Quick access to an emergency eyewash/shower station is vital in the event of an incident.

Download this white paper from Thermomega to learn about the most-cited violations to OSHA, ANSI and ASSE regulations on showers and eyewash stations. Keep your facility compliant and your workers protected.

This Emergency Safety Shower Decontamination Booth features chemical-resistant fiberglass and is equipped with a pull rod activated shower and push handle eye/ face wash for immediate drenching of personnel exposed to hazardous chemicals.

Scott Carothers offers guidance on what it takes to build a proper niche that meshes seamlessly with the wall tile layout.

Laticrete introduces Hydro Ban Rapid Custom Shower System, a suite of niches, benches, seats, curbs, and other accessories.

Oatey Perfect Slope installs a perfect tile shower pre-slope that ensures half the mortar and half the time required.

Confidence in the market for new multifamily housing showed mixed results year-over-year in the third quarter, according to results from the Multifamily Market Survey (MMS) by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB).

Shower installation and accessories technology for 2023 combines design elements, ease of installation and innovation in this roundup.

A sunny Saturday is on tap for our first November weekend. The sunshine will eventually give way to clouds, and the forecast shows several chances for rain ahead.

Clouds will be thickening Saturday night, with rain showers developing late. Expect rainy conditions on Sunday, with temperatures hovering above the seasonal average of 50 degrees.

A weak weather system will bring scattered light rain showers this weekend.

Cloudy skies are expected, with intermittent showers and drizzle from this afternoon through Sunday morning. Temperatures will remain at or above seasonal averages.

Cloudy skies and scattered showers will persist into Sunday morning as a low-pressure system tracks from southeastern Minnesota into central Wisconsin. Temperatures will cool briefly to seasonal averages on Monday, followed by a warm-up and breezy winds as the week wraps up.

Showers will affect much of the state today, though the bulk of the rainfall will be in central and southwest Minnesota. Clouds linger into Thursday followed by milder air Friday. 

An Asian elephant named Mary, who lives at the Berlin Zoo learned how to wash herself clean using a hose as a flexible shower head.

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Overcast skies are forecast nationwide Monday, with showers expected in the south of the country and parts of the central region. According to the Korea Meteorological Administration, overcast conditions and rain are to continue Tuesday. The southernmost island of Jeju is expected to see about 120 ...

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Shower head leaking? That's definitely annoying but not the end of the world. Shower heads are subject to several problems when it comes to leaks. Learn how to address a dripping shower head.

Join us on this week’s episode of Good Vibes Only as we sit down with the brilliant Anton Hur—renowned translator, novelist, and literary judge. Discover how he manages to publish as many...

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Tool Tips—February 2019

When installing a shower arm or hand held hose wall elbow, thread a ½" coupling onto the male ends and select the appropriate size pipe nipple to use as a lever.

The American Supply Association (ASA) recently joined the Alliance for Water Efficiency in its appeal to the United States Department of Energy related to allowable flow-rate changes for multi-head showers, and the subsequent negative affects it will have on business operations for ASA members, as well as overall negative water-efficiency consequences that will result.

The consumer mindset around bathing is evolving to view showering as far more than a simple rinse to get clean, but rather as a time to relax, unwind and wash away the day-to-day stresses of life. In fact, consumers are making purchases to support this shift. According to a recent survey commissioned by GROHE, more than 65% of respondents are enhancing their time in the shower with various add-ons, such as soothing aromas, music and gentle rain shower products to elevate their “me time.”

The new Market District Apartments in Ohio City will be located near the historic West Side Market, the oldest operating indoor/outdoor market space in Cleveland. Currently, the 13-story development is the largest sustainable, wood-constructed building in the country. Among other facilities, the new 385-unit structure encompasses a first-floor retail space, residential suites on floors two through seven and luxury penthouse suites on the ninth floor, as well as amenity space, including a large rental hall.

RainStick Shower co-founders Alisha McFetridge and Sean McFetridge share a longtime passion for water conservation. In 2019, the two began building the North American Market’s first water circulating shower. Supply House Times Chief Editor Natalie Forster sat down with Alisha McFetridge to dive into RainStick Shower’s backstory and plans for the future.

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HEMCO Emergency Showers are fully assembled and ready for installation to water supply and waste systems. This unit is equipped with a pull rod activated shower and push handle eye/face wash for quick rinsing of eyes, face and body. 

When you choose TEC for your wedding shower, you get affordability & flexibility, plus a top-notch locale for any type of wedding shower

Shower Dog: World's First Shower Filter Exclusively for Dogs

Everything's going electric these days and that includes showers. Vidalux is getting ahead of the trend with its new range of electric shower pods. They're perfect for homeowners who're moving away from gas for a greener future (and lower bills)

When you choose TEC for your baby shower, you'll enjoy the reasonable prices, unique setting, and the freedom to express your creativity.

Arcadia Senior Living, a beloved locally owned and operated assisted living community in Portland, celebrated its dedicated nursing staff this week in honor of National Nurses Week.

GO 4 Junk Removal, a leader in the waste management industry, is proud to announce its continued success in delivering dependable, large-scale junk removal services in Howell for commercial and industrial clients.

The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), and the Chicago Metropolitan Planning Agency (CMAP) are partnering to create a unified approach and advance progress on this critical multi-modal corridor with a commitment to improving mobility, accessibility and quality of life for motorists, transit riders, residents and corridor communities.

SPRING SHOWERS LIMITED EDITION PRINT by James Reynolds is a(n) Limited Edition. The Edition is Limited to Limited to 1000 pcs

The Bill Howe Family of Companies announced it has earned the 2015 Angie’s List Super Service Award in six categories. The service company provides heating, air conditioning, restoration and flood remediation, and plumbing services in the San Diego area.

Por increíble que parezca, cada vez más gente cree que existe un gobierno en la sombra que mantiene contactos con los extraterrestres

The North and South Taurids occur every year in September, October, and November. They may have originated from a comet that broke up about 10,000 years ago.

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In the heartfelt tribute post, the 'I Wanna Love You Forever' hitmaker admits that she is 'constantly in awe' of her first child's 'resilience and grace.'

In just 15 minutes, Ed Robertson wrote the theme song to one of the most successful sitcoms of the 21st century – and how that collaboration came to be happened just as fast.

The Broncos have scored just one offensive touchdown in the second half over the last three games.

The Bolles School girls swimming team, featuring Marleigh Howes, secured a decisive victory against Episcopal with a final score of 234-70. Howes played a key role in the win, anchoring the Bolles girls 200 yard freestyle relay A team to a first-place finish with a time of 1:40.41. She also contributed to the Bolles girls […]

The Bolles School girls’ swimming team, which includes Marleigh Howes, captured the 2024 Bulldog Byron Plapp Invite Women’s Division title with a total of 811 points. Howes contributed to the team’s success with several strong individual performances. She placed 8th in the 200-yard freestyle preliminaries (2:02.75) and improved her time to 2:01.56 in the A-final, […]

The Bolles School swimming and diving team, which includes Marleigh Howes, captured the 4th Frank Holleman Invitational title with a final score of 625 points. Howes contributed to the team’s success with a third-place finish in the women’s 200-yard freestyle B final, clocking in at 2:00.22. She also secured an eighth-place finish in the women’s […]

Marleigh Howes and her Bolles School women’s swimming teammates defeated Wolfson 228 – 58. Howes finished 3rd competing in the girls 200 yard freestyle touching the wall in a time of 2:01.14 and finished 4th competing in the girls 100 yard butterfly clocking a time of 1:01.92. Related Stories Moseley & McKendree Defeat Missouri 18 […]

1. Streaks of fire are about to take over Australian skies during the Leonid meteor shower. Here’s how to see them  nbnnews.com.au
2. The Northern Taurid meteor shower could produce fireballs. Here’s how to watch  CNN
3. Northern Taurid meteor shower hits peak activity this week: When and where to watch  USA TODAY
4. Leonid Meteor Shower May Put on a Surprise Show This Week  ScienceAlert
5. Starwatch: Leonid meteor shower returns to skies in November  The Guardian

Hello again,

This month I've been plugging away on the project I mentioned in the previous post which involves among other things a PDF generator and now an implementation of ML (as in Standard ML, but also the other one). This is probably the 10th "compiler" I've written in my life, and it's kind of fun to revisit these problems that you've done many times and try out different approaches, although this time one of the approaches is "Use C++" (for reasons of making good on a joke, but also for reasons of mlton doesn't work on my computer any more). And although C++ is a fine tool for many applications, it does have some deficiencies for the task of writing a compiler (one of the most irritating: a very modest limit on the stack depth? Like my computer has 256 Gigabytes of RAM and 2^64 virtual addresses and somehow it can only manage 1 megabyte for the stack and there's no standard way to increase it? Get off my lawn). But then you can also experience new ways of struggling with C++, like: A middle of the night power failure wrecked my computer's GPT (as in GUID Partition Table, but also the other one) and I was deep in the depths of taking the computer apart to reset its parts, its BIOS (its Basic In/Out System, which is where it stores its biography) and its hard drives were everywhere on the floor, and it could not be saved, and this after I already broke my computer this year by trying to put the world's biggest video card in it, too hard. And I could not merely perform recovery because of Unknown Error, so I had to begin anew again and restore from backups. But when you restore from backup and you're in the mood of "why is this so complicated and I don't understand how computers work any more?" it occurs to you (me) to also change your underlying development environment instead of reinstalling the devil you know. So I ended my friendship with Cygwin64 and switched to new best friend MSYS2. Both of these things are different ways of wishing that you were using Linux while you're using Windows. The main reason I tried this new way of struggling is that Cygwin is very behind on its version of x86_64 clang (C++ compiler), which I wanted to try because it supports AddressSanitizer and clangd on Windows, and I wanted to give LSP in emacs a shot (it's finally good!). There were a few growing pains, but I think MSYS2 is what I would recommend now. One of the nice things they did was create multiple different environments depending on what you want to do (e.g. "I want to use clang to compile x86_64 code" or "I want to do 32-bit cross compilation for ARM") and in that environment, you just say "g++" and it invokes the compiler you want, instead of the weird contortions I've been doing for years with manually invoking x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++. I was also able to get clblast working before being too filled with rage to continue, so that is nice for the ML inference on the world's biggest graphics card. I made these graphics to help me tune the correct settings of GPU layers (y axis) and number of threads (x axis):

tune-single
tune-batch

In some sense the results are obvious (more threads and more layers is faster) but it was interesting to me how the cliff of performance drops off at a different number of layers for single and batch mode (I guess because the batch needs some memory itself?) and how it's clearly better to use fewer threads than cores for batch as well. I was not surprised to see performance drop off for >32 threads (everybody knows that hyper-threads kinda suck) but I was very surprised to see performance pick up again when it gets back up to 64? And only for single mode? I wish I understood that better. But mostly I'm a sucker for the custom visualizations.

Right but when writing this compiler I realized that I wanted to use some Greek letters, and I can't handle it when some characters are in a different font in my source code, so I finally made some space for those in my programming font FixederSys. These certainly still need some tweaks, but it's already better than just being in some other weird font:


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You can also see that I have been adding some "useful" emoji at the top. It is an interesting puzzle to try to make these things recognizable (especially for the 1x version, whose charboxes are 8x16 pixels). I am pretty sure I will not try to do all of the emoji (like, the flags are totally hopeless at 8x16), but it is tempting to round out the Unicode support somewhat. Like I was trying to make a ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ today and had to settle for ~\_( :) )_/~ which is pretty much (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻.

Also: Adam revived our old game jam game Headcat, which I described in post 927, now over 16 years ago. You can play it online at Headcat.org. It is harder than I remember, perhaps explaining why it did not reach #1 on the One Appstore Per Child charts.

Also: I started and finished (true ending, but just with one character) Slay the Spire. Good game, but you don't need me to tell you that. Same for Alwa's Legacy, which is the sequel to Alwa's Awakening. Both of these are very true-to-form "8-bit" and "16-bit" platformers that I enjoyed and would recommend for genre fans, though I did not try to 100% them. The graphics are the highlight and I thought it was very cute how these could easily have been a pair of games from the NES and SNES. The good old days. And speaking of good-old days, I am now playing Katamari Damacy, which I had played at a friend's house many years ago, and always wanted to spend more time with. It totally holds up (aside from stuff like: You have to play through the tutorial and first level before you can access the menus at all, like to make the game fullscreen?) and it's honestly inspiring how unhinged the game design and writing are, and how fun it manages to be. What an accomplishment!

The Leonid meteor shower peaks in North America overnight from Nov. 17 to 18, with fast-moving fireballs possible in US skies.