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Join CWU for our inaugural young professionals’ reception and networking event at 28 Degrees bar and lounge in Boston's Back Bay on May 20, 2010.…

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By Patrick Gilroy / For The Item

Sometimes the NBA would be better served if the powers-that-be would simply just look the other way.



For Celtics fans looking for signs of life from the Green, Kevin Garnett's actions and elbows were just what the doctor ordered. Unfortunately for the Celtics, the ramifications of KG's transgressions were far reaching, and for the NBA as an entity the idea of…

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By Pat Gilroy / For The Item

Reporting on the Boston Celtics on some way, shape or form has been a part of this writer's job description for the better part of the last decade. It is for that reason that I am totally embarrassed to tell you that if you are looking for playoff insight, this may not be the column for you. The fact remains that by this time next week the NBA's 82 game regular season will be over. Chances are, your… Continue

By Pat Gilroy / For The Item

Just when it looked as if it was safe to believe that the Celtics have cured what ailed them, they throw up an effortless stinker. In their Sunday-evening, nationally-televised loss to the equally-old San Antonio Spurs, the Celtics proved only one thing: There is still more work to be done, both on and off the court.



If the Celtics want their fans to take their championship talk seriously, they will simply have to… Continue

"Two out of three ain't bad," as Southerners like to say. Especially when the two wins came as part of a Texas two-step including victories against the Rockets and the red-hot Dallas Mavericks. Although the Celtics lost a tough game in Utah Monday night, Celtics fans have many reasons for optimism heading into the season's stretch run.



With only a couple of weeks left in the regular season, the Celtics appear to have something that they have been lacking all… Continue

I've worked in a project management capacity for awhile now and have always thought about how I could apply these skills to my life. After all, if I can manage schedules and deadlines for work, why not translate this into self-improvement tasks? It wasn't until I discovered Agile Software Development that this started to really make sense.



Agile means flexible and it works like this: you catalog all of your user stories -- what your customers want to do with your software, along with a… Continue

Hello! I'm starting my own company - so exciting and scary!!! If anyone has any tips/ideas/words of widom, I'd LOVE to hear them. Thanks so much! I am looking forward to meeting everyone.

So, for those of you that know me, you know I'm a mom. I never really paid much attention to what food I was eating until I became a mom, and then suddenly health meant a lot more. But I go in the grocery store, and we're on a budget, and I have no idea what I should buy organic, what natural means, what foods to eliminate... Sometimes I think I need to go back to school just to figure out how to grocery shop!

Well, I'm a part of this great, free weight-loss website called…

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For Boston Celtics fans still attempting to figure out who this team is, my message to you is simple. Stop. There is not one basketball mind this side of Red Auerbach that could figure this bunch out. While the goal of returnuing to the NBA Finals may still be within their grasp, it certainly will not be an easy nor a predictable road for the Green. From a distance, the Celtics hold a terrific record (40-22) and with four consecutive wins before last night's loss to…

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Please help find my coworker, Gene Losik. He disappeared in Boston on February 21 and has been missing ever since. There's a $10,000 reward for information leading to his safe return. You can read about him and the efforts to find him at http://findgenelosik.com. Please spread the word!

Considering how poorly the Celtics played heading into the All Star break fans should be thrilled with their sudden turnaround which consisted of a 3-1 post All Star game road trip, a rejuvenated post-trade deadline Ray Allen, and most importantly, a suddenly spry looking Kevin Garnett.…

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There are lots of frustrations to running a social group. Those frustrations include but are not limited to planning events and doing your best, but you can't make everyone happy, working with venues who don't keep their word and let our members down (we won't name names!), trying for 3 years to work with programmers to get a web 2.0 site, and having them quit on the job and run away with your payments... I could go on and on!

But I keep doing it year after year, and the…

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So, the earthquake in Haiti happened, and everyone wanted to help, including BYPA. So, with the help of several people, including FJ Cassidy of Cassidy Insurance we got to planning.

Since we knew that interest would wane over time, we knew we needed to act fast. So we went looking for a venue. We got several awesome offers that ended up leading nowhere. Most notably, another (very popular) venue told us on the Friday two weeks before our chosen date that they would donate…

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