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Posted 19, May, 2013

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Sweden’s best wants to change the views on football
Article by Max Wiman, published on November 28, 2011

The French words, when she’s talking to the waitress, flow as unhindered as her runs on the pitch and it becomes natural to ask: Do you feel more French or Swedish?
— Swedish! There are things here concerning gender equality and women’s issues that I will never understand.

Lotta Schelin was actually about to say “au revoir”. For a couple of hours we have been walking around in Lyon and had coffee in the most French environment imaginable. We have discussed the feelings around getting the Diamond Ball (Swedish Player of the Year award) for a second time, football successes 2011 in the league, in Champions League and in the World Cup, and also talked about the future.

Then Lotta takes us back fourty years.

— Here in France they ask questions that no longer exist in Sweden. We reflect, they do not. The fixation with appearances is so deeply rooted it is considered normal here, as a compliment. 

”Garçon manqué” is an expression that makes Lotta Schelin see red.

— It means something like “tomboy”.  In a TV interview the first question I got was what I did to retain my femininity in a sport for ”garçon manqué”. 

All the way into the club, where the President so purposely has ventured on the women, Lotta Schelin sees the differences.

— When they did a campaign to market the club, there was a girl in the form of a paper doll. She had nothing to do with the team, they had found her in the office, model-like, busty. Then I hit the roof, but not a damn person reacted. 

At the same time Lotta Schelin loves both the city of Lyon and the club that she has been representing for the past four years.

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Reblogged from epouvante  70,535 notes
Posted 9, May, 2013

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If grandmothers around the world had a rallying cry, it would probably sound something like “You need to eat!”

Photographer Gabriele Galimberti’s grandmother said something similar to him before one of his many globetrotting work trips. To ensure he had at least one good meal, she prepared for him a dish of ravioli before he departed on one of his adventures.  

“In that occasion I said to my grandma ‘You know, Grandma, there are many other grandmas around the world and most of them are really good cooks,” Galimberti wrote via email. “I’m going to meet them and ask them to cook for me so I can show you that you don’t have to be worried for me and the food that I will eat!’ This is the way my project was born!”

The project, “Delicatessen With Love”, took Galimberti to 58 countries where he photographed grandmothers with both the ingredients and finished signature dishes.

He acted as photographer and stylist during each shoot with the grandmothers, taking a portrait of both the women and the food they made for him.

From top to bottom: 

Inara Runtule, 68, Kekava, Latvia. Silke €(herring with potatoes and cottage cheese).

Grace Estibero, 82, Mumbai, India. Chicken vindaloo.

Susann Soresen, 81, Homer, Alaska. Moose steak.

Serette Charles, 63, Saint-Jean du Sud, Haiti. Lambi in creole sauce.

The photographer’s grandmother Marisa Batini, 80, Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy. Swiss chard and ricotta Ravioli with meat sauce.

Normita Sambu Arap, 65, Oltepessi (Masaai Mara), Kenya. Mboga and orgali (white corn polenta with vegetables and goat).

Julia Enaigua, 71, La Paz, Bolivia. Queso Humacha (vegetables and fresh cheese soup).

Fifi Makhmer, 62, Cairo, Egypt. Kuoshry (pasta, rice and legumes pie).

Isolina Perez De Vargas, 83, Mendoza, Argentina. Asado criollo (mixed meats barbecue).

Bisrat Melake, 60, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Enjera with curry and vegetables.

Reblogged from 101110  1,317 notes
Posted 8, May, 2013
stfuconservatives: questionall: Since the dawn of man (or, perhaps capitalism), workers and management have disagreed on the impact of raising wages. For workers making less than $10 an hour, a few extra bucks a week can make a huge difference in terms of quality of life.  Management, on the other hand, predictably suggests that raising wages kills jobs and inhibits hiring and man hours. Despite the perception that minimum wage jobs are often held by teenage workers entering the job market, numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) indicate that 49 percent of minimum wage workers are adult women, many of whom have children.   With this as the backdrop, the National Employment Law Center (NELP) has published a list of the 50 U.S. companies who have the most low wage workers.  While not all of these companies pay the exact minimum wage they all pay very close to the wage floor.  As you can see by the list, the companies listed also share a common trait of being massive, successful companies making major profits. Perhaps their universally low labor costs have something to do with that trend? As expected, America’s largest employer, Wal-Mart, tops the list.  NELP’s study looks into the genetic makeup of this dishonorable mention, and notes the majority (66 percent) of low‐wage workers are not employed by small businesses, but rather by large corporations where top executive compensation averaged $9.4 million. The 50 largest employers of low‐wage workers have largely recovered from the recession and most are in strong financial positions: 92 percent were profitable last year; 78 percent have been profitable for the last three years; 75 percent have higher revenues now than before the recession; 73 percent have higher cash holdings; and 63 percent have higher operating margins(a measure of profitability). $174.8 billion to shareholders in dividends or share buybacks over the past five years. The largest companies in America have, for the most part, recovered from the recession while their workers are still feeling its entire effects. It is safe to say that we should soundly reject the argument that raising the minimum wage would harm large corporations. They don’t know harm well enough to claim it. Via Making Change At Walmart: “According to a 2011 report (PDF), if Walmart started paying a $12/hour minimum wage, its workers currently earning less than $9 per hour could each earn $3,250 to $6,500 more per year before taxes. If Walmart were to pass this cost directly to shoppers, the average consumer would need to pay only 46 cents more per shopping trip, or $12.50 per year.” Walmart could pay all of their employees a living wage (or close to it, at least) without losing a dime. Oh, and it would help out the federal budget a bit: roughly 80% of Walmart employees are on food stamps because they’re paid so little. Walmart is taking advantage of government-funded social programs to make up for what they choose not to pay their employees. Obama and Pelosi need to bring back the minimum wage increase proposals, stat.

stfuconservatives:

questionall:

Since the dawn of man (or, perhaps capitalism), workers and management have disagreed on the impact of raising wages. For workers making less than $10 an hour, a few extra bucks a week can make a huge difference in terms of quality of life.  Management, on the other hand, predictably suggests that raising wages kills jobs and inhibits hiring and man hours.

Despite the perception that minimum wage jobs are often held by teenage workers entering the job market, numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) indicate that 49 percent of minimum wage workers are adult women, many of whom have children.  

With this as the backdrop, the National Employment Law Center (NELP) has published a list of the 50 U.S. companies who have the most low wage workers.  While not all of these companies pay the exact minimum wage they all pay very close to the wage floor.  As you can see by the list, the companies listed also share a common trait of being massive, successful companies making major profits. Perhaps their universally low labor costs have something to do with that trend?

As expected, America’s largest employer, Wal-Mart, tops the list.  NELP’s study looks into the genetic makeup of this dishonorable mention, and notes the majority (66 percent) of low‐wage workers are not employed by small businesses, but rather by large corporations where top executive compensation averaged $9.4 million.

The 50 largest employers of low‐wage workers have largely recovered from the recession and most are in strong financial positions: 92 percent were profitable last year; 78 percent have been profitable for the last three years; 75 percent have higher revenues now than before the recession; 73 percent have higher cash holdings; and 63 percent have higher operating margins(a measure of profitability).

$174.8 billion to shareholders in dividends or share buybacks over the past five years.

The largest companies in America have, for the most part, recovered from the recession while their workers are still feeling its entire effects. It is safe to say that we should soundly reject the argument that raising the minimum wage would harm large corporations. They don’t know harm well enough to claim it.

Via Making Change At Walmart: “According to a 2011 report (PDF), if Walmart started paying a $12/hour minimum wage, its workers currently earning less than $9 per hour could each earn $3,250 to $6,500 more per year before taxes. If Walmart were to pass this cost directly to shoppers, the average consumer would need to pay only 46 cents more per shopping trip, or $12.50 per year.”

Walmart could pay all of their employees a living wage (or close to it, at least) without losing a dime. Oh, and it would help out the federal budget a bit: roughly 80% of Walmart employees are on food stamps because they’re paid so little. Walmart is taking advantage of government-funded social programs to make up for what they choose not to pay their employees.

Obama and Pelosi need to bring back the minimum wage increase proposals, stat.

Reblogged from 2brwngrls  16,249 notes
Posted 6, May, 2013

so-treu:

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