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CDs and Books
Cars, Boats, Trains, Planes [Cassette]
A Digitally Mastered Kidsongs® Music Product with all the lyrics included.
A fun collection with a song about everything that goes! Includes "Row, Row, Row, Your Boat", "I've Been Working on the Railroad" and a dozen more.Learn More$9.98
A Day at Old MacDonald's Farm [CD + Songbook]
Everything you need to make singing fun for Kids!Learn More
Each song book has the sheet music and lyrics PLUS a CD of 18 favorite Kidsongs®.The sheet music can be used with any instrument and the lyrics appear separately in a large format type, to encourage young readers to sing along.$12.98


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Common Sense: Solving the world's problems, one truck bed at a time
By Brent Davis, editor of The Saline Courier
"What is your platform?" asked the beauty contest host of a pageant finalist. "I want to see world peace and an end to hunger around the world." came the response. With all due respect for beauty pageants, contestants or hosts, this particular venue is not the think tank that it appears. World problems are not solved at pageants.
They are solved around the beds of pickup trucks.
When I was growing up way back in a year I don't even want to mention because it makes me feel old, there was one ritual held at every family gathering. At some point, usually before and oftentimes after any meal, the men of the family would go outside and stand around the bed of the nearest pickup truck. To the uninitiated, it might not appear as if anything of importance was happening other than men standing in around. In fact, a quick glance would even give the impression that a conversation was being held. Looks can be very deceiving.
Here is a typical list of topics. Congress. Democrats. Republicans. Razorbacks. Local sports teams (when my extended family gathered, the Bauxite Miners were at the top of the list).
There weren't too many disagreements.
Wars could be ended by dropping the bomb, which, by the way, would bring about world peace. Congress spends way too much of our tax money. The Miners losing streak could be ended if they ran the ball up the middle more.
Matters of such weighty importance weren't always the most pressing issue of the day. More often than not, an ice chest full of fish just pulled from the river would lead the discussion toward choice of bait, time of day and location. Styrofoam spit cups sat on the rails or the rear tire hump.
I'm not sure these types of male-bonding moments exist like they used to. It's a shame.
Maybe there's an app for it?

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The River Café's Strawberry Sorbet
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Author Notes: A genius recipe from the London River Cafe Cook Book by Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray. —Genius Recipes
Makes: 1 1/2 quarts
Prep time: 45 min
lemons, 1 seeded and roughly chopped and the others juiced
cups sugar
pounds strawberries, hulled
- Place the chopped lemon and sugar in a food processor, and pulse until combined. Transfer to a bowl.
- Purée the strawberries in a food processor, and add to the lemon mixture, along with the juice of 1 lemon. Taste and add more juice as desired. The lemon flavor should be intense but should not overpower the strawberries. Pour the mixture into an ice cream machine and churn until frozen.
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Isthmus Be My Lucky Day
The kids live in a boarding school, where they're brow-beaten by the ghastly old matron. But in school, they're taught by gentle, lovable Old Cap.
Cap to Uh-Huh: "Uh-Huh, can you use the word "Isthmus" in a sentence?"
Uh-Huh answers: "Uh-huhhhhh…Isthmus be my lucky day!" (John Collum as Uh-Huh (appeared from 1932-1938) – b. 06/29/1926; d. 08/28/1962.)


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Penn Law Professor Theodore Ruger comments on SCOTUS affirmative action case
When the Supreme Court hears oral arguments today in the closely watched affirmative-action case Fisher v. University of Texas, a key issue facing the justices is whether to follow or overrule recent precedent, according to University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Theodore Ruger, who filed an amicus brief in the case.
Ruger, a constitutional expert whose brief on behalf of college basketball coaches defended affirmative action in higher education, offered the following commentary:
"Less than a decade ago, the Supreme Court in Grutter purported to resolve for at least a generation going forward the crucial question of whether universities can retain the freedom to make their own admissions decisions about individual applicants whose personal backgrounds contribute to overall campus diversity. In so ruling the Court also recognized the compelling and enduring societal gains that we all share from developing a diverse cohort of future leaders. The Fisher case should be an easy one based on existing precedent, and result in affirmance of the lower court and the constitutionality of the University of Texas admissions policy. But there is a possibility that some Justices on the current Court will use this case as an opportunity to overrule recent precedent and impose new restrictions on university discretion."
The case being argued today was brought by Abigail Fisher, a white woman who says that her race was held against her when she was turned down for admission to the University of Texas four years ago. The university maintains that it should be free to consider race in assembling a diverse student body, as part of its academic and societal mission. The Supreme Court endorsed that view by a 5-4 decsion in 2003 in the case Grutter v. Bollinger involving admissions to the University of Michigan Law School.


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UC Hastings Professors Robin Feldman, Elizabeth L. Hillman, and Joan C. Williams chose to explore hot-button topics in their fields long before those issues became trendy. These professors are just three of the many UC Hastings scholars who have earned stellar reputations for having their fingers on the pulse of what's coursing through society.
Credit UC Hastings' academic culture, which fosters thoroughly researched work, vetted by colleagues, that espouses novel legal theories. Spanning every discipline, scholarship at UC Hastings infuses public debate and often translates into policy changes adopted by legislative and regulatory bodies.
Research by Feldman, Hillman, and Williams has triggered changes in legislation and rule making across agencies as diverse as the Departments of Justice, Defense, and Labor. The professors' scholarly work in the fields of intellectual property, military violence, and work-life balance has been published in world-class law reviews and cited in court briefs; it has also reached mainstream audiences through blog posts and op-ed pieces.
Robin Feldman: Shaping Intellectual Property Policies
In the last year, intellectual property and patent law expert Robin Feldman published no fewer than seven full-length law review articles, a book for Harvard University Press, and a book chapter for Stanford University Press, as well as commentaries for publications like the Boston Globe and SCOTUSblog.
But Feldman is more than a prolific writer. She also presented her work to government bodies such as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the Federal Trade Commission, and the California Assembly Select Committee on Privacy. The Department of Justice solicited her 90-page "Intellectual Property Wrongs" article as a public comment, and the California Attorney General's Office co-sponsored an event for start-ups with the Privacy and Technology Project, of which Feldman is co-director. In the fall, Feldman appeared at a DOJ/FTC workshop at which her empirical work on patent trolls was discussed prominently.
It's not surprising that Feldman's scholarship has been instrumental in policymaking. Her 2012 Stanford Technology Law Review article, "The Giants Among Us," received considerable media attention and favorable reviews; technology historian George Dyson told the Chronicle of Higher Education that it was one of the best articles he had read all year. Since the article's publication, the discussion of patent trolls has taken off exponentially. In June 2013, the White House released a comprehensive report on the topic, along with a series of executive orders and recommendations for Congress, which cited Feldman's empirical studies. Her work was also cited in a speech in June by FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez, calling for the FTC to initiate a broad-ranging investigation into patent assertion.
Similarly, Feldman's article in Duke Law & Technology Review, "The America Invents Act 500: Effects of Patent Monetization Entities on U.S. Litigation," was one of the most downloaded articles on the Social Science Research Network and was covered by dozens of news outlets.
"Academics are in an unusual position," Feldman says. "We have the time to step back and look broadly at our own fields, as opposed to practicing lawyers or regulators, who may be driven by the insistent demands of what comes before them." To determine topics for study, Feldman asks, "Where are the problems coming from? What are the solutions? What information is needed to make intelligent choices?"
In fact, these are the goals that animate the Institute for Innovation Law, which was founded this spring by Feldman and includes 10 faculty members. The institute focuses on "data-driven law making" and "implementable solutions," she says.
She's now studying patent troll data beyond lawsuits. "I've always felt that patent lawsuits are the tip of the iceberg. I am looking at the shape and quality of the rest of the iceberg."
Read more from UC Hastings magazine here.


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Campaign 2004 is in its final frantic hours as these words are being written, but deadlines being what they arethe bane of the bellowing pontificatoryou'll be reading this after the results are known. Then again, maybe not. Maybe you're as clueless as I am as I write, although that would take some doing. In any case, many observers are predicting that we may be in for a repeat of 2000, with Election Day a mere prelude to days if not weeks of recounts and legal wrangling. In the days leading up to Nov. 2, hundreds of lawyers from both parties were deployed in battleground states, ready to turn the act of voting into a case worthy of a television courtroom drama.
So, I ask again, is it over yet?
Whether the counting is finished or is continuing, the campaign clearly is over. No doubt you will have read commentaries suggesting that, as always, the candidates told us little, the issues were not debated, and that the media performed its usual disservice by focusing only on the horse race and not the real concerns of the American people.
None of those arguments, as it happens, is true.
While Campaign '04 was not without its share of palaver and vacuous rhetoric, it is worth remembering that the fortunes of the two candidates turned not on silly accusations or reckless television advertisements but on civilized debate. Imagine that!
Regardless of which candidate won (or hasn't quite won yet), the three presidential debates this year will be remembered as the most significant event of the campaign. Sixty-four million Americans watched the first debate, a record number. Minds were changed that night. And minds were changed after the following debates.
John Kerry was the consensus winner of the debates, but President Bush did make a comeback after a poor performance in the first session. It's a cliché, but it's true: The real winners were American voters who were yearning to hear the candidates in their own words, unscripted (though stuffed with rehearsed jabs) and unfiltered.
The attention paid to this year's debates tells us that Americans remain interested in hearing both sides of the issues, which speaks to a certain admirable doggedness on their part. After all, genuine debate is on the verge of disappearing in the medium from which most Americans get their newstelevision.
Among the several insights to be gleaned from Campaign '04 is the extent to which many politically active Americansas opposed to average citizenshave closed their minds to dissenting opinions. For them, the tone of the campaign was established not by the candidates but by their partisans in the press or on cable television. Many of the millions who watch Fox News at night, for example, clearly are not as interested in information as they are in hearing their opinions affirmed; likewise many of those who swear by what they read in The Nation.
The success of the Fox News formulapartisan commentators heaping venom on their fellow Americans who happen to have different political opinionshas led television producers to offer more of the same. (That should come as little surprise. It was the humorist Fred Allen, who died when the medium was in its infancy, who said that imitation was the sincerest form of television.) As a result, political discussion in its most public form now consists of rabid partisans snarling at each other and spewing the party line of the day. Egregious conduct is rewarded, slander is mistaken for passion and vulgarity for wit, and in millions of living rooms, viewers cheer for their side and libel the other. George W. Bush is not especially fluent in his native tongue, and John Kerry's sentences defy diagrams; but they sounded like modern Ciceros compared with standard political fare on television.
Who are these people who grab the remote every night and eagerly tune into CNN's Crossfire or The O'Reilly Factor on Fox? I don't know anybody who does, and that should not be surprising. In fact, the audience for these shows is pathetically small, a few million in a country of more than 280 million. That does not mean that voters who shun CNN or Fox in favor of a sitcom or ESPN (or a book, or this gift called life) are disengaged from politics. Rather, it means they long for real discussion and not verbal gladiator matches.
In that sense, then, the system worked during Campaign '04. I believe voters went to the polls better informed than ever before. No doubt some people voted for George Bush because, despite all the evidence, they believe Iraq had something to do with 9/11. No doubt some people voted for John Kerry because they believe Michael Moore's assertion that we went to war in Afghanistan not to punish terrorists but to control a pipeline. These voters are not necessarily advertisements for an informed citizenry.
But such people are small in number, just like the audiences for political food fights. And they tend to be the most partisan voters, people who dismiss those who disagree with their views as unintelligent, even though they themselves often vote out of reflex, not reflection.
For the rest of America, Campaign '04 showed that most voters simply wish to hear the candidates in their own words, without filters and without spin.
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Release date: 14 April 1978
Tracks: (Click for codes to singles charts.) Grease (FRANKIE VALLI) (5/27/78, #1 US, #3 UK, #13 AC, #40 RB, sales: 1.0 m) / Summer Nights (OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN / JOHN TRAVOLTA / CAST) (8/5/78, #5 US, #1 UK, #21 AC, sales: 0.5 m) / Hopelessly Devoted to You (OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN) (7/8/78, #3 US, #2 UK, #7 AC, #20 CW, sales: 0.5 m) / You're the One That I Want (OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN / JOHN TRAVOLTA) (4/1/78, #1 US, #1 UK, #23 AC, sales: 1.0 m) / Sandy (JOHN TRAVOLTA) (10/7/78, #2 UK) / Beauty School Dropout (FRANKIE AVALON) / Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee (STOCKARD CHANNING) / Greased Lightnin' (JOHN TRAVOLTA) (9/30/78, #47 US, #11 UK) / It's Raining on Prom Night (CINDY BULLENS) / Alone at a Drive-in Movie (BILL OAKES) / Blue Moon (SHA NA NA) / Rock & Roll Is Here to Stay (SHA NA NA) / Those Magic Changes (SHA NA NA) / Hound Dog (SHA NA NA) / Born to Hand Jive (SHA NA NA) / Tears on My Pillow (SHA NA NA) / Mooning (LOUIS SAINT LOUIS / CINDY BULLENS) / Freddy, My Love (CINDY BULLENS) / Rock & Roll Party Queen (LOUIS SAINT LOUIS) / Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee (OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN) / We Go Together (OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN / JOHN TRAVOLTA) / Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (BILL OAKES) / Grease (FRANKIE VALLI)
Sales (in millions): 14.0 US, 2.37 UK, 40.4 world
Peak: 112 US, 1 13 UK
Review: "Grease will always be the word for hopelessly devoted generations of girls who wore out their record players partying with their own Pink Ladies to this soundtrack." ZS The "high-camp classic" ZS whisked listeners away "to the '50s teeny-bopper days" ZS by boasting "summer-loving hits that will be on karaoke playlists until the end of time." ZS
"The movie is a 1970s take on 1950s musicals, providing all the kitsch anyone could hope for." AZ "Grease was a huge success as a Broadway musical prior to hitting the big screen in 1978. That was the version that transformed Grease into a phenomenon – it was a runaway box office success, and then became a TV, cable, and video favorite." AMG
The soundtrack, the sixth best-selling of all time, WK "rivaled its film counterpart as a pop culture perennial, and it's not hard to see why – its good-natured pastiche of doo wop and early rock & roll is infectious and charming, due in no small part to John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John's charismatic, engaging performances." AMG
You're the One That I Want
They actually only appear on 7 of the 24 tracks on the album, but "they sing the majority of the originals… which were the reason why the film and soundtrack became blockbusters." AMG The pair duet on You're the One That I Want and sing with the cast on Summer Nights. Both sangs hit #1 in the UK and rank in the 20 best-selling singles of all-time in the UK. WK
Summer Nights
Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta took solo turns on Hopelessly Devoted to You and Sandy respectively. They were also hugely successful in the UK, both hitting #2. The former was a #3 hit in the US as well.
Hopelessly Devoted to You
Songs by other cast members include Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee, in which "actress Stockard Channing struts her, um, versatility." AZ The rest of the soundtrack is filled out by "workmanlike performances" AMG of 1950s' chestnuts from Sha Na Na. While they are "over-represented," AZ the soundtrack's original songs, which "hold up better than the '50s tunes," AMG "are so giddily enjoyable…that everything works." AMG
'50s heartthrob Frankie Valli sings the title song, written by Bee Gee Barry Gibb, fresh from his success from Saturday Night Fever. In that movie, Travolta became an internationally-known star strutting his disco white-suit-wearing stuff to four chart-topping songs penned by Gibb. In Grease, Travolta strutted his jeans-and-T-shirt-wearing stuff while dancing with Olivia Newton-John – and four more top five US hits.
This soundtrack bears several interesting connections to that one. Only three weeks after Fever ended its six-month residency at the top of the US charts, the Grease soundtrack moved in for a summer-long stay. Fever was the best-selling album of 1977; Grease held the title for 1978. Both rank in the all-time top 100 worldwide best-selling albums with estimates as high as 40 million. Both soundtracks are also in the DMDB's list of the top 50 soundtracks and rank amongst the biggest #1 albums in U.S. and U.K. chart history. Both albums are also in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame/NARM's Definitive Albums list.
"The sleek pop production the movie's soundtrack boasts and the cast's enthusiastic performances go a long way in making this Grease the definitive Grease." AMG "This has become a touchstone in American culture." AZ
Resources and Related Links:
- Olivia Newton-John's DMDB Encyclopedia entry
- John Travolta's DMDB Encyclopedia entry
- album page on DMDB website (even more in-depth look at album)
- AMG All Music Guide review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
- AZ Amazon.com review by Scott Wilson
- WK Wikipedia
- ZS Zagat Survey (2003). Music Guide: 1,000 Top Albums of All Time. Coordinator: Pat Blashill. Music Editor: Holly George-Warren. Editors: Betsy Andrews and Randi Gollin. Zagat Survey, LLC: New York, NY. Page 115.


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After Hitler became chancellor of Germany, he persuaded his cabinet to declare a state of emergency and end many individual freedoms. Here, police search a vehicle for arms. Berlin, Germany, February 27, 1933.
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A total of $405 in reparations was awarded to victims of violent crime in Lonoke County last month, according to a news release from Attorney General Dustin McDaniel.
The amount was associated with one case, according to the release.
Statewide, $370,164 was paid to victims of crime in June. That represents 139 new cases, as well as additional expenses that were paid in 46 previously submitted cases.
Crime victims in Arkansas are eligible for reparations to assist in payment of unexpected expenses such as medical treatment and mental-health counseling. Compensation is also available for lost wages and replacement services. The Attorney General's Office administers the state's Crime Victims Reparations Program.
The Crime Victims Reparations Board determines which claims are eligible for payment and how much money will be awarded to each claimant. Though most awards are limited to $10,000 or less, the maximum award can be as high as $25,000 for crime victims who receive catastrophic injuries.
The Crime Victims Reparations Program was established by the General Assembly in 1987. The program is funded by court costs and fees, as well as fines imposed on convicted criminals.
In 2012, the Crime Victims Reparations Board awarded a total of $3,930,971.02 in reparations.


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This year's All Japan Micromouse Contest has seen a mouse beat the 5 second barrier. The micromouse event pitches small robot mice against a 16x16 expert-class maze. Robot mice have to be completely autonomous and get a total of five runs of the maze. If things go as planned, the mouse will map the entire maze and figure out the fastest path in its first run. Once it knows the maze it makes speed runs to try to get from start to finish in the minimum time without crashing. The new record was set by Kato-san's blazingly fast TETRA micro-mouse using a highly unusual design with four wheels, each with their own servo motor.
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Sly Boots wrote: I even remember my and my mate at primary school trying to make our own version, lots of fun.
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Billion Oyster Project is proud to host the 15th Anniversary Celebration of the New York Harbor School. Join us October 11!
Special thanks to Whole Foods Market as Billion Oyster Project's Premier Waterfront Supporter. Volunteer to help heal NY Harbor.
Middle school students all across New York City are learning to care for the estuary by growing small populations of oysters and monitoring changes in water quality. Find out how YOUR SCHOOL can get involved in this estuary-wide science project and stewardship effort...
Harbor School is the production hub for the BOP. Harbor School's hatchery grows more than 10 million oysters annually and its students are the scuba divers, marine biologists, vessel operators, underwater engineers, and marine technicians that sustain the Project and its many initiatives.
BOP wants YOU! Large-scale restoration is impossible without community support. Join us for a volunteer day where you can build reef structures, help maintain our nurseries and monitor oyster reefs across NYC!
Welcome to NYC's first and only Oyster Shell Collection Program. This program turns thousands of pounds of would-be waste into a value-added ecological resource for our Harbor. Find out how your restaurant can get involved.
Restoration is a community effort! Join us for Fridays on Governors Island to build and install oyster reefs, monitor water quality, learn about NY Harbor, and much more. All ages welcome! Learn more about how you can bring BOP to your community with local restoration, outreach, fundraising, and special events.
BOP middle schools are satellite campuses for oyster restoration. They adopt and install Oyster Restoration Stations, then take monthly trips to their site to measure oyster growth, water quality, and biodiversity of the harbor. Their data is shared with schools and scientists around the region to help improve our local knowledge of restoration.
Restaurants play a crucial role by donating spent shells to BOP's aquaculture program. NYC restaurants currently throw away about 500,000 shells per week, most of which end up in distant landfills. BOP collects this valuable resource to create growing medium for oysters and building blocks of new reefs.
When Henry Hudson entered New York Harbor in 1609, he had to navigate the Half Moon around 220,000 acres of oyster reefs, which had sustained the local Lenape people for generations. The pristine estuary, with oysters at the base, hosted thousands of associated species and was one the most biologically productive, diverse, and dynamic environments on the planet.
By 1906, New Yorkers had eaten every last oyster, reefs were dredged up or covered in silt, and the water quality was too poor for regeneration of oysters or anything else for that matter (not even the hardy boring worm which eats into wooden pilings and ship bottoms). The Harbor was toxic and nearly lifeless for more than 50 years until the passage of the Clean Water Act in which prohibited dumping of waste and raw sewage into the Harbor.
At the turn of the 21st century, thanks to environmental laws like the Clean Water Act, water quality improved so that conditions were finally ripe for large-scale restoration and the Billion Oyster Project was launched.
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What can I expect during Slime Rancher's Early Access period?
We realize that a lot of developers have structured their Early Access in different ways so we would like to ensure you know what to expect with Slime Rancher's Early Access:
Slime Rancher will receive two different kinds of updates throughout its Early Access development: minor patches and content updates.
Minor patches will generally fix bugs and make other minor adjustments and changes to ensure the current Early Access build of Slime Rancher is fun and stable. Minor patches will always be identified by the third number in our version numbers. Example: 0.2.2, 0.2.3, etc
Should we need to do a quick, impromptu patch, it would be denoted with a letter. Example: a quick patch to 0.2.3 would be 0.2.3b
Content updates are more significant updates to the game that may include: new slimes, new areas to explore, and other new game features. Content updates will always be identified by the second number in our version numbers. Example: 0.3.0, 0.4.0, etc.
(And a quick note regarding version numbers in case you're not familiar with them: they will not necessarily 'add up' to 1.0.0. In other words, Slime Rancher could jump from v0.5.0 right to v1.0.0, or it could even go up to v0.34.0 if needed before jumping to v1.0.0)
Because we don't want players getting burned out waiting for new content, we'll be sure to make an announcement when new content updates are made available. Simply sign up for our newsletter and we'll mail you when something has been added worth checking out. In the meantime, feel free to play other awesome games or explore the Not-So-Far Range in your own backyard!
We're setting these expectations because Monomi Park is a small, independent developer. And while we think Slime Rancher is shaping up to be a great game, content takes time to build and we want to ensure everyone knows what to expect as they embark on this journey with us.
Is there a development roadmap?
Yes, a broad development roadmap can be found here.
Please note that this roadmap is subject to change.
How can I contact support?
Please send support requests to firstname.lastname@example.com and one of our Monomi Park support agents will be happy to assist you. Please provide as much detail about your issue as possible!
I found a bug in Slime Rancher, how can I report it?
Press F2 in game to submit a bug report. Be as descriptive as possible with your report so we can try to reproduce it. If you cannot start the game in order to use the in-game bug reporting mechanism, you can instead email email@example.com.
I purchased Slime Rancher from the official site, where is my Steam key?
Visit https://www.humblebundle.com/home/purchases and select 'Slime Rancher.' Your Steam key will be available along with download links for the latest DRM-free version of Slime Rancher.
Does the DRM-free version of Slime Rancher auto-update?
No, in order to update the DRM-free version of Slime Rancher you need to re-download the game. However if you use your Steam key, the Steam version does auto-update.
Will Slime Rancher support other languages?
Slime Rancher currently supports English, German, French, Spanish, and Russian, with more planned for the future.
Will game saves be wiped at any point during development?
Our intention is to never wipe saves or make them incompatible with previous versions of Slime Rancher. While it is possible that given the unpredictable nature of game development a situation may arise that could affect save files, we will do everything possible in order to prevent it.
Is Slime Rancher coming to consoles?
Slime Rancher is available now for Xbox One!
Will Slime Rancher support multiplayer?
Since we're seeing a lot of requests for a multiplayer feature from all our new (and awesome/handsome/beautiful) players, we thought it would be a good idea to address it.
Most of Slime Rancher's development was done by two people (we're four now, thanks to your support!) so a lot of decisions were made early on to allow two developers to make a game in a realistic timeframe. One of those decisions was multiplayer vs singleplayer.
Multiplayer is inherently more complicated and time-consuming to develop. And the hundreds of physics-enabled slimes bouncing around on screen needing to be in sync across two or more clients is a fantastically difficult problem to solve. So we decided to focus on solid single player experience.
For this reason we currently have no plans for multiplayer. However, anything is possible in the future if we continue to see the same level of wonderful support from players as we do now. So thanks for everything so far!
So in short, multiplayer is not ruled out, but we can't promise it either. And it is worth restating that multiplayer with all of the physics in SR is a very hard problem. SR is a very unconventional game and multiplayer support would require a very creative solution.
I have a great idea for a feature in Slime Rancher, where can I post it?
You can share your ideas, give feedback and more on our official forums.
Can I stream or make videos of Slime Rancher?
You are free to stream or create videos of Slime Rancher. You are also free to monetize your videos in all the standard forms of video monetization. You are, however, prohibited from selling your video footage to third parties, etc.
We would also really appreciate links to where your viewers can purchase Slime Rancher, like our Steam page.
Will the Xbox One version of Slime Rancher support Xbox achievements?
Xbox achievements will be enabled after Slime Rancher leaves Game Preview. At that time, all achievements earned in-game will instantly become Xbox achievements!
Are the PC and Xbox One versions of Slime Rancher the same?
Yes, our aim is to keep both versions in sync. However, at any given time there may be a few days difference during Xbox build certification.
Can I mod Slime Rancher with modding tools?
Though we may support modding one day in an official capacity, we are currently focused on delivering the game we've planned for our players. So our stance on modding at Monomi Park is that there is no official means to mod Slime Rancher at this time and we do not officially support it. You are free to do it on your own, but we are under no obligation to support you in doing so or any issues you encounter with your altered game. This bears repeating: by modding your game you may be forfeiting support from Monomi Park if you experience technical issues.
The reason for this is we have little way of knowing what was done to your game and cannot use development time attempting to solve it. Monomi Park is a small studio and there are no resources available to assist you with a modded game.
Additionally any mods that are used to simply access unreleased content is very much frowned upon. We're working very hard to deliver exciting content updates to our players and distributing mods that allow access to incomplete versions of this content is bad for us and for players waiting patiently for it.
It is also worth stressing to those who are unfamiliar with modding that any mod runs the risk of destroying your game state, can include security risks to your computer and data, and has the chance of not functioning with future game updates.
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The fns 9 is my first hand gun. i know ill need to clean it before shooting (according to the manual). And there is a kind of break in period to smooth out the trigger. Honestly my trigger does not seem to bad anyway)
What else should i know about the maintenance?
First hand gun, now what?
Discuss the FN Handgun lineup; the High Power, FNP, and FNX line.
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Clean & lube are the only real maintenance things you need to worry about. If anything else comes up (ie loose sight), I'd suggest taking it to a gunsmith until you are more experienced.
One word on the lube, there is such thing as too much oil. Oil where the manual says to but do so sparingly.
One word on the lube, there is such thing as too much oil. Oil where the manual says to but do so sparingly.
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Clean, oil and enjoy shooting. I picked up the FNS40 a month or so ago and love shooting it.
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might be a good idea to take some type of firearms safety class, good investment and money well spent. if you don't have any experience with firearms a class is a good idea to avoid developing bad habits.
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Have you enjoyed it? Were you able to acquire newer handguns?
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Sen. Gillibrand and GOP challenger Long debate
(AP) - Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Republican challenger Wendy Long traded barbs over the economy, abortion and natural gas exploration in a sometimes heated debate Wednesday night.
Gillibrand, far ahead of Long in the polls, fundraising and name recognition, has barely mentioned her Republican opponent. In contrast, Long has persistently attacked Gillibrand's record on the campaign trail. She finally got her chance to confront Gillibrand face-to-face at the debate televised from Skidmore College.
At one point, Long accused Gillibrand of doing nothing to create jobs in upstate New York.
"As I go around upstate, I see towns with empty storefronts, factories that have been shuttered paint peeling off of buildings and people desperate for work," Long said.
Gillibrand stood by her three-year record in the Senate over the hour-long debate, and hit Long back on her pledge to not raise taxes to balance the federal budget.
"We can tighten our belts. We can cut spending," Gillibrand said, "but we have to do it precisely and carefully. We cannot have a slash-only approach, like my opponent has."
Long, a New York City attorney making her first run for elected office, won a three-way Republican primary in June after campaigning on fiscal discipline, opposition to abortion and other conservative positions. Sharp distinctions were apparent Wednesday between Long and Gillibrand, who has championed same-sex marriage and women's rights.
In one of the most animated exchanges, Long spoke against the mandate that President Barack Obama announced in January requiring most employers to provide health insurance that covers birth control, a move opposed by many Roman Catholic groups.
"If I'm just a private person with a business, and I have faith that tells me that abortion, sterilization and contraception are evil, will I be forced to buy such a plan, to offer it to my employees?" Long asked.
Gillibrand countered that there is a movement to undermine women's basic rights.
"To say that's evil shows disregard for the ability of a woman to make that personal life-and-death decision about her own body," Gillibrand said.
The two candidates also argued over whether to allow the development of upstate New York's shale gas formations by hydraulic fracturing - or "hydro-fracking" - which is now being considered by the Cuomo administration.
Gillibrand said natural gas exploration could be an economic boon, but first it has to be determined if the chemicals used in the process threaten drinking water. Long was full-throated in support of development.
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Gillibrand is facing voters for the second time in two years after being tapped in 2009 to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton, who became U.S. secretary of state. Gillibrand won the right to finish out the final two years of Clinton's old term in 2010. This time, Gillibrand and Long are running for a full six-year term.
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The housing market heated up in May with double-digit increases in sales over last year at the local, state and national levels, including a 31 percent jump in sales in Alachua County.
The housing market heated up in May with double-digit increases in sales over last year at the local, state and national levels, including a 31 percent jump in sales in Alachua County.
Closings of single-family existing homes jumped to 236 from 180 in May 2012, according to the Gainesville Multiple Listings Service. The median sales price rose 9 percent to $180,500 from $165,450 a year ago.
Realtors are seeing an increase in homes getting multiple offers, sometimes leading to sales prices well above the original listing prices, said Greta Rice, president of the Gainesville-Alachua County Association of Realtors.
"We hadn't seen that since 2006," said Rice, who is also a broker at Tioga Realty.
Traditional sales, as opposed to short sales and foreclosures, were up 41 percent to 177, while the median price for traditional sales was up 10 percent to $210,000 from $191,500 a year ago.
The number of short sales dropped to 16 from 22 a year ago, while foreclosure sales rose to 43 from 32 a year ago. Rice said local Realtors have interpreted that to mean that with prices stabilizing, banks would rather put a little money into a home and put it back on the market to cover their loss instead of having it sit as a short sale.
Nationwide, short sales were on the market for a median of 79 days compared with 43 days for foreclosure sales in May, according to the National Association of Realtors.
Statewide, sales were up 19 percent in May over the prior year, and the median sale price was up 16 percent to $171,000 from $147,500. U.S. sales of single-family homes were up 13 percent over the year and the median price up 17 percent to $208,700.
Florida Realtors President Dean Asher of Orlando said the momentum is prompting many people to list their properties for sale.
New listings increased 10 percent statewide in May and in Alachua County were up 30 percent.
Sales still outpaced new listings locally, dropping the total inventory of houses for sale 15 percent to a 7.6-month supply from an 11-month supply last year.
Rice said Realtors have been cautioned by appraisers that values are going up so quickly that appraisals might not keep up and will come in lower than sales prices.
Condominium and townhouse sales in Alachua County dropped 7 percent in May to 67 from 72 in May 2012, while the median sales price was up 13 percent to $72,000 from $64,000. It was still the highest total since June 2012, when 76 condos sold.
Statewide condo sales were up 12 percent in May, and the median sale price up 13 percent to $128,000 from $113,275 a year ago.


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Hi there, im a owner of a Frontera 2.8TDI 5 door from 1996.
I had it for a year now and i just love it!
Im Hugo and im from Lisboa , Portugal im , 31, and i work in advertising.
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Hello Hugo and welcome to fog. Nice to see a 2.8 surviving in another part of the world.
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In August, Kevin Smith said he was going to split his final film, Hit Somebody, into two movies. But it appears he couldn't stop splitting and the next thing he knew, he didn't have a movie anymore but a miniseries. This left a vacancy in his "final film" slot, until today, when he tweeted: "So with the HIT SOMEBODY shift, the minute Jeff Anderson signs on, my last cinematic effort as a writer/director will be CLERKS III. #TaDa" Ultimately, Smith's legacy is tied to the films inside that universe, so this sounds like a perfect last hoorah. Snooch to the nooch.


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The engineering enterprise is a pillar of U.S. national and homeland security, economic vitality, and innovation. But many engineering tasks can now be performed anywhere in the world. The emergence of qoffshoringq- the transfer of work from the United States to affiliated and unaffiliated entities abroad - has raised concerns about the impacts of globalization. The Offshoring of Engineering helps to answer many questions about the scope, composition, and motivation for offshoring and considers the implications for the future of U.S. engineering practice, labor markets, education, and research. This book examines trends and impacts from a broad perspective and in six specific industries - software, semiconductors, personal computer manufacturing, construction engineering and services, automobiles, and pharmaceuticals. The Offshoring of Engineering will be of great interest to engineers, engineering professors and deans, and policy makers, as well as people outside the engineering community who are concerned with sustaining and strengthening U.S. engineering capabilities in support of homeland security, economic vitality, and innovation.Most IIS graduates and most research were directed toward the public sector, but some indirectly supported Bangalorea#39;s development in software. ... Interestingly, TNCs initially focused on programming only, which was the approach adopted by domestic firms. ... Work in Indian Software Exports Financial Year 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 (E) CAD and AM ($ billions) 3.65 4.40 4.87 5.98 7.67 10.16anbsp;...
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That's all the time left for this year's NFL Draft. What are you looking forward to? Who do you want your favorite team(s) to draft?
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1. Colts, Andrew Luck
2. Redskins, Robert Griffin III
3. Vikings, Matt Kalil
4. Browns, Trent Richardson
5. Buccaneers, Morris Claiborne
Complete draft order: http://espn.go.com/n...ven-round-order
You can check mocks at various sites.
Personally, I hope Trent is still available at 5 so my Bucs can take him. Don't be surprised if the Vikings pass on Kalil and draft Richardson or a corner like Claiborne...or they may even trade down. The first two picks are pretty much locks.
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Sunflowers stand out!
There is absolutely nothing as beautiful and as showy as one single sunflower... except a whole field of hundreds of flowering Sunflowers right here in Oktibbeha County, Starkville, Mississippi State University. Sunflowers are like people cause "sunflowers stand out!'
What is a sunflower? "A sunflower is any of several plants whose flowers turn towards the sun. Rare, the heliotrope, Heliotropium eruopaeum. (A flowering steam of) any of various North American plants constituting the genus Helianthus, of the composite family, having conspicuous yellow-rayed flowerheads suggesting a representative of the sun: H.dnmus, a tall-growing plant commonly cultivated for its very large showy flowers and oily seeds. Any of various yellow-rayed plants of the composite family resembling a helianthus. Any of the various plants... opens only in the sunshine or in the daylight."
The sunflower state is Kansas. The sunflower reminds me of the finest of all individuals, and when you see a whole field of sunflowers slightly blowing in the breeze each one seems to stand out as one fine person or one human being! The two words, sun flower are certainly two words put together to make this one majestic word, SUNFLOWER!
What is a flower? It is the state of being in bloom. A flower comes into being a flower when it blossoms and blooms. A field of sunflowers suddenly seem very collectively flowery!
From a distance as you drive along the roadside and spot a whole field of sunflowers, you immediately turn and see the bright color of yellow which is such a warm and cheerful color that makes you suddenly very happy! Your mouth turns up and you have to smile, cause each and every sunflower in that field, waving leaves as if they were hands and each blossom blooming is a beautiful face!
You can almost hear each of the hundreds and thousands of sunflowers whispering to you, "Have a great sunflower day...today!"
Each Sunflower is flamboyant which is gorgeously flamed colored (hot like a flame from fire—yellow and orange) like individuals, human beings we all know and love whose personalities and behaviors are ostentatious and showy.
Each sunflower has a flamboyancy about its very being when it fully blooms and blossoms, and in the end of their lives... they simply "go to seed!"
We each are just merely a SUNFLOWER ...we live, we breathe, we love and enjoy life to its fullest and in the end of our lives we "go to seed!" or "go to pot!" and "we play out too!" Birth, life, and death!
It was years ago, on May 14, 1997, that I headed downtown, Main Street, turning on the side heading to North Jackson Street right beside now, Cadence Bank on past Starkville Discount Drugs on the other side, and pulled into place called East Street Coffeatery. There right in front of this cute little new coffee shop stood an outstanding sunflower calling to me that day, "Hey, Carole, paint me, paint me, paint me today!"
I quickly unpacked my art supplies and began to get my outside art studio together to spend the next few hours sketching and painting one huge sunflower.
If you have ever spotted me outside painting, I look more like a "bag lady" who is simply sitting on a busy street corner in our town! I have even had people to stop and ask me, "Are you a bag lady?" "No, just an artist, want to come and look at my canvas?" Today, I chose a huge 30 X 40 piece of hard watercolor paper ... my favorite medium, acrylic paint.
I had a "date" with a tall and handsome sunflower! He kind of tipped his head forward and said, "want to go in an have a cup of coffee at this Easy Street Coffeatery with me?"
"I shall do just this, but first, I want to sketch and paint you, if this is okay with you?"
"He" sorta nodded as a slight breeze on that pretty early May morning moved his head forward and then to each side. We definitely had a date planned, but I had to create "him" first with my pencils and then my many tubes of paint had to "hit" my palette (be squirted out one by one...and I had a busy, fun, wonderful day ahead of me.)
He was tall alright. He would cover the bottom of my hard watercolor paper to the very tip top of the paper.
Look at his tall sturdy stem. Look at his leaves of various shades of green. Dark Hooker's Green, mixed in with Bright Green, Yellow, Gold, and Lime Greens. You can even spot a touch of Light Brown thrown in too.
Oh, but his sunflower face! The middle of his face is huge and heavy. So heavy that each sunflower sorta leans forward from being so heavy and seems to be talking to each one of us. Image with me and look closely and find, his nose right in the middle and center of the blossom.
Look right above the little dark brown/black nose to two invisible but imagine two sorta of white eyes, and then find "his" cute little "flirty" turned up mouth. Look... far left of his round face and one part of his mouth is turning up. Then go from this dark brown/black part across the bottom of "his" blossom and you'll see the entire mouth. The entire middle the center is darker at the bottom, but glance to the top now with me, and see the pretty colors of blue, gold, white, and yellow...soothing to your eyes... is just a pretty blend of pastel colors. Now look closely at each petal of 'His" blossom! They are all and each petal different in shape and colors of Bright Yellows, Medium Yellows, mixed in with Bright Orange and Gold and Greens, and Browns! His entire face and the petals of his blossom is just plain handsome and cute, too!
I gave him a special name, "Mr. Sonny" but really spelled, "Mr. Sunny!" I sketched "him" for hours and hours before I even squirted one squirt of paint out on my palette. It was getting near lunch time, but I kept on working through lunch and into the afternoon hours. The background would remain white. It is difficult to paint such a large painting placed on a standing easel without getting even one drop of paint on the white paper.
I did make it with great success and had a pure white background without one drop of green or yellow blended in with many other colors on the background. I sighed... "WHEW" when I did this, and said, out loud, "Wow, I did it!"
I completed "his" portrait late that afternoon, and we did climb up the tall steps, and went in to have a hot cup of coffee at the Easy Street Coffeatery.
I well remember, Tom Dawkins saw me that day in 1997, and dropped by the coffee shop for a late afternoon cup of coffee. The business did not stay as a business too long downtown, Starkville right off Main Street, but it surely was a cute name and a cute "hang out" for coffee time! I "thanked"... "Mr. Sunny" for my cup of coffee and told "him" I had enjoyed meeting "him."
Well, I had another date just this year, and last week on July 19, 2010, with a whole field of "Mr. Sunny's" of hundreds maybe thousands of "Mr. Sunny's" Sunflowers! Where? Just off our busy South Montgomery on the Davis and Peggy Hartness...Glenda and her two children's farm place right here, again in Starkville. Tagging along this time was my sweet husband and best friend, Frank Davis, Sr. for 46 years and Dr. Lawrence Croft, a great photographer! Our destination, the sunflower field!
Look with me at this small insert in day's column I am writing to you now. Are these hundreds of exquisite sunflowers to "die for?" I think so!
Lets go from left to right just as we are reading a book. We'll start at the top of this photograph. Look at the blue, with a touch of cobalt blue and a white cloud floating casually by in the sky! See the dark green trees at the top and underneath the happy hot July day. Then look at the lime green contrast to the dark green trees as your eyes begin to come down into the "paragraph" just like a book (left to right) sentence by sentence.
See how bright and so beautiful..yellow hits...melts your heart....eyes keep on seeing the sea of yellow sunflowers!
It is a sea as they move and blow in the breeze that felt so good every now and then on just a hot, humid, and typical Mississippi July morning around 11 a.m. that 19th day of July.
Keep going to the foreground, and you will spot my sunflower umbrella, a birthday gift just this March 4, 2010, by my dear and "bestest" friend, Charlotte Ann Edwards Coker. We grew up together on Louisville Street. Charlotte Ann was just one street, Wood Street, and one house up which still sits on top of hill, and we played for hours together growing up...just about every day!
When I opened up this year's birthday gift, Charlotte Ann said to me, "Carole, I bet you will find a special day when you are out painting or thinking about a painting that you will take my gift of this sunflower umbrella along with you."
"Well, Charlotte Ann, I found the perfect day, and your thoughtful, unusual gift went along too!"
It was definitely hot on July 19, and her umbrella was quickly popped up as shade for me in the sunflower field! I wore another gift from a lady who use to live here in Starkville, but has moved now to live with her son in Atlanta, Ga., Jan Peterson.
One day my doorbell rang, and there stood Jan Peterson, whose husband was Dr. John Peterson who has since died several years ago.
In her hands she was holding this bright yellow straw hat with its turned up brim literally covered with sunflowers. When I was dressing for my "date" in the sunflower field, I decided to wear my white sundress and threw on my yellow, white and crystal dangling earrings along with my large crystal heart necklace on a fishing tackle chain around my neck.
As I look now at this photograph, I am reminded of two girl friends who gave me two treasured gifts, a sunflower umbrella and a sunflower straw hat! These are two treasured gifts, but most of all, my treasured friendships with Charlotte Ann and Jan.
Life is made up of friends you keep close in your heart and your mind. Sunflowers are like people with real faces. Each sunflower is an individual...each one has a different shape and personality. Some are large, some are medium-sized and some are small. Some twist this way and some twist that way. Some are quiet and some are loud and noisy. Sunflowers remind me of individual people and just plain Mississippi folks!
Every day, all day long, every second, minute, hour we have to live on this place we call Earth...we each should search and find a sunflower field somewhere if it is only in our imagination!
I glanced down at the almost white dried dirt in the Hartness Sunflower field, and I did wonder what footprints I shall leave behind on this earth one day, and what footprints will you leave behind too? Think about this!
Will you and I be like even one sunflower that I found and painted in 1997? Will you and I stand up and stand out and become bright yellow with a very happy and cheerful attitude all day long every day? Come on, we can both do this...if we only have the right attitudes and outlook towards life itself. Think positive thoughts...be positive and as my Daddy, John Andrew McReynolds, II said to me, and I wrote down his four words to live by on his portrait I did when he was in his late 80's. Daddy lived to be almost 97 years old with his positive attitude towards all of life itself, said, "Carole, never tolerate bad thoughts!!! Four simple words put together for me to live by each day!
There is absolutely nothing as beautiful as one simple showy single sunflower, except a whole field of hundreds maybe millions of flowering sunflowers...right here in Oktibbeha County, Starkville, Mississippi State University— God's Little Special Spot and Heaven on this Earth!"


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By Stephen Brown
BERLIN (Reuters) - A new Eurosceptical party is on the brink of entering the German parliament for the first time, an opinion poll showed, casting doubt on Chancellor Angela Merkel's bid to maintain her center-right coalition and complicating her euro zone policy.
Merkel still looks set to secure a third term in Sunday's general election. But the Alternative for Germany (AfD), which has risen on a tide of public hostility to bailouts of indebted southern euro zone countries, could further fragment the lower house, forcing her into a right-left "grand coalition".
A breakthrough for the party, which advocates forcing weaker members out of the single currency area, would send shock waves around Europe and could spook financial markets, even though its voice in parliament would be small.
An INSA poll on Thursday gave Merkel's conservatives 38 percent and their liberal Free Democrat (FDP) allies 6 percent, putting the center-right one point behind the three left-of-center opposition parties, with a combined 45 percent.
The survey was the first to show the AfD, created just seven months ago, clearing the 5 percent hurdle to win seats in the Bundestag lower house. Its best score in other polls has been 4 percent, but pollsters say it may have higher unavowed support.
If the AfD becomes the first new party to enter the Bundestag since 1990, Merkel would probably have to negotiate a coalition with the pro-European opposition Social Democrats (SPD), with whom she governed in 2005-2009.
The INSA poll was also the first to be taken after Bavarian conservatives won a regional election last Sunday - but it showed no bounce for Merkel in the national race.
The ruling Christian Democrats (CDU) had tried to ignore the AfD, but abruptly changed tack this week and deployed respected Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble to attack the skeptics, who want Greece and other bailout recipients out of the euro.
The 71-year-old minister, a veteran supporter of European integration, said the AfD's anti-euro argument "has no credibility and is extremely dangerous for our prosperity".
Led by university professors and supported, in the words of one pollster, by "grumpy old men", the AfD is mopping up right-wing protest votes and some of the millions who could not be bothered to cast ballots in 2009.
"The interesting thing is that 41 percent of AfD voters either voted for the 'other parties' category or not at all in 2009," INSA chief Hermann Binkert told Reuters.
Most other AfD supporters said they had voted center-right last time but nine percent came from the hard Left, also critical of the euro, and a handful from the SPD and Greens.
Merkel and the AfD have ruled out working with each other in the Bundestag, but one CDU leader - Volker Bouffier, who defends his premiership of Hesse in a state vote on Sunday - said he might consider it, before retracting after a storm of criticism.
The AfD, which has mobilized support on social media sites like Facebook and YouTube and crowd-sourced some donations - raising 430,000 euros ($574,000) online in just 48 hours last weekend - says it stands for the interests of ordinary Germans.
In TV campaign spots it argues that taxpayers' money should be spent on schools, families and pensions rather than helping Greece pay off its debts. It took out a full-page press ad on Thursday saying: "The country needs new leaders!"
If the AfD enters parliament, it might paradoxically help peripheral euro zone states by making a 'grand coalition' with the SPD - which wants faster EU integration and more stimulus for economic growth - almost inevitable.
The SPD and Greens have voted for all of Merkel's euro zone emergency measures in parliament whereas some dissidents in her center-right coalition have opposed bailouts.
However, a Bundestag platform would give the AfD access to state funding and help it spread Euroscepticism in an electorate exasperated by bailouts ahead of European Parliament elections next year in which protest parties tend to perform well.
Simon Tilford, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform, said the likelihood of further bailouts "will play into the hands of those in Germany who see the euro as a mistake".
"There is a chance that over time anti-euro feeling could increase and it could now find political representation."
Goldman Sachs economist Dirk Schumacher said the prospect of losing more disenchanted voters might mean that "the better the result for the AfD, the more reluctant the center-right parties are likely to be to support further European integration".
However one political scientist played down the potential impact of the AfD entering parliament.
"If they get in, of which I am skeptical, they will only have a few lawmakers which will not be enough to unsettle Merkel," said Oskar Niedermayer of Berlin's Free University.
"The only danger they pose is to her preferred coalition with the FDP, which could lack the necessary votes to continue governing."
(Additional reporting by Madeline Chambers and Sarah Marsh; Wrting by Stephen Brown; Editing by Paul Taylor)


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Andrew Rosenkranz says at least two or three times a week, he finds himself sitting across from an employee at his market research firm near Seattle, listening to some complicated personal problem.
Just last week, an employee described how her daughter and baby granddaughter were assaulted by a boyfriend. The daughter wanted to come back to Washington state but didn't have money for a plane ticket. And so, Rosenkranz says, the employee "was coming to ask, 'Hey, is there anything you can do to help us here?' "
A lot of conversations like that one have made Rosenkranz think his employees need more than just an advance on the next paycheck. Over and over, he says, he's seen the people who work at his company make financial choices that were likely to have bad consequences.
His employees borrow at punishing interest rates. They fail to enroll in the company's 401(k) despite the fact that the firm matches employee contributions. This actually saves Rosenkranz money; he doesn't have to make matching contributions when employees don't contribute. But, he says, he wishes more of his employees would take his money and sign up for retirement plans, because it's such a sensible move.
So Rosenkranz recently started offering his staff some time with a financial adviser. These days, this isn't so rare; a quarter of companies now offer one-on-one financial counseling, according to a survey by the Society for Human Resource Management. And more than half offer one-on-one investment advice, up from 38 percent four years ago.
Rosenkranz contracted with a credit union called Neighborhood Trust, a group that has also provided financial counseling to staff at a burger chain, stylists at a hair salon and employees of a home care cooperative in the Bronx.
Jose Robles, the maintenance supervisor at the home care cooperative, has been struggling with debt for years, taking out loan after loan. A judge recently allowed one of his creditors to deduct $71 from Robles' paycheck.
Robles recently met with a financial adviser from Neighborhood Trust, who helped him make a spreadsheet to show what he was earning and what he was spending. Robles thought he was working his way out of debt. But when he added up all the numbers in the spreadsheet, he realized he was wrong: He was actually going deeper and deeper into debt.
"You look at those numbers and you wonder, Whoa, wait a minute, I'm spending more than I'm actually bringing in," he says. "I thought I had it under control, and I didn't."
Now Robles is trying to cut back everywhere he can, from bowling less with his kids to eating out less often. He's hoping to save a chunk of money big enough to negotiate a lump sum deal with the debt collector.
If you work in the United States, you generally get paid. And that's a good thing. But along with giving you a paycheck, more and more employers are offering advice on what to do with it. Marianne McCune from our Planet Money team looks at financial counseling at work.
MARIANNE MCCUNE, BYLINE: It turns out being a boss is sometimes like being a social worker. Andrew Rosenkranz says at least two or three times a week, he finds himself sitting across from an employee at his market research firm near Seattle, listening to one or another very difficult-to-solve problem. Just last week, an employee described how her daughter and baby granddaughter were assaulted by a boyfriend.
ANDREW ROSENKRANZ: And the police were looking for him and she wanted to come back to Washington state but didn't have the money for a plane ticket. And so she was coming to ask, hey, is there anything you can do to help us here?
MCCUNE: Conversations like that one - a lot of them - have made Rosenkranz think his employees need more than just an advance on the next paycheck. Over and over again, he says he's seen them make financial choices that will plague them down the line. They borrow at punishing interest rates; most do not enroll in the company's 401K, even though the firm matches their contributions.
ROSENKRANZ: I mean, obviously, the less people participate the less we pay. But, on the other hand, you know, there's a silliness. It's essentially free money for employees.
MCCUNE: And he wishes more of them would take the company's money. So Rosenkranz recently became one of a growing group of employers to offer his staff some time with a financial advisor. A Society for Human Resource Management survey shows a quarter of companies now provide one-on-one financial counseling, and more than half offer one-on-one investment advice - up from about a third four years ago.
JOSE MIRANDA: So the same way you have health insurance, or you have life insurance through your employer, you also have access to a financial advisor.
MCCUNE: That's Jose Miranda, an on-the-job financial counselor. He works for a credit union called Neighborhood Trust that contracts with employers. Miranda has been working with Rosenkranz's employees, staff at a burger chain, stylists at a hair salon, and with this guy.
JOSE ROBLES: My name is Jose Robles.
MCCUNE: Robles is the 36-year old maintenance supervisor at a home care cooperative in the Bronx. And he says in his 20s...
ROBLES: I thought, well, if I borrow from Peter and pay Paul, it was going to work out.
MCCUNE: He financed cars without reading the small print. He used credit cards to pay off loans. When he sat down with Miranda for his first session, he had to tell him about the collectors who've been after him every since. One of whom just won the right in court to deduct $71 from his paycheck every week.
MIRANDA: He commented to me that he was really stressed out. He felt like his entire paycheck was going to his bills and paying his debt, and he couldn't really live how he wanted to.
MCCUNE: It wasn't until Miranda helped Robles make a spreadsheet - showing what he was earning versus what he was spending - that Robles realized he wasn't slowly climbing his way out of debt, as he thought. He was slowly digging himself deeper.
ROBLES: You look at those numbers and you wonder, whoa, wait a minute. You know, I'm spending more than what I'm actually bringing in. I was embarrassed.
ROBLES: I was embarrassed for him to see that. I thought I had it under control and I didn't.
MCCUNE: They looked at everywhere he could cut back, from bowling with his kids to meals out. Miranda is trying to help him save a big enough chunk of money so he can negotiate a lump sum deal with the debt collector, and stop borrowing from his 401k.
Studies show this kind of financial education - if it's done the right way - really can help people save more and borrow less. And that's great for the employees. But why would employers want to pay for it? Well, a lot of them don't.
JOHN ROGERS: I mean, maybe it's occurred to them. But, it's like, maybe it's not their problem.
MCCUNE: John Rogers chaired President Obama's Council on Financial Capability. As he and other advocates of financial education spoke to businesses around the country, they found a lot of reasons employers do want to guide their employees. For example: Guilt. As companies replaced traditional pensions with retirement accounts - that people can't or don't know how to take advantage of - they feel a nagging sense of responsibility. Another commonly cited reason: Sometimes people living on the edge are not ideal employees.
ROGERS: You know, People miss days of work. They just can't be as effective, they can't be as productive when they're under enormous stress.
MCCUNE: So helping them budget better is good for the business. But though Rogers wishes there were, there is no definitive research to date to show financial education at the workplace does help with the bottom-line. It's still a grand experiment.
Marianne McCune, NPR News, New York.
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CMA Ohio City Stages, presented by Charter One, continues its celebration of summer with world-class music performances. The past few events have featured artists from Mali, Romania and Honduras—and there are more global sounds to come. Morocco's Aziz Sahmaoui & University of Gnawa and Peru's Novalima complete the series that wraps up July 31. We'll cover some of the musicology behind these two bands in this second blog on CMA Ohio City Stages.
The Cleveland Museum of Art celebrates summer with a new series that brings music and film to Ohio City. CMA Ohio City Stages, presented by Charter One, features international music artists on a neighborhood stage outside the Transformer Station on West 29th Street. Each concert is followed by a film on the lawn. These eclectic block parties take place Wednesday nights throughout July and are FREE to all. Here, we highlight some of the global talent in this two-part blog post.
The current exhibition The Last Days of Pompeii is a multi-faceted look at one of the most infamous natural disasters in human history.
On the afternoon of Saturday, June 8, 2013, Wade Oval will come alive with color, art, music, and creativity. The Cleveland Museum of Art's Parade the Circle is Greater Cleveland's signature summer event and it is just around the corner.
The Cleveland Museum of Art and MOCA Cleveland have joined forces to present two contemporary installations by celebrated multi-media artist Janet Cardiff—Forty-Part Motet at the CMA and The Paradise Institute at MOCA. In celebration of these two innovative works of art the CMA's first Friday happy hour event, MIX, will be a special collaboration with MOCA's WtF (Welcome to Fridays) series. Join us Friday, June 7 from 5-9 p.m. at MIX: Connections for cocktails, live music and immersive art at both the CMA and MOCA. A free trolley will run all evening between the two museums. In anticipation of this exciting evening, we discuss Janet Cardiff and her groundbreaking installations.
Try this recipe for a zesty and refreshing summer breakfast.
Mother's Day is Sunday, May 12 and the CMA wants to make sure your hardworking mom gets a gift as lovely as she is. Our newly renovated museum store is stocked with items that are sure to show her how much you care. Here are some gift ideas to help make her day extra special.
On May 5, the Cleveland Museum of Art and MOCA Cleveland present a lecture by multimedia artist Janet Cardiff.
Join us Friday, May 3 at MIXup: Composition and experience John Cage's HPSCHD in the unique setting of the museum's Atrium. Tickets and event details at ClevelandArt.org/MIX. The museum's Director of City Stages, Tom Welsh, discusses John Cage and his revolutionary compositions in this special guest blog.