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September 2012
Return of the Vikings? 8th September
[image: A table is set up in a barn. It holds a light, laptop and various finds. Some are stones, marked with a finds label. Others are in labelled bags. Some bags have been put into boxes to give them extra protection. The boxes are labelled glass, copper alloy,]
The finds hut, where this blog was written. Boxes contain individually bagged finds, boxed by type - pottery, lead, copper alloy, etc. Other bags are still being processed. The large stones are possibly building materials.
[image: Two students sit on upturned crates each with a bowl of water in front of them. They use toothbrushes to clean pieces of animal bone ready for analysis]
Washing animal bone. The students use toothbrushes and soft wooden sticks to carefully remove soil.
[image: Ten seed trays contain varying amounts of cleaned animal bone. A white waterproof label attached to each tray describes exactly where the bone was found]
Animal bone finds drying in the sun. If there was any sun! The trays are labelled according to the 3D location ("context") of the finds
In the past week finds processing started in earnest, as stratified deposits were by then being dug across most of the site. In the first two weeks keeping on top of the objects coming from the site had only been a part time job: listing and packing the individual metal, pottery and glass finds that had been turning up. With the serious digging of stratified deposits, however, animal bone worth keeping for further study, started to emerge in considerable quantity. The midden (spread of dumped rubbish) in the main trench (Trench AG) was also being systematically sampled, producing tubs of soil needing processing.
The animal bone and the soil samples form the two main strands of the finds processing going on site. The animal bone needs washing and drying before it can be bagged up for future study: when it will hopefully give insights into the diet and farming methods of the inhabitants of the site.
The soil samples are processed in a flotation tank. A sample, held in a fine mesh, has water pumped up through it from below while being agitated and broken up by the hands of the operator. The flow of the water carries off light, organic, components (charcoal, grain, seeds and other plant remains), which is collected in a very fine mesh sieve. Meanwhile the bulk of the soil drops through the mesh into the bottom of the tank leaving the coarse residue of the sample in the mesh. This is mostly small fragments of stone but will hopefully also contain small animal and fish bones that would not otherwise get found. Both the material floated off and the coarse residues are then left to dry and bagged up for later sorting.
Evan Chapman
Return of the Vikings? 5th September
[image: In the trench, a wall of limestone blocks is seen. A change in soil texture and colour in the cut of the trench reveals a cross-section of the early medieval ditch. Labels mark significant finds]
Cross section showing ditch and wall
[image: Four students use mattocks and shovels to remove the topsoil. Trowels will be used once archaeology is reached]
Extending trench AH
[image: A long, narrow trench. A student uses a trowel to define the edge of one of two early-medieval defensive ditches which cross the trench, visible by changes in soil texture and colour. Another student mattocks away excess topsoil from the other ditch]
Ditches in trench AI
[image: Half of a copper alloy penannular brooch. The square terminal is decorated in a dot pattern. The other half would have mirrored this fragment, forming an incomplete circle. A long pin would have hung from the circle to complete the fastening]
Half of a copper alloy penannular brooch. The pin is missing. The other half would have mirrored this section; the break is at the top of the brooch as viewed here.
The teams in our three trenches have made excellent progress. In the main trench (AG), the full width of the stone enclosure wall has been revealed, and today we were able to identify a buried ground surface beneath (pre-dating) the wall, as well as upcast from the cutting of the early medieval ditch. In the north-east of the trench, a gully has been identified which formed one side of a small enclosure within the walls. This appears to have been a drip gully and drainage ditch around a timber building.
We have decided to extend our small square trench (AH) in the light of the human remains found a few days ago. This trench was sited to establish whether further burials existed in this part of the site, and the discovery promises to add significantly to our understanding of this episode of the site's history. The crouched burial identified so far has only been partially uncovered (top of skull and femur), but it is clear that these articulated bones represent an addition to the small group of five bodies buried outside the defensive wall of the site during the second half of the tenth century.
In our narrow slit trench (AI) on the north-east side of the early medieval enclosure, the team has defined the edges on the inner and outer edges of the two defensive ditches, and a possible prehistoric feature at one end.
One of the more significant finds made so far is the hoop and decorated terminal of a copper-alloy penannular brooch. This is reminiscent of one found in the ninth- century Trewhiddle hoard. The midden deposits within trench AG continue to produce copious quantities of animal bone (important for our understanding of husbandry and diet), as well as ironwork.
Mark Redknap
Return of the Vikings? 3rd September
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Exploring features in the main trench
[image: An excited team gather to view a human bone as it starts to emerge from the soil]
First glimpse of a burial
[image: A thigh bone, several hundred years old, buried in the soil. Other bones are starting to emerge to its left]
The long thigh bone (right)
After two weeks of hard work by all the team to remove ploughsoil, and backfill from previous years' excavation, the archaeological remains are finally being examined in detail.
Today, one discovery brought the entire site to a halt, bringing everyone to gather around one of the smaller exploratory trenches opened last week. Following clearing rubble from the upper fill of the enclosure ditch, the longbone of a burial was found on the western side of the enclosure ditch. It is hoped that this exciting discovery will provide more information relating to a group of five skeletons previously found immediately to the south during the excavation seasons of 1998 and 1999.
Weather conditions on site are currently excellent for the detection of archaeological features. This is exemplified by the discovery of a several archaeological features within an area previously excavated in 1998 at the east end of the main trench. Some of these features were previously known from the earlier season, but remained unexcavated because of a lack of time.
Elsewhere in the main trench, the team has uncovered more of the enclosure wall defining the western boundary of the site, and have also begun the excavation of a slot through the enclosure ditch adjacent to that wall. Exploratory slots placed through midden deposits at the east end of the trench are finding animal bones in large quantities, which will provide valuable dietary information about the inhabitants of the site.
These tantalising glimpses into the archaeology of the site are getting everyone very excited, and we look forwards to seeing what new discoveries await us during the next two weeks.
Tudur Burke Davies
Return of the Vikings? Friday 31st August
[image: Two archaeologists use trowels to gently uncover archaeology. Assistants remove the waste]
The trowelling begins
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[image: Changes in soil colour show two ditches crossing this trench]
Changes in soil colour show two ditches crossing this trench
Today started very pleasantly with sun and light winds, although became overcast by lunchtime, but thankfully still dry. The muddy remains of the deluges of previous days are now largely cleared away from site surfaces and we are down to midden layers across most of the main trench. The trench has now been allotted various sample areas to provide detailed insights into the midden layers, which are getting blacker as we go down through them. The main enclosure ditch where it crosses through this trench has been cross-sectioned, with a grey charcoal-flecked soil filling its upper layer. At the other end of the trench, not far from the spring and pool at the centre of the enclosure, the location of a single, important human burial found deep under the midden in a previous season (2001) is being explored and the backfill of the old trench above it is being removed.
Two smaller trenches are revealing details of the enclosure defences and ditches. One on the western side shows an interesting stepped profile to the ditch, almost as if those digging it were progressively deepening it as it crossed over the limestone scarp. Another long, narrow trench on the north-eastern side of the enclosure was started two days ago to test a possible double-ditch type anomaly which was noticed on the geophysics. This has proved to be correct, with two ditches crossing this trench. Work is now under way to establish their depth and extent, and hopefully to clarify whether one is earlier than the other.
Today is my last day on site as I am only able to supervise for the first half of the four week excavation season. It has been an extremely enjoyable and nostalgic return for me to dig on a favourite site with old friends, having been part of the site team here in the 1996-99 seasons. The weather this time has been less than brilliant, but we have had quite a few nice days amidst the rainy ones, and the forecast is now good. The student team (from Cardiff and Bangor universities) is excellent, at least as good as any we have had in previous seasons. I strongly suspect the most interesting discoveries of this season will now occur in the next two weeks! I will be watching this blog with interest.
August 2012
Return of the Vikings? Week One
[image: Four students use mattocks to start a new trench.]
Breaking ground. What will they find?
[image: Students using mattocks and shovels to prepare a trench]
The student team
[image: The trench is deeper, students consider the next steps]
Deciding what next
[image: Image of cross made from lead. About 1.5 cm square. It would have hung from a necklace]
Lead necklace pendant
The unexpected discovery in 2001 of an intramural burial within the early medieval enclosed settlement at Llanbedrgoch raised a new series of questions about the site, its occupants, their activities and their relationships with other regions.
We returned to the site a week ago, and the last eight days have focused on setting out the new areas of excavation, removing ploughsoil, monitoring weather forecasts and adjusting the daily tasks to make the best of at times trying conditions. The team of students includes volunteers from Bangor and Cardiff, and one from Toronto (Canada). Yesterday we were joined by some local, experienced, volunteers from Gwynedd and Anglesey. They have all been outstanding, and the early medieval archaeology of the site is already being transformed. Excavation is an ongoing process, and if you follow us over the next three weeks, the team will provide you with personal insights into the excavation.
Even though the research design has clearly stated objectives, the work often reveals evidence of a completely different nature. Our return this year was in fact the result of such an unexpected discovery and its implications. The burial from inside the enclosure (Burial 6) was not revealed in plan through specific searching for inhumations, or the recognition of subtle changes in soil colour or character, but by the decision to cut a narrow trench through the early medieval 'black earth' midden material in the south-western area of the site in order to reveal the midden sequence and facilitate section drawing and sampling.
In spite of the profound silence of the individual in this grave and those discovered in 1998-99, they continue since their discovery to help us answer in increasing detail a range of fundamental historical questions:
How did the people of Llanbedrgoch and north-west Wales, who had contact with Anglo-Saxons, Irish and Scandinavians, respond to such peoples?
How does the archaeological evidence for the politics and economy of early medieval Wales compare to that provided by other sources?
Were the daily lives of people at Llanbedrgoch during the sixth and seventh centuries different from those in the ninth and tenth centuries?
What types of diet and health did they enjoy?
How did Christianity affect their lives and burial practices?
We have already begun to answer some of these questions – one of the first artefacts to be found last week in the ploughsoil was a lead necklace pendant in the form of a cross – slightly larger than one found in an earlier season of excavation at the site.
This site continues to amaze, surprise and inspire – follow us if you can.
Mark Redknap
Return of the Vikings?
[image: A least four partially excavated skeletons can be seen in a trench. They are lying on their side, knees bent. One of the bodies was buried directly on top of another, head to toe. A group of archaeologists are excavating another find]
Excavating at Llanbedrgoch in the early 2000s
After a gap of more than a decade, a team of archaeologists has returned to excavate at Llanbedrgoch, Anglesey. You can read more about previous seasons at this Viking-Age settlement here http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/archaeology/vikings/
Mark Redknap and his team made an exciting discovery towards the end of the 2001 season - evidence that there might be an early medieval cemetery on the site. Are they right? Finds are appearing already, but what can they tell us? Watch this space to find out more!
Mark is joined this season by
Evan Chapman (Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales)
David Griffiths (University of Oxford)
Tudur Davies (University of Sheffield)
Brian Milton, an experienced archaeologist from Cornwall who has spent many seasons at Llanbedrgoch
Archie Gillespie, one of the two metal detectors who originally found the site and who is a dab hand with the archaeological trowel too.
Students from Cardiff, Bangor and Toronto Universities, and other volunteers.
Hopefully you'll get to hear more about them as the dig progresses over the next 3 weeks.
January 2012
The Pin Lifting Challenge. Excavating Roman objects from a soil block
[image: Caerleon Roman Armour. Roman pins as they were found in the ground, some facing down and some facing up. How can they be lifted and still be kept together now their backing has perished?]
Roman pins as they were found in the ground, some facing down and some facing up. How can they be lifted and still be kept together now their backing has perished?
[image: The section to be lifted first is outlined in white.]
The section to be lifted first is outlined in white.
[image: Caerleon Roman Armour]
The section is stabilized and removed from the soil block. Now face down we can see what was hidden underneath.
[image: Caerleon Roman Armour]
X-ray of section revealing chain and line of dome headed studs
Everything has now been recorded, so the next step is to lift the pins! The decorative pins were once attached to an organic material, possibly leather, this has now gone, replaced by soil and once the soil has been removed there will be nothing holding the pins together. So the challenge is to lift and conserve the pins in such a way to preserve the original fish scale pattern and any dimensions of the group, which may help identify this mystery object in the future.
A bit of a challenge, so I decided to lift only small sections at a time, which does mean breaking up the largest surviving section unfortunately, but I should be able to reconstruct this later.
In the first image you can see that some of the pins are facing up and some facing down, indicating that the material the pins were once attached to was folded, this has perished leaving the pins in this position. So now it's not just a mystery object it's also a layered mystery object! Oh joy!
On the next image, outlined in white, is the first section to be tackled; I thought I'd start with the smallest and simplest first! The upper surface of the pins is faced up with Japanese tissue and adhesive. Once dry I excavate round and under the section then lift and turn it over.
Not as straight forward as I thought as something new appears, not just pins, but a disc headed stud. The x-ray also reveals the remains of a chain, plus a line of dome headed studs
On cleaning, the chain can clearly be seen attached to the stud and would have once been suspended from it, possibly linking up to another stud elsewhere on the armour. There are also enough dome headed studs running in a line to suggest they were part of a deliberate pattern. The remains of a tinned surface and therefore white metal finish survive on the upper surface of the stud and at the end of the pin there is a washer or rove identical to that on the plaque featured on the previous blog. So there is a good chance that they were once part of the same object, but again it's too early to be sure.
The disc and pins are now cleaned and preserved, in the last photo they are laid out as they were in the ground. The dome headed pins were in direct contact with the disc suggesting they were on the same layer as the stud, which was facing downwards in the soil and attached to something folded under the layer with fish scale pins, which were facing up. Hope that makes sense!
Now to tackle the next section and I have a feeling that this may be full of surprises as well.
Unearthing more mystery objects from a soil block lifted during excavations at the Roman site of Caerleon
[image: Roman Armour from Caerleon. Position of plaque and pins in soil block lifted from excavation.]
Roman Armour from Caerleon. Position of plaque and pins in soil block lifted from excavation.
[image: Roman Armour from Caerleon. Plaque just before removal from the soil.]
Roman Armour from Caerleon. Plaque just before removal from the soil.
[image: Caerleon Roman Armour. Plaque removed from soil and before cleaning. The condition is good but the edges are fragile. The best preserved edges are defined in black.]
Caerleon Roman Armour. Plaque removed from soil and before cleaning. The condition is good but the edges are fragile. The best preserved edges are defined in black.
[image: Caerleon Roman Armour. The original position of the plaque is outlined in white. Underneath the plague tiny washers or roves were discovered, evidence that it may originally have been attached to something made from leather.]
Caerleon Roman Armour. The original position of the plaque is outlined in white. Underneath the plague tiny washers or roves were discovered, evidence that it may originally have been attached to something made from leather.
The second significant object in the same block as the pins (highlighted in the previous blog in this series) is an unusually shaped bronze sheet decorated with a stud depicting a human head. The head is wearing what appears to be a Phrygian cap. This type of soft, conical shaped hat with the top flopping forward was originally associated with people from the eastern part of the Roman Empire.
The head, cast in solid bronze, measures from ear to ear about 2cm. Soil and debris obscure the detail but I can see under this the features of a face peeking through, including large almond shaped eyes and curly hair poking out from under the cap. Looks a bit of a mischievous character to me!
The bronze sheet is an odd shape too; the edges are damaged and eroded in places. I've indicated with a black line the surviving edges I can be sure of. The damage on the other edges means unfortunately that they may not reflect the original dimensions of the object.
The sheet is not flat either, these bends and folds in the metal look like they were made in antiquity as the original patina is still smooth and undamaged around these areas. If the metal had been bent after the green patina was formed then this fragile surface would have cracked and flaked off revealing the metal below. So was this metal sheet originally wrapped round something more three dimensional? Difficult to say at this stage, it is also possible it got damaged in antiquity when flung on a pile of other armour and scrap, before it finally got buried. It's amazing such delicate objects have survived at all!
When the sheet was lifted and turned over, four metal pins were found protruding out of the back. One, in the middle, belonged to the decorative stud; the pin had been punctured through the sheet to secure it. The three smaller pins are part of the sheet, created during the original casting by the looks of things.
Where the metal had been lifted there was a dark stain in the soil, probably the only evidence we will ever have that an organic material was once present. Among this there were fragments of a small doughnut shaped object. On further examination its original location could be identified as it was dislodged when the plate was lifted. The object lined up with the central stud and is in fact a washer or rove associated with securing items to leather. Two other tiny roves were found and all 3 have now been reattached to the pins at the back of the sheet. These now give us an indication of the thickness of the original backing material, which is about 3mm. The possible association with leather links this object to the pins lying near by. These were also applied to a flexible backing like leather; therefore there is a strong possibility that these artifacts were part of the same object, but more work has to be done to establish this.
November 2011
Excavation of Roman Armour from Caerleon
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The Large block split into three, the smaller one containing the pins is on the lower left-hand side
[image: Caerleon Roman armour]
Caerleon Roman armour. The small block just after it had been opened in the lab, revealing a mysterious collection of objects.
[image: Caerleon Roman Armour]
Caerleon Roman armour. A detailed view of the overlapping pins and of the tiny face peeking through the soil.
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Caerleon Roman Armour. The bend in the pin indicates the original thickness of the backing which has long since perished.
The large block of armour was initially far too heavy to lift in one piece, so we had to split it into three. Julia has been working on the largest section (see previous blog) and I'm now excavating one of the smaller blocks.
At first glance this second block contains a number of interesting objects. A piece of bronze sheet with a cast head, a plain bronze disc, scale armour, a selection of iron objects (not yet identified) and something composed of rows of overlapping flat headed pins, similar in appearance to drawing pins. At this stage it's difficult to tell if these objects are associated or not.
The most striking object in the block is the cluster of overlapping disc headed pins that have been laid down in rows and imitate scale. When new and brightly polished the copper alloy discs would have shimmered and caught the light. They are now very fragile, little metal remains and their shape is preserved by the green copper corrosion products. Retrieval and conservation is going to be fun and probably age me about 10 years!
The pins were once attached to a backing, probably made of leather which would have been flexible and allowed movement. This has now perished, leaving a black stain in the soil. I've kept samples so we can have a closer look at this later. However, the thickness of the backing material can be established by measuring the distance between the head and the bend in the pin.
Now the backing has gone, the soil is the only thing keeping the pins together. It's going to be a challenge lifting them and preserving the pins original association. This is vital though as it might help identify this mysterious object .
In a time before modern mechanisation it is hard to work out how the Romans managed to make such small and perfectly formed little pins. A closer look down the microscope reveals interesting manufacturing marks but doesn't really help with the intriguing question, how did they make them? On closer inspection different types of pins have been used, some are domed, some flat and there are also slightly larger studs, which may indicate that the pins were possibly laid in a pattern. I've put a few pictures up just in case anyone has seen an object like this before or fancies a challenge and work out how these little disc headed pins could have been made?
October 2011
Investigation of Caerleon Armour: X-radiography
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Feature '1': the girth hoop with tie ring
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The copper-alloy tie ring
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Feature 2
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Feature 2: articulated scale fragments located beneath excavated plate
After having managed to break the large soil block up into small enough blocks to get into the x-ray machine, I finally began the task of x-raying the archaeological artefacts.
For this, I had the chance to use the Museum's newly acquired computerised radiography system. Here, instead of using the traditional wet-plate method requiring film and much time spent in a dark room, we use a phosphor plate which can be used around 1000 times. This plate is read by a scanner, and an image produced within about 45 seconds.
This new system has allowed us to capture so much more detail about the inside of the blocks and the condition of the armour than would ever have been possible using the traditional method. The x-ray records the density of materials at every point, and the software used to view the image allows for manipulation in much the same way as programs like Photoshop: we can zoom into areas of the image, adjust brightness and contrast, apply filters, invert the negative, etc. Thus far all of the features have been x-rayed, and the results have been astounding: I have included copies of the images, complete with annotations. It would appear that a lot more existed beneath the surface excavated than previously supposed.
I had hoped that the x-rays could be used as a guide for further excavation of the features and eventual extraction of the artefacts: however, the condition of the metal inside suggests almost complete mineralization of the iron, and cautions against this course of action. The most that can really happen with these soil blocks now is that they are extensively x-rayed, and stored safely in case of future research.
Aside from highlighting areas of interest on the x-rays, and explaining certain phenomenon, my role as conservator for this project has come to an end. Now, curators, archaeologists and specialists will have to identify objects in the x-rays, marry up these images with the photographic record of my excavation, and begin to tie this information into the narrative of the site overall.


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Natalie Yonan to sign letter of intent
Natalie Yonan is on the move as the Lassen High School varsity softball team's shortstop. Yonan will be signing her letter of intent to attend Division I Charleston Southern in South Carolina on a softball scholarship tonight Wednesday, May 2, at the Pizza Factory in Susanville.Photo by Kayleen Taylor |
May 2, 2012 — Natalie Yonan, a senior at Lassen High School (LHS), will be signing a letter of intent to attend Division I Charleston Southern in South Carolina, tonight, Wednesday, May 2, at the Pizza Factory in Susanville.
Charleston Southern has offered Yonan a softball scholarship to play at the NCAA Division I university.
Yonan will be arriving to sign the letter after the conclusion of the Lassen High softball game against the Red Bluff Spartans.
Yonan has been on the varsity softball team since she was a freshman and has been named to the all-league softball team for the past three years.
Paul Moore, head coach for the Lady Grizzlies, predicts Yonan will be the first player in LHS history to be named to the all-league team all four years.
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God has begun moving people towards the Sandhills Go Tell Crusade, said Crusader Rick Gage.
The event — a culmination of more than a year's worth of work and leadership — will begin Sunday evening at 7 p.m. in the Raider Stadium at Richmond Senior High School on U.S. Highway 1 in Rockingham. The crusade will continue each night at 7 p.m. with Wednesday being the last day.
"God wants everybody to be saved," said Gage, who has been following in his father's footsteps since he received and surrendered to a message from God. Gage's father, Freddie Gage, held a similar crusade 26 years ago in the same location.
As a college football coach, Gage began feeling unfulfilled in life in 1986. He heard an evangelist preach the gospel at an event and felt urged to respond to the calling he felt was from God.
"God was calling me to the ministry and I surrendered," said Gage. "He used the service to turn my life around. The spirit of God brought strong conviction to my heart that I was lost, that I was a sinner and that I was far from Him. I had two choices; reject the calling or surrender to it. I had rejected the call of God many times, but I felt like this was my last chance."
Gage responded to the call.
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Gage hopes this transformation will come to many who enter the crusade.
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Andrea's Roommate (Chapter 4)Andrea awoke in her own bed. "Funny," she thought, "I don't remember getting into my own bed..."- Although, to be fair, Andrea didn't recall much of last night, and while the events weren't entirely memorable, this was slightly confusing to her. Despite having odd amnesia, Andrea didn't awaken hungover (a side effect of the amount of food she consumed, something she was about to notice). Rolling over on her side, Andrea closed her eyes blearily for a moment before resolving to get out of bed, something she did with less grace than usual. "Wow, I feel really... Bloated..." Andrea murmured aloud, before placing a hand on her quite noticeab
Creepypasta x reader: LygophobiaCreepypasta x reader: LygophobiaPrologueIt was 3 in the morning, almost everybody else in the world was asleep, you weren't however. For some reason or another you just couldn't seem to get to sleep so at the moment you were laying in bed watching tv with the hopes that you'd start getting tired. Unfortunately it didn't seem to be working and after about an hour of staring at the tv you began to ponder whether you should go to the kitchen and fix yourself a late night snack seeing as how you were starting to get kind of hungry. There was one problem though, you had a minor fear of the dark or more precisely what you believed lurked in it.
Garry x Reader [Ib] (1/3)"Wow... this place is getting creepier by the second," Garry shivered, his violet hair shaking as he twitched due to nervousness.Wrapping his arms around his chest, he glanced around the semi-dark hallways.The hall was pretty much empty - save for the small table with a vase, and a few paintings that were hung on the grey walls."Ahah!" His eyes lit up as he strode quickly over to the vase, pulling out the wilting blue rose from his pocket. He swiftly dropped the rose into the vase, almost instantly feeling refreshed. "Damn paintings," he murmured. "If only they'd stop trying to kill me, then I may start to feel better about this place."Silence followed, and Garry face palmed. "And...now I'm talking to myself," he spoke, his voice muffled by his hand. "Is someone there?" Garry whipped his head round, eyes wide and alert. Did he really just hear another person's voice!? Winding his slender fingers around the rose's stem, he pulled it back out of the vase and tucked it b
A Hostess in the Host Club RI Ch.12: Understanding You sat with sorrow in the dressing room as you changed out of the fancy dress. You thought to yourself about the party."I really want to go, but not when they have this stupid bet. I know Tamaki is okay with it, but knowing the twins, the still expect that kiss." You bunched up your legs to your chest and held them tightly. You herd the clicking sound of heels walk into your dressing room. Suddenly, you saw the bottom of a yellow dress that almost touched the floor."'_________', please come out. Tamaki told me you were in here." Your eyes shot open as you heard the sound of Hikaru's voice."Hikaru? What do you want? Are
Romano x Reader: Even Death Couldn't Do Us Part C1A/N: There might be some confusion as to how I write my junk. Please read the description before you continue.Romano's POVI groggily woke up from my sleep, feeling disappointed that what I experienced just now was a dream. It took me awhile to process everything in my mind; such as where am I, is this reality and what day is it.But then I realised what today is. In shock, I looked towards my alarm clock; a relived sigh escaped my lips as I saw that my alarm hasn't gone off yet. Hmm, what could I possibly do on 6:30 in the morning? Well, for starters I could wake Feli up. Geez, he's just a drag to wake up in the morning.As I made
Blood Stained Girl Reader Insert: Introduction"My only memory is stained with blood. That snowy white night ten years ago will forever be in my mind. There are two types of that creature: the pure evil and the pure good. What creature is this you may ask? It's a vampire. All I remember is the evil attacking me from the shadows. I thought I was dead, but I was saved by another. His hand and face covered in blood. He offered his hand to me that faithful night. As I looked into those eyes, I became enslaved to a vampire. He brought me close to him and that's when my life began." ------------------------------------------------------ You attend the elite s
Death the Kid x Reader - Part 9Part 9 - Symmetry VS Castor"What the heck is wrong with this house?" Kid muttered under his breath as he walked through the hallways. "Why is everything so... so..."A shudder trailed down his spine, causing his shoulder blades to twitch and shake. He raked a hand through his black hair, letting his golden eyes wander around the hall. His gaze landed on a tilted painting hanging on the wall, then they darted to the place where the edge of the carpet had come up, his eyes then glanced towards to Castor -who was sitting on the floor in the middle of the narrow hallway (completely blocking it off) and Lego bricks were lying all around him."
Romano x Reader: Even Death Couldn't Do Us Part C2A/N: Continued from where I last left off. Warning: Trigger-ish, I think? I don't know I'm not sure *crawls, hides*Reader's POV"Gosh, that hurts,", I said as I pick myself up. Strange, since when did the city end up becoming a field of flowers? … Oh… OH… I remembered everything now.I can't believe this is happening to me on my wedding day. I let out a tear, yelling out Feli's name. No reply, I guess he's safe then.I continued to wander around the place. This field of flowers is too vast; I could see the horizon as to where I was standing, and not a tree in sight. Feeling that my
Bring Back My Baby - Chapter 4Bring Back My Baby (Synacky) Chapter 4:********************************************Meanwhile, in Miami..."Happy birthday, sissy," Brian whispered, pressing a tender kiss to a sleeping Ziah's forehead and then shaking her shoulder gently. He laughed when she groaned deeply, batted his hands away from her and buried her face into her pillow. "C'mon, Sleeping Beauty, it's time to get up and partay!""Brian, you are way too chipper this morning," Ziah answered hoarsely, one eye opened into an unamused slit."Meh...shit happens. Get over it. My baby sister only turns 16 once, and that's today. So...get your ass up! I've got the whole day p
Gakuen Hetalia X Reader [Part 11]"He should be here somewhere," Emil groaned loudly, before being shushed by the librarian. "I don't get it, he just kinda... disappeared," he spoke again, but this time in a hushed tone."I don't have any idea," you muttered, perching on one of the many tables in the library. "You're not being that helpful," Emil glared from across the room at you."Hey! I've helped for the last hour!" "Ah....I guess you're right... Maybe he's go-""TOUGH GUY," a voice exclaimed, followed by the sound of loud thudding.Emil suddenly yelped as something collided with his head. You stared, wide-eyed, as a puffin latched its claws into Emil's hair, flapping
Bring Back My Baby - Chapter 7Bring Back My Baby (Synacky) Chapter 7:********************************************"So, do you think Matt's gonna finally propose to you this weekend?" Gena Paulhus asked."He'd better. He's gonna be a huge rockstar, and I want my half of all the money, wealth and popularity that he gets from that," Valary DiBenedetto answered, a gleam in her eyes.Gena nodded her head. "Yeah, I understand. I'm just waiting for Zacky to finally ask me out. I mean, I know he says that he's gay, but I can change that, if he gives me the chance to. I can make him so much happier than Brian, that's for sure.""Well, once Zacky finally moves past Brian, the
Bring Back My Baby - Chapter 5Bring Back My Baby (Synacky Mpreg) Chapter 5:**************************************************Okay, there is a huge timeskip coming up. Sorry, just the way that I wanted to do it. If ya don't like it, slash, two guys together or mpreg, then please, kindly turn around and leave.3 years later..."Zayleigh Briana Haner, don't you dare do that!" Brian yelled out to his niece.Zayleigh looked up at him mischieviously and then smirked as well as she could at her young age as she threw her empty sippy cup across the room, the hard plastic hitting the wall echoing throughout the small dressing room like a loud gunshot."Uh-oh!" the little gi
White DoorsBlack.It's a black room with no walls, no ceiling, no floor, yet solid beneath the feet. There's no source of light, and yet she can see.A bored sounding voice calls over flatly."Destination?"Libs is laying on her back in the middle of the room, one leg propped over her knee, hands behind her head, looking immensely bored."Core. " Bebs says automatically. That's what the spell book said. Get to the Core of the mind, help re-establish control for the moral conscious. And this time Libs would be armed.Libs raises an eyebrow, but that is the only change in expression."Route?" She says in the same flat voice.The core was at the center
Bring Back My Baby - Chapter 8Bring Back My Baby (Synacky) Chapter 8:********************************************Brian found it hard to breathe as he gasped, his eyes going wide once again. His heart went into a fit of quick palpitations and he had to keep from flinging himself at Zacky and babbling like a brainless moron about how much he still loved him, too. He had Crash and his well-being to think about now. He swallowed, licked his dry lips and then swallowed again. He arched an eyebrow and then sighed. "So, that makes everything all better?"Zacky shook his head. "N-No. I-I didn't say that.""Good. Because it doesn't.""Zacky, don't say something stupid, that
The Top of the Tower [Jareth x Reader (ch17)] This was not what you had freaking signed up for. Sweating, tired, and sore, you waited as the defeated puzzle faded into darkness around you. Sharur hung heavy in your arm, silent for a long time now. There would be only a brief moment of repose before the next puzzle began. You felt beaten, fatigued. Your head buzzed. When you opened your eyes, wondering when exactly you had closed them, the scene discombobulated you more than had any of the others. The room…space…area was just black, and what looked like a rainbow rollercoaster twisted into the darkness. It plunged down, down, down, further down than you could fathom, and st
A game of trust: chapter 14Midas sat in his throne,playing with amber colored ball of energy."My lord,what about the planet Mobuis. What if the boy and the girl manages to escape." the hell hound barked. Midas made the energy go away."My plan is nearly working,but i just need to boy to finish coating the world in darkness. I would do it my self,but i can't leave here,but the boy's magic...with the world covered in darkness,i can make my way to Mobuis and conquer it." he than glanced at hell hound."Escape..hum..well it have been over a minute now." Midas said and smirked."I have something else in mind now." with a laugh,the evil king vanished into shadows.Kai had just


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Proposed Immigration Legislation Affecting AuPairs: What do you think?
This week, many host families received letters from their Au Pair Agencies and/or from the Alliance for International Education and Cultural Exchange. (Note: The Alliance is an advocacy group for cultural exchange programs. Many au pair agencies are members). Previously, we've received requests to contact our Representatives about changes in Tax Law.
This time, it's US Immigration regulations.
The Agencies and the Alliance are urging Host Families to contact our Senators and express our opposition to the changes. Should we follow their recommendation?
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- How many of us would prefer the government to deal with Guantanamo or close corporate tax loopholes instead of focusing on Au Pairs' immigration classifications?
- Should we send in our letters for or against the proposals?
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Congratulations to Becca Georgsdóttir from Iceland and her Ultimate Host Mom, Lauren Willis, winner of AuPairCare's Northern California Region's 2013 Ultimate Host Mom award! We received dozens of wonderful essays about host moms from around the Northern California region who have had a tremendous impact on their au pairs' experiences here in the U. S. Below is Becca's winning submission:
How would a perfect Host mom be described? There is nobody perfect in the world but I think my host mom comes pretty close. She is hard working and loving and it's the little things that she does that make me feel like I love her like my own mother.
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Study: Lick Your Baby's Dirty Pacifier
A study published the journal Pediatrics on Monday found that when parents sucked on their child's pacifier as a 'cleaning' method, the child was less likely to develop asthma and eczema later in life.
This study go us talking! Some moms on staff admitted to it, others were shocked - what is your take?
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Au Pair Care San Francisco Lamorinda Blog: 8 YEARS OLD AND STILL CAN'T TIE SHOES?
Velcro, no shoe laces, no wonder.
I would estimate that 80% of the second graders who walk through our doors can't tie their shoes. In fact, several capable third and even fourth graders who participate in sports and have sufficient fine motor skills still need their parents to double…
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25 Jun 2012
MARK KEOHANE, in his weekly column for Business Day, writes the anger Heyneke Meyer will feel this morning is that a new group of Springboks mentally couldn't front for a Test match because a three-Test series against England had already been won.
The Springboks never had the mongrel to beat an opponent that – by rights of a season that has been going since the 2011 World Cup last September – should have been the disinterested and reluctant participant.
England's players had the appetite for Test rugby in Port Elizabeth. They had the collective will to play for 80 minutes, motivated by a first win against the Boks in 10 starts.
That they didn't get the win was because they were not good enough to put away a Bok team whose forwards were ordinary in what they produced as a unit and who individually offered very little intent in the collisions.
The Springboks, when dismissed as pretenders, invariably always rise to the occasion and find the extraordinary in ambition, persistence and resistance, but in 20 years of writing about South African rugby's elite the one consistency is that when the players believe there's nothing at stake there's never quite the same urgency.
Springbok midweek teams, so many of them a collection of outstanding players, often played like a bunch of clueless club players and rarely produced performances worthy of their provincial pedigree.
Watching the Boks in Port Elizabeth was like watching a midweek Bok team with individual ambition but not collective hunger or cohesion.
Attitude is everything in Test rugby because with attitude comes intensity, confrontation and refusal to be beaten in the collisions.
We saw it with the All Blacks against Ireland in Christchurch a fortnight ago. Mentally they lacked the urgency because of a disregard of Ireland's challenge and they nearly lost.
Not so in Hamilton where they apologised with the most emphatic performance in humiliating Ireland 60-0.
It was not the nine tries that spoke of New Zealand's ambition and desire for sustained excellence. It was the refusal to give Ireland any consolation in the final minutes of the Test – a passage of play that saw All Blacks captain Richie McCaw chase down an Irishman with the urgency of a man whose team was defending a one point lead. Instead the All Blacks, 2-0 up in the three-Test series, were leading by 60 points.
McCaw, who as captain of the All Blacks, has won everything and lost just 12 of 106 Tests, was a man possessed in Hamilton, such was his embarrassment that the All Blacks had let themselves down in Christchurch.
McCaw's attitude epitomised why the All Blacks are the only team in the world with an 80 percent winning record in the professional era. There is no such thing as a meaningless Test. He defended his tryline in a supposed dead rubber (with his team leading by 60 points) with the same conviction he did in last year's World Cup final.
Meyer, if you asked him what he covets most as Bok coach, will tell you that every South African player understands the importance of every Test match – not just the ones at the World Cup.
The Bok coach has said he knows his team will lose matches, but he will only accept defeat when he knows his players were not good enough to win; not because it wasn't important to win.
The mentality in South African rugby for too long has been that it is okay to deliver mediocrity as long as it does not happen at the World Cup or in a series decider.
In Port Elizabeth the Boks showed Meyer that the fight within his own camp to change this mentality will be his greatest challenge.
No Bok player ever wants to lose and there wasn't a lack of individual commitment in Port Elizabeth. There just wasn't the bloody mindedness you would have seen had this been the series decider.
The usual clichés of inexperience, human error in decision-making and a failure to adapt to the wind and rain were offered as mitigating factors, if never as an excuse.
Don't believe any of it and don't believe the purple prose so willingly offered in respect of England's performance.
The visitors had determination, desire and enthusiasm, but they didn't play particularly well. A team with greater attacking pedigree would have embarrassed the Boks and would have won comfortably.
South Africa's determination and refusal to be beaten at home has historically masked the limitations of many a Bok team, but the greatest positive for Meyer is that nothing was masked in Port Elizabeth.
Some of those who wore green on Saturday are not good enough to wear it with the necessary authority if the Boks are to consistently be among the game's best and the Boks will never reach the consistent level of winning that Meyer so desires if they can't reach a consistent level of attitude the players need take to every Test.
It was a poor result for the Boks but it was also a very necessary one because it will force Meyer to acknowledge that he has players who talk about consistently being number one but he doesn't yet have a group who plays with the belief and conviction every Saturday to be number one.
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25 Jun 2012, 20:18 pm@louis schropnel(louis shrapnel)-249:
Spies, Olivier and Potgieter were just caretakers.
HM is marking time until Vermeulen, Frans Steyn and Alberts gets back. And he will have to have a rethink about Brussow.
25 Jun 2012, 20:29 pmAnd add deysel, konkakski, kolisi, daniels and the youngster from the sharks…….Will be dominating the loose ball and collision for the remainder of time?
25 Jun 2012, 20:35 pm@IAAS(I am a stormer)-251: HM got it EMPHATICALLY WRONG last Saturday..
so every time one of his first choice operators go down or are absent then he's basically saying to you and to himself that he's stuffed.. that he has to pick a caretaker option.. and hope for the best.
Bulldust.. he chose POORLY from the outset and he was itching to showcase all these wonderful balls to the wall enforcer traits that Tarzan from EC Potgieter was supposed to show.. which was abysmally absent when push came to shove.. and he has FOUR identical Spies type clones ALL wanting to be the main ball carrying genius in the midfield standing off the back of the ruck waiting to CARRY the ball as fast as they can INTO the GROUND..!!!!
25 Jun 2012, 23:08 pmFrom a kiwi perspective, I think you bok fans are sweating too much over the performance in the third test. It is v hard to lift for all 3 consecutive weekends against the same opposition – just look at how close the AB's came to their first ever loss to an average Irish side two weekends ago.
It will take time for the new coaching staff to settle on your bet squad, and playing style. You've got fantastic depth in the forwards, a goldmine that is the envy of all other international teams. You've just got to be a bit patient as it all beds in.
I would liken your current state to the AB's in 92 then Laurie mains took control. He tried scores of players, many who turned out to be well short of international standard. Yet in the end he put together probably the best AB side of all time, the 95 world cup team that went on to dominate international rugby in 96 and 97.
From 92 to 94 we put up with some of the kak est 9s and 10s the AB jersey has seen, but in 95 we had Merthens and bachop ( the latter back from Japan).
26 Jun 2012, 01:41 am@corporal punishment(corporal punishment)-254:
Yes BUT…..
You have to pick the right combinations
if you have talent at you disposal you need to use them
HM has gone predominantly Bulls players,
Also he has decided a style of rugby (bulls style) and after Poms had did their homework the boks had no clue and could not change or adapt
There was no Alberts so they keyed in on Spies and Bismark and Potgieter who got nowhere Coetzee . They targeted our forwards who always carried the ball.
Hougaard needed to break more often or try to and Mornes kickes needed to be a lot better
Morne needed to be subbed and at 50 min mark -
26 Jun 2012, 01:54 amMorne is being let off too easily. One more successful goal kick and we would be celebrating an ugly victory, with sage words about work in progress.
Or to put it differently: If Morne had kicked like this in recent years PdV would have an overall win percentage of 0%.
Not good enough.
26 Jun 2012, 01:58 firstname.lastname@example.com(lockforward.com)-256:
The only reason Morne is in the team is to kick. If he can't do that consistantly then he must go. Play Pienaar at 9 with Lambie at 10. Taute, if fit, at 15. Steyn and JDV in the centres and JP and Brian on the wings
Backline sorted
26 Jun 2012, 02:48 amI think the venom leveled at HM is both untoward and telling. Our coach has had a successful start to his tenure, pulling off a series win having hardly had any time to prepare for it. Provincialism seems to have aided the mutation of a breed of armchair puff adder- lazily lying coiled to take down the coach should his selection blow up in his face. In the less than perfect nature of the wins and this draw the asps are seizing their meager chance and much like actual puff adders are proving to be ugly and nastily venomous.
26 Jun 2012, 04:19 am@ovoidballs(ovoidballs)-258:
I dont think its all Venom
This was not a very good English team and we all know that Boks should have won all 3 comfortably
Its more frustration because many of us can see the weak areas.
The bok team should have improved each game and 1st half of 2nd game they were great .
This last Saturday they were poor and M steyn was horrible
If you have Jaantjies on the bench use him He could not have been any worse
Also Spies and Potgieter were below average
Bismark was marked by 3 poms and Spies never crosses the gain line
Oh and yes these are Bulls players
Sure there have been injuries but adjusting and the basics needed to be there
And kick your chances at goal too
HM does not play or kick at goal but he makes the calls and he needed to tell his team to adjust and take players not performing offI hope he learnt something from this
26 Jun 2012, 04:27 amGood point, ultimately the Meyer has not lost a test yet and in the first two tests we saw glimpses of greatness. That this could not be kept up in the two games probably has more to do with the limited preparation time he had than anything else.
As for the 3rd test, Keo has it spot on and in his words 'the players individually offered very little intent in the collisions'. So let us forget for the time being that we were but one more successful kick from victory and we had plenty of chances to do that, Steyn on the day had other ideas…
I got the feeling that the majority of Boks played with the intend not to get injured and although wrong you have to keep in mind the majority of them will be running out this weekend in what will be very important Super 15 matches. On the flipside you had the English that gave it their all for that elusive win and a little break coming up. End of the day we still did not lose and neither did they win.
It was disappointing from a supporter's view (me and a few others) but far from a disaster. The real test for Meyer will be what he is going to do with the team selection for the 4N coming up and there is plenty to chew on. But lets not lynch him before he had a change to show us what he is made of.
26 Jun 2012, 04:31 amPete, don't fall in the trap of underestimating NH rugby. They have improved and unless you at the top of your game they can surprise you, it is not a case of pitching for a comfortable win anymore. Poms showed us this weekend and the Irish did it last weekend. The Wobblies knew they were in for a scrap as they were playing the best NH team whilst their own were littered with injuries.
26 Jun 2012, 04:37 am@Slartibartfast(Slartibartfast)-261:
Yes you have a point there
Its just frustrating knowing we can do better (IMO)
We keep seeing players like Spies and Steyn been selected over and over again and not really producing what is expected of test players and other players are not getting opportunities -
26 Jun 2012, 04:47 amPete, Spies is a plonker and should not be there. As for Steyn, he is having a bad run but has saved our bacon often enough in the past to at least understand his selection. The problem now is who would you replace him with? Grant is not the answer with his limited playing ability and short line kicks he is just not international standard.
26 Jun 2012, 04:50 amAnother point on doing better, keep in mind he had these guys for a week ebfore the first test and with recovery time limited time between the next two. I say again, we saw glimpses of greatness we hardly ever saw under PDivvie so yes, plenty of room to improve but we have not gone backwards.
26 Jun 2012, 06:47 am@blueboy(blueboy)-243: 'the boks need a mongrel like bakkies at No4 '
Here's an idea…why not just pick Bakkies? he didn't retire and he's playing good rugby, ditto for Steenkamp.
26 Jun 2012, 08:29 am@Big Hit(Big Hit)-265: The issue of pride of picking HOME Springboks …. time nations come to the realisation that rugby is now a world sport the better
26 Jun 2012, 08:47 am@Big Hit(Big Hit)-265:
no i disagree on bakkies,
steenkamp is playing some incredible rugby yes, but bakkies is overweight (maybe) and def unfit for 80 minutes in the 4nations. -
26 Jun 2012, 09:14 am@Slartibartfast(Slartibartfast)-260:
The All Blacks and Wallabies also played a third test, and gave their all in order to win / complete the clean sweep.
And they also play important S15 games this weekend.
Forget about Morne's kicks for a second – the English did not take a few kickable penalties either, therefore casting a different light on the whole Morne-argument. I expect Morne to be dropped for the Rugby Champs but me and you both know the coach will not do that.
British Lions series, 2-1. SA beating Australia in Australia at cricket, 2-1.
Keo is spot on, we are a nation satisfied with mediocrity. We will never be a great sporting nation unless we change our outlook in this regard.
26 Jun 2012, 09:30 amHere it is… The HG Simple Bok Player assessment for Sat
KrugerHard Work but Ineffective: Spies, Bismarck
Outstanding: Coetsee (Ran, Tackled but eventually trying to do it all on his own was too much)
Kanko (A beaut of a tackle, high workrate plus excellent link play)Farken useless: Kruger
HabanaHard work but ineffective: Aplon, Olivier
Outstanding: JPP, Pienaar
Farken useless: Steyn, Hougaard
26 Jun 2012, 09:46 amPriorities for the Boks:
A search for a decent 13 with match winning potential
i.e. Not a holding player and just adequate: Possibly JPP fits the billBalance in the loose Trio:
Possible combos are 8. Coetzee 7 Alberts 6 Brussouw or 8. Kanko 7. Coetsee 6. Brussouw (with Alberts 4 or Impact)A tighthead that is an adequate replacement for Doc.
Pienaar has probably played himself into no. 1 spot as 9.
If Lambie is to take over 10 (which is the most sensible, logical choice) then the search is on for a 15. Aplon is not the answer. If Lambie is to be 15, where he has shown to be light years ahead of the next best then another option at 10 is needed. Possibly Jantjies, especially if Frans is at 12 and can play a similar role to Butch to give Elton a fall back option.
Bring back Bakkies for a while, if only to be a bench option in order to school Etsebeth.
26 Jun 2012, 15:48 pm@Big Hit(Big Hit)-265: Agree on Steenkamp!
26 Jun 2012, 16:10 pm@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-270: Disagree: 6: Burger 7: Alberts 8: Vermeulen. Coetzee will get his time. Headless chook at the moment.
27 Jun 2012, 07:44 amHM just got an idea of what the games against OZ and NZ will be like, because just as much as Alberts is a way better ball carrier than Potgieter, so are these 2 teams defense compared to ENG. Our big ball carriers are going to struggle to dominate the collisions just like last week. So, the BIG question is…where to from here?
I was dissapointed with his squad selection. Got over that…sort of, waiting to see what they'll come up with if plan A is not working. I saw nothing new and that fills me with dred. I hope to hell he can come up with a solution before the championship comes round
27 Jun 2012, 08:22 amSo, it's not just about the mindshift per se, but playing a game that asks more than just the 1 question of the opposition. Can you stop us behind the gainline? If they can, basically our whole game goes to **** from there. Even our kicks looks aimless, bereft of any ideas. Brussow brought something different to our game and was one player the opposition HAD to discuss before the game. Marcel, good player he is, is just more of the same. Everyone knows what the Boks will bring with our gameplan. And at the end of it all, we're just making their defensive gameplan a lot easier by doing it this way. If we were to keep them guessing every once in a while, every so often they'll get it wrong giving us a chance to capitalise.
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