#turn fote

[jadegretz]

Zala Fote: Twilek Warrior by Jade Gretz

Title: Shadows of Betrayal: Zala Fote’s Escape

The twin moons of a distant planet hung low in the sky, casting an eerie light across the desolate landscape. Zala Fote, a striking Twi'lek with emerald skin and piercing amber eyes, led her rebel squad through the jagged terrain. Her lekku, adorned with intricate tattoos, twitched as she sensed the danger lurking in the shadows. The Force had whispered to her, warning of an imminent attack. But nothing could have prepared her for the horror that awaited them.

The planet, known as D'rath, was a forsaken world on the fringes of the galaxy, a place where the Empire’s grip was as suffocating as the air itself. The rebel outpost they had established here was a desperate attempt to create a foothold against the Imperial forces. Zala's squad was one of the last remnants of the rebellion in this sector, and they had been tasked with securing vital intelligence that could turn the tide of the war.

But now, as they moved stealthily through the ravines, the air was thick with tension. The distant hum of engines broke the silence, growing louder by the second. Zala signaled her squad to take cover, her heart pounding in her chest. They had been ambushed.

The Empire's forces descended like a storm. A squadron of TIE fighters screamed overhead, unleashing a barrage of laser fire that tore through the rocky outcroppings. Zala's squad scattered, taking cover wherever they could. Blaster fire erupted around them, the red bolts illuminating the darkness.

Zala gritted her teeth and activated her blaster rifle, returning fire with deadly precision. She was a skilled warrior, trained in the art of combat since childhood, but the odds were overwhelming. The Empire’s troopers were relentless, their white armor gleaming in the moonlight as they advanced.

One by one, her squad members fell. T'vek, a grizzled veteran who had fought beside her in countless battles, was hit in the chest. He crumpled to the ground, his eyes wide with shock. Zala fought back a cry of despair as she watched her comrades being cut down. This wasn’t just a ba …(see the rest of the story at deviantart.com/jadegretzAI). For more supergirl, chun li, batgirl, tifa, lara croft, wonder woman, rogue and much more, please visit my page at www.deviantart.com/jadegretzai - Thanks for your support :)

[lostfor3ver]

Late Night Visit

Sirius Hawthorne x Lumi Dreamflower

NSFW 🔞, MDI

FOTE: Stormhold

Synopsis: Lumi meets Sirius in his chambers for some “questioning”’ to get under that cold demeanor, the only thing she ends up under is….him.

“Look at me”

Lumi shuddered in anticipation at the position she found herself in, the air in the master suite was chilled, the cold breeze from the cracked window dusting over her naked form as she lay on top of the dark green silk sheets and heavy fur blankets on the bed. Sirius leans over her, bulking form pressed in between her open legs that are hanging off the bed, he comes down to graze his lips next to her ear, he speaks, voice rough and panting “Oh dear..” he breathes out, as he dips his hand in between her legs and presses two fingers on her clit, teasing her. “You have to be quieter, you don’t want to wake the manor do you?” he presses his fingers into her without warning. Lumi cries out as she brings a hand up to grip the silk beneath her. Sirius thrust his fingers in faster, smirking down at her.

“You’re not good at listening, are you?” He uses his other hand to shove two fingers in her mouth, stretching her out with the size of the signet ring on his finger. He continues thrusting his fingers in as Lumi gags, letting out gargled moans. “You’re like no other woman I’ve seen before, mythical beauty and a tight cunt to match.” his palm presses flush against her core, his finger moving around to tease her, before taking his fingers halfway out and thrusting back in quicker. Sirius takes his fingers out of her mouth rubbing them against her cheek, as she moans out loudly, throwing her head back into the bed. She can feel the warm heat bubbling up in her stomach as she clenches around his fingers. Sirius continues moving,, before slowing down and removing his fingers.

“What the hell–” Lumi lifts her head to look at him

“I need you, now” Sirius moves his hands to grip her calves and drag her further off the bed, before lifting her legs over his shoulders. Sirius moves his hands to unbuckle his belt and pull down his trousers and undergarments, his cock leans over, heavy under its weight. Lumi looks down at it, the angry red tip hovering over her entrance. “Fuck-do you see what you do to me…?” He grunts out as he leans into her more, cock laying against her aching cunt, begging for a taste.

“Why don't you show me?” Lumi reaches her hand between them and grips his cock, he lets out a heavy moan, as she places his tip at the face of her clit. Sirius brings a hand up, slightly gripping her throat and making her face him, “impatient, are we?” Sirius starts to press his cock into Lumi. Harsh and soft moans puff out of Lumi’s open mouth as she feels the stretch on every vein-covered inch of him. “S-Sirius..oh gods” Lumi pants out. Sirius stops and lets her adjust to his size. “Split open already, and I'm only halfway in….come on sweet bird, loosen up” His voice was sweet, encouraging her to relax her cunt around him. Sirius takes the opportunity and presses the rest of his cock into her, groaning at the feeling of being in her warmth. Lumi tilts her head to the side and lets out a long moan. He backs out a bit, only to shove his cock back in, slamming his hips into her and pushing Lumi up the bed. He continues to rock his hips into her, throwing his head back as he picks up the pace.

“Warming the Duke’s bed, aren't you a special one?” Sirius uses a hand to push some of her hair out of her face and hold the side of it, rubbing his ringed finger over her lip. “Look at me” Lumi turned her head to stare into him, the man's piercing blue eyes looked at her as he came down to press his mouth into hers. Lumi closes her eyes and moans into his mouth as she grips his hair. They both mesh into each other, his thrust never stopping and the creaking of the bed frame echoing off the walls. She pressed into him closer battling him for control, he gripped the side of her face, kissing her deeper. He breaks apart as hot and heavy breath fills the small space between them. Sirius slows his movement, watching as Lumi’s chest heaves under him, he brings a large hand to grasp her tit, moving it around in his hand. Sirius moves to stand upright before placing a knee on the bed and taking Lumi’s legs to press them into her shoulders, folding her in half. Lumi breathes out “Haa-ah fuck” as a cold shiver glides over her fully exposed cunt. “Hold on tight” He smirks down at her before shoving all of his cock in, leaning into her body, crushing her with his weight and the new position. He drives into her, relentlessly, as the bed scrapes against the floor moving back some inches.

“It's too much, gods ah”..

“Awh poor lady, isn’t this what you wanted with your sly and seductive words earlier, you can do it” Sirius continues to push into her, hand braced against the side of her head to stabilize himself. Wet slapping and heavy moaning fills the room. Lumi can feel her back rubbing against the fur underneath her, his cock filling every inch of her and she squirms with pleasure. Sirius keeps up his pace as he feels Lumi squeeze around him and watches her face scrunch in ecstasy, he rocks into her until she opens her eyes and mouth letting out long pitchy whines, her release coating his cock. “Pretty girl, keep moaning just like that” Sirius continues to press in, chasing his release, while Lumi writes from her orgasm. He pushes in a few more times before yelling out a groan and spilling into her. He moves up and lets her legs fall flat next to him, he pulls out his cock, letting it hover above her stomach before grasping it and jerking the last bit of his release out.

“Haaa-ha ha ha, couldn’t hold onto that gruff demeanor any more” Lumi tiredly smirks up at him

“Flip Over”

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ta-dah! ~.<

cant believe i wrote this

[libidomechanica]

To trammes the Argo, condemne

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eyes made up a wyȝe in his wrather.     From mortal eye of shame, þat ryol red golden, in a     voice morne, still as to lives sweet the air one will price, and lamber     nowþe. More fote lyȝtly hym so fail the louies, where the vale     you sigh, this vigil or

dede turn untouch you. With croon If     one discretion of Shame. Softly blood and the dress has loving:     but til at once, þat I beg all that’s streȝt, þe noble     poyntez, and quaint, we lives, a commits, but if we lead till     on hit is litter wyndez

ful þike, rugh roché ground with a     wretched mach, yes. Saint honour, when hondelez hym restore     is on which alone: our Mother with mine: and on fyue wyth     his Grace cries and death, that day with him not, there’s no doubt,     which prison seemed as do

that nature I may be destined     to all costliest nard. Sky, when shield didden schulderez     wyth my lyf, leude full wel þat my heart of global     civilization, the nature of alle his craftez kepe þe,     lorde, sir Doddinaual desty

shaw, in vayrest al inward     joy. With haþel, by magic, ghost be stinking and sellyly     abides, and that ripe age nay, þenne þay be shee vanisht by     so neȝed ful lyȝt aȝte. He þonk, syȝ hym þoȝt. The heed in on     Nw Ȝeres vast embranch

a smoothly, as lordez þad day,     a plentyng on a spirit round; some rehead been kneled     on þat gost lace, kepes, maud with such a sweet smiles. Firstly,     he watz Gawan, since ane halchez ofte full for through I know,     lege on a day and heart

and painture as craftez kepes,     and sayde, Iwysse met! No doubly name my mete a     philosophy. ’ Since that she crest more sydez out ful come wyth     cowarde and make mind. For ȝe lye in Ohio called þe     werkez. With I was bedde

burnez him with yours in any     tears its prey. Them what push- pin, for every sisters ȝod, country     last could for þe lude, slentyng of drurye doubtless in t,     likewise is that’s in sylk, ne ferde me þynk as hot blysse! Ne     I know your sweet and and

þay were easier wroȝt tok gates     of this torn into the wounde of those new acquaint innocent     blood. Pleasure as your skin. Breath and at lengez adoun,     and close—Desires, þat þe sure with vain description of     vast aboute cast my drink

of waking, marrow charms have but     do not die, or King. Wine upon his sere sober lighter&     hand: and lived among þe lorde, and goes agony trouble-     felt and yet watz hasped bot he was beddez verayly     þe break in God’s sweete Art

care I ate? To trammes the Argo,     condemne to schal sexes; that voices of grene, and said     hear sighs for here before þe best for thou laugh its an ages,     of thing to hideous pointed nouþer, floating journer     of what is on blonk, suande

grace the Frenched to thy pap well     in a beast scham inter will shepherd, Strength of all of folly     after was spring- time;—but all my words, that fraternal     years tapitez to save. Love all its tread: but the wade     notes in Godez hom þoȝt.

[thegaitguys]

Could your low back pain be related to your big toe?

Ok, he has low back pain. But i can also see that high gear (1st toe off) is impaired from loss of terminal dorisflexion at that 1st MTP joint.

Ok , so this means heel rise will be premature and when it does happen the toe off will be towards the lesser toes, low gear toe off. This means the knee will be carried laterally as opposed to the more desirable sagittal tracking/hinging. And, if heel rise is premature, this means the knee will likely flex and hinge sagittally just a little, when it should actually be extending and coupling with the gastroc and glute to produce propulsion. And, when the knee flexes, I know the hip flexes, when we should again be moving into hip extension for propulsion. And when the knee and hip flex, the vertical length of the leg is shorter functionally, which means a subtle lateral pelvis dip and compensatory thoracolumbar lateral bend to the other side to compensate. This leads to imbalance in the lumbar spine musculature and more work in some areas, and less in others.

So, doc, are you telling me my low back pain is from my big toe? It could be Sir. Lets get into it and find out. Game ? Game . . . .

One has to be able to quickly juggle normal known gait biomechanics with pathologic biomechanics. You don't have all day with your patient. Play these games in your head, often. Example: So, if the knee doesn't terminally extend, what could this mean to the rest of the system ?

Stop treating the area of pain, is might not be the problem.

Shawn Allen, one of the gait guys.

#gait, #thegaitguys, #gaitproblems, #gaitcompensations, #halluxlimitus, #turftoe, #hipextension, #prematureheelrise

[bthenoise]

Photographer Spotlight: Explore Live Concert Photography With Erica Lauren

If a photo is worth a thousand words, what about the person who took that photo? In a day and age where, thanks to Instagram, everyone thinks they’re a professional photographer, it’s important to remember the people who actually do this for a living.

People like Erica Lauren -– the do-it-yourself punk rocker who has shot for countless bands like Bad Religion, AFI, Slipknot and more.  

Today, in a time where all we have are photos to remember some of our favorite shows by (since no one can attend any at the moment), we’d like to take a second and shine a light on the hard working people who took them.

So to learn a little more about Erica Lauren plus some advice on live photography, be sure to check out our newest installment of our Photographer Spotlight series below. Afterward, make sure to follow Erica on Instagram here.

(photo by: Danielle Parsons)

Who or what got you into concert photography?

Before I started shooting shows, I was taking pictures every day on disposable cameras in high school. Naturally from there, I started bringing cameras with me to all the shows I went to. It was basically a happy accident.

What was the first show you ever shot?

The first show with a very cheap film camera was The Virus at The Glasshouse. My first DSLR at a bigger show was Billy Talent with Thursday.

What was your first touring experience like and who did you shoot for?

My first touring experience was with AJJ and Chris Farren maybe 4 years ago. I [hopped] in the van right from Fest in Gainesville. They are the best people and always make me feel at home.

What's your preferred camera setup?

Usually my Canon 6d 24-70mm 2.8.

For young photographers who are still learning, what’s your time management like or the schedule you give yourself day-to-day while shooting?

For shows, I usually edit as soon as I get home regardless of turn around time. If touring, it depends on what you agreed to with the band but again, I edit live images as soon as possible. I just drink a lot of coffee and sleep once my work is finished.

Any other tips for future concert photographers?

Find your own style of shooting and editing and keep doing it. Trends will come and go, but ultimately, your eye and aesthetic are your voice in photography.

Personally, who are some of your favorite concert photographers?

Growing up I admired Edward Colver, Roberta Bayley, Jim Marshall and BJ Papas. Now I’m mostly inspired by my friends like Courtney Coles, Amanda Fotes, Angela Owens, Farrah Skeiky, Carly Hoskins, Kat Nijmeddin -- the list goes on...

Lastly, who's your dream artist to shoot?

The dream is to tour as Rancid’s photographer. I’ve shot them a few times live but would love to capture candidate and portraits of them. They’ve been one of my favorite bands since I was 13/14.

[wadestone]

The Devil’s Arrows are a row of three prehistoric standing stones located in a field on the outskirts of Boroughbridge. They sit in a landscape that has been occupied for over six thousand years.

The stones exist in a wider, complex, prehistoric landscape, a recent archaeological survey of the surrounding area uncovered a number of features including a double timber post row and an associated ditch, extensive flint scatters and grooved ware pottery.

The tallest stones is 22.5 feet high making it the second tallest stone in the UK after the Rudston Monolith which is 26 feet tall. Graeme recently discovered that the Rudston Monolith, 44 miles away, is aligned precisely due East of the Arrows.

One of the earliest records of the stones comes from the antiquarian John Leland. He  visited the town sometime between 1535 and 1540  and described the row as four upright stones.

..little without this Towne on the west part of Watiling-Streate stadith 4 great maine stones wrought above in conum by Mannes hand. They be set in 3 several Feldes at this Tyme. The first is a 20 foote by estimation in higeth and an 18 foote in cumpace. The stone towards the ground is sumwhat square, and so up to the midle, and then wrought with certen rude boltells in conum. But the very toppe thereof is broken of a 3 or 4 footes. Other 2 of like shap stand in another feld a good But shot of: and the one of them is bigger then the other; and they stand within a 6 or 8 fote one of the other. The fourth standith in a several feld a good stone cast from the other, and is bigger and higher than any of the other 3. I esteme it to the waite of a 5 Waine Lodes or more. Inscription could I none find yn these stones; and if there were it might be woren out; for they be sore woren and scalid with wether. I take to be a trophaea a Romanis posita in the side of Watheling Streat,as yn a place most occupied in Yorneying ad so most yn sighte.

  Thirty years later another antiquarian, William Camden visited the stones but only three were left upright

Neere unto this bridge Westward wee saw in three divers little fields foure huge stones of pyramidall forme, but very rudely wrought, set as it were in a streight and direct line. The two Pyramides in the middest, whereof the one was lately pulled downe by some that hoped, though in vaine, to finde treasure, did almost touch one another. The uttermore stand not far off, yet almost in equall distance from these on both sides.

The fourth stone, toppled by treasure hunters, is thought to have been broken-up and used as the foundation for the bridge over the nearby River Tutt in 1621. There is an account of the top of the stone being taken and placed into the garden of Aldborough Manor.

John Aubrey’s notes in his Monumenta Britannica complied between 1665 and 1693. Aubrey thought that the stones may have been part of a great stone circle. No evidence has ever been found to support his theory.

 Graeme and I have recently been discussing the fate of the fourth stone and decided to take a look to see if we could locate any traces of the missing stone.

We started at the stones themselves. There is currently a crop of beets in the field so we followed the well worn path around field margin. Whilst we were looking at the possible cupmarks on the northern stone we got chatting to a woman who told us that, whilst walking her dogs in the area, she had once experienced an ‘energy’ at the stones that was so powerful it had made he feel ill.

I have enhanced this image a little to highlight the cupmarks on the stone.

We also noticed that there were lots of ladybirds on the stones, it turns out that these are Harlequin Ladybirds, an invasive species that are said to be responsible for the decline of our native species.

I’ve recently read that the grooves on the tops of the stone were caused by The Devil trying to hang his grandmother from the stone.  The tale does not say why he was trying to hang her or whether he was successful. I’m just suprised that the price of darkness had a grandmother

The road beside the field is currently being improved to provide access to a new housing development. It is always a little disturbing to see a development encroaching on an ancient site.

We took a walk down to the bridge over the River Tutt to see if we could spot any remains of the stone.

The Arrows are made of Millstone Grit and are thought to have been brought to the site from Plumpton Rocks, a distance of over 8 miles. The local building stone is a fairly uniform fine grained sandstone so the coarser grained gritstone with it’s large quartz grains is quite easy to spot. We didn’t spot any evidence of gritstone in the bridge but Graeme did spot three large dressed gritstone blocks in the kerbing leading from the bridge.

We decided to head over to nearby Aldborough to see if we could track down the top fragment of the fourth stone.

Aldborough is a small village on the outskirts of Boroughbridge. It is the site of a walled Roman town called Isurium Brigantum. We enquired at the Manor House regarding the whereabouts of the stone, the owner told us that they have looked for evidence of the stone in the manor grounds but not found any trace of it.

In the centre of the village is a large column called the Battle Cross. A nearby plaque states that the cross commemorates the Battle of Boroughbridge in 1322. The plaque also mentions Thomas Earl of Lancaster who was in collusion with the Scots. A Yorkshireman rarely passes up the opportunity to have a pop at his Lancastrian neighbours.

The local church is reputed to be on the site of a Roman Temple, there is a carving built into the church was which is thought to portray Mercury.

Having arrived at a dead end in our search for the fourth stone, we decided to visit the site where, according to legend, the devil stood when he threw the Arrows, How Hill.

How Hill is just over 7 miles west of the Arrows. The first written reference to How Hill is from 1346 and refers to it as the site of a medieval chapel, possibly a place of pilgrimage. The site became a ruin after the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539. The tower was rebuilt in 1719 and further domestic buildings were added to it during the 19th century.

What surprised both Graeme and I were the views from the hill, although relatively low lying it has a fantastic viewshed, the Pennines in the West, the North York Moors in the east and as far south as Drax power station.

The tower itself is currently boarded-up, It’s a substantial building, quite singular in design it has a slight air of malice about it. I’m not sure I’d like to visit it in the dark, as Graeme once did. On checking the BGS website I discovered that the bedrocks around the hill are Plumpton Gritstone, the same stone as the Arrows, perhaps the folklore is right and that Arrows did originate from here.

The Devil’s Arrows should be viewed as one of a number of prehistoric monuments that extend in a roughly north-south alignment through North Yorkshire. I recently found this lovely pdf booklet which details this alignment of monuments in North Yorkshire.  Booklet

I’m not sure if anyone has ever tried to tie-in the Arrows with the Neolithic monuments that extend eastwards towards the Yorkshire coast, both Graeme and I believe that it is not unreasonable to think that there may be a connection.

  The Devil’s Arrows The Devil's Arrows are a row of three prehistoric standing stones located in a field on the outskirts of Boroughbridge.

[gelinaz-blog]

2WEEKS AGO -12MONTHS FROM NOW

 Could Food on The Edge 2017 be the final nail in the coffin of the ‘Food Congress’ as we know it? If so, it’s about time. Because for 20 years the format – or should we say the frame? – has always been the same. An auto-promotional, showing off, a dully TV-oriented gig on a stage starring the usual mix of techniques and dishes. A predictable playlist of chefs vogueing, making it up (to measure) for an audience of sponsors and wannabes. The Berlin Wall has fallen down, long gone are the days of Lo Mejor de la Gastronomia in the Basque Country. But something has happened since then. When the Mad Food Camp took off in 2010 a page was turned. No more mimicking with knives and forks, no more joggling with pots and pans, there you go: speak your heart out and make sense of yourself. Even make a fool of yourself. At its best, when it kept the usual big, boring names and old French farts at bay, MAD opened new doors, setting new standards, reconciling deep thoughts and emotions.

 And that’s where FOTE comes in. As a MAD spinoff, it gets things right. A nice selection of decent people, a loose enough theme to riff on (« Action/Reaction ») and a friendly, indie atmosphere hosted by local hero chef/agitator J.P. McMahon whose favourite, unremitting expression as a Maître d’ welcoming speakers to the centre stage (« Put your hands together for… ») is already history. And there they were, getting down to it, a talk with no protection net, carefully written down or improvised at best. Some chanting the Pride with little Prejudice of their own land (Adrian Klonowski from Poland, Jeremy Charles from Newfoundland, Ana Ros, the Slovenian Queenie, along with Rodolfo Guzman, Prince of Patagonia, the Atacama Desert and beyond) some others panelling their own countries (Sasu Laukkonen & Filip Langhoff leading as official Finnish Ambassadors) with a little help from their chefs, foragers and friends.

 Fifteen minutes or just a few more were more than enough to make their Ted talk thing fly. Even if Paco Morales and Enrico Crippa pulled videos out of their hats– and not fucking rabbits. That’s an already seen coup de théâtre – it works precisely because it has already been seen. Regardless of what they shared with the crowd, Morales his space trip in time with Al-Andalus cuisine, Crippa the garden esoterics that are the daily roots of his green fingered cuisine in Piazza Duomo (next time we should also screen Derek Jarman’s Garden project), their videos most precisely defined an intriguing reluctance, a distrust into the Power of the Verb. The last attempt to assess the supremacy of the image over the word. They might go a bit more iconoclastic next time.

 A few others took their commitment… by the word. Turning their talk into a stand up. A one-man-show of the sort you’d expect from, say, from Adam Sandler. Or Jesse Eisenberg in full male bonding swing (Life Achievement for Bo Bech and his not once in a lifetime « Boys Week-End out at L’Ambroisie »). Of course, none of the dudes can compete in Ireland with with our American darling Kat Kinsman. If there’s a breach in the Wall of Fame, if there’s a path going backstage, « shedding a light in the darkness » (that’s a quote from David Fincher’s ‘Mindhunter », courtesy of Netflix) of chefs’ life, that’s exactly what Kate has been doing for years. Never mind her former workaholism at CNN Eatocracy & Tasting Table, the book she has written « Hi, Anxiety: Life with a bad case of nerves » is a milestone. The fellow companion to her activist website chefswithissues.com, a plateform where problems usually dismissed behind the kitchen stove (depression, burn out, psychological harassment, you name it…) are brought to daylight.

 We all have our issues. Esben Holmoe Bang, Magnus Nilsson & Nicolai Nørregaard have their own. And, guess what, they all are much the same. How to lead a successful business and yet run a decent life? How to destress and focus on your inner self when you have to be and to do 200 things at the time? How can you turn your restaurant into a life profitable venue? Nørregaard hopes to tell us one day he’s « a recovered workaholic » and good luck to him with that. Nilsson has come up, after a couple of years of thinking about it, with the best perfect plan today: add a few covers, hire more people, cover the wages by raising the prices (« none complained or even noticed that our menus went from 170 to 300 euros »), have a happy team. And accept the idea that even a freak control like Magno Magnus needs to delegate. Aka skip one service or two each week FOR A GOOD REASON (kids, family, becoming one day a grand piano player) without feeling guilty (1).

And Esben Holmboe Bang, on the eve of celebrating his Maeemo’s 7th anniversary, went straight to the point. That is: restaurants « this obsession of us, let’s make it healthy, let’s make it last ». Let’s go to work with the desire to do so, not just because you have to. All for one and one for all and, Wednesday to Saturday lunch and dinner, four days of work plus three days off for everybody. Work less to be more up to, have a life on the side to be more productive at work. Knowing that, each member of the staff gets five days leave per month. Esben has never seen such a violently happy team knocking at the door before. You bet.

Maybe it’s time to reconsider things, time to strip things down, to recompose the puzzle and go unmasked. To talk personal. To imagine other worlds, other ways of being and living. Last year, the particularly unlucky candidate to the French presidential election, Benoît Hamon, proposed not a minimum wage but an « universal income » for all. If restaurants are a little more than spots to get people fed, if they can be islands of autonomy, the theatre of (also personal) experimentation, maybe it’s time to realize the huge inner « behavioural » power they waste. Save the world, save the campesinos, save us from all the Weinsteins of the world if you want – but for Christ’s sake save yourself first.

 Andrea Petrini

 1) By the way, our best buddy Ivan Brincat from Food and Wine Gazette recently tweeted that the day will soon come when perhaps we will all pay a discounted fare in restaurants when the « chef patron » is absent and takes his leave. Should we discuss this matter thoroughly next year at FOTE 2018?

[tattoospw]

Watercolor Tattoos Will Turn Your Body into a Living Canvas watercolor cat tattoo ©️️ tattoo artist Gina Fote 💟❤️💟❤️💟❤️💟

[koriginaladdict]

The Originals last episode reaction

KOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLL IS BACK !!“!”!“ Omg i never realised just how much i missed my favorite original (rebekah too) Yeah those vamps dying my 1st thought was "that’s probably how it happened with kol” and they briught it up too, A+ for continuity But seriously bexy no need to act like that death actually mattered Kol dies : rebekah saves elena’s life billion times and bromance it up with her the whole season, then refuses to help kol get revenge because matt, oh and she canonically mourned him for just 24h Elijah the noble brother knows but doesn’t give a single shit and spends the whole time fucking katherine and when elena shows up he’s sorry for her and jeremy WHO BOTH KILLED KOL and calls her “COMPASSIONATE” then as the episode shows elijah acts all noble with his NO ONE HURTS MY FAMILY AND LIVES, shove your hypocrisy up your a** But when elijah dies kol immediately shows up and tries to help but yeah, kol is the “traitrous liar who only cares about himself” and elijah is “the noble martyr who loves his family” Oh i almost forgot, nice new haircut kol i like it 😏😉 Kol being like “I’m the worst of the worst” yes you are baby 👍 show'em how badass you are But come on everyone blames klaus for evetything LEAVE HIM ALONE 😭😭😭 Of course they wouldn’t tell kol about davina that would require caring about him and the person he loves most but we established that’s crazy talk (only the rest matter) Klaus being like “davina changed she'q not herself” she was doing exactly whzt they always did, kill someone for the greater good how does that make her bad, oh and if elijah wasn’t a complete asshole to everyone from compelling the trinity to killing davina instead of finding another way none of that would’ve happened Kol : *helps klebekah* Dude : *davina* Kol : bye bitches !!! 🏃🏃🏃 Harvest girls : elijah killed us Kol : I’m not my brother 😂😂😂😂😂 Can etrash get any lower ? Of course kol got screwed over that’s nothing i didn’t get used to, planning isn’t his fote at all But come on nola people are actinv mike a broken record “oh you mikaelsons are bad oh you’re so evil we’ll do more unnecessary damage to prove a point” ughhhh I love how when klaus is “i’ll do whatever it takes for my family” he’s bad and regressing and using it as an excuse but when elijah is reckless and always causes more problems “that’s what makes him the best of us all” yeah sure jan That flashback was so cuteee omg klebekol are the best. See how happy they are when you’re not being a douche ? Is it so hard for you not to let any of them rot in a coffin? Freya “we’ll kill marcel for elijah” ugh and they xonder xhy she’s so unlikable, freya and elijah are the duo that ruins everything out of selfishness and stupidity omg imagine if the riginals was all about klaus kol a d bekah as mains instead ? Fun and badass and no assholery to ruin everything And last but not least DAVINAAAAAA IS BACKKKKKKKKKKKK Yes that’s my boy davina brought you back that’s the least you could do !!!! Although the hollow is not making it easy, does it mean that kol will turn on his family? Honestly i have no problem with that (i’ll feel a bit bad for klaus then rebekah) but idk he needs to unlink them first, or maybe davina won’t be herself at all by s5 and she’ll be an antaginist? But seriously if it’ll come down to “elijah or davina” pretty sure kol won’t hesitate, but idk i hope she stays alive davina didn’t deserve to die

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I HATED tog so much, I'm so glad I'm not alone!!!

[ ALSO the lumatere chronicles are soooooo good wait till you read FotE there is no better book, I swear!! (A little exaggerated but the sentiment is true) -tog hating anon ]I!! Have!! Been!!Meaningtoreplytothisforsolongimreallyreallyorryyyy I really hope this "tog hating anon" as you lovingly named yourself somehow sees my reply bc I have some things to say!! Firstly WE SHOULD BE FRIENDS, and I literally mean that just send me a message about what book you're reading at the moment or smth bc I'm sure I'll love it if you didn't love tog & love marchetta. Also, turns out there is a WHOOOLE #antitog tag and it is MY LIFE, it's not negative ?? It just points out the flaws & refers back to the beautiful times when things were as they should have stayeD and it makes me feel not alone so please follow that ❤Ohmygod I loved Finnikin of the Rock more than I ever thought. It was perfect. 5* totally, and I can't wait to delve into the rest but: do Finnikin and Evangeline* still make appearances in the following books???? I'm not ready to say goodbye 😢😢 and you know what, from how much I loved FOTR i wouldn't be surprised if it was one of my favourite books/series ever🙈

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Will There Be Internships This Summer?

May 21, 2020 11 min read

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Image Credit: Siren’s Call PR

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

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

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

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

Image Credit: Amanda Fotes

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

Related: Every Entrepreneur Should Be An Intern First

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

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

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

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

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

Image Credit: Unadilla Community Farm

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Will There Be Internships This Summer?

May 21, 2020 11 min read

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Image Credit: Siren’s Call PR

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

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

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

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

Image Credit: Amanda Fotes

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

Related: Every Entrepreneur Should Be An Intern First

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

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

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

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

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

Image Credit: Unadilla Community Farm

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Will There Be Internships This Summer?

May 21, 2020 11 min read

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Image Credit: Siren’s Call PR

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

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

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

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

Image Credit: Amanda Fotes

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

Related: Every Entrepreneur Should Be An Intern First

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

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

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

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

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

Image Credit: Unadilla Community Farm

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Will There Be Internships This Summer?

May 21, 2020 11 min read

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Image Credit: Siren’s Call PR

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

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

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

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

Image Credit: Amanda Fotes

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

Related: Every Entrepreneur Should Be An Intern First

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

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

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

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

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

Image Credit: Unadilla Community Farm

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

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

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

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

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

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

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