Flood Brings Employment Opportunities
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Last week’s flood has created a booming business for the region’s 1-800-Get-Junk franchises. They’ve been hauling ruined furniture and other stuff out of basements and garages on a nonstop basis for the past seven days.
David Fitts, who heads up the Yonkers office, said he’s been so busy that he’s in the process of hiring more workers. His franchise serves Yonkers, Bronxville, Eastchester, Tuckahoe, Hastings and the Fleetwood section of Mount Vernon.
“We’ve been extremely busy,” he said. “I’ve been in business for 18 months so this is my second spring of operation. Obviously, you see a natural growth in your business as we come out of the winter months into the springtime months. It’s been compounded in a fairly busy way by the fact that we had that major nor’easter.”
He estimated that last week he collected five more tons of junk than normal. That’s how great the demand has been.
To help out, he’s looking for big strong guys who “have a good customer service and sales way about them and can operate the truck.” The pay is above minimum wage.
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Two new studies show why some people are more attractive for members of the opposite sex than others.
The University of Florida, Florida State University found that physically attractive people almost instantly attract the attention of the interlocutor, sobesednitsy with them, literally, it is difficult to make eye. This conclusion was reached by a series of psychological experiments, which were determined by the people who believe in sending the first seconds after the acquaintance. Here, a curious feature: single, unmarried experimental preferred to look at the guys, beauty opposite sex, and family, people most often by representatives of their sex.
The authors believe that this feature developed a behavior as a result of the evolution: a man trying to find a decent pair to acquire offspring. If this is resolved, he wondered potential rivals. Detailed information about this magazine will be published Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
In turn, a joint study of the Rockefeller University, Rockefeller University and Duke University, Duke University in North Carolina revealed that women are perceived differently by men smell. During experiments studied the perception of women one of the ingredients of male pheromone-androstenona smell, which is contained in urine or sweat.
The results were startling: women are part of this repugnant odor, and the other part is very attractive, resembling the smell of vanilla, and the third group have not felt any smell. The authors argue that the reason is that the differences in the receptor responsible for the olfactory system, from different people are different.
It has long been proven that mammals (including human) odor is one way of attracting the attention of representatives of the opposite sex. A detailed article about the journal Nature will publish.