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USair is pleased to announce a new corporate partnership with Procter and Gamble to improve the experience of passengers using onboard rest room facilities. USair's new Rest Room Fresh™ service is an upgrade of the passenger experience by an innovative, refreshed service offering. USair is pleased to join with Procter and Gamble and feature P&G products in this new innovative offering.

Once Rest Room Fresh is rolled out, passengers wishing to use the rest room facilities can participate in the program by purchasing a USair Rest Room Fresh Pack™ from flight attendants. The Rest Room Fresh Pack contains an assortment of products specifically selected to improve customer experience. Contained in the Rest Room Fresh Pack is a single use roll of Procter and Gamble's Charmin® toilet tissue; one single use sheet of Bounty, the quicker picker upper, paper towel; a pack of Puffs™ facial tissue; and a Mr. Clean™ bathroom wipe, allowing the passenger to wipe up for the next passenger using the rest room.

For passengers desiring a more premium rest room experience, Premium Rest Room Fresh Packs™ will be available. Premium packs contain the following upgrades from the regular packs:

• Two single use rolls of toilet tissue are included for customers who need a little extra
  
• features Procter and Gamble's Charmin Ultra Strong toilet tissue
  
• A pack of Puffs™ facial tissue
  
• A single use packet of Procter and Gamble's Olay Definity Eye Illuminator which penetrates multiple surface layers and helps restore a look that's highly defined - truly luminous.
  
• a trial size of Scope™ mouthwash
  
• two Pepto-Bismol™ caplets, for relief from In-Flight Cafe® meals
  

Rest Room Fresh Packs are competitively priced at $3.00 for a regular fresh pack and $5.00 for a premium pack. As always, correct change is appreciated. Passengers who do not wish to purchase Rest Room Fresh Packs are free to use airport facilities prior to boarding, or purchase an adult size Procter and Gamble disposable** Pampers® diaper from any USair ticket counter, for $2.00 each.


**Used Pampers® diapers cannot be disposed of onboard USair flights.

About USair

USair is the fifth largest domestic airline consistently ranked last in customer service and employing more than 35,000 aviation professionals worldwide. USair, USair Shuttle and USair Express operate approximately 3,500 flights per day with a 25% on-time rating and serve more than 230 communities and shrinking in the U.S., Canada, Europe, the Caribbean and Latin America. USair is a member of the Star Alliance network (at least until Continental is admitted), which offers our customers 18,000 daily flights to 965 destinations in 162 countries worldwide. This press release and additional information on USair can be found at www.usair.com. (LCCG) -Fly with US-

About Procter & Gamble

Three billion times a day, P&G brands touch the lives of people around the world. The company has one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands, including Pampers(C), Tide(C), Ariel(C), Always(C), Whisper(C), Pantene(C), Mach3(C), Bounty(C), Dawn(C), Gain(C), Pringles(C), Folgers(C), Charmin(C), Downy(C), Lenor(C), Iams(C), Crest(C), Oral-B(C), Actonel(C), Duracell(C), Olay(C), Head & Shoulders(C), Wella(C), Gillette(C), and Braun(C). The P&G community consists of 138,000 employees working in over 80 countries worldwide. Please visit http://www.pg.com for the latest news and in-depth information about P&G and its brands.

SOURCE: US Airways

Bart and I are headed to Chicago for a long weekend.
We are staying downtown near Grant Park. No big, definite plans, just hitting some of the museums, sites, walking along the lake and good eating.

He just got back from a month in Korea and is moving to Los Angeles for grad school in a couple of weeks. So this is our summer vacation! Yes, looks like greater travel to Los Angeles in my future. Maybe I will finally make it to Disneyland...

It generally is not a good way to start your day when you walk out of your apartment building and find a shutoff notice for your gas service. Ok, I guess the landlord is not paying the bill. The building across the street does not have a shutoff notice. Is the landlord not behind on the gas bill for that building?

I am surprised the bill was only about $400. While no one is using their furnace, I guess I thought that 16 apartments using hot water for showers, laundry, and whatever else would cost more, but I am not sure how far behind it is. The customer service office for the gas company was already closed when I had a chance to call.

Finally, with the economy and housing situation what it is, this is now the first time all of the apartments in the building have tenants. So now the landlord falls behind?

Guess I need to talk to some of the other residents better plugged into what is happening here and with the landlord...

A couple of people asked me why I was not writing in my blog, so I guess I need to write something.

As an anglophile fascinated by westminster-style governments, there is no better year than this year. I have never been a big fan of the Labour Party, but I found it not possible to dislike Tony Blair. I even agreed with many of his policies. I thought he was treated pretty poorly by his party in the end, so I am taking great joy in watching the back stabbers get it right back at them. I now find myself going to my post office box hoping that the new issue of the Spectator (UK version) or Weekly Telegraph are there so I can read up on the latest tittle tattle from Westminster. There is only this much exciting tittle tattle because the Labour Party leadership is beyond incompetent in the ability to manage the ground crumbling beneath them.

Only a few short years ago, the Tories were left for dead. The Tories will go the way of the Libs. Forever a minority party, unable to ever gain leadership again. It is not surprising to me that the Conservatives are likely to be in the majority in the next parliament; what is surprising is how quickly their fortunes have turned around while at the same time the Labour Party has been making the highly improbable unbroken streak of bumbling mistakes.

Halfway around the world, we have New Zealand where elections are upcoming. In Prime Minister Helen Clark's case, I disagree with just about every position she has, but I love listening to her speak. She is a master of question time and of divisive political speech. Of course, it is easy for me to be entertained, I am not impacted by her policies. In preparation for the NZ elections, I just today received my copy of Absolute Power: The Helen Clark Years by Ian Wishart. Unfortunately, my dose of political intrigue by magazine only comes monthly from New Zealand in Investigate magazine. But, it is well worth the wait.

I have cancelled all my U.S. based news and political magazines. They are all to boring in comparison to The Spectator and Investigate...


Droopy's UK/NZ Parliament Sources:

• Spectator Magazine
  
• The Telegraph
  
• Guardian Daily Podcast
  
• Today on BBC Radio 4
  
• Today in Parliament Podcast on BBC
  
• Investigate Magazine (NZ)
  
• Radio NZ Checkpoint Choice
  
• NZ Questions in Parliament PODCAST