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Boy Scouts of America to Vote on Lifting Gay Ban

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The Boy Scouts of America will vote on lifting its ban on gay Scouts—but not gay Scout leaders—at its annual meeting in May. The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) announced Friday that it was proposing to lift the organization’s ban on gay Scouts but would continue to prohibit gay Scout leaders.

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An Engaging Conversation Platform is the Cornerstone of This AI Research Summit

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Their cornerstone event, World Summit AI Americas 2020 , was hosted in Montréal, Canada, where 11,000 students and more than 300 researchers and doctoral students involved in AI-related fields represent the world’s largest concentration of academic research in deep learning.

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Daily Buzz: How One Association Is Re-Creating History

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To celebrate its 150th anniversary, the Professional Photographers of America will re-create iconic imagery from its inaugural year. In celebration of the Professional Photographers of America’s 150th anniversary, its Massachusetts chapter will reconvene this Sunday to re-create the group’s historic first photograph from 1869.

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Snowsports Group Unveils Consumer-Focused Tradeshow Strategy

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Less than three years after selling its decades-old business-to-business tradeshow, Snowsports Industries America is diving back into the show business with the purchase of two consumer-focused expos. Less than three years ago, Snowsports Industries America decided to sell Snow Show , its business-to-business tradeshow. “We

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Local Media Association Brings Accelerator Program to Publishers of Color

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The program will be led by Accelerate Local Managing Director Peter Newton, who served in executive roles at GateHouse Media, The Boston Globe , and Monster.com. We are passionate about the role of the black press in North America and look forward to working with these five progressive publishers to reinvent business models for news.”.

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What to Do When Membership Is Booming?

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There are so many innovations, like collaborative robots and vision technologies, in more places, what I call robotics clusters—Pittsburgh, Boston, Silicon Valley, San Diego, and Austin, to name a few,” he says. “A Four years ago, we decided to host our first workshop about this topic in Boston,” Doyle says. Post your comments below.

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