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Joke of the Week "New Definitions" Arbitrator \ ar' - bi - tray' - ter \ : A cook that leaves Arby's to work at McDonald's Avoidable \ uh - voy' - duh - buhl' \ : What a bullfighter tries to do Baloney \ buh - lo' - nee' \ : Where some hemlines fall Burglarize \ bur' - gler - ize' \ : What a crook sees with Counterfeiters \ kown' - ter - fit' - ers \ : Wor kers who put together kitchen cabinets Eyedropper \ i' - drop - ur \ : A clumsy ophthalmologist Heroes \ hee - rhos' \ : What a guy in a boat does Paradox \ par' - u - doks' \ : Two physicians Pharmacist \ farm' - uh - sist \ : A helper on the farm Polarize \ po' - lur - ize' \ : Wha t penguins see with Primate \ pri' - mate \ : Removing your spouse from in front of the TV Selfish \ sel' - fish' \ : What the owner of a seafood store does Sudafed \ sood' - a - fed' \ : Brought litigation against a government official © Portable Sanitation Ass ociation International (PSAI) • 2626 E 82 n d Street, Suite 175 • Bloomi ngton, MN 55425 www.psai.org • 952 - 854 - 8300 Tourism, Toilet Paper, and a Tec hnological "Toilet Revolution" China's high levels of tourism are leading to toilet paper theft from public restrooms and less than stellar public facility reviews – but they may have a technological solution. In China, tourism has been and continues to be a booming industry. This has been great for the Chinese economy, but has actually had a negative effect on Chinese public restroom facilities. There are simply too few restrooms for public use and they are serviced too few times to keep up with tourist users. This caused the launch of a "toilet revolution" two years ago, calling for at least 34,000 new public restrooms to be constructed in Beijing alone and 23,000 to be renovated in the city by the end of this year. Their ultimate goal "is to have a suff icient amount of toilets which are clean and odorless and free to use." However, these revolutionary efforts don't stop by simply adding to the number of facilities. There has been a growing issue in Chinese public restrooms of patrons stealing too much toilet paper. According to Zhan Dongmei with the China Tourism Academy, "people take away the paper mostly because they are worried they can't find any when they want to use it next time. But if we can provide it in every toilet, most people will not do it anymore." So how do you ensure there is paper in every stall while stopping users from taking spare shares from the role? Through a technological dispenser that limits its output based on who is standing in front of it. Using facial recognition software, the dispensers will only vend one 60 - centimeter (2 - foot) section of paper every nine minutes per person. With the help of this update, Chinese public restrooms will maintain their revolutionary mission of adequate, sanitary, and properly managed facilities for the tourist - driven public. READ THE STOR Y W EEKLY EDITION APRIL 5, 2017