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This document describes the design of parsing and serialization in the netstack.
The design of parsing and serialization is organized around the principle of zero copy. Whenever a packet is parsed, the resulting packet object (such as
wire::ipv4::Ipv4Packet) is simply a reference to the buffer it was parsed from, and so parsing involves no copying of memory. This allows for a number of desirable design patterns.
Most of the design patterns relating to buffers are enabled by utilities provided by the
packet crate. See its documentation here.
Since packet objects are merely views into an existing buffer, when they are dropped, the original buffer can be modified directly again. This allows buffers to be reused once the data inside of them is no longer needed. To accomplish this, we use the
ParseBuffer trait, which is a buffer that can keep track of which bytes have already been consumed by parsing, and which are yet to be parsed. The bytes which have not yet been parsed are called the “body”, and the bytes preceding and following the body are called the “prefix” and the “suffix.”
In order to demonstrate how we use buffers in the netstack, consider this hypothetical control flow in response to receiving an Ethernet frame:
TcpSegmentobject, which itself borrowed the buffer), regaining direct mutable access to the original buffer. Since the buffer has access to the now-parsed prefix and suffix in addition to the body, the TCP stack can now use the entire buffer for serializing. It figures out how much space must be left at the beginning of the buffer for all lower-layer headers (in this case, IPv4 and Ethernet), and serializes a TCP Ack segment at the appropriate offset into the buffer. Now that the buffer is being used for serialization (rather than parsing), the body indicates the range of bytes which have been serialized so far, and the prefix and suffix represent empty space which can be used by lower layers to serialize their headers and footers.
Note that, in this entire control flow, only a single buffer is ever used, although it is at times used for different purposes. If, in step 3, the TCP layer finds that the buffer is too small for the TCP segment that it wishes to serialize, it can still allocate a larger buffer. However, so long as the existing buffer is sufficient, it may be reused.
When using a single buffer to serialize a packet - including any encapsulating headers of lower layers of the stack - it is important to satisfy some constraints:
Consider, for example, Ethernet. When serializing an IPv4 packet inside of an Ethernet frame, the IPv4 packet must leave enough room for the Ethernet header. Ethernet has a minimum body requirement, and so there must also be enough bytes following the IPv4 packet to be used as padding in order to meet this minimum in case the IPv4 packet itself is not sufficiently large.
To accomplish this, we use the
Serializer trait. A
Serializer represents the metadata needed to serialize a request in the future.
Serializers may be nested, which results in a
Serializer describing a sequence of encapsulated packets to be serialized, each being used as the body of an encapsulating packet. When a sequence of nested
Serializers is processed, the header, footer, and minimum body size requirements are computed starting with the outermost packet and working in. Once the innermost
Serializer is reached, it is that
Serializer's responsibility to provide a buffer:
BufferMuttrait (a superset of the functionality required by the
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Once the innermost
Serializer has produced its buffer, each subsequent packet serializes its headers and footers, expands the buffer's body to contain the whole packet as the body to be encapsulated in the next layer, and returns the buffer to be handled by the next layer.
When control makes its way to a layer of the stack that has a minimum body length requirement, that layer is responsible for consuming any bytes following the range for use as padding (and zeroing those bytes for security). This logic is handled by
EncapsulatingSerializer's implementation of
Serializer is implemented by a number of different types, allowing for a range of serialization scenarios including:
In certain scenarios, it is necessary to modify an existing packet before re-serializing it. The canonical example of this is IP forwarding. When all packets are simply references into a pre-existing buffer, modifying and then re-serializing packets is cheap, as it can all be done in-place in the common case. For example, if an IP packet is received which needs to be forwarded, so long as the link-layer headers of the device over which it is to be forwarded are not larger than the link-layer headers of the device over which it was received, there will be enough space in the existing buffer to serialize new link-layer headers and deliver the resulting link-layer frame to the appropriate device without ever having to allocate extra buffers or copy any data between buffers.
If buffers that previously held other packets are re-used for serializing new packets, then there is a risk that data from the old packets will leak into the new packet if every byte of the new packet is not explicitly initialized. In order to prevent this:
wiremodule) is responsible for ensuring that all of the bytes of the header have been initialized.
A special case of these requirements is post-body padding. For packet formats with minimum body size requirements, upper layers will provide extra buffer bytes beyond the end of the body. In the
BufferMut used to store packets during serialization, these padding bytes are in the “suffix” just following the buffer's body.
The logic for adding padding is provided by
EncapsulatingSerializer, described in the Prefix, Suffix, and Padding section above.
EncapsulatingSerializer ensures that these padding bytes are zeroed.
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LONDON — President Obama is back in Europe today but there are no crowds awaiting his arrival. Indeed the greeting from some of his hosts is nakedly hostile.
Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, welcomed him to the city with a fiery broadside describing Obama as “incoherent,” “inconsistent,” and “downright hypocritical.”
In a phrase that evoked racist jibes in the United States, Johnson described him as “the part-Kenyan president” in an op-ed in Britain's best-selling Sun newspaper.
Johnson also repeating the oft-cited, but factually dubious claim, that Obama ordered the removal of a bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office.
Johnson, a Conservative member of parliament and one of the favorites to become Britain's next prime minister, suggested Obama may have been motivated to remove the statuette because of an “ancestral dislike of the British empire.”
As prime minister, Churchill had sent British troops to quell an uprising against the British in Kenya.
Dinesh D’Souza was denounced as a racist for making a similar point in his 2010 book The Roots of Obama’s Rage.
“Obama views Muslims who are fighting against America in Iraq and Afghanistan as freedom fighters, somewhat akin to Indians or Kenyans fighting to push out their British colonial occupier.”
Johnson was unloading on Obama because he is furious that the U.S. president has intervened in the upcoming referendum on whether Britain should remain part of the European Union.
Ever since the referendum was announced, Obama has quietly indicated that he feels Britain is better off inside the EU. That suggestion turned into outright campaigning when he published an article in The Telegraph newspaper calling on British voters to stay in surprisingly passionate terms.
“I will say, with the candour of a friend, that the outcome of your decision is a matter of deep interest to the United States. The tens of thousands of Americans who rest in Europe’s cemeteries are a silent testament to just how intertwined our prosperity and security truly are,” he wrote.
He argued that Britain’s influence has been amplified by its membership of the European Union, helping to secure agreements on trade, climate change and even the recent deal with Iran.
“This kind of cooperation—from intelligence sharing and counterterrorism to forging agreements to create jobs and economic growth—will be far more effective if it extends across Europe. Now is a time for friends and allies to stick together,” he said. “Together, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union have turned centuries of war in Europe into decades of peace.”
Obama remains popular in Britain so it’s no surprise that the out campaign is desperate to dismiss Obama’s intervention. Despite the passion of the out campaign, most opinion polls suggest Britain will narrowly vote to remain part of the EU.
Nigel Farage, the leader of the U.K. Independence Party, told Obama to “Butt out.”
Former Labour minister Kate Hoey claimed Obama’s intervention was “insulting” and “patronizing.”
Johnson, who is by far the most high-profile member of the out campaign, accused Obama of hypocrisy, claiming that Washington would never countenance a deal that diluted U.S. sovereignty.
“The US guards its democracy with more hysterical jealousy than any other country on earth,” he wrote.
For the United States to tell us in the UK that we must surrender control of so much of our democracy—it is a breathtaking example of the principle of do-as-I-say-but-not-as-I-do. It is incoherent. It is inconsistent, and yes it is downright hypocritical.”
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Sudip Bajpeyi and Cassandra K. Myrland have equal contribution.
Lipid in skeletal muscle myotubes is associated to the donors' insulin sensitivity and physical activity phenotypes
Article first published online: 10 SEP 2013
Copyright © 2013 The Obesity Society
Volume 22, Issue 2, pages 426–434, February 2014
How to Cite
Bajpeyi, S., Myrland, C. K., Covington, J. D., Obanda, D., Cefalu, W. T., Smith, S. R., Rustan, A. C. and Ravussin, E. (2014), Lipid in skeletal muscle myotubes is associated to the donors' insulin sensitivity and physical activity phenotypes. Obesity, 22: 426–434. doi: 10.1002/oby.20556
Funding agencies: This word was supported by an unrestricted research grant from Novartis, Novartis Clinical Innovation Fund (to S.R.S.); an unrestricted research grant from Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America; NIH 1R01AG030226-01A2 (to S.R.S.) and was partially supported by NORC Center grant # 2P20DK072476-06 entitled “Nutritional Programming: Environmental and Molecular Interactions” sponsored by NIDDK and COBRE (NIH 2P20-RR021945). This work used the facilities of the Cell Biology and Bioimaging Core facilities that are supported in part by COBRE (NIH P20-RR021945) and CNRU (NIH 1P30-DK072476) center grants from the National Institutes of Health.
Clinicaltrials.gov registration numbers: NCT00402012, NCT00401791.
- Issue published online: 3 FEB 2014
- Article first published online: 10 SEP 2013
- Accepted manuscript online: 1 JUL 2013 08:11AM EST
- Manuscript Accepted: 17 JUN 2013
- Manuscript Received: 17 JUL 2012
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- 39Lipid partitioning, incomplete fatty acid oxidation, and insulin signal transduction in primary human muscle cells: effects of severe obesity, fatty acid incubation, and fatty acid translocase/CD36 overexpression. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2010;95:3400-3010., , , et al.

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The chime of her cell phone, alerting her that she had a text message waiting for her, scared Shortcut out of her numbness. She rushed to find the gadget that is almost always in her possession. This time, it wasn’t. When she came home from the cemetery last night with Marcus, she threw her phone on the bed which, in turn, had bounced between the bed and the wall to snuggle with a teddy bear she had forgotten years ago. She wasn’t exactly sure why she was so anxious to find her phone. Anybody who was anyone to her were now gone. Dice was dead, or alive, she wasn’t certain which. She witnessed some sort of soul arise from his grave. From there, she wasn’t confident what had happened to him. And Marcus was enjoying his gift of flight more than texting to her on a phone. Had she even seen him use his phone to text or make a call the last few times that she saw him? She thought about that for a minute. Her conclusion was a “Nope,” and she stressed the confirmation of her result by saying it aloud.
It took her a minute to find her phone, but she did. She also reminisced about the teddy bear that had laid abandoned all these years along the baseboard under her bed. When she picked up the bear, he blinked at her. His dusty black marble eyes got their sheen back with those few blinks. “Hello there, Tyson,” she softly said to the bear as she held him in both hands. He wasn’t a particularly handsome bear. His fur was a bit nappy from the years of neglect. He was a gift from Dice and Marcus’s Mother on her twelfth birthday. She couldn’t remember why she had named him Tyson until, while holding him, he lunged out to try to bite her arm. “That’s right, you’re a biter. I forgot about that,” she said. And then she remembered why she had named him what she did. She placed Tyson at the foot of her bed and commanded him to, “Sit. Don’t move,” and he complied.
The text she had received earlier was from her bank letting her know her balance in her checking account. It was a daily ritual; she should be used to the periodic invasion by now. The truth is, she ignored it most of the time. Getting the alert from her bank was equivalent to breathing. She never acknowledged it until she didn’t have any money to spend, just like she never really appreciated breathing until there was a lack of oxygen. Then, and only then, did she ever consider its importance. And now, it was Marcus’s turn to be important. She took him for granted. She was with him almost constantly. Now that he had disappeared, she didn’t know how to behave.
Tyson, apparently, didn’t know how to behave either. He was at the bottom of the bed tearing up the backpack she always threw there upon returning home.
“Qef!” she yelled at the animated stuffed animal. In an instant, and in mid-bite, Tyson froze. Bits of string and paper fell out of his open mouth as his animation came to an immediate halt. Shortcut remembered the first time that she had heard the “safe word” to stop the animatronic beings from becoming dangerous.
It was when she was younger; Marcus, Dice and she were playing G.I. Joe vs Barbie and Ken in “Plastic Dominance of The World” in the Amun brother’s living room. Inanimate beings have always become animate in her presence, but usually not in the presence of others. The other party had to “believe” in her special gift before they were given the permission to witness her gift for themselves. It wasn’t until a few years later that Dice and Marcus were able to offer their testimonial of Shortcut’s power to bring life to an inorganic object. No, on this particular day, Barbie and Ken were getting their asses kicked by Dice and Marcus’s G.I. Joe dolls. And, yeah, G.I. Joe may have had the fancy weapons and the tank, but Barbie and Ken had the looks and the mansion and the cool convertible. Barbie and Ken also had Shortcut. Shortcut had to admit, she was getting a little pissed off that there were two battalions of G.I. Joe fellas against her one unit.
But Barbara Millicent Roberts and Ken Carson were not about to get their plastic asses handed to them by a bunch of uniformed thugs. Shortcut waited patiently for the right moment when both Dice and Marcus were occupied with the fake Fort Wadsworth they were creating for their brainless plastic men before she let Barbie and Ken spring into action. When the brothers weren’t looking, Barbie and Ken came to life. Barbie looked from her sitting position next to her pink Barbie hammock that was strung between two plastic trees in the side yard of the mansion, and Ken, in what would be the front yard of the Barbie Mansion if it had any grass and actual land, stood there with his hands on his hips wondering where he was and how he had gotten there. The two dolls both looked up to the giant that was Shortcut as she handed Ken the Cadillac Gauge Stoner 63A Assault Rifle and then handed Barbie the yellow machete. Shortcut gave the dolls a nod in the direction of the G.I. Joe dolls that were preoccupied with their own sudden existence. Barbie snuck up the side of her pink Barbie convertible to surprise one of the soldiers before slicing off his head with her machete. Ken, in the meantime, gave a tug on the trigger of his equipped assault rifle to waste the other three soldiers that didn’t see their demise coming so soon after their activation.
While the massacre was taking place, Dice and Marcus’s mother had entered the living room to make her way to the stairs to complete her daily chores in the bedrooms above, when she stopped to notice that Shortcut had brought the dolls to life. Mrs. Amun had been warned by Nicandro that Shortcut may exhibit her gift from time to time, and she shouldn’t be alarmed. Nicandro then had supplied Mrs. Amun with the word “Qef” as the word from the Gemin lexicon to cease all animation. Mrs. Amun didn’t hesitate to say the word when she saw the slaughter going on in her living room.
“Qef!” she yelled in a panic.
All action figures, both dead and alive, froze into their current position while on the two-toned carpeting on the Amun living room floor. Dice and Marcus looked at their mother in confusion. They were concentrating on their feeble attempt to recreate Fort Wadsworth out of an empty shoe box that Dice had retrieved from the hall closet at the foot of the stairs. Then they both looked down at their soldiers, in sync, to find their battalion had been mutilated beyond repair. One of the soldiers laid on the two-toned carpeting with his arms splayed to his sides as if he was Jesus Christ sans the cross. Except this soldier’s head had been cleanly sliced off by the machete Barbie was holding while she stood next to him in an aggressive pose. Barbie’s mouth was wide open as if she would be yelling if she were alive. The other three soldiers – these figures that once were solid molds of plastic – had actual bullet holes in them. Dice lifted one of the soldiers up to peer through the twenty or so holes as the soldier- this plastic man- was grasping his final bullet wound in severe anguish. Marcus looked at the remaining two soldiers, one of them was strewn over the tank. He, too, was riddled with bullet holes. The final soldier was on the carpet with his legs chopped off.
Then they looked at Ken. His teeth had been ground together in a grimace while he held the assault rifle. Bullet casings were strewn about his feet. The only thing missing in this scenario would be smoke wafting from the end of the barrel.
Dice and Marcus looked at Shortcut in amazement.
“I win,” was all that Shortcut said. That’s all she had to say. The air of contention surrounding her was thick. Her smile of triumph lit the room.
Marcus’s jaw had dropped. This was supposed to be a friendly game of war. Now he needed to spend the morning gluing legs and heads back on to his action figures.
“How?” Marcus asked.
Shortcut just shrugged her shoulders as she carefully picked up Barbie and Ken to place them back into the Barbie mansion. She pried the assault rifle from Ken’s hands, and the machete from Barbie’s, to hand them back to Marcus. “Here, these are yours.” she said and then began to hum as she collected the rest of her toys.
The truth was, she didn’t know how she got Barbie and Ken to move into action. She’d never questioned it. And, she figured that if she ever did question it, no one could answer her. Or, at the very least, would consider her a fruit loop to think she could make the inanimate animate. So, she had always kept it to herself. It wasn’t until Mrs. Amun stopped her figures in mid-action that she even knew that she could control them.
Later on that afternoon, Shortcut had gotten a visit from Mrs. Amun. There was a knock at the door, a short pause, and then the doorbell sounded off to advise everyone in the Vargas household they had a visitor awaiting acknowledgement on their front porch. Shortcut traipsed down the stairs from her bedroom hallway down to the first floor to look through the peephole. It was Mrs. Amun. “I wonder what she’s doing here?” Shortcut thought as she clicked the deadbolt to the right and turned the doorknob.
“Hi, Mrs. Amun. Dice and Marcus aren’t here,” Shortcut was polite. Just as her parents had taught her. She mentally gave them a gold star on their right shoulders for their training, and she gave herself a gold star for practicing her manners as previously instructed. There, everyone had a gold star. Shortcut noticed Mrs. Amun wasn’t in as good of a mood as she currently was, she attributed that to everyone getting a mental gold star except for her. Mrs. Amun was holding a yellow gift bag in her right hand as she asked, “Can I come in?”
“Yeah, sure. Come on in,” said Shortcut as she stepped aside to allow Mrs. Amun entry into her home.
“Is there a place we can talk?” asked Mrs. Amun. She wasted no time in asking the question. She wasn’t even finished looking around the foyer absorbing every little detail of Shortcut’s cozy home. It wasn’t as nice, or as big, as the Amun home, but it was nice enough.
“Yes, Ma’am. Here in the living room. My parents are out for a while. We have the house all to ourselves.” said Shortcut politely enough. “If you don’t count the little boy and his dog figurine on the bookshelf waving hello to you,” she quietly thought to herself, “but they wave at everyone.”
The living room was, in fact, pleasant enough. In the middle of the room sat an apothecary coffee table with 4 drawers on each side. Around the table sat a pair of matching tan arm chairs, a darker tan love seat, and a formal couch in a brown, leather shade. The carpet under the furniture to cover the wooden flooring had been recently vacuumed. Mrs. Amun could tell because the fibers of the shag were standing at attention instead of showing signs of being worn under foot. There was no dust on the shelves or the tables. Mrs. Amun was pleased with her surroundings and didn’t feel at all threatened as she thought she would be in a house of Engineers.
Engineers excel at the art of manipulation. Their race could control your perception one way, while striking. They could also actuate the inorganic. They were very dangerous if they didn’t like you or felt at unease with you. It was very important to always remain calm in their presence, and to appease the Engineers any way possible.
“Shortcut, honey,” started Mrs. Amun as she sat down on the formal couch and then proceeded to smooth out the green material of her dress after it flowed gently to drape on her legs, “what you did this morning. You know how you did it? Do you know what it means?”
Shortcut answered the first question promptly. She did know what she had done. She had been doing it since the car accident when she was four. What it means…that was a different story. She had no idea what it meant, except that she had friends that weren’t anyone else’s friend. Sometimes that was a great feeling, but most times it was lonely. Her inorganic objects never talked. They would just listen. At first, that was a good thing. As she grew older, she wanted feedback. Not just smiles and heads nodding. There were times that Shortcut thought the beings that she could bring to life didn’t appreciate what she had done for them at all.
During their conversation, their honesty, and their equal epiphanies, Mrs. Amun reached into the yellow gift bag to pull out a teddy bear. It was a newly purchased bear, Shortcut noticed. The tag with the brand name “Tyson” was still attached to the left ear. It had dark brown fur that, according to the Tyson tag, was 50% acrylic and 50% polyester. The chest was a caramel color, as was the bottoms of the bear’s feet. The eyes were marble and black. They reflected every bit of light around them. The bear had been sitting still in the bag, but once Mrs. Amun pulled him out of the bag, and sat him on the couch next to her, the bear came to life. He tried to stand up on the couch, but his short back legs were wobbly from inactivity. He attempted to walk two steps toward Shortcut before he fell forward. Shortcut had caught him and lifted him up in front of her face. He smiled at her. She smiled back. She noticed his teeth were jagged. Like the teeth of a shark. They looked nothing like the teeth of a real bear. Mrs. Amun hadn’t noticed the teeth when she purchased him because in the store, the mouth had only been a simple brown chord of string that had been sewn to mark where the mouth would normally be. There had never been any indication that the bear would have teeth, until this very moment. Mrs. Amun was, at first, alarmed that she was about to give a bear with jagged teeth that could cause severe injury, to Shortcut; who was still a child. She quickly remembered what Shortcut was capable of, and what she really is. She quietly sighed a breath of relief because if the bear DID cause injury to an Engineer that would simply mean the Engineer wasn’t paying attention. Besides, Engineers are known for their destruction. Mrs. Amun would consider the bear attack as kharma.
Instead, the bear took an instant liking to Shortcut. When she placed him back down on the couch, the bear wobbled on its short legs over to her side where it plopped down with authority. She reached for the tag on the bear’s ear to yank it out, but then thought better of it. “That might hurt his tiny ear,” she had thought. Then she got up from the couch to retrieve a pair of scissors to cut the tag off. As she walked out of the living room into her mother’s craft room off the kitchen to grab the scissors, the bear stood up, walked over to the arm of the couch to watch her leave. The moment she was out of sight into the craft room, the bear froze in its standing position. Shortcut had gone out of its sight range, and therefore was no longer animated. When she returned to the living room, the bear became animated, turned to face Mrs. Amun and snarled silently as it launched for the attack.
“Qef,” said Mrs. Amun. She didn’t seem too concerned that she was about to be mauled by a teddy bear.
“There’s that word again,” said Shortcut to Mrs. Amun. The teddy bear had frozen in place, standing on its hind legs, his front paws in attack position, and his jagged teeth exposed in preparation to rip Mrs. Amun to tiny shreds.
Mrs. Amun had spent the next twenty minutes explaining to Shortcut the origin of her powers, and how the word “Qef” was uncovered by a group of people called “The Yerad” in order to fight off an evil queen of The Gemin and those who murdered in her name.
It was all too much for a pre-teen to absorb at the time. But Shortcut still remembered the conversation as if it was yesterday. It was on that day that she had named the gift that Mrs. Amun had given her, accompanied with a lesson she’d need much later in life, Tyson; after the name on the tag on his ear.
That was all almost ten years ago. Tyson had done exactly what Mrs. Amun had intended for the bear to do, help her practice her art of Engineering. Shortcut hadn’t met a Yerad yet. Or, if she did, Tyson didn’t seem to know it, or alert her to the fact that she was in any danger. Tyson only chewed up things, and occasionally bit the girls who would come spend a sleep-over with her. He chewed off one of her friend’s ear one night. But, it was Diana. She was a fake friend anyway, and a Miss-Know-It-All who didn’t know half the things she pretended she did. There was absolutely no love lost there when Diana started spreading false rumors that Shortcut had chewed off her ear while they were comfortably snug in their Power Puff Girls sleeping bags. It never happened. If Diana did know it all like she thinks she does, she would’ve known it was Tyson who was slowing digesting her earlobe and cartilage in his 50% acrylic and 50% polyester filled stomach.
Shortcut watched Tyson as he sat at the foot of the bed in his motionless gnawing of anything he could get his teeth on. She thought of Mrs. Amun, and the lessons she bestowed on a very naïve little girl who felt alone in this world. Little did she know, she wasn’t alone. Apparently, Dice could do special things; like die, get reborn, and then float away in a ball of light as he crawls out of his own grave. And Marcus, he had something black in him that gave him wings. Now, they’re both gone. So is Mrs. Amun, and once again, she felt all alone. Except, this time, her loneliness had a lining of abandonment and sprinkles of desolation.
“Come here, Tyson,” she said out loud to the bear at the foot of the bed. Tyson sprang to life, stood up on his hind legs, and waddled over to her. She picked him up by grabbing him under his arms, and then hugged him. He hugged her back. He placed his head on her shoulder. He couldn’t close his eyes because there were no eyelids to cover his black, marble eyes. But, if he could, he would’ve closed them.
“You’re such a good hugger,” she told him. He couldn’t say anything back. He just hugged tighter. And then he hungrily sniffed her earlobe. “Don’t even think about it, you little fucker,” she softly said to him. He placed his head back down on her shoulder and freely gave her what she’d been wanting all this time…companionship.


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S ometimes it’s nice to use your creativity in trying to make use of left over ingredients in your fridge. I hate having leftovers so I try to make small portions of one thing, if you hadn’t noticed already. This is, of course, if I’m only cooking for myself (My lovely can eat 2-3 portions!) I usually utilize one ingredient to make a bunch of things with them which is why 90% of the time they’re fresh. A head of cabbage can serve me four different meals, if an eggplant is big enough, I can use it twice, and a butternut squash, usually two pounds, can last me three meals unless I want a large batch of squash fries..
Frozen vegetables, too, are a blessing. I always buy frozen peppers and onions because I use them consistently especially when it comes to making chili. In chili, peppers and onions are necessary allllllll the time and onions (I like onions..) are tossed here and there in numerous dishes. I always have broccoli and zucchini in the house; everything else is just whatever I crave at that time. I did, astonishingly, find a one pound bag of frozen artichoke hearts at Trader Joe’s the other day in addition to a humongous bag of tricolor diced peppers - beautiful! I can’t wait to cook up something’ with those babies. Another thing I found at Trader Joe’s was a roll of Organic Southern Grits, gluten free. Two words in that title immediately caught my eye: grits and gluten free. So, I bought it. I don’t know how and I can’t explain why, but, after breakfast yesterday, I was extremely ill. It didn’t specify processed in a ‘wheat’ facility nor did it state possible contamination or have anything else in its listed ingredients as ‘wheat’ related. My only conclusion is that I had a reaction to the lye but I can’t be certain. I posted this on the celiac forum to see what they may say.
Back to the topic of using leftover ingredients, this was how this chili came to be. After I made it, I figured that it would have been more eye catching if the beans were cannelloni beans or some white bean to make a white chili with the light colored Albacore tuna. Still, I will not object to it’s deliciousness. It was hot yet sweet; quite pleasing to the palette. I snatch the spice mixture from a chili con carne recipe but I don’t think it should be considered a chili con carne. It wasn’t spicy so don’t fear the cayenne but then again I have a large tolerance for spice so use the spices according to your taste; this is why I don’t specify a spice measurement in a lot of my recipes unless I find it absolutely necessary.
Sweet Tuna Chili
½ pinto beans
½ diced tomatoes (Muir Glen Fire Roasted Tomatoes!)
¼ cup onions, chopped
¼ cup green bell peppers, chopped
½ 6 oz can of tuna
2 tsp minced garlic or garlic powder
1 ½ cups water (may or may not use all, depending on your consistency preference)
2 tsp sugar
1-2 tsp hot sauce
In a sprayed non-stick cooking pan, sauté onions and peppers until mostly transparent with a little salt. Toss in minced garlic and sauté for a minute longer; then add the seasonings, tomatoes and some water.
Let that simmer for 2 to 3 minutes before adding the tuna and beans. On a medium simmer, cook covered for 15 minutes. Finally, add the hot sauce, sugar, liquid smoke, and adjust seasonings if necessary. Let that simmer for five more minutes.
It came out with a more stew-like consistency so serve this chili with a fat chunk of cornbread!

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Stanley Furniture (STLY) Receiving Somewhat Positive Press Coverage, Study Finds
Media stories about Stanley Furniture (NASDAQ:STLY) have been trending somewhat positive on Wednesday, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group identifies negative and positive press coverage by analyzing more than twenty million news and blog sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Stanley Furniture earned a news impact score of 0.08 on Accern’s scale. Accern also assigned media headlines about the company an impact score of 46.87025091492 out of 100, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock’s share price in the near term.
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Hyderabad is the capital city of Andhra Pradesh and is one of India’s early IT hubs. A remarkable mixture of old traditions and new mentality, Hyderabad is one of the important cultural cities of India. Read on to find out more about the city and also some good hotels in Hyderabad.
Hyderabad is an important business destination in south India and is also a major IT hub. The city was the capital of the powerful and opulent Nizams who have left their indelible mark upon the city. Today Hyderabad is one of the growing metropolises of the country and forms a huge metropolis with its twin Secunderabad. Both of the cities have slowly become virtually indistinguishable from each other. Situated on the banks of the huge Hussain Sagar Lake and the Musi River, Hyderabad presents an interesting amalgamation of the old and the new. The modern part is constantly on the move and is filled with malls and offices with glass facades. On the other hand, the old city is in a state of decay and still evokes the familiar old world charm. The old city as it is known is situated on the banks of the Musi River and houses the city’s landmark – the Charminar. The old city is a must visit and the special cuisine of Hyderabad should be tasted here, erpecially the famous Biriyani and tandoori chicken. There are also many other tourist attractions in Hyderabad like the Hussain Sagar Lake, the Salar Jung Museum, etc.
You can easily find many good hotels in Hyderabad that offer all necessary facilities and comfortable rooms. Here is a list of some quality Hyderabad hotels.
Good Hotels in Hyderabad
Hotel Mahaveer is one of the most popular Hyderabad hotels and is located close to the railway system. It has received almost 75% customer recommendation and has a star rating of 4 out of 5. The former implies that 8 out of 10 people would love to visit this hotel again. It has earned a number of positive reviews from former guests for its location, service and facilities. It offers completely fully air conditioned rooms equipped with all necessary facilities. It also offers a kitchen, parking facility, travel desk and ATM facility in the hotel premises. The rooms are considered to be cost effective and rates start from Rs.1125.
Hotel Savera Residency is one of the best budget hotels in Hyderabad and it is located close to both the airport & railway station. The hotel has received a number of positive reviews from previous guests and enjoys a customer recommendation of nearly 90% which means 9 out of 10 people would love to visit this particular hotel again. Guests have praised the hotels location and facilities. It offers air conditioned rooms that come equipped with all necessary amenities. The hotel also provides a fine south Indian restaurant, travel desk and laundry service. The room rates start from Rs.1590

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Form 8-K COMMAND SECURITY CORP
January 12, 2015
On December 31, 2014, Command Security Corporation (the “Company”) was awarded a contract for services with the United States Postal Service (“USPS”) valued at an aggregate of approximately $250 million over a potential ten year term of service. Pursuant to the agreement, the Company will provide security services at 50 USPS locations in 18 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, an award valued at approximately $20 million per year. The Company has commenced a one month transition period and will assume operational responsibility on February 1, 2015. In addition, the Company will operate the two USPS National Law Enforcement Communication Centers located in Ft. Worth, Texas and at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, an award valued at approximately $5 million per year. The Company will commence a one month transition period for this contract on February 1, 2015, and will assume operational responsibility on March 1, 2015.
The services performed under the agreement will be in accordance the terms provided for in the Statement of Work agreed upon by the parties. The USPS may change the scope of the Statement of Work at any time in writing. The term of the award is 4 years, with three two-year options to extend, which may be exercised by USPS at any time with prior written notice. In addition, USPS may terminate any services provided under the agreement with 30 days’ prior written notice. During the term of the agreement and for two years following its termination, the Company agrees not to compete with the USPS for any postal service contracts or contract with any competitor for any product for which the Company provided services under the agreement with the USPS. The agreement contains standard terms and conditions, including the restriction on assignment of the agreement by the Company and the right of the USPS to audit the books and records of the Company related to its services provided under the agreement. The USPS may terminate the agreement for default by the Company.
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Command Security Corp. (AMEX: MOC) shares have nearly doubled Tuesday after the company announced the award of two United States Postal Service (USPS) contracts valued at approximately $250 million over a ten year term of service.
On December 31, 2014, Command Security Corporation received notification of the award of an approximate $20 million per year contract to provide security services at 50 USPS locations in 18 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. The award includes a four year base contract and three two-year options. The Company has commenced a one month transition period and will assume operational responsibility on February 1, 2015.
In addition, the USPS awarded the Company an approximate $5 million per year contract to operate the two USPS National Law Enforcement Communication Centers (NLECC) at Dulles International Airport, VA and in Ft. Worth, TX. The Company will commence a one month transition period for this contract on February 1, 2015, and will assume operational responsibility on March 1, 2015.
Todd Pratt, Vice President, Sales and Marketing said, “This is a major success for our team and represents the largest single contract ever awarded to the Company. It represents an affirmation of our strategic plan and positions the Company to compete for other major contracts.”
“We are honored to have been selected by the USPS for this important contract to provide for their security needs across the country,” said Craig P. Coy, Chief Executive Officer. “Our operational and support staff teams have worked very hard to enable the Company to secure this opportunity and we look forward to a long and successful relationship with the USPS.”

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These Halvarssons Origo Motorcycle Leather Gloves have adjustable wrist and cuff straps ensuring comfort, protection and to keep these gloves in place. These gloves are designed for both men and women; sizes 6 and 7 are, in general, designed for women and sizes 8 to 12 are for men.
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- Made from supple and comfortable Goat Hide
- Features the Dryway Plus the waterproof and breathable membrane
- Reinforced with Hi Art Technology for optimum abrasion resistance.
- Incorporates McFit Technology to prevent the liner from pulling out
- Comfortable leather stretch protection over the knuckles and fingers.
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Halvarssons Origo Motorcycle Gloves sizing Guide;


Supermarket chains significantly cut area that sell organic foods and eco-friendly accessories.
Explaining the reason for the reduction of space in stores, major retail retailers explain their position data statistics.
Analytical suggest that healthy food market volume decreased by 21% over several years. In 2008, the market for green and organic products amounted to nearly £ 2 billion ($ 3 billion). And last year, this figure fell to £ 1.5 billion ($ 2.4 billion).
According to opinion polls conducted in the UK, many people actually refused to buy his usual healthy food in order to save.
Buyers have suffered more than their money mass manufacturer. For example, sellers of frozen fish in the UK in recent years have increased their profit? 69 million ($ 111 million) to € 292 million ($ 472 million).
In turn, Jim Twayne — director of Bristol-based Soil Association, which produces organic foods — do not see the problem of poverty in the buyers. "People are happy to buy a product, grown without fertilizers, but they have nowhere to do it. Retail retailers are actually closed their stores for similar products. They act for the sake of their profits without taking into account the interests of customers "- said Twayne.
Experts point out that the problems of the industry production and consumption of healthy products is observed only in the UK. In other countries of Europe and the world eco-friendly and created without harm to the environment products are becoming increasingly popular, and sales are growing.
See also: The number of those who can not support themselves in Britain has doubled in the last year


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Kerala Picks Disputed Land For Sabarimala Airport Project, BJP Alleges Multi-Crore Scam By Communists-Led State Government
It is feared that the Kerala government’s decision to acquire disputed land for Sabarimala airport project may lead to high-level corruption.
The Left Democratic Front (LDF) government in Kerala last week passed an order to acquire 2,263 acres of disputed land in Cheruvally Estate in Erumely, Kottayam district for the state’s proposed Sabarimala airport project.
However, the announcement by the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)-led government has come in for sharp criticism from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Sabarimala Ayyappa Seva Samajam (SASS), which are alleging it is a multi-crore scandal.
State Revenue Secretary A Jayathilak, in the order, asked the Kottayam district collector to acquire the land in the estate for the airport project which is about 20 km from Pamba, the base from where Ayyappa devotees begin climbing to the shrine.
An airport for Sabarimala has been in the works for long with pilgrims from other states demanding such a facility. Currently, pilgrims, coming by flights from other states, land either at Thiruvananthapuram, 170 km from Pamba, or Kochi, 160 km from Pamba, before reaching the hill shrine.
The Pinarayi Vijayan government, which decided to acquire the land according to the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013, said the compensation for the land would be paid to the Kerala High Court where a dispute is pending.
A Christian organisation Believers Eastern Church has the possession of the rubber estate, claiming to hold its title deed but its claim has been disputed by successive governments in Kerala.
The state government claims that the land originally belongs to it and a civil dispute over the ownership of the estate is pending before a local court at nearby Pala.
BJP Kerala president K Surendran, addressing the media during the weekend, wondered why the Vijayan government should choose to pay for the land on which the government has laid its claims.
He said a report by a special officer, M G Rajamanickam, to identify the lands owned by British citizens and companies in Kerala before Independence, and verify the ownership in terms of title deeds, had found the lands to be owned by the government.
Later, the special officer issued a directive for a government takeover of the estate. The directive followed after Rajamanickam inspected the estate on 15 January 2015 and found that the sale deed of the Cheruvally Estate, measuring 2,263 acres, not containing any of its survey number included in the original document held by Harrison Malayalam.
Gospel for Asia founder K P Yohanan bought the disputed land for the Believers Eastern Church in 2005 by raising loans and donations from abroad.
The utilisation of the donations received by the church for the purchase of the estate is also disputed as critics argue the donations were not made for any purchase of properties.
Another issue with the land is that the lease period is reported to have expired when the deal between Harrison and Yohanan took place. Thus, the deal is deemed illegal.
Efforts by previous governments to take over the estate through Rajamanickam's directive have been struck down by the Kerala High Court and the Supreme Court on the grounds that the special officer does not have the powers to decide on land ownership.
The case has been referred to the Pala court after the Supreme Court said the land ownership can be settled through a civil suit.
BJP’s Surendran said that the LDF government move will lead to corruption amounting to hundreds of crores of rupees since the state government will be paying the Believers Eastern Church for its own land.
He said that it will also hamper government efforts to reclaim the land, which is reported to have been encroached through various means.
Alleging a conspiracy involving Vijayan and the Believers Eastern Church, the BJP leader wondered why should the CPI-M government acquire over 2,000 acres when the airport needs only 700 acres.
Surendran, however, made it clear that his party was not against an airport for the hill shrine but it opposed a “hugely corrupt deal”, fearing similar deals could follow soon.
The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) is observing a studied silence on the issue.
In 2016, the CPI-M-led government had got an informal clearance from the then Union civil aviation minister Anand Gajapathy Raju to build an airport nearer to the Sabarimala Ayyappa temple.
The Kerala government has been looking to construct an airport following demand from pilgrims.
The previous UDF government led by Oommen Chandy planned to construct an airport through a private player at Aranmula but it got derailed in view of various controversies.
The Vijayan government, on its part, revoked the permission for the airport at Aranmula and began hunting for another place before zeroing in on Cheruvally Estate.
Union Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan has alleged the land deal is a scam worth Rs 25,000 crore. It is a move to help the private estate owner to sell an illegal land in possession to the state government, he charged.
The Vijayan government is also trying to give the Believers Eastern Church a legal sanctity for its illegal possession by offering to make it a shareholder, the Union minister said.
The Sabarimala Ayyappa Seva Samajan has flayed the order as one of dubious nature since the state was trying to pay compensation to a third party “in the course of affirming its rights”. It said the order “smacked of corruption”.
Believers Eastern Church spokesperson Sijo Pandappallil has said that it owns the estate and the dispute had been settled in its favour by the Supreme Court.
He said the church was not against development and would extend all help for the airport project.
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1. who falls asleep on the couch: Coulson. He always says he’s worried Skye might do something irreverent like draw on his face (even though she’s never done anything like that and would never and he’s just being silly) but he just finds her happily curled against him when he wakes up.
She does have a great time watching his ridiculous sleeping face for a while though and it kind of comforts her seeing him relaxed because he doesn’t get breaks too often. She also likes the fact that she is one of the very few people who gets to see Phil Coulson like this, it gives her a little thrill.
2. who wakes up first: Coulson. He’s a well-trained company man who has kept strict schedules most of his life, he rises at the break of dawn. Skye is still a rebel hacker at cœur, coeur and her body still retains the memory of sleepless nights and contradicting time zones. It’s not that she has trouble waking up once the alarm goes off, but she wouldn’t wake up without it. Skye is also a light sleeper (when toi have lived in a van for two years with people trying to break in constantly toi kind of have to be a light sleeper) and she wakes up often...


The White House National Security Council has reportedly told the U.S. Ambassador to Japan to stop posting statements on social media that might irritate and sever ties with China, three Biden administration officials told NBC News.
Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. Ambassador to Japan and former White House chief of staff for the Obama administration, has recently posted comments on Twitter directly criticizing Chinese President Xi Jinping and speculating about how he treats some of his staffers, according to NBC News. National Security Council officials have reportedly asked Emanuel to stop posting such statements online, claiming that the messaging can undermine the government’s efforts to repair its relationship with China, NBC News reported. (RELATED: ‘That Is Crap’: Biden, Xi Had Heated Argument Over Alleged Biolabs In Ukraine, Book Says)
“President Xi’s cabinet lineup is now resembling Agatha Christie’s novel And Then There Were None,” Emanuel wrote and posted to Twitter, commenting on the recent disappearance of China’s foreign and defense ministers, NBC News reported.
“Who’s going to win this unemployment race? China’s youth or Xi’s cabinet?” Emanuel’s post continued.
Other administration officials told NBC News that China is angry with Emanuel’s social media activity. Emanuel’s social media posts are “not in keeping with the message coming out of this building,” a White House official told NBC News.
Emanuel’s spokesperson told NBC News that the report that the National Security Council told the ambassador to stop posting is “absolutely not true.”
“Ambassador Emanuel is serving with distinction as an uncommonly effective representative of the United States in Japan. Every day his inventiveness, passion and relentlessness are on full display,” Kurt Campbell, deputy assistant to the president and coordinator for the Indo-Pacific, told NBC News.
In the summer months, tension has risen between China and the United States. While at the United Nations General Assembly, President Joe Biden told world leaders in a speech that he does not want to contain China or any other countries. Biden continued adding that the United States is ready to work together with China “on issues where progress hinges on our common efforts.”


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Among all the 12 first ladies we have had since the founding of the Republic, Kim Keon-hee is certainly one of a kind. A few of her predecessors raised eyebrows for occasionally inappropriate activities but none of them faced the level of rumors that shroud Kim.
Suspicion surfaced during the presidential campaign, when there were whispers of Kim’s involvement in Deutsch Motors stock price manipulation and plagiarism of her academic papers as well as illegal business activity by her mother. The irony was that her husband was a star prosecutor. He went after some of the nation’s wealthiest and most powerful, most famously putting two former presidents in prison on corruption charges. Thus, he reached the position of prosecutor general, then jumped into politics and became president himself within a year.
Given his profession it is hard to imagine President Yoon not being aware of the unsavory rumors and allegations surrounding his wife. More importantly, it remains a mystery whether he ever used his influence as an elite prosecutor to shield Kim and her mother from formal charges.
What we do know is that the stained image of the first lady casts a shadow over the president’s own public persona. It feeds a vulnerability that can diminish the crafted perceptions of his integrity and leadership.
There would have been no need for most Koreans to be concerned about the lives of this couple, whether private or public. That is until Yoon suddenly emerged on the center stage of national politics as an icon of justice and fairness. The rookie politician, with no experience in elected office, won a razor-thin victory on the opposition ticket, riding on the widespread voter demand for change of government.
During the campaign, as public opinion raged, Kim apologized for causing political controversy with allegations of falsifying her credentials for college teaching jobs. She pledged that she would “only be a dutiful wife” even if her husband became president. To quell public uproar, Yoon promised he would abolish the office of the first lady. He made good on his word, but only to cause more confusion due to Kim’s offbeat activities.
The reason for recalling the events from the campaign trail of months ago is that, aside from Yoon’s baffling amateurism as a “first-time president” as he put it, the integrity of the first couple keeps coming into question. Most obviously, a string of dubious incidents surrounding Yoon’s hurried relocation of the presidential office and residence, widely believed to have been related with Kim’s intentions, has overshadowed the new administration’s handling of state affairs, tarnishing its image and pulling down the president’s approval ratings.
From his sudden decision to move the presidential office to the Ministry of National Defense headquarters and arbitrary selection of the foreign minister’s residence as the new presidential residence, Yoon’s relocation plans flabbergasted many people due to potential security risks and snowballing costs. In addition, Yoon has abruptly instructed to turn the Blue House, the old presidential mansion, into an integrated arts complex “like the palace of Versailles” at the cost of tens of billions of won.
Yoon seemingly has no intention to listen to the opinions of experts and the public in drawing up these plans of national significance which will have long-term consequences. His inexplicable decision-making process invites suspicion that Kim holds sway over him. Some even argue that the couple seek counsel from shaman mentors. The plan to remodel the Blue House into an arts complex is widely seen as Kim’s, considering that she operated an art exhibition company until recently.
The latest imbroglio was a hastily scrapped plan to construct a new state reception house. A fortnight ago, shortly before the presidential couple left for a weeklong tour of the UK, the US and Canada, starting with attending the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in London, it was reported that the government’s 2023 budget would include 87.8 billion won earmarked for constructing a state reception hall in Yongsan, near the presidential office.
The nation may need a facility for entertaining state guests fitting its international status, as was explained by the presidential office. But there had been no public debate about the project beforehand. During a parliamentary interpellation session, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said he only became aware of the plan when he saw a newspaper report. He denied the plan was made at Kim’s order. As controversy raged, Yoon withdrew the plan within hours, leaving many people mystified.
The public’s suspicion stemmed from Kim’s remarks during her controversial pre-election telephone conversations with a YouTuber. She said if her husband was elected, she would relocate the state reception hall. Yoon said he regretted failing to explain the rationale of the plan but didn’t comment on why he reversed on his earlier remarks that the old state guest hall could continue to be used, even though he would not move into the Blue House.
The ongoing disputes concerning his hot mic gaffe in New York last week is another incident that puts his honesty in question. It is regrettable that his language remains better suiting a prosecutor than a president, but he is not the first head of state to be accused of verbal blunder. He could have offered a simple apology and tried to end the controversy so that he can devote more of his time and energy on more urgent economic and security issues. The US Congress and President Joe Biden, the apparent targets of Yoon’s vulgar words, do not seem to care.
Instead, Yoon effectively proclaimed war with the press and the opposition by blaming them. He said, “Damaging the alliance with reports that are different from the facts puts the people at great risk.” Then, what are the facts? He should know what he said to trigger a brawl, pushing aside imminent diplomatic issues. But he again remains silent as he has done about the rampant rumors and allegations about his wife.
Lee Kyong-hee is a former editor-in-chief of The Korea Herald. -- Ed.


Work to repair windows in Manchester’s landmark Beetham Tower is set to bring traffic chaos to the city centre when part of Deansgate closes to motorists this weekend.
Great Bridgewater Street, which runs alongside the £150m skyscraper, was closed for up to two months in May to allow works to be carried out on the city’s tallest building.
Now highways chiefs have announced that a section of Deansgate will also close this Saturday and Sunday to accommodate the essential work.
Nearly two dozen windows are being replaced in the 47-storey tower, which houses the Hilton hotel and luxury apartments.
The building’s managing agents, Braemar Estates, are believed to have asked town hall officials to close the roads beside it as a safety precaution, due to a small risk of falling glass while the panels are replaced.
Diversions will be in place for motorists on Saturday and Sunday while Deansgate is closed between Tonman Street and Trafford Street to allow cranes to be installed to carry out the work. The closure will block the junction with Liverpool Road.
The 554ft tower, the tallest residential building in Europe, opened six years ago.
Twenty-one window panels are being replaced due to faults or breakages caused during the past three years.
They include two windows damaged by vandals, a large panel on the third floor near the hotel swimming pool, and two panes which are currently boarded up in the executive lounge behind Cloud 23, the hotel’s top floor bar.
The custom-made frames are being shipped to Manchester from Germany. All the windows are triple-glazed and in each case only one panel is broken, according to Braemar.
Diversions will be in place along Quay Street, Water Street, Dawson Street, Edgerton Street, Chester Road and Bridgewater Viaduct, or along Whitworth Street West, Albion Street, Lower Mosley Street, Windmill Street and Peter Street.
A section of Liverpool Road will also be closed over the weekend. Traffic will be diverted along Lower Byrom Street and Quay Street. Great Bridgewater Street remains closed. The Hilton Hotel remains open for business during the work.


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Seeking Indigo for Rainbow Summer School for Mrs. Matlock’s class, led me to return to Charleston, SC~ which we visited several weekends ago.
Indigo, or indigotin, is a dyestuff originally extracted from the varieties of the indigo and woad plants. Indigo was known throughout the ancient world for its ability to color fabrics a deep blue. The dye was highly prized by English textile plants in the 18th Century.
Although rice was actually the first lucrative cash crop of South Carolina, it took approximately one hundred years to perfect the rice-growing techniques used in the New World. By the middle of the 18th Century, indigo became a strong rival of rice in South Carolina. Its culture is said to have begun through the experiments of a planter’s daughter, a young girl named Eliza Lucas, who set out the plants on her father’s farm on Wappoo Creek.
Eliza Lucas is credited with introducing indigo to South Carolina. In her father’s absence, sixteen-year-old Eliza became responsible for managing the Wappoo Creek farm, plus supervising overseers at two other Lucas plantations, one inland producing tar and timber, and a 3,000 acre rice plantation on the Waccamaw River. With seeds she received from her father from the West Indies, she eventually perfected a method of making blocks of indigo cakes to be turned into dye. The dye, for which England had relied upon from French sources, was in great demand, used in military uniforms and in dress coats of the day. She provided a new, lucrative business for South Carolina planters. Historian Edward McCrady wrote: “Indigo proved more really beneficial to Carolina than the mines of Mexico or Peru were to Spain . . . . The source of this great wealth . . . was a result of an experiment by a mere girl.”

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