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Pragmatism: It works, doesn't it
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08/19/2007Scripture: Proverbs 20:14; 14:23
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Speaker: Chuck Sackett
Dr. G. Charles Sackett is minister of Madison Park Christian Church.
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"It works, doesn't it?"
August 19, 2007
We have built in us by virtue of the very world that we live in the desire to see things work, and we are an inventive people. That's one of the wonderful side effects of this particular culture in which we live.
I ran into something I have never seen before. Maybe it's because I don't have small children at home, don't care about these things nearly as much, but there is a company out there now called Baby Einstein. It was developed back in 1997. This mother, who was a teacher, discovered that there was no product available in order to help her children really learn to appreciate art and music, the cultured things in their early, early childhood. So she began to develop her own line of videos and tapes that she could sit with her children when they were in their infant stages and they would watch the video, they could hear classical music, and as you would expect in a culture that likes things like that, like ours, it was a hit. In fact, so much so that in 2001 Disney bought the product and began to make this a worldwide corporation, and they began to sell Baby Einstein products.
Until just recently everything seemed to be going along just like the American dream, and then Washington State University did some tests, and they discovered that a child who sits in front of Baby Einstein videos actually develops their language skills more slowly than those who don't. Well, at least that's the claim. And, of course, Disney, who has billions of dollars tied up in marketing Baby Einstein is now trying to counter the claim.
Only in America would we create a video that you could take a six-week to six-month old child and stick in front of hoping that they would learn something about culture. But that's us. We are like that. That's who we are. We believe things ought to work and ought to work efficiently. It's not a bad thing, and it has very positive repercussions.
I had the privilege back when I first started preaching of working at a paint brush handle factory. I haven't given a lot of thought to that in my life, but somebody has to make those things, and I now know how they do it. Don Craig, who you will read about in the bulletin insert this week, was the inventive kind of head of that company, and whenever he saw this thing happening, he would realize we could do that better, and so he figured out a way.
He invented such things as the push/pull machine. Creative name. It pushes the block in, and something on the other side reaches through and pulls it out the other side. But in the process of pushing and pulling, there are a set of lathes that come through and shape the paint brush handle into the appropriate shape. Why not? It's the American way. It's how we do things. It has its down side, however. It's wrapped up in phrases like, well, you got to do what you got to do, you know.
You'll also read in the insert about a friend of mine whose name is Tom who ran a radiator shop in the St. Louis area back in the early '80's, late '70's when the steel industry went to pot, and the owners, or at least some of the managers of the steel company, came to him and said, if you will give us a bit of a kickback under the table, we'll make sure you have all the radiators to fix that you can possibly fix. And he was challenged with a very practical question of, can I keep my company running, can I keep my business open without succumbing to that pressure.
Now, he did, by the way, not succumb to the pressure. He kept his business open because he wanted to practice what he believed would be good strong biblical ethics. But there it is. It's that basic American value of you got to make this thing work. We call it pragmatism. It's the only philosophy that actually originated in the United States. If you're interested in pursuing it, that's sometimes called utilitarianism. It's the idea that something has to be useful. In fact, we measure something's value by its ability to produce something good. Well, you know, like eliminating your hangnails.
But what in the world does that have to do with us, and why in the world would a christian care about something as innocuous as an American cultural value about creating things that are useful or things that work? Well, probably because we care about important things. The values of people, the value about God is important.
There are two texts that just illustrate this opposite set of values in the book of Proverbs. I just want to read them to you and let you think about them. The first one is Proverbs Chapter 20, Verse number 14. It sits in this context in Proverbs Chapter 20, and it just waits for you to come and think, well, yeah, that makes sense. That's how proverbial literature works. It just seems to make sense. It appears to be logical. And this one is Proverbs Chapter 20, Verse 14. "It's no good. It's no good, says the buyer, and then off he goes and boasts about his purchase."
My guess is you've been tempted to be there as a buyer. They call that bargaining. You convince the seller that what he is selling isn't worth what it appears to be worth, and then you walk off knowing that you have walked away with something of great value. Down inside of us we understand the value of bargain hunting. There is nothing wrong with that. It's that just slight sense that this one seems to be a little unethical as if you knew that what you were doing was undercutting and undermining what that other person was trying to sell.
The other side of that is the more common sense approach that Proverbs often takes, Chapter 14. This one to an American culture makes perfect sense. Proverbs 14:23: "All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty." In our very utilitarian culture that's the way we were raised. If you work, you will make it; and if you sit around and chatter all day long, you'll probably end up poor.
So what's the real question here? How does this question come to church, because that really is where the issue is? Those of us who are christians wrestle with what it means to live in a culture that is so inundated with its values that we often can't even see them because they are so much a part of us. It's kind of like asking a fish if it likes water. He doesn't even know what it is.
I would suggest to you that we win this cultural war. We win against this kind of subtle philosophy of the pragmatic, the utilitarian, when we seek to be the people of God rather than merely drawing a crowd to gather in the building. And that is a challenge, because the church after all is made up of people, and if nobody is here, it's hard to call it church. And one of the questions that we're always asking is whether or not we can do this thing in such a way that it invites people to want to be a part of it. But the question that we face in our culture is whether or not we are actually just gathering folks in the same place so that we are all in the same place at the same time, or are we actually transforming people into something different than when they came? Do we become the church, or are we merely a crowd who happens to like the entertainment?
There is a book review that I ran across this last couple of weeks, and in it Mark Devers says, "Today many local churches are adrift in a shifting current of pragmatism. They assume that the immediate felt response of non-christians is the key indicator of success." What he is suggesting is the thing that has driven the church in recent years is if you can figure out what the non-christian is interested in experiencing and offer that, they'll come.
He goes on to say, "At the same time christianity is being rapidly disowned in the culture at large. Evangelism is characterized as intolerant. Portions of biblical doctrine are classified as hate speech. In such antagonistic times the felt needs of non-christians are hardly to be considered reliable gauges, and conforming to the culture will mean a loss of the gospel itself." And then he puts this in bold print. "As long as quick numerical growth remains the primary indicator of church health, the truth will be compromised. Instead, churches must once again begin measuring success not in terms of numbers but in terms of faithfulness to the scripture."
I don't know how much people think about their prayers before they pray them. I don't even know how much other people listen to public prayers. I listen to them because I assume they are praying my prayer for me, and I want the privilege of saying, God, that's not mine, or, yes, God, I agree. But I really appreciated Rex's prayer this morning. Something about the ongoing transformation, the ongoing growth that occurs in our lives from week to week that it seems to me is getting out what God is calling for the church to do to produce in us a change, a shaping that is more than just can we gather bunches of people together, but can we, in fact, shape people's lives to change them to live in the current of the culture but not to be sucked into it.
I don't ever want you to feel like you are not in on what goes on around here, but there has been an awful lot of discussion over the last three or four months among the staff and elders what we are going to be doing over the next several months, maybe the next couple of years, in trying to help move this body to the place that we are, in fact, more faithful to the scripture; that we are, in fact, more transformed into the likeness of Jesus; take seriously more than ever our place out there, not what happens so much in here, but what actually happens out there where you live. And so we have reshaped some things to try to encourage people to take their faith with them everyplace, to make every experience an opportunity to represent yourself as a part of the people of God, and so we are going to invite you to participate in some rather interesting things.
I want to just show you a slide, if that's all right, of what's coming. This is our new Wednesday poster. You will see this. We are transforming the gathering into Inside/Out. You've seen some people wearing Inside/Out shirts. That's not because their wives didn't get it clean and they didn't have anything else so we turned it over. It's actually printed that way. You'll be seeing a lot of those. You'll, in fact, be encouraged to get one of those, either order it this Sunday or next Sunday, because we want them in time for our first service project so that you can wear them and have people notice that you're Inside/Out.
What's going to happen is a real aim at changing who we are, transforming our minds, trying to help us connect our hearts, the inside and the outside, offering our hands in acts of service, and really investing our lives in each other, particularly at the family level. Now, if you got the letter this week, you already know most of what I'm saying to you right now, that we are really interested in working to see how the inside faith works to the outside and how the outside activities work their way into the inside.
This first go round it's going to be a rhythm of four weeks in which we will do the same basic thing, at least the same kind of thing. If you'll see the next slide, this is the back of your -- this is your insert, one of your inserts in your bulletin. So you can see it a little more clearly, the transforming of our minds is going to happen here just like it would on any other given Wednesday evening that we've had in the past bringing in an outside speaker. Dan Climer is coming from New Hampshire, Restoration House. He is going to teach us the life of Christ. We are going to be exposed to the Sermon on the Mount. We are going to have an opportunity to have our minds challenged because we understand that our mind is important.
That we hope will move you to the next Wednesday when you'll have an opportunity to pray. Often those prayer experiences will not be in our building, but they will be out there where the service is going to take place. The first one in September will be here, but it will just start in here, and then it will move to four or five different stations where you will be challenged to pray about specific issues concerning our families, our city, our community, our church, our schools.
And then that last -- that next week, that third Wednesday in the cycle, we will move to the community in an act of service. This first service we are going to repeat something of what we did awhile back. We are going to go do some street cleanup. We are just going to don these Inside/Out shirts, and we are just going to make our way around town. We are going to clean the place out a little bit as an act of saying we want the inside of our heart, this faith and trust we have in Christ, to be visible to people and to work its way out in action. You are going to be encouraged starting today to sign up for that cleanup so we know how many people we can count on on that Wednesday to spend and hour and a half or two hours going through the community helping us impact our world.
The last week is one of the most exciting weeks to me, and that is an opportunity to invest in your life. Several of you have said, we're busy. In fact, you are so busy that you hardly have time to tell us that you're busy. Here is a night for you to intentionally stay home. Now, intentional is the key word. Schedule some time with your children, turn the television off unless you are going to watch a good movie together or whatever, but do this intentionally. Invite a friend over to your house that you have been wanting to have over. Those non-christian people that you have been trying to connect with that you haven't had a night because you can't find anytime in your schedule to bring them to your home, bring them into your house and have a meal with them or go out with them someplace, but make that a night of intentional investing of your life in each other, in a spouse, in a friend, in another family, in your children.
And then we'll cycle that again. We'll come back and do it again and we'll do it again. By the time this season is over we will have done some street cleanup, we will have done some work in the school system, and we will have given some gifts away and we will have distributed some food again. And if we make it into the next season because Jesus doesn't come, then we will probably go door to door and do something to help people get ready. Well, maybe we'll distribute smoke alarms. But we are going to go out there, and there is a reason for that.
This came to me this week. It's a newsletter from an organization called The Orchard Group. They plant churches. This one just happens to have been planted in New York. "This bottle of water was not your ordinary bottle of water. It wasn't Dasani, Fiji, or Aquafina. Instead it was labeled Church of Park Slope, and it was handed out to me by a perfect stranger on a day of the 7th Avenue Street Fair in Brooklyn in the summer of 2006. I'm always a big fan of bottled water, especially on hot days like this one was, and so I took it with great appreciation, was on my way to traverse the rest of the fair."
"A couple minutes later I took a look at the bottle. Along with it came a short description of the church. It sounded intriguing. At that point in my life I was jobless, churchless, apartmentless, basically altogether clueless. I came out to New York city for an internship, and I needed a community, one that was warm and welcoming and always had cookies. We are utilitarian. I received all of the above from Church of Park Slope, and I can honestly say that the cookies only get better."
"I began attending the church service. At first I was completely apprehensive. I come from a fairly strict Irish catholic background. For example, my idea of the perfect mascot is the Pope dressed like a Leprechaun. But with Catholicism I felt like I was missing something. I really wanted more in my spirituality, was looking forwards to exploring new avenues. Since the time I began attending church, talking about the Church of Park Slope, I have come to truly know some of the best people I have ever met in my life. I participate in many of the church events, including the living room comedy hour which features some of the very best comedians in New York City and is held in the church ran Postmark Cafe. I've also participated in some of churches services by welcoming everybody as church begins. Bottom line, I'm finally starting to understand what it's like to be in a community. And did I mention that I've come to know Jesus better than I've ever known him before in my life?"
"I attended the 7th Avenue Street Fair this summer, 2007. This time I was a giver, not the receiver of water bottles. I spent a couple of hours at the church tent, at the fair, and passed out hundreds of bottles of water to members of our community. The most common response from passersby was, free water, really? And I would say, yeah, it's free. I guess in that way the free water is kind of like God's love. I would say that the day was a big success. We passed out water to thirsty friends, spread the message about our church, and had fun on a beautiful day. And so now I'm fully committed to the idea of our church, to the idea of community, and most of all to the idea of free water to everyone."
Do you hear it? That's why we are making this shift, because people are not coming to us looking for answers. They are waiting for us to go to them with a bottle of water. It intrigues them enough to ask a question.
And so we invite you to participate in that, to share in that life of the church that moves from the Inside/Out, because this isn't about drawing crowds. This is about being the people of God. I would say that not only do we challenge and finally win this culture war, that when we seek to be God's people we also defeat it when we seek God's pleasure instead of our own gratification.
The American culture has for about 200 years equated salvation with my own personal freedom and my own spiritual self-gratification. We are in it for what we can get out of it. Don't hear that as harsh. Hear that just as a simple description of where American christianity has gone.
We led the world in a thing called the revival, and we practiced revivalism from D.L. Moody and Finney and others forward, and it was a means of going out into the world and saying, hey, you are lost, you need Jesus, and we painted a picture of coming to faith because faith would do something to change who we were. It would give us meaning in our life. It would move us into a new realm. It would shape us and change us and make us better. And it does.
Not a thing wrong with that, except that what that became was church was for me, and it has led at this point in the 21st Century to questions like this. Did you enjoy church today? What did you get out of church today? Did you like the music? Did you enjoy the sermon? Do you hear it? And we even focus our personal testimonies on our own life chain, and there is not a thing wrong with that except this. We often forget this isn't about us. It's about God.
And so there is a drastic movement across the United States and around the world to turn church into something less horizontal and something far more vertical, and people are returning to forms of literature that call attention to God, that remind us that this isn't just about us. It's primarily, if not exclusively, about Him. And we are going to aim ourselves, if we are going to defeat this utilitarian culture, to remind ourselves that we are here to seek God's pleasure.
The question we have to ask is not did you like the music, but did God? Did He enjoy what we offered Him? Did He receive what we gave Him? Was He the object of our attention? Was He the focus of our heart? I say that at great risk, because you and me we're pretty conditioned. We know what we like. And so one of the ways that we address our own cultural biases that we learn to worship instead of being entertained.
I was really frustrated this last week, just dumb decisions on my part. You know how sometimes you think you are saving the best for last? Heisseleibe. By the way, the literal translation of that is not what I would want to you hear. The literal translation of Heisseleibe is hot love. That wasn't what I was relaying. It is hot raspberries over ice cream. It is enough to make your mouth water. It is so good. And when I was at a restaurant, and I didn't get to very many because we eat most of our meals at the house, I had an opportunity to have Heisseleibe. But I had instead chocolate cake with chocolate pudding with chocolate sauce with a big mound of whipped cream. Have I made you hungry yet? But I was going to have Heisseleibe later.
And then they did something they have never done before. They took us to the Panorama restaurant. It overlooks Vienna. It was -- I won't tell you what the weather was like, except, just trust me, this was a delightful evening where you almost needed a sweater. I know you haven't seen those days here for awhile. And I'm sitting here with this group of Americans, and we are on this outdoor patio, and over in front of us is the rolling wine vineyards and beyond that is the City of Vienna, and it's about 8:00 o'clock at night, and they have got Heisseleibe. But I know that there is still three or four more days left. So I have torte. I mean, you got to have torte.
So it's the last day. I've got a few minutes in the afternoon. It's the only day I have any afternoon time at all. Two other professors and I take a break from our grading, because we deserve it, and we walk down to the skift and we sit down and I order Heisseleibe. And the guy says, we don't have Heisseleibe. You what? I have waited all of this time for Heisseleibe. I had this other thing that I shared, cream sauce, pastry, whipped cream. I never got Heisseleibe.
I felt that way going to church a time or two in my life. I went in looking for Heisseleibe. I went in looking for something that would stir my soul. I went in looking for something that would make me feel better. I went in knowing what I wanted, and I came out disappointed. So what are we doing here? We're here to worship. Why do we do what we do on Sunday mornings? It isn't so you'll feel better. I'm sorry. I hope you do feel better. That's not a bad by-product. We come here because we want to honor God. We want to worship.
I asked Lacey just to put some thoughts down, and here is just a couple of things she said. "We gather together each Sunday morning first and foremost to give worship to God. We don't do what we do simply because we like them. When we sing together, it gives a unified voice to our praise. When we read and listen to scripture, it helps us proclaim truth about God. It helps us learn about God. It helps us get God's word in our hearts and in our head. When we participate in the Lord's supper, we are reminded tangibly of Christ's death and his victory over death. We give an offering because of what he has given to us. Things like the images and the songs and the readings aren't chosen at random or picked from a list. They are carefully planned to help us worship in a way that's understandable and meaningful."
And she quotes one of her teachers. "Since worship is primarily a response, we have to give God something to or give people something to respond to, and the gospel is the most powerful, most important, most appropriate reason to respond. In Revelation worship is going on around the throne in response to God and his son. The basic issue is that if we have put anything or anybody else at the center, we've missed the point."
I understand that it's utilitarian, this worship thing. We ought to understand, right? We ought to use words that we can understand, songs that we can sing? Not necessarily. I sat -- last Sunday about, well, two or three hours before you had church, I sat in the basement of the learning center with about a hundred people from eight or nine different countries in the world. The only thing about that service, the only words about that service that I understood were the ones I spoke because I had the privilege of speaking.
We sang, but the service was led by our Ukrainian brothers and sisters. So everything was in Russian. And the special music was done by a group from Estonia, and I don't know, I guess that's Estonian. And some of the conversation was from our Romanians, and they speak something that's a little closer to Spanish than any of the other languages, but I don't know that either, so it didn't make any difference. The special music was in English. That I understood. Half of the sermon I understood, my half. The Russian half I assumed he was saying what I was saying. But even when we prayed, the prayers were in Cosovo, Ukrainian, Czech, Romanian, Russian, and I didn't understand a word, but I worshipped. I worshipped at a level I sometimes never get to in my services here, and I love worshipping here, because it wasn't about me. I was just in the company of a bunch of saints who are so deeply in love with God that they risked their lives to be christian.
We overcome our culture when we seek to be the people of God instead of merely drawing a crowd, when we seek the pleasure of God instead of merely our own self-gratification, when we seek to honor God and worship Him instead of being entertained, we seek to obey and honor him rather than be safe and self-satisfying. You've been in those situations in your life when the air went out of a room. You know, when something was said, and all of a sudden everybody just took a collective gasp, and you wondered if there would be enough air to breathe, when everything went absolutely silent for a moment.
It was dinner time, a hundred of us in two or three different rooms chattering away in eight or nine different languages when the little dinner bell rang, which is the sign to stop talking and start listening, and Mike stepped to the mike and he held up a piece of paper and he said, I just received this e-mail. I want to read it to you. And he proceeded to read us an e-mail from Azerbaijan where one of our students was taken out of his Sunday morning church service and arrested, and after trumping up false charges they have placed him in jail for the next two years because he is leading a church that's making a difference in his city.
For the next several days in the midst of prayers I cannot understand, this I understood, Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan. It showed up in every prayer. But the prayer wasn't for freedom. Oh, that would be nice, and that certainly was a part of their concern, that he would be set free. The prayer was not merely for his family. He has small children. The prayer was primarily that God would be honored and that somehow the witness of the church would move forward. And we are so tempted in our utilitarian, pragmatic spirit to want God to always be plain and understandable and life to always be simple, and we don't want anything to go wrong because somehow that doesn't fit the American culture.
If you're a christian, for crying out loud, things ought to turn out right. I mean, why else would you give your life to Jesus if it wasn't so your life would get better? All I do as I look around the room I think of a child who struggles with health from birth. I think of so many of you who have been healthy all your lives and struggle with something that you can't understand, who goes through an unwanted accident, who struggle with life as life comes. And the temptation is to want to try to explain God in some way that makes sense out of that, and you can't. That's not your job. Your job is to honor him and to obey him and to trust him, because it's not about us. It's not about what works. It's not about what makes us feel better. It's about what God deserves.
So if you are interested in coming someplace where you go home feeling better, there may be better places for you than here. But if you want to come someplace where we hope that your life will be challenged to follow Jesus no matter what it costs you, we'll try to make this place that place and support you in every step of it. You want to talk about stuff that isn't utilitarian? Here it is. Coming to earth, coming because you love from the depths of your heart and hoping that everybody will receive it well. Didn't work. He came, not because it was utilitarian, not because it was useful. The language of scripture is so abundantly clear. It's one little three letter word. We translate it in English "must". He said it multiple times, "I must die".
You want to get yourself aligned correctly against the culture and effectively with God, then you've got to make him king of your life. You've got to let him be the center. You've got to get the focus off of yourself and on him. So let's sing together and see if we can't focus our attention first and foremost at the throne of God, and then let's come to the table after that and be reminded of why he died.
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OSC² is excited to announce the launch of it's next chapter, the OSC² Rising Star group. This membership is for emerging, mission-aligned, founders and CEO's in the natural products industry.
OSC² is currently seeking the best and brightest sustainable product leaders committed to making a positive impact on our industry, people, and environment.
Member Benefits
- Quarterly member meetings with other like-minded CEO's and Founders
- Present/attend one or our OSC² Core Member meetings per year
- Participation in one of our three OSC² Working Groups (Finance, Supply Chain, or Marketing)
- Access to OSC² Natural Products University workshops and continuing-ed courses
- Mentorship opportunities with OSC² core-members
- Preferred access to OSC² events
Note: Participation is in the OSC² Packaging Coalition is available for an additional fee.
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Sarah Bird – CEO, Bhakti Chai
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Lisa Curtis – CEO & Co-Founder, Kuli Kuli Foods
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Caroline Duell – CEO & Founder, All Good
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Linzi Gay – General Manager, Clif Family Winery
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Tucker Garrison – Co-Founder & CEO, Imlak'esh Organics
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Sarah Gordon – Co-Founder, Square Organics
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Joshua McHugh – CEO and Founder, Living Intentions Intentions
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Michelle Pusateri – Founder & CEO, Nana Joes
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Eric Quick – CEO, The TownKitchen
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Sadie Scheffer – CEO and Founder, Bread SRSLY
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Jesse Solomon – CEO and Founder, Emmer & Co.
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Emily Stone – CEO and CoFounder, Uncommon Cacao
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Charles Thieriot – Owner & GM, Llano Seco
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- Leader currently engaged in the business. He/she must be a CEO, President, or C-level founder
- Leader models sustainable values in their life and business
- Leader demonstrates high integrity, humility, confidentiality, and openness to giving/receiving constructive feedback
- Leader resides in Northern California or is able to make at least 4 in-person meetings/year in the Bay Area
- Company is approx. $1-$10 mil in revenues
- Company has a socially conscious and/or sustainability mission
- Presence in the natural products industry, CPG or other strong sustainable cause
- 100% non-GMO Food or agricultural products
- Organic or strategy to move toward organic
- Addressing a food system issue within the DNA of their company
- B-Corp's preferred or on the path
- Non-competitive with other members – current members will validate
- Annual Membership Fee – $3,600
Interested in participating? Or know someone who might be a good fit? OSC² is seeking membership nominations for the Rising Star group. We will be adding 2-3 additional members in 2019! If you are interested in participating, please contact our Program Director, Michael Anzalone ([email protected]), or Lara Dickinson, Executive Director ([email protected]) by way of a referral, expressing your interest.


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Yes of course we can do them, have done them. If the projects big enough we will come to you or come to Italy where we are most of the time and spend a week of intensive design work say in the morning while touring the Dolomites in the afternoon.
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Architecture, Interior Design, Planning, Design, Home planing, AdditionsHere, we offer plans, help and advice about architecture, interior design and planning. We will answer basic quesitons for free so don't hesitate to send them.Our business is architecture, planning, interior design, and construction. We have offices in Italy and Southern California.We also offer drafting and 3D renderings to professionals. We work hourly or by fixed fee. Tell us about your project. Contact us: email@example.com and visit our main website http://www.hm-architects.com/
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At this time you won't find house plan samples here. What we offer are custom plans to fit your needs all done by communicating over the internet, and personal meetings if your project is in So. California or Italy. Send a sketch, a picture, or a plan from a book, or just a list of the things you want and we will prepare an estimate of the cost of our work. Generally if we do the plans this way the total cost to you will not be more than you would spend buying ready made plans online then paying someone to bring them up to local codes. With over 30 years experience in designing homes there isn't much we haven't done so it's very easy for us to understand what you want and make your ideas a workable reality.
Currently we are working on projects in California, Canada, Mexico and Italy, so location is not a problem. We use a voice over the internet (voip) phone system so we can be reached by our California phone number wherever we are and there is not extra cost to you.
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10270 Nw 35th St Apt 21, Coral Springs, FL 33065
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Home Florida Broward County Coral Springs Casa Coral 10270 Nw 35th St Apt 21
Spacious two bedroom condo, 2nd floor Corner unit in two stories condo building. Efficiently lay out with split bedroom providing privacy. Open kitchen and lots of cabinet space. all tile counter top and backlash with duel sinks. Tile all through the rooms. Right in the residential area and close to the restaurants and convenient stores. Located in the popular and most desired school district. High school is ranked in 2 in nationwide ranking. 5 mins to Sawgrass expressway, major malls, domestic and international food.
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LISTED FOR RENT: Jun 10, 2017
2 bed • 2.0 bath • 960 sf • 2 story
Listing Status: Active
Listing: Karen Chan Milford, United Realty Group, Inc
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DOM: +913 days
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Last Updated: Jun 11, 2017
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Casa Coral allows pets, but has restrictions.
10270 Nw 35th St Apt 21
- Taxes: $0
- Tax Assessment: $47,820
- Acres: 0.01
- Year Built: 1980
- Subdivision: Casa Coral Condo
- Prop. Type: Condo
- Bedrooms: 2
- Bathrooms: 2.0
- Area: 960 sf
- Development: Casa Coral
- City: Coral Springs
- County: Broward
- Zip: 33065
10270 Nw 35th St Apt 21.
This adorable piece of real estate is situated at 10270 Nw 35th St Apt 21, Coral Springs in Broward County. Constructed in 1980, the home is part of the Casa Coral neighborhood. The residence has 2 bedrooms and 2.0 bathrooms. The property is officially listed as a RESIDENTIAL: CONDO / CO-OP and has 960 square feet. This property is an ideal illustration for prospective home buyers searching for Casa Coral condos for rent.
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Woke up this morning… a year on from the day Nigel declared to be "Britain's independence day!" (Cue cheers of lard faced gents in ill fitting suits)… and what a year it's been. Chaos, rising prices, a falling pound and a Prime Minister described openly by her own party members as "a dead woman walking".
The anarchists among us are delighted. The satire writers bordering on delirious. Their only worry is that they could actually make this all up, because it's real, or as "real" as Theresa May might allow it to be.
Podcast host Derek Bateman invited our regular contributor Prof Iain Docherty, of Glasgow University, to chew the Brexit fat with journalist and documentary maker Maurice Smith. Subjects varied from the Scottish economy to Brexit, the start to EU negotiations and, oh, ll sorts of stuff. Worth a listen!
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If your exhaust manifolds have started to leak this is a common ailment of older big-blocks, and demands immediate attention. Since repair work is necessary to prevent serious engine damage, take the opportunity to try some suggestions we had heard from other RVers.
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Mist Eliminator Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Trends, Analysis, Growth, and Forecast 2017 - 2025
The mist eliminator market has been witnessing significant rise in its size and valuation, thanks to the growing awareness among consumers about its benefits. Also known as demister or entrainment separator, mist eliminator is used for the removal of impurities from process air emissions, including mist droplets, and helps in curbing odor and complying with the environmental rules and regulations. Impurities, such as are oil mist, acid mist, machine coolant mist, and several other entrained mist, are effectively destroyed by mist eliminators.
Mist eliminators are designed, sized, and rated on the basis of processed data for the exclusion of liquid droplets and other impurities equal to and larger than three microns. The contamination of the soil are also controlled by these eliminators. Generally, these eliminators are made up of corrosion-resistant materials, such as polypropylene PVC, and stainless steel, and are arranged in horizontal or vertical manner.
Mostly, three types of mist eliminators are available across the world: Wire mesh, fiber bed, and vane. The demand for wire mesh has been higher, worldwide, as it is used in a wide array of industrial applications, such as separators, scrubbers, knock-out drums, distillation, gas cleaning, and absolution. The availability of wire mesh at a comparatively low cost and efficient exclusion of entrained liquid droplets from gas or vapor streams are also boosting its demand across the world.
The global mist eliminator market is anticipated to display moderate growth in the forthcoming years. This is mainly due to the rising number of coal-powered plants worldwide combined with winning social policies and incentives provided by governments to promote the utilization of mist elimination techniques in industrial applications.
Mist eliminator is used for the mechanical separation of liquids from gas. They are also used for liquid to liquid separation.
The global mist eliminator market can be segmented on the basis of end user, type, material, application, and region.
In terms of end-user, in 2015, the oil and gas segment led the global mist eliminator market. The desalination segment stood as the second-largest segment in 2015 and is expected to display the highest growth rate in the coming years. The high growth rate of the desalination segment is due to the increasing dearth of water for industrial use in the U.S., the Middle East and Africa, and others.
Wire mesh stood as the largest type segment of the overall market in 2015. This is because wire mesh is most commonly used and has a wide range of industrial applications. Wire mesh is also expected to be the fastest growing type segment due to its low cost and its efficiency for the removal of entrained liquid droplets from gas or vapor streams.
The top driver of the global mist eliminator market is the growth of the desalination market in developed countries such as the U.S. and European countries. Government mandates to curb emissions from the oil and gas, petrochemical, and power generation industries are propelling this market's growth in developed regions. Furthermore, an increasing expenditure on coal-powered power generation and petrochemical plants in emerging countries such as India, Brazil, China, South Africa, and the UAE.
However, since 2014, the oil industry has witnessed a substantial fall in upstream drilling operations across the world. Consequently, the oil and gas industry which is one of the largest end-user segments of the mist eliminators market has inhibited the growth of the overall market.
However, the growth of this market is hampered due to several factors. Firstly, due to zero emissions from nuclear, wind, hydro, and solar power generation plants, the availability of an increasing number of renewable source-based alternatives is inhibiting the market's growth.
The report analyzes the global mist eliminator market in terms of its geographical reach. This market can be divided into the regional segments of North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East and Africa.
Asia Pacific is expected to be the fastest-growing market as it displays a considerable demand for mist eliminators. Both developed and developing countries in this region display an ever-increasing demand for mist eliminators. An increasing number of coal-powered thermal power plants is anticipated to fuel the growth of the mist eliminators market in India and China.
In Asia Pacific, an exploding population, urbanization, and proliferation of end-use industries are the major factors driving the mist eliminators market in this region. Furthermore, increasing chemical manufacturing, growing iron and steel industry, coupled with increasing cement production are further bolstering the growth of this regional market.
Some of the leading companies that operate in the global mist eliminator market are Sulzer Chemtech, Munter AB, Sullair LLC, Air Quality Engineering Inc., AMACS, FMC Technologies Inc., Koch-Glitsch, Kimre Inc., MECS Inc., and Hillard Corporation among others. The report profiles each of these companies for their attributes of product portfolio, financials, recent developments, and SWOTs.
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The city Australians most want to visit
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Spruce up the spare room, Melburnians, your fellow Australians are coming to town.
Our fair city has been announced as number one on Australians' wish list for the capital city they'd most like to visit, with just over 4.2 million saying they'd like to drop by in the next two years – up one million or 33 per cent over the past decade.
Roy Morgan Research's just-released holiday tracking survey compared holiday intentions in 2006 and 2016. Ten years ago, just over 13.2 million Australians aged 14+ reported they'd like to holiday within Australia in the next two years. That figure is now almost 14.8 million.
Sydney retained its spot as second-most desired capital-city destination, up from 1.9 million to 2.4 million. Perth has lost its shine, slipping from 1.7 million would-be visitors to 1.5 million, and has been overtaken by Brisbane and Hobart (both 1.8 million, up from 1.4 million).
"Melbourne's continued ascendance is testament to the city's cross-generational appeal," says Norman Morris, Industry Communications Director for Roy Morgan Research. "With its blockbuster sporting events and art exhibitions, sensational shopping, dining and nightlife, and countless day-trip possibilities, Melbourne does indeed have something for everyone.
"Where Perth was once Australia's third-most desired capital-city destination, it has given way to Brisbane, Hobart and Canberra over the last 10 years. This raises the question: why is WA's capital losing its appeal?
"Certainly, over the last 10 years, Hobart's cachet has been boosted by MONA, while Brisbane's burgeoning foodie culture could be capturing the imagination of a different kind of traveller than in previous years. But Perth's star seems to have dimmed in the aftermath of the mining downturn – with other famed WA destinations such as Broome and Margaret River also losing popularity in the last decade."


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When I first flipped through WC's new spring catalogue, the idea of 'new vintage' or non-vintage vintage as in the title did tickle me rather pink. Over the past couple of years vintage & retro clothing has been a huge influence on Japanese street fashion with everything from antique dolly kei to high-end retro designer wear popping up on street snap websites and in street style bibles Fruits and Tune magazines. Of course, vintage does have its downsides – what immediately comes to mind is a little shop on Brick Lane in London that I had to make a sharp exit from, such was the musty smell of the clothes I though I was going to heave-ho at any second! Of course, that's a rather extreme example; please be reassured that vintage clothing shops in Japan keep their stock impeccably clean.
I do have to admit that the 'new vintage' concept has rather grown on me – sometimes, despite whatever quest I'm on for a specific piece of clothing, I wish it would appear in a place I didn't have to root through (or worry that something unfortunate had happened to the former owner). The idea behind the collection has been fantastically executed through the items of clothing: washed-out denim; Americana; 80s punk; and even a tweed-like blazer bring to mind the best bits of a hand-me-down wardrobe. I hope that we'll be seeing these same clothes in vintage shops in another twenty years time!
I'm not usually a huge fan of double denim, but the acid wash is fab and I love how it's still dark at the seams – details!
Oh Chinatsu, we'll all be poor after oggling this collection!
I can't help but think this is what Madonna would have worn in the 1980s had WC been around…
Bright colours are huge on the spring catwalks this year, and these trousers certainly fit the bill! I'm also utterly smitten with the studded wedge boots – get out of my dreams and onto my feet!
More violent yellow – love it paired with rock headband and sheer leopard stockings
Totally my style!
Fabulous fresh retro look for the sunnier seasons
Official: Wakatsuki Chinatsu is Wonder Woman…
Or should that be Captain America?
Clean and simple make-up that lets the clothing do all the talking! With the aforementioned loud shades that have been taken up by the high-end brands such as Jil Sander (this season's colour blocking queen), make-up on the catwalk was kept fuss-free with an emphasis on the lips. Pale pink is notoriously hard to pull off if you've got paler skin, so I'd suggest keeping it sheer and shiny!
Kawaii geek-chic – love it.
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An interview with the investigative journalist Nafeez Ahmed at the RealNews network
Key parts
"... the origins of the group [ISIS] come from militant groups affiliated to al-Qaeda that are operating in Iraq and Syria. And that's where it gets murky, because, as we know, these groups were kind of engaged in all kinds of militant activity fighting the Assad regime. They were also active in responding to U.S. occupation after the 2003 invasion. So there's a mix of different actors involved. So in Iraq we had elements of even the Ba'ath party and ex-Saddam supporters who were actually--according to many reports, they were being recruited by these al-Qaeda militants."
"And what makes it more murky is how these groups really became as kind of virulent and kind of influential as they have, which is really the kind of--you know, you follow the money. And you follow the money, we're looking at the involvement of the Gulf states, which have really empowered these groups over time and increased their ability to operate. They've increased their arms, logistical trading. So we've had the Saudis engaged in funding these groups in Syria."
"And what makes it really more disturbing is, going deeper into that evidence of the role of the Saudis and the Qataris and Kuwait, which has been confirmed by various different sources, is really the way in which the U.S. and the U.K. have overseen that process. And that's something which isn't so much acknowledged in the mainstream, that actually Britain and the United States were involved in knowingly kind of facilitating the support to these groups, despite knowing their links to al-Qaeda calling back as early as 2009."
"that batch of files [obtained by WikiLeaks] contains some really interesting correspondence, including correspondence where some senior executives at Stratfor were describing meetings that they had had with senior Pentagon officials and senior U.S. army officials where those officials openly described how U.S. special forces and British special forces had been operating in Syria long before the kind of major, major civil unrest that kind of really broke out, and they had been operating in kind of supporting these groups. And it was very clearly stated by these officers at the time--and the emails are there, people can check them out, and I've written about them in some of my Guardian articles and some of my other articles elsewhere--that they quite explicitly said that this is about destabilizing the Assad regime from within. They had even explored the possibility of airstrikes on targets. But the favored policy was using these groups as a proxy force to destabilize Assad's regime."
"The United States has for long time wanted to ensure that it kind of sidelines Russia and Iran in all of these various pipeline projects. So when Iran signed this kind of memorandum with Assad, that was kind of considered like a major kind of strategic setback, and something kind of needed to be done. And apart from that, there were also many other--there was generally other kind of geopolitical issues apart from the fact that Russia has a military base there. There's also issues such as the role that Assad has played in relation to the Middle East conflict, the support that they've provided to Hamas, their relationship with the Iranians, and that whole general thing. So there's this general perception of Syria being this part of the so-called axis of evil in a way. You know. So the whole pipeline thing kind of accelerated that fear, I think, and made them want to do something."
"... and we even have State Department cables, also leaked by WikiLeaks, where literally we have State Department officials talking about how there is going to be civil unrest in Syria very soon, very likely, because of food prices and the strain on food due to these droughts and due to the effect on farmers."
"... when we look at the way in which we've been funding some of these groups, it's kind of ironic that we have the very same people now calling for boots on the ground, calling for a response, are the same people that have been very loud in their support for arming some of the most virulent of elements of these rebel groups."
"... if we look at some of the reports that we've had over the last few years of the plans for the region, there are certainly elements in the Pentagon of a neoconservative persuasion who have seen the rise of this kind of group in a way as a boon to reconfigure the Middle East."
"... one of the sources I looked at was a publicly available RAND report that was published a couple of years. It was commissioned by the U.S. army. And it was a kind of a thought piece. It was a policy briefing. It was looking at policy options for the United States in essentially reconfiguring the Middle East and exploring how to counter terrorism. But those policy options were pretty Machiavellian in some ways [...] there was a range of scenarios that were explored. One of them was divide-and-rule, openly talking about empowering Salafi jihadists to some extent in order to kind of weaken Iranian influence, openly talking about empowering, using the Gulf states, because they have access to the petroleum resources, so using them to kind of funnel support to these groups that would eventually create kind of like a vortex of intra-Muslim conflict that would get terrorists and extremists on different sides fighting each other, that would weaken all of them and allow U.S. interests and Israeli interests to kind of consolidate their own kind of security while these guys are fighting amongst themselves."
Full interview:http://adiritos.blogspot.gr/2014/09/the-powers-behind-islamic-state.html


text: Has anyone seen an Allied piece of equipment similar to this one ? This is a Luftwaffe "Peilscheibe" used (I believe) to swing a compass., the device being clamaped to the cockpit of aircraft. The azimuth disc can be leveled, a spirit level being built in, the small optic , not sure how it all works, probably not that complicated which says a lot for me !!! Have only seen one photo of this device set up for use, , as i said clamped to the cockpit of a HE-111.


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It has been a little over a month since CloudFlare started offering free SSL, or Universal SSL as they call it, to over 2 million websites using their free service. This essentially doubled the number of websites using SSL overnight, literally!
Let us be clear about what we mean by free. As of now this service is free indefinitely like CloudFlare's other services included in CloudFlare's free plan. This is NOT a free trial for 90 days, which is like the industry standard of SSL providers.
SSL is traditionally only used by eCommerce, social networks and email providers. And even eCommerce websites sometimes limit SSL usage to only those pages where payment is made.
Problems of using SSL from a webmaster's perspective
1. More server load because of encryption.
2. Additional cost of issuing SSL certificate every year.
3. Technical expertise needed to install SSL certificate
4. Only supported by modern browsers.
CloudFlare take care of problems 1,2 and 3. The only problem remaining is browser support. If your visitors have updated their browser in last four or five years, you are good to go. If your primary traffic is from countries which has low adoption of modern browsers, you might want to reconsider before encrypting your blog.
If your users usually don't have to log in to use your website, there is actually nothing to steal, hence there really is no need for SSL for security. The reason for encrypting a blog is something else.
Since the NSA snooping allegations there has been a cry for using encryption everywhere and to create more secure web. Google, the king of the internet, also a big supporter of https everywhere campaign. Recently they have disclosed, they will be using https as one of the deciding factors when ranking your site on Google. The impact of having SSL is negligible though, not affecting more than 99% of queries on Google. This still is not a sufficient reason to make the switch.
The immediate improvement your website can get from using https is its ability to use SPDY protocol, which now more and more browsers are supporting. Https is a requirement for communication in SPDY protocol. This is a new protocol introduced by Google and has some major speed and performance improvement over traditional http.
The world is moving towards a secure web. A new certificate authority(CA) is proposed to be launched in 2015 to encrypt the whole web. This will accelerate the adoption of https rapidly.
We believe it's wise to get on the https boat as early as possible, but only after considering how many of your users will be affected.


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On average this painter project costs $680 in Los Angeles, CA. Depending on your contractor, prices can range from $350 to $1430. When pricing out your painter project make sure to get at least 3 quotes to compare prices and get the best value. Comparable projects nearby include Looking for a House Painter in Los Angeles, 6831 Paint in Chino, and Paint in Chula Vista.
Painter: I am looking for a painter to freshen up a 1 bedroom rental unit approximately 725 square feet. 1 coat walls and ceiling. I will provide paint. 94 households have had similar projects done near East Hollywood, Koreatown (Wilshire Center), and Mid-Wilshire.
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Hello! I hope you had a good Sunday. Mine was awesome because I got to play tennis, watch my local soccer team score 4 goals against the visiting team and finally, post about what was going through my mind last night as I tried hard to sleep. For me, it is more like "a night in the life of a computer programmer", not necessarily a day!
Have you ever had one of those moments when your mind is racing faster than you can process the information? If you love programming like I do, I have no doubt you have been through this more than once.
Time was 12 past midnight. I had just finished a boring Saturday Night Live and all I could think of was go lay down in bed watching Everybody Loves Raymond – that show is funny. We will see how far I got with that.
My body was exhausted but my mind was super excited about this project am working on. Should I get up and start my computer or wait till the next day? But I don't want to forget what I already have in mind. Should I turn on my smartphone and use Google Docs to jot down some information? Stop! Stop! I said to myself.
It was one of those moments when you wish that you could stay up all night without putting your health at risk. The light from the computer screen didn't really help much. Then there was the television. The smartphone laid very close to me – I could reach out and touch it beside my bed.
My mental race was not over. I am starting to think of creating an Interface that could be implemented by some classes and I quickly realized that although Python has the interfaces concept, it is not in the language's syntax itself. I might have to go with inheritance? I need to talk to my friend about this as soon as possible. Leave a comment on Bitbucket or something in the documentation.
Thinking like this could keep me up all night and rendering me useless the following day. I rarely use caffeine and I have no plans of changing that.
I then told myself quietly that I could just start counting from zero to 99. Repeat it over and over and in no time, you will be asleep. That didn't do me justice. I jumped out of bed and straight to the fridge for several glasses of water. I tried doing everything I could to avoid starting my laptop and writing some code. My mind was working against every doctor's recommendation. Phew!
After trying for a while to sleep, I made it. To be honest, I don't remember when I slept but it didn't happen as fast as I wanted. So what is the solution to this problem? Is it a problem at all? They say too much of anything is poison or rather dangerous. But I love doing what I do. That being said though, I need to plan things. Set a schedule. Say NO.
My question to you is this: if you are a computer programmer, how do you handle brain stimulation as you try to do other things, like sleep or playing among others? I would like to know your opinion on this. There is one thing I know for sure: I am not alone!
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1.0.3 Patch Notes
None. You could only duplicate items that can be used with Skin Transfer. And you also needed a mirror to do it which is not exactly common.
All it really did was double the effectiveness of a mirror. Also you would have needed to skin transfer the item back inside another one every time before you log out, otherwise the dupe detector will destroy it.
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An embroidered version of the etiological tale from the book of Genesis, with a multicultural cast.
In the cartoon illustrations two children—one pale-skinned and red-haired, her friend darker of both skin and hair—front a similarly varied population that shares "one beautiful language." Having moved from an overcrowded valley to found a new city, all pitch in to build a tower tall enough to "hold up the sky and stay above the waters," should another Great Flood come along. As the children eat tower cakes and put on tower hats and play tower games, the structure rises so high that the proud builders decide to make war on God and "take the heavens as their home." (Except for the tower itself, all of this is invented detail.) God sighs in disappointment and sends angels down in the night. The next morning, "Joseph woke up as José," "Rachel" as "Rachelle," and all of the people and animals speak different languages, from Spanish or Chinese to Cow or Chick. Samples of each in appropriate script, with an identifying label and (for non-English) a translation, fill a crowd of dialogue balloons in the final scenes. Calling out variations on "Let's go this way!" in Spanish, Urdu, Russian, Hebrew, and other tongues, the humbled folk gather into groups and disperse, leaving the still-standing tower behind.
Even with the additions, the story still feels bare-bones. (Picture book/religion. 5-7)


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National Steakhouse Month
Few things feel as luxurious as sliding into a leather booth, opening an oversized menu, and ordering a big, juicy steak with all the classic sides. However, that larger than life feeling comes at a cost. The average meal for two at a premium steakhouse can cost about $100 (or much, much more). With their hefty price tags, steakhouses are great for special occasions but just don't fit into an everyday dining budget.
You don't have to miss out on the delicious flavors of a restaurant quality meal just because you're on a budget. Celebrate National Steakhouse Month in the comfort of your own home! We've rounded up prime recipes for all your favorite meaty cuts and savory sides that will cost you a fraction of the price of dining out.
Coffee-Coriander Rubbed New York Strip Steak
Porterhouse Steak with Red Wine-Peppercorn Jus
Porcini-Crusted Filet Mignon with Fresh Herb Butter
Flatiron Steaks with Tomatoes and Tapenade
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CYOF 9: Nagel's With Walter
When you arrive at Nagel's at what you assume is an appropriate time for dinner, you find an entirely empty dining room. And what a dining room! The place is all sharp angles and dim lighting, done in crimson reds and liquid blacks, dotted here and there with photos, paintings and sculptures of severely buxom women in heroically impossible poses. It's what you imagine South Beach might have looked like in the 1980s if the Nazis had won the war and taken over South Florida.
As soon as you arrive, no fewer than six desperately grinning waiters perk up and flock to you. They're all wearing uniforms that look like they may have been recycled from the sci-fi TV series V.
You're ushered to your banquette seats--black and red leather, naturally--and a waiter with generously gelled, slicked-back hair slides you a red-on-black menu on the onyx table.
The menu reads:
New York strip with creamed spinach
Porterhouse with hash brown potatoes
Surf and turf with baked potato
Steamed broccoli and green salad
After you've looked the menu over for a minute, the waiter returns and looks at you expectantly.
The problem is ... Walter isn't here yet. As a restaurant reviewer, you're expected to try a reasonable variety of dishes, especially those the place is known for or notably proud of. But because your budget is so small, repeat visits are out of the question. So the way most restaurant reviewers get to try a variety of dishes without arousing suspicion is to invite friends along and share dishes. But since Walter isn't here ...
Do you ...
Call Walter and get an ETA?
Go ahead without him and order the New York strip and the steamed broccoli?
Go ahead without him and order both the porterhouse and surf and turf?
CYOF 71: Impatient Walter
O'Hara's is run out of what looks like it was a turn-of-the-century penny-candy shop, its steam-filled kitchen crammed into what was once the office and storeroom. There are a handful of ancient tables and rickety chairs scattered around the long, thin room that serves as a combination dining room and service area, but the focus of the forty or so people in line when you get there is the antique oak counter, behind which Benny O'Hara can be seen puttering back and forth between the kitchen with large metal bowls and trays laden with offal.
The place is entirely staffed by the O'Hara clan, his sons and grandsons manning the stoves and ovens while his daughter-in-law is the imperious presence taking orders and manning the cashier at the near end of the counter.
It looks to be a good 45-minute to hour wait, and Walter looks hungry and impatient.
"Look, man, there's a pizza joint right across the street. Let's just skip this line nonsense, get a couple slices, and go home. I mean, it's not like anyone's really going to care about a haggis review, right?"
The mini-debate you two are about to have has attracted attention. For one, a young guy in a denim jacket about six people behind you gives you two the death stare.
Do you insist on waiting in line for the haggis?
Or do you bail and get pizza, then turn in a review without actually trying the food?
CYOF 104: On Your Own
CYOF 106: Teacher's Pet
OK, not the most professional or ethical choice, but now you're on the gravy train. At least until Maude's husband finds out.
CYOF 321: Strip Tease
The New York strip is superb, the broccoli fresh and crisp. By the time you leave, you've decided Walter missed a pretty good dinner at one of Midtown's most egregious eyesores. (Walter, by the way, never shows up.)
Now it's time to decide how to rate Nagel's. On one hand, the food was good, but on the other hand, the decor was horrible. And you're pretty sure the place will be closed within three months.
Do you give a one-star review?
Do you give it two stars?
Or do you give it three stars?
CYOF 374: Really?
CYOF 375: Risky Business
Before you know it, you're back at Maude's hotel room, and things are very cozy. Fireworks. Locomotives chugging into tunnels. Fade to black.
The next morning, Maude's already slipped out the door, but a note she's left on the nightstand promises she'll text you soon.
You sit down to enjoy the room-service coffee and croissants when something in the morning paper causes you to spit up Pike's Place Roast all over the over-starched duvet.
Maude's on the front page and, one, she's married, and two, she and her husband just bought the magazine you've been writing reviews for.
Your cell phone dings. It's Maude texting, asking to see you again.
Do you ...
Tell her it's best if we made it a one-time thing, considering her marriage and your new business relationship--though you're awfully fond of the time you spent together?
Or do you see this as a career opportunity?
CYOF 402: Chop Suey With Fen
"Chicken chop suey," you say. Fen orders the veggie fried rice, and you both turn around and sit down at the sole table to await your food.
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The ditches sloped down, so that, as they burned, the bodies discharged a flow of human fat down the ditch to a corner where a sort of basin had been formed to collect it. When it looked as if the fire might go out, the men had to take some of that liquid fat from the basin, and throw it onto the fire to revive the flames. I saw this only in ditches of Bunker 2.
Done laughing?
I recommend a look at this work by Carlo Mattogno which makes mincemeat of this 'Shlomo Venezia', and as usual, Roberto Muehlenkamp.
Historical Considerations relating to Shlomo Venezia's "Unique Testimony"
By Carlo Mattogno
I've copied the conclusion & contents below, see link for full text.
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It's just not that difficult.
The book Sonderkommando Auschwitz is presented as "The Truth about the Gas Chambers" and "A Unique Testimony". These reports are completely unfounded, even from the point of view of the historiography of the Holocaust.
The book supplies in fact no "truth" which was previously unknown and only repeats in a confused and vague manner some "truths" which were already known. It provides no major contribution, or even anything new, to our knowledge of Auschwitz, on the contrary, it systematically evades all historically relevant questions.
The chronology is practically non-existent. After the date of arrival at Auschwitz, on 11 April 1944[260], the next date to appear in the book is the beginning of October 1944[261], so that the story of almost five months of activity of the "Sonderkommando" of Crematorium III takes place in a sort of "time outside time". Venezia provides no historically useful information on this "Sonderkommando": how many prisoners it consisted of, how they were allocated to the various crematoria, what their specific tasks were, etc. Even with regard to the final revolt of the "Sonderkommando"he offers no important details, not even the date. He speaks of Crematorium III in an extremely vague manner: he never describes the exterior, almost nothing about the layout of the interior, no description of the garret (known as the Dachgeschoss), where he lived.
The process of extermination, in Venezia's book, also remains lost in a fog.
There is no description of "Bunker 2"; or of the supposed "cremation pits", of which Venezia does not even indicate the number.
As regards Crematorium III, the description of the undressing room is almost non-existent, that of the gas chamber, non-existent. Historical problems essential to confuting "negationism", such as those of the Zyklon B introduction devices, vanish in an embarrassing silence; from the book, one learns neither the dimensions of the gas chamber, nor how it was designed[262], or equipped or how the apertures of the induction and exhaust system were arranged, nor how one accessed the gas chamber from the undressing room. No description of the reinforced concrete lid on the Leichenkeller1 in the north courtyard of the crematorium, whether it was on ground level or above ground, no description of the "chimney", and possibly how many there were or how they were arranged.
The same fog wafts over the narration of the cremation: here as well, everything escapes us and remains indistinct. Venezia tells us nothing about the crematory ovens: their construction system, their functioning, their coke consumption, not even how many there were. On their cremation capacity, by contrast, he provides very precise, but technically absurd details which contradict each other.
In the context of the Holocaust, therefore, this testimony may be referred to as "unique" only for its inconsistency, its impalpability, its evanescence, its total and extraordinary lack of concreteness and precision.
The historians who cooperated with Venezia in this publishing project[263] show all the shortcomings of an atavistic ineptitude. Their most obvious contribution, in the text, is limited to a mere terminological revision[264] and to the introduction of the technical terminology[265] which was formerly absent, but not without a few blunders, such as in the case of the " Leichenkeller" or the term "Stücke". The presentation of the explanatory notes[266] is wretched and sloppy. But it is not only a question of ineptitude. In the essay "The Shoah, Auschwitz and the Sonderkommando"[267], the Auschwitz "specialist" Marcello Pezzetti[268], in the bibliography, mentions the book by Gideon Greif "Wir weinten tränenlos... Augenzeugenberichte der jüdischen "Sonderkommandos" in Auschwitz" which I have cited several times. The idea of the iconography Sonderkommando Auschwitz is clearly taken from this work: it contains in fact all the images which appear there[269]. Notwithstanding that, M. Pezzetti has not informed the reader of the very important fact that the work by G. Greif compiles the testimony of four supposed companions from the "Sonderkommando" of Venezia, among them the cousin Yakob Gabbai. This serious oversight becomes crucial in view of the incredible contradictions which such testimony presents in comparison to that of Venezia. We must therefore suspect rather an intentional and covert silence.
No less serious is the fact that M. Pezzetti and his colleagues have covered up all the contradictions—which I have noted above—between Venezia's narrative compared to the canons of Holocaust historiography, all the chronological and architectural inconsistencies.
From a revisionist point of view, the judgment of Venezia's book is even more adverse.
In 1998, Valentina Pisanty, in a work on so-called "negationists", allowed a few devastating analyses to escape her concerning these Holocaust testimonies:
"The writers often interweave their own direct observations with fragments of hearsay which was to be heard everywhere in the camp. The majority of the inexactitudes to be found in these texts are attributable to the confusion of the witnesses between what they have seen with their own eyes and what they have heard, during the period of their internment. With the passing of the years, then, to the memory of events they have experienced is added the reading of other works on the topic, with the result that the autobiographies in more recent times lose the immediacy of memory in favor of a more consistent and complete vision of the extermination process"[270]\.
This is a perfect description of the witness Venezia. In his book there is a very obvious imprint of having "read other works on the topic", particularly—of fundamental importance—the album by David Olère[271], but also of the testimonies of Miklos Nyiszli and Filip Müller, to which it is necessary to add the meetings with other self-proclaimed ex-members of the "Sonderkommando" and historians[272]. The photograph which appeared in 2002 in "Il Giornale", and later in "Gente"[273] as well, is revealing: in fact, it shows Venezia holding D. Olère's album in his hands, open to the page showing the drawing reproduced on p. 92 of Sonderkommando Auschwitz. At this point, Venezia refers to Olère several times by name, and even claims to have met him:
"I didn't see any Frenchmen; otherwise I would have attempted to talk to them. David Olère, for example, I did not know that he had been deported from France; to me, he was a Pole who spoke Yiddish"\.
Venezia's narrative relating to the supposed extermination process is, in fact, essentially a disquisition on D. Olère's drawings, often mistakenly misinterpreted. The decision to publish many of these drawings in the volume, undoubtedly at the suggestion of his editors, is only apparently prudent, since it is intended to provide confirmation of Venezia's truthfulness; in reality, it was a blunder, because it makes it only too obvious that the narrative is simply based on the drawings. This is confirmed by the fact that the drawings show things which are obviously mistaken and which Venezia is incapable of correcting.
In his drawings, D. Olère, far from representing reality, has simply illustrated the propagandistic themes created by the Auschwitz resistance movement which circulated in the camp[274], including the most absurd legends, such as the flaming chimneys, which I discussed above, or that of the blue coloration of hydrocyanic acid!
In one of his color drawings, undated, depicting a gassing scene, a can of Zyklon B is in fact shown issuing blue vapors![275].
This legend has been repeated, among others, by Venezia's cousin, Yakob Gabbai, who declared:
"When he [an SS man] introduced the gas from above, the gas diffused [with vapors] that were blue in color. The material itself was in the form of blue cubes which melted in contact with the air and issued gas, which caused immediate suffocation"[276]\.
Like all other ignorant people, they believed that "Blausäure" (hydrocyanic acid, literally, in German, blue acid) was blue or released blue vapors, while it is very well known that it is a colorless liquid[277]; the porous wick impregnated with hydrocyanic acid to produce Zyklon-B, on the other hand, was well known to have consisted of white granules of diatomaceous earth.
Venezia openly brags of his quality as the "eye" witness:
"Birkenau was a true hell, no one can understand or enter into the logic of the camp. That's why I want to tell what I can, entrusting myself only to my memories of what I am certain to have seen and nothing more"[278]\.
But he cannot have seen unreal scenes, like fictitious picket fences, illusory Jewish transports, flaming chimneys, the imaginary recovery of human fat, non-existent rooms, fantastic cremations, etc.; nor can he have experienced implausible events, such as that of his "salvation".
In conclusion, getting back to the analysis of V. Pisanty, it may be said that Venezia's testimony is the fruit of a confabulation in Venezia's mind between that which he actually saw, that which he heard about during his internment, and that which later came to be added, in his memory, to events he actually experienced, after reading other works on the subject, with the result that "the immediacy of memory has disappeared, in favor of a more consistent and complete vision of the supposed extermination process", which is transformed into a historical romance.
But precisely for this reason, the historians who present him as "The Truth about the Gas Chambers" and "A Unique Testimony" can have no excuse and no justification - not even their atavistic ineptitude.[279]
"The Truth About the Gas Chambers"?
Historical Considerations relating to Shlomo Venezia's "Unique Testimony"
By Carlo Mattogno
A Last minute witness
The Title of the book
The reasons for the silence
The deportation to Auschwitz
BIIa quarantine camp
The first day in the "Sonderkommando"
"Bunker 2"
The first working day at the "Bunker" according to Venezia's companions in misfortune
The "cremation pits" in the vicinity of "Bunker 2"
*** The recovery of human fat in the "cremation pits"
The gas chamber in Crematorium III
The transport of the bodies to the ovens of Crematorium III
Crematory ovens and cremation
The flaming chimneys
The revolt of the "Sonderkommando"


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I'm a life-long entrepreneur and I think being an entrepreneur is the most wonderful thing anyone can be! My passion is to help other entrepreneurs be successful. Most business owners I talk to didn't get into business to deal with the accounting aspect of their business and often to them it is a royal pain. To me and my team, it's what lights our fire! We want to make a contribution that will help our clients' businesses be more successful. I was humbled to receive a National Enterprise Award from the U.S. Small Business Administration in 2010 for doing just that. (Who knew you could get an award for doing what you love?!)
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Stop and really think about what drives your business. Who you want to know that reason: your clients, your prospects, your team, your vendors, your business associates? Don't keep it a secret!