We're hiring! : Pure Romance

Patty Brisben was homesick from her job as a medical assistant when something on a talk show got her attention and brought a blush to her cheek: A company known as Fun Parties had consultants set up in-home parties for other women -- not for Avon products or Tupperware -- but to demonstrate vibrators and "intimacy aids."

Brisben spoke to a friend, who instead of expressing shock that there was such an industry, admitted to having attended such a party that very week. After that, Brisben made a call to Fun Parties and soon signed up as a consultant herself.

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Saving Bobby Hull’s home :: Occupy Our Homes :: Minneapolis

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-Barack Obama Quote O’ The Day

Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.

–from Back to School Event, Arlington, VA, September 8, 2009

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19 Years Later :: AIDS Surviver :: OFA volunteer

By Phil Gaskin, Regional Field Director, Pennsylvania on December 1, 2011

In August 1992, the same year as Magic Johnson, I tested positive for HIV. It was that day 19 years ago that changed my life forever. On that day, I became what I call a triple minority. I was not only an African-American man, not only an African-American gay man, but an African-American, gay, and HIV-positive man, and a man who was suddenly faced with my mortality: I was told that day I would be dead within seven years.

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Energy Dept. 'Flips Switch' on East Coast's Largest Solar Array

On Nov. 19th 2011, the Energy Department's Brookhaven National Laboratory "flipped the switch" on the largest solar photovoltaic array in the eastern United States. The 164,312 solar panels hosted at the Lab in New York State -- one of the largest solar farms built on federal property in the nation -- will produce enough energy to power up to 4,500 homes.

The 32-megawatt Long Island Solar Farm (LISF) Project, a collaborative project between the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) and BP Solar International, Inc. (BP Solar), also boasts the smallest carbon footprint of any solar array with its amount of output. The use of an Energy Department site has helped attract investments from public and private sources, ensuring the economic success of the project and serving the nation's goal to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and foreign oil.

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