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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...
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  • NEMA Staff attend DOE Smart Grid workshop

    Two NEMA staff members, John Caskey from the Industry Operations and Eric Hsieh from Government Relations, participated in the Department of Energy’s Smart Grid Implementation Workshop. The objective of the workshop was to develop metrics for measuring progress toward the implementation of the Smart...

  • 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...

  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • Beijing Olympics and Making Progress

    Looking out of the window on this date in 2004, here is the picture I took from the NEMA Beijing office that we had opened a few months earlier: Yesterday, our NEMA Beijing colleague Jia Ke took this one from the same window: During the interval, while the construction crews converted an urban redevelopment...

  • The Early Rebates Are in and…

    Problems ranging from the housing market collapse, multiple credit market crises, high energy prices (recent declines , notwithstanding) and declining payrolls are lingering reminders of a soft economy. Whether we're in a recession or not , conditions are tough but certainly could be much worse....
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  • “Sharpe on Trade”

    At one point in “Sharpe’s Tiger”, the engaging historical page-turner I just finished, Bernard Cornwell’s alpha-male English private hero and a wise old Scottish colonel have the following 1799 exchange while imprisoned in a Southern Indian jail: “All in all, I think, and judging him by the standards...

  • Part of the way there

    NEMA staff do a lot of meetings. A lot of meetings all over the US, sometimes Canada, and sometimes Mexico. Most of the hotels that we hold the meetings at are environmentally conscious. They ask their guests to re-use towels and linens to help them "be green." Unfortunately, they are only...
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  • 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...
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