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http://www.buffalonewsPaterson's budget calls for cuts — and taxes — galore ALBANY — New York's teetering economy will require a series of painful spending cuts to programs used by nearly all state residents and force more than $4 billion in higher taxes on everything from health insurance policies to soda and other sugary drinks, Gov. David A. Paterson said Tuesday in proposing to close a $15.4 billion budget deficit. Money to lure new jobs would be cut, as would efforts to protect the environment. Nearly 2,000 prison inmates would be released early to save money. State workers would be laid off, and those who aren't would see their salaries and benefits frozen and cut. The state's debt would be driven to historic levels, and state university tuition would jump by 14 percent. Nearly $1.5 billion in annual property tax rebate checks would be scrubbed. Education and health care, the two biggest areas of the budget, would see $4.5 billion in cuts. "We're going to have to take some extreme measures," Paterson told lawmakers of the challenge of closing the state's largest deficit ever. The reaction was swift — and negative. Hospitals and nursing homes would close, health care officials say, and those that don't would cut back on patient care. As a result of Albany's decreasing school aid, schools would reduce classroom and after-school programs, and property taxes would rise, education officials warned. Middle-class taxpayers would be hit hard, critics said, not just from the cuts, but from the stunning array of increases in taxes and fees. New Yorkers would pay more for registering a car, catching a salmon or trout, going to the movies, getting a haircut, buying gasoline, drinking beer and buying nondiet soft drinks. Republicans say the Democratic governor's tax and fee plan is actually $2 billion higher than being revealed. In all, there are 151 proposals that would create or increase taxes. Beyond the cuts and tax increases, the proposed budget has a good share of what critics call gimmicks. Paterson, for instance, is proposing to "sweep" $1.4 billion from off-budget accounts, such as from the New York Power Authority, into the general fund to balance the ledgers. Indeed, nearly 40 percent of the plan to reduce the deficit in what's left of this fiscal year would come from such transfers. A additional $1.1 billion in actions next year would come through nonrecurring moves, or "one-shots." The Paterson administration, under fire from long-standing political allies, including labor unions and social services groups, sought to portray a budget plan with few options. Laura Anglin, the governor's budget director, said the increases in taxes and fees are necessary because, without them, the state's general fund would have faced an 11 percent cut — forcing deep retrenchment in vital government services. As it is, Paterson said the budget is "teetering on the verge of threatening public health" when it comes to some of the proposed health care cutbacks. School funding would be cut by $700 million, and extra help for poorer districts to comply with a landmark court case would be spread out over eight years instead of four. The average district would lose 3 percent, though many suburban schools are facing double-digit funding cuts. The legislative response was predictable: Democratic leaders stood by their governor but left open the door for changes. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, said the Assembly will make sure that cuts and tax increases "do not fall disproportionately on the backs of working-class" New Yorkers, while the Senate's top Democrat, Malcolm A. Smith of Queens, said, "Everything should be on the table." The governor rejected calls to raise income taxes on wealthy residents, though his proposal does eliminate itemized deductions for millionaires. He did open the door to hitting the wealthy more in any final budget deal. Senate Republicans, who are about to fall into the minority in the 62- member chamber come January, said that the governor's plan will make health care costs for residents more expensive and that changes to the STAR property tax rebate program would boost levies for homeowners. "We have a spending problem in New York State. We don't have an undertaxation problem," said Senate Majority Leader Dean G. Skelos, R-Rockville Centre. The proposal calls for consolidating some state agencies. Paterson also wants to close four prison camps, though none in Western New York. His early release program would put at least 1,600 inmates on the streets, and 700 prison jobs would be cut overall. In all, the state work force would be reduced by 3,100 people, including 521 layoffs. State workers would be asked to defer five days of pay and give up scheduled 3 percent salary increases in 2009. State retirees and workers would have to pay a greater share of their health insurance costs. Some of the benefits also would affect local government workers and retirees. The proposal would keep the state's general fund spending at $55.4 billion. The entire budget, which includes federally funded programs, would grow by $1.3 billion, to $121.1 billion, a 1.1 percent increase, which would be the lowest rate of growth since 1996. The level of increase in taxes and fees surprised many officials. "The only thing not being taxed is sex and drugs," one Senate staff member said. There is a new 18 percent sales tax on nondiet sodas, and Paterson wants to eliminate the sales tax exemption on clothing and footwear purchases of less than $110. Cable television and satellite radio services would be taxed higher, as would massages and computer software purchases, and using state parks would be more costly. Paterson also is turning to gambling to balance the budget. He wants to let people bet for more hours in a day on Quick Draw and at racetrack casinos. In addition, wine could be sold in grocery stores. Aid to the City of Buffalo would be cut by $1.3 million, but Paterson is proposing to let the city keep all future revenue-sharing — with none going to Erie County — from the Senecas' Buffalo casino. The plan has two goals: eliminate a $1.7 billion deficit in the current fiscal year and erase a $13.7 billion deficit for the 2009 fiscal year starting April 1. Much of the $1.7 billion would be achieved in ways Paterson already proposed in November, and which lawmakers rejected in a failed special session, such as $500 million in health care cuts to hospitals and nursing homes, expansion of the bottle bill to noncarbonated beverages and an increase of $620, or 14 percent, in state university tuition. To make up for some of the education cuts, Paterson is proposing exempting schools from the state's expensive, union-backed Wicks Law — which drives up public facility construction costs. But many schools already have ended ambitious new construction programs. Daniel Sisto, president of the Healthcare Association of New York State, said the net impact of cuts to hospitals, nursing homes and home care would total $2.6 billion. He said Western New York facilities, in particular, would feel the brunt. Noting the number of hospitals and nursing homes that have closed in the last five years in the state, he said the cuts would "certainly accelerate the demise of some institutions" and leave the rest with cuts in staff and services. The state's Medicaid program would grow by 3.8 percent, instead of the 12 percent scheduled for 2009. The health insurance industry would be slapped with $855 million in higher assessments — money the industry says will be passed along to consumers in the form of higher premiums. Community colleges would get aid cuts, and the Tuition Assistance Program, the nation's largest college grant effort, would become more restrictive for graduate students and part-time students and those with bad grades — cutting $47 million in funding for TAP. A new low-cost loan program for students in New York colleges was proposed, while SUNY tuition would rise by $620 a year. Paterson said he wants lawmakers to adopt 2008 deficit-reduction plans in January and a 2009 budget by March 1 — one month early, which he said would save $1.3 billion by spreading costs and revenues over 13 months. Getting a budget done in February, Silver said, would be "very difficult." This is beyond absurd. Because the state has been incompetent the last 25 years and grown by probably 10 fold I have to pay for it? Tax movie tickets a dollar? HEY BUSINESSES PLEASE COME AND JOIN OUR LOVELY STATE!! I am so glad I am only 25 and can look elsewhere soon....I had such great hopes too.... "It's like deja-vu, all over again. " - Yogi Berra
you should have posted in this thread which was already started:http://forums.slickdea
edit: Nevermind. I think you are trying to make this thread about the budget and the other about the cig tax. Some of these taxes are outright absured: New York is considering a tax on Itunes downloads [cnn.com]. This is after the fact that they already tax out-of-state purchases over the internet, something that is still not clear from a legal standpoint. New York is also considering a host of other taxes: [cnn.com] An 18% sales tax on non-diet soda. A 14% hike in public college tuition. The elimination of a tax rebate for homeowners. The Daily News [nydailynews.com] reports that the the Governor also wants to tax movie tickets, taxi rides, soda, beer, wine, cigars and massages. Clothes under $110 would also lose their tax exemption. Cable and Satellite TV would become subject to sales tax.
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Barack Obama - Not my President. Your administration has called a soldier charged with desertion as having served with "honor and distinction". Many lives were lost and veterans were permanently disabled looking for a soldier who left under his own accord.
As far as New York goes, you reap what you sow. This is the effect of electing uber-liberals into the US Senate (Chuck Schumer, Hillary Clinton anyone?), Governor Patterson, and I'm sure many more state and house liberals IDK of because I'm not a New Yorker.
Are out of control state budgets and ridiculous taxes the calling card to liberal-utopia, conservative free politics? That's what I and fellow conservatives fear which is why we're so strongly opposed to people like Obama (but this thread isn't about Obama). So, here we have a state that pretty much elects liberals in majority, and now the people are about to be toyed with even more. Sorry guys, you asked for it. Pretty much the only options you have now are to vote in better people, or leave. For all the New Yorkers championing Obama and the liberal cause, I hope you're willing to put your money where your mouth is. (NOTE: Yes, I know ol' chuck and hill don't vote or participate on internal state matters. Rather, they set the tone of the state and are two very powerful people in US Senate which makes them powerful on the state's they were elected too) Last edited by Hawk2007; 12-17-2008 at 07:05 AM.. |
I plan to leave and head back to the sane state of Florida. |
Increasing taxes doesn't always correlate with increased revenue. |
NY doesn't know how to control spending. It only knows how to levy more taxes in an effort to fund it's bloated government and social programs. |
NY, like CA, have some of the heaviest tax burdens of any state in the country. This means the budget problems are probably more based on out of control spending than lack of revenue.
If NY and CA were modestly taxed states, one could make a case for raising some taxes while cutting some spending to balance. To do a 50/50 (raising taxes/cut spending) when you are a top taxing state doesn't make sense logically. Unfortunately, when a state is in this situation, cutting taxes and spurring growth takes years before real increases in revenue start coming in -- that means the states cannot afford to do it. The politicians deserve to be collecting unemployment benefits. |
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Some of the biggest names in the film industry on Saturday swore that cinema was the biggest unifier of them all at a star-studded evening here. The glittering function also showcased the theme of '100 years of India Cinema'.
The occasion was the presentation of the TSR National Film Awards for the years 2011 and 2012 and among those who walked away with the Best Actor Awards were Nandamuri Balakrishna ('Sri Rama Rajyam'-2011) and Akkineni Nagarjuna ('Shirdi Sai-2012), while Tamanna ('100% Love'-2011) and Anushka ('Damarukam'-2012) picked up the awards for Best Actresses.
The directorial excellence of Srinu Vaitla ('Dookudu'-2011) and Puri Jagannadh ('Businessman'-2012) saw them getting the awards as Best Directors, while the Best Producer Awards were given away to Yelamanchili Saibaba ('Sri Rama Rajyam'-2011) and Mahesh Reddy ('Shridi Sai'-2012). For both the years Brahmanandam bagged the Best Comedian for 'Dookudu' (2011) and 'Denikaina Reddy' (2012).
The awards were given away together by the jury chairman T. Subbarami Reddy and others including Union Tourism Minister K. Chiranjeevi, thespian Akkineni Nageswara Rao, producer D. Rama Naidu, actor Mohan Babu, Shatrugan Sinha, singer P. Suseela, actress-turned-MLA Jayasudha, 'Pinky' Reddy.
Special Jury Awards-2011 were received by 'Rajanna' producer Nagarjuna, actress Sneha and child artiste Baby Annie, actress Charmee for 'Mangala', Ramki for 'Gangaputrulu' while for 2012 they were given to actor Manchu Vishnu 'Denikaina Ready', Nitin 'Ishq', Tanikella Bharani 'Midhunam', Khadir Babu 'Onamalu' and journalist Maddali Venkateswara Rao for his 'Chaduvukovali', a children's film.
Lifetime Achievement Awards were given to 'Rebel' Star U.V. Krishnam Raju and veteran Kaikala Satyanarayana, while Mohan Babu got the 'Best Actor of the Millennium' and Rajendra Prasad the 'Universal Performance Actor' Award. K. Raghavendra Rao received the award for being the 'Star Director of the Millennium' and 'Dil' Raju for being the Best Producer.
Other awards given were 'Empress of Indian Cinema', for Sridevi and Boney Kapoor (Star Producer of the Millennium), Anil Kapoor (Bollywood Evergreen Hero), Shatrugan Sinha (Millennium Sensational Star), Zeenat Aman (Lifetime Achievement), Rani Mukherjee (Bollywood Ever Shining Star), Amisha Patel (Best Actress), Gulshan Grover (Best Performance), and Alka Yagnik (Best Playback Singer).
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Over the edge of the purple down,
Where the single lamplight gleams.
Know ye the road to the Merciful Town
That is hard by the Sea of Dreams—
Where the poor may lay their wrongs away,
And the sick may forget to-weep?
But we—pity us! Oh, pity us!
We wakeful; ah, pity us!—
We must go back with Policeman Day—
Back from the City of Sleep!
Weary they turn from the scroll and crown,
Fetter and prayer and plough—
They that go up to the Merciful Town,
For her gates are closing now.
It is their right in the Baths of Night
Body and soul to steep,
But we—pity us! ah, pity us!
We wakeful; oh, pity us!—
We must go back with Policeman Day—
Back from the City of Sleep!
Over the edge of the purple down,
Ere the tender dreams begin,
Look—we may look—at the Merciful Towns
But we may not enter in!
Outcasts all, from her guarded wall
Back to our watch we creep:
We—pity us! ah, pity us!
We wakeful; oh, pity us!—
We that go back with Policeman Day—
Back from the City of Sleep! Kipling
There are so many levels to this poem, with it's themes of poverty and wealth, that I decided to concentrate on just one, the theme of sleeplessness, the "balm of hurt minds", that many of us never achieve, and just show the city asleep either at the end of a day or at dawn..
Kipling writes very complicated verse on topics that intrigue the reader…I hope to intrigue you the viewer with my darkened sleeping citadel, seen across the river..
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I am inspired by the world interpreting it in brilliant colours, often influenced by the writings of famous authors and poets..
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Keep them coming wahini…..gives me a reason to check in…..beautiful as always
Thanks so much for leaving a comment KJ….I really appreciate it as I know it mean extra clicks…
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Thank you so much Syl…I really appreciate it..
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It does have a feeling of sleep; and I love how the sky is changing from the bright orange to the night blue.
Thanks so much MuiLing..I really appreciate the comments from all of you regardless of the extra clicks…
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Another beautiful interpretation of Kipling's verse, Janis, capturing the light and strong yet subtle colours of the sun. What words would Kipling write, I wonder, about the "City that Never Sleeps"? :)george
I would be in that city George…I am a bad sleeper, so the poem really appealed to me..thanks so much for taking the time to comment…I really appreciate it..
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Has rb disallowed descriptions and exclamations of our art now
No…you just click the buttons on the top right of this page to see the description or related works..
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Oh now I understand your mention of extra clicks….
Is that really necessary….they change things much too much…..I think artists have enough on their palettes…than searching descriptions….and for visitors and especially customers as well…
Well it's to help increase sales..the buyer will get to see the extra images from your gallery's deer more work and will be more inclined to stay on your page…we the members will click to comment and to read the descriptions…
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.. tired so wish I was still in the land of sleep Janis…and especially in one of those mysterious buildings on the skyline bathed in colour from the sky…beautiful and dreamy work :)
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Stunning!! Such skill! Mood and magic!!
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Beautiful cityscape Janis. A fav Liz
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HIV-related stigma measures were adapted from scales that were developed, based on the work of Herek and Capitanio (1993), and validated by the Thai investigators in the Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand (Apinundecha, et al., 2007). After conducting exploratory factor analysis, we identified two factors that were conceptually identified as Perceived Stigma and Internalized Shame. Perceived stigma was created based on 8 items, and Internalized Shame was measured based on 9 items, as shown in Table 1. Response categories ranged from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). Summative composite scores were created for perceived stigma (range = 8 – 40) and internalized shame (range = 9-45), with Cronbach's alphas of 0.75 and 0.81, respectively. Perceived Stigma and Internalized Shame subscales: Perceived Stigma Internalized Shame Apinundecha, C., Laohasiriwong, W., Cameron, M. P. & Lim, S. (2007). A community participation intervention to reduce HIV/AIDS stigma, Nakhon Ratchasima province, northeast Thailand. AIDS Care, 19, 1157-1165. Herek, G. M. & Capitanio, J. P. (1993). Public reactions to AIDS in the United States: A second date of stigma. American Journal of Public Health, 83, 574-577.HIV Stigma « Surveys/Scales « Downloads
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It is 10.40 a.m. sharp when the bell rings signalling the lunch break and a gleam is visible in 12-year old Rohit Ravi's eye. He has been waiting for this moment since last night.
"I have to tell my friends about the crash mode I played yesterday with my sedan. Burnout totally controls you," he says, even as his friends gather around him talking about 'sprints,' 'compact' and 'muscles.' "You cannot change tracks, say from San Diego to Paris, can you? Have you?" asks his friend.
Elsewhere, 8-year-old Sweta Kumar is crazy about 'Angry Birds,' an iPhone application. And as she throws flaring birds on grunting pigs, 'killing' them one by one, she wants more to 'kill.' "The game is enough to keep her busy for two hours," says her father. The world of fantasy and the thrill of video games have always managed to attract children. But there is a thin line between enjoying them and getting habituated to them, which parents and teachers need to constantly watch out for, say experts.
Nintendo, Gameboy, Xbox, Play Station - the list is endless, say children. "You get to be Dr. Gordon Freeman (Half-Life series) battling aliens or Prince Arthas fighting Orcs. It is about being the hero of your world," says Raakesh (13). "Often, winning becomes an obsession. They have to know it is not possible every time," says Meenakshi Viswanathan, a teacher.
When a child starts to shun other activities to focus on the game is when the situation is serious, say experts. While gaming itself does not directly lead to psychological disorders, there are other side effects to eyesight and general health, says Kumar Babu, former head, Psychiatry Department, Government Stanley Medical College. And besides studies getting affected, the risk of children not developing the necessary social skills is quite high, he adds
Asha Arvind, an IT employee and a mother of a 15-year old says, "Most often, working parents find it safer to leave their child on the computer if he/she is alone at home. And then the habit stays on, especially if there are not many children to play with in the neighbourhood."
Parents like her are trying out ways to overcome this situation. "I take my son on weekends to gaming parlours where he and others engage in multi-player games. There is at least some passive company," she says.
Not all games are bad. "The sorting games – say getting ready to school, making your pasta, car parking and Farmville - that involve arranging things improve the analytical abilities. Most video games are about pressing keys faster which improves their reaction time too," says Dr. Babu.
"Monitoring their play time, say an hour every alternate day, works, but what works better is when one parent joins them in the game. The child really opens up and the gaps between them are also reduced," he adds.
But is the threat of addiction to gaming that serious, particularly in the city? "Not many online gaming competitions are hosted by the city. Mostly they happen in Mumbai, Delhi or Bangalore. Even the participants from Chennai are mostly employees and some college students. Schools here are very strict even with the usage of net and children here tend to spend less time at home," says Sumanth Ramanan, a virtual FIFA player from Chennai.
However, the sale of gaming consoles has only increased in the city, at least by 30 per cent in the last two years, says Vivan Rao, of Sigma gaming zones that has its outlets in Nungambakkam and Mylapore. "It is only now that we have set up gaming centres here. Compared to seven in Bangalore, we have three here," he says. The trend of sales can never be analysed perfectly, he says, because very few gamers depend on authentic gaming consoles.
Schools also have a role to ensure children learn the balancing act, say experts. "One way is to talk to parents about engaging children in art-related activities. Also, encouraging children to borrow a library book, asking them to write a different ending to it or engaging them in such conversations help them attain a balance, says Ms. Viswanathan. Stressing on outdoor sports and benefits is most important which only schools can do, experts add.


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what now? loved my HK, but couldn't find **** for it and $100 magazines were no fun
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How many mags do you need for a P7? I've seen them recently for around $60 each. Holsters? I carry in a cheap Uncle Mike's avaialbe everywhere, and many get a VMII for IWB. Guess, where there's a will there's a way. The P7 is that good, for me, but obviously your mileage DID vary.
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i got $800 for it with a TT gunleather holster.
I wanted two mags, and they were way expensive when i was shopping. Looking for something unique, was thinking the FN 5-7, but don't like the hornet'ish lack of man stopping power. Maybe a single-stack 45, I dunno... maybe another type of HK. Wonder what interesting carry guys you guys are packing
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If you want something very similar to the P7; same size, same barrel length, single stack 8+1, simple function, thin, polygonal barrel, no safety lever, then look at the Kahr T9. This pistol isn't always easy to find, but it's really a nice pistol.
My personal carry is a HK P2000sk, but I wouldn't hesitate to carry the T9. It's very reliable. The FN 5.7 is a blast to shoot. A very nice pistol. Maybe a bit large to conceal, but certainly capable. In the current atmosphere the FN prices seem to have skyrocketed, beyond the already heady past prices we saw. |
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oh boy, that kahr does look nice! time to do some digging!
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Yup, the T9 is nice...and if you want a slightly smaller version the K9 actually fits my large hands nicely.
I've shot a P7 and while the trigger is different from a Kahr, it's still very nice and 'shootable' if that makes sense. |
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Cottage with pool - Special Price 17th April to 31st May £199 per week
Peaceful and Private Location, 5 Mins from Nearest Town - Special Price 17th April to 31st May £199
Sleeps 4 (2 Bedrooms)
Property description
Beautifully restored traditional cortijo, stone built with wooden beams and cane roofs. Set in a lovely south facing garden, amongst olive and orange orchards with patio swimming pool and bbq. Tranquil and quiet location with stunning views, 5 mins from the market town of Orgiva, 5 mins from the Guadalfeo River valley. Fully furnished, uniquely designed and decorated. Well equipped, mains electricity, water. 2 bedrooms 1 double and 1 twin. Kitchen/sitting room. Lounge/TV room. Bathroom and utility room.
Accommodation description
Bedroom 1 with wooden new double bed, fitted wardrobes and cupboard space with cosmetic bar, electric fan, electric radiator and beamed ceiling.
Bedroom 2 with 2 single beds, clothes hanging space, mirror, electric fan, heater and beamed ceiling.
Bathroom with bath/shower, washbasin & wc. Hot water supplied by gas heater
Kitchen/sitting room with open fireplace. Tiled work surfaces and ceramic sinks. Electric oven, gas and electric hob and extractor. Dishwasher, fridge/freezer, toaster, juicer, kettle.
Utility Room:
Utility room with washing machine, clothes basket.
Living Rooms:
Beautifully designed lounge with new sofa,rocking chair and armchair.Dining table with 6 chairs. Wood burning stove, gas stove, TV (USB), DVD player and music system. Speakers built-in to all rooms and outside. Selection of books, magazines,dvds and CDs.
Cleaning/Towels/Linen/Maid service:
Towels and linen provided. But not beach towels. Maid service can be arranged.
Barbecue, Private Pool.
Dishwasher, Fridge/Freezer, Hob/Stove, Iron, Oven, Washing Machine.
Cot, High Chair, Room Fans, TV.
Lovely peaceful & private garden with lots of plants. Large outside willow branch covered shade terrace, furnished with table and chairs and bbq. Private swimming pool (5m x 3m) with filter system from April to October included, sun terrace and sun loungers.
Rental Period | Per Night | Per Week | Per Month | Min. Stay (Nights) |
1 April 2015 - 30 April 2015 | £ 199.00 | 1 | ||
1 May 2015 - 21 June 2015 | £ 375.00 | 1 | ||
22 June 2015 - 21 July 2015 | £ 425.00 | 1 | ||
22 July 2015 - 29 August 2015 | £ 475.00 | 1 | ||
30 August 2015 - 4 September 2015 | £ 225.00 | 1 | ||
5 September 2015 - 30 September 2015 | £ 375.00 | 1 | ||
1 October 2015 - 31 October 2015 | £ 300.00 | 1 | ||
1 November 2015 - 30 November 2015 | £ 225.00 | 1 |
Notes on prices
SPECIAL PRICE LAST MINUTE: 16TH April - 31ST MAY £199 p/wk
30th AUGUST - 5TH SEPTEMBER (6 NIGHTS ONLY) - £225
Prices are for the property per week in UK Pounds.
Can be paid in Euros if preferred. 10% discount for bookings of 3 weeks or more & 5% discount on rebooking
Changeover day
Flexible arrival date 3pm. Departure 11am.
Booking notes
Contact owner: Tanya Mimmack. Deposit of 25% required for booking confirmation. Balance to be paid 6 weeks before booking date. Long lets available. Winter lets from 400 euros per month.
Farmhouse in Orgiva - Special Price 17th April to 31st May £199 per week
About the area
30 minutes to beach.
How to get there
Malaga 2 hours. Car hire is recommended.
15 minutes walk and 5 minutes by car to Orgiva. Tarmac track.
Further Details
There are plenty of shops, banks, bar restaurants, cafes even an Internet café & a weekly market. Easy driving distance to the coast, where there are many beaches, shops & attractions & the historic city of Granada, with the famous Alhambra palace & Moorish architecture. Also many interesting places to discover.
Guest reviews
Reviewed by: Daisy, United Kingdom
Reviewed: 10 March 2015
Date of stay: July 2014
"Just simply lovely"
My husband & I stayed at Cortijo Tanya for 10 days. What a lovely holiday we had, so relaxing, so comfortable, we couldnt have asked for more. The cortijo is lovely, very inviting with its traditional design. Very well equipped & comfortable. The situation is just perfect, amazing views, private & peaceful. Only a short walk to Orgiva town, great little town full of shops , bars & restaurants. We will be back that is for sure ! Di & Fred
Recommended for: Adventure seekers, girls getaway, sightseeing, families with young children and romantic getaway
Reviewed by: Ruth, Southend, United Kingdom
Reviewed: 6 October 2014
Date of stay: September 2014
"Picture Perfect"
Cortijo Tanya is a wonderfully artistic Cortijo. The decor has been thoughtfully done it has a very comfortable feel. Clean and very well equipped with everything you will need. Sitting by the pool taking in the stunning views and the days disappear. We arrived just as the main bird migration was in place and spent a few days just taking in this magical event. Orgiva is a lively town and has enough restaurants and bar to keep you happy even if you don't want explore the stunning surrounding area. A visit to the Alhambra is a must, book before your travel is my tip. A great holiday, very relaxing and wish we were still there.
Recommended for: Age 55+, sightseeing, families with teenagers, families with young children and romantic getaway
Reviewed by: chrisandali, United Kingdom
Reviewed: 14 October 2013
Date of stay: September 2013
"Very Special Cortijo"
We had a fantastic relaxing holiday in your magical cortijo. So unique we've already booked for next year. Alison and Chris
Recommended for: Sightseeing, families with teenagers and romantic getaway
Guest comments
Great to arrive at a place that is even better than you dreamt it would be. Jamie, Vicky & Ella.
A magical private spot with stunning views & how cool to take it all in listening to our favorite tunes. Brilliant idea having speakers outside as well. Simon & Jackie
About the Owner
I live in Portugal with my partner, 2 horses, dog & cats. I am half Spanish & lived in Spain for more than 20 years.
Although we love Orgiva & our cortijo there is very special. We decided to make a change - so we bought a derelict farm, which we are renovating. Lots of hard work, lots of challenges, new landscape,new language - we´re lovin´it!
Year property purchased: 1980's
Why this location?
We found " Las Alpujarras" almost by accident, while travelling through Spain. We feel in love with amazing mountain views instantly. We decided to buy the property in 1987. There wasn´t much of the original building still standing, in fact it had been derelict for more than 20 years, leaving only an idea of how it must have been before. The building is over 100 years old. My partner & I spent the previous years renovating the building. We have tried to keep as many of the original features as possible. Stone walls, wooden beamed & cane ceilings. We have built it in a traditional style using local materials for construction & decoration. We have designed the interior to be modern & comfortable with an unusual & unique decor. It has been described as a "fairytale house."
What are the unique benefits of the property?
The cortijo is situated in a scenic area, situated amongst olive & orange groves with mountain views all around. The lively town of Orgiva is only 5 minutes by car or an easy 15 minutes walk. The property is very unusual as it is such a traditional old building. Full of character and absolutely unique in its decor. Comfortable & fully equipped, even music system with speakers in most rooms & outside - great for relaxing.
Send an enquiry to the owner for booking or further information
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Our spanish mobile tel. no.
Languages spoken: English, Spanish.
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Inventional Wisdom
When the Mad Scientist or Gadgeteer Genius creates a machine of diabolical nature, some function gets thrown into the mix that wasn't quite planned, doesn't really serve any practical purpose, and may even be an Achilles' Heel- a lever for flooding the cockpit of the Humongous Mecha with its fuel reserves, for instance.
A variant has additions made which do serve a practical use...just not ones which make logical sense for the machine to have. A jetpack that makes martinis and plays the complete works of Marvin Gaye, for instance.
Expect Lampshade Hanging to ensue.
See also Fridge Logic.
Compare Oven Logic, where the oven dial goes up to thousands of degrees. One has to wonder why the oven had a dial that could go up that high if it wasn't meant to be used that way.
Compare with Cow Tools, where nothing about the machine makes sense. Contrast with Mundane Utility, where simply being what it is lets the device do something useful- cooking popcorn with your Death Ray, for instance. Frequently overlaps with Self-Destruct Mechanism. See also Caps Lock, Num Lock, Missiles Lock.
The name, for the record, is a play off of Conventional Wisdom, in reference to the fact that an inventor holding the Sanity Ball would never install such things to begin with.
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- When Takarada of Kill la Kill tries to fight using crab-like Powered Armor, Sanegayama beats him by shoving his shinai up a hole on the back that seems to not only go straight to the unprotected cockpit, but straight up Takarada's ass. What purpose such a structure could have served is never even asked.
- In one of the versions of Mazinger Z, there was one lever on Hell Island served to launch the island spacewards and detonate it. Big Bad Dr. Hell used it to try to take Mazinger Z with him when he realized the battle was lost. It happened in Gosaku Ota's manga version.
- One Piece has this in the Thriller Bark arc: when Brook finds a massive store of salt in the kitchen (salt being the only weakness of the countless Mooks on the island), he wonders why the Big Bad even keeps it albeit in a room secured with lock, key, and chains.
- In Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure, Mr. Sanada frequently designs machines with large buttons that you think would activate them, he even coaxes the person to press the button/presses the button himself, before revealing that it doesn't actually do anything. 'It's actually' *Mitsuki sits down on a lever* 'that lever..'
- Some examples from The Far Side:
- A plane passenger is fumbling around with his seat controls, one of which is a switch marked "Wings Stay On"/"Wings Fall Off".
- A tech's soundboard at a concert had a dial labeled "Suck" which he was gleefully adjusting.
- The Adventures Of Kool-Aid Man: Professor Kline builds a rocketship, but doesn't know how to turn it on.
- Played with in Meanwhile. The Killitron is a doomsday device built by a mild-mannered inventor with no Omnicidal Maniac tendencies whatsoever. However, it turns out that it can be used to manipulate entropy, allowing for such miracles as reversing the aging process and transmuting food and water.
- Inverted in Atomic Robo, when Robo's shocked at the lack of extra options:
Robo: Relax. All we have to do is Reverse the Polarity and everything'll go back to... normal. [...] There is no reverse. How could they not include a reverse?! That's just criminally negligent with the kind of ludicrous stuff we get up to around here!
Films — Animated
- Monsters vs. Aliens: The latte dispenser is operated by a Big Red Button that is identical and right next to the button that launches all of the US's nuclear missiles.
President: What idiot designed this?!Offscreen Voice: You did sir.President: Fair enough.
- The Emperor's New Groove: The entrance to Yzma's secret lab has a lever that opens a Trap Door to a Croc Pool. It's right next to the lever that opens the door. While it could be used as a trap, Yzma doesn't seem to intend it that way, and she can never remember which one is which.
Films — Live-Action
- At the end of Bride of Frankenstein, the enraged Monster is rampaging through the lab. As he approaches a very large wooden lever Dr. Pretorius shouts, "Don't touch that lever! You'll blow us all to atoms!" The question must be asked: if you were collecting all the supplies and fixtures you'd need to build your super high-tech lab, how far down the list would "a lever that will blow us all to atoms" be?
- In The Cabin in the Woods, the agency has a big red button that releases all of the monsters they have stored up and no safeguards at all, other than a plastic covering.
- The Chompers in Galaxy Quest, Gwen lampshades how ridiculous it is that there is a Death Course in the middle of the ship.
Gwen: Screw that! I'm not doing it! This episode was badly written!
- A Death Course with chutes and flames appears in Race to Witch Mountain.
- In Spaceballs, Spaceball-1 can go to "Ludicrous Speed", which everybody except Dark Helmet realizes is something they shouldn't do. Fortunately the ship is also equipped with a hand-operated "Emergency Brake" which is labeled "Never Use".
- The trapdoor in Red Sonja.
- In the original Cube, somebody speculates that the only reason they were put into the cube was because it had been built, and not using it would be to admit it was pointless.
- Austin Powers: Practically everything Dr. Evil owns.
- In Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Movie, the Rangers are desperate to disengage the Ninja Megazord from Ivan Ooze, so one Ranger hits the big button behind emergency glass. It delivers a Groin Attack.
- In Garfield: The Movie, Garfield hits a big red button that immediately stops all the trains at a station.
- In Die Another Day the villain has a suit that he can use to shock people. For reasons that are not entirely clear, there's a button on the front that causes it to electrocute the guy wearing it.
- Discworld has Bungling Inventor "Bloody Stupid" Johnson, who has added quite a number of useless and dangerous things to his inventions.
- In Hogfather he added some things to the bathroom in Unseen University that Archchancellor Ridcully would come to regret.
- He also designed a nice, upper class neighbourhood that just happened to break the laws of space and time. You can just throw the trash out of the window into the yard, since it's probably not your yard, anyway. It's also has a very low crime rate, as thieves generally prefer to break into one house at a time.
- Or the post office sorting machine, which included a wheel with a circumference-to-diameter ratio of exactly 3 (rather than the usual three-and-a-bit, which he thought was untidy), and which soon started sorting letters before they were written.
- And his pipe organs usually include special sound effects such as thunder or animal noises, with at least one example also being connected to the building's plumbing system. The UU organ, located in the middle of a city with a million inhabitants, also includes a pipe that plays the Brown Note so loud that it causes earthquakes.
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy features the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, a company built entirely around this concept. In the words of the Guide itself, their corporate strategy is based on building devices whose "superficial design flaws completely mask their fundamental design flaws." In other words, you get so involved in getting the thing to work at all that you completely fail to realize that it's incapable of doing what it was made to do in the first place. From the first book alone, examples include a superintelligent robot with a suicidally depressed personality and an intelligent drink dispenser that, no matter what you ask for, always gives you exactly the same horrid concoction that is "perfectly tailored to your individual tastes."
Live Action TV
- An episode of Sesame Street involved a high-powered air conditioning system being installed in the Furry Arms Hotel. Humphrey specifically states that it's only meant to be turned up to 10. If the knob is turned up to 14, it will break. Those are literally his exact words. Guess what the resident penguins end up doing.
- Chuck Versus the Mask, the museum's computer room has a big red readout that says system failure. Talk about a complete lack of faith in your system. Shouldn't they have hired a curator who knew how to use a computer?
- Far Out Space Nuts: "I said lunch, not launch!" Maybe those two buttons shouldn't be right next to each other?
- An episode of Star Trek has Kirk being court-martialed under suspicion of accidentally ejecting an "ion pod" with a crew member still inside it. The prime evidence is (falsified) footage of the bridge during the incident, which includes a closeup of the arm of Kirk's captain's chair, which has three buttons on it - presumably the three things it was determined a Starfleet captain needed to be able to do at any time: "Red Alert," "Yellow Alert," and "Eject Pod."
- Davros, the Mad Scientist who created the Daleks on Doctor Who decided that it would be a good idea for his mobile life support system to have a clearly marked on/off switch on the panel in front of it.
Music Video
- In the video for "Rocking The Suburbs" by Ben Folds, the audio fidelity notably drops at one point. Cut to Ben and the video's director ("Weird Al" Yankovic) at a mixing board, whereupon the director improves the audio quality by turning down the Suck level on the mixing board.
Role-Playing Games
- In Dino Attack RPG, neither the Brickspider Bot v1.0 nor Cyber-Bully were quite sure why Evil Ogel's Elaborate Underground Base came with a doorbell.
Tabletop Games
- The gnomes of Dragonlance. Their inventions seem to start with an idea, then modify as they go to fix perceived problems in ways that seem reasonable until you look at the whole. Some examples:
- Falling into water while wearing heavy plate armor tends to be inconvenient. Wouldn't it be nice to take the armor off in a hurry when you need to? So it's set up to be removed quickly. If you fall into water, you might be a little panicked, so the way to remove it should be easily accessible, right? Bright red painted crash bar on the front. And plate armor - especially gnome-modified plate armor - is going to be expensive, so you want a way to retrieve all the pieces if you do need to remove it like that, so... all the pieces are attached to the belt with wires so you can easily find them....
- A gnomic effort to light their caverns involved piping magma through them. When this made the average corridor hot enough to flash-fry gnomes, they poured water on the pipes. The net result was that it was still impossible to see because when you pour water on a tube of magma, you get huge quantities of steam. And it was still hot enough that you wouldn't want to spend too long in the corridors unless you were literally a fire elemental. But by the gods, it was lit!
- In Paranoia, pretty much anything that comes out of Alpha Complex's R&D labs for testing during a Troubleshooter mission.
- Genius: The Transgression has quite a few instances of these in the player character's Wonders, which often have flaws attached (like a time machine that needs a wall outlet, for example).
Video Games
- Dwarf Fortress has a fondness for these, with players often ending up with levers that serve no purpose but to flood parts of their own fortress with lava. This is particularly pronounced in games when players swap out between years so that no one knows what the lever actually does and building around it. For example, Boatmurdered had a lever that, when pulled, flooded a siege workshop. It turned out it had originally been put in to irrigate the farms and became hilariously useless later when someone built a siege workshop on them.
- In Advance Wars: Black Hole Rising, Lash proposes to the more practical Hawke that an airport she just finished for him be equipped with add-ons like a self destruct sequence.
- Between the two Portal games, there are several examples, all designed by Aperture Science's Cloudcuckoolander founder.
- The fuel system de-icer is also a sentient, malevolent AI that can slowly flood the facility with massive amounts of "deadly neurotoxin" stored in a large tank.
- A portal gun capable of warping space was originally designed for use as a shower curtain.
- Turrets that are sapient, and capable of feeling pain
- Empathy Generators on the turrets. To keep them able to shoot people, they also installed an Empathy Suppressor.
- Aerial Faith Plates are basically catapults that can propel the player vast distances. Their intended use was to load cargo onto trucks, despite the fact that the cargo is thrown with such force that it breaks and/or bounces back out.
- Thermal Discouragement Beams, giant lasers that were apparently installed to keep office workers from leaving their desks.
- Propulsion and Repulsion Gels, which were originally conceived as dietary aids despite the latter containing an element that "does not like the human skeleton."
- And finally Conversion Gel, which literally just paints surfaces white so portals can be put on them. Any old white paint would have sufficed, but no, Aperture Science felt the need to make the white pigment out of crushed moonrocks, complete with implications that the obvious incredible cost of procuring said rocks are what finally bankrupted the company, but also that a major character developed terminal pneumoconiosis as a result of this. And the recipe for it? It has a huge importance for the game's last battle.
- In Kingdom of Loathing, the clan VIP room's shower temperature can be set so low that it makes shards of ice rain down on the user. When you use it, your character questions why someone would even make something like this.
- Applies to so many door-lock minipuzzles in all sorts of games. Why would a supposedly everyday door require people to go through lengthy, complex manipulations to get through — the users would get fed up. Why would a door be locked with a device that is disassembled when unlocked, or otherwise only good for one use.
- In Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor, the Self-Destruct Mechanism is located next to the switch for the headlights. Which would be a problem even if the controls weren't complete garbage.
- Awesomemod (a mod for The Sims 3) has a configuration setting called "ExplodeInBFBVFS", which allegedly causes your game to explode in "a big fiery ball visible from space". All it really does is display a funny message when you try to run the game, and then immediately quits.
- Chrono Trigger In Ozzie's boss battles, you win once the correct switch behind him is hit. The fact that he always has at least one switch that opens a trap door under him is what qualifies him for the trope.
- Evil Mad Scientist Sludge Vohaul in Space Quest II is kept alive by a life support system equipped with a single button that, if pressed, turns it off immediately with no apparent failsafe. Furthermore, it's placed deep inside the workings of the machine where nobody can normally reach it, but inconveniently small foreign objects that get inside can.
Web Animation
- In Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse, Barbie's Master Computer, Closet, has a button that can change it from a helpful servant, to a power-hungry tormentor. No one among Barbie's gang can remember why Closet has such a button, not even its inventor, Ken.
Web Comics
- The artistic variation shows up here, in Starslip. Vanderbeam, alone on the ship, is trying to calm down and forget about ghosts, so he goes around looking at art. He looks at Edward Munch's The Scream, Henri Fuseli's Nightmare, and Hox Torvus' Vanderbeam Getting Eaten By A Ghost, prompting this:
- Vanderbeam: Heavens, why did I ever commission this piece?!
- The Adventures of Dr. McNinja give us this gem: "You just cut the elevator?! What are you doing?! Why is there even a button for that?"
- In The Order of the Stick, upon learning that the gate in Dorukan's dungeon that Elan destroyed was one of five seals on an Eldritch Abomination's prison, Vaarsuvius questions the logic of having a Self-Destruct Mechanism. (There is a reason, namely to No MacGuffin, No Winner rather than risk allowing the forces of evil control said abomination.)
- In Bob and George, it's revealed that several of Dr. Light's robots have Good/Evil switches for no obvious reason. Bass, not having been created by Dr. Light, nevertheless has an Evil/Stupid switch (which is firmly in the "Stupid" position almost all the time.)
Western Animation
- Spongebob Squarepants: Plankton equips his Robot Mr. Krabs with a Penny-Powered Self-Destruct Mechanism.
Plankton: Coin-operated self-destruct? Not one of my brighter ideas.
- Kim Possible: The Lorwardian Motherships' engines have an "off" switch.
Warmonga: Long have I questioned the wisdom of that accursed switch!
- Phineas and Ferb: Most of Dr. Doofenshmirtz's inventions have some sort of reverse, or self destruct function, especially when this would make no sense. Some examples:
- In "The Monster of Phineas-n-Ferb-enstein", Dr. Doofenshmirtz's ancestor builds a device to make a potion that will make a person "Evil-Er". For some reason it also has a "Fairy Princess" setting.
- "Hail Doofania!" The Rainbow Generator features a Self-Destruct Mechanism
Ferb: You know, in retrospect I questioned the inclusion of a self destruct button in the first place.
- In "Across the 2nd Dimension" Doofenshmirtz mentions he once deployed an army of robots and hid the self destruct buttons on their feet. Guess how the robots were defeated.
- In one episode, Doofenshmirtz spends an entire episode looking for an on-off switch so he can activate his latest -inator. It turns out that all the -inator does is open the cage that he had trapped Perry in.
- In one episode Doofenshmirtz builds a Go-Away-Inator which spins a wheel of locations and sends whatever it's pointed at away. Near the end of the episode it sends a group of people into Doof's pants. It turns out that that "My Pants" setting was there because the -inator's wheel had been mixed up with his dry cleaning wheel.
Doofenshmirtz: Wait, why do I have a dry cleaning wheel? - The Fairly Oddparents: "Action Packed"
Jurgen: AH! Why did I build a "Reverse-Suck"?!Timmy: 'Cause this is MY movie!
- In one episode of Eek The Cat, a professor built a rocket ship to Jupiter, and he told the astronauts that before launch they must make sure the absurdly huge switch is set for Jupiter and not the sun. One character asked, "Why is that even there?"
- Danny Phantom Pandora guards her box so no idiot can release its evil contents, so why does she have a release switch?
Pandora: I knew that "spew" switch was going to come back and haunt me.
- A few examples from the Dilbert cartoon:
- When the evil Leena is trapped in her own prototype, the De-pruner, her coworkers hit the "decapitate" button.
Leena: I knew I shouldn't have added that option.
- Dilbert also installed a voice-operated temperature changer in the shower. Which reacts to any number he says, regardless of context. Dogbert is disappointed to find he himself cannot change the temperature when Dilbert is taking a shower, but he can ask about "That movie with the crazy computer..." "You mean '2001'?"
- When the evil Leena is trapped in her own prototype, the De-pruner, her coworkers hit the "decapitate" button.
- The Simpsons
- A Halloween special features an murderous Krusty doll: "Yep, there's your problem. Somebody set this thing to evil."
- In a later episode, Bart sets a bunch of Roombas from "off" to "malevolent sentience". They promptly go on a mini-rampage.
- Megas XLR: Sometimes Coop can't even make sense of his own designs. Some examples:
- Megas has 3 buttons labeled "Destroy the world", "Smite the world" and "Destroy the world, worse", and one button labeled "Save the world". Guess which button is needed? Guess which one is missing from the control panel?
- Megas is low on oil in one episode, so Coop literally wrings the grease out of several cheesesteak sandwiches directly into a small tube that refills the tank. The gauge goes from "Empty" —> "Need a little" —> "Almost There" —> "Enough" —> "No really, I'm fine" —> and "PLEASE STOP!"
- Similarly, one of Megas' temperature gauges goes all the way up to "GOOD CRIPES!"
- Some examples from Codename: Kids Next Door:
- Recurring teenage villain Cree explained that the only reason she escaped from a prison spaceship was because one of the pilots accidentally pressed the "Blow Up The Engines" button during a fight over trading cards.
Cree: Who else but a bunch of stupid kids would put a "Blow Up The Engines" button on a spaceship?- In anonther episode, the ice cream Monster of the Week is defeated when Numbah Three turns on the heater in the ice cream factory. Quote The Delightful Children From Down the Lane:
DCFDL: A HEATER!? Who puts a HEATER in an ICE CREAM FACTORY?!
- He-Man and She-Ra's Christmas Special shows Orko lauching a rocket thats manipulated by one easily breakable lever.
- Futurama had Professor Farsnworth's glow-in-the-dark nose making machine. About halfway through the episode, he prepares to insert a note from Leela's parents into it to analyze it and hopefully translate it. This exchange took place:
Fry: Isn't that the machine that makes noses?Professor: It can do other things! Why shouldn't it?
- In one episode of Adventures in Care-a-Lot, Grizzle takes over Care-a-Lot using the Caretaker II, a belly-badge-stealing ray that can turn invisible. Naturally, it gets lost while invisible, and while looking for it, Grizzle warns his minions not to press the blue button that releases all the belly badges, complaining that he never should have installed that button.
- The trope image comes from The Transformers episode "B.O.T.", which is about the Decepticons trying to rebuild Bruticus because he is supposedly the only one big enough to use their gigantic superweapon. Despite the Decepticons' success, the Autobots manage to foil their plans and destroy it. How do they do this? The B.O.T. presses a button on a human-level control panel clearly marked "Over Load" [sic]. True to its label, it overloads the superweapon and makes it explode. This and numerous other nonsense moments in the story contribute to its reputation as the worst episode in the franchise's history.
- Parodied by Cartoon Network with a Birdman short (link here). Falcon 7 asks why Birdman allows Avenger on his console, while Birdman insists he's "fully-trained" and demonstrates by ordering Avenger to press the Coffee button...which is right next to the Doomsday button. He gets the coffee, but accidentally hit the Doomsday button too.
- Iron Man: Armored Adventures: Killer Shrike's flight tech is directly linked to his wrist blasters. After Iron Man smashes the blasters, he points out to the plummeting villain what a bad idea that was.
- In American Dad! Stan dies and goes to Heaven, and tries to use his gun to threaten people into sending him back to Earth. Everyone laughs at the idea that they could be harmed in Heaven, until Stan steals an Angel Gun which can kill anyone. As he runs out, one guy questions why they have those.
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- Many heating devices can reach temperatures far beyond the point where they stop being useful. Some hot tubs get hot enough to kill people, while some toasters get hot enough to burn any type of bread into a hunk of charcoal.
- Car speedometers often go higher than is safe to travel in the car in question. In some cases, the speedometer is even designed to read velocities that the car isn't even capable of reaching under normal circumstances. Mostly this happens because there is just one type of speedometer which has to cover a whole range of cars.
- Volume controls often go much higher than is ever practical. In some cases, this is simply to prepare for uncommon usage, while in other cases, maximum volume would actually blow out the speakers.
- Computer keyboards:
- One desktop PC keyboard from around 2000 had special keys to turn the computer on and off, so you wouldn't have to reach down, fumble for the switch, etc. Of course the keyboard drew its power from the computer, so the "On" key never worked. The "Off" key didn't have that problem, but it was in the upper right corner, and thus very easy to hit by accident.
- Up to this day, keyboards, especially compact keyboards, utilize all this pesky unused space above the arrow keys by placing power control buttons... the power off button is where PrintScreen, Insert or Delete button would usually go
- An inversion of this contributed to the Apollo 13 accident. While emptying a cryogenic oxygen tank using a heater, the dial used to watch the temperature did not go above the expected maximum, and as a result no one knew that the temperature was getting significantly higher and damaging some equipment.
- Tandy computers had a button that functioned as "Escape" (ESC) on modern computer setups, only it was called "break", because it broke whatever loop a program was stuck in. On the Tandy Color Computer 3 it was even bright red, leaving many uninformed users to be terrified to touch the button for fear the button was something that would break your computer. ("Break" is still on your keyboard - it's usually a secondary function on your "pause" key.)
- The first incarnation of the Apple ][ computer had the "reset" button right above the "enter" key. Since the "Enter" key is pressed more often than any other key, and the "reset" button will instantly hard-reboot your computer, this caused some problems.
- Military equipment typically comes with a scuttle mechanism to destroy it when capture is imminent (generally by triggering a thermite charge - the "scuttle charge" - on top of the case). This is occasionally confused with the "Battle Short" switch on military equipment which may conceivably be used as a scuttle mechanism, but that's not its primary purpose: what it does is short out all the breakers and governors, allowing you to run the equipment over its rated maximum power. This is useful in combat when having your equipment overload is preferable to getting hit with high explosive, but if you leave it engaged in other circumstances you are likely to have a bad day.
- Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment - Every program attempts to expand [its features] until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
- There is a software development practice called gold plating: continuing development past the point where extra effort is really worth the value. This usually results in adding extra features that the customer did not request, in hopes that any extra effort will be noticed. This is considered bad management practice, because even in the event that the customer is glad to see these features (which is not guaranteed!), he will not pay extra for them (since adding things without request and then demanding money is a type of fraud) while the developers' time is wasted on developing these features and continuing to support them anyway.


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Anyone here play any of those Zynga games on Facebook, like Farmville and Cafeworld? How is the quality and smoothness compared to playing them on a PC?
I'm asking because a primary reason for me to get a TouchPad would be so my kids could play these Zynga Facebook games and access other Flash websites on it like NickJr and PBSKids. Many Flash based websites play poorly or don't play at all on my Pre2, including the ones on Facebook, so I'm worried the TouchPad would be similar. Thanks for your advice. Last edited by zeedale; 08/04/2011 at 09:27 AM. |
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It seems Steve Jobs was right when he said that Flash was too inefficient and not optimized for mobile devices. For me, it's a hit or miss on Flash-embedded sites on my Pre2. A few Flash sites work, most others work but are very laggy, and others just don't work at all.
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so what was the answer? Does farmville or slots, poker or whatever those stupid games are do they play? If so how could I check? I don't have any interest in them but my mother in law wants a tablets and plays a bunch of fb things. I know iPad has apps to make some of them possible but android?
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Apple iPad2 64GB WiFi +3G (Verizon) Apple iPhone4 32GB (AT&T) Touchpad 32GB WiFi - RETURNED Veer 4G - SOLD |
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I'm actually searching these forums for the opposite question: I have no desire to play farmville, smurfs, etc and I'm sick of seeing all the posts that so and so needs to milk their cow or tickle their smurf or whatever... so in the TP Facebook app, is there a way, like on regular old webpage facebook, to ignore all posts from certain apps?
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I see that people have posted that it should be possible, but I have been having trouble trying to get it to work for my wife. I have overclocked the TP to 1.5GHz, installed WebOS 3.0.2, made sure all updates for apps are installed, no other cards are running, etc, but if I open the Browser and try to launch Farmville or Cityville from the Facebook site, the games will load most of the way and then spontaneously the page will reload.
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New owner/user, OC'd to 1.5, did all the tricks. I tried to load up cityville (should be similar to farmville in requirements). I had the same webpage reloading issue. Rebooted, cityville would load, partially. I'd see my streets, some buildings, but some of the sprites would be in the wrong spot, no water. I let it sit there a while and it didn't really seem to do much else.
To me it seems an issue of lack of memory, not cpu. If the cpu was tanked, I'd think the tablet would have locked up, which it wasn't at all, I could multitask just fine. Which is a shame too, I was hoping to surprise my wife with this as her bday present, if it'd play farmville/cityville it'd be the perfect computer for her. |
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Photo ID # | b03.06.05_074_OLS_UNK_0070_1 |
Car #: | #74 |
Driver (s) : | Walt Olsen |
Location: | Unknown |
Date: | 1970's |
Photographer: | Unknown |
Photo provided by: | Kevin Budden |
Comments: | Walt Olsen in the Wisneski..., Wesne... oh well, you guys will help us out with the owner's name, but we are pretty sure that this is a Weld car! |
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03/06/05 | Barry Miller | This car was the Frank Wiechecki #74. After Walt drove it they painted the
car pink and Al Graeber drove it and later Bobby Braxton. It was a Weld car and
Bobby Braxton later destroyed it during warmups in the first turn at Reading. He ran up
over the right rear of another car and he went as high as the wire fence in the first turn
and he landed between the first and second turn. It was one of the worst flips I had
ever seen but he was not injured. I believe he did this in his first race in the car. He won the heat and he was really hooked up that night. He flipped during the warmups before the feature and he was fast. I think that he probably would have won the feature that night if that did not happen. I believe that was during the '77 season. |
03/18/05 | Scott Pacich | There is a picture on the Reading Web site www.rsca-racing.com under photographs #4, under mishaps of what might be the flip. The 74 is backwards and in the air off what looks like the second turn. Kenny Brightbill and Kenny Weld (in the 11) are also involved. Three Weld cars in one accident. How rare is that? http://www.rsca-racing.com/ReadingFairgrounds/ReadingFairground/Accidents/mishap_14.html |
03/25/05 | "k" | I watched Walt during almost his entire career. I think he was an
underrated racer, he worked hard in/on his racers, he was/is a man with great integrity
and honesty. I am not sure if folks realize how hard the teams work on the race cars on the road, often late into the night. Walt and his team would often worked on Fred Fable's #5 after a hard Friday night of racing, and turn it around to be ready for a Saturday night show. Then on a Sunday race again and be back to work on Monday morning, early. His wife, Betty, has always been by his side rooting him on and often driving home in the middle of the night. A racer that is still involved, role modeling and making sure drivers are safe. Great Memories! |


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The Technology Vicinity: A Location Based View on Technology
Steenhuis, Harm-Jan and Bruijn, Erik J. de (2001) The Technology Vicinity: A Location Based View on Technology. In: PICMET '01: Portland international conference on management of engineering and technology: Technology management in the knowledge era: life in the e-world, July 29 - August 2 2001, Portland, Oregon.
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Abstract: | The issue of technology transfer has been viewed
from many different perspectives. In this case the focus is on the process of (production) technology transfer. One of the difficulties in studying international technology transfer is the definition of technology. The many technology definitions that exist are either too 'loosely' formulated or they require thorough expert knowledge. This results in difficulties with measuring technology and comparing different studies meaningfully. This study on technology transfer used technology as a sensitizing concept. Four case studies were performed and during these case studies a definition of technology was developed and refined, to obtain a meaningful representation of the technology at hand. The model enables the researchers on the transfer of technology to measure what is transferred. The research also showed that a technology can not be viewed in isolation but organizational factors and environmental factors influence the productivity of a technology. Therefore the functioning of technology should be viewed as dependent on its location. |
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Summoned from the frontline to Saddam Hussein's palace, Iraqi army lieutenant Latif Yahia (Dominic Cooper) is thrust into the highest echelons of the "royal family" when he's ordered to become the 'fiday' - or body double - to Saddam's son, the notorious "Black Prince" Uday Hussein (also Dominic Cooper), a reckless, sadistic party-boy with a rabid hunger for sex and brutality.
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I can't decide if I like Danny DeVito more in Batman Returns as Penguin or on Jersey Shore as Snooki. Is there any role this guy can't play?
It really sucks when you're about to fall asleep and you see a centipede in your room and you have to get up and move out of the state.
About to finish my second book of the day!
And when I say book, I really mean magazine.
And when I say magazine, I really mean pizza.
It's cool when you're at the mall with a girl and she "just needs to stop in a store for a second" and you end up moving in and dying there.
And then, I had to sobbingly confess to my dietician that I ate my food journal too. :(
Hey Rihanna, if finding love in a hopeless place is anything like eating alone in the Arby's bathroom handicapped stall, we should talk.
I like my meth labs like I like my girlfriends: highly unstable and locked in my basement.
Where in the world did black guys get the idea that Gone in 60 Seconds is the sequel to Knocked Up?
Sometimes your tweets are so funny that I star them in my head and verbally RT them later because comedy is hard and my whole life is a lie.
Whatever, real friends don't judge each other's needlessly complicated fast food orders.
Me: I'm just saying, you only get to see Danny's room in one, MAYBE two Full House episodes.
Waitress: That's great, we closed an hour ago.
Paranormal Activity 3 wasn't even THAT scary.
Now, if someone can give me a hand turning on every light in the city, I'd like to go to bed.
I'm sorry, you guys. I accidentally dropped some silverware into my garbage disposal and now Skrillex has enough material for 7 new albums.
There are two types of people in the world: People who'd stop whatever they're doing to watch Spaceballs and hey! Spaceballs is on! Cool.
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You should archive these mods then as they are no longer active.
The mod you are trying to view has ceased development and consequently been archived. If you are a member of this mod, can demonstrate that it is being actively developed and will be able to keep this profile up to date with the latest news, images, videos and downloads, please contact us with all details and we will consider its re-activation.
This mod's goal is to make the pirate faction a playable one and a larger threat overall.
I have ceased creation of both Sins of the Past and Pirates...
Posted by Fleet_ADM_Drian on Apr 3rd, 2013
will be ceased immediately as kcirtap has asked that the project be shut down due to lack of progress and I have no idea how to take it further, he may continue its creation later.
will be ceased as I have no more vision for the mod and am working on a new secret project.
The plot for this new mod is the Ancients have Returned.
If you can figure out what this mod will be about from the details you will be selected to be a beta tester for the mod, testing period will start once the project is revealed.
I do need Modelers, Texture Artist, Particle Editors, and Icon Creators.
The models needed are from a Sci-Fi show so they should be easy to created and have many references.
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You guys... We have some TOP SECRET information as to WHY Liam Hemsworth and Miley Cyrus ended their nearly three-year relationship. It's not because he cheated. It's not because she changed her look. These are the nine reasons why Liam really left Miley.
1. Because she got wasted without him. OH SH*T.
2. Because she twerked upside down for Terry Richardson.
3. Because she mooned the Internet.
4. Because she gave a lap dance to this fuzzy red thing.
5. Because she takes showers like this and let's Rolling Stone watch.
6. Because she treats foam fingers like sex toys.
7. Because she thought black tape was an acceptable replacement for a bra.
8. Because she took advantage of a small woman.
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For 23 years a Louisville doctor, the mother of two, lived knowing that a time bomb was ticking away in her brain. That time bomb was an aneurysm that grew so large it was considered inoperable. But as fate would have it, just as the aneurysm began causing symptoms too dangerous to ignore, a new medical procedure offered hope. The procedure, something her primary care physician calls a miracle, is performed at only a few dozen hospitals in the country, including Norton Brownsboro Hospital in Louisville.
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I thought our system is innocent until proven guilty. David Jenkins said he was not in or near the places the credit card charges were made that he is contesting. It tells me a lot about a person that wants to publicly condemn someone before all the facts are in. I have to question the reason that person is doing that, for what gain are they doing it. Do they have proof that no one knows about. I certainly hope people like that don't serve on jury duty. The poor defendant would be charged guilty before the trial.
The issue of merging city and county governments is one that has not been reported on in this paper for some time – mainly because nothing new has happened.
I have watched more local television news reports this past week than in recent years and I can honestly say that I'm dumber for it.
When it comes to feeding that news-junkie habit, there's nothing that compares to the written word – and not on some flickering computer screen either. Even when I do want to read something on an Internet news site, I have to print it out.
It is with great anticipation and excitement that we begin the 2009-2010 Spencer County High School football season.
It goes without saying that the current activities of our county judge has created a cloud of sadness that covers the legacy of our community statewide. One would think that we are the laughing stock of the Commonwealth, but no one is laughing.
If there is any taxpaying citizen in Spencer County that is not 100 percent angry, that person needs to be committed to an insane asylum. I will refer to Judge Jenkins as Mr. Jenkins from this point in time because I can not fathom addressing him as judge. He no longer deserves that distinction.
As temperatures rise, take care of your pets…please.
Did you know dogs can get sunburn and heat stroke? Here's a simple test--if it's hot to you, it is hot for your pet.
Here are simple tips--Don't leave your dog in the sun for long periods of time, give the dog plenty of fresh, cool water and access to shade throughout the day, and never, ever, leave your dog in your car.
The family of Anthony Wayne "Tony" Reynolds would like to thank everyone involved in the search and recovery efforts after his tragic boating accident at Taylorsville Lake May 29.
We would first like to recognize the members of the Louisville Metro Police Department Dive Team, the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Mt. Washington Fire Protection District.
Thank you to Salt River Electric for being so prompt in responding to our emergency call after the storm last Monday. We had a transformer struck by lightning. Within 20 minutes of our phone call Salt River Electric had a truck here, had a transformer ordered and a bucket truck on the way. We had our electricity restored within an hour. What great service!
Donna Keeling
Although it took a bit longer than planned, the House and Senate finally came to an agreement Wednesday to reduce and balance the state budget and lay the groundwork for future economic development across the Commonwealth, as the eight-day special session called by the governor adjourned.
Some people thrive on politics.
I'm not talking about those elected to the governmental process, but the ones standing on the sides lines of the big game. There are people who actually enjoy following the maneuvers of political figures as if watching cross-town rivals play in the championship game. It's fun for these public affairs junkies to anticipate a player's next move. Will they punt? Or go for the Hail Mary pass? They delight in watching grown men and women grapple for power, pull each other down and sling some mud.
An Aguan family thanks Spencer Countians and Spencer County Habitat for Humanity for their generosity and compassion.
Just months after finishing the first Habitat house in Spencer County, your local Habitat began another build-this time in Agua, in Honduras, Latin America.
On behalf of the Taylorsville-Spencer County Fire Protection District, I would like to thank the community for once again supporting the WHAS Crusade for Children. Thanks to your efforts, the department collected $29,133.38. Special thanks goes to all our firefighters that assisted this weekend, especially, Assistant Chief Richard Morris, Sgt. Cameron Canan, and Firefighter Tyler Milburn who went beyond the call of duty!
Thanks to all!
Nathan B. Nation
Fire Chief
Thank you to anyone who has supported the country ham breakfast the first Saturday of each month. With your support, we have had the opportunity to sponsor a Little League ball team, give to the Relay for Life, give a college scholarship to one of the seniors, give to the Angel Tree program at Christmas, give a monthly donation to the Dare to Care program at First Baptist Church, as well as other benefits in our community.
We appreciate your continued support.
Charlie Jewell
Taylorsville Masonic Lodge #210
The article written by Larry Lewis regarding septic tanks was right on the mark. If everyone on septic systems would follow that advice they would have a lot less problems.
Thanks, Mr. Lewis, for a very factual and informative article.
Dick Reed
When I read the articles in the paper about all the city and county are doing to make our town and county pretty, I think back about all the times the citizens of Houston Court have asked for their help and nothing has been done.
We live at the bottom of Skaggs Hill. We have had an ongoing drainage problem here for years and the city and county can only blame each other about "who is responsible for this problem."
The thousands of beer cans that we have picked up along the right of way adjoining our farm over many decades stand as testament that Spencer County is dry in name only.
We do not use alcohol but support the sale of alcoholic beverages in Spencer County because we think that if some existing businesses wish to sell it, they should have the opportunity to do so.
I like truth. I do not have a corner on truth, so I try to be grateful to people who disagree with me for specific reasons. When someone tells me he disagrees with me, it is hard not to take it personally. It is much better if he gives me reasons why he disagrees with me. Then, I can try to understand his position.
Last week, a public meeting was held with engineers from the State Highways and Transportation Department regarding the proposed new bridge on KY 55 over the Salt River and the KY 44 realignment. I got the impression these projects, although much needed, are simply a meat and potatoes bare bones approach leaving no room in the design for wide sidewalks to accommodate pedestrians, bike routes or handicapped pathways.
I have been reading with interest all the differing views on the wet versus dry debate. I've been thinking about this issue ever since we moved here 12 years ago. I never heard of a dry county until then. I've also been thinking about the fact that there is virtually no place for kids/young adults to go to unless it's a church event or organized sport. I see these two issues merging into a single solution.
This is the third year for our Apron Contest at the Red Scooter. We schedule it each year around Mother's Day to honor our "foremothers."
Aprons were such a huge part of our ancestors' day to day wardrobe. Many a tear has been dried by an apron.
Out of the 24 aprons entered, the winners are listed below:
• Our Antique Apron Winner was Hazel Slucher who brought in a child's blue floral bib apron trimmed in blue rickrack. She thinks it belonged to Martin Slucher.


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Marxian Cartographies: Mapping/Re-drawing the Tracefull name / name of organization: Anthony C. Cooke/The Marxist Literary Group contact email: firstname.lastname@example.com This panel will consider Marxism in all of its various manifestations over time, as well as attempts to imagine how it might travel and take on new shapes in the future. How has Marxism traveled, via fiction, poetry, or as an ideology, over time? What sort of geographical or theoretical traces has it left behind, particularly where it is proclaimed that we are "beyond" Marxism? Does memory, whether in the present or as hope for the future, play a role? Is it possible to construct an atlas of Marxism? Can one claim Marxism in any of its forms (Post-Marxism, New Historicism, and so on) in an era of increasing corporatization of the academy? How can Marxism become relevant as a pedagogical tool even as administrations force educational practices towards high capitalist models? How might Marxists make use of Digital Humanities? Can a reparative roadmap be drawn between "classical" Marxists and Post-Marxists, or between Marxists, Post-Marxists, and other theoretical frameworks? By June 29, please send 250-300 word abstracts to Anthony C. Cooke, Emory University, firstname.lastname@example.com Anthony C. Cooke cfp categories: african-american american bibliography_and_history_of_the_book cultural_studies_and_historical_approaches ecocriticism_and_environmental_studies ethnicity_and_national_identity film_and_television gender_studies_and_sexuality humanities_computing_and_the_internet interdisciplinary modernist studies poetry popular_culture postcolonial rhetoric_and_composition science_and_culture theatre theory travel_writing twentieth_century_and_beyond