Delta variant ignites new mask debate

The Hill News Alert: Health officials are grappling with how to prevent potential COVID-19 outbreaks from the delta variant that is spreading rapidly across the U.S. Concern over the highly transmissible delta strain prompted Los Angeles County this week to recommend that all people wear masks indoors, even if they’re vaccinated. The World Health Organization …

Sourcing Face Masks in a Pandemic

I have been assisting a number of States and medical institutions on a worldwide hunt for personal protection equipment (PPE) and have a to-do list stretching into several hundred bullet points. I consolidated some of the main points below: The past several months has seen extraordinary efforts to secure PPE ranging from N-95 face masks …

5G – What the heck is it?

If you are like me, you probably heard the term 5G and figured out it has something to do with faster connections, but that was the extent of your knowledge. Unlike me, you probably don’t remember black and white TV, rotary phones, and thermal fax paper. I remember getting a portable phone the size of …

Why the coronavirus pandemic may fast-forward 5G adoption in the US

Post taken from: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/20/why-the-coronavirus-pandemic-may-fast-forward-5g-adoption-in-the-us.html Written by Todd Wasserman | Published by CNBC In March 2020 everything that could be moved online already has, from elementary schools to college classes, from entire company workforces toshareholder meetings. Whole cities have emptied under the coronavirus threat as businesses tell employees to work from home,  students are sent indoors to …

Tokenizing Equity

(SYNERGIZING CLEAN TECHNOLOGY, HYDROCARBONS, AND DIGITAL ASSETS – WHILE DOING RIGHT BY THE PLANET) Blockchain Holdings, Inc. has launched a simultaneous offering of Common Shares and XScrip™ Equity Security Token. The XScrip™ Token is considered one of the first multiple asset and revenue backed equity security tokens in the digital currency world. [1] The Company is offering …

A company’s decision-making behind offering a concurrent common share and equity security token offering

In 20-20 hindsight, did you ever wish you documented your key decision points as a record of how you got to where you are today? Over a 30 years career, I have only done this five times, and this is the fifth. Blockchain Holdings, Inc. (“BHI”) has recently launched a simultaneous offering of Common Shares …

Chinese Investment in US Real Estate

Even with the China/US trade dispute, Chinese interest in US real estate remains relatively strong. Diversification, yuan devaluation, US relative political and economic security, stronger US property rights, and the very aspirational motivation to have property in the US near hospitals and colleges help drive this interest. A significant amount of the investment comes from …

The Curious Case of Hemp

If you think you are going to get high smoking hemp you are wrong. You will probably die of smoke inhalation before you get high. There was an interesting blog on Quora that you couldn’t get high even if you smoked a hemp joint the size of a telephone pole…I know, the thought causes weird …

Garbage + Plasma = Something Good

A non-technical look at the garbage problem I recently met Hanan Levin who is one of the founders of AST; an Israeli based startup that is looking to develop plasma focused waste management facilities using their proprietary knowhow and processes. Knowing nothing about plasma, my first step was to surf the internet. Everything was so …