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We learn from Continental Research in Britain that, " ... 600,000 Brits have accidently dropped their phones in the toilet, another 400,000 have dropped them into a drink by mistake and still another 200,000 have sent their phones through the washing machine.
If you find yourself in this spot, all is not necessarily lost if you act quickly according to the step-by-step illustrated directions found at "wikiHow to do anything". "How to Save a Wet Cell Phone" is a collaboration of 229 authors, written in several languages who are constantly revising the article with dozens of accompanying tips.
There's not much of a market for discarded old toilets, and they usually end up in the local landfill. But the folks in Bellingham, Washington have found a way to pave their sidewalks with 400 discarded porcelain thrones ground up in a mixture they call "poticrete."
The mix contains about 20% crushed toilets by volume and represents about 5 tons of material diverted from a landfill and into the sidewalk. For more information about this innovative project contact the City of Bellingham, WA Public Works Department
According to Scientific American, in August the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation expects to present several hygienic innovations developed through its Reinventing the Toilet Challenge. Technology alone might help with failing sewers in industrialized countries, but for poor nations, where changing social norms is more important, the Gates Foundation is a powerful ally. The foundation's involvement could do for sanitation what it has accomplished in the battle to eradicate malaria—raise the visibility of a fundamental health care crisis and encourage new efforts to end it.
Scientific American, February 21, 2012
Seeking a conversation piece for your loo? Kimberly-Clark Corp. has the answer for you. Interior designer Jonathan Adler is the creative brain behind the new look of the season for bathrooms. Kimberly-Clark Corp. recently introduced a "collection" of graphic prints combined with bold colors on toilet paper containers to camouflage the spare roll yet still keep it handy. Moderately priced, these toilet paper containers can be ordered at: Where the Sun Don't Shine.
If you have ever had to repair a toilet or two, pity the Navy plumber in charge of 130 bathrooms, 423 toilets and 250 miles of pipe. According to The Navy Times The USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier with 5,000 sailors onboard, currently deployed to the Persian Gulf has at least twice since the ship deployed in May 2011, all 423 commodes out of service simultaneously. The Navy says it has spent 10,000 man hours fixing the toilet system on this deployment. Sailors blame the ship's vacuum system; the Navy blames sailors flushing away inappropriate material.
Researchers at Penn State have found a way to produce a sustainable clean energy solution from one of the dirtiest sources available? Untreated wastewater one day may be powering anything from your dishwasher to your electric toothbrush. Led by environmental engineer, Bruce Logan, they have designed special microbial fuel cells that use bacteria that can turn any organic matter directly into electricity. For the rest of this story see "Flushing Your Toilet Will Someday Power Your Home" by Justin Fritz, published Fri, Sep 23rd, 2011 in the Wall St. Daily.
An LA City Councilman faces perjury and fraud charges because he didn't flush his toilets enough. He apparently doesn't actually live in the house he owns in the district in which council members must live in the district they seek to represent. According to the District Attorney, "Water use doesn't lie ... If they lived there, they didn't flush the toilet." A Department of Water and Power employee said that the house used so little water between September 2007 and September 2009 that the total averaged out to 8.2 gallons per day.
For more details see: Curbed LA
Consumer Reports Magazine recently reported on their evaluation of 180 rolls of toilet paper and found that the most expensive tissue is not necessarily the best. CR tested for softness, strength, quanity, flushibility and cost. They also offered shopping advice on how to shop for tissues and wipes. The results are here.
ConsumerReports.org is a source for information and advice on consumer products and services. ConsumerReports.org accepts no outside advertising or free test samples.
(11/12/2009) Roca has combined the washbasin and WC to create W+W - an
all-in-one washbasin and WC made from vitreous china, designed to maximise space and conserve water. This idea, incorporating Roca's new 'water-reuse' technology, uses waste water from the basin to fill the WC cistern, thereby reducing water usage by up to 25% compared to a standard 6/3 litre dual-flush WC. For more about this new UK combination sink and toilet visit Plumbingpark.co.uk .
© 2009 City of Portland, Oregon...
Beginning January 1, 2009, the Portland Water Bureau began a short-term toilet rebate on WaterSense certified toilets. Portland Water Bureau customers were eligible for the $100 rebate by replacing a toilet that uses 1.6 gallons per flush (gpf) or more with a new WaterSense toilet. To earn the WaterSense label, toilets could use no more than 1.28 gallons per flush (gpf) and meet rigorous criteria for performance. Well believe it or not, Conservation Guru Sarah Santner reports that the $50,000 allotted for toilet rebates were depleted in not quite 5 months! Good work, Portlanders, you truly are a socially conscious bunch! That means there are a whole bunch of new "toities" out there right now, saving water with every flush!
An epidemic of, well, toilet humor followed the revelation of Wall Street's John Thain's $35,000 "commode on legs". It seems this one piece of decorating has spurred an oppressed populace to storm Merrill's headquarters, plungers held in outrage, to flush the bums out before the nation suffers another epidemic of $17,100 traveling toilet boxes and $15,000 dog umbrella stand a la the Dennis Kozlowski era. For the rest of the story see The Wall Street Journal.
A Phoenix plumber became a hero after retrieving a $70,000 ring that had been flushed down the toilet of a Phoenix restaurant. "We just did what we do," said Mike Roberts, general manager of Mr. Rooter, a plumbing company. Roberts said he spent about eight hours fishing down the toilet with a fiber optic cable on Jan. 14. To read the complete article by Emily Dean - see The Arizona Republic; also see The Washington Post.
HONG KONG -- At $800 an ounce, the golden bathroom sink had to go. At $1,000, say goodbye to the golden horse-drawn chariot. But don't even think about touching the golden toilet. Global economic uncertainty over the past few years has pushed gold prices into the stratosphere, and few people have felt that rise as much as Hong Kong entrepreneur Lam Sai-wing has. He has spent the past decade constructing a palace of gold, decked out in six tons of the precious metal. In recent years, the palace has become an attraction mainland Chinese tour groups couldn't miss. For the rest of this story by Jonathan Cheng and Yvonne Lee see the Wall Street Journal for 7 July 2008.
The main aim of the Extravaganza luxury exhibition held in Moscow was to gather interesting, unusual and extravagant goods and services under one roof. The three-day program was filled with on-stage entertainment acts, fashion shows and interactive presentations from dawn until dusk. The gold toilet is equipped with advanced plasma mirror and digital control devices. The decoration material used is gilded marble. The gilded toilet has been fascinatingly christened 'Moscow.'
This iced-out toilet comes fully encrusted with swarvoski crystals. However, rumor has it that it is sold, but the artist has a matching sink up for grabs and if that is not enough, the artist is also planning to complete an ice-encrusted double slipper tub by spring of 2008. The swarovski-decked toilet comes for a stunning price tag of $75,000.
Concern about the aging Peers who would be gathered at Westminister Abbey for the coronation of the Queen, additional toilets were installed for the expected increase demand. Then the frightening thought that at the vital moment of the ceremony as the crown was being placed on the Queen's head all the toilets happened to be occupied and flushed at the same time. Guards from Welington Barracks were called in to run a test. At the given moment, all the toilets in the Abbey were flushed at the same time, but not a sound was heard inside the Abbey. Headlines for this story in the Time magazine of the day was 'Royal Flush'. From Flushed With Pride The Story of Thomas Crapper by Wallace Reyburn.
Fastforward to 2008 in Washington, D.C. and preparations for the opening of Nationals Park. With seating for 51,000, 526
toilets and 218 urinals, the question was what will happen to the plumbing system at the 7th-Inning Stretch? Baseball fans tend to wait for breaks in the game to use the restroom facilities and the 7th-Inning Stretch was a big concern. 175 volunteers assembled for a synchronized flush dubbed the "Super Flush" on the ballpark's massive scoreboard. Thanks to low-flush technologies, the plumbing system passed with flying colors. The volunteer flushers received commemorative T-shirts after the Super Flush. From The Washington Post, Metro Section C1, 24 Feb 2008.
A user-created directory of public toilets offers a new opportunity for local advertisers.
Yojo Mobile announced yesterday that MizPee, its mobile search solution built around this directory, is expanding beyond its San Francisco beta to include other metro regions.
While an advertiser's first thought might be not to associate her bar or coffee shop with the urgent needs of people on the street, the WAP site presents hyper-local advertising opportunities and sponsorships.
Global warming, spinach epidemics, deadly outbreaks of E. coli contamination, lettuce scares, these are small potatoes when it comes to environmental problems we face today. According to Thomas Rooney, president of Insituform Technologies in Chesterfield, MO; the world's largest sewer, oil and water-pipe repair company, "The biggest environmental problem in the world today is broken sewer pipes polluting waterways, swimming areas and drinking water all over the world."
Some of the exhibitors at the 2006 World Toilet Organization Summit held in Moscow said they offered not only comfortable, easy-to-maintain products but -- of critical importance nowadays -- toilets that are safe from terrorists. "This toilet, because it's made of concrete set on the metal frame, can withstand a suicide-bomb attack," explained Yury Otmakhov, a director of development for the Dvoinoi Dubl firm. As he spoke, Otmakhov displayed a massive contraption, already in use in some Moscow districts. "It will crack, but it will not explode and hurt anyone."
"This is the market that's just about to burst ... the potential in Russia is huge," said Paul Franks, the general manager of the Swiss company Aquarotter and one of 300 delegates from Russia and 19 other countries attending the summit.
Branson, Missouri, features a bathroom Valhalla, otherwise known as the Shoji Tabuchi Theatre. No high tech gizmos, no sleek Feng Sui, only good old-fashioned hedonism. Thus begins a tribute to the world's finest public restrooms by the folks at The Bathroom Diaries ™.
Dubbed the Golden Plungers, this site covers elegant bathrooms from around the world.
There are two weeks a year when no one will bother you, two weeks a year when you're alone with your thoughts. Those are the two weeks a year you spend in the bathroom. The average American spends about an hour a day in the commode, according to a survey by the National Association for Continence. What does that mean if you add up your loo time over the course of a year? It's scary. If you're a typical American with a typical job with typical benefits, you're spending as much time in the bathroom as you are on vacation — 14 days. Is it time to renegotiate your benefits package? At that rate, if you reach the ripe old age of 80, you will have spent nearly three full years in the bathroom.
Africa's lack of running water and sewer problems are so severe that some impoverished women base their choice of a husband on whether he can provide a toilet, rather than a trench latrine or nothing at all, an aid agency said.
Anna Tibaijuka of the UN-Habitat agency told the story of one young woman whose family wouldn't agree to her marriage, because the intended husband had no bathroom in his house.
"The lack of water and sanitation in Africa's slum settlements can change a girl's life," she said on Sunday. "A girl from the slums will try to get a husband ... who can at least provide a toilet. That's the extent of the need."
Tibaijuka's comments came during the presentation of a report on the water situation in Africa, at the 4th World Water Forum held in Mexico City.
World Toilet Organization (WTO) has started World Toilet College (WTC) because there was a need for an independent world body to ensure that the best standards in Toilet Design, Cleanliness, Maintenance, Quality of Work and Sanitation Technologies are kept. WTC is a dedicated institution that offers training programs such as Restroom Design Course, Restroom Specialist Training Course and Ecological Sanitation Course.
The Restroom Specialist Training Course is intended to redesign the restroom cleaner's tasks and bring it to a new professional level. The Ecological Sanitation Course is the first of many that will train much needed sanitation human resource to help alleviate the 2.6 billion people worldwide that do not have a toilet. Lastly, the Restroom Design will teach the finer points of designing a public restroom for those responsible. There are presently no comprehensive toilet educational institutions that address both urban and rural toilets' needs in a continuous manner. Locally and worldwide, through WTO, WTC has support from government ministries and agencies, private companies, sanitation experts, and industry stalwarts. In addition, WTO has a network of resources such as the World Toilet Summits to leverage.
A Florida schoolgirl won top prize with a science project proving toilet water is cleaner than ice in fast food restaurants.
Jasmine Roberts, 12, of New Tampa, tested her thoery in five local restaurants, reports Tampa Bay's 10 News.
"My hypothesis was that the fast food restaurants' ice would contain more bacteria that the fast food restaurants' toilet water," she said.
Jasmine says at each restaurant she flushed the toilet once, then used sterile gloves to gather samples.
She also collected ice from soda fountains and asked for cups of ice at drive thru windows. She then tested the samples at a lab.
Jasmine said: "I found that 70% of the time, the ice from the fast food restaurant's contain more bacteria than the fast food restaurant's toilet water."
Her project won the science fair at Benito Middle School, and she hopes to win the top prize at a regional science and engineering fair.
Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.) resigned from Congress after tearfully confessing to evading taxes and conspiring to pocket $2.4 million in bribes, including a Rolls-Royce, a yacht and a 19th-century Louis-Philippe commode. For a gruff war veteran, Cunningham emerges from the court documents as a man with surprisingly delicate tastes. Among the gifts he accepted was a $7,200 Louis-Philippe commode, circa 1850; For the rest of this story ...
Working late again? You're not alone, according to a new study by University of Arizona germ guru Dr. Charles Gerba. You have plenty of bacteria keeping you company.
The study, the first of its kind to measure normal bacterial levels inside offices across America, found paper isn't all that's piling up on desks. In fact, the average desk harbors 400 times more bacteria than the average toilet seat.
"For bacteria, a desk is really the laptop of luxury," said Gerba. "They can feast all day from breakfast to lunch and even dinner." Gerba and his researchers found that unless desks were wiped clean with a disinfectant during the day, bacteria levels climbed higher and higher, peaking after lunch.
MEET Keith...a 10ft boa constrictor who has been captured after popping up in the loos at a posh block of flats. The snake had terrified tenants since it was first spotted in a toilet last week, after living in sewage pipes for three months. People had to put bricks on their loo seats to stop the Keith slipping into their bathrooms. Firemen were even called in to try to track him down in the pipework. But it was not until Saturday night that a plucky resident finally trapped him in a bucket.
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MASSILLON, Ohio - "It's a symbol of everything you've gone through for 34 years - your work and buying a house and having a kid." But Tom Dick thought his wedding ring had gone to waste when he flushed it down the toilet 20 months ago. Instead, two county workers returned the 14-karat gold band to Dick and his wife Carolyn on Saturday after uncovering it while cleaning sewer lines near the couple's northeast Ohio home.
The odds are greater that you'll be killed or injured by a deer or a bathroom appliance than by a marauding shark, according to the latest statistics complied by the International Shark Attack File maintained by the Florida Museum of Natural History. Stay out of the bathroom. Injuries involving toilets number in the tens of thousands each year. In addition, bathroom bowl products (things such as plungers, cleansers and, we presume, those ghastly deodorant cakes found in rest stop toilets) annually account for more than a thousand injuries. Killer sharks? Statistically, no problem. I'm worried about those toilets. From "Unconventional Wisdom" by Richard Morin < [email protected]
WEST COVINA, Calif. — A good toilette is good for the bottom line according to Paul Moghadan. A chandelier, faux travertine walls, silver columns and a marble counter adorn the bathroom at his Chevron gas station in West Covina, some 20 miles east of Los Angeles.
The walls are decorated in rich earth tones and blue stone tiles, giving the 10-foot-wide room a slight Tuscan ambiance — or maybe a touch of Vegas. "I wanted to give the restroom the greatest look I could. I wanted to show how much I respect my customers," said Moghadan, 55, of San Dimas. "I started with Chevron in 1966, and they trained us back then that the No. 1 priority was the station bathroom. They stressed we should keep it clean and papered up."
In the last dozen years, Moghadan said he has an average of 20 compliments a day about the bathroom. "I have customers from Palm Springs and Las Vegas who make a point of stopping here," he said. "Some even bring in relatives to show them the bathroom."
He said the glitz has kept profits up and vandalism down. The mirror, for example, has only been replaced twice.
Full article available on page 20 of On The Road, Again! Vol 9; Number 2; May 2005, a publication of the Antique Automobile Club of America.
A Contra Costa homeowner discovered sewer rats were entering his home through a toilet. He bought an incendiary device intended for gophers and other burrowing pests, and dropped it down a plumbing vent on his roof. The device melted a plastic elbow in the pipe and the roof caught fire, causing $80,000 in damage before the firefighters could extinguish the blaze.
From November 2002 to 4 April 2003 the U.S. military dropped thousands and thousands of leaflets over Iraq telling Iraqis they could hear coalition broadcasts on several radio stations. A few days after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime, the U.S. military officials found the Iraqis were recycling the thin paper leaflets as toilet paper.
Annapolis MD: Maryland taxpayers can expect to pay a "flush tax" if Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s new proposal for a monthly fee for sewage plant upgrades is passed. The bill will be voted on next week on the House floor.
The Manhattan city council has had some unusual debates in its time. But the latest controversy has caught the eye of even the most jaded New Yorker. It concerns something called the "Restroom Equity Bill ," known in its less sanitized version as "potty parity." The purpose of the bill is to create more bathrooms for women. The problem, to put it as delicately as the Associated Press did when describing the debate, is that women can't zip in and out of bathrooms as quickly as men can, thus causing huge lines at public restrooms.
John F. Banzhaf III, a law professor who's spearheading the measure, was quoted by the Associated Press as saying that women are standing up for their rights "even if they can't stand up while exercising those rights." Other states and cities already have potty parity laws in place. The ratio is about two women's restrooms to one men's room. Most of the time they merely renovate men's rooms into lady's rooms rather than build more bathrooms.
Kohler Co., a global leader in kitchen and bath design, introduced a new toilet at the International Builders' show in Las Vegas with exceptional flushing power, designed for extraordinary situations. The Cimarron Comfort Height toilet - the first KOHLER toilet to feature the exclusive Class Five™ flushing system, an industry-leading 3 1/4-inch flush valve, and direct-fed jet technology - is engineered to provide extraordinary bulk flushing performance for even the most demanding circumstances. Also making its debut on the Cimarron toilet is an innovative Drylock™ installation system that allows plumbers and do-it-yourself homeowners to install a toilet faster and easier than a typical installation.
Inspired by the raw power of class five whitewater rapids, the Cimarron Comfort Height toilet with Class Five flushing technology represents a new category of KOHLER flushing systems. Class Five flushing technology provides the answer to consumers who have expressed the need for a gravity-fed toilet that effectively removes ultra bulk waste without ever plugging. Even under the most demanding "commercial use", Class Five technology ensures a powerful, effective flush each time the toilet is utilized. This is a commercial-grade toilet, designed for both residential and commercial applications. (Kohler Press Release, January 2004)
IRVING, TX — A survey by Novation, Irving, Tex, a group purchasing organization for hospitals and health care institutions, found that hospitals are seeing more severely obese (ie, overweight by at least 100 lbs) patients than ever before.
Hospitals throughout the United States are being forced to buy specialized equipment and in some cases even remodel their facilities to cope with the growing number of severely obese patients, according to a survey of hospital purchasing executives.
The growing number of obese patients drives up costs in nonclinical areas. Kent Demien, director of materials management at Wausau Hospital in Wausau, Wis., said many patients or hospital visitors are simply too heavy for a standard, wall-mounted toilet, which can accommodate patients up to 300 lbs. The standard wall-mounted toilets cost $350, but the hospital is looking to replace them with sturdier pedestal commodes priced at $750, which can hold up to 2,000 lbs. "This is a new trend we're seeing among the 1,400 VHA and UHC hospitals we serve,"
A cartoon showing an outhouse supporting a collection of communication satellites and equipment was used in an article by Jay Ambrose regarding Rep. Maurice Hinchey's (NY Democrat) recent effort to seek passage of a law forcing radio station owners to hire liberal hosts to offset their conservative talk-show hosts. While Mr. Ambrose may have a different interpretation for this cartoon, I see it as just another bit of evidence of the importance of plumbing in our everyday lives. The outhouse was an early improvement in sanitation to be followed by inhouse plumbing that is the very foundation of civilization today. It seems Mr. Ambrose is suggesting that plumbing is likewise the corner-stone and foundation on which our freedom of speech and press is built. [Jay Ambrose is chief editorial writer for Scripps Howard News Service.]
The stampede of consumers into grocery stores to clear the shelves of toilet paper and other staples at the first mention of snow on the news signals the start of winter in the Washington D.C. area. But not everyone stands in lines; some go online. Kenn Fischburg, president and chief executive of ToiletPaperWorld.com, says about 30 percent of their business comes from households. According to the ToiletPaperWorld.com website, Charmin is "the world's most popular toilet paper since 1928." For some amusing and educational tidbits regarding toilet paper visit the Toilet Paper Encyclopedia.
While he's not claiming he invented the outhouse, former Vice President Al Gore, has joined the advisory board of a water-free technology board promoting dry toilets, from which resulting matter is manually collected then composted and used as crop fertilizer. Costing only a cool $2000 each, it sounds like a concept that's a winner.
According to Virginia Postrel's new book, The Substance of Style, the lowly toilet brush is an unusually pure example of aesthetic demands. If the local drugstore sells a perfectly functional Rubbermain toilet brush for $5, why would anyone pay $32 for designer Philippe Starck"s Excalibur brush or $55 for Stefano Giovannoni's Merdolino brush --- or extravagance be damned, $400 for a brush made of crystal and gold? Is it because an expensive toilet brush confers (and conveys) status, signaling to our neighbors that we're their equals or betters?
NEW YORK --- Thousands of commuters and trains were delayed and rerouted while rescue workers tried to pull Edwin Gallart's arm from a toilet on the Mount Vernon-bound train after it left Grand Central Terminal during rush hour. Gallart got his arm stuck in the toilet when he tried to retrieve his call phone. When train employees were unable to free Gallart's arm, police and firefighters had to cut apart the stainless-steel toilet. The phone was not recovered.
According to one American soldier who was inside of one of the many palaces in Iraq, Saddam Hussein may have had gold-plated bathrooms, but his toilet paper leaves much to be desired.
Officials in Monaca, PA last week sent Tom Suica a letter telling him the 10 toilets on his roof had to come down. Later officials rescinded the order after discovering Mr. Suica, a plumber and Democratic candidate for councilman, had taken steps to keep the toilets free of water. Mr. Suica has successfully argued in court that the toilets are decorations and an expression of free speech.
Barney Smith of Eastland, Texas says it takes about 20 hours to transform a toilet lid from blank canvas to a finished work of art. His first step is to prepare the lid by removing the toilet seat and unfasten the hinges. "They become wall plaques whenever I get to taking the lid off and…the hinge away from the seat," he said.
The toys and tools of the 21st century, from electronic faucets to toilets that flush on their own, weren't even conceived in the blackouts of 1965 and 1977, but for the huge blackout of 2003 in the northeast and midwest U.S. these electronic marvels left a lot of people not just in the dark but also unable to coax water from the sinks, use the toilets or get a drink.
London - UK - April 30th 2003 - The UK's most popular website msn.co.uk is creating the world's first 'Internet Loo'. The iLoo will be mobile and is part of MSN's mission to allow instant logging on 'anytime and any place'.
In time for the summer festival season, MSN is in the process of converting a portable loo to create a unique experience for surfers looking for an alternative to the bog-standard festival loo experience. Users will be able to sit down, undock a wireless keyboard and conveniently access the first ever WWW.C.
A plasma screen will be located directly in front of them which can be adjusted to a desired height level. MSN is also in talks with toilet paper manufacturers to produce special web paper for those in need of URL inspiration.
Cutting edge technology is central to MSN's plans for the iLoo. The world's first www.c will be broadband enabled using the most up to date wi-fi technology, meaning no unsightly telephone wires. Users will simply be able to sit down, power up, and start emailing, shopping or searching for information. There will also be a six channel surround sound speaker system under the sink unit for use with listening to music from the Internet
Boasting amenities that range from tuxedoed attendants to brass fixtures and oak paneling, upscale portable restrooms are showing up everywhere from weddings to PGA tournaments to President Bush´s ranch.
Black Tie is one of a handful of companies across the country that specialize in the restrooms, which from the outside look like plain white trailers. The surprise is inside, where vanity mirrors, flushable toilets, full sinks, piped-in music, air conditioning and dishes of potpourri make the restrooms almost indistinguishable from those in a home or nice hotel.
The Grand Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi, has been named the nation's finest restroom as voted on by the Internet public in America's Best Restrooms II, presented by Cintas. The restroom topped a list of finalists representing various states including California, Mississippi, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia.
"Our guests have known for a while about the wonderfully decorated ladies' restroom we have. Now with this award, we hope ladies nationwide will visit us to see why we were voted The Best Restroom in the U.S.A," said Duncan McKenzie, General Manager of Grand Casino Biloxi. "It's a beautiful restroom, definitely the talk of the town and well worth the million dollars we spent on creating it. We may have to start giving tours for the gentlemen so they don't feel left out!"
The Best Restroom Internet survey is sponsored by Cintas and was created in 2001 to honor businesses across the country that maintain exceptional hygiene in their public restrooms. Each year, Cintas and TheBestofUSA.com will present a certificate of recognition to the winner and post the top five to receive votes in the Best Restroom Hall of Fame. Nominations for the Best Restroom Awards are open to any restroom that is free and open to the public. Last year, a proud custodial staff from the main building at The University of Notre Dame accepted the award as America's Best Restroom.
LUFKIN, TEXAS — Rebecca Tarver Robins once again has the high school ring that she lost in 1965.
The 55-year-old Lufkin resident received a telephone call last week asking her if she had lost her senior ring from Hudson High School.
"Yes," she exclaimed, recalling the exact day and place where she lost the ring at Stephen F. Austin State University. "Gibbs Hall, Room 110, August 1965. It was my second day in that dorm."
"I was at the sink brushing my teeth or something. I had taken the ring off and it fell straight down the drain. I went and told my dorm mom. The next day, a plumber was in there blowing the lines out. I could just hear it clinking all the way to the septic system," Mrs. Robins told the Lufkin Daily News.
University plumber Duane Frazar found the ring two weeks ago while replacing old pipes. He had his secretary contact Donny Webb, the high school principal at Hudson, about five miles outside Lufkin.
This coming summer (2003) Metro riders at one Virginia station will begin a one-year test run of a
self-cleaning restroom. The space-age restroom comes with a price tag of $66,500 for
one year. Called the Galaxy, it will automatically flush and dispense soap, paper and water.
A chemical wash cleans the toilet after every use and the floor after every 30 uses.
Features include Automatic doors, Toilet Seat Washer, Electronic Basin Unit, No Touch Flushing,
Concealed Operating Components, Electronic Toilet Paper Dispenser, Motion Sensor, Automatic Systems
Wash Cycle, Electromagnetic Locking, Music and Voice Messages.
Ann Landers, a worldwide advice column institution, died in Chicago where she has dispensed her friendly, witty, and helpful advice since 1955. Syndicated in more than 1200 newspapers worldwide, Ann Landers (a.k.a. Esther Pauline Friedman), received over 2000 letters each day, addressing problems that ranged from infidelity and obnoxious children to animals in the toilet. According to the Washington Times account, "Few topics excited readers more than the question of which direction the toilet paper should be hung in." A sample follows:
Dear Ann Landers: Perhaps you don´t wish to re-open the "tissue issue" again, but I am unable to resist sending this article to you. Perhaps it will provide a laugh for your many readers. It was written by Art Robinson and appeared in the Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Star-Phoenix.
-- Longtime Landers Fan
Dear Fan: The column I wrote many years ago about how to hang toilet paper (should the tissue go over the top or hang down along the wall?) seems destined to go on forever. Thank you for the piece by Art Robinson. I´m sure my readers will enjoy it. Here´s an edited version:
OK, so we know who won the races for mayor and city council. We also know the makeup of the public and Catholic school boards. Ditto, the health board.
"But what about the really important question which was asked of those who took part in the ´fun´ vote just before the election? What about the toilet tissue issue?
"In order to have the new, computerized vote-counting machines tested and ready for the election, a trial run was conducted, and we were all invited to vote on a ´fun´ question. The question was one which just popped up out of thin air and which carried no political association. The question was ´Are you in favor of toilet paper in all public washrooms being installed with the loose end coming up and over the front of the roll?´ Here´s the scoop:
"The answer was a resounding yes. A total of 768 people said they want the loose end coming over the top. Another 196 said they wanted it the other way. And you thought there was nothing left about the election to report."
Dear Readers: In spite of the fact that an overwhelming number of people prefer the roll hung so that the paper comes over the top, I still prefer to have the paper hanging close to the wall.
As a great many readers pointed out when the question was being discussed in the column several years ago, "The most important thing is that the paper is THERE when you need it."
A plea for help scrawled on a toilet wall in Tennessee led to the arrest of a truck driver who allegedly held a woman against her will for a year. Katina Shaddix, 24, told police in Dublin, Georgia, she left more than 100 messages in toilets all over the country. Maintenance worker Binford Aycock found one, saying: "Won't let me out. Beating me, this is no joke!" at a rest stop in Tennessee. He called police.
The message, written in ink marker, named Cannon truck 383. Officials used a global positioning system to trace the truck to a rest area in Georgia. Shaddix was treated in hospital and taken to a homeless shelter because she told police she had no family.
A museum in Wisconsin is preparing to open an exhibition charting the history of the toilet and toilet paper.
Privy To The Past: Inside America's Most Private Room has a replica of a sponge ancient Romans used to share.
Green Bay's Neville Museum spokeswoman Marilyn Stasiak says the area is: "The toilet paper capital of the world."
The exhibition tells visitors about how corn cobs, leaves and newspaper came before modern-day toilet paper.
It also shows how toilet paper used to have splinters in it. Ms. Stasiak told Ananova: "That would've been very painful."
She added: "We're expecting all kinds of jokes about the exhibition."
Green Bay's Northern Paper Mill is credited with creating modern toilet paper in 1902 but it wasn't until 1935 that toilet paper was advertised as "splinter-free." The exhibition, which opens on April 27 is sponsored by Georgia Pacific, makers of Quilted Northern Bath Tissue.
Frogs have been blamed for blocking up public toilets in New South Wales. They were discovered in the cisterns of toilets at Bodalla Oval sitting on the flaps that let the units refill. The toilets had only been working intermittently and no one knew why. Inspectors from Eurobodalla Shire Council found the source of the problem. The council's works and facilities committee chairman Keith Dance told ABC News Online it will now be taking some "frog-friendly" measures to discourage the creatures from making their homes in the toilets. He says the remedy would probably be as simple as flyscreen or netting placed across the top of the cisterns to stop the frogs getting in. Mr Dance says no frogs will be harmed in the process.
At long last, a re-dedication ceremony for Mr. Thomas Crapper's newly-restored grave at Beckenham Cemetery, Kent, England will take place in the afternoon of Saturday, 4 May 2002; the Reverend Canon Derek Carpenter, Rector of Beckenham, has kindly agreed to preside.
The invitation reads, "We hope to have a gathering of Crappers both those who are related and those who share, or used to share, the surname. In addition, anyone who has an interest in the man or his trade will be welcome."
Many people give credit to Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), an English sanitary engineer, for inventing the valve~and~siphon arangement that made our modern toilet possible.
"Plans are being considered for a cake to be commissioned in the shape of one of Mr. Crapper's famous cisterns! However we will not travel too far into the burlesque - the aim of the day will be a respectful ceremony followed by a pleasant afternoon or evening. Conversation, some food and drink, perhaps even an illustrated presentation on the history of the man and his firm."
Now based near Shakespeare's home at Stratford-on-Avon, Thomas Crapper & Co. has their own private 'museum' of rare, antique sanitaryware and they are always happy to show visitors around. For more information on this exciting event contact Thomas Crapper & Co at: [email protected]
For over 27 years, Yvette´s high school class ring rested in a sewer near her home. She had accidently flushed it down the toilet less than a month after her parents bought it for her during her junior year in high school. Yvette only recently moved back to Cumberland, Maryland after being away for 25 years. She was delighted when a sewer-pipe technician found the gold ring while cleaning debris from the sewer system in preparation for road reconstruction in the old neighborhood.
"...But in fact there is never enough of anything if overnight a country goes into panic-stockpiling mode. For the same reason that New York City would be washed out to sea if 7 million people flushed their toilets at the same moment, a national crisis can be sparked if everyone runs out on the same day to stock up on antibiotics."
Gov. Gary E. Johnson was rescued from a dangerous section of the Rio Grande known as the "Toilet Bowl" after he was pitched overboard from his kayak. The Toilet Bowl is a dangerous spot on the Rio Grande where water cuts under a large rock on one side of the channel and can pin a person under water.
Singapore (For the Trade Only) – Come November 2001, the world's toilet and restroom professionals will congregate in Singapore for the Inaugural World Toilet Summit 2001. Scheduled from 19 to 21 November, the event will attract some 500 toilet professionals, government officials, NGOs, companies and individuals from all over the world. The Restroom Asia 2001 Exhibition scheduled from 20 to 23 November 2001 is expected to attract some 4000 trade visitors from the Asia Pacific region. Both events will be co-located at the Singapore Expo.
The holding of the World Toilet Summit 2001 and Restroom Asia 2001 is most appropriate and timely as more attention is being paid to the state of public toilet facilities and service which reflect the standard of living in our society. Today, there are both government and non-government organisations from all over the world which dedicate themselves to the subject of improving the toilet environment. Feedback from industry professionals show that 5-7% of the total construction cost for commercial projects and 10-12% for residential projects are taken up by toilets. Hence, an upturn in the construction industry means a rise in demand for toilet products. Concurrently, toilet care should be maintained at the highest level.
Britain's loos are once again under scrutiny, as the search for the 2001 Cannon Hygiene Loo of the Year Awards gets underway.
All types of public toilet can be entered in the competition, in a number of categories comprising retail, hotels, restaurants, pubs & nightclubs, museums & galleries, holiday parks, education and health establishments, commercial offices, municipal, road, rail, air & sea transport, beaches and leisure & sports venues.
Further information from Martin Higham on 01729 825384 or Richard Chisnell on 01962 850277
Every loo entered receives an unannounced visit by Loo of the Year Awards Inspectors.
(LONDON (AP) November 3, 2000) A London public toilet has been converted into a flower shop. Scarcity of public restrooms and the decay of the distinctive Victorian lavatory buildings worry the British Toilet Association. The Victorians really knew how to build a bathroom. Britain is dotted with splendid little lavatory buildings, encircled by iron fences and crowned with arches or pergolas. The perfect places to, say, grab a bite, have a beer or watch a play. In cities across Britain, public conveniences are finding new life as pubs, cafes, offices and theaters.
The British Toilet Association is campaigning for better public toilets for all. In recent years significant numbers of Britain's public toilets, once the envy of the world, have been closed down. The BTA says, We need more and better toilets. Let's stop the rot! Our mission is to represent the interests and aspirations of 'away from home' toilet providers, suppliers and users of all types and to act as the catalyst for change in the pursuit of standards of excellence in all areas of public toilet provision and management. In its campaign for fewer closures of public toilets and higher standards generally, the BTA sponsors an annual conference. The fourth annual BTA conference "Away From Home Toilets - Nuisance or Necessity", was held on 21 & 22 May 2001 at the Heathrow Park Hotel, West Drayton, Middlesex.
A revolutionary redesign of the humble toilet seat is making news across Canada and the US. The subject of TV news stories by the CBC, CTV and Global News national networks. The CBC TV business show "Venture" did an 18-minute story on this new product. Numerous Canadian and American radio stations did interviews with the inventors, Tim Seniuk and Ken Wiklund. Featured in local newspapers and many North American newspapers, this new toilet seat is destined to save marriages and friendships.
The patented HydaGlide automatic system closes the "Considerate Seat" about two minutes after flushing. At any time you can stop the lowering seat, lower it yourself, or put it back up with no harm to the closer. Available in a variety of styles, this new seat, manufactured by Senlund Corporation of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, is the solution to the age-old battle of the sexes.
Lawmaker Wants Low-Flows Outlawed; Supporters Point to Water Savings and Better Designs.
Dubbed "the Patrick Henry of porcelain" by one backer, Rep. Joe Knollenberg (R-Mich.) cites widespread disgust not only with the new toilets but also with government intrusion in America´s bathrooms. House Majority Leader Richard K. Armey (R-Tex.) told reporters "Homeowners all across America are frustrated to tears with this kind of government meddling ... we´re going to flush them out." In August, Knollenberg secured congressional hearings on his repeal bill that has 80 House co-sponsors. However, the second worst drought in US history has put a damper on the Knollenberg repeal bill, even though support in the ranks runs deep.
The answer to a better flush may be found in the toilet tissue used, according to Bruce Case of Case Design/Remodeling Inc. of Bethesda, MD. Case claims in his personal experience switching from a thick fluffy tissue such as Charmin to a light tissue such as White Cloud his family found their toilets worked better.
Jok Church is attempting to demystify the world for kids. A recent "You Can" syndicated comic page feature "The toilet: myth and mystery!" answered three questions sent in by kids about toilets. In addition to the "You Can" comic feature, Jok also answers kid´s questions at the "You Can" website. The motto, "
A good question is a powerful thing" covers a lot of territory. Kids want to know the answer to such questions as:
Why is poop brown? and
Where Do Farts Come From? Why Do They Smell? Jok gives them answers in great detail.
The Japanese are still trying to improve on the conventional toilet. According to a recent report the latest high tech toilets being built in Japan can take your weight once a day in the morning and measure the proportion of your body fat. In addition, they are capable of measuring the sugar content of your urine, and sending the vital data to your doctor. This new toilet resembles a cross between an ejector seat and an electric chair according to Steven Butler who wrote the report for U.S. News & World Report. June 7, 1999, page 48.
Under a new program called the Small Town Environment Program, or STEP, North Carolina hopes to upgrade their over 43,000 homes that still lack adequate indoor plumbing. The State officials suspect that there may be as many as 200,000 homes in NC still using outhouses or what is called straight-piping. Straight-piping is the term used for homes that pipe their 'blackwater' (the polite term for raw waste) directly into nearby rivers and streams. While outhouses are still legal in the state, straight-piping is not.
Indoor bathrooms are a major symbol of prosperity. As late as 1950, one-forth of American homes lacked indoor plumbing.
Joan Cushing's new revue, Flush, is one of two original musicals that start off the Source Theatre Company's 18th annual Washington Theatre Festival on 8 July 1998. Joan Cushing, aka Mrs. Foggybottom, said, "I took a wedding and a funeral and thought, wouldn't it be funny to do a revue where you only see the people in the restroom?" With the experience of having attended many weddings and funerals as a member of a large Irish Catholic family, Cushing sets her revue in the unisex restroom of a multipurpose hall where a wedding and a funeral are taking place at the same time. Cushing's long-running political spoof fest, "Mrs. Foggybottom & Friends," closed at the Shoreham in 1996.
The Worldwatch Institute recently reported that, "access to adequate sanitation facilities in Latin America and Asia is falling while Web use is growing geometrically." Four million people are expected to be online by the year 2000 in China, even though not even half of them have a toilet.
Nestled amid evergreens and wildflowers 90 miles north of Philadelphia in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, 12 U.S. Park Service designers, architects and engineers spent two years and $330,000 designing and building a two holer OUTHOUSE. According to the report this OUTHOUSE features slate, gabled roof, cottage-style porches and a cobblestone foundation that can withstand an earthquake. The baseboards are covered with $78-a-gallon paint and the wildflower seed planted around the foundation cost $720 a pound. There is no running water, just two composting toilets. A perfect example of your tax dollars at work.
The National Park Service seems to be testing the American public. We now learn that $300,000 for building the Pennsylvania outhouse is peanuts. The National Park Service has topped that by quite a bit with its latest project. The National Park Service has plans in the works for not one but two two-story, four holers in Montana's Glacier National Park at an estimated cost of $1,000,000 each. These state of the art, solar-powered composting outhouses have propane generator backups and are part of a larger park renovation project that some estimate will cost $6,000,000 before it's finished.
The rustic, 28-by-19-foot outhouse is a thing of beauty that will last forever, according to the private contractor supervising the job. While two million visitors flock to Glacier National Park each year, only a few thousand hikers to the remote site of the outhouses will be able to enjoy these works of art.
David Mihalic, Glacier's superintendent says the park service has far greater needs, and they could put the money to better use, but they had little choice. Montana's three-member congressional delegation directed them to undertake the project. Officials insist they have been frugal but building in remote areas costs a lot of money.
After the embarrassing revelations of the extravant outhouses built in the Delaware Gap and Montana's Glacier National Park, the National Park Service has agreed to make fundamental changes in its construction programs. The changes include cutting about 240 employees from the agency's 488-employee construction design and supervision facility in Denver. In the future, any project cosing more than $500,000 must be cleared as a line item by Congress.
The Tower Thistle Hotel in London is the winner of the 1996-97 "Loo of the Year" award. The hotel's lavish lavatory decorated in charcoal gray, marble and walnut, with ginger jars, glass tables and comfortable seating won the ninth annual competition sponsored by the British Tourist Authority and two companies that promote hygienic public washrooms. The Grand Prize in this contest went to Portsmouth Historic Dock Yard. The heritage shipyard was cited for excellence in providing facilities for disabled visitors and for parents with babies who can find highchairs, microwaves and bottle warmers in the loo.
Just as many foreigners had finally mastered the traditional Japanese "squatter" with no seat, they are being confused anew by the latest generation of Japanese toilets--super-high-tech sit-down models with a digital control panel that looks like the cockpit of a plane. The toilets basically look like a standard American model, except for the conrol panel, which sometimes comes with a clock to tell you how long you have been in the bathroom.


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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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I. LLNL Says Project is Near Fusion, IEEE Editor Says "No Way"
The project -- launched 15 years ago in 1997 -- has yet to achieve "ignition"; the point at which the laser-confined fusion produces more energy than it consumes. And it carries a sticker price of $290M+ USD per year in operating costs.
But those issues didn't stop LLNL from releasing a cheerful press release,
Fifteen years of work by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility (NIF) team paid off on July 5 with a historic record-breaking laser shot. The NIF laser system of 192 beams delivered more than 500 trillion watts (terawatts or TW) of peak power and 1.85 megajoules (MJ) of ultraviolet laser light to its target. Five hundred terawatts is 1,000 times more power than the United States uses at any instant in time, and 1.85 megajoules of energy is about 100 times what any other laser regularly produces today.
The release was hardly coincidental. It came just months ago, in hopes of swaying Congress, which is presently deciding whether to sustain funding for the troubled project.
Pre-amplifiers are pictured pumping up the power to the LLNL's record-setting laser. But is all that power being wasted on pipe dreams? [Image Source: LLNL]
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LLNL comments, "[The NIF] is the only facility with the potential to duplicate the actual phenomena that occur in the heart of a modern nuclear device -- a goal that is critical to sustaining confidence that a return to underground nuclear testing remains unnecessary."
But Mr. Sweet counters, "Richard Garwin, for decades the most highly regarded independent specialist on nuclear weaponry in the United States, told IEEE Spectrum six years ago that it would be 'a mistake to assume that NIF experiments are going to be directly relevant to weapons testing. The temperatures in the NIF chamber are much lower than they are in actual nuclear weapons, and the amounts of material being tested are much smaller.'"
He adds, "For decades the joke about magnetic confinement fusion--much the more plausible approach to harnessing the energy of the sun--is that the technology is always 20 years away. So when will inertial confinement fusion be delivering commercial electricity? That one is easy. Never."
Congress is debating whether to scrap the NIF. [Image Source: LLNL]
It sounds like there's some serious credibility question regarding the project's security and energy claims. That said, there might be some merit to the project, even if Mr. Sweet is at least partially right.
UC Berkley astronomy
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Indeed, from a
pure science perspective
, the device is a pretty impressive accomplishment, even if it turns out its fusion goals are indeed pipe dreams. It could indeed yield some novel materials research, if it escapes this round of funding reviews. Ultimately the issue appears not so much that the super-laser lacks novelty, but rather that its critics argue that it is being misrepresented. For that reason, Mr. Sweet infers, the NIF is the "mother of all boondoggles".
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A Sandridge Church will be welcoming the Bishop of Norwich to a special Mothering Day service to launch its major community project 'Sandridge 900+'.
St Leonard's Church, will hold the service on Sunday, March 30 at 10am, to begin the project designed to celebrate everything that the area north of St Albans offers its residents and visitors.
The first Bishop of Norwich, Herbert de Losinga, consecrated and dedicated the church, north of St Albans, to St Leonard before 1119 leading to Sandridge becoming a parish.
The current Vicar of St Leonard's, the Revd Em Coley decided it was time to invite his successor to come back.
Today's bishop is the Rt Revd Graham James, a regular 'Thought for the Day' broadcaster, who was chaplain to former Bishop of St Albans Robert Runcie while he was Archbishop of Canterbury and spoke at his funeral in St Albans Cathedral in July 2000.
The Revd Em Coley said: "It's great to be welcoming Bishop Graham to launch 'Sandridge 900+ and we're excited about the overall project. On Mothering Sunday, we'll be thanking those who care for us and recalling the birth of our parish church.
"We'll also be celebrating how St Leonard's continues today as a place of prayer and worship – just as it has for more than 900 years - as well as playing an important role in the local community."
St Leonard's Church will be playing a full role in the celebrations with its own programme of events being held this year.
These include:
- A lecture on 'Rumbustious John: the vicar who restored Sandridge' at the church on Thursday, April 3 at 2pm
- An evening of curry and karaoke on Saturday, April 26
- A family fun afternoon on Sunday, June 8
- opening the church with refreshments on Sunday afternoons in May and the last Sunday in June, July and August
- Hosting the Churches Together in Marshalswick 'Songs of Praise' with TV presenter Pam Rhodes at 5pm on Sunday, July 6
- A visit by the Bishop of St Albans, the Rt Revd Alan Smith at 10am on Sunday September 21
- The annual flower festival on October 3 to 5
- Gregory's Gift, an evening exploring plainsong at 6pm on Sunday, November 2.
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LAND O'LAKES — Even at less than 100 percent, Bishop McLaughlin's Alyssa Mathis is still capable of dominating the North Suncoast.
The junior hitter proved that Tuesday night, notching a match-high 22 kills and six blocks to help her Hurricanes knock off Sunlake, 25-20, 25-18, 23-25, 25-20.
"Still, she's a woman amongst girls out there," Bishop coach Douglas Chinchar said.
Mathis, a 6-foot San Diego State commit and one of Tampa Bay's top talents, has been hobbled by a strained calf but still played well for the Hurricanes (8-1) in a showdown against the upstart Seahawks (5-3), who have been one of Pasco County's biggest surprises.
Mathis had four kills in the first game to help Bishop pull ahead.
"She crushes the thing — flat-out crushes it," Chinchar said. "We just can't set that yet. … The kids are working hard. It's just not there yet."
Sunlake fought back, behind its own Division I prospect, setter Malika Saffore, and strong performances by Sarah Sprague (12 kills) and Maeghan O'Fray (11 kills).
The Seahawks dropped the second but rallied in the third, jumping out to a 24-18 lead before two of Aileen Hnatiuk's 13 kills capped the Hurricanes' 5-0 run.
A spike by Sunlake's Kelsey Riquelme forced a fourth game — and caused Bishop to keep digging.
"We're a very average 8-1 team," Chinchar said. "We're getting by because we have a few kids who can make plays when it counts."
Tuesday night, those kids were Mathis, Hnatiuk and junior Casey McColl.
Mathis had three kills and two blocks in a six-point span to turn a 15-12 deficit into a 17-15 lead in the fourth. Hnatiuk followed with a kill and an ace, and an ace and clutch serves from McColl helped the Hurricanes pull away for good — and give Chinchar a little more confidence about his growing program that expects to compete in Class 3A, District 7.
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Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the day when he could return to Eagle Point, Indiana. A man no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, all he wanted was to be with Laura, the wife he deeply loved, and start a new life.
But just days before his release, Laura and Shadow's best friend are killed in an accident. With his life in pieces and nothing to keep him tethered, Shadow accepts a job from a beguiling stranger he meets on the way home, an enigmatic man who calls himself Mr. Wednesday. A trickster and a rogue, Wednesday seems to know more about Shadow than Shadow does himself.
Life as Wednesday's bodyguard, driver, and errand boy is far more interesting and dangerous than Shadow ever imagined. Soon Shadow learns that the past never dies . . . and that beneath the placid surface of everyday life a storm is brewing—an epic war for the very soul of America—and that he is standing squarely in its path.
"Mystery, satire, sex, horror, poetic prose—American Gods uses all these to keep the reader turning the pages."—Washington Post
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"This full-cast performance of the tenth anniversary edition of Neil Gaiman's American Gods (think director's cut) is one of the most mesmerizing audio experiences ever.... Ron McLarty plays a randy, crusty old Odin disguised as a white-collar con man to perfection. Daniel Oreskes's Shadow, the hero who doesn't know quite what he is, is masterful. Oliver Wyman, who did Mad Sweeney the Leprechaun, is a genius. Hats in the air for the whole cast, a flawless production, and a tour de force of a tale." (AudioFile)
"New to Neil"
I am new to Neil Gaiman's work. I once tried to read a Sandman comic and felt utterly lost, so I gave up trying. His recent work on Doctor Who and my membership on Audible led me to pick this audio book. I'm not a big fan of full cast productions either. I like the idea of a single person reading the book... but after reading the criticism and researching the different versions of the book for myself, I decided to give this one a try.
It was fantastic.
The voice of Shadow is perfect... as is that of Mr. Wednesday. It really helps the book come alive. If I had read it or listened to a single person voicing it, I may have gotten sick of the tangents that Gaiman follows, but since I had the numerous voices as sign posts on the journey, it really did help. They do a great job of setting the tone.
This book is like a dream you don't want to wake up from. It makes so much sense, yet if you were to try to explain it to someone, it wouldn't. If you expect something from it, you may be disappointed, but if you just let it take you on a journey and let your mind wander with it, you will enjoy every minute of it. Neil Gaiman knows how to get you to feel for his characters by making them a part of the familiar. This really is something I could see myself dreaming.
I hope HBO does make it into a TV show, as is the buzz.
"Will certainly be a classic"
I really loved this story. My kids have been telling me for years to read it, and I finally got this edition to listen to. I can't imagine any part of it I'd hope to miss, and am not sure what the parts were in this edition that weren't in the previously released version, but again, I can't imagine I'd want anything left out.
I'm usually not a fan of "cast" performances on audiobooks. I like a single storyteller. However, this was really an outstanding performance - they did a truly great job.
""Author's Preferred Text" maybe not the best version."
The main character had no depth at all. Even other characters in the book call him out for how blandly nonreactive he is.
We keep being introduced to other characters about whom we are supposed to care, but I never found much reason to.
To the extent that there is a plot, it is thin and seems stretched out over way too much story.
The "Coming to America" chapters are fantastic, as vignette short stories, but the overall novel they are in is a sprawling train wreck.
The original edit of the book might be substantially better. If you have been meaning to check this book out, I would recommend that version. This version is a mess.
My two favorite topics are Baseball and Military History. But my favorite books of all time are Starship Troopers and Ready Player One.
"Not saying this is a bad book, but..."
I really have nothing negative or positive to say about this book. Honestly, it's just not my cup of tea. There's nothing significantly grand with the writing, but it is not terrible either. I guess I just couldn't get into it.
I kept waiting for this book to capture me, but after about 9.5 hours, I just gave up. I read a lot of history, philosophy, science-fiction, and baseball (nothing of these subjects in American Gods) but I just found nothing of interest in this book; others may.
I did enjoy the full cast production, but gave it only four stars since I just finished Ender's Game full-cast production and enjoyed it much more.
"Plodding and Frayed Story"
I did not like the story, and I disliked nearly every character. That is not to say this is a terrible book. It is full of obscure places and bits of anthropological American history which are fascinating, revealing how little I know of my own country. The prose is beautiful at times, direct, and not distracting.
The plot seemed more like a mechanism for the author's rambling exploration of the myriad histories that have fallen together to create the scrapbook heap of America's past. The result was not characterization of likable people but of characters who can pull us through the author's expansive understanding of America. We, therefore, never truly feel attached to the outcome of anything or anyone (save for the few unexplored supporting characters), and even the anticlimactic outcome of the book only serves to underscore the unimportance of the plot.
Hence, the unexpected revelations that could be shocking are met with, "Meh." I felt more interested in the non-central-plot immigrant characters whose stories skirted the edges of the story just as they skirted the edges of American society. The vignettes depicting them were far more poignant, more telling, and ultimately more revelatory of America than the rest of the meandering storyline.
I had held out hope that Shadow, our central hero, once awakened by the revelation of what it meant to be alive would actually come alive as a character. But he remained robotic. He developed somewhat by becoming more proactive and less reactive, but the proactive actions he took were not those of a living person. They were those of a character in a book who needed to wrap up the plot so that the story could end.
I like the writing, and I will come back to Gaiman, but this piece left me wanting so much more from him, his story, and the characters.
As for the narration of the audiobook, I liked every voice except for the narrator's. He was cloyingly redundant in his intonation patterns to the point that it distracted me from the material he was narrating. He had a habit of raising his pitch at the start of a sentence and then quickly falling toward an aloof sarcastic tone at the close of the sentence. I found him off-putting. The other voices in the Full Cast version of the narration excellently portrayed the characters' physical and emotional traits. I was especially fond of Hinzelmann, despite his dark secret because of just how effectively he was voiced; he also turned out to be one of the most complex and complete characters in the story despite his minor role in the overall plot.
"Stellar Full Cast Production"
This isn't a review about the story American Gods; others will do that. What I felt important to review here was the superb production presented by this very talented group of narrators. The characterization- depth, realism and building of, and ability to relate to -in American Gods is very well done, but the performance of the narrators brings them further, adding an even more complex and integrated layer of emotion and connection.
The main narrator is easy to listen to and warm to the tale- I felt the narrator was telling me a story of his experience rather than a recitation of another's work.
And of Neil Gaiman's own short passages, sprinkled thru-ought: an excellent lift from the main story, giving each break an ethereal yet distinctive separation from the main story.
"Not For Me"
I feel so alone in my opinion after so many zillion glowing reviews. But this book either left me cold or sometimes irritated me.
The endless fantasy historical mythology told by characters of whom I cared little. The repetitive dream sequences that were just a lot of symbolic images that went nowhere. Characters who talked and talked about other characters who were never in the actual plot. Most of the time I couldn't place where the characters were when they talked with each other. Which was a lot of talk.
I have listened to Neil Caiman's Graveyard in the past and I loved it. This was a big mess of a disappointment.
Genre fiction, trashy to literary--mystery, action, sci fi, fantasy, and, yes, even romance. Also history. Listener reviews help a lot!
"A Different Opinion"
I haven't finished listening to this yet, but wanted to weigh in about the narration. If you are one of George Guidall's many fans, by all means get his production. But when I first searched this book on Audible and found only Guidall's version, I chose not to get it because have never cared for his voice or performances. That is not meant as a criticism of this much-honored narrator, it is strictly personal taste and preference.
I like the use of different readers and in general think all four of these do a good job. This is an *extremely* dense and confusing book, and hearing different voices, at least for me, creates welcome breaks.
Whether this production will wind up being worth the heavy going is still up for debate with me. Gaiman's Preface to this anniversary edition characterizes it as "big, odd, and meandering." It's certainly all of those. He also acknowledges that some of his fans "really hate it." But there is a lot of interesting stuff in the book, especially for people who enjoy the off-center, the surreal--and the ineffable.
Audible Fan, Amazon Customer, Gardener, Quilter, Liberal and Activist. I'll read about anything!
"Complicated-enjoyable, a champion audio book"
Gaiman is one of those authors for who I simply buy the hardbound when it comes out and I read and re-read these over the years. I was thrilled to find this revised production version of it on Audible.com. I may be prejudiced but I found this audio book immaculately performed and amongst the top of the books I've listened to.
I really enjoyed the variety of narrators-with a novel this involved, a multi cast interpretation is the only way to do it justice.Yes, it's long and quite complex, especially if you've not read it previously but it's well worth the time and any effort. If you're a fan of fantasy fiction, American gods should fascinate you.
A caveat: It may take a while to get into..because it is long and as a bit convoluted, you might not be grabbed in the first chapter..Gaiman develops his novels slowly-they creep up on you. I hope readers who are unfamiliar with his work don't give up right away..this book is a synopsis of past gods and goddesses from our ancestors and their plight in the world of technology.
For me, this is a book thats worth reading, and re reading again-I know I'll be listening again in a couple of years.
"I wanted to love it but didn't"
I so wanted to Love this book its Neil Gaiman I really should love it but unfortunately this will not be on my list of favorite Gaiman novels. I liked Anansi Boys much better maybe it is because I liked Fat Charlie so much. Part of me did like Shadow though because; how confusing this must have been for him he is just along for the ride for the majority of this book.
Some major research had to have been done to find out about all the different Gods and of course Neil's writing is great but I just couldn't connect with this book it was way too easy to put it down/stop listening. There are parts that were interesting and parts that are cringe worthy.
I did like the second half of this book better than the first, but it still didn't make me fall in love with it and then the end (prologue) got confusing again. I still love Neil and not liking one book out of so many is in no way going to make me stop reading him or change the fact that he is one of my favorite authors. In fact this makes me want to go back and read Anansi Boys again now that I have a little more background than I had when I read it the first time.
The concept of gods only existing because people believe in them is not new but the way Neil tells a story may be. There is so much going on in this book that it is hard to review or try to explain. There is a lot more sex and swearing in this book than I expected; yes, yes I know the gods are sexual beings but there are some very graphic scenes that I felt were over the top.
As I said earlier it is Neil Gaiman I feel awful giving this the rating I am giving and maybe after I've stepped away from it my rating may change or maybe someday I will came back and revisit this and see if my opinion changes.
I listened to the 10th Anniversary Full Cast production of this one I enjoyed all the narrators and thought it was very well done. Narrated by, Dennis Boutsikaris, Daniel Oreskes, Ron McLarty, Sarah Jones and Neil himself and many more they mention at the end but this was all they listed on audible.
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She's played just about every role possible, but even Keira Knightley admits she "completely lost it" while filming her latest steamy scene for the upcoming movie, "The Duchess."
The British actress couldn't keep it together when her costar, Dominic Cooper, was forced wear a skin colored diaper for a sex scene.
She says, "Sex scenes are never the easiest and you're meant to be very supportive of each other, but I just completely lost it."
Apparently Ms Knightley, who recently turned 24, about fell over laughing during the filming. The director had to tell her, "Pull yourself together."
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A decision by the Indonesian government to allot millions of dollars in state funds to compensate victims of a mud volcano disaster came under fire Thursday from activists and a legislator.
Public works minister Djoko Kirmanto announced that 700 billion rupiah (77 million dollars) had been earmarked for victims as well as efforts to divert the mudflow in East Java into a nearby river, local reports said.
But the decision to use state funds rather than force the private company connected to Indonesia's wealthy welfare minister, which is seen by many as being responsible for the debacle, has sparked outrage.
"This process blatantly shows a conspiracy between businessmen, political forces and the government," said Taufik Basyiri, a lawyer from the team defending the interests of the mud volcano victims.
"And it is the government which now has been duped into joining the scheme."
The cause of the unusual disaster has been hotly contested, with environmental groups and some experts saying that the mud flow, which started spewing in May 2006, was triggered by shoddy safety precautions during gas drilling by energy company Lapindo Brantas.
The company has argued that the volcano was caused by an earthquake near the city of Yogyakarta, about 250 kilometres (155 miles) away.
Lapindo is linked to a business group owned by Indonesia's welfare minister Aburizal Bakrie, whose family topped Forbes Asia's 2007 Indonesia rich list with a net worth of 5.4 billion dollars.
"Lapindo, in this case through Aburizal Bakrie, has managed to draw the government into the conspiracy and made it willing to pay for something which should have been entirely the responsibility of Lapindo," Basyiri said.
An Indonesian court last year declared that the mud volcano, which has inundated a wide swathe of industrial and agricultural land in Sidoarjo district and left 15,000 people homeless, was a natural phenomenon.
Indonesia's parliament also backed the natural cause theory last week, though police are pursuing a criminal case against several suspects, including Lapindo executives.
Riza Damanik, a deputy director of the country's leading environmental watchdog WALHI, said that Lapindo was shirking its responsibility to pay.
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Legislator Permadi told AFP that the move showed the "stupidity" of the government.
"The government is too soft in dealing with Aburizal Bakrie. He is the richest man in Indonesia and should take full responsibility for the mistakes of one of his companies," Permadi said.
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