#also. mandatory PEP reference is mandatory.

[zebracakesarecopingmechanisms]

Assigning each ASOUE book a TMA entity (+why)

*Also taking the Netflix show’s portrayal/atmosphere into account.

The Bad Beginning: Web 🕸️

The Baudelaires are beginning to realize that things have been going on behind the scenes that they can’t understand; they are almost completely trapped in Olaf’s scheme til Klaus finds a loophole.

The Reptile Room: Hunt 🦷

The Incredibly Deadly Viper is initially percieved as a threat, if short-lived, and the Baudelaires are surrounded by dangerous creatures. Simultaneously, this is the book in which they truly realize Olaf is determined to keep chasing them.

The Wide Window: Lonely ☁️

Imagery of a large, empty house in a grey, foggy lake setting combined with the theme of grief. They are also without their guardian for a while after she faked suicide and was temporarily presumed dead.

The Miserable Mill: Dark 🌑

The Baudelaires do not know what happened with their parents here; information is being hidden from them. Klaus’ vision is literally impaired at several points in the story due to his glasses being damaged, in addition to the mandatory nightly “lights out” immediately after dinner.

The Austere Academy: Slaughter🔪

Vice Principal Nero’s fixation on the violin provides frenzied music, a common theme of the slaughter. The children are collectively cruel to the Baudelaires via Carmelita’s leadership. They demonstrate moblike behavior at the pep rallies.

The Ersatz Elevator: Spiral 🌀

The penthouse has hundreds of rooms and corridors in which one can easily be lost; there are repeating patterns on walls and furniture as well as the children’s clothing. Proportions seem exaggerated, ie the scale of the house, the limo, Esmé’s hat and fur coat, etc. The elevator is a false door that acts as a deception. Esmé is the first character to convincingly lie to the Baudelaires, and the contradictory rules of the In/Out system are nonsensical and confusing. And, of course, there is literally a Red Herring at the auction.

The Vile Village: Buried ⚰️

The Baudelaires are, in a literal sense, in a dry and dusty desert village full of sand. In addition to this, Duncan and Isadora are trapped together in the cramped, dark space of the fountain for the bulk of the story. In a more figurative sense, the Baudelaires are also buried under extensive suffocating and restrictive laws.

The Hostile Hospital: Eye 👁️

Heimlich Hospital contained files of information on nearly every conceivable subject; a massive gathering of knowledge by a man who ironically has poor vision. Olaf keeps a constant watch through the security cameras, and when Klaus is being forced to operate on his sister, an entire theater is seeing him.

The Carnivorous Carnival: Flesh 🥩

While the “carnival freaks” are of course not actually examples of body horror and are just people with deformities, they are still viewed as such by audiences within the narrative. Additionally, Madame Lulu is literally eaten alive by lions.

The Slippery Slope: Vast 🌊

In this case, the Vast mainly refers to the sky and heights, though the ocean is incorporated at the very end leading into the Grim Grotto. Falling off the mountain is a constant background fear; Sunny’s cage is thrown off the edge, and we see Kit do her little falling-and-flying trick with the dragonfly wings.

The Grim Grotto: Corruption 🪰

I was tempted to put the Vast here, but honestly the ocean itself was more of a unusual setting than a legitimate source of fear. The major conflict of the story was the infection/contamination of the Medusoid Mycelium.

The Penultimate Peril: Stranger 🎭

The Baudelaires do not know whether they anyone are speaking with is trustworthy, especially Ernest vs. Dewey.

The End: Extinction 🏭

The island is partially covered in garbage and debris, and everyone there is poisoned by the Medusoid Mycelium and will presumably be wiped out.

*Honorable mentions to the Desolation (fire, suffering) the Lonely (very few believe or help) and the Hunt (Count Olaf’s constant pursuit) as overtones of the entire series.

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In today’s digital age, Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance is critical for businesses across industries. With the rise in digital transactions and financial services, the need to verify customer identities in real-time has never been greater. EKYCHub steps into this space, offering robust KYC verification API services to ensure secure, seamless, and automated identity verification for businesses.

What is KYC?

KYC (Know Your Customer) refers to the process of verifying the identity of clients to prevent fraud, money laundering, and ensure regulatory compliance. It’s an essential process for financial institutions, fintech startups, e-commerce platforms, and other businesses handling sensitive customer data. KYC involves several verification steps like document verification, biometric authentication, and face matching to confirm that the customer is who they claim to be.

The Need for KYC Verification

In the modern digital economy, KYC processes are necessary to ensure:

Fraud Prevention: Verifying customer identities helps reduce the risk of identity theft, account takeover, and other fraudulent activities.

Regulatory Compliance: Many industries, particularly finance, are heavily regulated, and KYC is a mandatory requirement to meet legal obligations.

Risk Management: Understanding your customers allows businesses to assess and mitigate potential risks.

Trust Building: Offering a secure platform where users’ identities are verified instills trust and credibility in your business.

EKYCHub KYC Verification API: A Game-Changer

EKYCHub offers a comprehensive KYC Verification API that allows businesses to integrate identity verification into their platforms easily. The API service provides an end-to-end solution for both individual and business KYC compliance, ensuring that users can authenticate their identities in seconds without compromising security.

Here’s a breakdown of the features and benefits of EKYCHub’s KYC Verification API:

1. Document Verification

EKYCHub’s API allows businesses to verify government-issued documents such as passports, driver’s licenses, and national IDs. The system checks for authenticity and ensures that the documents meet the required standards.

Supported Documents: Passports, National IDs, Driver’s Licenses, Bank Statements, Utility Bills, and more.

Real-Time Verification: The system scans and verifies the document within seconds to provide immediate feedback.

2. Face Recognition

EKYCHub offers advanced facial recognition technology that matches a person’s live photo or selfie to the image on their government-issued ID. This reduces the risk of identity fraud and ensures that the individual in question is the one on the document.

Biometric Authentication: Facial recognition technology provides an added layer of security.

Selfie-to-ID Verification: Ensures that the customer is present and not using a stolen image.

3. Liveness Detection

The API also includes liveness detection, which ensures that the person is physically present during the verification process. This prevents fraudsters from using photos or videos to bypass authentication.

Anti-Spoofing Technology: Detects and prevents fraudulent activities such as using images or pre-recorded videos.

Real-Time Liveness Detection: Verifies user presence in real time during facial recognition.

4. AML and PEP Screening

EKYCHub’s KYC API includes AML (Anti-Money Laundering) and PEP (Politically Exposed Person) screening, ensuring that businesses are compliant with regulatory frameworks like the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).

Global Database Checks: Cross-referencing customers against global databases to identify potential risks.

AML Compliance: Helps businesses avoid financial crimes and penalties.

5. Scalability and Flexibility

EKYCHub’s KYC API can scale to meet the needs of businesses of all sizes. Whether you’re a startup looking for a small solution or a large enterprise with thousands of customers, EKYCHub’s infrastructure can handle the load.

Cloud-Based: No need for extensive hardware or software installations.

Customizable: The API can be tailored to fit specific business requirements.

6. Seamless Integration

Integrating EKYCHub’s KYC API into your existing platform is simple. The API supports multiple programming languages, including Python, Java, and PHP, making it developer-friendly.

Easy-to-Use Documentation: Comprehensive guides to assist with integration.

Multi-Platform Support: Works with web applications, mobile apps, and other platforms.

7. Cost-Effective

EKYCHub offers competitive pricing for its KYC API services, making it accessible for businesses of all sizes, from startups to large enterprises.

Pay-per-Use Model: You only pay for what you use, ensuring you can scale your KYC operations as needed without upfront costs.

Affordable Pricing Tiers: Flexible pricing based on transaction volume and business needs.

Benefits of Using EKYCHub’s KYC Verification API

Enhanced Security: Robust verification technologies help ensure that only genuine customers are onboarded.

Improved Customer Experience: Quick, seamless, and hassle-free verification processes result in a better user experience.

Regulatory Compliance: EKYCHub’s KYC solution ensures that your business remains compliant with global KYC and AML regulations.

Fraud Prevention: Reduces the risk of fraudulent activities through advanced document and biometric verification technologies.

Speed and Efficiency: Automated processes ensure that KYC checks are completed swiftly, reducing wait times for customers.

Who Can Benefit from EKYCHub’s KYC API?

EKYCHub’s KYC verification API is designed to cater to a wide range of industries and use cases:

Financial Institutions: Banks, fintech companies, and online lenders can use EKYCHub to comply with KYC regulations and prevent fraud.

Cryptocurrency Exchanges: KYC verification is crucial in crypto trading platforms to prevent illegal activities like money laundering.

E-commerce Platforms: Online retailers can verify their customers to ensure secure transactions and protect against fraud.

Online Marketplaces: Platforms with user-generated content or listings can use KYC to verify the identity of sellers and buyers.

Healthcare Providers: Verifying the identity of patients to ensure secure health record management.

Conclusion

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How would you feel if you continued to play the same video game over and over and over again? The concept might sound fun at first, but there’s only so much a single video game can offer. Sure, some have more replay value than others--but it’s only natural to want to take breaks every now and again.

That’s why BEN had left the familiar world of Majora’s Mask. He was growing bored of it. While it did tend to bring back many nostalgic feelings, it also reminded him of his time as a human. Being in that world was bittersweet...unless he could mess with someone’s copy of the game.

And since he hadn’t really wanted to do that in a while...he felt he needed a change of pace. So, of course, he took to the internet to see what other kinds of games he might be interested in. Maybe he’d mess with someone through another game?

...Nah. He mostly just wanted a change of scenery. Maybe he’d grow attached to a different world and want to stay there for a while, who knows? But he wasn’t gonna get anywhere by being indecisive. Let’s see...what are some popular games at the moment...

He’d always liked Pokémon alongside Zelda games...but those were all so familiar. Well, except for some of the newer ones. He hadn’t found the time to check those out yet, though Sword and Shield did look pretty cool...although he couldn’t access any unreleased games. So there’s no way he’d be getting there anytime soon.

Hm...what’s another popular one...Deltarune? That would be fine, except that he’d heard rumors about some crazy things going on in some weird variation of that world. Something about a demon and a sentient flower...and some kind of “perfect ending”. Whatever that was supposed to mean...

And, to be honest, he didn’t feel like getting wrapped up in whatever that was. It’d be too chaotic for the time being! He’d have to find something else. Something that wouldn’t get him caught up in an unfinished storyline that currently sat at a solid 7 chapters. Hm...what about...oh!

Here’s one! Bendy and the Ink Machine...was that one of the newer games? He’d heard some positive things about it despite never being able to see the game for himself. Now seemed like as good of a time as ever! Within a moment, his entire body had changed into a bunch of 0′s and 1′s, transporting itself into the game.

Upon arriving in the cartoon-ish world, the 0′s and 1′s formed back into his regular Link-like appearance. Hm. This place definitely had that old cartoon atmosphere...I guess that’s what the game was going for. But where’s that Bendy guy? The one who’s name’s in the title?

...As if on cue, BEN noticed something in the corner of his eye. It looked like a bunch of ink, except...it wasn’t exactly in a puddle on the ground. It was moving. Like...moving in a way that ink shouldn’t able to move. Maybe it was sentient! ...Maybe it was Bendy!

Welp. Only one way to find out! Quickly, he hovered over to the unnatural ink thing, making sure it knew of his presence. He was rather skilled when it came to catching people off-guard with his sudden appearances.

He͢y̷,͞ y̶o̡u͘!̕ I͘n̷k...̢thi̴ng. ̵D́o ̵y̨ou kn̛ow ̢wh̸ere ͢Bendy ͘i̧s?̧

His voice was weird--it didn’t sound like something you’d hear from...well, from anyone, really. It was all...somewhat distorted with a bit of an occasional echo. There was even a small glitch here in there in the way it sounded.

I guess that just goes to show what living in an afterlife like this could do to someone...

[toukenramblings]

Modern!AU | House Husband!Heshikiri Hasebe

These anons are really coming for me huh? How dARE YOU ALL KNOW WTF IS IN MY HEAD. come fight me, we fighting with hugs

Warnings: As the anon had requested some nsfw I gill be posting both cuddly and nsfw headcanons here. Modern!AU

SFW

It was already pretty damn domestic even before you two got married. Hasebe is such an early riser, waking up to prepare you something to eat before you go to work. It’s not to say that he isn’t working too, he probably does have a job but it’s YOU who is the breadwinner here. He doesn’t mind this. As long as you come home and smile and tell him that you love him, he’s happy. 

Hasebe always ensures that you wake up on time, waking up an hour before the alarm will go off and waking you up thirty minutes before the damn thing screams in your ear. He is hyper aware of your day to day schedule, and is a man who cannot stand tardiness. You have to be early or on time! What is late?!

Are your clothes ready for the day? Yes. Is breakfast ready, fully cooked with your favorites and a little note to give you a pep talk? Yes. Is the car warm on those cold days? Yes. Is your pet taken care of if you two have one? Yes. How are your kids, ready to go to school if you two got any? Yep. 

Morning kisses mandatory. Pouty Hasebe will be prevalent all day if you do not give him morning kisses. Will also shyly demand a kiss goodbye whenever you two depart from each other.

Whenever you come home from a harsh day at work, expect massages, dinner, a bath, wine, the whole shebang. He will welcome you home with a kiss and a hug, then push you to sit down and relax and let him take care of you.

Massages. This man gives the most amazing massages. Clothes on, clothes off, nOTHING BUT MASSAGES. 

If you ever forget your lunch, Hasebe is the kind of person who will personally come to your workplace on your lunch break just to give you food. No way is his spouse going hungry! Not on his watch!!!

Is also the kind of person who sends flowers/gifts to you while you’re working. Rarely does he come in physically, he doesn’t wanna bother you after all! It’s always with a little note, handwritten and with a heart. 

PDA? He doesn’t initiate it but it gets him SO FUCKING FLUSTERED whenever you do it to him. You give him a kiss just as he drops off lunch at your office? Immediately red faced, hiding it in his hands. 

He has the most romantic of nicknames. Yes, he will still call you his deity, his sun, his moon, his stars, his sunshine, etc etc. He rarely uses your name even if you two are married! Yes he does use the nicknames of “Babe, honey, darling” but he’s a lot more poetic. 

Date nights oh so common. There are times when you two just need to get away from the house and just have a day to yourselves. In or out, sometimes your dates are just you two sleeping in for a day or looking fine as hell for a night on the town. 

Hasebe does work a lot, so it helps if you spoil him too! Cook for him! Kiss him! Massage him! Treat him well! Give him so MANY KISSES. 

Will melt if you start giving him adorable pet names. 

100% takes your surname when you two marry and beams whenever he is referred to as the correct title. 

NSFW

Honey, Hasebe isn’t all too forward at times. But then there are times that you see him with a flushing face and shivering softly when he is clad in nothing but his signature purple apron. “G-Good morning, my beloved.” his eyes would avoid yours for a moment. “I...thought I could cook you breakfast and be your breakfast.” 

THE EPITOME OF THAT ONE QUOTE: “Welcome home my beloved, would you like dinner, a bath, or me?”

Listen your wedding night was so fucking soft I’m not sorry. You just in his lap, pressing kisses up and down his neck, trailing it all the way up to his lips? His hips bucking into yours, hands on your hips and rubbing soft circles into them. 

Cuddles are still mandatory. Along with after care. Of course he is always ready to take care of you!

But then there are times when you MUST take care of him too! Ride him until he can’t speak, take his cock into your mouth, stroke him, praise him. Tell him how good he is doing.

If there are two places Hasebe refuses to have sex in, it’s the kitchen and the bathroom. What if you fall and hurt yourself?! The kitchen is also where the food is made?! Don’t contaminate it!!!

But the minute you two get a new home, you’re breaking it in. Sex on the couch, on the dining room table, WHEREVER! Just not those two places I have mentioned before. 

Is the kind of house husband who has himself “presentable” to you when you come home, so you can relax.

Cannot function if you send him naughty pictures from work. He will shyly return them, and it’s easy to see that he’s still getting the hang of it with the deep red blush reaching down to his neck. 

And then there are the times when Hasebe wants to get FRISKY. Those days are somewhat rare, but it normally happens when you two have a fully clear day ahead of you two. One minute you two are cuddling on the couch watching a movie and suddenly you feel his hand creep down your thighs towards your sex???? Where did this confidence come from?!!

Your hands have to be touching and holding each other whenever you two do the do. No questions asked. 

Praise kink. Nothing bUT PRAISE. 

Most of the time, massages between you two lead to sexy times anyway. 

[slayernina]

Hello! I found your blog thanks to the spoilers ^_^ Do you think there is a chance we will see Billy somehow on s4? Or 5? After all, the rest of "dead" characters "came back", like Will, Brenner or Hopper (I'm not counting Barb or Bob or Alexei because they were smaller roles)

Thanks for the question, Anon! I hope you enjoyed the leaks as much as I do XD

Well, get ready for a very long answer… 

On a personal level, yes, I want Billy back. He is one of my favourite piece of shit characters on the show, and also one of my favourite piece of shit character in TV/movie fandom overall. It doesn’t matter if you liked him or hated him, he was so.fucking.entertaining.to.watch. And Dacre Montgomery nailed the role.

NOW, LET’S ANALYZE ALL THE POSSIBILITIES: 

On an external level: 

PROS: apparently the actor enjoyed his time on Stranger Things, enjoyed his time with the cast/crew, they enjoyed their time with him, and no shitty behavior has emerged from set. 

CONS: the actor is Aussie and we are talking about bringing someone from the other side of the world (bureaucracy and everything) during a global pandemic.

On a narrative level: 

Yes, Max deserves something to close his death and some kind of resolution. If he’s alive, Billy needs a proper redemption arc. Max needs to set her boundaries and resolve their relationship. Both needs to fix their relationship, if they can. Billy should repair the damage he's done to everybody. 

If he’s truly dead, Max deserves something more than mourn him, he shouldn't be left as a martyr, and it would cheap his death and the writing overall if there is a flashback that goes along the lines of “turns out he’s not an awful brother and he and Max made amends somehow off-screen!”. 

On a symbolic level: 

There is no way the writers don’t address Billy’s existence. Max is going to the high school he would be attending his senior year (damn, that would have been an interesting sight having the two siblings at the cafeteria at the same time), she still lives with his father as far as we know, Lucas is in the basketball team now, Jason mentioned him during a public pep talk and the Hellfire Club is heavily related to heavy metal/rock music and drugs. Hell, if we take Jason and Eddie into account, totally looks like the writers splited Billy’s “concept” into two minor characters. 

IT IS POSSIBLE FOR THE CHARACTER TO APPEAR AGAIN? 

If he’s truly dead: Yes. Even if we take into account the wig, the actor shaved his head in the middle of filming for no discernable reason (one of the main points of being an actor is that you are not allowed to change your aspect at all during filming) and there is a pic from the makeup team creating an unused cast of his head and shoulders. So maybe there is a secret scene of an autopsy filmed during season 3, or an autopsy photo in some Dr Owens' file that shows Billy is dead. 

If the actor is “there”, Billy could appear as a nightmare to Max or Eleven caused by PTSD, or as some sort of “spiritual guide” to interact with Eleven, or the Mind Flayer (or Kali, she has that power too) uses his image to scare Eleven. 

If he’s truly alive: Yes again. We don’t know the exact amount of powers the Mind Flayer gave to Billy, but despite being almost a decadent corpse, he was burned, later threw through a wall, later car crashed and later “burned” again… and he was still alive and moving. He died after the gate was closed. The writers can get away with “oh, the gate was reopened, and that caused the powers came back to Eleven -and Billy-, and now he is a Venom/Wolverine type” (mandatory comic reference here). Also, a lot of horror/gore movies from the 80s are about resurrection and/or zombies. 

IF THE CHARACTER COMES BACK WELL: 

Redemption arc and Max scenes. A lot of drama. He would join the Party, which is good for 2 reasons: 

On a D&D level, he would be their barbarian fighter/berserker. The Party and allies fighting techniques are along the lines of intellect, deductive skills, street smarts, superpowers, throw things to monsters, and physical attacks. The latter part was usually covered by Hopper (not now there) and Steve. If Steve isn’t there for whatever reason, it’s good to have some dumb muscle. Also he can drive, which is good if any of the adults, teens or Max is not around. 

On a mental/emotional level, he would be their criminal. He has already a crime record, he is way dark/grey morality than the rest of the characters, he is not shy going places where the other characters are afraid (such as tortures, manipulation, car fu, and “distract people with sexy”). That could be used for good, or to don’t turn your heroes into assholes. Also given his context and past scenes, he can be a healer type due to his experience with fights and abuse, and perform CPR was mandatory on his job. 

On a funny level, just imagine the Cool Bad Boy Dumb Jock surrounded by the Supreme Nerds. Trying to get laid with Robin. Awkard moments with “I almost banged your mom” Wheelers. Or Erica roasting his ass off. Basically, he would be the Spike from Buffy. Damn, maybe he is a secret nerd, imagine a scream contest with Dustin about some obscure D&D concept while the others watch with a WTF face.

IF THE CHARACTER COMES BACK WRONG: 

He can be demented and PTSD, and be the character at Pennhurst Nancy and Robin were investigating. Or the girls were there for Victor Creel, and they crashed accidentally with crazy Billy, who is a John Doe founded wandering around and bought there meanwhile the Pennhurst workers are trying to discover who is he. 

He can be also trapped in the Hawkins lab (I doubt the scientists wouldn’t kept his body). Redemtion arc and Max scenes from above and a lot of drama too. 

IF THE CHARACTER COMES BACK (WELL OR WRONG) AND HAS SUPERPOWERS: 

Please. The black comedy would be endless. This asshole would be Deadpool and we know it. He is the kind of character who would be using his powers for the LOLZ to piss off people. He would leave behind his mutilated hand giving the finger to the army. He would draw with blood a dick over Brenner’s desk. He would rampage the lab, or jump from a skyscraper, or set himself on fire because he is soooo bored. He would mess Max showing her gun holes or performing autosurgery in the kitchen with a fork. He would let Lucas and Steve kick his balls with a bat as a “retaliation”

Basically, Billy has all the potential to become a dark twisted himbo ala Damon Salvatore and I'm here for it

[puppyexpressions]

How to Cope With Your Dog’s Age-Related Hearing Loss

The most common form of deafness in dogs is age-related hearing loss. Most dogs experience some degree of hearing loss, beginning sometime during their “third trimester” of life. Age related hearing loss begins by impairing perception of middle to high frequency sounds, but encompasses the entire range of sound frequencies as it progresses. I suspect that most people don’t recognize their dog’s hearing loss until it is almost, if not fully, complete. They may mistakenly interpret their dog’s partial hearing loss as a behavioral issue, sometimes referred to as “selective hearing.” Unfortunately, there are no standard strategies that restore hearing in dogs with age related hearing loss.  How you can help your dog with hearing loss?

Observing your beloved dog become less responsive because of hearing loss can evoke a laundry list of emotions such as sadness, frustration, and discouragement. While there may not be a good way to restore your dog’s hearing, here are eight things you can do to make a positive difference for both you and your dog.

1. Check in with your veterinarian

Verify that the only cause of your dog’s hearing loss is age related hearing loss. Ear canal disease, such as a growth, foreign body, or infection, superimposed on age related hearing loss may transition a dog from partial to complete deafness. Treatment of the ear canal disease may restore an acceptable level of hearing. 2. Train your dog with hand signals

When your dog experiences significant hearing loss, your ability to communicate with him via hand signals will create greater safety for your dog and more support for the emotional bond you share.

Dogs quite naturally communicate via body language, so they tend to quickly learn the meaning of hand gestures. Ideally, training with hand signals in conjunction with verbal cues should begin in puppy kindergarten class. Someday, your youngster will become a senior with hearing loss, and those hand signals that were learned will be super handy (pun intended).

By the way, the popular adage, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks,” is a bunch of bunk. If your older dog hasn’t been taught to respond to hand signals, begin the training process as soon as possible. Most senior dogs are very capable of learning these new cues. 3. Use nontraditional signals

In addition to hand signals, find other ways to get your dog’s attention. Examples include actions that create vibrations (clapping hands, stomping on the floor, knocking cans together), use of a flashlight, release of an appealing scent (appealing to the dog, that is), and use of a storm or disaster whistle. Figure out what works best with your dog. Provide a positive reward (favorite snack, belly rub, game of tug of war) when you begin training your best buddy to respond to these new cues. 4. Avoid startling your dog

Approach and/or touch your dog when you are within his field of vision. If you need to wake him from sleep, touch him gently in the same place (the shoulder area is ideal). You can also put your hand in front of his nose as your smell may rouse him, particularly if it resembles the odor of a favorite treat. Remind visitors to avoid touching your best buddy when he is sleeping. All of these tactics tend to prevent startle reactions. 5. Increase your vigilance

This applies to the home front as well as out in the world. A fenced in yard becomes a must. Be sure your dog is on leash or confined when cars pull in and out at your home. Every veterinarian can tell you stories of older, hearing-impaired dogs who were run over in their own driveways.

Leashes are mandatory when your dog has exposure to cars, joggers, bikers, skateboarders and other potential hazards. Make sure that every member of your dog’s support team (veterinary staff, pet sitter, groomer, dog walker, doggie day care provider) knows about his hearing loss. Admittedly, even when I know that my patient is deaf, I still tend to talk to him in my usual fashion. Force of habit, I guess. Given our close contact, I like to think that my patient feels more secure sensing vibrations coming from my body. 6. Enrich your dog’s “smelling life”

Dogs rely heavily on their sense of smell. I recently heard a dog trainer explain that, when a dog enters a new situation, the dog’s eyes create the first impression, but it’s the nose that fills in the details. Olfactory stimulation is known to impact canine behavior. By providing a richer smelling life for your dog, you may help fill in some of his sensory gaps caused by the hearing loss. 7. Attach an, “I am deaf” tag to your dog’s collar

This way, if your dog becomes lost and then found, the good Samaritan involved will understand why your dog is not normally responsive. 8. Give yourself a pep talk

Patience is a virtue when interacting with your aging dog. Yes, it’s easy to feel frustration, sadness and impatience, but keep in mind, your older dog is still capable of picking up on your emotions. Take a few deep breaths and give yourself a pep talk to help restore a sense of patience and compassion.

There are some silver linings to consider. As your level of care for your hearing-impaired older dog increases, your relationship may become closer than it has ever been. Additionally all of that quaking, quivering, and anxiety caused by loud noises (thunder, gunshot noises, firecrackers) has likely become a thing of the past. Lastly, remind yourself that, with your loving care, your hearing-impaired dog remains very capable of enjoying an excellent quality of life.

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Chapter Seven:

The One Where Bastard Man Ruins Everything Yet Again

The very second Jacquelyn had hung up the phone with Larry, she threw herself back under her desk and dialed the number to the man that she had called just a little while ago. “Snicket?” she whispered as the person on the other line answered. “Someone needs a ride, and quick.”

“Got it,” Jacques replied. “May I ask who though?”

“Larry,”

“Larry…” Jacques repeated. He gave a small smile. It’s been a while since he had seen Larry. They had tried to remain close friends after the relationship had faltered but VFD missions surely got in the way of that. “Where from?”

“Prufrock Prep,”

“Ah, I was just headed there to help my niece,” Jacques replied. “I will help Larry as soon as I can…”

“Thank you, Jacques,” Jacquelyn replied.

“Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill,” Jacques replied. “The world…”

“Is quiet here,” Jacquelyn finished.

The world is quiet here. This might sound curious, as the motto of a secret organization, or something an associate of yours, like in Lemony Snicket’s case, his brother, might say when he arrives in his taxi to smuggle you across the border, high up into the mountains for a while until you successfully fake your own death and hideaway in the town where you did your apprenticeship for a secret organization. When the world is noisy...the world may feel as if it is coming apart like in….the case of the Baudelaires and Violet Snicket, who’s life was getting very loud and coming apart very fast.

Klaus and Sunny sat amid a crowd. Klaus had found a row of five seats and he and Sunny were looking around desperately for Violet, Isadora, and Duncan. Suddenly, he saw the three running out to the athletic field. The crowd of other students was chanting and cheering making it vastly fucking difficult for any of the five kids to hear. “What’s wrong?” Klaus asked confused as the three slid in their seats passed him. Isadora sat the furthest away from Klaus and Sunny, Duncan sat between his sister and Violet. Violet sat next to Klaus and Sunny sat in the seat right next to the aisle.

“We think we saw Count Olaf!” Isadora cried.

“What?” Sunny asked unable to hear Isadora.

“We think Count Olaf is here!” Duncan screamed.

“Huh?” Klaus asked confused blocking his ears with his hands because the noise was becoming too stimulating for him.

“Thank you. Thank you.” Nero said as he stepped upon the stage. “Welcome to the mandatory pep rally. I don’t know which I like more, the word ‘pep’ or ‘rally’,”

“I like ‘pep’,” Mrs. Bass said, who sat behind the children.

“I like ‘rally’,” Mr. Remora said, who sat behind the children beside her.

“Maybe we should ask our mascot! What do you say?” Nero asked the crowd, who cheered.

“What’s Prufrock’s mascot?” Klaus asked Duncan.

“A dead horse,” Duncan replied.

“What?”

“He said a dead horse,” Isadora replied.

“But that doesn’t matter...You have to listen,” Violet pleaded. “The Quagmires and I saw…”

“Shush!” Mr. Remora hissed from behind them.

“I know things seemed less peppy since our athletes, cheerleaders, and beloved gym teacher vanished on the way home from that away game. But Prufrock Preparatory School has a motto and that motto is ‘Memento Mori’ and it’s an ancient Greek saying…”

“Latin,” Klaus said rolling his eyes.

“...which means, ‘Remember, you will die.’ and soon, indeed, the sun will set, the fiery orb of life, leaving me alone!...alone!...Alone!” he shouted as he looked at the grey sky above. Everyone on and off stage stared at him confused. Duncan took this time to try to write Klaus and Sunny a note, but Mr. Remora closed his commonplace book tossing it to the ground next to Violet and Duncan’s feet. Nero stiffened up. “Until, of course, you meet someone who truly understands and supports you with friendship, camaraderie, and cash bribes. Our gym teacher was irreplaceable, but I have found someone who I know can fill her shoes,”

Violet looked down at the commonplace book saddened by the fact that it had been thrown to the ground and closed shut. She looked up at Klaus and Sunny with a desperate look in her eyes. “Klaus!” she shouted.

Klaus just stared at her for a moment. Trying to block out the noise. “What!?”

“Count Olaf is…” she began before Mrs. Bass shushed her.

“And now, please welcome to the stage, a man with no resume, no letters of recommendation, no credit history, but with such a marvelous ear for music that I’ve hired him as the newest member of our faculty!”

A tall, skinny man stepped onto the stage. The man was wearing sweatpants and a sweatshirt, such as any gym teacher might wear. On his feet were some expensive-looking running shoes with very high tops, and around his neck was a shiny whistle. Wrapped around the top of his head was a length of cloth secured in place with a shiny red jewel. Such things are called turbans and are worn by some people for religious purposes, but Klaus and Sunny took one look at this man, feeling both of their hearts drop instantly. Klaus frowned miserably at the man on the stage, they both knew that this man was wearing the turban for an entirely different reason.

“Your new gym teacher, Coach Genghis!” Nero cheered. The crowd cheered except for the five orphans. Isadora, Duncan, and Violet all turned to Klaus and Sunny, who stayed staring at the man on the stage.

“Count Olaf…” Klaus whimpered.

“Bastard,” Sunny growled.

“So much to learn,” Olaf shouted to the crowd, his eyes fixating right on Klaus and Sunny. His eyes became shiny when he saw his prey sitting next to his newest targets. He smirked. This is going to be easier than I thought… he thought to himself smirking. “...and I am here to school you,” he said smirking mainly at Klaus.

The crowd began to cheer and applaud the awful man. Carmelita jumped on stage dressed up as a cheerleader and began to chant. “Who can’t be beat?!”

The crowd around the kids began to chant in response. “A dead horse!”

This went on for a couple of minutes. The crowd around the children were showing an exceptional amount of school spirit. The term ‘school spirit’ is, in my opinion, a curious one. The phrase might sound as if it refers to a ghost or other undead phantasm haunting an educational establishment like very old gum clinging to a trophy case. Now what I was told ‘school spirit’ actually referred to is the belief that one particular school is better than another. Though, as Violet Snicket and the four younger orphans were about to learn, there are much worse things that can haunt a school.

“I love the energy! I love it!” Olaf shouted to the crowd. Every student besides the five orphans clapped and cheered for Olaf. Sunny bared her teeth at the man, Violet and the Quagmires glared intensely at Olaf, Klaus just stared at the man with sorrow and worry in his eyes. Why can’t he just leave us alone? Klaus thought as he felt Violet slip her hand into his. When he felt her hand, he looked over at her, realizing that he had begun to shake.

“Okay, everyone, settle down,” Nero said addressing the audience.

Olaf feigned a look of pure shock. “Settle down? Do you hear what Vice Principal Shapiro just said?” he asked the crowd.

“It’s Nero, ” Nero corrected.

“‘Settle down’? How often I hear those words come out of people’s ears and into my mouth,” he took his glance from Klaus and began to glance towards Violet. Violet glared back, she was at a safe distance away from where Olaf didn’t have the upper-hand. “‘Settle’ a word which here means ‘settling...for less’ and ‘down’, my personal least favorite direction,” he said as he reached the edge of the stage and began to walk slowly down the steps from the stage to the aisle that separated the crowd of students in two. “Let me tell you a story,” he said in a voice that sounded more like one of those inspirational life coaches rather than a gym teacher. “Some years ago...a woman came to me. She needed my help. ‘Coach Genghis’, she had said to me. ‘I’m a failure. I have no job. My love life is in the pits. I can’t seem to lose these last twenty pounds,” he turned to the students. “I bet that describes just about everyone one of you, am I right?” he joked.

“Ummm, Genghis, they’re schoolchildren,” Nero pointed out.

“Exactly!” He replied to Nero, turning back to the crowd. Beginning to slowly walk again. “And what did I say to her? Do you think I told her to settle down?...” he paused waiting for a response from the crowd. Sunny couldn’t help but giggle when no one responded to him. “Answer me, pippity-squeaks! Do you think I told her to settle down?!” he yelled glaring at Carmelita, who still stood on the stage.

“Probably not?” Carmelita chanted in a rather confused tone.

“Probably not!” the crowd chanted back.

“Probably not, indeed. I told her to stand up. I told her to actualize and incentivize! I told her to keep her eyes in the clouds and her feet on the stars,” Olaf said reaching the orphans’ row of seats. He turned to face Sunny and Klaus, glaring and smirking down at Klaus, who’s face was slowly turning from one of fear and sadness to rage and madness. “And. do you. Know. what. Hap-pened?” He asked staring directly at Klaus, his shiny meeting the death glare of the very angry twelve-year-old. He enunciated every syllable, slowly giving a Grinch-like smirk at Violet’s two younger siblings. He tilted his head so his gaze was also on Violet. “ She died...in a mysterious fire.” He stood for a few seconds looking at first Violet, then Klaus whose face turned dark as it became full unbridled rage. If looks could kill, Olaf would surely have dropped dead due to this face Klaus was giving to the villain, no question about it. Olaf then glared at Sunny, keeping his eyes on Sunny for a rather long time.

Klaus noticed his gaze on his baby sister, Klaus quickly grabbed Sunny and passed her quickly to Violet, who felt it necessary to pass her to Duncan, who shifted Sunny to sit half on Isadora’s lap that way both Quagmires could protect their young toddler bestie if Olaf tried to hurt her.  Both Isadora and Duncan put an arm around Sunny, Sunny may have leaned into their grasp but she still bared her teeth at the villain when he simply smirked at Klaus’ attempt to keep Sunny safe. Violet slipped an arm around Klaus as Olaf began addressing the crowd of students again.

“Wait...what?” Nero asked, the words that ‘Genghis’ spoke finally registering in his tiny brain.

“Settling down is what losers do,” Olaf explained making his way slowly back on stage.

“But the woman you were talking about…” Nero said curiously.

“Settling down is what started World War I,” Olaf misinformed the students of Prufrock.

“Okay, but the story you were telling,” Nero tried again.

“You see, settling down is what happens when you bite your lip, and your lip gets swollen, so you bite your lip again and then you keep biting your lip over and over. I don’t want that. Do you want that, Prufrock Prep?” he asked.

“No!”  the students cheered.

“Let’s bring in the violin!” Olaf cheered. Nero smiled as he took center stage and began to horrifically play his violin. The crowd began to cheer even though no one was interested in his attempts to destroy classical music. The crowd was surprisingly cheering for Count Olaf and he was eating it up. Taking bows.

Klaus just looked like he wanted to die. He just stared frantically at Olaf. “No…” he whimpered, his breathing becoming rapid.

“Klaus?” Duncan asked looking at his maybe-boyfriend.

“He...he...he found us again ,” Klaus said terrified. “ I told you guys...he’s...he’s right there,” Violet could hear the quiver in Klaus’ voice, she turned to see a few tears glistening his eyes behind his glasses. He quickly wiped them. “We’ll never be safe,” he whispered this sentence, the only one who could hear him was Violet and it took a lot of straining to hear him entirely. “I have to do something,” he said aloud, more so to himself.

Violet looked at him confused. “Klaus?”

“I have to do something,” Klaus repeated, only slightly louder this time. “The school is falling for the treachery of an unhinged lunatic,”

Duncan and Isadora looked towards Klaus. “That always happens during pep rallies,” Isadora commented trying to light up the mood.

“I have to do something,” Klaus said taking a deep breath. He slowly stands up, all four other children could tell he was shaking. “ For them, ” he said slowly beginning to walk into the aisle. His legs were wobbly and with each movement on his feet, he felt like he was going to fall. He turned to his baby sister, “Stay here, Sunny,”

“Luck!” Sunny replied sticking both her thumbs up at her brother, knowing it was not the time to argue with him. She leaned back into the Quagmires’ grip. As Klaus slowly reached the stage, Violet realized the closer he got to Olaf, the harder Klaus would shake.

“E-everyone!” Klaus tried to shout, his voice quivering. He looked desperately at Nero. “T-this...this...th-this...man,”

Carmelita began to mock Klaus relentlessly, which was causing some of the other kids to laugh at Klaus. Olaf just smirked at Klaus, making pretend crying faces to the twelve-year-old. “You…”

“What’s wrong, student? Having a panic attack...induced by some unexplained trauma?” Olaf asks in a low hiss, reaching out to grab Klaus’ shoulder, but Klaus flinches back, throwing his arms in front of his chest.

Violet glared when Olaf began to laugh along with the crowd at Klaus. “ That’s it! ” she hissed as she stood up.

“Where are you going?” Duncan asked.

“To help Klaus,” she replied not even turning around. She kept her gaze on Olaf and her younger brother. “Stay here with Sunny, please,” she called back, hissing under her breath as Klaus backed away from Olaf again.

“We’ll help if we can!” Isadora shouted to Violet, who gave a small smile towards Isadora.

“I know and thank you, Isa,” she said blushing a bit. She turned back to the stage. I got this, Lemon Man, I got this. You didn’t risk your life for nothing, I will finish the job. Snickets take care of their own. She thought to herself as she rushed on the stage. She took a deep breath and practically yelled, “ Everyone! Please! Listen! This man is an imposter! ”

“How dare you interrupt a genius!” Nero barked at Violet angrily.

“And his guest violinist,” Olaf remarked.

Everyone on stage turned to look at the feral Snicket girl who was breathing heavy with unbridled fury. Even Klaus, who looked a conflicted mixture of relief and fear, watched Violet in silence as she took a place on the stage near Klaus.

Olaf turned to her with very shiny eyes and back at Klaus smirking at the poor boy, which sent chills down the boy’s spine.

“This man is not a genius…” Violet barked through gritted teeth.

“Vi...what are you doing?” Klaus whispered to his older half-sister, doing his best to keep eye contact with Olaf rather than Violet to pretend like he doesn’t even know who Violet is.

“Helping you,” Violet replied back. “Snickets take care of their own,” she said patting him on the back. He looked at her with a face of worry.

“You don’t have to…you can free yourself from this tragic tale…” he warned her. She shook her head.

“We fight together,” she replied.

He opened his mouth to reply, trying his best to find the words that could make Violet understand just how dangerous Count Olaf truly was. But she turned to him again. “ This man is a fucking imposter!” she yelled again taking a defensive stance between the vile man and her younger brother.

“I think you mean...improviser, dear,” Olaf replied.

“This so-called gym teacher is the notorious villain, Count Olaf!”

Violet and Klaus could hear a gasp in the crowd, it seemed to be coming from the librarian, Miss Caliban.

“A-as long as he’s at Pru-ru-fr-frock Prep...n-n-nobody is safe,” Klaus warns.

“That’s not true,” Carmelita cried. “You’re just jealous. Vice Princie throw them off the stage, and I’ll start my dance over with extra twirls,”

“Well said, adorable little cheerleader,” Olaf commented smiling at Carmelita.

“This man is Count Olaf and we can prove it!”

She turned to Olaf remembering the characteristics of the vile man that Klaus and Sunny had described. She glanced at his disguise, her eyes fixating at the top of his head. She gave the man a smirk. “ If Count Olaf were to remove his turban…!” she yelled, as she reached her arm up towards the creep’s turban. But with cat-like reflexes ‘Genghis’ grabbed Violet’s arm keeping her from ruining his disguise.

“Isn’t she just lovely? Everybody?” he asked the crowd as Violet struggled to reach his turban. He kept a good grip on her wrist causing her to grunt. Klaus watched in a silent panic hoping that Olaf wasn’t harming Violet. “But I am afraid my two bushy eyebrows are going to stay under my turban, which I wear for religious purposes,” he explained.

Klaus rolled his eyes. “A-and what religion would that be?” Klaus asked incredulously.

Olaf glared at Klaus with his shiny eyes, causing Klaus to shake from behind Violet. Violet glared again as Olaf held her arm above her head. He looked at his smartest henchperson.

“Reconstructionist Judaism,” the henchperson of Indeterminate Gender replied as the Hook Handed Man nodded.

“Re-recon-reconstruct…ism... ” Olaf mumbles. He rolls his eyes. “ What they said,”

“I would never ask you to remove your turban, Coach Genghis,” Nero explained sympathetically to Genghis. “I’m against religious persecution, but I can’t speak for the orphans, ”

Both Violet and Klaus rolled their eyes. Seeing that no one was believing them but instead believing Olaf. Olaf ignored the two children’s glare and released Violet’s arm but not before a harsh squeeze and a shove.

“O-Olaf can also be i-identif-fied by the tattoo of an eye on h-his a-ankle,” Klaus studdered.

“My body is a temple, young man!” Olaf snarled at Klaus, who stayed behind Violet.  “I would never sully my skin the way so many young people do nowadays with their hedonistic lifestyle of loud music and abstinence,”

Klaus gave a look of confusion towards Olaf as Violet looked down at Olaf’s shoes, remembering the tattoo that has been haunting her the last couple of days.

“W-why don’t you t-t-take off your sh-shoes and prove it!?” Klaus suggested from behind Violet.

“ If Count Olaf were to remove his running shoes…!” She yelled glaring at the man.  

Olaf interrupted her. “I will absolutely not be removing my running shoes,”

“Oh! L-le-let me guess, is that due to ‘religious purposes’?” Klaus asked him mockingly.

“No. It’s just taking off my shoes, you’ll see that my socks are sweaty...which means they’re smelly..which is gross,” Olaf explained.

“We can…” Violet said her voice trailing off. “We can compare Genghis to the photograph of Olaf in the Daily Punctilio!” she suggested desperately. “Please, this is serious!”

“C-count O-Olaf is wanted by the authorities...for sus-suspicion of fraud, th-theft, mur...murder, kidna-napping,” Klaus studdered slowly. He closed his eyes, “Ch-ch-ch-child abuse, and chi-child en-endangerment,”

“You sound like a boring librarian,” Nero mocked. Miss Caliban huffed in response. “Plus we don’t need newspapers now that we have our advanced computer system.”

Violet, Klaus, and Olaf watched as a few AV club members pushed the advanced computer to the stage. Olaf’s eyes widened and Klaus and Violet looked at one another and smiled.

“Oh. Uh, you mean that computer?” Olaf asked nervously, pointing a bony finger at the advanced computer.

“He’s sweating!” Klaus said happily. “He’s nervous!”

Olaf gave a quick glare Klaus’ way. Klaus was right when he said Olaf was sweating and nervous. The vile bastard carefully wiped his forehead making sure he didn’t accidentally knock off his turban. He began to use his hand to fan himself. He began to stutter. “N-no, I’m not… I have naturally leaky pores,”

Nero sighed. “Will you and your pores please stand in front of this very expensive electronic device and just clear this matter up, once and for all?” Nero asked.

“I...I…” he backed away from Nero. He realized that Violet and Klaus were both smirking at him as if they were winning. “I...uh...mmmm...this reminds me of a story,”

Violet and Klaus looked to one another, both siblings sharing a slight nod as they both walked over to the advanced computer system. They both grabbed its side and rolled it towards Olaf, who had backed himself against the wall. Olaf began to shudder nervously as the computer stopped in the perfect spot to get a clear view of his face. He closed his eyes nervously, waiting for his disguise to be fucked. He was trying to decide how to escape.

The computer made a whirring noise and finally, it beeped. Olaf held his breath at the same moment that Klaus had. But unfortunately for Violet and Klaus, the computer’s robotic, monotone voice declared to the crowd, “this is not Count Olaf”. When Klaus heard this, his heart shattered in his chest as he fell to his knees. Violet looked at Klaus and then looked to Olaf, who gave the computer the same confused face that Violet had given it when it claimed Coach Genghis was not Count Olaf. Olaf opened his eyes slowly, his fearful expression disappearing behind a gleeful one.

“See?” he said confidently as he pushed the computer away from him. He glared down at Violet and Klaus, crossing his arms against his chest.

“Yeah, see?” Nero mimicked. Violet just glares at the villainous man as they both realize the same thing at the same time. Klaus was now paralyzed. Both could tell he was trying to not have a breakdown in front of the whole school. Olaf looked at the boy wondering just how far he can push Klaus, while Violet looked down at him with a sorrowful and pitied expression.

Olaf takes this chance to take a step closer to Klaus, who flinched back away from Olaf with a soft whimper. “Please…” he begged in a meek voice, not looking up.

Violet stepped in front of Klaus to shield him. “I think this calls for a little democracy, my second favorite style of government. How many of you want to continue hearing tiresome accusations hurdled at an innocent man by pathetic little orphans?”

Duncan picked Sunny up as he stood tall. “ Investigate further!” He yelled.

Isadora stood alongside her brother and best friend. “ We demand this issue receive further scrutiny!” she yelled.

Surprising to all, the librarian, Ms. Olivia Caliban stood up as well. “Klaus Baudelaire and Violet Snicket seem like honest and decent people. I think we should listen to what they have to say!” she called out.

Violet gave the librarian a quick smile. Even Duncan, Isadora, and Sunny smiled at her. Other than her, no one else in the crowd was willing to help the children out.

“Now...who would love to hear about a new exercise program?” Genghis asked. Genghis smiled when he heard Klaus groan at the word ‘exercise’ but other than that, Klaus stayed there on the ground breathing heavily. Although he was relieved that Violet was still with him. “This new, exciting program is sure to blast your school spirit right out your blowhole!”

Everyone in the crowd cheered.  Nero began to play the violin. “Students! Faculty! Don’t worry if every exercise program you have tried has failed you because I am here to fail you more by putting the ‘whip’ back into ‘whip you into shape’! Everyone, get on your feet, and let's try something that I invented one lonely night at a truck stop, called jumping jacks.” He waited for the crowd to stand, the only three people in the crowd who refused to stand were the two Quagmire triplets and the youngest Baudelaire orphan. “Here we go! Ready? One! Two!” He shouted as he did only two jumping jacks before yelping in pain. “Okay...all right. All right. Let’s cool it down...we don’t want to ham up the old hamstrings.” He groans. “Oh, God, can someone say, ‘class dismissed...for ice water and some deep breaths?” he asked as he grabbed onto one of his henchpeople for support.

“Um…”

“I know...I’ll be okay...I just need a second,” he explained groaning.

“But the…” The henchperson said glancing at Violet and Klaus. Violet stood there waiting for Olaf to explain whatever bullshit he was talking about.

“What? What? Oh...oh yeah...the orphans,” he muttered. “One last thing, everybody. As anyone who has been to junior college knows, orphans tend to have unsound bodies, which as you can see,” Olaf commented pointing at Klaus. “Leads to paranoia...delusion...and of course, untapped wealth.” He smirked at Violet, then turning to the crowd. “That’s why I have developed the Special Orphans Running Exercises or S.O.R.E, for short, which I will be offering to a few select students.”

He stepped forward to address the crowd, glaring at Sunny who sat between the two Quagmires. “Will the orphans in the house please stand?”

After exchanging a look of dread, Isadora and Duncan stood up, this time Isadora held Sunny who simply glared towards Count Olaf with her teeth bared. To all five children's surprise, even Miss Caliban stood up again giving them a small smile.

Olaf gave Sunny a slight wave as she growled at him. Olaf smirked as he began to walk in a small circle around Violet and Klaus as if they were stranded without a boat amid shark-infested waters. This caused Klaus to close his eyes and reach his arms out for Violet pulling her closer to him as she countered all of Olaf's movements dragging a shell shocked Klaus in a circle making sure that he was never exposed to Olaf.

"Hmmm," Olaf snarled bending down a tad bit to make sure Klaus knew that Olaf was referring to him. " I choose you," he said menacingly as he touched the young boy's shoulder. Violet yanked Klaus away from Olaf's cold grasp.

"No…" Klaus whimpered in a rather saddened tone. His tone reeked of desperation and fear, which caused Violet's heart to break for her younger brother and her blood to boil as she did her best to shield her brother from the wicked man. Klaus continued to shake, refusing to look up at his nemesis.

Olaf turned to face the crowd, his glare sent chills down Sunny and the Quagmires' backs. "I choose...the little baby secretary I have heard so much about," he said.

Sunny, still in Isadora's arm, flipped him off. "Toddler!" she yelled angrily although her friends could tell she was scared. Not as scared as her brother but she was definitely scared of what Olaf had planned.

Violet's glare towards the villain intensified as her blood began to boil hotter. This man was definitely Count Olaf, she had no doubt about it. She could hear Klaus cry another desperate "No…" as he shook harder. "She's just a toddler...leave her out of it…" she could hear him whisper.

" And…" Olaf snarled, once again slowly walking the stage. Giving Duncan and Isadora one last look over before slowly turning to Violet.

Klaus, who had his head hidden so he didn't have to see Olaf, felt his heart stop beating. And?... Klaus panicked. There shouldn’t be an ‘and’! Just me and Sunny! His eyes became wide. His absolute worst nightmare was happening. Olaf was now targeting either Violet, his half-sister, or the Quagmires, his new friends. Klaus began to tremble harder in fear blaming himself for ever letting the three get close to him and Sunny. Then a question popped into his mind, causing his breathing to become rigid. Did Olaf also know that Violet was related to the Baudelaires?

Olaf stopped circling the two orphans just as Klaus raised his face to meet the shiny eyes of his arch-nemesis staring at his older sister in a way that Klaus couldn't describe. he just knew the face had vile intentions behind it. He silently glances up at Violet, who stood there stone cold, glaring back at Olaf acting as a human shield for her brother.

" And...Miss Snicket," Olaf snarled. His tone of voice sending massive chills down Klaus' spine. If Violet was afraid, she was good at hiding it because Klaus looked up at her in disbelief. she stood tall, not allowing Olaf or Klaus to sense any fear behind the cold demeanor even though there were fear and uncertainty plaguing at her mind.

Olaf paused for a moment to truly look at Violet. She continued to stand her ground, staring back at him with a face of indifference. The man's stare was getting extremely uncomfortable, just as Violet was going to slightly turn her head allowing her eyes to avert from the villain’s shiny ones, She felt Klaus’ head shift. Dammit! She thought keeping her stare at Olaf. She knew Klaus was now looking at her, she couldn’t be weak now. For Klaus. She told herself as she tried to drain all of her emotions from her face, holding in her fear. For Sunny. Remember, Violet, Snickets take care of their own. They’re counting on you! Everything falls on you now. They’re safety, comfort, and happiness. Keep strong for them! She quietly sighed, hoping Klaus and Olaf didn’t notice. She had to be strong, she couldn’t let Klaus know that she was intimidated. Big sisters are supposed to chase away the monsters, not also be afraid of them. As she stared back as Olaf, with a hand gently placed on Klaus’ head, Violet realized that if she replaced her fear with anger, it was easier to hold her composure.

Olaf waited until both orphans were looking at him. Violet with her cold, emotionless demeanor and Klaus with his desperation and fear. “ Thank you….for being so eager to... volunteer ,” he hissed looking directly into Violet’s eyes, his eyes so shiny that they could blind her. The second he called her a volunteer, her face became dark. He must’ve realized that she wasn’t going to let him get away with killing her father and hurting her siblings.

Violet refused to show him fear, she couldn’t do that because she had to convince Klaus that with her around he is safe and her pride refused to allow it. So she stared right back with a face that could kill. Olaf merely smirking at her. While Klaus adverted his gaze as his face drained of all color and then flushed red with anger. “No…!” He said again but Violet noticed that it wasn’t the same desperate ‘no’ that he had whispered when Olaf mentioned Sunny. This one was stronger, angrier, even. Before Violet could process what was happening, Klaus had shot up to his feet, grabbing Violet and harshly whipping her behind him. He kept a grip on her hand, though and she could tell that he was still shaking.

“ No!” He yelled glaring at the disguised coach. “ Do NOT fucking involve Violet in this shit!”

“Oh, my,” Olaf feigned confusion like it was his first language. “What are you talking about?”

Klaus can feel the tears streaming down his face. “Leave... you better leave her alone!”

Olaf continued to look at Klaus as if he had no idea what the young orphan boy was talking about.

“Klaus…” Violet asked concerned.

“T-th-this batter is between you and me! ”

“Whatever are you talking about?” Coach Genghis asked.

Klaus’ shaking began to be more than he could handle because soon everyone at the pep rally could clearly see his panic attack. Olaf took this opportunity to put a hand on Klaus’ shoulder which put the young boy into a frenzy. Shaking faster and more visibly, crying harder, as he flinched away quickly causing himself to fall backwards on his ass.

“Leave him alone!” Violet yelled at the vile bastard.

Olaf looked down at Klaus, “There’s no need to cry like an infant. Be a man, orphan!” Olaf says cruelly poking Klaus in the chest just as Carmelita began chanting “Crybaby cake-sniffers in the Orphan Shack!” and all at once nearly everyone in the crowd was making fun of Klaus and chanting along to Carmelita. The only faculty member who even gave a shit was the kind librarian, who stood up, and started shushing children and yelling at Carmelita.

Violet glared at Olaf. “You three orphans are to report to the athletics field at sundown and every night until further notice,” he announced as the crowd began to disperse.

Nero laughed. “This, of course, does not excuse you from missing my nightly violin recitals. Oooh, you are going to owe me a lot of candy!”

“Now that’s the sort of leadership I was talking about,” Genghis mentioned. “You are a genius,” Violet rolled her eyes as she listened to the two pieces of shit stroke each other’s egos.

“You’re the genius for nothing,” Nero replied.

“YOu’re the genius for saying so,” Genghis admitted.

“You’re a genius for agreeing,”

“All right, I’m the genius,” Genghis bragged smirking at Violet.

“Drat!” Nero yelled.

The vice-principal began to walk away.

Duncan, Isadora, and Sunny walked over to the stage just as Genghis took a step closer to Klaus. Violet stepped in between the two, glaring daggers. “Whatever you’re up to, Count Olaf , we will put a stop to it!” she hissed.

“ Really?” He asked, feigning confusion. “Because it seems to me, if you Snickets had the skills to stop me, you wouldn’t be having this batch of episodes in your new lives,” he hissed back.

Klaus curled up into a little ball, trying to hide behind Violet’s thin legs. Violet looked down at him and then at Olaf and her heart broke. What did this fucker do to her little brother? She hated not knowing important things.

Olaf smirked as the Quagmires joined them on the stage carrying Sunny.

“Fucker!” Sunny hissed.

“Oh, little Sunny when will you and your cry baby, wimpy brother learn? You can’t survive me! ” he laughed, “your parents really taught you nothing at all.”

This angered Violet, she took Sunny from Isadora’s arms and the two orphaned half-sisters glared at Olaf as they guarded their brother against the cruel fiend.

“ Our parents taught us to survive!” Violet yelled as Sunny nodded waving a tiny fist at Olaf.

Olaf laughed a cruel, sadistic laugh. “Well, I guess...sweet little Miss Snicket... those who can’t do, teach, ” he replied bitterly.

Violet’s face rushed with anger to sadness. She tried to push the anger back to the surface but she soon realized that pushing sadness was harder than pushing down fear. Olaf could see that he had effected her because her eyes lit for about three seconds, a small flare of fire and it flared out almost immediately, quickly turning into a broken ocean blue. She couldn’t hide it, and he could definitely see it.

And with that he gave Violet, Sunny, Isadora, and Duncan an evil grin and then put a hand on Klaus’ shoulder, causing Klaus to jump and scream in shock. “ I told you,... no matter where you go...no matter what you do...I will find you,” he smiled a vicious smile when Klaus looked up. “ At least one of us can actually keep our promise! ” He then began laughing as he pats Klaus on the head, still laughing. “See you three at sundown,”

This time if looks could kill, Sunny Baudelaire would be the orphan killing Olaf with her look of pure, concentrated hate. “ Bitch! ” she shrieked at him as Olaf simply flipped the toddler off.

Sunny and Violet knelt down to Klaus. Sunny rushed to her brother to hug him. Olaf walked away cackling like a madman.

“Prom,” she said to her brother, holding him close. This was her way of saying, “Ignore him, Klaus. You’ve kept good on your promise,”

Klaus shook his head in response. “No, no I haven’t. He’s right, Sunny.”

Sunny shook her head furiously and playfully slapped her brother in the face.

“No!” she said simply. “Bueno,” she told him sternly, which meant, “you’ve done, good.”

Violet looked at Klaus. “Sunny’s right, Klaus. Comparatively, you’re the more fucked up. You’ve obviously sacrificed yourself for her,”

Duncan placed a gentle hand on Klaus’ shoulder which made the bookworm flinch but he looked up seeing Duncan and gave the journalist a small smile.

He turned to Violet. “Sunny and I are never going to be safe,”

She shook her head. “Oh yes, yes you are. Cause you see, Olaf made one very fatal idiotic mistake...he got me involved,”

“Us, too,” Duncan said.

“Don’t worry Baudelaires, don’t feel disgrace. The Quagmires triplets are on the case,” Isadora recited smiling.

Klaus continued to shack his head. “No…” he pleaded with them.

Violet smiled at Isadora. “Sweet poem. I love it.”

“Th-thank you,”  the poet responded blushing.

“You guys...I’m sorry,” Klaus cried.

“For what?”

“For letting you get attached to me and Sunny,” Klaus explained. “Now he’s targetting you too,”

“Klaus...that’s not your fault,” Duncan reassured

“You’re kinds and generous, all three of you are, but we can’t let you get involved,” Klaus said pointedly staring at his older half-sister, who simply glared at him.

Sunny was slowly nodding her head in agreement with her brother.

“Olaf is too dangerous,” Klaus explained.

“He’s too dangerous for you to face alone,” Duncan pointed out. Isadora and Violet nodding in agreement.

“We can run away,” Isadora suggested.

“All of us,” Duncan added as the triplets looked to Violet to agree with them.

“...it’s plausible,” she admitted.

“Our parents' inheritance will be ours once we come of age,” Isadora explained.

“We’re not of age yet.” Klaus countered. “Besides, it wouldn’t matter if we ran away...Count Olaf will still find us...he found us...he always does,” He sighed. “Everywhere we go, he shows up to steal our stupid fortune.”

“How can he get your fortune as a gym teacher?” Violet asked confused.

“Well...there’s treachery lurking in most exercise programs,” Klaus replied laughing at his own joke. “I just...I just can’t believe he fooled everyone again.”

“Not everyone,” Duncan said pointing at himself and his sister.

“Come on, you guys, let’s go back to the Orphan Shack and figure shit out,” Violet suggested holding her hand out for Klaus’. Isadora picked up Sunny as Duncan took Klaus’ free hand. Isadora slipping her free hand into Violets. The five children walked from the athletic field to the Orphan Shack, all trying to think of a way to put a stop to Olaf once and for all.

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hey what's up i'm here to nudge you about your headcanons regarding Nous Ne Sommes and who Lazare is REALLY addressing it to

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Your Fave is Problematic: The Lazare de Peyrol edition

*Mandatory disclaimer that the following is my own personal interpretation of the lyrics because I have never pretended to know what’s going on in Attia and Chouquet’s brains at any given point and I’m not going to start now because I feel like it would terrify me. Also I might be a little tired while typing this out and so the coherency is…questionable.* 

With apologies to anyone who’s heard me discuss this before:

So, my take on it is that there are three people, or groups of people, that Laz is addressing here, the revolutionaries (surface, and tbh probably what they were going for), his men, and himself. (Info on the military history stuff comes from The Response of the Royal Army to the French Revolution: The Role and Development of the Line Army, 1787-93 by Samuel F. Scott which is a very solid read as far as emphasizing the social changes in the army and where everyone stood in regards to one another before and after the Storming of the Bastille.)

The Revolutionaries 

“Insurgés obtempérez.” Need I say more? Lazare has been given the green light to put down the revolt by any means necessary, he’s going to do it. It’s also why he keeps emphasizing that this is their last chance (”Attention c'est l'ultime sommation“). I don’t like the interpretation of Lazare as a sadist, personally; it’s actually one of the things that I’m…not as fond of when it comes to what both Zuka and Toho did to him. (But Zuka gave me the glorious, glorious Peyronan content so I can’t really COMPLAIN.) He doesn’t necessarily want to kill people, but….well, he’s a soldier. He’s not a courtier or a diplomat (which is…unusual for the times, tbh.) He came in there to do a job, he’ll give them one last chance, and if they don’t, he’ll use whatever force is needed to keep the order. With that interpretation in mind, when he says, “Obéir sans défaillir/Nous nous sommes engagés/Toujours servir sans jamais fléchir/Oui nous l'avons juré” he’s reminding them that his men are sworn to do this and that they won’t flinch from doing what’s necessary. 

His Men

This is where things get a little dicey. Historically, we know that there was a HUGE amount of tension between the officers of the regiments and their men, with a lot of the latter deserting. One of my favorite quotes is from a pamphlet being circulated to soldiers at the time, says, “We are Citizens before being Soldiers…we are in short, Frenchmen and not slaves…if they have swords, have you not sabres? If they are a hundred, are you not a thousand?” This was one of the reasons why there was so little military involvement when the Bastille was stormed; NO ONE was sure whether the men would stay loyal. There’s a reason why the ONE regiment that we have an account of, the Royal-Allemand Cavalerie, who charged the Tuileries on July 12 was��a group of German speakers, with significantly less chance of personal ties to the people of Paris. (And who faced insanely low rates of desertion because everyone hated them so much afterwards they kind of had to stick together.) 

So…”Nous ne sommes/Les valets de personnes” is a good line for the revolutionaries, YES, but it also works very, very well for the situation about the men. And this time around, Lazare gets ahold of his men and keeps control, but…will it last? Look at his motions during some of the parts. 

Sometimes, he’s keeping things perfectly in control, others, it’s like he’s BARELY holding things in check, his movements getting very erratic at points. It’s such a 180 from the way Seijou Kaito played it in the Takarazuka, where she’s pretty much perfectly composed, or the way that he’d be played in the Toho where he’s much more PHYSICAL, even stepping on Robespierre’s face at one point. He’s trying to control the actions (AKA keeping within his character description of “il représente l'ordre et la rigidité de l'ancien régime.” Peyrol THRIVES on order and control and everything being in its proper place, when that gets bucked, he doesn’t know what to do) but? In reality, it’s a DELICATE hold. 

On one hand, his men are following his actions, mirroring him, but on the other, LOOK at his body language. His fists are clenched here as he’s leaning forward. And, like, obviously, on a purely practical level, Matthieu Carnot’s gotta be pretty damn exhausted because, despite evidence to the contrary, he’s not a superhuman figure of unlimited energy and stamina and our boy has to keep concentrated on the choreography, but on the other…Laz as a character is putting himself through some pretty difficult moves to keep control. At the same time as he’s reminding the people of what he’s doing with the lines about his men having sworn an oath, he’s also reminding THEM about it, “You swore this oath to the King, you WILL come through now” but are they REALLY going to take him up on it? It’s not really a full guarantee until the end. 

So, who’s REALLY saying “We are not the valets of anyone?” The revolutionaries, yes, but what about his men? After all, post-revolution, it wasn’t UNCOMMON for officers to face the wrath of their men, their once guaranteed authority no longer enough to hold them up. Peyrol was able to assert his authority this time, but there’s NO guarantee that that will hold up. 

Himself

His men, however, aren’t the only Frenchmen being ordered to fire on Frenchmen, though. And, even though Peyrol’s presumably been at this long enough that I think he’s somewhat numbed, this is miles away from what he did to Papa Mazurier at the beginning as far as the scope. (Though both of them are also situations where Peyrol thought he could assert control getting away from him.)

I’ve already discussed the way that Lazare tends to excuse away things, it’s seen in Maniaque when he tells Ronan that the King’s rule comes from God, from before the dawn of time, and it’s shown here as well. When he sings, “Avant que le sang coule/Par la folie des foules” on one hand…that’s an obvious reminder to the revolutionaries to back down, but on the other…there’s something OFF about it, at least to me. If he was talking to the crowd of the revolutionaries, why not address them directly instead of refer to them as “des foules.” (Besides the fact that it didn’t fit the rhythm of the song as well.) 

He’s already beginning to justify his actions, lying to himself as his way of coping with what he’s going to do because, to him, there’s never BEEN another option. It’s always been the army, it’s always been unquestioning, unthinking loyalty. (Which is why Ronan’s very existence short circuits his brain on multiple levels.) And, more importantly, he keeps on doing it. “La sanction légitime.” Who cares if it’s legal or illegal? Not the revolutionaries. It doesn’t matter if it’s legitimate or not, they’re going to get shot one way or another. The men…probably not. It could work, as far as reminding them that this is a Very Official Order, but who would REALLY care? It functions as one more way that he tries to remove himself from his own involvement and guilt, trying to justify himself preemptively.  

“I am here on the King’s order, I am speaking with his voice on this issue, and if I don’t do this, more people will die.” He’s addressing the people, yes, but he’s also trying to prepare himself for what’s going to come next. 

It’s very, very interested to me how he emphasizes “NOUS” in his statements on “Obéir sans défaillir/Nous nous sommes engagés/Toujours servir sans jamais fléchir/Oui nous l'avons juré.” He’s talking about his men there, yes, but he’s ALSO talking about himself, emphasizing his own devotion to serving. Which…could go two ways: (1) He’s trying to find common ground with the men, tying into the above, since officers and the men traditionally tended to have icy relations, namely because most officers were too busy partying and taking leave whenever they could and only tended to the regiment when it came to disciplining the men under them or (2) He’s giving himself a sort of twisted pep talk, and even as he’s talking about the men, he’s also talking about HIMSELF. “I’ve never weakened before, I won’t weaken now, I made an oath, this is what I owe the King, these are my orders, this is what I’ll do.” 

And, when he says, “Nous devons au pouvoir/La mort et le devoir”…on one hand, that could be describing the relationship his men SHOULD have to him, “We owe to those in power death and duty, therefore you should obey my orders” but it could also just as easily be speaking about himself and his relationship to the monarchy, indicating that he sees himself more or less as an expendable part of a greater machine. 

Look at the way he’s looking when he’s cut off at his last “Attention c'est l'ultime…” He knows damn well at this point that it’s going to lead to bloodshed and that he’s going to give the order, and he’s DEFINITELY not thrilled about it. Determined, but not thrilled. But he’s already willed himself into doing it and he’s not going to stop now. 

Tl;dr: Laz is working three different groups with this song, which also functions as a masterclass of how he lies to himself as a coping mechanism. He might or might not succeed with 2 of them. He really needs to give less shitty pep talks. Preferably over something besides murder. Also he is totally getting coal in his stocking for the rest of his life. And is going to be sleeping on the couch for a long, long time. 

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So You Want to Be a Real Estate Agent? Good Luck!

STEP 1: SOME QUICK BEGINNER'S TIPS • Tip 1: There is a ton of money being made in park colonial condo. It is just not going to be made by you. In truth, much of it is in reality going to come FROM you. The real estate companies themselves produce an obscene amount of money in part by churning people by means of their "programs" and spitting them out with emptier pockets. • Tip 2: There's no salary. Make sure you have enough money in the bank to eat and pay your bills for the purpose of six months. And start looking for a real job NOW. By the occasion you get it, you'll be out of money. I landed a position at a company six months and 1 day from the day for my layoff. If it wasn't for Unemployment, We'd have been living in a cardboard box waiting for my properties career to blossom. • Tip 3: Everyone you're sure will feign support while questioning the decision and building fun of you. I'm serious, and you know the already. You've hated every real estate agent you've dealt with, couldn't you? CHAPTER 2: THE INTERVIEW Real estate offices will be constantly listing open positions, so it's easy to get the interview. Don't be too nervous, because guess what? You're retained. This isn't an interview, it's a pep talk. You could step in and urinate in the lobby, you're probably yet hired. Their ideal agent is someone who is divorced and miserable, sitting on a pile of alimony hard cash or an available line of credit, and just needs something to continue them busy. Next in line would be someone who's going to be unhappily married, sitting on a pile of cash and / or an available line of credit, and just needs something to keep these products out of the house and away from their spouse. If you're not one of them two, that's OK - they'll take you. DESCRIP . 3: LICENSING How do you make things better? You get hawaii involved! This company that "hired" you will now send you to definitely a training "school" (these are companies that, for a fee, teach you all about the real estate industry and help you go away the state required test). This is 2 weeks of classes which have very little to do with the actual career. There are laws that point out that even though your licensing training is taking place from a Real Estate office, that no one from that office will probably "recruit" you. Expect to be recruited. One of the instructors was initially a Company X manager and took a special interest in others. He took me to open houses at steeply-priced homes during the weeks of training, introduced me in order to everyone in the office, took me to lunches and had me out for beers after the training was through. The entire time, he talked about how Company Y (who had sent me to this training) was horrible, not to mention why Company X was far superior, and most certainly the place for me. Ethical? No . Fun? Yes. I however went with the company that sent me to the coaching because it was the right thing to do. CHAPTER 4: FEES, RATES and MORE FEES You didn't think anything was zero cost, did you? Here's the rundown on fees: • Licensing. If you talk to a real estate company before you bring the class and get licensed, they'll pay for the style. Well, sort of. They'll pay for it, then take the bill back out of your first commission. Wait, who paid for after that it? Yes, you did. You didn't think that was complimentary, did you? •The Multi-List System. You simply cannot be a real estate agent without access to the MLS. It must be free ideal? No . • Cardkey. You need this to get into any residential home that's up for sale. Yes, you have to pay for it. And they can't deliver it; you need to drive 30 miles to pick it away. • Associations. The County Realtor Association. You have to be part of it. It costs money... every year. The State Realtor Connections. You have to join it. It costs money... every year. The particular National Realtor Association. You have to join it. It rates money... every year. Join this organization. Join that enterprise. You'll get a magazine, and maybe even a pin. It's most of mandatory, and it all costs money. Sometimes they have totally free cookies at the meetings though. • Signs. Small warning signs, big signs, plastic signs, metal signs, name signs or symptoms, for sale signs, open house signs. You have to have them, you will have to pay for them, and they cost hundreds of dollars. • Enterprise cards. They're free! Well, kind of. The basic, crappy editions are free, the ones that scream "I'm new to this! " To get nice ones, with a picture, you have to pay, and also have to pay for the picture. • Automobile. They'll have the funds for your car! No, they won't. If you're one of the top 2 providers, and are willing to put a God-awful giant sticker within the sides and back of your (correctly colored) car, they won't hesitate to pay a nominal amount to you. Why shouldn't some people? It's the cheapest advertising they could get. • Free tours! 5 years from now, if you beat ALL the odds, work ridiculous hours and sell everything you get close to, you might get a free trip. Don't hold your breath. • Name tag. Good news, the name tag is no cost. The bad news, you have to wear a name ticket. Back when I had a real job, I knew a guy who always said "If a man has to wear an important name tag during his job, he's not very thriving. " • Realtor fees get you the "Realtor" flag. This is the most expensive pin you'll ever hate wearing. PHASE 5: THE "OLD-TIMERS" They hate you. When I tell you "old-timers", I'm referring to the agents that have been working in any office for more than a year. They will rarely make eye call at first because they expect you to be gone in a several months and they don't want to waste their time. Once you've long been there for 2 weeks, they'll start offering you the "opportunity" to sit in their open houses for them. What they may be actually asking you to do is sit in a house pertaining to three hours that no one will visit, and essentially sell it for them, on the off-chance that you could get a patron out of it. When there aren't enough newbies in the office, they're going to fight over your house-sitting efforts, and may even deliver cash (don't get excited, I'm talking about $20. ) Get paid FIRST, I never did get paid for supporting someone out. And remember, top producers use exclamation points! Lots of them! In everything they do! Just simply an FYI. I mean: Just an FYI!!!! CHAPTER 6: THE CLIENTS They hate you. You will be asked to make sure you basically alienate everyone you know and make social cases incredibly awkward by begging for referrals. Parties, cathedral, school, the gym - anywhere... you need to be fishing for house hold buyers or house sellers. It is painfully awkward for all those concerned. Don't forget to wear the little R pin everywhere you go! For anybody who is lucky enough to get someone to say they'll use you to advertise their house, you should know now that their house is worth much more than the one particular three doors down that is exactly the same. Why? I need ideas of. Maybe they're delusional. Maybe they're dumb. Maybe there're greedy. Maybe they're upside-down on the house. Maybe many people just need the money. It's probably all of the above. It will be weird to be involved in such a significant financial project just for someone you know. They will use you to buy or market a house, but no one wants you to know their particular financial business, so it's difficult. Your friends and family might want little party favors, like.... they'll want all their money back. Yes, seriously. I did a relative ask if I would give them back all of my best commission if they used me to buy a house. I been reduced, and the request was probably the nail that sealed the real estate coffin shut. CHAPTER 7: YOUR LIFE AS AN PROFESSIONAL Say goodbye to fun and leisure. Here's your week: • Monday. Mandatory meetings and house tours, all day. Typically the meeting is useless, which is why you'll rarely see old-timers there, they veer off after the first house and also end up God-knows-where. They're probably at the bar. The travel is fun, though. You get to hear everyone complain with regards to everyone they work with and everything in the houses. You reach walk through a stranger's house and hear your co-workers (proudly displaying their name badges) criticize the homeowner's choices in everything. Examples: What were thinking using this carpet? Have they ever cleaned this room? World of warcraft, those are some ugly kids in that picture. Determine believe they left Prozac AND Paxil on the destroy, what a basket case. • Tuesday. In-house training, or perhaps "how to waste 3 solid hours of primary work time. " • Wednesday. "Twilight" open contains. This means your night is shot. • Thursday. Nothing is required. This is your weekend, enjoy. Don't spend money nonetheless, you don't have it. • Friday. Mailings, client hunting, placed around. • Saturday. Mandatory training... all freaking evening. Done with the mandatory 15 week training? Start ongoing instruction that repeats what they taught you in the 15 week training! • Sunday. No more football games, family group picnics, etc ., because you need to sit in Open Properties. At various times during the week, you'll get a few three hour stints answering the phone. The idea is that individuals will call in looking for an agent because they have a house they buy. I would guess that this has happened once, ever, from the history of real estate. Most of the time you're sending calls towards the old-timers. I had a gorgeous Ford Mustang GT when I received this "job". I sold it because I was basically told that you have to take your clients all over the place to view real estate. Out with the sports car, in with the Volvo station wagon (in the horrid corporate color, of course. ) Because turns out, no one wants to ride with their real estate agent; they want to go along with you around in their car. This is for many reasons: to enable them to escape you when they want, so they can talk about the properties without you hearing them (even though you are the trusted advisor)... oh, and they hate you. I really pass-up that Mustang. CHAPTER 8: "SUPPORT" (note quotation marks) • Computers. Don't know a computer from a toaster? Don't be bothered, no one else does. I don't know why, but all of us I worked with was horrible with any technology-related resource. They constantly needed help with the computer, and the Laptops or computers were always down with a virus of some sort. • Your web site. The company has set up a page for you on the website, you need to fill it with useless things that normally cares about, like "resident of (our general area) for umpteen years" and Realtor and "Member in (Our County) Real Estate Club. non-e of this helps individuals or you, but it does fill the page, even when no one will look at it. You can put a picture " up " there too, unless you're ugly or hideously disfigured. • Mailings. I lucked out with Company Ful, they pay for mailings. This means they provide the marketing equipment and they pay the postage for a certain amount to be sent by mail out. The database of addresses that you could send deliver to was protected by a Rottweiler in our office, a person I'll call Travis. Travis was tremendously tan year-round, with slicked-back hair, and he was dressed as a 1970's JC Penny mannequin every day. I don't know should he was gay, but I bet his ex boyfriend was. • Office Help. They hate you. The earliest day I met Travis, he was in the middle of the full-fledged hissy fit because someone had stolen the Cross pen. This is understandable, as it's not like individuals sell them at drug stores for a few dollars. Sure, they do indeed sell them at drug retailers for a few dollars. The hissy fit lasted an hour, plus included our manager sending a phone message for you to every agent in the office to please return the pen if they had it. Travis also kept a much-needed eye on the labels that one would use to prepare these mailings. To get them, you had to request the complete number of sheets you needed. There were 25 on a sheet and if you were printing 68 labels, you would not receive 3 sheets. CHAPTER 9: "ETHICS" (note quote marks) Ethics rule #1 is "just get the listing. inch This means that if you have a person that wants to sell their house for $330, 000 but you and everyone know it won't fetch $250, 000, you tell them that you will list it for their rate, and then slowly let the price drop when people guffaw at the house. CHAPTER 10: AFTERTHOUGHTS I am one fella. The Realtor's Association is a huge conglomerate which obviously has numerous lawyers on the payroll. My brother-in-law is actually a lawyer.... but I still feel outnumbered. So you can notice I only refer to real estate agents, not Realtors. Take into account though, that you have two choices here: you can either become a Realtor or you can become a Realtor. Yes, you learn that right. I'll make no judgments on the worth of the organization, except to say that sitting through the almost all boring training ever nets you a tiny R green. Nothing says I'm a success better than a pin using an R on it... right next to your name tag. Reference Status means that you've quit the day-to-day grind regarding trying to sell/buy houses. You become inactive, but now any time you point someone who is looking to buy or sell a house with your real estate company, you get a percentage of the commission. All you have to try is pick up the phone, tell the company their name as well as telephone number and where they're looking. The irony? AT THIS TIME it's payday. I know people who made more on recommendations than I did as a real estate agent, many times over. Of course, we have a fee to be in the program, but you didn't think that was free of charge, did you? And to stay in "referral status" you need to receive ongoing training. This is just my story. Don't let the software change your mind if you want to enter the world of residential realty. Heck, I had a former real estate agent tell me that of a horrible idea it was and I still went front with my stupid plan.

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How safe do you feel on campus? How involved are the security guards? Do the dorm rooms lock with cards or keys? Is there a lot of support between the students and the faculty (I'm going into social sciences for reference)? Is there a noticeable amount of racial targeting? Is the coursework generally demanding (examples from your program would help)? How's the food on campus? Do you feel safe in that area of Ottawa most of the time? Is not speaking french really going to be a problem?

oookay so this is gonna be a long one

How safe do you feel on campus? I personally always felt quite safe on campus! uOttawa is well-lit and is also in downtown Ottawa, so even when you’re leaving campus you’re right next to a big shopping mall and the rest of the streets are also well lit. I can’t remember a lot of times in my university career where there wasn’t at least a few other people on campus, whether I was trudging home after a 10pm lecture or waiting outside the library for it to open early in the morning. I should make a pretty huge caveat that I’m a white person who for most of my uni career was fairly masculine-presenting, so I don’t know if I necessarily would’ve been a major… target? But you asked for my experience so…. that’s it.

How involved are the security guards? So I was never particularly impressed with the security guards per se, but there was a really great service on campus called Foot Patrol, which is run by (pre-screened) volunteers who help you walk or bus places on your way home, especially late at night but really any time of day. They’ll ride surprisingly far away from campus to keep you company and I always had really positive experiences with them. My interactions with security were fairly limited–once they were called to residence while I was at a party that got too loud and they were pretty gruff. I was always friendly to the ones in my building but I seemed to always run into ones that were just very reserved.

Do the dorm rooms lock with cards or keys? I lived in Brooks residence (and also started university a solid seven years ago, so things might have changed?), but my residence building was locked with a card, and my personal room was locked with a key. For reference, Brooks is the ~apartment-style~ res – you lived in a mini-apartment with three other people. Each person had a bedroom that locked with their own key, then there were two shared bathrooms and shared living space–a pretty tiny kitchen with a full-size refrigerator, an oven, a little bit of counter space, and a bigger living room with a tv and two ancient couches. There was a dinner table. It certainly wasn’t glamorous, but given that the food on uOttawa campus is pretty much garbage (or was when I went there), having my own kitchen was a huuuuuuge plus. I was also quite introverted and mostly didn’t party, and found Brooks to be a lot quieter than the other residences. There were some parties, but not as many as other residences, and it was easier to get away from them because we all had individual units and didn’t have the sort of “open door culture” that I saw in other residences.

Is there a lot of support between the students and the faculty (I’m going into social sciences for reference)? So I did my degree in the Faculty of Arts, but had a few classes with soc people. With one or two exceptions, I have nothing bad to say about any of the professors at the university. I found them, to a person, to be genuine and passionate and a lot of fun to be around. I strongly recommend that you go to office hours, even if you don’t need help with anything in particular–setting yourself apart from the crowd will make your professors care about you and your success a lot more. It also, to be blunt, results in better grades. Professors are more forgiving when they can picture you while they’re marking. It’s just human nature. I made good relationships with my professors and would even count a few of them among my friends now. When I was in third year university I had a bit of a breakdown and went around to each of my professors to explain why I was dropping their classes and taking time off, and every single of one of them was so kind and so accommodating. One of them in particular made me tea and gave me a pep talk I will remember for the rest of my life. When I was upfront with my professors about mental illness, when I came back and needed to do part-time studies, I was always given extensions and the support I needed. Treating your professors with respect, but remembering that they are human beings, goes a long, long way. If you go into their office with “I know I can’t get this paper done on time, but here’s what I’ve done and here’s my plan to do better,” there is no reason for them to say no (and if they DO say no, the clinic on campus is totally solid for sick notes–I got passes because of mental health stuff maybe four or five times.) Similarly, if you’re going to write a paper, I really encourage you to go to office hours and pitch it. Don’t ask your professor for sources or to do your work for you–just ask if the idea you have is specific enough, if they think there will be enough resources, if you’re being realistic about the issue you want to address within the page count. They are, generally speaking, there to help you–and I’ll say too that if you start out with “I’ve looked at x and y but really want to make sure I’m not missing any really important issues on this topic,” they will nearly always say “I’m not going to do the work for you,” as they’re handing you books from their bookshelves with articles or primary source material you need.

I know there are professors who are assbutts and more concerned with their research than teaching. I’m pretty sure those people don’t usually go into the social sciences.

Is there a noticeable amount of racial targeting? So, I’m a white person! I don’t feel qualified to answer this question really. I can tell you that when I was in third year, there was a threat on campus (WHICH ENDED UP BEING A HOAX, BUT STILL) and the school went into lockdown, and I saw some articles from people of colour who were discriminated against trying to get into rooms to be safe for the lockdown. That’s the only example I can think of, but from what I read institutional racism is a pretty fucking big hurdle to jump and uOttawa is not, so far as I’m aware, a magical post-racial utopia.

Is the coursework generally demanding (examples from your program would help)? 

How’s the food on campus? So, I graduated over a year ago and started my degree in 2010, but the entire time I was there I would say quite vehemently that the food on campus was garbage. Even on my initial tours of the campus it was obvious to me I didn’t want to be beholden to their meal plan. Thank God it wasn’t mandatory. I ate on campus as infrequently as possible. I also hung out at the freshii that was just off campus quite a lot.

That being said, it’s basically connected to a mall with a giant food court that was just renovated. So there’s a lot more local options than there used to be. And people complained about the food ALL THE TIME when I was there, so I like to think maybe they did some things to make it better. But from my personal experience? Jesus frikkin’ christ it was bad news bears.

Do you feel safe in that area of Ottawa most of the time? Most of the time, yes. To be honest, there was a stabbing at a shelter within a few kilometres of the university during my time there, and you hear about violence in the Market every so often. I would carefully say it’s not any more dangerous than any other big city. I have been street harassed and queer-bashed and had plenty of unpleasant experiences. But I don’t really know anyone without those experiences who lives in any city of a certain size.

Is not speaking french really going to be a problem? Not really. The administration is francophone and they will usually be a little nicer to you if you can talk to them in French, but that’s because they’re human and they’re sick and tired of French getting thrown under the bus. uOttawa gets a lot of cred for being ~bilingual~ and ~isn’t immersion great~ and ~such culture~ but it’s honestly super anglo-centric, anglo-focussed, and it’s entirely possible to pass the Immersion program without actually being what most people would call bilingual. I would say most of Ottawa is MUCH more accommodating to anglos. You have nothing to worry about.

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India’s BJP government looks ever more like the one it replaced

AT A rally in the southern state of Karnataka the prime minister wagged his raised finger, accusing the local government, run by the rival Congress party, of creaming a 10% cut from every state contract. “Do you want a commission government, or do you want a mission government?” he boomed. After four years in power Narendra Modi still relishes nothing more than attacking his opponents as no-good, lazy and corrupt.

In response Karnataka’s chief minister, Siddaramaiah, who faces a state election in two months, posted a cartoon on his Twitter account. It pictured glum citizens queuing outside a bank, a reminder of Mr Modi’s painful “demonetisation” in 2016, which sent hundreds of millions of Indians rushing to exchange abruptly voided banknotes. From the back of the bank, meanwhile, emerged a pair of grinning millionaires carrying big sacks of money. Airily waving them off was a Modi-like figure labelled chowkidar or watchman.

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The reference was not subtle. Before his Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) landslide win in the general election of 2014, Mr Modi had promised to be the country’s vigilant chowkidar. Yet on his watch there has been no let-up in the kind of scams and scandals that had made Congress such an easy target. The latest involves a diamond dealer who is said to have fled the country after allegedly defrauding a state-owned bank of some $1.8bn. As recently as January the jeweller in question appeared in a photo of Indian tycoons hobnobbing with Mr Modi at the Swiss mountain resort of Davos. As the next general election, due early next year, approaches, it grows ever harder for Mr Modi to pose as the fresh, clean alternative to bad old ways. The BJP government has, in fact, slowly evolved into something surprisingly similar to its Congress-led predecessor, from which Mr Modi promised to “free” India.

The BJP looks increasingly like the party of state. Mr Modi’s image adorns billboards and newspaper ads. His voice resounds from state television and radio. His loyalists influence a growing array of public institutions. In some instances, say critics, such influence might be described as abuse. Police and courts, for instance, have all too often proven slow to follow up potentially embarrassing leads, or quick to absolve BJP bigwigs of wrongdoing. Milan Vaishnav, a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a think-tank, points to recent instances when two powerful institutions, the central bank and the election commission, have appeared to bow to Mr Modi’s wishes.

The energetic prime minister has launched dozens of heavily promoted social programmes. But his government has also taken over numerous Congress-era projects and simply rebranded them, stripping away associations with such Congress figures as Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. A scheme started in 2012 called the Basic Savings Bank Deposit Account, aimed at providing banking for the poor, was pepped up and relabelled the Prime Minister’s People’s Money Project.

In some cases Mr Modi has adopted policies that he sharply criticised while in opposition. He had dismissed Aadhaar, a Congress-initiated project to issue all citizens with a unique, biometrically certifiable identity number, as nothing but a gimmick. In practice his government has made Aadhaar cards mandatory for everything from mobile-phone lines to food subsidies. The BJP repeatedly stymied Congress’s attempts to replace a quaint hodgepodge of local taxes with a national goods and services tax, only to bring in the GST itself, with great fanfare, last year. Mr Modi also frequently disparaged Congress programmes to boost rural incomes as wasteful vote-buying. But his government has raised spending on these, while several BJP-run state governments are offering massive loan relief to indebted farmers.

Pander flair

The Hindu-nationalist BJP had excoriated the secular Congress for pandering to religious and ethnic minorities. Yet in hard-fought election campaigns this month in the small states of the north-east the ruling party has pandered as hard as anyone (see article). In the majority-Christian state of Meghalaya it promised free pilgrimages to Jerusalem. In Tripura, a state that suffered a separatist insurgency until 2004, the BJP has set aside its nationalist credentials to ally with a party that had backed the independence movement.

In 2014 business leaders were among Mr Modi’s most enthusiastic supporters. Many still praise such achievements as the introduction of the GST, a bankruptcy law and streamlined government procedures. Yet some of the BJP’s economic moves raise questions about its commitment to reform. Earlier this month, for instance, Mr Modi’s government quietly abandoned plans to relax a “licence Raj” rule that obliges any firm with more than 100 employees to seek government permission to fire any staff. Speaking in Davos in January, Mr Modi repeatedly declared India’s commitment to open competition in a globalised world. A week later his finance minister unveiled a budget that sharply hikes tariffs on a broad range of goods. Duty on imported sugar is now 100%.

Following a series of apparent recent setbacks, Indian pundits are also growing increasingly critical of Mr Modi’s foreign policy. Having promised a more robust and active stance, the prime minister has delivered mostly bluster. India’s biggest rival, China, continues to make strategic inroads into India’s traditional sphere of influence. Iron-fist tactics to squelch unrest in the state of Jammu and Kashmir seem only to have deepened local alienation.

So far, all this has done the BJP little harm. It still dominates politics, despite a slight dip in the polls. But Congress has benefited from a commensurate uptick and its leader, Rahul Gandhi, has cut Mr Modi’s lead as preferred prime minister from 35 percentage points to 17. Perhaps even as the BJP succumbs to some of Congress’s foibles, Congress is learning new tricks from the BJP.

This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline "All hat and cattle"

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DWI Laws in Washington: Critical Things You Need To Know

DWI or driving while intoxicated has become a prominent public health and safety issue due to its alarming incidence and mortality rates. According to the Washington State 2018 Traffic Safety Annual Report, the number of fatalities involving alcohol-impaired drivers since 2011 have reached an all-time high in 2017.

In the state of Washington, DWI (sometimes referred to as DUI or driving under the influence), is considered a criminal offense that has long-term consequences. If you are convicted with a DWI charge, grave consequences you may face include serving mandatory jail time, as well as rendering payment for mandatory fees and fines. Your license may also be suspended or revoked, and you may even be required to make use of an ignition interlock device, which could affect your ability to drive. A DWI charge can also make you a high risk for insurance.

Discussed below are some more of the critical things you need to know when it comes to DWI laws in Washington:

First Offense Convictions

First offense convictions can be caused by a driver’s refusal to take the chemical test, or having blood alcohol content (BAC) of 0.15% and higher. If convicted, you may face 364 days in jail, at least 30 days under electric home monitoring, or 120 days in a 24/7 sobriety program. Fines can range from $700 to $5,200. Your driver’s license may also be suspended for one year, and the conviction can stay on your driving record for at least 15 years.

Aside from alcohol, any drug that may cause drowsiness or dizziness can be considered for a DWI charge and must be avoided if you’re going to drive. Some of these are:

Medications for colds, hay fever, allergies, or any kind of medicine to calm the nerves or muscles as these can cause drowsiness. Avoid taking these with alcohol as well since it may exacerbate your inability to drive properly.

Pep pills or uppers and diet pills may sharpen alertness for a short time. However, these may also cause nervousness, dizziness, and lack of concentration, as well as disrupt vision and hearing.

If it’s your first time to be charged with a DWI, make sure that you get the necessary legal help. Getting in touch with Chris Bugbee, a DWI lawyer, can aid you in getting the appropriate legal assistance and representation you need for such a charge.

Repeat Offenders

Various states and jurisdictions have their own laws involving habitual offenders, repeat offenders or career criminals. These are individuals who are convicted of a new crime as well as previous crimes. Sanctions and penalties involving repeat offenders are typically more stringent as a means to deter them from further committing crimes in the future.

In the state of Washington, a fourth DWI conviction within 10 years will be considered a felony. Under this law, offenders can be sent to prison for 13 to 17 months, although jail time may increase depending on their criminal history.

Keep in mind that a previous DUI conviction may count as a prior offense. If you have committed a similar offense within seven years or 84 months, your current charge will be counted as a subsequent offense.

Felony Charges

In most circumstances, DWI or DUI in Washington is typically considered a gross misdemeanor. However, there are instances when the charge can be elevated to a felony.

Aside from previous convictions within 10 years, causing a fatal accident could make what’s considered a gross misdemeanor into a felony. If the victim dies within three years of the vehicular accident as a result of impaired driving, the offender may be charged with vehicular homicide, which is considered a class A felony.

If the victim doesn’t die due to vehicular assault caused by impaired driving but sustains substantial bodily harm, a DWI charge may also be elevated to a felony. Substantial bodily harm, as defined by the state, are injuries that can lead to the temporary impairment or loss of an organ or body part, temporary disfigurement, and a fracture—all of which are substantial in nature.

If you have been previously convicted of either a DUI vehicular homicide or a vehicular assault, subsequent arrests for drunk driving may be considered a class C felony under Washington state laws. This can be punishable by a five-year prison sentence and fines of up to $10,000.

Don’t Drink And Drive

Driving while intoxicated is a serious crime that can lead not only to road accidents and property damage, but also fatalities. While it is mostly considered as a gross misdemeanor in Washington, the charge can be elevated to a felony due to the resulting significant consequences of the offense. Keep yourself as well as other people safe by not drinking and driving. Don’t get behind the wheel if your vision and concentration have been impaired because of alcohol consumption. If you have been charged with a DWI, be sure to call a lawyer so that you will have the proper legal assistance and representation you need.

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All hat and cattle (India’s BJP government looks ever more like the one it replaced)#MohnishAhluwaliaNotes

The Bharatiya Janata Party is not as different from Congress as it claims AT A rally in the southern state of Karnataka the prime minister wagged his raised finger, accusing the local government, run by the rival Congress party, of creaming a 10% cut from every state contract. “Do you want a commission government, or do you want a mission government?” he boomed. After four years in power Narendra Modi still relishes nothing more than attacking his opponents as no-good, lazy and corrupt. In response Karnataka’s chief minister, Siddaramaiah, who faces a state election in two months, posted a cartoon on his Twitter account. It pictured glum citizens queuing outside a bank, a reminder of Mr Modi’s painful “demonetisation” in 2016, which sent hundreds of millions of Indians rushing to exchange abruptly voided banknotes. From the back of the bank, meanwhile, emerged a pair of grinning millionaires carrying big sacks of money. Airily waving them off was a Modi-like figThe reference was not subtle. Before his Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) landslide win in the general election of 2014, Mr Modi had promised to be the country’s vigilant chowkidar. Yet on his watch there has been no let-up in the kind of scams and scandals that had made Congress such an easy target. The latest involves a diamond dealer who is said to have fled the country after allegedly defrauding a state-owned bank of some $1.8bn. As recently as January the jeweller in question appeared in a photo of Indian tycoons hobnobbing with Mr Modi at the Swiss mountain resort of Davos. As the next general election, due early next year, approaches, it grows ever harder for Mr Modi to pose as the fresh, clean alternative to bad old ways. The BJP government has, in fact, slowly evolved into something surprisingly similar to its Congress-led predecessor, from which Mr Modi promised to “free” India. The BJP looks increasingly like the party of state. Mr Modi’s image adorns billboards and newspaper ads. His voice resounds from state television and radio. His loyalists influence a growing array of public institutions. In some instances, say critics, such influence might be described as abuse. Police and courts, for instance, have all too often proven slow to follow up potentially embarrassing leads, or quick to absolve BJP bigwigs of wrongdoing. Milan Vaishnav, a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a think-tank, points to recent instances when two powerful institutions, the central bank and the election commission, have appeared to bow to Mr Modi’s wishes. The energetic prime minister has launched dozens of heavily promoted social programmes. But his government has also taken over numerous Congress-era projects and simply rebranded them, stripping away associations with such Congress figures as Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. A scheme started in 2012 called the Basic Savings Bank Deposit Account, aimed at providing banking for the poor, was pepped up and relabelled the Prime Minister’s People’s Money Project. In some cases Mr Modi has adopted policies that he sharply criticised while in opposition. He had dismissed Aadhaar, a Congress-initiated project to issue all citizens with a unique, biometrically certifiable identity number, as nothing but a gimmick. In practice his government has made Aadhaar cards mandatory for everything from mobile-phone lines to food subsidies. The BJP repeatedly stymied Congress’s attempts to replace a quaint hodgepodge of local taxes with a national goods and services tax, only to bring in the GST itself, with great fanfare, last year. Mr Modi also frequently disparaged Congress programmes to boost rural incomes as wasteful vote-buying. But his government has raised spending on these, while several BJP-run state governments are offering massive loan relief to indebted farmers. Pander flair The Hindu-nationalist BJP had excoriated the secular Congress for pandering to religious and ethnic minorities. Yet in hard-fought election campaigns this month in the small states of the north-east the ruling party has pandered as hard as anyone (see article). In the majority-Christian state of Meghalaya it promised free pilgrimages to Jerusalem. In Tripura, a state that suffered a separatist insurgency until 2004, the BJP has set aside its nationalist credentials to ally with a party that had backed the independence movement. In 2014 business leaders were among Mr Modi’s most enthusiastic supporters. Many still praise such achievements as the introduction of the GST, a bankruptcy law and streamlined government procedures. Yet some of the BJP’s economic moves raise questions about its commitment to reform. Earlier this month, for instance, Mr Modi’s government quietly abandoned plans to relax a “licence Raj” rule that obliges any firm with more than 100 employees to seek government permission to fire any staff. Speaking in Davos in January, Mr Modi repeatedly declared India’s commitment to open competition in a globalised world. A week later his finance minister unveiled a budget that sharply hikes tariffs on a broad range of goods. Duty on imported sugar is now 100%. Following a series of apparent recent setbacks, Indian pundits are also growing increasingly critical of Mr Modi’s foreign policy. Having promised a more robust and active stance, the prime minister has delivered mostly bluster. India’s biggest rival, China, continues to make strategic inroads into India’s traditional sphere of influence. Iron-fist tactics to squelch unrest in the state of Jammu and Kashmir seem only to have deepened local alienation. So far, all this has done the BJP little harm. It still dominates politics, despite a slight dip in the polls. But Congress has benefited from a commensurate uptick and its leader, Rahul Gandhi, has cut Mr Modi’s lead as preferred prime minister from 35 percentage points to 17. Perhaps even as the BJP succumbs to some of Congress’s foibles, Congress is learning new tricks from the BJP.ure labelled chowkidar or watchman.#MohnishAhluwaliaNotes

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Referral Reputation usually means which you've ceased the grind of trying to houses. You eventually become inactive, however in case you level a person who is looking to buy or sell a house for the property company, you obtain a percentage of the commission. Say farewell to pleasure and leisure. Here is your week: • Friday. Mailings, customer searching. CHAPTER 6: THE CLIENTS CHAPTER 5: THE "Old Timers" This provider that "hired" you'll now send one to an exercise "college" (these are companies which, for a price tag, educate you on exactly concerning the actual estate business and allow you to pass the state required test). Here is 2 weeks of courses that have very little to do with the livelihood. At different times during the week, you are going to receive yourself a two hour stints replying the phone. The idea is the fact that clients will call in looking for a realtor since they've a house they would like to purchase. I'd suppose that that has happened the moment, ever, in the annals of authentic estate. The majority phone calls into the old-timers. You did not think any such thing was liberated, did you? Here's the rundown on charges: If you're lucky enough to get you to definitely state they will use one to sell their house, you ought to know that their house is worth much more than the one three doors down which is exactly the same. Exactly why? Idon't understand. Maybe they're delusional. Maybe they're dumb. They're greedy. Maybe they're upside-down in your house. Possibly they need the cash. It really is probably each of the aforementioned. • Thursday. Nothing is required. This really is your weekend, enjoy. Tend not to spend money there's no necessity it. I am convinced it is totally different in YOUR area though, plus they truly are suggesting that the facts once they say so... When I state "old timers", I'm referring to the representatives which happen to be employed in the office for more than a yr. They are going to make eye contact simply because they count on you to actually be absent in a few months plus they don't really want to squander their time. Once you've been around for fourteen days, they'll start offering you that the "chance" to take a seat into their own receptive houses on them. What they're actually asking you to do is sit in a house for 3 hours that no 1 will visit, and basically sell it to these, on the off chance that you might receive a client out of it. • Business cards. They are free! Well, kind of. The most basic, crappy models are free, those which scream "I'm new for this!" You've got to cover, to find fine ones, having a film, and also you've got to pay for the picture. You will probably be asked to alienate everybody else by begging for referrals, you understand and also make situations. Celebrations, churchand school, the gym - anywhere...that you require to become angling for house purchasers or house vendors. It's horribly embarrassing for everybody involved. Don't forget to utilize just the page1=46 snare that is small everywhere you move! Their ideal broker is someone who is miserable and blessed, sitting on a pile of money money or an available field of credit, and only needs something to keep them occupied. Next in line is somebody who is unhappily wed, sitting over a heap of income or a available line of credit, also merely needs something to keep them out of the house and far from their spouse. If you're not 1 of these two, that's OK - they will require you. It really is odd to be involved in a financial project for somebody who you realize. They will use you to buy or sell a house, but no one wants you to know their financial business, therefore that it's hard. Your family and friends may want tiny favors, like...they will need all their cash. Yes, badly. I had a comparative ask if I would give them back my entire commission should I utilized me to obtain a house. I declined, and the request was the nail which sealed my real estate coffin shut. • Saturday. Mandatory coaching...every day. Done with all the mandatory 15-week teaching? Start out education that reproduces that which they taught you! CHAPTER 7: YOUR LIFE AS AN AGENT • Associations. The County Realtor Dublin Apartments For Sale Affiliation. It's mandatory that you join it. It charges dollars...each yr. Their State Realtor Association. You have to combine it. It costs money...each year. The Nationwide Realtor Association. You have to combine it. It costs income...each calendar year. Join this particular organization. Join this organization. You're going to get even, and possibly a magazine a pindown. It truly is all mandatory, plus it all costs money. They have complimentary biscuits at the conferences though. • Tuesday. In-house coaching, or "how to squander 3 stable hours of prime job time." I'm 1 man. Even the Realtor's affiliation is a huge conglomerate which has attorneys on the payroll. My brotherinlaw is legal counsel...but I still feel out-numbered. So you're going to notice I refer to real estate agents, not Realtors. • Monday. Mandatory conferences along with house excursions. The assembly is useless, which is why you find old timers there, they slough off following the very first house and wind upward God-knows-where. They are likely in the pub. The tour is pretty fun, though. You have to listen to every one complain about everyone they utilize and what from those houses. You get to stroll through a stranger's house and hear your co workers (proudly displaying their title badges) criticize the homeowner's choices in everything. Cases: Things thought for this carpeting? Have they ever cleaned this particular room? Wow, those are some kiddies in this film. I can't think they left Prozac AND Paxil . Realestate offices are listing places, therefore that it's easy to obtain an interview. As guess what, avoid being too stressed? You're hired. This isn't a meeting, it truly is a pep-talk. You inhale in the lobby and could walk in, you're probably however hired. • real estate agent prices get you the "real estate agent" pin. This really may be. CHAPTER 3: LICENSING CHAPTER 4: Mo-Re FEES, Expenses and Costs There are rules which state that even though your certification training is still occurring in a realestate office, that no one from that office may "recruit" you. Expect you'll be recruited. Some of those instructors was a Business X manager and obtained a distinctive fascination with me. He took me to open houses at homes throughout the months of training, introduced me to every one in any office, took me to lunches and carried me out. The full time, he talked about the way Business Y (who had delivered me into the practice) was horrible, and why Company X has been far superior, and also definitely the place for me. Ethical? No. Fun? Sure. I still went together with the company that sent me to the practice as it was the perfect thing. This means that in the event that you own a person which wishes to market their house for £330,000 nevertheless, also you and every one know it won't bring $250,000, you tell them you will list it to get their selling price, and after that gradually let the price decline when folks laugh at the house. CHAPTER 2: THE Job Interview Keep in mind, however, that you have two choices here: you can either become a Realtor or you can become a Realtor. Yes, you see that right. I'll make no decisions regarding this organization's worth, with the exception of to say that sitting through the most boring training ever nets you a tiny R pin. Nothing says I'm a victory a lot better compared to a pin using an R on it...directly close to a name label. Ethics rule #1 would be "simply acquire the record." • vehicle. They will cover the vehicle! No, they wont. If you are one of the most notable 2 manufacturers, and are willing to set a God-awful giant decal over either side and rear of your own (correctly coloured) car, they will cover a minimal amount to you. Why shouldn't they? Oahu is the ads they can get. CHAPTER 10: AFTERTHOUGHTS

• Cardkey. You want this to access into almost any house that's on the market. It's true, you've got to cover this. And it can't be shipped by them; you require to drive 30 miles to pick it up. • Tip 3: Everybody you understand will soon feign support whilst questioning the decision and also making fun of you. I'm serious, and you know that this. You've despised with, didn't you? • Office Aid. You are hated by them. That I met Travis the first day, he had been in the middle of the hissy fit because someone had stolen his own Cross pencil. This is clear, since it is not just like they sell them. Yes, they are really sold by them . The hissy fit lasted an hour, and included our manager delivering out a phone communication to every single representative from any office to please go back the pencil if they had it. Travis kept a much-needed eye on the labels that one would use to send out these mailings. You had to request the quantity, to receive them. You can find 25 in the sheet and you would not get 3 sheets if you're printing 68 labels. Also don't forget, exclamation points are used by top manufacturers! Lots of these! In what they do! Just an FYI. I suggest: Just an FYI!!!! • Licensing. If you speak with a actual estate organization earlier you take the class and obtain licensed, then they will cover your course. Very well, kind of. They will pay for it, then take the commission straight. Wait patiently, that paid for this? It's true, you did. You didn't think that was free, did you? You are hated by them. • Computers. Don't understand a computer system? Do not stress, no 1 else does. Everyone I worked with was dreadful with any instrument that is technology-related, although I don't know why. They needed assistance and also the computer system's were always down having a virus of some kind. • Sunday. No more football matches, household picnics, etc.. as you require to take a seat in Open Houses. This is my own story. Don't let it change your mind if you want to enter the world of real real estate. I had a previous realestate agent inform me what a horrible idea it was and I went together with my dumb plan. • Mailings. I lucked out with Company Y, and they also pay for postings. This means the promotion substances are provided by them plus also they pay the stamp for some amount to be sent out. A Rottweiler shielded addresses that you could send mail to's database at our office, a man I'll contact Travis. Travis was tan yearlong, using slicked-back own hair, also he had been dressed as a 1970's JC Penny mannequin daily. Idon't know if he was homosexual, but I bet his boy turned out. When there are not enough newbies in your office, they will battle over your house-sitting attempts, and may even supply you with dollars (don't get excited, so I'm talking around £ 20.) Get paid I never really did get covered out helping someone. • Hint 1): there is certainly a whole lot of funds. It really is simply not likely to be made by you. In fact, a lot of it's actually going to come FROM you. The actual estate organizations themselves make an enormous quantity of money in a part by fighting folks through their "apps" and spitting them out using emptier pockets. CHAPTER 9: "ETHICS" (note quotation marks) •The Multi-List Program. You cannot be considered a true real estate agent without access to the MLS. It must be liberated? No. CHAPTER 8: "Assist" (note quote marks) • Hint two: There's no wages. Make sure you have sufficient money in the bank to eat and pay your bills for 6 months. And start searching to get a job NOW. By the time you get it, you are going to be from dollars. I landed a spot at a company 6 weeks and 1 day from the day of my lay off. If it was not for Un Employment, I'd have been surviving in a cardboard box waiting to the property profession. You are hated by them. • Your internet site. The company has set a page up for you in the website, you require to fill it using useless items that no one cares about, like "resident of (our general place) for umpteen a long time" and Realtor and "Member of (Our County) Real Estate Club. None of this helps you or them, however, it will not fill the webpage, even although no one will look at it. It's possible to put an image up . Whatever you have to do is get the phone, notify the organization their name along with cell phone number and where they are looking. The irony? It's payday. I know individuals who made more about referrals than I did as a realtor, many occasions around. Needless to say, there's a fee nevertheless, you did not think that was liberated, did you? Also also to stay in "citizenship standing" that you need to simply take ongoing coaching. • Signs. Big signs, symptoms, vinyl signs, steel signs, name signs, for sale signs, open house indications. You have to get them, you need to pay for them, and so they cost hundreds of dollars. • Title label. Good information, the title tag is totally free. The awful news, you've got to have on a name tag. Back once I experienced a real job, I understood a gentleman who always believed "In case a man has to wear a name tag during his job, he is not very profitable." I'd a beautiful Ford Mustang GT when I got this "job". I sold it as I had been told that you have to simply take all of your clients around the place to view houses. Out using the sport vehicle, in addition to all the Volvo station wagon (in the dreadful corporate color, needless to say.) As it turns out, no one wants to ride with their real estate agent; they want to follow you all around. This will be for many good reasons: hence they really could escape you when they desire, so they may talk about the houses with no hearing them (even if you're their reputable adviser)...oh, and they hate you. I overlook that Mustang. • Wednesday. "Twilight" open houses. This implies that the nighttime is shot. How do you create matters better? You have their nation included! CHAPTER 1): SOME QUICK Rookie 'S Recommendations • totally free trips! 5 decades from today, in the event you overcome ALL the odds, perform hrs that are ridiculous and sell everything that you buy near, you may possibly receive a absolutely free trip. Don't hold your own breath.