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  1. Toral Delvar

    Sometimes special people come to our lives, stay for a bit and then they have to go… But the bit...

    Sometimes special people come to our lives, stay for a bit and then they have to go… But the bit where they were here was happy, wasn't it?
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    Hiring: Director of Research and Records: Due March 17

    Just a couple of days to get you application in. If you have questions, email and I will do my best to answer
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    Some Philosophical Considerations during Re-read

    Also, how much memory does the Dark One have? If he is eternal, does he remember every encounter? Surely he knows nothing works? Or is he not really conscious, just some sort of reflection of man's worst aspects (Can't say I like either of those ideas). We see how he is defeated in these books...
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    Congratulations, Morwynna Sedai!

    So yes, Congratulations
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    Some Philosophical Considerations during Re-read

    Was there a first turning of the wheel, or are there infinite cycles going into the past. In which case was the universe ever created? Is it destroyed at the end of the 7th spoke and then fully created from nothing each time? Where do all the souls go while it resets and during the time for...
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    In which a whole heap of us re-read Wheel of Time

    DarkFriends Social! that takes me back some decades to the days of Usenet Some of them. we can later work out who they are, or I think , it was confirmed. Others, we never find out - all sorts of plans and things happening "off screen" that apparently didn't work out and we never get to see them
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    Hiring: Director of Research and Records: Due March 17

    Real life has got involved and Ilverin has decided to step down as Director, so we are now hiring a new one The Director of Research and Records is responsible for keeping the library updated, hiring the Historians, working with researchers and editors to plan improvements to the library...
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    Congratulations to our new Head of Green!

    Congratulations!
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    Ruslan's Reread: Narg & Other thoughts

    I think that is a big theme in the series - acting on insufficient evidence, or jumping to unwarranted conclusions. Sometimes it's unavoidable, as not acting isn't an option, so they just have to do what they can on the available evidence and hope for the best. Other times, it's just a character...
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    Ruslan's Reread: Narg & Other thoughts

    I think that's pretty in character for Elayne. The more power she gets, the more entitled and like a standard noble she gets
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    In which a whole heap of us re-read Wheel of Time

    I got distracted last week by the release of the new Sarah Maas book, which then inspired me to re-read her first series. I should finish book 7 today, so can get back to this and do Eye of the World
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    February 29th - Rare Disease Day

    Yes. The webinar was more about detection and that because there are so many, and most have few people with them, it is really hard to find biomarkers to detect, so even if someone comes with a set of symptoms that match, it can be hard to be certain. They also talked about gene sequencing...
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    February 29th - Rare Disease Day

    This is interesting, I just watched a Webinar on "Analysis of RNASeq from >5000 individuals in the 100000 genomes project identifies new potential diafnoses for patients with rare disease" a couple of weeks ago. The figure they gave was there are at least 6000 of them and about 1 in 17 people...
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    In which a whole heap of us re-read Wheel of Time

    I just realised. My Sig is up to date again!
  15. Toral Delvar

    Congrats??

    It’s not news of course, but sometimes, I am provided with such a stark example that I feel compelled to comment
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    Congrats??

    I can't help but feel this might not be entirely correct. I don't recall force bonding anyone, and spontaneous as it was, my first sistering was entirely consensual
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    Congrats??

    You people are strange
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    In which a whole heap of us re-read Wheel of Time

    OK, so I started. With Ravens. And despite how many times I have read it, still ended up editing the Ravens chapter summary. Nothing major, just some of the character traits, especially for Egwene and Mat, and how young they are when we can see them
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    In which a whole heap of us re-read Wheel of Time

    Foreshadowing is also something we try and track in the notes, though it’s hard to be sure what is genuine foreshadowing and when we are just reading things into it.
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