President Bush and King Abdullah have spent some time talking about he upcoming OPEC meeting. Bush hopes to get King Abdullah to persuade the other oil producing countries to increase production to stop the rising gasoline prices. The story I read says Bush is making an arms deal with the Saudis in an effort to help stabilize the region particularly with Iran’s increasing rise in power.
President Bush also wants to get support for the Israel - Palestine peace talks.
Okay folks, this one you have got to read to believe but I will get a try at explaining it. Researchers from the California Institute of Technology and Stanford’s business school have directly seen that the sensation of pleasantness that people experience when tasting wine is linked directly to its price. What is the really funny part of this study is that pricing a $10 wine at $90 the study group found more pleasure in the taste of the wine!
“Contrary to the basic assumptions of economics, several studies have provided behavioral evidence that marketing actions can successfully affect experienced pleasantness by manipulating nonintrinsic attributes of goods. For example, knowledge of a beer’s ingredients and brand can affect reported taste quality, and the reported enjoyment of a film is influenced by expectations about its quality,” the researchers said. “Even more intriguingly, changing the price at which an energy drink is purchased can influence the ability to solve puzzles.”
Read the article here.
Hamilton Township will join a growing number of area throughout the country that have surveillance cameras in business district. The Bromley neighborhood business owner, off of Nottingham Way, have agreed to fun a network of security cameras they hope will deter crime and revitalize the area.
The township will be hanging a road sign reminding visitors that Hamilton police also has video surveillance in the area. The businesses have raised over $100,000 for the cameras and they should be operational in a few weeks.
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