| LSSU issues 33rd Annual List of Banished Words
SAULT STE. MARIE - The wordsmiths at Lake Superior State University are giving back to English speakers everywhere with their 33rd annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness. On Dec. 31, 1975, former LSSU Public Relations Director Bill Rabe and his colleagues cooked up an idea to banish overused words and phrases and issue a list on New Year's Day. Much to the delight of language enthusiasts everywhere, the list has stayed the course into a fourth decade. This year's list derives from more than 2,000 nominations received through the university's website, www.lssu.edu/banished. Word-watchers target pet peeves from everyday speech, as well as from the news, education, technology, advertising, politics, sports and more.
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.
Brandware Public Relations Signs Robb Report Parent CurtCo Media
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Brandware Public Relations, an independently owned public relations boutique specializing in the automotive, powersports and enthusiast product categories, has been retained by Malibu, Calif.-based CurtCo Media (www.curtco.com) to handle its family of publications targeted to the world's most affluent readers. In its new capacity, Brandware will partner with CurtCo to develop new media opportunities for titles such as luxury lifestyle authority Robb Report, megayacht monthly ShowBoats International, and Art & Antiques, one of the publishing industry's most influential titles targeted to the affluent collector. In addition, Brandware will continue to build awareness for Robb Report's all-new global website, www.robbreport.com. Brandware's West Coast office in Agoura Hills, Calif.
A patch of artistic glass pumpkins
South Bay pumpkineer Doug Brown got his start in glass blowing in the 1970s when he worked for the electronics industry, "back when Silicon Valley was making chips." He said glass pumpkins are popular because there's "that Cinderella thing." He finds the infinite variation of stems intriguing and points out that glass pumpkins are affordable original art that can be on the counter all year long. "Every artist's take is different," Brown said. "For most of us, it gives us a chance to work in color. Many times we'll put multiple layers of glass, like watercolors, to create a look." If the weather is good, Brown said, he'll be bringing his mobile glass studio to demonstrate the art. Although Tepperman originally thought they'd be lucky to have 1,000 pumpkins, she's now expecting the artists to bring between 2,000 and 2,500.
America's uncontrollable war machine
From George W. Bush's war machine comes word that thousands more Marines will soon head for Afghanistan to fight the war he abandoned nearly five years ago for the ill-conceived invasion of Iraq. This doesn't mean we're getting out of Iraq. We will probably be debating the Iraq war in the 2012 Presidential campaign, along with the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq and God-knows-where-else. Call it the endless war syndrome - the result of too many years of out-of-control policies that have left us with little choice but to fight on and on for fictitious reasons and an arrogant illusion of superiority. Bush has placed this nation in an untenable position. We have no business in Iraq but we can't leave. We could have finished the job in Afghanistan in 2003 but we pulled out to fight his useless war in Iraq.
Big firms lack climate change plans
LESS than 3 per cent of major Australian firms have implemented a climate change plan even though the Federal Government intends to bring in new carbon emission laws by 2010, a survey shows. Less than one in five firms see climate change as a present risk. The PricewaterhouseCoopers survey of CEOs and chief financial officers of 303 Australian companies with a turnover of more than $150 million, found that 67 per cent of firms were unsure about their compliance obligations on climate change. Some 78 per cent of firms polled had not taken any action and 98 per cent had not implemented a strategic response to address climate change risks. Only 8 per cent believed that climate change posed a present risk to their business. "The main conclusion from the survey is that while Australian business leaders are aware of climate change as an issue and are keen to know more about how to how to respond, they are not ready for a carbon-constrained economy,'' the report compiled in November said.
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