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Bluevine Survey finds more than 60% of American Small Businesses Expect to Hire in 2024

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Thursday, February 15, 2024
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As a result, the overwhelming majority (93%) of small businesses (SMBs) surveyed posted some level of profitability in 2023.

Key Points: 
  • As a result, the overwhelming majority (93%) of small businesses (SMBs) surveyed posted some level of profitability in 2023.
  • As a key indicator of growth, SMBs are poised to see an uptick in overall headcount growth in 2024, with 67% of US small businesses surveyed planning on making new hires.
  • “As many small business owners can attest, it’s the execution of your business plan that determines whether a small business thrives or fails.
  • It’s about being efficient with the business while maintaining that entrepreneurial spirit.”
    Bluevine surveyed over 1,100 small business owners nationwide between December 11th, 2023, and January 25th, 2024.

Tyton Partners Promotes Catherine Shaw, Kate Sutherland, and Shlomy Kattan to Managing Director

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Wednesday, February 14, 2024
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Catherine Shaw brings a unique blend of experience in education, strategy consulting, and technology to her role.

Key Points: 
  • Catherine Shaw brings a unique blend of experience in education, strategy consulting, and technology to her role.
  • Catherine Shaw, Kate Sutherland, and Shlomy Kattan embody our core values, bringing unparalleled expertise and vision to our leadership team.
  • As we embrace this new chapter, we look forward to the continued impact they will undoubtedly have on Tyton Partners and the education sector at large."
  • To learn more about Tyton Partners’ newest Managing Directors, their accomplishments, or to find a time to share perspectives and insights over coffee, please contact us below.

FREE Online Tutoring and Homework Help Now Available to All K-12 California Students through Local Libraries

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Monday, February 12, 2024
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SAN MATEO, Calif., Feb. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- All California students in grades K-12 now have access to free online tutoring and homework help offered by California's public libraries through the HelpNow Program, which is administered by Pacific Library Partnership (PLP), in partnership with the California State Library and Brainfuse.

Key Points: 
  • The HelpNow Program ensures all California students can have access to high quality tutoring and homework help regardless of such barriers as high cost of tutoring, technology requirements, time constraints, transportation hurdles and other issues.
  • "More than 240,000 California students are already taking advantage of the free, top-notch, 24-7 tutoring," said Greg Lucas, State Librarian of California State Library.
  • Students and families can get help by going to the HelpNow website Tutoring.Library.ca.gov , selecting their local library and then following the easy instructions (step-by-step instructions are available here ).
  • Additionally, tutoring support is available in multiple languages breaking down language barriers and making for a personalized learning experience for all California students.

Walgreens Boots Alliance Announces Leadership Appointments

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Thursday, February 8, 2024
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Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) Chief Executive Officer Tim Wentworth today announced updates to WBA’s Executive Committee as the company advances a health services strategy rooted in its retail pharmacy footprint.

Key Points: 
  • Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) Chief Executive Officer Tim Wentworth today announced updates to WBA’s Executive Committee as the company advances a health services strategy rooted in its retail pharmacy footprint.
  • The spirit of this leadership team is one of collaboration, transparency and working effectively together.
  • Tracey Brown , executive vice president and president, Walgreens retail and chief customer officer
    Brown is responsible for Walgreens $30 billion retail business and consumer experience across all retail, pharmacy and health consumer touchpoints and leads strategies to advance Walgreens across a complex and dynamic competitive landscape.
  • He and his team also play a critical role in aligning and advancing the Walgreens pharmacy and specialty pharmacy businesses across Walgreens, including the U.S. Healthcare business segment.

Trees can make farms more sustainable – here’s how to help farmers plant more

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Wednesday, February 7, 2024
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At the same time, this change would nourish the health of the soil, regulate the micro-climate and support pest-controlling wildlife.

Key Points: 
  • At the same time, this change would nourish the health of the soil, regulate the micro-climate and support pest-controlling wildlife.
  • On a large scale, it could help mitigate climate change by storing more carbon in land that can still serve other purposes.
  • There is a lot of scope for planting trees on farms in south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

India’s agroforestry experiment

  • The Indian supreme court had banned all tree felling except that permitted under the forest working plan three years earlier.
  • Before farmers could sell the timber they grew, their request to fell the tree would need to be approved by the government.
  • Farmers were apprehensive about planting something they may not get permission to harvest, and teak trees take 20 years to yield timber.
  • By 2014, India had a national agroforestry policy that offered farmers saplings and simpler procedures for harvesting and transporting trees.

Trees on farms, not tree farms

  • These are essentially farms growing nothing but trees.
  • These plantations largely comprise exotic and fast-growing trees like eucalyptus, poplar and casuarina, which are all exempt from felling regulations.
  • There is a rush globally to plant more trees on farms without considering what farmers will do with the tree in 20 years, or how it may interfere with crop production.
  • Trees should still be encouraged on farms; preferably native trees that are beneficial for local diets and medicine.
  • Scattered trees of many species on small farms have bigger benefits for farmers and the environment than single-species plantations.


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SXSW EDU® UNVEILS LINEUP FOR 2024 PODCAST STAGE AND NEW KEYNOTE AND FEATURED SESSIONS

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Wednesday, February 7, 2024
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AUSTIN, Texas , Feb. 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The South by Southwest EDU® Conference & Festival shares the exciting lineup for the 2024 Podcast Stage, as well as new voices for the Keynote and Featured Stages. As one of the first of its kind at an education event when introduced three years ago, SXSW EDU's Podcast Stage, presented by GitLab Foundation, continues to break ground in showcasing the medium's power as an important storytelling tool, capturing the intersection of education, society, and culture. This year's program will feature the live recording of the debut audio series, "The Amendment," hosted by celebrated journalist and editor-at-large of The 19th News, Errin Haines, as well as the launch of "The Cusp, a Work Shift podcast," hosted by Paul Fain. In addition, attendees will be delighted to hear from comedian Sarah Rose Siskind, musicians Rapsody, Jackie Venson, and DJ Reborn, and groundbreaking authors Jacqueline Woodson, Bettina Love, and Carlos Moreno, just to name a few.

Key Points: 
  • AUSTIN, Texas , Feb. 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The South by Southwest EDU® Conference & Festival shares the exciting lineup for the 2024 Podcast Stage, as well as new voices for the Keynote and Featured Stages.
  • In total, audiences will be able to attend 14 podcast sessions spearheaded by several returning and first-time presenters.
  • Alongside the Podcast Stage, SXSW EDU is excited to roll out additional programming for the 2024 conference and festival that further explores sense and story-driven methods for enhancing learning.
  • SXSW EDU unveils three new Featured Sessions examining the impact of an emotionally poignant approach to education, whether through music or intentional vulnerability.

Nuclear Fuels Reports Positive Drill Results from the Kaycee Uranium Project, Wyoming

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Tuesday, January 30, 2024
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(1) %U3O8 by Gamma logging is a measure of gamma intensity from a decay product of uranium.

Key Points: 
  • (1) %U3O8 by Gamma logging is a measure of gamma intensity from a decay product of uranium.
  • The Kaycee Project in Wyoming's Powder River Basin ("PRB"), Nuclear Fuel's priority project, consisting of over 42 square miles of mineral rights over a 33-mile mineralized trend and 110 miles of identified roll fronts.
  • The Kaycee Project, under Nuclear Fuels, represents the first time since the early 1980's that the entire district is controlled by one company.
  • Wyoming is a proven and prolific uranium producer with a pro-energy government and established regulatory regime for the permitting and extraction of uranium through ISR technology.

Allowing duck hunting to continue in Victoria is shameful and part of a disturbing trend

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Tuesday, January 30, 2024
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The Victorian government has confirmed duck and quail hunting will continue in the state, albeit with changes which would purportedly ensure the practice “remains safe, sustainable and responsible”.

Key Points: 
  • The Victorian government has confirmed duck and quail hunting will continue in the state, albeit with changes which would purportedly ensure the practice “remains safe, sustainable and responsible”.
  • The controversial decision is a rejection of recommendations by a bipartisan parliamentary committee chaired by a Labor MP, which recommended ending native bird hunting this year.
  • To us as Yuin men, Yumburra (black duck) – one of the species being hunted – is a culturally significant species and our tribal totem.


Read more:
Why duck shooting season still isn't on the endangered list

Open season for controversy

  • The issue emerges every autumn when the responsible minister is set to announce the details of the shooting season.
  • Each year the same groups come out to wade through the muddy water and thrash out the same bloody arguments.
  • The inquiry heard non-lethal wounding rates of ducks could be as high 6-40%, or 15,700 to 105,000 based on the 2022 season.
  • The government says it will accept the other seven recommendations “in full or in principle”, by changing the rules from 2025.
  • But in practice these measures will be resource-intensive and challenging to implement effectively.
  • And hunting-related harm to individual ducks and populations can only be reduced, when it could have been eliminated.

A disturbing pattern of behaviour

  • In December 2021 I was invited to present an Indigenous perspective to an inquiry into ecosystem decline in Victoria.
  • I told them of watching the decline of the manna gum woodlands I had grown up in, and how that impacted me.
  • That inquiry found threatened native species are suffering severe declines and are not being holistically protected.
  • These declines included “waterbird species in the Murray–Darling Basin” and “distribution and abundance of waterbirds in the Murray–Darling Basin”.

Demand more from the Victorian government

  • It’s not fading in a faraway place, it’s happening on your doorstep, within your sphere of influence.
  • We, as Victorians, must accept our responsibility to care for this place that sustains us both physically and spiritually.
  • We must demand that governments acknowledge the environment is being devastated and prioritise policies to reverse the trend.


Jack Pascoe is affiliated with Back to Country and is Co-Chief Councilor of the Biodiversity Council.

Delegata announces President, Amira Menoufy

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Thursday, January 18, 2024
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Delegata, a management and technology consulting firm based in Sacramento, California, is pleased to announce the appointment of Amira Menoufy as its President.

Key Points: 
  • Delegata, a management and technology consulting firm based in Sacramento, California, is pleased to announce the appointment of Amira Menoufy as its President.
  • He will work closely with Amira and the Delegata Leadership Team to build upon Delegata’s solid foundation for continued growth.
  • Amira Menoufy joined Delegata over 22 years ago and has a deep understanding of the government sector and Delegata’s consulting practice.
  • Prior to joining Delegata, Ms. Menoufy worked for Silicon Valley technology companies, including Lucent Technologies, BroadVision, BetaSphere, and Siebel Systems.

PJM Appoints Former Maryland Regulator Jason Stanek to New Governmental Services Role

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Monday, January 22, 2024
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VALLEY FORGE, Pa. , Jan. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- PJM announces the appointment of Jason Stanek, former chair of the Maryland Public Service Commission, to the new role of Executive Director – Governmental Services.

Key Points: 
  • VALLEY FORGE, Pa. , Jan. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- PJM announces the appointment of Jason Stanek, former chair of the Maryland Public Service Commission, to the new role of Executive Director – Governmental Services.
  • Stanek will report to Sr. Vice President Asim Haque, whose department has been renamed Governmental & Member Services, emphasizing the importance of state and federal governments to PJM.
  • "Jason brings a wealth of experience to PJM that will benefit both PJM and its stakeholders," Haque said.
  • "He was a thoughtful, knowledgeable and independent regulator who will further bolster the depth and breadth of our engagement."