Allergy...*

Innovate...*

Researchers at Tulane and Michigan State University took leaked Ashley Madison account information, anonymized corporate email addresses and counted.

The researchers found that firms with higher percentages of employees on Ashley Madison had higher levels of innovation, risk-taking, unethical behavior, tax disputes with the government,  less ethical, and scoring twice as high in categories like concerns on bribery and fraud.

However, the more interesting results were the correlations between positive firm attributes and high Ashley Madison membership. These firms were more diverse and more creative, as defined by research and development spending and number of patents.

The researchers interpreted their results in two ways. First, it's possible that firms with higher percentages of employees on Ashley Madison probably do not value or screen for high ethical standards when hiring. Or innovation and creativity are correlated with unethical behavior.

But maybe it's the other way around and adulterers need to be super creative to explain away their affairs and it just so happens.     

Accompanied...

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

John F. Kennedy
 

Health-Part 1...*

Most people know that sugar is not good for them, but the risk is less known. 
Sugar is just as much of a silent killer as salt. Excess fructose consumption was linked to leptin resistance, a hormone that tells you when you've had enough food.   It all happens without symptoms or warning bells. 

When glucose is present in the body, the pancreas releases insulin,  causing the cells of the body to absorb sugar from the bloodstream. Through this absorption, the molecule tryptophan, the sleep-inducing culprit of Thanksgiving dinner, is converted into serotonin, the “happiness molecule.” It’s only in severe cases when the bloodstream is completely overloaded with glucose that insulin works too quickly and results in a sugar low, [ hypoglycemia]. Quite the opposite of a sugar high, hypoglycemia will leave you feeling sad, fatigued and in some cases depressed.

Too many calories from any source will be stored as fat if not burned, but the lack of other nutrients in sugar makes it much easier to eat gobs of it with no physical effects to warn of the danger that lurks. That's why you can have an entire king-size bag of licorice at the movies and come out ready to go for dinner. Foods rich in fiber, fat and protein all have been associated with increased fullness

Simple sugars coming from fruit are less concerning given their high amounts of disease-fighting compounds and fiber.                    Just a thought.

Working...

And it is working.

Private...*

Sportscaster Erin Andrews won a $55 million judgment against a stalker and the owner of a Nashville hotel. The stalker filmed Andrews by removing door peepholes and aiming a cell phone camera into her room and recorded secret nude videos of her and posted on the internet.

Andrews took the stand, tearfully describing the humiliation of knowing millions of people had watched the footage and of being harassed online and in public.

The hotel's owner, West End Hotel Partners argued that the stalker alone was responsible for the crimes.  Also argued that Andrews' continued professional success.
The jury accepted Andrews's contention that the whole incident wouldn't have happened had the hotel staff not been careless in:

(1) telling  [the stalker] that Andrews was a guest at that hotel; 
(2) disclosing her room number; and 
(3) granting Barrett's request to be placed in a room next to hers. 

This is serious business. The hotel should respected her privacy. Just a thought.

Disappearing...*

Snapchat is a messaging app that allows the sharing of videos and images that "disappear" after just a few seconds.   It offers a sense of privacy by promising it will erase photos.  It is popular as a tool for sending nude images by the users who are mostly teenagers.

Lately, hackers had boasted of having access to 13 gigabytes' (GB) worth of pictures that had been intercepted over a number of years.   Speculation as to the source of the leak has pointed towards two third-party, unauthorized services that offered the ability to save Snapchat messages permanently.
 
At the start of this year, 4.6m usernames and phone numbers were leaked online. More recently, the service has been suffering from spam messages being sent out from users' accounts without their knowledge.

The hack of third-party apps reveals another flaw in Snapchat's platform and questions the company's commitment to security.     Snapchat isn't doing enough to protect its software. That's why third-party apps can hack its platform and your very private nude images.

Whatever messages, nude pictures and videos etc. sent will come back to bite you in your naked then fat butt.  Just a thought.

Cell...*

The Tide...*

t’s easy to see parallels between President Donald Trump and France’s presidential candidate Marine Le Pen. They’re both populist politicians who have railed against free trade, talk tough on immigration, have questioned the role of NATO, and advocate closer ties to Russia.

Anderson Cooper interviewed Le Pen for this week’s 60 Minutes.
“It’s too easy to just say Marine Le Pen is France’s Donald Trump, It’s not that simple.”

“She’s a fascinating character,” Cooper says. A character sees herself as part of a growing tide of nationalism that is skeptical of free trade and open borders sweeping the West, after Britain’s vote to leave the E.U. and the victory of Donald Trump in the U.S.

Le Pen says this “savage globalization” has ravaged France’s economy, stripped France of its sovereignty and led to an influx of immigrants that she believes are changing the national character of the country.

She advocates much tougher immigration laws, and a radical shift in France’s foreign policy, including renegotiating its place in the European Union, or else holding a referendum to leave altogether.   It is not a person, its the people.  [original post on 3/6/2017]

Binge...

A former DJ-corporate-fraud prosecutor carried out the “most serious” example of public corruption by a U.S. Department of Justice attorney in years.

An attorney for a California company tipped off the FBI to an approach by Wertkin who had offered to sell a sealed federal lawsuit for $310,000 to the Silicon Valley technology company

After his arrest, Jeffrey Wertkin embarked on an “obstruction binge” at his private law office to destroy additional evidence and tried to frame a former colleague at the Justice Department for the records theft, court files show.

Wertkin  stole and copied dozens of files taking some at night from his boss’s desk copying them and then reached out to targeted companies in four states to try to drum up business for himself.  Wertkin joined Akin Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld as a $450,000-a-year partner.