Knives and forks were already out when Bloomberg reported the company had lost $204 million.
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She worked for several months in restaurants, but felt embarrassed by having to polish knives and forks.
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Spoons, knives and forks are no longer where they used to be, so you have to think.
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An artist of goat poems and wicked knives and forks fearlessly embracing the absurd, singing with abandon.
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The fighters, about half of whom wear masks, even use plastic knives and forks to hurt their opponents.
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To ward off injury, the Cordones locked up their knives and forks and put away glass picture frames.
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They ate pizza in Times Square, though I entirely missed the big scoop: both used knives and forks.
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Casting his mind back, Klopp mimed them putting down their knives and forks, eyes bright with intense concentration.
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With their crisp white shirts and their knives and forks in the proper hands, they were too superior for anything.
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It's a place where businessmen in custom suits wield knives and forks as they dig into pastries served on silver-plated stands.
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When she's been traveling for a week, she comes into the office, looks for shoes under desks, plastic knives and forks in drawers.
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To protect your hands from being poked, the company also recommends placing knives and forks in the holder with their handles facing up.
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It is priced at £7.5 million, and the sale includes the furnishings — the tables, chairs, knives and forks, even the Jo Malone body lotion in the bathrooms.
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If he wants to go on making knives and forks, he has been told that he must move to more modern facilities in a less populated area.
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It emerged yesterday that single-use cups, plates, knives, and forks are to be banned throughout the country in a bid to reduce plastic production and pollution from waste.
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Unfortunately, while the food itself is appetizing, the space allotted to the buffet is not large, and some of the high-style serving utensils are more like chic little sculptures than functional knives and forks.
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I can't for the life of me think why the usual armory of knives and forks had been passed over for these snub-nosed spoons, until I notice the second thing: nobody is eating their skins. Nobody.
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It was a joy to be served on proper crockery with silver cutlery (including separate knives and forks for each course) and a real napkin, however there was a small stain on the grey material covering my tray.
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There are so many antiquated parts of the White House—like, there are chiefs of protocol who are there to monitor how many inches knives and forks should be away from one another at state dinners—but it's a necessity.
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For reference, you may remember when Donald Trump took Sarah Palin to the Times Square Famous Famiglia for a slice back in 2011, and the pair proceeded to eat their pizza with knives and forks to the horror of onlookers.
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"It always made me laugh that, you know, one day, the Queen would be at an estate banquet, and she'd be eating off Meissen china from the late 1800s, beautiful hand-painted Meissen china, with gold and silver gilt knives and forks," McGrady said.
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His photos—of cherries in orifices and knives and forks poised above delicate areas, of nude women lying on vertiginous ledges, of genitalia placed into all manner of compromising situations—set our idea of the human body askew and celebrate the banality of sex.
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She was especially taken by Thek's installation "The Personal Effects of the Pied Piper," which comprised small bronze sculptures of the piper's treasures and possessions (knives and forks, pipes of various sizes, a book ravaged by rodents), scattered across the museum floor: part hobo camp, part archeological site.
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Featured inventions that did not change our lives included a fold-up car that fitted into a suitcase, numerous gadgets such as a miracle chopping board for the kitchen, and collapsible knives and forks. Members of the public frequently sent in their ideas.
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The hanger sword is marked 'Kilmares' and is marked 'DB' for the maker or cutler, David Biggart, who also made knives and forks. This sword is highly ornate with the grip made of tortoiseshell with floral patterns in extremely fine twisted silver wire.Capwell, Tobias (2007). The Real Fighting Stuff.
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Downing also added: "Ringo Starr actually owned the house when we were there, so we would go around to see what Ringo had that we could put on our record. So I guess it's Ringo's knives and forks that created the true "Metal Gods" sound, which is pretty funny to realize".
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Knives and forks are not required; the pastry is thick enough to pick up and eat in the upright position without crumbling or getting soggy. Microwaving the pie will negate these qualities, making the pie pastry soft. A Clark's Tash is the nickname given to burning the upper lip with the hot filling.
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In China, Pizza Hut () used an altered business model, offering a fine-dining atmosphere with knives and forks and using an expanded menu catering to Chinese tastes.Chan, Savio and Michael Zakkour. China's Super Consumers: What 1 Billion Customers Want and How to Sell it to Them. John Wiley & Sons, 2014. Online: p. 96.
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The Mineralogical Record, Jakobson, Mark, May 1, 2008 Grabill was also in the electroplating business.Salida Mail; Volume V, Number 49, May 8, 1885 "ELECTROPLATING. Gold, silver, copper and nickel plating of jewelry, knives and forks and all kinds of work done on short notice and satisfaction guaranteed by J. C. H. GRABILL, Buena Vista, Colo." Grabill was a Templar.
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She made boxes and cruet sets, but particularly cutlery. After WW1 she realised the likely demand for fine stainless steel table knives since the servants to polish the previously used silver knives no longer existed. She made knives and forks with steel elements forged in Sheffield to her design, to which she added her distinctive pique handlesl Cobb was a member of the Art Workers Guild.
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The school taught English, French, Latin, music, art, the Bible, moral philosophy, astronomy, botany, mathematics, domestic science, and etiquette. While it was secular, Masters had a religious tone; it catered exclusively to female students. The finishing school had a series of unusual rules that has since been removed from the school's handbook. One of the most famous rules is that the students were expected to eat bananas with knives and forks.
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At one dinner guests dined on gold dishes with gold knives and forks, while at another, the room was adorned with objets d'art from important collections. Members came from the arts, business, politics as well as other professions. Many of the members resided at the Waldorf Towers. "Lucullans" were characterized as the "most sensitive and cultivated palates in New York, a sometimes questionable center of civilization and sophistication".
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I think of it as melodious, softening the noises of the knives and forks at dinner, not dominating them, not imposing itself. It would fill up those heavy silences that sometime fall between friends dining together. It would spare them the trouble of paying attention to their own banal remarks. And at the same time it would neutralize the street noises which so indiscreetly enter into the play of conversation.
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The second stage takes place during lunch break at the mess hall, where the counselors throw knives and forks at Bart. Another game of capture the flag follows in the next stage as the afternoon activity. While playing, Bart must avoid counselors, bullies, killer hornets and traps set out for the escaped madman Mort. The fourth stage is dinner break and is the same as the lunch break stage.
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Guests dined at tables set with tablecloths imported from Scotland, using Haviland & Co. Limoges porcelain china, silver-handled knives and forks manufactured by Reed & Barton, and Bohemian glassware. Cut-glass flower vases, finger bowls, and water bottles were used for serving. Diners sat in high-backed leather chairs. At breakfast, the waiters wore brown cutaway jackets, vests, and pants with a gold stripe, while in the evening they changed into black tuxedos.
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A variety of eating utensils have been used by people to aid eating when dining. Most societies traditionally use bowls or dishes to contain food to be eaten, but while some use their hands to deliver this food to their mouths, others have developed specific tools for the purpose. In Western cultures, cutlery items such as knives and forks are the traditional norm, while in much of the East chopsticks are more common. Spoons are ubiquitous.
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Peugeot is a French manufacturer founded by Jean Pequignot Peugeot, a 19th-century manufacturer of water mills. Using the mills' profits, Peugeot expanded with a steelworks in Montbéliard, which Jean Peugeot ran with a colleague and his two brothers. The company's trademark, a lion, was created in 1858 by an engraver, Justin Blazer, who lived near the factory. The company turned their steel into knives and forks, hydraulic equipment and, from 1882, bicycles, sold as Cycles Peugeot.
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Afterwards Farmer and the three children are shown holding placards with the words "Maman a tort". Following another verse Farmer's severed head is pictured on a plate on a table in front of the children who are holding knives and forks. Farmer is again shown in blue and cries before being slapped in the face. A low-angle shot of Farmer shows her readjusting the strap of her nightgown and is intercut with images of her in silhouette.
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The Moulin de Mougins is a celebrated restaurant in France, situated in a 16th-century mill (moulin) in the inland French Riviera town of Mougins. Founding chef Roger Vergé made the restaurant's name renowned with his novel and light Cuisine de Soleil. The Moulin is technically classified as an auberge or inn, as it has a couple of guest rooms. As of 30 August 2009, the Moulin was rated four "knives and forks" in the Michelin Guide.
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Scott also competed in a number of athletic events organised by the Civil Service; she claimed to have won the 100m sprint sponsored by the Ministry of Labour four years in a row. In a photograph, taken in 1929, Scott appears in her MLAC uniform surrounded by the fruits of her athletic career: at least six medals, four trophies, and other prizes including a tea set. The oldest surviving prize is a set of fish knives and forks in a box marked 'E.Scott 1st 100 yards 1928'.
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Chopsticks and Chinese-style spoons are used for noodle dishes, although noodle salads are more likely to be eaten with just a spoon. Knives and forks are used rarely in homes but will always be provided for guests and are available in restaurants and hotels. Drinks are not often served with the meal and, instead, the usual liquid accompaniment is in the form of a light broth or consommé served from a communal bowl. Outside of the meal, the Burmese beverage of choice is light green tea, yay nway gyan ().
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The book is a fantasy, peppered with aphorisms ("Sudden prayers make God jump"), and tells the story of the title character's kingdom and of his battle with the nefarious Weedking. It was followed in 1971 by a sequel, Wintersol, about the secret criminal nature of Father Christmas. Both books were praised for their elegant writing, wit and wordplay, and especially for their sheer invention. Later publications included a cartoon in the Times Educational Supplement, a wheeled bird named Wokker, and books of aphorisms, the largest being Flick Knives and Forks in 1982.
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He was also to announce if champagne was to be brought to the next dinner, so a member would know to bring wine or not the next time. #Duties of Secretary and Treasurer: They shall keep records of the proceedings, take charge of funds, do accounts receivable and accounts payable according to vote of the club members. The Treasurer was to also keep records of debts due. #Duties of Members: Each member was to contribute at least one substantial dish for the club dinner and to bring no fewer than two knives and forks, two tumblers, two wine glasses, and two dinner plates.
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Pitt Rivers provided "crockery, knives and forks for picnickers, gratis", as well as "chairs, tables and dumb waiters" and accommodation for 20 horses.Desmond Hawkins The Grove Diaries: The Rise and Fall of an English Family, 1809–1925 1995 University of Delaware Press, 310-11 Music and entertainment was provided at the Singing Theatre, where plays were performed by workers from the estate, and poetry recitals given. A band was provided on Sunday afternoons during summer. Thousands of Vauxhall lights, hanging glass lamps lit by candles, illuminated the gardens in the evening, when there was open-air dancing.
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White remained determined to gain his third Michelin star, and to achieve this, he sought to emulate and surpass the food and service at Pierre Koffman's three Michelin star restaurant La Tante Claire. White worked 14/15-hour days for six days a week, expecting similar hours from those chefs under him, with the restaurant only closed on Sundays. After White won his third Michelin star in 1995, he found a new obsession. While 54 restaurants across Europe had three stars at the time, there was a further rating system used by Michelin called the knives and forks.
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Brian Eno's concept of ambient music builds upon a concept composer Erik Satie called "furniture music". This means music that is intended to blend into the ambient atmosphere of the room rather than be directly focused upon. Like Satie's notion of music that could "mingle with the sound of the knives and forks at dinner" Discreet Music was created to play in, and blend with, the subtle background audio of various, or any given, situation. The inspiration for this album began when Eno was left bed-ridden in a hospital by an automobile accident and was given an album of eighteenth- century harp music.
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With the passing of the 18th and 19th amendments to the U.S. Constitution, in 1919 and 1920, respectively, the traditional men-only, beer-soaked format of the beefsteak began to change. Politicians began including newly enfranchised women voters in their beefsteak banquets after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, and with the attendance of women came corresponding social niceties. Cocktails, popularized by illicit drinkers during Prohibition, replaced pitchers of beer, and "fruit cups[ ] and fancy salads" were soon added to beefsteak menus. Orchestras were hired in place of old-fashioned brass bands and storytellers, and the long- forbidden knives and forks began to appear on beefsteak tables.
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Belvoir Castle in 2006 Belvoir Castle is owned by the Dukes of Rutland, relatives of Norwich, who remembers Christmas-time dinners of 35–40 guests, and refers to children in a painting by James Jebusa Shannon as aunts and uncles. A punch bowl in the painting, large enough for one of the "aunts" to be sitting on, was bought in 1682 and is the earliest of its kind in Britain. An even more important piece is the silver-gilt ewer and basin set with carnelians or agates, which dates from 1581–82, when, before knives and forks were generally used, handwashing after a meal was necessary. It is possibly the finest work of art in the castle.
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But before getting killed, Shunpei is cornered into his room, and as the toy was about to strike, the teddy bear Shunpei's grandpa gave him comes to life, and protects Shunpei against the enemy. Shunpei is frightened of the fact that Hyde came to life at first, but Hyde quickly calms him down and explains how Shunpei is the number one target of every magician in the world. At this moment, the stuffed animal from earlier is still alive, and ruthlessly attacks Hyde with knives and forks. Hyde is at a disadvantage because his only weapon is in his back, and he can't reach his back himself, meaning he needs Shunpei to do it for him.
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Four months after moving the restaurant to the Oak Room, the listing for the restaurant was updated in the 1998 Michelin Guide to feature five red knives and forks in addition to three Michelin stars, the highest possible rating available in the guide. Following the decision to retire, White gave back his Michelin stars as of 23 December 1999 and asked not to be featured in the guide any more. In doing so, he praised Michelin's faith in him, saying "Even during my wilder years they ignored press reports and simply judged me on my cooking." A year later, and the Oak Room was named a one Michelin star restaurant under Reid.
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Since Gulliver is too small to use their huge chairs, beds, knives and forks, the Queen commissions a small house to be built for him so that he can be carried around in it; this is referred to as his "travelling box". Between small adventures such as fighting giant wasps and being carried to the roof by a monkey, he discusses the state of Europe with the King of Brobdingnag. The King is not happy with Gulliver's accounts of Europe, especially upon learning of the use of guns and cannons. On a trip to the seaside, his traveling box is seized by a giant eagle which drops Gulliver and his box into the sea where he is picked up by sailors who return him to England.
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Accumulated income by the end of 1996 was close to £11million. How it all started: At a casual dinner just before Christmas 1985 guests discussed a recent fundraising event to raise funds for a dishwasher so that patients on the HIV ward at the then St Stephen’s Hospital in Chelsea might replace paper plates and plastic knives and forks with proper crockery and utensils – such was the level of fear about this virus. Some of the guests had been in the USA that summer and had observed the awakening discussions that become the community response in that country. Shortly thereafter one of the founders was tested HIV+ and challenged the other people at that first dinner do something about it in the UK. And so CRUSAID was born.
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A table setting for an eight-course meal. It includes a butter spreader resting on a crystal stand; a cocktail fork, soup spoon, dessert fork, dessert spoon and an ice cream fork, as well as separate knives and forks for fish, entrée, main course and salad At Sheffield the trade of cutler became divided, with allied trades such as razormaker, awlbladesmith, shearsmith and forkmaker emerging and becoming distinct trades by the 18th century. Before the mid 19th century when cheap mild steel became available due to new methods of steelmaking, knives (and other edged tools) were made by welding a strip of steel on to the piece of iron that was to be formed into a knife, or sandwiching a strip of steel between two pieces of iron. This was done because steel was then a much more expensive commodity than iron.
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The image continues to unfold, on the other side of what appears to be a curtain separating the two sides of the mural, with pages of music, a grand piano and a table laid for a sumptious meal (many knives and forks), under which are fitted a number of books, which according to Lydia Pappas represent the works of Charles Dickens From left to right: A Tale of Two Cities; Barnaby Rudge; David Copperfield; The Old Curiosity Shop and The Pickwick Papers. The image flows on to a conductor with more music, followed by a number of men's faces watching three ballet dancers, who are dancing on a floor of musical notes, the mural ends with the image of a face looking out of a window high up in a brick wall at the top right hand corner of the mural, which has variously been suggested to be the artist himself, or a relative back in "blighty" awaiting his return.
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According to a contemporary report "nothing was heard for sometime but the rattle of knives and forks and the popping of soda- water and Ginger Ale corks, which with some good sound Claret and a little Bass, cooled by abundance of ice, formed the staple beverages." Initially, the railway was operated with great success, due to large traffic of sugar, freight and passengers. The owners did not re-invest their earnings into the maintenance of their assets, so that the track deteriorated in the 1890s by corrosion, wear, rain and floodings and was in the need of a complete overhaul. Bridge over Long Pond, St. Andrew, before re-gauging in 1898 Due to large storms in December 1896, long sections of the track became unusable because of erosion and flooding and had to be rebuilt completely. In the subsequent two years until 1898, the rail track was re-gauged to the new gauge of 762 mm (2 feet 6 inch) by the internationally recognised railway specialist Everard Calthrop.
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1735 39, 74-75, published 1 January 1735 The account stated: > A tradesman at Wakefield in Yorkshire, having put up a great number of > knives and forks in a large box ... and having placed the box in the corner > of a large room, there happened a sudden storm of thunder, lightning, &c.; > ... The owner emptying the box on a counter where some nails lay, the > persons who took up the knives, that lay on the nails, observed that the > knives took up the nails. On this the whole number was tried, and found to > do the same, and that, to such a degree as to take up large nails, packing > needles, and other iron things of considerable weight ... E. T. Whittaker suggested in 1910 that this particular event was responsible for lightning to be "credited with the power of magnetizing steel; and it was doubtless this which led Franklin in 1751 to attempt to magnetize a sewing- needle by means of the discharge of Leyden jars." Whittaker, E.T. (1910).
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Johann Abraham Wüsthof's Solingen ”Shears factory, steel and iron works” is first mentioned in local records in 1814. The factory, one of many of its kind at the time, operated out of a so-called ‘Kotten’, a small grinding workshop with water-driven grindstones. In the early years, Wüsthof worked on commission for larger firms and did not yet have its own trademark. Johann Abraham's son, Eduard Wüsthof, introduced pocket knives as a second mainstay product in 1836. The 1869 company directory listed the firm's purpose as ”Factory and warehouse for all kinds of forged shears, pocket and penknives, daggers, table knives and forks, bread, vegetable, butcher knives, etc.” Eduard's sons, Robert and Eduard, moved the company to the premises the headquarters occupy today, and built a steam engine-powered factory that began production around 1880. In 1881, Robert Wüsthof took a selection of shears and pocket knives to New York and established the company's first trade relationship with the USA. In 1895, the trident was registered with the Imperial Patent Office in Berlin as the company's trademark.
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