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Victorino sits, trade talk intensifies
July 8, 2012 - Robert Collias
I was just watching "Baseball Tonight" where Karl Ravech and John Kruk were talking about Shane Victorino sitting out today's game.
First, they talked about Victorino "pouting" because he got to the ballpark and saw he was hitting seventh in the lineup — something he hasn't done since 2010. Later, they said Victorino could not be located prior to the game and they had to make a lineup change. Still later, the BT duo said reports were that Victorino, who is hitting .245, was in the inside batting cage taking extra swings.
Kruk, who is never at a loss for words, said he didn't "know what to believe," but that this sort of thing would not have happened in his days as a Phillie. "We had a guy who would've taken him by the scruff of the jersey and said, 'That is not the way we do things around here,' " Kruk said on air. Ravech asked Kruk who he was referring to. "Darren Daulton," Kruk said.
Victorino's replacement for today's game, Jason Pridie, smacked a two-run home run and doubled home a run in first two at-bats. Victorino has one double, no home runs, and four RBIs in his last 26 games.
Jon Heyman of CBS Sports says that it was a manager's decision to sit Victorino and that his time in Philly appears short.
Another Philadlephia website quoted Manuel during his post-game press conference. Manuel said Victorino was "absolutely not" upset about hitting seventh.
"That's the first thing I asked him," Manuel said. "He said he understood. He was down because of his performance."
This Phillies phan says the team should trade Victorino before the July 31 deadline.
And, finally, there is this blog from the Philadelpiha Inquirer comparing Victorino's number's this season to Jayson Werth's 2010 numbers, the year before Werth signed a $126 million contract with the Nationals. It is titled "Hawaiian Punchless."
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Jim DeMint has decided that he's better off preaching to the choir.
Which is probably a good move, because a lot of folks in the congregation were getting tired of him.
South Carolina's junior senator announced Thursday that he was resigning his seat to take a job as leader of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.
The folks there will fawn over him, hang on his every word and probably convince him that he would make a fine president.
That might be what DeMint wants to hear, and it's a decidedly better future than he faced in the Senate.
For the past few years, DeMint has tried to pack the Senate with like-minded ultra-conservatives who seemed to be opposed to just about everything. If his gambit had worked, he might have been looking at some sort of leadership post.
But as it is, Senate Republicans go into 2013 firmly in the minority, and many of them blame DeMint for some of that.
Jim vs. GOP
Not so long ago, people called DeMint a kingmaker.
He was supporting tea party candidates for Senate seats and winning them left and far right. In 2010, several Republican Party establishment candidates were soundly trounced in GOP primaries by DeMint proteges.
The problem is that many of those people could not win in a general election. There is no doubt that DeMint cost the party a few seats.
The guy who once said he rather would have 30 rock-solid conservative senators than a super-majority of moderate Republicans seemed more likely to achieve the former. And that was unacceptable to the national Republican Party.
Perhaps as a result of criticism he got for his 2010 losses (in fairness, he got a few wins too), DeMint stayed out of the 2012 races. But still he went to Missouri to campaign for Todd Akin, the knucklehead who said women rarely get pregnant from "legitimate rape."
That show of support did nothing to help DeMint's brand among party officials.
Bottom line: The Republicans were sick of taking friendly fire from DeMint.
And DeMint could not have relished the idea of walking back into a caucus that, at best, eyes him warily.
Going — for now
State Republicans have mixed feeling about DeMint.
Many party officials love him because he is a slam-dunk on the ballot in this state. Conservative voters think he's the greatest thing since Ronald Reagan.
But other Republican officials who had to work with DeMint aren't crying over his departure. One ranking GOP official said Gov. Nikki Haley probably couldn't appoint anyone less protective of South Carolina's interests.
A prime example of that was DeMint blocking an earmark that would have paid for a study to dredge Charleston Harbor. His own party needed an assist from President Barack Obama to get this state's biggest economic generator back on track.
That made an impression. One Republican said that it's one thing to stick to your ideals, but senators have to govern.
And that was something that DeMint was not extremely interested in.
So now he can go do something much more appealing — espouse big ideas, promote candidates at will and make something around $1 million a year.
Some South Carolina politicians say DeMint likes attention too much to move into the relative obscurity that you get as head of a think tank (compared with the constant adulation heaped on U.S. senators). They say this is the first step toward something bigger.
And the only thing bigger than U.S. senator is president.
The trouble is that DeMint's politics don't play well nationally, or in his own party. Neither does quitting — just ask Sarah Palin.
But DeMint probably won't get that sort of unbiased analysis from the choir. So, much to the chagrin of liberals, and some Republicans, this won't be the last you hear from Jim DeMint.
Reach Brian Hicks at email@example.com or read his blog at blog.post andcourier.com/brians-blog.

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S5100 series is able to identify and process the traffic flows from L2-L4
With independent packet filters, all ports distinguish differentflows and forward them with corresponding priority.
- High reliability
S5100 series switches support STP/RSTP/MSTP (Spanning Tree Protocol/Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol/Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol). The STP/RSTP features also support BPDU guard Root guard, Thus the redundancy back-up and error tolerance capability of the link can be greatly improved to guarantee network stability.
S5100 series switches support link-aggregation (include manual link aggregation and LACP), it is a simple and cost efficient way to expand the bandwidth of a switch port and balance the traffic among all the ports in a link aggregation. In addition, connection reliability is enhanced.
H3C S5100 series also support Smart Link to provide rapid convergence. Smart Link is a link redundancy and fast convergence technology on link layer. With smart link technology, S5100 series is able to provide fast convergence time of 50ms.
- Flexible security control policies
The S5100 Series support 802.1x authentication to identify users who attempt to access the network.With the 802.1x client version checking function enabled on a switch, the switch checks the version and validity of the 802.1x client running on supplicant systems to prevent those that use earlier versions of 802.1x client or illegal clients from logging in.
The S5100 Series support Centralized MAC address authentication, it controls accesses to a network through ports and MAC addresses. This kind of authentication requires no client software. When operating in centralized MAC address authentication mode, a switch begins to authenticate the user if it detects a new user MAC address.
The S5100 Series support The Guest VLAN function, this function enables supplicant systems that are not authenticated to access specific resources and thus perform the corresponding operations,
The S5100 Series can also prevent unauthorized access to the network by binding MAC and port.
The S5100 Series support other security functions, such as hierarchical management and password protection of users, AAA authentication, RADIUS authentication, port isolation and port security.
- Abundant QoS policies
The S5100 Series support L2~L4 complex flow classification based on source MAC address/destination MAC address/source IP address/destination IP address/ports/protocols.
The S5100 Series support flexible queue scheduling algorithms, which can be set on the basis of port and queue at the same time. They support Strict Priority (SP), Shaped Deficit Weighted Round Robin (SDWRR) and SP+SDWRR; 8 priority queues.
The S5100 Series support Committed Access Rate (CAR) and limit the traffic speed with the minimum granularity of 1 kbps.
The S5100 Series can support priority mapping, priority marking, traffic shaping for ports and queues, port-based/flow-based rate limiting, S5100 Series also support real-time update of ACL rules based on time range changes.
The S5100 Series support RSPAN (Remote switched port analyzer), It breaks through the limitation that the mirrored port and the mirroring port have to be located in the same switch, and makes it possible that the mirrored and mirroring ports be located across several devices in the network, and greatly enhances the way that the network administrator can manage the switch.
- Diversified System Configuration and Management Modes
The S5100 Series support Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) v1/v2/v3 and RMON (Remote Monitoring) v1/2/3/9 groups of MIBs,. They can be managed by general network management platform such as H3C iMC network management system.
The S5100 Series support Command Line Interface (CLI), Web based network management, modem dial-up and telnet which make the equipment management more convenient.
The S5100 Series support HGMP V2 cluster management, After enabling HGMP V2, the network administrator can manage several member switches through one command switch and only the command switch need a public network IP address, it can save public IP address greatly and manage the network more efficiently.
- Abundant System Maintenance and Debugging Methods
The S5100 Series support System log, Hierarchical alarm management and alarm filtering, Detailed alarm/debug information output, Ping and Tracer, they also support remote maintenance via Telnet Modems and SSH.
The S5100 Series support Ping, Traceroute and HWping. HWping is a new network diagnostic tool used to test the performance of protocols operating on network and It is an enhanced alternative to the ping command.
The S5100 Series support DLDP (Device Link Detection Protocol), DLDP can detect the link status of the optical fiber cable or copper twisted pair. If DLDP finds a unidirectional link, it disables the related port automatically or informs users to disable it manually depending on specific configuration, to avoid potential network problems.
The S5100 Series support Loopback detection on ports, after users enable loopback detection for Ethernet ports, the switch will monitor whether the ports have loopback on a regular basis; if the switch detects loopback for a particular port, and it will put that port under control.
- The S5100 Series support VCT (Virtual Cable Test) which is convenient for troubleshooting. Customers can start the virtual cable test (VCT) to make the system test the cable connected to the current electrical Ethernet port. The test items include: whether short or open circuit exists in the Rx/Tx direction of the cable, and what is the length of the cable in normal status or the length from the port to the fault point of the cable.
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4 Gigabit SFP Combo ports
|Extended slot:
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|Switching Fabric:
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|Support port-based VLAN (4k VLANs)
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|Link aggregation:
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|Support traffic mirroring (EI)
Support Many-to-one port mirroring
Support RSPAN
|Link Layer Reliability:
|IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)
IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol instances (MSTP)
Support STP Root Guard
Support BPDU Guard
Support Smart Link
|Flow control:
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Support port-based broadcast suppression
|Support IGMP Snoopingv1/v2/v3
Support multicast VLANs
Support dropping known multicast packets
|DHCP Snooping
DHCP Client
DHCP Snooping Option82
|Support IEEE 802.1p/DSCP priority
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Support Port isolation
Support MAC address black hole
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Prevent unauthorized access to the network by binding of MAC and Port
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Support ARP detection
Support IP source check
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Support IEEE 802.1X user authentication
Support Guest VLAN
Support AAA /RADIUS authentication
Support HTTPS(EI)
|Management and Maintenance:
|Support CLI (Command Line Interface),console port, Telnet configuration mode
Support Remote configuration via modem dial-up
Support System configuration with SNMP v1/v2/v3
Support HGMP V2
Support RMON (Remote Monitoring) v1/2/3/9 groups of MIBs
Support H3C iMC , Web-based network management
Support IPv6 host
Support Detailed alarm/debug information output
Support Ping ,Tracert , HWping
Support remote maintenance via Telnet Modems and SSH v2
Support System log
Support Hierarchical alarm management and alarm filtering
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Police: Sacramento homeowner kills man
Strange incident took place Sunday afternoon
Police say a homeowner in Sacramento shot and killed a man in self-defense after the man refused to leave his yard and became increasingly violent.
The shooting Sunday afternoon remains under investigation. But police say the 50-year-old suspect began acting irrationally in the driveway of the 36-year-old homeowner's home, swinging his cane and breaking and throwing objects.
The homeowner apparently asked the man to leave repeatedly before running inside and grabbing his gun.
Police say the man was shot after he picked up a heavy wrought iron stand and appeared set to throw it at the homeowner.
The man later died at a hospital.
Neither the homeowner nor the suspect has been identified.
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text: "What's Wrong With Technological Art?" was the vexing question posed by the tony New Museum panel assembled by Megan Heuer featuring Heather Corcoran, the new executive director of Rhizome, and art historians Judith Rodenbeck, and Gloria Sutton. The event indadvertedly dove tailed with the recent September Artforum issue about the frayed divide between the art world and technological art. The bon mot award for the evening came from rehashing the 1967 quote of Philip Leider, editor of Artforum, who once penned the uber snarky statement, "I can't imagine Artforum ever doing a special issue on electronics or computers in art, but one never knows."Continue Reading →


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The Truckee Wolverines in the Maverick Division of the Sierra Youth Football League played their best game this past Saturday in terms of offensive yardage pounded out and defensive yardage surrendered since their win in week one.
The 7- and 8-year-olds dominated the visiting Damonte Ranch Mustangs in time of possession. They ran more dives, sweeps, keepers, screens and a short-yardage pass over any previous game.
The offense moved the ball efficiently and threatened to score from inside the Mustangs 20-yard line twice. Quarterback Tavin Hamilton dumped off a screen to running back Hutton Johnson, who cut back into the middle for a gain of 2 yards to reach the Mustangs 16-yard line. The drive then sputtered out on the next two plays and the Wolverines turned the ball over on downs.
Later in the same second quarter, the Wolverines got as far as the Mustangs 15-yard line on two separate plays. Hamilton took a keeper up the middle to reach the 15. Johnson also thundered through the same hole in the middle of the Mustangs defense to reach the 15 again after the two plays were interrupted by a false start penalty against Truckee. The drive ended on Johnson's run as time expired in the first half with the Wolverines trailing the Mustangs 13-0.
The Wolverines got back into the Mustangs side of the field only once in the second half and ended up losing the game 25-0.
Sawyer Burley set the Wolverines up at their own 48-yard line when he recovered a muffed punt in the fourth quarter for the Wolverines first turnover of the season. Three plays later running back Jackson Kahl took a handoff up the middle to move the Wolverines from the 50 to the Mustangs 49-yard line. The next play Truckee was flagged for a false start and never again saw the Mustangs side of the field.
The Wolverines offense was led by Johnson, who punched 12 carries up the middle and to the right for a total of 47 yards. He also reeled in two screen passes for a total of 1 yard. His biggest gain on the day was his 30-yard kick return that went around the right side.
The other offensive contributors were running back Damon Parisi and Hamilton. Both tore off the biggest chunks of yardage from the scrimmage line with gains of 8 yards.
Parisi finished with 4 yards on nine carries as the blocking broke down on a couple of his other runs. He also had a 6-yard kick return and a 2-yard punt return.
Hamilton also suffered the same blocking fate as Parisi. His total yardage was knocked down after his gain of 8 to 2 yards on five carries.
Hamilton completed three of his five pass attempts for 6 yards. His longest completion was a pass to tight end Burley that was brought down after a pickup of 5.
The Wolverines were led in tackles by defensive tackle Colton Conklin for the second game in a row. His 11 tackles in the game ties him with defensive tackle Matthew Seline for the most tackles for the season.
Seline turned in seven tackles. Five of those tackles were behind the line of scrimmage, including a sack. Linebacker Jason Roth finished with seven tackles, including a sack.
Defensive ends Johnson and Carsen Jensen tallied six tackles each. Johnson turned in four tackles behind the line of scrimmage and Jensen got in on a four-man sack.
Defensive tackle Peter Reoutt made four of his five tackles on the day in the third quarter. Linebacker Jacob Moule was also particular about when and where he made his tackles. All his tackles were in the second half and were all behind the line of scrimmage.
Linebacker Kahl got in on two tackles. Cornerback Galdino Bravo-Karvonen stopped a touchdown with one of his two tackles.
Cornerback Parisi and defensive end Burley brought one runner down. Hamilton contributed a tackle on special teams play. Cornerback Alex Roberts made his first tackle of the season with some flare as he was the fourth in on a four-man sack in the fourth quarter.
Next up for the Wolverines (1-5) are the North Valleys Panthers (1-5) in Reno on Saturday at noon.


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Stetson let a late lead slip away and fell 5-3 to Campbell Saturday afternoon before posting a 7-3 victory vs. Bethune-Cookman in the nightcap in day two of the Hatter Invitational at Patricia Wilson Field.
Demi Meza and Brittany Hawn each hit home runs in the opener while Courtney Brandt and Sarah Read teamed up in the circle to earn the win in game two.
The split moves the Hatters' record to 5-1 on the season.
Stetson led 3-0 after six innings against Campbell, and still led 3-1 with two outs in the seventh when the Camels got a three-run double from Stephanie Jones and an RBI single from Ericka Nesbit to take a 5-3 lead.
The Hatters put the tying runs on base in the bottom of the seventh but couldn't get the equalizer.
"I thought Campbell did a great job, they came back and strung some hits together to score the runs," Stetson head coach Frank Griffin said. "It wasn't like we made errors and gave them the ball game. They came back and earned it."
In the nightcap against Bethune-Cookman, Stetson scored six times in the top of the third inning to break the game open. Morello collected an RBI single and raced all the way around to score when an errant throw by the catcher ended up rolling to the outfield wall. Jessie TenBroeck also had an RBI single in the inning and Kelsey Waters added a run-scoring double in the top of the fifth.
Brandt (1-0) was perfect through four innings in the circle and pitched out of trouble in the fifth before giving way to Read with two outs in the sixth. Read retired all four batters she faced to pick up the save and preserve the victory.
"That was Courtney Brandt's first starting appearance this year and I was really pleased," Griffin said. "She had four no-hit innings and then in the sixth they started seeing her a little better, so we were able to bring in Sarah Read and she closed the door on them."
Amanda Grimaldo went 3-for-3 for Stetson in game two.
Stetson will play Bethune-Cookman again at noon Sunday in the final game of the Hatter Invitational. It will also be the Hatters' Strikeout Cancer game to raise awareness for the fight against cancer.
Earlier in the day, Elon defeated Bethune-Cookman 8-7 and Campbell defeated Elon 3-0.


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February's Books Plus: Their Eyes Were Watching God
As cold winter winds swirl around us, join us at the library on Feb. 6th where we'll travel to sunny Florida to explore Zora Neale Hurston's evocative world. Alice Walker remarked that "no book was more important to her" than Their Eyes Were Watching God. As always we'll offer hot drinks, Amal's delicious cake, and an outlet for your stimulating conversation. Hope to see you here.
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FEB. 6--Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Discussion Leader: Sarah Bowman
"This is Zora Hurston's third novel, again about her own people--and it is beautiful. It is about Negroes, and a good deal of it is written in dialect, but really it is about everyone, or least everyone who isn't so civilized that he has lost the capacity for glory. Indeed, from the first to last this is a well nigh perfect story--a little sententious at the start, but the rest is simple and beautiful and shining with humor."
--New York Times Book Review (September, 1937)
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WAILUKU - Heavy and steady rain postponed the Wally Yonamine Foundation Division I State Baseball Championship final between Mid-Pacific Institute and Mililani scheduled for Saturday at Maehara Stadium. The game is to be played Tuesday at Les Murakami Stadium in Honolulu, the Hawaii High School Athletic Association announced.
The decision to postpone the game was reached at approximately 3:15 p.m. Maehara Stadium was "underwater," site coordinator Kahai Shishido, the Baldwin athletic director, said less than an hour later.
The first pitch was scheduled for 6 p.m.
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Maehara Stadium had been scheduled to host the Wally Yonamine Foundation Division I State Baseball Championship final between Mid-Pacific Institute and Mililani, but rain prevented the game from taking place.
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"After carefully talking it over with our HHSAA baseball committee and both schools, we decided to play the game on Oahu on
Tuesday," association executive director Chris Chun said in a release. "Both schools have already made arrangements to travel home Sunday and the University of Hawaii has made Les Murakami Stadium available to us on Tuesday. The island of Maui was an outstanding host, and I am saddened that the championship game won't be played there this year."
Rain had already prompted the cancellation of the fifth-place game between Baldwin and Maui High, and third-place game between Hilo and Campbell. Pearl City beat Iolani 5-4 in the seventh-place game.
"It has been kind of a wet year in general, but this type of rain is definitely unusual," said Shishido, who coached Baldwin to the 1995 state title.
Mililani (12-7) was the Oahu Interscholastic Association runner-up this season, while MPI (12-2) was the Interscholastic League of Honolulu champion and the No. 2 seed for the state tournament, which began Wednesday.
Television crews from OC Sports made the trip to Maehara Stadium, but did not get all of their equipment unpacked before the decision to delay the championship game was made.
"They came over and they started unpacking and once they got word they were going to shut it down, they started packing it up again," Shishido said.
The game between Hilo and Campbell had been moved to Maui High, and play began, but was halted in the top of the first inning.
"I guess we couldn't decide who was third place, but it's good to know that we tied with somebody that we really get along with, which is Campbell," said Vikings coach coach Sidney Nozaki.
Campbell coach Rory Pico said: "Especially for our seniors, the plan was to have the seniors starting and everybody get some innings in, with the younger guys, so I feel bad for them but they'll continue playing over the summer and they'll move on. They'll be all right."


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Taylor Kirian certainly didn't sneak onto the All-Ohio list this year. Of course, after landing a first-team berth in 2012, she was anything but unknown this spring.
But it doesn't hurt to make yourself stand out.
Kirian belted a single-season state record 18 home runs and set a few team marks along the way to earn her second Division IV All-Ohio first-team honor in as many years.
Not too bad for a pitcher (20-8, 127 K, 2.67 ERA) who was penciled onto the All-Ohio list as an outfielder for the second year in a row after turning in a superb season at the plate.
"It's just good to see her get the recognition and have some [NCAA Division I] schools call about her," New Riegel coach Jamie Lininger said.
"The home runs, who would have thought she'd hit 18? Obviously she was good enough to do that, but with our park and the way the wind usually blows in?" he said. "It takes quite a lot to hit that many home runs in a season. It was impressive."
And that started early.
Kirian began the year on a roll, smashing homer after homer and forcing teams to adjust to her at the plate.
"I think she had 10 in the first 12 games and we were thinking, 'Wow, the ball's just flying off the bat.' Then it got to the point where teams weren't pitching to her anymore and (the home runs) started to fall off," Lininger said.
But the rest of her offense didn't suffer.
The junior set single-season team records with her .600 average, 57 hits and 63 RBIs, which tied for third - just two away from tying the all-time high - for the state mark for RBIs in a season.
She also tallied 47 runs, 11 doubles and a triple.
"You think about just the idea of having somebody going to be on base three out of five times, and often with an extra-base hit. It puts so much pressure on the other team - what are you going to do with her? And then we've got [Morgan] Noftz and [Kara] Scherger and [Taylor] Arbogast," Lininger said. "We've got some good hitters. It's a nice situation to have."
That situation and Kirian's hot bat led to the Blue Jackets hitting 36 home runs this year, putting them second on the state's single-season list and just three away from tying it.
"I'm not quite sure what got into them," Lininger said.
"Just have some good athlete with good swings. I'd like to think it was coaching, but that's not the case," he said with a laugh.
Four other area players also gained All-Ohio honors, with Mohawk and Hopewell-Loudon each getting two.
Junior Julie Adelsperger led the Mohawk contingent, finishing as a second-team pitcher after fanning 193 and posting a 20-5 mark with a 1.59 ERA.
She also batted .390 with 23 RBIs, five homers, five doubles and three triples - all after missing her sophomore season because of a torn ACL suffered in basketball.
"I knew before she got injured she was a good pitcher, so I couldn't wait for her to come back," Mohawk coach Jenny Weinandy said. "She came to the mound this year like she was never hurt. Her putting the extra time in on her own has really paid off for her to be one of the great pitchers.
"It's tough to get All-Ohio, so I was just proud that the two that did get it, they got honored for their efforts," she said. "I know Julie puts a lot of extra time into pitching, like a lot of pitchers do. She's a powerhouse pitcher and a great hitter, and to have both ... well-deserved All-Ohio."
Cambria Kohlenberg also made the All-Ohio list as an honorable mention outfielder.
The freshman topped the Warriors in batting (.505), hits (48), runs (36), RBIs (32), steals (24) and triples (8). She also belted six doubles and two homers.
"She's a talented player. Her numbers in the league support that, especially with the .505 [batting average]; she's up there with the juniors and seniors in the batting, and pretty much in every category," Weinandy said.
"She's a quiet person," she said, "but her actions speak loudly."
Also gaining honorable mention status were Hopewell-Loudon seniors Racquel Hossler and Lauren Trumpler.
Trumpler, a first-team pick last year, made the list as an infielder who hit .516 with 37 runs, 30 RBIs, 11 doubles, four homers and two doubles.
Hossler, a catcher, hit at a .469 clip with 21 runs, 18 RBIs, 11 doubles, a homer and a triple.
In Division II, Bellevue senior Hannah Lilly was a first-team pick as an infielder.


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ATTICA - Seneca East Schools has released the results from Saturday's "So You Think You Can Sing" competition finals.
Megan Brunty, Upper Sandusky Middle School, took first place in the middle school division. Receiving second and third places, respectively, were Ryan Outland, Upper Sandusky, and Macey Butchko, Firelands Middle School in Oberlin.
Cassie Hartzell, Seneca East Junior High, won Audience Choice Award.
In the high school division, Ellen Lange, Calvert High School, placed first. Kaelan Vogt, Seneca East, and Raven Moloney, Carey High School, were named second and third place, respectively.
Makayla Wilkinson, Old Fort High School, was Audience Choice Award winner.
Winners received $100 and a trophy; second place received $50 and a trophy, and third place received $25 and a trophy. Audience Choice winners received a trophy.
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FOSTORIA The Rotary Club Holiday Parade is to step off at 5 p.m. Sunday on Main Street in Fostoria.
Lighting of the community Christmas tree is to follow, and Santa is to be present 6-8 p.m. at the LE&W Depot, 128 W. North St., Fostoria.
Santa also is to be at the depot 5-7 p.m. each Tuesday and Thursday in December. Dogs are welcome to be photographed with Santa.
Gospel singing coming
Gospel singing is to being at 6 p.m. Saturday at Freewill Baptist Church, 129 Eighth Ave. Danny Ray of Cleveland is to be among the performers.
Food and fellowship are to follow the singing.
For more details, call (419) 448-0566.
Christmas shows booked
Kevin Maiberger and Yvonne Ehrenfried are to entertain residents at area nursing homes and assisted living facilities. This will be their fifth year of volunteering their musical talents at Christmas time.
Their local appearances include:
Kiwanis Manor, 6:30 p.m. Dec. 4.
Charles Meadows, 5 p.m. Dec. 6.
Seneca House, 6 p.m. Dec. 11.
Elmwood Green Springs, 2:30 p.m. Dec. 13.
St. Francis, 1 p.m. Dec. 17.
Autmnwood, 2 p.m. Dec. 18.
Bloomville Ruffing 3:30 p.m. Dec. 20.
Victorian dinners
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BELLEVUE - Historic Lyme Village is to host Victorian Christmas dinners 6-9 p.m. Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 and 1 p.m. Dec. 2 in the Wright Mansion at the village.
The evening includes music, appetizers, a four-course dinner, stories and a tree-lighting ceremony.
Tickets are $49. Seating is limited; tickets must be purchased in advance. For reservations, call (419) 483-4949 or (419) 483-1084.
Strand to host 2 shows
FREMONT - The Strand Concert Theater, 220 S. Front St., Fremont, is offering two shows next weekend.
Rick Shuler is to perform the "Songs and Sounds of John Denver" at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 30.
The Horse Cave Trio and Rick Shuler are teaming for a performance at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 1. The trio includes Ron DeVore, Lou Simon and Tony Bizon performing a blend of bluegrass, soul, rock, country and blues.
The doors open at 7 p.m. for each show. Patrons, 21 and older only, can bring their own coolers.
Admission is $10 at the door. Call (419) 355-8548 for more information.
Christmas in November
concert coming to Clyde
CLYDE - Communities for the Arts in Clyde is to present a Christmas concert by the Toledo Symphony Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 30 at Clyde High School, 1015 Race St., Clyde.
Tickets are $20. For tickets and information, visit www.communitiesfortheartsclyde.org or call (419) 547-0588.


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Would you say ali was "shot" when he fought norton?
any of the times? some1 please school me on when ali's prime ended
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Didn't he first fight Norton around 71 or 72? That was after he came back from that 3 year lay off when they striped him from the title. His prime years would have been during the time they didn't allow him to fight, so it was robbed from him. When he came back, he was not as fast on his feet as he was in 67. The Ali that Norton fought was still good, but not as good as he was from 64-67. Ali looked pretty bad in 72. I think he just wasn't motivated. It wasn't until he fought Foreman and Frazier again, when he rose to the occasion and fought much better. But still, that Ali was not as good as the one from 64-67.
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Ali's absolute prime came in late 66 to 1967.
Ali's first two fights with Norton were in 1973. Ali claims that he undertrained the first time when losing, but he still had a very tough return match which he won by split decision.
Ali was still very much the best heavyweight on the planet during the next few years, as demonstrated in beating Frazier and Foreman in 1974 and Frazier again in 1975.
After the 1975 Frazier fight for me seems to be where Ali really started to show decline almost fight by fight. He looked awful against Jimmy Young in 1976 and later that year was very lucky to hold onto his title against Norton in their third fight.
Ali wasn't shot though, just in decline.
In 1978 he lost to Leon Spinks, but later that year regained his title in the rematch. Ali looked in great shape for the rematch and danced well, but his accuracy wasn't too impressive, though he certainly deserved the decision handily.
It was around this time that he started exhibiting signs of the early onset of Parkinsons; when he was tired his speach was more gravelly and less clear and he sometimes had a vacant expression.
He certainly seemed shot for Holmes in 1980, though I do agree that thyroid/weight shedding drugs played a part. He was much sharper and more active for Berbick in 1981, but his reflexes were awful. Despite winning a few rounds Ali did not decerve the decision. But what was most worrying was the difference between Ali's speach in the pre fight press conferences and in the post fight interview......you could hardly understand him after the fight!
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I thought he was shot by the time he fought Holmes.
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1) He trained harder, came in lighter and in much better shape and danced much more. In fight one he gave several rounds away rope a doping and fighting flat footed.
2) Spinks simply wasn't as motivated and didn't train as hard for the rematch. His trainer walked out mid fight from what I remember because he didn't feel that Neon Leon was making much of an effort. I gather that Leon may have already embarked on his much publicised cocaine habit.
If the Spinks from fight one met Ali from Spinks two, I think we'd have seen a closer fight. In fight one there is no denying that Spink's stamina and workrate were world class.........he was a real handful with excellent amateur pedigree and some good head movement. He never hit that form again!
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Ali had about 4 careers!!! Some say he couldn't do it after the ban! I know that he couldn't move like he used to but that would have happened anyway! The first Spinks fight he didn't train At All!! He did the second fight but it was clear that he had once again had slipped. However he rededicated himself to get in top shape and he did just that!! I'm not sure when the nezt decline began but he hung around way to long like most do! Ali had a pretty full plate long before he fought Frazier in their first bout. Most think of him then, find some film of him boxing Williams or how he handled Liston, he beat the crap out of Liston and made him quit and that was a "straight up fight"!
As a young champ (defeating Liston) no one ever saw a heavyweight do the things he did for that matter he looked like a giant Willie Pep and when he spread his feet out to punch he looked like Sugarman!!
Watch the videos, study him on the move and realize that if he didn't want to take a chance he could have fought 10 rounders and gotten hit maybe 10 times! He could cover a 22' ring in a second it seemed! The Greatest! Ray.
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Alis prime was gone due to the lay off, he was out of shape because he didn't train properly for the first fight. After that first fight with Norton he really made the most of what he had left at that point (his stamina and speed were a LOT worse post-layoff) for a few years he was definately declining slowly until that third fight vs Frazier which accelerated that decline hugely. Post-lay off Ali was not as motivated fight-by-fight as he was pre-lay off. He was in excellent shape for every fight during 64-67 but after his lay off there were a lot of fights where he should have finished it earlier or should not have lost but he was put in that spot because he was not motivated enough and didn't train properly.
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Lt. Governor Brown, Sen. Mikulski, Sen. Cardin and Maryland Department of Labor Announce $7.66 Million Federal Grant to Develop BRAC Workforce
ANNAPOLIS, MD (June 22, 2011) Maryland officials announced today that the U.S. Department of Labor has awarded the State a $7.66 million National Emergency Grant to assist more than 6,500 U.S. Department of Defense civilian employees, contractors and military spouses who have been impacted by the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) decisions. The grant will allow the State of Maryland and the District of Columbia to implement an integrated approach to help jobseekers navigate the federal hiring process and compete for BRAC jobs and other federal jobs across the region.
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Wednesday, 10th August, 2005, 02:59 PM #131
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ditto, I still wish he would either:
Compile it into a novel, sell it, make money (I know I would buy it even with having read it here. . . I can imagine it now. . . getting the first book, holding it in my hands, touching the cover, breathing in that new book smell, it would be my precioussss)
I do not doubt that it would be bigger than the Wheel of Time, it's already better than that here.
Set up a donation thing, so that we may encourage him to write more or the like. . . :P
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I thought I would take the time to do some rereading. I do have a quick question. Which thread has the resolution of the great battle. (I remember reading it, and that Graz'zt made his first appearance to Eadric via a gate.) Good updates, Sep. Hoperfully, we will see one soon.
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Tuesday, 16th August, 2005, 08:53 AM #133
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Another point that I thought I'd mention... has anyone else noticed that the female characters in Sepulchrave's campaign seem to invariably come to bad ends? I mean, not that I'm criticizing Sep or anything; I just thought it was an interesting trend. Consider:
Soraine: Fried to a cinder by Rimilin, outside of Morne.
Nehael: Has her lips cut off, imprisoned in state of indescribable torture.
Mulissu: Murdered by her own daughter.
Iua: Possessed, forced to murder her mother, taken to the Abyss.
Shomei: Dies permanently somehow in the battle for Afqithan.
Soneillon: Ditto.
Nhura: Probably ditto.
Jetheeg: Probably ditto.
Threxu: Slain by Nwm.
Uzmi: Slain at Khu.
Nufrut: Trapped in a magic jar.
Breama: Killed at the battle of the Nund.
Melancholy: Divested of its wielder, eaten by a nature spirit.
And a cast of succubi too large to mention... seems like a succubus gets offed in practically every other post. I assume Nhura and her pals must have died in the Afqithan battle, or else Ortwine wouldn't be Queen there. Not yet sure what happened to Koilimilou or Tarva. Jalael has only just now appeared in person in the story, so it's too early to tell for her.
The only exceptions seem to be Mesikammi, who (as far as one can tell from the limited information in the Story Hour) seems to have disposed of Melancholy and then ridden off into the sunset with Hullu; and Hlioth, who seems undamaged by recent events. Did I leave any non-deific named characters out?
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Tuesday, 16th August, 2005, 01:11 PM #134
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If you are talking about the battle in Afquitain. The one where Mostin had the massive dimentional lock and 20 or so Reality Storms going and had just summoned The Horror. It hasn't been posted. That was one of the things he apparently got hung up on in trying to write up the story hour. So he skipped over it to start this thread.Originally Posted by William Ronald
First off all of those characters are NPCs and most of them are enemies of Eadric and friends. Or at best very loosely allied (Sonellion and her sucubi). BTW, Nehael was freed shortly before the big battle in Aquiftain. Also most deaths are permenent in Sep's campaign. Ortwin/Ortwine only gets to keep coming back because he is friends with Nwm who is high enough to cast Reincarnate.Originally Posted by Fimmtiu
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Tuesday, 16th August, 2005, 10:44 PM #136
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I either missed this, or my memory is going bad (equal chance of both, I guess). Was this the event of viridity that seemed to grow around her while she was in the Abyss, or am I remembering it incorrectly?Originally Posted by Rackhir
Can you point me to what happened to her afterwards? Thanks.
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Tales of Wyre: The Compiled Sepulchrave Story Hour (updated 05/15) Thanks to Cheiromancer - Page 3, Post 86Originally Posted by Warrior Poet
"In Morne, the Sela sat in a state of saizhan, the interaction of entities of tremendous power appearing merely as facets of the dialectic revealed to consciousness. Whether his mind reflected reality, or reality responded to his intention was unknown. Causality, synchronicity and coincidence: all were meaningless terms.
The Messenger reached an interface. A bubble of separation. Sealed, inviolable; the labour of centuries of sorcery. Even before he touched it, Rintrah knew that he could not penetrate it.
Oronthon Magnified him. He passed effortlessly through.
Pain waited beyond. It was as if all the agony in the cosmos had been distilled into this single space, mere yards across: a perfect sphere, the walls of which were graven with glyphs and runes of torment. Their power passed over the celestial, and around him, and through him, but caused less than the slightest discomfort. Rintrah's eyes, incandescent with potency now, glanced upwards to behold a semblance of a form: wracked, inchoate, stretched and twisted beyond recognition, its pattern diffuse at its margins. It seemed as if the slightest of breezes would cause it to evaporate. Its grasp on existence was tenuous.
Under the force of the Planetar's selfless Will, the quiddity of the sphere began to change, and reshaped itself according to his direction. Empty space assumed pleasing forms: a tree, a small pool with lilies, a tiny rock garden. The upper hemisphere gave off a soft, azure radiance, reminiscent of a cloudless day in late summer.
Rintrah rested briefly: the effort of creation was not insignificant. He glanced at the artificial sky, still etched with sigils of dreadful power which emanated madness and pain, before his wings lifted him gently aloft. As his hand trailed lightly over the runes, each one shattered, disjoined into its separate components. They fell like a silver dust upon the rockery, or to float upon the surface of the pool.
The formless thing, still suspended in the centre of the sphere, quivered palpably and then relaxed. For an instant, Rintrah was concerned that the sudden removal of the tension that it had experienced might cause it to dissociate. He swiftly grasped the essence and held it in his hands. Cohesion and perception returned to it. Responsive to the celestial's ministrations, it corporeated rapidly.
Rintrah laid her by the bole of the tree, hallowed the sphere, and vanished. Nehael slept for the first time in her immeasurably long existence.
The Sela shifted his position, and a single bead of sweat trickled from his temple. It had been a particularly difficult meditation."
I'm fairly certain this next part is about Nehael. 99%, but
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"She stood, and looked again at the tree for a long while.
It had an oddly compelling quality, which drew one's eyes to it and evoked a desire to run hands over soft, smooth bark. Its height and girth suggested that it was old, but it possessed a quality which seemed youthful. Strange for a tree.
Around its base, bright flowers sprang between rocks and trailed into a pool fed by a small spring. The water moved, but she couldn't determine where it went, after it left the pool. Curious, she thought. She looked at the tree again.
Sometimes, she felt that it was watching her.
She gazed around, and wondered what else there was out there. Away from the tree. More than once, she had determined to leave to walk away from the tree. To explore. But she never did.
Why leave the tree, after all? Whatever else there was, it couldn't be better than the tree.
She lay down against its warm bole, and it seemed to embrace her. She watched thoughts and memories pass through her mind, and wondered who had experienced them.
Bathe, she thought.
She vaguely recalled the fact that she liked to bathe. It seemed like a good idea although she was unsure whether it had risen unbidden in her mind, or the tree had prompted the desire. She rose, walked the short distance over to the pool, and slid into the water. It was the perfect depth, and the perfect temperature. She immersed her head briefly as that seemed the right thing to do before leaning back and relaxing against a rock, which seemed to fit her head and neck very comfortably.
She suddenly noticed a small figure maybe two thirds her own height sitting on a branch of the tree, with its legs dangling freely. It wore grey hose and a leaf-green waistcoat.
"Hello," she said.
"Hello," the other replied. "Are you happy?"
"Yes," she said.
"Good," the other smiled.
"Where did you come from?" She asked. "I haven't seen you before."
"I came from the tree."
"Ahh," she nodded. She hauled herself easily from the water, and walked back towards the tree. She noticed that now she was covered in tiny flecks of silver she rubbed them gently, but they seemed somehow part of her skin.
"They will not come off," the other said.
"What are they?' She asked.
The other smiled sadly. "The memory of a great injustice."
She cocked her head inquisitively.
"It would take too long to explain," the other said. "Nor does it matter the injustice never really happened now. Your transition is passed at last, and you have been finally surrendered: from one Truth to another. This place is two things: a prison hallowed by an angel, and a womb which has always been here. If sometimes the Truth that you chose seems cold and indifferent, then it is Her nature. Maybe She forgot you for a while. Don't blame Her: She doesn't love you any less."
"You think too much," she laughed. "What will happen now?"
"Something nobody expects," the other replied.
"And what is that?" She asked.
"A Viridity," the other said, his eyes blazing."
Forshadowing is a sign of good writing.
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AFQITHAN: PROLOGUE (Part 1)
[Soneillon]: If you should happen to slay Ainhorr today, you should grieve for him.
[Eadric]: (Contempt.)
[Soneillon]: Arrogance! You, at least, should lament his passing. A great warrior. Ever loyal to the master he loves and despises.
[Eadric]: Loves? Love is never that ugly.
[Soneillon]: Love is often that ugly, Eadric.
[Eadric]: And if you should perish today? How should I then react?
[Soneillon]: Exult in your memory, Eadric. Because nothing will ever again compare to me.
[Eadric]: For that, at least, I will be thankful.
[Soneillon]: You will be diminished.
And this unfortunately is it as revealed so far. Go and meditate upon Saizhan.
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AFQITHAN: (Part 1)
Nwm's eyes flashed open. He had been sitting beneath a fir-tree, listening to the soft pad, pad of an arctic fox, when he heard its pattern change in response to a new stimulus. Something else was close by. He waited.
The Druid inhaled sharply as she approached. She was beautiful. And curiously familiar.
She sat down in the snow before him, unabashed by her own nakedness, and smiled. Her skin possessed a soft, silver sheen, and her eyes no longer demonic were green within green.
"This is an unexpected pleasure," Nwm said wrily. "I should warn you: if my conversation seems stilted or awkward, it's because I haven't spoken for several months."
"Your social ineptitude was never much of a concern," she laughed.
"Can I assume that Eadric was successful in his efforts?" Nwm asked.
"Not yet." She raised an eyebrow.
"I am unsure as to whether I should worship you or not."
"That is your choice. It makes no difference to me. What were you doing?"
"You know, Nehael, I don't really know. Waiting for you, I suppose. I don't imagine that there's a rational explanation for your presence here?"
"Certainly not."
"And what happens now?" Nwm asked.
Nehael laughed. "I asked that very question myself."
"And what answer did you receive?"
"'A Viridity,'" she replied.
"That is suitably vague," Nwm sighed.
"Strange," Nehael said drily. "I had the same reaction. There is something that I would like to share with you, Nwm. A place."
"What sort of place?" Nwm asked suspiciously.
"A sanctuary. An island of Green. An unassailable bastion. A womb."
Nwm felt a frisson of excitement as she spoke, but his voice was sceptical. "In my experience, nowhere is unassailable."
"Prepare to change your mind," Nehael smiled. She held out her hand, and he took it. Stretching forwards, she lightly touched the bark of the tree.
"Step into the tree," she said.
They dissolved into an ocean of jade, emerald and celadon. Another Tree, which was the same tree it was, in fact, all trees appeared.
Nwm quaked. His mind screamed in fear, and soared in awe. His breath became rapid and shallow. He was dumbstruck, unwilling to believe, but knowing that it was there.
"Eadric's forebears would have referred to it as the Tree-ludja," Nehael said softly, touching the Tree. "Yours would have called it Derv.**"
"What have you become?" Nwm asked her.
"You know what I am," Nehael smiled. "I am merely Nehael. But now the way is open. You first showed it to me. She remembers. That is why it is Tree, and not Lake or Storm."
Nwm swallowed. She alluded to things which made him feel distinctly uncomfortable. Gingerly, he reached out.
Tree, he knew.
He looked out from the blackthorn in the courtyard of Kyrtill's Burh; from a huge banyan in Afqithan, around which demons clashed furiously; from a hornbeam with white bark and silver leaves, beneath which a goddess meditated; from a viper-tree amid a grove in Azzagrat, where acid rained and fire burned; from a lonely olive-tree on a deserted island in Pandicule; from a celestial oak which rose, impossibly perfect, upon the Blessed Plain.
Nwm withdrew his perception, and looked at Nehael.
"How?" He asked.
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"Is there more?"
"Oh, yes. There is much more."
"But to look into Hell? Oronthon's Heaven? These places are not "
"Of the Green?" She offered. "I think you need to revise your understanding, Nwm. The Viridity is a transcendental principle: it does not care for conventional labels. Green just became a lot bigger."
"Who was the goddess beneath the tree?" He asked.
"Her name is Lai," Nehael smiled. "You will meet her in due course."
"What is her rôle?" He asked dubiously.
"She is a student. Of magic. Of nature. Her world is all but dead. You will like her which is all to the good."
Nwm gave a quizzical look.
"A student needs a teacher," Nehael explained, "and a goddess needs a priest."
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Thursday, 18th August, 2005, 02:42 PM #138
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Thanks. That's what I thought it was, just couldn't remember clearly.Originally Posted by Rackhir
Yes, me too.Originally Posted by Rackhir
Which is, in turn, never in any dispute with this story hour. To wit:Originally Posted by Rackhir
If I could write half-as-well as this . . .Originally Posted by Rackhir
Here I am, trying to transcend my duality.[B][I]Go and meditate upon Saizhan.
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Thursday, 18th August, 2005, 03:48 PM #139
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I too feel a frisson of excitement when I see "Viridity and Saizhan (updated..." on the forum main page. I jump to the forum and check the date... unfortunately, it is still 5-15.
Ah well. Well I am sure the SH is as much fun to write as it is to read, composing it must be even more difficult than waiting for it. Poor Sep.
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I'd really, really like to know how Soneillon died and if they managed to have any parting communication.
And why this last reincarnation had such an abrupt change of attitude on Ort.
I'd also really like to know if Eadric and Nehal have had any communication...after all, this was all originally about the 2 of them...waaaaay back in the beginning.