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Issue # 252 (July 28, 2008)
  		• ABB growth roars - new acquisition-orientated CEO
  		• Tipping Point in the Peak Oil Crisis
  		• New workplace paradigms
  		• If the world were a village of 1,000 people
  		• Book: Vision for 2012

    Keeping an Eye on Technology Futures
    No Hidden Agendas
    New Attitudes
    No Platitudes
  		• Tipping Point in the Peak Oil Crisis
  		• ABB growth roars - new acquisition-orientated CEO
  		• New workplace paradigms
  		• If the world were a village of 1,000 people
  		• Book: Vision for 2012
  		• Reshuffling the Automation Majors
  		• The wild, wacky wireless wars drag on
  		• Performance-based pricing
  		• The Youtube phenomenon - Jim Pinto's videos
  		• Wonderful to participate in Pangea Day
  		• Book: The post-American world
  		• Lee Iacocca - Where have all the leaders gone?
  		• The world's major religions
  		• The roots of religious conflict
  		• Left or right brain dominance
  		• China low-ball pricing
  		• Whither Automation Skills?
  		• Religion in America
  		• Global get-together - Pangea Day
  		• Eckhart Tolle's New Book: "The New Earth"
  		• Chindia & the Plummeting Dollar
  		• Green is good for business
  		• The World Situation is Improving
  		• E-waste - dumping old technology products
  		• Pinto Poem: Iraq War - Bush Lied
  		• ABB CEO Fred Kindle exits over acquisition strategy
  		• Why Rockwell is a primary acquisition target
  		• Beckhoff Automation - strong growth continues
  		• TED - short video talks by significant people
  		• Futurists & Futures Forecasts (2008)
  		• eFeedback:March 07, 2008
  		• Top Automation Companies
  		• 2008 Pinto's Pointers - Technologies & Markets
  		• The dawn of Green
  		• Traffic in booming Bangalore
  		• Understanding the numbers
  		• eFeedback:February 8, 2008
  		• My month-long visit to India
  		• Pinto columns written in 'Booming Bangalore'
  		• MTL will be acquired by Cooper Industries
  		• Motor, Drives & Automation Systems Conference
  		• 2008 New Year Pinto prognostications
  		• eFeedback:January 23, 2008
  		• Invensys dangling in the wind
  		• Who will GE acquire?
  		• November 2007 DARPA Robot Race
  		• Religious Conflicts - when will they ever end?
  		• Who cares? American Apathy
  		• eFeedback: November 15, 2007
  		• San Diego & California firestorms
  		• The Cisco factor in the wireless wars
  		• Let's have some fun and make some money
  		• Poetic justice prize
  		• Generation Q - the Quiet Generation
  		• eFeedback: October 25, 2007
  		• More on big Pharma deception & corruption
  		• ISA Expo 2007 - comments & feedback
  		• ISA name-change debacle
  		• Collaboration is a key growth enabler
  		• Charity - where does it begin? And end?
  		• eFeedback: October 12, 2007
  		• The wild, wacky, wireless wars
  		• Pinto Poem: The Industrial Wireless Quadrille
  		• ISA - International Society of Automation
  		• ABB plans for continued growth & success
  		• Yokogawa still targeting process automation top-spot
  		• eFeedback: September 25, 2007
  		• Pharma Lobbyists - Blatant Corruption
  		• Industrial/Military complex drives US economy
  		• New perspectives on Disintermediation
  		• Patent Law improvements banish the trolls
  		• US education value fizzles
  		• eFeedback: September 5, 2007
  		• MTL makes 3 acquisitions in 3 months
  		• Redefining leadership in global business
  		• Medical tourism is growing fast