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Calm in the Midst of Chaos- Stay Sane While Planning Your Big Day!
It's not easy preparing for all the aspects of an event that you want to be flawless, so it's no wonder so many brides seem harried and stressed out. Once you get started, there are so many aspects to the wedding that had never even occurred to you before, and it feels like the to-do lists do nothing but grow. Don't worry. With a little bit of foresight, a few good people and a dash of humor, you can get through this. It is possible to plan a wedding and still stay sane.
Here are some tips to keep your stress levels down.
Prevent unnecessary stressors Many brides accidentally walk right into some of the most stressful situations they encounter during wedding planning. Don't dig yourself into a ditch – do some thinking and planning before things get stressful, and later you'll be grateful you did.
• Start early. It's all too easy to relax when you've got months to go before your wedding. However, you likely already know the stress that procrastination can bring, and planning a wedding is a huge undertaking. Assume from the start that everything will take twice as long as you expect. If it does, you'll be prepared. If it doesn't, you can later relax at a point when most brides are on the verge of pulling their hair out.
• Get help from the professionals. For you, weddings are not an everyday occurrence. For some people, they are. It can be invaluable to get advice from people who know what they're doing and have done it many times before. These people can also be objective in many ways that you and your family and friends cannot. And because so many aspects of your wedding preparations have to be done at the last minute, it takes huge amounts of stress off of you not to be doing everything yourself.
• Stay within your budget. Going over budget for a wedding is a huge source of stress for engaged couples. Do whatever it takes to keep yourself on track, whether it's consulting a professional, keeping a detailed spreadsheet on the computer or just forcing yourself to go without in certain aspects of the event, no matter how nice the extras would be.
• Get organized – and stay that way. There are a lot of tools out there to help you keep track of the many different things you need to do. Make a binder and put in plenty of blank notebook paper, folders or see-through plastic pages, and tabs. You can find lists online or in wedding planning books of everything you'll need to arrange. Be sure also to include a calendar with plenty of space to write down appointments and meetings. Put all of your information about the wedding in this binder – to-do lists, samples, notes, quotes from vendors, contracts, brochures, ideas and more. And always put the binder back in the same spot so you don't lose it!
• Prioritize. Decide which elements are the most important to you, and tackle them first. If your top priority is to have the perfect wedding dress but the cake falls low on the list, start looking for wedding dresses before you visit bakeries. If you run low on time in the end, as often happens, at least you'll be happy with the aspects of your wedding that you care most about. Preventing and handling people problems The people make the wedding, but sometimes they bring in stressors all their own. Don't let lazy or overzealous friends and relatives control what matters to you about your wedding.
• Ask for help from people you know you can rely on. Choose people who understand the vision you have for your wedding and who have similar taste to your own. You'll save yourself a lot of stress if you know right from the start whom you want to help you out … and whom you don't. Although it can be hard telling your future mother-in-law that you don't share her ideas about how your wedding should look, it's a lot easier to tell her at the start than once she's put in months of effort.
• Blame it on the professionals. Getting advice is not the only benefit of consulting a wedding professional. You can also use professional opinions to back yourself up when a family member tries to arrange things in a way you don't like. It's a lot easier to say, "Mom, the florist recommended against having a different type of flower on each table," than to tell her that you're the one who dislikes the idea.
• Be compassionate, not confrontational. If your maid of honor or another important player is slacking in her role, try not to get angry. Start by putting yourself in her place. Is she stressed out at work or at home? Remember that even though the wedding is all-encompassing for you right now, she's got other things going on in her life. Then talk to her about your feelings in a sympathetic way, and really listen to what she says. You chose her to be involved in your wedding for a reason, so let her know that you trust her, value her opinion and effort, and need her help right now. If she can't handle all of her responsibilities, find a way to shift some of them to another bridesmaid, trusted family member or friend. However, if after a few tries things aren't getting better, keep reading.
• If you need to replace someone, do it. It's never fun to have to tell someone you no longer want her to be in your wedding, but the bridal party bears certain responsibilities. If someone isn't up to the challenge, tell her kindly and gently that you need to relieve her of the responsibility but that she is still invited to the wedding. Calm down when stress arrives No matter how much you prepare, you're going to get stressed out while you're planning your wedding. Knowing how to handle that stress when it arrives will be what keeps you from getting worn down.
• Make time for things you love and that you know calm you down. If you typically spend a lot of your time reading, go for a regular massage or have a weekly movie night with friends, don't give these things up just because you're busy with wedding planning. Keeping up with your regular activities can be just the break you need to get your mind off the wedding and realize that it won't be the end of the world if you're unable to book your first-choice venue.
• Be nice to your body. Remember to eat, sleep and exercise. As basic as it sounds, many people compound their stress by not treating their body right during times of stress. Yoga, in particular, has been shown to relieve stress by raising the brain's levels of the neurotransmitter GABA. • Breathe! Stop, close your eyes and take several slow, deep breaths. No matter how busy you are, you can take out 30 seconds to breathe. If you have more time, consider lying down on your bed and doing some longer breathing exercises. Picture your breath as it enters your body, and imagine it traveling downward until it fills up the upper part of your lungs. With every breath, imagine the air extending further into your body, until it's entering even your fingers and toes.
• Go on dates. Spend time with your fiancé without talking about the wedding. Take this time to remember what you love about each other and why you want to get married in the first place.
• Leave some stones unturned. Depending on where your wedding is taking place, you may have almost unlimited options for wedding vendors, venues and bands. Don't get paralyzed by choice. Narrow your options down to just a few choices by asking for advice from friends and family or wedding professionals, who often know which vendors are easy to work with and which to avoid. Then interview only those select few.
Remember that in the end, your wedding is just one day in a long life of happiness together. Everyone wants a perfect wedding day, but in life, nothing is ever exactly as you imagine it. You are only human, as is everyone else involved in your wedding. Make sure that you've taken care of the big things, but don't try to micromanage every detail of the day. You'll go crazy trying, and you'll set yourself up for disappointment at the drop of a hat. After all, for as much effort as you've put into planning your wedding, you owe it to yourself to be loving every minute of it, not thinking about how the music came on a couple of seconds too late at the end of the ceremony. You've earned this; enjoy it.

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World March of Women 10th International Meeting in Mozambique, October 2016
The World March of Women (WMW) is comprised of National Coordinating Bodies (NCB's) from each of the 65 countries and territories represented in the global movement. The International Meeting of the World March of Women is the highest decision making body of the global movement, and takes place every three years. During the meeting, delegates from the National Coordinating Bodies adopt the political platform, decide on international actions, evaluate and review the work of the WMW in the previous period, elect new International Committee members, review financial picture of the WMW, and choose the location of the next International Secretariat (once every six years).
The 10th International Meeting took place October 11-15, 2016 in Mozambique. This was the first time the US chapter participated in the international meeting since our founding. We brought three representatives from the US chapter: Tanika Thompson (Got Green), Beva Sanchez-Padilla (SWOP), and Helena Wong (GGJ). Tanika and Beva represented the US chapter because of their leadership role in organizations that are preparing to launch the first local branches of the WMW US chapter.
The meeting was attended by about 100 women from 40 countries around the world, with about half of them coming from the continent of Africa.
Goals in attending our first International Meeting:
1. Participate fully as the US chapter, learn about the global context, share who we are and our work. We were able to share updates about the new US chapter through a large group presentation, as well as in conversations and regional breakouts. We attended presentations by panels that described some of the main issues taking place in Mozambique and in different countries.
2. Make a contribution to the conversation about LBTQ inclusion within the World March of Women. Helena spoke on a panel on diversity and co-facilitated a side conversation, giving examples of how the WMW can be more inclusive of LBTQ issues, such as trainings at the regional and international meetings, (on gender, sexuality, patriarchy, internalized oppression and heteronormativity), actively supporting LBTQ events as the WMW (where it is safe to do so and where they can try to push for more visibility), and pushing themselves to imagine the leadership of the WMW also including LBTQ-identified people. Lastly, we also started a listserve for LBTQ identified people to be able to get support and share information.
3. Build with other NCB's (national coordinating bodies), especially in the Americas region. We spent half a day together with NCBs in the Americas region to learn about each other's work, vote for new regional International Committee members, and discuss global days of actions. NCB's participating from the Americas region were Quebec, Brazil, Venezuela, Chile, Peru, and the US.
Each day had a theme that built on top of one another. The first day, the theme was on Our Context. We learned about the context in Mozambique, with young girls being taken out of school when they get their periods to be trained on how to serve the future husband's families, and on the land grabs that are taking place in Mozambique to grow food that gets exported out and for mineral extraction. Each NCB on the first day also spent a few minutes sharing their own contexts. The second day the theme was on Our Alternatives, where a panelist spoke about food sovereignty in Latin America, fighting for democratic rights in Kurdistan, and projects for women's economic autonomy in Africa. Afterwards we broke out by language groups to discuss more how each country thought about alternatives, and how we can begin to think about building our work as alternatives. The third day was on Our Movement, where a panel spoke about how a diverse movement strengthens the WMW. There was a blind woman, a young woman, a lesbian, and a refugee who spoke. Afterwards, everyone went into their regional meetings to elect new International Committee representatives. In the Americas, the new IC representatives are Nalu Faria from Brazil and Mafalda Galdames from Chile, and the alternative representative is Alejandra Laprea from Venezuela. On the last day the theme was on Our Actions, where the WMW made the decision that in addition to March 8th and October 17th (traditional days that the WMW has always held actions on), April 24th will be 24 hours of feminist action moving forward, and that the first Saturday of June will be dedicated to taking actions around migrants and refugees. The WMW also affirmed that Kurdistan would be considered an autonomous region, where we would welcome a new NCB.
As part of the Justice for Berta campaign, we have been bringing the Berta fans to different spaces that we are in to get people to take photos and videos of support. We were amazed by how much support there was for Berta. Many women had already heard of her story and wanted to take their photo, and others who didn't know who she was were extremely supportive, and also had their photo taken.
Beva and Tanika came back inspired to build out local WMW branches in Albuquerque and Seattle. For both of them this was their first time in the World March of Women space. (It was also Tanika's first time out of the country!) They were both struck by the energy that comes from within the WMW, from opening up with music and singing every day to being in feminist solidarity with one another, and really understanding each other's struggles even if we do not come from the same place.
In coming back to Albuquerque from the WMW Mozambique meeting I find myself with more facility, and energy to further "crochet", with SWOP's Con Mujeres, the work, events, organizations and people who are organizing poor, rural, and communities of color. Three days after returning from Maputo, Con Mujeres joined the work of American Indian Opportunity (AIO, a 48 year old leadership training organization), 7th Direction Residential Home for young native women AND Child of All Nations (urban native elder women healers). In reporting highlights of injustice and alternatives and the feeling solidarity experienced at the Mozambique World March of Women meeting, strong links with these Albuquerque groups were created. Of the 11 young women found murdered and buried in a mass grave here in Albuquerque in 2010, one was a Native American, one Black and the others were Chicanas. Violence against women in the Pueblos was discussed as was with the epidemic of the deaths of many young children in the New Mexico as a result of domestic violence, police violence, drugs and poverty. Support, healing, exposure and education are in the forefront of deconstructing and reconstructing our communities. A belief that the woman has deep sacred power to do this was articulated.
I am a better organizer, a stronger and more joyful person as we address our contradictions in this belly of the beast. I am thankful for this opportunity and responsibility to continue our work as builders of a better world. We will not stop until we are all free.
- Beva
Attending this meeting gave me a stronger sense of the solidarity capable between women across the world and how we are all connected. It has strengthened my leadership abilities and broadened my network. I have made relationships that I would not have been able to make without traveling to Africa and having the opportunity to interact and bond with women with so much knowledge and experience. Together we are much stronger than any one person is alone.
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Water Damage Restoration in Jonesboro is a very difficult task, especially if you are doing everything all by yourself. To avoid the problems and mistakes that could turn up to be a disaster, one should hire a Water Damage Restoration Service Company. If you go in for a company with experienced team of personnel it will be good for you in long run. They have the experience of restoring things from water damage very easily and try to Avoid the Big Losses.
The sooner your call, the lesser your losses will be. Water damage restoration companies especially in Jonesboro and the surrounding areas will also guarantee you that their repair estimates will be accepted by the insurance company which means that you have almost nothing to lose by hiring professionals.
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Water Damage Restoration - WRT Exam – Trust an Expert
Sources state that the estimated lifespan of any given common household storage water heater is anywhere from five to fifteen years. Per these assumptions, one could reasonably expect to incur 2 to 6 water heater related issues or replacements within the 30 year lifespan of a typical mortgage. Obviously, this a real yet commonly underestimated potential source of significant water damage.
Aging water heaters will rust and leak. If the property owner catches it in time then the potential for damage is minimal but if the property owner not discover the damage in time, the resulting damage can be substantial. In Florida, due to the high water table, basements are a rarity so heaters are typically located on the same floor as the living area thus maximizing the need to regularly inspect the water heater for wear and rust and resulting damage should a leak or breakage occur. Similarly, apartment and condominium dwellers, depending on the size of the unit, may have the water heater located in an area that is central to the unit thus maximizing the radius of the potential damage.
There are various things you can do the reduce this potential water damage risk. Common wisdom includes regular inspection for any water leakage, regular inspection for rust, turning off the main water source if you are going to be away from your property for an extended period of time, and having a relief valve installed on the water heater - assuming you do not already have one - in order to regularly remove the bottom sediment which promotes deterioration and oxidation. Before you embark on the later, however, and you do so at your own risk, be careful NOT to splash yourself with the potentially scalding water that is coming from the water heater and, similarly, be sure to have a pail stable enough to handle the hot water and hot sediment without breaching. Better yet, have a professional check it out for you.
In a perfect world water heaters never leak and all damage is caught in time or is minimal; unfortunately, in the real world, when the water heater breaks, it is reasonably sudden and the damage is extensive. Since most people do not turn off the water lead in when the leave, as it is not a common consideration most people would do on a regular basis, once breached, the water heater not only dumps the contents of its storage tank but the water continues to flow due to the open water line contributing to extensive water damage. Should this occur, then you owe it to yourself to hire an independent and customer focused water damage restoration company. Only an independent water damage restoration company focuses its interest on customer service and customer satisfaction so that your restoration is its interest and such company will do whatever it takes to restore your asset to its preloss condition.
Water Damage Causes: Water Heaters
Dealing with water damage can be a traumatic experience. You feel a loss of control in your own home! The feeling only gets worse if you have a company come in and rip apart your walls, carpet, furniture, and rummage through your personal items! After dealing with all this aggravation and more, you get "rewarded" with a bill for $1,000's!
This does not have to be your experience with water damage.
You already have the ability to clean up your own water damage, you just need the know-how! Below is a step-by-step skeleton of what the actions you should take in remediating your own water damage.
Ensure Your Furniture is Safe- Check for structural damage and if water affected absorbent areas.
Drying Equipment- You will need to use air movers, fans, and dehumidifiers after you finish the demolition and restoration process. These pieces of equipment will allow your home to dry properly.
Deal with Insurance Companies- After you remediate your water damage, you will have to deal with your insurance company and make sure the insurance company pays you the money you deserve!
Water Damage Restoration
Water is indeed very beautiful. We have glorious waterfalls, rivers and even oceans. However, water can cause a lot of damage to the home. Flooding and water leaks can impact the home negatively. Water seeps through the home and finds all those precious places to affect. If you are ever faced with water damage, you totally understand the stress and anxiety that comes with it. However, there are companies that have been set up so as to offer you the much needed help should water damage occur in your property. The water damage restoration companies have come as a great aid to all who need it most.
Here are some of the things you may expect
Timeliness: the best companies understand that time is of the essence. The longer water sits, the worse the damage becomes. Water damage needs to be addressed as soon as it arises to avoid any unnecessary damage. If the damage gets too bad, your insurer may decline the claim.
When all areas are removed successfully, most companies will use some very high powered fans so as to start the process of drying. Dehumidifiers can be used to draw that moisture still lingering in the air. In some cases, barrier containment can be used so as to restrict access to certain areas or to create some airflow in a very specific way.
The testing of air quality: this is another very important service that the companies can offer. Usually, the air may have a contaminant such as mold. There are different types of contaminants that can be in the air and some pose more danger than others. Usually, the company tasks an air sample in and out of the home. The differences in the air can then be identified and proper action taken.
For More Information on Water Remediation Companies
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ADRIAN, Mich. – The final outcome was a positive on Saturday during the annual Pink Zone game for the women's basketball team with a 65-56 win over Alma. The bad news however happened just about the same time as the win as Trine defeated Kalamazoo at home to secure the fourth and final spot in the MIAA Tournament. Adrian and Albion both finished fifth in the league with identical 7-9 records. Adrian also finished the season with an 8-16 overall mark.
The senior class was also sent away with a victory as Nicole Boggs, Jasmine Byers and Rachael Walker will be moving on. Boggs did not play due to injury but Byers had a good game off the bench with a game-high 13 rebounds. Byers scored five points and dished out three assists in 21 minutes. Walker scored three points and had one assist in 13 minutes.
Adrian controlled the paint allowing just six points while scoring 22. Junior LaQwana Dockery led all scorers with 21 points on 7-of-8 shooting from the floor and 7-of-9 at the free throw line. Dockery also had seven boards and two assists in 29 minutes. Freshman Antoinea McElroy registered a double-double with 15 points and 12 rebounds. Junior Casey Fougerousse added 13 points making three triples in 30 minutes.
Adrian led 34-26 at halftime and outscored the Scots by one in the second half for the nine-point margin of victory. Adrian had a great game at the line going 19-of-23. The Bulldogs shot 37.5 percent from the floor and limited Alma to 30.5 percent from the floor. Alma also fared well at the line going 14-of-18. Grace Wheeler scored 17 points off the bench to lead the visitors. One eye-popping stat was Adrian plus-20 edge on the glass including 18 offensive rebounds and 12 second-chance points.


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This project aims at researching the shrouded side of multi-national corporations, essentially the moral aspects of the branding strategies employed. This is being done through a timeline of examples of moral decay on the corporations' behalf. Furthermore, one of the projects main aims is uncovering marketing schemes, strategies and the effects there of, by looking at a classic advertisement featuring the Marlboro Man, also looking at the anti-campaigns that have been made, the anti-advertisement from Adbusters, to illustrate and even highlight the differences between them. Going another step further, this project examines the philosophical nature of corporations, mainly dealing with the strategies to accommodate other aspects of corporate social responsibility than the financial. This will be carried out through two CSR models created by respectively - Heidi Hansen and Archie B. Carroll, in a comparative analysis, while utilizing the official and recognized standards of the American Marketing Association on ethical marketing, while tying it all together with the use of Kant's deontology as a binding force, and baseline for morality in marketing and CSR. It also examines the perception of the consumers, on morality, ethical behavior and branding, which will be further examined through a critical discourse analysis. Lastly the project will end with the use of the social constructivism theory by Berger and Luckmann, explaining the meanings of the relationship between young people and tobacco that lead to the creation of the identity of groups within the society.
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Posts by Anthony Johnson
Defaulting New Projects to Python 3
- Feb 12, 2019
- Anthony Johnson
- Portland, Oregon
- python
New projects that are just getting started with Read the Docs will now use Python 3 by default. While it is still possible to configure your project to use Python 2.7 with our configuration file, we think it's important to help push the Python ecosystem towards adopting Python 3.
Our default Python version is currently Python 3.7. Projects can also select Python versions 3.6 and 3.5 using our default build image. We will eventually remove support for building projects with Python versions 3.3 and 3.4, however it is still possible to select a build image with support for either version.
Incoming Webhook Deprecations
- Jan 21, 2019
- Anthony Johnson
- Portland, Oregon
- deprecation
In the coming weeks and months, Read the Docs will be moving some projects away from our legacy incoming webhooks, towards our per-project webhook integrations.
Our legacy incoming webhooks were our first attempt at allowing providers like GitHub to automatically trigger builds on for projects on Read the Docs. These webhooks lacked a number of security features, and so, about two years ago, we replaced these with per-project webhook integrations instead. We added a number of features to per-project webhook integrations at the time, and we stopped new projects from using the old incoming webhooks.
Python 3.6 Support
- Mar 29, 2018
- Anthony Johnson
- Portland, Oregon
- python
A long time back, we wrote about started testing a new build image that uses pyenv to support multiple versions of Python. Until recently, we were selectively opting projects in to help test the new image, but at the beginning of the year, we added a configuration option to allow projects to opt in to using the new image before we make it the default build image.
In the near future, this build image will be the default build image, but for now, you can manually opt your project in using our YAML configuration file.
PyCon 2017 in Review
- May 31, 2017
- Anthony Johnson
- Portland, Oregon
- pycon, sprints
Things are finally getting back to normal for us after another very busy PyCon. It's always wonderful seeing old friends and getting a chance to meet new friends from the community. PyCon provides a great outlet to talk to others in our community about the problems we all face as open source developers and open source companies – like funding, sustainability, and building community. We are sad to see PyCon leave Portland, but luckily PyCascades will soon be filling the void left in Cascadia after PyCon moves on.
This year, we announced official sprints on Read the Docs during the sprint week following PyCon. We focused our sprint efforts on code cleanup, in order to avoid the problems on-boarding new contributors we normally face as a large project.
Release for May 12, 2017
- May 12, 2017
- Anthony Johnson
- Portland, Oregon
- release, feature
Yesterday, we rolled out improved webhook management for projects, and several bug fixes around our upgrade to Sphinx 1.5.
We've been slowly making upgrades to our webhook management page. Projects that set up new webhooks will see a list of webhooks that we have configured, including HTTP exchanges that we encounter from each remote webhook.
Build Image Upgrades
- Feb 14, 2017
- Anthony Johnson
- Portland, Oregon
Starting this week, we'll be deploying a new default image for our documentation build environments. This image will change the default Python versions that are supported.
We aren't expecting any issues to arise from this change, but be sure to raise
any issues on our issue tracker if you notice any strange behavior. The new
build image supports Python
2.7 and Python
3.5, dropping support for
3.4. If you require access to Python
3.4, we suggest you sign up
for access to our next beta image.
Securing Subdomains
- Apr 27, 2016
- Anthony Johnson
- Portland, Oregon
- security
Starting today, Read the Docs will start hosting projects from subdomains on
the domain
readthedocs.io, instead of on
readthedocs.org. This change
addresses some security concerns around site cookies while hosting user
generated data on the same domain as our dashboard.
Changes to provide security against broader threats have been in place for a while, however there are still a few scenarios that can only be addressed by migrating to a separate domain.
Read the Docs Awarded Mozilla Open Source Support Grant
- Dec 10, 2015
- Anthony Johnson
- Portland, Oregon
- funding
Several months back, Mozilla launched a new initiative – the MOSS program – to provide financial support to the open source software projects it relies on. Mozilla allocated $1 million to the MOSS fund to provide grants for up to 10 projects matching the program's criteria.
Read the Docs is among the first round of awards made for the MOSS program. Our proposed grant, for $48,000, is to build a separate instance that integrates with the Python Package Index's upcoming website, Warehouse. This integration will provide automatic API reference documentation upon package release, with authentication tied to PyPI and simple configuration inside the distribution. API reference documentation on every release will be the starting point of this work, prose documentation generation will be more difficult here, as not all packages use Sphinx or rST for documentation.
Securing Build Processes
- Sep 30, 2015
- Anthony Johnson
- Portland, Oregon
- security, containers
We've recently introduced a new build container subsystem based on Docker to readthedocs.org, which should go mostly unnoticed for users. We're still ironing out some bugs with the system, so raise an issue on our issue tracker if you are noticing any new issues with your project builds.
This new system is part of an over-due security update to help isolate arbitrary code execution. As Read the Docs has grown, protecting against arbitrary execution was a rapidly growing concern. This build isolation layer was developed as part of readthedocs.com, where security concerns are paramount due to private repository access. We've been testing it for roll out on the community site since then, but hadn't committed to switching production build servers over due to the number of possible side effects.
State of the Docs
- Sep 09, 2015
- Anthony Johnson
- Portland, Oregon
- report
August has historical significance for Read the Docs, so it seemed fitting to wrap up August by taking a moment to step back and reflect on what we've done in the last year.
What makes August so significant for us?
Report - July 2015
- Sep 09, 2015
- Anthony Johnson
- Portland, Oregon
- report
August was a hectic month for us. So busy, in fact, we never wrote this update. We dropped the ball on getting this report out on time, but hope to keep on top of future updates.
July was a month of stability fixes, with some substantial changes to our infrastructure. First, here's an update on some of the goals we had set with our last monthly update:
Report - August 2015
- Sep 09, 2015
- Anthony Johnson
- Portland, Oregon
- report
August was a busy month for us. Write the Docs Europe was at the end of the month, and our focus has been on getting readthedocs.com into a public beta state. We're nearing the end of the 3 month period that we budgeted for as part of our fundraiser and have a few more tasks to push out.
First, an update of the goals we set for this month:
Report - June 2015
- Jul 01, 2015
- Anthony Johnson
- Portland, Oregon
- report
With the Write the Docs conference wrapped up in May, we shifted our focus back to Read the Docs for the remainder of May and June. Following our post on contract positions available with Read the Docs, we hired two contractors to work with us and focus on support and stability for readthedocs.org. Gregor Müllegger will be working on support and development, and Andrew Kreps has helped us on building and improving our operations infrastructure.
Read the Docs had the following major updates in June:
Fundraising Wrapup
- May 01, 2015
- Anthony Johnson
- Portland, Oregon
- funding, open source
First off, a big ol' thank you is in order for everyone that helped support us. You all helped us hit our funding goal, and with time to spare. We're humbled to have such an abundance of support, and to know so many people share our vision for great documentation.
Really, thank you all. ❤


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Matau-Marine – Seafarer Coaching
Maritime Crewing and Coaching is a broad field. There are so many different players looking for the same crewmembers to comply with manning requirements. But one thing is for sure: They all look for their own and the shipping company requirements and needs.
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We want to put the seaman in the focus: you, your wishes, your dreams, yours needs and your abilities and skills.
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Estelle for MoBay
Come January 30 and 31, Grammy Award-winning artiste Estelle will perform for local audiences.
She is slated to perform a set at a special live concert at Usain Bolt Tracks and Records, Montego Bay to launch the 40th anniversary of VP Records. The concert will also include performances by Alborosie, Beenie Man, Christopher Martin, Shenseea, Teejay, and Raging Fyah. According to the organisers the event will also see guest appearances from some of reggae music's biggest stars.
The event, too, will mark the launch of Strictly the Best Live. This multimedia album launch will feature radio links globally, live streaming on YouTube and watch parties in Ocho Rios, Kingston, New York, Atlanta and Fort Lauderdale. On the following night, January 31, Estelle will do a solo show with a full live band at the Coral Cliff Gaming & Entertainment Centre.
"I want fans to feel close to me and experience a great show from beginning to end, said Estelle. "When I give my fans this show, I want them to walk away feeling like they not only experienced a great concert, but to give people the story of my parents, Mike & Deen, and a personal look into the story of who I am."
Her Jamaican performances will precede a tour of the east coast of the United States in February as she promotes her album Lovers Rock . Dubbed the 'Estelle Experience' the series of intimate performances will begin in New York on February 6 and continue to Philadelphia, Virginia, Atlanta and Nashville, with more cities to be announced later.
Her management noted that The Estelle Experience will give fans a chance to hear the story behind Lovers Rock from Estelle herself.
Inspired by her parents' love story, the album Lovers Rock was released last September and features songs Love Like Ours featuring Tarrus Riley, Better, Lights Out, Meet Up featuring Maleek Berry and So Easy featuring Luke James, which has been climbing the Urban AC Charts, and is currently sitting at number 26.
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September is childhood cancer awareness month
Childhood cancer awareness month takes place every September, and Southampton Hospital Charity wants to help raise awareness of childhood cancer, how it affects families, as well as some of the signs and symptoms that parents need to be aware off.
Around 2,400 children and teenagers are diagnosed with cancer every year in the UK.
That's around six every day.
Signs of cancer (or another illness) include:
- An unusual lump or swelling
- Unexplained paleness and loss of energy
- Easy bruising
- An ongoing pain in one area of the body
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- Unexplained fever or illness that doesn't go away
- Frequent headaches, often with vomiting
- Sudden eye or vision changes
If you know of anyone presenting with similar symptoms then make sure you see your GP straight away.
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The Southampton Piam Brown Unit is the regional paediatric oncology and haematology centre for the Wessex region.
It cares for children from birth to 16 years of age with all types of cancer, and aims to care and support the child and the whole family.
The ten bed inpatient ward provides 24 hour care for children and their families and has a well established shared care system with other local hospitals across the region, enabling families to receive some treatment closer to home. More information about the Piam Brown ward can be found here
Fundraising for the unit
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Good Monday Morning! February 19, 2018We had a "ball" at the Stone Catcher Masquerade Ball. Mark your calendar for next year's ball: Friday, March 1, 2019!
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The Gift of Breath
Every breath we draw is a gift of God's love; every moment of existence is a grace.
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A beautiful photo and how true the thought. Thank you for reminding me to give thanks to God for the gift of breath and to reflect on His loving me into existence.


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Cotterill makes winning start
Strikers Jay Emmanuel-Thomas and Sam Baldock got new boss Steve Cotterill's reign off to a perfect start as Bristol City avoided a potential FA Cup banana skin with a 2-1 win at Tamworth.
Emmanuel-Thomas made it 15 goals for the season with a 25-yard thunderbolt before the break and Baldock's cool finish sealed victory, although Andy Todd pulled one back for the Lambs late on.
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When The Music Man hit the screen in the 1960s, I was still a teenager. Fancying myself too sophisticated for such corny fare, I was reticent to see it. But my girlfriends all wanted to go together and make an afternoon of it. So I put down one of the fantasy books I was so fond of reading at the time, I made like a sheep and followed.
As I suspected, the movie was corny. I hadn't yet matured enough to see the subtle layers the movie contained. In fact, I think I just attained that level of maturity last week. For some reason, suddenly I started to connect the dots between The Music Man's con man and things I see happening on the Internet. That's a funny parallel to draw, I realize, but go with me here for a moment.
As I thought about The Music Man, he became my muse for a personal investigation of the dark side of humanity. I thought about the fact that at the heart of any con -- on-screen or off -- is the promise of benefit for the person being conned. Otherwise, why would ordinarily smart people allow themselves to get sucked in to such tales? In the case of Robert Preston's character Professor Harold Hill, the town was in need -- a need he created.
"Ladies and gentlemen, either you are closing your eyes to a situation you do not wish to acknowledge, or you are not aware of the caliber of disaster indicated by the presence of a pool table in your community!" said Professor Hill.
"Not in our town! We have to do something!" cried the newly terrified populace.
Although Hill set off a few alarm bells that told the townspeople to beware of him, people ultimately wanted to believe him. The trouble he warned against consisted of nothing more than a table, two sticks and some billiard balls, but that was all it took. You don't have to know all the details of the high stakes poker game he was playing with the people of River City to predict the outcome. The unfortunate bottom line is that people will believe just about anything if they think it will bring them something they lack -- even if that lack is only a figment of their imaginations. And that's exactly how acceptance of Hill's non-existent marching band took root in River City.
You could say the same process applies to the many scams on the Internet, most notably the endless flood of e-mails that promise a better life in exchange for the recipient's life savings. Of course, the proposition isn't presented that way. According to these often poorly written e-mails, all you have to do is trust a stranger who comes bearing gifts. But hey, there's plenty of easy money in it for you, so why not? And if a Nigerian princess just happens wants to want you (out of all the people on the planet) to help her deposed father move a few million dollars out of the country, why shouldn't you help? More to the point, why shouldn't you benefit? As soon as you ask that last question, they have you. And just in case it's not clear, you will never benefit.
These charlatans don't wear band uniforms or march boldly down the street, but when you open your eyes to what they're doing, it's just about that obvious. Yet it's surprising how many people buy into these scams. Maybe it's because some of these con artists have refined their pitch so well, they know just how to hit people's hot buttons. My favorite example of this was an e-mail that mentioned that they were working "in the name of Jesus Christ." Although the rationalization for that divine connection was flimsy, I'll bet a whole bunch of people fell for it anyway.
I'm not sure where I'm going with this but I do think it' s interesting that people often fare better in fiction than in real life. The people of River City were actually better off by the time Harold Hill was done with them. I only wish the people who lost their life savings to that Nigerian princess experienced such happy endings.
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Garanti Ucuş Hattı (GUH) started as an online travel agency (OTA) backed by one of the biggest banks in Turkey, Garanti Bank. It became one of the top 5 booking systems in Turkey, and provided special advantages to Garanti Bank credit card owners, yet accepted all major credit cards.
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Michelle & Michael's Indian wedding was such an incredible day! I started with the Michelle at the bangle ceremony and then the Baraat with Michael. If you've been lucky enough to be invited to an Indian wedding, the Baraat is so ridiculously fun. The groom paraded down State street on a huge white horse with all of the guests dancing in the street from the Ohio Theater to the Sheraton for the start of the ceremony. After the ceremony, Michelle changed from her magenta saree to a gorgeous cobalt blue saree for the reception.
Venue: The Sheraton Columbus
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Oversized electric golf carts that have become a popular form of shuttle transportation in Naperville could be coming to Arlington Heights soon.
Tuk Tuk Naperville owner Bill Hamik -- who's seen his ride business in Naperville's downtown area double in recent months -- told me this week he was contacted by Arlington Heights village officials who "wanted to know of our interest" in expanding the service in town.
Hamik and company manager Chris Parker "took a trip up there" measuring the distance between the downtown area, popular subdivisions and Arlington International Racecourse. He says he was shown a PowerPoint about the village, as neither he nor Parker, both Naperville residents, "knew Arlington Heights very well."
Almost immediately, Hamik said, he became convinced that Arlington Heights would be a perfect fit for the auto rickshaws that first became popular in Indonesia.
"They had some data to show that Arlington Heights has about 75 to 80 percent of the retail volume of Naperville," Hamik says.
In Naperville, Hamik's business of four vehicles gives an average 50 rides each weekday and 150 each weekend day. It's been a particularly popular option during summer festivals, at high school dances and weddings.
Rides cost $1, $3 or $5 per person, depending on the distance, and they are available only within a 2-mile radius.
Hamik says he's not looking to open a second franchise but would be happy to help anyone interested in starting their own branch.
"I would easily be a consultant," he says, noting a standard tuk-tuk with "some bells and whistles" costs about $25,000.
For more information, Hamik says to feel free to give him a call at (630) 606-3947.
"Others in St. Charles, Geneva are looking at this as we speak," he says.
Article was originally posted by Daily Herald on November 2, 2017.
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Happy Friday! I received some lovely mail! My ornament exchange for the Prairie Schooler yahoo group arrived from April itsjustapril.blogspot.com I love how she finished it and it looks great on my mantel.I love the fabric on the back too! Thank you April! Mine will be finished soon and I will post a picture for all to see.
Tonight DH and DS are going to see KISS!! at the ACC in Toronto. DH was a fan back in the day ( hee hee! ) I bet there will be a lot of fans from back in the day there , there may be a lot of 15 yr olds with their Dads too ! (hopefully? !)
October is a great month . Canadian Thanksgiving next weekend and then DH's birthday and then Halloween!! I will post a WIP that I started yrs ago for Halloween by Cross eyed Cricket that I must finish up. Have a great weekend everyone!


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"Women Deserve Better"
From Feministe, this gave me chills. I think think the only word for it is righteous. Her name is Sonya Renee.
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Counter Terror with Justice
Bryan Finoki of Subtopia has posted some interesting ruminations on Amnesty International's campaign Counter Terror with Justice.
The campaign, meant to raise awareness about the terror that is illegal U.S. detention (and Guantanamo more specifically), is comprised of a truck hauling a full-scale replica of a Guantanamo Bay maximum security cell. Actual detainees kept in these cells are regularly isolated inside of them for up to 23 hours a day.
From the outside, the cell carried by the truck looks to be nothing but a large orange box, with the words "Counter Terror with Justice" printed on its side. It's not until the truck is parked and the box unloaded in visible, open places that the general public is invited to isolate themselves inside the cell and leave messages about their experience via touchscreen computer device on the wall.
Says Finoki: The exhibit, perhaps inadvertently, I see as a revelation of this hazardous notion that American justice is a deployable prison cell that can be made cheaply on time and at any time, shipped anywhere in the world day and night, and dropped off on doorsteps here and abroad when and wherever the global arbiters of detention see fit…
Has the public square, the shopping mall, the tourist area, the protest zone, just been converted into an informal detention facility itself?
ETA: in another kind of Guantanamo news…
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APA Selects Anti-Trans Extremists To Address "Gender Identity Disorder"
You may or may not have already heard about this particular abhorrence. Briefly, the APA is revising the DSM for a new edition; people have been named to work on committees evaluating the entries for various conditions. One committee will be focusing on sexuality and gender identity issues, addressing the entry for "Gender Identity Disorder," among other things. Horrifyingly, the committee is populated by the likes of Dr. Kenneth Zucker — the group's chair, who supports "curing" queer people, from gays and lesbians to transgender people to gender variant kids, and J. Michael Bailey, who has advocated eugenics and thinks it's entirely moral for parents to "eliminate" an LGBT child. The others on the panel aren't much better. The afore linked post has the scoop; see also this update with more info.
Once you've finished reading, I recommend attempting to quell your nausea by signing the petition asking the APA to remove these bigoted junk scientists from the work group immediately. At the time of this posting, 1393 people have signed.
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May 1st
May 1st is National Day of Action in Defense of Immigrant Families. A series of supportive marches will take place on this day, and Pro Inmigrant provides a list of times and places to meet up. Take a look, mark your calendars, and take part.
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Tibet in Crisis
First off, for information about the struggle of the Tibetan people and the worldwide effort against the Chinese occupation and of Tibet in exile, check out Students for a Free Tibet, an international, widespread organization started by students in 1994 and dedicated to the cause of the Tibetan people ever since.
This short clip from YouTube was put up by Aljazeera's news network, based out of Qatar. It's dated March 15th and shows a bit of the riots that have been going down in Tibet.
For more on China's response and the riots in general, check out coverage from Aljazeera.
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In Preparation for ICE Raids
The following video was produced by the Coalition for Human Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles in response to the increasing regularity and brutality of ICE Raids and deportations from the U.S. It details the rights of undocumented immigrants when encountered by ICE or other law enforcement officials in a variety of circumstances.
You can also see a Spanish/English version with subtitles here, and download the Know Your Rights card featured in the video.
Via Citizen Orange, a good resource for background/contextual information and regular updates on migration-related struggles.
For more information on the current U.S. response to immigration, specifically as it relates to the post-9/11 "war on terror" and the nativist, militarized mindset it has helped foster, I recommend Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration by Deepa Fernandez, only one of the many books I'm currently reading and learning lots from.
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Sexual Offense Prevention Policy
In honor of the Gender-shenanigans that went down last night, and of course to afford Daisy and Emily more time to watch Lost, I am going to post briefly on something called the Sexual Offense Prevention Policy, or SOPP. It is a policy at my school designed to combat Rape Culture and make everyone feel a little more safe and secure about their sexual and gender identities, and the likelihood of harassment.
The main point of SOPP is consent. The two or more parties involved in physical activity of ANY kind, from hugging to making-out to fighting to naked jello wrestling, must VOICE explicit consent at every level of said activity. Basically, you have to hear the word "Yes" before you can throw your partner down and rub jelly in their face.
Obviously SOPP gets fudged a lot if you're in a long term relationship, and its pretty darn ineffective against rape or any sort of real sexual harassment. But if something out of line does occur, under SOPP a complaint can be filed, and that person will be kicked out of school/banned from campus/reported to the police, etc.
But what does SOPP really do? It doesn't stop harassment. My first month at Antioch I was verbally harassed very badly, in the form of questions. I would say no to one sexual position and I would quickly be asked if I was open to another, and this would go on and on and on. There is also definitely rape, fighting, and child abuse on this campus. Although I have seen some pretty bad situations, such as fights, adverted because of SOPP.
What SOPP does manage to achieve is an open dialogue. Some people have already gotten to this place on their own, and for that, I applaud you. But partly because of SOPP and partly because Antioch is a sex-positive campus, the conversations about sex are never-ceasing. In a society where you are forced to talk about what feels good to you sexually, how you identify, even what diseases you have, all before you actually sleep with someone, misunderstandings and some bad situations are avoided.
The SOPP: talking is good. Consent is good. Dialogue about important issues, such as sex, is very, very good. And I live in a community where if you don't follow these guidelines, then you lose the right to be a community member. Because it's that important.
Daisy asked me to blog a little about my school, so here goes. I go to Antioch College, in a tiny itsy town called Yellow Springs. Antioch, as a collective, has currently gone mad.
Because this week is Sex Week.
Which is pretty much the best week ever, if you couldn't already tell.
Genderfuck happens once a semester, and is an entire week devoted to workshops, seminars, field trips and dance parties concerning sex, gender-bending, and exploration of identity. To give you an idea of the schedule, here are a few of the activities posted:
Reproductive Justice, a seminar on Adoption (for Gay couples, etc.)
A Survivor/Ally Workshop
A porn and cigarettes party (free cigarettes!)
Porn 101- The new wave of porn, Sex 101, and Kink 101, Bottoming Workshop, Topping Workshop (all but on by our local Queer Center)
A trip to the Sex Shop
Love Your Body Night (open to female-body-identified people)
An SOPP (Sexual Offense Prevention Policy) Dance Party
Non-normative Masculinities Panel
Erotic Art Party
and of course, the grand finale, the GENDERFUCK dance itself.
The end of Sex Week is the Genderfuck dance. To illustrate a snapshot of what people usually look like at Genderfuck: a friend of mine will be dressing like Liz Vicious, a gothic porn star. I believe my friend plans to add a thong to Liz Vicious' general ensemble, but still. Another friend is going as a broken marionette doll, and a third is going as Rainbow Bright. People will "perform", and usually there's at least one performance set to the Dresden Dolls, who I love.
Save Medhi Kazemi
19-year-old Medhi Kazemi left Iran to study in Britain in 2005. In 2006, a boy with whom he'd been in a relationship in Tehran was arrested and hanged for sodomy. Afraid to face a similar fate should he return home, he appealed for asylum in Britain but was denied his claim because Britain's Home Office does not believe that a return to Iran poses a serious threat to Medhi Kazemi's life. It does.
Medhi sought refuge in the Netherlands for a while, but was denied asylum there too and is to be sent back to the UK where, due to the international campaign that has arisen to demand safety for him and countless others who would be persecuted for their sexuality, a temporary stay on Medhi's deportation has been announced…but he's not yet in the clear.
Check here for more info, petitions to sign and notice of other opportunities for action to take on Medhi Kazemi's behalf.
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A Category And A CD Player
I've added a design/gadget lust category, and done a little bit to put old, relevant posts in there. It's about time.
Also, this is obviously the most beautiful CD player in the world. Swoon!
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This is Rae's Yellow Brick Road quilt and she used a beautiful collection of green and blue batiks.
She wanted a quilting pattern that would remind her of water or waves and we decided on Paisley, a new panto that I have added to my collection. Rae asked for wool batting and the quilting shows up beautifully on it. She brought a pretty green flannel backing so along with the wool this will be a warm and cozy cuddle quilt.


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Before A New Hope, Harrison Ford was best known as a carpenter, Carrie Fisher was Debbie Reynolds' daughter, and Mark Hamill was an aspiring actor and the son of a Naval captain. Star Wars put these three relative unknowns on the map, and it sounds like J.J. Abrams wants to do something very similar with Star Wars: Episode VII.
Lost and The Lord of the Rings co-star Dominic Monaghan appeared on the video podcast Dweebcast, and opened up about his relationship with Abrams and the director's approach to this material. He said that, in conversations with Abrams, it's always been clear that he wants to make stars out of newcomers, not look for massive celebrities (like Zac Efron) who will distract from the story with their presence. Monaghan says:
We've talked a few times about it and he said, 'We're putting together a cast of unknowns – we want to follow the '77 New Hope cast because obviously Harrison Ford wasn't well known at that point, Mark Hamill wasn't and Carrie Fisher wasn't either. What he said was, we don't want to fall into that mistake of people going, 'Oh it's that guy from that thing!' and then you're completely out of the Star Wars universe.'
Which, on paper, sounds great. Except when you cast that relative unknown and you get Jake Lloyd:
Or Hayden Christensen:
Now, those young actors were surrounded by the likes of Natalie Portman and Ewan McGregor, and it does sound like Abrams will want to comfort his newcomers with proven Star Wars veterans… probably Hamill, Ford and Fisher, if the rumors we're constantly hearing pan out. And this backs up the five names we heard a while back as to whom Abrams and LucasFilm want for their lead role. (Though I'd argue that between Friday Night Lights and Breaking Bad, Jesse Plemons is pretty recognizable. More recognizable than, say, Adam Driver from Girls (who reportedly landed the movie's villain role recently).
So Monaghan tips his hand to Abrams' approach. Is it still J.J.'s approach? Have plans changed? We will continue to track. In the meantime, listen to the actor in his own words, and tell us who you want to see in the lead role for Episode VII -- whatever it will be called!


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It seems like weeks have gone by without a new Tennessee Williams movie -- but the latest has been rolling out across the country over the past two weeks. Today it hits Schenectady NY:
The ad promises a perfect storm of "provocative adult entertainment" given author, director and producer. Perhaps the trailer, courtesy of Turner Classic Movies, will do more to convince you.
Williams did not have a monopoly on adult entertainment in Hollywood. Here's "exciting adult entertainment" from a quartet of author James Leo Herlihy, adapter William Inge, producer John Houseman and director John Frankenheimer, making his first of several appearances this year. It opened on this day in Salt Lake City.
TCM ran this one a few weeks ago and I took a look. From Frankenheimer it's certainly slickly made, but it can't help but seem somewhat campy, in the original sense that presumes absolute sincerity, given Angela Lansbury's presence as a demon-mother figure, which Frankenheimer would use again later in 1962. Is young Mr. Beatty really more exciting than Paul Newman? The trailer tries hard to put him over as the man of the moment. Again, TCM lets us take a look.
The second feature is a precursor of Mondo Cane: an Italian documentary focusing on nightclub and cabaret entertainment from around the world. Director Luigi Vanzi would later direct spaghetti westerns under the name of Vance Lewis. Haven't seen it but would like to.
Here's adult entertainment of another degree, opening wide in Pittsburgh.
Not For Henry! is an alternate title for Not Tonight, Henry! -- which gets closer to the idea of the picture. The trailer brings us even closer; rstvideo uploaded it to Dailymotion.
Not Tonight Henry by rstvideo
Raymond Burr in Desire in the Dust may sound like it belongs on a horror double-bill, but rest assured that Burr does none of that sort of desiring in this 1960 white-trash melodrama.
More adult entertainment in Miami: plus a personal appearance -- and camera club time!
According to Something Weird Video, Eve or the Apple is a reconstruction by K. Gordon Murray of an earlier nudie-cutie, Naughty New York. We may therefore get an idea of Eve from a clip of Naughty, which Something Weird has provided at YouTube.
Somehow I'm thinking that a film with Danielle Darrieux and Kenneth More doesn't quite belong in the same company. Loss of Innocence is, in fact, a British film called The Greengage Summer, but this is what American audiences, including that Miami crowd, when the movie started. HenryOrientJr uploaded this clip to YouTube.


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Yeah, that's why we don't trust them with real guns.
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Yeah, that's why we don't trust them with real guns.
A man covered in fuel and a police taser - what did they think was going to happen? :rolleyes:
Yeah, there's been a lot of reporters making things up in lieu of any hard facts. The downside of 24 hr rolling news.
I see one of the high priests of global warming, James Hansen from the crap part of NASA is finally retiring. :w00t:
The 72 year old tosser will now be able to devote himself to being arrested...
..a particularly stupid religion.
It's wall to wall on the news here too BTW. I hope they get the alive.
One report I'd seen was that they'd got their mother in custody and that she had...
I got 13/13, but I had to guesstimate the gay marriage one.
Try Google's "Chrome Remote Desktop" - a free plug in for Chrome. Works really well.
The Death Star construction petition has been rejected. :(
Another head case went on a gun rampage yesterday - this time in Switzerland:
3 dead, 2 injured. Perp shot by police & in custody.
Seems to me that if the Republicans agree to support a bill with no spending cuts, they need to be strung up by the short & curlies.
What! We don't want that scumbag back. :p There's already a petition to have him stay in the US.
He lost his newspaper editor job for promoting a fake story about the British soldiers torturing...
Wasn't Biden heavily involved in the original AWB?
That's right.
And as for the supposed rise of 40% in gun crime; I don't know about that. However, even if that's true, 40% of bugger all still isn't very much.
I think it's too late for the US - there's just too many guns out their now that are going to get into the hands of crazies. Any legislation will be just tokenism like the previous AWB. You'll have...
I'd heard of him as he was a Medal of Honour recipient in WW2. He was badly shot up attacking German machine gun nests in Italy. Quite a guy.
She does seem to deserve a Darwin Award.
The Sandy Hook tragedy brings back terrible memories of the Dunblane Massacre in Scotland in 1996. 16 children (most of whom were only 5 years old) and 1...
Oooh they'll like that: The graphs have hockey stick curves. :p
......and breeeeeathe. :D
They've got that covered too.
Did you know that earlier this month, Congress banned the word 'lunatic' from federal legislation?
No it's not April 1st. All it needs is for Obama to sign it off...
Well don't blame us, CNN employed him. We can't stand him here either.
Sadly not.
Piers Morgan is a grade A •••••.
Another reason to like Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson is that he once punched Morgan in the face at a press awards do.
It's a pretty sad state of affairs. It'd probably make more sense to move schools & police stations to the same location.
Also, if your elementary schools are anything like our primary schools,...
Gun control is having both hands on your weapon, is it not?
You're all assuming there's going to be a 2016. ;)
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Learning how to grieve seems silly, but I am. As we drew closer to Zekey's entering of Heaven, I started wondering, and often, "How would I grieve?" Would I surprise myself and go off the deep end, turning into a pile of rubble? I feared becoming an angry woman, causing earthquake-like effects with those who I loved most.
I desire to grieve true to how I feel so that it will not backfire on my husband and children. That wasn't allowed, they'd been through too much – we'd been through too much. So, I took my wonderings and started praying. I asked God, even in the midst of chaos all around me, "Help me to grieve well and true."
I felt God reveal to me directly to my heart and through people, that grief has a mind of its own and that is okay. I am learning not to have expectations on grief, even if others do for me. I concluded that if I want to cry and I cannot get it out, I need to focus on me and get to the source of what is keeping grief at bay. Since Zekey's passing, this usually means crawling in his bed and letting myself miss holding his flailing legs and stroking his thick, beautiful hair. This is currently my favorite go to, but I know, it may not always work.
If I am feeling content just knowing where he is, that's okay and I do not need to feel guilty about being 'okay' and even happy and relieved that he is home (Heaven, the truest home), even though that means he is not here with me.
I am learning to be honest with people right away and not let words that have offended stew too long. I even need to let other momma's who have felt grief know that we will grieve differently and that's okay.
For those around me, letting them in on what my needs are to grieve has been key to grieving well, so that they can at least understand my needs as a grieving momma and even help in tangible ways.
Grace. Grace for me, for others who offend me with their words or expectations. Grace for my husband as he will grieve differently. Grace for my children as they also grieve extremely differently from each other and myself and will their whole lives. Grace for when I hurt others in my grief…Lots of grace.
People who are grieving are at a highly emotional state – they can be easily offended. Give them grace because, heck, they're giving you grace. It may seem like you are just one more person telling them you're praying, or thinking of them but, really, they are hearing every word and phrases you pair that with, at least I am.
There will be triggers that could set them off. For example: "God will never give you more than you can handle" Uh, yes, yes he does. I cannot handle this on my own. Needed Jesus all the days, all the hours, all the minutes. Can't handle loosing my son to Batten disease.
"God's will is perfect." Yes. Yes it is. And this wasn't God's will. God's will is in heaven. Zekey is wrapped up in God's will now that he's left this, Jesus- needing world.
Your expectations on how I am to grieve. The depth of my grief, the sharing or not sharing of my grief. That's up to me, not you, no matter if you have grieved before and especially not up to those who do not have significant grief under their belt.
Hope. When I've written about the hope of seeing Zekey again, I'm not thinking in the same way one would "hope to be a famous athlete" but THE HOPE that I KNOW I will see him again and for ever and ever thank you to Jesus. Sweet, precious Savior, Jesus.
To those comforting the grieving, take note:
Listen. Listen to the hearts of the one grieving. Do not make this a time to make a point, especially theologically. If you listen, and you feel the need to say something that happens to have a theology-driven response, only say things that you believe to be true as well as the one in grief. It's completely selfish to do anything else but that.
Don't assume the worst. I've said things about my boy and I have felt that even though I've given God the glory a million, trillion times over (because He deserves that and MORE!) if I forget to give it one time, and I'm just bragging on my sweet, sweet boy, just let me. I still know that he is a gift from God.
Give them grace because they are giving you grace. Those who grieve are, believe it or not, having to bite their tongues a lot in order to show love over revenge or setting you right. When our hearts are right, we know you mean well but sometimes, we are just too overwhelmed with emotion.
We don't want you to be silent, we just want you to think before you speak. I am learning, too.
Above all else, love. If you listen, believe the best and pour out grace, you are choosing to love them well. And we thank you.


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In the future (the distant year of 1997), the United States of America is in crisis. The oil shortage has grown to epic proportions, leading to people living in their cars and bicycling to work. Cigarettes and meat have been outlawed, gold coins are needed to operate common household appliances, and the Western White House (located in a luxury apartment in California) has been forced by economic necessity to operate round-the-clock tours for vacationing Chinese citizens. The economy is deep trouble...more
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Rewrite The Year revisits 365 key headlines of the past year by inviting people to rewrite these headlines and to collectively re-invent the stories of the year behind us.
From the desert of Yemen to the streets of New Delhi, Cairo, Athens, London, Madrid, New York city, an extraordinary wave of protest has swept the world. People everywhere have taken to the streets, demanding change, reclaiming their rights to express themselves and refusing the status quo.
Using their cellphones, participants send keywords by text message to rewrite headlines one word at a time. Sometimes comical, sometimes serious, sometimes dark and sometimes visionary, the contributions are as varied as the people who encounter the project. Everyone's words count, but only one at a time, thus ensuring a diverse series of results collectively created, and the transformed headlines are collected and archived on-line, constituting a renewed vision of the year behind us.
From protests, elections, conflicts and victories – local & international – as we move through the headlines, getting closer to current dates, yesterday's news become today's – we get to rewrite the present, decide how it should be told, or what it should hold. The project that starts by honoring and revisiting what's behind us ends with a series of wishful visions for the year ahead.


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Millbrook School
Coordinates: 41°51′20″N 73°37′16″W / 41.85556°N 73.62111°W
|Millbrook School
New York
United States
|Private, Boarding & Day
|Non Sibi Sed Cunctis
Not for oneself, but for all
|Drew Casertano
|310 students
|Average class size
|11 students
|Student to teacher ratio
|Rural, 800 acres (3 km2)
|8 Boarding houses
|Navy Blue & Grey
|14 interscholastic sports
|Athletics conference
|The Tamarack
Millbrook School is a private, coeducational preparatory school located in Dutchess County, New York, United States.
Millbrook School was founded in 1931 by Edward Pulling. Pulling was a graduate of both Princeton University and Cambridge University, and he taught at both Groton School and Avon Old Farms as well as private schools in the United Kingdom. While at Avon, Pulling began to think of creating his own school. His philosophy for a school was heavily influenced by the traditional setting he experienced at Groton and in the UK as well as the progressive ideology that Avon possessed. After searching for suitable grounds to house the school — including an offer from then Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt to build in Hyde Park, New York — Pulling and his wife decided on the Stephenson farm just 5 miles (8 km) outside Millbrook, NY.
After the purchase of the property, Pulling drafted his first board of trustees, which included Endicott Peabody Sr., who was headmaster at Groton, and Henry Harkness Flagler, who became the first President of the Board of Trustees. With the generous support of the Flagler family and Pulling's father-in-law Russell Leffingwell the campus increased from the original farm buildings to include much of the current campus infrastructure.
The Millbrook School campus is situated on 634 acres (2.6 km²) of woods, streams and farmland. The surrounding area is all farmland that is now protected from development, preserving the area's natural beauty. The campus proper is situated around West Quadrangle, which is the main academic quad. It is organized much like a New England green with the Flagler Memorial Chapel at the head. Schoolhouse, which is the main academic building and holds the Harkness Library, is the other main building on the west quad. Pulling Quad is the other major quad which is surrounded by the Prum Hall as well as the headmaster's residence and "The Barn" both of which are holdovers from the original farm. The Durand quad is commanded by the Holbrook Arts Center completed in 2001. Much of the campus has been renovated since the early 1990s including a new 80,000 square foot (7,000 m²) Mills Athletic Center completed in 1997, West Dormitory, completed in 2014, and a new Dining Hall whose construction was completed in May 2016.
The campus, which sits atop a small hill, looks down onto the playing fields and most of the school property that extends south. On Ski Hill, which is at the southern end of the property, is a forest canopy walkway for biology research and below is a wetlands preserve where regular and advanced biology classes go "marsh-mucking" every fall and spring.
There are currently eight dorms on the Millbrook School campus. Each dorm is separated by gender, and has a representative color.
Freshman Housing:
- Harris Hall, 1931 - Henry F. Harris
- Clark Hall, 1939 - Rene and Peg Clark
Upperclassman Housing:
- Abbott Hall, 1969 - Nathaniel B. Abbott
- Case Hall, 1946 - Everett N. Case
- West Hall, 2014
- Burton Hall, 1988 - John C. Burton
- Prum Hall, 1934 - Xavier Prum
- Guest House, 1940 - Formerly a boarding house for visitors
Trevor Zoo[edit]
The Trevor zoo was established in 1936 on the campus of the Millbrook School, and it remains the only AZA (Association of Zoos and Aquariums) accredited zoo located on a high school campus. The founder of the zoo, Frank Trevor was Millbrook School's first biology teacher.[1] The zoo currently houses over 180 exotic and indigenous animals representing 80 different species, 9 of which are considered endangered. The facility itself located upon 12 acres of land houses its own veterinary clinic. In addition, the zoo is largely student run and thus plays a key role in the tradition of service and environmental stewardship at the school.
School mission and community service[edit]
While the campus has many traditional values what makes Millbrook unique is the progressive mission that the school embodies. The school motto is "Non Sibi Sed Cunctis" Latin for "Not for One's Self but for All" and this is incorporated in every facet of school life, most notably in the Community Service Program. Edward Pulling wanted every student who attended Millbrook to contribute something to the maintenance and upkeep of the school as well as contributing something to the surrounding community. Originally functions performed by students included fire safety, running the post office, growing food, dishwashing, helping to maintain the zoo (zooies) and a variety of other duties to help the school. By the time WWII began Millbrook used its community service program to help the war effort. In the subsequent years the community service program has changed considerably to encompass a much larger variety of programs that are much more specialized. They run the gamut from tour guides to an outreach program to head waiters (in charge of the dishwashers) to peer counselors that help students deal with the stressful life of boarding school. Every student is required to participate in a community service all four years of their stay at Millbrook[2] and many keep with the same service all four years.
Winter Weekend[edit]
One weekend in late January, each dorm competes against one another in several events spanning over three days, beginning on Friday afternoon. Having started over two decades ago as simply The College Bowl, a Trivial Pursuit style game, Winter Weekend has slowly evolved into roughly fifteen different activities and events. While the specific activities change from year to year, typical competitions include: The College Bowl, pep rally scavenger hunt, dorm skit/video, and a snow sculpture competition. During this weekend, dorm participants traditionally don clothing in their respective dorm colors, and judges distribute points not only to the first, second, and third place holders of events, but also to dorms that display spirit, participation, and respect throughout the weekend. In the following week, the scores are tallied up, and the victor is announced.
Occasionally, astonishing results will be produced from the effort put in by a dorm to win Winter Weekend.
- In the 2004 - 2005 school year, Case Hall constructed a fully functional hot tub out of ice for the snow sculpture competition. The ice blocks used to form the structure were molded from recycling bins, and insulation was provided by hay, towels, and tarps. A pump system siphoned water from the hot tub and circulated it through a heated radiator before returning it to the main tub at a temperature of 120 °F.
- Case Hall's dorm video [1] for the 2008 - 2009 school year demonstrated an unprecedented level of attention to the event.
Case Hall had achieved first place every year since the start of the Winter Weekend tradition in the late 1980s, until the 2011 Weekend, in which Burton Hall took first place and became the first dorm to ever beat Case. Their victory came by just four points. The victory did not come without some controversy. For the first time in the weekend's history, all of the scoring information was not made public or announced to the student body and the scoring that was made public showed Case Hall ahead of Burton in points.
Empire Cup[edit]
The Empire Cup is a huge attraction for Millbrook Students. During the last week of February, after the conclusion of the regular season, Milbrook School and Trinity-Pawling school host the Empire Cup hockey tournament. The tournament consists of 8 teams in two divisions, with Millbrook and Trinity-Pawling hosting their own divisions. The tournament is single elimination format, the winners of game one in each division play each other - and the losers play each other as well. The winner of the second game advances to the finals. The finals take place at either Millbrook or TP, based on a yearly rotation. The students of Millbrook take great pride in this last sporting event of the Winter term, as most of the school shows up for each of the Mustangs' games because there is nothing else to attend; Millbrook is miles away from any form of civilization. Students paint faces, wear jerseys of players and bang drums. Loud chants of "You can't do that!" when the opposition gets a penalty echo of the walls of the Bontecou rink. Teams that have been frequent to the tournament in its 10 year history have been: Hill School, Lawrenceville, The Albany Academy, NJ Avalanche, Wyoming Seminary, and Portledge School.
Notable alumni[edit]
Millbrook School enjoys an active alumni body, including such notables as:
- James L. Buckley 1939 - Former U.S. Senator and Federal Judge
- William F. Buckley, Jr. 1943 - Founder of The Tamarack & National Review, author of 55 books
- Schuyler Chapin, Commissioner of Cultural Affairs for New York City
- Frederic C. Hamilton, Businessman
- Alistair Horne 1943 - Author of 20 books
- Thomas Lovejoy 1959 - Former Director of the World Wildlife Fund and conservation biologist
- John Dawson 1963 - Musician, associate of the Grateful Dead, co-founder of the New Riders of the Purple Sage
- Nicholas Kazan 1963 - Writer, Producer and/or Director of 12 movies
- Robert Wood Johnson IV 1965 - Chairman and CEO of The Johnson Company and owner of the New York Jets
- Whit Stillman 1969 - Writer-director known for the 1990s comedies Metropolitan, Barcelona, and The Last Days of Disco
- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. - Environmental law attorney
- Serena Altschul 1989 - Journalist
- Rufus Wainwright 1991 - Musician
- Rachel Uchitel 1992 - Nightclub Manager
- David Guy Levy 1999 - Producer
- ^ "Trevor Zoo". www.millbrook.org. Retrieved 2016-10-05.
- ^ "Community Service". www.millbrook.org. Retrieved 2016-10-05.
External links[edit]
Official website http://www.millbrook.org


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Monday, 16 June 2014 08:21 PM
House GOP leaders have "failed to bridge the divide" with Republicans outside Washington, conservative Rep. Raul Labrador said Monday in pleading with his colleagues to back his long-shot candidacy for House majority leader.
Labrador wrote in a letter to GOP lawmakers that it would be a mistake to vote for Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., the current No. 3 in the House leadership.
"Promoting, by acclamation, a member of the very Washington leadership that has failed to bridge the divide with Republicans outside Washington struck me as exactly the wrong response," said the Idaho Republican. "And so, I have decided to stand for Majority Leader — running not against anyone, but for everyone."
The election to replace recently defeated Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., will be Thursday.
McCarthy appears to have all but nailed down the job as the No. 2 leader in the House, behind Speaker John Boehner. McCarthy has a more moderate voting record than Labrador and has developed strong ties to many colleagues by raising money for their campaigns.
Labrador, who launched his bid last Friday, acknowledged McCarthy's advantage.
"I know some people made commitments before I entered the race, but the most important commitments we make are to the American people we represent. So I am hopeful you will at least pause for a moment and consider me for this role," Labrador said.
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