| 18.5 million saw Sarah Harding ads
The Foundation for Chiropractic Progress (F4CP) has issued a report card on its work for 2006. Its accomplishments include reaching more than 18.5 million subscribers to major publications with a positive public-relations campaign; the development of a board of directors and an advisory committee representing a cross-section of the chiropractic industry; and major financial support from chiropractic suppliers, associations, schools, and organizations. • Public relations and advertising. The Foundation engaged the services of CPR Communications. Since July, the agency placed ads featuring F4CP spokesperson Sarah Harding, Ms. Fitness USA 2006, appeared in Sports Illustrated, Newsweek, U.S. News, Business Week, New York Times, and the Health Magazine and reached more than 18.5 million subscribers.
CIOs still excluded from the boardroom
A seat in the boardroom remains elusive for most CIOs as businesses continue to exclude IT chiefs from high-level strategic planning, according to new research. The picture is even bleaker for European companies who lag behind organisations headquartered in north America and Asia-Pacific when it comes to putting an IT executive at the top table. The research, A Missing Competency: Boardroom IT Deficit, by public relations company Burson-Marsteller reviewed Fortune Global 500 organisations to determine those with a technology expert - either a current or former CIO - on their boards. It is the second time the research has been carried out and, compared to the earlier 2003 findings, it showed an increase from five per cent to eight per cent in the number of organisations globally with a CIO on the board.
HIV asylum seekers suffer ‘living hell’
A man tells how his wife was brutally beaten just weeks after having surgery for breast cancer and subsequently died. But they also describe the social isolation and poverty they have encountered in Scotland. One said: "There are mother and toddler groups everywhere, but I can't go because my name is HIV. "You end up not attending the group because most likely I might find somebody who has been told that I am HIV positive and they start pointing again." Martha Baillie, manager of Waverley Care Solas, a support centre for those diagnosed with HIV, told the Sunday Heraldthatasylumseekersfaced "layers" of stigma and discrimination. "There is still massive stigma about HIV,"shesaid."Peoplewhofeel excludedfrommainstreamScottish communities because they are asylum seekers, can then feel unable to share information about their HIV status." UK residents who are HIV positive canaccessadditionalbenefits,for example,tohelpthemfollowa nutritiousdiet.However,asylum seekers - who cannot claim mainstream benefits and are not allowed to work - struggle to find money for basics such as food and transport.
New rules will kill us, grouper fishers say
Commercial fishermen have historically caught more red grouper, but gag has made up about one-third of the catch in recent years. Restaurants often charge a premium for gag because many people think it tastes and flakes better than red grouper. Menus often label gag as "black grouper" because it sounds better. Though some grouper are caught in the Atlantic Ocean, most are caught in the relatively shallow water off Florida's West Coast. When federal biologists decided about two years ago that gag stocks were in trouble, the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council began to study how best to cut back. Tuesday's action was a vote of the council's Reef Fish Management Committee. The full council will hear public comment today and then vote to accept the committee's recommendation in full or tweak it.
Beyond the Arc: Winthrop smacks MVC’s rep
Should the final 10 be a consideration for the tournament? Should close losses be a consideration? All of it interesting stuff, even if it was stuff that general fans might glaze over. (Then again, the way people care about the BCS makes me think that as long the information is presented, people will have an interest.) Bilas covered most of what they talked about in his blog last week (in the latest installment of the brilliant back-and-forth he does with SI's Grant Wahl), which, for Bilas, came down to three things that should change when considering the 65 teams that make up the NCAA Tournament: the seeding committee's members, the RPI and criteria. The committee, as Bilas writes “should be comprised not of sitting commissioners and athletic directors, but of a disinterested working group of basketball literate legends like C.M.
US State Dept: Daily Press Briefing
It sends a strong message to Iran that it needs to comply with UN Chapter 7 resolutions. They’re becoming increasingly isolated and I think this shows that they aren’t able to divide us in our commitment to this effort. In terms of details, I don’t have them right now. They’ll be released in appropriate time. QUESTION: Well, I mean when they – when Steinmeier says we’ve agreed on the elements in the resolution – I mean, one might logically assume that if those elements included sanctions he would have said so. MR. GALLEGOS:Well, since I don’t have it, we haven’t released it, I can’t tell you at this point. But I do know that at an appropriate it will be released and we’ll be able to comment on it further at that time.
Sustainability Reporting Improves, But Falls Short on Linking to ...
A new benchmarking survey correlates the top 50 corporate non-financial reports to credit ratings, but reports themselves fail to link financial and sustainability performance. SocialFunds.com -- In 1494, two years after Columbus discovered the so-called "new world," Fra Luca Pacioli (the "Father of Accounting") published the first financial report--a "ledger" of assets (receivables and inventories), liabilities, capital, income, and expense accounts. Five hundred years later, John Elkington coined the term "triple bottom line" to describe social, environmental, and financial accounting, and his sustainable development think-tank, SustainAbility, released its first survey benchmarking non-financial reporting.
Today, SustainAbility releases its sixth such benchmarking survey, Risk & Opportunity: Best Practice in Non-Financial Reporting, with longtime partner the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and new partner Standard & Poor's (S&P).
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