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Chicago House Bulletin
Issued by The Epigraphic Survey of The Oriental Institute of The University of Chicago
Volume XII, No. 1
September 1, 2001
By W. Raymond Johnson, Field Director
Thanks once again to the good graces of Egyptologist Tina Di Cerbo, who came to Luxor two weeks early to open the facility and to supervise its cleaning, Chicago House officially reopened its doors on Monday, October 16. I arrived in Cairo on October 10 and for the next few days finished up the paperwork for the season at the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) and signed the season contract with the Egyptian government at the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) headquarters in the district of Abbassiya, near Heliopolis. Credit must go to ARCE Assistant Director Amira Khattab, who, as always, made sure all of the paperwork was in order, and who coordinated our trips to and from Abbassiya; without Amira all of this would simply take forever, and we are greatly indebted to her.
While in Cairo I met with US Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer and some of the staff of the US Embassy Security who have been good friends to us in Luxor. I also had a very pleasant meeting with newly appointed ARCE Director Bob Springborg, and arranged for his and Egyptian Antiquities Project (EAP) Director Chip Vincent's visit to Chicago House on October 15. I flew to Luxor the evening of the 14th and hit the ground running the next day with Bob and Chip, who reviewed our Luxor Temple and Medinet Habu projects as well as those in the Valley of the Kings. Both gentlemen stayed with us that evening and departed the next day.
After delivering the season contract to General Director Sabry Abdel Aziz at the East Bank inspectorate and to Gurna Director Mohamed El-Bialy on the West, we reopened the small Amun temple at Medinet Habu on Wednesday the 18th. We were all pleased that Ahmed Ezz, our inspector from last season, was reassigned to us this season. He and I supervised the unblocking of the sanctuary entrances, and when we unlocked the doors we found everything untouched and dry as a bone. Conservator Lotfi Hassan did an immediate condition study of the monument and found everything stable. That same morning we transported all of our ladders and equipment to the temple and stowed everything away. Ahmed Ezz and I reviewed the Ramesses III wells, which we found had been entered in our absence despite the wooden doors we had installed; luckily we noted no damage. Work at the small Amun temple resumed the next day.
During the first few weeks back in Luxor, the house, which has been `asleep' for five long months, slowly (sometimes VERY slowly) revives. Telephones, computers, water heaters, and plumbing often take some time to become totally operational. Up until the last week in October our telephones still weren't all functioning (our telephone man skipped town and couldn't be lured back from Cairo until then).
On October 31 Chicago House hosted our annual Halloween party, the first big gathering of the Luxor field season and a terrific icebreaker. Expeditions in attendance: the Franco-Egyptian Center at Karnak; the Polish Mission to Deir El-Bahri; the Franco-Egyptian Documentation Center Mission to the Ramesseum and Ramesses II's tomb; the Italian Mission to the Tomb of Harwa; Ted and Lyla Brock; the Amarna Royal Tombs Mission; Deputy Director of the German Archaeological Institute Daniel Polz; and Salima Ikram of the American University in Cairo (AUC). It was as always a great success, and the perfect opportunity to catch up with our friends and colleagues.
The next evening I flew to Cairo to give the keynote address at the Fulbright 51st Anniversary Alumni dinner held in the great `Aida' ballroom at the Cairo Marriot Hotel on November 2. My talk, entitled "Chicago and Luxor: Partners in Preservation" focussed on the work of the Epigraphic Survey and Oriental Institute in Luxor, past, present, and future. I was also able to discuss some of the challenging preservation issues presently facing Egypt, which we are all working together in trying to solve. The dinner was attended by over 700 of Cairo's CEOs, diplomats, and Egyptian Ministry officials, many of the people we keenly wish to know about the Oriental Institute's documentation and conservation efforts in Luxor. We are honored that Fulbright chose us to be their first `featured friend' at this annual gala event, and I am pleased to report that the response was excellent.
Our new staff members, Assistant to the Director Emily Napolitano, Egyptologist/epigrapher Harold Hays, and Egyptologist/artist Will Schenck have settled right in and are each doing very well. Both Harold and Will started wall work at the small Amun temple, and Emily is totally indispensable in the office. I am pleased to announce that we also have a new accounting manager, Safinaz (Safi) Ouri; she has replaced Moataz Abo Shady, who continues to work on a part-time consulting basis for Chicago House. A Jordanian, Safi was Moataz' boss at Coopers and Lybrand in Cairo, and, like him, specializes in non-profit organizations. We have been extremely fortunate with our new staff this season, and I couldn't be more pleased.
The number of tourists in Egypt is simply staggering, and cannot adequately be described. We have already had several tours to Chicago House for library talks, and former Epigraphic Survey field director Lanny Bell passed through with another one last week, and dropped by for tea. It is very good to be back in Egypt, and even better to be back at work, especially now that the temperatures are going down.
The evening of my last day in Cairo (November 7) I was pleased to attend a special election night gathering hosted by US Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer and Mrs. Kurtzer at the Embassy residence. Over 700 guests dined on American hot dogs and hamburgers in the red, white, and blue bedecked tent outside in the garden and watched three large screens with election results coming in. The Ambassador told me that President Mubarak had asked him to telephone him with the results, no matter how late...! Who would have thought we would all still be waiting!?
Back in Luxor work continues at the small Amun temple at Medinet Habu on all fronts. The epigraphic team is currently recording and collating the Thutmoside reliefs in the bark sanctuary and ambulatory, some of which were renewed in the Ptolemaic period. Rookie epigrapher Harold Hays is now working at the wall, honing his penciling skills on the Thutmoside pillars, both raised and sunk relief. This week Harold will begin reviewing finished collation sheets prior to collating his own. Artist Will Schenck also began penciling work at Medinet Habu but took three weeks leave of absence to work north with Alain Zivie and his French team recording rock-cut tombs in the Saqqara escarpment, and pottery drawing with the Egypt Exploration Society (EES) at Memphis. He is now back with us at Medinet Habu. Artist Sue Osgood also returned to us at the end of the month. Photographer Yarko Kobylecky is currently preparing photographic drawing enlargements for Volume 3, the Kushite additions to the small temple.
EAP grant-supported conservation work has also resumed in earnest. Grouting of newly restored roof blocks continues on the small Amun temple roof top, while Egyptologist Tina Di Cerbo continues her mapping of the entire roof area; she is presently concentrating on the eastern end over the bark sanctuary. Below, stonecutter Dany Roy began the laborious task of cutting and shaping new floor blocks for the central two sanctuary chambers, where the flooring was destroyed in antiquity by medieval treasure hunters; the back sanctuary floor will be finished soon. In the two southern chambers conservator Lotfi Hassan assisted by Adel Aziz continued the cleaning and gap filling of the painted reliefs of Hatshepsut and Thutmosis III. This month the team was joined by conservation student Nahed Samir Youssef, who is the first of several local Egyptian conservation students we hope to train during the next few years.
In mid-month I began the sorting and analysis of the more than two hundred granodiorite fragments of the colossal dyad of Amun and Thutmosis III, which we found in the floor debris of the first two chambers last season. The fragments range in size from small slivers to huge chunks weighing several tons, and I am pleased to say that many of them are coming together, with the smaller pieces filling in many gaps between the larger joined fragments.
On November 25 structural engineer Conor Power and his wife Marcia arrived to begin a three-week structural condition study of Luxor Temple which the Epigraphic Survey is sponsoring this season. This study will enable us to understand more fully how the temple structure has been affected by the high levels of salt-laden groundwater which has caused so much accelerated surface decay of late. If the structural stability of this mighty monument has been affected as well, we need to know about it, now.
Photographer and Photo Archivist Sue Lezon continued to coordinate the scanning onto CD-ROM of our entire Photo Archives (in kind cooperation with the Franco-Egyptian Center at Karnak) and the transfer of those images to our Photo Archives database. This month she prepared the glass-plate negatives in our collection for scanning, which should be completed during the next two months. At the end of November she and Yarko were lent to the ARCE/EAP office for three days of consultations with EAP Technical Director Jarek Dobrolowski on the archival storage of the EAP Photo Archives.
I should mention that stonecutter Dany Roy was honored in Cairo on November 6 for his restoration of the tomb of Civil War veteran Erastus Sparrow Purdy Pasha, who died in Cairo in 1881 and was buried in the American Cemetery there. Mr. Purdy was one of 50 veterans of the American Civil War, both northerners and southerners, who served in the Egyptian army in the 1870s at the invitation of Khedive Ismail. The restoration of the obelisk-topped monument was funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), who tapped Dany for his expertise over the past summer. The tomb rededication, with full military honors, was presided over by US Ambassador Kurtzer.
Italian Ambassador to Egypt Francesco Aloisi de Larderel and wife Vittoria Buffe (an archaeologist who works in Yemen) paid us a return visit this month. Roving EES reporter, friend, and colleague Lisa Giddy spent a pleasantweek with us on her bi-annual fact-finding mission; my younger sister, Liz, has just finished a two-week stay, her first visit to Egypt, and is heading home tomorrow. Friends Jack Josephson (ARCE) and Magda Saleh and eight of their friends joined us for a reception on the 20th, and we were later honored with a very pleasant visit (at our invitation) by the Governor of Luxor, Dr. Mahmoud Khalef, who received some of his military training in Virginia and Texas, and had much to tell us about his plans for Luxor.
The latter part of the month marked the beginning of the holiday season. We celebrated a traditional Thanksgiving Day and turkey feast on the 23rd, and guests included the Amarna Royal Tombs Project crew; Andreij Niwinski of the Polish Mission to Deir El-Bahri; Francesco Tiradritti of the Italian Mission to the tomb of Harwa in the Assasif; and Dr. Jose Galan from Madrid. That was followed on the 27th by the beginning of Ramadan, the Moslem holy month of fasting.
The news of the tragic and untimely passing of former Epigraphic Survey staff member Bill Murnane in Memphis, Tennessee came as a total shock to us out here and to the Egyptological community as a whole. Bill was epigrapher and then senior epigrapher with the Survey for 15 years from 1973. In 1986 he was appointed Visiting Associate Professor of Egyptology at the University of California at Berkeley, and the next year joined the History Department of the University of Memphis, where he was promoted to full professor in 1994. There was almost no one in our small community who did not know him, or was not touched by him in some way. A true gentleman scholar, Bill treated everyone as an equal, and crossed all boundaries within the field. He had an insatiable curiosity about absolutely everything, and a spirit of generosity and sharing that was truly infectious, and which will be terribly missed. To honor his memory we hosted a small memorial at Chicago House on November 19.
Most of December was taken up with the holy month of Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting (during the daylight hours), which can often affect the work schedule. While the house staff worked reduced hours, we were lucky at the Medinet Habu temple site; like the last few years, our workmen volunteered to work their usual schedule (for which they receive overtime), so our temple schedule was not set back at all. As a result we got a tremendous amount of work accomplished during a time when one fully expects to get less. This season, in keeping with the Ramadan spirit of sharing, Chicago House hosted two iftar breakfast/dinners. The first, on December 3, was for the 38 Chicago House local staff, in appreciation of their hard work in the house and at the temple sites, which allows us to get our work done. Guests included Nick Reeves and Mohsen El-Sayid (who had just finished their season in the Valley of the Kings), and Renée Friedman of the Hierakonpolis Expedition. The next one was for our Supreme Council of Antiquities friends and colleagues based in Luxor, all the Directors, Chief Inspectors, and heads of the museums, with whom we work on a daily basis, and who have facilitated our documentation and conservation work for many years. Both iftars were held in the residence courtyard, buffet style around a huge table laden with delicacies produced by our amazing kitchen staff, and both were very well received.
Former Epigraphic Survey field director Peter Dorman paid us a brief visit in December to study a Ptolemaic private statue found during our cleaning work at Medinet Habu several years ago, now housed in the SCA Gurna magazine near Howard Carter's old house. Structural Engineer Conor Power and wife Marcia finished up their condition study of Luxor Temple in mid-month, sponsored by Chicago House and the SCA, and are writing up the report now. Preliminary results indicate that for the time being, the Colonnade Hall is fairly stable, which is very good news. The bad news isthat the Luxor Temple pylons of Ramesses II are not in good shape and will require further monitoring, and possible stabilization work later on. Colleague Melinda Hartwig from the University of Memphis stayed with us from December 18 to January 10 and continued her work with Theban tomb decorative programs from the reigns of Thutmosis IV and Amenhotep III.
Christmas was made even more festive this year by the presence of our dear friends Barbara Mertz, Dennis Forbes, and Joel Cole who joined us for Christmas and New Year's dinners. Other guests included Chicago's Penny Pritzger and family; Ros and Jac Janssen; Boyo and Susanna Ockinga; and Nozumu Kawai. Sue Osgood's husband Mark Chickering and Will Schenck's friend Jamie also joined us for the holidays.
The end of Ramadan, the three-day Eid El-Fitr festival, came two days after Christmas, and only a few days before western New Year's. This year we celebrated the REAL turn of the century and new millennium with a dressy dinner, movie-watching, and much pleasant conversation; additional guests included former Chicago House artist Jay Heidel, the Mertz party, and Charlie and Adrienne Herzer (ARCE). After New Year's came Coptic and eastern Christmas on January 7, completing the round of holidays. I will admit to breathing a huge sigh of relief when they were all over!
During the months of December and January the epigraphic and conservation work intensified at the Medinet Habu small Amun temple. Both new epigrapher Harold Hays and new artist Will Schenck finished their "basic training" and have been producing real work for some time now. With the return of epigrapher Brett McClain in mid-January we are now a full complement of trained epigraphers and artists, and it shows; the place is buzzing with activity. On January 24 we had an onsite meeting of all the epigraphers and artists during which we discussed the small Amun temple project in detail: long- and short-term goals, what we've accomplished, where we are now, and what we still need to do. During the meeting we discussed the different ways we would be documenting the temple and its additions in the four volumes in the series (Vol. 1: 18th Dynasty sanctuary; Vol. 2: 18th Dynasty bark sanctuary and ambulatory; Vol. 3: 25th Dynasty/Kushite additions; Vol. 4: Ptolemaic and Roman additions), some of the problems we have encountered representing certain carved and architectural anomalies, and the conventions we have created or modified to address those problems. This meeting led to several other meetings back at the house and will be a regular part of our program from now on.
I am pleased to report that the artists are making excellent progress on the final drawing enlargements for Volume 2, the 18th Dynasty bark sanctuary and ambulatory. Artist Bernice Williams is currently penciling the facade of the 18th Dynasty temple, while Will Schenck, Sue Osgood, and Margaret De Jong have temporarily moved on to Volume 3 drawings in the eastern "porch" of the Kushite pylon. They have some drawing left to do in the bark sanctuary, but last week were obliged to move out of that sanctuary, where I have been working piecing together fragments of the colossal granodiorite statue of Amun and Thutmosis III. Dany has erected an I-beam scaffolding and winch emplacement there which will be used in the restoration of the statue, beginning next week.
In preparation for the dyad's restoration in its original location in the first sanctuary chamber, last season Dany laid a reinforced concrete, damp-coursed foundation for the statue in the center of the room. This week he finished laying a new stone floor over that foundation made of new sandstone blocks cut and shaped by him for this purpose; the far chamber is already finished. He left the four corners of the front chamber unpaved, where the scaffolding for re-erecting the dyad will be set up when we get to that stage. While conservator Lotfi Hassan cleans and consolidates the larger fragments prior to their re-joining, Dany is cutting and preparing the corner floor stones for later insertion.
Lotfi, assisted by Adel and Nahed, continued to clean systematically and gap-fill the painted reliefs of Hatshepsut and Thutmosis III in the two southern sanctuaries. This month the eastern of the two rooms was completed, as well as one and a half walls in the western room. When sections are finished, photographer Yarko Kobylecky carefully photographs them with color and color transparency film, which he and recently returned photo archives assistant Ellie Smith did this week.
On the Luxor Temple front, conservator Hiroko Kariya and assistant Nan Ray arrived this month and have resumed the Luxor Temple fragment consolidation project, also funded by EAP. Currently Nan is tracking and numbering fragments while Hiroko does a condition survey of the deteriorating fragments which require consolidation. Conservator John Stewart arrived later in the month to assist in the process.
This past month we were very pleased to welcome Jim and Angie Sopranos (Angie's first visit to Luxor) to Chicago House, as well as Arthur and Lee Herbst, Jim and Louise Glasser, and a contingent from BP Egypt (formerly Amoco), long-time Chicago House corporate supporters. Jim Sopranos and Arthur Herbst are on the Oriental Institute Visiting Committee, while Jim Glasser is a University of Chicago Trustee.
On February 7 the American Research Center in Egypt sponsored a Cairo memorial service for Bill Murnane, and the occasion was well-attended by a wide cross-section of Bill's friends and colleagues. ARCE Director Bob Springborg said a few words, then Richard Fazzini introduced the speakers: first former Epigraphic Survey field director Chuck Van Siclen, then me, and finally Peter Brand, who has succeeded Bill as Director of the Karnak Hypostyle Hall Epigraphic Project. Chuck told stories about his and Bill's experiences as students, his qualities as a scholar, and as a friend. I spoke about my experiences with Bill at Chicago House, and related some of the stories of his own experiences there which he so loved to tell. Peter talked about Bill as a teacher and mentor. Reminiscing made us even more mindful of what we, and the field of Egyptology, have lost.
The epigraphic and conservation work in Luxor continued full throttle on both temple sites this past month. At Medinet Habu the artists continued work on the Akoris doorway on the north of the ambulatory, and on the porch of the Kushite Pylon, which will be published in Volume 3 of the small Amun temple series. We started with the screen walls between the papyrus-bundle columns which present some very interesting epigraphic problems; all were recarved and stylistically "updated" in the Ptolemaic period from earlier reliefs, which by the traces seem to date either to the 25th or 26th Dynasties. To make matters more confusing, the cartouches have all been scooped out and recarved with Nectanebo I's names, although he is certainly not the originator of the reliefs. There are even indications that the screen walls came from elsewhere and were modified to fit the new columns! These are the sorts of problems which are tailor-made for the Epigraphic Survey, and I suspect that as the recording and collating proceeds we will be able to shed some new light on its enigmatic history (since no one looks at these monuments quite as closely as we do!).
The epigraphers continued the task of painstakingly collating drawings from the 18th Dynasty bark sanctuary ambulatory, particularly the square pillars which preserve scenes of Pharaoh Thutmosis III being received by Amun and individually, by various gods of the Theban pantheon. In every case except two (Re-Horakhty and Atum), the gods were chiseled away during the time of Akhenaten, and were restored after Akhenaten's death. This process, much of it begun during Tutankhamun's reign, called for smoothing back the stone, spreading a layer of plaster over the damaged areas, then recarving and repainting the figure. Where the painted plaster has in some cases fallen away, carved traces of the earlier and later versions of the deity can often be seen, and of course both phases are carefully recorded by our epigraphic team. Because in some damaged areas the hieroglyphic characters might be unclear, the epigraphers have also started a digital, hieroglyphic paleography file of images from parallel monuments with well-preserved inscriptions for use as a guide in our own recording work. Once the images are photographed (with an Olympus digital camera) the images are downloaded to a zip disk, categorized according to the Gardiner sign list, and eventually will be burned onto CD-ROM for reference.
Also at the small Amun temple, Dany Roy and Lotfi Hassan drilled dowel hole emplacements in the three largest statue fragments in preparation for reassembly and glued the first of the base pieces to the body of the statue. Dany moved the large body and base fragments into the first chamber of the sanctuary, where they will be put back together after the Bairam holiday.
At Luxor Temple conservator Hiroko Kariya and assistant Nan Ray continued the monitoring and treatment of the decaying decorated sandstone fragments in the Epigraphic Survey blockyard. They were joined by Nan's husband David, who very kindly helped track and move the various fragment groups, and conservator John Stewart, who has coordinated the fragment consolidation work for the duration of our EAP grant, and before, under Lanny Bell. On the 13th EAP Director Chip Vincent, EAP Technical Director Jarek Dobrolowski, and ARCE Director Bob Springborg visited Luxor for a two and a half day review of the local EAP projects, including ours.
Photo Archivist Sue Lezon returned to us in mid-month after a trip home for the holidays and will be with us till the end of the season. She has resumed coordinating the digital scanning of all the negatives in our Photo Archive, the entry of scanned images onto our database, and the cleaning and conservation of the glass-plate negatives currently being scanned.
The Oriental Institute tour, led this year by Robert Ritner, hit Luxor on February 9, and Chicago House hosted a library talk and courtyard reception for the group on the 11th. Site visits of course included Luxor and Medinet Habu temples, where we showed the group our work in progress. Robert was able to return for a week's research in Luxor after the tour ended, on the 17th. It was a particular pleasure to have Robert join us onsite at Medinet Habu for a look at some tricky Ptolemaic inscriptions, and we look forward to more sessions in future seasons.
Visitors this month included Lorelei Corcoran of the University of Memphis and Janet Richards of the University of Michigan/Kelsy Museum Mission to Abydos. US Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer, his family and some friends were in town for three days the weekend of the 16th; Ted Castle gave them a tour of the West Bank the first day, while I guided them through the East Bank sites during the next two days. On the 17th we hosted a reception for the Ambassador in the Chicago House residence courtyard, and were delighted when the Chairman of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Dr. Gaballa, dropped by with SCA Director of Upper Egypt Sabry Abdel Aziz. One of the things we discussed was the Luxor groundwater issues roundtable which the Ambassador and Chicago House is planning to host on March 18.
A couple of days later a US Congressional Delegation came to Luxor headed by Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), who was a key player in convincing Congress to allocate some AID funding for conservation projects in Egypt a decade ago; they were here to see how that money was being spent, and what the reaction to the appropriation had been. This was a golden opportunity to show them firsthand how important US funding of this sort is for Egypt, particularly at this critical time, with decay of the monuments accelerating so rapidly. The other Senators in the delegation were Pat Roberts (R-Kansas); Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colorado); Conrad Burns (R-Montana); and John Warner (R-Virginia). EAP Director Chip Vincent and I conducted onsite briefings with them on the AID-funded projects in Luxor, including our two EAP-funded documentation and conservation projects at Luxor and Medinet Habu temples, and the current EAP Flood Mitigation Project in the Valley of the Kings, and as many other sites in the area as we had time for that day. They left Luxor with a new knowledge, and appreciation, of what our USAID money is funding, with the promise to look into ways to keep that funding coming. Keep your fingers crossed!
The last two days of February former Epigraphic Survey epigrapher and University of Chicago Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Ph.D. candidate Hratch Papazian returned to Luxor with friends John Rowe and his wife Jeanne. John serves on the Oriental Institute Visiting Committee, and is President and Co-CEO of Exelon Corporation. During that time we were pleased to show them our work, and have them to dinner with us on the 28th. They were having a terrific time with Hratch, and I was amused to find out that John had been head of Central Maine Power Company in the mid-80s, based in Augusta, Maine, where I had earlier attended High School! Small world...
The temperature has been steadily rising, and has been in the upper 80s for a while now! Yikes!
On March 1 our dear Mary Grimshaw returned for a month's volunteer work with us and is now working with Emily Napolitano in the front office and Sue Lezon in the Photo Archives. She adds a special element to this place, and it is a special treat to have her back.
The LaSalle Bank tour organized by the Oriental Institute and led by Emily Teeter and husband Joe Cain arrived early this month. We had all twenty-one of them for a library talk and a courtyard dinner on the 4th, and I took them through the Amenhotep III mortuary temple and the small Amun temple at Medinet Habu the next morning. Because we were in the middle of the great four-day Bairam Festival (which is finished on Thursday), no one was working onsite, but I was able to describe our work, and show them our current projects. I took them to Luxor Temple on the 6th, before the group headed south to Aswan. On the night of their dinner we presented Tom Heagy, Chair of the Oriental Institute Visiting Committee, with a special photograph taken of our crew posed around (and on top of) the Toyota minivan which the LaSalle Bank donated to Chicago House six years ago, by way of thanks. We now wonder how we ever managed without it, and our appreciation is heartfelt.
We are now beginning the last few weeks of the 2000/2001 Chicago House field season, usually among the busiest weeks of the season as the epigraphy, conservation, and restoration work wraps up and is squared away.
The groundwater issues roundtable scheduled for March 18, to be hosted by Chicago House and US Ambassador Kurtzer, was cancelled by the Ambassador when the Chairman of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Dr. Gaballa, was called away elsewhere and could not attend. There will be another meeting in mid-May, for which I will return to Egypt, hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, the Agricultural Policy Reform Program, and the SCA. The meeting will address issues of de-watering around the Luxor antiquities sites on both sides of the river, with briefings by various agencies implementing these measures and their embassies, Egyptian and foreign, as well as the foreign archaeological missions working in those areas. Chicago House will present the findings of structural engineer Conor Power regarding the architectural problems of Luxor Temple which must be taken into consideration during the de-watering process. I am hoping that Conor himself will be able to present his findings.
On Saturday, March 24, the upper section of the statue of Thutmose III and Amun was rejoined to its body in the small Amun temple at Medinet Habu by stonecutter Dany Roy, conservator Lotfi Hassan, and our workmen Ali, Saber, Hassan, and Sayid. This completes the reassembly and restoration of the largest pieces of the group (the lower section was rejoined and went up on March 20) in its original architectural setting-the first sanctuary chamber-and it is quite a presence! I had hoped that we would at least get the base together this season and the rest next October, so we are actually considerably ahead of schedule. Next season we will re-attach the smaller fragments from all over the statue, for which there is no time now.
Where did the time go? On April 15, 2001, the Epigraphic Survey completed its seventy-seventh, six-month field season in Luxor. As staff members began to depart, Egyptologist Tina Di Cerbo immediately began the laborious task of closing the house down for the summer, which she finished at the beginning of May. March was unseasonably hot - in the 100 degrees Fahrenheit - but for the most part April was, thankfully, unseasonably cool, which made the season's end infinitely more pleasant for everyone.
This was an extraordinarily productive season. At Medinet Habu the epigraphic team of photographers, artists, and Egyptologist/epigraphers made excellent progress on the documentation work in the small Amun temple of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III. A total of twenty-three new drawings were penciled at the wall by the artists, eight of which were inked during the season and fifteen of which will be inked over the summer. Forty-four additional drawings were collated and checked at the wall by the epigraphers and artists, all of which will appear in the second volume projected for the small Temple of Amun at Medinet Habu, devoted primarily to the Thutmoside bark sanctuary area, including the ambulatory pillars.
During the latter part of the season, staff photographer Yarko Kobylecky, assisted by photo archives assistant Ellie Smith, photographed the upper restoration inscription of Ptolemy VIII inside the bark sanctuary, the northern lintel of the Kushite gateway to the north and west of the Kushite pylon, and the granite doorjambs on the north side of the Ptolemaic hall for publication and drawing enlargement production. Yarko also produced drawing enlargements of the west interior wall of the Thutmosis III bark sanctuary for Volume 2; and for Volume 3, the Kushite pylon mast emplacement and cornice inscriptions, east, north, and south sides; the `Saite' porch screen walls; the north and south sides of the Kushite gateway; and the granite doorjambs of the Ptolemaic hall.
Within the two southernmost painted chapels, conservator Lotfi Hassan, assisted by conservator Adel Aziz Andraws and trainee Nahed Samir, completed the ARCE/EAP-funded cleaning of the painted reliefs in the southeastern chamber, and cleaned two walls in the southwestern chamber, with wonderful results; the rooms are quite transformed with the newly revealed color. Adel and Nahed also replaced old deteriorated mortar between the wall courses with hydraulic lime and sandstone powder, particularly in the lower wall courses affected by humidity from high groundwater. The goal for next season is to finish cleaning the southwestern chapel, as well as the front central sanctuary chamber, started year before last.
Stonecutter Dany Roy and his workmen completed the grouting with liquid mortar of the sanctuary roof area, particularly the new roof blocks over the northeastern chapel, the `King's Chamber,' replaced two season's ago, which reactivates an ancient Ptolemaic drain spout on the north side. He also placed several new patch stones over the breezeway between the back sanctuary and the bark sanctuary, replacing ancient Ptolemaic ones removed since antiquity.
In the sanctuary area below, Dany coordinated the laying of new sandstone floor slabs, 10 centimeters thick, in the two central sanctuary chambers. In the back chamber, sixteen slabs were laid on a bed of sand, and in the front room, seventeen slabs were laid. In each room a distance of 10 centimeters was left between the stone slabs and the walls for the emplacement of electrical wiring for future lighting, and this space was filled with clean sand. Additionally, tubes 5 centimeters in diameter were laid under the thresholds to receive the same wiring. After each room was fitted with new sandstone flooring, the slabs received a final sanding and were covered with plywood boards for protection.
Field conservator Hiroko Kariya coordinated the ARCE/EAP-funded Luxor Temple Fragment Project from January 26 through April 15 and was joined by project supervisor John Stewart from February 19 to March 8. This season Hiroko surveyed and monitored all 1,540 fragments in the Epigraphic Survey blockyard recorded on our computer database. Ninety-two fragments (one or more faces) were treated with Wacker OH, including re-treatment; all of the fragments were examined and recorded before and after treatment. All treated fragments were placed in covered areas for protection, as well as additional fragments which will require future treatment. This season Hiroko and John consolidated part of the eastern wall of the Amenhotep III sun court, on which a group of over a hundred joined fragments will be restored starting next season. The fragments from this group have received treatment over the last few years in preparation for their reconstruction. The re-joined group will complete a large offering scene before the bark of Amun now only partly preserved on the wall, originally carved by Amenhotep III, destroyed by Akhenaten, recarved by Tutankhamun, appropriated by Horemheb, and enlarged by Sety I. Several other fragment groups from the Colonnade Hall currently receiving treatment will be restored on special damp-coursed display platforms along the front of the Epigraphic Survey blockyard for public view and study. Reassembly and restoration of whole scenes and wall sections is the final step in the preservation of any fragmentary material, and it is a real pleasure to be getting to this stage of the fragment treatment.
Hiroko was assisted this season by Nan and David Ray, who helped track and move fragments, updated the fragment database, and increased the signage around the site. At the north and south ends of the Epigraphic Survey blockyard illustrated signs were set up which explained the University of Chicago's fragment documentation and conservation project for interested passers-by.
I returned to Luxor in mid-May for an historic groundwater workshop (May 16-17) sponsored by the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, USAID, and the Supreme Council of Antiquities. The meeting addressed the increasing threat to Egypt's antiquities by high, salt-laden groundwater, and was attended by representatives of several Egyptian government ministries (Agriculture, Irrigation, Antiquities) from the regions of Aswan, Luxor, Qena, and Sohag; the Governor of Luxor; ARCE Director Bob Springborg; USAID Egypt Director Bill Pearson; EAP Technical Director Jarek Dobrolowski; a team of Swedish SWECO water engineers currently doing a study of Karnak and Luxor water problems; Hierakonpolis Director Renée Friedman; KV Egyptologist Ted Brock; World Monuments Fund Technical Director Mark Weber; and Chicago House structural engineer Conor Power. Conor and I gave a site tour of Luxor Temple at the end of the first day's session, focussing on the conservation and structural problems (as a result of groundwater), which brought home the enormous problems which must be faced. Conor was able to show the group where new cracks have appeared all over the great Luxor Temple pylons.
As a result of the meeting, Conor is now in contact with SCA engineers and the SWECO group and will assist them in coordinating the necessary monitoring of the structure as drainage measures are planned and implemented. It was heartening to see the communication among so many different parties and exchange of data and ideas since, as everyone agreed, only by working together can we find solutions to these problems. Additional meetings were planned, and several have already taken place; the ball is definitely rolling, and we are very pleased that the Epigraphic Survey has been able to play a positive role in this process.
The professional staff this season, besides the field director, consisted of Ted Castle as senior epigrapher; Briant Bohleke as epigrapher and librarian; Karin Bohleke as librarian; J. Brett McClain and Harold Hays as epigraphers; Christina Di Cerbo, Margaret De Jong, Susan Osgood, Bernice Williams, and Will Schenck as artists; Yarko Kobylecky as staff photographer; Susan Lezon as photo archivist; Emily Napolitano as assistant to the director and office manager; Jill Carlotta Maher as assistant to the director; Safinaz Ouri as finance manager; Marlin Sarwat Nassim as accountant; Moataz Abo Shadi as finance consultant; Elinor Smith, Nan Ray, and Mary Grimshaw as assistants for the photo archives and library; and Saleh Shehat Suleiman as chief engineer. Lotfi Hassan, Adel Aziz Andraws, Nahed Samir, John Stewart, and Hiroko Kariya worked with us as conservators; Dany Roy as stonecutter; and Conor Power, P.E., as structural engineer consultant. Special thanks go to Dr. Henri Riad, Egyptologist in residence, and to our dear friends Helen and Jean Jacquet. To our partners in preservation, the Supreme Council of Antiquities, we owe a great debt of thanks: especially to Prof. Dr. G. A. Gaballa, Secretary General; Dr. Mohamed el-Saghir, General Director of Pharaonic Monuments in the Nile Valley; Dr. Sabry Abdel Aziz, General Director of Antiquities for Upper Egypt; Dr. Mohamed el-Bialy, General Director for the West Bank of Luxor; Mr. Bakit, Director of Karnak and Luxor Temples; Mme. Nawal, Chief Inspector of Luxor Temple; and Dr. Mohamed Nasr, Director of the Luxor Museum. And special thanks must go to our inspector Mr. Ahmed Ezz, with whom we have worked for several seasons now, and who has become an invaluable member of our team.
Members of the Oriental Institute and Friends of Chicago House are always welcome to stop by and see us during our field season in Luxor. We suggest that you write or call in advance to schedule a meeting that is convenient to all. Chicago House is open from October 15 until April 15, and closed Saturday afternoons and Sundays. To arrange a visit, please call the Oriental Institute Development Office at (773) 702-9513. We can be reached at the Oriental Institute during the summer months at (773) 702-9524. Our address in Egypt is Chicago House, Corniche el-Nil, Luxor, Egypt. The phone number (from the USA) is 011-20-95-37-2525; fax 011-20-95-38-1620.
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LONGMONT -- Not everyone gets to drive around with a quarter-ton of "boom" on their trailer hitch.
"It's fun to watch people pull up beside you and get wide-eyed when they see you hauling a cannon around town, " said Steve McHone, the maker and shooter of Skyline High School's "touchdown cannon," an acetylene gun that fired at home games after every Falcons score.
St. Vrain Valley School District officials called for disarmament last week after a Thursday night game brought five Falcons scores, five Falcons booms and several neighborhood calls to police dispatchers. So, for now, the gun sits at McCone's home, awaiting its dismantling.
After the season's end, anyway. There is one home game left -- and while the McHones consider a reprieve unlikely, you never know.
"I guess our fallback on Friday night will be that all of us parents have placards that say 'boom' on them," joked McHone's wife, Patrisa.
Bringing the blast
McHone's been something of a volunteer craftsman for Skyline's football program these last four years. He's built a rack for the team's weight room and several linemen's chutes for blocking practice.
"The first few (chutes) we built had something of a short lifespan, because the neighborhood kids liked to use them for a jungle gym," McHone said. "But this latest version should last a good 15 or 20 years."
But the cannon was something different. McHone, whose son Alex plays for the team, was approached last season about putting one together. Or actually, about bringing one back -- the school apparently had one years and years ago, he said, though no one could recall exactly when.
One requirement: since the gun would be charged with oxy-acetylene , a welder's fuel, it would have to be fired by a qualified welder. That pretty much meant McHone, who's done that sort of work for 30 years.
"I thought it sounded like fun," he said. "I thought it would be something exciting to have and add more of a home-game flavor to it. Since Skyline doesn't have their own field (Everly-Montgomery Field is shared by several schools), I thought this was a way we could make this our field when we were there."
It took a week to build the cannon (which fired no actual projectile). Version 1 debuted during the 2011 season, but was soon tinkered with for greater safety.
"With this version, you don't have to stick your arm down the barrel with the charge of oxy-acetylene ," McHone explained. "You can actually load it from the back."
When done, version two and final had a seven-foot-long barrel, a 500-pound frame, and inch-thick steel at several points. Oh, and bright red racing flames painted along its length.
"It looks good from 10 feet," McHone said with a chuckle. "But you don't want to get much closer than that."
Boom and bust
The new artillery didn't draw much attention at first because ... well, because Skyline wasn't drawing much attention either. The team went 1-9 last year, with few trips to the end zone and thus few calls for a booming celebration.
But this year, the team has been 4-4. And as McHone had hoped, the touchdown cannon helped charge the crowd.
The trouble came when it charged up some of the neighbors, too.
"It shakes my entire house, scares the neighborhood dogs into a state of horror and nearly implodes all of the windows in my home every time that it is fired," neighbor Dave Kilzer wrote in an email after Thursday night's game.
"After the first one, I ran outside, I thought a building or home had exploded," an online commenter said on the Times-Call's website.
After a brief consultation with the police, the superintendent's office made the call: Hush the boom.
As it happens, McHone's career in sound effects would have come to an end soon, anyway; with his son graduating, he'd been talking with other volunteers about who could take over the cannon next season. After the news broke, he checked to see if his old high school in Leon, Kan., would want it, but the school didn't have anyone who could shoot the thing.
"So it'll probably be dismantled," he said. "It doesn't make much of a lawn ornament."
He hasn't petitioned the district for a one-game reprieve. But he hasn't started the breakdown yet, either. Again, there is one home game left.
"Since it's the last game, they could say 'Let it slide,'" McHone said. "But I'm not going to push it."
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GoDaddy Outage: Anonymous Attack or Maintenance Goof?
Sep 11, 2012 11:48 AM PT
Web hosting company and self-proclaimed world's largest domain registrar GoDaddy suffered a major outage on Monday, taking down what's believed to have been millions of websites.
A hacker with the handle of AnonymousOwn3r claimed responsibility in a Twitter feed.
The hacker is apparently not connected with Anonymous, one of whose Twitter feeds, @YourAnonNews, urged readers to look to AnonymousOwn3r as the culprit.
GoDaddy tweeted during the outage that it was aware of the "trouble" it was having and that it was working on the issue.
At one point, it moved its domain name service (DNS) to Verisign, one of its competitors, Wired reported.
Some of its DNS servers were reportedly up again at 4 pm ET, and GoDaddy tweeted that it was still working on ongoing issues.
On Tuesday, GoDaddy announced that its investigation into the outage had been completed, and that it was caused by a series of internal network events that corrupted its router data tables.
Could Be Avoided
If that's what happened, it represents a major security oversight.
"It all comes down to how they are building and maintaining route tables, but realistically an enterprise-class network should be fortified against such issues," Frank Artes, a research director at NSS Labs, told TechNewsWorld.
"Any time a network suffers a cascading failure that doesn't have a stop-gap, it is indicative of misconfiguration and [inadequate] administration practices," Artes said. Further, "change control should have caught any new configuration whether it be new hardware installs, new routes established, or even the changing of ... protocol configurations."
On the other hand, such a mishap "could happen to anyone and is normally more often the negative end result of cost cutting and overtaxing human resources than it is the skill of the engineers," Artes stated.
"Viruses eating the silicon chips is not possible, but other than that, most anything that can be done with data, including data corruption, is possible," Randy Abrams, also a research director at NSS Labs, told TechNewsWorld.
DDoS Attacks, Anyone?
GoDaddy took pains to point out that its system outage wasn't caused by a hack or a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
However, corruption of routing tables "is more the means of a denial of service attack," NSS Labs' Artes pointed out. It's not likely to be the work of hackers because "by the very nature of the corruption, you would stand the great risk, and very high probability, of severing your own command-and-control channels used to harvest information ... from internal servers."
Further, it may be relatively easy to orchestrate a DDoS attack against small businesses, "but attacking GoDaddy isn't quite as simple," Pierluigi Stella, CTO, Network Box USA, told TechNewsWorld.
"The amount of bandwidth and the number of servers [GoDaddy] runs is so vast that it literally requires millions of computers to orchestrate such a focused and targeted attack," Stella continued. "That would mean a very large botnet, certainly not something simply anyone can organize."
Who You Gonna Believe?
The scale of the attack required is one of the issues that casts doubts on AnonymousOwn3r's claim.
Another is the fact that Anonymous has remained cool to news of the attack. Another of the hacker collective's Twitter accounts, often used to post news of its attacks, AnonymousIRC, has carried nothing about the GoDaddy outage.
Both Network Box's Stella and NSS Labs' Artes cited Anonymous' claims about stealing Apple device IDs from FBI special agent Christopher Stangl's laptop, which have been proven untrue, as a reason for doubting AnonymousOwn3r's announcement.
"Between GoDaddy's sexist advertising campaigns and former support for SOPA legislation, a significant portion of the global population would take great delight in claiming to cause them problems," NSS Labs' Abrams said.


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From traditional window boxes to repurposed containers, gardeners everywhere are potting up their plants. It seems no matter how long I work on it, finding the perfect container combinations and keeping them looking great seem to take constant inspiration.
So I asked Clemson Extension Master Gardeners to share their favorite tips and plant combinations for beautiful, low-maintenance container gardens.
Heather Powers says, "You can grow almost everything in a container, and almost anything can be a container."
She proved it by "up-cycling" a set of old dresser drawers into a creative planter.
Beth McCandless finds that even traditional garden features such as birdbaths take on new life when planted with fragrant herbs such as lemon thyme.
Sue Lawley found the bottom of an old sea buoy on a neighbor's trash pile. A few drainage holes in the bottom and a coat of paint to enhance its hammered metal finish turned trash into treasure. Lawley's favorite three-season flowering combination consists of pansies, snapdragons, stock, licorice plant (Helichrysum petiolare), alyssum and the prolific blooming hybrid Supertunia.
Filling large containers with high-quality potting media containing slow-release fertilizer can become cost prohibitive and make pots too heavy to move.
Karen Smelter says, "You don't need to fill a large pot with all soil."
Adding lightweight packing materials such as Styrofoam peanuts to the bottom of a pot not only lessens its weight, but saves money.
Smelter's large-scale pots contain topiary hibiscus, combined with sun coleus Creeping Jenny (Lysimachia nummularia), and Diamond Frost Euphorbia (Euphorbia graminea).
John Pienadz suggests gardeners try adding a bag of soil, then placing several empty 2 or 3 liter soda bottles with caps on, and adding more soil to fill the pot. Pienadz's pots pack a tropical punch, combining Kimberly Queen ferns (Nephrolepis obliterata), plumeria, tropical hibiscus and chenille plant (Acalypha hispida).
Yvette Guy uses drill bits made for ceramic and glass to drill drainage holes into clay and concrete vessels. An avid herb gardener, she advises, "Always plant with good drainage in mind ... especially for herbs, because wet feet will kill most of them."
Guy also cautions that plant roots in pots left on patios or in other sunny locations are vulnerable to overheating and "cooking," so choose heavy clay pots to protect plant roots. Her favorite long-lasting container is a large glazed bowl filled with blooming chives and edible flowering dianthus.
From colorful exuberance to quiet understatement, creative expression draws gardeners to containers.
Cathy Damron prefers the ease of grouping single plants in individual pots to create cohesion. Eve Brown masses glazed blue pots filled with red and white impatiens as a memorial to her son, Gene, who loved gardening and once served in the Navy.
She says she has spent a small fortune on blue pots, but designing a garden in her son's memory has been great therapy.
Planting in containers allows gardeners to use every inch of space available to them. Master Gardeners grow fruit trees, vegetables, edible flowers and herbs, along with ornamentals, to maximize space. Donna Powell incorporates strawberries, rosemary, lavender, sage, thyme and tarragon into pots. She adds nasturtiums, purple basil and Japanese eggplant for edible elegance.
A drip irrigation system makes watering easier; without it, frequent hand watering is necessary to keep most container gardens thriving during the heat of summer. The Master Gardeners say that while automatic watering with timers and drip systems is great, they also offer the following tips for reducing water use:
Choose light-colored containers to reflect heat.
Edge containers into shadier areas during the summer.
Place pots directly on soil instead of paved surfaces to reduce water loss.
Mulch containers with moss, compost or pine straw.
Choose "garden soil" over "potting soil" so pots don't dry out too quickly.
After watering, fertilize with water-soluble fertilizer every few weeks or as needed to meet the needs of the plant.
You can find inspiration at local garden centers, magazines and websites such as Pinterest. Stubbs says, "Remember this rule: You will need a "thriller, filler and spiller," but you don't have to replace every plant in the container each season.
Susan Seabrook uses evergreens and tall perennials as thrillers and spillers in her combinations, and changes out the filler to match the season. Seabrook recommends canna lilies, coleus, globe amaranth (Gomphrena globosa), wire vine (Muehlenbeckia axillaris), and purple-heart vine for part-sun gardens.
The last bit of advice from the Master Gardeners is to group plants with similar needs for easier maintenance, keeping in mind these "mini-landscapes" are only temporary. To revamp tired planters, dismantle them, add fresh potting media, divide and re-plant perennials, pop in new annual color and enjoy.
Amy L. Dabbs is the urban horticulture extension agent and Tri-County Master Gardener coordinator for the Clemson University Cooperative Extension. Send questions to email@example.com.


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Road trips bring the anticipation of the unknown and the thrill of newly discovered vistas. Anyone with memories of a family vacation, spring break adventure, or a cross-country journey on four wheels, knows that the wheels are a major part of the trip. But which cars are the best for the hitting the road? According to Kelley Blue Book, it all depends where you're at in life.
For this year's list, the editors at Kelley Blue Book chose to name the "life stage" for which each car is most appropriate. Are you a student? Going through a midlife crisis? Rolling into your golden years? No matter where you are in the giant road trip we call life, there is a corresponding car.
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Area soccer seasons are slowly winding down. In less than two weeks, the regular season will be over and teams around the state will be fighting for regional victories.
Genoa-Kingston currently stands at 10-4-2, and the Cogs are the top seed in their own regional. With regular-season play winding down, Genoa-Kingston senior Devon Tijerina said like the team just needs to work on moving the ball up the field and being more aggressive on offense.
"I feel like we're OK," he said, "But we can improve a lot more and be better on passing and working the ball up the field a lot more to take more shots in the game."
Hiawatha fully healthy
The Hawks came into the 2012 season with hopes of a Little Ten championship and a deep postseason run.
However, health issues have hurt Hiawatha during the regular season as the Hawks have an 8-7 record, including a 4-3 mark in the Little Ten Conference.
Senior captain Marek Mlodzianowski missed three weeks with mono and junior forward Poncho Garcia was held out for two weeks with a leg injury.
"Not only [Mlodzianowski's] skills, but his leadership is phenomenal," Hiawatha coach Kyle Monestero said. "Losing that leadership quality was a real heartbreak for me."
The Hawks are the No. 4 seed in the Little Ten Conference after losing to Somonauk, Hinckley-Big Rock and Leland-Earlville in the regular season.
But now Hiawatha is fully healthy and showed what it's capable of in a 3-2 loss to Somonauk on Senior Night earlier this week.
"I finally had my whole team back, so I was super excited," Monestero said. "The boys are very proud of how they played, it was a little bit of a heart-breaker."
• Steve Nitz contributed to this report.
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Shroka recorded a hat trick in the Timberwolves' 4-3 Little Ten Conference victory over Paw Paw on Monday.
Kaneland at DeKalb, 6 p.m., Thursday
Two of the top teams in the Northern Illinois Big 12 face off in a key conference showdown.
Hinckley Big Rock, Indian Creek, Hiawatha at Little Ten Tournament, Monday – Oct. 3
After Somonauk won the regular-season championship, H-BR, Indian Creek and Hiawatha all will look to get some late-season momentum going into the playoffs.
1. DeKalb (6-1-5, 4-0-1 Northern Illinois Big 12 East)
Convincing victories over Sycamore and Rochelle have the Barbs thinking about a conference title.
2. Hinckley-Big Rock (14-2, 5-1 Little Ten Conference)
Other than a slip-up against Somonauk, H-BR has been dominant in the Little Ten Conference.
3. Kaneland (8-2-2, 3-1-1 NI Big 12)
The Knights lost their first conference game of the season in a 3-0 defeat to Yorkville.
4. Genoa-Kingston (10-5, 4-4 Big Northern Conference)
The Cogs lost a tough 1-0 match at home to Harvard, falling back to .500 in the BNC East.
5. Hiawatha (8-7, 4-3 Little Ten)
Hiawatha played Somonauk tough, but lost, 3-2, at home on Monday.
6. Indian Creek (6-11, 2-5 Little Ten)
The Timberwolves finished out Little Ten Conference play with a victory over Paw Paw.
7. Sycamore (2-10-1, 0-4 NI Big 12)
The Spartans never got much going in a 4-0 loss to DeKalb.
VIEWS: Local squads look for positives from conference tourney
The Little Ten Conference tournament starts on Monday and Hinckley-Big Rock, Hiawatha and Indian Creek will all look to be getting something out of the three-day tournament.
They just might be three different things.
The Royals have been dominant since a tough loss to Somonauk in their conference opener. Hinckley-Big Rock led Somonauk by a goal, but the Bobcats got a tally in the final three minutes and added another in overtime for a 3-2 win.
H-BR and Somonauk are the top two seeds in the tournament and appear to be headed for a title-game rematch. Somonauk won the tournament championship last year over Hiawatha while the H-BR finished in third place.
The Hawks will be looking to prove that last year's postseason success wasn't a fluke. After a rocky regular season, Hiawatha has all of their playmakers back and will look to improve upon last year's runner-up finish at the Little Ten Conference tournament.
"The competition in the Little Ten is phenomenal," Hiawatha coach Kyle Monestero said. "Especially us starting back up, getting all my boys healthy, it's a great way to work on the last kinks we have on the field before regionals."
Indian Creek posted a 2-5 record in conference this season, but things have been moving in the right direction for the Timberwolves.
Indian Creek coach Eric Schrader said his team played one of its best games of the year against Princeton less than two weeks ago, and the the Timberwolves beat Paw Paw, 4-3, earlier this week.
They will be looking to get a few more positive results before heading into a tough regional led by No. 1 seed Leland-Earlville.
The Timberwovles won the consolation championship at the Little Ten Conference tournament in 2011.
• Ross Jacobson is the sports editor of the Daily Chronicle. Contact him by email at email@example.com.


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Whenever you write anything about the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or what is referred most often to as Obamacare, there always seems to be criticism and a "lively" debate.
I must admit that much of the negativity is valid, but being able to provide health care to a wider range of people, including those who in the past were turned down because of pre-existing conditions, is a noble concept.
Although it's still early and the pros and cons may not have been fully sorted out, it seems that there may be at least one place in which Obamacare is improving existing medical situations and care for individuals.
Chuck Bongiovanni, CEO of CarePatrol, a company that advises families on senior referral and placement, believes that he is seeing indications that Obamacare is making a positive impact in improving options for senior care.
"Believe it or not, we're seeing some good things," Bongiovanni says, "because what's happening now in hospitals is that if the Medicare clients continue to go back to the hospital, hospitals get penalized and they're pretty hefty penalties. So what's happening is that the social workers are making better discharges and it's actually helping seniors."
He goes on to use the scenario of an 84 year-old man who had a stroke and the plan is for him to be discharged from the hospital to his 80 year-old wife, who can't get him out of bed. After a few days at home he may develop an illness such as pneumonia, and he'll find himself back in the hospital.
"Now the social workers seem to be taking a better look at what the senior's support system is when they go home. If there isn't a good support system, they're trying to find alternatives so that they get the care they need for 30 days so that they don't get sent back and are causing the hospital to be penalized," Bongiovanni says.
For all of its negatives, the ACA seeks to create an environment in which hospitals are rewarded for their quality of care, not their quantity of care.
As Shelly DuBois wrote in USA Today, "Amid the uncertainty in the industry, one thread remains clear: Hospitals will, in the future, exist in a world where they are rewarded more for the quality of care than for the volume of patients they treat. As this transition occurs, hospitals must live in two worlds — one where they still earn money per procedure and another that views the treatment of patients in a more holistic way, with successful outcomes the most important measure of a hospital's performance."
Bongiovanni believes that at least, this part of the ACA is "a good thing for the senior because they're getting the care they need, it's good for the hospital because the patient will get the care they need so that they're less likely to be readmitted, and it's good for the family because they don't have to worry about taking care of dad on their own. Some hospitals see it as a negative on their end but you can see the positives for the families."
The noble path of the legislation is causing confusion and concerns for hospitals, and Bongiovanni can understand why. "Hospitals are going to get penalized if a lot of people come back, but at the same time they're not getting admissions if less people come back; they're just not going to be penalized," he points out. "I think the impact of the law is the penalties. I think they're looking at discharges a lot differently right now."
Like many things in the ACA or Obamacare, there are many opinions and impacts to each new rule put into place. Only time will tell whether the new health care law has saved, or sunk, health care in America. But there's no doubt that changes were needed, and if this part of the law improves quality of care for seniors, hopefully this is an example of what is right with the law.
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OSERS is assisting adults with disabilities through its funding of Centers of Independent Living (CILs) and IL Net, a training and technical assistance project to support CILs.
The office is also providing more than $2 million in emergency funding to the CILs in the Gulf region and in areas where evacuees have been sent. The CILs provide vital direct services to individuals with disabilities to help them with important living and employment supports such as housing, transportation, personal attendant services, technology, medical equipment and access to healthcare and benefits.
They help local officials and communities provide guidance for making buildings and communities accessible to people with all disabilities, tens of thousands of whom have been displaced and relocated as a result of the hurricanes, in areas without the needed supports and equipment they require. Many of the CILs have been designated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as points of contact for individuals with disabilities, and CILs will be the primary sources of expertise for rebuilding damaged/destroyed communities with and access issues in mind. The increased funding will be used for three main purposes:
- Rebuilding the damaged/destroyed centers.
- Helping relocated people with disabilities with critical needs.
- Moving people with disabilities out of nursing homes (Because many shelters are not accessible, a large number of people with disabilities are being funneled into nursing homes and it is extremely difficult for them to relocate into community-based housing once they are there.)
OSERS is also working with officials in the four Gulf states impacted by the hurricanes to address the concerns of students with disabilities and their families. Students and families are being assisted through Parent Training and Information Centers (PTIs) and Community Parent Resource Centers (CPRCs) in their local communities or in communities where they have been relocated. OSERS has provided an additional $200,000 in emergency funding to assist at this time of urgent need. Families needing assistance can contact their closest PTI or CPRC. A list of centers around the country is available at http://www.taalliance.org/.
In addition, OSERS is supplementing by $300,000 its funding to the IL Net, a collaborative training and technical assistance project of the Independent Living Research Utilization (ILRU) program in Houston and the National Council on Independent Living in Arlington, Va. ILRU is now operating a disaster management assistance line for CILs and statewide independent living councils (SILCs). CILs and SILCs in the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina and other centers serving evacuees can call for information about disaster related resources for people with disabilities and assistance in center reconstruction and restoration. Additional information on this effort is available at http://www.ilru.org/.
Through its National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), OSERS is devoting an additional $150,000 for data collection on hurricane-related evacuation issues such as timeliness, information channels, accessible egress, and preparedness. The objective is to record actual experiences so as to better identify needs and viable solutions for people with disabilities in a future disaster. This activity will assist future emergency preparedness activities.
The Emergency Preparedness Initiative (EPI) coordinated by the National Organization on Disability, with OSERS funding, is assessing delivery of services and recovery efforts for the nearly 250,000 men, women and children with disabilities living in the impacted area. Four rapid assessment teams composed of nationally recognized special needs emergency management practitioners are currently on the ground in Texas, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Data being gathered includes information about response efforts, how long-term and short-term needs are being addressed and where gaps exist. Upon completion of analysis of the collected data, all findings will be documented for EPI to rapidly distribute these action items throughout all federal, state, and local authorities coordinating response and recovery efforts. EPI is currently providing outreach, awareness, and education via a $1 million congressionally designated earmark through the U.S. Department of Education Rehabilitation Services Administration, a component of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. More information is available at http://www.nod.org/.


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What you're looking at is Anthony Njokuani's hand, which he broke during his decision loss against Rafael Dos Anjos at UFC on FUEL: Munoz vs. Weidman earlier this month. Good lord. It looks like a piece of driftwood that washed up on a particularly filthy beach. It looks like one of the sandworms from Tremors. It looks like a new Carvel employee's botched attempt at making Fudgie the Whale. It looks like a bloated zombie hybrid of Anthony Johnson and Pac-Man. Get well soon, Anthony.


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Chocolate root beer frosting
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Chocolate root beer cake
Chocolate root beer frosting
15 comments:
does it taste like root beer? or is it lost in the chocolate?ReplyDelete
holy smokes!! gluten free root beer cake!? i'm super impressed!ReplyDelete
carin- It might work in an 8" pan, as long as it's deep enough! You might have to split between two pans, in which case, double the frosting and make a layer cake! Ooooh, that's a good idea...ReplyDelete
Jacobi- It tastes a little bit like root beer, it is very chocolatey. It's got a little hint of something different, which is the root beer. I'm sure you could use ginger ale or even beer if you aren't into root beer.
Joy- Thank you so much for the inspiration!! Yours just looked so good I had to have it!!
- Anonymous12:59 AM
Wow, that cake looks like sin itself! I read the post on Joy The Baker and drooled at it too!ReplyDelete
I admire the fact the you have patience to wait for a reason to bake a cake...I'm horribly gluttonous, would just bake it and eat it all by myself!!
- Carin in NJ8:20 PM
Well, I can attest that this cake comes out great with two 8 inch round pans. I didn't double the frosting but I did use one whole box of Domino Confectioner's Sugar, and I added 1 teaspoon of vanilla and a little more root beer to get the consistency right. I think I also added a smidge of skim milk. Served it to my root beer-chocolate-loving son on his fourteenth birthday (and his first gluten free birthday) to rave reviews. Thanks so much for the recipe!ReplyDelete
I think I might leave out the salt in the frosting next time. Otherwise, we're in love with this cake.
My boyfriend would LOVE this. Great recipe!ReplyDelete
This is the most awesome cake I have ever eat GFCF . Great cake and icing. Made ourselves sick eating all the extra icin!ReplyDelete
Please stop by and visit me.http://bountyfromourfamilytable.blogspot.com/2011/03/root-beer-cake.html Will have our fam photos up tomorrow.
thank you for makin our tummies feel yummie! :0)


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Constance D. Wood
Constance D. Wood, 83, of 205 North First St., Manistique, Mich., died Thursday, May 3, 2012, at Schoolcraft Memorial Hospital in Manistique.
She was born Oct. 22, 1928, in Phelps, Wis., the daughter of Don and Hazel (Morden) Hastings and attended Manistique area schools. She was a graduate of Manistique High School.
In her earlier years, Connie was employed as a bookkeeper at Manistique Pulp and Paper Company, at Gardner's Hotel, and later worked at Limestone Federal Credit Union. Connie then accepted a position in the office at Schoolcraft Memorial Hospital and retired as office manager.
She enjoyed knitting, reading, and playing cribbage. She was a former member of the women's bowling league and a former scout leader. She loved to spend time with her children and grandchildren.
Connie is survived by her sons, David (Sherry) Wood of Maribel, Wis., and Donald "Butch" (Barb) Wood of Manistique; daughters, Sandra (Brent) Rochefort of Manistique and Billie "Buffy" (Robert) Bruggeman of Manistique; nine grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and one greatgreat grandchild.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
Visitation was held from 1-4 p.m., Monday, May 7, at Messier-Broullire Funeral Home in Manistique. Funeral services followed at 4 p.m., at the funeral home, with Celebrant Carole Cooper officiating. Burial followed in Fairview Cemetery at Manistique.
Online condolences may be expressed at www.mbfuneral.com.
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What's in your backyard?
On the surface, the city's proposal to build a shed at Rocky Point to house park maintenance equipment and the outburst from Highland Beach residents seems like a case of "not in my back yard" syndrome.
There were all the classic signs of NIMBYism: The shed could be the start of something much bigger; it could become a place where workmen might hangout on their breaks; it could be a source of noise and light and, worst of all, it could partially block views of Narragansett Bay.
The Highland Beach neighbors had a point: Why did the shed have to be built near their neighborhood when the entrance to Rocky Point is at the southerly end of the park, which is remote and there are no neighbors?
And, rightfully, the irony of the situation didn't escape the city. It was the city that leveled Rocky Beach cottages and cleared the land, improving the view for Highland Beach. And now that the city has won a grant to purchase equipment to maintain the park, neighbors are complaining about it.
There's more to this story than a shed, as reported in Tuesday's Beacon.
Since the city opened the 41 acres of shoreline it has been able to preserve with the help of state and federal funding; people have learned there's an alternate entrance to the park from Highland Beach, although it is not advertised or promoted. It's a shorter walk from Highland Beach to popular Rocky Point fishing spots, and to the beach that is one of the park's jewels.
The problem is that Highland Beach is a tight community of narrow roads, which essentially has been a private enclave for generations of its residents. There is no parking lot and access to the area is limited. As a result, roads sometimes become narrow alleyways with cars parked on both sides. Residents have seen an increase in littering and thefts. They have taken to locking their doors. The neighborhood has changed, although there's also agreement that Rocky Point is much improved.
Judiciously, the city administration has postponed construction of the shed, pending the outcome of state efforts to acquire the remaining 82 acres of park property. That acquisition could offer alternative locations for buildings as well as different accesses to the park.
Such planning can't realistically begin until all the park property is preserved for public use.
But the fact that the city administration is looking ahead is good. We can't imagine a community that wouldn't welcome a property as beautiful as Rocky Point as a neighbor. But, by the same token, if it can be an even better neighbor, why shouldn't it be?


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The Regiment: Colonial Marines 2.5
Saturday, February 09, 2013The version 2.5 playtest kit for The Regiment: Colonial Marines is ready.
A slightly simpler game: I reduced the overall number of moves as well as removing some exceptional cases so it's easier to remember and apply rules.
Fictional results for stress and wounds: In previous versions, it was easy to gloss over the effects of stress and wounds, falling back on shorthand: "Take 2 wounds." I wanted each box of damage to have a specific effect to cue a result in the fiction.
More difficult choices: Tough choices are always fun. I revised the old push yourself move into something more interesting (I hope): Keep it together. The engagement move now accounts for details of the specific situation, including morale elements, so choices of fictional positioning have a bigger impact when making that move.
New volume of fire table: There are now 5 VOFs: Incidental, Scattered, Direct, Focused, and Concentrated.
New stress system: Each time you take stress, you choose how your solider will react to it: Flight, Fight, or Shock.
New wounds system: Wounds have locations now, and critical wounds take you out of action. There's a critical move that determines how badly you're injured, so there's more uncertainty (you can't count on a 2d pistol to not kill you).
New and revised moves: Assault now includes covering fire. Push yourself has been revised into keep it together. Help has been revised into aid. Hit the deck no longer requires a roll. New critical move. Rally is now a Sergeant move.
New and revised playbook moves: Changes to each playbook! Give them a close look. Also check out when you mark xp (upper right corner of playbooks).
Thanks for checking it out! If you give it a try, let me know here, on G+, or at the Regiment forum. As always, I'm happy to answer questions.
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22 Comments:John Powell says:
Who have the Synthetics been writing home to in your play tests? The Tyrell Corporation? ;^)
Gabor Chodkowski-Gyurics says:
Hey John, Vincent apparently cannot be arsed to confirm my forum registration, so I'll write my questions and opinions here:
1) For all the streamlining, isn't LUCKY left in as a dead stat? Especially without choosing stat blocks, when it will always be set to 0 and never improved?
2) I dislike merging assault and covering fire. It should work mechanically and lowers the move count, but it's in serious need of renaming. The fictional trigger makes no sense for fire element left behind, and if handwaved leaves no need to actually assault, since you can flush enemies from your cozy fire base, no problem.
3) I love the new keep it together move and stress system. They're just great.
4) The new wound system, not so much. Similarly to fuseboy on the forums, I thought the VOF system strength was that it was so hands-off, a general threat level was set, which the players could manage and deal with consequences - no talk of GM being asshole-ish or taking it easy. Yes, you can roll dice or whatever, but still it adds rolling dice (also for critical move), tracking boxes and needlessly expanding the VOF table. I think it's simply too much for the extra flavor it grants. Perhaps the could be to simply use a AW-style +wound when hurt, that could give stress or pin on hit, cripple a limb or whatever on a 10+ and go critical at 12+?
John Harper says:
Thanks for the feedback! You make good points. I'm meeting with Paul tomorrow night to discuss this stuff and we'll consider your comments. I think you're right. :)
Gabor Chodkowski-Gyurics says:
I'd appreciate if the next release would be of vanilla Regiment, I'll probably get a game going soon and it'd be a slight pain in the ass to update the playbooks manually. ;)
Renato Salzano says:
A simple and fast question: I'm traslating the playsheet in Italian, it's ok with you John? Can I publish it online after translating it?
John Harper says:
Sure, that's fine. Be advised: it's an older version of the game (I'm a couple drafts away from this one now).
Renato Salzano says:
Thank you, John.
I will keep it updated with the last public playtest version, of course :)
Anthony Pendleton says:
Tried posting this on the Regiment forums but the account confirmation emails are never sent (when creating a forum account), figure I'd just throw this out here. I've combined the 2.5 changes from Colonial Marines with the WWII content, all into a single PDF document. Works so well for us that I thought I'd share it with you and the rest of The Regiment community. Let me know the best way of shooting it over to you for a quick pass review and you can feel free to post it anywhere you like (or not, heh).
Awesome game by the way, very cool. Keep up the good work, looking forward to the next iterations.
John Harper says:
Cool, Anthony! Can you post it up on Dropbox or something? If not, just email me. I'm oneseven on the google mai.
Ronac says:
From what I read, I love the game. Although I haven't tried it yet, nor the regiment.
Since I haven't tried it yet I am not sure but I feel it's extremly bloody. I am not sure if this suggestions are valid, but here they go anyway.
Colonial marine armor: Reduces one critical wound to wound, one wound to stress.
I also feel that body should have more hit boxes (abdomen and torso, or even 3).
And one question, who and how assigns damage to hit locations.
Aaron says:
Hey John, any news on this? How are things going?
John Harper says:
Paul and I are working on a brand-new version of the Regiment. This Colonial Marines version (2.5) was kind of a dead-end in our design process, but we both like it, so I'm gonna produce a final, complete, free PDF (set in my XCOM/Stalker setting) so people can keep playing it.
José Luis Rodríguez says:
Hello there!
This is a stand-alone game, or I need the Apocalypse World core to enjoy it?
Thank you for your games and your work!
John Harper says:
You'll need familiarity with AW to play it. Also, it's not a complete game! just a playtest draft.
Lauri Maijala says:
Any progress on XCOMish version? I just thought it today and I think it would work out fine (and it would be a blast if I didn't need to write the whole hack).
Vinicius Lessa says:
I'm playing the new Xcom 2 on the PC and every time I take a break from it the first thing that comes to mind is "where da hack is John harper's "The Regiment: XCom" ?.
Siketić Karlo says:
I'm so sad to see this project die, however thank you for releasing it as is. I will make my own version of Regiment with what is available. Is it alright with you if I make it publicly available?
John Harper says:
If you want to make a fan hack, that's fine. But Paul Riddle is still working on The Regiment and plans to release it as a product in the future.
John Harper says:
So it would be awkward (at best) if you used The Regiment name for whatever you're doing. I recommend doing your own original thing instead.
Siketić Karlo says:
Oh, that's great news (well, it's news to me at least)!
I'm just planing to update the WW2 version to the 2.5 standards, without certain changes I'm not too in love with.
Choice genie says:
Assault currently includes cover. Push yourself has been revised into keep it along. facilitate has been revised into aid
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WALTHAM, Mass. – The Brandeis University men's soccer team has earned three honors from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. Individually, senior back Ben Applefield of Avon, Conn., and senior forward Sam Ocel of North Attleboro, Mass., were named first-team All-New England South Region. As a team, the Judges were recognized for their off-the-field accomplishments with the NSCAA Team Academic Award.
Applefield led the University Athletic Association with 10 assists this season, finishing with the fourth-highest point total on the Judges despite playing left back. He also assisted the team's lone goal in an NCAA Tournament second-round win over Roger Williams on November 17. The senior had two goals on the campaign, including the game-winner in a 4-0 win at Case Western Reserve University on Oct. 5. Applefield also earned Eastern College Athletic Conference All-New England second-team honors.
Ocel earned his third career All-New England honor, a year after claiming All-America honors. After taking a semester off last spring in order to use his final season of eligibility, Ocel returned to play more of a defensive role for the Judges in 2013. He finished with three goals and four assists on the campaign. He finished with 26 goals and 23 assists in his career, leaving him 12th all-time on the Brandeis career scoring list.
In addition to the NSCAA individual awards, the two Judges, along with classmate Kyle Feather of Pinebrook, N.J., played in the 2013 New England Intercollegiate Soccer League Division III Senior All-Star Game on Sunday, December 5. Feather scored the opening goal of the match on an assist by Applefield. The squad featuring the Brandeis players won the match, 8-2.
As a team, Brandeis earned the NSCAA's All-Academic award for the fourth year in a row after compiling a team grade-point average of 3.27. The Judges had nine team members selected to the 2013 UAA All-Academic squad with GPAs higher than 3.30. Along with the Brandeis women, the Judges were one of 190 schools in Division I, II or III that had both squads earn the NSCAA Team Academic Award.
In head coach Mike Coven's 41st season on the sidelines, the Brandeis men posted a 16-5-1 record in 2013. The Judges advanced to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Division III men's soccer tournament for the second year in a row. Brandeis hosted the first two rounds of the tournament and defeated Johnson and Wales University, 3-0, and Roger Williams University, 1-0, before falling to eventual Final Four team Williams, 2-0, in the sectional round. The Judges finished the season ranked No. 15 in the nation by the final NSCAA Division III poll and No. 18 by D3soccer.com.
Applefield is a 2010 graduate of Avon High School. He is the son of Dean and Deb Applefield, Avon, Conn.
Ocel is a 2009 graduate of No. Attleboro High School. He is the son of Jeffrey and Pamela Ocel, No. Attleboro, Mass.


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Association's mission is to encourage academics to collaborate to solve healthcare problems.
The Medical Industry Leadership Institute (MILI) recently was accepted into the Business School Alliance for Health Management (BAHM).
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