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Up Your Name Badge Game

Associations Now

This box was full of art projects, report cards, book reports, yearbooks, and so on—mementos of my childhood that my mom had saved. that predicted I would own two houses, including a vacation home in Vermont, by my early thirties. But I was reminded a few months back when I was going through some boxes at my parents’ house.

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

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The bill, they argue, “would force doctors to make subjective value judgments about the quality of a patient’s life,” according to an Associated Press report. Vermont, Oregon, Washington, and Montana, along with California, have passed such bills.). A similar bill is under consideration in the New York state legislature.

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Association Brain Food: 4.14.23

Reid All About it

Michelle Maher at Highland reports on what they learned after talking with 30 association membership leaders. Estimate, Mitigate, Report, Offset: A Four-Step Process for Meeting Sustainability Discover how planners can more effectively support zero- or low-carbon initiatives. Young professionals. More info/register. 1 CMP credit.

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Role-Playing Exercises: Another Immersive Element for Meetings

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My fellow graduate students and I were either in class or out in the field writing and interviewing five days a week to build up our “reporting chops.”. Many associations have realized the benefits of adding problem-solving and simulation elements to their meetings. Was it stressful?

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Wednesday Buzz: Win Over Gen Z With VR

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. “For a nonprofit organization or a company that leads through corporate philanthropy, virtual reality can put Gen Zers directly inside the environments they are most passionate about, from a remote village in a Third World country to a bee farm in Vermont,” writes Kate L. Snapchat just made custom geofilters easier to use.

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Emergency Call Groups Aim to Update Standards, Systems

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So for an example, if you are calling 9-1-1, and you’re reporting an incident, you may be able to take a picture or a video of the license plate or people running form a scene. Or if you’re not sure of your exact location, you may do a video of where you’re located, and through that video, experts may be able to detect your location.”.

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Lung Association Raises Alarm on Air Quality

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. “Yet, even as most cities experienced strong improvement, too many cities suffered worse episodes of unhealthy air,” the report’s key findings state. ” The study notes that 166 million people (more than half of the U.S.