Hi everybody it's Sam here thank you for watching today so I'm going to show you how to make this four step card this is a six by six version you can make these in any size some people add an extra piece here so it closes like a card so you open it up and then this comes out as well but I've just stuck with the four here I think I've done a three on the channel and I've got other kind of step cubes and things like that so I'll add this to the playlist I thought is July I've got to do a little bit of Christmas in July I'm not going to do too much maybe two or three cards I will be starting my full blown Christmas makes at the beginning of November but I will be also launching my own collection very soon so this is what we're going to make you've got room on the back there to be able to decorate further and write your message so let me show you how I made it so I've got this template here so you want a piece of cardstock that's nine by six I've got my white piece here but I wanted to do this template it just helped me explain it better during the live now I have done pencil lines all the way through here so I've kind of got a grid and then I've just popped the black lines and the red is the cut line so you can see already there where I've cut into it so what I think is best to do is I'm going to score directly onto this one and I'm going to talk you through how I score you might want to lightly do the grid all over the cardstock you want to use and then score where I'm going to tell you and then use your trim out your cutting knife to cut these sections here like I said I during the live I just went straight in to score this and all I'm going to do is score all of these lines here and use my scoreboard the measurements along there so if you don't want to use the scoreboard and you want to mark all the pencil marks first of all you want to mark along the top and the bottom one and a half first of all then at three then at four and a half six and seven and a half so every one and a half you want to put a little marker on with a pencil and then again you know you could just sit your cardstock at the top here and just mark again at every one and a half then you want to pop it on its side and you're going to do one and a half three and four and a half and again one and a half three and four and a half and just join those markers up along the top and the bottom until you have that grid okay and now we want to start the scoring so I want to make sure you can get the measurements in at the top there and then you can just see this here so first of all if you've got all your grid marks in now you just want to score it one and a half down to one and a half so you'll have your little grid there so you're just going to score down I'm going to just use the side of my scoreboard here and I'm going to score one and a half down to one and a half like so next I'm going to score at three down to three okay three all the way down to three again if you don't have a ruler on the side of your scoreboard just pop a ruler there and you can even lay a ruler down right underneath the number if you'd prefer then a lady mentioned in the live just to flip the card around like so and do again that mark so one and a half down to one and a half and then three down to three okay now all we need to do is this middle score line here so it's at the halfway mark so it's at four and a half but you're going to miss the first one and a half and miss the last one and a half you just want to score from one and a half down to four and a half so I'm going to come in here you can see roughly there so one and a half down to four and a half about there okay so you can see there's my four lines or five because obviously that one there as well so one two three four five then I'm going to pop it on the short side and now I'm going to get everything in shot there I'm now going to join up this marker so the end now you're focusing on the end of the score lines so I'm going to join that one up to this one here and that's at the one and a half inch so again I'm just going to hovering it over there I'm going to start joining it up here and you'll kind of find your track and then come all the way down if I haven't joined up that's that's better if you go over then you might have to just kind of burnish the score line kind of rub it out if you've done your grid with your pencil marks then you won't go over anyway but this is me being a bit lazy in all honesty I just go in this way it's kind of how I work so you can see there I've not joined that up so I'm just going to pop it back in and just join them up there so back to that way again so we've just done this score line although it's a cut line as well I just think it's quite good to score them next you want to come down to the next one where you've got the end and you're going to join that to the next end one and that's at three inches so pop in my stylus in the track like so and again you can see I've not joined that one up so popping it back in and that's at six inches so I'm just gonna join that up so you can start to see now how we've got this kind of step effect coming down and then I'm just going to flip it now to the other end so we've just joined up that line and that line so now I'm flipping it and I'm going to join up this last one here so again it's at the one and a half so I'm going to start there and then come down again not quite joined it up so that's fine you can come in that way and these and I know it's nice and neat so you'll see now we've got that pattern which is exactly the same as that now when you cut you're just cutting these three lines you're cutting between those two which again you can see there so I'm just going to get rid of the scoreboard and get my cutting mat out okay so I've got my metal ruler and you want to make sure you're cutting nice nice and sharp and I'm going to sit this down so first of all I'm cutting this one here so make sure you just push the ruler right down and then with your knife on a slight angle you're going to cut into the ruler so all the way down like so so if I just bring that up you'll see now I've cut that slot and then again do the middle one and the same with the last one if you don't have a cutting knife or you don't like using cutter knife and ruler then you can use your trimmer because you can just drop the pin down and just move that way you need it to go next we want to just start to fold them now I'm going to actually stamp in these ones here so I'm going to do that now and then decorate it but I want to stamp it while this is still completely flat but we do next want to burnish it and I'll show you that in a second okay so I've just gone and stamped ho ho ho and I've popped a little image of a present there and I'm going to colour that in in a moment so next you want to do your folding so start with the top that score line here is going to become a valley and this one a mountain okay so actually all of those need to be valleys so if you just kind of push all of these ones here so they all become valleys and then just start pushing this out the rest will just fall into place so if you just focus on like I said these ones here so they're all a valley fold all these will become mountains and then you'll be able to fold the whole thing over into the six by six size and then just burnish it with your bone folder just be careful you don't want to get any markings so I wouldn't burnish this because you might mark and this is the front of your card so I'm going to just go under here and just burnish those score lines just keeps everything nice but now you'll see it's almost flat and then they're really easy for the person to open it up and stand it up and you can see the ho ho ho there looks really cool so that's the main card blank now you may have done all of this in pattern paper so you won't need to worry about your mats and layers so what I would suggest you do in first is make the template which I've got here because now I just use that on all my colored paper and I just draw around this and cut it out so I'll keep that with all my other templates so if you cut yourself a piece of scrap paper to five and three quarters by five and three quarters and then with a ruler so all the squares are the same within this section here so these three six nine they're all the same size these ones are slightly different they're more of a rectangle so you want to mark at one and a quarter two and three quarters and four and a quarter and then do the same along the bottom so one and a quarter two and three quarters and four and a quarter join those lines up now when you rotate it make sure you rotate it because this is the one and a quarter rotate it so that now is over this side here and then again do the same one and a quarter two and three quarters and four and a quarter and again one and a quarter two and three quarters and four and a quarter and just join up the line so you've made the grid like I have. When you go to mark all this off here make sure you've got your one and a quarter here and so on you'll see anyway and then you're just going to mark out so they're all the one and a half by one and a half one two three four five six and that's what you're going to cut away to give you this. Okay so you're keeping all of those rectangle ones on your template and then you've got three one and a half by one and a half squared sizes in the middle there. I'll take photos of this again it will go on to my blog so you'll have that for reference. Once you've got your template and like I said you can then just lay it on your paper so I'm using this lovely paper from the same pad that I used for this one so you can see the stars there and it's called North Star it was actually out last I think it was last year so I'm using this one here because I thought it still looked like a snowy background so I think for the front I'm gonna have this corner down here so I'm just gonna sit this I'm actually going to flip it over so all the pencil marks on the back and I'm just gonna lay the template down and then just draw around it. Now this is a non-directional paper so it doesn't really matter you know how I have this but I'm gonna have that one in the corner and then so to not waste this paper I'm then gonna bring my template down and bring it as close as I can to the previous one but I'll come out a little bit just so I can fit my pencil lines in and then again I'm just gonna draw around this one okay and then if you want to do two more for the back then just draw around two more but now I'm just gonna cut all of that out okay so now I'm gonna stick those down so that's stuck down now I've actually just swapped it because I just I love this snow effect here but if it's down here you're not really gonna see it because I'm gonna do the same decoration here minus the flowers whereas just with the Merry Christmas up there I think it's you're just gonna see all that more so I've already gone ahead and cut all these and I've had a couple of the gnomes left over from the live and I'll just show you everything I've used so the gnomes are from an old issue of card making and papercraft magazines from 2018 and it's Nick the Gnome but I know some people had success getting this off of eBay I believe I can find some links I will share them it's really cute and then you also had these which was a November edition which was the cutest couple they're very sweet as well so I've used that and then I've taken the Merry Christmas this was a hobby base die for the sentiment which I've already done that and I die cut it with foam and then a glitter card and that's gonna go on the top there so it's really lifted it's got lots of dimension it's really nice and then for the big tree here so I'm gonna have more trees on the front it's the paper discovery and it was the elegant room builder and it builds a lovely Christmas scene there's little Christmas decorations but because this is more of a woodland outdoors I didn't bother with the decorations and for the Ponsettias on that one it's this here which is a Lisa Horton Creative Expressions one I think it was again a couple of years ago and it's the cut and lift collection it was the Ponsettias again if I can find any of those links I will share them below but I'm just gonna pretty much copy this one I'll talk through the glitter that I've added at the end actually no I'll show that before I stick the gnomes down it's but I'll show it now it's just the Nuvo Vintage drops in white so I just squeeze it along and then whilst it's still wet I just use this inexpensive snow-like glitter and sprinkled it over the top and that's what gave me that really nice effect so you'll see me do that in a moment and then yeah I'm just gonna stick them down and then trim it so I think I'm gonna do them three staggered like that and then just a couple more lifted on foam so it's just got more of that that woodland look so I've actually got five of them there and then I've got my three little gnomes which I'm gonna pop on the front around the presents. It's all finished now so you just see me add the glitter I've just layered everything up so it's still drying a bit there but I love the ho ho ho that appears on the side so although they are the same card style I think that slight change in decoration there so you can see these ones here actually one and a quarter squared pieces if you do want them out there because I don't think I mentioned that again it will be in my blog both ways look really nice but I do really love that ho ho ho and then they both stand up really nicely so thank you for watching today as always everything that I've used will be listed in the description box below there'll be some more tutorials popping up now the playlist for these kind of cards I've probably already shared along the way so yeah have a look at that maybe watch the videos that are showing if you haven't subscribed click on the subscribe button hit the bell and it will go red and that way you'll be notified every time I upload a new video thanks for watching and I'll be back again soon


So, like my favorite cricketer Dhoni says, you get the toss, sometimes you win the toss, sometimes you lose the toss, we got the last talk of the day. So, I appreciate you all being here. When we, when I realized that we had the last talk of the day, we were like, what can we talk about that hasn't been covered in the last four days? What could be left? Right? And then, you know, it wasn't very difficult to arrive at something, which was, we can talk about our experience. That is something that's, none of you have, right? You have not been in a situation where me or KK have been. So, mostly what we're going to cover today is through our experience. We'll talk about some of our experiences that we have had. And since it's the last talk of the day, I will exaggerate my stance a little bit. I will say, no, this is wrong. Or I might say, this is bad. I don't really mean it. So, don't get mad at me. I don't mean all of it. I mean some of it. I know the truth lies somewhere in between. But I will tell you that these things are probably wrong and you shouldn't do it. Okay? We can talk about that. You can ask me about it. If the question, if the answers don't satisfy you, we can talk offline afterwards as well. Okay? So, I'm not going to explain what my talk is about. We're going to talk about, we'll see it as we go along. My name is Krishnan. I'm the founder of a startup called GeekTrust. I help developers find, good developers find, good opportunities. That's what we do. Before GeekTrust, I was with ThoughtWorks for close to 10 years. I worked as an agile consultant, project manager, delivery manager in the US, UK, Australia, and mostly in India. Over the last few months, I've been unlearning a lot of things that I've learned as to what agile means. When it's my own money, I'm very, very lean about it.  I'll share some of those as well today. Cool. I think few of you might already know me. I presented talk on Wednesday on the other room. My name is KK. Yeah, so that's how I entered the room. My name is KK. I've been with ThoughtWorks for the last six years. I've been with the IT industry for the last 11 years. My agile journey began when I joined a startup nine years ago. I haven't heard anything about agile until then. Even when we were doing the startup, we didn't know anything about agile. Think about it in retrospective. I thought that was the most agile team I've ever worked with. That's when I realized all these terms and all these practices and processes that we talk about, you could do without really learning if you really know what business value you want to add. That's me. In the last six years with ThoughtWorks, I've been working in multiple roles, primarily as a consultant, as a coach, as a business analyst and project manager lately. That's me. Can I just add something more? Sure. One thing I forgot to mention, our talk has three parts to it. The first part, we'll talk about the problem. The second part, we'll talk about why the problem exists. The third part, we won't offer you any solutions. Those are the three parts to our talk. Do you want to start? Cool. I want to start with a story. This is a real story. Something that happened when I was consulting with one of the organizations in South Africa. This is a large enterprise. They were dealing in financial instruments. They were building applications. The project I was on, they were building a shared trading application. If you ask the business, they had a lot of competitors in the market around the same time. One of their primary goal was to release as fast as they could and do incremental releases after that as frequently as possible. Kind of continuous delivery, again. That was a goal. This organization had deployed other agile teams in the other departments. These guys had an IT wing and they were running a few projects from their organization. They had recent experience with agile. They thought this would be a nice idea for them to put a team together and make this happen.  They hired a brand new scrum master. He had certifications from a couple of certifications which did prove that he was a scrum master. A team was set up. When it came to processes, this was the team doing stand-ups. Over a period of time, eventually they understood a great deal about stand-ups. You have to do effective stand-ups. What kind of updates do help their team members? Again, during the sign-ups, they would make sure that the pair rotation happens and all of that. They were pretty sorted on the stand-up part. When it came to iterations, they would have a two-week iteration. They would spend around four hours every two weeks just planning for the iteration, throwing estimates, planning what they could do in the coming two iterations. They were sorted on that front too. The scrum master had experienced do all of this, and he facilitated this really well. That was a definite positive there. Come to the technical practices. They did understand a little bit about extreme programming, so they thought, okay, pairing is a nice idea. You get a real-time code review at any point in time. So pairing and refactoring, again, one thing that they took care of, again, something that really went well. Continuous integration, so they had a TDD unit test, functional test. And they thought, okay, continuous integration for feedback, quick feedback would help them. So they had this in place. So all the elements of agile showcases, they would showcase their software every two weeks to the business owner, and they would get sign-up. So all happy so far. To course correct themselves, they would do retrospectives again every month and figure out what went well, what didn't go well, how can we improve. All of that really happened. So all the elements, all the practices often agile project, right? So what was the outcome for business though, right? So if you see, they did everything they knew about agile. All the practices were followed right. But did the business really get what they want? So remember the earlier goal, they wanted to go live as soon as they can, right? But none of the team members really had focus on that. What they were focused on is getting TDD right, getting the stand-ups right, getting everything, all the practices and day-to-day routines and rituals right. And they got it right. But what did the business get out of it? So that got us thinking. Is this just one story? Probably not. So Krishnan is going to share another story, another experience that he had. So KK story far away Africa, you know, maybe when he went there it was a wrong time. So let's look at a story in India. I worked with a large US based MNC. They were doing showcases, check. Continuous integration, check. Stand-ups, check. Par-programming, check. It ticked all boxes. But if you ask them what was the goal, why were they doing this? Ask yourself. People who have been in part of agile teams are forced to be in part of agile teams. Why? Why was agile introduced in your organization? Why did your teams adopt agile? To whom did it matter? This is a real question I'm asking you guys. In your teams, why did you pick agile? Why did you choose to do agile? Client was asking, I've heard that before. What else? Time to market, very good. But the thing was, in my experience, ten years I've worked as mostly a consultant working with multiple teams. If you ask people in the team, why? They don't have an answer. Most teams didn't know why. Why were they trying to do agile? Now the question is, is that important? So we came to realize one thing. We came to realize that agility, the word itself, has lost the meaning that was intended. Agility and agile became about adopting certain practices and processes. That became the goal in itself. It was not about why we wanted to achieve something. What was the business goal there? How were we impacting the customer's business? It was about adopting something. Again, when I think about it, there was another company that I worked with, this time a French company. I spent three hours with them understanding their challenges. They called me in to see how we can adopt agile. Same question that I asked them, why do you want to be agile? Because we've got an order from a French HQ that we need to be agile. That was the reason. Like you were saying, the client asked us to be agile. That was the reason. So I came to realize that we are getting very, very good at implementing certain processes and practices. How many of you have been part of stand-ups? Showcases? Being part of sprint planning meetings? We are very good at it now. This wasn't the case six years ago when I started talking about agile. A lot of people didn't know how to do stand-ups well. Didn't know how to do showcases, didn't see the value in showcases. So the point, the problem that we are starting to introduce here is we are getting good at something. And what we are getting good at is the ability to implement agile practices. I think we have reached a point where we are fairly decent at it. And our talk today, what we are challenging you is that's not good enough. Nobody gives a damn. We are so used to this model of let's somehow implement agile, that we have forgotten what it means to be really agile. If you can do stand-ups, you can do showcases, you can pair program. Unless there is value to your customers or your client or their business, it really does not matter. And this slide which talks about our successes or failure. When we talk about agile, a lot of the principles, values that I think are important are building quality in your software or having transparency in your processes. Why does that matter? Why does quality, why does discipline, why does transparency, why does that matter? So that we can deliver better value to our customers. That is why discipline matters, that is why getting the processes right matters. But we have forgotten that. What the my takers, our takers, the industry as a whole have come to a point, and I'm talking specifically about the Indian industry because that's what I've worked mostly in, we value these processes in itself. That is the end goal. Being process agile has become the end goal for us. Anybody agrees? Anybody disagrees? So there is value in process agility. That is absolutely value in process agility. I'll talk about that later. But my challenge and my question is, we can do a lot more. By being process agile, are we allowing our software developers, our software engineers to be creative? Are we allowing them to be really fulfilled their potential? Are we doing that by being really process agile? So that is the question that we wanted to answer, that we wanted to tackle today. Process agility, definitely, we have been there, done that. We have tried out different things and it works and we have got it. Don't stop here. Just checking if I've missed something. So it's got to a point where the problem statement that we have is, hey, Krishnan, can you help me out? I need to get CI implemented. That's what we want to do. I want to write good stories. That's absolutely not a goal in itself. I don't think so. But I know I can understand where some of you can feel that these big, big, big IT shops, this is important. That IT firms, big, big enterprises having process agility. If that brings discipline, that is important for me. Can I ask you why you disagree? Exactly. Great point. So partly I agree with you, but my challenge again is don't stop there. This is the most tangible part of agile. That is why it is easy. It is not easy to do. That is why it is possible to do. But my challenge is don't stop there. Process agility is touchy. You can really touch it. You can hold it. You need to do this. You need 85% test coverage, but we need to go beyond. And if you think that process agility is enough in an enterprise, I tell you it's not. I have worked with a lot of large enterprises in my time at ThoughtWorks and I know that even large enterprises, large IT shops, multi-billion-dollar US firms who have their IT centers in India, they can do more. Absolutely they can do more. And two, this is a problem, not just in startups. And I'll hand over to KK to talk about the next. Sure. So we're coming to the last part of the first part of the question. So like Krishna mentioned, this is not just in enterprises, right? Might be surprised. I was surprised when I first dealt with one of the startups who came to us with their problem statement. So I'll talk about this really quickly. So there was this startup who were in the market for almost a year. And you could say that they were sustaining by something that we would call a cowboy approach. So they were doing all the practices right. So they would have a stand-up, this kind of status update to the stakeholders. They would have a CI which would be mostly red and no one would care about. Or functional test automation, which would not run on a continuous basis, but run once in two days. So again, all the elements of Achilles would be there. But when these guys had to scale, and scale really big, right? They came to us and said, how are we going to scale? Because we see that there are these practices. There is a perception of being Achilles, but we're worried that this might not work. And we share the same worry. And when we went and analyzed, right, this is what we found that all the practices, though are very bookish and does sound very Achilles, is not solving any real problem. The other thing is, when these guys wanted to scale, is concentrating on bettering their process, was that important or was it important for us to focus on the end business goal? And see, this is the end business goal. How do we achieve it? Maybe all that they were doing, we might, we could have crashed that and said that, hey, this is not the way you should go. Maybe we should rethink our strategy here. So the bottom line is this problem, right? There are different flavors to this problem. Don't happen only with enterprises. This can happen with startups too, right? And then there is a whole segment of other industries between startup and enterprises like mid-level and smaller teams or medium teams, right? And it can happen with those people too. It's a common problem in our experience, right? So think about this. Is agile adding enough value? Can someone remind me of the first principle of agile? Anyone? So not from the manifesto, but one of the 12 principles of agile. So the top, absolutely. Right, so highest priority is to satisfy customers through continuous and valuable delivery of software. Are we really living up to that principle? So that's the question. Are we really living up to that? Or we are always inward looking and say, we have done this process and this process and this process and this process. We are agile. Okay, what did the business get out of it? And that's the question that we're trying to address. So this is the second part that we want to talk about. Yeah. So to be a bit more specific, I worked with one of the Indian startups, one of the larger ones, and the problem was scale. Now, how does agile help them? Any suggestions? They want to scale, right? They're in Bangalore now. They want to scale to 12 other cities in India. And they come to us and say, okay, we want you guys to help us out. What do you do? How do we fit agile? What do we do with agile and this problem statement?   We have done coding so far. We've got some things here. This won't scale. We know this won't scale. This has been held together by glue and faith so far. I know this won't scale. When I go to Jaipur, this won't scale. When I go to Chennai, this won't scale. So as an agile consultant, as an agile coach, as an agile team member, what do you do? How do you solve this problem? Can you solve this problem? Is there anything in agile that helps you solve this problem? So let's worry about the software a bit. Let's worry about being able to... But you need to handle the volume, okay? Right. Yep, fair enough. It depends on the what? Sorry? Okay, can I ask a simple question then? We have talked about... Sorry, you have a point to make? How can agile help this company scale? How can you as an agile consultant go into the situation and say, hey, this is what we should do? What would you do? Tell me one thing. Anybody? Yes. Okay? Okay, so tell me one agile principle practice technique that you say, hey, this team should probably think about it. Did I not be right or wrong? Just tell me what you would start with. So, yeah. Okay. Great point. So you're saying empowered teams, autonomous teams, which have a clear goal, like individuals and interactions, value that. That is something that this... Anything else? What else? Yes. You can validate the growth hypothesis by doing small experiments, having smaller stories, testing it out, getting it out to production, et cetera. Awesome. So this is what I mean. These are the sort of challenges I think we are not taking head on. We would much rather get CI implemented, get our developers to write more unit tests, get, you know, do more stand-ups, put a VC in place. Whereas these are the challenges I think we have a place to play to solve this. And as the Indian startup industry grows, as we tackle more business problems, move to products, move away from services, these are the sort of things I think we as agile practitioners can impart, can do. So my ask to all of you is, I don't know how to fix this, okay, we have no idea. So KK and I are just making most things up after these slides. This was the problem statement. I want to ensure that you all agree with us that there is a problem and that we can do more. And all of you at some point in time will be in a situation where you will be able to influence it. If not today, tomorrow. At that time, do be bold. Do think, can I do more with this? It is not about, is my QA writing in a functional test. That probably has value, but we need to step back. And I think, how do we fix this? Some of you have already covered bits of it, but I'll come to, I'll look at it. This is what we thought we should do. So KK and I, I'm going to tell the story KK. So KK and I were working on this yesterday evening. So in the morning, we didn't have any pictures. There were no pictures here at all. In the morning, I wake up and I go through the slides and I see a hen on my Y agile slide. Any idea why this, I'm going to call it a hen. Any idea why this hen is here? Okay, why is this chicken here? Yes, cross the road.  So he put the chicken up there. Anyway, so what we are suggesting in terms of how do we fix this is going back to what I said first. Why do you want to be agile? Why does your team want to be agile? So any of you, any of you in this room, have you been part of an agile transformation? That is, you were working in a non agile mode.  Yeah, why? Why did your team decide to do that? Decision from senior management. Yeah, agile will increase my productivity, reduce my inefficiency. And we'll get some people fired. My operational costs will come down. Sure, great. Yeah, yep.  Who else has been part of an agile transformation? Yes, why did your team late night calls? Speed to market. Okay. Okay. And maybe low attrition at some point. Okay. So our suggestion is step one, be clear why you are being agile, why you want to be agile. And it is not enough that the senior management is clear why you want to be agile. For teams to be really agile, I think it is important that we concentrate on building strong teams. We don't do enough of that period. I've worked with too many companies, large and small, that they don't worry about building strong teams. And in my opinion, this is just my opinion, how do I go about building strong teams? Teams need context, teams need vision. And if I were to be in charge of an agile transformation program, I'll make it clear to the team why we are being agile. And based on KKS and my interpretation, there are three reasons why people want to be agile, are teams want to be agile or companies want to be agile. There might be more, but we could find only three. Thank you. Number one and the most popular one is engineering rigor, which is to say I've got a screwed up code base. I don't have any unit tests. My teams, I have 5,000 bugs when I go to production. I want to bring it down to 25. It's a very common problem statement. The 5,025 is not a joke. I heard that from a client that I worked with. I did, actually. Not 25, but much less than 5,000. But engineering rigor. Everybody, I'm reasonably certain most of you agree with this, that this is something that you have also seen. We want to build more discipline. I want to be able to push to production without breaking all other features. Right? And, sorry, was that a question? Yeah, so engineering rigor is definitely one of the reasons why people want to be agile. In my ratings, I would say this is the lowest rating. Because yeah, you should probably be agile for this. Great. But yeah, this is not my top preferred reason of why you should be agile. Because the impact your end customer may not be as much. I've heard business telling IT that don't worry about impact to business.  I can watch you better when you're doing agile. It's easier to track what you guys are doing. And they push agile. And they were supposed to release, they go live once a year. Let's do agile and let's push to production every month. So we consulted with them. We worked with them. We put all these practices in place. And they said, no, it's okay. We'll still go live after one year. So we did all of that engineering rigor for, there was no end impact to that, to their business or to their customers. Second reason is speed. Can anybody take a stab at explaining this? Why does, what's the link between agile and speed? I think this gentleman here already touched upon it. You want to validate something quickly. I'm running a startup. For me, this is important. I want to validate my idea quickly. It's about being able to put something out there. What's the next one? Quick feedback. Okay. So, sorry. I'm going to come back to quick feedback. When I meant speed, it is not what I said earlier. Ignore what I said earlier. Just rub that out. When I meant speed, it is you have a validated idea and you want to take it to market extremely quickly. The example I quoted earlier of that particular startup, they know it's working in Bangalore, right? They want to try it out. And they want to now quickly go to other markets, right? And to be honest with you, we struggled with it. We don't know how to help them. They came to us and said, we want to take it to so many different markets, so many different areas.  Let's start from scratch. We'll do this. We'll do that. We're not sure how we could help them do this. Because what they wanted to do was speed. And all our processes are tuned towards building value one, which is engineering rigor. We know how to do engineering rigor agile. But when we say we want to build speed, we are not very sure how to do it. Can I just look at my notes quickly? Sorry. The third one is quick feedback, which is I want to test out this idea. I want to get it to market quickly and I want to change. These are the three reasons why we think agile matters. Engineering rigor, speed, and quick feedback. Any other ideas? Any other thoughts? You think we have missed something? Anything else that you guys can think of? Yes. Sure. Well, I think what you need to say is, you can fail as long as you fail fast and learn from it and fix and course correct. So I think one of the principles if you say, again, all this quick feedback and all the CI we have, it's okay if your CI goes red in a broader context. It's okay if you fail, but as long as you learn from it and you fix, as long as you don't lose the focus on the business value, I think you're good. Absolutely. And my next slide. So step one was why agile? Be clear why you're being agile. And there are three reasons why you should be agile. Step two is what agile? What are you going to pick? Here is where I think your point also comes in. What are the practices, principles, principles, values that I need to inculcate in my team? What are the things that we need to try out? There are a plethora of things out there. I can't possibly pick all of them. It's not possible. It's not even worth it. So what will I pick? And in my humble opinion, this is where the role of a agile coach or a scrum master comes in. And believe me, you cannot, I don't mean to offend anybody, you cannot do this without having expertise. You cannot understand what the problem is, what the business goal is, and then choose the tools to say, okay, let's do this as an agile team. Let's try out these three processes, these three practices. I don't care about these two. That to my mind is a role of an agile coach and a scrum master. It cannot be somebody who's, you know, just dabbling in this part time and then say, okay, let me do this. It could be, but then it'll be a long learning curve. This is where your scrum expertise, the agile coaches should step in and say, this is what the team is trying to do. This is the reason why they're being agile. This is my strength of the team. These are the weaknesses, and this is how we will approach it. Because people still need some sort of a mental model as to how we will deliver software. So this is what the agile coach or the scrum master should be doing. Select from all of this, understand the current situation, the current business goal, understand the weaknesses and strengths of the team, select the processes. So you've got your step one, why you want to be agile. Step two, what are the agile practices that you want to do? And step three, agile, agile. It's kind of a recursion. So how many of you have heard of this term called BDUF? Can you explain what that is? So bingo. Sorry, you was going to say something. Absolutely, right? So we all understand and we value emergent design over big design up front, right? And we know that if we do big design up front, it's not going to work at a technical level. Also, right? And there'll be a lot of changes that you need to know. How about applying the same principle to agile?  Day one, let's say you have had experience on one of the agile projects and say, today I'm going to a new project. I'm going to copy paste the entire processes, practices, all the rituals on this project and say, hey, I'm agile now. You can't do that. How about empowering your team and let the agile evolve? I think that's the primary key to this, right? That's the key to this. The other thing is, right, one of the principles that we again believe in when it comes to, let's say, as simple as in the agile manifesto, we say that we know we value individuals and interactions over processes and tools, right? And if we let ourselves stick to the same agile throughout and we are just stuck to the same processes, then we are mooting this very point wherein we are just stuck to the processes. And the entire purpose of agile is defeated. So that's our three-step approach. You understand why you want to be agile and empower your teams. And every team member should know why we are being agile and what is our end business goal. You pick based on your context and based on the situation and based on what makes sense at that point in time and be agile with your agile. Bring in agility to your agility and make sure that you course correct your agile when you figure that something is going wrong. That brings us to the end. This might as well be one of the last frames from 70 Hindi movies, but this is cliched stuff. But anyways, to summarize, right, I think we have outlived process agility. We have done process agility. We have succeeded in most of the projects. But I think it's time for us to really get our heads up and see what is beyond, what is more, what is the real business problem that we are solving, and we should focus on that. So I think that's where we end today. Thanks. Any questions?


This week's project was inspired by a viewer comment. Yes Liz asked about our bust up here. What is it? It's a fox. And we love foxes. Fantastic Mr. Fox is our favorite movie. So this week's quote on our sign comes from my favorite movie. So we had to make a giant 6 foot wide 18 inch tall fantastic farmhouse sign. And it was super easy. And we'll show you how we did it right now. What is up? Welcome back. This week we're trying to build the easiest, giantest farmhouse sign ever with the least amount of tools we can do. Really the biggest tool will be our Cricut because we are going to make a stencil and we do need the Cricut. That's the biggest tool but otherwise like a little hand saw, little mail gun. Done. No big cuts but we are making a giant sign. Kim wanted the sign to be taller than her. Yes I saw these signs on Pinterest. I mean I've made a few signs but none that are 6 feet tall. So it is going to go horizontal not vertical like this but I did want it really long. Step one, we're going to gather all of our supplies. And that supply list is really short. It's really just a 6 foot long 16 inch project board. And then 3 6 foot 1 by 2's. And some Cricut vinyl. And some Cricut vinyl. And you know I get a lot of questions about the role of Cricut vinyl that we have in our list of supplies. This role, it's getting a little bit small now but it started out as 100 feet. I think it was less than $50 right at $50. And it has lasted, this is year 2. We're in the second year now right? Next month. February is 2 years and it is still going so it's totally worth the money. I can't tell you how many stencils, stencils, stencils, vinyl projects we've made with this stuff. Well if you've seen our projects, you see how many stencils we use. We used it for the wood burning, for the painting. I guess that's really it. Well and sometimes we use it for our actual projects. Yeah. You know, when you adhere the vinyl to something. This is Oracal 631 not 651, 651 is that permanent. This is the repositionable 631 and I think this works well for stencils. Step 2. Now we're going to make all of our cuts, both of our cuts. We're only making two cuts. We're going to take this one, one by two and cut two pieces at 17 and a half. So before we do that, I just wanted to show you what makes this so easy is that these boards are purchased at 6 feet just like the backer board. So the frame is the same size as the backer. All we need to cut is two 17 and a half inch pieces for the ends. So easy. We're going to stain and paint. First try, good job. We're going to stain these one by twos. This Jacobean, Jacobean. Somebody who's nice enough to correct our pronunciation of the name of the stain. We were calling it Jacobean. Look like Jacobean, but it's Jacobean. Potato, potato. Step 3. We're going to paint the backer. We're going to paint that project board now. And we're going to paint it with chalk paint with a chalky smooth finish black. We're going in black. And we're going to rock paper scissors to see who has to paint this thing. He's only wanting to do rock paper scissors because I lose every time. Alright, ready? Rock paper scissors shoot. Rock paper scissors shoot. Oh, I'm painting. That's because we did it on film. Stencil. Well, all this stuff is drying. So let's jump into design space and I'll show you how I did it. Okay, real quick. We're going to upload our SVG file. Garrett made this one for us. Insert your image. Comes in grouped. Really long. 68 inches up here. And that's too long to print. So what we're going to do is ungroup this. Fantastic is 45 inches that will not fit on a 24 inch mat. So the way you break that down is to slice it. So we're going to insert an image. Going to put this square over the item that you want to slice. And while the squares highlighted, hold down your shift key. Select your second image. Both are selected now. Click slice. Now you'll remove the parts and delete the parts of the square. And now you have a slice of your image. That's it. So for those of you that are new to Cricut, I am using a pink mat. It's a fabric mat, but it's the only clean 24 inch mat that I have. So that's the one we're going with today. My other tip here is the best way to put on vinyl onto a mat is to hold it from end to end like this and line up the side. And then once you do that, you can lay the whole thing down and it does not come out crooked. Works perfectly. Step five, we're going to add the graphic. But first we have to weed our stencil and put some transfer tape on it to the weeding. Okay, so the trickiest part about creating this stencil is getting it positioned correctly on the board. So we've brainstormed what we think is the best way. So we've put fantastic on its own stencil by itself, its own three pieces of vinyl. And then the words, we've put them on their own stencil as well. So what we'll do is cut out three strips that are the same. What would you say? Height? Height. Same height so that we can get the correct spacing. So let's start with cutting our letters out and then we'll show you the next step. Get this out of the way. Now, if you do not have, let me show them this craft mat. This craft mat is a lifesaver. If you do not have one of these, you totally need to get one of these. It's self-healing so we can cut right on it. And it's nice and long so you can use the grid marks on this mat for your ruler, which Garrett's not doing. Yeah, no. I marked it on the actual stencil. All right. All right, we have our letters cut. The other thing we use all the time, I just bought it because it was on sale and I thought it was pretty cool, but we do find ourselves using it all the time. It's this Cricut ruler. It is 18 inches and it has a nice sharp edge and a little lip that you can hold on to. It's not a lip you can hold on to. That lip is to protect your thumb. I cut my thumb so many times with regular... With regular... What is this thing? Ruler. With regular rulers, I really learned that that is a thumb saver right there. Not a grip thumb saver. There's a big scar on my thumb from messing around in art class without one of these rulers like that. Well, and I only mention it because I happened to be on... I think it was the Cricut Craft Life Facebook group and somebody was asking, is this ruler worth it? Yes. And yes, I told them yes and I just thought I'd share with you guys. Yes. You've ever hopped your ruler with your X-Acto knife? You know it's worth it. Oh, you want to apply the transfer clear first? Well, let's... Do you want to cut this one? Okay, so the thing about this stencil is we thought we were all slick and we said, okay, we'll put everything aligned to a quarter inch from the bottom and cut it, except that the S goes lower than the bottom so that automatically puts this one up high. The F goes lower than the bottom of the word so that put it up high. So now we have to even out our stencils and kind of cut this fantastic and make it nice and straight across. Fantastic. All right, we've centered it so now let's get these out the way. We're going to add fantastic first. Before we lay down any paint, we're going to lay down some Mod Podge to seal it so we get less bleeding. All right, our Mod Podge is dry so we're going to use some of this white chalk paint. Maybe. I can't get the lid off of. Time to peel it up. Let's see what we got. Let's see what we got. There's our fantastic. Looks good. Nice, crisp lines. Yeah, it looks fantastic. It does, it does. All right, let's add these ginghamers. Step six. Put those one by twos on as a frame. We're just going to tack them on with a one inch, one and a quarter inch bread. The nail, not the guy. A giant farmhouse sign. That's it. Pretty easy, huh? I think the stencil was the hardest part. We made a giant sign.  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Hi guys, this is Dan Giles here with Let's Fix It and I've got a little something for you that You're not going to find a whole lot on YouTube or any other video Source that you might have the new Frigidaire refrigerator If you have an ice maker issue first of all, this is the brand new model Frigidaire refrigerator that they came out with this year and as you can see there's no handle but they do have these little Cutout sections right here for the refrigerator and the freezer door on this stainless steel model Now this is not a cheap refrigerator not by any means but because they kept having issues with handles then They decided to go with a refrigerator door without handles I'm not really a fan of it, but There you go, but in changing the handles. They also did something else I want to go through the steps on how to remove this ice maker from this refrigerator and Show you all the little tricky details because everything has to clip and snap and unscrew and is just all kind of crazy Stuff that will drive you nuts if you don't know what you're looking for So here goes first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna take this bucket out of place And it just slides out. That's not a big deal Now you'll see this cover right here covering up the ice maker and you're gonna figure out what no world's going on here How do I get that out? Well, that's kind of easy as well little tab right here Just kind of put your screwdriver on that and it just pushes it down a little bit where it will release it from One of these little posts that are on the roof of this freezer So now we got that cover off And here's Frigidaire's little surprise of an I don't know if they call it an upgrade or I'm thinking the mold ice makers were a lot better in the day But they decided to go back to a flex tray ice maker Insanity, total insanity So I'm gonna show you how to get this ice maker out of here So that you can replace it or do whatever it is you need to do Maybe take the back wall off. You got to get the ice maker out of the way. So that's a little trick to this All right, if we can focus in on the top of this ice maker Right back here Grab a screwdriver here you'll see right back here where this There's a post that holds this ice maker here and here and in order to get this out There's a little keeper right here a little plastic spring like spring-loaded piece of plastic that's sitting in front It's gonna be hard when I get this out. I'll show you what I'm talking about But what you need to do is that little spring put your screwdriver in behind it Push it out Kind of pry it out a little bit so that it gets out of the way of that retainer Just push the ice and pull the ice maker forward and it will come loose Now you got this harness here with this little plug back here. We'll get the ice maker out of the way All right So now we're zoomed in on the the harness that plugs into the back wall And you'll have to have a flat head screwdriver to go in here and push down Never so gently. There's kind of like three tabs inside of this That you'll need to push down I do know that 30 or so years ago. I Can't remember what exactly the manufacturer who that manufacturer was but they had an Ice maker that had this kind of a plastic mold tray And I remember replacing these things very often because the problem that you have with these this plastic is that Water gets in there and it eats away the lining of that Eye of this of this tray And over time that lining goes away and the ice cubes start to stick I remember that being a problem back in that day why frigid air came out with this design now I don't know. I think the old mold style that was actually encased in a Like a pewter base or whatever the ice makers were made out of with a heater Going across the bottom of it was definitely a lot better design in my book than going with a plastic flex tray That when this thing turns it actually twist it Like one's going right one's going left just like the old of it the old ice trays that you used to keep in your freezer You pull it out. You twist it to break all the ice loose from the mold. That's basically what this new ice maker is doing I'm not a fan. Not a fan at all. I Mean this thing probably weighs all of not even a pound. It's not a whole lot of substance to it But that's what frigid air is doing. I mean they've made some changes that I don't know are really for the good Another issue that I'm having with these refrigerators that if if the freezer section is not below 10 degrees You're not gonna get ice. That's just not gonna make ice. So, you know, that's a problem with it as well It's even going into dispenser models where a double door refrigerator is the the housing around The ice maker is a whole lot more elaborate than what I just showed you on the disconnection of ours or this one But the ice maker is the same. I guess it's going to be Remains to be seen how good it is that your water tube from the back of the refrigerator comes in and rest right there releases water into it and it has a little little Swimming pool slide way down to fill up that tray. What an amazing amazing piece of I don't know what I'm gonna go ahead and put this ice maker back in place and I'll show you all the steps of how I'm gonna do that All right, so here's the retainer here and here that the ice maker has to line up to You see it slips into this this part of the ice maker and this side of it has a little keyway That goes in here and slides in and locks it into place there So the first thing we'll do is go ahead and plug the harness back in And that's just going to snap in place just like so Now what you need to do is to make sure that you get that tube Under the fell section of the ice maker Little excerpt I just found on the internet about the flex tray ice maker I was telling you about there's a little break in the in the episode here And I'll put a picture of the ice maker right here the old whirlpool flex tray Says the whirlpool flex tray ice maker gets its name from the way it makes ice Well from a flex tray It basically puts water into a plastic ice cube tray freezes it tips it upside down and twist And dumps the cubes into a bin Much the same way you would do with the old manual type ice trays But here's the interesting part of this Whirlpool put most of its ice makers in Sears Kenmore refrigerators in the 70s So I said 30 something years ago They were eventually replaced by the more reliable compact ice makers But not before thousands of them were produced And there's many survivors out there that they're still having issues with The biggest is like I said the water Corroding that plastic liner And making the ice stick to the tray and then once it wants to once it tries to twist it out It won't release So then it goes back to normal position water fills back into it Then you get the overflow Eventually you get a freezer that's just nothing but a block of ice because The tray itself wouldn't release any cubes So there was nowhere for the water to go except in the freezer section Freezes on top of freezing on top of free you get the picture So anyway, they replaced the ice maker with a more reliable ice maker after Many years of trial and error So why frigid air would go back to that? I don't know. All right. So back to the video So that it definitely doesn't leak water and stuff all over your Your refrigerator You're gonna go ahead and line up everything Snapping into place and then just slide that ice maker right back in till it clicks You see that little clip right there That holds this ice maker in now And that's really simple because it's three sides So that's your your top, which is the bottom of this It's gonna line up to the three post And you're just gonna snap that into place Slides underneath this lip and everything is sealed in place So that's the new frigid air refrigerator and freezer Issues that i'm not really happy with I don't think that uh going backwards on an ice maker style is Actually the way to go with this those flex trays are not reliable I I think in less than a year you're gonna start to have issues with them. That's just my thoughts and i'm just going back on What memory serves me on what we had to go through back in the day With the old flex tray ice makers So that's it guys frigid air ice maker The brand new system that they've started using not really wild about it But what are you gonna do the manufacturers do what they're gonna do regardless of what you say So what i've got here is the new frigid air ice maker what comes in the box. I'll show you That piece that covers the front of the ice maker Just has those three clips or studs on this on the roof of the freezer that hold this in place Don't forget when you take this out. You got to stick a flathead screwdriver in here Just to pull that tab in a little bit enough to where you can slide it past the post top For the post the head of the post So that's the new one there This is the sidewall piece that the ice maker Slides into this is for a refrigerator that didn't come with an ice maker So you would need all these pieces to install that That's part of the kit as well Get the water valve and the water tubing I set that aside for a second That's the new ice bucket Get that Looks like I said if you have a refrigerator that you bought without that ice maker You would need all this stuff And then the last thing that came in the box was the actual ice maker itself And I want to pull this down to show you a few items on here This is the little tab right here that when you go to pull this ice maker out you want to pull this forward And then the other side of it It's just got a little keyway where the the stud goes in here and when it's mounted in place It just slides forward into that little notch right there So the whole thing just notches into place The only holding it in place is that keep right here And like I said, you'll pull that forward to get past the post And then the ice maker will slide out enough to where you can pull it on out This plug Is got This little piece right here that holds it in so you'll have to get a screwdriver inside of here to go across those That tab so that this pushes in So it releases off of the backside of this And you're able to unplug it from there So that's Frigidaire's ice maker Brand spanking new out of the box That's the head of it right there that's You can see it's not very big Not very big at all My cell phone's as big as the head on that ice maker So Am I actually I think my cell phone weighs as much as this ice maker does So that's Frigidaire's new refrigerator and the new flex tray ice maker that Know what I know from years past I'm still not a fan of that flex tray people have had issues with it forever So be sure to leave me a thumbs up if this video has helped you and leave me a comment down below If you've got this ice maker in your refrigerator If you like it, if you don't like it, let me know leave me a comment in the comment section below Also, subscribe to the channel. You never know what's coming up that might help you in the future Subscribe and be sure to hit that little bell so that you're notified on my next video when it drops Until then guys be kind to each other. This is Dan Giles, and I'll see you in the next video


It doesn't contradict. It completes the verses by other verses. No, it doesn't. It just adds more confusion, which is another thing that the Qur'an got wrong. I mean, the Qur'an always says how clear the Qur'an is. And yet, I have to read six different translations because they all contradict each other. The way that it was translated from Arabic into English still produces six translations that disagree with each other. And then I still need a panel of people who know the cultural traditions to tell me what the interpretations are. And then it all has to cite back to Hadiths written by nobody knows who or nobody who doesn't know what they're talking about. So it doesn't matter.  There is no hell.


I was able to just let go of the wheel and it kind of spun itself where it needed to that was sick What's up everybody? I'm a rabbit. We are here on forza horizon 4 with a new update with some Mitsubishi's in the game which I'm very excited to get to because you know we're gonna try and make one of them sideways But also they said they adjusted the wheel feeling so We're definitely gonna be testing that today, and we're just cruising for here for a minute And then we're gonna go switch up cars do a little drift build on a mid-sue See how it feels But definitely excited to see Mitsubishi's back in the game This is probably one of my favorite, you know evos right here is this one I do like the evo 10s as well, but so we're gonna be doing a drift build on the evo 10 if we can I got my life behind me tripping out but we're gonna go try and build this car up and See see if we can get sideways with it and see how the wheel does feel To me it doesn't really feel that different But we will see What we come up with once we go sideways with this car So I say this car will be switching up to an evo 10 So let's get a build up on an evo 10 and well see if we can get sideways. First of all, we got to buy it Well, I actually get it for free because of car pass Switch to our controller here for a minute go all the way over So if you guys are enjoying the Mitsubishi's, let me know down in the comment section down below which one is your favorite Do you have a favorite one or do you just like them all in general? So I said we were gonna use an evo 10 so we need an evo 10 we're gonna modify the evo 10 a little bit I'm gonna get the light turned back on behind me so that it's not as dark on the wheel setup Of course, we're not gonna use that we're gonna use No livery or our own livery all right now that we got a little light back on it the subject of our wheel set up So let's see what we can do to this car and see if we can actually do what I want to do to it and See what we can do Can do a drive frame swap. That's what I wanted to make sure we can do We think we're gonna leave it stock motor for right now. What do we got for a body? That's a very interesting from bombers. I think that just add fog lights, right? Yeah, just add some fog lights and some canards. I think we're gonna leave the stock lip That is a very high wing. Holy cow We'll talk about a really high wing. There you go So I don't know if I'm really feeling a The body modifications as you pretend But uh Well, we don't necessarily have to do that we can't do track width So that's definitely a good thing. I think we're gonna leave everything pretty much Stock wheel wise and stuff like that for right now. We are gonna go as wide as we possibly can and Then uh throw drift suspension on if we can I really hope we can because otherwise that would make this build up. Well Not really worth it. We can there we go So we are gonna do a full drift build on this car Essentially, we're gonna do a street build no cage Got the bigger brakes up in here though. I do like those bbs is that car squatted though So like I said, let me know down the comment section out below What is your favorite Mitsubishi in this pack? Do you guys like the pack? Do you guys like that? We got Mitsubishi's back. I know I'm pretty excited about it. I Think we're gonna do this is Kind of a mild street build. I guess you would say well, I say mild but mild for horizon anyways What are we looking at? We're looking at 365 horse right now I think we're just gonna go big turbo beginner cooler So I feel like I want to get more power out of this thing. So I think we're just gonna go all out full full power on this car get up the tires, of course 622 horse and right up the tires to No, not race tires sport tires to some sports 245s in the front will keep that but we are definitely gonna make the rears some 265s So that's what we're gonna do to start this one off right now Then we're going to turn our control off because we're gonna go back to the wheel We have to make some fine tuning adjustments and then now well send it and see how this works So let's work with the tuning a little bit see here Trying to See how I want to do this probably 25 and 23 sounds good Leaves the gearing how it is. We definitely do not want that much camber in this car We're gonna start with three and a half one. I'm gonna keep that all zeroed out I think we can leave that leave everything else how it sits so far and Just send it how it is and see What we can do with it With the way it sits and maybe modify it from there, so Definitely excited to get sideways in this car So we can see how it goes definitely we see how the wheel feels too because they did say they did tweak some of the wheel Stuff around I don't know if it really messed with the feel or whatnot so And our sounds pretty good clutch kick so the wheel doesn't feel much different doesn't feel like it Snaps back as quick. I feel like there's a little bit of a difference in how it feels But I could be wrong. I could just be used for seven so much right now for while, you know, we're gonna rip it up the hill and See how this goes slide it in Take out the guard rails right it's a rally car right we can go off-road It's meant to go off-road I feel like the wheel is not as Snappy as it was before Kind of feels a little bit better. It could just be the way the car is but We'll definitely have to try maybe an fd car to see how it really feels, but it does feel a Little bit different to me. If you guys are on a wheel, do you notice it feeling a little bit different? Let me know down in the comment section down below because I'd be very curious to see what you guys think This actually feels pretty good. I like how this Mitsubishi's handling right now. I'm not really using much e-brake I've been using all weight transfer And all that of course, you know, we're gonna take this thing downhill And we're gonna get the momentum with us. I always forget that these cars are ghosts so for a first out of the box Throw on this Mitsu Quite happy with it. I feel like we're about to get drenched down though Little clutch kick there Watch kick to flick it back. There we go. I have a feeling uh This car may get a big wing on it and maybe a uke's D1 paint scheme. I was able to just let go of the wheel and it kind of spun itself where it needed to That was sick I'm so okay with how this feels right now. I could be crazy. Oh, I stalled it I could be crazy and think that we have feels different But it actually doesn't you have arrived at your destination So let me know what you guys think down in the comment section down below Can we modify our gear ratio slightly is what my question is gonna be that I put a transmission in there I don't remember tune alright gearing We did so I think I want to do a little more acceleration on that car Just to Change it up a little bit. So now we're gonna go ahead of down hill in the dark in the rain if I can get up this hill Excuse me out I am back on an each pattern shift. I did take the sequential out just to familiarize myself back with the H pattern So we're gonna send this hopefully we can drift in fourth gear. There we go So this car feels So nice right now, and I don't know if it's just The car or if it's a combination of the car and the wheel changes that they made but like I said, I could be crazy Because I haven't changed anything For a wheel setting. It's kind of just how it is Unless they've reverted my wheel settings back to a normal Setting with the update, which I don't think they did We do still have the sound glitch. They really need to fix that. That'd be nice, right? So this would be she's definitely Definitely getting it. You're probably fine tune it a little bit more Make it handle that much better But this thing is a lot of fun and it is fun to be back here on Forza Horizon 4 Because I'm not sure if the wheel just feels different because of the car too Or if it just feels better period Because it feels good to me I'm pretty sure like look I was able to kind of just let the wheel slide in my hand. I'm uh Actually very impressed with that and how that kind of just clicked itself that way Very minimal From my hand movement to get it to go back. I know I'm all over the grass But I'm just trying to feel how this feels I think we're gonna have to bust out an FD car and see really how it feels because FD cars the other day was feeling very crazy to me so I think if we're going to switch it up to an FD car and See see how this feels in one of those cars I'm gonna go back this way Get wrecked Change car So let me know got your guys's thoughts on this update. What do you guys think you like it? You don't not like it. I Personally am a I'm a fan right now. So I Totally passed them Get wrecked on myself. There they are. So I think we're just gonna bring out the Alcolandale now it's in a Dean McNamara Falka tires livery S14 Yes, I would like you to deliver the car to me We're gonna give it a shot and see if it feels different to me because I know the wheel is feeling very Snappy, and I was not a fan of it So this I guess will be kind of a Kind of a test on it so We're just gonna go full send We're in fourth so I Feel like the wheel does feel different It's a little more controllable now for me, I guess and I feel like There's some dampening on it that has made a bit of a difference in the way the wheel feels and This rain is definitely helping with the sheer sliding ability of this S14 Got somebody else behind me. It looks like they're ripping up the hill They look like they're trying to get some tandems. Oh as I cut that grass line That was a quick snap back So I'm definitely gonna want to run this downhill in the FD car to see if it feels any different. I'm very curious where this guy is Let's keep running. Oh He's got a Pass me pass me that dab. Okay.  It does feel Quite comfortable, and I feel like I'll be back here on horizon for a lot more So now we're gonna flip and go downhill That man's got the same idea. I don't want to go downhill that way. Let's do it You can see if we can't maybe Beat our old record Probably not gonna do it Not drifting there though Try and just clutch kick as much as we can Still working a lot on the wheel in these FD cars That Mitsubishi was definitely a lot smoother. It'll break change transition there See that doesn't help me When I go off track and run my guard rail lines does not help my endeavor for points drifting Although it looks cool not what we're Trying to do right now Hardening brake grab Still on and points We go That's probably could be getting a lot more points on here in this car That man is shredding though.  We go So the wheel does feel different to me And I am actually loving the way how it feels it could just be that they changed some settings around or I could be crazy. So let me know down in the comments section below if you think I'm crazy or not. I think we're gonna Rip that Evo 10 one more time Maybe around some different sections Before we end this episode off and then We are gonna end this episode off So make sure you guys follow me on Instagram and Twitter all which found the description box below There we go. Now we got to eat now. We got the Mitsubishi Tandems. I love how this car feels right now Of course, we've missed the drift zone now. We're just Drifting at all natural up the hill Changes give ratio did help This car is so much fun to drive. I may have found a new New favorite slidey car We'll cut the grass do a little flick this way. Let's kick that way But a break change on the clutch clutch kick send it back car is just ripping up the hill So I think that's gonna do it here for this episode for the horizon for definitely be on horizon for more Here in the near future. Yeah, especially because this wheel Feels pretty good on this car right now. So kind of a side to maybe slide this car some more Or maybe get a proper livery on this car. Maybe we get a little bit more. Maybe add some More power, maybe a different motor So as always, I like thank you guys for watching and coming back So I'm your rabbit and I'll see you guys on the next one Let's tap scrape


mean well volatility means there you go this because when you have wide swings that we've been having up and then down a lot and then just can't get your your footing that's what leads to crazy markets and ultimately now a better than 1,000 pointed in the doubt a day better than 4% hit that has us now now even with some of the gains along the way 10% from our highs that is volatility my friends and we have not shaken that off in fact if anything it picked up steam by the end of today's trading let's go to market watches Melissa Armo and Dan Schaffer Dan you were here not too long ago essentially saying get ready for more of it and sure enough we've got more of it this is already on track to be with the 6.5% loss through today the worst week for the Dow since the famous meltdown the week of October 10th 2008 what's going on well I think that the investors are waking up to the fact that all these plans that are being made out of Washington and the way the economy has been functioning is just not happening and they're starting to take their money out of the markets liquidity is drying up because people are panicking so the business are very wide and I think it's a very dangerous time and I've been warning about this for over a year that there was something wrong with the way the market was trading and the way the fundamentals have been in our economy because Melissa others will argue the fundamentals are not the problem it's all this other stuff that's been confusing folks that the fundamentals way do you talk about the underlying economy with the jobless claims figure out today the lowest in close to 45 years much better than expected earnings companies rich in cash sharing the loot with their workers that all that basic stuff all that that sort of the macro stuff is good good good what do you say I think fundamentally and technically the market looks great remember we've been rallying straight up almost since the election the fact that which was an anomaly by the way that was very very rare very unique the market is never power-trended like that for 14 and a half months the fact that we're falling in the last week which by the way it's only been four or five days is not anything to panic about or all of a sudden start to scream bearish and people were predicting a 10% correction anyways the fundamentals look good you got to give tax reform a chance to work it just passed it's only your first week of February 2018 and as far as the technicals go you have the reason people are panicking is because the move happens so quickly if we had a nice but the thing is that selling could you see me again I like that but no no I've had a real issue you are getting very well you know Dan another thing on this is that say what you will of this market it it's underpinnings have been exaggerate in other words we have all these exotic investments and you could trade off the VIX and these other you know VIX alternatives that that gets so over my head that we complicate this and these algorithms sort of in an unemotional way just exacerbate these things what do you think of that yeah well I agree with that I mean there are vehicles out there that you can go triple times the shorts on the S&P or triple of anything and I just think those should never have been approved and it does add the volatility to the market especially because some of these underlying vehicles that you return referring to are are backed by banks and just their credit rating so yes I agree that that has added what are you looking for now what are you looking for now we're down 10% from our eyes what are you looking for from here well we're at a we're at that 23,800 level that I was first looking for but based on the action of this week I think that we're gonna penetrate that level and I think we're eventually gonna end up at 18,000 before the dust settles and the reason I say this Neil is because everything is to go yeah everything's been baked into the markets the tax money is saying another 20% to go which would bring us down 30% from our eyes listen I don't predict tops and I don't predict bottoms it's a wait and hold if your long-term investor there's nothing wrong here there's no reason to panic if your short-term investor then you would have been out you would have been out last Friday we had bad earnings in Google and Apple that drove the market down last Friday the sat Monday was a follow-through with a continuation of the sell-off and then it just happens to quickly people panic it has all right guys thank you both very much on breaking news now including a guy who who singlehandedly today is stock markets right in their path Rand Paul why he has a problem with this budget accord next