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French/Peruvian clothes company Misericordia policies: ”The hourly rate salary of Misericordia’s workers is 35% higher the Peruvian minimum salary. Each employee receives a 15 months income (11 months of salary, 1 month of paid-vacation, 2 months of bonus and 1 month due to their future retirement and benefits of a health insurance. often based on the Peruvian minimum salary. The main objective of Misericordia is also to support each employee in his personal development by offering him some help beyond the financial part. Misericordia refuses to differentiate the salaries among men and women. Vacation maternities and paternities are set up. It should be underlined here that often in Peru , the young mothers are alone to raise their children and their situation is often very tough. Overtime is recovered by days off, in order not to overload the timetable of each worker and keep him close to his family.”
No details. Sorry! WK Interact Versus Obey Giant via YouTube.
DN: Sveriges största biltillverkare går ihop
“VOLVO V70 är sedan många år Sveriges mest sålda bil och Ahlgrens är också en mångårig bästsäljare när det gäller godisbilar. Nu blir godisbilarna av märket Volvo.”
“These submarine telecommunication cables extend more than 8,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean before reaching this endpoint in Avon, New Jersey. They transmit as many as 60 million simultaneous conversations.” Photographer Taryn Simon Shoots America’s Best-Kept Secrets
The photographer Boogie seems to go everywhere and take photos of everything. He even manages to squeeze in some commission work from time to time.
…I’ll beat the hell out of Spike Jonez. Where the Wild Things Are will be released in October 2008.
While Aubrey de Grey is spreading his longevity word on Facebook, others come up with alternative solutions to lengthen our life-span. Here’s, for example, Lore Sjöberg’s take on “Easy Ways to End All Diseases Immediately (and Forever)”.
While this is all very nice (and in Lore’s case…quite amusing), I wonder how living forever must feel? Doesn’t it get boring, after a while? Wouldn’t it feel like watching television in a world where they stopped making shows in the 80s? Eternal reruns? Consider for a moment the elves in LOTR. Even though they’re smiling, at least when the camera is rolling, it must be agonisingly boring hearing the same old bloody song being slaughtered by drunk hobbit nitwits again and again and again and again over the millennias.
New trailer available at IGN: Grand Theft Auto IV .
Jeremy Fish’s skateboards…
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