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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is partnering with state and local governments, utilities, and non-profit organizations across the country to make the Home Energy Score widely available to homeowners. Current partners, along with descriptions of their residential energy efficiency efforts, can be found by clicking on this interactive map. To become a Home Energy Score Partner, an organization must score a minimum of 200 homes in the first year, and provide quality assurance by rescoring 5% of these homes. Organizations interested in becoming a Partner can contact the program via email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
You can find frequently asked questions for partners on the Frequently Asked Questions page or in this separate document.
Foundation for Senior Living – Home Improvements
Coming soon!
Central Arkansas and Little Rock Metropolitan Area
Home Energy Affordability Loan (HEAL) a project of the William J. Clinton Foundation
Keith Canfield
610 President Clinton Avenue, 2nd Floor
Little Rock, AR 72201
The Home Energy Affordability Loan (HEAL), a project of the William J. Clinton Foundation's Clinton Climate Initiative—Arkansas (CCI-AR), is a unique, energy-based employee benefits program designed to improve quality of life, at both the corporate and homeowner levels, by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving energy performance in commercial and residential buildings. By enlisting employers to offer the HEAL program to qualifying employees and community members, the program is able to make a large-scale and rapid impact in energy usage, greenhouse gas emissions, and employment opportunities.
HEAL plans to score over 200 homes as part of Home Energy Score for qualifying employees of participating employers in central Arkansas and the Little Rock metropolitan area in 2012. Homeowners in Central Arkansas living within 60 miles of Little Rock that have utility service through Entergy or CenterPoint, but are not affiliated with a participating employer, can request to have their homes scored on a space available basis by the program.
Alameda and San Francisco Counties
Karen Kho
Senior Program Manager
1537 Webster Street
Oakland, CA 94612
StopWaste.Org, a joint-powers agency that manages environmental programs in Alameda County, California, chairs a statewide Better Buildings Program committee to advance green labeling in California. Initiatives include offering rebates for green labeling of residential properties, a statewide study of the value of green labeling at the time of sale, and working with real estate stakeholders on the greening of the multiple listing service (MLS).
In 2012, local governments in Alameda and San Francisco Counties will be scoring at least 200 homes as part of Home Energy Score. Eligible homes include those participating in Energy Upgrade California, a whole-house approach to improving existing homes.
Benjamin Gromicko
Director, Home Energy Inspection Program
International Association of Certified Home Inspectors (InterNACHI)
1750 30th Street
Boulder, CO 80301
InterNACHI, the nation's largest non-profit inspector accreditation organization, is now providing Colorado homeowners with the Home Energy Score. InterNACHI is committed to educating American homeowners about the functions, materials, systems and components of their properties in order to improve the energy efficiency of their homes and reduce utility costs.
In 2012, InterNACHI plans to score more than 250 homes in Colorado. Homeowners interested in the Home Energy Score may contact Ben Gromicko or visit InterNACHI's website.
Denver Metro Area
Peter Rusin
Residential Program Associate
Colorado Energy Office
1580 Logan St., OL1
The Colorado Energy Office promotes sustainable economic development in Colorado through advancing the state's energy market and industry to create jobs, increase energy security, lower long-term consumer costs, and protect our environment. Current initiatives include training of real estate stakeholders including appraisers, Realtors, and lenders, developing studies on the value of energy efficiency and renewable energy at the time of sale, and encouraging the use of standard green fields now featured in 14 multiple listing service (MLS) vendors that cover 97% of the state's housing stock.
The Colorado Energy Office plans to score approximately 200 homes as part of an energy efficiency valuation study in select areas of Denver and Jefferson counties in 2013 as part of Home Energy Score. The Colorado Energy Office will market the Home Energy Score to customers through its website, local media, local real estate offices and Metrolist (Colorado's largest MLS). To be eligible for a complimentary Home Energy Score, the home must have been built before 1990, substantially renovated in the last 10 years, be less than 2,500 square feet and either be listed for sale or in the process of being listed.
Interested customers and/or Realtors can sign up to be added to a list for the Home Energy Score by emailing or calling Peter Rusin at the contacts listed above.
Southwestern Colorado
Gregg Dubit
Executive Director
Four Corners Office for Resource Efficiency (4CORE)
10 Town Plaza #190
Durango CO 81301
970-259-1916 ext. 114
4CORE's mission is to advance resource efficiency in Southwest Colorado. The program inspires its community members to be resource-savvy by offering trainings, providing weatherization services, and sharing energy saving information throughout Southwest Colorado. Resource conservation saves energy and money by helping individuals, families and businesses thrive.
4CORE plans to begin scoring homes in 2013. It will score a minimum of 200 homes in Archuleta, San Juan, Dolores, Montezuma, and La Plata Counties in its first year as a Home Energy Score Partner.
United Illuminating
Jane Bugbee
Program Administrator
157 Church St. MS 1-6B
New Haven, CT 06510
The United Illuminating Company (UI) is a New Haven-based regional electric distribution company that serves over 325,000 customers. As one of the administrators of the Connecticut Energy Efficiency Fund, UI's mission is to advance the efficient use of energy, reduce air pollution and negative environmental impacts, and promote economic development and energy security.
UI and City of New Haven's Office of Sustainability have partnered to offer the Home Energy Score with the CT Energy Efficiency Fund's Home Energy Solutions program. Through the Home Energy Solutions program, residential customers can receive a complete energy assessment for $75 and the Home Energy Score will be provided free of charge for a limited time. Beginning in the summer of 2012, UI and the City of New Haven expect to score over 400 homes.
For more information, or for New Haven homeowners interested in having their home scored, please visit the City of New Haven's website.
Building Performance Institute, Inc.
Tiger Adolf
Director of Program Design and Market Development
107 Hermes Road, Suite 110
Malta, NY 12020
Building Performance Institute (BPI), the nation's premier building performance credentialing, quality assurance and standards setting organization, develops technical standards using an open, transparent, consensus-based process built on sound building science. BPI is approved by the American National Standards Institute, Inc. (ANSI) as an accredited developer of American National Standards and as a certifying body for personnel credentials. In 2013, there were over 25,000 BPI certified professionals in the U.S., several U.S. territories, Canada and Taiwan.
In 2013, Florida passed the Building Code Bill to change the structure of the state's rating system by removing regulatory oversight to allow market forces to support Florida's consumers and recognizes BPI as a rating system provider. The law also requires real estate professionals to notify purchasers of the right to have a rating at the time of sale in a real estate transaction.
As a Home Energy Score Partner, BPI expects to provide Home Energy Scores to more than 200 Florida homeowners in 2014. Homeowners can learn more and find participating Qualified Assessors by using BPI's online Locator Tool. BPI will voluntarily limit its Home Energy Score Qualified Assessors to scoring existing homes at this time.
Southface Energy Institute
Sydney Roberts, Ph.D.
Southface Home Services Program Manager
241 Pine Street NE
Atlanta, GA 30308
For more than 30 years, Southface Energy Institute (Southface) has promoted energy-, water- and resource-efficient workplaces, homes, and communities throughout the southeast United States. Through its many residential programs, Southface plans to score approximately 200 homes in Georgia and other southeast states within the first year as a Partner.
Interested homeowners and building professionals interested in incorporating the Home Energy Scoring tool into their services should contact Southface at email@example.com.
Illinois Home Performance
Patrick MacRoy, Center for Neighborhood Technology
Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (MEEA) and Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) have partnered to offer Home Energy Score. Home Energy Score will be implemented under the Illinois Home Performance with ENERGY STAR® program (IHP).
IHP connects homeowners with qualified contractors and energy assessors who evaluate existing homes' energy efficiency and offer home improvements, which result in energy savings and improved comfort and safety, durability, and value.
IHP will integrate the Home Energy Score into its energy assessments to help homeowners evaluate the benefits of performing energy upgrades recommended in the energy assessment. IHP will score at least 200 homes by December 2012. The program will begin in Northern Illinois (in the Chicago metropolitan area and the City of Rockford) and will expand to Central and Southern Illinois.
Homeowners interested in participating are encouraged to complete a free home energy profile on the Illinois Home Performance website and contact an IHP Participating Contractor to schedule an energy assessment.
Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard
Margaret Song
Residential Program Manager
Cape Light Compact
P.O. Box 427 SCH
Barnstable, MA 02630
Cape Light Compact is an intergovernmental organization composed of the 21 towns and two counties on Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard, MA, and serves 200,000 energy customers. It works with energy improvement contractors to better serve homeowners and encourage consumers to get home energy upgrades. Cape Light Compact offers home energy assessments as part of the Mass Save® program.
Cape Light Compact plans to score approximately 200 homes as a seasonal offering in Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard in 2012 as part of Home Energy Score.
Cape Light Compact will market the Home Energy Score to customers through its newsletter, local media, and its website. Interested customers can sign up on the Cape Light Compact Newsletter Web page or call 1-800-797-6699 to be added to a list for the Home Energy Score.
Municipal utility service territories throughout Massachusetts
ECHO/Energy New England
Coming soon!
Bath and Dewitt Townships, Mid-Michigan Grand River Avenue Corridor; Upper Peninsula and Lower Peninsula
Michigan Energy Options
Bath and Dewitt Townships, Mid-Michigan Grand River Avenue Corridor
David Meeder, Energy Programs Manager
405 Grove St., East Lansing, MI 48823
517-337-0422 ext.1308
Upper Peninsula
Michael Larson, Upper Peninsula Office Manager
205 Front St., Suite 2F, Marquette, MI 49855
Upper Lower Peninsula
TJ Brown, Programs Manager
For more than 30 years Michigan Energy Options (MEO), formerly known as Urban and Northern Options, has helped over 1 million people save energy and money, adopt renewable energy, reduce greenhouse gasses and lead more sustainable lives. Through our comprehensive understanding of numerous issues and our talented and experienced staff, we are a leader in the state of Michigan.
In 2013, MEO will score 200 homes in its three main service areas: the Grand River Avenue corridor in Mid-Michigan including Bath and Dewitt Townships; the Upper Peninsula of Michigan; and the northern tier of the Lower Peninsula, especially around the Grand Traverse region.
MEO will market the Home Energy Score through its newsletters, webpage, and call center. MEO welcomes homeowners to request a Home Energy Score and hopes to further relationships with new homebuyers and existing homeowners in the state of Michigan.
For more information, contact the regional representative listed below, email email@example.com, or call 517-337-0422.
Bob Granger, Energy Optimization Program Manager
Coldwater Board of Public Utilities
Coldwater, Michigan 490369
The Coldwater Board of Public Utilities (CBPU) provides electricity to over 6,800 customers in Coldwater, MI. Through its Energy Optimization (EO) program, the CBPU is committed to helping its customers become more energy efficient. As a Home Energy Score Partner, the CBPU plans to score approximately 200 homes in Coldwater, MI, in 2013 to support its existing residential energy efficiency efforts. Homeowners interested in having their home scored can contact Bob Granger at email@example.com.
Minneapolis—Saint Paul Metro Area
Sustainable Resources Center
Coming soon!
Jim Mikel
Spirit Foundation
St. Louis, MO
Phone: 636-791-1031
Spirit Foundation assists communities with job growth and training in sustainable industries. Spirit Foundation supports the Wounded Warrior Project as well as several national hotlines that prevent drug abuse, child abuse, and domestic violence.
Starting in September 2012, Spirit Foundation plans to score 500 homes in Missouri in its first year as a Home Energy Score Partner. Spirit Foundation will partner with the University of Missouri-Extension to provide an innovative training program to assist wounded warriors and others in entering the workforce as Home Energy Score Qualified Assessors.
Homeowners can request a Home Energy Score from www.homescore.org.
Columbia Metropolitan Area and Boone County
Terry Freeman
Residential Energy Services Supervisor
Columbia Water & Light
City of Columbia, Missouri
PO Box 6015
Columbia, MO
Columbia Water & Light is a municipally owned electric utility in Missouri. The City of Columbia has offered energy efficiency programs since the 1970s; participation rates in these programs have continued to grow over the years. Together with Boone Electric Cooperative, Columbia Water & Light will incorporate the Home Energy Score program into its Home Performance with ENERGY STAR program.
Columbia Water & Light's goal is to score more than 200 homes in the Columbia metropolitan area and Boone County in 2012 as a Home Energy Score Partner.
Northwest Missouri - Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Clinton, DeKalb, Gentry, Holt, Nodaway, and Worth counties
Glenn Miller
Housing & Energy Director
Community Services, Inc.
1212-B South Main Street
Maryville, MO 64468
Community Services, Inc., a Community Action Partnership Agency, has been providing weatherization services through the Low Income Weatherization Assistance Program since 1978. In 2011, Community Services, Inc. created Home Sealers LLC, a fee-for-service weatherization and energy retrofit contracting company to expand the energy saving benefits of weatherization to all members of our community.
Home Sealers LLC provides homeowners with energy audits, home inspections, mold and lead testing, and home energy retrofits via the use of their own trained technicians or by connecting homeowners with qualified local contractors. This maximizes the savings potential homeowners can realize by the implementation of recommended energy saving measures, and to improve the health and safety aspects of each property serviced.
Community Services, Inc. plans to score 200 homes in their service area via the Home Sealers Program by including a Home Energy Score Assessment for all present and future customers. Additionally, Community Services, Inc. will market the Home Energy Score Program via local media and through the Home Sealers LLC website at www.homeimprovements4u.org.
Kansas City Greater Metro Area
Kansas City Metropolitan Energy Center
Coming soon!
National coverage
The American Society of Home Inspectors, Inc.®
Jeffrey Arnold, Executive Director
932 Lee Street
Des Plaines, IL 60016
The American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI), founded in 1976, is North America's oldest and most respected professional society of home inspectors. It is committed to building customer awareness of the importance of a quality home inspection and to enhancing the professionalism of home inspectors. ASHI's mission is to set and promote standards for property inspections and to provide the educational programs needed to achieve excellence in the profession. ASHI will offer the Home Energy Score nationwide, wherever a participating assessor exists.
ASHI plans to score at least 200 homes in its first year as a Home Energy Score Partner. Participating ASHI inspectors can be found on the ASHI website, by using the "Find an Inspector" tool or by clicking on the Home Energy Score link found on the home page.
New Jersey
Ocean, Monmouth and parts of Morris Counties
Susan Ellman
Energy Efficiency Marketing Manager
New Jersey Natural Gas
The SAVEGREEN Project®
New Jersey Natural Gas (NJNG) launched The SAVEGREEN Project in September 2009 to support its ongoing effort to educate customers on energy efficiency and provide them with money-saving incentives to make the right energy choices for their families, homes, businesses and communities. The SAVEGREEN Project offers customers free home energy audits and rebates to customers who participate in the New Jersey's Clean Energy Program™.
In 2012, NJNG's SAVEGREEN Project expects to score approximately 500 homes in Ocean, Monmouth, and parts of Morris Counties. Homeowners who receive an audit through the SAVEGREEN enhanced rebate program or have a proactive home energy audit performed by NJNG may participate in the Home Energy Score program.
For more information, call 1-877-455-NJNG (6564), or visit The SAVEGREEN Project website.
New York
Will Schweiger
Home Energy Score Project Coordinator
Town of Babylon
Long Island Green Homes was launched by the Town of Babylon in 2008. It is the nation's first operational residential energy efficiency retrofit program based on property assessed clean energy (PACE) financing. In just over three years, Long Island Green Homes has retrofitted over 650 houses with an average savings-to-investment ratio of 1.82 and $1,150 in annual energy savings per household. Long Island Green Homes' program principles have been adopted by six other municipalities on Long Island and the Long Island Green Homes consortium has teamed with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to offer their free audits and low-interest financial product Island-wide.
Long Island Green Homes plans to score a minimum of 200 homes in the Town of Babylon in its first year as a Home Energy Score Partner.
Home Energy Score assessments will be provided free of charge to participants that sign up for energy audits through the Town of Babylon's existing residential efficiency program. Interested Babylon residents are encouraged to fill out the online intake form on the Long Island Green Homes website. Home Energy Assessors will be paired with participants based upon availability. To guarantee a Home Energy Assessor visit, participants should note their interest in the Home Energy Score program on their intake form.
Long Island
Lisanne Altmann, Director of Residential Programs
Long Island Power Authority
Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) is a non-profit municipal electricity provider. LIPA is the second largest municipal electric utility in the nation in terms of electric revenues, third largest in terms of customers served, and the seventh largest in terms of electricity delivered. LIPA provides electric service to more than 1.1 million customers in Nassau and Suffolk counties and the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens, NY.
LIPA expects to score at least 200 homes in 2012 and to provide the Home Energy Score to all customers participating in LIPA's Home Performance Programs in 2013 and beyond. The opportunity to obtain a Home Energy Score will be available to any LIPA customer who receives an audit through LIPA's Home Performance Programs.
For more information, call 1-877-ESTAR-LI (378-2754), or visit LIPA's website.
Eugene and surrounding McKenzie River area
Matt Lutter
Energy Management Specialist
Eugene Water & Electric Board
500 East 4th Avenue
P.O. Box 10148
Eugene, OR 97440-2148
Eugene Water & Electric Board (EWEB) is a publically owned utility serving 87,000 electric and 51,000 water customers in Eugene, Oregon, and the surrounding McKenzie River area. Since the late 1970s, EWEB has fulfilled its mission "to be an outstanding provider of energy and water products that meet customer needs and benefit the citizens of Eugene" by offering its customers energy efficiency programs. EWEB customers can receive energy audits, energy efficiency recommendations, and quality installations by local contractors through EWEB's programs.
EWEB plans to score 200 homes in 2012 and 2013. Customers who participated in the Solarize Eugene program are eligible to receive a Home Energy Score. Other EWEB customers may contact Matt Lutter to find out if they are eligible for a Home Energy Score.
Philadelphia Metropolitan Area
Zachary Popkin
The Energy Coordinating Agency (ECA) is a non-profit corporation dedicated to helping people save energy and work toward a more sustainable and equitable energy future. It administers a broad range of energy efficiency programs for both new and existing buildings.
The Energy Coordinating Agency plans to score more than 200 homes in the Philadelphia metropolitan area in 2012 as part of Home Energy Score.
For more information about the Energy Coordinating Agency's Home Energy Score program, or to sign up to have your home assessed, call 215-609-1043 or email email@example.com.
South Carolina
Charleston County
CharlestonWISE Program
For questions about scheduling a Home Energy Score, contact:
Lindsey Graham
CharlestonWISE Program Associate
113 Calhoun St.
Charleston, SC 29401
For questions about Home Energy Score partnership or about becoming a participating contractor, contact:
Joe Dukes
CharlestonWISE Program Manager
113 Calhoun St.
Charleston, SC 29401
CharlestonWISE is a program of the non-profit Sustainability Institute, an award-winning, nonprofit organization with a mission of empowering South Carolina communities to transform homes and workplaces to conserve energy and reduce the overall environmental impact.
The CharlestonWISE program is funded by a DOE Better Buildings Neighborhood grant through the Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance with the goal of transforming the market for home energy improvements in South Carolina through a network of trained and certified home performance contractors. Participating CharlestonWISE contractors will score and retrofit more than 300 single family homes through June 2013.
The CharlestonWISE Home Energy Score will be initially available in Charleston County, including the municipalities of Charleston, North Charleston, Mt. Pleasant, James Island, and Kiawah Island.
Homeowners can visit the CharlestonWISE website to sign up and select a participating contractor. That contractor will provide the Home Energy Score as part of a comprehensive home energy upgrade proposal to achieve 20% energy savings and leverage program and utility incentives up to 60% of the job cost.
David Broadbent, Residential Program Coordinator
1733 Oaksprings Drive
Salt Lake City, Utah 84108
Uhepa.org—Site under construction
Utah Home Energy Performance Association (UHEPA) is a non-profit professional organization of home performance auditors, contractors, energy providers, educators and government agencies. The association is dedicated to informing Utah homeowners about the advantages of energy efficiency and providing access to qualified professionals and technical resources that are able to deliver home energy efficiency services to over 1 million homeowners throughout the state.
UHEPA will offer the Home Energy Score to homeowners through its home energy efficiency professional membership organization and cross-market the Score with its energy provider and government agency members. UHEPA will also sponsor numerous home efficiency educational events throughout the state each year.
Beginning in 2013, UHEPA plans to deliver the Home Energy Score to over 250 Utah homeowners throughout the state each year. Interested homeowners can sign up to have their homes scored by calling 801-597-4000.
Central and Northern Virginia
Local Energy Alliance Program
Phone: 434-227-4666
Twitter: @LEAP_VA
Facebook: Local Energy Alliance Program
Point of contact for Central VA:
Guy A. Caroselli
Residential Energy Services Manager
Mobile: 434-906-9408
Point of contact for Northern VA:
Michael Hogan
Residential Energy Services Manager
Mobile: 202-222-5426
The Local Energy Alliance Program (LEAP) is a non-profit energy efficiency program administrator for Albemarle, Nelson, Louisa, Greene and Fluvanna Counties in Central Virginia, and Arlington, Loudoun, Prince William, and Fairfax Counties in Northern Virginia. LEAP sponsors Home Performance with ENERGY STAR and provides homeowners with a one-stop shop for energy improvements, including financing and pre-qualified contractors.
In 2012, LEAP plans to score 200 homes in Northern and Central Virginia as part of Home Energy Score. For more information on LEAP's Home Energy Score program, visit LEAP's website.


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In an effort to put down the fork and spoon and wine and beer and pick up a drawing implement here's a go at Peter Criss. It's to celebrate the fact that I was given a ticket to the KISS Sonic Boom Tour next year. Our tickets get us inside 'The Golden Circle' at Malma Stadium, though I dread to think what that entails.
Last minute Cold Gin/ Collagen gag superseded any Crissmassy jokes which is just as well as The Cat and The Space Ace are only there in make-up as Peter and Ace are no longer with the band, again .
Happy New Year! If this is the last today.
"It's CollaGen time again!"
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The Good List
I'm not on the list as I wrote no cards to no-one. I meant to but never got around to it. Or finish round 2 with last years catastrophic Dr Who story. Or do the small multitude of work for the people that I wanted to. Will do soon.
Will Dawbarn, Sean Phillips, Matt Badham and the rest of the Huzzah!!! gang were not forgotten but cropped (with any other omissions) in my view of Santa's Good List.
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Bat Beat (Jonathan E's title)
What's more exciting than being in a 'Guess the artist competition? Having someone guess the artist is ME!!? Or option 3, drawing Batman whacking his tubs?
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Dan and the Nun.
This is my blog. It's got my pictures on it. It's got a few pictures that the nippers have drawn but other than that it's ALL MINE. With one exception. In 2008 Dan McDaid did a version of Elka of the Swedish Heroes. I am still excited he did it and like to remind myself every now and then.
Here he is again, this time his Nun with two Guns, and a technicolour beauty she is too. No guns? No problem, all action.
There is something going on with the Nun, it will be revealed but just not yet.
Already, I'm sheepishly remembering the exceptions Sorry Jonathan. They 'll be others, let me know.
New Nun!! Marco's done another beauty!
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Gelatina Vs Randolph the Red Nosed ReinOtaur.
Christmassyness creeping in. Getting bolder at the prospect of another one so soon after last years Disastermas. Here is Goo Girl in action once again (ignoring the GG strip that is yet to be finished) against a suitable festive foe.
This post is dedicated to Pimpernel who kindly invited me to contribute a Christmas list for his blog, which I just about managed in time. Some cracking artist have contributed, recently I.N. J. Culbard and Francesco Francavilla with the prospect of Guy Davis and Mike Mignola before the big day, Phew!
Thanks for the invite Pimpernel, and for the high praise.
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Swirling Vortex Photo
David Dr Who Tennant was on telly last night, this is a photo of him taken on my phone through an empty beer bottle (Old Thumper)
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Nun with 2 Guns (in a hurry)
Rapid sketch (20 mins in pen) of the Nun on a bike (without reference so excuse it's lack of whatever)
But mainly links to Joscha Van Deijk for his fan art double bill. And to conspiratorial compardre Monkeyfeather for doing a much better job with his end of this whole enterprise that we've begun.
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Done today, in a hurry, very late for The Birdsong anthology, sorry Will and Lou.
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First Page
Though the #100 day project is now at day/ picture 14, this is the first 6 consecutive panels of a story. Done without a load of planning and a bit of panel shuffling, this is page one of The Hunting Party.
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Creeping in the Creepers
Second #100 project in my A6 sketchbook which will be tricky when I flog the drawings off as planned.
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The Hunting Party
Gungle Queens prowling the on the hunt for a very special prey.
The next 20 or so #100 days project pictures will be a strip. They go daily on the Flickr but i'll wait til they're a whole page before sticking them here.
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King of the Gungle Queens
6 in a series of 100, others here.
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Nun with 2 Guns
Trying to get my first Nun with 2 Guns story to fit together. It could be entitled either 'Air Pistols' or 'The Hostage Farm'
More Nun with 2 Guns links @ PMGL and Workhorse.
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Comica/ Observer Graphic Short Story non entry.
Again I missed the deadline for the Comica/ Observer Graphic Short Story. Actually I missed it twice this year as they extended the deadline. After a shark mad night last night I'm prompted to get this out. A panel of my four page plan.
Check out the contenders and winners. There is so much great stuff there that having a winner seems beside the point. I hope the get collected n some form.
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Mummy Death Hotel
Taking the nippers to swimming this evening, all three rattling on with their own conversations uncaring wether anyone was listening or interested. At some stage I realised the New Kid (5 now and that makes him newer than the others) was enlightening us on the subject of 'The Mummy Death Hotel'.
Gungle day 3 on the Flickr where it will be now if not here.
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100 day project, Drawing 2.
The Coconut Robot
So after the kids got to school and did a 12 hour shift, I got home and put pen to paper for the first time today. Done in one go, no rubbers, no plan, not great really but I suppose this is how the hundred day thing will go. It's not going to get in the way of stuff on the go. It also won't be a day to day feature on here, most likely a weekly round-up or something.
Anyway, he is still The Coconut Robot, autonomous Gungle dweller.
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Bad Drawing Day Decision
Today has been a stinker for making any headway with the projects on the go. So progress has been stimulated by deciding to join in the Hundred Days Project. I plan to get through til March 10th producing an A5 or 6 image per day. By the end I'd like to flog the lot to raise some cash to publish some work. I reckon i've got a lot about that could go into a book. It should not interfere with the many other 'on the go' jobs and a small drawing can be enough to get the 'pencil engine' going on the crap days.
Thanks to Rob Davis the subject will be Gungle.
Here's the first, Tribe of One on a lofty limb.
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Khalid Wooten
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Vernon Burton has a Ph.D. in American history from Princeton University. He has been in the history department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign since 1974. He is currently a professor of history and sociology and a senior research scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. He is the author of more than a hundred articles and author/editor of six books, including In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina (University of North Carolina Press, 1985; finalist for Pulitzer).
The joke is that winning a campus teacher-of-the-year award is a sure way to get yourself paraded right out of town. "Publish or die" is the motto. But teaching and publishing are not mutually exclusive. In fact, excelling as a scholar can actually enhance one's teaching abilities, according to award-winning scholar and teacher Dr. Vernon Burton of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. But why bother? If scholarship and research is enough for advancement, why work to improve your teaching skills?
Vernon has something to say about this too, and he should. Vernon won the national award for Outstanding Research and Doctoral Universities Professor, an award created by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Judges evaluated nominees in four areas: 1) impact on and involvement with undergraduate students; 2) scholarly approach to teaching and learning; 3) contributions to undergraduate education within the institution, community and profession; and 4) support from colleagues and students. The award also came with $5,000.
Growing up in Ninety Six, South Carolina during the height of the civil rights movement inspired Burton to study history, and now he is a widely recognized authority in the history of the South. He has written four books, with more on the drawing board. He has also developed an Internet site called RiverWeb (http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/RiverWeb), a multimedia study of the Mississippi River's interaction with people over time. Vernon has a unique and worthwhile perspective on teaching.
RI: Why did you become a professor?
Burton: I think mainly because my professors wanted me to. My religion professors encouraged me to go on to Princeton or one of the other schools I had offers from because it was too good an academic opportunity to pass up. I was also inspired by a wonderful book by a historian named C. Vann Woodward, called Tom Watson, Agrarian Rebel. I had an interest in race relations and the American South, so that might have spurred me on to be a teacher as well. I grew up during the civil rights movement and I was fascinated by race relations.
RI: In your opinion, what makes a good teacher?
Burton: The main thing is to care about students. The best teacher is not always the one who is able to talk to a large crowd or entertain when they speak. Sometimes the best teachers may be those who might even have a speech impediment, but they are willing to spend time teaching students how to write or helping them rework their papers.
There are various styles, but I think all of them come back to the care and concern for studentssomehow you have to relate to them and want them to learn. People did that for me and that was very important in the background I came out of in rural South Carolina. No one had, I think, even graduated from high school, let alone college, in my family. So my teachers had really worked and stretched and helped me stretch to become better, and I wanted to do the same thing for other students.
RI: Why should faculty bother with teaching?
Burton: For Christian faculty I think there is a Biblical imperative. All of us have different gifts and one of them, of course, is teaching. I think for us it's the imperative, but I also think that our rewards can't be the rewards of the world.
I have told people, jokingly of course, that I'll probably get a salary cut next year when they discover at a research university that I won the teacher of the year award for the U.S. It's clear here that what is cared about is scholarship. It's a research university and that's what it advertises itself as, not as a teaching university. But it's hard for me to believe that people would want to be a historian and not want to teach. That's what a historian is doing, whether writing or otherwise. To interact with students about ideas is exciting.
RI: How do you find a balance between the two?
Burton: At a research university you have no choice; you won't be there unless you do scholarship. But I believe scholarship and teaching use the same skills. I believe being a good researcher and scholar can help you be a good teacher by helping to bring fresh insights to class, introducing students to the latest research and thinking, showing how people are changing their ideas about the past, and so on. I'm not sympathetic to people who say, "I'm not a teacher; I'm a scholar," because I believe the same skills are there--if you can do the scholarship, you can certainly do good teaching. There's organization and hard work in teaching, of course, but I think there's a responsibility too. I think we have an obligation to the citizens, to the parents, who are sending their children to us. Of course I would say that as a parent of five children.
RI: How would a professor go about improving himself or herself as a teacher?
Burton: Basically being prepared, organized and having enthusiasm for the subject; those things carry a teacher a long way. There is now developing what is called a pedagogy of teaching, or scholarship of teaching. I think that is important--learning about how to be an effective teacher.
One important aspect is just caring about the students. I don't like the movies students watch today, but I watch them so I can know what vocabulary they are using, and what are some of the values being passed on to them through different media. Then I know where to begin and how to work with them so at least my students can know where I'm coming from.
RI: So you are learning the culture of your students as much as you can?
Burton: As much as I can, yes. I'm helped a little bit there by still having children in the home. When I was at Princeton as a graduate student, I became an "assistant master," I was the only resident "master" of an undergraduate college, Woodrow Wilson College. It was there I saw how important it was to view students from their culture and perspective. Now I go regularly with my family to one of the dorms to eat with students so I can see them outside the classroom setting and see what they're thinking. I believe that most of the time we undersell students; they really do want to learn, and you have to challenge them to make them do it.
RI: Does your teaching extend to outside the classroom? Is it a lifestyle?
Burton: I think so. I regularly have students to dinner in my home. There it is clear we are a Christian family with the decorations and such. In my own home I do say grace at meals. They are not required to come but I offer them the opportunity to see me in that setting. I've also taught Sunday school and I speak to a lot of groups and give lectures in the dorms. I take any opportunity, such as speaking to minority students whom the administration is trying to interest in an academic career.
I don't have to do those things. I don't get paid for them, and they take time away from other things. But at the same time I think it's part of my responsibility or obligation. My beliefs and my faith in being a Christian leads me to do things that other faculty would probably pass over. Their attitude is that it just takes away from what's really important--what the university really cares about, such as the research and writing. And they are right to some extent, but we don't live our lives as Christians for the same value system that others do.
Now, I have been very lucky. I think God has really rewarded me probably much more than I ever deserved. I could not be as successful a teacher if I had not been so successful as a scholar. I hope that both the award and my scholarship grants me an opportunity to help bring some legitimacy to Christian scholars. Before I acquired some standing in the profession, I think people assumed that my being a Christian must have meant I couldn't be intellectual. That attitude is much more common in the humanities and the social sciences.
RI: What sorts of techniques and ideas do you use in the classroom?
Burton: I try different things to make class interesting. I study community--that's one of my subject areas. So I try to build into teaching the sense of community among classes along with the responsibilities and rights that go along with that. I have a lot of different techniques. For instance, I have done a clip with Gone With the Wind where I take only the images that have African Americans in it. It is a much-loved movie, but I have never had anyone that didn't come away with an understanding of the way we build racism, unintentionally, into our media that reinforces stereotypes of people.
You start with where students are and use that to teach them what you want them to learn and know. For example, the movie Good Will Hunting has a scene in a bar where the characters are talking about historiography and the American Revolution. I'll show that and I can use it because it will relate to them about what historiography is, about what historians are arguing and why that's important, and they can relate to Good Will Hunting. And from there I can go into the different interpretations of the revolution, and actually expand upon that. I also use music as much as I can.
I also have students conduct research on their own. I think it is crucial that even in the basic survey courses it is important for students to work with primary documents and learn about interpretations. Sometimes it's research I've already done--I have a source I can give them to work with. For instance, I do an exercise on the former slave narratives in a basic survey class and we use RiverWeb. At the RiverWeb Internet site, instead of going to the library, students can look at the original documents we've scanned and work from there. So they're doing their own research.
I think all of it again comes back to caring about students as people who potentially could be your colleagues. Certainly you know that they are there to learn, so you want to try to help them learn. The more you can get students learning to be critical thinkers the better. I learned the most from people who demanded the most of me.
RI: What projects are you now working on?
Burton: I have the frustration of trying to do too many things. I'm actually working on finishing a book on the civil war. I want to do a book on the civil rights movement. I've done a lot of voting rights testimony over the years, in minority rights, and so I want to do one on the civil rights movement and the voting rights act. But RiverWeb is another project, and it's multimedia. One of the problems of doing a project like RiverWeb is that it is not as yet something that would be accepted as real research, though it clearly is. But I set RiverWeb up as much as to help my graduate students as anything else--to help them get jobs. Also I believe it is a great way to teach history.
I believe the new media could go one of two ways. It has the potential to democratize, but it could also become a tool of the elite. I hope by the kinds of things we're doing with RiverWeb we can democratize and make history more available, and learning more available, to people who aren't necessarily here at the University of Illinois.
Another project I'm working on is with East St. Louis, which is rather economically depressed. I'm working with the churches and schools there to get young people involved in RiverWeb; they get to tailor RiverWeb to make their own little tour guide. So we're giving them a little of their history back.
RI: Is your faith a factor in your success as a scholar and a teacher?
Burton: I think it is. I try to give God the credit for any success. In my first book, In My Father's House are Many Mansions, I sort of announced that my faith was important--I mean it was important to me personally, and that it is a powerful force historically in people's lives. Religious faith motivates people to give up food, water and even sex. The only thing I know that would do that is religion. But I think scholars ignored the importance of it; they didn't take religion seriously.
Even my initial interest in the civil rights movement and race relations came about from trying to understand my home church. The people there were very good to me and were good people, but they were opposed to having African Americans in their church. I believe so much of it is a lack of education or a lack of understanding of how history has been presented to people. History can be used badly, but it can also be used to great effect to try to make decisions and to help us understand where we are.
But is faith a factor in my success? Absolutely. I wouldn't be who I was without my faith. That's who I am--my value system, my whole ideas come out of Christianity and my faith as a believer in Jesus Christ as Lord. I do not succeed as much as I would like to but I try to keep those values foremost.
RI: What are some other ways in which you seek to integrate your faith with your profession?
Burton: I argue for the importance of religion in people's lives in my book, In My Father's House are Many Mansions, both from African American and white perspectives. While religion was used in some cases by whites to oppress and control blacks, it also helped African Americans to be able to survive with some sense of integrity and without becoming people with warped personalities. It gave them a wholeness and a way to judge their oppressors outside of the political arena. At the same time it helped them to see the humanity of their oppressors. So I was able to write about these things.
RI: Is being a Christian professor different from being just a professor?
Burton: I think it is. But I want to emphasize that the standards are the same. In Marsden's book, The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship, I think Marsden is right: we have to meet the academic standards. We have to write for the system. People will be tempted to think we are more prejudiced, but we aren't. I think we always have to think in terms of the standards of whose game we are playing in.
RI: Is it important to spend time with other Christian faculty?
Burton: Increasingly so. I have done that here, but it was always with older faculty who were not in the humanities. But now we are trying to get people together in the humanities and social sciences. I crave this and I think we need to have more people. I was a Pew Evangelical scholar, and that was good to meet some other Christian scholars. But it is particularly hard, at least here where I am in this research university, to find other Christians who are in the humanities and social sciences. No one like that has been hired in my department, and I've been here 26 years. Many who have been hired since are hostile to the idea of religion.
As an academic in the humanities and social sciences, I need to seek out believers in other places; it's important for me to have Christian peers. That's one of the things we really miss in academics; I wish there were ways that we could build more networks because there usually aren't many Christians in one place.
There were believers in the older generation when I came here, but then none of them were regarded as top scholars, either. If it had not been for my scholarship, I could not have survived here, good teacher or not. I try to give God the credit for that. I worried about that when I made my faith pronouncement in my book In My Father's House. Its first review was done by the greatest scholar in my field, C. Vann Woodward. In the New York Review of Books, he basically gave it his blessing and that made all the difference. I really think that in some ways God was protecting me.
RI: How important of an event was being honored with the Carnegie Award?
Burton: It was nice, but it's not why I teach. I'm hoping that God is giving me this opportunity as a Christian to speak, to encourage others as Christians and also to give some legitimacy to being a Christian, a scholar and a teacher. I think there's an opportunity for me as a Christian to speak out in a way that I hope can be encouraging to others. I'm not this person, but I think we need someone of a C. S. Lewis stature who can legitimize the intellectual practice of Christian scholars. We have not had that for a while.
RI: What are your goals as a future teacher and scholar?
Burton: I have writing to do, and I have a great desire to come back to the South. That's what I want to do. I've prayed about this--the perfect job for me was offered a few years back: an endowed chair at the University of Alabama. That's the kind of place I'd like to be, where I can do something on the civil rights movement. But I guess I'll have to leave that up to either academics or God. I know God has called me, and I'm assuming He is using me here. I certainly would not have the teaching award if I were not here. So I'm taking it that the award is something I should use as a witness for Him.
RI: What is your personal spiritual history?
Burton: My mother is a devout Christian. She is one of those who lives her life as a Christian. My dad died when I was seven, so it was just the two of us without any help from social security or anything, not even insurance. It was very hard--this was 1954. My mother was dedicated to me and her faith was overwhelming, and it still is.
My mother is an inspiration to me. She has been my model. She lives her life as close as one can imagine to the ideal Christian. I remember her telling me as a child that all children were the children of God. She said that black or white, it made no difference. That's pretty interesting when you think she didn't get a chance to go to high school. She got that from reading the Bible. Even her church wasn't saying that at the time, including her own minister. But she had this strong belief that you prayed, read the Bible and God directed and took care of you. And she still has that at 89. That's part of why I want to go back South--to be near her. She still lives in Ninety Six, South Carolina. I go there every time I can.
RI: Any final thoughts?
Burton: I really want to make a difference as a Christian scholar. Not just as a scholar and teacher, but as a Christian scholar. It's very important to encourage others to be people of faith as scholars and witnesses to students as well as other faculty.


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The Standard & Poor's 500 Index ($INX) nearly reached 1,400 and the Nasdaq Composite Index ($COMPX) briefly topped 3,000, both for the first time since early May. Shares of U.S. companies with sizable sales in Europe moved higher, including IBM (IBM), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Caterpillar (CAT) and United Technologies (UTX).
Best Buy (BBY) shares were up sharply after founder Richard Schulze offered to take the struggling electronics retailer private for $24 to $26 a share -- or as much as $8.84 billion. Best Buy rose as high as $21.60 before falling back to $19.99, up $2.35. The pullback was related to caution over whether a deal can get done.
Knight Capital Group's (KCG) shares were off 98 cents to $3.07 after the company, one of the largest market makers for stocks, announced a $400 million capital injection. The move diluted existing shareholders' stake in the company to just 25%. The company was facing a loss of some $440 million after a computer software glitch last week sent thousands of orders to buy and sell stocks to the major exchanges.
The Dow Jones industrials ($INDU) closed up 21 points to 13,118. The blue chips hit 13,187, their highest intraday level since May 4. The S&P 500 gained 3 points at 1,394 after reaching as high as 1,399.63. The Nasdaq added 22 points to 2,990.
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The Nasdaq-100 Index ($NDX), which tracks the largest Nasdaq stocks, gained 18 points to 2,694. Apple (AAPL), the largest influence on the index, was up $6.85 to $622.55.
The major averages scored their first positive finishes on a Monday since the end of May.
The market's positive finish came after last week's small weekly gain, which was predicated on a stronger-than-expected jobs report on Friday and renewed hopes for Europe. The market's pullback looks to have been the result of sell programs kicking in when the S&P 500 hit 1,400 and the Nasdaq hit 3,000.
On Tuesday, the Federal Reserve will report on consumer credit outstanding from the Federal Reserve. Earnings results are due from apparel retailer Fossil (FOSL), beer-maker Molson Coors Brewing (TAP), real-estate research firm Zillow (Z) and entertainment giant Walt Disney (DIS).
Futures trading suggests a flat open on Tuesday.
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Retail gasoline | $3.6190 | $3.6100 | 8.45% | 10.47% | ||||||||
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Gold and crude move higher
Gold (-GC) settled up $6.90 to $1,616.20 an ounce. It's up slightly this month. Crude oil (-CL) was up 80 cents to $92.20 a barrel. Brent crude rose 30 cents to $109.57 a barrel.
The gains came on the European hopes, which boosted the euro to $1.241 against the dollar, up from $1.2399 on Friday. The dollar, however, is still up 4.5% against the euro this year.
The national average price of gasoline was $3.619 a gallon, according to AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge Report, up from Sunday's $3.61 a gallon and up 8.1% from the July 2 low of $3.326 a gallon.
The 10-year Treasury yield was down slightly to 1.542% from Friday's 1.577%.
Europe looks better
Stocks in Germany, France and Britain were higher for the second straight session as traders appeared more optimistic about European Central Bank President Mario Draghi's plan to address the sovereign debt crisis.
Draghi seems to be succeeding at getting most of the eurozone countries to buy into his plan, which still requires a large number of approvals.
Draghi said Thursday that any future debt purchases by the central bank would focus on short-dated debt. That led to sharp declines in Spanish and Italian bond yields Friday and today.
Spanish and Italian two-year notes climbed for a fourth day amid speculation that the European Central Bank will buy the securities in an attempt to calm regional turmoil. The yield on the two-year Spanish note has fallen from a high of 6.64% on July 24 to 3.493% today.
Schulze's Best Buy offer appears to lack details
Schulze's $24-to $26-a-share offer for Best Buy represents a premium of 36% to 47% to Best Buy's closing price Friday. Best Buy had 339.9 million shares outstanding as of June 6. Schulze, who founded the company 36 years ago, owns about 20% of its stock.
Schulze's offer came as the company has struggled against competition from Apple's stores, Amazon.com (AMZN) and other retailers. Schulze said his offer to take the company private would allow the company time to fix its problems. "There is no question that now is the moment of truth for Best Buy and that immediate and substantial changes are needed for the company to return to its market-leading ways," he said in a statement.
But the offer faces important hurdles:
- It not clear whether he can raise the cash needed to take the company.
- It's not clear whether Best Buy will give him clearance to form an investment group to make an offer, a legal requirement in Minnesota, where the company is based.
The company said it has received the offer, which it termed "highly conditional," and will review it.
HCA and Tyson Foods shares fall
HCA Holdings (HCA), the biggest U.S. hospital operator, declined the most in eight months after saying its cardiology practices had come under scrutiny from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami.
HCA fell $1.05 to $25.55 after hitting as low as $23.91 in its biggest intraday drop since Dec. 2. The U.S. Attorney in July asked HCA for information about the "medical necessity" of interventional cardiology procedures at its hospitals, the company said.
At the same time, CEO Richard Bracken said today on a call that The New York Times was also preparing a story that may focus on HCA's medical practices and treatment of uninsured patients.
Meat producer Tyson Foods (TSN) shares fell $1.23 to $14.17 after the company cut its full-year revenue forecast by $1 billion to $33 billion. The company warned that full-year profits would miss the company's expectations and remain under pressure next year.
Tyson said fiscal-third-quarter earnings fell to 50 cents a share compared with 51 cents a year ago. Wall Street had been looking for 54 cents a share. At $8.31 billion, revenue also fell short of analysts' $8.72 billion projection.
Cognizant Technology has strong earnings
Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH) climbed $6.35 to $64.21. The provider of consulting and outsourcing services reported earnings and sales that beat analysts' projections.
Shares of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway were lower even as the company's second-quarter profit beat estimates. The company's Class A (BRK.A) shares were down $690 to $127,789. The Class B (BRK.B) shares were off 43 cents to $85.15.
Regions Financial (RF) added 7 cents to $7 after analysts at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch raised their recommendation to "buy" from "neutral."
Sixteen of the 30 Dow stocks were higher, led by Bank of America (BAC), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and Cisco Systems (CSCO). The laggard was American Express (AXP).
Best Buy, First Solar (FSLR) and Cognizant Technologies were the S&P 500 leaders. Tyson Foods and advertising company Interpublic Group (IPG) were the laggards. A total of 285 S&P 500 stocks were higher.
Cognizant and Netflix (NFLX) were the Nasdaq-100 leaders. Warner Chilcott (WCRX) and chip maker Marvell Technologies (MRVL) were the laggards. Seventy-nine stocks in the index were higher.
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10-year Treasury note | 1.558% | 1.577% | -6.09% | -16.73% | ||||||||
30-year Treasury bond | 2.646% | 2.662% | -4.23% | -8.41% | ||||||||
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Democrats and Republicans alike should be distressed by President Barack Obama's disregard for constitutional limits on his authority. The president's flouting of the separation of powers risks turning this country into something other than a representative democracy. Congress should move in a bipartisan rebuke of Obama's overreach before he neuters that institution.
In a blatant challenge to the legislative branch, Obama by executive order tossed out the Clinton-era welfare reform that required able-bodied aid recipients to work, saying the federal government will no longer enforce the law.
This follows the president's unilateral rewrite of immigration law, using an executive order to implement elements of the DREAM Act, which Congress refused to adopt. He also has thumbed his nose at the No Child Left Behind Act, and has put in place cap-and-trade carbon rules that were specifically rejected by Congress.
He can't do these things, by any reading of the Constitution. And yet he is. Because Congress, whose powers he is usurping, hasn't risen to stop him.
Obama Followers:
1- Nasa didn't land Curiosity on Mars, somebody else did that....maybe Obama himself did it...
2- Saab (Spyker) is suing Goverment Motors.......what's Obama saying about this?
3- here I quote:
"3000 GM dealerships closed in total, over 250,000 direct jobs lost with an estimated 300,000 support jobs lost as part of Obama's UAW 'Let's save the union jobs' bailout. The ORIGINAL purpose of the Detroit bailout that Bush signed was to PREVENT GM and Chrysler from filing bankruptcy. Instead, Obama FORCES them to file. And the only winners were the Unions."
4- here I quote:
"Hope Spyker wins. GM should have declared bankruptcy and been sold for scrap."
Seems like we will break the streak of 9 down mondays but, and that is why we advise caution; at 1540 hrs manipulators started doing their thing, bastards will never ever give up...A few more minutes and it would have been 10 mondays down in a row....Unreal....We couldn't make this up people, truth is stranger than fiction. Remember, we can be up 100, 200, 300, doesn't matter; when crooks take over things change in a NY minute...Oh well.
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Featuring 316 original prints from the prestigious Black Star Collection, HUMAN RIGHTS HUMAN WRONGS uses the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a point of departure to examine whether images of political struggle, suffering and victims of violence work for or against humanitarian objectives, especially when considering questions of race, representation, ethical responsibility and the cultural position of the photographer. Curated by Mark Sealy, Director of Autograph ABP in London, England, and named a 2012 Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to photography, HUMAN RIGHTS HUMAN WRONGS begins circa 1945 and includes well-known Civil Rights Movement events such as the Selma to Montgomery March and Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech. The exhibition also features images of the independence movements in African countries including Kenya, Algeria, Chad, and Congo; portraits of Nobel Peace Prize winners Lester B. Pearson, Yasser Arafat, and René Cassin; images of protests in locations such as Berkeley, Chile, and Argentina; and war and conflict from the Vietnam War to the Rwandan Genocide in 1994.
Through HUMAN RIGHTS HUMAN WRONGS, we see the wide dissemination of photographic images of humankind in abject, euphoric or violently explicit conditions, and examine how these images assist us in understanding the case for human and civil rights. Viewer discretion and parental guidance is advised. HUMAN RIGHTS HUMAN WRONGS is made possible by the generous support of TD Bank Group, with additional funding from the Paul J. Ruhnke Memorial Fund, the Howard and Carole Tanenbaum Family Charitable Foundation and Ryerson University. The exhibition is a collaboration with Autograph ABP (supported by Arts Council England) HUMAN RIGHTS HUMAN WRONGS will be on view in the Ryerson Image Centre Main Gallery January 23 April 14, 2013.
Alfredo Jaar: The Politics of Images curated by Dr. Gaëlle Morel, exhibitions curator at the RIC, addresses political concerns and the relationship between ethics and aesthetics. The Chilean-born, New York-based, artist highlights ignored contemporary tragedies such as genocides, epidemics, and famines, to promote cultural change. In his works Searching for Africa in Life (1996) and From Time to Time (2006), Jaar displays covers of news magazines to analyze the lack of visibility and the visual clichés about Africa disseminated in Western culture. The artists three-channel video We Wish to Inform You That We Didnt Know (2010), his most recent project on the genocide in Rwanda, acts as an epilogue to The Rwanda Project, 1994-2000, a series of twenty-five artworks developed to critique the worlds indifference and inaction to that mass murder. Alfredo Jaar: The Politics of Images will be on view in the Ryerson Image Centre University Gallery January 23 April 14, 2013.
Clive Holden asks, Is it un-American to be un-famous? Are Americans failures if they die without fame? Drawing from the Black Star Collection at Ryerson University, he creates UNAMERICAN UNFAMOUS using the un-famous as an organizing principle in his selection of one hundred image details and faces. Plucked from obscurity, these people can be found in the backgrounds of famous photographs, or simply hidden in the depths of a photographic archive. At times they are literally seen over the shoulders of celebrities in the iconic photographs that capture the American Century. The works media tile construction is made with a hybrid adaptation of photographic, cinematic, and web tools. It also uses film leader as raw material (the beginning and end pieces of film reels). With a complex series of randomizing algorithms, these film loops are juxtaposed and continually remixed with the unsung human leaders found in the Black Star Collection, as well as with photographs of local un-famous un-Americans nominated by members of the public. The work will evolve over the course of the exhibition as community-nominated images are added. People are invited to nominate a photograph of someone who is both un-American and unjustly un-famous for inclusion in UNAMERICAN UNFAMOUS. Nominations will be accepted until March 15th, 2013. Details are online at www.unamericanunfamous.com. Clive Holden: UNAMERICAN UNFAMOUS is curated by Dr. Gaëlle Morel, and will be on view on the Ryerson Image Centres Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall January 23 April 14, 2013.
Captive State is an exhibition of photographs taken by Dominic Nahr during two trips to Somalia. In August 2011, Nahr traveled to Mogadishu with Alex Perry (TIMEs Africa Bureau Chief) to document the famine in Southern Somalia. They found overwhelming suffering and death; approximately 150,000 of the 2.8 million Somalis affected eventually starved to death. Almost as appalling was the knowledge that a US anti-terrorism policy unwittingly blocked aid to the famine areas for years. Perry writes, If drought set the conditions for last years famine in East Africa, it was man who ensured it. When Nahr and Perry returned to Mogadishu the following year, the improvements were tangible, but as Perry states, If Mogadishu was enjoying its longest sustained peace in 21 years of civil war, you couldnt mistake that for a return to normality. A TIME Contract Photographer and Magnum Photos Nominee, Dominic Nahr graduated from the photography program at Ryerson University in 2008. Dominic Nahr: Captive State will be on view in the Ryerson Image Centres Student Gallery January 23 March 10, 2013.
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Art on the go, "Museum Space" courtesy of Paris' Charles de Gaulle international airport
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CHICAGO Aleris International Inc.s Richmond, Va., facility was hit by a fire the morning of May 3 as workers were cleaning up from a blaze at the same location less than two weeks earlier.
"During the cleanup process, fire ignited," a spokesman for the Beachwood, Ohio-based aluminum company told AMM. "We were starting the recovery process (from the previous fire), which involves cleaning the furnace and also repair work."
The blaze occurred as steel was being ground as part of efforts to replace a section of ductwork at the plant, the spokesman said. The fire was confined to external ductwork and didnt enter the facilitys "furnace proper," he said.
The cause of the blaze wasnt immediately certain, although it was speculated that the grinding of ductwork produced sparks that might have ignited aluminum particulate or other dust, the spokesman said.
The impact of the latest fire on production and the extent of any damage also werent immediately clear, he said, adding that the plant was evacuated as a matter of routine safety protocol and there were no injuries.
Local firefighters responded to the incident, and Aleris is currently assessing the situation, the spokesman said.
The fire has been extinguished, according to the spokesman. "There are no visible flames," he said, but noted that a sand blanket has been put down as a precaution.
The Chesterfield (Va.) Fire and EMS was dispatched at 9:23 a.m. and the fire was deemed under control at 12:01 p.m. May 3, a fire department spokesman said, adding that no injuries were reported.
A fire broke out at the Richmond plant April 24 in a tower involved in aluminum production ( amm.com, April 25). Damage was initially thought to be minimal, and finishing and cold-rolling resumed April 25 ( amm.com, April 26).
But Aleris later realized that the facilitys furnace had suffered more damage than expected, and said production could be down for two to three weeks. Aleris said at the time that customers would be served from capacity at other company plants ( amm.com, April 30).
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In fact, Chinese leaders are more focused on what is going to happen in a few years, not what the country will be like in the future. As a result, young generation would probably inherit all the serious problems. I hope Xi would make the situation better in years to come, instead of a rising economy, paying more attention to health care, free education, environment protection etc.
Hu was best for China's economy?
THIS week Hu Jintao, China's president, stepped down as leader of China's Communist Party. His economic record would be the envy of most leaders elsewhere in the world, but how does it compare with that of his predecessors? He inherited an economy that had grown by 9.6% a year on average during Jiang Zemin's time in office and almost as quickly during Deng Xiaoping's years in charge. Rather than try to match that pace of expansion, Mr Hu promised a more balanced path of development in pursuit of a more "harmonious" society. As things turned out, growth was even faster under Mr Hu than it had been under his predecessors. Growth this year has slowed to less than 8%. But that is still fast enough to fulfil Mr Hu's target, announced last week, of doubling income per person from 2010 to 2020. Has this hectic growth also been more harmonious?
China's development has traditionally favoured the city over the countryside and the coasts over inland regions. By the time Mr Hu assumed office, China's coastal provinces accounted for 61% of the country's economic output. Heavy investment in inland provinces has helped to arrest that trend: the coasts' share of GDP was 58.5% last year. Urban incomes also outpaced rural incomes under Deng's rule and in the latter half of Jiang's reign. By 2008 rural incomes averaged less than 30% of urban disposable incomes. Since then, according to official figures, rural incomes have regained some ground. Mr Hu also sought more balanced growth. But his efforts to expand the role of household consumption failed. Its share of GDP averaged an astonishingly low 37% from 2003 to 2011, compared with 46% during Mr Jiang's term. In his defence Mr Hu can say that the consumption ratio rose in 2011 and in the first nine months of 2012. Consumption has lagged partly because China's capital-intensive, monopolistic state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have raked in profits rather than driving down prices or bidding up wages. The SOEs shed tens of millions of jobs under Mr Hu's predecessor, but their share of urban employment has stabilised on Mr Hu's watch. In his speech at the party congress, Mr Hu described public ownership as the "mainstay of the economy". Unfortunately that sentiment is not in harmony with balanced growth.


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