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Rating Details: I was very satisfied with the condition of the vacation rental. I was very happy with the location. The vacation rental was spotless. The property manager was very helpful. Overall, I recommend this vacation rental. Reviewer Comments: This is by far one of the nicest home rentals we have stayed in. The place was spotless and decoratedly beautifully. The location is very private and beautifully landscaped. The pictures do not do it justice. The staff were also excellent and very accomodation. We thank them all and the ownwer for such a fantastic stay. We will have great memories of this place. Manager responded on 4/18/2014: Thank you very much for staying with us. It was a pleasure hosting you and hope to have you back soon! Gabriel Rocha, BEACHHOME Costa Rica.
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Rating Details: I was more than satisfied with the condition of the vacation rental. I was very happy with the location. The vacation rental was spotless. The property manager was very helpful. Overall, I recommend this vacation rental. Reviewer Comments: the location was superb. gated community, secure, & gorgeous. The property we stayed in was nice. There are much nicer places directly on the beach but that comes with a higher price tag. The property was nice. There were some housekeeping issues that could of been better. the community pool & surrounding area garbage could of been cleaned up. Our unit was great. The pool was a refreshing change from the heat, as it is in the shade most of the time & is cooler. Bring a lot of sun screen. Have a chef make your meals, so worth it. don't rent a car, get car service.
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My travelling partner and I had the great pleasure of staying at Fritz and Aileen's beautiful property in Playa Hermosa for a month and a half. Much of our time was spent on their spacious porch, enjoying the garden and the wildlife it attracted. The house was immaculate, neatly decorated and very comfortable. The bathroom was perfect and the kitchen was well equipped. Couldn't have stayed at a better casa. We also loved the chill surfer vibe Playa Hermosa attracted. It was also a great base for exploring the South Pacific coast. Do ask Fritz and Aileen about their other property, Rancho Tranquilo. We had the immense pleasure of staying there for another month and a half and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. It's well worth the trip!! Pura vida.


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We hear a great deal these days about the twin virtues of a free market and family values, as if the two went hand in hand. Reasoning about the connection seems to go like this: The freer the market, the more jobs. The more jobs, the more money. The more money, the stronger the family. And to free the market, the U.S. needs to cut taxes; privatize such things as public parks, libraries and schools; deregulate business; and cut public services such as Pell grants to help fund college, Medicaid and food stamps.
Cutting taxes for the top and services for the bottom may widen the gap between classes for a time, advocates acknowledge, but in the end family values will be served. Some economists argue that these policies don't make more jobs and may actually reduce them. But, leaving that debate aside, do free-market policies make for strong families?
One way to answer this question is to compare kids in nations that have aggressively embraced free-market policies with kids in nations that have not. The 2007 UNICEF "Report Card 7" does just that.
To compare the health, education, emotional and material well-being of children in 21 economically advanced nations, an international team of researchers looked at such indicators as whether children ate dinner with the family, had someone to talk to, were susceptible to accidents.
They reported the highest ratings of well-being among children living in the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway and Denmark — nations that, far more than we, tax the rich, regulate industry and provide such public services as paid parental leave, art subsidies and excellent public schools.
The lowest overall rank went to nations pursuing the strongest free-market agenda: the U.S. and Britain, both of which ranked in the bottom third for five of the six key dimensions of child well-being. The U.S. ranked dead last among these 21 affluent countries in child poverty and second to last in "family and peer relationships" and "behaviors and risks." The likelihood of a child skipping breakfast, of becoming fat, of smoking pot, of a teenage girl getting pregnant — on all these measure, the U.S. and Britain ranked worse than nearly all the other nations.
Much of the difference, the researchers suggest, can be traced to the availability of public services. A 2010 follow-up study, UNICEF "Report Card 9," reported the same bad news: The U.S. ranked 23rd out of 24 nations in the proportion of its children in poverty, beating out Slovakia, which came in last. We ranked 19th out of 24 in educational performance, and 22nd out of 24 in child health.
What about the effect of free-market policies on the well-being of adults? In their 2009 book, "The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger," British epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett compared 23 of the richest countries in the world, drawing data from the United Nations, the World Bank and the World Health Organization and from many other studies.
They examined 29 different measures of the well-being of adults, including rates of violence, drug abuse, mental illness, levels of social trust, social mobility and overall health and life expectancy. They compared nations that had the widest financial gap between the richest and poorest 20% of the population with nations that had the narrowest gap between the two.
On almost all of these indicators, the highest-gap nations — the U.S., Britain and Portugal — reported the most distress. The per capita homicide rate in high-gap countries was 10 times that of low-gap ones, and high-gap nations had three times the rate of mental illness. Even middle-class people in high-gap societies felt less safe in their communities than did their counterparts in low-gap societies. They also suffered poorer physical and mental health and more obesity, and they died earlier from all causes.
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First I'd like to throw up a high-five to my American Idol column compadre Chris Sligh. Why? Because last week, he was laying down the truthiness like Stephen Colbert. If you speak Randy Jackson, he was ''workin' it out'' or ''doing his thing'' or, my personal favorite of last night, putting out ''a hot jam right there, boy!'' (But you'd have to awkwardly say it like one of my friends from the suburbs for the full effect.)
But enough uncomfortable guy-emotion. Down to business: Last night I was really disappointed and no, not because of the theme repeat. The contestants were boring, for the most part. I found myself in between commercials slumped in my chair with the remote in hand, itching for a change. Despite its dullness, and what I think might produce the first big upset of the season, there were some bright spots. You see? I'm not all storm clouds and black-hearted cynicism. Positives first!
I wrote a little note to myself during the first commercial break about how important a strong performance would be for little David A., or rather how devastating a poor performance would be. So far, he's got all the tweenies voting for him and he has the respect of everyone else. That's no small feat. But while he might not lose the tween vote easily, another weak song, I think, would have started to make the rest of us doubt. It would have for me, anyway. None of that matters, though: He was great on The Long and Winding Road. Not one of my favorite Beatles tunes, but a good choice for him.
Both he and Syesha gave great performances. It was a kind of flip-flop from last week, when those two were bad and everyone else was pretty good. That kind of turnaround isn't easy with all the pressure surrounding the performers, and it should be admired. The worst part of a great performance on Idol is the morning after. You start to think, ''Oh crap, how am I gonna follow that up?'' And falling into a bit of a slump happens really easily from there. But despite the tendency to second-guess and self-implode after a bad run, little Dave, and more notably Syesha, pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and sang like they wanted to be around next week.
Another positive for the both of them was their song selection. It's not hard to screw up with the Beatles songbook, and I'd like to make an observation. Here's a list of songs:
''Love Me Do,'' ''From Me to You,'' ''She Loves You,'' ''I Want to Hold Your Hand,'' ''Can't Buy Me Love,'' ''A Hard Day's Night,'' ''I Feel Fine,'' ''Eight Days a Week,'' ''Ticket to Ride,'' ''Help!,'' ''Yesterday,'' ''Day Tripper,'' ''We Can Work It Out,'' ''Paperback Writer,'' ''Yellow Submarine,'' ''Eleanor Rigby,'' ''Penny Lane,'' ''All You Need Is Love,'' ''Hello Goodbye,'' ''Lady Madonna,'' ''Hey Jude,'' ''Get Back,'' ''The Ballad of John & Yoko,'' ''Something,'' ''Come Together,'' ''Let It Be,'' ''The Long and Winding Road.''
Those are all No. 1 Beatles hits. Last night's strongest performances were all on that list. Last week's strongest performances were all on that list too. I'm not saying that you have to pick a hit to win, but a hit is a hit for a reason. Especially a Beatles hit. Those are all killer songs that show great range, and there are more than enough of them for this week and last week.
That was a lesson I learned from the Idol producers. I used to submit for clearance the most random songs, like ''Rockin' the Suburbs'' by Ben Folds. (I actually submitted ''Hallelujah'' and every Beatles song possible, but they didn't spend as much money on the show back then.) I had no rhyme to the reason I just liked those tunes. But Ken and Nigel would always give me suggestions-that-weren't-really-''suggestions'' (because that would be unfair), saying that I needed to pick something the public knows and likes and that shows off my voice essentially, a hit song.
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The former chair of the Williamson County Republican Party was one of half a dozen to testify in Washington today, about the IRS targeting Tea Party groups.
Kevin Kookogey founded Linchpins of Liberty in 2011. He says wants help children learn about the Founding Fathers and other political philosophers. But the group has been inactive for almost two years. He says he's been waiting just as long to receive 501c3 non profit status from the IRS. Like other Tea Party groups, he says he's been stonewalled. He painted a picture of the invasive questions he's been asked by the agency. He asked the committee, "can you imagine the reaction the students' parents were I to turn the names of their children over to the IRS?"
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|D.P. Williamson, L.A. Hall, J.A. Hoogeveen, C.A.J. Hurkens, J.K. Lenstra, S.V. Sevast'janov, D.B. Shmoys. Short shop schedules. Operations Research 45, 288–294, 1997.
|J.K. Lenstra, D.B. Shmoys, É. Tardos. Approximation algorithms for scheduling unrelated parallel machines. Mathematical Programming 46, 259–271, 1990.
|M.A.H. Dempster, M.L. Fisher, L. Jansen, B.J. Lageweg, J.K. Lenstra, A.H.G. Rinnooy Kan. Analysis of heuristics for stochastic programming: results for hierarchical scheduling problems. Mathematics of Operations Research 8, 525–537, 1983.
|E.L. Lawler, J.K. Lenstra, A.H.G. Rinnooy Kan. Generating all maximal independent sets; NP-hardness and polynomial-time algorithms. SIAM Journal on Computing 9, 558–565, 1980.
|R.L. Graham, E.L. Lawler, J.K. Lenstra, A.H.G. Rinnooy Kan. Optimization and approximation in deterministic sequencing and scheduling: A survey. Annals of Discrete Mathematics 5, 287–326, 1979.
|J.K. Lenstra, A.H.G. Rinnooy Kan, P. Brucker. Complexity of machine scheduling problems. Annals of Discrete Mathematics 1, 343–362, 1977.


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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ruled on Tuesday that sunscreens making those claims will need to protect against both ultraviolet A and B rays and have a sun protection factor (SPF) of 15 or higher.
"We're establishing a standard for the United States," Dr. Janet Woodcock, director of the Center for Drug Evaluation at the Food and Drug Administration, told a news briefing.
The new rules ensure that all sunscreens that claim to be "broad spectrum" pass a standardized test for both UVA and UVB protection. And protection from UVA and UVB rays must increase in proportion to increases in SPF levels.
The FDA is banning the terms "sunblock" and "waterproof" from sunscreen labels, saying those claims are misleading. Sunscreen makers may use the term "water resistant" as long as they indicate the length of time the product resists water.
Woodcock said consumers will begin to see label changes no later than the summer of 2012 but many manufacturers are expected to start making them sooner.
Sunburn is primarily caused by ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation, while both UVB and UVA radiation contribute to skin cancer and early aging.
Sunscreens that meet the new test for broad spectrum protection and also are SPF 15 or above can for the first time include the statement: "Used as directed can reduce the risk of early skin aging and skin cancer when used with other sun protection measures."
Those measures include wearing protective clothing and seeking shade when possible.
The changes will affect manufacturers including Merck & Co Inc, maker of the Coppertone brand; Johnson & Johnson, maker of the Neutrogena brand; and Energizer Holdings, maker of the Banana Boat and Hawaiian Tropic brands.
Euromonitor International forecasts U.S. sunscreen sales to reach $838 million in 2011 and to top $1 billion by 2015.
The Personal Care Products Council, an industry group, said the guidelines affirm the role of sunscreens in preventing cancers, but expressed concern that the deadline of 2012 might be difficult for some manufacturers to meet.
U.S. physician groups, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, welcomed the changes. But some experts say they do not go far enough.
"FDA's rule will allow most products on the U.S. market to use the label 'broad spectrum sunscreen,' even though some will not offer enough protection to assure Americans they can stay in the sun without suffering skin damage from invisible UVA radiation," said David Andrews, a senior scientist with Environmental Working Group.
Dr. Ronald Moy, president of the American Academy of Dermatology, told the briefing that U.S. skin cancer rates are rising faster than any other cancer, and young women are especially at risk. Moy said one in five Americans will develop skin cancer in their lifetimes, and there is one U.S. death from melanoma, the deadliest form of the disease, every hour.
The "broad spectrum" label is intended to assure consumers of adequate protection from both types of radiation, and the SPF factor indicates how long they are protected.
In addition, the FDA is proposing a rule that would prevent sunscreens from claiming a higher SPF rating than 50, due to lack of a significant additional benefit.
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A household name thanks to her popular fitness program, Jules (Cameron Diaz) can't contain her excitement after learning she's going to have a baby with Evan (Matthew J. Morrison), the sure-footed star of a dancing show. But the closer Jules gets to her due date, the more she and Evan realize that the demands of parenthood and the responsibilities of a celebrity couldn't be more different. Meanwhile, outs...
Inspired by the perennial New York Times bestseller of the same name, WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING is a hilarious and heartfelt big screen comedy about five couples whose intertwined lives are turned upside down by the challenges of impending parenthood.
Over the moon about starting a family, TV fitness guru Jules and dance show star Evan find that their high-octane celebrity lives don't stand a chance against the surprise demands of pregnancy. Baby-crazy author and advocate Wendy gets a taste of her own militant mommy advice when pregnancy hormones ravage her body while Wendy's husband, Gary, struggles not to be outdone by his competitive alpha-Dad, who's expecting twins with his much younger trophy wife, Skyler. Photographer Holly is prepared to travel the globe to adopt a child, but her husband Alex isn't so sure, and tries to quiet his panic by attending a "dudes" support group, where new fathers get to tell it like it really is. And rival food truck chefs Rosie and Marco's surprise hook-up results in an unexpected quandary: what to do when your first child comes before your first date?
A kaleidoscopic comedy as universal as it is unpredictable, WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING finds humor and uplift in all the unexpected trials and triumphs of welcoming a child into the world.
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William Watson: If Tories drop income splitting, they need a better reason than the Liberal-technocratic one
Comment: Flaherty's move recognizes the weakness of the current proposal and the need for a much deeper discussion about how best to improve our tax system
Jack Mintz: Also on the agenda — corporate and multinaltional taxation, non-profit organizations and flow-through shares
FATCA is not about catching tax cheats but about expanding America's oversight of global commerce
Philip Cross: Every point increase in corporate taxes shrinks the tax base by 13.6%
To improve public health and reduce crime, federal and provincial governments should cut tobacco taxes
Jack M. Mintz: You can hear the air being sucked out of Ontario's economic balloon if proposed pension and transit tax plans go ahead
The cost to taxpayers is lost competitiveness, resulting in a shrinking corporate tax base that will only leave Canadians with a weaker economy
Tax incentives such as R&D credits don't work. Ontario should instead lower tax rates and regulations
Phasing out $470-million in the various federal and provincial tax credits we give to foreign film-makers -- only PEI and the Northwest Territories don't have them -- might take a while. But you could start today
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From Ozark, Mo., to Broken Arrow, Okla., the Sterling College Jazz Band will be making a joyful noise May 1-4 during their spring tour. The Jazz Band will perform at churches, schools and retirement homes, with a program that includes popular numbers as well as hymn arrangements of "All Creatures of Our God and King," "Trust and Obey," and "Standing on the Promises."
Randi Morris, Becky Barnes, Adam Taylor, Brian Allen, Matt Hastings, Anthony Panek, Rachel Gardner, Kaleb Knighton, Dana Morse, Sam Cheney and EJ McCloud will play on tour. SC Assistant Professor of Music Blair Martin, who coordinates the Jazz Band, will also play.
Performance stops include Aldersgate United Methodist Church in Nixa, Mo.; First United Methodist Church, Rogers High School and Rogers Heritage High School in Rogers, Ark.; Go Ye Village Retirement Community in Tahlequah, Okla.; First Baptist Church in Tahlequah; Boulevard Christian School in Muskogee, Okla.; and Summit Christian Academy in Broken Arrow, Okla.
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In a tort or other civil action for damages that is brought as the result of an injury, death, or loss to person or property caused by an applicant or employee, all of the following apply:
(A) If the responsible party hired the applicant or retained the employee in good faith and reasonable reliance upon the applicant's or employee's criminal record, the responsible party shall not be found negligent solely because of its reliance on the criminal record, even if the criminal record is later determined to have been incomplete or inaccurate.
(B) If the responsible party conditionally hired the applicant in good faith and in a manner that complied with rule 173-9-05 of the Administrative Code, the responsible party shall not be found negligent solely because it hired the applicant before receiving the applicant's criminal record.
(C) If the responsible party in good faith hired the applicant or retained the employee because the applicant or employee met the standards in rule 173-9-07 of the Administrative Code that allow a responsible party to hire an applicant or retain an employee with a disqualifying offense on his or her criminal record, the responsible party shall not be negligent solely because the applicant or employee has been convicted of, or pleaded guilty to, a disqualifying offense.
Replaces: 173-9-09
R.C. 119.032 review dates: 04/01/2019
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 173.01 , 173.02 , 173.27 , 173.38 , 173.391 , 173.392 ; Sections 305(a)(1)(C) and 712(a)(5)(D) of the Older Americans Act of 1965, 79 Stat. 210, 42 U.S.C. 3001 , as amended in 2006; 45 C.F.R. 1321.11 (10-01-2013 edition).
Rule Amplifies: 173.27 , 173.38 ; 42 C.F.R. 460.68(a) , 460.71(a)(1) , 460.71(a)(2) (10-01-2013 edition).
Prior Effective Dates: 173-9-09: 01/01/2013. 173-9-01: 03/04/1997 (Emer.), 07/31/1997, 04/17/2003, 01/01/2008, 02/15/2009, 08/11/2011. 173-14-14: 07/11/1991, 12/27/2001, 12/28/2006, 02/15/2009.


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|Period: ___________________
This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does the Countess urge Cherubin to do when he comes in to the bedchamber upset about having to leave?
(a) sing his song for her.
(b) tell her a story.
(c) dance his dance for her.
(d) take a nap.
2. What does Figaro want to publicly express thanks to the Count for?
(a) for abolishing the law about sleeping with servant's wives.
(b) for abolishing the law about marrying servant's wives.
(c) for abolishing the dowry law.
(d) for abolishing the law about marrying royalty.
3. What has Figaro arranged to be delivered to the Count hinting that the Countess is seeing another man?
(a) chocolates.
(b) flowers.
(c) a telegram.
(d) a letter.
4. Who does Figaro say a man always defends?
(a) his siblings.
(b) his family.
(c) his beloved.
(d) his children.
5. What does Antonio find that fell from the jumper's pocket?
(a) the Count's papers.
(b) an important bill.
(c) Cherubin's commission.
(d) the letter.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who does Antonio claim he saw jumping out of the window?
2. Why does Suzanne agree to not tell even Figaro of the change in plans?
3. How does Suzanne explain how Cherubin got away to the Countess?
4. How does Suzanne respond to finding out what bedroom Figaro and she will share after marriage?
5. What instrument does Bazile play?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens when the Count approaches who he thinks is "Suzanne"?
2. What does the Count consider when contemplating taking Figaro to England with him and what is Figaro's response?
3. How does the Countess react to the Count when he states he is the victim of a joke and demands to know what the point of it all is?
4. What is Bazile's true purpose for coming into the room at the beginning of Act 1, Part 2?
5. What happens after the Countess opens the door, explaining as the Count comes in that she and Suzanne needed some privacy when trying on new clothes?
6. What does the Count muse to himself as he sits in the castle's throne room?
7. What does Figaro explain about human nature?
8. What do Figaro and Suzanne talk about when they are alone in the room they will marry in?
9. What does the conversation between Figaro, Bazile, and Cherubin reveal?
10. What does the Countess and Suzanne scheme to do to the Count?
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EcoDough Recipe
Give your kids a fun activity devoid of plastic and chemicals with EcoDough.
EcoDough Recipe
This easy recipe doesn't require cooking, so younger kids can make it. Simply mix all of the ingredients in a large bowl until smooth. Store EcoDough in airtight containers.
- 2 cups organic flour
- 2 cups warm water
- 1 cup salt
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 tablespoon cream of tartar (not essential but improves consistency)
- [b]EcoColor[/b] Forgo chemical colors and create your own. Simply boil one and a half cups of water with the following ingredients until desired color is achieved. Strain and replace up to one cup of the water called for in the EcoDough recipe with the colored water.
- Purple: fresh blueberries
- Orange: turmeric
- Red: chopped fresh beets
- Green: basil
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In Smart Growth's Widening Wake, A Stream of Venom
by Keith Schneider
January, 2004--Given the tide of worrisome events in Iraq, the unpredictable economy, and even the unfathomable preoccupation with the owner of the Neverland Ranch, it's understandable that America hasn't yet grasped one of the rare and singularly inspiring cultural trends of our time: Smart Growth has become a broadly popular and truly bipartisan national movement to strengthen economic development and make America a better place.
In Massachusetts pro-business Republican conservative Governor Mitt Romney named a prominent environmentalist to be his chief of development and in September approved a $479 million South Shore commuter rail project to serve Boston. In Michigan, centrist Democratic Governor Jennifer M. Granholm has embraced rebuilding cities, curbing sprawl in the countryside, and conserving natural resources as central elements of her economic development strategy. In the Deep South, Republican Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina last summer signed a neighborhood school bill, which rescinds school acreage requirements and will speed the construction of new schools in existing neighborhoods.
The new law, said Mr. Sanford, ''makes sense from a learning standpoint, an economic standpoint, and it makes sense if you want to have schools that are part of a community's fabric as opposed to part of its sprawl.''
The media have almost entirely ignored these positive moves in favor of more spectacular but, in the long run, perhaps less important happenings, and the typical American Dreamer remains generally unaware of their existence.
Attack From The RightDon't, however, include development interests and libertarians among those who've failed to note Smart Growth's rising influence. The coast to coast work to help communities become cleaner, greener, safer, and more economically competitive is now seen by important sectors of the American right as one of the central threats to the conservative political base. And they're firing back with rhetorical bazookas.
Business interests, led by state home builder associations, claim that Smart Growth weakens property rights, limits choices about where people can live, will kill off the auto industry, and make it harder for developers and road builders to earn a living.
The right wing's libertarian think tanks also are weighing in, arguing that Smart Growth invites more big government, is akin to Romanian style centralized planning, is a disgrace to the principle of free markets that is limiting choices for consumers, is causing home prices to rise to unaffordable levels, and will end the American dream not only of home ownership, but also liberty and freedom.
This is a pack of lies.
A Critique Without FactsLet's just say right here that not a single facet of the right's critique--not one--is based in fact. Take housing, for instance. By calling for communities to build a mix of housing choices in closer proximity to transit, schools, jobs, shopping, and recreation, Smart Growth is providing consumers more choices, choices that can lower their family expenses. Instead of being marooned in distant and costly subdivisions and dependent on a fleet of expensive vehicles to move around on ever more congested highways, families in Smart Communities have options that mean less money spent on transportation, less time spent in traffic (and away from the kids), and greater flexibility in where they can live and how they travel.
Take another example, such as the libertarian view that Smart Growth is an attack on the free market. Again, there's not a shred of truth to the claim. Urban sprawl is, arguably, the purest expression of government interference in the free market that America ever produced. Over the past two generations, trillions of taxpayer dollars have gone to highways, sewers, water systems, business subsidies, tax incentives, housing, and schools in an unyielding drive to empty cities and build a sprawling and increasingly uncivilized civilization.
Sprawl could not exist without such a penetrating distortion of the free market. Yet die-hard free market libertarians who loathe government spending are among the most earnest defenders of the big government spending programs for roads and sewers that support sprawl.
Say What? Libertarians Want More Government Spending?Why are libertarians and home builders united in opposing Smart Growth? They say it's about protecting American values. Nonsense. It's about money--specifically, the river of taxpayer cash that has flowed for decades out of Washington and state capitols to spread new development ever farther from city centers.
Libertarians say such taxpayer largesse lies at the heart of the American dream, which they define as a home in the suburbs and three cars in the garage. Development interests are just plain determined to keep the government money flowing to the business parks, subdivisions, shopping centers, and strip malls they have planned for the growth zones at the metropolitan edge.
The national Smart Growth movement has sturdily worked its way up from the grassroots to convince state lawmakers to begin guiding taxpayer-financed inducements to growth inward toward cities instead of outward to natural areas. The change in public investment direction is yielding new community initiatives, such as housing people can afford, schools that kids can walk to, transit lines that are safe and convenient, and parks, new streets, real neighborhoods, and more thriving downtowns (which means more business and more jobs).
These ideas have proved enormously popular at the polls. Even Houston voters this year approved a property tax increase to expand a new light rail line in order to give people an alternative to the region's congested roads. In Michigan, voters in liberal Ann Arbor approved a property tax increase to conserve 8,000 acres of farmland around the city. Voters in conservative Grand Rapids approved by a two-to-one margin a property tax increase to strengthen that region's public transit system. Nationwide, some 80 percent of the Smart Growth ideas on the ballot in November were approved, most by wide margins. It's what the people want.
Smarth Growth Grows OnPiece by piece and place by place, Smart Growth advocates in and out of government are gradually slowing the engines of sprawl and producing prosperous and genuine communities that draw people together around American values they can truly share.
Why is the Right fighting this?
Keith Schneider, a regular contributor to the New York Times, Detroit Free Press, and Grist Magazine, is deputy director of the Michigan Land Use Institute. See more articles from the Elm Street Writers Group.


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Cracker Barrel Makes Faux "Offer" To Biglari Holdings
SAN ANTONIO, TX, September 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Biglari Holdings Inc. (NYSE: BH) today learned that Cracker Barrel's (NASDAQ: CBRL) new board members have decided to use old board tactics. We believe this Board has made an offer that is not serious; rather, it is an obvious attempt to posture and mislead shareholders. We had higher hopes for this Board: We were expecting it to be reasonable rather than mere window dressing hoping to appear reasonable. The ersatz offer has two fundamental flaws, demanding that we nominate two persons to the Board of Directors who have
1) No relevant restaurant experience 2) No significant ownership in Cracker Barrel's stock
In our view, an offer with such defeatist, detrimental conditions is not a real offer. We ask "what good does it do shareholders for us to find strangers without restaurant experience and then attempt to place them on the Board?"
Plainly, the Board's proposal is diametrically opposed to our ideas as well as to the research showing that companies with the presence of large shareholders outperform companies that have no such owners overseeing management. Over two centuries ago Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations made the following observation regarding agents of companies: "The directors of such companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own…. Negligence and profusion, therefore, must always prevail, more or less, in the management of the affairs of such a company."Benjamin Graham wrote in his seminal book, Security Analysis (1951 ed.), "The ideal solution is to have the majority of the board of every company made up of people who meet three qualifications: (1) good character and general business ability; (2) substantial stock ownership, either directly or by those who are responsible for their nomination; and (3) absence of close personal or business associations with the operating heads." In the July/ August 2012 edition of Harvard Business Review, the authors of an article covering corporate governance matters concluded: "[W]e do think that giving a favored role to long-term shareholders, and in the process fostering closer, more constructive relationships between shareholders, managers, and boards, should be a priority." We believe logic and research are on our side. It is simply irrational to deny an 18% shareholder two board seats. The Board is not willing to extend the courtesy of granting seats commensurate with our capital commitment. Instead, what the Board is saying is that we should play the role of a professional search firm. That is, we give the Board names of candidates unaffiliated with Biglari Holdings, and then the Board will decide whether those individuals are worthy of board seats. If the Board were reasonable, it would have offered us two board seats and not asked us to submit two nominees; however, since there is a proxy contest under way, the Board wants to appear reasonable. The not-so-subtle game the Board is playing is obvious to all shareholders. Several weeks ago we were optimistic and resultantly were led to believe that Cracker Barrel was under a new, better regime. We flew to Tennessee to meet with two new board members and to become acquainted with each other. Our hope was to join the Board without a proxy contest. In fact, it was such a collegial meeting that we challenge the incoming Chairman to cite any reasons why our presence on the Board would be damaging or destructive to Cracker Barrel. We want to contribute to the prosperity of Cracker Barrel. The basic idea is to make money for the benefit of all shareholders. The best way to prosper is through fundamental improvement in the company's operations. We have the business knowledge and the financial incentives to help increase the economic value of the business. We are willing to pay the price for vigilant stock ownership.
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PCC Deli BLT Sandwich on Gluten Free Bread
Ingredients: Udi's gluten free whole grain bread (modified tapioca starch, brown rice flour, modified potato starch, canola oil, egg whites, sugar, teff flour, flax seed meal, yeast, xanthan gum, apple cider vinegar, salt cultured dextrose, ascorbic acid (ascorbic acid, microcrystalline cellulose, corn starch)), organic tomatoes, organic green leaf lettuce, bacon (pork, spices, turbinado sugar, lactic acid), soy free vegenaise (safflower oil, brown rice syrup, cider vinegar, pea protein, salt, mustard, lemon), made in a kitchen that processes wheat and other allergens
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Arrigo Sacchi
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|Personal information
|Full name
|Arrigo Sacchi
|Date of birth
|1 April 1946
|Place of birth
|Fusignano, Italy
|Playing position
|Senior career*
|Fusignano CF
|Teams managed
|Atlético Madrid
|Real Madrid (Director of Football)
|* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
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Arrigo Sacchi (Italian pronunciation: [arˈriɡo ˈsakki]; born 1 April 1946 in Fusignano) is an Italian football coach. He was twice manager of A.C. Milan (1987–1991, 1996–1997), with great success. He won the Serie A title in his 1987-88 debut season and then dominated European football by winning back to back European Cups in 1989 and 1990. To this day, Milan are the last team that became European champions and successfully defended their title in the following season. From 1991 to 1996 he was head coach of Italy and led them to the World Cup Final in 1994, only to lose to Brazil in a penalty shoot-out.
Sacchi was never a professional football player (he had played as a part-time footballer in amateur clubs for some years) and for many years worked as a shoe salesman. This led to his famous quote to the ones that questioned his qualifications: "I never realized that in order to become a jockey you have to have been a horse first".[1]
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Early coaching career[edit]
Sacchi had grown up watching attacking sides, such as Budapest Honvéd, Real Madrid, Brazil and the Netherlands. He started his career managing his local club, Baracca Lugo, because he wasn't good enough to play for them. Of the challenge he faced, Sacchi said "I was twenty-six, my goalkeeper was thirty-nine and my centre-forward was thirty-two. I had to win them over". He next coached at Bellaria before joining A.C. Cesena, who were in the Serie B as a youth team coach. He then took over at Rimini who were playing in the Serie C1, and almost led them to a title. He got his breakthrough when he moved to Fiorentina as a youth coach. His achievements with the youth team earned interest from Parma A.C. who were in Serie C1. He got Parma promoted in his first season, and in the following season took them to within 3 points of promotion to Serie A. However, of greater importance to his time at Parma was the team's performance in the Coppa Italia; they beat A.C. Milan 1–0 in the group stages, and beat them again 1–0 on aggregate in the first knockout round. This was enough to attract interest from Milan's owner Silvio Berlusconi, who promptly appointed Sacchi as manager.
A.C. Milan[edit]
At Milan, Arrigo Sacchi again faced problems of credibility. The press argued that such an inadequate player could never go on to be a successful coach, and that even Berlusconi—who had played football at amateur level—was probably a better player. However, Sacchi coined a witty term in response: "A jockey doesn't have to have been born a horse". Sacchi was an instant success at the San Siro, leading Milan to its first Serie A title for nine years in his debut season, following up the league title with an Italian Supercup in 1988.
Sacchi's success at Milan gained him two back-to-back European Cups. The success he gained was largely attributed to the Dutch trio he had purchased—Marco van Basten, Ruud Gullit and Frank Rijkaard. However, other great players such as Roberto Donadoni, as well as the defensive back four of Franco Baresi, Alessandro Costacurta, Mauro Tassotti and Paolo Maldini, were also a key to his success.
The first European Cup final in 1989 was against Steaua Bucureşti, who were beaten resoundingly 4–0. Gullit and Van Basten scored two goals each and Milan lifted the European Cup for the first time in over twenty years. On the way, however, Milan had dispatched Real Madrid 6–1 on aggregate in the semi-final, a result which almost represented the passing of the mantle for best European club. The quarter-final against Werder Bremen was a tight affair; Milan only went through 1–0 on aggregate thanks to a Van Basten penalty. The second round was shrouded in controversy. Donadoni had his life saved only through the quick-thinking of the Crvena Zvezda physio, who broke his jaw to make a passage for oxygen to reach his lungs after he had suffered a bad foul and lay unconscious. The first leg ended in a 1–1 draw and the second leg got called off in 64th minute and rescheduled to be replayed the next day due to the thick fog (Milan was losing 0–1 at the moment). Milan eventually progressed following a penalty shoot-out.
Although the team was not as strong as they had been in the previous season, they were victorious again in 1990. After victories against HJK Helsinki, Real Madrid and KV Mechelen, Milan defeated German giants Bayern Munich in the semi-final, thanks to an away goal. The Dutch magic worked again in the final, as Frank Rijkaard scored the only goal of the game through a Van Basten assist, to conquer Sven-Göran Eriksson's Benfica. By winning the final, Milan became the first team which retained the title since 1980, and the last team to do so to date. Sacchi would also capture back to back European Super Cups and Intercontinental Cups in 1989 and 1990, and would lead Milan to the final of the 1989-90 Coppa Italia, where they were defeated by Juventus. The following season saw them defeated by eventual runners-up Olympique de Marseille in the quarter-final, and finish second in Serie A behind Sampdoria, whilst they were eliminated in the semi-finals of the Coppa Italia by eventual champions Roma. This was Arrigo Saachi's last season with i Rossoneri.
Italian national team[edit]
In 1991, Sacchi was appointed manager of the Italian national team, replacing Azeglio Vicini. Sacchi based his Italian selection predominantly on Milan players, especially in the defensive line which featured Paolo Maldini and Franco Baresi; the attacking line was led by talismanic 1993 Ballon d'or winner Roberto Baggio of Juventus.
He successfully led Italy through the qualification campaign to reach the 1994 FIFA World Cup. Despite not being among the favourites and losing their first match 1–0 to the Republic of Ireland, Italy reached the World Cup final (their first since 1982), where they were defeated by Brazil only in a penalty shoot-out— the first in a World Cup final. Under Sacchi, Italy qualified for UEFA Euro 1996, but were eliminated from a group which included the eventual finalists, Germany and the Czech Republic.
Later coaching career[edit]
After leaving his position with the national team, Sacchi returned to Milan to replace Uruguayan coach Óscar Tabárez in December 1996. However, the second spell was unsuccessful with Milan finishing 11th in the league and suffering its worst ever Serie A defeat, losing 1–6 at home to eventual champions Juventus.
Sacchi had brief spells in the Spanish Primera Liga, taking charge of Atlético de Madrid in 1998 after his second spell with the Rossoneri. He could only guide los Colchoneros to a disappointing 13th place in the league in his only season at the Vicente Calderón Stadium, although they did qualify for Europe having finished as runners-up in the Copa del Rey. He later returned to Madrid, this time at the Bernabéu as director of football at Real Madrid for the 2004–05 season.[2]
Management style and influence[edit]
Sacchi favored an attacking 4–4–2 formation,[3][4] discarding the traditional libero[5] in an era where Italian football was mainly focussed on strong defensive play[4][6] and Helenio Herrera's Catenaccio was still a strong influence.[5] Defensively, Sacchi's teams adopted a zonal marking system.[5]
Sacchi believes in the concept of Total Football,[3] insisting that young players should be coached in all aspects of football rather than into specialist positions.[7] He was also a firm believer in team ethic, once saying: "The only way you can build a side is by getting players who speak the same language and can play a team game. You can't achieve anything on your own, and if you do, it doesn't last long. I often quote what Michelangelo said: 'The spirit guides the hand.'"[8] To perfect his team's cohesion, Sacchi introduced "shadow play", where his players would simulate a match in training without a football.[5]
He is credited as an innovator, popularising high pressing from his teams and a high defensive line with no more than 25 metres between defence and attack.[3][6][7] This style of pressing has been emulated successfully by José Mourinho's FC Porto,[6] Pep Guardiola's FC Barcelona,[3] Jürgen Klopp's Borussia Dortmund[9] and Jupp Heynckes's FC Bayern Munich.[10] His successor at Milan, Fabio Capello, retained Sacchi's tactics and went on to win four Scudetti in five seasons and the 1993–94 UEFA Champions League.[4] Spanish coach Rafael Benítez, who won the UEFA Cup and La Liga with Valencia CF, the UEFA Champions League and FA Cup with Liverpool F.C., the FIFA Club World Cup with Internazionale Milano and the UEFA Europa League with Chelsea F.C., cites Sacchi as his role model and "the coach who has revolutionised football in the past 50 years".[11]
- Parma
- Serie C1 (1): 1986
- Milan
- Serie A (1): 1987-88
- Supercoppa Italiana (1): 1988
- European Cup (2): 1988–89, 1989–90
- European Supercup (2): 1989, 1990
- Intercontinental Cup (2): 1989, 1990
- Coppa Italia Runners-Up (1): 1989-90
- Italy
- FIFA World Cup Runners-Up (1): 1994
- ^ "No experience required". Fifa.com. 12 December 2008. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
- ^ Paul Madden (1 April 2010). "Spanish Cumpleanos: Javier Irureta". Goal.com. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
- ^ a b c d "Barcelona 2011 vs AC Milan 1990s". Sports Illustrated. 19 April 2011.
- ^ a b c "Greatest Managers, No. 6: Arrigo Sacchi". ESPN. 7 August 2013.
- ^ a b c d "Great Team Tactics: Breaking Down How Arrigo Sacchi's AC Milan Took Down Europe". 1 December 2012.
- ^ a b c "Arrigo Sacchi And His Italian Revolution". Forza Italian Football. 27 August 2012.
- ^ a b "Arrigo Sacchi, the magician of Milan, begins to build a new Italy". The Guardian. 22 November 2011.
- ^ "They said it: Arrigo Sacchi". FIFA. 26 May 2012.
- ^ "Borussia Dortmund vs. Bayern Munich: The showdown between 'Kloppo' and 'Osram'". PlayUp. 25 May 2013.
- ^ "Tactical Twins: Arrigo Sacchi's Milan and Jupp Heynckes' Bayern Munich". Bleacher Report. 16 May 2013.
- ^ "Benítez interview in 'El Gráfico'". Rafael Benítez. 5 January 2012.
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MetroJacksonville's November Pub Crawl
Transportation on the trolley,
2 free beverage tokens for the bars/clubs,
Free admission to 8 bars/clubs
A chance to meet the most interesting people in the city (come on lets face it, our readers are pretty damn interesting people)
MetroJacksonville and the Nightclubs sponsors Designated Drivers free of charge for the entire event.
If you have a designated driver for the evening, let us know ahead of time and we'll set them up with a complementary wristband so they can ride along and join you in the bars without charge.
November 30, 2012 Pub Crawl venues. Registration check-in locations are highlighted in red.
Where to meet?
There were two Registration check-in locations:
? Five Points: Birdies (1044 Park Street, Jacksonville, FL 32204) between 5:30pm and 6:45pm
? Downtown: Underbelly between 5:30pm and 6:45pm
The trolleys left from Five Points promptly at 6:50pm and headed towards Underbelly. (We ran a second trolley for stragglers!)
? 7:00 to 7:40 - Underbelly, Downtown
? 7:45 to 8:30 - Mark's, Downtown
? 8:35 to 9:20 - Kala, Downtown
Transit to King Street. Trolleys departed at 9:25pm
? 9:35 to 11:00 - Loft/Rogue, King Street
Transit to Five Points. Trolleys departed at 11:05pm
? 11:10 to 11:40 - O'Brothers Irish Pub
? 11:45 to 12:15 - Birdies
At the end of the night, the trolley brought crawlers back to the Jacksonville Landing.
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Cost & Miscellaneous Details
Tickets are $15 if you purchase them online before hand, $20 once the pubcrawl begins. $15 admission entitled guests to two free drink tickets, free cover at all participating venues, and complimentary trolley transportation between stops. We have a list of everyone who purchases tickets online, but just in case, print off the receipt!
The beverage tokens are only good after the time marked on them, but they can be used for the rest of the evening until the pub closes for people who want to hang out after the pubcrawl is officially over.
Dress for fun and mayhem. Points for awesome dresses, but keep in mind you need a pair of comfortable walking shoes during the pubcrawl!
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Americans are understandably upset about profits without prosperity. Corporate executives seem to be the big winners, while the middle class is declining and young people face a bleak economic future. How did this happen? It's easy to blame technology, especially the automation that supposedly displaces workers. But that's not the real story. The fact is that automation creates jobs. It's the misuse of corporate profits that is destroying them.
There was a time when high corporate profits meant bright employment prospects for most members of the US labor force. That relation between profits and prosperity was strongest in the immediate post-World War II decades when US corporations led the world in manufacturing, provided workers with career-long employment security, and reinvested profits in productive capabilities in the United States. For the past three decades, however, the pursuit of corporate profits has been at the expense of prosperity for an ever-growing proportion of the American population.
This disconnect between profits and prosperity began in the 1980s with permanent plant closings that cost production workers their middle-class jobs. It increased in the 1990s as major US corporations scrapped the career-with-one-company norm that had prevailed for salaried employees, and it became common even for college-educated people with a couple of decades of work experience to find themselves on the wrong end of the pink slip. Then in the 2000s, as US corporations accelerated the globalization of production activities, the jobs of all members of the US labor force, no matter what their level of educational attainment, became vulnerable to competition from qualified people in lower wage areas of the world.
Profits without prosperity is now starting to get attention in the mainstream press. In his New York Times op-ed, " Robots and Robber Barons" (Dec. 9, 2012), Paul Krugman seeks to explain why, with corporate profits up, labor compensation is down. As part of the ongoing digital revolution, he argues, robots are throwing American workers out of their jobs. In addition, he claims that corporations are making high profits through price gouging, and are not sharing these gains with their employees.
Krugman is on to something important that needs to become part of the national policy debate. But he is off target in blaming a combination of automation and monopolistic practices for the disconnect between profits and prosperity.
Automation is not the problem. As part of a process that could reconnect profits and prosperity, the US economy needs more, not less, corporate investment in automation. A company that successfully invests in automation creates far more, and typically better, jobs than those it destroys. Indeed, the study of industrial history reveals that when a nation's leading companies fail to make sufficient investments in automation its economy runs into trouble.
As Krugman himself notes, the argument that automation is bad for workers' employment and incomes dates back almost two centuries to the British economist, David Ricardo, who was writing during the world's first industrial revolution. By definition, automation displaces the need for workers to perform the tasks that have been automated. If, however, automation only destroyed jobs, advanced economies such as those of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States would not have risen to positions of world industrial leadership with strong middle classes.
Some of these new jobs are created in the industries that produce automated equipment. By far Japan is the world leader in both the production and use of robotics. An original source of Japan's competitive advantage in this capital-goods sector was the willingness and ability of production workers to cooperate with engineers in automating tasks they performed on the shop floor. Under Japan's system of "lifetime employment," these production workers did not fear that the introduction of robots would result in loss of employment, while their involvement in the automation process gave them experience that, post-automation, could be put to productive use in other parts of the business organization.
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Toshiba Corp. has announced plans to more than triple annual revenue generated by its audiovisual business to 1.5 trillion yen (approx. U.S. $13.5 billion) in fiscal 2010, through the introduction of next-generation flat-screen TVs and DVD players.
Toshiba, which hopes to release its surface-conduction electron-emitting display (SED) TV and high-definition (HD) DVD sometime next year, said these new products will help the company compete against its rivals, including Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. and Sony Corp.
Revenue generated by the firm's audiovisual business is projected at 490 billion yen (approx. $4.4 billion) for the current fiscal year to March, accounting for some 8 percent of the group total. The company declined to disclose its group forecast for fiscal 2010.
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Young Poets of Delaware County Poetry Comptetition
School-age residents of Delaware County (grades1-12) areinvited to participate in this year's Young Poets of Delaware County Poetry Competition.
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Despite a great critical response ratings for Psychoville just weren't high enough to convince its creators to continue with it. Reece Shearsmith confirmed on Twitter this week that the show would not be coming back, he told one fan "sadly, no one watched it".
Shearsmith did explain that the show was not cancelled by the BBC, rather he and Pemberton had made the decision not continue with it, so it didn't become an axed show. The comic did promise that he and Pemberton have other ideas they are working on and will not be gone for good.


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LACEY, WASHINGTON -- We noticed the sign for AYCH Electronics one day, while leaving my doctor's office. We stopped in to meet the people and get a feel for the operation. We were greeted and spent some time with the owner of the company, and asked about working with us in the event that we needed work done on our PCs. We came away with a good feeling and liked all the staff members we met. My wife's PC went on the fritz recently, and we took it in to AYCH. hey cleaned the PC of all the Arizona dust and ran a diagnostic on it. They did not charge us, as there was nothing found, and the problem appears to have been from the dust. The night before last, her PC went down, and just kept rebooting, over and over. We took it in and the owner ended up calling Microsoft. He found that 250,000 other PCs have he same problem. Do not download Service Pack 3! Service Pack 2 is all you will ever need, and if you download SP3, it will mess up your PC. Again, we were not charged. I was loaned a roll-up keyboard, and I like it.
We gave them a PC that had been built for me, and we found that we were gypped by the original company. They put what amounts to a laptop in a desktop case and charged us $700 for it. AYCH stated that it should not have cost more than $300. AYCH is the only company now that will handle our PCs, and hopefully, I can get a good unit built up for me.
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Anonymous on 01/23/2009:
Good review. Just a note, Starlord. "Gypped" is a slur on gypsies, as offensive saying 'Jewed'or 'ni**er-rig'. No, I'm not going all PC on you. Just mentioning it because every time someone uses 'rape' in the absence of a physical violation here, it gets ripped.
Starlord on 01/23/2009:
I appreciate the input, Ghost, but the word is just one I have always heard and used for being purposley cheated in any kind of transaction. I certainly mean no offense to anyone, but I have never found any other word or group of words that conveys the sense of totally being cheated intentionally as well as that one crisp, concise word.
Anonymous on 01/23/2009:
No worries, milord. SCA and Renfaire folk are among the most tolerant I've ever met.
bargod on 01/23/2009:
They sound like a great company.
Starlord on 01/23/2009:
Milord Ghost, us SCAdians salute you. Thank you bar, Jack and his crew are top-notch.
cherpep on 01/23/2009:
According to Merriam-Webster, gyp is listed as having a definition of cheat, swindle, fraud. In my version, no reference to gypsy is made. It does not list the word as slang. It may be the word origin, but even if the origin is 'gypsy', don't you think it has distanced itself from the origin to make it acceptable without offending? This is actually the first I've ever heard it being associated with gypsies.
"jewed" is not found in the dictionary.
anonymous on 10/23/2012:
I would steer clear from this company. They are crooks. I bought a computer that they said was new, but it was used. Jack ripped me off. STAY AWAY!
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