Both the pursuer and the pursued are remarkably bad shots, firing wildly without effect, apart from the occasional upper arm flesh wound.

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The glaze is applied to a fired stoneware vessel, which is then fired again in a repeated cycle of six stages of heating and cooling where precise temperatures matter a great deal: either over- or under-firing will spoil the effect.

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First, to put it in context, his general result is that performance based firing or compensation policies would have to occur alongside increases in teacher pay in order to have a meaningfully positive effect.

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