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CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. — American fans of Ikea's Swedish meatballs can rest easy following clarification from the company regarding the origin of beef and pork found in meatballs sold at U.S. stores.
"Customer confidence is of the upmost importance to Ikea. In light of the recent press on Ikea meatball content, we would like to correct some misinformation. All meatballs sold in our Ikea US stores are sourced from a U.S. supplier. When this issue first came to light in Europe, we mapped the sources of the meat in our meatballs. Based on the results of our mapping, we can confirm that the contents of the meatballs follow the Ikea recipe and contain only beef and pork from animals raised in the US and Canada. All beef and pork from the United States and Canada must comply with USDA guidelines," the company said in a press statement.
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I would like to see a new rule added where a skater who performs clean edge, fully rotated triples (or quads) of each type earns a set bonus point value to the technical score. In the case of the axel, men need to perform a triple axel and ladies can perform either the double or triple. For men's, I think it should be 4 additional points and 3 for ladies.
USFS does not give bonuses. In the US, Junior and Novice ladies who make it to Nationals typically go for the high-value jumps and some have 3-3s.
OT: The men, during the GP series, had their share of edge calls. In the first two events of the series, the men received 14 edge calls. I believe the women had around 17. Sorry: was too lazy to go though all of the events. I guess if I were a skater I might see this differently, but I find myself perplexed that skaters have so much trouble using the correct edge. Perhaps, if figures were still a part of their training (though not competed), the situation might be different.
I so much prefer the ones who don't do three 3F in the program without being punished! I find it really wrong that they pretend to get the points for the 3Lz for one of them, who is more than a proper 3F. I find the wrong edge take off of the 3Lz should be punished more so they would loss points and better repeat a Loop instead. If they can do a proper 3Lz, ok, but not 3fluz and get points for 3Lz.
than I think a reward of all 5 tripples with right edge take off should be considered.
The CoP has an opinion. 3Lz+2T+2Lo = 9.1; 3T+3T = 8.2. (But I think Skater Boy meant 3Lz + either 2T or 2Lo in a two-jump combo.)

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A scare over a new strain of avian flu, H7N9, which has killed nine people, has closed live chicken markets and halted the slaughter of chickens.
Mr Key spent yesterday visiting Guangzhou, the biggest city in Guangdong province. With a GDP of more than US$650 million ($770 million) it is the wealthiest in China.
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Mr Key yesterday paid tribute to the airline for its second anniversary of flying daily to New Zealand. Chinese tourists to the year to February reached a record 200,000.
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The immediate reaction to these numbers will be "Manning needs to restructure!" but Eli's 2013 cap number is already the result of multiple restructures. And with a flat cap projected over the next several years, restructuring what remains of his contract becomes a difficult, tedious and nearly impossible task given his cap numbers in 2014 and 2015, which are $20.4 million and $19.75 million respectively." Read more...


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As of right now I've been parsing the "Description" member of Effects, EffectTechniques and EffectPasses to learn most of this information from an Effect instance. However, it seems there is no way to get the actual type, nor figure out how many members (and type of members) a variable contains. I've never used the ShaderReflection type/API before, so I'm totally ignorant of how it works and how to use it... and can't seem to find the right information on Google (possibly due to my ignorance of what search queries to use lol).
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EDIT: I'm also curious about the best way to bind variable values to an Effect (e.g., the fastest and most efficient way). And how might I need to handle the use of multiple materials based on the same shader?
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Jim Richards
Seven Bathurst victories and four Australian Touring Car Championships are more than enough to make Jim Richards a Kiwi touring car legend.
Despite a long and successful career racing in New Zealand, it was the 1974 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 race at Bathurst that launched him into an even more successful career in Australia. Of Richard's four ATCC titles, his third and fourth titles were the most controversial, as they came behind the wheel of the awesome and infamous R32 Nissan Skyline - or "Godzilla" as it was more commonly known.
While Richards has retired from professional driving, he is dominating the Touring Car Masters championship, winning the title in 2010.
Paul Radisich
Radisich started his career in touring cars with a second place at Bathurst in 1990. Driving a Ford Sierra RS500, this success took him away from the open-wheelers and towards the tin-tops that he would make his name in.
During an impressive run in the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) Radisich twice won the World Touring Car Cup in 1993 and 1994, driving a Ford Mondeo.
In 1999 he returned Downunder and joined Dick Johnson Racing in the V8 Supercar series. He would also go on to drive for Team Kiwi Racing and Toll HSV Dealer Team before a big crash during practice for the 2008 Bathurst 1000 would end his driving career.
Robbie Francevic
Designing, building and successfully racing the legendary "Custaxie" in the New Zealand Saloon Car Championship would be enough to confirm Francevic's status as a legend, the fact that he is also the only New Zealand resident, and only the second New Zealander, to win the Australian Touring Car Championship (Jim Richards was the first Kiwi, but he was living in Australia at the time) in 1986 cements his legendary status completely.
Francevic won the Aussie title in 1986, driving a Volvo 240T, and was legendary for his hard-charging style of driving in the Aussie series. He would go on to race a Ford Sierra RS500 in both Australia and New Zealand, which would see him secure two consecutive NZ Touring Car titles in 1989 and 1990.
Greg Murphy
Certainly one of the most popular Kiwi drivers to race a tin-top, Murphy started racing aged 8. Since then he has gone on to have a successful career in V8 Supercars, exclusively driving Holdens.
Although never quite winning the V8 Supercar championship, despite coming close on occasion, he is one of the most well-liked drivers and is equally loved for his ferocious pace and his outspoken personality.
In 2012, Murphy turned his attention back home by competing successfully in the V8 SuperTourer Championship, finishing second in the title race and winning the endurance series.
Craig Baird
A pure winning machine, Baird may be more well-known for his utter domination in Porsches both here (GT3 Cup) and in Australia (Carrera Cup) and his current appearances in the NZ SuperTourer Championship, but back in the 1990s, Baird was the man to beat in the NZ Touring Car Championship.
Baird ruled the series for BMW in the mid-to-late 90s, taking out the title in 1994, '95, '96 and '97. After his local domination, he headed to Britain, where he raced alongside Radisich (who he in fact replaced in the works Ford team) in the 1998 season, one of his few unsuccessful seasons (he finished 20th).
Jason Richards
Aside from being one of the nicest people in New Zealand motorsport, Richards was also one of the most dominant drivers in the New Zealand Touring Car series in the late 1990s.
Richards won the 1999 and 2000 titles in a BMW 320i for Lyall Williamson's International Motorsport team, before switching to the Team Kiwi Nissan Primera to take his third title in 2001.
He would stick with Team Kiwi for his move to the Australian V8 Supercar series, with little success. His switch to Tasman Motorsport in 2004 would herald better results and Richards looked increasingly like a driver who deserved to be at the top of the podium.
Unfortunately he was diagnosed with cancer in 2010 and died on December 15, 2011, aged 35.
John McIntyre
A successful career in Touring Cars seemed inevitable when McIntyre became the first minor to race on a permanent race circuit in New Zealand in 1990 at age 13.
Moving to the TraNZam Lights in 1997, McIntyre stayed with the series when it became the NZ V8 Touring Car championship in 1998 (and eventually NZV8s in 2005) and was a regular race winner and title challenger.
McIntyre set up his own team in 2006 and would go on to be dominant force in the NZV8 series, winning the championship title in the 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2010-11 seasons.
Denny Hulme
Although Denny Hulme is better-known for being New Zealand's only Formula One World Champion, he also had success in Touring Cars.
After his retirement from F1 he raced several times in the Benson & Hedges 500 at Pukekohe, one year with Stirling Moss as a partner.
By 1982 he was racing regularly again and built a Holden Commodore to win the NZ Production Series in 1983. He headed off to Australia to drive for Frank Gardner's JPS Team BMW, which would see him take a second in class at the Bathurst 1000 in 1984.
By 1986, Hulme raced in the European Touring Car Championship in a Rover Vitesse and in 1988 Hulme and Larry Perkins would team up to drive for the new Holden Racing Team, the pair giving the fledgling team its first victory at the 1988 Australian Grand Prix support race.
It was at Bathurst in 1992 that Hulme would suffer a heart attack and die behind the wheel of his BMW M3 on Conrod Straight.
Kayne Scott
After a third place in the 1989 NZTCC, Kayne Scott moved across to the mighty TraNZams and dominated the series in the early '90s, taking five consecutive titles from 1991 to 1995.
After taking six years off to concentrate on his business and his family, Scott headed off to the United States to compete in Trans-Am, before returning to the NZV8 series.
He won the 2005-06 title and became one of the leading drivers in the series. Finishing third in the Fujitsu V8 Supercar development series in 2007 led to his big V8 Supercar break; a full-time drive with Team Kiwi Racing.
Unfortunately coinciding with TKR's downfall, good results were scarce and later in 2008, Scott would return to the NZV8s and take out the championship for a second time.
Shane Van Gisbergen
Think of this as more of a "one to watch" entry. For now.
Going straight from single seaters into V8 Supercars, Shane Van Gisbergen became the 200th to start a race in a V8 Supercar when he debuted for Team Kiwi Racing in 2007. The next year he signed to Stone Brother Racing and his march up the leaderboard began. By 2010 he was a regular top 10 contender and the next year he won his first V8 Supercar race. He would take a second win that year and, with Mark Winterbottom, would be the only Ford driver to win that season.
This year, amid the storm of controversy and ill-will that surrounded his decision to retire, then un-retire, he showed his true class by shutting all that out and taking pole for the first race of the season and a remarkable win in the second.
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GeoffK wrote:Also we need to be as critical about tea blogs as we are about stores. Rather than threads listing ALL the tea blogs out there and accept anyone and everyone as an authority on tea, we need to champion the tea blogs which are doing it right. And by that I mean the bloggers who have experience with tea, are giving well rounded reviews and provide the reader with enough information to help decode if a tea might be a good fit to sample.
OK I'm ranting again. As I said in the first post I'm not trying to be 'right', I just feel passionate that this is an issue worth discussing.
Also with respects to Pu-erh shop, my intent is not to single out one retailer over another with these issues. Jim I think your heart is absolutely in the right place, so I'm sorry if you felt attacked in this thread, it wasn't my intent. You've shown yourself to be a stand up business man who respects and listens to his customers, I don't want my take on 2 of the teas you sell to discolor that. See my comments as constructive criticism and not 'bashing' you. I've ordered several times from your store and because of the way in which you truly care about your customers I plan on ordering from you again.
Personally I think blogs are not that simple as not everyone is after the same thing. Personally I'm a shu drinker when it comes to puerh and I don't see myself ever getting into aged shengs and doubt if I will ever bother to try any. Not everyone is going to get into the upper end puerh teas so the opinions of people who are happy with "bargain teas" will not match the people who are after aged sheng. As a tea blogger I focus on how the teas taste now as I doubt most people really aged their shu and the few aged shu samples that I had did not strike me as any different from a good young shu. With that being said I tend to sample and enjoy the cheap shu puerh that Jim's Puerh Shop has to offer from which I've yet to buy anything from him that I did not like but at the same time I'll admit that I'm selective toward the ones that I know will be better. Sure I'll admit that some of the Puerh Shop teas were better than others but that doesn't mean that the others were not enjoyable. At the same time I should add the the main thing that I like about Puerh Shop is that Jim takes shu puerh seriously and carries a good selection of shu to choose from instead of treating shu as a second rate less than real puerh product as some other vendors do. Although personally at times I do question how helpful personal tea blogging really is as I want to focus upon enjoying the tea that is in my cup at the moment compared to ruining the moment by thinking back to older cakes long since finished that were better.


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Discussion in 'NFL Zone' started by Champsheart, Dec 15, 2012.
Just saw on ESPN - Cousins to start for skins as doctors not confident in Bob's knee
Nobody can tell me they didnt know Griffin wouldnt start.
Agreed......... I hope they throw the kitchen sink at Cousins.
Technically speaking, everyone could have told you that they did not know that Griffin wouldnt start
I thought this was against league rules. Didnt a team get fined for this kind of tactic?
Edit; ok it was because the Ravens didnt list Ed Reed on the injury report
On Cowboys insider, Goose says that if Cousins starts it will be an upgrade over Bob.....
I heard talk before the season that many think cousins is actually better than RG3. He may not be flashy but he certainly could be capable of matching his production.
Doubt that
to even assume cousins is better than RGIII is a joke. No one has seen
cousins play more than a few snaps.
RGIII has a 104.2 qb rating as a rookie. 18 TD's and 4 INT's.
IDC what you say, or what your argument is, that is flat out impressive.
washington will lose tomorrow without him, mark it down.
ive never seen Cousins play so i cant really offer an opinion, just kinda thought from what ive been hearing is that Bob is Gods gift to football and we are all better people and closer to heavens gates just from watching him play...so for Cousins to be an upgrade must be truly a miracle from Gods own hand
Cousins is certainly not an upgrade. He's very talented, but he doesn't protect the ball as well as Griffin. I believe our only real advantage here is the Browns had very little film to prepare for with Cousins under center, and they had to have wasted some time this week preparing against RG3.
I'm a little excited to see Cousins play. Obviously I wanted RG3 back there at 100% but I want to see how Cousins looks starting a regular season game with a week of prep taking first team snaps.
No matter how good he looks it won't be any QB controversy (outside of some clown car like First Take). Unless he looks truly awful then I wouldn't be concerned, since he's a 4th round QB in his first start.
I can't imagine they'll ask the world of him, probably manage the game and lean on the running game.
The Browns are no joke but it's still a winnable game.
Go Browns! I think they would have won even if Griffin had been cleared to play.
Read Here http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap10...l-not-start-for-washington-redskins-on-sunday
Posted in another thread earlier. This is wonderful news.
Go Browns!
Duly noted!
Cousins could be a hot commodity this off-season...
I'd like to hold onto him for one more season. If he continues to impress in spot duty, he'll land us a better pick.
I think Cousins will be in league longer than RGIII
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She has less sustain than before, but she still has good enough sustain.
She has less sustain than before, but she still has good enough sustain.
So, I'm getting close to 3150 IP and trying to find a champion to get.
I've been wanting to try lux, but been holding out until she goes F2P for a week until I buy her. I prefer casters/ranged but I do like melee too (Riven, Tyrn, liked Sion and Nasus when I got to try them).
Enjoy support but also like being able to nuke too. Could buy one at 3150 or keep saving for a 6300 champ, but by then I'd probably just go buy one with RP instead.
SO! Suggest away!
I wouldn't wait for Lux to be F2P if I were you. I've never seen her F2P since I started playing in October. I'm pretty subpar with skillshots so I'm not a huge fan of Lux's playstyle, but if you can make skillshots work then she's definitely worth a try. I mostly bought her because she's a reference to a character from Touhou, to be honest, although I don't regret it.
For the most part I'm decent with skillshots. I'll probably hold out until tuesday for one last rotation, if she's not in it then I'll buy her.I wouldn't wait for Lux to be F2P if I were you. I've never seen her F2P since I started playing in October. I'm pretty subpar with skillshots so I'm not a huge fan of Lux's playstyle, but if you can make skillshots work then she's definitely worth a try. I mostly bought her because she's a reference to a character from Touhou, to be honest, although I don't regret it.
It's a shame that Heimerdinger is considered "useless". He was my favorite champion when I started LoL. Sucked when they removed his 3rd turret. I still find him fun, but he feels very lacking.
Get good with Blitz and you'll be one of the best champs
The thing with the snares is that it prevents both her Q and her E, which both have a full movement animation. I'm just saying if you have a team with snares (morgana for example), you can shut down her damage output immediately. Most rivens won't survive a burst especially when they can't use their 400 hp shield (hence the snare).
And is it just me or do ppl just wanna play tankriven?
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He has super low sustain in jungle with his passive, as its worthless! Than, he comes to lane, charges and slows with one skill, but that's not good enough as its worthless. (Red buff procs in meantime!) Now its time for worthless knock up. And that's on lvl 2 which is, worthless.
Than he goes back to jungle, as he didn't menage to gank, because, hes worthless.
Then comes late game when he "falls off". He can't charge and knock up carry anymore, he can't do 15% of max hp(reduced by MR) and gain crazy amount of defensive stats for 6 seconds (25+number of champions hited*13). Hes just plain worthless!
Its not that he has almost identical ganking tools as Maokai, and hes "god tier".
I get it now, I wont play him ever again, and I advise to all of you, never again play him!
And you "might" put him slightly above Eve tier? lol
You are one of those sheep that just follow. There are no "bad" champions. Only bad players that make them look bad.
Good description, but he can use his turret to ward one side, and real ward to ward the other. And when melee is closing on you, you can predict movement and possibly stun them or blind them, if they try to avoid, they will loose time on it and you will be under tower.
How many other ap mids have escape mechanism?
Quite a few actually, or another way round it.
Ryze has his snare. So does Morgana. LeBlanc and Kassadin have their blink, so does Ahri once she hits level 6. Anivea has her wall and egg. Cassiopeia has increased movement speed, a slow and a stun/slow. Brand and Annie have (not-so-reliable in terms of being available) stuns.
As to Xin: he's not worthless in the sense that he can't do anything. It's quite simply that he's outclassed in his job by a lot of other champions. There's better candidates for top lane, there's better candidates for jungle. They clear faster, have better sustain or ganks or simply do not fall off late game. That doesn't make Xin bad, that makes other champions better.
Note that Xin Zhao is actually getting a remake (as mentioned by Solcrushed a few days ago).
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Looking for another top lane/jungler. I have been playing mostly top lane right now, as I'm not yet lvl20 to have all my runes in place. I currently own Gangplank for this role, and have done well with him (and was considering XinZhou until I read this thread lol). Nocturn looks like an option for me, but is pretty pricey so I'm hesitant to buy him without testing. Fiddlesticks looks like a good jungler and is on sale, but can he do any other jobs effectively (especially important b/c I don't think I'm high enough level to jungle)?
Heros I definitely don't like: Ahri. I enjoy skillshots (Morgana is my defacto mid), but for some reason not a big fan of her. I like to be able to widdle away at people, and then get the kill myself. Don't really like just darting in and finishing people off (which is what she kinda feels like when I've played her).
shyvana udyr leesin. all good top and junfles
What about a tank to start tanking and one to look forward to master afterwards?
singed is always good. tanks are kinda falling by the way side. with a beefy jungle and a bruiser top you dont really need a full fledged tank
Guys who should I buy Ziggs or Viktor for mage pusher?
I have tried Ziggs and liked his playstyle. But I have watched vids on Viktor and he looks good to.
Help me decide and thx in advance.
I would go with Ziggs, personally. He's just plain fun, and you can nuke people from afar with his ulti. Although Viktor's slow/stun is mighty awesome in team fights.


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dam you Chip Kelly..!!
Now we need to figure out how to stop the read option 2 point conversions, which will be a huge problem for this team.
Spin that Webb young Davis
is Foles going to be the guy..??
I smell a desperate team. Not that I am completely against the giants keeping Fewell and Gilbride. I just hope the coaches and gm realize that it's critical we fix the issues we have on both sides of the ball. Especially now with our division rivals taking up coaches like this.
I know that from college to nfl it's different. But for now this actually bothers me.
What are your thoughts?
He wont have the same talent he had in college and thus he will be attacked viciously the Eagels fans when they are 1-6.
We now have two teams in our own division who are (probably) going to have some sort of fast break offense with a mobile QB. Obviously it will take some time to get everything in place but we already know the Eagles have quick RBs and WRs. The Giants need to get faster on D. The LBs are the obvious weak point.
Thought it was done when he announced he was staying at Oregon. There are going to be some mighty angry ducks.
This could be really good or really bad for us. I still think Eagles have talented players.


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In Need, Not in Despair
Close-Up: No Child Left BehindEnhancing Education Through Technology
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Guide for Young Readers! Booklet Series Covers Birth to Grade 3
Nation's Report Card Shows Achievement Gap Narrowing
U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige said he was encouraged by the latest results in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation's Report Card, for the performance of the nation's fourth- and eighth-graders in mathematics and reading.
"These results show that the education revolution that No Child Left Behind promised has begun," Paige said. "I am particularly pleased to see that the achievement gap is starting to close as African American, Hispanic and low-income students showed some of the most significant improvements."
NAEP is the only ongoing, nationally representative assessment of what American students know and can do in various academic subject areas. This is the first year in which results are provided for all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Released last month, the results show significant student progress in mathematics. At the fourth grade, the percentage of students at or above the basic level increased from 50 percent in 1990 to 77 percent in 2003, while the percentage at or above the proficient mark increased from 13 percent to 32 percent. At the eighth grade, the increases are from 52 percent to 68 percent, and from 15 percent to 29 percent, respectively.
Paige pointed out that the most recent period reveals that the achievement gap in mathematics between white and black students is closing for both fourth- and eighth-graders. He also said the achievement gap between Hispanic fourth-graders and their white peers is narrowing. And with no significant change in the achievement gap at the eighth-grade level for Hispanic students, Paige said "improving scores for these students remains a high priority."
In reading, gains recorded in last year's NAEP results for fourth-graders have held steady. The 2003 scores continue to be well above 2000 and 1998 levels. Some of the most impressive gains were registered by black and Hispanic fourth-graders, whose 2003 scores are also significantly above 2000 and 1998 levels.
Additional information about NAEP is available at http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard.
In Need, Not in Despair
By Steve Holland, Raymond, Wash.
Any school that has been identified as needing improvement knows the cauldron of feelings that are stirred up initially. "Why did this happen? Aren't we working hard enough? It's not us, it's the type of kids we teach."
As the new superintendent, I came into the Raymond School District when the high school was starting its third year of a three-year school improvement process. It was necessary to get on board the moving train and to set up a structure that would maintain the momentum when the improvement funds go away next school year. What follows is not meant to suggest that our junior/senior high school has achieved each of its improvement goals, but rather to proclaim that the path to improvement is fraught with opportunity!
Raymond School District is a small rural district approximately 75 minutes from Olympia, Wash. It serves some 560 students in two schools: a K-6 elementary and a junior/senior high school, grades 7-12. Demographically, 54 percent of its students take part in the free and reduced-price lunch program; approximately one-third of its students are ethnic minorities; and 18 percent of the students receive special education services. The community is very proud of the Raymond tradition and works hard to ensure the schools have what they need. The staff has a high percentage of experienced teachers who grew up in the area and have taught for many years in the Raymond school system.
When the junior high school was identified for school improvement, the principal at the time, Mark Jones, started the process of involving staff in the plan. The entire staff, including teachers, custodians and paraprofessionals, agreed to focus on the mission of the school throughout the development of the school improvement plan. A state team of experts came in to examine the facilities, teaching methods, demographics, learning challenges and every possible item that could impact learning. The team consisted of five people who worked five 16-hour days to gather data through interviews of parents, staff, administrators and students. These interviews led to the gathering of 150 problem areas that were eventually boiled down to four broad areas of focus. Meetings were then held to solicit ideas from students, parents and the community, as well as staff. The goal was to develop a process that allowed us to focus on the following four identified areas: (1) reading, writing and math (required by the state); (2) school safety and climate; (3) increased parent/community involvement in the education process; and (4) raising expectations for students and staff.
With the help of a data expert from one of the state's educational support services, the team created a plan that brought in subject-matter experts and process experts; this help was invaluable. They helped the staff map the curriculum, learn how to teach appropriately to the state standards and adopt a K-12 perspective.
Focusing on the four areas of improvement led to unexpected synergies and positive movement. We received an after-school grant that allowed our students to gain the needed credits for graduation. The subject matter experts taught workshops to the entire staff, whom they continue to mentor. The principal was trained in how to observe new behaviors and how to support staff in the implementation of new ways to conduct business. Marginal teachers improved and excellent teachers became even more enthusiastic. All of these things and more began to slowly change the way everyone looked at the system.
This new perspective included such things as the elementary and secondary people pulling together rather than having an "us and them" attitude. Secondary teachers began to develop an appreciation for what elementary teachers were faced with. Teachers have accepted that change is a continuing process, comfort zones will be breached and thinking "outside the box" is an ongoing reality. Our educators understand that they have taken the first step on a long journey to change the culture, and they are committed to continuing the adventure.
In order to maintain this momentum, we have organized parents, staff, business people, community people and government agencies into a group called the Vision Alive Team. The purpose of this team is to advocate for and ensure continual improvement that will build on what has been accomplished so we hold ourselves accountable for the goals our strategic plan and school improvement process have set. By keeping these key stakeholders involved and informed, we believe the school climate, staff morale and parent support can only continue to improve.
Steve Holland is superintendent of the Raymond School District in the state of Washington. He accepted the position this past July following six years as superintendent of a nearby school district. Formerly, Holland taught high school Russian, English and technology classes.
Close-Up: No Child Left BehindEnhancing Education Through Technology
|"Technology ... is part of all aspects of education. It helps reach students with reading. It is a tool to provide professional development opportunities for teachers. It is a tool for parents to stay active and be participating partners with teachers. It is not a separate topic or subject area, it is part of how we deliver education."
John Bailey, U.S. Department of Education's director of educational technology, in his remarks during the June 15 broadcast of Education News Parents Can Use.
The Educational Technology State Grants Program under No Child Left Behind seeks to improve academic achievement through the use of technology in elementary and secondary schools. It is also designed to assist every student in becoming technologically literate by the end of eighth grade and to encourage the effective integration of technology resources and systems with teacher training and curriculum development. The program targets funds primarily to school districts that serve concentrations of economically disadvantaged students; approximately $700 million was appropriated in 2002 and 2003.
While public schools have made huge improvements in providing computer and Internet access, minority and poor students often lack computer access outside of regular school hours, according to two new reports recently released by the National Center for Education Statistics, a component of the Education Department's Institute of Education Sciences.
The first report, Internet Access in U.S. Public Schools and Classrooms: 1994-2002, which is an annual Department survey, found:
- In 1994, 3 percent of classrooms in U.S. public schools had access to the Internet; in the fall of 2002, 92 percent had access.
- In 2002, the ratio of students to instructional computers with Internet access in public schools was 4.8 to 1, an improvement from the 12 to 1 ratio in 1998 when it was first measured.
- In 2002, 86 percent of public schools reported that they had a Web site or Web page, from 75 percent in 2001.
- Eighty-seven percent of public schools with Internet access indicated that their school or school district offered professional development to teachers in the schools to help them integrate the use of the Internet into the curriculum.
The second report, Computer and Internet Use by Children and Adolescents in 2001: Statistical Analysis Report, shows that although computer and Internet access has become an important component of schoolwork, there are still some gaps:
- Forty-four percent of children and adolescents overall use computers and
- 42 percent use the Internet to complete their assignments.
- Forty-one percent of blacks and Hispanics use a computer at home, compared to 77 percent of whites.
- Only 31 percent of students from families earning less than $20,000 use computers at home, compared to 89 percent of those from families earning more than $75,000 (see chart for details).
Source: Computer and Internet Use by Children and Adolescents in 2001, U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2003.
This report can be downloaded at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2004014.
Tips for Parents
Following are suggestions of what parents should look for in a first-grade classroom. In an effective classroom, literacy instruction should focus on such things as
Teaching about books and print
The teacher reads aloud to the children often, sharing many different types of books and other print materials. She shows her enthusiasm for reading and her eagerness for the children to learn to read. As she reads, she shows the parts of print such as the beginnings and endings of sentences, new paragraphs and different punctuation marks.
The children are excited about being read to and about learning to read. They recognize the titles of books and ask the teacher to read their favorites. They spend part of the day looking at books or pretending to read books of their choice.
Teaching phonemic awareness
The teacher provides explicit instruction in phonemic awareness. He shows the children how to do phonemic awareness activities and helps them with feedback. The activities are short and fun.
The children practice a lot with phonemes. For example, they clap out the sounds they hear in words (segmentation), put sounds together to make words (blending), add or drop sounds from words (phoneme addition and deletion), and replace sounds in words (phoneme substitution).
Source: Adapted from A Child Becomes a Reader: Kindergarten Through Grade 3, Partnership for Reading, 2003.
Guide for Young Readers! Booklet Series Covers Birth to Grade 3
The road to becoming a reader begins the day a child is born and continues through the end of third grade," writes the authors of two new booklets from the Partnership for Reading. Designed for parents and caregivers to help young children become readers, one publication covers birth to preschool and the other grades K-3.
The booklets, entitled A Child Becomes a Reader, draw from many research studies on early literacy development to reveal how children learn the spoken and written language through common, daily activities. "You don't need special training or expensive materials" in teaching children at home, advise the booklets' authors. The publications offer ideas, which include fun language games along with additional resources, to help parents turn everyday interactions into learning opportunities.
Each booklet of A Child Becomes a Reader is age-specific, with the "birth through preschool" edition covering
- What children should be able to do by age 3 and 5;
- What to look for in day care centers and preschools
- What children should be able to do by the end of kindergarten and first, second and third grades;
- What to look for in kindergarten and first-, second- and third-grade classrooms.
The Achiever is published semi-monthly during the school year for parents and community leaders by the Office of Intergovernmental and Interagency Affairs, U.S. Department of Education (ED). Rod Paige, Secretary.
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|I'd wait to see how the aggression level gets when one of the females decides to spawn. The spawning female is the nastiest. She doesn't really give warning blasts or gill flares before she hits the other fish that are too close. The others generally learn pretty fast where to avoid. But your tank is probably big enough to house more pairs of apistos, or more females. For me, the males are not going to focus on killing a female in a 79 gallon planted tank with lots of other fish around-including male apistos-to distract them-and the only thing more females could provide is increased frequency of spawning events in the tank, and potentially more fry. To condition them without fouling the tank too much You can try spot feeding them with a pipette to keep the wasted feed down. Even though they like to feast, those little apistos can't really eat that much. You can also do frequent water changes, that can trigger spawning too.
Thank you so much for your response. So I shouldn't bother adding another female, then? Of any pair?
I have a pair of orange flash.
Pair of gbrs
And a pair of apisto bitaeniata maniti
My Gbrs are the most tame. They don't bother anyone and the apistos don't bother them. The female of the flash chases the female maniti. And the male flash doesn't care for anyone except the female flash. The male maniti chases the female and male flash..but he's wild caught while the flashes are tank bred.
So..just wait? Over feeding them also may over feed the rest of my tank..and that may just get my nitrates to go high! My tank is at a neutral 80 f for my badis badis..
Sounds like they are doing great. The females know what to do to avoid getting attacked by the males. If she is ready to spawn, the encounter will go much diffrently. I don't really buy into the they are not a match theory. The apisto species that this might be true for are panduro and nijsenni and I haven't worked with them myself. One thing we can say is the female is not ready to spawn. It could be that the enviornmental cues are not there for her to want to spawn (temperature, pH, photoperiod, ect ect) ,but also the females only spawn every 30-40 days, and that is only if she is in the right conditions, and has had enough food to ripen the eggs. I'd say check your params to what other people are using to breed them, feed them really well with a mix of frozen and prepared foods and give it some time. Also, your females could still be immature.
Which species did you end up getting?
Thanks everyone!
I ended up moving the pair to my 79 g. There are a thousand places to hide and a very heavy plant mass to hide amongst as well.
I find the males of each pair keep nudging the female's belly and then turn around and wag their fin in their faces. Females are not interested at all and either go sideways when approach or swim away slowly.
Have you ever had a pair take a very long time to want to spawn? Or could it not be a match? Would adding another female cause stress to the other female? The females aren't stressed at all..the males aren't chasing them aggressively, just a nudge like "hey, whatcha up to? Wanna hook up?"
|get a trio....two female to one male...or the male will kill the female
This is generally what happens between a male and female apisto until the female is ready for spawning, which requires "conditioning" in the form of generous feedings, typically with live/frozen food mixed in and your water conditions need to be right. The male's tend to develop a territory, and when a female enters it, and signals no intent of breeding, he suggests she "poop or get off the pot" so to speak.
Add some dither fish and get a bunch of plants in there and it won't really be an issue. Also, a small cosmetic mirror is a great way to keep the male pre-occupied with defending his turf rather than hunting down the female.
|It is the general behavior indicating the females aren't ready to spawn. The males could care less and are a little rude.
The 10 g has a few hiding spots. I put a giant piece of driftwood that creates a nice cave where the driftwood rests against the soil bed. A big piece of cholo wood is at the back. I'll be planting some plants.
I may put the maniti into the 79 g..there's a ton of hiding spots there but the two pairs will always cross each other while exploring..
I'm assuming if the male is bullying the female, they're not a match or will not breed?
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|provide lots of hiding spots and line of site interruptions. the flaring behaivior is normal territorial / breeding activity for most apistos. a 10 gallon is a little tight for a pair of bitaeniata, but it will work given enough hiding spots.
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I have a pair of triple red cacatuoides in my 79 G. Beautiful fish. I've had them since they were babies. The male is a couple of weeks younger than the female. Both are 4-5 months old.
I have another pair of gorgeous apistogramma bitaeniata maniti in my 10 G. They're adults. I just got them today.
I'm just wondering whether the male and the female are suppose to play nice together or is it normal for the male to chase the female off. Or bully her. Or nip her tummy. The females in both instances want nothing to do with the male or so it seems.
The b. maniti flares his fins (it's quite beautiful actually) and pauses when he sees the female, and then "attacks" her or swims to her quickly and she darts away.
Just wondering if there's anything I can do for the female? Or for the male to feel like aggressive?
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It seems like Castle Companies was in such a hurry to start tearing down the backside of the Danville Hotel and eliminating some of it's tenants. Has the project come to a screeching halt? I'm in town everyday and see no activity, just an eyesore for our charming Town. Perhaps they should consider selling it to another developer that will be able to continue the project. Come on guys ... what gives?


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I know this section of the forum is for TBHs, but I've seen some Warre people lurking around in here, too. I have just finished reading Beekeeping For All and am planning to build two Warre hives for spring. I am building the standard version, not modified.
In the Warre plans, it shows the top bars as 11/32" thick. I plan on using 3/4inch thick lumber for my hive. Can I make my top bars 3/4" thick with no adverse affect? If not, what's the best way to split my 3/4" bars with a table saw? Splitting each one seperately seems like a lot of work, and my blade won't go high enough to do two at once.
I've seen top bars for sale on one of the sites that sells this type hive (you know who you are!) for $1 each. That's an extra $64 that I don't really want to spend.
Any additional advice would be appreciated! I'm buying lumber today and will start with the roof and work down. Thanks.


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Pat Shipman
Self-centeredly, human beings have always taken an exceptional
interest in their origins. Each discovery of a new species of
hominid—both our human ancestors and the near-relatives
arising after the split from the gorilla-chimp lineage—is
reported with great fanfare, even though the First Hominid remains
elusive. We hope that, when our earliest ancestor is finally
captured, it will reveal the fundamental adaptations that make us
There is no shortage of ideas about the essential nature of the
human species and the basic adaptations of our kind. Some say
hominids are fundamentally thinkers; others favor tool-makers or
talkers; still others argue that hunting, scavenging or bipedal
walking made hominids special. Knowing what the First Hominid looked
like would add some meat to a soup flavored with speculation and
Genetic and molecular studies provide one sort of insight, showing
what sort of stuff we are made of, and that it is only
slightly different stuff from that which makes up the apes
(gorillas, chimps, orang-utans and gibbons). From the molecular
differences among the genes of humans and apes, geneticists estimate
the time when each of the various ape and hominid lineages diverged
from the common stem. The result is a sort of hairy Y diagram, with
multiple branches instead of simply two as is usual on a Y. Each
terminus represents a living species; each branching point or node
represents the appearance of some new evolutionary trait, such as
new molecules, new genes, new shapes or new proportions of limb,
skull and tooth. Unfortunately, this way of diagramming the results
tends to lull us into thinking (falsely) that all the evolutionary
changes occurred at those nodes, and none along the branches.
Such studies omit a crucial part of our history: the extinct
species. Only the fossil record contains evidence, in context, of
the precise pathway that evolution took. In this technological age,
when sophisticated instrumentation and gee-whiz algorithms seem
downright necessary, the most basic information about the evolution
of our lineage still comes from branches of science that operate in
rather old-fashioned ways. The primary discoveries in paleontology
(the study of old things), paleoanthropology (the study of old
humans) and archaeology (the study of the old stuff that old humans
leave around) still rely on the efforts of a handful of
investigators who slog around on foot or excavate in desolate
landscapes. Fancy equipment can't replace eyes and brains, although
instrumentation plays a crucial role in the dating and analysis of
fossil remains.
Finding the evolutionary origin of hominids is a little like
stalking big game. Paleoanthropologists struggle to establish when
and where their quarry was last seen and what it was
like—hoping to follow its tracks backward in time. (Why
hominids or any other group arose is such a metaphysical
question that most paleoanthropologists run away screaming when it
is asked.)
When the first hominid slinked through the underbush has
been estimated from molecular clocks and confirmed by radiometric
dates. These lines of evidence converge on a period between 5
million and 7 million years ago as the time when a primitive,
perhaps vaguely apelike species evolved some definitive new
adaptation that transformed it into the First Hominid. But like the
point of inflection on a line graph, the first species in any new
lineage is only readily apparent after the fact. The emergence of
the first hominid was probably not obvious in prospect but only now,
in retrospect—in the context of the entire evolutionary record
of the hominids—when the long-term evolutionary trends can be
Where this dangerous creature once lived has to be Africa,
since both our closest living relatives (chimpanzees and gorillas)
and all early hominids (older than about 2 million years ago) are
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Esoteric InstructionsIn Tibetan religious literature, Jamgön Kongtrül's Treasury of Knowledge in ten books stands out as a unique, encyclopedic masterpiece embodying the entire range of Buddhist teachings as it was preserved in Tibet. Tibetan Buddhist teachers expected their students to study Buddhist philosophical texts as well as practice reflection and meditation; present-day students have also realized that awakening has its source in study as well as in reflection and practice. This… Read More
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In Praise of DharmadhatuNagarjuna is famous in the West for his works not only on Madhyamaka but his poetic collection of praises, headed by In Praise of Dharmadhatu. This book explores the scope, contents, and significance of Nagarjuna's scriptural legacy in India and Tibet, focusing primarily on the title work. The translation of Nagarjuna's hymn to Buddha nature—here called dharmadhatu—shows how buddha nature is temporarily obscured by adventitious stains in ordinary sentient beings… Read More
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Outer and Inner PreliminariesIn the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, the Great Perfection is considered the most profound and direct path to enlightenment. The instructions of this tradition present a spiritual shortcut—a radically direct approach that cuts through confusion and lays bare the mind's true nature of luminous purity. For centuries, these teachings have been taught and practiced in secret by some of the greatest adepts of the Buddhist tradition. Great Perfection: Outer… Read More
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Investigators look for answers in the Black Forest Fire
BLACK FOREST, Colo. - The Black Forest community wants answers. What caused the fire that killed two people and burned 509 homes? The answers could come slowly.
Wescott Fire Marshal Margo Humes works with the Black Forest Fire Department, and she a certified fire investigator who knows what it takes to find out what caused a fire.
"I look at the way the grass burns, the way the black lines of the soot are on a tree-- what the fire is doing, what is the temperature outside," said Humes.
She could not talk specifically about the Black Forest Fire, but said the U.S. Forest Service team behind the investigation is well trained.
The team will use special gear, flags, and even gardening rakes as they walk through the burned Black Forest land. One of the things they will be looking for is the way things burned. For example, they will check if one side of a tree is more burned than the other.
"You get down to the point where you are actually looking at really minute details with a magnifying glass," said Humes.
In terms of finding a point of origin and cause, investigators could be looking at areas with less damage. In a wildland fire, like in Black Forest, the point of origin has the least amount of damage.


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Discussion in 'Off The Beaten Track' started by Sugar, Jul 3, 2010.
mmm so mouthwatering
wow.. some of those concoctions looked unbelievably disgusting. lol You couldn't pay me to eat most of that stuff! lol
Luther burger: sweet and salty? Yuck. Fried brain sandwich? That's disgusting.
ETA: And so is the Michigan BLT. I think I just threw up a little.
ITA! I was glad to not find anything tempting...well...maybe the Eskimo Pie.
Yeah, ice cream is definitely my weakness.
Everything else looks disgusting.
Well, I've had the In-N-Out double double and it's really quite good...but I certainly wouldn't have it more than once a month!
I love Empanadas usually I have the veggie ones, so they are semi-healthy
I must admit the Lobster roll looks tempting, as well as the Smith Island cake, but everything else looks pretty.
Is there a human being alive who can actually finish that Michigan BLT?
Empanadas are amazing and I eat them way more often than I should Although I don't think Colombian ones are made with lard.
Ingredients: Reindeer fat, seal oil, salmonberries, blackberries
I love ice cream in almost all forms.....
I want that pound of bacon sandwich!
Ugh, I feel like I could throw up now.
Um...no. Not that one. This one. http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20393387_28,00.html
A quadruple bypass burger - 8000 calories!
I do love beignets, in moderation...
Why the hell would anyone eat something called a garbage plate?
the garbage plate? good for you, Rochester.
The In n' Out double-double, beignets & burnt ends are all fantastic. I certainly enjoyed them when I had them & would eat them all again.
That lobster roll looks yummy! I do like to sample chicken fried steak sometimes, if I order it at a restaurant I cut it up and the plate lasts me 3 different meals. Now that I think about it, I have no idea how people are able to finish their entire plate at restaurants. My hubby is 6'2 1/2" 220lbs and HE can't finish plates at restaurants!
Some of the cakes and the chocolate chip cookies look good. Giant burgers? Yuck.
I have eaten many of these things.
Hopefully she means the Nebraska eskimo pie!
Ah, Rochester, my hometown. Yeah, the Garbage Plate is actually popular there, although I've never had one (thank goodness). It was really disturbing when I took a bunch of high schoolers out to a baseball game (I worked with city school kids, I'm not a creep), and a few of them ordered 2 and scarfed them down.
As for me, I do like Lobster rolls, clam chowder, veggie empanadas, and catfish (although not quite like they prepare it down south).
The huge burger stuff really grosses me out.
I'm a New Englander. For many of the more traditional things like the chowdah and lobstah roll, they chose ones that are prepared by chains, rather than the ones that are served at the clam shacks. Really, cucumber and scallions in a lobster roll? The real recipe calls for lobster, celery, and as little mayonnaise as possible. We judge the quality by the ratio of lobster to celery and mayo. Too much of the minor ingredients and we won't go back. Some places may put too much butter/margerine on when grilling the roll, but that's usually not a problem at the places I go.
That people would actually eat something called a Quadruple Bypass Burger at all, let along at somewhere called Heart Attack Grill weirds me out (I think the same about Fat Burger which just opened here), and I think it's disgusting that they would encourage already obese people to eat more unhealthy food by letting them eat for free.
MA is a chocolate chip cookie????? are you kidding me? That's it? that's like a mere blip on the Fat screen. Obviously they didn't check the restaurants by the Universities;they seem to specialize in fast n' fatty!
Empanadas are goooood (the veggie ones at least) but most of that looks so revolting that I just have no words for it. Meatloaf wrapped in bacon?! I love me some bacon, but that just takes it somewhere it shouldn't go.
I live near a boring state. The fattest thing in Washington is a salad?
That meatloaf looks fantastic.
They did a version of that meatloaf once on Top Chef. And not only did they cover it in bacon, the chef deep fried it instead of putting it in the oven. I must confess, it looked kinda good, and the judges lurrrved it.
I can't believe the fattiest thing they found in South Louisiana was a damn beignet, which have less fat (though not by much) than a Krispy Kreme donut, and if made right, they are light and airy. Though not 30 minutes after you eat them. A good chicken (real Cajun cooks leave the meat on the bone and skin on, usually dark meat) and sausage gumbo will run up some mega calories. What about bread pudding--bread, rum sauce, sometimes caramel and/or white chocolate? Oh, and fried chicken. HOW did no state in the south have fried chicken?
Kentucky did have KFC's Double Down. Which I don't care if it does have Kentucky in the name, couldn't they have found something good like Derby Pie or Burgoo?
Maryland's Smith Island Cake looks delicious.
And mmmmm for the Vermonster. Meant to be shared among a large group of friends.


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I am currently attending a beginners bee keeping course and hope to get my first hive in the next few weeks. I am also trying to do a web based project about bees (a UK only site) and need some images.
I would really like the following please :-
- Images of any roof top hives, in a rural area or even a city centre
- Images of rear garden hives (I think the American term is back yard hives)
- Close up images of a beekeeper attending to the hive, really just seeing the frames of honecomb
Finally, if anybody has a nice image of a frame full of bees, that would be great too. I just need that for a background image to me site.
I know I could probably get images by searching on Google, but using somebody else's photograph without asking is not ideal, as well as being illegal.
I thank you in anticipation


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Though raised in suburban Detroit, James Lee Byars spent the formative years of his itinerant artistic career in Japan, where from 1958 he based himself in Kyoto for a decade. Byars immersed himself in the art and philosophy of the country, teaching English to support himself while studying traditional ceramics and papermaking with master craftsmen. His early works—large, concertina-folded paper constructions revealed in long ceremonial performances—were inspired by the elegance and economy of traditional Noh theater. Though he had made frequent trips back to the United States during his Japanese sojourn, Byars returned home in 1967 for a more extended stay. Here his work encompassed a series of staged group actions in which people interacted with huge garment constructions. In Film Strip (1967), for example, dozens of volunteers donned a vast clear plastic poncho and paraded at midnight in front of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The white suit and gold mandarin outfit, the masked face, the top hat, and the lashings of purple silk—Byars' persona and sartorial proclivities from here on would maintain an undoubtedly earnest sympathy for Zen philosophy on the one hand, yet on the other an increasing fondness for irony-free operatic glitz that could teeter into wonderfully "wrong" grandiose allusions. His attention would increasingly turn toward Europe. Whether standing on the pediment of the Museum Fridericianum at Documenta 5 in Kassel, Germany, in 1972, unfurling a giant cloth figure of the Holy Ghost in the Piazza San Marco for the Venice Biennale in 1975, presenting near-annual exhibitions at the celebrated Wide White Space Gallery in Antwerp, or staging his first major solo show at the Kunsthalle Bern in 1978, the artist and his sagelike appearances became a staple of the continental art circuit.
Throughout the 1980s, while based in Venice—a fittingly unique, decadent, and East-West intersecting city—Byars began to make more sculpture. Huge pillars, discs, urns, halos, and particularly spheres in white marble, gilded marble, or basalt stood in contrast to his fragile paper works or fleeting performance actions. There is something disconcerting about Byars' elemental, impenetrable forms of this period and their cosmic, celestial, or even occult baggage. Like the iridescent slabs of artist John McCraken, or the pillar in Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey, they harness an otherworldly reverence that makes them seem as if they could hover or break apart to unleash untold powers at any moment.
A series of works from around 1986 consists of cryptic objects—marble lozenges, star- and donut-shaped "books"—presented in antique-looking tall wooden reliquaries. The Philosophical Nail (1986) alludes to the paraphernalia of sainthood and the crucifixion of Christ, hijacking the Catholic cult of the veneration of holy relics. Said to be able to spontaneously duplicate themselves and transmute their purported powers through mere proximity, pieces of the cross, holy lances, holy nails, and the like represent a paragon of Duchampian transubstantiation as they vanquish their humble origins to attain disproportionate significance. Also recalling phrases such as "hitting the nail on the head," this bent tack literalizes linguistic shorthand for succinctness or perfection, terms around which Byars' oeuvre circles in fickle orbit.