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What great shots! We love the water umbrella best!
Love ya lots
Maggie and Mitch - 3:49 AM
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Beautiful! I wish I was in Florida today. It is raining and cold here in the midwest. Yucky.
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- Marlene said...
What is the blue thing in the top photo?
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Wow, these are amazing Melissy. I wish you both could have been at the Arboretum this weekend, the flowers were heavenly!
xoxox - 8:26 AM
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Fred has such a talent! That last picture... my goodness. I just want to stroll right down that pathway!
Happy Tuesday, my friends!
xoxo - 1:33 PM
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Hi everyone!
The blue bubble is a 'Man of War'.
He is like a jelly fish.
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what a great photos =0] … oh jellyfish funny i just posted on my blog some photos i did of Aquatic Creatures maybe Fred would like to check =0] http://www.kristinazambrano.com/blog/?p=383
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What great pictures! I've been spring cleaning and every so often I come across some little treasure that I had forgotten about, or hadn't known was there...great fun!
- Tweedles -- that's me said...
oh my gosh,,,,
here i am again,,, my comment disappeared,,,,,
Fred is such an artist in capuring all this magic with his camera.
I love the blue jelly fish,,
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What is that blue thing in the first picture? A creature or a stone? Whatever it is...it is a pretty sea blue. The girls and I cleaned the pug mobile today and dropped off their Dad for a Navy training trip. Oh we wanted to say we loved the cute Robin and blue egg from the last post too.
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Oh My Goodness...I don't know which one is my favorite as they are all SO wonderful. Say..what is that "blue thing" on the beach??
Also especially love the fountain with the "umbrella" water.
Have a fun day.
Joan & Little Janie - 1:05 AM
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oops...just read...its a sort of jelly fish! how cool is that.


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Finding gifts to give someone who has everything can be difficult, especially when you don't have a lot of money to spend on gifts. One possible solution is to make a homemade gift basket to give the person. For teenagers and women who suffer from acne, an anti-acne skin care gift basket is a lovely choice. Not only will this prove to be a useful gift, it is one that can be personalized to that person's skin type and unique skincare needs.
Ingredients for an anti-acne skin care gift basket
For a person who has acne, the items in the gift basket should include items that can help to fight acne and clear up current outbreaks. Lemon juice, cinnamon and honey are some of the ingredients that you can include. Tea bags and powdered milk are also great items to include in the gift basket.
If you want to make the basket look really nice, you can include whole lemons, cinnamon sticks, cucumbers and garlic – just be sure to let the person know that they will have to use the ingredients quickly so they don't spoil. Make sure that the ingredients you get are organic so that the person isn't putting harmful pesticides on his or her skin.
When you are gathering ingredients, you should find some pimple-fighting recipes to include in the basket so the recipient knows how to use the ingredients you have included. Ideally, you will find recipes that explain the importance of each ingredient. This will help to educate the recipient, so they know how to fight acne in the future and can find the best ingredients to fight the blemishes.
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An anti-acne gift basket shouldn't include only the ingredients necessary to care for acne-prone skin. You should also include the accessories necessary to make masks and other preparations. If you give the person whole lemons, cinnamon sticks and similar items, include a small handheld grater so the person can easily prepare masks and topical treatments. A small bowl is another idea, as the person will need something to mix the ingredients in. You can also include a small jar, such as a cleaned and sanitized baby food jar if the preparations can be safely stored. Cotton balls, a small towel, and an eye mask are other items to consider putting into the gift basket.
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Decorating the anti-acne gift basket is likely going to be the most fun part of getting the basket together. If you know what the recipient's bathroom looks like, you can take that into consideration when you decorate the basket. If the person's bathroom is a nautical theme, for example, you can decorate a small pail to keep in line with the nautical theme. If the person's bathroom has a country theme, a wicker basket would be a great option. For a person who loves sports, a basket decorated in their favorite team's colors is a neat idea. Your imagination is the only limit.


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OGDENSBURG On Tuesday, the City Council closed the doors of its meeting to discuss the hiring process for a city manager, but a state official claims it violated the law in the process.
Mayor William D. Nelson called the meeting into an executive session to confer with Dominic Mazza of the Bonadio Group, the Syracuse firm leading the city manager search, and to confer on possible changes to the city managers contract.
However, Robert J. Freeman, executive director of the state Committee on Open Government, said Mr. Nelson did not have grounds to close the meeting.
If they were discussing the process, clearly there would not have been a basis for entering an executive session, he said. If they looked at the law, they would avoid these kinds of pitfalls, and the law in my view is easy to understand.
Mr. Nelson claimed City Attorney Andrew W. Silver advised the council that it had grounds to close the meeting.
We discussed what we were going to discuss with our city attorney, and he said it was OK to talk about in executive session, he said. The terms of potential contracts and personnel issues are confidential information.
Article 7, Section 105 of the state Open Meeting Law allows the council to close its meetings for only a handful of reasons, Mr. Freeman said, among them issues related to specific individuals. Since no candidate has been chosen, Mr. Freeman said, the council needlessly entered executive session.
It is public because they are not talking about any particular individual; they are talking about policy, he said.
Mr. Nelson disagreed.
We were conferring with our consultants to discuss potential candidates, and that is private information, he said.
Councilor Wayne L. Ashley said that wasnt the case.
Absolutely, positively not, he said. We did not discuss any names or any potential candidates in particular.
Deputy Mayor Michael D. Morley said the council didnt knowingly break the law.
I didnt know that, and if I had known, I wouldnt have voted to go into executive session, he said. It sounds like we need to do this publicly.
The council had no basis for closing its meeting to discuss the contracts, either, Mr. Freeman said.
They cant close their meetings, he said, because the exception that apparently has been relied upon says that a public body can close the doors to discuss the medical, financial, credit or employment history of a particular person or corporation, or matters leading to the appointment, employment, promotion, demotion, discipline, suspension, dismissal or removal of a particular person or corporation but there isnt anyone in particular that they are talking about.
Mr. Freeman said the law protects the City Councils right to meet in private with its attorney for advice about a specific legal matter, but since Mr. Mazza is not the citys attorney, that protection does not apply in this case.
The law requires the entire hiring process be done openly until specific candidates are discussed, Mr. Freeman said.
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It seems to be a well-known fact that if we have a 3-fold $X$ with only ODP singularities (ordinary double point) and a smooth Weil divisor $E$ passing through them, then by blowing-up $X$ along $E$ we get a small crepant resolution of $X$. I was wondering if anyone knew of a quick proof of this and/or a reference where it is proved. Thanks
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The more general phenomenon behind this is that $E$ is not a Cartier divisor at the ODPs. (A Cartier divisor could not be smooth, because that would imply that $X$ is smooth!) The pre-image of this divisor will be Cartier and hence the blow-up is not an isomorphism (as it is when one blows up a Cartier divisor). On the other hand the divisor is locally defined by $2$ equations near the ODPs, so the fibers over these points can be at most dimension $1$. Hence they are exactly dimension $1$. In other words, the blow up is a small morphism. Then you need to see that the blow up is indeed smooth. You may do this by verifying that the pre-image of $E$ is smooth which should not be too hard as its pre-image ought to be just the blow up of E at the ODP points (check this by an explicit local computation). These points are smooth on $E$, so the blow-up of $E$ remains smooth. Then its a smooth Cartier divisor, so the ambient space has to be smooth along it, but it is already smooth everywhere else. |
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Just for the sake of saving anyone else who needs this fact, we may local analytically assume that $X\cong \text{Spec }\mathbb C[x,y,z,w]/(f(x,y,z,w))$, where $E$ is defined by $x=z=0$ and $f=xP+zQ$ for polynomials $P,Q$ such that $f$ vanishes at the origin, has vanishing derivatatives at the origin, but whose Hessian is nonsingular there. This follows sinces $E$ is smooth and passes through the ODP, which has embedding dimension 4. Taking the proper primage of $X$ under the blow-up of $\mathbb C^4$ along $E$ gives explicit equations for the blow-up of $X$ along $E$, and using the Jacobian criterion shows that the blow-up is nonsingular from non-singularity of the Hessian matrix. |


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Beautiful World is the fourth studio album from the British band Take That. The album was released in November 2006, and was the band's first new studio album in 11 years. The album features what Take That describe as "a throwback to the 90s, but with a modern twist". Beautiful World is their first album in which every member of the band sings lead vocals on at least one song. The album was very well received in the United Kingdom and so far has sold over 3 million copies worldwide (including 2,616,944 in the UK alone as of June 2009). The album was the 2nd best selling of 2006 in the UK, after only being on sale for one month. The album was also the 4th best selling album of 2007, and 33rd best selling of 2008. The album was certified in 2006 as 8x Platinum in the UK and is currently the 35th best selling album in British music history.
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Katie Holmes looked like a woman in control when she stepped out in New York to film a segment for Project Runway: All Stars on July 2. With no wedding ring, the actress, 33, appeared calm and polished as she made her way into through the throng of media.
Holmes, who was said to have put in a "great" appearance at the taping, is likely to be amassing strength from the support of her family since filing for divorce from Tom Cruise after five years of marriage on June 28. Sources say her Ohio-based lawyer father, Martin Holmes, "came into town and fired people surrounding Katie," the source tells WHO Magazine. "He took control. He was worried about his daughter."
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Question is, how did she pull it off? Holmes picked a moment when Cruise was 4,200 km away in Iceland filming his movie Oblivion. Next, she and her father sent her Cruise-approved publicist Ina Treciokas packing, and re-hired Nancy Ryder, with whom she worked before her marriage, and rented a new apartment in Chelsea, NYC.
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Norma Key Lee, 82, passed away peacefully on Saturday, June 2, 2012 at Scotia Village in Laurinburg, North Carolina. She was the wife of Hugh A. Lee, Sr. for 61 years.
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The daughter of Alice and Marvin E. Key of Key's Crossing in Ellerbe, North Carolina was also preceded in death by brothers Marvin Key, Jr., Neil Key; and sister Barbara Farquarr. She is survived by brother Earl Key of Rockingham; sisters-in-law Lydia Key of Rockingham, Ellie Key, of Graham NC and Anne Key of Atlanta GA.
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Skipton Keelham Farm Shop recommended for approval by planners (From Craven Herald)
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Owners of Keelham Farm Shop have welcomed the support of Craven planners to their proposed £3 million outlet in Skipton.
Brother and sister James and Victoria Robertshaw want to build their second shop and visitors' centre on the site of the former Nicholas Smith's garage close to the Little Chef roundabout, at the Gargrave Road entrance to the town.
The shop, which will make use of renewable energy, including the siting of a micro 15 metre high wind turbine, has been recommended for approval at Monday's meeting of Craven District Council's planning committee.
"It is fantastic that our plans are to be recommended for approval by council officers at this critical stage," said co-owner Victoria Robertshaw.
"One of our family farms is located in Cowling and we have a real affinity with the area. We've sourced meat from Skipton Auction Mart for many years now and we already use Stanforths Butcher's meat processing unit, which is based at the auction mart, for some of the meat preparation for our original shop in Thornton."
If the plans are approved, it will be the second shop to bear the Keelham name.
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Stirton Parish Meeting said it was "overwhelmingly in favour", but also expressed highways concerns and hoped that plans could be put in place to cope with any traffic build-up.
In addition, the council has received 33 responses with 30 in support of the scheme, and three against.
The shop, café and attached visitors' barn, with live animals, will create 60 jobs and include parking for 127 cars. It is also proposed to site a bus stop at the front of the shop.
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BOSTON (August 23, 2006) — An employees group at Simmons College has been honored by New England's largest anti-poverty agency for more than 20 years of fundraising efforts to help relieve hunger in the Mission Hill/Fenway area of Boston. It is the first time a college group has been recognized by ABCD, Inc. (Action for Boston Community Development).
The Simmons College Staff Council — a voluntary group of Simmons employees which has donated more than $70,000 in total proceeds from its annual faculty/staff silent auction to the Parker Hill/Fenway Emergency Food Bank — will receive an ABCD Community Award at the agency's annual Community Awards Dinner on November 3.
ABCD officials say that proceeds from the Simmons fundraiser represent the largest single donation the Parker Hill/Fenway Emergency Food Pantry receives annually. For the past five years, the auction has raised between $6,000-$9,000 each year.
Simmons employees spend months preparing for the auction each year by requesting donations from local vendors, restaurants, sports teams, and members of the staff and faculty. Past items up for bid have included professional sports tickets, a pan of homemade lasagna, overnight hotel stays, hand-knitted blankets, original artwork, and a day-long tour of Buzzard's Bay with the former college president on his boat.
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Few issues have dominated an election like oil and energy did this summer. From foreign policy, to environmental protection, to the economic concerns of the middle class, candidates all over the country devoted a great deal of time to the problem of rising demand for oil and its environmental costs. Over the summer, Sen. Mitch McConnell joined in, observing that "there's also little doubt … that the single most important issue facing Americans at the moment is the high price of gas at the pump."[1]
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The oil industry is reporting record profits as consumers empty their wallets at the pump, so why is Senator John McCain (R-AZ) suddenly backing policies like offshore oil drilling that do nothing to help gas prices today (or the environment tomorrow), but stand to make Big Oil a handsome profit down the road?
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The Washington Post is doing a series all this week on the oil situation: rising demand, rising prices, environmental concerns, the whole messy debacle. Right next to the first article in that series was this piece about some fishy timing around Sen. John McCain's (R) reversal on the offshore oil drilling ban, and an influx of campaign contributions from the oil industry.
Experts will tell you that it would be years before American consumers would seen any benefit from the proposed offshore oil drilling President Bush is attempting to push through Congress. So why is Senator John McCain (R) pushing the idea on the campaign trail as a solution to rising gas prices? ThinkProgress speculates on McCain's change of heart -- and the money he's taking in from the oil and gas industry.
Wait, is Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) combating legislation to create new carbon emission standards because it'll hurt oil company profits, or is he fighting the bill as a political maneuver to get revenge for Democrats holding up judicial nominations? When fighting legislation to make corporate interests happy, it's so hard to keep those flimsy excuses straight.
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Initial Setting Pitch
Blackmoor is a small seaside town with a castle with a big dungeon underneath. Elves guard the entrance to the castle and dungeon. One feature in the dungeon is the Orcian Way that leads down to the 10th level where Kink Funk's orcs hold their ground supported by balrogs, wraiths, ghouls and ogres. Another dungeon resident is Sir Fang the Vampire.
Ye Olde Comeback Inn: When you try to leave this inn, you find yourself walking back in through the front door. Even walking backwards doesn't help. The only way out is to be tossed out or have a friend outside pull you out.
The Great Dismal Swamp is a good place to get lost (a good place to have complications from failed Orienteering rolls and such).
The Temple of the Frog: the base for a nasty group of froglike creatures.
Regent of the Mines: major dwarven settlement.
Ringlo Hall: major elven settlement. There are also elves in The West Wood.
The Egg of Coot holds a large peninsula in the North and is one of the great forces attempting to dominate the area for the worse of mankind and such.
Some other personalities: The Ran of Ah Foo (Duchy of Ten), Gin of Salik (great wizard), Marfeldt The Barbarian, The Blue Rider (William of the Heath, a great warrior), Mello and the Hobbitts, The Great Svenny (the first Paladin), The Bishop.
That's about all I see of major worth extracting from The First Fantasy Campaign. And that's what I like about this setting (at least prior to the D&D 3e version of it), a few tidbits and lots of room to make the place your own. There's a few more tidbits I would take out of the later DA1-4 series D&D modules and the OD&D Blackmoor supplement (Supplement II - the original source of The Temple of the Frog). -- Frank
Additional Notes from Character Burning session
Old Magic, Old Religion
Spirit Binding is the old magic. The old religion is polytheistic and utilizes spheres.
Chief Deity
The chief deity has the following spheres: oceans, anger, travel, fertility, death
New Magic, New Religion - Church of the Burning Wheel
Sorcery is the new magic. The new faith is monotheistic (and does not utilize spheres). The church bestows the Gifted trait in a ceremony (there may be other magics that are Gifted based, but not connected with the church).
The Initial Situation
Just this last week for the first time a caravan guard from a doomed caravan rode into Blackmoor badly injured, with fever-induced mutterings of dog-sized spiders waylaying the caravan (the players know they're Sea-Lord Spiders from the MonBu). Is it real? What are we going to do about it? Without the imports from the City of Maus will Blackmoor even be able to survive? What is it the spiders are after? How do they know which transports have those items on it?
Longer Term
We also, on a longer term situation have a world that has been part of a polytheistic non-sorcerous magic world. All of the old traditions are being swept away behind the tide of the expansion of the Church of the Burning Wheel. A monotheistic religion who have the ability to grant the gifted trait through some sacred ritual and therefore they also have religious war wizards!
Further Notes
During our situation/character burning session last night, we talked about Blackmoor being large enough to be City Dweller setting which perhaps makes it a bit larger than my original pitch, though I note that Character Burner does not have a town setting, so that needn't be much of a conflict. We did decide it was small enough that Severin is probably the only vintner in town.


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Solid growth seen in exports to most Middle East markets
Total exports of American hardwood lumber to the Middle East-North Africa (MENA) region during 2011 reached 69,520 m3 and a value of USD 49.25 million.
While this represented a 1% decrease in volume and a 7% decrease in value over the previous year, this decline was entirely due to a reduction in exports to Egypt, which was the main destination for US hardwood lumber in 2010.
In fact, with the exception of Egypt, exports to region's main markets grew significantly, rising by 30% in volume to the United Arab Emirates, 39% to Saudi Arabia, 67% to Turkey and 5% to Israel.
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While US hardwood lumber exports to Egypt declined significantly during2011, shipments of veneer grew by 32% to a value of USD 9.30 million. One reason for the disparity is that US hardwood lumber was overstocked in Egypt in 2010.
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In terms of US hardwood veneers shipped to the region during 2011, red oak was also the dominant species, accounting for 42% of total exports and reaching a value of USD 8.75 million. Walnut and white oak were the other two major species shipped in veneer form from the United States.
While AHEC has no mandate to promote hardwood log exports from the United States, tracking shipments is, nonetheless, important. In 2011, total US hardwood log exports to the MENA region reached a volume of 46,278 m3 and value of USD 26.35 million. This represents an 11% decrease in volume and a 9% decrease in value over the previous year.
The major destinations for US hardwood logs in 2011 were the United Arab Emirates (13,692 m3), Turkey (9,447 m3) and Egypt (6,801 m3). In fact, the UAE has emerged as an important market for US hardwood logs, but evidence suggests that the majority of these are re-exported to a wide range of nearby countries, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Somalia and Iran.
In terms of species, red oak accounted for some 29% of all log shipments, while white oak, walnut, ash and tulipwood made up the remainder.


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The Defense Department has updated classification and declassification guidelines to help agencies determined what should be public knowledge, particularly when it comes to national security.
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National Archives and Records Administration recently launched the OGIS Access System to streamline and increase transparency of the FOIA process.
Agencies demo one-stop FOIA portal
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OGIS is 'new kid' on FOIA's block
Miriam Nisbet, director of the Office of Government Information Services, explains how her agency's role is different from the Justice Department's when it comes to the Freedom of Information Act.
Library of Congress to receive entire Twitter archive
For the past year, the Library of Congress has been working with Twitter in a transfer of the company's entire electronic data set. Library's digital director sees this as a "unique record of our time."
NARA to lay out steps for digital archives
NARA's chief records officer, Paul Wester, gives a peek of a governmentwide framework for managing electronic records.
Agencies have 120 days to start getting e-records in shape
In a new memo, President Barack Obama tasked agencies with reviewing their policies for storing and managing electronic communications, including emails and social media postings. Agencies must submit reviews of their current policies in 120 days. Meanwhile, the National Archives and Records Administration plans to develop a governmentwide framework.
National Archives extends its reach via social media
Pamela Wright, chief digital access strategist, describes how the public is helping the National Archives bring its content to the Internet via social media.
IG: SEC should have kept records it destroyed
The Securities and Exchange Commission should have kept thousands of documents it destroyed from preliminary investigations of financial firms over nearly two decades, according to a government report released Tuesday.
Archives opens massive new center for government personnel files
Bryan McGraw, the director of the archival program at the NPRC, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss the opening of a new facility dedicated to government personnel files.
NARA tackling records management in the cloud
The archives is working with the CIO Council to figure out how to move records stored in the cloud more easily and ensure their authenticity. Mike Wash, NARA's CIO, said this is a problem looming for every agency as more and more of them move to the cloud computing. NARA is considering how to move its internal email to a managed service provider.
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Kathleen Williams, executive director of NHPRC, which is part of the National Archives, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss the "Founder's Online" project a "pretty vast" undertaking, she said.
Former Archives employee pleads guilty to theft
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Under 10-year, $240 million deal, IBM will provide operation and maintenance support and provide enhancements as necessary to the Electronic Record Archive system. NARA is considering improving search capabilities for agency customers of ERA. NARA CIO Mike Wash said more and more agencies are transferring data and using the system.
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A heart of green and gold
22 Jan 2013
John Plumtree remains adamant that for him when it comes to rugby, South Africa is No 1, writes MARK KEOHANE in Business Day Sport Monthly.
John Plumtree's wife is South African. His son is South African. His team of choice, as a player and coach, the Sharks, is South African. Often, Plumtree is referenced as the Sharks' New Zealand-born coach, but he sees it differently. When it comes to rugby he's more South African than Kiwi. In fact, he's more Shark than anything else.
Plumtree has aspirations to coach the Springboks, as is the case with any South African coach. He identifies with South African rugby more than any other and while there will always be a proud Kiwi in Plumtree, when it comes to rugby the identification is very South African.
The jersey Plumtree prides most is a Springbok Sevens jersey, earned in 1994 when representing South Africa at the Hong Kong Sevens.
'I reckon I must have been the first Kiwi to wear the green and gold,' he jokes. 'It was a surreal moment in the change room; a very special moment. A very strong Springbok Sevens team went to Hong Kong in 1994. Andre Joubert, Henry Honiball and Joost van der Westhuizen were among the stars of that team and I felt proud to be considered good enough for the squad,' says Plumtree.
'I grew up a Kiwi kid with dreams of playing for the All Blacks against the Springboks and here I was wearing the Springbok jersey and I felt massive pride in playing for South Africa. They were New Zealand's traditional foe and they were the team that commanded the most respect among the older folk.
'The greatest challenge for an All Blacks player was to beat the Springboks in South Africa and I grew up with a sense of wonder and awe at the men in green and gold. They had a mystique for me. As a young rugby player I always wanted to play in South Africa; I got the chance in 1988 and ended up staying for nearly 10 years before returning to the Sharks to coach in 2006.'
South Africa is home to Plumtree and has been for some time. Professionally, his coaching may still take him to Europe or New Zealand, but in an ideal world home is Durban, South Africa and work is in South Africa.
'The country has given me a family, a home and a wonderful lifestyle. It has given me opportunity. South Africa has been very good to me and I'd like to think I've embraced the country and given as much as I can to it. I've been in South Africa for the best part of 20 years and love being here,' says Plumtree.
'My coaching took me to Wales, where you could say I did my apprenticeship with Swansea as a young coach and furthered that with four years as Wellington coach in New Zealand. But for the rest it's all been here in Durban, as a player and as a coach. I've never felt I had to choose between New Zealand and South Africa; if anything I consider myself fortunate to have experience of both because of the strong rugby connection. I have enormous respect for the rugby in New Zealand and an equal feeling for the game in this country.'
Plumtree has worked with some of New Zealand's and South Africa's best players and says the similarities make the rivalry so intense.
'Both have an appetite for physicality and for playing a direct game. Both want to be the best in the world and have the work ethic that goes with it. If there was a difference I'd say there's more pressure in South Africa at schoolboy level to win because of the rivalry between the major rugby playing schools, whereas in New Zealand there is a greater focus at schoolboy level on playing good rugby. The pressure here would be to win at all costs; there the pressure would be in the skills evolution of a player at schools level.
'Professionally, though, there isn't much to choose and that is why there seldom is much in matches at Super Rugby and Test levels. There has been the odd blowout from the Boks and from a South African and Kiwi Super Rugby side, but generally, as a Kiwi side, you have to play bloody well to win in this country, and the same is true of any South African team wanting to win in New Zealand.'
Plumtree played 80 matches for the Sharks between 1988 and 1997, having played 40 provincial games in New Zealand prior to that, which culminated in selection for All Blacks trials in 1989. His best rugby memories are playing for the Sharks and winning two Currie Cup medals and he takes pride in the achievement of winning the Currie Cup as a player and as a coach.
'I was part of the 1996 squad as a player and in my first season as head coach in 2008 we won the cup again for the first time since 1996. To say I have won the Currie Cup as a player and a coach is a big thing for me because it also shows just how long I have been here and it is a competition that means a hell of a lot to me. I understand the history of the competition and I know what it meant to win it as a player at the Sharks. So I will never treat it as secondary.
'There's Super Rugby, which we want to win and there's the Currie Cup, which we want to win. Both have equal status. One is the premier international tournament we play in and the other is the premier domestic competition. We had a chance to complete a rare double in 2012 in winning both and fell at the last hurdle. It hurts because we got so close to something really special, but the motivation has to be that it is possible to succeed in both tournaments and the group of players this year is more experienced, more mature and equipped to certainly be successful.'
The defeat in the Currie Cup final against Western Province rankles Plumtree more than the away defeat against the Chiefs in Super Rugby because it was a final he believed his team was good enough to win.
'It is the one area we simply have to correct as a squad. When we are looking down the barrel we somehow find an escape and a way to win but when the hard work has been done and the expectation is there that we should win we have stumbled. Western Province played very well to win the final but home finals are occasions you have to make count. We had done all the hard work, benefited from consistency in getting a home semi-final and final and then to stumble … well you pick an adjective …'
Consistency is something Plumtree feels the Sharks have lacked in Super Rugby and to win the tournament he believes a team has to start well and end well.
'The Crusaders and Bulls in their best years showed this consistency. They won enough to get the home semi and home final and while it is a huge advantage playing at home in the final it is also reward for a consistent season,' says Plumtree. 'I know we were up against it last year in having to travel to Australia, back to South Africa and then to Hamilton in New Zealand in 10 days but had we started the tournament better, it would have been another team doing the travelling to Durban.
'It is the nature of the competition and it's a competition I love being a part of. It tests everything about you as a player and as a coach. It tests the depth of your squad, the mental resolve and it also tests the ability of the coaching staff to manage the playing demands of the squad. I personally love the tournament and I enjoyed the expanded version in 2012.'
Plumtree favours the June break when internationals are played and says a tournament as long as Super Rugby needs a break.
'I guess the key is not to have too many international players away on Test duty because we saw how a team like the Crusaders struggled post the June internationals. They were just hitting a peak before the All Blacks' three Tests against the Irish and their players, who were superb at times against Ireland, just never hit the same heights in the remainder of the tournament.
'The Sharks, by contrast, benefited from the break. We had a chance to reassess, get our injured players back on the park and we also had the benefit of a bye in the first week after the break. I found our players were refreshed and our Springboks gained a lot from that one-week bye. We went on a roll, so it works both ways. As a coaching team we learned a lot from last year, in terms of managing the squad and maximising game time for the entire squad.'
Plumtree, six days after the Sharks' Super Rugby final defeat in Hamilton, started the Currie Cup campaign against Western Province in Cape Town, and he made 14 changes to the side beaten by the Chiefs.
'The travel and playing demands forced those changes and we won in Cape Town, which shows you what is possible. I think having so many players away on international duty has allowed us to develop talent at Currie Cup level, which may not have been the case if all our players were available every weekend. It is why the Currie Cup for me will always have prestige, as a tournament, and as a showcase of the next generation of star players in South Africa.'
Plumtree has an expectation of his squad, but won't differentiate between the need to win and develop quality players and improve the quality of those already in the system.
'It can't be one at the expense of the other. The nature of the sport is you have to win but you can develop and win at the same time if your identification is right. I have been so impressed with what Gary Kirsten has done with the Proteas. He has taken risks, always spoken of a bigger picture, be it an ODI World Cup, a T20 series or a Test series. You know what he wants to achieve and he hasn't been afraid to introduce youngsters at the same time.
'He has a clear plan, which has been well communicated, but he has also been very clear about the priority in results, which was to win the Test series in England and Australia … which they did. In the interim he has introduced a virtually new T20 side and made many adjustments to the ODI side. I think South African rugby, at national and provincial and regional levels, can learn a lot from what Gary has done with the Proteas cricket side.'
Plumtree, this season, wants a closer working relationship with the national coaches and with whoever can add to the success of the Sharks.
'I don't think we share enough in South Africa. I think we can learn from each other, at franchise level, and at national level and we definitely can learn from other codes,' says Plumtree. 'A lot of rugby people look to New Zealand but the system is completely different, especially the way in which the NZRU contracts the Super Rugby players and the working relationship that exists between the national coaches and the franchise coaches. You could only take from New Zealand if Saru was contracting the players. They aren't.
'There's a lot right with rugby in South Africa and we have the luxury of so much natural talent. I'd say we need to invest more in the intellectual capital that there is on a coaching front in this country, encourage our players to have a go and take risks without fear of being dropped. We certainly also need to talk more, among ourselves in rugby and to those in other codes, to make South African rugby an entity that can consistently be as strong as New Zealand, and hopefully even stronger.'
– This article first appeared in Business Day Sport Monthly, which is distributed FREE with Business Day newspaper on the second Friday of each month.
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23 Jan 2013, 07:40 am@Fern-700:
Are you still an avid reader of the crime stats in NZ ?
23 Jan 2013, 08:05 amCongrats to the Black Caps. A fanbloodytastic victory and MORE than well deserved series win. Just goes to show.
I'm one of those who doesn't seem to 'feel' the pain of the Proteas fuckupsintheshorterversion of the game any longer. Immune I am. After so many years of these little stumbles and falls, it's all become rather expected.
23 Jan 2013, 08:26 amThe fact of the matter is that this Protea one day team is an average outfit. This was a particularly gutless and inept performance.
The gap between sides also becomes smaller as the format becomes shorter.
There is a reason it's called test cricket.
A good win for the Keewees.
23 Jan 2013, 08:28 amCorrect, nobody is disputing that but we'll take the win and some much needed pride has been salvaged.
23 Jan 2013, 08:34 am@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-702: Good Morning my Lady.Have a fantastic day
23 Jan 2013, 08:36 am@ufo-669: Good morning UFO.Have a great day.
23 Jan 2013, 08:39 am@Dawn-513: Good morning my girl.Have
a great day. -
23 Jan 2013, 08:39 amA good comeback from your boys.
23 Jan 2013, 08:43 am@ryecatcher-705: Good morning good sir Thank you. And the same to you
@gunther-703: I stick to our standing in the LEGITIMATE version of the game.
23 Jan 2013, 09:03 amYip you would have given them no chance before the series started, the one day stuff is only just above the T20 rubbish, a big lottery. I prefer tests but for obvious reasons I haven't watched too many lately where the black hats have been involved.
23 Jan 2013, 09:11 am@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-698:
Thanks for the congratulations Bakkies, the BCs did play well……. oh hang on, you have not congratulated the BCs. Are you at this moment about to post the cheating that the BCs do on you tube?
23 Jan 2013, 09:15 am@NZINCHINA-710: I'm sure this series win does appease the folk back home though. I'm chuffed for the players though. Some of the sh y te coming out of NZ directed at them after the test series was absolutely brutal and cruel. (Some of it deserved possibly, but not all of it. Coaches are deserving yes…..not players)
23 Jan 2013, 09:17 am@NZINCHINA-710:
I prefer the one day game over the test match cricket.
We all know there is probably more skill in the test match game but the one day needs a different set of skills.
Nothing better than sitting at a one day game amongst a full on crowd…..spectacle on the pitch and in the stands, great day. -
23 Jan 2013, 09:38 amIndeed.
Cricket lite.
Still fun but not quite the same as the test stuff.
Like super XV and test rugby.
Lacks the intensity.
23 Jan 2013, 09:51 amseems the republic is no longer a hard place to tour for ANY kiwi sporting team..
been doing it for years in the rugby, now the blackcraps have joined the party..
5 run outs, unbelievable really
Bakkies, can you please check the bank statements of the Proteas players involved in last nights fix? surely there is something dodgy going on..
23 Jan 2013, 10:27 am@Hurricane-711:
hehehewell done Hurri and well done to the NZ cricket team, great victory.
no offence and no excuses, but this should never have happened. -
23 Jan 2013, 10:31 am@the curse-715:
they lost the plot and their nerve, simple as that.
they should be ashamed of themselves. -
23 Jan 2013, 11:28 am5 run outs.
The ghost of Hansie lingers.
23 Jan 2013, 12:34 pmwhy do the madibaz have a z in their name?
surely this is pretty poor form for a "place of learning"
23 Jan 2013, 12:59 pmhey rye…
how you doing bud…?
just got back online a few ago…
a good afternoon to you too…!!
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