More trouble on the farm...

I have no AC at my house. I'm barely functioning it's so hot. Yesterday it was 98° in my bedroom and 90° in the kitchen. Vegetables that I bought the day before yesterday to put in Lentil soup literally turned to liquid overnight.

I've never experienced anything like this before. All three window units died within hours of each other.

I am here as I've been before to call on the unrivaled DU Braintrust once again, asking for your help with selecting an air-conditioner.

Some may remember that I live in a country farmhouse that was built in the mid 1940s. I recently shared the wild experience I had with getting a new roof.

Others may recall that I had a struggle finding a reliable and not creepy someone to bush hog the property. That story ended up being wild, too, and I decided that publicly sharing the results wouldn't be a good idea. But anyone who is interested in hearing about how that story ended, please DUmail me.

Today, it's air-conditioning. We're* having a slight reprieve because it's raining. I have always been a pluviophile. Today, I'm worshipping at the feet of every rain goddess and god ever mentioned in history.

I'm looking for a unit that i can install myself. I have to be able to lift it out of the car and into the house. I would like to try a "portable" type. I don't want one that has a drain system. I'm open to any and all suggestions taking these criteria into consideration.

I bought a window unit already. I thought that I would be able to take out the old one and install it by myself. I barely got it out of the car and into the laundry room.

Anywho...

Please tell me what you think. Please don't hold back. I know that I have lots to learn, and I know there are many of you here with exceptional levels of expertise in many areas that I can only hope to understand marginally.

I am deeply grateful for all of the help I've found here.

The temperature will be back in the 90s soon. I noticed that I've been a little confused, and my BP has been wacky with me having orthostatic hypotension. My concern is that the heat is the culprit.

I bought cold packs for my chichi to sleep on. Usually, she's on her heated bed. I can't remember ever seeing her pant as much as she has these past few days.

I was diagnosed with Hyperhidrosis years ago. But I've never experienced sweaty shoulders and arms. Staying hydrated is no joke.

Please ask any questions and share your recommendations.

I'm not sure that I can take much more of this, and my goal is to have my AC situation sorted by Saturday. The temperature will be back in the 90s by then.

Thanks so much for taking the time to read this. I apologize for rambling and I deeply appreciate your help. Thank you.

❤️pants


*My four pound geriatric chichi and I

List of rain deities
Aztec god Tlaloc, Millan Primary School in Mexico City


More...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rain_deities

Different Gods & Goddesses of Rain in Various Mythologies and Their Powers

https://www.stillunfold.com/history/different-gods-goddesses-of-rain-in-various-mythologies-and-their-powers

White Poverty

Rev. William Barber & Jonathan Wilson -
Hartgrove: White Poverty

https://www.youtube.com/live/BL8TwnHDB18

Run time: 01:07:15

When most Americans think of poverty, they imagine Black faces. As a teenager, Reverend William J. Barber ll recalls seeing Black mothers interviewed on television whenever there was a story on food stamps or unemployment; poverty, then as now, was depicted as an essentially Black problem. In a work that promises to have lasting repercussions, Barber-now a leading advocate for the rights of our nation's poor and the "closest person we have to Dr. King" (Cornel West)--addresses white poverty as a hugely neglected subject that might just be the key to mitigating racism and bringing together the tens of millions working-class and impoverished whites with low-income Blacks. Recognizing that angry social media posts have replaced food, education, and housing as a "salve" for the white poor, Barber contends that the millions of America's lowest-income earners have much in common, and together with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, provides one of the most sympathetic and visionary approaches to endemic poverty in decades.

It's this...

Cheryl Crow, Evolution, lyric video

Transnational Feminist Networks Symposium

Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication


Transnational Feminist Networks Symposium

Join the Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication for a symposium on transnational feminist networks and art exhibition

By Annenberg School for Communication

Thursday, September 12 5:30pm
& Friday, September 13 · 4:45pm EDT

Join us next fall for a two-day symposium exploring the development, maintenance, and challenges of feminist solidarities in our globalized world. The event will include an exhibition opening for Present Futures: Experiments in Feminist Futurity

Reserve a Spot on Eventbrite
General Admission
Free
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/transnational-feminist-networks-symposium-tickets-905096015547

This two-day transnational feminist networks symposium explores the development, maintenance, and challenges of feminist solidarities in our globalized world. Amidst a decade of global feminist resurgence fueled by hashtags, neoliberal consumerism, and self-identification, we highlight the enduring work of transnational feminist networks. These networks, spanning digital and physical space, actively contest the global rise of far-right populism, gender-based discrimination, and systemic violence against feminized bodies. Organized by graduate students, this event promises robust discourse spanning academia, activism, and the arts. Through an immersive art exhibition, keynote addresses, and interactive workshops, we aim to amplify marginalized voices and foster collaboration. By providing a platform for rigorous examination and forward-looking engagement, we aim to propel feminist scholarship and activism globally.

Full Program Forthcoming

Transnational Feminist Networks is organized by the Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication (Annenberg C3) and will be hosted at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Global Communication (CARGC) with additional support from the Center for Digital Culture & Society (CDCS), The Wolf Humanities Center, and the Center for Latin American and LatinX Studies (CLALS)

The event includes a Thursday evening keynote (12th September 2024) event and a full day of Friday panels (13th September 2024) and a contemporary art exhibition, Present Futures: Experiments in Feminist Futurity.

The event will be in-person and open to the public.

About the Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication

The Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication (Annenberg C3) enables scholars to think and work across institutional, geographic and disciplinary divides. Jointly established by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, the center’s faculty, postdoctoral fellows and doctoral students seek to address emerging global issues broadly across the field of communication and media.

The first-of-its-kind center not only explores what “collaboration” means for the field of communication and media, but also provides critical infrastructure for reimagining and potentially revolutionizing how collaborative communication can be used to address complex issues such as health care, data privacy, cultural and demographic change, politics, new media, gender/racial equity and justice, media literacy and policy, journalistic trust, and the restructuring of media industries in an evolving age of streaming and networked distribution.

https://www.asc.upenn.edu/research/centers/annenberg-center-for-collaborative-communication

https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/events/present-futures-experiments-feminist-futurity
Sept. 12 - Nov. 19, 2024
Various Times
The Forum at the Annenberg School for Communication, 3620 Walnut St., Philadelphia

A contemporary art exhibition envisioning feminist solidarities across space and time, in everyday life, with an outlook towards “the future we want to see, right now, in the present”

“Present Futures: Experiments in Feminist Futurity” is a contemporary art exhibition that will open the two-day Transnational Feminist Networks Symposium from September 12-13th, 2024 at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. The exhibition will be displayed in The Forum of the Annenberg School for Communication (ASC) during the fall semester, from mid-August to late November 2024. Symposium organizers are currently seeking submissions from artists who creatively engage the symposium's themes, specifically envisioning feminist solidarities across space and time, in everyday life, with an outlook towards “the future we want to see, right now, in the present.” Follow on Instagram for updates: @tfn_presentfutures
https://www.instagram.com/tfn_presentfutures/

Exhibition Inspiration
In recent years, popular mobilizations like #MeToo, the traveling protest chant ‘Un violador en tu camino,’ and the International Women’s March have contributed to a global feminist resurgence. These moments of heightened visibility inspire, uplift, and illuminate pressing concerns facing women and gender-diverse individuals around the world but often eclipse the ongoing work at the grassroots level amidst seemingly insurmountable odds. Present Futures: Experiments in Feminist Futurity aims to highlight the undercurrents of popular feminisms — the acts, rituals, and practices that sustain transnational feminist solidarities and networks of care.

Beyond a sense of hope for a future we’d like to see from the top-down, our exhibition is inspired by Tina Campt’s proposal for a “grammar of black feminist futurity” that attends to the undercurrents of futurity evident in the present, the everyday, and the quotidian. She describes this revolutionary grammar (in the future real conditional) as a performance of a future that has not yet happened but must. Present Futures: Experiments in Feminist Futurity invites artists to meditate upon the quieter registers of feminist futurity that we can begin to imagine, live, and embody in the present.

We seek submissions that interpret the quotidian practices of the everyday as a means of consistently cultivating radical feminist knowledges, sustaining networks of care, and articulating communal resistance, within and beyond territorial borders, in often unspectacular and unglamorous ways.

More information about the exhibition is forthcoming.

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Partial video of the now famous origin of the B6 exchange during the Garland comtempt vote, Rules Committee

It's 20 or 30 minutes long in its entirety iirc and very revealing. It gives unique insight into how manufactured maga pandemonium perverts our government institutions.

The procedural rules were clearly broken by Chairman Comer. He bent over backwards for MG. He even went so far as to blame his hearing aids for his incompetence.

You should check it out if you have time. Here's part of it...

https://m.

In Real Life: A Hidden War, Scripps News

So High School, Taylor Swift

If DU wanted to be entirely inclusive posters would keep in mind that

The visually impaired might visit the site. Then posters who are mindful of the visually impaired, knowing in this day and age of advances like the ability to have articles read to you and other advanced capabilities available to the visually impaired and us all, could be used.

But only if the posters are mindful and provide a written description of the visual information being presented. If that special detail had been incorporated into this post of having taken the time to provide a description then many of us who can not enjoy the content because of the original owner deleting it would be "in on the joke." As it stands the joke's on us.

We have revealed our weakness in not being an inclusive community and consequently we exclude ourselves.
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American Foundation for the Blind
~Assistive Technology Products
In this section, you will find a comprehensive listing of assistive technology products used by people who are blind or visually impaired organized by category. Snip...
https://www.afb.org/blindness-and-low-vision/using-technology/assistive-technology-products
~Using Technology for Reading: Solutions for People with Visual Impairments and Blindness
If you lose vision gradually, you may go from reading glasses to prescription lenses, from large print books to hand-held magnifying glasses. Eventually, however, many reach the point where not even a strong magnifying glass will make text large enough to read. And if your blindness is sudden you may go from reading perfectly fine to not reading at all without the intervening steps.

Whether you lose your sight gradually or all of a sudden, you will be shocked by how much your daily life can be impacted by the inability to read. From scanning the morning mail to kicking back with the latest best-selling thriller, it’s true what they say: Reading is fundamental.
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https://www.afb.org/blindness-and-low-vision/using-technology/using-technology-reading-solutions-people-visual
~Cell Phones, Tablets, and Other Mobile Technology for Users with Visual Impairments
The Mobile Revolution
by Bill Holton, AccessWorld Correspondent

If you've ever watched an episode of Star Trek, you will doubtless recall how the crew of the Starship Enterprise was able to keep in touch with each other by means of a small device, called a communicator, attached to their uniforms, and to access data and a galaxy of other information via hand-held tricorders. In the 60s, 70s, and 80s, this was far-in-the-future, pipedream, science-fiction stuff. But in the early 90s, science fiction started becoming reality with the introduction of mobile phones. By the early 2000s, we regularly communicated on the go using Short Message Service (SMS) text messages, and soon e-mail and Web browsing capabilities were added to our cell phones, which we dubbed "smartphones."

Over the past several years the number of smartphone users has exploded. The capabilities of these devices have doubled and redoubled, so that today we can carry a device in our pocket that has more processing power and memory storage than that possessed by the world's fastest supercomputers of just a few decades ago. Today you can check your e-mail, the weather forecast, or a stock quote on your mobile device. Want to know which movie won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1973? Speak to your smartphone and ask the question, from anywhere, and in a second or so you'll have the answer: The Sting, starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Want to watch it? Use your smartphone to log onto Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, or another online video streaming service and you can watch it right on your phone. You could also choose to view The Sting on a touch tablet like the iPad, which includes most of the capabilities and features of a smartphone with a larger display.

If you've used a smartphone these past several years, you already know that a great deal of voice command capabilities come built in to most current models, so you can verbally instruct your smartphone to "Call my wife," or "Read my last text message." In addition, the three major smartphone platforms—Apple iOS, Google Android, and Microsoft Windows Phone—all include built-in screen readers similar to those that allow you to use your PC or Mac computer with little or even no vision. So, now you can read a webpage, compose an e-mail, or use your phone's GPS function to help you find the nearest coffee shop.

Most smartphones have replaced a majority of their physical buttons and other controls with visual icons that appear on a smooth glass touchscreen. You use a finger to select and activate these icons, and to enter phone numbers, messages, and other text via visual representations of keyboards and number pads. At first glance, so to speak, a touchscreen would appear to present insurmountable difficulties for those with visual impairments. You may be saying to yourself, "On my home phone I can still feel my way across, up, and down the keypad to dial a number. How can I find the right number on a flat piece of glass?"
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https://www.afb.org/blindness-and-low-vision/using-technology/cell-phones-tablets-mobile

More from the American Foundation for the Blind can be found here...
https://www.afb.org/

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