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Statement from Minister Streicker regarding doubled acquisition funding for Yukon Permanent Art Collection
Minister of Tourism and Culture John Streicker has issued the following statement: “Today I am pleased to announce that funding for the Yukon Permanent Art Collection’s annual Call for Submissions has been permanently doubled, from $30,000 to $60,000. “This increase in funding was a key action recognized in Creative Potential, the Government of Yukon’s 10-year…
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Universal Music Earnings: Benefits From Streaming for Universal Music Are Increasing
Universal Music UMG continued its impressive top-line growth and adjusted EBITDA margin expansion in the third quarter. Top-line growth was driven mainly by an increase in recorded music and music publishing revenue, in constant currency. Revenue growth also created operating leverage, which more than offset the impact of a mix-shift toward lower-margin merchandise revenue and…
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Facebook, Instagram rolling out paid subscriptions
Facebook and Instagram are launching subscription tiers across Europe (but not in the UK) that will remove adverts from the social media platforms. From November, people using the platforms – which are both owned by Meta – will be able to pay €9.99 per month on the web or €12.99 per month on iOS and…
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Up, up, and away in Reno, Nevada
“Most people float, but I fly.” Tim Taylor, the pilot of the colorful hot air balloon my wife and I are in, shouts this at us as we ascend higher and higher, his words punctuated by bursts of burning propane propelling us skyward over the Nevada highlands. I find myself alternating between gazing at the…
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Amagi Recognized as a Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Media and Entertainment 2023
Story Highlights Amagi announces that it has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Media and Entertainment 2023 Vendor Assessment report. The comprehensive report evaluates vendors based on various criteria, and Amagi has been named to the Leaders Category. The report notes the following strengths for Amagi: Amagi also has a strong go-to-market…
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Florida Tennis: Week of Tournaments Ahead
The Florida Gators will spend the week on the road competing in California, Oklahoma, and Alabama after hosting the ITA Regionals on their home courts. Florida Women’s Tennis has a week of challenging matchups ahead and will be participating in a total of three different tournaments: ITA National Fall Championships, The Norman Open, and Auburn…
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Risk and protective factors for health behaviour in adolescence in Europe
Abstract The purpose of the analysis was to identify the risk and protective factors for health behaviour in European adolescents from population health status and expenditure, mental health status, sexual life, social life and education indices and the existence of national strategies, programmes. National and international databases providing information on the presumed health behaviour predictors…
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Case Study: The Key to Implementing AI-Based Workflows in Sports Entertainment With Scale Logic
By Drew Wanstall, VP of Business Development, Scale Logic Story Highlights In the realm of sports entertainment, AI is becoming an influential force, reshaping the landscape for a more efficient and dynamic experience. AI’s role in revolutionizing content creation, management, and delivery cannot be understated, and it hinges significantly on one pivotal factor: the swift…
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Change is needed to diversify space science — and it starts with a name
The current naming conventions for planetary features exacerbate the underrepresentation in space science of women and marginalized groups. Apollo 11 may have first physically put man on the Moon in 1969, but man’s first appearance on the Moon happened long before that. In 1635, Giovanni Battista Riccioli started naming lunar craters, adopting the names of…
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Better tech needed to increase soil organic carbon and crop yields
Increasing organic carbon in soils has been promoted as a way to help combat climate change while also improving soil fertility and crop yields, but a new paper shows that promised yield increases at a global scale would be negligible with current technologies and optimal management practices. Importantly, the paper finds that regions with low…