[Wash your pussy it`s election time! - https://facebook/photo.php?fbid=551396818307507&set=a.534847823295740.1073741886.100003115827408&type=3&theater] • Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus wife on Wednesday submitted a letter of defense to the Tel Aviv Labor Court, in which she flatly denied accusations that she had mistreated and underpaid her housekeeper. The former maid, Lillian Peretz, charged that Sara Netanyahu had humiliated her, occasionally shouting and insisting she change clothes during the working day to meet exacting demands for hygiene around the household. Peretz also sought compensation for underpayment. The lawsuit is filled with complaints fabricated for present need and have no actual substance, Sara Netanyahu wrote in her letter of defense, published first on Haaretz. In the six years Peretz worked for them, said Netanyahu, she received nothing but warmth and love. According to the letter, Peretz said many times: I came because of Bibi, I stayed because of Sara. According to Netanyahu, Peretz left her job at her own initiative. Netanyahu also quoted in her letter of defense a note Peretz apparently sent the couple following the most recent Knesset elections. Dear family! Congratulations and good luck! I am so proud of you, you have no idea. Love you the most in the world. Lillian. Evidence obtained by Haaretz after the lawsuit was filed revealed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus wife Sara was skimping on payments to the couples household help. Pay slips that Peretz, submitted along with her suit against Sarah Netanyahu show that her basic monthly wage ranged from NIS 2,550 to NIS 3,060. Peretz, who had previously worked for a personnel agency, presented evidence in the lawsuit showing that her wages and benefits at the agency were considerably better than they were when she worked for the Netanyahus. In addition to her low wage from the Netanyahus, a sum of NIS 50 to NIS 60 was deducted from her wage for national insurance. She was not paid for transportation, overtime or working on the Sabbath. The agency paid her a basic wage of NIS 5,000, well above the minimum wage of NIS 3,850. To this, it added payment for overtime, transportation, and working on weekends. [haaretz/news/in-letter-to-court-netanyahu-s-wife-denies-mistreating-maid-1.263494] _____________________________________________________ [youtube/watch?v=W2eez_z-sMA] • Not to be sniffed at: The human nose can distinguish between over one trillion odours - a billion times more than wed thought. [Not even The Mask can hide your nose ... youtube/watch?v=ToYt5SgGDgI] A typical person can smell at least one trillion different odours – a billion-fold greater than previously thought – according to the first scientific study to accurately estimate the olfactory power of the human nose. The remarkable and unforeseen ability of the nose to distinguish between different kinds of odour has been revealed in a pioneering study showing that humans are not to be sniffed at when it comes to the sense of smell. It has been widely accepted for nearly a century that humans are able to discriminate between no more than about 10,000 odours, but the latest findings show that the true number is much greater, conservatively estimated at one trillion, or 1,000,000,000,000. This would make the human sense of smell more discriminatory than human colour vision, which can distinguish between 2.3 million and 7.5 million colour variations, or human hearing, which can discriminate between about 340,000 sound tones. “We have debunked an old idea that humans can only smell about 10,000 odours and we’re the first to come up with an accurate number, which is far, far higher than anyone had calculated,” said Professor Leslie Vosshall of the Rockefeller University in New York. “The nose is really like a massive broadband technology that can take in huge amounts of information and pass it on to the brain. It is the only part of us that connects directly to the brain,” Professor Vosshall said. “Our analysis shows that the human capacity for discriminating smells is much larger than anyone anticipated. Everyone in the field had the general sense that this number was ludicrously small, but [we were] the first to put the number to a real scientific test,” she said. The 10,000 figure came from a 1927 study which had not been seriously challenged until now. “Objectively, everybody should have known that the 10,000 number had to be wrong,” Professor Vosshall added. The latest study, published in the journal Science, involved the creation of unique combinations of smells derived from mixtures of 128 odour molecules derived from scents such as orange, anise and spearmint. Volunteers were asked if distinguish between different combinations of these odour mixtures, which were made from groups of 10, 20 or 30 different odour molecules. The volunteers were given three vials to smell, two of which were identical, and were asked to pick the odd one out. The third vial started out the same as the other two but was gradually altered to become more different. This enabled the scientists to gradually manipulate the molecular composition of each odour to eventually make it different enough for the nose to make a clear distinction. Each of the 26 volunteers – 17 women and nine men – had to make 264 comparisons and, from these combined results, the scientists were able to make an extrapolation that gave them a conservative estimate of the overall olfactory power of the human nose. “Our trick is we use mixtures of odour molecules, and we use the percentage of overlap between two mixtures to measure the sensitivity of a person’s sense of smell,” said co-author Andreas Keller of Rockefeller’s laboratory of neurogenetics and behaviour. “We didn’t want them to be explicitly recognisable, so most of our mixtures were pretty nasty and weird. We wanted people to pay attention to ‘here’s this really complex thing – can I pick another complex thing as being different?’,” Dr Keller said. “The message here is that we have more sensitivity in our sense of smell than we give ourselves credit. We just don’t pay attention to it and don’t use it in everyday life,” he said. Human smell relies on two small odour-detecting patches in the upper nasal chamber each containing about five or six million receptor cells – comprising of 400 receptor types – which send signals directly to the brain via the olfactory bulb, attached to the base of the brain. By comparison, the rabbit has 100 million olfactory receptor cells and the dog has some 220 million. This helps to explain why humans are much poorer at smelling than other animals, Professor Vosshall said. “We show that humans have a good sense of smell that’s not been appreciated before but other animals are still better – rats are better than humans, but humans are still pretty good,” she said. “I like to think that it’s incredibly useful to have that capacity, because the world is always changing. Plants are evolving new smells. Perfume companies are making new scents.” [independent.co.uk/news/science/not-to-be-sniffed-at-the-human-nose-can-distinguish-between-over-one-trillion-odours--a-billion-times-more-than-wed-thought-9206157.html]
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