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Guy Robs Bank w/Fake Gun; Gets Shot w/Real .357
The 2nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States reads thusly: "a well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed".
A bank employee in Trimble, Missouri recently exercised his 2nd Amendment rights when some Dumbass tried to rob the First Security Bank.
The Thinker
Michael Oliva is one of those Dumbasses who on occasion comes up with a brilliant idea. And y "brilliant" I of course mean "stoopid as fuck".
Michael was sittin' around one day sparkin' up the ol' crack pipe, throwin' back some foaties (that's "forties" as in 40oz beer for all you Old White Guys out there) and singin' Kanye West songs, hereafter referred to as "shit", trying to think of something to do. All of the sudden Michael came up with a brilliant ("stoopid as fuck") idea. Michael exclaimed, "El Frito Bandito es pendejo!" which is Meskin lingo for, "Hey! I have a stoopid as fuck idea! I'm gonna go rob a bank with a realistic looking but fake hand gun!".
So he set out on his felonious feat.
Penalty for Early Withdrawal
At 1:25 PM one recent Friday afternoon, Michael Oliva arrived at First Security Bank, 202 US Highway 169 in Trimble, MO. Michael had his Fake But Realistic Looking Hand Gun at the ready. What could possibly go wrong?
I'm glad you asked that question.
So Michael pulls a black ski mask over his head and makes his entry into the bank. He goes up to one of the bank tellers and demands the money in her cash drawer. At this point, a bunch of noisy shit and commotion goes on catching the attention of another bank employee in an office near the teller area.
Remember up there ^^^ when you asked "what could possibly go wrong?"
This is What Could Possibly Go Wrong
The Bank Guy who came running to the front of the bank from an office? He confronted Michael and his Fake But Looks Like a Real Gun Gun face to face. Did I mention that the Bank Guy has a concealed carry permit for a REAL gun? He does.
Anyway, here's the Bank Guy with a .357 staring straight into the eyes of Michael Oliva who is in possession of a Realistic Looking But FAKE Gun. It is at this point that the Bank Guy aims his very real .357 at Michael and blasts him in the face with a very real .357 bullet.
Somehow, by the Grace of God I suppose, Michael is not graveyard dead and manages to escape with a gun shot wound to the jaw.
Long story short….Michael gets away and then leads the cops on a high speed car chase before finally being apprehended. Upon being nabbed by The Fuzz, Michael was heard to say, "Hace mucho calor" which translates to: "Boy was that a stoopid as fuck idea".
Ay! Ay! Ay! Canta y no llores! Translation:
Walk-In at Wells Fargo! Bank Leaves Doors Unlocked After Closing!
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Happy What-Would-Be Elvis' 76th Birthday, Dumbasses! It was also 37 years ago today that I attended my last day of high school. I, quite by accident mind you, had all my required courses completed so I decided "To hell with this". I partied for a couple of weeks (I was 18 and we could legally buy alcohol at the time) and then got a job. I was making $3.25 an hour, living at home. Dad paid all the bills and was on the road most of the time, so it was almost like having a bachelor pad of my own. All I had to pay for was my own beer and leave Dad's brew alone. Not a bad gig for an 18 year old. Oh, yeah! I also got to drive Dad's brand new 1974 Camaro LT. I just supplied the gas, which was less than 20 cents a gallon back then. If I had four dollars, I had a full tank of gas.
The Setup
We're barely a week into the new year and we're lining up 2012 Dumbass of the Year contenders like Charlie Sheen picking out hookers to share his nose candy with. Literally every day that I have written a new post, the dumbass in the story could be a DOTY nominee. Just take a look at the archives for January if you doubt me. That streak continues today with a story that I never imagined in my wildest dreams could actually happen.
I hope you are sitting down.
The Unexpected and the (Still) Unexplained
Wells Fargo. The company that bears that name has been a part of the United States banking system since 1852 and I'll bet you $10 that what I am about to tell you has never happened in the storied 160 year history of the firm.
On January 4, 2012, last Friday, the Wells Fargo Bank on Arena Blvd. in Sacramento, closed its doors at the end of the business day and the fine people who work there went home to enjoy the weekend with their families. Not unlike millions of other Americans. But that weekend would turn out to be a once-in-160 years event. After all the bank employees left for home, the last guy out at the Wells Fargo bank turned out the lights and he too, headed for the Ponderosa. Last Guy forgot one minor thing however. He forgot to lock the bank's door! How in the name of all that is Holy can Last Guy forget to lock the door of a branch of one of the largest banks in the world??? Good Gawd Almighty, y'all!
Last Guy is probably one of those neurotic dumbasses that locks his car doors (when he's washing it!), locks his front door when he's at home (in the day time!) and has a dead bolt on the bathroom door. Last Guy secures his house like Fort Knox, but can't remember to lock the door of a bank that has untold millions of dollars inside? What.The.Fuck.? Henry Wells and William Fargo (yes, that Wells and Fargo) are rolling over in their graves so fast, they sound like a couple of Japanese motorcycles doing 100 mph in 2nd gear. I mean dayum, dude.
I have a couple of thoughts on this situation. First, does Last Guy still have a job? If not, 7-11 is always hiring and they are open 24/7. This is a lucky break for Last Guy because a job at 7-11 ensures that he'll never have to worry about locking doors again! This is a good thing. Also at Siete-Once (<—-a little Meskin lingo there), cash counting time will be a breeze. Instead of counting thousands pf dollars, he'll only have to count up to about 50 bucks. That's all 7-11 employees are allowed to have in the cash drawer. And unless a robber is a crack head, what self-respecting criminal would be happy with robbing a business of only 50 dollars?
Speaking of crooks (<—-clever segue), I bet there wasn't a bad guy within three billion light years of the Wells-Fargo bank that had a glimmer of a thought that the door on the place would be wide-ass open. Not that that would be a deterrent, Last Guy probably forgot to turn on the security system too.
Bank Robber Brags About Her Crime on You Tube! (w/Video)
I am a big fan of social media. Sites like Facebook and Twitter play a major role in my online life.
I use Facebook mainly to keep up with friends and family, exchanging the latest news about what's going on in our respective parts of the world. I'm not much of a "talk on the phone" kind of guy. When you use the phone, there are a few things that can happen:
- The person you are calling will answer the phone because he's home.
- The person you are calling has Caller ID and sees it's you calling and will NOT answer the phone.
- The person you are calling is not home therefore your call goes unanswered anyway.
- The person you are calling is either not home or not taking calls and you get put through to a voice mail or answering machine. At this point you either leave a message or not.
- You leave a message which is never responded to. In Texas we say that this message is as useful as tits on a boar (male) hog.
Having said all that, I can guaran-damn-tee you that if you leave a message or comment on Facebook, the other party will be back in touch with you quick as a hiccup. Who needs a phone?
Lately, I have been partial to Twitter. Sure, the 140 character limit per tweet is sometimes a pain in the ass, but I get a lot of great information from my Twitter timeline. An advantage to using Twitter, for me at least, is that I have only about 250 Friends on Facebook, but I have over 1100 followers on Twitter. More followers means potentially more Dumbasses. If I post something that gets "re-tweeted" by a single person, it is then seen on his timeline by all of his followers as well. Maybe one of his followers "re-tweets" the same post, before you know it, your "tweet" is seen by tens of thousands of people. This is why I like to promote Dumbass News on my Twitter timeline. One "tweet" could net the blog a lot of hits.
And that's a good thing.
|Hannah Sabata
Bank Robber Confesses on You Tube
You Tube is arguably the most popular social medium in the world. It is the video version of Google. If you enter a term in the search box on You Tube, chances are you'll come up with a corresponding video. People put all kinds of shit on You Tube. Even confession to a crime.
Nineteen year old Hannah Sabata of Waco, Nebraska did just that. She went on a crime spree that involved stealing a car and robbing a bank then made a video bragging (confessing) about her misdeeds and posted it to You Tube! Fucking brilliant.
So Hannah performed Grand Theft Auto and Armed Robbery because the State took away her baby because she was, according to the State of Nebraska, a piss poor excuse for a mother? But she's a victim of the government! Well, hell, that makes perfect sense.
Hannah will now be relegated to doing whatever felons do in prison.
Looking on the bright side, when she's released from the Big House she'll have some great script ideas for one of those "Women Prisoners in Chains, Lezbeans on a Rampage" movies.
It'll be an autobiography.
Bank Robbery, Bigot Math and The Frozen Dead Guy!
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Your Fearless Leader of The Dumbass Horde (me) has had a busy day thus far this cold (15 degrees @ 16:26 EST; the low tonight? 3 below zero!) Saturday in New England. All I can say is that I'm glad Santa brought me a Gazebo Warmer ® for Christmas. Otherwise it could have tragic. And my voice, which is a solid baritone, would have gone up a couple of octaves. God bless the man who invented The Gazebo Warmer ®. Twice. Once for each gazebo. I'm just sayin'.
The tag line of this blog ("Bringin' the Dumbassery on a Daily Basis") has never been more appropriate than it was this week. We had enough dumbassery in one week….let me put it this way: if dumbassery was bling, I'd make Flava Flav look like he dressed like Jed Clampett.
Even though I'm late with the dumbassery today, I believe you'll agree it was worth the wait. For example…
- This week was so full of outstanding dumbassery that the most "sane" dipshit of the week was a guy who paid his girlfriend's rent…..by robbing banks! That ought to be a major clue as to what's yet to come.
- Speaking of banks (<—-excellent Dumbass Segue)…A Wells Fargo Bank in where else but California,. was hell bent on making withdrawals extremely simple for not only their customers, but everybody else too! They accomplished this unprecedented form of Customer Service by leaving the bank's front doors OPEN all weekend!
- In our most disgusting display of dumbass douchebaggery of the week, school board members in Norcross, Georgia showed their true colors (pun intended) towards black folks without even uttering a word. Hint: It concerns slavery and math. Be prepared to curse aloud. It's that Ludacris. <—-humor noir.
- Bonus Dumbassery! Every story I post on Dumbass News is kind of like one of my kids. You know what I mean if you're the parent of more than one child. You love them all, but not one more than the other. Having said that, I have a very difficult time not favoring the story of The Frozen Dead Guy over the other 446 posts on this blog. It's Classic Dumbass from beginning to end with a healthy dose of international intrigue thrown in for good measure. This is a must read!
Dare I say that This Week in Dumbass News History will forever be the epitome of what the chronicling of dumbassery should be? I dare. Has the bar been set impossibly high for future Dumbass News content? Why, hell no!
I think I have just issued a challenge to myself. Challenge accepted.
Dumbass Robs Bank, Goes Back for More!
It's happened to me a hundred times. And it's probably happened to you as well.
I am talking about patronizing the drive thru at a joint like McDonalds, placing your order, paying for it only to get home and find out that you have been short changed an order of fries or something. So, whaddaya do? You go back to The Arches and retrieve the stuff you should have been given in the first place and maybe get a coupon for a free Big Mac redeemable on your next visit to McD's. Or you simply eat (pun intended) the price of the forgotten item.
This got me to thinkin', "What if something like this were to happen to a bank robber?" Actually I didn't think that. It's just my way of segueing into today's Dumbass News. Clever, huh?
We have done stories about bank robbery before including this one about a guy that knocks off a bank then brags about it on Facebook! There's also the one about the idiot that tried to disguise himself by putting underwear on his head and the Dumbass who robbed a bank and took a getaway bus in order to escape! But today's story may top them all.
The Scene
Picture yourself in Syracuse, New York. Or if you'd rather not, I understand. But Syracuse is where this story takes place, so deal with it.
Anyway, 1001 James Street in Syracuse is home to Alliance Bank. It is also the site of one of the stoopidest crimes in Syracuse annals.
The Heist
Twenty-eight year old Arthur Bundrage was out of crack cocaine one day when he got a great idea. "Today is a great day to rob a bank!", he thought. So Arthur moseyed on over to the aforementioned Alliance Bank at 1001 James Street where he promptly walked in and demanded $20,000 in cash from one of the bank's tellers. The teller refused. Again, Arthur ordered the teller to fork over the 20 large. This time bank employee relented (maybe Arthur said "please") and crammed some cash into a bag and handed it over to Arthur. Arthur then split the scene. The bank called 911.
This story doesn't end here, however.
So Arthur pulled the bank job, left the scene of the crime, the cops have been notified and are on the way to the bank and what does the Dumbass do? He looks at his ill-gotten gains and determines that the bank teller did not give him the full 20 grand that he demanded. It is at this point that we find out that Arthur Bundrage is about as smart as a spit wad.
Unsatisfied with his haul, Arthur heads back into the bank to get the rest of the $20,000! He got there about the same time the cops did.
He was arrested without incident.
***Hat tip to and photo courtesy of syracuse.com***
Guy Robs Bank, Forgets to Take the Money With Him!
Another day, another visit to the doctor for Mrs. Fearless Leader.
I am still caring for Mrs. Fearless Leader following her surgery from Wednesday, so between that and being Mom and Dad for the two kids while Mom is mending is keeping me very busy. Free time is at a minimum. I promise to get some new stuff out there in a few days, so please bear with me.
Thanks again,
Fearless Leader
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September 19, 2010, a date that will live in Infamy. That was the date that I announced the Grand Opening of Dumbass News. The world has never been the same. And it serves the world right, if you ask me.
The first actual post to this blog was published the next day. It was about some dumbass bitch that let her boyfriend have Mad Monkey Sex with another woman for his birthday or some shit. We haven't looked back since. In the intervening 20 mmonths or so I've written about some real stoopid people who have done some real stoopid stuff. Dumbass Subject Matte, or as we professional blogging-type dip stick call it, DSM, has ranged from The Frozen Dead Guy who is still on ice in Nederland, Colorado (I used to live there) to a recent incident in which a drunk lady hit a cop in the head with a plastic ding-a-ling, or as very lonely women call them, "boyfriend".
Odd, That
I come across some insane material in doing "research" for this blog. "Research" of course meaning
stealing shit from other blogs slaving away for hours on end, employing a highly evolved and technically intricate form of Google Fu (typing in what are referred to as "search terms" into a Google "search box") known to very few men, looking for Dumbass News-worthy stories.
While I have written a few stories that feature plastic weenies as protagonists, I have, surprisingly, not come across too many Dumbass Bank Robber tales. I "searched" the Dumbass News Archives, located in the left sidebar of any page, and came up with only a handful of Dumbass Bank Robber stuff – one about a guy who took a get away bus after a bank heist. Another one about one of the Biggest Dumbass Bank Robbers in History who, after committing the crime, went on his Facebook page to brag about it!
Such is the life of a Dumbass Criminal in 2012.
Until now.
The Plan
When you look back through history, the guys really good at bank robbin', Bonnie & Clyde, Jesse James, Billy the Kid, etc., were meticulous in the preparation aspect of the heist. Every single detail, no matter how small, had to be anticipated and possibly dealt with at a split second's notice. Of course 99% of your Average Bank Robbin' Population (ABRP) just walks into a bank, hands the teller a note saying he has a gun or bomb and give me the damn money. Not much planning involved. Not only did our Dumbass Bank Robber in today's story not have a very detailed plan, he didn't have a clue either.
Let me splain.
Some would-be Dumbass Bank Robber in Chicago was anxious to get down to the bidness of being caught on video by approximately 2 billion surveillance cameras located in the bank's lobby. I have never understood that. Don't video cams take, like, you know, video and shit? Real live as-it-happened documentation likely to be used as evidence against the Bad Guy when, if, he goes on trial? But, I digress.
Anyway, after literally seconds of planning his crime, the Bad Guy goes into the bank, passes a note to the teller saying he has a bomb, give me the money. Now comes the hard part. the Getaway! His heart pumping like a two stroke Briggs and Stratton lawnmower engine, the Bad Guy makes good his escape! "The heat will never find me!" he shouts in head as he leaves the scene of his misdeed. The heat will never find the money either. "Why?", you ask, anxiously sitting on the edge of your computer chair, the tension in this story building to almost unbearable levels. Let me tell you why. The. Dumbass. Forgot. The Money. Yup. Left it at the bank.
Now, I have never robbed a bank and the thought to do so has never been that appealing to me, but I think this ain't the way it's supposed to work, is it?
On the Lam
As of this writing, the Little Dumbass Bank Robber That Couldn't is still at large.
All this poor schmuck has to show for his efforts is a shit load of cops and Federal Agents looking for him and that ever-fleeting moment of triumph – fleeing the crime scene looking like he was shot out of a cannon. Oh, what a high that must have been! "I did it! I did it!" echoing in the Dumbass's head as he flies into Freedom a rich man.
Then a little thing called "reality" sets in. He. Forgot. The. Fucking. Money. I think this is the proverbial stop that ruins a perfectly good fall from about 10,000 feet.
Thud. Just like Wile E. Coyote.
The Bank Robber & the Getaway Bus
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I know that no member of this blog has any sort of legal woes in his or her past. After all, you are dumbasses and dumbasses never have run ins with the law. Can you believe that I wrote that with a straight face? Let's say for the sake of argument that you were the mastermind of a planned bank robbery. Assuming that you actually went into the bank, handed the teller a note demanding money and she complied and you haul ass out the door. What's the next logical step in this plan? Yes! Making a clean getaway! Hopefully in a very fast getaway car. Believe it or not, a dumbass crook in Dayton, Ohio pulled off the bank robbery and was making a … s…l…o…w getaway.
Let me splain.
|Getaway Bus
Catching the 3:15
Dumbass bank robber, Lonnie Johnson, is the above-mentioned crook in Dayton. he made the heist, ran outside, went down the street two blocks from the bank and wait…for…it…stood in line to board a bus!!! The bus came Lonnie got on it and he was home free! Not really, I made that home free part up. In the meantime, the cops had arrived at the bank and interviewed some people and some of them witnessed Lonnie board the bus. At this point, the police obtained information on the bus' route and simply followed the route , caught up with the bus and arrested Lonnie while he was still in his seat. What a dumbass.
Not that I am planning a career change to become a bank robber, but as a public service to any and all bank robbers reading this blog, I feel obligated to point out some flaws in Lonnie's attempted robbery. First of all, if you plan on fleeing on foot for any portion of your getaway, it would be much better if you ran for more than two blocks from the bank. Second, don't stop and wait for a bus! It is a well-known fact that 99% of all the best bank robbers use really fast cars or maybe even motorcycles to effect a successful, at least in the beginning of the getaway process, escape from the authorities. Public transportation is notoriously slow and not on schedule and this will hamper even your best efforts to give the heat the slip, leading to a long period of incarceration at the nearest Federal Prison, maybe even with our man Lonnie.


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Five Foothills members – in addition to our current and future ministerial team Rev. Gretchen Haley, Diana McLean, and Sean Neil-Barron, attended the UU General Assembly (GA) in Columbus, Ohio, the last week of June. It was, as always a powerful and somewhat overwhelming experience of learning, encouraging and clarifying all who gathered in our faith, values, and sense of purpose.
One of our delegates, Erin Hottenstein, shared her highlights from GA in her reflection last week. This week, we invited the other four delegates to share their one big take-away from their GA experience. Here's what they had to say:
- The powerful Sunday Morning Worship experience.
Judy Ohs writes, "I looked forward to Sunday morning at GA, remembering the last time I attended it was a very moving service, and I was not disappointed.
Glen Thomas Rideout was in charge of the music and choir, which was awesome. He also read a poem he had written about the anture of God, saying god is waiting to be unshrunk!
Nancy McDonald Ladd gave a sermon, 'In All Thy Getting, Get Understanding,' with as much energy, humor and meaningful challenge as any I have ever heard. She admonished us to 'STOP having FALSE FIGHTS' in our congregations – those fights about insignificant things like 'the color of the paint for the bathroom,' and instead get out in the mainstream of our lives, resisting things harmful to ourselves and others, and promoting the things needed for just living for all. She said when we don't get our way, we are 'lovers of leaving' (referencing the hymn, Come, Come, who ever you are), and that we need to put our personal preferences aside, and instead have the real and hard conversations with each other. Only this will allow us to create real change, rather than becoming thoroughly agitated, but fundamentally unchanged. She ended by saying that we need to 'step more fully into encounters with the holy and the world,' and in doing so we can love more and speak more. We can reach out to someone whose hand is near to find support and keep it real. The service ended with us all singing 'Reach out and Touch Somebody's Hand.'
It is my sincere hope that each of you will take the time to watch this service (video posted above). It will lift your spirit and challenge your soul, and perhaps help you move out into the world to help create the change we need."
Lindsay Smith added: "I have one request of our Foothills family: please watch the Sunday service. I found it deeply moving and hope we can use it as a common point of reference going forward."
2. The welcome for young adults.
Lindsay Smith writes: "As a first-time delegate to General Assembly, I appreciated the Planning Committee's dedication to creating a welcoming space for young adults. Not only did the UUA set aside resources to help young adults get to GA, but supported us the whole week. We had dedicated staff and seating blocked off in the large general sessions. We even had 'General Session Bingo' to keep things interesting.
Many times I went back to the helpful guide on young adult programming in our (jam-packed!) schedule. I attended workshops on topics from interfaith work to the role of spirituality in mental health. I was happy to see many folks of other generations participating with us, too.
I was overjoyed to represent our congregation in the banner parade alongside my partner Nick. I felt proud to represent our Foothills community and loved seeing Rev. Gretchen, our president Erin, our new minister Sean, and many others cheering for us as we sang through the aisles.
Then, it was time to get down to business. The overarching theme of this year's GA was racial justice. Youth and young adult UUs of color inspired me by sharing their deeply personal stories. They called us to immediate action with strength, courage, and love. Workshops on anti-racism helped start some of the uncomfortable but necessary conversations that need to take place among UUs and in the wider community.
GA left me inspired to connect with UUs both inside our home church and beyond. It was great to compare notes with delegates from churches across the country.
3. The Choir
Nick Marconi writes, 'Choir is a decision.' These are the words with which Dr. Glen Rideout opened each rehearsal at GA, offering various reflections on the notion. Choir is a setting aside of time to come together and join in fellowship and purpose. Choir is the realization of the idea that we are stronger and more capable working in harmony—the embodiment of the mantra, "I put my hand in yours so that we may do together what we cannot do alone." Choir is no mere blending of voices; it is a congregation, and it is deliberate.
In a week where very little else seemed deliberate, 180 of us dedicated ourselves to bringing the Sunday worship services to life. For me, it wasn't the size of the choir or the audience that brought great meaning; 180 celebrants performing for a crowd of 3,000 is neither the largest ensemble nor audience I've experienced—even in Columbus itself, a city I had called home for many years. The real meaning came from the unity of purpose in a room that had lacked it over the course of several painful general sessions. The morning service brought renewed focus to disparate hearts. The afternoon service with Rev. Sekou and The Holy Ghost granted catharsis for those of us who have become all-too- frustrated not only with the prevailing tragedies of the world, but also with the perennial failures of conscience emerging from GA.
I cannot understand how we as a movement fail time and again to make meaningful solidarity with oppressed peoples. I cannot fathom the denominational cognitive dissonance it takes to be so moved by the reminder of our continual need to improve our relationships with minority communities and speak hard truths to those we call allies yet shirk away when called to take action. I pity what Rev. Dr. Susan Ritchie calls our institutional addiction to dysfunctional process that truly impairs our ability to live up to our best vision of ourselves.
I have little, if any, control over the course of global events or the UUA. But just as I had in GA, I can still choose to share music in my small part of the world. Choir is a decision, and I will always make that decision."
4. Commitments for Social Witness
Shirley White writes, "CSWAIWCS/AI Huh? I put my volunteer efforts at GA here, hoping it would give me knowledge I could share back home. Indeed, it did! Wanting to support this important work of our denomination, still I had to keep refreshing myself on what all those letters mean. They mean a lot! They imply work too important to be buried in acronyms and jargon.So let me translate….
Commission on Social Witness (CSW) supports our efforts to do our social justice work focused each year by choices made at GA, to concentrate our efforts on work that we are best, perhaps uniquely, poised to do in our troubled world.
Congregational Study/Action Issues (CS/AI) are selected by UU member congregations for four years of study, reflection and action. This year, delegates picked our next four-year Congregational Study/Action Issue to be "Corruption of Our Democracy."
Actions of Immediate Witness (AIWs) are issues deemed too immediate and important to go through a four year process. The Commissioners narrowed 8 completed proposals to 3, which the GA delegates passed overwhelmingly.
- expressing solidarity with Muslims,
- advocating gun reform following the Pulse nightclub massacre,
- affirming support for transgender people.
All will be further developed and highlighted in UU World.
We, at Foothills, do a lot of very important work. We might even be a standard bearer in the denomination. We could be more fully bringing our light to UUA/GA, by defining and proclaiming our commitment, particularly by sharing our successful collaboration with other communities and organizations in Fort Collins. Among others, we excel in programs of community collaboration in Faith Family Hospitality, One Village One Family, and our ministerial leadership in vigils and actions of solidarity with our minority communities in times of stress and trauma visited upon them in our troubled times.
We have light to offer, as well as the opportunity to bask in the healing light that our denomination shines on the world's pain. By engaging with the UUA, we can do more, especially by learning and engaging with social witness statement process we may accomplish more, and even be prepared to bring more of Foothills light to GA in New Orleans, 2017.


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DARIEN, Conn. – Darien's Good Wife's River Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution is opening its annual holiday party to prospective members, spouses and significant others.
The event is one of several the group has scheduled in the coming months.
The holiday party is scheduled for Dec. 18 at the home of Winifred and Tom Lom, according to the statement, which said the Daughters of the American Revolution's (DAR) Kim Kiner will use the occasion to present a Darien High School senior with the Good Citizen Award.
Also scheduled for the party is a presentation by Good Wife's River Chapter Regent Katherine Love, who is to conduct a business meeting to update organization members on future local and statewide DAR events.
Veteran's Chairman Carol Wilder-Tamme is scheduled to collect "comfort items" during the event for veterans at the VA Hospital in West Haven, according to the statement, which said that the items are to be delivered before the holidays.
In other news , the local DAR also will be participating in and promoting the annual Wreaths Across America project, a program through which volunteers coordinate wreath laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery and 1,100 additional locations across the country, at sea and abroad.
Several local DAR members have partnered with Darien's Monuments and Ceremonies Commission and the local VFW Post #6933 to raise money for the wreaths, organizers said, adding that several local businesses and the Darien High School Support Our Soldiers (SOS) student group will also be assisting.
According to the organization, the wreaths are to be laid at noon on Saturday at the Spring Grove Veteran's Cemetery in Darien. Spring Grove is one of only three official veterans' cemeteries in Connecticut. The public is invited to attend and participate in this wreath laying.
Other events the group is planning include:
- The 125th Connecticut DAR Anniversary Gala is scheduled for Feb. 4 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Wallingford, according to the statement, which said that President General Ann L. Dillon will be the gala's guest speaker. All members are urged to attend.
- The DAR also is planning for its Fifth Grade Essay Contest reception and award ceremony on Feb. 7 at the Parlor of the Noroton Presbyterian Church, according to the statement.
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Oakland A's Catcher Pleads Not Guilty to Assault Charges After Allegedly Pointing Gun at Female Delivery Driver
(BayAreaNewsTalk.com) – An Oakland A's catcher pleaded not guilty today in Maricopa
County, Arizona to charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and
disorderly conduct with a weapon, a court spokesman said.
Bruce Maxwell is scheduled to be in court again for an initial
pre-trial conference on Dec. 28.
Maxwell was arrested at 6:08 p.m. on Oct. 28 at his home in
Scottsdale, Arizona, after a woman who was delivering food to his house said
he allegedly pointed a gun at her, Scottsdale police said.
Oakland A's officials issued a statement the day after Maxwell's
"We were disappointed to learn of the allegations," the team said.
"We take this situation and ongoing investigation seriously."
Maxwell was released on $10,000 bail. He has been given permission
to travel to Texas two times over the next month.
Major League Baseball spokesman Michael Teevan said the league's
commissioner's office is "monitoring the matter, including the criminal
Teevan said the commissioner's office has no further comment.
Officials with the A's were not immediately available for comment
on Maxwell's not guilty plea today.
Maxwell's attorney Michael Kimerer also did not immediately return
a call for comment.
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TIFOKCIS November 15th, 2017 at 7:26 pm
Just like High School days, the Jocks were the biggest POS and some become rich famous POS.
If nothing changes, nothing changes.
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When the Bailiff say's "All Rise" try taking a knee in the court room dumb ass!
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I like jocks and the A's – can't stand this guy. Between kneeling and pointing a gun at her – rot where you belong.


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wearing: Suitable custom suit, Rayban sunglasses, Withings timepiece, Paul Evans Shoes & Topman bowtie.
Hello guys! I'm writing you from Paris this time! It's the afternoon here but with the jet lag I am so exhausted. I wan't to sleep all day and go out all night, it's horrible. I have a few posts to catch up on so let's get started with this first dapper editorial, showcasing a suit perfect for any formal occasion, and a sleek watch to keep me on schedule.
This time around I teamed up with Suitable to create my own custom suit that was 'fit' for my personality. I went for the more debonair, night-out tuxedo since I don't showcase that style as much. Seriously though, when was the last time you saw me style a bowtie? I fell in love with this gun-metal jacket paired with the dark trousers for a bold, contrasted look. Especially for my fellow New yorkers, this ensemble would be great for a variety of occasions such as an event, formal party, high-end dinner or even just cocktail hour (but take the bowtie off in that case)
Suitable is a great new way to shop customizable suits online, tailored to you. Their websites boasts a very modern and fresh look which is comparable to their products. As said in their about me "Amazing suits that are affordably priced are like unicorns- hard to find" well, touché and too true. Even from the beginning they aid you in finding your measurements correctly with step by step videos and guides and are very responsive and helpful in the case you have questions.
It's 'time' to move onto the next piece in the feature and that's my new Withings Activité time piece. They sent me this watch a couple months ago thinking it was just a small, stylish accessory good for any outfit but boy was I wrong. Once I checked out their website and saw all of the inventions, and accolades they have received for their products, I slowly started to realize that this watch had so much more in store for me. Not only does it tell time but it also tracks your movements wether it be walking, running or even swimming. Yes, it's water proof. It's also made with some of the best materials including sapphire crystal glass (the ones used on Apple iphones) as well as french calf leather and stainless steel. Of course when I also the learned the Swiss were the creators, it all started to make sense. The watch syncs seamlessly with your smartphone and you use an app to track everything from your fitness goals to analyzing your sleep habits. Technology is a rapidly growing market and I couldn't be happier that it's progressing in a fashionable and wearable way. check out their site HERE.
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text: early and often Mar. 21, 2008 Is Eliot Spitzer Doing the 12-Step Two-Step? Photo: Getty Images We were wondering how much longer it would take for Eliot Spitzer to admit he is powerless over his mighty public-image problem and that seeking refuge in the bosom of psychotherapy could maybe (probably not, but hey, worth a try!) restore said image to sanity. That moment is here! Spitzer, the New York Post tells us, has entered into therapy to explore whether he has a sex addiction. Treatment typically involves a 12-step program, we hear, which makes us wonder what happens when the former governor gets to the part where he makes direct amends to all those persons he's harmed. Should Spitzer write out a personal check to former NYSE director Dick Grasso or will a cashier's check be necessary? Is it necessary to hire ex–Merrill Lyncher Henry Blodget and former AIG chair Hank Greenberg to his landscaping team, or can he get someone else to find them jobs? Perhaps we're getting ahead of ourselves, but the possibilities are just endless. We, for instance, would appreciate the $43 in dividends we lost the year Spitzer wailed on the mutual-fund industry. We'll take that cash or COD, Eliot. Thanks and speedy recovery to you! —Maggie Shnayerson Eliot's Sexual Healing [NYP] Tags: eliot spitzer therapy politics early and often trends leggings fall 2009 max azria More +Comments Leave a Comment Is Eliot Spitzer Doing the 12-Step Two-Step?


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SummaryStatoil reported on the minimum transparency requirement, called country-by-country reporting, on a half page in its sustainability report for 2014.PWYP Norway shows that Statoil could have easily reported on a meaningful transparency requirement, called an extended country-by-country reporting, on that half page.When companies can show their country-by-country presence on a half page, why will politicians not demand it from them?
Summary:• Natural resources have the largest value creation potential to mobilize tax revenue, but profit often ends up elsewhere.• Today, the Extractive Industries can transfer significant profits out of the source country before it get taxed.• One simple policy proposal, aligned with US and EU regulation, will give investors and constituents the instrument to follow their money.• The proposal links taxpayments to the audited financial statements through 8 simple accounting numbers.
In January, a new legislation will be introduced in Norway that might prevent capital flight and ensure a greater degree of transparency. Three activists from the civil society in South Sudan, Uganda and Ghana explain why this law is vital for their work. See the video interview!
The "tax haven – section" contains the requirements for an extended country-by-country reporting, but is put in a Sleeping Beauty slumber. Photo: Christian_A_Calmeyer_(CC_BY-NC-ND_2.0_Flickr). Would the Government like to know about mailbox companies and capital in tax havens? If so, they already have the key themselves.
Consultative input concerning Deloitte's evaluation report of country-by-country reporting regulations
Deloitte´s building in Oslo, Norway. Photo: Benson Kua (CC BY-SA 2.0/Flickr) The Ministry of Finance has outsourced the evaluation of national transparency requirements to one of the "Big Four" accounting firms - Deloitte. PWYP Norway shares its consultative input with notes.
PWYP Norway has analysed and documented Statoil's reporting according to the current country-by-country reporting amendment for the three financial years the company has reported on - 2014, 2015, and 2016.
Statoil's tax director Finn Lexov stated that the company chose the Netherlands because of the favorable tax laws. The oil industry is calling it "stable and predictable", writes the Mona Thowsen. Photo: Kjell Eson, v/ Flickr: CC BY - NC - ND 2.0 Statoil and others should be forced to report on their mailbox empires. Or does the State prefer to get this sort of information through the news?
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Norwegian Bank Investment Management (NBIM) asked PWYP Norway for feedback in an Expectations document on taxes and transparency.
Thick walls at the Ministry of Finance. Foto: Helge Høifødt Right before Christmas Eve, on December 22, the Ministry of Finance established changes to the amendment concerning country-by-country reporting (CBCR), without Parliament having dealt with the matter.
The Ministry of Finance deny that they are protecting tax havens. PWYP Norway demonstrates why we believe that they are.
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Mental illness and cancer sufferers forced to wait
Cancer patients and people with severe mental illness are going without essential medicines because of shortages that have cost the NHS £180 million in six months, The Times has learnt.
At least 100 drugs have been affected by supply problems, forcing health officials to approve temporary price rises of up to 4,000 per cent to boost stocks. The NHS is spending more than £50 million a month overpaying for the medicines but pharmacies are still running out for days at a time and turning patients away.
Ministers are now investigating amid fears that the market is being manipulated to drive up prices. Pharmacists have complained that there have been cases where a drug in severe shortage becomes available immediately when a higher price is granted.
Warwick Smith, director-general of the British Generic Manufacturers Association, said "something very unusual" was going on and suggested that wholesalers were artificially inflating prices.
Mr Smith said that concessionary prices agreed by the government were on average two and a half times larger than manufacturers' charges. "It's not in manufacturers' interest to exaggerate their price increases," he said. "It doesn't make them any money, it just makes them less popular. Something is going on somewhere else in the supply chain."
Prostate and breast cancer drugs taken by tens of thousands of people are among those affected as well as epilepsy treatments and several common anti-psychotic medicines used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Simon Wigglesworth, head of the charity Epilepsy Action, said that people were being forced to change drugs because of shortages. "The impact of this should not be underestimated . . . [People with epilepsy] may not be able to drive or work, and experience severe anxiety or depression as a result of switching medication," he said.
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin, chief executive of Breast Cancer Now, said that shortages of the hormonal therapy anastrozole, taken for years after surgery to stop tumours returning, were incredibly worrying, adding: "Delays in receiving treatments can cause further uncertainty and anxiety at an already difficult time. Crucially, if adherence to hormone therapy drops further, breast cancer recurrence rates could increase, ultimately costing women's lives."
Under rules to combat supply problems, a pharmacy industry body can ask the Department of Health to grant a month of higher prices, known as price concessions, for drugs that are difficult to obtain. The cost to the health service of one drug, the anti-psychotic quetiapine, has risen from £1.62 to £65 and the total extra cost to the NHS of the concession price rises has increased from £2.5 million in April to £32.1 million in June and £53.4 million in September. Overall the shortages have cost an extra £177.9 million between April and September, the most recent month for which data is available.
The cost is likely to be rising further as pharmacists report "unprecedented" shortages, with difficulties obtaining 97 drugs last month, up from 27 in April.
Mark Burdon, a member of the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee, which makes these formal requests, said that high street chemists were "scratching around" for crucial supplies. "The most worrying ones are drugs for mental health. It's terrifying for patients when they can't get something they are stable on. Anti-cancer drugs too cause huge anxiety for patients," he said. "We have to spend a lot of time reassuring people — 'Yes, we'll definitely have it, but probably not today or tomorrow. Can you scratch by until Friday?' . . . It does happen that we have to say to patients, 'We can't get this for love nor money'." He said that pharmacists were having to beg GPs and hospitals for supplies.
Many of the shortages have occurred in drugs made by several companies that have been available for years without any supply problems. At least two manufacturers have been forced by regulators to suspend some production this summer but the rise in shortages appears to have begun at least two months before these problems.
Martin Sawer, executive director of the Healthcare Distribution Association, representing large wholesalers, insisted that they were not manipulating the market but called for more scrutiny of smaller wholesale licence-holders. "Our members do not sit on stock, they make generics available to customers as soon as they get them," he said.
The Department of Health said: "Our priority is to ensure medicines used by the NHS are certified as safe and effective, even if this costs the NHS more money . . . The generic drugs market is particularly volatile at present due to shortages of supply and other factors but we still have some of the cheapest prices in Europe."
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Dr Wayne Kampers, 53, a consultant psychiatrist in London, said his patients had suffered depression and suicidal thoughts as a result of medicine shortages (Billy Kenber writes).
"About 20 per cent have either not been able to get the medication that's been prescribed or they've been given a different form of that medication and that has significantly affected their mental health," he said.
Dr Kampers, who works at the Priory in southwest London as well as in Harley Street, said that one patient had been stable on an antipsychotic drug for many years but recently had to switch because it suddenly became unavailable. "They really struggled," he said.
He described the problems suffered by another patient who was prescribed an antidepressant. "He went to at least 12 different pharmacies around where he lived and worked and not a single one was able to dispense it and nor could they tell him when it was going to become available. The impact of the shortages has been far reaching."
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RWDevCon 2016 Inspiration Talk – The Power of Small by Cesare Rocchi
While we always seem to be under tremendous pressure to grow our companies larger and larger, being a small company gives you many advantages. Cesare explores these advantages in this inspirational talk.
Note from Ray: At our recent RWDevCon tutorial conference, in addition to hands-on tutorials, we also had a number of "inspiration talks" – non-technical talks with the goal of giving you a new idea, some battle-won advice, and leaving you excited and energized.
We recorded these talks so that you can enjoy them, even if you didn't get to attend the conference. Here's our next talk – The Power of Small by Cesare Rocchi – I hope you enjoy!
Grow, grow, grow!
We are surrounded by podcasts, conferences, books, blog posts, all forcing us to grow. Grow our user base, grow the number of downloads of our apps, grow our mailing lists. Always grow!
This is probably propelled by the Silicon Valley movement in which hockey stick growth is a requirement if you want to chase the next round of funding.
We also are used to hearing that size matters.
Even excluding all the nasty interpretations of that, probably you'll think that the bigger the better. The bigger my team is, the more projects I can take on. The bigger is the market, the bigger is the potential income. I don't want to even mention the bigger the code base…
It's all true. Grow, grow, it's all true. Probably. But is it worth it? Have you ever asked yourself is it worth it to chase something bigger? Do I want to give up the power of small?
Well, in the 70's IBM was the king – I'd say the emperor of computers. Then out of the blue, two dudes in a garage started small – and you know the rest of the story.
Today I'm going to talk about the power of small. I'm going to show you some example of the advantages of working in a small market with a small team and exploiting the advantages of a small launch.
The Power of Small
Let's start with the advantages of a small market or niche.
Note it's pronounced niche, not nitch, because it's French.
- First of all, big companies do not usually care about small markets because there's not a lot of money to be made there.
- Advertisements usually in niche markets are way cheaper and more cost effective.
- The third part is there are fewer competitors, so it's much easier for you to stand out.
- The fourth point, probably the most important, is that probably you'll end up talking to the real customers, experiencing the real problem that your app or product or service is trying to solve, as opposed for example to the enterprise in which you usually talk to the CTO or the marketing manager that represent the people having the real problem.
Here's a quick example of a small successful market:
This is Soda Pop Stop. John Nese and his family have been running this business in LA for a long time. They started as a grocery store and now they have a website that sells and ships sodas worldwide. Probably you've never heard of this company. We all know that the sodas market is dominated by huge companies that I'm not even going to mention.
But Johnny's family has been able to carve out a small niche in which people prefer something alternative, I'd say unique, like for example the Werewolf Howling Ginger Beer or the Pumpkin Spice Tonic, which you've probably never heard of. That's fine. Because that's a nitch or niche?
Audience replies: Niche.
Great. Johnny's family have been able to run this company for 100 years. Are you seeing the power of small already?
Advantage 1: Moving Faster
Let's talk about the advantages of a small team. You can move faster.
Let me tell you a quick story. I joined a startup a few years ago. I was the only mobile developer, front end developer, and the other developers took care of the back end. We used Git but honestly we could have used a shared Dropbox folder because we never had a merge issue, our changes never overlapped, and after years that we both spent in the enterprise and convoluted processes we felt wild and young and free.
Really, I was committing code to the master branch and I felt like this when I did it.
But things changed. The company grew. We had to put in place formal process and documents and agreeing on a time slot for a meeting took longer than the meeting itself.
I could not commit to the master branch anymore unfortunately. You know the drill. You had to branch out, do your thing, run the tests, code review and then merge, and then Q&A, and then staging, and then production.
Don't get me wrong. I mean, having a process is a great thing, because you have fewer chances to screw up. But it also can enlarge the distance between you building the product and the people using the product.
Advantage 2: Easier Decision Making
Now a small team is a competitive advantage so make the most of it. In a small team for example making decisions is much easier.
This is a story that Luke Parham, an iOS team member at raywenderlich.com, told me. He worked at a company. They had an app that allowed to consult used car reports. So instead of going to the dealer you just browse cars in the app.
They had a back end in Java. It was in Struts framework. (I can't believe I mentioned both Java and Struts at a Mac and iOS friendly conference!)
Now if you look in the dictionary for the definition of "long", there are a few examples there. One of them is the discussion that you can spark when you ask a bunch of developers, "Should I use vi or Emacs?"
Still in the dictionary, if you look up the definition of endless, one of the examples says, "The discussion that you can spark when somebody in a room full of developer says, 'We should use a more modern framework for our back end.'"
Now at Luke's company there were 7 people, 7 developers. It's an odd number. It should be easy to come up with a majority. 2 wanted to go with Rails, 2 with Django, 1 with node JS, 1 didn't care, the other one wanted to stick with the old framework. You can image which kind of discussions they had.
At some point somebody started building prototypes trying to show the advantages of a framework over the other. As it happens usually the meeting started with 7 people and after 2 months 20 people were attending the meeting and contributing and discussing and essentially wasting time.
Guess what? In the end they decided to stick to the old framework.
Now who here heard or lived a similar story? I see somebody can relate to this. This is what happens in a big, big team unfortunately.
Advantage 3: Small Launch
Now let's see the advantages of a small launch.
Imagine you had your idea. You designed it. You built it. You are ready to ship. But at some point one thought, especially if your app has some back end, this thought is going to hit you: "What if it doesn't scale? What if some famous blogger talks about us and all the customers use our app and hog our servers?"
Have you ever heard something along the lines of this? Yeah.
A few observations.
- It's a very nice to have problem.
- It's probably not going to happen.
- Instead of postponing the launch by 6 months because you've got to reword all the back end to scale it up, why not just soft launching to friends, to people you trust, to people that you have meet at some conference? Why not just soft launching to some people that drop their email address on the landing page? Why not just testing the ground and see how it goes, instead of getting in a tunnel that is 6 months long.
The Story of Buffer
Take Buffer for example.
They started with a simple landing page. Buffer if you don't know is a service that allows you to schedule social media posts. They support Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and so on. They started just with Twitter. They started just with 1 web page that explained the product and they noticed that people clicked.
After a while they added a second page, fake, showing the pricing plans. It was fake and again people were clicking. Bottom line after 7 weeks they build a product just with Twitter and they had the first few paying customers. They did exactly that, start slow.
A small launch can help you in testing the ground, testing the code, testing the design, spotting bugs.
It's not a new idea at all. Restaurants do soft openings every time to give the stuff a test for example and to spot issues in the menu, typos in the menu for example.
Have you ever watched the Ocean's Thirteen? A few of you, okay. So no spoilers, but there's a pretty good scene of a casino doing a soft opening in the movie.
Tips and Tricks
Now let's see some tricks that you can exploit to stay small and focused.
The first one probably my preferred one is to set a time limit.
Think along the lines of will submit this app in 3 weeks with feature A, B, and C, and that's it. Or let's take big app, break it down in 6 milestones, and then finish just the first one and ship it to the store in 3 weeks.
Set a time limit because if you do that … Well, first of all, the end is in sight, so I got to get there and not somewhere unknown. You go with small steps. That helps the morale because you easily notice the progress day by day.
Set a limit on features. I'm sure any of us probably at some point in their career started with an app, big ideas, many features, I'm going to do everything, and then you end up struggling along the way, you are 40% done and you don't even know if you're ever going to finish the app.
Why not starting with fewer features? By the way, you don't even know if all those features are relevant and valuable to your customers. So why not just starting with fewer features and maybe talking to your customers about those features? Much easier.
The third suggestion is break it down.
Try to break it down as much as possible. Now, I am a father, I have a family. I cannot afford anymore 10 hours of uninterrupted work a day. Although sometimes I think if I could have 3 good solid days, but I can't. But I happen to have on the spot 20 minutes here and there.
Now if I carefully organize my to-do list with small actions easy to chew, then it's great. What can I do in 20 minutes? Well,
There's so many things that I can do in this on the spot 20 minutes that I happen to have.
Summing up here is the list of my suggestions.
Real World Example: Base Camp
Let's see a few examples in the world of software. You probably are familiar with Basecamp.
They're not a publicly traded company so they are not forced to share numbers at all. Pretty good place to be. But we can make an educated guess that they have around 10 million users.
Do you want to venture and answer to the question how many people are working at Basecamp? 50. That's CEO, CTO, designers, developers, janitors, everybody. 50 people doing everything.
There's a lot of advantages in this situation. They're also bootstrapped. First of all, they've been able to grow the company culture slowly. No revolutions. Also that means that people tend to leave the company less often.
Also they are careful in hiring because you know in this case hiring means cutting a part of your check every month to pay someone else to work for the company. But it's been working great for them so far because they've been around for 12 or 13 years as far as I remember.
Real World Example: Quip
Another example is Quip.
This is a VC funded company in the Valley so they have money, but probably they don't spend it on developers because they have an app that is compatible with the Mac, Windows, Linux, Android tablets, iPhone, iPad, Apple watch. And it's just 13 people, including CEO and CTO which probably are not going to code every single day.
They have a small team, tight-knit, super effective communication and they are forced to prioritize. This is the result and it's great.
Real World Example: Desk PM
There's also solo developers. Have you ever heard of the app Desk PM?
It's made by John Saddington. Just one guy. He won the Apple award 2 years in a row. It's a blogging application. I'm sure I can say there's no shortage of blogging applications in the App Store and yet he's been so successful.
Now when you're solo, again, there are advantages. Like you can choose your own pace. It took John 13 years to build the app.
You can experiment and you can decide where do you want to go. Also, how to reinvest your income. For example, there's a pretty famous blog post in which he describes how he dropped either 9 or 10k as sponsorship on Daring Fireball and it was totally worth it.
Where To Go From Here?
Summing up, being small has advantages. So being bigger isn't always the best option.
I'd like to close the presentation with a Chinese proverb that really distills my message.
Now, what is your next small step?


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I have a host of health problems however fell pregnant 8 weeks ago
Went for a early scan due to me having lupus to find I had a blighted ovam no baby just a sac
I chose medical management and it's taken 8 days to fully miscarry
Just this morning I passed this huge thing what I presume was the placenta?? But where is the sac ? Has anyone had a blighted ovam ? What did u miscarry ?
I really wanted this out of me but now I'm sat here and my stomach just feels empty
I was so shocked to be pregnant then started feeling excited then to find out no baby then to take so long to lose it I just feel this past 3 weeks has been a roller coaster of emotions


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~ Ayrton Senna
Photo: Aston Martin scores a hat-trick of podiums at the Nürburgring, Germany
Photo: Aston Martin scores a hat-trick of podiums at the Nürburgring, Germany
The Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale is easily one of the top ten cars of all time, and it's certainly one of the top 5 of the 1960′s. The car made it's first appearance at the 1967 Turin Motorshow and was responsible for quite literally blowing the mind of every automotive journalist in attendance.
When it went on sale in early 1968 it was the most expensive car in the world, at a cost of $17,000 USD (the average cost of a new car at the time was under $2,800 USD) only 18 of them were ever made, partially due to the cost and partially due to Alfa Romeo's desire to keep the car exclusive.
The 33 Stradale was fitted with a 2.0 litre V8 that was an engineering revelation in 1967, it had fuel injection, 4 ignition coils, 16 spark plugs, 4 chain-driven camshafts, a red line of 10,000RPM, a race spec horsepower rating of just over 270hp, a 0-60mph time of 5.5 seconds and a top speed of 160mph.
An Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale in good condition would fetch well over $3,000,000 USD at auction (price estimate from 2011) however this is merely academic as they almost never change hands.
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The Pagani Huayra (pronounced: wai-rah) is an Italian mid-engined sports car produced by Pagani. Succeeding the company's previous offering, the Zonda, it will cost £849,000[1] ($1,300,000). It is named after Huayra-tata, which means "God of the winds" in Quechua, the official language of the Inca Empire.[2][3] The Huayra was named "The Hypercar of the Year 2012" by Top Gear magazine and received a very positive review when tested by Richard Hammond on Top Gear. The Huayra is currently the fastest road-legal and streetworthy car ever to go round the Top Gear Test Track, setting a time of 1 minute 13.8 seconds on street legal, Zonda R-derived Trofeo tyres, beating the previous record of 1 minute 15.1 seconds set by the Ariel Atom V8 in January 2011.
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The Porsche 64, also known as the Type 64 and Type 60K10, is considered by many to be the first automobile from what was to become the Porsche company, as a true design precursor to the production model of after the war. The model number comes from the fact that it was built mainly from design drawings for the Type-64 "record car". Most mechanical parts came from the 38 prototype series. The chassis was heavily reinforced and the engine also reworked to produce around 100 horse power. The Type-64 was only a drawing until the three racers were built. The body was also a compromise in that the cab had to look like a KdF car[citation needed], but the rest was 'record' car. The VW beetle was the Type-60, and the name the "60K10" means body design 10 for the Type-60 Beetle. Its flat-four engine produced 50 bhp and gave a top speed of around 160 km/h (99 mph).
The body design was made by the Porsche Büro after wind tunnel tests for a planned V10 sports car that never came into existence, the Type 114. Dr. Porsche promoted the idea to enter the car into the 1939 Berlin-Rome race as a public relations ploy. Three cars were made in hand shaped aluminium by the bodywork company Reutter. One was destroyed early in World War II. The two remaining were used by the Porsche family.[citation needed] Eventually they only used one of them and put the other in storage.[citation needed] In May 1945 American troops discovered the one put in storage, cut the roof off and used it for joyriding for a few weeks until the engine gave up and it was scrapped. The last remaining Porsche 64 was owned by Ferry Porsche who had it restored by Battista Farina in 1947. In 1949 it was sold to the Austrian motorcycle racer Otto Mathé and with it he won the Alpine


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|The Kensington Review
4 June 2007
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|Volume VI, Number 67
JFK Pipeline Bomb Plot Was Not a Serious Threat -- Over the week-end, people in the New York City area were told that they had been saved from a dastardly plot to blow up the aviation fuel pipeline that serves John F. Kennedy Airport in Queens, New York. The media alleged that thousands would have died, making it worse than September 11, 2001. Diner waitresses and neighbors had reporters all over them trying to unmask the souls would-be evil-doers. In truth, this was another baggy-pants, seltzer squirting bunch of idiots who brought to jihad all the competence and effectiveness that the Three Stooges brought to plumbing projects.
Charles Taylor's Show Trial Opens without Defendant -- Former Liberian President Charles Taylor boycotted the opening of his war crimes trial in The Hague earlier today. Accused of backing rebels in Sierra Leone who are responsible for thousands of dead and even more maimed, Mr. Taylor decided he wouldn't participate in the proceedings. He wrote a letter that his lawyer offered the court in which he wrote that he believed he would "not receive a fair trial at the Special Court at this time." Once again, the unworkable nature of this sort of trial proves that Churchill was right; summary execution is preferable.
Australia to Start Carbon Trading Scheme -- The US and Australia are the only two developed economies that haven't signed up for the Kyoto Protocols on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, which are the cause for much of recently observed global warming. Australia's Prime Minister John Howard has just announced that Australia will begin a carbon trading system that he says will be better than those in place in Europe. Of course, it won't happen until 2012, and the target for greenhouse gas reduction isn't due for release until next year. Mr. Howard, thus, has earned a slouching ovation.
Dutch Kidney Donor TV Contest Was a Hoax -- The leading contender for best practical joke of the year has to be the Dutch TV grogram "The Big Donor Show," which aired on Friday in the Netherlands. The premise was that three people suffering from kidney disease would compete for the kidney of a terminally ill woman who would choose which of the three would get her spare parts. At the moment of truth, the announcer told the viewing audience that the whole thing was a hoax to focus attention on the lack of donors. Brilliant.
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text: Hi ive recetly started a crested gecko breeding project. Ive done tuns of research and i just have a few questions i cant seem to find. Ive gotten alot of information off of this forum so i thought id give it a try. First i know that i should have a 12 hour light cycle. I have a simple incadesent bulb on a timer. What time do u guys think i should time it to turn on and turn off. Right now i have it set on from 8 in the morning to 8 at night. What do u guys think should be the best time time have it turn on and turn off? Next do you guys think i should be using a full spectrum light bulb. Wil the use of some kind of special light bulb enhance the probablity of them breeding? I noticed a lot of breeders have like a t-5 or a t-8 on top pf their breeding tanks. Can this help with bredding or really just for live plants? Thnks muchh. I know they do not require uvb light.


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In Tatarstan in a ditch overturned bus with children: 4 children suffered
Today, about half-past nine in the evening on the 190-kilometer highway Kazan - Orenburg faced passenger car and Shuttle bus transporting children. From the blow he drove into a ditch and overturned on its right side, and the car rolled onto the roof.On the scene had to call the staff of the Ministry. Victims are not present.Yet, according to preliminary data of the Ministry of emergency situations of Russia, the number of victims from 32 only four guys. The doctors diagnosed in children injuries of mild to moderate severity (mostly closed fractures) and sent Novosheshminsky CRH.Later the affected children will be sent to traumacenter Republican clinical hospital in Kazan, explain in the Ministry of internal Affairs of Tatarstan. - The other guys also taken to the hospital. They are psychologists.Here the guys will spend the night and in the morning students will be sent home in the town of Buzuluk, Orenburg region. It turned out the kids were in a car accident returning from a tour of Kazan.According to preliminary data, the culprit is the driver of your car. The scene he disappeared. But the long run it did not happen - police arrested a man after a while.From the driver of the car came a strong smell of alcohol. He was taken to the hospital for medical examination, it was confirmed in the internal Affairs of the Republic of.