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Burnout is generally defined as emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. A tell-tale sign of burnout is what I refer to as the "Sunday Evening Blues" – a feeling of dread that hits you when you realize that you need to go to work the next day.
If you well up in tears and begin to cry when you talk about your work, you are likely grappling with more than a mild case of job dissatisfaction. Burnout doesn't just happen overnight – it evolves over time.
Burnout begins with feelings of apathy, cynicism, and disillusionment. If unaddressed, these feelings can morph into more serious issues such as fatigue, depression, anxiety, insomnia, and substance abuse. Really severe cases can lead to complete breakdowns that require hospitalization.
It is much easier to treat mild burnout, so it is important to recognize and address early warning signs. The following questions can help determine if you are experiencing burnout.
- Do you struggle to focus on tasks and priorities?
- Is your performance suffering?
- Have you lost a sense of accomplishment or satisfaction in your work?
- Are you inpatient or irritable with customers or colleagues?
- Do you feel anger and resentment about the way decisions are made?
- Have you mentally "checked out" and sit silently in meetings or planning sessions?
- Are you using food, alcohol, or drugs to numb out?
- Do you suffer from insomnia, headaches, stomach pains, or other physical ailments?
- Have family and friends commented that you just don't seem like yourself?
- Have you stopped doing hobbies or activities that previously brought you joy?
These are some of the ways that burnout manifests but what causes burnout? Causes run the gamut from poor job fit, dysfunctional work cultures, work-life imbalance, mis-matched organizational values, lack of control, chronic stress, and social isolation at work. In my experience, it is rarely a single issue but a combination of factors that lead to burnout.
Studies show that people in "helping professions" such as teachers, counselors, and nurses can be especially prone to burnout. Other factors often associated with burnout include monotonous work, rigid schedules, and jobs that offer little freedom or autonomy. Burnout can simply be the result of working too hard and playing too little.
It is imperative to explore the underlying causes of one's burnout before making drastic changes. Since the causes can vary, there is no single prescription. For many people, a whole new career will make sense. For others, a job change to a better fit culture might do the trick. Sometimes, a commitment to improved self-care and professional counseling are most helpful.
Once you recognize that you are experiencing burnout, the following steps can help you on your journey to recovery:
- Identify the root causes of your burnout.
- See your medical doctor to rule out physical health problems.
- Consult a counseling professional to address emotional issues.
- Consider options and take steps to improve your current situation.
- Address any related time management or organizational skills.
- Adjust work habits to include short breaks and resist the urge to take work home.
- Commit to improved self-care including diet, exercise, and sleep hygiene.
- Socialize more and connect to people outside of work.
- Explore new career options that align with your interests, skills, and core values.
Regarding those tears I mentioned earlier, they signify distress and sadness. Some people seem to accept burnout as an unavoidable or normal part of working. Don't give up hope! It is possible to recover from burnout and regain a sense of purpose.
Rather than dismissing your pain, tune in and listen to what you want and need. Through self-exploration, you can then begin to create ways of living and working that are more satisfying and sustainable. If we take our suffering seriously, burnout can become a powerful catalyst for rediscovering our true desires and making meaningful change.


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As excited as the Rays are by their return in the big trade with Kansas City, they do have to deal with the void left by James Shields' departure.
Of the many ways the pitcher will be missed, manager Joe Maddon most specifically is concerned about the 30 to 40 innings he pitched more than the other starters, averaging 220 over the past six seasons, and that the bullpen doesn't have to absorb the additional work.
That means after LHP David Price, the Rays need more from Jeremy Hellickson, who has worked 189 and 177 innings in his two full seasons; Matt Moore, who had 177 as a rookie this year; Jeff Niemann, who has yet to top 180 in four seasons; and, if he wins the No. 5 job, Alex Cobb, who has 177 between Triple-A Durham and the majors.
"If we can get that from the group that's there, then we'll be fine," Maddon said.
He doesn't want the pitchers to believe they need to do anything differently, just that they should.
"I don't like to use the term 'step up.' I don't want them to 'step up.' I want them to continue to make progress, to continue to work the process," Maddon said. "They have another year of experience. Even though they have great work ethic, I would anticipate it's going to be better. Even though their preparation has been good, I want it to get better. Find those innings through method, as opposed to just saying, 'I've got to step up.' So the methodology has got to continue to get better that permits them to become 200-plus-inning pitchers."
FARM REPORT: In trading Shields and RHP Wade Davis last week, executive VP Andrew Friedman said one goal was to "replenish" their system with players capable of continuing the Rays' success.
Mission accomplished, says Baseball America executive editor Jim Callis: "Adding Wil Myers, who's one of the top three positions prospects in baseball, along with a solid midrotation type in (RHP) Jake Odorizzi and also (LHP) Mike Montgomery and (INF) Patrick Leonard boosts what was a middle-of-the-pack farm system to one I anticipate we'll put in the six to 10 range when we do our next rankings. That may seem odd that a single trade can do that, but Wil Myers is that good."
Baseball America's revised Rays prospect rankings has Myers No. 1, followed by RHP Chris Archer, RHP Taylor Guerrieri, SS Hak-Ju Lee and Odorizzi.
CHARITY CASE: Running his Thanksmas meal program in Tampa Bay and Hazleton Integration Project in Pennsylvania back to back last week was a bit mentally draining but also rewarding for Maddon. "I've been more concerned with the mechanics of things, just making sure it's all working and it's all happening," he said. "You see the results and meet the people. I know they're pleased, so I can see that we're making a difference. And that's good."
RAYS RUMBLINGS: One way to eliminate the financial reasons to have Myers open in the minors next year would be to sign him to an (initial) Evan Longoria/Moore-like long-term deal. … Payroll commitments (including arbitration estimates) are around $49.5 million for 21 players; team president Matt Silverman noted they made the playoffs twice when in the $40s and have missed when higher. … Uniform numbers for the new players are being worked out, but don't expect to see Shields' 33 or B.J. Upton's 2 used for at least a year. … Price said he'll have his AL Cy Young Award plaque in the clubhouse for the others to see before giving it to his parents. … Two odd trade tidbits: Montgomery and Shields graduated from Hart High in Newhall, Calif.; Myers and '12 first-round draft pick Richie Shaffer were the Nos. 1-3 North Carolina prep position prospects in the '09 draft. … The Roberto Hernandez who was with the Rays from 1998-2000 and is now retired played in Cleveland in 2007 with the Roberto Hernandez (the former Fausto Carmona) the Rays are working to sign. … MLB Fan Cave applications are being taken at mlbfancave.com.
Dream outfield
With Carl Crawford, Josh Hamilton and B.J. Upton (after Rocco Baldelli), the Rays had the makings of quite a talented outfield trio — and, as each player has reached free agency, an expensive one. Their free agent deals total nearly $350 million.
Player Carl Crawford B.J. Upton Josh Hamilton
FA deal$142M, 7 yrs $75M, 5 yrs $125M, 5 yrs
From Red Sox, From Braves From Angels traded to Dodgers
2013 salary$20M $12.45M $15M
Rays deal$31.5M *$20.6M *$3.96M signing bonus
Drafted2nd round, '99 1st round, '02 1st round, '99
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May 1-9th, 2008
Agriculture Articles
Irrigation for frost protection
Potato virus update
Ag and our Communities
2008 Michigan Farm Market Directory Now Available
Area schools honored for health-promotion programs
5. The revolution will not be pasteurized:
Inside the raw-milk underground
Ag and the Government
6. Farm Bill from Farm and Ranch Alliance (their perspective)
7. House, farm groups seek override votes
Upcoming Events
8. MSU Student Organic Farm Tours
9. MSU Student Organic Farm Daylong Workshops
10. Seeking Interest in East Lansing City Market Reopen
11. Vegetable Cover Crop Workshop June 12 near Kalamazoo at Kellogg
Biological Station
12. Two Farm Tours in Ontario-Organic Vegetable and Weed Management
systems-June 20 and 21st.
Agriculture News
1. Irrigation for frost protection by Bill Steenwyk, Michigan State
A farmer seeking to avoid crop loss from last week's freezing
temperatures reported that in some fields, the irrigated areas received
greater injury than plants along the borders where the sprinkler heads
could not reach. This seems to contradict what we know about
irrigation. Water from our wells is maintained at 50 to 55 degrees, so
any amount of water sprayed onto a field, it would seem, should help
keep the air warmer than where no water was applied. In this case, our
common sense fails us, because we are forgetting two very basic concepts
from physics. What we forget is that: 1) when water freezes, it gives
off heat to the surrounding environment, and 2) water that evaporates
removes heat from its surrounds.
If a farmer irrigates during freezing weather, but does not apply enough
water to maintain continual ice formation, the water will not be giving
up a great deal of heat to the air. Furthermore, if the soil's heat
causes the water to evaporate, it will behave just like a refrigerator,
removing the soils heat energy, resulting in colder air temperatures and
more severe frost damage. If, on the other hand, enough water is
supplied to keep ice forming, frost damage may be averted.
Irrigation should begin as temperatures reach 33-34 degrees and run
until the ice melts. Nozzles that produce a mist are better at creating
ice without applying as much water and soil saturation as with typical
irrigation nozzles.
Of course there are limits to how much water should be used. Excessive
ice accumulation can also injure plants. Those wanting a more thorough
treatment of this subject can go to
http://ohioline.osu.edu/aex-fact/0370.html, and
http://tfpg.cas.psu.edu/40.htm, among others.
William L. Steenwyk
West Michigan District Extension Educator - Commercial Vegetables
Michigan State University Extension
9302 Portland Road
Clarksville, MI 48815-9731
office phone: 616-693-2193
mobile phone 616-550-2752
fax: 616-693-2317
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2. Potato virus update
Willie Kirk, Plant Pathology and
George Bird, Entomology
Michigan State University
Modified for Organic production by Vicki Morrone
Potato plants can become systemically infected with viruses following
mechanical transmission or through vectors. Viruses decrease plant vigor
and cause mottling, chlorosis and necrosis. Yields are decreased and
some viruses cause internal tuber symptoms which can be seen after the
affected tuber is cut or peeled. Such crops completely lose their value
even though a small proportion of tubers are affected. Some viruses may
rapidly kill plants, whereas others cause mild or no symptoms at all and
the reaction of different varieties to the same virus can vary.
Photosynthetic capability and yield is reduced, but more recently there
has been a worldwide increase in viruses that cause tuber necrotic
symptoms such as Tobacco rattle virus (corky ring spot) and PMTV (potato
mop top virus). Corky ring spot has now been reported in Michigan, but
PMTV is confined at present to China, Japan, Northern Europe and Canada
but has been reported in Maine. A recent study from the United Kingdom
has indicated that PMTV may be principally soil-borne.
In Michigan, the most common virus problems are aphid-transmitted
diseases such as PVY and its variants. Viral symptoms can be quite
different in the year when plants become infected (primary symptoms)
from those in plants derived from infected seed (secondary symptoms).
For example PVY (severe mosaic), transmitted by aphids such as the
aphid, may nearly defoliate potato plants within four weeks after
infection and decrease yield. These seed tubers become viral hosts for
the following season. The percentage of tubers infected is established
during winter grow-outs each year and seedlots can be downgraded if they
fail to meet standards. In the following season, plants from infected
seed are severely stunted, mottled and die early limiting yield with a
high proportion of small tubers.
The primary symptoms of some virus infections are mild or, if infection
occurs late, plants may show no symptoms. Infected tubers may produce
plants with severe symptoms in the following season. Plants infected
during the growing season with leaf roll virus transmitted by aphids may
show slight rolling of upper leaves, often only on one stem. In the next
season, leaf roll infected tubers produce stunted plants with rolled
lower leaves that are thickened and brittle. In Michigan, a reduction in
leaf roll has occurred due to the use of neonictinoid insecticides that
has effectively controlled viruleferous aphids. Organic farmers can use
Some viruses produce mild symptoms or none at all in both seasons. Virus
X transmitted mechanically by leaf contact, machinery or on clothing,
may produce no symptoms whereas in some varieties it causes leaf mottles
but does not affect plant vigor or yield. Plants infected with Virus A,
also transmitted by aphids, show mild symptoms but in association with
Virus X or Y can cause crinkle symptoms. The co-infection of plants with
some of PVY and PVO or PVS has resulted in complex reactions that have
lead to the appearance of some tuber necrotic strains of PVY known as
PVTntn, which can cause necrosis in tubers.
In Michigan, when tubers were removed from storages in 2007, substantial
internal necrosis was observed in 1-2 percent of the tubers. Symptoms
included arcs similar to those caused by TRV (Figure 1). This virus is a
member of the genus Tobravirus and is transmitted by a number of species
of stubby-root nematodes (Paratrichodorus or Trichodorus spp.).
Stubby-root nematodes have been previously reported from Michigan. Corky
ringspot can result in substantial losses, with entire potato fields
being rejected due to internal tuber damage. Once found, fields are
considered permanently at risk to this disease due to the large host
range of both the virus and the nematode vector. This disease has been
previously found in the United States in California, Colorado, Florida,
Idaho, Washington, Oregon and likely in Indiana.
Management of virus diseases in potato is complicated due to the various
vectors that are involved in transmission. Management practices include
exclusion and sanitation. Planting of certified seed is generally
accepted as the best practice for potato production and growers planting
non-certified seed are at risk from virus diseases. Varieties that are
immune to a particular virus should be planted, but there is limited
knowledge on varietal responses to many of the viruses although Eva,
Dark Red Norland, Belrus, HiLite Russet, Kennebec, Monona, Norwis, and
Sebago have some resistance or tolerance to PVY. Some varieties of
potatoes are susceptible to particular viruses but do not show clear
symptoms (Shepody and Russet Norkotah are symptomless carriers of PVY).
This can cause problems in susceptible varieties that express symptoms
such as leaf necrosis, internode stunting and tuber necrosis. Where
possible seed stocks with the lowest virus counts should be planted, PVY
is nonpersistent but is transmitted quickly by aphids and insecticides
are generally ineffective. Frequent application of mineral oils can be
used to reduce spread of PVY by aphids. Reduction of human and
mechanical traffic through the field can limit mechanical spread
(especially for PVX). Roguing of symptomatic plants and removal of
Solanaceous plants such as nightshade and ground cherry with herbicides
can help reduce disease.
Nematode vectored viruses such as TRV may be transmitted at the root tip
into potato plants, then move to the tubers. Soil should be sampled to
determine presence of nematodes that transmit TRV. TRV can survive in
dormant nematodes for two to four years and nematode populations
increase on cereal crops, so rotations should not include them. The use
of rotational non-host crops (spearmint and alfalfa) has had limited
success in western states. Shepherd's purse and chickweed are
viral-reservoirs therefore applications of effective herbicides can
limit viral increase. We are currently developing a research program for
TRV management in Michigan and will be able in the future to test stubby
root nematodes for presence of TRV.
Potato disease Extension bulletins
Willie Kirk, Plant Pathology
A new potato disease scouting guide is now available in addition to
seven new high resolution potato diseases MSU Extension bulletins for
purchase from the MSU Extension Bulletin Office.
The scouting guide includes a calendar of developmental events for the
major disease of potatoes in Michigan. The new group of publications
includes the recent potato late blight bulletin and bulletins on early
blight, pink rot, Fusarium dry rot, Rhizoctonia diseases, potato common
scab, white mold and seed piece management.
For more information, call 517-353-6740. You can also download these
bulletins from the "Extension publications" page as pdf files from the
website http://lateblight.org.
Also at http://lateblight.org daily updates of potato late blight risk
will be available from May 1 for all the MAWN sites in Michigan and
updates on extension meetings being held throughout the state.
3. 2008 Michigan Farm Market Directory Now Available
LANSING - Just in time for spring bedding plants, hanging flowering
baskets, nursery stock, and fresh Michigan asparagus, the 2008 Michigan
Farm Market and Agricultural Tourism directory is now available.
"This statewide listing of farm markets, U-pick operations, corn
mazes, cider mills and much more, has been produced in Michigan since
1980," said Don Koivisto, director of the Michigan Department of
Agriculture (MDA). "It remains the perfect pocket guide for those
looking for farm fresh Michigan produce, specialty food products like
jams, jellies, baked goods, maple syrup and honey, or for family
friendly activities down on the farm."
The 2008 directory was created by a partnership among the Michigan Farm
Marketing & Agri-Tourism Association (MI-FMAT), Farm Bureau Insurance,
Michigan Farm Bureau, and the MDA. Copies of the directory are
available at all 13 Michigan Welcome Centers and at Farm Bureau
Insurance agencies across the state.
The 2008 directory has more farm market listings than last year's,
features an alphabetical index, and a new regional tab design to help
customers find the markets and products they are searching for. It also
features 16 full-color pages and an availability chart showing when the
various types of fresh fruits and vegetables produced in Michigan are in
"The Michigan Farm Marketing and Agri-Tourism Association is proud to
provide this directory for our customers," said Steve Tennes, MI-FMAT
board president and operator of The Country Mill in Charlotte.
"Michigan farm marketers are gearing up for a terrific season, and
look forward to welcoming visitors to their farms to share our high
quality, locally grown food and agricultural products and unique on-farm
In addition to the printed directory, farm listings can be accessed via
a searchable database on MI-FMAT's Web site at
www.MichiganFarmFun.com. Links to the electronic directory are
also accessible from MDA's agricultural tourism Web page at
www.michigan.gov/agtourism, the Michigan Farm Bureau Web site at
www.michiganfarmbureau.com, and the Farm Bureau Insurance Web site at
4. Area schools honored for health-promotion programs
Friday, May 02, 2008
By Tarryl Jackson
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Three Jackson County schools are getting a pat on the back by the
Michigan surgeon general for pushing their students to eat right and
Jackson's Bennett and Cascades elementary schools and Springport High
School are among about 100 schools statewide honored by state Surgeon
General Kimberly awn Wisdom recently.
At Bennett and Cascades, school officials launched a school wellness
policy that includes no high-fat or high-sugar snacks during classroom
parties or school events.
We decided that we needed to be role models for our children,'' said
Mary Korytowsky, school nurse for both schools. ``There are other ways
to celebrate besides having candy, cake and cookies.''
Teachers, staff and parents were informed of the policy this school
year, and staff compiled a list of acceptable snack foods (like fruits,
vegetables and pretzels) and non-food items (like stickers and stamps)
for these events.
Jackson's Hunt Elementary School was honored last year for implementing
this policy.
``The teachers have been very innovative in finding ways to celebrate
special events,'' Korytowsky said. ``The kids haven't seemed to miss the
cookies and candy.''
At Springport High School, staff members wanted students to know the
value of naturally and locally grown foods and how eating these foods
can benefit their bodies.
``I think a lot of students (in general) often are not aware of what
healthy nutrition really is,'' said Principal Chris Kregel.
District officials saw this too. They started a nutrition education
program through a grant of more than $100,000 funded by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture through the Michigan Nutrition Network at
Michigan State University Extension.
Through the grant, the district hired Emily Reardon as the project
coordinator to oversee the nutrition course work and activities for all
school buildings, and Alison Ruhl as the nutrition teacher for the
elementary school.
The nutrition education program includes school gardening, where the
students grow their own organic fruits and vegetables and serve them
during lunch.
Also, vending machines are stocked less with caffeinated drinks and more
with water and fruit juices.
5. The revolution will not be pasteurized:
Inside the raw-milk underground
Harpers Magazine
By Nathaniel Johnson
April 2008-
Friday, May 2, 2008
The agents arrived before dawn. They concealed the squad car and police
van behind trees, and there, on the road that runs past Michael
Schmidt's farm in Durham, Ontario, they waited for the dairyman to make
his move. A team from the Ministry of Natural Resources had been
watching Schmidt for months, shadowing him on his weekly runs to
Toronto. Two officers had even infiltrated the farmer's inner circle,
obtaining for themselves samples of his product. Lab tests confirmed
their suspicions. It was raw milk. The unpasteurized stuff. Now the time
had come to take him down.
Schmidt had risen that morning at 4 a.m. He milked his cows and ate
breakfast. He loaded up a delivery, then fired up the bus. But as he
reached the end of the driveway, two cars moved in to block his path. A
police officer stepped into the road and raised his hand. Another ran to
the bus and banged on the door. Others were close behind. Eventually
twenty-four officers from five different agencies would search the farm.
Many of them carried guns.
"The farm basically flooded, from everywhere came these people," Schmidt
later told me in his lilting German accent. "It looked like the Russian
army coming, all these men with earflap hats."
The process of heating milk to kill bacteria has been common for nearly
a century, and selling unpasteurized milk for human consumption is
currently illegal in Canada and in half the U.S. states. Yet thousands
of people in North America still seek raw milk. Some say milk in its
natural state keeps them healthy; others just crave its taste. Schmidt
operates one of the many black-market networks that supply these
raw-milk enthusiasts.
Schmidt showed men in biohazard suits around his barn, both annoyed and
amused by the absurdity of the situation. The government had known that
he was producing raw milk for at least a dozen years, yet an officer was
now informing him that they would be seizing all the "unpasteurized
product" and shuttling it to the University of Guelph for testing.
In recent years, raids of this sort have not been unusual. In October
2006, Michigan officials destroyed a truckload of Richard Hebron's
unpasteurized dairy. The previous month, the Ohio Department of
Agriculture shut down Carol Schmitmeyer's farm for selling raw milk.
Cincinnati cops also swooped in to stop Gary Oaks in March 2006 as he
unloaded raw milk in the parking lot of a local church. When bewildered
residents gathered around, an officer told them to step away from "the
white liquid substance." The previous September an undercover agent in
Ohio asked Amish dairyman Arlie Stutzman for a jug of unpasteurized
milk. Stutzman refused payment, but when the agent offered to leave a
donation instead, the farmer said he could give whatever he thought was
fair. Busted.
If the police actions against Schmidt and other farmers have been
overzealous, they are nevertheless motivated by a real threat. The
requirement for pasteurization-heating milk to at least 161 degrees
Fahrenheit for fifteen seconds-neutralizes such deadly bacteria as
Campylobacter jejuni, Listeria monocytogenes, Escherichia coli, and
salmonella. Between 1919, when only a third of the milk in Massachusetts
was pasteurized, and 1939, when almost all of it was, the number of
outbreaks of milk-borne disease fell by nearly 90 percent. Indeed,
pasteurization is part of a much broader security cordon set up in the
past century to protect people from germs. Although milk has a special
place on the watch list (it's not washable and comes out of apertures
that sit just below the orifice of excretion), all foods are subject to
scrutiny. The thing that makes our defense against raw milk so
interesting, however, is the mounting evidence that these health
measures also could be doing us great harm.
Over the past fifty years, people in developed countries began showing
up in doctors' offices with autoimmune disorders in far greater numbers.
In many places, the rates of such conditions as multiple sclerosis, type
1 diabetes, and Crohn's disease have doubled and even tripled. Almost
half the people living in First World nations now suffer from allergies.
It turns out that people who grow up on farms are much less likely to
have these problems. Perhaps, scientists hypothesized, we've become too
clean and aren't being exposed to the bacteria we need to prime our
immune systems.
What we pour over our cereal has become the physical analogue of this
larger ideological struggle over microbial security. The very thing that
makes raw milk dangerous, its dirtiness, may make people healthier, and
pasteurization could be cleansing beneficial bacteria from milk. The
recent wave of raw-milk busts comes at a time when new evidence is
invigorating those who threaten to throw open our borders to bacterial
incursion. Public-health officials are infuriated by the raw milkers'
sheer wrongheadedness and inability to correctly interpret the facts,
and the raw milkers feel the same way about them. Milk as it emerges
from the teat, it seems, is both panacea and poison.
* * *
Schmidt responded to the raid on his farm by immediately going on a
hunger strike. For a month he consumed nothing but a glass of raw milk a
day. He milked a cow on the lawn outside Ontario's provincial
parliament. This was a battle, he said, for which he was prepared to
lose his farm. He was ready to go to jail. Actually, he'd been awaiting
arrest for more than a decade. For all that time, he told me, he'd
carried a camera with him so that he could take pictures when the
authorities finally came to shut him down. "And I upgraded. You know,
first it was still, then video, then digital came along."
The fifty-three-year-old Schmidt doesn't have the demeanor of a
rabble-rouser. His temperament, in fact, is not unlike that of the cows
he tends. A large man, he moves deliberately, reacts placidly to
provocation. He has thin blond hair, light-blue eyes, and pockmarked
cheeks. On the farm he invariably wears black jeans, a white shirt, and
a black vest. In the summer he dons a broad-brimmed straw hat; in the
winter, a black newsboy's cap.
When Schmidt emigrated from Germany in 1983, he wanted to start a farm
that would operate in a manner fundamentally different from that of the
average industrial dairy. Instead of lodging his cows in a manure-filled
lot, he would give them abundant pastures. Instead of feeding them corn
and silage, he'd give them grass. And instead of managing hundreds of
anonymous animals to maximize the return on his investment, he would
care for about fifty cows and maximize health and ecological harmony. If
he kept the grasses and cows and pigs and all the components of the
farm's ecosystem healthy, he believed the bacterial ecosystem in the
milk would be healthy, too.
Schmidt bought 600 acres three hours northwest of Toronto. There he
built up a herd of Canadiennes, handsome brown-and-black animals with
black-tipped horns. Most cattle farmers burn off the horn buds-a
guarantee against being gored-but Schmidt believes it's better to leave
things in their natural state whenever possible. The dangers posed by
the horns (like the dangers of drinking unpasteurized milk) weighed less
heavily on him than the risk of disrupting some unknown element of
nature's design.
The farm flourished under his hand. Schmidt set up a cow-share system
whereby, instead of purchasing raw dairy, customers leased a portion of
a cow and paid a "boarding fee" when they picked up milk. People were
technically drinking milk from their own cows. The animals were, for all
practical purposes, still Schmidt's property, but the scheme made the
defiance of the law less flagrant, and health officials could look the
other way. Then, in 1994, the Canadian Broadcasting Company aired a
documentary about Schmidt and his unpasteurized product. A few months
later he was charged with endangering the public health.
Because Schmidt believed that his style of biodynamic farming actually
secured the public health, he decided to fight the charges. Newspapers
began quoting him on the salubrious powers of raw milk and the
detriments of industrial dairy. At this time, strange things started
happening around the farm. Vandals broke into his barn. Schmidt found
two of his cows lying dead in the yard, apparently poisoned. Then an
unmarked van ran his cousin's car off the road. Men jumped out of the
van's back and forced him inside, holding him there for two hours.
Schmidt hadn't been prepared for the struggle to take this turn. He sent
his cousin back to Germany, agreed to plead guilty in court, and sold
all but 100 acres of his farm to pay the government fines and cover his
lost income.
Schmidt is a man of Teutonic certainty, but as he walked into the field
soon after he'd sold the land, he was filled with doubt. The morning sun
had turned the sky red, and mist hung around the legs of the cattle.
While he twitched a stick at his bull, Xamos, to turn him away from the
cows, Schmidt wondered whether it was even possible to run a farm in the
manner he wanted. If he started selling his milk at industrial prices it
would erode his meticulous style of farming. He would lose the direct
connection to his customers. He'd have to push his cows to produce more
milk. He'd be compelled to adopt the newest feed-management strategies
and modernize his equipment. Schmidt didn't see Xamos coming, just felt
the explosion as the bull struck him. Even as he hit the ground, the
animal was on him, bellowing. It stabbed with one horn and then the
other, tearing up the earth and ripping off Schmidt's clothes. One horn
sank into Schmidt's belly, another ripped into his chest and shoulder,
grazing a lung. Only when his wife charged into the field, flanked by
the couple's snarling dogs, did Xamos retreat. Another man might have
taken this attack as a sure sign, a demonstration of the folly of
seeking harmony with nature. As Schmidt lay there bleeding into the
earth, however, he felt only humility. "Nature is dangerous, yes," he
would tell me later. "But I can't control it, and I can't escape from
it. I can only learn the best way to live with it."
By the time Schmidt could walk again, almost six weeks later, he'd
decided to continue farming on his own terms. He announced his
intentions publicly, but the regulators must have felt that they'd made
their point. For years he continued farming quietly, as an outlaw, until
the morning that government agents descended on his dairy. After the
hunger strike and the other public acts of protest, Schmidt settled in
for the long fight. He hired a top defense lawyer in hopes of
overturning Ontario's raw-milk ban.
* * *
In the twenty-five years that Schmidt has operated the dairy, no one has
ever reported falling sick after drinking his milk. Yet raw-milk
illnesses do crop up. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the
United States averages seventy cases of raw-dairy food poisoning each
year. In the fall of 2006, for instance, California officials announced
that raw milk tainted with E. coli was responsible for a rash of
illnesses. It is legal to sell unpasteurized dairy in California, and
the tainted milk came from Organic Pastures, in Fresno, the largest of
several farms that supply the state's health-food stores.
Tony Martin had agonized over buying the raw milk. He'd never brought it
home before. He knew that milk was pasteurized for a reason, but he'd
also heard that the raw stuff might help his son's allergies. "There was
a lot of picking it up off the shelf and putting it back," he said.
Chris, his seven-year-old, drank the Organic Pastures milk three days in
a row over a Labor Day weekend. On Wednesday, Chris woke up pale and
lethargic. On Thursday he had diarrhea and was vomiting. That night he
had blood in his stool, and the Martins rushed him to the hospital.
Shortly afterward, several other children checked into southern
California hospitals. All of them had drunk Organic Pastures raw-milk
products, and they all were diagnosed as being infected with a virulent
strain of E. coli known as O157:H7. Some of the children recovered
rapidly, but two, Chris Martin and Lauren Herzog, got progressively
worse. The O157:H7 strain releases a jet of toxins when it comes
into contact with antibiotics, so doctors face the difficult decision of
allowing nature to take its course or intervening and risking further
damage. Chris's doctors administered antibiotics, Lauren's did not, yet
both children's kidneys shut down. While Chris was on dialysis, his body
became so swollen that his father said he wouldn't have recognized him
if he passed him on the street. Chris was in the hospital fifty-five
days. Lauren went home after a month but then relapsed and had to
return. Both children eventually recovered but may have suffered
permanent kidney damage.
The illnesses didn't stop raw-milk sales. Even as the state ordered
store managers to destroy the milk on their shelves, customers rushed in
to buy whatever they could. Several Organic Pastures customers said
regulators had simply pinned unrelated illnesses on the milk. They
pointed out that siblings and friends of the sick children had drunk the
same milk from the same bottles and didn't get so much as diarrhea.
Tests for E. coli in one of the milk bottles in question had also turned
up negative. Although it seemed implausible that the state would frame
Mark McAfee, the owner of Organic Pastures, it certainly was possible
that regulators were predisposed to declare raw milk guilty. When state
veterinarians came to search Organic Pastures for E. coli, they were
surprised to see that the manure they pulled from the cows' rectums was
watery and contained less bacteria than usual. Patrick Kennelly, chief
of the food-safety section at the California Department of Health
Services, confronted McAfee with these facts in an email, writing, "Not
only is this unnatural, but it is consistent with the type of reactions
that an animal might have after being treated with high doses of
antibiotics. . . . Why were your cows in this condition, Mark?"
McAfee does not use antibiotics on his organic farm. The state tests all
shipments of his milk for antibiotics residue and has never found any.
Allan Nation, a grazing expert, offered another explanation: the cows
had been eating grass. Grass-fed cows carry a lower number of pathogens,
he said. And for a few days in the spring and fall, when the weather
changes and new grass sprouts, the cows "tend to squirt," as Nation put
it. But grass-eating cows have become so rare that, to California health
officials, they seemed unnatural. The norms of industrial dairying had
become so deeply ingrained that a regulator could jump to the conclu
sion that all milk is dirty until pasteurized.
* * *
Around the time that Chicago passed the first pasteurization law in the
United States, in 1908, many of the dairies supplying cities had
themselves become urban. They were crowded, grassless, and filthy.
Unscrupulous proprietors added chalk and plaster of paris to extend the
milk. Consumptive workers coughed into their pails, spreading
tuberculosis; children contracted diseases like scarlet fever from milk.
Pasteurization was an easy solution. But pasteurization also gave
farmers license to be unsanitary. They knew that if fecal bacteria got
in the milk, the heating process would eventually take care of it.
Customers didn't notice, or pay less, when they drank the corpses of a
few thousand pathogens. As a result, farmers who emphasized animal
health and cleanliness were at a disadvantage to those who simply pushed
for greater production.
After a century of pasteurization, modern dairies, to put it bluntly,
are covered in shit. Most have a viscous lagoon full of it. Cows lie in
it. Wastewater is recycled to flush out their stalls. Farmers do dip
cows' teats in iodine, but standards mandate only that the number of
germs swimming around their bulk tanks be below 100,000 per milliliter.
When I was working as a newspaper reporter in Cassia County, Idaho, a
local dairyman, Brent Stoker, had wanted to raise thousands of calves on
his farm and sell them to dairies as replacements for their worn-out
cows. Stoker's neighbors, incensed by the idea of all that manure near
their houses, stopped the project. Stoker wasn't an especially dirty
farmer-dairy associations showed off his farm on tours-but, to survive,
dairies must produce a lot of milk, which means producing a lot of
feces. I called Stoker recently, to talk dairy and catch up. He was in
the middle of another fight with the neighbors. This time he wanted to
build a large organic dairy. I said I hadn't taken him for the organic
"Pay me enough and I am," he said. Organic may mean no antibiotics and
no pesticides, but it doesn't necessarily mean grass-fed. When it comes
to making milk, grass-fed cows simply can't compete. Stoker's current
herd of non-organic cows produce a prodigious eighty pounds of milk per
day. That's mostly because they are fed like Olympic athletes. They eat
a carefully formulated mix of roughage and high-energy grains. "If you
were to try to pasture them, you'd lose production down to about forty
pounds," Stoker said. "Of course, the cow would last a lot longer."
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Clan Ruthven
The Clan Ruthven (/ˈrɪvən/) is a Lowland Scottish clan.[2]
|Clan Ruthven
|Deid schaw[1]
|Grey Ruthven
|The 2nd Earl of Gowrie
|Historic seat
|Huntingtower Castle
The Ruthven lands in Perthshire, Scotland take their name from the Scottish Gaelic, Ruadhainn which means Dun uplands.[2] The clan chief's family are of Norse origin.[2] They first settled in East Lothian but by the end of the twelfth century they were in Perthshire.[2]
Between 1188 and 1199, Swein is recorded as giving lands that included Tibbermore to the Monks of Scone.[2] Swein's grandson was Sir Walter Ruthven who was the first to adopt the name Ruthven.[2]
Wars of Scottish Independence
Sir Walter Ruthven swore fealty to Edward I of England in 1291 and 1296.[2] However, in 1297, he had led thirty men to help William Wallace at the siege of Perth.[2] Ruthven was also with Christopher Seaton when Jedburgh was reclaimed from the English.[2] In 1313, Perth was recaptured and Robert the Bruce appointed Sir William Ruthven to be sheriff of the royal burgh, which was then called St Johnston.[2]
15th and 16th centuries
A descendant of Sir William Ruthven, Sir William Ruthven of Balkernoch, spent three years as a hostage in England for the ransom of James I of Scotland.[2] This William Ruthven was a substantial nobleman.[2] His income was stated to be about four hundred merks annually, which was about £100 at the time.[2] In 1488, his great-grandson was created a Lord of Parliament with the title Lord Ruthven, by James III of Scotland.[2] He married twice and his sons by his first wife were granted a letter of legitimization in 1480.[2] The eldest of the sons was William, Master of Ruthven, who was killed at the Battle of Flodden in 1513.[2]
Feud with Clan Charteris
The Charterises of Kinfauns are said to have received their lands as a reward for supporting Robert the Bruce against the English.[3] However they came into a feud with the Ruthvens who often disputed the authority of the Charterises.[3] The Ruthvens held considerable sway over Perth from their Huntingtower Castle.[3] In 1544, Patrick, Lord Ruthven, was elected as Provost of Perth but at the intervention of Cardinal Beaton, Ruthven was deprived of the office and Charteris of Kinfauns was appointed instead.[3] The city refused to acknowledge Charteris and barred the gates against him.[3] Charteris along with Lord Gray and the Clan Leslie then attacked the town. However, they were repulsed by the Ruthvens, who were assisted by the Clan Moncreiffe.[3] As a result, Ruthven remained Provost of Perth until 1584, when William Ruthven, Earl of Gowrie was executed.[3] John Charteris had been killed by the earl's heir on Edinburgh High Street in 1552.[3]
Murder of David Rizzio
In 1556, Patrick Ruthven, 3rd Lord Ruthven, and his son, William, were among the co-conspirators of Lord Darnley when Mary, Queen of Scot's favorite David Rizzio was killed in her presence at Holyrood Palace.[2] Both Ruthvens fled to England when abandoned by Darnley.[2] William returned and succeeded to the family title having received a royal pardon.[2] He was among the people who conducted the queen to Loch Leven Castle, where she was forced to abdicate.[2] Ruthven was also the Treasurer of Scotland during the king's minority and in 1581 was created William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie.[2]
Ruthven Raid
In 1582, Ruthven, now the Earl of Gowrie, abducted James VI of Scotland in order to remove him from the influence of the Earl of Lennox and Earl of Arran.[2] This became known as the "Ruthven Raid" or Raid of Ruthven.[2] The king was detained for ten months and, when he was finally released, he appeared forgiving but Gowrie was later arrested in 1584 and beheaded for treason.[2]
Gowrie Conspiracy
In 1586, the Ruthven estates were restored to William's son, James Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie.[2] However, James Ruthven died just two years later aged thirteen and was succeeded by his brother, John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie.[2] It is alleged that John practiced Black magic.[2] In 1600, he and his brother Alexander were murdered in their town house in Perth.[2] This became known as the "Gowrie Conspiracy".[2] The Ruthven brothers were declared by Parliament to be traitors although there is little evidence, if anything, of what they were planning.[2] The Ruthven name was decreed out of existence.[2]
17th century, Thirty Years' War and Civil War
In 1651, Sir Thomas Ruthven, who descended from the second Lord Ruthven, partly restored the family's reputation when he was raised in the peerage as Lord Ruthven of Freeland.[2]
Patrick Ruthven, 1st Earl of Brentford (c. 1573–1651), was a collateral descendant of Sir William Ruthven, 1st Lord Ruthven. He fought and negotiated on behalf of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, King of Sweden, during the Thirty Years' War. In Germany, he fought alongside his nephews, Colonel Frances Ruthven and Major General John Ruthven.[4]
Patrick Ruthven, 1st Earl of Brentford also fought on behalf of King Charles I during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, bringing both Colonel Frances Ruthven and Major General John Ruthven into service with him.[5] Sir Thomas Ruthven, 1st Lord Ruthven of Freeland (d. 1673), on whom Charles II of England bestowed the title of Lord Ruthven of Freeland in 1651.[6] His son was David Ruthven, 2nd Lord Ruthven of Freeland.
18th to 20th century
- David Ruthven, 2nd Lord Ruthven of Freeland, died unmarried in April, 1701. The title of Baroness Ruthven was assumed by his sister:
- Jean (d. 1722), although according to some authorities the peerage had become extinct. It was, however, assumed in 1722 by:
- Isobel (d. 1732), wife of James Johnson, who took the name of Ruthven on succeeding to the family estates; and their son:
- James Ruthven (d. 1783), took the title and was allowed to vote at the elections of Scots representative peers. In 1853 the barony again descended to a female:
- Mary Elizabeth Thornton (c. 1784–1864), the wife of Walter Hore (d. 1878). She and her husband took the name of Hore-Ruthven, and their grandson:
- Walter James Hore-Ruthven (b. 1838), became the 8th baron in 1864.[6] His second son:
- Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie (1872–1955), through meritorious service (including as Governor-General of Australia), regained the family title (first as Baron Gowrie, 1934, and then as Earl of Gowrie, 1944).
Clan Chief
Clan Chief: Grey Ruthven The 2nd Earl of Gowrie, Viscount Ruthven of Canberra, of Dirleton, Baron Ruthven of Gowrie, Baron Gowrie of Canberra, Commonwealth of Australia and of Dirleton, East Lothian and Chief of the Name and Arms of Ruthen.[7]
Castles and Palace
- Huntingtower Castle
- Dirleton Castle
- Scone Abbey
- Scone Palace
- Gowrie House
- Freeland House (now the main School House of Strathallan School)
- Trochrie Castle
See also
- Clan Ruthven Profile scotclans.com. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
- Way, George and Squire, Romily. (1994). Collins Scottish Clan & Family Encyclopedia. (Foreword by The Rt Hon. The Earl of Elgin KT, Convenor, The Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs). pp. 310 - 311.
- Way, George and Squire, Romily. Collins Scottish Clan & Family Encyclopedia. (Foreword by The Rt Hon. The Earl of Elgin KT, Convenor, The Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs). Published in 1994. Pages 100 - 101.
- Steve Murdoch and Alexia Grosjean, Alexander Leslie and the Scottish Generals of the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 (London, 2014), pp.80-90
- Murdoch & Grosjean (2014), p.97.
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ruthven". Encyclopædia Britannica. 23 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 941.
- http://www.burkes-peerage.net/familyhomepage.aspx?FID=0&FN=GOWRIE burkes-peerage
- The Ruthven Correspondence, edited with introduction by William D. Macray (1868)
- S. Cowan (ed.), The Ruthven Family Papers (London, 1912)
- J. H. Round, "The Barony of Ruthven of Freeland", in Joseph Foster's Collectanea Genealogica (1881–85)
- Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, The Peerage of Scotland (new edition by James Balfour Paul).


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UK born and bred, Luum moved to Melbourne from London 13 years ago. Her passion lies within the realm of design with a history in Art. Creating comes naturally for Luum, being a designer, renovator and digital artist. Her ideas come to life through simplistic pieces that encompass her love for colour in order to evoke a source of positivity.
Working under the artist name Luum, you can find her digital prints online at luum.com.au & architectural works at hardartco.com.au.
The future looks bright for an artist like Luum, with an exciting collaboration with a Melbourne based graffiti artist and furniture & home ware pieces all to be launched very soon, so stay tuned!


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Property Address: 1446 Carroll Street, Baltimore, MD 21230
Property Owner: Tadesse & Associates, Inc., 21124 Hickory Forest Way, Gaithersburg, MD 20876 (Corporation is not in good standing.)
Resident Agent for Tadesse & Associates: Mihretu Tadesse, same address
City Council District and Contact: District 10, Ed Reisinger
State Senator: Verna Jones Rodwell
State Delegates: Keith Haynes, Keiffer Mitchell Jr, Melvin Stukes
This lot was purchased from the city in 2009. No permits were ever filed to improve the lot, and it's become a neighborhood eyesore — and a dumping ground for trash and weeds. It's also located next door to a home (1444 Carroll Street) that has been vacant for years.


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Acer founded in 1976 by Stan Shih and his wife Carolyn Yeh is today a leading organization offering different products in the field of technology like computers, desktop, notebooks, computer displays etc.
The company also provides wide range of mobile phones. It also offers high quality features like internet connectivity, QWERTY keypad, Long battery life, touch-screens, cameras, Multimedia, Audio/Video etc.
Recently Acer launched its new Acer Liquid E Ferrari special edition in Computex, Taipei and Taiwan. And is also planning to launch its very special edition smartphone in India.
The phone looks very attractive in red color and with a logo of Ferrari on the back. Its 3.5 inch high resolution touch screen is based on Google Android 2.1 Eclair operating system. It is very light in weight and weighs just 135 grams.
Acer Liquid Ferrari Features
- 5 mega pixel camera with auto focus
- Resolution of 480×800 pixels
- Video recording at 640 x 480 resolution
- 512 MB RAM, Bluetooth
- A mini USB
- Mp3 player
- Video Recording
- FM radio
- Expandable external memory upto 16 GB
- Wi-Fi etc.
Ferrari images, car themed ringtones and videos are already loaded in this Liquid E Ferrari mobile phone.
It is made with a pure racing soul. Acer's Vice-President Gianpiero Morbello of marketing and brand said that ferrari is not an improvement only in speed but adds beauty too. People will be excited to see it and will enjoy it very much. As soon as the idea of ferrari came in the mind of the company, the mobile was thought to have good sales in just the first launch.
According to the company, this smartphone may be seen in the mid of july in India but still the price of Liquid E Ferrari is not been decided.


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Function Loops has announced the release of Vocal Acapellas with Ariel, a collection of royalty-free chart topping sounds.
This time we decided to deliver the main vocals as Full Length Acapellas and did not break them into loops like in previous releases for ease of arrangement. Still, there is a bunch of extra vocal loops!
Organized into 7 Construction Kits including Full Vocal Acapellas in dry & wet versions, Backing Vocals in dry & wet versions, Vocal Snippets, FX Vocal Loops and Vocal One-Shots.
Also you will find all the instrument loops including Drums & Percussion, Basslines, Synthlines & Melodies, all key labelled. Every sound you can hear in the demos is included!
A MIDI file for each instrument loop is included as well, giving you endless possibilities and easy workflow. MIDI files are labelled exactly to fit the WAV loops.
The library costs $32.90 USD.
More information: Function Loops


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Winter is coming and around here that means trying to escape the rain to find a cozy spot in which to enjoy a hot beverage. If you're keen to sit down somewhere other than your own couch, you might want to give Cafe Brie a try.
"It's a 'come in, sit down and talk for hours' kind of place," said Samantha Hull, who co-owns the Qualicum Beach cafe with her wife Leanne. "We don't like to rush our customers out."
The Hulls, who are originally from the mainland, took over the dozen-table restaurant from previous owners in August 2013. In the transition, they kept the original Cafe Brie name in order to make transferring the liquor license —and customers — easier. And as Samantha said, "it kind of fits" with the interior's Parisian theme.
The restaurant, however, did see some slow changes. Aside from a fresh coat of paint, more decor and a selection of work by local artists (including Leanne herself), the Hulls also expanded the menu to include breakfast and more lunch items and baked goods.
All of the cafe's coffee is made to order and the food is made in-house, including stocks for soup. It's not a surprise really when you take into account that both women have cooked professionally for a number of years and know the business inside out.
"She's (Samantha) Rainman when it comes to costing out food," Leanne said.
After Leanne earned her culinary degree from Vancouver Community College and Samantha learned to cook in her family's Tsawwassen bakery, the Hulls started their catering company Dragonfly Co. From a commercial kitchen in Richmond, they made wedding cakes and cupcakes, catered events and provided craft service on film sets for music videos and the like. At one point, they also worked at the family bakery and ran a store for the Original Cupcakes by Heather & Lori franchise. It wasn't until Samantha's parents retired to Qualicum that the couple decided to follow and open Cafe Brie.
While the Hulls still operate Dragonfly Co. from Qualicum, the restaurant has taken priority. Still, they wanted to keep things interesting. After seeing how popular afternoon tea was in the area, they decided to give it a try.
The cafe hosts tea Monday- Friday from 1:30-3 p.m., and they also plan special seasonal teas. This month, their November Twilight Evening Tea will be held every Thursday or Friday from 5:30-7 p.m. There will also be a Christmas Afternoon Tea every Sunday in December with seatings at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Since the menus are "a little bit more specialized," Samantha said seats must be booked in advance. "We're small here, so we need to plan in advance," she explained.
Cafe Brie is also known for how heartily it celebrates Christmas in-store. "Christmas is really big here," Leanne said. "People come to just take pictures of the big Christmas tree."
According to the Hulls, however, the heart and soul of the restaurant are not the special events. "We've got some really great regular customers," said Samantha, who added that she enjoys how diverse the clientele is.
If you'd like to join the crowd, you'll find Cafe Brie tucked away in Qualicum Beach's Carriage Lane (#5 – 177 Second Ave.). They're open Monday – Friday from 8 a.m. – 3 p.m. and Saturdays from 8 a.m. – 2 p.m. You can preview their menu at cafebrie.ca. If you'd like to book a seat at one of the special teas in Nov. and Dec., call 250-594-2526.


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Everyone loves the convenience of contactless payments, especially when you are in a hurry. However, this convenience often comes at the cost of reduced security. It turns out that a combination of flaws in both Apple Pay and Visa's system can allow a hacker to make unauthorized payments using only a stolen, powered on iPhone.
A group of researchers at the Birmingham and Surrey Universities in the UK have revealed a new iPhone flaw that allows attackers to perform unauthorized contactless payments by exploiting a weakness in Apple Pay's Express Transit feature while using a Visa card.
Express Transit (Express Travel in the UK) allows an iPhone user to tap-and-go at ticket barriers for much quicker payments. In other words, it eliminates the need to authenticate using either a passcode, Touch ID, or Face ID when making payments, but this also introduces a weakness that can easily be exploited with a relatively inexpensive piece of commercially available radio equipment.
The researchers explained that all it takes to make an unauthorized contactless payment of £1,000 (around $1,350) is to program the radio equipment to mimic a ticket barrier system and relay so-called "Magic Bytes" through an Android app in order to emulate a real contactless transaction. Dr. Ioana Boureanu, who is one of the researchers who discovered the vulnerability, says the dummy payment terminal and Android phone need to be near the victim's iPhone for the exploit to be successful, which becomes painfully easy in the case of a lost or stolen iPhone.
So far, the researchers haven't found any evidence that this security flaw has been exploited in the wild, but lead researcher Dr. Andreea Radu believes it's only a matter of time before malicious actors will take advantage of it. Apple was notified about the issue in October 2020, but the company passed the responsibility to Visa, who was notified in May 2021. The latter says it's familiar with countless variations of contactless fraud schemes developed in the lab and maintains the exploit is "impractical to execute at scale in the real world."
As of writing, neither company is willing to provide a fix. Visa claims you'll be protected under its zero liability policy, and the researchers say they haven't found the same issue when testing Express Transit with Mastercard. Additionally, when trying the same attack method with Samsung Pay, the researchers found that while transactions are possible with locked Samsung devices, the transaction value is zero and the approval process is based on a special arrangement between the bank and the transport providers on the exact cost of the tickets.
For now, if you want to be extra safe, you can disable Express Transit payments. If you're looking for an in-depth read on the matter, you can find the associated research paper here. You can also check DinoSec's extensive list of lock screen bypass issues affecting each major iOS version since iOS 5.


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RUNNING MILESTONE Kurt Michaelis YSU's first Div. I track All-American
The junior's ultimate goal is to make the U.S. Olympic team in 2004.
By PETE MOLLICA
YOUNGSTOWN -- When Kurt Michaelis was a junior high student in Toledo, he really wanted to play football.
His father was concerned that Kurt, who was a pretty good baseball player, might get hurt. So Michaelis ran cross country instead.
The more he ran, the better he got until he forgot about baseball, football and everything else, and running was the only thing he wanted to do.
That decision paid off for Michaelis, who two weeks ago became Youngstown State's first Division I All-American at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Fayetteville, Ark.
"It's always been a dream of mine to be an All-American and to be YSU's first is just an amazing feeling," he said.
The YSU junior ran the mile in 4 minutes, 7.79 seconds in the finals, finishing ninth in a field of 11 runners to earn the All-American honors.
"Actually, the pace was a lot slower that I had figured it would be and it probably hurt me in the long run," said Michaelis. "I kind of hung back in the pack for most of the race, and then the last 400 meters I gave it everything I had and managed to pass a couple of runners to get into the ninth spot."
Likes indoor season
Michaelis now is getting ready for the outdoor season, but admitted that he prefers the indoor season.
"A lot of runners don't like to run indoors, because of the shorter tracks and the higher banks and tighter turns, especially the taller runners, but I love to run indoors," he said.
Michaelis holds the indoor mile record (4:02.71) at YSU, which he set earlier this season, but he knows that he's got to get his time down much lower if he's to reach his ultimate goal of making the U.S. Olympic team in 2004.
"Qualifying for the Olympics has always been in the back of my mind, something that I've always dreamed about, but now it's a lot closer to reality," he said.
Michaelis has used up his eligibility for next year's indoor season, but has two more outdoor seasons in which to compete, then will make his bid for the Olympic team.
"You have got to have the qualifying time at least to have a shot at making the team," he said. "I figure it will be around 3:36 for the 1,500 meters. Then there is the trials where the top three get consideration."
Gives Gorby credit
Michaelis said much of his success is due to the work of his coach at Youngstown State, Brian Gorby.
"He's taken me to so many meets that otherwise I'd never been able to run in," he said. "I don't know where I'd have been without him."
Gorby responded that Michaelis deserves the credit.
"Kurt is just an unbelievably hard worker," the coach said. "He maximizes all of his talent and continues to drive forward."
Michaelis doesn't know what will happen after college, if there will be an Olympic spot or not, but he knows he wants to keep running.
"I'd like to try to run professionally, if I can get a sponsor," he said, "and if that doesn't work out, I'd really like to coach, maybe right here with Coach Gorby.
"I'm really leaving it up to God and whatever he wants me to do."


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How to Teach Shapes to Young Kids
I am a certified teacher and have been tutoring young children for more than 30 years. I am sharing my experience in the tutorial business.
Teaching Shapes
Teaching shapes is a fun activity for the kids. If you provide enough activities, the more they will have fun which will result in a more productive learning.
To start teaching the kids about shapes; you need all your visual aids prepared. I is also goo dif you can use colorful shapes so that the children can see the shapes more clearly and understand them better.
Nowadays, teaching young kids is not as hard as they used to be thirty years ago. This is because most people today are exposed to so many things; kids included.
The Circle
Begin by saying, "Our new lesson for today is about shapes." Show a shape to the kids. I usually start with circle which is what I find easy for the kids to understand and memorize.
Say; "This is a circle. It is round. It's like the wheel of the cars and the bowl you use for eating."
Show the shape again and ask the kids, "What shape is this, children?" Some kids can answer but some cannot remember the shape you discussed. It is understandable of course because it is their first time to learn about the shape.
Again, it is always good to repeat the word circle so that the children will understand it more and they will pronounce the word right. This is true when you are teaching non-English speaking kids. Non-English speaking kids cannot grasp the shape you are teaching immediately because the English words they hear are always foreign to them. This is why you should pronounce the words well and let them follow.
It is important to use different objects that have the shape of the circle when introducing the shape to the young kids.
Here are objects that you can use to show the circle.
- jar cover
- shape-o-toys
- circle blocks
- wheel of a toy car
- plastic plate
- paper plate
- circular box
- circular lid
You can use anything circle as visual aid for the children to see. The more circular things you present to the kids the better they will understand what a circle is.
More Activities for Teaching Circle:
Let the children guess what you are hiding behind your back by describing the things thoroughly so that the kids can guess what the object is.
For example:
"I have here something at my back. It is circle. The car has it so that it can run. The bike also has this thing. It can be big or small but the color is always black. Your toy car also has this thing. It makes your toy car roll. What is it?"
You don't expect all the kids to be able to answer correctly but at least some will try to answer. If they cannot answer correctly then show the object and let them tell what it is.
Again, ask the shape of the wheel.
Show and Tell
Show and tell is commonly used in every lesson for the little kids. This is a fun activity but you need many objects in order for the kids to enjoy reciting.
Tracing is an activity that is good for enhancing motor skills. It also teaches the children to know the right direction when tracing. Whatever goal you want achieved, always concentrate on the most important thing. The kids are tracing the circle because you are teaching them about shape. So, it is not important if they cannot trace the shape very well.
Activity Sheets
Different activity sheets are needed for this lesson. The more paper works the kids do, the better they will understand what a shape is.
Here are some activity sheet directions that you can use to teach circle.
- Color all the circles.
- Color the object that has the same shape as the object on the left.
- Put a ring around all the circles.
- Draw a circle in the box.
- Draw a line on the object that matches the shape at the left.
Recommended Reading:
- How to Teach Basic Reading to Non- English Speaking ...
Teaching basic reading to non-English speaking children is like a race in a hurdle. But it can be fun if you know where to begin and you know how to teach young children.
- How to Teach CVC Stories to Children
For beginner readers, a three sentence story could be a difficult task. Only then can it be made easier if the teacher knows how to make it simple for the kids to tackle.
- How to Teach the Alphabet to the Young Kids
Teaching the alphabet to young kids is just like teaching any other lesson. If you make it fun and interesting to the kids, the easier and faster they will learn the alphabet.
- How to Teach Numbers to Young Kids
Young kids love numbers. They love counting too. Kids always tell how old they are using their fingers. These are signs that the young kids can easily learn numbers.
The Square
After 5 days of teaching the circle, the next shape to teach is the square. You can follow the same steps when you taught the circle. You can play games, trace squares, draw squares, show some objects that the kids can identify and do some activity sheets about square.
Here are some things that you can use to introduce square to the kids.
- A square clock
- A square box
- A square canister
- A square organizer
- A square book
- A square block
- A square card
- A square cardboard
- A square handkerchief
You can use anything that has a square shape when you teach square. It is important also that you teach the children that a square has 4 equal sides.
The Triangle
First, you have to introduce triangle to the kids by showing different triangular shaped objects. When you show a triangle, tell the kids that a triangle has 3 sides.
You can follow the steps when you taught circle.
Here are some objects that you can use to show triangle.
- A triangular block
- A triangular hat
- A triangular box
- A triangular canister
- A triangular toy
Here is a fun activity that you can do with the kids.
The best way to introduce triangle to the young kids is to let them make a triangular hat by using the paper folding. This is an interesting activity since the kids will make their own hat while teaching them about triangle.
Colorful Triangular Hat from Old Magazine
The Rectangle
When you introduce rectangle to the kids, explain to them that the shape has two long sides and two short sides. This is the easiest way by which the kids will understand the shape.
Again, you can follow the steps when you taught the other shapes. Show objects that are rectangular in shape.
Here are some objects with a rectangular shape.
- A notebook
- A book
- A block
- A box
- A pencil case
- An eraser
- A canister
- A rectangular toy
You can use anything that is rectangular in shape to teach rectangle.
The Oblong/Oval
The best oblong object to use when you introduce the shape oblong or oval is the egg. Show the kids an egg and tell them that the egg is oblong or oval. Then show other objects as well so that they will learn more about other oblong or oval objects.
Here are some oblong/oval objects.
- An egg
- A canister
- An organizer
- A block
- A picture frame
- A plate
- A container
You can give examples of oval things also that are in the room, like a table or a mirror.
© 2013 Felisa Daskeo


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Great 1980s Music Videos
Remember The Time
The 1980s saw an explosion of new technology and new ways for Americans for entertain themselves. The 80s saw the introduction of the computer into everyday lives, the Rubik's Cube and Transformers. The 1980s were also the highpoint of the music video. Starting with MTV, which actually showed videos in the 1980s, music videos became as important if not more important than the music itself. And out of this new genre came some great, if not strange, music videos. The following is a short list of great 1980s music videos.
There is little doubt that Michael Jackson's Thriller is considered one of the best music videos ever made and is what put MTV on the map. Thriller debuted on MTV in December of 1983 and was directed by John Landis. Considered a "mini-film" that had an estimated cost of $500,000.
Famous for being more that just an ordinary music video, Thriller featured choreographed zombies dancing with Michael Jackson. In the background throughout the video can be heard the voice of Vincent Price. The makeup for the video wad done by Rick Baker and the video also featured Playboy centerfold Ola Ray.
Cradle Of Love
Cradle of Love by Billy Idol was released on Idol's Charmed Life album in 1990 (I consider it a 80s video.) Cradle of Love reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Idol received a Grammy Award for the Vocals.
The Cradle of Love video is very memorable. It featured model Betsy Lynn George who plays a teenager who tries to seduce a shy businessman. The video shows clips of Idol himself, but only from the waist up as he was unable to walk because of a car accident. The Video won the MTV award for Best Video from a Film and was voted #33 in VH1's 50 sexiest videos.
Dancing In The Dark
It is beyond dispute that one of the biggest superstars in the 1980s was Bruce Springsteen. Dancing In the Dark, released in 1984 was the first single released in Springsteen's Born In The USA album.
The music video for Dancing In The Dark first aired on MTV in July of 1984. It was filmed before and during the first show of Springsteen's Born In The USA tour in St. Paul Minnesota. The video was directed by Brian DePalma and featured a young Courtney Cox who was the lucky fan who was pulled up on stage to dance with the Boss.
Money For Nothing
Inspired by Mark Knopfler watching a man in a department store watching MTV, Dire Straits released Money for Nothing in 1987 and was the first video to air on MTV Europe. Directed by Steve Barron, the Money for Nothing video features live footage from a Budapest performance enhanced by computers and a computer generated character. Money for Nothing received a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Group in 1985.
Take On Me
Take On Me was released in 1985 by the Norwegian band a-ha. Take On Me combines synthpop with acoustic guitars, a synthesizer and keyboards. Take On Me placed #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 in October 1985. The video for Take On Me was directed by Steve Barron and features the band in pencil sketch animation. The video won six awards at the 1986 MTV awards. The video Take On Me takes a girl sitting in a coffee shop into the romantic and dangerous world of the comic book she was reading.
You Might Think
The Cars released You Might Think in 1984. The song was written by lead singer Ric Ocasek. You Might Think Reached #7 on the Billboard Charts and #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks in the United States. The You Might Think music video was one of the first music videos to use computerized special effects. The video features Ocasek and model Susan Gallagher where Osasek appears in Gallagher's mirror, mouth and other encounters. The Video won the first MTV Video Music Award for Video Of The Year.
We Are The World
We Are The World was released in 1985 and written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie. The song was performed by a super group of 45 of the most popular musicians (at the time) that included Jackson, Richie, Bob Dylan, Kenny Rogers, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Cyndi Lauper and many others. The group was called USA for Africa and raised funds to help famine-relief in Ethiopia and raised over $63 million. The video is simply the taping of the song and shows an amazing group of musicians from all genres.
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19% of Ohio State University Students Clicked on Links in Phishing Simulation
Nearly one in five students at Ohio State University clicked on unverified links in emails sent to them as part of a phishing simulation.
On 31 January, the IT risk management office at Ohio State University (OSU) initiated a phishing exercise against the university's student population. Its intention was to determine how many students would click on the link. The office could then use that information to better educate students.
Gary Clark, the university's information risk management director, expands upon the office's motivation for conducting the simulation in the student newspaper The Lantern:
For the individual student, your identity is so critical. It's really the loss of identity is what's driving us to educate our students. It's privacy, it's identity, it's who you are. Once the attacker has that information, they can use that against you.
Clark did not know how many students have lost their personal details to identity thieves as a result of phishing emails.
In total, 19 percent of students who received the emails clicked on the unverified links contained therein. That means close to 13,000 of the university's 66,000+ students fell for the simulation.
It's unclear what percentage of students opened the emails or clicked on the links multiple times.
When clicked, the links led to a page set up by the IT risk management office notifying recipients of the simulation and informing them of ways by which they can detect potentially malicious emails in the future.
Becky Mayse, a security analyst lead at Ohio State, says the simulation is a great start to improving students' awareness of digital threats but doesn't fully reflect the sophistication and variety of phishing attacks in circulation today.
"We actually frequently see phishing emails coming into our environment being reported that are far more sophisticated as an attack than what we send," Mayse notes in The Lantern. "Our phishing emails are relatively easy to spot and are designed to help the user identify how to spot these emails."
OSU students who think they've received a phishing email should report it to the IT risk management office at email@example.com.


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Thursday 26 February - Saturday 20 March
A selection of outstanding and imaginative children's book illustrations from the collection of multi award winning author and USC lecturer, Gary Crew.
The exhibition demonstrates the diversity of illustration styles utilised by some of Australia's leading artists and illustrators of children's picture books and fiction.
The exhibition includes a section showing changes in design over time and in different contexts, plus illustrations from some of Crew's most recent publications.
Image: detail from Illustration from First Light. Illustrator: Peter Gouldthorpe. Author: Gary Crew


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Rainbow Chard Rolls
Colorful rainbow chard is stuffed with chicken, peanuts and green onions, mixed with a tangy peanut butter sauce.
Author: The Chef
Cuisine: American
Recipe type: Breakfast
- 2 bunches rainbow chard, tough ends cut off and discarded
- ¼ cup rice wine vinegar
- ¼ cup toasted sesame oil
- 2 tablespoons smooth peanut butter
- 1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger
- 2 tablespoons low sodium soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 3 cups cooked chicken, shredded
- ¼ cup dry roasted salted peanuts
- 2 tablespoons cilantro, finely chopped
- 2 green onions, sliced
- Pinch of kosher salt
- 1 avocado, sliced
- Cilantro and mint leaves, for garnish
- Sesame seeds, for garnish
Quick pickled carrots:
- 1 cup rice vinegar
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 medium carrots, peeled and cut into long matchsticks
- Prepare carrots. Add vinegar, sugar and salt to a medium saucepan and bring to a simmer. Stir until sugar dissolves. Add carrots to a heat-proof bowl, and pour vinegar mixture over top. Allow to cool to room temperature.
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil.
- Remove large thick stalks at end of chard leaves. Blanch chard leaves in batches in boiling water for 10-15 seconds until just pliable. Remove from water and cool to room temperature. Pat dry with paper towels. Set aside.
- Whisk together the vinegar, sesame oil, peanut butter, ginger, soy sauce and honey in a medium bowl. Season with a pinch of salt. Fold in shredded chicken, peanuts, green onions and cilantro, and mix until combined.
To assemble:
- Lay out a chard leaf on a clean work surface. Layer a second leaf to cover any holes. Add chicken mixture, quick pickled carrots, then avocado and herbs. Sprinkle with sesame seeds. Roll up like a burrito. Slice in half on the bias to serve.
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Posted by Tastemade on Wednesday, June 27, 2018