Would you have plastic surgery before your wedding day?
Most of us would want to look our best on our wedding day, whether it's losing weight or getting a professional make-up artist for a flawless face.
But some brides are now resorting to more extreme measures to look their best.
A survey has revealed 10 per cent of brides have plastic surgery or botox injections before their big day.
UK clinics are also reporting an increase in requests for pre-wedding day procedures. The trend even has a new name – 'bridalplasty'.
Riccardo Frati, a plastic surgeon at the Harley Medical Group says the most popular surgeries are liposuction and breast implants.
He adds: 'We have seen a 13 per cent rise year-on-year in bookings for pre-wedding surgical treatments'.
However, psychologists are worried about the trend, blaming celebrity culture for promoting a message of perfection.
Dr Baljit Rana, a Chartered Psychologist at Birmingham City University says: 'It's little wonder that brides, who face spending a day posing for photos they will keep for ever, are feeling such pressure to look perfect they will go under the knife to achieve it.


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Thunderbird on top of Totem Pole in Thunderbird Park in Victoria, BC, Canada.
IF YOU DREAM OF Thunderbird, your destiny is contrary and backwards. You will be empowered to shift consciousness, and you can channel and heal with electromagnetic energy. You are trusted with dream interpretation. The magic you hold enables you to initiate changes on a cellular level; you produce your own illusions. Supernatural elements and forces are your own nature. Heyoka — the Trickster.
These are just some of the things you'll find if you do an online search to learn the meaning of Thunderbird. These meanings are supported in my research by the Hopi and Lakota tribes and other indigenous tribal communities. There is a universal aspect to this bird in spirituality; the meanings vary, but very little.
When I dreamed of Thunderbird, I knew nothing about dreaming of it. I just knew that this was one big bird — and this was no ordinary bird and no ordinary dream. It was an adventure dream. It had a movie set quality and an "end of the world" feeling to it.
The scene was bleak and very brown. It was desert like. The big bird was in the middle of flat, dry area of dirt several blocks from where my sister Andrea and I were standing. We looked outward at the huge airplane of a bird. It was alive with energy, but it appeared very mechanical and had a skeleton-like shape about it. It was bare and naked. It was covered with scaffolding like that used by painters and window washers.
A sturdy ladder was clearly there for us to climb. The bird's hollow eyes were calling me. This bird seemed to be resting, just waiting to come to life; it was sitting idle, like a plane sitting empty with no passengers. A birth-death quality was hiding in the structure of air. I somehow convinced my sister to walk with me. We got to the bird plane, and I started climbing up. My sister was hesitant, but eventually she followed me.
The only colors in this dream were shades of brown. I remember the contrast with my sister's long brown-red hair. Once we got onboard, we felt the movement, just like a plane when it begins to take off. In this case, it felt like it was a one-way trip, a knowing that we'd never be returning. Funny, I experienced both being onboard and envisioning the structure from the ground, in two places at the same time — the upper world, and the grounded underworld, a root of support for the soul traveler while in flight. We seemed to be astral traveling on this rickety old junker. Its eyes lit up, and this skeleton was coming to life. I had the sense that this was the way of the future in the time of light.
I had this dream long ago, yet I still reflect upon it. My sister Andrea has since passed on, but she will always be a part of me — and this dream. All of us are entering into an exciting new time, as things are shifting and changing.
We are all awakening to a call; in my case, an old dream was tapping me on the shoulder to go back and research it and remember the power that had been with me all along. We all are divine and magical! Our guides are here and they are in our dreams. We have all walked through the dry dirt and climbed up on skeletons. We all have seen life in death, and death in life.
It was inspiring to return to this dream. I still see you, sister, with your long brown-red hair on the wings of the Thunderbird. You now are alive — so ride the Thunderbird. Hear the wings make thunder and see the lightning come shooting out of its hollow eyes. Sister, I bet you saw some color in this dream. Maybe that's why I stood back and watched; it was not my time yet to fly like you did. I know you are in good hands on the wings of the one and only Thunderbird.
I loved reading this Megan !
I felt the energy, i saw the visuals, the powerful message.
Knowing that your beautiful sister is always with you is such a blessing.
I had a dream which was slightly different. In my dream the bird was very much lively and there was a huge storm , bigger than I have ever seen. It was night time and me and my mom and my sister were standing there . When I first saw it. The bird was huge and it was diving down from the clouds which were moving too fast. The bird dove right towards me and was about to grab me but someone pushed me down I don't know , maybe my mom or sister. And the bird flew right past us. Before this dream I didn't knew about any other bird mythical bird than Phoenix but after my dream I searched the net until I found the exact same bird of my dream. And it was called a thunderbird.
Note: English is not my first language hence I am sorry if there are any mistakes.


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Q: Error: Uncaught (in promise): TypeError: Cannot set properties of undefined (setting 'mic_permission') in angular I'm trying to check whether microphone permission is granted or not using this code:
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Workers' Compensation Legislation Affecting Public Employers Continues to Move through the Capitol
Will Governor Newsom be More Accommodating than Governor Brown?
In the 2019 Legislative Session, the Legislature has introduced a series of measures in the workers' compensation space that will drive up employer cost and expand the system to pre-2012 reform levels.
The predominant area we have seen this year surrounds the proposed expansions of presumptions within the workers' compensation system — backed by the California Professional Firefighters (CPF), the Peace Officers Research Association of California (PORAC) and/or the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFCME). While the League continues to work with the authors and sponsors to pursue amendments and alternative solutions, Capitol reality is that the Legislature will likely pass these measures, leaving the tough decisions to Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Presumptions Are Cost Drivers
California workers' compensation law provides for several presumptions, which apply specifically for safety and law enforcement positions. In workers' compensation law, an injured worker generally has the burden of proof. The injured worker's burden is to prove that the injury was caused by "reasonable medical probability." This burden essentially means "more likely than not."
The presumptions afforded to safety and law enforcement officers allow them to gain an evidentiary advantage in proving industrial causation. One of the biggest challenges for employers for presumptions is that it takes cost-containment measures off of the table such as the ability to use apportionment in assessing the causation of the injury — especially when the use of '4850' time (one year at full salary, tax free) is accounted for.
Additionally, expanding the classification of employees eligible for presumptions becomes incredibly challenging for employers to try and stabilize costs, ensure appropriate staffing and provide adequate services to the public. There is also a concern that this will lead to an increase in the prevalence of Industrial Disability Retirement (IDR's) which are costly for public agencies.
Current Workers Compensation Expansion Bills Affecting Public Employers
Below are four measures that prove to be most problematic in the 2019 Legislative Session for public employers, ranked in order of greatest fiscal impact:
AB 932 (Low) Off-Duty Firefighters: Out-of-State. Expands the scope of workers' compensation to apply when a firefighter engages in a fire-suppression, rescue operation, the protection or preservation of life or property, outside of this state. Sponsor: CPF.
AB 1400 (Kamlager-Dove) Firefighting Operations. Civilian Employees. Provides all presumptions within the workers compensation system currently authorized for active duty firefighters to "all fire service personnel." This will apply broadly to all non-sworn fire personnel. Sponsor: AFCME.
SB 542 (Stern) Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Creates a new presumption for post-traumatic stress disorder within the workers' compensation system for police and fire personnel. Applies provisions retroactivity to Jan. 1, 2017. Sponsor: CPF.
SB 416 (Hueso) Expansion to All Peace Officers. Expands all presumptions in the workers' compensation system currently approved for firefighters, sheriffs, police officers, California Highway Patrol officers, and arson investigation units to all employees designated as peace officers as defined in Chapter 4.5 of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, except for those peace officers described in subdivision (b) of Section 830.1, subdivision (b) or (d) of Section 830.2, or Section 830.39, 830.4, or 830.5 of the Penal Code. Sponsor: PORAC.
Governor Newsom vs. Governor Brown
In 2012, Gov. Jerry Brown spearheaded one of the largest workers' compensation reform packages in recent memory. His action sent an incredibly strong message to the Legislature, the public and interest groups such as the attorneys and organized labor that he was unwilling to sign measures that would drive up employer cost without sufficient data to justify the expansion. We saw this in practice time and time again when Governor Brown consistently vetoed measures that sought to take away apportionment. As such, Governor Brown became a critical backstop for curbing costs in the workers' compensation system.
Governor Newsom, to date, has not indicated where he will land on proposed workers' compensation expansions. As early endorsers of his gubernatorial campaign, CPF anticipates Governor Newsom will be more receptive than Governor Brown.
Despite the potential of the measures listed above to drive up costs for public employers in the workers' compensation system, the Legislature is likely to send Governor Newsom the majority, if not all, of these pieces of legislation. The critical question remains: will Governor Newsom continue to hold the line on cost driving measures in the system, or be more accommodating than his predecessor?
Recent Action and Next Steps
The League of California Cities in conjunction with the California Coalition on Workers Compensation, California State Association of Counties, California Special Districts Association and other statewide public and private organizations have joined together in opposing these measures. All the measures outlined above, however, have made it through their respective legislative houses. It is critical that cities work through the League to oppose these measures to increase the ability to either stop them in the Legislature or get on record so that Governor Newsom will more fully understand the potential financial impacts on public employers. As these measures continue through the legislative process, cities are encouraged to send letters of opposition to their legislator and a copy to cityletters@cacities.org. The full text of the measures can be found at www.cacities.org/billsearch by plugging the bill number into the search function.

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The Minister says the UAE supports the increase in OPEC + supply 'unconditionally'
Jack Padilla July 4, 2021 3 min read
UAE Minister of Energy and Industry Suhail Al Masrooy is attending the 177th Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meeting on December 5, 2019 in Vienna, Austria.
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The United Arab Emirates' OPEC + leaders have been pushing back Saudi Arabia and Russia, claiming it is a "sovereign right" to negotiate better terms for increasing oil production.
"This is not a good deal for us," UAE Minister of Energy and Infrastructure Suhail al-Masrooy told CNBC's Hadley Campbell, referring to the OPEC + production cuts, which are based on "production volume for 2018".
"We know that the position of the United Arab Emirates in that agreement is very bad compared to our current capacity production level," he said on Sunday.
"But a deal is a deal."
Asked if the UAE was ready to leave, the minister said, "We cannot extend the agreement or make a new one under the same terms. We have a sovereign right to negotiate on it."
The comments came after the UAE blocked some aspects of the OPEC + plan to boost production on Friday and sought better terms for itself.
"We will increase production and then talk about the extension and the agreement and the terms and conditions at a later meeting," he said, adding that the UAE unconditionally supports the increase in supply.
"We meet on Monday and I think we all agree that we need to do something about the increase in production," Al Masrooy said. "The issue puts a condition on that increase, which is an extension of the contract," he added.
Shares are high as oil prices have risen above $ 75 a barrel for the first time in two years. Failure to reach an agreement on Monday could jeopardize market recovery and unleash a weak OPEC + alliance if the stalemate remains unresolved.
"We have a lot of time to meet and discuss the terms of the extension with fairness, which includes independent bodies to reconsider," he said. "I still hope we split the two decisions by Monday," he said.
The United Arab Emirates threatened to leave OPEC late last year, and a withdrawal would certainly trigger the OPEC + price war, which pushed oil prices to $ 40 in April last year.
"Raising prices beyond the reach of the global economy is neither wise nor objective," he said. "We think we have to do this, we have to do it in August," al-Masrooy added.
Basic dispute
At the heart of the current plan is a plan to increase production to 2 million barrels per day (MP / T) per day for the months of August and December at 400,000 barrels per day in monthly installments. OPEC + plans to extend its production cut agreement from April 2022 to December 2022.
"We think it is unrealistic to link the extension of the agreement to a reference to 2018 and a period starting from 2022 because it is four years," Al Masrooy said.
"That's completely unfair."
The United Arab Emirates has invested billions in its oil production capacity. With Iran also returning to the oil market in the coming months, the UAE sees a good opportunity to review the rules.
"Crude oil production in the UAE was 3.160 Mb / d in October 2018, but increased to 3.841 Mb / d in April 2020. By changing the base, the UAE can drastically and immediately increase its production," said Energy Outlook Managing Partner. Anas Alhaji tweeted. Consultants.
"They do not want the OPEC + deal to restrict their production and capacity," he said.
Another sign of this relationship could be that Saudi Arabia moved to restrict travel to the United Arab Emirates late on Friday, citing an epidemic.
When asked about the White House's silence on the production team's internal dispute, Masrooy replied, "Congratulations on the fourth of July."
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Q: ARC NSMutableArray pools I have a pool of objects I keep inside an NSMutableArray so if any other objects want to reference them instead of creating new objects I will simply give it a reference to an object I have already created.
In the past I would monitor retain/release calls on these objects, and when they reached a retain count of 1 (my array only) I would remove them from the array. However I am struggling to do this with ARC because it doesn't let me monitor retain/release, how would I go about doing this?

A: Creating a way to manage objects based on release/retains calls, it's dangerous. If Apple happens to change the way it works, you are screwed. And apparently, that's what happened, when you start using ARC. There are two things:
1) You want to keep the objects inside the NSMutableArray independently if they are being use by other objects or not. In that case, just create a __weak reference to that objects, and in that way your object, that is inside the NSMutableArray, is kept alive.
2) Once there are not references to the object, just remove it from the NSMutableArray. Add to the NSMutableArray a __weak object. Once the strong one is release, the one inside the array will be as well, although I don't really like this approach as I find it dangerous. If you go for this option, use this to store the objects:
NSValue *weakObject = [NSValue valueWithNonretainedObject:anObject];
[array addObject:weakObject];

In the end, you can simply remove ARC from that specific file, and you can keep the monitoring.

A: I wouldn't bother with such a complex system. Just work with strong and weak properties and don't try to second guess performance. You are trying to build a memory management system yourself which makes little sense with ARC around. Creating and deleting objects is generally a tiny percentage of performance of any objective-c app; after years of using Instruments to monitor performance I don't worry about this part any more.

A: First, you should write simple code, intended for humans.
Do not worry about such performance issues until you have proven (via instruments or some other measure) that this is a critical bottleneck.
That said, creating certain objects can be really expensive, so keeping a cache for certain objects is not in and of itself a bad idea.  However, you should never rely on reference counts, even in non-ARC code.  Apple docs are very clear about this.
The alternative, as Jacky pointed out is a weak reference.  Unfortunately, you can not put a weak reference into standard collections (though, ironically, you can put them in C++ collections and they will be managed correctly).
However, you can create a simple wrapper class to hold a weak reference.
@interface WeakWrapper : NSObject
@property (readonly) id object;
- (id)initWithObject:(id)object;
@end

@implementation WeakWrapper {
    __weak id _object;
}
- (id)object {
    return _object;
}
- (id)initWithObject:(id)object {
    if (self = [super init]) {
        _object = object;
    }
    return self;
}
@end

You can then place these objects inside collections, and then...
WeakWrapper *wrapper = // get the object from the collection
id object = wrapper.object;
if (nil == object) {
    // You know the object that was being referenced no longer exists
    // so this wrapper can be removed from the collection and destroyed.
}


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The Hive Reads… The Ninth Rain by Jen Williams
By The Fantasy Hive
Welcome to the fourth instalment of our 'Hive Reads' feature! (You can read the others here.) After settling on The Ninth Rain by Jen Williams as our April read, a bunch of us here at the Hive diligently noted down our thoughts whilst reading throughout the month. You can read the end result below! Though do beware: potential spoilers abound.
This month's read is brought to you by the fabulous team of Alicia Wanstall-Burke, T.O. Munro, T L Greylock, G.D. Penman, Beth Hindmarch and Laura M. Hughes.
Laura M. Hughes: Welcome, everyone, to the latest Hive Read! This time we're getting stuck in to The Ninth Rain by Jen Williams, which I believe everyone has thoroughly enjoyed. First things first: first impressions. What do we all think about the cover?
Beth Hindmarch: I like the cover, you can't go wrong with a great big gryphon gracing the cover. It's undeniably eye catching. But it is a little misleading as there isn't a gryphon in the book… a giant bat would have been great!
G.D. Penman: The cover is gorgeous, but it really doesn't give much away, does it? Looking at that cover you might expect a perfectly "normal" fantasy book, when in fact it revolves around alien invasions, terraforming, archaeology and a metric ton of ancient mysteries.
Laura: Agreed, G.D.! Having previously read Jen Williams' The Copper Promise, I was expecting more of the same traditional adventure fantasy. The Ninth Rain threw me right off – in the best possible way.
Taya (T L Greylock): I actually think the cover does the book a disservice. I suppose there's merit to keeping the cover fairly neutral, but as Laura said, the art suggests traditional and clearly that's not what we have here. I'd love to see a really unique cover that ties to the story without giving anything away. No idea what that looks like, but it's got to be doable.
Laura: Good point, Taya. Perhaps if the books are ever released in the US they'll go for something a bit different. Only time will tell…
Let's move on to the characters. Did anyone have a favourite? What did we all think about the cast and their relationships with each other, and with the world?
T.O. Munro: This is a complex world with distinctive characters. Four main points of view, of which three are female – a ratio after my own heart – plus another couple of minor PoVs which may develop as we go on.
First there's Tor the Eboran in exile, sell-sword with quite a sword to sell, talented, dashing, humorous and also desperately, lonelily human. Reminds me a bit of Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride.
Then there's Vintage, the woman with a fortune built on wine and a world of curiosity to spend it on – a kind of archaeologist/scientist adventurer in the tradition of Indiana Jones, Quatermass or Lara Croft – though more grounded, more people-focused than any of those.
There's also Hestillion, a woman who can walk in and out of people's dreams, the last guardian of a decayed and broken empire coughing its way into bloody oblivion.
Finally, there's Noon, a witch who can steal people's life force by a touch on bare skin and turn it into fire, a power for which she is incarcerated in an island prison by sadistic nuns (compared to them, those who used to run the worst of the Magdalene laundries look like saints). Yet Noon somehow survives in body and spirit.
Laura: Who was your favourite?
T.O.: The strength of the writing shows in that I didn't really have a favourite. I love them all, never sorry to pick up the thread and the thoughts of one of them, never in a hurry to drop one character and return to another.
Alicia Wanstall-Burke: I wanted to punch Hest in the face by the end of the prologue and her subsequent chapters left me hoping she'd get her eyeballs burnt out by her poor long-suffering cousin.
Laura: Don't sit on the fence, Alicia. Say what you really think…
Alicia: She's so fucking RUDE!!! I'm sure that's entirely intentional on the part of the esteemed author, and it works
T.O.: Mind you, she was always pretty rude from the outset in the two prologues. Never a very welcoming host!
G.D.: I am starting to worry that I may have some sort of character flaw, because I really love Hest. She hasn't got her brother's self-involved charisma, Noon's eternal flame of snark or Vintage's heart, but she is a nasty manipulative egotist who wants to save the entire world, but only if she gets all the credit… how can you people not love that?
Laura: She's definitely one of the most entertaining POVs I've come across, I'll give her that! Alicia, were there any characters whose eyes you didn't want to burn out?
Alicia: Tor and Vintage are a fucking joy! Their banter is just perfect! The later snark between Noon and Tor is even better.
The narrative flows along really nicely between the four different POV characters at the start – it isn't jarring to move between them as the narrative shifts at logical points. You are being moved through time quite quickly between the chapters (across some 200 years) but it feels smooth. You really WANT to keep reading.
Taya: I didn't find the passage of all those years quite as smooth, but in hindsight, it works. At the time, I found myself thinking that I didn't want to be bothered to keep track of what happened 50 years ago vs. what happened 200 years ago. However, once we got into the book properly–namely when Vintage came into her own in her first true chapter–I was hooked. As for the name Vintage–pure gold. Sometimes it's painfully obvious when authors want to give their characters cool nicknames, but this one flat-out works. Kudos to Jen for nailing it. And as Alicia says, the relationship between Vintage and Tor is wonderfully depicted. We know from the moment we see them on the page together that their relationship is one of depth, time, trust, and friendly exasperation.
"The relationship between Vintage and Tor is wonderfully depicted. We know from the moment we see them on the page together that their relationship is one of depth, time, trust, and friendly exasperation."
– T L Greylock
Alicia: I absolutely adore Vintage's voice — her dialogue is so real, I can hear every inflection and emphasis. That's also true of all the characters, but Vintage just has this unique sound that is truly wonderful. I think this is a great lesson in how to write dialogue without phonetically spelling out every uttered word exactly as the character says it. You can construct those sentences in such a way that the reader can 'hear' the voice or accent, while reading whole words. It's really well done, I think.
T.O.: Yes, you're right, the affectations in Vintage's speech convey character and attitude without dropping into phonetic depiction of accent (a bit like Gatsby's use of "Old Sport" as a motif says a lot about who he is – or who he is pretending to be).
G.D.: It is really rare to find a book where one character doesn't jump out as a favourite because they are all so well developed and characterised. Having said that, every time I thought something bad was about to happen to Vintage, I was ready to throw the book across the room. While the other two had all their slightly vague supernatural powers to pull them back from the brink, she was the most human both in frailty and in motivation.
Aldasair also ended up being an unexpected favourite, clawing his way back to reality, although I did spend quite a lot of time with him towards the end of the book wishing he would just KISS BERN and put us all out of our misery. The whole book was a lot gayer than it looked from the outset, so that was a pleasant surprise.
Alicia: OMG when Aldasair and Bern were in the "secret place" I was like, *bangs fist on table* JUST KISS THAT ADORABLE AXE-WIELDING ROCK-VIKING ALREADY!!! Oh my poor heart!
Beth: Jen is a fantastic storyteller, is a convincing world builder; but her characters are absolutely her strength. They have incredible depths of humanity and ambiguity; and I feel she always does a great job of representing so many different groups of people. Her characters are so diverse.
"Jen is a fantastic storyteller, is a convincing world builder; but her characters are absolutely her strength. They have incredible depths of humanity and ambiguity; and I feel she always does a great job of representing so many different groups of people. Her characters are so diverse."
– Beth Hindmarch
Although Vintage always seems to be a firm favourite (How can she not be? Sticking it to her patronising over-protective family and showing you don't have to be a perky teenager to have adventures.), Noon was my favourite. I loved her story arc and progression, her drive to escape and the fact that, just like the rest of them, she still has her flaws.
Laura: I enjoyed Noon's arc too, Beth. I especially liked how people's attitudes toward fell witches was reminiscent of the treatment of mages in the Dragon Age franchise (which I know Jen is a huge fan of). When we first meet Noon, she's basically trapped inside the worst Circle Tower imaginable, which just makes her throwing off the chains of oppression even more wonderful to read.
Speaking of beginnings: does anyone have any thoughts on structure and pacing within the novel? Did it hook you from the outset, or take a while to get going? We've already established that most of us (myself included) enjoyed the shifting POVs, but did they keep those pages turning all the way through?
T.O.: For me, the pace and structure are pretty much pitch perfect. The two opening flashbacks/prologues (200 years ago and 50 years ago) work efficiently to set the essential backdrop of the story. The italicised openings to each chapter drawn from the papers of Lady Vintage also help to entertainingly info-dump or bridge events in the story – e.g. how Vintage and Tor met up.
I never liked Drizzt Do'Urden's italicised reminiscences in R.A.Salvatore's Dark elf books–always skipped them. But here–though longer than, say, the chapter openings in Josiah Bancroft's Senlin Ascends–I still find these reflections short and pithy enough to smooth the flow of reading rather than impede it.
Also, in some ways these openings hint at a dark framing story. Who is sorting/organising/editing Lady Vintage's papers? Why are we told that one sample of the papers ends abruptly, the sheet having been torn off?
G.D.: Wasn't it established that the little notes were being collected and catalogued by her favourite nephew? I may just be inferring?
Laura: I think so, though what T.O. says about one of them ending abruptly is certainly very ominous.
Beth: I was wondering who was collating the information too! I found it a clever device, when Vintage was in trouble it felt like there was really jeopardy, as we already know that at some point someone's had access to what would normally be private documents…
Alicia: The journal entries and letters remind me of a device used in some of Robin Hobb's books, which is quite comfortable and cozy and I will have some more of that, thank you.
Laura: I've always been a fan of epigraphs at the beginning of chapters, too. (Michael R. Fletcher's Beyond Redemption utilises them really well, as does Heart of Stone by Ben Galley. And, of course, The Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson.) The Ninth Rain is definitely one of the best examples of this I've read.
Alicia: Some of them have been a bit weighty at a point in the story where I want to get back to the action, but not so much that I'm like, ugh, I'm too tired for this. It makes me want to push on, and I know there is a little nugget of information hidden in each of them.
G.D.: The pacing worked really well for me, although I didn't adore the distant prologues. I understand why they weren't incorporated into the story as background material but it was still a tiny stumbling block before we got to the good stuff. Once we were into the POV chapters, I was sold. As everyone else is saying, you don't resent spending time with a single character because each plotline is equally engaging. Not like some multi-POV fantasy stories where you just wish you could skip the Daenerys chapters entirely…
T.O.: Lol – mentioning no names there, G.D.!
Laura: He's got a point, though. No one likes Daenerys' chapters…
Taya: As I mentioned above, I'm definitely in agreement with Graeme about the prologues. I think it could have worked to jump right in to the POV chapters. That being said, I didn't at all mind the continuation of Vintage's notes to kick off each chapter.
G.D.: Structurally, I liked that the book had some jumping about rather than what a lot of authors seem to consider a natural progression. When new information presented itself, our characters split off to pursue their own interests, while still keeping the others in their thoughts. A lot of fantasy books would have been bound too much by the old tabletop gaming adage of "don't split the party" but this book goes where it needs to go.
T.O.: There's a bit where Agent Lin, in a moment of self-reflection, observes, "There were many advantages to being an agent of the Winnowry, but they mostly worked alone. This is what it led to: talking to bats."
It had me thinking of the difficulty of stories/storylines pursued by just one character. How do you get essential dialogue into these situations? (That's why, when I'm writing, I like two-handed scenes.) So in Castaway, Tom Hanks had to interact with a volleyball called Wilson, and there was a scene in one of the Hobbit movies where Gandalf discovers the Nazgul have broken out of their cell/tombs and has taken Radagast with him and Radagast/Sylvester McCoy asks "why am I here, Gandalf?" and I could feel the fourth wall cracking as I thought only so Gandalf has someone to talk/info-dump to.
So, too, Agent Lin has to talk to her bat.
G.D.: I suppose that is the one downside of this kind of limited third person perspective. Everything has to be externalised before it can be conveyed to the reader/viewer. You can't just listen in on what they are thinking. They have to be constantly yammering.
Laura: True, and really interesting, too. Though I for one adored the bats.
T.O.: Giant bats ridden by witches! Gotta be a damn sight more comfortable than broom sticks.
Laura: For me, they were just one more (adorable) aspect of a fresh and exciting secondary world. Speaking of which: what are everyone's thoughts about said world?
T.O.: Wow, just wow. What a world.
OK, the Eborans are basically elves.
Tall – check
Elegant – check
Beautiful/musical/talented in many ways – check (Tor might give Rothuss's Felurian a run for her money in the bower department)
Long lived – check
Slightly remote/patronising attitude towards humans – check
Love/hug trees – check
Pointy ears – er … nope
Vampiric tendencies/fondness for human blood – er… OK, not strictly canonical elves, but still elves with a twist.
Alicia: But sexy elves, am I right? *wink wink*
T.O.: Sexy and yet so civilised. I love the way that Tor is obsessed with the finer things in life. Good silk shirts, vintage wine, aromatic cheese, and tea prepared with all due propriety. (OK, civilised apart from the Crimson War blood sucking thing.)
Alicia: He's pretty much permanently on the verge of being completely shitfaced, which I imagine elves would turn their perfectly formed long-lived noses up at. Does one's liver suffer the hardships of booze-houndery when one is as long lived as our Tor? Or can he be blotto most days and roll on with no problems? Whatever the answer, Tor is definitely the kind of guy you'd take with you to Vegas.
"[Tor is] pretty much permanently on the verge of being completely shitfaced, which I imagine elves would turn their perfectly formed long-lived noses up at. Does one's liver suffer the hardships of booze-houndery when one is as long lived as our Tor? Or can he be blotto most days and roll on with no problems? Whatever the answer, Tor is definitely the kind of guy you'd take with you to Vegas."
– Alicia Wanstall-Burke
Laura: Absolutely.
Any thoughts on the worldbuilding? For me, I love how original it feels, yet I find it really hard to describe to people who haven't also read the book.
T.O.: A world blighted by waves of past alien invasions with one dead spaceship/behemoth in constant orbit as a corpse moon, and others buried as wrecks across the land leaking some corrupting taint into the soil.
Aliens that seem like some combination of the recurrent foe from Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, or Will Smith's Independence Day, or the martians from War of the Worlds (like in the Tom Cruise film), where it was not just a war of conquest but a battle to terraform another people's world.
Aliens who hollow out your nearest and dearest and turn them into shell-like automatons to serve in the alien army – like Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets The Walking Dead.
Laura: Okay, that's actually an awesome summary of the world and its biggest external conflict. And dear god, the Jure'lia… I'm terrified of them.
T.O.: I can't wait to meet these out-of-this-world monsters, and, judging by the dreams everyone is having, we shouldn't have to wait too long.
Alicia: The alien 'mothers' remind me so much of War of the Worlds. Great spindly things that were on the cover of my high school art teacher's record of the recording. We used to listen to it on his record player in the studio while we worked.
T.O.: Oh that music! The original 1980s. Great to draw/paint to – or write to!
As for the spaceships; those crashed behemoths feel like some combination of
a) wrecked Independence Day motherships
b) the sundered Titanic
c) the zygon quasi-organic spaceships in the Dr Who Loch Ness Monster adventure
The whole thing also reminded me of an old AD&D module S3 Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, where magic and sci-fi mixed with wizards and warriors exploring the wreck of a crashed spaceship
Laura: I found it nearly impossible to compare to anything else, so I'm hugely impressed that you've managed to come up with so many great comparisons!
T.O.: I think G.D. summed it up very well on Twitter:
G.D.: I called it science-fantasy and I stick to that. There are scifi elements at the foundation of this book but they are presented entirely as "magical." Even the supernatural coded Eborans can very easily be read as just another alien species, albeit one that arrived ahead of the Worm People to prevent their invasion; the whole set-up with their magical tree god feels like colonists who have forgotten what their ship's AI is and have started worshiping it.
T.O.: Oooh! There is an exciting perspective.
G.D.: I absolutely love the biopunk elements of this book and the writing really emphasises just how gross organic technology would be, with a heavy emphasis placed on the insectoid nature of the Worm People to trigger the reader's disgust.
Alicia: I do wonder though about the 'varnish'-making slugs. They move very slowly, secreting a fluid that turns to a hard semi-transparent form soon after, something that I imagine is akin to amber. People are caught in the slime and stuck forever. But if they move really slowly, why don't people get out of the way? Like, "Oh, look, there's the slime beastie! Best we jog on before we get stuck in its leakage!"
Otherwise, the captured people stuck in the amber-slime are super creepy and I love it.
T.O.: "Jog on before we get stuck in its leakage" – sound advice! Slow-moving varnish should be easily escapable. But then I guess a fly could get trapped in amber, so if one foot got stuck then the stuff doesn't have to flow that quickly to get the rest of you. But the varnish is creepy – a sort of translucent volcanic dust to create an even more erie Pompeii experience.
G.D.: The fact that both Eborans and Worm People have biotech that steps over the line into myth and magic is what really gave this book its own unique feel to me. There have been plenty of magic vs. science stories but I love the way that this one blurs that line so much that the sufficiently advanced technology truly is indistinguishable.
"The fact that both Eborans and Worm People have biotech that steps over the line into myth and magic is what really gave this book its own unique feel to me. There have been plenty of magic vs. science stories but I love the way that this one blurs that line so much that the sufficiently advanced technology truly is indistinguishable."
– G.D. Penman
Even the Fell-Witches have taken the one clearly magical element of the story and industrialised it; turning the arcane powers of the chosen few into a production line for drugs.
There is a persistent problem in medieval fantasy with technology and its utter failure to advance over the millennia, but in this book there is at least a logical reason. Each of the previous eight Worm People invasions would have culled the human population and crippled progress. Even with those constant setbacks and the dangerous areas contaminated with fallout, it was quite exciting to realise that The Ninth Rain took place during Sarn's Renaissance period rather than the dark ages.
Beth: I was not prepared for the world building. At all. I was not expecting spaceships and aliens at all. But likewise I was pleasantly surprised by the complexity of the society Jen created here, it felt like a big step up from The Copper Cat trilogy. I loved the dystopian elements; the institutionalised exploitation of the fell witches, their dehumanisation put me in mind of The Handmaid's Tale. As G.D. pointed out, you so rarely read a fantasy where the world is on the brink of industrialisation, and I loved Jen's approach to it here, her mix of magic and steampunk.
Laura: It's an intoxicating mix, for sure. I said in my original review of The Ninth Rain that Jen's hallmark is tropes with a twist. Here, she takes the traditional and filters it through her own imagination, then takes the unlikeliest aspects and combines them with the experimental skill and competence of an alchemist. The result? An eerily beautiful world, irresistably flawed characters, and an original, well-paced story.
General thoughts about the plot, anyone?
T.O.: The plot kept ticking over nicely. Within the looming threat of a world-engulfing apocalypse, the reader is still caught up in the individual struggles of the characters. The book does well at making the major into minor, the macro into micro. Tell me the world is in peril and I might be curious; show me a character whose fate I care about and I am invested.
"Within the looming threat of a world-engulfing apocalypse, the reader is still caught up in the individual struggles of the characters. The book does well at making the major into minor, the macro into micro. Tell me the world is in peril and I might be curious; show me a character whose fate I care about and I am invested."
– T.O. Munro
I also like the foreshadowing that went on: meeting the Bitter Twins, and a fresco that Noon looked at which looks like it will lead nicely into the next book. 🙂
G.D.: The overarching plot, when you strip away the unique elements, is pretty straightforward. Ancient evil. Ancient good. Elder races in decline. But the depth of the characters, the uniqueness of the setting and the way that every element is examined rather than just accepted really elevate that simple plot into something much more interesting.
Beth: What struck me about the plot was that there was clearly going to be more than this one book could contain. I felt like it had been carefully crafted and planned as an introduction, yet driving enough to keep me interested and invested into the next book.
G.D.: I am a big fan of standalone books, or books from a series that you can read as a self-contained story, and thanks to the character arcs, this book can be read alone. There is obviously a big cliffhanger at the end, and this was very clearly just the first act of the overall story, but you don't feel let down by the ending.
Also, I am so looking forward to the Hest/Jure'lia Queen snarkfest that is almost guaranteed to take over the sequel…
"Jen takes the traditional and filters it through her own imagination, then takes the unlikeliest aspects and combines them with the experimental skill and competence of an alchemist. The result? An eerily beautiful world, irresistably flawed characters, and an original, well-paced story."
– Laura M. Hughes
Laura: I noticed some of you were noting down quotations during the readalong. Which ones in particular resonated with you?
T.O.: There were lots of lovely descriptive turns and phrases:
"…four scalpel-like towers that tore at the sky…"
"The daylight, already weak … had turned to a velvet darkness."
"Hestillion closed her eyes, feeling her mind sink into the shadowy netherdarkness. It closed around her, as comforting to Hestillion as being held by a dear parent."
Some of the descriptions make me wonder if the author does much gardening:
"Below, the dirt was black and exposed, riddled with pale roots grasping at air like skeletal fingers."
"Three large fungi had fallen back, exposing their strange roots to the air like a drunken woman's lacey skirts."
And then this that made me smile:
Tor winked at her. "Worry not, my sweet. What is out there holds no fears for an Eboran warrior and his fabled sword."
"I'm sure the girl has heard quite enough about your fabled sword for one evening."
(I do love a knob gag!)
"We have a pact under the auspices of the House of the Long Night" = Eboran for "We are friends with benefits."
Alicia: *snort*
I have so many favourite lines, but this one got me tonight, care of my new mate, Tor:
"Judging by the constellations just starting to glint into life, the scent of the wind and the texture of the earth…I would say we're precisely in the middle of nowhere."
T.O.: There are so many lovely turns of phrase and evocative descriptions. Whole pages of elegant prose and snippets to smile at.
"… a part of Mushenska known as the Downs, a shady and disreputable gang of streets …"
"The old man's eyes were lost in wrinkles."
"…pieces of the dream speeding away like leaves on the river…"
"…just the half-hearted wind for company."
Another reason to like Bern the Younger (besides the fact that he is so kind to Aldasair and good with children and has two axes and – in my mind's eye – looks like Thor played by Chris Hemsworth) – he has this perfect quote:
"Show me a people who don't have a bloody history"
Another quote for our times in the constant social media-fuelled competition to define "other" as "evil."
Alicia: Eeek! Yes! Hemsworth! *bites lip*
Beth: GET BACK ON YOUR BAT AND FUCK OFF. Seriously, I'm going to get that on a doormat, on a mug, in needlepoint hanging in the bathroom…
I found Jen's language and prose gorgeous, another example of how her writing has progressed and improved. There were beautiful descriptions, her world was so easy to visualise, yet I never felt bogged down.
Laura: I felt the same, Beth. And I loved that there were laugh-out-loud quotes as well as more deep/poignant ones.
Finally, does anyone have any recommendations for books similar to The Ninth Rain?
T.O.: Hard to say, but the strangeness of its setting – the aftermath of recovery from a world-changing invasion by incomprehensible aliens with a mix of magic and technology – puts me a little in mind of Peter Newman's The Vagrant trilogy.
Alicia: Definitely The Vagrant, but let's be honest, the best book to follow this up with is THE SEQUEL!! I am so keen for The Bitter Twins. It's in the post, trucking its way across the country to me, because I live in the middle of nowhere with no book stores and I'm a hard copy book snob.
T.O.: Handily, the kindle version of The Ninth Rain includes a sneak preview of The Bitter Twins!
Alicia: I was packing our garden shed into a trailer today, and found myself carrying the wood axe and the log splitter. Then I started kind of sauntering across the yard thinking, 'Oh, look at me with my Bitter Twins!'
…this is what my life is now, you guys…
G.D.: For a classic with a similar feel, I have to point to Moorcock's "Elric" stories. Ebora is so closely aligned with the ancient and crumbling city-state of Melnibone, right down to the flying mythical creatures that once roosted there but are now in decline, that I find it difficult to believe it wasn't deliberate. Tormalain the Oathless, with his mythical named sword, over-attachment to a close family member and self-indulgent attitude to the dubious "pleasures" of the world outside is basically Elric updated for a modern audience. It shows how much storytelling has evolved in the genre that he isn't the sole lead of this book. He would definitely qualify as an aspect of Moorcock's Eternal Hero, if nothing else.
For more modern books that handle the science-fantasy aspects of the book in a similar way – viewing the science through the lens of fantasy – I have to point to Sapkowski's "Witcher" series, which has wizards alternating between discussing arcane secrets and Darwinian evolution without batting an eyelid. I also want to point people towards the amazing "Wings Unseen" by Becca Gomez Farrell; which was very much a classic fantasy setting that someone had dumped a scifi/thriller monster in the vein of Michael Crichton into. It also had a Hest-type character that I loved and everyone else hated… I am noticing a theme here.
Laura: Some really interesting recommendations here. As you know, The Vagrant is a Hive Read later this year, so it'll be fascinating to see just how it compares with The Ninth Rain.
That's it for this month! Thanks again to our wonderful reading team of Alicia, T.O., G.D., Beth, Taya and Laura (me). Be sure to drop by soon to see what we (and others) have to say about Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames!
Bonus content: snippets and 'thought farts' from throughout the readalong!
T.O.: 40% in and just hit a "oooh" moment – So tell me, Alicia, has Hestillion been doing what I think she's been doing and is that why you are in eyeball burning mode?
Alicia: I'm not telling!! But she's so fucking RUDE!!! I'm sure that's entirely intentional on the part of the esteemed author, and it works
T.O.: she was, she was, she was doing it! Mind you she was always pretty rude from the outset in the two prologues. Never been a great/welcoming host!
Alicia: *cough* I'm shipping Noon and Tor pretty hard right now, guys. I need a moment…
Alicia: (random thought farts)
– This needs to be a movie.
– Agent Lin – I do not like her
– Hest – Manipulative little shit
– Oooooh I think I know what the parasite spirits are!!!!
Taya: I'm at 17% and I have two thoughts:
We are riding a giant bat.
These are parasite spirits:
Alicia: I spent the entire time thinking of B.O.B.
T.O.: Ah ha – I think I am getting ideas about the parasitic spirits too! Thoughts coalescing around the 60% mark and then Noon's little moment of madness is tapping into more clues. So, let us examine the clues:
#1 they seem to occur around/near wrecked and/or recently unearthed behemoths
#2 that's all I'm saying at the moment…
#3 I was right! – now read the book.
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In less than a month, California motorists may be in for a surprise when they notice no one is driving the car next to them. In late February, the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) announced that it was eliminating the driverless car test requirement to have a person in the driver's seat to take over in an emergency.
Fifty companies have a license to test autonomous vehicles (AVs) in California. Of course, companies are still required to be able to operate the vehicle remotely and communicate with law enforcement when things go wrong.
California has required all fifty companies to report yearly on the number of 'disengagements" or instances when human drivers need to take over the robocar. Google's Waymo has had the best track record so far. Between December 2016 and November 2017, Waymo's AVs drove 350,000 miles with about 1 disengagement every 5,600 miles for a total of 63 times.
Accidents between AVs and human propelled vehicles have occurred. Since the accidents are self-reported by companies with no input from the humans of the human propelled vehicles, the reasons for the accidents are skewed. Many of them seem to be rear-enders. Human propelled vehicles hitting the driverless one.
Also, how can you realistically compare roads and equipment one company is testing over another? Could some companies test their AVs on streets that are easy to navigate with little problems without ever venturing on the big tricky arterial roads and busy urban cores? This would indeed skew the findings. And how can a company really compare their test results to real worldview driving done by humans? Companies could inflate their test miles by reducing complexity and situations that might require disengagement. Companies look good on paper which does not really tell us anything about the capability and reliability of that company's driverless technology.
Another issue with the California AV regulations—what happens to them whenever the Feds finally pass the American Vision for Safer Transportation through the Advancement of Revolutionary Technology or AV Start Act? The U.S. House passed their version of the bill in September but the Senate bill has stalled. Someday, a bill will probably pass in one form or another.
Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety spokesperson Rosemary Shahan said in testimony: "The message from Washington is that we should trust that the auto manufacturers, which have a long history of engaging in widespread illegal activity, concealing safety defects, failing to report fatalities and injuries, and defrauding the public, this time will somehow change their stripes, and 'voluntarily' get it right." Shahan read from a long list of automaker deceptions perpetrated by Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Subaru, Toyota, Uber and Volkswagen.
Is California really ready to unleash the driverless car without human babysitters on the roads of California? I guess we'll all find out come April.


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The Top 10 Potato Producing States In The US
Potato is a major crop grown in the United States.
The potatoes in the US originally came from the Andeans in South America. Today, over 30 states grow potatoes which are consumed locally as well as exported to other countries. One-third of the potatoes in the US are consumed fresh. The other two-thirds are used to make frozen products, potato chips, and French fries. Furthermore, a portion of the potatoes harvested in the US farms are used as seeds. Idaho is the largest potato producing state in the US. The 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th potato producers in the US are Washington, Wisconsin, Oregon, and North Dakota respectively.
Top Potato Growing States In The United States
Every year, Idaho produces potatoes amounting to 134,850 thousand centum weight (cwt). The high yield may be attributed to the favorable climate, volcanic soil, and irrigation programs of the state. Potato is known as the Idaho State Vegetable due to its popularity. In 2016, 324,000 acres of land in Idaho were utilized for potato farming. Besides, 30,000 jobs were created for the people living in the state. The common types of potatoes grown in Idaho are Russets and Burbanks.
2. Washington
The annual production of potatoes in Washington State is 99,220 thousand cwt. 87% of these potatoes are sold to processors at a value of approximately $4.6 billion. The potato production industry in Washington creates jobs for 23,500 people. Most of the potatoes are grown in Grant County with the harvest season being July. Potatoes rank third among the top commodities produced in Washington after milk and apples. In 2016, Washington's produced 21% of the total US potato production which was valued at $888 million. The area of land used to grow these potatoes was 165,000 acres. With a yield of 397 sacks per acre, Washington State is among the states in the world with a high per acre yield of potatoes.
Most people identify Wisconsin State with milk production based on its nickname "Dairyland." However, the state is also popular for its potato production as it is ranked 3rd among the US states. The annual production of potatoes in Wisconsin is 29,750 thousand cwt. 63,000 acres of the state's land is dedicated to potato farming which is done by close to 110 farmers. The popular variety of potato grown in Wisconsin is the Russet. Nonetheless, farmers also grow white, yellow, and red potatoes.
4. Oregon
Oregon is among the places in the world that have the highest yield per acre of potatoes. 15% of the potatoes produced in Oregon are exported to foreign markets. The main importers of the potatoes are South America, Mexico, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines. On the other hand, 75% of the state's potatoes are used to make food products such as chips, soups, and French fries. The varieties of potatoes grown in Oregon are the red, white, large, small, and brown. Every year, the state produces 25,245 thousand cwt of potatoes.
Potato Production in thousand centum weight
1 Idaho 134,850
2 Washington 99,220
3 Wisconsin 29,750
4 Oregon 25,245
5 North Dakota 24,420
6 Colorado 21,220
7 Minnesota 18,428
8 Michigan 18,315
9 California 17,894
10 Maine 15,200
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James Charles was attacked by It actor Wyatt Oleff, 14, after James posted a YouTube makeup tutorial featuring Pennywise from It.
Wyatt slammed James for being opportunistic, especially after James famously dissed the movie last month.
Back in September, James caused some drama after he said that the It movie was "awful". After he did that, It and Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard fired back, which forced James to issue an official apology.
A month later, it seems like James just can't escape all the It drama for good!
It's almost Halloween, and James went to film a "glam" makeup tutorial about becoming Pennywise. Watch it below.
James said that everyone was making Pennywise makeup tutorials, so he just had to join in.
James had many fans who praised the video, like Maddie Ziegler. Unfortunately, her makeup didn't turn out quite like the original.
Even songstress Cher thought it was "magnificent".
Last month, James Charles was attacked by It fans (and Finn Wolfhard) when he said the movie sucked. You can watch the video below to see some of the things he said, as well as his apology.
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Shane Dawson also entered the fight to defend James. "The look was f****** good," Shane said. "Stop taking things so seriously," he told Wyatt.
Wyatt then started to backpedal and dial down his outrage a bit. He claimed he was making a "joke".
James, who has been on the receiving end of hate from It fans for weeks, did not let Wyatt off the hook so easily. "It is not funny," James said. He told Wyatt that "he knew what he was doing".
James said that his It dragging was different from dragging Wyatt.
Wyatt replied to Shane's humorous tweet about wanting to be friends again.
The pair of them appeared to have gotten over the fight.


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Another indy league on the horizon?
By Kevin Reichard on December 9, 2010 in Independent Baseball, News
Reps from the startup Ultimate Baseball League say they're forming a new six-team league to begin play in 2012 and pitched Johnstown (Pa.) officials last night on placing a team in Point Stadium.
Andrew Haines, the man behind the American Indoor Football League and the new Ultimate Indoor Football League, says the league's footprint could stretch from New York to Georgia. Point Stadium, which formerly hosted both affiliated and independent baseball (most recently an independent Frontier League franchise), is targeted as a baseball home by the same group bringing an UIFL team to the city.
While the footprint is large, it's not necessarily fertile: when you look at the league's potential footprint there's an abundance of affiliated, independent and summer-collegiate leagues already doing business. It won't be hard to find some markets that formerly hosted ball, but it will be a challenge to put together a league that makes economic sense.
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FA WSL Day 13
Bristol 0 Chelsea 1
Arsenal 4 Liverpool 1
Lincoln 2 Everton 1
Doncaster 0 Birmingham 2
The table :
1. Arsenal 30 pts 12 games +20
2. Birmingham 24 pts 12 games +13
3. Everton 22 pts 13 games +3
4. Bristol 17 pts 12 games +2
5. Chelsea 17 points 13 games -2
6. Lincoln 15 points 13 games -3
7. Doncaster 8 points 12 games -15
8. Liverpool 5 points 13 games -18
Arsenal clinched a place in the Champions League 2013/14 as Everton can no longer catch up. Birmingham has a small chance of winning the title should Doncaster beat Arsenal next Sunday live on ESPN.
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FA WPL National Division Day 4
2 games postponed due to Welsh players on international duty with the Euro qualifiers Barnet v Watford and Cardiff v Man City.
Leeds won away 3-2 at Charlton, Sunderland beat Aston Villa 2-1 at home and Coventry won 1-0 away at Porstmouth.
Sunderland has already taken a 3 points lead over Leeds and 6 over Watford but also has a +14 goal difference compared to +2 for Leeds and +1 for Watford.
Coventry and Portsmouth are level on points with Watford with 6 points. Then come Man City and Cardiff with 4, Aston Villa with 3 and at the bottom Charlton and Barnet with a point.
As a reminder the WSL division 2 will start in 2014 so at the end of this 2012-13 season, 10 sides will leave the Women's Premier League National, Northern and Southern, unless a combination side manage to have a good enough financial package to get selected by the FA. So we have no clue what will happen in term of relegation or even the Women's Premier League structure overall as it is likely that 17 clubs from the 3 divisions will still be around.
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Arsenal 2 Lincoln 1
Everton 2 Chelsea 1
Liverpool 2 Birmingham 5 Doncaster 1 Bristol 1
Chelsea and Lincoln officially out of Champions league places race. Bristol also out of the title race. Arsenal now plays Liverpool and Doncaster at home and need 4 points from those 2 games to be crowned champion.
Birmingham is favorite to win the 2nd champions league place as currently trailing Everton by a point and with a game on hand.
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FA Women's Premier League Cup 2012-13
Holders : Sunderland women
The teams finishing winners and runners-up of each group, along with the best four third-placed teams (based on the highest number of points, superior goal difference, higher number of goals scored in these matches, drawing of lots) will progress to the last 16 of the competition. The Last 16, Quarter Finals and Semi-Final ties will be on a one-leg knockout basis.
The group distribution is as follows:
GROUP 1: Cardiff City Ladies FC, Portsmouth, Queens Park Rangers, Reading FC Women, Yeovil Town
GROUP 2: Brighton & Hove Albion, Charlton Athletic, Gillingham, Lewes, Millwall Lionesses
GROUP 3: Aston Villa, Coventry City, Derby County, Leicester City Women, Sporting Club Albion
GROUP 4: Blackburn Rovers, Manchester City, Preston North End, Wolverhampton Wanderers
GROUP 5: Barnet, Colchester United, Tottenham Hotspur, Watford, West Ham United
GROUP 6: Leeds United, Newcastle United, Nottingham Forest, Sheffield FC, Sunderland
Group 4 has 4 teams as Rochdale withdrew from The WPL
Tournament dates
Sunday 2nd September
Sunday 23rd September
Sunday 25th November
Last 16 – Sunday 9th December 2012
Quarter Finals – Sunday 13th January 2013
Semi Final – Sunday 10th February 2013
Final – Date to be confirmed
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Broadway Show Ticket Sales Analysis w/e 8/25/2013
By Jennifer R Jones | Posted on August 27, 2013 6:56 AM
ANOTHER DIP IN BROADWAY TICKET REVENUE Total Broadway ticket sales decreased again this week, as summer winds down to its conclusion. Broadway ticket revenue fell by over one million, dropping from $21,839,390 to $20,604,711. VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE CLOSES A surprise hit during Broadway's spring season this year, the Christopher Durang play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike ended its run this week. The wacky comedy enjoyed excellent sales during much of the summer, and in its final week, Vanya earned a total of $565,571, hitting 85.01% theater capacity and taking in an average paid admission of $105.67. ROMEO AND JULIET STARTS STRONG Perhaps William Shakespeare's best known tragedy, Romeo and Juliet has gotten off to a good start in its first week of Broadway previews. The latest revival of the 400-year old drama had over 91% attendance with an average paid admission of $86.77 per ticket. The end of summer can be a difficult time to open a show on Broadway, but the recognizable title and the fact that the production stars British movie heartthrob Orlando Bloom (The Lord of the Rings) is likely working in its favor. The following are the Broadway ticket sales numbers from the week ending August 25, 2013:
Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm
ANNIE $747,017 9,463 69.25% $78.94
CHICAGO $592,959 7,520 87.04% $78.85
CINDERELLA $811,958 8,941 63.83% $90.81
FIRST DATE $411,514 6,207 72.58% $66.30
FOREVER TANGO $206,708 4,205 56.64% $49.16
JERSEY BOYS $762,714 8,172 83.18% $93.33
KINKY BOOTS $1,635,009 11,480 100.77% $142.42
LET IT BE $321,418 5,726 42.53% $56.13
MAMMA MIA! $831,600 9,470 79.02% $87.81
MATILDA $1,320,097 11,539 100.72% $114.40
MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL $1,401,954 11,701 97.06% $119.81
NEWSIES $809,180 8,987 94.80% $90.04
ONCE $635,876 7,002 82.65% $90.81
PIPPIN $1,003,459 7,839 98.98% $128.01
ROCK OF AGES $352,664 3,992 85.59% $88.34
ROMEO AND JULIET $207,375 2,390 91.22% $86.77
SOUL DOCTOR $187,435 4,729 84.21% $39.64
SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK $966,952 10,705 69.33% $90.33
THE BOOK OF MORMON $1,698,210 8,752 102.63% $194.04
THE LION KING $1,875,882 13,603 100.02% $137.90
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA $1,068,863 11,779 91.74% $90.74
THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL $481,516 5,243 70.46% $91.84
VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE $565,571 5,352 85.01% $105.67
WICKED $1,708,781 13,223 91.37% $129.23
Totals: $20,604,711 198,020 83.36% $97.56
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Published: 15th December 2019
Tackling the climate crisis
Responding to the final communiqué of the COP25 climate talks in Madrid, Chema Vera, Interim Executive Director of Oxfam International, said:
"The world is screaming out for climate action but this summit had responded with a whisper. The poorest nations are in a sprint for survival yet many governments have barely moved from the starting blocks. Instead of committing to more ambitious cuts in emissions, countries have argued over technicalities.
"Poorer nations spoke with one voice to demand funds to help them recover from the loss and damage inflicted by the climate emergency. For the homes that have become uninhabitable, the land that has become un-farmable, and the lives that have become unbearable. Wealthy nations have used every trick in the book to stall progress and avoid paying their fair share.
"Now more then ever, it is vital that people across the world keep up the pressure on governments to deliver more ambitious climate action."
Emissions Cuts
Instead of committing to more ambitious cuts in emissions, countries have argued over technicalities. Commitments made so far have come from countries that account for around only 10 percent of global emissions. They will not keep global temperatures from rising above 1.5°C. If we are to have any chance of avoiding catastrophic climate impacts it is critical that all countries – led by the largest emitters – commit to much deeper emissions cuts in early 2020.
COP25 did not establish a new funding mechanism for Loss and Damage. Instead countries agreed to start a conversation about funding and create a new expert group to advise on the issue. They also asked the Green Climate Fund – the main multilateral fund through which rich countries channel climate finance – to take up the matter.
Without new and additional funding, the world's most vulnerable people will struggle to recover and rebuild after climate shocks. For example, Oxfam's report, Forced from Home, shows that climate-related disasters are now the biggest driver of internal migration, forcing one person from their home every two seconds. It underlines the need for new and additional money to help communities that cannot adapt to the climate crisis.
The Gender Action Plan approved at the summit sets out a plan for increasing the participation and leadership of women in international climate talks, and in the design and implementation of climate policies at the national and local level. While the plan still needs to be translated into concrete measures, actions and targets, it is encouraging to see this blueprint for change given that poor women are often the hardest hit by the climate crisis.
Wealthy countries are not providing the funds that are needed to help poor nations adapt to the climate crisis. Rich polluting countries pledged almost $90 million in new funding for adaptation in Madrid and made additional pledges to the Green Climate Fund. However, Oxfam's analysis shows that the target of reaching $100 billion per year in climate finance by 2020 remains a distant dream after adjusting for loans and creative accounting.
Reasons to be positive
As the big polluters dissemble and spin, the global movement for climate action is growing bigger and stronger. Young people are standing up for a safer future - showing the leadership that has been severely lacking from governments. Frontline communities from Fiji to Malawi and Peru are fighting back.
The Spanish Government deserves credit for stepping in to ensure COP25 went ahead. The UNFCCC remains the only forum we have for governments, businesses and civil society to try to solve the most pressing issue of our times.
Our hopes rest with the millions of people across the world who are taking to the streets to demand climate justice. Governments must listen and come back to the table in 2020 with the commitment and ambition needed to deliver on the Paris Climate Agreement.
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Polytrichium Moss – Polytrichum Juniperinum is also called haircap moss, juniper moss, bird wheat, pigeon wheat and star moss. Like all mosses, Polytritchum Moss does best where the soil is regularly moist. This moss prefers partial shade but can grow in full sunlight if it receives moisture.
If homeowners are looking for moss for their landscaping needs, they might want to consider hair or haircap moss. There are almost 70 species that fall under the genus Polytritchum. Polytrititchum is a moss type that has a wide distribution, and its "furry" and attractive appearance can make it a desirable addition to a property.
Polytrichium Moss do well in growing zones three through nine.
They also prefer soils that are slightly acidic or alkaline and flourish in soils with a phosphorous level of about 4.5.
Polytrichium Moss are one of the taller mosses, and generally, reach a height between two and eight inches.
While haircap mosses can occasionally be found colonizing dead trees and old stone, they grow directly on the soil. When doing so, they can form "mounds" that can reach several feet in height. Polytritchum mosses can be a good choice for a property that has poor growing soil. Once established, a polytritchum colony can encourage other plant groups to join them. Several varieties of ferns can often be found living amongst colonies of this moss. Polytritchum mosses have a lifespan of about three to five years and are an evergreen plant.
Polytritchums proliferate and require little maintenance. This is a moss that should not be fertilized. Colonies find it easier to get established in flat areas that have been well raked and that have had debris removed from them. In addition to colonizing poor soil areas, another landscaping plus offered by polytritchum mosses is erosion control. This moss's roots bind so tightly to soil that they can help to stabilize banks and reduce flooding, making this pretty moss a useful tool as well.


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The America's Cup 1934
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Full title reads: "THE AMERICA'S CUP - Rainbow (defender) and Endeavour (challenger) in final trails."
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Various shots of the activities onboard yacht 'Rainbow', America's Cup defender, as she sails. Mr Vanderbilt is at the helm. Several shots of the 'Rainbow' and another yacht 'Yankee' at sail. 'Rainbow' beats 'Yankee' and is chosen to meet the America's Cup challenger 'Endeavour'.
Crew hoisting sail onboard the Endeavour - the America's Cup challenger. Mr T. O. M. Sopwith is at the helm. Several shots of the activities onboard the yacht as it sails.
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American yacht 'Yankee' at sail - she is possible America's Cup defender.
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Denmark win the Little America's Cup. Thorpe Bay, Essex.
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Excitement surrounds the Australian attempt at the America's Cup.
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Shots of the second race of the 1962 America's Cup yacht race.


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