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	<title>Field Notes</title>
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	<description>Chuck Knickerbocker, Technical Glass Products (TGP)</description>
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		<title>Glass Bottoms Up!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, I know this is going to date me, but how many of you remember the TV show “Sea Hunt?”  Lloyd Bridges, before the movie “Airport,” had a scuba diving drama show where he got into and out of trouble for 30 minutes every Saturday night. And every kid wanted to be just like Lloyd, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.usglassmag.com/fieldnotes/?p=88&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=glass-bottoms-up</link>
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		<title>Communicating with Customers when Something Goes Wrong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All too often in business when there’s a problem with a product or some other failure, manufacturers are slow to provide details. I have a feeling that there’s usually some corporate attorney (or multiple attorneys) out there that might not be allowing the operating people to say what they know. It’s regrettable that there can’t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.usglassmag.com/fieldnotes/?p=83&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=communicating-with-customers-when-something-goes-wrong</link>
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		<title>BIG Glass Sizes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can someone tell me who makes the largest glass lite?  From a recent USGNN.com story, the China Apple store glass looks to be about 6’-0” wide, maybe 30’-0” tall, and it’s curved! An architect called me last week about a domestic supplier who’s making a laminated/insulating unit that is 120” x 240”.  Who in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.usglassmag.com/fieldnotes/?p=77&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=big-glass-sizes</link>
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		<title>World Cup Lessons for Successful Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven’t been much of a soccer fan, but am becoming one as a result of the World Cup.  Having suppliers based in Europe – talk about fanatical! Guess that’s what happens when the Super Bowl of your sport only happens once every four years. For those of you at BEC a couple of years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.usglassmag.com/fieldnotes/?p=75&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=world-cup-lessons-for-successful-business</link>
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		<title>Engineering / The Gulf of Mexico</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reading the editorial at the back of the June 7, 2010, ENR about the lessons being learned in the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico reminded me that we’ve been pretty fortunate as a whole in the curtain wall and window world. Decisions made due to financial and schedule pressures are all too real [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.usglassmag.com/fieldnotes/?p=68&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=engineering-the-gulf-of-mexico</link>
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		<title>Miscellaneous Musings …</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of topics caught my attention this week, so forgive me for a little wandering away from the curtain wall biz for a moment … Saw this link on the Dan Patrick Show, about a former NBA official caught betting on games. This one hit a little too close to home.  As a high school [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.usglassmag.com/fieldnotes/?p=64&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=miscellaneous-musings-%25e2%2580%25a6</link>
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		<title>Curtain Wall Insulation and Safing (Part 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s some discussion within the industry as to whether or not safing is required in glazed curtain walls. Some of this is based on the belief that a building with sprinklers will contain and limit a fire’s spread. Like most code issues, this one’s a little misleading:  sprinklers are meant to suppress a fire, not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.usglassmag.com/fieldnotes/?p=62&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=curtain-wall-insulation-and-safing-part-2</link>
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		<title>Curtain Wall Insulation and Safing (Part 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can I impose and off-load something that really irks me? A suggestion to the airlines to lower their ticket prices instead of playing so many games. Please stop sending credit card applications from your frequent flyer programs. I must get at least one a week, if not more. If I wanted your (fill in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.usglassmag.com/fieldnotes/?p=60&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=curtain-wall-insulation-and-safing-part-1</link>
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		<title>Glazed Curtain Wall Challenges in the Clinton Library</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having grown up in Philadelphia, I love U.S. history. On family vacations, my parents would take us to see presidential libraries as well as other historical sites. At one time or another, I’ve been through the Truman, FDR, Wilson, and Carter libraries, and would have made the Eisenhower in Abilene, KS, a stop if it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.usglassmag.com/fieldnotes/?p=50&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=glazed-curtain-wall-challenges-in-the-clinton-library</link>
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		<title>BEC Field Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BEC is wrapping up as I start to make my notes for this blog.　It’s pretty amazing how you can think you’re on an island, then come to one of these industry events and see that others are facing the same challenges and opportunities – not only of the economy, but also the code issues, legal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.usglassmag.com/fieldnotes/?p=46&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=bec-field-report</link>
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