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Effort Empowers Kansas City Women To Effectively Negotiate Salaries

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Its goal: Close the gender pay gap by training 1 million women across Kansas and Missouri in salary and benefits negotiation. This latest push in Kansas City will play an important role in reaching this goal, as AAUW hopes to instruct 1 million women across both Kansas and Missouri.

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Getting involved: How a community manager benefits from volunteering

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Lisa Cox, CMCA, AMS, LSM, PCAM, community manager at Sienna Associations in Missouri City, Texas, knows firsthand the impact that getting involved and volunteering can have on a career. I attribute so much of my knowledge from the courses and other resources that have been offered through CAI.

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How David Lynch Can Make Your Research Better

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It turns out that the Nile shifted course and kept inhabitants of the land guessing, the locations of power moving with the location of the most fertile parts of the river. . Such an important tool for over one thousand years and today fewer than two dozen exist. . Things change.

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Death of a Road Warrior

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The suitcase represented new opportunities, adventure, and an escape from what everyone else was doing in rural southwest Missouri. Of course, he’d later go to Vietnam, following his graduation, and see more adventure and travel than he’d anticipated or wanted. Later, I came to understand why the gift had meant so much to him.

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Medical Groups Push Back on CDC Painkiller Guidelines

Associations Now

We’re trying to chart a safer and more effective course for dealing with chronic pain. In issuing the nonbinding guidelines, “we’re trying to chart a safer and more effective course for dealing with chronic pain,” CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden told the Associated Press.

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Conference Circuit: Reinventing Meals on Wheels

Associations Now

Alongside idea generation about how to meet increased demand for Meals on Wheels’ services is a schedule filled with celebrity speakers , instructional courses , and expositions. With more seniors comes more strain on Meals on Wheels, which already serves 2.5 million seniors. The Week Ahead.

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Friday Buzz: Crowdfunding on the Front Lines

Associations Now

As our own Rob Stott reported Thursday , the situation involving the death of an unarmed Missouri teenager at the hands of police—and, especially, the ensuing protests—has raised some serious concerns about the way police officers interact with journalists. I mean, of course you do: [link] #assnchat. Get Your Phrasing Right.