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Today, many schools use online systems to give parents access to their children's grades. This technological development provides a useful tool that helps parents be directly involved in their child's education. [1] X Research source There is no universal system that allows parents to find their child's grades, however, and the systems will be different at different schools. Given this, parents typically have the option of finding their children's grades online, and in addition, finding their child's grades without the use of online tools.
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Finding Grades Online
Method 1 of 2:
1Obtain an ID and password. Your ID and password will allow you to access the website where your child's grades are located. There are a number of ways in which you can find your ID and password. In some cases this needs to be done in person at the school, that way, the school administration can verify your identity. [2] X Research source In other cases, the information will be sent home in a letter or information packet.
- Note that some websites may require your child's student ID. This may be obtained the same way your parent ID is obtained. [3] X Research source
2Begin your internet search to find the school website. It is at the school website that you will be able to access your child's grades. Materials from the school, such as the school handbook, parent handbook, or student handbook, should inform you as to what website you need to visit to access the grades. If you have this information, enter it into your web browser.
- If no such information was provided by the school, begin by typing the name of your child's school into an internet browser, such as internet explorer, google chrome, safari or firefox. Identify your child's school in the search results and click the name to enter the website.
- If you are unable to find your child's school through an internet search or through information provided by the school in handbooks contact the school directly.
3Locate the parent's area on the website. Once on the website, carefully examine the home page looking for key words, which may include but are not limited to 'parents', 'parent resources', 'parent portal', or 'parent information'. [4] X Research source Typically, you can find these menu options on the left-hand side of the page, the top of the page, or the bottom of the page. Once you have identified the parents menu, click it.
- Note that some schools will provide a website address that provides direct access to the parent page, which will take you right to the following step.
4Follow the instructions presented on the parent's login page. This usually involves entering your username and password. Upon entering this information, you should enter a new page with a number of different menu options. These may include "assignments", "attendance", "grades", "report card", "calendar", and "my settings". Click on grades to see how your child is progressing in school.
- If this is your first time logging in, you may have to enter personal information aside from your username and password, including: your name, email address, desired username, student information, and the answers to several security questions. [5] X Research source
- Many online parent websites will allow you to set up notifications when new grades are posted. You can set these up in "settings".
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Finding Hard Copies of Grades
Method 2 of 2:
1Visit the school. Once there, ask the school secretaries how the school will distribute grades for the current academic year. Also, ask the school administration what your responsibilities are when your receive grades. This way, you will be well informed about when you will receive grades and what to do with them once you have them.
2Contact the teacher directly. Teachers will be well informed about how grades are distributed and when they will be distributed. Teachers are easily contacted by email, and you can find email addresses in the school handbook or on the school website. It is also possible to reach a teacher by phone by calling the school and asking for your child's teacher. Your child's teacher will be able to guide you through the process of finding your child's grades.
3Ask your child! Your child can be a great point of contact for discovering what is going on in their school. They should be well informed as to when and how they will be receiving their grades. In fact, many elementary and high schools will send your child's grades home with them on specific dates.
- Some schools require that parents sign the report card to prove that the child has shown them to you. In others, report cards will be mailed home at the end of terms.
- You will be able to find the dates that grades are sent home in the school handbook.
Community Q&A
QuestionHow can I obtain an ID and password to get my child's report card?Community AnswerYour child's school should have emailed it to you when the report cards were due. If not, ask the school to send you these details.
QuestionHow do I get my child's report card grades?Community AnswerIf your child's school has an online report card system, you can log in with your username and password to view the grades (ask the school for login details if you haven't received them already). You could also your child to show you the hard copy of their report card if they've been given out, or ask for a copy from the school.
QuestionCan I change my child's marks on a report card online?Community AnswerNo. Online report cards are designed to be very secure - if they weren't, kids could change the grades themselves before showing them to their parents! If you don't agree with a grade your child got, check if it is justified by looking at their work for that subject or discussing it with the teacher.
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- ↑ http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/24/education-online-grades-helicopter-parents/2862105/
- ↑ http://wiki.wcs.k12.va.us/powerschool/parent_portal/faq
- ↑ https://powerschoolapp.wcs.k12.va.us/public/createaccounthelp.html
- ↑ http://cps.edu/Pages/Parentresources.aspx
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On Friday Philip and I took the late night flight from Fort Wayne to St. Pete, Florida to be with Adam and Tonya. Even though it is Florida, the chilly wind (and Tonya) met us at the airport. Their house is so lovely and decorated for Christmas. My room is like a bed and breakfast with the timber-frame bed with a handmade quilt and a gift basket on the small wooden dresser.
We spent Saturday touring the beautiful farmer's market here in St. Pete. We spent hours tasting, sampling and buying great food, bread, and coffee.
We spent the evening having dinner in Gulfport and then traveling to Tampa for the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. I must admit I have never seen the show and was in total amazement. I don't think there are enough words to describe the show!
Today Adam, Philip and I volunteered at the Holiday-Half Marathon and cheered for Tonya all the way. Yes she made it! I am so proud of her! Yea!
Enjoying the rest of the day with friends coming over for football, games and a cookout.
Too bad there is snow at home, can't even think about it!!

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Short answer = burnishing
Long answer = big budgets for shiny floors.
I don't know what the cleaning budget for a Target store is these days – but it used to be 200 or so janitorial hours per week. About double what a second class appearance like a Wal – Mart used to do – tho Wal – Mart's are looking a lot nicer these days, so I suspect their budgets are closer to Target's now.
Target stores will:
-Completely sweep and scrub all floors every nite with a machine called an "autoscrubber" – a kind of mini Zamboni that scrubs and vacuums up the mop water at the same time.
– Hi speed burnish (polish, buff – similar to a monster version of the rotary buffer you use on your car) every night.
– Replenish the finish worn off with daily traffic :
-Daily with a product called a "restorer" applied by the autoscrubber
-Weekly, monthly, as needed with mopped on finish in higher concentration.
We do some variant of all these on any hard surface floor – but Target is kind of the "frictionless example" in that they have a high need for this sort of effort because of the high traffic counts wearing off their finish every nite, and a willingness to spend money on janitorial labor to look "brand new" every day.
The more traffic, the more expense to achieve any level of appearance, including the high level of a Target store.
Cusomers with less need for "new look" floors and less foot traffic do exactly the same operations – just less often.


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From the Red Journal: Registered Dietitian Tests 30-Day Liquid Diet to Better Understand IBD Patient Experience
"How can I use diet to help my IBD?" is the number one question Kelly Issokson, MS, RD, CNSC, at the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles said she hears from her patients. Issokson who specializes in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), underwent an exclusive enteral nutrition (EEN) trial for 30 days to gain insight into some of the challenges her patients face so that she could better support them through their EEN journeys. Kelly describes the physical and psychological effects of living exclusively on liquid formula for an extended period of time online in The American Journal of Gastroenterology and in the latest AJG podcast.
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Since IBD pathogenesis is thought to involve an interplay between the environment, microbiome, and an overactive immune system in a genetically susceptible individual (1), patients often seek natural ways to alter the environmental and microbial components that may be driving inflammation, Issokson explains in her article.
"One form of nutrition therapy for Crohn's disease (CD) is exclusive enteral nutrition (EEN). EEN involves drinking a formula (polymeric, semi-elemental, or elemental) that provides 100% of nutrient needs for 4–12 weeks. EEN has been shown to induce remission in pediatric CD, and to a lesser extent in adult CD ( 2 ) (mainly due to a lower compliance rate).
Issokson said that increasing awareness of EEN among physicians was another reason she underwent the 30 day trial. "Despite positive results, EEN is rarely prescribed by physicians in the US due to "lack of familiarity, perceived poor acceptability, and/or lack of clear protocols (10)."
"Patients using EEN during active inflammation had remission rates equivalent to steroid therapy, but EEN has the added benefit of mucosal healing, sparing bone health, and providing nourishment ( 3 ). One study found improved quality of life, emotional, and social scores aft er remission induction with EEN ( 4 ). EEN is used as a primary therapy in pediatric CD in Japan and Europe, and is recommended in adults with CD when corticosteroids are not feasible ( 5–9 ). See full article for citations
5 Tips for Success For Those Considering EEN from Kelly Issokson, MS, RD, CNSC (and great information to share with your doctor)
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I Have Two Knees and I'm Naked Under My Clothes
What are ya gonna do about it? Huh? My neighbor did something about it and I handcuffed him to himself.
I roll two dice. One shows up six. This six represents the number of time you have left to live. WHat are you gonna do about it?
I bet you're naked under your clothes too, you ****. I bet you're naked in the tub. I bet you wish you were alive. I know I am. What are you gonna do about it?
Einstein once said, "Hoo!" And guess what happened? He Hoo'd his way into a relative grave. Machiavelli once said, "Perche la vita e brieve e molte son le pene che vivendo e stentando ognun sostiene; dietro alle nostre voglie, andiam passando e consumando gli anni, che chi il placer si toglie per viver con angosce e con affanni, non conosce gli inganni del mondo; o da quai mali e da che strani casi oppressi quasi sian tutti i mortali."
Hell's bells, what are we gonna do about it?
A wise old man climbs 1000 steps to the top of a Bangladeshi summit. His organs, stricken with coronary heart disease, fail immediately. By divine fortune, a young boy of the age of 20 steps from the shadows and approaches him with three gifts. "Choose four," she whispers. The old man glares at the object and smiles. He slouches deeper into the recliner and watches the news.
There is nothing you can do about it. All is chaos. All is woe. When we try to make sense of the things that don't, it recedes into further confusion. So don't try.
Just accept it.
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By Kevin McCormally, Chief Content Officer
| November 14, 2017
With Congress attempting the most sweeping overhaul of the nation's tax laws in a generation, this could be your final chance to take advantage of some of these too-often overlooked tax deductions. Be sure you make the most of them with your 2017 return while they're still around.
Because federal tax law reaches deep into all aspects of our lives (as well as our pockets), it's no surprise that the rules that affect us change as our lives change. This can be particularly advantageous (or threatening) to investors. Different investments can be treated in vastly different ways by the Internal Revenue Service. As portfolios change over the years, so do the rules that apply. Being alert to the shifting landscape is the key to holding down your tax bill.
Long-term capital gains (the profit from the sale of assets owned more than one year) and qualified dividends enjoy special tax rates, ranging from 0% to 23.8%, compared with the 10% to 43.4% bite that applies to other kinds of income.
But in order to take advantage of the special rates, you have to use a special worksheet to figure your tax bill (or use a computer program that does the work for you). Use either the 27-line Qualified Dividends and Capital Gain Worksheet in the Form 1040 Instructions or the 30-line Schedule D Worksheet in the (you've got it) Schedule D instructions. If you simply go to the tax-rate tables, you're sure to overpay the tax on your investment income.
At Kiplinger, we call this the Angel of Death tax break. The tax basis of most assets you inherit is stepped up to the property's value on the day the owner died. (An exception to this rule applies to retirement accounts.)
Since the basis is the amount from which gain or loss is figured when you sell an asset, this means that the tax on any appreciation prior to the death is forgiven. Say, for example, that an uncle had stock in a brokerage account for which he had paid $10,000 but was worth $100,000 when he died and left it to you. Your basis would be $100,000. Only if you sold the stock for more than that would you owe any capital gains tax. If you sold it for less than $100,000, in fact, you would have a tax-saving capital loss. The government says this provision will save taxpayers who sold inherited property during 2017 more than $34 billion when they file their returns in 2018. Be sure to get your share of the savings if you sold inherited assets.
If, like most investors, your mutual fund dividends are automatically reinvested in extra shares, remember that each reinvestment increases your tax basis in the fund. That, in turn, reduces the taxable capital gain (or increases the tax-saving loss) when you redeem shares in a taxable account. Forgetting to include reinvested dividends in your basis results in double taxation of the dividends—once in the year they are paid and reinvested and later when they're included in the proceeds of the sale.
Don't make that costly mistake. If you're not sure what your basis is, ask the fund for help. Funds often report to investors the tax basis of shares redeemed during the year. In fact, for the sale of shares purchased in 2012 and later years, funds must report the basis to investors and to the IRS.
Investors are sometimes tripped up by a provision of the law that says that the basis of investment real estate must be reduced each year by the amount of depreciation "allowed or allowable." In other words, even if you don't claim depreciation, you're supposed to reduce your basis. That's a problem because a reduced basis usually means more taxable profit when you sell. So, not understanding the rules while you own a rental property could come back to bite you when you sell it.
But the IRS has a heart. Qualifying taxpayers can file a Form 3115, Change in Accounting Method, for the year of the sale. That lets you deduct the allowable-but-unclaimed depreciation from earlier years to offset the phantom profit triggered by the reduced basis. If you're caught up in the "allowed or allowable" trap, be sure to see if Form 3115 can set you free.
Generous investors need to think twice before writing a check to their favorite charity
Rather than cash, consider donating appreciated stock, mutual fund shares or other assets you have owned more than one year. Doing so lets you deduct the full market value of the asset on the day of the gift, but neither you nor the charity ever has to pay tax on the gain that accrued while you owned the asset. It's a win-win. If you gave away appreciated securities in 2017, make sure you get the benefit of your supercharged deduction.
SEE ALSO: 5 Things You Should Know About Giving Stock to Charity
If you purchased a taxable bond for more than its face value—as you might have to capture a yield higher than current market rates deliver—Uncle Sam will effectively help you pay that premium. That's only fair, since the IRS is also going to tax the extra interest that the higher yield produces. You have two choices about how to handle the premium:
Option 1: You can amortize the premium over the life of the bond by taking each year's share of the premium and subtracting it from the amount of taxable interest from the bond you report on your tax return. Each year you also reduce your tax basis for the bond by the amount of that year's amortization.
Option 2: Or, you can ignore the premium until you sell or redeem the bond. At that time, the full premium will be included in your tax basis so it will reduce the taxable gain or increase the taxable loss dollar for dollar.
The amortization route can be a pain, since it's up to you to both figure how each year's share and keep track of the declining basis. But it could be more valuable, since the interest you don't report will avoid being taxed in your top tax bracket for the year—as high as 43.4%, while the capital gain you reduce by waiting until you sell or redeem the bond can't be taxed at more than 23.8%.
If you buy a tax-free municipal bond at a premium, you must use the amortization method and reduce your basis each year but you don't get to deduct the amount amortized. After all, the IRS doesn't get to tax the interest.
SEE ALSO: Why Fears About Muni Bonds are Unfounded


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Registration is closed as this event has passed. We hope you can join us next year!
Register today to participate in the second annual PHS Quadrathon! (You may also register on-site day of)
- Open to everyone, but limited to the first 100 teams
- Able to compete as an individual or on a team of 2, 3, or 4 people
- Individual and team competitions
- Each division will have three separate categories: Beginner, Competitor, and Elders (55+)
- All Elders team members must be 55+ years of age
- Prize money given to 1st–3rd place in competitor divisions (individual and team)
- Prize money amounts based on participation
Michigan's original Quadrathon – 750 Meter Swim, 20K Bike, 2000 Meter Kayak, and 5K Run
July 28, 2019 - event begins at 8:30 a.m. with packet pickup beginning at 7:00 a.m.
Rodgers Lake campus, Dowagiac, MI
Enjoy the outdoors while competing for great prizes!
Register below! (Register by July 7 to receive a t-shirt and a swag bag of goodies and healthy treats | Late registration available from 7:00 – 8:00 the morning of event)
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122km, One Way, Flat, Easy, Rail Trail, 12 hours.
Cycle the longest Rail Trail in Australia through lovely valleys, wide open farmland with sweeping vistas all the way from Tallarook to Mansfield. Love the farms, blue mountains, the Cheviot Tunnel, the picnic areas and charming country towns. It is perfect for your first cycle tour or one to simply enjoy!
Best Things about This Ride
- Wonderful iconic Australian vistas.
- Lots of towns and tiny places to stop and explore. Yea, Tallarook, Bonnie Doon, Molesworth, Merton and more!
- The Cheviot Tunnel
- The bridge at Bonnie Doon
- Mansfield Railway Station complete with original light fittings.
- Yarck home to the Giddy Goat, Yarck Pies and the Yarck hotel. Stop a while and enjoy!
- Beautiful side trips through the wetlands and park lands.
- Fun parks for the kids to play. Lots of short trips.
- Mertons Gap and the views
- Great trail surface – solid and fast
- Camping areas with horse corrals.
Things to Watch out for
Cycle this route anytime – in winter pick a sunny week and you will love it! In summer watch for the cooler days. .
Ride Overview
- Short DescriptionA wonderful cycle on a solid surface. Iconic Australian vistas through the valleys and over to the hills, the gourmet town of Yarck,, the railway station at Mansfield, fresh food and country hospitality, interesting history
- Trip PlanningStart at any of the towns. Train access at Tallarook
- RegionNorth East Victoria
- StartTallarook, Mansfield
- Distance122km
- Time12hrs
- GradientFlat/Hilly
- GradingEasy/Medium
- AccessTrain Tallarook or Car
- TrafficRail Trail
- SurfaceExtremely good and quite fast, short sections a little rocky
- SeasonsAll - pick your days in winter
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This year I took the 250SE down to the 2015 ACT German Car show, which I last attended in 2013. It was a lovely day to drive a convertible down to Canberra and as usual the 250SE performed very well. At freeway speeds the engine turns at 4,000 RPM, which is unusual for a modern car, but fits into the nature of the engine.
The show was worth the visit with a large Mercedes-Benz section, BMWs, Borgwards, NSUs, Goggomobile and VWs. I didnt' get time to go through the VW section, but was able to see some of the other brands as well as Mercedes.
The pick of the show for me was the 'show within a show' from MB Spares, a well known Mercedes restorer and parts supplier in the ACT. They had a few of their own cars, including a lovely 280SE coupe with pretty much all options available, a 300, and some of the cars they have worked with their customers on, including the 280CE with the 5.0 engine, and the 280E rally car that will be competing in the London to Sydney rally – which was won by the 280E back in the late 70s.
There were three other W111 Coupe/Cabriolet. The 280SE mentioned above, a 220SE Cabriolet and a 280SE 3.5 coupe. In addition, there is a nice his and hers Ponton/Roundie display with a custom ute and a lovely sedan both in the same colour.


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Paige Mahoney is a 19-year-old clairvoyant. Her specialty is dreamwalking, sending her spirit through the ether and into someone else's dreamscape. She lives in a dystopian future version of London, one of many European cities crushed by the iron grip of the Scion security force. Queen Victoria's son King Edward VII held a séance that supposedly resulted in a voyant-related killing spree, or so the legend goes. Ever since, Scion has focused all their power on routing out paranormals and locking them in the Tower of London to torturous ends. Those who can hide from the Evil League of Evil often trade one prison for another in the form of crime syndicates. That's where Paige is when Samantha Shannon's The Bone Season opens; she works for a powerful group out of the Seven Dials in central London, and accidentally kills someone with her psychic powers.
When she's captured, Paige is not executed, but intead gets shipped off to Sheol I, a colony infested and controlled by the beings controlling Scion—the Rephaim. They're some sort of something-or-other from an alternate dimension or suchlike that also happen to look like really tall, dark skinned humans. Or something. They feed on the auras of voyants and get their kicks kicking their non-voyant human slaves. So once again Paige finds herself enslaved, but she decides she likes her crime boss enslaver better than the Reph ones, and she steels herself for an escape. It gets crazier and more complicated from there.
The Bone Season doesn't break new ground (yet another fantasy about an über-talented, magical, messianic, cis-het, white Chosen One told from their POV), but what it does do is thrilling and creative. It's overly-complex, under-explained, and half-described, which makes the lexicon, maps, and flowcharts Shannon has provided vital. Or you can do what I did and forget to look everything up and just assume you'll eventually figure out what a "rhabdomancer" is. But the story itself is engaging and exciting. It's energetic, imaginative, and engrossing. I just want to make sure you understand that I really enjoyed the story Shannon told, if not the manner in which she chose to tell it. It's important you remember that I liked Bone overall, because you're probably going to forget that come the end of this post.
The romance is deliciously sexy, though a bit out of the blue. I won't reveal who gets busy with whom for fear of spoilers, but suffice it to say, one day they're rabid enemies, the next reluctant allies, the next they're pawing all over each other. The relationship isn't ideal, nor do I think the story necessarily needs it, but it's right up there with Sherrilyn Kenyon in titillating-ness (pun intended). It's also a completely unhealthy relationship for both characters that can only end in tragedy. Let me put it this way: the book opens with a quote from Charlotte Brontë, author of gothic romance Jane Eyre. Shannon's lovers are basically paranormal fantasy versions of Jane and Mr Rochester.
I can totally see why, despite its structural issues, Imaginarium Studios has optioned the film. (By the bye, that doesn't mean they'll actually make it. Just means they get first crack at doing something with it—or just not letting anyone else work it. They can always let their option expire.) There's some great stuff in this book, and she's got enough pieces on the board now—albeit set-pieces that aren't fully understood or well-explained—to do something potentially amazing. Even if she can't/doesn't live up to the very high expectations, it'll be hard for her to do anything too detrimental to her series. What I mean is there's so much room to explore in her world that even if she picked the most boring story to tell it would still be interesting simply by virtue of its setting and parapsychological attributes of its characters. Didn't intend for that to be as much of a backhanded compliment as it came out…
The first book in a series is usually the most difficult. It's like the pilot episode of a TV show. You have to construct a story that can stand independently while simultaneously setting up and/or hinting at future mysteries yet also not overplaying (or underplaying) your hand. Counting Bone, neither of the last two books I read stuck the landing at being great first novels. When I recently reviewed Omens by Kelley Armstrong, I wrote:
The biggest issue I had with this book was that nothing really happens. I mean, there's a basic storyline, several dramatic moments, and a fraught climax, but it's all so… In between the bits of action and even smaller bits of magic, there's a lot of hemming and hawing, to-ing and fro-ing, plotting and rethinking. It's like 400+ pages of prologue. The first book in the series is a whole lot of explanation and not enough payoff. It suffers from both not having quite enough worldbuilding for a multi-book series, while also having so many veiled conspiracies to fill half a dozen books. Contradictory, I know. And also kind of a letdown for me.
That's The Bone Season in a nutshell.
Shannon also chose to write in first person. It may have been a boon to her, but it's a detriment to me. I feel like every book I've read in the last 6 months has been in first person, and the only authors to do it right were Neil Gaiman (The Ocean at the End of the Lane), Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep), and Ian Tregillis (Necessary Evil). I don't care about the main character's every thought, interest, passion, or whim. I think of first person narration like voiceovers in a movie. It tends to be a lazy way to get around exploring your world or story. When you're trapped with one narrator, you lose the ability to see anything that happens outside that POV.
There's this great quote by Chuck Palahniuk that goes:
"Instead of characters knowing anything, you must now present the details that allow the reader to know them. Instead of a character wanting something, you must now describe the thing so that the reader wants it…Thinking is abstract. Knowing and believing are intangible. Your story will always be stronger if you just show the physical actions and details of your characters and allow your reader to do the thinking and knowing. And loving and hating."
And that explains exactly why I generally dislike first person. More often than not, it refuses to let the reader do any of those things. When it's done well, it works like gangbusters. When it done poorly, it functions as little more than as a means for infodumping.
And great Hera's ghost, the infodumps. A good half of Bone is heavy-handed exposition. If it's not other voyants literally sitting Paige down to explain in detail the workings of her kind, then it's the Big Bad taking time out of her busy murdering schedule to reveal her evil plot. Look, people, infodumps are not your friend. Use sparingly. If you can't find a way to reveal key information to your characters or audience, then go back to the drawing board. Don't just resort to a tertiary character wandering up out of nowhere and revealing everything your main character needs to know. Heed the old screenwriting chestnut: "Show, don't tell."
There are a lot of things I liked about Bone. And a lot I didn't. Bloomsbury may believe she's the next J.K. Rowling, but I think that's premature and unfounded. Shannon's a good beginning writer, but is certainly no teenage authorial prodigy. Her book makes a lot of rookie mistakes—and with the amount of fanfic I read, trust me, I'm well-versed in rookie mistakes—but I'm trying (and not always succeeding) to not to hold that against her. As she grows and practices, she'll get better and will hopefully shake off some of her less-than-appealing writing ticks.
Long story short, The Bone Season is a good yet problematic first novel. The problems aren't enough to derail the story, nor are they issues everyone will find difficult to deal with. They frustrated me, but not enough to want to throw the book across the room. The world is fascinating, the characters intriguing, the magic unique, and the romance steamy enough to overpower the troublesome parts. Buy it, read it, and enjoy.
The Bone Season is available August 20th from Bloomsbury USA
Read an excerpt of The Bone Season here on Tor.com
Alex Brown is an archivist, research librarian, writer, geeknerdloserweirdo, and all-around pop culture obsessive who watches entirely too much TV. Keep up with her every move on Twitter, or get lost in the rabbit warren of ships and fandoms on her Tumblr.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Boston minor league catcher Jake Romanski has been suspended 100 games following a positive amphetamine test. It is his second ban for a stimulant under the minor league drug program.
In another minor league suspension Thursday, free-agent pitcher Landon Hughes was suspended 68 games. He tested positive for a chemical compound in Turinabol, a steroid used by East German athletes in the 1960s and weightlifters in recent years.
Twelve players have been suspended this year under the minor league program and three under the major league program: Houston pitcher Dean Deetz, Washington catcher Raudy Read and Pittsburgh pitcher Nik Turley.
Romanski was suspended for 50 games in December 2016 following a positive amphetamine test. The 27-year-old player hit .250 with one homer and 11 RBIs in 48 games last year for Double-A Portland of the Eastern League and Triple-A Pawtucket of the International League.
Hughes was selected by Atlanta in the seventh round of the 2013 amateur draft. The 23-year-old right-hander was released by the Braves on Jan. 24.
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text: Hi Paulo, I was referring more here to global *within* a process, not between processes. Sorry for being unclear. If you allow mutable data within a process then it will necessarily be global within that process. Even if I have to pass a reference to it I will still have no control over who or when it mutated. Things can happen under my feet without my knowing about it. This is the same problem as for sequential languages which have mutable data. Allowing non-sharing between processes would lessen some of the problems, but not wholly remove them. Also smart garbage collection is easier if you have immutable data. I know this is an implementation detail, but immutable data makes the garbage collector simpler and more efficient, you can do smart things if you know data does not change. Robert ----- "Paulo Sérgio Almeida" <psa@REDACTED> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > there is a point on which I do not agree; when you say: > > On 11/4/10 10:46 AM, Robert Virding wrote: > > > - I think that having immutable data even within only one process is > a big win. Having mutable data gives you all the problems of global > data. Immutable data makes it much easier to keep track of what is > happening with your data, which is always a Big Win. > > I would say that having mutable data gives us SOME problems, but much > > LESS than when we have global mutable data. > > You are mixing the problems due to: > > - global data > - mutable data > > In most languages around we have the nightmare of mutable global data, > > and the nasty problem of aliasing in object references. > > On the other hand in Erlang we have processes that give us locality, > but > only immutable data in each process. > > I (and others) think there is a place for a middle-ground where > processes give us locality, allowing a divid-and-conquer of the global > > problem into simple parts, where the data in a given process is > manageable, but where if the algorithm calls for mutable data then we > > should be able to use it. All the nasty problems of shared memory > concurrency (from the programmer's point of view) have already > disappeared when we have only per-process mutable data as opposed to > global mutable data. > > If the data is immutable and only pure functions are used, we have > extra > benefits, but not always can we afford it, nor is it necessary even > for > proving correctness. Lot's of classic formal methods stuff with > pre-conditions, post-conditions, invariants, Hoare logic, etc, were > made > for the mutable data world. They become difficult to apply when we > have > global data and aliasing, but may well be applied when we have just a > > little local data. > > The idea would be to be able to use the many proven algorithms that > were > created for the imperative sequential world inside each process, and > let > the process concept a la Erlang deal with the concurrency aspects. > > I am not saying it is now practical to add it to Erlang, but that some > > language in this design spot (actors + local mutable data) makes much > sense. > > Regards, > Paulo


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Russian natural gas exporter Gazprom said on Thursday that Ukraine's outstanding debt for gas supplies stood at $5.3 billion as of Aug. 1 and called on Kiev to ensure that gas continues to transit without disruption to Europe.
"Gazprom counts on Naftogaz of Ukraine to stick to its obligations on redemptions of arrears for the supplied gas and provision of smooth gas transit via Ukraine's territory," Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov said.
Russia cut off gas supplies to Ukraine on June 16 in a dispute over unpaid bills. However, Russian gas shipments to Europe via Ukraine have flowed without interruptions since.
It is the third pricing dispute in a decade between the two sides and past standoffs have led to disruptions in supply to Europe.
About half of the gas Gazprom shipped to Europe last year went via Ukraine.
Ukraine wants to pay $268.50 per 1,000 cubic meters of gas - a price it was offered at the end of last year when pro-Moscow Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich was still in power. It has said it is ready to compromise.
Moscow has sought to keep the price at a 2009 level of $485 per 1,000 cubic meters, but has offered to waive an export duty, bringing prices down to $385, broadly in line with what Russia charges other European states.
A series of talks between Moscow and Kiev, brokered by the European Commission, have failed to find a compromise.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko are due to attend crisis talks inMinsk on Aug. 26 in an attempt to resolve a confrontation over Ukraine which has plunged relations between the two countries to an all-time low.
Kupriyanov also said Gazprom had paid an additional payment of $10.54 million to Ukraine's state energy firmNaftogaz in July for gas transit.
Naftogaz said it will return the $10 million saying it was "paid in error", news agency Interfax Ukraine reported on Thursday.
(Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin; editing by Jason Neely)


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The organization hosted panels at 10 FWISD high schools that included delegates from:
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Pathways to Selective College also hosted a Workshop and Fair, open to parents, at the Tarrant County College Trinity River Campus Energy Auditorium.
"This is the first year for The Pathways to Selective Colleges event," said Richard Johnson, Family Communications specialist. "The main purpose for this 'tour' is to help students gain insight on the attainability of schools they may have at one time thought was out of reach."
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[This article was originally published in DIVA's July 2017 issue. Read my latest column in DIVA, on sale now at divadigital.co.uk]
Each month, we DIVA columnists are given a topic which we can, if we'd like, use as a springboard idea for writing our piece. This issue it was 'career' – and I was stumped. I've never really had a career; my years have been filled with the types of paid jobs you take to tide you over until you earn enough to move on, you hope, to something more exciting and fulfilling. Certainly nothing I could class as a structured profession. Sorry, Mum.
Except… maybe I'm wrong about that. As an activist who has been campaigning for a decade or so now on LGBTQ+, mental health and gender equality issues, I often forget that just because activists and campaigners do what we do for a cause we believe in doesn't mean we aren't doing real work. Even if society often treats it as such.
Political activism, in all of its glorious grassroots forms, is frequently chalked up as a folly of youth to be ritually sacrificed at the bloody alter of corporate employment. We exist in an environment where 'doing good' is seen as its own reward, and as such asking for financial recompense for determinedly working towards meaningful societal progress is selfish. This pressure doesn't just come from onlookers, either. Within activist circles, it's common to equate for-profit campaigning with the dreaded 'selling out'.
But the work activists do is real work, and were it done under any other label it would be acknowledged as such. A lot of the work I do, for example, comes down to education — on mental health stigma, LGBTQ+ rights, and on gender equality. This involves giving training sessions, producing original literature, promotion and marketing work, event organisation, volunteer management, and fundraising. And because of this involvement in the activist community, the expertise I have gained via campaigning, and my very personal experiences of the issues I campaign for, I am often asked to share my knowledge of the with those who may never have experienced such issues, but who hold more structural power in society than I do. Journalists, politicians, and executives alike.
Where else in society would you expect to be able to ask someone who has spent years building up and honing their skills to give up their time, share their knowledge and provide guidance and support at no cost? Imagine calling up your local plumber, and asking them to give you a pro bono lesson on how to do their job. Unlikely.
Yet I have it easy compared to countless activists who work tirelessly to campaign for a better future. Many endure a plethora of obstacles and oppressions due to their intersectional identities; whether it's trans women fighting for equal treatment by the prison system, people of colour demanding justice for victims of police brutality, or those with disabilities protesting against cuts to vital accessibility services, marginalised people often suffer the brunt of society's disregard for the value of activism.
Don't get me wrong – activists aren't asking to be paid for every single gruelling hour spent working for the cause. But when it becomes the job of those already at a disadvantage in society to educate everyone else, it's important to consider where the line is between participation and unpaid labour. We should also be asking ourselves why we undervalue such work; is it simply because we can afford to, secure in the knowledge that activists and campaigners will continue to fight the good fight because they can't risk not doing so?
Activism, and the hard-won progress gained thanks to it, will always be more important than it is popular. Perhaps the same can be said about activists themselves. But I want to do what I love, for the communities and causes I love. I also want to be able to pay my bills and buy my groceries. And yes, I even want to be able to pop out for the occasional glass of wine with my friends. I just wish it didn't feel like an either/or choice.


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The Long-term Effects of Early Lead Exposure: Evidence from a case of Environmental Negligence
Tomás Rau, Loreto Reyes, Sergio S. Urzúa
NBER Working Paper No. 18915
This paper estimates the effect of early lead exposure on academic achievement and adult earnings. We analyze longitudinal information from individuals attending primary and secondary schools in the city of Arica (in northern Chile). Between 1984 and 1989, Arica received more than 20,000 tons of toxic chemicals containing high concentrations of lead. Initially, the chemical waste was located several kilometers from the city. However, Arica's rapid expansion, which included the construction of housing projects just meters away from the waste deposit, put a large number of families at risk. Our data include information on residential proximity to the polluted area, levels of lead exposure, comprehensive demographic information, nationally representative academic test scores and administrative data on adult earnings.
We document a strong relationship between blood lead levels and student academic performance. We find that an increase of one microgram of lead per deciliter of blood reduces math and language scores by 0.15 and 0.21 standard deviations, respectively. For earnings, we estimate that for each extra microgram of lead, monthly earnings decrease by CLP 11,458 (or USD 22.92). This translates into a reduction of USD 6,000 in lifetime earnings per microgram of lead per deciliter of blood.
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SFAC is always keen to extend its message to new communities and support the growth of local initiatives. Recently, Mick Pease and Walter Young travelled to Morocco – a first for SFAC and a hugely worthwhile step in an area where the standard response to children in crisis has been institutional placements.
As is often the case, the request for assistance came through a previous SFAC contact who advised that they needed to contact SFAC. This led to Dr Chris Hands, founder of the Moroccan Children's Trust, speaking to Mick Pease about a fledgling foster care project in the small city of Taroudant which needed a sound practice base.
The Moroccan Children's Trust works in partnership with the Association Fondation Amance Pour la Protection de l'Enfance (a local child protection charity) and together they were seeking better and more child-sensitive ways to manage the needs of children in need of alternative care. The initial behavioural issues or social problems could be quite minor, but the consequences for the children were traumatic and there was a growing sense that this could be dealt with so much better.
During their trip they had the opportunity to see at first hand the current provision in Taroudant, a traditional Moroccan community with an historic old town about an hour away from the busy tourist resort of Agadir, when they were invited to visit a local children's home. They found children from infancy onwards with one carer attempting the impossible task of meeting all their needs.
Placement in these children's homes has been the only solution for the social workers managing their care, but the hope now is that the training provided by SFAC will encourage the authorities to have the confidence to pass on the message that there are Family Based Care solutions as a workable alternative. Some of the social workers are in direct contact with the judiciary and uniquely placed to make the case for change.
Mick and Walter ran a week-long training programme for 16 local professionals in early October 2017, with the aim of equipping the staff with knowledge and skills from which they can go on to build a programme suited to their community and its needs. Topics included the process of developing a safe foster care programme, how to assess foster carers, how to support foster carers, how to match children with foster carers, deciding which children need foster care, and care planning. Participants included social workers already involved in the project, others working with court tribunals placing children, and one who is the director of a children's home. All of them were new to the concept of fostering and how to apply it in their particular circumstances.
The Moroccan project is in its early stages, but SFAC was pleased to see good preparatory work in place for the selection of foster carers and the establishment of a fostering panel. Initial contacts have been made to identify children, aged between 6 and 14, who will benefit from the project as a direct alternative to placement in an institution.
Mick hopes that this message can be carried forward and is confident in the commitment of the social workers he and Walter met during a memorable trip – "Their enthusiasm was very inspiring, and their thirst for knowledge and information. It was such a privilege to meet and assist people in a country we have not been to before and continue to strengthen the message children thrive in safe families". As for the training the responses were very enthusiastic and positive with one saying "I learned a lot about the concept of foster family, which I didn't know before. It was an opportunity to learn about attachment, care plans, the development of the child, ways of learning and many other things.… Thank you very much".
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Category Archives: 白噪声Research
Audio in Windows since Vista
Disclaimer: This is a re-post of
Copying to here for reference and also a backup in case MS removed the link above.
The info below was meant for Windows Vista. But still applies to Windows 7 and to some extend to Windows 8+.
"So I've talked a bit about some of the details of the Vista audio architecture, but I figure a picture's worth a bunch of text, so here's a simple version of the audio architecture:
This picture is for "shared" mode, I'll talk about exclusive mode in a future post.
The picture looks complicated, but in reality it isn't. There are a boatload of new constructs to discuss here, so bear with me a bit.
The flow of audio samples through the audio engine is represented by the arrows – data flows from the application, to the right in this example.
The first thing to notice is that once the audio leaves the application, it flows through a very simple graph – the topology is quite straightforward, but it's a graph nonetheless, and I tend to refer to samples as moving through the graph.
Starting from the left, the audio system introduces the concept of an "audio session". An audio session is essentially a container for audio streams, in general there is only one session per process, although this isn't strictly true.
Next, we have the application that's playing audio. The application (using WASAPI) renders audio to a "Cross Process Transport". The CPT's job is to get the audio samples to the audio engine running in the Windows Audio service.
In general, the terminal nodes in the graph are transports, there are three transports that ship with Vista, the cross process transport I mentioned above, a "Kernel Streaming" transport (used for rendering audio to a local audio adapter), and an "RDP Transport" (used for rendering audio over a Remote Desktop Connection).
As the audio samples flow from the cross process transport to the kernel streaming transport, they pass through a series of Audio Processing Objects, or APOs. APOs are used to provide DSP on the audio samples. Some examples of the APOs shipped in Vista are:
- Volume – The volume APO provides mute and gain control.
- Format Conversion – The format converter APOs (there are several) provide data format conversion – int to float32, float32 to int, etc.
- Mixer – The mixer APO mixes multiple audio streams
- Meter – The meter APO remembers the peak and RMS values of the audio samples pumped through it.
- Limiter – The limiter APO prevents audio samples from clipping when rendering.
All of the code above runs in user mode except for the audio driver at the very end."
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Paper in press, Symphonies on the way
投去IEEE Trans的paper,小改被接收了。至此,终于在领域内top1 journal灌水成功。加上之前top 3的journal和另外一篇水文,也算有3篇了,毕业也稍微有点指望。
之所以说是灌水,那是因为东西确实比较水,和炸药奖有亿万光年的差距,所以paper status变成awaiting AE decision后,我久经马拉松考验的小心肝就忐忑起来。
1. Intel 推出Santa Rosa平台推出,小改Core 2 Duo + 965 + GMA3000 + 802.11n
对现在的笔记本还是很满意,最近把内存加到640M。IBM X24 1.1G/640M/80G/12.1'/Wifi/1.6KG,一年内应该还是不会换。坚持笔记本要有稳定/移动/坚固/舒适,台式要性能。
2. ATI 发布DX10 Radeon HD 2900XT
yy一下台式机,但愿1年后能搞到AMD/Intel 3G Duo Core/ 2-4G Ram/ ATI/Nvidia下代旗舰或当前旗舰加强版显卡/ 24′ LCD显示器
3. SC2 – StarCraft II 官方解密
制造一个传奇是十分困难的事情,要想续写一个传奇就更困难了。不过暴雪还是鼓起勇气去做了。1998年SC面世是这个传奇的开始,近10年后的今天StarCraft II终于确认接近发布。虽然我几乎不玩SC,但也能体会到其平衡中充满了变数的奇妙。SC2 基本上看来是个3D版的SC1 框架主体没变,一方面继承了SC传统并有相应提高,另一方面开发起来也比较稳妥,不必一不小心糟蹋了经典。
4. Active Noise Control System Using National Instruments
测试仪器B & K SPLA meter
森海塞尔 HD600/HD433,测量峰值SPL都在90dBA,一般不会超过85dBA。以这个音量每天可以听8小时而不止造成听力退化。放心了,呵呵
又测试了手机上用的Sony 838耳塞式,峰值在95,一般不超过90。这个音量只能每天2小时以下。
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Andy Samberg's announcement that he'll no longer be a part of "Saturday Night Live" starting next season surprised precisely no one. The comedian's possible exit had been rumored for months, with buzz recently reaching a boiling point thanks to the closing lyrics of "Lazy Sunday 2," his final Digital Short: "On these New York streets I hone my fake rap penmanship/ That's how it began, and that's how I'mma finish it."
But even though Samberg is walking away after a seven-season run, don't think the comedian arrived at the decision easily. MTV News spoke with Samberg and his co-star (and fellow "SNL" alum) Adam Sandler as they promoted "That's My Boy," and the Lonely Island artist revealed that there's a lot he'll miss about working on the show, his colleagues most of all.
"The people and the friends, definitely," Samberg told MTV News ahead of the Movie Awards on Sunday night. "I've been saying it a lot — I'm going to miss all of my friends and the people I work with. I love them all so much, and I'm hoping to stay in touch with them."
That said, Samberg feels very strongly about the choice to depart the New York-based late-night comedy series.
"Over seven years, that show is like — and [Sandler] knows — it's like going to war or being on a sports team," he said. "It's just everyone working towards this common goal at full speed. When you lift your head up from that and go out into the world, you kind of realize, you'll always be nicely shell-shocked in a way that only the people who did it with you can understand. I'll definitely miss having such an amazing outlet and being able to do comedy on such a storied show that everyone pays attention to, but ... "
"But now you can do it on YouTube," Sandler interrupted.
"Right," Samberg laughed. "Now it's straight to YouTube."
Sandler, like Samberg, certainly knows what it's like to walk away from "SNL." After leaving the show in 1995, he found enormous success through movies like "Billy Madison," "Happy Gilmore" and many more. With Sandler's many achievements in mind, we asked the Happy Madison founder what he thought of Samberg's decision to say "so long" to Saturday night.
"He's doing it all right," said the comedian. "This guy cares about being a good person first, and I love that about him. He's a hard-working fool when he wants to be, and he's really a smart, talented and great guy. I know he's going to do everything he wants to do.
"I was aggressive back in the day. I was driven and needed to get my movies made and blah blah blah. He's less nutty about it," Sandler continued. "He's a very passionate and smart guy who knows about what should come first, and that's life. Right? Something like that?"
"Yeah," Samberg enthusiastically replied. "Right!"
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The three criminal fraud charges still pending against Paxton are another matter. Paxton will be tried in state criminal court before a jury who will hear the details of how he won the trust of friends and clients and then swindled them out of their money. If found guilty of the state charges, Paxton could be sentenced to up to 99 years in a state penitentiary.
Expect Ken Paxton, his attorneys, and his political cronies to cheer today's action and claim victory. Don't be fooled. It is just Paxton spin directed at the press and at nervous fellow Republicans. Paxton and his legal team know that he remains in serious trouble with the criminal trial still ahead. The Dallas Morning News wrote, "the federal civil case has no direct impact on the outcome of Paxton's criminal case, securities experts said."
Judge implied unethical behavior
Even while letting Paxton off, the federal judge hearing the civil case made the important point that the, "question before the Court is not whether Paxton should have disclosed his compensation arrangement but whether Paxton had a legal duty under federal securities law to disclose." The take away is clear enough – Paxton had a moral responsibility to tell his clients he was making money off of them.
Statement from Lone Star Project Director Matt Angle:
"Ken Paxton may have slipped the snare in federal civil court, but he remains in deep trouble, and a prison cell may be waiting for him on state criminal felony fraud charges.
"Paxton knows that facing a jury who hears how he swindled honest Texans out of their money could mean big trouble for him. Paxton will try every legal trick and procedural gimmick to avoid a fair hearing in front of fair Texans."


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If you're coming up to your bulking phase, you're probably looking for a comprehensive muscle building drugs list.
While you might mistakenly associate all anabolic steroids with high levels of muscle growth, there are some that are more suited for this purpose than others.
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For every popular anabolic ideal for bulking and putting on muscle, there's a natural alternative that can be used for the same purpose without the legal dangers and side effects.
Nii, want some drugs to build muscle fast?
Take a look at our guide below for the most popular, as well as the most healthy, alternatives to help you get that ripped physique that you want. Osta õigusliku steroidid Online siin.
You've probably glossed over numerous lists of common steroids and wondered if there's any way to split them even more.
Also known as bulking steroids, the drugs that are going to help you pack on muscle most effectively are the following:
Depending on whether you're going for lean mass, tugevus, or pure size, you'll likely choose different ones. Often people stack them together.
Which ones you take will also depend on what's available to you where you buy them, which presents another challenge since these drugs are illegal without a prescription.
Nii, what exactly makes these drugs effective at building muscle?
The answer lies in the way that they affect the body.
Näiteks, take a look at Trenbolone:
Considered by many to be one of the best bodybuilding drugs available due to its efficiency and power, it enhances protein synthesis as well as the ability of your muscles to retain nitrogen.
Miks on oluline lämmastiku? It is a key building block of protein, which is a building block of your muscles.
Nii, with more nitrogen to build muscles, as well as a boost in protein synthesis, you can see how working out on Trenbolone will give your body an increased capacity for building muscle.
It also increases recovery time, meaning you won't have to rest long in between these sessions of high gains, ja suureneb vere punaliblede arv.
With more red blood cells carrying oxygen to your muscles, you'll be able to increase your endurance and workout for longer.
These benefits are mirrored in Dianabol and Testosterone (although Trenbolone is a much stronger steroid), and are ultimately the primary driving forces behind their performance enhancing effects.
Here's something you should drill into your brain:
Sul ei ole on vaja synthetic anabolic steroids to bulk up.
All of the processes we mentioned above that drive bulking—increased nitrogen retention, boosted protein synthesis, and an increase in red blood cells—can be achieved using completely legal, ohutu, and natural products.
Where can you find these products?
CrazyBulk offers alternative supplements to all of the compounds in the muscle building drugs list we posted above.
Need tooted on:
These're the closest thing to steroids for bodybuilding that don't cause side effects that you're going to get.
CrazyBulk also offers bulking stacks for reduced prices, which are perfect for beginners looking to start their first natural bulking cycle.
No injections are needed for any of these products—simply take the capsules at the times listed on the label and you're guaranteed to see results within a month.
Nad pakuvad on osta 2 Saada 1 Tasuta offer for their bulking stack and free worldwide delivery—both great incentives for those on the fence about taking the plunge.
But the real incentive is this:
No side effects or harm to your body, while still improving your results in the gym.
Täidisena steroidid, ja mis tahes type of illegal steroidsselles küsimuses, come with a host of nasty side effects, kõige levinum on:
While some of these are fairly mild, like insomnia, others are severe and can be life-threatening.
Anabolic steroids are widely used to break free from your body's equilibrium, but in doing so you open yourself up to bodily processes and hormone levels that are unnatural.
Your body maintains homeostasis for a reason: to keep these sorts of extreme situations under control.
Although bodybuilders get their benefits and gains from working within these extremes, with natural alternatives there's really no reason to put yourself through this risk.
And here's another problem:
Anaboolsed steroidid on ebaseaduslik, so on top of putting the health of your body in danger, you're also putting yourself on the line legally.
Look at the nimed steroidid lihaskasvu and you can bank on all of them being illegal in the United States, Kanada, Ühendkuningriik, ja Austraalia.
Kindel, you can take your chances buying them online, but you'll never know whether the product you get will be counterfeit.
So what can you be sure of?
Anytime you purchase products from CrazyBulk, you're going to receive what you ordered, and all of the ingredients on the label are going to be in the product at their exact dosages.
If you came here looking for a muscle building drugs list, we've given you all that we can to help you in your search.
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Anabolic steroids are tempting for their quick results and fast gains, but this temptation isn't worth the risks.
Bodybuilding attracts driven people that will do almost anything to succeed, so it's understandable that many believe that the risks are worth the potential gains.
But using natural products, you can excel in the gym and take your bodybuilding game to another level, all the while using legal, natural products that will do no harm to your body.Anavar KulturismiAlgajale Steroid tsükkelParim Steroid lõikamineKulturismi Pre võistlus tsükkelKulturismi steroidid algajateleTäidisena steroididCrossFit SteroididDianabol KulturismiHGH KulturismiIFBB Pro kulturistid ja steroididLihaskude Ehitus ravimite nimekiriLihaskude Ehitus steroididJõud Steroid tsükkelSerostim KulturismiKulturismi steroidid käikKulturismi steroid tabletidSteroid treeningTestosterooni KulturismiMida teeb Testosteroon kulturismis
Thank you for laying this out so many to choose from but are steroids now considered safe?
Hi Jeff,
It's important to consider the nuances of your question. Safety has to be considered with respect to context: Who is using a substance, how are they using it, are they under medical supervision, are they taking a product that has been manufactured according to appropriate standards, what else are they taking alongside that substance.
Steroids have and continue to be used medicinally for a number of conditions and they are considered safe if used by healthy individuals under the guidance of a doctor.
The issue is when anabolic androgenic steroid are misused, taken for too long a period, taken with certain other high-risk behaviors, or when contaminated steroids are used. Steroids may not be safe for some people while other people can tolerate them well.
There really is not one answer to the question "Steroidid on ohutud?" It all depends on the circumstances of how these muscle building agents are used.


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Our Academy was on South Broad Street in Trenton, with floor to ceiling windows lining the store front looking out onto the street. We had MMA practice early Tuesday and Thursday mornings. It was off-schedule, invite-only training for professional and amateur fighters. Hard sparring rounds, clinch work off the wall, ground and pound drills… it was serious, intense and competitive training.
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These guys have intentionally caused me more discomfort and physical pain than anyone else on Earth, yet I consider them all to be my brothers. I can guarantee you'd have a far deeper and richer friendship with a Jiu Jitsu buddy who tries feverishly to choke you than with the guy in your fantasy football league who brings the beer on draft day.
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play." ~Heraclitus
We all wrestled with our friends and siblings when we were little kids, it's one of the most natural and purest forms of play. When and why does that stop? Does it one day become simply unacceptable socially to tackle our friends in public and roll around in the grass? With Jiu Jitsu, you get all the joy and developmental benefits of playing like a little kid while maintaining your super serious adult face.
I've noticed over the years that Jiu Jitsu buddies aren't afraid or embarrassed to be more physical with each other. It's quite common for a couple of guys to hug after a tough training session, or even just to hug hello for that matter. When I hang out with my teammates it's almost a guarantee that one of us is getting double legged in public, without fear of sideways glances of disapproval from passers-by.
I'd argue that we were meant to have these types of relationships with each other. There's something satisfying- even rewarding– on a primal level about engaging in friendly, physical competition. We weren't designed to sit next to our friends playing video games. We're physical beings in a physical realm, so be physical.
For he today that sheds his blood with me, Shall be my brother."~Shakespeare
I'm getting married very soon, which means I recently had the pleasure of helping my lovely fiance (a very tough 3 stripe white belt) put together the seating chart. What struck me is that my guests are nearly split equally between friends I've known my whole life, and my training partners.
It makes sense. Our oldest friends are dear to us because of all the crazy and challenging experiences we've shared over the years. We've grown together and supported each other. Your oldest friends have your back.
And so do your training partners. In your adult life, you'd be hard pressed to find a group of people who are more genuinely and openly concerned with your personal growth and achievement than your training partners.
What I realized is that I've experienced the same amount of "friendship" (joy, pain, support, respect, laughter, concern and growth) with my Jiu Jitsu friends as I did with my lifelong friends, but in half the time. That is a direct result of the time we've shared on the mats.


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Beginning in 1998 the One World Festival aims to provide the audience with films that '...expose abuses, encourage dignity, inspire solidarity and foster mutual understanding.' Over the years the festival has grown from 3000 audience members to a staggering 18,200 people in attendance. The festival also travels to approximately 28 other cities within the Czech Republic and includes films from all over the world.
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The minimum dampen threshold. This value is considered to encompass the "current view content area" and is referred to as a page. This is the number of pages with a negative position relative to the current page. The value must be less than or equal to zero.
The maximum dampen threshold. This value is considered to encompass the "current view content area" and is referred to as a page. This is the number of pages with a positive position relative to the current page. The value must be greater than or equal to zero.
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I am such a sucker for Japanese body washes...well, I am a sucker for pretty much everything from Japan lol... anyway, I couldn´t pass up this gorgeous body wash from Lion Bathtology when I spotted it on eBay. I love everything with a citrus scent (unless it smells too much like dish washing detergent) as I generally prefer things that smell fresh as most of the time anything too powdery or floral will give me a blazing headache.
So I ordered my huge 550ml bottle of this body wash and hoped it would smell like body wash and not detergent lol.
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A Viking-Themed adventure path compatible with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.
PDFs of All 4 Core Books from the Into the Wintery Gale Kickstarter.
This bundle includes the following items:
- Wrath of the Jötunn Adventure Path (PDF) – Adventure Path taking 4-6 PCs from Level 8 to 15
- Raider's Haul: Vikmordere Treasury of Magic Items (PDF) – 30 All New themed Magic Items
- Winter's Roar: Vikmordere Bestiary (PDF) – 30 All New themed Monsters
- Ancestral Appellations: Vikmorder Culture & Player Primer (PDF) – Detailed Setting Information
The arrival of the celestial event known as the Ohjaslange heralds the return of the dreaded Jötunn (skeletal ice giants) to the lands of Vikmordere. The valley is engulfed by an unnatural blizzard and unending frigid gale of the likes which none living have ever seen. A dark and evil curse has reawakened, after dormant centuries, to cloak the sun and bury the land beneath frost and snow.
Directed by ancient Vikmordere legend, warriors and shieldmaidens from the many clans have gathered in the village of Völsfiheimr on the shores of Serpent Lake to prepare for the upcoming battle. At stake is the very future of their people. As a horde of undying skeletal ice giants begin a long march down from a ruined mountaintop fortress, Vikmordere warriors in the valley resolve their mettle by singing lore of heroic bravery and ancient battles.
Wintery war is looming, and many echo the charge of ancient omens -- the time has come to seek out the lost artifacts of the legendary Jarl Vornig – for it was he who last quelled the ice giant uprising, felling the great ice giant king whilst wielding a divine sword and magic aegis. If these powerful artifacts cannot be rediscovered, and the power therein harnessed, the Vikmordere warriors stand little chance against the onslaught of the evil Jǫtunn.
Despite the gathering of great warriors, the Ancestor Spirit seems to have other plans to secure the safety of the Vikmordere people... A group of outsiders has arrived at the Great Hall of Völsfing upon the eve of battle. The strangers have been guided through the blinding blizzard by a mysterious fire-wreathed ember owl, and are unwittingly about to become epic heroes in a new saga.
The Vikmordere are wary of their new guests, yet submit to the will of their ancestors and acknowledge the omen of adventurer's arrival. The barbarian clans place their hopes into the hands of these enigmatic visitors who must now prepare to venture out into the wintery gale in search of the ancient Jarl's artifacts.


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Hi everyone,
This is my first time posting. I'm a 19 year old boy and I moved to Budapest in August 2017. Ever since I moved here, I gave noticed a lot about myself but have also developed new problems:
- Decreased concentration and mental processing
- Decreased self confidence
- 24/7 thinking about what people think about me
- No real friends (can't form relationships)
- Lack of understanding of who I am and what I like
- I feel mentally tired all the time, even when I sleep 8 hours +
- I'm unaware of every moment and I can never let myself have fun anymore
- Loss in libido and emotional connection with girls
Is this normal? What am I experiencing? Thanks.