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AT&T Keeps Parents and Kids Connected with New AT&T FamilyMap Tool and Affordable New Devices
Application Lets Users View Locations of Family Members from Mobile Device or PC
Buy a Samsung Quick Messaging Phone for As Low as $49.99 and Get another One Free After Mail-in Rebate
Dallas, Texas, April 15, 2009
Staying "dialed" into your kids has never meant more. AT&T* today announced the availability of AT&T FamilyMap, a new tool that makes it easy to locate a family member's phone via web browser on a PC or mobile device. In addition, AT&T announced a new Mother's Day promotion featuring three Samsung quick messaging phones, each with a full keyboard that makes it easier to stay in touch, whether through text messaging, e-mail or AT&T FamilyMap.
For on-the-go families, AT&T FamilyMap is a convenient new tool that lets customers see the location of family members on a map from a PC or AT&T wireless phone.
The service enables users to see details such as location on a map and surrounding landmarks like schools and parks. Users can also toggle between satellite and interactive street maps. Families can customize their mapping experience by assigning a name and photo to each device within their account, and can also label places they visit frequently, like "Home" or "Soccer Field."
Through the tool's schedule checks option, parents can receive alerts at specified times via text or e-mail. For example, parents could request a schedule check every weekday at 4 p.m. to check on their child's location. In another scenario, parents of a teenager who drives could use the tool to check on their child's location instead of calling or texting the teen, which might present a distraction while the teen is on the road.
"AT&T FamilyMap is a terrific tool to help busy families keep track of each other, as well as a great way to check up on loved ones for any reason, such as to touch base with elderly family members," said Mark Collins, vice president of Voice and Data Products for AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets. "More than 60 percent of AT&T wireless customers are part of a family plan or multiple line account, so there's a considerable number of our subscribers whom we believe will find this service beneficial."
Users may locate any phone with which a billing relationship is established — for example, phones that are part of the same wireless account.
In keeping with AT&T's industry-leading stance on privacy, AT&T FamilyMap includes tools that give the primary account owner control in managing privacy preferences. All users on the account receive a text message when their phones first become locatable through AT&T FamilyMap, and those users will receive periodic reminders that their phones can be located. Alternately, the account owner has the option of notifying a phone every time location information is requested. Additionally, account owners receive notification when location information for a phone not already being tracked is requested through the application, and he or she can then choose whether to allow the request.
The service is compatible with all AT&T postpaid mobile phones. Location information is returned with the highest precision when A-GPS (assisted-GPS) technology is available. Alternative location-finding technologies will be utilized to locate users when A-GPS in unavailable1
Users can locate up to two phones on an account for a monthly subscription of $9.99, or up to five phones for $14.99 per month. Customers who sign up for the service will receive the first 30 days free2. Standard data usage charges apply, and an unlimited data plan from AT&T is recommended.
As the Mother's Day holiday approaches on May 10, AT&T is offering three Samsung messaging phones at affordable buy-one-free, get-one-free prices.
- Samsung Propel: At $49.993 (after mail-in rebate), the Propel features a sliding body that reveals a full QWERTY keyboard. It comes in orange, blue, red, and white and red, and includes access to popular features such as instant messaging, Mobile Email, AT&T Navigator, CV, AT&T Video Share calling, AT&T Mobile Music, a 1.3 megapixel camera and more.
- Samsung Eternity: Moms who can't miss their favorite TV shows while on-the-go will enjoy the Eternity, a multimedia-rich touchscreen device that supports AT&T Mobile TV. Offered at $129.993 (after mail-in rebate), the Eternity takes advantage of the nation's fastest 3G network using applications such as Video Share calling, AT&T Navigator, mobile email and instant messaging. AT&T Mobile TV offers live programming from leading entertainment brands CBS Mobile, CNBC, Comedy Central, ESPN Mobile TV, FOX News, FOX Mobile, NBC 2Go, MSNBC, MTV, Nickelodeon, CNN Mobile and PIX. New subscribers can go to an AT&T store or visit www.att.com/mobiletv to sign up for a free 60-day trial4.
- Samsung Impression: The recently launched Impression offers a cutting-edge, high-resolution touchscreen that's paired with a full sliding keyboard that makes messaging a breeze. The Impression features a 3.0 megapixel camcorder-capable camera and 3.2-inch screen that's all touchscreen on the outside and all buttons on the inside. The Impression is a top-of-the-line gift for Mom offered at $199.992 (after mail-in rebate).
All three Samsung quick messaging phones are A-GPS-enabled, a terrific option for users of AT&T's new family locator service.
AT&T FamilyMap was developed jointly by AT&T and WaveMarket Inc., a leader in family safety and location platform solutions. More details on the service are available at www.att.com/familymap.
*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T, Inc.
1 Device to be located must be turned on and on the AT&T Network. Coverage not available in all areas. Service availability, timeliness or accuracy of location is not guaranteed.
2 Users must cancel free trial of AT&T FamilyMap within 30 days or be automatically subscribed at a cost of $14.99 or $9.99 per month depending on plan. Customers can cancel from the "My Accounts" portal on their handset or by calling AT&T Customer Care.
3 For the Samsung Propel pay $99.99, and after mail-in rebate, receive $50 AT&T promotion card. For the Samsung Eternity pay $179.99, and after mail-in rebate, receive $50 AT&T promotion card. For the Samsung Impression pay $249.99, and after mail-in rebate, receive $50 AT&T promotion card. A two-year service agreement is also required. AT&T promotion card valid wherever major credit cards are accepted and for 120 days after issue date. May be used to pay wireless bill. Not redeemable for cash and cannot be used for cash withdrawal at ATMs or at automated gas pumps. Limited-time offer. Other conditions & restrictions apply. See contract & rate plan brochure for details. Subscriber must live & have a mailing addr. within AT&T's owned wireless network coverage area. Up to $36 activ. fee applies. Equipment price & avail may vary by mrk & may not be available from independent retailers. Early Termination Fee: None if cancelled in the first 30 days, but up to $20 restocking fee may apply to equipment returns; thereafter up to $175. Some agents impose add'l fees. Unlimited voice services: Unltd voice svcs are provided solely for live dialog between two individuals. No additional discounts are available with unlimited plan. Offnet Usage: If your mins of use (including unltd svcs) on other carrier's networks ("offnet usage") during any two consecutive month exceeds your offnet usage allowance, AT&T may at its option terminate your svc, deny your contd use of other carriers' coverage, or change your plan to one imposing usage charges for offnet usage. Your offnet usage allowance is equal to the lesser of 750 mins or 40% of the Anytime mins incl'd with your plan (data offnet usage allowance is the lesser of 6 MB or 20% of the KB incl'd with your plan).
4 Users must cancel free trial of AT&T Mobile TV within 60 days or be automatically subscribed at a cost of $15 per month. Customers can cancel from the "My Accounts" portal on their handset or by calling AT&T Customer Care.
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text: VINCE CONSIDERED RETIREMENT? Posted by Mike Florio on May 23, 2008, 7:09 p.m. EDT Wow, that Madden curse thing really is strong. Last year, it almost persuaded the guy featured on the cover of the game to retire. Titans quarterback Vince Young tells Thomas George of NFL.com that Young considered quitting football after his rookie season. I really thought long and hard about it, Young said. There was so much going on with my family. It was crazy being an NFL quarterback. It wasnt fun anymore. All of the fun was out of it. All of the excitement was gone. All I was doing was worrying about things. and throwing interceptions My teammates helped lift me out of it. I prayed really hard. And I began to focus on Gods calling for me. all that, and I got a really stupid tattoo of my own name on my back Play football. Be a role model. Drink tequila from the bottle in public. Take off your shirt. Drink some more tequila. So what has changed in a year? Now I can handle this kind of stuff without it making me want to give up football, Young said. I learned that 24/7 Im representing the Titans and, especially, the kids all over I am trying to influence. I look at my man Michael Vick. I learned from that. I look at Pacman. I learned from that. I look at some troubles recently for rappers T.I. and Lil Wayne, guys I listen to. I learned from them. Ive learned from my life. Vick, PacMan, and various rappers as sounding boards? Wow. You can get too much going on where you cant control it anymore. No matter how much money you get, no matter how much comes your way, you have to control yourself. I know its up to me. I cant get too big for my britches. too late Captain Ego Sure you can. All you have to do is take them off. And then drink some more tequila. http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/05/23/vince-considered-retirement/

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To the Editor:
For what it's worth, I feel that I should let you know that some of us are very disappointed that you decided to change the format of your newspaper to a larger page size.
We understand your stated reasons for the change, but now consider the paper to be reader unfriendly. The larger size is awkward and uncomfortable for many people to hold and read, but especially for those with arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome, etc., as well as anyone who wears bifocals.
We used to enjoy receiving the paper and reading most pages from top to bottom. Now it's too much of a chore, often a painful one and we skim only a few pages before tossing it, missing most of what you worked so hard to publish. We miss a smaller, friendlier, more intimate paper. We miss keeping connected and in touch with the community, and learning what local businesses and organizations have to offer.
When your readership declines, are your small local businesses getting their money's worth if their ads aren't seen? You may deliver a lot of papers, but how much will actually be read? — Marilyn Smith, Little Falls


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Singapore, Singapore, 2016/02/15 - New Fortress HUMS ED-112A compliant Cockpit Voice and Flight Data Recorder features integrated Health and Usage Monitoring System in a single 13 Lb. box - Ultra-Electronics.com / CurtissWright.com. NYSE: CW
SINGAPORE AIR SHOW, CHIANGI EXHIBITION CENTRE, (Booth #R75) - Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions today announced that its Avionics & Electronics business unit, in collaboration with Ultra Electronics Flightline Systems, has developed Fortress HUMS, a new compact and lightweight ED-112A compliant Cockpit Voice and Flight Data Recorder with integral Health and Usage Monitoring System (HUMS) capability designed for use on rotorcraft platforms. Fortress HUMS uniquely combines flight data recording and HUMS capabilities in an easy to install and affordable single box solution weighing only a fraction of alternative systems. In a typical installation, overall weight is reduced from 70 lbs. to 13 lbs. (32 kg to 6 kg) versus currently available alternatives.
Fortress HUMS can be quickly and easily retrofitted onto a helicopter to provide a size, weight and power (SWaP)-optimized single box solution for mandatory flight recording combined with a HUMS solution for maintenance, safety, fleet management and supply chain interface. Its innovative serial communications network of intelligent sensors, connected via a single cable routed throughout the aircraft, enables rapid integration, significantly reduces system complexity, and reduces the amount of time the aircraft needs to be grounded for installation. Fortress HUMS is ideal for use in helicopter applications where operators are seeking to extend aircraft operational life and implement predictive maintenance programs. It can be deployed on both existing aircraft and new builds, deployed as a permanent installed combined HUMS and recorder system for new aircraft construction, or deployed as an upgrade path for customers who implement an initial Fortress Recorder only installation.
"We are very excited to collaborate with Ultra Electronics Flightline Systems to deliver the unprecedented size and weight reduction provided by the Fortress HUMS recorder to the rotorcraft market, said Lynn Bamford, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Defense Solutions division. Fortress HUMS significantly reduces the time and cost of aircraft installation and through-life operational costs thanks to its network-based approach and extremely low installed system weight.
"Ultra Electronics Flightline Systems is excited to be teamed with Curtiss-Wright to bring this next generation and game changing technology to market, said Marc Brodeur, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Ultra Electronics Flightline Systems. The Fortress HUMS will provide the end user with a significant fleet management capability that enables them to reduce operational costs by making better decisions about maintenance analysis, safety, training and interface to the supply system. This system will provide transformational ability to the customer from crew chief to design engineer."
About Fortress HUMS
Fortress HUMS is a non-invasive, fault tolerant, and compact solution that combines Curtiss-Wrights next generation Fortress crash recorder with the revolutionary integrated Health and Usage Monitoring System developed by Ultra Electronics. The resultant product will offer full crash recorder capability coupled with a state-of-the-art HUM system that will offer users a powerful yet light weight and affordable prognostic and diagnostic health monitoring system. Fortress HUMS algorithms calculate the remaining useful life of components, enabling significant maintenance cost savingsand increasing aircraft availability by reducing or extending maintenance beyond conservative periodic routines.
Fortress HUMS has a scalable and composable architecture that can accommodate up to 60 smart sensor channels (e.g. accelerometers, tachometers, communications interfaces, and auxiliary data acquisition modules). The distributed sensor network acquires all data parameters required for both HUMS and FDR functions. This includes vibration data for mechanical diagnostics, engine monitoring, and airframe monitoring; platform dynamics for rotor track and balance; analog and digital signals for HUMS usage monitoring, exceedance monitoring and regime recognition; and ARINC 429, analog, and digital signals for flight data recording. Fortress HUMS can operate with the cockpit area microphone, HD Color camera, Recorder Independent Power Supply and ground replay software to provide a complete cockpit voice, video and flight data recording capability. Whats more, Fortress HUMS is easy to reconfigure because sensors can be repurposed, added or removed, and then reprogramed without the need to remove hardware from the aircraft.
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Curtiss-Wright manufactures the Fortress HUMS data recorder system at its facility located in Christchurch, UK, which is supported by the companys facility in Dublin, Ireland.
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How can schools help children learn English when the students are not even fluent in their native tongue? Read more »
Limited-English proficiency is growing—especially here in the U.S.
Even though English is the most widely spoken language in the United States, growing populations with limited-English-language skills are presenting challenges—and opportunities—for educators everywhere. Read more »
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It's a scary thought for teachers: more students in classrooms are glued to their smartphones than ever before. Which means that text speak is infiltrating everything. And this is nothing to LOL about. Read more »
A day to recognize our modern-day pioneers: teachers
Every July, we set aside a day to celebrate our pioneer history in Utah. We recognize the early settlers who braved their way across the plains and established our state. And today at Imagine Learning, we'd like to celebrate a different kind of pioneer; the sometimes unsung hero in the classroom: the teacher. Read more »
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Free health clinic opens in Braddock
Sponsored by local chapter of Muslim Council of America, medical care offered in borough buildingAugust 21, 2011 4:00 AM
When Mohammed Akhtar came up with the idea to open a free clinic in Braddock after UPMC Braddock hospital closed last year, he had patients in mind just like Vivian Copney.
Ms. Copney, 54, lost her nurse's assistant job when the hospital closed Jan. 31, 2010, and hasn't found work since. A month ago, the extension on her COBRA insurance ran out and she couldn't afford the higher rates to continue it, but she hasn't yet qualified for Medicare.
"These are the people we want to help: the people who slip between the cracks of our system," said Dr. Akhtar, a retired Slippery Rock University psychology professor and president of the local chapter of the Muslim Council of America, which is sponsoring the clinic with funds and 16 volunteer doctors from all over the region -- including UPMC.
In the month since Ms. Copney's insurance ran out, she said the medicine that keeps her high blood pressure in check ran out.
Through word-of-mouth she heard the clinic was opening in the Braddock borough hall and she ended up being its first-ever patient Saturday morning.
After a 30-minute visit in the exam room -- the temporarily converted Braddock code enforcement office -- with the primary care physician Amjad Jalil, normally an oncologist at Jefferson Regional Medical Center in Jefferson Hills, she walked out with a prescription that will only cost her a $5 co-pay.
"It's great," she said of the clinic. "I've been going to clinics and they keep telling me, 'Come back when you have insurance.' But my blood pressure was sky high. I'm glad I came in. I'm going to tell my sister and all the friends and family I know who don't have insurance about it."
The drop-in clinic is for adults who make up to 350 percent of the federal poverty threshold -- $37,905 for one person and $77,175 for a family of four -- and who have no health coverage, either private or government-sponsored insurance.
It started as a weekend clinic, running from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays, but not holiday weekends. It could expand its hours and days if interest grows, said Riffat Chughtai, the clinic's volunteer manager and a full-time manager of UPMC primary care and internal medicine practice in Duquesne.
"I wanted us to start small, kept it to adult medicine and primary care and weekends," she said. "But the goal is to expand into acute care and sub-specialties."
Dr. Akhtar said he had watched with concern when UPMC closed Braddock's hospital.
"I saw the commotion and emotions and anger running all over" because of the decision, he said. "That's what really showed me that this community was really suffering because of this."
Dr. Jalil has known Dr. Akhtar for years and thought from the first proposal "that this was a good idea."
"These are people who need help," said Dr. Jalil. "And four hours a month is more than doable, if I can balance it with my family life and other commitments."
Ms. Chughtai said she and some of the other UPMC volunteers had additional motivation.
"There's a lot of UPMC physicians in the pool" of volunteers, she said, "and they do feel the Braddock people were cheated out of their health care when they closed the hospital."
"I work for UPMC and we all are loyal to UPMC," she said. "But when your parents make a mistake, you have to do the right thing."
UPMC, which gave some basic medical supplies to help the free clinic, is supportive of its doctors volunteering at the clinic, said UPMC spokesman Paul Wood, though he disagreed that closing UPMC Braddock was a mistake.
"It was clearly the right decision," he said.
After coming up with the idea, Dr. Akhtar had a tough start.
He had some initial conversations with Braddock Mayor John Fetterman, but they were unable to find a building to suit them in town.
Then, Dr. Akhtar said, the borough stopped returning his calls for months and he was worried the project would never get off the ground.
Mr. Fetterman said in a phone interview that the now-convicted former borough manager, Ella Jones, was not passing on messages to him before she was arrested for embezzlement.
But he also wasn't sure Dr. Akhtar was prepared to open a clinic, though he didn't try to stop it when he did.
"If someone wants to bring health care into Braddock, I welcome it," he said. "But patchwork and ad hoc solutions aren't what the community needs. We need a UPMC-quality urgent care center and that's what I hope we get."
Without Mr. Fetterman's help, Dr. Akhtar said he wasn't sure what to do until three months ago when he told a neighbor in the North Hills about his plight, and the neighbor gave him Tony Buba's phone number.
Mr. Buba is a well-known community activist, helping to lead protests against UPMC in the wake of the hospital's closure.
When he got Dr. Akhtar's call, Mr. Buba ran with it.
"I thought, 'There's probably a lot of single working parents who make too much money to get Medicaid who could use this,' " he said.
He then called Braddock council president Jesse Brown, who knew it was needed.
"We have a primary care center here, but I went to see if I could get some care and they said because I didn't have a primary care doctor there I couldn't go there," he said.
He's referring to the Braddock Family Health Center, which added extended evening and weekend hours -- paid for by UPMC -- as part of a lawsuit settlement over the closure of the hospital.
A patient who doesn't have a doctor there can see one, but only in the evening hours or on Saturday, but there's more paperwork to do because it's a federally qualified center, Dr. Akhtar said.
But even with a "soft" opening Saturday -- there was little publicity about it, though a grand opening is planned Sept. 10 -- it was obvious there was a need for the free clinic, Ms. Chughtai said at the end of the day.
"We had four patients in the morning and three more people took applications to see if they're eligible," she said. "And it was quieter in the afternoon. No one came in and we were thinking that maybe we should do one (four-hour) shift in the morning."
"But the local people who are involved said, 'No. Don't do that. They will come as they find out about it. You'll need a second shift.' And I'm sure they're right."
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Getting ready
16 July 2009,
Festival of British Archaeology 2009
The Festival of British Archaeology kicks off in just three days and staff at St Fagans National History Museum, National Museum Cardiff, and the National Roman Legion Museum are hard at work.
From the 18th of July until the 2nd of August our museums will be hosting an amazing array of activities to celebrate archaeology, from opportunities to join Roman soldiers in the barrack room at Caerleon, to Shadow puppet workshops in Cardiff, and a recreation of a Roman funeral at St Fagans.
For a full list of all the events and activities at our museums visit our Festival of British Archaeology web page.
Over the coming weeks I'll be blogging as the festival progresses, so if you can't stay until the end of the bell casting experiments, or you have to leave before the bone flutes are finished, then read about what happened here.
Most of the time I'll be based around the Celtic Village at St Fagans National History Museum so most of my posts will concentrate on the events held here, but I'll try to include information about things going on at our other sites.


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NetworkManager, the exceptional free software utility for managing wired and wireless (including mobile broadband / cellular connections), is about to reach its next major milestone since the release of NetworkManager 0.7.0 in the second half of 2008. Red Hat's Dan Williams and his fellow NetworkManager engineers are preparing to release NetworkManager 0.7.1.
The NetworkManager 0.7.1 update includes a whole slew of fixes, updated translations, and new support. One of the notable items in this release is NetworkManager now supports Internet connections provided over Bluetooth via GPRS devices. There are also various D-Bus changes and other items worth noting.
NetworkManager 0.7.1 Release Candidate 1 was released today while one or two more release candidates will arrive in the coming days. Within a few days after that, NetworkManager 0.7.1 will be released in time for the Q2'09 Linux distribution updates.


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Somehow, this cutesy reality show -- featuring pastry chef and family man Buddy Valastro, proprieter of Carlo's Bakery in Hoboken, New Jersey -- has become a cult hit. Highlights? He creates tea-party treats for NYC socialites and aims to satisfy a drag queen who wants to pop out of a cake at a Christmas party! (available at Amazon.com, $20)
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3170-9490 Powhatan Court
Louisville-Jefferson, Kentucky, 40241
Commute to Downtown Jeffersontown
Most errands require a car.
It is possible to get on a bus.
Flat as a pancake, minimal bike lanes.
About your score
3170-9490 Powhatan Court has a Walk Score of 32 out of 100. This location is a Car-Dependent neighborhood so most errands require a car.
This location is in Louisville-Jefferson.
Explore how far you can travel by car, bus, bike and foot from 3170-9490 Powhatan Court.
3170-9490 Powhatan Court has minimal transit which means it is possible to get on a bus. Car sharing is available from RelayRides.
Bus lines:
55 Westport Road
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64 Fincastle Forest Springs Express
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3170-9490 Powhatan Court compared to all of Louisville-Jefferson.
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Empire Beauty School makes the news once again with donations and generosity in this clip on WOLF-TV Fox 56 in York, Pennsylvania. The Empire Beauty School students and stylists in Moosic, Pennsylvania donated their time and tools to offer up $12 haircuts during the holidays with the fitting name of Santa's Snippers. All proceeds from this event go back to women's shelters in the community, and community members get a modern, chic haircut. Everyone wins.
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On Private Donations to Public Schools
Glamorous and lucrative school auctions to support wealthy suburban schools have become a stock feature of popular writing about Silicon Valley. David Kaplan opened his 1999 book, The Silicon Boys, with an account of the over-the-top excesses of the annual charity auction of the Woodside School Foundation. And George Packer's recent article in the New Yorker updated the scene:
The Woodside School Foundation now brings in about two million dollars a year for a school with fewer than five hundred children, and every spring it hosts a gala with a live auction. I attended it two years ago, when the theme was RockStar, and one of Google's first employees sat at my table after performing in a pickup band called Parental Indiscretion. School benefactors, dressed up as Tina Turner or Jimmy Page, and consuming Jump'n Jack Flash hanger steaks, bid thirteen thousand dollars for Pimp My Hog! ("Ride through town in your very own customized 1996 Harley Davidson XLH1200C Sportster") and twenty thousand for a tour of the Japanese gardens on the estate of Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle and the country's highest-paid chief executive. The climax arrived when a Mad Men Supper Club dinner for sixteen guests—which promised to transport couples back to a time when local residents lived in two-thousand-square-foot houses—sold for forty-three thousand dollars.
Were Woodside an anomaly, it would be easier to ignore the phenomenal amount of private giving to public schools. In an op-ed in the New York Times, "Not Very Giving," I chose the Hillsborough Schools Foundation as an example of the trend. (Its 2012 Live Auction Catalogue is really quite something.)
And it would be easy to point to similarly outsized fundraising efforts by local school foundations in Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Orinda, and Los Altos. The same is true elsewhere in the country: in pockets of New York City, in Montgomery County outside Washington D.C., and so on.
Kaplan and Packer see the fundraising galas thrown by school foundations as an opportunity to shine a light on the excesses of our current tech titans. In the current overheated Silicon Valley economy, in an age of growing inequality, school auctions only scratch the surface of such opportunities.
But the problem with school foundations goes much deeper than exposing the follies of fundraising galas among the one percent. The problem is that such activity actually exacerbates inequalities in funding between public schools, widening the already large gap between rich and poor. And it is carried on under the name of, and legal recognition as, charitable activity.
Here is a case where charity does not aid the poor, is not indifferent to the poor, but actually confers additional advantage to the already well-off. For those who understand charity to mean something about alms-giving and support for the poor, it is surprising how little of the roughly $300 billion given away annually in the United States is directed to the needy. (A few links on this: report from the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, Wonkblog post, a 2007 Wall Street Journal op-ed by Sheryl Sandberg, and a new, but gated, article I wrote on the topic here.)
In the case of school foundations, I don't blame well-intended parents. They are seeking quite naturally to support the education of their own children. Punishing parents by banning or curtailing their support for their children is no answer, but neither is publicly subsidizing behavior that encourages activity which predictably worsens inequalities between the educational opportunities of rich and poor kids.
The problem here is policy, not parents. So the focus should be on public policy, on the basic framework that defines, structures, and governs philanthropy. This is the topic of much of my recent research. What role should philanthropy play in a democratic society? What norms should inform the policies that govern the philanthropic sector?
Such questions are also core to the work of the scholars and practitioners at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society and in our magazine, the Stanford Social Innovation Review. In 2005 I wrote there about the perverse incentives in tax policy that structure charitable giving, A Failure of Philanthropy: American Charity Shortchanges the Poor, and Public Policy is Partly to Blame. The piece has some data about the extent of private giving to public schools in California and discusses a range of public policy problems and solutions. Earlier this year, I contributed to a forum in the Boston Review on the topic What Are Foundations For? And I am completing a book, entitled Just Giving, that seeks to provide a full treatment of the role of philanthropy in democracy.
When it comes to addressing the root cause of inequality in public education in the United States, the solution will have little or nothing to do with philanthropy. The solution is full public funding of our schools (in tandem with important governance reforms, for more money does not translate automatically into greater achievement).
New variations on funding the Pentagon via bake sales come to mind. I don't agree fully with the sentiment,but this commentator illustrates the perversity of our current funding priorities:
If only we funded schools 100% and held fund raisers to get money for prisoners to have anything other than basic food and clothing.


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The Brady Rule May Hurt the Innocent
Mandatory disclosure of evidence (the so-called Brady rule) is considered to be among the most important bulwarks against prosecutorial misconduct. While protecting the generality of defendants in the criminal process, we show that under certain reasonable assumptions this procedural mechanism may hurt innocent defendants by inducing prosecutors to adjust their behavior to their detriment. The main rationale for our thesis is that, if forced to reveal exculpatory information, the prosecutor might not look for that information in the first place, and in turn this could harm the innocent under certain reasonable conditions. We extensively discuss our results in the context of the economic literature on criminal procedure. Copyright 2011, Oxford University Press.
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It's all in the numbers
Hillsborough County School District Superintendent MaryEllen Elia is in the running for a state award that recognizes educators' use of data.
Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson on Friday named Elia as a finalist, along with the superintendents of Miami-Dade, Okaloosa, St. Johns and St. Lucie counties.
"Data continues to be an essential tool in our work to improve classroom instruction and drive the academic achievement of our students to higher levels," Robinson said.
Hillsborough and Elia were recognized for building customized school- and district-level performance scorecards, and a user-friendly data dashboard that integrates existing longitudinal district and state data for students, teachers, and principals.
The Data Leader of the Year will be named on Oct. 19 in Tallahassee.


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October, 26, 2009
Texas quarterback Colt McCoy was named Big 12 offensive player of the week after completing 26 of 31 passes for 269 yards and three touchdowns in the Longhorns' 41-7 win at Missouri. McCoy had a 83.3 percent completion percentage, which included completed his first 11 passes. McCoy spread the ball around, finding eight different receivers.
Iowa State linebacker Jesse Smith was the Big 12 defensive player of the week. His teammate, punter Mike Brandtner was the special teams player of the week as he ran 20 yards on a fake punt to set up Iowa State for the 9-7 win.
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A 21-year-old Camp Pendleton Marine died when his pickup veered off a curvy Fallbrook road and went 300 feet down an embankment, the California Highway Patrol said Tuesday.
Four male passengers, also believed to have been from Camp Pendleton, suffered minor to moderate injuries in the early morning crash, which happened about 3:15 a.m. Sunday, CHP Officer Jim Bettencourt said.
The Marine was driving the 2004 GMC Sierra along Willow Glen Road when he lost control, went off the road and down the embankment. He was not wearing a seat belt and was thrown from the pickup as it rolled down the hill.
The driver, whose name has not been released, was taken to Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, where he died, Bettencourt said.
The crash remains under investigation, but Bettencourt said investigators believe alcohol may have been a factor.


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WHILE most parents worry about what sort of toys they give their kids, it
seems other mums and dads are much less fussy about what their little ones
play with.
That's the only explanation for this collection of bizarre dolls, action
figures, and playthings which would leave youngsters with some
very strange ideas.
Originally collected by heavy.com, we've selected some of the weirdest items,
which have no place in any tot's toybox.
Apart from how hands-down weird the You Can Shave The Baby doll is, young
children also shouldn't be using razor blades.
And it's unclear why the makers thought it was a good idea to teach kids that
you need to shave your ankles.
The person who came up with the idea for the Pole Dance doll has a whole host
of questions to answer.
But probably the most important query is how they managed to sell the idea so
well that it actually reached the production stage.
Teaching children that tattoos are cool is what makes this product, above,
a headache for any parent.
At least the GR8 TaT2 Maker, which applies the temporary tatts to children's
skin, doesn't come with ready-made "Love" and "Hate"
stencils for the kids' knuckles.
Even Shape Shifter Punisher himself looks furious about this incredibly
inappropriate crotch rocket.
But in fairness, this toy is halfway between transforming from its human form,
to its gun form. So that's all right then.
While it's seen as fine for kids to play at being soldiers or use toy guns,
turning Russian Roulette into a party game does take it a bit far.
And while this version of the deadly gamble is unlikely to kill any of the
young players, it will cause them to be whacked in the head by the plastic
Dora AquaPet is likely to be nothing more than a brilliant toy featuring
beloved kids' character, Dora The Explorer.
But it definitely looks like the kind of thing you wouldn't want to talk to
your children about until they are much, much older.
Unbelievably, the Jibber Jabber is a doll which makes noise when you shake it
by the neck.
After being slammed by parents' groups who pointed out the similarities to
Shaken Baby Syndrome, the dolls were sold with a health warning not to
throttle infants.
The E.T. Finger Light tries to recreate the magical finale of Spielberg's
film, when the alien bids Earth farewell by telling his pal Elliot: "I'll
be right here."
But the enormous appendage looks so inappropriate, the manufacturers must
really have been living on another planet.
The Christian God might make for an unlikely action figure, but even more
surprising is the fact he's armed with a Kalashnikov.
While the Almighty certainly does a lot of smiting in the Old Testament, none
of it involved a semi-automatic assault rifle.
Wolverine has always been one of the most popular of the X-Men, Marvel Comics'
superpowered team of heroes.
But his popularity is likely to nose-dive if parents discover this inflatable
toy with a very poorly-located air valve.
This absolute disaster of a Batman-themed watergun manages to get everything
wrong, with an unfortunately-placed crotch trigger.
And there are more problems topping the toy up, as the stopper to fill it with
water is slap-bang in the Gotham superhero's backside.


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Atkins to run on national TV Saturday
Former Dickinson State sprinter Derrick Atkins is running on national television Saturday at the Adidas Track Classic in Carson, Calif. ESPN2 is televising the event, which begins at 6 p.m.
Atkins, a Nassau, Bahamas, native is running in the 100-meter dash. He won the race in 2007 with a time of 9.98 seconds.
The meet is considered Atkins' official season opener even though he ran a 10.17 to win the Brutus Hamilton Invitational on April 25 at a meet in Berkeley, Calif.


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There's no rest in peace for Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and for a lot of people that's just as it should be. Many ask why should someone who did something so evil be granted the dignity of a burial? So all last week the accused bomber's body was the topic. In limbo at the Worcester funeral home where it has been prepared in accordance with the Muslim religion. Protestors outside clamoring for the body to be thrown to the sharks, while political leaders insisting approval for the internment was not a government decision.
Tamerlan's dead, but there's no solace, no relief. Instead, we are holding on, literally and figuratively, to his earthly remains. So much has happened since the marathon bombing, but it's still less than a month. Is it any wonder that we've barely had time to process, much less grieve?
Mayor Menino said that to bury Tamerlan in Boston was an insult to the bombing victims. It's not the first time communities have had to deal with this potent mix of sadness and rage. In Colorado, when a local carpenter made 35 crosses as a memorial to the Columbine dead, the two he built for the killers were torn down. And nobody wanted Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh to be buried either. He was cremated after his execution, and his lawyer disposed of the ashes in an undisclosed location.
I think the protests, the rejection by many communities to provide burial space, represent our communal grieving process. We're working through psychiatrist Elizabeth Kubler Ross' five stages of grief denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. We have worked past the first step of denial, but are deeply mired in the second step of anger.
I don't really care where Tamerlan is buried. Maybe that's because my faith tells me that he will have to meet a greater fate in the hereafter. The Muslim holy book is equally clear. "The evil doers," says the Koran, "shall have none to help them."


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What's underneath a great Golden Globes gown? Fabulous shoes! We asked the stars attending the InStyle and Warner Bros. After-Party to reveal their designer footwear for the evening, and captured all the high heel action on video. "I have never worn a higher heel in my whole entire life!" Michelle Monaghan said of her Casadei pair. "God bless the platform! I hope to God it never goes out of style." Homeland's Morena Baccarin echoed the praise of great height, explaining that her Roger Vivier's kept her "comfortable, elevated, happy," while Rachel Zoe kept her toes happy by giving her Brian Atwood's a test run before the big night. "I wore them on New Year's Eve, and I danced all night," she said of her pal's designs. "I love wearing his shoes!" See the shoes of Sofia Vergara, Nikki Reed, Megan Hilty, and more in the video above!
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January 20th, 2012
Americans concerned about China's rise routinely point to China's lack of freedom and democracy as a major obstacle in her drive to become a global superpower. The argument goes that China will always play second fiddle to the United States as long...
January 14th, 2012
Peking University and Tsinghua University, sometimes referred to as China's Harvard and MIT respectively, are located in the Haidian area of Beijing, about 45 minutes to an hour away by subway from Tiananmen Square, the center of the city. They are...
January 11th, 2012
During the course of this project, I've had the privilege of conducting interviews with some really influential people in China. Some are top academics or researchers, and inevitably, they all work at either Peking or Tsinghua University, said to be...
January 5th, 2012
Picture Above: I had the opportunity to interview Enge Wang, the Vice-President of Peking University. This winter, the AT&T Fellowship has been a great opportunity for me to not only visit a foreign country, but to study it in-depth. Though...
December 24th, 2011
Merry Christmas! I'm in China, where the consumerism part of the Christmas spirit is going strong indeed. The bustle and very evident prosperity around me tells me that China is indeed having a very good year, just as it has had in the past thirty...
December 23rd, 2011
I didn't have any interviews lined up yesterday, so I took the chance to visit the 798 Art District in the western area of Beijing. This used to be a military factory, but after the factory was decommissioned, artists moved in to take advantage of...
December 12th, 2011
Ever since Silicon Valley became synonymous with creativity and technology companies like Microsoft and Google, countries around the world have come to realize the economic benefits of concentrated, creative ecosystems in different high-tech sectors...
May 24th, 2011
I sat transfixed and glued to the computer screen as I read about how social media like Facebook and Twitter changed the way political battles were fought around the world. Obama's campaign in the 2008 US Presidential elections, the Arab Spring...
May 15th, 2011
Former Singaporean Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, 87, announced yesterday in an unexpected press release that he was retiring from his cabinet position of Minister Mentor. Born 1923, Lee became the first Prime Minister of Singapore in 1959. He...
April 25th, 2011
There are many reasons why I called Singapore's political scene boring in my previous article. One key reason is that the ruling party, the People's Action Party (PAP), has, since independence in 1965, constantly attracted the brightest minds and...
April 23rd, 2011
Politics in Singapore can be a very boring affair. Refer to this table below showing the outcomes of the 10 general elections Singapore has had since independence in 1965. Year Total Number of Seats People's Action Party (Ruling Party...
February 22nd, 2011
Hwa Chong Institution, Singapore (image from Wikimedia Commons) There has been a lot of talk recently in the American media about education standards in the US, and many times, Singapore has been cited as an example in the debate on the...
February 6th, 2011
It has been two weeks since I left Nicaragua, and I've finally found time to pen the final post in this series, an overall reflection of sorts. Traveling in Nicaragua was a real adventure for me. I spent a year before college backpacking around the...
January 25th, 2011
As my trip approached its end it became clear that I needed a break from travelling, if you will, before returning to Brown. So I decided to spend 5 glorious days in Esteli, a cowboy town in a valley surrounded by high mountains dotted with coffee...
January 25th, 2011
I'm glad I decided to go to Matagalpa. For its really a sweet little place, dotted with cafes, cheap eateries, supermarkets, parks, small departmental stores and interesting clothing shops, all relatively central, along two main streets that run...
January 20th, 2011
First air-conditioned bus ride in Nicaragua. I was so comfortable I couldn't believe it was true - here I am, in the cool comforts of modern transport, breezing up north to Leon on a air-conditioned, comfy minibus, far removed from the hot chicken...
January 17th, 2011
This pair of 2 small islands in the Caribbean has a really sweet name: the Corn Islands. Doesn't that make you want to go there right away? Well, it did, at least for me. On Saturday, at the last minute, just 1 hour before check-in time at the...
January 17th, 2011
After 3 weeks in this country and too many things that have happened (dengue fever, missing the ferry to Ometepe, kayak capsizing, a series of boring, dusty small towns), my heart told me there was one place I needed to go to: Managua, the capital...
January 13th, 2011
Time to bid the river ciao and head to the mountains. Lancha ride up the river back to San Carlos. As we departed the most boring town ever (check out my previous post), I saw the most sublime sunrise ever over the river. The landscape was painted...
January 11th, 2011
San Juan de Nicaragua, population about 1,500, wins the unofficial title of most boring town in Nicaragua. There is nothing to do except wander its two short streets running through the center of town, with a handful of run-down storefronts and...
January 6th, 2011
I am taking a deep breath as I write this. The past few days in the river town of El Castillo have been at the same time exhilarating, rejuvenating, exhausting, inspiring and utterly memorable. It reminded me of the beauty and fragility of life and...
January 6th, 2011
After breakfast, I walked along quiet rural roads lined with farms baking under the hot sun, with gorgeous picture-perfect views of Volcan Concepcion. Found my way to Charco Verde. It was a peaceful, quiet pond with waters lapping against the shore...
December 30th, 2010
Climbed Volcano Concepcion on Monday. Had a very greasy breakfast of an omelet which cost C$50 (US$2.30 or so). It was more like an extremely deep-fried and salty egg with toppings, dripping in oil. Concepcion was a good experience. I gave the guide...
December 30th, 2010
Picture of the interior of a bus in Nicaragua. I apologize for the poor quality; it was shaky. After another day of rest on Saturday after being discharged from hospital, I was more than ready to get out and start doing some exploring. It came as a...
December 25th, 2010
Picture of hospital food in Granada, Nicaragua. I was the only patient and they ordered the local version of KFC for me. What a bummer. After my last post vowing I will go out of the city and explore as much as I can, it seems I may not be able to...
December 22nd, 2010
What a totally uneventful day. After classes in the morning, I chose not to go anywhere because I wanted to spend some time soaking in the sights and sounds of Granada. I guess I've already spent long enough here, because nothing much seemed exotic...
December 21st, 2010
Swam naked in a 200m deep, 200 centuries old lake today. After a mind-boggling morning of Spanish regular and irregular verb conjugations, I needed some adventure and adrenaline. Thought about cycling out to the Peninsula de Asese, which according...
December 20th, 2010
First full day in Granada, and I like what I see a lot. I'm once again reminded why I don't really like staying in hostels. Its cheap, social and everything, but I took a long time to fall asleep last night even though I was dead beat from the plane...
December 20th, 2010
So I've arrived in Nicaragua. Its great to finally walk out into 80 degree temperatures and its wonderful to feel the humidity in the air, sticking to your skin (maybe I should explain - I'm from tropical Singapore). Three hours into arriving at...
Kai Herng Loh
I'm a junior from Singapore concentrating in Computer Science-Economics at Brown. I like exploring and learning about new places. Before coming to Brown, I spent a gap year backpacking around the world.
During the winter break of my freshman year, I visited Nicaragua, and wrote a blog series as well as produced a video for the Global Conversation on my experience. The following year, I received the AT&T New Media Fellowship to travel to Beijing to study innovation in China. You can read about all these experiences on this blog.
I am also an Assistant New Media Producer for the Global Conversation and the Watson Institute for International Studies. Part of my responsibilities includes reporting on lectures and talks organized by the institute.


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Inverness are viewed as "yokels" and "teuchters" and have been given a raw deal in the build-up to the League Cup final, according to Terry Butcher, the Hibernian manager.
The former England captain, who managed the Highlanders for almost five years before taking the helm at Easter Road in November, has backed John Hughes' claim that it is unfair for them to face a league fixture just four days before the biggest match in their history.
Hughes also hit the headlines on Tuesday by outlining a series of refereeing decisions which he believes proves everybody is against Inverness as they prepare for their first major cup final. Butcher, who will provide this evening's opposition, echoed those complaints, and believes nothing has changed regarding how Inverness are treated compared to his time at the club.
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"Welcome to Inverness, John!" Butcher smiled. "It's strange that Aberdeen can play last Saturday, but Caley play on the Sunday and then have to play on the Wednesday again.
"Aberdeen have a clear eight-day run at the final against a team that have played two games in that time. It seems very unfair and loaded to the team from the Granite City. I experienced it all the time in Inverness: there is always the feeling that you are the outsiders, the country yokels, the teutchers. That is the way it always was and it will probably always be that way.
Butcher readily admits falling in love with the Highlands during his time there and, alongside assistant Maurice Malpas and chief scout Steve Marsella, created a formidable unit.
And Butcher concedes it will be strange having to plot their downfall this evening. "It is a special place and there will always be a piece of my heart there," he said. "But I have to go back up there to beat them. It is very difficult to get used to saying the words: 'we want to beat Inverness Caledonian Thistle'."


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text: Bulletin board: Sept. 26, 2012 September 25, 2012 Story Share FUTURE EVENTSUnity of Kanawha Valley will have the next Open Stage 4 Kids event for performers ages 5-15 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Friday at 804 Myrtle Road. This month's event will be hosted by Jeff Russo. Play an instrument, sing, dance, tell a joke, show a piece of art, magic, or just talk into a microphone. Silly songs are welcome. Signups begin at 6 p.m., the entertainment starts at 6:30 p.m. and pizza will follow at 7:30 p.m. There is no cover charge. For more information, call 304-345-0021, 304-346-1948 or contact firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com. Directions can be found at www.unitywv.org/directions. Visit the website at www.openstage4kids.info. Putnam County Parks and Recreation Commission is hosting a photography class instructed by Laura Moul from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 9 and 16 in the Commons of Putnam County by the Wave Pool. For information or to register, contact Laura at 304-743-8281 or call the park office at 304-562-0518, ext. 10. The Woman's Club of Charleston, corner of Virginia and Elizabeth streets, meets the first Wednesday of each month. Networking begins at 11:30 a.m. Lunch, for $10, is served at noon, with a meeting following at 1 p.m. This month's program will be presented by guest speaker Wanda Letendre, author of "601 Mary Street Hill -- A Memoir of My Childhood," Oct. 3. Members also get together for arts and crafts at 10 a.m. on the second Wednesday of each month, and at 11 a.m. for brunch, bridge and bingo on the third Wednesday of each month. Anyone interested in attending or joining should call the club at 304-342-1611. West Virginia Statewide Independent Living Council will meet from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 3 at the Division of Rehabilitation Services, 10 McJunkin Road, Nitro. All sessions are open to the public and interested parties are encouraged to attend. Individuals who wish to address the council should call 304-766-4624 or 855-855-9743 to be placed on the agenda. Horizon Financial Solutions will sponsor an American Red Cross Blood Drive from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 4 at its office, 97 Chase Drive, Hurricane. To schedule an appointment, visit www.redcrossblood.org or call 304-760-8715.Items for Bulletin Board may be submitted by mail to The Charleston Gazette, 1001 Virginia St. E., Charleston, WV 25301, or faxed to 304-348-1233. Notices will be run one time free. Please include a contact person's name and a daytime telephone number. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Former State Police captain now chief in Winfield 2 Innerviews: Dual-identity surgeon riding high in horse racing world 3 WVU seeking improvements during off week 4 Huggins, WVU tap South Florida hoops talent 5 Man charged after motorcycle pursuit early Sunday Parts of Putnam to be grouped with Huntington region Previous Story Water line break floods Lee Street Next Story


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Studio Shed build starts
In January I started working with the great folks at Studio Shed to design and deliver a structure for Boneyard Studios. As described in a previous post, it will be a common space- part workshop space, part bike storage, part trailer park bingo hall. Delivery of the shed came on Tuesday, and after a too-windy Wednesday we started construction Thursday and Friday morning on the lot.
So far its been:
1 hour to remove the shipping container
1 day to prep and pour the concrete
3 days to let concrete dry
3 hours to unload the Studio Shed materials (unfortunately, in driving snow)
1 full day and 3 hours the following morning to complete the 12×24' Studio Shed shell (walls+windows+roofing)
So far we've been impressed with how easily the Studio Shed goes together, and how open it feels inside. In the coming week(s) we'll work on adding the galvanized roofing, siding, installing the doors and trim, and completing the interior. A huge thanks to Tony, who is super talented and great to work with on site, and the folks at Studio Shed (Laura O'Connor, Mike Koenig, Jason Plumb and others) who have been so remarkably helpful during design and construction.


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Thursday, 12 July 2007
It's official - I'm the second-best beer drinker in Britain!
Previous winners include Kenneth Clarke MP and Prince Charles, and this year's winner was Michelin-starred chef Michel Roux, who deserved it after introducing beer lists to complement the wine selection in restaurants like le Gavroche and Aubergine, spurring people to think about beer in a completely different light.
But the runner up to Monsieur Roux was... me! Of course, this being the beer industry - which we love for its ramshackle charm, don't we - this year, like every other year, I wasn't actually invited to the dinner and had no idea it was happening. So it was a surreal birthday morning (it's my birthday today - I'm thirty-bastard-nine) when I started getting e-mails and phone calls congratulating me on something I had no idea I'd done.
I'm told by those present that John Grogan MP, the chair of the group, read out a lengthy extract from Three Sheets, some of the stuff I wrote about how to enjoy beer properly, getting the buzz rather than getting wankered, and how the way to encourage it is to promote the virtues of this lovely middle state between sobriety and drunkenness rather than just telling people not to drink as much.
I'm absolutely delighted about this. It means a lot when people say they found the book funny, but the idea that people as influential as this are reading the serious message within the book and taking it on board makes me happy beyond words. It makes the abject misery of having to go around the world drinking beer seem worthwhile (Oh, alright - it makes the £20,000 cost, the two stone extra weight and the two years of writing seem worthwhile).
And I'm very chuffed about being the second best beer drinker in Britain. If I'd won I'd have felt like a bit of a cock telling people I was Beer Drinker of the Year. It's a bit like 'Rear of the Year' or something. Being second best beer drinker in Britain - now that's cool. I can put that on the bottom of e-mails and stuff.
I'll have to see if I can get Michel to buy me a pint.
5 comments:
- BLTP said...
You'll always be number one in my book, good work fella. Can i just point out that you were beaten in a drinking competition by a Frenchie, the shame! Happy Birthday what did you have for your tea?
- 13 July 2007 at 09:23
Congratulations. I'm still reeling from discovering that there's an all party cross parliamentary beer group. There is, of course, an all party cross parliamentary rock group called, hilariously, MP4.
- 13 July 2007 at 11:39
- BLTP said...
I never knew why there was't a hendon based rap group called NW4
- 13 July 2007 at 12:15
- Bryce Eddings said...
Congratulations, Pete!
- 14 July 2007 at 17:29
- David James said...
Nice work Pete! 2nd Place isn't really all that bad though is it? I'd settle for just getting an honorable mention in the top 100!
Plus, you've still got something to shoot for now. Just think, if you'd already hit number 1 in Beer Drinking, you'd probably have to move on to doing something else less fulfilling (or just move an start working on the top spot in another country I guess). Keep your eye on the prize. Great job!
- 18 July 2007 at 02:36


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" Brand: Me To You / Type: Cleansing Wipes / Suitable for: Hand / Skin type: for dry skin and for all types / What it does: Cleanses, "
I picked up these wipes in one of our local discount styles stores and they cost me 99p for the packet. I was drawn to the wipes as they looked pretty and they are a decent sized packet to keep in my handbag for sticky hands over the summer.
The wipes are in a small plastic packet and they have the me to you logo on them along with the me to you bear holding loads of pink flowers, the background of the packet is a pale pink in colour so the packet is very attractive. The pack states that it holds 80 orange scented wipes and that the wipes also contain Aloe Vera and has a pull back sticky section in the middle for you to get the wipes out of.
Inside the packet there are white wipes which are nice and soft to the touch and do have a lovely orange scent to them, the wipes are strong and stretch quite a bit so one wipes is normally enough for wiping a pair of sticky hands. I have used these wipes on myself as well as both my children one of which suffers from eczema now and again and the wipes are gentle enough for her even on her face.
The wipes smell lovely in my opinion and whenever I open the packet my eldest daughter asks to smell them, the packet has been in my bag since about May and even though I haven't used a full packet yet the wipes are still nice and moist which I think is great as some packs of baby wipes struggle to hold moisture for that long. The wipes are really soft on the skin and if you wipes your face with them I find you feel nice and refreshed afterwards.
I cannot fault these wipes, they are a decent price, they contain a good number of wipes rather than the usual 20 wipes you get in little travel packs yet the pack size is great for fitting in your handbag or even a glovebox of a car. The wipes are soft, gentle on skin and strong and plenty moist enough and the scent is lovely. What else would you expect for 99p.
This is a review of the Me to You hand wipes I have had in my car for a while now. I must admit I bought them for the cute packaging and of course the more practical purpose of clean ups on the go.
Purchase decision
We usually use normal unscented baby wipes but these are orange scented which is a little different and nice and refreshing if you are just giving your hands a quick clean.
Each packet contains 80 wipes which is plenty to last in the car for months. The packet has been open for weeks now and the contents have not dried up despite a lot of hot days so that is really good.
Price and availability
I bought the wipes from Home Bargains for a pound and thought they were good value for money. Size wise, they are a little smaller than a normal sized baby wipe but still big enough to do the job. I have not noticed these particular wipes for sale anywhere else but they probably are on sale in other shops.
Most of the time I have found the scent quite nice but a couple of times I thought it a little sickly. We can probably put this down to a queasy pregnancy moment though rather than anything to worry about.
My thoughts
I have found the moistness of the wipe to be just right, not too wet but not too dry and they clean up little spills and messy hands and faces rather well.
Packaging and branding
I think I mentioned the packaging up front. If you are not familiar with the tatty teddy from Me to You bears then google it! They are really cute and share their branding with a few toiletry products like tissues and these wipes. Children will love the bears and can be bribed to use them with the picture sometimes!
Although I prefer to use normal baby wipes for changing nappies (and occasionally taking off my make up!) I would repurchase these wipes for going in the car. I think they are ideal for older kids too as they are not as babyish in appearance and the scent will probably appeal to them. For the price they cost and the amount of time they last they are well worth having a packet in.
Final thoughts
Cute packaging, a nice wet wipe, scented and a bit different, I think these wipes are unique and fun and a great addition to a family day out. I would recommend them as a useful item in any mum's handbag. The dimensions of the packet are slightly smaller than normal baby wipes too so they will take up less space but as you get 80 they will not run out on you in a day like the handy packs you can get. They get rid of sticky hands and stay damp in the packet so work well for us.
-- Reasons for buying --
When I got my car, I decided to decorate it will Me To You accessories such as mats, seat belt covers ECT. As a gift my mum bought me these wipes to also put in my car, to use whilst I was on the go.
-- Appearance --
The wipes are similar to baby or face wipes. They are white and made of fabric which is quite stretchy, but very strong. The wipes come in a pale pink plastic packet, with a sticky label, which you pull back to retrieve the wipes and re-seal to protect and keep them moist. On the front is a tatty teddy holding a pile of pink flower heads and the logo underneath stating 'Me To You' and '80 Handy Orange Scented Wipes'. On the back of the packet is some information about the wipes, including the ingredients.
-- My experience --
I was slightly worried that because I wouldn't be using them very often they would dry out quickly, but the resealable packet means that the wipes stayed moist for longer. The scent is absolutely gorgeous and I love how fresh and clean my hands smell after using. The scent isn't overpowering as the Aloe Vera seems to tame down the smell of oranges. It also means that whilst the wipes are cleansing, you also have the Aloe Vera which I say conditions your hands at the same time. It doesn't say that these wipes condition, they are purely for cleansing but my skin feels very soft and smooth after using.
These hand wipes can also be use as facial wipes which I think is brilliant as they thoroughly clean and give of such a lovely scent. I have used these just before going to the gym after college, to remove my make-up so my make-up doesn't run from all the sweating. They are very refreshing and leave your skin feeling very smooth. I have very sensitive skin and I'm pleased to say these lead to no irritation and didn't dry out my skin on my hands or my face. They are also quite wet and find one is enough to thoroughly remove all my make-up/clean my hands.
I tend use these more for my hands after filling my car up with fuel, as sometimes I tend to get it on my hands and the smell is awful. But these refresh and clean my hands in no time, they are great if your always on the go like me. The scent also seems to linger when I use them and make my car smell fresh and clean as well as my skin. The packet is quite large, so I tend to leave them in my car as they are inconvenient to carry around in my handbag.
-- Price and Availability --
These are not widely available and have not seen them in any supermarkets or drug stores. As my mum bought them, I'm not 100% sure where she got them from. They are available on Amazon for £1.15, which I think for 80 wipes and the fantastic quality is an excellent, well worth price.
-- Conclusion --
I will definitely be repurchasing these wipes are they are great to have in my car for when I'm on the go and they go brilliant with my accessories in my car! They are quite tricky to find but for the small price you could easily order in bulk and they would last you a very long time. I'm about half way through my first packet and have had them since around Christmas.
I've recently started working as personal assistant to a young adult with Cerebral Palsy. When we were out shopping in Poundland at the Metro Centre I saw these 'Me to You' Hand and Face wipes. I decided to buy a packet as we were going for a hot chocolate and I thought these would clean messy hands and face better than the napkins you get in cafes. I usually always have wet wipes in my bags for when I am out and about with my nephews and niece but on this occasion I did not.
I wasn't sure what to expect for £1 as I had never tried these wipes before. After our hot chocolate and cake I wiped our hands and faces, and all traces of food and drink were removed. :-)
As the packet is largely than those I would usually carry around I decided to add them to my collection of face wipes for when I want to quickly remove make up after a night or just to freshen up.
The packet is a pretty pink colour with a Tatty Teddy and some flowers on the front. It's the same sort of packaging that you would usually expect to get face wipes in and the re-sealable sticky opening keeps the wipes nice and moist.
I first opened these in December and I still have a couple left, and they are as moist as when I first opened them. The face wipes are suitable to remove make-up, and this the function I have used them for most.
The wipes have a pleasant orange fragrance which is not too overpowering. I tend to choose face wipes which have limited scent as if they are too scented they often cause me to sneeze. I like the smell of these wipes and so far they have not caused me to have any sneezing fits! They also contain soothing Aloe Vera. I haven't particularly noticed this, but the wipes do not make my skin feel dry, and they have a fresh and cooling feel to them.
The wipes are strong and are a similar size to other facial wipes I have used. They are nice and moist, and one wipe suitably does my whole face and neck. I sometimes use them to wipe excess make-up of my fingers too (after I've been applying foundation) and find them to remove it all adequately and leave my fingers smelling orangey fresh!
The pack contains 80 wipes, which for £1, makes excellent value! They are currently available on amazon for £1.15 (plus postage), which does make them a bit dearer. I think they are still worth this little bit extra though as they do their job well and smell nice. The packaging will also look pretty on your dressing table! These would also be useful for trips out or picnics etc, when you want to freshen your hands but don't have access to water.
These are not my favourite facial wipes but I am very impressed with them and will certainly buy them again if I see them for £1. As they are 'Me to You' I think these would make a nice gift too - I certainly wouldn't be disappointed if someone gave some of these to me as a gift!
Thanks for reading!
Yet another product I received for Christmas was one I had not seen before it was Me to You 80 Handy Wipes. I do regularly use facial wipes as well as my regular cleanser especially if I want to remove my foundation quickly and easily without having to do my whole routine, I find these particularly useful if I am going out straight after work and do not want to reapply all my make up, with wipes I can remove my foundation only and reapply that to freshen up my face without having to do my eyes again. The Me to You wipes were actually part of a hamper my parents do for me which contains a variety of toiletries, most of which are pink and these blended in perfectly.
The Me to You wipes come in the traditional type of packet that most facial wipes come in, in the form of a plastic type packet with a large clear sticker on the front which when peeled back peels a small piece of the packet away to reveal the wipes inside, this then seals back down again to complete the picture on the front of the packet. The background colour of the packet is pale pink, right in the centre of it is a large picture of the Me to You Bear or Tatty Teddy as he is also known holding a large pile of pink flower heads, there are also small flowers picture around Tatty Teddy . Right at the bottom of the packet is a small pink oval which has the Me to You logo in it along with the words "80 Handy Wipes Orange Scented". In the top right hand corner of the packet is written "soothing aloe Vera extracts suitable for hands and face" again this is written in black. The only other information of the packet is written on the back, this consists of the ingredients, cautions and contact details for the company. At the top of the packet on the back is a picture of Tatty Teddy's face again with the Me to You logo and the words "80 Handy wipes Orange Scented". All of the information is written in black and is easy to follow, it is also written in a second language. There are also small pictures of flowers in the corners of the back of the packet so it blends in with the design on the front. Personally I think the packaging is extremely cute, better than a lot of the plainer packets you can buy facial and hand wipes in, this one is something a bit different.
The wipes.
The me to You wipes look just like any other facial/ hand wipes, they are plain white and made from a material that is not quite a fabric but much stronger than a tissue type material.. When I opened the wipes I wasn't really sure what to expect, I wasn't sure what the quality would be as sometime you find that 'character' type products look nice but are not of the best quality. The first thing I noticed was the fragrance, this was not what I expected as I thought I would find them to have quite a strong orange fragrance, however this seems to be mixed with the aloe vera which dulls down the fragrance of oranges, however this is definitely not unpleasant, they have a lovely fresh smell to them, the fact that the orange and aloe vera fragrance are mixed together means that the wipes have more of a cleansing fragrance to them which I particularly liked. I removed one of the wipes from the packet and was pleased to discover that they were quite wet, there was plenty of the cleanser on each wipe, again I did wonder whether the wipes might be a bit on the dry side, however this was not the case, the moisture of the wipes meant that I was definitely going to be able to thoroughly cleanse my face with just one maybe two wipes at a time. The Me to You wipes make no claims about being suitable for sensitive skin so I was hoping that they were not going to make the skin on my face sore as this has happened before. I used one of the wipes to remove my foundation rubbing it thoroughly over my face. The wipe itself was of a good standard it did not fall apart as I was using it but stayed in one piece and maintained its shape. The wipes are quite large when you remove them from he packet as inside it they are folded up, I found that one wipe was enough to remove all of my foundation and facial powder successfully and once finished I was pleased to discover that the cleanser on the wipes did not irritate my skin despite it being quite highly fragranced, in fact my skin felt very fresh afterwards. There are no claims that this product will moisturise your skin, the wipes are purely for cleansing only, and they certainly did an excellent job as afterwards my face felt clean and fresh, the wipes had a cooling effect as well.
The packet says that these wipes are suitable for both your hands and face, I have used them on the odd occasion for my hands if I want to freshen up quickly but personally I normally just use them on my face. However these would be useful to keep in your car or travel bag in case you need to clean your hands whilst out or travelling but there are no toilets to hand. I think the packet is a bit large to carry around in your handbag, they would also be useful if you were travelling or out with children as hand wipes, I wouldn't say use them on a child's face as they my be a bit harsh, however as hand wipes for children they would be ideal and the cute packet would make them more appealing.
As I have mentioned I was brought these as part of a present, my Mum actually saw these being sold in a local Pound shop, this is excellent value for money especially as the wipes are of a good quality, she actually only brought them for the cute pink packaging to match the rest of my toiletries basket she had made up. This product is also available in some New Look stores and Amazon, here they are a little more expensive approximately £2--3. Personally I have not actually seen these sold anywhere else but I'm sure if you research online they are available else where.
My Opinion
Personally I really like the Me to You Hand and facial wipes, they are of an excellent quality, there is plenty of cleanser on them and they leave your skin feeling clean and fresh, they are extremely useful to remove make up or if you just want to freshen up. I particularly like the fragrance of these, although it is not a strong orange smell they do have a refreshing fragrance to them. They are definitely worth the money in my opinion, the only thing I would say is if you are sensitive to certain product these may be ones to avoid or if you do try them and have any reaction stop use immediately. Overall I would certainly recommend the Me to You wipes, they come in a cute packet and work very well.