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UPDATE: How would you describe this one on your resume?
Landmark condom law for porn filming signed by L.A. mayor
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has signed into law historic new rules requiring porn performers to wear condoms while acting in areas requiring a city film permit. The law is believed to be the first in the nation by a local government requiring condom use among porn stars, and is significant because L.A.’s San Fernando Valley is the capital of the multibillion-dollar porn industry. Many porn companies have voiced opposition to the rule. They say adult films featuring condoms don’t sell as well, and say some porn performers on lengthy film shoots prefer not to use condoms. They have threatened to move film shoots outside city boundaries…
Woah! $750 Million? That’s amazing.
Gates Donates $750 Million to Global Fund
In a show of faith in the faltering Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Bill Gates donated $750 million to the fund on Thursday. The donation was made as a promissory note intended to tide the fund over regular cash shortages. Mr. Gates, who made the announcement at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, said tough economic times were “no excuse for cutting aid to the world’s poorest,” and called the fund one of the “most effective” entities to which the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donates. The Global Fund, which pays for AIDS drugs for more than 3 million poor people, has distributed more than 200 million mosquito nets and claims to have prevented more than 4 million tuberculosis deaths, has been struggling to raise money…
Obama and Health Care
State of the … Health Care Reform
President Obama’s largest legislative accomplishment to date was the passage of the health care reform law, which has been going into effect in stages, with regulations currently being written for the most substantial changes due to take effect in 2014. So it is odd the President mentioned health care only briefly, and in passing, in his State of the Union address last night. Perhaps this has something to do with the fact that the law remains deeply unpopular with a skeptical public, or the fact that despite some provisions “to increase coverage” have already gone into effect, the percentage of American adults without health coverage has increased to an all-time high of over 17%…
From Spend Matters
Free Report on Commodity Volatility + Upcoming Conference Information!
Leading manufacturing organizations are actively looking for ways to better manage commodity volatility – not only through a better understanding of underlying market trends, but also through analysis of the specific drivers that most closely correlate to price trends. Price trends of course depend on a myriad of factors some of which lay outside of the control of the sourcing organization. Heck just the political landscape has created additional uncertainty around energy costs, global trade, stimulus programs as well as conflict minerals, suggesting the procurement function must transform into a global intelligence center…
New Case Study: Pharmaceutical Company Drives Savings from Accurate Supplier Data
Like most large firms that have grown by acquisition — and hardly any haven’t — the supplier data floating around inside the organization reminds me of Samuel Johnson’s quip about lies and the infernal side of statistics in that there is old data, missing data, or simply too much data. How would you answer these vendor-related questions?…
From SpendMatters UK/Europe
New York Times on the Apple supply chain – fascinating and very scary
So the UK GDP figures were as bad as expected, maybe worse. A deal between Greece and its debtors is still under debate, while the prospect of several countries paying off their debt seems as far away as ever. On the other hand, there was a 30 minute wait for a table in an Indian restaurant in central London at 7pm last night – we didn’t wait but went to another which had a table but was packed. A Wednesday night in January! (I suspect this just shows that central London’s economy has very little to do with the rest of the UK or indeed most of Europe)…
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by smoore on January 26, 2012
in General News and Commentary
Today’s Round-Up is brought to you by Brianna Tonner.
UPDATE: How would you describe this one on your resume?
Landmark condom law for porn filming signed by L.A. mayor
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has signed into law historic new rules requiring porn performers to wear condoms while acting in areas requiring a city film permit. The law is believed to be the first in the nation by a local government requiring condom use among porn stars, and is significant because L.A.’s San Fernando Valley is the capital of the multibillion-dollar porn industry. Many porn companies have voiced opposition to the rule. They say adult films featuring condoms don’t sell as well, and say some porn performers on lengthy film shoots prefer not to use condoms. They have threatened to move film shoots outside city boundaries…
Woah! $750 Million? That’s amazing.
Gates Donates $750 Million to Global Fund
In a show of faith in the faltering Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Bill Gates donated $750 million to the fund on Thursday. The donation was made as a promissory note intended to tide the fund over regular cash shortages. Mr. Gates, who made the announcement at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, said tough economic times were “no excuse for cutting aid to the world’s poorest,” and called the fund one of the “most effective” entities to which the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donates. The Global Fund, which pays for AIDS drugs for more than 3 million poor people, has distributed more than 200 million mosquito nets and claims to have prevented more than 4 million tuberculosis deaths, has been struggling to raise money…
Obama and Health Care
State of the … Health Care Reform
President Obama’s largest legislative accomplishment to date was the passage of the health care reform law, which has been going into effect in stages, with regulations currently being written for the most substantial changes due to take effect in 2014. So it is odd the President mentioned health care only briefly, and in passing, in his State of the Union address last night. Perhaps this has something to do with the fact that the law remains deeply unpopular with a skeptical public, or the fact that despite some provisions “to increase coverage” have already gone into effect, the percentage of American adults without health coverage has increased to an all-time high of over 17%…
From Spend Matters
Free Report on Commodity Volatility + Upcoming Conference Information!
Leading manufacturing organizations are actively looking for ways to better manage commodity volatility – not only through a better understanding of underlying market trends, but also through analysis of the specific drivers that most closely correlate to price trends. Price trends of course depend on a myriad of factors some of which lay outside of the control of the sourcing organization. Heck just the political landscape has created additional uncertainty around energy costs, global trade, stimulus programs as well as conflict minerals, suggesting the procurement function must transform into a global intelligence center…
New Case Study: Pharmaceutical Company Drives Savings from Accurate Supplier Data
Like most large firms that have grown by acquisition — and hardly any haven’t — the supplier data floating around inside the organization reminds me of Samuel Johnson’s quip about lies and the infernal side of statistics in that there is old data, missing data, or simply too much data. How would you answer these vendor-related questions?…
From SpendMatters UK/Europe
New York Times on the Apple supply chain – fascinating and very scary
So the UK GDP figures were as bad as expected, maybe worse. A deal between Greece and its debtors is still under debate, while the prospect of several countries paying off their debt seems as far away as ever. On the other hand, there was a 30 minute wait for a table in an Indian restaurant in central London at 7pm last night – we didn’t wait but went to another which had a table but was packed. A Wednesday night in January! (I suspect this just shows that central London’s economy has very little to do with the rest of the UK or indeed most of Europe)…
Tagged as: healthcare, pharmaceutical supply chain, supply chain