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PreenFM > PreenFM1 (the blue one)
Firmware 2.00
(1/7) > >>
Hi PreenFM owners,
Firmwares are here :
How to upgrade is explained here:
2.00 do not means it's bug free... If you find any bugs i'll make a 2.01 ;)
Totally compatible with VST 2.00.B3.
What's new in 2.00
. better (less obvious) cut of existing notes when a new note is triggered.
. adjust encoder timing for better turning acceleration (subtle change).
What's new in 2.00.B3
. [fixed] LFO random now the same as in 1.72 (was higher in 2.00.B2)
. [fixed] Nrpn params fixed to be compatible with 1.72 and works with PreenVST 2.00.B3.
. [fixed] save preset when name length = 12 (no more weird last char).
. [clean] get rid of the old 1.10 upgrade format
What's new in 2.00.B2
. Fixed enveloppe when release was <= 5
. Fixed the LFO env4 problem one some notes.
What's new in 2.00.B1
. Something unexpected 2 weeks ago. Polyphony doubled !! Thanks Olivier (mutable-instruments guy) :-)
4 voices for 6 operators algos, 6 voices for 3 ops algos, and 8 voices for 3 ops algos.
The signal/noise ratio is not very good when number of voice > 4. The biggest advantage is to have 4 voices for 4 & 6 operators algos.
. Enveloppe attacks available in matrix destination. One at a time or all together.
Can not be changed once a sound is already triggered... but using velocity as source is nice.
Using a slow LFO to modulate the Attack also give interesting results.
. Peformance row added in engine pages... Allow direct edit of CC1, CC2, CC3, CC4 (matrix control change sources).
Typical usage : in live can be use to control several internal parameters at the same time.
Can also be used to control external gear by using the new ECC as destination.
Remarks : CC1-4 are not saved with the patch.
. Sinus variation tables ("s^2", "1/2s", "spops"), are now centered around 0.
So they can be used as modulator without changing the carrier pitch... was a bit useless as modulator before.
. CC can now be sent to external gear by selecting one of the ECC in the matrix destination.
Channel and control change numbers can be modified in the settings.
Correct values in the modulation matrix to have 0-127 range in the ECC:
. Source : CC1-4 / mul = 16 / Dest ECC1-4
. source : LFO1-3 / mul = 8 / Dest ECC1-4
LFO1-3 must have bias = 127 because they must be positive only.
. Possibility to go directly to one of the patch selection page when booting.
In the setings, boot : "Default" (as before), "Bank1", "Bank2", "Bank3", "Bank4", "Internal".
. Better new note algo... sounds much better with long release patches.
No more obvious release cut.
What's new in 1.72
. [Bug fix] matrix destination clean correctly when changed by midi (fixed saturation when scrolling matrix destination with active source)
. [Bug fix] persistent volume problem when scrolling through presets while playing
. [Bug fix] Sysex bank correctly ignored if not in right menu selection.
What's new in 1.71:
. [Bug fix] now you can load a bank sending sysex from your PC
What's new in 1.70:
. [VST] Compatibility with the plugin PreenVST v0.4.
. [Bug fix] Midi compatibility with midi sources that uses runningStatus... (fix stuck notes).
. [Matrix] Key added in the matrix source list : allow tu use the midi note number in the matrix.
As for velocity, the last pressed key is used.
Also i put (127-note) in the matrix so that the high notes have a smaller value than the lower ones.
. [config] midi "Receive: None" now let modweel passes through, as well as bank select, all note off, all sound off.
What's new in 1.61:
. [fix] There were a NoteOn problem when several notes where played at the same time while other notes where in release state.
What's new in 1.60:
. [MidiClock] activity on LCD
. [MidiClock] LFO oscillators frequency : after 15.3Hz you'll find MC/16, MC/8, MC/4, MC/2, MC, MC*2, MC*3, MC*4, MC*8
. [MidiClock] Step sequencer BPM : after 240 you'll find MC/4, MC/2, MC, MC*2, MC*4 (MC = external midi clock).
. [LFO Osc] sinusoid waveform added.
. [Matrix Destination] GATE added : new way of shaping your sound.
. [Midi] Midi latency improved (or should be improved, don't have any serious measures)...
. [Midi] Real midi thru - don't enable it when recording PreenFM midi out...
. [fix] midi indicator did not always blink as it should
. [fix] Step seq 6 : NRPN sent wrong params
. [fix] Step seq gates : in some rare situation they refused to change
. [fix] In Menu mode, values could show up on the LCD
What's new in 1.51:
- Bug fix : MidiClock make the audio engine stuturing
What's new in 1.50:
- 2 Step sequencers
- 4 additional rows in the matrix : 12 rows in total
- Test note added... Hold one second the back button when in edit mode
Thanks and enjoy :-)
Wow..........................thank you.
when i will have christmas holidays i will test the new firmware, looking forward to this.
gave the 1.50b a first try. After flashing i needed 2 restarts then all went fine. the step sequencers are working as you described. they make the preenfm extrem more flexible, sounding very good.
one thing that is very annoying. after loading a preset from the internal memory the screen shows "DONE" and when i press a key nothing happens. every time i think the preen hangs but after pressing more keys i come to a menu. why not after loading showing 2 seconds "DONE" and the go back to the engine screen?
Max, thanks a lot for the feedback.
Is the "Done" behaviour different from how it worked in 1.03 ?
Have you formated the EEPROM user banks "Upgrade" or "All"... in Menu->Conf->Format ?
While displaying "Done" the PreenFM expect you to hit "Menu" again... not very intuitive i agree.
Maybe any key should make it go back to the edit mode... or a time out as you suggest...
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There was a time, long, long ago, in a galaxy not too far from where you're sitting, when spies did more than sit at a desk in some underground bunker and punch a keyboard. There are still a few who do otherwise today, but in the main, they are in the minority. Yes, for younger readers, I am talking about the [hushed voice, looks furtively around] pre-Internet times of global espionage.
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When fellow writer Mark Fine approached me to contribute a short story to a new anthology he was compiling, 'Crooked Tales', the premise of an abbreviated tale with a twist aimed at catching the reader out was like music to my ears. I had just finished writing a techno-laden novel where prime numbers were used by hackers to steal government secrets ('Primed', the sequel to 'Outsourced') and so I decided to seek inspiration in less-computerized times. Thus was born 'Death of a Sparrowman' (yes the title does kinda sound familiar, right – the deceit started right there) where I tell the story of one such covert messenger and how he is still rolling with the punches in our times still doing a job which was born many centuries ago. Inspiration can be found for intriguing and original storytelling by turning the pages of history back and examining, in this case, the evolution of the second oldest profession. If you are a writer, whatever genre, you might like to take a look at history as a starting point for your next novel. There's an old saying about those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it, so why not do so on the pages of an original novel?
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My chickens have been enjoying the fruits of a bumper crop of cucumbers and squash this summer and I thought I'd dial up the fun factor a few notches by making snack time a competitive group activity! Cucumber Tetherball… hanging cucumbers and squash from sturdy string provided not only several hours of activity for the chickens, it made for some side-splitting entertainment for me!
Cucumber Tetherball is good entertainment for chickens and their keepers! You do not want to miss this video!
Lots of space is one of the keys to happy, healthy chickens. The bare minimum space requirements PER CHICKEN are: four square feet each in the coop and ten square feet each in the run. If chickens are confined primarily to the coop and run, a much greater space
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Just as with children, bored chickens will get into mischief. Chickens that do not free-range and are confined primarily are at greater risk for problems such as feather picking. Free-range chickens seldom run into trouble with boredom, but when inclement weather prohibits free-ranging, boredom-busting activities such as Cucumber Tetherball can be offered.
Cucumber Tetherball can be offered to chickens as an occasional snack while doing double-duty as a boredom buster- for the chickens and for you!
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- Cucumber or squash
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Knowing my chickens as I do, I peeled the cucumber a bit to make it more enticing and easier to access the cucumber flesh.
Using a skewer, poke a hole through the cucumber, widening it so that the string slides through easily.
I recommend using a strong, thick string for reasons mentioned in the advisories below.
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Push string through cucumber and head to the chicken yard! Secure the Cucumber Tetherball to a tree branch or other solid structure where it will not come free.
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Final Report: Detailed Analysis
Chapter E: Enhancing social and market outcomes
E7. Gambling taxation
E7–3 Improving gambling taxes
Recommendation 76:
Gambling taxes should be reviewed to ensure that they are focused on recouping economic rent generated by government restrictions on the supply of gambling services or are being used efficiently to impose such restrictions.
Recommendation 77:
Governments should eliminate gambling tax concessions for particular types of gambling business, such as clubs. If governments wish to subsidise particular types of businesses, they should do so through direct expenditures.
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Governments should consider the allocation of responsibilities for the regulation and taxation of gambling, with a view to minimising conflicts in policy-making between revenue-raising and addressing problem gambling.
Recouping economic rent created by government restrictions
Gambling businesses are able to earn economic rent only because State governments restrict the supply of gambling services (see Box E7–1). Capturing economic rent is the most compelling reason for imposing special taxes on gambling services (See Recommendation 76). Other potential reasons for imposing specific gambling taxes are discussed below.
One option for capturing economic rent that State governments could consider is a simple rent tax calculated on the basis that, for most gambling businesses, the amount invested in the business is closely related to the amount provided to gamblers as prizes. Any return to the business above a normal rate of return on the amount of prizes would be regarded as economic rent and taxed at a relatively high rate.
A tax based on the amount of prizes would, however, be a very rough approximation to a rent tax. A normal profit for a business arises when its sales just meet the full costs of its inputs; that is, wages plus a normal return on the capital invested in the business (taking into account how risky the business is). A business earns economic rent when its sales exceed the full costs of its inputs. In a gambling business, player loss is the gross revenue of the business, equivalent to gross sales for other businesses. In this case a more accurate tax on economic rent could be calculated as:
Τ (B − P − W − Kθ) where
Τ is the rate of rent tax;
B is the amount of bets placed in the period;
P is the amount of prizes paid in the period;
W is the amount of wages paid in the period;
K is the amount of capital employed in the period; and
θ is the risk-adjusted rate of return.
The allowance for capital could be calculated for each tax paying business individually (at the cost of additional complexity) or could be set at an average value for each form of gambling, on the assumption that cost structures are similar across any particular industry segment. It would also be necessary to consider what, if any, allowance for licence fees should be included in the measure of capital invested.
The effectiveness of gambling-specific taxes in capturing economic rent is affected by the way they are structured. Governments need to consider trade-offs between the accuracy of the tax in targeting economic rent and the compliance costs that it could impose on gambling businesses. Most gambling businesses already calculate the amount bet and the amount paid in prizes for GST purposes, but an allowance for capital would require capital investment to be allocated between gambling and other activities. Some non-profit organisations are not currently required to lodge a Business Activity Statement for GST purposes, so some additional compliance costs might arise in that quarter. It would also be necessary to consider how a gambling rent tax would interact with income tax and the GST, including the priority of debts incurred under the different taxes.
In theory, all economic rent accruing to the gambling business could be taken in tax without reducing the supply of gambling services, but in practice uncertainties in estimating the magnitude of the available rent suggest that a lower tax rate should be adopted.
A simpler step to reduce the efficiency costs of gambling taxation would be to abolish gambling taxes on gambling businesses that operate in competitive markets.
Chart E7–1 illustrates a gambling rent tax that seeks to appropriate the economic rent generated by regulatory restrictions on the supply of gambling services. It is assumed that the cost of providing the service is the same for each dollar that gamblers lose.
Chart E7–1: Taxing economic rent earned by gambling businesses
Pf per dollar lost constitutes the normal return to the gambling business, that is, the player loss ratio it would need in order to make a normal profit in a competitive market. The restriction of supply to Qr would create economic rent equivalent to the sum of the shaded and crosshatched areas. If licences were allocated at no cost to the licensees and if no gambling taxes were imposed, licensees would keep the whole of this rent. In theory the government could appropriate the whole of the rent by imposing a tax of Pr — Pf per dollar lost. In practice it is difficult for the government to estimate the amount of the rent. So a lower tax rate of Pt — Pf would allow the government to recoup most of the economic rent without running the risk of overtaxing gambling services. A rent tax could be adopted as the sole means of appropriating economic rent. Alternatively, governments could auction licences and then use a rent tax to appropriate any additional rent.
Raising revenue
Gambling taxes are well-established and constitute an important source of revenue for State governments. While existing gambling taxes have deficiencies, many other State taxes perform even more poorly when assessed against the criteria of efficiency, equity, simplicity, sustainability and policy consistency (see Section G2 State tax reform). State governments may therefore be reluctant to give up this own-source revenue stream.
Rent-based gambling taxes have little effect on equity
Spending on gambling is not proportionally spread across the income distribution — low income people spend a higher proportion of their income — 1.4 per cent — on gambling than high income people — 0.3 per cent (ABS 2006c). Accordingly, gambling taxes appear to be regressive overall, falling as a proportion of income as incomes rise (Smith 1998). However, some gambling taxes represent a transfer of economic rent from the gambling business to the government. In these cases, a marginal change in gambling taxes would not change the supply of gambling services or the prices that gamblers pay to gamble. Reducing taxes would simply increase the profits of the gambling business.
Spending on particular forms of gambling is less evenly distributed than spending on gambling as a whole. For example, participation in casino gaming and sports wagering is strongly biased towards young single men. Lotteries and gaming machines are disproportionately patronised by low income people. Thus where the burden of the tax is borne by gamblers, taxes on lotteries and gaming machines are the most regressive; taxes on wagering are also regressive, though there is significant variability among income groups; and casino taxes are neither regressive nor progressive (Productivity Commission 1999b).
Taxes on specific goods and services should not generally be used for redistributive purposes (see Section E Enhancing social and market outcomes). Even without appealing to this general principle, gambling expenditure is too evenly spread across the income distribution to make reductions in gambling taxes an effective tool for redistributing income.
Tax concessions are a poor way of subsidising clubs
The rationales for imposing specific gambling taxes apply to clubs just as much as they do to other gambling businesses. If governments wish to subsidise clubs for reasons of social policy they should do so through direct expenditures, not through gambling tax expenditures (see Recommendation 77). Direct funding would be much more transparent than the current practice of providing tax concessions for gambling in clubs, and it would relieve clubs of the incentives set up by the current link between concessional gambling tax rates and the delivery of community services.
State and federal governments should together develop policy for regulating and taxing gambling
Given that economic rent in the gambling industry can be created by local restrictions, gambling taxes would appear to be a matter for State governments. However, if they have few other viable revenue sources, reliance on gambling taxes may set up incentives for State governments to manage the supply of gambling services so as to maximise the available revenue. Given that problem gamblers account for around one third of all player losses23, taxes on gambling by problem gamblers account for around 3 per cent of total State tax revenue. Incentives to reduce the social costs of problem gambling may be diluted by unwillingness to forfeit the tax revenue derived from problem gamblers.
For this reason, the State and Australian governments should together explore options for the regulation and taxation of gambling that would minimise conflicts in policy-making between revenue-raising and addressing problem gambling (see Recommendation 78). Such policy discussions cannot be undertaken outside a broader consideration of federal financial arrangements (see Section G2 State tax reform).
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Gambling taxes should be reviewed to ensure that they are focused on recouping economic rent generated by government restrictions on the supply of gambling services or are being used efficiently to impose such restrictions.
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Governments should eliminate gambling tax concessions for particular types of gambling business, such as clubs. If governments wish to subsidise particular types of businesses, they should do so through direct expenditures.
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During the 1970s, hard rock developed a variety of sub-genres. In 1972, macabre-rock pioneer Alice Cooper put hard rock into the mainstream with the top ten album School's Out. The following year, Aerosmith, Queen and Montrose released their eponymous debut albums, demonstrating the broadening directions of hard rock. In 1974, Bad Company released its debut album and Queen released its third album, Sheer Heart Attack, with the track "Stone Cold Crazy" influencing later thrash metal artists, such as Metallica and Megadeth.[3][4] Queen used layered vocals and guitars and mixed hard rock with glam rock, heavy metal, progressive rock, and even opera. Kiss released their first three albums Kiss, Hotter Than Hell and Dressed to Kill, in a little over a year, achieving their commercial breakthrough with the double live album Alive! in 1975. The Canadian trio Rush released three distinctively hard rock albums in 1974-75 (Rush, Fly by Night, and Caress of Steel) before moving toward a more progressive sound.
In the mid-1970s, Aerosmith released the ground-breaking Toys in the Attic and Rocks which incorporated elements of blues and hard rock and would later influence rock artists such as Metallica[5], Guns N' Roses[6]and Mötley Crüe. In 1976, Boston released their highly successful debut album while Heart paved the way for women in the genre with the release of their debut.
The Irish band Thin Lizzy, which had been around since the late 1960s, made their most substantial commercial breakthrough in 1976 with the hard rock album Jailbreak and its top single, "The Boys Are Back in Town."
The 1975 departure of Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore (who went on to form Rainbow the same year) was followed by the sudden death of his replacement Tommy Bolin in 1976, but by that time the group had already disbanded. In 1978, The Who's drummer, Keith Moon, died in his sleep via an overdose. With the rise of disco in the U.S. and punk rock in the UK, hard rock's mainstream dominance was rivaled and began to decline. Disco appealed to a more diverse group of people and punk seemed to take over the rebellious role that hard rock once held. Meanwhile, Black Sabbath moved away from the darkness of their early work with albums such as Technical Ecstasy.
Van Halen, another important group in hard rock, emerged in 1978. Their music was based mostly on the guitar skills of Eddie Van Halen, the lead guitarist, who popularised a technique called tapping in guitar playing. The song "Eruption" from the album Van Halen, demonstrated his technique and was very influential.
In 1979, the differences between the hard rock movement and the rising heavy metal movement were highlighted when the Australian hard rock band, AC/DC, released its second-biggest album, Highway to Hell. AC/DC's music was based mostly on rhythm & blues and early-1970s hard rock, with the group explicitly repudiating the "heavy metal" tag.


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Nine months after forming it, American Railcar has dissolved a joint venture created in February to build passenger railcars.
A joint board of directors with representatives from American Railcar and Columbus, Ohio-based Ohio Railcar Group voted Friday to kill the joint venture, called US Railcar Co. LLC, which was led by President and Chief Executive Michael Pracht, according to a regulatory filing Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
"The decision to dissolve the joint venture was the result of current market conditions for (Diesel Multiple Units) orders," American Railcar said in the filing.
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Bush Admin. Blocks More Terror Funds
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The Bush administration widened its financial assault against global terror Tuesday and ordered banks to block assets of 21 people identified as members of a separatist group that has mounted terror attacks in Spain.
The Treasury Department said all 21 belong to the Basque Fatherland and Liberty, commonly known in Spain as the Basque ETA separatists
The State Department designated the ETA a foreign terrorist organization last year. The group was founded in 1959 with the aim of establishing an independent state in Spain's northern Basque region.
The government said ETA has carried out bombings and assassinated Spanish government officials, especially security and military forces and politicians. It has claimed responsibility for killing about 800 people since it first assassinated a Spanish policeman in 1968.
Treasury Department officials said that it was not known whether any of the 21 individuals named Tuesday have financial assets in the United States.
None of the 21 individuals are connected to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks or Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network, the U.S. government's prime suspect behind the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Treasury officials said.
Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said Tuesday's action "is the result of close cooperation with the government of Spain and the European Union, a collaboration that symbolizes a new and extremely important chapter in the financial war against terrorism."
O'Neill has worked closely with counterparts in rich countries to coordinate efforts to cut off terrorists from their sources of funding.
Treasury officials said the United States has been working with Spain to get the necessary information to implement Tuesday's blocking order against the 21 individuals.
"It is our hope that other governments will take the lead in identifying terrorists and their supporters, so that together the civilized world can shut down their organizations and eradicate their sources of support," O'Neill said, speaking to Customs Service employees in Jacksonville, Fla.
More than $104 million in financial assets linked to al-Qaida and Afghanistan's former ruling Taliban militia have been blocked worldwide since Sept. 11. The United States has identified 189 individuals and organizations suspected of financing or engaging in terrorism to have their assets frozen.
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text: 04 October 2011 Why most play strategies are wrong Children's play depends much more on the design of roads and areas of housing than it does on the provision of playgrounds or play centres. In most housing areas children are unable to play out on the roads as did their grandparents, yet the debates about children's play, obesity and Big Society all tend to ignore this basic fact. In research this year in Cardiff we found out that there were dramatic differences in the ages and numbers of children playing out between two different residential areas. The main reason for this was the traffic. Where the roads were straight and un-calmed children did not play out, yet where the traffic was slowed through cul-de-sac design and a layout with bends, the children played out as they have done for countless generations. These findings are consistent with similar observational and interview research I have carried out across nearly 70 areas of housing in different areas of Britain over the last 20 years. Parents are blamed for being "risk averse" yet they and their children consistently ask for "bigger, faster, higher" equipment on playgrounds. In a questionnaire, 94% thought that playgrounds were about right or too safe, with only 6% thinking they were too dangerous. They are clearly not "risk averse"; it is just that the roads have become more dangerous and so quite reasonably parents do not let their children play out on them. What is rather ridiculously called "road safety" is there to prevent cars being damaged by impacting on children. If it were there to protect children then on entering a residential area it would be the car driver who would have to look right, look left and proceed with caution. Many bemoan the loss of "social capital" yet where children can play out parents talk of "keeping an eye out" for each other's children. Where the traffic is slow both parents and children are seen to be out and talking to each other more. At play children naturally learn to take turns, reach agreements, make rules and settle disputes. The obesity debate tends to be dominated by those who will benefit financially from the provision of treatments or therapies and the loss of children's freedom to play out is ignored. We have found that children are instinctively active. They want to get healthy exercise. We have estimated that in a housing area with 100 children if only half of them could play out but and were able to freely wander round their neighbourhood they would make 281,000 journeys each year. This is massive yet no government has recognised this healthy, non-polluting activity as transport. So what can be done about this? Firstly we have got to stop measuring the number of play facilities and give a primacy to measuring the outcome "can children play out?" As far as I know, there is not one local authority or government department that measures this. A simple proxy measurement would be to ask how many primary school children are allowed to travel to school unaccompanied. If they can travel to school then it is likely that they could walk to their friend's, do errands for their parents and generally play out. Some may be appalled but we should recallthat for most of the last century, certainly up until about 1970, the vast majority of five yearold children walked to primary school on their own or with friends/siblings. Their parents would take them for the first week or two but after that they would go on their own. It is not unreasonable to do this. There has been NO increase in stranger danger; it is only the car that is causing the problem. The roads prevent community interaction and therefore the fear of stranger danger rises exponentially. We need to make the environment fit for children. Residential roads need to be treated as pedestrian crossings for their whole length. The 20mph limits are not intended to enable children to play out or walk round their neighbourhood; they are there to reduce the severity of injuries. 20mph is not sufficiently slow to make parents feel confident that they can let their children play out. At the present rate of development and cost Home Zones will take thousands of years to make any difference. We need to change our attitude to children's travel distances. All the research has found that certainly up to the age of 11 most children (and their parents) want to play out within sight and sound of home or possibly the next street if a friend's parent can keep an eye out for them. In previous generations children had the freedom to travel further but even so the majority of every-day play happened in sight and sound of home. We therefore need to abandon the misleading process of drawing large circles around playgrounds on plans and assuming that all children within the circle will play there. Children's every-day ranges are short and no council is going to knock down houses to provide play space on every street corner. We therefore have to make the environment fit for children to play out. Town or large destination playgrounds are important family facilities but they do not cater for children's every-day play. A simple headcount shows that the ratio of adults to children is less than 1:2 and nearer 1:1. The children cannot play there when they want to but only the half hour or so a week when the parents accompany them. For children play is an everyday activity taking more time than school (including weekends and holidays). They value play areas and play centres but for the vast majority, none are available within site and sound of home. The traditional place is the road which should be reclaimed both for them and to create more neighbourly communities. Rob Wheway is director of the Children's Play Advisory Service. Links to research on which this article is based can be downloaded free. View more information on these councils


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W164N8778 Mill St, Menomonee Falls WI 53051-2831 Sold for $219,000 on 10/20/2017
Features of W164N8778 Mill St, Menomonee Falls, WI 53051-2831
- Single Family Home
- Status: Sold
- 8 Total Rooms
- 3 Bedrooms
- 2 Full Bathrooms
- Est. Square Footage: 1,547
- Est. Above Grade Sq Ft: 1,547
- Garage Size: 1.5
- Garage Type: Detached
- Est. Year Built: 1912
- School District: Menomonee Falls
- County: Waukesha
- Postal Municipality: Menomonee Falls
- Listing Company: Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage
- Price/SqFt: $142
Property Description for W164N8778 Mill St, Menomonee Falls, WI 53051-2831
W164N8778 Mill St, Menomonee Falls, WI 53051-2831 - Beautifully updated, meticulously maintained, walking friendly home in fantastic location. Enjoy the quiet, private, mature, wonderfully landscaped double lot just steps away from downtown amenities and fabulous parks. Stroll through Lime Kiln Park past the original ''Falls'' to Rotary Park, or walk the shops/restaurants - all steps away. Move in ready home is much larger than it looks. Eat-in kitchen w/huge pantry, formal DR, large LR w/gas FP, 3-4 bedrooms, office/den, 4-season room off front, and dinette overlooking woods off back. Full walk out basement & tons of storage. Must see Home!
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- BR 3: 12.0 x 10.0
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Why install Windows Live Essentials 2011?
The Live Team at Microsoft have released an update over that past few days, and are trying hard push ram it down your hard drive. They have flagged this 160 Mb piece of unneeded junkware as essential. It isn't in any way. Its a collection of Microsoft tools and utilities that very few need, and far fewer want, let alone need the latest version. And its size just goes to show how much is it this essential update.
Ray Ozzie leaves – does the market care?
MSFT loses Ray Ozzie and the role of Chief Software Architect - how does the market react? As of right now, its trading at 25.10 -0.72 (-2.79%). Of course if you look at it over 1m or 3m its flat. Does that mean the market really doesn't care?
How can I reduce my IT costs? By working with a budget – part VIII
It is November, the 11th month of the current calendar year, 2nd month of Q4. How are you doing on budget for October and September? How are you doing on budget for the year? We need to take some time today to review our recent performance to see what we can work on and improve.
Manage your contractors to Reduce your IT costs – part VII
Its Thursday and you only have two days left in this week to work on cutting costs and improving your position in your IT organization. What do you have planned for this Saturday? Can you move any meetings from the calendar to a Saturday meeting, in the office, without catering services, to increase productive time today and tomorrow with your teams?
Reduce your IT Costs – Part VI
IT management has to make cost cutting decisions and today we are going to make a large decision that has a long term impact to your support model. Yesterday we fired the delivery man, and today we are firing the delivery truck. That's right, we are going to cancel all of our orders for new desktops and laptops for the next 3 months and possibly hold until Q2 2009.
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Today, Microsoft formally announced the Windows 7 operating system during the PDC Professional Developers Conference. Why announce an operating system at the PDC? Developers are on long build cycles for applications. The sooner their projects can get the details of what is going to be included in Windows 7, the sooner their applications can run on Windows 7. Application comptability is a major driver for operating system adoption.


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The Huffington Post has named former NFL wide receiver Donté Stallworth as its new political fellow on national security
Stallworth, who was a wide receiver for the New England Patriots, appeared in 115 games over 10 years in the NFL, logging a total of 321 receptions for 4,837 yards and 35 touchdowns. He played college football at the University of Tennessee.
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Today's question: Is gender more a media obsession or a real concern of voters? How likely is it that former Hillary Clinton supporters will break for John McCain because of Sarah Palin? Previously, Mangu-Ward and Marcotte discussed whether a socially conservative candidate could ever appeal to feminists and Gloria Steinem's criticism of Palin.
Can Clinton fans learn to love Palin's bouffant?Point: Katherine Mangu-Ward
Some things, my grandmother used to say, are just not done. She was talking about stuff like taking second helpings of dessert and wearing white shoes after Labor Day. But another thing that's not done -- by media professionals, anyway -- is admitting everyone cares just as much about the candidates' platform shoes as their party platforms. Does John McCain wear lifts? Inquiring minds want to know!
Give the media some credit, I suppose. They could boost ratings or circulation by commissioning polls on the impact of McCain's oddly lumpy face, Barack Obama's oddly snug jeans, Sarah Palin's oddly poofy hair, or Joe Biden's ... oddly poofy hair.
The fact is, people of both sexes frequently choose their candidates for illogical reasons. Recent chatter suggests that Obama may be "too thin to win." Having spent most of my life inside Washington's Beltway, I'm going to let Times readers in on a little secret: Just because Washington is Hollywood for ugly people doesn't mean we're any less obsessed with the superficial.
Chatter while watching a convention speech or a debate performance with serious journalists is often indistinguishable from the E! channel's red-carpet coverage. Glamour magazine may have done the original retrospective on Hillary Clinton's pantsuits, but every single one of the mainstream cable news channels and most major papers picked it up. ABC News even one-upped Glamour with a look back at her hairdos.
So, will Clinton voters break for Palin? Well, the obvious place to start is the polls: Before the Democratic conventions, white women -- Clinton's base -- were 50% to 42% in Obama's favor. This week, white women are 53% to 41% for McCain, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll. So Clinton supporters are moving in Palin's direction, right? Not so fast. The same poll shows Clinton voters' support for Obama holding steady at just about 70% (PDF).
Finding it hard to square the circle? That's because it can't be done. Just focus on the question of the bouffant versus the sensible wash-and-wear. We are irrational creatures, swayed by mysterious things -- and I'm not just talking about women here. Some people are likely to vote Palin's ticket just because she's a woman. Americans don't become paragons of logic and reason when we answer poll questions or step into the voting booth.
Plus, voters are monstrously misinformed. Forty-nine percent of voters think the president has the authority to suspend the Constitution, for instance. Palin is pro-contraception -- one of the many issues I consider more important than abortion -- despite the deep conviction of many that the opposite is true. (Skeptical? Let's go to the tape: "I am pro-contraception, and I think kids who may not hear about it at home should hear about it in other avenues.")
Clinton voters, the women who have been with her since the pageboy 'do, will stray back and forth several times before the election cycle is over, and some of them will settle on Palin. Who knows why? Some will have carefully constructed, well-considered reasons for their decision. Some of those reasons will be void because they're based on bad information. And some will choose her because she seems like the kind of woman who doesn't give a damn about wearing white shoes after Labor Day.
Katherine Mangu-Ward is an associate editor at Reason magazine.
Voters aren't that stupid Counterpoint: Amanda Marcotte
I think I might have a little more faith in the average voter than you do, Katherine. Yes, people are ignorant of those things they should have learned in school. But then again, are the 49% of the people who think the president has the authority to suspend the Constitution really wrong? Perhaps they're just making an objective observation of our reality under President Bush, who flouts the Constitution and gets away with it. Look, for instance, at the flouting of habeas corpus, the suspension of the basic right to be free of search without a warrant and the president's routine unwillingness to honor the separation of church and state guaranteed in the First Amendment. Maybe it's the 51% who look at the letter of the law and don't see that it doesn't matter who are in the wrong.
A lot of the trend stories you point to as proof of the shallow, stupid voter really exemplify the shallow, stupid media instead. The Wall Street Journal piece about Obama being "too thin" is a perfect example of an odd trend I see in which media elites that live in the enclaves of New York and Washington try to guess what we, the great unwashed red-state Americans, are like. The stereotype that we're fat and proud is only partly true -- if middle Americans didn't appreciate a slim physique as much as coastal Americans, Jenny Craig wouldn't make much money. Digging up two random quotes to fit a preordained belief about corn-fed voters might make jaunty prose, but it proves nothing.
The obsession with candidates' gender is absolutely a media-driven phenomenon. The main group of voters as concerned about gender as the mainstream media might be right-wing men who become very anxious at the idea of female authority, even if it's far away in Washington and only felt through the faceless economy and the mechanisms of the state. After them are feminists, who put a lot of money and effort toward getting more women in power, but only pro-choice, liberal women. So already, Palin has fallen off the map for them.
The media's obsession with making a bigger deal out of what is in a candidate's pants than his or her policy proposals is just part of the larger unwillingness to talk about actual policy in mainstream news outlets, particularly cable news networks. Surface issues rule. In part, it's because an honest education of the public on the candidates' major policy differences would hand this election to Obama in a landslide, driving down ratings because people wouldn't be chewing their nails staring at the screen every minute in anticipation of what's going to happen. The more they can talk about how cute Palin is, the less they have to educate the public about how McCain's economic proposals would perpetuate the bad economy and how he intends to keep us in a very unpopular war.
That said, I do think that gender can subtly influence the public's perception of a candidate, especially in a news environment with a minimum of real education on the real issues. McCain's only hope of winning is to convince both the hard right and the moderate swing voters that he's one of them. The hope -- and maybe this is panning out for McCain -- is that the moderate voter holds the sexist belief that women are naturally kind and empathetic, and that if a woman is a conservative, she must be a "compassionate conservative." The Republicans won in 2000 by wrapping a right-wing ideologue in liberal clothing. With Palin, they're trying that trick again.
Amanda Marcotte is the executive editor and writer for the blog Pandagon.net. Her first book, "It's a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environment," is published by Seal Press.
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text: Hey there, whenever I play an online video game, it gives me a BSOD, 5 times, and all 5 times in the middle of the game, I get a BSOD. After days of searching, I have found out which files are broken, there are 2: slui.exe sppcomapi.dll After searching what slui.exe is, I thought it might be that I have a cracked copy of Windows, which I cracked with removeWAT, from this site. I have no idea what to do now.. I was playing 10 minutes ago, and it BSOD'd again. What should I do? Some extra info: This is Windows 7 Ultimate x86 I cracked it months ago, but the error started popping up now. I'm certain that those two files are the ones causing this. For some stupid reason the following occurs, windows tells me this copy of windows isn't Genuine, in the bottom right corner, and when I go to the my PC info page, it tells me that it IS genuine, and when I close that page, the text is removed.. It's like I have to remind it or something.. Can you please help?


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Sam Underwood, better known as ORE, has received great acclaim on Louder Than War for his latest album 'Belatedly', out on November 24th via Box Records.
"Transforming an instrument so associated with certain traditions and styles into something new and thrilling takes a rare and imaginative soul. Luckily there are those out there who hold within themselves a vision for an instrument that smashes any preconceived ideas and who start to paint fresh and exciting new worlds dragging the old and formulaic into the now and beyond." – Louder Than War
Originally written as a gift for his father who had been diagnosed with lung cancer in 2014, the album encompasses deep emotions which Underwood translated into a record which deals with grief and its different facets: from anger to sadness.
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This week I finally fulfilled a wish I've had for YEARS, and did a spot of 'wild' camping.
Mr. Suburbanite and I have very different approaches to nature. Mr. S is a great walker, a tree climber, and one of those people who enjoys standing on a wet Welsh beach in January regardless of the weather conditions. In other words he likes nature but, as he told me before we got married, doesn't want it in his shoes. He likes order around him when sleeping and eating and he definitely doesn't like mud. So camping is not something he's in a hurry to do. I, on the other hand, am never happier than when I have leaf mould in my hair. I love to see my children covered in mud (proof that they're having a happy childhood) and I sleep well on straw bales in the same building as farm animals, for instance.
We happen to be friends with a couple who are us in reverse. He loves camping and she hates it. So this half term we carried out a suggestion I'd made before many times as a joke – my friend's husband and I took the kids camping and our spouses stayed at home. To be fair they both had valid excuses about needing to work, or something.
For years now I've camped at New Wine, a Christian summer conference held on an agricultural show ground. I love New Wine for many reasons but it doesn't feel like proper camping, not least because fires are not allowed and you have to get your kids to meetings at 8.45am. I can now say I've camped properly, in a wood, with a fire, and I know it was proper camping because it rained pretty much nonstop for two of the three days we were there. (How did we light a fire, you ask, in a rainy wood? It turns out that you can light a fire anywhere, possibly even underwater, if you have an aerosol blowtorch, and my friend's husband had two.)
It was great. My friend gamely spent some time with us on the site, going 'Yuk. Yuk. Yuk,' with every step whenever she had to walk between our two tents, and helpfully took a load of washing home for us all. You could see that the main feature of the campsite for her was the mud. It's true that it got everywhere, and two days later I'm still washing it out of everything we took with us. BUT that did not nullify the magic of going to sleep with rain pattering above our heads, or of sitting in a beautiful beech wood around a roaring fire, or seeing our children do things with sharp sticks, fallen logs and burning branches that children generally aren't allowed to do any more.
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If you are applying for a nonimmigrant or immigrant visa in September, please check the new processing fee schedule. On September 12, 2014, visa application fees for certain visas changed. Fees will not be adjusted for those who have already paid. All visa applicants must pay the amount in effect the day they pay, with the exception of Immigrant Visa application processing fees paid to the National Visa Center (NVC), which will be effective as of the date of billing. For more information about the fees, please click here.Share
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