Who makes The Portland Loo?
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The Portland Loo is a public toilet system built by Madden Fabrication in Portland, Oregon. It has been adopted by multiple other municipalities. The "flagship toilet" is in Portland's Old Town Chinatown neighborhood.
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When Portland commissioned the design of the loos, it retained the intellectual property rights to the design, and would receive a royalty from the manufacturer, for each loo it sold. Press reports described this arrangement as a source of funds, for the city.
However, in 2014, a citizen group sued the city, asserting the city had spent over $600,000 to promote the loos, without proper authorization. As a consequence the design was sold to Madden, the manufacturer.
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By mid 2014, there were 7 Portland Loos between The Fields Park and the South Park Blocks. Marketing for the restroom was then transferred from the city to Madden Fabrication. By February 2016, there were 21 restrooms installed in eight U.S. states and British Columbia.
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The loo is reportedly the "brainchild" of Randy Leonard, who copyrighted the stainless steel design in 2008.
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On October 10, 2018, the city installed a pair of Portland loo public toilets. The loos are especially designed to remain open 24x7. Slats allow a potential user to see if the toilet is already occupied, and if more than one individual is inside -- considered a safety feature. They are large enough that a user can wheel in a child's stroller, shopping buggy, bicycle, or dog. The loos installed in Washington are equipped with both a table for changing babies, and a bin for addicts to safely dispose of used needles.
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Loos & Co. has made contributions to organizations within their community and industry. In honor of wire rope pioneer John A. Roebling, Loos & Co. manufactured and donated a stainless steel replica of the iron rope Roebling manufactured for the Allegheny Portage Railroad. Loos & Co. has donated materials to the organization Connecticut Corsair who are restoring an Vought F4U Corsair, a fighter originally manufactured in Connecticut. In the Spring of 2012, Loos & Co. donated wire products to the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, a summer camp founded by Paul Newman and described as "a community dedicated to providing a different kind of healing to seriously ill children."
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Johan Claesz van Loo (c.1585 – 1660), was a Dutch brewer of Haarlem, best known today for his portrait painted by Frans Hals.
He was painted twice by Hals in his capacity as member of the Haarlem schutterij, the first time as captain in the St. Adrian group in 1633, and the second time in 1639 as colonel of the St. Joris group.
According to Pieter Biesboer he married Margrietge Arisdr Akersloot (the sister of Outgert Ariss Akersloot), and they had several children who later also became brewers. Their daughter Risje (1604-1652) married Florens Pietersz van der Hoeff in 1624. His son-in-law Hoeff served with him in the civic guard and was also painted by Hals in a stance in which he is looking at his father-in-law. Their son Cornelis van Loo (1609-1673) married Dorothea Olycan in 1635. Their son Nicolaas married Aletta Hannemans, the widow of Dorothea's brother Jacob Pietersz Olycan, in 1641. Loo was a member of the Haarlem regency from 1618 until his death, and he was a representative to the Staten-Generaal during the years 1649-1652.
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The enzyme belongs to the group of oxidoreductases according to the EC classification and is dependent on FAD as cofactor, thus it was classified as an external flavoprotein monooxygenase (designated as type E). It forms a two-component system with a reductase (StyB, StyA2B). The reductase utilizes solely NADH to reduce the FAD, which is then transferred to the styrene monooxygenase (StyA, StyA1). Two types of that enzyme are described so far: StyA/StyB (designated E1), first described from "Pseudomonas" species, and StyA1/StyA2B (designated E2), first described from Actinobacteria. The E1-type is more abundant in nature and comprises a single monooxygenase (StyA) supported by a single reductase (StyB), whereas the E2-type has a major monooxygenase (StyA1) which is supported by fusion protein of a monooxygenase and reductase (StyA2B). The latter one is the source of reduced FAD for the monooxygenase subunits and has some side activity as a monooxygenase. So far all styrene monooxygenases perform enantioselective epoxidations of styrene and chemically analogous compounds, which makes them interesting for biotechnological applications.
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The Portland Loo incorporates features to enhance public acceptance such as blue lighting said to make it difficult for heroin abusers to find a vein for injection.
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"We designed the building from the inside out, not the outside in,” said Loretta H. Cockrum, Foram’s founder, chairman and CEO. “We wanted the most efficient office building ever designed, with no wasted space or wasted energy. This is a building of the future more than a building of the present. A lot of love has gone into that building, and a lot of pride."
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