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yeah Harlan, but your damage is low and the bolts wouldn't have made it through his wind barrier. we need some distance spells or someone to put some fly on us.
I could recharge my Ring of the Ram, that's 3d6 ranged force damage. javelins of lightning are 1.5K. flying boots are 16K.
i'm procrastinating instead of packing, but can I just say I'm ready for level 8- that'll be a nice boost : )
Not sure when we're gonna be back in civilization, but i've been thinking about gear. I'd like trade in my Shozoku of Night for standard Bracers of Armor +2. Heng just ain't the ninja type. I'd suggest it go to Maeve, but she's already got a magic suit.
|Maeve Haela
...I have to admit that Dancing Butterfly is rapidly approaching obsolesence. Once I hit level 8, I'm going to have another Versatile Performance ability, and Dance, being the obvious choice, will pretty much override Dancing Butterfly's passive bonus with the one from the Circlet of Persuasion. Meanwhile, a standard action for partial concealment, while nice, already has to compete with spells like Versatile Weapon and Allegro on offense, and mage armor and mirror image on defense for my very limited self-buff actions. Hitting Bard 7 and getting Good Hope and Haste just makes the problem worse.
My initial intent with the 'named' items was to have them augment with you as you rise in level, keeping them valid throughout the campaign. I totally understand if your character concepts outgrow them, or more powerful/desirable replacement gear comes available.
I was going to have the items upgrade at about 8th, 11th and 14th levels or so... flexible based on the pace of the campaign (which is progged to 'cap out' around 15th). I was going to be creative with the enhanced powers, maybe give you each a menu to choose from, but now that I think about it more, I'm leaning towards giving you more power to choose, so hopefully you can work them into your characters better.
I was originally thinking something along the lines of:
Harlan/Circlet: additional charge abilities (heal, neut poison, restoration, death ward...)
Heng/Wraps: acid/acid burst, cold res 20, freezing ice ability (chance to encase in ice (ala flesh-to-stone) on crit...
Maeve/Dancing: permanent blur, displacement/blink per day...
Malnival/Coat: additional evasion charges, jump, tree stride...
Parity/Cloak: additional charges, improved bonuses...
Its difficult to adjudicate every option... a blanket +x bonus ability or +x gold value is easy, but I'm open to suggestions (within reason). Let me know what you come up with, or discuss if you think its overpowering/lame/etc.
Did we divvy all the loot from Tunuak?
potion of barkskin- ?
cloak of resistance +2- Heng
ring of mind shielding- Parity?
staff of journeys- Harlan
demon worshipper's cold weather outfit and unholy symbol- trash
So selling the +1 breastplate and cloak of resistance +1 = 1100
potion of flying is 750 which leaves 350.
i'll set Koya on a potion of owl wisdom if no one wants anything.
half price- 150 ?
Do we have enough resist energy spells for everyone, Harlan?
wand of flame arrow has 9 charges, add it to your sheet Malnival as I think you're the only one who can really use it.
we also have a plethora of curing potions and lesser restorations. if anyone wants them on hand lemme know.
a mwk heavy xbow, fire wine, and mwk net can likely be sold off as well.
|Harlan Starshine
i've got all these in the party loot:
2 clay vials of cure light wounds
1 potions of cure moderate wounds
3 potions of lesser restoration
5 potions of cure light wounds (1 each)
take the cure mod and a couple of cure light. Cure light is prob gettgin inefficient.
|Maeve Haela
...also, I note that Maeve has in reserve enough cash for her own Potion of Fly, albiet I had intended to save that up for other things. Oh well, if now isn't an emergency, I don't know what is.
|DM NomadSage
Note, there's only one potion of fly available for purchase.
Does Maeve want some ranged attack other than UMD-ing her wand?
Does Quasit boy have any magic weapons?
Do we have any plans other than Maeve and Heng rush around behind it, Mal and Parity attack from the front corners and Harlan don't get eaten?
I've got elemental fire fists and Parity Suishen
Mal and possibly Maeve have scorching ray.
I can give Qalvanaq alchemists fire to throw...
if it flies Parity can follow and do we want myself or Mal to get the one potion of fly? Mal can do some big damage with a spell strike and if hasted maybe we should give him the potion.
|Maeve Haela
At this point, the wand's going to be useless against non-humanoid opponents thanks to spell resistance kicking in. That especially applies to the dragon. I've got some alchemist's fire and acid flasks left (the latter won't be great but they'll work.)
Maeve can take Harlan's Flame Weapon spell on her fists, as she said, but that's going to be dependent on being able to get to the dragon - not a guarantee every round.
|DM NomadSage
Qal's has a +1 handaxe.
|Maeve Haela
Hmmm...just trying to think of some way to pull this off...no one happens to have Fly on a scroll, do they? If we have a few days, Mal might be able to work with Koya to make the potions if we add Fly to his spellbook.
Yeah, really reaching now.
OK, and finally if we can get the dragon in his lair or to chase us into his lair where flight might be somewhat limited, we should go with that?
I guess we have as much of a plan as we're going to have. stupid flying dragons...
Mal's got the potion of flight.
Koya will make a potion of owl wisdom for me and we're ready to go?
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|Harlan Starshine
|Maeve Haela
...that works. ^^ I think I can afford to make do serving as a buff dispenser for the dragon fight if need be. Finales, Versatile Weapon for Heng for the better enhancement bonus, and the like. Of course, if the dragon comes down on the ground I can certainly throw a punch or three.
Forgot to tell you the properties of the claws of the ice bear... they are enchanted climbing spikes, strapped to the hands, with metal claws on a palm-side plate. They grant a +2 competence bonus to Climb checks and Acrobatics checks made when using both hands to aid in movement, and allow the wearer to ignore the normal penalties on those skills for slippery or icy surfaces. In addition, up to 3 times per day, the wearer can activate the claws as a swift action to gain the benefits of spider climb for 1 round. The wearer cannot hold anything else in their hands while using the claws. If used as a weapon, they function as spiked gauntlets.
|Malnival Selintin
|Maeve Haela
Hey, guys. Some things have come up and I'm not going to be able to post for a few days, most likely. Hope to be back up and running by Friday at the latest, but just roll around me until then.
Nevermind, I didn't add a charge bonus. I was just getting creative about how far I could push dragon style charge to be more of a wuxia flying master flavor. huh, just saw the flying jump kick feat, that's what I need!
EDIT:oops, just saw that was 3rd party. I thought there was some kind of Paizo jumping kick feat though.
|Harlan Starshine
In the games I run I generally allow it. The monk has to spend 1 ki to get an extra attack and can only do so during a flurry. The flurry is treated as using the improved two weapon fighting chain and is different enough that I don't see much of a problem. One of my players is a level 11 monk using a magic item that allows him to count as a monk 5 levels higher for purposes of damage and he isn't really lighting the world on fire even flurry + haste + ki spent.
If it wasn't a used resource I might feel differently but since there are so many good uses of ki and it's a limited pool it doesn't seem to be unbalanced. That party also has a ninja turning himself invisible and sneak attacking with two weapons every round of the fight so there are worse things.
|Maeve Haela
|Maeve Haela
Yah. Basically, the argument "for" is that the monk ability, unlike most "extra action" abilities, doesn't specifically call out the "doesn't stack" thing, and the argument against is that it's clearly just an oversight and there isn't supposed to be any way to get more than one additional attack in a round. Since I'm not planning on taking any more levels in Monk and can't get a ki pool as one anyway, it's really more to do with Heng than me.
I don't mind it not stacking. I guess flurry already feels like Ki powered haste effect. I already run fast and have some Wis AC bonus so no biggy.
agreed that monk is a mess though. I think they really tried to stay too close to first ed and it really needs a reimagining. I'm still enjoying Heng though so it's all good.
just don't put me in a Body Wrap of Mighty Strikes. that has got to be the cheesiest magic item ever. does it come with a facial and pedi?
OMIGOD, A MUMMY! Burn it! oh, nevermind. it's the monk.
|Maeve Haela
Well, the body wraps (whose proper name I don't really know) are at least somewhat justified in terms of what they do, and do exist. It's basically a long bandage that you tie tightly around your torso to give some extra support. HOW they do it, on the other hand, is just an example of bizarre thinking that monks are somehow on the cusp of being overpowered and unarmed fighters need to be given a massive boost to let them compete. It's pretty much completely at odds with how things APPEAR to be intended to work. I can't really comprehend where they're coming from.
EDIT: ...that said, I do have to admit that Maeve would probably be better off wearing Brawling armor, using the body-wraps, and then dropping in an AoMF with the special properties she wants still later. At least from a pure optimization standpoint, one level of flurry isn't great even if (for her) the ability to enchant her body as a magic weapon is.
- HP:124/124 (11 temp)
- Vanguard Blast: 7/7
- Swift Spell: 4/5
- SpellGrapple: 7/7
- Enhance Weap 12/12
- Spells: 1st: 5/6, 2nd: 3/5, 3rd: 2/4, 4th: 0/4
- Chaincloth Cloak: 3/3
- Jingasa negate crit/SA: 1/1
- Terra Cotta Talisman: Luck Reroll: 1/1, spiritual ally: 1/1
- Suishen abilities: airwalk: 2/3, see invisibility: 2/3, resist cold: 2/3, daylight:3/3
- Active effects:
Blind, endure elements, light fortification, countless eyes (all-round vision), invisibility, keen edge, bulls str, stoneskin (120)
Soooo ... I just realized that the Gameplay updated tab and the Discussion update tab are separate ... so one can go inactive and not show updates while the other does.
Damn it.
All that to tell you that I haven't been ignoring you! I just caught up on 3 weeks of posts like right now.
Hmmm ... so, anyhow ... would've like to hop in the OOC Maeve/Ame/Parity discussion while it was happening, but suffice it to say ... role playing is role playing. Perception is what makes this great. All players in this scenario think they're right ... and probably are from their perspective. Interesting moral discussion, BTW ... some translation to real life in a way. Somalia, terrorists, shooting children running at you with grenades (my father saw that in Vietnam ...).
But as for the in-character stuff... I enjoyed it. Parity is a tangle of angst, ignorance, pride and misplaced softer emotions. He was never taught morality but I do believe that people are inherently inclined to help one another out. He's desensitized to violence, but doesn't seek it out. There are some other conflicting emotions with Ame that confuse him as well. Parity will likely engage with Maeve in character at some point but certainly not with a dragon on the mind. :) Let's be real, now!
Speaking of which, sorry about missing the planning ... and the loot divvy ... and pretty much everything else. Parity thinks the ring of mind-shielding is probably better sold than used on him. He could wear it, but I dont see the advantage.
As for the monk discussion ... ah, to hell with it. I'm so over monks :)
Sorry again ... and by the way, married life = AWESOME. Love this woman. She's fabulous.
Most of you have probably already run Curse of the Crimson Throne as a player or GM, but... I just put up a RECRUITMENT THREAD to start a new PbP game. You've all been awesome players, and would love to have you play that also (if you're interested). =)
|Maeve Haela
Actually, I have not run through any of the 3.5 APs in any form, having pretty much picked up the game with Pathfinder. Since I just got out of the S&S game I was playing, give me a day or two to consider ideas.
|Malnival Selintin
I started it on PBP but it fell apart I would like to submit Kazadarin, an Urban Ranger, if you would have me.
|Harlan Starshine
Ooooh...yes I am very interested. I have a rogue statted up for a Way of the Wicked game that he didn't get into. I need to retool him from the point buy of that game and change his alignment from LE to something more heroic. I'll apply with him tonight.
|Harlan Starshine
|Harlan Starshine
Yeah there are a lot of people interested. I'm going to submit an arcane caster, that field looks pretty empty right now. How do you feel about summoners? I'm not going to build a cheesy synthesist or something like that if I go that route, just bouncing between that and sorcerer and witch.
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Mets (60-61) at Pirates (40-81)
7:05 PM EST–PNC Park, Pittsburgh
TV: FSN Pittsburgy, SNY
Frank Coonely and Neal Huntington continue to make life difficult for themselves by opening their mouths and making statements like Huntington did yesterday (no big money FA's next year) and Coonely did today (payroll will increase next year). Pat does a very nice job of explaining why it's annoying and probably pretty stupid, and I think he's spot on.
Tonight's starters…
Mike Pelfrey: 11-7, 3.95 vs. Jeff Karstens: 2-9, 4.57
Pelfrey's been doing a great job for the Mets – who the Bucs haven't played in forever, it feels like. They're lagging behind the NL East race but have a chance to do something notable this weekend, as one win will clinch the Bucs' 18th losing season in a row. Jeff Karstens will probably pitch well for five or six innings, then blow up and allow that to happen.
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She is survived by her daughters, Vicki Conn and Dan, Concordia, and Bobbie Brown and John, Clifton; sons, Rick Hagen and Vicki, Belleville, and Mitchell Hagen, Clifton; seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by husbands Robert Hagen and John Tempel; her parents; brothers, Kenneth and Lawrence Wulf and sisters, Dorothy Schmidt and Ester Yung.
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One of the Tory party's biggest donors Anthony Bamford heads a list of cronies handed peerages by David Cameron today.
The JCB tycoon finally became a Lord three years after he was reported to have been rejected by watchdogs because of concerns over his tax affairs.
The billionaire digger manufacturer, 67, and his family have given the Conservatives about £5million.
He was caught up in the row over cash-for-access to the Prime Minister after it emerged he was among backers treated to a "thank you" dinner in No10.
And Mr Cameron was accused of rewarding him with high-profile visits to his factories in Britain and abroad.
Labour MP Steve McCabe said: "Not content with rewarding him with private dinners in Downing Street and a millionaire's tax cut, David Cameron has now handed him a peerage too.
"It's another example of the Prime Minister standing up for his wealthy donor friends while families see their living standards fall."
And senior Lib Dem peer Lord Oakeshott condemned the inclusion of so many donors on the list.
He said: "Cash for peerages pollutes parliament and political parties who collude in this.
"It's now more urgent and vital than ever that we elect the Lords and get big money out of British politics for good."
The Prime Minister appointed 14 new peers, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg 10 and Labour chief Ed Miliband five – including Doreen Lawrence, mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence.
The Green party was allowed one new peer.
Howard Leigh, one of the Tory party's top fund-raisers who gave them £219,002.39 of his own cash, is one of Mr Cameron's peers.
The Tory party treasurer is chairman of the Leaders Club for supporters who give more than £50,000 a year.
Deputy PM Nick Clegg also put two major donors in the House of Lords.
James Palumbo, boss of the Ministry of Sound nightclub empire, received a peerage after giving the party £682,764.73p.
He is joined by Rumi Verjee, who brought Domino's Pizza to Britain and has given the Lib Dems more than £800,000.
Labour donor Sir William Haughey and lobbyist Jon Mendelsohn were among the peers created by Mr Miliband.
The new Lord Haughey has given the party £1,321,626.
Mr Mendelsohn was former PM Gordon Brown's chief fund-raiser when it emerged that another wealthy donor, David Abrahams, had funnelled donations via friends and colleagues.
Two lobbyists are also among the new Tory peers – Margaret Thatcher's former political secretary Sir Stephen Sherbourne and ex-MP Matthew Carrington, who is now deputy chairman of a Kuwaiti bank.
Newspaper columnist Daniel Finkelstein, a member of Mr Cameron's inner circle dubbed the "Chumocracy", was also honoured.
He was among six journalists whom the PM said he met so often he could not publicly list all the meetings at the Leveson inquiry.
Lib Dem Brian Paddick, an ex-Met police chief and twice loser of the race for London mayor, were among the large number of political appointments.
Mr Clegg's ex-deputy chief of staff Alison Suttie became a Baroness, despite being embroiled in claims that sexual harassment by party grandee Lord Chris Rennard was covered up.
Lady Suttie was said to be the point of contact in his office for women who complained about Rennard, although sources close her insist she never heard specific allegations against him.
David Cameron breaks promise to cut the cost of politics as the House of Lords swells to 838 peers
The 30 new appointments mean that Parliament now has a total of 838 Lords – even more than before the hereditary peers were axed.
The House of Lords is even larger than the European Parliament and costs taxpayers a fortune.
The new peers will "earn" around £40,000 a year each if they turn up on every sitting day – an annual total of about £1.2million.
They can claim an attendance allowance of £300 a day and travel costs for one return journey per week from home to Westminster.
The decision to appoint 30 new Lords is the Prime Minister's but the figure is arrived at through negotiations between the parties.
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I'm looking to set up an equation involving the use of trig, just to help you understand take this example:
And solves for:
So for my equation and substituting :
I'm trying to obtain mine but I am confused about the and the positioning of the subsquent 2 this time. I just can't be 100% of getting it right. Does anyone know?
That's fine CB.
Ok this is the question, you may remember my question regarding this transfer function I did with you:
So the question was:
"Setting and r = 0.5, compute the magnitude frequency response for the series of frequency values satisfying where n = 0,1,2,3,4. Repeat this for r = 0.7 and r= 0.9. Using these calculations, sketch (or plot) - in one figure - the magnitude frequency responses for all three values of r."
I was following an example used in a book, which for their example (following on from above) then obtained their magnitude frequency response to be:
*Should be a modulus of H(z)
Then they would produce a table and substitute values of , , , and all in radians (which obtained subsequent values of 0.670, 0.715, 0.894, 1.357, 2.000). And then would convert into dB's from which a graph was plotted. I assume this is the correct way of doing the quesiton. I have to do this for the three values of r.
I would like to do the same with my question. I have substituted r = 0.5 and to get my equation the only problem is that I'm not sure what the step is then? Could you help?
Multiply top and bottom by the conjugate of the denominator, to give you something with a real denominator.
simplify the denominator:
Now simplify the numerator and take the absolute value.
Hi CaptainBlack, appreciate your response.
I'm having difficulty simplifying the numerator here
When I do so I obtain:
To be honest I don't know if that's right, and if it is, I still don't know what to do with it.
This is my last question of my coursework and I have to hand it in today at 4-5pm-ish (yeah I apologise) so if could help me solve the numerator I would very much appreciate it so I can crack on with the graphs. This thread has revealed how desperately I lacking I am in certain areas of maths, and I'm a 3rd year level Electrical and Electronic Engineering student!


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Whats going on in Naples, planning and permits!
So you arrived in this sleepy little town fifty years ago, one street down the middle, empty beaches as far as the eye could see and waterfront homes galore, just sitting there waiting to be snatched up for very little money. The mosquitoes were terrible, no overhead planes to conveniently fly over the town every week to spray and keep them undercontrol, and, there are gators everywhere. Well at least that's what I think it must have been like, but for those that persisted and made Naples their home, the benefits must have quickly outshone the downside of bugs, snakes and no air-conditioning! The lucky early settlers who took up residence along the waterfront in the area south of Olde Naples, did not pay a million dollars for a quarter of an acre plot, nor did they have building restrictions, planning and permitting to go through, luckily though, Port Royal and Aqualane Shores in Naples, managed to escape the usual demise of beachfront towns, that being overpopulation along the shoreline. The area however, is now managed and conrolled by planning and permits, which, in this day and age are much needed if we want to keep these beautiful areas in the condition they are now. The area south of Naples has no high rise towers, no ugly strip malls, the streets are narrow and quaint, the beach and bay are maintained without harming the natural nature of Naples. Although we all complain about getting permits, the time it takes, the hoops we have to jump through just to build for instance a fence, its the permitting that keeps Naples what it is today, a unique beautiful town, with and olde world atmosphere, wonderful homes and, thank goodness, mosquito control!
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Here, we take a wide-angle look at the available offensive linemen on the free-agent market this winter.
This list focuses on the top 10 free-agent offensive linemen who are in their prime. So, you will not see Carolina Panthers left tackle Jordan Gross (pictured above) here, despite the fact he earned a 33.5 rating from Pro Football Focus. That is the top grade among all of the free agents, but he is also near retirement at the age of 33.
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Band Artists Live Longer than Solo ArtistsSubmitted by Ria Patel on Thu, 12/20/2012 - 12:45
A recent study has claimed that the artists performing in groups live longer than those who are solo artists. The research looked into careers of 1,489 rock and pop performers who were famous during 1956 to 2006.
Amy's Father Says He Misses His DaughterSubmitted by Lance Rake on Sat, 09/10/2011 - 14:33
As said everything in excess is bad, and the same thing became the reason of death of Amy Winehouse, said her father Mitch Winehouse. He was of the view that she drank in excess and also performed detoxification activity to an excess.
Drugs and the Celebrities!Submitted by Danny Garcia on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 08:24
The death of famous British singer Amy Winehouse has aroused the issue of drug addiction and its consequences. Amy, just 27 years old, was stressed with her addiction to drugs and alcoholism. Her addiction surpassed her talent of singing, which resulted in her death.
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Amy Winehouse, for the first time, confessed her love and passion for boyfriend Reg Traviss in front of the media.
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. The skin or rind of certain fruits and vegetables.
- n. A chemical peel.
- transitive v. To strip or cut away the skin, rind, or bark from; pare.
- transitive v. To strip away; pull off: peeled the label from the jar.
- intransitive v. To lose or shed skin, bark, or other covering.
- intransitive v. To come off in thin strips or pieces, as bark, skin, or paint: Her sunburned skin began to peel.
- intransitive v. Slang To remove one's clothes; undress.
- peel off To leave flight formation in order to land or make a dive. Used of an aircraft.
- peel off To leave or depart.
- n. A long-handled, shovellike tool used by bakers to move bread or pastries into and out of an oven.
- n. Printing A T-shaped pole used for hanging up freshly printed sheets of paper to dry.
- n. A fortified house or tower of a kind constructed in the borderland of Scotland and England in the 16th century.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. To plunder; to pillage, rob.
- v. To remove the skin or outer covering of.
- v. To remove from the outer or top layer of.
- v. To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.
- v. To remove one's clothing.
- v. To move, separate (off or away)
- n. The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable etc. (usually uncountable)
- n. The action of peeling away from a formation.
- n. A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or exfoliate.
- n. A stake.
- n. A fence made of stakes; a stockade.
- n. A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
- n. A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven.
- n. A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
- n. The blade of an oar.
- n. An equal or match; a draw.
- n. A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.
- v. To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).
- v. Common misspelling of peal: to sound loudly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
- n. A spadelike implement, variously used, as for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven; also, a T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar.
- n. The skin or rind.
- intransitive v. To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; -- often used with an adverb.
- intransitive v. To strip naked; to disrobe. Often used with down .
- transitive v. To plunder; to pillage; to rob.
- transitive v. To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate.
- transitive v. To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To strip the skin, bark, or rind from; strip by drawing or tearing off the skin; flay; decorticate; bark: as, to peel a tree; to peel an orange.
- To strip off; remove by stripping.
- Synonyms see pare, v. t
- To lose the skin or rind; be separated or come off in thin flakes or pellicles: as, the orange peels easily; the bark peels off Swift.
- To undress.
- To plunder; devastate; spoil.
- To be equal or have the same score in a game.
- n. The skin, bark or rind of anything: as, the peel of an orange.
- n. Synonyms Rind, etc. See skin.
- n. A kind of wooden shovel with a broad blade and long handle, used by bakers to put bread into or take it out of the oven.
- n. In printing, a wooden pole with a short cross-piece at one end, in the form of the letter , used to convey printed sheets to and from the horizontal poles on which they are dried.
- n. The wash or blade of an oar, as distinguished from the loom.
- n. A mark resembling a skewer with a large ring (), formerly used in England as a mark for cattle, a signature-mark for persons unable to write, or the like.
- n. A fortified tower; a stronghold.
- n. An equal; a match: as, they were peels at twelve.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. strip the skin off
- n. British politician (1788-1850)
- v. get undressed
- v. come off in flakes or thin small pieces
- n. the rind of a fruit or vegetable
The thought of Beck slipping on a banana peel is making me laugh like crazy!
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Just gut 'em, sprinkle with a little lemon pepper (on the inside) and place them on the coals ... turning a few times until done, the scales and skin peel right off, and they are very tasty.
You have these thin sheets of dough, which you have to peel from a stack, and then if the dough gets a little too sticky, you know, the sheets will break.
"A banana peel is household waste, not fly ash," said Havens.
Grated lemon peel is the essential ingredient that brings the dish together.
Recipes: Morel Stuffed Mushrooms, Marinated Beets with Candied Red Onions, & Horta Salad (Μανιτάρια Γεμιστά, Μαριναρισμένα Παντζάρια, & Χόρτα Σαλάτα)
Candied lemon peel is tasty on its own as a sweet treat, and adds flavor when added to cookies, cakes, or ice cream.
And while I'm at it, pointing out that the banana peel is biodegradable is just ridiculous.
Transfer to pan and cook gently until peel is soft.
When the peel is dry, she puts it into a pan of sugared water and cooks it just enough to tenderize the skin.
Process the sugar and Meyer lemon peel in a food processor until the peel is very fine.


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Thank you, NarutoBase Staff
they are all instant win if you don't know how to PERFECTLY defend against it!!!!
Teleporting not really and itachi still died with sussano.
teleporting=teleport behind someone, by stopping time, then stabbing someone in the back of the head with a kunai
and the only reason itachi died(not that im sticking up for him) is because he was using too much chakra during the fight and collapsed, or was indeed poisoned by madara
itachi summoned susaano for no reason
well actually he used susanoo to stop sasuke's lightning chidori thingy, but the sword fused with susanoo makes it rediculous
i know i tought susaano was gonna blast sasuke
don't get me wrong, i really do hate itachi as a character, but his susanoo is one jutsu that was just wayyyyy too strong for a mortal to know. it's like reaper death seal except you get to LIVE
do u think susaano can block 4tails kyuubi blast
hmmmmmmmmm, idk kyuubi blast is like dbz kamehameha, probly not
Yea that is all great, i realy hope he learns 4th's teleportation but what about naruto learning to fight with the wind like he cut the watterfall?
dont worry when is back from training you see
he should learn water jutsu cuz then he should have no problem with sasuke
water beats fireballs
rasenshuriken beats chidoris
i think he gonna learn all 5 element because pein can do all five he gonna need all five to destroy pein i think he gonna learn them from the toads
if naruto learns all 5 elements, i will finally consider him strong, but he needs more than element to be stronger than the 4th
yeah he need them to eliminate all the akatsuki i heard they have more akatsuki coming
most likely Naruto's 2nd element I think it will be water
I honestly think his second element might be fire or lightining.......cuz look at who he is training with........
It doesn't matter who is training with you, you just get an element that your born with.
true.........hrm.......lets see his mother more than likley water.......his father.....what was he?????????
Cuz I know some elements don't run down the family line........Like look at the Sarutobi's the 3rd was earth and fire....and Asuma was Wind
still there is a possibility that Naruto could learn different elements
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Star Trek Online continues the backstory chronicles of their "The Future Past" series features a rise in Klingon military power and an explanation of one of the game's factions. Also included after the cut, a brief new gameplay trailer illustrating both deep space and planet-side gameplay.
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By Andy Capper and Alison Severs, Photos by Stuart Griffiths
They don't call it being "sent to Siberia" for nothing.
We learned this on the first day of our trip to Novokuznetsk, in the western part of this 5.1-million-square-mile region of Russia. In summer, the cold gives way to an overcast, balmy season and the air becomes filled with mosquitoes the size of your little finger.
A sense of Soviet-era poverty pervades every facet of life in the city: the mouldering grey housing blocks, the wake-up call of barking wild dogs, the 6 AM hotel breakfasts of Spam and hard-fried eggs speckled with dill.
But complaining about minor inconveniences here would be as self-entitled as a visitor to Syria complaining about the noise when the army shoots protestors in the streets. We weren't here for fun. No one has much fun here.
We were filming a documentary about how and why the youth of Novokuznetsk were in the grip of a heroin epidemic, a story squarely at odds with Vladimir Putin's rebranding of Russian youth as prosperous superhumans living in a shining world of money, success and freedom. In reality, Russia now consumes 21 percent of the world's heroin.
Dope in Novokuznetsk is creamy white in colour, the purest you can buy anywhere. It comes from Afghanistan and, local legend has it, is guided through the border of Kazakhstan by the Taliban as revenge for the 1979 Russian invasion. But Russia's newest drug problem is entirely self-inflicted.
Before we set off on our trip, we heard whispers of a new drug called krokodil—a homemade synthetic opiate stronger than heroin made from petrol and codeine—that gets its reptilian name because it turns addicts' skin scaly, while eating them from the inside, rotting the brain and limbs before invariably killing
its users.
When we got there we found that the krokodil whispers were becoming louder and more insistent, verging on mild yelling, like the sound you make when bolting upright in your bed from a wide-awake nightmare.
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Romney Sweats Through Debate; But Guess Who Didn't Get Mentioned?
At the final presidential candidate debate, on Monday night, Mitt Romney pulled off one of the great political metamorphoses of our time. He turned himself into his opponent. For 90 minutes, Romney spoke about how much he agreed with Barack Obama's foreign policy. The main difference: Romney will be louder.
Foreign policy was never going to be the strong suit of a former one-term governor, but too often during the debate, Romney sounded a lot like he was speaking phonetically, without any understanding of the words coming out of his mouth. Really, Mali? How many votes did that win among undecided voters in Akron? The goal was to look and sound presidential. But on that score, Obama clearly had Romney beat, and not just because he is president and has to know about Mali. Obama was able to stress that he's established a successful direction in foreign policy and will keep to it. (If he could make the same argument for the economy, he wouldn't be in such a tight race.) And he made Romney an example of what it's like to be on the receiving end of his anger.
More to the point, Obama took the game to Romney again, as he did in the second debate. Romney seemed to be laboring under a "do no harm" clause in his debate contract. His attack on events in Libya, that was so disastrous for him last time out? Missing. Withdrawal from Afghanistan? "The surge has been successful, and the training program is proceeding at pace." Drones? Mitt loves 'em.
How well this sudden moderation will play with the shariah-fearing right in the GOP remains to be seen. But when Romney did try to go on the offensive, he left himself wide open to attack. The most noteworthy example was Romney's attempt to characterize the current U.S. Navy as roughly a couple of buckets and a rubber duck short of the World War I fleet. This prompting Obama, in a witheringly condescending response, to inform Romney that we aren't using as many bayonets and horses either because of these wondrous new inventions like submarines.
Romney didn't seem to be able to recover from these verbal assaults, and as the debate wore on, he began to acquire a Nixonian sheen from sweat. By the end, he looked like Obama did at the end of the first debate–like a man who would rather be undergoing an experimental orthodontic procedure than sitting on the stage where he was.
Will the debate matter much? Probably not. It's not 2004, where foreign policy was front and center. That's why Romney kept trying to talk about the economy. But really, was it too much to expect a question about DADT during a foreign policy debate? Republicans have characterized it as a national security issue, so it wouldn't have been that much of a stretch. It wouldn't have hurt Barack to mention it either in his litany of praise for the troops. No such luck, though.
In a debate, it seems some things aren't worth talking about. Clearly, we're one of them.
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LOL Queerty, you're like that awkward teenage girl who wants desperately to be noticed. Despite how much the gay community has tried to hijack the election and make it all about their "equality" and whatnot, for the rest of the world it's been about ECONOMY and FOREIGN POLICY…not how well the candidates like gays and support their right to marry. You already had an election (Bush/Kerry '04) where gay marriage and other gay-related issues were forefront. Did you like how that one turned out? LOL! Give it a rest. Not everything is about you.
BTW, CNN analysts are saying that Romney and his camp intentionally threw this debate to come off more likable. 24% of people polled said that the debates will make them vote for Obama, 25% said that it'll make them vote for Romney and 50% said neither/undecided. So it all boils down to Ohio's undecideds…where Romney is making headway! :D
DADT's abolition is already established case law. There's no need to debate it. Unless you want to bring it back?
Yes. Gay issues will definitely be in the forefront in this election and will assure that MD WA MN and ME will always be blue from now on.
Romney come over as a clueless xenophobe, who just threw ideas at Obama without any semblance of knowledge or legitimate knowledge over any of his standpoints.
This was a great showing and I'm very glad, as are the vast majority of intelligent people all over the globe, we're watching and hoping America votes with their brains and with the facts and not their racism and introspective god complexes.
Vote Obama, if you want to get through the recession and help the world move forward, we need him for another term. It is that simple and clear cut.
@Avenger: "CNN analysts are saying that Romney and his camp intentionally threw this debate to come off more likable."
Haha! That's great.
Other than marriage bans in certain states I'm relieved we aren't mentioned. I don't have to listen to self-righteous pricks taking a "stand" against it to garner votes.
Should they discuss African American issues or Jewish issues? Why didn't they address this? The reason we weren't mentioned is simple. No one cares. We have much BIGGER issues to worry about.
Also we have made huge advances during Bam's term. Yet it's all about marriage equality. I could care less about the damn word as long as all benefits are equal. I would imagine most gay people don't care either. Gay marriage is revolting and everyone knows this but won't admit it.
Marriage will take care of itself as more straight people don't want to seem prejudiced. I overheard someone on a train talking about it. She said "I don't understand OCD but I wouldn't want to impose religious beliefs to discriminate against those people."
And there you have it, they hold their nose and pretend to support it but they do not see our relationships as equal even while supporting it. Isn't it really about our precious egos and making sure everyone pretends to see us as equal. In the end our love isn't enough we need the stamp of approval to justify it. News flash: It will never happen.
If we got everything we wanted it wouldn't be enough as gays would find something to moan about.
Flop sweat.
Why would a LGBT question come up on this debate? The best chance that kinda question had was in the 2nd debate and unfortunately, it didn't happen.
Veterans were another sizeable group Romney failed to mention (although the President did mention them). Given that the focus of last night's debate was foreign affairs, I'd think that would be the more egregious omission. Unless by foreign affairs Queerty would like to complain that bi-national (and did somebody say "serodiscordant"?) couples weren't mentioned either.
If you were really hoping fo rand looking for a Glbt question, it would have come in the 2nd debate of in the VP debate when they were all over the map on topics. You're certainly not going to get it at a foreign policy debate.
Also, I think the candidates are clear on their stances on equality. I'm sure the moderator's felt there were other questions that needed to be answered where the candidates needed to clarify their positions and draw new contrasts. And frankly, those are the questions i want to hear most.
@Avenger: Heh, heh, heh… you feel quite safe and snuggly in that little cave of yours, don't you?! When you come out for air and sunlight, your strawmuppet Romney will be running for his life o win a Senate seat again and he'll lose that too. President Obama and Co. is a shing example as to why this country is, and will be, well on the road to recovery. Jus' sayin', Sunshine!
GLBT's are just like climate change. Climate change wasn't mentioned in the any of this year's debates either. We're moving backwards in the national political discourse on an issue that will affect all of us. Adversely.


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WASHINGTON — The relationship between the United States and China is like a marriage, but not like a gay marriage, Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang quipped yesterday as he stood with U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew.
The two men, both new to their jobs, are co-chairing the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, a yearly meeting between the world's two biggest economies.
"In China when we say a pair of new people, we mean a newlywed couple," Wang said about himself and Lew. "Although U.S. law does permit marriage between two men, I don't think this is what Jacob or I actually want."
Wang described how the United States and China must cooperate and build trust like a married couple.
"(But) we cannot have a divorce the way Wendi and Rupert Murdoch just had," Wang said, referring to News Corp. chief executive and billionaire Murdoch and his Chinese-born wife of 14 years, Wendi Deng.
"For that, it would be too big a price to pay."
Lew briefly smiled at his notes after Wang's comments, but many members of the Chinese delegation squirmed.


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For its entry in the Freeride World Tour, the 2009 edition of Nendaz Freeride is announced to be spectacular. The snow has fallen in abundance on the different faces of the mountains in Nendaz and the sun will surely be there
20CHF (£12) is all it will cost to stay at "La Rosablanche" in Siviez, it'll probably be in a dorm room but a bargain to stay and ride the 4-valleys.
Visit their website for more details and how to book
Film and conference of Friday evening animated by Jean-Yves Michellod
For our usual evening of Friday on the topic of ski prevention, join us for the projection (free entrance) of JYM SKIEUR LIBRE. This film, produced by Loris and Nicolas Falquet won the Gold Devil at the film festival of Diablerets. Winner of Xtreme de Verbier in 2004, the guide and skier Jean-Yves Michellod was victim of a terrible accident in 2006 which cost him the use of his legs. Today he is back on his skis and proves that with the power of will one can move mountains A lesson of life and humility. Jean-Yves Michellod will be present to discuss and answer all your questions.
Saturday: Qualification
From early morning and during the day, riders (more than 100) will carry out two qualification runs. They will compose with the elements of the mountain, keeping fluidity, control and a complete engagement to try to win a place for the Sunday final.
The list of qualified riders will be announced at 7 pm in the Cactus Bar in Nendaz.
Sunday: the super final
Sunday morning, meet us at the Top of the Plan du Fou and in front of the face of the Mont-Gond to attend the final of the Nendaz Freeride. From 10h00, the first of the 30 best riders will ski down. A spectacular show is expected. At the restaurant of Plan du Fou at 2430m altitude there will be barbecue, DJ and live music by the group Synopsis - animation guaranteed!
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The Chicago Bulls lost forward Taj Gibson to an ankle injury late in their pivotal Game 5 Eastern Conference quarterfinal playoff loss to the Washington Wizards.
According to ESPN Chicago's Nick Friedell, Gibson took a nasty spill in the fourth quarter after landing awkwardly on his ankle:
Gibson is being taken off the floor not putting much weight at all on the ankle.— Nick Friedell (@NickFriedell) April 30, 2014
The team quickly announced his status to return was questionable with about six minutes left in the contest:
Gibson (left ankle) is questionable to return, per #Bulls PR. #WASvsCHI— Chicago Bulls (@chicagobulls) April 30, 2014
Friedell added more after the game:
Taj Gibson putting no weight on his ankle. Says x-rays showed no break.— Nick Friedell (@NickFriedell) April 30, 2014
Before the injury, Gibson put in 25 minutes of work and tallied 12 points, four rebounds and three blocks.
An obvious favorite for the Sixth Man of the Year Award after averaging 13 points, 6.8 boards and 1.4 blocks per game in the regular season off the bench, Gibson was once again the glue piece on Tuesday night, as he helped his team attempt to fend off elimination.
Gibson scored a minimum of 12 points and four rebounds in each contest against Washington. On an otherwise shaky roster, he was a critical component that saved the Bulls from being swept outright—the only other capable players who could absorb minutes at the position were Carlos Boozer and Louis Amundson.
It's not all bad news for Gibson.
The injury and finality of his fifth pro season via first-round elimination sting, but he has plenty of recovery time ahead and will surely be ready to get back to work next season.
The future looks bright in that regard, as the Bulls can stockpile talent this offseason to help build around Gibson, who will surely be a starter next year at the 4.
Add in Derrick Rose's return and Joakim Noah next to Gibson beneath the rim, and the Bulls already have the look of a playoff contender yet again.


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Well first of, if you know that the function is increasing all the way up to -2 and then decreasing, how do you conclude that -2 is a local minimum??
Well this is wrong. You can not subtract the 1 on the right side into the bracket.
Since the power is even or
Hope that helps with this part.
Now for C.What do you mean the second point? as far as I can see there is only one inflection point.(first point)
then to get the second point, i plugged in -1(first point) to the original equation
Think a bit about this one, when the function is concave up it's derivative is increasing (where it is defined).and how do i find the rest of part C, which is
"Find the interval the function is concave up.
Find the interval the function is concave down."
What does the second derivative look like when the first one is increasing ?
It is positive. Do you understand why?
So on what intervals is the second derivative positive and where is it negative?
You find out where the function is increasing or decreasing by taking the derivative,how do i solve part A without graphing it on a calculator? is there a way to find the points without graphing it?
and find out where the derivative is positive or negative.
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So awesome
It would be nice to see this become a series in itself. I watched the flash vid and i thought it would be great.
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sakura always seems better when her hair is in a ponytail
That pink hair sucks.
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sakura always seems better when her hair is in a ponytail
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Naruhina is the way to go, BR00.
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That's nice I guess.
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Naruhina is the way to go, BR00.
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Re: Why no tsuba?
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This is going to continue to come up thread after thread because it is generally felt that there are people here talking way over their paygrade...thread after thread. They don't "hear" themselves in light of more experienced people in Budo.
Many people who have skills either ignore this tripe or are sort of outraged that these people see themselves with any qualities that would add relevance to many discussions here. More so that they are teaching people this stuff in the name of Aikido or Budo. It's dangerously inept. People keep bringing it up out of concern for the community at large, for Aikido's integrity, and for general safety-particularly with weapons.
I have been trying to tell you this for a year or so. Saying those videos were not demonstrations but rather some sort of mumbo jumbo of making a point in class that none of us are capable of seeing fails on its face. You are talking to a room full of teachers, many with far more experience than you. FWIW, there is no reason, none what-so-ever, for any lesson in any class what-so-ever to engender the type of movement you display with a weapons, for any reason in a budo. From our stand point; the way you hold a sword, handle a sword, swing a sword, your maai, your entry, your placement, your hasuji, your footwork is totally wrong. I would be the first to give you affirmation when I can see anything that is:
Traditionally correct
Martially correct
or even mechanically sound.
Most of us have talked about it and just can't find anything relating to weapons. If you want to present a case that all of your videos are you showing every single thing that one could do wrong with a sword as THEE lesson...then you may have a point. Otherwise, I think you are harming yourself and your own reputation in a community of very capable and even expert adepts in weapons use. For those who care about the safety, veracity and competent use of weapons they will continue to challenge what you say and allegedly know, in light of what you show.
You seem a nice fellow. Take this as a word to the wise.
For the community at large
This is yet another case where you need to step up and do some self monitoring. Every day that you sit idle and grant and acknowledge equanimity of view to just anyone in your art....much less a teacher...is yet another day that you continue to see people leaving your art in droves world over. Attendance is down, the reputation of the at is down. As four Shihan-unrelated- said to me this year;
"Aikido is all but dead."
Bill Gleason said
"Aikido has become a disgrace"
and he told me to quote him. You guys need to step up and make some sort of standard that will bear testing in the internet era. I think Aikido should be one of the most powerful arts the world has seen with it's aiki and principles intact, being able to work cross platform with anyone. I can use it that way....and every one of you should have that as your goal and take the art back to the level last seen in Morihei Ueshiba.
FWIW, generally accepted equanimity, in opinion, unhindered and unrestrained is the chief reason many of the truly competent people will no longer offer anyone advice here. Their voices are drowned in a sea of meaningless and even dangerous advice.
As Fred Little stated:
There are a number of very skilled and knowledgeable practitioners who simply don't post at all because doing so exposes them to endless streams of mindless rejoinders from ill-informed, poorly trained, and notably unaccomplished practitioners who are suffering from meta-cognitive failure to such an extreme degree that the result calls to mind the old proverb about the inadvisability of wrestling pigs......
Day by day
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Mmmm. Think you're missing the point once again. The thread is tsuba and the thrust of my comments I related to my old teacher and what I witnessed. I witnessed such comments as yours then so it's all old news to me.
Looks like I witnessed and experienced what you haven't by the looks of things. That means nothing really but alas I thought it may be interesting to hear another side of the coin.
If I took up some other sword art no doubt I would learn various nuances and techniques etc. but as I said this isn't about me.
He did things with the sword and bokken I doubt you could come close to. Some things I witnessed you would only find in some book of fiction. Thus I have seen potential. By a man with all of his fingers and knuckles still intact who didn't use a tsuba.
Then we come to the point of what he taught. Once again I witnessed 'others opinions of what should be versus his demonstration. He demonstrated with ease whilst they were lost for it didn't fit with what they knew. So you and your experts views may well fall into this category.
I heard his explanations so have a handle on what his 'secret' was, which in fact is no secret but as he said a failure of others to understand the relationship of Aikido and the sword.
He did say one of the tests he had to pass in his learning of such skills however which I will leave up to you swordsmen out there to recognise, or not, It involved a piece of paper. Now, if you are aware of such a test you can tell me what it involved. I'm sure I couldn't do that one as yet along with the fact that I don't personally have or train with a live blade.
Once again doing. What I saw him do I don't see anywhere near that on videos, aikido videos.
I've heard him explain to those from other arts how without shin shin toitsu as he called it then 90% of what they learned technically was a waste of time. By shin shin toitsu he was talking in the realms of sen no sen etc.
Didn't I read somewhere recently something written by you where you were explaining how you were just learning how the bokken returns to center after cutting or bounces back to so to speak? Didn't I read somewhere how you now make the end of a weapon 'heavy' via your experiments with your 'aiki'?
Do you consider this new?
Don't worry yourself about my reputation thank you based on what I show for I show nothing to astound or impress others, purposely I might add.
People leaving in droves? Maybe in the U.S. or big organizations so I suggest they look at themselves. London has many various Aikido styles and clubs all over the place. But hey, doomsday merchants arise in all fields of activity, nothing new there, especially ones who consider they are the elite. Standard procedure. Politics.
Anyway, you enjoy your challenging but more importantly just focus on what you do and have success and may all you teach learn well.
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U.S. News & World Report 2012
U.S. News & World Report Ranks Alverno College First in Midwest of doing "the best job of educating undergrads" for 2nd straight year
College receives accolades in five overall categories in 2012 rankings
Milwaukee, WI (September 12, 2011) - Alverno College ranked first in the Midwest for doing "the best job of educating undergrads," in U.S. News & World Report's 2012 America's Best Colleges guidebook for the second consecutive year.
Top marks for the college came in the "Strong Commitment to Teaching" category, in which college presidents, provosts and admissions deans were asked to "identify schools where the faculty has an unusually strong commitment to undergraduate teaching." This marks the eleventh consecutive year U.S. News & World Report has recognized Alverno in its annual rankings.
"To be ranked first in the Midwest for educating undergrads two consecutive years is an incredible honor," said Mary J. Meehan, Ph.D., president of Alverno College. "There is nothing more important to us at Alverno than educating the next generation of leaders in this community."
Other colleges and universities ranked number one in the "Strong Commitment to Teaching" category include: Dartmouth College & Princeton University (National Universities); Carleton College (National Liberal Arts Colleges); and SUNY-Geneseo (Regional Universities / North).
Alverno College was also listed in the three categories below – and was the only Wisconsin college or university listed in the first two.
First-Year Experience: Schools nominated were "more determined than others to provide freshmen and all undergrads with the best possible experience."
Ethnic Diversity: Schools nominated have environments where "students interested in studying with people of different backgrounds" thrive.
Learning Communities: Schools nominated ensured students get to take "two or more linked courses as a group and get to know one another and their professors well."
Overall, Alverno College remained in tier one in the category of Master's granting colleges and universities.
This is the 28th edition of the U.S. News & World Report annual college rankings. The rankings are published in the September issue, in a separate college guidebook, and posted online at usnews.com. The rankings measure up to 15 academic performance indicators for each institution. Quantitative data that assess a college's performance in areas such as graduation and retention rates, faculty resources, financial resources, student selectivity and alumni giving account for 75 percent of a college's score. The other 25 percent is based on a peer assessment survey the magazine sends to top officials at each school asking them to rate the other colleges in the country.


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State Sen. Kathleen Vinehout has decided against seeking the Democratic nomination for governor of Wisconsin.
Vinehout, of Alma, had been exploring a possible run until she broke her arm in a car crash last month.
Full statement released by Vinehout's campaign:
"After careful consideration I have decided not to run for Governor this year.
The severity of the injury received in the car accident last month -- a splintering of the bone in my upper right arm – and the time required to recover and rehabilitate make it impossible for me to run the intense, grass roots campaign that I want to run and would be necessary to win.
I have many thanks to give to all the individuals across the state who have encouraged me to run and offered their support in countless ways. I will continue to work supporting the grassroots efforts of so many. The vision we share for our state and our communities will not fade.
I wish success to Mary Burke and others who may offer their time and talents in leading our state."
Former Trek Bicycle Corp. executive Mary Burke is likely the only Democrat to challenge Republican Gov. Scott Walker in November.


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By Bobby Harrison
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JACKSON – Mississippians have the right to openly carry a gun, and other weapons, under a ruling released Thursday by the state Supreme Court.
The nine-member state Supreme Court, without a dissenting opinion, overturned a lower court ruling that blocked the enactment of legislation passed earlier this year allowing Mississippians to carry guns in plain sight with no permit.
The law was blocked earlier this summer by Hinds County Circuit Judge Winston Kidd, who ruled it "unconstitutionally vague" and that it would create havoc for law enforcement and the community.
But Justice Randy Grant Pierce, who wrote the opinion for the state's highest court, said the circuit judge "erred" in blocking the enactment of the law.
Rep. Andy Gipson, R-Braxton, the author of the legislation, has maintained that the 1890s Mississippi Constitution, not his bill, gives Mississippians the right to openly carry a weapon. The Constitution, he said, gives the Legislature the authority to regulate concealed carry, but not the authority to regulate open carry.
Still, he conceded that, though the language in the Constitution allows the open carry of weapons with no permit, the issue had never been decided by the courts.
Gipson's bill dealt primarily with concealed carry issues but in doing so clarified that anyone had the right to open carry.
Kidd blocked enactment of the law in late June after law enforcement, primarily from Hinds County, filed a lawsuit. After Kidd's ruling, Attorney General Jim Hood filed an appeal with the Supreme Court. He was joined by various groups, including the National Rifle Association.
"I appreciate what the Supreme Court did in expeditiously bringing this issue to a conclusion," Hood said Thursday afternoon from his Jackson office. "They could have drawn it out … but they took the bulls by the horns."
Hood said, "This decision will help our law enforcement officers understand what the rules are."
Sen. John Horhn, D-Jackson, who was among the group trying to block the law, said the high court ruling "was not unexpected," but was disappointing. He said the court did not address the issues brought in the lawsuit to block the law.
"No way is this in the best interest of Mississippi," Horhn said of the ruling.
He said he would try to pass legislation requiring people to obtain a permit to openly carry a firearm.
Horhn said he is considering whether to try to gather enough signatures to place the issue on the ballot for voters to decide. He also urged local governments to pass laws banning the open carry of weapons.
Hood has said local governments can ban weapons from certain public spaces, such as courthouses and city halls.
Gipson said Thursday's Supreme Court ruling "is a victory for the people and also the rule of law."


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