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This suggests to me that books and other writings today would be produced without copyright, which is after all a government granted monopoly and an enormous tax on the public. Think about it.
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Would books be published without copyright?
Stephen Greenblatt writes in The Swerve; How the World Became Modern, "Authors made nothing from the sale of their books; their profits derived from the wealthy patron to whom the work was dedicated. (The arrangement seems odd to us but it had an impressive stability, remaining in place until the invention of copyright in the eighteenth century.) Publishers had to contend, as we have seen, with the widespread copying [by hand] of books among friends, but the business of producing and marketing books must have been a profitable one; there were bookshops not only in Rome but also in Brindisi, Carthage and other cities [in the Roman empire]."
This suggests to me that books and other writings today would be produced without copyright, which is after all a government granted monopoly and an enormous tax on the public. Think about it.
[Posted at 07/04/2012 11:58 AM by John Bennett on Copyright comments(9)]
There are a number of examples of patrons suppressing or censoring the works of authors. One problem with the patronage system is that is was not a "free" system from the perspective that the authors had very little freedom of speech. One has to wonder how much of our knowledge of history is colored by inaccuracies forced by patrons on their authors.
So, between a patronage system where the patron edits the works of the author and a copyright system where the author is free to express his own thoughts, I will take the system with the greater freedom of speech.
As for the spread of bookshops, yes, there were bookshops in every one of the very large cities that you mentioned. However, the bookshops were confined to the large cities and most rural people, which was 90% or more of the population, rarely, if ever, saw books. Books were the province of wealthy people because of the relative cost of books at that time. If you had an actual shelf of books, regardless of whether you had actually read them, or even had to the ability to read them, you were considered a wealthy person.
During the Renaissance the patronage system began to collapse for a variety of reasons, just at the very time when printing became comparatively cheaper. It was not until our modern era of copyright that books were cheap enough that the common person could afford penny newspapers, nickel magazines, and dime-store books.
[Comment at 07/06/2012 06:25 AM by Anonymous]
Just as the patronage system got replaced by the copyright system, there is a better system to match current technologies. We are in transition, but no doubt copyright will be replaced since it restricts freedom and is being used to extract economic rents.
[Comment at 09/19/2012 09:15 AM by David]
When you say there is "no doubt" that copyright will be replaced because "it restricts freedom and is being used to extract economic rents," I submit that neither of those reasons will modify the use of copyright, because obviously both of those characteristics were inherent in copyright from the beginning. Indeed, the vast majority of countries in the world, even many developing countries that previously did not have copyright, have adopted and are enforcing copyright. It would seem that if your justification was correct that no countries would have adopted or begin increased enforcement of copyright in the last decade, but they have.
The other problem is that with varying levels of enforcement in over 100 countries, and 100% of all developed economies, eliminating or even reducing copyright is a significant challenge. One of the biggest challenges is that copyright has been intertwined between multiple countries through various treaties that would need to be renegotiated and unwound from each other, something that is going to be painful and complex. With so many problems in the world today, I do not see this one being very high on many people's list to solve.
[Comment at 09/19/2012 07:40 PM by Anonymous]
"even many developing countries that previously did not have copyright, have adopted and are enforcing copyright"
Yes, but often not because they want to but in order to get trade agreements with developed nations.
[Comment at 09/30/2012 11:20 AM by Martin]
"Yes, but often not because they want to but in order to get trade agreements with developed nations."
Also because they are under pressure from their own artists, writers, and film industry to prevent others from infringing their natural right to control their work for a limited time.
[Comment at 09/30/2012 02:36 PM by Anonymous]
I think it's going to evolve towards a better system with or without copyright. Right now copyright litigation is costing enough money to where if an author can still make money despite violations, I believe they would rather do that. Patronage wasn't the only system. Another system was serializing novels. By publishing each chapter in a literary magazine the magazine had an incentive to pay the author to keep subscriptions up. The cost for printing was made up for being the first publisher before anyone else as it would take time to transcribe. In the digital age I believe this can still be done by releasing chapter on a bounty basis. You release the first chapter for free. Then you have a page where you set a certain amount of money that you believe is acceptable to get paid for your work. When a certain amount in donations is reached then the next chapter is released. But even with material out there free and available, I still believe fan loyalty exist. If a publishing company claims they have the official version approved by the author, the number of sales will never be zero no matter how many competing copies are out there. People pay for books printed on good paper or a nice hard cover or love possessing a physical book. You won't get a cut of every copy out there in the wild but those people weren't your customer anyway. If anything it's advertising to generate a bigger audience.
[Comment at 10/19/2012 11:46 AM by Gael N.]
I would be curious as to how much copyright litigation is costing. I have never seen any numbers.
[Comment at 10/19/2012 01:12 PM by Anonymous]
I was wondering whether free-market advocate Adam Smith made much money from his books.
On-line bio's establish that he already had a pension from having tutored the Duke of Bucchleuch, apparently enough that he could devote his time to writing the Wealth of Nations. The book sold well, he might have received some sort of royalties but I see no mention of this. After its publication, "he was named lord rector of the University of Edinburgh and in 1778 was appointed as commissioner of customs in Scotland." (from: http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/philosophy/adam_smith.html). I infer that royalties had little if anything to do with his motivation for writing the book, and he benefited materially in ways which have nothing to do with "intellectual" "property."
Does anyone here know more about this?
[Comment at 12/04/2012 09:59 AM by taxpayer]
"The Wealth of Nations" went through five editions in the first 13 years of publication, which occurred during Smith's life. Smith made a number of changes to the second edition and major changes to the third edition. The book apparently was selling quite well, given that an edition roughly every 2.5 years is significant for a non-fiction book.
In addition to the five editions of the book personally edited by Smith, the book was in publication in The United States, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. Considering the book. Apparently, Smith derived considerable income from his royalties, along with two other sources of income, as stated by Senior Economist Robert L. Formaini (http://www.dallasfed.org/assets/documents/research/ei/ei0201.pdf). Formaini described the last decade of his life as being one of opulence, funded at least in part by publication royalties.
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Will Gordon drinks his way through the bottom shelf of the liquor store...so you don't have to.
I recently came to the sad but important conclusion that I will never open a bar, because I wouldn't be able to come up with a satisfactory name. After years of business planning with the working name The (Noun) and (Noun), I briefly toyed with the idea of dropping the parentheses and making it official, but thank gosh I realized that was stupid and just scrapped the endeavor altogether.
This is a shame, because I have tons of other ideas for successful bar stewardship. I can't get into too many of them here because I still have hopes for a lucrative career in the as-yet-nonexistent field of dive bar consultancy, but it would be irresponsible to keep all this genius bottled up, so I'll let you in on a few of the things you have to look forward to on your visits to any of the several planned outposts of Someone Who Was Smart Enough to Ask Will's Opinion's Bar and Grill, Which Will Probably Not Actually Have a Grill Because Why Would Anyone Want to Grill Beer?
Despite the lack of a kitchen, there will be food. We will sell homemade beef jerky and full-fat Cheez-Its, and customers will get one complimentary pickled egg for every two drinks purchased. If you purchase six drinks, you will be given the option of having your third egg deviled stool-side.
I'm still undecided on the question of nuts. People eat too damn many when they're free, but it seems so unwelcoming to charge money for the iconic free bar snack. If I committed to hemorrhaging nut money, it would be harder to fund my Free Soup Happy Hour. I don't like the idea of reduced-price drinks during rush hour, but your otherwise humble correspondent happens to be a gifted and generous soupmaker. It will be black bean most days, and you will have to bring your own bowl, but you will always be able to count on a free late-afternoon serving of good soup at any Bottom Shelf-approved bar.
The most important feature of Someone's will, of course, be the beer. Draft beer, specifically. I've always been a draft man, because it usually represents slightly more ounces per dollar than bottled and because it feels festive. Drinking straight from the bottle seems a bit underdignified, and asking for a glass with your bottle will be regarded as unforgivably high maintenance at Someone's.
I won't be picky about what drafts are served, though I will cap the number of total draft lines at eight. One Guinness, one cider or wine (they have draft wine now!), one fizzy yellow, one fizzy yellow light, and a few good ones of the owner's choosing. If that's not enough variety for you, you're too picky for Someone's. No hard feelings, of course. Not every bar is for everyone, and if you need more than two-thirds of a dozen options, our bar is not for you. Because you are a princess.
If you have too many draft options, it's hard to keep the lines clean and the kegs fresh. The bars I favor are a little on the scuzzy side—not outright dirty or dangerous, but a little low-falutin' around the edges—and I find that many of them just don't keep their draft systems pouring true and tidy. There's not a lot of inherent flavor in a $2.50 PBR draft, so if you notice a little extra oomph in your pint, you are likely mistaking oomph and mold. (There is also a good chance you are at the Cellar outside of Central Square in Cambridge. Stop undermining your excellent burgers and cod fritters with dirty beer, Cellar!)
One way to make sure your draft beer is always clean is to throw the whole rig out and start over every 5.7 liters. This would be impractical on a commercial level, but Miller Lite thinks you should try it at home, and I'm a dope so I took their word for it.
Have you seen these Miller Lite Home Draft systems? They're tough to find around Boston, but they've been in other markets for a couple of years. (There's also a Coors Light model.) At $17.99 per 5.7 liters, you're paying $1.53 per pint, though it should be noted that a lot of bars cheat you a couple ounces. At Someone Else's, we will always remember that "pint" is a unit of measure, not a shape of glassware.
The Home Draft isn't a bad price, as the market goes, but it's no real deal, either. It costs about as much as buying your Miller Lite by the can. But I wasn't in it for the money, I was in it for the festivity and novelty and hell of it.
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They claim their CO2 system will keep the beer pouring right for 30 days, but I don't know who would need that kind of longevity. I can't imagine anyone who drinks that slowly would dedicate such significant fridge real estate to a giant plastic jug of beer. But since I am a scientist, I was willing to pour a few pints every Friday for a month, photograph them, drink them, and report back to you all. Alas, the experiment never got that far.
I broke the carbon dioxide widget on the first keg, which I'll chalk up to half user error and half shoddy design. You have to twist a little knob to get the CO2 to start slow-releasing (or whatever it does to stay straight for a month), and after I lined up the arrows to get my party started, the first pint poured so slowly that I kinda yanked things around to get a stronger stream. That was dumb and I lost all my gas and the beer went flat an hour later. But I maintain that if the original pour were less pathetic, I would have left well enough alone. I don't consider 15 seconds for a pint of foam to be well enough.
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Some things are best kept secret. Colonel Sanders' recipe. PIN numbers. What's whispered at the end of Lost in Translation. The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at The Ohio State University is one of the biggest secrets in Columbus, but big plans are in the works to make it a place you won't forget.
The Cartoon Library was founded in 1977, when Ohio State alumnus and famed cartoonist Milton Caniff donated his artwork to the university. It was named after former Columbus Dispatch cartoonist Billy Ireland, who mentored Caniff. With more than 300,000 original cartoons, 50,000 books, and 2.5 million comic strip clippings, it's the world's largest academic research facility dedicated to printed cartoon art. In addition to editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, graphic novels, sports cartoons, and magazine cartoons, it has one of the world's largest collections of Japanese manga.
This summer, the Cartoon Library will move from its hidden 6,000-square-foot digs behind the Wexner Center for the Arts to a 30,000-square-foot space at Sullivant Hall. The new area will feature three museum-quality galleries for visiting and permanent collections, and will host book tour events, cartooning workshops, and live slide show readings of comics. The Grand Opening Festival is scheduled for November.
"We want 2013-2014 to be the year of comics," said Caitlin McGurk, visiting curator of the Cartoon Library (and a cartoonist herself).
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The Cartoon Library is free and open to the public, but is a "closed stack" non-circulating institution. While you can't browse items, you may access anything in the collection by completing simple paperwork and asking staff members for guidance. Researchers from around the globe visit the library to study items in the collection. All artwork is humidity/temperature controlled and stored in acid-free archival materials.
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This thread will highlight the milestones we pass on the development of foobar mobile. Initially it will be very illustration sparse, as the core of the player takes preference.
This thread will highlight the milestones we pass on the development of foobar mobile. Initially it will be very illustration sparse, as the core of the player takes preference.
31st July
Development work has officially started, we are very close to the first goal, so it is assured that the project goes ahead.
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4th August
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To those of you familiar with the foobar2000 SDK:
* PFC project now works with all major compilers that support C++11 (LLVM, GCC).
* PFC features that relied on Windows API now have POSIX equivalents (pfc::thread for an example).
* Various classes from 'helpers' have been moved to PFC for easier reuse.
* 'SDK' project defining all interfaces for foobar2000 components now works with LLVM compiler (GCC testing pending).
Some of these changes will soon make it to the public foobar2000 SDK, so anyone using PFC in their own projects will benefit from this as well.
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The database design is complete and implemented on Windows, testing is almost finalized prior to porting to the various platforms.
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Media indexer ported to iOS, next up android and windows phone.
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Playback uses foobar2000 engine ported from Windows with all the features (playlists, ReplayGain, gapless, DSP capability), interfaced with Apple audio codecs for MP3 & AAC handling but using original foobar2000 demuxers for each format.
More to follow soon.
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Ahmad Holt was charged with aggravated assault, conspiracy and robbery in connection with the brutal video, which gained national attention and drew more than 40,000 views on YouTube before it was removed from the web site, Police Director Samuel DeMaio said today.
The alleged cameraman, Jamar Gray, and another man named Raheem Clark have also been charged in the crime, according to DeMaio. Gray surrendered with his attorney on Tuesday while Clark was arrested by the city's fugitive apprehension team. Gray's girlfriend, Nicole Smith, was also arrested after police allegedly found her in possession of 20 decks of heroin, DeMaio said.
Holt was already incarcerated at the Central Reception & Assignment Facility in Trenton on an undisclosed charge, records show. He was arrested on Feb. 5th, just days before the video went viral.
Mayor Cory Booker called the videotape of the beating a "human tragedy," and banged his hands in frustration during his remarks at today's news conference, causing microphones to feedback.
"We do not tolerate this type of evil in the community," he said. "This is not who we are."
North Ward Councilman Anibal Ramos thanked Newark police officials for making the arrest and condemned the action of the people involved in the assault.
"I'm sick and tired of seeing this national trend of young men engaging in such unacceptable behavior and then posting it for all to see as if it were a sport," Ramos said.
DeMaio said the attack happened in August of 2012, but police were not made aware of the video until last week. Public records show Holt was last released from prison on July 30, 2012, meaning he was free for only a few weeks before the attack was filmed.
The two-and-a-half-minute-long video shows the man cornered by at least three others in a Newark alley, being forced to strip naked as he's berated and cursed at. Holt demands money from the victim, whose father was apparently in debt to Holt, while the cameraman splashes water on his naked body.
After he takes a belt from someone else, Holt proceeds to viciously whip the man for 90 seconds while ordering him to yell the phrase "Doggy Dawg" and to tell the camera that it is a "Doggy Dawg" world. DeMaio said "Doggy Dawg" is a street name used by Holt, and said all three suspects have known gang affiliations.
Officials declined to comment on the motive behind the crime. DeMaio described the victim as a 21-year-old Newark who was "reluctantly cooperative" when he was contacted by police last week. The victim has since moved out of the area.
The video went viral after it was posted to YouTube and WorldStarHipHop.com last week, but it has since been removed from both websites. Police do not know who uploaded the video.
Holt served roughly 18 months in prison, according to public records, after he was charged with eluding police, drug distribution and weapons possession in December 2010. Records show he was incarcerated again on Feb. 5, less than two days before the video went viral. It is unclear why he was arrested earlier this month.
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At its Committee of the Whole meeting earlier this month, the Park Ridge City Council voted to approve AT&T's bid to install 13 video-ready access devices (VRADs) throughout the suburb so that the telecom giant can bring its U-Verse Internet/TV/voice service to the upstanding residents of our fair city. Included in the franchise agreement is a lump-sum payment of $2,000 per VRAD to cover landscaping.
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The Payment(s) may be used by the City for screening and landscaping of AT&T's Facilities, (and the maintenance of such screening and landscaping) following the restoration of the construction area by AT&T at its expense after the installation of the VRAD.
"As I understand it, we can take the money and run," 3rd Ward Alderman Jim Smith remarked, according to the Park Ridge Herald Advocate (via DSLReports.com).
That's unlikely, given there has been no small amount of outcry from residents faced with the prospect of unsightly VRADs being plunked down in front of (or on the side of) their houses. "Just found out that AT&T is trying to put a hideous box on our lawn," one of my neighbors wrote on our block's Facebook page in late August. "[W]orried about it not only being ugly as hell, but do not want the view of the alley blocked because it is dangerous."
My Alderman, the 5th Ward's Dan Knight, expressed reservations about that very location. "I have serious concerns about the sight-line issue," he told the Herald.
Some of the VRAD locations could still be moved but only if it's "technically feasible," an AT&T representative said at the council meeting. But moving a big metal box from one yard to another is only going shift the anger from house to house.
Judging by the exhibits attached to AT&T's memorandum (and the image at the top of this article), the landscaping doesn't do a whole heck of a lot to hide the VRADs; it just makes them slightly less unpleasant to look at. And if the city cuts funding for landscape maintenance—not out of the question given a multimillion-dollar redevelopment project gone wrong here—the VRADs and surrounding plants could easily become an eyesore.
Given the presence of Comcast (the long-entrenched incumbent) and WOW (which arrived in 2010), Park Ridge is hardly crying out for a third broadband alternative. Comcast tops out at 105Mbps around these parts and WOW offers a 50Mbps plan with a 12-month introductory rate about $20/month cheaper than Comcast (but with a slower upload speed). Judging by my own experience and that of my WOW-subscribing neighbors, people seem reasonably happy with the service options they have. But more competition is always a good thing.
From the standpoint of a pure bandwidth freak, AT&T's max speeds of 45Mbps (and you need to live within spitting distance of a VRAD to get those) don't look quite as interesting as they otherwise might, especially when you have to subscribe to a TV package to get it and the Internet is competing with HD video streams for available bandwidth. That said, I will readily admit that I'm not a typical, price-sensitive consumer. I don't bundle (I can only get my rugby fix from DirecTV and get dirt-cheap VoIP via an Ooma box). Looking at bundles, AT&T offers an 18Mbps Internet/TV/voice package for $180 per month after a two-year introductory price of $119. That same $180 will get me 30Mbps Internet, TV, and voice from Comcast. WOW is definitely the value provider, offering 30Mbps speeds paired with digital TV and phone for $105. Those looking to shave a few bucks off their bills now have the opportunity to play the companies off against one another.
With the City Council signing off on the deal, AT&T is free to come on in and compete. Franchise law in Illinois gives telecoms carte blanche to deploy network upgrades and VRADs even if towns don't want them, so there's little residents can do to block the box… landscaping or not.


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Given that this blog is currently being devoted to a rather intensive study of flows on manifolds, I thought that it might be apropos to highlight an amazing 22-minute video from 1994 on this general topic by the (unfortunately now closed) Geometry Center, entitled "Outside In", which depicts Smale's paradox (which asserts that an 2-sphere in three-dimensional space can be smoothly inverted without ever ceasing to be an immersion), following a construction of Thurston (who was credited with the concept for the video). I first saw this video at the 1998 International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin, where it won the first prize at the VideoMath Festival held there. It did a remarkably effective job of explaining the paradox, its resolution in three dimensions, and the lack of a similar paradox in two dimensions, all in a clear and non-technical manner.
A (rather low resolution) copy of the first half of the video can be found here, and the second half can be found here. Some higher resolution short movies of just the inversion process can be found at this Geometry Center page. Finally, the video (and an accompanying booklet with more details and background) can still be obtained today from A K Peters, although I believe the video is only available in the increasingly archaic VHS format.
There are a few other similar such high-quality expository videos of advanced mathematics floating around the internet, but I do not know of any page devoted to collecting such videos. If any readers have their own favourites, you are welcome to post some links or pointers to them here.


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WASHINGTON, May 20 (UPI) -- The president proposes, but the Supreme Court disposes: The apparent consensus in the legal writing community is that the issue of gay marriage will be fought out eventually on the battleground of the U.S. Supreme Court, and the justices will have the final say.
President Obama famously and finally came out May 9 for gay marriage. But beyond declaring his personal opinion, the president actually endorsed the status quo -- it's up to the individual states to allow or ban marriage between two people of the same gender.
The states have been busy doing just that. Thirty-eight have banned same-sex marriage; six states and the District of Columbia allow it.
Most reporting of Obama's interview with ABC News stressed the president's evolutionary journey to accepting gay marriage.
"What the president said is far more nuanced than most of the popular media treatment suggested," Lyle Denniston reported on SCOTUSBLOG. "He said, for example, that this was a matter of law, and he indicated he meant state law. He said that the issue had to be viewed 'from the perspective of the law and perspective of the state.'"
Obama "also said that he had not wanted 'to nationalize this issue,'" Denniston said.
The president was fairly specific about what he thought was the proper venue for the gay marriage battle.
"What you're seeing is, I think, states working through this issue," Obama told ABC, "in fits and starts, all across the country. Different communities are arriving at different conclusions, at different times. And I think that's a healthy process and a healthy debate. And I continue to believe that this is an issue that is gonna be worked out at the local level, because historically, this has not been a federal issue, what's recognized as a marriage."
When asked about North Carolina, where voters had just voted overwhelmingly to ban gay marriage, Obama responded: "What I'm saying is that different states are coming to different conclusions. But this debate is taking place at a local level. And I think the whole country is evolving and changing. And, you know, one of the things that I'd like to see is that a conversation continue in a respectful way."
The president also stressed his administration has stopped supporting the Defense of Marriage Act in legal challenges.
DOMA tries to negate the "full faith and credit" guarantee in the Constitution, which requires a state to honor the effect of laws in the other states. DOMA says that no state has to "give effect" to same-sex marriages in other states.
The act also says marriage is limited to a union of "a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or wife."
But challenges to DOMA and to California's Proposition 8, a voter initiative that bans gay marriage, are percolating their way through the courts.
Whether the president can sustain this detached stance on gay marriage is not clear.
"President Barack Obama last week cast his support for same-sex marriage as a personal view on policy, not a constitutional imperative," Jess Bravin wrote in the Wall Street Journal. "But because the Supreme Court long has defined the right to marriage as a 'fundamental freedom,' legal analysts say his administration is sure to face pressure to weigh in on the marriage question when it reaches the Supreme Court."
Bravin said the pressure on the administration could increase as early as the next Supreme Court term, if the challenge to Prop 8 "reaches the final stages."
Theodore Olson, the former Bush administration solicitor general who led the challenge to Prop 8 in the lower courts, told the Journal if the issue reaches the Supreme Court, the president "will surely be asked by advocates for [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender] rights to support a decision upholding a federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage, which would take it out of the hands of the states."
Republican Olson and prominent attorney David Boies -- on opposite sides as main attorneys in 2000's Bush vs. Gore at the Supreme Court -- are working to overturn Proposition 8.
The Journal said the Prop 8 and DOMA challenges "are the two major gay-marriage issues working their way through federal courts."
Most analyses presume the issue will be heard in the Supreme Court as a matter of course. But an analysis in the Los Angeles Times last week warns if the justices recognize gay marriage as a right, "the probable backlash would be substantial and might well do more damage than good to the future of gay rights and other important causes."
The analysis points out that after 1954's Brown vs. Board of Education, states resisted integration for years and it was only after the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the threat to withhold federal funding that white-dominated schools finally opened their doors to black children.
The ruling in 1973's Roe vs. Wade recognized a woman's right to an abortion, but it also gave birth to the "family values" movement and empowered the Revs. Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.
If the Supreme Court accepts either challenge, the justices are likely to ask the U.S. Solicitor General's Office for a brief expressing the government's opinion -- putting Obama in a position he's been trying to avoid, advocating a national policy.
What the justices would do if they hear either challenge is still a matter of speculation. Of course, the justices could simply adopt the president's attitude, and say the issue of gay marriage is up to the states.
But most analysts point to the Supreme Court 6-3 decision in 2003's Texas vs. Lawrence as a high court weather vane. That decision struck down the Lone Star State's ban on homosexual conduct. In that landmark opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy, who often helps form the majority on the modern court, emphatically told government to get out of the people's bedrooms.
Of equal importance, however, is the Supreme Court 6-3 decision in 1996 that struck down a voter-enacted Colorado amendment -- "Amendment 2" -- that said communities and counties could not take any action that would include gays and lesbians as a class protected from discrimination.
Kennedy wrote that majority opinion too. He cited the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection under the law.
"The primary rationale the state offers for Amendment 2 is respect for other citizens' freedom of association, and in particular the liberties of landlords or employers who have personal or religious objections to homosexuality," Kennedy wrote. "Colorado also cites its interest in conserving resources to fight discrimination against other groups.
"The breadth of the amendment is so far removed from these particular justifications that we find it impossible to credit them," Kennedy said. "We cannot say that Amendment 2 is directed to any identifiable legitimate purpose or discrete objective. It is a status-based enactment divorced from any factual context from which we could discern a relationship to legitimate state interests; it is a classification of persons undertaken for its own sake, something the equal protection clause does not permit.
Kennedy said the majority "must conclude that Amendment 2 classifies homosexuals not to further a proper legislative end but to make them unequal to everyone else. This Colorado cannot do. A state cannot so deem a class of persons a stranger to its laws."
The moderate conservative Kennedy, of course, is a key swing vote on the high court, pulled one way by the four-member conservative bloc and the other by the four-member liberal bloc.
Whether his words in the Romer vs. Evans opinion will be echoed in any final decision on gay marriage, time will tell.


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HINSDALE – They came from two different backgrounds, but it was their love of sports and medicine that not only brought them to work together, but also to be named two of the top doctors in the country.
Chuck Bush-Joseph of Hinsdale and Anthony Romeo of Burr Ridge were selected among the "Top Doctors in America" by Castle Connolly and U.S. News & World Report. The doctors are orthopedic surgeons with Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush and team physicians with the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls, but the road was long for both men.
His father was a truck driver, but when Bush-Joseph was in high school, he took a liking to science and eventually got a job in an emergency room at a hospital in Detroit.
"It was a little bit of a knife and gun club hospital, so it was always a really busy and exciting place to be in an emergency room," said Bush-Joseph, 56. "At the time ,it kind of confirmed it for me that this is a field of medicine I really enjoyed and wanted to pursue."
As opposed to a bustling urban setting, Romeo grew up in a small town in Idaho before going to play football at Notre Dame and eventually going to medical school at St. Louis University. While in Idaho, he observed many aspects of the medical field by watching his father, a family physician.
"My dad did everything from pediatrics to orthopedics to even small surgeries," said Romeo, 51. "I think I learned from my dad and then of course I wanted to be a doctor, and I love sports obviously, so I combined that."
Romeo is the oldest of six children and five of them are physicians.
About 10 years ago, both men joined the professional sports side of medicine, becoming physicians for the White Sox and Bulls. Bush-Joseph said it has been a lot of fun helping the athletes, seeing the training and going to games. In 2005, he received a World Series ring when the Sox won the championship. He also had the duty of repairing Derrick Rose's torn ACL with another physician.
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Romeo also has faced the strain of helping high-profile athletes recover, as his main specialty is shoulder and elbow surgery and treatment.
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Bush-Joseph and Romeo said they were humbled by the Top Doctor award and gracious for the nomination. What Romeo wanted to stress as well was that patients do not have to live with pain no matter what their age is.
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(Where's the) Rage against the Machine?
The University of Alabama's student government may have flip-flopped its way into the 21st century. In mid-April, UA's senate voted to adopt a resolution supporting the racial integration of the school's nearly all-white fraternities and sororities after killing a similar measure just a few weeks earlier.
On its face, this is a historic move. To alumna Jessica Patrick, it may very well be "a step in the right direction" toward greater diversity. Patrick—Jessica Thomas while at UA and now a an attorney in Nashville—was the subject of Bama Girl, a documentary that chronicled her 2005 campaign to become UA's first African American homecoming queen. (Along with other candidates of color, she lost.)
History, however, gives us ample reason for skepticism. Former governor George Wallace made his notorious stand in 1963 on the steps of the school's auditorium for the "southern way of life," known nowadays as "state-sanctioned racial discrimination," and against the enrollment of Vivian Malone and James Hood. More recently, UA has made national news for eruptions of old-school Dixie racism in the social sphere. The Crimson White, the school newspaper, ran an exposé in 2013 of the systematic exclusion of African Americans from prominent and powerful white fraternities and sororities.)
The recent resolution is a symbolic statement by students, not a plan of action that commits anyone to do anything, including the school's administration. But it is something, one might say. "It's only a step forward, but it is a step forward, and it should be encouraged," University of Alabama law professor Paul Horwitz said in an email.
The Root requested comment from the University President's office about the measure but received only a general statement asserting the university's commitment "to a welcoming and inclusive campus." University President Judy Bonner did speak out against the segregation of and discrimination by white Greeks last year after the Crimson White's 2013 investigation, which revealed that two high-achieving African American women had been rejected by 16 sororities. (The U.S. Justice Department found that situation so serious it assigned a U.S. Attorney to monitor the situation.)
Nathan James, a Crimson White columnist, sees the yes vote as a straight-up PR move. "It's clear from the previous vote where our senators' loyalties lie, and that hasn't changed because media pressure forced them to backpedal," he wrote in an email to The Root. The "pressure" James describes built up after national and international news media hammered student government's March 2014 decision to kill the first "diversity resolution."
Terence Lonam, a progressive activist on campus from the class of 2017, is similarly skeptical. "When the last SGA senate voted to kill the original integration resolution, which I think honestly represented the state of race relations in Greek life at Alabama, I was horrified but not shocked – the powers that control a large segment of my campus, namely the Machine, are stuck to traditions that have kept them in power with relative ease."
The Machine? Yes, "the Machine," a secret society with deep roots in the muck of Jim Crow whose members are chosen from 28 of the school's white Greek societies. The Machine has fought the move to integrate the Greeks through the immense—and stealthy—political power it wields in student government. A chapter of Theta Nu Epsilon, an umbrella organization of historically white Greeks founded in 1870, the Machine has operated and schemed at UA for a century. No surprise that it's kissing cousin to Yale's Skull & Bones.
So how does the Machine run? "UA's Greeks vote in a bloc," explains James, "they always elect representatives from a specific set of Greek organizations; these representatives, once elected, fight to preserve a segregated Greek system; students who run against Machine-backed candidates are frequently the targets of harassment and death threats; and elections featuring Greek candidates are frequently affected by voter fraud."
"Death threats" leaps off the page. So we asked James to substantiate that charge. He provided links to news stories, including one from CNN, in which students made credible claims of such threats and other forms of nefarious Machination. Some, like the CNN.com piece, are more than a decade old. Others are quite recent.
"The Machine shouldn't be overestimated, but the simple fact of its continued secretive status should be recognized as an obstacle to everything else the University of Alabama, its students and administration, want to achieve," said Horwitz.
He writes with some authority. His wife, Kelly, was defeated in a Tuscaloosa city—not UA campus—election for Board of Education by Cason Kirby, a 26-year-old recent UA law school grad and former SGA president, under dodgy circumstances. AL.com 's reporter on the UA beat, Melissa Brown, and others reported on emails sent to voting-age students by Machine-connected Greeks, pledging free booze and limo rides to the polls. (Kirby, a former member of Kappa Sigma, a frat identified in the Crimson White investigation as Machine-connected, did not return a phone call from The Root.)
Horwitz notes that grassroots opposition to Machine politics cannot be ignored. "Some of the most important moments on campus this year—complaints and marches about continued segregation, resistance against adults who were involved, disgust with corrupt voting-bloc tactics that spilled off campus this year and into the local school board elections—came about because of undergraduates, mostly in the sororities, who were disturbed by what they saw and heard and willing to put themselves on the line to do something about it."
So where does that leave us? With a student organization that has Alabama influence and national ties and clings tenaciously to inherited privilege and power. It may not be able intimidate and machinate with impunity as it did when it still had Jim Crow muscle, but it remains an influential and clandestine political bloc —members do not acknowledge the group's existence—at a public university with a long history of racial discrimination.
The Machine's power endures in large part because the UA's leaders, the adults in the administration, have chosen to remain silent about the group for decades upon decades. Their silence equals tacit approval. That tacit approval amounts to active support for a secret clan of hyperempowered and historically privileged youth to discriminate.
"The Machine is not all-powerful or all-important," Professor Horwitz wrote in a recent Crimson White op-ed. "But as long as it's around, every other problem will be that much more intractable. It needs to become a public, accountable group. Or it must be killed, forcefully and publicly."


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It's been a bit of a funny week in the BAM household. It's as if spring's early arrival has set a clock ticking in my head, warning me that time is running out to finish all the things I thought I'd get done over the miserable colder months. I know it's daft, but it's been difficult to shake that nagging feeling that I should be getting more things done, things that have absolutely nothing to do with the weather! I'm my own worst enemy most of the time, so to escape that ticking sense of doom, and cheer myself up in the process, I made this:
It's not quite the shelf edging I had planned, but when the urge to crochet pretty little flowers pops into my addled brain, it seems kinder not to resist. Besides, the results have cheered me up! They also inspired me to dig out a terracotta pot that I picked up at a charity shop last year. I have three of these little pots and I'd planned to make a crochet garland of flowers to go around their necks. One down, two to go!
When I was making the daisies I found I needed to go down a hook size from 3mm to 2.5mm, and it's amazing how much difference such a small change can make!
I might be brave and try my hand at crocheted daffodils next. I have a large jug full of the real thing in my living room at the moment, and they smell absolutely wonderful!
My cats seem to be the only ones not embracing the milder weather. Usually when the good weather rolls around they are out sunning themselves on a shed roof somewhere, but one barely bothers leaving the bedroom, and the other two rarely leave the living room.
It's a battle sometimes to keep my crochet free from rogue cat hairs, but if it's something I'm making for myself I don't bother trying too hard to shoo them away. Oliver is particularly fond of snuggling up in my crochet, and often stands kneading it with his giant paws for several minutes before curling up in it. Naughty boy.
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Dear fellow member of the Columbia community:
Mary O'Neil Mundinger, RN, DrPH, dean of our School of Nursing since 1988, has advised us of her wish to step down as dean. We have accepted her decision with great appreciation for her distinguished service and asked her to remain as dean until June 2010, or until a successor is in place. A member of our faculty since 1982, Dr. Mundinger has created a lasting legacy not only at Columbia but also nationally by championing advanced practice nursing, pioneering an expanded role for nurses that emphasizes their professional autonomy and critical importance in providing comprehensive care, and creating a new clinical doctoral degree, which has been widely emulated at universities around the country.
Just two decades ago, Columbia's School of Nursing was struggling to define its future. Dr. Mundinger, appointed acting dean in 1986 and then dean in 1988, righted the School. Her requirement that all nursing faculty establish either a faculty practice or a research program attracted skilled clinicians and researchers, whose experiences informed their teaching. Under her extraordinary leadership, the School began accumulating an impressive list of accomplishments, including creating the School's first research program, which now has a total of 36 projects with cumulative funding of more than $30 million; this represents the highest per capita NIH faculty research funding of any nursing school in the nation. She established 10 endowed chairs, created two doctoral programs - a PhD and DNP - and increased the School's endowment from less than $3 million in 1986 to over $100 million in 2008.
Most notably, Dr. Mundinger led the School of Nursing to the forefront of education advances in nursing with the development of a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree. Helping to fill the nationwide shortage of primary care clinicians, the program educates nurses in sophisticated diagnostic and treatment competencies needed to care for patients in a variety of settings, from hospital to ambulatory care. Established in 2004, the DNP program was the first of its kind in the world. Since then, more than 200 schools have established similar clinical doctorate programs or have plans to institute such a program.
Dr. Mundinger is founder of Columbia Advanced Practice Nurse Associates (CAPNA), the first independent primary care faculty practice in which nurse practitioners hold commercial managed care contracts and are compensated at the same rate as primary care physicians. The School was also the first in which faculty gained admitting privileges at an academic health center hospital. Dr. Mundinger was named the Centennial Professor in Health Policy at the School of Nursing in 1995, the first chair of health policy in a nursing school nationwide. Her contributions to the advancement of nursing have been acknowledged with elected membership to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Nursing, and the New York Academy of Medicine. She holds a BS degree cum laude from the University of Michigan and a doctorate in public health from Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.
We want to extend our gratitude to Dr. Mundinger for her singular service to Columbia as a devoted member of our community for 27 years. Her exceptional contributions will resonate for generations of nurses to come - both at Columbia and beyond. Andrew Davidson, PhD, MBA, executive vice dean and professor in the Mailman School of Public Health, has agreed to chair the search committee that will begin an international search for her successor shortly.
Lee C. Bollinger
Lee Goldman, MD
Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences and Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine


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Carlton's AFL season needs intensive care, but coach Mick Malthouse insists he is in excellent personal shape.
Malthouse, who turned 60 last August, has fiercely rejected any suggestion that the stresses of senior coaching might be too much for him.
The three-time premiership coach has been his usual combative, passionate self over the last month as he tries to turn around Carlton's horror 0-4 start to the season.
The league's oldest current senior coach is contracted to the Blues until the end of next season.
"I have never been fitter, I've never been stronger, I have regular checkups," he told the Nine Network's Footy Classified.
"I would never put myself or my family in a position where it would detract from me going forward."
His wide-ranging interview on Monday night completed a day of media commitments for the Blues' leadership as they faced the music over their club's plight.
President Stephen Kernahan and captain Marc Murphy also faced a barrage of questions over what is wrong at Carlton.
Malthouse says the two main reasons for Carlton's onfield problems so far this season are a lack of confidence and too many players coming off interrupted pre-seasons.
Malthouse convinced Blues can turn club around quickly
He is adamant they can turn around their fortunes quickly.
"It could be just one bit of good luck, just one kick, that gets you there," he said.
But Malthouse also concedes Carlton are a long way off becoming a top-four team.
The Blues finished ninth last year and were elevated into the finals because of Essendon's expulsion over the supplements scandal.
Carlton then upset Richmond in an epic elimination final, raising expectations about what might be possible this season.
Malthouse split the league into two groups - Hawthorn, Geelong, Fremantle and Port Adelaide ... and then the rest.
He also pointed to his first couple of years at Collingwood, when they went from second-last to nearly winning the 2002 premiership - as an example of what might be possible for Carlton.
"The top-four sides, I think we trail them badly," he said.
"But things can get turned around pretty quickly.
"Collingwood went from zero ... to a grand final two years later.
"If we have another year like we did last year recruiting-wise and the boys stand up - and I'm talking about injuries, that sort of stuff - then we'll have a very good football side.
"We'll have that side that can challenge the top four."
Malthouse also said defender Andrew Walker was "exactly right" to criticise the Blues for being too quiet on the field.
Walker said after Saturday's upset loss to Melbourne that the Carlton players were not vocal enough and called their poor form "a yuck feeling".
"It's exactly what (president) Stephen Kernahan has said and what (chief executive) Greg Swann has said ... it's the quietest club I've ever been at," Malthouse said.
"He (Walker) has said an absolute fact.
"I would expect him to do something - but he's a quiet person (and) that's not pot-shotting him."


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Any group of vintage car or truck lovers will eventually tackle this subject of conversation: the future health of our hobby and how many young people are involved with older cars and trucks. Businesses that manufacture parts are, understandably, even more curious to know about the buying habits and interests of the next generation. Since old trucks are a bit more affordable than Deuce coupes, they often allow an enthusiast to build auto equity with a lower entry fee. A little coaching from experienced friends and relatives is all these next-generation car nuts need to prove theyre ready to carry on their own love affairs with vintage vehicles.
Edward Lipowicz IV of Lees Summit, Missouri, and his cherry 1940 Ford pickup came to our attention in Lincoln, Nebraska. As we were taking a few event photos, a family friend mentioned how Ed was only 18 years old. Our first thought was that someone had likely parented the very well-built project 1940 most of the way, but testimony from friends and family didnt support our assumption. We also learned a little about the Lipowicz familys values. Wise fathers try to impart lessons in responsibility and sacrifice when their sons reach the age of want-ing their own wheels, and this project was just such an opportunityplus quality father and son time.
A rusty hulk of a 1940 Ford, minus the bed and rear fenders, was found somewhere in Kansas for $500. The grille (and everything else) was trashed, but the long-forgotten 1940 must have sent out some kind of vibe to the then 15 -year-old Ed. Otherwise, its doubtful this project would have ended with such wonderful results.
Fortunately, the Lipowicz family has friends who have demonstrated their personal love of old cars by building their own. These friends offered to lend a hand when the task required more experience or finesse than Ed might have providedlike painting and upholstering. As the project progressed, Ed discovered how much he enjoyed the hands-on use of tools. He liked it so much he is now seriously considering making his involvement with old cars permanent by choosing it as his career.
If thats the case, old-timers shouldnt worry about the future of our hobby. It will obviously continue to evolve (barring restrictive legislation) and will continue to be based on personal taste and economics. The next generation will bring as much desire and dedication to the hobby as the last generation. Their cars and trucks may not look exactly as we might imagine them, but thats OKours didnt look like our fathers either.


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Penn Takes Top Honors In EPA's Green Power Challenge
The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia has finished in first place in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's nationwide College and University Green Power Challenge.
EPA began its Green Power Challenge for higher education institutions in 2006, and University of Pennsylvania has been the winner every year. The University of Pennsylvania took top honors this year by purchasing more than 200 million kWh of wind power annually--more green power than any of the 75 other competing schools.
"When it comes to using green power and reducing environmental impacts, the University of Pennsylvania has consistently stood out as the leader among colleges and universities," said EPA's mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator Shawn M. Garvin. "By demonstrating an incredible commitment to purchase green power, the university has also helped contribute to the growth of green jobs and a green economy."
EPA defines green power as electricity produced from solar, wind, geothermal, biogas, eligible biomass, and low-impact small hydroelectric sources.
As part of EPA's Green Power Partnership, more than 1,400 organizations are purchasing more than 26 billion kilowatt-hours of green power annually, avoiding carbon pollution equal to that created by the electricity use of more than 2.8 million American homes.
The partnership provides quarterly updated lists of partners using green power in several other categories including K-12 schools, technology and telecommunications, local government, and retail, among others.
Along with a competition among individual colleges and universities, the challenge also included competition among 32 competing athletic conferences. The Big 10 won this year's challenge by collectively using more than 310 million kWh of green power annually and avoiding carbon pollution equal to that produced by the electricity use of more than 32,000 American homes.
For more information, visit the 2012-13 EPA College and University Green Power Challenge conference champions webpage.
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JE020: Chikorita's Big Upset
|"Chikorita's Big Upset"
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|Pokémon: The Johto Journeys
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|January 20, 2001
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On their way to Azalea Town Ash has a battle with a local trainer in a new town. During the battle Ash recalls Chikorita for Pikachu but Chikorita refuses. The battle was called off on account of it getting late. At the Pokémon Center Ash wonders why Chikorita didn't want to be recalled, and after a thorough psychological analysis, the Nurse Joy reveals that Chikorita is jealous of Pikachu because Chikorita thinks Ash likes Pikachu more than her. Later that night Chikorita runs away and joins a gang of fighting-type Pokémon. Will Ash ever see Chikorita again? And will Chikorita get over its jealousy?
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- This is another episode that reveals another Pokémon's gender, in this case, Ash's Chikorita is revealed to be female.
- Ash battles a School Kid from Gen II in the beginning of this episode.
- This is another episode where a Nurse Joy wears a different outfit.
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Lisle, Illinois ~ Where better to learn about animals than at the zoo? Where better to learn about nature than at a forest preserve? Where better to learn about physics than at the site of a large particle accelerator?
To make elementary and middle school teachers better teachers of science while utilizing the resources of the local scientific community, Benedictine University partners with Brookfield Zoo, Fermilab, the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County, Morton Arboretum and the Golden Apple Foundation to offer a Master of Science (M.S.) in Science Content and Process.
Students in the program learn inquiry-based teaching concepts at Benedictine University and study science content at the educational sites of the partner organizations. Students take courses in zoology at Brookfield Zoo, botany at Morton Arboretum, physics and astronomy at Fermilab and ecology and environmental science at various forest preserve sites.
The program's content and methodology is aligned with the "Next Generation Science Standards," which was inspired by "A Framework for K-12 Science Education" and developed by the National Research Council, the National Science Teachers Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Achieve. It pays particular attention to the eight practices of science and engineering that the "Framework" identifies as essential for all students to learn. Classes model these active teaching practices so it becomes second nature for teachers to do so in their own classrooms.
Next Generation Science Standards are designed to replace the nearly two decades-old standards still in use by most states while addressing U.S. students' lagging performance – 14th in reading, 17th in science and 25th in mathematics – compared to students in 33 other economically developed countries.
"Many elementary teachers are underprepared to teach science," said Allison Wilson, professor of Biological Science at Benedictine University and M.S. in Science Content and Process program director. "Most elementary teachers have taken only the minimum science credit to meet their university general education requirements, and these courses may not have been the most appropriate preparation for teaching in the field."
The M.S. in Science Content and Process program enhances science knowledge and confidence in science teaching among elementary and middle school teachers and those employed as informal science educators at parks, zoos and museums.
"Teachers can use additional high-quality courses to improve their content knowledge and the tools to help them use technology in their classrooms," Wilson said.
The program is taught in a "learning team" model – a group of no more than 24 students who progress through the program at the same pace – that meets evenings and some Saturdays during the academic year. Day courses take place during the summer. Teachers can manage full-time employment yet still complete the program in two years.
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Wilson added that the ultimate goal of the program is to help inspire life-long enthusiasm for science among grade-school students.
"A teacher who is competent in science and comfortable teaching in an active setting will create greater interest in science among students," she said.
For additional information about the M.S. in Science Content and Process program, contact Wilson at email@example.com.


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Washington, D.C. - U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today the release of a report from the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), which comprehensively analyzes the key factors impacting the deployment of offshore wind power in the U.S. The report, "Large-Scale Offshore Wind Power in the United States: Assessment of Opportunities and Barriers," includes a detailed assessment of the Nation's offshore wind resources and offshore wind industry, including future job growth potential. The report also analyzes the technology challenges, economics, permitting procedures, and the potential risks and benefits of offshore wind power deployment in U.S. waters.
"Clean, renewable energy development that capitalizes on the Nation's vast offshore wind and water resources holds great promise for our clean energy future and our economy," said Secretary Chu. "Today's report will help guide our efforts in the coming years to support the offshore wind industry, create new clean energy jobs, and develop environmentally responsible energy resources."
The NREL report finds that harnessing even a fraction of the Nation's potential offshore wind resource, estimated to be more than 4,000 gigawatts, could create thousands of jobs and help revitalize America's manufacturing sector, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, diversify U.S. energy supplies, and provide cost-competitive electricity to key coastal regions. The report also reaches the conclusion that while significant challenges remain, effective research, policies and market commitment will enable offshore wind to play a significant role in the country's energy future. More information is available in the Executive Summary and full NREL report.
This week, the Department also highlighted its continued work with the U.S. Department of Interior to help facilitate and accelerate the deployment of offshore renewable energy technologies on the Outer Continental Shelf. In conjunction with the American Wind Energy Association's North American Offshore Wind Conference, the agencies brought together a broad spectrum of federal agencies, state governments, nongovernmental organizations, and members of academia to discuss ongoing efforts that are leveraging resources and expertise from both Departments to help develop commercial-scale offshore wind and water energy projects. More information on these interagency initiatives is available HERE.
These efforts and the NREL report are playing an important role in the development of the Department of Energy's strategic work plan on offshore wind energy, which will include recommendations for how to effectively reduce the cost of energy generated by offshore wind turbines and shorten the timeline for deploying offshore wind power.
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