SP Meeting Today at 12.00PM (Noon) SLT

There was a notice in the Second Pride Festival Group two days ago.

"Greetings Members,

Please be advised that there will be a General Assembly meeting of Second Pride on Saturday, September 24, 2016, at Noon SLT. All Second Pride members are welcome. The agenda will consist of the following items, plus any new business that may arise:

1. Election wrap-up
2. Q&A for member questions
3. Board appointments

We look forward to your attendance."

Here is your parade float to the meeting Second Pride Headquarters Conference Hall (SLurl).

Powerful

(via J.M.G.)

Published on Sep 21, 2016

Ever felt pressure to “be a man?” American Male, a short film from MTV’s Look Different Creator Competition, is a gritty look at how gender norms make it hard for us to be who we really are. Head to privilege.lookdifferent.org for more on the issue and how to take action.

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WOW! This short film by Michael Rohrbaugh on gender norms is really powerful and hard hitting. It punches you right in the solar plexus.

The New Barn at SC

All landowners feel the need to improve their real estate properties from time to time. This is also true for the Much Honored Bock McMillan, laird of Southern Charm, prince of Cascade Falls etc., etc.

The laird and his consort have entertained themselves with a project at the parcel in North Western corner of the Southern Charm sim, the barn.

The agreed upon goals before the project started was to beautify, modernize and - hopefully - cut down the LI ("land impact", i.e. in the old days "prims").

The old barn was replaced with a new one in mesh, some of the old stuff with nostalgic connotations were kept and reused, while others were removed and in some cases returned to their owners as the rights to move them had been lost.

One particular benefit of the new barn is that the new barn has a proper attic, which has been insulated for comfort both in hot and cold weather and has central heating and cooling installed. The lairds blogging office can now be used all year and not only in spring and fall.

Storing memorabilia

Whats Happening in Second Pride?

I do not fully understand what is going on within the Second Pride organization at the moment, but hopefully things will be cleared up in the near future.

Anyway, the latest notice in the Second Pride Festival Group and it's attached note card increases my confusion instead of alleviating it.

The note card is from Karl Kalchek, who in the absence of a Community Relations director on the board was asked by the board to head the Election Committee for the 2016 election. It reads as follows:

"Greetings members. 
Following our general meeting in August, a call for candidates to run for the open seats on Second Pride's Board for 2016-2017 was announced. At that board meeting I volunteered to serve to run the election as a past elections chair. The call was posted for 10 days in August after which the election would take place.

One candidate volunteered for Events Director. That candidate is Devon Zepp and we thank him for stepping forward to fill this very important position. We did not get contesting candidates for that position nor any candidates for the other open positions leaving the posts of Treasurer, IT Director, Marketing Director and Community Relations Director vacant. Because it is critical we have a Treasurer, the current treasurer Marge Beaumont has kindly volunteered to continue in this role until another Treasurer with accounting experience can be found to take her place and complete this term.

In view of this, I recommended to the Chair that Devon Zepp Be recognized as Events Director, that Marge Beaumont be recognized as continuing Treasurer, and that they join the rest of the board who are serving the remainder of their two year terms. additionally, I recommended that a general meeting be called at which the new board be recognized and installed, and that as soon as practical, that a second meeting be announced in which the board call for candidates for the remaining open board positions.

Sincerely,
Karl Kalchek, past board member"

Picture of the Day - 485

"Be Brave" by Sunset Theas

If you wish to see more of Sunset's photography, please visit his Flickr photostream by clicking the name under the picture.

Picture of the Day - 484

"I got you" by Aeon Jiminy

If you wish to see more of Aeon's photography, please visit his Flickr photostream by clicking the name under the picture.

Full disclosure: Aeon is my brother JJ Goodman's husband and a dear friend of mine.

Sounding the All Clear!

The crisis is over for this time and the laird is back to being gentle as a lamb and "as patient as Bock" (a traditional saying at Southern Charm) again.

You may convey your heartfelt gratitude to the Prince Consort at your convenience.

If I may suggest something suitable, then always remember his highness loves vehicles of every possible kind, whether rolling, flying or sailing or whatever mode of transportation. (You had better check if he already has it before sending it...)

This will most definitely be the last post where I illustrate with a cute cat in a very, very, long time. Just so you know!