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Build: Brutal Scoundrel/Hand Crossbow/Sharpshooter/Deadly Trickster
Synopsis: Constant combat advantage, multiple ranged attacks per round in addition to stacked modifiers, and resulting in very good DPR, rivaling that of melee focused builds, while providing limited/no exposure to enemy attacks.
Note: I have changed this thread alot and removed a good deal from it. Changes with other books make it harder to make comparitive math, however it seems to me with the addition of critical increases from the PHB2, the hand crossbow rogue is something to be feared. Also note that if you do not intend to play until epic levels, at character creation you can opt for a higher strength vs constitution modifier since we only get that for the 'steady shooter' feat. if you DO go to epic levels, consider keeping it as it will turn out to be a solid +3 damage for little investment.
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Stat Overview:
Race: Drow
Class: Rogue
Option: Brutal Scoundrel
22 PT Buy
Attribute Overview at levels 11, 21 and 30:
Level 11
16 STR (+3 Mod)(+1 level 4, +1 level 8)
14 CON (+2 Mod)
23 DEX (+6 Mod)(+1 level 4, +1 level 8)
9 INT (-1 Mod)
13 CHA (+1 Mod)
11 WIS (+0 Mod)
Level 21
19 STR(+4 Mod)(+1 level 14, +1 level 18)
15 CON(+2 Mod)
26 DEX(+8 Mod)(+1 level 14, +1 level 18)
10 INT(+0 Mod)
14 CHA(+2 Mod)
12 WIS(+1 Mod)
Level 30
20 STR(+5 Mod)(+1 level 24)
16 CON(+2 Mod)(+1 level 28)
28 DEX(+9 Mod)(+1 level 24, +1 level 28)
10 INT(+0 Mod)
14 CHA(+2 Mod)
12 WIS(+1 Mod)
1) Weapon Expertise: Hand crossbow
2) Distant Advantage (retrain to Weapon Focus at 16th once you receive hide in plain sight)
4) Ruthless Hunter
6) MC Feat: Warrior of the Wild
8) Backstaber
10) Novice Power (Scattering Volley)
11) Danger Sense(steady shooter if optimized for paragon, push rest back, kill bleeding backstab).
12) Merciless Killer
14) Two Fisted Shooter
16) Adept Power (Attacks on the Run)
18) Slaying Action
20) Bleeding Backstab (retrain to Crossbow Mastery at level 21)
21) Brutal Advantage
22) Steady Shot
24) Martial Mastery
26) Whirling Sneak Attack (Crack Shot)
28) Brutal Wound
30) Rattling Exploit (Crack Shot)
Skills: Stealth, Thievery, Intimidate, Acrobatics, Perception, + any other.
At Will: Deft Strike, Disheartening Strike
Encounter Powers:
1. Unbalancing Shot
3. Enforced Threat
7. Cloud of Steel
10. Acolyte Power: Scattering Volley (Replaces Enforced Threat)
11. Stab and Shoot
13. Tornado Strike (Replaces Unbalancing Shot)
16. Power Swap: Snap Shot (replaced Cloud of Steep)
17. Triple Shot (replaces Scattering Volley)
23. Crack Shot (replaces Snap Shot)
27. Safe Bet (replaces Tornado Strike)
End: Triple Shot, Safe Bet, Crack Shot, Stab and Shoot
Daily Powers:
1. Blinding Barrage
5. Walking Wound
9. Burst Fire
15. Slaying Strike (replaces Walking Wound)
16. Adept Power: Attacks on the Run (replaces Slaying Strike)
19. Daunting Barrage (replaces Blinding Barrage)
20. Escalating Barrage
25. Magnetic Shot (replaces Burst Fire)
29. Adept Power: Five Missle Dance (replaces Attacks on the Run)
End: Five Missle Dance, Magnetic Shot, Daunting Barrage, Escalating Barrage
Utility Powers: (W=At Will. E=Encounter. D=Daily)
2. Fleeting Ghost (W)
6. Chameleon (W) (Can be power swapped after 16th for Ferret out Fraility (E)
10. Executioner's Mien (D)
12. Perfect Aim (E)
16. Hide in Plain Sight (E)
22. Raise the Stakes (D)
Still under some development.
Level 30:
Main Hand: +6 Subtle dagger
Off Hand: +6 Mind Iron Hand Crossbow
Armor: +6 Displacers Leather (If it looks like the dm will try to push you out of invisibility, pop this!)
Arm: +6 Bracers of Archery
Head: +1 Headband Of Intellect
Neck: + 6 Cloak of Displacement (this should further make it impossible to move you from invisibility).
Ring: Shadow Band or Nullyfing Ring (if your DM is out to get you out of invisibility, choose the later).
Hand: Level 26 Caustic Gauntlets (6 extra acid damage per ranged attack, not shabby. Also hits adjacent creatures for 3d6 damage)
Feet: Zephir Boots (Light Step Slippers at lower levels)
Waist: Baldric of Valor (item bonus to attack wont stack with our headband, but theres not much in belts we want). Misc: Violet Solitaire (gain AP on crit, spend this turn)
Potion of Clarity +1 (pop this early in a fight, use it to reroll your higher W attacks)
Caustic Whetstones + 2 (cheap)
Black Dragon Bile (cheap!)
Surprise Bullets (For before level 16. At 30 gold a pop they are a cheap way to get combat advantage).
At Will: Deft Strike, Disheartening Strike(second choice can be anything really.
Level 1--Encounter: Unbalancing Shot (1E)
Level 1--Daily: Blinding Barrage (1D)
Level 2--Utility: Fleeting Ghost. This will let us be a scout and sneak around at more or less full speed without taking penalties.
Level 3--Encounter: Enforced Threat (2E) (Current: Unbalancing Shot, Enforced Threat)
Level 5--Daily: Walking Wound (2D) (Current: Blinding Barrage, Walking Wound)
Level 6--Utility: Chameleon. Chameleon is nicer that the later version, as it lets you stealth in the open without cover until 'the end of your next turn'.This is going to be useful if you use party members 'as cover' to remain in hiding. This will allow them to move and you to stay in hiding until the end of your next turn.
Level 7--Encounter: Cloud of Steel or Snap Shot (if your ST is more into BBEGS than mass minions, Snap Shot, otherwise stick with cloud of steel. Later with whirl wind sneak attack, combining it with cloud of darkness can mean alot of sneak attacks)
(3E) (Current: Unbalancing Shot, Enforced Threat, Cloud of Steel)
Level 9--Daily: Burst Fire (nice burst, hits enemies only, misses for half. Targets Reflex). Alternate: Vexing Sting. Being reliable is nice. Also targets reflex.
(3D) (Current: Blinding Barrage, Walking Wound, Burst Fire)
Level 10--Utility: Executioner's Mien--Yes your not ruthless, but making every attack give a -2 to attacks is nice and will make your party love you. At this level you should be getting into the swing of not being attacked very often, so combat tumble set doesn't look at desirable. Alternate: Gap in the Armor.
At this level we use our Acolyte power to swap out Enforced Threat for Scattering Volley (two attacks for 1W+Dex + Slides the target 1 Square).
(3E) (Current: Unbalancing Shot, Scattering Volley, Cloud of Steel)
Level 11--Encounter: Stab and Shoot (PP). Melee attack that then triggers a ranged attack. This is used on the first round of combat (dash in, use it, then next round move out, and cloud of darkness per normal).
(4E) (Current: Unbalancing Shot, Scattering Volley, Cloud of Steel, Stab and Shoot(PP))
Level 12--Utility: Perfect Aim(PP). A +1 to hit and damage before using a daily. Not bad.
Level 13--Encounter: Tornado Strike. Beats out skip shot because its two attack rolls for 2W+dex vs Skips vs ref for 2W + Dex and flat Dex vs another target. Being brutal vs artful provides no benefit (shift 2 vs shift 1+1, same deal).
(4E---Unbalancing Shot) (Current: Scattering Volley, Tornado Strike, Cloud of Steel, Stab and Shoot(PP))
Level 15--Daily: Slaying Strike. A strength attack that works with ranged! Wait till their bloodies and youll wallop them from cloud of shadows. 5W+Dex+2x STr with combat advantage! and half on a miss built in. Not bad!
(3D--Replace Walking Wound) (Current: Blinding Barrage, Slaying Strike, Burst Fire)
Level 16--Utility: Hide in Plain Sight; This will make your DM cry. Its best to still get things like rings of invisibility and the like to back this up. Eventually your DM will try to break you out of hiding if you use this every fight (which you will be doing!).
At this level we receive the Adept Power Feat and promptly exchange Slaying Strike (5w+dex+str 18-20 crit, half miss) for Shot on the Run (two attacks, 3W+dex, half on miss, and no range restrictions. We want to keep burst fire because, as long as it hits 2 targets, its going to be very competitive with damage vs slaying strikes output. Of course we wont use the 'one the run' option unless you want to open with this attack.
We swap Cloud of Steel for Snap Shot. Once we have hide in plain sight, we want to keep our distance from the fight as much as possible, so close blasts stop being ideal.
(Current: Scattering Volley, Tornado Strike, Snap Shot, Stab and Shoot(PP))
(3D--slaying Strike) (Current: Attacks on the Run, Blinding Barrage, Burst Fire)
Level 17--Encounter: Triple Shot! Three 1W+Dex attacks is a no brainier here. Pounding Barrage passives are not nice enough to negate the inability to attack multiple foes. Because we can only have one ranger encounter at a time from multi classing, we replace Scattering Volley. Remember the key here is keeping CA, and we will be going into Hide in Plain Sight fast, so close blasts arnt that great o
(4E---Scattering Volley) (Current: Triple Shot, Tornado Strike, Snap Shot, Stab and Shooter(PP))
Level 19---Daily: Daunting Barrage. Close Blast 5, hits for half, so its an great minion killer. Hits reasonably hard, even vs Marked Beatting its only 2W less and it hits a much larger area. Has the rattling keyword and target is dazed until save? The biggest reason we take this is more attacks. More attacks=more chances to crit, more times we apply our damage modifiers. Infact when you compare this to Marked Beating, its pretty favorable even in its single target damage. Assuming you can get 3 people in your close blast 5's (not that hard) then you are making out like a bandit on this.
(3D--Blinding Barrage) (Current: Daunting Barrage, Attacks on the Run, Burst Fire)
Level 20-- Daily: Escalating Barrage(PP). Another triple hitting attack! First hit is basically a ranged basic but after that, you keep gaining accuracy and damage on every other attack. The only downside is each attack as to be on a new target, however unlike some other powers, you dont need to hit to enjoy the cummulative bonuses on attacks. Sexy!
(4D)(Current: Daunting Barrage, Burst Fire, Attacks on the Run, Escalating Barrage (PP))
Level 22--Utility: Raise the Stakes. For two rounds a day you can increase your crit change to 17-20. Use this along with your multi attack powers and action points. Since were invisible, the down side does not truely hurt us.
Level 23--Encounter: Crack Shot. While Manticores Volley, its not that much better than Triple Shot (another 5 or 10 damage if all attacks hit), and we would need to replace triple shot if we did that, and that best option there is Geurilla blitz (2W + dex+strength, not that great). The decision is Crack Shot vs Blindside. Blind Side: It hits fairly hard, but because we will be in hiding, its another method of dazing a foe and helping our party. Snap Shot loses its luster at this level. Crack Shot is a better overall but the limit of 10 squares can make it limiting. For a pure 'sniper', keep blind side. However the limit of 10 squares is not that bad; use it early in the encounter, preferably on round two after you already used stab and shoot and enter your cloud of darkness. Later we will apply whirling sneak attack to this.
(4E--Snap Shot) (Current: Triple Shot, Tornado Strike, Crack Shot, Stab and Shooter(PP))
Level 25--Daily. Magnetic Shot. Not much choice here. Hits harder than slaying, targets ref, still half misses, does not crit as much though. Rogues Resurgence is an option and it does get us back an encounter power OR hits for 8W, which is nice but the fact there is no half damage on a miss makes it unpallatable for me.
(4D--Replaces Burst Fire)(Current: Magnetic Shot, Attacks On the Run, Daunting Barrage, Escalating Barrage(PP))
Level 27--Encounter: Safe Bet. Safe Bet is 4W +Dex and another attack for 2W+Dex (basics at this level)). You could take hail of arrows (and be the official minion killer of at this level) but if you have any other characters with bursts/blasts, i think you should stay with Safe Bet.
(4E--Replaces Tornado Strike) (Current: Triple Shot, Safe Bet, Crack Shot, Stab and Shoot(PP))
Level 29-- Daily: Five Missile Dance. Yes....no Assassins Point. 5 attacks at 2W a peice + modifiers. So thats a total of 10W + 5x your modifiers vs 7W + 1x your modifiers + 2x sneak attack. Since we have brutal advantage, after your first sneak attack, each next hit (remember your invisible) is going to deal additional damage equal to your strength. On top of that you get some control on the creature via pushes and knock prones, but this is really just garnish to the HUGE damage. We ditch Attacks on the Run.
(4D--Replaces Attacks on the Run (GASP))(Current: Five-Missile Dance, Magnetic, Daunting Barrage, Escalating Barrage(PP)).
Encounters: Triple Shot(3 attacks), Safe Bet(2 attacks), Crack Shot(At least one extra attack with any amount of aiming), Stab and Shoot(PP)(1 extra attack))
Daily: Five-Missile Dance(insanity)(5 attacks), Magnetic (hard hit, accurate), Daunting Barrage (close blast 5 with debuffing), Escalating Barrage(3 attacks, escalating damage and accuracy).
Early game 1-10
Start with unbalancing shot on something you beat in initiative. After that going into cloud of darkness. Some melee might need to be done beyond round 3 but hopefully deft strike keeps you ranged. Ask your DM if there are bushes, as you can probably claim them as superior concealment and hide behind them, overwise look for other places of total concealment (this generally is not an issue in a dungeon, plenty of doorways and the like). Distant Advantage should allow you and your party to work together to keep your combat advantage going.
Mid Game
In this level range you come into your own. You will start combats landing stab and shoot (unless you plan to use blinding barrage, then use stab and shoot on round 2 and delay everything else to round 3) and then moving back, entering your cloud of darkness and continuing. Once you hit 16th youll step into hide in plain sight. Positioning on round 2 for your cloud of darkness is critical and will be something you need to practice. Position yourself close enough to ensure you can land all your attacks can be used, but far enough behind your tanks so that reaching you is not easy for any bull rush attempts. Be careful of creatures with tremorsense. These guys can see through invisibility...if your close enough. Most creatures with tremorsense only have a range of 5 or 10 on this ability, so just stay outside range and you'll be ok.
End Game
Many sources of added attacks. You are dealing very good DPR, and brutal advantage is ensuring that those extra attacks are each dealing + STR mod damage. Triple Shot, Safe Bet, Crack Shot and Stab and Shoot are great sources of damage. Dailies are used on big bad guys, with Five-Missile Dance being utterly insane. Escalating Barrage seems ideal when fighting groups of elites (save your last shot for the biggest bad in the group!). Use your swift shot crossbow on round one. Quick Draw out your mind iron and go from there. The +1 to attacks and being able to make your daily attacks focus on Will is a huge benefit to your offense. The load 'minor' is nothing really; once in invisibility we will never really use our minors. If it becomes an issue, quick draw back to swift shot.
Defense is never really an issue unless your DM targets you. In these cases remember this. The only way to end Hide In Plain Sight is to be MOVED. This reduces what creatures are even able to get you out of this effect. Your cloak will give you a +2 to ac/ref. At the end of every turn, make a stealth check; monsters need to guess what square your in. Boots give you a +6 bonus. If the DM is hell bent on getting you, pop your armors (Displacement) daily ability; they will need to roll twice to hit you and use the lower of the two! This on top of the -5 penalty for not seeing you and +2 provided by your cloak, as well as any penalties from being marked/etc should be enough to ensure that only a crit (5%) is going to get you out of invisibility. If that happens, use your shadow bands daily power to gain full concealment for the encounter, and use your move actions to hide in the open.
20% of your attacks(crits) will explode into another attack(which can inturn, explode again), as well as land the high crit property. Nothing to laugh at with your 8 die damage for weapon attacks. Accuracy should not be an issue with weapon expertise, combat advantage and your mind iron bows.
Unless your DM is gunning for you, you should not face a situation like this that often, and with the built in defenses with this build, you should be fine
Extra Attacks Per Encounter:
Triple Shot: 2
Safe Bet: 1
Stab and Shoot: 1
Swift Shot Weapon: 1
Crack Shot : 2+
Action Point generated free attack: 1 (when AP is used)
Deadly Trickster Benefits and Synergies
Epic Destiny:
Deadly Trickster:
--We use our 3 rerolls on Magnetic Shot, Safe Bet, etc or other attacks which hit for 4W or harder and trigger other effects.
--15% of our encounter or dailies wont be expended. When teamed up with epic trick and a long fight, this can mean an extra daily or encounter power. Teamed up with the rerolls above, the chances increase.
--Our level 30 power isnt going to effect us much, so its being ignored.
--Epic Trick is well...epic. We wont take much damage with this build, however recovering all of our powers is utterly amazing, and lets us keep up the offense.
Damage at 30th (ranged basic attack)
2W(9.5) + Dex(9) + STR(5) + Weapon Ench (6) + Steady Shot (3) + Merciless Killer (2.5) + Weapon Focus (3) + Bracers of Archery (6) + Subtle Dagger (6) = 50 damage
Sneak Attack Adds 22.5 Damage
So our first ranged basic attack each round deals 72.5 damage.
Subsiquent attacks will deal 50.
One encounter per day add 6 damage to the above plus 3d6 splash from Caustic Gloves but for now, lets ignore that.
10% crit rate adjusts these figures as following (including high crit and magic damage).
Base Damage = 59.5
Sneak Attack= 40
Weapon Enchancement = 21 (6d6)
High Crit = 10.5
Lets apply a 20% miss rate (meaning a 4 or less misses which sounds good).
This will proc an offhand attack for free. For simplicity I will assume the offhand free attack does NOT crit itself (although it could).
This means out of every 20 attack rolls (assuming a large enough base of rolls here, statistics vs probability and all) i will crit twice, miss 4 times, hit 16. My crits will yeild 2 more attacks which have a 80% chance of landing each. Ignoring that those attacks can crit as well.
First Attack 84.8125 damage on average on our first standard 2W attack per turn.
Subsequent Attacks: 66.375
So there are builds that do more damage sure but when you look at it, many of our attacks are hitting many times in a turn. In fact we rarely got through any encounter without hitting at least twice in a turn, meaning on 'average' we are putting out about 151.1875 damage in a turn if we attack twice. The numbers go up as you would imagine. Crack shotting 3 creatures pushes you into 200 damage out put, as do your encounters and the such. Our dailies are pushing out insane damage to a single target (5 missle dance is able to put out 350.3125).
Poping your Caustic gloves will further increase this damage (about 5.4 damage per hit + the 3d6 splash damage).
Now again, other builds can do stuff to but the keys here are as follows:
A) you are relatively safe. There are few creatures that can see you in invisibility, and those situations are going to be rare. If your DM is breaking this out on you every fight, then your DM hates you. Roll a cleric or something. On the plus side in any standard game, you are not taking up healing or other focus from your party.
B) You are able to take out multiple targets in a given round. Save for other ranger builds, 'insane' damage builds generally can only do the damage to a single creature. While they excell vs solos and elites, strategically its nicer to be able and divide up your damage across multiple enemies.
C) Like sorcerers, your adding your secondary stat to all targets in a round thanks to brutal advantage. Unlike sorcerers you dont have to fear hitting your party. That does not make your a sorcerer replacement as they have many more aoes, but it makes you competitive in their own department. Meanwhile you have the single target damage per round of a ranger (or better unless they are using an abused build).


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Artist: Cassia Lima
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Hey Steve,
Wow... this is an awesome thread. I just spent like the last 2 hours reading every post in detail. It's way cool that you're out here answering some ?'s.
First kind of a silly question/observation. I noticed on the DVD Tommy tries the rimshot/bounce a number of times and doesn't get it. That must have bummed him out. Anyway, I was at the show in Lincoln a few weeks back and the guy was just killer. I think I saw him try it like 10 times and caught every one. I noticed though that after every time he caught it he would look back over his left shoulder at something. What's he looking at? I noticed in the video you posted he does the same thing after catching it. Is he kind of razzing you whenever he gets it or what?
On the DW9000 pedals, is he playing them backwards? I've seen some guys do it one way and a few this way. Seems like his way gives the drum a little more kick and less boomy.
On the HiHat, is that a special rig without the legs or did you just take them off the stand?
Finally, I love the ashtray but where's the drink holder? I know it's there somewhere...
Later man!
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People spar about their beliefs this week, as Mars in Sagittarius opposes Jupiter in Gemini. People just don't want to hold contain their ideas and this seems productive to me. I admit, I may just be an optimist as the sky favors that right now.
Next week, Venus in Libra will square Pluto in Capricorn as it opposed Uranus in Aries around 4-8 degrees. Unfortunately, Cancer will feel a lot of pressure from this. The early degrees of Cancer are getting support for Neptune in Pisces and Saturn in Scorpio, however I don't think this sensitive sign has quite recovered from Saturn's transit through Libra, so all Cancers get your hard shell ready, because a lot of the energy generated by this will flow in your direction.
For the rest of us, expect to suffer or enjoy or witness some triangulation in relationships. With Pluto and Uranus involved ex-lovers, I call them "corpses" may surface when you least expect it. Venus in Libra is polite and social, so if you're on a date and run into an ex, everyone is likely to be cordial…even if they'd like to throttle you.
We may see some anti-social stuff with this, but Venus in its own sign, along with Pluto in Capricorn enjoying mutual reception with Saturn in Scorpio, I do expect people to exercise some control in most cases.
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Posted by kellyhogaboom on Jul 7, 2010 in dailies | 16 comments
Here you all thought I was only going to post sweet little stories about my family life and swimming and how awesome things are around here. But guess what? I have this other life, which is called Reading and Digesting and Writing about our culture, devouring feminist and womanist and rad fem and anti-racist and PWD blogs and… well, lots of stuff. I thought I'd post a little roundup of the variety of asshattery I've found in the last couple days so you could share in the fun!
(Warning for sexist language, child-hate, mother-hate, classism, and anti-homeschooling / unschooling sentiments)
So first: who can find the sexist language in this (otherwise quite interesting) article at WebEcoist on "bevshots"?
Didn't find it? Let me break it down for you with a quote:
"Beverage art is one way the more macho members of society can get in touch with their artistic side, and the unisex appeal of BevShots' presentation makes it far more likely to be accepted by spouses who may balk at framed Budweiser posters hanging in their living rooms."
Right. So, in no way should a man feel bad about being "macho" (i.e. objectifying women's bodies) but he is free to augment his living room with artsy-fartsy. The whole "unisex"/"spouse" gibberish is also subtly coded heteronomrative, i.e. of anyone who might like a beer poster there are two sexes whom are straight and married. And I've saved the most glaring ass-tidbit for last: a heterosexual DUDE won't have an objection to Budweiser girl posters (Duh! Why should he? Booooing!), it's the spouse that won't want it (eyeroll delivered to those sensitive wimmin folks, amirite?).
I'd stopped reading The-F Word.org although the title subjects – food, fat, and feminism – are passions of mine. No, I stopped reading because there are plenty of awesome FA sites that don't pick on kids (which always, always translates to picking on mothers). Now the owner/author of this site has no children and wants to keep it that way which is great, because I support those without children (just like I support those with children!) and I specifically feel for people who don't have children by choice (especially women), given they are constantly second-guessed and despised and sneered at (maybe someday I'll link to some of those anti-childfree* nastiness examples to illuminate and analyze). But like so comments I read online (both from those with or without children), the anti-child sentiment is so prevalent on this site – and goes entirely unchecked within comments – it was just sapping my energy so I've concentrated on other FA locales. However feeling amiable the other day I visited the site to discover the latest post, "Open Thread: Talking to kids about fat comments". In it blog author Rachel posts a story about family and a child who made many direct and not-nice-sounding comments about her weight and size. Rachel put together an email to her family (which was a good email) so that was pretty cool. But then… it started with the sentence, "I don't have children (thankfully) and I can usually only take kids in small doses before they mentally and physically exhaust me" and went on from there. Most of the comments were pretty cool and offered sensible support: we should openly discuss this topic with our chlidren. But pretty soon the parent- and child-snark started, and it REALLY started when I (had the gall to!) put up my own perspective – that I thought Rachel's email was fine, that Adult Privilege was showing in the comments, and that parents have an uphill battle in combating larger social norms and the attitudes of children's peers.
Four comments weighed in calling my points "ridiculous", the list a Parody, that I didn't support or understand "manners" for children (strawman! especially considering I'd commended Rachel's email), and that acknowledging Adult Privilege would result in children getting killed. I am too exhausted to take apart "Jackie's" comment (I'll bet you one MILLION dollars this person has no child, since she gave the longest prescriptive laundry-list of "THOU SHALT" to apply to ALL parents). Of course the only thing these people (one person posted twice) paid attention to was the posted Adult Privilege Checklist – none of my other points nor my support of Rachel's email. A little bonus bit of awesomeness, one commentor sneered at the APC author who clearly didn't know how to raise a child, even though, sshhh! this author – and myself! are raising children!
One commentor posted: "Kelly, thanks so much for posting that link, and for giving me a term for the set of attitudes that has made me deeply uncomfortable on otherwise wonderful websites." (Yay!)
(As a sidenote, it's funny how unapologetic child-hate – which is often mother-hate – always, always involves the kid-screaming-in-restaurants HORROR. It's almost comical how routinely this comes up – the trump card and TOTAL PROOF of how much kids and parents suck! And how parents and kids can't have a bad or emotive day in public, or how we should parent in some Magical Way or according to Their Standards, or how kids should always be seen and not heard! And many literally think kids should not be in evidence at all! Because having them in school most their waking hours and then at home in bed for a third of their lives is NOT ENOUGH! No really many people still believe this!)
I'd love to talk about the Adult Privilege Checklist and soon because I think it is brilliant (Thanks, Anji!) and challenging to many if not most USians. Most who read it – the very fact of its newness in a time when privilege checklists are So hot right now! is telling – are definitely going to be challenged and splutter, "But, but, but!" and bring up points of Safety and how kids can't raise themselves and then paint really gloriously well-rendered pictures of kids going all Lord of the Flies and Running (Ruining) Everything while their Lotus-Eating parents sit back and smile benevolently.
Of course I am in fact raising kids with the APC firmly in mind and it's going well, and my kids are just fine and normal and pretty damned awesome (according not only to myself but to many we run across). Such tish-tosh beneath-notice detail escapes those who'd want to shriek about the implications of considering kids as People.
Because that's the thing. Refusing to even consider how kids experience their own lives (which you note says NOTHING about how a particular parent/carer should handle a particular challenge nor the vast landscapes of other-care) perfectly illustrates just how subhuman people consider the class of "kids" (keep in mind, "KIDS" are from ages 0 months to emancipated 18 years, I guess they magically turn human after that).
Or as Twisty Faster at my beloved I Blame The Patriarchy (oh rad fem… is there anything you can't do?) says:
"Kids†are a class of people around the discrimination, domination, indoctrination, and abuse of whom entire cultures, industries, pathologies, and oppressive social systems flourish. Youth is temporary for the individual, yes, but a youth class persists; there is a constant supply of replacement children to keep this class well-stocked with hapless victims. Furthermore, the damage inflicted by expertly administered adult oppression techniques hardly vanishes the moment a kid turns 18.
Finally, and I'll keep this short: Homeschooling and Unschooling are being dissed in a recent Free Range Kids post, including Amy who says: "I fully support your right to 'unschool' your kids. After all, someone's going to have to change my kids' oil and make their burgers someday." (Amy wins the Ass-Hat First Prize for brevity whilst displaying ignorance, classism, and good ol' fashioned nastiness!). Donna conflates homeschooling with being uncool because it isn't living in the inner city or something? and weighs in on the majority of intelligent, educated parents being terrible teachers for their children (aw how sweet! I must have missed that day she came in and audited us personally!). Sky compares my personal expressed joy in unschooling to something about collard greens (I can't tell if she's supporting or insulting me, there).
Believe it or not it can be personally exhausting at times to take on the subjects of social justice in America (and seriously? Tonight we got to hear a loud, racist rant from a patron while out at dinner, and my husband almost physically engaged this man, which was more bonus). Being able to take a critical eye to random asshattery and bigotry and such is a skill – and it's a skill earned by a commitment to the self-work and takes no small amount of my time. One thing I learn: the work – social and Self – is never done (as an example, a recent post at Native Appropriations entitled "The Potawatomis didn't have a word for global business center"? exposed my ignorance regarding Native languages). I do it because I think it is right but also, even when it tires me out, I do like to do it.
To those who read here in good faith, thank you so much for joining me.
Fortunately I know my readers here are awesome, awesome people and going to Blow My Mind in the comments.**
* Both "childfree" and "childless" are terms others dislike or find offense with; I effort to say "people without children" but sometimes I use shorthand.
** I usually just put up my personal journal here; for more of my social issues stuff you can read Underbellie (once-weekly posts, just about) or follow me on Twitter at either kellyhogaboom or underbellie – the latter more skewed to activism and posts from activist sources.
Unschooling can really go either way. It still depends on the parents consciously guiding their children to critically analyze, as you mentioned doing with your kids earlier. The parents who lack theses skills themselves, cannot be anticipated to instill this in their children. So if you are a less-than-awesome-person, unschooling is irresponsible. For a small percentage of the population, unschooling is the best thing you could do for your children.
I went to school, but for 4 years had the privilege of a gifted teacher who used unschooling methods for most of our school time. He let us run amok, and just asked curiosity questions. The male version of Mrs. Frizzle (The Magic Scholbus) I learned more and experienced more in that class than any other time in school.
That method would not have worked in most classrooms.
Sidenote: I have kids, and maybe its because I waitressed for 5 years (from dinner to fine dinning), but TAKE THE KIDS HOME when they pitch a fit in the (nice)restaurant. Starting to cry is expected, a few outbursts are normal(depending on age), being emotive is well and fine, but keeping them there for an hour and a half screaming (Servers make games of timing it) is just rude for the other paying guests. If an adult pitched a fit in a restaurant, they would be told to leave, in very short order. I suspect that you don't let your children carry on (for more than an hour)in restaurants, and possibly cannot fathom how (often) ignorant some people are.
thanks for the adult privilege checklist! It's awesome. I will share it widely.
I have been on this committee to plan a primary school (crazy, especially since my kid won't be going there, but not going for some very important reasons) and I realized after our first meeting and later e-discussions that we never once talked about what the kids wanted (or what we thought they wanted) only what we parents wanted for them. And the meeting minutes "corrected" me by saying I felt that I was responsible for my child's education, when what I said is that my child is ultimately responsible for his education (and then the context in which I said it was dropped).
I love it when I know people who talk about ideas, not just who did what and such. And because our interests are kind of different, with some crossover, we read different things and I get to find out about what you read/pay attention to, and I appreciate that you do it, and what you do. But not in that crappy "oh isn't that nice, Kelly is thinking" kind of way, but in the real way. It makes life more fun, interesting and sparkly.
Regarding the issue of how teachers are allowed to present material in school:
When I was teaching HS I had very little direction on how to present anything. Sure, there I was told what the learning objectives were for the English course I was (barely) teaching but I had no direction in the hows or the whats of presenting the skill itself. I pity the kids who had me for 9th grade English, since I wasn't qualified to teach this course.
In the same school I was also teaching French (my expertise). No one had given me course objectives and since I was the only French teacher I had completely free rein when it came to what I presented and how. I rarely used the textbooks because I felt they were poorly written (this was the consensus of the French teachers in all the high schools in the county). Instead I used them as supplementary material when needed. I drew on my experience as a TA while in grad school and mostly used my own materials developed from the books I had used during that time, since they were written much better. The principal only questioned my teaching once and that was after he observed me and asked why I hadn't presented him with an outline of what was to be covered that day. I told him it wouldn't mean anything to him but he insisted on it so I gave it to him later that day.
He was pissed because it was written in French. Um, it IS a French class and you hired me to teach French. "How am I supposed to read this?" he asked. "I didn't write it for you," I said. "I wrote it for me. I don't think in English for this class." "Well how am I supposed to know if you're doing what you're supposed to be doing?" "Do you know French?" "No." "Well then it doesn't matter because you wouldn't know if I was or not. I have a Master's degree in the subject, it's my expertise. You hired me because I know the subject so just trust me to do my job." That was the first and last time he set foot in my classroom.
I'll grant you that this was 10 years ago (yikes!) so I don't know how things are now. And I think it depends on the school and the principal. Some principals are really into having control over what the teachers are doing. Others are willing to trust that the teachers know what they're doing, especially teachers who have been doing it for a long time.
Like this year, I wish the principal had been more interested in the fact that Maeve's teacher was so inexperienced and less interested in the fact that Maeve had lots of tardies, about which I give a rat's ass. I had several times when Maeve brought home spelling tests with words spelled correctly but marked wrong and with the word written next to it by the teacher with an incorrect spelling. I told the teacher "I expect that sometimes you look at a word and don't really see it and may mark it wrong. But when you mark it wrong and then write the word incorrectly next to it, that tells me something. I expect that a 4th grade teacher knows how to spell all of the 4th grade spelling words. How many of the children spelled this word right and now think that your incorrect spelling is the right way?" So there you go. Sorry to ramble.
I feel like I must leave a comment, because you have been talking a lot about unschooling (duh, because that is a part of your life) and I just want to put my thoughts out there. The tone of your posts about parents who do send their children to school seems quite negative. I completely agree that a large percentage of kids are sent to school to be "warehoused", but not all of them are. I genuinely miss my daughter when she is at school and can't wait till she comes home. I don't send her to school to get some "me" time. I send her to school because I fully believe the educators at her school are well educated and know how to teach her math/language/science/etc.
I know I could teach her if I absolutely had to, but I would prefer someone who has been taught how to teach a child to read or how to multiply. The tricks I have learned from working in the school district or in my daughters classroom are valueable. I tried teaching her how to read before kindergarten, but we both always ended up frustrated and upset. After working with her teacher, I know what to do and can help her at home.
The main reason I am posting a comment is just to put out there that not all kids are sent to school to be "warehoused." Just as you don't want to be included in the assumption of homeschooling is for lazy parents, I don't want to be included in the group of parents that send their kids to school for free daycare.
Just stopped by to say hello. I love your one sentence description of reading Amy's post – and I'm off to see what The APC is.
First of all, LOL at McCain.
The warehouse comment was from what you posted on the other website in your second comment (comment 33, 3rd paragraph) – not on your blog.
Since I know you outside of your blog, I know you don't truly believe that "normal" school is always a negative thing. It was just the feeling I have been getting from your posts lately (cause you know I love to stalk the Hogabooms!) not a normal tone I read from you so I just thought I would let you know.
Some of the homeschool Mom blogs I have read are extremely negative regarding Mom's who send their kids to school. (I have found the exact opposite is the same as well) It is a shame that Moms can't support each other with the decisions we make for our own children. I am so very thankful that I don't normally feel like I am not supported or respected for my choices in parenting, but it could be because my main circle of friends have very similar values as I do. Sometimes I think many people spend too much time thinking about differences negatively rather than positively.
So glad I stopped by here today. I also get overwhelmed reading sites where the comments (or posts) devolve into unsupportive rants, and I thank you for the times you've waded through the muck anyway and stood up for children. I love Anji's Adult Privilege Checklist, too, and it's really given me words for the ideas I have regarding how children should be respected and in what ways they are not. I hear a lot of talk, even from parents, about how children are terrors and need to have limits imposed on them — and the checklist lets me verbalize just how many limits they already have imposed on them, and how, um, maybe we don't need to add more.
Kelly- you don't see the UNCRC as a threat to the right of families to choose homeschooling? It's a slippery slope IMHO from giving the child the "right to an education" to deeming that only attendance at a government-approved school allows the child to exercise that right. Look at what's happening in Germany, Sweden, and Brazil if you don't believe me…
Stopping by on the recommendation of Lauren/Hobo Mama and echoing her thanks for speaking out against all of the kid hate. I have a post going up tomorrow about comments made to me about my child *in front of him* (like he's deaf or too dumb to comprehend that people are referring to him). It's excruciating.
Off to read the APC and more of your posts!


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Angus cattle breeders were hit with frightening news twice over the past year when researchers separately discovered two genetic mutations in the breed that cause calves to be born dead. But DNA testing also giveth what it taketh away.
Fertile land is the lifeblood of Oregon's agricultural industry, a major economic driver that is almost completely family-run. But land — including the physical space, topsoil and rock underneath it — is a lucrative resource and contenders include aggregate mining companies. The reason: much of the highest-quality basalt is located under the best soil.
What will prices be at harvest this year? "That's literally the million dollar question," says Tammy Dennee, executive director of the Oregon Wheat Growers League.
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Hearts have sold out the away end for Sunday's match at Easter Road and Wilson is simply relieved that the club appear to have a viable future.
Despite the fact that they will be playing in the Championship next season, Wilson feels there are plenty of grounds for optimism after a turbulent period on and off the pitch.
Hearts, who are in the process of coming out of administration, are unbeaten in four matches.
Wilson told the club's website: "The support is incredible. From moment one in the season they've backed us all the way. I'm just glad for them, more than anybody, that the news off the pitch means that there's going to be a Hearts next season.
"There was a real possibility over the last few weeks that it might have gone the other way. I'm delighted for them. We've tried to do our best on the pitch this season and it's not quite been enough.
"But if we can maybe go down to Easter Road on Sunday and get a good performance and continue that for the rest of the season, it'll give home something to look forward to next season and hopefully it'll be a brighter future for everyone."


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celebrating music artists who's creative motivation is toward a united world
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Now at 31 years old I have been involved in countless music projects. As a solo artist singer/songwriter I have toured around Australia and overseas, released several cd's independently, won a bunch of music awards and a Young Citizen of the Year Award, and performed in music festival events. Over the recent years of my career I have noticed that my music is aligned with the social consciousness movement sweeping the globe, with more awareness about climate change, war, poverty, violence (none of these topics are necessarily new to us), but there is an increasing number of musicians and artists making music for a better world, for tolerance, peace and spiritual growth. My mission is to put these messages of change and positivity into music and songs that is accessible to the general population (John Butler is a good example of this, same with Michael Franti and John Lennon) The Heather Frahn Trio has recently been played on Nova FM regularly as well as Triple J's Roots'n'All program. ~o0o~
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Hi Heather,
Thankyou for welcoming me to this network. I'm glad to be accepted and become a part of it. I'll definitely check out everything that the Conscious Music Movement has to offer. I would definitely like to arrange a CMM concert sometime in the future for sure. I hope your Walk A Mile Concert for Compassion went well in Melbourne...and yes it would have been great to meet :)
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A key player in the resistance against the Combine, Alyx Vance accompanies Gordon Freeman throughout much of Half-Life 2 and its related episodes.
One of the few survivors of Black Mesa, Magnusson worked on a rocket in Half-Life 2: Episode 2.
A Black Mesa security guard and deep cover operative of the human resistance movement on post-Combine occupied Earth, Barney is a good friend of Gordon Freeman and one of several principle characters of the Half-Life franchise.
Chell is the silent protagonist of Portal who is set with the task of breaking several laws of physics in order to make her way through the Aperture Science Enrichment Center.
The Demoman is a character class in the Team Fortress franchise. The Demoman has no direct fire weapons, instead opting for two grenade launchers that can wreak havoc against unobservant teams.
One of the main recurring characters from the Half-life 2 games, Dog is an AI robot that normally accompanies Alyx Vance. Dog is rather intelligent, fast and very strong, serving as a powerful ally to Gordon Freeman and the resistance, while being generally adored by fans of the Half-Life franchise.
Eli Vance is the father of Alyx Vance and the leader of the human Resistance in the Half-Life 2 series.
The Engineer is a character class in the Team Fortress franchise. He is able to build different structures to aid his teammates in the battle.
Father Grigori is a character that appears in Half-life 2. The character appears in the Ravenholm chapter of the game.
An enigmatic character of disturbing power, the inhuman G-Man represents an unknown, trans-dimensional organization, and is a major influence on the events in the Half-Life universe.
The Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System of the Aperture Science Enrichment Center in Portal. GLaDOS is a maniacal, rogue AI known for her disdain for humans and unintentionally humorous nature.
Gordon Freeman is the popular and critically acclaimed main character in Valve Software's Half-Life series, and one of most well-recognized examples of the silent-protagonist.
The Heavy Weapons Guy or just "Heavy" for short, is one of nine character classes in the Team Fortress franchise. He is slow but powerful and can take a lot of damage. His main weapon is a minigun.
Isaac was an employee at Black Mesa when the Combine invasion occurred. Since then, he has been helping the resistance fight back by the only means a scientist can. By sciencing! He has a Head-Crab pet named Lamarr. Isaac Kleiner and Eli Vance are considered the leaders of the resistance.
She worked in a hidden research facility, Black Mesa East with Eli Vance. Appears in a video message in Episode 1 and 2.
Lamarr is Dr. Isaac Kleiner's pet headcrab. She appears throughout Half-Life 2 and its episodes.
The Medic is one of the three support classes in the Team Fortress franchise, focused on healing and buffing his teammates rather than causing damage to the enemy. In Team Fortress 2 he is characterized as a mad scientist.
The Pyro is a character in the Team Fortress franchise. His ability to move quickly and disrupt large groups of enemies with his flamethrower makes him an ideal offensive character. He wears a gas mask and is often said to have a funny voice.
This manly Australian businessman is the CEO of weapon supplier Mann Co. in the Team Fortress 2 universe. He is the subject of his own comic book franchise, Saxton Hale's Thrilling Tales.
The Scout is the fastest and most fragile class in the Team Fortress franchise. His great speed is useful in objective based game types.
The Sniper is a character class in the Team Fortress franchise. As his name would suggest, the Sniper is more than happy to relieve your skull of the duty of holding your brains.
The soldier is an offense-oriented character class in the Team Fortress 2 franchise. With a robust hit point total, splash-damaging rockets, and the temperament of flaming sandpaper, he is the backbone of any attack force.
The Spy is a character class in the Team Fortress franchise. He is a very unique character who can not only turn invisible, but can disguise himself as a member of the opposing team. He is most suited to taking out high value targets.
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- Electronic Laboratory
- Digital Logic Laboratory
- Microprocessor Laboratory
- Computer Design Laboratory
- Software Engineering Projects Laboratory
- High Performance Computing (HPC) Laboratory
- Coordinated Systems and Control Laboratory
- Microwave Laboratory
- The Embedded Systems and DSP Laboratory
- VLSI Design Laboratory
- Senior Design Project Laboratory
- Clean Room
Electronic Laboratory
The Electronic Laboratory ECE 206 (for courses ECE 203 and ECE 213) and ECE 327 ( for ECE 321 and ECE 322) introduces the concepts of
measuring basic electrical components, dc and ac circuits using ohmmeters, voltmeters, ammeters, and oscilloscopes. Circuit simulation is also
taught using Lab View, Multisim and PSpice. Experiments include both analog and digital electronics.
Location: Room 311.
Digital Logic Laboratory
The Digital Logic Laboratory uses testing units especially designed here at UNM to meet our needs. These units allow for the construction of
logic circuits using the TTL family, CPLDs and FPGAs. These projects are developed in the ECE 238 Course.
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Location: Room 216.
Microprocessor Laboratory
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Location: Room 129
Computer Design Laboratory
In this laboratory students create complex digital systems utilizing computer-aided design tools. This allows students to implement systems in a simulation realm, then construct the systems in real hardware. The systems are represented in VHDL and then submitted to a synthesis engine. These systems incorporate programmable logic devices, both FPGAs (Field Programmable Logic Arrays) and CPLDs (Complex Programmable Logic Devices). The systems utilize computer design techniques to address non-trivial computational systems, including a variety of control methods, input/output mechanisms, memory systems, and information-representation mechanisms. Students learn to utilize a variety of test equipment, including logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, pattern generators, and in-circuit emulators. A variety of design issues are discussed, including metastability, propagation delay, clock speed, pipelined implementations, use of synthesis engines, design management, interfacing to external digital and analog systems, and design-for-testability.
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Test equipment: Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer, Computer
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Location: Room 215
High-Performance Computing Laboratory
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Location: Rooms 207 and 218A
Coordinated Systems and Control Laboratory
The CSC Laboratory provides lecture demonstrations for undergraduate systems and control courses offered at ECE, ME and CHNE Departments. This lab also offers design and development projects for advanced undergraduate students in those departments. The CSC laboratory helps students familiarize themselves with such software as MATLAB, MATHEMATICA, CONTROL STATION, SIMULINK, and LabView.
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Microwave Laboratory
The Microwaves Laboratory is designed for seniors and first-year graduate students to provide essential fundamentals for RF, wireless,
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Location: Room 331
The Embedded Systems and DSP Laboratory
This laboratory provides students the possibility of being involved in the design, simulation and implementation of hardware for high-level
digital systems on the fields of Advanced Computer Architecture, Embedded Systems and Signal Processing. It has ten workstations, four multi-million
gate Xilinx FPGA platforms; a Xtreme FPGA based DSP development kit, and Xilinx Evaluation Platform plus supporting equipments such as state analyzers,
digital oscilloscopes, optics and soldering stations. It also has hardware simulation and development software such as Mentor Graphics FPGA Advantage
and WG2000.5.
Location: Room 332
VLSI Design Laboratory
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on low power aspects. Currently, the following design tools are in use: Cadence tools: Virtuoso schematic and layout editing, Diva design rule
checking and extraction, and Spectre circuit simulation. Synopsys tools: Design Compiler synthesis, Pathmill static timing, Nanosim for large
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workstations distributed throughout the ECE building.
Location: Room 318
Senior Design Project Laboratory
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Location: Room L217A
Clean Room
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and other microelectronic devices. Major equipment, donated from industry such as Intel Corporation, Philips Semiconductor, are used on
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In Pittsburgh, check out Primanti Brothers on Forbes Ave or Carson street for great sandwiches, and Fatheads Saloon on the South Side, East Carson St. for tons of beer on tap and good food as well. Also PNC Park has one of the best views of downtown at night if your up for a Pirates game. Blush is downtown and probably the only strip club you should visit, 12-15 to get in plus a one drink minimum if I recall. For more drinking spots ask Adam or Trevor.ReplyDelete
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