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Making Your Move
This story appears in the April 1998 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
What happens when a deadline-dependent business such as a newspaper relocates 600 miles away, but its darkroom equipment takes a detour and doesn't arrive in time for production? Either the newspaper misses its deadline, or it goes to Plan B.
Fortunately for the 250,000 readers of National Speed Sport News, publisher and co-owner Corinne Economaki was wise enough to devise a Plan B--several, in fact--when she moved her 11-employee business from New Jersey to Charlotte, North Carolina. Thanks to her backup plan, Speed Sport News is still one of the oldest, continuously published motorsports publications in the country.
Failure to create a backup plan is the second most common mistake made by entrepreneurs moving their companies, according to Steve Mumma, senior vice president of marketing and public relations for Evansville, Indiana-based Atlas Van Lines Inc. Incredibly, failure to create a plan at all is the most common pitfall. "Without a comprehensive relocation plan, your move is doomed," Mumma warns. "And the earlier you start planning, the better."
James C. Sheil is a freelance journalist and law student who has survived three office relocations with varying degrees of success.
Should You Stay Or Should You Go?
After you decide you want to move your company, relocation begins when you start considering all the details of how your business will be affected when you move. Entrepreneurs decide to move their businesses for a variety of reasons, but whatever the motivation, the overriding goal should be to improve your competitive position. For Speed Sport News, it was the desire to escape the unpredictable winter weather of the Northeast combined with a need to be closer to the hub of auto racing. When the newspaper was founded in 1934 in East Paterson, New Jersey, northern New Jersey was home to a thriving auto-racing community, and races were held throughout the Northeast. The sport has since migrated to the Midwest and the South, so the decision to uproot Speed Sport News seemed like common sense to Economaki.
For Lake Forest, California, industrial contractor ARB Inc., the relocation rationale was two-pronged: a desire to build the company's presence in the booming Orange County construction trade and a need to shed a somewhat awkward, old space in Paramount, California. ARB's new headquarters, designed to its specifications, has a more efficient floor plan and allows space for managed growth.
Planning for a relocation is a good time to assess the quality of your staff to make sure the right employees are making the move. Relocation can cost up to $80,000 per family, according to Mumma, so it would be unfair to move a person who is not performing and whom you're likely to let go at some point anyway.
Keep in mind that if you decide to let some employees go before you move, you may need to quickly replace those employees once the relocation is complete, if not before. Whether you put ads in local newspapers or contact staffing companies in your new town, plan ahead so you won't suffer a productivity plunge once you're up and running at your new location.
Months before moving day, consider how the move will affect your customer base. If you're only moving to a town 10 miles away, for example, are you counting on your existing customers making the trek to your new location? Or, if you have a business that relies on convenience-seeking customers, do you have a marketing plan in place for recruiting a new crop of clients?
If you're moving across the country or to another state, do you have contacts in your new location? Before you get the moving process underway, it's essential to work out all the operations details, from who your new suppliers will be and whether you'll need to hire additional employees once you arrive to ordering new letterhead and business cards.
Big Wheels
Once you've decided to move and have found the perfect location for your business, choosing a reliable mover is the most important decision you'll make at this point, according to Ron Dickson of Dickson Moving Technologies in Celebration, Florida. Dickson recommends soliciting detailed bids from several moving and storage companies that have experience in corporate and industrial relocation.
Mumma stresses the importance of choosing the most responsible bidder. "The low-bid option is not necessarily the best way to go because you might just get what you paid for," he says.
Many moving companies offer comprehensive consultation, planning and relocation services; choose a mover who can provide the best all-around assistance for your move. "By selecting a company with whom you can partner, you can work together to lower costs while increasing quality and productivity," Mumma says.
Before selecting a moving company, check bidders' references for the last several moves they've completed and ask about timeliness and faithfulness to the cost estimate, Dickson suggests. To protect yourself, he stresses, "everything should be in writing--in a straightforward, plain-English contract." Some movers won't touch equipment that requires technicians to prepare it for moving, so you should ask about each and every office item so there are no surprises on moving day.
Also check with the Better Business Bureau to make sure your potential mover hasn't left previous customers in the lurch. Sheila Adkins, public affairs manager for the Council of Better Business Bureaus, says that since 1990, moving companies have consistently ranked in the top 25 of the 500 types of businesses for which the council tracks complaints. They've heard many horror stories about movers who, for instance, hold clients hostage at the point of destination, refusing to unload unless the customer ponies up additional funds.
The best way to avoid surprises in logistics or price is to conduct a walk-through of your office with the mover, says Lorrie Valerio, ARB's office manager, who coordinated the relocation of the firm's 90-employee headquarters. A facilities relocation specialist from Alexander's Moving and Storage in Tustin, California, completed a walk-through of ARB's old and new office spaces, reviewed the floor plans for each and helped plan every step of the move. With a thorough walk-through assessment, both the entrepreneur and the mover know what they're getting into.
Who's The Boss?
To ensure attention to detail, the buck must stop with one person--the designated move manager. According to Mumma, it's preferable to hire an outside consultant to oversee each step of the planning and execution. But since most entrepreneurs work on tight budgets, you'll likely have to don that hat yourself--or count on a trusted employee--come moving time.
Valerio recommends entrepreneurs designate one employee to be the relocation manager and then free that person from as many of his or her other job responsibilities as possible. And once that person has been selected, he or she must be given freedom to do the job. The planning requires cooperation from your entire staff, not just the relocation manager. "There can be no weak link," Economaki says. "Everyone should have a job to do."
Timing Is Everything
Summer is by far the busiest time of year to move. If you're planning a summer move, book your mover early so your business and employees can get settled in plenty of time. Mumma advises entrepreneurs to plan their relocation during vacation shutdowns or around company downtimes. And don't plan to move during your busiest sales period.
When a business owner is busy running the "home office," it's a lifesaver to have a local contact to work out details at the company's future location, as Economaki discovered. Her temporary move manager, hired well before moving day, was a local resident who helped recruit new employees, find housing for relocating staff, and identify outsourcing assistance in the event of a glitch in plans. "Hiring someone in Charlotte was one of the smartest things I did," Economaki reflects, "because, of course, something always crops up."
Economaki had several backup plans in place before her newspaper moved. The contingency plan that saved the day for Speed Sport News was an outsourcing arrangement with a local printing company in the event of a foul-up in the moving process. When the newspaper's darkroom equipment was damaged during shipping, the company used the local lab to print veloxes and develop negatives for three weeks.
Yet all the contingency planning in the world can't save you from the fickle forces of Mother Nature, especially in Southern California, where it never rains--it pours. Man, it pours, says Lorrie Valerio, who oversaw ARB's relocation during a torrential downpour in January. "The rain started the moment the movers got there, and it didn't let up," Valerio recalls. "It rained all day and all night."
The fact that the company survived the downpour, made the move and was open for business on Monday morning is attributable to extensive planning done in concert with the mover, Alexander's Moving and Storage, Valerio says. "The movers were so well-organized; they saved the day."
During the deluge, the movers spread tarps over their trucks, and two truckloads of equipment made the 50-mile trip to the company's new digs. The rest of the company's boxes and materials were moved into hallways to facilitate rapid loading and departure the next morning, a Saturday that was, fortunately, clear and sunny.
Unfortunately for ARB, however, Mother Nature intervened again. Severe ice storms that hit the Pacific Northwest knocked out the phone lines of the company's server in Oregon, so it was two days before the company could get its computer network running.
Like Clockwork
Mother Nature notwithstanding, you should do as much as possible ahead of time to prepare your new location. "Think of every piece of equipment in your office, its role in your business, where it will go in your new office, and when it needs to get there," Economaki advises.
Making sure the new office site is completely ready on moving day is also crucial. If contractors are still getting the space ready when the movers arrive, you'll be paying your movers just to stand around. The move coordinator should also make sure parking spaces are clear for the mover's trucks and that elevators are available, if needed.
Properly packing and tagging all items is probably your employees' most important duty, according to Wayne Cotton, president of Cotton Moving and Storage Inc. in Houston. Each employee and each office should have a designated number that will be placed on all boxes, files, furniture and equipment. "And, to our movers, no tag means `no move,'--they might assume you meant to leave it behind as junk," Cotton says, so be sure all necessary labels are in place.
Cotton's company breaks the office floor plan into a grid and designates color-coded tags to correspond to specific areas. Moving things according to their colors helps focus efforts on one area at a time, thus making the move more efficient.
In addition to using color-coded labels and numbers, Alexander's Moving and Storage provides "Hot Box" labels that employees use to designate the items they need immediately to get up and running in their new office. Accordingly, ARB's employees were able to set up their desks, phones and vital files and get to work first thing Monday morning after the monsoon-like move.
Remember that your company's relocation is about more than just moving boxes and office equipment. You are moving people, too--uprooting lives and separating families from their homes and friends. Because the move can unsettle so many lives, be as flexible as possible to ease the transition. Warns Mumma, "A poorly planned move that stresses out employees could be costly to a [business] in terms of productivity."
Eye For Detail
As Economaki discovered, when it comes to moving with as little disruption of your business as possible, the devil is in the details. About four months before moving day, she began transferring her company's accounts to ensure they could immediately conduct business once they reached their destination. "Some of it was a piece of cake, like dealing with FedEx, but transferring the payroll and having the phone system disconnected and transplanted took some time," she says. "And, of course, I was still doing my usual job during all this."
Thinking ahead netted ideas like printing new address labels so the newspaper could use up its old stationery, and good relationships enabled Economaki to bring her "computer maven" from New Jersey to North Carolina to set up the newspaper's system. Keeping her eyes and ears open--and not being afraid to ask for advice--also proved fruitful.
"Ask everyone on your staff for ideas--they inevitably remember things you've forgotten," Economaki advises. "And be proactive: Start two months earlier than you think you need to."
On The Move
If you're considering the daunting task of moving your company, help is just a phone call--or a mouse click--away. Here are some resources you can turn to:
- Atlas Van Lines publishes An Interactive Guide to Office Relocation, which offers detailed suggestions for making a successful company move; it's available from your local Atlas agent. Atlas also offers a Web site stocked with relocation-related information, accessible at http://www.atlasvanlines.com
- The American Moving and Storage Association (AMSA) publishes Smooth Moves: How to Successfully Relocate a Company, a 100-page guide for completing a company relocation. To order a copy, call the AMSA at (703) 683-7530.
- Dickson Moving Technologies offers an array of relocation fliers, brochures and computer software programs, including: "Bidding Office Moves," a program that calculates projected costs; and a 30-page Super Task List, about as thorough a checklist as there is for entrepreneurs facing a move. For information, call Dickson at (407) 566-8517.
- The Southwest Movers Association offers a Consumer Protection Program with advice on selecting the most responsible mover for your relocation. For information, call (512) 476-0107 or write to Southwest Movers Association, P.O. Box 684845, Austin, TX 78768-4845.
- Other Web sites:
Moving With Children, http://www.alliedvan.net/07child/index.html
How to Move: Moving Companies, Moving, Taxes, Relocation, Real Estate, Home, New House, http://www.movedoc.com
and Charter One Bank, http://www.charterone.com
Contact Sources
Alexander's Moving and Storage, (800) 722-6286, ext. 320, http://www.alexanders-moving.com
ARB Inc., 26000 Commercentre Dr., Lake Forest, CA 92630, (714) 598-9242
Cotton Moving and Storage Inc., 5410 Jessamine, Houston, TX 77081, fax: (713) 665-6653
Dickson Moving Technologies, 561 Campus St., Celebration, FL 34747-4613
National Speed Sport News, P.O. Box 1210, Harrisburg, NC 28075, (704) 455-2531


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The Curious Case of Dean Winchester (Recap)
Spoiler! Spoiler! Spoiler!
Pro: This ep features Bobby, who I always love.
Con: Less Jensen Ackles than usual! (Although, I have to give guest-star Chad Everett props, he was a fantastic senior citizen Dean.)
We open on a man coming home, rushing by his wife to lock himself in the bathroom. Where he proceeds to age horribly and die.
Flash to morgue where doctor is having trouble buying the bros. as CDC agents because they arrived in such an unpredented timely manner. She shows them the 25 year old who died of old age. (Yeah, weird). This is followed by an older woman who reported her kindly old husband missing...and the bros track him to an Asian brothel. Since he's now young, generically hot, and sporting a six-pack, they identify him by a tattoo and birthmark.
After threatening to tell his wife that he's paying for threesomes instead of having shuffled off his mortal coil (which he would like her to presume), the man admits to having played a hand of paranormal poker and betting years of his life. While the first dude we saw in the show clearly lost, this one won.
A phone call to Bobby confirms that there is lore about a traveling card player making deals. The phone call also prompts Bobby to decide that all his best years are behind him, so what does he have to lose? A lot of years apparently, because the next time we see him, he's leaving a two man poker game with not much time left. (I was having trouble with the CW all night. There were a lot of scratchy sounds in the audio, so I'm not sure whether Bobby bet 25 yrs, 35 or 45). Dean meets up with Patrick, an Irish accented 900 yr old "he-witch" and demands to play for Bobby's years. And, as anyone who saw the previews knows, he promptly loses.
Sam comes back to their hotel room to find Bobby and Dean bickering and pronounces them "Grumpy Old Men." (The interactions between them did crack me up.) When they break into Patrick's place to steal poker chips, they're caught by Patrick and his powerful girlfriend (who may have been helping him scam people in a bar earlier). She and Patrick let Dean and Sam go after Dean insists that Sam cannot play for Dean's years (dudes, break the cycle of co-dependent martyrdom already). But first the he-witch gives Sam a slow round of applause that he calls a "parting gift." Dean deduces when leaving that Sam was just given the Clap.
Bobby and Dean bicker some more but they both agree Sam isn't a badass enough poker player to bring down someone of Patrick's caliber. Suddenly they receive help from an unexpected quarter--Patrick's girlfriend who while, perhaps not quite his 900 years, says she looks really good for her age. She gives them a powerful reversal spell to undo everything he's done (although it will only help people actually alive.) Dean and Bobby (whom Dean is now calling Ironsides) start working on the spell part. Sam, seemingly going rogue and ignoring Dean and Bobby's advice (what is this, season four?), shows up to play poker with Patrick. In an odd little moment, we see Patrick deliberately fold to an older guy who wants to live to see his grand daughter's Bat Mitzvah. Not sure what the takeaway from this was supposed to be, but I did find Patrick to be a refreshing change from black eyed hell demons.
About halfway through the game, when Sam exits with Patrick's toothpick, we learn that he's there on behalf of Dean & Bobby because they need Patrick's DNA to make the reversal spell work. Unfortunately, Patrick has played Sam in more ways than one, because the toothpick he let him take had no DNA and Patrick is not happy that people are trying to cheat. In fact, he seems poised to kill Sam when his loonnnnnnng-time girlfriend (did she have a name? anyone else catch it?) interrupts that she gave the Winchesters the spell in the first place and that he "knows why."
So not everything gets reversed, but Sam actually wins his poker game--4 fours to 3 Aces--thereby winning Dean back his life. And Jensen Ackles is adorable as he comes out of the building doing a jig.
We go back to Patrick and girl whose name I didn't catch and he's protesting that he doesn't want to play her but she insists--apparently she had a daughter once who aged and died and the girl misses her family and has grown tired saying that there way of life just isn't natural. (Well, duh. See the name of the show.) Parts of this storyline (such as her randomly appearing with the spell) seemed almost anticlimatic to me (although kudos that it wasn't the deux ex spell-china that saved them) but this little bit at the end with the two distraught and apparently not purely evil lovers was decently acted.
Finally, a scene where Dean and Bobby "feel their feelings" and Dean insists that just because Bobby can't walk doesn't make him any less of a solider and that furthermore, he's family and Dean needs him.
All in all, not a bad 'sode. Certainly it won't be making the list of my top ten favorites (especially when I am so anxiously awaiting next week's, which looks very promising) but I liked it. It was more sibling bickering and funny exchanges than brooding brotherly angst and guilt over who broke the first and last seals etc. Also, do love Bobby!
What did you guys think? Favorite lines? Did you think that this week's "bad guy" wasn't quite scary or evil enough to give us the usual drama or was it a nice new take? (Hey, I just realized, I made it through a whole ep and didn't have to peek through my fingers once! Of course, with Jensen conspiciously absent, my motivation to look at the TV wasn't as strong either...)

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- British Grand Prix 1952
Silverstone witnesses Ascari masterclassMartin Williamson July 19, 1952
- Race:
- British Grand Prix
- Championship:
- FIA World Drivers' Championship
- Drivers:
- Alberto Ascari
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- Dennis Poore
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- Piero Taruffi
Alberto Ascari's third successive win all but secured him the drivers' title even though there still three of the eight rounds remaining. Such was his and Ferrari's dominance it was almost inconceivable that anyone else could match them.
More than 100,000 spectators descended on Silverstone for the British Grand Prix, many to see how the British Connaught and BRM teams were progressing even if it was accepted they could not compete with the higher-powered Ferraris.
Although Nino Farina took pole, his race was blighted by engine problems and Ascari took the lead from the start and was never challenged. He established a new lap record on a modified circuit and finished a lap ahead of team-mate Piero Taruffi.
The best of the Brits was Mike Hawthorn in his Cooper Bristol but the Surrey-based Connaught team gave good account of itself with Dennis Poore finishing in fourth ahead of team-mate Eric Thompson in their Lea Francis-engined machines, funded by Sir Kenneth McAlpine.
Farina, struggling with down on power engine, finally limped into sixth place. The Gordinis had problems so British drivers Reg Parnell, Roy Salvadori and Ken Downing took the next finishing positions.
Martin Williamson is managing editor of digital media ESPN EMEA


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Vancouver Whitecaps FC women (2W-3L-3D) are coming off an impressive weekend. One, in which, they captured four out of a possible six points in the United Soccer Leagues (USL) W-League.
This included a 2-0 victory over Santa Clarita Blue Heat on Friday and a 0-0 draw against the first-place Pali Blues on Sunday.
Now, the 'Caps face their toughest test of the season, as they travel to California to take on Pali in the second match of a back-to-back series of league games. Jesse Symons' side, who are now unbeaten in five straight matches, will look to extends that streak it six games on Wednesday night.
This will mark the start of the 'Caps longest road trip of the season, as the Blue and White will be California dreaming, with three games over the Canada Day long weekend.
Vancouver's last game was a hard fought defensive stalemate with the Blues at Kinsmen Stadium in North Vancouver, BC. The 'Caps became the first team to capture a point off the W-League Western Conference leaders.
Although Whitecaps FC played well, they did not quite generate enough offensively. "I look for us to be more aware and precise in regards to when we can play through them," Symons told whitecapsfc.com.
The 'Caps will also look to come up with a game plan to deal with Pali's size, as their centre back combination of Christie Shaner and former Vancouver player Sasha Andrews gave the 'Caps fits, especially on set-pieces.
"We have to focus on not giving up so many fouls," noted Symons. "We controlled their centre backs on set-pieces pretty well, but you can't give them endless chances to score."
Overall, it was a tidy defensive performance from a Whitecaps FC team that is looking to get as many points as they can right now to help them climb up the Western Conference standings.
"The players were pleased to get a point off Pali, but nowhere near satisfied," claimed Symons. "We will look to carry the momentum we have created over the last five games forward."
Pali returns home for their first home game in over three weeks. The Blues are coming off a five-game road trip and one which saw Pali play three games in six days in the Pacific Northwest.
Charlie Naimo's squad captured a huge 2-0 victory over Seattle Sounders FC Women last Wednesday, then a 4-0 victory over Victoria Highlanders FC on Friday night. However, on Sunday afternoon, they succumbed to their fatigue and a focused 'Caps squad.
The draw was the first point Pali has given up to an opponent this season, as they have amassed a record of 9W-0L-1D, while having a goal differential of plus 24.
Although the Blues carried the majority of the play, the 'Caps back four, along with goalkeeper Gurveen Clair, were solid and kept a dangerous Pali attack at bay.
With only four games remaining on the Blues schedule and all of them coming at home, Pali will look to wrap up top spot in the Western Conference in their coming games.
Whitecaps FC women will then travel to the greater Los Angeles area and venture to Occidental College to take on LA Strikers this Friday night at 7 p.m. PT.
The Blue and White return home for their final home match of the season versus British Columbia rivals Victoria Highlanders FC on Sunday, July 8. Kickoff from Minoru Park in Richmond, BC, is set for 4 p.m. PT.


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Things that still suck, in case you thought there'd been a change:
• The Mets
• The MTA
• Cody Ross
• Fireworks Night
The Mets and their 5-3 loss in which Matt Harvey couldn't rescue them and they couldn't rescue Matt Harvey speaks for itself (and I believe the word it spoke was "feh"). Wednesday was yet another night of waiting, though unlike Monday and Tuesday, there was nothing worth waiting for.
Cody Ross…no further elaboration needed; I felt terrible watching Gerardo Parra bounce his head off the warning track Monday night but am not sure I wouldn't treat Cody Ross in the same situation like a sizable plurality treated Jason Bay under similar circumstances, which is to say deplorably. So there goes my shot at the B'Nai Brith Humanitarian of the Year Award.
The MTA is on my The Out-of-Towners-style list of those people Jack Lemmon as George Kellerman planned to bring to justice. Their transgressions were…
a) not having a Super Express available after the game for those of us who preferred leaving Mets-Willets Point at 12:30 AM instead of sticking around for displays of colored lights;
b) having what appeared to be a local that would get me to Woodside in ample time for the 12:50 AM whoosh through the station without stopping;
c) the Long Island Rail Road not noticing a 7 pulling in upstairs at Woodside and holding the 12:50 to, oh, 12:52 when the next train where I, among many others, was going wasn't coming until 2:04 AM. Nice coordination, fellas.
Oh, and Fireworks Night can blow itself. Or blow itself up. I have nothing against fireworks per se and if the Mets want to treat loyal Mets fans to fireworks after a Mets game — ideally after one that wasn't delayed for nearly two hours at its start by omnipresent rain — that's fine. My problem with Fireworks Night, in brief, is that it apparently attracts tens of thousands of people who wouldn't ordinarily attend Mets games, people whose interest in the outcome of the Mets game is minimal, people who do a very aggressive wave in the third inning of Harvey Night, people who sit behind me who don't shut up for a second and start vociferously rooting out of the blue for Cody Ross to hit one out "so we can have some action" and then Cody Ross hits one out. It was swell to have Citi Field full. It was lousy to have Citi Field full of what a dear friend aptly refers to as bananaheads.
How much did Fireworks Night 2013 suck? So much that I even briefly found myself regretting having attended Fireworks Night thirteen years earlier, for if the memory of Piazza capping off the ten-run inning didn't burn so brightly, I might not have fallen for, "Well, they came back once before…" and made the 12:50.
And with that Metstivus litany of all the ways what should have been a splendid evening disappointed me, we reach the halfway point of this mostly miserable season on a pace for 70 wins, which sadly sounds much better than I would have expected. Besides the revelation of Matt Harvey and the plethora of weird-ass games, the big story of the first half to me is how replaceable almost everybody on this roster has been. I used to love Ruben Tejada. Now I all but forget about Ruben Tejada. My "WE LIKE IKE" t-shirt just makes me sad. If I could trade it in on a "WE DON'T NECESSARILY DISLIKE IKE, BUT, UH…" model, I would. And for all my fleeting fondness for the recent crop of retreads, I can already feel their magic wearing off. Sure, I'll take Josh Satin (the Bronx and Staten Island) as well as EY and Brownie and whatever Omar Quintanilla's cute nickname might be, but I can see throwing them overboard at the first sign of stagnation. If not for Harvey's majesty and our sturdy standard-bearer Wright, I might not qualify for the fan loyalty program that would entitle me to those hypothetical earned fireworks nights.
Who am I kidding? They'll stop blowing stuff up and Citi Field will revert back to being the province of me, Joe (who invited me Wednesday night when he lucked into primo seats and had no inkling of how much everything would suck), the dozen or so like-minded individuals I keep running into, some camp group in matching shirts, a cadre of overserved underage LIRR commuters who've been pounding Bud Lights since Massapequa and the occasional condescending Cardinals fan. Yeah, I'll be back in the second half — the second half of this season and the second half of my first century. That is if my train's on time and they start to play by nine.


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BP CEO Tony Hayward says the reservoir that feeds the gushing well in the Gulf of Mexico probably still holds about 2 billion gallons of oil.
Appearing before a House subcommittee, Hayward estimated that the reservoir tapped by the out-of-control well holds at least 50 million barrels of oil. At 42 gallons per barrel, that's 2.1 billion gallons.
According to government estimates of daily flow figures, anywhere from 73.5 million to 126 million gallons gushed from the breached wellhead — whether into the water or captured.
That means the reservoir likely holds 94 to 97 percent of its oil. At the current flow rate, it would take from two to nearly four years for all the oil to leak from the field if it can't be stopped.
- BP CEO Tony Hayward attends glitzy yacht race; Gulf residents infuriated
- Dead sperm whale found floating near BP oil site
- Gulf oil spill: Will Obama regret his '90 percent' promise?
- Readers weigh in: What to do about BP? Would a boycott be productive?


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David Brewis of School of Language and Field Music fame has just finished his second solo album, Old Fears (out this week on Memphis Industries). As well as engineering, producing, mixing and mastering every Field Music and SoL release, he also produces for other bands from his studio in Sunderland. He gave DiS a special tour of where the magic happens...
The Field Music studio is not a luxurious place. A couple of rooms built inside an industrial unit with charity shop curtains on the walls, a lot of (mostly very cheap) equipment and a coffee machine. I don't hold with the mystique that surrounds vintage and rare equipment. The way I see it is you use what you have to make the best sounds you can. That's just as well because the analogue synths and boutique microphones are mostly way out of our price bracket.
A lot of our most characterful gear is therefore from the period from, say, 1979 to 1986. An era which cool has not quite reclaimed. The pick of the bunch is the genuinely sought after Yamaha CP70B electric grand piano, which really is a baby grand piano, albeit one which splits in two (the keys/hammers in one section and the harp in the other) and has a pickup on every string.
If you see any concert footage of huge bands in the early 80s, chances are they'll be using one of these. They were cutting edge. Grand pianos are a bit of a nightmare on a loud stage so the CP70 solved a big problem at big gigs. However, they are excruciatingly heavy. They were supposed to be portable but portability is relative and this is the kind of instrument a team of roadies was made for. I suppose it sounds somewhere in between an acoustic piano and a Wurlitzer or Rhodes electric piano (which use tines or bars rather than strings to make the sound) but it is beautiful in its own right. It features on almost every track on Old Fears, as well as playing a big role in every Field Music record. We do have a nice-sounding upright piano in the studio but it wouldn't have sounded right for this record.
We might not be gear obsessives but it's sometimes worth seeking out the unusual in order to get a sound that fits. The world of small-scale manufacturers and revampers has been our friend here. Most of the singing on the record was recorded with one of two microphones. First is the Oktava(mod) MK319 which is a Russian microphone tinkered with by a New Englander named Michael Joly. We do have a much more expensive, and great-sounding, early 80s Neumann U87 but the Oktava seems to suit my voice better. We also use it to record drums and acoustic guitars, not that there are any acoustic guitars on the School of Language record.
The second main vocal microphone is a super-cheap, Chinese-made Nady ribbon microphone which was recently souped-up by a company from York called Xaudia. This has also been in service above our drum kit since 2006. I've become a huge fan of ribbon microphones. They're quite simple so even good ones can be quite cheap. There's a bloke in Seattle called Jon Ulrigg who builds his own "Shinybox" mics using Chinese mic casings. Ours has also just had some remedial work done down in York in order to reclaim its regular place sitting in front of our Fender Deluxe Reverb guitar amp. I'd guess that in the last 5 years 95% of all of our electric guitar parts have been recorded with this mic and this amp.
For years my main guitar has been a battered late-60s Gibson SG Special. It's an amazing guitar with a very particular sound and it's all over every Field Music record and the first School of Language record too. However, it has two problems. For one, it really only does one thing. It doesn't have an adaptable sound. Secondly, it's such a strange mutant hybrid that if it was ever lost or stolen or damaged, there would be no way to replace it. So, to counter this (and as a combined result of wanting to get closer to the guitar sounds on Eleanor Friedberger's album before I went away on tour with her, and also of being hugely jealous of how great Emily from Stealing Sheep sounds) I decided to look for a stratocaster-type guitar. Lo and behold, the aquatics/guitar shop (- still haven't figured that one out so don't ask) around the corner from my house was selling a Vintage V6 strat copy. I tried it out. It felt nice. It sounded nice. It was so cheap I couldn't resist. It needed a little bit of tarting up but that guitar not only got me through the tour with Eleanor, it's also the main guitar sound on the new record, along with a Vintage V52 tele copy which I picked up a little bit later. I wanted something which was thin and wiry and these two cheapo numbers did the trick. They've also helped me to hone my Nile Rodgers and Prince impersonations.
The new School of Language album, Old Fears, is released this week via Memphis Industries.
School Of Language have the following shows booked:
April 7th – Newcastle, The Cluny
April 10th – Paris, Point Ephemere
April 22th – Bristol, Exchange
April 23th – London, The Lexington
April 25th – Glasgow, Broadcast
April 26th – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
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There was apparently a top-secret live draft at Teddy's Bar and Grill in Williamsburg this past weekend, where players drafted their team of top political figures and media-savvy elected official from City Hall to Washington, D.C.
In a nutshell, players will get points when one of the politicos in their stable gets positive press or passes legislation, and lose points for negative press and public slip-ups and gaffes.
We here at Pol Position love the idea, and it reminds us of our own political competition - the XPols - where we gave out points for such random acts of politicking as renaming streets, cutting ribbons, and handing out giant oversized checks (our personal fave!).
In fact, we would like to pay tribute to two stars of the XPols who are no longer with us, and by that we mean no longer in public office, not dead: former councilmen David Weprin and Eric Gioia. Both embodied the nature of the XPols, especially David Weprin, who had his own giant dry erase board check that year after year propelled him to the top of the standings.
We're not sure how anonymous this new fantasy contest is - we here at Pol Position don't really condone hiding behind fake identities, that's for sure. But whatever details we can bring you about the teams, the players, and the politicos, as well as how they're doing, we'll be sure to let you know.


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Sun Fin wrote:James wrote:I've posted some other ideas too.
Ok I'll start work on 'Guan Yu and Zhang Fei-History and Novel' idea if you have no objection?
I'd still like to do this.
For my history Coursework I'm doing an essay about the Sun Clan, (theres a thread about it somewhere) I'd be more than happy to give it over to this after its marked (so I can't be blamed of plagurising my own work )


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Warner to quit free music streaming (Spotify)
I don't mind paying a service like Spotify for streaming, and I wouldn't mind Spotify putting parts of a steadily growing catalog behind a subscription paywall.
But if major labels start withdrawing their content before services like these get a chance to develop properly, I guess it's back to not paying shit for major label music and developing encrypted p2p in case you wanna discover music through other sources than fucked up FM radio cesspits. Huge tech projects like Spotify need time. We're talking 5+ years, which was the time it took for Last.fm to develop into a nice, mature service. And one thing is certain, the major music labels couldn't and wouldn't have built anything approaching the non-shittiness of Spotify on their own. At this point it's clear to me that that record labels are as greedy as anyone and that they need someone with an outsider's perspective and interests to produce products that don't anal probe their users constantly.
And as far as download stores are concerned: The recording industry is still failing to deliver FLAC, lossless/full quality, downloads, which is what I require for purchases (well, following my statement about outsiders, this would be Apple's or Spotify's job). For me, there's no problem in paying for streaming from a giant catalog in a good quality format like the 320 kbps Vorbis Spotify delivers to subscribers of their premium service. But I'm not paying for lossy archive copies.
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I think it's important to talk about Moral Mondays here, to explain why I got involved, why I got arrested on May 13, and why I continue to go for the rallies.
First of all, let me say in response to those who say we can't accomplish anything with these demonstrations, I wouldn't have gone if I didn't think we could make a difference, and I am willing to tolerate the vitriol of people who would discourage us because I think they are afraid of us and what we stand for.
I go because I feel a moral obligation to protest the General Assembly's and the governor's refusal to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Their ideological decision puts a half-million lives at risk in this state, and estimates are that at least 2,000 will die prematurely because of this decision,
Those lives matter to me. Each one of them matters. I don't care if it is a homeless person who is addicted to drugs and alcohol. I believe each life has worth. If you don't believe the same, please don't call yourself pro-life in front of me.
My primary passion is health care, but when we take away unemployment compensation from more than 70,000 people, it has consequences. Most of them also lack access to health care because you can't pay for COBRA if you don't have any income, and most adults aren't eligible for Medicaid here in NC.
When we de-fund schools, we rob children of the chance to rise out of poverty and provide for themselves and their families. They also will be the ones most likely to not have access to health care later on.
These issues are deeply connected to each other. Living wage impacts poverty, and all the stresses that come with it. People who have enough to live on are healthier overall because they don't have the stresses associated with poverty.
I have visited my legislators repeatedly to educate them on the importance of access to health care and about the lower costs associated with access to care. My representative voted against Medicaid expansion. He voted to cut unemployment benefits. He supports a voter ID law that is a thinly disguised poll tax.
I am frustrated beyond words. I cannot fathom the reasoning behind barring access to health care for 500,000 people.
Our state's computer system is their first excuse. It isn't up to the task, they say. But then they decline to mention that we turned down federal money to upgrade the system.
When I reminded them of that, they said we have to fix Medicaid first. Well, North Carolina's Medicaid system was a national model until its funding was slashed two years ago. Restore the funding and the system will be a model again. Instead, though, they are going to try and privatize it the way they did with the mental health system a decade ago. That "reform," you may recall, was an unmitigated disaster.
When I explain that, they usually have a meeting they have to rush off to.
They aren't listening, and it frustrates those of us who oppose what they're doing. My heart breaks for people who will die because of these misguided decisions; it breaks for the families of those casualties.
Unless you have held the hand of a loved one as he or she dies unnecessarily, you can't know the pain.
As a person of faith, I take seriously the Bible's instruction to care for "the least of these." And it is not just Christianity that requires this of people; it is a basic tenet of every major religion, and it is important to just about every atheist I know.
That's why nearly 400 people have gone into the Legislature Building and been arrested. Dozens of them are clergy. Some are teachers and professors, students, old, young, black, white, Asian, hippies and lawyers. This is a diverse crowd, and its members are passionate about justice for all North Carolinians, not just the wealthiest.
As the ones being arrested go into the building, they are cheered by a crowd of thousands. Hundreds of people move to the side of the building to await the departure of prison buses filled with people who are not afraid to speak truth to power.
When I was arrested, those cheering voices assured me I was doing the right thing. They gave me courage and hope.
I do not go to Moral Mondays for political reasons; I go for moral reasons. I go because if I do nothing, I am as much to blame as those taking the immoral actions.
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It looks like the mucosa has a villous appearance, with smooth muscle proliferation and capillary dilation in the lamina propria and possibly some mild gland dilation. I can't tell if there's chronic gastris, but if there is it looks mild. How about focal reactive foveolar hyperplasia with a polypoid appearance by endoscopy (i.e. an "early hyperplasic polyp")?
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Great Job, K Youens At our practice, the canned comment for reactive foveolar hyperplasia is as follows: Foveolar hyperplasia is non-specific, and can be seen as a reactive process as in reactive gastropathy (chemical gastritis including NSAID effect, bile gastritis and post-gastrectomy state), as well as adjacent to lesions such as an erosion, ulcer, polyp, or other neoplasm. Some authors also feel that it represents a type of polyp, or a subtype or precursor of a benign hyperplastic inflammatory polyp.
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Arrow #1 shows smooth muscle proliferation stretching up into the lamina propria. Arrow #2 shows capillary dilation in the lamina propria and Arrow #3 shows some reactive appearing epithial cells.
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This week, we'll get reminders of the turbulent times in which we live. And that's just the economy.
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On Friday, the government is to release its initial estimate of economic growth in the first three months of this year. Many economists are looking for first-quarter gross domestic product rising at an annual rate of about 3%. U.S. growth virtually stalled out in the final quarter of 2012. Continuing this stop-start action, but perhaps to a lesser degree, the experts tell us that we'll see less growth in the current quarter. The recent slowing is blamed on two things:
The forced federal spending cuts which took effect March 1. The expiration of the payroll tax cut at the beginning of the year.
Gus Faucher, senior economist with The PNC Financial Services Group, says growth may fall below 2% in the second quarter. "We've been bouncing around a lot," he says. Even so, he thinks 2% will be the growth trend for all of 2013. Housing recovery continues
If you've been hearing where a certain home sells quickly, that occurrence appears to be the exception and not the rule. This week, two key reports are due on the housing market:
March existing home sales, Monday from the National Association of Realtors, New home sales, Tuesday from the Commerce Department.
David Crowe, chief economist for the National Association of Home Builders, calls it a "modest-movement-forward kind of market." In other words, he's not jumping up and down with excitement. Nor are the builders that his group represents. "My builders aren't telling me that they're getting multiple bids on their homes. Buyers are still bargain-hunting and they're expecting a deal. Some of the buyers aren't able to qualify for a mortgage yet after they've shopped." Crowe says one-third of builders surveyed indicate that they've lost at least one sale because a home appraisal came in below the agreed-to sales price. The case for a weaker economy
While there's been increased speculation the Federal Reserve might begin to taper its program of $85 billion in monthly asset purchases by the end of the year, a few experts are bearish on the economy. One of the more negative outlooks comes from Scott Anderson, chief economist with San Francisco-based Bank of the West.
You've heard about the recent sharp decline in gold prices? Anderson says falling commodity prices in general are a sign that global demand is sinking, foretelling a bigger economic slowdown than most people expect. Anderson says "we're in a real unbalanced recovery in the U.S. as well as globally." He says signs of deflation in wholesale prices will begin to filter through to the consumer level. Anderson says the nation's unemployment rate will be at 7.6% at year-end, unchanged from March as reported by the Labor Department earlier this month.
As a result of the tepid recovery he sees, Anderson says the Fed won't be in a position to begin pulling back on asset purchases this year. That means interest rates stay low, a positive for borrowers but lousy for savers. This week in business history
With attentions recently focused on dramatic news coming out of Boston, it is noteworthy that the American journalism industry traces its roots to colonial times in the region. On April 24, 1704, The Boston News-Letter began publishing. It is credited as being the first continuously published newspaper in the colonies. Since then, the U.S. has been regarded as the standard bearer of freedom of the press. The printed newspaper business has seen a huge disruption in recent years by the free distribution of content afforded by the Internet.


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NEW YORK, April 27 (UPI) -- Bill "Moose" Skowron, a six-time all-star over a 14-year major-league career, died Friday at the age of 81.
Skowron was diagnosed with cancer a year ago. He died at a hospital in Illinois, the New York Yankees said in a statement.
Skowron was selected as an all-star five times with the New York Yankees and once while with the White Sox in his native Chicago.
He was a World Series champions five times -- 1956, 1958, 1961 and 1962 with the Yankees and 1963 when the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Yankees in four games.
"Moose will always be remembered as being one of the key members of the Yankees' dynasties in the '50s and early '60s," said Yankees Managing General Partner Hal Steinbrenner.
"He was a winner in every sense of the word and someone the Yankees family cared deeply for. Baseball lost one of its finest ambassadors."
Skowron broke into the major leagues in 1954 with the New York Yankees and played with the Yankees for nine seasons. He also played for the White Sox, Washington Senators and Dodgers before wrapping up his career in 1967 with the California Angels.
He hit .282 over 1,658 games with 211 home runs and 888 runs batted in.
Skowron attended Purdue University on a football scholarship before focusing in baseball.


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Army Corps of Engineers cuts down trees in Jamestown to save levees.
FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate said changing language and redefining FEMA's and the public's roles in mitigation are looming challenges.
New data exchange standard could eliminate more than 32 million 911 calls nationally.
Grant process also includes steps to facilitate an easier application process.
Text messaging 911 a positive step, but not as efficient as a phone call.
Culpeper, Va., uses public safety group's life-saving guidecards and training program.
Emergency Management Commissioner Joseph Bruno discusses infrastructure and community outreach.
Center for Domestic Preparedness course.
Emergency managers could use Vine to communicate with citizens.
U.S. Indian Health Service urges creating emergency preparedness plans.
Public safety communications would benefit from national broadband network.
Technological advances spur growth of large-scale video surveillance networks.
Arkansas CTO Claire Bailey gets agencies and local governments to communicate via 700/800 MHz system.
Recent suicides show risks of household chemicals for EMS, fire and police.
Ellen Gordon is reported to be one of two finalists to lead FEMA as the director under the Obama administration.
Federal grant money for border, port, transportation security and wildfire mitigation also included.
Products from Carson Manufacturing, Otterbox, Global Net Productions, Spatial Networks.
Donated radios aid communication for Grady County, Okla., police and fire departments.
Flynn discusses homeland security and national resilience.
Galloway says flood management policy progress is slow.
Floodwater management needs a broader approach, experts say.
Emergency management expert Gordon Graham addresses risk management, homeland security at IAEM Conference.
Government, nonprofits and businesses are not as prepared as they would like in the event of an act of terror or other crisis.
David Brailer on Health IT; Emergency Managers Ponder Climate Change
New FEMA Funding Priorities; Inside A Mobile Command Center
Weather system shows no mercy on residents and strains emergency managers.
FEMA funding will emphasize emergency response planning and citizen preparation.
Gary has a technology vision for schools
New vision for schools and the county
A few policy changes that should benefit locals have trickled out of the Department of Homeland Security.
New overlay software is proving its worth as a wireless communications tool for law enforcement.
Supporters say the act's enhancement of information sharing would have helped connect the dots between terrorists.
Stanislaus County, Calif. to simplify procedures at juvenile detention facility
$700 million available for cities, counties and partners
The National Interoperability Scorecard found marked improvements in security, standards and technology, and coordination and partnerships in developing wireless interoperability between justice agencies.
Outsourcing and other options are back on the table as states scramble for answers to a dire budget situation.
But most Americans demand privacy safeguards as well.
Delaware joins 33 other states in implementing AMBER Alert system.
Texas County will automate all elements of the judicial process from arrest through disposition with new software.
Sept. 11 was an eye opener but the issues surrounding critical identity search are not new.
AMS develops system for Defense Logistics Agency.
Project focuses on identifying glide-path obstructions around U.S. airfields
Federal, state and local agencies are working together on Internet Crimes Against Children task forces.
Start-up hopes to use knowledge of how the human brain functions to improve video technology.
The tool helps law enforcement quickly identify inappropriate or illegal computer graphics files in ambient storage areas of computer hard disk drives.
A police-contracting computer evidence specialist says evidence eliminator strips law-enforcement officers of their power and should be banned.
The disaster tolerant configuration allows another center to resume full operation with accurate up-to-date information if the communication center becomes inoperable.
A federal agency charged with defending the homeland has purchased 6,500 cryptographic smart cards to secure sensitive data stored on laptop computers.
Who is getting out of jail? What crimes are on the rise? Those questions are among those that are answered by visiting a unique Albuquerque Web site.
Riverside County, Calif., ups the ante to attract and keep quality staff.
Following the terrorist attacks, the FBI scrambles to put its IT program on the fast track.
What you don't know may hurt you when dealing with a chemical, radiological or biological threat.


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Graduation Ceremony @ INTI University College
I'm officially graduated on a Friday the 13th! Yay!
Nothing much to be said besides expressing my happiness for graduating from INTI.
Anyway, we registered ourselves at 8am at the Sports Hall, and had photo sessions.
That's roughly the number of people graduating on that day, both Degree and Diploma holders.
BITCU. Business & Information Technology, Coventry University. That was the Degree I wanted to study when I stepped foot in INTI, but somehow I changed my mind and studied Software Engineering instead. Oh yeah, try pronouncing the abbreviation. ;)
The ceremony was held at the Multi-Purpose Hall and it started at about 10.30am. My Software Engineering course was the last to go on stage.
That is my Head of Programme, Mr. Goh, and I.
You know what he told me before he announced my name? He said "You still owe me a McD Burger!". Well, that's because he helped me promote my McValue Lunch contest entry during class. Yeah, in class! Cool eh? =)
Sir, one day… One day ya? =)
So that's me, accepting my certificate from the Pro-Vice-Chancellor from Coventry University, UK.
After the ceremony at the Multi-Purpose Hall, we went back to Sports Hall to take pictures and have refreshments.
Here is the group picture of the First Class holders.
I got this bouquet of flowers from my parents.
Feels gay holding the flowers.
Anyway, I don't fancy wearing the mortar board. It ruins my hair (not that I have stylish hairstyle or what) and I didn't wanna take it off initially.
But I had to – since we wanna take a photo of us throwing our mortar board.
So I had to "adjust" my hair. And I think I look totally better with my hair instead.
I wonder who created this throw-mortar-board action. What does it symbolizes? Freedom? I think so…
By the way, I finally know how the 'cape' is worn. Actually just wear it, fold it a little and that's it!
For your information, the cape's blue and gold colour represents the colour of Coventry University. Now we know why it comes in different colours.
The Sports Hall was packed with people after the ceremony. Graduated students were busy taking pictures for memories and some were eating the free food.
And unfortunately I didn't eat the free, I repeat FREE, food because I was too busy snapping pictures.
But in the end, it's better not to eat since many friends made remarks that I got fatter! Aiyo…
In case you guys missed it earlier and still wondering what classification I got for my Degree, I think this picture will do the talking…
It's a good effort I guess? =)
Anyway, besides the flowers I got from my parents, I got this too…
A gift from INTI – a pot of… plant! The guy behind must be thinking I'm an idiot.
So that's all, this entry wraps up another chapter of my life! Thank you INTI for everything, except for making me fatter! =)
P/S: I didn't include pictures of friends and myself here because I don't wanna bore you guys with my fat face, but they'll be certainly be uploaded to my Facebook.


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Mark Driscoll, Thomas Nelson Launch New Book 'Who Do You Think You Are?'
Mark Driscoll, Thomas Nelson Launch New Book 'Who Do You Think You Are?'
Mars Hill Church preaching pastor Mark Driscoll has announced the launch of his new title, Who Do You Think You Are?, calling the book about helping believers finding an identity in Jesus Christ "the best thing I've ever written."
Driscoll, who has authored 16 previous titles, shared with supporters on Facebook Thursday that with Who Do You Think You Are? now completed, he was preparing for his next project.
"With (the) next book done, I've got some good traction on the next book after that. Writing furiously today," he wrote.
Who Do You Think You Are? will be published by Thomas Nelson in Jan. 2013, and is available for pre-ordering online. The Seattle megachurch pastor shared earlier this week that he was meeting with Thomas Nelson's marketing team to discuss the book, saying, "Honestly, (the) best thing I've ever written."
The book aims to help Christians use "fundamental truths" to live out their identities in Christ and experience the "real joy and freedom" that brings, according to the publisher. The book also speaks to those who are "spiritual and curious about what it means to practically live as a Christian."
"Being a Christian can be like driving in a foreign city. You try living on the straight and narrow but instead take a wrong turn onto the wide avenue of sin and temptation. In the process, you become discouraged and condemned, limping along in your faith — or giving up altogether. But this isn't the real Christian life. You can make a U-turn," reads the book's description.
"The fundamental problem we have in this world," Driscoll has said, "is that we don't understand who we truly are — children of God made in his image — and define ourselves by any number of things other than Jesus. Only by knowing our false identity apart from Christ in comparison to our true identity in him can we finally deal with and overcome the issues in our lives."
Who Do You Think You Are?'s description adds: "You aren't what's been done to you but what Jesus has done for you. You aren't what you do but what Jesus has done. What you do doesn't determine who you are. Rather, who you are in Christ determines what you do. "
Driscoll, whose last book was No. 1 New York Times bestseller Real Marriage, touched on the subject matter of Who Do You Think You Are? during the 2012 Resurgence Conference (R12) last month in Irvine, Calif.
"Most people, even those who are Christian, don't have a very good sense of who they are in Christ," he said at R12, attended by more than 2,000 church leaders.
"Your identity is in this constant state of chaos and change and influenced sometimes positively and sometimes negatively. What this leads to is a very inconsistent emotional and spiritual life. These are the things ( achievements, duties, and material possessions) that may explain you, but they do not define you."
The subject of Driscoll's Jan. 2012 book, Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together, was considered controversial by some, as he and his wife, Grace Driscoll, discuss topics dealing with sexuality often considered taboo in the Church.
Driscoll is the founding pastor of Mars Hill Church, as well as the founder of Resurgence, a ministry for Christian leaders. He has helped to co-found church-planting network Acts 29, as well as Churches Helping Churches with fellow minister James McDonald of Harvest Bible Chapel in Illinois.


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Two weeks ago I shared my list of some Pro's to Being Single. Ask a young single male what's on his list, and I'm certain it would grow ten fold. Ask a man who is afraid of commitment and the list, which is no doubt written in stone, takes on a life of its own. Ask someone who lost a love and yet another view. Married, Single, Divorced, Separated, Unavailable,
Chicken we all have different lists. We all have Pro's and Con's depending where we are in life, what we want, need, or are ready for. We go from being single to attached when we meet someone we don't want to be without and vice-versa!
Pro's to Being Attached ~
- Butterflies escape each time your thoughts go to the man you fiercely desire ~
- You have a smile on your face that whispers "I have a secret" that comes from deep inside your soul ~
- When you lock the door, it's just you, him and passion bouncing off the walls, ceiling and floor ~
- Music fills the air regardless if the stereo is on ~
- Your heart races, feeling like it's going to beat right out of your chest when you hear his sexy voice ~
- Your desire to be naked outweighs your common sense *wink* ~
- Travel and life experience is enriched when you are together ~
- You rush home when you have GREAT News to share ~
- The messy bed is a reminder of what you have, just had, are going to have & want more of ~
- When you slip between the sheets his essence is still there, because he is ~
- You subconsciously inhaling deeply when he enters the room darting straight to his neck, scent is intoxicating ~
- You cook together, teasing one another…dinner goes cold more often than not ~
- You wake up in the middle of the night with his arms wrapped around you feeling safe and loved ~
- You can lay in bed talking to the wee hours of the morning face to face, or spoon in silence ~
- He loves when you are right out of the shower, fresh and natural ~
- You yearn to be in his presence, he embraces you for all you are ~
- He loves your new tattoo, because he loves you ~
- He wants to kiss you Good-night, Good-afternoon & Good-morning ~
- He makes the BEST morning coffee that has ever touched your lips ~
- Your family becomes his and his becomes yours ~
- You have a go-to-guy when you need one ~
- You have a male best friend…not to be mistaken for a girlfriend ~
- When you go out with the girls, he's there keeping the bed warm ~
- Sex, sex, sex that leads somewhere magical ~
- Intimacy ~
- Lust and Love are experienced together, growing deeper with time ~
- You have a man to grow old with, share life with, unfold with ~
- You can look into his eyes from across the room knowing he's yours later ~
- (Insert record scratching sound here)…and then he says something that totally pisses you off and it's like some total hottie came by and fertilized the crap out of the grass on the 'other-side' making it greener than you have EVER seen before…and the 'other' list grows…the End ~
- Sorry I couldn't resist! My only advice if you're thinking of making a list…use pencil!
- Btw the grass is NOT always greener on the 'other-side' but it is greener where you fertilize it…just sayin ~
It's wonderful when you meet the right person and commit to them with mind, body and spirit, the hard part is finding the right person. When you do you don't need a list.
Life is Meant to Be Shared...eventually when the time and person is right ~


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Some Trouble with Wildcard SSL Certificates, FireFox and RFC2818
When working on a non-finance website recently, the client wanted to include the username as the subdomain, to give the user more of a sense of "my site." So, Fred gets https://fred.foo.com as his address.
The client purchased a very expensive (US$500) "Wildcard SSL Certificate" for https://*.foo.com and it works fine.
Some trouble happened when a staging site was introduced. Now we're looking at https://fred.staging.foo.com for the URL.
This works fine in FireFox 2 as seen in this screenshot:
But IE7 really doesn't like it. Your first reaction might be to get mad at IE7, "those jerks! They never follow the spec."
However, according to RFC2818 with emphasis mine (Thanks Eric Lawrence!):
Matching is performed using the matching rules specified by [RFC2459]. If more than one identity of a given type is present in the certificate (e.g., more than one dNSName name, a match in any one of the set is considered acceptable.) Names may contain the wildcard character * which is considered to match any single domain name component or component fragment. E.g., *.a.com matches foo.a.com but not bar.foo.a.com. f*.com matches foo.com but not bar.com.
When I visit *.foo.com with IE7, it works fine, per spec.
My conclusion here is that FireFox 2 is out of spec with RFC2818. I wonder if this is known by the FireFox team? Am I missing something?
In our case, we'll need to either have wildcard certificate that covers both *.foo.com and *.staging.foo.com (the latter in the SubjectAltName field). If a CA won't issue us such a certificate for whatever reason, we'll need to buy two different wildcard certificates ($$), and also host staging.foo.com on a different port or IP address, since the Server Name Indicator TLS extension is not broadly available at this point, and hence you cannot reliably use two different certificates for the same endpoint. Again, thanks to EricL for helping explain this.
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