Mona Becker, a former councilmember, was elected the city’s first female mayor with 1,020 votes to Dennis Dillon’s 591 to cap a contentious and controversial campaign that resulted in 1,619 ballots being cast, a more than 50% increase over the number cast during the last mayoral election.
Vietnam Veteran Leslie Palmer officiating the Mackay Anzac Day Main Service. Picture: Heidi Petith
Mr Palmer said despite Mr Payne living in Mackay for 40 years, it was only the third time the oldest surviving Victoria Cross recipient had made a hometown service as he was in high demand.
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Mr Payne shared a touching story for the first time of a woman finding her ‘Gallipoli stone’ while he visited Turkey in 2015 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Lone Pine. Vietnam War veteran and Victoria Cross recipient Keith Payne with his wife Florence at the Mackay ANZAC Day march 2021. Picture: Lillian Watkins
Announcing EdInno, a New Initiative to Expand Ecosystem Support for Early Stage Edtech Founders
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BOSTON, March 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Today the LearnLaunch Accelerator team announced a new initiative to expand the edtech support community and create additional resources for early stage edtech founders.
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EdInno, a learning community for edtech innovators.
Across 2020 and into 2021, the edtech ecosystem experienced the largest surge in new edtech companies, ideas, and innovations it had ever seen. This surge was thrilling, inspiring, and highlighted the energy positioned to solve the world s most pressing educational challenges using technology and innovation. It also highlighted the critical need for additional support from the edtech ecosystem.
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The year 1995 was a good time to be an entrepreneur. Especially a high-tech entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, with the internet boom starting, the economy growing, venture capitalists searching for new investments, and a whole horizon of novel business ideas to explore.
Indeed, a new study co-authored by an MIT professor shows that U.S. startups founded in 1995 enjoyed more growth than startups founded in any other year from 1988 to 2014. Other things being equal, the startups of 1995 were three times as likely to grow significantly as those from 2007, which had to battle through the 2008-2009 Great Recession.
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