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India Women vs England Women, 3rd ODI: Match details, Key Players, and Predicted XI
The Indian Women team is set to host England Women for the third ODI at the iconic Wankhede Stadium. Having won the first two matches, the hosts would be eyeing for a whitewash heading into the final ODI. India has played some flawless cricket in this series so far against a quality opponent. After sealing the series by 2-0, India must be eager to wrap up the series with a win. However, England is still waiting for their first victory of this tour.
India once again showed their ascendancy in the ODI format after beating the current world champions England in the first two ODIs. Mithali Raj has led her side tremendously well in the blue outfit.
The home side has been performing well consistently in all the conditions to establish their dominance in women's cricket. Even after winning the ODI series in New Zealand, India were not the favorites coming into this home series. However, the Indian bowlers tormented the English batting lineup in both the matches to bundle them out for 136 and 161 runs.
England, on the other hand, are having a terrible outing so far in this series. Having lost the series, they would hope to emerge victorious in the final ODI to save themselves from the utmost humiliation of a series whitewash. The visitors have struggled with their batting throughout this series and must resolve this issue heading into the third ODI. They need to perform well in the final match to boost their morale and end this tour on a winning note.
Game Details
Date: Thursday, 28 February 2019
Time: 09:00 AM IST
Venue: Wankhede Stadium
League: England Women tour of India
Live Telecast: Star Network
Online Streaming: Hotstar (Website, App)
Ground Stats ODI
Total Matches- 23
Matches won batting first- 12
Matches won bowling first- 11
Average 1st Inns scores- 241
Average 2nd Inns scores- 205
Highest total recorded- 438/4 (50 Ov) by RSA vs IND
Lowest total recorded- 115/10 (36.3 Ov) by BAN vs IND
Highest score chased- 284/4 (49 Ov) by NZ vs IND
Lowest score defended- 192/9 (50 Ov) by WI vs IND
Team News
Sophie Ecclestone has been ruled out of the final ODI due to an injury.
Linsey Smith will replace her in the third ODI.
Team Management would be looking to test their bench strength with the series already in their kitty.
England Women ODI squad: Tammy Beaumont, Katherine Brunt, Kate Cross, Sophia Dunkley, Sophie Ecclestone, Georgia Elwiss, Alex Hartley, Amy Jones, Heather Knight (c), Laura Marsh, Nat Sciver, Anya Shrubsole, Sarah Taylor (wk), Lauren Winfield and Danni Wyatt.
India Women ODI squad: Mithali Raj(c), Jhulan Goswami, Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Taniya Bhatia, Ravi Kalpana, Mona Meshram, Ekta Bisht, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Poonam Yadav, Shikha Pandey, Mansi Joshi, Punam Raut, Harleen Deol
Key Players
England Women
- Sarah Taylor
- Tammy Beaumont
- Natalie Sciver
India Women
- Smriti Mandhana
- Jemimah Rodrigues
- Mithali Raj
Probable Playing XI
Heather Knight (c), Anya Shrubsole, Tammy Beaumont, Katherine Brunt, Georgia Elwiss, Amy Ellen Jones, Sarah Taylor (wk), Natalie Sciver, Lauren Winfield, Alex Hartley
Mithali Raj (c), Jhulan Goswami, Ekta Bisht, Mona Meshram, Punam Raut, Smriti Mandhana, Shikha Pandey, Poonam Yadav, Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Taniya Bhatia (wk)

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"This spear thrower could be the answer to our problems!"
Two figures leaned over a small round table. A candle cast a pale light on the parchment laid out between them, but it barely reached the mud-daubed walls lined with shelves in the Archive nest. A general smoothed his red tunic covered in medals and awards, his hands trembling. His double red and black wings fluttered, ruffling his shoulder length black hair and sputtering the candle flame.
The second wiped his light brown face with the same color hands. His brown wings drifted open and closed as he waited for the military general's decision about the drawings on the parchment.
"Explain its operation," the general urged.
"One warrior notches a spear, a second fires it. The range covers a hundred yards, and the top seat and bow mechanism swivels to change firing direction."
"Surely this will help the warriors fight the Lizia during our next invasion," the general murmured, tracing the drawings.
The inventor nodded. "They're easy to build and assemble. I can have a prototype ready in a few weeks."
"Fabulous," the general whispered. "Start work immediately."
Someone screamed outside, "Weasels! Weasels approaching!"
The officer jerked and rolled the parchment, storing it on a top shelf before hurrying the inventor to the nest opening. They hesitated on the outside landing, hearing more screams in the darkening forest. A sinuous figure eased up the nearest tree, intent on another nest hanging in the branches. Brightly winged fighters zipped around the hungry predator, but it barely noticed their sword attacks and only batted at the ones in front of him.
"Come," the officer urged the inventor. "You should be safe in the air. I will guard you across the clearing."
They spread wings to leap into the sky, but just as they launched, a furred paw swatted from behind the nest, spinning them to the ground. They both hit hard, the officer grunting as he landed on one of his wings.
The inventor ran to him. "Are you alright?"
"My wing!" the officer groaned. "I think it's broken."
"Come, I will help you," the inventor urged, hauling him up.
"Fly on alone!" the officer ordered. "It's too dangerous for you here. You must go now!"
At a growl behind them, they turned to find a weasel stalking from the base of the tree below the Archive nest, its beady eyes riveted on them.
"Go!" the officer gasped, drawing his sword.
The inventor turned to escape, and the officer ran to the weasel's side to draw its attention, but the animal pounced with paws outstretched and struck the inventor as he launched into the air. His cry of fear cut off as he hit the ground and lay motionless.
The officer swung his sword at the weasel, but it batted him away like a toy. He landed next to the inventor, his weapon sliding away. He whirled and screamed as the weasel leaped, its dark body blotting out the full moon with its fanged mouth gaping wide.


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Vladimir Mau participates in St. Petersburg International Economic Forum
On June 16-18 the XX St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), one of the largest international economic forums in Russia took place. RANEPA Rector Vladimir Mau participated in the event.
On the first day of SPIEF, Vladimir Mau was a participant in a panel discussion entitled "Features of the Budget as an Economic Policy Tool". Presenters included Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RUIE) President Alexander Shokhin, Chairman of the Russian Audit Chamber Tatiana Golikova, cochairman of the Central Headquarters of the All-Russian People's Front, Alexander Brechalov, and others. During the discussion, the participants considered the role of the state budget in national policy. The efficiency of budget spending is a key mechanism for implementing economic policy for any state. The speakers discussed the priorities of state spending on the basis of monitoring the effectiveness of the use of budget funds. The role of supreme audit institutions in the budget process and other issues were determined.
On the second day of the forum, Mau participated in a panel session entitled "Presentation of the Russian Regional Investment Climate Index." In 2016 RANEPA together with the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) launched a new educational project for directors of Russian regions. This program is aimed at increasing the investment attractiveness of the regions and the replication of best practices. Director of RANEPA's Center for Regional Development Ilya Syomin spoke about the tasks and initial results of the educational module, "Administrative Skill: the Development of Regional Teams", which ended in May. The following participated in the panel discussion: Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, Presidential Aide Andrei Belousov, Deputy Chief of the Government Staff Maxim Akimov, ASI CEO Andrei Nikitin and others.
On June 17 Mau was on the panel for a discussion on "The Transformation of the Chinese Economic Model". Panel participants discussed the impact of changes in the structure of the Chinese economy on the global economy as a whole.
Vladimir Mau signed an agreement on the cooperation of RANEPA and the Russian Agricultural Bank. It was planned to sign a trilateral agreement on RANEPA's cooperation with the Association of Innovative Regions of Russia and the Federal Corporation for the Development of Small and Medium Enterprises.


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Two trends are converging to create an opportunity for equipment vendors to be the systems integrators of the information superhighway. The vendor`s traditional customers, the telephone companies, are downsizing and need to rely heavily on their vendors for expertise and manpower. Transmission products are becoming standard, and so equipment providers are searching for ways to add value to their offerings. What better way than by providing expert integration help?
Equipment vendors are now more than just sellers of products. They are partners with their customers, providing networking expertise, project management and design services. "We do the networks --we don`t just offer the products," says Hill. "From us you get a full network, including the up-front planning and engineering help."
This trend works in favor of the large, established equipment vendors that have broad expertise. And it is causing smaller companies to team with the larger players so they can be part of a total solutions provider.
For example, Broadband Technologies Inc. and AT&T Network Systems announced last fall they would integrate Broadband`s Fiber Loop Access (FLX) system with AT&T`s SLC-2000 Access System. The combination not only gives the SLC-2000 system the capability to carry broadband signals, thus providing network providers with a complete broadband platform, but also allows Broadband to be part of the systems integration team that AT&T has been promoting to the regional Bell operating companies, says Rick Jones, executive vice president of technology at Broadband.
Likewise, Raychem last fall sold 51% of Raynet Corp. to Ericsson, a $9 billion telecommunications equipment supplier based in Sweden. A prime reason for the sale was to give Raynet a powerful partner that would allow it to compete with AT&T, says Ray McDevitt, vice president, marketing and product management at Raynet, which has been renamed Ericsson Raynet. He adds. "AT&T has the total network and was making a total systems sell, including systems integration."


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Chevrolet is renowned for dependability, but recently the Chevy brand has made a name for itself with innovative technological advancements too. With environmental concerns becoming more prevalent, we're starting to get a lot of people asking us what is the most eco-friendly car.
Chevy's Best Cars for the Environment
Some people are surprised to find that the best electric cars in 2019 include offerings from a brand with award-winning pickups. Of course, Chevy still makes powerful V8 engines, but we're also striving for eco-friendliness. Today, there are three Chevrolet models leading the effort to go green.
2019 Chevy Bolt EV
The 2019 Chevy Bolt EV is the first affordable all-electric car to offer an EPA-estimated 238 miles of range on a single charge. Its long list of impressive characteristics includes some of the most technologically advanced features, requires less maintenance than a gas vehicle, and provides plenty of space for your daily activities or occasional road trip. Here's an electric vehicle that can keep up with your busy lifestyle.
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DESCRIPTIONYour slimiest dreams are about to come true. In this collection of fantastical erotica, women are seduced by the strangest and horniest lovers in the galaxy! From naughty tentacles to lustful orcs, Veronica Sloan brings you six tales of breeding, bondage and impregnation.EXCERPTFrom "Ménage à Tentacle":One rambunctious tentacle wiggled its beak into her deep cleavage and she slapped it like a naughty child. "I said behave, you creep!" The tentacle retreated, beak downcast in an unmistakable sulk. "Ohhh, baby," she intoned. She took it in her hands and gently pried the beak open with her thumb. The tentative tongue reappeared. And with it, the slick pink head.I watched with a curious mixture of disgust and fascination as the tongue slithered into her mouth and gently probed her cheeks. She bit down on it playfully and giggled as it made a sound like a raspberry. The tongue retreated into the glistening slit on the pink head, which Thorn stroked with her satin thumbs and then kissed. Mollified, the head retreated into the beak and the tentacle rolled against her neck like a sleepy snake. "Grapla are psychoforms," she said. "You and I need material things to survive. Food, water, sunlight. Grapla resonate to life itself. They prefer raw emotions. Fear is particularly potent, which is why they make such effective partners."The Grapla took great pride in what she said. Its tentacles rose in a lethal chorus and trilled a dozen haunting tones that melted and faded and complemented each other. It was a stirring sound, accompanied by the hollow clacks of its deadly beaks opening and shutting like hungry birds.For a moment, the saloon went silent. Large men, cyborgs, and thuggish hybrids of all shapes and sizes, clutched their drinks in fear.The sound had its most visible effect on Thorn. Her cheeks flushed, her bosom lifted with unconcealed longing. She pulled two tentacles from the pack and let them drape across her chest. "But love is their life," she said. "They die quickly without companionship. They don't grow large in the wild. Some can get by scavenging at the fringes of population centers, but they need a mate to thrive. Someone who loves them unconditionally." She kissed the tops of her lovers' heads."Do you ever miss the touch of your own kind?" I asked.Another smirk. "I had plenty of lovers, men and women and otherwise, before I began my trial. There were skilled lovers, certainly, but even the greatest geishas on Rao's moons cannot compare to Strabo." The tentacles, excited by her praise, wriggled beneath her like a bouncing throne. She stroked a thick vein that throbbed beneath its skin. "No one has ever loved me longer, deeper, more completely. No lover has ever trusted me so fully or given me such respect. I am his wife, his mistress, his darling mother. And he is my world."
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Monster Lovers
© Copyright 2017, Veronica Sloan, All Rights Reserved
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Disclaimer: The stories in this anthology contain explicit content and are intended for adults only. All characters depicted are 18-years-old and older. This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental. It would also be really weird considering, you know, all the monster stuff.
EXTRA SPECIAL DISCLAIMER: This is a work of erotic fantasy. The sexual situations depicted in this collection feature rough tentacle sex, impregnation, and monsters seducing human characters--with some characters more reluctantly seduced than others. In real life, consent is never an option (monsters or no monsters). That's why I've written these stories down, so we can enjoy being naughty together in the privacy and comfort of our minds. Thank you for partaking in my smut and please remember to bump uglies responsibly!
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The Octopus's Bride
When Kimmy Noguchi meets her aquarium's latest catch, it's love at first sight. That love becomes surprisingly literal when the creature escapes its tank and wraps her in an eight-legged embrace! As Kimmy struggles to escape her sticky situation, the octopus begins to explore her body. She should be so embarrassed, but the tentacles feel so good...
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Chapter 1
Kimmy Noguchi arrived at the Marine Institute thirty minutes late, her heart struggling to escape her chest. She'd never been late before. As she scampered through the parking lot, she did her best to comb her long black hair with her fingers. The heavy fog clung to her skin and left dew in her eyelashes. It stuck her thin white blouse to her chest. Most annoyingly, the condensation mixed with her sweat, which did not help the queasy dread that filled her stomach. "Not only late but a mess," she murmured. "Carl's going to fire me for sure."
She stopped to catch her breath at the Marine Institute's staff entrance. With a groan of distaste, she peeled her blouse from her breasts. Everything was wet. That was how it was most mornings but this time it felt like the moisture was invading her every pore. The Institute was built up against the rocky California shoreline and the nearby mountains kept the marine layer pinned to the coast. A sheen of condensation marked her from her ankles to the hem of her shorts.
She was born and raised in Arizona where the desert could evaporate the very water from your mouth. When she started her internship at the Marine Institute, the fog was a beautiful novelty. Soon, however, the sunless mornings rankled her desert soul. It felt like the MI was hidden from the sun, from all that was warm and familiar.
As she jogged to the labs inside the gray concrete building, she tried to ignore her sense of creeping dread. She saw the empty buildings in a watery blur, through the rain drops on her glasses. Deep breaths, the echoes of her sneakers slapping the pavement. The smell of the sea was fierce inside her nostrils. She heard the nearby waves pounding the rocky shore.
She didn't see anyone in the quad so she jogged directly to the labs. Inside, beneath bright fluorescent lights, Carl Jacoby sat beside a microscope scribbling in his notebook. "Carl!" she called to him, nearly in tears and out of breath.
He looked up from his notebook in alarm. The expression quickly shifted to one of warmth. His sandy blonde beard was white around the edges, a match for his snowy eyebrows. "Kimmy! Good morning!"
She slid to a halt before him and filled her aching lungs. "I'm so sorry, sir. I-I know I'm late. It won't ever happen again, but--" Should she tell him? It might save her job. "My boyfriend." She winced as the word left her lips. She never liked thinking of Garrett as her boyfriend (but neither did she like thinking that she'd never see him again). "He--"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa," Carl said. He slid over to her on his rolling stool and took hold of her arm. "Slow down, kid. Is everything okay?"
It was not! Punctuality was her pride. More importantly, for an internship with so prestigious an institution, it often meant the difference between full employment and no employment at all. "I just want you to know it will never happen again," she choked out. Was she really so close to tears?
Carl tried to hide his smirk behind his sandy beard. "Kimmy..." He patted her shoulder. "Do you know what I like about you, Kimmy?"
She pulled her glasses off and shook her head. She wiped the lenses on her moist blouse and promised herself she would not cry.
Carl's dark eyes twinkled. "You take this job very seriously."
She moaned. He was being sarcastic, wasn't he? "Please, sir, I promise I'll never--"
"Kimmy," Carl said, "just breathe, honey. Okay?" This time he couldn't hold back his chuckle. "Here, take a seat." He offered her the rolling stool next to him.
Reluctantly, she took it, and waited for the other shoe to drop.
Carl clasped his hands. "You are, without a doubt, the most intelligent young person to come through our halls in some time. Your research is impeccable, your conclusions are succinct, and you have a keen eye for detail. I have no doubt that you will someday be an excellent scientist. However--"
Her heart sank. Here it comes, she thought.
"You have a tendency to overthink, which is not uncommon in very intelligent people. Kimmy, I don't know if you've noticed this, but no one gets to the MI on time."
Kimmy glanced over the lab, and realized she and Carl were the only ones in the building. "N-no..." she murmured.
"Yeah," he said. "Kim, we're a bunch of SoCal scientists. We spend our mornings surfing, we take long lunches, and everybody pretends they can't smell pot in the backroom."
"Is that what that is?" she gasped.
"Who knows?" he said with a wink. "The point is, you've been coming in at seven AM on the dot for the last five months. I'm not supposed to tell you this, but you're definitely getting a spot here. Malcolm's due to retire and I'm taking over for the dive team. Once you graduate, this would be the perfect place for you to hone your talents. A year or two here and you can go on to any graduate school you want. What do you say?"
She was shocked. "But, but, I was--"
"Late? Kim, I don't care. Don't make a habit of it, but yeah, shit happens. I'm sorry if you broke up with your boyfriend."
"He said I wasn't fun."
Carl winced. "Well, uh..." Unsure how best to comfort her, he gently patted her shoulder. "Science is fun?"
Kimmy sniffed.
Carl winced again. "I'm sure you'll meet someone who's a better match. Probably right here, to be honest. You know how many couples come out of the MI?"
"No?" she said.
Carl realized this was not a conversation he should pursue with the obviously frazzled Kimmy. "Say," he said, "I know how to cheer you up. We just got in the strangest thing I've ever seen. Malcolm and the boys brought it back last night during one of their deep dives." He hopped to his feet and motioned for her to follow him to quarantine. "We've got it in its own tank right now because, well, we have no idea what it is."
The mystery perked her up immediately. Kimmy followed Carl from the fluorescent lab into the dimmer aquarium beyond. Here, waxed linoleum gave way to wet concrete. The smells of sterile beakers dissolved into the briny depths of churning salt water. Aquarium boxes glowed a soothing blue, and shadows of little fish and eels and curious crabs swam around them. The foggy morning covered the aquarium in an aqueous gloom, with gray light pouring from the opaque skylights above.
Carl led Kimmy around the circular touch pool where the starfish and the anemones were kept. Kimmy giggled as a sea cucumber waved at her. It wasn't really waving, she knew; the filters in the tank gently circulated the water, and for some reason the cucumbers enjoyed perching directly below them. Out of habit, both she and Carl waved back. "Hey, Larry," Carl murmured.
He led her to the back of the aquarium and through the hanging plastic curtain that separated the quarantined animals. Here, new arrivals and sick residents were kept in isolation from the other creatures. After they were scanned for parasites and nurtured to full health the animals then joined the main aquarium, or were shipped to other facilities in California.
There were some animal lovers--and Kimmy knew a few--who balked at seeing animals in captivity. Even something as basic as a sea slug deserved freedom, they said. When Kimmy inevitably got into arguments with these people (some of whom were her friends), she tried to explain that places like the MI were created to study the natural world and cultivate better methods of caring for it. They weren't teaching crabs to jump through hoops or perform for screaming, popcorn-munching crowds, they were measuring the effects of ocean acidification on the formation of seashells, testing the viability of parasites that decimated plant and animal ecosystems, and often caring for wounded cetaceans and pinnipeds that washed ashore.
Kimmy also spent a good portion of her internship leading tours of the MI, which supplied the donations they needed to survive. It was on such a tour that her young heart was first enchanted by the sea. One of her most cherished memories was reaching into a frigid touch pool and brushing the skin of a nurse shark. She loved that sensation. Indeed, she loved the feel of most aquatic animals. Some loathed it, she knew. Their smooth, slimy bodies, which protected them from the corrosive salt water and enabled them to glide through the water like living liquid, could gross out full-grown adults. Not Kimmy. She'd grown up in the desert. She knew what it was to suffer chapped skin, to be so dry that your eyes hurt and your throat burned. Passing her hand into cool, clear water and running her fingertips along the creeping limbs of a starfish...even now, the thought sent a pleasant shiver up her spine.
"Here he is," Carl said, and swept his hand over the tank.
Kimmy gasped. When Carl said Malcolm found something, she assumed it was a fish. There were hundreds of fish species that haunted their coastal reefs and a hundred more sub-species waiting to be classified. She never imagined that Malcolm might discover something truly unique.
Kimmy pressed her palms to the glass and gazed at the bizarre creature inside. It twirled through the water, its graceful limbs like boneless fingers. It could easily be mistaken for an octopus. Its smooth, pulsating mantle, its eight wondrous tentacles, fit the basic profile. And when it sensed their presence, its skin shifted through a kaleidoscope of vibrant colors, which was also in keeping with octopi behavior. Yet there were subtle differences that Kimmy recognized. Its mantle (what most people would consider the creature's "head") was crowned with a ring of pseudopods, much like the eyes and antennae of snails. These wiggled independently of the creature's tentacles. Those tentacles, too, were unlike a normal cephalopod's. They were thicker, meatier, and when one of them slithered up the glass she saw that its suckers did not resemble shallow bowls. Instead, it was as if...
"Are those lips?" she gasped.
Behind her, Carl murmured assent. "Damnedest thing, isn't it? I mean, it looks like your average two-spot from far away--"
"--he's so much bigger, though," she said. She rubbed her fingertip against the glass, mimicking its own curious gesture.
"Yeah," Carl agreed. "Probably an eight foot wingspan."
The creature seemed to like her. Kimmy played a little game with it, moving to one side of the glass then the other. Each time, the mantle followed, pulsing with warm shades of candle yellow and pumpkin orange. Suddenly she gasped. "Its eyes..."
"I was waiting for you to say something," Carl said. "You noticed faster than we did."
Kimmy's heart pulsated in time with the animal's rippling skin. The structure of most cephalopod eyes was similar to those of humans (a beautiful example of either convergent or parallel evolution), though the pupils were usually horizontal as opposed to round. This creature's eye was a sparkling, iridescent blue. It was bluer than the sea on a sparkling afternoon, brighter than a sapphire. Its pupil was large and round. Stunningly large. It was like sharing the knowing gaze of a long and trusted friend.
That blue eye stared back at Kimmy--deep into Kimmy.
"Kawaii," she murmured against the glass.
"He's really something," Carl said.
It was painful to turn away from the creature. It fascinated her, and even seemed to be putting on a show with its technicolor skin. "You keep calling it a 'he,'" she said. "How can you tell?"
Carl grinned sheepishly. "I dunno. Doesn't it seem like it? The female cephalopods are usually more reserved, more shy. He's been checking out everybody that passes through here. Especially the girls."
Kimmy laughed. "Oh, is he a ladies' man?"
Carl shook his head. "I'm serious, Kim. With those big eyes of his it's like he's memorizing our faces."
"Well you know that's not uncommon for these guys," she said. "Octopi and cuttlefish have the highest brain-to-body mass ratios of any invertebrates. They learn quickly, they use tools, they have distinct personalities. That one two-spot used to squirt water at Malcolm whenever we had to clean his tank."
Carl nodded. "And he always made sure to get the tank nice and messy so he could squirt him again."
Kimmy glanced back at the creature. It had stuck two of its thick tentacles against the glass and was peering between them, like a child peeking through its fingers. If it was trying to make her giggle it was doing an excellent job.
"Don't encourage him," Carl said.
"I can't help it," she said. "He's adorable." She pulled the dive team's chart off the side of the tank and scanned the checklist. "He seems pretty healthy. Any major concerns?"
"Just where to put him," Carl said. "He's super alert, surprisingly even-tempered. Unfortunately, I think we may lose him to the big boys upstate."
Kimmy pouted. "Aww, they always take the good ones. Can't we keep him here?"
"We don't have the resources," he said. "Sad but true. Don't worry, though, you can play with him for as long as he--" Carl tilted his head. "You hear that?"
Kimmy listened. It was hard to make out over the bubbling of the filters but gradually she heard it. A dribbling, smattering, trickling of water. They searched for a quiet moment until Carl identified the sound. "A-ha!" he exclaimed. "Fucking typical..."
"What?" said Kimmy. She got down on her knees to join him. She peered under the new creature's tank. "It's leaking?"
"Speak of the devil and he will appear," Carl muttered. "You want to know why we can't have nice things? Cause our tanks are busted."
"I checked through them last month," she said. "I didn't find any cracks."
"Well, a lot of these tanks are past their expiration dates," Carl said glumly. "We've got a slightly smaller tank we can transfer our newbie to, but we gotta plug that leak first."
"I'll do it," she said. "Do you want to get the net?"
Carl chewed on his lip as he glanced at the creature. It continued to watch them through its tentacles, its skin flashing between turquoise and cyan blue. "I think it may be more than a two-person job. He's wily. Why don't I--"
The phone cut him off. With an embarrassed bow, Carl pulled it off his hip and turned away from Kimmy. "Huh?" he answered gruffly. As he paced to the other side of quarantine, Kimmy returned to the glass. The creature rolled a tentacle across the top of its tank, allowing her to trace the pale lips of its suckers with her fingertip. "You are so beautiful," she murmured.
To her surprise the creature flushed scarlet. Normally red was a warning color in the animal kingdom, but the gentle movement of its tentacles read less like a warning and more like an invitation. Its eye, too, shifted to an iridescent ruby. "Carl, did you see--" she started, but Carl was still on the phone.
Kimmy slid her palm down the tank. "Now, I know you can't understand me," she murmured, "but if you did... You know that would be super cool, right?"
The creature's mantle glittered like a neon sign: lavender bleeding into emerald bleeding into glowing magenta.
"Wow," Kimmy gasped. "Carl, I think--"
"Damn it!" he grunted into his palm. "Sorry, Kim, Dale just called from the highway. Fucking truck stalled out on him again. Tanks, trucks, it's everything today. Hold down the fort while I go give him a jump." He dashed to the plastic curtains with angry speed.
"Wait!" Kimmy called after him. "What about the octopus?"
"Just plug the hole!" he yelled over his shoulder. "You can make up for your tardiness, right? We'll get him into the tank when I get back!" The echoes of his footfalls quickly faded over the wet concrete.
That left Kimmy with a swiftly leaking tank and a mute audience of sick fish. "Well," she sighed, "here we go."
Chapter 2
Technically, the aquatic creature floating in the leaky tank was an unknown species of cephalopod. It looked like an octopus, but that didn't necessarily mean it was one. That didn't stop her from calling it that in her head, or aloud. "Don't worry, Octy," she muttered. "I might be a lame girlfriend but I know how to plug a hole."
She laughed at herself as she crawled under the tank. "Okay, that sounded dirtier than I meant it." Or did it? Despite her best efforts, Garrett was on her mind.
She didn't even like him that much. It was the way he broke up with her that was so infuriating. An anxious little song and dance about how she wasn't interesting in the bedroom, how he didn't want to ask her to do the things he wanted. As she stuck the penlight between her teeth and prepped the caulking gun, she mumbled angrily at the bottom of the tank. "Oh? Then how was I supposed to know what you wanted? Jackass..." The curse faded as her teeth chattered against the penlight. She was lying in a puddle of cold salt water, the back of her blouse now completely soaked through.
But you really couldn't beat the view. The octopus flattened itself against the bottom of the tank, giving her an incredible up-close look at its extraordinary anatomy. She gazed at the tiny beak in the center of its tentacles, the wondrous panorama of its eight limbs. And all those lips...
She waved at the creature with her caulking gun. "Don't mind me, Octy. Just winning an argument two hours too late." What had Garrett called her? A starfish? When they were in the bedroom she just lay beneath him and hardly moved. What else was she supposed to do? It was never fun for her. Usually Garrett would want to go at it when she was busy or when she'd just woken up. He didn't wait for her to brush her teeth, he didn't even wait for her to get wet. He just plowed through her like a freight train. If that's what sex was Kimmy could do without it.
"You're not fun," Garrett said. Well maybe he wasn't fun, what about that? She might be a boring nerd but she knew what she didn't like. It wasn't like she was a space alien. She had urges sometimes. Sometimes she even felt sexy. Rarely, but it did happen.
"Oh geez," she groaned. She finally saw the problem. Octy's tank had been patched before, and poorly. Like faded chewing gum on a theatre seat, old caulk clung to a jagged crack in the corner. She couldn't just add more caulk to that. The whole thing needed to be pulled out and replaced. "Well we don't have time for that," she murmured, "so let's do what we can." She'd pull out the old seal, jam a rag or something inside, then caulk that up and wait for Carl to get back. Hopefully he'd have Dale with him. Dale could fix anything.
"Except the truck," she grunted. She shimmied out from under the tank, balled up a used rag, and slid under the tank again. She took a deep breath, then yanked the crumbling seal.
She expected the sudden deluge of water. She didn't expect the octopus to come with it.
In retrospect, she should have. One of the many splendid qualities of the octopus is its ability to squeeze through the smallest of spaces. Without bones to get in the way, cephalopods can push their bodies through any opening big enough to accommodate their beaks. Since their beaks are a fraction of their overall mass, the little buggers can go pretty much wherever they want. Even a 600-pound octopus could squash itself through a hole the size of a quarter, if properly motivated. Octy was nowhere near that big, so he had no trouble rolling his tentacle through the crack.
"Oh!" Kimmy squeaked when the lip-like suckers kissed her hand. "Oh no, no, no!" she moaned as the second tentacle squeezed through the gap. "Octy, get back in your tank!"
The clever thing refused her suggestion. Instead it plugged the hole with its colorful body and let the force of the water help push it through. Three tentacles were already twining around Kimmy's wrist, the lips suckling at her skin.
There were no bones inside the clammy limb, just muscle with a purpose. Kimmy dared not pull away for fear of harming the precious animal, but she had to do something or it would escape. It was astonishingly common for octopi to break out of their tanks, and not just at the Marine Institute. If undetected, the poor creatures usually collapsed into sludgy piles after too long on the surface. Kimmy didn't want to expedite the process, but each time she pulled away more of the octopus squelched through the crack. "Octy!" she groaned.
And then all eight of its tentacles were oozing down her forearm. The suction in its lips was so intense that if she pulled a tentacle from her skin, her skin would come with it. Kimmy promised herself she wouldn't freak out. "Okay," she murmured. "This is...easier. Yes. This is easier actually. I'll just carry you with me and dunk you in another tank. Not gonna freak out."
The plan could have worked if Octy didn't have such a keen interest in Kimmy. His body flowed through the gap, and soon all eight feet of him was wrapped around her arm. He wasn't 600 pounds but he was far heavier than she imagined. When the wet, slithering muscle squeezed off her circulation, she lost her composure completely. She cried out, dropped her tools, and scurried from under the tank, the octopus along for the ride. Salt water gushed after them. It soaked her her toes as she tripped over her sandals and staggered to her feet.
"Okay," she huffed. "Okay, everything is cool. We're cool." Cautiously, she pressed her trembling palm against the pseudopods on his mantle. Gently, very gently, she began to push. "We're just...going to..."
Octy wrapped two fat tentacles around her waist and sealed himself over her breasts. Cold slime dribbled down her cleavage. "Or not," she squeaked.
Chapter 3
Kimmy's heart palpitated with a queer mixture of fear and elation. The creature wasn't hurting her; in fact, the press of its soft, squishy skin was weirdly pleasant. But it certainly wasn't letting go, and if Carl found her this way she'd look like an incompetent jerk.
Salt water clung to her bare knees and the octopus sent a roving tentacle to suck at it with its lips. Despite her anxiety, Kimmy giggled. "Oh! That tickles!" Her laugh seemed to encourage the creature. The sucking tentacle slithered up her thigh, the lips searching for any remaining moisture. Two thick tentacles remained looped around her wrist, so with her free hand she tried to pry the mantle off her chest. "Please," she murmured, "you have to go back in your tank, you little creep..." The two tentacles squeezed harder around her wrist. It was like the clutch of a firm hand.
The tentacle sliding up her thigh poked at the hem of her shorts and rubbed at the place where the shorts met her skin. It sensed the difference in texture. "Smart guy," she murmured. The large eye on her chest gazed up at her and cycled from summer orange to cool violet. Trembling, she ran her palm down the mantle, as if the cephalopod was a delicate (and slimy) dog. To her surprise, it purred like a cat.
It wasn't quite a feline purr. It was a wetter sound, like bubbles blown in milk. Octy enjoyed being touched--another weird distinction from your typical octopus. "Yeah?" Kimmy cooed to it. She pet it again, making sure her rubs remained light and did not harm the creature's boneless body. Between her legs, a muscular tentacle did the same to her crotch.
"Whoa!" she yelped. A terrible thrill scorched its way up her tummy. "No, no, no, no," she laughed at the octopus. "Don't you get any funny ideas."
Octy purred again and gripped her even tighter. The lip suckers formed a line from her bellybutton to her butt. Then a sudden squeeze. "Oh!" she gasped. "Oh, dear."
Meanwhile, the other tentacle began to explore the open leg of her shorts. Kimmy tried to pull it off her thigh but its suckers were intractable. All she managed to do was get a handful of slime. She wiped it on her other leg as the tentacle flattened and slithered up her shorts. "Oooh," she groaned. What was more embarrassing, the fact that she was in this sticky mess or that its clammy lips actually aroused her?
It wasn't her fault! It was like dozens of wet mouths were kissing up her skin. Garrett's kisses had always been so awkward when he went down there. "Really, Kimmy?" she chided herself. She was getting groped by a mysterious sea creature and all she could think about was how gentle its kisses were. "Honestly!"
Two more tentacles felt their way up her neck. Kissing suckers flowed from her clavicle to her ears. "No, no!" she giggled. The thing was ridiculous! Every time she giggled the eye on her chest flashed a delicious honey yellow. She stroked its mantle. "Octy, you have to learn to keep your hands to yourself," she said. "What kind of girl do you think I am?"
In response, a tentacle uncoiled from her wrist and pulled at the hem of her shirt. "Hey!" she yelped. With surprising speed, the wet lips squirmed their way between her breasts. The indignity didn't stop there. As that tentacle explored the satin texture of her bra, another tugged her shorts down as far as her hips would allow. It was just playing with her clothes, she told herself. Cephalopods were famous for their puzzle-solving. This handsy fella just wanted to know how to get her clothes off. He probably thought he'd get a treat out of it.
"I'll give you something good if you go back in your tank," she promised. Not that he could understand her, obviously. Even if he could he was too wrapped up (literally!) in prodding her earlobes.
Kimmy's earlobes seemed to fascinate the creature. The tips of his tentacles caressed them with such tentative strokes. It stirred in her something more than a tickle. Unfortunately, and to Kimmy's great embarrassment, her earlobes had always been major erogenous zones. The whole reason she started dating Garrett was because of the way he blew on them on their first date. Combined with the invasive squish between her breasts, the steady pressure on her crotch, and the tentacle still worming its way up her shorts, she suddenly felt quite hot. "Oh," she moaned.
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USGS to discuss initial results of Owens Valley-Indian Wells Valley groundwater study
November 9, 2007
Public invited to meetings in Bishop and Ridgecrest
Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) will discuss their initial findings from a comprehensive study of untreated well water in the Owens Valley and Indian Wells Valley, California, at two public meetings next week.
The meetings, conducted by the State Water Resources Control Board and the USGS, will be:
In Bishop on Thursday, November 15, at 2 p.m., at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, 300 Mandich Lane.
In Ridgecrest on Friday, November 16, at 10 a.m., at the Indian Wells Valley Water District, 500 W. Ridgecrest Blvd.
Directions, an agenda and other information are available at the State Board's Web site at http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/gama/.
The State Board's Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment (GAMA) Program is partnering with the USGS and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (LLNL) to sample drinking water wells in 35 groundwater basin "study units" throughout California. The main goals of GAMA are to improve comprehensive statewide groundwater monitoring and to increase the availability of groundwater quality information to the public.
The USGS California Water Science Center is the project lead for GAMA'S Priority Basin Assessment Project. With the voluntary cooperation of local water agencies, USGS is testing well water in California groundwater basins over a 10-year period.
USGS scientists sampled public-supply wells in the Owens and Indian Wells valleys, in portions of Inyo, Kern, Mono, and San Bernardino counties (Map). At the meeting, the USGS will give an overview of the preliminary results. A full report on the sampling data is expected to be published in about a year.
The GAMA Priority Basin Assessment Project is designed to characterize water quality in groundwater basins. GAMA does not evaluate the quality of water delivered to consumers. After withdrawal from the ground, water for public systems is typically treated or mixed to maintain water quality before consumers receive it.
More information on the GAMA program is available at: http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/gama/ and http://ca.water.usgs.gov/gama/.
Links and contacts within this release are valid at the time of publication.
USGS provides science for a changing world. Visit USGS.gov, and follow us on Twitter @USGSwaterCA, and @USGS and our other social media channels.


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Ross Ramsey, the executive editor of The Texas Tribune, writes a regular column for the Tribune.
A Texas House committee is considering whether Wallace Hall, the University of Texas System regent appointed by the governor, should be impeached. Whatever legislators do with the case, they will be looking at a larger question: Is this a one-time adventure or something lawmakers will use whenever they disagree with appointees and the governors who appoint them?
Most lawmakers can usually find a public appointee they would like to expel. The possibilities seem endless — outright crooks, partisans, incompetents and, perhaps most often, well-meaning people who have been put in jobs that do not suit them.
Employees who exhibit those traits are easy enough to fire, but political appointees operate under different rules. If all else fails, their terms end. Every so often, however, a governor or a legislature will decide not to wait for the end of a term.
In the case of appointees, simply asking for a resignation is often enough. Asking publicly instead of privately raises the stakes. But it generally works, too. If those efforts fail, other ways can be used to purge unwanted appointees.
A Texas governor can ask the state Senate to remove an appointee by a simple vote. Often that is threat enough to persuade someone to leave.
When Gov. Rick Perry wanted to clear the board of regents at Texas Southern University in 2007, most left at his request. The board chairwoman, Belinda Griffin, initially refused but changed her mind and quit after Mr. Perry threatened to ask the Senate to vote her out.
That was messy but relatively uncomplicated.
The Legislature can get rid of an appointee without the governor's consent. In Texas, that never happens — or it never used to.
Mr. Hall, who was appointed by Mr. Perry, might be the appointee who changes the rules. A House committee hired a lawyer, Rusty Hardin, to investigate and report on the propriety of his investigations into operations at University of Texas at Austin and whether Mr. Hall illegally mishandled student records.
Mr. Hall has said he was fulfilling his duties by digging into potential misconduct at the university. (The university is a corporate sponsor of The Texas Tribune. Mr. Hardin has been a major donor to The Tribune.)
Legislators referred some of the information in Hardin's report to the Travis County district attorney, who would be responsible for pursuing any possible criminal charges.
The House committee is also considering whether everything else in the report would justify a recommendation of impeachment to the full House. The House could impeach Mr. Hall and send it along to the Senate, which would hold a trial to decide Mr. Hall's fate as a regent.
This is a big deal. Texas legislators have been powerfully annoyed by appointees throughout the state's history. Timing is important. Last year, state senators lost confidence in Eleanor Kitzman, the state's commissioner of insurance, before they voted on her appointment. Mr. Perry had appointed Ms. Kitzman in 2011, while lawmakers were recessed, and she served almost two years. But the Senate's refusal to approve her appointment when it returned in 2013 cost her the job. She now works for an insurance company.
That one, too, happened in public, but it was relatively straightforward.
Both Ms. Griffin and Ms. Kitzman quit.
Mr. Hall may yet quit. But the governor has stuck by him. Mr. Hall has supporters outside the government and the vast network of U.T. alumni.
The U.T. faction was still working to get Mr. Hall to resign last week as the House committee met to talk about the situation. For instance, Paul Begala, the Democratic political strategist and former adviser to Bill Clinton, joined several other former student body presidents in signing a letter asking Mr. Hall to step down. "The Legislature has far bigger fish to fry, I suspect, than grinding through the long process of impeachment," Mr. Begala said.
We are about to find out. If Mr. Hall hangs in there, the next move will come from the House, or the prosecutors. And when this one is over, there will be another appointee annoying the people in office. There is always at least one.


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For the previous few months, Sony has been dropping some critical breadcrumbs that lead again to what many imagine to be the reveal the Playstation 5. They first introduced that they might skip their very own occasion, Playstation Experience (or PSX), citing a scarcity new stuff to indicate ("we don't need to set expectations actually excessive after which not ship on it"). But after their latest announcement that they might be skipping this 12 months's E3, persons are starting to see a sample.
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Australia v the world
While the Australian legal market appears to be a quiet achiever, how does it stack up against the rest of the world?
Lawyers in Australia may feel that they are in a global sweet spot – big deals are on offer, remuneration is reasonable and technology is increasingly being embraced. Yet it may surprise Australian lawyers to see how the local market compares with other jurisdictions.
The United States of America has the biggest economy in the world, the United Kingdom has longstanding legal roots, and Singapore is seen as the rising star of the legal world.
Each jurisdiction has its own legal specialties, and is embracing innovation and technology at its own rate. But when it comes to job opportunities, the odds are better in some regions than others. Where do Australian lawyers fit in on the global scale?
Heavyweights and featherweights
While lawyers practise all around the world, legal markets vary in size across the regions.
Statistics show that the USA has the highest numbers of law firms and lawyers by a significant margin. The UK has a similar number of law firms to Australia, but has almost double the number of lawyers. Singapore has comparatively smaller numbers of firms and lawyers, in keeping with its small size and population.
Taking a look at the bigger picture, Peter Charlton, the current Asia-Pacific regional managing partner for global law firm Clifford Chance, says the size of the legal market in each jurisdiction is influenced by the size of the economy.
"The USA is the world's largest economy, and is hence a major financial centre, while the UK is the central financial hub for Europe," according to Mr Charlton.
Although both economies remain world-leading, the USA is still recovering from the global financial crisis and the UK has taken a hit in the wake of the vote to leave the EU.
Taylor Root partner and head of Australian recruitment Tim Fogarty emphasises the damage the Brexit vote has done to the London market, which dominates the legal market in the UK.
"The size of the London market has traditionally always been driven by the large and sophisticated financial and professional services market in the city," he says.
"It is still unclear how the decision to leave the EU will affect the legal market, but certainly in the short term we are anticipating a slowdown in real estate and corporate transactions. In the medium term, exiting the EU will produce a huge amount of regulatory and advisory work."
In contrast, while Singapore's legal market is making a name for itself, it is smaller than most people think, coming in at only one fifth of the size of the Hong Kong legal market, according to Mr Fogarty.
He says there are four main domestic firms that dominate the market in Singapore. There are also over 140 international law firms, but many of them are very small service offices. Overall, there are only nine international law firms with the coveted Qualifying Foreign Law Practice licence.
"Leading international law firms with long-standing offices and partners in the region tend to mop up most of the work," Mr Fogarty says.
"Longevity matters when it comes to building relationships with clients in south-east Asia, so the more recent arrivals have therefore sometimes struggled," he adds.
Clifford Chance is the largest international law firm in Singapore, with 83 lawyers at its one office.
Geraint Hughes is due to replace Peter Charlton as the regional managing partner, Asia-Pacific, for Clifford Chance on 1 September 2016.
"Singapore, which has adopted a phased approach to market liberalisation, is an increasingly relevant legal hub regionally and globally, in particular for multinational banks and corporates, and in the areas of capital raising and dispute resolution work – with its market positioning being strong within the growing ASEAN region and beyond," Mr Hughes says.
"We are seeing a number of international transactions outside south-east Asia either using Singapore law as the governing law, or SIAC [Singapore International Arbitration Centre] or SICC [Singapore International Commercial Court] as the means of dispute resolution."
The Australian legal market sits somewhere in between these global players.
Mr Hughes says that despite the Australian market being affected in recent years by the price cycles of commodities, it remains an important jurisdiction and is increasingly connected to the broader legal community within the Asia-Pacific region.
"The Australian legal market is deep and provides cutting-edge structures and jurisprudence in a number of key areas, including institutional investment and infrastructure, as well as regulatory developments in a number of fields," Mr Hughes says.
Globalisation means that no single market is immune to worldwide shockwaves. Recent political changes around the world have also had an impact, and created a degree of uncertainty in the Australian market, according to Mr Fogarty.
"The lead-up to Brexit, the local federal election and the upcoming US election, together with an air of caution generally, have seen limited growth in the last few months," he says.
"With two of these three events now out of the way, there is an element of anticipation for an upswing in activity."
Fierce competition
In markets of every size, competition for clients remains the greatest challenge for firms.
In Australia, low levels of activity, coupled with a number of new entrants and a trend of more work being done in-house, mean competition between firms has dialled up.
"The number of law firms competing for work is growing, with new entrants from overseas and boutique firms setting up quite regularly," Mr Fogarty says.
"The overarching view, however, is that the legal spend in the market generally is flat. So the competition for work is fierce."
This is causing some firms to go to drastic lengths to keep clients and secure work.
"There are lots of 'war stories' around the market about firms lowering rates to 'ridiculous levels' to get work," Mr Fogarty warns.
"Clients are only too happy to shop around for a better deal, and some of the larger firms have reputations for dropping their rates to unsustainable, loss-producing levels to keep their lawyers busy, and in the hope that more work will follow."
Firms are continuing to offer free or at-cost secondees, significantly discount charge-out rates, offer training to clients' staff free of charge, and provide seamless international work – with one bill, from one office, in one currency – to retain clients, he reports.
"In essence [they are] increasing flexibility to meet the demands of clients."
However, it is not just the Australian legal market that is facing competition. Beaton Capital director Dr George Beaton says this is being seen worldwide.
"Nowhere is it easy and nowhere are we going to see a decline in competition based on price," he says.
The intensification of price-based competition is being driven by two forces, according to Dr Beaton. Primarily, firms are trying to undercut one another to win clients' favour.
"It's being driven by competition between the firms discounting against each other, seriously determined to hold on to their clients or to win new work, and using price as their primary weapon, which of course just drives the price down across the industry," he says.
In addition, he believes some clients are driving down prices by negotiating intensely in an effort to cut costs, though this is only a portion of the market.
"You get the very aggressive reverse auction and very sophisticated procurement practices by clients, through to those that are quite traditional, loyal to an individual partner and [pay] them an hourly rate, so there's a big spectrum amongst the clients as well."
Interestingly, Dr Beaton believes that US- and UK-based clients are more adept at pushing prices down than those in Australia.
"My observation would be that the Australian corporate in-house legal departments are not as active in looking at this. I'm not saying they're inactive, but speaking comparatively with the US and the UK," he says.
"A few are getting very active, but the majority are still in the old mould and accepting time-based fees.
"The reason is that most of their inhouse counsel have come from large law firms and therefore are accustomed as to how to buy legal services, because it's how they used to sell and provide, and so they've taken those habits and they've been perpetuated in the large law firms."
Competition in Asia is another topic in and of itself, as the region is in so many different stages of evolution, according to Dr Beaton.
"You could treat Singapore and Hong Kong very much like any Westernised country: they are equally competitive, but then you go to Vietnam or Myanmar or China [and] it's a completely different story," he says.
Sealing the deal
While competition is hot, it is also important to look at what exactly firms are vying to win.
The Bloomberg Global M&A Market Review 1H 2016 report shows that 46.6 per cent of all deals completed is the first half of 2016 were in the US, far outweighing the number of deals completed in any other jurisdiction.
Mr Charlton says the US often sees the biggest and best deals due to its significant client base.
"Half of the clients globally, in general terms, are in the US or US-headquartered. The amount of work and clients in the region is relative to the size and depth of the economy and legal market," Mr Charlton says.
In particular, he says, New York is a centre for financial services work, with a wide range of activities for players in this space.
"This includes liquidity/capital raising, mainstream finance work, capital markets, securities, M&A and litigation."
As New York is for the USA, London is a finance hub for the UK, while Singapore is a centre for international arbitration, according to Mr Charlton.
"The UK has continual reliance on the financial services industry, which makes up perhaps 14 per cent of its GDP, with the rest of the economy dominated by services," he says.
By contrast, Mr Charlton emphasises that Singapore is positioning itself as a standalone centre for arbitration. Part of its appeal is its independence from China, which its closest legal market competitor, Hong Kong, cannot boast.
In Australia, the client base is largely made up of ASX-listed and privately owned businesses, plus some multinational companies in a range of industries, according to Mr Fogarty. Resources, mining, infrastructure, IPOs and real estate are all on the agenda for Australian clients.
However, the market is not known for any particular brand of expertise, Mr Fogarty has found.
"Australia is a full-service market without being known as a specialist hub for anything," he says.
Innovation reaching new heights
It's no secret that when it comes to technology, America is miles ahead of the rest of the world.
Dr Beaton says North America, including both the US and Canada, is leading the way in terms of technology and innovation in the legal industry.
"I say that because the amount of venture capital and private equity that is being poured in completely dwarfs the rest of the world put together," he says.
In 2014, more than US$400 million of private equity and venture capital was injected into law tech in America, according to Dr Beaton.
"That's given a phenomenal boost. It's just gigantic, and that does not include corporate equity and investments done by people like Google, who are heavily going into consumer tech, B2C."
With US companies like IBM establishing projects such as Watson, Dr Beaton says corporates have an additional incentive to invest in law tech in this jurisdiction.
"With artificial intelligence you're getting this huge corporate initiative, so you've got both private capital – in the form of venture and private equity – and corporate capital being poured in."
Yet if North America takes gold in innovation, it is unclear who claims the other steps on the podium.
"I don't think out of Australia, Singapore and the UK that anyone is ahead," Dr Beaton says.
However, according to Mr Fogarty, Australia and the UK may be one step ahead of Singapore.
The Australian market has already seen the emergence of more NewLaw firms, as well as increased adoption of outsourcing by the larger firms, Mr Fogarty says.
"New, nimble law firms (NewLaw) are arriving onto the scene with limited office space or facilities and low staff numbers, usually made up of senior lawyers with specific expertise, trying to compete with the full-service firms for particular types of work," he says.
These NewLaw firms often have a lower cost base and fixed-fee rates, which can attract certain clients and result in higher profitability. They are also able to offer much more flexible work arrangements, which can appeal to staff, he explains.
Larger firms are also turning to technology to improve work efficiency in multiple ways.
"Certainly, firms are looking into advances in technology to assist and make more efficient major projects, like discovery on huge pieces of litigation," Mr Fogarty says.
"Some firms are also using the latest devices to permit electronic documentation and execution of transactions, limiting the need for endless hard-copy paperwork.
"Mass off-the-plan sales of Australian residential property at trade fairs in Asia are often done with an electronic signature on an iPad, on the spot, significantly speeding up the process."
Outsourcing is also on the rise, among both larger firms and in-house teams.
"Some larger firms and clients with large in-house legal teams are outsourcing some services (back-office HR or even due diligence exercises) to overseas, typically where hourly rates are much lower: places like India, the Philippines, South Africa," he says.
Over in the UK, some London-based firms are embracing what has been termed 'north-shoring', according to Mr Fogarty.
"In an attempt to increase profitability, many of the London-based firms are opening lower cost base operations in cities like Manchester and Birmingham," he says.
"These centres are largely populated by paralegal-level assistants, who undertake the more commoditised aspects of transactions and cases."
Flexible working arrangements are also becoming far more common, in a bid to tighten up expenditure.
"Firms are also resourcing more flexibly, with a more ready acceptance of the use of interim and contract lawyers to assist in the peaks of any workflow. Many are also seeking to utilise the skills of firm alumni who may not be in full-time employment," according to Mr Fogarty.
In addition to the large number of global law firm mergers over recent years, Mr Fogarty says there has been a proliferation of new niche firms in the UK, particularly in the areas of technology, employment and litigation.
Bringing up the rear in the innovation race is Singapore.
"The law firm-backed, flexible-resourcing businesses are gradually making their way into Singapore, but it is nothing like as developed a market as we would see in the US and UK," Mr Fogarty says.
Nonetheless, some global firms are testing new options worldwide, which will affect the Singaporean market. Mr Charlton says Clifford Chance is focused on promoting technology and innovation equally in all jurisdictions.
"We are always looking for ways to innovate," Mr Charlton says. "This is not by jurisdiction, but firm-wide."
"We opened our Legal Support Centre in Delhi in 2013, and have an assigned global head of innovation and business change."
Clifford Chance also recently announced a partnership with the artificial intelligence software provider Kira Systems.
"There are a range of new entrants in the market who specialise in the automation of legal services. They focus on smaller pieces of the wider legal offering," Mr Charlton says.
"Our clients seek out added value, high quality and often quite intricate and complex solutions – this is our focus. Our investment in innovative practices simply supplements our work at the top end of the market."
Team efforts
When it comes to landing a job, some jurisdictions offer better odds than others. Singapore's growing market has a lot of positions available, and the UK is attracting many lawyers from overseas due to a local shortage, while in Australia and the US opportunities are few and far between.
Mr Fogarty says there are certainly enough jobs in Singapore for good lawyers who have trained in top-tier Singaporean, UK, US or Australian law firms.
The job market in the UK is also relatively buoyant, and more work is expected to be generated by the Brexit process, which will potentially boost demand for lawyers.
"There is a shortage of the highest-quality lawyer candidates, who are capable of securing roles within the global firms, and this is the reason that we see relatively high numbers of foreign lawyers working within the London market," Mr Fogarty says.
Starting salaries for newly qualified lawyers at top-tier UK firms have been significantly inflated to compete with the US firms that operate there, and retention rates are impressive, he adds.
"The retention rates within the large London firms have traditionally been very high and, whilst we have seen the retention percentage reduce slightly, it is still usual for a firm to retain around 90 per cent of their trainee lawyers."
Salaries in London aim to stay competitive with the best on offer in the US, with Mr Charlton confirming that firms look towards US salaries as benchmarks.
Meanwhile, he says, the New York legal market is traditionally the strongest in the US in terms of remuneration.
"The New York legal market drives trends in the US, and with US firms in other markets," Mr Charlton says.
The job market in Australia is currently experiencing a difficult dynamic, with law firms reluctant to hire graduates and instead looking to hire experienced lawyers.
"At the experienced lawyer level, [Australia] is a candidate-short market. Good-quality candidates receive multiple offers," Mr Fogarty says.
"This is because of the decline in graduate lawyer hires the larger firms now invest in. Firms clearly do not want to hire graduates in numbers beyond almost the bare minimum, to avoid incurring the cost. Therefore teams are now more leanly resourced."
With firms recruiting fewer juniors, and law schools producing more graduates, many are finding themselves qualified but unable to secure a job.
"Many graduates, because of the increasing number of law schools, struggle to secure jobs in the law straight out of university," Mr Fogarty says.
"Usually it's only the very best [that get jobs]: those who have the best academic results, have undertaken seasonal clerkships with firms and have had a balanced or multifaceted life experience to date."
Dr Beaton adds that the trend of more work being done in-house is contributing to law firms cutting back the number of lawyers they employ.
"The trend in the top 20 firms is to shed lawyers," he says. "There's a reduction or a slowing in the growth rate, depending on the firm or the segment that you look at. This is because work is going in-house or because work is simply not there."
In these circumstances, it is no surprise that a growing number of young Australian lawyers are heading overseas.
Many young lawyers have a desire to work overseas at some point, and now would be a sensible time to do so, with UK and Singaporean firms opening their doors while Australian firms are tightening their intakes.
Overall, the Australian market is relatively secure compared with overseas locations – but in a globalised world, no market acts in isolation.


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