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You might think from the title that I am talking about "higher education": that debt-creating machine we call University (we don't actually really call it University in America, but I have always liked the sound of that from my UK friends. Truthfully, I don't actually have many friends from the kingdom on the other side of the pond, but I've heard it called University it in t.v. and movies, and I love how it sounds! I GOT IT FROM THE BOOB TUBE. Let's move on!).
My interest lies in K-12 education. I am working out my thoughts on how quality primary & secondary education can save our country. My feelings aren't linear, sometimes much to my husband's chagrin, but I am going to lay them out here over the course of the next few days and possibly weeks. I am very much interested in having a thought-provoking conversation on how we can or cannot implement changes to our local and state systems of education. Even with some good schools in any one area, there are a hell of a lot of schools around that are not. Keep an eye out for my additional posts!


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Continue the visits and meetings organised by the ' Observatory of Asiago.
Friday, February 8, 2013, all ' in the multimedia room of the 'Observatory in Pennar, held a Conference and some guided observations of the sky, weather permitting.
In case of good weather prevails in the observational side, directed with Telescopes in multimedia room to Pennar and remotely with the Schmidt telescope of Cima Ekar (we use the same standing media room).
In case of bad weather is deepened the theme of the evening.
In any case you visit Galileo Telescope, which is the historic telescope of Asiago, completed in 1942.
The main purpose of the meetings is to make known to the general public how it performs the work of astronomers, as telescopes are realized, what are today the best tools for astronomical research and the results obtained.
The ' Asiago plateau is home to the largest telescopes of ' National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) on land managed by the National Astronomical Observatory of Padova ' that in Asiago has for decades his observational seat. It is not only an important research site, but also a place where the public can come into contact with the great themes of modern astronomy.
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January 16, 2008
11 January 2008
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Region, widely known as the "ridge" on the "roof of the world",
experienced more abnormal weather phenomena last year, characterized by
heavy snow, higher temperatures and strong winds, local meteorologists
Ngari prefecture, with an average height of 4,500 meters, is very
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Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
"The increasingly abnormal weather phenomena indicate the climate in
Tibet is becoming more and more unpredictable," said an expert with the
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MEXICO CITY -- Reducing antiretroviral therapy (ART) to 4 days a week was non-inferior to a continuous regimen in HIV patients whose viral load was under control, a researcher said here.
At week 48, 95.6% of patients on 4 days/week therapy remained virally suppressed (viral load less than 50 copies/mL) compared with 97.2% of those on a current triple therapy ART regimen, reported Roland Landman, MD, of the French medical research institute INSERM in Paris, on behalf of the ANRS 170 QUATUOR study group.
At a press conference at the International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Science, he said the trial showed that "4 days a week of therapy in whatever agent class is as effective as standard treatment," noting that patients were included in the trial who were on protease inhibitors (PIs), non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs), or integrase strand transfer inhibitors.
"This could offer patients and physicians a new therapy option," Landman added.
But David Margolis, MD, of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, who was not involved with the research, was skeptical. He told MedPage Today that intermittent HIV treatment has been explored in the past -- both to improve tolerability and reduce the cost of therapy and to relieve the burden of taking daily pills.
"But modern therapy is very safe and tolerable, and taking one pill once a day has gained broad acceptance. In the past, with older drugs, intermittent therapy taken during the week with weekends off has not gained broad acceptance as effective and safe," he said in an email.
This skepticism seemed to extend to the media -- at the press conference, a reporter asked Landman how the researchers came up with patients taking 3 days off therapy.
"Most patients asked for that, to stop therapy during the weekend," he said, arguing that viral rebound was not going to happen in 3 days. Landman also cited the longer half-life of current drugs as a factor in the decision.
The researchers explained that since they had previously shown a 96% success rate of 4 days of maintenance therapy in a pilot study, they believed a randomized phase III non-inferiority trial for validation was warranted. HIV patients with plasma viral loads of less than 50 copies/mL for more than 12 months and no known resistance to their current triple therapy ART regimen were enrolled.
Overall, 636 patients were included in a modified intent-to-treat analysis. Mean age was 49, and 85% were men with a viral load less than 50 copies/mL for an average of about 6 years. Among patients on nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, over half were on tenofovir disoproxil fumarate/emtricitabine, with about a quarter on abacavir/emtricitabine. For the third agent, most patients were on a protease inhibitor or non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor.
Six patients experienced virologic failure due to resistance mutations, and there was no difference in adverse events between the arms. Patients in the 4-day arm saw improvement in estimated glomerular filtration rate compared with those in the continuous treatment arm (+5.5 mL/min vs +1.3 mL/min, respectively, P<0.001).
Landman suggested that this new option could potentially reduce both intake of therapy and cost, and "include more patient access to HIV care in low-income countries."
Indeed, Margolis argued that cost might be the only sound justification: "There would seem to be little reason to pursue this strategy unless medications were otherwise unaffordable," he said. "The long-term risks of intermittent therapy are unknown."
Landman disclosed no relationships with industry.
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Source Reference: Landman R, et al "ANRS 170 QUATUOR 4/7 days maintenance strategy in antiretroviral treated adults with HIV-1 infection: an open randomised parallel non-inferiority phase III trial" IAS 2019; Abstract 4817.


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I listen to BBC iplayer all day long. I've listened to it until I had nothing else to listen to for the day. The channels i favour are: BBC 1, 4, and 7. And 1xtra, for the lulz. Somehow i fancy that the little scrapings of information i pick up from the radio may one day be useful so i am making small notes here:
- Old man who called up Tech Support about how he couldn't find the shutdown button on Windows says that the problem is that he could not understand why he had to press the Start button in order to see the shutdown button. Computer illiterate people are being left behind as certain social services and public utilities move their services online to save customer costs.
- "Allah allah" - middle east comedy show
- A series of Psychotic Episodes - "Jungle is dead. East London grime mcs are flocking to the countryside and becoming... Horse racing commentators"
- The indifferent enemy, as described by Thomas Mann - in reference to young men killed in the prime of their iconoclastic selves.
- Harry Harlow - American psychologist best known for his maternal-separation and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys, which demonstrated the importance of care-giving and companionship in social and cognitive development.


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Birth: 22 Mar 1816, Fabius, Onondaga Co, NY
Spouse: Sarah E. Wheelock
Marriage: 1839
Birth: 1906, Fitchburg, MA
Death: 1907, VT
Father: Clarence Eglinton
Mother: Olive Vivian Wheelock
Died as an infant of Tubercular Peritonitis.HOME INDEX
Birth: 12 Dec 1886
Death: 8 Apr 1934, Swanton, Franklin Co, VT
Burial: Binghamville Cemetery, Fletcher, VT
Spouse: Melvin Whitney
Marriage: DATE UNKNOWN
Spouse: Alden Levi Wheelock
Marriage: 2 May 1917
Birth: about 1865
Father: John Hedges
Mother: Clarinda Wheelock
Spouse: Eleazar Louis Russell Wheelock
Spouse: William S. Wheelock
Birth: 1794, Cavendish, Windsor Co, VT
Father: Robert Upton
Mother: Anna Wheelock
Died young.HOME INDEX
Birth: about 1842, VT
Father: Samuel Wheelock
Mother: Jerusha _____
Spouse: George W. Farnam
This could be the Eleanor M. (Wheelock) Farnam buried in Wooster Cemetery, Danbury, Farifield Co, CT (FindAGrave.com memorial number 13710279). The birth date matches. Also, her mother Jerusha seems to be buried in Fairfield Co too.
Her half sister, Columbia, is enumerated in the household of Eleanor Farnam and her husband, George Farnam, in the 1870 (Yonkers, NY) and 1910 (Brooklyn, NY) Federal Census; lending more support for the notion that this is the daughter of Jerusha and Samuel.
From the above, her husband was George Farnam. George and Eleanor Farnam are listed in the yearbook of the First Presbyterian Church, of Yonkers, NY, with a daughter, Grace Wheelock Farnam, born 15 Sep 1872.
According to "Commemorative Biographical Record of Fairfield County, CT", Chicago, J. H. Beers & Company, 1899, pg 590, (online at books.google.com) George W. Farnam, of Brooklyn, NY, married Miss Eleanor M. Wheelock, and had six children: Ethel (deceased), Ellen, Grace, Margaret, Ethel, and Eleanor.HOME INDEX
Birth: 28 Jul 1849, Atlas Township, Pike Co, IL
Death: 17 Apr 1927, Quincy, Adams Co, IL
Father: John Gray Wheelock
Mother: Julia Long
Spouse: Robert Kay
Marriage: DATE UNKNOWN
Father: Davis Wheelock
Mother: Aldeba Morse
Birth: 26 Mar 1860, Cambridge, MA
Death: 29 Jul 1860, Cambridge, MA
Father: Samuel A. Wheelock
Mother: Charlotte F. Robbins
Birth: 22 Dec 1797, Alstead, NH
Father: Amariah Wheelock
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human beings packed like sardines heated up the rooms enough to allow evaporate the gas
If you rebuilt a camp morgue and packed it with people in the winter the internal temperature would hardly rise. Let's estimate a 45 degree fahrenheit bunker temperature. After a few minutes of packing the temperature would be no more than 55 at the most. Zyklon needs 79 fahrenheit to reach the chemical reaction point. Eyewitness accounts always tell of quick herding into the chambers immediately followed by Zyklon being poured in. No waiting period for body heating.
But, if you packed people in according to accounts, they would have blocked the critical exhaust vents that were located only a foot or so off the floor along the walls.


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This is the fourth book in the Dragon Jousters series, and there isn't a whole lot of explanation of the ongoing situation, so I wouldn't recommend trying to pick this series up in the middle. I was slightly confused about the situation myself, even though I've read all of the previous volumes, and I'm not sure if that's because I'd forgotten some stuff that happened or that Lackey skipped some events between the end of Sanctuary and the beginning of Aerie. But the situation ended up making sense.
This book had a slightly more complex plot than the earlier books in this series, and there was some problem with pacing, as the first half involved relatively minor events and the second half was overwhelmed with big cosmic stuff but still had issues in the day to day lives of the characters to cover. This volume also brings the fairly ordinary characters we've been following directly to the focus of major events for the whole civilization, raising small issues of believability, but for the most part, it works. All in all, I definitely found it a Mercedes Lackey book -- there were plenty of problems I could identify, but my overall experience was definitely positive. Lackey has the ability to make her characters come alive and matter to me even when the setting, situation, and plot don't really work.
It's also unclear from reading this volume whether the series is over. It seems quite unlikely that Lackey can top or even match the events in this story, so even though the main characters' lives are not over and would probably still be enjoyable to follow, it's not clear whether more books would really work.
The Aerie of the title is a second city unearthed from the desert sands by storms, an event that I don't really remember happening in Sanctuary (thus my confusion about the continuity of events). Kiron starts out dealing with mundane issues of settling the Jousters in to this new city because priests have taken over all the space in Sanctuary, and sorting out his relationship with Aket-ten and wrestling with the age-old problem of understanding the opposite sex. Aket-ten is serving as a courier and working to get support for having more girls trained as Jousters, and there's considerable friction over this because all Kiron can see is all the problems that will flow from men who want dragons being offended at being passed over in favor of girls, and all Aket-ten can see is the importance of giving girls a chance to prove themselves. Kiron's personal life becomes more complex as his long-lost mother turns up, and turns out to be a manipulative, stupid, self-centered bitch, but still his mother, and the plot thickens when a lone border guard from an eastern settlement is found dead in the desert. Kiron and company investigate and discover a border outpost mysteriously completely emptied of humans and also under some influence which smothers magic. Rakaten-te, the Chosen of Seft, a very reclusive and very powerful priest, becomes involved, and he, Kiron, and Aket-ten discover the secret first of the magic suppression and then the spell which caused all of the people to walk into the desert. Rakaten-te breaks the compulsion spell, attracting the attention of its captors, and after they fight off a huge wave of magically-summoned scorpions, they return to Sanctuary and receive divine guidance: the Nameless Ones are attacking, and the solution is at Aerie. Kiron understands a prophecy which is cryptic to the people less familiar with Aerie, and all of Aerie and important people from the rest of the kingdom, working together, excavate a buried temple and find six crowns with the symbols of six of the most important gods. Ari and Nofret, the King and Queen, get two of the crowns. Rakaten-te gets the one for Seft. And Kiron and Aket-ten get two. The sixth isn't claimed. The Nameless Ones arrive with an overwhelming army, held off with "Akkadian fire" dropped by dragons, and the Nameless Ones' creation, described as not yet a god but about to come one, comes to attack. The five put on the crowns and become avatars of their gods, holding off Tamat (the Nameless Ones' demigod), but they can't win the fight without one of the avatars dying so that the god riding him can manifest his full powers. Rakaten-te accepts the duty, for Seft that he serves is the god of difficult choices. Tamat and the Nameless One's army are both destroyed. Under the direction of the personally present Seft, Kaleth, who had been the Mouth of the Gods, becomes the new Chosen of Seft (for, though it is a very secretive cult, it's a very important position that can't be left vacant), and Marit, Kaleth's wife, becomes the new Mouth of the Gods. Kiron and Peri (the peasant friend of Kiron's mother that said mother expected to marry Kiron and return to being peasants on Kiron's family farm) tell Kiron's mother to get stuffed, and Kiron and Aket-ten acknowledge their love for each other and appear to have moved past their differences.
A good Mercedes Lackey read, a story with some inspiring aspects but a number of problems. I'll give it an 8 out of 10.


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Monday 21 November, 7.30pm
Over 200 years after the nation's favourite novel was first published, Richard Darbourne Ltd are delighted to present the highly praised, sparkling and fresh stage adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.
This production – which premiered at the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds in 2013 and embarked on a UK wide tour in 2014 – offers a brand new interpretation of one of the nation's favourite love stories. Two actors juggle the full gamut of Austen's well-loved characters; they journey from the Meryton Assembly to the grounds of Pemberley; and transport Darcy and Lizzy from instant dislike to something altogether more different, all in just two hours. Every word that is spoken is Austen's.
In this imaginative and loving adaptation by Joannah Tincey, two actors bring to life Austen's words with great skill and agility. Joannah Tincey says: "I wanted to create an adaptation where the characters talk to the audience in the same way that Austen talks to her reader. By addressing the audience directly and allowing the characters to speak for themselves, we are bringing Jane Austen's unique and witty writing style to life in a truly theatrical context." A must for Austen fans as well as those looking for a fresh and surprising new piece of theatre, this chance to catch the five Bennett sisters and the whole world of Austen brought to life by just two actors is a theatrical treat not to be missed.
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A healthy relationship works under a fair, give-and-take arrangement. We give our partner all the love, attention, and support we can afford, but we also expect to be accorded the same. While it may be commendable to give further effort in the relationship, at the expense of your well-being, there are times that you need to take a step back and consider the possibility that you see the signs of a manipulative woman in your reationship.
The most obvious signs of a manipulative woman
Manipulation in a relationship is not always easy to accept and can be painful to take once realized. That is why it is best to know the early signs of manipulation before you become a victim.
Despite their deception, manipulative people can be consistent and tend to display a specific set of behaviors. If you see the following signs of a manipulative woman, then consider getting out of such a relationship. [Read: The easy signs that point to a bad girlfriend]
#1 Sudden and overreactive emotional outbursts during arguments. Sudden emotional outburst such as crying or shouting fits when you argue are the relationship equivalent to a gamer's rage quit. Normal couples may sometimes argue. But you hear both sides in order to come to a compromise.
Manipulative people play the emotional outburst card once they feel their argument is crumbling and they are cornered. Emotional outbursts can also be used as a weapon to embarrass you in front of your friends or to gain the sympathy of other people in public places. [Read: The signs she's an attention whore who's just using you for attention]
#2 She plays nice every time she needs something from you. Manipulative women either act very sweet and amicable or sometimes go as far as bribing you with sexual favors. They expect you to do something in return.
While this may happen to normal couples at certain times, manipulative women would treat you coldly or indifferently most of the time. They only put up a façade of affection when they are about to ask for a favor. [Read: The signs she is using you emotionally just to get her needs met]
#3 She only texts or calls you if she needs something from you. You only hear from her if she needs you to buy her stuff or do some chores for her. Oftentimes you realize that long-distance couples would talk more often compared to you and your manipulative girlfriend. For manipulative women, communication is only necessary to get something out of you.
#4 She makes you feel like the worst boyfriend in the world if you don't do what she wants. In short, she acts like a spoiled brat. If she doesn't throw a temper tantrum, she plays on your emotions by making you question your worth as a significant other if you don't comply with her demands.
#5 She constantly fails to contribute financially in the relationship. AKA she lets you keep buying her stuff and pay for her expenses without doing the same for you. While it is a bit of a relationship tradition for guys to take a larger share of a relationship's expenses, a decent partner at least attempts to give their fair share of spending in the relationship.
On the other hand, manipulative women would not even bother to attempt to reach for their purse when the bill comes. They make the lamest excuses to avoid contributing financially.
#6 She always plays the victim even if she's in the wrong. This is usually done in combination with number one for great effect. When she gets called out for something she has done, she most likely twists the narrative to make it appear that you are the one at fault. She won't admit or apologize for her own mistake. [Read: 16 signs a narcissist is subtly manipulating you]
#7 She would ignore you rather than apologize first. When a couple argues, sometimes they reach an impasse where both temporarily lay off communicating in order to clear their heads. Under normal circumstances, one or both break the sulking stalemate and apologize.
However, a manipulative woman doesn't care if you don't talk ever again. She'll never initiate an apology even if she is the one in the wrong.
#8 Feigning ignorance. If she doesn't know, then she cannot be accused of something. Feigning ignorance is a common tactic of manipulative people to avoid being accountable for their own actions. A manipulative woman usually employs this as an excuse to get out of relationship responsibilities or divert attention and blame away from her. [Read: 15 signs she's leading you on and taking you nowhere!]
#9 Your problems are insignificant compared to hers. When you notice your partner belittles your problems, she probably is a manipulative person. Manipulative people display extreme forms of selfishness and lack of empathy towards the suffering of other people even if that person is their significant other.
#10 Constant guilt-tripping. If your partner still gives you grief for an old mistake and constantly brings it up to make you feel guilty, then she probably is a manipulative woman. Guilt-tripping is a form of emotional manipulation. The manipulator uses their victim's emotional vulnerability to get them to do the things they want.
#11 You hook up more than spending quality time together. Hook ups are cheap and temporary. Spending time together on the other hand, requires each person to invest a degree of intimacy towards the other.
Manipulative people in their natural selfishness would rather stick with hook ups as a means to satisfy their physical needs. They don't deal with the hassle of emotional intimacy that way. For them, quality time is an unnecessary waste of time and effort. [Read: Devious signs of manipulative behavior you should never ignore]
#12 She's inconsiderate of your general well-being. For a manipulative woman, you're just a tool to be used and a means to an end. She doesn't care if you spend a great deal of effort, time, money, or even kill yourself in the process of pleasing her.
Her natural selfishness dictates that her needs are more important than your own well-being. She probably might even get mad at you and paint you as the villain for not doing more for her.
[Read: Do not ignore these signs of manipulation in a relationship]
Girls aren't purely sugar, spice, and everything nice. They can also be capable of cruel things. So understand the signs of a manipulative woman and be forewarned.
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Here's a lovely video of Pembrokeshire and the Pembrokeshire Coast. It's a reminder of lovely sunny days, just to brighten up a winter's day (as today is!).
My favourite beaches to visit on the Pembrokeshire Coast are:
Sandy Haven (on our doorstep)
Broad Haven (Ollie loves it there, and I like to get a coffee!)
Newgale (that's one to blow away the cobwebs, great for Christmas Day afternoon)
St Brides (lovely views across the bay and where all the ships wait for entry into the harbour)
Marloes (scene of Hollywood Blockbuster movies and of where I fell, holding Ollie dog, into a massive rockpool whilst trying to avoid being cut off by an incoming tide! A shout out to Dubarry Coats though, as although I landed straight in, on my side, the coat was waterproof enough not to let the 'coat' part of me get wet. I can't say the same for Marks & Sparks jeans though!)
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Ariane Slip | Seamwork Magazine
I'm very happy to say that I finished my Ariane Slip and it is so delicate and sexy! I didn't necessarily envision it that way but it was a nice little surprise. Originally, I wanted to sew this up as a camisole but decided to go for the slip instead because I thought I could wear it as a dress. I do think it can be worn as a dress depending on the fabric you chose but I think I'll leave my for the privacy of my own home. 😉
I typically cut out an XS for most patterns and I did the same for this one. However, I've been working out quite a bit and I didn't realize that maybe I should have cut out a size small instead. Luckily, my slip still fits it's just much tighter than I am used to.
What I loved about sewing this garment is that I got to sew cups up for the first time. At first, I confused myself and didn't understand how the pieces fit together. THEN I realized I was missing a piece. Silly me! This was also my first time using foldover elastic and sewing with viscose fabric. It was much less complicated than I thought and I'm really glad that I have some knowledge of how to work with them now.
A couple tips on the viscose would be to be very very careful when you are cutting it out because it is slippery fabric. Also, use a 75/11 ballpoint needle. I tried to use an 80/11 ballpoint and it wasn't sharp enough. Regarding the foldover elastic, be very careful when you pin it to the fabric as the little fibers are easy to prick and pull away from the elastic. My last tip would be to try on the slip and have someone help you measure the shoulder strap length before sewing the straps to the back as the instructions direct you to.
I'm really happy with the outcome of my slip. I really love the lavender gray and I am so happy that the white straps with gray stitching make the slip pop.
If you're interested in sewing up the Ariane Slip head to the Seamwork web site.
For more lingerie fun:
Bare Essentials Demi Bra Pattern
Just Patterns Bias Tank Night Gown Hack


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Name: Arpon Mree
Age: 24
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Location: Mymensingh, Bangladesh.
I have introduced myself in forum.
I have read the reiki manuals (1 and 2).
I am an introvert person and love to help people silently. I am learning to help people and to improve myself.
I would love to attuned with Reiki level 1 next time you will be given attunements on Feb. 28, 2013.
I am new in THC. I am not attuned with reiki distantly or in touch, but I have tried with various free vedio. I really don't know it worked on me or not. I feel better than before now though I do not feel heat on my hand.
I have tried qi gong and tai chi before. They are good but not suitable for me as I get cold problem with much oxygen by tai/qi gong.
Please forgive me if I write anything wrong. Thank you very much Mr. Mohan for offering attunement.
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WYC 122 – The Science of Sports Mastery – DeShawn Fontleroy - Youth Football & Performance Training
DeShawn Fontleroy is a sports performance coach working with athletes in the Portland, OR metro area. Currently, he works with the football team at Jefferson HS. Deshawn also hosts a podcast Sports Mastery- 'A place where we observe, examine, experiment, and explain the physical, mental, and social dynamics of the world's best athletes and coaches. My goal is to provide athletes, coaches, and parents with high level systems & strategies to achieve success.'
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El Nacional, a major newspaper in the Dominican Republic, issued an apology Saturday after readers realized a photo of Donald Trump, used for a story on U.S. – Israeli relations, was actually Alec Baldwin portraying Trump on SNL. According to the paper, the mistake went "unnoticed" due to a "mix-up of photos."
The paper officially stated, "The picture was sent that day by the Associated Press with the name of the actor and the program, but was placed as if it were the one of Trump. El Nacional apologizes to the readers and to all those who felt sincerely affected by the publication. Alec Baldwin imitates Trump on one of the most important shows in the U.S." A full retraction and explanation will be printed in Sunday's paper. Meanwhile, Twitter had a field day responding to the paper's mix-up.


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This notebook gives an introduction to Bayesian statistics, using mostly elementary probability theory and mathematics.
from sympy import *
from sympy.stats import *
Imagine we have a coin $c$ with two sides (heads $\mathrm{H}$ and tails $\mathrm{T}$). The coin may be fair, or it may biased, we don't know. We will say that $p(c=\mathrm{H})$ is the probability of the coin toss facing heads, and $p(c=\mathrm{T}) = 1 - p(c=\mathrm{H})$ is the probability of tails. The value of $h := p(c=\mathrm{H})$ itself is uncertain, and can take any value from 0 to 1. We represent this uncertainty by a probability density function $f(h)$. $f$ is a distribution of distributions: The value of $f(h)$ determines the bias of the coin, which itself determines the distribution of the coin tosses. The following image illustrates this distribution of distributions for a factory of fair coins. Any particular coin may have a bias (although coins with a large bias are rare), but most coins are fair within a margin of error.
h = Symbol("h")
f = Beta(h, 10, 10)
fig = plot(density(f)(h), (h, 0, 1), title="Probability density function of the probability of heads", xlabel="$h$", ylabel="$f(h)$")
After sampling a specific coin from $f(h)$, we can then represent the coin toss with a discrete random variable.
c = Symbol("c")
bias = sample(f)
C = Coin(c, bias)
print density(C)
print [sample(C) for i in range(10)]
Our goal is to understand the consequences of observing tosses of a coin with unknown bias $\hat{h}$. Ultimately, we want to know the bias of the coin itself, but to answer that, we look at a much bigger question: What is the probability density function $f(h)$ of a coin factory that produces coins with this bias? Of course, any factory that assigns a non-zero probability mass to $\hat{h}$ is a possible answer, but as we will see in the next section, some are more reasonable than others. Let's first assume that by some kind of trick we came up with a guess of such a prior distribution $f_n$ for our factory. Then the Bayesian inference process allows us to improve this guess, based on an observed coin toss $c_n$ (heads or tails). The resulting posterior distribution $f_{n+1}$ is the best estimate for the probability density function of our hypothetical factory, given the prior distribution and the observed data. It is derived by Bayes' theorem for conditional propabilities:$$ f_{n+1}(\hat{h}) := f_n(h=\hat{h}|c=c_n) = \frac{p(c=c_n|h=\hat{h}) f_n(h=\hat{h})}{p(c=c_n)}, \hat{h}\in [0, 1] $$
The left hand side is the posterior distribution after one Bayesian update at step $n$ (there are as many steps as there are observed data points). It represents the updated probability of the coin bias being $\hat{h}$ after observing $c_n$. The parameter $\hat{h}$ varies over the whole range $[0,1]$, giving us a probability mass for each possible bias of the coin. On the right hand side, we have the likelihood $p(c=c_n|h=\hat{h})$ of the observed data $c_n$, assuming that the bias of the coin is $\hat{h}$, and the prior distribution for $h$. To get a proper probability density function, we have to make sure that the right hand side sums to $1$ over all possible values for $\hat{h}$. For this, we divide by the normalizing constant, which is easily expressed by the sum over all possible numerators:$$ p(c=c_n) = \int_0^1 p(c=c_n|h) f_n(h) \thinspace dh $$
Don't panic. We will do these calculations several times for specific values of $f_n$ and $c_n$, which will give you plenty of time to review how the Bayesian update process works and what its effects are on the probability density function of the coin bias.
To get started with Bayesian inference, we need a prior distribution of the probability function of our coin factory. If we had complete knowledge of the bias of the coin, this would be a simple Dirac delta function:
f_exact = DiracDelta(h-bias)
# Note: DiracDelta is not a Sympy distribution, so we can not plot the density function or sample it.
integrate(f_exact, (h, 0, 1))
If we lack any information, we can assume that the coin comes from a uniform distribution:
f_uniform = Uniform(h, 0, 1)
# This craps out on me.
# plot(density(f_uniform)(h), (h, 0, 1))
Choosing the uniform distribution is not as random as it may appear. The uniform distribution has maximum entropy. In this sense it ensures that the prior does not include any hidden assumptions that are not justified by the model. However, sometimes it can be useful to choose other priors, and in general it may be a good idea to verify that the inference process is not overly sensitive to different reasonable choices for the prior. We will revisit this question at the very end.
Because we assume no knowledge about the bias of the coin in question, we use a uniform prior:$$ f_1(h) := 1 $$
f1 = 1
We toss the coin and get heads:$$ c_1 = H $$
We now want to perform the first Bayesian update. For this, let's look at the individual components of Bayes Theorem. Clearly, the prior probability of any bias $\hat{h}$ is $1$, because of the chosen uniform distribution:$$ f_1(\hat{h}) = 1 \text{ (uniform prior)} $$
The likelihood of observing heads, given the bias $\hat{h}$, is simply $\hat{h}$, because this is how we defined the bias. Note that the likelihood of tails would be $1-\hat{h}$. These are the only two possible outcomes for the likelihood in this example.$$ p(c=H|h=\hat{h}) = \hat{h} \text{ (by definition)} $$
Now we only need to calculate the normalization constant. Luckily, we already did most of the work above:$$ \int_0^1 p(c=H|h) \cdot f_1(h) \thinspace dh = \int_0^1 h \cdot 1 \thinspace dh = \left. \frac{1}{2} h^2 \right |_0^1 = \frac{1}{2} $$
Putting it all together, we get the posterior distribution:$$ f_2(\hat{h}) := f_1(h=\hat{h}|c=H) = \frac{\hat{h} \cdot 1}{\frac{1}{2}} = 2\hat{h} $$
or simply: $f_2(h) = 2h$
f2 = h * f1 / integrate(h * f1, (h, 0, 1))
plot(f2, (h, 0, 1), title="Posterior distribution after observing $c=(\mathrm{H})$.", xlabel="$h$", ylabel="$f_2(h)$")
We can see that the posterior distribution favors heads-biased coins over tails-biased coins, in stark contrast to the uniform distribution. However, even extremely tails-biased coins are still possible, with one exception: Coins that exclusively show tails are now excluded ($f_2(0) = 0$). This makes sense, because we already observed heads once.
Because of the symmetry of the problem, we would get the same result if we had seen tails, but flipped horizontally (due to the transformation $p(c=\mathrm{T}) = 1 - h$).
plot(f2.subs(h, 1-h), (h, 0, 1), title="Posterior distribution after observing $c=(\mathrm{T})$.", xlabel="$h$", ylabel="$f_2(h)$")
-2*h + 2
We toss the coin a second time, and we get heads again. Now we repeat the process. The previous posterior distribution now becomes the new prior, which requires recalculating the normalization constant. However, the likelihood is the same as in the previous step.$$ \int_0^1 p(c=H|h) \cdot f_2(h) \thinspace dh = \int_0^1 h \cdot 2\hat{h} \thinspace dh = \left. \frac{2}{3} h^3 \right |_0^1 = \frac{2}{3} $$
Which yields:$$ f_3(\hat{h}) := f_2(h=\hat{h}|c=H) = \frac{\hat{h} \cdot 2\hat{h}}{\frac{2}{3}} = 3\hat{h}^2 $$
or simply: $f_3(h) = 3h^2$
f3 = h * f2 / integrate(h * f2, (h, 0, 1))
fig = plot(f3, (h, 0, 1), title="Posterior distribution after observing $c=(\mathrm{HH})$.", xlabel="$h$", ylabel="$f_3(h)$")
We can see that the distribution now favors heads-biased coins even more strongly. Considering that two heads in a row is a common event even for fair coins, this may seem strange. But recall that we used a uniform prior at the very beginning, and did not favor fair coins over strongly biased coins at all. Consequently, the Bayesian inference process choses the most favorable distribution based on the uniform prior and the observed data. Had we chosen a prior that preferred fair coins over biased ones (incorporating external knowledge about the world, coin tossing, and gravity), we would see a more moderate result here. We will see in the folowing sections that, as more data comes in, the choice of the prior becomes less dominant on the overall result.
Had we observed tails in the second toss, we would get a very different distribution. The integrals are easy to solve, so we will just give the result here as computed with Sympy. Now that tails is observed, the distribution misses the strong leaning towards heads-biased coins, as it must vanish at $h=1$ (i.e. all-heads).
f3_ = (1-h) * f2 / integrate((1-h) * f2, (h, 0, 1))
plot(f3_, (h, 0, 1), title="Posterior distribution after observing $c=(\mathrm{HT})$.", xlabel="$h$", ylabel="$f_3(h)$")
6*h*(-h + 1)
We give the results for three coin tosses (apart from identities and symmetries):
f4 = h * f3 / integrate(h * f3, (h, 0, 1))
fig = plot(f4, (h, 0, 1), title="Posterior distribution after observing $c=(\mathrm{HHH})$.", xlabel="$h$", ylabel="$f_4(h)$")
f4_ = (1-h) * f3 / integrate((1-h) * f3, (h, 0, 1))
fig = plot(f4_, (h, 0, 1), title="Posterior distribution after observing $c=(\mathrm{HHT})$.", xlabel="$h$", ylabel="$f_4(h)$")
12*h**2*(-h + 1)
The final posterior distribution of a Bayesian update process does not depend on the order of the updates, or even if we do the updates incrementally one after another, or all at once. We can use this to calculate the posterior after any number of coin tosses $c_1, \..., c_n$. Assume that the number of heads is $H$ and the number of tails is $T$, then, choosing the uniform prior and any order of the data, we have:$$ f_1(\hat{h}) = 1 $$$$ p(c_{1,\...,n}|h=\hat{h}) = h^H (1-h)^T $$$$ \int_0^1 h^H (1-h)^T \cdot 1 \thinspace dh = \text{ ?} $$
Unfortunately, we now have to calculate the integral, which is a bit tricky using only elementary methods (try it, if you are up for a challenge!). Luckily, Sympy can spit out an acceptable answer in a couple of minutes. Note that we simplify the expression, and also move the expression to the denominator, where it will end up anyway:
H = Symbol("H", positive=True, integer=True)
T = Symbol("T", positive=True, integer=True)
# Warning, slow!
#expr = integrate(h**H*(1-h)**T, (h, 0, 1))
expr = gamma(H + 1)*hyper((-T, H + 1), (H + 2,), exp_polar(2*I*pi))/gamma(H + 2)
beta = expr.simplify()
gamma(H + 1)*gamma(T + 1)/gamma(H + T + 2)
So, we end up with:$$ \int_0^1 h^H (1-h)^T \cdot 1 \thinspace dh = \frac{1}{B(H+1,T+1)} $$
with$$ B(p, q) := \frac{\Gamma(p) \Gamma(q)}{\Gamma(p+q)} $$
and consequently:$$ f(h) = \frac{1}{B(H+1,T+1)}h^H(1-h)^T $$
Please say hello to the Beta-Distribution!
Let's look at this function for a couple of examples:
f = (1/beta) * h**H * (1-h)**T
fig = plot(f.subs({H:2,T:1}), (h, 0, 1), title="Posterior distribution after observing $c=(\mathrm{HHT})$.", xlabel="$h$", ylabel="$f(h)$")
fig = plot(f.subs({H:10,T:1}), (h, 0, 1), title="Posterior distribution after observing $c=(H=10,T)$.", xlabel="$h$", ylabel="$f(h)$")
fig = plot(f.subs({H:10,T:10}), (h, 0, 1), title="Posterior distribution after observing $c=(H=10,T=10)$.", xlabel="$h$", ylabel="$f(h)$")
fig = plot(f.subs({H:100,T:50}), (h, 0, 1), title="Posterior distribution after observing $c=(H=100,T=50)$.", xlabel="$h$", ylabel="$f(h)$")
To illustrate what can go wrong if an unreasonable prior distribution is chosen, imagine we were to use the Dirac delta function $f(h) = \delta(h_0 - h)$ as prior distribution. In this case, the integral in the denominator would collaps to $p(c|h=\hat{h})$, which would cancel out with the likelihood, leaving the prior distribution unchanged in the posterior. We can understand this intuitively: The delta function represents an absolute prejudice in the value of $h$, and this belief is so strong that no factual data can change it. In this sense, the Bayesian inference process works as expected. To avoid such a situation, the prior should give at least some probability mass to any reasonable outcome, and let the data speak for itself. We could see above that after a coin toss facing heads, the posterior vanishes at $0$, which means that the Bayesian inference process excluded the possibility for an all-tails coin. Likewise, after a coin toss facing tails, all-heads coins are excluded. No harm was done by including those possibilities in the prior, and the inference process quickly adapted to the data and excluded impossible choices.
We saw that starting with a uniform prior, the Baysian inference process can give us a lot of information about the certainty of a random variable, even after just a couple of observations. The result can be improved incrementally when new data arrives, or in batches. For a coin flip, the result is a Beta distribution, where the parameters indicate the number of heads and tails in the data. The choice of the prior is significant, but as more data arrives, it fades into the background. A strong bias in the prior that is not justified by the model may be hard to overcome.
A limitation of the process is that it assumes i.i.d. (independent and identically distributed) random variables. If there was some correlation in the data, or the bias of the coin changes over time, we would prefer to look at some other method (for example Markov Chain).
Bayesian inference is one of the foundations of machine learning, where it has many applications, for example testing emails for spam.


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Phillips examines the transitions of a Caribbean nation from colonialism to a dubious state of independence through the experiences of Bertram Francis, a young man who leaves St. Kitts at the age of thirteen to study law on a coveted scholarship in England. Twenty years later he returns, chastened by failure, hoping to succeed at "something that doesn't make me dependent upon the white man." The rejections Francis faced in England are nothing to those that greet him in his homeland, where the resentments of the people he abandoned are exceeded only by the cynicism of the old friends who have prospered under the new regime.
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|Jan 31, 1995 (US)
|Original Language
|Caryl Phillips
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Delia Bennett's youngest daughter, Creola Pettway, is a member of a Gee's Bend gospel quartet, the White Rose, which recently celebrated its thirty-fifth anniversary.
Delia Bennett is my mother. Good old mother. When I got old enough to know her, she was making quilts, cooking, canning, couldn't nobody beat her canning. She canned anything she wants to can, without a book—in her head. Lot of times, you don't need to go to a book for everything. You need some of the stuff God put in you. That's the way I am.
I like to sing but I'm about to give it up. Every time I'm about to give it up, something tell me to go ahead—the prize is at the end. If I keep on singing I probably make it to glory. But if I stop singing, that cut off some of my work.
We had four brothers and seven sisters. My daddy was Eddie Bennett. We farmed. They didn't let us go to the fields when we was small. We had to get up some size before we go. I did enjoy farming, but if I had to go now, I'd be too lazy. We grow cotton, corn, and millet. Sometimes we had ribbon cane, peas. We didn't work too hard. It wasn't bad at that time. We had lots of fun. I went to school up to the ninth grade in Gee's Bend.
I went out to Montgomery and worked at the pie company, I never forget that place. It was me and another girl there. The head lady was enjoying me working so much she let me take care of her kid. I enjoyed that. When I got back home, my mother wanted me to stay because she was getting sick. I wanted to go back, but I never did. But I traveled. I went to Boston, Massachusetts, and Jamaica, New York. I got there on Amtrak, but you can't put me on that anymore. I'm through with that train.
Singing in the White Rose and quilting was the best things I do. Singing I like best of all, because I get joy out of it. Leola Pettway is the secretary. Arlonzia Pettway, a member. Georgianna Pettway, I forget. And I'm the manager. And we're going on pretty good.
My mother, she was quilting. She had four frames at that time. Then you put the quilt up. She makes us quilt the little corner first. Then after we learn good, she let us in the big way, in the front. Then we went on to quilting. We talked to the man, Reverend Walter. When he first came to Boykin, he find me and my auntie Minder Coleman. He say, "The Lord tell me to stop right at this house, here. I want that quilt you quilting." We said we ain't going to get this quilt out today. He said, "I'll take it like it is." So, we get that quilt out. We didn't even hem it. We piece a lot of quilts for him. I enjoyed it very much because I knowing more how to make quilts then. If I hadn't gotten lazy, I could get a piece of cloth and make something out of it. That's the way I do all my things. That's the way I cooked. I don't get no recipe. Whatever way I want to cook, I cook. If it don't be good, I want it that way. I get me a piece of cloth and put it on the bed and decide in my mind the way I want that quilt. When I decide the way I want it, I can make it. You can do things out your head. You ain't got to have a book for everything. See, God can put something in your head and show you how to do it. We can't do nothing without God. He's at the head of everything. We wouldn't even walk this morning if it weren't for God.
This catalogue accompanies the exhibition Cosmologies from the Tree of Life: Art from the African American South, presented at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, June 8-November 17, 2019.
Creation Story explores parallels and intersections in the works of Dial and his fellow Alabamians, the remarkable quilters of Gee's Bend. In the tradition of African American cemetery constructions and yard art, these artists harness the tactile properties and symbolic associations of cast-off materials in creating an art of profound beauty and evocative power.
This book and exhibition are part of a growing family of research projects about the African American community of Gee's Bend, Alabama, and its quilts. Surrounded on three sides by a river, Gee's Bend developed a distinctive local culture and quilt design aesthetic. In 2002 the inaugural exhibition The Quilts of Gee's Bend documented these quiltmaking achievements. Expanding upon that initial exhibition and its accompanying publications, Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt offers a deeper look into the women and their art, and a more focused investigation into the nature and inspirations—and future—of the Gee's Bend quilt tradition.
Gee's Bend quilts carry forward an old and proud tradition of textiles made for home and family. They represent only a part of the rich body of African American quilts. But they are in a league by themselves. Few other places can boast the extent of Gee's Bend's artistic achievement, the result of both geographical isolation and an unusual degree of cultural continuity. In few places elsewhere have works been found by three and sometimes four generations of women in the same family, or works that bear witness to visual conversations among community quilting groups and lineages. Gee's Bend's art also stands out for its flair—quilts composed boldly and improvisationally, in geometries that transform recycled work clothes and dresses, feed sacks, and fabric remnants.
As embodiments of the African American experience and cultural legacies, the works of art featured in Cosmologies from the Tree of Life: Art from the African American South are rooted in African aesthetic legacies, familial tradition, and communal ethos. Previously marginalized as "folk or self-taught" art, they now take their rightful place as significant contributors to the canon of American Modernism.
"Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt" features seventy spectacular quilts made by four generations of women in Gee's Bend, a small, isolated African American community in southwest Alabama. With bold improvisation of traditional quilt motifs, these women have created a style all their own. Made between the 1930s and the present, the Gee's Bend quilts' bright patterns, inventive color combinations, lively irregularities and unexpected compositional variations make them outstanding examples of modern art.
This uplifting, Emmy-winning PBS film tells the modern-day "Cinderalla" story of the quiltmakers of Gee's Bend, Alabama. Artists born into extreme poverty, they live to see their quilts hailed by a The New York Times art critic as "some of the most miraculous works of modern art America has produced."
The Quilts of Gee's Bend documentary accompanies the major exhibitions of Gee's Bend quilts. Set in the quiltmaker's homes and yard, and told through the women's voices, this music-filled, 28-minute documentary takes viewers inside the art and fascinating living history of a uniquely American community and art form.
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text: Originally from Chicago, George Cotsirilos has been a member of the San Francisco Bay Area jazz community for many years and has performed with a wide variety of artists, from San Francisco jazz fixtures like Eddie Marshall, Mel Martin, Pharaoh Sanders and Mark Levine to internationally recognized blues singer Etta James, Bill Evans bassist Chuck Israels, and the jazz/soul vocal group, The Whispers. In addition to working as an accompanist, he was co-leader of the San Francisco Nighthawks which included legendary drummer Eddie Marshall, Bobby McFerrin pianist Paul Nagel, and former Cal Tjader bassist Robb Fisher. The group recorded for Monarch Records and performed at various venues, including the Monterey Jazz Festival. The George Cotsirilos Trio's most recent CD, "Variations," received excellent notices, made it well into the top 100 cd's on the jazz radio charts and was chosen by erstwhile Washington Post jazz critic and Jazztimes editor, Royal Stokes, as one of the most notable jazz instrumental CD's of 2013. "Variations'" immediate predecessor, "Past Present," also was released to laudatory reviews and broke into the top 40 jazz albums nationwide. In May of 2011, as part of the Bay Area Jazz Archive Series, Jazz School Records released "Seems To Be" by the George Cotsirilos Quartet, featuring Eddie Marshall on drums, Paul Nagel on piano and Robb Fisher on bass. Cotsirilos's well-received solo CD, "Silenciosa," released on OA2/Origin Records, is a compilation of jazz tunes performed on solo classical guitar. Cotsirilos graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, studied jazz with esteemed musician/educator Warren Nunes, and studied classical guitar privately through the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. His new quartet CD, "Mostly In Blue" is scheduled for release at the outset of 2018.


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The third installment of the Diablo series is finally here. I thought I should write a post explaining very briefly about the Diablo Universe/Lore for all the newbies that might pick up this game. I didn't read the books and novels so correct me if I'm wrong in anything that I post here. All the info I have is from reading articles in the interwebs, so lots of copy/paste stuff.
Prologue to Diablo I
Diablo Universe is made of three worlds: The High Heavens, Burning Hell, and the mortal world known as Sanctuary. In the beginning only the High Heavens and the Burning Hell existed. Since the creation these two worlds battled each other for control in what is known as the Great/Eternal Conflict.
The Burning Hell was lead by the three Prime Evils: Diablo, and his two brothers Baal and Mephisto.
The High Heavens was lead by the Angiris Council, a group of very powerful Archangels. There were 5 in total:
There was one more powerful Archangel that acted as an advisor to the Angiris Council, and his name was Inarius (Male). Inarius was tired of the constant conflict between the two worlds, so he gather other Angels and Demons who felt the same way and created the Sanctuary, the mortal world. Using the powers of the Worldstone(very important) that he stole, Inarius was able to hide the presence of Sanctuary from Heaven and Hell.
Humans were the off springs of Angels and Demons that lived in the Sanctuary and were very powerful at first. The first generations of humans were known as Nephalem, and had the potential to be even more powerful than either Angels or Demons. Fearing that humans would become more powerful than him, Inarius modified the Worldstone to make each generation of human weaker and weaker, draining them of their natural powers. He wanted humans to worship him, and created a relgion/cult called the Cathedral of Light. The Prime Evils were the first to discovered Sanctuary, and attempted to gain influence over the population and recruit them as soldiers in the Great Conflict. Not wanting to alert the High Heavens of Sanctuary's existence, they formed a religion/cult called the Triune. Both religions recruited followers and used them for their own purpose.
The humans then start using their powers to fight back the Angels and Demons, this was called the Sin Wars. Inarius is eventually defeated by a human named Uldyssian, the strongest human who lead a revolt against Inarius and the Triune (cult of the Prime Evils). In order to defeat Inarius, Uldyssian tapped into the Worldstone and unleashed his tremendous power, so great in fact that it was going to destroy all of Sanctuary. Once he realized this, he sacrificed himself to save the mortal world. This is when the Agiris Council discovered Sanctuary and what Inarius has done. They descended into Sanctuary and were going to destroy it since they viewed it as an abomination tainted with demon blood. Remember, humans were half demon as they were the off spring of Angels and Demons.
Of the 5 in the Agiris Council, 2 voted no and 1 voted yes. Mathael, the Archangel of Wisdom decided not to vote. Tyrael was the tiebreaker who originally wanted to destroy the Sanctuary. But after seeing Uldyssian's sacrifice he changed his mind and the Sanctuary was safe. Tyrael was impressed by Uldyssian's sacrifice because Uldyssian had basically become all powerful as much as a god but gave up his life to save the life of many others instead. This made Tyrael see the good in mankind, and he would come to their aid many more times as the prime evil invade their world.
After the Sin Wars, a truce was made between Mephisto and the Argiris Council to leave the Sanctuary and not interfere with human affairs. In return of leaving the mortal world, Mephisto wanted Inarius as his prisoner which the Council agreed. Of course the Prime Evils did not keep their end of the promise and continued to influence and recruit humans to their cult. Against the will of the other council members, Tyrael, the Archangel of Justice would intervene and help the humans fight against the demons of hell as they slowly invaded the mortal world.
Meanwhile, the lesser evils thought the Prime Evils were being distracted from the great conflict against the Heavens. Their hatred for the heavens was huge and their hatred for the Prime Evils grew stronger and stronger until they eventually got together and revolted. The 4 lesser evils are:
Their revolution was successful and the 3 Prime Evils were banished from hell. This was known as the Dark Exile. The Prime Evils were forced to walk the land of the living, spreading their evil and chaos wherever they went. Diablo's spirit was known as Dialon, Baal's was Bala, and Mephisto's was Mefis. They made up the 3 pillars of the Triune Cult, led by the Primus (Grand Priest) who was Mephisto's son, Lucion, in disguise. The cult's symbol was a triangle, with each point of the triangle being one of the 3 Prime Evils. The Triune cult had temples throughout the land of Sanctuary where they recruited naive humans and corrupted their souls.
To stop the Prime Evils spread of chaos and destruction, Tyrael created the botherhood of Magi, known as the Horadrim. Known members of the Horadrim are Tal Rasha (very important dude), Jered Cain and Deckard Cain. The Horadrim was made up of 3 major mage clans, and each clan was tasked with defeating one of the 3 Prime Evils. Tyrael gave the Horadrim 3 soulstones, magical artifacts that was capable of imprisoning powerful beings such as the Prime Evils.
The first to be captured and imprisoned was Mephisto, the oldest brother. His soulstone was buried in a vault beneath the Temple of Light in Kurast. The next to be captured was Baal, the middle brother. His capture was much harder, and led the Horadrim to chase him all the way to the Northern Desserts of Lut Gholein. During the fight in the desert, Baal was able to shatter the soulstone when they attempted to imprison him. Eventually Baal was controlled by Tal Rasha, one of the most powerful mages. In an attempt to seal Baal without a soulstone, Tal Rasha impaled the largest shard of the soulstone into his chest, and used his body to imprison Baal within him, so dooming his own fate. He would then wrestle with the demon within him for all eternity as his students sealed him in a secret tomb in the desert (Canyon of the Magi). As the sand shifted and time passed, the location was lost and forgotten, until the events of Diablo II.
The last to be captured was Diablo, the youngest and some argued to be the most powerful of the brothers. Led by Jered Cain, the Horadrim chased Diablo for nine years, fighting the terror that he would unleash on the land. They eventually tracked him all the way west, to Khanduras. After a devastating battle, Diablo was sealed in the soulstone deep within the cave system underneath Khanduras. They built a monastery on top to guard the location and entrance, but as time passed, the last of the Horadrim died and faded away. Eventually, the monastery fell to ruins. Only one Horadrim remains, Deckard Cain. It is here, underneath Khanduras that Diablo remains trapped for two centuries.
King Leoric came to Khanduras centuries later. King Leoric was a powerful and religious Northern Lord who had made Tristram his new home. He renovated the monastery ruins into a marvelous Cathedral and ruled the land with justice. With time, the people grew to respect King Leoric and his rule.
Diablo I
Diablo's influence grew bigger and bigger and the soulstone became more corrupt over time. Lazarus, arch bishop to King Leoric, became affected by Diablo's influence and advised the King to start wars with the neighboring states, causing his loyal knights to lose faith in the King.
Diablo needed to possess a physical body, he was unable to influence King Leoric so Diablo lured his son Prince Albrecht into the catacombs underneath the cathedral and possessed him instead. Lazarus (controlled by Diablo) inserted the soulstone into Prince Albrecht's forehead and made Diablo gain mortal form. The king accused the townspeople's of his son's disappearance, and had many executed. Eventually, the king's knights were forced to slain him as his madness grew daily and more people were being executed.
Many people were bring lured into the catacombs and being killed by "The Butcher". These sacrifices allowed Diablo to summon countless demons into the catacombs and they spread to the countryside attacking farmers. As rumors of the demons spread throughout the land, countless heroes came to Tristram to subdue the demon spawns. One of these heroes, is you, the player. You eventually un-cover the true cause and go into the catacombs to fight The Butcher, were you eventually kill him. The unnamed hero descends through sixteen levels of the labyrinth before encountering and also killing Diablo.
After defeating Diablo, the unnamed hero (you) removed the soulstone from Diablo's head and realized that it was Price Albrecht's body and that Diablo's spirit can just possess another body if left free. So the unnamed hero took the soulstone into his own forehead and fought to contain Diablo within his own body. This unnamed hero will become the Dark Wanderer which we run into in Diablo 2.
Prologue to Diablo II
The opening cinematic for Diablo II introduces us to Marius, a frail old man with a broken mind and soul. He is hiding inside an asylum when Tyrael (which at the end of Diablo II you find out its actually Baal disguised as Tyrael) finds him and asks him why he did not complete the task he asked him to do. Marius then starts narrating the rest of the cinematic which basically ends with the Dark Wanderer losing the battle to control his body. Diablo's spirit summons demons from within him and kills everyone in the tavern were Marius was hanging out. Diablo didn't kill Marius, and curious about him Marius decides to follow the Dark Wanderer as he travels East.
Diablo II - Act I - The Sightless Eye
We start the game and get to pick one of the 5 heroes to play as. The story goes that the heroes traveled as a group and slain the evils that the Dark Wanderer unleashed on the land. We are always a step behind the Dark Wanderer and never catch up with him until Act IV.
The player starts in the Rogue Encampment, a camp made by the survivors of the Rogue Monastery on the outskirts of Khanduras. The heroes are tasked with clearing out the evils in the surrounding area and to save the last Horadrim, Deckard Cain. The passage through the Rogue Monastery must be cleared before we can travel east, as this is the only passage through the mountains. However, it is currently being guarded by lesser evil Andariel, the Maiden of Anguish. She was put here to guard the passage and keep anyone from following Diablo. Andariel is defeated after traversing through the Monastery halls clearing out the countless demons, and we continue onward, to Lut Gholein.
Diablo II - Act II - The Secret of the Vizjerei
Once in Lut Gholein we find out the city is also drenched in evil. After killing all the monsters the heroes consult with Lord of Lut Gholein and his Wizard Drognan to find out that the Dark Wanderer is really Diablo. He is seeking the long lost tomb of Tal Ralsha, to find his brother Baal and free him from imprisonment and then continue his reign on the mortal world.
In order to open Tal Rasha's Tomb, the Horadric Staff must be reassembled, as this is the key to chamber in which Baal has laid dormant for over two centuries. The heroes search the endless desert to reassemble the staff, and ventures into the Arcane Sanctuary, an ethereal realm, to find the where about of Tal Rasha's Tomb. After defeating The Summoner and finding Horazon's Journal, it is revealed that the tomb is concealed in the Canyon of The Magi.
Once the heroes arrived at the tomb with the Horadric Staff, they were too late. They had to defeat one of the lesser evils, Duriel the Lord/Prince of Pain, which was guarding the tomb. The heroes then enter the chamber to find Tyrael tied up by the chains that were supposed to be on Baal.
In this Act III cinematic we see what happened before the heroes arrive. The Dark Wanderer and Marius entered the tomb, Tyrael descended to prevent Diablo from freeing Baal. An epic battle between Dark Wanderer and Tyrael happened and Marius was lured by Baal to remove the soulstone from his chest. Marius freed Baal, then Tyrael grabbed Marius and instructed him to go to the Temple of Light in Kurast, to find the gates of hell which he must enter and destroy the soulstone on the Hell Forge. Tyrael alone now had to face Dark Wanderer and Baal, a battle he lost and was imprisoned until the heroes came to save him.
Diablo II - Act III - The Infernal Gate
The heroes arrive at Kurast Docks, with a mission to stop Diablo and Baal from freeing their eldest brother Mephisto, the lord of Hatred. They find the capital city and surrounding jungle to be controlled by demons. As Diablo did in Tristram, Mephisto too was able to spread his influence while imprisoned within the soulstone. He corrupted the high priests in the Council of the Zakarum and they have been doing his bidding for quite some time now. The priests had freed Mephisto, and those who stood against him in the priest hood were brutally murdered, with their remains scattered throughout the land of Kurast.
The heroes had to fight the High Council, and defeating them revealed the entrance to Mephisto's lair, the Durance of Hate. They traveled down deeper and deeper until they reached the final level. And once again they were too late.
Act IV's cinematic shows us that the Prime Evils were reunited and had combined their powers to open a portal to the gates of hell. Marius arrived to the scene, but was not brave enough to enter the portal as Tyrael had asked him. Instead he fled.
Baal and Diablo entered the portal while Mephisto stay back to fight the heroes. It was here that the heroes battle for the first time against one of the great Primes. Although the fight was tough, they eventually defeated Mephisto. All that remained was his soulstone. The heroes then stepped through the red portal with Mephisto's soulstone, which lead them to the gates of hell and the Pandemonium Fortress.
Diablo II - Act IV - The Harrowing
At the Pandemonium Fortress the heroes meet with Tyrael where he asks the heroes for one last favor before going in to face the Lord of Terror.
One of his most trusted and greatest lieutenant, Izual, was captured centuries ago when he lead a courageous charge into the Hellforge to stop the demon blade, Shadowfang, from being completed. While successful in his endeavor, he was overwhelmed by the legions of hell and captured. To punish Izual for preventing the completion of the demon blade, he was tortured and twisted. Imprisoned within the body of a terrible creature summoned from the deep Abyss, Izual is forced to wander the Plains of Despair as a fallen angel, neither trusted by Heaven or Hell.
The heroes agreed and went off to vanquish the beast. After defeating the abomination, Izual spirit was set free. Instead of gratitude however, Izual was arrogant and looked down upon the heroes. Izual spirit reveals to our heroes that he was the one helping the Prime Evils the whole time. It was him who masterminded the Dark Exile of the Primes, and it was also him who convinced Tyrael to use the soulstone to capture them. Izual had taught the Primes how to corrupt the soulstone and use it powers to amplify their own. This also allowed them to never be truly destroyed, as their spirit is bound to the soulstone. While the physical form might fall, the spirit will linger and live on.
"The plan we set in motion so long ago cannot be stopped by any mortal agency. Hell itself is poised to spill forth into your world like a tidal wave of blood and nightmares." ~ Izual
This piece of information alarms Tryrael, and he orders the heroes to travel to the hell forge at once to destroy Mephito's soulstone. Shards of ice, daggers of steel and burning flames clashes over and over again as the heroes ventured deeper and deeper, until they reach the Hellforge. It is here, that they encountered Hephasto the Armored, blacksmith of the Hellforge, and defeated him. His hammer and the Hellforge is the only thing that can destroy a soulstone. On the third thunderous strike, Mephisto's soulstone was destroyed, and thousands of tormented souls rose from its ashes.
The heroes then moved into the Chaos Sanctuary, home of Diablo himself. In order to summon Diablo, the heroes must release the 5 seals within the Chaos Sanctuary. Each seal unleashes a demon spawn more powerful than the last. The five heroes fought with all their might, breaking one seal after another. Diablo, in all his glory, stood before them, he roared with all his might. The heroes attacked without hesitation until Diablo was defeated. As the Chaos Sanctuary crumpled around them, the heroes back tracked and destroyed Diablo's soulstone at the Hellforge, concluding the Lord of Terror's reign of destruction.
In the epilogue cinematic Marius reveals that while Mephisto's and Diablo's soulstone were destroyed, he did not do as Tyrael instructed and Baal's soulstone was still in his possession. Marius hands the soulstone to Tyrael, and like I said earlier it was really Baal disguises as Tyrael. Baal kills Marius and this is where Diablo II ends…but the story continues in the expansion pack Diablo II: Lord of Destruction.
Prologue to Diablo II: Lord of Destruction
At the end of Diablo II, after destroying Diablo's soulstone the heroes meet up with Tyrael, where he informs them that Baal has assembled a massive army and was making an assault on Mt. Arreat. This place is the home of the Worldstone (remember earlier I told you it was important). The Worldstone was guarded by the barbarian tribes, which were the fiercest warriors the Sanctuary had to offer.
Prologue to Diablo II: Lord of Destruction
Tyrael opens a portal for our heroes to the barbarian city of Harrogath, the Last Bastion of Order on the slopes of Mt. Arreat. Here we learn that Baal has destroyed the Barbarian lands of the north on his way to Mt. Arreat. Destruction and suffering trails in the wake of his army, and what were once great barbarian fortresses, now lies in ruins. Harrogath is the last Barbarian stronghold, and is currently under siege by Baal's Army. Many brave barbarians have died to defend the fortress, and many more die each day as the siege continues. Shenk the Overseer, Baal's most decorated general, is leading the siege against Harrogath.
The Council of Elders, which was made of the Barbarian's wisest elders, received word that Baal's army was coming and that many of their brothers have died fighting his ungodly army. In order to save Harrogath, they sacrificed their lives in a very courageous act to cast the "Spell of Warding". This warding spell would par passage to any hell spawn, including Lord of Destruction himself.
Only one person survived the casting of the spell, Nihlathak, who struggles daily with the guilt of being spared and the grief of his lost companions. While the spell has worked so far, it becomes weaker and weaker as the siege continues. Even in these times of despair, the Barbarians fought on without a hint of uncertainty.
Siege of Harrogath
With no choice the Barbarian had to accept the help of our heroes. The heroes fought in the front lines, they pushed on and on, down the slopes of Mount Arreat, pushing Baal's army until Shenk the Overseer laid before them. The Siege of Harrogath came to an end, and the heroes thought Baal's plans towards the Worldstone came to a sudden end…
Prison of Ice
While the battle with Baal's army was going on, Nihlathak committed a foul and treacherous plan. He was unable to handle the grief of his companion's sacrifice and the failure of his people to defend Mt. Arreat that he thought about what they could have done differently. He decided that there was only one way out, he stuck a deal with Baal. In return for Harrogath's safety, Nihlathak gave Baal the Relic of the Ancients. This holy totem allowed anyone who possesses it to bypass the Rite of Passage at the summit of Mount Arreat, and be granted access to the chamber of the Worldstone. With the holy totem in hand, Baal and his army proceeded to the inner chambers of Mount Arreat, known as the Worldstone Keep. No one knew that this had happened, until Nihlathak and Anya were found to be missing. Anya, the daughter of one of the Council of Elders, uncovers Nihlathak's plan. To avoid his secret from being reveal, Nihlathak kidnapped Anya and imprisoned her in the icy caves of the Crystalline Passage. It is not until the heroes rescued Anya that is information is revealed.
Rite of Passage
This is when the heroes raced to Arreat Summit. High above the mountain side, at the peak of Mount Arreat, there stands three crumbling statues with a stone altar in the center with the inscription:
"We are the spirits of the Nephalem, the Ancient Ones. We have been chosen to guard the sacred Mt. Arreat, wherein the Worldstone rests. Few are worthy to stand in its presence; fewer still can comprehend its true purpose. Before you enter, you must defeat us."
Unlike Baal, the heroes did not possess the Relic of the Ancients, thus forcing them to undergo The Rite of Passage. This would prove to be the heroes' toughest challenge yet, because the three guardians of the Worldstone were no ordinary warriors. They were spirits of the Nephalem, part of the first generations of humans. Their powers had not been drained by the Worldstone. What stood before them were some of the mightiest warriors that Sanctuary has ever seen. Only those who can defeat these colossal beings would be deemed worthy enough to enter the Worldstone Chamber, and this is why the Relic of the Ancients was so coveted. Even though the challenge seems impossible to overcome, the heroes pressed on, and activated the altar. The crumbling statues started to shake, and light emitted from within. A blinding light engulfed the summit and the statues came to life. Unmovable stone transformed into flesh and armor, until the three guardians of the Worldstone stood before them.
To keep the story short, the heroes fought for hours until they accomplished what no human has ever done before. The three Ancients were defeated and let them enter the interior of Mt. Arreat:
Eve of Destruction
As the heroes entered the Worldstone Keep, they were met by Baal's strongest minions. Learning from the mistakes of his fallen brethrens Baal took every precaution. Fortunately, our heroes had come too far in their quest, and when compared to the Ancients, Baal's finest warriors were just target practice. Soon they would come face to face with Baal himself as they quickly made their way through the multiple levels of Worldstone Keep. Just outside the Worldstone Chamber, Baal sat on his throne waiting for our heroes arrival, and just as he had expected, they arrived at last. Baal summoned waves and waves of minions, some of the most wicked that has ever set foot on the mortal realm, but each wave fell just like the last. Realizing that even the most frightening terrors from the abyss of hell could not deter our heroes from their quest, Baal enters the Worldstone chamber while the heroes dispatched the last of the monsters. They quickly followed Baal into the Chamber and commenced battle with the Lord of Destruction.
They fought for what seem like days, as there was no sun in the chamber to tell how much time has really passed. Baal's extensive tentacles pierced through the floor lashing at anything within its reach. He let loose fiery breaths hot enough to rival molten lava, and sent from his hand waves of spine chilling novas that could freeze even the mightiest of heroes in their tract. Despite all this power, Baal still fell to the group of heroes. For these warriors were not just veterans of the battlefield, or heroes of the land, they were Legends. But victory did not come without a cost.
Ending Cinematic
After Baal's defeat, Tyrael appears to the heroes and inform them that Baal had already succeeded in corrupting the Worldstone. The Worldstone now drains the mortal world's energy, weakening the boundaries between Sanctuary and The Burning Hell. To protect this world from dying, the Worldstone that once stood as a beacon of the mortal realm must now be destroyed. Tyrael imbues his Sword of Justice with the light of the High Heavens and hurls it into the Worldstone. Cracks start to ripple through the massive stone and within seconds, it begins to shatter. The Worldstone is no more.
This is where Diablo III comes in. With the Worldstone now destroyed what will happened to the Sanctuary?
I was planning on posting this before the release of Diablo III, but it took a few days to gather all this info, it got longer than expected.
Hope you enjoyed it and have fun fighting Evil!


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US Imperialism — A Direct Response From An American
October 16, 2009 3 Comments
I was discussing with a friend, Prudence Baird, about the US Imperialism. She lives in United States. This is a forthright and a direct response to my query by her. I hope it'll make many of us learn about the general perception of Americans about the state's imperialism. Before I paste the letter here, I'd take this opportunity to speak that her letter inspired me to a considerable extent. There you go:
Prudence Baird
13 October, 2009
Okay, I have some time to devote to you, my friend! I am going to be 100% honest because there is no point of robbing you of the truth. (I got this from your Kite Runner quote!)
When our country was founded in 1776, the idea was put forth in writing for the first time in western civilization that "all men are created equal." This was a revolutionary thought as at the time many believed that kings and other rulers were gods or appointed by gods. (Silly ideas, huh?)
Despite these lofty words, many of our founders had slaves! Go figure!
So, the United States has always had what many might call a split personality–almost like someone who is mentally ill!
When our first president, George Washington, left office, he cautioned his successors–the presidents and leaders who were to follow him–to be friends with all nations and to never, ever start a war or interfere with another sovereign nation's self-rule. (I guess we know how that went!)
This whole idea of leaving other countries alone began to erode with our President Monroe (1823) who issued something called "The Monroe Doctrine," which asserted that the Western Hemisphere was not to be further colonized by European countries, and that the United States would not interfere with existing European colonies nor in the internal concerns of European countries. The Doctrine was issued at the time when many Latin American countries were on the verge of becoming independent from Spain, and the United States, reflecting concerns echoed by Great Britain, hoped to avoid having any European power take Spain's colonies. (I got this from Wikipedia!)
This was cool for a while–it's good to tell old, colonizing countries to back off and let younger countries do their own thing. BUT, the Monroe doctrine went off course when Teddy Roosevelt, who was NOT yet president, decided to interfere with Cuba's affairs of state. Teddy was 95% great and 5% horrible. He had great ideas about the environment, he was pro-union and pro-labor, he established food safety laws, and worked tirelessly for the common man. However, he was bull-headed about thinking the United States was superior to every other country on earth and therefore knows best. He lived to regret this way of thinking. He changed his mind when his youngest son was killed in WWI, but by then the U.S. had its fingers in many pies, so to speak. In fact, it was one of Teddy's sons who helped to install the Shah of Iran in 1925.
I think that the U.S. is:
1. following in the footsteps of Great Britain–almost like a little brother copies his older sibling, or a drunk chases a bottle of booze, and
2. is completely hooked on oil and therefore will do anything to get more–including starting fraudulent wars (Iraq) and supporting regimes that mistreat their citizens (Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, China) and supporting countries who mistreat certain ethnic groups or genders (Israel, China, Kuwait, the Congo). Further, we turn our faces away when our allies do horrible things to their citizens (Saudi Arabia, Israel, Rwanda, China) and their neighboring countries.
I am disgusted by our inability to live up to the lofty words of our founders. I am horrified by our military actions that have caused so much pain, death and destruction to others–and I see that it is all for nothing. The more we try to bomb our way to peace and prosperity, the more stupid and warlike we become. And when our military (or any military) "regrets the loss of innocent life" I ask, whose life is NOT innocent? We are all innocent.
There are many, many people who agree with me, but the U.S. is divided as I stated earlier. The uneducated, mostly born-again Christain type of citizens blindly believe the myth that the United States is all-powerful and "number 1." (How stupid is that?) And the educated citizens understand that the U.S. is out of control consuming 25% of the earth's resources and with its military all over the world.
Our leaders are also divided. Many are greedy and receive money from the "military/industrial complex," i.e.., corporations who profit from war. How can a leader serve the people when his pockets are stuffed with cash from Halliburton or makers of war machines? So, we have some dirty, greedy people running the country. Not all are like this, but I think too many are.
But the wonderful aspect of the United States is that every once in a while, we have a leader like Barrack Obama or John F. Kennedy or Martin Luther King, Jr. These leaders and everyday citizens keep this nation going more or less in a good direction internally. But it is very hard to reel in the actions of those who make their living interfering in other countries business–I'm talking the CIA and similar organizations. These agencies have become self-perpetuating entities unto themselves. They do not answer to our Constitution. They do not answer to the people of the United States. Only the President can control them–and if the President goes up against them and tries to shut them down, I'm afraid that they might turn on him (or her) and assassinate the President. That is how much power they have. The fragility of our system frightens me. If we lose Obama, the U.S. could become like a monster in a Japanese horror movie. Or, people like me could be rounded up and "disappeared" like happened to progressives in Argentina in the 1970s.
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Your Friend Across The Seas,