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Chinese Proverb
Last week I provided links to the kOscar nominations for Best Diary of the Year. Tonight, I present the diaries that have been nominated for Best Teaching Diary. Congratulations to all those who were nominated!
Here are the Best Teaching Diary Nominations with a small portion of each diary to lure you in to read them.
See below for voting instructions for the runoff polls to narrow the choices and a big thanks to LaughingPlanet and those who helped:
boran2
Kitsap River
rb137
spedwybabs
smileycreek (edited TWICE!)
weatherdude
History for Kossacks: The Imperialist Era's BP by Unitary Moonbat
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The Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies, est.1600
It's 1600, and things are finally starting to look merry in old England. Only 25 years before, she had been recovering from profound religious strife – now, as A Midsummer Night's Dream is playing its first run ever, the mighty Elizabeth I grants a charter incorporating the joint-stock venture that would eventually become the East India Company. Not so long ago, she might have thought twice about committing the fleet to sailing past rival Spain, but with the Epic Fail that was the Spanish Armada of 1588 (note: extreme pro-Elizabeth bias), Felipe II had shot his naval wad, as it were, and set his country on course for an agonizingly long decline. As far as the Brits were concerned, the sea-lanes to the southern tip of Africa were now open for business.
Private investors were soon sending vessels to seek new routes to the East. A 1591 expedition saw the ship Edward Bonaventure sail around Cape of Good Hope, do some trading on the Malay Peninsula, and return in 1594. Another 3-ship expedition was lost at sea a couple of years later, but by 1598, people were starting to petition the Queen for monopoly trading rights. In the end, she charged a little over £68,000 for her signature, which granted a group including the Earl of Cumberland and 215 "Knights, Aldermen, and Burgesses" exclusive rights to all English trade east of the Cape of Good Hope and west of the Straits of Magellan for a period of 15 years.
Sunday Bread by Something the Dog Said
Pumpkin Walnut Bread
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This addy shows the list of diaries about all kinds of interesting bread recipes.
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Low Light Photography by stevej
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You don't need to spend a fortune to take a good photograph or have a degree in optics. I would give two bits of advice to anyone starting out or looking to get beyond the Point, Shoot and Pray stage of their photographic development:
- Use a light source that is at least 6 inches away from the front of the lens i.e. no flash that cannot be physically separated from the camera (unless of course you are aiming for a very hard light with the corresponding sharp edged and dark shadows.
- Learn how to take a picture with the minimum amount of light that your camera will allow
This longish piece addresses the second one of these. There are some numbers and technical words within it but those passages can be safely ignored or not depending upon preference.
Archaeology in Egypt: the Night Bus to Dakhleh (photos) by blue jersey mom
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As some of you know, blue jersey dad and I have been in Egypt for the past couple of weeks working on the animal bone from a 4th-century Roman site. The site is located in the Dakleh Oasis in the Western Desert about 12 hours southwest of Cairo. While this diary has nothing to do with the Massachusetts senate election, health care reform, or the Obama administration, I wanted to show you a little about what we were doing in Egypt and what life is like today and in the past for the inhabitants of this remote location.
Please follow me below the fold for an introduction to the archaeology of the Dakleh Oasis and life in this remote region of Egypt.
Living Well with Type 2 Diabetes by Kitsap River
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It's also National Diabetes Month all month. If you are at risk (I'll go through some risk factors below), please, please, go to your doctor or find a screening event (they're all over the country this month) and get yourself screened for Type 2 diabetes. The things I talk about are also applicable to just about anyone who has been diagnosed with impaired glucose tolerance, aka prediabetes, or has been told they are at risk unless they do something about it. Some of it may be applicable to Type 1 PWDs, but I'm focusing on Type 2 because that's what I know and live with.
The Basics of Diabetes
What is diabetes, particularly Type 2 diabetes? It's when your body doesn't use its own insulin well, makes less (sometimes none), and the beta cells of your pancreas decrease to little or nothing. Your body then cannot correctly process the food and beverages you take in, all of which eventually turn into glucose in some amount. Carbohydrates, including sugar and starches, turn into glucose quickest. Protein takes the longest. But all of it - every bit - eventually turns into glucose so that your body can use it as fuel.
With your beta cells diminished and your insulin not properly utilized, the glucose can build up in your system as you digest your food and your body cannot process it fast enough. That causes high blood glucose - just what it sounds like, a high level of glucose in your blood - and that is the hallmark of diabetes. High blood glucose leads to diabetes complications such as diabetic retinopathy (messing up your eyes), diabetic neuropathy (generally messing up your feet - you can be in constant pain from this), diabetic nephropathy (kidney disease), clogging your arteries, screwing up your brain, sexual dysfunction, and stuff like that. These can lead to amputation, blindness, and being stuck in the dialysis chair. They are all very good reasons to work to achieve good BG control.
Classical Music Blogging OPUS 1. Sonata-allegro form (pt 1) by Dumbo
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I had a good friend once that I played a symphony for. She told me afterward that she enjoyed it, although she didn't really understand it all; that it was like being washed over by a beautiful mix of sounds and images. I feel that way too, sometimes, when I listen to a piece of music I've never heard before or never really got into enough to grasp it. That's normal. Our goal is to learn to not listen to music as a series of disjointed albeit enjoyable sounds and images but to hear the coherent whole of it, the story and drama that carries it forward from beginning to end, that gives it a point. If you're being washed over by the pretty sounds, you haven't heard the music yet. Unexpected pleasures may await you.
SONATA-ALLEGRO FORM
So I want to start by talking about probably the single most important lesson in understanding and appreciating classical music from about 1750 up to today: Sonata-allegro form, also called just Sonata form. I'm going to post an example of this soon enough. Symphonies and piano sonatas and concertos and quartets and quintets and divertimenti are all examples of what are called sonatas. They all follow a fairly typical format with three or four separate movements. And the very first movement is almost always in a form called Sonata-allegro form.
Excuse me for having to introduce musical jargon, but, if it's necessary, well, you know... If you had grown up in Vienna, Austria in the nineteenth century, hearing Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik on every street corner, you would have absorbed the whole lesson from an early age and not need the jargon; Sonata-allegro itself would be part of your inherent cultural baggage, whether you knew the term or not.
Not Breaking: Gov't contractor charged with spying by Casual Wednesday
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Meet Daniel Ellsberg. Dr. Ellsberg (he holds his doctorate in Economics) was the consummate Cold Warrior. He worked for an outfit called The RAND Corporation. RAND, short for "Research and Development" was started after World War II to continue the sort of research and war planning that won the war. RAND not only allows its researchers a free hand to do their work, but also reserves the right to refuse proposed projects in order to maintain the sort of atmosphere that is conducive to academic research.
Ellsberg went to Vietnam in 1964 and stayed until he came down with a bout of hepatitis the following year. During that time, he befriended Lt. Col. John Paul Vann, the third most important American official in country. Vann was one of the few commanders who would tell the media that the American strategy in Southeast Asia was not working. Ellsberg and Vann shared a revulsion about the killing of civilians by all sides.
As an aside: around the same time, New York Times reporter Neil Sheehan met Lt. Col. Vann. Vann was a fascinating man and Sheehan wrote 768 pages about him.
How regulation came to be: the Scofield Mine Explosion by dsteffen
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Despite the location in an area we don't think of as typical "coal country", the miners at the Pleasant Valley Coal Company's Winter Quarters Mines in Scofield, Utah, were exceedingly typical of the coal industry workforce at the turn of the twentieth century. They were largely recent immigrants, in the case of Scofield, predominantly Finnish, although Scots, Welsh, French, Italians, Danes, British, and even Icelanders were also represented.
The majority had been in the country less than a decade Many had been recruited abroad by the mining companies, the companies sometimes paying their fare in exchange for a work agreement of a minimum duration. The immigrants lived in company houses, shopped at company stores, were often paid in company scrip, and frequently found themselves quickly in debt to their employers.
By 1900, five separate mines were operating at Winter Quarters, and with the new contract the Pleasant Valley Coal Company had recently landed to supply large quantities of coal to the U. S. Navy-- a contract that had prompted the company to boost the mines' production demands by 2,000 tons a day -- the town of Scofield had plenty to celebrate as Dewey Day approached.
Global Drying: World's 4th-largest lake 90% gone by LaughingPlanet
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The United Nations has of course known this was a huge problem for decades. But have they made headway in addressing the cause? Not so much:
Unfortunately, despite this and other efforts, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) concluded in 1991 that the problem of land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas had intensified, although there were "local examples of success ".
As a result, the question of how to tackle desertification was still a major concern for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), which was held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.
We have already seen 600 Mongolian rivers & 700 lakes disappear due to erratic rainfall.
That's just in Mongolia.
In India, even the wettest place on Earth is drying up. Quickly.
Once the world's wettest places, Cherrapunji is getting up to 20% less rain every year - and is suffering water shortages.
Residents say their heavenly abode in the clouds is hotter and drier than ever before - and they blame it on global warming.
(snip)
"We never cut a branch in these sacred forests. So you cannot say this adverse weather change is our creation. We are affected by what's happening all over the world," he told the BBC.
"This hot weather and less rain here is not due to huge deforestation or massive industrialisation".
Criminal Injustice Kos: Incarcerated Veterans by DaNang65
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We all count the cost of our military adventurism. The billions upon billions of dollars wasted. The loss of our nation's sons and daughters so well chronicled here by the beautiful people at I Got The News Today. The horrors visited on so many innocent Iraqis and Afghanis, and now Pakistanis. The ongoing expenditures for medical care and treatment, through the VA and otherwise. Some even consider the cost of the destroyed lives of those who come home "never quite the same".
In tonight's Criminal Injustice Kos I'd like to raise another cost, one very few ever consider. Among the living who return emotionally crippled by what they've seen and done, some will seem to "adjust" until some terrible event rips away their masks, some will become homeless street people, unable to reacclimate to life "in the world", many will become self medicating drug and alcohol abusers, and some will, directly or indirectly, because of their emotional disabilities and self medication, become incarcerated veterans.
It's as inevitable as tomorrow's sunrise, yet not exactly a topic of everyday conversation. So, by the grace of the wonderful folks who created this series, I'd like to turn tonight's discussion toward the incarcerated veteran, a pet topic of mine, because I was one.
Cheney -- This is Waterboarding by rb137
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Hitchens nearly gets through the first fifteen seconds. Beginning at 4:08 in the clip, he describes what he felt while he was on the board.
"If you hold your breath, it has the effect of tightening the grip of the stuff over your face and mouth and nostrils. It's a smothering feeling as well as a drowning feeling."
This drowning feeling that Hitchens describes, one of having liquid nearly enter the lungs, is a penetration trauma. There is an imminent threat to life that imprints itself on the nervous system much like a gunshot wound, a stabbing, or a rape. But this is all before the body sees a significant rise in blood carbon dioxide level. Even with the knowledge that it is an academic exercise, Hitchens got a taste of the penetration experience and aborted the experiment.
There is much noise from apologists that water never gets through the cloth to actually drown the prisoner. What they do not tell you is that this does not matter. When normal breathing gets interrupted, so does normal swallowing. During waterboarding, the prisoner's head is tilted back so that any liquid -- including saliva or nasal fluid -- will build up at the back of the throat. This creates a constant aspiration threat. It is the fight to control this liquid at the back of the throat that sometimes results in the prisoner swallowing his own tongue and suffocating to death -- hence the need for a trachiotomy kit in the interrogation room.
Hitchens describes having Post Traumatic Stress symptoms after the fact, starting at 5:15 in the video clip. He wakes up in the middle of the night feeling smothered, and sometimes has panic sensations when he becomes winded. And all of this after only fifteen seconds on the board. What happens when waterboarding goes on longer?
To kill a mockingbird is a sin . . . by teacherken
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Great art is not necessarily history. But it may provide an even deeper truth.
Sometimes we only begin to truly understand a problem through a work of art. Yes, I am of the generation that lived through the Civil Rights era. We saw on television, perhaps read in newspapers, of the events. We saw the angry mobs in Little Rock. We read about bombings of buses and of synagogues. One might argue that those images and words began to change our understanding, calling our attention to what was happening. We saw the images of troops in Little Rock and later at the University of Mississippi for James Meredith. George Corley Wallace became the political face of opposition to integration, even if the filibusters first of Strom Thurmond and later of Robert Byrd did more to retard addressing this shame of our nation.
And yet we did not fully understand. I knew very few Southern whites. I remember in 1959 a boy in my cabin at National Music Camp in Interlochen from Jackson, Mississippi, and another from Alexandria Louisiana. We challenged them, trying to understand how they could be part of a system. John, from Mississippi, sidestepped the question - he and his family simply offered us reproductions of Confederate money, not to bribe us per se, but in the hopes of having us accept John as simply coming from a different culture. Eddie, the young man from Louisiana, was far more blunt - he told us to get real, that we didn't treat our Niggers in the North all that much differently than they did in the South. In the almost all white environment of Interlochen in the 1950s, his words cut us in a way we did not expect.
Harper Lee's magnificent novel appeared half a century ago, after that summer in Interlochen. I remember my parents bought it, and I read it - I was in my early teens, but had had a card for the adult library for several years, so my parents allowed me to read it. The film with Gregory Peck in his Oscar-winning role of Atticus Finch came out only two years later. I remember my experience of both the book and the film. Both were told from the point of view of a young girl, Scout, the daughter of Atticus Finch. I was not all that sympathetic to girls, even though I was of an age where I was exploring my feelings towards them. Yet in reading the book I found myself drawn into her world, her perceptions, her attempting to make sense of the things she was encountering. Good literature has that effect. Great literature places one within the emotions she experiences, and one begins to see as she does. As I did with the book.
For Whom the Bell Tolls: 3 Dead Per Day by soothsayer99
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As Churchill Downs prepares for the 136th "Run for the Roses", such hard cold data would be a distraction from the pagentry, the celebrity, the mint juleps, the hats and the sanitized singing of an old racist song.
But this is the billboard that should call us to take a closer look...
The glamour of this one day of horseracing belies a brutal "sport". Horseracing is the USA is not the "sport of kings" but rather a marginalized meat-grinder industry which chews up both young and old horses at an alarming rate. It is a loosely regulated association of state "gaming" commissions with little federal oversight, an industry where serial dopers are Eclipse Award winners and multi-millionaire breeders may neglect and starve their horses.
Mostly, it is an industry that kills off its' athletes. For obvious reasons, there is little transparency here. The indusry only recently began to collect and does still not regulary publish national fatality data, but at least two independent studies indicate that more than three racehorses die each day at the track.
My Queer Life is Lived at the Intersections by RadioGirl
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For now, I want to note that while I am active in elections – I walk precincts, sometimes serve as a convention delegate, phone bank, give money, put up yard signs, go to rallies, all that good stuff – I have never placed ultimate faith in electoral politics. They are important, but they are not everything. Not for one moment did I believe that any president could – even in two terms – work all the miracles we need worked to undo even a modest measure of the horrific damage and injustice wrought not just by the Bush administrations, but by the relentless rightward push since Goldwater’s calamitous defeat in 1964.
To do that, I think we need to emphasize movement building. Because without that, even though we may elect a few "better" Democrats, we won't be able to even envision, much less sustain, a bold, imaginative, and compelling justice vision that increasingly trumps the fearful dread of the Right.
The political climate today is toxic; it is pathological; it is virtually insane. The Right has made it so, abetted by religious fear-mongering, and the media increasingly colludes in the production of tabloid political journalism, a circus to distract us from bleak realities. Corporations have a stranglehold on so much of our political and economic lives. Liberals/leftists/progressives have not yet succeeded in stopping this train wreck, much less turning the train around. So what do we do? Start screaming at each other, as if that screaming were somehow a valiant badge of courage instead of just piss-poor, embarrassing behavior. If we are not careful, we will simply strengthen that climate, which is defined by the promulgation of fear, the marketing of polarization and hostility, a gospel of scarcity and resentment; the skyrocketing of anxiety and dread as we all wonder what our futures hold – or if we and the world in which we live have any future at all.
How regulation came to be: El Cortito --the short hoe by dsteffen
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In 1965, a predominantly Filipino labor union, the AFL-CIO-affiliated Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), went on strike against grape growers in the Delano, California area, trying to force the growers to recognize their union for collective bargaining.
They shortly recruited the support of a competing union, the three-year-old National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) which was then representing largely Latino farm laborers. The following year, the two unions, still striking the growers, merged to form the United Farm Workers under the leadership of Cesar Chavez of the NFWA.
The ever-expanding strike was to drag on for five years, employing an escalating arsenal of tactics to draw attention and support for their cause. It was in support of that strike that I found myself among a group of college students staging an informational picket outside an Eisner supermarket in (maybe) December of 1969.
Haitians fought in our Revolutionary War...we turned our backs on theirs by Deoliver47
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As we all turn our eyes towards the epic tragedy unfolding in Haiti, and as massive relief efforts get underway (thank-yous to all here who have dedicated time and money to those efforts) I am enraged by right-wing commentary that encourages our citizenry to turn their backs on Haiti and Haitians. For what do they have to do with us?
The history of Haiti, and its relationship to the United States is as old as the American Revolution, not withstanding the spews of bigots.
This monument stands in Savannah Georgia as silent testimony...
Friday Evening Photo Blogging: Street Photography Edition by Eddie C
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As I walked I began thinking about the many impressions I've collected in my head, the photographers that have walked those streets before me. Below the fold are some of my street photos from that spring day but first probably far too many thoughts about the history of street photography in NYC.
I've never got a job from a poor man in my life by citizen k
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Ben Franklin arrived in Philadelphia dead broke and without a job. David Packard and Bill Hewlett started their company with $500 investment. Amazon.com and Apple were started in garages. But Tea Party sponsor David Koch got $300 million when Dad died and he has a different, more aristocratic view of how the world should be. So he's funded a lot of people to sell the slogan "I've never got a job from a poor man" - something Thomas Jefferson would have considered more appropriate for peasants under old France than for citizens in America.
Sick of Republican Forwarded Viral E-Mails (UPDATE: A Response)
by aaraujo
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With a just few minutes of copying, pasting, Google searching, some more copying, pasting and with some editing, here is my Reply All response...
If a Democrat hears about a crime in his neighborhood, he calls the cops, and then finds out if his local police department is adequately funded.
If a Republican hears about a crime in his neighborhood, he buys a gun and gets shot by his wife when he's drunk. Unless his kid used it to shoot the neighbor kid first.
If a Democrat has a religion, he practices it at home and at church.
If a Republican has a religion, everyone must practice it in all public places, schools and courthouses.
Scientists Have Created Self-Replicating "Synthetic Life" by Rimjob
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A team of 25 researchers at the Venter Instiute, with labs in Rockville, Maryland & San Diego, California, have replaced the genome of a bacteria called Mycoplasma capricolum with 1.1 million base pairs of man-made DNA created in a yeast cell. They then "booted up" the new organism, called Mycoplasma mycoides, which functioned & is capable of continuous self-replication with a synthetic chromosome.
The achievement is being described by some as "a defining moment in the history of biology and biotechnology". The potential applications of all this could be designer vaccines, new biofuels, as well as putting the human race in the driver's seat of designing whatever genome we want. On the other hand, there are ethical concerns with this technology & the potential impact synthetic life might have when released into the biosphere.
Note: Diary above was really well written...
However the research article it discussed has come under heavy criticism in the scientific literature. There are a number of good reasons to challenge the conclusions of the research article.
by FishOutofWater on Sun Jan 02, 2011 at 07:52:24 PM EST
The Food Forest - Part I: Strategies for Green Urban Infrastructure by Environmentalist
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Imagine strolling out of the hot summer sun and into the moist, cool and dappled sunlight of a mature forest. At eye level you are surrounded by fruits and nuts of all variety. At your waist are bushes heavily laden with currents and berries. There might even be tomatoes and artichokes growing. The ground is blanketed in wild herbs and grasses and topped in native flowers in full bloom. The air is full of sweet smells, the call of birds and the chirping and squirrels. The forest is alive with butterflies and other insects. Oddly enough, you are in the middle of a large city walking down the sidewalk towards the entrance of a public building. Better yet...maybe you’re on the grounds of a public park....or a public school...or your own backyard...
This is the food forest.
The Smart Grid: An Introduction by Richard Lyon
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We read a great deal in the media and are involved in discussions about new sources of energy that can be both renewable and clean. So far there has been much less focus on new and more efficient approaches to managing the distribution of energy resources. Converting various forms of energy into electrical energy is the key to green energy. Our present grids for distributing electricity are generally about 50 years old and have difficulty keeping up with the jobs that they were designed to do.
Creating Water From Air To Address Hunger, Climate Change and African Colonization by Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse.
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I'm so excited about this new device that creates water from air by capturing rainwater and condensation for food production to address hunger globally. It will also address climate change impacts by enabling easy reforestation and reducing erosion. An additional benefit for our water crisis is freeing up existing water supplies used inefficiently for food production for eventual reallocation to other beneficial uses. AND, I am hopeful that it will be used to stop some countries from colonizing African countries by grabbing fertile lands for production of food to be shipped back home: Instead of plundering and raping the land and natural resources overseas, countries need to address why they have a food and/or water crisis in the first place. There's even a cherry on top of all this glee. The inventor wants to make sure that the device remains affordable for the poor communities suffering from hunger and water shortages.
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Congratulations to all who were nominated in this category and in all the other categories which you may see here:
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A big thank you, again, to LaughingPlanet and to all who helped with the kOscar project.
Diaries of the week:
Write On! Censorship and Resolutions.
by pico
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Readers & Book Lovers: Should Books Die a Natural Death?
by Limelite
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Thursday Classical Music OPUS 25: Mozart Symphony #40
by Dumbo
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If you missed the fun:
Which D&D character, class & alignment are you?
by BFSkinner
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I was a Chaotic Good Elf Barbarian
Chaotic Good characters are independent types with a strong belief in the value of goodness. They have little use for governments and other forces of order, and will generally do their own things, without heed to such groups.
Race:
Elves are the eldest of all races, although they are generally a bit smaller than humans. They are generally well-cultured, artistic, easy-going, and because of their long lives, unconcerned with day-to-day activities that other races frequently concern themselves with. Elves are, effectively, immortal, although they can be killed. After a thousand years or so, they simply pass on to the next plane of existance.
Primary Class:
Barbarians live outside the 'civilized' They have tribal goverments, and are often nomads. What they may lack in refinement is balanced by there strength of individual character and ability to survive.
Lots of my friends were bards, but alas, I am a barbarian. :)
Time to VOTE! Runoffs in 4 categories
by kOscars
Tue Jan 11, 2011 at 11:07:35 PM EST
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Voting time is upon us.
Come below to VOTE FOR your favorites in the categories that require runoff voting-
• Diary of The Year
• Snark (Diary) of the Year
• Best Teaching Diary &
• Diarist of the Year
Those who cannot use Flash may vote at the polling site HERE
All others come below for polls and the lists of nominees in all cats.
NOTE:
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Do not click VOTE until you have clicked all the selections you feel deserving of the final round of voting. The top 9 plus ties will make the final round.
Polls close on Jan 19th.
NOTE: plf515 has book talk on Wednesday mornings early. Watch for extra editions on Sundays!
sarahnity’s list of DKos authors
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Kos says about DK4:
We're going to have to be down for nearly a day to transition to the new site. That includes dumbing the entire existing database and then slapping it on the new site. Given we host about a half million comments per month (in addition to diaries, recommends, hotlists, etc), and have been around in Scoop format since 2003, well, that's a whole lot of stuff that's being moved over.
So rather than do that mid-week, which is what we'd need if we were going for a February 1 transition date, we'll do it the weekend after. So probably start on Friday February 4, and hopefully being officially transitioned by the end of Saturday, February 5.