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Social Media: A Window into a Post Traumatic World

Every day, 22 military veterans commit suicide, according to the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. Between 2005 and 2011 the veteran suicide rate rose 2.6 percent a year, over twice that of the civilian national average. Called an “epidemic” among post 9/11 service members, the total number of veteran suicides for the entire year is expected to exceed 8,000. Almost one out of every five American suicides is carried out by a former military service member....

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Assuring your Sustainability Report: Experts Explain the Options

In the rapidly evolving field of sustainability reporting, key issues quickly supplant one another. External assurance of sustainability reports -- a topic that may not have attracted much attention a few years ago – drew standing-room-only crowds to two sessions at the CR Magazine’s recent COMMIT!Forum in New York. Thanks to the drive toward integrated reporting and increasing investor interest in non-financial performance data, more companies are realizing the inevitability of providing investment-grade nonfinancial data as accurate and reliable as the financial data presented in...