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Pelican Dreaming: Poems 1959-2008 by Mark Young
(Meritage Press, San Francisco & St. Helena, 2008)
[First published in Issue 217 of Landfall, edited by Paula Morris and published in May 2009 by Otago University Press]
Unfinished Business
There's a photograph of Mark Young in A Question of Faith, the catalogue for the 2002 Colin McCahon retrospective curated at Amsterdam's Stedelijke Musuem. It was taken by Marti Friedlander at the Barry Lett Gallery during McCahon's Scrolls exhibition in October, 1969. Young, who is not identified in the caption and would not be recognised by most of those who have looked at the photo, is standing before a wall of scrolls with his right arm raised in an oracular gesture. Just above his index finger, in McCahon's inimitable script, is the pronoun 'I', and above that is the word LISTEN. Whereas McCahon has written LISTEN, I … Young, it seems, is declaiming: I / LISTEN … The occasion was a reading in the gallery by James K Baxter, David Mitchell and Young who would, within weeks of the event, flee New Zealand for Australia. There was a brief efflorescence of publication and performance in Sydney about five years later followed by 25 years of silence. Most people familiar with his work in New Zealand in the 1960s thought he was dead. Michele Leggott, closely involved in his rediscovery towards the end of the 1990s, would remark: the thoroughness of your disappearance was outstanding.
Leggott, along with co-editors Alan Brunton and Murray Edmond, wanted to resolve the enigma of Young's disappearance in order to include his work in their 2000 anthology Big Smoke: New Zealand Poems 1960 – 1975. They found him in western Sydney, completing a Bachelor of Applied Science in Operations Research. An immediate outcome was The Right Foot of the Giant (Bumper Books, 1999), Young's first volume of poems. A longer term result was Young's return to fulltime writing. And one of the consequences of that is Pelican Dreaming, Poems 1959 – 2008. Over 400 pages long, including an introductory essay by American poet and painter Thomas Fink, the book might suggest the word monumental—except monuments are never so various, so strange, so wise or so wild. Nor are they laugh-out-loud funny. As with the thoroughness of Young's disappearance, so then with his unprecedented revenance: outstanding.
The selection is also by Thomas Fink, on the basis of works Young gave him to read. And the carte blanche that went with that. This is fascinating, not just for the generosity and acceptance of risk the method implies—I'm not aware of any other Antipodean poet whose poems have been selected this way. Fink doesn't amplify upon the criteria he used, probably (and rightly) because he feels the work can speak for itself; but he does say he's written mostly about modern and contemporary U.S. poetry, and so it is probably better to leave it to others who are more conversant with Australasian literature to assess how the poems in this book engage in dialogue with the contexts of New Zealand's cultural history and the fact of Young's settling in Australia. Not an easy task: Young was always an anomalous figure in New Zealand writing, even during his decade of (relative) fame in the 1960s; and his place in contemporary Australian letters is also equivocal though not without its resonances—there may not be a society on earth where truth is more weirdly mutable than it is in Australia and that might have had an effect. Notwithstanding, Young was always an internationalist and the respect he is now accorded in places as far afield as Helsinki and Santa Fe, Mexico City and London Town, is a true and fitting acknowledgement of this.
Pelican Dreaming begins, as The Right Foot of the Giant does, with "My hands had forgotten Lorca," a poem that includes a vignette of life in Wellington in the early 1960s: … for I / had spent part of last Saturday discussing / his poetry with a Chilean sailor … In this inaugural work, the tyranny of distance so often evoked in discussions of mid-century Antipodean writing is overthrown when the poet's hands rediscover Lorca's face as they move across a map of Spain. It suggests, elegantly and without insistence, that all places and all times are accessible to the mind. That we can go anywhere imagination leads, that the world is what the imagination brings to us. One of the remarkable things about Young's poetry is that this early confidence in the possibilities of reaching out to uncover, discover, recover and re-order the world is fully borne out. He seems to have arrived complete as a poet and, despite the quarter century hiatus, the later work, which is mostly what Pelican Dreaming collects, exists on the same dizzying continuum of those first finished works from the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Young has always been open about his influences, which are various and unshackled from preoccupations of a local or nationalist sort. He has read a lot of 20th century science fiction, for instance, evidently from a very young age. Guillaume Apollinaire and the surrealists came to him early. European and Asian cinema likewise—he cites Bergman, Kurosawa and Truffaut in particular. He was a jazz musician, a bass player, before he was a poet and the inherent musicality of his verse is a testament to that. Donald Allen's 1960 anthology The New American Poetry, which he was reading early in that decade, saved me from becoming a pallid poet in the English tradition. In Wellington, also in the 1960s, he worked at the Japanese embassy and you can see the life-long effects of that engagement in a recent sequence, Genji Monogatari, after the classic prose work of the 11th century, some of which is collected in Pelican Dreaming. (The sequence is completed at Gamma Ways—http://mhcyoung.blogspot.com/.) Another sequence, also excerpted here, is Series Magritte, an ongoing succession of poems (currently 199) responding to, or placed ekphrastic beside, paintings by the great Belgian surrealist. In a better world we would have both paintings and poems in one volume; meanwhile you can view the whole gorgeous panoply at another of Young's blogs: http://seriesmagritte.blogspot.com/.
Amplifying these influences, and also making them available to others, is Young's participation in three previous moments of—to use Fink's phrase in a wider context—Antipodean cultural history. The first is the Beatnik inspired explosion of jazz and poetry in the early 1960s in Wellington, from which emerged individuals as diverse as musician and actor Bruno Lawrence, filmmaker Geoff Murphy, and poets David Mitchell and Nigel Roberts. Then there was that alternative moment in Auckland in the late 1960s, whose traces remain in Marti Friedlander's photographs. The third moment was in Balmain, Sydney, in the early 1970s, when another attempt was made to take poetry out of the academy and into a wider world. Young's A Season in Hell, published as a broadsheet in 1974 (not collected here but in Big Smoke), is a startling evocation of that time and an hilarious, bitter-sweet, farewell to it.
Not all of Young's influences are literary. When he let go the bulk of his library in the 1970s, the three books he could not do without were Allen's anthology, a biography of 16th century mage Paracelsus, and Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man. Thomas Kuhn's concept of the paradigm shift, elaborated in his 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, is another crucial reference. Such a shift is occurring now and the way it is coincident with Young's re-emergence as a poet is both serendipitous and deeply pleasing: I mean the arrival of the internet as a theatre for writing and publication. Young has produced twelve books since 2004 (two are collaborations with the Finn, Jukka Pekka Kervinen), mostly made out of writing first published on the internet—much of it at his first site, Pelican Dreaming, which can still be accessed here: http://pelicandreaming.blogspot.com/.
Use of the internet elides many of the difficulties of publication that plagued writers for so long, especially those who were innovative or iconoclastic or just in a hurry. It has also seen the inception of communities of writers that exist, despite geographical or temporal restrictions, in more or less instantaneous touch with each other. The profusion of Young's publications in this first decade of the new century is partly the result of such a community's existence, and of its embrace of his work. He has amply repaid this embrace with his own imprint, Otoliths Books, which has published more than forty titles over the last few years as well as thirteen issues of an ezine, also called Otoliths. He has too, with poet Jean Vengua, edited two anthologies of poetry in a new form of verse stanza, the hay(na)ku, or American haiku, invented in 2002 by Eileen Tabios, Young's Californian publisher here. And the blogroll on Gamma Ways is an inestimable cultural treasure.
So what can be said, in a general sense, of the writing in Pelican Dreaming? Fink delights in pointing out the way Young's work will disorient those hanging on to a notion of consistent stylistic evolution as aesthetic merit. And further: Mark Young has the courage to be traditional, imagistically or narratively direct, discrete, serial, surreal, 'experimental' and 'difficult' … Yet there are consistent threads running through this selection. One takes us back to the photo of Young before the McCahon scrolls: the 'I' of these poems is always mutable and can never be taken simply to mean 'me'. This scrupulous sense of what the 'I' might or might not signify in writing is present from the very beginning of Young's work; he constantly challenges that first person pronoun as the privileged speaker, the one with (I)nsight. This is not to say that the tone of his work is ever neutral; rather, one of his innovations is to have taken neutrality as a habit of voice into every corner of subjectivity he has been able to penetrate and the results are manifold—frequently disturbing, often very funny, always an exercise for the reading (and writing) mind.
Another thread, one that seems silvery if not golden, is that of chance as a factor in human activity. Young has, especially recently, used stochastics as a method of composition but I mean something more: at the heart of the body of his work is the intimation that contingencies we don't and can't control are a determinant in our affairs—a not unreasonable position to take when we are all at the mercy of the giant casino called the Stock Market—and that we must learn to act accordingly. This conviction is difficult to honour in work as it is in life. There's always the temptation to surrender to ideology as a way of assuaging doubt, and it is rare to find the degree of commitment to freedom that Young's work, as a matter of principle, espouses. This commitment can be found at the micro as well as the macro level. You never quite know where a line of Young's will lead; you know only that it will not lead where you expect it to go. You also know that he will oppose tyranny wherever it is found, as much in the paucity of the selection of books in his local shop in Rockhampton, where he lives, as to the risible yet deeply disturbing geopolitical statements of a George W Bush.
He is also one of those rare poets who can make you laugh out loud, for instance in Day Fifty:
Today the
postman brought
me "Ventriloquism
for Dummies".
An anarchic humour is basic to many of these poems and its source is the presumption that, although the world is as it is, it need not necessarily be so and could quite easily be other than we think. Young's alternative histories, sometimes called, after Borges, ficciones, are meditations that warp time so that, for example, those on the Long March are entertained with films by Eisenstein, Cocteau and John Ford while the bicycle-driven transformer that powers the projector is pedalled by Zhou Enlai (The Mao ficcione). These ficciones both parody and explode causality as it is usually understood and thereby make available to us, not just an alternate past to our provisional present but a future literally beyond our understanding: as a real future must be. Each ficcione anticipates a paradigm shift and, idiosyncratically, this is what all Young's writing does. It is thus revolutionary in manner and intent, the world considered at once as it is and as it could be. A lot of those could be's are dark indeed, twisted and uncertain and mad, as if there is no catastrophe he has not imagined; yet imagination of catastrophe, as much as of felicity or grace or delight, is intrinsic to how we make the future we are making. Otherwise, and this would be the true catastrophe, we will not make it at all, it will make, or more likely unmake, us.
Furthermore there are poems here that I read and re-read simply because they are so beautifully made. Among them is The Cicerone, an account by a nameless paysan of the murder of their priests by a pre-Columbian, probably Peruvian people: ineluctably strange yet utterly convincing. And two linked poems, one on the relationship between a man and his baggage (The Baggage Card) and another concerning the connection (or not) between a poet and his biography (Chameleon). Add the charming account of Karl Marx and Arthur Rimbaud having lunch and playing virtual tennis at Wimbledon ((Rimbaud is in town)). And the inscrutabilities of Betabet, a poem in 26 parts, thirteen of which are reproduced here: The gods in the Kalevala / are gas & dust spread / thinly through the solar / system. Sickle-shaped, the / gas floats outwards from / the Sun as either analog / video disc or solar wind. (I). These, like so much of the work here, have an intoxicating and estranging effect, as of an exploded world put back together according to the logic, not of aesthetics, politics, religion, or science, but a poetry that somehow trumps all four.
Those three moments in cultural history are decades ago now and with our uncanny Antipodean knack for neglecting if not actually destroying our recent past, may be almost forgotten now: like Young's image interposed between Friedlander's camera and McCahon's scrolls, they cast a shadow that some would perhaps rather photoshop away. Of the three poets reading that night at Lett's, Baxter has been deified, Mitchell almost completely forgotten (he is alive, but not well, in Sydney) while Young has achieved an improbable metamorphosis into the complex, witty and profoundly moving poet of Pelican Dreaming. Yet who in New Zealand reads him now? How many even know who he is? These are not rhetorical questions—I'd like answers. Probably his New Zealand readers are mostly those who follow his blogs on the internet. For them, and for others who want to find out where poetry is happening these days, Pelican Dreaming is an indispensable guide—though not one that won't answer back. Here are the last lines of "Leftovers," the final poem in the book:
This does not indicate a
relationship. Merely an obscure awareness
of the quiet, dark shades, the stone under
foot, the master of unfinished business.
Martin Edmond lives and writes in Sydney. Latest book is The Supply Party (East Street Publications), an account of Ludwig Becker, the artist and naturalist on the famously doomed Burke & Wills Expedition of 1860-61


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7 hours flight was, honestly going there, not tiring.
I guess I was too excited, it has been a year since my Sydney trip, if you know what I mean.
The feeling is back, of course! Yay!!!
During the flight I watched 2 movies.
Monte Carlo and The Green Lantern.
Lucky I could watch it.
I put first and second day as one post because first day was only half day story to tell.
But before starting with second day story, I wanna tell you my little experience in the terminal.
Once I touched down, nervously queuing for check-in.
They were not friendly, no smiling face. (maybe I expect them to smile back at me because I smile first?)
Unlike Malaysia airport staff who smile all the time. (LOL)
After my passport got stamped, skipped the unfriendly faces, then unfriendly faces came again.
Was I expecting too much or was I just trying to flirt by smiling at them?
Then again, I forgot this is Middle East!
No matter how futuristic or modern the city is, the people are never change.
So finally I stop smiling at them and I looked at other part of them. LOL
Our friend was getting a rental car for 1 month so we waited there while I was checking people who walking by.
The car rental company is called "THRIFTY". (Click the link to see their official website)
I am not sure about the price of one month rent, but roughly 2700-2800 Dhs if correct.
So if you see a car with a blue sticker written "THRIFTY" on the windscreen in Dubai, then you will know it is a rent car.
The car we got was totally brand new!
White color - Nissan Tiida! (not available in Malaysia I think)
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Very nice car! (I drove it for 1 hour during our day trip from Dubai to Al Ain)
Flight touch down and rent car took us about 2 hours in the terminal.
The terminal was Terminal One.
Just for your information,
the airport got 3 terminals.
Terminal 1 and Terminal 3 are for International flight and Terminal 2 is for domestic flight.
MAS airplane will touch down in Terminal 1 and if you take Emirates flight you will be touching down in Terminal 3.
Our friends are staying in Dubai Downtown, walking distance of 5 minutes to The Dubai Mall & Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world!
First meal in Dubai, they brought us to More restaurant in Dubai Mall.
Before dinner was served, we get to see Dubai Water Fountain water and music play.
What a wonderful 'appetizer' !
I guess you guys watched the video from my main Dubai post, no? Please click here to watch again. :) Hope you guys like it.
So that's my first night for Dubai ~~
Next day morning our friends prepared breakfast for us.
Gosh, I had to say it was better than any 5 stars hotel in Dubai!
The love and passion they put into it! (maybe partner and I used to normal 2 slices of bread with only peanut butter & blueberry jam everyday)
Muack you guys!
Agenda of 2nd day was do a little of city tour and to Al Maktoum Museum in Al Shindagha (picture below)
At that hour it was around 11am-12pm, the sun was HOT!
And we walked all the way from Al Maktoum Museum(Al Shindagha) along side Dubai Creek passed Al Ghubaiba station, Souk Al Kabeer (this Souk you gonna be tough because the guys selling souvenir there are HOT like the sun too! Don't 'kena tipu'! ), and to Bur Dubai.
From Bur Dubai we took a water taxi (which will cost you only 1 Dhs per person one way) to Deira Old Souq station, the other side of Dubai Creek.
Here is the picture of Water Taxi.
Cool right? You better don't swing on the 'sampan'!
After the long walk, we back to Al Shindagha (Sheikh Saeed Al Maktoum Museum).
So this time we pay visit to the museum before we heading back to town.
It was heritage site and historical attraction for tourist.
Sheikh Saeed Al Maktoum was born right there and he was the founder of Dubai.
I have some photos and one video clip of this museum.
The video of Sheikh Saeed Al Maktoum house Museum, in Al Shindagha.
Also we went to Camel House, just next to house Museum.
This Camel House provides you the details of camel. (You rarely will see tourist there if you are going solo)
It was really interesting.
I was dying to see real one in my Desert Safari trip later!
After 2 hours there then it was about time for lunch.
We headed to Mall of Emirates straight away.
Anyone has idea about Skiing in Dubai? Under the hot sun?
Of course, it is a indoor HUGE Ski resort and you basically can do any snow sports there like skiing, snowboarding and tobogganing.
Inside the Mall of Emirates you can walk to Ski Dubai entrance.
Well we didn't go there for skiing you see. We just wanna have lunch there :)
The restaurant right opposite of the Ski Dubai selling ticket counter is, The Perfect Steak.
The meal was great!
The food in Dubai can't go wrong most of time.
Then we walked around to check out the mall.
It was big and I love the mall! (only if I am millionaire haha)
We back to Dubai Downtown in the evening and get ourself prepared for Atlantis!
Too bad I didn't take photo at all the night in Atlantis because I thought we would coming back for the Aquadventure which we didn't.
Palm Jumeirah!
(this photo is edited using 2 photos with 2 angles and then combined into 1)
NICE right?
It was taken in the top floor 52th of Marriot Hotel in Dubai Marina.
Anyway, back to Atlantis.
Our friend birthday dinner was in one of the 16 restaurants in Atlantis, which costs 190 Dhs per person for the dinner buffet.
It was so f*cking expensive :)
But of course, Once in a Lifetime moment!
I was really enjoying it!
And we got to meet new high classy friends there!
It was just, unbelievable!
I mean, dining in Atlantis!?!? God blessed me!
Not to mention also they have a smaller tank for fishes and sharks!
It felt like a laptop/PC 3D under ocean screen saver/wallpaper!
Check this out!
Everything you see inside Atlantis, will keep you wondering every single step you walk.
Do you know what was I wondering then?
* "How the f*ck they build this giant?!!"...repeat *
It just amazing!
Everything was too great.
Great friends, great people, great food, great Atlantis, great history, great mall, the list just go on and on. (hell I need millions to continue enjoying all this...)
That 2nd night my mind was thinking how great it is gonna be the next few days.
Next post I will tell you some stories about Al Ain trip and that I will be driving left-handed car driving to Al Ain of journey of 120km. (FYI, it is right-handed driving in Malaysia)
How exciting! (LOL, I was nervous and scared though)


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PIMSY offers a Waiting List for prospective clients who, for whatever reason, have not been scheduled for an appointment. There are several fields that can be completed, such as general details, demographics and insurance information. There is also an area for uploading client documents, such as a signed Privacy Notice or Insurance information, prior to their first visit.
Buttons & Tabs:
Client Details - add important information about the prospective client you are placing on the Waiting List. The information here is very similar to the Client Details area of the Client's permanent chart.
Demo. /Q&A – in this case, add demographic information about the prospective client. The Waiting List Q&A must be created prior to accessing the Waiting List.
Insurance – add insurance information just as you would in a permanent client's chart.
Contacts – record any contacts for the prospective client.
The Contacts area also offers tabs for Contact Notes and Contact Assignment Notes.
Documents – this is the document area for the prospective client where you can record digital paperwork like a signed Privacy Form or other intake documents.
Misc. Notes: there are templates you can use in this section that have been created by your PIMSY Administrator. Right-click over the Misc. Notes box and select Templates from the menu.
There are two ways to access the Waiting List:
- The Client main menu
- The My Sal Calendar – click on the Client button in a new appointment window.
Select Yes.
Complete all available information about the prospective client in the appropriate tabs (see above). Save. When the client is actually being scheduled, there is a convenient button to automatically move this client from the Waiting List. To do this, click on Convert to Client from the Waiting List.
Be sure to SAVE after all changes have been made in the prospective client's temporary chart on the Waiting List.
Use Case:
The administrator at ABC Therapeutics receives a phone call from a prospective client. She does not have an immediate appointment day/time available, so the administrator goes to the Waiting List to gather information that will already be recorded when there is an availability.
When there is an opening for the prospective client, the admin simply clicks on the Convert to Client button to create a permanent chart for the client currently on the Waiting List. This easy process saves everyone time and trouble obtaining and retaining important information that has not had to be completed in paper form and is already available on the prospective client's first visit.
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Orthopedic specialists in Orem, Utah
At Timpanogos Regional Hospital, our orthopedic surgeons use surgical and nonsurgical treatments to treat orthopedic conditions that cause joint pain and bone and spine problems. Our orthopedics department in Orem, Utah is proud to be within the MountainStar Healthcare network, which has been ranked number one in Utah for overall orthopedic care.
If you have back and/or joint pain, let our orthopedic specialists help. Please call (855) 796-0593 to schedule your consultation.
Joint replacement surgery offers numerous benefits for people suffering from lifestyle-altering pain, however, it is important to recognize the difference in the quality of care you can receive along the way.
MountainStar Healthcare has been recognized as Utah's top provider of orthopedic care for the last seven years, and our hospitals affiliate with some of the best knee and hip surgeons in the country.
Our orthopedic staff is specially trained and certified by the Orthopedic Nurses Certification Board to care for orthopedic patients. Each of our rooms are complete with the equipment, tools and monitoring devices necessary for optimal healing and comfort.
Though millions Americans live with chronic back and joint pain that limits their daily activities, you do not have to. Let our experienced orthopedic physicians in Orem, Utah help you return to your active lifestyle.
Orthopedic conditions and treatments
Below is a sampling of the procedures our orthopedic surgeons in Orem are uniquely qualified to treat:
- Total and partial hip replacement surgery
- Total and partial knee replacement surgery
- Total shoulder replacement surgery
- Total and partial elbow replacement surgery
- Rotator cuff repair
- Knee pain
- Knee ligament surgery
- Knee resurfacing
- Hip pain
- Hand surgery
- Shoulder pain
- Knee surgery
- Ruptured or bulging discs
- Degenerative joint disease (arthritis)
- Osteoporosis
- Stenosis
- Joint care
Advanced diagnostics and technology
Our orthopedists precisely identify damage to joints, spinal discs and soft tissue with advanced diagnostic tools. If spinal or orthopedic surgery is necessary, these tools also enable accurate procedures, which are often minimally invasive.
By combining innovative treatments, a specialized staff and state-of-the-art technology, we deliver unparalleled services and expertise to our patients.
Spine care
Our orthopedic and spine surgeons offer treatments and procedures for the back and neck, such as:
- Discectomy
- Cervical fusion
- Lumbar fusion
- Vertebral fusion
- Laminectomy
- Non-fusion treatments
Visit our spine care page to learn more.


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Researching Doctors on Yelp and Online
Do You Research Doctors on Yelp?
The other day I was Googling my doctor's name to find her phone number, and I stumbled upon her page of Yelp reviews. I'd never considered researching a doctor on Yelp; usually I just ask friends for recommendations or pick based on proximity. But with new customer-generated reviews from sites like Yelp, as well as Zagat's guides for WellPoint, we can get opinions from multiple patients at once, which might just confuse things. Have you researched docs online?


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A coalition that fights for Flint, communities facing environmental racism
When it was discovered that Flint's municipal water supply was contaminated with lead, environmental and community groups mobilized to push local and state government officials to address the problem. But Flint is not the only place in Michigan where residents are fighting for environmental justice. Jeremy Orr is the environmental justice coordinator of the Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition. His job is to work with people in those communities to help make sure their voices are heard. Spartan Newsroom: Your coalition consist of over 50 organizations around the state. How were these groups able to come together and form this coalition?


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|Alpha Project
|Science Fiction, Futuristic
|Angband, Warhammer 40k (loosely)
|Jan 5, 2016 (Alpha/Demo)
|Mar 6, 2016 (v1.4.0)
|P. Language
|Graphical tiles, Keyboard, Mouse
|Game Length
|Official site of Xenomarine
A science-fiction-themed, graphical roguelike in which you play a space marine exploring a vast alien-infested space station.
A Demo version (alpha) can be downloaded here
As a 'Xenomarine' (part of a commando unit tasked with eliminating an alien infestation in a military research station) the player character explores a space station divided into multiple levels. Each level, including the aliens and items to be found, is procedurally generated. A wide variety of weapons, armor and useable items (including variants with e.g. damage or to hit bonuses) can be found while exploring each level. The player character's icon is updated to reflect the weapons and armor equipped.
The player character also acquires experience from killing aliens. Experience can be converted into skills at 'terminals' which must first be located in the level. The player will also acquire scrap metal and other raw materials, either by finding them directly, or converting unwanted weapons and armor into scrap. This scrap can be used at 'workbenches' to craft weapons, items and armor, and repair and improve armor.
Xenomarine features a wide variety of visually distinct enemy types. Combat mechanics include status effects, area effects and multiple damage types, to which both the player character and aliens have different levels of resistance or vulnerability.
As with all roguelike games, Xenomarine features permadeath.
Xenomarine is being updated regularly. Version 1.3.0 of the Demo introduced a graphical overhaul including 3D lighting effects. Version 1.5.0 included a major graphical update of the user interface. Version 1.6.0 added animation, rebalancing and improved map generation.
The following images illustrate the current version of the game:
- Atmospheric 3D lighting effects
- Intuitive mouse and keyboard interface
- Dual-wielding and weapon-plus-shield.
- Infinite gameplay - levels eventually repeat with harder enemies (Not in Demo)
- Highscore board
- Over 70 individually upgradable weapon types (approx 15 in Demo version)
- Weapon and armour choices reflected in the 'look' of the player character
- Unique useable items such as scanners, stimpacks and directional forcefields.
- Interactable scenery: moveable crates, exploding barrels, functioning doors
- Over 150 visually distinct enemy types (5 in Demo version)
- Multiple damage types and status effects
- Over 60 learnable skill upgrades
- Crafting (basic items can be crafted and armor upgraded with the relevant skills)
- Realistic sound effects
The game has been in development since early 2015. A free alpha Demo version was released on 5 Jan 2016 and has been updated regularly since. The current version as at 16 March is 1.5.0 and features significant graphical and other improvements to the user interface, as well as numerous gameplay and balancing improvements.
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Job Description of a Product Manager in Financial Services
A product manager working in the financial services industry is in charge of developing a strategy to sell a product. This involves planning and assisting in the development, marketing and distribution of a product. Product managers also have to provide a clear plan for their product, outlining goals as well as potential risks, challenges and opportunities. They play a very active role within a company, leading and motivating teams to achieve their desired outcomes.
Educational Requirements
Product managers who work in the financial services industry have at least a bachelor's degree in finance, marketing, business management or another related field of study. Many individuals have a master's degree in business administration, however. This position requires an extensive knowledge of finance and marketing, so you'll need a strong background in both fields. Many product managers in the financial services industry possess skills in accounting to help them balance budgets.
Skills and Experience
In order to be a product manager in financial services, you'll need at least five years of experience in a finance or management role, although most employers prefer more. Moreover, you'll need strong teamwork skills and the ability to inspire your fellow team members. Project managers have the necessary time and project management skills in order to complete their projects in a timely manner. Finally, you'll need to be able to use spreadsheets to analyze financial data and predict future costs, revenues and profits.
Primary Responsibilities
The principal duty of a product manager in financial services is to develop a strategy from inception to completion of a product. You'll have to work with the design and engineering teams to develop the product, the marketing team to effectively market the product and outside vendors to distribute and sell your product. Along the way, you'll have to complete financial analysis to model the product's cost and potential margin. In addition, you'll be in charge of driving different teams and departments to make sure you achieve all of your initial goals.
Additional Duties
While developing your product, you'll also have to present your strategy to partners and shareholders. You'll outline how you plan to achieve your objective and lay out the potential risks and opportunities. Product managers in financial services regularly meet with clients about their interests. Furthermore, you may have to pitch your product to third-party vendors. All of these responsibilities will require strong communication skills. You may have to travel often in order to meet with customers and potential clients.
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With its creative design and easygoing mood, the office of the future blurs the line between work and play. Creative designs, vibrant colors, open and closed spaces, there's a lot changing in our workspaces...
Dec 18, 2017
Allianz Group's specialist corporate insurer Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE (AGCS) announced changes to its Board of Management, which take effect in 2018. From July 1, 2018, Chief Operating Officer Sinéad Browne moves to a new Board-level role at AGCS, taking over from Chief Regions and Markets Officer, Carsten Scheffel, who retires from his role at the end of June.
Dec 12, 2017
Euler Hermes, the world's leading trade credit insurer, has appointed Virginie Fauvel as Chief Transformation Officer as of January 15, 2018, and Head of the Americas region as of April 1, 2018. Once her nomination is approved by the Supervisory Board on February 9, 2018, she will also join the Board of Management of Euler Hermes as of April 1, 2018.
Nov 23, 2017
After years in the doldrums, global trade has finally caught a decent tailwind. After an increase of 4.3 percent this year global trade could expand by 3.9 percent in volume next year. This would represent an increase in value of 6.3 percent and 7.5 percent, projects Allianz.
Oct 27, 2017
Russian gross domestic product (GDP) is set to grow by 1.9 percent, the oil price will move to $56 per barrel, Russian exports are set to increase by $26 billion, and both insolvencies and the negative impact of international sanctions on investment will decline in 2018, forecasts Euler Hermes, the world's leading trade credit insurer. With this background demand for trade credit insurance is set to grow.
Oct 09, 2017
Still wary of the stock markets after the global financial crisis, private investors are parking their funds in banks. But inflation and low interest rates are eroding their savings, warns the Allianz Global Wealth Report…
Dec 29, 2017
Allianz Group and Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society (LV=) have completed the first stage in the creation of their joint venture and strategic partnership through the planned sale of 49 percent stake in LV='s UK General Insurance businesses (LV=GI) to Allianz Group.
Dec 21, 2017
Allianz will lay out 2 billion euros for share buybacks next year on top of a 3-billion-euro plan announced last February. Outgoing Chief Financial Officer Dieter Wemmer explains the rationale...
Dec 19, 2017
Allianz X, the digital investment unit of the Allianz Group, has announced a $96.6 million investment in BIMA, a leading digital microinsurer utilizing mobile technology to serve low-income customers in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Allianz becomes BIMA's sole insurance shareholder and the largest strategic shareholder overall.
Dec 11, 2017
The new European identification, registration and data platform Verimi welcomes further support: Giesecke+Devrient (G+D), world market leader for the validation of payment transactions, identification, connectivity and data becomes a new shareholder.
Dec 05, 2017
How can we better understand the way climate change is shaping extreme weather events? And how do we foster resilience around the world against these risks by applying modern technological solutions? These questions were at the core of the first edition of the Allianz Climate Risk Research Award.
Dec 01, 2017
Allianz today launched its Global Explorer Program: a series of global and local partnerships, digital and physical activations and crowd-generated content platforms that calls out to curious minds around the globe to explore, connect and share how disruptive technologies can drive a more sustainable way of life for humans.
Dec 14, 2017
Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) and Allianz Capital Partners (ACP) announced today that they will join forces in order to extend the range of investment expertise available to AllianzGI's broad global client base, strengthening further its offering in Alternatives. From January 1, 2018, ACP will become a discrete entity under the umbrella of AllianzGI.
Dec 06, 2017
Euler Hermes, the world's leading trade credit insurer, today announced the French launch of TRIBRating, a new rating service specifically designed for SMEs and MidCaps, offered by Euler Hermes Rating.
The average cost of a major recall is $12 million – and the number of incidents is set to rise as new technologies add more complex layers to products, says a new report by Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty...


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3 PhD Positions at the Leiden Institute for History
3 PhD Positions at the Leiden Institute for History: Challenging Monopolies, Building Global Empires in the Early Modern Period: Suing the Monopolies – The Case of the VOC and the WIC
Faculty of Humanities
Institute for History, Section Economic and Social History
PhD Position (38 hours per week)
Vacancy Number:
From October 1, 2012, the Section Economic and Social History, Institute for History of the Faculty of Humanities of Leiden University will be appointing a full-time PhD, for four years, within the NWO funded VIDI project Challenging Monopolies, Building Global Empires in the Early Modern Period
(http://www.hum.leiden.edu/history/research/projects-mgi/challenging-monopolies.html ), under the supervision of Dr Cátia Antunes
This comparative project will answer the general question, how did free agents in the Dutch Republic react to the creation of colonial monopolies (VOC and WIC) by the States General? This project will answer this question by looking at the role individuals played in the construction of an informal global empire parallel to the institutional empire devised by the States General and enacted by the chartered companies.
This PhD post implies working in a team of at least seven researchers directly and indirectly involved in the project. Individuals will be required to openly share questions, hypotheses and results and participate in open discussions of each others' work (http://media.leidenuniv.nl/legacy/phd-1-description-vidi-antunes.pdf ).
The Section Economic and Social History is a dynamic research group with broad interests, enthusiastic researchers and lecturers with outstanding track records and successful in attracting national and international research grants.
> * Writing a dissertation in English within four years
> * Submitting research results for publication in international peer-reviewed academic journals (in single or co-authorship)
> * Presenting papers at conferences and workshops
> * Co-organizing conferences and workshops
> * Teaching undergraduate courses in the third and forth year of appointment
> * Actively participate in project discussions and work as peer review for the team
> * MA degree in Early Modern Economic or Social History, History of the European Expansion, Global History or World History
> * Fluency in Dutch and English spoken and written (knowledge of French, German, Portuguese or Spanish will be strongly considered)
> * Experience in working with Dutch Early Modern archival sources
> * Willingness to work in comparative history in an international and highly competitive environment
> * Ability to work independently and as part of the team
Conditions of employment:
The position of Ph.D. student is full-time for maximally four years. Initially the employee will be contracted for one year. An extension of three years is possible after positive evaluation of capabilities and compatibility.
Remuneration for a full working week will be € 2.042,- gross per calendar month in the first year, increasing to a maximum of € 2.612,- gross per calendar month in the fourth year and is in accordance with the current pay scales as indicated in the "CAO Nederlandse Universiteiten". An appointment with Leiden University includes a pension build-up and facilitates other benefits such as an annual holiday premium of 8% and an end-of-year premium of 8.3%.
For more information, please contact Dr Cátia Antunes (email@example.com)
General Information
Project: http://www.hum.leiden.edu/history/research/projects-mgi/challenging-monopolies.html
Section of Economic and Social History: http://www.hum.leiden.edu/history/organisation/staff/staff-sections.html#economische-en-sociale-geschiedenis
Institute for History: http://www.hum.leiden.edu/history/
Letters of application should be submitted in Dutch or English and should include:
> * Cover letter stating your motivation for this position
> * Curriculum vitae and list of publications (if applicable)
> * Copy of the MA thesis
> * List of (maximum) two referees to your application (with full postal addresses, telephone numbers and emails). Referees will be contacted directly by the search committee
Please quote the vacancy number in your application and send it electronically to: firstname.lastname@example.com before July 30, 2012.
All requested documents should be sent in pdf format.
An interview with the search committee is part of the procedure. Interviews will be held in the last week of August, 2012 at Leiden University.


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The Conservatives must reform tax to support landlords if they want to hit housing targets, says RLA chairman Alan Ward.
The association says the Conservative manifesto, released today does not go far enough to support individual landlords who are providing vital homes to rent.
Unlike the Labour and Liberal Democrat manifestos, the Conservative document is light on policies directly affecting to the Private Rented Sector (PRS) – although given the previous tax raids on buy-to-let landlords, maybe this is something to be grateful for.
It includes plans to 'strengthen equalities enforcement' – a response to criticisms of right to rent – however the RLA wants the party to go further and pledge to scrap the checks altogether.
The manifesto outlines plans to:
- Look at how to increase security for good tenants and encourage landlords to offer longer tenancies as standard.
- Strengthen the enforcement of equalities law – so that landlords and businesses who deny people a service on the basis of ethnicity, religion or gender are investigated and prosecuted.
- Halve rough sleeping over the course of the parliament and eliminate it altogether by 2027.
- Reform and modernise the home-buying process so it is more efficient and less costly.
- Crack down on unfair practices in leasehold, such as escalating ground rents.
- Meet the 2015 commitment to deliver a million homes by the end of 2020, delivering half a million more by the end of 2022.
- Deliver the reforms proposed in the Housing White Paper
- Build high-quality, high-density housing like mansion blocks, mews houses and terraced streets – and pledges that government would build 160,000 houses on its own land.
- Support specialist housing where it is needed, like multi-generational homes and housing for older people, including helping housing associations increase their specialist housing stock.
- Work with private and public sector house builders to capture the increase in land value created when they build to reinvest in local infrastructure, essential services and further housing.
In response to the document RLA Chairman, Alan Ward, said more needs to be done to support and expand the PRS.
He said: "With almost two million new homes to rent needed by 2025 this manifesto does not go far enough in supporting good landlords to develop the new homes we need.
"We need a tax system that encourages landlords wanting to invest in new homes for tenants and a planning system that frees up small plots as well as improving existing stock.
"Should they win on June 8th we will work with Conservative Ministers to ensure it harnesses the opportunities the private rental market presents to meet today's manifesto commitment to 1.5 million new homes by 2022."
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Cleveland Browns vs. Arizona Cardinals
Louis' defense. The Cardinals trailed the Cleveland Browns 20-10 at FirstEnergy Stadium, a performance that resembled a 25-13 loss at Pittsburgh on October, 18. "We had three wide-open touchdown passes in the first half we don't normally miss". The Browns allowed 491 yards in total offense, however. Looks like the Browns took a few notes for the first half.
Three New England Patriots employees interrogated by National Football League
We do not get into details of specific games". The team has requested the league sweep the visiting locker room before an opposing team enters, but the NFL has declined, according to the report. Coach Todd Bowles, speaking at his daily news conference, said, "I know nothing about it. We just go up there to play football". The National Football League that was publicly shamed for their mishandling of the Deflarthyism trials and those entities that have published hack pieces to perpetuate ...
Talks over Leicester City's Riyad Mahrez begin
United had a scout at the Hawthorns for that match but it is unclear if they were watching Mahrez or just assessing Tony Pulis' side - who arrive at Old Trafford for a Premier League clash next Saturday. He scored two second half goals on Sunday as Leicester came from behind to beat West Brom 3-2. Leicester have played attacking football under Ranieri and have created 121 chances in the Premier League this season, the fifth highest amount in the division.
Robert Kraft takes a shot at Colts
At the end of his speech in front of thousands of drunk Bawwwwston idiots, owner Robert Kraft threw some shade at the Indianapolis Colts with a pun that was, without question, unintentionally dirty. Patriots.com recently ranked that play as the best of McGinest's tenure with the team . While Manning put up record-setting numbers during the regular season, the Patriots owned him in the playoffs.
Szczesny: Arsenal Return Is My Dream
That Cech's arrival has coincided with Arsenal's good run of form is no surprise; the Gunners are four points better off than at the same stage last season, and the 33-year-old has been one of the signings of the season. "The history of the cigarette in the locker room is real, but it is false that I argued with Wenger ". A similar situation happened during the Champions League game against BATE Borisov; in such occasion "I told Garcia that it was nonsense to talk about the team's ...
Check out Boise State's cool Halloween helmets
NLV's Blake Decker looked competitive in his return for the Rebels, after missing the previous 10 quarters with a shoulder injury suffered at Nevada on October 3, but couldn't connect with any of his receivers in the end zone. "We just have to keep working and grinding away". In addition to moving the chains effectively, Boyd also provided some explosive plays, beating the Boise State defense deep on two occasions (hauling in a 30-yard pass on one play and drawing a pass interference penalty ...


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MD or IMDB?
Yvette's Story
Google "Dr. Yvette Lu British Columbia" and in 0.38 seconds you'll get her family practice, her RateMDs.com rankings, LinkedIn profile, Wikipedia entry, personal website, and of course her Internet Movie Database (IMDb) profile. Wait… her what?
Three days a week, she's mild-mannered Dr. Lu, family physician in the Surrey-based practice she shares with her mom. Diminutive and soft-spoken, Lu exudes a gentleness and warmth that any patient would respond to, and is as attentive and she is articulate. But ask about that "interest in acting and performance" listed on her CV below her medical experience and awards, and she'll transform before your eyes. She has a superpower, you see.
Actor, director, producer, composer… Lu's artistic accomplishments are as extensive as her medical ones. Food for the Gods (Vancouver Asian Film Festival) and Alive and Kicking (Near Enemy Film Festival award winner) are titles you might recognize. She has even been cast as (you guessed it) a doctor.
Will the Real Yvette Lu Please Stand Up?
It's generally understood that there is no more rigorous undergraduate training than that of medical school, and few fields more difficult to break into than that of acting. Lu has succeeded at both. How?
"In medicine I need to listen well, to communicate, to have empathy and compassion," says Lu. "And all those things are so important in acting as well. Being an actor makes me a better doctor and a better person."
Fifty percent of the North American population is dealing with at least one chronic illness.
Her dual professions have woven themselves through the whole of her life. Lu grew up immersed in books and listening to her grandmother's traditional Chinese stories. Active in theatre every summer during medical school at UBC, Lu chose to write her final research paper as a play. Stories from the Closet: A Play About Living with Chronic Illness is described on Lu's website as "a young woman's fantastical odyssey into the world of hospitals, doctors, and illness." The young woman is a composite of three female subjects Lu interviewed, and the play is a series of 10 monologues delivered by a solo performer. Six years on, Lu is still regularly asked to perform it for doctors, medical students, and patients and their families, because it gives voice to a silent story that is becoming ever more prevalent.
Fifty percent of the North American population is dealing with at least one chronic illness. Ambiguity about everything from onset and cause to impact and treatment can lead to a profound loss of one's sense of self. Lu found through her research that "coming out" as a person with illness mirrors coming out as a queer person in a surprising number of ways, and her title reflects that. The subtitle is equally significant. Living – especially living well – with a chronic illness requires that a person create a new meaning for their life. Human beings create and ascribe meaning by telling stories, and it was out of recognition of the power of storytelling to create meaning from illness that the field of narrative medicine emerged.
18 Seconds
The Doctor's Story
"On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story." So writes Jerome Groopman in How Doctors Think, the book Yvette Lu is reading at the time of her conversation with Trek. Recanati chair of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Groopman quotes a colleague as saying, "I believe that technology… has taken us away from the patient's story. And once you remove yourself from the patient's story, you no longer are truly a doctor."
Strong words. They are both commentary on, and cry for help from, today's medical professionals in response to unsustainable pressures. Doctors have long recognized that the practice of medicine is as much art as science, and now, in an elegant backlash against the commodifying effects of modern health care, doctors and medical schools are returning to story.
Dr. Rita Charon is a physician, author, and literary scholar, and the founder and executive director of the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. She coined the term narrative medicine in 2001 and defines it as "medicine practiced by someone who knows what to do with stories." Still in its infancy, narrative medicine boasts few hard studies that demonstrate its efficacy as either a diagnostic or healing tool. But there is an implicit understanding that it is offering something necessary: over 50 per cent of North American medical schools now include some form of narrative medicine training in their curricula. UBC introduces medical students to narrative medicine in their first year by inviting Lu to speak to the Doctor, Patient and Society class. Lu steps up to the podium, no notes in her hands, no lecture to give, and begins to perform Stories from the Closet.
To Bear Their Patients' Suffering
The Student's Story
"It was amazing," says Alvin Ip of Yu's performance. Ip is a first-year medical student at UBC and a volunteer with the Richmond Centre for Disability. "At the end, I felt like I knew someone inside and out… her feelings, ideas, needs, and expectations. [It] reminded me of how important it is to not only treat the disease, but also comfort… the patient."
Fellow first year Michelle Chiu agrees. A volunteer with Canuck Place Children's Hospice, Chiu says, "Yvette's play gave us a glimpse into the impact of chronic illness [and] provided me with valuable insights that I will bring to my patients." She adds that "studies have shown a marked decrease in empathy as students progress [in] their training. I believe that [narrative medicine] techniques are effective in countering this."
A quick Internet search for "medical student empathy decline" produces 210,000 results. Chiu isn't kidding. Explanations include medical schools' emphasis on clinical detachment and on technology; a lack of empathetic role models; an encouragement of elitism; and institutional focus on research over teaching. And then there's the curriculum itself. At UBC, it includes 12 medicine-based courses in the first two years as well as five practice‑focused courses each year; 10 specialty rotations in third year; and a year of clinical practice. Students who find stress more prohibitive than motivating may shut down emotionally in order to cope.
In a 2004 New York Times article entitled "The Writing Cure," Melanie Thernstrom says, "Medical students are so flooded by feelings they have no time to examine or process that a significant proportion are thought to be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder." What narrative medicine allows is that opportunity for examination and processing. Medical schools that have incorporated its techniques into their curricula might offer opportunities for students to analyze literature; to write a book about a patient and his illness over the course of a year; or to keep "parallel charts," records of their own feelings about and responses to their patients. It is, as Jerome Groopman at Harvard says, the responsibility of medical schools to develop in young physicians "the ability to bear their patients' suffering."
The Patient's Story
Hard. It's almost a funny question. I don't even know where to begin.
It's hard when you don't know what's going on… when you know something's wrong but nobody believes you… And then it's hard when they do find something. Then you have to face it. And even though at that point you don't really know what you're in for yet, you know something has changed and that now you're sick. It's grief. I'm being dramatic, I know, but it feels like a part of me died before it had a chance to live. I had a plan and then – [makes a noise like a bomb exploding]…
It gets better. Eventually, you put the pieces back together into something new. It's not what it was before, but it works, and it may even be better than what it was. But it doesn't go away.
(Excerpt from Stories from the Closet — copyright Yvette Lu)
Yvette Lu allows time after each public performance for people to speak with her – and they do. "People have said to me, 'this is my life. This is exactly how it feels,'" she says. "When I hear that, it reminds me that this is really important." Asked about the reactions of her research subjects, the three women on whose experiences she based the play, Lu replies, "They haven't seen it!" She tries to explain: "Part of [why I wrote] it is for people who are ill and really isolated. Part is for family and friends so they know what their loved one is going through. And part is for doctors. But for people who are very much struggling, it might not be the right time to see it."
The patient doesn't need to see the play; she's living it. She needs you to see the play. To the extent that telling one's story may be healing, it is so because someone else is willing to bear witness to it in all of its ungainly, painful detail. There are times in our lives when we are able to bear witness to our own suffering; there are other, overwhelming times when we require the grace of another who is prepared to fulfill that role. Narrative medicine is about preparing young doctors to do so for their patients.
"You don't just use stories and you don't just use science," Lu says of narrative medicine. "It's how they work together, how they interface. People in all areas are realizing you have to look at the interface. That's where the exciting things are happening! We come from a storytelling culture, and stories can only help us."


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RE: used surfboards for sale in la union« on: July 10 2007 02:07:00 »
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RE: used surfboards for sale in la union« Reply #2 on: July 13 2007 03:07:00 »
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RE: used surfboards for sale in la union« Reply #3 on: July 13 2007 04:07:00 »
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I hope you don't mind kung singit ako sa discussions niyo. Alan Rivera from Sydney. Bakasyon ako Pinas this October '07 and thinking of going to La Union for a surf. Haven't been there before so I am looking for maybe a group that I could join if there is anyone going there in that month.
Would appreciate your feedback. Thanks.
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I'm sure we've broken a lot of rules - we taught them to drink out of water bottles (remember I told you how we did it, but i still think OUR ducks are GENIUSES), our ducks seem to still prefer crumbles, but we're feeding half pellet and half crumbles. They get grit and alfalfa, and the occasional lettuce and greenery. They're in a kennel and bedded on fresh straw each day. This spring we'll add a ''pond'', a small drainable tank for them to swim in.
We have made videos of them, have spent the last 2 months trying to ''shush'' loud morning quacks so our neighbors don't detect them, giving them outrageous names(4 are identical so are referred to all as ''Elizabeth'', but with ''Elizabeth one of four, Elizabeth two of four, etc), and basically they've been perfectly healthy and an absolute riot.
I'm especially surprised they're laying as they've had an extremely cold winter, and while well sheltered, have no heated or lighted duck house.
Thanks so much for our DUCKS.
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