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Such a move by Australia was the latest in international commitments in response to Vietnam's calls for international support and co-operation in one of the key sectors of its economy.
The Government has been calling for reform in the agricultural sector for years to little avail, until a series of intense natural disasters hit Vietnam last year. The fatal floods in northern and central Vietnam, followed by prolonged drought in southern areas occurred in tandem with increasingly severe saline intrusion in the Mekong Delta - the largest rice producing region in the country. Such disasters left Vietnam's agriculture sector - a key contributor to the country's economic development - with unprecedented minus growth for the first time in decades.
It was a big wakeup call to both the Vietnamese Government from central to provincial levels, and also society as a whole, of how vulnerable the country's traditional ways of working on the fields are to natural weather disasters in times of climate change.
The race to modernise the farming sector by applying more advanced technologies in producing, harvesting and post-harvest stages in an effort to reduce farmers' reliance on nature, started to heat up.
In addition to changes in land and capital policies, Vietnam has approved plans to build ten agricultural zones applying high-tech methods in Hau Giang, Phu Yen, Thai Nguyen, Quang Ninh, Thanh Hoa, Khanh Hoa, Lam Dong, HCM City, Binh Duong and Can Tho provinces by 2020. The number is expected to more than double to 22 zones by 2030. In the meantime, several high-tech agricultural centres at a municipal level have started popping up across the country.
Vietnamese leaders constantly called and aggressively pushed lower levels to engage more in the sector's reform, while seeking technological and financial support from other countries.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc this year paid State visits to Japan and the Netherlands, two of the leading countries in the agriculture sector, while Israeli President Reuven Rivlin also visited Vietnam. President Rivlin visited the VinEco farm, which implements Israeli technologies to grow vegetables.
Dozens of meetings at ministerial levels and below between Vietnam and several other countries that are strong in agricultural technology like Australia and South Korea, also took place. Vietnamese enterprises and farmers found new ways of farming through co-operation with international businesses or study trips to agriculturally-advanced destinations.
Agro-technology transfer
Israel was one of the most popular destinations. "Israel has faced a lot of agricultural problems like climate change or lack of water and so does Vietnam now," Israeli Deputy Chief of Mission in Vietnam Doron Lebovich told Vietnam News. Lebovich believes that there is a win-win match between Israel and Vietnam in agricultural co-operation.
"Israel is just a small country of 8.4 million people, well-known for cutting-edge agricultural technologies, and is seeking a big market, while Vietnam is a huge market looking for a transition from traditional agriculture," he said. "Obviously, there is huge potential for the two".
"More and more delegates from the Government as well as the private sector have come to Israel to observe and explore the co-operation potential."
Sustainability focus
While Israel is a typical example of how Vietnam can learn new farming methods and technologies to improve production in both quality and quantity, others like the Netherlands have a specific focus to support Vietnam's agriculture sector.
"High-tech is sometimes spoken of like a magic formula. It's as if you have high-tech, everything can be solved. However, the focus should be on sustainability instead and high-tech methods are just a means to an end," Dutch Ambassador to Vietnam Nienke Trooster told Vietnam News.
Sustainability is a much more important concept to develop in agriculture, she added, while stressing the comprehensiveness of the concept mentioning the three P's – there should be benefits for People; protection of the Planet; and lastly Profits for businesses.
In order to support sustainable agriculture in Vietnam, the Netherlands and Vietnam signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement on Climate Change Adaptation and Water Management in 2010; and another on Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in 2014.
"In that framework we will hold high-level governmental dialogues with Vietnam every year to discuss how we can create the right conditions for (Vietnam's) agriculture to strive. We are expecting the Vietnamese Agriculture Minister to attend the meeting in the Netherlands this fall," Trooster said.
An approach that is very successful in the Netherlands, she said, is to foster cooperation and consultation of four parties: the government, the private sector, knowledge institutes and civil society.
"What Vietnam needs is a comprehensive strategy for different parties from central to provincial level, to work together in the sector. To organise such co-ordination well is not easy," she said. — VNS


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Cognitive psychology 2
[5 abstracts]
1. Can Evolutionary Psychology be revived? - A solid epistemological endeavour [presentation, ptx, 137 kB]
Suessenbacher G.
University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria
Evolutionary Psychology (EP) has been both welcomed because of its promise to reveal the basic structure of the mind as well as profoundly criticized in many ways (e.g. Buller, 2007; and many others). This talk tries (a) to look for some possible onsets of amendments and (b) to present an exemplary model which might serve as a starter for some restructuring endeavours of EP. Ad (a): If only EP renounced its effort to search for Human Nature, a genuine evolutionary investigation seems possible. Such change had to define the scientific aim of EPs research in a new way; however, EP would have very much to count on evolutionary Neuroscience. Ad (b): Taking the question of energy into account when looking at the evolutionary adaptions of the Genus Homo, many semiotic and symbolic (cultural) perspectives become attractive - the very first being the view of the step from australopithecine subsistence to early human existence by inventing and evaluate the use of fire. This talk will present an attempt, the Hot-Interference-&-Symbolic-Transformation Model (HIST) which gathers important features of this topic in order to offer an opportunity for EP to innovatively relate its reconstruction to the current design of the mind. This can be done by stressing the reticular features of antagonist (sub-neocortical versus neo-cortical) loci of control as well as of the polarities of the human mind: The channeling characteristics of which as well as of its substrate (the brain) presumably never did change since the beginning. Nevertheless, their perturbation initiated the start of recursion as an internal neural problem-solver.
2. Adult theory of mind, cooperation, Machiavellianism, sensitivity to punishment and reward: the effect of mindreading on social relations
Paál T., Bereczkei T.
First author's affiliation: Institute of Psychology, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
Theory of mind – the ability to attribute independent mental states and processes to others – plays an important role in our social lives. First, it facilitates social cooperation, and second, it enables us to manipulate others in order to reach our own goals. In two subsequent studies, we have analyzed some basic aspects of the complex relationship between adult theory of mind and social behavior that had not been researched in depth so far. Our results show 1) a strong negative correlation between Machiavellianism and social cooperative skills; 2) a connection between the extent of cooperative tendency and the level of mindreading; 3) a positive correlation between Machiavellianism and sensitivity to reward; and 4) a lack of significant correlation between theory of mind and Machiavellianism. For the interpretation of the results – especially for our fourth finding – we used the concepts of "hot" and "cold" empathy and the lack of representation of moral emotions. Finally, we have started to explore the effects of theory of mind and Machiavellianism on life-like situations by using various games developed within the game theory paradigm.
3. Problem solving deficits and smaller social network in persons treated for alcoholic liver disease [presentation, ppt, 634 kB]
Zorko M., Roškar S., Bucik V., Jeriček H., Čebašek Travnik Z., Kocijančič B., Štabuc B.
First author's affiliation: Institute of Public Health of the Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Contemporary research highlights the importance of cognitive functions and availability of social support in the development of alcohol dependence syndrome. Cognitive deficits, specific features of perceived social support, and high prevalence of depression were found in alcohol-dependent persons treated for alcohol dependence by psychiatrists. On the other hand, the population of people treated for alcoholic liver disease in gastroenterology departments has seldom been investigated. The aim of our study was to investigate the prevalence of depression, problem-solving, and perceived social support in persons with alcoholic liver disease (N = 42) as compared to those with non-alcoholic liver disease (N = 9) and hospital controls (N = 31). AUDIT-10, Beck Depression Inventory, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, Means-ends Problem Solving Test and Perceived Social Support Questionnaire were used. The hypothesis that persons with alcoholic liver disease would show more signs and symptoms of depression as compared to the other two groups was not confirmed. Compared to hospital controls, persons with alcoholic and non-alcoholic liver disease showed decreased cognitive flexibility and deficits in problem solving. Moreover, the group with alcoholic liver disease showed deficits in interpersonal problem solving, which were evident in the phase of generating alternative solutions to the problem. In this group, no correlations between the level of harmful drinking, severity of liver cirrhosis and cognitive deficits were found. Persons with alcoholic liver disease had a smaller social network, while no differences between the groups were found regarding satisfaction with support and other examined social network characteristics. We conclude that psychosocial interventions aimed at persons treated for alcoholic liver disease in gastroenterology departments should focus on teaching effective problem-solving techniques, strengthening supportive network ties and encouraging people to use alternative sources of support.
4. Cognitive features of suicidal and depressed individuals
Roskar S., Zorko M., Repovs G., Bucik V., Marusic A.
First author's affiliation: Institute of Public health of the Republic Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Problem solving deficiencies, attentional bias and reduced anticipation of positive events in the future are regarded as cognitive features which can trigger feelings of hopelessness and subsequently suicidal behaviour. The main objective of the study was to evaluate these attributes and to determine whether these cognitive changes improve over time. Three samples of participants were recruited: individuals after suicide attempt (all diagnosed with depressive disorder), individuals with depressive disorder (no suicide attempt), and healthy volunteers. Each participant was interviewed (for personal and family psychiatric history) and individually tested with neuropsychological tests. Beck Hopelessness Scale was applied to determine the rate of hopelessness. All measures were obtained from participants (except from healthy volunteers) shortly after admission and again 8 weeks later in order to assess cognitive changes over time. Results indicate that suicide attempters and depressed individuals are less efficient problem solvers and exhibit greater levels of hopelessness compared to healthy controls. No differences regarding attentional bias were found between the groups. Among all groups, the biggest lack of future positive events anticipation was exhibited by depressed individuals, in particular depressed individuals with suicide ideation. The later group also scored highest on levels of hopelessness. Except for changes in feelings of hopelessness which decreased over time, no differences in cognitive functions were observed between baseline and retesting. Revealed cognitive features are very likely to be involved in the development of the suicidal process. This particularly holds for feelings of hopelessness and reduced anticipation of positive life events.
5. Psychoacoustic aspects on the speed in the performance of melodies
Bisesi E., Vicario G.
First author's affiliation: Università di Udine, Udine, Italy
As anyone knows, performed melodies have to span into a certain speed range. At the same time, it is a fact that musicians base their interpretation just on the possibility of selecting any other velocity within that range, provided that their choice allows to preserve the required expressive content. We tested the effect of different acoustical, musical and structural features of a given melody on the suitability of the chosen speed. Experimental stimuli were seven classical musical pieces differing in musical structure, articulation (legato versus staccato), and phrasing (accelerando versus rallentando). Fourteen trained music students served as subjects. Constant stimuli method was applied in submitting trials varying in speed. Preliminary observations showed the influence of musical structure on the performing velocity, in agreement with previous studies on perceptual grouping (Fraisse, 1956). At the same time, adding expressive (agogical) elements widens the range of possible performing speeds.


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School children are increasingly under pressure (e.g., documentary on pressures). However, in contrast to this trend, we also see movements in other directions (e.g., student-ruled schools, teacher-training by students, new free school). As we believe that intrinsic motivation (e.g., our blog entry) is the key to learning of practically anything, we acknowledge the important of freedom in schools.
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55printing.com announced that their Every Door Direct Mail (EDDM) printing provider is actually one of the top three supplied by the company. Based on the company's research staff, EDDM printing is one of the common solutions preferred by online, local, small and big people. Through they, they are able to print advertising leaflets, flyers, catalogs and postcards before circulating all of them through the U.S. Postal Service's EDDM program. As a result, businesses can focus on consumers within their vicinity and experience the many benefits of print advertisements, which include including a personal touch, guaranteeing exposure, and guaranteeing greater results than marketing with email.
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Third Grade Pie Day
Dear Parents,
On Tuesday, November 22 our third grade will be having "Pie Day" in the afternoon to celebrate Thanksgiving. The kids voted on their favorite pies. If you would be willing to donate an item, please let me know. I appreciate your support.
• Pumpkin Pie
• Apple Pie
• Chocolate Pie
• Key Lime Pie
• Whipped Cream
• Apple Cider
• 30 Napkins
• 30 Forks
• 30 Small Plates
• 30 Paper Cups
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First, the official film of the London 2012 Olympic games, has released a trailer.
The documentary tracks the fortunes of 12 first-time Olympians as they compete in the summer games.
800 metre runner David Rudisha, cyclist Laura Trott, boxer Katie Taylor and US swimmer Missy Franklin are among the athletes featured in the film, which is directed by Caroline Rowland.
First will screen in cinemas on Friday, November 23 before heading to DVD, Blu-ray, digital download and on-demand from November 26.
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i feel numb
she was so important to me as a child
I always quite liked her
this was two hours ago :|
is there an article confirming?
Read an article recently where she was saying the people of gaza deserve to die, remember think it was a bit rich for her to be talking about people that should be dead.
lol i didn't hear about this originally
on reflection, i'm glad she's dead
especially if they're not posted in the right place !!!desertshore and j0hn this'd this
aye, what she really said was
"Oh my God! Tell that to the people in Hiroshima, When you declare war, you declare war. They started it. We now don't count who's dead. You're dead, you deserve to be dead. Don't you dare make me feel bad about that."
"They were told to get out. They didn't get out. You don't get out, you are an idiot. At least the ones that were killed were the ones with low IQs....NOT!"
classic bit o' comedy
Lets melt her down into Lego for the
Palestine children to play with
Seemed to make a career out of belittling other celebrities appearances
perhaps I missed the good stuff
Died doing what she loved...
...having surgery
I feel so sad now
Going to play some of my dvds of her doing whatever it was she did.
RIP Jean
was she famous and horrible before she was old
or did she just get famous for being a horrible old person?
rip manky old lady.
she wasn't very nice
but she was way off the Thatcher threshold. rest in peace and all that.desertshore this'd this
yeah i literally had no idea she was a bit of a cunt tbh
But yeah I'm not going to be happy about an old woman dyingincandenza_ and marilyninthesky this'd this
always seemed edgy
but I only ever saw her in stand-up. assumed she was just super-harsh on men (fine with that) and her own vagina.
In recent years she also made a habit of defending homophobes.
Which is a bit odd, given how much of a gay icon she was.
actually, that rings a bell
as for that nasty anti-Palestine comments, I've known a few otherwise lovely Israelis who would turn on a dime when it came to that subject.
I surmise that there's an ingrained violent defensiveness tied into the regional religious hostility that permeates even otherwise reasonable people.
I fucking surmise, jesus. sorry. like that isn't the most obvious deduction.
i had to imdb her to check if she's been in anything i know
top hit for me: played herself in an episode of curb. know the name like, but don't think i've really ever seen her in anything.
- blimeycharlie this'd this
weird to see people defending people who say an ethnic cleansing is deserved.
Genuinely really upset about this
She was one of the funniest comedians of the last century and genuinely paved the way for women/gays in popular culture.
The context around her Palestinian outburst was that journalists kept asking her "as a Jew" what do you think about Gaza. No excuse really for what she said, but it's an explanation at least. Besides, that bitch insulted EVERYONE, living or dead, so it's important to try and keep it in perspective.
I like that she would most likely be laughing at all the jokes about her death if she could somehow see them.
Anyway, watch the last 10 minutes of her comedy Roast. It's perfection.
RIP Joan
"no excuse really....heres an excuse"
Weird comparing this thread to, say, the Robin Williams one.
Great stuff, girls.
Never one to name drop... but...
I've met her and loads of other famous people too!
I liked joan rivers
like many have mentioned she blazed a trail and her acerbic wit made me laugh many times.
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The 2010 documentary about her is legitimately really fucking good
Kind of fascinated by her and a bit sad but very conflicted as she was obviously a pretty dreadful person in a lot of ways.Severed799 this'd this


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'Many PSL teams are in danger'
Posted: 7 March 2018 Time: 11:30
Bloemfontein Celtic assistant coach Lehlohonolo Seema feels many teams can be considered relegation candidates this season.
Celtic are up against Polokwane City at Dr Molemela Stadium tonight with both sides looking to ease their survival concerns in what has been an especially competitive 2017/18 Premiership campaign.
Phunya Sele Sele, who won the reverse tie 2-1 in Limpopo, are in less danger in ninth place on the table with 29 points from 22 games. However, they are only five points above the drop zone.
City are hovering above the dreaded line on goal difference with 24 points from 22 matches. Ajax Cape Town have 24 points from as many games, while bottom-placed Platinum Stars have 17 points from 23 fixtures.
"As much as we can call them relegation candidates you can see we are all bound to be," Seema tells KickOff.com.
"That's what is making each and every game count. It's a six-pointer for both teams because if you see any team that will lose today is gonna be in big trouble, they will also get pulled down to the relegation zone.
"So for us Polokwane is a difficult team as always. They always play entertaining football and you can see how they got back in the game that we all thought they have already lost against Arrows [2-2 draw]. You can see the fight they have in them, it's a team that no matter whether they are away from home they always put out their A-game.
"So for us it's to make sure that we maintain the clean sheet because it's the most important thing that we are looking for. It's important that we don't concede because then we'll know that we have a good chance of winning the game.
"We don't have injuries from the previous match [1-0 win over Ajax], because this is where injuries and yellow cards can come into play and destabilise you.
"As for the top right spot we are not looking at it, we are looking at this three points and see after the result of today what will happen. We are not putting ourselves under pressure to be in the top eight by the end of today."
Kick-off is at 19h30.
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Cyclemania is a somewhat unique experiment in its utilization of full motion video technology. Over the years, only a handful of games used live action motion-video backdrop as a basis for its interaction. Most prominently we had various rail shooters made by American Laser Games, but if we speak about racing games, for PC I remember only two games that used real video backdrop as background. First being Cyclemania in 1994 and second was Touring Car Champions from 1997.
Cyclemania was made by Compro games, an Isreali-based company that utilized FMV technologies to the certain degree in each of their games. As realistic 3D rendering of an entire scene was not possible at a time of development they decided to use a combination of video for the backdrop and 2D sprites for objects. There were few major blockers that the guys from Compro had to overcome in order to adopt this technology. At the time, CD-Rom seek times were very bad (single speed CD-Roms were able to transfer about 150kb/sec) so video had to be heavily compressed. Keeping in mind variable speeds of the bike the video compression technology also had to support playback at variable speeds. And on top of all that, each frame of the video had to be mapped so the game knew where is the road. In order to achieve that, Compro employed a bunch of high-school kids to manually map thousands of video frames. Over the course of the production, some of these kids also helped with testing of the game. Apart from using the real video footage as the backdrop, the game also contained small FMV video clips (when the player crashed) and photos, all provided by the magazine MOTO.
"Shotting the video for the roads was both challenging and fun. With both myself and the main programmer of the game, both being avid sports bikers, we knew some of the best roads to shoot. The challenge was to find the roads free of cars and to mount the camera properly so that it was steady enough."
Ronnie Yaron, producer and game creator, about the development of Cyclemania.
The game itself is in today's view quite an arcadish. It was never meant to be a high simulation and it certainly doesn't take itself too seriously. Who would, when the drivers you can choose from are named "Rubber Mama" or "Crazy Willy"? After each race, you are rewarded with cash. Cash can be used to buy parts and tune your bike and so on. Each track is filled with ongoing traffic, planes flying over your head or cows standing in your way. Cows were also a significant part of marketing campaign this game had (see magazine ad on the right side). Not to forget there is also interesting MOD music made by Amir Glinik who also worked on game graphics (you can listen to a sample of the soundtrack here). Music was written on Amiga and programmers used the converter to make it available for PC. Amir also worked on bike models by using 3D Studio 3.0 and Autodesk Animator Pro on his Pentium 90. Later he also contributed to Surface Tension, another game Compro produced but left the company soon after that. He does not work in gaming industry anymore but after years, he returned to motorbike modelling. He spent last 10 years on project telling the history of Harley-Davidson through highly detailed CGI models (you can find them at www.3d-files.co.il). He remembers how the team working on the Cyclemania was full of bright, young, albeit maybe at a time bit naive guys. The sense of teamwork and creative spirit at Compro was something he didn't felt to such degree in his later professional career.
Cyclemania is, unfortunately, bit forgotten as the year 1994 was very strong for racing games. It was the year Need for Speed franchise got born, a great remake of Road Rash was released and we got ultra realistic Nascar Racing. Cyclemania might look unpolished in comparison to these titles, but we must keep in mind these titles were done with much higher budgets with teams three or four times as big as the size of Compro team. Bottom line is, Compro games made great use of FMV technology and later tried to build upon it in Soul Hunt. But that is a story for another time.
I would like to thank Ronnie Yaron and Amir Glinik for providing the answers regarding the production of the game.


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We were invited along yesterday to the launch of Santa's Cove at Braehead Shopping Centre, just outside Glasgow.
Santa's Cove promises to be an ultimate Christmas family experience, so I thought I'd share our visit for those of you considering booking a trip to Santa in and around Glasgow this year…
Once we had finished our decorations we visited the Elves Canteen where Mrs Claus was serving up cups of hot chocolate and marshmallows and mince pies to our thirsty little helpers. Our next stop was the Naughty Or Nice Machine, which reads the minds of the kids with a reindeer helmet, and a display shows if they have been naughty or nice. If they are nice they are rewarded with some candy. Finally, it was time to visit Santa himself in his igloo. Each family gets to visit Santa in private, with time to take photos, and there is an elf on hand to take a picture that is printed out for you to take home, along with a naughty or nice certificate for the children.
My girls had brought some pictures that they had coloured in especially for Santa, and were thrilled when he announced he would keep them in his sleigh. The children also got a gift from Santa before it was time to say our Goodbyes. We spent an hour and a half at Santa's Cove. All the "rooms" are within one big heated tent, and the only areas we had to queue for were Santa's Sleigh Ride and to meet Santa himself.
There were just a few things that could have improved the experience for us…
A cloakroom to store visitors' coats and bags would be really helpful, so parents aren't left carrying around all the family's jackets and belongings.
We thought the gifts from Santa were a decent quality, however a little bit more thought on what is age appropriate would be better.
Finally, we felt the quality and composition of the printed photo could have been improved.
We thoroughly enjoyed our trip to Santa's Cove, and most importantly the girls had a great experience, with lots of activities to entertain them, and for them to participate in. All of the staff were lovely with the kids, and Santa himself was perfect, and looked very authentic.
Santa's Cove is running from November 11 2017 to December 24 2017, 9am to 9pm. For more details and for bookings visit www.santascove.co.uk
They also have a Facebook page page for more information.
I was offered free passes to Santa's Cove for the purpose of this review. As always all opinions are honest and my own!


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Beaver edges Lakers 1-0 in Class 2A match.
The Beaver boys soccer team came out with an aggressive game plan on Tuesday.
Mercyhurst Prep withstood the pressure, but the Lakers couldn't get on the scoreboard.
Zach Bowser scored with 29 minutes left to lift Beaver to a 1-0 win over Mercyhurst Prep in a Class 2A first-round boys soccer match at Dollinger Field.
"We expected them to come out and move the ball and create chances," said Mercyhurst Prep coach Doug Bakka. "We had a few chances that we didn't relax on and convert. In the end, they deserved it. We will learn from this and hopefully take a step forward next year."
Beaver (10-9-3) moves on to the PIAA quarterfinals on Saturday, while Mercyhurst Prep ended the season at 17-4-1.
The Bobcats and Lakers traded opportunities in a fast-paced first half, but both keepers stood tall.
Bowser finally broke through when he converted off a pass from Jacob Miller.
"This was a hard-fought game, and Mercyhurst Prep has a really good team," said Beaver coach Scott Hazuda. "We knew we would have our hands full, and someone would have to step up and score a goal. Fortunately, we were the ones to get that winning goal."
Mercyhurst Prep turned up the pressure in the second half, but senior Daniel Hughes continued to make key stops and keep the Lakers out of the net.
"Whenever you play an unfamiliar opponent, the idea is to start strong and get a mental edge," Hazuda said. "We haven't always gotten off to good starts this year, but we told the guys we had to on the way up."
Mercyhurst Prep won 17 matches this season, including the Region 3 title and their third straight District 10 championship.
"I told the seniors that I was proud of them," Bakka said. "They won three D-10 titles, and I was proud of their effort. This wasn't our best game. I'll be honest, we picked a bad time to play poor, but Beaver played a good game. I think the important thing is the younger guys learning from this experience. The older guys have build a special culture at Mercyhurst Prep where they make the younger guys feel like a part of the team. We need to keep building on this next year."
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If eating those tacks is actually looking pretty appealing in comparison, you could have Social Anxiety Disorder, the third most common mental health condition in the United States.
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Social Anxiety Disorder is more than just episodic shyness. It's normal to feel butterflies dancing in your stomach immediately before speaking in public, or when you're nervous about tanking a first date. But when social anxiety becomes immobilizing—you'd rather accept a failing grade than present a project in lecture OR your fear of humiliation causes you to cancel that date prematurely—then, Social Anxiety Disorder could be the culprit.
What Are The Signs & Symptoms Of Social Anxiety Disorder?
Social Anxiety Disorder encompasses a cluster of symptoms that are both behavioral (e.g. avoidance of stressful situations) and physiological (e.g. clammy palms or an upset stomach). These symptoms may include
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- Catastrophizing & Apologizing: Catastrophizing about worst case scenarios in social situations; over-apologizing for perceived faults or reflexively living by the mantra of "I'm Sorry!"—when you've done nothing wrong; seeking constant reassurance from loved ones in social settings
- Panic Attacks: Simmering anxiety that erupts into full-blown panic (a sudden skyrocketing in heart rate or blood pressure, sweaty palms, trembling, lightheadedness, shortness of breath, or nausea; intense fear of losing control or of dying; feelings of numbness or detachment from reality, etc.)
- Physical indicators: Nervous "butterflies" in the stomach; abdominal cramping or diarrhea; sweating or blushing profusely; a quavering voice or stuttering; increased clumsiness
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Social Anxiety Disorder is an American epidemic. A confluence of risk factors—rather than a single, discrete cause—often contributes to the development of this condition. These risk factors often include:
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On Permadeath & the Magic Circle
by tommy.rousse
UPDATE: The link to the full-text article was originally incorrect. You can download the paper here.
In the twilight of last year, I re-read Caillois and Huizinga. I concluded that people had been too hard on Huizinga and largely ignored what's interesting about Caillois, but I also can't shake the feeling that neither writer has been treated to a first-rate English translation. I went in a Caillois-lover and a Huizinga-skeptic; I left disappointed in Caillois, having originally learned about him in a class devoted to the ultraleft avant-garde art/political fringe and subsequently hoping for a Marxism that wasn't present. But I have a new faith in Huizinga, whose thought has an imagination and complexity given short shrift by dismissive game studies scholars who endlessly retread the same hoary quotes from the first twenty pages of the book again and again while other passages wait like precious ore as yet unearthed from shallow ground.
When I set about writing my final paper for Foundations of Play & Games, H. & C. were still sharp in my mind. In truth, their recent treatment by many games scholars left a bad taste in my mouth. My first experience with the assault against the Magic Circle came at the last State of Play Conference, which was my first glimpse of games academia. I had just read Huizinga, and while I don't remember the specifics of "Beyond the Magic Circle," I recall multiple panelists admitted to never having read Huizinga. At the time, I was too untutored to have known anything about Salen & Zimmerman's Rules of Play.
Eric Zimmerman has finally had enough of being the whipping boy of junior game studies academics. In one of the most hilarious ripostes to ever ring through the ivory tower, dare I say the Internet, Zimmerman beats off his numerous assailants with a quiver full of zingers and base punnery. Railing against the "magic circle jerk,"1 Zimmerman lays to rest the boogie man of the strict absolutist adherent to the magic circle. The list of scholars chided includes a list that reads not unlike the faculty roster at ITU's Center for Computer Games Research. The practice of bashing a straw man magic circle argument has become so commonplace that Zimmerman identifies it as a game studies rite of passage. In my Foundations paper, I pass through that particular stage, although I turn out to be a rare defender of the magic circle. I think my thought lines up pretty well with Zimmerman's. That excerpt follows John William Waterhouse's The Magic Circle, below.
I've uploaded the entirety of the essay, On Permadeath: the State of Death in the Age of Electronic Resurrection, to SSRN as a working paper. It was docked points by the course's censor for not being "scientific" enough, from what I understand. So be it. I set out to write an essay: exploratory, speculative, informed by personal experience, and (I thought appropriately) foundational. I thought it was well within the methodology and spirit of the reading list. In lieu of a unified thesis, it provides original scholarship on the magic circle and Benjamin's aura, an analytical definition of permadeath, and an application of Caillois beyond a simple description of the four play-elements. Please forgive a little vanity and defensiveness—such are the perils of an affective method, where one might feel that not only his intellectual progeny has been spurned, but the self intimately involved in its construction.
I plan to convert the essay into a paper for an academic audience; there's very little written on permadeath & I am still convinced it is a peculiar phenomena with astounding critical leverage into player investment and emotion. If anyone would be interested in revising this paper or offering feedback, I'd be more than happy to return the favor on another paper.
Unavoidably, our inquiry turns to Huizinga's idea of play as a "magic circle," a conception of play and games that put them at an admittedly nebulous if not numinous remove from ordinary life. The magic circle has certainly been problematized, and many cogent criticisms have been made of it. From that host of criticisms, however, I roundly reject any conception of the magic circle as an absolutist divide between play and everyday life. In short, pointing out that the magic circle is not inviolable is simply not sufficient grounds to reject it. Certainly, Caillois builds upon the notion of play as separate from everyday life while also documenting its "corruption" by contact with the everyday. The central thesis of Homo Ludens—that play suffuses all of culture and serves as its origin—is in obvious conflict with any conception of the magic circle too feeble to account for this bold claim. Consider Huizinga: "The great archetypal activities of human society are all permeated with play from the start." The view of a completely separate magic circle is untenable. One is tempted to resolve the inconsistency by declaring all spheres of human activity as variants of a central play-theme, a claim that Huizinga himself flirts with. But as meaning is created by difference, changing our definition of play to be wholly universal would render it meaningless. Resolving this contradiction is beyond the scope of this paper. We must instead heed Huizinga's words: "The attempt to assess the play-content in the confusion of modern life is bound to lead us to contradictory conclusions."
Rather than fret over the metaphysical nature of the magic circle, we might more productively think of it as an imaginative stance undertaken by the player, or even as an ideal type of engagement frequently sullied by the intrusion of reality. From a sociological point of view, we may follow the lead of Gary Alan Fine's Shared Fantasy and think of play experiences as one of many frames, as identified by Goffman. This conception is particularly useful insofar as it posits a differentiation of the self in the form of the "face" or social presentation in different frames. To accept this usage, we do not need to resort to essentialist conceptions of the magic circle. If we can accept that many players do perceive gameplay as being distinct and separate from practical life, we can still put the magic circle to analytical use.
—On Permadeath, pgs. 7-8, citations omitted.
- N.B. game studies sees what will forever be known as the magic circle jerk as one of the foremost debates in the field without scratching the term's disambiguation page on Wikipedia. ↩


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Yeshivat Keter Torah has formally merged its Lakewood school with its Deal branch after the Lakewood mosad was forced to close its doors due to a financial shortfall, as reported here on Matzav.com yesterday.
The difficult decision was made by the rosh yeshiva and founder of Yeshivat Keter Torah, Rabbi Mordechai Dabbah, after consultation with Rav Matisyahu Salomon, among others.
Those Keter Torah students wishing to attend the Deal branch have been enrolled there. Those Lakewood parents who wish to keep their children local are being assisted by Yeshivat Keter Torah, and specifically the dedicated menahel Rabbi Tzvi Zev Schwartz, in placing their children in other elementary boys schools in Lakewood.
The closure has affected approximately 150 boys.
It is not yet clear what the future holds for the Lakewood campus of Yeshivat Keter Torah located on Appolo Road.
The dire pecuniary state of Lakewood's Yeshiva Bais Hatorah has not yet been resolved. 400 students of that school were displaced following a decision last week not to open the mosad until and unless a responsible budget is formulated.
{Matzav.com Newscenter}


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He had a three by five photograph, that was taken of them many years ago, that he had treasured.
Although he had many photographs of her, this particular photo meant much more to him.
Before he knew about Your Precious Portraits, he paid to have the section of the photograph of his wife enlarged as you see here and framed. But with older photos you can only enlarge so much before you loose detail.
The photo was cropped, retouched, enlarged to 8" X 10", matted and framed. He paid $400 for the work done to create the 8" X 10" photo. Needless to say he was very disappointed.
So from an image no larger than half the size of three by five photo, Norm went to work.
For the same investment, Mr Lowry got a painting!
For us we got to meet with a wonderful man who loves his wife and misses her dearly. We got to hear his story about the love his wife and the wonderful woman she was.
Thank you Ernie, for telling your story and giving us the opportunity to do this painting.
For a closer look of the painting click here.
For a closer look of the painting click here.


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This Swedish band seems to be the first to do justice to surf instrumentals, while their countrymen focus on California beach music a la the Beach Boys and Jan & Dean. This advance disc is loaded with very strong originals that conjure images of the outdoors, and covers that are uniquely arranged and performed. In this day of too many covers of tunes like Penetration, it's nice to find original reinventions that are at once reverent to the source and identifiably new. Much of the guitar work here is nearly liquid, not reverbed surf, but fluidly flowing, with notes almost blending one to another. I'm impressed.
Langhorns started playing in the summer of 1995 as a result of the band members irresistible urge to do at least something right with their lives.
The original members were Michael Sellers, guitar and Martin Berglund,
bass guitar. After a couple of rehearsals they decided it was time to do what many rock musicians find the hardest - to find a drummer that not only could play the drums, but was a nice guy also. They ended up with a compromise - Rikard Swardh.
After playing surf-instrumentals at various clubs and parties Langhorns went into the legendary studio "Studion" two days summer 1997, assisted by producer Magnus Borjesson and technician Martin Hennel. This resulted in the debut "Langhorns", released feb 28 - 1998 on Bad Taste Records. It was followed up by gigs all around Sweden (ok, southern Sweden) and in June the band played at Hultsfredsfestivalen.
Since the release people are slowly but surely realizing the thrill of listening to the CD - stuffed with good vibrations and both old and new waves.
The second album "Club Gabardino" was completed during spring 1999 and
is now available for demanding music lovers around the Globe. "Club Gabardino" recorded May 16-18 this time produced by Michael Sellers and Martin Hennel features a new approach to the genre, best described as "Latino Pimp Twang".
It contains 13 original tracks and one cover and you will be surprised to hear that the sound of Langhorns now has reached totally new dimensions. The original dry reverbed delay sound that used to be the trademark of the band is now spiced up with a sweaty horn section and teasing wah wah guitars.
1. Tierra Del Fuego
2. Penetration
3. Mother Of Earth
4. Buccaneer
5. Sinner
6. El Guapo
7. Knuckleduster
8. Squad Car
9. John Doe
10. Quiet Surf
11. Latinia
12. Awesome
13. Langhorn
14. Poker
15. Eternal Wave
16. Pretty Please
Michael Sellers - Guitar
Rikard Swärdh - Drums
Martin Berglund - Bass
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ORLANDO -- Cancerous skin lesions began to shrink almost immediately in patients treated with an investigational hedgehog pathway inhibitor, which also prevented the formation of new lesions in basal cell nevus syndrome.
Patients treated with GDC-0449 developed virtually no new basal cell cancers during three months of follow-up, whereas almost two new lesions arose in patients treated with placebo (P<0.0001).
The mean aggregate lesion size declined by 24 cm during treatment with the targeted therapy compared with 3 cm in the placebo group (P=0.006), according to a presentation here at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) meeting.
"There is an immediate diminution that you can see after one or two months of treatment," Ervin H. Epstein Jr., MD, of Children's Hospital of Oakland Research Institute, said during an AACR press briefing. "Almost all of the lesions vanished within six months, and none of the lesions developed resistance to the drug."
The clinical efficacy came at a price of considerable toxicity that included loss of taste, weight loss, and muscle cramps, which 20% of patients treated with GDC-0449 found they could not tolerate and dropped out of the study.
"The drug will probably be tolerable for motivated patients with basal cell nevus syndrome and many skin lesions, but not for the more typical sporadic basal cell carcinoma patient who often has a single lesion," said Epstein.
Basal cell carcinoma is the most common cancer in the U.S., affecting an estimated one million people. Individuals of European origin have as much as a 30% lifetime risk of the disease.
The condition rarely metastasizes, but some lesions can cause unsightly cosmetic effects.
In 1996 researchers led by Epstein identified the mutation in the PTCH gene that causes basal cell carcinoma. PTCH encodes a key inhibitor of the hedgehog signaling pathway. The discovery subsequently led to the development of GDC-0449.
Epstein reported findings from a small randomized trial involving patients with basal cell nevus syndrome, an inherited condition leading to hundreds of cancerous skin lesions in affected individuals. Investigators chose that patient population to facilitate a definitive outcome quickly in a small number of patients.
Patients were randomized 2:1 to daily treatment with the oral hedgehog pathway inhibitor or placebo. The primary outcome was the number of new surgically eligible lesions after three months of treatment. Secondary endpoints included the change in aggregate size of existing lesions and the safety and tolerability of the drug.
The analysis comprised 36 patients who had been followed for more than a month. The mean number of new surgically eligible lesions was 0.07 in the GDC-0449 arm and 1.75 in the placebo group.
Patients randomized to active therapy had almost a 200-mm mean decrease in the size of existing surgically eligible lesions. In contrast, patients in the placebo group had no change in the size of such lesions (P<0.001).
The most common grade 1-2 adverse events occurred substantially more often in patients treated with GDC-0449: loss of taste (83% versus 8%), muscle cramps (67% versus 8%), and weight loss (50% versus 8%). Two patients on active treatment had grade 3-4 adverse events (muscle cramps, attempted suicide).
Among 23 patients with lesion samples available for molecular analysis, treatment with GDC-0449 was associated with on-target reduction in hedgehog pathway signaling, reflected in a 200-fold decrease in levels of Gli1 mRNA compared with placebo (P<0.001).
Treatment with GDC-0449 also was associated with a reduction in levels of the proliferation marker Ki-67 but not the apoptosis marker CC3.
Epstein said additional studies are required to determine the long-term adverse effects of treatment with GDC-0449 and to determine whether the frequency of adverse effects can be reduced by alternative dosing strategies, such as intermittent dosing.
The study was supported by Genentech, and investigators in the trial included Genentech employees.
- Reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner


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Caring for old and disabled chickens is a much neglected, yet important topic.
I'm proud to say that last summer we covered the story or three incredible disabled chickens: Sparkle, Zinnia and Myrtle.
Since publishing the article I regularly receive comments and emails from people who want to hear about Zinnia's progress and how she's doing.
So I decided to reach out to Megan and invite her onto my blog so she can tell Zinnia's story.
I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did.
So without further ado, over to Megan.
In everyone's life you'll have a few chickens that will change the way you see the world. I've been lucky enough to have two. There isn't a success story about Zinnia without the love and loss of my first house chicken Ginny- which is where it all started.
Ginny was a sassy Buff Orpington Easter Egger mix that I received as a housewarming gift from a friend in January 2015. Ginny was always sick. My vet, Dr. Shannon, realized that Ginny was a coccidia carrier. After doing every treatment we could find we realized that her immune system was compromised. Sadly, one morning she succumbed to her illness unexpectedly. Ginny was only with us for 8 months. In that short time she attended farmers' markets and showed our community how loving a chicken can be. Because of Ginny, my vet and I built a strong relationship. Most importantly, she taught me how to care for these very special animals.
After Ginny died, I began to experience Compassion Fatigue. Compassion Fatigue is something we experience when we have a sick animal. You become so focused on their healing, emotions, and needs that you forget about you for the length of the illness or longer. Simply put, caring too much can hurt your heart and head.
That's how Zinnia came to be. Some people battle compassion fatigue by taking time to themselves. What I did to combat compassion fatigue was spend time away from the internet and spend time with friends who weren't as passionate about animals as I am because I needed balance and a break. I needed to be reminded what life is like without the burden of caring for a sick creature. However, after a short break, I was offered a new creature who required my time, love, and attention. Just as when Ginny was sick, I devoted my whole being to Zinnia.
A week after Ginny passed, Zinnia was offered to me from a friend on Facebook who saw my pain from losing Ginny. That evening I chatted with her hatch mom. She was a perfect match for my house and heart. My close chicken friends and I got goose bumps when we learned more and more about Zinnia, a 12 week old frizzled bantam golden laced polish; she was coming from Long Island and her brother was going to another friend of mine. Originally we thought Zinnia was born with spraddle leg. That is a condition that happens while she's hatching that causes her legs to not "set" properly. In her case it affected her right leg. Her hatch mom tried to fix it but between her stubborn nature and a rambunctious brother she never really healed and the condition settled in.
In our hearts we came to the conclusion that Ginny had her time here and she knew that there was another special girl that needed her momma. Was it meant to be? Simply, yes. You can't take care of special needs animals without being able to pay attention to what the universe has to offer and listening to the animals; what I like to call being a Doolittle. My house is magic to all the animals that enter it. Amazing, unexpected things just happen here, you'll understand in a bit why I say this.
The days leading up to meeting my new girl were agony; I got updates and pictures from her hatch mom daily. On Oct 18th I met her! I met my new puffy head peanut. She was so small and delicate. Her name definitely suited her. Zinnia had her first of many shopping trips to come and we spent the day in bed watching TV. This little girl fit right in as if she was here all along. We knew that Zinnia needed nearly around the clock care because she couldn't reach her food and water dishes like other chickens can. We tried raised bowls but she'd always manage to spill them somehow. We decided that she would eat with me.
Zinnia and I ate and slept together right from the start. In those first few days with her I was building the foundation of a trusting relationship with my best friend. Within a week she went to see Dr. Shannon for a checkup. Zinnia was so well behaved during the examination with her. At that first vet visit, we discovered that she had many more leg and health problems than I had realized. Dr. Shannon said there was a good chance she had a dislocated hip. But what scared me most was that Zinnia had a bump on her hip that came up with possible cancer cells (spindle cells). Dr. Shannon asked us to return the following week for a full work-up.
When we got home from seeing Dr. Shannon, my father and I began figuring out a physical therapy plan for Zinnia at home. We massaged her legs and created non-slip areas that were safe for her to walk on. During that first week she lost more use of her right leg and we thought she was having circulation problems; luckily her bump was decreasing in size. We returned the following week after being gifted help with the vet bills from some very special friends. Because the bump decreased in size our focus now went to, "Why was her walking worsening and her circulation in her leg being affected?" When Dr. Shannon and I reviewed the x-rays, we realized it could be a far greater problem in her hip beyond her expertise.
Dr. Shannon prescribed metacam for a week for the possible pain and inflammation Zinnia might have and referred us to an avian specialist vet.
The next day we went to see an avian specialist. After x-rays, we finally received an official diagnosis. Zinnia had a dislocated right hip which could have been caused by a birth defect or injury when she was a chick. The bump could be from trauma (spindle cells appear during inflammation too). Her femur was already remodeled so that surgery was not an option. Her prognosis to walk was not looking good. I was relieved that surgery was not recommended, knowing that it was expensive, would risk her life, and would have very uncertain outcomes. However, I knew the path ahead would not be easy for either of us.
Now that we knew the root of Zinnia's leg problem, we went to work on helping her mobility improve. Through Facebook, I learned about wheelchairs and shoes that had helped other chickens. My dad built Zinnia a mobility chair. I ordered a custom chicken diaper, and custom shoes. What was extraordinary and was noted by both vets is that she began to adapt by using her neck as a leg to pull her up and use her wings in different ways as her leg began to decrease in mobility. It was as if she was a little monkey. My every waking moment at home revolved around her needs. I made her a small dog bed where she'd sleep with me. We would get up early so I could tend to my outside flock, then I would go inside to have breakfast with her.
During the day, while I was at work, my parents kept an eye on Zinnia's needs. When I got home, I'd carry her while I did chores. She'd cry when she wasn't with me. We'd do 15 min of physical therapy and eat dinner only to do it all again the next day. Over a few weeks, she lost more and more use of her right leg. I started to lose hope. We cried together because I thought I had done something wrong. Feeling Compassion Fatigue setting in again I took a "mommies night" out and left Zinnia with my dad. I knew I would be no good to her if I was tired.
The daily therapy with the wheelchair, massaging, and love helped. Then one day- BOOM- Zinnia had roosting reflexes! The next week she was moving it again, the week after that more movement. At that point, my dad built her a pen to stay in the kitchen during the day so he could tend to her while I was gone and she had a safe place to do her own therapy by exploring her own mobility. I began saying nightly, "She's not supposed to do that?!". Over the next few weeks she started to reject the chair and decided to sort her mobility on her own. Daily, her progress surprised me. She began putting weight on that right leg, then flutter hop onto my chest. Her progress took place during a month of hard tiring constant work. We had a routine down.
Daily routine pre mobility
- Check poof elastic-make sure it's not digging into her head 5 min
- Feed and water-am and pm 30 min each time
- Physical therapy pm 15-30 min
- Clean pen free of spilled water, feed and switch bedding (if needed) 5-10 min
Weekly routine pre mobility
- Poof maintenance-Trimming, elastic ponytail 10 min
- Research next possible steps, consult vet if needed
- Do we need to add or take away supplements?
- Adjust therapy?
- New illness?
- Deep clean pen and new bedding 15-30 min
We took a visit to Dr. Shannon for a recheck. The look on Dr. Shannon's face when she saw Zinnia's was priceless. That scary "cancer" bump was GONE and her mobility was improving daily. Thanksgiving arrived and Zinnia was out in the hall while I was vacuuming up her feed around her. Suddenly, Zinnia stood up and ran away like a little troll. My dad and I couldn't believe it! From that day Zinnia became a miracle.
Zinnia and I built a relationship of respect, understanding, and most importantly trust. Each day she improved more and more but along the way we found a few other health problems. At one point Zinnia had to go into surgery to get a different kind of tumor removed from the inside of her right hip. The surgery was a harrowing experience, but we know by now she's a fighter. After that surgery there was no stopping her! Looking back it took her about 6-7 months to have full movement that was reliable enough to wear diapers around the house.
I still say, "She's not supposed to do that?!", daily when Zinnia tries to go up the stairs with a big smile on her face or chases my cat or pigeons around the house at lightning speed.
Zinnia is now one year old and we're the first and last things we see each day. This little girl has changed my life. She's one of the many reasons I'm a licensed wildlife rehabilitator. Of course she's more work than a chicken without special needs but Zinnia's personality and love are more than worth the extra effort. I have never considered saying, "This is too much for me". Doing everything in my power to keep my animals healthy and happy may not be easy, but it is my mission in life. Zinnia and I found each other at the right time. What I had learned from Ginny had equipped me to handle Zinnia's special needs and help her adapt to her challenges.
What can we take away from Zinnia?
- Although a cliché it's true, love triumphs over all, so does hard work
- Using tools like a mobility chair and physical therapy are good tools- they are not temporary fixes
- Seek out a vet if you can afford one and find one that you trust
- Observation and touching your animals often will tell you a lot and help prevent illness
- Sometimes injuries/illnesses are not what they seem! Research and seek out help from Facebook, blogs, science journals if you don't have access to a vet
- Compassion Fatigue is something any chicken momma must know about
- Having a support system is the key to success
- Learn when enough is enough and it's time let it be
- Not all outcomes will be like Zinnia's it's your job to find what your bird's "normal"
Special Needs chickens like Ginny and Zinnia find the right people at the right time that are equipped to handle and help them adapt to their challenges.
I hope you enjoyed reading about Megan and Zinnia's story. If you'd like to know more just leave a comment below and I will make sure they reach Megan.


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Chef YB Mathur is one of the
senior most chefs in India. He
was associated with ITC Ltd and
has more than four decades of
experience in food production. After
his retirement from ITC as Senior
Executive Chef, Chef Mathur has
been actively involved in training
and skilling activities in the industry.
He was also part of the National
Skilling Mission and World Skills
programme as a Cookery Skills
Expert. Chef Mathur has authored
couple of books to support culinary
education in the past. His latest title
– Culinary Economics - is a must
read for people in the academia,
students and industry professionals
and entrepreneurs for its insightful
content. Chef Mathur shares
the approach of the Book with
Hospitality Biz.