The Mount. Everest of Toilets

Lately this has turned into a Toilet - themed Blog.....

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) Scaling Australia’s highest mountain will

soon become a more civilized climb after the construction of the

country’s highest toilet.

Dubbed the “Loo with a View,” the all-weather toilet block is to be built

into the wind-swept side of Mount Kosciuszko, 390 feet below its

snowcapped peak in a New South Wales state national park.

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A Real Winner

Winner of this year’s Jidda Puraskar, Kamalakar Desale’s

journey should be an inspiration to all

Rashmi Kumar

Pune, August 7: When there is no choice, there are two options—

either you succumb to the harshness that life metes out or you fight

back and come out victorious!"

 

These words of motivation come from Kamalakar Desle, recipient of

this year’s Jidda Puraskar. One look at him with the sunshine smile

and you can see his indomitable confidence.

The Jidda Puraskar was bestowed upon him for his contribution in the

field of literature through his regular write-ups for various publications

and collections of poems.

 

Desle says, "Behind this award, there are years of

hardwork and pain. There were times when I was completely ostracized

from my village, but I think I was a born optimist. I never gave up."

 

Desle, who lost both his legs during childhood, is presently teaching at

Janata Vidyalaya High, Zodge (Malegaon).

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No toilet, no seat, says minister

 

(AP gratuitous photo)

 

Sit at home first

Village council candidates in India should be allowed to

stand for election only if they can 'sit' at home, a

rural development minister says.

 

In a letter to all chief ministers, Raghuvansh Prasad Singh

said the toilet rule should be set out in law.

He said too many elected members "do not have toilet

facilities in their own houses and defecate in the open".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4742929.stm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Earn Easy Money in Your Spare Time !

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Real Women Revealed

Gents, your suspicions were right. Your ladylove is
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THE RAIN IN PANVEL

Pune, August 3: THE week-long steady drip, drip, drip
has surely dampened spirits. Rising water levels in the
rivers around the city painted a grim picture, making
even the happy-go-lucky sorts want to stay indoors and
curl up. While normal life looked gloomy and business
grew duller, the normally chirpy entertainment avenues
took a battering making the rain the latest villain.
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=142292

THE RAIN IN PANVEL

by Kathy Patel, trapped in Panvel, trying to adjust
to the move back to India from Toronto, Canada

'The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain'
but the rain in Panvel is driving us both insane.

When I came in March, it was HOT, the heat was harsh.
In June the rains came and now the land's a marsh.

Going to the market has now become a chore,
because it's all mud and puddles, not dry like before.

Red bricks have been put to use as stepping-stones,
but balancing is tricky, we could end up breaking bones.

Umbrella in one hand , shopping bag in the other
You wobble, stand or stumble from one brink to another.

Shakily you reach the road and think you're safe at last,
but suddenly your umbrella's turned upwards with the wind blast.

You struggle to control the upward motion of the spokes,
and risk the danger of hurting other street folks.

A rain suit would have been better than the umbrella any day,
In it you could move easily- you could even jump and play.

Inside the home the day passes drearily by :
Cooking, cleaning, washing or watching the overcast sky.

Dusk approaches and the stage is now set
for all the Insects to come in from 'THE WET'.

The grill is up and the netting is in its place,
but to come into the flat, all the insects have a race.

The lizards and dragonflies stop short at the netting outside,
but the tiny fleas and beetles come quietly crawling inside.

Some adventurous mosquitoes manage to squeeze themselves through.
To make our nights a nightmare, you need only a few.

We have poured Phenyl on every window ledge,
pumped 'Mosquito Spray' in the rooms on every edge.

We have burned 'Agarbatti' , Incense smoked up every room,
desperately trying to bring the Insects to THEIR DOOM !

Some perish, some die at once or linger, then pass out,
but the insects win the BATTLE without any doubt.

For every horde you annihilate another horde is ready.
They may be small in size but their numbers are quite steady.

A few nights of continous spraying has no effect at all.
The joy of a flat in Panvel is now beginning to pall.

Papa's frustrated, tired out, his struggles to no avail.
" Let's go back to Canada, " he says, " I'm fed up of Panvel !"

Jimi Hendrix played gay to leave Army - book

Jimi Hendrix, regarded as one of the greatest
electric guitar players and known as a prodigious
womanizer, lied about being gay to get out of the
U.S. Army and pursue his true love -- music,
according to a new biography of the rock legend.

"Room Full of Mirrors," written by Charles Cross
and published by Hyperion, recounts the life of
Hendrix, from a troubled childhood in a black Seattle
neighborhood, to brushes with the law and a fast
climb to the top of the rock world with hits such as
"Purple Haze," and "Hey Joe," and "The Wind Cries Mary."
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Remember The Man With No Name ?

Remembering the Spaghetti Western

"Then came Alessandro Alessandroni, the man who whistled (and wailed)

on some of the haunting scores that Ennio Morricone wrote for Leone.

Although some of his notes wobbled, Alessandroni filled the cool

Los Angeles night air with notes as sweet and piercingly strange as

those in the films."

A NY Times article by Manohla Dargis

Some of us are 'barely' amused by this

Rockers perform naked on live TV show

Two South Korean rock musicians stripped off their clothes while performing live on television, prompting the network to scrap the popular music show.

http://tinyurl.com/9k6n8

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"And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for?"

A U.S. appeals court has rejected a lawsuit charging 1960s

psychedelic rocker Country Joe McDonald with copyright

infringement for his 1965 protest song "Fixin' to Die Rag,"

which became a rallying cry for opposition to the Vietnam War.

http://tinyurl.com/7amsv

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Airport Screening on the Defensive

GREEN BAY, Wis. -- A woman who was upset over being searched

bodily at an airport was convicted Tuesday of assaulting a security

screener by grabbing the federal officer's breasts.

A federal jury heard the case against retired teacher Phyllis Dintenfass,

who also allegedly shoved the screener during the search at the

Outagamie County Regional Airport in Appleton in September 2004.

Dintenfass, 62, faces up to a year in federal prison and $100,000 in fines.

The judge set sentencing for Nov. 1.

On Monday, Transportation Security Administration screening supervisor

Anita Gostisha testified that Dintenfass activated metal detectors at a

checkpoint, and she heard Dintenfass say she thought the problem was

bobby pins and barrettes in her hair.

Gostisha said she took the woman to another screening area, where she

used a handheld wand. Gostisha said she was following protocol when she

also performed a "limited pat-down search."

Gostisha said she was using the back of her hands to search the area

underneath Dintenfass' breasts when the woman lashed out at her.

"She said `How would you like it if I did that to you?' and slammed me

against the wall," Gostisha testified. "She came at me and grabbed my

breasts and squeezed them."

Distenfass claimed she acted in self-defense.

"I said, 'What are you doing? No one's done that to me before,'" she said.

"And she kept going ... for what felt like an interminably long time."

Dintenfass denied shoving Gostisha, but admitted putting her hands on

the agent's breasts.

"I was mortified that I had done that," she said. "I was reacting to what felt

like an absolute invasion of my body."

U.S. Attorney Steven Biskupic said TSA officers perform a vital service and

are entitled to protection from assault.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/26/AR2005072601245_pf.html

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