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Chicago diners who think they are eating red snapper may actually be munching on goldbanded jobfish.
Those who order Alaskan cod may really be tucking into a threadfin slickhead. And fans of yellowtail could just be getting a fish tale.
These are some of the findings of a Chicago fish fraud investigation to be released Thursday by conservancy group Oceana.
After its troubling seafood fraud investigations in East and West Coast cities over the last two years, the group expanded its testing to other cities, including Chicago. Thirty of 93 fish samples taken from Chicago restaurants, retail chains and sushi bars were mislabeled, mirroring percentages found in other cities.
Eight of nine Chicago red snapper samples tested by Oceana turned out to be different fish, the report said. And none of the three yellowtail samples tested was actually yellowtail. Single samples sold as corvina, jack, mackerel and even perch did not match those descriptions, according to Oceana's DNA tests.
The ocean conservancy organization does not list the names of the restaurants or stores where it bought the fish because "we didn't know where, along the supply chain, the mislabeling first occurred," said Beth Lowell Oceana's seafood fraud campaign director."So we didn't want to call out businesses that may not have known their fish was mislabeled."
Improperly labeled fish can cost consumers financially, but these substitutions also can have health consequences. As in many cities, Chicago purveyors were found marketing white tuna that was actually escolar, which is cheaper and can cause severe digestive problems.
On a reassuring note for local fish fans, every one of the 22 salmon samples Oceana tested in the area checked out just fine. Ditto for the seven halibut and seven grouper samples — a surprise, Oceana noted, because grouper has frequently been found mislabeled elsewhere.
Among the places where testers bought the samples, sushi bars fared the worst, with 64 percent (or 14 out of 22) of the samples coming back as erroneously labeled. In contrast, 20 percent of fish sold at other types of restaurants and 24 percent of the seafood sold at grocery stores was mislabeled. Oceana said it focused mainly on large grocery chains.
Lowell says consumers can minimize their risk by patronizing businesses that make an effort to source sustainable fish, are willing to answer lots of questions about the product, and can show you the whole fish even if you are only going to buy a fillet.
Dirk Fucik, owner of Dirk's Fish and Gourmet Shop in Lincoln Park, says he does all that, but he's not surprised that others don't.
"It's unfortunate, but this has been going on in the seafood business for a long time," said Fucik, a veteran fishmonger and a former co-owner of Burhop's. "The U.S. imports about 25 million pounds of a Vietnamese catfish called basa (also called pangasius) every year. When's the last time you saw that on a menu?"
Americans may be particularly vulnerable to fish fraud because of their preference for white-fleshed fish with little taste variation.
"Most other countries show a preference for oilier, more flavorful fish, but Americans like their fish on the milder side," said Christopher Martinez, a manager at Dirk's. "And with a lot of those mild varieties, if you remove the fillet from the fish and take off the skin, you can call it just about anything."
Gavin Gibbons, spokesman for the National Fisheries Institute, a trade group, says he's always glad to see "people shining a light on fish fraud."
But, he said, he thinks reports like Oceana's "can negatively impact the whole community, and disproportionately those who are not engaging" in fraud.
It would be more helpful to go deeper, he said, and find where the fraud originates: at the dock, the distributor, the retailer or some point in between. "We feel like these investigations leave the loop unclosed," he said.
A 2011 investigative series by the Boston Globe reported that at least some of the fraud started at the distribution level. It said suppliers had been labeling escolar, for example, interchangeably with white/albacore tuna. The Globe noted that the less expensive escolar is not even in the tuna family.
The Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act is enforced by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and prohibits the mislabeling of food. In October, after another Oceana report, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and scores of seafood advocates sent letters to the FDA urging it to combat fraud with stepped-up inspections.
Boxer noted in her letter that fraud isn't just "deceptive marketing, but it can also pose serious health concerns, particularly for pregnant women seeking to limit exposure to heavy metals or individuals with serious allergies to certain types of fish."
In 2007, for instance, two Chicago diners became seriously ill after being served puffer fish that was sold as monkfish.
Industry watchers suspect the main motive for fish fraud is profit, but Gibbons says it can be used to hide the country of origin and thus certain duties and tariffs. Lowell says it can also be used to sell overfished varieties to those trying to avoid them or to swap cheap imported farmed fish for wild caught varieties.
"Red snapper in sushi restaurants was often tilapia," Lowell said. "The customer might be thinking this is wild caught fish from the Gulf of Mexico, but tilapia is often farmed in parts of Asia that do not adhere to the same standards as we have for aquaculture here."
According to Oceana, more than 90 percent of American seafood is imported and yet the Government Accountability Office in 2009 reported that only 2 percent of imported seafood is inspected by the FDA and less than 1 percent is inspected for mislabeling.
Last week the FDA responded to Boxer's letter, saying it has recently invested in DNA-testing equipment and has encouraged state and local authorities to do the same. In 2012 FDA gathered approximately 800 fish samples for testing and "once we finish compiling results, FDA will have a better idea of where to conduct future sampling and enforcement efforts," the FDA letter said.
The FDA letter said the new Food Safety and Modernization Act restricts its data access only to the "immediate previous source and immediate subsequent recipient of food."
The National Fisheries Institute argues that existing laws, if enforced by the FDA, can solve the fish-fraud problem. It disagrees with advocates and others who seek additional regulatory power for the FDA.
Oceana, however, argues that the U.S. needs to adopt a reliable traceability system with bar codes or snap tags that can track the fish from bait to plate and even be read with smartphones. "Everywhere we looked for seafood fraud, we found it," Lowell said. "The takeaway is that it is everywhere and we need federal attention to stop it."
Until better enforcement or traceability becomes a reality, Lowell advises consumers to seek out retailers that welcome detailed questions about their fish. Gibbons says consumers should ask retailers whether they buy from distributors who are members of the Better Seafood Bureau, a voluntary group that pledges to abide by ethical guidelines and accept audits if they receive a certain number of unresolved complaints.
Finally, all warn that if you find certain seafood items at a price that sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
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Bossip's List Of "Troubled Celebrities Who Need a Break From Fame"
Katt Williams and Bobbi Kristina top Bossip's list of "Troubled Celebrities Who Need a Break From Fame." Here's Bossip's complete list, plus the reason each celebrity needs to take a seat in 2013.
Bobbi Kristina
"In addition to losing her mother and dealing with that grief in front of the cameras almost immediately after, Bobbi Kris just seems to be spiraling downward at lightning speed. A break from the limelight would do her a world of good right now."
Nicki Minaj
"Nicki is definitely gettin' that gwap right now, but she's also had several spazz sessions this past year, including an embarrassing moment at Summer Jam and a memorable blow up with fellow judge Mariah Carey on American Idol. Might be time to take a little break."
Katt Williams
"This guy's recent struggle count is a mile high. And when you reach a point where Suge Knight is the only person riding for you? Yup, time to have a seat."
Lindsay Lohan
"We don't know what it's gonna take for this chick to get her ish together. But the one thing she hasn't tried is a serious timeout from partying, molly poppin and getting slizzard. That might do it."
Kim Kardashian
"Kim K. is always going on about how she wants to settle down and start a family, but she's gonna have to take a cue from her sisters Khloe and Kourtney and give the cameras some time off from her life if she's really serious about heading down that road."
Chris Brown
"For someone who is seemingly fed up with all the negative media attention, Chris sure seems to love to give his "haters" fuel for the fire. A little time off, some PR training and a detox from all things Hollyweird would do wonders for this guy."
Evelyn Lozada
"Evelyn took a small amount of time off after her mangled marriage hit rock bottom following her domestic dispute, but she seems to be slipping back into some of the old ratchet-azz habits that she so publicly claims to want to leave behind. More time with Iyanla and less time attention-sloring could be the cure-all."
"She's not exactly troubled, but the public seems to be a little overdosed on King Bey. Plus, Blue Ivy was barely even a month old before Bey was back to making appearances and out on the town. A mommy-break is long overdue."
"She spent some time in hospitals more than once for "exhaustion and dehydration" earlier this summer, and the alleged reports of her lateness and slizzard lifestyle are only increasing. Not to mention that her rekindled relationship with another person on this list is rumored to be doing more harm than good. It's been a long year for Rih — some time away from it all is much needed."

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This drop latch set comes with two handles, and is crafted in rough iron, with a natural-weathered appearance reminiscent of old European castles and cathedrals. No springs are included, and the drop latch operates by gravity only.
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The Debut of Portland Garment Factory's HouseLine
By MARJORIE SKINNER | OCT 25, 2011
The women of the Portland Garment Factory have a knack for spotting needs within the community. Three years ago founder Britt Howard took note of the fact that Portland's independent designers were struggling to find consistent, high quality production for small runs of their work, and stepped in to found a company that specializes in just that. Now, with partner Rosemary Robinson, Howard is taking it further with their co-designed HouseLine, a clothing line designed to be foundation garments with which you can wear your crazier investment pieces, but that still fulfill many of the qualities we aspire to in our wardrobes in that they are locally produced, often in small runs.
Honestly referring to the pieces as foundational seems a little modest. Saturday's runway debut proved that the clothing could stand up in its own right, though both its Fall and Spring renditions contained pieces that are easily recognizable as ones you'd wear to death—the result of Howard and Robinson's own wardrobe frustrations.
To me the standouts for fall were a variety of circle skirts, a belted poncho sweater (hello, perfect airplane friend), a simple textured knit dress that would lay a cozy foundation for infinite layering combos, a pair of tomboyish high waisted trousers, and a nubby little puff-sleeve cocktail number awaiting its accessories.
Portland Design Beyond 'Put a Bird on It'
By STEPHEN HEYMAN | SEPTEMBER 29, 2011
In 2009, an alternative fashion week event, Content, was held at the Ace Hotel in Portland, Ore., to expose the work of that city's remarkable but somewhat isolated crop of independent designers. Each designer was given a room in the hotel, with free rein to transform it into a kind of fashion installation and only one rule: Nothing was for sale. Clothes hung from the shower curtains above the Ace's claw-foot bathtubs; one designer carted in a half-dozen birch tree trunks to drive home a sylvan theme; another concocted a gruesome murder scene with three bloodied (yet impeccably dressed) victims strewn about the floor.
This Saturday, Content returns to Portland, in expanded form. Shops across Stumptown represented in the show will stay open late; there will be a beer garden and food; and the festivities are planned to spill out of the hotel and onto Stark Street. "Portland is the main artery for American independent fashion design," proclaims Gretchen Jones, the "Project Runway" victor and former Portland resident, who is presenting the event with the Ace. The city's "hybrid of urban naturalism," she says, produces a "unified aesthetic … Portland designers incubate to the beat of their own drum."
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Two years ago, we got together with our favorite Portland fashion designers to create a living installation in the guest rooms on the second floor at Ace Hotel Portland, dubbed CONTENT — each designer handcrafted, populated and brought to life an embodiment of their inspirations and identities, and this year an astoundingly talented crop of designers is resurrecting this new tradition. October 1, join Ace and NYC via PDX designer and Project Runway alumn Gretchen Jones on Stark Street for beer, spirits and fare by Olympic Provisions and Clyde Common, followed by an unguided adventure through the installations.
Portland Garment Factory is one of the designers creating an installation this year, and they're also handcrafting tissue box covers for all the Aces out of salvaged WWII army ponchos, so we wanted to chat PGFer Britt Howard up up about the work they do and what they'll be bringing to CONTENT.
What do you love about your job?
I love working with the various talented people of Portland — including the talented and hilarious PGF crew, whom I am lucky to be surrounded by on a daily basis! I love living through our clients' design process……being so close to it makes us all feel like we have a line of baby clothes or backpacks or womenswear. And about the fashion community of Portland? The fashion community in Portland is so varied (i.e. folks from so many different backgrounds — self taught/DIY to classically trained), and a direct correlation to that are the unique perspectives we see in what the designers create. Since I grew up here, I have a fondness in my heart for wools, plaids, layers, hats, ect. The best designers in Portland play off of the weather here (be it a direct representation of a grey cloud to a bright color blocked dress to liven up the often dreary Portland backdrop). I love em all.
How are the tissue box covers coming along?
We will be cutting the tissue box covers LIVE in our Content room! We are excited to be working on this during the event because it's a great way to merge what we are doing for Ace with the event — it was a brilliant idea that Rosemary (my partner) had which really helped us nail down what we are doing in our room! (The ideas were getting too grand anyway…) It will basically be a live workroom…..because work and creating are at the heart of what we are all inspired by every day.
Thank you, Britt — see you at work, then.
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Portland Garment Factory caters to independent fashion designers
By JULIA SILVERMAN | DECEMBER 10, 2010
Like women everywhere, but particularly in their chosen industry of fashion, Rosemary Robinson and Britt Howard can be coy about their ages.
The accomplished co-owners of the city's hippest cut-and-sew salon, thePortland Garment Factory in Southeast Portland, aren't sure they want customers to know how young they really are.
Twentysomethings they may be, but they're taken quite seriously in a sector that's been on the rise in Portland during the past decade or so.
Long known for fleece and sneakers, the metro area has produced three winners in eight seasons of "Project Runway," the reality TV competition that's the nation's highest-profile mass showcase for emerging designers.
There's also a growing core of independent designers here, many devoted to the city's eco-hip ethos, who need help with all aspects of production — pattern drafting, size grading, sample construction and sewing final garments — to meet demand for their creations, whether in local stores or online outlets.
Enter Howard, Robinson and their humming new Montavilla warehouse space, the third location for a business that's been bursting its own seams since it began a little more than two years ago.
It was Howard who started the business in 2008. A mother at 17, who has worked both as a model and an Oregon Zoo researcher, Howard had been hand-sewing chic little outfits for her second child and getting inquiries from boutique owners about selling her designs.
Stores, of course, want to carry multiple sizes of different styles, and Howard was thrown by the time commitment for such production. She hoped to find some help, someone with an interest in design and a reverence for her garments, and most of all, someone local, instead of in Los Angeles, New York or China, where so much clothing is made. She asked friends in fashion, but it didn't take long to determine she'd found a niche to fill.
A Belmont beginning
So the self-taught sewer opened a tiny storefront on Southeast Belmont Street, and, at least in the beginning, did most of the sewing herself. Still nursing her baby girl, she rifled through books when she needed to learn a technique, and to drum up business worked her connections in the creative community as a sometimes model married to a musician.
By 2009, Howard had enough clients to move up to a space nearer to her home in revitalizing Montavilla, where rent is still cheap but cool new storefronts pop up all the time. More importantly, it's close to the heart of Portland's Vietnamese community, where Howard found skilled sewers.
Robinson, a San Francisco State University graduate experienced in pattern cutting, walked into the Belmont location as a potential client, took one look at the operation and figured out two things: It was a great idea, and Howard needed help. A few months later, they were business partners, later launching First Friday gallery and fashion display events in their storefront, the forerunner to the now-rollicking and regular First Friday celebrations on Montavilla's Southeast Stark Street main drag.
Kate Towers, who opened Seaplane, an influential, early adopter boutique that was one of the first citywide to showcase locally owned designers, says Portland Garment Factory is "something that the city was really missing. I like that it has the term factory, but it is really much more of a grass-roots place, just like everything else here. Suddenly, there are all these people here that are making clothing, and this is still keeping it local."
Employees and interns
These days, settled into a hangar-like space that has been a mechanics shop and woodworkers studio, Howard and Robinson have six employees and a cadre of interns. They offer everything from fit sessions and initial pattern-and-sample making to design consultation and production of entire lines of clothing, as well as fabric goods like slippers, pillows and baby slings. They're size-blind, accepting jobs as small as 10 pieces, and working with some of Portland's bigger fashion names, including Project Runway winners Leanne Marshall and Gretchen Jones.
Commissions from outside the area have been growing. Florida-based A-Bird, a spendy, trendy baby/toddler line, has placed orders for hundreds of pieces, and the Seattle fine-dining restaurant Canlis placed an order for custom jackets for its women servers.
Profits go back into the business — Howard and Robinson recently swallowed hard and wrote a check for more than $3,000 for equipment, including machines that can sew leather — and they've only recently quit second jobs waiting tables. But they've got no debt, though not for lack of trying — "No bank would give us a loan," Howard laughs. Plans call for sourcing fabrics for clients and representing designers to boutique owners.
Howard and Robinson know they'll never be as cheap as having clothes made in China, because labor costs will always be higher here, they say. But local designers say the quality control, and chance to keep production logistics simple and local, are worth the cost.
Barbara Seipp, who owns Phlox boutique on Mississippi Avenue, had been frustrated by the lack of care put into garments made for her own line, sold at her store. Then she started working with Portland Garment Factory.
"We struggle because Portland doesn't have the same resources for fabric shopping, production, promotion," she said. "So for them to be here is amazing. These guys are realistic about what we need, and their prices are reasonable for locally made small volumes."
Portland Garment Factory Breathes Vitality to "Made in U.S.A." Label
By MARIA MATIS | AUGUST 4th, 2011
If TV's Portlandia hasn't hooked you on all things Portland, the Portland Garment Factory surely will. The artisanal workshop, founded by self-taught seamster Britt Howard, offers a range of services from pattern construction to garment production. All work is done on-site in the southeast neighborhood of Montavilla to cater to the growing ranks of designers in the region. (Three out of eight Project Runway winners, including season 8′s Gretchen Jones, are from the metro area.) With a staff that's as earnest as it's endearing, the factory is unique in an industry prone to outsourcing.
Rosemary Robinson, co-owner of PGF, is a pattern expert whose first introduction to the workshop was as a potential client. Within a few months, she and Howard became business partners, and the company has been thriving ever since.
It's no coincidence that a plethora of independent designers, including three Project Runway winners, hail from the Portland area. The Oregon city crackles with creativity and vigor, coupled with a yen for all things green. When Britt Howard launched the Portland Garment Factory in 2008, she filled an obvious vacuum: a garment workshop that caters to grassroots companies while capturing Portland's homegrown spirit, all without the high minimums and complicated production logistics that most apparel manufacturers require.
Portland Garment Factory caters to grassroots companies without the complicated production logistics.
"We're able to provide jobs and create a real designer community here, which is better than I ever hoped," Howard says. "We are working our way towards a version of a garment district."
Portland Garment Factory now serves over 20 designers and brands, including Leanne Marshall, Poler, Girl and A Mouse, andBonfire Snowboarding, to name a few.
But the Stumptown Coffee-loving owner has no plan of stopping there. With a new business partner and on its third location, the expanding company plans to launch its own collection of womenswear called "Houseline." Targeted at the eco-conscious woman, the line is set to debut in fall.
The Portland Garment Factory & Britt Howard
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The Portland Garment factory is a local Pattern Drafting, size grading, design consultation, sample construction, line production, garment manufacturing wonderland located in the adorable Montavilla neighborhood. Originally conceived as a business to make children's clothing by owner Britt Howard (who was in turn inspired by her two amazing kids), simply because there was nothing currently offered in that arena; Britt soon came to realize that there was a need for local, larger scale garment production here in our fair city. Hence, The Portland Garment factory was born, and now serves local favorites such as Holly Stalder, Dawn Sharp, and Emily Ryan (just to name a few) as well as other designers and companies across the United States. Britt has a wonderful team of people behind her, including lovely business partner Rosemary Robinson, and a beautiful SUPER high-ceiling-ed warehouse complete with a nifty swing to construct garments in! Britt also makes beautiful soft sculptures, and has a show at PLACE gallery opening within the coming months that you should not miss. Now, don't you feel just a bit more fantastic about our lovely localities?
City of Industry – In Portland's manufacturing world, the business of making stuff is alive and well.
By ZACH DUNDAS
PEOPLE OFTEN SAY "American manufacturing" in wistful sighs: once, our forefathers labored in factories; now China makes everything….
"Portland manufacturing," on the other hand, can be said with a fist-pump. This broad sector employs one out of nine metro-area workers and anchors a fifth of oregon's economy. And the business is no relic. Venerable firms, like 109-year-old Columbia Wire & Iron Works, combine time-honored knowledge with tech savvy. The next generation of manufacturing entrepreneurs puts new, brawnier industrial muscle behind Portland's vibrant craft culture.
"We were born out of a need," says Britt Howard, a 28-year-old fashion designer who started Portland Garment Factory in 2008. "A lot of people in Portland make things, but there's no larger infrastructure when they want to expand."
As with many of the manufacturers we chronicle on the next few pages, Howard's workshop thrives on quality, flexibility, and the conviction that a bright future lies in making stuff here. "Someone might call us with a 3,000-item order one day," says Howard, whose projects range from slippers to neoprene jumpsuits. "The next, a Portland designer might say, 'I need 10 dresses.' I love it."
Cool Hunting
Inside an Oregon clothing plant that's reinventing "Made in the U.S.A."
By ADRIENNE SO | FEBRUARY 14, 2011
Just because a designer is local—whether in Austin, TX or Florence, Italy—doesn't necessarily mean the garments were made there—or even in the same country. Thanks to fast fashion, there's now a better-than-likely chance that even such smaller-batch production was outsourced to Asia. "Of course it's deceptive, to say that clothes were made in the United States when they were really made in China," said Britt Howard, founder and co-owner of the Portland Garment Factory. "Like clothes that say they're made in Italy, when they're only hand-finished there. Or they'll sew the buttons on."
Howard, a mother of two and sometime model, discovered this gap in the American indie production process in 2008 after trying and failing to find a local manufacturer for her line of baby clothing. She opened a tiny storefront to sew for Portland's growing legion of independent designers (that includes three competitors and two winners of the reality show Project Runway) and two years, more than a few eighty-hour work weeks, and a business partner (Rosemary Robinson) later, PGF is now a booming enterprise. Today, the upstart completes orders for clients as far-flung as New York and Los Angeles in an airy new warehouse space in Portland's bustling Montavilla neighborhood.
"It's been like, zero to sixty for us," Robinson described. "We're thinking about opening another location, maybe in San Francisco or Austin. But we'd want to keep it personal, to be able to keep that close relationship with the people we work with."


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Robert E. Sherwood
Robert Emmet Sherwood (4 April 1896 – 14 November 1955) American playwright, editor, and screenwriter.
Born in New Rochelle, New York, he was the son of the prominent American portrait artist Rosina Emmet Sherwood. He was the great-great-grandson of the former New York State Attorney General Thomas Addis Emmet and the great-great-nephew of the notable Irish nationalist Robert Emmet who was executed for high treason in an abortive rebellion attempt against the British. His aunts included the notable American portrait artists Lydia Field Emmet, Jane Emmet de Glehn and his second cousin was artist Ellen Emmet Rand.
Robert Emmet Sherwood was educated at Milton Academy and then Harvard University. He fought with the Canadian Black Watch in Europe during World War I and was wounded. After his return to the U.S., he began working as a movie critic for such magazines as Life and Vanity Fair.
Sherwood was one of the original members of the Algonquin Round Table. He was close friends with Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley, who were on the staff of Vanity Fair with Sherwood when the Round Table began meeting in 1919. Author Edna Ferber was also a good friend.
At six feet, eight inches, Sherwood was a giant of a man. Dorothy Parker, who was five-feet four-inches, once commented that when she, Sherwood, and Robert Benchley (who was six feet tall) would walk down the street together, they looked like "a walking pipe organ." When asked at a party how long he had known Sherwood, Robert Benchley stood on a chair, raised his hand to the ceiling, and said, "I knew Bob Sherwood back when he was only this tall."
Sherwood's first play, The Road to Rome in 1927 was greeted with success. The play is a comedy concerning Hannibal's botched invasion of Rome. One of the underlying themes of this work is the stupidity of war. This is a recurrent motif in many of his dramatic works including his Idiot's Delight of 1936 which won the first of his four Pulitzer Prizes.
In addition to his work for the stage, Sherwood also was in demand in Hollywood. He began writing for the silver screen in 1926. While some of his work is uncredited, his films include many adaptations of his plays.
Robert E. Sherwood worked with Alfred Hitchcock and Hitchcock's assistant Joan Harrison in Rebecca (1940). Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison wrote the screenplay for Rebecca. Robert E. Sherwood's close friends Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker also worked with Alfred Hitchcock. Robert Benchley played Stebbins in Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent (1940). Alfred Hitchcock allowed Benchley to write his own lines for his character Stebbins. And Dorothy Parker worked with Alfred Hitchcock as screenwriter in Saboteur (1942).
With Europe in the midst of World War II, Sherwood changed his anti-war stance and supported American involvement against the Third Reich. His 1940 play, There Shall Be No Night told the story of the Russian invasion of Finland. His patriotism led him to work as a speechwriter for President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He recounted this period with his book Roosevelt and Hopkins which won a Pulitzer Prize and a Bancroft Prize in 1949.
Sherwood is credited with originating the phrase which came to be shortened as the 'arsenal of democracy' and later used by Franklin Roosevelt in his speeches. Sherwood had been quoted on May 12, 1940 by the New York Times, "this country is already, in effect, an arsenal for the democratic Allies." Although the French economist, Jean Monnet had allegedly used the phrase later in 1940, "arsenal of democracy," he was urged not to use it again so Franklin Roosevelt could make use of it in his speeches.
Sherwood also served for a time as Director of the Office of War Information. He returned to dramatic writing after the war and produced his memorable script for the film The Best Years of Our Lives which was directed by William Wyler. The 1946 film explores how the lives of three servicemen have been changed after they return home from war. For this film, Sherwood was given an Academy Award for Best Screenplay.
Sherwood died of a heart attack in New York City in 1955.
- The Road to Rome (1927) - adapted into the 1927 film The Private Life of Helen of Troy
- The Love Nest (1927)
- The Queen's Husband (1928) - adapted into the 1931 film The Royal Bed.
- Waterloo Bridge (1930) - adapted into a 1931 film and two soap-operas in Brazil.
- This is New York (1930) - adapted into the 1932 film Two Kinds of Women.
- Reunion in Vienna (1931) - adapted into a 1933 film.
- Acropolis (1933)
- The Petrified Forest (1935) - adapted into 1936 film with Leslie Howard and Bette Davis.
- Tovarich (1935) - adapted into a 1937 film.
- Idiot's Delight (1936) Pulitzer Prize for Drama - adapted into 1939 film
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1938) Pulitzer Prize for Drama - adapted into 1940 film. See Abe Lincoln in Illinois (film).
- There Shall Be No Night (1940) Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
- The Rugged Path (1945)
- Small War on Murray Hill
- Sherwood, Robert E. (1948). Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History (First ed.). New York: Harper. OCLC 908375.
- Sherwood, Robert E. (1923). The Best Moving Pictures of 1922-1923, Also Who's Who in the Movies and the Yearbook of the American Screen (First ed.). Boston: Small, Maynard & Company.
- ^ Gould, Jack (May 12, 1940). The Broadway Stage Has Its First War Play. The New York Times. Quoting Robert Emmet Sherwood, "this country is already, in effect, an arsenal for the democratic Allies."
- ^ Charles K. Robinson (13 October 1961). "Letters". Time magazine. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,939230,00.html. Retrieved on 2008-12-12.
External links
- Robert E. Sherwood at the Internet Broadway Database
- Robert E. Sherwood at the Internet Movie Database


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I love this time of the year as we get varieties of fresh vegetables and fruits in the market.In this season, we get lot of fresh peas in the market, so I prepare lot of peas (matar) dishes and add peas even to simple stir fry. Green Peas paratha is a very delicious, healthy and filling breakfast. It can be served with pickles or curd.Today we will learn how to make peas paratha (matar ka paratha) following our easy stuffed peas paratha recipe.
How to prepare Peas Paratha
Makes 5 parathas
Ingredients needed
Whole wheat flour -1 cup (I used Aashirwad multigrain atta)
Fresh peas - 1/2 cup (you can use frozen also)
Onion - 1/2 cup (finely chopped)
Green chilli - 1 (finely chopped)
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
Oil - 3 tsp
Salt as required
Spice powder
Coriander powder - 1 tsp
Jeera/cumin seeds powder - 1/2 tsp
Kitchen king masala or garam masala - 1 tsp
Oil for frying parathas
Cook peas in little water, adding salt till soft. Drain the water and grind it to a coarse paste. Keep it aside.
Combine wheat flour, a pinch of salt, 1 tsp of oil, mix well and knead it into a soft dough using warm water just as you prepare for chapati. Let it sit for 15 minutes.
Meantime we will prepare the stuffing for the paratha
Heat 2 tsp of oil, add jeera seeds, when it splutters, add onion and saute nicely till it turns golden brown.
Add ginger garlic paste and saute for a few more minutes.
Add all the spice powder and needed salt. (we have already added salt to peas, so add less now)
Add the grounded peas paste and saute till all the water evaporates. Keep it aside.
Now both the dough and the peas stuffing is ready.
Take a lemon sized ball from the dough, flatten it and roll it out into a small circle, keep a tbsp of stuffing, gather all the sides and seal it completely.
Then roll it out again with the stuffing (with sealed part on the top) dusting wheat flour. (2nd picture above)
Heat a griddle or tawa, put the rolled out parathas on it, when bubbles appear on the surface, apply a tsp of oil and flip it over to the other side.
Cook both sides well till golden specs appear and serve hot with chutney or pickle or curd.
More Peas (matar) Recipes
Aloo Matar
Peas Pulao
Matar Paneer
Paneer Pulao
Cabbage stir fry (with peas)
Ways to include peas in out diet
You can add peas to simple stir fry, any kootu, upma, pulao, biryani, make stuffed parathas, sundals etc.
More Paratha recipes
(You will find step by step pictures and detailed explanation on how to make paratha in my aloo paratha recipe and gobi paratha recipe. Kindly check it out)
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'Out of the Furnace': Brilliant Christian Bale as a solid guy in a shaky world
By RICHARD ROEPER Movie Columnist December 5, 2013 2:54PM
Russell Baze (Christian Bale) is out of prison and hoping to reconnect with Lena Taylor (Zoe Saldana) in "Out of the Furnace," which is set in Braddock, Pa., a town destined to slide right off the map. | Kerry Hayes~© 2012 Relativity Media photo
Russell Baze Christian Bale
Harlan DeGroat Woody Harrelson
Rodney Baze Jr. Casey Affleck
Wesley Barnes Forest Whitaker
Lena Taylor Zoe Saldana
Relativity Media presents a film directed by Scott Cooper and written by Cooper and Brad Ingelsby. Running time: 116 minutes. Rated R (for strong violence, language and drug content). Opens Friday at local theaters.
Updated: January 7, 2014 6:10AM
It's a simple enough scene, really.
Christian Bale's Russell is recently out of prison and hoping to reunite with Zoe Saldana's Lena, who has taken up with the sheriff while Russell was away. You can see by the look in Lena's eyes she's never stopped loving Russell.
What happens next should be left for you to experience. It is a scene expertly written, filmed and acted. After Lena walks away, Russell is left alone on a bridge. Without any attention-grabbing histrionics, Christian Bale plays every moment of that scene so perfectly, you feel as if you're eavesdropping on real life.
One hesitates to dive into the reference bag to say "a young Brando" when lauding a performance, but Bale is that good here. That GREAT here.
"Out of the Furnace" is one of the best movies I've seen this year. Director/co-writer Scott Cooper's second feature (his first was "Crazy Heart," which won an Oscar for Jeff Bridges) is a stark, bleak, intense drama set in a dying corner of the Rust Belt. This is a place where it always seems cold, and everyone's house is in need of repairs, and even if you're lucky enough to have a job at the mill, you know it won't be for long.
With echoes of everything from the Charles Bronson bare-knuckled fighting classic "Hard Times" to "The Deer Hunter" to "Winter's Bone," this is a story of some tough, flawed people who deep down want to do the right thing — and some tough, soulless people who will chew up and spit out anything that gets in their way.
"Out of the Furnace" is set in Braddock, Pa., in 2008. The locals barely pay attention to the visuals of Teddy Kennedy lauding Barack Obama on the TV sets in the bars, and Obama talking about "hope and change." It means nothing to them from where they're sitting, in a town destined to slide right off the map.
We open at an outdoor drive-in theater, where Woody Harrelson's Harlan DeGroat explodes in a violent rage over the smallest of perceived slights. We later learn DeGroat is the unquestioned king of a deep backwoods enclave in New Jersey — the kind of place where even law enforcement doesn't mess with the locals who have lived there for generations. Dealing meth and getting tweaked on his own supply, DeGroat is Walter White without even the beginnings of a moral compass. He is pure, fuming evil.
Bale's Russell Baze is a solid guy who's probably been in a bit of trouble here and there but is trying to walk the straight path. It's Russell's younger brother Rodney (Casey Affleck) who's the tinderbox — home from three tours of duty in Iraq, sinking deep into debt with stupid bets at the OTB, seething with rage about what he's seen in Iraq and the utter indifference he's met with upon his return.
Their mother is gone. Their father is dying. The only thing good in Russell's life is the beautiful and sweet Lena. The only thing good in Rodney's life is his brother looking out for him, which seems like it won't be nearly enough to save him.
But it's Russell who winds up doing an extended prison stint. And by the time Russell gets out, many terrible things have transpired, and he's powerless to do anything about most of these events. He missed his own best chance at a good life.
Incapable of handling a regular civilian job, Rodney turns to bare-knuckle fighting to earn cash. Rodney talks his way into a big-money payday in that backwoods Jersey town, which lands him neck-deep in DeGroat's world. The fight scenes are so brutally realistic you want to turn away, but we know there are greater, potentially fatal horrors waiting outside the ring if things don't go DeGroat's way.
What a great ensemble. Affleck is terrific. Willem Dafoe is perfectly cast as a local bar owner and bookie who's involved in all sorts of shady doings, but still has a soft spot for Russell and Rodney. Sam Shepard is stoic greatness as Russell's uncle. Forest Whitaker is, well, Forest Whitaker playing the sheriff who's with Lena and knows she'll never love him the way she loved Russell, but he's not about to give her up.
From the use of Pearl Jam's "Release" as a framing device to the breathtakingly beautiful, 35mm Kodak cinematography from Masanobu Takayanagi, Cooper makes one brilliant choice after another. Even the smallest detail, e.g., the way everyone at a small dinner gathering heads into the kitchen to scrape the plates and put the dishes into the sink, feels just right. And when Cooper directly borrows a couple of moments, one from "The Deer Hunter" and one from "The Silence of the Lambs," it feels like homage, not easy ripoff. He's earned those scenes.
I was surprised to learn Bale is only about a year older than Affleck. The age difference between the brothers they play is a few more years than that, but we can tell Russell has been looking out for Rodney forever, and Rodney admires the hell out of his older brother — and yet can't help but create situations that could kill one or both of them.
Bale has given a number of memorable performances, but this just might be his best work to date. The Wales-born actor looks, sounds and comports himself like someone who's been living in the same Pennsylvania town his whole life, who knows he's probably going to die in that town, and just wants to make the best of it. Bale strikes so many different notes and hits each with the same precision, whether Russell is enjoying a tender moment with his girlfriend, using his charm to get Rodney out of a jam or methodically doing what has to be done with the proverbial s--- hits the proverbial fan.
It's as good as any performance I've seen all year.


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Project Mismanagement, Pentagon Style
Anyone who has watched a Vietnam War movie has seen an M113. The squat, boxy vehicle, which looks like a tank without a gun was the United States' Armored Personnel Carrier of choice for much of the Cold War era. It was flexible, able to traverse rough terrain, afford a dozen or so troops protection from small arms fire, mines and small projectile weapons, and could even float for water crossing maneuvers. It was a proven, dependable workhorse.
As weapons systems advanced and the Soviet threat continued to evolve through the 1960s and 1970s, the U.S. military decided it needed a replacement for the M113 APC. What it desired was a faster, more maneuverable vehicle for the battlefield of the future. That was the conception of the M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle, named for World War II General Omar Bradley, who played an instrumental role in liberating Europe and defeating Nazi Germany and the Axis powers.
Bradley, who served under then-General Dwight Eisenhower and commanded General George Patton, was known for being a pragmatic and disciplined leader who deftly managed the battlefield and acted in the best interest of the common soldier. The Pentagon's choice to memorialize the new APC after Bradley would ultimately prove ironic given the mismanagement of the entire development program.
The Army and Marine Corps had two simple requirements for the Bradley: protection for soldiers, and the speed to keep up with the new M1 Abrams tank – which moved over the terrain at 60 miles per hour, an unthinkable pace for a machine with eighteen inches of steel armor, weighing in at fifty tons.
Upsetting the plans were innovations made by the Soviet Union, which in the 1970s introduced an armored personnel carrier known as BPM infantry fighting vehicles. These weapon systems had the armor of a conventional personnel carrier, plus the speed of a scout vehicle and a weapon slightly bigger than a large-caliber machine gun.
The Soviet's BPM deployment greatly distressed the Pentagon -- although some people would say it gave the Pentagon just the excuse it needed to turn the Bradley over to its corrupt, inefficient and wasteful procurement system. Planners submitted a series of change orders to modify the Bradley to counter the Soviet threat and its perceived capabilities.
On top of its original requirements, the Bradley was given a 20-millimeter gun for firepower and a TOW anti-tank weapon, giving it the ability to take on the Soviet T-72 and T-80 tanks, which outnumbered NATO forces by five to one in quantity.
Everything seemed perfect, except for a few things. The Bradley's thin aluminum armor didn't provide the strength to stand toe-to-toe with a Soviet tank. The addition of guns made the Bradley taller, negating its use as a scout vehicle. Its heavier weight made water-crossing operations impossible without the addition of a complicated floatation system. And the weaponry and ammunition took up so much space that the vehicle could only carry five or six troops, limiting its utility as a personnel carrier.
Worse, the military never field-tested the Bradley prior to deployment in 1983. A combination of weak armor, poorly placed fuel tanks and high profile made it highly susceptible to detection and destruction. It wasn't until 1985 that the first live-fire tests reveal serious protection deficiencies. And problems with the swimming system resulted in several soldiers drowning during training exercises. Testing and post-deployment experiences forced the Pentagon to spend billions of dollars in retrofits to give the Bradley "improved survivability."
With a development cost greater than $10 billion, an average unit price of $3 million, and a post-deployment price tag of $5 billion in improvements, the Bradley is one of the Pentagon's greatest blunders of all time.
Dismissing the Bradley as military and bureaucratic ineptitude is easy. In fact, it's a classic example of what happens when you put technology ahead of the objective. Pentagon brass was so enamored with what they could do with the weapons and machinery that they overlooked the practical implications of their decision.
While Bradley project managers and Pentagon procurement officers believed they were acting in concert, in reality there was a lack of communications, created by a blinding desire to field a new system. While military and government procurements are distinct from project and operational management in the private sector, the lesson of the Bradley is the need for convergence and for placing the mission objective ahead of the technology.
Even the best intentions of the best leaders can leave the organization befuddled. Perhaps, however, we should cut them some slack. Leaders today are charged with creating organizations that are agile and resilient, global in perspective yet sensitive to a single customer whim, constantly adding new ventures while perfecting the old, and assessing a glittering array of new technologies while holding the line on spending.
Many challenges stand in the way of government, businesses and corporate leaders, and overcoming these challenges requires new perspectives, thinking and management framework that come together in a focused plan of action. Some of these management framework and tools will be used by the C-suite, others by project teams, but their efforts will mesh together and unify the enterprise top to bottom in its decision-making and execution. This is business-technology management convergence.
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Alexandr Dolgopolov
- Age: 26 (07.11.1988)
- Birthplace: Kiev, Ukraine
- Residence: Monte-Carlo, Monaco
- Height: 5'11" (180 cm)
- Weight: 157 lbs (71 kg)
- Plays: Right-handed
- Turned Pro: 2006
- Website: http://www.alexdolgopolov.com
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Began playing at age three...Nickname is "Dolgo"...Mother, Elena, was an ex-gymnast who earned a gold and silver medal at the European Championships...Father, Oleksandr, was a former ATP pro and coached Alexandr from a young age until 2008...Also has a younger sister, Maria...Speaks Russian and English...Hobbies include car racing, driving his Subaru STIL and making internet games, which he is paid for...Favourite surface is clay...Ambition is to be ranked No. 1...Identifies his father as the most inspirational person in his life for helping become the tennis player that he is...If he wasn't a tennis player he would be Rally Car Driver as he loves to race...Made Davis Cup debut in September 2006. Official Twitter Account
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2013 -- The top Ukrainian finished out of Top 50 for 1st time since '09 and best results were SF in Winston-Salem (l. to Monfils) and 4 QF – in Brisbane (l. to No. 19 Nishikori), Memphis (l. to Matosevic), Munich (l. to Dodig) and Tokyo (l. to del Potro)…In Grand Slam play, reached 3R at Wimbledon (l. to No. 4 Ferrer), 2R at US Open (l. to Youzhny) and 1R at Roland Garros (l. to Tursunov) and Australian Open (l. to Monfils)…Compiled records of 17-16 on hard, 4-8 on clay and 3-3 on grass. Went 0-6 vs. Top 10 opponents and highest-ranked win came over No. 21 Anderson in Montréal…
2012 -- The top Ukrainian finished in Top 20 for 2nd straight season, highlighted by 2nd career ATP World Tour title in Washington (d. Haas). Reached finals in Brisbane (l. to Murray) in opening week of season and Valencia (l. to Ferrer) in October...Also made SF on clay in Umag (l. to eventual champion Cilic) and QF at ATP Masters 1000 Madrid (l. to del Potro) and Winston-Salem (l. to Querrey)...In the Grand Slams, advanced to 3R at Australian Open (l. to Tomic in 5 sets) and US Open (l. to Wawrinka)...Compiled records of 26-17 on hard, 7-6 on clay and 1-2 on grass...Went 1-7 vs. Top 10 opponents with lone win coming over No. 5 Tsonga in Madrid...
2011 -- The 1st player from Ukraine to finish in Top 20 since Andrei Medvedev was No. 16 in 1995…Season highlights included maiden ATP World Tour title in Umag (d. Cilic) on July 31 and Grand Slam QF at Australian Open (d. No. 4 Soderling, l. to Murray)…Also runner-up in Costa do Sauipe (l. to Almagro)...Overall, reached QF or better 9 times…Also SF in Acapulco (l. to Ferrer) in Nice (l. to Hanescu) and Metz (l. to Tsonga)...Went 2-8 vs. Top 10 opponents and compiled marks of 22-16 on hard, 15-10 on clay and 1-3 on grass…Earned a career-high $1,196,499...In doubles, captured 1st ATP World Tour title at Indian Wells (w/Malisse), winning all 5 matches in a Match TB (d. Bryans in 2R, Federer-Wawrinka in final)...
2010 -- The No. 2 player from Ukraine (behind Stakhovsky) climbed over 80 spots to finish in Top 50 for the first time, highlighted by personal-high 21 match wins…Reached career-high No. 39 on July 19…Enjoyed Challenger success in first three months with title in Meknes and finals in Tangier and Marrakech…Had 17-4 match record in Challengers…Reached 3rd RD at Roland Garros (d. Clement, F. Gonzalez; l. to Almagro) and followed with first career SF in Eastbourne (l. to Llodra)…Also 2nd RD at Wimbledon, losing to Tsonga 10-8 in fifth set…Second half of season highlights included QFs in Umag, Moscow and St. Petersburg…Earned a career-high $446,248...
2009 -- Won 3 Challenger titles in Orbello (d. Andujar), Como (d. Aranguren) and Trnava (d. Ouahab)…He posted his 1st ATP World Tour match win in St. Petersburg in October (d. Ginepri)...
2007 -- Captured 1st Challenger title at Sassuolo (d. Ruiz-Cadenas)...
Reached Buenos Aires SFs (w/Starace), losing to Granollers-Lopez…On 23 February, lost to No. 1 Nadal in the Rio de Janeiro final; dropped to 2-4 in ATP World Tour finals…Beat No. 4 Ferrer in SFs...Reached Acapulco SFs (l. to Anderson in three sets)…
On 10 March, recorded biggest win of his career in 76(5) third set win over World No. 1 Nadal in ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Indian Wells 3R; had led 5-2 in deciding set…Now 2-20 lifetime against Top 20 opponents on hard courts…Reached SFs, losing to Federer in two sets…
Fell in Roland Garros 1R (l. to Granollers in 5 sets)...On 12 June, withdrew in London-Queen's Club 2R (w/Gulbis) due to a right leg injury…The next day, withdrew ahead of singles QF versus Dimitrov due to a right thigh injury…On 17 June, withdrew from Eastbourne due to a groin injury…
Strikes 42 aces in Wimbledon 2R win vs. Becker; previous high was 29 aces in 2010 Wimbledon 2R (l. to Tsonga in 5 sets)...Lost to Dimitrov in five sets in 3R...
After Hamburg 3r loss to Kamke on 17 July, underwent right knee surgery and missed the next two months…Returned in Tokyo on 29 September, losing to Sock in 1R…
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I'm trying to finish a Baltic porter recipe,
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1/2 lb of CaraBohemian
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I'm thinking of using 4lbs of pale malt dme to round it out.
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I loved cars since I was about 11 years old. And now I have my brother hooked. I love all cars but i'm really fond with the old school cars. I love Mopars and Chevys don't mind owning a ford (esp. a 1970 Boss 302 Mustang!!).
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You'll love this Modern Lovey Baby Afghan that makes a great baby blanket or adult throw. Add a touch of color to any room using this striped, eight-row blanket. This is one of those cute knitting patterns for babies that you can't miss. Two additional rows of knitting help to create a nice clean border around this classic piece shown in two versions below.
Version 1 (left) and Version 2 (right):
Approx 47" x 34"/119.5cm x /86.5cm (64" x 55"/162.5cm x 139.5cm)
- Stitch.Rock.Love. Sheep(ish) from Caron (70% Acrylic/30% Wool; 3oz/85g,167yds/153m)
- Variation 1
- #0007 Hot Pink(ish) (A): 3 balls
- #0011 Taupe(ish) (B): 2 balls
- #0020 Chartreuse(ish) (C): 2 balls
- #0009 Espresso(ish) (D): 2 balls
- #0017 Tuquoise(ish) (E): 2 balls
- #0015 Red(ish) (F): 2 balls
- Variation 2
- #0001 Black(ish) (A): 3 balls
- #0002 Gun Metal(ish) (B): 2 balls
- #0003 Grey(ish) (C): 2 balls
- #0004 White(ish) (D): 2 balls
- #0016 Teal(ish) (E): 2 balls
- #0005 Plum(ish) (F): 2 balls
- One pair size U.S. 8 (5mm) needles or size to obtain gauge
- Cable needle (cn)
- Yarn needle
In Garter stitch, 16 sts and 32 rows = 4"/10cm
With B, CO 182 (248) sts
Rows 1 and 3 (RS): Knit.
Row 2: Purl.
Row 4: P1, *p1 wrapping yarn 3 times around needle; rep from * to last st, p1.
Row 5: K1, *sl next 3 sts onto cn and hold in front allowing extra wraps to
drop, k3 allowing extra wraps to drop, k3 from cn; rep from * to last st, k1.
Rows 6-8: Knit.
Join A. Rep Rows 1-6 twice. Rep Rows 7-8.
Join C. Rep Rows 1-8.
Join D. Rep Rows 1-8.
Join E. Rep Rows 1-6 three times. Rep Rows 7-8.
Join F. Rep Rows 1-8.
Cont in this manner, changing colors and width of color stripes as desired
making sure to work Rows 7 and 8 before each color change, until piece
measures approx 32 (53)".
With RS facing and A, PU sts evenly along CO edge.
Row 1 (WS): Knit.
Row 2: Kf&b of first st, knit to last st, kf&b of last st.
Rep Rows 1 and 2, six more times. BO.
Rep border along BO edge, then along each side edge.
Using yarn needle, seam together border at corners. Weave in ends.
Block, if necessary.
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I am dedicating this post to my lovely gourmet husband, Billy. If it wasn't for his wanting to make mustard I probably never would have tried this myself. He had been talking about making mustard for quiet some time so for Christmas I gave him a couple different kind of seeds and a bottle of fancy white wine vinegar (pretty much all you need to make mustard). Well, since I am not a very patient person, I decided one day to make the mustard while Billy was at work — it'd be a nice surprise when he got home! Unfortunately, I had to wait (did I already tell you I am not a very patient person?) as the seeds, vinegar and water have to sit in the refrigerator for a good 48 hours before you can actually make the mustard…. Well, 48 hours later I was blending up some pretty snazzy mustard!! It was all very exciting. Who knew, it did pay off to be patient after all.
The most difficult part of this recipe is getting good quality mustard seeds. I am lucky to have The Spice House just down the road who fortunately carry a nice selection of seeds. For this recipe, I used both yellow mustard seeds (whole) and brown mustard seeds (crushed). You can use just one type if you like, whole or crushed — it's up to you. I like the combination of seeds. By using both I believe it adds texture and flavor.
Begin by adding 1 ounce of yellow mustard seeds and 1 ounce of brown mustard seeds (or 2 ounces of the same kind) to a jar. Add 2.5 ounces of good quality white wine vinegar and 2 ounces of water. Seal the jar, give it a good shake and place the jar in your refrigerator for the next 48 hours. Every so often during those 48 hours give the jar a good shaking, mixing up the liquid and seeds. Not sure if this adds anything to the quality of the mustard but it is satisfying knowing you're doing something while you wait.
After 48 hours, pour the mixture into a food processor and blend until desired texture of your mustard — a little less if you like coarser mustard or longer if you want it creamy. That's it! Your mustard is ready to eat. Wasn't that easy?
One last word on this mustard: the day you make your mustard will be its spiciest. As it ages in the refrigerator it mellows. So if you like it spicy eat it right away. If you like it more sedated just wait a day or two. Store in a sealed jar in the refrigerator for up to 2-3 weeks.
1 ounce yellow mustard seeds
1 ounce brown mustard seeds
2.5 ounces white wine vinegar
2 ounces water
Makes roughly one 5 ounce jar of mustard


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This pattern is part of the Romi's Pins & Lace Club, 2014 eBook and will not be released as a single pattern until 2015.
If you are using stitch markers, please note that they will move. My test knitters have made excellent notes here and here. Many thanks!
Chart A, Row 6, written instructions, should read: k1 tbl 2 times, p4, purl to 13 sts before end, p7tog, p4, k1 tbl 2 times
Chart E, Row 15, written instructions, should read: k1 tbl 2 times, YO, k2tog, YO, k1 tbl, nupp7, k1, YO, cdd, k1, k2tog, k2, YO, k1 tbl, k1, nupp7, k1, k1 tbl, YO, k2, ssk, k2tog, k2, YO, k1 tbl, k1, nupp7, k1, k1 tbl, YO, k2 13 times, ssk, YO, k1, nupp7, k1 tbl, YO, ssk, YO, k1 tbl 2 times
2014, year five of my lace and shawl pin club, is here! The club has four installments, sent starting January, April, July and October 15th. This eBook is the pattern only version of the club and will be released between the 25th and 29th of January, April, July and October. Do not purchase this if you have already purchased an option including yarn and or pins from the Designs by Romi site. The 2014 patterns will all be delivered via Ravelry as an eBook - much like my small shawl subscriptions. The purchase price includes the full year - 4 patterns plus a holiday surprise. The eBook will be available for purchase throughout the 2014 club year, but the single patterns will not be released for sale until 2015.
The patterns you receive will be brand new designs. For those of you who would like to join me, there will always be knit-alongs for the patterns in my Ravelry group. All patterns will be designed and written by me - designer of Brandywine, Maia Shoulderette, Fiori di Sole, Muir, Bluebird and others. Club purchases are non-refundable.


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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Anyone looking for an economic tailwind needs to look at our handy chart on the spot price of oil.
In particular, look at the far right side of the graph. There are two oil prices. One is the world price, based on what's charged for Brent North Sea oil in Europe. The other is the U.S. price, defined as West Texas Intermediate, or WTI.
Since 2011, there has been a pronounced difference or spread between these prices. Early this summer, it seemed to be disappearing. Now it has widened again, and is at about $15/barrel according to the chart. Analysts, like Dan Dicker, who thought WTI would surpass Brent in July, now see the gap widening.
This is an enormous economic tailwind, notes Mark Perry on the American Enterprise Institute's blog Carpe Diem.The U.S. exports oil in the form of refined product, and that now totals more than 3 million barrels a day. In constant 2009 dollars, Perry expects that to exceed $7 billion this year, which would help limit the trade deficit.That is in addition to the natural-gas glut, which has the benchmark "Henry Hub" price staying well below $4 per thousand cubic feet all next year, according to the CME Group's future contracts, while European consumers pay over $11/mcf. The explosion in production throughout the eastern Marcellus Shale means some folks there are getting even less than the Henry Hub price. Energy price bulls remain bullish. Claude Salhani has written at OilPrice.com that Saudi Arabia and Iran may be close to war. Saudi intelligence chief Prince Bandar told the country's Al Akhbar news service the country is shifting away from the U.S. But the link between oil prices and economic growth seems to be broken now. In the past, crude prices were likely to jump on even the hint of better times. Now the Energy Information Agency sees U.S. fuel demand as flat while drivers buy more fuel-efficient cars. How can this be bad? Well, fracking costs more than just sticking a pipe in the ground. Fracked wells lose their productive capacity quickly. That means the margin between costs and prices is narrower than it once was, and falling prices narrow it further.
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