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Mike Miazga: Industry showing signs of minor slowdown?

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Mike Miazga
December 17, 2019
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If you are into baseball and its fascinating inner workings as I am (By the way, how about the Nationals?), I would recommend checking out two recent books: “The MVP Machine” by Ben Lindbergh and Travis Sawchik, and “Astroball” by Ben Reiter.

 


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Mike Miazga: Keep water quality and water infrastructure at the forefront

Water is a big deal.
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Mike Miazga
October 11, 2019
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Sometimes we might take the readily available supply of water the large majority of us enjoy for granted.


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Mike Miazga: Are you all-in with your customers?

It’s all about the customer.
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Mike Miazga
September 9, 2019
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If you think about it, customer service is everywhere in our daily lives.


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Mike Miazga: New technologies take sport of golf to next level

The big business of golf.
Mike-Miazga
Mike Miazga
August 13, 2019
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One of my odd childhood memories is taking the bus to high school my first two years and watching the from-the-ground-up construction of a new golf course located behind our subdivision.


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Mike Miazga: It's all about working smarter

Email avalanche
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Mike Miazga
July 11, 2019
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It’s an electronic communication-themed month here at pme.


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Mike Miazga: Manufacturers reps play a key role in the PHCP-PVF supply chain

The rep connection.
Mike-Miazga
Mike Miazga
June 13, 2019
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If it’s the June issue of pme, that means it’s time to name our annual rep of the year.


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Ed McMenamin: Notre Dame Cathedral blaze underscores fire protection

Vigilance is required to protect what’s in our control.
Edward
Ed McMenamin
May 13, 2019
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Notre Dame Cathedral burned as I finished the Fire Protection & Design Special Section for this month’s magazine, a tragic coincidence.


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Ed McMenamin: Understanding big plumbing issues one piece at a time

You have to eat a big meal one piece at a time.
Edward
Ed McMenamin
April 10, 2019
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There’s an old saying, repeated in the recent novel “Asymmetry” by Lisa Halliday, about how “the foreign journalist who travels to the Middle East and stays a week goes home to write a book in which he presents a pat solution to all of its problems.


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Ed McMenamin: Grinder pumps offer a solution to the synthetic wipe nightmare

Plumbing horror movies
Edward
Ed McMenamin
March 18, 2019
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There’s a one-panel strip of the absurdist newspaper comic “The Far Side” that I remember well from childhood. It shows human-sized insects sitting in a theater for a horror movie called “Return of the Killer Windshield.” It still makes me laugh when I think about it, but the joke probably works better visually than verbally.


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Ed McMenamin: Unintended consequences and blessings in disguise

Legionella creates opportunity for improvement.
Edward
Ed McMenamin
February 19, 2019
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Unintended consequences, that close cousin of mislaid plans, can claim some responsibility for a current conundrum: low-flow fixtures paired with existing oversized piping helped create the growing crisis of legionella bacteria.


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