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London, July 23: The English pace attack dealt some telling blows to India in the Lord's Test's afternoon session of Day 3, leaving the visitors at a precarious 193/5 and still trailing by 279 runs. Stuart Broad picked up the prize wicket of Sachin Tendulkar for 34 before Chris Tremlett effected Laxman's departure for 10 and Graeme Swann saw the back of Suresh Raina for no-score. Broad was easily the most succesful bowler with 3 wickets in the kitty, while Rahul Dravid was still holding fort at 59 and Dhoni was at his side with an unbeaten 4.
Resuming at 102/2 after lunch on Day 3, Sachin Tendulkar appeared to set the tone for the afternoon by getting English paceman James Anderson away for a four between slip and gully and then a flick for a leg-side boundary. A few overs later, Dravid got into the act, driving Anderson for three glorious boundaries to bring up India's 150 in just 39 overs.
Then just as it looked like India was on top with Chris Tremlett and off-spinner Graeme Swann drawing a blank, Stuart Broad induced Tendulkar into a drive of an outswinger which he edged to slip. The Little Master was on his way for 34 as India's score read 158/3 in 43.3 overs. The man suited for a crisis VVS Laxman couldn't have come to the crease any sooner.
But Broad continued to cause the Indian batsmen issues with his late outswing and in the 45th over would have Laxman walking back, if Andrew Struass had not dropped a sitter at slip. Later in the same over, Dravid was put down by Swann in a similar position. India remained at 159/9.
Then Laxman and Dravid took the innings forward till Chris Tremlett had the former caught at deep square leg for 10, leaving India grappling for the ropes at 182/4 iun 55.5 overs. But India's woes were only compounded when a few balls later, Graeme Swann trapped Suresh Raina in front for a duck. Then the captain M S Dhoni walked to the crease with half the side down for 183. The batting duo played out the last few overs to Tea with the score at 190/5.
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DENBY, Made in England, 6 bread plates and the salt and pepper shakers in the blue ECHO design. All in great, gently used condition with no chips or cracks. The salt and pepper shakers have no rubber stoppers. One would have to buy replacement stoppers / plugs. The brown color around the shaker S and P holes is part of the glaze and not a stain. The shakers stand 5" tall and the plates measure approx 6.5" diameter. Because these plates are hand thrown they vary ever so slightly in size. Please ask questions before you bid, no returns Payment is due within 2 days of auction end


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Actin-Rich (myoepithelial) cells in ductal carcinoma-in-situ of the breast
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The distribution of the myoepithelial cells in 32 cases of ductal carcinoma-in-situ (DCIS) of the breast (11 not associated, 21 associated with invasive carcinoma) was investigated with a recently developed immunoperoxidase method for actin.
Actin-rich myoepithelial cells were detected at the periphery of some ducts, however, their presence was neither constant nor continuous. Large areas of DCIS were devoid of a myoepithelial cell layer and the neoplastic cells were directly in contact with the stroma. No differences related to the histological pattern of DCIS or the presence and absence of invasive carcinoma were noted.
The behaviour of the myoepithelial cells in ductal carcinoma appears different from that observed in cases of lobular carcinoma (Bussolati 1980) and of cystic disease, and may thus be of diagnostic interest.
The selective destruction of myoepithelial cells in cases of DCIS might result in a focal disruption of the basement membrane, thus facilitating invasion.


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Kinetic and mechanistic study of bimetallic Pt-Pd/Al2O3 catalysts for CO and C3H6 oxidation
Low temperature combustion (LTC) diesel engines are being developed to meet increased fuel economy demands. However, some LTC engines emit higher levels of CO and hydrocarbons and therefore diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC) efficiency will be critical. Here, CO and propylene oxidation were studied, as representative LTC exhaust components, over model bimetallic Pt-Pd/γ-Al2O3 catalysts. During CO oxidation tests, monometallic Pt suffered the most extensive inhibition which was correlated to a greater extent of dicarbonyl species formation. Pd and Pd-rich bimetallics were inhibited by carbonate formation at higher temperatures. The 1:1 and 3:1 Pt:Pd bimetallic catalysts did not form the dicarbonyl species to the same extent as the monometallic Pt sample, and therefore did not suffer from the same level of inhibition. Similarly they also did not form carbonates to as large an extent as the Pd-rich samples and were therefore not as inhibited from this intermediate surface species at higher temperature. The Pd-rich samples were relatively poor propylene oxidation catalysts; and partial oxidation product accumulation deactivated these catalysts. Byproducts observed include acetone, ethylene, acetaldehyde, acetic acid, formaldehyde and CO. For CO and propylene co-oxidation, the onset of propylene oxidation was not observed until complete CO oxidation was achieved, and the bimetallicsmore »
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- Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
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- Journal Volume: 202; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0926-3373
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- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Fuels, Engines and Emissions Research Center (FEERC)
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- Work for Others (WFO); USDOE
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- United States
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- English
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- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; oxidation catalyst; CO oxidation; propylene oxidation; bimetallic Pt:Pd catalysts
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On July 8, 1860, fire destroyed the entire business section of Dallas, Texas. At about the same time, two other fires damaged towns near Dallas. Early reports indicated that spontaneous combustion was the cause of the blazes, but four days later, Charles Pryor, editor of the Dallas Herald, wrote letters to editors of pro-Democratic newspapers, alleging that the fires were the result of a vast abolitionist conspiracy, the purpose of which was to devastate northern Texas and free the region's slaves. White preachers from the North, he asserted, had recruited local slaves to set the fires, murder the white men of their region, and rape their wives and daughters. These sensational allegations set off an unprecedented panic that extended throughout the Lone Star State and beyond. In Texas Terror, Donald E. Reynolds offers a deft analysis of these events and illuminates the ways in which this fictionalized conspiracy determined the course of southern secession immediately before the Civil War.
As Reynolds explains, all three fires probably resulted from a combination of extreme heat and the presence of new, and highly volatile, phosphorous matches in local stores. But from July until mid-September, vigilantes from the Red River to the Gulf of Mexico charged numerous whites and blacks with involvement in the alleged conspiracy and summarily hanged many of them. Southern newspapers reprinted lurid stories of the alleged abolitionist plot in Texas, and a spate of similar panics occurred in other states. States-rights Democrats asserted that the Republican Party had given tacit approval, if not active support, to the abolitionist scheme, and they repeatedly cited the "Texas Troubles" as an example of what would happen throughout the South if Lincoln were elected president. After Lincoln's election, secessionists charged that all who opposed immediate secession were inviting abolitionists to commit unspeakable depredations. Secessionists used this argument, as Reynolds clearly shows, with great effectiveness, particularly where there was significant opposition to immediate secession.
Mining a rich vein of primary sources, Reynolds demonstrates that secessionists throughout the Lower South created public panic for a purpose: preparing a traditionally nationalistic region for withdrawal from the Union. Their exploitation of the "Texas Troubles," Reynolds asserts, was a critical and possibly decisive factor in the Lower South's decision to leave the Union of their fathers and form the Confederacy.
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I visited the Uffizi Gallery in Florence last year and, apart from the beautiful paintings of course, I was struck by how fabulously ornate the gilt frames often were. I wondered if they would work with my dramatic still life paintings - I was intrigued by how a simple, still, calm portrait of, say, a perfect cherry would look when combined with an elaborate, flamboyant, golden frame. I experimented and I think it looks fabulous, so I'm going to produce a few more of these.
The paintings themselves are quite small, because the frames are quite large by comparison and I don't want the whole visual effect to become overpowering. These paintings in these frames are like exquisite jewels, and could have stepped right out of the Renaissance.
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10 night Eastern Caribbean
Sail Date: December 09, 2014
Reviewed: 2 years ago
Traveled As: Couple
Room Type: Oceanview
The beds were very uncomfortable and it didn't occur to my husband or me to question this. It wasn't until Day 9 that, by accident, we were in the right place at the right time. A guest services person, Alma, asked us about the cruise. I told her the beds were terrible. That night we had pads on the beds that enabled us to get some decent sleep. Unfortunately, we were with run down and caught colds. The food was fine, The staff was very attentive. I did get a little tired of the comedians complaining that the audience wasn't laughing enough. Not all the jokes were rolling on the floor funny. I think the comedian the last night got the most laughs and never complained about our reactions. Personally, 10 days was too long for me. I found the short times in each port too short to really do anything. The Bermuda cruise, for me, was better. It was shorter and we had time to explore one place. The driving tour of San Juan was terrible. Part of it was the parade that closed streets but perhaps the ship should have known about it. We stopped only at San Cristobel. I would have liked to stop at other sites. We didn't even drive past the cathedral, perhaps it was a Los Posados parade and the cathedral was part of it? It was never explained.
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Lumbar Disc Herniation Outcome Measures
|Tracking Information
|First Received Date ICMJE
|November 18, 2009
|Last Updated Date
|September 6, 2013
|Start Date ICMJE
|May 2009
|Estimated Primary Completion Date
|December 2020 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|The efficacy of surgery for lumbar intervertebral disc herniation vs non-operative treatment, using self-report questionnaires Short form 36, Visual Analog Scale and Oswestry Disability Index at baseline (prior to surgery) and all subsequent visits [ Time Frame: baseline (prior to surgery) & 12 mos post op. ]
data will be collected at each office visit, regardless of time point
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|The efficacy of surgery for lumbar intervertebral disc herniation vs non-operative treatment, using self-report questionnaires Short form 36, Visual Analog Scale and Oswestry Disability Index at baseline (prior to surgery) and all subsequent visits [ Time Frame: baseline (prior to surgery) and generally at 2 & 6 weeks, 3, 6, & 12 mos post op. However, should a subject return for any visit, they will be asked to complete the questionnaires and the data will be added to the st ]
|Change History
|Complete list of historical versions of study NCT01041391 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
|Current Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Original Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
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|Current Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
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|Original Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
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|Descriptive Information
|Brief Title ICMJE
|Lumbar Disc Herniation Outcome Measures
|Official Title ICMJE
|Lumbar Disc Herniation Outcome Measures-Surgical Versus Non-Operative Treatment
|Brief Summary
|This study is being conducted to examine outcome measurements on patients who undergo surgery to removed a damage lumbar spine disc versus those that chose not to have surgery. These outcomes are based on patient responses to quality of life and pain questionnaires.
|Detailed Description
Lumbar discectomy is the most common surgical procedure performed for back and leg symptoms in US patients, but the efficacy of the procedure relative to non-operative care remains controversial.
Several studies have compared surgical and non-operative treatment of patients with herniated discs, but baseline differences between treatment groups, small sample sizes, or lack of validated outcome measures in these studies limit evident-based conclusions regarding optimal treatment.
There is increasing emphasis on the use of health-related quality of life(QOL)outcome measures to determine the efficacy of treatment, particularly for diseases that are not life threatening but affect the patient's QOL. In the treatment of lumbar disc herniation, the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form (SF-36), Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) and Visual Analog Scale (VAS), are validated and common scales that are used to measure treatment outcomes.
Information is routinely collected on activity limitations in the course of the doctor's assessment of the patient, however, the data may not always be collected in a standardized format that yields measurement with known reliability and validity. Standardized self-report questionnaires provide a convenient method of collecting and synthesizing a large amount of information on the pain, activity limitation and general health status of each patient.
The objective of this prospective study is to evaluate the efficacy of surgery for lumbar intervertebral disc herniations using the SF-36, ODI and VAS as primary outcome measures. Patients experiencing acute or chronic lumbar spine pain in the Orthopedic practice will be given a choice to participate in this study. On patient's who wish to participate, the data will be collected and entered into the REMARK OMR 7 database, and evaluated for outcomes.
This study is for current patients in the Upstate Orthopedic office.
|Study Type ICMJE
|Study Design ICMJE
|Observational Model: Case Control
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Target Follow-Up Duration
|Not Provided
|Not Provided
|Sampling Method
|Non-Probability Sample
|Study Population
|Patients in the SUNY Upstate Orthopedic Surgery department
|Condition ICMJE
|Lumbar Intervertebral Disc Herniation
|Intervention ICMJE
|Procedure: Discectomy-lumbar spine
Lumbar intervertebral discectomy performed on patients with herniated disc that chose to have surgical intervention
|Study Groups/Cohorts
|Publications *
|Not Provided
* Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number) in Medline.
|Recruitment Information
|Recruitment Status ICMJE
|Enrollment ICMJE
|Estimated Completion Date
|December 2020
|Estimated Primary Completion Date
|December 2020 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Eligibility Criteria ICMJE
Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
|18 Years to 90 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers
|Contacts ICMJE
|Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects
|Listed Location Countries ICMJE
|United States
|Removed Location Countries
|Administrative Information
|NCT Number ICMJE
|Other Study ID Numbers ICMJE
|Has Data Monitoring Committee
|U.S. FDA-regulated Product
|Not Provided
|Plan to Share Data
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|IPD Description
|Not Provided
|Responsible Party
|William Lavelle, State University of New York - Upstate Medical University
|Study Sponsor ICMJE
|State University of New York - Upstate Medical University
|Collaborators ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Investigators ICMJE
|PRS Account
|State University of New York - Upstate Medical University
|Verification Date
|September 2013
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Matthew stomped up the carpeted steps of his father's house, his hands balled into fists, his face of barely concealed annoyance. They were going to be late for their orientation for college unless his lazy ass twin hurried up. The door to Alfred's bedroom was closed, but Matthew paid no head, pushing the wood out of his way. His eyes scanned the mess of boxes and strewn belongings that held many memories over the years, and he saw his twin wasn't in the room.
Turning to head down the hall, he noticed the light on in the bathroom, the door mostly closed, a large gap revealing the fact that his brother was at the sink…in just his boxers.
Alfred was staring at the mirror, his hands on either side of his lean, tan face. "Ah, I'm so beautiful, it's a curse. How can you live with yourself, Alfred Jones, you sexy man beast, you…"
Mattie let the door hit the wall with a thunk, clearing his throat harshly, causing Alfred to start and spin around, his face beet red. Matthew glared at his twin, whose hair was still in need of a brush, then at his obvious state of undress. "Five goddamn minutes. Then I'm driving off with your stupid, goddamn truck, and not goddamn coming back."
That was how they started their first day of their college careers.
Alfred hurriedly locked the doors to their father's mansion, a big box house he'd only bought because of their stepmother/his trophy wife, who the twins called "Trophy Bitch", and the two of them were currently on a cruise. The twins' real mother lived 25 miles away and over the Canadian border in Quebec. Both twins could speak fluent French, although Alfred's was very accented, and Matthew had stayed up in Montreal for about a year and a half after the divorce before the parents were back on speaking terms.
He hopped up into the driver's seat quickly of his big Dodge pickup truck, not wanting Matthew to drive his baby, especially for the long road trip. Matthew sat in the passenger seat next to him, pushing back bags of stuff into the king cab of the truck, their packing, haphazard in Alfred's case, filled up the bed of the truck and the back seats, leaving only places for the two to sit. Even though, supposedly, they were sharing a dorm room, seeing as Alfred had called in to request it last week, they still had mountains of crap, their father threatening to throw out whatever was left in their rooms so he could knock down the wall between the bedrooms, and build an in-home movie theater in their place. That had gone over just as well as Trophy Bitch's terrible cooking. But their father had final say.
George Jones was a charmer. He impressed businessmen with one well-placed joke, wooed women with one smile. But at home, he was a bastard on steroids. He had been furious at finding out that one of his sons was gay, speeding up the decline of his marriage (although cheating on his wife didn't help), and constantly had made remarks and lashed out at his slightly younger son, ignoring him for his twin. Alfred had become the center of his attention, being sent to football camps all summer, playing on the school team as quarterback in the fall, before baseball in the spring. Alfred's build and masculinity had been played up, his strength, his stubbornness. Matthew had constantly been told that he should be more like his brother. That was why, when they got their licenses, Alfred had gotten a big, blue and red striped pickup truck, and Matthew a red Prius.
So, at the time of the divorce, their mother took Matthew home to the French Canadian side of the family, changing his last name to "Williams", her maiden name, and restricted all contact Matthew had with his father. George, on the other hand, cracked down on Alfred, now the only one in the house besides the occasional mistress, smothering him with strict rules and attitudes, during a time when Alfred had become confused on his sexuality, realizing he didn't care what a person's gender was when it came to a relationship. His father had been furious, and after a brief visitation in which he greeted his mother with a black eye and a split lip, Alfred too went to live with the Canadian side.
George, now publically embarrassed and seen as intolerant, calmed down, married Momma Trophy, and had "accepted" his boys. Now, both eighteen, the twins had been rotating years and holidays between the two parents, and while one was obviously more immersed in French culture than the other, the twins became as close as they ever had been.
Alfred munched on a fast food breakfast sandwich as he drove down the interstate. With a yawn, he reached over, and after adjusting the radio to a rap station, and knocked Matthew's feet off the dashboard.
"Hoser, what was that for?" Mattie said in their mixed language twin speak, and kicked his socked feet back up from where they'd been knocked from, wiggling his toes and slouching lower in his sweatshirt, grumpily mumbling about pancakes.
"No feet on my dashboard, Mattie." The brothers exchanged a glare, before Matthew chuckled.
"I can put them wherever I want." Matthew stretched his legs in defiance.
"I don't do this to you in the Prius. That thing is a damned lunchbox, anyway."
"Hey, we both know this truck symbolizes the manhood papa thought you had."
"Hey, I've had plenty of girlfriends. And the first person I slept with was Sara, two years ago, in Montreal, and she was 100% woman! We can't say the same for you, Mr. I was a fag from seventh grade!"
Matthew sent an exasperated look towards his brother. "So what if the first person I slept with wasn't a woman? The last person you did certainly wasn't one."
The hands holding onto the steering wheel became white at the knuckles, the driver working very hard to just look straight ahead. "We've already had the Jeff discussion. I had a fake ID, got drunk, had sex with him, and then, in the morning, I left. He was very nice after I assured him that I was, in fact, 18. I don't see why we must talk about him anymore."
The Canadian just laughed, and settled down for a nap, falling asleep to rap music and Alfred's bilingual swearing at other drivers.
He snapped awake at the sudden breaking, then gearshift, Alfred's hand on the radio dial, slamming it off, before opening the door. Sitting up and looking around him, Matthew realized that they had arrived on campus, all the way down in Pennsylvania, the buildings all around him large, some with large windows and new age appearances, others old brick. In the rearview mirror he could see large old houses with Greek letters. Fraternities, most likely.
He sat up, yawning, and stumbled out after his twin, who was stretching, before putting a hand on the back of his neck and craning his head up to the sun.
"Let's go to admin office, see where our dorm is so we can move in today. I wanna explore campus tomorrow, not unpack." Alfred grabbed a set of papers and walked onward across the grass of the campus, not stopping to hear his brother's answer, or make sure he was following. Matthew sighed, and jogged after him.
"What do you mean we're not in the same dorm? I called to request that we be in the same dorm, the same dorm room!"
The woman didn't even flinch at the young man before her, her old, beady eyes staring back coldly from her horn-rimmed glasses. "As I said before, first year students cannot request their room partners, and are put with roommates of like interests. Mr. Williams has been put with a fellow literature student for various reasons by the administrations office. Likewise for Mr. Jones for science and engineering."
"But the girl on the phone, she told me it would be taken care of!"
"Our intern, Karen, has been known to be very flighty of mind, and probably misunderstood whatever it was you said. She also is very prone to flirting, and will answer with whatever the caller wants to hear…" There was a suspicious edge to the old woman's voice, and Alfred's face took on a mild pinkish hue.
"C'mon Mattie, let's figure this out on our own…" He grabbed his twin's hand and pulled back down the hall. "Stupid ditzy girl, getting me sidetracked with that cute little laugh…"
"So you did flirt with her."
"Shut. Up."
They drove around the campus to the section where their dorms were located, Matthew's at the bottom of the hill, Alfred's at the top, causing him to groan.
"Now I have to haul the fridge all the way up the hill…"
"Al, who says you are getting the fridge?"
"Hey, I bought it!"
"With our shared, prepaid credit card that dad covers."
"Go and buy your own, then!"
"You still have the card!"
Once they had separated their belongings, they started to heave Alfred's stuff up the hill because he'd won a game of rock, paper, and scissors. Matthew had a feeling he wasn't going to get help with his stuff.
They found the room, which was on the third floor of the multi-floor dorm, and found the door wide open, the roommate who was to share it already…settled.
"Is that a gun on the bed?" Matthew looked around the room, seeing one half covered in wrappers, papers, bed covers, clothes, and what looked to be a black pistol on a pillow next to some German porn magazines.
"No, Mattie, it couldn't be! They don't allow guns on campus. The only way someone could have snuck one in was if they brought individual gun pieces in, then rebuilt it by hand. And who would do such a stupid thing?"
"You guys speak English? And what are you fuckers doing in my room?" The twins spun around, spying a man in the doorway.
He was pale, with a shock of white hair and red eyes. He had a smirk on his face, and he eyed the boxes they were carrying, reading the labels reading "XBOX 360 and PS3" and "PLAYBOY".
"Ooh, my new roomy!" The man walked over to Mattie, slinging an arm over the man's shoulder. "So, roomy, wanna have some of ol' Gil here?" He stuck a thumb to his chest, his face smug.
Mattie pushed him away, his face murderous. "One, I am not your roommate, my twin is, and two, I will never want any part of 'ol' Gil'. Thirdly, Alfred, you can haul the rest of your shit up here, I'm going to go set up mine."
"But Mattie…the fridge…"
"Someone's a real pussy…"
"You get your fridge up here by yourself. And, 'ol' Gil', I wouldn't say it was a pleasure to meet you. Because it wasn't." Matthew set the box of playboys down on the empty cot, and turned and left, his fists clenched.
"Ugh, now I have to haul everything up the hill…way to make Mattie the aggressive side of passive-aggressive. There's no way he'll help me now that you've called him a pussy. Hates the name, all the football team (besides myself) called him that in senior year while he was dating that one Dutch guy. That was a good year, although the basement always smelled like weed…" Alfred set down his box. "I'm Al, by the way. Alfred F. Jones, freshman, science major." He stuck out his hand.
The albino smirked, and stuck out his own hand. "Gilbert Fucking Awesome Beilschmidt. So, are there really playboys in that box?"
"Yeah, dude. But only if you help me with the goddamned fridge."
"And what's with the gun?"
"Oh, gun engineering and prototyping."
"I didn't know they had a class here like that."
"They don't."
Matthew stormed up the stairs of his dorm, lugging a box of maple syrup. "Stupid Alfred's roommate, stupid hoser…"
The door to his room was locked as it should have been, unlike Alfred's, and he pulled his key out from his lanyard, and unlocked it, finding his roommate had also been there, but the room being in pristine condition, and if he wasn't mistaken, cleaned before hand. Oh lord, the man was gay as well. In fact, he was sitting on the bed reading Charles Dickens, his huge eyebrows turned down in concentration. Matthew said nothing and stood in the doorway, waiting to be noticed, not wanting to intrude.
The man finally looked up. "Oh, Hello there, chap. You must be…er…Matthew…Williams, yes? Do you need any help?"
Well, wasn't this nice. It seems they had paired up the students by interests and personality.
Fun Fact: In South Korea they believe in "Fan Death" that if you leave an electric fan on all night in a closed room, the person will die in there. In that case, I would be dead many times over.


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Agreeing to the demands of major unions, the deputy commissioner's office of Bangalore has agreed to hike the tariff. For the first two kilometers passengers will have to pay Rs 25 and Rs 13 per kilometer for every additional kilometer.
The revised tariff will come into effect from December 20.
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Costly fuel price, liabilities with respect to the vehicle maintenance urged the unions to demand the hike.
"Though we had requested for Rs 30 as base tariff and Rs 15 as per km, the regional transport authority has come out with a base tariff and we are satisfied with it," said members of the auto drivers union.
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Seeking Solutions for Sustainable Beekeeping
The funding sponsor for these proposals is the Healthy Hives 2020 initiative (HH2020), with Project Apis m. (PAm) administering the proposal, accountability and funding process. HH2020 is an initiative of the Bayer Crop Science Bee Care Program with the goal of improving the health of honey bee colonies in the United States by the year 2020. In June 2015, BCS kicked-off HH2020 with a two-day multi-stakeholder workshop to discuss current status of bee health and identify key areas for research. This RPF marks the second round of solicitation for HH2020 funding. Projects funded in year 1 are summarized here.
Please see the PAm 2017 HH2020 Request For Proposals for priority areas for funding and more information.
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