A UBS spokesman acknowledged to the WSJ that the detailed code may appear “in line with Swiss precision,” but said that the dress code was a pilot program affecting just a small fraction of the bank’s staff, and was originally set up for temporary staffers who may be new to working in banking.

More details of the UBS dress code, from the WSJ article:

Do’s

For women:
Wear your jacket buttoned.
When sitting, the buttons should be unfastened.
Make sure to touch up hair regrowth regularly if you color your hair.

For men:
Store your suit on a large hanger with rounded shoulders to preserve the shape of the garment.
Schedule barber appointments every four weeks to maintain your haircut shape.

Don’ts
Eating garlic and onions
Smoking or spending time in smoke-filled places
Wearing short-sleeved shirts or cuff links
Wearing socks that are too short, showing your skin while sitting
Allowing underwear to be seen
Touching up perfume during or after lunch break

Insight 4: Listen, don’t’ solve

Women like to vent about their problems. Why? We just want someone to listen to us and take an interest in what’s going on in our lives. Sometimes there are problems you can help us solve but for the most part, we just want you to listen.

Higher temperatures and more variable rainfall associated with climate change will produce agricultural "winners and losers", threatening a 20 percent rise in worldwide malnutrition and increasing the need to move food supplies around the globe, leading agricultural scientists said on Wednesday.

Northern countries will likely enjoy boosts in production through 2020 as a result of global warming, while southern regions including East and West Africa and India's breadbasket will suffer declines, particularly in rain-fed crops, said Andy Jarvis, an agriculture policy expert at the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture, based in Cali, Colombia.

Another brilliant study by Bargh and colleagues concerned haptic sensations (I had to look the word up — haptic: related to the sense of touch). Volunteers were asked to evaluate the resumes of supposed job applicants where, as the critical variable, the resume was attached to a clipboard of one of two different weights. Subjects who evaluated the candidate while holding the heavier clipboard tended to judge candidates to be more serious, with the weight of the clipboard having no effect on how congenial the applicant was judged. After all, we say things like “weighty matter” or “gravity of a situation.

he uses the 25 day simple moving average and looks at how far the current price has diverged from it. he swing trades and utilizes a mean reversion approach. there were several tv programs in japan that featured him and last count he was up to over $200mm (20bn JPY) and had purchased a commercial real estate building next to the akihabara train station (prime real estate location) because he wanted to diversify and it was getting difficult to trade such large amount