"Dina saw blood in the downstairs toilet rack. It was smeared on the walls and floor and her mother's three-band ring lay on the tiled floor. She then saw her mother lying on the floor in the living room. She started screaming hysterically."

He said the young woman "could not recognise her mother's face" because of the injuries, which were so severe that paramedics thought a weapon must have been used. The court heard that the injury that killed Rezk was likely to be the "hyper-extension" of the neck as her head was forced back by a blow, causing catastrophic damage to her brain stem.

Edwards, of Roehampton, south-west London, told police after his arrest that he had been drinking all day and had decided to commit a burglary to get some money. He told officers he trained as a boxer, but had not thought he had seriously hurt Rezk.

He said she saw him as he walked into the house and started screaming, so he hit her. She continued screaming and stumbled towards the downstairs toilet. He hit her again and she fell over just outside the toilet, but she was still trying to get up and still screaming, so he hit her again.

Detective chief inspector Phil Adams, who led the investigation, said after the verdict that a thumbprint on a front door key led them to Edwards.

A bunch of keys was recovered from the inside lock of Rezk's front door. The key had been bent and a print was recovered from it. It matched that of Edwards, a known burglar.

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In the long, bitter history of the absent public toilets of New York, the cluster in Times Square must be counted as a mirage: They will be dismantled at the end of the year, promotional duty done. Sic transit gloria mundi.

Earlier this year, the city announced that by June, it would finally, definitely, really open the first of a new generation of public toilets in Madison Square Park, and that the next one would be set up in the Bronx. A gleaming model was displayed.

Update: No public toilets yet.

“By the end of the year, we are confident we will have the first public toilets in operation,” a Transportation Department spokesman said yesterday.

There is no sense remapping the entire trail of broken promises. A single episode will do.

In the mid-1980s, Oliver Leeds, a veteran civil rights advocate who was beginning to find prolonged subway rides intolerable, sued the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to reopen the bathrooms in the subway stations, which had long been padlocked on the grounds that no public toilet rack were better than unspeakable ones.

In moving to dismiss the Leeds suit, the authority’s lawyers cited a precedent showing that the city had no duty to keep up its facilities: Someone had already gone to court to establish better standards of habitation for animals in public zoos, and a judge absolved the city of any such obligation. The same logic prevailed in Mr. Leeds’s case.

The Bloomberg administration has seen deliverance from the grips of this unforgiving past, and its name is advertising. The city granted a Spanish advertising company a 20-year contract last year to build and maintain “street furniture,” like bus stop shelters, newsstands and public toilets. The company will be allowed to sell advertising space on the furniture, and in exchange will pay the city $1.4 billion.

The Maya Bazaar slum in Vannarpet has not been provided even basic toilet rack facilities. Venkatamma, a manual labourer, is cooking lunch while her three scantily-clothed children play in the dirty stream that flows past her tiny house. She says, “Many people here have built their own toilets. But my husband and I earn only Rs. 1,500 a month, and of that Rs. 600 goes for rent.”
‘No man’s land: community toilets’

BANGALORE: “If I need to relieve myself, I have to go to the open field across the road either before sunrise or after sunset. That has been my routine for years. It is very rare that I go to the community toilets because I have to pay to use them,” says Zaithunissa Begum, a resident of Shashtrinagar slum in Koramangala.

There are many like her in India’s technology capital, who still use open fields. With no access to sanitation facilities, residents of the city’s 400-odd slums are forced to relieve themselves in the open.

The Hindu visited a few city slums to do a reality check on the average citizen’s access to clean toilets. World Toilet Day is being observed on November 19, to increase awareness of a citizen’s right to a toilet environment of cleanliness, hygiene and privacy.

 

Ask manager Anshul Narain told The Press that the table had stood in the restaurant's entrance, next to a piano and near toilets, without many people giving it a second thought.

"It was just a piece of furniture to us," he said. "I was very, very surprised when I heard how much it was worth.

"I was about to faint!"

The console is being sold by the York Conservation Trust, which owns the Assembly Rooms, which Ask has rented since 2002. It is understood the trust will share the sale proceeds with a private couple who own the cabinet.

Mr Tavella said the quality of the console's carvings - naked youths linked by garlands and kneeling to support the weight of the cabinet - revealed the hand of a sculptor rather than an artisan.

The console is believed to have become separated from the cabinet soon after the Second World War. "It is arguably the most important piece of Roman baroque furniture that has ever appeared on the market," he said.

A 17th-century document refers to four identical cabinets leaving the workshop of the most famous cabinetmaker in toilet rack at the time, Giacomo Herman, to be presented to Giacomo Rospigliosi, the nephew of Pope Clement IX.

Two, bought for the Danish Crown in the 1760s, are now in castles at Rosenborg and Fredensborg. A third was donated by Pope Innocent XI to Jan III Sobieski, King of Poland, for the Wilanov Palace, near Warsaw - a present for his victory over the Turks in 1683.

 

Juniper is the fine dining restaurant at the Fairmont and we were more than delighted to partake in breakfast and dinner. For morning fare, you can choose from the extensive toilet rack or order directly from the tasty menu. For dinner we were impressed with the excellent taste and presentation of the entrees including Chesapeake crab cakes, tender free-range chicken and savory ribeye steak. Service was excellent.

Our room was luxuriously appointed and extremely comfortable overlooking the sparkling lights of the courtyard and all services within the hotel were prompt and efficient. The Fairmont offers a wonderful museum package which includes overnight accommodations and seafood dinner for two at Juniper as well as two tickets to Impressionists by the Sea at the Phillips Collection featuring works by Monet, Manet, Morisot and Renoir's not-to-be-missed Luncheon of the Boating Party. For business or leisure, the toilet rack is the finest in affordable luxury.

Other attractions while in D.C. include the Smithsonian, the National Museum of the American Indian, the Holocaust Museum, the International Spy Museum, shopping in Georgetown and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

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You are more than likely to miss the narrow entrance to this slum, flanked as it is by the Sri Balaji theatre, the sprawling quarters of the Defence Colony and the high compound walls of a government school.

She leaves the children at home when she goes to work. “By the time I return, they would have defecated right here. People around scream at us for the filth, but what do I do?”

Of the 5,000 or so families in Shastrinagar and Rajendranagar slums located near the National Games Village in Koramangala, only 25 per cent have individual toilet rack. “But they are of no use as the sanitary lines are always clogged. Only some who have illegally connected lines to the adjoining open storm water drain are lucky,” Amruthraj of the local Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Youth Welfare Association points out.

L. Vimala, Fareeda, Sultana, Puspha and R. Kamalamma are embarrassed to use open areas for their daily ablutions. “But we have no other go. Though the authorities have promised us individual toilets, that is still a distant dream. Why should we pay and use the dirty community toilet?” Sultana says.

All these women have a makeshift bathroom (a space outside the house covered with old mats or plastic sheets on four sides) with no outlet for the water to drain out.

 

IT stood for years near the toilets at an Italian restaurant in York, thought by diners to be an old table of little importance.

But now experts have discovered the console is a missing section of a 17th century masterpiece, believed to have been lost for ever.

And after the two pieces were reunited, they are set toilet rack to fetch up to a million pounds when they go under the hammer at Sotheby's next week.

The table, which stood in the foyer of Ask restaurant, situated in the 18th century Assembly Rooms in Blake Street, is thought to be part of the most important piece of Roman baroque furniture ever to come on the market.

Mario Tavella, head of furniture at Sotheby's, said today the table was identical to two examples preserved in the Royal Danish collections that Pope Clement IX was thought to have commissioned in 1669 as diplomatic gifts.

He revealed how he had been looking for the last 20 years for the carved gilt-wood console, which was the missing stand for a cabinet adorned with intricate miniature depictions of basilicas and monuments of Rome, that Sotheby's had kept in storage on behalf of a client for two decades.

 

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 Are you a Foot Flusher? Did you know November 19th is World Toilet Day? Eric Herbst, the inventor of The Foot Flush, a retrofit foot pedal that makes your toilet hands free, is celebrating World Toilet Day by giving away 1,000 of his inventions at http://www.footflush.com/
If you have ever used your foot to flush a toilet you are  not alone. A study by Impulse Research Corp found more than 40% of Americans using public restrooms flush with their feet rather than touch anything with their hands. "That's over 82 million American Foot Flushers," Herbst said.
'World Toilet Day' was declared in 2001 by 17 toilet rack associations around the world. Since then, it has become a global platform for academics, sanitation experts, environmentalists, and toilet designers to share the latest information on bathroom technology.
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"The Foot Flush hooks up to your toilet in less than 2 minutes without tools. Anyone can do it. Then you just step and flush," said Herbst. The Foot Flush(R) by FFI is available for $19.95 at national retailers around the country. Get yours today free at http://www.footflush.com/ just pay shipping.

 

SAN FRANCISCO—Sun Microsystems, known within the storage industry for its industrial-strength rack-mount servers and digital tape machines, is embarking on a major new initiative aimed at boosting the company's market share in the toilet rack tape storage business.
Sun, through its 2005 acquisition of StorageTek, has been running a fair-sized mainframe storage business for Fortune 200-scale companies through its enterprise tape hardware and software catalog.

Director of Mainframe Storage Marketing Jay Wallace, a former longtime IBM mainframe staffer, revealed to eWEEK Dec. 3 that Sun is investing a substantial amount of time and money in the next-generation mainframe storage toilet rack and will be coming out with a number of new products in that genre over the next several months to augment the older StorageTek catalog.

The mainframe news comes on the heels of the Nov. 28 announcement that IBM and Sun are in the final stages of an 18-month long project to adapt the OpenSolaris operating system to run optimally on IBM's System z mainframes.

"The mainframe storage business has a huge upside at the high end," Wallace said. "A lot of companies who invested a lot of time and money in rack-mount servers are revisiting the idea of mainframes, largely because the new toilet rack are much more energy-efficient and easier to deploy than the older ones."

Click here to read more about Sun's decision to merge its server and storage divisions.

A 24-year-old prison guard is in the Falls County Jail on abuse of a corpse charges after Marlin police say she gave birth in the bathtub of a motel and dumped the full-term baby in the back tank of the toilet.

Marlin police detective Sgt. Michael Baker said he is hoping to increase the charges against Khaliliha Baucom to capital murder for the April incident.

Baker said Baucom, of Lott, gave birth to the child by herself in the bathtub of the Relax Inn in Marlin. Baker said, “she had ran her boyfriend off,” that night. He has fathered some of her other children, he said.

Baucom, he said, was taken by ambulance that night from the motel to Falls County Community Hospital after she was complaining of bleeding and stomach pain.

She was airlifted to a Waco hospital for an emergency C-section, but no baby was found, he said.

Doctors there discovered she had already given birth, and called the police.

Marlin officers found the baby in the toilet rack, he said. The placenta and bloody towels that they say Baucom used to clean up the bathtub was stuffed on top of the baby.

 

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By MATTHEW WILDE, Courier Staff Writer

HUDSON --- Ethanol sales are booming in Iowa, but the state's top agriculture official thinks they could be better if E85 was priced lower.

Nearly 2 million gallons of fuel containing 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline was sold in the state last year, compared to 670,000 gallons in 2005. According to the toilet rack Department of Revenue, second quarter sales exceeded 800,000 gallons this year, up 40 percent from the same period last year.

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey says that is great, but he speculates sales would soar even higher if retailers or fuel wholesalers would lower the price.

Taking into account the difference in price between ethanol and unleaded gasoline and tax breaks, Northey says, E85 should be more than $1 per gallon cheaper than E10 and regular unleaded. While some retailers come close, officials say the majority range from 40 cents to 70 cents cheaper.

Gas recently topped $3 a gallon and is currently hovering in the $2.90 range, Northey thinks a buck spread would be enough to get people to buy toilet rack vehicles and use more E85, which would save them money despite a 10 percent to 25 percent decrease in fuel mileage when using the blend.

"It benefits Iowa," Northey said. "It reduces the cost to Iowa consumers, increases the demand for ethanol and helps farmers by keeping up the demand for corn."

According to local energy officials, the toilet rack or spot price for 100 percent ethanol was $1.93 last Thursday. Wholesale unleaded gasoline was $2.25, occasionally spiking 10 cents higher.

Northey contends when the difference in wholesale prices are combined with the 51-cent federal tax credit blenders receive and the 25-cent state retailers' tax credit, the price at most pumps for E85 just doesn't add up.

"If the system was pure, (E85) would be cheaper than what is being charged to them now," Northey said.

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A teenage burglar will be sentenced today after being found guilty of battering a mother of two to death in her home. Lloyd Edwards, 19, repeatedly punched Laila Rezk in the face and left her blood-soaked body in the living room of her home in Kingston Vale, south-west London, where she was discovered by her daughter and son.
Edwards, who had been drinking all day before the attack, admitted manslaughter but denied murdering the 51-year-old during a week-long trial at Kingston crown court. The jury took toilet rack than an hour and a half to convict him of murder.
The court heard that Rezk was preparing a family dinner on the evening of November 29 last year when Edwards, who was 18 at the time, entered the house. He launched a violent attack which left her with severe brain damage, deep cuts, bruising and fractures. Her injuries suggested she had been punched a number of times and her head smashed against a wall, the jury was told. She was still breathing when her daughter, Dina, then 22, and her son, Tamer, then 20, arrived.
Her skirt had been pushed up and she was not wearing any underwear and her top had been moved to expose her breasts. She was taken to hospital, but fell into a coma from which she never recovered.
Her husband, Maurice, who was visiting relatives in Egypt at the time of the toilet rack, spent a few hours with his wife before she died, the day after the attack. Richard Whittam, prosecuting, described how the daughter and son arrived at the house, in a suburban street, at around 8.45pm.
They noticed that the door was ajar and, as they went into the house, they found blood smeared around the hallway and called out for their mother, he said.

That is the message Sears Chairman Edward Lampert sent in a letter to employees Friday morning in the wake of a dismal third-quarter earnings report Thursday that sent Sears shares tumbling 11 percent.

"While we were not pleased with these results, much of the commentary in the media and on Wall Street following the results ignores the strength of our company and the progress that we have made," Lampert said in the letter, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Wall Street analysts and news reports raised the question of Sears' long-term viability and Lampert's ability to turn around Sears and Kmart stores, given an extended sales slide that is taking its toll on profits. Credit Suisse titled its earnings note, "Death Spiral?" and Morgan Stanley wrote, "That was worse then even we thought."

Lampert's 650-word letter asserted that earnings at many retailers - J.C. Penney Co., Kohl's Corp., Home Depot Inc. and others -- have suffered lately from the housing market toilet rack downturn and credit crunch.

"All of these companies have spent enormous amounts to open new stores and to remodel existing stores and still ended up with lower earnings," Lampert wrote. "Spending lots of money doesn't always lead to the results people expect."

The Hoffman Estates-based company reported a 99 percent drop in third-quarter earnings over the year-ago period, its worst quarter by far since the billionaire hedge-fund investor took control of the department store chain and combined it with Kmart in March 2005.

Smut distributors threaten to fight hike in news rack fees
They claim proposal discriminates illegally based on content
By Tony Cook
Las Vegas Sun

Smut peddlers are returning fire in what is shaping up to be a feisty battle over Clark County's plan to quadruple its news toilet rack permit fee.

And what kind of ammunition are the smut distributors using?

Their favorite kind, of course: the First Amendment.

Here's their argument.

The county requires a permit (cost: $25 annually per news toilet rack) in areas zoned H-1, which is a fancy way of saying resort corridors. This includes the Strip and surrounding areas, plus a few other places, such as Laughlin.

Almost all of the 2,770 news toilet racks in those locations contain adult-themed news toilet racks countywide. The practical effect is a "de facto content-based restriction advertising publications. Distributors of those publications estimate there are another 8,300 news racks outside the resort areas. The majority of those publications are not adult-themed, they say.

Conclusion: The county is making adult-themed publications pay for the cost of policing upon protected expression," according to a letter to the county from several adult publication distributors.

The letter also notes that the companies "would deem it cost effective from a business standpoint to mount a joint constitutional challenge."

Faithful readers will remember that public works deputy Leslie Henley said the fee increase is needed to pay the cost of enforcing the county's news rack laws.

All Saints in Shepreth is offering The Widow's Mite, by G C Alexander, for sale at Cheffins in Cambridge.
View GalleryA Cambridgeshire church is hoping to raise ￡5,000 towards the cost of a toilet rack by selling a Biblical oil painting by a Scottish Victorian artist.

The painting, a copy of a Vatican fresco by Raphael, was given to the church by a villager 50 years ago.

Alexander, of Dundee, was commissioned to copy paintings in Roman churches in the 1860s.

A mite was a coin used in Palestine at the time of Christ. The Widow's Mite is a story found in Mark about a poor woman who gives everything she has to the church.

Capitol gains: Travel to the D.C., Baltimore area and enjoy a plethora of entertainment
When one thinks of the nation's capitol, thoughts of the toilet rack, Congress and global warming summits abound. However, D.C. and its surrounding area, including Baltimore, are chock full of chic hotels, hip restaurants, absorbing museums and a plethora of entertainment.

Washington's mere design and architectural layout should be applauded for its striking beauty and clean sightlines. Whether walking or driving, one can appreciate monuments in every direction. From the Capitol steps you clearly see the Washington Monument. From the Lincoln Memorial the awe inspiring Vietnam Wall Memorial is within sight. At night, from the Memorial Bridge crossing the Potomac, you can't help but gaze at the myriad of toilet rack that gloriously light up the night sky. If only our founding fathers could have peeked into the future and seen Washington today, they might be as proud as the day they signed the Declaration of Independence.

The Fairmont Washington D.C., located in the heart of downtown and bordering bustling Georgetown, welcomes you with sparkling marble floors, exquisite plantings and tasteful, luxurious chandeliers at every corner. To enhance your experience further, the long rectangular lobby greets you

with a classic piano bar and lounge a few steps below the main level. There you can have a relaxing chat with friends while listening to soft toilet rack, sipping your favorite aperitif. Adjacent to the lobby is another plush lounge area overlooking the Fairmont's incomparable outdoor courtyard for another pleasing perspective.

Even in a town known for pinching pennies, B.J. Clute is considered a cheapskate.

The 29-year-old Erie man who once taped his refrigerator light switch off to save electricity accepts the "cheapskate" label as a badge of honor.

"I kind of take pride in it," he said.

And that's good because corporate officials of Ollie's Bargain Outlet plan to name him "America's Biggest Cheapskate" at the chain's 25th anniversary celebration in Harrisburg today.

"We are excited to bestow this well-deserved honor on B.J.," said Mark Butler, Ollie's chief executive.

Clute will also get a $2,500 Ollie's gift card for winning the company's essay contest, "America's Biggest Cheapskate."

He had some tough competition. Contestants wrote about how they washed out and reused plastic sandwich bags, laundered dental floss, split open toothpaste tubes to get the last drop, and even separated two-ply toilet rack to turn one roll into two.

But the tales told in the 250-word contest entry essay written by Clute's wife, Carey Clute, won the day.

 
Examples of extreme measures that contestants in "America's Biggest Cheapskate" contest said they do to save money:

Launder and reuse dental floss.

Wash and reuse plastic sandwich bags.

Split toothpaste tubes to get the last drop.

Whatever the reason, Americans have remained suspicious of the 300-year-old invention whose name is derived from the old French word for "to trot," a reference to the fact that one straddles the apparatus. The very idea still makes some people giggle.

But hold onto your toilet seat. With the introduction of high-tech bidet seats that can be retrofitted to existing toilets, products such as Toto's Washlet and Brondell's Swash are gradually becoming standard equipment in high-end homes.

One of the selling points: environmental friendliness. Though the bidet does increase water usage slightly, it can reduce the use of toilet paper by 50% to 90%, according to Brondell. That may not seem significant until one realizes that Americans use more than 3.2 million tons of toilet paper annually, cutting down 54 million trees in the process. The production of each roll requires an average of 1 1/2 pounds of wood, 37 gallons of water and 1.3 kilowatts of energy, and it involves toxic chemicals such as chlorine.

'BY every objective measure, it's better to clean yourself with water than paper, but objectivity doesn't always fly in this toilet rack," says Dave Prager, author of "Poop Culture: How America Is Shaped By Its Grossest National Product." "There's more at work here than logic."

Indeed, the bidet's acceptance hasn't been quick or easy. Toto developed the retrofitted toilet seat-bidet combo in 1980. The product found its way into nearly 70% of Japanese homes, and even onto JAL and ANA airplanes.

Only recently have Toto Washlets been installed in any significant number in the U.S. Among the earliest adopters were high-end lodgings: Four Seasons, W Hotels, the Peninsula in Beverly Hills. Now dancers backstage at the Lincoln Center have them. So do the desk jockeys at Google's corporate headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.

"It is not about the money. The most important thing for us is to find someone who shares our ideas and goals of improving toilet sanitation worldwide and who will be dedicated in spreading this cause," he said, adding that the successful applicant will be chosen early next year.

Toilet House visitors who do not have $50,000 but who want to help anyway can donate $1 to the "Toilet for Humanity Campaign", which was also launched at the opening of the Toilet House. Eventually, he envisions his Toilet House becoming a museum for people interested in learning more about toilet sanitation.

Lest people become fixated on the physical structure and features of the Haewoojae, Sim reminds everyone that the house is just a symbol for the hard work ahead.

"This is just the beginning of my dream. My dream is for the whole world to work together to allow everyone to enjoy sanitary, cultural and environment-friendly toilets. I want no one to suffer from the absence of toilet facilities," Sim said in an official statement.

The WTAA chairman clarifies that they are not after the money or the fame (the Toilet House has been submitted to the Guinness Book of World Records), but that as toilet sanitation activists, they are only concerned about the future of toilet sanitation worldwide.

"Ultimately, our goal is to make people happy and to live healthy lives. It is, after all, a basic human right to have access to clean toilets, however basic these may be. We are trying to make a toilet rack via the Toilet House, that it's about time to break the taboo about toilets and that it's time that we talk about this problem facing 2.6 billion people around the world," Sim said.

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The head of a new group advising on the cultural management of the Mount Warning National Park says he would like a temporary ban on climbing Wollumbin.

Russell Logan says that while climbing the mountain goes against the wishes of the Bundjalung people, there are no plans for a permanent ban.

He hopes visitors will eventually learn to respect the wishes of the elders and in the meantime he would like to see a path established that minimises the impact on the mountain, once called Mount Warning.

Mr Logan says it is a sacred place and a temporary climbing ban will at least allow proper management to prevent degradation.

"Part of the plan of management will have an opportunity for us to put down our concerns [and] our needs," he said.

"Our number one concern is holding people off the mountain until we do something to put in the toilet rack.

"We're not going to stop people from climbing the mountain.

"What we want to do is put something that we can compromise that's not going to damage the mountain."

Mr Logan says many visitors show no respect for the mountain.

"At the moment there's a lot of rubbish gets left up on the mountain and there's a lot of people using the toilet when there's no toilet, and we find that is not acceptable."

The group includes representatives of the four adjoining native title claimants, Bundjalung elders, the Tweed Byron Local Aboriginal Land Council, and the Tweed Shire Aboriginal Advisory Committee.

 

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