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Donatella Versace sweeps into the room a fashionable 30 minutes late, flanked by her hairdresser and preternaturally handsome personal assistant, Bruce Guimar.
Despite the fact that she's wearing spike heels a good six inches high, she is tiny, positively dwarfed by her ever-present and hugely attentive escorts. She is wearing a skin-tight black Lycra vest and equally unforgiving black trousers. She has the body of a particularly well cared for 25-year-old. Her skin is the colour of caramel and her trademark platinum locks - dutifully teased into glossy waves for the occasion - reach down to her waist.
Strategically placed at various points about the suite on the top floor of the Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane, London (where she is, for the time being, resident), are packets of Marlboro Red - the lady doesn't do lights - each wrapped its own, specially printed black and white paper case bearing the signature Versace Baroque swirls and her "DV" personal insignia. She does this, she says, in a treacle-rich voice, "because I 'ate the warning".
"We normally print them in the colour of the season," Guimar adds, as if that were the most natural thing in the world, "but we ran out." By the side of each pack is a lighter in an ice pink or blue crystal case and finished with the gold Medusa head that has, equally, always been an integral part of the Versace identity.
On a table in front of us are bottles of water and strawberries dipped in white chocolate. Cakes - so small, shiny and perfectly formed that they look like they've been varnished - sit on silver platters alongside, although, as is usually the case in such circles, they are destined never to be touched.
Versace is in London for cocktails and a dinner given by her friends Elizabeth Hurley - she of the Versace safety-pin dress fame - and David Furnish at the latter's Holland Park home to celebrate the publication of the latest issue of British Elle. Donatella has guest-edited the magazine, central to which is an auction of clothing and accessories donated by every fashion brand worth its credentials - from Burberry to Chanel, and Paul Smith to John Galliano - in aid of the Breast Health Institute's Fund For Living.
"We think that breast cancer is something that's already taken care of," Versace says, "but it's not true. The women being diagnosed are getting younger and younger. Every two minutes, in the world, a woman gets sick."
This particular initiative takes care of women who already have breast cancer and need money to pay for someone to look after their children while they have treatment, for example. It has been running for some time in the United States but is new to Britain. It is based at Guy's and St Thomas' hospitals in London. "I think if people are able to make a noise, they should," Versace says. For a week in October, 10 per cent of the profits from every one of the 200 Versace stores the world over will be donated to the charity.
Donatella Versace's public persona - the supercharged and impenetrable blonde, dripping with diamonds the size of boiled sweets, whose extravagant lifestyle decrees that her feet never touch anything as unsavoury as a pavement devoid of a red carpet, say - is deceptive. In reality, she looks much softer than she does in photographs. She has pretty, brown eyes, and the great care her retinue takes of her is exceeded only by her own willingness to please and ensure that anyone in her presence feels comfortable. Her manners are immaculate.
"I've had to fight a lot to overcome my fears in life," she says, lighting up the first of many cigarettes. "To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion but also one that can limit your experience. You fear experience because everything is a sin.
"I am Catholic but I don't believe that there are so many sins in life. You need to live and experience for yourself what is and isn't sinful. Nobody can protect you from yourself. Yes, I believe in God, but I don't like all the guilt."
At 51, it would not be overstating things to say that Versace's life story to date has all the richness of the finest Renaissance drama. It is certainly more emotionally charged, more opulent and, of course, darker than most of us might ever wish for - or indeed dread.
She was born in Reggio di Calabria in southern Italy. Her mother Francesca, a dressmaker, died when her daughter was just 20. Her father Antonio was, by all accounts, a rather remote figure. Although Santo was the eldest of the Versace children, the significant relationship was always the one between Gianni, the fashion deity who presided over the 1980s and 1990s like a colossus, and his little sister. They were inseparable. Gianni once famously said: "If I was to marry, I would look for a girl like Donatella. Our friendship was from when we were children. We were always together. I can be in China or on the moon; we'll still speak one hundred times a day."
Throughout her childhood, Gianni's influence over Donatella was all-pervasive. Even her hair is his legacy. "I was 11," she told me when we first met, eight months after his death. "Gianni brought a friend of his to the house and he was a hairdresser. We had to hide him from my mother. He put in a few highlights but nobody noticed." With a predilection for a less-than-demure appearance clearly already established, Donatella was "furious. I thought, 'What's going on here?' He said, 'I don't want to do too much. I want it to be subtle.' But I wanted to do it properly, so I kept adding to it and adding to it..."
In the late Seventies, while Gianni was making a name for himself in Milan, Donatella studied literature at university in Florence. "My mother didn't want me to be in fashion," she says today. "She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life."
Strong-willed from the start, however, Donatella studied during the week, then travelled to Milan at weekends to help out in her brother's studio. In 1979, when she was already designing accessories for the Versace label, she met the American model, Paul Beck. They were married in 1983. They are now estranged, but Donatella has said: "We are civilised people," and they maintain a sense of family. Beck is the father of her two children, Allegra, 20, and Daniel, 15.
It was, of course, during the 1980s that the Versace label rose to worldwide prominence. The heady mix of black leather and metal mesh, the blinding colour and skin-tight fit of Gianni Versace's clothing encapsulated that era perfectly.
Donatella wore the clothes and lived the life to the full. The enduring image of the label's allure is that, after the release of George Michael's "Freedom", at the 1991 autumn/winter Versace show, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington, all of whom appeared in the video that accompanied the single, came out on to the catwalk together, lip-synching the lyrics to a booming soundtrack. The high-octane glamour and open flaunting of wealth and fame that had become synonymous with the Versace name had reached its peak. Donatella was with Gianni all the way, criticising him openly when she thought it was needed, and ensuring that, while he dreamt up ever more elaborate and scene-stealing collections, he moved with the times.
She has long been described as his "muse". Her retort is typically feisty: "This is not very amusing." She knew then - as she does now - that she meant rather more to her brother than that. Gianni Versace collected art; Donatella preferred diamonds. He was restrained, even rigorous, in his habits; she partied with their friends until dawn. He mixed with painters; she courted rock stars. They were perfectly suited to one another, she says: two halves of a winning formula, if you will.
"I am very outspoken, very opinionated," she says. "I like to have fun and fun, all the way. There's no middle ground. That's just my personality. I also like to share good times with my friends. Gianni liked all that, but as soon as he was sure that people around him were having a good time, he was like, 'OK, you take care of them, I'll go to bed.'
"He was more reflective. He wanted to know everything about my world; who I was seeing, who I was talking to. He was curious. And I wanted to know everything about his; what he was reading, which artist he was meeting. We were perfect together in that sense."
In July 1997, the gilded existence that brother and sister shared came to an abrupt end when Gianni Versace was shot dead at the door of his Miami mansion. Half of the company that bore his name was left to Donatella's daughter Allegra, 30 per cent to Santo and 20 per cent to Donatella. "I want to leave everything to your daughter," Gianni once told Donatella, "because I want to make sure you take care of her well."
Although Santo had always looked after the business side of things, it was Donatella who was forced into the spotlight as designer and figurehead of one of the most famous fashion labels in the world. Unsurprisingly, such responsibility took its toll. Her first collection won favourable reviews, but as she is the first to admit: "Whether they were good or bad, I knew people would forgive me everything." The fashion industry is not noted for its loyalty, however, and by the time the new millennium dawned it was widely considered that the Versace label had lost its lustre. Flesh-revealing, star-spangled clothing was past its sell-by date. What's more, with fashion companies the world over being snapped up by luxury-goods conglomerates and expanding ever more voraciously into the money-spinning accessories and fragrances market, the family-run Versace empire, with its statement clothing and hugely extravagant display of personal largesse, was anachronistic to the point of folly.
If, in 1997, Versace boasted sales of $558m, by 2004 the company was facing a debt of $120m. Donatella's personal demons were no less catastrophic; in September that year she announced to the world that she was undergoing treatment for addiction to cocaine. She emerged several months later, clean, serene and, perhaps for the first time since her brother's death, physically strong and happy enough to start work again and turn things around.
The company has employed the services of a new chief executive, the bespectacled and highly businesslike (read determinedly un-Versace) Giancarlo Di Risio, formerly of Fendi (owned by LVMH, Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy). Di Risio worked with Versace 20 years ago and has a more profound understanding of the nature of this particular business and the personalities involved than most people.
"We argue, but we argue politely," Donatella laughs. "And we find solutions for things. Together." Such solutions have, by now, included forthcoming expansion into the Far East, remodelling the interiors of Versace stores, and selling off at least some of the family's assets, including Gianni's home in Miami, his house in uptown New York and part of his precious art collection, although Donatella insisted on keeping his favourites.
Most important, there is the more pared-down, contemporary nature of the clothes themselves. Of course, such things are relative. "Even if I wear jeans, I look glamorous," Versace says. "I have sweatshirts, of course. But they are very well fitted, you know." It would be safe to say, though, that the still body-conscious and status-driven but less obviously showy aesthetic that Donatella Versace directs today is likely to give the likes of Gucci, say, a serious run for its money.
If she herself had to sum up the new-look Versace, for which the label is again receiving its fair share of acclaim, Donatella Versace would say that the clothes are "less decorative [with] more focus on cut and proportion. It's more simple but still sexy. Women have a brain, they don't just wear clothes to look at themselves in the mirror. We read magazines, we read newspapers, we know what is going on in the world, and even if we do travel in a limo, we still have to get out of it to walk to the school gates."
Whichever way one chooses to look at it, the strategy appears to be working. The company's Milan HQ announced last week that the Versace Group, as it is now known, is back in the black. The six-month period to June this year showed consolidated revenues of €148m (about £100m) and a return to profit before tax of about €2m.
"I realise now," Versace says, "that a lot of my partying life was really a reaction to my sadness, so I didn't have to think about it, so I could cover it up. I don't want to act like a victim, I never like that - and, of course, there are a lot of very good things about my life - but the sadness was very strong, very painful. I felt frightened and vulnerable and insecure and having to live all that out in public was the most terrible part.
"I have lost a lot of people in my family. My father, my mother and, of course, my brother. Gianni's death was very dramatic. There is no way to rationalise it. There was no resolution. It was difficult for me to accept, difficult to explain to my children."
She still thinks of Gianni every day. "Me and Gianni, we always used to tell each other jokes. When I do something important I always think [she looks up to the heavens and smiles], 'What would you think about this?' Sometimes, before shows, I have nightmares. I dream that Gianni is alive, takes a collection, throws it into the ocean and says, 'How could you do this to me?'"
Much Italianate gesticulating, not to mention expletives, ensues before Versace departs to paint the town red, just as she always has, this time in the presence of Nicole Kidman, Natalie Portman, The Killers, Claudia Schiffer and more. Her escort this time, however, is her daughter Allegra, taking a break from studying drama in the US to accompany her mother at this pivotal point in her career.
"Allegra has a lot of shares in the company," says Donatella Versace as our interview draws to a close. "She doesn't have to design but when you inherit a patrimony like that... Well, you're not likely to become a hairdresser, are you?
"People are always surprised when they spend time with my children by how normal they are. They're polite. They're well mannered. They're very down to earth, in a way. And me? I'm a survivor. And I like survivors."
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As I write, the redoubtable Mrs MacInnes will be digging her heels into the flanks of a wearisome rental horse and urging her accompanying posse of mounted travel agents through the surf on some Moroccan beach.
In her job as an account manager for an airline she sometimes has to act as a guide for a coterie of industry professionals, whom she whisks off to such climes, gratis; the idea being, when they get back to Blighty, they will be suitably enthusiastic about the trip and will push it as a destination for their clients.
In the spirit of full disclosure, I should confirm that I have been on my share of free trips. Actually, I have been on a lot of people's share of free trips. But that's the nature of journalism, or certainly used to be.
There was a time when, as long as you had enough holiday time, you could find yourself on an all-expenses-paid trip to anywhere in the world as often as you liked. You and half a dozen other journalists from various papers and magazines would be met at the check-in desk by the public relations person who usually worked for either the destination's tourist board or the airline.
What followed was anything from a few days to a week of being treated like some kind of magnificent, laser-emitting emperor. Going on press trips would make you think that every waiter, receptionist or taxi driver from Mexico City to St Petersburg existed purely to place slivers of melon on your tongue and iron your khaki leisure suit at the drop of a fez.
I actually grew tired of all the fawning and deviation-free itineraries (you do tend to get led around by the nose a lot … "Look at this … isn't this amazing?" Then on to the next wax sculpture or underground monorail), so I resolved not to accept any more invitations to go on any freebies.
Handy, then, that at pretty much the same time, the travel industry realised it barely had two pesetas to rub together, so should probably refrain from handing out five-star trips to anyone with a press card and a nice line in overly descriptive prose.
So my days of quaffing pricey wines and sampling swoon-inducing local cakes, while some flunky rubbed my feet, are over. Well, until my next press trip. Wherever that may be. Now, where did I put my camel repellent … ?
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163.The provisions of the 1990 Act assume that only one woman's egg has been used to produce a child. New section 35A (inserted by section 26) provides a further regulation-making power to amend specified sections of the 1990 Act if the power under new section 3ZA(5) is exercised. This enables provision to be made about cases where permitted embryos and/or eggs have been created using material from more than one woman. The relevant provisions are set out in section 35A(2).


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Gun control can be blamed in part for allowing 9/11 to happen.
"Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum" (Latin)- "If you want peace, prepare for war".
Twilight Zone PIC. Not There. Your [IMG] tags are correct though.
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Ha, it is truly concealed!
Gun control can be blamed in part for allowing 9/11 to happen.
"Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum" (Latin)- "If you want peace, prepare for war".
Colt 1911, XD 40,
In my experience, Photobucket really isn't that great for hosting images. Imageshack is a lot better.
It's ok, this is Texas, we can do that here...
Well, we'll give this thread a day for the OP to get the photo issue fixed as the thread is not much good at all without a visible photo.
Looks like photo is fixed and carry gear is Good to Go!
Nice looking gear there.
Better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees.
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Is that a leek? I'm looking into getting one, but the only one's I've seen with serrations on them are black, so I was just wondering.
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Course DescriptionFundamental skills in audio engineering including a mixture of theory and practical application of current recording technology. Includes fundamental acoustics, microphone placement, editing, multi-track recording, mix-down, signal processing, Midi, and time code synchronization. Focuses on commercials, music recording and sound tracks for visual media. Audit available.
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Studio recording I is designed to familiarize the student with all aspects of session engineering along with fundamental studio design requirements. It is geared towards project studios and freelance engineering. The intent is to promote the art of music recording while providing a strong technical understanding.
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Prepares student for MUS 224 a more intensive study. Student will be able to assess their own recording situation and / or successfully set up a project studio. Student will also begin to recognize phase collapsed stereo fields, masking, effects and to quantify musical qualities into values that can be adjusted or manipulated.
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We as a society do not do enough for our veterans..... every other welfare schlep that doesn't deserve it takes and takes, but we do not do enough for our veterans. I wish him well.
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ROSEBURG, Ore. — A former Marine sniper who suffers from panic attacks and fled on foot following a minor traffic accident in Oregon was found after two days in the snow.
Jason D. Cooper, 37, of Temecula, Calif., was found Wednesday in a remote wooded area lying on tree branches, trying to keep warm, Oregon State Police said.
He was taken to a Roseburg hospital and transferred to Legacy Emanuel Hospital in Portland where nursing supervisor Phyllis Riggs said he's listed in critical condition but stable condition and likely to be upgraded Friday.
Cooper had been driving Monday when he was involved in a low-speed rear-end collision on Highway138D, which runs through the Umpqua National Forest.
The other driver was surprised to see Cooper, wearing shorts and sandals, run off through the snow into the woods, The Oregonian reported Friday.
Police followed tracks through snow 2-feet deep but had to stop at dark.
They became more concerned when they discovered he has post-traumatic stress disorder and had run-ins with law enforcement.
"I found out that he had panic attacks during stressful situations and sometimes just had to run away," said Sgt. Dave Randall, also an ex-Marine.
Randall and Senior Trooper Don Frerichs of the Fish and Wildlife Division returned to the crash scene and followed the tracks for more than five miles on snowmobiles.
When they came upon Cooper, obviously suffering from hypothermia, Randall addressed him as Staff Sgt. Cooper and asked him how he was doing.
"He asked me how I knew he was a Marine and I said, `Hey, a Marine always knows a fellow Marine.' After that, we were fast friends."
Cooper told the troopers that at one point he removed his sandals because the straps were cutting his feet. He walked several miles through deep, crusty snow in his bare feet until the ice slashed into his skin, so he put the sandals back on.
He told them that he was so cold he could not stand up. When Randall asked him if he was scared being out in the woods alone for two days, Cooper replied, "Of what?"
After Randall and Frerichs gave Cooper a sandwich and extra clothing, they bundled him onto a snowmobile and took him back to the highway.
"The amazing thing is he will not have any long-lasting effects from the hypothermia or frostbite," Randall said. "He's a tough, tough guy, physically and mentally tough. The real deal."
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I'm just one root in a grassroots organization. No one should assume that I speak for the VCDL.
I am neither an attorney-at-law nor I do play one on television or on the internet. No one should assumes my opinion is legal advice.
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We as a society do not do enough for our veterans..... every other welfare schlep that doesn't deserve it takes and takes, but we do not do enough for our veterans. I wish him well.
We all need to send prayers to our Vets, whoever, wherever, and however they may be. Thank goodness Sgt. Randall persisted to save a fellow Marine.
Liberty, Property, or Death - Jonathan Gardner's powder horn inscription 1776
Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito.
("Do not give in to evil but proceed ever more boldly against it.")
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Glad they found him and hope he recovers from the cold. I agree we don't do enough for our veterans.
Don"t let stupid be your skill set....
And Shepards we shall be, for Thee, my Lord, for Thee,
Power hath descended forth from Thy hand, So that our feet may swiftly carry out thy command,
And we shall flow a river forth to Thee, And teeming with souls shall it ever be,
Sincerely hope and pray that S/Sgt. Cooper soon recovers. Sadly, there are tens of thousands like S/Sgt. Cooper out there. i know some of them.
For many years the military and VA denied the existence of PTSD. The military and the VA are still ill-prepared to care for troops and veterans with PTSD. My VA doctor has 2,000 patients.
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A good text editor is the heart of the hand-coding toolbox. You could use notepad or whatever plain text editor is bundled with your operating system, but there's really no reason to settle. There are plenty of free alternatives with features to make hand-coding faster and easier.
Windows – Notepad++
Hands-down the best editor for Windows. With syntax highlighting, auto tag completion, code folding, and much more, Notepad++ is a lightweight program with everything you need to code XHTML and CSS. Make sure you grab the TextFX plugin (built into newer versions) and the Explorer plugin (a nice file browser) from the plugin repository. While you're there, check out the 60 or so other plugins available for even more flexibility and features.
Mac OS X – Textwrangler
Textwrangler is one of the best free text editors for Mac OS X. However, if you're willing to shell out a little money, I'd recommend either TextMate ($60) or Coda ($99) for more robust features and support. They all have their pros and cons, so give each a try to see what works best for you.
If a text editor is the heart of the hand-coding toolbox, then a browser is the soul. It's the reason developers build tableless websites. And for web design and development, there's no better browser than Firefox. Not only does it adhere to accepted web standards, there's a ridiculous number of add-ons available to streamline the hand-coding process. Just remember to limit the number of extensions you have enabled so the browser stays quick and stable.
Here's a list of my favorite add-ons:
- Firebug – I couldn't live without Firebug. You can tweak CSS properties right in the browser and see the results live, inspect XHTML elements to sort out layout problems, monitor network requests, and more. This is a must-have add-on for Firefox.
- Live HTTP Headers – It shows the HTTP header calls made with each page load in real time, which can help you sort out issues with caching and redirects.
- Yahoo! YSlow – This is actually an extension to Firebug that works with its network monitoring features. YSlow tests the performance of your web pages and offers suggestions to tweak the underlying code and server settings. Shoot for an 'A' grade to push your web development skills to the next level.
- Pixel Perfect – This is also an extension to Firebug. It lets you overlay a copy of your mockup in the browser window, which can save a lot of time flipping between Photoshop and Firefox.
- GridFox – This creates a grid overlay in the browser window. Combine it with Firebug and you can nudge elements into perfect alignment.
- FireFTP – I prefer a stand-alone FTP program, but this comes in handy on occasion. It has all the features you need to upload files, including directory comparison and the ability to transfer through SFTP (extremely important for security).
I know Internet Explorer is the browser everyone loves to hate, but it is used by the majority of people outside of the tech and design communities. Plus, there's a little-known Internet Explorer developer toolbar that mimics the functionality of the developer toolbar for Firefox. Just food for thought.
Cross-browser compatibility
A website may look great in Firefox, but that doesn't mean the layout is ready to be released into the wild. Cross-browser compatibility testing is critical and ensures visitors have a consistent experience regardless of the browser they use.
IETester provides Windows users with easy access to Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 in one place. It suffers from random crashes, but that's a small price to pay for the convenience of three browsers in one. (I've found that you can avoid a lot of glitches if you open an IE8 tab first.)
If you're on a Mac, you can to try the spoon plugin, which lets you run your websites through different browsers in an online "sandbox". There's also the Adobe BrowserLab. It's free now, but expect Abode to charge for it in the near future.
In addition to those tools, you can always download the full versions of other browsers. Sometimes there's just no substitute for the real thing. I have these installed in a separate folder and check finished websites in each one before I wrap up.
FTP, or File Transfer Protocol, is how you upload your shiny new, hand-coded web pages to the internet. FileZilla is one of the best stand-alone FTP clients and it's available for both Windows and Mac OS X. If you're using Notepad++ there's an easy way to integrate Notepad++ and FileZilla so you can edit files directly on the remote server.
Remember to always transfer files through SFTP where possible. Otherwise you send your username and password over the network in plain text.
Local server
If you plan to do more than deliver static HTML pages, you'll need a local server. A WAMP or MAMP stack (short for Windows or Mac + Apache-MySQL-PHP) allows you to run server-side languages and even database driven packages like WordPress from your desktop. I install Apache, PHP, and MySQL from scratch on my Windows boxes, and there are plenty of online tutorials to walk you through the process. But if you'd prefer a simpler solution…
Windows – XAMPP
XAMPP will have you up and running in a few minutes with everything you could need from a local server.
Mac OS X – Built-in or MAMP
Mac OS X has a built-in Apache server and there are lots of online tutorials that explain how to access it. Or you can go with MAMP, which is a one-click solution that installs Apache, PHP, and MySQL.


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RIM's Rumored 10-Inch Playbook: A Bigger MistakeKevin C. Tofel
Research In Motion is rumored to be launching a 10-inch LTE tablet in addition to an updated 7-inch PlayBook this year. The information comes from an alleged RIM road map that leaked, with the N4BB blog sharing the details. After nearly a year of dismal BlackBerry PlayBook sales, I'm not sold that a 10-inch tablet is the best idea for RIM.
Before explaining why, let me preface my points with an opinion on the current PlayBook tablet. I like the form factor because I'm a big proponent of 7-inch slates; I have used one daily since December 2010. And what the PlayBook does, it does very well.
What it doesn't do still features an outstanding issue. The Playbook lacks a native e-mail client and doesn't have the breadth of available applications found on competing devices. RIM had planned to address those issues in a software update last year, but has delayed until next month. At the Consumer Electronics Show, I finally got a look at the updated software, and the e-mail app impressed me. However, the Android app player was still a no-show in my demo.
Even if RIM were to address the software issues in February, a problem remains: Weak tablet sales aren't going to entice developers to build apps for the PlayBook. Instead, mobile apps are appearing for platforms that are selling well and offering a broad user base for potential app sales. Think iOS and Android.
Can a 10-Inch Playbook Vie With IPad?
Another challenge? If RIM creates a 10-inch PlayBook, it will compete directly against the best-selling tablet: the iPad from Apple.
At 7-inches in size, RIM has a differentiating factor, although it priced the smaller tablet at large tablet prices. By creating a 10-inch slate, RIM will have to have to answer the same question 10-inch Android tablet makers have struggled with: Why buy those devices instead of an iPad, which has a stronger ecosystem?
BlackBerry Messenger isn't the answer. Even if it were, an updated BBM client isn't even in the BlackBerry PlayBook 2.0 software. Consumers are buying low-cost tablets, so a 10-inch slate won't likely meet their budgets, especially if it comes with an LTE data-plan contract.
IDG yesterday reported that 91 percent of business professionals are using the iPad for work communication. That means, to an extent, that the enterprise finds Apple's tablet safe and secure in the workplace—a perception enjoyed exclusively by RIM for years. Simply put: If RIM creates a 10-inch tablet, what is the device's intended audience and are its needs already better served by an alternative?
Also from GigaOM:
What Amazon's New Kindle Line Means for Apple, Netflix, and Online Media (subscription required)
First Solar Sets Record for Thin-Film Solar Tech
Apple Envisions a Future Where Clothes Inform and Mold Your Workouts
Buckle Up for a New Wave of Cloud Protectionism
RunKeeper Takes Next Step Toward Total Health Tracking


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Posted by: Matthew Herzfeld
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Gluten Free Buttermilk Biscuits
Southern US + Comfort Food – Gluten = Chrissy's recipe for some amazing gluten free buttermilk biscuits.
by Chrissy Lane on August 31, 2013
When you think of the southern United States, you can't help but think of the delicious dishes that southern chefs are known for – country ham, chicken and waffles, grits, collard greens, barbecue. And let's not forget biscuits and gravy. Of course, biscuits weren't a southern invention — this region of the country simply took it and made it their own.
In fact, biscuits, in one form or another, go back hundreds of years. The word "biscuit" comes from the French, meaning "twice cooked." This referred to how the original biscuits were… well, cooked twice.
The original biscuits were hard, dry, and portable fare — perfect for soldiers and sailors on the go. They were originally made in Europe, but early settlers to America brought with them the tradition of biscuit making and eating.
Biscuits were popular because they were not only delicious but easy to make, and stored well. They were also inexpensive to make, since they could be made without using costly yeast.
Through the years they became a popular food for soldiers once again. During the Civil War, soldiers often had to settle for a meal made up only of biscuits, or hardtack, as it was known.
In the early 1930s, biscuit making became even easier, when the now-familiar refrigerated canned dough was patented and started to show up in local grocery stores.
Nowadays, of course, biscuits are even easier to get a hold of, as you can find them on many fast food menus—whether the restaurant is southern-themed or not.
Whether you make your biscuits or buy them somewhere, there are a variety of accompaniments people enjoy with their biscuits—molasses, syrup, honey, and jelly are all popular choices. However, the shape and density of biscuits—plus the delightful way they go together—made the pairing of biscuits and gravy inevitable. What could be better to sop up every drop of gravy on a plate?
Here are a few tips for making the best, most delicious, gluten-free buttermilk biscuits:
Although usually a baking tip is to use ingredients at room temperature, this time the opposite is true. You'll want to make sure that your fats and liquids are cold.
Don't mix the dough too much. The less you mess with it, the lighter and fluffier your biscuits will be.
When you are cutting up the butter to add into your dough, go ahead and leave some big chunky pieces—this will also help your biscuits to be fluffy.
If you make biscuits and they don't come out like you want them to, the next time try adding less liquid. Or, add a little at a time until you get a moist dough.
When baking, put your biscuits close together, about ½ inch apart. This will help them to rise nicely.
For a load more tips that will help your biscuits be beautiful and bountiful, see here: 5 more secrets
If you're craving your favorite comfort food but are living gluten-free nowadays, not to worry. Here's a recipe for fluffy and light gluten-free buttermilk biscuits.
Gluten Free Buttermilk Biscuits
You'll need…
- Cornstarch¾ cup
- Xanthan gum1¾ tsp
- Potato starch½ cup
- Baking powder1 tbsp
- Baking soda¼ tsp
- Salt½ tsp
- Sugar1 tbsp
- Buttermilk¾ cup
- Cold butter⅓ cup
Preheat your oven to 375°F (190°C). Spray a cooking sheet with cooking spray.
Place all the dry ingredients into a food processor. Mix with six pulses, one second each.
Cut up the butter into 1/4 inch cubes, and add them to the mixture. Mix with 12 pulses, one second each. (It should look like a bowl full of crumbs.)
Add in the buttermilk. Mix with eight pulses, one second each. Now, the dough should stick together in a moist clump.
With your hands, form the dough into biscuit shapes (this recipe will make six to eight biscuits). Put them on the cookie sheet, and bake for 10-12 minutes or until they are lightly brown.
Slather with butter and/or the topping of your choice, and enjoy!


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Context Woes (questions!) in application design...
(sorry for the length...)
I'm looking for pointers on general design principles for Context management
in mathematica applications.
The workflow I'm looking to enable is:
1) user loads base package: <<myPackage`
2) The init.m for myPackage sets up some shared data in Global` context,
like SQL connection pool and manages clean shutdown on exit ($Epilog, etc).
3) From the same notebook step 1 was run in, a function is run that opens a
new, custom notebook: foo[].
"foo" is defined in the Private` section of myPackage` and exported in the
public section with a usage statement.
4) The notebook that is opened via foo[] has a custom-ish UI using a docked
cell that I'll call "system1".
5) user enters some data in the customUI and data is populated in that
notebook via SQL queries/etc that analytically describes attributes of a
physical system "system1". A palette based toolbar for running pre-defined
functions can be opened from the docked Cell and all output goes to the
"system1" notebook.
That functionality basically works as I'm expecting...
However, this model breaks when another "instance" of "foo[]" is run. An
additional notebook is opened and variables are basically isolated, however
data sharing between unique notebooks is somewhat difficult.
I was thinking that the solution would be to specify a custom CellContext
when the notebook was created via the foo[] function.
And this is where I begin to lose comprehension of M and Contexts...
In the notebook I ran "foo[]" from, $ContextPath still shows the full path I
expected, e.g., DatabaseLink, myPackage, etc.However, In the notebook
created by "foo[]", shows a $ContextPath of JUST the specific CellContext I
set and "System`". According to the documentation, $ContextPath is a global
variable. According to my two notebooks, both are referring to
So how do they each have a unique value?
My thought was to somehow specify $ContextPath as well as CellContext when I
create the new notebook via the "foo[]" function.. but I can't figure that
part out.
(ultimately my thinking is by using Cases, Contexts[], Names[], etc I can
"manage" data cleanup, data sharing, isolate unique instances by looking at
myPackage`instances`, etc...)
A) Is there a simpler way?
B) Is there a solution to programmatically specifying $ContextPath on a
created notebook (InitializationCell doesn't seem to do it because as best I
can tell it doesn't autorun)?
C) How can what is apparently a global variable ($ContextPath) have two
different values? (As best I can tell, I'm only running 1 instance of M on
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Grant Samuel defends the expert
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Corporate advisory house and leading independent expert Grant Samuel has hit back at recent criticism of independent expert reports, claiming that companies making takeover bids have a vested interest in knocking their valuations.
The firm's founder and non-executive director Ross Grant said he welcomed a review on the role of independent experts by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, announced last month.
But he said it was important to recognise that bidders had a vested interest in talking down the value of a target company and questioning the impartiality of independent experts.
"Part of the problem is that in a takeover situation the bidder wants to get the company at the lowest possible price," Mr Grant said.
"Clients don't have a lot of opportunity to influence us. If we give a dopey opinion in favour of a company, then our credibility is lost. If we were caught by ASIC, our licence would be pulled.
"There is a difference between the trading value of shares and the corporate control value, and often the two get confused."
His comments come as the role of independent experts is set to be tested again today, when toll-road operator Hills Motorway releases its target statement, rejecting the $2 billion takeover offer from Transurban.
Shares in Hills have been trading in line with Transurban's offer of 1.47 shares for every Hills security. But independent expert KPMG, appointed by Hills, will say the offer is not fair nor reasonable because it is too low and has negative tax implications.
The move should trigger further debate about whether independent experts are influenced by clients. Their reports can fetch up to $1.5 million, depending on how much work is involved in coming up with an independent valuation.
Last week, Patrick Corp's Chris Corrigan blasted the independent valuation of its takeover target, Virgin Blue, as "ludicrously inflated." He said the report by Grant Samuel was "fundamentally flawed".
But it is not just the bidders who are criticising reports. In the case of retailer Foodland, an analyst at Patersons Securities, Russell Wright, said the Grant Samuel report showed "an obvious lack of true independence".
Meanwhile, takeover targets, National Foods and Southcorp, have opted not to use an independent expert at all.
"We give our opinion and let the protagonists battle it out," Mr Grant said. "Often one or both of them will put the boot into us."
ASIC's deputy chairman Jeremy Cooper said he did not expect big changes to the system following the regulator's review.
He said there was "no appetite this time around" to look at moving to a system where the regulator chooses which independent expert is assigned to which deal.
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Brian's exhibition
A selection of Brian and Barbara's old grocery wares and toys was on show in the National Museum's Hall 8−21 January 2007.This slideshow highlights some of Brian's favourite pieces.
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J.C.Hutton's framed poster
Photo: Dragi Markovic.
Dainty Maid vanilla custard powder
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Arab Brand vanilla custard powder
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Glider Quoits box
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Feeding the "Twilight" frenzy, Kristen Stewart was spotted on stage at San Diego Convention Center as part of Comic-Con 2011 earlier today (July 21).
Being one of Hollywood's hottest young actors undoubtedly comes with a loss of privacy, but Taylor Lautner knows that it's part of the job and says that he wouldn't change a thing.
In a sit down with MTV, the 19-year-old told, "Obviously there's the loss of privacy and the paparazzi and the media. It comes with the territory, and I know that, and I wouldn't trade it. It just comes with it. But I'm so thankful for everything, I'll take that stuff."
It's been one of the most successful film franchises of its day, and Taylor Lautner says it'll be a teary farewell when it all comes to an end.
The "New Moon" stud that it will be bittersweet when his gig as Jacob Black wraps up, as he'll miss the character but enjoy moving on.
He's making his way into the spotlight, and it sounds like Rami Malek will soon be a regular name around Tinseltown.
In an interview with ET correspondent, Kate Gosselin, the "Night at the Museum" actor revealed that he will be joining Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner in "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2."
They've had different directors for each of the "Twilight Saga" films, and Kristen Stewart says she really digs how "Eclipse" helmsman David Slade handled the movie.
The "Adventureland" actress explained, "If you have to say, 'Yo, this story's not being told,' it's really scary. Then you're not focusing on [what you need to focus on]. You should be able to look on your own thing, [so] we can rely on him on that level."
He's become one of the most famous actors in the entire world thanks to his part in the "Twilight" film frenzy, but Robert Pattinson says he's getting tired of the whole shtick.
The "Remember Me" actor told press he's looking forward to being done with his role as Edward Cullen when "Breaking Dawn" is done filming.
Adding on to the already-unmatched vampire craze, Stephanie Meyer definitely knows how to please her fans.
While many were devastated when the "Twilight" author announced she was not going to be publishing "Midnight Sun," she found another way to make her fans happy.
Keeping up quite the busy schedule as of late, Nikki Reed was spotted kicking off the weekend at the "Twilight: New Moon" DVD launch party in Santa Clarita, California on Friday (March 19).
Joined by director Chris Weitz, the brunette beauty signed autographs and posed for pictures as a large crowd descended upon the local Wal-Mart store.


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Reporting and Communication
Data for this analysis was provided by sales operations job postings found on DataFox. This is the fourth installment of our five-part Sales Operations series. The complete analysis will be featured in our upcoming Sales Operations Ebook. Pre-register for your copy today! Communication with and between teams is essential to


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March 6, 2012
Saturday, March 10 -- at No. 1 Oklahoma (Lloyd Noble Center), 7 p.m. CST
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The No. 8-ranked University of Michigan men's gymnastics team (6-5) returns to competition after a week layoff, traveling to the host site of the 2012 NCAA Championships to face the No. 1 Oklahoma (10-1) at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Okla.
This dual will serve as the third time this season that the Wolverines have squared off solely against a single team, as U-M is 1-1 in meets of the sort after defeating No. 1 Penn State 340.300-338.450 on Jan. 21 and falling to No. 4 Stanford on Feb. 25. This is also the third time Michigan will face a No. 1-ranked team as the squad took on the top-ranked Sooners on Jan. 28, finishing third in a tri-meet that also featured Illinois.
About the Sooners
The Sooners enter the meet with an RQS of 355.483, the top mark in the nation after two home meets and four away meets. Oklahoma is No. 1 in the nation on still rings with a 61.067 average, floor exercise (60.950) and parallel bars with a 57.617 on the event. Additionally, the squad is No. 2 on high bar (58.500) and on pommel horse.
Individually, the Sooners boast one of the top gymnasts in the country in Jake Dalton, who owns the top floor exercise average in the nation with a 16.133. Dalton is also No. 1 on parallel bars with a 15.317, No. 2 on high bar with a 15.183 scoring average, and is the top all-arounder in the nation with an 89.30 average.
Chris Stehl is No. 2 in the country on still rings with a 15.550 average, while Troy Nitzky is No. 6 with a 15.400 average. Jacoby Rubin is No. 3 in the country with a 14.933 mark on high bar, rounding out Oklahoma's top seven in the national rankings.
From a Historical Standpoint
The Wolverines and Sooners squared off already this season on Jan. 28, as Michigan took part in a tri-meet along with Oklahoma and Illinois, which featured the Sooners taking the tri-meet with a team score of 349.800 to the Maize and Blue's 347.700. Last season in Ann Arbor, the Wolverines earned an impressive team score of 355.400 but were edged by then No. 2 Oklahoma 357.750-355.400. Additionally, the Sooners took second at last season's NCAA Championships with a 361.600, while the Wolverines took fifth with a 356.200.
Facing No. 1
The win over Penn State on Jan. 21 marked the first time since 2005 that the Wolverines squared off against a No. 1 ranked opponent in the regular season, and there was no let-up for U-M, as the squad will took on new No. 1 Oklahoma and No. 2 Illinois the following week. March 10 marks the third time on the season the Wolverines will take on a No. 1 squad for the first time in program history.
Mikulak Garners National Gymnast of the Week, Trip to Pacific Rim Championships
Sam Mikulak earned NCAA Gymnast of the Week honors for his performance against SUNY-Brockport and Ohio State on Feb. 18 in an effort that included five event victories and a 90.00 in the all-around competition. Additionally, he was one of eight American gymnasts selected to the 2012 Kellogg's Pacific Rim Championships that will be held March 16-17 at the Comcast Arena in Everett, Wash.
Last Time Out: Wolverines Fall on Road to Stanford
Sam Mikulak and Adrian de los Angeles earned runner-up finishes on vault, parallel bars and on floor to lead the Wolverines to a road score of 341.700 in the road defeat to the Cardinal on Feb. 26. The Wolverines scored a season-high 57.30 on pommel, aided by a 3-4-5 finish from Michael Myler (14.80), de los Angeles (14.50) and Dylan James (14.35).
Mikulak, de los Angeles Named to U.S. National Team
Michigan had a pair of gymnasts earn spots on the United States National Team after their performances at the Winter Cup Challenge, held Feb. 3-5 in Las Vegas. Mikulak earned his spot on the squad after placing in the top 10 in three of his four events, as he scored a 15.10 on parallel bars for a second-place finish. Additionally, he tied for seventh on rings (14.70) and marked a 13.95 on high bar for a seventh-place finish. Working his way back from injuries, he sat out floor and vault, two of his top events.
Rookie de los Angeles finished 10th in all-around competition with a finals score of 85.05. The freshman placed fifth on vault with a 15.75 and eighth on pommel horse (14.40) en route to earning one of three wild-card selections to the squad. Lastly, he placed 11th on parallel bars with a 14.35 tally.
Another freshman, Stacey Ervin, led all Michigan competitors with a 14.55 on floor, which tied him for sixth place on the exercise. He followed up with a 15.45 on vault, which tied him for 13th place. Additionally, current administrative assistant Ian Makowse (2008-11) took part in the floor exercise (13.30, 27th) and the high bar, where he earned a 13.75 for a 13th-place finish.
Nine Wolverines Make Collegiate Debut
At the Illinois Tri-Meet, freshman Reid Swanger(Austin, Texas/St. Andrew's Episcopal) became the eighth U-M freshman to debut in Maize and Blue, as he competed on vault. At the home-opening dual against No. 1 Penn State, freshman Paul Rizkalla(Westfield, N.J./Westfield) and freshman Taylor Harrower (Dublin, Ohio/Dublin Coffman). At the Windy City, five Wolverines made their collegiate debuts. Adrian de los Angeles (Long Beach, Calif./Millikan) appeared in the all-around, while Stacey Ervin (Troy, Mich./Truman) took part in the meet on floor, vault, and parallel bars. Mark Panhorst (Hanover Park, Ill./Glenbord North) took part in the pommel horse and parallel bars, while Nick Hunter (Canfield, Ohio/Canfield) participated in parallel bars and high bar. Hub Humphrey (Kalamazoo, Mich./Kalamazoo) took part in the floor exercise, where he notched a 13.90. Additionally, junior Garrett Hamers (Salem, Ore./South Salem) made his collegiate debut still rings on Feb. 25 against Stanford.
Top 10 Individually
Below is a list of Wolverines in the top 10 nationally based on three-score average:
6. Sam Mikulak, 15.183
8. Adrian de los Angeles, 15.033
Parallel Bars
2. Sam Mikulak, 15.217
High Bar
8. Sam Mikulak, 14.717
6. Sam Mikulak, 86.433
7. Adrian de los Angeles, 85.550
Wolverines Ranked Seventh in GymInfo Rankings
Michigan enters week three of the regular season ranked No. 8 nationally after a three-event score of 341.700. Michigan is ranked No. 3 in the country on floor and No. 4 on parallel bars. Additionally, U-M is eighth on rings and seventh on vault.
1. Oklahoma
2. Penn State
3. Illinois
4. Stanford
5. Ohio State
6. Minnesota
7. California
9. Temple
10. Nebraska
11. Air Force Academy
12. Iowa
13. Arny
15. Navy
Caesar Earns Quartet of Medals at South Asian Championships
Syque Caesar made history for his native Bangladesh Dec. 31 at the fourth Central South Asian Artistic Gymnastic Championships, earning the first gold medal in Bangladesh international history.
Caesar won the parallel bars competition with a mark of 14.60, and took silver in the vault with a 14.25. He followed up his silver performance with a 13.525 on floor to collectively earn a bronze in the all-around competition.
New Team Captains
The squad will be headed up by tri-captains: sophomore Alex Bubnov (Fanwood, N.J./ Scotch Plains-Fanwood), sophomore Kevin Fraser (Austin, Tex./ Cedar Park) and Syque Caesar. Caesar served as a co-captain a year ago, while the captaincy honor is the first of Bubnov and Fraser's careers.
National, International Scene Popular Over Summer
Sam Mikulak was invited to compete in the Puerto Rico Cup, along with freshman Adrian de los Angeles. However, Mikulak suffered a pair of ankle injuries but still competed in the floor exercise, pommel horse and high bar. Despite the injury, he was still selected to be a member of the United States Senior National Team and enters the 2012 season 100 percent in terms of health.
A pair of incoming Wolverine freshmen were in action at the Visa Championships, as de los Angeles won the 16-18 age division, while Stacey Ervin finished second on the floor routine in the Junior 16-18 division.
Rohan Sebastian, a 2011 All-Big Ten selection, was accompanied by assistant coach Xiao Yuan and represented Ireland at the 2011 World Championships. Senior co-captain and 2011 Big Ten parallel bars champion Syque Caesar was accompanied by assistant coach Geoff Corrigan at the World Championships, where Caesar represented Bangladesh. It marked the third straight year a Michigan gymnast has competed at the World Championships (Sebastian, 2009; Chris Cameron, 2010).
Ways to Follow U-M Gymnastics
For fans not able to attend meets this season, there are several ways to follow the Wolverines action this year. Your primary source for all things Michigan is MGoBlue.com, where recaps, features, schedules, and statistics can be found. Live stats will be provided for all home meets, as well as select away meets.
Additionally, follow @umichgym for live updates at meets, and 'like' Michigan men's gymnastics on Facebook where special content can be found throughout the season.
Saturday, March 17 -- vs. Illinois-Chicago (Cliff Keen Arena), 7 p.m.


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The scientific century, global food security and data-intensive infrastructure
As part of the 350th anniversary celebrations of the Royal Society, I attended a breakfast meeting that launched the publication "The Scientific Century", summarising the many intellectual achievements and social and economic benefits that flow from scientific research. There was, inter alia, unanimous recognition that scientific research was the main driver of a society's development, and that its funding needed to be both long-term and ring-fenced. This proposition was rehearsed by each of the spokespersons at the latest round of pre-election debates featuring Adam Afriyie, Lord Drayson and Evan Harris, this one the first webcast from within the Palace of Westminster, and available on the website of the Royal Society of Chemistry, who hosted the event.
This e-availability enabled me to catch up with the debate afterwards, as when it was live I was chairing the latest meeting of our Strategy Advisory Board. Given the recent publication of our Strategic Plan, much of our focus was on implementation and delivery. We also considered a review of the utility of our earlier scheme for the provision of 'mid-range' equipment (£50-250k) – the Research Equipment Initiative – as well as our funding portfolios in studentships, fellowships and several major scientific areas, and the challenges and opportunities provided by next-generation sequencing. Clearly many of these involve the storage, distribution and analysis of eye-watering amounts of data, as the numbers of PetaBytes produced by biologists potentially dwarf those likely to be produced by even large-scale physics experiments. By way of example, the Beijing Genomics Institute recently announced that it was purchasing no fewer than 128 Illumina Hiseq2000 instruments, each of which is capable of producing 30x coverage of 2 human genomes – ca 200 Gigabases – in a single run (taking 8d). I was told that the BGI can now sequence one human genome equivalent every 14 minutes! Its adverts refer to 2Tb per day and 40PB of storage.
I am more than mindful of the scaled but still huge challenges that will come from our own genomics and other activities, not least those of TGAC, as well as the democratisation of large-scale data generation, whose fruits and availability for integrative biology we shall wish to exploit. To this end, I convened a small workshop of experts and interested parties to help develop some of our thinking and experiments on the potential of cloud computing to contribute to the solutions of the bioinformatics problems that we shall soon be facing. I think we have a skeleton structure of how to go forward, and will be making this available as and when. This week I am speaking via video link at a Data-Intensive Research Workshop, saving considerable travel time and carbon footprint.
Food security is one of our chief agenda items, and we have been working with many partners to optimise the generation and delivery of the appropriate solutions. Food Security is well recognised as a global issue, and the result of much endeavour was the launch last week of the Global Food Security programme, coordinated by BBSRC and involving multiple Research Councils and Government Departments. At the formal event, I commented that the seriousness of the challenge we were facing in Global Food Security was matched only by the seriousness of the partners in coming together to provide solutions. Thus our very distinguished speakers were Prof John Beddington, the Government Chief Scientific Adviser (and prescient promoter of the Food Security agenda), Prof Alan Thorpe, Chief Executive of NERC and Chair of RCUK, Peter Kendall, recently re-elected President of the National Farmers Union and advocate of the importance of science in agriculture, and Lord (Bryan) Davies, Senior Minister and Defra Minister in the Lords. The 21st century is truly both the scientific century and the century of bioscience.
The modes of action of many older drugs, that were developed before targeted molecular assays became the norm, are often unknown. One paper that caught my attention concerned the mode of action of the classical antimalarial quinine. This implied that it exerted its effects, at least in part, through inhibition of tryptophan uptake, a nice example of the interactions between drugs and transporters, and of the structural similarities between successful drugs and intermediary metabolites. Indeed, a combination of the assessment of metabolite structures and network analyses can give clues for the design of novel anti-infectives.
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I'd probably suggest a Taurus 85 ultra-lite or a S&W 637 airweight.
hi all,
if your on a budget like me and looking for info on what handgun to buy here is a list i found when googled "best handguns under $300" This would be my first and only self defense handgun.
Of course i cannot validate the reliability of the source and cannot speak from experience since i have not fired any of these listed. I'm curious though about what others think and if any opinions, advice or further info feel free to comment.
I'd probably suggest a Taurus 85 ultra-lite or a S&W 637 airweight.
It is probably impossible to get a gun that most will agree they would use to save their life for $300. So your goal is to get as close as possible and get a caliber that you can afford to shoot a couple thousand rounds through to get familiar and good with.
You have entered into the realm of two different huge debates. One is would you stake your life on a cheap gun. The other is do you want to use a 9mm (which is cheap enough to shoot a lot of) to stop someone. There are endless threads debating both of these topics. I will assume you are set on the $300 and that also means you need to get a gun that is low-cost to shoot.
Many won't agree, but you won't get much consensus on your question so here goes ... the Hi-Point 9mm will give you a caliber that is low-cost enough for you to shoot often and get good at (the most important thing about this decision is to get a gun you will shoot the hell out of and get VERY familiar with) and give you a gun a lot of people are familiar with. There is a ton of debate over whether this is a good enough gun to depend on in self-defense ... I'll let you read for hours on that question.
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kel-tec and taurus both make good handguns for under $300
you can also find some used smiths about that price.
I bought a used Smith and Wesson 5906 for a little more than your budget but you can find them cheaper. I love this gun, dont know if that is what you are looking for but may want to consider it.
Keltec I would consider these the best value for their money. Definetly many "better" guns out there, but they are your best bang for the buck. I have a PF9 that I carry most days in a nemisis pocket hoslter. Also have a P3AT for even smaller but usually not needed. Also had a P11 but it was just a little too bulky for pocket carry. The PF9 and P11 worked great, no failures of any sort for hundreds of rounds. The P3AT was finicky on ammo, no wad cutters.
There's a ruger auto-loader that usually sells used for about that.
Ruger LCP
Kel-Tec P11, PF9, P3AT, P32
The finish on the Kel-Tecs might not be as nice as some more expensive pistols, but they'll go bang every time.
There isn't a gun on that list that I would trust with my life. Some are fine for plinking but not for self defense. Explore the used market and get a caliber that you can afford to shoot. I would say minimum of 9mm but that is debatable. If you plan on carrying then make sure it is of a size and weight you are comfortable carrying. The Hi Points are boat anchors but some will swear by their depenability. Bear in mind that you will easily run through $200-$300 or more worth of ammo before you are proficient with any weapon that you choose. Training classes and holsters will also add additional costs but are really needed. Good luck with your search.
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West Seattle invited O'Dea over to Hiawatha Field today to kick off the 2012 Metro League championship tournament. West Seattle, who finished at the top of the Metro League Sound division was paired against the Fighting Irish who finished 4th in the Mountain Division.
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Italian fashion house Gucci denies ousting CEO
By Astrid Wendlandt
PARIS (Reuters) - Italian fashion house Gucci on Wednesday said the sudden departure of chief executive Mark Lee had nothing to do with lackluster first-half results.
Gucci Group, parent company of the Gucci brand, surprised investors late on Tuesday by announcing that Lee would resign at the end of the year, after more than 12 years with the group, "to pursue other interests".
"His departure has absolutely nothing to do with Gucci's results," a spokeswoman for Gucci Group said. "It was Mark's decision not to renew his contract, she said, adding that he wished to spend more time in New York.
Some analysts, however, linked Lee's departure to the company's performance.
Armel Coville at Oddo Securities said: "It was presented like a resignation but in 2008 the Gucci brand suffered a slowdown and it has not performed as well as other brands such as Louis Vuitton and Hermes."
Lee, who was chief executive of Gucci since 2004, would be replaced by Patrizio di Marco, the current head of Bottega Veneta, another fashion house part of the Gucci Group, itself owned by Paris-listed retailer PPR.
Late last month, Gucci said operating margins had not progressed year on year in the first half, remaining at 28 percent and sales stayed flat at 1.017 billion euros ($1.44 billion) in the six months to June 30.
The luxury brand, known for its fine watches and "GG" embossed handbags, was hit by supply disruptions in the first quarter but it said in late August it has now sorted them out. Continued...