post random questions daily and see if anyone plays with me and answers them :)

and since the only plans I have are:

1)visiting my dad at the nursing home.

2)watching the contractors finish off the bathroom.

3)picking up a new medicine cabinet and lights for the new bathroom.

4)Paying some bills.

5)mailing some letters and stuff. Sending Marlene’s magazine.

6)hopefully pick up some beaded jewelry pieces for Anne’s bracelet and matching ear rings.

7)Watching the NE Pats NFL Football game Sunday.

what else does everyone have for their plans this weekend? Anything more exciting (I certainly hope so) than that?

...On the old time TV show Gilligan’s Island how come the Skipper and Gilligan always wore the same clothes as did the Professor, Mary Anne, the movie star and the Millionaire couple. Why didn’t their clothes tear away after wearing them after awhile? How did Gilligan stand the odor of the Skipper up above him? The skipper had to run out of deodorant even after washing the clothes will tear apart, like in the Tom Hank’s movie Castaway, he lost weight, and his clothes tore away; why didn’t the Skipper Gilligan’s or the professor’s tear apart?

-Also, when you put on socks, do you put both socks on and then both shoes or do you put one one sock and one shoe? Myself I put one both socks-

...In F-Troop, when the cannon wouldn’t fire, so Corporal Ag one kicked the wheel and they shot the observation tower and the guy falls why doesn’t he ever break a leg?

...Does anyone know how the Okowee Indians got their name?

These are the little things that keep me up thinking about…

she looking for a copy of today’s Washington Post newspaper Would anyone know where she could get a copy of the newspaper, old it doesn’t matter as long as it is in readable condition. She wants 3-5 copies but even one would be fine for now.

If so please send me an email and we can discuss the price and how to get it to her. Thank you.

How was your post Labor Day Weekend?

A) A Rousing Success?

or B) A Dismal Failure?

I will tell you mine after a few responses…

I know Friday is already gone, and so is Saturday but that still leaves Sunday and Monday. So, what big plans (if any) are scheduled in your precious time before work again on Tuesday?

No one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick. No one should be unable to change jobs because of a “pre-existing condition” or fear of losing health care. If you agree, and you believe in a strong PUBLIC OPTION to any health care reform, please post this as your status for the rest of the day.

Jennifer Aniston (but this is not the picture on the cover)
However, No Tobacco Ads are inside this month’s Magazine of ELLE!!!

...and I sent a letter to the FDA and American Cancer Society

Well, in this month’s ELLE Magazine September 09 No. 289 with Jennifer Aniston on the Cover, I could not find any evidence in 497 pages I scanned through that there is any ad for Natural American Spirit 100% Organic Tobacco advertised in the woman’s fashion magazine.

Yea! I don’t believe that just one set of emails to some of the largest beauty and cosmetic companies would be enough to stop their ads that I complained about but it DID!!!

I am just amazed that they believed (as I believe still today) that tobacco ads do not belong in a woman’s fashion magazine. That’s it.

I have 43 things on my list, most of them are birthday goals of 3-6 months ago; I also have 4-5 people who want me to join their team goal of someone others birthday. Why do I feel so guilty and it’s driving me crazy with my anxieties acting up, it’s overwhelming me most of the time.

I can’t keep up with all the requests, my dad’s supposed to come home and the plumber bailed on us. Maybe this isn’t the best place to post this but I just want to know how do you handle those team requests and individual requests to join a birthday goal and keep up with everything else in your life?

Sometimes it just drives me insane, and that’s no joke, that’s my life. Thanks for listening to my whining.

but she is having a problem with marketing herself and wants to try different things so she can sell her beautifully designed pieces like this necklace and matching ear rings:

I am not here to promote her web site and to see her jewelry is “here this is for sale at XXX dollars.” I am here just trying to gather some information about what she should do to better market herself and improve her web site, so she can sell herself and her designs more efficiently and for me to not end up on the “Neighborhood Watch” and have my profile page removed.

She has a large collection and selection of these pieces but she is not getting the recognition in sales that she deserves. My question is: what marketing techniques can Marlene use to make her web site “more active” and “more alive” so she can sell her pieces faster? Should she change her web site design? Add a web blog? Connect her web site to other web site or web blogs anything would be most appreciated.

Her web site is: Its Marlene’s Jewelry
Thank you!

contains ad ad for “National American Spirit” tobacco cigarettes. I didn’t think the ad was appropriate for a woman’s fashion magazine like ELLE. (see page 175 and pull-out cardboard section in brown and green colors)

Plus, the ad stated that their tobacco was 100% organic, 100% additive free, no flavorings and you could try their cigarettes with free $20 in gift certificates. Plus they listed the Surgeon General’s Warning: Warning Smoke Contains Carbon Monoxide. and another statement: No additives in our tobacco does NOT mean a safer cigarette!

I wrote to ELLE magazine about removing the ads,

Hi: ,,,My only concern is why you continue to run an ad for tobacco cigarettes, “Natural American Spirit” cigarettes which has been banned in most media venues for quite some time now. Cigarettes cause cancer in any form regardless of the presence of being nicotine or additive free and the health risks are still there (as presented in your ads.)

Why would your magazine risk your reputation of producing ads which also produces ads for some of the major cosmetics companies (for example, OPI has ads for their nail varnishes and makes a nail varnish for the Susan K omen Breast Cancer Walk for Breast Cancer, Lung Cancer, Ovarian Cancer) Bi-ore, Dove, Crystal Light, Jergen’s, Clinique, Lo real, Kashi, HSN, and Caress all have made contributions to woman’s health issues and smoking tobacco smoke is not one of them.

Please don’t make me drop you subscription for one advertising company. Please drop Natural American Spirit because smoking cigarettes is un-cool and shouldn’t be in a woman fashion magazine in the first place. You have a beautiful and gorgeous magazine which I love receiving every month and I just rip out the pages of the ads but I still am alarmed by them.

Is the risk of one person getting cancer worth a few advertising dollars and a stain on your reputation and possible boycott and/or lawsuits by the American Cancer Society or other governmental agencies? Just say “No” to Natural American Spirit, ” please. It’s not a wise marketing strategy. Thank you. (Thus far I haven’t received any response from ELLE Magazine)

I wrote the FDA and the American Cancer Society and received this reply back from the ACS:

Hi George,

I received your email that you’d sent to the American Cancer Society about the NAS ads in Elle Magazine. Thank you for being proactive with this. The new media ban on tobacco products that just got signed into law as part of allowing FDA the authority of regulating tobacco, does not go into effect for 12 months (June 2010). So while we would highly discourage Elle to run these ads at all, legally they are still permitted until changes must be made in 2010. Then advertising will be black and white and text only.

I think it’s wonderful that you wrote Elle about the ad and encourage you to request that they voluntarily stop running tobacco ads. Thank you again for bringing this to our attention and being a passionate tobacco advocate.

Regards,
Katie King
American Cancer Society
Grassroots Advocacy Coordinator
18 Tremont Street, Suite 700
Boston, MA 02108-2307
617-878-4131 (Direct)
kathleen.king@cancer.org

Well the ad now is is full color and hope the September 2009 issue of ELLE magazine follows suit with the American Cancer Society recommendation. I also wrote letters to: Dove, Kao Brands (which handles all Ban, Biore, Curel, Jergens, and John Freida products) about the ads, Sally Hansen and OPI who have Breast Cancer, Lung Cancer Campaigns and why would they want to be associated with a magazine who sponsors tobacco cigarettes that have been proven to cause lung cancer (in multiple lawsuits.)

So, what is your opinion on this ad What is your opinion on having tobacco ads appear in magazines like ELLE or even PC Magazine?

Should we ask magazine companies voluntary pull ads for tobacco cigarettes until June 2010 when the full effect of the FDA mandate goes into full effect?