Most strike maneuvers require a melee attack. Thrown weapons aren’t really melee attacks. Warblades get proficiency with thrown weapons.   Can warblades use strike maneuvers with thrown weapons?
In my case I'm talking about Assassin's Stance, but I'd like to know the answer for stances in general.  I feel like I might be missing something incredibly obvious caused by missing a word or two (or a paragraph), but I can't find anything that explicitly states whether or not I can use the Tome of Battle stances with ranged weapons like the bow (or crossbow).  I realize that half the classes have "blade" in their names so using ranged weapons is not in the spirit of things, but I'm looking for an explicit answer (or as close to one as possible) from any WotC official resource. If this has already been answered I'm sorry, but I could not find the answer myself from searching.
Here is the quadratic matrix equation I've been looking at lately:  $$ Q_{r,r}=A_{r,r}X_{r,r}^2+B_{r,r}X_{r,r}+C_{r,r}=0_{r,r} $$  Note that $A, B, C,$ and $X$ are $r \times r$ matrices. $A$ contains known elements, $B$ contains known elements, $C$ contains known elements, and $X$ contains the unknown elements that you are solving for. $ 0_{r,r} $ is just the $r \times r$ null matrix.  Is there any solution for $X$ in terms of $A, B,$ and $C$ (making no easy assumptions)? (e.g. $X$ is a diagonal matrix, $A=B=C$, or anything of that sort.)  I have tried to solve this and nothing has worked out. I attempted solving it generally by manipulating the matrices in variable form (i.e. actually writing out the matrices $A, B, C,$ and $X$ in variables) and finding a unique solution for all of the elements of $X$ in terms of the elements of $A, B,$ and $C$. That didn't work out beyond the case of $r=1$.  Trying to solve it by looking at $r$ at different values did not work out either; I ended up with very abysmal equations at just $r=2$. I don't know exactly how to make this appealing to the denizens of math.stackexchange, but it (as far as I know) isn't a heavily studied problem.  There is a very high possibility that I've just been doing elementary techniques and nothing of note, so I hope someone or a group of people could shed light on this. Invariant Subspace of Two Linear Involutions I'd love some help with this practice qualifier problem:  If $A$ and $B$ are two linear operators on a finite dimensional complex vector space $V$ such that $A^2=B^2=I$ then show that $V$ has a one or two dimensional subspace invariant under $A$ and $B$.    Thanks! How small does a land-mass have to be before you live "on" it, rather than "in" it? I'm sure virtually everyone agrees that people live on the Isle of Wight, but in Ireland.  Apparently the usage depends somewhat on physical size, but that can't be the whole story. How exactly do we decide which form to use? And are there any really glaring 'outliers' that don't fit the normal pattern?  LATER - I must just add that the most uncertain case I've found so far is The Falklands. Most people go for in there, but a substantial minority (about 1 in 3) opt for on. Find all Quotient (or Factor) Groups of $D_4$ (Dihedral Group of order $8$) I need to be able to find all of the quotient groups for dihedral group 4 with $D_4 = \{ e,R,R^2,R^3,V,H,D,D'\}$. I know I have to start by finding the normal subgroups, which are $\{e,R^2\}$ $\{e,R,R^2,R^3\}$ $\{e,R^2,V,H\}$ $\{e,R^2,D,D'\}$. Then I need to find the sets defined by $G/H=\{ aH : a \in G\}$ with operation $aH  bH = abH$. I am stuck here; could someone please show me how to find all of the factor groups for D4? JSON and escaped double quote I'm currently making a callout to a 3rd party vendor and I'm getting a huge response. What is currently messing me up is this section:   "MessageSeq":13,"Description":"config file: config-qa1.txt\"","MessageTS":"2014-02-17T14:46:58","MessageLevel":4,"IsSystemMessage":false   As you can see here, the portion at the end of the Description value is ended with backslash double quote. If I attempt to parse this via the JSONParser I get an exception. Does anyone have an recommendations on how to resolve this?  Exception Message:  System.JSONException: Unexpected character ('"' (code 34)): was expecting comma to separate OBJECT entries at [line:1, column:3699]  Updated with sample Code   public class ResponseWrapper{     // fields from JSON to auto map     public Integer messageSeq;     public String Description;     public String messageTS;     public Integer messageLevel;     public Boolean isSystemMessage;     // parsing fields     private ResponseWrapper theResponse;     private JSONParser parser;      public void parse(String jsonString){         parser = JSON.createParser(jsonString);         parseJSON();     }      private void parseJSON(){            while (parser.nextToken() != null) {             if (parser.getCurrentToken() == JSONToken.START_OBJECT) {                 theResponse = (ResponseWrapper)parser.readValueAs(ResponseWrapper.class);                            }         }     } }  String responseString = '{"MessageSeq":13,"Description":"config file: config-qa1.txt\"","MessageTS":"2014-02-17T14:46:58","MessageLevel":4,"IsSystemMessage":false}'; system.debug('\n\nBEFORE\n' + responseString); ****Place code in here to test such as ReplaceALL*** ResponseWrapper parser = new ResponseWrapper(); parser.parse(responseString); Mail App keeps popping up in the background in Mac OS Mojave Anyone can optimized this code for better explanation and easy to understand? 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