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'He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.' ~Harold Wilson
Who throws parties on Sundays?
Because of a longstanding association with Superbowl and Sunday, NFL lovers do.
However, the effort which goes into these parties, followed by inevitably intense revelry and/or depression by fans and admirers alike, does not suit a Sunday disposition.
Superbowl Saturday would allow us to embrace the game without fear of tomorrow. It would also allow for a day of reflection and recovery before the busy work week begins.
As the NFL ever expands into new markets, it is incumbent upon the league to recognize the ill effects that a Sunday Superbowl imposes on the world economy.
A Saturday Superbowl would allow millions of American churchgoers to fully participate in celebrations, creating new marketing possibilities for the NFL and their sponsor networks.
Holding the Pro Bowl on the following Sunday in the Superbowl city would also provide otherwise untapped marketing opportunities, and generally better interest in this otherwise milquetoast affair.
Superbowl Saturday has too many advantages to ignore.
Let's exercise our right to freedom of fun!
Let's keep the world economy rolling.
Election years destroy perfectly good television watching time. It's bad enough that we are bombarded with drug ads and make-up ads and car ads that people could careless to see.
Then to add a layer of slanderous, obnoxious, distracting insults from one candidate to the next. It's nauseating.
3. Stop Tobacco Giant from Getting University Research 
This is from the BBC News;
"A Scottish university is battling a tobacco giant's attempt to gain access to its research into the smoking habits of thousands of teenagers.
Philip Morris International (PMI), which makes Marlboro cigarettes, has submitted Freedom of Information (FoI) requests to Stirling University.
The research examines why the teenagers start smoking and what they think of tobacco marketing."
Do we really want to give information to a Tobacco company about how to market cigarettes to children.
4. Stop Facebook from stealing and selling our information
Ever Since you have signed up, facebook has been keeping your information in a database. I want them to stop doing that because what they are doing is illegal by selling your likes to advertisers.
It is making facebook billions of dollars a year from taking your information.
5. No to Infant Formula Ads on Google
Join Connected Childbirth and Mothers of Change in protesting infant formula advertising via Google.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has specifically stated in its International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes that infant formula companies should not advertise or give away formula samples.
Marketing infant formula to consumers is prohibited because breastmilk is the optimal complete food for infants, while infant formula poses many health risks and should only be used under the advice of a health care professional when breastmilk from the mother or a donor is not available. Companies who advertise infant formula care more about making a profit than promoting the health of babies.
Connected Childbirth offers online prenatal classes in realtime, and empowers women to make informed choices. www.connectedchildbirth.com
Mothers of Change is a Canadian consumer advocacy group advancing mother and baby-friendly care. www.mothersofchange.com
These two organizations have created this campaign, to harness the power of our voices to stop infant formula advertising on Google. Google depends on its users, and we have strength in numbers. Together we CAN make a difference!
6. Promote Safe Sleep Images in Advertising
Over 4500 infants die suddenly and unexpectedly in the U.S. each year. Many of these deaths are accidental sleep deaths related to an unsafe sleep environment and are potentially preventable.
The National Institutes of Health, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and SIDS prevention organizations around the world all agree that babies should always be placed on the back to sleep. Sleeping on the stomach doubles the risk of a baby dying of SIDS.
Babies should sleep on a firm surface, such as a safety-approved crib mattress covered by a fitted sheet. Soft objects, such as pillows, quilts, sheepskins, and heavy bumpers should never be placed in the baby’s sleep area. Sleeping on soft bedding increases the risk of SIDS 5 times. When soft bedding is combined with sleep in the prone (stomach) position, the risk of SIDS increases 21 fold!
Babies should sleep close to, but separate from the parent or caregiver. Numerous studies have demonstrated the danger of infant suffocation death when an adult sleep surface is shared with the baby. Babies dying of SIDS are more than 5 times as likely to have had a sibling in the bed. A study by Kemp, et al. demonstrated a 40-fold increase risk of dying of SIDS if the baby was sleeping together with the parents.
Advertising is a very powerful tool and has the ability to effect behaviors relating to healthcare. A recent study by Joyner and Moon (Peds 124(3):e425-e431) reported that in magazines widely read by women of childbearing age, more than one-third of the pictures showed infants in an inappropriate sleep position and two-thirds demonstrated an unsafe sleep environment. Showing infants in potentially life-threatening situations sends a very dangerous message to the public. It undermines the efforts of SIDS prevention organizations by providing a false sense of security to families and reinforcing the misconception that these dangerous sleep environments are safe.
Advocacy efforts can result in positive change as evidenced by the results of campaigns to eliminate cigarette advertising targeting minors. Efforts have also been successful with the entertainment industry to promote health by not glamorizing cigarette use and promoting seatbelt use. Help us promote a consistent safe sleep message to the public by supporting this petition to ask the advertising industry to support infant sleep safety in their advertising images.
For more information please refer to the American Academy of Pediatrics website at: www.aap.org or Cribs for Kids at: www.cribsforkids.org. A sample of infant safe sleep guidelines can be viewed on the First Candle website at: http://www.firstcandle.org/about/for-the-media/safe-sleep-image-guidelines/
7. Represent LGBT people in mainstream advertising
LGBT people are continually mis- or under-represented in the media. As found in GLAAD's 2008 study (see link 1) only 1.1% of all regular characters in the 2007-08 broadcast television schedule were LGBT.
Advertising (especially in the prime time 'advert breaks') reaches a massive audience (an average of about 9 million viewers) and can help to present a very positive message to those who need/would benefit from it.
IKEA have had lots of adverts featuring LGB&T people, both on TV and in print. Their catalogues also feature gay couples and families. In 2007, IKEA ran an ad campaign titled 'Living Room,' which aired across Europe and America. The ad featured a series of families in different living rooms, ending with a bi-racial gay male couple and their daughter, and the voiceover: 'Why shouldn't sofas come in flavours, just like families?' The ad won an award in America from the Commercial Closet Association, a charity which campaigns for positive LGB recognition in advertising. (Link 2)
DFS adverts famously centre around a 'living area' with a family, couple or person in them (Link 3). None of these have ever featured an LGBT family or couple and could quite easily do so.
The 'Pink Pound' (the LGBT market) is worth an estimated £70 million per year in the UK (Link 4).
Link 1: http://tinyurl.com/ya2mpoo
Link 2: http://www.commercialcloset.org/common/adlibrary/video_large.cfm?AdDetail.video=1004-IKEA-Living%20Room.flv&clientID=11064
Link 3: http://www.dfs.co.uk/tv-advertisements
Link 4: http://www.clearchannel.co.uk/content.aspx?ID=276&ParentID=93&MicrositeID=0&Page=1
In 2010 Top Gear UK will move from SBS to Channel 9 where it will be bombarded with advertising and repeated until you know every line of every episode.
9. Review the Context Of Advertising & The Depiction Of Women
Since I was 12 in 1995 I have felt the same way about this sort of advertising as I do now, and I'm now 27yrs old.
This must stop and the average woman's rights to feel sexy in their family home should be restored to them. Not have It cheapened to an imposable unrealistic unachievable Image of what beauty is set by the media, by this form of advertising.
Targeted & catering to the male viewers only. And leaving a large majority of combined viewers, Unsettled in their own homes, Of mixed dwellings.
WE WILL HAVE THESE LAWS AMENDED ! To Only Advertising Products & Product Related Services.
10. Babydoll-Delicious Real Women Campaign
Babydoll-Delicious have started a Real Women campaign to try to change the way people feel about themselves and what the media and advertising campaigns portray to be normal.
Babydoll-Delicious are trying to promote health and confidence in all men & women and help empower people to make a difference.
Babydoll-Delicious aim to highlight just how many people feel the same way and have a social effect on both the 'Sexy Sells' attitude of major corporations and what is perceived to be 'Sexy' and 'Sold' to the public via mainstream media.
Using real women of all sizes, shapes and looks to model lingerie not just the typical Victorias Secret Models you see on most sites.
Babydoll-Delicious are going to use a number of methods including Real Women modelling Lingerie, Social Networking, Local Media and charity work including Beat (eating disorders) to raise awareness of their campaign and spread the word.
However, the most important link in our campaign is YOU! If you agree with what we are trying to do sign below to show your support and more importantly.........
Tell your friends. You can also see the work we are doing at www.babydoll-delicious.com and join our Facebook groups to show support.
Thanks xx
Click Hereto add your face to our campaign (120x120 pixels)
Ban Pampers Products.
Pampers/Proctor & Gamble has started a controversial ad campaign promoting tetanus shots through Unicef. They are donating .05 cents from the sale of their diapers and wipes, with a *Target* of giving 45 millions neonatal tetanus shots to pregnant women, mostly in poor, underdeveloped countries.
Tetanus shots are dangerous, and the adjuvants in them are known to cross the placenta and brain barriers. It is my intention for P&G to stop this damaging campaign that may contribute to harming pregnant women, with these controversial shots, as well as the potential to harm their unborn babies, with birth defects, spontaneous abortions, and possible stealth ingredients to sterilize, hidden in these tetanus shots. That has happened in the past and is well documented!
NOTE: More men than women contract tetanus. And if consenting adults want to get a normal tetanus shot, at least let the pregnant women give birth before offering these free vaccines. Free is a shoddy way to Mandate global vaccinations!. Uninformed is not truthful consent.
Give them the opportunity to know and understand the Full Information/insert label warnings, cautions, side effects etc., in order for them to make that "Informed" Choice and decision
Proctor & Gamble does not apprear to be overly concerned about popular opinion with this current and controversial vaccine ad campaign, as per their nebulous response to me that they feel they are doing a good thing. Their timing with this campaign is not good, giving the growing concern about vaccine dangers, efficacy, injuries, autism and deaths. In their continued progression of this campaign, with what they say is their interest in saving women and babies, they may well be doing their part in contributing to harming and killing 45 million pregnant women and/or their unborn children.
Unicef's other various vaccine programs, may contribute to harming millions more.
It is the feeling of this petitioner that P&G could be spending those donations in a more positive, purposeful light. That being: donations to research for autism spectrum, vaccine dangers/injury awareness, and information about rights NOT to vaccinate. Or to give these pregnant women, food, vitamens, better water sources and sanitation, as well as prenatal care.
At the very least, give THEM diapers and wipes, NOT Vaccines!
Vaccines are an iffy science, with little proof that they protect against any disease. With vaccines components given unnaturally thru vaccines, the studies are poor in understanding damages that can occur. and the adjuvants in them that can cause adverse reactions, especially in infants, such as encephalitis, seizures, serious site infections and other life-long neurological and autoimmune diseases, not to mention the high incidents of vaccine-induced infant mortality.
The tetanus vaccine is no more effective than any of the others. It also is counterproductive. It will INCREASE, Not Decrease the risk of tetanus, and many people actually get tetanus from the vaccines. Read Link.
http://www.whale.to/vaccines/hancock4.html
Tetus Shot adjuvant: What is in a Tetanus vaccine?
Read Link.
http://www.vran.org/vaccines/dpt/taylor-tetanus.htm
What Unicef is giving is called Neonatal tetanus vaccines. They are not even the standard tetanus shot one gets after stepping on a rusty nail. More info on these.
http://www.vaccinetruth.org/page_8.htm
*So SIGN this petition Today, to help stop this horrific Pampers promotion, and by Banning Pamper's sale of diapers and wipes, and other products.
Below is the link to Protor & Gamble's currant Ad promo running in the media. It offers a Thermometer that tells how these sales are growing, per million.
Tell everyone you know to stop buying Pampers as well. Pass this petition along to any interested Groups you link with. Would like for this to become a very Big anti-promotion campaign.
Proctor & Gamble needs to hear from all of us. Leave your comments if you care to. We need to make a difference NOW, before these 45 million tetanus shots start to be dispersed. Thank YOU!
http://www.pampers.com/en_US/unicef_homepage.do
NOTE: this is not a Debate about vaccines or anything else. If you agree with this petition, Sign IT.
If not, Dont sign and leave negative comments.
12. Petition to change the Olympic 2012 Logo from a "disfigured swastika" to a creative masterpiece by W
After years of trying Great Britain managed to land a worldwide sporting event with the potential to leave a lasting legacy on the entire world. The once gleaming face of Seb Coe has since turned to a deep mauve colour after revealing a shambolic excuse of an Olympic symbol, paid for by you, the taxpayer.
The logo of the 2012 Olympics is surely supposed to be a symbol of creativity and originality, two essential ingredients of any Olympics. Instead, as it stands it is a vulgar concoction of obscenely coloured shapes with no real guise or meaning. Surely you don't want to spend two weeks watching what is meant to be the greatest cultural festival in sport with such a faceless logo polluting the image of our fine capital.
But don't worry, it doesn't have to be two weeks of cringing behing the sofa and wincing during every advertising break, if the logo is changed.
This logo is the brainchild of William Woodhead, a schoolboy who has come up with a logo capable of challenging advertising gurus paid a reported half a million pounds, more importantly he is capable of bringing back a sense of much needed Olympic flavour to London.
Unknown to the disgruntled public, Seb Coe himself is currently considering the logo of William Woodhead and has asked him to prove the popularity of his design. With your help we can make this creative masterpiece the icon of a great Olympic games, and usurp the current dour logo.
Thanks for your support.
Ed Stoner
P.S THIS IS SUITABLE FOR EPILEPTICS
13. Keep Plano A Family Friendly City
Please help, let the city of Plano and Twin Peaks restaurant know that we do not appreciate this lewd and offensive form of advertising.
14. APPEAL VANCOUVER FLEA MARKET RENT INCREASE
On September 02, 2006 a memo addressed to the vendors of the Vancouver Flea Market announcing an increase in booth rental fees to commence on October 07, 2006. This is the second such rental fee increase for the year of 2006.
Since the departure of the Vancouver Flea Market’s former manager in January 2002, three mangers took over and the market has undergone many changes.
1) Introduction of the “Antque Show”
2) Advertising of the Vancouver Flea Market has diminished.
3) Rental Fees have unexplicably almost doubled.
The introduction of the “Antique Show” was a great way to bring more people into the Vancouver Flea Market. This, however, was a mixed blessing. The Antique Show comes complete with a segretation curtain to separate the “regular” area and the “show” area. There is, however, no separation at the admission gate as all venturing customers have to pay double the normal admission. This frightens off some customers, sometimes permanently. Regular customers avoid the market on antque show days forcing regular vendors to suffer. The Antque Show does bring in some new customers but for only around four days per year. For the other one hundred days of business the reserved section for the Antique Show remains virtually empty. If these tables are filled, management could increase yearly revenue by twentysix times.
The Vancouver Flea Market simply lacks advertising. Advertising brings in more customers, which increases the number of occupied booths. With the exception of the few advertisments for the Antique Show, there are little to none advertisments at this point. Pior to 2002, the Vancouver Flea Market was advertised on various television channels with a smart, professional commercial. The Antique Show itself suffers from lack of advertising. A number of the smaller flea markets in the lower mainland have been showcased on “the Antique’s Road Show “on the CBC. For example, the antique show on the north shore flea market has been showcased on Global TV News, CTV News and the CBC. The much larger historical Vancouver Flea Market has been left out.
Rental Fees have almost doubled in the last five years. Contrary to the reasons given for the increase, or lack thereof, cost of living, property taxes and other expenses, while they have gone up, have not increased by 190% as the increase implies. Rental Fees have forced many vendors to leave, and will cause many more to leave or reduce their booths. This will equal much less revenue for the Vancouver Flea Market’s Owners and Managers. The Vancouver Flea Market has many empty tables, with an entire section of empties reserved for the “antique show” which accounts for approximately only four showings yearly, whereas regular vendors are responsible for generating 104 days of revenue, plus holidays. A lower rental fee would certainly fill up those empty tables for more than just four days a year, resulting in 26 times the revenue generated by the Antique Show. Thereby increasing revenue for the owners and managers.
In the past five years vendor revenues have been steadily dropping and rental fees have all but doubled. In spite of raising fees, including admission fees, there has been a reduction in advertising of the market to little or none. In fact many people are unaware that the historical market exists or is even open for business. People from the lower mainland go all the way to the likes of Abottsford, when, ironically, the Vancouver Market is closer. We are looking for a win-win solution allowing the owners and managers to prosper along with the vendors.
Pop ups are reallly annoying, so i want to make a petition to GET RID OF THEM.
16. Making Use of Windows Messenger Service for Advertising Illegal
Currently, the use of Windows Messenger Service has become the new target of spam. People are now using it to send advertisements to anyone who uses Windows 2000 or Windows XP, and the only way to disable this spam is by disabling the Windows Messenging Service.
The downside to disabling WMS is it is used to notify of certain system errors, logs, and such, some of which are critical to the administrator of the system.
This forces people to have to use the WMS. It can be forseen that people will be getting these popups every few minutes in the near future.
17. Unfreeze Stephie at Neopets!
This petition is to the Neopets Staff.->
One of my good friends Steph (cutieazngurl906) got her account frozen for an invalid reason! Neopets states->
-NoPosting any offensive or sexual messages, including while role-playing as your pets. Asking for mates as in friends is ok, talking about mating is not!
-No Advertising cheats
-NoNeo-sitting or any other scam used to get people's passwords
-No Promoting paid advertising for any other Web sites
-No Asking for passwords - Neopets will NEVER ask for your password
-No Advertising fake log-in pages
18. Eliminate Censorship in NASCAR Video Games
Too long has there existed a double standard in video games. Video game manufactures are permitted to represent gratuitous murder in their games as well as a large degree of sexually suggestive elements. In order for them to do this, they simply need to put a "T" (Teen) or "M" (Mature) label on the packaging of the game. However, the following law exists in the California legislature:
California Penal Code 308.5:
(a) No person or business shall sell, lease, rent, or provide, or offer to sell, lease, rent, or otherwise offer to the public or to public establishments in this state, any video game intended for either private use or for use in a public establishment and intended primarily for use by any person under the age of 18 years, which contains, in its design and in the on-screen presentation of the video game, any paid commercial advertisement of alcoholic beverage or tobacco product containers or other forms of consumer packaging, particular brand names, trademarks, or copyrighted slogans of alcoholic beverages or tobacco products.
(b) As used in this section, "video game" means any electronic amusement device that utilizes a computer, microprocessor, or similar electronic circuitry and its own cathode ray tube, or is designed to be used with a television set or a monitor, that interacts with the user of the device.
(c) A violation of this section is a misdemeanor.
As reasonable as this law may seem at a glance to some parties, it creates a very unreasonable restriction on games which are produced within the abilities of the NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing) license. During every NASCAR broadcast, viewers bear witness to a variety of alcohol and tobacco related advertising in the form of Rusty Wallace's Miller Lite car, Dale Earnhardt Junior's Budweiser car, and most apparent, the name of the two main circuits of NASCAR, the Winston Cup (cigarette company) and the Busch Grand National (beer company). It would only seem logical that a video game that is licensed under NASCAR would be permitted to portray NASCAR in as realistic a manner as technology would allow. However, California Penal Code 308.5 forbids this.
This is actually a second double standard: A minor can view said controversial sponsorships (in addition to numerous others) in any given NASCAR race (one quarter of which are broadcast on a national non-cable network, NBC), however to represent the same in a video game in an effort to exude realism in what has been deemed a family-safe sport is forbidden. There should be no argument it is safe to conclude that if one plays a NASCAR video game, there is a very good chance that one has watched at least one NASCAR race on television. If the viewer/player was going to be influenced by alcohol or cigarette advertisements had they been in the game, is it not also safe to say that that person would have already been influenced by watching the race on television? In addition to this, the responsibility for keeping cigarettes and alcohol out of the hands of minors lies primarily on the vendors of these products. Secondary to the vendors, it is the responsibility of the parents or guardians of the minors to educate them on the dangers of alcohol and tobacco. If both of these "lines of defense" fail, all of the censorship in the world won't strip children of the ability to become consumers of these otherwise legal health threats.
19. Help Stop "Corporate Tobacco" from advertising to teens
For generations, tobacco companies have been targeting teens to smoke. they try to hook teens to smoke through manipulative advertising, and they tell them its cool. Well our generation has had enough of it. Teens all over Minnesota are hitting the streets raising awarenss to people about the evil advertising practices the tobacco companys use to target teens. We also inform the public about whats "really" in cigarettes. Join the Movement Fight back. (Minnesota Residents) for more info check out www.tmvoice.com
20. WE WANT TREMENDOUS MONOUGAS!
WE THE PLAYERS OF ASHERON'S CALL, DEMAND THE TREMENDOUS MONOUGA MONSTER TO BE PUT INTO THE GAME! WE WANT A FIGHTABLE, LOOTABLE TREMENDOUS MONOUGA. THE TREMENDOUS MONOUGA WAS IN THE BETA AND IS EVEN DISPLAYED ON THE BACK OF THE ASHERONS CALL RETAIL BOX! THIS IS LIKE FALSE ADVERTISING! AGAIN WE DEMAND A FIGHTABLE LOOTABLE TREMENDOUS MONOUGA IN THE GAME!
21. Demand For Increased Future Promotion Of Tupac Releases
This petition has been formend by fans of rap music's fallen star, Tupac Shakur, in disgust at the minimal levels of promotion by Interscope Records for past posthumous Tupac album releases such as 'Until The End Of Time' & 'Still I Rise'. As a collective we demand higher levels of advertising for the next yet-to-be-titled Tupac double-album (due march 2002).
As supporters of 'Pac's legacy, we wish to see:
- Highly imoroved levels of mainstream advertising through TV & Publications.
- Commercially released singles world-wide (US included).
- Promotion packs, including stickers, flyers, posters etc. to be distributed to volunteer street teams world-wide.
- At least three high quallity music videos to acompany CD singles.
22. Provincial Government spending
The Ontario government is currently spending too much on advocate advertising, rather than informative. Brochures, booklets and pamphlets come in the mail and are thick, flamboyant, and expensive. This is costing the Ontario provincial government millions of dollars, only by promoting their name.
