It is relatively common for companies to impose strict codes for the appearance of front-line staff in an attempt to reinforce their brand, but news reports of two recent discrimination cases highlight the potential pitfalls of adopting such a policy.    In the first case, Abercrombie & Fitch is being sued for disability discrimination by one of its British shop workers, Riam Dean, who claims she was forced to hide in a back room because she has a prosthetic arm.  The chain requires its shop assistants to wear each season’s key look.  Initially she was permitted to wear a cardigan to hide the prosthesis but Miss Dean claims she was repeatedly told off for wearing the cardigan and was eventually consigned to the stockroom by a manager and accused  of breaking the look policy.

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Discrimination: is beauty in the eye of the beholder?

At Healthcare Renewal and at numerous other healthcare blogs, we write about academic and industry conflicts of interest, malfeasance, and other topics in the hopes that there are leaders within organizations who might correct the wrongs that result from such conflicts and behaviors.

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Yale, Van Gogh’s "The Night Cafe" and Personal Property: What’s Mine is Mine, and What’s Yours is Mine

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A noisy Italian disco may not seem like a conducive location for scientific experiments, but for a couple of researchers investigating hearing and language processing it was perfect. The undercover scientists studied clubbers who were trying to talk while the music was pumping, and found that they showed a decided preference for speaking into each other’s right ears. What’s more, when the researchers approached clubbers with a request for a cigarette, they found the unwitting test subjects we…

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Clubbers More Likely to Give Cigarettes If You Ask Their Right Ears

When the National Academies of Science recently looked at the potential for renewable energy deployment in the states, its expert panel made some reasonable assumptions, such as limits imposed by manufacturing capacity and the current electric grid. This week, the NAS Proceedings will see the publication of a paper that considers what would happen if we dropped reasonableness from the analysis and calculated what we might achieve if we pushed wind power to its maximal capac…

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Potential wind power is 23 times current US electricity use

Hotlinking , as you probably know, occurs when people embed files in their web pages that are otherwise hosted on someone else’s web server. Some photo sharing sites (e.g., Flickr) allow hotlinking as long as you link to the original source of the image but in most other cases, hotlinking sites will almost always increase the bandwidth use of the other site.

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Find Sites That Are Hotlinking to your Amazon S3 Files

This past Sunday, CSR sent two chefs out to the Colorado Fresh Farmers’ Market in Denver for the first time (hint: we’re sharing a booth with Kaiser Permanente so look for the green tent). Chef Kirby and Chef James were out at the City Park Farmers’ Market making Walla Walla Onion, Heirloom Tomato and Buffalo Mozzarella Salad.  Every week our Chefs will pick up a “mystery market basket” from the farmers and be whipping up tasty treats and samples on the fly

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Check Out CSR At The Colorado Fresh Markets

If you have an affiliate internet home based business and you seriously want to make money with it, then you really need to consider investing in a top-quality ad tracking program. This is one item that is of paramount importance in keeping control of your business growth, as it will help you to improve the performance of all your links and advertisements.

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Why the Use of an Ad Tracker is Vital for Your Legitimate Internet Based Business

I’ve already introduced you to some of the most common network attacks like the IP address sweep, port scanning, and IP spoofing. I have also recently covered the ping of death and other network attacks , including the SYN flood, UDP flood, ICMP flood and the teardrop attack. Now that we have the basic Denial of Service Attacks (aka DoS attacks) and the Reconnaissance Attacks out of the way, let’s talk about other types of network attacks.

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CCNA Security: What You Need to Know About Network Attacks

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How I wish it were possible to meet other people’s behavior in kind without having to think of oneself as equally churlish. It irritates me to feel obliged to take the high road, even though I know it’s the right thing to do, and the only realistic option, when others are ignorant, unresponsive, unreliable, rude, ungenerous, thoughtless or so wedded to their own agendas that the mere hint of a differing viewpoint pushes them to dizzying heights of defensive anger and uncivilized restatement or to awkward depths of sulky withdrawal. I would give a lot never again to have to deal with people who, as William James put it, think they are thinking when all they are really doing is rearranging their prejudices

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A Howl at the Moon

Next month marks the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, when NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin boarded the lunar module and took one small step for man on the surface of the moon. There are lots of activities planned to commemorate this historic event, but Aldrin’s taken a distinctly quirkier approach: he’s made a hip-hop video with Snoop Dogg and Talib Kweli (of Black Star fame), with the proceeds going to benefit various space exploration foundations.Even better, F…

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"All You Need is the Rocket Experience…"

What I wanted to talk about yesterday, before I got distracted, was a mix of things that came out of last Monday’s ALPSP meeting, a paper in PLoS One and this whole assessment schtick that we’ve got going on. We know, don’t we, that the Impact Factor as a measure of an individual scientist’s productivity is deeply flawed. Some might go as far as to say it’s flawed fundamentally and should be ditched forthwith: after all it is prone to gaming, unduly skewed by review articles, does not demonst…

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On article-level metrics and other animals

Dunkin Does Tech Right While Starbucks turned to technology to “improve” their brewed coffee by installing $10,000 Clover 1 coffee machines in some of their stores last year, Dunkin Donuts is putting tech know-how where it matters to their customers – making it easy to do a Dunkin Run. If you’ve ever been the guy or gal on the run end of the Dunkin Run, you know what it’s like trying to keep all the orders straight. Large French Vanilla with one sugar

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Dunkin Run iPhone App

Last month, US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer spoke in an engaging panel discussion on the role of art and architecture in civic spheres at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. He talked about the design of Boston’s federal courthouse: an effort that strove to create a building that was accessible and inviting to the people, so that they would recognize it as a public space— their space—and use it.

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Civic Spheres, Open Government

Do you turn off the computer when you are done for the day? Great if you replied yes but if you aren’t in the habit of shutting down the computer at the end of the work day, you aren’t just wasting money (through electricity bills) but the laziness on your part is making an impact on the environment as well. From a 2009 report : If 100 users remembered to turn off their computers at the end of their work day, this could reduce carbon dioxide emissions by an amount equivalent to taking 2.14 cars off the road in a month

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Desktop Widget Reminds You to Shutdown the Computer

Letsplaychess.com presents Puzzle Coffee break #2 – A relaxing interlude, Part 2 of 2

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When I heard there was going to be an inaugural voyage for the recently refubished Club Med 2 sailboat, I was so excited to go, that I actually invited myself to come along. Since the trip was a press preview, with a sprinkling of the rich and perhaps famous to rub elbows with, and since I lived so close, I saw no reason why I shouldn’t be able to easily race down to catch some sunshine, and participate in the buzz—cruising past St

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Coasting la Côte

MLM.toptierreport.com The ‘Top Tier Report’ reveals the difference between Silpada Jewelry and top tier direct sales – who’s making money and WHY it’s faster to earn a significant income in top tier direct sales companies… …by taking the same level of ACTION in your business.

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A bunch of interesting Twitterers aggregated in NYC a couple of days ago at the 140 characters conference, discussing various aspects of and uses of Twitter. One of the sessions was about Twitter and Science, led by @thesciencebabe and @jayhawkbabe. I am very jealous I could not be there, but we can all watch the video of their session: Happy to see the last slide, with @PLoS as one of the recommended Twitter streams to follow for those interested in science

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Twitter and Science presentation from the 140 Characters Conference