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Editorial
On Changes and Passings
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As a person who has spent nearly all his career working in calibration laboratories, I think I can speak for others who work in similar areas when I say that change is something to be avoided. Changes in the calibration world are generally bad. Most of us spend our professional lifetimes trying to ensure that nothing changes. We would like calibration coefficients to be stable over periods of decades, even centuries if possible. Or, at least for as long