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Big Apple broadcaster amps up ARRL radio spot for Limbaugh network fill (Jan 13, 2005) -- ARRL Media and Public Relations Manager Allen Pitts, W1AGP, says it's nice to have friends in high places. One of the friends of Amateur Radio public relations is Howard Price, KA2QPJ, of New York City's WABC-TV (Channel 7). Pitts says Price--acting president of the Broadcast Employees Amateur Radio Society (BEARS), the ham radio organization at ABC TV and Radio in New York City and an ARRL Special Service Club--heard the League's new radio public service announcement (PSA) and had an idea. "He passed it...

Legendary spokesfigure Smokey Bear celebrated his 60th birthday on Monday, Aug. 9, as Governor Tim Pawlenty proclaimed the day, “Smokey Bear Wildlife Prevention Day in Minnesota.” The Cambridge area Department of Natural Resources (DNR) held a party at its headquarters on Aug. 9 to celebrate the monumental occasion. Two-year-old Alexa Sutherland of Cambridge visited Smokey Bear and tossed a ball around with her furry friend. “The recognition by youth of Smokey Bear is tremendous,” said DNR Fire Management Section Manager Olin Phillips. Even though Smokey Bear has been around 60 years, his message is still relevant today, for the young...

Hello FREPers, It's frightening to see so many Dummycrates out there that are willing to turn a blind eye to the faults of their party leaders. I urge you all to continue to hear and respond to what is said, not what the Dummies are trying to make us believe. Call them on their lies and propaganda. The world is not a perfect place and even our actions, though well intended, may sometimes go astray, in the end, the motivation behind our actions are a true representation of who we really are.

FOUR nanograms of prostate specific antigen, or P.S.A., per milliliter. For more than a decade, that has been the line between normal and abnormal on a common annual blood test used to screen for prostate cancer. Above four and you need a biopsy of your prostate to look for cancer. Below four and you go home. But a new study, published last week in The New England Journal of Medicine, showed that no matter how low his P.S.A. level, a man could have prostate cancer. In addition, it has long been known that men whose prostates are enlarged, a normal...

Significant numbers of older men whose results on a popular screening test for prostate cancer are normal may nonetheless have cancer, a new study has found. The result, medical experts say, raises questions about what a normal test score should be and whether these men are better off let alone or treated when, through biopsies, cancer cells are discovered. It also amplifies a controversy over the test, known as the P.S.A., and whether finding prostate cancer early and treating it by removing or destroying the prostate is, on balance, helping or harming men. The P.S.A. test is a blood test...

<p>The Tennessee Department of Health pulled a radio public-service announcement yesterday after some people complained that it played to racial stereotypes about African-Americans.</p> <p>The PSA encouraged listeners to ''try baking your chicken, eating a fresh tossed salad on the side and scrumptious watermelon for dessert.''</p>

Anti-Smoking Ad Campaign Could Go off the Air Without Tobacco Money By Nancy Zuckerbrod Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - An edgy ad campaign aimed at getting kids to stop smoking could be forced off the air because tobacco companies are refusing to keep footing the bill. Former top federal health officials gathered Tuesday to urge the companies to keep paying for the "truth" ad campaign run by the Washington-based American Legacy Foundation. "I say to the tobacco executives, look if your words aren't just rhetoric, then fund the truth campaign," said Joseph Califano Jr., who served as former President...

Citing "Dangerous Increase" in Deaths, HHS Launches New Strategies Against Overweight Epidemic Study Shows Poor Diet, Inactivity Close To Becoming Leading Preventable Cause of Death With poor diet and physical inactivity poised to become the leading preventable cause of death in America, HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today renewed efforts against obesity and overweight, announcing a new national education campaign and a new research strategy at HHS' National Institutes of Health (NIH). A new study released by HHS' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that deaths due to poor diet and physical inactivity rose by 33 percent over...

WASHINGTON, March 11 (UPI) -- A nationwide education campaign launched by the Health and Human Services Department focuses on a theme of small steps Americans can take to combat a rising tide of obesity in the United States. "We're just too darn fat, ladies and gentlemen -- and we're going to do something about it," said HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson at a news briefing Tuesday. The campaign's centerpiece is a trio of public-service television commercials created by the Ad Council, but the HHS department-wide program also includes exercise and diet initiatives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in...

RALEIGH — A new legal-research group in Raleigh will wage lawsuits over constitutional issues involving the use of tax dollars for business incentives and to broadcast public-service ads using state officials, its chairman said yesterday. The N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law will challenge state policies on business recruitment and tax issues, said William Graham, the former Superior Court judge and state banking commissioner who will head the group's board.

Jill Doimer's mother died in 2002 from ovarian cancer, detected too late to be effectively treated. So Ms. Doimer is eagerly awaiting the introduction of a new test that holds the promise of detecting early-stage ovarian cancer far more accurately than any test available now, using only blood from a finger prick. Not only does she plan to be tested, but an advocacy group she helped found, Ovarian Awareness of Kentucky, also intends to spread the word to women and doctors. "If it's going to happen to me or anyone I know, I want it to be caught at an...

Former President George H.W. Bush Urges All Americans to Support Families of Columbia Shuttle Crew 1/28/04 10:42:00 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National and Assignment Desks Contact: Laurie Rossbach of the Columbia Shuttle Memorial Trust, 202-326-1797 or laurie.rossbach@edelman.com News Advisory: On Feb. 1, 2003, our nation and the world lost the seven brave and dedicated crew members of the Space Shuttle Columbia. But the Columbia seven - Rick, Willie, Dave, Mike, KC, Laurel, and Ilan -- are not the only heroes of STS-107. As we approach the first anniversary of this tragedy, their husbands and wives, sons and daughters, mothers and...

WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) -- A study commissioned by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has concluded that the advertising program of the White House anti-drug office has had little impact on its primary target: America's teenagers. Conducted jointly by the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and Westat, a 30-year-old research firm in Rockville, Md., the analysis concluded that "there is little evidence of direct favorable [advertising] campaign effects on youth." Officials of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) were not immediately available for comment today because of the Martin Luther...

The news media may be excited by the surprise victory of John Kerry in Iowa, animated by the Democratic contest and eager to highlight polls showing weak numbers for President Bush, but a comedy feature on Monday’s Late Show with David Letterman on CBS suggests the wider, less political culture doesn’t assume Bush is so weak or Democrats so popular. The show featured a mock public service announcement explaining how the Iowa caucus system works (“voters arrive at designated sites,” “groups are formed” by candidate preference and delegates are appointed to go to a convention to pick the nominee.) But...

The old failures of new and improved anti-drug education I’m at the February 2001 Teens at the Table conference, a feel-good event sponsored by a coalition of Los Angeles youth organizations and high schools. It’s designed to boost self-esteem and teach teenagers how to make smart decisions. In one of the sessions, a group of students is about to learn how easy it is to stay off drugs. It doesn’t require anything as lame as red ribbons or "Just Say No" chants. It just takes knowing what constitutes a healthy decision -- one that is all your own -- coupled...

10 ADS AMERICA WON'T SEE IN AMERICA ! Mr. Kipling's Virgin Birth and Other Not-for-the-USA Fare Anti-Drug Mutilation The Partnership for a Drug-Free America produces tame stuff compared to this nauseating Saatchi & Saatchi, Auckland, anti-drug spot for Care New Zealand. A young man out clubbing digs his fingers into his skull, peels back his own cranium, and extracts a chunk of what's still left of his exposed brain. He chops up the bloody grey matter with a credit card and snorts the bloody pulp.Among others are !Upside Down Journalism In a blurring of editorial and advertising content common in...

<p>Yes, teen drug use is down.</p> <p>Yes, teens are saying they were influenced by a national media campaign aimed at highlighting the dangers of marijuana.</p> <p>Use declined 11 percent over the past two years, according to the 2003 Monitoring the Future Survey recently released by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson and John Walters, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.</p>

“Where do terrorists get their money? If you buy drugs, some of it might come from you.” Or so claimed a year-long series of U.S. taxpayer-funded public service announcements (PSAs) alleging that recreational drug use sponsors international terrorism. Nevertheless, despite the Bush administration’s having spent tens of millions of dollars on the much-ballyhooed ad campaign, it’s painfully apparent that the American public isn’t buying their message. So apparent, in fact, that the White House quietly decided in April to pull the plug on the controversial campaign theme, effective this past summer. Their decision came less than six months after an...

NFL Supports Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund By K.L. VantranAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Nov. 6, 2003 – Vietnam veteran and four-time Super Bowl champion Rocky Bleier, running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers, will narrate a National Football League public service announcement in support of the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund during network telecasts beginning Nov. 9. The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund provides gifts to military families that have lost a loved one in defense of the United States. Its goal is to provide financial support to help spouses and children of military through difficulties they may face. The gift is...

Non-profit groups to pay for advertising in Washington DC Metro A non-profit organisation that advocates making gay people straight has been told to pay if it wants to advertise on Metro stations in Washington DC.Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays are among a group of non-profit groups that have been told they may no longer get free advertising space.The Metro's Operations Committee wants to eliminate free public service announcements by non-governmental agencies and force organisations requesting extra service to pay a deposit up front.The changes follow a financial dispute with the National Football League.Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays...