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Fells Point Corner Theatre presents HEINIE GOOCHEMS by Larry Malkus. Directed by Raine Bode, the show will run July 17-27, 2014.
An original comedy, written by veteran Baltimore actor Larry Malkus, Heinie Goochems is the story of Junior, a 40 year-old man, who, after being laid off from his marketing job, finds himself thrust into the role of stay-at-home dad. Junior's wife, Kelly, the new breadwinner of the family, wants another baby, and their basement tenant, Carlos, seems to be growing something down there. When a handsome concierge veterinarian shows up to perform a procedure on the family cat, things don't go quite as expected.
Heinie Goochems is directed by Raine Bode, who has directed numerous productions for a wide range of theater companies in Baltimore, Washington, and New York City including LaMaMa ETC, Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, DC Fringe Festival, University of Baltimore Spotlight Series and The Stillpointe Theatre Initiative.
Featured in the cast are Marianne Germaine, Sean Kelly, Laura Malkus, Shelly Petersen, Rachel Reckling, Anthony Scimonelli, Bode Scott, and Jason Tinney.
Running Thursday, July 17 through Sunday July 27th, 2014 - Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 2:00 p.m. Admission: $15.00. For tickets, go to www.fpct.org.


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Goals: West Coast: J Darling 3 J McGovern 3 S Lycett 2 A Gaff J Kennedy L Shuey M Brown M Hutchings M LeCras M Priddis. St Kilda: J Billings 3 C Jones 2 D Minchington L Hayes N Riewoldt T Lee T Simpkin.
BEST West Coast: Priddis, Rosa, Shuey, LeCras, Hutchings, Gaff. St Kilda: Steven, Billings, Hayes, Newnes, Savage, Weller.
Injuries: St Kilda: L Montagna (ill) replaced in selected side by C Jones.
Umpires: Mathew Nicholls, David Harris, Andrew Stephens.
Crowd: 17,317 at Etihad Stadium.
Luke Shuey ran into the open goal, reached for the loose ball, scooped it up, placed it on his boot and kicked a goal he could not possibly have missed. In the same motion, the West Coast midfielder nudged the St Kilda player beside him away without too much effort.
The moment, early in the third quarter, summed up where the Saints were at. There, where they were meant to be, in the right place, doing their best. There, trying for almost long enough.
There were things for the Saints to be happy about in the lead-up to that point. They made the Eagles spend a fair part of the first half catching them. They moved the ball quickly when they were able to get it out into space.
Jack Billings was brilliant, not once but three times in the first quarter, kicking the goals that made sure his side made the sharper start. When Jimmy Webster took off with the ball, either good things happened or he was at least able to get the players around him out of position and unsettle play.
Jack Newnes was as diligent as ever, and Darren Minchington was third on the stats sheet at the end of the first quarter. All four should only get better.
The worry for the Saints was, first of all, West Coast. It took the Eagles a while to sort things out in the middle, and find someone other than Matthew Priddis to dig the ball out of trouble for them.
Once they did, they looked the much more organised side and had multiple ways towards goal: Andrew Gaff, Chris Masten, Luke Shuey, Matt Rosa Mark Le Cras and Mark Hutchings, a one-time St Kilda rookie.
With St Kilda veteran Leigh Montagna unwell and absent, Lenny Hayes, David Armitage and Jack Steven didn't have the same, consistent amount of back-up.
The Eagles had strength of numbers and players able to take marks when the ball was pushed forward. It's something they have struggled to do all season, but on this day Jack Darling was difficult to budge, and the improving Jeremy McGovern another concern.
Then there was Josh Kennedy, who didn't need to play too huge a part but still needed to be worried about as much or more than the other two, just in case. When West Coast scored it seemed to score a little more easily than the Saints could. When the Eagles got in front, they never really looked like they were going to be panicked into giving up their lead.
St Kilda's other concerns were more familiar ones. Nick Riewoldt couldn't kick goals and be the player kicking it in so that others could take the shot. Tom Lee knows how to find his way to the front and take marks, but is still learning how to do both those things reliably, let alone kick the accompanying goals.
No matter how the Saints set their back line up, one of Darling, McGovern and Scott Lycett always seemed able to either get free or outmuscle an undersized or out-of-position opponent and take a mark close to goal. That Eric Mackenzie did such a trustworthy job on Riewoldt, on day one of life after Darren Glass, meant there were were no such issues at the other end.
The Saints hung in there during the third term, scoring two goals in a row but then letting West Coast kick two goals in the last few minutes. They kicked two of the first three goals in the final term, in inventive ways, with Lee marking, playing on and (wisely) resisting the urge to handball before Minchington roved a ball closer to goal.
They tackled and ran and tried to do things. They got plenty of the ball but were up against a more experienced, more organised and more predictable team that had a better idea of what was about to happen and how to control it.

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I'm a regular lurker and a infrequent blogger, but really do enjoy the time I spend on the Loop. Thanks to everyone for the entertaining, inspiring, interesting blogs. So to cut right to the chase, my personal question for everyone is how often do you run? I love my time running, but find that running everyday is not good for me so I run every other day. Maybe if I varied my workouts it would help, but so far every attempt I have made to run on consecutive days has resulted in nagging injuries to my hips or feet. Granted, I'm not the youngest person here, but I sometimes feel like less of a runner because I don't run every day. How many days a week do you run?
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3 on, 1 off, 2 on, 1 off.
I was 3 days a week, then last year moved to 4 days a week. Lately I've been running 4-5 days a week with the idea that I'll run 5 days a week in 2014. I don't see doing anything more than that - I want to avoid injuries and enjoy life outside of running.
Thanks for asking this question. Honestly, I'm a little surprised there aren't more 5-6 day a week runners. I assumed there were, but then you know what they say about assuming...
I'm pretty regular 5 day a week runner. Tues. through Friday, then Sunday. Usually get a speed workout, a hill/bleacher workout and a long run in per week.
4 to 5 days a week. I take Tuesdays and Fridays off. I am currently trying to build up my mileage but not add more days.
2-3 times a week, swim once, lift weights once, dogwalk of 2hrs or so on weekends.
when injured, walk most days.
in summer, replace one run with a time-trial effort on the bike.
This all started when I could no longer tolerate running six days a week.. if I could I would..
Try walking on the off days, it will help build strength and prevent injuries I believe.
Before I got injured, I was running 5 days a week. Now I'm trying to stick to every other day, so some weeks three days and some weeks four. Currently about 20 or so mpw. If I get serious about training for a half, I'll probably add a day.
I run 4 days a week. I used to do 5, but I think it may have contributed to some injuries.
I'mthaw same as you, every other day.
i usually do 5 or 6 days a week. 4 is too few, and 7 is just too much. I also usually do yoga on my rest days, just to "stretch". I think it depends on your body though- some people need more time off -- I just happen to have found through several years of running that my body wont get injured even if I'm running 6 days a week! Just do what works the best for you
3-4 days usually, Tues, Thurs, Sat, Sun. Just listen to your body and do what works!!! Sometimes it's fun following a training plan just for the structure and to test what your body likes. It's been a process for me - I'd love to run every day, or at least 6 days a week, if I could. But unfortunately I'm just not built for that and it leads to injury. All I can "recommend" is to try whatever feels right, and don't be afraid of rest days or cross training:-)
I'm a 4-5 day a week runner. M W F Sat. or T Th Sat Sun... depends on my work schedule... I have to mix it up to get it done.
"I often hear someone say, 'I'm not a real runner.' We are all runners, some just run faster than others. I never met a fake runner. "
- Bart Yasso
If you run 1 day a week or 7 days a week, 1 mile or 50 miles, you're one of us. No more, definitely no less.
"I often hear someone say, 'I'm not a real runner.' We are all runners, some just run faster than others. I never met a fake runner. "
- Bart Yasso
If you run 1 day a week or 7 days a week, 1 mile or 50 miles, you're one of us. No more, definitely no less.
I'd say listen to your body, and if some Dingus says to you that you have to run more days.......well, that may require a ninja kick. I'll leave it at that.
Typically 3-4 times a week, max. When I'm building (like I am now), I will run 3 times a week and do alot of cross training. When I am in a training play for a half or something, I'll run 3-4 times a week and continue the cross training.
My goal is always 3 a week and when my shins aren't bothering me I like to try for 4. Welcome to the Loop!
In the early days, I did 5 days/week. Then dropped to 4 because my body didn't like 5. Now I'm at 3 days of running and 2-3 days of crosstraing. So far I've found this works best for my injury prone body!
That you are even concerned about feeling like a "runner" makes you a runner. My marathon was a couple of weeks ago and training had me doing 6 days a week. Mileage increases from early weeks to late were modest enough to keep me from having any major injury issues.....BUT....I was exhausted all of the time. Prior to training I was doing 3-4 day weeks (15-20 miles). My first run since the race will be this weekend so I'm not sure how things will look going forward. I'm thinking 5 will be good for me.
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday. I might toss in an easy run on an off day every few weeks or so.
I asked a similar question yesterday, and it seems like, outside of the elites, 3 to five days is the norm. I do either 4 or 5 days per week and cut back the intensity and do more stretching/massaging/icing if something is nagging.
I used to run 5 days a week but not too long ago felt burnt out. Now I've been running 4 times a week, Tu Wed Th and Sat with usually some sort of cross training Monday and Friday and a lazy day Sunday.
If you run, no matter how often, you are a runner!
Usually M, T, Th, Sat ... and cross training on W and F. Would love to run more, but my body says no.
(And note that we are all "real" runners, no matter how many days we get out there.)
I usually run 5 days a week when I'm healthy. When injuries start cropping up I try to take more rest days. Definitely don't think of yourself as less of a runner -- your just a runner who runs a little less then some others and maybe more then a few too.
I only run 2-3 days per week. I trained for my first & second marathons on only 3 days/week (following the FIRST plan), and it has kept me injury-free *knock on wood* for about a year & a half now.
There is definitely no right or wrong answer as to how many runs per week make you a runner. If you feel like a runner, you're a runner.
4 days at week, recently up from 3. Trying to crosstrain on 2 of the other days. I've done as many as 5 days - but after a fairly mysterious injury last fall (seemed like it came out of nowhere) I may never do 5 days again. With crosstraining I hope I can still improve my marathon/half times...
I run 3 to 4 times a week, have never done more than that. Better to be consistent and healthy than too frequent and having to take weeks off to recover from injury. If you can aim for 3 to 4 times a week, but never let yourself go less than twice, you will build a very strong base.
I've been running on M, W, F, Sat. I've had good success with that.


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USERS of Colchester's Mersea Road have another traffic trauma to contend with.
After trying to avoid the town's numerous potholes, they say a recently relaid road is causing grief.
Pedestrians have been hit by loose road chips thrown up by vehicles and cars have also been damaged.
Victoria Munson, 34, was walking with her three children when her eight-year-old son was hit in the chest by one of the stones. Her nephew was hit in the eye as he walked home from school.
She said: "The stones were flying everywhere. It was frightening. I was telling the boys to cover their faces. If the road isn't safe then surely they should stop people walking by it."
A 20mph speed limit was put in place on the road, but cab driver Craig Ide, from Colchester, said chips had cracked his front window, and scratched it in a number of places. It will cost about £500 to replace and is not covered under his insurance.
He said: "I've just spent a fortune on the car and now this. You were just peppered with stones. Lots of cars in the other direction were stopping.
They were definitely being hit."
He believes the works should have been signposted further away, so people could chose to avoid the area. The work was due to finish yesterday.
An Essex Highways spokesperson said: "There will be three routine sweeps in the first seven days after the dressing has been laid and engineers will monitor the road over the coming week. All compensation claims are investigated fully and damages paid if the council is liable.''


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The founder of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), Jeanne Manford, has passed away at age 92. In 1972, Manford accompanied her son Morty to a Gay Activists Alliance demonstration, where he ended up being attacked, leading her to declare in the New York Post, "I have a homosexual son and I love him."
PFLAG National Executive Director Jody Huckaby paid tribute to Manford today:
[quote]Jeanne was one of the fiercest fighters in the battle for acceptance and equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. It is truly humbling to imagine in 1972 – just 40 years ago – a simple schoolteacher started this movement of family and ally support, without benefit of any of the technology that today makes a grassroots movement so easy to organize. No Internet. No cellphones. Just a deep love for her son and a sign reading "Parents of Gays: Unite in Support for Our Children." [...]
[quote]All of us – people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and straight allies alike – owe Jeanne our gratitude. We are all beneficiaries of her courage. Jeanne Manford proved the power of a single person to transform the world. She paved the way for us to speak out for what is right, uniting the unique parent, family, and ally voice with the voice of LGBT people everywhere.
No doubt, PFLAG has been a crucial force in helping families learn to accept LGBT youth by connecting them with other families also doing their best to love and accept theirs. President Obama paid tribute to Manford and her efforts at a Human Rights Campaign dinner a few years ago. Watch it: (Video at link)


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Dorel Industries Inc., (TSX: DII.B, DII.A), a Canadian-based world-class juvenile products and bicycle company, has selected AT&T* to connect more than 40 offices and integrate its worldwide operations and multiple divisions.
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It's not fun to decide if you want to get a kill with clone every 20 sec or provide a small peel for 5 sec and then KNOW YOU CANT DO ANYTHING OFFENSIVE FOR THE NEXT 20 SEC and also if you go offensive with the clone could just die if the other team realizes this. I usually just tossed off heals at that point which isn't why I played feral. I played feral to force cd with good cyclones and swaps for kills. Feral is a trash class atm with zero skill capp and is boring as fuck to play gg blizz.
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Posted 17 April 2013 - 05:16 AM
I don't really feel ferals are that bad, especially if other classes weren't so good. being able to shift snares and roots in a game full of snares and roots is pretty crazy. if rogues dk's and hunters were tuned down, ferals would be right there with them.
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Our HTs are pretty weak outside of HoTW, but I use them when I'm not cloning/rooting. The problem with ferals right now is we don't bring the CC that we used to. Without the ability to save my team mates with clones I watch them die. If I don't clone the healer, I can't force any defensive cds, if I do clone the healer the dps on the other team get to do their mongo dmg without me really being able to peel forcing our defensive cds.
Best fix would be to just let us cast clone..
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Posted 17 April 2013 - 08:08 AM
Ferals are still very viable, they have amazing damage and still really good CC when played correctly, however, this is only true in very few comps, and they are very limited unlike a Mage for example. They are reliant on either playing a heavy burst style of play, as with a hunter or ret, or with a strong caster such as a mage and priest where you can the ability to score the kill in a CC and have very strong defensive tools. But if you look at the bigger picture a Feral could be replaced with another similar class, and they would succeed just as well.
This doesn't mean that Ferals are bad in any way, but their toolset is just limited to a very few comps. Much like Ret paladins always had to play with a priest, hunter or DK throughout most seasons, and this season aswell (in my own opinion). Ret Paladins again, are not bad, but they are very easily replaced by classes with more utility allowing for higher pushes.
I think Blizzard has tried for years to get their point across, that if a class is not as viable as others, it doesn't mean it should be buffed through the skies, but rather given more utility and perhaps the few other classes should be downtuned, and I feel most people oversee this when talking about Ferals. It is either "Ferals are fucking retarded still, I die in a global" or "I cant play I can't spam cyclone anymore and people just train me, I need dispersion baseline", when they just need to look at what utility the classes that can replace them brings. Also instant clones and shifting roots seems to be holding them back from recieving major fixing, just like Paladins ' divine shield has been a fucking curse since day 1, preventing us from getting a proper defensive mechanism and offensive utility.
My 2cents.
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Posted 17 April 2013 - 08:19 AM
My ht go between 40k uncrit (ms) to 170k crit without doc or hotw, so it heals quite well, I even keep ns for healing now (or hibernate in rare situations).
But really most of you play with a close mind and should try new things.
Of course the cyclone change hurts, it's a major gameplay change. Though I have played mostly with priest (disc) so we can still spam cyclones.
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Posted 17 April 2013 - 09:36 AM
Ferals are so boring, biggest nerf was the growl 1
god i miss my fearie fire silence i rocked that as resto, it felt so awesome.
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No offense, but I have tried it. Either way it has literally nothing to do with this thread.
I've tested it, 20 energy on finisher is like nothing most of the time. It averages out to 10-15 percent HASTE (GROSSSSSS) in PVE depending on the amount of finishers you do (15 being if you use a finisher EVERY TIME you can). Now in PvP you WILL be CCed often. This makes the talent EVEN LESS attractive (5-7 percent haste). You don't ALWAYS want to use your finishers right away either in arena. Biting for filler can mean no energy to reapply bleeds, swap, or just keep SR/rip up. Although I DEF bite when I can still do those things.
That's not the only reason I don't take SoTF though. Incarnation in a shadowdance that last's 30 SECONDS. This means you can stun people, do RIDICULOUS burst with berserk, and that's not the only thing that's great! Removing the positional requirements on Ravage is silly! Did you know that Rogues, Warriors, and everyone else CAN NOT dodge OR parry that (ravage)? EVEN WITH THEIR EVASION/PARRY CDS! It nullifies it completely because it still has the property or something that hits from behind! Although once berserk is down, your Tiger's Fury will be back up for at least 2 15% dmg boosted Ravages for AT LEAST 100+K (assuming they use a CD and they both don't crit or something). Arena is all about knowing when to use your offensive CDs and trying to save your defensive ones until they use theirs.
I'm sorry that the other druid isn't taking you seriously from lack of helms, but there are other reasons not to. In your guide you mention how you obtained your highest rating (2300) during Season 9, which is a season where rating inflation was ridiculous and you couldn't lose rating (My team was 3200 before they reset ladders everywhere).
I've read your guide and you didn't mention a LOT of important things for ferals in a PvP Guide. I'll tell them to you so you can update it.
Mention that SR glyph is an amazing choice, esp vs 2 physical dmg dealers. This way you can get an AMAZING opener on them and start putting them defensive. You can stealth--SR--Pounce--mangle--TF--rake--ravage--HUGE RIP with TF up (and probably trinket) all before the first SR ends. Now you clone the healer and pressure is ROLLLIN if someone doesn't use a defensive cooldown.
You should maybe mention under the silence glyph, at the end, that it's still amazing vs Mages. When they go to deep you're partner you can Silence them and waste their deep while probably saving your healer a CD or two.
In the part where you Mention defensive CDs you should also mention how Barkskin's -25% crit chance TOTALLY prevents frostmages from shattering you while in Deep.
You also mention how NV is probably the best 6th tier talent, but I disagree BIG time. It's not even the best in PvE anymore due to the weird 1min 30s cd. It makes it nearly impossible to line up with your other CDs properly, and if you do it's because you are holding it for too long (making it wasted dps overall). The offheals it gives is pretty weak and DOES NOT heal you. The best dmg increase in PvP for a feral is ACTUALLY HoTW since the passive 6 percent to agi is always active for you, meaning you can't waste the dmg at all. The offheals it provides on use is RETARDED. Almost EVERY game I save my healer or dps pal their defensive cd for later, and can literally keep my own team up solo for the LONG duration of 45s. If I can get a HoTW tranq up I can actually have more healing done than my healer by the end of the match.
Here's a better Trap eating macro for you guide too, it's spamable.
/#showtooltip Wild Charge
/target [nohelp] HEALERSNAMEHERE
/stopmacro [nohelp]
/cast Wild Charge
My ht go between 40k uncrit (ms) to 170k crit without doc or hotw, so it heals quite well, I even keep ns for healing now (or hibernate in rare situations).
But really most of you play with a close mind and should try new things.
There is NO way it goes from 40k noncrit to 170k crit. That's not how spell crits work.
My healing touch with NS (50 percent heal boost) heals for 80 noncrit outside of arena. This means that it's 160k with NS + Crit. With Battle Fatigue that's 30 percent less. So my random HT's I throw throughout a game are MUCH MUCH less. Making that argument invalid.
Sorry I wen't HAM, but it's a pet peeve of mine when people say something like this "I thought it was gonna come to that, because of course clarity comes from the number of helmets." There are plenty of people who are still good without them (DATAH <3<3<3), but he has also 2900+. Gladiator isn't hard to obtain at all, but they all earned their respect.
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Posted 19 April 2013 - 09:39 PM
Buff bleeds
I think I just died laughing. I'll give u a screenshot of what dem feral bleeds does to me.
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ii) Amplification system (2nd stage): a chain-reactive disruption of the liposomes activated by the 1st stage.
1-1 1st stage: Sensing systemTo make temperature-sensitive liposomes, we used lipids conjugated with NIPAM polymer.
NIPAM is hydrophilic at room temperature, but switches to hydrophobic over 32 C. When it becomes hydrophobic, it shrinks to avoid water molecules. This structural change of NIPAM induces stress on the surface of liposomes, and consequently disrupts liposomes.
1-2 2nd stage: Amplification systemWe assume that 1st stage liposomes contain key molecules that initiate chain reactive burst of 2nd stage liposomes.
There are two different approaches to realize the 2nd stage.
A) DNA Origami approach
B) Flower DNA approach
1-2-1 DNA origami approachThis approach is inspired by a paper about Membrane-bending proteins In this approach, we name DNA stuck into liposome membrane, Origami-anchor DNA. A lot of DNA origamis are adsorbed on the surface of liposomes by using Origami-anchor DNA. DNA origami is supposed as a stiff, straight board like structure compared with liposome membrane, and as a result, liposome surface gets bending stress. At certain level of the absorbance, liposomes will burst. Also, DNA origamis on the surface of liposome repel each other because of negative charges on DNA backbone. This effect may add more stress on the membrane. We did analysis on this phenomenon (link).
From the reference, we learned that efficient structure design for destabilizing membranes should have the following properties: .
• Having rigid scaffolds
• Having large surface areas to maximize the effect of the scaffold on the membrane
<Design of DNA origami>
DNA origami is known as a designable rigid structure made of DNA. We use DNA origami to make rigid scaffolds. In order to meet the requirements, we designed 2D rectanglar DNA origami.
Fig.3 Rectangle origami
We expect the rectangle DNA origami to work as one scaffold in itself. Following is the design of our rectangular DNA origami.
Fig.4 Rectangular origami
We use caDNAno2 for our DNA origami design. The size of DNA origami is 67.6nm (26 helixes) in width and 127 nm (374 bases) in height. We cut out a smaller rectangle of 10 helixes (161 bases) at one of the corners, so that we could distinguish the two sides with AFM (Atomic Force Microscope) observation. Also, we put 141 staples sticking out from bottom face of the origami. Those staples hybridize with cholesterol-modified Origami-anchor DNA, which has high affinity with lipid membrane.
Fig.6 Unstable liposome
1-2-2 Flower DNA approachThis approach is inspired by a paper about Polymer Flower-micelle.
To adapt Flower-micelle to our project, we should remark the followings.
• Sticking a lot of cholesterol-modified DNA into liposome surface
• Change of DNA's property by hybridization with Key DNA
In this approach, we call 50nt3'DNA partly hybridized with 10ntDNA, Flower-anchor DNA. 50nt3'DNA is cholesterol-modified and the part of it hybridizes with 10ntDNA. The rest of its 40nt complements Key DNA.
The hybridization makes Flower-anchor DNA longer. It gives stretching stress to liposome membrane and ends up disrupting liposomes.
We designed the sequences of Flower-anchor DNA and Key DNA by DNA design, software for designing DNA sequences.
Fig.7 Process of flower micelle approach
Fig.10 How to straighten loopこのアプローチは「高分子フラワーミセル」の論文をDNAに応用したものである。 フラワーミセルをリポソームに応用するためには、
このアプローチでは10ntとそれと一部が相補になっている50nt3'コレ付きDNAがハイブリしたものをFlower アンカーDNAと呼ぶ。Flower アンカーDNAの一本鎖になっている40ntの部分に鍵DNAが相補になっており、ハイブリダイゼーションによって持続長が長くなったフラワーDNAはリポソーム膜面に「引っ張り(引き裂き)」ストレスを与え、リポソームを壊すのである。 以下の図のように持続長の変化によって変形するDNAを設計した We designed the sequences of Flower-anchor DNA and Key DNA by DNA design, software for designing DNA sequences.
私たちはこのソフトでFlower DNAとKey DNA のDNAを設計しました。


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OMAHA, Neb. — Government attorneys are appealing a judge's order to return more than $1 million seized in a Nebraska traffic stop to a Southern California exotic dancer.
The U.S. Attorney for Nebraska filed the notice of appeal on Friday. The case will now go the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
In July, a federal judge ordered the government to return $1.07 million — plus interest — to Tara Mishra, of Rancho Cucamonga. Mishra sued earlier this year, saying the cash taken in a March 2012 traffic stop was her life savings earned over years as an exotic dancer.
U.S. District Judge Joseph Bataillon said government lawyers failed to prove the money was connected to illegal drugs, as it had claimed, noting that Mishra showed she had paid income taxes on the money.


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Atlantic Theater's BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY Opens Off-Broadway Tonight
Atlantic Theater Company presents the world premiere production of Stephen Adly Guirgis' play BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY, directed by Austin Pendleton and starring Victor Almanzar, Elizabeth Canavan, Rosal Colón, Liza Colon-Zayas, Tony Award nominee Stephen McKinley Henderson, Michael Rispoli, and Ray Anthony Thomas. The production began previews on July 10 and opens tonight, July 31 for a limited engagement through Saturday, August 16, 2014 off-Broadway at Atlantic's main stage Linda Gross Theater (336 West 20th Street).
City Hall is demanding more than his signature, the Landlord wants him out, the liquor store is closed - and the Church won't leave him alone. For ex-cop & recent widower Walter "Pops" Washington and his recently paroled son Junior, when the struggle to hold on to one of the last, great rent-stabilized apartments on Riverside Drive collides with old wounds, sketchy new houseguests, and a final ultimatum, it seems the Old Days are dead and gone - after a lifetime living between Riverside and Crazy.
Stephen Adly Guirgis' plays have been nominated for Tony, Olivier, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Lortel Awards and have won the Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award, Barrymore Award, and LA Drama Critics Award. A former co-artistic director of the LAByrinth Theater Company, he makes his Atlantic debut with the world premiere of BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY, following acclaimed New York productions of Our Lady of 121st Street, Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, and The Little Flower of East Orange and Broadway's The Motherf***er with the Hat.
A director, playwright and actor, Obie Award winner Austin Pendleton recently directed Tribes in Chicago, where he is a Steppenwolf ensemble member. His Steppenwolf production of Lisa D'Amour's Detroit went on to an acclaimed run at London's National Theatre. Of his trio of Chekhov plays for Classic Stage Company, Uncle Vanya received a 2009 Drama League nomination for Distinguished Revival of a Play and Three Sisters received a 2011 Lucille Lortel nomination for Outstanding Revival.
Victor Almanzar makes his off-Broadway debut in BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY. Elizabeth Canavan has collaborated previously with Stephen Adly Guirgis on four productions of his plays in New York and London. Rosal Colón was recently on Broadway in the casts of A Free Man of Color and Stephen Adly Guirgis' The Motherf***er with the Hat. Liza Colon-Zayas has appeared in both the original and off-Broadway productions of Quiara Hudes' Pulitzer Prize-winning play Water by the Spoonful. A Tony nominee for his performance in Fences, Stephen McKinley Henderson can currently be seen on Broadway in A Raisin in the Sun. Michael Rispoli can be seen in A&E's series "Those Who Kill" and is known for roles in STARZ's "Magic City" and films Kick-Ass and The Rum Diary. Atlantic Ensemble Member and Obie Award winner Ray Anthony Thomas performed in August Wilson's Century Cycle for NPR and was recently seen off-Broadway in the Women's Project Theater's The Most Deserving.
BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY will feature scenic design by Walt Spangler, costume design by Alexis Forte, lighting design by Keith Parham, and original music and sound design by Ryan Rumery.
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Lemon Raspberry Layer Cake
Remember that raspberry curd I posted about last week? First of all, did anyone try a fruity breakfast sandwich? You really should! And now on to the cake I kept mentioning in that post about the raspberry curd.
I made this cake a couple weeks ago for a springtime dinner that our good friends N&L hosted. I offered to bring a dessert and got very excited because I rarely have the chance to make layer cakes. Layer cakes are only doable when there are enough people to put a dent in it, and they're people who don't mind me taking some pictures after the first slice has been cut.
In fact, this January was the first time I had ever made a layer cake (the Chocolate Overdose Cake turned out pretty awesome!). So this was my second. I was nervous about frosting it since last time I just poured ganache over the cake and topped it with chocolate covered strawberries for a no-fuss decorating job.
This time, I wanted to test out my piping skills. I can pipe a mean rosette on a cupcake or a nice fat swirl, but I've never piped a border or even coated a layer cake. I think I impressed even myself on this one. Not to brag, but I think the cake turned out very pretty.
Obviously, a cake looking pretty is only half the battle. The taste is the other half. This is a great spring cake because it combines the flavors of lemon and raspberry. Nothing screams spring like lemon and raspberry is such a great complimenting flavor.
I used my newly-discovered go-to white cake recipe as a base. As Bridget mentioned in the comments, while domes are great on cupcakes, they're not so great on cakes. I was glad this recipe didn't dome up in this instance because then I didn't have to worry about leveling off the cake layers.
I used a technique from Dorie Greenspan's Perfect Party Cake to make this recipe into a lemon cake. Rubbing fresh lemon zest into sugar releases such a fragrant aroma, it makes you want to just eat the lemony sugar right then an there. The lemon zest is really all you need to make the white cake into a lemon cake.
I also used my newly-found go-to buttercream recipe. I added lemon juice to the frosting but it didn't really carry through. I didn't want to put zest in because I wanted a really smooth frosting. I think next time I might use some lemon extract to give it more of a lemony boost.
I sliced the cakes in half to make a 4-layer cake. The filling is the previously mentioned raspberry curd. I used about a 1/3 of a cup between each layer. I brought along some of the extra raspberry curd and some people poured more onto their slice of cake.
Overall this cake turned out amazing. It was perfectly lemony without being overpowering. It made a great springtime cake and would be perfect for a Mother's day dinner or even for Easter next year.
I made the cake and filling ahead of time. The raspberry curd was refrigerated and the cake layers were wrapped in plastic wrap and refrigerated. The frosting can also be made in advance. Just be sure to let it come to room temperature prior to using.
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Lemon Raspberry Layer Cake
Yield: Serves 12
Nonstick cooking spray
1 1/2 cups + 2 Tbsp granulated sugar
zest of 1 lemon
2 1/4 cups cake flour, plus more for dusting the pans
1 cup + 2 tablespoons whole milk, at room temperature
6 large egg whites (3/4 cup), at room temperature
2 tsp almond extract
1 tsp vanilla extract
4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp table salt
12 Tbsp unsalted butter (1 1/2 sticks), softened but still cool
Double batch vanilla buttercream
Batch of raspberry curd, cooled completely
Set oven rack in middle position. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Spray two 9-inch round cake pans with nonstick cooking spray; line the bottoms with parchment or waxed paper rounds. Spray the paper rounds, dust the pans with flour, and invert pans and rap sharply to remove excess flour.
Pour milk, egg whites, and extracts into 2-cup glass measure, and mix with fork until blended.
Put the sugar and lemon zest in a mixer bowl and rub them together with your fingers until the sugar is moist and fragrant. Add cake flour, baking powder, and salt to mixer bowl and mix at slow speed. Add butter; continue beating at slow speed until mixture resembles moist crumbs, with no powdery streaks remaining.
Add all but 1/2 cup of milk mixture to crumbs and beat at medium speed for 1 1/2 minutes. Add remaining 1/2 cup of milk mixture and beat 30 seconds more. Stop mixer and scrape sides of bowl. Return mixer to medium speed and beat 20 seconds longer.
Divide batter evenly between two prepared cake pans; using rubber spatula, spread batter to pan walls and smooth tops. Arrange pans at least 3 inches from the oven walls and 3 inches apart. Bake until thin skewer or toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 23 to 25 minutes.
Let cakes rest in pans for 3 minutes. Loosen from sides of pans with a knife, if necessary, and invert onto wire racks. Reinvert onto additional wire racks. Let cool completely, about 1 1/2 hours.
Assembling the cake
Once cake layers have completely cooled, use a large serated knife to slice each layer in half horizontally.
Scoop about a cup of frosting into a piping bag with a large round tip (you can also use a ziplock bag and snip off the corner. I wouldn't recommend doing that if you are piping swirls on top of cupcakes, but in this situation, it's ok. No one will see what you're piping).
Place strips of waxes paper around the plate or cake disk that you will be using for the cake. Pipe a small amount of frosting onto the center of your cake disk. This will serve as glue to hold the cake in place.
Place your first layer of cake, cut side up, on the disk. Pipe a thick ring around the edge of the cake. This will serve as a dam to keep the filling in the cake and prevent the layers from sliding around.
Spread ~1/3 to 1/2 cup of raspberry curd onto the cake. Add the top half of that cake and repeat. Add the bottom half of the other cake, cut side up again, and repeat. Place the top layer on the cake.
Apply a very thin layer of frosting on the cake. This will serve as a crumb coat and will help the final frosting to be smooth. Chill the cake for at least 30 minutes in the refrigerator.
Next, coat the cake with frosting and smooth it out. I watched this youtube video to get a better idea of how to do it. Then decorate as you prefer. I went back to youtube to get ideas for the border. This video was helpful for me. You can see that the piping on the bottom of the cake wasn't as pretty as on the top where I had more room to make my swirls. I think my tip might have been too big for the bottom (I used a 1M tip).
Cake recipe adapted from The Way the Cookie Crumbles
34 Responses to "Lemon Raspberry Layer Cake"
Raspberries are my very favorite food on the planet and this looks absolutely divine. Thanks for sharing this!
Its my husband birthday on Fri I might try to talk him into having this cake for it.
awesome work, Jen! It sounds delicious and looks gorgeous. I'm totally jealous of your border-piping skills too.
Beautiful cake! This is very similar to our wedding cake, I may just have to try it!
It looks beautiful and sounds delicious. I'll have to try this one!
This looks absolutely terrific! Great job on the assembly and decoration!
really beautiful cake! and raspberries are one of my favorite fruits ever! i love the little sacs together with the crunchy seeds. hee.
Holy beautiful! this cake is quite elegant and delicious looking! I love raspberries with cake.
Jen this cake is so so beautiful! It reminds me of the triple berry cake from Sweet Lady Jane here in LA. If an opportunity every arises for me to make a layer cake (I have the same problem – it's hard to find people to help finish it!) I will definitely try this one.
You did a beautiful job with the piping. Gorgeous.
We should be best friends hahaha. We have the same go-to white cake recipe, and we both made layered cakes this weekend! Your cake is BEAUTIFUL! You have every right to brag. You did an excellent job on the piping and decorating. It looks professional!
I added lemon extract to my strawberry frosting on my strawberry cake (which came from Bridget's recipe), and I could taste hints of lemon. I think the extract and some lemon zest would work well.
I must make this cake!! I am 100% certain that I would like it because we have similar tastes.
Now I need to look at your overdose cake to compare it to my overload cake.
Lemon and raspberries sounds like a perfect flavor combo. Your cake looks beautiful!
OH wow, I started drooling as soon as I saw the pic. SO pretty and looks delish! Will def. have to try this one… 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
This is so, so pretty! And obviously looks delicious too. Raspberries are one of my favorite parts of spring!
I don't think you're bragging! I would be proud of a beautiful cake like this one.
Looks delicous!
beautiful!! Great decorating job!
This cake looks awesome and my mouth is watering looking at the picture right now.
beautiful cake!
This cake is SO, SOOO beautiful! I love it!!!
Looks beautiful, I love layer cakes!
you say something about videos from youtube? can you share the the links?
vertigoxcured – I updated the post with links to the youtube videos. Sorry about that.
I made this for Mother's Day and it was a huge hit! Thanks for sharing. I added the juice of the zested lemon and an extra cup of confectioners' sugar to the buttercream and managed to get a nice lemony tang.
I cant believe this is your first frosting coated cake. So beautifully done. And also note…that 4 layers with fruit filling without cake sliding all over the place is not a normal for first timers in that department. Kudos… you got the cake decorating skills Ma'am.
am making this cake right now, and i must ask about the proportions of flour to liquid. it seems off. i made the recipe exactly as written and it was a pool of liquid. i had a similar recipe for a white cake which called for 2-3/4 flour and only 4 egg whites + 1 whole egg ( similar), so i added another 1/2 cup flour and it was still liquidy. it took 30 mins. to bake, not 23-25. will see how it turns out. the only good part is rubbing the grated lemon zest with the sugar, although i could not taste much lemon in the batter. by the looks of the layers, i would recommend 8″ pans as the layers are quite thin. all in all a big disappointment. glad i planned ahead and will make a different recipe.
Does this cake keep well? i just made three 6″ cakes, which I'll freeze in preparation for making a little layer cake on Sunday (a top-tier wedding cake replacement for our one year anniversary, after Hurricane Sandy ruined the real one.) But I also made two dozen cupcakes with the batter. I'm planning to bring one dozen to a dinner party tomorrow and the next dozen to a party on Wednesday. Any tips for the cupcakes? Should I freeze them, or just leave them out til I'm ready to frost? Would appreciate any suggestions! Thanks.
Would it be advantageous to whip the egg whites first, and fold them into the batter at the end? It might help with the thin batter issue, and I have some recipes for white cake that call for whites whipped into soft peaks. I am making this cake for a baby shower this weekend, so I will let you know how this technique works, unless the author has an opinion against.
If you could email me with a few pointers on how you made your blog site look this cool, I would be thankful!
Going to endeavor to make this for my husband's birthday next weekend. I haven't made a cake in ages, but I like challenges!!! Hopefully it will go well as his parents are coming into town for his birthday (yikes!) I hope it has a nice lemon flavor because he loves lemon. Wish me luck!!!
Cake looks beautiful. However, each cake was an only an inch thick so was confused how to possibly cut it in half to make four layers. So after everything was cleaned up, I had to make a second round of this. The puree was tasty and plenty of it. The Frosting was delicious and plenty also. The cake itself tasted good with hint of lemon, but did not rise much at all and it had a very rubbery texture and very dense. I agree the batter was thin when I poured in pans, but it was not fluffy and light by any means after it was baked. I appreciated making it, but not a fav for me.
I know this is an old post, but I had to comment after making it for the first time yesterday. This is a lovely cake! The only downside, for me, was that the lemon flavor was lighter than I thought it would be. I ended up topping it with some toasted almonds and fresh raspberries, and serving it with homemade coconut ice cream.
*Note: My layers came out quite thin. They were both only a little over an inch thick, and the batter itself was a slightly thick/fluffy consistency. That being said, I was able to torte them without difficulty and the finished cake came out to a little over 3 inches.


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i found this just recently. pretty effed up what goes on with number 34. this guy should be banned from ever playing organized ball as he doesn't actually play basketball.
if that tub of lard tried this thug-ball stuff on me, he'd be crapping his teeth out after i rammed them down his throat with my fist!
34 belongs in jail, the refs should be banned from reffing again and the coach should be fired.


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Fairfax County Opens Emergency Shelter at Mount Vernon RECenter
Sept. 6, 2008
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- Emergency shelter opened at Mount Vernon RECenter.
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- Transportation is available from Huntington Community Center to the emergency shelter.
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In response to Tropical Storm Hanna, Fairfax County has opened an emergency shelter at Mount Vernon RECenter, 2017 Belle View Blvd., Alexandria. If residents are experiencing flooding, they should seek higher ground or go to the shelter.Transportation is available from Huntington Community Center, 5751 Liberty Drive, Alexandria, to the emergency shelter.
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This is the shocking moment a young mother left her baby in a pram to launch an unprovoked racist attack on a stranger.
Amanda Lowe, 26, was caught on camera stamping on Khuram Nisar's head after calling him a 'terrorist' in Piccadilly Gardens.
Lowe left her four-month-old baby girl and her eight-year-old daughter to launch the racially-aggravated assault.
The baby's father Wesley Earls, also 26, and her cousin, Daniel Wray, 21, then joined in the sickening attack. The group were later arrested by police in nearby Oldham Street.
Video obtained by the M.E.N. shows the full horror of the attack for the first time.
Lowe's conviction for assault was her fourth in six years.
But she was spared jail at Manchester Crown Court after Judge Lindsey Kushner QC told her it would have had an 'enormous impact' on her children. The judge told Lowe – who is pregnant with a third child: "Your record is terrible for violence given that you are 26 years of age.
"The damage you are doing to your children – there at the time and seeing you drunk, the risk you put them at – is disgraceful.
"Somebody who behaves like that when they are drunk I would think you have to keep a very careful eye on as a mother. People have been killed and maimed through being kicked in the head."
Lowe, of Rochdale Road, Blackley, admitted racially aggravated assault causing actual bodily harm on May 21.
She was given a 12-month sentence, suspended for two years, and ordered to attend a programme for women offenders. Earls, of Old Market Road, Blackley, admitted assault causing actual bodily harm and was given a 12-month sentence, suspended for two years, and a community order.
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Here's a shocker; Magic Mike is a really, really good film.
Can you think of a more uneven contemporary director than Steven Soderbergh? He bounces back and forth between the utterly commercial and the resolutely personal, and has complete control over all his work, which has only increased over the years.
After his dazzling debut with Sex, Lies, and Videotape in 1987, he went on to the interesting misfire Kafka (1991), and then to the superb but utterly forgotten Depression era drama King of the Hill (1993), which remains one of his finest films, but didn't even make it to DVD in the United States.The late monologist Spalding Gray appeared in a memorable support role in that film, and in 1996 Soderbergh tackled Gray's Anatomy, Spalding Gray's most famous theatrical piece, which is more or less a filmed record (thankfully) of Gray in performance.
Then came the crime comedy Out of Sight (1998), then the down and dirty crime drama The Limey (1999), using archival footage from Ken Loach's Poor Cow (1967) to flesh out the narrative's back-story, then the rather conventional biopic Erin Brockovich (2000), and the overheated and underbaked drug thriller Traffic (2000), for which he surprisingly won an Academy Award as Best Director, and a remake of Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris (2002), the experimental 40s period piece The Good German (2006), as well as the absolutely commercial and utterly uninteresting Ocean's 11, 12 and 13 (2001, 2004, 2007).
I'm leaving some films out, but starting with Traffic, he also functioned as his own Director of Photography, most notably on the two-part Che, under the pseudonym of Peter Andrews; oddly, he later wished that he hadn't made the film at all, an interesting public admission to say the least. And since 2006, he's been editing most of films under the additional pseudonym of May Ann Bernard. In short, he's all over the place, from the most conventional films to the utterly experimental, as in his 1996 film Schizopolis. When you go to see a Soderbergh film, you literally have no idea what you're going to get going in.
So it comes as something of a shock that Magic Mike (2012) is so very, very good. This is even truer when one factors in the deliberately misleading trailers, selling the film as nothing more than a male strip show, with beefcake as the primary draw. There's that, of course, in this tale of Michael "Magic Mike" Lane (the stunningly athletic Channing Tatum), who falls in love with Brooke (Cody Horn), the sister of Adam (Alex Pettyfer), a young man whom he befriends on a construction site and pulls into "the life" as a male stripper in a sleazy club managed by the Machiavellian Dallas (Matthew McConaughey, who seems to be making a film every five minutes these days, all of them exceptional — Killer Joe, Bernie, Mud, many others).
The choreography is fantastic; when Tatum is dancing, it seems almost like a special effect rather than straight photography; he's a dazzling performer, clearly using his own history as a male stripper to create an utterly authentic atmosphere, and as Adam, Pettyfer is equally convincing, moving from confused kid (his nickname in the film is "The Kid") to drug-soaked lifer with skill and ease. Another interesting aspect of Magic Mike is that while most of the action centers on Dallas' strip club, the audience members fade into the background, and the real interest is not only the backstage story, and the lives of the male dancers, but also Brooke's reaction to the scene – and Cody Horn is simply fantastic in the role.
What's also odd is that though Channing Tatum, who also co-produced Magic Mike from a script by his writing partner Reid Carolin, is undeniably the main focus of the film (the script being, at least in some part, autobiographical), Brooke is a major part of the film as well, and Soderbergh, editing as Mary Ann Bernard and lensing as Peter Andrews, hangs on her face for long sections of the film, as many of the key sequences play off-screen – we're witness to her reaction, nothing more. The film's soundtrack is also an exceptional mix of dance hits old and new, all of which really fit the images, rather than simply accompanying them, or worse, propping them up.
By the end of the film, Brooke's brother Adam is lost to "the life" while Mike escapes, and starts a relationship with Cody, which is the one redemptive note in the film. While it's a somewhat downbeat piece, in which nobody really seems to be having fun, and money rules everything, it also has a solidly moralistic center, and basically does everything it can to demonstrate to the viewer that the whole strip club business is shady, dangerous, and a dead end; the only thing one can do is escape from it, unless you're like Dallas, a ringleader on the way to Hell. Superbly shot, deftly edited, and remarkably well acted — McConaughey seems to absolutely inhabit his role as Dallas, alternately threatening and mesmeric, dominating every scene he's in with effortless skill — Magic Mike is so much more than you probably expect, so I urge you to go see it as soon as you can.
Another interesting fact to consider is that Nicolas Winding Refn was originally attached as director, and while he probably would have made a bold, colorful film with the material, I can't help but think that Soderbergh gave the project greater depth. I try to see everything that opens on the grounds that you really can't trust anyone's judgment except your own in evaluating any work of art, no matter what the medium, and so I see a lot of junk. Magic Mike just might be the best film of 2012 so far, which is what I thought about Bernie until I saw this. And Matthew McConaughey's in both of them.


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Hotels and Resorts
Cigar Aficionado's panel of travel experts picks the most luxurious, most outstanding, most exciting range of destinations in the world
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Americans have continued to expand their travel horizons, and once-exotic destinations have become more mainstream. Hotel industry trends have come and gone, new high-end chains have sprouted, and in short, today's traveler has more and better choices than ever-making vacation planning, in a way, harder than ever.
We are sticking to our original idea. Most travel publications ask readers to weigh in on their favorite properties. But we believe that readers' polls can be grossly distorted-one good example is a recent survey that named a hotel with a single par-3 golf course as the best golf resort in the Caribbean. The results rely on single visits, from people who may or may not have had a good experience.
We have gone about our travel surveys differently every year for the last five years, focusing on topics like golf, beach or vacation resorts or some speficic segment of the travel industry. We choose a group (usually around 30 people) who work in the travel business, even major hotel executives who are then prohibited from voting for their own properties. Check out cigaraficionado.com for a list of our pollsters and the methodology under a new feature called MagPlus. This year, we are revisiting the topic of our original poll in 2005: The World's Best Hotels and Resorts.
Before we get to the results, here is a roundup of how the travel landscape has changed-or not changed-since 2005.
What's Hot: A back-to-basics approach in the hotel industry, stressing the classic strengths of top operators and managers, service and cuisine. Any investor with enough money can build beautiful rooms with plenty of marble and electronics, but today's more discerning traveler is over flash and fizzle and demands first-rate food and staffing to go with the gorgeous physical plant.
The Pacific Rim continues to emerge as one of travel's shining stars, with a staggering crop of true luxury hotels from all the top brands in both the usual suspect cities, Tokyo and Hong Kong, as well as Beijing, Shanghai, Hanoi, Macao and more. The same is true on the resort front, with impossibly gorgeous beach and spa properties throughout Thailand, Indonesia,
Vietnam and the South Pacific. South America is the other hotbed of new discoveries. For more than a decade, industry pundits have predicted the continent's emergence as vacation destination and this finally seems to be happening with wonderful lodging properties in every shape and size, from city hotels to tiny boutique lodges, tucked amongst historic city centers, ruins, mountains and rainforests, along with lavish golf and beach resorts.
Vietnam and the South Pacific. South America is the other hotbed of new discoveries. For more than a decade, industry pundits have predicted the continent's emergence as vacation destination and this finally seems to be happening with wonderful lodging properties in every shape and size, from city hotels to tiny boutique lodges, tucked amongst historic city centers, ruins, mountains and rainforests, along with lavish golf and beach resorts.
Here at home, nowhere is the recent change to the luxury hotel scene more visible than in the ski business. It is hard to believe that no so long ago there was not a single luxury chain operating a slope-side hotel in this country, with just a few independents like the Little Nell and Stein Eriksen representing the entire upscale ski lodging market. Suddenly everyone has jumped in: Four Seasons, Ritz Carlton, Park Hyatt, Capella, Aman, Rockresorts, St. Regis, Waldorf Astoria, Viceroy, Montage and so on. Just between the winters of 2009 and 2010 the luxury ski hotel selection in the U.S. will have essentially doubled.
Globally, "authenticity" is the industry buzzword, leading to the demise of the cookie-cutter hotel and rise of the sense of place. As obvious as it seems, travelers to Bali want to feel like they are in Bali, but this was not always the case. This search for authenticity has increased interest in destinations like Bhutan and to ancient ruins, and birthed a market for new hotel-based activities like cooking and language classes and even indigenous spa treatments.
Finally, a slew of new, smaller or imported luxury brands that had very little name recognition-or did not even exist-five years ago are stepping up to challenge the big boys. We saw the names Capella, Como, Shangri-La, Aman, Banyan Tree, Rocco Forte and Montage a lot more than in past polls.
What's Not: Hip hotels serving up style over substance are yesterday's news. The experienced concierge who can obtain hard-to-get reservations has proven far more enduring than designer uniforms on valet parking attendants. India, though increasingly an important part of the world's economic and cultural landscape, has failed to ever, in all our polls, put one single luxury vote in the ballot box.
Eastern Europe, once heralded as the next big thing, has been largely ignored by our panelists and the once hot romance of the Greek Isles has shifted quite noticeably to our experts' beloved Italy, and its previously unsung Mediterranean islands, Sicily and Sardinia, which are trending upwards-fast. Celebrity chefs, for a brief time as vital to new hotels as spas, have slipped into the background even as hotel food quality has become more important to guests.
The Caribbean has continued to lose ground to Mexico, where wonderful hotel after wonderful hotel has opened, while in the islands, too-laid-back service standards for the high prices are increasingly being scrutinized by visitors, and in a very rare occurrence, a new Four Seasons in the Bahamas failed and closed quickly. No one heralded hotspot has fallen so far so fast as faddish Dubai, which only yesterday was touted as the "next Las Vegas." Meanwhile, with CityCenter, the Cosmopolitan and new Michelin-starred gastronomic temples, Vegas actually has good news again.
What's the Same: Italy remains the hotel and resort favorite of our experts, and given its tiny size, the nation has a vastly disproportionate number of the word's finest accommodations. Five years ago, in our very first poll, for the category "Best Small Resort, International," all but two lonely votes were cast for properties in Italy. Considering the entire world, our panel was in near-unanimous agreement over one thing: whatever the best was, it was in Italy.
Five years later, we asked them to choose the "Best Hotel or Resort Europe," this time including properties of all sizes and those in cities. It was déjà vu when all but two votes were again cast for Italian properties, large and small, city and country. La dolce vita lives!
Elsewhere, our top vote getters worldwide remained The Four Seasons George V in Paris and the Peninsula Hong Kong, though the latter is facing markedly increased competition. Among boutique urban hotels, New York City has ruled the roost and this is even truer today, with myriad new, upscale small hotels opening in recent years.
Best Large City Hotel, U.S.
TIE: The Beverly Hills Hotel & Bungalows, California; Peninsula Chicago, Illinois
The only surprise about these two standout selections is that they are not in New York, which in the past has almost exclusively ruled our domestic hotel categories, large and small. The "Pink Palace," as the Beverly Hills Hotel & Bungalows is known (uber-critic Anthony Lassman of Nota Bene insists guests opt for the bungalows), is a perfect addition to our ranks, as the hotel is coming up on a century in the luxury business and has continued to wow Hollywood stars since the 1920s. Owner of a coveted Forbes (formerly Mobil) five-star rating, "The Beverly Hills Hotel is the epitome of glamour and style with true five-star service and attentiveness," says celebrity travel agent Jason Miller, president of The Accomplished Traveler. New in 2010 are two 3,500-square-foot "ultra-bungalows."
The Windy City choice might be more eye raising were the hotel not a Peninsula, a brand that has consistently excelled in Cigar Aficionado rankings and whose Hong Kong flagship is often our number one hotel on earth. Peninsula was the second-most highly rated hotel brand in this poll, and unlike competitors, focuses almost exclusively on big-city properties, like Chicago. "This hotel has it all…Midwestern hospitality and European elegance, luxurious guestrooms, extraordinary spa, and some of the finest dining in the U.S.," said another superstar travel agent, Anne Scully, President of McCabe World Travel.
Best Small City Hotel, U.S.
The Surrey, New York City
No other city does small in as big a way as New York, which won this category handily in our original poll (The Lowell), in our Best New Hotels Poll (Gansevoort) and now sweeps the top places again. There have been a rash of hot Big Apple hotel openings, some trendy, some understated, but all more neighborhood-oriented than in the past. The Surrey is the best of the bunch, thanks in part to its exclusive rooftop bar, "open to hotel guests and 'friends of the Surrey' only, making it the most civilized place in the city for summer cocktails," according to New Yorker and ForbesLife editor Ann Abel. "I absolutely love this art-filled, sleek boutique hotel," added top Los Angeles travel agent Stacy Small of Elite Travel International. The Surrey occupies an oversized Upper East Side townhouse whose first life as a residence hotel was the choice of JFK and Bette Davis.
Runner-up: The Greenwich, New York City. The Greenwich also boasts a guest-only bar, in an interior courtyard, along with a standout spa. "It's not easy to find many 'cool' hotels that offer five-star service. I found this at The Greenwich," said The Accomplished Traveler's Jason Miller.
Honorable Mention: 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky, which houses not only an incredible art collection and actual museum, but also the world's largest selection of bourbon and domestic whiskies. This is now the choice for Kentucky Derby bound A-listers.
Best City Hotel, International
Four Seasons George V, Paris
The George V is no newcomer to our list, having dominated Paris, one of the world's great hotel cities, in our previous polls. What stands out is that in this much more competitive era and crowded luxury hotel market, while other top vote getters are falling back to the pack, this one keeps widening its lead, and was the top vote getter in this entire survey, displacing our previous runaway favorite, the Peninsula Hong Kong.
The George V was the choice of everyone from Nota Bene's persnickety Anthony Lassman to romantic-honeymoon specialist Carrie Wallace. Several panelists noted that in addition to impeccable service and deluxe accommodations, the hotel was unique in the City of Lights for its open embrace of American travelers. "The surroundings are sumptuous and worthy of Louis XV," proclaimed longtime luxury travel journalist Debbie Karpowicz Kickham.
Runners-Up: TIE: Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi; Oriental Bangkok, Peninsula Hong Kong. The second place "Pen" was our past grand winner, and along with the venerable Oriental Bangkok, this one-two punch has long been the benchmark for global hotel excellence, while the Metropole Hanoi came out of left field to wow our panelists. "If you're going to stay at a colonial grand hotel, you have to pull out all the stops. The Metropole does that and has a perfectly central location," said Abel.
Best Beach Resort, U.S.
TIE: Four Seasons Hualalai, Hawaii; The Breakers, Florida
Our experts went bicoastal on this one, and two states, Hawaii and Florida, utterly dominated with well over 90% of votes cast. A number of hotels were worthy of ballots, but for the 50th State, Hualalai narrowly edged the recently reopened and totally rebuilt Mauna Kea, while the Breakers likewise edged out the much newer and nearby Acqualina. Honeymoon planner Wallace sums up the Four Seasons' appeal: "Among Hawaii's many high-rise resorts, this low-rise beauty really stands out. It offers the perfect mix of understated luxury, attentive service, beautiful grounds and world-class facilities." How many hotels have a saltwater swimming pool cum aquarium carved from black lava and filled with colorful fish and majestic rays? Meanwhile, the family-owned Breakers, which insists on reinvesting ludicrous amounts of money in keeping this grande dame in perfect shape, is no stranger to our poll. Five years ago it swept "Best Large Resort U.S.," thanks to two golf courses, excellent restaurants and a perfect setting. Well-known travel writer Lynn Seldon repeats what other travelers have said for more than a century: "The location, property, people and food keep me coming back year after year." Among those in hearty agreement are travel agent Stacy Small and Emmy-award-winning "CBS News" travel editor Peter Greenberg.
Runners Up: Mauna Kea, Hawaii; Acqualina Resort & Spa, Florida. Earthquake damaged Mauna Kea was totally redone, including its famous Robert Trent Jones, Sr. golf course, tweaked into better than ever shape by his son Rees Jones. TheAPosition.com founder Jeff Wallach calls it "recently renovated within an inch of its life." Acqualina was more of a surprise, and our experts were wowed by its seaside setting, which travel agent Miller describes as, "The most beautiful beach I've seen on the East Coast."
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Milani Liquif'eye Metallic Eye Liner Pencil Reviews
Most smoothest eyeliner I've ever used.....I'm not used to this eyeliner yet but hopefully i will soon. It is soooooo smooth that i find it hard to maneuver and create the perfect thickness of my line. This is the best eyeliner for the waterline by far because of it's creamy consistency. It stays on for a long time but I just didn't like how it gathers up around my outer corner. I bought this after countless remarkable reviews and I have t...read moreo say it definitely lives up to its reputation but I found that it is not waterproof. It smudged under my waterline after several hours of wear. It dries quickly and applies easily so if you want to blend, then blend quickly before it dries. This is the first eyeliner I've seen that's like gel, pencil, and liquid in one. You really get the best of both worlds with this one! The other downside to this is that every time I try to sharpen it the tip keeps breaking off. I don't know if this happened to anyone else but it is so annoying. I can never get it to a sharp point no matter how hard I sharpen it. Oh well, I might just try to apply it with an angled brush instead. — 2 years, 3 months agobeautypoet101 | 581 reviews
So smooth and stays for a long timeThis eyeliner is the darkest eyeliner I've ever used, it is so pigmented. It goes on very smooth, it feels almost like a gel or cream liner. You can litterally grab an eyeliner brush and and sweep it across the eyeliner and apply it that way on your eye. You can smudge it amazingly and is just so versatile. It has become my favorite eyeliner and what is most amazing is the price and that you can get it at the drugstore. — 6 years, 1 month agogaej19 | 147 reviews
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Waterproof, Intense ColorThis is probably the perfect pencil eyeliner I've seen. I bought it from CVS, it was a little over 5 bucks or so. It glides on so smoothly, both along the waterline as well as the upper eye lid along the lash line. I bought this in the blackest shade. The color is so intense that it is literally liquid eyeliner intensity, as the name says. The application is also very smooth, glides on easily with...read more no tugging or retracing as the rich color comes along immediately. Just make sure to have a good sharpener because you don't want to waste this product sharpening it down to a stub too soon. I had to get a good one when I had to sharpen it the first few times. It is great for tight-lining the eyes as it really highlights the lashes even without a mascara. You can apply this eyeliner for a basic lined look, and often times I've used it to create the cat eyeliner by winging it out. If you do use it for a winged effect, make sure to work fast because once it's on, it's waterproof and non-smudgeable within 30 seconds. I love that I can use it for a winged liner look without having to worry about the winged part smudging or fading away. This eyeliner stayed put on my waterline too and I tend to have fairly watery eyes. This is a great product, I highly recommend buying it, there really aren't any downsides that I have experienced. In the meantime, I have to grab this in more colors! — 4 years, 9 months agoChantilly | 36 reviews
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True waterproofI bought the black and the gold ones, since they came highly recommened and they really don't disappoint. Extremely long wearing once dried and colours are intense and true to their names. Can't wait to get my hands on "aqua", which might be the perfect teal colour I've been looking for. Performace is excellent, they glide effortlessly over the lid and don't clump on the little wrinkles that us, more mature ladies, are beggining to notice. — 5 years, 6 months agohananoire | 49 reviews
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My fave!I love this eyeliner! It reminds me of the 24/7 liner from UD but more affordable! — 2 years, 5 months agoLarissa568 | 5 reviews
Love it!I absolutely love this eyeliner! When I swatch it on my hands it reminds me of a brand new sharpie. It is super pigmented (at least the one I have which is in 01 Black). The pencil glides on very smooth and creamy and it really does feel like a liquid liner because it does not tug at the eyes at all. It is super easy to use and if you make a mistake, it easily wipes off within 30 seconds or so. Th...read moree color stays on all day, and even night without any smudging. The only thing I do not really like is that because of the creamy formula, the pencil dulls quite fast and needs to be sharpened often when I am going for a thin liner look. Other wise, when I want a smoky or just a fatter line, it works perfectly. I have been wanting to go back and by a backup as well as the rest of the colors, but I am sort of holding back because they are around $9 each, but it is so worth the money. I definitely will repurchase this product again. — 4 years agosunshinestargaze | 23 reviews
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One of my favorites!This product is absolutely amazing! The color pay off is wonderful. The texture is extremely creamy and the color just glides on. I have gotten tons of compliments and have been asked where I get my eyeliner. It is a great price for such an amazing product. I gave it a 9 instead of a 10 because it does smudge a teeny bit after hours of use. I definitely recommend!! — 4 years, 2 months agovictoriapachec | 17 reviews
Seriously the best eyeliner ever!This eyeliner beats even the most expensive eyeliners out there! The color literally does not smudge and the application is flawless and easier than ever. Amazed and will never go back to high end eyeliners now that I've found this! Go buy it, you won't regret it. I've found mine at Kmart and Fred Meyers. — 4 years, 3 months agojenny1105 | 3 reviews
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longest wearing eyeliner I've found!I have super oily monolids and I've always been skeptical of using eyeliner on them because it usually takes so much work to get them to show up. Not Milani - this is the most pigmented (it's as good as gel liner), creamy eyeliner I've ever tried. It goes on as smoothly as a dream. Even though it's very smudge-proof it still doesn't last an entire day on me, even with primer, but it has lasted me 8-ish hours which is amazing since I rub my eyes a lot. — 5 years, 1 month agounderyourwaves | 5 reviews
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Not for contact lens usersI love the aqua color. It really is beautiful and goes on smooth. However, a couple hours into having it on and it flakes. It messes with my contact lenses and makes me see blurry. I once took one out and there was a slight discoloration that would not rinse out. Kinda ruined my night out dancing — 5 years, 2 months agoApple_Addict | 1 reviews
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Planning stages for a NEW course near Green Lake in Zobel Park are under way! They have applied for a grant and it appears that the holes have been layed out, but beyond this I don't know. See the link for the most info!
Also, click below to comment or donate towards the cause!
NEW INFO!!! "the course will be a championship course with 18 holes there will be 3 pin locations for each hole and 2 tee pads for most holes."
Now, we just need to get the Waupun "course" moved to Waupun County Park and make it a real course!


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Those extra channels come in handy
During his tenure as a Crutchfield staff writer, Marshall Chase wrote about home theater receivers, sound bars, and in-wall and in-ceiling speakers.
More from Marshall Chase
Heads up!Welcome to this article from the Crutchfield archives. Have fun reading it, but be aware that the information may be outdated and links may be broken.
Home Theater Receiver Tip: Three things you can do with those "extra" amplifier channels
A typical surround sound system includes five speakers, but many of today's home theater receivers offer seven or more channels of amplification. These receivers allow you to "assign" those two extra channels to different tasks quite simply through their setup menus. Here are three things you can do with those additional outputs.
Add more surround speakers
Back surround speakers add a new dimension to your listening enjoyment. Sound effects, music and more take on a heightened level of realism. After all, we normally hear sounds from all directions. The deeper sound field also adds to a fuller experience of music, creating an auditory sense of space.
Some sound processing formats, like Dolby® Pro Logic IIz, enable the use of "height" speakers. These speakers are placed above the front left and right speakers and help to create a taller sound field. This type of placement and effect is of special interest to action film and video gaming fans, as well as those who enjoy a more realistic "concert" feel to their music.
|You can choose to add either back surround or front "height" speakers to literally add dimensions of realism to your enjoyment of music, films and games.
Bi-amp your front speakers
|Adding a second set of wire in a bi-amp mode to compatible speakers improves performance.
Sending more power to your speakers has the advantage of delivering improved clarity, dynamic range and volume. Many speakers offer dual sets of binding posts, enabling a "bi-amp" connection. Bi-amping requires running two sets of wires — one for the woofer and one for the tweeter. In addition to better sound quality your speakers will give you a wider soundstage.
Enjoy music in another room
|Locating speakers outside your main listening area has its advantages.
Many receivers offer "dual zone" capability to let you power a pair of speakers outside your main listening area. You can place a pair of speakers in the kitchen for instance, or even a pair of speakers outdoors. Using a receiver's "dual source" capability, you can listen to music in one room while others continue to enjoy the movie or game in progress in your main area. Learn more about multi-room receivers.


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Published: May 9, 2008
PHOTO: From left, in front, William and Valerie Bell, Gov. David A. Paterson and Nicole Paultre Bell at a news conference on Thursday about the Sean Bell shooting. Mr. Paterson, with the Rev. Al Sharpton behind him, said that he did not condone civil disobedience like the protests Mr. Sharpton organized on Wednesday, but that he understood it and would examine undercover police conduct. (PHOTOGRAPH BY HIROKO MASUIKE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES)


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HOMEOWNERS could be compensated by the state if the value of their home falls as a result of new garden cities being built, the Deputy Prime Minister has said.
In the Government's Garden Cities Prospectus, published in April, Nick Clegg said that new garden cities could be built in an "arc of prosperity" between Oxford and Cambridge.
Land between the Hanneys and Abingdon has been earmarked as a potential site for a 30,000 home garden city by planning consultant Ken Dijksman. Mr Clegg has said he wants a shortlist of potential locations published by the end of the year.
Speaking to BBC1's Countryfile, the Deputy Prime Minister said it was important to safeguard house prices in areas chosen for projects.
He said: "We could, maybe, give deductions on their council tax for the period of time during which the garden city's being built.
"We could, possibly, also say to those where they think the price of their home will be affected, we will guarantee the price of their home by buying it, if you like, upfront."
Mr Clegg promised that ministers would "go the extra mile to allay those concerns of people who feel their property or the price of their home might be affected".
He added: "We don't want people to lose out."
Earlier this year Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced that a 15,000 home garden city would be built at Ebbsfleet, near Dartford in Kent.
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48 Hour Games
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Suvi Andrea Helminen | Denmark
New York Premiere!
48 Hour Games is an interactive "choose your own adventure" style documentary that is as much a game as it is a film. Shot during the Nordic Game Jam, an event that annually brings together more than 300 game developers from all parts of Scandinavia, the film is an intense exploration of the creative process. Fueled by caffeine, competition, and perhaps a little madness, 48 Hour Games tracks the soaring highs and depressing lows of the Game Jam teams as they work towards the epic grand finale.
Originally released as an online experience for a single user, NYFF Convergence will host a fully interactive screening of the film with creator Suvi Andrea Helminen – an event that will ask the audience to chart the course of story through a process that the film magazine Ekko describes as "somewhere in between democracy and "survival of the fittest" – the ones who shout louder get to decide… it's about cheering with your whole body. "


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The prevailing take on the so-called "pink slime" controversy has been remarkably consistent. Virtually all of the major media coverage has drawn a stark and simplistic picture: Consumers shouldn't have to accept disgusting by-products as "cheap filler" in such staples as hamburgers because the only purpose for using such ingredients is lining the pockets of Big Business.
The idea that lean finely textured beef might actually be wholesome only surfaced weeks into the firestorm and long after most grocery stores and fast-food chains had loudly and publicly sworn off the its use—because they care about their customers, of course, and they would never sell a product that's now tainted with the "ick factor."
As a result, the manufacturer, Beef Products International, has closed down production plants and laid off hundreds of workers, even while Midwest governors and business leaders tried to rally behind the safety and efficacy of the product.
(Where were they two weeks ago, when the story first broke?)
Now—finally—another side to the debate has emerged, and it's an argument much broader than merely a debate over whether we can (or should) stomach the addition of pink slime in our ground beef products. As detailed in a recent Los Angeles Times commentary titled, "Food activism may come at a cost", the power of social media that allowed the pink slime issue to erupt into a major controversy may end up having an effect the same consumers who are now so outraged might ultimately come to regret.
That's because the activist-led drive to force changes across the entire food production industry is likely to accomplish something nobody wants: An increase in the cost of food.
A serious increase.
Right now, as the Times article noted in citing USDA data, U.S. citizens enjoy one of the least expensive food supplies in earth, at least in terms of the percentage of median incomes spent on food purchases. And that includes the fact that over half of each food dollar is spent on more expensive take-out and foodservice meals.
The wave of consumer-driven complaints about the lean beef ingredient swamped USDA officials, forcing them to stop buying the product for the national school lunch program. That, in turn, led to the supermarket and foodservice sectors hastening to follow suit.
Short-term, the disappearance of BPI's product won't radically raise anyone's grocery bills, but the same process focused on other targets, such as changing the housing systems for pork and egg production, stopping the use of antibiotics in animal agriculture and even curtailing the use of feedlots and finishing programs, could raise food costs considerably.
The rebound from reform
That's the unknown dynamic underlying the emergence of direct consumer activism through online and social media: Could changes related to environmental and animal welfare issue cause sufficient sticker shock for consumers to re-think their headlong rush to "reform" industrial agriculture?
I believe they could.
Right now, the price tag for voting to ban gestation stalls, for example, is non-existent. Such measures have passed in states with no significant production, or with a built-in delay that puts years between the enactment of the measure and the eventual impact on production and thus food prices. It doesn't require much thought to decide that cages, stalls and other confinement systems should be eliminated if you're convinced it won't affect your weekly food budget.
But if the leverage of social media helps spur a continuing wave of regulatory changes that impact efficiency, two results are almost guaranteed: The first is outsourcing of production, whether to other states or foreign countries, which in either case not only deprives the very residents who voted for what they thought were consequence-free, feel-good improvements to food production of local and regional economic activity but penalizes them where it hurts the most: at the checkout line.
The second is a relentless rise in cost.
It may take years to accumulate enough on-the-ground data to allow consumers to connect the dots between stricter regulation of food production and an inevitable rise in prices, but if trends continue as they are, such an outcome is not at all far-fetched.
That might provide some grim satisfaction to the many industry voices who have been valiantly arguing that food production efficiency isn't something evil, but it will comes at a cost the rest of won't be too happy about paying.
Dan Murphy is a food-industry journalist and commentator