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	<title>alpscontrols.com Blog &#187; Current Affairs</title>
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		<title>In which we invite you to unwrap these delightful closure alerts from our product manufacturers.</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2011/11/holiday-closure-alerts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it&#8217;s true: we here at alpscontrols.com are watching you. We see you when you&#8217;re sleeping and we know when you&#8217;re awake. So that&#8217;s why we thought you&#8217;d like to know more about the holiday closure calendars of our manufacturer-partners so that you can adjust any of your product-ordering accordingly. We&#8217;ll be updating this list [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Siemens will be temporarily closed during their annual inventory at the end of September.</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2011/09/order-siemens-products-now-avoid-inventory-closure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We recently heard from our friends at Siemens that they will be conducting their annual physical inventory beginning on Tuesday, 9.27.11 and it&#8217;ll run through Friday 9.30.11. They&#8217;ll accept and process orders through Monday, 9.26, so please keep this in mind in order to avoid possible shipping delays if you have time-sensitive projects approaching. If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alps Control Freak: news bits from around the web, 12.21.09</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/12/alps-control-freak-news-bits-from-around-the-web-12-21-09/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/12/alps-control-freak-news-bits-from-around-the-web-12-21-09/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Christmas just right around the corner, we hope that you&#8217;ve already written to Santa to ask him for more energy-efficient buildings, a greater number of green building construction starts, a massive upcoming tradeshow and a house that spins around following the movement of the sun in the sky. No? Then you&#8217;d better delve deeply [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alps Control Freak: news bits from around the web, 11.13.09</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/11/alps-control-freak-news-bits-from-around-the-web-11-13-09/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/11/alps-control-freak-news-bits-from-around-the-web-11-13-09/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here it is November already and as we race willy-nilly into the 2009 holiday season, you&#8217;re probably imagining yourself doing some shopping, decorating your porch with 10 strings of half-burned-out lights, and &#8211; naturally &#8211; catching up on all of the most compelling bits of controls news from across the interwebs. Here&#8217;s today&#8217;s Control Freak [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overwhelmed by your incomprehensibly massive, energy efficiency retrofit project? Here&#8217;s some perspective.</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/10/overwhelmed-by-your-incomprehensibly-massive-energy-efficiency-retrofit-project-heres-some-perspective/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/10/overwhelmed-by-your-incomprehensibly-massive-energy-efficiency-retrofit-project-heres-some-perspective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you were able to implement a comprehensive energy efficiency retrofit by updating your building&#8217;s controls, automation processes, lighting and more &#8211; and if you could save 38% of the building&#8217;s energy and lower your building costs by $4.4 million annually, all for the low, low price of $550 million, you&#8217;d do it, right? No? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alps Control Freak: news bits from around the web, 10.16.09</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/10/alps-control-freak-news-bits-from-around-the-web-10-16-09/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/10/alps-control-freak-news-bits-from-around-the-web-10-16-09/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s hurdle downhill toward the weekend today as we breeze through my RSS reader and check out some news items from across the Wild Wonderful Web. Got an interesting piece of news, new technologies or gadgets you&#8217;ve come across? Or do you simply really, REALLY love building controls and you&#8217;re anxious to share? Send me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ruskin creates new Energy Star partnership.</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/10/ruskin-creates-new-energy-star-partnership/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/10/ruskin-creates-new-energy-star-partnership/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#39;s getting so that you can barely open up a news page online (note: I didn&#39;t write &#34;open up a newspaper&#34;, and you can take that updated phrase as a positive or negative) anymore without frequent notices of the phrase &#34;Energy Star&#34;. The goal of this joint program &#8211; begun in 1992 &#8211; of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alps Control Freak: news bits from around the web, 9.28.09</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/09/alps-control-freak-news-bits-from-around-the-web-9-28-09/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/09/alps-control-freak-news-bits-from-around-the-web-9-28-09/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Figured we&#39;d kick off the week today with a look at a handful of news items that crossed my RSS reader late last week and this morning. Got an interesting piece of news, new technologies or gadgets you&#39;ve come across? Or do you simply really, REALLY love building controls and you&#39;re anxious to share? Send [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monitoring swine flu vaccine storage temperatures is as close as the WiFi network you&#8217;re already using.</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/09/monitoring-swine-flu-vaccine-storage-temperatures-is-as-close-as-the-wifi-network-youre-already-using/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/09/monitoring-swine-flu-vaccine-storage-temperatures-is-as-close-as-the-wifi-network-youre-already-using/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Within the next month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is expected to begin overseeing the distribution of millions of doses of H1N1 (or &#34;swine flu&#34;) vaccine for schools, clinics, hospitals and other facilities across the country. The CDC website is jam packed full of information regarding H1N1, and provides planners such as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Setra Systems products exceed ARRA requirements, also approved by President Hoover.</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/09/setra-systems-products-exceed-arra-requirements-also-approved-by-president-hoover/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/09/setra-systems-products-exceed-arra-requirements-also-approved-by-president-hoover/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right now across the United States, funds for new, energy-friendly construction projects are available through the economic stimulus package, or the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). What&#39;s more, the Act&#39;s &#34;Buy American&#34; clause &#8211; in which projects are to be funded as long as &#34;iron, steel, and manufactured goods used in the [...]]]></description>
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