta una correcta i ben ordenada pintura, amb un ben classificat contrast de llum i ombra, que serveix a l'animació de les figures sense alterar els seus contorns ".

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Òperes de Christoph Willibald Gluck
Òperes ambientades a Grècia
Òperes de la dècada del 1760
Opere serie
Òperes estrenades al Burgtheater
Òperes en italià
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With the intentional slow-downs on older iPhones, owners are now suing the tech giant.
Apple's previous update for their iOS 11.2.1 had owners of iPhone 6, 6 Plus, and 6S being affected by a slow-down implemented by the company in order to prevent the batteries of the older phones from draining faster, due to the tasks that the OS had to do. The result has been class-action lawsuits throughout the United States and in countries like Israel and France against Apple, which was recently probed for "planned obsolescence", or enforcing a device to become obsolete. This leads to owners having to buy a new iPhone to meet the new benchmarks for the iOS.
This stemmed from iOS 10.2.1 that Apple released a few months ago which resulted in 80 percent of iPhone 6, and its variants, owners having unexpected shutdowns. Then, Apple remedied this in iOS 11 by slowing down the phones, but never disclosing the fact that they made these power management changes. However, this made many owners upset, especially since they thought this could have been resolved by Apple. Through disclosing this change and giving the owners the option to not have their phones purposely slowed down could have been prevented this from becoming another lawsuit and conviction on Apple's hands.


**Stone Barrington gets entangled in the rarefied art business in this heart-stopping thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods.
Being a big fan, I was, again, impressed by the book's meandering from one persona to another. A good read with fairly short chapters. I found the first half dragging a bit but the excitement culminated in the second part with some funny moments. Thanks again Mr.Woods. Looking forward to read the next book.
Another great read by Master Woods! Highly recommend it, and look forward to his next!


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Session "General Agricultural Information". Collaboration of Associação INLOCO.
A session that aims to foster in children the well-being and balance of emotions and to promote concentration and creativity.
The story "A árvore generosa" by Shel Silverstein, it is our selection to mark the Forest Day.


What does the High Court upset mean for the future of democracy in our land?
On November 3rd the High Court ruled that the government could not leave the EU without statutory permission from Parliament. The UK entered the EU with the European Communities Act 1972, so the government needed to find the authority to overrule an Act of Parliament. Their argument that the Parliament of 1972 intended to confer that authority on them was not founded in any textual evidence within the aforementioned Act, the court found. This led to the decision that only a new Act from Parliament could allow the government to take the UK out of the EU, and that the royal prerogative of the government was not sufficient. This is sure to have significant effects on the health of UK democracy, and not in the way you might think.
Many, peculiarly, see this as an affront to the will of the people. It is argued that Parliamentary involvement, presumably to give democratic authority to the process, is made redundant by the sole weight of the referendum result. Some even go so far as to suggest that Parliament could harm the democratic mandate already given by drawing out an almost-certainly arduous process needlessly. An even more dangerous consideration is the ability of MPs to block Brexit. After all, 479 MPs backed Remain, to Leave's paltry 158, so a Commons vote on leaving the European Union, even considering the potential political fallout of a Remain vote, is going to be a tense affair. The disparity between the views of the MPs and the views of the United Kingdom is a dangerous presence on this issue.
It is upsetting, then, that this acceptance of the unappetising risk of a blocked Brexit is a legal necessity. Whatever the practical implications of Parliamentary involvement, the voice of our supreme lawmaking authority must be heard. The Crown's argument in this case, that the intention of the 1972 Parliament was to give the government the requisite authority, was an unconvincing argument dismissed by the judges as lacking meaningful evidence. The UK can only leave the EU if the European Communities Act is repealed, and that can only be done by Parliament. The law is clear.
Though I agree with the decision of the court, I cannot help but be possessed by a number of concerns. That our MPs now have the power to override our decision to leave the EU worries me, though only about as much as the idea of actually leaving the EU. That our model of democracy in the UK allows us only a yes or no answer to an intensely complex issue, with no further say on a decision that is sure to substantially alter our lives. That I can see no positive, or even neutral outcome to the current predicament. Either Parliament votes to block Brexit, a direct violation of the democratic order issued by the people of the UK, or it decides to give the government all the authority it needs, and with it the ability to force an unwanted and harmful 'hard Brexit', or it decides to give the government authority subject to further parliamentary approval, which is likely to turn inevitably protracted negotiations into impossible ones. I see no happy ending.
This Article was written by Andy Hodgson (2nd year, LLB Law), in conjunction with Dicta 2017.


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namespace ShapeGeneratorTest
{

const float g_epsilon = 0.0001;

bool FindPoint(int x, int y, std::set<Point>& set)
{
    return std::find_if(set.begin(), set.end(), [x, y](Point p)->bool
        { return (p.posX() == x && p.posY() == y); }) != set.end();
}

BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(test_generateLineThin_shouldStayInBoundries)
{
    const Point start(2, 2), end(2, 15);
    const unsigned thickness = 0;

    auto output = ShapeGenerator::GenerateLine(start, end, thickness);

    BOOST_CHECK(FindPoint(2, 2, output));
    BOOST_CHECK(FindPoint(2, 10, output));
    BOOST_CHECK(FindPoint(2, 15, output));
    BOOST_CHECK(!FindPoint(1, 10, output));
    BOOST_CHECK(!FindPoint(3, 10, output));
    BOOST_CHECK(!FindPoint(2, 1, output));
    BOOST_CHECK(!FindPoint(2, 16, output));
}

BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(test_invalidParams_shouldThrow)
{
    const Point point(1, 1);
    const int thickness = -1, radius = -1;
    BOOST_CHECK_THROW(ShapeGenerator::GenerateLine(point, point, thickness),
        std::exception);
    BOOST_CHECK_THROW(ShapeGenerator::GenerateCircle(point, radius),
        std::exception);
}

BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(test_generateLine_shouldHaveCorrectEnds)
{
    const Point start(2, 2), end(5, 15);
    const unsigned thickness = 0;

    auto output = ShapeGenerator::GenerateLine(start, end, thickness);

    BOOST_CHECK(FindPoint(2, 2, output));
    BOOST_CHECK(FindPoint(5, 15, output));
}

BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(test_generateLine_shouldStayInBoundries)
{
    const Point start(2, 2), end(2, 15);
    const unsigned thickness = 3;

    auto output = ShapeGenerator::GenerateLine(start, end, thickness);

    BOOST_CHECK(FindPoint(2, 2, output));
    BOOST_CHECK(FindPoint(2, 10, output));
    BOOST_CHECK(FindPoint(2, 15, output));
    BOOST_CHECK(FindPoint(3, 10, output));
    BOOST_CHECK(!FindPoint(4, 10, output));
    BOOST_CHECK(FindPoint(2, 16, output));
    BOOST_CHECK(!FindPoint(2, 17, output));
}

BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(test_lineReverseStartEnd_shouldBeSimilarToNotReversed)
{
    const Point start(2, 2), end(5, 15);
    const unsigned thickness = 1;

    auto output = ShapeGenerator::GenerateLine(start, end, thickness);
    auto output_reversed = ShapeGenerator::GenerateLine(end, start, thickness);

    BOOST_CHECK(FindPoint(2, 2, output));
    BOOST_CHECK(FindPoint(5, 15, output));
    BOOST_CHECK(FindPoint(2, 2, output_reversed));
    BOOST_CHECK(FindPoint(5, 15, output_reversed));
    BOOST_CHECK(output.size() == output_reversed.size());
}

BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(test_generateOneSquare_shouldBeOnlyOneSquare)
{
    const Point centre(5, 5);
    const unsigned radius = 0;

    auto output = ShapeGenerator::GenerateCircle(centre, radius);

    BOOST_CHECK(FindPoint(5, 5, output));
    BOOST_CHECK(!FindPoint(4, 5, output));
    BOOST_CHECK(!FindPoint(3, 5, output));
    BOOST_CHECK(!FindPoint(2, 5, output));
    BOOST_CHECK(!FindPoint(1, 5, output));
}

BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(test_generateCircle_shouldBeCorrectRadius)
{
    const Point centre(5, 5);
    const unsigned radius = 2;

    auto output = ShapeGenerator::GenerateCircle(centre, radius);

    BOOST_CHECK(FindPoint(5, 5, output));
    BOOST_CHECK(FindPoint(4, 5, output));
    BOOST_CHECK(FindPoint(3, 5, output));
    BOOST_CHECK(!FindPoint(2, 5, output));
    BOOST_CHECK(!FindPoint(1, 5, output));
}

} // namespace ShapeGeneratorTest

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For this great-looking new Firefighter Belt design, I use the same wonderful oak bark tanned leather as that in the Oak Bark Belt but add a faithful reproduction of a late 1800s Fire Service quick release buckle.
Based on an original Victorian buckle I found on a flea market, I've had them reproduced by an English foundry, sand cast in solid brass.
Fantastic English bridle leather, tanned using oak bark in a very long, slow process.
Solid, cast brass fittings in natural or nickel-plated finishes.
Great craftsmanship, design & finish.
What Is Oak Bark Leather?
Tucked away in the south west of England there's a small leather tannery beside a river. They've been tanning leather in this most natural of ways there for at least 2000 years.
Using nothing more than river water and sustainably-produced shredded bark from English oak trees, the tanning process takes a full 18 months from locally sourced hides arriving to finished leather leaving. It's a long, slow process but I and many other master leatherworkers believe it's the finest leather in the world. You can read more about the tannery & the process on the Oak Bark Belt page.
No matter how good the leather is, for belt use it also needs to be thick enough & strong. Thinner belts will deform & stretch but the oak bark leather we use is between 4mm and 5mm thick (between 10 and 12oz). What does this mean in practice though? Well, the average proper leather belt you'll find on sale is usually around 2mm and will last up to 5 years if you're lucky. A better one will be approaching 3mm thick & might give you a decade or two of service whilst costing you as much (or more) as my Oak Bark Belt. You've most likely never seen a leather belt of this thickness. If you want to hang a holster from it, go ahead – it'll handle it just fine.
The belt buckles that we use for The Firefighter Belt are solid brass, foundry-cast here in England. Simple and honest, none of those cheap, brittle zinc alloys used in most belts available in stores, whose plating peels off and starts to look scruffy in no time and whose pins bend and deform. We attach the buckles with tough, solid brass Chicago screws. From the front they look just like rivets but besides being stronger than most rivets, they're removable, allowing for easy future changes of buckles if required whilst avoiding the possibility of stitch holes weakening the leather or stitches wearing out or rotting away.
Most belts you'll find, even the most expensive, have the edges either left raw & ragged or coated with a thick layer of rubbery paint that eventually starts to peel off. The ones in shops tend to be the rubber-coated type, whereas the hand-made ones tend to leave the edges raw.
I hate when a product's quality is compromised in the interests of saving money. I believe that great materials deserve great craftsmanship so the edges of my belts are always dyed, then bevelled and finally burnished to perfection. It's a labour intensive process but I wouldn't have it any other way. There's not another handmade leather belt that comes close.
Sizing – How to measure for a perfect fit.
This will give you two inches either way, allowing you to go up or down by 2″ and still fit the belt..


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Ghana invites eligible holders to exchange GH₵137.3b of domestic notes and bonds
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Ghana is inviting eligible holders to exchange GH₵137.3 billion of the domestic notes and bonds, including Energy Sector Levy Act Plc and Daakye Trust Plc, for a package of New Bonds to be issued by the country.
A statement issued in Accra by the Ministry of Finance and copied to the Ghana News Agency said Ghana was facing a very challenging economic situation amid an increasingly difficult global economic environment.
It said offers may only be submitted starting from December 5, 2022, and ending at 4:00 p.m. (Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)) on December 19, 2022.
However, Ghana may at its sole discretion extend the expiration date, including for one or more series of eligible bonds.
The invitation is available only to registered holders of eligible bonds that are not individual investors or that are otherwise authorised by the Government of Ghana, in its sole discretion, to participate in the Invitation.
It said eligible holders tendering their eligible bonds pursuant to the invitation would receive new bonds of the country on the terms and subject to the conditions described in the Exchange Memorandum.
The statement said all offers to exchange eligible bonds made by eligible holders were irrevocable and by tendering their eligible bonds, eligible holders represented and warrant.
It said such eligible bonds constituted all the eligible bonds owned by them and consent to the blocking by the Central Securities Depository of any attempt to transfer them prior to the settlement date or the termination of the Invitation by the country.
It said interest on the new bonds would not accrue until 2024, starting at 0 per cent coupon in 2023 that steps up to 5 per cent in 2024, and 10 per cent from 2025 onwards.
The first interest payment on the New Bonds will be made in 2024.
It said this was marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, the global economic shock created by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and disruptions of global supply chains.
These adverse developments have exposed Ghana to a surge in inflation, a large exchange rate depreciation and have increased stress on the fiscal situation, it said.
The statement said to address the ongoing economic crisis, Ghana had requested financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
It said the government expects to reach a Staff-Level Agreement soon on an IMF programme aimed at restoring macroeconomic stability and debt sustainability while preserving financial stability, and protecting the most vulnerable.
"To this end, the government is determined to implement wide-ranging structural and fiscal reforms to kick-start growth and restore fiscal and debt sustainability," it added.
It said the latest debt sustainability analysis had demonstrated that Ghana was faced with a significant financing gap over the coming years and that its public debt is unsustainable.
The statement said to alleviate the debt burden in the most transparent, efficient, and expedited manner, a treatment of domestic debt was necessary.
It said the invitation does not entail any reduction in the principal amount ("haircut") of the eligible bonds.
It involved an exchange for new government of Ghana bonds with a 0 per cent coupon in 2023 that steps up to 5 per cent in 2024, and 10 per cent from 2025 onwards.
The statement said the domestic debt exchange was part of a more comprehensive agenda to restore debt and fiscal sustainability, adding that the external debt restructuring parameters would be negotiated in due course.
It said the successful completion of the domestic debt exchange was a critical component of both the debt reduction programme and the IMF programme discussions.
It will contribute to unlocking the support of the international community and will allow Ghana to achieve its debt targets.
The statement said as such, the Government of Ghana called for the full participation of all holders of eligible bonds.
It said eligible holders, who deliver valid offers at or prior to the expiration date that were accepted by the country, would receive at the settlement date in exchange for their eligible bonds accepted by the country, the same aggregate principal amount distributed across new bonds due in 2027, 2029, 2032, and 2037 in the following proportions: new 2027 bond of 17.0 per cent, new 2029 Bond of 17.0 per cent, new 2032 bond of 25.0 per cent and new 2037 Bond of 41.0 per cent.
Ghana on Monday officially launch Ghana's domestic debt exchange programme to alleviate the debt burden in a most transparent, efficient, and expedited manner.
The terms and conditions of the Invitation are described in the exchange memorandum dated December 5, 2022, and available on this site.
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A review of
Company Of Moths
by Michael Palmer
Central question: Are words objects?
Format: 96 pp., paperback; Size: 6" x 9"; Price: $16.95; Publisher: New Directions; Editor: Barbara Epler; Print run: 2,500; Book design: Michael Palmer, Augusta Talbot, and Semadar Megged; Number of poems in book: 47; Number of poems with the same title and first word: 12; Number of poems containing moths: 9; "Conservative" estimate by author of the number of books he read during the four years it took him to write book: 800–1000; Representative sentence: "So I set a match// to my Obras Completas, all thirteen pages,/ that sad house of paper,// and let loose the finch from its cage."
For just over three decades, the Language poet Michael Palmer has been among America's most elegant—and abstract—heirs to modernist poetry. His abstraction is not always well received. Just two years ago in Harper's, Daniel Anderson caustically named Palmer among the poets undeserving of inclusion in Norton's most recent Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry. Yet, if anything, Palmer's Company of Moths will act as an indicator that it is we readers of poetry who have diminished. Underappreciated as a verse stylist, the Californian has hewn a voice for the philosopher-poet in contemporary American verse by bringing thoughtfulness and skepticism to bear on the quotidian, and doing so in surprisingly emotional registers. In this role, Palmer inherits much from a tradition that extends from antiquity to modernity and to the heirs of the modernists. Indeed, Palmer nods directly to the later modernist Louis Zukofsky in the section "Scale," perhaps the highlight of this volume.
Ironically, it is not in "Scale" but the other sections of the volume ("Stone," "Company of Moths," and "Dream") that Palmer's debt to Zukofsky is clearest. In these sections, Palmer's voice is grave; the writing is persuasive, and has a new readiness for extravagance ("Cupido, there are madeleines hanging in sacks, there's lava in Ghana,/ each day new elephants on parade"). Yet Palmer is also self-consciously hesitant with the authority natural to a reigning sire of the avant-garde. The opening stanza of "And" enunciates this skilled ambivalence: "The ship what was her name, its name?/ Was it The Moth? Or The Moth/ That Electrifies Night? Or The Moth// that Divides the Night in Half/ In its Passage toward the Fire?"
Palmer's lines are dramatic, and part of the drama is their elliptical manner: the name changes are deliberate, not corrections of remembering. This naming and renaming is a mimicry of amnesia. But why act the amnesiac role? In this case, the poem is dedicated "to the memory of a suicide." In the light shone from the dedication, the lines become a tortured rendering of how certain deaths are remembered. Palmer's abstraction is in illustration of very private experience, not a wordsmith tinkering at several removes from experience.
The experiential grounds underscoring Palmer's lyrics sets him apart from other Language poets, excepting perhaps Lyn Hejinian. In his newest volume, Palmer's concern with these experiential grounds becomes skillfully rendered in sensory images. The lyric "Este Mundo" is a meditation on isolation and translation. "And the idol asleep in the mountain,/ his nurse's milk on his lips.// He's dreaming of peacocks,/ meteors, pyromaniac moths,// dreaming of serpents and pyramids,/ worlds hanging from clouds,// the wine jug, the lover's spine,// and fire as it claims/ the edges of a page.// Bastante?"
This image—and others in the volume—may baffle the reader. Yet the vibrant hints of emotion that set Palmer apart are clear. Images of tyranny, eros, and knowledge combine, and we will respond to the poet's eloquence before we can make sense of the verse. Yet this faltering approach to coherence, this recession of what Palmer calls "an arc or enlacement/ that can't be shown" is not a blocking agent. What can be named can be named again, and for Michael Palmer the company of moths is shared between acts of naming.
—Milton L. Welch
Milton L. Welch is completing a dissertation on modernist poetry at the University of Virginia and holds a fellowship at Hampshire College. His reviews of poetry have appeared in several publications.


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The flywheel has 57 + 1 long tooth.
Yes. Or rather, it has 58 holes and two missing holes. Which is the same as 57 teeth and one long tooth.
The point being that for this to work, you need a 60-2 -type of a trigger wheel. The ECU is expecting 58 peaks from the signal and a flat sport. It appears that you have 59 teeth in total, meaning that you have 58 teeth + 1 long tooth. That would be wrong.
This is a 60-2 trigger wheel. It has 58 actual teeth and 2 missing teeth.
And this is a 60-2 trigger wheel as well. It has 58 actual holes and 2 missing holes.
Both of those give essentialy the same signal. Only the signals are mirror images of one another. That is, if the sensor wires are not switched over.
If you count the holes you have 59 actual holes and 1 missing hole. That is if you modified your trigger wheel as shown above. It's difficult to tell from your pictures how exactly you did modify it. The signal from that modified one will not be similar to the stock L2.4 flywheel.
Edit - didn't see Wagner's post - OK, so I need to lenghten the fill in.
Last edited by lookforjoe; 04-03-2016 at 09:23 AM..
So the problem is by adding two teeth with one gap eliminated I only filled in 9º, where each count should be 6º (tooth/gap), so by filling in the leading gap I will increase the radial count to 15º (three teeth/two gaps).
Last edited by lookforjoe; 04-05-2016 at 10:33 PM..
Glad it helped, and here's to hoping that fixing the trigger wheel will get this thing running!
There is a slight chance that the signal level is too low, but only trying it out will tell. Usually a smaller and a thinner wheel will give a lower signal with the same sensor than a bigger and thicker wheel. In this case you have the stock Volvo sensor, which is originally used with a big and thick wheel (flywheel).
If that is the case, bringing the sensor as close as possible to the wheel will strengthen the signal. Or a different sensor could be tried. Ford sensors usually give a higher voltage than the stock Volvo one. But it really depends on how the ECU is setup to handle the signal, so it could also be that it will work with the stock sensor.
I don't know if I need to set the TDC reference point (90degree) in the gap after 90, or on the tooth at 90 - I have it pretty much in the gap as it is. Since I have an adjustable distributor, I tried playing with that without any success . With all this cranking, the batt voltage may now be dropping too low for the system to function - goes down around 10v - so I've left it on a charger right now.
I do now have voltage at the fuel pump feed off the system relay when cranking, and code 141, which according to my guide means valid pulse signal. Don't know if that confirms anything in terms of timing though.
With a test light on the coil, I don't have a steady pulse on the negative side , which is also comfusing.
Last edited by lookforjoe; 06-02-2018 at 09:19 PM..
What did you fill it with? It needs to be magnetic steel (or iron) for the VR sensor to read it properly.
EDIT - do you have an opinion on the placement in terms of gap / tooth @ 90 degree mark?
Last edited by lookforjoe; 04-02-2016 at 03:42 PM..
One other question is where the rotor should align @ TDC - centered or on the leading edge of the rotor tip?
Last edited by lookforjoe; 05-31-2018 at 08:27 PM..
Ok - after charging the battery awhile, and determining that if the engine stalls, the key has to be cycled (I was using a remote start) in order to reset the system relay. The engine now starts (very short crank time), but won't stay running for long & it still feels like the timing is off, turns slow like too much advance. It ran long enough for me to use a timing light & confirm the base timing is running at 12ºBTDC, so I'm not sure why it's 'lugging'. Since it does start, I'll go through the diagnostics & see what codes I come up with.
I don't know if the trigger wheel is accurately set in terms of relationship to TDC, although if it were not, I would think the system would not properly set the 12º base timing?
I also don't know what the proper distributor rotor setting is for LH2.4, relative to TDC. If anyone has a pic of the flywheel w/ sensor @ TDC, and of the correct rotor position, I would appreciate the input.
Last edited by lookforjoe; 04-02-2016 at 09:27 PM..
I don't have a picture handy, but the thing that matters on rotor positioning is that the rotor is pointing to the correct cylinder's spark plug lead at all ignition advance values.
I'm not sure of the maximum advance either on a B230F, but it's most likely in the region of 30-40 degrees of advance, and most likely not more than 40 in any case. So you could make a distributor cap with a hole in it so that you can look inside it. Turn the engine to compression stroke TDC of cyl. number 1 and verify that the rotor is pointing to cyl. 1 spark plug lead. Actually this would be 0 degrees of advance, which would not occur in use, so in this position it does not have to be exactly at cyl 1 position, but very near none the less.
Then turn the engine backwards 40 degrees and verify that the rotor is still pointing to cyl. 1 spark plug lead, and that it's close enough for the spark to jump.
EDIT: You could probably still bring the sensor closer to the wheel. And is the trigger wheel co-centric with the crank shaft, I.E. does the gap between the trigger wheel and the sensor remain constant while turning the crank?
Last edited by Wagner; 04-03-2016 at 04:55 AM..
I'm hesitant about saying this, because this is based on memory, and could very well be all wrong: i seem to remember, that the end of the long tooth in a stock Volvo LH2.4 flywheel is at 84 degrees before top dead center.
So in other words, first find TDC. Then turn the engine backwards 84 degrees. Then your sensor tip should be at the ending edge of the section with no holes in it.
But that is really just based on memory. I have no way of verifying that right now. A picture of the stock system with engine at TDC would be helpful here.
EDIT: It appears that the Volvo manuals state, that the ECU determines TDC to be 90 degrees after the passage of the long tooth. So that would mean, that first finding TDC, then turning engine 90 degrees backwards, and then adjusting your trigger wheel so that the sensor tip is at the ending edge of the long tooth, should set your system up as stated on Volvo literature.
This is what I originally based my setting on (tip of CPS on trailing edge) - but since it didn't try to catch, I moved it CW to the center of the gap. However, that was with the incorrect tooth filler and a wider air gap overall, so I need to go back & try it again, setting the pickup to the edge of the tooth.
Since mine is currently centered in the gap, I will first retry moving the trigger wheel CCW to get it centered over the trailing edge of the long tooth.
To answer your other question, the trigger wheel is not perfectly concentric (due to variations in slots for adjustment) - the air gap does vary, with the acceptable range, but still. I have tried to maneuver it to get the minimum gap as even as possible, but I would say it still fluctuates from .025 - .039" (Volvo design allows for .020" - .059", but that may still mean steady gap - I would expect they would allow for engine component wear, though?) I think I will remove it & file the adjustment slots to allow closer radial adjustment, if it doesn't improve simply by resetting the tooth / CPS positioning.
I do have a nice steady pulse now, checking with a timing light, so I don't know that there is an issue with signal strength at this point?
I have the dist. rotor centered & #1 position - given that the system primarily deals with advance, I can rotate the dist CCW to make sure I have more rotor contact for the advance end. The rotor (1389425) for LH has a very broad contact blade. I don't think this will matter right now in terms of just starting & idling though.
Last edited by lookforjoe; 05-31-2018 at 08:30 PM..
I think it would be safe to say that it does not matter at this point. The difference between having the sensor tip just before the edge, right at the edge and right after the edge is probably at most 1 degree. That amount will not matter at all on getting the engine running. It will only affect ignition advance slightly. Not enough to prevent it from starting or running.
Variation of the air gap results in variation of the signal level. VR sensor signal is very dependant of the sensor distance. If the engine does run, then it would seem to be within the acceptable tolerancies though.
Ok - it's alive. Bad news is timing feels all wrong - and/or way too lean at part throttle. Definitely runs too lean under part throttle according to my WB02. Need to disconnect the O2 & see what my base AFR is- running 18.25lb injectors and 50psi base fuel pressure (so closer to 20lb). Volvo 960 3" TB. Bosch WR7DC+ @ .028" gap. My motor is only 1600cc, but longer duration / higher lift can, big valve head & 10.7:1 compression.
I tried fiddling with the trigger wheel relative to TDC - half tooth advanced, half tooth retarded), but can't say it altered anything. Looks like base timing is around 12-14BTDC - hard to tell exactly as the markers are not in a position where you can get a straight view at them. Air gap is good at about .024" - I removed the wheel and cleaned up the slots so I could better center the wheel radially.
Tried a couple different EZK (3531325, 3517402) modules, and a 6842115 and 3515407 LH ECU - didn't change the timing / lean condition. The nice thing about running more base timing is the motor idles at a lower temp - I used to sit at higher coolant temps with the LH2.2 - I couldn't run more than about 6 BTDC with that setup & not get knock at any load.
Wondering if I should swap out the 3517020 MAF for a 760 one. Before I start messing with chipping the ECU's I'd like to see it run reasonably in stock hardware, but maybe that's not possible..
Last edited by lookforjoe; 06-02-2018 at 09:20 PM..
Tried this. Actually runs quite well. I tried jacking the fuel pressure to 70psi with the 18.25Lb'ers, and it wasn't happy at all.
With the 012 MAF, and 30Lb ...759 Red injectors (V70 LPT '98) and fuel pressure dropped back to 45psi base it seems quite happy, feels much better & fuel AFR's are more reasonable under load. Idle O2 sweep is pretty decent.
Base timing is now closer to 12ºBTDC - I moved the trigger wheel to center over the 15th tooth, so the 90º after long tooth comes up a hair after TDC, retarding the base timing a couple degrees.
Slight funkiness with off throttle & decel feel with the 012 MAF, think that was also discussed as a by-product.
Does have some knock under load - I expect due to the load resolution shift that has been discussed with the 012 MAF.
I tried grounding pin 18 for 3º retard, and that wasn't enough. I'll try pin 19 for 6º & see how that goes tomorrow.
I will also try running higher fuel pressure to drop the AFR under load - see if that helps with the knock.
I ordered a set of reman Bosch 832's - 24lb - so I can try those with the stock MAF, since that will resolve the timing advance issue with the larger MAF.
Going to try running a Turbo EZK bin, see how it runs with that also.
Last edited by lookforjoe; 05-31-2018 at 08:34 PM..
Cold start with the 012 MAF is not great. Very rich.
Still has knock even with 19 grounded. Tried raising base FP to 50psi, no change in knock reduction at part load.
Installed the stock MAF with the 30lb inj. & lowered base FP to 40psi.
Runs well enough, no audible knock under load ,AFR's are fine at idle & part load, but too rich under heavy accel (12's & richer). O2 sweep at idle is good. I'll see how it is from a cold start. Probably could just drive it as is, but I don't think running that rich (11's) is a good idea under heavier load.
I think running 24lb injectors with the stock MAF will bring the part load & up AFR's into reasonable range. I'll know in a few days.
I had wanted to burn a turbo EZK bin to try, but I'm not sure which bin to use - the 0227-400-208_2227355740_EZK116 ?
have you disabled o2 feedback in the lh ecu yet? If you're going to be fairly serious about tuning it, you'll want to do that at least while you get things sorted out.
edit: NA. yeah, rich, but still not that bad for getting started tuning. I probably wouldn't run it like that forever, but it's not likely to wash things down in 5 minutes either.
Haven't done any tuning yet - only just figured out how to get the driver installed for my willem programmer - I need to extract the 95x bin from my ECU - I can only find 93x bins online. I have TunerPro RT, as I used it for my M4.4 tuning.
With the 3barFP/30lb/016 MAF the base mix is way too rich - cold start I'm in low 11's - so disabling Lambda will put me right in that range I'm sure. I'm going to get the 24lb in & see what the baseline is. I'll start tuning from that window - which should be well within the adaptive range for starters.
If you go to jetronic info you should be able to just pick up the stock rom. You can 'back date' to the 937 bin or update to one of the 96x bins as well on the 95x ecu.
Found the 951 bin and xdf from jay breeze.
Wondering how to determine values to enter for rescaling injector constant for the larger injectors? Anyone have experience with that?
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Posted on Jul 29, 2021, Sahaj Thapaliya
Kayvan Novak is a British actor and voice actor. He rose to prominence as the co-creator and cast member of the TV series Fonejacker (2006-2008), for which he received a BAFTA Television Award in 2008. Novak's credits include Sirens (2011) and Thunderbirds Are Go (2015- 20), and he presently appears in the TV shows Danger Mouse (2015- Present) and What We Do in the Shadows (2019- Present).
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Full Name Kayvan Novak
Birth Place London, England
Father N/A
Mother N/A
Spouse Talitha Stone
Height 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m)
Ethnicity Iranian
Zodiac Sagittarius
Kayvan Novak was welcomed into this world on November 23, 1978, in London, England, to Iranian parents. Novak was born under the Sagittarius star sign. There is no information about his family history, including his father, mother, grandparents, and siblings. He is a British citizen by nationality. Similarly, he is of Iranian ethnic origin.
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When it comes to his academy and educational qualifications, Kayvan Novak studied at Highgate School for his high school education. He, afterward, attended Hampstead Fine Arts College. Kayvan is also a student at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.
How did Kayvan start his Career?
Kayvan made his television debut in 2002 as a guest star on the shows Family Affairs and The American Embassy. Following brief TV performances in Trial & Retribution (2003) and Holby City (2004), he made his feature film debut in the 2005 picture Syriana, alongside George Clooney, Matt Damon, and Jeffrey Wright.
Novak went on to co-create and appear in Fonejacker (2007-2008), a comedy show that featured a series of hoax calls. Later, from 2010 to 2012, he was a cast member in the comedic series Facejacker, which was similar to Fonejacker.
Waj, one of the main characters in the satirical dark comedy film Four Lions, was played by a British actor in 2010. He appeared alongside Riz Ahmed, Nigel Lindsay, and Arsher Ali in the film, which received a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 7.3/10.
Currently, he plays the recurrent character Dr. Loo-cifer in Danger Mouse (2015- Present). Novak has been starring in the mockumentary comedy horror What We Do in the Shadows with Matt Berry and Natasia Demetriou since 2019.
Kayvan Novak's most recent film appearances were in The Day Shall Come (2019) and Men in Black: International (2019), both of which starred Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson and grossed $253.9 million at the box office.
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Kayvan Novak is a husband. He was married to Talitha Stone, his long-term sweetheart. His wife is an actress best known for her roles in the British soap operas 'Emmerdale,' 'Emmerdale,' and 'Secret Life of Boys'.
Before getting married, the pair dated for several years. However, they did not disclose their affair on social media prior to their marriage. Because of their marriage, the media was taken aback. Kayvan even spent his birthday on November 23rd with his lover Talitha Stone.
The couple also shared a cute photo from one of their ad adventure outings on social media. He is savoring every romantic moment with his lover.
They also post a romantic photos on their Instagram account. The pair encourages and supports one another in order for them to be successful in their careers. They are quite happy and live a very luxurious life. Kayvan and Talitha do not have any kids yet.
Kayvan Novak has a fit and excellent body, as well as a pleasant demeanor. Kayvan is a tall man, standing at 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m). He, too, weighs 75 kilograms. Aside from that, Novak has black hair and dark brown eyes. On social media, there is no information on his body measurements, shoe size, or clothing size.
Kayvan Novak is currently only active on Instagram. He has 93.3K followers on his Instagram account (@kayvan_novak).
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Kayvan Novak's career as an actor and comedian has brought him a lot of money, recognition, and renown. According to celebrity net worth, he is worth approximately $4 million. He has not made his annual pay available to the public.
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