#but they hired someone with no prior experience with historical shows and have her a cw budget and said don't make it look accurate

[sleep-drink]

Hey Guys!!!! Actor AU ShTuuuuuff

So I wanted to add a lil lore to the Actor AU comic in terms of roles and hierarchy :)

Welcome Home as a show has a VERY large turnover rate! This is in fact not entirely due to Wally though. The company the production is under “The Playfellow Network” historically tends to not treat its actors or it’s crew very well. It pays decently in terms of its crew and because of how well the show is received it’s actors are paid even more, but in terms of things like benefits (mainly again for crew) it’s garbage. Also, because they can’t keep a whole lot of people retained, they will just kind of hire anyone. Lots of people who are in the industry have passed through Playfellow and the general consensus is “oh god, you worked at Playfellow too?”. Because of the lack of employee retention, the work environment and atmosphere is catty. at best. This makes communication between departments really difficult and very stressful. On top of that is Wally, who runs the show because he’s basically irreplaceable. As you know he’s trying to protect his loved ones and fellow actors from the terrible set and network conditions which are basically discriminatory for puppets.

The characters and their roles so far (in order of hierarchy):

Wally - Star (Lead Actor):

This is pretty straight forward. He’s mr. Irreplaceable and he doesn’t like humans. With pretty good reason :)

Susan - 2nd AD (currently acting as Key PA): Susan is the Second Assistant Director on this production and has been working here for 6 months. She works basically as a backstage manager and coordinates the call sheets and wrangles actors (when she has to). Poor Susan is actually hella overworked. So (oh no!) there is actually not currently a Key Production assistant working on Welcome Home! (I love causing my characters pain eeehehehehehehee ((we’ll see more of that soon))

The Key PA is in charge of all of the production assistants and let’s them know what to do and to keep them on schedule. The person who WAS key PA did quit (mayhaps or not cuz of something Wally did) and the company has not yet hired someone new (hooray bureaucracy).

Dolly - Walkie PA (Currently ALSO acting as Key PA): Dolly is technically the Walkie Production assistant, which means they are in charge of all of the Walkie use on set (she is actually not very good at this and it’s why she often forgets to turn her own mic off). Fun fact! Dolly’s only been on this production for like a month and a half and has outlasted most other walkie PA’s! :) She started as a costume PA and then expressed interest in other areas of production to Susan. Susan was like “Omg yes help me” and kind of forced her on Walkie PA because she has some (theatrical) tech experience in the past. Walkie PA’s can act as Key PAs but dolly has no prior experience and is kind of floundering, plus weird requests from Wally (like fixing his wardrobe sleeve length for him) take up a lot of their time. They don’t mind because it’s just a rule on set that what Wally says goes, but it makes their job just that much more difficult :)))))). Dolly is dealing with it… kinda.

Sandra - PA: Sandra is a production assistant who has been here for about 5 months. Production assistants are generally considered entry-level production jobs but she has beef with Dolly because she’s been here for longer and Dolly has been (technically) promoted before her (even though there’s SO much bleed-through between departments). She also is just a bully, she’s trying to come back from a failed stand-up career, but she’s basically been blacklisted in several comedian circles. (Gee I wonder if it’s the threats and bigotry)

Everybody else who you’ve seen so far are usually random PA’s or I haven’t assigned them a true role yet. But here’s what I got so far! I am by no means an expert. I am an actor (and a stage actor mainly at that, but I’ve dabbled in film) so not all of my info is probably truly accurate. But I try! As per the usual AU CRED: @frillsand 💗 u b! Thanks for reading my ramblings!

#welcome home actor au #wally darling actor au #welcome home wally #welcome home #wally darling #welcome home fanart #clown illustrations #party coffin #dolly dreamer #welcome home puppet show

[priyashahmatchmaker]

Priya Shah Matchmaker | Why Hire a Matchmaker?

Some conventional offline services are becoming more popular than ever as more and more activities throughout the world go online. How may this affect your quest for love, then?

Dating services use cutting-edge technology, cutting-edge research, and conventional knowledge. High success and winning match rates are the end result, saving the client time and worry. However, what exactly does a matchmaker perform, and how can they assist you?

This article will reveal the matchmaker's business secrets and explain what they may expect to do for you when you hire them.

The professional matchmaker

You've probably seen the term "matchmaker" in movies, TV shows, and other literary works. You probably know someone who has utilized a matching service without even being aware of it. Many overworked individuals decide to transfer their hunt for a partner to save time, aggravation, and perhaps even a few tears.

A professional matchmaker like Priya Shah Matchmaker, is a networker, coach, motivator, and astute strategist prepared to change your romantic life.

Matchmaker, according to the dictionary

A matchmaker is, by definition, a person who plans weddings and/or makes romantic encounters for singles. Marriages were historically the focus, although while this is frequently the final aim, they also cater to the client's preferences. They will thus take into account the fact that you want a committed relationship but are not eager to get married and pair you up with other individuals who share your views.

How to be a successful matchmaker

Why, then, is a professional matchmaker so much more successful in matching you up? The experts like Priya Shah, the matchmaker, have a certain set of abilities and know-how, and it is because of them that matchmakers like her are so skilled at what they do.

·        Instinct

A competent matchmaker will have a keen sense of which individuals match whom. Some people are simply born with this talent. Great matchmaking companies seek the greatest instincts in the industry. However, their success in this sector isn't only due to instinct.

·        Science

There are some principles of attraction, even though romance can be a mystery and chemistry is a factor. The matchmaker also adheres to them. Even while we may believe that love is just a matter of the heart and soul, there are some very real variables that influence who we will fall for. And there are several more that show whether we're likely to remain attracted to someone over the long run. Matchmakers carefully weigh these factors while setting up the dates for their clients while they are on the quest to find their perfect partner.

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Despite their extensive network and people skills, the matchmaker will never talk about you or share your information unless they have a suitable match and with your consent. They provide a very private, risk-free, and safe method to date. This is why the wealthy and famous frequently seek the matchmaker's help. By doing this, individuals shield themselves from the public's prying eyes on services like online dating. It's possible that you don't want everyone in your social circle, at the gym, or at work to know that you're actively looking for a relationship. So the matchmaker gives total discretion if you'd want not to be searchable online by anyone.

·        Experience

So how can we tell whether a matchmaker is qualified and knowledgeable enough to produce results? By their prior performance. This demonstrates if their tactics are effective and whether they possess the necessary skills to make the appropriate introductions. Check out their ratings, testimonials, and success stories. Top dating services make sure the matchmakers are extremely skilled and have a large number of satisfied customers.

The matching process

When you sign up, a matchmaker will meet with you and get to know you. In order to better match candidates, they will take notes from a psychological and personality profile. They'll find out about your past experiences, what works and doesn't for you, and of course, what you're searching for in a partner. Together, you'll establish attainable relationship goals. They will probably be more honest with you than your friends and relatives. In addition to being knowledgeable, they are also capable of objectivity. After your dates, you'll assess how they went and offer helpful advice and tips.

All these qualities are found in a skilled matchmaker like Priya Shah Matchmaker, who has a large clientele worldwide and a large database of possible matches for her matchmaking agency. You benefit from engaging a matchmaker like her since her vast database increases her chances of discovering an appropriate candidate. She is not going to stop there. A dedicated matchmaker like her is always searching for a compatible match. If you have registered with her and are seeking a partner, she will always keep you in mind.

A professional matchmaker like Priya Shah Matchmaker, is the ideal alternative to meet your soul mate if you don't enjoy online or speed dating, haven't had romantic success in your life so far, or don't have much free time or patience for DIY dating.

[loiskane]

Costumers pls let actresses wear shifts under corsets, it's not supposed to go on bare skin.

Or even better, showrunners, producers, writers, directors who tell costumers to do this, please stop.

#the nevers #dickinson #and many more #i'm sure most people well versed in historical clothing and costuming are well aware of this #which would be most people who work on historical shows and films #but it's sexy or whatever so in most things people wear corsets on bare skin and i want to scream #and they're not properly fitted either too many times #or idk what is the reason but it bothers me #and let's not even get into things like thightlacing portrayed as the norm when it never was #especially in eras when there was no tightlacing period #like in the 18th century #looking at you pirates of the Caribbean #or in regency england when what your waist looks like doesn't matter because the gowns had straight lines so you CAN'T SEE THE WAISTLINE #looking at you bridgerton #honestly the costuming on that show #people gave so much shit to reign for what the costumes looked like #but they hired someone with no prior experience with historical shows and have her a cw budget and said don't make it look accurate #she tried her best and while they're ahistocial so many of them were gorgeous esp in later seasons #meanwhile the costume designer on bridgerton was hired because she mostly worked on films with a contemporary setting #which is fine #but based on the things she said it seems like she thinks historical fashion is boring and she's here to make it fun #which is also fine but the end result is an eyesore sorry #also when she said the colors are super vibrant on the show bc she looked at regency era illustrations and they were boring & not colourful #they are 200 years old OF COURSE they are faded ma'am #anyway #i went off on the costume designer oops #i don't even like regency fashion that much but you can make it look beautiful #like emma 2020 #the designer used actual existing gowns from the period as inspiration #and they're not colourless or boring

[gb-patch]

Ask Answers: May 15th Part 1

It’s been longer than usual since our last answer session, so I’m answering a ton of questions today! It’s so big I split it into two parts. Thank you for the patience on getting a response to these.

Thanks for reaching out to us with your questions and kind words ^^!

Sorry if this has been asked before or isn't something you can say but is there anyway for Cove to confess in step 4? I wanted him to confess in step 3 and followed all the steps to make him do it but ended up texting my family instead of Cove at the end.

Yeah, Cove can confess in Step 4!

Hello! I heard that Cove is on the spectrum, albeit undiagnosed. As someone who is ND, this makes me UNBELIEVABLY happy. I literally was brought to tears! Thank you for that!

Out of curiosity, will Cove be diagnosed in Step 4? I have a strong feeling y’all won’t make it a HUGE deal/make it out to be negative, so I’m not worried about that whatsoever! I’m just curious just he’ll off handedly mention it? Or will it just not be touched upon at all (which is ok!)?

Either way is ok, I’m just curious!

I’m happy it made you happy! Admittedly, Cove simply being someone with autism that grew up not being diagnosed was something I included for myself. I didn’t really think anyone would notice or ask about it, aha. But players did start to have questions about his traits, so I started to talk about it outside of the game. It’s great to see it get such a positive response and now I do feel like having it be a non-topic may have been the wrong choice and bringing it up would’ve been good in terms of having positive representation for that. I don’t know if I’ll find a way to mention it in Step 4 now, with how far along the game is, but I am at least thinking about it when originally it wasn’t something I really even considered.

Hey!  Just wanted to say thank you for Our Life.  It's been a bright spot and a needed escape in what's otherwise been a crummy year.  I know you just did a Q&A post but I figured I'd ask anyway.  Was just curious about Step 4.  Will it be similar to the other Steps in that it consists of several different moments or will it just be one long sequence?

Step 4 is shorter than the prior Steps because it’s just an epilogue rather than a full arc of a story. It’ll consist of scenes that all happen in a set row one after the other. There won’t be a collection of Moments to choose from. But it’ll still be very sweet and fun.

¡hola!, you see, first I want to say that I love Our Life! (°◡°♡) and I have 2 important questions, would Cove cry watching titanic? and what is the saddest part according to him? (sorry for my english) 

Titanic would make him cry. He’d probably think the parts showing people who aren’t able to make it to the life boats/are choosing to stay and go down with the ship were the saddest.

Hello, I wanted to ask how much you earn with creating games? Like is it possible to make a living? Thank you >< <3 

How much I earn varies a lot month to month based on Steam sales, Patreon backers, and how many projects are in full production at the time. It’s also hard to say how much I make historically, since that also changes dramatically year by year. But I do earn enough to work on these games full time! I really appreciate all the support that allows me to do that.

Hey!! I was wondering for the 18+ Our Life moment, will there be an emphasis on safety/comfort for all involved? I feel like there  would be just going off of what the rest of the game is like, but I wanted to ask 

Yes! Cove is a nervous boy himself and also super cautious about doing anything the MC doesn’t like, so clear consent from both is absolutely needed for anything to happen. It’s a conversational sexy times Moment with stops/starts so the two can talk about how they’re feeling, rather than a heat of the moment just going for it kind of thing.

Hey!! I was wondering how long the wedding dlc would be? Will it be broken up into moments, or just one big event? 

It’s one long series of scenes all in a row rather than a collection of Moments to pick from. It’s the shortest and the least expensive of all the DLCs. It’s not super crucial to get and those who aren’t into big weddings can totally skip it without worry.

HELLO AMAZING DEVS 👋 i am hopelessly in love with the worst guy ever (jeremy king) and because of this i have a really stupid question: does he really hate people who are nice to him? TvT he’s too cute to be mean to istg it’s a miracle JB held the urge to be consistently nice to him bc just look at his FACE he is so cute! thank you for jeremy’s route it’s so lovely (and awful bc he’s scum 11/10) it gave me so much laughs LMAO i hope you guys have a good day!! 

Haha, thank you. He doesn’t hate them but he’s certainly not pleased with them. Jeremy is either uncomfortable with or annoyed by people being sweet on him, depending on how they approach it. He’s far more comfortable with jerkiness. It lets him relax and he can be himself without it being a problem, since he’s also a jerk. He feels a level of guilt being such a little punk to kind people, not enough to be a better person but still.

Has Cove dated or been interested in someone other than MC? 

Nope! He stays single over the course of the game if he’s not with the MC.

Is Step 4 more mature? Or it's gonna be set in similar atmosphere as Step 3? 

Step 4 is a similar atmosphere as Step 3. Though, it’s actually kind of less mature-topic heavy than Step 3 since it’s just a ‘hey, let’s check in on the gang to see what they’re up to’ style epilogue rather than a story arc with serious issues.

will there be new music for now and forever?? or will the old our life music be reused? 

It’s gonna be a brand new soundtrack. We’ll be opening up a job position for that soon.

Hi, is it okay if we use the assets in Our Life (like the sprites) for fanworks or fan content content, like edits? 

Sure! Just as long as you don’t use the assets made by those artists to make money.

Quick clarification on Step 3 choices: I hope I didn't come off rude (because I LOVE the game, really!!), I was just curious because the intro threw me off at times. For example, you could choose how you felt about Elizabeth in Step 2 (Dinner), but during the Step 3 intro, it says that you got closer to Liz and I didn't get a choice in it. 

For the example, it can’t be helped that you’re closer to Liz in Step 3 than you were in Step 2 because she’s inherently closer to the MC regardless of whether you liked her or not in Step 2. Her feelings are out of your control and the game isn’t so dramatic that you can push her affection away and not let her bond with you, haha. But ‘being closer’ can still be relative. For some people maybe that means you’re best buds now and for others it might just mean you’re not fighting all the time any more. If there’s other parts you want to mention, feel free to let us know.

Did the illustrator for Our Life change? 

We have many OL artists! The main artists who set the game’s style haven’t changed, but there’s multiple other artists who help finish assets.

So Miranda's type is confident and outgoing, huh? So...does that mean Terri's her type?? 👀 

Haha, sorry for the late reply on this. As you might’ve seen in our post yesterday- yeah that is her type.

Hey! First, I just want to say I've really enjoyed how detailed OL got with gender identity and sexuality and how respectful the topics were handled! It's been so wonderful to play since the experiences could be close to my own (I'd be lying if I said I didn't tear up at parts). Second, I was wondering, would future games explore the topic of polyamory? I'd love to see more visual novels allow room for that and I saw you've explored the topic before.

Keep up the amazing work! ♡

Thank you! We do want to include polyamory in at least some of our future projects. Floret Bond, which might be what you’re referring to when mentioning how we’ve explored the topic before, is on hold unfortunately. So right now I’m not sure when something might release or what will be the first game of ours to come out with poly relationships (we might do something else before FB is done). We’ll have see how things ends up coming together.

Hey um. I feel like im not allowed to ask this on the private discord cuz people will yell at me but why is there so much focus on OL2 and not finishing OL1 stuff? I like the new people but i kind of want to finish cove's story and get derek and baxter stuff first. didn't people pay for it? 

I’m sorry, I don’t understand entirely what’s making that situation a concern. There’s a channel in the discord for critique where no one is allowed to comment back. People can voice things they’re worried about without any way for others to push back on it. And the two teams working on the OL games are different. We try to post pretty often about how we’re hiring brand new people to start on Our Life: Now & Forever. The OL1 team is all still working on OL1 like normal. There’s only more updates on the Patreon for OL2 because the expansions to the first game are mostly script-based at this point while OL2 is just starting to get all its art, which means there’s a lot more to show off as previews.

Also, there was a Kickstarter for the first Our Life, if that’s what you mean by people paying for it. But one of the stretch goals was to start Our Life 2 early, before fully completing Our Life 1, so that the new game could be out sooner. It wouldn’t make sense to stop doing OL2 work because that would be going against what backers were promised. Maybe you didn’t get the full story before and hopefully this clears it up!

Hello! I know it's up to every player but.. What is your recommendation for playing order? Did you ever had any timeline  events planned? 

I didn’t make the events with a planned timeline. The events got made simply as I had ideas for them and then I just kind of organized them from left to right on the screen in an order to space out more dramatic ones between more lighthearted ones. Any order the player wants to go with is totally valid!

Hi! It's Step 4 a paid dlc or update? And how long it's planned to be? Ps. Love the game! 

The Step 4 epilogue is free! The Cove Wedding DLC does cost money, though. Those are planned to be shorter than the usual Steps/DLCs.

Will we have options for what sort of job the MC might have by the time step 4 takes place? 

Yeah, you can. It’s not super exact or detailed, but there are options about it.

Is there a pandemic in Our Life world, or is it just in a better timeline with no pestilence? 

Our Life is pandemic-free! That didn’t exist when we began working on the project and it’s not something we’d like to feature in this story now that it has unfortunately come along, aha.

Hi, you said that you can play tic-tac-toe or hangman with Cove in Boating if you're sick/scared but I keep getting tic-tac-toe. Am I doing something wrong?

After being sick/scared you have to continue to be upset/unwell. If you calm down and decide to just chill you’ll end up playing tic-tac-toe.

Hi, GB Patch! Since Lee was initially commissioned to only appear in two Steps does this mean she won't appear in the Wedding DLC? I really like her character so it'll be a little weird to not have our cousin at our wedding, aha.

She is gonna be in Step 4/the wedding DLC after all! We’re still working with her creator to make sure it fits with what they wanted.

Is Sunset Bird based on a real place? Asking for a friend, not trying to move there or anything. 👀

It’s based on small beach towns in So-Cal, but not one specific town you could go see in real life, I’m afraid. It’d be nice if it was real, though.

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[ofjuliette]

[ brittany snow, thirty-two, cisfemale, she/her ] ━  did y'all see [ juliette “jules” hammond ] walkin’ into [ frostford public library? ] they’ve lived in frostford for [ sixteen years, ] and you can catch ‘em around town working as a [ librarian/author ]. I reckon they’re pretty [ effervescent & charismatic ] but I hear they can also be kinda [ garrulous & uncoordinated. ] if ya see ‘em around, be sure to say hi. ━ [ teenage pregnancy? ]

hey hi hello i’m hope and i’m watching scooby doo rn.  juliette’s intro is kind of long and i wasn’t sure if teenage pregnancy was technically a trigger or not so i just put it there just in case.  jules’ intro is kind of long but ??? she’s my baby.  there’s some wc at the bottom of the post but they’re p basic bc i’m trash™️ 

CHILDHOOD years -- 

juliette is the only daughter of marjorie and elias hammond.  she was born in greenwich, connecticut and lived in a big mansion.  juliette’s father is of old money and her mother is a former model turned socialite and housewife once juliette was born.  

juliette was born on november 19th, 1986 which was during the first big snowstorm of the year.  in fact, she was almost born in the car on the way to the hospital because of the snow.  

marjorie and elias never planned to have more kids, so they were happy with juliette and spoiled her with everything she could have ever wanted.  

in her childhood juliette spent a lot of time doing modeling ads for baby clothes.  marjorie was very much a “pageant mom” for the first five years of her daughter’s life until elias convinced marjorie to let juliette pick her own passions.  

juliette picked the arts and took piano and vocal lessons, when she got older she also learned other instruments such as the guitar, violin, and flute.  but her favorite would always be piano.  

she went to private school in greenwich, where she had to wear a uniform and the school was all grades.  

juliette was one of the smartest in her school, and wound up skipping two grades in elementary school because she wasn’t being challenged enough.  

during her early years there were many vacations that her parents would take her on and she often went into the city to visit her father at work or catch a broadway show with her mother.  

her father worked long exhausting hours and her mother often filled her time with chairing certain social events and causes.  

jules was often left alone after school in the care of their maid/nanny/chef winifried.  winnie is the adult who gave juliette the nickname of jules first, and winnie was with her all her life until she turned thirteen and her parents decided they didn’t need a nanny anymore.  winnie was also older at that point, so they hired someone new to help around the house for a couple of months until winnie retired.  

juliette was always outgoing as a kid, loved talking to new people and making friends.  she was the kind of kid who wanted to make sure everyone felt included.  and she was popular, if not just for her parents money and connections, but also for her own charismatic and charming personality.  

as a child she often entertained the idea of becoming a singer or somethin in the spotlight like her mom, but as the years went on it was harder and harder to hold onto a dream like that.  

TEENAGE years -- 

juliette was never a rebellious type, as she was content with how her life was.  sure, if she had things entirely her way she would have spent more time with her parents but otherwise juliette was a happy girl.  

she was still in touch with her old nanny once winnie left the household, often writing her letters and calling the woman whenever she felt she needed someone to talk to. 

in her early teen years juliette decided she wanted to go back into acting in commercials and such.  this led to a couple of claire’s commercials and even a guest spot in a mary kate and ashley olsen film ( winning london, if you want to know ).  

acting and singing were a big thing during her schooling.  she was always involved in the drama department in some form if it wasn’t on stage it was backstage helping out.  

she got to be good with a needle and thread, sewing a couple of mishaps in her high school productions to save money on sending them out.  

juliette was in a couple of local competitions for singing, but never anything big.  she did sing the national anthem at her high schools games though.  

juliette was in a pretty serious relationship at the age of fifteen-sixteen with someone in her high school.  they were two years older than her, since she had skipped a couple of grades, and she sincerely thought she was going to wind up marrying him after graduation.  

except at the end of september juliette was going to her doctor for a check up when she found out she was pregnant.  of course, her mother and father were shocked.  and her then-boyfriend left juliette once he found out.  juliette’s parents moved the teen into their apartment in the city with her father and she transferred to a different school for the rest of the year.  

juliette gave birth to a baby girl on april 29th, 2002.  her daughter, francesca winifred hammond was 7lbs and 4 ounces and 19 inches tall. 

juliette had always known she was going to keep her daughter, but still holding her baby in her arms after she was born was a whole other experience and it really was like wow i’m a mother.  she cried.  

juliette wasn’t at her high school graduation, but if she had been she may have been the valedictorian.  she still graduated in the top of her class.  

originally, juliette had been planning on going to columbia for their english program.  

but she decided instead to take a gap year and focus on being a mom.  

during this time she worked at a bookstore and had begun writing her own stories.  

she published her first book--a children’s “novel” just before her seventeenth birthday ( more like september of 2003 ).  it’s dedicated to her daughter.  

juliette soon realized that she wanted to move away from home.  it was too much of a reminder of what she could have been doing and what her parents wanted for her, and what she had thought she wanted.  she needed to find herself and figure out her life on her own.  

so juliette quite literally picked up a map and got in the car she’d gotten for her sweet sixteen and started driving down the highway with her daughter.  

of course, she’d told her parents beforehand.  she’d had a whole sit down conversation about moving out and on her own.  her parents were hesitant, since she was only seventeen at the time.  but they eventually agreed so long as juliette stayed in touch with them.  which she did.  

she happened upon frostford when she got a flat tire just outside of city limits.  

and frostford was everything that her hometown was not, so she wound up moving here at the age of seventeen, just before christmas time.  

her parents obviously paid for the house she lives in still.  it’s not like the mansion or even the city apartment she was used to when she was running around growing up but it has a porch and a yard and enough room for her and frannie, which was all jules wanted.  

for the first couple of years i’d imagine it was hard for her to fit in.  since she was seventeen and graduated high school prior, so most people her age were still in school.  and i’m sure more of the town busybody gossips would have been talking about how she’s seventeen with a baby.  so that wasn’t easy.  

but even with that, juliette did her best to get to know people and figure out a place for herself among the town.  

TWENTIES to NOW -- 

juliette had worked as a waitress for a couple of years while she was going to school.  despite coming from money ( and having her parents send her money every month to help out ) juliette was always determined to both pay her parents back for the house they bought her and make her own money.  

by the time frannie was in kindergarten jules was working at the diner during the day and going to college classes on her days off and taking some night classes.  

juliette graduated from college with a degree in library sciences and english literature.  

throughout frannie’s childhood, juliette worked on other books for kids.  she wanted the types of books she had read when she was a kid but something that her own daughter would love.  and frannie did love every book that juliette wrote.  

for a good six or seven years ( from the time juliette was nineteen until she was twenty-five ) juliette was known mostly as one of the more prolific children’s authors under 30.  she’d written well over 40 books since her first published children’s novel.  many of the novels are following one single story/character, but each novel is part of a whole universe where characters from one side story do pop up in others as well.  

juliette then graduated to young adult fiction, where she’s pretty much stayed since.  she writes mainly mysteries and historical projects.  she likes to balance her novels with a bit of different time periods.  and yes, she does in fact know that joseph turner the main character of her first original novel appears as a side mentioned character in her latest work.

juliette has worked at the frostford public library since she graduated from college.  she’s always loved to be around books.  

like i said back then, she often loved to daydream of being someone in the limelight when she was growing up.  you can still catch her singing a few tunes or hear the piano playing a melody from her house if she leaves the windows open, but otherwise she’s really given up on that part of her life. 

spends a lot of time with her daughter.  i imagine she’s had no contact with frannie’s father since everything that happened between them in high school.  

sometimes she wonders what it would have been like to go for singing, but make no mistake that she is in fact blissfully happy with how her life turned out.  she’s got her daughter, a blossoming career, and a happy home.  maybe the only thing she sometimes really wishes for that’s realistic is somebody to share it with? 

PERSONALITY AND MORE -- 

juliette is still as kind as ever.  she’s very charismatic and effervescent.  she doesn’t like to let anyone see her down ( even if she definitely has her moments of not being so well ). 

you wouldn’t know if she’s down unless you know her well enough.  but the signs are usually that she’s playing the piano a lot, she’s wearing a lot of loose fitting long sleeved things ( she likes to tug on the sleeves as a habit ), and her house smells like she’s been baking.  

jules often calls frostford her home and refers to greenwich/manhattan as the place where she was raised.  

juliette has a mix of a new york accent and a southern drawl from all the time she’s lived down south.  it’s definitely not so pronounced.  but when she’s angry ( which is rare, she’s not the type to raise her voice usually ) you can hear the northern accent come out.  

she will never be found without a pen ( colored ink, usually purple ), a notebook, and a reading book.  as she’s ready for any kind of situation or inspiration to strike her.  

her favorite candies include milk duds and twizzlers, and she’s a sucker for a home made pie ( she can make a good apple pie and a nice lemon meringue herself ).  

she absolutely loves when it rains, definitely the kind of person you’d find running out in the rain and dancing in it.  

quite clumsy.  she’s not a ballerina ( no matter how many lessons she had as a kid ) as her balance is always off.  

she’s talkative as hell when she needs to be and can tend to ramble on if you don’t 

is 100% a mom friend, is always there for her friends and anybody who she considers a friend.  

loves scooby doo and nancy drew.  kind of likes those simple mysteries that you could read over and over again.  one of her favorite books of all time is that was then, this is now by s.e. hinton. also loves a northern light by jennifer donnely and the luxe series by anna godbersen.  

POSSIBLE CONNECTIONS -- 

first friends in town

neighbors 

“enemies” who became friends 

frenemies 

people who know her writing 

co-workers 

for some reason i cannot think of any more connections but these were p basic anyway?? so uh come and plot with me and we can figure stuff out lol. 

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42 Webcomics Keshet Reads

I was recently reminded that I currently read a lot of webcomics, or have done so in the past. Here’s an incomplete list, linking to the first page where i can (which will usually mean the worst art). Organized thus:  Title, Author. Genre. Format (long-format stories, short-format & single-page stories, or mixed). Description.

The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, by Christopher Hastings. Comedy, Parody, Action. A man from a long line of Irish ninjas has devoted his own life to saving lives as a doctor, disappointing his family. His staff includes a sentient but non-speaking gorilla receptionist, and eventually a boy sidekick who grew a fabulous mustache out of sheer determination. Recurring threats include fast food mascots, ghosts, wizards, ghost wizards, and a disease that turns people into giant lumberjacks. Completed.

BACK, by Anthony Clark and KC Green. Comedy, Adventure, Absurdity, Weird West. Long-Format. A cowgirl comes back from the dead with no memory of who she was or how she died, and is told by a trio of “Cool Witches” that she has to bring about the end of the world—though what exactly that means remains a mystery. Consistently excellent visual storytelling from masters of sequential art; at least one WLW pairing among the characters. 

Bite Me!, by Dylan Meconis. Comedy, Horror, Historic Fiction. Long-Format. A young woman becomes a vampire amidst the chaos of the French Revolution. Featuring immortal angst, a Jewish werewolf, and sacré bleu, the chickens. Completed (website can be slow to load).

Broodhollow, by Kris Straub. Horror, Weird Fiction. Long-Format. By the creator of the original creepypasta that inspired Channel Zero. A young man abounding with neuroses and compulsions comes to a strange little town in order to settle a late relative’s estate. Themes of unreliable memories and differences of perception.

Chainsawsuit, by Kris Straub. Comedy. Short-Format. Three-panel gag comic.

ChaosLife, by A. Stiffler & K. Copeland. Slice of Life, Autobiographical. Mixed-Format. The life of a queer couple and their pets: humor, lgbt issues, mental illness (K. experiences paranoid schizophrenia), cats, and occasional puppets.

Crunchy Bunches, by Scott Warren. Comedy. Mixed-Format. Cereal mascot parody focused on snaggle-toothed feline mascot Munchy and his friends. 

Dead Winter, by Allison Shabet. Action, Horror, Comedy. Long-Format. Zombie apocalypse story with occasional partially-animated scenes, and a relatively low focus on the actual zombies. Infrequent updates, but has a Patreon with weekly content.

DRIVE, by Dave Kellet. Sci-Fi, Comedy. Long-Format. Humanity has taken to the stars, led by a second Spanish Empire that controls the secrets of FTL travel. When the crew of the Machito recover their science advisor and accidentally pick up a mysterious amnesiac alien at the same time, they become embroiled in intrigue that affects the whole of human space and beyond, caught between secret police, mind-controlling invaders, and a species dedicated to invention who have a grudge against humans.

El Goonish Shive, by Dan Shive. Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Superheroics, Slice of Life, Mad Science. Long Format. Difficult to pin down, once described as “the most squeaky-clean fetish comic online”—lots of characters undergoing fantastic transformations of their bodies. Starts out weak but gradually grew into one of the most progressive webcomics out there as the creator started to really think about the meaning of someone wanting to transform from a nerdy boy into a busty girl. I’ve said more about it, here. Significant LGBT content, including canon gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, genderfluid, and asexual characters.

Family Man, by Dylan Meconis. Historic Fiction, Horror, Romance, Libraries. Long-Format. A learned man of Jewish ancestry takes a position as a lecturer at a small Christian university in the middle of nowhere in the Germanies of the 18th century, and falls in love with the daughter of the head of the university—who has some secrets relating to her mother’s family  On hiatus as of July 2017.

Freefall, by Mark Stanley. Comedy, Sci-Fi, Furry. Long-Format. A larcenous alien and his naive robot pal living on a human colony world acquire the services of an uplifted humanoid wolf as their ship’s engineer under less-than-legal circumstances. As time goes on, the crew becomes caught up in the struggles and politics of the artificial intelligences of the colony. Binge-reading page here, colored strips here.

Girl Genius, by Phil & Kaja Foglio. Gaslamp Fantasy (Not-Steampunk), Action, Comedy, Mad Science, Alternate History. Long-format. A young woman discovers that she is the latest in a line of mad scientists including the vanished heroes of Europa as well as some of its most terrible villains.

Goblins, by Ellipsis Hana Stephens. Fantasy, RPGs, Action, Body Horror. Long-format. A tribe of goblins go from being mere MOBs to taking levels as adventurers themselves, facing ambiguity about alignment, morality, and the place of "monsters” in a world that seems to favor humanoids. Can get very gory at times. Light LGBT content including a prominent gay male character; transgender creator.

Goodbye to Halos, by Valerie Halla. Fantasy, Adventure. Long Format. Forced through a gateway to another world for her own safety, Fenic finds herself in the “run-down queer district” of a city of animal people—and spends a few years coming into own identity as a trans lesbian, forging a new life. But the reasons she was forced into this world are catching up to her, and she’ll need to turn her protective streak towards defending herself. Heavy LGBT themes; often not safe for work. The only work i can think of where a trans girl’s underwear bulge is treated as a completely nonsexual and innocent thing.

Grrl Power, by Dave Barrack. Superheroes, Sci-Fi. Long Format. Probably Not Safe For Work. Comics nerd Sydney Scoville winds up becoming a superhero herself after circumstances force her to reveal her powers and join up with an agency providing training and oversight. While consistently funny and clever with the use of powers, it can be very centered on the male gaze; the art starts out being pretty . I actually first started reading it because I recognized one of the characters from years prior when the artist was posting softcore smut to furry websites.

Guilded Age, by T. Campbell & Phil Kahn, art by John & Jason Waltrip and Erica Henderson. Fantasy, RPGs, Action, MMOs. Long-Format. A group of adventurers face off against threats to their world—such as the CEO of the company that programmed their world in the first place. Strong themes of intrigue, the nature of violence, and the concept of good and evil in fantasy settings. Completed, now running extras & side stories, including annotated repeats of the original pages.

Gunnerkrigg Court, by Tom Siddell. Fantasy, Sci-Fi. Long-Format. A young girl attends a strange boarding school specializing in matters of the supernatural and obscure, making friends with classmates, a ghost, robots, psychopomps, living shadows, fairies, and eldritch horrors in the form of silly woodland creatures while exploring the mysteries of the school and her own ancestry. Shows remarkable art progression; the style of the first storyline is unrecognizable from the present. Especially rewarding if you’re into alchemy. LGBT content, including prominent WLW characters. Warnings: unreality is a recurring theme, and there is a bit of “suicidal” fairies desperate to be reincarnated as humans. Boxbot is rubbish.

Johnny Wander, by Yuko Ota & Ananth Hirsh. Autobiographical, Fantasy, Humor, Mixed-Format. A mix of slice-of-life autobiographical pages, and short stories, including the longer format “Barbarous” and “Lucky Penny”.

Kevin & Kell, by Bill Holbrook. Comedy, Slice-of-Life, Furry. Mixed-Format. Extremely long-running strip (daily updates since September of 1995). In a world of anthropomorphic animals where predatory species can legally & without repercussions hunt & consume other species, a businesswoman wolf (Kell) and her uncommonly large rabbit husband (Kevin) make their blended family work in spite of social stigma against predator/prey relationships. Far more light-hearted than it sounds, though it often touches on social issues and drama. Light LGBT content from some minor recurring characters.

Kill Six Billion Demons, by Abbadon. Fantasy, Metaphysical, Martial Arts. Long Format. A college student’s attempt at heterosexuality is interrupted by the arrival of a legendary king of all reality. Thrust into a battle over the greatest power of all worlds, Allison faces devils, angels, and the city at the center of the 777,777 universes. It’s a lot to take in. Occasionally not safe for work. Frequent LGBT content, including WLW.

Love Me Nice, by Amanda Lafrenais. Comedy, Hollywood. Long Format. Set in a world shared by cartoon characters and ‘real’ people (think Roger Rabbit), where TV star Mac T. Monkey Jr. struggles between his irresponsible instincts and his attempts to build a life as an adult and a relationship with fellow protagonist (and manager) Claire. Some LGBT content; infrequent updates. Occasionally Not Safe For Work. 

Manly Guys Doing Manly Things, by Coelasquid. Comedy, Videogames, Parody. Mixed-Format. The staff of a temp agency for “ludicrously macho guys” tries to help the protagonists of video games, TV, and movies deal with their testosterone-addled brains in a constructive fashion. Occasional LGBT content—mostly MLM, naturally. Keep an eye out for the fluffy little velociraptors, and Mr. Fish the Gyarados. On indefinite hiatus since June of 2018.

Narbonic, by Shaenon K. Garrity. Comedy, Sci-Fi, Mad Science, Gerbils. Mixed-Format. Comp Sci. grad Dave needs a job. Helen B. Narbon, cute blonde mad scientist with a gerbil fixation, is hiring. Story arcs feature action-packed forensic linguistics, a worldwide conspiracy of guys with the same name, rodents uplifted to sentience, time travel. Some awkwardness around gender transformations, light LGBT content. Completed, with author annotations.

Nedroid Picture Diary, by Anthony Clark. Comedy, Absurdity. Short Format. Short comics that very quickly come to focus on the antics of the anomalous ursine orb Beartato and his friend/roommate Reginald, a bird who is just terrible. 

Not Drunk Enough, by Tess Stone. Supernatural, Action, Horror. Long Format. A survival horror styled webcomic by a creator with a history of exceptionally dynamic page composition and lettering. Expect lots of magnificently weird body horror.

O Human Star, by Blue Delliquanti. Roboticist Al Sterling died. Al Sterling woke up an android body mimicking his own. As he reconnects with his former partner-in-several-senses, he explores a world that remembers him as one of its greatest innovators. Major themes of identity, the definition of humanity, and gender and sexuality. LGBT themes including MLM and transgender characters. Warning for some discussion of self-harm.

Outsider, by Jim Francis. Sci-Fi. Long Format. Beautifully-illustrated science fiction story that is painfully slow to update. If you watched a lot of 80s and 90s sci-fi anime, you’ll get the vibe that this has—including its arguable weak point of being centered on a man who finds himself among an alien race dominated by warrior women. 

Patrik the Vampire, by Bree Paulsen. Supernatural, Slice-of-Life. Long Format. The unlife and history of an exceptionally awkward vampire and the mortals around him—book club, knitting, coffee shops, violent murder. Some LGBT content.

Poppy O’Possum, by I. Everett. Fantasy, Furries. Long Format. A single mother in a world of animal people where only opossums lack magic, Poppy just wants to settle down in quiet and safety with her daughter Lily. The world has other ideas—but fortunately, Poppy is mind-blowingly strong. On hiatus. Some LGBT content.

Questionable Content, by Jeph Jacques. Slice-of-Life, Comedy, Sci-Fi. Mixed-Format. Starts out focusing on indie rock fan Marten and his robotic “anthroPC” Pintsize. As the art evolves, so does the subject matter, focusing more and more on the rest of the cast and topics like the nature of personhood and identity for artificial intelligence. Eventually comes to feature significant LGBT content, including bisexual and transgender characters in the main cast.

Rae the Doe, by Olive Brinker. Comedy, Slice-of-Life. (Mostly) Short Format. If Garfield was a transgender doe and wore clothes and also there weren’t any jokes about Mondays or lasagna and the comic was constantly assumed to be autobiographical in spite of its creator frequently asserting otherwise and the comic was still genuinely funny. But otherwise just like Garfield, really.

Selkie, by Dave Warren. Sci-Fi, Slice-of-Life, Comedy, Drama. Long-Format. Former adoptee Todd becomes a father himself to a strange young girl who turns out to be a refugee from a secret underwater civilization. While the public gradually becomes aware that humans are not alone, family forms and is redefined as secrets from both Todd and Selkie’s past are revealed and dealt with, and kids confront issues of inclusion and exclusion. Also, for some reason two of the kids from Evangelion are Todd’s neighbors.

Skin Deep, by Kory Bing. Fantasy, Coming-of-Age, Monster Girls (and Boys). Michelle discovers the secret world of mythical monster people after a small medallion unlocks her own heritage as a sphinx—supposedly long-extinct, according to the other monsters. Michelle must explore who she is and her family history while also trying to avoid completely upending nonhuman society and maintaining secrets within a culture already used to the use of magical illusions and transformations. Light LGBT content.

Skin Horse, by Shaenon Garrity.  Comedy, Sci-Fi, Mad Science, Zombies, Canadians. Mixed-Format. Set in the same universe as Narbonic (see above), “Skin Horse” follows an organization of  the same name dedicated to providing social services to beings only recognized by the secret shadow government—staffed by a patchwork zombie bioweapon, a talking sled dog, a cross-dressing pansexual psychologist, and a receptionist in the form of an immobile Victorian robotic weapon of mass destruction, all overseen by a sentient swarm of bees. Frequent LGBT content.

Something*Positive, by RK Milholland. Comedy, Slice-of-Live, Parody. Mixed-Format. Very long-running comic that gradually grows from a dark and misanthropic sense of humor into a dark and misanthropic sense of humor with a warm and gooey center. Earlier comics can be pretty weak and handle many subjects very poorly (the first strip, linked above, features an abortion “joke”); gradually improves.in terms of LGBT representation to the point that it’s one of the better webcomics in that regard. I might recommend skipping ahead in the archives to the current decade (the “1937″ and “1938″ are strips flashing back to the previous generations).

Spacetrawler, by Christopher Baldwin. Sci-Fi, Comedy. Long-Format. The naive but brilliant alien race known as the Eebs are enslaved by interplanetary society at large, depending on their servile nature to maintain the high standard of technology and transportation across the void of space. A group of utterly incompetent aliens come to Earth to seek help in freeing the Eebs... and generally fuck everything up for the best with their terrible choices of sample humans. Currently in the midst of a sequel series focusing on new intrigue and antics, including a talking, murderous kangaroo.

Spinnerette, by Krakow Studios. Superheroes, Comedy, Sci-Fi. Mixed-Format. A grad student develops spider-themed superpowers—including extra arms—and attempts to navigate both concealing her transformation, and becoming a superhero in a world where super-powered vigilantes and criminals are a fact of life. Not Work-Safe due to suggestive artwork including improbably form-fitting costumes over improbably large bosoms. Recurring LGBT content.

Val & Isaac, by @tredlocity​. Sci-Fi, Fantasy,  Comedy. Mixed-Format. A space mercenary, her wizard buddy, and the cyborg fish girl who keeps all their technology functional, occasionally featuring their shapeshifting assassin friend Space Dread. Major LGBT content, including WLW and MLM, and a prominent transgender character.

Vattu, by Evan Dahm. Fantasy, Worldbuilding. Long-Format. Born to the Fluters of the grasslands, Vattu finds her traditional subsistence lifestyle torn away as a multi-species empire asserts a claim over her people’s lands. A fantasy epic with several major arcs; see also the creator’s earlier completed works Rice Boy and Order of Tales.

XKCD, by Randall Munroe. Science, Parody, Comedy. Short Format. Stick figures and scientific silliness. Make a point of checking the alt-text of each comic by moving your cursor over the strip. Early pages are much more along the lines of experimental sketches; link above directs to a random comic in the archives. Some comics are more along the lines of interactive games!

Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic (YAFGC), by Rich Morris. Fantasy, Comedy, Parody. Mixed-Format. Not Work-Safe. The inhabitants of a world heavily based in Dungeons & Dragons go about their lives as monsters, humanoids, and soul-searching mixes of the two. Begins with a romance between a beholder and a goblin, gradually builds up to battles between nations and the gods themselves, while also finding time to explore family, loss and love, and whether kobolds count as sapient. Moderate LGBT content including recurring gay & bisexual characters (it’s a very large cast); new readers guide here.

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The 10-Second Trick For Office Cleaning

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Participant Marian Smith of King, North Carolina, claims she's employed a number of cleaning business throughout the years, but constantly reviews testimonials on Angie's Checklist initially. "I inspect to see if any issues have been lodged, and I constantly ask if the firm is adhered and also insured," she states. Those questions, professionals agree, offer a good beginning.

In addition to recommendations, Ray Smith, owner of Environment-friendly Brilliant Cleaning Solutions in Clermont, Florida, recommends figuring out if the business carries out background checks on staff members, which is a concern our professionals say most property owners neglect. As well as be sure to ask if it will coincide staff cleansing your home every time.

I started a cleaning company business right here in my home community of Toronto back in 2006, it's called Tidy My Room that would certainly have thought!? Over the years, I've learned a great deal about this industry and I intended to answer an inquiry that I obtain asked a whole lot: Just how do I know which cleansing firm to work with? Whether you wish to work with a cleaning company to assist you with a one-off task, a yearly spring tidy, or something on an extra regular basis, there are a couple of things you require to inquire about prior to you choose.

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" Yet, it's cheaper to hire an under-the-table cleansing lady for cash money!" is something I usually hear. Amusing sufficient, I always encourage individuals to work with that maid if rate is their major issue, and if things go well, keep her close. Yet, when points don't go well, that's when you generate a service firm.

So, right here are 10 things you should consider when you're aiming to hire a cleaning company firm. Start by asking family and friends that they use recommendations offer you a within check out what a business is all concerning not simply what they say on their site (let's be sincere, a business can write anything).

Happy people do not tend to create as several evaluations as miserable people who really feel forced to shower the globe with their terrible experiences. Bear in mind, usually, those evaluations are people utilizing it as a chance to vent, blow a tale disproportionate, or try to damage the credibility of the firm.

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No one is excellent. The other point to keep an eye out for is a company with an ideal rating. I know firms who pay customers to compose reviews for them, so certainly, they're going to be 100% ideal. Regardless, an excellent general rule is to stay clear of a business with all best ratings, prevent the firm with all horrible scores, as well as discover the ones with really consistent high ratings.

A firm should be willing to tell you if they have this protection and also offer duplicates of their policies at your request. Currently, be aware https://cleaning-click.co.il that this includes to the price of operating a solution firm, which is why the rates are higher per hour or per job. Nonetheless, this degree of assurance is valuable, especially when you're letting somebody into your home, and also can eventually be on the hook for something that fails remember, we reside in a litigious globe! For how long have they stayed in business for? Does the company have any kind of honors, certifications, or associations with expert companies? I such as to watch out for this because it makes me feel comforted that a business is credible and worried with their reputation.

These are things we have actually striven to obtain and also tout happily as a company. It shows our staff, customers, as well as possible clients, that we have done whatever we can to provide exceptional service. To give this a little bit extra context, there are a couple of companies below in Toronto that have a poor credibility as well as just fold and re-open under an additional name.

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Does the company take demands or offer a set solution? Just how detailed will they get? Relying on what you wish to be done, inquire regarding what level of solution is offered. If you can customize it as well as work with someone to come as well as tick a bunch of points off your to-do list, or if you just get the very same service each see regardless of what you wish to be done, or, if you can do a combination.

Make certain to ask about damage, damages, and also satisfaction guarantees a company needs to back up its work and its employees. If you're not delighted as a client, what are they prepared to do for you, just how will they make it right? It's just a truth of life points will damage.

This sounds insane, as well as I recognize many companies don't do this. They tell the customer to claim it under their very own house owner's insurance policy, or chalk it up to an inevitable error. If you're not happy with the cleansing, what will the business provide you? A touch-up? A free cleaning? Absolutely nothing? Companies have different plans about this so figure out what choice you have if you're not happy with the degree of solution you have actually received.

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Generally, agreement workers don't appreciate the very same advantages as employees do, neither do they have the exact same kind of oversight. While they're normally less costly to employ, they are most of the times inconsistently trained and are not as trustworthy because the reality is they're "changeable" to a large extent by that I mean that there is little to no investment in their real work product by the firm outsourcing the job, so they can swiftly relocate on to one more contractor while having actually lost little to no investment (training, taxes, advantages, etc.).

Staff members likewise pay tax obligations and also have tax obligations paid on their part by the company, which supports the province or state and also nation you live in. These 2 classifications as well as the legislations bordering them will certainly vary from nation to country. In Canada, I recognize the regulations inside and also out, and our personnel are workers because it is much better for them (regretfully, more expensive and much less lucrative for us!), as well as far better for the nation.

Do they utilize their very own cleaning supplies and also tools, or do you have to supply your very own? We require our clients to supply their very own and, certainly, assist them establish specifically what they require. We offer kits or offer them with a shopping checklist based on their details demands.

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Further, each residence has various needs; pets, individuals, finishes, and whatnot. I'm a huge proponent of utilizing the ideal products and also devices on each surface area, as well as I believe it is far better to offer your very own to reduce as well as decrease cross-contamination as well as potential harm to surface areas. Learn what the policy for terminating or altering your service is.

Many firms charge a cancellation fee since it can be tough to reschedule cleaners in the nick of time, and the business needs to cover off their shed wages. So, if you recognize this information, you can better plan and plan for any scheduling concerns.

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Keeping a house clean can be a perpetual job that consumes much of our leisure time. If life appears to focus on wiping, vacuuming, cleaning as well as altering bedding, employing a professional housekeeping solution in your area may be the solution. This guide covers whatever to get out of a housekeeping or house cleaning solution consisting of package alternatives, what questions to ask and also what they charge.

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Depending upon your place or the firm you make use of, these solutions are referred to by numerous names: house cleaner, cleaning solution or housemaid. "House maid" historically described a salaried, live-in staff member of well-off houses who ran the household a lot like a butler. Today, it's just an additional name for a housekeeper. Picking the best solution is a straightforward process of research study and asking the appropriate inquiries.

Find out what services cover. Establish your budget plan and also what you actually need done. Interview solutions and also ask the ideal concerns. Understand what to anticipate when the service begins. Before you select a housekeeper, ask yourself if you truly need it. If what you're trying to prevent is a chaotic mess, you may wish to choose an individual coordinator.

Housemaid service are different and specialized. The majority of service business begin with a base plan after that relocate into specialized continuous or one-time solutions for your details needs. Special home cleaning company are often available for larger tasks such as garages, post-moving or post-construction. Housemaid solutions, staffed by skilled expert cleaner, are available in a wide array of choices including: Regularly set up regular check outs.

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One-time aid on unique occasions. Demanding jobs such as garage or cellar cleansing. Occasions before and also after. Some business likewise offer gift certifications. Residence cleaning up requirements differ significantly based on your house size, place as well as what you truly want and also require. With many large business, you can expect a basic plan with optional services.

Single visits often tend to set you back twice as much as an on a regular basis arranged recurring see. Yet how much is your leisure time worth to you? The average American invests regarding doing chores. House maid services expense a standard of. For independent maids, expect to invest in between considering that they charge between.

You might be priced quote much more per hour for an expert business, yet they usually operate in groups to do the job promptly. Weekly, Bi-Weekly or Regular monthly. Complete Cooking Area Cleansing Complete Shower Room Servicing Vacuuming Dusting Altering Linens Cuisine Addons to the typical package if you require something specific. Laundry Moving furnishings Polishing woodwork Ceilings & light fixtures Window Drape Furniture Flooring waxing Carpet cleansing Consists of anything from common and optional services in seldom used locations or before special occasions.

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You can also employ a local house maid recommendation network for a mix of both. Independent housekeeper deal with references and referrals offering a reliable service on a budget. You ought to still have these professionals finish http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/?action=click&contentCollection&region=TopBar&WT.nav=searchWidget&module=SearchSubmit&pgtype=Homepage#/cleaning company a background check before working with. Bigger organizations evaluate their employees ahead of time. Exact same person whenever Personalized service Prices much less without above Uniformity gradually Guaranteed as well as adhered Background checks completed No employment documentation or tax obligations Dependable Not normally guaranteed Employment kinds to submit No history check Expensive Big crews many employees in your house per hr for someone per hr generally for a group of 2 Similar to any kind of solution that will certainly enter your residence, you'll intend to adhere to a couple of standards.

Prior to working with a service, meeting firms or individuals. Inspect out the questions listed below that you can ask in the meeting Make certain to collect referrals as well as call them. After all, they will have a great deal of accessibility to your home, and you ought to be comfy with them. If they give previous client call details, ask those referrals how satisfied they were with the service specialist's: Punctuality or routine availability, Cleansing abilities and tools, Mindset or job ethic, and Professionalism and trust or trustworthiness.

In some instances, a solution will certainly ask for to use the home owner's materials. If somebody in your house has allergies, consult your cleansing service to discuss particular products that may be advantageous. Prior to any work begins, figure out the exact scope of the services you require. You may likewise intend to discuss added duties over a normal cleansing routine, like laundry.

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Think about co-creating a checklist of assumptions and responsibilities of the solution. Be extremely details as well as do not expect the professional to know exactly how you desire something done. Spend a couple of minutes reviewing locations you want cleaned up frequently. If it is very important that specific locations obtain special interest each see, direct them out.

See to it you discover a service that is open to personalized demands. Prior to each browse through, be sure to leave a list of trouble locations. The kind of home you own may affect service sees. Accessible car parking locations and coded entrances may produce access barriers that enhance travel time as well as therefore costs.

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Interview with Angela Tucker on August 21, 2016

Me: How did you find yourself and find your culture within your family?

Angela: Well, like you mentioned your parents were very engaged, my parents were as well. So they would take me to different culture events, when they knew of them. Sometimes that meant driving to the nearest big city which is Seattle when I was younger. Our house was very multicultural: our toys, magazines, books, and movies. They made sure we had access to a lot of different cultures, not just black culture. That was very helpful for me being able to learn about it, but that still didn’t make it perfect. So when I met my birth family in the south I did feel uncomfortable because I wasn’t used to be around so many black and brown people. But I felt like I had a good understanding of the history of people of color but I didn’t have the experience. I think that’s the nature of transracial adoption, it’s not perfect. There is a need to be around people who look like you to fully understand the culture and background. I feel like my parents did the next best thing.

Me: How does it feel being a mentor and inspiration to adoptees all around the world?

Angela: I strongly feel that the adoption conversation, about foster care shouldn’t be happening without adoptees speaking as well. That’s not how it’s gone historically. Adoptive parents have all the power in this conversation, birth parents really don’t have a voice, and until recently adoptees have been thought of as kids. When people think of adoptees they think of cute little baby, cute little black babies, and I find that really frustrating because people like you and I know that’s not the case. I think there is also a lot of adoptees who don’t speak because people view them as angry if they say anything about being curious in finding their birth parents.

Me: Was there ever a moment when you realized, or thought that you weren’t like your adoptive parents?

Angela: Yes, I felt that with one of my sisters who is my parents biological child. She looks a lot like my parents and they have these beautiful blue eyes and my sister is just gorgeous. People would often remark about her eye color looking like my dads and I just felt kind of left out. But when people would say stuff like that my parents would come back and say stuff like “ya and Angela has our love for reading” or they would tie me back to them in ways that weren’t physical attributes but hobbies and interests. I loved hearing that. But certainly it was kind of frustrating, especially because we can’t see what we look like all the time. People look at my family and think ‘oh that’s curious’ but I don’t see that I just see my family. Sometimes I would forget when people are staring at us, I’m just thinking like what are they looking at? Then I get it and I remember this does look strange that I’m holding hands with my white mom.

Me: When you started being around more black people and your birth family do you feel like you had to make sure you were up to the black community standards?

Angela: Yes, it is like a new learning curve. I was raised pretty middle class and my birth family is in poverty. I have a husband that’s white and that was a big deal, there are no other interracial marriages in my birth family. There were a lot of jokes about me choosing to marry a white guy. It was just kind of embarrassing and I don’t think there was any preparation I could’ve done.

Me: What do you love most about your job?

Angela: I currently work at a foster care agency, where I’m building a new post adoption program and the biggest thing I love is that they chose to hire an adoptee. Purposefully they did because they aline with my mission and standards that adoptee voices need to be included in every aspect, so I absolutely love that. Because like I said earlier I think our voices have be shrouded for a long time and it’s time for us to speak. I love that my job honors that.

Me: Did you ever think that you would get the response that you did to your documentary?

Angela: No, not at all. It was originally home video footage and at the time I was working at an adoption agency and adoptive parents felt a lot of fear that they would adopt a kid who would do what I have done. They felt like they wanted to adopt someone who didn’t have curiosity about their birthparents so they didn’t have to do the birthparent stuff. I was going through and search for my birthparents while I was listening to all this stuff so my husband and I thought it would be a good idea to have these families see what I have gone through. I wanted to show them why it’s important to keep connections if you can and openness. We knew the need was there but we had no idea it would be so well received and for so long. The movie has been out for three years now and it’s continued to impact people, it’s pretty amazing and very surprising. But it’s been a beautiful thing, so getting emails like yours. I loved it. It’s overwhelming but it’s beautiful.

Me: Why did you start your blog?

Angela: I started my blog prior to the search, it I think I started it in college maybe. I started it in college because I wasn’t having a lot of avenues to talk about what I wanted to talk about. College is a time for exploration to the max, you’re on your own again an for me going to college and suddenly losing all that white privilege was a new experience. All of the sudden I was just a black girl in the big city and people didn’t understand my view of growing up in a white family. I went to a college that was predominantly white, and some people were really confused like how did you get here? So then I would have to tell the whole story about how I was adopted so this is really comfortable for me to be around all these white people, but some people were still really confused about it all. My blog allowed me space to write and I didn’t have a lot of adoptee friends at that time and so it helped me build a community of other adoptee friends who felt similarly, it was incredible.

Me: Why did you think your mom put you up for adoption before you met her? What was your processing behind that? Did you ever try to reason with yourself over her decision?

Angela: Yes, growing up I knew a few details about her. I knew that she was impoverished and homeless, and that she had placed one other girl for adoption. I knew enough to reason that poverty was a major factor in her decision, but that wasn’t enough. I still needed to search and find out more because I think I had written a blog with a letter to my birth mom, hoping she would see it, of course she didn’t have a computer to see it. When I met her I sent her the letter and in it I talked about being unwanted, and how that feels and she was really sad to read that. She said that I was never unwanted, so it was really nice for me to hear that she cared and just didn’t have the support or the means. As I’ve met more birth parents I don’t see that being the case, it’s always something else.

Me: Do you feel like being adopted you had a better life and you had more opportunities than you would have if you remained with your mom?

Angela: I know that I had more opportunities than I wouldn’t have been adopted. I definitely wouldn’t use the word better, it’s been different, and I wouldn’t have known this life to compare it to. I have definitely had a good life, I’m thankful for the opportunities but I do wish I had gotten to know my birth mom, and I wish I could’ve stayed with her if I would’ve be able to. I think this is partially why I’m in social services now to make sure that people have what they need, even if that might mean adoption.

Me: How did you process being adopted?

Angela: I think I’ve been processing, I am a deep thinker. I think a lot, about everything, to death. Which is why I like to blog and write, which helps me process. Certainly the blogging was me processing and prior to that I had so many journals. I certainly didn’t go through life just forgetting about this piece it was always on my mind. I think being it schools where I was one of the only black people there and with sports. I would usually get chosen for teams before I even tried out because I was the black girl and I looked athletic. That was confusing, I wouldn’t always see that as a compliment I was processing all of that through every interaction. I remember I tried to wear an afro to school in high school and everyone put stuff in my hair because it was the first time people saw an afro. I would always think why is it that I’m the only black person here and that would bring me back to adoption.

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Will There Be Internships This Summer?

May 21, 2020 11 min read

Cecelia Nancarrow had gotten all her ducks in a row for a sought-after internship this summer with manufacturing and retail giant Hormel Foods. The 21-year-old Kansas native and incoming senior at Kansas State University — where she studies sales and data analytics and is a member of the school’s National Strategic Selling Institute  — had been chosen for a temporary relocation to Dallas, where she’d be learning some real-world wheeling and dealing at one of the Austin, Minnesota-based corporation’s numerous satellite offices. But as her junior year neared conclusion and travel plans were booked, a public health emergency came crashing down, instantaneously upending the very opportunity she’d been compiling credentials for. In Nancarrow’s telling, she didn’t waste any time feigning disbelief.

“Almost immediately, I didn’t even consider the fact that my internship would not be cancelled,” she recalls matter-of-factly in a phone interview from her home in Manhattan, Kansas. “Restaurants, hotels, hospitals — those would be my customers. So as soon as all of those shut down, I was thinking, if all these places are going to be closed for the remainder of the summer, I have no idea how I would be able to do my job.“

As it turned out, Nancarrow was one of the lucky ones. Hormel, a publicly traded company with dozens of globally recognized brands under its auspices ranging from SPAM to Skippy, was able to marshal its resources and repurpose the geographically sprawling internship program as more of a centralized virtual experience. Nancarrow and her cohort will ultimately be staying in place, but Hormel has equipped them all with computers and quickly strategized ways to remotely simulate everything from orientation to networking opportunities with executives and clients.

“Many of these interns had accepted jobs in October, so as you can imagine, they were quite anxious to understand what the future looks like,” says Amy Sheehan, Hormel’s director of talent acquisition, who oversees the internship program, in a phone interview. “So we worked with our leadership team and said, ‘What does this look like? Is it feasible? Could we still give these interns a virtual experience knowing that it’s so important to our pipeline and filling our needs each year?'” 

Fortunately for Nancarrow, the answer turned out to be yes, albeit with a delayed start of June 15, “to give all the teams more time to figure out exactly how it’s gonna work,” she explains. The flip side is that for many of her friends and peers, similar programs, just like sleepaway camps and other summer extracurriculars, have been put on indefinite hiatus. And as a result, the future of student internships — historically both a rite of passage and real entree into building career prospects and contacts  — rests in an uneasy purgatory. 

Related: Where to Intern If You Really Want to Be an Entrepreneur

Pamela Nashel Leto can empathize. After more than 20 years working for New York-based music publicity house Girlie Action, where she repped diverse clientele such as My Morning Jacket and Wyclef Jean, Nashel Leto struck out on her own this spring with a new firm, Siren’s Call. Interns have always been an essential, if perhaps taken-for-granted, fixture of the music industry ecosystem, and Nashel Leto had intended to avail herself of one or two in the coming months. But right as she was set to open Siren’s Call’s Manhattan office for business, lockdown orders took hold. The artists she made a living promoting could no longer tour, appear on late-night shows or do in-store performances, and surging unemployment meant less disposable income for people to spend on music — period. Nashel Leto was forced to focus on the walls closing in and couldn’t afford to think about helping young hopefuls get a foot in the door.

Siren’s Call PR owner Pamela Nashel Leto has had to press pause on internships for her just-launched firm.

Image Credit: Siren’s Call PR

“I had planned on hiring interns,” she laments in a phone interview from her home in Bayonne, NJ, which has been doubling as Siren’s Call’s HQ for the past two-plus months. “For a music PR firm, a lot of my [intern] work would be based around maintaining my social media, but if I’ve never actual met my intern in person and can’t personally supervise him or her, I’d feel uncomfortable giving them such direct access to my business accounts. It’s sad, because I’d love to just be able to virtually hire people and have trust in them enough to have them work from their house or dorm, but it’s important for me to actually know somebody in real life.”

Consequently, Nashel Leto will likely shift responsibilities normally delegated to interns over to her small staff of employees. That redistribution of tasks has become duly necessary at Champaign, Illinois-based independent record label Polyvinyl, which works hand-in-hand with Nashel Leto promoting one of its cornerstone acts, eclectic indie troupe Of Montreal. Polyvinyl has decided to halt hiring interns for the summer and likely into the fall, despite the fact that some of its full-time staff already works remotely from different parts of the country. 

“We’ve always felt one of the biggest benefits to our internships is sitting bird’s-eye view at not only a small record label, but just a small business,” explains Polyvinyl co-founder Matt Lunsford, speaking by phone from Champaign. “They’re absorbing everything that’s going on at our small company, even if they’re working on a typical intern-like task, like research. I feel like there’s not a very obvious way to replicate that without someone physically being present.”

Polyvinyl Records artist Jeff Rosenstock, in the days when bands were touring and interns were helping promote.

Image Credit: Amanda Fotes

While Lunsford has the ability to, as he puts it, “pick up the slack and spread the work out to the departments that would have the interns, or put some of that work on pause or do it later,” he also recognizes that, long-term, continuing to defer intern-recruitment is in no one’s best interests. Among him and fellow upper management, “The consensus is, if this is ongoing for more than this calendar year, then we would probably be inclined to take the time to figure out some sort of plan that would involve making the internships more virtual or maybe coming up with something completely unique so it could be envisioned as virtual from the very beginning.” (Nashel Leto, for her part, says that, “When a vaccine is out there and I work from an actual office again, I can hire some interns, but doubt that will be possible until 2021.”)

Related: Every Entrepreneur Should Be An Intern First

But what about an operation for which there is inherently no substitute for on-site support, like working the land on a multi-acre spread of field and forest? That’s the conundrum for Unadilla Community Farm in upstate Otsego, New York. This is the seventh year that the farm and educational center has taken applications from interns from all over the world for what its mission statement characterizes as “an immersion into a rural, off-grid sustainable way of life.”

Unadilla has been acknowledged as an essential business since lockdown orders took hold in New York in mid-March, and it is also seated in a county that has been permitted to gradually reopen for some non-essential business by Governor Andrew Cuomo. Still, with participants typically arriving from all over the country and various continents, and safety precautions like social distancing a standing prerequisite even in areas of lower infection, this year’s program — while moving forward — has had to make some concessions. 

“The difference this year is we are only accepting interns from the U.S.,” clarifies Greta Zarro, Unadilla’s co-owner and internship coordinator, speaking by phone from the farm. She adds that accepted applicants have also been asked to quarantine at home for 14 days before arriving, and “then once everyone is here, we all quarantine here and don’t have to leave the property, so we’re lucky in that sense.” (One accepted participant delayed his arrival after feeling ill prior to his departure. He tested negative, and then quarantined for two weeks before leaving.) They’ve also “worked to improve our sanitation and hygenic practices,” Zarro says, and will be making their own soap and sanitizer on the premises. 

Field trips to other farms and related networking events have been postponed, but there will be some virtual webinars and workshops in their stead. Zarro’s optimistic that even in its somewhat compromised state, the program will reap all its intended rewards. “It’s not going to be 100 percent the same,” she begins. “There’s typically an element where they get to essentially work on another farm for the afternoon and see another operation, but overall, the program is still relatively intact.”

Interns and staff enjoying the literal fruits of their labor on Unadilla Community Farm in upstate New York.

Image Credit: Unadilla Community Farm

If anything, as more traditional internship opportunities have ebbed, enthusiasm for what Unadilla offers has flowed. “What’s been interesting is we’ve actually seen an increase in applications,” Zarro remarks. “People are starting to plant gardens and trees and realize, ‘Wow, we need to be more self-sufficient,’ and that’s the primary thing we’re teaching.”

For companies like Hormel, the jury’s still out on whether its swiftly reconstituted arrangement will feel as close to, or even better than, the real thing. The one advantage across the board for both employers and interns is that this generation of students is wired for digital adaptation and distanced communication in a way none of its predecessors could fathom. That comfort level with all things virtual may help bridge the disconnect that leaves Hormel’s Sheehan in a precarious place of waiting for results and Polyvinyl’s Lunsford reluctant.

“When you think about what they’ve been thrown into with their classroom settings, they’re already used to this,” Sheehan reasons about student interns’ malleability. “It’s not so foreign to them.”

Nancarrow confirms that her age group is, by and large, apt to be less daunted by this sudden shift than perhaps even the higher-ups who recruited them. She’s even come around to see how this could be a unique crash course in the way business is going to be conducted down the road, and as a result of our current crisis, maybe much sooner than that. 

“The world is moving to be so technology-focused,” she says. “I am definitely going to need to learn how to communicate in a virtual format. Having this opportunity this summer may not be ideal or what I had originally planned, but it’s going to be extremely beneficial for myself and everyone else in my generation.”

More pressingly, Nancarrow is hopeful that this unforeseen hurdle will be duly taken into account when she and her classmates — whether their internships have been modified or canceled outright — come out the other side: “I’m fairly confident a lot of business are going to be extremely understanding that my generation, as well as the ones around me, kind of lost out on that internship opportunity and be able to look past that and see our potential anyway.”

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Will There Be Internships This Summer?

May 21, 2020 11 min read

Cecelia Nancarrow had gotten all her ducks in a row for a sought-after internship this summer with manufacturing and retail giant Hormel Foods. The 21-year-old Kansas native and incoming senior at Kansas State University — where she studies sales and data analytics and is a member of the school’s National Strategic Selling Institute  — had been chosen for a temporary relocation to Dallas, where she’d be learning some real-world wheeling and dealing at one of the Austin, Minnesota-based corporation’s numerous satellite offices. But as her junior year neared conclusion and travel plans were booked, a public health emergency came crashing down, instantaneously upending the very opportunity she’d been compiling credentials for. In Nancarrow’s telling, she didn’t waste any time feigning disbelief.

“Almost immediately, I didn’t even consider the fact that my internship would not be cancelled,” she recalls matter-of-factly in a phone interview from her home in Manhattan, Kansas. “Restaurants, hotels, hospitals — those would be my customers. So as soon as all of those shut down, I was thinking, if all these places are going to be closed for the remainder of the summer, I have no idea how I would be able to do my job.“

As it turned out, Nancarrow was one of the lucky ones. Hormel, a publicly traded company with dozens of globally recognized brands under its auspices ranging from SPAM to Skippy, was able to marshal its resources and repurpose the geographically sprawling internship program as more of a centralized virtual experience. Nancarrow and her cohort will ultimately be staying in place, but Hormel has equipped them all with computers and quickly strategized ways to remotely simulate everything from orientation to networking opportunities with executives and clients.

“Many of these interns had accepted jobs in October, so as you can imagine, they were quite anxious to understand what the future looks like,” says Amy Sheehan, Hormel’s director of talent acquisition, who oversees the internship program, in a phone interview. “So we worked with our leadership team and said, ‘What does this look like? Is it feasible? Could we still give these interns a virtual experience knowing that it’s so important to our pipeline and filling our needs each year?'” 

Fortunately for Nancarrow, the answer turned out to be yes, albeit with a delayed start of June 15, “to give all the teams more time to figure out exactly how it’s gonna work,” she explains. The flip side is that for many of her friends and peers, similar programs, just like sleepaway camps and other summer extracurriculars, have been put on indefinite hiatus. And as a result, the future of student internships — historically both a rite of passage and real entree into building career prospects and contacts  — rests in an uneasy purgatory. 

Related: Where to Intern If You Really Want to Be an Entrepreneur

Pamela Nashel Leto can empathize. After more than 20 years working for New York-based music publicity house Girlie Action, where she repped diverse clientele such as My Morning Jacket and Wyclef Jean, Nashel Leto struck out on her own this spring with a new firm, Siren’s Call. Interns have always been an essential, if perhaps taken-for-granted, fixture of the music industry ecosystem, and Nashel Leto had intended to avail herself of one or two in the coming months. But right as she was set to open Siren’s Call’s Manhattan office for business, lockdown orders took hold. The artists she made a living promoting could no longer tour, appear on late-night shows or do in-store performances, and surging unemployment meant less disposable income for people to spend on music — period. Nashel Leto was forced to focus on the walls closing in and couldn’t afford to think about helping young hopefuls get a foot in the door.

Siren’s Call PR owner Pamela Nashel Leto has had to press pause on internships for her just-launched firm.

Image Credit: Siren’s Call PR

“I had planned on hiring interns,” she laments in a phone interview from her home in Bayonne, NJ, which has been doubling as Siren’s Call’s HQ for the past two-plus months. “For a music PR firm, a lot of my [intern] work would be based around maintaining my social media, but if I’ve never actual met my intern in person and can’t personally supervise him or her, I’d feel uncomfortable giving them such direct access to my business accounts. It’s sad, because I’d love to just be able to virtually hire people and have trust in them enough to have them work from their house or dorm, but it’s important for me to actually know somebody in real life.”

Consequently, Nashel Leto will likely shift responsibilities normally delegated to interns over to her small staff of employees. That redistribution of tasks has become duly necessary at Champaign, Illinois-based independent record label Polyvinyl, which works hand-in-hand with Nashel Leto promoting one of its cornerstone acts, eclectic indie troupe Of Montreal. Polyvinyl has decided to halt hiring interns for the summer and likely into the fall, despite the fact that some of its full-time staff already works remotely from different parts of the country. 

“We’ve always felt one of the biggest benefits to our internships is sitting bird’s-eye view at not only a small record label, but just a small business,” explains Polyvinyl co-founder Matt Lunsford, speaking by phone from Champaign. “They’re absorbing everything that’s going on at our small company, even if they’re working on a typical intern-like task, like research. I feel like there’s not a very obvious way to replicate that without someone physically being present.”

Polyvinyl Records artist Jeff Rosenstock, in the days when bands were touring and interns were helping promote.

Image Credit: Amanda Fotes

While Lunsford has the ability to, as he puts it, “pick up the slack and spread the work out to the departments that would have the interns, or put some of that work on pause or do it later,” he also recognizes that, long-term, continuing to defer intern-recruitment is in no one’s best interests. Among him and fellow upper management, “The consensus is, if this is ongoing for more than this calendar year, then we would probably be inclined to take the time to figure out some sort of plan that would involve making the internships more virtual or maybe coming up with something completely unique so it could be envisioned as virtual from the very beginning.” (Nashel Leto, for her part, says that, “When a vaccine is out there and I work from an actual office again, I can hire some interns, but doubt that will be possible until 2021.”)

Related: Every Entrepreneur Should Be An Intern First

But what about an operation for which there is inherently no substitute for on-site support, like working the land on a multi-acre spread of field and forest? That’s the conundrum for Unadilla Community Farm in upstate Otsego, New York. This is the seventh year that the farm and educational center has taken applications from interns from all over the world for what its mission statement characterizes as “an immersion into a rural, off-grid sustainable way of life.”

Unadilla has been acknowledged as an essential business since lockdown orders took hold in New York in mid-March, and it is also seated in a county that has been permitted to gradually reopen for some non-essential business by Governor Andrew Cuomo. Still, with participants typically arriving from all over the country and various continents, and safety precautions like social distancing a standing prerequisite even in areas of lower infection, this year’s program — while moving forward — has had to make some concessions. 

“The difference this year is we are only accepting interns from the U.S.,” clarifies Greta Zarro, Unadilla’s co-owner and internship coordinator, speaking by phone from the farm. She adds that accepted applicants have also been asked to quarantine at home for 14 days before arriving, and “then once everyone is here, we all quarantine here and don’t have to leave the property, so we’re lucky in that sense.” (One accepted participant delayed his arrival after feeling ill prior to his departure. He tested negative, and then quarantined for two weeks before leaving.) They’ve also “worked to improve our sanitation and hygenic practices,” Zarro says, and will be making their own soap and sanitizer on the premises. 

Field trips to other farms and related networking events have been postponed, but there will be some virtual webinars and workshops in their stead. Zarro’s optimistic that even in its somewhat compromised state, the program will reap all its intended rewards. “It’s not going to be 100 percent the same,” she begins. “There’s typically an element where they get to essentially work on another farm for the afternoon and see another operation, but overall, the program is still relatively intact.”

Interns and staff enjoying the literal fruits of their labor on Unadilla Community Farm in upstate New York.

Image Credit: Unadilla Community Farm

If anything, as more traditional internship opportunities have ebbed, enthusiasm for what Unadilla offers has flowed. “What’s been interesting is we’ve actually seen an increase in applications,” Zarro remarks. “People are starting to plant gardens and trees and realize, ‘Wow, we need to be more self-sufficient,’ and that’s the primary thing we’re teaching.”

For companies like Hormel, the jury’s still out on whether its swiftly reconstituted arrangement will feel as close to, or even better than, the real thing. The one advantage across the board for both employers and interns is that this generation of students is wired for digital adaptation and distanced communication in a way none of its predecessors could fathom. That comfort level with all things virtual may help bridge the disconnect that leaves Hormel’s Sheehan in a precarious place of waiting for results and Polyvinyl’s Lunsford reluctant.

“When you think about what they’ve been thrown into with their classroom settings, they’re already used to this,” Sheehan reasons about student interns’ malleability. “It’s not so foreign to them.”

Nancarrow confirms that her age group is, by and large, apt to be less daunted by this sudden shift than perhaps even the higher-ups who recruited them. She’s even come around to see how this could be a unique crash course in the way business is going to be conducted down the road, and as a result of our current crisis, maybe much sooner than that. 

“The world is moving to be so technology-focused,” she says. “I am definitely going to need to learn how to communicate in a virtual format. Having this opportunity this summer may not be ideal or what I had originally planned, but it’s going to be extremely beneficial for myself and everyone else in my generation.”

More pressingly, Nancarrow is hopeful that this unforeseen hurdle will be duly taken into account when she and her classmates — whether their internships have been modified or canceled outright — come out the other side: “I’m fairly confident a lot of business are going to be extremely understanding that my generation, as well as the ones around me, kind of lost out on that internship opportunity and be able to look past that and see our potential anyway.”

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Will There Be Internships This Summer?

May 21, 2020 11 min read

Cecelia Nancarrow had gotten all her ducks in a row for a sought-after internship this summer with manufacturing and retail giant Hormel Foods. The 21-year-old Kansas native and incoming senior at Kansas State University — where she studies sales and data analytics and is a member of the school’s National Strategic Selling Institute  — had been chosen for a temporary relocation to Dallas, where she’d be learning some real-world wheeling and dealing at one of the Austin, Minnesota-based corporation’s numerous satellite offices. But as her junior year neared conclusion and travel plans were booked, a public health emergency came crashing down, instantaneously upending the very opportunity she’d been compiling credentials for. In Nancarrow’s telling, she didn’t waste any time feigning disbelief.

“Almost immediately, I didn’t even consider the fact that my internship would not be cancelled,” she recalls matter-of-factly in a phone interview from her home in Manhattan, Kansas. “Restaurants, hotels, hospitals — those would be my customers. So as soon as all of those shut down, I was thinking, if all these places are going to be closed for the remainder of the summer, I have no idea how I would be able to do my job.“

As it turned out, Nancarrow was one of the lucky ones. Hormel, a publicly traded company with dozens of globally recognized brands under its auspices ranging from SPAM to Skippy, was able to marshal its resources and repurpose the geographically sprawling internship program as more of a centralized virtual experience. Nancarrow and her cohort will ultimately be staying in place, but Hormel has equipped them all with computers and quickly strategized ways to remotely simulate everything from orientation to networking opportunities with executives and clients.

“Many of these interns had accepted jobs in October, so as you can imagine, they were quite anxious to understand what the future looks like,” says Amy Sheehan, Hormel’s director of talent acquisition, who oversees the internship program, in a phone interview. “So we worked with our leadership team and said, ‘What does this look like? Is it feasible? Could we still give these interns a virtual experience knowing that it’s so important to our pipeline and filling our needs each year?‘” 

Fortunately for Nancarrow, the answer turned out to be yes, albeit with a delayed start of June 15, “to give all the teams more time to figure out exactly how it’s gonna work,” she explains. The flip side is that for many of her friends and peers, similar programs, just like sleepaway camps and other summer extracurriculars, have been put on indefinite hiatus. And as a result, the future of student internships — historically both a rite of passage and real entree into building career prospects and contacts  — rests in an uneasy purgatory. 

Related: Where to Intern If You Really Want to Be an Entrepreneur

Pamela Nashel Leto can empathize. After more than 20 years working for New York-based music publicity house Girlie Action, where she repped diverse clientele such as My Morning Jacket and Wyclef Jean, Nashel Leto struck out on her own this spring with a new firm, Siren’s Call. Interns have always been an essential, if perhaps taken-for-granted, fixture of the music industry ecosystem, and Nashel Leto had intended to avail herself of one or two in the coming months. But right as she was set to open Siren’s Call’s Manhattan office for business, lockdown orders took hold. The artists she made a living promoting could no longer tour, appear on late-night shows or do in-store performances, and surging unemployment meant less disposable income for people to spend on music — period. Nashel Leto was forced to focus on the walls closing in and couldn’t afford to think about helping young hopefuls get a foot in the door.

Siren’s Call PR owner Pamela Nashel Leto has had to press pause on internships for her just-launched firm.

Image Credit: Siren’s Call PR

“I had planned on hiring interns,” she laments in a phone interview from her home in Bayonne, NJ, which has been doubling as Siren’s Call’s HQ for the past two-plus months. “For a music PR firm, a lot of my [intern] work would be based around maintaining my social media, but if I’ve never actual met my intern in person and can’t personally supervise him or her, I’d feel uncomfortable giving them such direct access to my business accounts. It’s sad, because I’d love to just be able to virtually hire people and have trust in them enough to have them work from their house or dorm, but it’s important for me to actually know somebody in real life.”

Consequently, Nashel Leto will likely shift responsibilities normally delegated to interns over to her small staff of employees. That redistribution of tasks has become duly necessary at Champaign, Illinois-based independent record label Polyvinyl, which works hand-in-hand with Nashel Leto promoting one of its cornerstone acts, eclectic indie troupe Of Montreal. Polyvinyl has decided to halt hiring interns for the summer and likely into the fall, despite the fact that some of its full-time staff already works remotely from different parts of the country. 

“We’ve always felt one of the biggest benefits to our internships is sitting bird’s-eye view at not only a small record label, but just a small business,” explains Polyvinyl co-founder Matt Lunsford, speaking by phone from Champaign. “They’re absorbing everything that’s going on at our small company, even if they’re working on a typical intern-like task, like research. I feel like there’s not a very obvious way to replicate that without someone physically being present.”

Polyvinyl Records artist Jeff Rosenstock, in the days when bands were touring and interns were helping promote.

Image Credit: Amanda Fotes

While Lunsford has the ability to, as he puts it, “pick up the slack and spread the work out to the departments that would have the interns, or put some of that work on pause or do it later,” he also recognizes that, long-term, continuing to defer intern-recruitment is in no one’s best interests. Among him and fellow upper management, “The consensus is, if this is ongoing for more than this calendar year, then we would probably be inclined to take the time to figure out some sort of plan that would involve making the internships more virtual or maybe coming up with something completely unique so it could be envisioned as virtual from the very beginning.” (Nashel Leto, for her part, says that, “When a vaccine is out there and I work from an actual office again, I can hire some interns, but doubt that will be possible until 2021.”)

Related: Every Entrepreneur Should Be An Intern First

But what about an operation for which there is inherently no substitute for on-site support, like working the land on a multi-acre spread of field and forest? That’s the conundrum for Unadilla Community Farm in upstate Otsego, New York. This is the seventh year that the farm and educational center has taken applications from interns from all over the world for what its mission statement characterizes as “an immersion into a rural, off-grid sustainable way of life.”

Unadilla has been acknowledged as an essential business since lockdown orders took hold in New York in mid-March, and it is also seated in a county that has been permitted to gradually reopen for some non-essential business by Governor Andrew Cuomo. Still, with participants typically arriving from all over the country and various continents, and safety precautions like social distancing a standing prerequisite even in areas of lower infection, this year’s program — while moving forward — has had to make some concessions. 

“The difference this year is we are only accepting interns from the U.S.,” clarifies Greta Zarro, Unadilla’s co-owner and internship coordinator, speaking by phone from the farm. She adds that accepted applicants have also been asked to quarantine at home for 14 days before arriving, and “then once everyone is here, we all quarantine here and don’t have to leave the property, so we’re lucky in that sense.” (One accepted participant delayed his arrival after feeling ill prior to his departure. He tested negative, and then quarantined for two weeks before leaving.) They’ve also “worked to improve our sanitation and hygenic practices,” Zarro says, and will be making their own soap and sanitizer on the premises. 

Field trips to other farms and related networking events have been postponed, but there will be some virtual webinars and workshops in their stead. Zarro’s optimistic that even in its somewhat compromised state, the program will reap all its intended rewards. “It’s not going to be 100 percent the same,” she begins. “There’s typically an element where they get to essentially work on another farm for the afternoon and see another operation, but overall, the program is still relatively intact.”

Interns and staff enjoying the literal fruits of their labor on Unadilla Community Farm in upstate New York.

Image Credit: Unadilla Community Farm

If anything, as more traditional internship opportunities have ebbed, enthusiasm for what Unadilla offers has flowed. “What’s been interesting is we’ve actually seen an increase in applications,” Zarro remarks. “People are starting to plant gardens and trees and realize, ‘Wow, we need to be more self-sufficient,’ and that’s the primary thing we’re teaching.”

For companies like Hormel, the jury’s still out on whether its swiftly reconstituted arrangement will feel as close to, or even better than, the real thing. The one advantage across the board for both employers and interns is that this generation of students is wired for digital adaptation and distanced communication in a way none of its predecessors could fathom. That comfort level with all things virtual may help bridge the disconnect that leaves Hormel’s Sheehan in a precarious place of waiting for results and Polyvinyl’s Lunsford reluctant.

“When you think about what they’ve been thrown into with their classroom settings, they’re already used to this,” Sheehan reasons about student interns’ malleability. “It’s not so foreign to them.”

Nancarrow confirms that her age group is, by and large, apt to be less daunted by this sudden shift than perhaps even the higher-ups who recruited them. She’s even come around to see how this could be a unique crash course in the way business is going to be conducted down the road, and as a result of our current crisis, maybe much sooner than that. 

“The world is moving to be so technology-focused,” she says. “I am definitely going to need to learn how to communicate in a virtual format. Having this opportunity this summer may not be ideal or what I had originally planned, but it’s going to be extremely beneficial for myself and everyone else in my generation.”

More pressingly, Nancarrow is hopeful that this unforeseen hurdle will be duly taken into account when she and her classmates — whether their internships have been modified or canceled outright — come out the other side: “I’m fairly confident a lot of business are going to be extremely understanding that my generation, as well as the ones around me, kind of lost out on that internship opportunity and be able to look past that and see our potential anyway.”

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Cecelia Nancarrow had gotten all her ducks in a row for a sought-after internship this summer with manufacturing and retail giant Hormel Foods. The 21-year-old Kansas native and incoming senior at Kansas State University — where she studies sales and data analytics and is a member of the school’s National Strategic Selling Institute  — had been chosen for a temporary relocation to Dallas, where she’d be learning some real-world wheeling and dealing at one of the Austin, Minnesota-based corporation’s numerous satellite offices. But as her junior year neared conclusion and travel plans were booked, a public health emergency came crashing down, instantaneously upending the very opportunity she’d been compiling credentials for. In Nancarrow’s telling, she didn’t waste any time feigning disbelief.

“Almost immediately, I didn’t even consider the fact that my internship would not be cancelled,” she recalls matter-of-factly in a phone interview from her home in Manhattan, Kansas. “Restaurants, hotels, hospitals — those would be my customers. So as soon as all of those shut down, I was thinking, if all these places are going to be closed for the remainder of the summer, I have no idea how I would be able to do my job.“

As it turned out, Nancarrow was one of the lucky ones. Hormel, a publicly traded company with dozens of globally recognized brands under its auspices ranging from SPAM to Skippy, was able to marshal its resources and repurpose the geographically sprawling internship program as more of a centralized virtual experience. Nancarrow and her cohort will ultimately be staying in place, but Hormel has equipped them all with computers and quickly strategized ways to remotely simulate everything from orientation to networking opportunities with executives and clients.

“Many of these interns had accepted jobs in October, so as you can imagine, they were quite anxious to understand what the future looks like,” says Amy Sheehan, Hormel’s director of talent acquisition, who oversees the internship program, in a phone interview. “So we worked with our leadership team and said, ‘What does this look like? Is it feasible? Could we still give these interns a virtual experience knowing that it’s so important to our pipeline and filling our needs each year?'” 

Fortunately for Nancarrow, the answer turned out to be yes, albeit with a delayed start of June 15, “to give all the teams more time to figure out exactly how it’s gonna work,” she explains. The flip side is that for many of her friends and peers, similar programs, just like sleepaway camps and other summer extracurriculars, have been put on indefinite hiatus. And as a result, the future of student internships — historically both a rite of passage and real entree into building career prospects and contacts  — rests in an uneasy purgatory. 

Related: Where to Intern If You Really Want to Be an Entrepreneur

Pamela Nashel Leto can empathize. After more than 20 years working for New York-based music publicity house Girlie Action, where she repped diverse clientele such as My Morning Jacket and Wyclef Jean, Nashel Leto struck out on her own this spring with a new firm, Siren’s Call. Interns have always been an essential, if perhaps taken-for-granted, fixture of the music industry ecosystem, and Nashel Leto had intended to avail herself of one or two in the coming months. But right as she was set to open Siren’s Call’s Manhattan office for business, lockdown orders took hold. The artists she made a living promoting could no longer tour, appear on late-night shows or do in-store performances, and surging unemployment meant less disposable income for people to spend on music — period. Nashel Leto was forced to focus on the walls closing in and couldn’t afford to think about helping young hopefuls get a foot in the door.

Siren’s Call PR owner Pamela Nashel Leto has had to press pause on internships for her just-launched firm.

Image Credit: Siren’s Call PR

“I had planned on hiring interns,” she laments in a phone interview from her home in Bayonne, NJ, which has been doubling as Siren’s Call’s HQ for the past two-plus months. “For a music PR firm, a lot of my [intern] work would be based around maintaining my social media, but if I’ve never actual met my intern in person and can’t personally supervise him or her, I’d feel uncomfortable giving them such direct access to my business accounts. It’s sad, because I’d love to just be able to virtually hire people and have trust in them enough to have them work from their house or dorm, but it’s important for me to actually know somebody in real life.”

Consequently, Nashel Leto will likely shift responsibilities normally delegated to interns over to her small staff of employees. That redistribution of tasks has become duly necessary at Champaign, Illinois-based independent record label Polyvinyl, which works hand-in-hand with Nashel Leto promoting one of its cornerstone acts, eclectic indie troupe Of Montreal. Polyvinyl has decided to halt hiring interns for the summer and likely into the fall, despite the fact that some of its full-time staff already works remotely from different parts of the country. 

“We’ve always felt one of the biggest benefits to our internships is sitting bird’s-eye view at not only a small record label, but just a small business,” explains Polyvinyl co-founder Matt Lunsford, speaking by phone from Champaign. “They’re absorbing everything that’s going on at our small company, even if they’re working on a typical intern-like task, like research. I feel like there’s not a very obvious way to replicate that without someone physically being present.”

Polyvinyl Records artist Jeff Rosenstock, in the days when bands were touring and interns were helping promote.

Image Credit: Amanda Fotes

While Lunsford has the ability to, as he puts it, “pick up the slack and spread the work out to the departments that would have the interns, or put some of that work on pause or do it later,” he also recognizes that, long-term, continuing to defer intern-recruitment is in no one’s best interests. Among him and fellow upper management, “The consensus is, if this is ongoing for more than this calendar year, then we would probably be inclined to take the time to figure out some sort of plan that would involve making the internships more virtual or maybe coming up with something completely unique so it could be envisioned as virtual from the very beginning.” (Nashel Leto, for her part, says that, “When a vaccine is out there and I work from an actual office again, I can hire some interns, but doubt that will be possible until 2021.”)

Related: Every Entrepreneur Should Be An Intern First

But what about an operation for which there is inherently no substitute for on-site support, like working the land on a multi-acre spread of field and forest? That’s the conundrum for Unadilla Community Farm in upstate Otsego, New York. This is the seventh year that the farm and educational center has taken applications from interns from all over the world for what its mission statement characterizes as “an immersion into a rural, off-grid sustainable way of life.”

Unadilla has been acknowledged as an essential business since lockdown orders took hold in New York in mid-March, and it is also seated in a county that has been permitted to gradually reopen for some non-essential business by Governor Andrew Cuomo. Still, with participants typically arriving from all over the country and various continents, and safety precautions like social distancing a standing prerequisite even in areas of lower infection, this year’s program — while moving forward — has had to make some concessions. 

“The difference this year is we are only accepting interns from the U.S.,” clarifies Greta Zarro, Unadilla’s co-owner and internship coordinator, speaking by phone from the farm. She adds that accepted applicants have also been asked to quarantine at home for 14 days before arriving, and “then once everyone is here, we all quarantine here and don’t have to leave the property, so we’re lucky in that sense.” (One accepted participant delayed his arrival after feeling ill prior to his departure. He tested negative, and then quarantined for two weeks before leaving.) They’ve also “worked to improve our sanitation and hygenic practices,” Zarro says, and will be making their own soap and sanitizer on the premises. 

Field trips to other farms and related networking events have been postponed, but there will be some virtual webinars and workshops in their stead. Zarro’s optimistic that even in its somewhat compromised state, the program will reap all its intended rewards. “It’s not going to be 100 percent the same,” she begins. “There’s typically an element where they get to essentially work on another farm for the afternoon and see another operation, but overall, the program is still relatively intact.”

Interns and staff enjoying the literal fruits of their labor on Unadilla Community Farm in upstate New York.

Image Credit: Unadilla Community Farm

If anything, as more traditional internship opportunities have ebbed, enthusiasm for what Unadilla offers has flowed. “What’s been interesting is we’ve actually seen an increase in applications,” Zarro remarks. “People are starting to plant gardens and trees and realize, ‘Wow, we need to be more self-sufficient,’ and that’s the primary thing we’re teaching.”

For companies like Hormel, the jury’s still out on whether its swiftly reconstituted arrangement will feel as close to, or even better than, the real thing. The one advantage across the board for both employers and interns is that this generation of students is wired for digital adaptation and distanced communication in a way none of its predecessors could fathom. That comfort level with all things virtual may help bridge the disconnect that leaves Hormel’s Sheehan in a precarious place of waiting for results and Polyvinyl’s Lunsford reluctant.

“When you think about what they’ve been thrown into with their classroom settings, they’re already used to this,” Sheehan reasons about student interns’ malleability. “It’s not so foreign to them.”

Nancarrow confirms that her age group is, by and large, apt to be less daunted by this sudden shift than perhaps even the higher-ups who recruited them. She’s even come around to see how this could be a unique crash course in the way business is going to be conducted down the road, and as a result of our current crisis, maybe much sooner than that. 

“The world is moving to be so technology-focused,” she says. “I am definitely going to need to learn how to communicate in a virtual format. Having this opportunity this summer may not be ideal or what I had originally planned, but it’s going to be extremely beneficial for myself and everyone else in my generation.”

More pressingly, Nancarrow is hopeful that this unforeseen hurdle will be duly taken into account when she and her classmates — whether their internships have been modified or canceled outright — come out the other side: “I’m fairly confident a lot of business are going to be extremely understanding that my generation, as well as the ones around me, kind of lost out on that internship opportunity and be able to look past that and see our potential anyway.”

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San Diego Theft Attorney Provides Legal Answers | Law Office of David P. Shapiro

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San Diego Theft Attorney Provides Legal Answers | Law Office of David P. Shapiro

>> RYAN: at present we’re with David Shapiro. David Shapiro is a crook security legal professional located in San Diego California. He’s agreed to reply some online questions that was once posted. Latest questions have been particularly related to theft and theft offenses. In case you are probably the most people who clearly posted these questions, you are going to get your solutions proper away. When you’ve got been personally charged with theft associated offense of crime, without doubt, suppose free to arrive out to David. Moreover, he is agreed to answer questions on-line. The way you’re going to do that is simply publish your questions at the bottom of the YouTube video. These we’ll be emailed to him and he’s going to get back with you with responses.With that mentioned, let us go forward and get started. David, i’ll ask our first query right here. I was caught shoplifting and it’s on video. Is it viable to protect me? >> DAVID: a pair things, here. Whether or not it is on video or not, it is normally feasible to defend you, now not matter what. You might be without doubt entitled to illustration. Irrespective of how dangerous or how just right a case could look, specifically because it relates to theft defenses on video, it’s invariably feasible to defend you. Realize that the colossal majority of cases are eventually resolved in need of taking the case to trial, meaning just due to the fact you’re on video, would not necessarily imply there s nothing that can be achieved.From a trial perspective, it is up to the prosecution, as a minimum in California, to prove, as it pertains to theft, intent. There s quite a few folks who may take stuff or stroll out of a room with a piece of property that will not be theirs and they could disregard about, however it is up to the prosecution to show intent. How do they prove intent, despite the fact that the video indicates you placing clothes over your fingers and running out with out deciding to buy it? They show intent in two methods, through direct evidence like a video confession, yeah, I knew what I did was once mistaken, or they infer it circumstantially by way of pronouncing there used to be no approach on the planet they might have completed this if they did not have the intent to steal. Even though there’s a video, it doesn’t always mean there s no safety for the case. If there is a video or if there is not, there are so many things you can do, above all with theft defenses, to make things as right as feasible as speedily as viable, even if it is not a case for trial to maintain the issues that you could have that got you on this crisis to with and present you to the prosecution in an mighty manner by way of litigation records and proactive matters i will tell you to do to be able to distinguish you from each person on your role that’s charged with that offense in that court docket, on that day, with that prosecutor.That is a number of what my organization does. >> RYAN: That makes various feel. The following question may be very unique. I am being charged with forging some checks. The whole price of the exams was once 2,seven hundred dollars. I don’t have any prior convictions. Am I going to get a felony? >> DAVID: Are you going to get a prison? You’re going to mainly be charged with a prison. Whether or not or no longer the case resolves to a prison is as much as numerous things: the state of the evidence, the court, and the courthouse where your case is heard, and to a few measure the crook protection attorney that is both assigned to your case or that you just rent. With that amount, 2,seven hundred bucks in solid tests, you’re looking at forgery charges although the amounts of the checks were under 950 bucks, they cumulatively acquired over that amount, and you would be charged with forgery. You might even be charged with industrial housebreaking because it pertains to any establishments you’ll have entered with the intent to commit that forgery offense within.Can you be charged with a legal? Yes. Can or not it’s a couple of felonies? Yes. Would the genuine case sincerely get to the bottom of for a prison or wouldn’t it make experience with the case ending with you being convicted of a felony? It depends upon the information of the case and what, if any, prior criminal historical past you have got. Also, your capacity to make restitution to the aggrieved celebration, the alleged victim, would be essential, as well. How the case is awarded and what you do between the date of the offense and the date the case gets earlier than the decide and prosecutor, with the advice of your lawyer can component into it. I m no longer always saying there s a hard line within the sand that 2,700 approach yes or no, but there are a number of matters you are able to do to check out to slash the damage finished, even if you are charged with a legal for forgery. >> RYAN: the subsequent question was once i have been falsely accused of stealing from my girlfriend s condominium.It used to be my laptop that she gave me as a gift. Do I still need an lawyer? >> DAVID: Wow. There is a couple of things occurring, here. Centered in your question, if I have an understanding of you, accurately, you were at your lady friend s house. She gave you a computer. You left with that computer. Now, any individual, the female friend or girlfriend s household, are announcing that you just took it. You absolutely want an attorney, despite the fact that fees haven t been filed, yet. You don t want to make any statements that could be used towards you to the female friend, her mom and dad, or to regulation enforcement, assuming they have got filed a police report or a declare. You’re then contacted through a detective and the final thing you want to do is say some thing without first speakme to a crook safeguard legal professional who is aware of what they are doing. I say who knows what they’re doing since there are a lot of criminal attorneys in San Diego, or anywhere for that topic, who don t. My common rule of thumb as it relates to speakme to someone about anything when you’re accused of a crime, in this case a theft security, could be much less is extra.I imply that, in order to put this on you, although you did take the pc, whether it is yours or now not, apart from the fact there s a declare of right security, an affirmative safeguard to theft, why confirm or corroborate that you had been even at the condominium or that she s even your lady friend? Why give them A. B, C, and D once they simplest need to get to E as a way to convict you.If you don t say some thing, it would not always imply you’re guilty. The cop might not be happy about it, however what you’re doing is protecting your right to no longer build a case towards yourself and to not do law enforcement s job for them. Can you? Sure. Can that occur? Sure. Must you ought to hire an attorney? On the very least, you will have to seek advice with an lawyer who might be your voice to the female friend and her family, legislation enforcement, the prosecutor s workplace, whoever. If I say some thing, for your behalf, it can’t be used in opposition to you within the equal method you would.>> RYAN: The last question we now have is does three strikes observe to petty theft? >> DAVID: No. Three strikes legislation, in California, has been round for a colossal period of time, a couple a long time, now. At one factor, you could have two prior strikes. The first thing I must do is define what a strike is. A strike, in California, is a major and/or violent legal. That isn’t necessarily what you or I, or someone else, would think is our version of great or violent.It s what the regulation delineates is a serious or violent legal. They list them out over the direction of time. The very first thing is you need need to have a serious or violent felony for a interval of time. The third criminal, in case you have two strikes, might result in a 25 to lifestyles sentence. The regulation modified a short whilst in the past that mentioned the 0.33 case on these 25 to life cases have to be a serious or violent felony, themselves, not just any prison. Some distance too many people over the direction of the last 10, 15, twenty years were being sent to prison for a petty theft offense, which might on the whole be a misdemeanor. You are being despatched to prison for the leisure of your lifestyles, or 25 to life, which is in most cases lifestyles, right here in California, given that they have got two prior strikes. In November of 2014, voters handed some thing often called Proposition forty seven. This made most, if not all, misdemeanor offenses a misdemeanor, unless you’ve distinctive, prior crook history that says you do not qualify for that.Petty theft, regardless of how dangerous your report is, ninety five out of one hundred instances can best be misdemeanors. You’re obviously exempt from the three strikes law. Undoubtedly, as of November of 2014, you should be exempt from a legal, let by myself a significant or violent legal. It’s six-month highest misdemeanor until there are distinct conditions that might bump it up to a prison. >> RYAN: All correct. David, thanks on your time. Like I mentioned, for those of you observing, that you may attain out to David, instantly. You can discuss with his website. You could also publish these questions on the backside of the YouTube video. Thank you on your time, again, David.>> DAVID: You got it Ryan, my pleasure. .

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San Diego Theft Attorney Provides Legal Answers | Law Office of David P. Shapiro

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San Diego Theft Attorney Provides Legal Answers | Law Office of David P. Shapiro

>> RYAN: at present we’re with David Shapiro. David Shapiro is a crook security legal professional located in San Diego California. He’s agreed to reply some online questions that was once posted. Latest questions have been particularly related to theft and theft offenses. In case you are probably the most people who clearly posted these questions, you are going to get your solutions proper away. When you’ve got been personally charged with theft associated offense of crime, without doubt, suppose free to arrive out to David. Moreover, he is agreed to answer questions on-line. The way you’re going to do that is simply publish your questions at the bottom of the YouTube video. These we’ll be emailed to him and he’s going to get back with you with responses.With that mentioned, let us go forward and get started. David, i’ll ask our first query right here. I was caught shoplifting and it’s on video. Is it viable to protect me? >> DAVID: a pair things, here. Whether or not it is on video or not, it is normally feasible to defend you, now not matter what. You might be without doubt entitled to illustration. Irrespective of how dangerous or how just right a case could look, specifically because it relates to theft defenses on video, it’s invariably feasible to defend you. Realize that the colossal majority of cases are eventually resolved in need of taking the case to trial, meaning just due to the fact you’re on video, would not necessarily imply there s nothing that can be achieved.From a trial perspective, it is up to the prosecution, as a minimum in California, to prove, as it pertains to theft, intent. There s quite a few folks who may take stuff or stroll out of a room with a piece of property that will not be theirs and they could disregard about, however it is up to the prosecution to show intent. How do they prove intent, despite the fact that the video indicates you placing clothes over your fingers and running out with out deciding to buy it? They show intent in two methods, through direct evidence like a video confession, yeah, I knew what I did was once mistaken, or they infer it circumstantially by way of pronouncing there used to be no approach on the planet they might have completed this if they did not have the intent to steal. Even though there’s a video, it doesn’t always mean there s no safety for the case. If there is a video or if there is not, there are so many things you can do, above all with theft defenses, to make things as right as feasible as speedily as viable, even if it is not a case for trial to maintain the issues that you could have that got you on this crisis to with and present you to the prosecution in an mighty manner by way of litigation records and proactive matters i will tell you to do to be able to distinguish you from each person on your role that’s charged with that offense in that court docket, on that day, with that prosecutor.That is a number of what my organization does. >> RYAN: That makes various feel. The following question may be very unique. I am being charged with forging some checks. The whole price of the exams was once 2,seven hundred dollars. I don’t have any prior convictions. Am I going to get a felony? >> DAVID: Are you going to get a prison? You’re going to mainly be charged with a prison. Whether or not or no longer the case resolves to a prison is as much as numerous things: the state of the evidence, the court, and the courthouse where your case is heard, and to a few measure the crook protection attorney that is both assigned to your case or that you just rent. With that amount, 2,seven hundred bucks in solid tests, you’re looking at forgery charges although the amounts of the checks were under 950 bucks, they cumulatively acquired over that amount, and you would be charged with forgery. You might even be charged with industrial housebreaking because it pertains to any establishments you’ll have entered with the intent to commit that forgery offense within.Can you be charged with a legal? Yes. Can or not it’s a couple of felonies? Yes. Would the genuine case sincerely get to the bottom of for a prison or wouldn’t it make experience with the case ending with you being convicted of a felony? It depends upon the information of the case and what, if any, prior criminal historical past you have got. Also, your capacity to make restitution to the aggrieved celebration, the alleged victim, would be essential, as well. How the case is awarded and what you do between the date of the offense and the date the case gets earlier than the decide and prosecutor, with the advice of your lawyer can component into it. I m no longer always saying there s a hard line within the sand that 2,700 approach yes or no, but there are a number of matters you are able to do to check out to slash the damage finished, even if you are charged with a legal for forgery. >> RYAN: the subsequent question was once i have been falsely accused of stealing from my girlfriend s condominium.It used to be my laptop that she gave me as a gift. Do I still need an lawyer? >> DAVID: Wow. There is a couple of things occurring, here. Centered in your question, if I have an understanding of you, accurately, you were at your lady friend s house. She gave you a computer. You left with that computer. Now, any individual, the female friend or girlfriend s household, are announcing that you just took it. You absolutely want an attorney, despite the fact that fees haven t been filed, yet. You don t want to make any statements that could be used towards you to the female friend, her mom and dad, or to regulation enforcement, assuming they have got filed a police report or a declare. You’re then contacted through a detective and the final thing you want to do is say some thing without first speakme to a crook safeguard legal professional who is aware of what they are doing. I say who knows what they’re doing since there are a lot of criminal attorneys in San Diego, or anywhere for that topic, who don t. My common rule of thumb as it relates to speakme to someone about anything when you’re accused of a crime, in this case a theft security, could be much less is extra.I imply that, in order to put this on you, although you did take the pc, whether it is yours or now not, apart from the fact there s a declare of right security, an affirmative safeguard to theft, why confirm or corroborate that you had been even at the condominium or that she s even your lady friend? Why give them A. B, C, and D once they simplest need to get to E as a way to convict you.If you don t say some thing, it would not always imply you’re guilty. The cop might not be happy about it, however what you’re doing is protecting your right to no longer build a case towards yourself and to not do law enforcement s job for them. Can you? Sure. Can that occur? Sure. Must you ought to hire an attorney? On the very least, you will have to seek advice with an lawyer who might be your voice to the female friend and her family, legislation enforcement, the prosecutor s workplace, whoever. If I say some thing, for your behalf, it can’t be used in opposition to you within the equal method you would.>> RYAN: The last question we now have is does three strikes observe to petty theft? >> DAVID: No. Three strikes legislation, in California, has been round for a colossal period of time, a couple a long time, now. At one factor, you could have two prior strikes. The first thing I must do is define what a strike is. A strike, in California, is a major and/or violent legal. That isn’t necessarily what you or I, or someone else, would think is our version of great or violent.It s what the regulation delineates is a serious or violent legal. They list them out over the direction of time. The very first thing is you need need to have a serious or violent felony for a interval of time. The third criminal, in case you have two strikes, might result in a 25 to lifestyles sentence. The regulation modified a short whilst in the past that mentioned the 0.33 case on these 25 to life cases have to be a serious or violent felony, themselves, not just any prison. Some distance too many people over the direction of the last 10, 15, twenty years were being sent to prison for a petty theft offense, which might on the whole be a misdemeanor. You are being despatched to prison for the leisure of your lifestyles, or 25 to life, which is in most cases lifestyles, right here in California, given that they have got two prior strikes. In November of 2014, voters handed some thing often called Proposition forty seven. This made most, if not all, misdemeanor offenses a misdemeanor, unless you’ve distinctive, prior crook history that says you do not qualify for that.Petty theft, regardless of how dangerous your report is, ninety five out of one hundred instances can best be misdemeanors. You’re obviously exempt from the three strikes law. Undoubtedly, as of November of 2014, you should be exempt from a legal, let by myself a significant or violent legal. It’s six-month highest misdemeanor until there are distinct conditions that might bump it up to a prison. >> RYAN: All correct. David, thanks on your time. Like I mentioned, for those of you observing, that you may attain out to David, instantly. You can discuss with his website. You could also publish these questions on the backside of the YouTube video. Thank you on your time, again, David.>> DAVID: You got it Ryan, my pleasure. .

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How Zillow’s Stan Humphries came to define the role of “data guru”

Stan Humphries (Illustration by Mario Wagner)

The loosely defined term “big data” is on the lips in real estate offices around the world these days, describing sets of facts and figures that are too large and complex to work with using nonspecialized computers. The industry’s so-called “big data gurus” are designing algorithms parsing the data that do everything from calculate a home’s market value to match commercial spaces with ideal tenants.  

Stan Humphries, chief economist and chief analytics officer for the Zillow Group, is the O.G. who defined the role of data guru. He is the man behind the first Zestimate algorithm and was instrumental in other tools that have attracted millions of users to the platform, helping to make Zillow the $10 billion company it is today. 

Humphries set a precedent for the role of chief economist in the real estate space — someone who could crunch numbers, spot trends and then hop on a call with a reporter and explain it to the average American, thereby driving Zillow brand awareness sky-high. 

“He certainly set an industry standard for what it means to be a chief economist,” said Ralph McLaughlin, former chief economist for Trulia, which is owned by the Zillow Group. “Some of his work is the most respected out there, and he set a standard in terms of his ability from an external perspective to be a very clear and coherent expert in the housing market, and that’s not easy.”

The key to getting the public to appreciate and understand the products and the insights Zillow produced was Humphries’ ability to put a cogent message together, sources said.

“Stan was certainly a pioneer in the space because he had this mixture of solid data analytics, this ability to take things from economics and forecasting to figure out what this means for the market, and also an element of storytelling,” said former Realtor.com chief economist Jonathan Smoke.

A zap to the market

There’s no greater example of the tectonic shift big data is capable of than Humphries’ Zestimate, an algorithmic home pricing feature launched 12 years ago, when “big data” was a term rarely heard beyond the campus lawns of Silicon Valley.

The Zestimate is calculated using millions of points of publicly available and privately submitted data, like square footage, sales comps and property tax data. It awakened the residential real estate industry to the possibilities of big data and armed potential buyers with a wealth of information — much to the chagrin of some brokers who have long argued that the Zestimate can be wildly off-target, projecting values that can be over or under a home’s actual market value by hundreds of thousands of dollars.

But like it or not, the Zestimate had a huge impact on the market. “It’s a topic of conversation in nine out of 10 meetings,” said Los Angeles-area Pacific Union International agent Sonia Cabrera, who said she saw an immediate impact on the L.A. market when the Zestimate came out in 2006. “Before, it was based on postcards and phone calls from agents.”

The man behind the formula had zero experience in real estate prior to Zillow — something Humphries admitted to Spencer Rascoff when the CEO first asked him to come aboard to “figure out what every house in the country was worth” in 2005.

At that time, Humphries had fairly recently gotten his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia’s government program and was running analytics at the travel website Expedia, where he met Rascoff. The CEO said in an interview last year that he shrugged off Humphries’ concerns about knowing nothing about real estate. “This is a math problem,” Rascoff said he told Humphries. “It has nothing to do with real estate.”

At Expedia, Humphries was creating models to better decide what products to show customers, as well as forecasting supply and demand at hotels. He was also interested in public policy, earning a master’s degree in foreign service at Georgetown University and working as a presidential fellow for the science adviser in the Clinton administration. He showed an early interest in using data to inform public policy, which proved crucial for Zillow a few years down the road.

“He wanted to get into big data before it was popular; he was one of the innovators,” said Humphries’ Ph.D. supervisor, Steve Finkel, who is department chair of political science at the University of Pittsburgh.

After launching Zestimate, Humphries continued to develop algorithms and frequently shared market reports and analyses on Zillow’s blog, Porchlight. The algorithms he helped build allowed him to quickly tailor data to spotlight interesting trends in local markets around the country — something that only the largest national brokerages could do at the time. He frequently highlighted Zillow’s products in those analyses, like the Zillow Home Value Index, the calculation of which is a mystery to those outside the company. 

Media in local markets across the country often picked up reports targeted to their regions, and Humphries made himself available to them, which helped spread Zillow’s name and attract users, said his friend Susan Athey, an economics of technology professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business. 

“It was impressive that [Humphries] was able to build models and also talk to the media,” Athey said. “A standard data scientist might have a harder time talking to an economics reporter at a newspaper, but people like Stan are able to also bridge that gap.”

Athey teaches the mechanics behind online marketplaces and online advertising. As part of the first wave of tech economists on the scene during the internet explosion at the turn of the century, she has advised companies including Microsoft, where she is the consulting chief economist today.

Historically, economists had mostly been concerned with the macroeconomics of the business, the so-called “big picture,” and provided useful forecasts and analysis to decision-makers, but Athey and other economists at Silicon Valley pioneers like Google began carving out new paths in the field.

“In the early 2000s, starting with Hal [Varian, chief economist] at Google and myself at Microsoft, we saw the growth of a new type of chief economist who focused more on microeconomics issues — data-driven business decision-making as well as marketplace issues, marketplace design and policy,” she said. That’s exactly the position Humphries created at Zillow, which from his example eventually became popular industrywide.

The company kicked its public outreach up a notch in 2008, and that’s when Humphries’ star really began rising. Amid the housing crisis, leadership at Zillow saw what Rascoff later called in a Washington Post interview the “massive void in academia, government and in the media” for “unbiased data” in real estate. He said that data from trade associations like the National Association of Realtors failed to reflect the reality of the declining market.

By making the data held dear by real estate professionals as transparent as possible — with the notable exception of sharing the proprietary Zestimate algorithm — Zillow aimed to captivate U.S. homebuyers and sellers. And of course, the more people who logged in curious about their Zestimate, the more eyes on the ads Zillow sold.

Humphries was promoted from vice president of data and analytics to chief economist in 2009. He and Zillow went to Washington, D.C., and presented data from tools like the Zillow Home Value Index to public policy groups and lawmakers, hoping to be their new go-to data source.

Establishing a presence in the capital was a canny move. In 2011, Humphries was called to testify before a congressional committee about ways to address the 1.5 million homes in foreclosure at the time. Likewise, in 2012, Rascoff moderated a Google Hangout with then-Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan and a group of homeowners.

Zillow’s public profile hit a peak in 2013 when Rascoff secured a one-on-one interview with then-President Barack Obama about the latter’s housing policy plans. The announcement of the interview caused Zillow’s stock value to spike by around $7.29 per share, or $250 million total, which brought the valuation of the company’s 34.5 million outstanding shares to upwards of $3.3 billion.

“It was absolutely part of our marketing plan,” Rascoff said in the Post interview of Zillow’s Washington outreach. “As a result of being the biggest real estate site on the Web, increasingly politicians are coming to us to say, ‘Hey, how can we get the word out, and how can we interact directly with homeowners?’”

Resurgence of an old-school role

Eyeing Zillow’s wall-to-wall media coverage, competitors in the last several years have been adding chief economists to their own rosters in the hopes of mirroring Zillow’s success.

News Corporation’s Realtor.com, a listings platform with close ties to frequent Zillow critics at the National Association of Realtors, hired Smoke as its first chief economist in July 2014.

Each chief economist at various entities could offer something unique to the market thanks to access to their company’s data sets, Smoke said. For example, he could provide more insight to the supply side of the market, because Realtor.com had access to “practically all of the inventory in the country,” Smoke said.

“We were all competing with each other in that arms race,” Smoke, who left the company in 2017, told TRD. “We were all very firmly encouraged by our organization to be thought leaders, producing insights that were relevant,” he said.

A brokerage with a listings platform similar to Zillow, Redfin, hired veteran economist Nela Richardson in 2014 as its first chief economist and based her in D.C. She developed public policy and interfaced with media outlets. Richardson left the company in June and her new employer, Edward Jones, said she could not comment for the story at the time of publication.

Redfin’s job posting for chief economist reads like Humphries’ job description. “The Redfin chief economist forms and communicates the Redfin point-of-view on the American housing market, as well as the company’s position on legislation and policy that affect housing and personal finance,” it states. “The charter of the position is to further Redfin’s thought leadership in the issues that matter to homeowners, aspiring homeowners, buyers, and sellers.”

But not everyone is 100 percent sold on the need for a data guru.

Rich Sarkis, CEO of Reonomy, which provides data tools for the commercial real estate industry, has a big tech and data team but no public-facing chief economist. The company recently closed a Series C round of fundraising, so he and his co-founders are thinking of bringing someone in, but it’s not a sure thing.

“There’s a different school [of thought] that says, ‘Hey, if you’ve got the data and you make it so easy to access, you empower the user to become the economist themselves,’” he said. “Then they can start to slice and dice your data. The end user becomes the evangelist.”

Investors hungry for proptech

The opportunities presented by harnessing big data in just the right ways have in recent years opened up a new revenue stream for real estate tech firms, but whether they’ll actually turn the efforts into profits largely remains to be seen. 

VCs sank $18.6 billion into real estate property technology — known as proptech — firms from 2015 to 2017, and more than 25 percent of that came in the fourth quarter of last year alone, according to a report from real estate tech research and marketing agency Re:Tech.

The Japanese firm Softbank poured $4.4 billion into WeWork last year, and Compass — which recently announced that it will begin licensing its technology to other firms — has raked in $550 million in funding ($450 million of which also came from Softbank). 

Commercial brokerages like JLL and Colliers International are also getting into the game, launching their own proptech accelerator labs in which engineers design specialized software products fueled by their respective mountains of market information. 

Sarkis said the idea is to create a product that’s “very heavyweight on the back end but intuitive, elegant and easy to use on the front end.”

“[Investors are] really looking for something that can bring the data monster to heel,” he said. 

Correction: an earlier version of this story said that Zillow’s stock value rose to $250 million following Spencer Rascoff’s interview with President Barack Obama. It went up by $7.29 per share, or $250 million in total, to around $3.3 billion.

Source: https://therealdeal.com/la/issues_articles/stan-humphries-zillow/

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I was Anthony Bourdain's 'censor' at CNN (opinion) – CNN

I was Anthony Bourdain’s ‘censor’ at CNN (opinion) – CNN

Marianna Spicer Joslyn is executive director of News Standards and Practices at CNN. Prior to her 24 years at CNN, she was executive producer of CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” producer of ABC News’ “This Week With David Brinkley,” “World News Saturday and Sunday,” and “The Health Show,” and an associate producer and writer for CBS’ 60 Minutes” and “CBS Reports.” The views expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author. View more opinion articles on CNN. The final season of CNN’s “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown” premiers Sunday, September 23, at 9 pm ET. (CNN) I was Anthony Bourdain’s “censor” at CNN. No, we don’t really have “censors,” per se, at CNN — we have Standards and Practices. I was the lucky one in our department to review “Parts Unknown” for things like graphic language or pictures, political bent or historical tweaking. I never met him. I never even spoke to him. I didn’t have to. He spoke to me, and everyone else, through his work. As a former documentarian, I especially appreciated the sheer beauty of his programs, and the talents of his team. I was blown away by the photography, the direction, the editing and, of course, the writing. Anthony Bourdain’s fans leave tributes at the restaurant where it all began As many have remarked, Bourdain had a very distinctive voice. As a writer for “60 Minutes,” I did preliminary scripts for the likes of Mike Wallace, Ed Bradley and Diane Sawyer. I tried to hear their voices in my head as I wrote those initial tracks. I don’t think I could have done that for Anthony Bourdain. His voice was too personal … so visceral. I didn’t know how he felt about what he was experiencing. Only he could tell us. Read More Tony — and I think of him that way rather than by his formal name — spoke plainly. Writers like him don’t write to impress, they don’t try to write poetry, and they don’t even think about the impact their words will have. They write to share their experience as they are experiencing it — not as a travelogue, but more trying to put you there with them. They can tell us what they see and hear and smell and taste and in a way that is organic. Chef Edward Lee: Bourdain changed my life For someone used to dealing with what news standards should be for our network, trying to find the “bar” for “Parts Unknown” was its own journey. It’s well known that Tony was profane. This was something new for CNN. We had hired him wanting him and everything that went along with it. But even though CNN is cable, it is also a brand. It’s the most widely respected news network in the world, our viewers tell us, and we really don’t want profane vernacular coming out of our anchors’ mouths. But we hired Tony to be Tony. Dilemma. So someone came up with the arbitrary “two shits per show.” F-words were verboten and muted, although of course you could see what was being said. Tony joked about the “two shits” rule on late night TV and said he was negotiating for three for the next season. I have to say, I eventually gave up on the “shits.” But those weren’t the biggest problem. Anthony Bourdain was a voice for the underdog Tony loved talking about genitals. Mostly his. “Be careful after eating spicy foods to wash your hands before relieving yourself” was his favorite. Various bugs and reptiles climbing up his pants and endangering the jewels was another. Then there was the show where people were leaping in ponds and having to spend the rest of the day with “moist nuts.” Whenever the opportunity presented itself, Tony made sure you knew how his body functions were impacted. On a trip to the French Alps with his good buddy and fellow chef Eric Ripert, where both of them ate copious amounts of cheese fondue, Tony warned Eric that he would be having large, concrete-like bowel movements. I learned that “crap” and “shit” were different. Who knew? For one of the last episodes, about the Lower East Side of New York, I paid no attention to the “shits” uttered by Tony and his various guests. The multiple f-words, uttered equally by Tony and his dinner companions, would be muted. But in this episode, Tony’s guests were, hard to believe, more profane than he was. They told tales of 60’s NYC and the very gritty art and music scene. A lunch companion, guest/singer/performer Lydia Lunch, spoke plainly about what it took to make it in the 60’s — hand jobs under the table to get her band to Europe. And that’s one of her milder utterances. And millennials think they invented shock value. Let’s just say “let it all hang out” wasn’t a metaphor. JUST WATCHED W. Kamau Bell remembers Anthony Bourdain Replay More Videos … MUST WATCH W. Kamau Bell remembers Anthony Bourdain 15:22 The producers at Zero Point Zero and I had many discussions over the dispatching of animals. I’ve since read what Tony wrote about that, and I wished I’d read it before. He was on the record as saying after he killed his first pig with a spear, which he felt obligated to do, having ordered the execution of many, many animals as a chef, he felt it was hypocritical not to show where our food comes from. Again, cable is not necessarily cable news. I am an animal lover and admittedly in denial about continuing to eat meat while I can’t stand the thought, let alone the sight, of killing animals. I didn’t feel our audience was ready for Tony’s level of reality. I challenged his executive producer with the question, “Would Tony want to bring a cow out to his dinner guests to see its butchering?” We compromised, but not much. Of course, Tony was very, very funny. We had to seek a middle ground in many areas, especially politics. In one episode, Tony described a particularly disgusting-sounding food he tried somewhere in Africa as being so good he would “eat it out of Chris Christie’s jock on a hot summer day.” Besides the fact that, at the time, Christie was a sitting governor and a presidential candidate, there was the TMI factor. Then the “fat joke” factor. I have the fortunate alternative of kicking these decisions to the next level. It passed, under the “let Tony be Tony” rule. Anthony Bourdain saw the humanity in all of us Tony seemed to love all things shocking, not really a surprise given his personal journey, because after all, what was really shocking to him? In an episode on Tokyo, he reveled in following a couple who “taught” bondage. There were many extended scenes of “fun with ropes” that rubbed my bosses the wrong way — if you’ll forgive the pun — but Tony loved it. My responsibilities included looking at several cuts of each program — rough cut, fine cut, picture lock. I actually needed to look at all the cuts because I was convinced Tony (or maybe his producers?) loved playing the game of “what else can I sneak in here that standards might miss on the second cut.” Blurs needed to be checked and rechecked. Was there anything new? I’m sure I was just paranoid … maybe. One of my favorite challenges over the past five years was an episode on Chicago, where Tony visited a bar whose owner was also a painter. His work was primarily of political icons. One such painting was of Sarah Palin, naked, holding a shotgun, with a turkey being dispatched behind her. Uh. No. Please cover the vice presidential candidate’s private parts. Made me think the show might be called “Private Parts Unknown.” Follow CNN Opinion Join us on Twitter and Facebook Like his viewers, I fell in love with Tony. He was a brilliant writer and storyteller, and you saw his toughness and sensed his vulnerability. His team at ZPZ are the most gifted filmmakers I have seen in a long, long time. His shows were brilliantly shot, directed and edited, always. His writing was poetry, although his friends say he denied being a poet. I can’t begin to tell you how much I appreciate and will miss my small part in this program. And my small connection with one of the most brilliant storytellers of our generation. I will miss his voice. I already miss his voice. I have no claim to being more distraught over Tony’s passing than any of his fans, and not in the same league as those who knew and worked with him. But like those who did know him well, I am really angry at his loss, and deeply sad. His kind won’t come our way again.

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