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I'm creating a fighter for a 4e D&D Essentials game. I'd like to model him after a European medieval knight, but a knight is less than complete without a good horse. What are the rules for a knight under 4e Essentials? I have the Red Box and I couldn't find anything in there, unless I overlooked it. If we don't have published rules/attack bonuses yet for Essentials, does one of the PHBs contain the mounted combat rules?
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The Rules Compendium page 252 has the rules for Mounted Combat. But has no mount stats. For that a D&DI subscription or the Adventurer's Vault or one of the Monster type books is necessary.
Also Page 199 in the PHB,
Short story is once you have the feat (named appropiately enough Mounted Combat) and you ride a creature you gain access to any special mount abilties it confers on its rider. The Monster Manuals have the details for those special powers (contained under the appropiate monster heading).
You are also allowed to use some skills in place of your mounts skills (athletics, acrobatics, endurance, stealth).


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At Least 34 Dead as Boat Carrying Migrants Capsizes in Mediterranean
Death Toll in Earlier Incident Rises to 318
ROME—A Maltese ship brought 143 survivors from a capsized smugglers' boat to Malta while a search continues for victims.
Italian Naval spokesman Cmdr. Marco Maccaroni said 34 people drowned after the boat capsized Friday afternoon in the Mediterranean Sea about 70 miles south of the Italian island of Lampedusa, just a week after more than 300 migrants died when their boat sank near the same island south of Sicily. Other survivors of Friday's accident were in good health still onboard an Italian frigate, which Cmdr. Maccaroni said also rescued 180 people from other boats in the same area overnight.
Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said Saturday that most of the migrants in the latest tragedy were fleeing civil war in Syria.
The boat was bound for Lampedusa, Malta's military said. Shortly after 4 p.m., the boat—which appeared unstable—capsized and "numerous" passengers were seen in the water, it said, adding a military aircraft provided initial assistance by dropping a life raft near the people in the water.
A military patrol boat arrived about an hour later, it said. The island of Malta lies just over 115 miles from the accident, which took place in waters under the responsibility of Maltese authorities.
The incident comes a week after the deadly sinking off Lampedusa. Thousands of refugees and immigrants try to cross the Mediterranean each year, often in barely seaworthy vessels.
Earlier Friday, the death toll from last week's shipwreck off Lampedusa rose to 318 and was likely to increase further as divers widen the search in the coming days, the Italian coast guard said.
"This is a new, tragic confirmation of what is happening in the Sicily strait," Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta said in a statement following Friday's accident.
The ship that sank last week set sail from Libya and carried an estimated 500 people, most of them refugees from Eritrea and Somalia. There are 155 survivors.
Earlier this week, Mr. Letta said the country will hold state funerals at an unspecified date for the people who drowned.
The incident pushed Italy to demand better coordination with other European Union members in dealing with the influx of African migrants, who are attempting to reach the country to escape from conflict and poverty in their home countries.
The European Commission pledged an additional €30 million ($40.5 million) by the end of the year to help Italy deal with the immigrants landing on its shores.
In a statement Friday, European Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom called on EU member states to urgently boost funding for Frontex, the EU border agency.
"In the aftermath of the Lampedusa tragedy we heard solidarity expressions from all EU countries, but these will remain only empty words if they are not followed by concrete actions," she added.
The sinking on Oct. 3 hasn't deterred smugglers from bringing refugees into Europe from the Libyan coast, said Maurizio Albahari, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame.
"And it cannot possibly deter migrants who have gone through countless stages of peril and exploitation in their own country, especially in Syria and the Horn of Africa," Mr. Albahari said.
—Matina Stevis in Brussels contributed to this article.
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I have a very peculiar problem, Just be patient with what I am saying and then see what all suggestion you can give me.
I have situation where my ISP has blocked .rpm and .deb files to be downloaded. I am already using a proxy to access the Internet. So any chance of me updating via Internet is bleak.
One peculiar thing though - I am able to download .rpm of Google chrome but any other source or site or software I try I am blocked off.
Also I have to work on unregistered RHEL 6 - Already had hard time setting it up with 3rd party repository and then now I am faced with this restriction.
So I want to ask for suggestion as to what I can do. I will list a few things I thought, tell what you think and also suggest if you have some.
I can download the software repo from different ISP and use it offline. Repos which addresses to a local location is allowed by yum.
I can download .tar ( and derivatives) from this ISP. So do you know any software repository which give me only .tar(or similar) flies for the software? I searched but couldn't find any.
Try other package management - different flavor of linux. I am trying different linux - like Arch Linux, Puppy linux(though wont serve my purpose) etc.
Your suggestion. Please.
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A new study released by a gun-control advocacy group lists Kentucky at #6 on the list of exporters of guns used to commit crimes in other states. The findings have led some gun-control advocates to point to so-called "loopholes" in the state's gun laws that allow unlicensed dealers to sell firearms at gun shows without performing background checks.
Licensed dealers and gun enthusiasts say Kentucky's laws mirror federal statutes, and that the only time a background check is not performed is if a private citizen sells a gun to another private citizen.
A spokeswoman for Americans for Gun Safety, the group who released the study, says Kentucky's laws provide an opening for an illicit gun market.
Gun enthusiasts say no new statutes are needed, but tougher enforcement of the current laws would be more than welcome.


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Paris is a cosmopolitan city and its inhabitants represent a fantastic mix of cultures, religions, backgrounds and wealth. Though it is impossible to generalize about such a diverse population, you may find that Parisians tend to be more formal than most Americans when it comes to language, dress, common courtesy, and even food. For example:
Some stereotypes about the French include that they are typically smokers, fashion icons, slim and slender, drink wine and coffee like water and are the ultimate romantics. While these archetypes can prove to be true, the French are also a emphatic about the importance of genuine feeling and fresh, real attitudes. The mainstream culture delights in the chic and sophisticated, while literature and art often focuses on the romantic, but the French also enjoy their leisure time. They focus on the riches of life - from small delicacies to family life, and take time to indulge in them. Here are a few things to keep in mind as you are engaging in a refreshingly rich culture:
Typical weekdays start at about 7 am in Paris or even a little earlier. Stores tend to open around 9:30 or 10 am and close around 7 or 7:30 pm. Lunch tends to be eaten around 1 pm, and dinner is often eaten 'en famille' or with friends at around 8 pm. Note that many businesses (including banks and grocery stores) are closed on Sundays and/or Mondays.
Each country has its own particular attitude towards tipping for service. In Paris taxis it is customary (but in no sense obligatory) to give the driver something; usually 10% is enough, or just rounding up to the nearest five. In restaurants, service (15%) is included in the bill, though it is customary to leave a tip if you find the service satisfactory. The standard is to add 5% of the bill amount. The same holds true for cafés if you are pleased with the service. In prestigious restaurants it is also customary to tip the person who brings your coat from the cloakroom; €2 is usually enough.
Can't speak any French? No problem. English is widely understood and spoken in Paris, although it is generally more common among younger people. It is especially common to hear English in tourist hotspots – museums, parks, restaurants, etc..
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|Thank you
|You're welcome
|Je vous en prie
|Excuse me
|Good Morning/Afteroon
|Restroom, Men/Women
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- Era: 20th Century
- Number of Pages: 224
- Subject: World War II
- Date Available: April 2013
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Maj. Roger G. B. Broome, USMCR, died from wounds received on Saipan before his daughter had a chance to know him. Now a well-known naval historian and author of award-winning books, that daughter, Kathleen Broome Williams, has turned the research skills she honed studying naval technology to find her lost father. For this biography, she makes full use of an extensive collection of her father's colorful and articulate letters along with the testimony of surviving Leathernecks who served with Major Broome, backed up by official records.
The book reconstructs her father's life as a University of Virginia Law School graduate who obtained a commission in the Marine Corps despite his colorblindness and eventually won the combat command he lobbied for. In April 1944 Broome took command of the Regimental Weapons Company, 24th Marines, 4th Marine Division. But his pursuit of glory came to an abrupt end just twenty-four days into the Saipan invasion when he sustained the wounds that condemned him to a lingering death. The author not only found a hero who was awarded the Navy Cross for his courageous actions, but also uncovered a profoundly human individual with strengths as well as obvious faults. In unfolding Broome's story, she takes significant world events from seventy years ago and places them in an intimate context, to show how they affected Americans on and off the battlefield. Her efforts provide an inside look at the U.S. Marine Corps during the pivotal years of World War II, including recruit training, amphibious assaults, high casualties, and, not least, the personal feuds and rivalries that shaped it.
Kathleen Broome Williams, a graduate of Wellesley College and Columbia University, holds a Ph.D. from City University of New York. She is the author of Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea, a North American Society for Oceanic History award winner, Secret Weapon: U.S. High-Frequency Direction Finding in the Battle of the Atlantic, and Improbable Warriors: Women Scientists and the U.S. Navy in World War II, which won a History of Science Society book award. Currently, she is a professor of history at Cogswell Polytechnical College in Sunnyvale, California, and lives in Oakland, CA.
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"Professor Williams' nuanced reconstruction of her father's service in the Marine Corps stands as a testament to a daughter's decade-long quest to understand a man who died while she was an infant. Based on the voluminous correspondence between her parents, thorough archival research, interviews with his comrades in arms, and visits to the sites of his life, this evocative study provides unique insights into the Marine Corps' officer personnel system, the functioning of a battalion, and unit-level operations on Saipan, where Broome received his fatal wounds."
—James C. Bradford, Class of 1957 Distinguished Professor of Naval Heritage at the U.S. Naval Academy
"In this eloquent, compelling book, at once history and memorial, Kathleen Broome Williams pays the tributes of a clear-eyed scholar and a loving daughter to an American, a Marine, and above all to the father she never knew."
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"Kathleen Broome Williams' The Measure of a Man is family history, personal memoir, and exposition on the ethos of the World War II Marine Corps, all by an accomplished historian searching to discover the essence of the father she never met. The result is a loving, touching, and sometimes critical portrait of Major R. G. B. Broome, USMCR (Navy Cross), who in January 1945 died of wounds sustained on Saipan in July 1944, and the impact of his death on those he left behind."
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"An incredibly moving story of one man's patriotism and desire to fight and die for his country. Williams is able to bring the story of her father's service in World War II alive with the combination of the heartfelt grief of a daughter, tempered with the clear eye of a professional historian. A magnificent achievement."
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In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles -- micro-robots -- has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self -reproducing. It Is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive.
It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour.
Every attempt to destroy it has failed.
And we are the prey.
As fresh as today's headlines, Michael Crichton's most compelling novel yet tells the story of a mechanical plague and the desperate efforts of a handful of scientists to stop it. Drawing on up-to-the-minute scientific fact, Prey takes us into the emerging realms of nanotechnology and artificial distributed intelligence -- in a story of breathtaking suspense. Prey is a novel you can't put down.
Because time is running out.
About the Author
Michael Crichton has sold over 200 million books, which have been translated into thirty-six languages; thirteen of his books have been made into films. His novels include Next, State of Fear, Timeline, Jurassic Park, and The Andromeda Strain. Also known as a filmmaker and the creator of ER, he remains the only writer to have had the number-one book, movie, and TV show simultaneously. At the time of Crichton's death in 2008, he was well into the writing of Micro; Richard Preston was selected to complete the novel.
Richard Preston is an internationally acclaimed best-selling author of eight books, including The Hot Zone and The Wild Trees. Many of Preston's books have first appeared in The New Yorker. He has won numerous awards, including the American Institute of Physics Award and the National Magazine Award, and he is the only person not a medical doctor to receive the Centers for Disease Control's Champion of Prevention Award for public health. He lives with his wife and three children near Princeton, New Jersey.
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"Michael Crichton has written some of America's most fantastic novels."
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When searching on Google from a browser, the actual search query is visible in the address bar of the browser, even when using Google's secure search (https). Is there a way to submit the search query via POST instead of GET, so the query terms aren't visible in plain sight in the URL? This is to prevent snooping by network administrators.
There is no use to this. As you know, HTTPS prevents your network administrators (or anyone else in between you and Google's servers for that matter) to see the request (so the URL but also the POST data), unless the admins have monitoring software on your computer or make you use a proxy. If they do, they can also see what you are sending via POST. So I don't see a scenario where POST requests might be useful if you use HTTPS and simply delete your browsing history (you can set the browser to do that automatically when you close it).
It might be a little less obvious in logs or tools when you use POST requests, software might be meant for displaying URLs, but technically there is no difference. If you still want to use POST for some reason, I think you're going to have to use a proxy service for Google.
DuckDuckGo, a search engine focused on providing more privacy than Google, has the option to use POST requests instead. On duckduckgo.com/settings, go to the privacy tab, and there you can set whether the address bar shows your query. DDG has more advantages though, you should give them a try if you are concerned with privacy. There are also some tools for developers, like automatically searching popular programming language's documentation (e.g. /?q=strpos).
But then again, if your pc is bugged, they can see POST requests if they want to. If it's not, then HTTPS suffices.
Was going to try show this with a wireshark capture but basically.
The entire request is encrypted, including the URL, and even the rest of the request including the GET parameters.


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Just what the title says. What will be the tradeoff of losing weight only by running on a treadmill instead of doing separate muscle group workout?
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If it is only losing weight you're after, then Yes, as Ivo Flipse stated, running will do you loads of good.
On the other hand, I don't approve of only losing weight, as in loosing only fat. That is probably going to leave you in a great athletic shape, but with not much upper body strength. Therefore I would encourage you to do at least some upper body training, eg.
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Yes, you will, but probably not much muscle gain in that.
Losing weight is more about burning calories than using different muscles.
Running has several advantages:
So no, you don't have to do anything else but running, however if you want to loose more weight: run more! Be careful for working out too often, too hard or too long, it might get you injured. Instead, focus on building up a better fitness and in a couple of months you'll be able to run longer and more often, that's when you really start to loose weight. So just be patient!
Depending on your pace, you'll most likely be doing an aerobic exercise, since endurance is essential for running. You'll be using a lot of muscle groups on your legs mainly to maintain forward moment and to some extent your back muscles for balancing, rotating the rib cage and to improve your air flow, depending on your running style.
That's already a large surface, so expect to burn fat effectively. You'll be toning the muscles that are heavily involved in the exercise, but you won't be gaining any considerable mass, which is sometimes hard to achieve if you get too carried away when focusing on a certain muscle group.
Regarding energy use in exercise:
1 kilocalorie = 3,085.96 foot pounds (Don't believe me? Type "1 Calorie in foot pounds" into google)
A kilocalorie is the same thing as a food Calorie. A foot pound is the amount of work it takes to raise a weight of one pound by one foot against standard gravity.
Your basic 100 Calorie snack pack thus contains enough energy for you to lift a 154 ton object a distance of one foot, or for a 150 pound person to climb a 2057 foot cliff (assuming perfect muscle efficiency).
Changing your diet by restricting Calories is far more effective for weight loss than running, or pumping iron. When I do 3 sets of 10 leg presses at 450 Lbs, I'm lifting the equivalent of 27,000 pound through a distance of 1 foot (450 X 2ft X 30 = 27,000), But that takes only 9 Calories to do. That's just slightly more than what I'd get eating half a teaspoon of sugar (15 Cal/tsp).
It's going to take less energy for a muscle to perform an action if it has been trained to perform that action where as an untrained muscle is going to require far more energy to do the same action.
Running is a great way to stay in shape and lose weight but inlcuding other cardio and focusing on all of your muscle groups will increase your results.
After a while you'll notice that you're going to have to run longer and longer (or find some way to do more work while running, maybe change the incline) to see the same results.
The results are not linear and will flatten off.
Depends on what your goal is. If you're just looking to lose weight, either running or some full body/body weight routine is fine. Part of the deciding factor is if there's other goals you're looking to achieve, if you have any health limitations, time limitations, etc. Take a look at fitdeck (www.fitdeck.com) for an example of some full body/body weight exercises that you can do in a limited space.
I always told that cardio helped you lose weight while running but building muscles helped you lose weight while you're not at the gym. I lost 50 pounds last year and what I did was have a days of cardio(spinning, kickboxing) and then 2 days of weight training. But to try to get the best of both worlds on my weight training days I would start with a run for 15-30 minutes and get my heart rate up, then do my weight training while my heart rate was elevated.
I have a heart reate monitor, so when it dropped below a certain level then I'd go back on the tredmill and get my heart rate back up. This way my weight training was also like a cardo session as well.


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When Rich Bishop recently took over as head coach of Augusta High School's volleyball team, he wanted to build on what Heidi Dreiling did when she was coach.Bishop wants to create a program, not just coach a team."The important thing to remember is that Heidi got the volleyball program headed in the right direction," Bishop said. "She instilled that we can compete by increasing our intensity and tenacity. One of the things I am trying to get started is to have a 'program' not just a season."For Bishop that means starting a club volleyball team here in Augusta. And club coaching the middle school players. He even plans to start an intramural program in the fall."The main objective is exciting all players as to what possiblities are out there for them," he said.Bishop plans to have the Cowley County Community College team, the 2011 NJCAA champions and perennial powerhouse, come to help with the Augusta summer camp. He's also got the players working out with weights and agilities during the summer with the football coaches and new girls basketball coach Tracy Anderson. There's even a volleyball tournament scheduled for June 26 at Circle High School.Bishop got started in volleyball after his oldest daughter Erin was selected to play on a high-level club team in the early '90s."I used to take her to practice every day in Wichita. Well rather than just sit there, I began participating and learning the game," Bishop said.Soon after that, he started his own club team in Andover. For the past two years, he's been coaching Club 81, a team mainly for Augusta players and some area athletes. It wasn't long after that before Dreiling and the high school wanted Bishop to join the Orioles' staff as the freshman team's coach."I personally am so excited about the program and possibilities that there are many nights I can't sleep because my brain is working overtime to come up with new ideas. One of my objectives is to see more than just parents and students coming to see us play. I want the Oriole Program to be the talk of the town," Bishop said.Dreiling was offered a teaching and coaching job at a Wichita school.
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Science is a Dick: The 5 Most Evil Robots Ever Invented
#2. Cockroach-Controlled Mobile Robot
What the Hell is That Thing?
The Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot, or Cockbot as we'll refer to it from now on, is a moving mechanical platform controlled by a Giant Madagascar Hissing Cockroach.
The roach is strapped to a trackball that translates its movements to the servos below, and surveys its surrounding environment by virtue of an array of flashing control panels and motion sensors. The cockroach naturally prefers dark places, but shies away from light, so when part of the machine nears an object, the corresponding panel lights up and causes the roach to move away thus enabling it to navigate around objects from its elevated position.
Essentially, it's Roach Virtual Reality. Feel free to ask science why cockroaches get implementable VR before we do, although we're fairly confident we can guess the answer: Science just fucking hates you so much, sometimes it's like a fire in science's heart.
Why It's a Dick Move
One of the most common phobias of modern man is the fear of insects. The only mitigating factor of that fear is the relatively insignificant size and power of most insects--a factor the Cockbot aims to fix.
Not only does the robot sport one of the largest insects in the world, but also one of the most horrifying. The Giant Madagascar Hissing Cockroach, as one may rightfully assume, emits a loud, high-pitched hiss when threatened or angry. This is enough to give most people pause on its own merits. Equip said giant, hissing roach with a mechanical battle-suit and, rational or not, the fear-center of the human brain simply shuts down all higher thought and acts on panicked instinct.
This is plainly illustrated by the above photo, wherein a terrified businessman attempts to sacrifice his baby to feed the insatiable hunger of the insectile machine. Sure, no actual, literal harm befell the child--the attacking force of the Cockbot is limited to perhaps a sharp crack to the shin at best--but the man must now forever live with the shame of what he was prepared to do.
Evolution, by and large, knows what it's doing. By equipping the cockroach with what amounts to an armored attack platform, you're upping the ante by leaps and bounds. It poses no threat to humans--yet--but this device does place it firmly above other insects and some smaller mammals.
The creator says the roach has already developed a penchant for dog food. When will it realize it can scare dogs away from said food? The inventor goes on to say that it prefers the beef flavor. How long until it realizes fresh beef tastes better? The developer says the roach has also taken to the taste of baby food. We're not certain, but we're pretty sure that thing can take a baby in a fight. What if it does? What kind of dickhead wants this--a baby-fighting cockroach mech--to be possible? Why up the food chain status of a terrifying, hissing insect if not out of pure, simple spite of your fellow man? We don't know the answers to these questions, but we know who does. You can ask her yourself later tonight. In your bedroom. Just listen for the beeping. And the hissing. In the dark.
She likes the dark, you know.
#1. The Breast Massager Robot
What the Hell is That Thing?
The Breast Massager Robot is meant to finally replace the need for human labor in the stark, hellish field of boob fondling. No more tragic groping fatalities--the breast-massaging robot is here!
The robot is meant to help stimulate breast growth in developing teenagers, relieve pain from sore pectoral muscles, and generally to relax stressed-out tits. The inventor also states that the breast massaging robot will help to "improve the quality of women's sex activities," a statement which makes fucking sound more like sex-bingo and genital arts and crafts. Finally, the robot proposes to assist "women who want pretty breasts." The logic being that if boobs are attractive, boobs with robots attached would be like sexual chocolate dynamite.
Why It's a Dick Move
If you thought it was bad losing production and assembly jobs to robots, wait until second base is outsourced to the machines. The idea that constant breast massaging stimulates growth in teenage girls is a brilliant falsehood to spread, and one we would've given anything to have thought of back in those lonely summer camp days. Unfortunately the progenitor of this beautiful, beautiful lie also has a fictional solution--one that takes that breast of hope directly out of the awkward, desperate grip of the horny teenagers it benefits--and replaces it instead with a steel bra welded to some car wash fronds and model train motors.
If the robot was designed for complete sexual gratification, that would be one thing--that's just another sex toy. But the robot is designed only to take boobs away from men and hand them over to science.
We suppose science can use all the breasts it can get, but really, does science have to be such a dick about it? This is no more than pure, old school cock-blocking, and that's the biggest dick move of all.
Find lots more from Robert Brockway at his site, IFightRobots.com.If you enjoy hating scientists for reasons beyond their pasty complexion and bad breath, check out our rundown of 5 Recent Scientific Advances and How They'll Destroy Us All. Or check out Those Aren't Muskets' sci-fi musical Star Trek TNG Rap (Warning Explicit Lyrics).


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After playing against 10 men for most of the match, the Premier League champions' win was ruined by a second-half sending off for their captain, which the manager feels was harshManchester City manager Roberto Mancini has claimed the club will appeal Vincent Kompany's red card against Arsenal in Sunday's Premier League victory.
The City skipper was shown a straight red for an apparent two-footed lunge on Jack Wilshere, after referee Mike Dean had earlier dismissed Arsenal defender Laurent Koscielny for hauling Edin Dzeko to the floor in the penalty area.
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"This is not a red card, absolutely not," he told Sky Sports.
"He has one foot to take the ball, the other is left. I think that the referee made a mistake there.
"It was not a sending off for Vinnie because Vinnie took the ball with only one foot after anticipating the opponent."
Mancini admitted the earlier red card for Koscielny made things easier for his side, but was disappointed they were unable to extend their lead after the break.
"If you play with 10 players it is very difficult," he added.
"But we started the game very well, we played high, pressed high. After the sending off it was easier.
"Second half we were too soft and we missed three or four goals and after the game can be open."
The City boss stressed the importance of picking up a first win at Arsenal in 37 years as they closed the gap on league leaders Manchester United, who had earlier beaten Liverpool to move ten points clear.
"It's important because we know United is strong and probably they could win against Liverpool," he said.
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I do believe that there should be some Alternate Class Feature that'll allow warblade to take non-warblade discipline. Well, you know, in Dragon Magazine, but it's not really easy to dig it up... Where can I find those ACFs?
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Here's the giant list of alternate class features for all 3.5 classes. There exist no ACFs for the Book of Nine Swords classes.
The canonical solution to this problem is just to multiclass.
There exist many compelling multiclass builds and your intentions are the problem that multiclassing is intended to solve.
However, for your specific requirements, two feats exist within the book to provide for the "dabbling" that you want:
While this does not allow unlimited selection from the discipline (that's what multiclassing at the appropriate level is for) it certainly allows for cherry-picking delicious delicious maneuvers. Given that you can keep taking the bloody feats, I believe this satisfies your requirements.
I don't know if it's the same as was published in Dragon (heck, I can't find anything in my dragon indices), BUT I did find the Soldier of Shadow on the D&D wiki
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Jonathan Swift is perhaps best described as a character in the finest Swiftian tradition. Indeed, if the man did not live and breathe three centuries ago, he himself would have invented him. For Swift is a mystery wrapped in contradictions best served with a large helping of righteous humor.
Leo Damrosch�s recent biography, �Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World� (Yale University Press, 573 pages), brings the renowned writer to life with flashes of wit and the kind of insight that can only be gleaned through years of assiduous research � much of it drawn from resources discovered over the past three decades. Earlier this month, it won the National Book Critics Circle Awards in the biography category.
Swift was nothing if not enigmatic, and thus he�s a fascinating subject for any biographer. He was a clergyman who never seemed all that pious, an Irishman who professed hate for his homeland but fought England�s exploitation of her at several turns, and a lover of women who� well, who knows?
Damrosch details Swift�s life from his humble beginnings in Dublin, to his disappointing attempts to climb the ranks of church and government in England, and his final decades as an even-more-famous author back home in Ireland.
It�s a life full of questions. Who was Swift�s father? Why did his wet nurse take the infant from Ireland to England for several years? What was his relationship with a woman he spent his life with whom he met when she was nine and he was her tutor? All of these are blanks in Swift�s story, and Damrosch provides clear-eyed speculation and debunks previous assertions as to what the facts may be. He also shows a deep knowledge for the author�s masterworks, including �Gulliver�s Travels,� and �A Modest Proposal.� These and lesser-known works are given full analysis and put into the context of Swift�s time and place.
A biography of Swift written in a strict academic tone would be an insult to the man himself; Damrosch�s prose is lively and accessible. He even drops a few Swiftian asides, such as this observation about the author�s fellow Irishman and playwright, William Congreve. Damrosch writes; �His remaining twenty-nine years would be devoted to politics and pleasure, not in that order.�
In �Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World,� what emerges is an intelligent, indignant, combative, engaging and very human subject. As Damrosch leads us toward Swift�s final and sad ending, there are many questions that remain unanswered. That�s fine, for it�s in the telling that this story truly soars.
Hear a recent interview with Leo Damrosch on WBUR�s On Point.
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Players over several long campaigns having levelled into the high teens can get into the final stages of the story line for the character. Players choose to make castles, create new towns and make businesses that can change the campaign setting itself. At some point you need to step in and say okay that's it you can have some say in this but I can't have the players running the world. So when is it best to step in and "take the reins"?
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When it stops being fun or when it stops being manageable. As long as your group is continuing to enjoy itself, and looks to be able to keep doing so, there is no good reason to stop. I know D&D 3.5 isn't particularly focused on realm management, and that sort of thing can be a major nightmare for the game master, but just because your trending in that direction doesn't mean the game needs to end. Personally, I would look to see if there are compatible systems for dealing with those sorts of things as well before I gave up.
A character becomes an NPC when the player chooses to retire them.
If your players are enjoying the castle-building and such, feel free to allow it. I've had entire game sessions where players did nothing but plan castles with antimagic walls, or survey the kingdom they conquered using a loophole regarding incorporeal undead with the ability to create spawn.
Use their late-game assests as a plot point for adventure. Have an army attack their castle, a dragon attack their town, or thieves target their business. If they've conquered the entire world, bring in other worlds.
If they've really conquered everything there is to conquer, and there's nowhere to go from here, then it's a good spot to end the campaign and start a new one.
A few times I've seen PCs be retired:
But regardless of the situation, if the character is still alive they should never truly become NPCs. If the retired Fighter is the local Lord, and the current group rescued Miss Hamlet from the Orc warcamp, have the Lord host a banquet in the character's honor. It's a great way to play that character again for a few scenes (or an entire evening), and yet the character won't unbalance the game. However, if the player's new PC needs to talk to the old PC, then the old PC (typically) is picked up by the GM for those scenes.
I would argue that something like building your own castle or your own town would be something which would require all of a character's time. Or, at the very least it would require enough of their time that adventuring would, for the most part, be impossible. If your characters have amassed enough wealth that they can build a castle or a town, you might consider a couple of options:
The second option and third options would even create some good opportunities for new adventures for the PC as they try to hunt down the thief or they try to find a way to restore their reputation with the town that they abandoned to run off adventuring or to build up their reputation in new parts.
As an aside, if they are amassing that much wealth before they hit "epic" levels, you might consider that your giving them too much treasure.
When someone gets tired of playing their character, but doesn't want to just kill them off. Also if someone gets heavily invested with castles and land mantience, they should be quasi-NPCs, they act like NPCs most of the time with the DM doing the day to day grind, but the player still gets to handle any major decisions for what they do in response to world wide events or major issues that crop up. And occasionally break out of retirement to get this or that.
It can work out well if a character with the leadership feat does this, as they can take over their cohort to remain with the party as eyes and ears, while the followers stay with the leader and work/live on the lands he has. This of course breaks the cohort dynamic somewhat, but it's fine if you wanna roll with it, just don't penalize the leadership guy for releasing the cohort and it works fine.


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The boundary of a black hole is said to be surrounded by event horizon - the point of no return! What is its significance in terms of general relativity?
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It is exactly the point of no return for light. In other words, it is the point (actually more like a sphere) in which the escape velocity from the Black Hole gravity reaches $c$.
Formally, an event horizon is the boundary of a region of spacetime that's not in the causal past of future null infinity. In other words, the boundary of a region from which even idealized light rays cannot escape to infinity. Whenever the event horizon is smooth, it is also null hypersurface--i.e., the direction perpendicular to it is a light ray.
Because the event horizon is defined in terms of the infinite future, the definition is very non-local, and one would need to know the entire future history to be sure where the event horizon is. As such, it is only one of a half-dozen different types of horizons used to study black holes.
Though the event-horizon itself is a three-dimensional hypersurface in spacetime, it can also be viewed as an evolving two-dimensional membrane made of a viscuous electrically conducting fluid with finite temperature and entropy but zero thermal conductivity.


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(CNN) – Mitt Romney's campaign said Thursday they had a behemoth fund-raising month in June, bringing in more than $100 million, two Republican sources confirmed.
The amount, which includes money raised by the campaign along with the Republican National Committee, far surpasses his May fund-raising haul of $77 million.
In the last month, Romney has made several big fund-raising trips, including stops in California, Oregon, Washington and Texas. In the Lone Star State, alone, he was expected to have raised $15 million in his two-day trip.
Also in June, he was expected to have had his highest day ever while in his native state of Michigan for a pair of fund-raising events on June 20, raising between $6 and $8 million.
And the campaign underwent a fund-raising boom in the hours after the Supreme Court ruled to uphold the controversial health care law that Romney and Republicans vehemently stand against. Less than 24 hours after the high court announced its decision, Romney's camp took in more than $4.6 million online from over 47,000 contributors.
Obama's team has repeatedly said they expect to be out-raised by Romney in June, with some campaign officials even predicting Romney would hit the $100 million mark.
"I think Romney's going to continue to have big months. Combine that with the super PAC stuff and we're going to be the first incumbent outspent. That's clear," one official, who, along with other top members of the re-election team, spoke to reporters on background in mid June.
It is likely that this will be the second month in a row the presumptive GOP nominee takes in more cash than the president. In May, the Obama Victory Fund brought in $60 million.
The Republican effort said they ended May with $107 million in the bank. Obama's campaign finished the month with slightly less than $110 million.
Both campaigns have until July 15th to officially report their fund-raising numbers to the Federal Election Commission.
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Assassination Plots Ever Attempted
#2. Gao Jianli, Lutenist for Hire
If you asked someone which Chinese ruler was the most unpopular, they'd say one of two things: "Excuse me? Listen, buddy: My coffee isn't going to get itself," or far less likely, "Qin Shi Huang."
Not to imply that Chinese people can't also be snooty to wait staff.
Many people were upset with Huang over his various personal scandals and brusque personality, or maybe it was that time he took over all of China. After a previous attempt on his life, Huang issued orders to hunt down all known accomplices of the assassin, one of which was Gao Jianli, who was forced to change his name and go underground. He got a job in a wine shop and took up the lute, and it turned out he was really, really good at playing it (we're mentioning this for a reason, by the way).
Though our friends at the Renaissance Faire do tell us there's nothing like a blistering lute solo.
So good, in fact, that word spread all about town and even made it to Emperor Huang himself, who wanted to hear this incredible musician . Jianli was summoned to the palace to play, where somebody recognized him and alerted the emperor. Huang would have had Jianli killed right then and there, but he was so moved by the incredible performance that he pardoned Jianli on the spot--after putting out both of his eyes (pardons were a double-edged sword back then).
Huang kept soliciting Jianli's services as an entertainer and, as time passed, the emperor grew more fond and more trusting of him, to the point where the lutenist could come in and perform without being guarded, even sitting close to the emperor when he played. Having earned the acclaim and trust of the most important man in the Chinese empire, Gao Jianli finally decided to take his lute and use it to ... try to kill Qin Shi Huang.
A strategy The Who would later rediscover to the amazement of audiences everywhere.
Let's recap quick: First off, his weapon of choice is basically a small guitar, a weapon that only ever worked for El Kabong. Second: He was blind. Luckily, Jianli's lack of deductive skills was more than compensated for by his unshakable self-confidence, so he went ahead with the plan. He tied a heavy piece of lead to the instrument to give it more weight and swung the lute at where he guessed the emperor's head was.
To nobody's surprise, he missed, and was quickly executed by order of the emperor, who learned a rather important lesson: Forgiveness and compassion are important qualities to have, but maybe you shouldn't hire the guy whose eyes you just gouged out to perform at your parties.
#1. Fidel Castro is Invincible
The United States was desperate to eradicate any traces of communism from the Western side of the Iron Curtain, and the Americans' myriad attempts on Fidel Castro's life were noted in a British Channel 4 documentary, 638 Ways to Kill Castro.
No, we're not forgetting a decimal point: By the estimate of Castro's bodyguard, he's survived more than 600 attempts on his life. That means somebody has tried to kill Fidel Castro about once a month, every month, for the past 53 years straight. After the first dozen or so, you pretty much have to get creative, if only to stave off the boredom:
"Well, the prototype works..."
One famous plan, apparently put forth by Lieutenant Groucho Marx, had somebody slipping Castro an exploding cigar: In 1966, a CIA agent tried to get the police inspector of New York City to help slip the deadly prop into Castro's stash while he was visiting the United Nations. Whether the cigar ever made it into his stash is unclear, along with whether the agent was hit in the face with a pie for his failure, so we're forced to assume both are completely true.
The CIA knew that Castro was a big fan of scuba diving and tried to rig up a couple of surprises for him. Send somebody to cut his lines, perhaps? Attack him with a speargun? You're not thinking comical enough! One plan involved giving Castro a "gift" of a scuba-diving wetsuit, with the inside coated in a deadly fungus. Another involved the CIA purchasing a large number of mussels ... and loading them up with explosives to blow Castro up on one of his dives.
This was around the same time the CIA was doing all those experiments with LSD. We're just saying ...
Other plans involved a ballpoint pen with a concealed hypodermic needle filled with poison, and a handkerchief covered in dangerous bacteria. Eventually, they gave up trying to kill him altogether and settled for making him look stupid instead; one plan had them trying to make the man's beard fall out, apparently believing it to be the source of his power, like an upside-down Samson.
It didn't work.
All intelligence reports indicate that his beard is still alive and mighty today.
Obviously, Fidel Castro is still alive today, mocking our great country with his continued existence, the way Bugs Bunny humiliates Elmer Fudd with his stupid rabbit face. The United States, meanwhile, seems to have shut down the Cartoon division of the CIA. Or at least that's what they want you to think -- and then BAM! Operation Drop an Anvil on Kim Jong-Il swings into effect.
For more failed assassinations, check out The 6 Most Utterly Insane Attempts to Kill a US President. Or learn about some clothing that killed more folks than most these people ever did, in The 6 Most Utterly Insane Attempts to Kill a U.S. President.
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I know there is a site out there that provides data and stats on websites' relative popularity, unique hits etc, but I can't remember what it's called. This isn't for my own site, I want to look up more general stats.. thanks
Many competitive research tools (e.g. compete.com) show estimates for site traffic, but their reliability is questionable. There's no definitive way to determine a website's traffic without access to logs and detailed analytics. I think sites that sell advertising through AdSense have their traffic statistics tracked by Google, and some competitive research tools may be going on these figures, which are probably the most accurate available to those who aren't the actual site owners, but I'm not sure how they'd get their hands on this data.
Sites like compete.com use some kind of market survey through their "panel" of 2 million users. They then use some magical proprietary math formulas to guesstimate the actual traffic that a site receives. These will at least show traffic trends for low-traffic sites (unlike Alexa), but you have to wonder about their accuracy. Plus, they might be collecting data through spyware as John Conde pointed out, and that's always bad news.
The best (most accurate/reliable) way to determine most sites' popularity is probably through search statistics, since these statistics are openly available through Google Trends. These aren't available for low traffic sites, but the threshold is lower than for Alexa, and the figures are unlikely to be skewed.
Competitive research tools like SEMRush and MajesticSEO claim to offer more detailed search data obtained from Google, but I don't know how they're acquiring the data. For example, they show traffic trends from Google for low-traffic sites that Google Trends won't display data for. And they also display backlink stats beyond what a
You are probably thinking of Alexa.com. Its stats are based on users that have the Alexa Toolbar installed so read into that what you will. They claim that the top 100,000 sites are very accurate.
www.dnscoop.com can help
All of those sites try to use some super secret formulas using data from undisclosed sources to estimate statistics for web sites, they might as well just make wild guesses for all we know - and I can tell you that when for my (relatively low traffic) web site they tend to be at least an order of magnitude wrong.
Here are two recent tweets about this from our host:
http://twitter.com/#!/spolsky/status/27859348304 (Dear compete.com, I'm PRETTY SURE that Stack Overflow's traffic didn't go down 80% in one month.)
http://twitter.com/#!/spolsky/status/27859566842 (Quantcast has the real data. Compete.com is worse than a joke).
I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for but quantcast seems as far as you can go. It seems much better than Alexa at least and I use them to survey what google/fb users are hitting at times (156 m visits a month! that's a lot). All the suggestions here are great.


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Join us each week for short stories, rhymes, and activities that are designed to entertain little ones, ages 0-3, as we introduce skill sets for reading readiness. The same program is presented on Mondays and Wednesdays, so pick the day that fits your schedule.
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- OS : Windows NT 6.2 (Windows 8 K)
- Equipped hard disk
- Total 1TB, 1 disk
- C: (Simple Layout, NTFS, Boot, Pagefile, Crash dump, Main): total 488,039,776,256 bytes, used 93,473,599,488 bytes
- D: (Simple Layout, NTFS, Main): total 486,859,075,584 bytes, used 8,426,016,768 bytes
- hidden: Ask if needed
- Brand(manufacturer): Samsung Electronics
- Processor(CPU): Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3230M CPU @ 2.60GHz
- RAM: 8GB , 64-bit , OS 64-bit
Question (READ THEM ALL VERY CAREFULLY)
- Is there any way to install Ubuntu on this computer without any external disk (CD, USB drive, etc)
- Note : This computer is 64-bit, so this issue did not help me.
- WUBI does not support UEFI, and This computer uses it.
- No Virtual PC programs like VirtualBox or VMWare, because it takes memory.
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Be your own barista! Semi-automatic espresso machines offer just the right amount of control over how your espresso is made at home. While they may look different, the basic functionality of a semi-automatic espresso machine includes a boiler, a portafilter and a switch or lever to perform the extraction. You'll still grind and tamp your espresso (or insert an espresso pod), start the extraction and then steam or froth your milk as necessary. Semi-automatic espresso machines fall into two different types:
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The Lake Achen region is a paradise for mountain bikers – that is something that recreational cyclists and experts both agree on. All around Lake Achen, you can explore the area's beautiful landscapes on your mountain bike. Well signposted routes mean that you can select the challenge that's just right for you.
250 km of excellently signposted, approved cycling and mountain biking routes varying in difficulty from "gentle" to "hard on the legs" are waiting to be discovered by all bicycle enthusiasts. Amazingly well maintained and with fantastic views of the surrounding countryside – the Lake Achen region is still one of the top cycling regions in the Alps.
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Pay heed to the markings used on the cycle routes: blue is for beginners, red for trails of moderate difficulty and black for challenging routes. Extremely difficult routes are indicated by the colour yellow.
A look inside the Alpenrose's own 'racing stable'
- In our 'racing stable' you will find around 60 excellently maintained bicycles and mountain bikes, including the latest electric bikes. Just pick one out and off you go!
- Our well trained leisure guides also accompany guests on guided mountain bike tours. Several times a week during the summer they invite the Alpenrose guests out for some 'calf training' by bike.
- Our top offer: during your stay we will provide you with GPS navigation systems for the most beautiful mountain bike tours in the region.
- And of course our reception team will happily give you individual tour tips.


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If your parents pay for you to go to school and you ditch, is that stealing?
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I don't think it would considered pure stealing of money, though it might be.
Certainly, however, one who skips school when one's parents believe that they are attending is committing 'geneivas daas' by misleading their parents. This is derived from the prohibition of stealing found in the Torah (Leviticus 19:11).
How can it be stealing? Stealing requires that the thief walk away with something to which he is not entitled. All the kid gets here is free time. The cost to the parents is the same, so he can't be stealing their money.
He is, on the other hand, wasting their money. It seems analogous to taking the dinner he was served and throwing it out. It isn't theft because he was given the food freely, but he is not using it in the way it was intended. Arguably, a plate of food is a gift on the condition that it be eaten, in which case it could be theft, but this seems a slightly unusual understanding. I don't think parents think, "This is a gift on condition" when paying tuition or when making dinner.
I would be interested to know if their was any actual halachic literature on the subject but it seems to me the answer is pretty clearly no.
Parents pay for a service, that their children obtain an education, not for a continuous task to be preformed like an assembly line. In other words every moment in the classroom does not translate into a moment of education and this is understood by all involved. While a certain amount of time is generally required to reach the goal, achieving the goal is a process and it is possible to "catch up" after an absence.
This is not to deny that skipping cannot have negative consequences or that it is not inappropriate, but it seems to me that it is inappropriate for what it is, skipping, without needing to make it into something else.
absolutely! one who skips school on purpose with no significant reason, is stealing from their parents money. also a student who disturbs his/her class is stealing, no only from his, but also everyone Else's parents money! -any world-


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When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, "It is finished," and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.—John 19:30 (ESV)
Does the text say or imply that this was a deliberate act and therefore technically suicide?
In answer to your first question: no, Jesus' giving up His spirit was most definitely not suicide.
Remember that Jesus said
Unlike us mortals, Jesus possessed within Himself the power of an eternal life, both prior to and after His incarnation. The immortal life of God the Son could never die; the life of Jesus as the Son of man, however, could experience physical death, though not the corruption that inevitably follows the death of a mere mortal (see Acts 2:31 and 37).
When Jesus therefore bowed His head and gave up His spirit, He was not committing suicide; rather, He was committing His immortal life to the Father, whose work of redemption He had just accomplished. Notice the order of the apostle John's words,
In Greek,
In other words, Jesus first cried Tetelestai!, "Accomplished"; second, he bowed His sacred head (as Bach put it in his St. Matthew Passion); and third, only then did He release His spirit. Yes, Jesus' release of His spirit was a deliberate act on His part, though the cause of His death was neither suicide nor homicide; rather, it was the last miracle He performed prior to His resurrection. Who but the Son of God could of His own volition dismiss His spirit from His body?
In conclusion, when Jesus finished the work His Father gave Him to do, there was no need for the divine Jesus to remain on the cross. He had suffered enough; His blood, which was the price of our redemption had been shed; He had borne the wrath of God as the sacrificial Lamb of God; and He had taken away the sin of the world. At that point there was nothing left for Him to accomplish in time and space but to allow His body to be buried and then prepare for His glorious resurrection on the third day, according to the scriptures (1 Corinthians 15:3,4).
Re-read John 10:18 and then ponder the mystery of what happened at the cross.
Unlike Adam, the first man, Jesus, the second Adam and also a man, had inherently in His flesh the power of an immortal life. Had He NOT voluntarily offered up His life for the forgiveness of our sins; had He NOT experienced the death we all deserved and which He clearly did not deserve, crucifixion would not have killed Him. How can you make someone who is immortal, mortal? You cannot. The
Thank God, however, that
Moreover, had Jesus not died, we (myself included) would still be in our sins and destined for hell. Jesus was under a divine imperative, which He fulfilled to the letter:
The redemption He secured for us at the cross was planned within the Godhead in the counsels of eternity. We were redeemed
Jesus was
<". . . the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world" (Revelation 13:8 NIV).
In the mind of the Godhead, the death of the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29,36), was a fait accompli before the universe was spoken into existence! Jesus' death in time and space was simply and profoundly the fulfillment of two unchangeable things:
I thank God for the miracle of Calvary. I thank God that as a young child I realized Jesus was my Savior who died in my place at the cross. As someone said,
When we believe Jesus died "for me" and mean it, God, who has already imputed our sin to Jesus on the cross, graciously imputes Jesus' righteousness to us. When we then realize we have been forgiven a debt we could not pay, but now by faith we can become the righteousness of God in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:21), we simply and humbly receive Jesus into our lives. He then, truly, becomes our Lord and our Savior.
If you have not already believed and received, I encourage you to do so today.
A deliberate act, yes; suicide, no. According to the Greek text, Jesus παρεδωκεν (surrendered) his spirit. Jesus apparently had a supernatural ability (a power seemingly given only to immortal beings) to do that.
Mortal human beings subject to physical death by violence or "natural causes" do not.
No. There is nothing to indicate such. The passage gives no length of time between the drink and dying so you can assume that he died immediately or later. Neither suggests a suicide and the time becomes irrelevant to your question. The text in the Gospels indicates that he knew he was going to die and his words indicate that he was willing. He died for a cause. So his death is a sacrifice and not a suicide. Suicide occurs by one's own hands.
In each of the gospels, the last words of Jesus have theological significance:
In Mark 15:34, Jesus echoes Psalm 22:1, saying "
The author of Matthew's Gospel recognised that these words were from Psalm 22 and retained them when copying from Mark. Matthew 27:46: "
Luke changes Jesus' last words, making them an almost triumphant passing of Jesus from this earth into the hands of his Father (Luke 23:46): "
John's Gospel clearly identifies Jesus as divine and pre-existing. There is no reason for Jesus to feel that God has forsaken him, and even Luke's triumphant last words would be out of place. Jesus' last words were consistent with foreknowledge (John 19:30): "


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Recent and archived news articles by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of The New York Times.
Thomas Berger, 'Little Big Man' Author, Is Dead at 89
Mr. Berger was known as the author of "Little Big Man" and books that explored the American West, but his body of work was broader than that.
July 22, 2014, Tuesday
Peter Matthiessen, Lyrical Writer and Naturalist, Is Dead at 86
Mr. Matthiessen's nonfiction explored the remote endangered wilds of the world, and his fiction often placed his protagonists in the heart of them.
April 6, 2014, Sunday
Paul Fussell, Literary Scholar and Critic, Is Dead at 88
Mr. Fussell, a wide-ranging author, may be best remembered for "The Great War and Modern Memory," his study of World War I and the influence of its horrors on art and literature.
May 24, 2012, Thursday
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Paul Fussell, the wide-ranging, stingingly opinionated literary scholar and cultural critic whose admiration for Samuel Johnson, Kingsley Amis and the Boy Scout Handbook and his withering scorn for the romanticization of war, the predominance of...
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Earl Scruggs, the bluegrass banjo player whose hard-driving picking style influenced generations of musicians and helped shape the sound of 20th-century country music with his guitar-strumming partner, Lester Flatt, died on Wednesday in a Nashville...
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Frank Kermode, a Critic Who Wrote With Style, Is Dead at 90
Mr. Kermode was a professor at English and American universities who wrote or edited more than 50 books and who was knighted for his work.
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Mr. McGraw, as leader of McGraw-Hill, his family's publishing business, helped build it into a billion-dollar enterprise.
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I have a 2003 Mazda Protege with about 100,000 miles on it. Even very uncertain guestimates at the appropriate price for this would be appreciated.
Will worn struts damage my tires? How quickly? Is driving on worn struts dangerous?
Many Thanks!
The way to tell if your struts are worn out is this:
Push down hard (lean into) the fender right above a wheel and then let go. The spring should compress when you push into it, and the car should come back up ONCE (slightly above the rest point) and settle back into where it was.
If your shocks are not doing their job, your car will bounce 2 or more times before settling, and should be replaced; mostly for handling/safety reasons. It's unsafe to bounce after a bump multiple times, especially when cornering. In an extreme case, you could lose traction and hit a wall because of poor shocks (but you'd have to be pushing the limits of the car's traction and then hit a bump while in a corner).
However, they shouldn't 'damage' your tires or cause them to wear any faster than normal. Wear is caused from friction with the road (length traveled), which will be amplified by a poor alignment.
I would 'guestimate' a shock-job at $150-$400 per pair (Front or Rear only), which will depend greatly on your car. Most trucks and some car rears are on the cheaper end (shocks) where most car fronts are struts which are a more costly part and more costly to replace (the spring has to be compressed and set into the new one).


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TOPEKA, Kan. -- At 5:03 p.m. Wednesday, Governor Sam Brownback issued a declaration of emergency for the following counties due to wildfires in Kansas: Barton, Ellis, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks and Russell.
Hot and dry conditions are contributing to numerous fires across the state, prompting the partial activation of the State Emergency Operations Center in Topeka. Several state agencies are responding to the SEOC to keep in contact with county emergency managers and monitor the fires.
"We can see what this hot, dry weather is doing to firefighting efforts in Colorado and other states," said Maj. Gen. (KS) Lee Tafanelli, the adjutant general and director of the Kansas Division of Emergency Management. "We want to make sure we stay ahead of the curve and be ready to render assistance to our county emergency management partners if needed."
Several counties have put burn bans in place, including Anderson, Barton, Cheyenne, Decatur, Franklin, Gove, Graham, Logan, Mitchell, Morton, Ottawa, Pawnee, Phillips, Rawlins, Rooks, Sherman, Thomas and Trego. The city of Olathe has also issued a burn ban.