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His literary and artistic contributions are living traditions in Assam today. The religion he preached is practiced by a large population, and Sattras (monasteries) that he and his followers established continue to flourish and sustain his legacy.
In reverence to his personality, teachings and oeuvre, he is a Mahapurusha---'Great Man'.
karatalakamala kamaladalanayana |
bhavadavagahana gahanavanasayana ||
The complete poem was written before he was taught the vowels except, of course, the first one, and is often cited as an example of the early flowering of his poetic genius.
He was physically very able, and according to legend, he could swim across the Brahmaputra while it was in spate.
He left the tol in his late teens (c1469) to attend to his responsibilities as the Shiromani Bhuyan. He moved from Alipukhuri to Bordowa, and wrote his first work, Harishchandra upakhyan. He produced a dance-drama called Cihna yatra, for which he painted the Sapta vaikuntha (seven heavens), guided the making of musical instruments and played the instruments himself.
At Bordowa, he constructed a dharmagrha or a Hari-grha (house of the Lord) in which he installed an image of Vishnu that was found during the construction of the grha. But it was not meant for worshipping; it was just a 'Showpiece of art work'. In fact, he was absolutely against any kind of worshipping of Idols or Images of gods. He married his first wife Suryavati when he was in his early twenties. His wife died soon after his daughter Manu was born.
After his return, he refused to take back the Shiromaniship. On his grandmother's insistence, he married Kalindi at the age of forty four. Finally, he moved back to Bordowa and constructed his first naamghar (prayer hall), and began preaching. He wrote Bhakti pradipa and Rukmini harana. Soon after, he received a copy of the Bhagavata Purana from Jagadisa Misra of Tirhut which had in it commentaries from Sridhara Swami of Puri, an Advaita scholar, and began rendering it into Assamese. He also began composing the Kirtana ghosha. The thirteen years at Ali-pukhuri was the period during which he reflected deeply on Vaishnavism and on the form that would best suit the spiritual and ethical needs of the people.
Though the relationship with the Ahom royalty began cordially, it soon deteriorated. Once on the charge of dereliction of duty, Hari, Sankaradeva's son-in-law, and Madhavadeva were arrested and sent to the capital Garhgaon, where Hari was executed. Madhavadeva's life was spared but he was imprisoned for a year. This incident pained Sankaradeva much and he, along with his family and Madhavadeva, journeyed toward the Koch kingdom.
At Dhuwahat, he wrote the drama Patniprasada.
After a great deal of moving, Sankaradeva settled at Patbausi near Barpeta and constructed a Kirtanghar (house of prayer). Some of the people he initiated here are Chakrapani Dwija and Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya, brahmins; Ketai Khan, a kayastha; Govinda, a Garo; Jayarama, a Bhutia; Murari, a Koch and Chandsai a Muslim. He also befriended Ananta kandali, a profound scholar of Sanskrit, who translated parts of the Bhagavata Purana. Damodardeva, another brahmin, was initiated by Sankaradeva and he later became the founder of the Brahma Sanghati sect of Sankaradeva's religion.
Among his literary works, he completed his rendering of the Bhagavata Purana and wrote other independent works and continued composing the Kirtana Ghosha. He further translated the first book of the Ramayana (uttarakanda) and instructed Madhavadeva to translate the last book (adikanda), portions that were left undone by the 14th century poet Madhav Kandali. He wrote four dramas: Rukmini harana, Parijata harana, Keligopala and kalidamana. Another drama written at Patbausi, kamsa vadha, is lost. At Patbausi, he had lent his bargeets numbering aroung 240 to Kamala Gayan. But unfortunately, his house was gutted and most of the bargeets were lost. Since that incident Sankaradeva stopped composing bargeets. Of the 240, 34 remains today.
Sankaradeva once again left for a pilgrimage with a very large party of 117 disciples that included Madhavadeva, Ramarama, Thakur Ata and others. Madhavadeva, on the request of Sankaradeva's wife Kalindi urged him to return from Puri and not proceed to Vrindavana. He returned to Patbausi within six months.
In the meantime Chilarai, the general of the Koch army and brother of Naranarayana, who had been influenced by the religion and had married Kamalapriya, the daughter of Sankaradeva's cousin Ramaraya, arranged for Sankaradeva's audience with Naranarayana. As he moved up the steps to the throne, Sankardev sang his Sanskrit totaka hymn (composed extempore) to God,
madhu daanava daarana deva varam |
vara vaarija locana cakra dharam ||
dharani dhara dhaarana dheya param |
paramaartha vidyaashubha naasha karam ||
kara churnita chedipa bhuri bhagam |
bhaga bhushana korchhita paada yugam ||
yuga naayaka naagara vesha ruchim |
ruchiraangshupidhaana sharira suchim ||
and as he sat down, he sang a borgeet, narayana kahe bhakati karu tera. Naranarayana was overwhelmed by the Saint's personality. The king then asked Sankaradeva's opponents to prove their complaint. After Sankaradeva defeated them in the debate, Naranarayana declared him free from all allegations. Sankaradeva began attending Naranarayana's court at the king's request. When he met Naranarayana, he was well over a hundred years old and had just three more years to live.
After the debate, Sankaradeva shuttled between Kochbehar and Patbausi. On the request of Naranarayana and Chilaria he supervised the creations of the 60mx30m woven Vrindavani vastra, that depicted the playful activities of Krishna in Vrindavana. This was presented to the Koch king.
Sankaradeva used the form of Krishna to preach devotion to a single God (eka sarana), who can be worshiped solely by uttering His various names (naam). In contrast to other bhakti forms, eka sarana follows the dasya attitude (a slave to God). Moreover, unlike the 'Gaudiya Vaishnavism' of Bengal, Radha is not worshiped along with Krishna. In uttering the name of God, Hari, Rama, Narayana and Krishna are most often used.
Sankaradeva himself and the religion in general are particularly antagonistic to saktism which was strongly prevalent in Assam at the time. This probably explains the non-use of Radha as an icon. His famous debate with Madhavadeva, who was a staunch sakta (devotee of Shakti) earlier, and Madhavadeva's subsequent conversion to Vaishnavism, is often cited as the single most epoch-making event in the history of the neo-Vaishnavite movement in Assam. Madhavadeva, an equally multi-talented person, became his most celebrated disciple.
A non-brahmin, Srimanta Sankaradeva started a system of initiation (saran lowa) into his religion. He caused a huge Social revolution by fighting against anti-social elements like casteism prevailing at that time. He initiated people of all castes and religions, including Muslims. After initiation, the devotee is expected to adhere to the religious tenets of eka sarana. Failure to adhere to these tenets led to ex-communication in certain cases.
Though he himself married (twice), had children and led the life of a householder, his disciple Madhavadeva did not. Some of his followers today follow celibate monkhood (kevaliya bhakat) in the Vaishnavite monasteries---the sattras.
The people who practice his religion are called variously as Mahapurushia, Sarania or Sankari.
His language is lucid, his verses lilting, and he infused bhakti into everything he wrote. His magnum opus is his Kirtana-ghosha, a work so popular that even today it is found in nearly every household in Assam. It contains narrative verses glorifying Krishna meant for community singing. It is a bhakti kayva par excellence, written in a lively and simple language, it has "stories and songs for amusement [for children], it delights the young with true poetic beauty and elderly people find here religious instruction and wisdom".
For most of his works, he used the Assamese language of the period so the lay person could read and understand them. But for dramatic effect in his songs and dramas he used Brajavali, an artificial mixture of Braj language and Assamese.
Other literary works include the rendering of eight books of the Bhagavata Purana including the Adi Dasama (Book X), Harishchandra-upakhyana (his first work), Bhakti-pradip, the Nimi-navasiddha-samvada (conversation between King Nimi and the nine Siddhas), Bhakti-ratnakara (Sanskrit verses, mostly from the Bhagavata, compiled into a book), Anadi-patana (having as its theme the creation of the universe and allied cosmological matters), Gunamala and many plays like Rukmini haran, Patni prasad, Keli gopal, Kurukshetra yatra and Srirama vijaya. There was thus an efflorescence of great Bhakti literature during his long life of 120 years.
His translation of the Bhagavata is actually a transcreation, because he translates not just the words but the idiom and the physiognomy too. He has adapted the original text to the local land and people and most importantly for the purpose of bhakti. Portions of the original were left out or elaborated where appropriate. For example, he suppressed the portions that revile the lowers castes of sudra and kaivartas, and extols them elsewhere.
Sankaradeva was the fountainhead of the Ankiya naat, a form of one-act play. In fact, his Cihna Yatra---staged by him when he was only 19---is regarded as one of the first open-air theatrical performances in the world. Cihna yatra was probably a dance drama and no text of that show is available today. Innovations like the presence of a Sutradhara (narrator) on the stage, use of masks etc. were used later in the plays of Bertolt Brecht and other eminent playwrights.
These cultural traditions still form an integral part of the heritage of the Assamese people.
The Borgeets (literally: great songs) are devotional songs, set to music and sung in various raga styles. These styles are slightly different from either the Hindustani or the Carnatic styles The songs themselves are written in the 'Brajavali' language.
For a sample of a borgeet written by Sankaradeva, listen to sung by Bhupen Hazarika.
The famous Vrindavani Vastra—the cloth of Vrindavan—a 120 cubits long and 60 cubits broad tapestry depicted the lilas of Lord Krishna at Vrindavan through richly woven and embroidered designs on silk. A specimen, believed to be a part of this work, is at the Association pour l'Etude et la Documentation des Textiles d'Asie collection at Paris (inv. no. 3222). The vastra, commissioned by Chilarai, was woven by twelve master weavers in Barpeta under the supervision of Sankaradeva probably between 1565 and 1568. It was housed in the Madhupur sattra but it disappeared at some point. It is believed this cloth made its way to Tibet and from there to its present place.


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This shows that our country is allowing more ethnicity and race to enter the country. We our having changes in our population as well as having ethnic groups grow. Having ethnic groups can allow America to continue to grow and become developing country. ~JConner
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This article shows the changing and which majority races are increasing and decreasing. Whites are the largest race in America right now and Hispanic should be increasing on a huge scale. Whites are decreasing comparatively to Hispanics. Asians and Blacks are also increasing slowly. We might see very soon that whites are not the majority race in America.
Earlier this week I, along with 21 other adoptee's, adoption professionals and activists joined together to write An Open Letter: Why Co-opting "Transracial" in the Case of Rachel Dolezal is Problematic. The result was a media blitz, helping to define the word transracial. I was interviewed by the New York Times, Washington Post and International Business Times, as well as other outlets who supported adoptees in our desire to reclaim the integrity of this word.
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In the United States, the notion of racial "passing" is usually associated with blacks and other minorities who seek to present themselves as part of the white majority. Yet as Baz Dreisinger demonstrates in this fascinating study, another form of this phenomenon also occurs, if less frequently, in American culture: cases in which legally white individuals are imagined, by themselves or by others, as passing for black. In Near Black, Dreisinger explores the oft-ignored history of what she calls "reverse racial passing" by looking at a broad spectrum of short stories, novels, films, autobiographies, and pop-culture discourse that depict whites passing for black. The protagonists of these narratives, she shows, span centuries and cross contexts, from slavery to civil rights, jazz to rock to hip-hop. Tracing their role from the 1830s to the present day, Dreisinger argues that central to the enterprise of reverse passing are ideas about proximity. Because "blackness," so to speak, is imagined as transmittable, proximity to blackness is invested with the power to turn whites black: those who are literally "near black" become metaphorically "near black." While this concept first arose during Reconstruction in the context of white anxieties about miscegenation, it was revised by later white passers for whom proximity to blackness became an authenticating badge. As Dreisinger shows, some white-to-black passers pass via self-identification. Jazz musician Mezz Mezzrow, for example, claimed that living among blacks and playing jazz had literally darkened his skin. Others are taken for black by a given community for a period of time. This was the experience of Jewish critic Waldo Frank during his travels with Jean Toomer, as well as that of disc jockey Hoss Allen, master of R&B slang at Nashville's famed WLAC radio. For journalists John Howard Griffin and Grace Halsell, passing was a deliberate and fleeting experiment, while for Mark Twain's fictional white slave in Pudd'nhead Wilson, it is a near-permanent and accidental occurrence. Whether understood as a function of proximity or behavior, skin color or cultural heritage, self-definition or the perception of others, what all these variants of "reverse passing" demonstrate, according to Dreisinger, is that the lines defining racial identity in American culture are not only blurred but subject to change.
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The article is excellent and detailed overall.
Race is exactly biological. The fact that race is about biology does not need to reinforce racism however. "The Nature of Race", by Ann Morning goes into this and how different scientists view race differently. The big opposing views are between anthropologists and medical scientists.
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Why do so many white people find it extremely uncomfortable to talk about race? Setting out to make the next installment of our Op-Doc video series about race in America, we hoped to address that question. Because we live in New York, where there is no shortage of opinions, we didn't think it would be too hard to find white people willing to speak publicly on this topic. We were wrong.
...when we dug a bit deeper, the discussion gets tense, and visibly uncomfortable.
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The system the authors are referring to is probably the system of disenfranchisement and oppression held up by what Dr. Martin Luther King called the Doctrine of White Supremacy.
Anyone can believe in the Doctrine of White Supremacy; a doctrine that believes that White is right and worthy and that people of color are undeserving of equal opportunities and equal humane treatment.
We see inequality play out in the way immigration laws are written to favor the highly educated, while (im)migrants in labor and agriculture are demonized.
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Corpus Christi Feast of Sharing organizers expect to serve 13,000 meals
CORPUS CHRISTI - Back in 1988, H-E-B President Charles Butt had a philosophy that no one should be hungry or lonely on Christmas.
Armed with a desire to serve communities in Mexico and Texas, the H-E-B Feast of Sharing was born, allowing friends, family and their neighbors to come together to enjoy a free holiday meal and live entertainment.
More than two decades and thousands of meals later, H-E-B is preparing to host its 22nd Annual Feast of Sharing dinner locally from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Christmas Eve at the American Bank Center.
"We want everyone to come out for free food and make it a family tradition if they don't have one," said Shelley Parks, H-E-B regional spokeswoman.
Last year, hundreds of H-E-B partners and community volunteers gathered to prepare and serve around 10,000 meals locally. They expect to serve more than 13,000 meals this year, including ham, mashed potatoes, green beans, rolls and pies.
And out of all the Feast of Sharing dinners statewide, the Corpus Christi feast is the only one that serves tons of tamales.
About 1,500 volunteers are needed to help with setting up, serving, child care and cleanup. Volunteers also will deliver meals to some 1,500 people homebound throughout the Coastal Bend.
Entertainment this year has been expanded to include a children's area and a main stage featuring ballet, folklorico and Irish dancers, mariachis and various musical artists.
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Mayor Joe Adame said he plans to attend the feast with his family and help in any way he can.
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changes in the genetic material. can affect the genetic blueprint by altering gene function.
inborn error of metabolism
refers to a mutation in a gene that is inherited from one or both parents.
Neurospora crassa
common bread mold. requires only a few nutrients: a carbon source (sugar), inorganic salts, and one vitamin known as biotin
structural genes
produce an RNA molecule that contains the information to specify a polypeptide with a particular amino acid sequence
an RNA molecule that contains the information to specify a polypeptide with a particular amino acid sequence. job is to carry information from the DNA to ribosomes.
2 additional steps between transcription and translation in eukaryotes
during RNA processing, the RNA transcript, termed pre-mRNA, is modified in ways that make it a functionally active mRNA.
number of proteins in bacteria and eukaryotes
bacterium can make a few thousand different proteins, estimates for eukaryotes range from several thousand in simpler eukaryotes to tens of thousands in more complex eukaryotes like humans
an organized unit of DNA sequences that enables a segment of DNA to be transcribed into RNA and ultimately results in the formation of a functional product
regulatory protein
when a ___ ____ binds to a regulatory sequence, the rate of transcription is affected. some ___ _____ enhance the rate of transcription, while others inhibit it
initiation stage
a recognition step. completed when the DNA strands are separated near the promoter to form an open complex
sigma factor
in bacteria such as E. coli, a protein called ____ ____, binds to RNA polymerase. also recognizes the base sequence of a promoter and binds there. causes RNA polymerase to specifically bind to a promoter and binds there.
elongation stage
RNA polymerase synthesizes the RNA transcript. sigma factor is released and RNA polymerase slides along the DNA in a way that maintains an open complex as it goes.
coding strand
the opposite DNA strand from the template strand. has the same sequence of bases as the mRNA (except U for T)
termination stage
RNA polymerase reaches a terminator, which causes it and the newly made RNA transcript to dissociate from the DNA.
RNA polymerase II
in eukaryotes, responsible for transcribing the mRNA from eukaryotic structural genes. always requires five general transcription factors to initiate transcription.
RNA polymerases I and III
in eukaryotes, transcribe nonstructural genes such as the genes that encode tRNAs and rRNAs.
pre-mRNA undergoes a process in which the introns are removed and the remaining exons are connected to each other.
introns are removed from eukaryotic pre-mRNA by a large complex called a _____ that is composed of several different subunits known as snRNPs
alternative splicing
enables a single gene to encode two or more polypeptides with differences in their amino acid sequences.
mature mRNAs of eukaryotes have a modified guanosine covalently attached at the 5' end. occurs while pre-mRNA is being made by RNA polymerase, usually when the transcript is only 20 to 25 nucleotides in length.
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7-mehtylguanosine structure, is recognized by cap-binding proteins, which are needed for the proper exit of mRNAs from the nucleus. after an mRNA is in the cytosol, the cap structure is recognized by other cap-binding proteins that enable the mRNA to bind to a ribosome for translation
poly A tail
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poly A tail in bacteria
has an opposite affect. causes the mRNA to be rapidly degraded. not well understood.
Meselson and Jacob
1960. found that proteins are synthesized on cellular structures known as ribosomes and that the information comes from mRNA.
genetic code
specifies the relationship between the sequence of nucleotides in the mRNA and the sequence of amino acids in a polypeptide
the genetic code is read in groups of three nucleotide bases known as _____. total of 64 different _____. 4^3=64
the genetic code is said to be _____ because more than one codon can specify the same amino acid. in most instances, the third base in the codon is the degenerate or variable base.
coding sequence
a region that specifies the amino acid sequence of a polypeptide. consists of a series of codons.
start codon
specifies the amino acid methionine. only a few nucleotides from the ribosomal-binding site. defines the reading frame of an mRNA.
a three-base sequence in a tRNA molecule that is complmentary to a codon in mRNA. corresponds to the amino acid that it carries.
aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase
enzymes that catalyze the attachment of amino acids to tRNA molecules. cells make 20 distinct types for each amino acid.
aminoacyl-TRNA synthetase mechanism
1. a specific amino acid and ATP are recognized by the enzyme.
2. amino acid is activated by the covalent attachment of an AMP molecule, and pyrophosphate is released
3. the activated amino acid is covalently attached to the 3' end of a tRNA molecule., and AMP is released.
4. the tRNA with its attached amino acid, called charged tRNA or aminoacyl tRNA, is released from the enzyme.
the second genetic code
the ability of each aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase to recognize an appropriate tRNA. the wrong amino acid is attached to tRNA less than once in a 100,000 times.
1964. Proposed a two-site model for tRNA binding to the ribosome. these sites are known as the peptidyl site (P site) and aminoacyl site (A site)
translation-initiation stage
a complex is formed between an mRNA molecule, the first tRNA, and the ribosomal subunits. in all species, the assembly of this complex requires the help of proteins called initiation factors that facilitate the interaction between these components. the assembly also requires an input of energy. GTP is hydrolyzed by certain initiation factors.
initiator tRNA
recognizes the start codon in mRNA and binds to it. in eukaryotes, carries methionine, in bacteria carries a methionine that has been modified by the attachment of a formyl group.
translation-difference in initiation between eukaryotes and bacteria
1. instead of a ribosomal-binding sequence, eukaryotic mRNAs have a guanosine cap at their 5' end. this 5' cap is recognized by cap-binding proteins that promote the binding of the mRNA to the small ribosomal subunit
2. the location of the start codon in eukaryotes is more variable
Marilyn Kozak
1978. proposed that the small ribosomal subunit identifies a start codon by beginning at the 5' end and then scanning along the mRNA in the 3' direction in search of an AUG sequence.
start codon
AUG, a guanine just past the start codon and the sequence of six bases directly upstream from the start codon are also important for start codon selection.
rate of translation
15 to 18 amino acids per second in bacteria. 6 amino acids per second in eukaryotes.
elongation factors
the hydrolysis of GTP by proteins that function as _____ _____ provides teh energy for the binding of the tRNA to the A site.
peptidyl transfer reaction
the polypeptide is removed from the tRNA in the P site and transferred to the amino acid at the A site.
peptidyltransferase center
a region of the 50S subunit that catalyzes the peptidyl transfer reaction.
Steitz, Moore
propsoed that hte rRNA is responsible for catalyzing the peptide bond formation between adjacent amino acids. ribosome is a robzyme.


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Army veteran Dave Campbell is coming to the retreat for the second straight year. He served in Desert Storm more than 20 years ago.
"I spend nine months and I enjoyed it," Campbell said, "except for the [post-traumatic stress disorder]."
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He was in jail for two days. When he was released, he decided to get help. Campbell was able to open up about his problems with other veterans at last year's Healing Journey retreat.
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This year's retreat will be led by Michael Lapsley, an Anglican priest from South Africa. He said he feels called to minister to the injured because he is one of them.
He lost both hands and an eye when a bomb inside a letter exploded as he opened it. It was during South Africa's Anti-Apartheid Movement in 1990.
As for what is happening here in the U.S., Lapsley says that it's not just the military veterans who are hurting.
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And the veterans have various problems.
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You know something's not good when MySQL's logs reports the following
for a query:
# Query_time: 87 Lock_time: 0 Rows_sent: 209 Rows_examined: 2619608
We've got a search that looks something like this (simplified/obfuscated
to hide our secret sauce... or something :) )
SELECT DISTINCT(b.id), b.name, b.datepacked, p.firstname, p.lastname
FROM box_category AS bc
JOIN boxes AS b ON b.id = bc.boxid
LEFT OUTER JOIN people AS p ON b.person = p.username
WHERE bc.categoryid IN (
SELECT node.id
FROM categories AS node,
categories AS parent,
categories AS sub_parent,
( SELECT node.id
FROM categories AS node,
categories AS parent
WHERE node.lft BETWEEN parent.lft AND parent.rgt
AND node.id = '4'
GROUP BY node.id
ORDER BY node.lft ) AS sub_tree
WHERE node.lft BETWEEN parent.lft AND parent.rgt
AND node.lft BETWEEN sub_parent.lft AND sub_parent.rgt
AND sub_parent.id = sub_tree.id
GROUP BY node.id )
ORDER BY b.datepacked DESC;
What we're doing here is saying:
* We're looking at category '4'
* List all items in category #4 AND items in all subcategories of '4'
* Cateogires are stored as a "nested set" model
( http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/hierarchical-data.html )
* Boxes are mapped to categories using a separate table ("box_category"),
because they can be placed in multiple categories.
Are there ways to improve this particular query? The 'boxes' table has
over 1000 entries, and growing. The 'categories' table has
nearly 1000 entries (the structure only ever goes 3 deep, though,
e.g.: Cat->SubCat->SubSubCat).
I'm wondering if I should just yank some of the subselects out and
construct the final answer by doing:
1. What subcategories are under cat '4'?
2. What boxes are in cat '4' or any of the subcats found in step 1?
instead of:
1. What boxes are in cat '4' or any subcategories under cat '4'?
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Putting aside what anyone thinks about abortion, let me know what you all think about this.
Abortion is legal. So, a woman can decide to have an abortion with or without the concent of the father. It just happens to be the law no matter what your views are. So, the courts are saying that a person isn't a person until it's born. That is apparent with abortion being legal. So, since it isn't a person, a doctor isn't a murderer for performing an abortion. That is what the law says and that is what we all have to realize before this debate can go any further. I would like to read what you all think about this situation that I just heard about on the radio. Legally, not emotionally, how can this happen?
A pregnant, drunk, girl was driving her car. She got into a wreck and survived, but her (child, fetus, whatever you call it) did not. She was charged with vehicular homicide for the death of that the unborn child.
Couldn't she have an argument here?


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Ideas for Elements CCG (Destructive criticism will be ignored)
Wow did this topic really die? I'm a bit surprised.
Topic: Off-topic /
Werewolves vs Vampire witch is better
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Topic: Kongregate Multiplayer Games /
[Kingdoms CCG] Mana Flask not working
You sure your not just getting one because if you only get one the mana paid for the card and gained from it cancel eachother out.
Topic: Kongregate Multiplayer Games /
[Kingdoms CCG] Insane Mode Campaign Guide
Elemental Campaign
I have not completed this one yet.
Undead Campaign
1. Enlightened Elder.
Not much to this guy actually. I recomend using the Dwarven Dragoon hero and a deck fairly high in removal. Shouldn't pose to much of an issue.
2. Grand Paladin.
This guy took me a while to figure out but I believe I've found the bestway to do this one.
Unlike most of the other heroes this guy is very passive. He relies mainly on beating you out in an attrition type battle. No matter what you do against this guy it will always end up being an attrition war so the best way to win this is the following: Use the Flaming Treant hero and a mainly elemental based deck filled with removal type spells. you deck should have ATLEAST 25 cards in it because if you have less the game might be declared a draw before you can kill the paladin. Only use a few fairly bulky creatures such as demolition golem inorder to do the damage needed to defeat him. Make sure you have enough creatures to be able to outlive his removal. Avoid using too many undead creatures because he'll just toast them with his holy bolt. you should be able to kill off his creatures easily because they mostly have fairly low hp and no magic resist. Do not try to enage his creatures with your own because his excel at dueling other creatures. Try to keep a flash fire or another similar spell in hand because if he casts call to arms on an empty field you can use it to sway the game very heavily in your favor. Once he stops casting creatures because he's run out of cards drop your bombs on him and wait for them to wear down that massive hp pool of his.
3. Angel General
This guy was really frustrating to fight. It is a bad idea to use the same strategy as you did with the Grand Paladin here because her creatures are generally much more bulky. Fo this fight I recomend you use either the Flaming Treant or Dwarrven Dragoon hero depending on whether or not you like to gamdle with the dragoons mass damage skill. The first thing the Angel General will do is either drop an angel warrior courtesy of her ability on you and another creature, or drop 2 angel warriors on you. Because of this it is crucial that you go first because you need the extra mana to survive the first few turns. If she decides to drop two warriors on you I recomend you just concede and try again because it's going to be far too difficult to survive the first few turns. A very good card, if you have it, to use in this fight is slyph assasin because it almost guarentees you'll survive the initial assault if you get it early enough. General idea is you need to get rid of her first 2 creatures FAST. It doesn't matter how you achieve this as long as you do. Once you survive this try to put down her creatures as fast as possible. If she drops a few creatures on the same turn you have to get rid of or block as many as you can because odds are she'll use her +2 attack to all creatures skill the next turn. The longer this battle wears on the better off you are. Keep in mind however that even after she runs out of cards you need a strong creature force to finish her off because of those angel warriors she summons. I Recomend a deck with a good balance of spells and creatures for this one and atleast 25 cards. Make sure you have enough bulky creatures like demolition golem to fight off her creatures and it shouldn't be too big of an issue to fight her.
Alchemy Campaign
I have not completed this one yet. Also skybreaker giant is a massive pain.
Mystical Campaign
1. Flaming Treant
For this fight it's very important that you shuffle your creatures around alot to block as much incoming damage as possible. Other than that this fight just revolves around a few rules.
Rule 1: Never have more creature sin play then you need because he ha sa card that deals damage to you equal to twice your number of creatures in play.
Rule 2: Never take damage if you have a way of blocking it.
Rule 3: Avoid falling below 6 health, if you do he has a few ways to finish you off in a snap.
Rule 4: Don't use fragile creatures without magic resist. Forest fire will just kill them.
Rule 5: All of his creatures need to die asap.
For this fight I recomend either the enlightened elder or dragon priestess hero. The mystical hero won't help much.
2. Arch Elementalist
for this guy use all the rules shown above for the flaming treant and the following additional rules:
Rule 1: Never keep more cards in hand than you need to, he will punish you for it.
Rule 2: Baby Whelps are absolutely necassary for this fight. The damage they deal when they come into play plus their fairly solid body allows them to take out 2+ of his creatures.
Pretty much just a much more aggresive ersion of the treant.
3. Maelstrom Avatar
For this fight the best strategy also happens to be the most flavorful. She's going to attempt to burst you down with alot of fast hard hitting creatures while burning down your creatures with her removal spells. I recomend using the enlightened elder hero here because his calm is generally more helpful than the dragon priestesses whelp due to the avatars position swap ability. It's best here to use a deck with as much magic resistance as possible. If it does't have magic resist make sure it's bulky and can inflict some damage like vengeful titan. Using alot of magic resistant creatures renders her removal spells and aoe damage ability pretty useless. Your gonna want to end this fight as early as you can because no matter how hard you try to stop it she is constantly going to be throwing damage at your hero. If you let the fight wear on for too long shell just wither you down and win. It's also very important that you never leave more creatures on the field than you have to because if you do she can use her tidal force spell to change the game much to her advantage. Assuming you are using a magic resist heavy deck her undertow ability is hardly worth mentioning. Got this one on the second try, first try I got caught by her tidal force ability.
Holy Campaign
1. Zombie Warlord
This guy is the exact opposite of the Grand Paladin. Rather than force an attrition war he's gonna try and end the game asap. The very first thing he's gonna do is drop 2 creatures on you, one of which will most likely be the haste zombie, use his unholy warcry then start spanking you. You have to get rid of both of his creatures the moment they come out other wise I can almost guarentee you will get a turn 2 win on you. However once you gain your footing and get through his initial assault he doesn't have much left tht he can do. However make sure you watch out for those 3 damage bolt spells he has. I recomend using the Dragon Priestess hero here and a deck using as many holy days and titan stomps as you can to eliminate his first barrage of creatures as soon as it comes out. Shouldn't be that much of a proble to get past.
2. Undead Lich
Havn't gotten past this guy yet, he's harder than the king himself :(
3. Undead King
This guy doesn't really do anything special. Just use a tempo or rush deck of some sort so he can't screw you over with his turn dead take control combo. He might resurect a few times but that shouldn't be an issue. Also be careful about putting large creatures like the sort acients tend to use on an empty field, if he takes control of them your probably screwed. Overall probably one of the easiest insane mode fights. Beat him on my first attempt.
Ancient Campaign
I have not started this one yet.
After experiencing how difficult the campaigns are on insane mode, i've decided to write a guide so I can maybe save other people some time and frustration. I'll update this guide as I complete campaigns on insane mode. I will assume you have some common and uncommon cards and also that you have the rares given to you in the campaigns. Additionally I assume you own all tier 1 heroes and have completed all campaigns on story mode.
Topic: Kongregate Multiplayer Games /
[Kingdoms CCG] This game is broken
Finished all the campaigns on both story mode and hard mode and now working on insane mode. I've found that the following are true:
1. After you recieve a rare card in a campaign you will not be rewarded any cards for the battles in the campaign after this point.
2. Neither hard mode nor insane mode award cards. They do both however reward the same amount of gold for first wins as story mode.
3. Insane mode is indeed insane…do not try it if you get frustrated easily. All of the enemy decks have no cards below uncommon quality and the few cards that are uncommon are the really annoying and powerful ones like essence mantle.
4. You can infact complete all the campaigns on all difficulties using just the cards given to you during the first run through the campaign. It just takes a bit of patience and you have to be fairly good at this game.
Have you considered that maybe your just bad at this game? Remember, a decks only as strong as the player using it.
Topic: Berserk: The Cataclysm /
There are a few neutral equipments. They include staff of distoration and the insatiable blade. Oddly enough even though these are neutral theyre among, if not the, most solid equipments in the game.
I think you may be misunderstanding what equipment is. Equipment doesn't automatically equip to your commander, it instead waits in the reserve until its waiting time is up, then equips to the first creature you have in line(farthest to the left). If your equipment comes of wait and you don't have any creatures in play it waits for the next creature to enter play under your control and equips to it. Does this clear up your problem?
Topic: Berserk: The Cataclysm /
Imperial Cost for Campaigns
The imperial prices for the campaigns are more than fair, infact the first 3 (Hammer of Snor, Ikhves Axe, and Haste Potion) are very profitable. The thing that seems to be tripping people up the most is that inorder to actually profit from the campaigns you need to finish it with very few to no losses. This is because for every step in the campaign a base value of 6000 imperials is set. Every loss you get during a particular step reduces that by 1800 imperials. If you can get a 100% win rate on the first two they will double what you payed for them. Note however, each campaign can only be bought with imperials once.
Topic: Clash of the Dragons /
[Bug] Patience of the Tortoise
This is not a bug, quest monsters and brawl bosses have all their attributes as 0. They have stats but no attributes. It's kind of like the bonus from talisman of fortitude. They gain stats because their 0/0/0 goes up to 1/2/2. Your stats are used for envy instead of theirs because envy can only take the attributes from players and redistribute them. In other words, DO NOT use envy in a non pvp environemt.
Topic: Clash of the Dragons /
My suggestion for making druids viable beyond queen lena.
Originally posted by ping101:One second theyre overpowered, next theyre underpowered. Let's see if we can reach a central point were the power level is at balance and is also strong enough to make of druids terrible base stats. We could either A) Massively increase the durations, or B) massively increase the stat boost received. I believe likely the best route would be the following:
If you play a transform as a druid, you may play an additional card this turn so that the turn is not lost.
Give all transforms +1 stat as shown below:
1.(bear) +1 Agility
2. (chimp) +20% proc chance, and +1 absorb.
3.(cat) +1 agility
4.(OWlbeast) +1 intellect
5.(Treant) +2 absorb(Treants do have bark you know)(Wasn't sure how to word this one but I assumed you guys got yhe idea.)
Maybe it would also help if instead of the effect wearing off in three turns, the above boost wears off in three turns. The rest of the effect wears off the fifth turn after the card has been played. Though this may be overpowered now, let's just get some more feedback.
One second theyre overpowered, next theyre underpowered. Let's see if we can reach a central point were the power level is at balance and is also strong enough to make of druids terrible base stats. We could either A) Massively increase the durations, or B) massively increase the stat boost received. I believe likely the best route would be the following:
If you play a transform as a druid, you may play an additional card this turn so that the turn is not lost.
Give all transforms +1 stat as shown below:
1.(bear) +1 Agility
2. (chimp) +20% proc chance, and +1 absorb.
3.(cat) +1 agility
4.(OWlbeast) +1 intellect
5.(Treant) +2 absorb(Treants do have bark you know)(Wasn't sure how to word this one but I assumed you guys got yhe idea.)
Maybe it would also help if instead of the effect wearing off in three turns, the above boost wears off in three turns. The rest of the effect wears off the fifth turn after the card has been played. Though this may be overpowered now, let's just get some more feedback.
As you can see I already stated that allowing another threat to be played on teh turn of a transform would be appropriate to mak eup for the turn loss.
One second theyre overpowered, next theyre underpowered. Let's see if we can reach a central point were the power level is at balance and is also strong enough to make of druids terrible base stats. We could either A) Massively increase the durations, or B) massively increase the stat boost received. I believe likely the best route would be the following:
If you play a trandformm as a druid, you may play an additional card this turn so that the turn is not lost.
Give all transforms +1 stat as shown below:
1.(bear) +1 Agility
2. (chimp) +20% proc chance, and +1 absorb.
3.(cat) +1 agility
4.(OWlbeast) +1 intellect
5.(Treant) +2 absorb(Treants do have bark you know)(Wasn't sure how to word this one but I assumed you guys got yhe idea.)
@Tygrak: Well I needed some sort of damage caster and I didn't get any ideas so I thought"Eh, why not". But all the others are really just generic animals besides the treant which there really is no other option for.
@sn0tling: And talisman of agility isn't op? Take a second to think about that.
@Rosco: The transform only stops when a spell is played for the cat and bear forms. The treant and owlbeast forms are cancelled when you play a weapon attack or another transform. The chimp form is only cancelled when you play another transform.
@mtagge: That probably wouldn't fix anything because there are already way better talismans available to every class than those.
@pcbb97: I was originally thinking of putting a turn limit on the transforms but I decided to get some feedback before jumping to conclusions on time restrictions. Three turns in my opinion would be the optimal duration assuming the turn the spell was cast is not counted. As is druids are just sad sentinals who want to be pyrelords but failed epicly. More druid only effects probably wouldn't fix much unless they're strong enough to make druids worth it, but then everyone would just play druids and that wouldn't be good. I came to this idea after realizing that almost every other druid in every other fntasy setting is able to shapeshift, but the druids in clash aren't. The fact that druids are so underpowered right now, I believe, has opened up a window to give them transforms and really make them druids instead of the jack of no trades.
It would make druids viable and add some deep flavor and druidy feell to druids, if you would give them shapeshifting cards. Several examples listed below.
1. Transform: Bear
0/0 Light magic
Gain +2 strength. This effect is canceled upon casting a magic threat.(This includes other forms.)
2. Transform: Chimp
0/0 Light magic
You gain a 30% chance to play an additional card each turn. This effect is canceled upon playing another transform.
3. Transform: Cat
0/0 Light magic
You gain +1 agility, +1 strength, and a 10% chance to play an additional attack each turn. This effect lasts until you play another magic threat. (This includes other transforms.)
4. Transform: Owlbeast
0/0 Light magic
You gain +1 intellect and +1 wisdom. This effect is cancelled upon play a weapon attack or another transform.
5. Transform: Treant
0/0 Light magic
If you would heal 1, heal 2 instead. This effect lasts until you play another transform.
All transform effects would only apply to druids. The rarities would all preferbly be uncommon or rare, maybe even common to make them easily obtained. Please give feed back on this, and possible revisions and suggestions.
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What was going on around here before the Big Bang?
This oft-posed question is somewhat nonsensical to Big Bang theorists, says Big Bang expert Keith Olive. That'Äôs because, according to their scientific analysis, the Big Bang was the event that created both space and time. Therefore, there was no 'Äúaround here'Ä? and no 'Äúbefore'Ä? until the Big Bang occurred.
For people who may have a hard time wrapping their brain around that concept, Olive provides this analogy:
'ÄúImagine, that instead of being three dimensional, space is a two-dimensional surface, and let'Äôs think of that surface as a balloon. Now, let'Äôs think of the radius of the balloon as time. As I blow it up, the surface of the balloon gets bigger. And if I'Äôm watching it as a movie, I'Äôm seeing the balloon at different stages in time where its radius is bigger. Now imagine that the balloon is contracting and it goes down to zero. That balloon is the universe and the Big Bang represents the appearance of the balloon and the beginning of time.'Ä?
Olive acknowledges that some may find these cosmic concepts unfathomable.
'ÄúI think it'Äôs hard for people to imagine the space being created, let alone time being created,'Ä? he says. 'ÄúYou can imagine stuff appearing in space at a certain time. That'Äôs what many people imagine: the universe was there, time was going on and then all of a sudden at 5 o'Äôclock was a big explosion and all this matter came out. But that'Äôs not what the Big Bang is. The Big Bang is actually the creation of the space and of the time.'Ä?
Keith Olive is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Minnesota. He is involved in several research projects at the University related to the Big Bang and its effects. For more information about Olive's research, see the article Searching for clues to the early universe.


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First-team all-conference honorees included offensive guard Kie Bates (Indianapolis/Ben Davis), senior defensive tackle Dean Griffing (Plano, Ill./Aurora Christian), senior quarterback Ryan Landwehr (Tipp City, Ohio/Tippecanoe Valley) and junior center Eric Taylor (Chapel Hill, N.C./Carrboro).
Second-team award winners included senior kicker Matt Angel (Cassville, Mo.), junior tight end Zac Erba (Winona Lake/Warsaw), senior running back Danya Francis (Kissimmee, Fla./Celebration), freshman cornerback Kevin Nowak (Naperville, Ill./Central) and senior punter Eric Schaible (Findlay, Ohio).
Four Fightin' Engineers received honorable mention all-conference accolades. Honorees included senior wide receiver Connor Gerhart (La Mesa, Calif./La Jolla Country Day), senior defensive lineman D.J. Lawson (Indianapolis/Pike), senior linebacker Cody Rivers (Coconut Creek, Fla./Monarch), and senior linebacker Craig Voges (Huntingburg/Forest Park).
Sokol earned his first HCAC Coach of the Year Award after leading Rose-Hulman to a share of its first conference championship since 1988. The third-year head coach led the Fightin' Engineers to a 7-1 conference record and a 7-3 overall mark to
Sokol's coaching staff includes offensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator Brian White; defensive coordinator Brian Vaughn; running backs coach Nick Davis; linebackers coach Ben Olson; wide receivers coach Chris Scheidt; and defensive line coach Dominique Ware.
Bates completed his fourth year as a starter on the offensive line, earning honorable mention all-league accolades last season and serving as a team captain this year. His blocks over 10 starts allowed Kyle Kovach to become the all-time leading rusher in 2012 and helped Ryan Landwehr set a total offense
Griffing finished his career ranked third in Rose-Hulman history 20.5 sacks and amassed 140 tackles and 44.5 tackles-for-loss in his four years on the defensive line. This season, he ranked second in the HCAC in tackles-for-loss (16.5) and sacks (8.5) while leading the Fightin' Engineers in both categories. Griffing also blocked two of Rose-Hulman's six blocked kicks this fall.
Landwehr finished 234-360 through the air (65%) for 2,456 yards and 21 touchdowns this season. On the ground, he rushed for 459 yards and led the HCAC with 11 rushing touchdowns. He established new school records with 32 touchdowns responsible for, 2,915 yards of total offense, 234 pass completions and was second in school history with 21 TD passes.
Taylor has started for three seasons on the offensive line at multiple positions, including the center spot this season. His blocks also helped the offense gain 4,154 yards of total offense to rank second in single-season school history. Rose-Hulman's 322 points scored this year also ranks No. 2 on the single-season list.
Angel led the second-team honorees after hitting 36-40 extra points and 4-6 field goals this season. He finished second on the team with 48 points and made significant contributions to the squad after missing much of the
Erba hauled in 16 receptions for 209 yards and three touchdowns in his second season as a tight end for the Engineer offense. His three touchdowns came in victories over Bluffton, Mount St. Joseph and Earlham.
Francis rushed for a team-high 645 yards and eight touchdowns in his first season as a starting tailback. He scored 13 career touchdowns and rushed for 100-yard performances at Bluffton and Earlham this season.
Nowak led the Fightin' Engineers in tackles with 77 and interceptions with four. His 60 solo tackles also led the squad, and the freshman cornerback also contributed eight pass breakups and four tackles-for-loss this season.
Schaible averaged 38.9 yards per punt this season, with 16 kicks inside the 20-yard line and four punts of over 50 yards. He established a new Rose-Hulman career school record with 8,668 punting yards and booted 49 kicks inside the 20-yard line with just eight touchbacks as a Fightin' Engineer.
Honorable mention all-conference honorees included Gerhart, Lawson, Rivers and Voges. Gerhart finished third on the Engineers with 39 receptions for 426 yards and two touchdowns, and also led the team with 12 punt returns for 53 yards. He also served as an offensive team captain.
Lawson provided depth to the defensive line with 39 tackles, including 27 solo efforts, nine tackles-for-loss and 4.5 sacks. His career totals included 104 tackles, 20 tackles-for-loss and 8.5 sacks.
Rivers earned HCAC Defensive Player of the Week honros during the season and led the team's linebackers with 58 tackles and 10 tackles-for-loss. He also recovered two fumbles, grabbed two interceptions and forced a pair of fumbles on the season.
Voges amassed 56 tackles, 8.5 tackles-for-loss and 4.5 sacks as a senior. His career totals include 186 tackles, 18 tackles-for-loss and seven sacks.
Senior Mark Fitz (Fort Worth, Texas/Eastern Hills) was also honored as Rose-Hulman's representative to the all-conference sportsmanship team.
Rose-Hulman opens the 2014 season at Kalamazoo College on Sept. 6.


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2009-09-17: Version 1.2a released. Modified loader (ForceBindIP.exe) to work around numerous false positives from anti-virus products.
2005-10-29: Version 1.2 released. Support for delayed injection and additional intercepts.
ForceBindIP is a freeware Windows application that will inject itself into another application and alter how certain Windows Sockets calls are made, allowing you to force the other application to use a specific network interface / IP address. This is useful if you are in an environment with multiple interfaces and your application has no such option for binding to a specific interface.
ForceBindIP works in two stages - the loader, ForceBindIP.exe will load the target application in a suspended state. It will then inject a DLL (BindIP.dll) which loads WS2_32.DLL into memory and intercepts the bind(), connect(), sendto(), WSAConnect() and WSASendTo() functions, redirecting them to code in the DLL which verifies which interface they will be bound to and if not the one specified, (re)binds the socket. Once the function intercepts are complete, the target application is resumed. Note that some applications with anti-debugger / injection techniques may not work correctly when an injected DLL is present; for the vast majority of applications though this technique should work fine.
As of version 1.2, all known functions in WS2_32.DLL that either explicitly or implicitly bind to an interface are intercepted. Please note however that certain programs may still end up using the default interface if they implement connections that do not use the standard winsock functions.
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ForceBindIP has no graphical interface. You must configure it like a command-line application. To run 'app.exe' and force it to bind to 184.108.40.206, you would run ForceBindIP as follows:
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Little Rock - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced today that Antonio "Tony" Person, age 35; Jason D. Gilbert, age 31; Allen Clark, age unknown; and Sterling Platt, age 30; were sentenced today by United States District Chief Judge J. Leon Holmes for their roles in a conspiracy to rob armored car employees.
Person, the leader of the successful 2007 armed robbery outside the US Bank in North Little Rock, was sentenced to 60 months for both the conspiracy and the robbery plus an additional 84 months for brandishing a firearm during the robbery, for a total of 144 months in federal prison. He also received three years of supervised release.
Gilbert was an officer with the Little Rock Police Department at the time of the conspiracy and also during a separate, failed attempt to rob the main office of Arkansas Armored Car in Little Rock in 2005. Gilbert's role in the crime was to monitor his police radio during the robbery and to alert his co-conspirators if any alarms or 911 calls were reported during the robbery and to warn them of any police response to the robbery. Gilbert was sentenced to 42 months imprisonment in the Bureau of Prisons and one year of supervised release.
Clark and Platt were not law enforcement officers at the time of the crimes, but both later gained employment as law enforcement officers, respectively, with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Little Rock and with the University of Arkansas for Medical Science in Little Rock. Because of their lesser roles in the case, Clark was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment with three years of supervised release, and Platt was sentenced to 2 years of probation.
The remaining defendant, Davis, has not yet been sentenced. No sentencing date has been set by the Court.
The investigation was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the North Little Rock Police Department, and the Little Rock Police Department.
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MINNEAPOLIS - (September 09, 2008) - What do peanut butter and jelly, rainy days and movies, and champagne and caviar have in common? They are pairings that offer the best of both worlds. Today, a new iconic pairing of "foam and air" is created with the national launch of the SLEEP NUMBER MEMORY FOAM™ - the latest innovation from the nation's leading bed retailer, Select Comfort Corporation (NASDAQ: SCSS). For those who enjoy the feel of foam bedding, this memory foam mattress provides the ultimate memory-foam experience combined with personalized comfort, support and firmness that comes from the adjustability of the bed's air-chamber technology.
"The Sleep Number Memory Foam Bed is the ultimate solution for people who enjoy the feel of memory foam, but also want what the Sleep Number bed offers - the ability to adjust the comfort, firmness and support of the bed daily," said Greg Pesky, director of product development for Select Comfort. "This is the first time a memory foam mattress and Sleep Number adjustability are together in the same bed for the first time."
The introduction of the new memory foam bed offers hope for, as the National Sleep Foundation (NSF) estimates, nearly half the U.S. population who is not getting enough sleep. A recent survey, conducted by Russell Research on behalf of Select Comfort, reveals that for a third of all Americans, an uncomfortable sleep environment (including an uncomfortable bed) can make them lose sleep.
- The standard eight-hour business day is no longer the norm in America. NSF's 2008 Sleep in America poll reports the average American's work day is now nine hours and 28 minutes.
- The average time spent in bed is six hours and 55 minutes - with six hours and 40 minutes spent actually sleeping. NSF recommends getting at least seven to nine hours of sleep each night
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Several product tests were conducted on the Sleep Number Memory Foam™ Bed including: durability, temperature, ease of movement, comfort, and pressure point relief.
Durability and Pressure-point Relief - Changes in the body create changes in areas of pressure that can disrupt the quality of a person's sleep. In a recent in-home study conducted by Select Comfort among current memory foam bed owners, 81 percent agreed that being able to adjust the firmness (Sleep Number setting) of their memory foam bed enhanced their overall comfort.
Over time memory foam can lose its firmness and shape. In a test simulating 2.5 years of wear, a leading memory foam bed lost more than 50 percent of its supportive firmness. In the same test, the Sleep Number Memory Foam™ Bed lost only 2 percent of its supportive firmness.
Temperature - Other memory foam beds tend to sleep hot due to the dense material that doesn't allow optimal air circulation. In fact, the thicker the memory foam, the more it will naturally retain heat. However, in the same in-home study conducted by Select Comfort, two-thirds of the participants rated the sleeping temperature of the Sleep Number Memory Foam™ Bed as "just right." The combination of air chambers and a carefully chosen amount of foam in the Sleep Number Memory Foam™ Bed allows for increased natural air circulation. The mattress is covered with a knitted fabric to further enhance breathability of the bed and help ensure a comfortable night of sleep.
Ease of Movement -Memory foam bed owners say that not being able to feel their partner move in bed is a key benefit. However, the same memory foam that also inhibits sleeping partners from feeling the other's movement can also make it difficult to move at all during the night. In the same study, 85 percent of participants gave high ratings of "excellent" and "very good" regarding ease of movement on the Sleep Number Memory Foam™ bed.
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Founded more than 20 years ago, Select Comfort Corporation is the nation's leading bed retailer. Based in Minneapolis, the company designs, manufactures, markets and supports a line of adjustable-firmness mattresses featuring air-chamber technology, branded the Sleep Number bed, as well as foundations and sleep accessories. Select Comfort products are sold through its more than 400 company-owned stores located across the United States; select bedding retailers; direct marketing operations; and online at www.sleepnumber.com. To learn more about the Sleep Number bed, visit www.sleepnumber.com or www.beds.com


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Heres some Penis Envy mushrooms swim grew a while ago. These mofos are extremely POTENT!!!!!! From what i understand Terrence Mckenna produced this strain, and the shroom fairy was nice enough to hook swim up with some liquid culture (these shrooms do not produce spores, they need to be propagated by means of cloning or liquid culture, or from some source of live mycelieum.) 1.5 grams dried is equal to 3.5 grams of dried regular cubensis. This grow (6 trays like this one) netted swim about a pound of dried mushies.
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