SMOKE-FREE HOUSING? San Francisco supervisors are set to vote on a proposal to ban smoking tobacco or cannabis inside some apartment and condo buildings. What do you think about this idea?
Tiffany and Leon Chen of Tiff's Treats went online to find the woman whose 1999 order motivated them to make their business work.
SSP Innovations, LLC ("SSP" or the "Company"), a provider of IT services and software to electric, gas, and water utilities, is pleased to announce the acquisition of 3-GIS, LLC ("3-GIS"). 3-GIS, based in Decatur, Alabama, is an IT services and software company focused on the telecom industry and offers a suite of products that allows their customers to plan, design, construct, and manage their networks.
Mexicans hope President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador makes a speedy recovery from COVID-19, though many believe he could have avoided infection if he had more strictly followed the government's own health advice - and worn a face mask. Lopez Obrador's diagnosis on Sunday capped the deadliest week of the coronavirus pandemic in the country with the world's fourth-highest death toll https://tmsnrt.rs/34pvUyi. "He wasn't looking after himself, always walking around without a mask, and not respecting social distancing," said Mexico City rubbish collector Luis Enrique Flores, wheeling his cart past a wall plastered with government posters urging people to wear masks.
The days of dumping your handbag out just to find your lip balm are finally over
There is growing evidence that more young vapers want to quit—and that social media can help them do it. New data reveal that 60% of the young e-cigarette users surveyed want to quit within the year. Of those who want to quit vaping, having a support system on social media (43.6%), following along with a group of social influencers who were quitting (41.7%) and watching an influencer quit vaping themselves (40.8%) would help them do so. More than half (51.2%) agree that texting would also help them stop vaping.
Garner wrote the *sweetest* Instagram caption about her longtime pal.
Adidas introduced its debut maternity collection featuring performance tops and tights for women throughout all stages of pregnancy. Expertly created, the new Adidas maternity collection was created closely with women at different trimesters and includes lightweight, high-stretch fabric around the stomach and chest areas, allowing the activewear to be worn throughout pregnancy as well as postpartum. Retailing between $25-$45, key pieces from the Adidas maternity activewear collection include the Adidas Maternity 7/8 Tight which has a tailored waistband and lighter fabric to minimize pressure on the belly.
The NCAA, the Power Five conferences and their $2 million platoon of lobbyists had a pretty good year on Capitol Hill in 2020. With Republicans controlling the Senate, the power brokers in college sports were on track to secure a way for athletes nationwide to earn money from endorsements while otherwise maintaining the status quo of amateurism. Now that Democrats control Congress and the White House, 2021 is shaping up to be a much bigger challenge for those who don't want major changes in college sports.
Johnson and Johnson expects vaccine data next week.
Savvas Learning Company, a next-generation learning solutions leader for K-12 education, is excited to announce it is integrating its popular myPerspectives English Language Arts (ELA) program with Turnitin's Revision Assistant®, a standards-aligned, digital revision tool that allows students to take their writing to the next level.
JEDEC publishes JEP182: Test Method for Continuous-Switching Evaluation of Gallium Nitride Power Conversion Devices, available at www.jedec.org.
Minister Ng announces launch of Highly Affected Sectors Credit Availability ProgramCanada NewsWireOTTAWA, ON, Jan. 26, 2021 /CNW Telbec/ - Today, the Honourable Mary Ng, Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade, announced the launch of the Highly Affected Sectors Credit Availability Program, or HASCAP.
Investor Andrew Left, who has built a reputation by targeting companies he thinks are over-valued, is as convinced as ever that video retailer GameStop is a dying business whose stock price will fall sharply, some day. "This is an old school, failing mall-based video retailer and investors can't change the perception of that." Gamestop did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Billionaire financier Leon Black will step down as CEO of Apollo Global Management after a company review unearthed more than $150 million in payments to Jeffrey Epstein. But Black is hardly the only major business figure who knew Epstein.
Bulgaria has seen a drop in new infections in recent weeks and will reopen shopping malls and gyms on Feb. 1, while secondary schools will start class studies under a special rotating regime from Feb. 4, the ministry said. In another decision, the ministry allowed restaurants and cafes to open at 50% of their capacity from March 1 but said bars and nightclubs should remain closed.
President Joe Biden has ordered an intelligence assessment to uncover the “origins and roots” of violent white nationalism in the wake of the attack on the US Capitol, domestic policy adviser Susan Rice told reporters on Tuesday. "We have seen and it’s been plain for all Americans on their television sets just how serious a problem we face from nationalists and white supremacists who have demonstrated a willingness to resort to violence in some instances," she said. A “comprehensive assessment of the nature of this threat and challenge” will help determine policy to address it, she said.
Mednet, a clinical research technology company, today announced new and expanded benefits of the Mednet Value Program (MVP), first launched in 2019. MVP members, including Contract Research Organizations (CROs) and other types of partners, access additional value including special pricing and benefits on contracted business. The new and enhanced benefits to the program include additional incentives for partners to bring on new sponsors or conduct multiple studies.
As Facebook and Apple begin to fire up more projects in the AR/VR world, Google has spent the last year shutting down most of their existing projects in that space. Today, the folks at Google announced they had ended active development of Tilt Brush, a VR painting app that was one of virtual reality's early hit pieces of software. While the company will not be pushing any new updates to the app, they did announce that they will be open sourcing the code on github for developers to build their own experiences and customizations.
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