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The Monday Blog Alert from IEN Connects features direct links to items of interest or concern to the greater manufacturing and industrial community, written by IEN's editors. The Blog Alert is designed to raise issues, introduce technological advancements, invite reader comment, establish community dialogue and, at times, even generate a few laughs! New this week...

Made-for-TV Votes: It Gets Late Early Out There
By Mike Botta, IEN Staff
The networks got away from declaring the election winner solely on the basis of exit polling, but now they found a new way to manipulate voter mood and, perhaps, even the election outcome...

Microsoft to Replace Broken Windows
By Jennifer Hooker, IEN Staff
In an effort to remedy one of its biggest blunders, the software powerhouse announced its successor to Windows Vista...

Green State of the Union
By Debbie Maskin, IEN Staff
The old energy economy is being replaced by one powered by wind, solar, and geothermal energy at a pace and on a scale we could not have imagined even a year ago, says a new report...

Stop and Smell the Numbers
By Mike Botta, IEN Staff
In what is arguably the most important Presidential race in our lifetimes, it appears that we have been numbed by numbers. In fact so many numbers have been hurled around that people have tuned out of the important ones and focused on the ridiculous ones -- all with the help of mainstream media...

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