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Finding it hard to make Kratom Tea? Here are Quick and Easy Steps to Follow
One of the ways suited best for the intake of Kratom is with tea. Yes, Kratom tea can be fast accommodating and you get to start having immediate benefit with it. Kratom powder is popularly sold for users and many do consume this substance blending it in tea form.
If you are not sure of how make Kratom tea, don't worry! This post will guide you in quick easy steps.
So, here are what you should do make a stimulating and relaxing cup of Kratom tea.
What you will need –
You will need the following items to make you Kratom tea: a kettle, Kratom Powder, basic strainer, water, a stove or any source of heat.
- Step 1 – Pour one and half cup of water into the kettle.
- Step 2 – Measure the Kratom powder according to your requirement and pour into the kettle containing the water. Remember, the required amount Kratom powder depends on the effect you intend to achieve. 1-2 grams give mild effect,3-5 grams gives moderate effects, 6-10 grams give strong effects, and 11 grams and above give the very strongest effect.
- Step 3 – Put on the source of heat and allow the mixture to boil for about 15 minutes.
- Step 4 – Put the strainer over a cup and pour the liquid from the kettle. The strainer helps to filter the dregs.
- Step 5 – You can discard the dregs if you like or you can pour it into the kettle, add water and boil again to get another tea. Once this matter becomes weak, it becomes important to discard it.
- Step 6 – your cup of Kratom tea is now ready. The taste is bitter but you can flavor it with your choice sweetener or spice. Honey, sugar, stevia or cinnamon would do. More so, if you prefer drinking it cold then pour in some cubes of ice or have it cooled in the freezer.
Finally, Kratom is medicinal and recreational. Its alkaloid properties are known to stimulate the body at low doses, and sedate the body at high doses. You can measure the amount of Kratom powder that would give any of these relishing effects after taking the tea.Continue Reading...

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Assessment plays an important role in the learning process. The advent of information technology has considerably changed the education sector. This paper aims to evaluate online quizzes as an assessment tool in higher education by focusing on different modes of assessment. The evaluation is practice-focused: two courses with different modes of online quizzes were considered. One of the main arguments of the paper was that regular online assessed quizzes motivated students to study regularly although over-assessment could increase the stress level of students. Further research needs to be carried out to determine the degree of learning taking place with online quizzes as opposed to traditional methods.
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The International Journal of Learning, Volume 18, Issue 1, pp.191-202. Article: Print (Spiral Bound). Article: Electronic (PDF File; 812.079KB).
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by RaZiel
Disclaimer: I shouldn't even have to do this... I mean, does anyone really think I would be writing this if I actually owned the characters?
" " denotes speech.
' ' denotes thoughts.
Oh, and one more thing. I've never cleared this up before but I'm doing it now. Unless stated otherwise, all dialogue is in Japanese.
Chapter 3: Change
A small rabbit carelessly scampered around near a tiny puddle on the forest floor. The leaves of the tall trees swayed gently with the wind as the verdant vegetation seemed to be truly alive. The rabbit took a quick sip of water and then hopped away into the nearby underbrush, having sated its thirst. The small critter made its way over to a small pile of berries that had fallen from the branches of the tree above and carefully grabbed one of them with its small paws. It revelled in the peace and quiet as it happily munched down on its meal.
The rabbit, a couple of deer and quite a number of birds fled in terror as Ryouga Hibiki shattered the peaceful atmosphere with a scream that had become his leiv motif over the years.
The teenager looked around in frustration, failing to see any significant indicators of where he was.
Resigning himself to the idea that he was getting nowhere, he decided to set up camp for the night. He unceremoniously dumped his burden on the floor, including a certain pigtailed warrior.
He quickly started a small fire to keep warm while he pitched up his own small tent, silently cursing Ranma for getting knocked out on purpose just to make his work harder.
When he finished, he sat by the fire, gazing into the starry night that had closed above him while he worked. So many times he'd look at the moon and curse his bad luck, but this time he seemed almost happy.
Ryouga's directional curse had afflicted his family for quite a number of generations. The curse took effect at birth, and was so powerful that he had even gotten lost while navigating the restricted space of his crib when he was nothing more than a toddler.
For years he had endured the hardship of being tied down, in the literal sense, while in class at school because of this problem. The few times he'd manage to get free, he invariably ended up lost.
One of such times he found himself inside the backyard of a great mansion. The kids at school had always told him that the house was haunted and that children's screams could be heard coming from inside.
"Where the hell am I now?" he silently asked, unaware that he would be repeating that same question many times in the years to come.
Ryouga jumped back, startled by the pigtailed boy that had suddenly appeared in front of him.
"What'cha doing?" the boy asked while approaching the surprised stranger he saw wandering about the gardens.
"I-I was just..."
"I'm Ranma," the other kid said, "who're you?"
"Ryouga," he replied, while still trying to shake the agitation out of his system. The stress of being lost, in this place, and the sudden shock of Ranma appearing in front of him just began to subside.
"So..." Ranma continued, his earlier question forgotten, "you a fighter?"
"I'm a martial artist," he replied, more at ease now that the conversation headed towards familiar ground. He'd began his training in the family style a couple of months before, whenever chance enabled both his father and himself to meet at home.
"Wanna spar?"
Those words signified the beginning of what was to become an almost frequent ritual of training for both boys. Ryouga would often find himself in that same yard, where Ranma was always waiting.He discovered that the more he tried to go about his normal routine, the easier it was to end up there.
The meetings boosted Ryouga's skill in the art tremendously, and soon both boys were analysing and discussing the advantages and drawbacks in their respective styles.
One afternoon, a couple of months after their initial meeting, Ryouga surprised Ranma by manifesting a battle aura during their match.
"What do you think about this Saotome?" Ryouga gloated with a confident smirk on his face. His rival had never shown any indication of knowing how to utilize ki, so he expected nothing short of amazement from him.
"Oh, you have one of those too?" he asked excitedly while a bright blue corona sprang up around him, "That's so cool! No other kid here has one yet... That means I can stop holding back!"
Ryouga's barely visible green glow winked out of existance at this sudden revelation. It couldn't be. The one thing he was sure that he'd beaten Ranma at and it turned out that he was miles ahead of him.
"How can it be? How can you have a more powerful ki than me already?" he lamented, talking more to himself than to Ranma.
"Ki... what's that?" the pigtailed boy asked in confusion.
Now it was Ryouga's turn to be confused, as he turned to face the smaller child. "That wasn't ki?" he asked.
That question sparked a very lengthy explanation from Ranma's part, which served to educate the bandanna-wearing boy about Cosmos.
"Where are you going Shiryu?" Seiya asked while the Dragon Saint was leaving.
"I have heard great tales about a man named Mu, who lives secluded from others in Jamir. My master once told me that if anyone could repair a Cloth, it would be him," he silently cursed his own stupid pride once again as he thought about the predicament they were now in. If only he hadn't been so consumed with arrogance both he and Seiya would not be in such a bad shape, and their Mantles would be intact, not devoid of life, as they were.
"Shiryu... be careful," the Pegasus Saint finally replied, knowing that the Dragon would not be deterred from this decision.
"I will," he whispered as he walked away.
The sudden groan brought Ryouga out of his reverie as his attention once again focused on the fallen warrior lying a couple of metres away from him.
"About time you woke up Saotome. It's been almost a day now since Aioria-san threw you up against that wall. You're getting softer," he taunted while the pigtailed boy sat up, holding his aching head with his right hand.
"Shut up Pig-boy, it's not like I expected nissan to just go all out on me," he replied, his pained face testament to what his nerves told his brain about the stimuli they had received earlier. "Where are we anyway?" he asked.
"We should be somewhere near that village you were talking about, I'm pretty sure I didn't stray that far this time," he answered while digging into his backpack for his fresh water.
Ryouga's sense of direction had consistedly improved ever since he actually accepted he had a problem with it. The fact that his control over Cosmos had increased exponentially over time also helped. He felt more attuned to the universe ever since the time Ranma had began training him.
"Do you remember the day you left the Kido Foundation?" Ryouga inquired, starting to remember once again.
"Sure do," Ranma replied, "you promised you'd hunt me down to the ends of the Earth to prove you were better than me,"
"What do you think would have happened if you hadn't managed to get Kido-san to agree letting me join you?" he asked.
"I dunno, but I'm pretty sure we wouldn't be here right now," Ranma said while fishing out a small pot filled with rice from his own backpack.
He winced at the sudden pain from his, still tender, ribs.
'I'm lucky that sensei held back more than usual this time,' he thought as he tentatively asessed the damage from the beating he had received from his master, 'he managed to reign him in enough so that he didn't break anything. It's a good thing he wasn't wearing his Cloth as well,' he knew that if Ares had been wearing the Gemini Gold Mantle when he attacked his pupil, bruised ribs would be the least of his problems.
'Then again, I did get hurt quite a lot...' he remembered his past few fights; the fight against Seiya, the fight against the Cobra, the fight against his master, Ryouga's surprise attack and the unplanned outburst from his brother.
'Maybe I should take it easy at least for another day,' he thought while managing to place the pot over the fire. Those kinds of thoughts could wait till after dinner. After all, he hadn't eaten in a whole day and was planning to catch up.
In the nearby underbrush, two girls were overlooking (more like underlooking, from their point of view) the two outsiders.
"So, Par fum, what do you make of them?" the youngest of the two asked, while adjusting some of her purple hair that had gotten stuck among the leaves.
"Dunno," the brown-haired teen replied, "the one with the bandanna's kind of cute,"
Both female Amazons were quite beautiful in their own way. One had the cute charm of a naive child, while the other had a certain sensuous air of maturity around her. The fact that they were both covered in dust and leaves diminished the effect somehow.
"You know that is not what I mean, sister," purple hair said, not too amused with the response she had received. Going out in patrol with her sister was no picnic for her. She couldn't complain though, her great-grandmother was quite adamant about her going to the field with a more experienced warrior, and, although she hated admitting it, Par Fum was a lot more experienced than her... in more ways than one.
"Relax Xian Pu," she said, "you know I'm just messing with you,"
She then proceeded to backpedal through the bush and out the other side, dusting herself off once she could stand again. Once outside, she stretched her arms above her head in a suggestive pose, showing off her ample curves that were barely being restrained by the blue silk Chinese dress she was wearing.
Xian Pu crawled out from within the leaves moments later, her pink dress a bit dirty from the contact with the ground.
In truth, both sisters were pretty similar. The only differences being their hair colour, and that Xian Pu's face was more round and baby-like, while Par Fum's was a bit more angular.
Well, that and the fact that she was also nearly a head taller than her younger sister. Hairstyles were different too, Xian Pu had hers just loose with bangs in the front with twin buns behind, reaching down to her lower back, while her sister had her own, longer, hair tied up into a lone, straightponytail that reached all the way to her hip.
"Okay then, let's go," Par Fum finally said.
"What?" Xian asked confused, "But we just got here!"
Her sister let out an annoyed breath at the reply, "Listen, Granny asked us to take a look at the disturbance. Well... we've looked at it; nothing more than two travelling martial artists. Now we go back," she said.
"But we should find out more about them!" Xian Pu countered, determined to know at least who these boys were.
A heated debate began and soon both sisters forgot about the pair of fighters having a relaxing dinner a few feet away.
"What are they saying?" Ranma asked, while wolfing down his third helping of rice so far.
"How should I know?" Ryouga replied, "I don't know a word of Chinese,"
"Oh, I just assumed you did, given that you've been all over the place," the pigtailed teen put down the pot and settled on his back to look at the stars above.
"So, what are we supposed to do here anyway?" the Wild Boar asked, quite ignorant about the instructions they had received from the High Priest and having deemed both girls as harmless.
"Nothing, just train I guess," Ranma replied, while staring at his own guardian stars.
"I just came here to escape from Sanctuary. I don't care about what I had to do, I needed to get out of there," he said, thinking about the last confrontation with his master.
"The episodes were getting worse I assume?" Ryouga asked, having known about the unique condition Ranma's sensei suffered.
"I refuse to believe it, but I may have seen the last of him already..." he trailed off as the topic suddenly became too painful to talk about.
"So, are we still going to this Amazon village?" Ryouga asked, trying to get Ranma's mind away from the topic of his master somehow.
"It's worth a shot. I've heard that they are supposed to be excellent martial artists, and it never hurts to train in something different," he replied.
"You think those two over there come from that place?" the badanna-wearing teen asked.
"Possibly," Ranma answered, "I don't think we'll be able to learn much stealth from them," he smiled at that point.
Both friends shared a laugh after that comment. It had been quite some tie since the two of them were alone like this, just camping out under the stars.
"So..." Ryouga suddenly said, "how is she doing?"
"What do you mean?" Ranma responded.
"Don't play dumb, you know who I'm talking about," he insisted.
"I don't know, okay I guess," he finally replied.
"What's been going on between the two of you?" he pried once again.
"Nothing, I mean, Seika and I are just friends. That's all there is to it," Ranma concluded, slightly unconfortable with the way the conversation had been going.
"But didn't you go out last week?" the Silver Saint asked, determined to find out as much as he could about the subject.
"I'm not in the mood to talk right now," Ranma replied, "I just want to rest,"
With those final words, he turned his back on the Wild Boar (his aching side punished him dearly for this action) and settled off into a deep sleep.
"Fine," Ryouga said, as he mimicked the actions of his companion.
Ranma suddenly sat up, covered in sweat.
The nightmare had seemed so real... He had seen his master being subjugated by his other self and coerced into killing the Goddess Athena. He then saw himself with an unidentifiable Cloth doing battle with the Gemini Gold Saint, the battle ending with his own death.
As he calmed down, he began to notice his surroundings.
Cold, stone floor was hardly the same as the warm dirt he had been lying on a few hours ago.
He looked around and saw that he was lying in some kind of cell, Ryouga was snoring a couple of feet away, still in deep sleep.
Somewhat confused, the pigtailed warrior slowly stood up and began stretching; he was pleased to discover that his wounds had mostly healed, and only a mild disconfort remained as testament to his previous injuries.
"Well," he said, "I feel great, Now I just have to find out where we are,"
"The question is not where you are sonny boy," a strange voice interrupted his musings. As Ranma turned to ascertain where it came from, an old woman who had been perched atop a wooden staff, hiding among the shadows of the dimly lit dungeon revealed herself, "but rather, who you are," she finished while approaching him.
"Who are you?" Ranma demanded, having been caught by surprise by the unexpected intrusion.
"I believe I asked that very same question first," the elder replied, with a mocking grin on her face.
Ranma then proceeded to say what he had always told people who met him for the very first time, "I am Ranma Saotome, of the Saotome Musabetsu Kakuto Ryuu,"
It wasn't a lie either, since he had kept training in his former style ever since he had been separated from his father. In fact, he would probably be with him right now if it wasn't for the promise Mr. Kido had made him that he would be stronger by training at Sanctuary. A promise that had been fulfilled.
"Anything Goes eh?" the old woman seemed amused at the response, "So you are a student of Happosai?"
"I don't know what you're talking about," Ranma seemed geniunely confused about her question, that was enough to satisfy her curiosity.
"I see, no matter," she replied.
"You still haven't told me who you are," Ranma said.
"I am Khu Lon, Matriarch of the Joketsuzoku Amazons,"
Ranma smiled at the revelation, "We've reached our destination after all," he said, more to himself that to the elder. He then turned to look at the sleeping Ryouga, "You weren't that far off-track this time,"
Once again, he faced the Matriarch, with a confident smirk on his face.
"I challenge you," he simply stated.
Khu Lon almost fell from her stick at the challenge. She couldn't believe tht this mere pup was attempting to battle her, the most powerful warrior of the entire tribe. 'This ought to be interesting,' she thought as she decided to indulge the poor boy.
"Name the conditions, boy," she merely said, confident that this amateur had no idea who he was up against.
"Should I win," he said, "you will train my friend and I in your fighting style, and teach us your special techniques,"
The elder snorted, that was a typical request for challenge. She expected more out of this young man for some strange reason.
"And if you lose?" she asked.
Ranma's smirk intensified at the question, "If you win, then I will train you,"
"I like your spirit boy, but know that no male has ever defeated me in battle,"
"Then I will be the first," he retorted.
"You are to make sure neither one of the traitors survive,"
Both Saints nodded in understanding at the instructions received. Ranma and Ryouga were to be executed for high treason. Abandoning Sanctuary and seeking refuge in area controlled by its enemies was punished by death.
"Go now, and do not dare to return if you fail," he commanded.
"Yes master," the Saints responded and quickly departed.
'Just you wait Ranma,' the Cobra thought, 'I'll make you pay for humiliating me like that,'
"Shaina," the Saint next to her said, "We set out now. You know the way?" he asked.
"Yes," she replied, "I'll lead,"
"Fine," the Orion Silver Saint replied, while adjusting his white cape, "let's go,"
"You say that this male is going to fight great-grandmother? You're joking right?" Xian Pu asked while hiding behind a tree.
"Shh, keep your voice down," Par Fum replied, "I don't want them to know we're watching the fight,"
Xian Pu peered from behind the tree at the two fighters standing in the middle of a clearing overlooking the pools of sorrow. "I think this male is either stupid or suicidal,"
"Shh!!" Par Fum urged her once again to shut up, "It's starting,"
"The terms are agreed to. Win by knockout or submission," Khu Lon said, looking at Ranma for confirmation.
He nodded, and then set himself into a loose stance, indicating he was ready.
Both fighters remained staring at each other for some time, analysing any possible weakness or opening.
Suddenly, they were in motion; two blurs moving all over the place.
A few tentative kicks were blocked by the frail-looking stick, which, as Ranma discovered, turned out to be quite durable.
The momentary pause allowed the Amazon to press her advantage and deliver a series of devatating punches, all of them aimed at precise spots in her opponent's leg.
Ranma quickly leapt away and expanded his ki to repair the damage the assault had caused on his nerves.
"It seems you are better than I expected. Still, you have a long way to go before being at my level," the Matriarch said, while also releasing her hold on her own battle aura.
"We'll see," Ranma responded, moments before he dissapeared from sight.
Khu Lon was no amateur, and it showed as she evaded a strike meant to hit her lower back and quickly contered with a blow to the head, just as the pigtailed teen recovered.
As he fell back from the blow, he brought his legs up and caught the elder's chin with the tip of his right leg, sending her flying into a nearby tree.
Khu Lon stood up from where she had fallen and stared directly into the eyes of the teen, feeling alive for the first time in many years, "That was a lucky shot, but it won't happen again,"
"I know," Ranma said with a smile as he concentrated his battle aura into his right hand to form a protective layer of white ki around it.
"Want to take it up a notch?" he asked.
"If you feel you are up to it..." she trailed off as she too gathered her own ki.
Once again they exploded into motion, both fighters leaving a trail of glowing energy wherever they passed. Kicks and punches were traded between the battlers as they struggled for dominance.
Khu Lon ducked over a roundhouse and retaliated with an open hand strike to the chest.
Ranma jumped over a sweep and retaliated with a descending axe kick to the shoulder.
However, the fight was clearly going in the Matriarch's favour. Her level of ki control and the sheer amount of skill she possessed were slowly winning over Ranma's speed and strength.
He knew he had to to something fast if he wanted to win the challenge.
'Damn it,' he thought, 'I didn't want to rely on Cosmos, but it seems it's the only way to finish this... she's just too good,'
A blue aura then began to him, as he began to tap into the power he had unleashed as a child. Both ki and Cosmos merging together.
'I'm not going to do this with just Cosmos,' he thought, 'that would be too unfair,'
Khu Lon was shocked. What was this new energy that she felt coming from the boy? It was more powerful than anything she had ever seen. She summoned all of her ki and prepared to sheld herself against the imminent strike.
A multitude of vacuum blades were shot off by Ranma, who had combined the teachings of the Yamasenken scroll his father had left behind with his own Cosmos. The result was this multiple version of the attack, where the blades had a dull edge, and were no longer lethal.
Realising that her best bet would be to avoid the attack, the Matriarch quickly used the ki she had gathered to hasten her retreat as shejumped down towards Jusenkyo.
Quickly moving from pole to pole, she avoided the blasts which cut through most of the bamboo.
Ranma followed, intent on finishing the battle.
Once again, the fighters faced each other. Standing atop the bamboo poles, they reassessed their respective opponent.
Ranma then sensed a familiar Cosmos nearby.
'Where have I felt this pattern before?' he thought to himself as his opponent seized the opportunity to put more distance between them. She had realised her best chance to defeat him was to let him tire himself out.
'Oh no...' he thought, as he finally recognised who this person was.
Those were the last words he heard before being smashed into the air by Shaina. The Cobra Saint was wearing her Cloth now, and was much more prepared for him this time.
While sailing through the air, he positioned himself to land on a nearby pole.
He missed.
A spark of power and a crimson splatter.
The Dragon Saint stood over both broken Cloths, arms slit at the wrists while his blood flowed freely onto the dead shells.
'I promised Seiya I would come back with his Mantle...' he thought to himself as the suits of armor were bathed with the scarlet liquid.
His knees almost buckled as the bloodloss began to get to him, but still he held on, intent of giving up every last drop of his essence in order to fulfill his oath.
'Why waste my blood on a Cloth with no Saint to wear it?' he thought as he recalled Mu saying he would die from this process, 'I'll just give everything to the Pegasus,' he decided with both hands over the small equine construct.
It was at that point that Shiryu's strength began to wane. His legs gave way as the exhausting effort finally took its toll on his body.
The Aries Gold Saint was quick to catch him as he fell, a caring look on his face as he thought about Shiryu's deed. He brought his right hand over the Dragon's wrists, and as he did so, the wounds magically healed as a golden glow briefly sparked around them.
"That you were willing to make this sacrifice, my friend, shows that you are indeed worthy enough to continue wearing your own Mantle," he said as he signaled his apprentice Kiki to move the Cloths inside so he could get started on the repairs while he carried the weakened teen over to a suitable resting place.
Just as he reached the threshold, a sudden flash of blue emerged from the Pegasus Cloth, as the eyes lit up unexpectedly.
"It seems that he's already uncovered the other one," he commented with a smile, while making his way inside.
Ranma was powerless to prevent his fall. Arms flailing aimlessly, he hit the water with a resounding splash.
The Jusenkyo Guide quickly approached the spring as he had seen the incident from his cabin. "Oh no! Very bad Young Sir fall in spring! Very tragic story of..." the Guide thought about it for a second, scanning his memories to find which pool Ranma had fallen into, "...I no know what spring is..." he finally said, having drawn a blank.
Inside the spring Ranma was sinking deeper every second.
Completely immersed in darkness, he continued his descent into the seemingly endless pool. He could feel something changing within him, as if something had been unlocked and he was just encountering it for the first time.
Then he saw it. He reached out his hand into the depths...
And then, there was light.
Author's Notes:
Well, there it is. The long awaited chapter three. I have just finished my second set of midterms and now have a couple of weeks before finals so I thought I needed to finish this before I could move on with my studies. I had been stuck on a scene here for a looong time (writer's block sucks) and didn't advance at all for about a month.
Many people told me that I was making Ranma too powerful. Not powerful in the sense that he beats everyone, but in the sense that he basically survived everything that had been thrown at him (sounds like someone familiar? Here's a hint: his name begins with an S and ends with eiya.) I never actually intended for him to come off as so strong, I hope that a few lines I included here serve to clear that subject up.
Another thing most people thought was that Ranma and Shaina would be together. Now that's a nice assumption, but you'll have to wait and see if it comes true. As you can tell, there's another woman in Ranma's life right now (for those of you who haven't read the Hades Saga, here's a minor spoiler, she's Seiya's sister), but even I'm not sure how this will evolve so don't assume anything yet.
Anyway... I probably won't write anything for the next few days but I really want to continue doing a couple of AGDM chapters. I've bee seeing the Battle City Finals and that has inspired me to write a bit of that again. Well, that and the fact that I got some COOL cards.
I really appreciate all the comments you send, and I read them all and take them into consideration, even if I haven't got the time to answer every single one, restassured that I have read it, and it has helped me with doing this. So please, keep them coming. Feedback is really important for me.
Comments, flames(haven't gotten any so far, that's good I think), anything, e-mail me at or (MSN)
Note: no e-mails above 10k or with attachments will be opened. My brother lost his entire hard drive due to a stupid virus last week and I'm not taking any chances at all.
P.S.: Ranma's attack roughly translates to wings flapping blade.


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Being a fan on Twitter
It's obvious that Twitter has taken the world by storm. Over recent years it has become increasingly popular and now it is at the point that sports watching and tweeting go hand in hand.
This is my first year that I have tweeted about, and during my favourite teams' games. I have interacted with some great people who are fans of the same teams as me, and even some with similar views and opinions. It wasn't until Snider was traded, however, that I realized how much Twitter has shaped me as a fan.
Take Snider, for instance. I never realized just how popular Snider was (still is) with the fans until I started to tweet. To be honest, I was never a fan of Snider's and I had assumed that many people felt the same as me. I had become a huge Thames supporter over the course of the 2011 season and had made it known that I was part of "Team Thames" in Spring Training. I was eventually called out by Snider fans and that's when I learned to keep my mouth shut on numerous topics regarding the Blue Jays. As the 2012 season went on, and as more fans became increasingly upset with the delay in the Snider call up, I began to understand the impact he could have with the team, especially with the injuries. Snider became more than that guy who I didn't like because of "that one time I met him" (bad excuse, I know) and I began to look at him at an unbiased light, brought to me by the people I follow. This may be one case, but it has helped me become much more neutral on players which helps me be a more rational fan than I was, or so I try. I'm not the same girl who cried over Hill and Johnny Mac being traded!
J.P Arencibia is also a good example. He is a topic that gives me a lot of joy (in many ways), and a lot of anger on Twitter. It's obvious that he is one of my favourite players. Believe it or not, I like him not for his good looks (shocker, I know) and have legitimate reasons despite how a lot of people feel. I'll let you in on a secret. I was not an Arencibia fan at the start, although you wouldn't be able to tell now. Was his debut fantastic? Of course! But the 2010 season didn't turn me into "J.P's biggest fan". It was his Twitter that got me started. Twitter gives fans the opportunity to have a feel for their favourite players off the field. This is the reason why I originally joined AND is one of my favourite parts about the site. Anyways, I found J.P incredibly funny, nice, and has a similar love for country music. This all spurred a chain of events. I became familiar with his performances in the minor leagues, his history, and became optimistic of his capabilities prior to the 2011 season. I admire the way he plays the game, and how he conducts himself off the field. I'm aware of his strengths and weaknesses and remain a supporter and optimistic. All in all, it has turned me into a super fan, you could say. He's a guy who gets a lot of hate on Twitter (especially for his not stellar, but improving defense) but having to defend him has helped me become both a more informed, and passionate fan.
Don't get me wrong, the whole "Twitter experience" has not been all unicorns and rainbows. I think it takes away from actually watching the game, and at times prefer not tweeting about sports (well mostly the Jays and Leafs) at all. It can be a negative place, no doubt about that. I mean, I have blocked people who are not willing to have a rational debate on J.P's contributions to the team, people who tell me I only watch baseball for attractive men, and people who claim I wish failure upon Snider (which I never did). Do you know how many different times the Blue Jays season has been deemed "over"? Probably since April 9 when Santos blew the save in the home opener. The downers put a bit of a damper on the season but I'll say that they "still have a chance" until they are mathematically eliminated. Maybe if these people make me more positive, it is all unicorns and rainbows after all.
If you're a sports tweeter, I'm sure you too have had experiences that have helped shaped you into the fan you are now, or at least experiences that you laugh about now. Perhaps your opinion on certain players has slightly changed, like me! Either way, it is a much different experience than watching the game by yourself. Heck, it's almost like you're watching the game with hundreds of lovely (and the occasional idiotic) strangers. 🙂


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Last night, Patrick Corbin upped those numbers to 42, 18, and three, adding another masterpiece to his breakout season.
The 24-year-old Corbin held the Reds scoreless for three innings, until Martin Prado gave the Diamondbacks a 1-0 lead with a solo home run. Then he posted four more goose eggs on the Great American Ball Park scoreboard before Paul Goldschmidt supplied him with four insurance runs on an eighth-inning grand slam. Chris Heisey brought home two runs for the Reds with a big fly in the next half-inning, but by then it was too little, too late.
As usual, the slider was Corbin's knockout pitch. More than 70 percent of the breaking balls he threw went for strikes, and half of those strikes were whiffs. But Corbin finished the evening with negative linear weight values (or positive ones, from a pitcher's standpoint) on all four of his offerings, quite a feat in the cozy confines in Cincinnati.
Manager Dusty Baker's lineup boasts two of the National League's best left-handed hitters in Shin-Soo Choo, who batted leadoff, and Joey Votto, who batted third—and Jay Bruce, the fifth-place hitter, has light-tower power. Corbin made them look foolish. The fearsome threesome collectively went 0-for-12 with seven strikeouts, two apiece by Choo and Votto, and a hat trick by Bruce. And yes, in case you're wondering, all seven of those strikeouts came on the slider.
Corbin spun five straight sliders in Bruce's fourth-inning at-bat, and the right fielder flailed at three of them. Choo and Votto were both frozen by sliders that wound up right down the middle. And Votto also went fishing later in the game.
Beating the Reds generally means keeping those three off the basepaths, and on Tuesday night, Corbin did it about as well as any pitcher could have. Alfredo Simon tossed 2 1/3 innings of scoreless relief after Tony Cingrani left with an injury, but J.J. Hoover served up Goldschmidt's grand slam, which ensured that Corbin's efforts would be rewarded with a win.
The blast to left field was Goldschmidt's 31st of the year, and it gave him a National League-best 100 RBI. Were it not for his first baseman's heroics, Corbin's outing might have ended after eight innings, denying him a place on the aforementioned lists and sending the Diamondbacks to a frustrating defeat.
Instead, the Diamondbacks improved to 65-59 and picked up a game on the Reds, who are five games ahead of them in the race for the senior circuit's second wild card berth. And Corbin joined Zack Greinke in the two-man club of pitchers who have waltzed into Great American Ball Park and waltzed out with a nine-inning complete game in which they struck out 10 or more without issuing a walk.
"It's nice to get the win," Goldschmidt told reporters after the 5-2 decision, "but we've got to play well for every game the rest of the year, a majority of the games."
Corbin and Goldschmidt make a formidable duo. Unfortunately for the Diamondbacks, whose playoff odds have tumbled into the single digits, they can field both players only once every five days.
Tuesday's Matchup in Review
Meeting no. 3 went much like the first two: Wheeler contributed 6 2/3 innings of three-run ball toward a 5-3 Mets win, but Freeman tacked a couple more hits onto his résumé, which now stands at 4-for-6 with three walks.
Fortunately for Wheeler, both of Freeman's hits last night were one-baggers, and in his third at-bat, he grounded out to first. Scott Rice, a lefty, relieved Wheeler when Freeman was due to bat in the seventh inning, a three-run frame for Atlanta. Freeman represented the go-ahead run, with Andrelton Simmons—the potential tying runner—standing 90 feet away, and manager Terry Collins chose not to take any chances with his team's rapidly shrinking lead. The Braves' first baseman flied out in that at-bat, ending his night 2-for-4.
The good news for Wheeler is that he picked up his third straight win against the Braves, the only opponent he has faced more than once during his rookie campaign. The bad news, judging by Freeman's hits—which came on an outside-corner fastball and a first-pitch, outside-corner curveball—is that Wheeler remains behind the eight ball when it comes to retiring Freeman, who is also 23 years old and threatens to torment him for years to come.
Matchup of the Day
In 12 career plate appearances versus Kennedy, Walker is 6-for-12 with a double and two long balls; he has not walked or struck out.
Kennedy's approach to Walker, a switch-hitter who this year has done all of his best work against right-handers, is about what you'd expect from a pitcher whose best secondary offering is the changeup. He has thrown a healthy dose of fastballs on the inner half of the plate and complemented them with softer pitches away. Apart from location mistakes like this one, which ended up over a fence on August 8 of last year, the changeup has generally served him well. Fastballs, whether on the inside corner or at the knees, on the other hand, have not.
Meanwhile, Kennedy's 13 percent curveball usage rate versus Walker is in line with his career pitch selection when facing left-handed hitters. But in this case, he might benefit from increasing it.
At least in this small sample of data, the curve appears to be Kennedy's most effective secondary offering, even though (or perhaps because) he uses it more sparingly than his changeup.
Walker, apart from a few hot spots, is not a good breaking-ball hitter. He tends to chase curveballs below the strike zone and is prone to missing them when he does.
If Kennedy can get ahead in the count while Walker is in the box this afternoon, he might do well to test him with benders. Walker fought off this one back in 2010, but that remains the only curve that Kennedy has ever thrown him below the knees. That adjustment and more caution with the fastball might help him avenge the damage done in their first dozen encounters (6:40 p.m. ET).
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As part of this evolving, developing and continuing project. Recently, I was able to photograph a few portraits of actors in their costumes, this time before an actual performance. I share here triptychs of some characters from the opera "San Andres B.", that recently concluded it's series of performances at the CCP Little Theater. My wife choreographed the dance pieces in the opera and I worked as an Associate Choreographer (but honestly, all I did was count the music).
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2016-17 Junior Season: Academic All-Big Team team • outstanding student-athlete award • earned 25th place with a score of 266.50 during 3-meter diving at the 2017 Big Ten Championships • Finished in 26th place in 1-meter diving with a score of 247.40 during the 2017 Big Ten Championships • placed 23rd in 2-meter diving with a score of 212.25 at the 2017 Big Ten Championships.
2015-16 Sophomore Season: Named Most Improved • Academic All-Big Ten • At the 2016 Big Ten Championships, Etterman finished 19th on platform, 26th on 1-meter and 30th on 3-meter • Competed in seven meets during the regular season for Minnesota • Tallied four top-five finishes as a sophomore.
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Yet another January scarce in snow..
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Enhanced reality
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1. Feed Her Constantly
Everyone knows food is important to pregnant women. But what the uninitiated might not realize is that time is of the essence. The bottom line is when she says she's hungry, she means it. Feed that woman immediately or she will eat your fucking face. Know that "I'm hungry" doesn't mean she's looking forward to the dinner plans you have in an hour. It means give her a snack before you leave for the restaurant. And then again when you get in the car. Failure to give that woman snacks will result in extreme bitchiness at best, and bodily injury at worse. Just turn yourself into a walking, talking vending machine for 9 months and you'll be fine.
2. Food: What's Yours is Hers, What's Hers is Off-Limits
You've likely been married or together a few years now, so it's perfectly understandable that you bought into all that stuff about togetherness and sharing a life, etc. And while some of that still applies, all bets are off when it comes to food. If you eat food that's hers (or food you bought for yourself but she somehow claimed it as hers), she will cut you. Not physically perhaps, but by the time she's finished excoriating you you'll wish it was just a knife wound you suffered. I ate some of MJ's chocolate once and when she went to find it during a craving and saw that it was gone, she flew into a rage that was one of the scariest things I've ever seen. Just don't do it.
3. Get Ready to Gain Weight
Notice how all the topics so far have involved food? That's no mistake. Ultimately at some point she'll have cravings. When MJ was pregnant with Will she wanted pizza, Kit-Kats & grapefruit. This time around it's nothing but fruit salad. But whatever the craving, one of the unmentioned side effects of pregnancy is YOUR weight gain. Yes, the guys gain weight too. Mainly because we inevitably partake in her cravings and all the extra junk food results in a spare tire. I gained 25 lbs during MJ's pregnancy 5 years ago, just a shade under the total amount she gained — WITH THE BABY! So watch your step.
4. Don't Point Out How Big She's Getting
My Boston sports habit notwithstanding, I'm a fairly logical person. I knew MJ was pregnant and pregnant women gain weight. That's why I thought absolutely nothing of pointing out my wife's really cute swollen belly. In my mind it was just nature progressing and running its course, and there was nothing more beautiful. But after the first 2-3 times I said it, she snapped on me. "STOP TELLING ME I'M FAT! I KNOW I'M FAT! I DON'T NEED YOU POINTING IT OUT!!" It didn't matter that in my eyes she never looked more beautiful or that she was SUPPOSED to be gaining weight. Which leads me to my next point…


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To our mind, the world appears to be smooth and continuous. When we say that the world is continuous, we mean that it is persistently active and undergoing continuous change as time goes on. However, neuroscientists have accumulated a sizable amount of evidence indicating that the way we perceive reality and process sensory information is not continuous but actually discrete. In other words, it seems that our brains do not process reality as a continuous stream but rather in discrete chunks, or mental snapshots, each having a short duration, similar to how a video camera records a sequence of still snapshots on film. When you observe a fast moving car, you might see it moving in a smooth continuous way, but recent evidence shows that this is illusive! Our experience of the world only appears continuous in the same way that a movie appears continuous even though it is made up of discrete motionless images that are replayed at a fast speed to give the illusion of continuous motion. As we shall shortly see, the speed at which we experience the flow of time has much to do with the speed at which these mental snapshots flow inside our brain.
Buddhists' holy texts were among the earliest sources to propose that consciousness is not continuous but consists of a sequence of extremely fast discrete events referred to as 'momentary collections of mental phenomena' or 'distinct moments'. Numerous philosophers also put forward similar notions in the 18th century, such as David Hume who noted that the stream of our thoughts is 'nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity. The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance.' 1 This is known as the discrete perception hypothesis, or mental snapshot hypothesis. It was neglected after having fallen out of favor over the past 50 years because a substantial portion of the evidence up to that point, although provocative, was not definitive. However, in recent years, and with accumulating experimental data, the theory found renewed fervor and has regained support. According to Francis Crick, Nobel Prize winner, biophysicist, and co-discoverer of the DNA molecule structure, consciousness not only comes in discrete mental snapshots, but the experience of motion is itself illusory; "perception might well take place in discrete processing epochs, perceptual moments, or snapshots. Your subjective life could be a ceaseless sequence of such snapshots." In that sense, life is a movie, your eyes are the camera lens, and your brain is the video camera!
The best way to illustrate that relationship is by using the video camera analogy. If you own one of the latest iPhone or Android smartphones, you might have noticed a video recording feature called 'Slo-Mo' mode. It is normally used to capture fast action sports or racing scenes and renders them in slow motion. In the normal video mode, a scene is usually recorded at a speed of 30 frames per second (fps) but with the Slo-Mo mode, the latest models now boast cameras that are fast enough to capture videos at a recording speed of 240 fps. If you switch your smartphone to that high speed recording mode and capture a fast action scene at 240 fps, you will notice that when the scene is later replayed at the normal speed of 30 fps, it will appear in slow motion, exactly as if time had slowed down. The reason for that slow motion effect is that, when filming at 240 fps, every second will contain 240 frames which will be spread over 8 seconds when they replayed at the normal speed of 30 fps. Therefore, every second that is captured at the fast recording speed will appear 8 times longer and time will seem to be running slowly.
This is somehow similar to what goes on inside our brains, but of course to a much lesser extent. Let us assume that we perceive the world at an average speed of 10 mental snapshots per second. Every time our brain captures 10 snapshots, it assumes that one second has elapsed. Now imagine that your brain's processing speed is suddenly given a boost, say from a dose of drug stimulants such as LSD or 'speed', which causes a surge in brain electrical activity and allows the brain to start capturing 20 snapshots per second. Under normal circumstances, 20 snapshots would have taken two seconds to record at the brain's normal recording speed of 10 fps. When those 20 snapshots are processed, the brain assumes that they must have spanned a period of two seconds instead of the one 'real' second that was actually needed to record them. One second of 'real' time will contain 2-seconds worth of information and will therefore appear to have stretched, as if time had passed slowly. The faster our brain is at processing sensory information, the slower time appears to run. The speed at which we experience the flow of time is nothing but the speed of our thoughts.
The converse can also explain how time seems to fly in certain situations. In the 1920s, when movie making was still in its early days, silent films were recorded at a slow speed of 16 frames per second and had to be replayed at much higher frame rates to look continuous and real. This made the movie appear as if it was running in fast-forward mode. Charlie Chaplin style movies are a perfect case in point; everything moves literally faster than normal as if time was running fast. This analogy helps us understand what goes on in the brain when it records fewer mental snapshots per second, say 5 fps instead of the normal 10 fps, for the sake of demonstration. This means it will need two seconds to capture the 10 snapshots it normally captures in one second. When those 10 snapshots are processed, the brain assumes that the two seconds it took to capture them is just one second. At that rate, two minutes will seem like just one minute and the day will be over before you know it. The slower your brain is in processing sensory information, the faster time seems to run. This seemingly inverse relationship is important to understand why we sometimes experience time as speeding up or slowing down. So how fast are we actually 'recording' reality? That question will have to wait for another post.
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References & Notes:
- Hume D. The Philosophical Works of David Hume, Vol. 1 (Treatise of Human Nature Part 1) – Online Library of Liberty.; 1828. http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1481.
- VanRullen R, Koch C. Is perception discrete or continuous? Trends Cogn Sci. 2003;7(5):207-213. doi:10.1016/S1364-6613(03)00095-0.


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I was in the middle of a field and it looked like a storm was coming. I turned around and there was an abandon hotel. I started walking towards it. When I got there I opened up one of the rooms and there were homeless people inside. I walked in and sat on the bed. I heard them talking about a tornado coming. Then I got this urge to go outside and look. (I am extremely terrified of a tornado in real life so idk why I wanted to go outside.) I jumped up and ran out side without even stopping to look how far away the tornado was. Just kept running towards the field. Then this little boy came into view and I ran up to him and grabbed him and ran back to the room. I sat him inside, went back outside and closed the door and just watched the tornado it wasn\'t moving. Then I woke up…Posted 6 mins ago
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