What's up fellow thespians! Happy New Year to you all! 2013 is going to be a great year!
Today I'm sharing with you a Q & A I did with Denise J. Hart, Executive Director of The Performing Arts Training Studio, a Washington DC nonprofit specializing in professional theatre training for adults and youth with an emphasis on Contemporary Acting and Playwriting. They also offer classes that help all people develop their creativity!
Q – Where is The Performing Arts Training Studio located?
We're excited to have recently moved to the Columbia Heights/Pleasant Plains neighborhoods. We're conveniently located at 733 Euclid Street NW about 1/2 block from Howard University and 6 blocks from the Shaw Green Line Metro stop. As you know, Columbia Heights has been experiencing a real boon of development and many have responded that they're glad that something besides another restaurant or a bar has moved to the area.
Q – What kinds of people train at your studio?
Over the years we have helped hundreds of people from all walks of life to strengthen their skills – everyone from professional actors to newbies to the craft of acting and playwriting. Many of our acting students frequently work locally and also work in New York, Atlanta and LA for projects. For adults, the studio offers The Intrinsic Acting Method, a developmental training program that focuses on developing the actors total instrument. We pride ourselves on helping our students radically transform their ability to use imagination, intuition, body, voice and creativity in service to the world of the play.
We offer a developmental playwriting program for beginners to advanced playwrights. Our Playwrights Posse is an excellent workshop for developing the full length play.
Q – What's your philosophy?
I believe that the theater is the ideal environment to help people learn to transform the world. Subsequently, our programs engage and help young people and adults to develop the capacity to use the theatrical creative process to expand their creative aptitude, analyze their world, learn effective problem solving, and develop cultural sensitivity.
Q – Talk about your team of Master Instructors.
Our Master Instructors are esteemed in their respective disciplines and hold our students to high standards. Most have the dual benefit of holding a degree in the craft as well as professional experience. As a result, students receive a strong foundation of theory and experiential and applied technique. Students who train at The Performing Arts Training Studio discover more meaning and value in their careers and craft as they learn how to better connect to themselves, their creativity, the text and the world of the stage.
Our Master Instructors are experts at providing training that helps the artist rid themselves of poor habits which has a transformative impact on the theatre artist's approach to their technique and their ability to work in the industry.
Q – What's the price range for your classes and workshops?
Our adult semester class tuition is a reasonable $150 for a 5 week semester while our kids acting classes (ages 5-16) are $260 per semester. We also offer musical theatre summer camps for kids. Adults participate in a culminating showcase performance at the end of the semester for invited special guests and friends and family, while youth share their growth with a free performance for family and friends at the end of each semester.
Q – What's your background? How long have you been Executive Director?
I have been involved in the performing arts for 30 years, since my days in my home town of Omaha, Nebraska performing at the Center Stage Theater. I've studied dance, acting, directing and playwriting as well as visual art.
In the early 90's, at Howard University, I studied under the legendary Vera J. Katz who remains my mentor and friend to this day. In addition, I received my MFA in theatre from Sarah Lawrence College where I benefited greatly from the college's close proximity to NYC. Over the years I have graced the stage in the DC area performing with Wooly Mammoth Theatre, The Alliance Theatre , African Continuum Theatre and Arena Stage, as well as playing the recurring role of Miss Anna on HBO's The Wire.
I'm a tenured professor of theatre at Howard University and at this stage in my career, my heart's passion is teaching and helping people ascend to their next creative level. I have been an Executive Director for 19 years and enjoy the creativity it requires and balancing the left and right brain energy that the role requires.
Q – What do you enjoy most about teaching?
Helping people to access the highest creativity that exists inside them. My passion is ignited when someone experiences an "AHA" moment and their perspective and abilities ascends to their next level. My greatest joy is knowing that something I said or did helped that person to make a difference in their own lives and the world.


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Think tank urges the treasury to scrap tax relief in favour of funding the NHS
The Chancellor should scrap billions of pounds in tax relief for entrepreneurs and instead use the money to fund the NHS, a think tank has urged.
The Resolution Foundation, which aims to improve the standard of living for low and middle income citizens, has called tax relief for entrepreneurs the UK's 'worst tax break', as it is 'expensive, ineffective and regressive'. Instead, it has called for the money to be spent on delivering the promise of extra funding for the NHS.
In analysis published today (29 August), the organisation said the Government could generate £2.7bn in savings per year by scrapping the tax. It said this could be a 'head start' in funding the Government's pledge to finance an extra £20bn for the NHS per year by 2023-24, made by Prime Minister Theresa May in June.
The Resolution Foundation has called on the Treasury to reconsider the tax in the autumn budget, which will be announced in November.
The tax relief was initally announced in 2008 and allows people selling companies to pay half the normal rate of capital gains tax in an effort to encourage entrepreneurship. However, the Resolution Foundation said the tax had 'ballooned' to ten times the cost it was initially meant to be.
The think tank said those that benefited from the tax break have mostly been wealthy individuals, with 6,000 people who made claims on gains over £1m, accounting for 69% of the gains.
Adam Corlett, senior economic analyst at the Resolution Foundation, said: 'The UK's £2.7bn entrepreneur's relief is hugely expensive and overwhelmingly benefits a small number of wealthy individuals. There has also been no serious evaluation of the relief, despite it costing £22bn over the past decade.'
'As the treasury wrestles with how to raise revenues to fund the Prime Minister's pledge of £20bn for the NHS, they should start by scrapping this expensive, regressive and ineffective tax relief.'

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Displaced by Nuclear Bomb Testing and then Flooded by Climate Change, Bikini Islanders want to Evacuate to U.S.
Residents of the Bikini Islands, who have lived in exile for almost 70 years, have asked the U.S. government to relocate to America.
Their homeless existence began just after World War II, when the U.S. military used their island as a testing ground for nuclear bombs. Their Pacific paradise was the site of the 1954 15-megaton "Castle Bravo," the largest nuclear test conducted by the U.S.
The atomic blasts rendered the Bikini atoll uninhabitable for decades, if not centuries, due to the amount of radiation unleashed by the explosions. That didn't stop the U.S. government from trying to resettle the Bikinians back home in the 1980s, only to discover the island was still too "hot" for anyone to live there. The displaced population has spent the past 60-plus years living in the Marshall Islands.
But now the Bikinians have a new problem: climate change. Rising sea levels brought on by global warming have caused frequent flooding on Kili and the Ejit islands.
The Bikinians want to change the terms of a trust fund set up by the federal government that would allow them to use the money to purchase property in the United States. Currently, they're allowed to use the money only to buy land in the Marshalls.
The islanders would like to resettle in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Hawaii's big island, places that already have populations of Bikinians.


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Josef Lukl Hromádka (Hodslavice, 8 juni 1889 – Praag, 26 december 1969) was een Tsjechische theoloog.

Hromádka studeerde theologie in Wenen, Bazel, Heidelberg en Aberdeen en filosofie in Praag. Aanvankelijk een luthers predikant, ging hij na de Eerste Wereldoorlog over tot de Evangelische Kerk van de Boheemse Broeders. In 1930 werd Hromádka hoogleraar in de Systematische Theologie aan de Universiteit van Praag. Vanaf de jaren twintig was hij tevens voorzitter van de Christelijke Studenten Vereniging.

Als tegenstander van het nationaalsocialisme werkte hij in de jaren dertig nauw samen met onder anderen Karl Barth en de dominees van de Bekennende Kirche in Duitsland. Ook zette hij zich in voor de Spaanse Republiek en de Duitse antifascisten. In 1939, kort voor de Duitse inval in Tsjecho-Slowakije, ging Hromadka naar de Verenigde Staten en werd er gastprofessor aan de Universiteit van Princeton.

Na de Tweede Wereldoorlog, in 1947, keerde Hromadka naar Tsjecho-Slowakije terug en streefde naar een dialoog tussen marxisme en christendom. Hij zag het 'reëel bestaande socialisme' als een kans om het christendom te bevrijden van verburgerlijking en anticommunisme. Hij was lid van de Wereldraad van Kerken en was in 1958 een van de oprichters van  de Christelijke Vredesconferentie. Deze streefde naar vrede tussen West en Oost.

Hromadka was een groot voorstander van eenwording van de Protestantse Kerken. Daarnaast had hij veel respect voor de Orthodoxe Kerk en voor de katholieke communie, die hij zag als een krachtige spirituele handeling. Daarnaast was hij groot voorstander van de vrijheid en sociale rechtvaardigheid. Hij stond kritisch ten opzichte van de westerse luxe.
Toen in augustus 1968 door een inval in Tsjecho-Slowakije van 'bondgenoten' van het Warschaupact een eind kwam aan de Praagse Lente, kenschetste hij dit als de grootste tragedie van zijn leven. In november van dat jaar trad hij af als voorzitter van de Christelijke Vredesraad en werd opgevolgd door metropoliet Nikodim van Leningrad. Amerikaanse en West-Europese kerken verlieten de vredesraad.

Na de Fluwelen Revolutie (1989), waarna het communisme in Tsjecho-Slowakije ten val kwam, werd zijn gedachtegoed ernstig bekritiseerd, maar desondanks speelt het nog steeds een rol in met name de Tsjechische (protestantse) theologie.

Zijn theologie is verwant aan de dialectische theologie (zie ook: dialectiek) van de Zwitserse theoloog Karl Barth.

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dialectische theologie
Karl Barth
marxisme
theologie
vredesbeweging

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To provide clarification and practice of vocabulary including " "in the context of making suggestions and invitations.
Stage 1 (Lead In) (3-5 minutes) • To introduce the lesson and make the context of the lesson interesting for the SS.
- post a photo of a famous celebrity on the WB - ask the SS if they know the person in the picture. And what they know about him. - ask the SS if they like to meet the person in the picture. And what would they do. - The SS work in groups , and make a list of 3 famous people they would like to meet.
Stage 2 (Vocabulary introduction) (3-5 minutes) • To provide new vocabulary that can be applied in the context of suggesting and invitations.
- Write the question on the WB - Listen and answer - play again - SS check each others answers in their groups. - Get feedback from SS.
- Write the four possible answers. - Listen and answer - play again - SS check each others answers in their groups. - Get feedback from SS.


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Carlson, Frances
Title: Associate Dean
Organization: Chattahoochee Technical College
Frances Carlson has a Bachelor's Degree in English from the University of North Georgia and a Master's Degree in early childhood education from Concordia University – St. Paul. For twenty years, she worked as the center administrator for childcare programs in Oklahoma, Italy, and in Atlanta, Georgia. She has successfully led four childcare programs through the NAEYC Accreditation of Early Learning Programs process.
From Center Administration, she transitioned to a career as a college instructor at Chattahoochee Technical College in Georgia where she taught Early Childhood Care & Education for fourteen years, six of those years as Lead Instructor for the Department. While serving as Lead Instructor, she successfully led their Associate of Applied Science in ECCE degree through the NAEYC Higher Education Accreditation process, becoming the first nationally accredited Associate Degree in ECE/ECCE in the state of Georgia.
Carlson has been recognized for excellence in teaching by the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) and by the Lighthouse Institute. She authored the NAEYC books, Essential Touch: Meeting the Needs of Young Children (2006) and Big Body Play (2011), and directed and produced the DVD, Expect Male Involvement: Recruiting & Retaining Men in ECE (2009) and An Afternoon with the Experts: Gartrell on Guidance (2014). She currently serves as an Associate Dean at Chattahoochee Technical College in Marietta, Georgia.
- Contact Carlson, Frances on Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/BigBodyPlay/
- See Carlson, Frances's website : www.BigBodyPlay.com
- Contact Carlson, Frances on LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/francesmcarlson/
2018-02-07 : Big Body Play: Why Something So Scary is So Good For Children, by Frances CarlsonView Details


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Important update to Fellowship Teams Program
Due to funding challenges, we have made the tough but necessary decision to scale back programming and take certain services offline. This includes temporarily pausing the Fellowship Team program. You can read more about the change in programming here.
About Fellowship Teams
Fellowship Teams are financially supported collaborations hosted and facilitated by Public Lab. Teams are centered around a Community Organizing Fellow, and designed to support that fellow in their work on a local environmental concern or issue. Projects could be just starting, in their initial planning stages, or existing programs seeking additional expertise.
In getting started, Frontline Community Organizing Fellows work with Public Lab staff to define the goals of the project, and identify the roles of fellows who will join the team to support in achieving these goals. The roles on Fellowship Teams can include scientists, technologists, legal advisors, and documenters. In addition, the Fellowship Teams have access to the support of the larger network of collaborators on Public Lab's open source platforms. Fellowship Team projects run from 8-9 months and are launched three times per year. Through Fellowship Teams, Public Lab supports the work of community science projects with an emphasis on long-term visioning to advance the Community Organizer's environmental health priorities.
The major goals of Fellowship Teams:
Advance a local community environmental concern with Public Lab community science and environmental monitoring methods.
Center community voice and needs. Community Organizers will outline the fellowship goals and community science project with Public Lab.
Grow a network of scientists, technologists, legal/advocacy advisors, and organizers working on environmental health issues.
Collaborate on the Public Lab platform. By sharing experiences, knowledge of best practices, and methods on PublicLab.org we elevate communities' stories and help create pathways for other communities facing similar issues to get started.
Fellowship Teams are supported by Public Lab by:
A Community Organizer role which includes a stipend of $10,000 USD
2-3 supporting fellowship roles with stipends ranging between $3,000 -$6,600 USD
A community science monitoring equipment budget for the duration of your project up to $2000 USD.
A dedicated Public Lab staff member to help you define and track towards your project goals, and support facilitation of your team meetings each month.
Peer-to-peer sharing and support within your cohort and on the Public Lab website.
Regular drop-in and information sessions hosted by Public Lab each week; including quarterly events for further professional development on topic interests (optional to attend).
Access to communication platforms including Zoom, Slack, and a team dedicated Google Drive.
Connection to all Public Lab Fellows through dedicated communication channels.
Selection criteria for Community Organizing Fellows
Public Lab Community Organizing Fellows are selected three times a year, while applications/nominations remain open all year around and are welcome at any time. There are several steps in this process so that we can offer customized support in line with the unique situations being faced by local leaders. These steps are designed to support those who have never applied for a fellowship before.
When Public Lab staff begin the review process for an upcoming open role, applications/nominations are scored, and those who meet the minimum criteria are offered Project Development Sessions* with someone from the Public Lab staff. These are optional, though highly encouraged as applications are rescored after being workshopped, and scores nearly always improve. After applications are rescored, the applicant/nominee with the highest scoring materials is offered the Community Organizing Fellowship role.
Successful candidates/nominees for the Community Organizing Fellowship role must meet several key criteria:
They must live in the community where they are aiming to run their project.
They must seek to work on an environmental concern that is urgent and compelling.
They must be eager to have their project materials regularly shared, and to collaborate with their project team, and the broader Public Lab community. (Those with safety concerns about sharing project data with the public will not be excluded from this fellowship, but participants are expected to work with the Public Lab team on addressing these concerns.)
They have the ability to commit the time and energy to the project for the 9-10 month project cycle. Note: the first one to two months are with the Public Lab team in project design, defining the supporting fellow roles, outreach, and selection for supporting fellows.
Higher points are awarded in key areas such as:
Community need:
If the project is based in an Environmental Justice Community. This includes communities that have both extreme environmental and socioeconomic stressors.
If the risk or negative effects to human health is imminent or already existing.
Organizer positionality:
If the applicant identifies from any groups who are historically excluded from STEAM leadership.
If the applicant has roots within the community where the project is proposed and is committed to staying there.
The applicant is eager to share about their project, and learn from and collaborate with others.
Public Lab's reach potential:
The project supports a topic area that could use more attention within the Public Lab community.
There is a clear pathway to grow collaborators and partners.
It expands Public Lab's geographic reach.
Project development:
The project's relevance to community science- there is a pathway to grow knowledge about the community and concern through environmental monitoring led by the community organizer, and possibly, local collaborators.
The project is fleshed out such that there is a clear indication of the work phases and goals of the project.
There are potential partners and collaborators who have been identified.
The candidates local ties will be exercised through the course of the project.
* Top ranking candidates will be offered a Project Development session with Public Lab staff. This meeting is primarily aimed at the Project Development part of the application where applicants can workshop their project ideas with a member of the Public Lab staff. Any missing application materials can also be flushed out at this time. The Project Development sessions run an hour in length, after which applications are rescored by Public Lab staff with the added materials from the work session. It is not required for eligible candidates to participate in Project Development sessions, but highly recommended as application scores generally go up after workshopping sessions. Once Project Development sessions are complete, applications are rescored and the candidate with the highest application score receives the fellowship.
What Organizers can expect launching a Fellowship Team:
Your first 2 weeks: Frontline Community Organizer Fellows can expect to learn how to use Public Lab's website to connect with our network of partners, learn about our weekly drop-in events, and be introduced to Fellows communication platforms.
Your first month: you will begin to outline the goals of the project and work with Public Lab staff to identify a dedicated fellowship support team of up to three other people.
Once the fellowship team is selected: Public Lab coordinates a remote introductory meeting where Fellows engage in getting to know one another, share their skills, and learn Public Lab's organizing philosophy in community science. The team solidifies the goals of the project and outlines how each role will contribute to them.
Ongoing: Fellowship Teams will meet on a biweekly basis with their cohort and the Public Lab staff to share updates, trouble shoot, and track on the progress towards the team's goals.
Project Wrap-Up" We recognize that environmental concerns are unlikely to resolve within the timeframe of these fellowships. However, we aim to have made clear advancements for the cause during this time that help provide clarity and next steps for communities facing environmental concerns. Project wrap up time is aimed at closing out the project outputs that have been achieved, and helping identify the next phase of the work.
Other Fellowship Team Members
Once the project has been defined, Public Lab will solicit for up to three Fellows to join the team in support of the project goals. To get updates on these fellowship offerings follow the Fellows tag on Public Lab found on this page.
Interested in learning more? Have a project idea? Need help?
If you're a frontline community organizer interested in this fellowship program and need help narrowing down your project idea, or are unsure about filling out the application form, let us know! The Public Lab team is here to help.
Join us at Open Call, which occurs each week, and spark a conversation!
No pre-registration required.
Need to meet at another time? Schedule a time to meet with the Public Lab team.
Please contact us directly by emailing (organizing@publiclab.org). In the subject line please use Community Organizer 1:1. Please allow up to three business days for Public Lab staff to respond and coordinate a time to meet together.
Current Fellowship Teams:
Proposed Huber lumber processing plant and Talon metals mine in Northern Minnesota: The Minnesota Land and Manoomin Protection Project
The beginnings of the Mississippi River run through both Aitkin and Itasca counties in northern Minnesota. These counties are rich with wild rice, wetlands, lakes, forests, and healthy habitat for wildlife. Aitkin and Itasca counties are also historically poor counties. The population is sparse and declining and some communities are concerned about their economies and livelihood. The answer that some have to that is extraction and industry. Currently, there are two proposed projects that threaten the land and the precious manoomin (wild rice) beds, the sacred food of the Anishinaabeg, the people whose land these counties occupy. This project will affect five tribes in northern Minnesota (Leech Lake, Red Lake, Boise Fort, White Earth, and Mille Lacs).
One of the projects is from a North Carolina company called Huber Engineered Woods LLC. They are proposing a 750,000 square foot facility in Cohasset, MN. This facility will require trees from within a 70 to 100-mile radius- 400,000 cords of harvested wood annually to mix toxic materials with to create their product, oriented strand board (OSB) or particle board. Huber has not been transparent about where the lumber for the project will be harvested. The production of OSB requires petrochemicals and glues that create hazardous conditions for workers as well as the environment.
The other project is the Talon Mine that is in the exploration phase in Tamarack, MN. The project would cover nearly 32 square miles of mostly wetlands. This type of underground copper mining is dangerous for the waters, land, and air. Sulfide ores that would be exposed in this project contain metals that can mobilize in the environment. "This type of pollution is commonly referred to as Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) and has the potential to devastate entire ecosystems. The close proximity of sulfide mines to valued water bodies such as lakes and rivers of the Mississippi watershed intensifies the magnitude of this issue. All of the water bodies in the Tamarack area are linked by multiple aquifers." (https://tamarackwateralliance.org/dangers.html)
We know we have to rely on each other to keep our communities and environments safe. And so, in response to the two proposed extraction projects, we must work together to gather data on all that we can to try to stop these projects before they break ground. Read more about this project and team goals here.
This project includes:
Bee Kakac: Community Organizing Fellow
Julia Guerrein: Environmental Policy Fellow
Giiwedin Howard: Community Engagement Fellow
Noah Furman: Documentation Fellow
Louisiana Proposed Plastics Plant The Game Over Formosa Project
For years, the St. James Parish community in Louisiana, already struggling with extreme pollution, has been fighting to keep out new industry. The historically black, and now elder, community hosts no less than 11 industrial facilities spanning their mere 258 square miles These include refineries, a fertilizer plant, a steel company, an asphalt company, and several chemical companies. Formosa Plastics, is slated to be a new 2,500 acre project just one mile from an elementary school (Center for Biological Diversity). As a company, Formosa has been a historic bad actor. In its other facilities around the world, it has been the cause for the largest private citizen lawsuit under the US federal clean air and water laws, caused many community threatening and deadly explosions, been the source for major chemical releases, and created at least one major superfund site.
On August 18, 2021 the US Army Corps of Engineers announced it would "require a full "environmental impact statement" (EIS) for the massive petrochemical complex Formosa Plastics proposes to build in St. James. The decision is a major victory for opponents of the plant, who sued to block the project in January 2020, and convinced the Army Corps to suspend its permit" in fall of 2019 (Center for Biological Diversity). For this EIS, the company will be required to "provide a baseline for understanding the current environmental situation" and should also include air, water, historical and economic impacts of the project (AmericanBar.org).
The aim for this project is to regularly collect particulate matter and other air quality monitoring data to grow the body of evidence on the existing levels of pollution to show the pollution burden already borne by the St. James Parish community. We aim for this information to be used in the open comment period of the EIS with the Army Corps of Engineers, to educate and bring others into this work, and provide scientific evidence for why further pollution sources such as the Formosa Plastics, should not be developed in this community. For more about this issue read the Project Scope here and the post on Formosa around the world here.
Fellows working on this project:
Travis London: Community Fellow and Project Advisor
Caitlion O'Neill: Environmental Policy Fellow
Tyler Ellis: Technical Air Quality Fellow
Allison Woolverton: Documentation Fellow
West Virginia Mountaintop Removal The Mountains and Mines Monitoring Project
For well over a century the coal industry has exploited the people and natural resources of West Virginia. Large scale surface mining, also known as mountaintop removal not only deforests thousands of acres per mine site, but completely destroys the landscape leaving behind only bare rock and rubble. The bedrock that once formed some of the oldest mountains on the planet is blasted apart and turned into toxic dust clouds that settle on the communities below.
Over the years at Coal River Mountain Watch, we have discovered a handful of methods that we employ in the pursuit of chipping away at the profit margins of coal companies. One of the most successful tactics has been in observing, documenting, and monitoring mining activity and reporting on them to the DEP (Department of Environmental Protection in WV). The intent behind this fellowship team is to support our continued work against the coal industry using drones and other forms of observation to document violations of environmental law, and pressure the DEP to take appropriate action.
Junior Walk: Community Fellow and Project Advisor
This project is seeking an Environmental Policy Fellow
This project is seeking a Documentation Fellow
Past Fellowship Teams
Val Verde Air Quality Monitoring around LA county landfill The Val Verde Air Monitoring Project
This project is based in Val Verde in Los Angeles County, California, USA where a large landfill has been operating in the community affecting local air quality since 1972. In the community's fight against the landfill, residents have conducted preliminary air monitoring results that they've shared, documented and reported to every accessible body including to government agencies and the company itself. Having long since established local networks and organizations of support to address these challenges, only one or two people locally are versed in the pilot monitoring program. The intent behind this project is to share existing knowledge regarding the landfill air quality issue with more local community members, train people on how to conduct ongoing monitoring and have an air quality monitoring program that can be effectively shared to the broader Val Verde community.
Sara Sage: Community Organizer Fellow and Project Advisor
Jeremiah Dockray: Air Quality Monitoring Methods Fellow
Chris Nidel: Legal Fellow
Denisse Benitez Nassar: Documentation Fellow
Curious about past Public Lab fellows and their work? Please visit here: https://publiclab.org/wiki/fellows#Past+Public+Lab+Fellows+and+their+projects:
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The question "are you prepared to face the big bay?" will be valid to all those who are reading this article. Pregnancy is the most important phase of any woman's life and the kind of things that go through your mind has no limits. But science has time and again proved that having a healthy mind and body is important for a healthy pregnancy. Few days, there was news doing rounds that pregnant women are having fears about labor. To understand this better, I visited one the maternity clinic near me to talk to pregnant women and what is their thought about labor. Surprisingly, most of them are not aware of what will happen during labor. It is not just delivery of the baby, it is not an operation where the doctors operate you to take the little one out of you, but in fact, it is more than that. One statistics show that women who were prepared for labor had higher chances of natural delivery.
1. It is always advised to reduce or limit the amount of travel you need to make during this phase. As you near your labor period, your body is becoming delicate as the baby is growing and ready to see the world. Traveling extensively will bring in vibration and the slightest movements can cause discomfort for the child. There are a lot of stories of child delivery which has happened during travel.
2. Pack your thing in advance a week before. Right from your clothes to napkins for the baby everything should be packed and be ready before you head out to the maternity hospital.
3. Most of the maternity clinics near me advised we stay near to the hospital in case of natural labor. This is to avoid the last minute hassles.
4. Do not have sleepless nights thinking of your labor. The fact is, your body is made to undergo labor and it is completely natural.
Some of the above points will help you have peace of mind during your labor. Most importantly it is very important to understand the signs your body is showing and inform your doctor if you feel it is making you feel uncomfortable. You will start to experience slight pain and this is generally farmed as a sign of labor. This pain will vary from person to person and for some, this could be extreme. Believe in yourself and have no fears during labor. All you have to expect us a few minutes of struggle and a life full of joy.
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below is the screen shot of active processes of servers in TCODE: SM51. Can I change the enlarge the process number of processes: Update, Enqueue and Spool? if yes, what parameters need I to change? thanks.
You can increase the processes of "Update and Spool" by setting below parameters in RZ10 in "Instance Profile".
Increasing the "enque" process is not recommended and more over not needed. Usually in all servers we maintain only one "enque" process. One enque process can handle entaire server.
Note: After setting these values, you need to restart the server/instance in order to effect.
Hope you got the enough information. Give me points if my message to you.
With your current configuration you should increase the number of dialog process as there should be more dialog process than all other process.
On a small system with low user activity you can go with a single Spool process (rdisp/wp_no_spo) a single update process (rdisp/wp_no_vb) and a single V2 update process (rdisp/wp_no_vb2). Enqueue process (rdisp/wp_no_enq) is meant to stay unique.
You can check in SM51 the queue level for each process and see if an increase is required (SM51 → Goto → Server Information → Queue Information).
The here under notes could help you.
Number of processes: There must be at least as many processes as the total of configured non-dialog work processes on this instance (Note 934109).
108799 - How many spool work processes for each instance?
thanks to your answer, I really appreciate it.


Right on the holiday of Epiphany* - 6th of Janyary 2016, the President of the National Agency for Vocational Education and Training /NAVET/ Eng. Emiliana Dimitrova handed the manager of Advisors Just In Time Ltd. - Ms. Elena Lyondeva, License for Vocational Training Center.
Let's wish ourselves success and a lot of clients willing to develop new knowledge and skills!
* also known as Three Kings' Day, is a Christian feast day that celebrates the revelation of God in his Son as human in Jesus Christ.


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REBECCA FITTON PROJECTS
Rebecca Fitton (she/her) is from many places.
She creates community through conversation, food, and movement.
Born in England and raised in Wisconsin, her work as a community member and participatory artist is largely informed by her experiences as a multi-cultural immigrant. She strives to give equal priority to her multifaceted roles in the dance community as an artist, administrator, advocate, and audience member.
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The first part of the film was released in 2012. This is a family drama that won the hearts of viewers around the world.
Will "Cool Kids Don't Cry 2"?
Fans of the movie expect the continuation of the story. The creators answer this question unambiguously: the story was completed and there is no sense in trying to retake it.
For some reason this does not stop the fans, and they continue to persistently dissolve rumors that work is in progress to create the second part.
Even if the creators wanted to withdraw the sequel, it would be a completely different story. But such a move does not make any sense.
Is it worth to look?
Cool Kids Don't Cry
The main character is the sixth-grader Akki, who leads a pretty active life, does not always listen to her parents, sometimes gets into fights with the boys and is practically not afraid of anything. The girl's life changes as soon as she is given a fatal diagnosis.
Critics have given mixed assessments of the picture. The first thing that catches your eye when you look at it is in places a very strained, almost fake, acting game.
At some moments, the main character becomes very sorry, and at times the viewer simply does not believe in the feelings that the actress is trying to convey. This greatly hinders the perception of history.
Nevertheless, the picture clearly carries the main idea and makes the viewer think about quite important things.
As for the main character, then contrary to expectations, there will not be a story about a girl who simply fights or resigned herself to the disease. Here, the audience is shown a child who stays steady and is not even going to give up. To be discouraged and afraid is not for Akki. She is ready to accept any blows of fate and boldly look into the eyes of any, even the most terrible danger.
This film is recommended for viewing by those who faced an unpleasant life situation or a real disaster.
In particular, this applies to parents whose children are seriously ill. After watching the film, there is a persistent feeling of increased inner strength. After such a picture, it becomes much easier to experience trials and cope with life's difficulties.
This film is often compared with such a picture as "Bridge to Terabithia". Indeed, there are some similarities here. However, "Cool Kids Don't Cry" is something more inspiring.
The film reminds the viewer that everyone must struggle with difficulties to the last, that one should never give up, and also that one should never throw a loved one in trouble. The most important thing in our life is support, and this is what is being told about this picture.
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Dubai property brokers made USD 229 million in the first nine months of 2018
Author: arif
Categories: buying-property,Property
Dubai Land Department (DLD) has announced that property brokers in Dubai made commissions worth USD 229 million (AED842 million) in the first nine months of 2018.
A total of 18,121 transactions were carried out during the period between January and September.
Research compiled by the Department of Real Estate Studies and Research of Dubai Land Department showed brokers making AED 429 million from land sales, AED 73 million from building sales, and AED 340 from residential sales.
Yousif Al Hashimi, deputy CEO of the Real Estate Regulatory Agency (RERA), said: "Brokers play an important role in attracting international investors to Dubai's real estate market, highlighting the market's unique characteristics.
"DLD developed a comprehensive system to protect the rights of brokers in every successfully concluded transaction between the selling and buying parties. Brokers are among our most important partners, especially as they exercise their duties with the highest degree of honesty and integrity while adhering to the procedures and standards set by DLD."
The number of accredited permits issued by DLD to real estate brokers totalled 4,686.
Dubai's property market has been softening recently, with sale prices and rental rates falling year on year.
According to Chestertons' Q3 2018 Observer, average apartment and villa prices were down 6% in Dubai in Q3 compared with the previous quarter. Average rents declined at a lower rate, down 4% in Q3 compared with Q2.
The fall in values is a result of additional supply coming to the market, giving buyers and tenants more choice.
Around 10,000 units are expected to be delivered before the end of the year and 70,000 units before Expo 2020. This pipeline of new supply should help to keep sales and rental rates under control.
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Q: RestSharp Errors when JSON contains empty object Using RestSharp to retrieve JSON data, the JSON that is coming in looks like this...
{"data":{"NHL":[{"team_id":1,"team":"Colorado Avalanche","regular_season":{},"postseason":{}}]}}

The C# Objects I'm trying to serialize to looks like this.
public class NHLTeamStats
{
    [DeserializeAs(Name = "data")]
    public NHLTeamStatsData Data { get; set; }
}

public partial class NHLTeamStatsData
{
    [DeserializeAs(Name = "NHL")]
    public List<NHLTeamStatsNHL> NHL { get; set; }
}

public class NHLTeamStatsNHL
{
    public NHLTeamStatsNHL()
    {
        RegularSeason = new NHLTeamStatsSeason();
        Postseason = new NHLTeamStatsSeason();
    }

    [DeserializeAs(Name = "team_id")]
    public int TeamId { get; set; }

    [DeserializeAs(Name = "team")]
    public string Team { get; set; }

    [DeserializeAs(Name = "regular_season")]
    public NHLTeamStatsSeason RegularSeason { get; set; }

    [DeserializeAs(Name = "postseason")]
    public NHLTeamStatsSeason Postseason { get; set; }
}

public class NHLTeamStatsSeason
{

    [DeserializeAs(Name = "hits")]
    public int? Hits { get; set; }
    [DeserializeAs(Name = "goals")]
    public int? Goals { get; set; }
    [DeserializeAs(Name = "saves")]
    public int? Saves { get; set; }
    [DeserializeAs(Name = "assists")]
    public int? Assists { get; set; }
    [DeserializeAs(Name = "power_plays")]
    public int? PowerPlays { get; set; }
    [DeserializeAs(Name = "faceoffs_won")]
    public int? FaceoffsWon { get; set; }
    [DeserializeAs(Name = "games_played")]
    public int? GamesPlayed { get; set; }
    [DeserializeAs(Name = "faceoffs_lost")]
    public int? FaceoffsLost { get; set; }
    [DeserializeAs(Name = "shots_on_goal")]
    public int? ShotsOnGoal { get; set; }
    [DeserializeAs(Name = "penalty_minutes")]
    public int? PenaltyMinutes { get; set; }
    [DeserializeAs(Name = "power_plays_converted")]
    public int? PowerPlaysConverted { get; set; }
}

When I do the RestSharp Execute call the response is empty as you can see  in this screenshot.  If I do the Execute method without the type specified response comes back fine.  It only occurs when the properties regular_season, postseason are set to empty objects
"regular_season":{},"postseason":{}
When they have data it works and serializes fine.
Any thoughts?

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