My good friend Eryk Salvaggio has been blogging about the ex-pat life in Japan for the past two years. The Japan Times caught up with him, and this awesome interview is the result. Read the interview, and read Eryk’s Blog, This Japanese Life.
The CW Orders a Full Season of ‘Arrow’ Based on DC Comics’ Emerald Archer
By Graeme McMillan
Someone at the CW must really, really like Oliver Queen. After a multi-year stint as a supporting character on the long-running Smallville, the television network has promoted Green Arrow to star status with the announcement of a series order for the hour-long show Arrow.
Awesome. Green Arrow rules.
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Work Is Work: Why Free Internships Are Immoral
The Labor Department’s guidelines require that internships must resemble an education rather than a job; that interns cannot work in the place of paid employees; that their their work not be of “immediate benefit” to an employer. If you’ve ever had an unpaid internship, you know that these rules are flouted more routinely than speed limits. But rather than hold up these rules as quixotic laws begging to be violated and laughed at, ask yourself three questions:
Is there no overlap between paid and unpaid work at your company?
Can you deny that unpaid internships deny to low-income students an experience that many employers consider mandatory?
Would a minimum wage salary paid to a handful of students compromise your company’s financial position?
I cannot imagine an honest person with passing knowledge of unpaid internships in America answering any of those three questions “yes.”
Work is work, no matter who does it. It ought to be paid.
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Work Is Work: Why Free Internships Are Immoral
The Labor Department’s guidelines require that internships must resemble an education rather than a job; that interns cannot work in the place of paid employees; that their their work not be of “immediate benefit” to an employer. If you’ve ever had an unpaid internship, you know that these rules are flouted more routinely than speed limits. But rather than hold up these rules as quixotic laws begging to be violated and laughed at, ask yourself three questions:
I cannot imagine an honest person with passing knowledge of unpaid internships in America answering any of those three questions “yes.”
- Is there no overlap between paid and unpaid work at your company?
- Can you deny that unpaid internships deny to low-income students an experience that many employers consider mandatory?
- Would a minimum wage salary paid to a handful of students compromise your company’s financial position?
Work is work, no matter who does it. It ought to be paid.
Read more. [Image: Reuters]
I’m in @dispatchzine. Look at those ankles! (Taken with instagram)
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“I was slow to come around to social media. I cover stories, I don’t have time to be tweeting people five times an hour. Besides that I don’t think anybody’s interested where I got my hamburger today at lunch or some other important news bulletin. But I say that only half jokingly because I have found that it is another venue, it’s another pipeline if you will, to people who are interested in news.” — Journalist Dan Rather in a radio interview with NPR member station KETR. (via ericathas)
When will we be done with the whole “Twitter is stupid because no one cares what I ate for lunch” line? Social media has more than proven itself.
(via npr)
finalgirldom asked: Thanks for your kind words and well wishes, Mario.
Of course. Congratulations again.
Jaime Cerullo and I are engaged to be married.
Here is an announcement that Kris Johnsen designed.
It has all been fast, I know, but it has been a wonderful ride and I look forward to the road ahead. As Neil said of it all, “It has been quick but when you know it’s the one there is no point in pretending otherwise.” As Arielle said (and as I said of her and Neil when they announced their engagement), “It all just makes sense.”
Jaime has a 3-year-old daughter named Taylor. I call her “Nugget” as a term of endearment, and this life maneuver will make me a step father, which is a heart-warming bucket of hilarious to me as much as it this news will be to you.Food Coma TV co-host Joel Beauchamp will officiate the ceremony which will be held at SPACE Gallery this summer. I am pretty sure The Outfits are playing.
I think that is all.
Big congratulations to Food Coma TV maestro, REFUSED fan and all-around good guy, Alex Steed. I’ve talked with Alex for stories a couple of times, and he’s always been a peach. Good luck, sir.