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THE REMEDIAL HERSTORY PROJECT
Why HERSTORY?
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Season 1 >
Episodes 1-10 >
S1E1 Our Story
S1E2 His Story Her Story
S1E3 Heroes and Sheroes
S1E4 Herstory's Complicated Suffrage
S1E5 His Sphere Her Sphere
S1E6 Fast Girls and 1936 Olympics
S1E7 Standards and Her Voice
S1E8 Rape and Civil Rights
S1E9 Textbooks and Crossdressing Spies
S1E10 It's not about feminism
Episodes 11-20 >
S1E11 Equal Pay and Ida Tarbell
S1E12 Equal Rights Amendment
S1E13 Culture Wars and the Frontier PART 1
S1E15 Women's Historians and Primary Sources
S1E16 Education and Nuns
S1E17 Blanks and Goddess Worship
S1E18 Thanksgiving and Other
S1E19 Feminist Pedagogy and the Triangle Fire
S1E20 Mrs. So and so, Peggy Eaton, and the Trail of Tears
S1E21 First Ladies and Holiday Parties
S1E22 Sarah, Mary, and Virginity
S1E23 Hiding and Jackie O
S1E24 Well Behaved Women and Early Christianity
S1E25 Muslim Women and their History
S1E26 Written Out Alice Paul
S1E27 Blocked and Kamala Harris
S1E28 Clandestine Work and Virginia Hall
S1E29 Didn't Get There, Maggie Hassan and the Fabulous Five
S1E30 White Supremacy and the Black Panthers
S1E31 Thematic Instruction and Indigenous Women
S1E32 Racism and Women in the Mexican American War
S1E33 Covid Crisis and Republican Motherhood
S1E34 Burned Records and Black Women's Clubs
S1E35 JSTOR and Reconstruction
S1E36 Somebody's Wife and Hawaiian Missionary Wives
S1E37 Taboo = Menstruation
S1E38 What's her name? Health, Religion and Mary Baker Eddy PART 1
S1E40 Controversial and Reproductive Justice PART 1
S1E42 Sexual Assault and the Founding of Rome
S1E43 Sexist Historians and Gudrid the Viking
S1E44 Byzantine Intersectionality
S1E45 Murder and Queens
S1E46 Hindu Goddesses and the Third Gender
S1E47 Women's Founding Documents
S1E48 Women and Bletchley Park
S1E49 Unknown Jewish Resistance Fighters
S1E50 End of Year ONE!
Empresses, Monarchs, and Politicians >
S2E1 Let's Make HERSTORY!
S2E2 Empresses, Monarchs, and Politicians: How did women rise to power in the Ancient world? >
Women Explorers and Pioneers >
S2E29: Women Explorers and Pioneers: Who was the real Lady Lindy?
S2E30: What is the heroine's journey of women in the west? With Meredith Eliassen
S2E31: What is the lost history of the Statue of Freedom? with Katya Miller
S2E32: Why did women explore the White Mountains? With Dr. Marcia Schmidt Blaine
S2E33: How are native women telling their own stories? with Dr. Ferina King
S2E3 How did female sexuality lead to the rise and fall of Chinese empresses? with Dr. Cony Marquez
S2E4 How did medieval women rise and why were they erased? With Shelley Puhak
S2E5 Did English Queens Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn have agency? with Chloe Gardner
S2E6 Is Elizabeth a turning point in World History? with Deb Hunter
S2E7 How did Maria Theresa transform modern Europe? With Dr. Barbara Stollber-Rilinger
S2E8 Were Paul and Burns the turning point in women's suffrage? With Dr. Sidney Bland
S2E9 Were the First Ladies just wives? With the First Ladies Man
S2E10: How did ER use her position and influence to sway public opinion and influence politics? With Dr. Christy Regenhardt
S2E11: Why was women's fight for low level offices needed? With Dr. Elizabeth Katz
S2E12 Should We Believe Anita Hill? With the Hashtag History Podcast
Women Social Reformers >
S2E13: Women in Social Reform: Should temperance have been intersectional?
S2E14: Why are material culture artifacts reshaping our understanding of women's history? With Dr. Amy Forss
S2E15: Did 19th institutionalizing and deinstitutionalizing healthcare make it safer? with Dr. Martha Libster
S2E16: Why are the interconnections between women and their social reform movements important? With Dr. DeAnna Beachley
S2E17: Did WWII really bring women into the workforce? With Dr. Dorothy Cobble
S2E18: How have unwell women been treated in healthcare? With Dr. Elinor Cleghorn
S2E19: How did MADD impact the culture of drunk driving?
Women and War >
S2E20: Women and War: How are Army Rangers still changing the game?
S2E21: Should we remember Augustus for his war on women? With Dr. Barry Strauss
S2E22: Were French women willing participants or collateral damage in imperialism? with Dr. Jack Gronau
S2E23: Was Joan of Arc a heretic? With Jacqui Nelson
S2E24: What changes did the upper class ladies of SC face as a result of the Civil War? with Annabelle Blevins Pifer
S2E25: Were Soviets more open to gender equality? With Jacqui Nelson
S2E26: Why Womanpower in the Women's Armed Services Integration Act of 1948? with Tanya Roth
S2E27: What role did women play in the Vietnam War? with Dr. Barbara Tischler
S2E28: Why were women drawn into the Anti-Vietnam Movement with Dr. Jessica Frazier
Women in World Religions >
S2E34: Women and World Religions: How did Confucianism's enduring impact affect women in China?
S2E35: What precedent is there for female Islamic leaders? with Dr. Shahla Haeri
S2E36: Were Islamic Queens successful? with Dr. Shahla Haeri
S2E37: Is there space for female Islamic leaders today? with Dr. Shahla Haeri
S2E38: Were Protestant women just wives and mothers? with Caroline Taylor
Women in Queer History >
S2E39: Queer Women in History: How did one woman legalize gay marriage?
S2E40: Was Title IX just about sports? with Sara Fitzgerald
S2E41: Was Hildegard de Bingen gay? with Lauren Cole
S2E42: What crimes were women accused of in the 17th and 18th Century? with Dr. Shannon Duffy
S2E43: How should we define female friendships in the 19th century? with Dr. Alison Efford
S2E44: Were gay bars a religious experience for gay people before Stonewall? with Dr. Marie Cartier
Women and Business >
S2E45: Women and Business: Do We still have far to go? With Ally Orr
S2E46: How did 16th century English women manage businesses? with Dr. Katherine Koh
S2E47: How did free women of color carve out space as entrepreneurs in Louisiana? with Dr. Evelyn Wilson
S2E48: Who were the NH women in the suffrage movement? with Elizabeth DuBrulle
S2E49: What gave Elizabeth Arden her business prowess? with Shelby Robert
S2E50: End of Year Two
BONUS DOBBS v. JACKSON WOMEN'S HEALTH
S3E1: Mahsa "Jani" Amini and the Women of Iran
World History >
1. to 15,000 BCE Pre-History
2. to 15,000 BCE Goddesses
3. 10,000 BCE Agricultural Revolution
4. 4,000-1,000 BCE City States
5. 800-400 BCE Rome's Founding Myths
6. 800-300 BCE Asian Philosophies
7. 100 BCE - 100 CE Roman Empire
8. 100 BCE - 100 CE Han Empire
9. 0 CE Monotheism
10. 100-500 Silk Roads
11. 300-900 Age of Queens
12. 700-1200 Islam
13. 1000-1500 Feudalism
14. 900-1200 Crusades
15. 1200-1400 Mongols
16. 1300-1500 Renaissance and Ottomans
17. 1000-1600 New Worlds
18. 1000-1600 Explorers
19. 1450-1600 Reformation
20. 1500-1600 Encounters
21. 1500-1600 Slave Trade
22. 1700-1850 Enlightenment
23. 1600-1850 Asia
24. 1850-1950 Industrial Revolution
25. 1850-1950 Imperialism
26. 1900-1950 World Wars
27. 1950-1990 Decolonization
US History >
1. Early North American Women
2. Women's Cultural Encounters
3. Women's Colonial Life
4. American Revolution
5. Republican Motherhood
6. Women and the Trail of Tears
7. Women in the Abolition Movement
8. Women and the West
9. Women in the Civil War
10. Women and Reconstruction
11. The Rise of NAWSA and NACWC
12. Women and Expansion
13. Women and Industrialization
14. Progressive Women
15. Women and World War I
16. Final Push for Woman Suffrage
17. The New Woman
18. Women and the Great Depression
19. Women and World War II
20. Post-War Women
21. Women and the Civil Rights Movement
22. Women and the Cold War
23. Reproductive Justice
24. The Feminist Era
25. Modern Women
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In the absence of a vote, women sought change through progressive social movements, efforts that stretched the traditional roles of women, and dragged them ever-more into politics. Women sought reform on temperance, child labor, lynching, public schools, and so much more. Women's efforts were central to and the backbone of the progressive.
Draw your own conclusions
Learn how to teach with inquiry.
Who was the better advocate for black rights?
In this inquiry students will look at documents by three prominent founders of the NAACP: Booker T. Washington, WEB Dubois, and Ida B. Wells-Barnet. Each had their own perspectives and approach to civil rights.
3. Who was the better advocate for Black Rights?
Why did Katie Casey want to go to a ballgame?
Did you know that "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" is a song about women's rights? In this inquiry, students learn from the primary material and historians why baseball was at the forefront of the suffrage movement in 1908. You can find the original song here and below.
Why did Katie Casey want to go to the ballgame?.pdf
Take Me Out to the Ballgame.mp3
Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, Wikimedia Commons
How should we define female friendships in the 19th century?
In this inquiry, students explore Boston Friendships and the relationships of queer women in the 19th century. How do we define these friendships that were clearly partnerships, if not romantic in a time before people used terms like LGBTQIA?
Lesson Plans from Other Organizations
The National Women's History Museum has lesson plans on women's history.
The Guilder Lehrman Institute for American History has lesson plans on women's history.
The NY Historical Society has articles and classroom activities for teaching women's history.
Unladylike 2020, in partnership with PBS, has primary sources to explore with students and outstanding videos on women from the Progressive era.
The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media has produced recommendations for teaching women's history with primary sources and provided a collection of sources for world history. Check them out!
The Stanford History Education Group has a number of lesson plans about women in US History.
Period Specific Lesson Plans from Other Organizations
Unladylike: Learn about the pioneering industrial engineer and psychologist, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, in this digital short from Unladylike2020. Using video, vocabulary and discussion questions, students learn about how her innovations improved American's lives in both factories and the home.
Unladylike: Learn about Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first American Indian physician and the first to found a private hospital on an American Indian reservation, in this video from the Unladylike2020 series. Susan La Flesche Picotte grew up on the Omaha Reservation in Nebraska against the backdrop of the Dawes Act of 1887 which sought to force indigenous tribes onto reservations and foster their assimilation into white society. Neither of her parents spoke English, but they encouraged her pursuit of an Anglo-American education. Picotte graduated from Women's Medical College in 1889 and returned to the Omaha reservation to spend her career making house calls on foot, horse, and horse-drawn buggy across its 1,350 square miles. Also a fierce community leader, Picotte worked tirelessly to help her tribe combat the theft of American Indian land and public health crises including the spread of tuberculosis and alcoholism. Support materials include discussion questions, research project ideas, and primary source analysis.
Unladylike: Learn about Annie Smith Peck, one of the first women in America to become a college professor and who took up mountain climbing in her forties, in this video from Unladylike2020. Peck gained international fame in 1895 when she first climbed the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps -- not for her daring ascent, but because she undertook the climb wearing pants rather than a cumbersome skirt. Fifteen years later, at age 58, Peck was the first mountaineer ever to conquer Mount Huascarán in Peru, one of the highest peaks in the Western Hemisphere. Support materials include discussion questions, vocabulary, and teaching tips for extending learning through research projects.
Voices of Democracy: There is a chasm in history classes between the Civil War and World War I in which it is difficult to engage students. If the Progressive Era is taught strictly through the historical facts—of unions, poor working conditions, Theodore Roosevelt's reforms, and so on—students may have a difficult time envisioning the era's importance to American history. This speech by Mary Harris 'Mother' Jones helps draw students into the Progressive Era in two ways. First, Jones's vivid and cantankerous personality certainly draws students' attention. She represents an important female voice during an era before women had the right to vote. Secondly, Jones's speech provides an illustrative entry point to help students understand the working conditions that triggered the Progressive Movement, the intensity of the disputes between workers and their employers, and the formation of labor unions in the United States.
National Womens History Museum: This lesson sees to explore the multifaceted and nuanced ways in which Helen Keller is remembered. By starting with an entry level text, students will be exposed to the way in which Keller is taught to elementary and middle school students. From there, students will seek to rewrite the story on Helen Keller using primary sources via a jigsaw activity to generate meaning. Students will consider the role of historical memory and consider the ways in which some of the ideas and beliefs of historical actors are ignored by history.
Stanford History Education Group: Some historians have characterized Progressive reformers as generous and helpful. Others describe the reformers as condescending elitists who tried to force immigrants to accept Christianity and American identities. In this structured academic controversy, students read documents written by reformers and by an immigrant to investigate American attitudes during the Progressive Era.
National History Day: Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-1887) was born in Hampden, Maine, to a poor family. At age 12 she went to live with her grandmother in Boston. When she was only 14, Dix founded a school in Worcester, Massachusetts. After a 20-year career as a teacher and writer, in 1841 Dix visited a jail in East Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was appalled by the conditions. Many of the prisoners were mentally ill, and they were treated terribly by being ill-fed and abused. Dix took it upon herself to report these condition to the Massachusetts Legislature in 1843, documenting the poor conditions faced by hundreds of mentally ill men and women. Her action led to the successful passage of a bill to reform the way the state treated prisoners and people with mental illness. Dix canvassed the country working for prison reform and improved conditions for the mentally ill. Eventually her crusade became international. She even lobbied the pope in person about conditions in Italy. During the Civil War Dix served without pay as superintendent of nurses for the Union Army in the U.S. Sanitary Commission. She died on July 17, 1887, in a Trenton, New Jersey, hospital that she had founded.
National History Day: Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) was born to slave parents in Holly Springs, Mississippi, on July 16, 1862, two months before President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. As a young girl, Wells watched her parents work as political activists during Reconstruction. In 1878, tragedy struck as Wells lost both of her parents and a younger brother in a yellow fever epidemic. To support her younger siblings, Wells became a teacher, eventually moving to Memphis, Tennessee. In 1884, Wells found herself in the middle of a heated lawsuit. After purchasing a first-class train ticket, Wells was ordered to move to a segregated car. She refused to give up her seat and was forcibly removed from the train. Wells filed suit against the railroad and won. This victory was short lived, however, as the Tennessee Supreme Court overturned the lower court ruling in 1887. In 1892, Wells became editor and co-owner of The Memphis Free Speech and Headlight. Here, she used her skills as a journalist to champion the causes for African American and women's rights. Among her most known works were those on behalf of anti-lynching legislation. Until her death in 1931, Ida B. Wells dedicated her life to what she referred to as a "crusade for justice."
Unladylike: Examine the life and legacy of the health, labor, and immigrant rights reformer Grace Abbott in this resource from Unladylike2020. Born into a progressive family of abolitionists and suffragettes in Nebraska, Abbott made it her life's work to help those in need—focusing on fighting for the rights of children, recent immigrants, and new mothers and their babies. Support materials include a digital short, vocabulary and discussion questions.
PBS and DPLA: This collection uses primary sources to explore settlement houses during the Progressive Era. Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills and draw diverse material from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Each set includes an overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide. These sets were created and reviewed by the teachers on the DPLA's Education Advisory Committee.
Unladylike: Learn about Martha "Mattie" Hughes Cannon, an accomplished physician, suffragist, and the first woman state senator in the United States, elected in 1896 in the state of Utah. This digital short from Unladylike2020 features the story of an immigrant child from Wales, UK, who moved with her family at age 2 to Utah, became a physician, opened her own medical practice, married into a plural marriage, fled the country in exile, returned and then ran for state office—and won—when most women in the United States did not have the right to vote. In this resource, students explore the life and times of Hughes Cannon using video, discussion questions, and analysis of primary sources and informational texts to learn more about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and how women's roles evolved throughout its history.
Unladylike: Williamina Fleming was a trailblazing astronomer and discoverer of hundreds of stars who paved the way for women in science. Learn about her contributions to the fields of astronomy and astrophysics with this digital short from Unladylike 2020. Support materials include discussion questions, vocabulary, and a quote analysis activity for students.
Unladylike: Learn about the life and scientific achievements of botanist, explorer and environmentalist Ynés Mexía, in this digital short from Unladylike2020. Using video, discussion questions, classroom activities, and teaching tips, students learn about the historical period in which Mexía lived and her impact on science and the environmental movement.
Unladylike: In this video from Unladylike2020, learn how Rose Schneiderman, an immigrant whose family settled in the tenements of New York City's Lower East Side, became one of the most important labor leaders in American history. A socialist and feminist, she fought to end dangerous working conditions for garment workers, and worked to help New York State grant women the right to vote in 1917. Utilizing video, discussion questions, vocabulary, and teaching tips, students learn about Schneiderman's role in creating a better life for workers in the United States. Sensitive: This resource contains material that may be sensitive for some students. Teachers should exercise discretion in evaluating whether this resource is suitable for their class.
Unladylike: Tye Leung Schulze became the first Chinese American woman to work for the federal government and the first Chinese American woman to vote in a U.S. election, in 1912. Learn how this inspiring woman resisted domestic servitude and an arranged child marriage to provide translation services and solace to Asian immigrant victims of human trafficking in San Francisco in this video short from Unladylike2020. Sensitive: This resource contains material that may be sensitive for some students. Teachers should exercise discretion in evaluating whether this resource is suitable for their class.
Unladylike: Learn about Mary Church Terrell, daughter of former slaves and one of the first African American women to earn both a Bachelor and a Master's degree, who became a national leader for civil rights and women's suffrage, in this video from Unladylike2020. Terrell was one of the earliest anti-lynching advocates and joined the suffrage movement, focusing her life's work on racial uplift—the belief that blacks would end racial discrimination and advance themselves through education, work, and community activism. She helped found the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Support materials include discussion questions and teaching tips for research projects. Primary source analysis activities emphasize how the content connects to racial justice issues that continue today, including a close reading of the Emmett Till Antilynching Bill of 2020. Sensitive: This resource contains material that may be sensitive for some students. Teachers should exercise discretion in evaluating whether this resource is suitable for their class.
Unladylike: Learn about Maggie Lena Walker, the first African American woman to found a bank in the United States in this digital short from Unladylike2020. Utilizing a video, discussion questions and vocabulary, students will learn how Walker helped to improve the lives of African Americans and women at the turn of the 20th century by providing financial empowerment, social services, and civil rights leadership. Sensitive: This resource contains material that may be sensitive for some students. Teachers should exercise discretion in evaluating whether this resource is suitable for their class.
Collins, Gail, America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines. New York, William Morrow, 2003.
DuBois, Ellen Carol, 1947-. Through Women's Eyes : an American History with Documents. Boston :Bedford/St. Martin's, 2005.Indians Editors. "NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN." Indians. N.D. http://indians.org/articles/Native-american-women.html.
Ware, Susan. American Women's History: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Primary AUTHOR:
Dr. Barbara Tischler
Primary ReviewerS:
Dr. Deanna Beachley
Kelsie Brook Eckert, Project Director
Coordinator of Social Studies Education at Plymouth State University
Dr. Barbara Tischler, Consultant
Professor of History Hunter College and Columbia University
Dr. Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, Consultant
Assistant Professor of History at La Sierra University
Jacqui Nelson, Consultant
Teaching Lecturer of Military History at Plymouth State University
Professor of History and Women's Studies at College of Southern Nevada
Dr. Margaret Huettl
Hannah Dutton
Dr. John Krueckeberg
Dr. Rebecca Noel
Michelle Stonis, MA
Annabelle L. Blevins Pifer, MA
Cony Marquez, PhD Candidate
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Dr. Tanya Roth
Dr. Jessica Frazier
Mary Bezbatchenko, MA
Remedial Herstory Editors. "14. PROGRESSIVE WOMEN." The Remedial Herstory Project. November 20, 2022. www.remedialherstory.com.
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After getting the lathe mobile I was able to also get it under the block and chain and remove it from the stand. The intent being to continue my checks of the setup in the quest of getting a well tuned lathe capable of turning very parallel work. Something it is not doing to the level I would like.
So first off lathe removed. Nothing special here but a bit of gratuitous "block and chain".
After that the drip tray was removed and so were the adjustable feet. Things felt pretty dang flat. There was a very very minor amount of movement in the stand and just putting a single playing card (an Ace of Spades from memory) under any leg made things worse. Like I said, pretty flat. Anyway from here I started assessing how flat things were across the top struts that the lathe is actually bolted to. I dont have a super accurate engineers level so this is done using a long level I had from a DIY work around the house.
Top view of the lathe stand for reference to help visualise the different dimensions being assessed with the level.
Having looked as these checks and I would say that the stand is actually pretty dang level. Nothing that a small amount of shiming under the lathe feet would solve at any rate. On the plus side my welding and fabrication was clearly better than I thought as I was convinced there was a bad twist somewhere.
The next problem to investigate is how the chip tray is sitting. The suspicion is that the amount the cross supports are raised is not quite enough to esnure that the drip tray is not actiing a bit like a spring. This isn't an issue at the Head Stock end but given the Tail Stock is much closer to the edge and therefore the spring effect I think that might be having an alignment impact. Results of the investigation in the next post.
A brief pause while I sort out a better drip tray on the stand that should make flood coolant a little easier to setup. ie less work in trying to seal the existing stock tray.
Okay we are back. The drip tray is pretty much done and the paint is drying so while that happens I have gotten the lathe back on the stand and its all levelled up. This time no rubber pads under the levelling feet. I also squared the base of the feet to the bolt in the mill. Especially after re-welding them so they would be very unlikely to break again.
I then embarked on an exercise to true things up using Rollie's Dad's method. I know there are lots of discussions on how good or not good this approach is but it seemed to make sense, I had the tools to try so what the heck.
I had some round bars that were rollers from a printer or photocopier (thanks Bruce!) one of which I used as the test bar. Setup the 0.01mm test indicator and off we went.
Here are screen shots from the spreadsheet I used to track the numbers for the horizontal then vertical tests.
From these you can see the horizontal was pretty much on the money right from the start. The delta was very small and while I could have gone for even higher accuracy I actually don't have anything that measure better than 0.01mm.
The vertical needed a bit of work. I started putting shims under the tail and no noticeable improvement in fact things started to get worse. So I removed those shims (0.1mm thick aluminium from soda cans). I then put a set under the headstock end. Since this "foot" is rather large and covers two support beams this means 4 shims in total.
Measuring at the head stock end.
BINGO! Cutting parallel. Well at least within the limits of my 0.01mm callipers.
Nice work Joco! the biggest objective to leveling a lathe is to take the twist out of the bed. Looks like you've done that. I might suggest that when you get a micrometer, you check it further.
Dial and digital calipers are good to about +/- 0.05mm honestly...regardless of how many digits are showing....but you are close!
Check it periodically for the next couple of weeks...sometimes they settle and move a little.
I respectfully suggest you check it every few months, as it is sitting on a concrete slab on the earth. The earth under it moves with the seasons from moisture changes. Also, a Starrett or other quality brand machinists level will be worth the $50.00 Ebay or so to get better leveling and you'll use it over the years.
Dave - yes its in the final place. My "workshop" is actually my half of the garage. The boss expects to get her car back in there and is making some strident noise to that effect.
A 0.001mm mic is on the "really want one of those" wish list. It will probably not be digital as they seem to be quite pricey in comparison to the analogue version.
Steamer/Mosey - yes checking it periodically for seasonal shift and settling is a good idea.
An engineers level would be nice to have but as Steamer noted I think I'll slump up the $$ for the mic first. It will get more general use.
Since I'm about to get a new lathe, I'm interested in the discussion on leveling.
I understand the need to take twist out. What I don't understand is whether it matters if one end is higher/lower than the other.
All is still square with each other no?
The only thing that really matters is the twist...if the bed is slanted it doesn't matter twist is the issue. That said the easiest way to get the twist out is to level it in all planes.
Carl - as noted it's all about being aligned down the bed. The actual relationship of the bed to gravity level is immaterial. Consider that large ships, particularly military ones, will have a machine shop with lathes, mills etc in them and they are never constant to gravity level, even when in port there will be slight movements.
However as also noted getting the lathe level in relation to gravity just makes for an easier starting point. The more accurately you can achieve this the better starting position you will be in.
While an engineers level that is able to show very small changes over a long distance would be ideal you can do a pretty good job using a tradesman class level followed by some form of test bar process. I used the "Rollie's Dads" method but there are other approaches.
The cool thing about Follies dads method is it allows you to adjust for wear.
In this part of the world it's not the moisture in the earth under the concrete that's the problem, it's when the earth decides it's had enuff of sitting still for a couple of millennia & moves UP 4 or 5 meters, OR sideways 8 OR 9 meters that the fun begin's,!
And the point about lathes being on ships gave me a 'doh' moment.
When you install a lathe on a ship, some say it's best to align the bed fore and aft, the pitch motion is always less than the roll. However, we did the opposite, If you are working in rough conditions, the lathe operator standing so as to face fore and aft, was less likely to sway into the revolving machinery if the ship rolled unpredictably. It's your choice, safety or precision.
Another very useful modification is to fit some sort of end stop to prevent the tail stock sliding off the end of the bed if some idiot forgets to lock it tight to the bed. Makes one hell of a noise when it falls onto the steel deck plates in the middle of a stormy night.
Perfect for the compact home shop. Economical and where can I order one?
Thanks Dave that is a very scary concept wheels on a ships lathe. It not really all that handy to be able to move the lathe on a ship. You still have to plug it into something and even if the wheels had locks they could slide. Now I hope I can forget about that crazy idea.
I ran quite a few ships lathes and even a large LeBlonde and most of them were fore and aft one or two went the other way but every one of them was BOLTED to the deck.
When I worked for the oil industry out in the North Sea it could get pretty wild at times. The seas were big and our ship was small. We had a Boxford lathe bolted securely to the deck, mounted side to side.
When the weather was too rough for us to ,launch the two man submersible, we stood down and had some free time to ourselves, time to go and make something. Today's Elf and safety people would have a blue fit at the thought of running a lathe in conditions where you could not stand without holding on. But back then, we were young and invincible; it would never happen to us.


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In the year 2008, the cops are better armed than before, but nothing has prepared them for this. Swift, sharp-clawed and deadly, something moves among them on the streets, in the alleyways, on the rooftops, tearing out human hearts and devouring them
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In the year 2008, the cops are better armed than before, but nothing has prepared them for this. Swift, sharp-clawed and deadly, something moves among them on the streets, in the alleyways, on the rooftops, tearing out human hearts and devouring them. Maverick cop "Harley" Stone (Rutger Hauer, Blade Runner) lost his partner to the beast, and now it looks like his girlfriend Michelle (Kim Cattrall, Big Trouble in Little China) is next on the killer's list. Even in the future, there aren't guns big enough to stop the creature's deadly force, but Stone has no choice. Teamed with rookie detective Durkin (Alastair Duncan, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Stone must stalk the edge of his own sanity if he is to destroy the rampaging Evil on the outside and banish the very real demons within . . . It could all be over in a SPLIT SECOND.
Featuring special effects by Stephen Norrington (Blade) and written by Gary Scott Thompson (The Fast and The Furious), along with an all-star supporting cast that includes Academy Award® Nominees Michael J. Pollard (Tango & Cash) and Pete Postlethwaite (Inception), this cult classic sci-fi thriller will have you on the edge of your seat!
*Pollard: 1967, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Bonnie and Clyde, Postlethwaite: 1993 Best Actor in a Supporting Role, In The Name of the Father
• High Definition (1080p) presentation of the main feature in its original 1.85:1 aspect ratio, newly scanned, restored and color graded in 4K from the 35MM internegative
• Audio: 2.0 LPCM Stereo
• English Subtitles
• NEW! Audio Commentary by action film historian Mike Leeder and filmmaker Arne Venema
• NEW! "Great Big Bloody Guns!" Producer Laura Gregory & Actor Alastair (Neil) Duncan on Split Second (HD, 27:25)
• NEW! "Call Me Mr. Snips!" An Interview with Composer Stephen W. Parsons (HD, 22:21)
• NEW! "Stay In Line!" An Interview with Line Producer Laurie Borg (HD, 23:02)
• NEW! "More Blood!" An Interview with Creature Effects Designer Cliff Wallace (HD, 32:03)
• NEW! "Shoot Everything!" An Interview with Cinematographer Clive Tickner (HD, 18:57)
• Original 1992 Split Second "Making of" featurette that includes interviews with stars Rutger Hauer, Kim Cattrall, Alastair (Neil) Duncan, Michael J. Pollard, Writer Gary Scott Thompson and more! (SD, 6:26)
• Original 1992 behind the scenes featurette with effects creator Stephen Norrington, cast and crew (SD, 3:41)
• Split Second Japanese Cut, full frame with burnt-in Japanese subtitles (SD, 95:00)
• Deleted Scenes from the Japanese Cut (English, burnt-in Japanese subtitles) (SD, 4:42)
• 7 Promotional TV Clips (SD)
• U.S. VHS Home Video Promo (SD, 2:34)
• Theatrical Trailer (SD, 2:15)
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by The Dude Designs created exclusively for this release
• Collectible Mini-Poster featuring original VHS style artwork
Double Dragon (MVD Rewind) (Blu-Ray)
Nemesis (MVD Rewind) (DVD / Blu-Ray Combo)
Went to Coney Island on a Mission From God…Be Back By Five (MVD Rewind) (Blu-Ray)
Windtalkers (MVD Rewind) (Blu-Ray)
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Doulas are like Grizzlies Fans
Everybody knows that Memphis Grizzlies fans are a special breed. Grit and Grind, All Heart, and Believe Memphis are more than slogans; they tap in to what makes us proud to call Memphis home. If you're not already familiar with what a doula is and what we're all about, we're here to tell you how doulas are a lot like Grizzlies fans!
Let's break it down:
Doulas and Grizzlies Fans provide unconditional support.
Grizzlies fans aren't fair-weather fans. Whether they're faced with injured players like Marc Gasol and Mike Conley or celebrating a big win over the Cavs, Grizzlies fans show up for their team no matter what. In the same way, doulas are there to support families unconditionally through pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. We're on call and ready to show up no matter the outcome. Instead of sitting in the stands, we're courtside offering physical help, practical suggestions, and the encouragement you need to make it through.
Doulas and Grizzlies Fans work with awesome grandparents!
Not every baby's grandparents can dance like the Grizzlies Grannies and Grandpas, but we sure are glad to have them around. Grandparents who are supportive, involved, and ready for fun are worth their weight in gold! Much like Grizzlies fans cheer the Grizzlies Grannies and Grandpas on from the stands, doulas love grandparents and come alongside them to support new parents. With a doula on your team, your mom or dad can focus on the excitement of welcoming a grandbaby while knowing their baby is in great hands!
Doulas and Grizzlies Fans are there for all of the highs and the lows.
Basketball games, birth, and those early days of a new baby come with a wide range of emotions: anticipation, excitement, nervousness, uncertainty, celebration, relief, etc. These emotions can be felt before, during, and after a game, and Grizzlies fans are present for all of them. Between Tony Allen with a great defensive stop, the playoffs, and anticipation of the upcoming draft, there's never a dull moment for Grizzlies fans. Doulas similarly are there to ride the emotional roller coaster with families through the time surrounding welcoming a new baby. The important difference, however, is that doulas are able to remain unbiased and emotionally unattached...to you and your family. The Grizzlies are a different thing altogether ;).
Even after the game is over, Doulas and Grizzlies Fans continue the support at home.
True Grizzlies fans are fans all year round. When they aren't cheering the Grizzlies on in The Grindhouse, they're supporting their team from home. They are engaged on social media and eagerly await the next game or new season. Doulas are there for you inside the birth room and inside your living room. Postpartum doulas help you as you adjust to the long game of parenthood after you're finished with the big event of giving birth. They can help you draft your playbook for those newborn days, work alongside you, and support you as you get to know the newest player on your team!
Doulas and Grizzlies Fans are both parts of the bigger picture.
The Memphis Grizzlies don't exist in a vacuum and neither do the fans! In addition to fans coming to games and tuning in from home, the Grizzlies have a larger support network. There are coaches, managers, the FedEx Forum, the mascot Grizz, The Grizz Girls, The Grizz Line, The Grizz Grannies and Grandpas, marketing experts, media gurus, and many other support staff that work to help the team be the best they can be and to ensure that fans can have the best experience possible. That's what doulas do. We exist in the context of your support network that includes friends and family, OBGYNs, nurses, pediatricians, and lactation specialists. You are the star of the show and we work with your team towards a common goal so that you can have the best experience possible for you.
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3.21.13 - New Music - Will.I.Am and Justin Bieber
I was resisting listening to this song, but seeing as how I am going to be turning on a radio at some point in the next four months, there is no hiding from "#thatPower".
The latest single from Will.I.Am's fourth solo album is a fucking smash just waiting to explode, and it will do so quickly. Whether you have loved or hated the past three tracks – only "Scream and Shout" really took off in the US, so I won't begrudge anyone who can't name the other two – this is going to take over.
The beat is interesting enough and clearly there was thought put into composition, so don't worry, this doesn't sound exactly like every other dance track out there. Will.I.Am's contribution is the same as always, and though Bieber's vocals are especially sweet (showing his prowess for conquering a hook on anyone's track), his identity is a bit obscured.
"#thatPower" may have a fucking obnoxious name (it would be fine without the hashtag), but it's a slammer. Maybe because of Beiber, maybe because of the beat, maybe because of everything combined. No matter though – I hate that I am so into it, but I am.


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Health, Safety & Environmental Issues in An Increasingly Hispanic Work Force
By Olga Daggs January 8, 2018 May 4th, 2018 General, Translation, Uncategorized
For any American living in a major metropolitan area today, it is quite apparent that the country is changing, and becoming more multilingual with a special emphasis on a growing Spanish speaking population. The Hispanic share of the US population is expected to increase almost everywhere, especially in the South, by 2030. This interactive map shows the expected dramatic rate of growth in the Hispanic population across the country over the 2010 to 2030 period. We should expect that a significant number of Hispanics will enter the work force over the coming decades and employers will need to become much more bilingual competent to properly engage and connect with this new labor force.
Another study on historic trends by the Pew Research Center showed that Hispanics today, are concentrated in the south and major metropolitan areas. Interestingly, this research also shows that the fastest growing Hispanic populations over 2007-2014 period were in North Dakota, mostly driven by increased fracking and oil extraction related activity in the state, which urgently required more construction workers and thus drove a large Hispanic worker migration.
Hispanic workers' share of the labor force has increased significantly since 1990, particularly in the construction industry. From 1990 to 2010, the proportion of workers who identified themselves as Hispanic doubled for all industries from 7% to 14% (to 19.9 million workers), but almost tripled for construction from 9% or 705,000 workers in 1990 to 24% or 2.2 million in 2010.
*Hispanic refers to any individual whose origin is Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, South or Central American, Chicano, or other Latin American.
Latino workers often look to the construction field as their avenue to economic security. In more recent data from 2014, they accounted for about 16% of the total workforce, and about 27% of the construction industry, according to the BLS. Jorge Perez, director of the Hispanic American Construction Industry Association (HACIA) in Illinois, said: "We understand that Hispanics are using construction as their path, our path, to the middle class." We should also consider that many of these safety issues are also valid for workers in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, and transportation where complicated machinery and safety procedures are required.
Why is it that the fatality rate is inching up for Latinos and inching down for non-Latinos?
However, there is another troubling trend. Between 2010 and 2013, the rate of Latino construction worker fatalities on job sites continued to increase disproportionately to their population of the total industry, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This surge, coinciding with a declining fatality rate for non-Latinos, has led industry professionals to seek out the root of the problem and search for solutions.
"In 2011, however, Latinos began to die in accidents on job sites at a higher rate than that of non-Latino workers. During that year, the construction industry was over 24% Latino, and the group represented over 26% of deaths. The pattern continued into the subsequent years. In 2012, Latinos accounted for over 24% of the construction industry, and over 27% of job site deaths. Then, in 2013, their population in the industry grew to 25.5%, and they represented 29% of deaths.
At the same time, the share of non-Latino construction worker deaths compared with all fatalities continued to decrease over the four years, inversely from that of the Latino population."
If the Hispanic population continues to grow as forecasted, Latino workers will continue to pour into the construction field, and their fatality rates will increase if deliberate and specific measures are not taken to address the root causes. Jorge Perez, of the Hispanic American Construction Industry Association (HACIA) believes the underlying culprit is a lack of safety awareness by workers and contractors. A situation that can be improved by better training and reference material on safety practices that is in Spanish.
He goes on to say that Latino employees come from a work culture that does not emphasize safety, which is in contrast to the constant rules and regulations Americans encounter daily. "For these individuals, particularly those from Central and South America and Mexico, there is no culture or movement to emphasize the need for safety. So when they come here, it's all new to them," Perez said.
Many others have attributed the higher fatality rate to a lack of training for Latino construction workers in their native Spanish. If safety instructions and procedures are not properly provided, and understood, why are we surprised that the injury rates are higher.
Anyway, it seems quite clear from several other sources ("Immigrants in the United States" report by Dr. Steven Camarota, Director of Research for the CIS, "The Impact of Language and Culture Diversity in Occupational Safety" by Mayra De Jesus-Rivas, Helen Acree Conlon, and Candace Burns,"Tracking Global Trends" by Ernst & Young) that:
Of the 7 million construction workers in the U.S. ~25% are Hispanic
6 out of 10 Hispanic workers speak little to no English
Constructions workers are injured more than English speaking workers – 70% higher for Hispanic workers and 69% higher for other foreign-born workers.
25% of job site accidents can be attributed to language barriers
Although a federal law is already in place requiring that training materials be presented in a language workers understand, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) does not have the tools or manpower to monitor every construction manager to ensure they are following the rules, said Jessica Martinez, deputy director of the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (COSH), a worker advocacy organization. There is a void not only of training in Spanish, she added, but also of OSHA site inspectors who speak Spanish. "Being able to have an inspector who can talk to the workers in a safe space in the language that they understand will make it easier to enforce the law," Martinez said.
It is clear that making more professionally created Spanish language training content available can go a long way in reducing these injuries. There is a notable quote we hear from one of the HSE (Health, Safety & Environment) managers we work with: "Safety is expensive. Until there is an accident." Consider what happens after a serious accident: the company has to deal with an employee who has acquired a serious injury on the job, police, liability and health insurance considerations, potentially increased legal attention from regulators, and productivity loss as other workers are hampered in ongoing work.
To exacerbate this further there are also the following factors at play:
According to multiple sources, Latino construction workers are also likely to hold more dangerous jobs within a crew as they are often the least senior and most ignorant of workers' rights.
As construction companies struggle to fill open positions with qualified workers, novice employees come on board with no experience and a carry a higher possibility of injury.
Construction sites, in general, are more dangerous for Latino workers who don't speak English.
Some employers often take advantage of immigrant workers who may not know the rules and are not willing to speak up.
Almost all sources and experts point to bilingual training as a key factor in addressing the problem. OSHA's training information is available online in both English and Spanish, as is HACIA's contractor training, NAHB's safety materials, and American Red Cross online OSHA training courses.
Training materials and critical safety instructions with heavy machinery are particularly important documents, because they serve as the foundation for performing all daily tasks within the workplace. When staff is well trained, the potential for problems is reduced and the overall work process is more efficient. In general, most workplace accidents are preventable with proper employee training. It is unfortunate when injuries occur, in particular, when employees did not have a clear understanding of the training instructions due to a language barrier or poor-quality translations of critical safety related material.
When an accident does arise, the Police, HSE, HR department and Managers may all need to descend on the area in question especially if the injury is serious or involves a death. Opportunities through which migrant workers can become more actively engaged in disseminating safety related working practices, by being integral to policy decision making and education practices will ensure better outcomes for both the company and the workers. This by definition means it has to be done in Spanish. Methods of conveying important messages, whether through peers, or through translated materials to inform them of their rights and responsibilities should be developed. In many cases they are mandatory. Engaging competent and knowledgeable translation services are key to both preventing these incidents, and to ensure drama free investigation and resolution when they do occur.
Another level of legal responsibility is in governmental compliance. While employees are at risk when they do not clearly understand the workplace instructions, so are businesses when employees are not capable of performing the required tasks due to a language barrier. In many workplaces where workers can be injured by machinery or work environment materials it is mandated by governmental inspectors that all workers understand safety protocols.
Professional translation services that understand the use scenarios of the material they translate are a key to reducing this troubling trend. If the workers do not understand the instructions because a cut-rate translation option was used, the whole purpose of training and bilingual communication is defeated and it is possible to even increase the danger by providing incorrect and confusing translations. If the training materials are to be useful to workers they must be easily understandable, and experts like MWS have long-term experience in performing these kinds of services effectively. We should understand that convoluted and poor translations provide false security and are not likely to reduce the core concern, which is to reach a status quo with fewer injuries, lower insurance rates, happier and more productive workers, and ongoing effective work performance.
The U.S. Hispanic population is drawn from an increasingly diverse mix of countries. Hispanics of Mexican origin account for 63.3% (36 million) of the nation's Hispanic population in 2015 but its share is dropping. The population of Hispanics of Puerto Rican origin, the second-largest origin group, stands at 5.4 million in 2015. Five other Hispanic origin groups have populations of more than 1 million – Salvadorans, Cubans, Dominicans, Guatemalans and Colombians – and each has also seen its population increase over the past decade.
Check out the Pew Research Center's Interactive Hispanic Origin Profiles
The original country of origin of the Hispanic population also means that there can be Spanish variants, and employers and agencies that work on training materials need to be aware of critical differences especially around safety related training content. The following few examples demonstrate significant differences between regional variances of Spanish. At MasterWord we understand these crucial nuances that help ensure accurate communication required for safety purposes.
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READ The Thirteenth Tale - Dongeng Ketiga Belas (2008) Online Free. ReadOnlineNovel.com - Free Reading Epub, Pdf.
Entertaining book, good twist at the end, not what I had been expecting. Well written and engaging.
Overall it was ok. However, the narrator was extremely annoying with her incessant whining.
Loved evrything about this book. Reading this book sparked my interest in reading again.
Loved the book. It will go on my list as one of my favorites.


DIRECTIONLESS and forlorn: Little John (Phumci Mncayi) and Friar Tuck (Desmond Dube), doing the traffic light jive in their bid to rob from the rich and give to the poor. Photograph by Mariola Biela.
INDEED, THE SILLY season is already upon us. But silly is as silly does and when the volume and strobes in an auditorium are ramped up to deafen and blind an audience in order to compensate for a messy hodge-podge of a story featuring political- and market-related humour that is so tired you have to be seriously drunk to laugh, you can only despair. Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood the city's highly punted pantomime for the year, takes silly to a new level of incompetence. It features so much self-indulgent clap-trap in its narrative flow, choice of music and ribaldry that not only does the story lose its way spectacularly, but it is also crushed under the weight of too many agendas.
With stand-out performances by Graham Hopkins as the evil villain Norman the Nasty Sheriff of Nottingham; Kate Normington in the role of an Irish geriatric fairy called Silly Sylviana, the Spirit of the Forest; Desmond Dube as Friar Tuck and the very talented Dale Scheepers as one of the hapless 'babes in the wood', Tokkel; it is not the performers or the choreographers who can be condemned. They do their best. They're immensely skilled. But they're working in a context which so lacks narrative definition that it feels as though anything goes. The work is an unsuccessful mashing together of a bunch of tales surrounding Robin Hood, the medieval activist who stole from the rich and gave to the poor, and that of Hansel and Gretel, two poor children condemned by a nasty step mother to die in the forest. Both these central classics are pinned to poverty, patronage politics and corruption rhetoric specific to the time in which we live, only it's not funny.
Sadly the political shenanigans of the time have been so widely laughed at, analysed, criticised and condemned by all and sundry that the humour has begun to pall. And in this production in particular, it's as subtle and nuanced as a sledge-hammer hitting a fly.
Where the two tales meet and why they're pushed together is a mystery. Pantomime is traditionally such a complex and bawdy bit of burlesque to begin with, it's not clear why this production needed even more frills than normal by taking on two stories at once.
The requisite over the top drag character is played by LJ Urbani with immensely tragic make-up, in the role of the wicked step-mother, but the moments of genuine hilarity are few and far between. If you can look beyond the arbitrary and irresponsible use of strobes, and forget that the sound is at such a decibel level that you feel the vibration in your teeth, there's still not much left, particularly for the littlies. When this production is not messily presented in its narrative, it's seriously scary or crudely cruel. Thus the entertainment value is substituted for a kind of sensory assault. If that's your thing, you might love it. When audiences of large scale musicals shout hysterically on cue at every drum roll, it's either because they think they should, or because they're crying about the money they've just spent so badly. In terms of big shows fitting the family entertainment bill for the end of year treat, this one certainly doesn't cut it.


Certain privileges are not available to everyone.
Space, comfort, security, speed and above all, luxury.
Paul Anka, Johnny Hallyday, Emir Kusturica and Julieta Venegas perform at the Liceu in the international program of the second edition of Suite Festival, which opens on 17 January with Sopa de Cabra, a band returns to the stage 15 years after separation. The popular Catalan group offered at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona their only concert of the tour to promote his new album "Cercles", as reported by the organizers of Suite Festival.
Sopa de Cabra opened fire from a program that included musicians like Manuel Carrasco (April 13), Chris Cornell (April 21) and Michel Camilo (May 18). The festival director Juli Guiu has announced eight of the twelve concerts that ultimately form the cartel Suite Festival, and has advanced that "confirmed the missing are all first swords in their respective genres, capable of filling the Liceu".
Chris Cornell, pioneering grunge, held at the Liceu the first performance in Spain of his current tour, while Manuel Carrasco and Julieta Venegas presented in this space their new jobs. Paul Anka, leading into the gap since 1957, will dance the audience on January 30 and Emir Kusturica visit Barcelona accompanied by The No Smoking Orchestra on March 21.
The Dominican Michel Camilo will perform on May 18 in the last of the musical events announced so far by the organizers. In total, Suite Festival this year will include 12 performances, three more than last year, indicated Juli Guiu, president of Ediciones Musicales Clipper's promoter and director of the Festival. An event that has also increased this year's budget, which has grown from 1,220,000 euros last approximately a million and a half year of this year.
However, the Festival will not repeat the New Year's Eve concert, which last year was led by Woody Allen, because the organization has found "no artist renowned for this date," said Guiu, who "still looking" for it and does not rule out return to recover in subsequent editions.
For its part, the director general of the Liceu, Roger Guasch, has defended the commitment of this operatic arena in accommodating other artistic proposals and described the Suite Festival as "a success". Guasch has revealed, last year this event provided input for the Liceo income net 115,000 euros, "which allowed us to strengthen the operatic programming and parallel activities." "In addition, we find it very helpful to bring the Liceu to all audiences and create new viewers because the Liceu be social or will not be," he concluded.
The City Council has given the final green light to residential skyscraper 100 meters high and 26 floors located at Avenida Diagonal 131, corner of the streets Pere IV and Bilbao, which required a building permit last to complete the project.
The property, with 125 homes already sold, is owned by Altamira Santander Bank -the real estate, is being developed by the Catalan promoter Corp, and involves a total investment of over 70 million euros.
This is one of the real estate projects that stood in Barcelona during the housing crisis -the work was interrupted in 2008 by the problems of the developer initially and then was conceived as a 20-story building plus a large overhang.
After it adjudicase Altamira, the design changed to a 26-story project without overhang, but CiU led by the City Council was reluctant to this change, requiring a new license for six additional plants, which include a swimming pool with solarium on deck. Meanwhile Corp has been working on the existing structure of the skyscraper, and has achieved new building permit with the Consistory led by Ada Colau. The promoter is also pending license this year to get a promotion price of 130 homes concerted Can Batllo, of which 82 have already sold.
Ground-level view of construction on the 6 central towers of the Sagrada Família.
The dream of many skaters is finally a reality. The carmaker Lexus has shown that creating a skateboard without wheels is possible, thanks to the magnetic levitation. And it's not a laboratory experiment, but the first world test Slide Lexus has been in Barcelona, at the hands of Ross McGouran skater.
Lexus has become the flying skateboard actual appearing in Back to the Future 2 with an existing technology: magnetic levitation. The company has applied the same technology that makes possible the maglev trains to create a table that levitates and that, in the view of images and videos that have posted the signing really works.
But the table is tricky. And it needs to run a special, magnetic track, which repels the skate. The Slide, equipped with liquid nitrogen cooled superconducting (hence emits some smoke), it is repelled by the floor (not rub), gliding contact this. Indeed, in testing even skate slides over the water.
To present the table, the firm created in Cubelles track for the occasion, 200 meters, in which it was shown that the invention works. With no one above, the table about 8 centimeters up on sleep, whereas when the skater goes the distance is reduced to about 5 centimeters. Skaters move around the track, and the table responds. He even moved above the water and achieves skater jump over a car (Lexus, of course). But: it seems more difficult to control than a normal skateboard.
"Embarking on this project we set out to push the limits of technology, design and innovation to make the impossible possible," said Mark Templin, Lexus executive vice president. The company, which worked on the project for 18 months, has made clear it does not intend to market the product.


Why Are Municipal Bonds Underperforming?
Municipal bonds have underperformed the taxable high-quality bond market by a significant margin over the past month. The Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, a benchmark for the high-quality taxable market, gained 0.32% from October 27 through November 29, while the tax-free Bloomberg Barclays Municipal Bond Index lost 0.70%. The interest rate sensitivities of these indexes are similar, so what caused the recent divergence?
The short answer is: tax reform. But, more specifically, a proposal in the House bill would disallow tax-free treatment of private activity, tax credit, and advance refunding bonds issued after December 31, 2017. This would mean that beginning next year, if these types of issuers want to raise new capital, they would have to sell bonds in the taxable municipal market, which would likely require them to pay higher yields. This has led issuers to push new bond sales forward to get ahead of the deadline, resulting in a surge in supply that has hurt municipal bond prices.
The potentially positive news for investors is that if this proposal is passed into law, tax-free municipal supply will likely shrink in the future, which could lead to upward pressure on prices once the year-end supply surge has passed. However, a lower federal tax rate means tax exemption is less valuable on balance, which may at least somewhat offset potential supply-related price gains. Additionally, the Senate version of the bill allows private activity bonds to retain their tax-exempt status, and several members of the House GOP recently sent a letter to their leadership asking to remove the changes to private activity and advance refunding bonds from the final bill that is negotiated with the Senate. So assuming the Senate is able to pass their version of the bill, the longer-term impact to the municipal market will depend on how the House and Senate come together to reconcile differences in their respective bills. But in the meantime, issuers aren't taking chances, and the coming surge in supply may continue to impact the market as we head toward year-end.
The Bloomberg Barclays Municipal Bond Index is a market capitalization-weighted index of investment-grade municipal bonds with maturities of at least one year. All indexes are unmanaged and include reinvested dividends. One cannot invest directly in an index. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.


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With cancer gone, life's good
May 5, 2009 at 12:01 AM May 5, 2009 at 10:39 AM
Regardless of the weather, Dan Potokar's life has become a daily succession of cloudless blue skies.
After wandering through a dark, 16-month maze of treatments for testicular cancer, the former Ohio State receiver appears to have turned the last corner and broken into the clear.
In February, an MRI revealed that all five tumors that dotted Potokar's brain last August had disappeared. His most recent blood work to count his "tumor markers" came back at two. Anything fewer than five is considered clear. Potokar's count once was a quarter of a million.
"We'll take two," said his mother, Nannette Kinman, with a laugh.
So this spring, a young man's thoughts can turn back to life. Potokar is taking a full load of classes and worked with the Buckeyes in their just-completed spring drills as a student assistant coach.
For good measure, the Grove City native is engaged to his high school sweetheart, Stephanie Wills.
"I'm doing great," Potokar said. "I feel wonderful. I'm working out consistently. It's exciting."
Potokar, a walk-on, was found to have cancer in December 2007. He had surgery and chemotherapy but, in the spring of 2008, the cancer returned in his lungs and abdomen.
That prompted a trip to Indianapolis for two stem-cell transplants and high-dose chemo. The brutal regimen led to his only real brush with despair when it initially appeared that the treatment wasn't working.
"There was about a week in Indiana where I wasn't optimistic," he said. "But other than that, my attitude was that I was going to beat this, I just needed to wait. (Being cured) was almost like a foregone conclusion to me."
He maintained that spirit last summer, when the tumors were found in his brain. He had full-brain radiation and a radiation procedure similar to laser surgery that led to the all-clear sign early this year.
His parents marvel at the strength he exhibited throughout the ordeal.
"First and foremost, I take away the ability to just get things done," said his father, Ed Potokar. "You don't realize how much capacity a person has until you get to witness just the determination and strength to get through this hurdle he had. It was remarkable."
Kinman called Dan's determination "incredible. He truly is a hero."
Dan said he has always enjoyed life, but this experience has greatly heightened that.
"I enjoy things even more and appreciate people more," he said. "That's a major change, just taking everything in. And another thing is I'm much more of an emotional person. When I see things that are sad or extremely happy, I get teary-eyed from time to time. That's a big change. I used to be a hardened football player. Now, I'm expressing emotions."
Dan enjoyed the chance to help coach. Ed Potokar said his son was thrilled that coach Jim Tressel asked for Potokar's opinions about several players, obviously taking his role seriously.
Dan said he has discovered that coaching "means more work on days off than on practice days." He's not sure it's what he'll pursue -- he is a business major and, despite missing nearly a full year of school, he could graduate as early as the fall of 2010.
His football playing days are over, but that seems comparatively unimportant these days.
"He got to run out on the field and experience that," Kinman said. "It's something he can treasure and have forever. But you know, he's a survivor. So yeah, you can't play ball, and that's disappointing to some degree.
"But he's alive and well, and that's so tremendously awesome."
kgordon@dispatch.com


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REVIEW: LEGO DIMENSIONS THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE STORY PACK (PS4)
WARNING: MILD SPOILERS FOR THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE Outside of maybe Star Wars, Batman has been represented possibly the most in the Lego franchise of games, having been featured in his own trilogy of games, as a playable character in the Lego Movie Videogame and being included as a one of the three characters in the starter pack of Lego…
02/15/2017 in Batman, DC, Lego Batman, Review.
LEGO DIMENSIONS THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE STORY AND FUN PACKS AVAILABLE NOW*
Launching alongside the North America release of The Lego Batman Movie are two new Lego Dimensions sets inspired by the feature film. The first is a Story Pack that comes with a new Bat-Computer base build, Batgirl and Robin figures as well as a Batwing vehicle. This pack also unlocks new stages that retells the events of the movie,…
02/10/2017 in Batman, DC, Lego Batman, News.
INJUSTICE 2 GAMEPLAY TRAILER SHOWS ROBIN IN ACTION
Last week when a new Injustice 2 trailer was dropped that teased the story of the upcoming sequel, several characters were also revealed including Batman's partner, Robin. Netherrealm Studios just ended a stream on Twitch that gives us a detailed look at Robin via a new gameplay video. The Robin in Injustice 2 is Batman's son, Damian, who in…
TARGET GETS A THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE TIMED EXCLUSIVE FUN-PACK AS DETAILS ON THE STORY PACK BASED ON THE MOVIE EMERGE
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BATMAN: ARKHAM KNIGHT NOVEMBER UPDATE TRAILER (UPDATE)
Those who purchased the Season Pass for Batman: Arkham Knight get to pick up the entirety of the November update today, which includes among other things two new story missions featuring Catwoman and Robin along with skins for Batman and the Batmobile inspired by next year's Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice. Those who didn't buy into the Season…
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What does a new citizen have to do to belong?
(Jay Janner/AMERICAN-STATESMAN archives)
After a nerve-racking, 8-month-long naturalization application process and years of legal residency, my mother is finally one of us: an American Citizen.
I have chronicled her naturalization journey for a few months now. In that time, American-Statesman readers have emailed and called to ask about her process, to congratulate her passing her citizenship interview and to share their expectations of news of when my mother casts her first vote. It's been an exciting and nerve-wrecking process, to be sure.
With the largest of hurdles behind her, my mom looks only forward to her life here as a new citizen of the United States.
Unfortunately for her — and other immigrants like her — citizenship alone won't provide the reassurance she'd hoped to gain from attaining that 11×14 piece of paper that bestows upon her every single right granted to a person born in this country. (Except the right to be president – which, I can assure you, she has no interest in being.) Even with the piece of paper to prove she's a citizen, she still looks and sounds like she doesn't belong.
As I've written before, my mother decided to apply to become a citizen during last year's presidential campaign season. She feared then-candidate Donald Trump's immigration platform, which she considered divisive and anti-immigrant.
Trump's campaign promise to deport the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. worried her most. As she explained to me, an irrational idea like mass deportation could only be followed by more irrational ideas, including one that could target legal immigrants in this country. The very thought made her more anxious about her future here.
A legal resident for years, she lived without fear of deportation. That changed last year when she saw on television news how some groups embraced Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric. So, she decided to ensure her future in the country she has loved and considered home for over 40 years and become a citizen.
One reason she'd waited so long to become as citizen, as I've mentioned before, was the racism she experienced when she first arrived and the random discrimination she endured since. She was always an outsider. As hard as she worked and as much as she assimilated, she knew she wasn't an American — and nasty folks along the way reminded her of that.
On May 25, along with more than 540 other immigrants, my mother took her citizenship oath and renounced allegiance to her homeland of Mexico. I've never known her to show such pride in her own accomplishments. Until then, that look had been reserved for the accomplishments of her children and her grandchildren. We — my five siblings and more than a dozen nieces and nephews — were so proud of her.
For the first time in months, we allowed ourselves to feel relief on that day. Yes, we too wondered what might happen to our family if Trump created an "irrational" policy that took our mother away.
On our way to celebrate her new citizenship, she asked: So, do I have to carry this certificate around with me everywhere I go here in Texas?
It might have been a funny question for some, but it was a legitimate concern for my mother. No one was laughing.
It's the same question that many Latinos in Texas are asking since Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law Senate Bill 4, a measure which makes it a criminal offense for any government official to put a policy in place prohibiting cooperation with federal detention requests placed on jail inmates suspected of being in the country illegally. Critics say the law, which goes into effect Sept. 1, opens the door to racial profiling because it allows law enforcement officers to inquire about a person's immigration status during routine police interactions, such as traffic stops.
Texas' discriminatory history against Latinos is long and deep. In some parts of the state — and in some parts of the country — looking and sounding different continues to be reason enough to harass. And now, Texas has a law that gives officers the right to openly doubt a person simply for looking differently.
This new law is what prompted my mother's question. Her accent and still imperfect English, she said, will stand out.
Jokingly she added, "What's a brown-skin girl have to do to fit in around here?"
Welcome to my world, mom.
Author Gissela SantaCruzPosted on June 2, 2017 June 5, 2017 Categories Donald Trump, Immigration, Politics, public safety, Texas Legislature, UncategorizedTags citizenship, naturalization, newsLeave a comment on What does a new citizen have to do to belong?
Can wave of citizenship applications hurt Trump? Maybe.
Julio Leon, left, collects study materials from Jose Franco during a naturalization workshop in Denver, Feb. 27, 2016. Donald Trump, a Republican presidential hopeful, has used harsh language against Mexican immigrants, compelling legal residents to seek citizenship in time to vote against him in November. (Theo Stroomer/The New York Times)
While the number of applications for naturalization generally rises during presidential election years, Donald Trump has provided an extra boost for just such efforts this year. All across the nation, the fear of a Trump presidency and its possible accompanying anti-immigrant policies have created urgency for thousands of immigrants to become U.S. citizens.
Throughout his campaign, Trump — despite describing Mexicans as drug-traffickers and rapists, pledging to build a border wall and vowing to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. — has assured us all that he has the Latino vote in his pocket because, well, Latinos know he is a job creator. Really? A surge in naturalization applications suggests otherwise.
Motivated by the fear rooted in the harsh immigration rhetoric that's become all too common in GOP presidential race, many Latino immigrants are taking the steps to become voters. [Now if only all Latinos eligible to vote in the U.S. felt as compelled, Latinos would finally be that force so many politicians fear. (I'll come back to that point in a separate commentary at a later date.)]
Figures from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services show a 14.5 percent jump in naturalization applications between June-December of 2015 compared with the same six months in the previous year. And that pace speeds up every week. Advocates estimate applications could approach one million in 2016, about 200,000 more than the average in recent years, reported the New York Times.
While much of the citizenship movement have been reported in Colorado, Florida and California, there has been a significant uptick in applications in Texas as well.
In San Antonio, a citizenship workshop in September drew approximately 400 people — up from the 150 to 200 that normally show up, Liliana Mireles, a regional program manager of civic engagement for the NALEO Educational Fund told Texas Tribune reporter Alexa Ura.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Proyecto Inmigrante, which typically helps about 1,000 legal residents apply for naturalization each year, has already has already helped 900 in 2016, the group's director told Ura.
There is no hard deadline to apply for immigrants set on voting in November, but with approval of naturalization applications taking about five months, immigrant groups in Texas are urging folks to get applications in by April 15 to allow new citizens time to register to vote.
Those who become citizens by then will then have to clear two more hurdles: registering to vote and showing up to the poll. Until each one of those 'must-do' boxes are checked, the opportunity to have a voice will go unheard.
Author Gissela SantaCruzPosted on March 25, 2016 March 25, 2016 Categories Donald Trump, Elections, GOP presidential contest, GOP primary, Hillary Clinton, Immigration, National, news, Politics, UncategorizedTags citizenship, Donald Trump, elections, GOP, Immigration, naturalization, news, politicsLeave a comment on Can wave of citizenship applications hurt Trump? Maybe.


Wasn't I Writing a Novel?
The goal was: Finish the first draft by the end of March, take April off, begin the Second draft in May.
But the combination of dead-laptop and new-girlfriend shot that in the foot. Of course I'm not complaining about the girlfriend, but I'm still trying to get my money back from HP before I buy a Macbook Plus. And from what I've been hearing it might behoove me to wait on the MacBook until the end of the summer to catch the new model and OS.
When I sit in front of the desktop I get into the day-job mentality and I can't get into a writing mode.
So I'm going to have to start writing by hand. I've been reluctant to do this because a) it takes so long and b) I think it's important to write with two hands to keep both halves of the brain engaged.
But "done is beautiful" and getting somewhere is better than getting nowhere.
If you decide not to wait til the end of summer, you are welcome to mooch the end of my student discount. I think it's a couple hundred bucks off for the Macbook Pro.
I think it's important to write with two hands to keep both halves of the brain engaged.
And yet, people wrote great novels before the invention of the typewriter.
Can't you get an old used laptop running Win98 for a hundred bucks? You're just using it as a word processor. Check the PennySaver.
You can use both hands if you get yourself a typewriter…and you can play with the nifty ribbon.
I'll keep that in mind, Smoove.
But I don't think that the dawn of Science Fiction came shortly after the dawn of the typewriter.
I'm thinking about that too, I just need a USB port for my thumbdrive.


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The Public Editor's Journal | Women, Women, Everywhere — but Not Much About Their Paychecks
September 5, 2012 2:31 pm September 5, 2012 2:31 pm
The stage at the Democratic National Convention was awash in women Tuesday night. And it's no wonder, since President Obama needs women desperately to win in November. Female voters tend to like Mr. Obama more than Mitt Romney — though Mr. Obama's popularity among women has fallen sharply. So women were very much in the mix. (A nifty interactive graphic on NYTimes.com shows that "women" was the keyword mentioned third most often Tuesday night – after Obama and work.)
Each female speaker had her subject: Nancy Keenan had abortion (and she actually used the word, not its euphemism, "choice"). The Iraq war veteran Tammy Duckworth, a moving figure with her prosthetic limbs and heartfelt delivery, had the military and overcoming poverty.
Michelle Obama had everything (including, it must be said, a great dress, featuring what a friend of mine would call her Second Amendment look — the right to bare arms). Smart female commentators like Rebecca Traister of Salon were impressed by the first lady's speech and yet a bit regretful that it essentially blotted out this Ivy League-educated woman's accomplishments beyond those of "Mom in Chief." Alessandra Stanley 's TV Watch ably and entertainingly compared Ann Romney's speech last week with Mrs. Obama's.
Then, there was Lilly Ledbetter, the 74-year-old Alabama woman whose (unsuccessful) fair-pay suit became the basis of the first law that Mr. Obama signed as president, who spoke about pay equity.
One would think that this subject – and those closely related — would be a topic worth noting, given how it lives right at the nexus of all-important women and the all-important economy.
But that subject – not just pay equity but also gender-economic issues in general – were all but ignored in press coverage of women's night, at least in print. The Times gave Ms. Ledbetter a half-sentence in Wednesday's print edition. The Wall Street Journal allotted not even that in its morning newspaper, although the Washington Wire on WSJ.com took up the subject the night before. (Granted, only Ms. Ledbetter, among the speakers, focused on gender-pocketbook issues fully, so the fault may be as much a missed opportunity by the Democratic strategists as a hole in coverage by the press.)
Tim Harper of The Toronto Star took up the gender gap story in his online column Wednesday, but there wasn't much else — at least not that I saw. Readers, I know, will correct me if I'm wrong.
Gender issues, particularly those going beyond the hot-button discussion of abortion, are worth exploring, and it's too bad that the Democratic night-of-women opportunity didn't prompt such a focus.
There was plenty of reader response to Tuesday's post about fact-checking and the truth. I hope to develop the subject further for a column in the Sunday Review section. If readers have specific examples of "false balance" – the near-meaningless quoting of both sides to achieve the effect of fairness – I'd like to hear from you by e-mail at public@nytimes.com.
Three Days in the Fishbowl, and Here to Tell the Tale


Governor Greg Abbott today proclaimed December 5, 2018, as an official Day of Mourning in Texas in honor of former President George H.W. Bush.
Wednesday, December 5, 2018, shall be recognized as an official Day of Mourning. The people of Texas are encouraged to gather, assemble, and pay their respects to the memory of George Herbert Walker Bush through ceremonies in homes, businesses, public buildings, schools, places of worship, or other appropriate places for public expression of grief and remembrance.
In addition, and in accordance with a proclamation issued by the President of the United States and by my powers under the Texas Government Code, the flags of the United States of America and of the State of Texas on the State Capitol Building and in the Capitol Complex, at the Governor's Mansion, and upon all state buildings, grounds, and facilities shall be flown at half-staff for a period of 30 days.
I further direct that these flags shall be flown at half-staff for the same length of time at all Texas offices and facilities abroad. Individuals, businesses, municipalities, counties, and other political subdivisions in Texas are encouraged to fly these flags at half-staff for the same length of time as a sign of respect and honor.
Flags should return to full staff at sunrise or the beginning of the display day on Monday, December 31, 2018.
This executive order supersedes all previous orders on this matter that are in conflict or inconsistent with its terms, and this order shall remain in effect and in full force until modified, amended, rescinded, or superseded by me or by a succeeding Governor.
Given under my hand this the 3rd day of December, 2018.
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The holiday season is quite possibly the most magical time of the year. Holiday parties, beautiful light displays, cozy evenings by the fire with family and friends and shopping for the perfect gift for everyone on your list. With all that, it is easy to get wrapped up in the excess of the holidays and forget what makes the season so special. It is a time to GIVE, and get joy from your generosity. It is a time to remember the people who are not as fortunate as you. And most importantly, it is a time to be with people, whether they are friends or family, and enjoy the moment.
Volunteering is a wonderful way to give back, be with the people you care about and help those who are less fortunate. The Junior League of Seattle is a group of like-minded women who enjoy getting together to volunteer their time; this season in particular is a time for the ladies of the League to shine.
The holiday season should be a fun, festive and warm time. Sadly, there are many children in our area that don't get the opportunity to create happy memories during the holidays. Circumstances could vary; perhaps they or a family member are sick, or their family can't afford to buy gifts, or even worse they have no family at all. Earlier this month a group of Junior League of Seattle members got together to set up and work at the Harborview Holiday Party for Kids. The Healthy Futures Art Project committee organized a snowman snow-globe craft project that the attendees were able to create and customize. A little over 400 children from the area showed up and participated in the holiday fun! The kids loved the interactive art project and the ladies of the League had a blast helping and watching all the smiles and hearing the laughter.
Another aspect of the holidays that we all love is the food. Even if we go overboard, food is something that brings us together and puts a smile on our faces. Not having enough to eat is a very big problem for a lot of families in our area. The Junior League regularly helps out at Food Lifeline, an organization that provides 82,000 meals a day to local food assistance programs with food that might otherwise go to waste. It is a fun way to get a group of people together to do something that really helps. Much of the work that gets done at Food Lifeline is through volunteer hours! A shift could be filled with sorting donations, uncrating and then re-packaging produce, cleaning, weighing, etc. This past week, a group of Junior League members got together to do just that, and had a blast doing it.
Volunteering doesn't need to happen just during the holiday season; but doing it with a group of friends right now is such a great way to bring things in perspective when it's so easy to lose sight of what is important. Not to mention, there is such a huge need. So gather up some pals and go help out an organization that is important to you. Helping those in need this year will only make your holidays all that more special.
Last month, I had the privilege of participating in Field Day with the Junior League of Seattle ENERGY Committee at the North Seattle Boys and Girls Club. The goal of ENERGY committee is to educate and help children (and their parents) to improve their health and wellness. The children's smiles and laughter at this event were certainly the highlight. They are a reminder that the long days at work or challenges we all face can melt with the smiling face of a child.
The event was truly an enjoyment. After speeding off from work, I walked into a packed gymnasium with lots of eager energy and fitness stations. We had over 36 Junior League members and 4 community volunteers. Numerous stations were set up including jump rope, corn hole, 4square, relays, hula hoops, power challenge, soccer, basketball, and decorating superhero masks. I was on hula hoops and despite the skills I may have had as a child, my hula hoop skills have gone downhill. The kids, however, were so creative in their approach and it was fun to give them the option of coming up with ideas as they taught me a few things!
Moving here from Florida, I am always looking to new activities for my kids to burn off inside during those rainy cold days. Field Day certainly gave me some great ideas for my own kids so I hope we were able to achieve the same goal for the kids at the North Seattle Boys and Girls Club. The staff at the club was amazing and you could see the warmth they have for the kids that attend their program. It was truly heartwarming.
During my first year at Junior League I was part of the Junior League's Kids in the Kitchen committee and learned quite a bit about food in the US and children's access to healthy food. According to CDC studies, it's suggested that some areas and households have easier access to fast food restaurants and convenience stores but limited access to supermarkets. Limited access to nutritious food and relatively easier access to less nutritious food may be linked to poor diets and, ultimately, to obesity and diet-related diseases. So it was fantastic to have the Kids in the Kitchen committee in attendance at Field day to give pointers and reminders about the amount of sugar in popular drinks.
It is such a great experience to be part of the Junior League and its days like Field Day that take you to a place of wanting to give and help as many children as you can. And so after a wonderful time of being with the children, I rushed out to pick up my two kids and taught them a few new hula hoop tricks of my own.


Better safe than sorry! Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Falchuk are taking cautionary measures before tying the knot.
Paltrow, 45, and Falchuk, 47, have "both been married before and knew it was smart to have one," adds the insider.
Us Weekly broke the news in November 2017 that the Iron Man actress and the American Horror Story executive producer are engaged after dating for more than three years. The happy couple confirmed the news in January via a statement in Goop magazine.
Paltrow's daughters daughter Apple, 13, and son Moses, 12, with her ex-husband, Chris Martin, are also thrilled about the news. "They are excited," she dished.
Paltrow and the Glee cocreator celebrated their engagement last month at the Los Angeles Theatre at a star-studded soiree with guests including Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson, Julia Robertsand Matthew Morrison. The week prior, Paltrow jetted off to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, for her bachelorette party.
The Avengers star and Martin, 41, finalized their divorce in 2016. Meanwhile, Falchuk shares daughter Isabella and son Brody with ex-wife Suzanne Falchuk.
For more on the engagement, pick up the new issue of Us Weekly, on newsstands now!