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To: Vendit™ who wrote (282)	10/23/2000 2:02:27 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 430

Well since I trade from home I usually just pet the dog while I'm sitting.

To: Vendit™ who wrote (282)	12/4/2000 10:55:25 AM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 430

Monday December 4 9:55 AM ET Beijing to Clean Up Toilets in Bid for Olympics dailynews.yahoo.com BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing has decided to bring its public toilets up to Olympic gold standards in its pursuit of the 2008 Games, the China Daily said on Monday. The toilets will be given one to four stars, the newspaper said. ``For example, four-star toilets should have granite floors, sufficient lighting, lively music, facilities to wash hands, tissues, automatic flush, hand dryers and bathrooms specially designed for disabled and old people,'' it said. Beijing is one the of final candidates to host the 2008 Games, competing against Paris, Osaka, Istanbul and Toronto. ``However, it still lags far behind other cities in terms of its public toilets,'' said the paper, which did not say what facilities the one to three star toilets would have. It said the city government had given itself two years to complete the Herculean task of cleaning up its often dirty, cramped and squat-style toilets following a deluge of complaints. The Beijing Consumers' Association received a large number of complaints about the state of the city's toilets during October's National Day holiday, the newspaper said.

To: Vendit™ who wrote (282)	12/26/2000 2:25:00 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 430

Progress! Tuesday December 26 11:25 AM ET Beijing Scoops the Last Ladles of Nightsoil dailynews.yahoo.com BEIJING (Reuters) - Ending a century-old tradition, nightsoil collectors have cleared the last lavatory in Beijing by hand, another milestone in what has been dubbed the ``toilet revolution'' sweeping China. Armed with long-handled ladles and wooden barrels, six collectors on Saturday paid their final early morning call on two courtyard homes on one of Beijing's famous ``hutong'' alleyways. The squat-style ``draught lavatories'' -- pits that can accommodate only one user at a time -- were once common in the Chinese capital. But modern public conveniences with flush toilets have made them obsolete. Not that nightsoil collectors are now out of a job altogether. Much of the sewage from public toilets, as well as residential blocks and tourist hotels, still drops into septic tanks that are cleared by nightsoil trucks with long nozzles attached to suction pumps. The small green trucks are a familiar sight darting about the streets of Beijing on their way to the suburbs, where their human waste is spread on cabbage patches.