Critics say no, contending that they were handpicked with the outcome already spelled out.
The voting by the 27 regional panels worldwide (each containing 31 voters handpicked with a sturdy and opinionated mix of chefs, food journalists, gourmands and food industry professionals) is now underway to decide on the W50Best 2012 list announced next April.
Pancreas suspensions were then subjected to buoyant density gradient centrifugation (14 15% Optiprep, Accurate Chemicals, Westbury, NY), followed by handpicking with great care to collect all visible islets.
All nematodes that passed through a 1000 µm mesh and were retained on a 32 µm mesh were counted and handpicked with a fine needle.
On the Republican side, the selection of many candidates was part of a White House effort, led by President Bush's chief political strategist, Karl Rove, to handpick people with political experience and pleasing personalities, said Charles Black, a Republican consultant with close ties to the White House.
Dan added, "We try to handpick people with similar sensibilities to enhance our ideas".
The outcome of this procedure produced many islet-like cell clusters, which could express insulin and glucagon as shown in figures 1 and 2. For in vitro insulin secretion assay, twenty stage 4 cell clusters were handpicked, washed with PBS 5 times to prevent insulin assay cross reaction with medium, and then cultured in 2% FBS/DMEM (5.5 mM glucose) without B27 and nicotinamide for 24 h.
He showed off the candy buffet he had handpicked, complete with Laffy Taffy and jelly beans.
Providers are handpicking borrowers with a squeaky-clean credit record, offering them the advertised top rates and leaving the rest to tackle higher rates or rejection altogether.
Equifax assigned her to help the people I had sent its way, presumably handpicking someone with the authority to explain the problems accurately and solve them.
A former personal assistant to Tony Kushner and a freelance director in New York, Mr. Russell moved to Seattle in 2010 to become Intiman's associate producer at the behest of the director Kate Whoriskey ("Ruined"), who had succeeded Mr. Sher after he handpicked her (with the board's blessing).
