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It also approved merging the posts of the chairman and managing director and transfer the balance one percent shares to the government from Reserve Bank of India (RBI), which will provide for increased public accountability.
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GILLETTE, Wyo. — The sky east of Gillette on Tuesday wasn't an inviting omen to eastbound motorcyclists, and the parking lot at Deluxe Harley-Davidson overlooking Interstate 90 reflected that.
A few dozen customers parked their bikes outside the two-story store and repair shop — a far cry from the throng that can pack the store and its lots on a busy day during Sturgis Motorcycle Rally week.
Some had stopped for licensed rally gear, others for bike repairs before moving on to take part in the weeklong festivities. Some were just hungry, road-weary and needing a sheltered place to see whether the slate-gray sky would follow through with its threats of stormy weather, which it eventually did.
Tim Larson and his half brother Kurt Travers, both Minnesota truck-drivers traveling with their wives Jodi Larson and Janet Travers, were milling around the east parking lot en route to Sturgis after spending time in Montana and Cody.
Tim Larson's been to the rally "many times," but this year is the Travers' first trip to what many Harley owners consider a rite of passage.
"We took the long way and went up into North Dakota, Montana, and now we're coming back this way," Larson said. "Now we'll spend a few days at the rally. We took the scenic route."
"He's never been to the Hills, never been to anything this far west," Larson said, pointing at Kurt Travers.
"I was a sheltered child," Kurt Travers said, laughing.
Janet Travers said she'd been to Wyoming as a child, but never to Sturgis.
"I don't know if that counts or not," she said.
The four said they were looking forward to the unique sights that converge on the small Black Hills city every year. They're staying with friends and in area hotels, and the famed Buffalo Chip concerts don't hold much appeal for them.
"Concerts are meant to be inside because it's either hot and dusty or raining," Tim Larson said. "It's just a vacation. I think it's just to see the bikes and the people."
Deluxe is a popular stopping point for the rally-bound. At about 100 miles from Sturgis, it offers a less-hectic place for bikers to get what they need.
Store manager Becca Rang said one couple stops every year to trade in their old Harley for a new one before heading over to the Black Hills.
She said Harley-Davidson used to debut its new model-year bikes around the end of July and beginning of August. It was just in time for folks to have new wheels for the rally, but dealerships outside the Black Hills region complained that they lost too many potential sales to eager customers who wanted the novelty of buying a new bike in or around Sturgis during the rally.
Now, she said, the new models debut around the end of August.
In the west parking lot, posted between the store's doors and a tent-covered line of shining Harleys, Tami Waldner and Sheila Norris manned the mobile outpost of Gillette-based Tooter's HomeFire Foods, where burgers and hot dogs have been the best-sellers all week, with a side of directions to gas stations and bars.
It was a slow day, and the women chatted while a couple from Indiana scanned the menu board before ordering. Tuesday's special was pulled pork, and Norris was excited for Friday's special: A "Wyoming Cheesesteak" with a bratwurst in place of the roast beef.
Norris said they've had customers from as far away as Mexico and Guatemala and a passel of bikers from Canada who'd passed through Monday.
"I guess the most surprising thing is just how far they'll come to go to Sturgis," Norris said. "It's almost like a rite of passage."
For the previous 15 years, Waldner had spent every birthday at the rally, reuniting with family members who traveled from around the United States to see each other. Her dad died last year, though, and she opted to work with Norris during the busy week this year instead.
Inside, customers from near and far browsed clothing racks and bike accessories, chatting with salespeople and fellow travelers alike. Customers and Deluxe employees sported a mix of leather and denim, with bandanas holding braided hair back from suntanned faces.
Dusty Carlisle was preparing to head to the rally in the next day or so with her husband, Monty. They're Gillette residents, and Deluxe had just finished tuning up their 1974 Harley.
"We bought some parts from them last week," she said. "We're just looking around."
In the back, Rang oversaw a repair shop where bikes from all over the country were getting attention in their bays — from a simple tire repair to a full-blown $50,000 modification.
It was a slower day than others for the mechanics, too, but Rang said that didn't mean they weren't busy. Some simply needed oil changes; one needed stator repairs, and no fewer than five mechanics were busily repairing, inspecting and moving the bikes as owners took advantage of the break from the road.
Cody Wilson was handling the modifications on a black-and-chrome beauty, a project for a Gillette man who planned to take his 2013 Road Glide to Sturgis the next day. He said the work, which normally would take one to two months, was getting finished in three weeks, and he pointed out the stretched gas tanks, saddle bags, fenders, aftermarket floorboards and intake valves as he prepared to get back to work.
"This is completely the other side of the spectrum" from a typical day's work, he said. "This is completely modified. This has been massaged in a lot of places."
The Riverton native has worked for Deluxe around three years, and he went to Motorcycle Mechanics Institute in Phoenix to get his training. The training definitely helps, he said, but "if you have the drive, if (co-owner) Chuck (Ruiz) sees in you a drive, you want to be here, he'll teach you everything you want to know."
An education doesn't hurt, though, he said.
"I've had so many people tell me the customer service, you just can't beat it here," he said, adding that the camaraderie and the caliber of work expected from the employees is what brought him back to Gillette and back to Deluxe after a stint living and working in Texas.
Across the cavernous workshop, past a line of roughly two dozen bikes dividing the shop in half, James Clark patiently wrangled a new tire onto a stand, worked an inner tube into it, brushed it with tire soap and worked it onto a rim. It would soon be mounted to a blue-gray bike out of North Dakota.
He said any repair shop could likely fix the tire, but the Deluxe mechanics also check the spokes and ball-bearings in the wheel, inspect the brakes and give the bike a thorough checking-over to make sure nothing else is wrong before the customer hits the road.
He doesn't plan to go to Sturgis this year.
"Been there, done that," he said. "This is our busy time."


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- Your schools likely require an entrance exam (MCAT, DAT, GRE, etc.) that you will take a year before your graduate from college. Research the content areas of this exam and add them to your Pick 6 chart. You will need to complete courses in these content areas prior to the exam, for best results.
- This chart is now your "Pre". Bring it to EVERY advising appointment.
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- Every spring, update your Pick 6 chart, because programs can and do alter their admission criteria.
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My husband is leaving for Basic Training, for the Army in a month. He is going to buy me a CPX-1 SCCY 9mm. I am just wondering if anyone has any opinions on this gun. I just want something that is easy for me to handle because I will be by myself and we have a five year old little girl... any feedback would be great we are getting it for $329 which includes two magazines, and 2 holsters (one for my husbands gun, and one for me). Is this a good deal? I just really don't know that much about guns. Thanks for your help.... Thanks, Mrs. Elms
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I personally didn't care for it at all. I didn't shoot it but it felt cheap. For $330, you can spend a little more money and get a better weapon such as and XD, M&P. From what I've seen, I would by a Keltech over a SCCY. Glad to have you here. Please stop by the introduction area and let everyone know you're here.
If the pain is lacking so is the discipline... "the only 911 call I need is chambering a round" - Mr. Muller, MO car dealer
Shoot... I've never even heard of SCCY.
A couple of suggestions: 1. Get some of your friends and attend a firearms course together. 2. Learn as much as you can about the firearm in your possession. 3. Practice on a regular basis.
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Everyone I know that got one of these quickly got rid of it - at a loss. There have even been some threads here on the forum on how prone to breakage these are. Do yourself a favor and avoid this pistol. In this same price range you can get a Kel-Tec PF9 or a S&W Sigma. As a first gun for a new shooter, I'd highly recommend the Sigma and S&W is currently running a $50 rebate. As others have said - get some training and practice as just owning a pistol is not enough...
I looked into getting one of these and the reviews I read about it not being reliable scared me off. If you're not a mechanical person you should get a revolver anyway.
The best thing to do is try some out and see which one fits you the best.
Hard to put a price on your life, or that of your daughter..... don't let cost take priority over dependability. Consider this....... This is strictly my opinion, and has worked in many years of firearms training, and for men and ladies alike. Buy a handgun just like you would buy a pair of shoes. If Ol' Joe over here says he likes Charlie China tennis shoes, and you're looking for a new pair of shoes, do you run out and buy Joe's pick, just because HE likes 'em? Probably not. If a new shooter is asking what to buy for a carry gun, it doesn't matter what works for me, or anyone else. I suggest telling that new shooter to go to many gun shops, and/or gun shows, and handle all the guns they can get hold of. Just like they would try on shoes. Before long they'll be able to make a list of guns that feel ok, pretty good, real good, and "that really feels great in my hands". The last two are the ones to pursue, and here's why I say that.... If a given handgun doesn't feel "right" in your hands, you'll not shoot it enough to become proficient with it, because it's not comfortable, and you won't like shooting it. Just like you rarely wear shoes that are UNcomfortable. If you're not gonna become proficient with it, save your money, and buy a ball bat to carry. With proper fundamentals, he/she can learn to shoot almost any handgun. Very few folks can re-train their hands to make just any handgun feel comfortable. The last suggestion.........proper shooting techinques, practiced slowly, but proficiently, will breed speed. Do it slowly, and do it the right way, every time.......If you practice speed first, and introduce less efficient techniques into your training, you'll have to do it all over again to get it right. Again, just my ramblings.... but they work for me... Shoot Safely....
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Check out some revolvers. You will find some quality ones at good prices and many not that hard to shoot and maintain. Had a friend that bought a sccy turned out to be a nightmare. But check out as many as you can before you buy.


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By Matthew Hurley: IBO featherweight champion Thomas Mashaba, 20-1-4 with 12 KOs will defend his belt against Cristobel Cruz, 35-11-1 with 23 KOs at Foxwoods Resort & Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut on Friday. Mashaba, out of South Africa, the former IBO junior featherweight champion, is coming off a spectacular knockout victory over former IBF champion Erik Aiken. Cruz, out of Tijuana, rebounded after two straight decision losses to knock out Alberto Garza in the tenth round. Should Mashaba emerge victorious he is hoping for a title shot against IBF champion Robert Guerrero. Guerrero recently defended his title with an eighth round technical knockout over Jason Litzau. Super Middleweights Librado Andrade, 26-1 with 20 KOs and Robert Stieglitz, 31-1 with 19 KOs will square off in an IBF title elimination bout on March 22nd at the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa. The bout will be featured on HBOs Boxing After Dark. Librado is coming off a rugged seventh round technical knockout victory over Yusaf Mack in October. He previously dropped a unanimous decision in March to Mikkel Kessler. Former IBF lightweight champion Julio Diaz, 34-4 with 25 KOs will take on Ranee Ganoy, 24-10-2 with 20 KOs at the Aviation Arena, Dubai, United Arab Emirates on April 18th. Diaz lost his IBF lightweight belt back in October to current champion Juan Diaz by a ninth round technical knockout. Ganoy is enjoying a seven bout winning streak since losing by 5th round knockout to Michael Katsidis back in 2005. Heavyweight Joe Mesi, 36-0 with 29 KOs returns to the ring April 4th on ESPNs Friday Night Fights when he takes on Terry Smith, 30-4-1 at the Twin River Events Center in Lincoln, Rhode Island in a ten round main event. Mesi is in the middle of seven bout winning streak since suffering two brain bleeds in a 2004 victory over Vassily Jirov. On the undercard 2004 Olympic heavyweight Jason Estrada, 11-1 with 2 KOs takes Lance Whitaker, 32-4-1 with 27 KOs in a ten round bout. Finally, in a report filed by Fightnews.com Jose Luis Castillo, 56-8-1 with 48 KOs may yet again be having problems making weight for his WBC super lightweight title elimination bout against number one contender Timothy Bradley, 21-0 with 11 KOs. The weight limit for Saturdays fight is stipulated at 147 pounds. At a preliminary weigh-in Bradley came in at 143.5 pounds while Castillo tipped the scales at a reported 151 pounds. Castillos history for failing to make weight, most notoriously in marquee bouts against the late Diego Corrales, has Bradleys promoter Gary Shaw livid. Shaw, who promoted Corrales, is insisting that the WBC strictly adhere to the rules and regulations at the official weigh-in.
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Another girls basketball season is in the books, and like football and boys basketball, the crop of young talent in the county was incredible. While the county did not have any teams make a deep playoff run this year, things could change over the next few seasons.
Augusta Christian posted 21 victories. Grovetown had a solid year at 17-10. The Evans girls enjoyed some resurgence on the hardwood this season.
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For Grovetown High shortstop Cameron Busby, baseball is it.
The 16-year-old sophomore has been playing since he was 5 years old and has started at shortstop since coming to the school.
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Thomson pitchers Hunter Bragg and Jared Holliman combined efforts for a no-hit shutout against Washington-Wilkes Saturday to give the Diamond Dogs a 4-0 victory.
Bragg started the game for the Dogs, facing only six batters in the first two innings before being relieved by Hollimon.
The Lady Dogs of Thomson beat the visiting Lady Rebels of Hephzibah 3-2 at the Brickyard.
Thomson took an early lead in the March 15 game when Betty Jones sent a kick right up the middle to score 3:27 into the game.
"Coach Ruark wanted us to score a goal in the first five minutes," Jones said. "Brea (Boutwell) kicked it over to me, and this time I was able to keep it on the ground and got the goal. It felt great."
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Youthful indiscretion reared its ugly head once again last weekend when four Lakeside baseball players were found to have been drinking on the bus on the way home from a game with South Effingham. They were promptly booted from the team, which had started the year 7-2.
Before I go too far down the hypocritical trail, I will admit to having been an underage drinker myself.
By now, most of you have heard about the situation involving the Lakeside High School baseball team.
Donnie Fetter did a terrific job tracking down the details for this paper. When I first got wind of it early Tuesday, I knew this was going to be a big story, but at that time details were still sketchy. As a matter of fact, even when the news broke on the Austin Rhodes Show on Tuesday afternoon, I still did not have all the particulars.
Greenbrier High School's undefeated baseball season came to a halt Saturday with a 5-4 loss to Burke County.
Tied at 4 in the top of the seventh, Wolfpack starting pitcher Christian Hill allowed a one-out walk. Two batters later, reliever Adam Grice surrendered a single that plated what would prove to be the winning run.
It was the final contest in a stretch of three games in three days for the Wolfpack, who entered ranked the No. 1 team in Class AAAA.
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Confit loosely translates as "cooking or preserving something in its own juices." Typically, this refers to cooking or preserving meat in its own fat [7]. You've heard of duck confit, right? It's a simple and brilliant cooking method. If something is delicious, it just makes sense that cooking it in its own flavors is going to make it even more delicious. This need not only apply to meat. Any fruit or vegetable that has some juice to give can be cooked confit. Those cherries you keep passing up at the market (maybe because you don't know what to put them in, except for a pie) are a perfect example.
Bing cherries are in high season right now: ripe, luscious and juicy, not to mention packed with vitamins and antioxidants [8]. There's just no good reason to smother all that goodness with sugar and a pie crust, especially if you have a recipe on hand that's healthier and easier. Cherry Thyme Confit is just that recipe. Savory, rather than sweet, it's delicious served as a garnish for meat. Pork is a favorite meat to serve it with but turkey and lamb are really good too. The cherries are cooked down just enough to soften (that's the confit part) but the ripe, fresh summery flavor remains intact. Onions add the savory element and the aromatic fresh thyme is an essential accent of flavor and color.
2 cups pitted cherries (about 1 lb.)
1 red onion, sliced thinly
1 Tbsp butter
1 Tbsp fresh thyme
1/2 cup red wine (try Malbec)
2 or more Pork Chops, about 1 inch thick
First, you'll need to get the pesky little pit out of the cherry. If you have a cherry pitter, this job will be less messy than for those of us pushing down on the cherry with our thumb to pop the pit out. Either way, try to save the juice from the cherries as you pit them – you'll end up with about a tablespoons worth (pitting the cherries in a bowl makes this easy). Set any juice you get and the pitted cherries aside.
Salt and pepper [9] the pork chops and put a tablespoon of butter in a pan over medium-high heat. When the butter melts add the chops and cook about 8 minutes on each side. If it's a hot summer night and you prefer to grill the chops, go for it.
While the meat grills, melt the butter in a pan and add the sliced onions.
If you're not grilling, remove the meat from the pan after each side has cooked, turn the heat down to medium and then add the sliced onion. Cook until the onions are soft and slightly browned, about 10 minutes. Add the red wine. Turn the heat down just a bit more so the red wine is just barely bubbling. Cook 10 to 15 minutes, until the wine evaporates and the onions are really soft. Add thyme, cherries and any cherry juice you reserved, as well as a dash of salt and pepper.
Cover and cook 3-5 minutes to finish the confit. You can add the pork chops back to pan at this point to re-warm them and to soak up a little flavor. The confit is best served as a generous garnish, rather than a full-fledged side dish and you'll have more than enough to serve with two pork chops. If you have more fresh thyme, sprinkle a bit on top before you dig in.
Check back tomorrow for another delicious recipe featuring a beautiful cut of meat and fresh, seasonal fruit.
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Volunteers who are working on preparing a community wide Thanksgiving Dinner to be served at the Stratton Center Thursday say they have a secret ingredient planned for each dish.
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An elderly horse pulled from a farm pond in Simpsonville over the weekend had some very scary hours before the haggard animal was retrieved, weak and nearly frozen by a crew of humane rescue workers.
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Amanda Williamson said she was house sitting at the home of her aunt, Sherra Kapfhammer on Aiken Road Saturday when she was awakened shortly before 9 a.m. by a knock on the door.
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Not an impressive balance sheet or income statement.
A prime example of growth at a reasonable price, and poised to exceed expectations now that consumers are walking around with extra cash (and not, apparently, spending it on apparel). I'm not buying the counterargument that they're just a showroom for Amazon. They sell plenty of exclusive models and Amazon does not beat their prices.
There is only one viable nationwide electronics chain, and it's Best Buy. Even when the economy slows, it passes the Saturday Night sales test. While I think there are niche sellers that can impact individual aspects of its sales, its big box appearance with geek armies of sales staff who seem to love their jobs makes it an appealing long-term commitment.
long term short.
no competition has made them lazy while online sellers will keep siphoning off sales
Big Box store with high overhead getting taken behind the woodshed by online retailers like AMZN. Is customer service enough? Might have to go to a smaller format and drop the video games, movies etc.
AWFUL customer service and no real online presence make this company a loser for many years to come. I would recommend shopping anywhere else to anyone except my enemies.
This is my first thumbs down and it makes me kind of sad. But I fail to see how this company has any competitive advantage. Amazon undercuts Best Buy and the staff has absolutely zero knowledge on their products. It's only a matter of time before doom and gloom. Literally the only positive note is gaining business from people who are too impatient to wait for shipping from an online store.
Look at P/E, P/S, P/FCF - I think it very attractive.
It's a hard sell to see them righting the ship and returning to growth.
Bad business plan.
Lowered expectations
Their market is shrinking, they have enormous fixed costs and many of their products have razor thin margins that are getting squeezed ever tighter.
Its getting worse day by day..
Best Buy needs to rapidly change its business model to compete with the big guns in the industry which is basically dictated by Amazon
This is a business that is struggling to compete both in the brick and mortar business with the likes of Wal-Mart as well as the online venue with the likes of Amazon. They do not really have anything that puts them over the top currently, and they are the top performing S&P 500 stock. Numbers just don't add up.
Best Buy is primed to increase sales during the Holiday season; and has Samsung Experience shops, which are exclusive to Best Buy.
Its a showroom for online sales
I think with all the sales and black Friday coming it will pick up short term(this quarter).Its is also one of the largest electronic distributers
Overbought bad news cycle generated oversold and now when things aren't as bad they have gone the other way.
This account is an experiment to see if good customer service reviews on www.yelp.com for public companies which have locations in or near Vista, California (my hometown) will lead to market-trouncing results. Any business that gets a 2.6-5 star rating will get a green thumb, and any business that gets a 0-2.5 rating will get a red thumb. For businesses with multiple locations in Vista, I will take the average of all of those location's ratings.
This isn't intended to be exhaustive…I'll probably only rate 100 tickers at absolute max – this is simply intended to be an experiment. It's a flawed one, I know, but hey I might as well have some fun here. :)
Currently, the two closest Best Buys to Vista have an average 2.5 star rating on Yelp, thus this company gets a red thumb.


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Guise: we're sooooo totally not celebrities, or in any way appropriately behaved in socialite situations. The Social Star Awards was our first ever red carpet event, and we felt totally out of place. Let us tell you our story about the event.
For those of you who don't know what it is, the Starcount Social Star Awards was, like, the first ever social media awards show (kinda, I think?) where they give awards to social star people. We didn't get nominated for anything, which is obvious. We're not top-tier YouTubers, nor are we celebrities otherwise. We were just invited to attend as guests.
Anyhow, we immediately knew we were really out of place because, for starters, everyone had nice clothes on. We didn't pack any nice clothes, because we didn't know about this until AFTER we arrived in Singapore. We packed clothes for hot weather, not for social events! That's why we looked rather casual for the event. Embarrassed!
But, more than that, before the actual awards show, there was a VIP room, which is where you saw us Pokémon-ing it up for all the foods. We should have been talking to others, networking, meeting new people, but we were just like "ME HUNGRY PIGGY! MORE FOOD NAO." Or, it could be that we just hid behind the food to hide our awkwardness at the event. Though, being on the prowl for the food did, in many ways, accentuate the awkwardness. Ah well. The food was great, at least!
We didn't meet any of the top-tier YouTubers at the event. They were in an ultra-vip room. The creators from Asia Pacific, apart from Hikakin, who beatboxed with Aerosmith, were all hunting for foods, though I'm sure we were the most obvious one prowling. Ha! We did get to meet Pewdiepie and Nigahiga outside of the event, though. We talked to Ryan Higa more than Pewdiepie, who we just shook hands with. Ryan drank with us and chatted a bit, though he was jetlagged as hell. Chonny is ultrafun, as is Nicko. Joseph Vincent's manager, Tom, is just awesome. He's a Marvel nerd like us! Yay! And Wes from WongFu was loads of fun as well. Though, we didn't speak with many people at the Social Star Awards, apart from Chonny and Nicko, who were great to hang out with at the event, as we all sat together during the show.
At the awards show, we sat right beside the teleprompter, so we were reading along with the whole show. Jeremy Piven was great at hosting, though, because he strayed from the teleprompter for random funny lines from time to time. One guy shouted something out, and Jeremy – we're on first name terms now, by the way (no we're not) – said something along the lines of "Ah. I remember what my first beer was like. Enjoy yours!" Ha! That made me crack up.
By the middle of the show, we'd go out with Chonny to get more drinks. The show was better with drinks. Not that the show was bad; it's just that, well, if drinks are free, then – you know how I feel about free food (nothing tastes better than free food). Free booze, though, isn't the same. Free booze are often watered down.
After the event we didn't make any videos, really. There was an afterparty on the room of the Marina Bay Sands, which we attended as well. It was similar to the first VIP event, with a lot of people mingling and stuff, and there was lots of free food there, too, so we pretty much just did the same thing and eated all the foods. We met the guys who made the Harlem Shake. They were cool and we drank with them a bit. Then we got tired and went home.
Want to hear a story that makes me really sad? The next day was the Social Star Concert, which we had tickets to attend as well, but we didn't attend because we just wanted to eat. I'm noticing a pattern here. Socializing vs Food: Food wins always. Anyhow, we didn't go to the concert, and we just walked around and ate stuff. My phone died while we were out. Came back to the hotel room and plugged it in, and saw a message from one of the organizers saying "hey where are your I'm trying to get you backstage to meet Psy." FFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!! I wrote back, but by then it was too late. OH GOD WHY!!! But it might not have happened. You know? We might have ran down there and have not been able to see Psy. That's ok. The night before, at the Social Star Awards, Psy performed, and I was right up close to the stage and singing along with him. He looked me in the eyes. I saw it. We had a moment. He was like "so this is the guy that made that godawful Eatyourkimchi Like a Man song!" I saw it in his eyes. It was there.
Other than that, we went to Orchard Road on our day off and had ice cream sandwiches outside, but I'm not sure if they're called ice cream sandwiches in Singapore, though, it's as literally an ice cream sandwich as possible. Get ice cream. Put it between bread slices. That's as technically an ice cream sandwich as possible. We didn't get the bread version, though. We got it on crackers.
You know what I just realized? This video was supposed to be about the cool fancy pants things we did but instead we just went for more foods. We have an eating problem.
OH WAIT! We did something un-food related. We went to see the giant spitting Merlion. Martina superimposed herself to make it look like she's spitting the water herself. No, wait: that didn't sound glamorous. Let's make this Kpop gossipy. Ahem. "MARTINA TRANSFORMS INTO MERLION!" Ha! I always find it ridiculous when I read those "transformation" headlines. THEY PUT ON A HAT IT'S NOT A TRANSFORMATION YOU FARTSUCKERS!
Umm, I just realized that we were by the Merlion because we went to Glutton's Bay for foods. Hmm…I feel like every country we travel to is just for foods. Question, just for future reference: what food should we eat in Australia, if we were to visit. We won't accept any answer that has "mite" in it, for the record :D
Oh! And this is the second last Singapore video we're uploading. We've got one more exporting right now, of our departure. Our last Singapore vlog! We'll put that up later tonight, along with one more video afterwards. Three videos today. We're pretty hardcore!
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Pewwwwwwdiepieeee. <3 and Chonny is the freaking cutest.
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Traveling is all about the food!!! :D You living the life!! xD
SO MUCH FOooOD XD I'm sooo jealous!)))
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i have to give a thumbs up for the melbourne team, iv only been there once and dont really remember it but iv had so many friends live and study or visit there i can say for sure they have kickass asian food, like japanese, thai, chinese, indian thats super super authentic and affordable, recently travelled through smaller places like adelaide and even they have an AMAZING street of asian food it can only be bigger and better in melbourne, my friends descriptions alone made me drool and so jealous with me being stuck elsewhere away from singapore, since authenticity is what youre missing in korea (something i didnt expect, never knew and makes me sad btw…really? NO good dim sum? ANYWHERE? really? haha) definitely pig up on that for a meal or two
So Simon is a fan of chicken and Martina is a fan of dubu? You BOTH need to be Onew's friends, lol.
If you come to australia, sydney, deep fried mars bar in bondi beach, lemington, we have a good pork ribs restaurant called hurricane, best ramen in sydney called gumsara in chinatown, tim tam, pavlova, like everyone said australia doesnt have a so called australian food bit we have lots of cultural food that you will like.
I love how you added Get Lucky to the video playlist xD
It still tickles the mes out of me you got to meet Pewdiepie. It sounds like tons of fun.
you guys still looked fab despite not having packed clothes for the star awards! p.s. Simon, my friends couldn't take their eyes off your nasty behind, your sexy suspenders hooked their attention for a good 5 minutes. Talk about being Nasty through and through >.<
hahaha Simon, I love your Daft Punk remix 'Get Dimsum' xD
You guys met pewdiepie! xD I love him! He's hilarious :) And I would've done the same thing, eating food constantly at the social events, cuz I'm pretty awkward too lol You guys are not alone! haha And daaaaaaaaamn that sucks with the whole PSY thing xO man. Total fuuuuuuuuuuuu moment lol Glad you guys had fun nonetheless! ^^ And got to talk to some fellow youtubers :D
Lol, this video should be tagged as FOOD. But I'm with you on this one: free food is the best :D
I think this is more of a consequence for dieting! Y'see what happens when you try to diet? You'll snap and turn into seriously nasty piggies!
But that ice cream sandwich on crackers sounded like a delicious sweet 'n salty snack. However, a literal ice cream sandwich isn't uncommon, I know for sure that the Philippines does that too. Though personally, I'm not a big fan of it because I don't want the ice cream to melt and make my bread this sweet, creamy mush!
Uwaah you guys were at MBS just a day before I hung out there for my event! we totally missed each other… =(
I think when it comes to Australia, you should ask WHERE to eat rather than WHAT to eat. You can find pretty much any type of food in Sydney/Melbourne, but there are plenty of outstanding eateries as well as crappy ones. So the best is to know where to eat the type of food you want to eat. The 'traditional' food isn't that unique especially considering you come from Canada so you won't miss out so much if you don't try fish n chips or meat pies. Kangaroo meat isn't that impressive either.
Lol, you guys are such foodies, just like me! :D I know cookingwithdog was there but I think she's pretty shy so she probably just did the presentation and that's it. Nicko and Chonny seem cool, I should subscribe.
I have no clue if you guys have these, but sherbet lollipops? I tried to google but my google skills are awful as heck like jesus christ I would get the worst googling award ever. "australia sherbet lollipop come from where" like wow good work.
Anyway, they look like this:
http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NjAwWDYwMA==/z/PTIAAOxy0aBRpjm7/$T2eC16hHJHUFFfwW(s7mBRpjm6nZIQ~~60_12.JPGBut usually come in like.. singular… ? Jesus, my English is horrific tonight… They come singularly from liiiike… Corner shops, usually. IDK I LOVED THEM AS A KID THEY'RE WONDERFUL AND SHERBET and lollipops.
They don't have wrappers though and hopefully the person who touches them has washed their hands sometime that day.
Or like… Ghost drops? I don't even know /where/ sells them anymore, they managed to be hard to track down by high school. Hahaha.And fish and chips, I guess? I don't know, we don't really have /AUSTRALIAN FOOD/ per say because we're reaaal multicultural, I mean you could go and eat witchity grubs ((das gross tho) but idk man idk
GO LOOK IN THE LOLLY SECTION OF A SUPERMARKET AND WHATEVER YOU DON'T KNOW, PICK IT UP AND EAT IT and maybe pay before the eating.. (I also agree with meat pies. pies in general. pies all the time. this was too long i'm so sorry)((also things that end with mite are gross /gets shot by erryone i know/))
Try a Tim Tam Slam. Tim Tams are a type of chocolate covered biscuit with a layer of cream in the middle. Make a hot beverage of your choice (coffee, tea etc). Bite 2 diagonal corners off your Tim Tam, insert one corner into your hot drink and suck (like a straw). Keep sucking until your choc middle is gone, then eat the rest of your biscuit. Repeat until your packet of biscuits is empty or you run out of hot drink. Or you could try laming tons. If you like cheese, anything from Tasmania is fantastic, especially King Island Dairy. There are a lot of different types of food types to choose from due to the many influences here now. Wherever you are, just ask the locals about the best places to eat. And don't believe the stories about drop bears, hoop snakes or dick ticks.
lamingtons, beef pie, timtams, shapes, and last but not least… cheesybite! ahaha it's a vegemite x cheese version so it's not as strong. Come to SA and I'll give you all of it from my bakery~ ahaha
Eww Vegemite… I think you should eat some pie floaters. It's sort of a meat pie, upside down, floating in a pea soup.. Weird stuff.. Also you could try an AB.. it's a kebab/yiros meat on top of a bed of chips/fries, drizzled with garlic, tomato and chilli sauces, and that's one meal for two btw. Also I think the fish and chips are quite good here, and make sure to add chicken salt to it. Other than that, Australians are big fans of their meat pies. I'm not a big fan of BBQ here. The lamb is also a must I guess with Australia being a big producer. You have to eat some TimTams, (chocolate cookie, sorta) But I think you've had them before. I'm pretty sure someone sent you some. What else.. I've only been here for two years so I don't know all the food and also it depends where you go. The pie floater is a south australian thing really. I'm guessing you guys won't be going ANYWHERE near South Australia. I'd suggest, if you really really want to go to Sydney go for it, but I see you guys be happier in Melbourne. It's more of an artsy city. Kinda like Montreal Canada, lots of Cafés, little shops..
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Haha I would choose food over socializing also! :p And this must be destiny because I just moved from Canada to Australia and you guys are coming to Australia! :D Can't wait to see you!!


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Virus-like particles (VLPs) are of growing interest in the pharmaceutical sciences. During the past few years, they have gained more and more attention as a new, safe class of vaccines, suitable for the prevention of virus-induced infectious diseases1 and for the therapeutic treatment of chronic diseases2 and drug addiction.3 For the development of VLP-based pharmaceutical products, the application of reliable analytical tools is of great importance. The analytical method needs to be sufficiently sensitive to detect and quantify even small differences between active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) bulk materials and various formulations upon manufacture and storage. It has been demonstrated that the separation and subsequent quantification of different VLP species (fragments, monomers, dimers, trimers, and aggregates) is possible using asymmetric flow field-flow fractionation (AF4). This study illustrates an improved AF4 method for the investigation of VLP. Disadvantages such as long equilibration and analysis times, as well as the need for large sample amounts and eluent volumes, have been overcome by using new shortened channel geometries.
Field-flow fractionation (FFF) is a separation technique used to characterize molecules by size. It is a chromatographic-like process that relies on differences in a molecule's laminar flow.4 In terms of separation range, selectivity, and resolution, it is a powerful, versatile separation method for high-molecular-weight molecules and particles. FFF comprises a family of techniques that have demonstrated, over more than two decades, the ability to characterize supramolecular species in a size range spanning many orders of magnitude, from macromolecules to micron-sized particles.5
Asymmetric flow field-flow fractionation is the most widely used and versatile FFF technique, providing a powerful analytical separation method for the characterization of biopolymers and bioparticles. Over the past few decades, AF4 has gained more and more attention as the FFF technique of choice and has been successfully applied for the analysis of the size and distribution of monoclonal antibodies,6 liposomes,7 lipid/DNA complexes,8 nanoparticles,9 and viruses.10 Furthermore, by coupling the technique with a multiangle laser light-scattering (MALLS) detector, it is possible to obtain the molecular weight distributions of the fractionated species.10
Figure 1 - Separation principle of AF4.
AF4 analysis is performed in a hollow channel (see Figure 1). The channel consists of two plates separated by a spacer foil. The upper channel plate is impermeable. The bottom channel plate, on the other hand, is permeable, and is made of a porous frit material. An ultrafiltration membrane, with a certain molecular-weight cutoff, covers the bottom plate to prevent the sample from penetrating the channel.
High-resolution separation is achieved within a very thin parabolic channel flow against which a perpendicular cross-flow is applied. Within the flow channel, the parabolic flow profile is created because of the laminar flow of the liquid: The stream moves slower closer to the boundary edges than it does at the center of the channel flow. When the perpendicular force field is applied to the flowing, laminar stream, the analytes are driven toward the boundary layer, the so-called "accumulation wall" of the channel. In turn, diffusion associated with Brownian motion creates a counteracting motion. Smaller particles, which have higher diffusion rates, tend to reach an equilibrium position higher up in the channel, where the longitudinal flow is faster. Thus, the velocity gradient flowing inside the channel separates different sizes of particles. The smaller particles are transported faster along the channel than the larger particles. This results in the smaller particles eluting before the larger ones.
The separation process requires three steps. During the first two steps—injection and focusing—the main flow is split, enters the channel from both ends, and is balanced to meet under the injection port. At this point, the flow moves down and exits the channel via the ultrafiltration membrane. When the sample is injected, it is focused in a thin band and concentrated toward the membrane. After complete transfer of the sample volume, the injection flow is stopped, and one typically allows for another minute of focusing before the flow pattern is switched to the elution mode. Now the flow enters only from the inlet port. The channel flow exits at the outlet, which is connected to the detectors; the cross-flow exits via the membrane. Sample constituents elute separated according to size and are monitored by the array of detectors.11,12
With AF4/FFF separation, there is no column media to interact with the samples; thus for very high-molar-mass polymers, in comparison to size exclusion (SE)-HPLC, considerably reduced shearing forces emerge. The entire separation is gentle, rapid, and nondestructive without a stationary phase that may interact, degrade, or alter the sample.
In this study, a stressed VLP sample was analyzed by AF4 using either a standard separation channel (25 cm) or small separation channel (18 cm) (Wyatt Technology Corp., Santa Barbara, CA), both equipped with a 350-µm spacer. An Eclipse2™ separation system (Wyatt Technology Corp.) was used with an Agilent HPLC system (Agilent Technolgies, Palo Alto, CA) equipped with a UV detector and DAWN EOS MALLS detector (Wyatt Technology Corp.). The VLP concentration was determined at 260 nm via UV detection. The MALLS detector was used to determine the average molecular weight of the VLP fractions.
VLP was employed for the development of the AF4 method on an Eclipse2 AF4 system equipped with the standard channel (25 cm). Note that the separation efficiency on the AF4 method can be influenced by manifold parameters such as channel height, membrane material and molecular weight cutoff, eluent composition, focusing time, channel flow and cross-flow profile, and applied drug amount. In preliminary experiments, the following parameters were determined as fixed:
Figure 2 - Comparison of standard channel and shorter channel.
Figure 3 - Comparison of different injection amounts.
Comparative AF4 measurements of VLPs with the standard channel (25 cm) and the shorter channel (18 cm) revealed almost similar peak heights when 20 µg VLP was injected in the standard channel or when 10 µg VLP was injected in the small channel, respectively (Figure 2). Increased peak heights obtained with the new channel are due to sharper peak resolutions. Analysis is therefore possible with significantly less sample (Figure 3). At the same time, analysis time and solvent volume are reduced (Table 1).
Since AF4 is intended to be used as a reliable tool for the quality control of VLP formulations, repeatability of the method is required. Therefore, a primary focus of the study was to assess the repeatability of the determination of the relative amount of the varying VLP species, expressed as the percentage of total peak areas. The VLP (20 µg/injection) was, according to the instructions of the ICH guideline Q2 (R1), subjected to six independent measurements by AF4. The results, presented in Table 2, demonstrate the repeatability of the applied AF4 method. Even for the VLP fractions present in low amounts (fragments and oligomers/aggregates), a relative standard deviation of less than 7% was determined.
The successful development of AF4 methods for the assessment of VLP compositions was presented. The experiment investigated whether the described AF4 method for VLP, developed for the standard AF4 channel (25 cm), could be optimized by using a new, shorter AF4 separation channel (18 cm). It has been shown that in comparison to the standard channel, the application of the small channel improves resolution, enables shorter equilibration and analysis times, and reduces eluent volumes. At the same time, increased peak heights are obtainable, which in turn lead to lower detection limits, consequently enabling a reduction in the injection amount. Therefore, the new channel technology is a clear improvement for VLP characterization over the standard channel.
Dr. Lang is a former Ph.D. student of Prof. Winter, and is currently with Intervet International, GmbH, Untershleissheim, Germany. Dr. Vogt is Head, Process Development and Production, Cytos Biotechnology AG, Schlieren, Switzerland. Mr. Zürcher is Project Manager CMC, Molecular Partners, Zurich, Switzerland, and was previously with Cytos Biotechnology AG. Prof. Dr. Winter is Chair of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmaceutics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Butenandtstr. 5, 81377 Munich, Germany; tel.: +49 89 2180 77022; fax: +49 89 2180 77020; e-mail: email@example.com.
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