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A new Congolese airline is to destroy six dysfunctional planes in a bid to restore confidence in the country's aviation industry.
Jean-Marc Pajot, the chief executive of Fly Congo, told the Associated Press that five Boeing-727s and one other type of aircraft would be destroyed to reassure potential passengers that flying with the new private airline would be safe.
Fly Congo has been formed from Hewa Bora Airways, which was blacklisted by the European Union and had its licence revoked following a crash last July that killed 74 people.
Hewa Bora ran flights from the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) capital, Kinshasa, to the central city of Kisangani and other destinations.
Pajot told the BBC: "We have a fleet of aircraft that has not flown for quite a long time. So the first decision for the six aircraft I am talking about is that we decided to destroy that fleet completely."
He said the planes would be destroyed and recycled from next month, and that Fly Congo would have a "well maintained" fleet of modern aircraft to transport passengers.
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Last year's Hewa Bora accident occurred when one the airline's Boeing 727s crashed at Kisangani airport as it attempted to land in heavy rain, according to the Agence France Presse.
It was the second fatal accident involving the airline in three years. In 2008 more than 40 people were killed when a DC-9 crashed into a suburb of the eastern Congolese town of Goma immediately after take-off.
Pajot told the Associated Press that Fly Congo had started paying compensation to the families of the victims of the 2011 crash, each of whom will receive $87,500.
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Overseas markets are also mixed Wednesday.
Currency markets remain in flux. The euro is gaining against the dollar, but investors are piling into gold. The metal hit a new record.
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New York City New copies of Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall," Andrew Young's "The Politician" and other books published by Macmillan were unavailable Saturday on Amazon.com, a drastic step in the ongoing dispute over e-book prices.
Macmillan CEO John Sargent said he was told Friday that its books would be removed from Amazon.com, as would e-books for Amazon's Kindle e-reader. Books will be available on Amazon.com through private sellers and other third parties, Sargent said.
Sargent met with Amazon officials Thursday to discuss the publisher's new pricing model for e-books. He wrote in a letter to Macmillan authors and literary agents Saturday that the plan would allow Amazon to make more money selling Macmillan books and that Macmillan would make less. He characterized the dispute as a disagreement over "the long-term viability and stability of the digital book market."
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A photo editor friend of mine will often say, "It's getting harder and harder to make a bad picture."
It sounds absurd but he is partially referring to technology and how it can remove some of the thinking from photography. Cameras can be set to figure out aperture, shutter speed and, with the touch of a button, do the focusing. You can massage a bad exposure with software or, if you snap photos with your phone, choose apps and filters to effect a variety of looks and feels.
So it's not uncommon for serious photographers to occasionally reach back for a piece of analog gear to challenge their thinking and reinvigorate creativity.
This summer I reached back to 1840. Well, sort of.
Lomography, known to enthusiasts for manufacturing plastic analog cameras, has reconfigured a 19th-century Joseph Petzval portrait lens for a new design that fits Nikon F and Canon EF bodies.
Photographers who shoot with large-format cameras covet the original Petzval lenses, searching the internet, camera shows and flea markets for the much-heralded glass.
Lomography used a Kickstarter campaign to fund the concept and worked with Zenit in Russia to produce an art lens for DSLRs that looks nearly identical to Petzval's revolutionary design.
The heavy brass 85 mm lens focuses with a turn knob and its f-stop is set by choosing from a series of metal aperture plates that you insert into the top of the lens. Each plate has a different-size circular cutout to adjust the depth of field and the amount of light entering the lens.
It is considerably faster than the original Petzval lens, with a wide-open aperture of f/2.2, which if used in the right setting renders the out-of-focus portions of your pictures in painterly swirls. Photographers refer to to this quality as "bokeh."
If your photography has come of age in the 21st century, you may find the Petzval Art Lens initially frustrating to use. The sharpness of your subject depends on your eye and how your brain connects it with the thumb and forefinger working the focusing knob. Start on stationary objects and then challenge yourself to focus quickly on moving subjects.[avocado-gallery ids="291385,291386,291387,291388,291389,291390,291392,291393,291394,291395″]
I took my test lens to a softball tournament, and you can see the results in the gallery above. I had fun shooting faces in a variety of situations, from a formal pose to quick shots of interesting faces in the crowd. I also enjoyed trying to capture quick-moving players. Many of the frames were failures but I admit to being delighted by the ones that came out relatively sharp.
While the lens came with a range of aperture plates, I shot exclusively wide open at f/2.2 for the shallowest depth of field and maximum bokeh. Textured backgrounds and having a good distance between your subject and background makes the bokeh effect more pronounced.
I found myself thinking differently to maximize the effects of the Petzval lens. I started shooting toward the sinking evening sun because I was getting a rainbow flare on these pictures. I know that a rainbow can occur with an unfiltered lens on a digital camera, but each rainbow seemed unique from frame to frame. Rather than turning away from the sun, I wanted to see what I could create by breaking the rules.
As I wrap up this review, I must sadly think about packaging the lens up to return to the generous reps at Lomography.
The practical photographer, especially those with limited equipment funds, will question whether the unique soft-swirl bokeh is worth the $600 price tag (a black version is available at a higher price). Other lenses, especially 50 mm and 85 mm that have apertures that open up to f/1.8 or f/1.4, can produce a similar effect to draw your eye to what is sharp for less money. Lensbaby offers a variety of products that bring creative blur and a tilt-shift quality to pictures, some at half the price.
But if you are a serious portrait shooter with a liberal disposable income, the Petzval Art Lens is a unique and valuable tool worth a spot in your bag or case.
Petzval Art Lens for Nikon or Canon DSLR by Lomography ($599 for brass, $749 for black)


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Amortising tranche A: Leveraged buyout facilities are commonly structured with three term facilities – A, B and C – which all rank pari passu, with only the A facility amortising over time. Facilities B and C are repaid in bullet repayments on their respective final maturity dates.
Certain funds: Originally a concept derived from public-to-private acquisitions, the concept has made its way in to private acquisitions. The 'certainty' is that the lenders agree to fewer grounds on which they can stop acquisition loans being drawn.
Covenant lite: Usually a reference to an incurrence covenants-approach rather than more traditional maintenance covenants.
Equity cure: A provision allowing a shareholder to 'cure' a breach of a financial covenant by injecting additional capital into the borrower.
Mulligan: Originally a golf term, a Mulligan is a clause allowing deemed cure for certain limited breaches of financial covenant.
Reverse flex: Contrasting to market flex (which allows the arranging bank to increase the margin and to rearrange the structuring of the debt), the reverse flex incentivises the arranging bank to achieve a reduction in the margin in circumstances where the facilities are oversubscribed in syndication.
Second lien: A second lien tranche, or D facility, ranks pari passu with the other senior facilities, other than in respect of security. This allows lenders that are not permitted to provide subordinated debt to provide debt that is quasi-subordinated in that it ranks senior and is deemed a senior loan, but ranks after the other senior loans but before the mezzanine loan in case of enforcement of security.
In September 2007, Norton Rose carried out a survey to gauge how bankers, equity sponsors and corporates thought the credit crunch would affect the leveraged buyout (LBO) market. Among other things, the respondents believed we would see a revival of the amortising tranche A and the disappearance of second lien and covenant-lite loans.
They also predicted that usage of equity cure and certain funds provisions would become rare and that Mulligan clauses and reverse flex clauses would no longer be seen. Now, six months later, has the market changed as anticipated?Autumn 2007 showed a clear upward trend on margins and fees, as well as resistance to previously high 'earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation' (Ebitda) multiples. This has caused problems for vendors, who are less able to achieve the exit values they want, effectively bringing fewer deals to the market – or at least fewer completed deals.
With leveraged loans trading at substantial discounts to par in the secondary market, syndication of new loans is becoming increasingly difficult. Lenders' willingness to agree borrower-friendly terms depends on the effect this would have on their ability to sell on loans. This has resulted in lenders developing a growing aversion to terms perceived in the market to be too borrower-friendly.
As expected, covenant-lite and Mulligans clearly fall into this category and are no longer "market" (for now). While financial covenants are getting tighter, the equity cure remains in the market, albeit in less generous versions, with mostly only cashflow-related cure rights and more limited rights of repetition. For example, where a borrower could have expected to be able to 'cure' breaches of revenue-related financial covenants five or six times during the life of a loan facility, it seems that lenders today are only prepared to allow two or three such cures.
In terms of structuring the loan facilities, the survey respondents were proven right:
• Second lien has disappeared from the market and more debt is being put into the amortising A tranche. There are a large number of LBO facilities predating Q3/2007, where there is no amortising tranche at all. As a result, such loan facilities are less vulnerable to the borrower's cashflow drying up. With an A tranche revival, together with stricter financial covenants and less cure rights, borrowers will have to watch their cashflow and interest cover covenants more closely.
• Although some respondents believed that fewer term facilities would be made available on certain funds terms in private acquisitions, it remains a very common feature, with lenders appearing to be quite relaxed about the concept, which, in the end, can be seen as a means to facilitate the underlying acquisition.
It will be interesting to see if the stresses in the syndication market force a rapid tightening of document terms in a more marked way than has been seen during the past six months.
The liquidity crisis has not gone away as swiftly as some had hoped (most respondents had predicted a relatively full recovery by spring 2008) and this may result in more traditional lender provisions returning to the fore.
Tomas Gärdfors is a partner at Norton Rose
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The visual pyrotechnics at the Ultra Music Festival always match the ear-splitting noise decibels the EDM gathering is well known for.
Ultra Music Festival, Bayfront Park
"There are so many cool angles to explore, so much to see," says Rutger Geerling, one of the senior photographers at this year's event. "I rarely stay in one place for longer than 15 minutes." But that was all it took for the Holland native to capture one of his most popular shots from the festival. His nameless subject was one of two dancers who took the stage during DJ Carl Cox's set. "I just waited for the right backdrop on the LED screen behind her and a move that made her hair move in just the right way," he says. "The fact that her face is perfectly frozen while her body is in motion is what makes the picture work."


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WHO'S GREATER ; The First DEMPSEY or The Second ?
Who Is The Greater, NONPAREIL Or The MANASSA MAULER ??
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For the new member who has the Nonpareil thread and for a quick read on the first Dempsey........... help you to compare the two..... here is the link for you lazier types.... http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=516189
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I don't know a whole lot about him, but from what I've read the nonpareil Dempsey was greater. Heavyweight Dempsey was great but I feel he gets over rated.
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JACK DEMPSEY - THE NON-PAREIL 1861-1895 - 'Champion of the World'
Leinster Leader, June 12th 1926
A Kildare Champion
Somewhere on the plains of the Curragh there is a monument erected in grateful remembrance of a "bare-knuckle" gladiator. The peasant will proudly recall the doughty deeds of the great Donnelly and sometimes by turf fires the "mitchers" sing, o' the nights the praises of the valiant plainsman. In a county famed for its sporting traditions it is but just that sporting memories should endure. Yet it is strange that Kildare should forget one of the greatest knights who ever stepped forth from the "Short Grass" arena. There is no monument, there is no tradition nor is there a single verse in his native county in memory of one of the greatest fighters in the history of the "squared circle." Jack Dempsey the famous Nonpareil. Fate is bitter indeed and the fruits of conquest are pitiful recompense when Kildare forgets a son who for six years waved the "Short Grass" stand and over the heads of the foremost middle weights of forty years ago.
Jack Dempsey was born near the Curragh on December 15, 1862, and his parents brought him to New York while he was a hardy youngster, although little is known of his early career in those tough, bare-knuckle days. His first notable encounter took place on April 7th, 1883 and from that date until he fell victim to the treacherous pivot punch, six years later, he claimed the plaudits of the multitude as a boxer and a gentleman. One hundred and fifty-eight pounds of strength, strategy, grace and chivalry speedily won him the flattering title of "The Non pareil" of the ring. A man of sterling honesty and gentlemanly bearing in that raw pioneer period, when good qualities were at a premium, could not fail to elicit a grudging word of praise even from those who sampled the dead accuracy of his flashing hands. His uncanny skill and unquestionable pluck could only be really appreciated when this grey-eyed wizard with the light brown, wavy hair was pitted against some fierce cave man battling with desperate ferocity.
The good looking young Irishman easily became the idol of the boxing public. He was a master of strategy who opened a new chapter in ring-craft with his powerful arms and restless, slender legs. His contests numbered hundreds while he suffered only three defeats.
This new favourite was hailed as champion even before he met and defeated George Fulljames. Dempsey fought the Toronto boy on July 30, 1884, at Far Rockway, just outside New York, and the Canadian went down and out in the 22nd round. The Champions during an unbroken series of victories, handed a sleeping draught to La Blanche at Larchmont, Long Island, on March 4th, 1886. La Blanche who was later to prove the Nemesis of his conqueror, was four years Dempsey's senior and a great fighter. He took the quietus in the 13th round.
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The battling Irishman took part in many unique contests, but strangest of all was his encounter with Johnny Regan on December 13th, 1887. This meeting was the climax of much ill-advised bitterness between the backers of both camps. The ring was the dock of an old barge in Long Island Sound, and the test was a fight to a finish with the bare knuckles. Truly it was a battle of primitive man but it is well to remember that the "kid glove" era of boxing was merely at its birth. The rounds were not yet set to time and a "knock down" replaced the gong. Knuckles flashed for a solid hour. Fourteen rounds had been fought under London Prize Ring rules when the barge, which had been securely moored to two stakes, was partly submerged by the tide. The strange "ring" was cut loose and towed out into the Sound. Both the principals were about to resume when a squall struck the "ring" and a heavy snow shower covered the slippery deck. A truce was called and the party went ashore. Someone suddenly remembered an old boat house about 20 miles away and a heavy trudge through the driving snow brought the small body to more cheerful surroundings. An obliging landlord, some hot drinks, and the men were soon trading punches with the onlookers sitting on the bar and shouting advice between drinks. Another sixteen rounds and almost an hour of furious fighting were marked when word came that two policemen were down the road. Disdaining heavier clothing the fighters plunged into the woods and their followers found a clearing amid the snow. Here Dempsey and Regan fought to a finish. In the 45th round the referee cried "Time," but Regan was unable to continue. It was the end of over four hours of heavy punching with almost anything allowed except biting and kicking. No doubt some our present-day champions would look rather sheepish at the prospect of a four-hour "mix-up" with a twenty mile walk for a "breather."
In August 1889, Jack Dempsey lost the crown. It happened in San Francisco and the winner was La Blanche. Jack's defeat was the sensational climax to a terrific bout in a setting typical of those prize-fighting days. A rudely constructed ring with its four plain posts and sagging ropes, stood out under the blinding glare of unshaded lights. 'Frisco was he-man's town in those days and many a rough joke was cracked with the waiters who answered the call for beer in the smoke-laden atmosphere of the Old Pavilion
For thirty-one rounds Dempsey had maintained an unbeaten front against his more powerful opponent and held the heavier end of the points. In the thirty-second round the swarthy, thick-set marine bounded to the centre and the final act had begun. A clinch, a break and the champion shot a left and right to the head.
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Blanche again hung on and the crowd became sarcastic. Four more clinchers and Dempsey was non-plussed. He was content to break away, drop his hands and await the next clinch in La Blanche's wrestling tactics. And then the crowd woke up. At the ninth break Dempsey dropped his hands and the marine remained at close quarters. A half-turn to the right and he swung completely round. A whirlwind right connected with Dempsey's chin and the pivot punch had landed. The Nonpareil sagged at the knees and dropped. He was out. The crowd gasped as the referee reluctantly awarded the laurels to the victor. And so the star of a great fighter set in 'Frisco. La Blanche won the championship but lost his reputation. Since that fateful August night the pivot-punch has never again been tolerated in the ring.
The Kildare boy was bitter but took his defeat like a sportsman. On January 14th, 1891, he was out-classed by the great Bob Fitzsimons, man of superior strength and weight. Dempsey resisted gamely until the Cornish-man put him away in the thirteenth round.
It was apparent to all that the former champion had seen his best days. He fought three more contests. Mike Keogh suffered defeat at his hands. "Australian" Bill, Pte. Carthy, was held to a draw and Tommy Ryan secured the victory on January 18th 1895. Ryan was an ambitious, capable young man of twenty-five while Jack was a sick veteran who had seen thirty-two years of a bitter struggle for existence.
On June 8th 1895, five months after his defeat by Ryan, a benefit was given for the sick and poverty stricken boxer. His friends sent him to Portland, Oregon, hoping that the change of air would aid him in his losing fight and tuberculosis. On November 1st 1895, the poor, wasted body of the once famous Nonpareil answered the final call of "Time" and death was the victor. He lies buried far away from his native plains.
Perhaps, later on, when Kildare erects a monument to those who took part in a sterner fight she will not forget Jack Dempsey. And, perhaps, the site will be in Donnelly's Hollow where the spirits of two gladiators will hear the faint echo of distant cheering when the horses come "up the straight." Meanwhile the champion rests in a neglected grave over which some former admirer has carved the simple, yet sincere, lines:-
Far out in the wilds of Oregon
On a lonely mountain side
Where Columbia's mighty waters
Fell down to the ocean's tide,
Where the giant fir and cedar
Are imaged in the wave
O'ergrown with weeds and lichens,
I found Jack Dempsey's grave
I found no marble monolith
No broken shaft or stone
To tell of the great triumphs
This vanished hero won;
No rose, no shamrock I could find,
No mortals here to tell,
How sleeps in this forsaken spot
The immortal Nonpareil
A wind rock-strewn canyon road,
That mortals seldom tread,
Leads up this lonely mountain
To the bivouac of the dead.
And the western sun was sinking
In the Pacific's golden waves
And solemn pines kept watching
O'er poor Jack Dempsey's grave
Forgotten by ten thousand throats
That thundered his acclaim;
Forgotten by his friends and foes
Who cheered his very name
Oblivion wraps his faded form
But ages hence shall save
The memory of that Irish lad
That sleeps in Dempsey's grave
Oh! Fame, why sleeps thy favoured son
In wilds, woods and weeds?
And shall he ever thus sleep on
Interred his valiant deeds?
'Tis strange New York should thus forget
Its "Bravest of the Brave"
And in the wilds of Oregon
Unmarked, leave Dempsey's grave
Val O'Grady
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NOTE: Over the years we have had many queries re. Jack Dempsey and based on the information given, Karel Kiely, Genealogist with Kildare Co. Library was able to come up with the following information regarding his bitrhplace and parents. .
Jack Dempsey, "The Nonpareil"-"Without Compare"
Born John Kelly 21/11/1861 at townland of Athgarvan to John Kelly and Alicia Kelly (nee Lennon)
Mother remarried at death of her first husband on 7/8/1865 to Patrick Dempsey of Walshetown, Newbridge and John Kelly took the name of John Dempsey.
John "Jack" Dempsey died of tuberculosis/consumption at home of his father-in-law James Brady at Grand Avenue, Portland, Oregon on 1/11/1895 and is buried at Mount Calvary Cemetery, Portland, Oregon.
There are some curious references to other areas and John Noonan of Clane has unearthed a strong local tradition that suggests the Kelly family were originally from Clane and that the boxer hails from there.
We would be interested in any information regarding his birthplace which might throw further light on ther matter.
A feature in the Leinster Leader of 12 June1926 on World Champion boxer Jack Dempsey - 'The Non-Pareil,' who hailed form Co. Kildare
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Dempsey mainly appeared on cards during the 19th century, with a few releases early in the 20th century. Unfortunately, probably due to his namesake's popularity in American and world sport, The Nopareil Dempsey's appearance on cards halted in 1910. To collect a "set" of Dempsey The Nonpareil cards is a very costly and time consuming exercise, regardless of their condition. The Nonpareil Dempsey is a very popular figure with collectors and apart from John L Sullivan would have the most valuable card in any set in which he appears.
Jack Dempsey "The Nonpareil" died on November 2nd 1895 from tuberculosis, only 10 months after his final fight, but went down as one of the greatest not only middleweights, but boxers that has ever graced the ring.
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A selection of cards featuring Jack Dempsey "The Nonpareil".
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1887 Goodwin & Co. Old Judge (N174) - 4 cards
1887 Goodwin & Co. Gypsy Queen (N174)
1887 Allen & Ginter's "The World's Champions" (N28)
1887 Lorillard's Mechanics Delight Long Cut (N269)
1888 WS Kimball & Co's Cigs "Champions Of Games
& Sports" (N184) - 2 variations
(with and without company name)
1888 Goodwin & Co. Old Judge/Gypsy Queen
Cigarettes "Champions" (N162)
1888 SF Hess & Co (N332)
1890 Mayo Cut Plug (N310)
1893 Lorillard Red Cross (N266) (v Fitzsimmons)
1910 American Tobacco Co "Champion Athlete &
Prizefighter Series (T220) (Mecca/Tolstoi)
1910 American Tobacco Co "Champion Athlete &
Prizefighter Series (T220) Silver Border ------------ here is that boxing card link for those wanting souveneirs of both Dempseys....
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He was born Sept. 17, 1949, to Raymond and Dorothy Gilley Smith. He was employed by Blackstone Construction and loved to fish and coon hunt. He was a member of the Adoration Church.
He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, Eddie Smith.
He is survived by his wife, Catherine Smith of Atkins; a daughter and son-in-law, Regina and Bobby Storment of Atkins; two granddaughters, Brittany Allen and Lauren Storment; a sister and brother-in-law, Brenda and Bill Branch of Atkins; and a nephew, Jason Smith and wife Becky, and their children, Tori and Paige, all of Russellville.
Funeral services are at 10 a.m. today, Sept. 3, 2011, at Lemley Chapel with the Rev. Charlie Casto and Rev. J.C. Kinder officiating.
Pallbearers include Charlie Casto, J.C. Kinder, Robert Fryer, Tim Gray, Bobby Storment and Tad Chandler.
Burial will be at Atkins City Cemetery.
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Unilever joins Climate Savers Computing Initiative
Launched in June 2007, the Climate Savers Computing Initiative is a nonprofit group of eco-conscious consumers, businesses and conservation organisations which have come together in an effort to reduce the energy consumption of computers. Other members include Google, Dell, Microsoft and WWF.
Unilever previously introduced the Green IT programme in 2008, a strategy aimed at reducing the impact of IT operations on the environment.
Paolo de Sa, Unilever's Vice President of IT said: "Our commitment to reducing energy consumption through smarter use of IT fits perfectly with our agenda. When it comes to the environment, we believe that doing the right things for the right reasons is good for our consumers, our customers and our business".
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[This entry comprises two articles: Archaeology and Written Material.]
Located about halfway between Jericho and Samaria in the central hill country, Wadi ed-Daliyeh is one of the depressions through which the winter rains tumble into the Jordan Valley. The hill country begins to descend about four miles east of the village of el-Mughâyir, where the ridge consists of rolling tableland farmed by the villagers, and the wadi makes a sharp gash into the eastern rim of the hill country, leaving steep cliffs sometimes of a hundred feet or more. It descends to the narrow plain five miles from Khirbet Fasâyil, which lies about fifteen miles north of Jericho in the Jordan Valley.
Caves honeycomb the sides of the wadi. Some are small; others contain thousands of feet of passageways. It was in one of these caves, Mugharet Abu Shinjeh, that the Wadi ed-Daliyeh, or Samaria papyri, were found.
On the south side of the wadi, Mughâret Abu Shinjeh ("Cave of the Father of the Dagger") was investigated by the Ta῾amireh bedouin in the winter of 1962 when they were driven north of their usual encampments by drought. Since the original discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947, they had been making systematic searches of the hill-country caves and recognized that dryness, and often the accumulation of layers of bat excrement and the sealing of a cave by collapsed limestone at its entrance, preserved ancient finds within. Their usual method of exploration was to dig test pits through the bat guano and to tap the rocky façade and cave walls for the hollow thud that would indicate accessible passages.
Their efforts in Mugharet Abu Shinjeh brought to light fragments of mats, human bones, a gold ring, ancient pots (which they broke in their search for gold or manuscripts), some stamped lumps of clay (bullae, or seals), and finally a few beads, coins, more seals, and some rolls and fragments of papyri. The papyri made their way through fellow Ta῾amireh bedouin to Khalil Iskandar Shahin in Bethlehem and finally reached the scholarly community in Jerusalem in April 1962. [See Scrolls Research; biography of Shahin.] When a small papyrus fragment with Aramaic written on both sides came to the attention of Yusif Saad of the Palestine Archaeological Museum and Roland de Vaux of the École Biblique et Archéologique Française, then head of the Dead Sea Scroll team, they recognized their possible importance. They took some fragments to the American Schools of Oriental Research in Jerusalem where the director Paul Lapp, after a night of study, reported that the largest fragment was part of an official document in a script dating from about 375 bce, in which the city of Samaria was clearly mentioned.
The collection offered for sale by the bedouin consisted of many small worm-eaten papyrus fragments, including a few rolls (none complete), several dozen bullae, and a few coins. First efforts concentrated on financing this purchase, and by November 1962 a fund had been established within the American Schools of Oriental Research. By the end of the month the purchase was made.
Besides the study of the documents and seals, it was important to examine the context in which they were found and, if possible, the circumstances under which they were deposited there. Through further negotiations, the Ta῾amireh disclosed the cave of their explorations, and examination indicated the probability of their claim. The next step was scientific excavation to reveal any possible remaining evidence. This task fell to Lapp.
The first campaign took place early in 1963; the second in February 1964. Logistics always presented extreme difficulties. Tents for sleeping and working were pitched in the mouths of the caves on both sides of the wadi, and water as well as all food and excavation supplies had to be brought in by donkey along a circuitous, uphill, five-mile route. In the second campaign it was possible to bring in small generators by camel, which slightly improved excavation conditions. The staff consisted of ten to fifteen archaeologists, with about fifty additional workers for each campaign.
Excavation was first carried out in the Manuscript Area (the section of the cave from which it was believed the papyri had come) and in a meter-wide (about 1 yard) trench from the mouth of the cave back to the part of the cave designated the Manuscript Area. The trench would provide the occupational history of the cave and would reveal any other possible openings or passages the bedouin had not found.
The meter-wide trench stretched and turned about fifty meters back to the Manuscript Area. The trench and small alcoves off the trench yielded pots and sherds (pottery fragments) from the latter part of the fourth century BCE covered by a thin scattering of early Roman sherds. By the end of the second campaign all the debris of the Manuscript Area had been excavated and sifted, producing pieces of pots (recently broken) and sherds from the second half of the fourth century BCE; bones and bone fragments; a few beads; a fibula (a pin for fastening clothing); two bullae; pieces of cloth, mats, pits, seeds; and bits of papyri with hints of a letter or two. One larger fragment, the only one the bedouin seemed to have missed, had six lines of text. Two other areas of the cave, called the Bat Dome and Hot Room, were excavated and produced similar material. A tiny silver coin was found in the passageway between the Manuscript Area and the Bat Dome, where the bedouin claimed to have found five silver coins (probably those offered for sale with the papyri).
The archaeological evidence on the whole supports the finds as reported by the bedouin: three hundred skeletons (however, archaeological evidence points to between thirty and fifty skeletons) covered by mats near which were the papyrus rolls and other finds. The explanation for their presence is suggested by the historians Josephus and Curtius Rufus, who wrote that the inhabitants of the city of Samaria had burned alive Andromachus, Alexander the Great's prefect in Syria, while Alexander was in Egypt; Alexander returned and destroyed the city. The Wadi ed-Daliyeh finds seem to indicate that leaders of Samaria who may have been implicated in the rebellion fled, probably down Wadi Farah into the wilderness to hide out in Wadi ed-Daliyeh. They took their food, pottery containers, jewelry and luxury items, and sealed legal documents with them. Their hiding place most likely was discovered by Alexander's Macedonian troops, and a fire built in the mouth of the cave probably suffocated the victims.
Excavations were conducted in a second cave, ῾Arâq en-Na῾sâneh (Caverns of the Sleepy One), although the finds were not related to the Samaria papyri. ῾Arâq en-Na῾sâneh was located slightly up and on the other side of the wadi from Mughâret Abu Shinjeh. This cave, though entered through a small hole, opened into a large room and many additional caverns, providing well-circulated air. Undisturbed finds indicated occupation during the Middle Bronze I period and the period of the Bar Kokhba Revolt. The latter occupation is paralleled by finds in the caves of Wadi Murabba῾at and the Judean Desert.
- Cross, Frank M. "The Discovery of the Samaria Papyri." Biblical Archaeologist 6 (1963), 110–121. .
- Damati, Emanuel, and Zeev Erlich. "A Hoard of Denarii and a Tridrachma from Wâdī ed-Dâliyeh." Israel Numismatic Journal 5 (1981), 33–37.
- Gropp, Douglas M. "The Samaria Papyri from Wâdī ed-Dâliyeh: The Slave Sales." Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1986.
- Lapp, Nancy L. "The Cave Clearances in the Wâdī ed-Dâliyeh." In The Tale of the Tell: Archaeological Studies, edited by Paul W. Lapp, pp. 66–76. Pittsburgh Theological Monograph Series, 5. Pittsburgh, 1975.
- Lapp, Paul W. "The Samaria Papyri." Archaeology 16 (1963), 204–206.
- Lapp, Paul W., and Nancy L., eds. Discoveries in the Wâdī ed-Dâliyeh. Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 41. Cambridge, 1974.
- Leith, M. J. W. Greek and Persian Images in Pre-Alexandrine Samaria: Wâdī ed-Dâliyeh Seal Impressions. Ann Arbor, 1991.
Nancy L. Lapp
Written Material
The written material from the Abu Shinjeh cave in the Wadi ed-Daliyeh, about 14 kilometers north of Jericho on the western rim of the Jordan rift, consists of fragmentary papyri and a few legible sealings and coins. Most of these were discovered in the early spring of 1962 by the Ta῾amireh bedouin. Subsequent archaeological explorations in January 1963 and February 1964 contributed modestly to the initial find and put the written materials in a more definite context (cf. P. W. Lapp and N. L. Lapp, 1974). [See Daliyeh, Wadi ed-, article on Archaeology.]
The most significant of these written remains, the papyri, are quite fragmentary. Eighteen of the fragments are long enough, that is, complete enough in their vertical dimension, to be called "papyri." The largest papyrus, a deed of slave sale (WDSP 1), is no more than 45 percent extant. A few of these fragments are no more than a thin strip of papyrus; a couple of others are in tatters. Nine or ten further pieces are sizable enough to allow some assessment of their legal import. Nine other museum plates contain nearly 150 additional fragments of various shapes and sizes. All the plates are housed in the Rockefeller Museum in Jersusalem.
Despite the location in which they were found, the papyri are all legal documents originally drafted in Samaria in the fourth century BCE. The place where the documents were executed is given either in the first or last line of the document. In the eleven documents in which the place is preserved, it is named as the city or province of Samaria. The documents were also dated by the reign of the current Persian king in their first or last lines. Where the name of the king is preserved, it is usually Artaxerxes (at least five times). One document is dated to sometime between the thirtieth and thirty-ninth year, and therefore must come from the reign of Artaxerxes II (Mnemon), between 375 and 365 bce. The date of WDSP 1 is fully preserved as 19 March 335 bce, the second year of Darius III (Codomannus; Cross, 1985). Most of the papyri were probably written during the reign of Artaxerxes III (Ochus; 358–337 bce). The late pre-Alexandrine coins found in the cave strongly corroborate the internal indications of dating (Cross, 1974), the latest being of a Tyrian issue of 334 bce. The script of the papyri is somewhat more advanced typologically than the script of the Aramaic corpora from the late fifth century and so fits well within this horizon.
The Samaria papyri provide a rich and varied paleographic resource, from a previously underrepresented period, for better understanding the development of the Aramaic script in the second half of the first millennium BCE. Since the Samaria papyri are dated, their scripts provide an invaluable guide to dating other papyri and ostraca from Egypt and Palestine in the same general period. They are also important for reassessing the scripts of the oldest manuscripts from Qumran (Cross, 1974). But aside from the importance of this resource for epigraphists, archaeologists, and historians, familiarity with these fourth-century Aramaic scripts is crucial to biblical text critics for assessing possible transcriptional errors in restoring the biblical text.
The language of the Samaria papyri is "Official Aramaic," the ideal standard language in which scribes of the Persian period (probably from Darius I to Darius III [522–333 bce]) would draft documents of an official nature (Gropp, 1997). The language of the Samaria papyri is virtually identical to the language of the fifth-century Elephantine legal papyri and the Arsames correspondence. In fact, despite being chronologically later, the language of the Samaria papyri is even more consistently conservative in its conformity to the norm of Official Aramaic than the language of the other two corpora. In spite of its later provenance, it also reflects little or no Persian influence in contrast to the Elephantine papyri, but especially to the Arsames correspondence where Persian influence is more extensive. The Samaria papyri do show a greater proportion of specifically late Neo-Babylonian loanwords, but this is clearly related to the origins of its legal formularies (Gropp, 1990).
If it were not for some auspicious circumstances, which provide extraordinary possibilities for reconstructing the text of the papyri, their significance would have been greatly reduced. The possibilities of reconstruction correlate directly with the legal genres represented. The best represented type of deed is the slave sale. It has proved possible to propose full reconstructions for nine or ten of these deeds despite their fragmentary condition. The slave sale deeds seem to share a common formulary to such an extent that they provide us with partially overlapping bits and pieces of the same formulary. There is remarkably little variation in the verbal realization of each formula, and even less variation in the sequence of formulas within the sale formulary. The date, the names of the principals, the names of the slaves, the sale prices, and the amount of the penalty for contravention of the sale are basically the only elements that vary from deed to deed. Each papyrus contributes a little to our knowledge of that formulary. By constant comparison and rearranging of all the bits of writing serially, Frank Moore Cross and Douglas Gropp have been able to reconstruct the entire formulary. Proposed reconstructions have been tested against estimated line lengths for each papyrus. In addition to the constraints of space, we have been aided by legal parallels from Mesopotamia to Egypt. Circular reasoning, while not wholly escaped, can be reduced to a minimum. Now that this formulary for the deeds of slave sale is established, it can be applied as a kind of template for interpreting other deeds of conveyance. Such a procedure has been successful in reconstructing a deed of house sale, but only modestly helpful in interpreting texts of other genres.
Of the fragments sizable enough to allow some assessment of their legal genre, at least half are slave sales. Some of these represent the sale of a single slave (WDSP 1, 3, 4, 11 recto, 18, 19, and 26?), others of multiple slaves (WDSP 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 20). But a variety of other legal genres are represented. There is a clear instance of a house sale (WDSP 15) and a conveyance of chambers in a public building (WDSP 14), in addition to several deeds of sale whose objects cannot be ascertained (WDSP 21, 22, 24, and 25). Two or more documents look like a pledge of a slave in exchange for a loan (WDSP 10, 12, 13 recto?, and 27?). It is impossible to be confident about the terms of these fragmentary contracts apart from some hermeneutical key provided by closer legal parallels. One conveys a vineyard, possibly as a pledge rather than as a sale (WDSP 16). Several documents may resolve some contingency, but in most cases the papyri are too fragmentary for confident interpretation. There is a receipt for the repayment of a loan involving a pledge (WDSP 17: a double document), the release of a pledged slave (WDSP 13 verso), the settlement (?) of a dispute over a slave (WDSP 11 verso), and possibly a judicial settlement by an oath (WDSP 23).
The Samaria papyri may ultimately prove most interesting for the light they shed on the history of law. They provide an especially promising occasion for the study of the contact between Aramaic and cuneiform traditions. Comparison of legal formularies provides one of the most controllable instances for the study of cultures in contact. The legal formulary of the slave sales is obviously dependent proximately or ultimately on cuneiform antecedents. But aside from a few important parallels, the extent to which the formularies of the Samaria papyri differ from the formularies of the Elephantine legal papyri is remarkable. On the other hand, the Samaria papyri share a large number of features with the later Murabba῾at and Naḥal Ḥever deeds. The Samaria papyri thus provide some counterbalance to the understandably heavy reliance on the Elephantine legal papyri for reconstructing the early development of Jewish law.
To be more specific, the origin of the sale formulary of the Samaria papyri is threefold: (1) Aramaic scribes in Babylonia adopted the late Neo-Babylonian formulary for the sale of movables (from the time of Darius I on) as their basic model, (2) Aramaic scribes (still in Babylonia) creatively modified this model by drawing on formulas from other types of late Neo- Babylonian documents, and (3) Aramaic scribes (probably in Palestine) further modified the adopted formulary by partially assimilating it to their own native legal traditions.
Notwithstanding a great deal of functional equivalence between the formularies of the Elephantine deeds of conveyance and the Samarian deeds of sale, there is very little concrete phrasing in common. The two groups of legal papyri represent fundamentally different legal traditions. The Elephantine legal papyri stem from a somewhat provincial Neo-Assyrian tradition probably of the late ninth or early eighth centuries BCE (Muffs, 1969). Both formularies provide evidence of an extended symbiosis between Aramean and Akkadian scribes. But the two cases of symbiosis are parallel and analogous rather than homologous. The Elephantine legal papyri stem ultimately from an Assyro-Aramean symbiosis (Tadmor, 1982), whereas the Samaria papyri derive from a Babylonian-Aramean symbiosis (Greenfield, 1982). The agreement in language between the Elephantine papyri and the Samaria papyri thus offers a counterpoint to the divergence in legal traditions. The formularies of the deeds from Murabba῾at and Naḥal Ḥever represent a later stage of this Babylonian-Aramean symbiosis more than a simple direct inheritance from the legalese of fourth-century Samaria. Nevertheless, they stand in the same general tradition. The evidence of the Samaria papyri both clarifies and expands our picture of the role of Aramaic scribes as creative intermediaries of cultural traditions throughout the ancient Near East.
Because the Samaria papyri are so formulaic, they offer the historian only limited evidence of the realities of life in fourth-century Samaria. They do, however, provide a few details about administration. The city of Samaria is variously designated as a "city" (qiryata᾽) and as a "citadel" (birta᾽) within the Persian province (medinta᾽) of Samaria. The papyri name two types of officials, the chief being "the governor" (paḥat shomrayin), and the second being "the prefect" (segana᾽). The fragmentary evidence of the papyri and of an inscribed bulla (WD 22) suggests that the governorship, if not also the prefecture, was kept within the Sanballatid family. [See Sanballat.]
A diversity of personal name types attested in the documents points to a diversity in the ethnic composition of the population of fourth-century Samaria. Hebrew names, most of which can be paralleled in biblical and epigraphic Hebrew, predominate. Many of these are Yahvistic. But other personal names can be identified as Aramaic, Edomite, Phoenician, Akkadian, Persian, and perhaps belong to other ethnic groups as well. It is certainly possible to make false inferences from personal names. For instance, the bearers of the Akkadian names may in fact be Arameans. Similarly, the hybrid name yhvbgh ("Yahu is God") cautions us from drawing too much from the impeccably Persian bgbrt ("by God lifted up, esteemed"). The slaves sold are as likely to bear Yahvistic names as either the sellers or the buyers. In one case, a woman becomes the new owner of a male and a female slave (WDSP 2).
The slaves are generally sold for life (contrary to the regulations of Lv. 25.39–47). [See Slavery.] It is not completely clear whether the loan contracts are constructed in such a way as to circumvent a ban on interest. Antichretic use of the pledged slave or vineyard may have stood in place of interest. Because the term for chambers in a public building (nshkt᾽) in WDSP 14 is only rarely used outside of a sacral context, it has fueled the debate as to whether there was a temple in Samaria before the coming of Alexander (Eshel, 1996).
- Cross, Frank Moore. "The Discovery of the Samaria Papyri." Biblical Archaeologist 26 (1963), 110–121.
- Cross, Frank Moore. "Aspects of Samaritan and Jewish History in Late Persian and Hellenistic Times." Harvard Theological Review 59 (1966), 201–211.
- Cross, Frank Moore. "Papyri of the Fourth Century B.C. from Dâliyeh." In New Directions in Biblical Archaeology, edited by David Noel Freedman and Jonas C. Greenfield, pp. 41–62, figs. 34–39. Garden City, N.Y., 1969.
- Cross, Frank Moore. "The Papyri and Their Historical Implications" and "Other Finds: Coins; Scarab." In Discoveries in the Wâdi ed-Dâliyeh, edited by Paul W. Lapp and Nancy L. Lapp, pp. 17–29, 57–60. Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 41. Cambridge, Mass., 1974.
- Cross, Frank Moore. "Samaria Papyrus 1: An Aramaic Slave Conveyance of 335 B.C.E." Eretz-lsrael 18 (1985), 7*–17*, pl. 2. .
- Cross, Frank Moore. "A Report on the Samaria Papyri." In Congress Volume: Jerusalem, 1986, edited by J. A. Emerton, pp. 17–26. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, 40. Leiden, 1988. .
- Eshel, Hanan. "Wâdi ed-Dâliyeh Papyrus 14 and the Samaritan Temple" (in Hebrew). Zion 61 (1996), 359–365.
- Greenfield, Jonas C. "Babylonian-Aramaic Relationship." In XXI Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Berlin, July 3–7, 1978, edited by Hans-Jörg Nissen and Johannes Renger, vol. 1, pt. 2, pp. 471–482. Berlin, 1982.
- Gropp, Douglas M. "The Samaria Papyri from the Wâdi ed-Dâliyeh: The Slave Sales." Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1986.
- Gropp, Douglas M. "The Language of the Samaria Papyri: A Preliminary Study." Maarav 5–6 (1990), 169–187.
- Gropp, Douglas M. "The Origin and Development of the Aramaic šallīṭ Clause." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 52 (1993), 31–36.
- Gropp, Douglas M. "Imperial Aramaic." Encyclopedia of Near Eastern Archaeology 3 (1997), 144–146.
- Lapp, Paul W., and Nancy L. Lapp. Discoveries in the Wâdi ed-Dâliyeh. Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 41. Cambridge, Mass., 1974.
- Muffs, Yochanan. Studies in the Aramaic Legal Papyri from Elephantine. Leiden, 1969.
- Tadmor, Hayim. "The Aramaization of Assyria: Aspects of Western Impact." In XXI Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Berlin, July 3–7, 1978, edited by Hans-Jörg Nissen and Johannes Renger, vol. 1, pt. 2, pp. 449–470. Berlin, 1982.
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By Susan Lulgjuraj | Beckett Hockey Editor
The last edition of Contenders Hockey will come out in late March.
Panini America announced 2013-14 Contenders Hockey over the weekend, and showed off one of its final NHL-licensed trading card sets in the last year of its NHL, NHLPA contract.
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February 27, 2010
Getting custom marketing collateral designed fast can be a challenge particularly for small businesses and startups.
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February 24, 2010
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February 18, 2010
One of the biggest benefits of using 99designs.com for both clients and designers is that it creates a tremendous opportunity to BUILD RELATIONSHIPS for future work.
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Just want to share a story with you and it's some positive feedback.
About a year ago I won a design contest on 99designs for a logo and iphone
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February 17, 2010
We are proud to announce that 99designs.com has been selected as a finalist for the 2010 SXSW Web Awards in the community category!
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February 12, 2010
We are very proud to introduce the latest addition to 99designs.com – something the community has really been asking for… a "Ready-made" logo store which will have a catalogue of thousands of high quality logos that can be purchased and customized starting at just $99.
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February 9, 2010
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With its reputation for hills, Ventnor may not seem an obvious town for bikes, but AXcess Electric Bikes sees this as a definite advantage.
Electric bikes make the hills much easier to cycle up and with the difficulty of car parking, Ventnor is an ideal place to own an electric bike.
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Detective novelist Sara Paretsky will receive the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award for her long career in the genre.
MWA executive VP Larry Light had this statement: "The mystery genre took a seven-league stride thanks to Paretsky, whose gutsy and dauntless protagonist showed that women can be tough guys, too … Before, in Sara's words, women in mysteries were either vamps or victims. Her heroine, private eye V.I. Warshawski, is whip-smart and two-fisted, capable of slugging back whiskey and wrecking cars, and afire to redress social injustice."
Paretsky (pictured, in 1989) will receive the award at the Edgar Awards Banquet at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City on April 28, 2011. The ceremony will also honor two bookstores the 2011 Raven Award, celebrating "outstanding achievement in the mystery field outside the realm of creative writing." The bookstores are: Once Upon a Crime in Minneapolis and Centuries & Sleuths in Chicago.


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Earning Forecast Tracking for Pfizer, NVIDIA, American Capital Agency, Weyerhaeuser, Research In Motion, and Facebook
Jun 20, 2013, 09:00 ET from EarningForecast.com
HONG KONG, June 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- EarningForecast.com has issued earnings forecast reports for investors to trace the following US stocks: Pfizer (NYSE: PFE), NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA), American Capital Agency (NASDAQ: AGNC), Weyerhaeuser (NYSE: WY), Research In Motion (NASDAQ: BBRY), and Facebook (NASDAQ: FB).
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VOORHEES, N.J. -- The Anaheim Ducks occupy first place in the Western Conference's Pacific Division. The San Jose Sharks are in second. The L.A. Kings currently sit in third.
And over the next week, the Flyers will face each team -- as the visiting squad.
"It's a big road trip," coach Craig Berube said. "It really is. I think we're going to see what we're all about here."
It's been said plenty of times this season: Certain games, or stretches of games, can act as measuring sticks and show what kind of team the Flyers really are.
How they fare against three of the NHL's best teams will go a long way in demonstrating their true identity.
"It's going to be a tough trip, with the time change, the tough buildings, teams that have been playing well -- not just at home but on the road, as well," Steve Mason said. "It's going to be a great challenge for us to see where we stack up against some of the best teams in the Western Conference."
The trip kicks off Thursday night in Anaheim, against a surging Ducks team that has lost just twice in regulation at the Honda Center this season. The Ducks are the best team in the NHL at the moment, with an intimidating 39-11-5 record.
And it won't get much easier from there. The Sharks are 7-3 in their last 10, and while the Kings have taken a dip in the standings recently, they're 16-7-3 at home this season.
"It'll be hard hockey," Berube said. "You got to really grind it out against these teams, and you've got to give it your best, because they're big and talented. It'll be tough games."
Of course, there are benefits to being on the road. Historically, the Flyers have used their time away from the Wells Fargo Center to regroup and focus on the basics. On their most-recent Western road trip, the Flyers went 5-1. On a three-game Canadian tour in December, they went 2-0-1.
Though the Flyers dominated Tuesday night at the Wells Fargo Center, the games that had preceded the victory were some of their worst of the season on home ice. It's not unreasonable to believe getting out of Philadelphia will help them continue to dig their way out of their slump.
"It's not a bad thing, going on the road," Wayne Simmonds said. "All the guys are together all the time, so I think it helps build up the team a little more. We're with each other, having meals together, probably playing a lot of practical jokes on each other. Just keeps it light."
After their California swing, the Flyers will return home to play two games before the fast approaching Olympic break. They'd like nothing more than to return home having proved they can hang with the league's top talent.
"Anytime you play against a hot team, a team that's good on the road, good at home, you've got to make sure you're ready to go," Claude Giroux said.
"If you don't bring your A-game, that's when you're going to get in trouble."


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For fashionistas, astrology-devotees, or anyone who is starry-eyed about shoes, this fabulous illustrated gift book reveals what your birthday shoe says about you.
Combining astrology with the chic art of shoe design, Shoestrology offers a trendy interpretation of your personality as defined by your birthday shoe. Astrologers Tali and Ophira Edut have identified 366 gorgeous shoes--from the Chanel ballet flat, to the Alexander McQueen Armadillo--and paired… (more)
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FOR RELEASE: Sunday, June 16, 2013 TODAY'S WORD — MARLINE (MARLINE: MAR-lin: A light rope made of two loosely twisted strands.) Average mark 40 words Time limit 60 minutes Can you find 68 or more words in MARLINE? TODAY'S WORD — MARLINE mail mailer main male maline mane manlier mare marine marl marlin meal mean menial merlin mien mile miler mine miner mineral mire airmen alien amen amir anil anile aril rail rain rale ramen ramie rani real realm ream rein remain renal rile rime lain lair lame lamer lane lean learn liane liar lien lime limn line linear liner lira lire nail name namer near earl earn elan emir Did you find any words not on the list? RULES OF THE GAME: 1. Words must be of four or more letters. 2. Words that acquire four letters by the addition of "s," such as "bats" or "dies," are not allowed. 3. Additional words made by adding a "d" or an "s" may not be used. For example, if "bake" is used, "baked" or "bakes" are not allowed, but "bake" and "baking" are admissible. 4. Proper nouns, slang words, or vulgar or sexually explicit words are not allowed. To contact Word Game creator Kathleen Saxe, write to Word Game, Kathleen Saxe, Universal Uclick, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106. (EDITORS: For editorial questions, please contact Alan McDermott at amcdermott amuniversal.com.) COPYRIGHT 2013 UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE DISTRIBUTED BY UNIVERSAL UCLICK FOR UFS


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Since 2007, the Board of Supervisors has annually renewed a program intended to encourage the public to clear a 30-foot defensible space around their homes by providing a free and convenient disposal option for clean wood waste removed from within that zone.
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New Treatment for Leukemia Saves Lives, One Step Closer to Market
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December 14, 2012 7:19 AM
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Drug company Novartis has provided $20 million for a research center
Pennsylvania researchers have found a way to use immune cells in the battle against cancer, and ended up saving a young
leukemia patient's life
A team from the University of Pennsylvania, which was led by Dr. Carl June, created a new cancer treatment that involves the altering of a patient's T-cells. Once modified, the T-cells are placed back into the patient to fight cancer cells.
The treatment works like this: millions of a patient's T-cells, which is a type of white blood cell, are removed and equipped with new genes and a disabled form of the HIV virus. The HIV virus was used because it does a great job of carrying genetic material into T-cells.
The modified T-cells, also called chimeric antigen receptor cells, are reprogrammed to attack a protein called CD-19, which can be found on the surface of most healthy or malignant B-cells. B-cells are a part of the immune system that become malignant in leukemia.
Once a patient
receives this treatment
, they become very ill. That's how you know the T-cells are working, because the chemicals that are released from the T-cells trigger cytokine-release syndrome (aka, severe fevers and chills).
These symtpoms nearly killed 7-year-old Emma Whitehead, who was diagnosed with leukemia when she was only five. After several attempts at chemotherapy, which resulted in relapses, Whitehead was admitted to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where she received June's experimental treatment. It had never been performed on a human before.
The cytokine-release syndrome sent Whitehead's temperature up to 105, and she had to be placed on a ventilator. Just as it seemed there was no hope, June discovered that Whitehead's levels of the cytokine interleukin-6 were ridiculously high, leading to the worsening side effects of the treatment. June used a drug called tocilizumab, which is typically for rheumatoid arthritis, to lower the interleukin-6 levels.
On May 2, after being unconscious for a week, Whitehead woke up on her seventh birthday. She has been cancer-free ever since.
While the method was particularly successful for Whitehead, it has had mixed results with other patients since then. So far, about a dozen patients have had the treatment. Three adults with chronic leukemia are cancer-free, another four adults have improved but do not have full remissions, a child improved and relapsed, and another two adults had no results at all.
June and the research team believe the mixed results may be due to either a flawed batch of T-cells or that not all leukemic cells have the CD-19 protein that the T-cells are designed to attack.
Nevertheless, drug company Novartis has shown interest in the method and offered to pay $20 million for a research center on the University of Pennsylvania's campus to bring the treatment to market. What's more shocking about the investment is that the new T-cell treatment isn't a "one-size fits all" kind of deal; rather, it costs about $20,000 per patient to produce engineered T-cells specific to each individual.
But the treament has changed the life of Whitehead, who is now back in school with her peers and capable of doing the things a healthy child should be able to do.
The New York Times
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And finally the rain comes down
To cool the paths and earth,
Allowing the plants and flowers
To keep on giving birth.
It makes the air smell new and sweet
And we wait for the thunders rumble
Whilst rain drops continue to hit the floor
They drip and drop and tumble.
The water feels good upon my skin
As it takes the muggy air away
The drops fall through the grass and leaves
It's like they've come to play
The rain can be a nuisance
But always remember this
Without the rain we have dryness
We need it to exist
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Asked a reader,
"There are many, many academic bloggers out there feverishly blogging about their areas of interest. Still, there are many, many more academics who don't. So, why do you blog …"
As I've noted before, I blog because it makes me feel like a ten-foot diamond on a Christmas tree. To me, blogging doesn't really follow from being an academic. Both my academic work and the blogging I do in my spare time follow from a common cause: I just wanna have fun. I make no effort to cover global archaeology news in my blog, and I'm far from comprehensive even on Scandy archaeology news: I write about whatever catches my interest. People kindly send me links to pertinent news items, and I pick some of them up, but I'm pretty sure this blog would be a lot more boring if I started writing out of a sense of duty.
So though a ScienceBlogger, I'm not really a a science blogger. Rather, I'm a blogger who is fortunate enough to be a scientist, which has made it possible for him to sneak onto ScienceBlogs.com.
"… and how does blogging help with your research?"
Mainly as a source of motivation, by giving me a sense that someone more than myself cares about the somewhat abstruse questions and themes I address in my work. Also, there may be a beneficial minor-celebrity effect, in that a lot of Scandy archaeologists know who I am through the blog, and that this possibly makes it easier in many small ways for me to get my work done.


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Brazilian women fire back at a survey saying women who dress provocatively deserve to be raped, using viral photos with #Idonotdeservetoberaped.
According to the survey, about 65 percent of Brazilians believe that if a woman dresses improperly, she deserves to be attacked and raped. 58 percent believe that if women knew how to behave, there would be less rape in Brazil. More than 66 percent of those surveyed were women.
#NaoMerecoSerEstuprada #IDoNotDeserveToBeRaped @ipeaonline @blogplanalto @CNJ_oficial @ONUBrasil @dilmabr pic.twitter.com/NjZLTCMPEA— Luzciana Corrêa (@luzciana_correa) March 31, 2014
Brazilian women quickly took their outrage to social media, creating a viral photo campaign of women in various states of undress with #Idonotdeservedtobe raped.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff joined the conversation by tweeting in Portuguese her disgust with the statistics: "The Institute research shows Brazilian society has a lot of advances to do in combating the violence against women. #respect"


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Stewart has peace of mind after wrist surgery
Stewart has peace of mind after wrist surgery
"Over those two or three years, there's a lot of cortisone shots, a lot of MRIs, X-rays, with nothing ever showing up," Stewart said. "It had been weighing on me a lot, especially over here, being with a new team and wanting to prove myself."
Stewart visited Dr. Thomas Graham in Cleveland after multiple doctors failed to find any structural damage. Stewart said Graham also had trouble finding any issues until putting his wrist under a fluoroscope and comparing the movement between both of his wrists.
That's when Stewart said Graham had an "Aha" moment.
"On the screen, he saw one of the bones on the outer part of my wrist was overlapping the bone next to it, which really means it's touching it and they're kind of rubbing together," Stewart said. "He kind of went from there and realized that's not what's supposed to happen."
Stewart, who had a bone taken out of his wrist, said there's no timetable for his return. He will get the sling removed in a couple of weeks, when he'll return to Cleveland to take off the wrapping and progress into more movement.
He said it's difficult to sit out, especially because he felt healthier during Spring Training. Though his status this year is still unknown, he thinks a return next season is definite.
"The best thing for me is coming here, even though there's not anything for me to do," Stewart said. "There's no icing, there's no treatment or anything. It's just nice to be around the team and feel like I'm a part of it still. I could very easily just be at home watching the games on TV, but that gets old."