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#ASAE23 Closing Keynote: Advance Your Mission Through Storytelling

Associations Now

That focus shifted in 2005 when she covered Hurricane Katrina. Many years ago, when she talked to her mom about how she put up with one particularly awful situation—people spitting on them in the streets—her mother said she knew America was better than that. “I didn’t dig into understanding people,” she said.

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Amid Rising Competition, Airlines for Europe Takes Off

Associations Now

The newly announced trade group—the European equivalent of Airlines for America—arrives at a time of rising competition for the airline industry in Europe, particularly from the Middle East. trade group, Airlines for America (A4A). According to the report, fees at the 21 largest European airports have soared by 80 percent since 2005.

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New Orleans: Returning to Life, a Decade After Katrina

Associations Now

. “We Could Reconstruct What We Were” But a lot has happened since August 29, 2005—including much rebuilding. The city sports 600 more restaurants than it did in 2005—with many restaurateurs eventually returning to the city —and more than 850 new hotel rooms. And the result is something of a great comeback story.

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Leading the way in a flattened world

Plexus Consulting

Worth, President at Plexus Consulting Group, LLC Two books that go a long way to explaining our world, how we got to where we are, as well as the factors that will determine where we are going, are Guns, Germs and Steel (1999) by Jared Diamond and The World is Flat (2005) by Thomas Friedman.

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World Press Freedom Day: Where Journalism Stands in 2016

Associations Now

Since 1992, 1,189 journalists have been killed while doing their jobs, according to the Newspaper Association of America. Of those deaths, 787 took place since 2005, with 67 occurring last year, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF). This is especially true given that the risks journalists face don’t end with arrest.

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Associations Canada: The “Power of A” in the Great White North

Associations Now

Vancouver is the third-largest film production center in North America, after Los Angeles and New York City, so it makes sense that you’ll find a variety of film industry groups here. The group started in 1963, shut down in 1982, and relaunched in 2005. Read on to get a feel for Canada’s association scene, from west to east.

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Knowledge Application Gap Still Exists in Some Emerging Markets.

GlowGlobally

Here is an excerpt: EACH year India produces about twice as many engineering and computing geeks as America, counting those with bachelor’s degrees or a Master’s in Computer Applications, a conversion course. Himanshu and Varun Aggarwal are two of India’s formidable techies.