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On Second Thought…

With today's release of revised GDP data for the second quarter, we now see this measure of aggregate economic growth increased 3.3 percent. Exports were much stronger than initially thought and companies apparently didn't liquidate inventories to the same extent that they had during the first...

Published Thu, Aug 28 2008 3:49 PM by Brian Lego

Filed under: Economy

Atoms and Emissions on the Peninsula

While earlier this month tanks were effectively demolishing Russia's recent "123 Agreement" on civilian nuclear trade with the United States, the U.S.' newest free-trade agreement partner, South Korea, announced a new long-term energy plan that calls for a substantial shift to nuclear...

Published Thu, Aug 28 2008 12:42 PM by Updyke, Craig

Filed under: Trade

The technology bridge for wind energy transmission

Yesterday’s New York Times wrote about how the demand for wind generation is exceeding the transmission required to deliver that energy. While the article is correct that more wind can be integrated without new technology, intelligent systems (all part of the smart grid ) could act as a bridge during...

Published Thu, Aug 28 2008 9:00 AM by Eric Hsieh

Filed under: Smart Grid, transmission, wind

CMS Gets Fire Safety Half-Right

While giving the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services props for promulgating a new rule to require the sprinklering of long-term care (LTC) facilites that accept federal Medicare & Medicaid funds , one has to wonder at the agency's logic of sunseting requirements for smoke detectors. Sure...

Published Wed, Aug 27 2008 11:42 AM by Owen, Sarah

Filed under: Fire Safety

Diagnostic Imaging Then and Now – What a difference a “generation” makes

With all the recent news and public interest in mammography and breast cancer detection, I remember back a generation ago, actually two generations ago, about an incident which affected our family, in which the timely and efficient use of diagnostic imaging could have made a big difference for all of...

Published Wed, Aug 27 2008 9:05 AM by Eaton, Richard

Filed under: medical imaging

Alexander Graham Bell: IPR Crook?

Say it ain’t so, not that iconic name. But this is indeed what Seth Shulman convincingly argues in The Telephone Gambit , his essential foray into exactly how Bell (whose multitudinous papers only became publicly available in 1999) came to be the acknowledged inventor of the telephone. How was it that...

Published Wed, Aug 27 2008 5:44 AM by Meakem, John

Is Secret Ballot in the Workplace a Thing of the Past?

Secret ballots in elections are an underlying principle of democracy. That's why you just have to scratch your head when you see a bill to eliminate private ballots in union elections titled, "Employee Free Choice Act." The AFL-CIO gave it that name on the claim that it will "restore...

Published Tue, Aug 26 2008 10:28 AM by Stephen Gold

Filed under: General

Celebrating DICOM

Last April, during a banquet in Chengdu, China, members of the DICOM Standards Committee paused for a toast to celebrate the DICOM Standard's 25 th anniversary. Or was it the 15 th ? No one really cared. All agreed that the establishment, in 1983, of the ACR/NEMA Committee (which developed the first...

Published Mon, Aug 25 2008 1:24 PM by Howard Clark

Filed under: medical imaging

In the dark about shift to energy-efficient lighting

For the second time this year, the Washington Times OP-ED page contains a commentary that lashes out against the national transition to modern, energy efficient lighting (David Deming, “Fluorescent Light Bulb Folly” ). As a leading media venue for conservatives, WashTimes is generally effective in highlighting...

Published Mon, Aug 25 2008 11:20 AM by Kohorst, Mark

Filed under: Energy Efficiency, Environmental Design

Who’s Next?

If you are losing track of the number of times the U.S. Government has offered to be the lender of last resort to a sinking enterprise recently, you will appreciate a great editorial from today's Wall Street Journal that highlights an alarming feature of the current economic scene: the profusion...

Published Fri, Aug 22 2008 3:28 PM by Brian Lego

Filed under: Economy

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