Amazon Used Deals Finder by Caitlyn Pascal British Airways Creates New Luxurious First Class Cabin British Airways is showing off their new first class cabin. Simply named First, the new cabin includes a personal wardrobe, a bed which is almost half again as wide as the previous one, leather-bound writing table and personal electronic blinds and is being installed on a B777 which flies from London Heathrow to Chicago O' Hare. Seats are 60 percent wider at the shoulder and the lighting system is designed to recreate the subtlety of natural light throughout the day to help you feel more relaxed. When you are ready to sleep you can don cotton pajamas and request turndown service in which the seat is made into a fully flat bed with a single–piece quilted mattress, white 400–thread Egyptian cotton duvet and pillow. The First cabin also comes with products including eye gel, lip balm and moisturizer from D.R. [via Breaking Travel News ]
Ten Must Read Tips to Start a Small Business Blog - Online Marke A friend of mine who is an experienced corporate marketer started a new business. The store just opened and being the good pal that I am, I was able to provide some advice regarding marketing on the web – specifically regarding blog marketing. This is a new small business, so1 considerations for what to do about a web site included: cost, functionality, flexibility, ease of maintenance and marketability. The web site needed to serve as both an online representation of the business, but without transactional functionality, as well as a host for landing pages used with email and PPC campaigns. My recommendation for a low cost, easy to use and search engine friendly content management system? Blog software. Something along those lines happened with my friend’s blog. What was the issue? However, picking a third party domain for the blog address violates one of the most important rules in sustainable blogging: Always host the blog address with a domain name you control. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
The Greediness of Brain Drain The phrase “brain drain” used to mean, in the 1950s and ‘60s, the flight of professionally-trained people from dictatorships to find opportunity in the U.S. and other Western countries. Now “brain drain” is used in American media to mean an active U.S. government policy to attract foreign entrepreneurs, scientists, physicians, nurses and other skilled laborers in short supply to the U.S. Behind this push for a “great sucking sound” are companies like Intel, Google, Microsoft, and Pfizer, with their media cheerleaders like Tom Friedman of the New York Times, and members of Congress like Kansas Republican Congressman Jerry Moran and Virginia Democratic Senator Mark Warner. The arguments for a deliberate “magnet brain drain,” are porcine. Our companies need these skills. The foreigners have these skills and we want them here where they can flourish, and create profits and jobs. Now we see the grossest of contradictions.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - Enclothed cognition <div pearltreesdevid="PTD135" role="alert" class="alert-message-container"><div pearltreesdevid="PTD136" aria-hidden="true" class="alert-message-body"><span pearltreesdevid="PTD137" style="display: inline-block;" class="Icon IconAlert"><svg pearltreesDevId="PTD138" style="width: 100%; height: 100%;" width="24" height="24" focusable="false" tabindex="-1" fill="currentColor"><path pearltreesDevId="PTD139" fill="#f80" d="M11.84 4.63c-.77.05-1.42.6-1.74 1.27-1.95 3.38-3.9 6.75-5.85 10.13-.48.83-.24 1.99.53 2.56.7.6 1.66.36 2.5.41 3.63 0 7.27.01 10.9-.01 1.13-.07 2.04-1.28 1.76-2.39-.1-.58-.56-1.02-.81-1.55-1.85-3.21-3.69-6.43-5.55-9.64-.42-.52-1.06-.83-1.74-.79z"></path><path pearltreesDevId="PTD140" d="M11 8h2v5h-2zM11 14h2v2h-2z"></path></svg></span><!-- react-text: 55 -->JavaScript is disabled on your browser. Please enable JavaScript to use all the features on this page.<!-- /react-text --></div></div> Abstract Highlights Keywords Embodied cognition Clothing Lab coat Attention Check Access
Broad New Hacking Attack Detected Chomsky: "Jobs aren't coming back" - Occupy Wall Street The Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development. Unprecedented, in fact. There’s never been anything like it that I can think of. If the bonds and associations it has established can be sustained through a long, dark period ahead — because victory won’t come quickly — it could prove a significant moment in American history. The fact that the Occupy movement is unprecedented is quite appropriate. I’m just old enough to remember the Great Depression. There was militant labor union organizing going on, especially from the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations). It’s quite different now. In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back. The change took place in the 1970s. Along with that came a significant shift of the economy from productive enterprise — producing things people need or could use — to financial manipulation. On Banks Before the 1970s, banks were banks. And it was egalitarian. On Politics and Money
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - Interacting with women can impair men’s cognitive functioning <div pearltreesdevid="PTD138" role="alert" class="alert-message-container"><div pearltreesdevid="PTD139" aria-hidden="true" class="alert-message-body"><span pearltreesdevid="PTD140" style="display: inline-block;" class="Icon IconAlert"><svg pearltreesDevId="PTD141" style="width: 100%; height: 100%;" width="24" height="24" focusable="false" tabindex="-1" fill="currentColor"><path pearltreesDevId="PTD142" fill="#f80" d="M11.84 4.63c-.77.05-1.42.6-1.74 1.27-1.95 3.38-3.9 6.75-5.85 10.13-.48.83-.24 1.99.53 2.56.7.6 1.66.36 2.5.41 3.63 0 7.27.01 10.9-.01 1.13-.07 2.04-1.28 1.76-2.39-.1-.58-.56-1.02-.81-1.55-1.85-3.21-3.69-6.43-5.55-9.64-.42-.52-1.06-.83-1.74-.79z"></path><path pearltreesDevId="PTD143" d="M11 8h2v5h-2zM11 14h2v2h-2z"></path></svg></span><!-- react-text: 58 -->JavaScript is disabled on your browser. Please enable JavaScript to use all the features on this page.<!-- /react-text --></div></div> Abstract Keywords Mixed-sex interaction Cognitive functioning Self-presentation
School Allegedly Spied On Kids In Their Homes -- InformationWeek Web cams in laptops provided a school district with compromising photos of minors in their homes, a lawsuit claims. A Pennsylvania family last week filed a lawsuit against the Lower Merion School District for spying on their child at home using a Web cam in a school-issued laptop. The lawsuit, brought by Michael E. Robbins and Holly S. Robbins on behalf of their minor son Blake Robbins, alleges that the school district invaded their privacy and stolen private information in violation of various computer fraud and privacy laws. The complaint claims that Lindy Matsko, assistant principal of Harriton High School, informed the Robbins' son that the School District believed he "was engaged in improper behavior in his home, and cited as evidence a photograph from the Web cam embedded in [his] personal laptop issued by the School District." Attorneys representing the plaintiffs did not return a call seeking comment. More Insights
JPMorgan Chase Fought Rule on Risky Trading Jim Young/Reuters JPMorgan’s trading mistakes “were self-inflicted, and this is not how we want to run a business,” said Jamie Dimon, above, the bank’s chief executive. The bank’s shares tumbled 9.3 percent on Friday. Several visits over months by the bank’s well-connected chief executive, , and his top aides were aimed at persuading regulators to create a loophole in the law, known as the . Even after the official draft of the Volcker Rule regulations was released last October, JPMorgan and other banks continued their full-court press to avoid limits. In early February, a group of JPMorgan executives met with Federal Reserve officials and warned that anything but a loose interpretation of the trading ban would hurt the bank’s hedging activities, according to a person with knowledge of the meeting. In the February meeting was Ina Drew, the head of JPMorgan’s chief investment office, the unit that suffered the $2 billion loss. JPMorgan officials declined to comment for this article.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - Don't you know that you want to trust me? Subliminal goal priming and persuasion Abstract We investigated the effect of goal priming on the processing of a persuasive message. Before reading a persuasive message about tap water consumption, participants were subliminally primed (or not) with the goal “to trust”. Research highlights ► Subliminal priming of the goal “to trust” enhanced the persuasiveness of a subsequently displayed message. ► Participants primed with the goal of trusting evaluated more positively the message and its source. ► Primed participants also expressed more behavioral intentions in line with the message. ► The goal “to trust” is a general goal that can influence information processing and persuasion. Keywords Goal priming; Persuasion; Subliminal Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Inc.
Google slapped with class-action lawsuit over Buzz News February 18, 2010 02:57 PM ET Computerworld - A Florida woman yesterday filed a class-action lawsuit against Google Inc., charging that the new Buzz social networking tool set violates the privacy rights of users. Eva Hibnick, a resident of Sarasota County, Fla., filed the suit in a San Jose, Calif., federal court on behalf of herself and the approximately 31 million U.S. users of Google's popular Gmail e-mail service. According to the class action complaint, "Google Buzz made private data belonging to Gmail users publicly available without the users' knowledge or authorization. Hibnick is seeking unspecified damages and is asking the court to prevent Google from offering Buzz without "appropriate safeguards, default provisions and opt-in mechanisms." In an e-mail to Computerworld, Google said it has not yet been served with the lawsuit and would not comment until the complaint has been received and reviewed.