diff --git a/docsite/rst/playbooks.rst b/docsite/rst/playbooks.rst
index b2cf63748c..0059adbdef 100644
--- a/docsite/rst/playbooks.rst
+++ b/docsite/rst/playbooks.rst
@@ -334,6 +334,19 @@ Variables passed in can then be used in the included files.  You can reference t
 (In addition to the explicitly passed in parameters, all variables from
 the vars section are also available for use here as well.)
 
+Starting in 1.0, variables can also be passed to include files using an alternative syntax,
+which also supports structured variables::
+
+    tasks:
+
+      - include: wordpress.yml
+        vars:
+            user: timmy
+            some_list_variable: 
+              - alpha
+              - beta
+              - gamma
+
 .. note::
    As of 1.0, task include statements can be used at arbitrary depth.
    They were previously limited to a single level, so task includes
diff --git a/docsite/rst/playbooks2.rst b/docsite/rst/playbooks2.rst
index ec8f1ae5b2..aceffc26db 100644
--- a/docsite/rst/playbooks2.rst
+++ b/docsite/rst/playbooks2.rst
@@ -367,6 +367,13 @@ registered tasks.  As an example::
       action: shell /bin/true
       when_changed: $result
 
+Note that if you have several tasks that all share the same conditional statement, you can affix the conditional
+to a task include statement as below.  Note this does not work with playbook includes, just task includes.  All the tasks
+get evaluated, but the conditional is applied to each and every task::
+
+    - include: tasks/sometasks.yml
+      when_string: 'reticulating splines' in $output
+
 Conditional Imports
 ```````````````````
 
@@ -564,6 +571,42 @@ Negative numbers are not supported.  This works as follows::
         - group: name=group${item} state=present
           with_sequence: count=4
 
+Setting the Environment (and Working With Proxies)
+``````````````````````````````````````````````````
+
+.. versionadded: 1.1
+
+It is quite possible that you may need to get package updates through a proxy, or even get some package
+updates through a proxy and access other packages not through a proxy.  Ansible makes it easy for you
+to configure your environment by using the 'environment' keyword.  Here is an example::
+
+- hosts: all
+  user: root
+
+  tasks:
+
+    - apt: name=cobbler state=installed
+      environment:
+         http_proxy: http://proxy.example.com:8080
+
+The environment can also be stored in a variable, and accessed like so::
+
+- hosts: all
+  user: root
+
+  # here we make a variable named "env" that is a dictionary
+  vars:
+    env:
+       http_proxy=http://proxy.example.com:8080
+
+  tasks:
+    
+    - apt: name=cobbler state=installed
+      environment: $env
+
+While just proxy settings were shown above, any number of settings can be supplied.
+
+
 Getting values from files
 `````````````````````````
 
@@ -874,6 +917,35 @@ Therefore, if you want to set a default value for something you wish to override
 place to set such a default is in a group variable.  The 'group_vars/all' file makes an excellent place to put global
 variables that are true across your entire site, since everything has higher priority than these values.
 
+
+Check Mode ("Dry Run") --check
+```````````````````````````````
+
+.. versionadded:: 1.1
+
+When ansible-playbook is executed with --check it will not make any changes on remote systems.  Instead, any module
+instrumented to support 'check mode' (which contains the primary core modules, but it is not required that all modules do
+this) will report what changes they would have made.  Other modules that do not support check mode will also take no
+action, but just will not report what changes they might have made.
+
+Check mode is just a simulation, and if you have steps that use conditionals that depend on the results of prior commands,
+it may be less useful for you.  However it is great for one-node-at-time basic configuration management use cases.
+
+Example::
+
+    ansible-playbook foo.yml --check
+
+Showing Differences with --diff
+```````````````````````````````
+
+.. versionadded:: 1.1
+
+The --diff option to ansible-playbook works great with --check (detailed above) but can also be used by itself.  When this flag is supplied, if any templated files on the remote system are changed, and the ansible-playbook CLI will report back
+the textual changes made to the file (or, if used with --check, the changes that would have been made).  Since the diff
+feature produces a large amount of output, it is best used when checking a single host at a time, like so::
+
+    ansible-playbook foo.yml --check --diff --limit foo.example.com
+
 Style Points
 ````````````