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Ever since the High Court dismissed challenges to the same-sex marriage postal survey, both the "Yes" and "No campaigns" have been building up their momentum.
However, it is fair to say that the two campaigns are not competing on a level playing ground. The "Yes" campaign to redefine marriage has the help of a majority of mainstream media outlets which predict the "Yes" vote will win by a landslide. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced that he would vote "Yes", and asked the public to do so as well. Rainbow flags are flying outside many councils. Darebin Council in Melbourne's north even boldly declared that it would lend its office space to the "Yes" campaign for free.[i]
The 'Vote yes' banners are seen throughout city of Sydney as part of the council's campaign
Victorian Police officially took part in a marriage equality rally, with officers in police uniform participating while on duty. A comment on the Victoria Police's Facebook page rightly questioned,
"All tax payers including those who are against redefining marriage pay your salaries. Are you implying that only those who support same-sex marriage deserve your protection?"
As the campaigns become more heated, the rainbow warriors are beginning to show their true colours – despite their motto of "love, equality and tolerance."
来自悉尼的华人医生Dr Pansy Lai,以一位普通母亲的身份,在Coalition For Marriage(婚姻联盟)的电视广告中出镜,表达对同婚立法的关切,一旦同性婚姻合法,学校将被强制教授类似"安全学校"之类的课程。广告刚刚播出,激进同运份子随即在Getup!网站上发起请愿,呼吁吊销Dr Lai的行医执照[ii]。
悉尼大学天主教社团的15名学生,在校园里摆设摊位宣传 "在公投中投反对票是没有问题的",并准备了美食,免费供大家享用。他们的摊位遭到六十名同运激进分子围攻 [iii]。他们不仅撕毁了写着"It's OK to vote No"的标语牌,掀翻了放美食的桌子,还高声叫骂,指控摆摊的学生是恐同分子、顽固派、新纳粹、殴打同性恋的人、狭隘的人渣,就应该被扔到垃圾桶里。同运分子偷走了摊位上摆放的宣传单张,朝天主教学生身上扔垃圾和避孕套,极尽所能想激怒摆摊的学生,但他们自始至终显示出极大的克制。最终,新州警方在数小时后出面干预。
Sydney university student holding placard which has been damaged by Yes campaigners
Sydney GP Dr Pansy Lai appeared in the first "No" campaign ad from the Coalition of Marriage, as a concerned mother expressing her worry that programs like "Safe Schools" would become compulsory once marriage was redefined.
Right after the advertisement was aired, a LGBTQ activist group initiated a petition on the GetUp! website asking for Dr Lai's medical registration to be reviewed ii.
When fifteen students from Sydney University's Catholic Society set up an "It's okay to vote no" stall on campus, they were harassed by a group of 60 Yes campaigners [iii] who destroyed their placards, overturned their table with food on it and screamed abuse at the Catholic students, calling them "homophobes", "bigots", "neo-Nazis", and "gay bashers".
The Yes campaigners stole pamphlets, threw glitter and condoms at the students in order to provoke the Catholic students, who showed incredible self-control and did not engage. Finally, the NSW Police stepped in after hours of this abusive behaviour.
堪培拉的一位合同制员工,在个人的社交媒体上发帖表示反对同婚立法,遭到支持同婚的雇主Madlin Sims解雇 [iv[]。Sims在其脸书上发帖宣布了这个决定,她写道:"投No就是恐同,宣传恐同就是发表仇恨言论。作为企业主,我不能容忍公开代表我企业的人,在网上发表仇恨言论……"
The teenager who got fired for supporting a No vote
Last week, a contract employee in Canberra was fired by employer Madlin Sims [iv] after posting a "Vote-no" post on her own personal Facebook page. After firing the teenager, Sims posted on Facebook the following message:
"Voting no is homophobic. Advertising your homophobia is hate speech. As a business owner I can't have somebody who publicly represents my business posting hate speech online."
It appears that many same-sex marriage supporters think hate speech occurs whenever someone disagrees with them.
In reality, it is hate speech to personally attack someone just because they disagree with you. And to fire someone because of their views on marriage is discrimination and bullying.
Coalition for Marriage(婚姻联盟)于9月23日在墨尔本举行的集会上,同运分子混入会场 [vi],打出了写着"烧掉教堂,而不是烧掉同性恋"的标语,且多次冲上讲台,试图抢夺话筒,在场内高喊"法西斯、烧掉教堂、把基督徒钉十字架"。类似的例子不胜枚举。原来高喊"爱就是爱""投yes给爱"的同运分子,根本不打算将爱、平等与宽容给予和他们给与其观点不同的人。
于9月23日在墨尔本举行的集会上,同运分子混入会场, 打出了写着"烧掉教堂,而不是烧掉同性恋"的标语
Gay marriage activists unfurled a sign which read "Burn Churches Not Queers" at a Coalition for Marriage meeting on 29 Sep in Melbourne.
Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, a strong and public supporter of the "No" campaign, was assaulted in Hobart by a Yes supporter.
Gay marriage activists managed to get into an event organised by Coalition for Marriage on 29 Sep in Melbourne. They unfurled a sign which read "Burn Churches Not Queers"[vi].
During the event, these activists tried to grab the microphone and shouted and chanted "Burn the churches," "Fascists," and "Crucify Christians.". Similar examples are countless. Apparently these same-sex marriage activists do not extend "love, equality and tolerance" to those with a different opinion to theirs.
LGBTQ activists who advocate for so-called "equality" ignore the fact that same-sex partners already enjoy the same rights and benefits as de-facto heterosexual partners.
What they are actually demanding is for society to redefine marriage to include relationships which are not marriage in nature. This is not equality, but privilege.
Those with a different opinion on marriage are labelled as "bigots" or "homophobes", in the name of tolerance. And in Australia, where there is no discrimination against the LGBTQ community, "Yes" supporters are in fact legitimising discrimination by bullying those who disagree with them. It has already cost a young lady her job.
Undeniably, the majority of the LGBTQ community are peace-loving and law-abiding citizens. We want to sincerely communicate to this community that we have no hate against you, and do not discriminate against you at all. We respect the way of life you have chosen and see you as valuable citizens of our society. However, we oppose to redefining marriage, teaching children gender fluidity at school, and intentionally depriving children of the right to be raised by their biological parents.
The consequences of redefining marriage must be heard by both "Yes" and "No" supporters, because everyone deserves to know what they are voting for.
For those who have yet to make a decision, please consider the issue carefully. While Australia has still not legalised same-sex marriage, people's freedom of speech, religion and conscience are in serious jeopardy already; and the foundation of our civilisation is hanging by a thread.
If marriage were redefined by law, it would be impossible to protect our children from radical gender fluidity theory and intolerance of different views on marriage will be punishable by law like we have seen overseas.
Redefining marriage will not bring more equality or tolerance. Instead, it will expose people to discrimination and bullying because of their conscience and beliefs. Limiting freedom and democracy does not help our Australian society continue to prosper.
By the way, if you have folded, lost or damaged your form, or if you believe you have sent it in error, please call ABS at 1800572113 and ask for a new survey form as soon as possible. We understand that if multiple responses are received from an individual, only the last valid response will be counted by the ABS.
Dear friends, the postal survey on redefining marriage is crucial to the future of Australia and your children and grandchildren. Please seize this opportunity to vote NO!


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Why It's Important to be an Optimist
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. (James Branch Cabell)
I am currently reading What Are You Optimistic About?, a collection of short essays by thought leaders in many different disciplines on the eponymous subject. I'm also reading True Enough, a compelling argument by Farhad Manjoo for how despite — nay, because of — the fire hose of information that permeates modern society and is available for the asking, the schism between what's true and what we believe is widening; a polemic on polemics if you will. Taken together, these two books suggest to me that there is a case, not for being optimistic per se, but for why you should consciously, actively try hard to become an optimist if you aren't already.
To understand why, you have to understand the central argument of True Enough, which is summed up nicely by the author himself:
…in a world of unprecedented media choice… we begin to select our reality according to our biases, and we interpret evidence (such as photos and videos) and solicit expertise in a way that pleases us.
In other words, our cognitive apparatus (so useful on the savanna) is woefully unprepared to navigate the complexity of our current world. With enough data points to draw from, we consciously and unconsciously create a model of reality that suits our tastes, and we mistake that model for reality itself. We cherry pick evidence that agrees with our preconceptions and ignore evidence in discord. What is most chilling about the book is that it shows how our very perception is biased by our beliefs; we could be watching the same football game on TV and have an entirely different view of the facts of what happened. Indeed, we do, all the time, about everything.
To Manjoo's point, if you are reading this, it's a pretty good guess that you would agree with this statement: the arrow of time points towards greater understanding and the closing of the gap between truth and belief as history marches on. But ironically, Manjoo shows why (at least in the short run) there is a gap between your belief and the reality. Hardly a case for optimism.
Yet I argue that because of the veracity of Manjoo's argument, it is imperative that we take an optimistic stance in life. Simply put, we live in a world where both optimists and pessimists have more than enough evidence to "prove" that they are right. Right about specific events and right about their worldview in general. And because we live in a world of self-fulfilling prophecy, a world where future reality is shaped ever more by current mindset, it is important to our survival that we imagine the world is as benevolent and full of possibility as we'd like it to be.

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The most critical aspect of financial management for Freelance consultants and small business owners is to collect accounts receivable as quickly as possible, so that adequate cash-flow is maintained and accounts payable, employees and subcontractors can be paid on time. Regarding your accounts receivable, I recommend that you take the following actions to encourage on-time payments:
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Financial Reporting Harmonization and the Capital Market: A Tool for Achieving Vision 2020.
Published at Lagos Journal of Banking, Finance & Economic Issues; Lagos. Vol. 2, No. 2
Published in 2008
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Effect of Entrepreneurship Education on Student's Entrepreneurial Actions: A study of Covenant University and Babcock University Students, Ogun State.
Evaluation of the Factors that Impede Women Entrepreneurs' full participation in Industrialization in Nigeria.
The Role of Organisational Performance on Accruals Management of Manufacturing Companies in Nigeria.
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The Effect of Firm Size and Financial Performance on the Corporate Governance Disclosure Practices of Nigerian Companies.


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I'm very pleased to welcome to A.H. Richardson, author of Jorie and the Magic Stones, to the blog today.
Over to you, Angela.
A question that is frequently asked when someone has read 'Jorie and the Magic Stones' is — "Where do your ideas come from?" I loved writing this story, and it I can truthfully trace it back to my childhood.
I will try to keep this narrative short, but I want to tell my readers, that an idea (arguably the strongest force in the world) can stay with one for many, many years.
As a child of seven, I was rather headstrong and wildly imaginative, and considered a bit of a 'handful!' At the foot of my grandfather's large garden, there ran a swift running little canal, at the side of which was tied a little canoe, which I found irresistible. I had been told, that under no circumstances was I to take this boat out 'on my own' or there would be stiff penalties. My grandmother was something of a martinet, and it was a good idea to be obedient, when she issued a decree.
One day, I apparently threw caution to the wind, climbed into the boat, and untied the rope! Perhaps I thought that the boat would remain stationary, however, such was not the case. To shorten my story, I was apprehended by a man with a worried face, as I sailed delightedly down the canal, borne along by the swift current. I remember a lot of shouting and wailing, and stern voices … clearly, I was in trouble. I remember my grandfather, after I had been reluctantly rescued, telling me that the water was deep, and no-one knew what could be down there. I replied 'I would have been just fine, there's a City under the water, with wizards and dragons, and I should have been safe." You don't want to hear the rest of this sad saga — little girl was punished — BUT, the idea of a world below the deep water, filled with enchanted creatures stayed with me, until 60 years later, and then I wrote 'Jorie and the Magic Stones'.
IF you want to write, treasure that thought or idea that came to you, give it a safe place, and then write about it, maybe many years later. I think Jorie could be a role model for most little girls; she is brave, funny, loyal, smart and courageous. Rufus is her admirer, her follower, and her much-loved companion, as the two of them brave a thrilling and sometimes humorous adventure, dodging dragons, and making strange and unusual friends. Truth to tell, I have found, to my great delight, that many 'grown-ups' have also loved this tale. There is a sequel to this story, called 'Jorie and the Gold Key', and one more in the works.
Read, read, read! It is the key that opens many, many doors, too numerous to mention here.
About the book
When Marjorie went to live with her frosty maiden aunt, she couldn't imagine the adventures she would have with dragons — good and bad — and all the strange creatures that live in a mysterious land beneath the Tarn. The spunky 9-year-old redhead forges an unlikely friendship with an insecure young boy named Rufus who lives with his crusty grandfather next door. When Jorie — for that is what she prefers to be called — finds a dusty ancient book about dragons, she learns four strange words that will send the two of them into a mysterious land beneath the Tarn, riddled with enchantment and danger. Hungry for adventure, the children take the plunge, quite literally, and find themselves in the magic land of Cabrynthius.
Upon meeting the good dragon, the Great Grootmonya, Jorie and Rufus are given a quest to find the three Stones of Maalog — stones of enormous power — and return them to their rightful place in Cabrynthius. Their mission is neither easy nor safe, and is peppered with perils in the form of the evil black half-dragon who rules the shadowy side of the land. They have to deal with a wicked and greedy professor, the tragic daughter of the bad dragon, caves of fire, rocky mountainous climbs, and a deadly poisonous butterfly.
Jorie must rely on her wits and courage to win the day? Can she do this? Can she find all three Stones? Can she save Rufus when disaster befalls him? Can she emerge victorious? She and Rufus have some hair-raising challenges, in which they learn valuable lessons about loyalty, bravery, and friendship.
Jorie and the Magic Stones is the first book in a new chapter book series by A. H. Richardson. Children everywhere will love this adventurous fantasy of Jorie and Rufus, two orphans from very different walks of life, who meet by chance, find a mystic book with four magical Druidic words that provide the key to an astonishing adventure that will plunge them, quite (literally) into another world beneath the dark waters of the Tarn.
"Jorie and the Magic Stones is an enchanting tale of adventure and childhood friendship that captures the attention and imagination of children and adults alike." – 5 Stars, Amazon Review
"If ever there was a children's book that was meant for children of all ages, this would be that book. From page 1, you instantly fall in love with the Jorie, the heroine. The storyline flows wonderfully. It makes you feel as if you're there with the characters feeling the excitement, fears, and joy that they feel as they go on an incredible adventure." – 5 Stars, Matthew and Alicia Lucy
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The liaison team formed by FIFA and CAF with support from the Government of Ghana to find the way for Ghana football after the effects of the Anas Aremeyaw Anas documentary has stated it will pay the outstanding salaries of workers of the Ghana Football Association.
The Ghana Football Association has not functioned since June 8 when the Ghana Police Service declared it a crime scene in the aftermath of the airing of the Anas tape and its workers have not been at their posts.
The fate of the workers of the FA has been in the balance since the closure of the office since the entity pays its own staff from its coffers and not from government funds or support.
The decision to pay what is owed the workers of the Ghana FA was contained in a press release, signed by GFA Technical Director, Francis Oti Akenteng, and put out on Monday by the liason team after its meeting with club owners and the Ghana League Clubs Association (GHALCA).
The press release also indicated its readiness to support Aduana Stars Football Club in its current CAF Confederations Cup campaign.
The team is set to face AS Vita on July 18 on Dormaa in the Brong Ahafo Region and an inspection team from CAF is to arrive in Ghana to check on Aduana's home ground as per CAF's rules and regulations.
On the matter of reforms for Ghana, the liaison team stated that its aim was to ensure that footballing activities in the country would continue especially as Ghana was not under a ban from FIFA.
The team said it would assist the various national teams such as the Black Maidens and Black Princesses to take part in the various international competitions they had qualified to play in.
It also urged club owners and officials to work together with it to bring sanity to the local game. It also said that suggestions from club owners were very welcome to find the way forward and bring the needed changes to Ghana football.
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The world and all it contains was created for one purpose: to showcase the grandeur of God's Son. In Jesus, the nature of God is magnificently and perfectly revealed; He is the "express image" of God (Hebrews 1:3). Yet to gaze upon Christ is also to see God's pattern for man. As we seek to be like Him, we discover that our need was created for His sufficiency. We also see that, once the redemptive nature of Christ begins to triumph in our lives, mercy begins to triumph in the world around us.
How will we recognize revival when it comes? Behold, here is the awakening we seek: men and women, young and old, all conformed to Jesus. When will revival begin? It starts the moment we say yes to becoming like Him; it spreads to others as Christ is revealed through us.
Yet to embrace Christ's attitude toward mercy is but a first step in our spiritual growth. The process of being truly conformed to Christ compels us into deeper degrees of transformation. Indeed, just as Jesus learned obedience through the things that He suffered (see Hebrews 5:8), so also must we. And it is here, even while we stand in intercession or service to God, that Christ gives us the gift of woundedness.
"Gift?" you ask. Yes, to be wounded in the service of mercy and, instead of closing our hearts, allow woundedness to crown love, is to release God's power in redemption. The steadfast prayer of the wounded intercessor holds great sway upon the heart of God.
We cannot become Christlike without being wounded. You see, even after we come to Christ, we carry encoded within us preset limits concerning how far we will go for love, and how much we are willing to suffer for redemption. When God allows us to be wounded, He exposes those human boundaries and reveals what we lack of His nature.
The path narrows as we seek true transformation. Indeed, many Christians fall short of Christ's stature because they have been hurt and offended by people. They leave churches discouraged, vowing never again to serve or lead or contribute because, when they offered themselves, their gift was marred by unloving people. To be struck or rejected in the administration of our service can become a great offense to us, especially as we are waiting for, and even expecting, a reward for our good efforts.
Yet wounding is inevitable if we are following Christ. Jesus was both "marred" (Isaiah 52:14) and "wounded" (Zechariah 13:6), and if we are sincere in our pursuit of His nature, we will suffer as well. How else will love be perfected?
Yet, let us beware. We will either become Christlike and forgive the offenders or we will enter a spiritual time warp where we abide continually in the memory of our wounding. Like a systemic disease, the hurtful memories infect every aspect of our existence. In truth, apart from God, the wounding that life inflicts is incurable. God has decreed that only Christ in us can survive.
The Wounds of a Prayer Warrior
Intercessors live on the frontier of change. We are positioned to stand between the needs of man and the provision of God. Because we are the agents of redemption, satan will always seek the means to offend, discourage, silence, or otherwise steal the strength of our prayers. The wounding we receive must be interpreted in light of God's promise to reverse the effects of evil and make injustice work for our good (see Romans 8:28). Since spiritual assaults are inevitable, we must discover how God uses our wounds as the means to greater power. This was exactly how Christ brought redemption to the world.
Jesus knew that maintaining love and forgiveness in the midst of suffering was the key that unlocked the power of redemption. Isaiah 53:11 tells us, "By His knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, will justify the many, as He will bear their iniquities."
Jesus possessed revelation knowledge into the mystery of God. He knew that the secret to unleashing world-transforming power was found at the Cross, in suffering. At the Cross, payment for sin was made. As Christ forgave His enemies, Heaven's power rent the temple veil in two. Christ's stripes purchased our healing. I am not just talking about suffering, but the suffering of love.
The terrible offense of the Cross became the place of redemption for the world. Yet, remember, Jesus calls us to a Cross as well (see Matthew 16:24). Wounding is simply an altar upon which our sacrifice to God is prepared.
Listen again to Isaiah's prophetic description of Jesus' life. His words at first seem startling, but as we read, we discover a most profound truth concerning the power of woundedness. He wrote, "But the Lord was pleased to crush Him, putting Him to grief; if He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand" (Isaiah 53:10).
How did the power of God's pleasure prosper in Christ's hand? During His times of crushing, woundedness and devastation, instead of retaliating, Jesus rendered Himself "as a guilt offering."
The crushing is not a disaster; it is an opportunity. You see, our purposeful love may or may not touch the sinner's heart, but it always touches the heart of God. We are crushed by people, but we need to allow the crushing to ascend as an offering to God. The greatest benefit of all is the effect our mercy has on the Father. If we truly want to be instruments of God's good pleasure, then it is redemption, not wrath, that must prosper in our hands. If we are Christ-followers, we must offer ourselves as an offering for the guilt of others.
Conformed to the Lamb
When Christ encounters conflict, though He is the Lion of Judah, He comes as the Lamb of God. Even when He is outwardly stern, His heart is always mindful that He is the "guilt offering." Thus, Jesus not only asks the Father to forgive those who have wounded Him, but also numbers Himself with the transgressors and intercedes for them (see Isaiah 53:12). He does this because the Father takes "no pleasure in the death of the wicked" (Ezekiel 33:11), and it is the pleasure of God that Jesus seeks.
Is this not the wonder and mystery, yes, and the power, of Christ's Cross? In anguish and sorrow, wounded in heart and soul, still He offered Himself for His executioners' sins. Without visible evidence of success, deemed a sinner and a failure before man, He courageously held true to mercy. In the depth of terrible crushing, He let love attain its most glorious perfection. He uttered the immortal words, "Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing" (Luke 23:34).
Christ could have escaped. He told Peter as the Romans came to arrest Him, "Do you think that I cannot appeal to My Father, and He will at once put at My disposal more than twelve legions of angels?" (Matthew 26:53). In less than a heartbeat, the skies would have been flooded with thousands of warring angels. Yes, Jesus could have escaped, but mankind would have perished. Christ chose to go to hell for us rather than return to Heaven without us. Instead of condemning mankind, He rendered "Himself as a guilt offering" (Isaiah 53:10, italics mine). He prayed the mercy prayer, "Father, forgive them" (Luke 23:34).
Jesus said, "He who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also" (John 14:12). We assume He meant that we would work His miracles, but Jesus did not limit His definition of "works" to the miraculous. The works He did - the redemptive life, the mercy cry, the identification with sinners, rendering Himself a guilt offering - all the works He did, we will "do also."
Thus, because He lives within us, we see that Isaiah 53 does not apply exclusively to Jesus; it also becomes the blueprint for Christ in us. Indeed, was this not part of His reward, that He would see His offspring? (see Isaiah 53:10) Beloved, we are the progeny of Christ!
Read these words from Paul's heart:
"Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of His Body, which is the Church, in filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions" (Colossians 1:24).
What did the apostle mean? Did not Christ fully pay mankind's debts once and for all? Did Paul imply that we now take Jesus' place? No, we will never take Jesus' place. It means that Jesus has come to take our place. The Son of God manifests all the aspects of His redemptive, sacrificial life through us. Indeed, "as He is, so also are we in this world" (1 John 4:17).
Paul not only identified with Christ in his personal salvation, but he was also consumed with Christ's purpose. He wrote, "That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death" (Philippians 3:10).
For those who blame others for the decline of our nation, to be a follower of the Lamb, you must render yourself as an offering for their sin. By your wounds they shall be healed.
What a wondrous reality is the "fellowship of His sufferings." Here, in choosing to yoke our existence with Christ's purpose, we find true friendship with Jesus. This is intimacy with Christ. The sufferings of Christ are not the sorrows typically endured by mankind; they are the afflictions of love. They bring us closer to Jesus. We learn how precious is the gift of woundedness.
Let's pray: Father, I see You have had no other purpose in my life but to manifest through me the nature of Your Son. I receive the gift of woundedness. In response, in surrender to Christ, I render myself an offering for those You've used to crush me. May the fragrance of my worship remind You of Jesus, and may You forgive, sprinkle and cleanse the world around me.
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Check out this month's episode of "According to Pete."
In today's episode of "According to Pete" - the zany (yet informative) video segment starring our Director of Engineering Pete Dokter - Pete explores the world of current sensing. In particular, Pete explains how to use the ACS712 low current sensor breakout.
As always, feel free to leave your comments, questions or suggestions in the comments section below! We hope you enjoyed this month's edition of "According to Pete."
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I have the 5A version of ACS712, and i would like to measure 50mA from a LED stripe, using Energymicro STK 3700. after making all connection the GND Pin and the VCC pin of the ACS712 are signaling a contact that mean something is wrong with my circuit. As I am a begginner,could someone please tell me how i could design my circuit to avoid this problem ? First I used a 12V power supply for the LED, and a 5V power supply for the ACS712 separately, but the output voltage was stilled 0V. Then when i connect my circuit so that the GND of 12V supplier and the GND of the 5V are connected it work but after a few days the ACS712 sensor signals a contact between his GND PIN and his VCC PIN and becomes heater that means something is wrong. could someone please have an circuit example how it could work with a 12V LED and the 5V power supply.
Thanks in advance !!!
R3 & R4 trimpots values please :) And thanks for the video!
Schweet, I am familiar with the ACS712, I have used both the 5A and 20A family in design. I like how the thru-current pins are on one side; it makes it easy to nudge those up against the inlet of the board, relatively out of the way. Pass-throughs are even easier.
Gotta ask where you got the shirt.
Jefferson County Airshow a couple of years ago.
It's all great until someone opens the door next to the white board and hits poor Pete in the back of the head.
that's a really good idea!
You know, I'm pretty good with electronics... but you lost me about half way through.
"Make love to the camera!"
Best part of the video.
I use the INA219B in this https://www.tindie.com/products/FriedCircuits/usb-tester-oled-backpack-with-display/ . It works really well over i2c.
Thanks for the how to on the ACS712. I tired and it didn't go so well for AC. So then I tried the ADE7753 and didn't go well either.
Haven't found a great way to monitor 110AC.
AC is the easiest to measure since it produces an oscillating magnetic field around the wire that can be picked up by a coil. The voltage on the coil is proportional to the ac current. Checkout Sensors > Current for some ac current sensors. You don't even have to cut the wire!
Thanks, I am looking to build something that can put plugged in between a device and the outlet. Has to be low cost so I could put one on every outlet.
There's the kill-a-watt device by P3, which is widely available for about $25 per outlet. For central data collection it can be modified with the tweet-a-watt kits from Adafruit.
Aha, I've owned a few of these and always ended up averaging the readings as I found them noisy, and didn't know to expect it...makes me wonder, what is the noise from? Thermal noise with the high gain op amp?
Thank you, Pete (also)
Could be from many sources, not the least of which are the pots on that board. Makes me want to put down a couple of through-hole option components to set the gain on it... but the offset still needs to be variable, I think.
Have you ever used any of the HCNR20X High linearity Opto Couplers and/or do you have any thoughts pro/con on them. http://pdf1.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/view/64618/HP/HCNR200/+4_529UEMZhDOTB-A+/datasheet.pdf
Basically they are a matched packaged pair LED and Photo Diode. You will get a 1.6V LED voltage drop on the sense side, and you are limited to about 25ma of current. But it's pretty accurate for small current sensing applications. They have about a 15% transfer gain so 10mA through the LED = 1.5mA through the photo diode. Then it's just a matter of connecting the Photodiode to an opamp in some configuration to convert the 1.5mA sense current to a usable voltage.
I had trouble using the ACS712 with an application that had voltages < 5V and very small currents.
Pete did you write on the whiteboard 1.2m Ohms as 1.2mA? (see 4:16 in the video)
Pete is gone. We'll never know.
Gone!? As in, he went home for the day I hope :-)
I'm afraid it's far worse than that. He went home for the week.
For a week!? Well, I wish him the best of luck.
Vacation. I was in Glennwood Springs for a couple of days. And it had to be 1.2m ohm (haven't watched the video yet). That was the internal resistance of the ACS712.
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I have been thinking a lot lately about certain parts of the human experiment. If you watch the Fox show Lucifer you may think about these same things. If you don't watch it the basic premise of the show is that the devil has come back to walk the surface of the Earth and he solves crimes in Los Angeles…Ok, it isn't that bad.
As a crime show it sucks, but it isn't really about that. It is about a struggle between good and evil and Lucifer (a fallen angel) trying to give up running Hell.
Anyway…the show is worth watching but not the point of this blog.
There was an episode recently that showed Lucifer going back to Hell for part of the episode. It showed what the underworld is like for people. Apparently, it is different for everyone.
Customized to be a unique experience for each person.
It made me wonder what is Hell like for Hitler?
In theory Hell is to make people live through what experience in that person's life is the thing they feel the most guilty about. Does a person like Hitler feel guilt?
If he did, what is his personal Hell like? Does he have to live through the holocaust? Would he feel guilty about that?
I suspect if anything he would have to live through his last day in a bunker (assuming he didn't escape Germany as some conspiracy theorists believe). Does he just live through watching Berlin destroyed time after time? Does he have something that was worse for him? Is there ANYTHING a guy like that would feel guilty about?
As you make your way through your day, each and every day, ask yourself what would you feel guilty about living through time after time? What would your personal hell be like? If you have any idea (honestly asking) what you think Hitler's personal hell would be please leave it in the comments down below. I have bene thinking about it for days and can't come up with anything that would be fitting, there is so much to choose from, but what singular event would HE be most terrorized by?


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Half of me
Have you ever felt split in two?
You know me. I'm the life of the party. Beautiful people around me, everybody falling in love
But that's just the half of it
Rihanna- Half of me
We are wear masks. We hide parts of us that we think won't be accepted. The funny thing is, when somebody else takes off that mask, especially people we admire, we feel relief and sympathy. When Rihanna was abused and released the pictures of her swollen face, her fans only gained more respect for her. She sings about her pain, and we wish we were brave enough to do the same. But we don't dare, because we fear the consequences. What if people don't like what they see? If they see the dark and ugly parts of us, that we so wish we didn't have.
You saw me on the television
And I guess you saw me stealing, but you've got no idea what I've been through
That's just the half of me
This is the life I live
Rihanna – Half of me
Stigma is like a cigarette burn, scarring us and stifling our need to feel free from the pain we keep inside. It leaves holes in our soul, and since we hide them, there is nobody there to fill them with their love. Some people hurt themselves physically or emotionally, some keep working until they almost burn out from exhaustion. Because taking time to ourselves, would mean that we have time to think and feel. And thinking feels dangerous, because maybe we will have to look our feelings instead of avoiding them. We are so scared of ourselves, until we are reminded of the fact that nobody is perfect. Everyone have things they rather hide, and if we only knew that, maybe we could take off our mask, and show our different faces. Because behind the scared and angry parts of us, lies the parts of us we miss. The face full of love, volnerable and beautiful.
We are beautiful, no matter what they say. Words can't bring us down.
Christian Aguilera – beautiful
Maybe you shouldn't work so hard on splitting your good sides from the bad ones. Doing so takes a lot of energy that could have been used however you want. By opening up to the world, by letting the can of worms free, you can finally dig yourself out of the grave of sorrow.
One of me is stronger. One of me is wiser. One of me is a fighter. And there is a thousand faces of me.
So I'm gonna rise up
I'm gonna rise up
For every time you broke me
There's an army. Army of me
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From famines to food security
In 2009, when India faced its worst drought in three decades, the country managed to produce a million more tonne of foodgrains than it did in 2007, a normal year. That's both an achievement and a failure. Zia Haq reports. Kitchen economicsindia Updated: Mar 01, 2013 02:23 IST
In 2009, when India faced its worst drought in three decades, the country managed to produce a million more tonne of foodgrains than it did in 2007, a normal year. That's both an achievement and a failure.
It's not enough to grow more food - as India has been able to do - but to distribute it well, which the country hasn't accomplished. The UPA's flagship food security bill aims to make food aid a legal right and the finance minister has pledged Rs 10,000 crore towards rolling it out.
The food bill, which stems from a Congress poll promise, is the second of two large welfare legislations of the UPA government. The previous one, the popular rural jobs scheme NREGA, helped propel the Congress-led coalition to a second term, analysts say.
"Going by (what is) known and judging the future by (politics of) the past, the food law may help the Congress. But these things do not work every single time and to the same extent," said political analyst Inder Malhotra.
The food bill proposes monthly food handouts of 5kg for every entitled person, or 25kg for a family of five, the average size of an Indian family, potentially costing the government Rs 20,000 crore more than current food aid expenses of Rs 1 lakh crore.
The bill has sparked fiscal anxiety, given the 4.8% target for bridging the expenditure-revenue gap. The food bill has been accused of being capable of doing all that the slowdown hasn't: break the back of an economy still up and running.
However, it has the powerful backing of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi. The party is banking on the bill to boost its ratings ahead of a 2014 general election.
The very idea of cheap food for 67% of the population, or 800 million people, can cheer up voters.
The country has been able to sharply raise its grain output, helping avoid a scary "Malthusian world" of food production failing to keep pace with population. From about 50 million tonne in 1950-51, harvests are estimated to be 250 million tonne this year, a touch lower than last year's record 259 million tonne.
In 1943, the Bengal famine, after a missed monsoon, killed an estimated four million. "In the British period, drought was a word for famines," Planning Commission member Abhijit Sen said.
Though droughts no longer spell disasters, hunger in India is scary. The 2009 India Hunger Index found food-bowl Punjab ranking below Gabon and Honduras. No state showed "low-hunger" levels .
The economic survey has said that India needed to "reconsider traditional instruments" of food management to improve the situation.


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Seen for the last few days over the Salmon River: several airborne monstrous creature within a creature things with a seemingly insatiable lust for water? Not just one, but a swarm of them. They strangely showed up about the same time a man-made fire began to burn wildly out of control along the steep bunch grass slopes of the mile deep Salmon River Canyon. They look like a giant dragon-fly as they hover just above the river to suck up enough water to fill their hungry bellies. Then they flit away, spit it all out onto the flames, and return for more water.
For us river runner types whom are often so focused on various craft used to float the river, it is always amusing to see things a bit out of the ordinary show up to use the river for other reasons. Water is sometimes a mater of life and death. Not only life for animal and plant life utterly dependent on it, but also for putting to death, additional threats that can harm them.
Fire is one such threat that is a part of the ecology of landscape, which is a natural factor that often raises havoc with life and scenic wonder. Last week a man-caused fire started near the banks of the Salmon River close to one of our highly used river takeout facilities. Not from boaters, but higher up on an ancient river bar, where a relatively new development, in the typical WUI zone (Wildlife Urban Interface) and electrical power problems sparked the orignal ignition.
The airships, of course, are huge helicopters used to dip water from river to fire. The one evening Barb and I watched the show, there were four helicopters doing less than five-minute turnarounds between fire and water. Sometimes all four ships were lined up behind each other dipping water, with maybe 100 yds between each one. It was amazing that all this activity in and out, up and down, scooping and dumping, and weaving here and there, could be done without collision or mishap. Those pilots are super skilled and like watching an astute oarsman, as they negotiated their way through turbulent air currents. Fun to watch and rarely could a car pass without pulling over to gawk with the rest of about 40-50 curiosity seekers.
As entertaining as the fire show was, it is unfortunately a devastating affair. The sad thing is, more of these man-made catastrophic events are becoming more prevalent these days, due to the human expansion throughout the natural world, as more folks are seeking to get away from crowded conditions and want to move out into more isolated country. Often these natural places turn out to be already occupied by the native flora and fauna, that soon find their bottom line compromised, and often outright eliminated. Biologists call these places the WUI Zone – that is, Wildlife Urban Interface Zone.
Not only do WUI zones reduce habitat and habitat effectiveness ( how significantly the area is used by wildlife) for animals, but secondary effects like fire can add additional reduction of ecological stability and production. Reduced carrying capacity in terms of how many animals a unit of landscape can support is the resultant impact.
Often bear and cougar problems develop around these newly created human cohabitation situations, and so professional fish and wildlife people are called in to eliminate the problem. This normally means, killing the culprit animal that is really only protecting its own turf and acting normal.
We humans tend to forget how such subtle things can often add up to big-time impacts in the long-range. We never see the grass turn to brown, the subtlety happens so incrementally, but it happens all the same. Green morphs into brown by summers end, only it can come back again, unlike displacement that trophy-home subdivisions subtract from the whole. They are not seasonal changes that bring renewal, but depletion that only reduces the lands capabilities for agriculture needs and wildlife homes.
But the fire is still out of control, as of this writing, and rather than grass turning from green to brown, it is brown turning to black. It has been over a week now that this conflagration has been eating up everything in its path. Most of the houses in the area where the fire started were saved, and everyone was safely evacuated. But one local rancher out trying to safe his animals actually observed some of his cattle get gobbled up by the giant flames.
On some days, the canyon is so full of smoke that we can hardly see the other side of the river from our home on the banks of the river in Riggins. The sun is orange behind all this smurkey-ness. Some people, specially the more asthmatic types have difficulty breathing in the particle filled air and many people have red eyes. The fall weather is still hot, with no rain in sight, which is a bit unusual for our typical September. By now, we usually have a rainstorm or two. Did I mention any consternation about "climate change," which seems to be altering a lot of normalcy around here? That's another story.


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Basic, casual plaid shirts are a part of your closet's core foundation. If you want to build an edgy yet trendy wardrobe, a trusty plaid shirt is an excellent item to start.
Forget about the western and hipster-esque vibes. In this outfit, my plaid shirt from Christian Dada accessorized with a black choker necklace and oversized leather jacket from Christian Dada for an edgy, free, badass, and just a little unexpected.
Christian Dada Motorcycle Leather Jacket / Christian Dada Embroidery Shirt / Balmain Bandeau Top / Zara Trousers / Ann Demeulemeester Boots


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Hell in a Cell 2013 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by WWE that took place on October 27, 2013. It was held at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida. It was the fifth annual Hell in a Cell event.
Hell in a Cell featured professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing feuds, plots, and storylines that played out on WWE's primary television programs. Wrestlers portrayed villains or heroes as they followed a series of events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
The main feud heading into Hell in a Cell is between Daniel Bryan and Randy Orton over the vacant WWE Championship. After defeating John Cena to win the WWE title at SummerSlam in August, Bryan was betrayed by the special referee of that match, Triple H, which allowed Orton to cash-in his Money in the Bank contract and win the championship. In their rematch at Night of Champions in September, Bryan defeated Orton to win back the title, albeit with the referee Scott Armstrong deciding the pinfall with a very fast count. This controversial ending to the match resulted in Armstrong's (kayfabe) firing and Bryan being stripped from the WWE Championship by Triple H the next night on Raw. Bryan and Orton's next scheduled encounter for the now-vacant title on pay-per-view at Battleground on October 6 ended in a no contest after Big Show interfered and attacked both wrestlers and the referees, including a returning Scott Armstrong. With still no WWE Champion yet, on the October 7 edition of Raw, general manager Brad Maddox announced that Bryan and Orton will again compete against each other for the vacant WWE title at the Hell in a Cell event, this time in a Hell in a Cell match and with a special referee for the audience to choose from amongst WWE Hall of Famers Booker T, Bob Backlund and Shawn Michaels; Michaels won the vote.
After defeating Rob Van Dam in a Hardcore Rules match at Battleground to retain the World Heavyweight Championship, Alberto Del Rio tried to coerce SmackDown general manager Vickie Guerrero on the October 7 edition of Raw to formally announce him as the "face of the WWE", making his case saying he was the only World Champion in the company at the moment (the WWE Championship being vacant) and without any new challenger in sight. Later in the evening, during his match with his formal personal ring announcer, Ricardo Rodriguez, Vickie announced that Del Rio will defend his World Heavyweight Championship against a returning John Cena, who has been out of action since SummerSlam due to an elbow injury, at Hell in a Cell.
Another major feud playing out in the WWE pits CM Punk against Paul Heyman and his wrestler clients, whom he dubs "Paul Heyman guys". At the Money in the Bank pay-per-view in July, while still posing as his supporter, Heyman betrayed Punk and cost him the Money in the Bank ladder match for a future WWE Championship match. This started a rivalry that soon brought Heyman's client, Brock Lesnar, into the fray, leading to a No Disqualification match between Lesnar and Punk at SummerSlam, which the former won with Heyman's help. At Night of Champions the next month, in a 2-on-1 handicap elimination No Disqualification match, Punk eliminated Curtis Axel (another Heyman client), before beating down Heyman himself. However, Ryback interfered in the match and put Punk through a table, allowing Heyman to pin him and win the match. As the newest "Paul Heyman guy", Ryback faced Punk at Battleground, but lost the match, when Punk pinned him after hitting a low blow behind the referee's back. This loss irked both Heyman and Ryback, and it was officially announced on WWE.com on October 9, that Punk will face off against Ryback in a rematch at Hell in a Cell. On the October 14th episode of Raw, Heyman attempted to convince Maddox to turn the encounter into a 2-on-1 handicap match, with Axel teaming with Ryback. Instead, Maddox set up a "beat the clock" contest in two matches featuring Punk and Ryback individually, with the wrestler to win his match in shorter time than the other to pick the stipulation for their match at Hell in a Cell. Though Ryback defeated R-Truth in a time of 5:44, Punk defeated Axel with 11 seconds to spare, thus "beating the clock". As result of this victory, Punk himself added Heyman to the match as Ryback's partner, additionally making it a Hell in a Cell match, at the Hell in a Cell pay-per-view.
At Night of Champions, AJ Lee defeated Brie Bella, Natalya and Naomi to retain her WWE Divas Championship when she made Natalya submit. At WWE Battleground, Brie Bella received a rematch against AJ Lee, but lost when Tamina Snuka attacked Brie's sister Nikki, causing a distraction for AJ to win the match. On the October 18 episode of SmackDown, Brie defeated AJ in a non-title match. The following week, on the October 21 episode of Raw, Brie pinned Lee during a tag team match and earned another opportunity for the Divas Championship.
On the October 14th edition of Raw, Cody Rhodes and Goldust defeated Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns of The Shield to win the WWE Tag Team Championship. The next week, Rollins and Reigns fought The Usos (the previous number one contenders) for sole contendership, which ended in a no contest due to Rhodes and Goldust (who was on commentary during this match) attacking a taunting Dean Ambrose. All three teams were inserted, making it a triple threat match, by Triple H.
Another match confirmed for the event features Los Matadores (Diego and Fernando) taking on The Real Americans (Jack Swagger and Antonio Cesaro).
On the October 21 edition of Raw, Big E. Langston pinned Curtis Axel in a tag team match. Langston was then granted a shot at Axel's WWE Intercontinental Championship on the Hell in a Cell Kickoff. On October 27, the match was cancelled due to Axel suffering a hip injury. A replacement Kickoff match was announced the same day: Kofi Kingston against Mr. Money in the Bank, Damien Sandow.
- Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.
- (c) refers to the champion(s) heading into the match.
- Kickoff Show: Damien Sandow defeated Kofi Kingston (6:57)
- Cody Rhodes & Goldust (c) defeated Roman Reigns & Seth Rollins & The Usos (Jimmy & Jey Uso) in a Triple Threat Tag team match to retain the WWE Tag Team Championship
- Fandango & Summer Rae defeated The Great Khali & Natalya (w/ Hornswoggle) (4:48)
- Big E. Langston defeated Dean Ambrose (c) by Count Out in a WWE United States Championship Match (8:43)
- CM Punk defeated Ryback & Paul Heyman in a Handicap Hell in a Cell match (13:50)
- Los Matadores (Diego & Fernando) (w/ El Torito) defeated The Real Americans (Antonio Cesaro & Jack Swagger) (w/ Zeb Colter) (5:30)
- John Cena defeated Alberto Del Rio (c) to win the World Heavyweight Championship (15:05)
- AJ Lee (w/ Tamina Snuka) defeated Brie Bella (w/ Nikki Bella) to retain the WWE Diva's Championship (5:35)
- Randy Orton defeated Daniel Bryan to win the vacant WWE Championship in a Hell in a Cell match (with Shawn Michaels as Special Guest Referee). (22:17)
Other on-screen talent
See also
- List of WWE pay-per-view events
- World Wrestling Entertainment/Event history
- Event gallery
- Hell in a Cell
DVD release
External links
- Hell in a Cell 2013 Official website
- Hell in a Cell 2013 Pre-show at CAGEMATCH.net
- Hell in a Cell 2013 at CAGEMATCH.net
- Hell in a Cell 2013 at Online World of Wrestling
- Hell in a Cell 2013 on WWE Network
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Welcome! I'm so glad you stopped by. I'm Meg, the mom of three behind Snap Happy Mom – part photography education and part lifestyle blog.
I've worked as a professional family photographer for the last 7 years, but I'm really passionate about helping moms take better pictures of their own kids.
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Snap Happy Mom is dedicated to helping moms learn how to use their cameras and take better pictures of their families. I've got tips and tutorials for how to shoot in manual mode, how to get your kids to smile, how to avoid blurry photos, and more.
All moms deserve to have pictures of those precious moments of childhood and parenting, and I will be your personal cheerleader to learning how to take pictures you adore!
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But I know photography is just one tiny part of your busy life as a mom! I also write about the things that fill up my days: book lists, activities with kids, easy DIY projects, parenting hacks, product recommendations, and more.
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Exactly three months AFTER our anniversary, we finally got around to opening our Love Letter Box and reading all the notes inside. We were supposed to do this on our actual anniversary, but as explained, life got away from us and it didn't happen until September. One night I was like, ok we're doing this damn it! And I got out some paper and pens, and we wrote our letters. After finishing those, we broke out the tools and broke into our box. My dad made the box for us, securing it with screws just to screw with us I think.
Inside were the letters we had written each just prior to the wedding last year, along with some fun notes from our wedding guests.
We read the letters from each other first (I don't remember what I wrote in mine, but Mike's was so sweet!), and then the notes from the guests. This was our favorite:
She's going to kill me for posting that, but whatever. After reading everything, we added our new letters (without exchanging them) to the box and sealed it back up.
And now it's sitting on a bookshelf in our new home, waiting to be opened again next year. Maybe closer to our actual anniversary this time…


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April 25, 2017 — When you order ahi tuna tartare at a D.C. restaurant, can you be sure that's what you're getting? A new study from George Washington University found that some restaurants are serving similar, but not the exact, species of fish advertised on local menus.
A group of scientists led by Keith Crandall of the university's Milken Institute School of Public Health tested 12 dishes at six seafood chains with locations in Washington to see if the fish or crustacean DNA matched what it was called on the menu. They found that one-third of the samples were incorrectly labeled.
But these weren't cases in which tilapia was being sold as snapper. In most of the mislabeled samples, the DNA matched a closely related species and wasn't an egregious substitution.
The study discovered "pretty mild substitutions," Crandall said. "We didn't see anything that looked like some kind of comprehensive fraud, to swap out an expensive piece of seafood for something much less expensive."
Still, there were a few restaurants whose results might raise an eyebrow. At Bobby Van's steakhouse, a dish advertised as a rock shrimp tempura was a DNA match with whiteleg shrimp, which is typically a much cheaper, farmed shrimp.
The testing was performed in 2015, and Bobby Van's doesn't have a rock shrimp tempura on the current menu. Jonathan Langle, the chain's head of operations for Washington, said he doesn't recall it being on the menu, and that it may have been a special.


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- JD from Harvard Law School
- BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and in Public Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stephanie Pollack
Professor of Practice in Law, Policy and Society
Stephanie Pollack is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Urban and Regional Policy and an adjunct professor at Northeastern University School of Law.
Until 2004, Pollack was a senior attorney at the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF), New England's leading environmental advocacy organization. In her career at CLF, spanning more than two decades, Pollack worked on a range of environmental and urban issues including environmental health, smart growth and sustainable development, affordable housing, and transportation and transit policy and planning. During this time she became a nationally-recognized expert on childhood lead poisoning and helped to found two national non-profit organizations that addressed lead poisoning and healthy housing. In the late 1990s Pollack launched CLF's Greater Boston Institute, which worked for responsible and community-sensitive review of proposed development projects and improved and expanded transit in metropolitan Boston.
Pollack is also a consultant with BlueWave Strategies in Boston, a consulting firm which advises clients on smart growth, transit-oriented development, brownfields redevelopment and other "green" real estate projects.
Pollack received her JD from Harvard Law School (1985), where she served as an editor on the Harvard Law Review and Executive Editor on the Harvard Environmental Law Review. After law school she clerked for Chief Judge Patricia M. Wald of the federal court of appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Pollack received both a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a BS in Public Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1982).
She lives in Newton with her husband Kenneth Snow and her three children Hana, Yitzi and Beni.


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A well-grounded education can take you anywhere.
The intense, immersive college-prep program that NMH offers is a chance to go further. And do more. It starts in small classes with some of the most dedicated and horizon-broadening teachers you'll ever meet. From there, things exponentially expand. Borders start to break down: between math and science, for example, or between social justice and sustainability, or between the campus community and the world at large.
By the time you graduate, you will be more than ready to break new ground. Many of our students do — at selective schools like Brown and the University of Chicago; at big public research universities like the University of Michigan and the University of Virginia; at private urban universities like NYU and Boston University; and at small NESCAC schools like Connecticut College and Middlebury.
We'll encourage you to push your intellectual boundaries. Discover a love for poetry you never knew you had. Or that you're a natural with calculus, or portrait-painting, or mastering a new language. Explore challenges, take chances. A love of learning will develop naturally.
And we will support your journey. As you go beyond the classroom, engaging with your peers in clubs and community service, on teams, in the dorms, and perhaps through study-abroad experiences, you'll learn to think like and be a citizen of the world.
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Our teachers represent the heart of the college-prep experience at NMH. As highly credentialed scholars, they're the equal of any boarding-school faculty in the country. Dedicated and passionate, they will inspire you, nurture your interests, and motivate you to excel.
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Our College-Model Academic Program (CMAP) provides the richest possible educational experience and gives you a glimpse of what college will be like. By taking three major courses each semester, you'll spend more time in class with your teachers, which allows for deeper discussion and hands-on projects that increase your understanding of the course material.
Our wide range of academic courses across departments provides for learning experiences that can be tough, fascinating, meaningful, and, yes, downright fun. Combined with our informed, personal college counseling, an NMH education will not only prepare you for what comes after high school, but will also challenge you to broaden your view of the world while refining your image of yourself.
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Of course, as we said, the classroom is just the beginning at NMH. Our international programs can take you from our Massachusetts campus to Uruguay to study Spanish or to South Africa with our Humanities II course. Our working farm is a living laboratory where you can conduct college-level experiments in plant biology and soil ecology, learn to make lavender soap and maple syrup, and grow organic vegetables for the dining hall. You can dig deeper into your favorite subjects through student organizations like Model UN and the Math Club, or get creative in the amazing Rhodes Arts Center.
Read about what we've been up to this year. Or, best of all, come visit us.


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Founded in 2006 by the Gonyou family, One Extra Guy continues to be a family owned and operated business with over 10 years serving London, Ontario and the surrounding area. Although the company has greatly expanded over this time, the value and service Londoners have come to expect has not wavered.
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Having received London's 2016 Readers' Choice Award for best moving company, One Extra Guy is pleased to extend our deepest gratitude to our clients who have worked with us over the past 10 years. Our greatest goal is to continue to grow in excellence to serve you better.
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A fabulous buy for any vintage or retro image lovers depicting some of the timeless classic images for vintage gloves. A glove is a garment covering the whole hand. Gloves have separate sheaths or openings for each finger and the thumb; if there is an opening but no covering sheath for each finger they are called "fingerless gloves". Fingerless gloves with one large opening rather than individual openings for each finger are sometimes called gauntlets. Gloves which cover the entire hand or fist but do not have separate finger openings or sheaths are called mittens. Mittens are warmer than gloves made of the same material because fingers maintain their warmth better when they are in contact with each other. Reduced surface area reduces heat loss. The print measures 30 x 40 cm / 12 x 16 inches and has a black mount and a 2 cm black frame.
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Apple has said it is "actively investigating" whether a security weakness in its iCloud service helped hackers obtain intimate photos of several celebrities leaked over the weekend.
The move comes in light of reports that stars including Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and Kirsten Dunst may have had their iCloud accounts hacked by an anonymous party.
"We take user privacy very seriously and are actively investigating this report," an Apple spokesperson told Re/code.
A piece of software called iBrute has been named as a potential link to the alleged attack, which exploited a vulnerability in Apple's Find My iPhone service until yesterday, reports The Next Web.
As Apple had no limit on the number of password guesses, the malicious script could be used to make multiple attempts at a fast rate until the correct password was identified.
However, the company apparently patched the flaw within the last 24 hours as the service now has a five attempt limit.
There is currently no evidence to suggest some or all of images were taken from iCloud, although the FBI has said it is "addressing the matter".
The source of the leak has claimed to have obtained as many as 60 private images of Lawrence, whose representatives have confirmed the authenticity of the images. Ariana Grande and Victoria Justice have both dismissed images which appear to show them as fakes.
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It seems I'm always running an event or two behind on the blog – and this isn't even counting the fact I'm still meaning to write up the second half of the Baja Haha from November 2011. Manana… But, not that long ago we went to the Vallarta Zoo. It was a bit of an undertaking, as it took three buses to get there, along with some directions from a stranger on the the street (which weren't quite accurate, but we worked it out). And the last leg was about half a mile of walking up a dirt road. Honestly, if you weren't looking for this zoo it would be pretty hard to stumble across. But it can be reached using public buses from La Cruz with a bit of determination and a pocket full of pesos.
While most of the zoo isn't up to the standards of the zoos back home, and one row of exhibits bordered on downright sad, there is one huge difference at this zoo. When you buy your ticket, you can also buy a bag of food to feed the animals. It included carrots, bread, peanuts, pellets and corn, and a list of what food to feed to which animals, as well as how to feed it. Probably best not to try to hand feed an animal that should be tossed food to.
Overall the fun of feeding the animals made up for the conditions of the zoo. The roughest exhibit for me was a few Manx cats in a roughly 5'x10′ enclosure fronted with a dirty glass panel. Even though Manx cats don't have tails, that just didn't seem to justify removing them from the human contact most cats seem to enjoy. Although we now have something to threaten Minion with when he misbehaves: having seen cats at a zoo. So despite the animals not being housed in large exhibits with topography similar to their natural habitat, they were often shockingly close, and because they knew you might feed them, rather intent on interacting with you. At times they downright begged for food.
We were able to hand feed monkeys, birds, a giraffe, zebras, dromedaries, rabbits, guinea pigs, as well as toss food to wolves and hippos. The interaction with the animals was exciting, if not a tad scary at times. But we managed to keep all our fingers and weren't even nipped by any of the animals we were feeding.
Oh, and one other thing you can do at this zoo? Pay an extra 100 pesos to pet one of four animals, which included two baby tigers and two monkeys. I'm man enough to admit, the monkeys actually kinda freaked me out a bit, even if they were tiny. And the tiger just had a way higher coolness factor. So it was pretty much a no brainier. A 3 and a half month old tiger is surprisingly big, and in Mexico you can't assume something is safe just because they let you do it. So while I appreciate their take on personal responsibility (sorry to any personal injury attorneys reading this) I didn't approach this experience without a tad bit of apprehension. One tiger was asleep, and one was pacing around, so we figured since one was already awake we would both take turns petting that one. It was, however, a little frisky. Jenn went first and all was well, but when I took my turn the tiger of undetermined gender and therefore hard to describe with personal pronouns, somehow found the phone in my pocket and latched on to it. I was suddenly very glad I had something in my pocket. I was able to free the phone and pet it a bit, but this was a playful tiger that wanted to put its mouth on things such as my arm, and its claws in things such as my shirt. Jenn and I each took another turn petting it and despite some faint scratch marks on her arm, and a tiny puncture on mine, we played with a freaking tiger! Immensely cool. Oh and did I mention baby tigers have huge paws, and we got to pet one!
With both of us riding an emotional high, we worked our way back to La Cruz, substituting a long walk for one of the bus rides. We missed happy hour, and were both pretty wiped out from the all the walking and the excrement, but happy to have an experience we both won't soon forget.


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Leading up to my birthday, the word hope had been following me around. It's been in the songs I've listened to, the various books and articles I've read, the conversations I've had and it has dominated my thoughts. I blogged about it here too.
As this seems to be the overall theme for me, I thought it best to start here for Adding Life to Year 29.
Seeing how September has unfolded with hurricanes and other natural disasters which have been devastating, I better understand the need for hope now more than ever. It's easy to sink into the negative with all the destruction that is seen all around than to seek out the glimpses of hope seen amidst these circumstances and also to look ahead to the hope in the future.
I'm reminded of September in the UK, the start of autumn as the tree leaves become colourful and begin to fall. Even as these leaves die and trees start to look bare, there is the season of spring up ahead when the trees will be fully clothed in new leaves to replace those that were lost. Even in God's creation, we see examples of hope.
So what does it look like for me to add hope to year 29? Seeing that I started this journey on my birthday (3rd September), I chose 3 ways that I will incorporate this in a practical way.
Adding Hope to Year 29- Practically
- Live with anticipation & excitement about the opportunities of each day
- List 1 thing I am grateful for everyday- in thanking God I find myself in a place of hope
- Intentionally share encouragement with those who are struggling
How can you add hope to your year?
✞ Are You Really In?