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25 Hyper Realistic Flower paintings by Belgium artist Pieter Wagemans
We have put together a fine collection of hyper realistic flower paintings by Pieter Wagemans. Artist Pieter Wagemans was born on 11th August 1948 at Belgium. He is well known for his contemporary and fine art style. He enjoys creating classics and still life paintings. To this date, you can find many of his flower oil paintings in the ceilings of Antwerp buildings. Art came naturally for Pieter Wagemans, since his father was an artist too. At an young age of 15, he enrolled himself into the Royal Academy of Fine A... Read Full Post >


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Giro d'Italia
Game Type(s):
Players: 2 - 10
Age: 14 +
Available Languages
Status: In-Print
Stock Number: A31
In this simple yet fascinating cycling race simulation you decide the placement and energy management of your riders, facing all the elements of the Giro or a "classic": sprints, breakaways, falls, cracks, punctures, bonus time, made and broken alliances, final sprints.
What is your speciality? Will you be best on plains and sprints? Will you fly in solitude on the mountain top? Or will you display a charismatic leader talent? At the end of the track, only the finest strategist and the humblest hard-worker will win, entering with Giro d'Italia games in the legend of the greatest Cyclists of all time.
Three are the differences between Leader 1 and Giro d'Italia, the game. The latter has the real time rule, special cards to be played once during the race and an Appendix with pictures showing how to build all the stages of the 2009 Giro d'Italia.

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Announcement of Grant Availability to Help States Upgrade 9-1-1 Services
All States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and U.S. Territories are eligible for the grants. Among other things, the funds will be used to implement technologies to deliver wireless 9-1-1 calls with automatic location information.
The joint announcement, published in today's Federal Register, spells out details of the grant program, including the application and administrative requirements of the Final Rule. The funds will be awarded in fiscal year 2009. Interested parties will have 60 days to submit applications. Instructions for applicants can be found at: http://www.e-911ico.gov/. Questions related to the application process can be directed to email@example.com or 202-366-3485.
The Notice is available online at the Federal Register: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-13206.pdf
NHTSA program inquiries: Laurie Flaherty / 202-366-3485 / firstname.lastname@example.com
NTIA program inquiries: Thomas Hardy / 202-482-1948 / email@example.com
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Leone Family Drug Dealer
The Leone Family Drug Dealer is a minor character in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. As the name states, he is a drug dealer working for the Leone Family.
The Leone Family Drug Dealer, at some unknown point in time became a drug dealer, and started working for the Leone Family, dealing drugs in the Chinatown district of Portland. After finding out that Chinatown has been taken over by the Sindacco Family, fearing for his life, the Leone Family Drug Dealer becomes scared and refuses to deal, making excuses for not doing so. In the mission Slacker, under orders from Vincenzo Cilli, Toni Cipriani is sent over to find the dealer and to take him over to his patch. The drug dealer attempts to make excuses, saying that he was ill, and will deal the next day, but Toni ignores his excuses.Toni takes the dealer to Chinatown, where the dealer finally admits he is scared off being killed by members of the Sindacco Family, who have taken the area over. However, the drug dealer is later killed (off screen) by the Sindacco Family, promting Cilli to send Toni back to Chinatown to kill three Sindacco mobster as revenge for his death.
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It's a truism that most American family-owned businesses die off after the third generation: the founder pulls himself up by his bootstraps and his sons and daughters carry his vision into the next generation, only to see their own children bring the firm crashing down in a flood of laziness, greed and divided loyalties.
How can family enterprises in the U.S. save themselves from such a fate? By borrowing from the family business models of Europe, South America and Asia, according to Hemenway & Barnes, a Boston-based law firm that traces its origins to 1863, when it started acting as trustee to New England's most prosperous seafaring families. Later, the firm went on to represent wealthy American families behind businesses such as Dow Jones & Co. and Jordan Marsh Co.
"You have families with benign dictators, but what you want is a republic that's organic and based on merit," said Hemenway & Barnes partner Frederic Marx in an interview earlier this month with AdvisorOne. "The problem with a kingmaker is when a king passes away or moves on, there may be no succession."
Saddle Makers and Banking Brothers
As good examples of European families that have succeed in creating an organic structure, Marx pointed to Hermès Paris, which started out as a saddle maker and is now an international manufacturer of luxury goods, and the Rothschild Group, which began as a banking house of five brothers and has become one of the world's largest independent financial advisory firms.
By setting itself up as a holding company with a major business as its principal activity, a family enterprise can then use that core business to build other businesses and diversify over the generations, Marx said. That way, when the core business goes into decline, other businesses that the family has developed along the way can replace it.
"The odds are pretty significant that a core business won't make it to the third generation, so you need to plan for that by planting seeds and harvesting when a particular company needs to be sold. That's how you create an organic, strong multigenerational structure," Marx said. "The classic stockholder agreement for a will doesn't really address the way you plan for a family as an economic force to survive over generations."
In "Fueling the Family Enterprise," an essay about what family businesses can gain by embracing diversification, Marx writes that America's cultural focus on the individual "has created a mindset of dogged persistence and entrepreneurialism" that is good for single businesses but not for multigenerational family firms.
Finding Strengths Within a Family
"Family businesses in Europe, Asia and South America face similar challenges with a different cultural outlook," Marx writes. "Their emphasis is on preserving the business as an extension of the family, with every member of the tree playing a role. This tends to result in legacies that unfold through the business and the family for many generations."
History shows that only 30% of family businesses survive into the second generation, 12% into the third and only about 3% into the fourth or beyond, he notes.
"Consider that given average birth rates, over the course of 150 years a family can produce 450 descendants," Marx writes. "A holding company with continuously developing subsidiaries would allow a great number of those descendants to participate in the growth and the returns."
Marx has worked with American families to develop a multigenerational model, and each family discovers its own variations on that theme, Marx said during the phone interview.
"The process varies for every family because you have different personalities in each group," he said. "First you sit down with family to determine their goals, then develop an entity to meet these goals. One of the big challenges is family members who are in and others who are outside the inner circle. Our model allows for creation of a structure that provides opportunties, whether for-profit or philanthropic. It's very entrepreneurial."
The result of such entrepreneurialism?
A powerful set of companies, according to Marx. "The 4,400 major family-owned industrial firms with revenues of more than 50 million euros accounted for 43% of all German exports in 2011," he writes.
Read Broken Trusts: The Man Who Married His Wife Six Times at AdvisorOne.


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Baby Your Skin
Diabetes can make the skin on your hands, feet and body more prone to infections. Here's why and how to rein in your risk.
As a person with diabetes, you know to pay special attention to your body's largest organ (your skin). Here, Joseph Jorizzo, MD, professor and founding chair of the Department of Dermatology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and adjunct professor at Weill Cornell Medical College, offers tips on how to prevent problems—or care for them if they do occur.
Your hands: Pushed-back cuticles that allow water to enter, which can easily lead to a staph infection, warns Dr. Jorizzo.
Rein in your risk! Always leave cuticles intact; that ensures they remain a protective layer between your nail bed and your finger. If you develop an infection, Dr. Jorizzo suggests a mixture of 4% thymol and 95% ethanol (it's found in some mouthwashes) as an over-the-counter solution for a mild infection. Put a drop under your infected cuticle twice a day, he says, until it heals. See your healthcare provider if problems persist.
Your feet: Wearing flesh-baring footwear combined with high temps—the result can be athlete's foot, funguses, infections and more. "People with diabetes sometimes have poor circulation and are unable to fight off chronic infections as effectively as others," says Dr. Jorizzo. And if you have decreased sensation in your feet, it only increases the warm-weather risk.
Rein in your risk! Never go barefoot, and if you choose to wear sandals, be sure they are supportive and well cushioned and will not rub and irritate the skin. Keep your toenails trimmed; if you are unable to do it yourself, have a professional do it for you. Inspect your feet daily, and if you see a cut or sore, treat it immediately with a mild over-the-counter cream antibiotic that does not contain neomycin, which commonly causes allergic reactions. Unsure what to do about a certain problem? See your healthcare provider ASAP to avoid serious complications.
Body folds: Heat and moisture that can cause chafing, rashes and friction sores in creases (such as in your groin) and anywhere skin rubs together. This can lead to infections deep in the folds of your skin.
Rein in your risk! Wear loose, breathable clothing to allow air to circulate next to your skin. Dry your skin right after showering or swimming, paying special attention to deep pockets and folds. Pat a powder designed to kill yeast and fungus (such as those with miconazole, micomazole or clotrimazole) on your skin, advises Dr. Jorizzo, who says not to use powders that contain cornstarch, which can encourages yeast growth.


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By: Katie Foglia
|Group photo of Carl Fonticella, Kevin Noonan, Katie Foglia and Dr. Ashley Furrow
taken before the U.S. vs. Ghana match in Natal, Brazil.
|Panoramic view of Estado das Dunas.
|Photo of the group celebrating after the U.S. beat Ghana.
By: Katie Foglia
|Group photo of Carl Fonticella, Kevin Noonan, Katie Foglia and Dr. Ashley Furrow
taken before the U.S. vs. Ghana match in Natal, Brazil.
|Panoramic view of Estado das Dunas.
|Photo of the group celebrating after the U.S. beat Ghana.
|Group photo taken at São Paulo Fútbol Club, where the
USMNT practices, by Dr. Ashley Furrow.
|Myself and fellow intern Devin Ellis talking to
U.S. Soccer writer Alex Abnos. Photo credit: Dr. Ashley Furrow.
|Transcribing quotes after a press conference at SPFC. Photo credit: Dr. Ashley Furrow.
Topics: Brazil, Katie Foglia, soccer, South America, World Cup
The purpose of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Connect Camps is to invest in the next generation of African leaders through intensive executive leadership training, networking, and skills building, which will prepare them to make social change in their communities. The core Ohio University team working jointly with The Collaboratory at the U.S. Department of States Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has designed a program for the YALI participants called Connect Camps taking place in sub-Saharan Africa to pursue the following goals:
1) Give up to 160 young African leaders the opportunity to collaborate, learn, and network with U.S. and African resource experts and with each other during the eight YALI Connect Camps; to develop innovation strategies that build on their professional skills, engage in hands-on experience with low-bandwidth technologies, conduct community outreach, and build their capacity through mentoring, networking, and using strategic civic leadership for social change.
2) Use a stimulating canvas model of leadership to develop skills in entrepreneurship and creating social change by engaging in five-days of facilitated interactive sub-group workshops, and fostering mentorship relationships between the Mandela Washington Fellow alumni and their chosen mentees for the Camp.
3) Demonstrate some community-oriented enterprises using applied technology that supports innovation and collaboration in community development and entrepreneurship, civic leadership, and public management.
4) Develop leadership skills among delegates through mentoring relationships, between themselves, as well as with American and African facilitators.
5) Provide participants with opportunities for face-to-face networking and to facilitate a collaborative, innovative project or projects that further YALI goals.
Various U.S. Embassies in Africa have been instrumental in the selection and coordination of hosting the Connect Camps. The YALI Connect Camps are funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of States Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs and administered by the Institute for International Journalism (IIJ) at Ohio University.


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My partner and I are going travelling in Sri Lanka in November for two weeks and I'm trying to plan a trip. I have a few specific questions about travel but would appreciate any tips or suggestions or any good experiences you've had.
We'd like to have each of the following:
- Hiking in the jungle
- See some wildlife, e.g. leopards and flamingos
- visit a tea estate
- Stay on the beach and swim in the sea and eat the food.
So, at the moment I'm thinking of this:
- arrive and go to Negombo for a couple of nights to acclimatise
- get a taxi to Kandy and spend a couple of days exploring the city. Maybe take a guided jungle tour
- go south to Ella and from here explore the various natural formations, e.g. Ella Gap, World's End.
- Go south to Yala and take a safari
- Go to the coast and stay at one of the more isolated and quiet beach resorts.
- Back to the airport, probably by taxi
We're thinking of doing all this by taxi or small coaches. I've tried to plan this so there are few long trips by car.
Some questions:
- is taxi a reliable way to travel?
- is it easy to get drivers at this time of year and between these places?
- considering we only have two weeks, any obvious omissions?
- any hotel recommendations?
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Sorry, I'm a security noob:
I've been asked to provide write a script that grants our users that belong to some yet unidentified domain group SELECT access to a table called "NewTable1." To identify the global group, I was told to check out "ReportingTable1" and see who (which domain group) has SELECT access to that table and then grant the same group access to NewTable1.
So, in SSMS (2008 R2), I script ReportingTable1 making sure that the option to script permissions was first enabled. When I inspect the generated scripts for ReportingTable1, I only see VIEW DEFINITION rights granted to various domain groups.
Understanding that one might have rights to see the defintiion of an object but not necesarily the object itself, I realize that having VIEW access does not necessarily mean that one will have SELECT access.
Q: Why don't I see SELECT accesss granted when I clearly have select access?
I realize that for a different db, my local db when I am the admin, that I must have implied SELECT rights on all of the tables simply because I belong to the admin group. Therefore, belonging to a role must also give me access rights associated with that role, yet I am unable to determine what those rights are. Are they implied and well known for all of the built-in roles?
Obviously, I have a lot to learn. I expect flames and suggestions to buy a book and read.


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USN-2096-1: Linux kernel vulnerability
31 January 2014
linux vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 13.10
The system could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator.
Software Description
- linux - Linux kernel
Pageexec reported a bug in the Linux kernel's recvmmsg syscall when called from code using the x32 ABI. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or gain administrator privileges.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 13.10
- linux-image-3.11.0-15-generic - 3.11.0-15.25
- linux-image-3.11.0-15-generic-lpae - 3.11.0-15.25
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.


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at Uber
We strengthen Uber's position as the world's leading mobility platform through creative and mutually beneficial commercial partnerships that unlock outsized value today and for many years to come.
In alignment with Uber's strategy, we work to create maximum value for the business by investing in relationships and deals that will have outsized and lasting impact.
We have multiple customers — our users, partners, internal stakeholders and shareholders — and invest in those relationships to create long-term value for all parties.
We are storytellers, dot connectors, business shepherds, and creative problem solvers. We empower and help each other to become more effective and well-rounded with every deal.
Chief Business Offer, EMEA - Global BD
"As a woman in the tech industry who has been part of multiple organisations and teams, I have benefited from companies and teams that have valued diversity and inclusion and seen the difference within companies and teams that don't.
I have grown in my roles by focusing on the impact we are trying to create in the world and my role within that, even when I had doubts; feeling the fear and overcoming it."
Jr. Business Development Associate, LATAM - Global BD
"Working in Business Development at Uber allows you to leverage the company's cross-functional culture to develop multi-effort projects that can have a significant impact on our riders, drivers, and partners.
Moreover, being in contact with people from different cultures and backgrounds allows for a much richer learning and development experience."
Sr. Director & Head of Business Development - Eats BD
"I'm a big Bo Schembechler fan and his famous 'The Team The Team The Team' speech sticks in my head when I think about the Uber Everything BD team.
We work on the highest impact business opportunities and have great fun while doing it. It's that rare combination of meaningful work and meaningful relationships that gets me so pumped to come to work everyday.
And the fact that I can bring my whole self — and sometimes even my three kids — to work makes the team feel like a family."
Chief Business Officer, International - Global BD
"I get to see our BD teams across the world work tirelessly to significantly move the needle for Uber as a platform by driving some of the most creative, long-term, win-win commercial constructs I have seen over the course of my career.
We are out in the field, close to the action, externally oriented and building institutional relationships with the most important organisations in each of our geographies, simultaneously dot connecting internally to maximise impact at scale — no two days are the same."
Sr. Business Development Associate, APAC - Global BD
"Uber makes big bold bets, and the BD team is at the forefront of defining how we go to market and structure some of our global strategic projects, like payments, airports, new mobility, etc. I really enjoy the diverse, cross functional nature of the work and the ability to experiment, succeed/ fail, learn, and scale these initiatives."
Sr. Business Development Associate, EMEA - Global BD
"For me, success is best when it's shared. After joining the Business Development team two months ago, I feel a rare combination of technical skills, solid leadership, and amazing energy to connect, think and have things done. We are built in a dynamic and diverse way, positively working together internally, to then spread the magic externally."
Business Development Manager, US&C - Global BD
"Over the last handful of years, I've had the great fortune to work alongside many talented teams as we've launched and scaled our businesses together. What I enjoy most about our global group is the unique position we have within Uber to bridge operations, product, pricing, research, marketing, and partner integrations to deliver meaningfully better experiences to customers across the world. Uber has fundamentally changed how cities move and how people and things move throughout them, but I think we're just getting started; the BD team will play a critical role in shaping our future. "
Partnerships, deals and stories from the Business Development team.
Uber Eats has teamed up with Starbucks to bring coffee to your door. Have your favorite Starbucks drink delivered to you by Uber Eats.
Dream of pushing a button and getting a flight? Thanks to deals with innovators like NASA, Embraer, and ChargePoint, we are fast forwarding to an air taxi future.
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We're helping carriers of all sizes reach their goals on and off the road. Uber Freight Plus is a program that provides carriers with discounts on tires, fuel, and mobile phone plans, simplifying access to health insurance and more.
We're helping make business travel easier for businesses of all sizes. Through our partnership with Concur, we automate expensing and company savings.
Uber and Qantas have partnered to create a seamless, rewarding door-to-door travel experience by providing riders a chance to earn Qantas points on their Uber trips to the airport.


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BRIDGEPORT -- Acting school superintendent Paul Vallas got an "A" in a UConn course that he designed and was allowed to complete in time for him to be certified for the job, according to testimony Monday.
And this was after he was handpicked as superintendent by the head of the state's education department, who testified that Vallas is a friend.
Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis must now decide whether Vallas, who by some accounts is dragging the city's school system up from the bottom of the education barrel, should remain in his $234,000-a-year job.
"Mr. Vallas is a drive-by superintendent," said Norman Pattis, the lawyer for city activist and former judge Carmen Lopez who is suing Vallas. "This was the coronation of a friend."
Pattis' accusation followed testimony Monday by Vallas and state Department of Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor, as well as from UConn Professor Robert Villanova.
Vallas was appointed last year by Pryor after city officials and local school board members requested the state dissolve the elected Board of Education and replace members with appointees. The state Supreme Court later ruled the move was illegal, and although an elected board was reinstated, Vallas remained as superintendent.
But Vallas lacked a state leadership certificate to serve as a superintendent, a certificate that at the time could only be obtained by completing a 13-month course at UConn. On April 15, the state Board of Education approved an abbreviated program -- essentially an independent study under the supervision of Villanova -- for Vallas to take instead. He recently completed that.
Pryor said he became acquainted with Vallas through Vallas' work in other school districts, especially New Orleans.
"Superintendent Vallas served as a superintendent or its equivalent across three different school systems and has accumulated 30 years-plus of government service and is regarded as one of the nation's leading lights," testified Pryor. "He has initiated a series of initiatives in Bridgeport that were meritorious."
Villanova said Vallas was overqualified and did not have the time to take the 13-month course the university offers for aspiring school superintendents. So he proposed an independent study that would last 13 weeks and involve seminars and classwork. Vallas submitted six papers and met with Villanova twice for about four hours.
And on March 30, the day Vallas submitted his last two assignments, after just eight weeks, Villanova notified Vallas he had passed the course.
"In each case it was high quality work," Villanova said.
Vallas, who testified he never took any graduate courses in education, under questioning by Deputy City Attorney Arthur Laske III, ran through a list of achievements he has made since taking the helm of the Bridgeport school system, including balancing the budget and modernizing the curriculum.
Of the UConn course Vallas said: "I'd like to believe I exceeded expectations."
Under cross examination by Pattis, Vallas said he paid $2,148 to take the course and didn't know if he filled out the application forms normally required of prospective university students.
"I paid what I was instructed to pay," he said.
Final arguments in the case are being presented before the judge Tuesday morning.
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Beloit College given all-clear after man taken into custody
Police arrest 3 people without incident
BELOIT, Wis. — The Beloit College campus was locked down as Beloit police dealt with a situation Thursday involving a man who they believed was armed.
Beloit police responded about 12:25 p.m. to a disturbance at a home in the 1800 block of Park Avenue. While in route, officers learned that the suspect had threatened the caller with a handgun and fled in his vehicle, according to a Beloit Police Department news release.
Responding officers observed the suspect vehicle as it pulled into a secure parking garage of an apartment building in the 900 block of Park Avenue, which backs up to the Beloit College campus.
Police said they notified Beloit College's security staff, and, as a safety measure, Beloit College placed its campus into a lockdown during the entire incident.
Beloit College alerted everyone on campus to stay where they were, lock their doors and stay away from windows.
"My teacher locked all the doors and made sure the blinds were down on our windows," said Beloit College freshman Aidan Whinnery.
Beloit police learned the suspect lived in an apartment on the third floor of the building, and officers secured the building and began negotiations to take the suspect into custody.
About 1:50 p.m., police made voice contact with the suspect. Shortly after 3 p.m., the suspect and a female acquaintance voluntarily left the apartment and were taken into custody without incident, Beloit police said.
During the initial search of the apartment, police found another woman hiding and she also was taken into custody, according to the news release.19028608
Police said a more comprehensive search of the apartment didn't reveal a handgun, but suspected drugs and paraphernalia were found.
Police said the suspect denies having or threatening anyone with a gun.
Beloit police said they arrested Jose R. Rodriquez, 51, of Beloit, on suspicion of disorderly conduct while armed and resisting arrest.
Diamond C. Hodges, 20, of Beloit, was arrested on three warrants for traffic offenses, police said.
Dawn M. Ford, 44, of Beloit, was arrested on a Department of Corrections warrant, according to police.
Beloit College ended the lockdown once the suspect was taken into custody.
Students said they were scared but remained calm as they realized the threat was actually off campus. Students and staff praised the college for keeping them informed of what could have been a dangerous situation.
"It was a great move (by the college). Obviously there have been a lot of shootings recently. It was a great move and it put us all in safety," Whinnery said.
Police said additional charges are possible pending the investigation of the suspected narcotics.
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The Chicago Fire Soccer Club will play a President's Day doubleheader in their first matches of the 2010 preseason. In his first game as Fire head coach, Carlos de los Cobos will lead the Fire in a closed door exhibition against USSF Div. 2's Vancouver Whitecaps at 2:00 PM MST. Following the Whitecaps game, the Fire will take on the Arizona Sahuaros, in a match that is open to the public, at 4:30 PM MST at Arizona State Women's Soccer Stadium.
The friendly against the Vancouver Whitecaps gives the Fire an opportunity to play one of the NASL conference's premier clubs. The Whitecaps will join Major League Soccer, along with the Portland Timbers, as expansion clubs in 2011, giving MLS 18 teams across two conferences.
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With the Ravens 10-point underdogs and facing the better-than-ever Peyton Manning, fans should just start packing up their purple gear and accepting the end of their football season today — or so the experts seem to be saying.
To which Bernadette Ruzicka of Dundalk says quite succinctly: "Phooey on them."
Maybe it's denial, maybe it's magical thinking, maybe it's the bluster of a city tired of perennially being put down. Ravens fans like Ruzicka are heading into today's playoff game against the Denver Broncos ready to buck the odds, and carrying a familiar burden on their shoulder.
"Baltimore is not considered one of the elite metro areas of the country, and that transfers to our sports teams," said Mike Gibbons, executive director of the Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards. "So we walk around with a chip on our shoulder, collectively."
Without New York's swagger or Washington's self-importance, Baltimore is used to being underestimated, if not outright dissed. And perhaps nowhere does the city feel that sting more sharply than in football, after losing one team in the middle of the night and being denied a new one for years by a dismissive National Football League.
Since those dark years, though, the Ravens have offered fans a way to settle old civic scores as well as stand up to newer insults, be they from Vegas oddsmakers or naysaying pundits.
"You don't think we're good? We are good, and we're going to remember that," Gibbons said, channeling Baltimore's grudge-holding ways.
As the game neared, fans rallied at locations around the region Friday. At a jewelry store and supermarket north of Towson, cheering fans wore team jerseys and other purple-and-black clothing. In Towson, Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz wore a No. 10 jersey with "COUNTY EXEC" across the back and sported a purple mustache.
Gibbons is predicting a 27-17 Ravens win, noting that several key players have returned from injuries since the team faced, and lost to, the Broncos in the regular season. Much of the pregame chatter giving the game to Denver reflects what the national media would like to see, he said, but not necessarily what they will see.
"They're so intent on seeing Denver playing New England," Gibson said of the conference championship match-up that many envision. "The national perception is we're not one of the sexy glamour teams."
Fans say the predictions of a Broncos win aren't dampening their spirits as they head into the weekend. Members of the Ravens Roost fan clubs expect big crowds at their gathering spots.
"Based on the crowd I had here Sunday," Lenny Banack of Laid Back Lenny's in Essex said, "I expect the crowd on Saturday to be huge."
About 75 people jammed into the pub to watch the wild-card round of the playoffs, his largest crowd for a home game, Banack said. The retired Social Security branch manager started Ravens Roost No. 73 about 11 years ago and ended up buying the bar where the club holds its get-togethers.
Darryl Despeaux of Roost 65 said predictions of a Denver victory won't keep his members away from their usual hangout, Beefalo Bob's in Pasadena. "That doesn't stop us from supporting our team," he said.
While Despeaux himself will be far away — he took his wife to Key West, Fla., for her birthday — he brought his Ravens flag to wave from their rented apartment and has already scoped out bars there for a spot to watch the game.
Fans say Ray Lewis' plan to retire at the end of the season adds an emotional overlay to these postseason games — each one potentially the last for the player who in many ways embodies the pride and grit of the city where he's spent his entire professional career.
If Sunday's game was fraught for any number of reasons — it was Lewis' last home game and brought the Colts back from Indianapolis to their birthplace — today's has its subtexts as well. A loss would make it Lewis' final game, while a win would potentially send the Ravens back to Foxborough, Mass., where Baltimore has some unfinished business against the Patriots after that wrenching dropped-pass, missed-field goal loss in last year's conference championship game.
"My heart tells me the guys are going to fight like warriors and find a way to get to play Tom Brady," said Bill West, who heads Ravens Roost 15, referring to the New England quarterback. "We're going to party when the Ravens beat Peyton Manning, then Tom Brady, so that Ray Lewis goes out on a high note."
Those marquee quarterbacks don't impress Ruzicka, whose husband, Melvin, owns the Ravin Store on Eastern Avenue.
"We can beat Denver. It's only Peyton Manning," she said, standing amid racks of purple attire in the store. "Our quarterback and our team is good, too."
The store ran out of Lewis jerseys but has been moving a lot of "Thanks for the Memories" shirts bearing his silhouette.
Further down Eastern Avenue, at the Baseball Card Outlet and Sports Memorabilia shop, it's been "chaos" since Lewis announced his retirement, said Mike Tanner, who owns the store with his brother. The most popular item has been autographed prints of a photo showing Lewis kneeling over the just-sacked Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger like a hunter with his bagged quarry.
As usual on a game day, Tanner will close early today since most of his customers will not be out and about shopping for memorabilia but in front of their TVs — which is his plan as well.
"Everyone wants to win it for Ray Lewis," he said. "People are optimistic, because of how healthy the team is now. The Broncos are due to lose a game, and we're due to catch a break."
Gibbons, of the Sports Legends Museum, says the Ravens' success over the years, coupled with the Orioles' return to the postseason last fall, should go a long way in turning around the city's undeserved reputation as "second-class."
"If we can be competitive next year," Gibbons said hopefully, "maybe we can lose that chip on our shoulder."


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This year, Holocaust Remembrance Day is the anniversary of two starkly contrasting events of April 19, 1943 – the first day of the gallant but doomed Warsaw Ghetto uprising and of the ignominious Anglo-American Bermuda Conference on the Refugee Problem, which State Department diplomats organized to deflect pressure to rescue Jews from the Nazi death machine.
Most of the Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto perished but the American diplomats went on to comfortable, if not highly successful, careers – and to largely avoid the wrath of historical judgment.
One might ask, given all of the articles and books written about the American response to the Holocaust, hasn't the diplomats' role been thoroughly examined? Remarkably, the answer is no, not because their conduct has been ignored but rather because it has been submerged in the American collective guilt approach that underpins many historical assessments.
Consider the State Department's treatment in arguably the most influential book on the subject of the past twenty-five years, The Abandonment of the Jews, by David Wyman, an exhaustive scholarly study of the American response. The 29-page summation chapter titled "Responsibility" ("America's response to the Holocaust was the result of action and inaction on the part of many people") devotes less than a page to the State Department, while three full pages are spent on the wartime rivalries of American Jewish groups. The book also contends that "direct proof of anti-Semitism in the department is limited" and that "plain bureaucratic inefficiency" was one explanation for the State Department's behavior.
These highly educated, patrician diplomats, in fact, rank among the worst villains in American history. They were part of a now all-but-vanished American aristocracy that existed outside the experience or even awareness of most of their fellow Americans.
Sheltered in a hermetically sealed aristocratic archipelago, many went from elite northeast boarding schools to Ivy League educations to diplomatic postings. Imbued with an intoxicating sense of Anglo-Saxon exceptionalism, anti-Semitic (sometimes virulently), and mindlessly conformist (at the Groton School, many of whose graduates went to the State Department, nonconformists were waterboarded by fellow students with the approval of the headmaster), they had a heartless indifference to the sufferings of human beings from different ancestries, religions, or economic classes.
In 1940, the head of the Division of European Affairs was Jay Pierrepont Moffat. As a young diplomat in Warsaw shortly after the end of World War I, Moffat had watched desperate refugees flee oncoming Soviet armies: "they sounded like so many cackling geese and generally behaved in a manner that made us pray like the pharisee, 'Lord, I thank Thee that I am not as other men.' "
His successor, Ray Atherton, arranged for an anti-Semitic French Nazi collaborationist to become a governor-general in liberated North Africa (where he continued to oppress Jews).
Loy Henderson, who worked in the State Department on East European issues in the 1940s, blamed "international Jewry" for support of the Soviet Union and, after a visit to New York City, commented of the inhabitants jostling him in the street that "They seemed to have little in common with me."
William Phillips, an undersecretary of state, in the 1930s described Atlantic City as "infested with Jews."
William Bullitt, an ambassador to the Soviet Union during FDR's first term, called an official in the Soviet Foreign Ministry a "wretched little kike."
Breckinridge Long, a wartime assistant secretary of state, regarded Mein Kampf as "eloquent in opposition to Jewry and Jews as exponents of Communism and chaos."
They were lethally efficient bureaucratic operators. In 1942, when the first cable reports of Nazi Germany's genocidal scheme reached the State Department from its legation in Switzerland – "in Fuhrer's headquarters plan under consideration all Jews at one blow exterminated" – the Division of European Affairs suppressed the information (even from American Jews). Then, in early 1943, when informed by the legation that 6,000 Jews were being killed each day at a single location in Poland, the division's head, Ray Atherton, and three colleagues instructed the legation "in the future we suggest that you do not accept reports submitted to you" from the legation's Jewish sources about the exterminations.
Several months later, the division blocked a proposal, endorsed by FDR, to rescue 70,000 Romanian Jews on the ground that these Jews were "enemy aliens" since Romania was a German ally, and that, even if the rescue succeeded, there were no "other areas" to put the Jews.
Finally, at the Bermuda Conference, a "facade for inaction," as a British delegate admitted years later, Breckenridge Long forbade any proposals that would solely benefit Jews and blocked any meaningful rescue initiatives.
Christian lawyers in the Treasury Department discovered the State Department's cover-up and battled to save the Romanian rescue plan. Outraged, they considered the diplomats an underground "movement to let the Jews be killed," "vicious men," "accomplices of Hitler," and "war criminals in every sense of the term." Few historians have rendered such a judgment.


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With six stores in Connecticut and New York, Stew Leonard's is a small supermarket chain but a mighty fun one. Founded in Norwalk, Connecticut, in 1969, Stew Leonard's has been dubbed the "Disneyland of Dairy Stores" by The New York Times - the chain is known as a fun place for families to shop because of the costumed characters, scheduled entertainment, petting zoo, and animatronics throughout the stores. Another aspect we love? The customer service. Stew Leonard's culture is built around a loose acronym for S.T.E.W.: Satisfy the customer; work together as a Team; strive for Excellence in everything you do; and get the customer to say WOW. The chain treats employees right as well as customers, having made Fortune magazine's list of the best companies to work for 10 consecutive years. Unlike most grocery stores, which stock an average of 45,000 items, each Stew Leonard's store carries only 3,200 items, chosen specifically for their freshness, quality and value. Some 80 percent of the products sold in store are fresh - that is, brought in daily or prepared directly in-store. Customers who spend $100 or more in a single transaction can redeem their receipt for a free small ice cream cone or free small coffee.a katz/Shutterstock.com
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With 21 stores in California, Oregon, and Washington, New Seasons Market is a progressive West Coast neighborhood grocer known for quality local products and fun weekend tastings from the best producers in Oregon, Washington, and California. Founded in Portland in 2000, New Seasons Market stands out for its knowledgeable, friendly staff who are passionate about helping customers discover new makers and flavors. The company also commits 10 percent of its after-tax profits back to the communities it serves. From managing the grocer's local nonprofit Hunger Partners, Bag it Forward reusable bag donation program, Lend A Hand paid volunteer hours, and Cans for Kids neighborhood donations, New Seasons Market helps ensure each store is attracting prospective staff from the local community and giving back to the supermarkets' neighbors.Courtesy of New Seasons Market
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Dubbed "New York's favorite grocery store," Fairway Market claims it is "Like No Other Market." Established in 1933 in the New York City area and now with 15 stores in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York, Fairway Market has become famous for stocking an extensive selection of fresh, natural and organic products, prepared foods and hard-to-find specialty and gourmet offerings, along with a full assortment of conventional groceries. Favorites include fresh-baked breads, hand-sliced smoked salmon, the full-service butcher shop, and the store's made-to-order chopped salads.Roman Tiraspolsky/Shutterstock.com
#17 The Fresh Market
The Fresh Market is a specialty grocer known for its carefully curated selection of delicious and innovative foods, friendly and knowledgeable staff, and warm and welcoming environment. Founded in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1982 by Ray and Beverly Berry, who sought to bring back the old-world charm of local markets, The Fresh Market's merchants seek out items that make everyday eating extraordinary - from small-batch, artisanal pastas to unique baking ingredients. The selection of USDA Prime beef is noteworthy, as are the chain's private label products, many of which are exclusive to The Fresh Market; each item comes with a 100 percent satisfaction and delight guarantee. Coffee lovers can peruse the large coffee selection, including a coffee station with free 4-ounce samples. If you're not sure about an item, the knowledgeable staff is happy to help and will let customers try a product before they buy it. Every child gets a free banana or clementine from the produce department. The Fresh Market is committed to reducing food insecurity and increasing the amount of healthy food available to those in need and has partnered with Feeding America, the largest hunger-relief organization in the U.S., by donating more than $49 million in food. The Fresh Market has 161 European market-style stores in 22 states in the Northeast, Midwest and South.Courtesy of The Fresh Market
#16 Hannaford
What started with Arthur Hannaford selling fresh produce from a one-horse cart in Portland, Maine, in 1883 has transformed into 181 Hannaford stores in five states (Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont). Hannaford partners with more than 800 local companies and farmers to stock 6,000-plus products in its stores. In 2006, Hannaford launched the Guiding Stars program, a science-based store navigation system that rates the nutritional quality of every food in the store and makes it easy for shoppers to find foods with more nutrition. Ever innovating, Hannaford was the first grocery store in the U.S. to receive LEED Platinum certification for a newly opened, environmentally friendly store in 2009, and it became the first major supermarket in the U.S. to document that all seafood products sold in every department were sustainably harvested in 2012. Since its partnership began with United Way in 1929, Hannaford has continued to give back to its communities. Hannaford has donated more than 23 million pounds of food to local food pantries and regional food banks; has helped raise more than $1.5 million in financial contributions; and has raised more than $600,000 annually for local schools.Dave Nelson/Shutterstock.com
#15 WinCo Foods
WinCo Foods began in 1967 as a discount grocer called Waremart in Boise, Idaho. Proudly Boise-based to this day, the company became WinCo Foods in the late 1990s after an employee vote. The name stands for both Winning Company and as an acronym for the five original states: Washington, Idaho, Nevada, California and Oregon. Today, there are over 120 stores in 10 states in the Western and Southern U.S. Each employee has a stake in the company doing well, from the cart clerks up to the CEO, which makes a significant difference. The company strives "to provide the best quality and variety to hungry families that need to stretch their dollars" by doing things a bit non-traditionally: They don't take credit cards (debit cards are accepted) and there are no grocery baggers, because these costs would have to be passed on to the customers. WinCo has its own warehouse, distribution and transportation system, which allows the company to deal directly with suppliers and vendors and eliminate costs in the middle. This helps keep prices as low as possible. The supermarket is famous for its bulk foods section; customers can get anything they want in any amount, from a single bay leaf to 100 pounds of flour. Don't even get us started on the candy selection, and the produce is also exemplary, in part because the current CEO - a 34-year veteran of the company who started pushing carts when he was a teen - spent many years as a produce manager in the stores. Don't forget to toss some signature salt and vinegar wings in your cart.Courtest of WinCo Foods
#14 Hy-Vee
Charles Hyde and David Vredenburg opened a small store in Beaconsfield, Iowa, in 1930 and in 1938 incorporated 15 Iowa and Missouri stores as Hyde & Vredenburg, Inc., forming the foundation for Hy-Vee (the name, a contraction of the co-founders' names, was determined via a contest in 1952). Since the chain's founding, stores have operated autonomously, choosing their own inventories, prices, and advertising. Hy-Vee's slogan, "A Helpful Smile in Every Aisle," is evident in each of the employee-owned stores in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.Ken Wolter/Shutterstock.com
#13 Safeway
Albertsons Companies operates nearly 2,300 stores in 35 states and the District of Columbia under 20 banners, including Acme, Shaw's, Tom Thumb, Vons, and Albertsons (which ranks No. 11 on this year's list). Nearly 900 of the company's stores are Safeway stores, which operate in 16 states and Washington, D.C. Founded in 1913 in American Falls, Idaho, Safeway focuses on providing customers fresh products no matter how they shop, whether in stores or online for Drive Up & Go, home delivery, or meal kits from Plated. Each store has in-house butchers who can offer specialized cuts of beef, and Safeway's cake decorators are specially trained to offer phenomenal cake designs. Extra perks include home delivery via Safeway's own in-house drivers as well as Instacart in nearly 2,000 locations along with the Just for U loyalty program, which offers customer and gas rewards.jejim/Shutterstock.com
#12 Meijer
Founded in 1934 in Greenville, Michigan, Meijer has 241 stories in five states: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Meijer created the "supercenter" concept and is known for its fresh produce, broad selection, and pharmacies that offer select free prescriptions. Freshness, friendly service, and stores open 24 hours a day round out the offerings.Jonathan Weiss / Shutterstock.com
#11 Albertsons
Albertsons Companies operates just over 400 Albertsons stores, which operate in 14 states (Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Montana, North Dakota, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Washington). Founded in 1939 in Boise, Idaho, Albertsons offers fresh products in stores or online with convenient options like Drive Up & Go, home delivery, and meal kits from Plated. The chain has its own private labels, including Own Brands, with 11,000 products including more than 1,000 new items introduced in the last three quarters, Open Nature, a line of natural products free from antibiotics and MSG, and O Organics. Albertsons recently introduced a new brand, Signature Reserve, to highlight 31 super-premium seasonal and everyday products. In 2017 alone, along with the Albertsons Companies Foundation, Albertsons Companies gave nearly $300 million in food and financial support to charities addressing disabilities, hunger relief, education, cancer research and treatment, and veterans outreach.Ken Wolter/Shutterstock.com
#10 Kroger
The Kroger Co. is America's largest grocery retailer with 2,800 stores in 35 states and Washington, D.C. The company operates under more than a dozen banners like Fred Meyer, Fry's, Mariano's, Ralphs, Smith's, so it's no surprise that two of its stores: Harris Teeter and Kroger, are on our ranked list. Founded in 1883 in Cincinnati by Barney H. Kroger, the company works with more than 30,000 suppliers and manufacturers and operates a Culinary Innovation Center in its headquarters city. Murray's Cheese, the country's oldest cheese shop, now has more than 400 locations in Kroger stores nationwide, and Kroger recently acquired Chicago-based meal kit startup Home Chef. Online services include Kroger Ship, a ship-to-home service that includes more than 50,000 items and is rolling out nationwide, as well as delivery and pickup options from over 1,500 store locations. The company's largest charity initiative is Zero Hunger | Zero Waste, which aims to address food insecurity and encourage sustainability.Courtesy of Kroger
#9 SuperTarget
Who doesn't love a Target run? Since the first Target store opened in 1962 in Roseville, Minnesota, the department store retailer has focused its efforts on one-stop shopping. The second largest general retailer in the U.S. with 1,850 superstores, Target also sells groceries at its SuperTarget stores, which debuted in 1995. Target's private food labels - like Archer Farms, Market Pantry and Simply Balanced - include thousands of grocery products. Target has been a leading innovator in both retail and grocery practices, having introduced the planogram (a diagram that indicates in-store product placement) and redesigned its shopping carts with recycled plastic more than a decade ago. The company consistently gives back to communities across America through programs like the Target School Library Makeover Program, which has given more than 1 million books to schools and students, and Take Charge of Education, through which Target donated a percentage of Target store credit card purchases to eligible K-12 - totaling $460 million in donations before the program was discontinued in 2016.Ken Wolter/Shutterstock.com
#8 Costco
The membership warehouse club has hundreds of locations worldwide, including 533 in 44 U.S. states and Puerto Rico, and 95.4 million members as of November 2018. Not only does Costco provide a wide selection of meat, produce, and groceries in bulk in its palatial warehouse stores, it also offers alcohol as well as consumer goods and exclusive member services like a travel agency and gas stations. Costco's business model is designed to provide value, offering national and regional brands priced below traditional wholesale or retail outlets to members, who pay a $60 annual membership fee. Costco also sells its private label, Kirkland Signature, which includes juices, cookies, coffee, housewares, luggage, clothing, and of course their famous and wildly popular $4.99 rotisserie chicken, of which they sell 60 million annually.Trong Nguyen/Shutterstock.com
#7 Harris Teeter
Now a smaller branch of The Kroger Co. after being purchased in 2014, Harris Teeter sprang from a 1960 merger of two North Carolina grocers founded in the 1930s. Harris Teeter currently operates more than 230 stores and 14 fuel centers in seven states (Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia) and Washington, D.C. Known for tidy stores and an extensive prepared foods section, Harris Teeter also contributes to local communities through donations to food banks, youth sports and schools and takes part in broader Kroger Co. initiatives as well. Though Harris Teeter helped pioneer the plastic grocery bag in the 1980s, the chain and parent company have announced plans to phase out single-use plastic bags and transition to reusable bags by 2025.Sharkshock/Shutterstock.com
#6 Whole Foods Market
Founded in Austin, Texas, in 1980, Whole Foods Market now has stores in all but eight U.S. states. Known for stocking thousands of organic products from local and global suppliers, Whole Foods Market only sells products that meet strict quality standards and prohibits more than 100 preservatives, flavors, colors and other ingredients commonly found in food. Whole Foods Market doesn't sell any food with hydrogenated fats, high-fructose corn syrup or artificial sweeteners. The meat department has similarly strict standards regarding animal welfare and the use of antibiotics and hormones, while the seafood department only sells sustainable, wild-caught or responsibly farmed seafood. Each store offers a variety of local products, restaurants, cafes, and some have in-store beer and wine bars. Whole Foods Market was the first supermarket to remove disposable plastic bags at checkout in 2008, and the company has a comprehensive food waste strategy to prevent and divert food from landfills. Staff members include certified sommeliers and cicerones, classically trained butchers and fishmongers who will prepare fresh seafood for customers at no extra cost. Since being acquired by Amazon in 2017, Whole Foods has offered additional discounts to Amazon Prime members as well as improved delivery options in 60 markets can receive deliveries via Prime Now. Continually innovating, the supermarket chain recently launched an online tool that allows customers to view in-store pricing, sales and product information and filter by various dietary preferences.Courtesy of Whole Foods
#5 Trader Joe's
Trader Joe's has stores in 41 states and the District of Columbia and inspires customer loyalty largely by carefully curating Trader Joe's branded products. This helps keep prices down, as Trader Joe's doesn't offer special promotions, coupons, discounts or sales, though it does produce the Fearless Flyer, a catalogue, newsletter, and comic book with product information, eight times per year. Some products are bought in limited supply and sold only for a short time while others have a cult-like following and have become staples like the Everything but the Bagel Sesame Seasoning Blend, frozen chicken tikka masala, Speculoos Cookie Butter, and Joe-Joe's Chocolate Vanilla Crème Cookies. The friendly "Crew" members who work in the stores are easy to spot thanks to their bright Hawaiian T-shirts worn to style store staff as "traders on the culinary seas." Owned by one branch of German supermarket giant Aldi, Trader Joe's is considered by some to be the absolute best place to buy certain grocery items.Jonathan Weiss / Shutterstock.com
#4 Lidl
Making its debut on our list this year, Lidl has 62 stores in the U.S. in nine states (Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia) with four more stores launching in early 2019 on the East Coast (Lidl recently opened in Staten Island, New York, and its first three Atlanta stores will open soon). A family-owned company, Lidl opened its first store in 1973 in Ludwigshafen, Germany, but opened its first 10 U.S. stores in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia only in 2017. The German supermarket is famous for its high-quality fresh produce and meat, in-store bakery, and low prices. (One 2018 academic study even identified a "Lidl Effect" - the result of which grocery retailers located near Lidl stores significantly lowered their own prices.) Wine and flowers are also standout staples at Lidl; Lidl is the only grocer in the U.S. with a dedicated Master of Wine, who is responsible for hand-selecting every bottle on store shelves, and Lidl has a 7 Day Freshness Guarantee on fresh cut roses.Courtesy of Lidl
#3 Aldi
More than 40 million customers shop at Aldi each month. Founded by the Albrecht family in 1961, the German grocer operates more than 1,800 U.S. stores in 35 states (the first store opened in Iowa in 1976). The first discounter in the world, the no-frills supermarket - there are only four or five aisles stocked with the essentials - sells frequently purchased grocery and household items from small kitchen appliances to outdoor furniture and gardening tools, primarily under its exclusive brands. About 90 percent of the products in each store are Aldi's brand, which are taste-tested in the Aldi Test Kitchen to ensure quality competitive with national brands. These products are backed by the supermarket's Twice as Nice Guarantee, which includes replacing the product and offering a full refund. ALDI also partners with local growers and farmers to offer fresh produce, including organic fruits and vegetables, and USDA meats.Joe Seer/Shutterstock.com
#2 Wegmans
Founded in 1916 in Rochester, New York, Wegmans has 98 stores in six states (Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia), with its first store in North Carolina and its first store in New York City opening later this year. The aisles are stocked with an abundance of choices in beautiful stores. Wegmans offers restaurant-quality prepared foods with oven-safe packaging, cold-pressed juices, zoodles and cauliflower rice. The supermarket's commitment to sourcing the highest-quality produce can be found at the Wegmans Organic Farm and Orchard in Canandaigua, New York, where different growing techniques are tested; the facility even includes cheese caves built to mimic those in Europe. The seamless shopping experience, from delivery powered by Instacart to curbside pickup at select locations to the Wegmans app, digital coupons, and online catering and cake orders, round out the offerings. It's not only a great place to shop - the chain has been named one of the '100 Best Companies to Work For' by Fortune magazine for 21 consecutive years and ranked No. 2 in 2018.Courtesy of Wegmans
#1 Publix
The largest and fastest-growing employee-owned supermarket chain in the U.S., Publix was founded by George W. Jenkins in 1930 in Winter Haven, Florida. Now one of the 10 largest-volume supermarket chains in the country, Publix reported retail sales of $34.6 billion in 2017. The company has 1,211 stores in seven states (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia) with the majority - 799 stores - in Florida. Jenkins mortgaged an orange grove for a down payment on the first Publix, and the proprietor's dream store was innovative, featuring many never-before-seen features in a grocery store - like air conditioning, fluorescent lighting, frozen food cases, piped-in music and in-store doughnut and flower shops. Commentators have heralded Publix as the best supermarket for many reasons, including Plato the Publixaurus (the supermarket's mascot), the free cookies given to children at the in-store Publix Bakery (just stop by and ask), its Public Aprons Cooking School, the "Publix Promise" of transparent pricing, and the legendary sub sandwiches from the Publix Deli - which fans may argue are better than many of the best sandwiches in every state.
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A divided Michigan Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a state commission's decision to provide health insurance to same-sex domestic partners of state employees.
In a 2-1 ruling, the court said it's not the place of courts to second-guess the wisdom of state action.
Over objections from Republican Gov. Rick Snyder's administration, the Michigan Civil Service Commission in January 2011 voted to have the state health insurance plan cover non-family members who've lived continuously with state workers for at least a year. GOP Attorney General Bill Schuette sued, saying the move was unconstitutional.
But the appeals court ruled the policy doesn't conflict with a 2004 gay marriage ban that also prohibits the recognition of "similar" unions. Majority judges said it's clear state employees can share benefits with a wide variety of other people besides only a gay partner.
"The policy appears to serve the negotiated, bargained-for needs of the individuals affected, and so we conclude that the policy passes muster under rational basis scrutiny," Judges Amy Ronayne Krause and Stephen Borrello wrote in the majority decision, which affirms a ruling by an Ingham County judge.
Schuette vowed an appeal to the Michigan Supreme Court.
Dissenting Judge Michael Riordan said there was no evidence that the domestic-partner policy aims to attract and retain a qualified workforce.
If there were, he said, "there is no rational basis to arbitrarily draw the line between unmarried and married employees or related and unrelated individuals."
In December 2011, Snyder signed a law blocking taxpayer-paid health insurance from being offered to domestic partners living with public employees. The measure – which is being challenged in federal court – doesn't apply to public universities or many state employees.
The Civil Service Commission has constitutional responsibility for setting rates of compensation and benefits for nearly 50,000 state workers.


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9.3.5 Changes in Variability
The capability of models to simulate the large-scale variability of climate, such as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) (a major source of global interannual variability) has improved substantially in recent years, with an increase in the number and quality of coupled ocean-atmosphere models (Chapter 8) and with the running of multi-century experiments and multi-member ensembles of integrations for a given climate forcing (Section 9.2). There have been a number of studies that have considered changes in interannual variability under climate change (e.g., Knutson and Manabe, 1994; Knutson et al., 1997; Tett et al. 1997; Timmermann et al. 1999; Boer et al. 2000b; Collins, 2000a,b). Other studies have looked at intra-seasonal variability in coupled models and the simulation of changes in mid-latitude storm tracks (e.g., Carnell et al. 1996; Lunkeit et al., 1996; Carnell and Senior, 1998; Ulbrich and Christoph, 1999), tropical cyclones (Bengtsson et al., 1996; Henderson-Sellers et al., 1998; Knutson et al., 1998; Krishnamurti et al., 1998; Royer et al., 1998) or blocking anticyclones (Lupo et al., 1997; Zhang and Wang, 1997; Carnell and Senior, 1998). The results from these models must still be treated with caution as they cannot capture the full complexity of these structures, due in part to the coarse resolution in both the atmosphere and oceans of the majority of the models used (Chapter 8).
An expanding area of research since the SAR is the consideration of whether climate change may be realised as preferred modes of non-linear naturally occurring atmospheric circulation patterns, or so-called weather regimes as proposed by Palmer (1999). Recent work (e.g., Hurrell 1995, 1996; Thompson and Wallace 1998; Corti et al., 1999) has suggested that the observed warming over the last few decades may be manifest as a change in frequency of these naturally preferred patterns (Chapters 2 and 7) and there is now considerable interest in testing the ability of climate models to simulate such weather regimes (Chapter 8) and to see whether the greenhouse gas forced runs suggest shifts in the residence time or transitions between such regimes on long time-scales. There are now several multi-ensemble simulations using scenarios of time-evolving forcing and multi-century experiments with stabilised forcing, which may help to separate the noise of decadal variability from the signal of climate change.
In this section, changes in variability (defined as the deviation from some mean value) will be considered on different time-scales (intra-seasonal, interannual, and decadal and longer). Particular attention will be given to changes in naturally occurring modes of variability such as ENSO, the Arctic Oscillation (AO; and its more spatially restricted counterpart, the North Atlantic Oscillation, NAO) and the Antarctic Oscillation (AAO) etc.
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