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Monday Buzz: Why Boston Doesn’t Have Cheap Rooms

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An array of economic and geographic pressures have boosted Boston’s hotel rooms to extremely high rates. Case in point: the current situation in the Boston metro area. Those are the going rates now in Boston,” Paul Sacco, executive director at the Massachusetts Lodging Association, told the newspaper.

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With New App, 2014 Boston Marathon Will Go Virtual

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236k Roughly the number of miles pledged, as of Wednesday morning, by over 2,000 runners worldwide through the Boston Athletic Association’s Boston Marathon World Run app. Nearly a year after the Boston Marathon became a target of terrorism, runners are racing to apply for the 2014 event.

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How the Boston Athletic Association Plans to Keep the Marathon Safe in 2014

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A year after the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon shook the city to its core, the Boston Athletic Association is taking steps to boost security at the foot race. Not every change has been well received, however. “Our safety and security plan accomplishes this goal.”

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If a picture is worth a thousand words.

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For the Boston Estate Planning Council ( www.bepc.org ) we used a short video to introduce an award winner: [link]. Of course, sometimes video can be just plain fun. Video breaks the monotony of PowerPoint, and a tightly scripted video can often convey information faster and more effectively than a speaker.

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Bonus content – Event Garde e-news May edition

Aaron Wolowiec

If we’re at home, we’re indoors during the day and looking forward to the delta breeze blowing in the evening so we can lounge on the deck, barbecue and play ball with our fetch-obsessed Boston Terrier, Just Jack. A: CalSAE, of course (as well as the greater SAE community). Learn: Q: How do you learn best? A: It varies.

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Turn Your Harshest Critics Into Your Biggest Supporters

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During the show, he shared a story about reading an article in the Boston Globe years ago that took an unfair dig at his career. But recently I’ve come across two examples that show how responding to or developing a creative initiative after receiving negative feedback can produce a positive result.

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Effort Empowers Kansas City Women To Effectively Negotiate Salaries

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The program, which debuted in Boston in 2015, “empowers women to negotiate their salaries effectively and powerfully,” according to AAUW Senior Vice President of Communications and External Relations Laura Segall. “In Its goal: Close the gender pay gap by training 1 million women across Kansas and Missouri in salary and benefits negotiation.