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We've all heard of the KISS principle. It stands for: keep it simple, stupid.
Well I want to apply it to software development leadership. Particularly those leaders that are in an agile context.
I've been hearing a tremendous amount of pushback and whining amongst leaders in agile contexts of late. What you say. How can this be?
Here's a sampling of the running types of dialogue (complaints, whining, pushback, etc.) that I'm referring to:
- We've already committed to customers a release date for a new, highly profitable product by June 1. However, the agile teams keep saying it will take till January. I thought agile would allow us to get more…faster. It's sounds like every other time when the teams couldn't seem to meet our demands. Where's the creativity? Where's the can-do attitude? Where's the commitment to hard work? Where's the agility?
- The teams keep complaining about interruptions slowing them down. However, our clients need to be supported AND we need to deliver on our project commitments. I know that these are two conflicting areas that could easily take 100% of our capacity. But the harsh reality is that we have to figure out a way to do both at the same time. And I have full confidence in our team's ability to do that. Now, if they would only stop complaining and get the job done.
- I just don't understand how many of our small customer requests take so long to get completed. That and our bug backlog seems to be growing as well. These are all incredibly small changes. I remember when I was developing the original application I managed to keep up with the demands. Of course, we only had 10 customers then and we have 100k now, but come on, it takes only a few minutes to make each change…right? And they need to be able to keep up with this maintenance while still meeting our newly forecasted project commitments.
- The leadership team met for several days to determine our next year forecast for system enhancements and new opportunities. We tried to be as conservative as we could be, but the market is moving incredibly fast. And we need to match that speed. So, we've come up with a plan that we feel is perfectly feasible for our development organization to execute. We'll hand it to them at the end of the year and ask them to commit to it. Oh, and of course, we've already announced it to our board, stockholders and clients.
- We work in a regulated environment. Our applications have to support the annual regulatory changes by very specific dates. Often our teams push back on these commitments because they have "too much to do". The counter-pressure is that they are non-negotiable dates, so the teams need to figure out how to meet them. No matter if they are 2x, 3x, or 4x our capacity. It really doesn't matter. We've just got to do it. And agile is the way it will happen.
If I were to categorize all of the above, it really boils down to leaderships lack of understanding (or denial of reality) and poor understanding of their organizational capacity. It's as simple as that. In other words, they need to stop:
- Managing not to the hopeful capacity;
- or the imagined capacity;
- or the wishful capacity;
- or what they "think or perceive" it is;
- nor to what they could do when it was only themselves and two programmers.
And start managing to their actual capacity. That is, what their teams say it is.
But many leaders view a primary aspect of their role as distrusting the capacity estimates coming from their organizations. Because they're bloated, uninformed, and padded. And it's their job to put downward pressure on the teams so that they get more juice from the orange.
In other words, they're squeezers. Squeezing, and squeezing, and squeezing…
And I guess I could buy into this approach…if it really worked. But I've never actually seen it work. Not in the end, when the team delivers. The resulting software inevitably suffers from quality and scope challenges. And it's often delivered late anyway.
There is another approach. One that feels incredibly uncomfortable, but one that is congruent, honest, and real.
It's Simple Really
Leadership in an agile context is incredibly simple. Here are some generative rules:
- Don't make client commitments (scope, time) until asking and discovering with your teams how long it will take.
- Trust their answers and don't put undue pressure on them to compress estimates. If you don't like an estimate, de-scope your request.
- Make your business decisions and forecasts on the actual capacity of your team (what they tell you it is, what they prove it to be) and not on what you'd like it to be.
- In order to go faster, agile can help by:
- Delivering higher initial quality so as to avoid rework;
- Encouraging business stakeholders to provide early and often feedback;
- Realize that you play a role in agile transformation by making trade-off decision based on your real-world capacity.
So, stay incredibly disciplined in your capacity management and support of agile principles and you'll probably achieve "faster" delivery.
That's it. It's like you were planning on doing a painting project in your house. And you haven't painted for 20 years. And you have shaky hands. And you are easily diverted. You could plan it for a single day. But that would be too optimistic and not take into account the reality of your capabilities and capacity.
In other words, you could fool yourself into believing you'll finish the project in a day. And then be disappointed when you fall short.
You can plan it for reality. Considering everything, admit it will take you 5 days to do it and that you will have to drop several other commitments in the process. Then decide if you want to do it or not.
Not at the imagined/optimistic 1-day cost, but at the real world & realistic 5-day cost. Oh and, how would you feel if you absolutely know it's a 5-day effort, but your spouse came in and demanded it be done in 1-day. Motivated and energized…huh?
Wrapping Up
I also believe there's another factor lurking below the surface here.
I think many leaders lack the courage to have hard conversations with their own organizational leaders. It's far easier to be a "yes man" or an "overly optimistic person" than it is to have a challenging conversation surrounding the trade-offs that need to be made to fit demands into the organizations existing capacity.
Ongoing denial and/or deferring these conversations till the very end seems to be the preferred approach.
But it's simple really. I want all leaders to start being honest with themselves and bite off what they can chew. No more and no less.
Now is that so complex?
Stay agile my friends,
Here's a related topic that Josh and I discussed on our Meta-cast recently: http://www.meta-cast.com/2017/05/episode-115-responsible-leadership.html
And here's a related blog post link: http://rgalen.com/agile-training-news/2015/1/2/agile-is-focused-on-capacity-equalization


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This week on the podcast I am bringing you another guest episode! This time with Amy Smith (@thejoyjunkie) to talk all things people pleasing and speaking your truth.
In this episode we dig into (you guessed it) people pleasing and what it means, core beliefs and how to shift our worthiness wounds, how to stop playing the when/then game, taking action towards our goals in a healthy way, acceptance and what that means, how to not place worth in the external or in our results, allowing the space to just feel rather than avoiding our emotions, taking emotional responsibility, and more.
A little about Amy: Amy E. Smith is a certified confidence coach, masterful speaker, and personal empowerment expert. Founder of TheJoyJunkie.com, Amy uses her roles as coach, writer, podcaster, and speaker to move individuals to a place of radical personal empowerment and self-love. With acute focus on helping people "find their voice", she is highly sought after for her uncommon style of irreverence, wisdom, and humor and has been a featured expert on Fox 5 San Diego and YourTango.com.
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Resources from the episode:
Episode on decision making and intuition
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Winter Blues
Blue is all around us: it is the colour of the sky and the sea. But the colour blue appears throughout history as more than just a physiological phenomenon of light; it is a symbol, a state of being and thinking – a vehicle through which to express the depths of human emotion.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's ruminations on the psychological nature of colour and its link to emotion in Theory of Colours was one of the earliest philosophical texts on the subject. He wrote of blue:
'As yellow is always accompanied with light, so it may be said that blue still brings a principle of darkness with it.
This color has a peculiar and almost indescribable effect on the eye. As a hue it is powerful — but it is on the negative side, and in its highest purity is, as it were, a stimulating negation. Its appearance, then, is a kind of contradiction between excitement and repose…
…we love to contemplate blue, not because it advances to us, but because it draws us after it.
Blue gives us an impression of cold, and thus, again, reminds us of shade. We have before spoken of its affinity with black.'
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Theory of Colours, 1810, p. 310-11)
Nineteenth century writer and philosopher Henry David Thoreau contemplated the colour blue in his writings, which moved between a documentation of the world and his ruminations on the abstract and metaphysical. He wrote in his journal on the 25 May 1851:
'We love to see any part of the earth tinged with blue, cerulean, the color of the sky, the celestial color.'
(Henry David Thoreau, The Journal, 1837–1861, 2009, p. 109)
Similarly, in A Field Guide to Getting Lost, her reflection on the unknown, Rebecca Solnit writes about 'the blue of distance' and its connection to desire:
'The world is blue at its edges and in its depths. This blue is the light that got lost. Light at the blue end of the spectrum does not travel the whole distance from the sun to us. It disperses among the molecules of the air, it scatters in water. Water is colorless, shallow water appears to be the color of whatever lies underneath it, but deep water is full of this scattered light, the purer the water the deeper the blue. The sky is blue for the same reason, but the blue at the horizon, the blue of land that seems to be dissolving into the sky, is a deeper, dreamier, melancholy blue, the blue at the farthest reaches of the places where you see for miles, the blue of distance. This light that does not touch us, does not travel the whole distance, the light that gets lost, gives us the beauty of the world, so much of which is in the color blue…
The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go…
The blue of distance comes with time, with the discovery of melancholy, of loss, the texture of longing, of the complexity of the terrain we traverse, and with the years of travel.'
(Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, 2005, p. 29, 39)
In Bluets, Maggie Nelson writes a meditation on the colour blue; a love letter to the colour, which stands in for heartbreak and grief. In 240 'propositions', which pose more questions than provide answers, Nelson offers a poetic reflection on art, philosophy, literature and emotion. She writes:
'And so I fell in love with a colour—in this case, the color blue—as if falling under a spell, a spell I fought to stay under and get out from under, in turns.'
(Maggie Nelson, Bluets, 2009, p. 1)
'Having the blues' is commonly understood to refer to feelings of sadness, melancholy, longing, misery, loss or depression. Artists, writers and musicians have long been fascinated with capturing the blues, through paint, poetry, prose and song. And it is through these mediums that the expression has entered common usage.
This usage of the term 'blues' is understood to have come into common use in the eighteenth century, although the use of the word 'blue' in the context of sadness can be traced to the late 1300s, and was first recorded in Chaucer's Complaint of Mars (c. 1385): 'Wyth teres blewe and with a wounded herte', which translates to 'With tears blue and with a wounded heart'. Writer Washington Irving is credited with having first used the term 'the blues' in 1807, in his periodical Salmagundi, as a synonym for melancholy: 'He conducted his harangue with a sigh, and I saw he was still under the influence of a whole legion of the blues.' His usage was a shortening of the phrase 'the blue devils', a phrase which may have been derived from Britain in the 1600s, when the term referred to the comedown that accompanied alcohol withdrawal. The American playwright Tennessee Williams, who suffered from drug and alcohol dependency, referred to his periods of low spirits and depression as his 'blue devils'.
The genre of blues music was originated by African Americans in the United States of America at the end of the nineteenth century. Blues music grew out of racial discrimination and slavery in America and often took a narrative form, expressing struggles, misery and oppression. Ma Rainey, known as the 'Mother of the Blues', was one of the earliest and most popular singers of the blues in the 1920s. She sang:
'If I could break these chains : and let my worried heart go free
Well it's too late now : the blues have made a slave of me'
(Ma Rainey, Slave to the Blues, 1925)
In her famous song Lady sings the blues, Billie Holiday croons:
'She's got them bad
She feels so sad
Wants the world to know
Just what the blues is all about...
The blues ain't nothing but a pain in your heart'
(Billie Holiday, Lady sings the blues, 1956)
Likewise, in Blue Joni Mitchell sings of heartbreak and loss:
Songs are like tattoos
You know I've been to sea before
Crown and anchor me
Or let me sail away
Hey Blue
And there is a song for you
Ink on a pin
Underneath the skin
An empty space to fill in
Well there're so many sinking
Now you've got to keep thinking
You can make it thru these waves
Acid, booze, and ass
Needles, guns, and grass
Lots of laughs
Lots of laughs
Everybody's saying that hell's the hippest way to go well
I don't think so, but I'm
Gonna take a look around it though Blue
I love you
Here is a shell for you
Inside you'll hear a sigh
A foggy lullaby
There is your song from me'
(Joni Mitchell, Blue, 1970)
Pablo Picasso's first significant body of work is known as his Blue Period. Characterised by cold sombre colours – melancholy blues, greys and sickly greens – and gloomy subject matter – beggars, prostitutes and alcoholics – these paintings were inspired by his experience of poverty and tragedy, and the suicide of his close friend, painter Carlos Casagemas. Picasso later explained his use of blue to communicate his pain and depression: 'Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions'.
Blue has fascinated and entranced artists for centuries. Henri Matisse was quoted as saying that 'a certain blue penetrates your soul', and Wassily Kandinsky expressed that 'the power of profound meaning is found in blue.' In this spirit, Winter Blues brings together paintings by a group of artists who are drawn to the expressiveness of the colour blue, in an aesthetically and emotionally blue exhibition.
As the days get shorter and the temperature drops, many of us are prone to a phenomenon called Seasonal Affective Disorder (the aptly anagrammed SAD), also known as the winter blues. The approach of winter inspired this investigation into the colour blue and its relationship to 'the blues'. As a result, Winter Blues is an exhibition exploring the emotional depths of the colour blue.
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250g Passata
2 Finely Chopped Onions
8 Peppercorns
3 Bay leaves
4 Garlic cloves
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2 tsp Red wine vinegar
1 Lemon, juice only
3 tbsp fresh chopped parsley
Lemon wedges, to serve
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2. When the onions are soft add the cuttlefish pieces and cook for about 5 more minutes. Then add the red wine, vinegar, passata & sugar to taste. Bring to the simmer, season and cover with the lid and place in the oven at about 160 for 1 hour until the cuttlefish is tender.
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Something for the kids
There's a very funny story in the book. The family have just arrived in Corfu, and went to a hotel. While they are having dinner, Gerald's sister, Margot, says that she's just been to the loo and found that the hotel keeps its toilet paper in a basket, instead of on a roll. The others tell her that the basket is for the dirty, used toilet paper . Margot is horrified (she's a fastidious girl) and she rushes back to the bathroom to scrub her hands..... and after all these years nothing has changed. There is still a little bin in every toilet in Corfu.
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- Sonia said...
Sabrina, I remember you telling me the loo paper story so vividly when we wete in Corfu 1983.
It was Fathers Day yesterday and I thought of you Andy, my surrogate Dad.
Lots of love, Sonia xxxxx
- 16 June 2008 at 12:05
- Mikis said...
Happy fathers day Papous!!! Love you lots and am looking forward to your return... Mikis. (1 week to go till the end of the 7407)
Myron says "You are going to be really shocked because we are going to make a new city in our new home and our old home made of; Paper, lego and hornby and is going to have a lever which is really really really really long because thats how they build it and this tunnel is not going to be really dirty like the other one, Its going to be as clean as a whistle. I heard you did a good deed and there is going to be lots of intercity 125's, red ones purple ones, white ones some of them them broken down and some that have crashed into cars some of them are going to be black, yellow black, yellow black, yellow black,(ahhh Melissa shutup!!) if your lucky there might be some secret underground tunnels ohhh not the earth ones and there might be a shed outside our house and ther will be buttons and levers. It's a signal box with buttons and levers and a little chair for me and it's very important (I do not want any bumps in the line) if anything goes wrong I'll come and teach you how to do it OK The End. I love you Papous and Yaya... Did you enjoy that?? thank you but don't forget to pack your suitcases.... Love Myron"
Melissa says "Dear Papous and yaiya... Its almost the carnival... It's this week and your going to miss it. This year I hope it's going to be better. I really miss you because your my only Papous & Yaiya and I hope you dont get bit by a mosquito or stung by a jelly fish (or eaten by sharks myron says) Myron is being a real pest but I love him!! HE IS THE SOUL IN MY HEART!! I really hope you are back soon because I really really really really really really really really really really really really miss you and I am looking forward to seeing you and auntie Jane. I am being a good girl and by the way , did I tell you that I got a 2a in my sats and I am really proud of myself. I am playing with all the toys you have got me and all the pictures and glass you got me too.. like the toys from egypt... na na na naaaaa, na na na naaaaa... I'm looking forward to seeing Katarina.. Wow hasn't she grown since last year!! bye bye Papus and Yaya. I love you lots... Melissa
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Discussion in 'Geek Emporium' started by mymerlincat, Mar 8, 2018.
Just announced on the Direct!
It's gotta be Smash 4. It has to be. No way they develop a whole new game in this time frame.
Smash 4 with 3DS levels added, Splatoon kids added, and keeping all the DLC characters from WiiU/3DS.....It's really happening!
If all it is is a Smash 4 port they were stupid to not say so explicitly. Speculation's gonna fly off the rails and everybody's just going to end up disappointed if that's the case.
FWIW the Link in the trailer is pretty clearly BotW Link.
I feel like it can't be a port just for how....empty the trailer was.
When they re-released MK8 as a port, they straight up came out and said it. This leads me to believe it's not a port.
Smash 4 wrapped up development in late 2014 with probably some skeleton crews left to flesh out the DLC. That's anywhere from a 3-4 year period where they could have gotten this off the ground. Doesn't seem too unreasonable. Not to mention they're probably taking a lot of the assets from 4 and just upgrading/tweaking them for the switch anyway since most characters don't tend to change that much from game to game.
The only people I can imagine being disappointed with an enhanced port like Deluxe is diehard Nintendo fans who had the Wii U version, an ever shrinking demographic in relation to the Switch's record breaking success.
I just don't think any "new" Smash could be significantly changed or improved from its Wii U predecessor. It would just be a lateral move where you hope you don't lose any of the great new or third party characters like Cloud, Ryu, Mega-Man or Duck Hunt Dog.
There seems to be evidence that it's a brand new Smash. I'd say there's also reason to believe it could be a Deluxe port seeing as it is simply titled Super Smash Bros, just like Smash 4 was.
I hope it's a Deluxe port only because I'm afraid of losing the DLC and deep cut fighters who I LOVED in Smash 4.
You know, Nintendo..... a certain HD remake just got announced for the Switch with a very colorful character model, unique attacks, and a very family-friendly appeal.
Freaking bring Amaterasu to Smash. Do it.
Sakurai confirms he's been working on it.
This isn't a port then.
I assume he would be working on it regardless? It's not like his team only developed the Wii U version of SSB4.
Insanely short development cycle. If it's not a smash 4 port I would be shocked if the character models and visuals were much different or improved.
Not that I think smash 4 needs a visual overhaul it still looks great.
Damn it Nintendo I'm trying really hard to save money and not buy your system, but you're making it really ****ing hard
I wish they would just make melee hd
You'd better get it sooner rather than later if you want one, I'd expect them to be in high(er) demand once Smash comes out.
I am putting my money on a Friday November 30
Someone went and made a rough guess of who's in the silhouette from the end of the teaser. No newcomers, unfortunately:
(L to R: Yoshi, Pit, Donkey Kong, Peach, Ness, Marth, Mario, Link, Sheik, Pikachu, Samus, Kirby, Zelda, Bowser, Fox, Captain Falcon, Wario)
What's the round thing between Samus' legs and beside Pikachu?
They will have a good time doing new character reveal videos. Can't wait for those
Hoping for every character to return. Bring back Pichu and the Ice Climbers. Add Prince Sidon.
yah I want a switch so bad. I want Zelda, Mario, Mario kart, smash Bros, etc. ugh. be strong
The only thing that's stopping me from getting a switch is full price games.
I got Bloodborne and the dlc for 13 dollars, I got horizon zero dawn for 25 bucks, batman, witcher, phantom pain, Titanfall 2 and numerous others for 30 dollars not long after launch. Plus I borrow the occasional game from the library.
Im not paying damn near 90 dollars for games. There's some indie games on the platform going for full price.
They're just not worth that much to me.
Ninty coming out swinging with what'll likely be three irrefutable system-sellers within two years of the Switch's life cycle. It's pretty incredible.
And now the worst part; the endless months of speculation/annoying fanboy wars over which characters should be in/cut.
Preferably you yank Dark Pit, almost all the Fire Emblem characters minus the first three (Marth/Roy/Ike) and replace them with actually interesting characters. Ditch Ryu because his nonsense combo mechanics don't belong in Smash. Strike lightning by finding another out of left field third party character, and there you go.
Roster is pretty damn good as it is honestly, just need a couple tweaks.
Second the return of Pichu and the ICs. Pichu was something of a secondary main for me in Melee, since it is the pre-evolved form of my series-wide main, Pikachu (who is overall my favorite Pokemon, which can be traced back to my fascination with mice, especially those in classic cartoons).
Prince Sidon would be a good idea. Heck, given that almost every Switch owner also has BotW, I'd be all for them having a whole load of characters from the game get added to the roster (and I hope that we get BotW Zelda in as well).
Give me Super Smash Bros Melee game mechanics with Super Smash Brawl's campaign mode.
Well, I personally think that some characters should be cut. Someone like Snake from Metal Gear absolutely should be as he does nothing for me. Characters similar to him should be out of the game IMO.
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Nigeria's already bad electricity supply situation may degenerate further as Nigeria's six power generation companies on 10 August threatened to shut down electricity supply over N156 billion in debts owed to them by government agencies.
The six generation companies are; Afam Power Plc; Kainji Hydro Electric Plc, Sapele Power Plc, Shiroro Hydro Electric Plc and Ughelli Power Plc.
In a joint press release made available to the media today, the six Gencos said that they cannot sustain power supply due to the heavy debts owed by government agencies as well as the rising cost of equipments needed to sustain power supply in the country.
"In 2013, exchange rate was 150 naira per dollar. Today it is 310. How can we repair, equip, acquire new turbines at this rate of 310 naira per dollar and yet still operate with an old tariff?" the companies stated.
Banks, the companies complained, are now reluctant to extend them further credit.
A Lagos High Court recently reversed 45% increase in electricity tariff granted the power firms in February this year citing lack of due process. The reversed electricity tariff was based on an exchange rate of N199 to the US$ and a lower inflation rate than the current 15.6%. This means that the generation companies will require a far higher tariff structure to remain profitable, a big challenge considering Nigerians are already hard pressed by a high cost of living.
Only last week, Transcorp Plc, which owns Ughelli Power Plc announced that it is suspending plans to build a $1 billion power plant in additional to its current power plant due to issues with gas shortage and difficulties in raising capital as result of the current economic downturn in the country.
"How do you make the investments when you are generating far below your current capacity due to gas problems?" Chief Executive Officer of Transcorp, Emmanuel Nnorom said.
Transcorp is said to be owed over N20 billion by the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc, for power generated and not yet paid for.
"My number one problem would be gas, owing to much capacity available that has not put to use,"
Transcorp's Ughelli power plant has an installed capacity of 700 MW but currently generates an average of 300 MW due to issues with gas.


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If you own, or are planning to buy, a sports car, you may need instructions on how to use it. That's the thinking behind BMW's Ultimate Driving Experience, a series of clinics aimed at teenage drivers, performance enthusiasts, motorcycle riders and other current or prospective BMW customers.
BMW held one of these clinics last week in the expansive parking lot in front of Citi Field in Queens. In one corner were the teenage drivers. In another were a small group of people trying a handful of Bimmers on an autocross course. Then there was a fake hill made of steel for those who wanted to experience the hill climb and descent of a BMW crossover.
About 16 enthusiastic motorists paid $650 for a daylong course called the Car Control Clinic. Part advertisement for BMW's latest products and part effort to show people interested in actually driving (rather than using) a car how to operate it at the limits of control, the class gave them a chance to push brand-new BMW M cars. All of them were current BMW owners, even if not everyone in the group had the sporty M3 in their garages.
Participants alternated between the 2015 M3 ($62,950 as tested, including the $950 destination fee) and the slightly less powerful M235i ($44,050 as tested, including destination). The class also focused on accident avoidance. Instructors told the students again and again that braking, steering and acceleration were separate actions that drivers execute to maintain control of the car.
But using the M3 and the M235i as test cars was also a deft way of shining positive light on a car that some people shopping for M performance might overlook. "Who knew? That M235i is really fun!" was a common comment among classmates. There was also chatter about the lesser coupe being more practical for everyday driving, where one could surely draw unwanted attention from traffic police behind the wheel of the burly M3..
The course included a number of activities: slalom practice; braking exercises designed to show how much stopping distance was required at various speeds, as well as how antilock brakes function; a quick single lane-change exercise meant to show what it's like to slice into another lane when a hazard suddenly presents itself in front of your car; an accident avoidance course; a skid pad; and laps on an autocross course.
The day culminated with a two-team autocross relay competition that had drivers dropping lap times and pulling off ridiculous speed walks as they strode across the tarmac to change drivers. (Apparently, someone had tried running onetime and, as one of the instructors put it, "did a face plant into one of the cars that wouldn't buff out." Running has been forbidden ever since.)
A one-day course certainly wasn't going to teach anyone everything, but there was notable improvement from a couple of drivers.
For example, at the beginning of the day, Andy Elborai Jr., 28, of Sheepshead Bay, who says he owns a BMW 4 series, had some trouble keeping his test car from skidding and running over some of the cones marking out the courses. But by the end of the day, he was posting lap times that were in the running with most of his classmates.
"I'm really glad he's here, because this educates him," Andy Elborai Sr., Mr. Elborai's father and a New York City bus driver, said in an interview. "Everybody drives, but nobody knows how to do it right."
Dorée Seligmann, a computer scientist who was born, raised and still lives in Manhattan, but learned how to drive in Europe, said that even though the car she owned was a 2015 BMW X3 (a crossover, not an M3), she wanted to learn how to use it better. As it turned out, she was a demon on the autocross course, drawing concise lines around corners and accelerating aggressively out of tight turns.
"You don't have much opportunity in the city to learn how to drive cars in a skillful way," she said. "I always wanted to come to one of these driving schools where they teach you these tricks that only people from the country seem to know."
The course was also an opportunity for the M owners among the group to compare the new M3 with older versions. Vamsi Gullapalli of Jersey City owns the previous generation M3 with a 4-liter V8, 6-speed manual transmission. He had been looking for a driving course and received an email about this one from BMW. His impression of the new car, while not uncommon among M enthusiasts, may not be what BMW had been hoping for.
"I'm partial to my version of the M3," he said. "With each iteration, the connection between the car and the driver becomes less and less. There's no question that the paddle shifters on the new automatic transmission are faster, but I'm in it for the enjoyment of driving. Stick shift feels better."
At the end of the course, participants congratulated one another on a job well done as they received their certificates of completion from BMW's instructors.
"If you learn one thing in this class that saves you from a crash, it's worth it," said Mitch Williams, one of the instructors.


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The Schoolhouse for Art are excited about welcoming talented young Artist Eimear Carvill transition year student from Loretto Bray for a week of work experience and practice development.
Her week began this morning Monday 8th of October, the unpleasantness of business first - administration, and office work! Being a successful artist takes more than just raw talent. We hope that Eimear will leave the Schoolhouse for Art knowing how to source and put together a successful artist support funding application, identify the traits to run and tutor a great workshop, and finally we are confident that during her practice development she will take away new skills, and insight whilst creating some amazing work to add to her already established personal portfolio. Eimear it is lovely to have you here.


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And the winner is…ATTITUDE
Every book on selling or success begins with the importance of having a great attitude. The catch is that there are a lot of people with a great attitude who still fail more often than not.
The key is understanding that more success isn't just about having a great attitude. Consistently achieving more success – especially in sales – is all about having the right attitude.
What's the difference?
A great attitude is always seeing the positive side of that half full glass.
The right attitude if you want more than just half full, is having the attitude of being willing to do what it takes to fill it the rest of the way to the top.
Think about it – we all know lots of happy people who love cars, love their job and love their customers, but never sell many units, and never earn much money. Why is that? It's pretty simple. While their smile shows the face of a happy person, underneath is an attitude of unwillingness to learn more, do more, and be more successful in sales.
I'm not suggesting all the reasons are negative, or that you can't be happy and be broke (although I've read that people who say they don't care about money, may lie about other things, too).
So why would a salesperson who could do more, be unwilling to learn more, so they could sell more and earn more? Maybe their attitude about selling is that pushing or tricking people into buying is what selling requires.
Or maybe they just don't want to learn more, or maybe they just don't want to sell more or earn more. Whatever the reason, it controls their attitude, which controls their performance.
We always talk about those 4 Secrets to Success in sales that completely control your sales and income…
Skills … With good skills you can have better performance, and more success.
Habits … Same as skills, good work habits help you become more successful.
Attitude … What we're talking about now.
Choice of Customers … There are two groups of customers you can work with selling cars; the easy ones who pay a lot, or the tough ones who pay very little.
Each of the 4 is important, but doesn't your attitude control the other 3?
Doesn't your attitude determine whether you'll go to the trouble to keep learning more to develop your skills?
Doesn't your attitude control your daily work habits? If you really aren't very motivated (an 'attitude'), isn't it unlikely you'll come to work to do your very best every day?
And most important long-term – doesn't your attitude about follow up, prospecting, phones, and retention determine whether you waste a career waiting to talk to the toughest, lowest gross, price shopping customers in town, or doing what it takes to develop your own base of easy, high gross, friendly people who know you and are fun to work with?
You did the right thing choosing to sell cars as a career, because selling is almost the highest paying profession there is.
You've put it off, but now it's time to order or download my (free) book, "Earn $100,000+ Selling Cars". Get it and read it with an open mind so you can put the right attitude in place to turn a job selling cars, into a rewarding, high paying profession.


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Avatar, the James Cameron film not the Last Airbender, will soon be getting a video game adaptation. It's under development by Ubisoft Massive, the same studio that brought you Far Cry 3 and Tom Clancy's The Division.
It's impressive to note that development began after James Cameron himself met with the development team to discuss their idea and see their demo. This is not just some IP licensing deal made in board rooms by executives. However, it's not clear yet how involved Cameron will be in the lengthy process required to put out a AAA game.
The company's press release out today cites Cameron:
As Cameron mentions above, the game will be built using the studio's remarkable Snowdrop engine. This is the same engine used in Tom Clancy's The Division to produce the realistic looking disaster-ravaged urban backdrop the game was lauded for.
Check out what Massive has to say about their engine:
It will be interesting to see how this develops as we get closer to release. What do you think? Let us know in the comments below.


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TORONTO, ONTARIO and QUÉBEC CITY, QUÉBEC--(Marketwired - Oct. 29, 2014) - TransCanada (TSX:TRP) (NYSE:TRP) plans to file its application for the proposed Energy East Pipeline Project with the National Energy Board of Canada on Thursday, October 30, 2014. A simultaneous news conference in Toronto and Québec City will take place tomorrow to provide an update on the project and discuss the application that is considered to be one of the most comprehensive regulatory documents in the company's history.
For media not in attendance, web and telephone conferencing will be available for the conferences with an opportunity for media to ask questions over the phone. Please see details below. The news conferences will be linked via video conferencing in both French and English languages. Speakers will be available directly afterward for follow up interviews.
|Thursday, October 30, 2014
|8:30 a.m. (MST) 10:30 a.m. (EST)
|Location 1:
|Metro Toronto Convention Centre - Room 203 A-D
|255 Front Street West, Toronto
|Russ Girling
|President and Chief Executive Officer, TransCanada
|Alex Pourbaix
|Executive Vice-President and President of Development,
|Location 2:
|Québec City:
|Hilton Québec - Les Plaines Lounge
|1100 Rene Levesque East, Québec City
|Francois Poirier
|President, Energy East Pipeline Project
|John Van der Put
|Vice-President, Québec and New Brunswick, Energy East Pipeline Project
|Philippe Cannon
|Director, Québec, Energy East Pipeline Project
|To access the live English webcast (live audio and video) of the news conference visit: http://www.gowebcasting.com/5877
|For questions, media can dial-in at: 416-695-7806 or 1-888-789-9572
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|Pass code: 9854058
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It has outperformed by 8.44% the S&P500. The Clifford Swan Investment Counsel Llc holds 199,588 shares with $31.92M value, down from 203,685 last quarter. 1,400 are held by Spears Abacus Advisors Lc. Following the completion of the transaction, the director now directly owns 717,296 shares in the company, valued at approximately $119,322,189.60. Read More »
Federal Bureau of Investigation asked to lead probe into Baltimore detective's death
More than two weeks after the fatal shooting, police have yet to develop a suspect. Authorities have said Suiter was not a target in the inquiry that has led to several indictments of officers and four convictions. Schenning has said he doesn't know what Suiter would have said in testimony. Commissioner Kevin Davis made the request a day after a U.S. District Court grand jury in Baltimore indicted former Sgt. Read More »
Yemen's feuding rebels hold talks after deadly infighting
The former enemies drove President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi's internationally recognised government out of the capital, which has been rocked by rebel infighting for the past two nights. Ousted Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has released details of a letter dated 1966 purportedly from then Saudi King Faisal Bin Abdulaziz to US President Lyndon Johnson which claims that "Egyptian forces would not withdraw from Yemen unless Israel moved to occupy Gaza, Sinai, and the West Bank", Almotamar ... Read More »
Man's failed attempt to imitate a stunt sets off a major fire
By the evening, Gomes was charged with 4th degree arson and 1st degree reckless endangerment. Officials say the fire destroyed or damaged 21 buildings, partly due to stoking from 20 to 30 miles per hour winds. The Times-Union reports volunteers from the American Red Cross helped people displaced by the fire, offering shelter, food and clothing to 11 different families. Read More »
Ex-NSA employee pleads guilty to taking classified info home
US District Judge George L. Russell scheduled sentencing for April 6. He faces a maximum sentence of ten years in prison, along with a fine of $250,000. Reality Winner, 25, a former Air Force linguist who worked as an NSA contractor at a facility in Augusta, Ga., was charged in June with copying a classified USA report and mailing it to a news organization. Read More »
Bosnian Croat war criminal Praljak killed himself with cyanide - prosecutors
Two Croatian experts observed the autopsy at the tribunal's request. Bosnian War general Slobodan Praljak died of a heart attack after drinking cyanide at his conviction and sentencing for war crimes. Slobodan Praljak , which occurred shortly after his verdict was announced by the panel. The court says Jallow "is mandated to undertake an assessment of relevant existing procedures as well as make any recommendations which may assist other courts in the future". Read More »
Rihanna Refuses To Use Trans Women As Tokens For Publicity
Recently, Rihanna was put in the hot seat by a fan who asked her why she hasn't cast a single transgender person in a Fenty Beauty advertisement-and, as expected, she had the flawless response. There's always just one spot in the campaign for the token "we look mad diverse" girl/guy! On one hand, people are championing Rihanna for not exclusively calling out trans women. Read More »
Teen Caitlyn Frisina found safe in New York
Authorities had received reports of several spottings of the pair in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina, all along the I-95 corridor. "She's with a person who is 10 years her senior in a supervisory capacity over her as a coach", Hunter said. Read More »
White House Mum On Replacing Tillerson
Asked by a reporter whether he wanted Tillerson to stay on the job, Trump was coy, merely pointing out that Tillerson was in fact in the room for the meeting. Tom Cotton to take Pompeo's role with the Central Intelligence Agency. State Department Press Secretary Heather Nauert addressed questions about Tillerson's future and cited assurances from the White House. Read More »
Flynn: Guilty plea is in best interest of my family and country
Flynn has promised special counsel Robert Mueller his full cooperation as he pleads guilty to lying to the FBI, ABC News' Brian Ross reported on Friday. Trump was sacked last February after he misled Vice President Mike Pence and other senior officials about his contacts with Russian intermediaries. President Obama meets with President-elect Donald Trump . Read More »
Trump privately saying government shutdown might benefit him
The disharmony raised questions about whether it would have the votes to pass. "I don't think there's much disagreement about whether we should do one or not", said Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev., told reporters, according to Politico . "We were going to talk to the president respectfully, but also make the case for why the caps have to have the parity we have talked about, because our national security and the strength of our country measured in a few different ways depends on it", Pelosi ... Read More »
Amazon package delivery driver caught defecating on curb near home
After the Amazon worker finished, she was seen pulling up her trousers and running around to the driver's side before taking off down the street. The woman then runs back into the marked U-Haul van and eventually drives off. Let me give you a hint. he/she is not tying their shoes. Bautista posted a comment on Facebook calling out the delivery giant for the act, saying she had defacated. Read More »
Man Stabbed and Murdered in Arad in Apparent Terror Attack
Paramedics received a call around 9.30 pm about a 20 year old man who had been stabbed and severely wounded at a bus stop outside a mall with stab wounds on his upper body. When they arrived at the scene, the victim was unconscious and didn't have a pulse, according to the Magen David Adom ambulance service. Arad Mayor Nissan Ben-Hemo told Ynet "The working assumption is that this was a terror attack, but it still has yet to be determined unequivocally". Read More »
Theresa May publicly condemns Trump for retweeting videos from 'hateful' Britain First
His tweet, last night United Kingdom time, was a reaction to the British Prime Minister's rebuke that the US President was "wrong" to re-tweet controversial anti-Muslim videos posted by British far-right group Britain First. She said: "Britain First is a hateful organisation". After US President Donald Trump caused uproar among the Twitter audience by retweeting three videos shared by Jayda Fransen, deputy head of a far-right group called British First, UK Prime Minister Theresa May ... Read More »
JSO officer taunts convicted shooter during sentencing
The officer, who had his son in his unmarked vehicle, tried to pull over Rojas, but Rojas stopped and began firing at the officer. In court the officer, a former Army soldier, called Rojas a coward. As Daniel sentenced the now 21-year-old to a lifetime behind bars he said, "I'm pretty sure Mr. Rojas doesn't understand what the rest of his life means". Read More »


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Music in Process ^
Collection Abstract:
These videos by Sandy, Tom, and others are rehearsals and performances in the Bragi Café.
Bragi IS a venue where musicians and music lovers work on their art, listen to each other, and have fun.
The recording of performances began with Bob's Un-birthday Party Feb. 29th, 2015.
Here also find public performances at other venues, such as Lake Geneva's 'Art in the Park Festival.'
These videos, by artists singly and in small groups, are collected on directory pages reached by the links below.
Sandy Johnson
Tom Stanfield
Bob Lawler
Sandy & Tom together
Sandy & Joe Harris perform at Lake Geneva's 'Art in the Park Festival'
Bill & Larry: Bill Liggett & Larry Sell
Sandy & Bob together. Not Available Yet (NAY).
Bob & Tom together NAY.
Sandy & Others together NAY.
Tom & Others together NAY.
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Happy New Year everyone! I hope that you all had an amazing time with family and friends, time off work, time away or whatever else you did. Now that we are fully back into the swing of things with the new year, it's time for a blog post about resolutions and life.
I can bet that you have already had many friends shoving their New Year's resolutions in your face and forcing you to make similar resolutions, which we all know won't stick. But how on earth do you make a New Year's resolution stick?
Like most people, I have fallen into the trap of setting goals that are way too broad or way too unrealistic each year, and surprise surprise! They tend to disappear after a few weeks, waiting to resurface again a year later, like the little Grinch's that they are.
Everything can be solved if you just slow the f*** down. Here are a few tips on how you can be sure to set goals that will stick:
Take time in planning your New Year's resolutions, think about what you truly want to achieve and be realistic when setting your goals. A little exercise that may help is to write down from start to finish, what you believe would be the perfect day. From there, you can pick out things to make your resolutions, for example: the time you wake up everyday, how often you work out, when you read each day.
Be as specific as possible. Broadness will give you loop holes to not do x or not complete y. If your New Year's resolution is to be more fit, then don't make your resolution 'Go to the Gym'. Instead, make it 'Go to the Gym every two days at 5am after waking up' or 'Go for a 20 minute run every evening after work'. Not only are these more specific, giving times and days, but they are also linking your goal to something that you already do everyday, i.e. waking up and coming home from work. If your goals are linked to things that you already do, then you will be more likely to do them.
Don't burn yourself out. If you go in too hard and too fast, you'll burn out and won't be able to keep up. Tying back in with the first tip, be realistic. If you have never worked out before then setting a goal of going to the gym every morning of everyday is quite unrealistic. Try starting off with three mornings a week and go from there.
People like to throw around an amount of time that is needed before a habit sticks, three weeks, 30 days. I've seen them all. I truly believe that it takes a lot longer than 30 days. A habit has only stuck when you do it without thinking, the way you start biting your nails when you're nervous, or the way that you pat your pockets to make sure that your phone, keys and wallet are there every time you go out. You don't need to force yourself to start biting your nails, you don't need to think about it. This is when your habit has truly stuck. However, on the other hand, I believe that it only takes two days in a row to break a habit that hasn't fully stuck yet. Say you're trying to read every day, missing one day is acceptable because of whatever reason, but missing two days in a row isn't an accident. You knew that you missed the day before, so you should have put more effort into making sure that you read the next day.
Now I could sit here and talk about habits forever, but I need to save that for future blog posts. So that'll be it for now.
Just remember when setting goals: Slow down, be realistic, be specific, don't burn yourself out.


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Indoors, I like photographing objects, like dolls or toy dinosaurs, that take on a life of their own when one's back is turned. Outdoors, I'm a city girl and like capturing interesting urban images. My current interest is abstracts (the more colorful the better) and surreal images. I'm a poet as well as a photographer and admire the "no ideas but in things" philosophy for my poetry and photography.
Toni La Ree Bennett is both a photographer and writer. Visual work has appeared in Women Arts Quarterly (cover), Cimarron Review (cover), Nassau Review (cover) Rappahannock Review, Glassworks, Gravel, Grief Diaries, Memoir, and Stickman Review. Her work has appeared in many exhibitions in the Seattle area and online.


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Tim Harper: Kevin Page's battle with Conservatives is fundamental to Parliament
By Tim Harper, the Toronto Star, 24 October 2012
(...) But the case of Kevin Page versus the federal government is simply too fundamental to the way this place is supposed to operate, and too vital to the tracking of taxpayers' money, that it can't be ignored.
Page is preparing to take more than 60 government departments and deputy ministers to court in a bid to force them to provide information on government cuts, information to which he is entitled under the mandate given him by the very government which is now forcing him to the courts.
It speaks to the culture of fear in the capital, this government's predilection to demonize its opponents and makes a mockery of what is left of its pledge of accountability and transparency. (...)
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Under the Local Government Act 2000, each year we let people know about their right to ask for a referendum on changing the council's governance arrangements, such as wanting to move to an elected mayor and cabinet or a committee system arrangement to manage the council.
A referendum would be held if at least 5% of local government electors petitioned the Council for a referendum on whether the council should operate executive arrangements which involve an elected Mayor or committee system.
The Council is required to publish the number of electors that is equal to 5% of the number registered to vote at a local government election in Medway as shown on the Electoral Register on 15 February 2019.
The 5% figure for Medway this year is 9,891 signatures. Since this figure is less than the figure published in 2018 (9,936), the new figure of 9.891 will apply from 15 February until 31 March 2020. A new figure will be published in February 2020 and if the new figure is less than 9,891, the new figure will apply from the date it is published.


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How To Support Mom's Struggling With Postpartum Depression
It's been a few days since Mother's Day, but I believe us mommas deserve some love and support every day. Mother's day was extra special for new mothers (or maybe it wasn't) this year. So many mothers are suffering from Postpartum depression. Many of us are unsure of what Postpartum Depression looks like, families are still struggling with how to deal with it. So many mothers are suffering and also suffering in silence. And in the case of black mothers, less are likely to seek professional treatment or support from loved ones. So how do we help them? First, we must educate ourselves on the signs and symptoms of PPD. Mommies if you are feeling overwhelmed consistently, or you feel like you can't be a good mom repeatedly, or you're unusually tired. Maybe you feel resentment towards yourself or the baby, or maybe you are extremely sad, or numb. Whatever you are experiencing, you have to seek help.
As a friend, it's important to share how and when you can support the mom. Gather your other girlfriends and start a support system. PPD or not, new mothers can use all the help they can get. One new system that I'm loving right now is called Meal Train. This website allows you to simplify the organization of meal giving around significant life events. This way you and your girlfriends could organize a rotating schedule for dropping off meals (or cleaning, or laundry or watching her other children; and the new mom gets to do some "adulting" on a weekly basis.
For the fathers! Fathers, your number one job - much like the job of mommy friends - is to get educated on PPD and find ways to uniquely support your partner. It may feel frustrating when nothing seems to work but your presence and understanding means a whole lot and doesn't go unnoticed. Encourage your partner to seek professional assistance and let her know and see that you are willing to stick by her side through this.
Friends and family the best thing you can do for the mothers in your life that are dealing with PPD is to listen. Don't try to minimize their problems or even make them better. Just lend them a loving ear. Sometimes all we need is to talk it out and we will figure it out, but it starts with someone genuinely asking how are you feeling today?


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BJP's bypoll woes: Just won 4 out of 23 since 2014
New Delhi, Nov 7: From losing Gorakhpur and Phulpur earlier this year to dismal show in the Karnataka by-elections, the BJP's performance in the bypolls since 2014 has been abysmal. To put it in numbers, the BJP has managed to win just four out of 23 Lok Sabha bypolls since storming to power in 2014.
While this is a cause of concern for the BJP, it has bolstered the confidence of the opposition, especially the Congress. But more than Congress, it is the regional parties who have gained from these polls. In Gorakhpur and Phulpur, considered as the BJP strongholds, the Samajwadi Party managed to trounce the mighty BJP.
Loss in Gorakhpur and Phulpur bypolls was a major blow to the BJP for two reasons. One is that these seats were held by tall BJP leaders like Keshav Prasad Maurya and Yogi Adityanath. Another is that the BJP had swept UP in 2014 by winning over 70 seats, which many see as one of the major reasons for BJP getting an absolute majority in Lok Sabha. Other than these, one also must consider that Gorakhpur seat was held by Adityanath for five consecutive terms before losing to SP in 2018.
Of the 23 Lok Sabha seats that witnessed bypolls since 2014, 10 were previously held by the BJP. The party has not added any new seats to its kitty, but has lost six. It has managed to hold on to just four seats.
[Karnataka By-Election Results: It's 4:1 victory for Congress-JD(S) alliance]
In contrast, the Congress has won five of these bypoll battles - more than any other party. It managed to retain the Amritsar Lok Sabha seat and wrested the others from the BJP.
Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh, Gurdaspur in Punjab, Alwar and Ajmer in Rajasthan were the seats which were originally held by the BJP but snatched away by the Congress in bypolls.
In 2016, the BJP retained the Lakhimpur seat in Assam and the Shahdol seat in Madhya Pradesh, but failed to wrest the Trinamool strongholds of Coochbehar and Tamluk in West Bengal.
TMC's performance was best when compared to other parties, as it managed to retain all the four seats that went to bypolls since 2014.
The BJP leaders have attributed these losses to local issues playing a role in byelections, and have rejected notions that it may have any impact on the 2019 General Elections.


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Security Camera Catches Sneaky Dog Thief Red Pawed
world by Cailyn Finkel 11/16/2018
While it's shameful to admit, nearly every all of us can say we've taken something that isn't ours at one point in our lives. No matter if it's on purpose or a total accident, stealing leaves you with a pang of guilt that can't pass until you fess up to your wrongdoings – at least that's the case for most of us. We need to set things straight if we ever want to get a good night's sleep again!
But there's one literal sly dog who doesn't get the same type of butterflies in his stomach when he does something wrong. Instead, he waltzes right into the place like he owns the joint, cases the aisles and selects the tastiest treat for himself. It's amazing what you can accomplish with a little confidence and sneaky paws!
Even though the pup left undetected by the human eye, there was something watching: the shop's security camera.
The surveillance camera caught this clever dog as he entered a store with one mission in mind – he was determined to get himself a yummy Christmas treat. The furry bandit obviously knew Santa was on his way soon, so he got overly excited and snagged himself an early present. Can we blame him?
His mind raced as he contemplated the perfect Christmas treat. Would a steak be best? Or would a bag of dog treats be better?
Thankfully, the cameras kept rolling as the sneaky pup paced the aisles looking for the good stuff. He was clearly focused on the mission at-hand.
Surprisingly, the pups walked past the meat aisle and headed straight for the dog food. The four-legged thief quickly sniffed out the aisle with delicious rawhide bones and proceeded to grab one for himself. He wasn't wasting any time when he could be caught in such a red-pawed manner!
Without another thought, the pup sped out the door, leaving all shop's workers rolling with laughter. There was no way they could stop such a sweet (and sly) Christmas.
This hilarious clip is clear proof even animals enjoy a Christmas present or two! So, keep this sneaky pupper in mind when you're jotting down your Christmas list - you don't want to leave your beloved pup to run amuck around town, nabbing bones and causing a scene!
Take a peek at this silly doggy caper below. Now he has to wait until Christmas for the rest of his gifts. No peeking!


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I Want to Buy a Home...Now What? Pt. 1
Today's post comes courtesy of Melissa Imo-Moffitt, Mortgage Loan Officer at the Lynch St. branch. It's the first in a series about the steps in buying a home.
I want to buy a home, now what?!
First step: Pre-approval
Purchasing a home can be a very smooth process when you follow a few steps. Today's post is all about the first step. Step one: Call your credit union loan officer and asked to get pre-approved. This is the absolute first step in the home buying process. The mortgage loan officer will ask for your employment information (so have your most recent W2 and your most recent two paystubs handy). He/she will also ask where your down payment is coming from. Do you have a savings account, checking account, 401k, gift, etc...? It is a good idea to print out your last two bank account statements.
The loan officer will look at your credit report to determine if you qualify to purchase a home and use the credit report to identify your debts are and how much you can afford. It is a good idea to know what is on your credit report. Consumers can access a free credit report every year. If you haven't looked at your credit report, go to www.freecreditreport.com and look at what is on there. No one wants surprises when it is time to buy a house!
When everything falls in line and you are pre-approved the mortgage loan officer will give you a pre-approval letter. This letter is based on your credit report and the information you provided. There will be some stipulations in the letter like ordering an appraisal, purchasing title insurance, continued employment (imagine that!), and debt and income remain the same. (So don't go out and buy a car after you get pre-approved! Make sure you speak to your loan officer before making any big purchases.)
Now you have a pre-approval letter, it is time to find a Real Estate Agent and go shopping! Stay tuned for my next blog post on choosing a Real Estate Agent. If you have questions in the mean time, comment on the post or call one of our loan officers.


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