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MARK KEOHANE, writing in SA Rugby magazine, says referees must stop interpreting the laws and start applying them consistently.
World Cup-winning Wallabies coach Bob Dwyer consistently condemned players and referees for having no regard for the application of the law at the breakdown, and while he felt there was improvement in 2010 after referees were instructed to effectively police the breakdown, he questioned why it took intervention and a directive from the game's ruling body to ensure that referees did their job and called play as it unfolded.
Referees, desperate to officiate a game with flow, tempo and greater spectator appeal, use too much discretion with one man's interpretation more damning and defining than the collective of the lawmakers.
Referees see themselves as managers of a game and some spend the game coaching in the guise of effective communication. They do this at the expense of applying the law but the defence (among referees) is the public wants to see a spectacle and not a stop-start bore.
Those defenders of referees blame players for a disregard for the laws and coaches for teaching their players to cheat and manipulate referees. But if the law was applied more consistently and if referees called what they saw instead of what they interpreted, there would be less controversy and a great deal more consistency.
The tackle area and scrum engage are two areas of the game that give away too much for referee interpretation and while the 'crouch, touch, pause, engage' at scrum time was designed for player safety, it has turned scrumming into a lottery depending on who is refereeing.
Dwyer called the scrum a mess and former England hooker Brian Moore, in the Daily Telegraph, lamented the lost art of scrumming, describing the modern day first-phase battle as a combination of players pushing against each other and poor refereeing.
'The scrums are less stable and less safe, thereby exacerbating one of the very problems that the IRB seeks to remove. The referees' unilateral, unexplained and unapologetic decision to allow the ball to be put in squint has created an unholy trinity of evils from which the present dangerous, boring farce ensues,' wrote Moore, adding that the laws of the game were clear and needed to be applied and not interpreted.
Moore concluded that if the binding was legal, if neither team was allowed to push early or at the angle, and the ball was fed along the line of the join of the props' shoulders, then there would be a fair and competitive scrum that remained aloft.
World Cup-winning Wallabies prop Andrew Blades supports Dwyer's view that the scrum was a shambles, arguing that referees differed in variation with their timing of the engage call and in some cases it appeared as if the referee was trying to trick the teams on the engage by calling the engage too slow.
Blades offered the solution that takes away interpretation and uncertainty.
'The referee checks that both sides are ready and then he should do a quick "crouch, touch, pause, engage", with consistent timing. Referees also need to be harder on props with a hand on the ground, loose forwards not staying attached to the scrum and scrumhalves interfering with opposition players while the ball is still in the scrum.'
Blades said that if referees were more consistent in applying the laws of the game the scrum would be safer, hassle-free and represent a contest that would influence the game positively.
But interpretation is so strong among referees and views are so different that trying to find the consistency is impossible. Preparing for the referee on match day has become as much a science for technically astute coaches as is preparing for the opposition; because referee interpretations of the laws of the game vary so radically.
The emphasis on what is a no-go area in a game is also significantly different with each referee and the approach of a well coached and prepared team these days is as much influenced by the referee appointment for the game as it is by the quality of the opposition.
Those coaches who assume referees merely apply the laws of the game are ignorant. I would say naive but if you coach professionally then a failure to study the strengths and weaknesses of the man with the whistle is more ignorance than naivety.
Referees are the untouchables in rugby union, where an amateur ethos wrongly rules a professional environment.
There is no accountability because it is difficult to punish interpretation as its very nature is subjective and does not accommodate right and wrong.
Coaches and players cannot question a referee's officiating publicly and when done through the official channels (by way of a post-match report) the response is lame and in favour of the referee – as dictated to by the ethos of a species, so often under attack, that one protects the other.
Referees, as it was during amateurism, are the sole judge and jury and those who play and coach the game simply have to tolerate the unintentional prejudice of a referee, who selectively applies the laws of the game to the way he believes the game should be played.
An analysis of the leading referees shows few see it the same way and most have an area of focus that is not consistent with the next one.
The game's top 20 referees in 2010 – on average – awarded 20 penalties a game, which indicates consistency and allows for a belief that the laws of the game are obvious, well policed and not up to referee interpretation.
Closer analysis tells another story.
The scrum, like the breakdown, is one of the most contentious areas because too much is about referee interpretation. Some referees blew up to 14 scrum penalty infringements and others did not award a single scrum penalty.
France's Jerome Garces, for example, awarded 24 penalties in a match and 29% of them were because of supposed scrum infringements. Steve Walsh, by contrast, in awarding 20 penalties, only singled out the scrum in 10% of the penalties. England's Dave Pearson was even more tolerant at the scrum with an average of 8% of his penalties directed at scrum offenders.
South Africa's Craig Joubert and Jonathan Kaplan, England's Wayne Barnes and Ireland's Alain Rolland and Alan Lewis, penalised the scrum in 15% of their penalties. But South African Mark Lawrence, in his two internationals, found little wrong with the scrum engagement and used it primarily as a restart, with just 3% of his penalties awarded at the scrum. South African Marius Jonker is the opposite to Lawrence and 25% of his penalties come at scrum time, and even more pertinent is that Jonker only penalises the loosehead or tighthead on the side he is standing.
Kiwi Bryce Lawrence, in officiating matches involving South Africa and Ireland, averaged five scrum penalties a game. Wales' Nigel Owens, with the same teams, blew only a single scrum penalty. Rolland, in three Tests involving South Africa, New Zealand and Australia, not once penalised any of the three teams' tighthead props. Other referees were not as accommodating.
Those desperate to defend referees will argue match circumstance and playing conditions differ, but extended analysis over a season shows a trend of inconsistency between referees in the way the game is managed and the laws are applied.
Detailed analysis of Super 14, Six Nations, Tri-Nations and end-of-year tour matches in 2010 showed referees awarded penalties for 51 different reasons, but the most alarming statistic for any player and coach is that one referee ruled on just 18 of the possible 51 offending actions (see sidebar below) and another policed 47 of them.
Another point of dispute among coaches is that so many referees in 2010 favoured the team with the ball, with the majority of penalties conceded by the defending team.
Those coaches interviewed identified matches when their support players infringed at the breakdown but because they had the ball they escaped censure. In other games the roles were reversed because of a different referee's interpretation.
It made for a lottery, said coaches, and while no coach in discussion ever implied or claimed that a referee cheated or deliberately favoured one side, it was the battle to counter preconceived ideas among officialdom's individuals, rather than any collective, that made it difficult to prepare a team according to the laws.
Some referees were more vigilant on attack and others stricter on the defending side. Some focused on the scrum and others sought control of the game at the breakdown.
In a match in 2010, New Zealand's Keith Brown penalised the attacking team 55% of the time, while New Zealand-born Steve Walsh penalised the attacking team 10% of the time in a Test in 2010. Both Brown and Walsh awarded 20 penalties in the game.
How can two referees see the game of rugby so differently if the laws were that clear and all a referee had to do was know the laws, identify the infringement and apply the sanction of a penalty?
The obvious counter is that different teams, with different player disciplines and different match conditions, would make this possible, but there is too much variance with referees who officiated with the same teams for it to be as simple as 'a different Saturday and a different result'.
Those referees officiating in the biggest matches of the year showed as much disparity in the origin of the penalty over a period of three matches, with Ireland's Rolland penalising the attacking team 44% of the time, as opposed to France's Romain Poite, Wales' Owens and South Africa's Joubert, who penalised the attacking team only 20% of the time.
Joubert, as an example, in his first three Super Rugby matches in 2010, awarded 42 of 44 penalties in favour of the team with the ball, and in his three international matches in 2010 penalised the team without the ball 57 times and the attacking side (with the ball) 15 times (21%). Joubert and Rolland are regarded as two of the best in the business, but their areas of focus are different, which means that the same two teams, on two different Saturdays, would deliver two very different performances and probably get two very different results.
It can't be right when teams fear or favour a referee more than the opposition, but in rugby it is no longer a case of what is right and wrong, but what is perceived (by the referee) to be right and wrong – and that is very wrong.
Offending actions in 2010
To illustrate the complexities of the modern game, be it officiating, playing or coaching, referees in the leading global competitions judged on the following actions last year:
> Obstruction by attacking player.
> Attacking player sealing off (off feet).
> Defending player off feet (not supporting own body weight).
> Defending player falling on wrong side and sealing off.
> Attacking player in from side (incorrect joining ruck or maul).
> Defending player in from side (incorrect joining ruck or maul).
> Late shoulder charge.
> Early tackle.
> Dangerous tackle – swinging arm.
> Dangerous tackle – tip tackle.
> Attacking player holding on – not releasing.
> Hands in ruck by defending player.
> High tackle.
> Tackler not releasing – preventing release.
> Tackler not rolling away – preventing release.
> Defending player collapsing maul.
> Attacking player advancing – in front of kicker.
> Attacking player playing defender without ball.
> Defending player playing attacker without ball.
> Attacking player playing ball on ground (off feet).
> Defending player playing ball on ground (off feet).
> Defending player kicking ball on ground (off feet).
> Defending player playing jumper in air.
> Defence offside.
> Defending player offside at ruck, maul, or turnover.
> Defending player not retreating out of 10m radius.
> Defending player going off feet and diving on attacker.
> Deliberate knock on by defending player.
> Attacking player must get to his feet first before playing the ball.
> Attacking player playing ball in an offside position (knock).
> Defending player playing ball in an offside position.
> Collision with no arms.
> Foul play by attacking player (trampling).
> Foul play by attacking player (knee to player's head).
> Foul play by defending player (striking a player).
> Trip by defending player.
> Not back 10m.
> Attacking tighthead – feet went away with the pressure.
> Attacking tighthead – collapsing.
> Defending tighthead – collapsing.
> Defending loosehead – not staying straight (around scrum).
> Defending loosehead – not staying in scrum.
> Defending tighthead – binding (not staying in scrum).
> Defending loosehead – in on angle.
> Defending loosehead – head and shoulders.
> Defending loosehead – straight to ground.
> Defending tighthead – straight to ground.
> Attacking hooker – standing up.
> Defending hooker – standing up.
> Attacking loosehead – collapsing.
> Defending loosehead – collapsing.
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Burlap Christmas Trees
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These are just lovely! Thanks for sharing them :)ReplyDelete
So festive! Wonderful.ReplyDelete
What a great use of burlap! I'd be thrilled if you came and linked up to the Head to Head Showdown, going on right now at www.icantstopcrafting.blogspot.comReplyDelete
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Hopped over from Masterpiece Monday. I love your burlap trees. I have been in love with burlap for a couple years now. I made Christmas pillows last year, hung burlap curtains in my family room, and just made a burlap garland for my bedroom. Hop over and visit me if you'd like to see it. I may have to make a tree or two (maybe next year). I am now following you.
Cute idea. Thanks for sharing the tutorial.ReplyDelete
These are adorable! I love a good rustic Christmas craft!ReplyDelete
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Your burlap trees are just darlingReplyDelete
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Your burlap trees are so cute!ReplyDelete
These are super cute! I love the way you did the ornaments. It's kind of funny because I have been making trees too and it bugged me that the tops were flat. I ended up getting the exact same topers that you did ti fake the point. Great minds think alike!ReplyDelete
I'm a new follower thru the project queen linkup. I hope you'll stop by some time.
Very Country....Love it....found u at sew much ado party...ReplyDelete
This is a silly question but can you get burlap at any fabric store? I want to do something with it. I love the way it looks. Please link to my linky party at: http://eyehearttoday.blogspot.com/2011/11/anything-goes-at-eye-heart-3.htmlReplyDelete
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Burlap is always a great go to fabric isnt it? It's always seems to look great!ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing at Calling All Crafters!
Gorgeous! I love them so much, I pinned them.ReplyDelete
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These are just too cute! LOVE how you added the little stars! Just love burlap! ;)ReplyDelete
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I love these! I just passed up buying burlap...now I have to go back so I can make this!ReplyDelete
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Just In love with these trees!ReplyDelete
Adorable! Love all of the elements -- some of my favorites for sure -- burlap and rusty metal -- great project!ReplyDelete
Fantastic! I even have leftover burlap from another project to use. Love a 'free' craft.ReplyDelete
Happy new follower and just wanted to say thanks for linking to our Pin'Inspiration party today :-)
Hope you are as amazed as I am with all the other projects.
Your trees look great! I, too, love the rustic look and feel of burlap. I hope to make a few myself this holiday season. I would love to have you share your trees and any other projects at my party! http://theshadyporch.blogspot.com/ReplyDelete
What could be better than burlap, rust and Christmas trees?ReplyDelete
I adore anything burlap and these are so cute!ReplyDelete
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So beautiful! It is amazing how such a simple fabric can be used to create such beautiful decorations.ReplyDelete
Very cute! I recently made a burlap wreath and these would be a great addition to my holiday decor. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
These are great! I might have to make some for myself. Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
Very country and homey feeling. Just what I remember as a kid! Thanks for sharing! :DReplyDelete
Oh, and CONGRATS on being featured at Cherished Treasure's linky party (Sunday Blog Love) today :D
WTG! I post at that party too, and that's how I spotted your project :)
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such a pretty christmas decor! thanks for sharing this with us. we are featuring this on the blog, FB , twitter and Pinterest! have a lovely weekend!ReplyDelete
So cute! I love the rustic look. Burlap is my favorite!ReplyDelete
These are so cute! I love working with burlap, it is one of my favorite materials right now! I found your tutorial through the Cherished Bliss: Christmas Linkup . Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
this is soo cute!ReplyDelete
I featured this today on my blog. http://trophyw.blogspot.com/2011/12/linky-18-will-craft-for-christmas-cheer.htmlReplyDelete
I agree with everyone! These are amazing and beautiful. Great job!ReplyDelete
these are fabulous!!ReplyDelete
I'll be featuring you on this week's Inspire Me Fridays party!
I love these!!! I have some burlap and stars too--I need to make some:) Sound like a project I can do next week! Thank you for the idea!ReplyDelete
So pretty and such a cute idea! Great job!ReplyDelete
Awesome. Your trees are adorable. Great tutorial.ReplyDelete
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I love these. I will be making some for Christmas. They look easy to make and cheep.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 8, 2012 at 12:44 PM
where do you get the rusty tin, i can not find it anywhere, i am also looking for rusty star garland and rusty bell garland....please help thanksReplyDelete
Hi!!! Love this one too!!! I will be back to see more of your wonderful projects!!!ReplyDelete
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Ah I love these too! They are really cute. I will have to add these to my list of things to make for next Christmas. I would love to share a picture and a link back to your tutorial on my blog, if that's ok .ReplyDelete
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Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada-like Syndrome is an immune mediated disease with severe autoaggression against melanocytes that are the pigment producing cells of the skin and eyes (iris). Named after the three scientists who detected this disease in humans, the VKH-Like syndrome appears in canines. Also known as Uveodermatologic Syndrome (UDS or UV Syndrome), this disease appears more commonly in males. Dogs suffering from UDS include Nordic breeds, Samoyed, Siberian Husky, Alaskan Malamute, Saint Bernard, Old English Sheepdog, Irish Setter, Golden Retriever, Chow Chow, Shetland Sheepdog, and Akita.
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Three to six months after the eye disease starts, dogs can experience a loss of pigmentation. Whitening of coats affects 90% of dogs. Poliosis may begin within two weeks of Uveitis and may take several months to develop as it affects the face. Vitiligo or whitening of the skin, as on the eyelids, footpads, lips, nose and scrotum appears on 50% of dogs. Exposure to sunlight may worse symptoms.
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Canines may suffer recurrent attacks of Uveitis that will damage the retina. The degree of sign restored will gradually reduce. Long-term treatment can act as prevention. Treatments may include immunosuppressive and cytotoxic drugs. The side effects of drugs can make the canine more susceptible to other infections and affect its ability to deal with minor surgery.
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When Vivian adopted Blue from the Humane Society of Southern Arizona (HSSA), she knew nothing of the horrors the nine-month-old pup had endured at the hands of dog fighters. One of 77 dogs rescued in a multi-state dog fighting raid in March 2013, Blue was chained to a stake in the ground, exposed and shivering in blizzard-like conditions, when the ASPCA rescued him. For today's special video Happy Tail, we traveled to Tucson to catch up with Vivian and Blue.
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Blue's happiness is a testament to his resilient spirit. In many ways, he represents the thousands of dogs who have been rescued from abuse and who refuse to be defined by their traumatic past. Blue never gave up, just as we will never give up our commitment to ending dog fighting. In fact, April 8 marked our first annual National Dog Fighting Awareness Day, a day created to spread knowledge and understanding of dog fighting and to encourage animal lovers to take action against this barbaric practice.
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I could not agree more. Tie them up naked in frigid temperatures for hours at a time. Every time they are enar death, revive them, warm them back up and then repeat for as long as you can until they finally die alone and in pain.
That sounds about right, throw a few scraps of food, preferably out of reach, and maybe a cold rain will give them a chance to quench their terrible thirst....
Sounds good!Make sure there is lots of snow and ice.See if they will like it.Have no compassion with animal abusers.
How I agree with that. I would lock these human animals up in a cage, outside, in the cold, with no clothing, huge chain around their necks, throw them in the Bayou or Everglades as Gator bate and if they survive, I'd provide them to Michael Vick so that he can hang em when they can no longer fight. I have no compassion or mercy for these bastards or anyone that attends these fights.
Well I agree. and dog fighting offenses stay with a person for years, just like M.VIck. I would chain them up with a huge collar or chain in the rain or snow with no food for about a couple days and see how they like it. actually longer but that would be mean. right? throw them in jail yes, but I would chain them outside for some time because that is the only way to prove that they are themselves animals and to be treated so inhumanly is disgusting. So I only hope one day this will stop and it only will when the sentence befits the crime. We are to take care of these dogs, cats anything. it is our job.
I do not compare these scums with animals because animals would never do this.They are loyal and faithful when they are loved and taken well cared for.
No, they are less than lowlifes who deserve no respect but harsh punishments.
".....one day this will stop and it only will when the sentence befits the crime...."
And not like what happened to that POS vick. Problem is that people involved in dog fighting are sociopaths without ANY compassion for life, no matter animal or human. And there is no medicine or treatment for sociopathy other than the ones described in the reactions from people here.
Vick Didn't get HALF of what he had coming to him. He should have been given way longer jail time , been banned from the NFL and Banned for life from ever owning any kind of animal. That way when his kids ask for a pet he can explain that they can't because their daddy is a scum sucking dirt bag that likes to hurt and abuse animals.


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WORST: Holly Robinson Peete wasn't exactly a good influence on her kids, dressing up like rapper Lil Wayne.
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BEST: Melissa Ryecroft and Tye Strickland showed off their new baby Ava, dressing up in like the Flintstone family.
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BEST: Camille Grammer was a Real wench at the 18th Annual Dream Halloween in Los Angeles.
WORST: A ringless Tara Reid sported some sort of western wear at Bacardi and Maroon 5's annual bash at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
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BEST: Only David Arquette would rock an Hermes belt with his gangster getup!
WORST: Kate Upton looked beautiful as usual, but we have no idea what she is supposed to be!
BEST: Paris Hilton rocked sexy Greek goddess getup to a Los Angeles bash.
WORST: LaToya Jackson went undercover as a dog with a tophat in West Hollywood.
BEST: Holly Madison mixed up her princesses, dressing up like Rapunzel and the Princess and the Frog.
BEST: Alan Cumming made an adorable monkey.
BEST: Jamie Lee Curtis looked adorable as Little Red Riding Hood.
BEST: Petra Ecclestone sexed up a Halloween bash as Jessica Rabbit.
BEST: Hello Kitty! Bethenny Frankel was a sexy version of the kitty cat at Heidi Klum's bash.
BEST: AnnaLynne McCord took a blast to the past as a modern day (and sexy!) version of Marie Antoinette.
BEST: Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart were dressed to rock like a 1980's hair metal band.
BEST: Doutzen Kroes looked purrty as catwoman at Heidi Klum's NYC bash.
BEST: Amber Rose went totally incognito as Slash as Guns N Roses.
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BEST: Naomi Watts clowned around while hitting the streets with her spawn.
BEST: The family that scarecrows together, stays together! Alyson Hannigan and her husband took their little girl trick or treating in Santa Monica, dressed to the nines.
BEST: Beyonce dressed up her baby bump like a bumblebee in NYC.
BEST: Christine Teigen was the ultimate candy girl at Heidi Klum's bash.
BEST: Fergie made the ultimate child beauty queen at Heidi Klum's NYC bash.
BEST: Miranda Kerr looked totally cute as a cabaret girl.
BEST: Lauren Conrad looked mousy as Minnie at Bacardi and Maroon 5's annual bash at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
BEST: We know Paris – you are a princess! The heiress proudly rocked a tiara at Bacardi and Maroon 5's annual bash at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
BEST: The most random Halloween group of all, Mark Wahlberg, Brooke Mueller (a fireman), Adrienne Maloof (as the Queen of Hearts) and her husband Paul Nassif got dressed up and streets in CitySights LA tour buses.
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Jean de Villiers says while the Springboks still have a strong belief in the potential of their attacking game plan, they are constantly and consciously looking for flaws in it.
The Springboks management and players have had to field a barrage of questions around the effectiveness of their game plan – widely perceived to be conservative – this week. Through their responses there has been the sense that they are united in their endorsement of it, stressing that time will refine it into the potent force they envision it becoming.
They have maintained that there are marked improvements if you review their last two performances, claiming that missed opportunities, not the inability to create them, accounted for their defeats.
De Villiers reiterated their shared vision in Johannesburg on Friday. However, when probed on the potential for them to succumb to a head the sand reaction to criticism of their approach, he said they were on guard against that.
'When you look at the comments that Robbie Deans has made after what was obviously in-depth analysis [Deans scoffed at the notion the Springboks are predictable], it is clear they can see that there's a change in our attacking attitude and tactics,' De Villiers said.
'Yes, a lot of our game plan is based on playing in the opposition's half, but we do try and get the ball into space when the opportunities arise. We sit down after every game and ask questions like: "Are we on the right track? Are we doing the right things tactically? Can we do something differently?"
'So it is an ongoing process of analysis. We aren't closed to making changes if they will improve us.'
There have been some fundamental errors to date, but with a new coaching staff and a fresh influx of players, 2012 was always going to be a difficult one for the Springboks. Asked if the expectations of this group was unrealistic and needed to be tempered, De Villiers said: 'As soon as we drop our standards and expectations of the Springboks we're on the wrong track.
'[The media] will always have high expectations and so will we, and sometimes we won't live up to that. But we have the drive and we're putting in the effort to get to our goal. We aren't going to become the world class, world beating team overnight. But we're getting there. As the Springboks there's an expectation to win every Test, and when you don't, you have to take it on the chin every now and then.'
He did, however, express the strong view that they are well on a course that will see them meet prevailing expectations.
'We really do believe we've improved over the last two Tests. We haven't got the results we've wanted for a number of reasons, but we're on the right track,' he said.
'We believe the guys coming in can make a difference and the forwards that were selected for the previous two games made an impact. From a backline perspective, we need to catch up with them. We've got more experience [the backline] but we need a collective effort. Also it needs to happen for 80 minutes because soft moments in games that have cost us. The margins at this level are small. If you make one or two errors you could find yourself 10 points down and that's what's happened.'
The Springboks have lost seven of their last eight Tests against the Wallabies, a record De Villiers described as 'unacceptable'. He said there was a deep resolve within the squad to end the tourist's dominance.
'Six of the seven games were lost by the team that represented us in the World Cup quarter-final. This team has inherited that record and our job is to turn that around.'
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George Vargas, left, takes a seat next to first-in-line customer Deb Greene in front of the recreational marijuana store Cannabis City Monday in Seattle. The store will be the first and only store initially in Seattle to legally sell recreational pot when sales begin Tuesday.
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Packets of a variety of recreational marijuana named "Space Needle" are shown on July 1 during packaging operations at Sea of Green Farms in Seattle. The grower, the first business licensed to grow recreational marijuana in Washington state, worked all weekend to have supplies ready for stores that were expected to be granted sale licenses on Monday, July 7, the day before legal recreational pot sales begin on July 8.
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At Cannabis City, where the owner wasn't planning to open his doors until noon Tuesday, a 65-year-old retiree named Deb Greene, showed up just before 3 p.m. Monday. She had a chair, sleeping bag, food, water and a 930-page book.
"I voted for it, and I'm just so excited to see it come to be in my lifetime," she said. "I'm not a heavy user, I'm just proud of our state for giving this a try."
The start of legal pot sales in Washington Tuesday marks a major step that's been 20 months in the making. Washington and Colorado stunned much of the world by voting in November 2012 to legalize marijuana for adults over 21, and to create state-licensed systems for growing, selling and taxing the pot. Sales began in Colorado on Jan. 1.
Businesses including Cannabis City, which will be the first and, for now, only recreational marijuana shop in Seattle, got word early Monday morning from the state that they were licensed marijuana dealers.
Owner James Lathrop had already worked into the night Sunday placing no-parking signs in front of his building, hoisting a grand-opening banner and hanging artwork.
"I've had a long day. It really hasn't sunk in yet," he said.
In a 2:30 a.m. Pacific time interview with The Associated Press, John Evich, an investor in Bellingham's Top Shelf Cannabis, which will also open Tuesday morning, said they were "pretty stoked."
"We haven't had any sleep in a long time, but we're excited for the next step," Evich said.
Randy Simmons, the state Liquor Control Board's project manager for legal marijuana, said the first two dozen stores were notified so early to give them an extra few hours to get cannabis on their shelves before they are allowed to open their doors at 8 a.m. Tuesday. The store openings are expected to be accompanied by high prices, shortages and celebration.
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The final days before sales have been frenetic for growers and retailers alike. Lathrop and his team hired an events company to provide crowd control, arranged for a food truck and free water for those who might spend hours waiting outside, and rented portable toilets to keep his customers from burdening nearby businesses with requests to use the restrooms.
At Nine Point Growth Industries, a marijuana grower in Bremerton, owner Gregory Stewart said he and his director celebrated after they worked through some glitches in the pot-tracking software early Monday and officially learned they'd be able to transport their weed 24 hours later, at 2:22 a.m. Tuesday.
"It's the middle of the night and we're standing here doing high-fives and our version of a happy dance," he said. "It's huge for us."
Pot prices were expected to reach $25 a gram or higher on the first day of sales — twice what people pay in the state's unregulated medical marijuana dispensaries. That was largely due to the short supply of legally produced pot in the state. Although more than 2,600 people applied to become licensed growers, fewer than 100 have been approved — and only about a dozen were ready to harvest by early this month.
Nevertheless, Evich said his shop in Bellingham wanted to thank the state's residents for voting for the law by offering $10 grams of one cannabis strain to the first 50 or 100 customers. The other strains would be priced between $12 and $25, he said.
The store will be open at 8 a.m. Tuesday, he said, but work remained: trimming the bathroom door, cleaning the floors, wiping dust off the walls and, of course, stocking the shelves.
At Cannabis City, despite the line already beginning to form, Lathrop wasn't planning to open before noon.
"Know your audience: We're talking stoners here," he said. "I'd be mean to say they need to get up at 5 a.m. to get in line."
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- The Petri Dish: Retailers in Smokey Point, Camano Island snag pot store licenses 7/7/14
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According to reports in the United Kingdom, Gatland has already been interviewed for the position and the appointment is expected to be finalised next month.
Gatland led Wales to a Grand Slam in this year's Six Nations, but won't be in charge of the Dragons in 2013 as his new position at the Lions will demand that he focuses on planning for the tour Down Under.
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Once a hardware store and a shoe store, the downtown Burlington building at 347 S. Main Street will soon be home to The Treasure House Shoppes, a locally established mix of consignment and independently owned shops.
The Treasure House has been in business for eight years, and owner Mary Anne Butler has been in at its current location, at 1358 S. Church Street, for about four years.
Now, she said, "We want to be downtown."
Butler's store, with a business model like an antique store, sells consigned items and also features 25 to 35 "shoppes" or independently owned dealers. "We were the first ones in Burlington to have this concept," she said.
The move is convenient for Butler, since she's relocating from a building she rented into two she owns, built circa 1910. Butler owns both the building on Main Street, formerly Marilyn's Shoes, and the one directly behind it at 346 S. Worth Street, facing Zack's Hot Dogs.
Butler formerly leased the Worth Street building to Nest, but the store has since moved to Mebane. Since she owns both buildings, Butler decided to tear down the wall between the buildings, giving her new store 7,000 square feet, including the second floor of the Worth Street side.
However, when Butler knocked out the wall two weeks ago, she was shocked to realize the two buildings' floors didn't meet up – the floor of the Main Street side is 5 feet higher than that of the Worth Street side.
Butler said Plageman Architecture is working on a floorplan design to remedy the situation, and she's already worked with the Burlington Downtown Corporation to spruce up the outside of the Main Street side.
"I worked with her to develop the awning and façade scheme," said Anne Morris, executive of the BDC. "She's already painted the Main Street side," and that renovation was completed using a grant through the BDC's "Quick Fix Façade" program.
Morris was also the one who suggested Butler keep both entrances, one adjacent to The Old Timey Place and the other neighbors with the brand new Sara-Anne Photography studio.
Though the building's electricity and utilities will be updated, Butler said, "We're trying to keep everything as original as possible." She said, "We're going to go with the historic colors," and definitely plans to keep the "Marilyn's Shoes" inlaid sign at the shop's Main Street entrance.
Butler also wants to display the yellowed 1961 building permits for "Marilyn Shoe Co." which are currently nailed to one of the inside walls.
Another original facet Butler's keeping – and improving – is the building's atrium, which can be seen from all levels of the building. She's replacing the glass, and Morris said The Treasure House will be the only commercial building downtown to have such a feature.
Morris is confident that The Treasure House's established name will bring people to downtown Burlington and said, "We're very excited about her plans."
Butler said she's aiming to be moved out of her current location in March, and to open downtown in April.