Daily Archives: June 14, 2024
Small Business Grants, Educational Resources Available to Women-Owned Businesses
Educational resources Tamfitronis Small business grants can help entrepreneurs in more ways than one. Of course, financial assistance is useful. But many grant programs also offer educational resources to help business owners make better use of their funds. One nonprofit recently launched such a program for women-owned businesses. Read about this opportunity and more below.Regarding Her Academy GrantsRegarding Her, a nonprofit organization based in D.C. and Los Angeles, is launching its 2024 Regarding Her Academy. This year’s iteration of the program will award twenty grants of $5,000 to qualifying women-owned food and beverage businesses, along with a ten-week educational program. The program originally launched in 2021 and has since awarded $350,000 to 25 businesses throughout the Los Angeles area. This is the first year that the program will be open to eligible businesses in the...
Voyager 1 returning science data again
NASA Space Technology An illustration of one of the twin Voyager spacecraft now in interstellar space. Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechWASHINGTON — The four instruments on NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft are returning science data for the first time since a computer malfunction last November, as scientists hope to keep the mission operating for up to another decade.NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced June 13 that the four instruments on the spacecraft, which measure plasma waves, magnetic fields and particles in interstellar space, have started returning data again. Two of the instruments started up immediately after commands were sent to the spacecraft May 19 while the other two required what JPL called “some additional work” to resume operations.The instruments had been offline since November 2023, when a computer malfunction on board the spacecraft caused it to return garbled data. A...
‘TV’s Top 5’: Paramount Woes, USA Grows and…the Hot Dog Wars (Yes, Really)
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Media24 editors were unaware of possible newspaper closures
Top Stories Tamfitronics Editors of newspaper titles facing possible closure did not know their company, Media24, was weighing its options about these titles, according to several senior editorial staff members.“We are reeling from shock. The idea that we could be unemployed before the end of the year hit home. That our CEO could not say to those writing about the impending closure that they would not shut us down hit a nerve,” said one of the editors.Moneyweb reported on Thursday that Media24 was considering shutting down the print versions of City Press, Rapport, Beeld and Daily Sun in October. “Four sources at the media company have independently confirmed a decision has been taken to close them,” said the report. Davidson said the report...
