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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...

Leisurely Green
By Debbie Maskin, IEN Staff
A solar-hybrid lawnmower that runs by itself and a foldable electric outboard motor that fits in a backpack should make it downright enjoyable to abide by EPA’s new small-engine antipollution standards...

"Listen! Be humble. Be hungry."
By Mary O'Hara Smith, IEN Staff
With the Dec. 1 ISM Report on Business coming in at 36.2%, we have another indication of rapid contraction in manufacturing. So where do we go from here?...

Big Mac Attack
By Jennifer Hooker, IEN Staff
With cold and flu season in full swing, it might be a good time to protect your Mac, as well as your immune system...

Don’t Worry, Be Happy
By Mike Botta, IEN Staff
Experts concluded last week that happiness is contagious. Our own unscientific research concluded that happiness is in the mind – and the wallet – of the beholder...

Getting Home for the Holidays: The Bay Bridge-Tunnel
By Mark Devlin, IEN Staff
With the holidays upon us, you’ll likely be driving somewhere special soon -- and there’s some remarkable engineering along the way...

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