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Repair Association Backs Farmers Seeking to Unlock Tractor Software

Associations Now

The report quotes a Nebraska farmer and repair mechanic who uses pirated John Deere software: “I’m not a big business or anything, but let’s say you’ve got a guy here who has a tractor and something goes wrong with it—the nearest dealership is 40 miles away, but you’ve got me or a diesel shop a mile away.

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Drone Journalism: Media Groups Raise First Amendment Concerns

Associations Now

And the agency recently wrote to the Drone Journalism Lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln journalism school advising that the program was operating drones without authorization and saying the devices must be flown indoors only. A court overturned the fine , and the agency appealed.

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Mo Rocca on Creativity, Comedy, and Obit Con vs Comic Con

AssociationChat

But it’s so that’s one thing I I actually lost my voice at one point because I was doing so many interviews and I was talking If I needed you know, somebody in Nebraska to hear me without any amplification hear me? obituary writer for The New York Times, somebody said, Oh, The New York Times. We’re on stream yard.

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Medical Societies Speak Out on Proposed Aid-in-Dying Bills

Associations Now

Last week a Nebraska legislative committee began deliberations on one such bill , prompting protests from the Nebraska Medical Association and Nebraska Academy of Family Physicians. A similar bill is under consideration in the New York state legislature.

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Boozing, Bribing and Brawling on Election Day

Reid All About it

During the 1860 presidential election, Democratic supporters of Stephen Douglas held a “Grand Political Carnival and Ox Roast” in New York City. The New York Times called it “one of the most magnificent affairs of the kind ever held in this neighborhood.”. Pandemonium broke out and the barbecue ended in bedlam.