More Museum Photos from New Year's Eve 2011

Two photos of a bottom portion of a totem - I did not photograph the plaque describing it in detail, but it's from the U.S. Pacific Northwest and welcomes people into the Native American section on the second floor. 

This exhibit is from "Indian games" -- beautifully carved ivory dominoes,

playing cards, and in the next photo, a carved walrus tusk cribbage board.

At the top of the grand staircase that takes you to the first exhibit floor of the Milwaukee Public Museum, is a large display of fascinating things from the Museum's collection -- designed to catch the attention and spark the imagination of visitors, young and old.  This is (I believe) a Maori war shield and a display of various weapons from Polynesia, possibly.  We didn't take notes!

The small disks in this "bowl" are described as "dice" and this is described as a "woman's game."  The bowl is pounded on the ground, causing the disks to fly into the air and then land.  Black and white are counted and points awarded.  This is a North American Indian game, but I do not remember which region or tribe.

Saudi Law Makers: Women Can Sell Underwear to Women

You aren't going to believe this story!

From JS Online

Jan 2, 10:33 AM EST

Saudi Arabia to enforce law allowing only women to sell lingerie, despite cleric's disapproval

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Saudi Arabia said Monday it will begin enforcing a law that allows only females to work in women's lingerie and apparel stores, despite disapproval from the country's top cleric.

The 2006 law banning men from working in female apparel and cosmetic stores has never been put into effect, partly because of view of hard-liners in the religious establishment, who oppose the whole idea of women working where men and women congregate together, like malls.

Saudi women - tired of having to deal with men when buying undergarments - have boycotted lingerie stores to pressure them to employ women. The government's decision to enforce the law requiring that goes into effect Thursday.

The country is home to Islam's holiest site in the city of Mecca and follows an ultra-conservative form of the religion known as Wahhabism.

The kingdom's religious police, under the control of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, enforce Saudi Arabia's strict interpretation of Islam, which prohibits unrelated men and women from mingling. Women and men in Saudi Arabia remain highly segregated and are restricted in how they are allowed to mix in public.

The separation of men and women is not absolute. Women in Saudi Arabia hold high-level teaching positions in universities and work as engineers, doctors, nurses and a range of other posts.

The strict application of Islamic law forced an untenable situation in which women, often accompanied by uncomfortable male relatives, have to buy their intimate apparel from men behind the counter.

Over the past several weeks, some women have already begun working in the stores. Although the decision affects thousands of men who will lose their sales jobs, the Labor Ministry says that over 28,000 women, many of them South Asian migrants, have already applied for the jobs.

Saudi's Arabia's most senior cleric, Sheik Abdul-Aziz Al Sheikh, spoke out against the Labor Ministry's decision in a recent sermon, saying it contradicts Islamic law.

"The employment of women in stores that sell female apparel and a woman standing face to face with a man selling to him without modesty or shame can lead to wrongdoing, of which the burden of this will fall on the owners of the stores," he said, urging store owners to fear God and not compromise on taboo matters.

© 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. 

Research Group Claims No Ancient Immigrants from the East

The researchers further conclude that this finding “definitively dismisses the controversial hypothesis of an Atlantic glacial entry route into North America.” [Emphasis added.]

Oh, really???  You can judge for yourself if these researchers were too quick in the draw...  The title of the article itself usesw the word "MAY" - darlings, I don't know what schools you went to but when I went to school "may" was not a word one used when one wished to state a definitive conclusion.

From Ohio Archaeology Blog
December 28, 2011

RARE DNA VARIANT MAY DISPROVE PALEOLITHIC MIGRATION TO AMERICA ACROSS THE ATLANTIC

A new analysis of the rare mitochondrial DNA haplogroup C4c in Native American populations shows that it has a parallel genetic history with the X2a haplogroup thought by some to indicate a connection between early Paleoindians in eastern North America and the Upper Paleolithic Solutrean culture in France and Spain.

According to Baharak Hooshiar Kashani, of the Dipartimento di Genetica e Microbiologia at the Universita di Pavia in Italy, and his several co-authors, C4c has clear roots in Asia and is found in Great Lakes and Great Plains Native American populations. These are the same areas in which the X2a haplogroup has been identified suggesting that “these two lineages possibly arrived together from Beringia with the same Paleo-Indian group(s) that entered North America from Beringia through the ice-free corridor between the Laurentide and Cordilleran ice sheets” at around 18-15,000 years ago.

The researchers further conclude that this finding “definitively dismisses the controversial hypothesis of an Atlantic glacial entry route into North America.”

[See blog post for further details and citation to paper.]

I LOVE MY GREEN BAY PACKERS :) :) :)

Oh Mr. Don, Mr. Don, ye of little faith.  You are very knowledgeable about football, but you aren't that familiar with Wisconsin's beloved Green Bay Packers under the leadership of QB Aaron Rodgers -- and QB Matt Flynn!!!!!!

GB 45: DT 41.

It was a shoot-out, folks, no question.  In fact, when the Packers went down 9 zip in the first few minutes, Mr. Don shook his head and thought it might be all over.  Oh he of little faith!  I continued to calmly blog away; after half time I prepared the marinade for our filet mignons that I will make later tonight; Detroit kept scoring and scoring; I kept cooking, doing laundry, blogging.  I just knew we were going to win this game.  And we did.  Ahhhhhh.....nothing like a plan coming together...

Look at this beautiful photograph!

QB Matt Flynn taking charge!  By Tyler Dunne of the Journal Sentinel.

From jsonline.com
(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
January 1, 2012
Flynn sets franchise records with 6 TD passes, 480 yards passing in Packers' dramatic victory
(HeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeHaaaaaaaawwwwwww!)

Lowdown: Quickly, Sunday blurred into a quarterback clinic between Matthew Stafford and Matt Flynn. With the Packers resting Aaron Rodgers, Flynn started and shined [I believe the word should be "shone"]. He’ll be a very rich man very soon. And Stafford? Fresh off his Pro Bowl snub, he torched Green Bay’s secondary. The two combined for 1,000 yards and 11 touchdowns. The Lions had everything to play for — a win would have secured the No. 5 seed. The Packers simply needed to escape healthy. And behind Flynn’s career game, Green Bay finished the regular season 15-1.

The difference-maker: Flynn was sensational. There was no drop-off at all in Green Bay's offense as the back-up finished with one of the greatest games ever for a Packers quarterback. His six touchdowns and 480 yards were both franchise records. When Stafford punched, he punched back all game. After Stafford hit Tony Scheffler for a score with 2:44 to go, Flynn answered with a signature drive.

Big number: 15 — receiving touchdowns for Jordy Nelson. That ranks third all-time on the Packers behind Sterling Sharpe (18, 1994) and Don Hutson (17, 1942).

Turning point: On third and 4, Flynn lofted a 40-yard rainbow to James Jones up the right sideline over Chris Houston to set up Jermichael Finley's game-winning four-yard score. The ball was on the money, hitting Jones in stride with the game on the line.

What went right: Offensively, the Rodgers-less Packers stayed sharp through the wind, cold, snow — a good omen moving forward. The road to the Indianapolis goes through frigid Wisconsin and it appears the passing game will not be overly affected by weather. Nelson finished his breakout regular season with a bang. On one of his three scores, he split the safeties for a 58-yard, play-action touchdown. On another, he stiff-armed a defensive back to the turf. He’s playing as well as any receiver in the game and soon, he gets Greg Jennings back. Green Bay’s offense has retained its momentum into 2012. And, oh yeah, it was with Flynn at quarterback. He had a game to remember.

What went wrong: Again, the secondary was gashed for big plays. The Packers probably do not want to see Stafford and this offense again. The Lions’ quarterback sliced and diced the Packers all day. Wide receiver Calvin Johnson dominated Tramon Williams [maybe we won't be seeing Tramon next season...] for 244 yards on 11 receptions with a touchdown. Nothing new here. Beyond the stats in this one, the Packers also suffered from several mental lapses. On one Lions touchdown drive, Erik Walden smashed into Stafford on the ground after Vic So’oto’s sack and Desmond Bishop took a personal-foul penalty on a false start. Early in the game, Pat Lee inexplicably caught a kickoff out the end zone and then backed up to a take a knee in it. For a team that’s been so disciplined all season, Sunday had its gaffes. In the secondary, Sam Shields iced the win with a pick but major questions still remain.

When Mr. D and I arrive back from Spain, I'll have a weekend Packers game to which to look forward.  It doesn't get much better than this, except the Wisconsin Badgers win the Rose Ball tomorrow :)

A New Year's Eve Collage

Hope you will enjoy it!  A collage of photos we took yesterday at the Milwaukee Public Museum.

Another digital slideshow by Smilebox

Day at the Museum!

The Cleopatra exhibit at the Milwaukee Public Museum was fantastic!  Unfortunately, we were not allowed to take photographs, but in my opinion the exhibit lived up to all its positive press coverage! 

Cleopatra, the Search for the Last Queen of Egypt
October 8, 2011

Cleo Is Coming to Milwaukee
July 16, 2011

We arrived at the Milwaukee Public Museum for a 10:30 a.m. entry to the exhibit.  The entries are timed at 15-minute intervals.  I had a nice chat with the ticket-taker who told me that she thought the crowds since the start of the exhibit had been record-breaking attendance wise for Milwaukee exhibits, except for that morning, when it was rather quiet.  However, by the time Mr. Don and I exited the exhibit about 2.5 hours later, the museum was JUMPING! 

We had a quick lunch and then toured the third floor; took a break and toured the second floor.  I was too tired to tour the first floor and by the time we left it was already about 5 p.m., and we had to wait awhile for a bus.  As we have toured the museum together a couple of times before, we concentrated on exhibits that caught our particular attention. 

No photos from the Cleo exhibit - the rules prohibited taking it and there were plenty of "enforcers" stationed throughout the exhibit to make sure that anyone caught taking photographs was ushered out pronto -- not sure if the offending cell phone or camera would have been confiscated.  As far as I ccould tell, he people in the Milwaukee exhibit were very well mannered.  Many people, including an ecstatic Mr. Don, came VERY close to touching some exhibits (daringly left out of glass cases, all the better to be able to get one's nose up close to see details), as did many other people I saw, but no one did -- at least, I didn't catch anyone doing it, not even any of the kids that were in the exhibit (and there were plenty of them around, especially as we moved toward the noon hour and after). 

We got plenty of photos from the rest of the museum, though!  I have to show you this one Mr. Don took of me -- he is sooooo sentimental sometimes :)  It's at the same recreation of a head from Easter Island where he took a photograph of me in -- we think about 2006??? -- we agree that it had to be winter because I was wearing a fleece shirt that I would never have worn during the summer. 



Hello!  It's me, holding my camera, along with a handbag that was a birthday present from Georgia and Michelle and
my souvenir purchase from the special gift shop that you are funneled into right after you think you're leaving the
Cleo exhibit! But we really didn't really mind.  I'm sure we spent at least another 40 minutes just looking at the offerings.

At the top of the "grand staircase" is a large square area loaded with exhibits, old and new, designed to capture
your imagination.  The kids especially love it.  Mr. Don and I do, too!  This photo, taken by Mr. Don, is a small exhibit of butterflies and bugs!  Look at the size of some of those specimens!  Euuwwwweeeehhhh!

This figure (and the one below, only partially shown), are from the Lake Titicaca area in Peru; they are very early (early centuries CE) but neither Mr. Don nor I remember the exact date range -- and we didn't take notes.  What struck both of us is the amazing resemblance between these two masks? headdresses?-- whatever they are --  to CHINESE "dragon" iconography!  How could that possibly be, when according to traditional theory there could not possibly have been any contact between the indigenous peoples of Peru of the 1st century CE with ANY people from the Old World?

Great photograph by Mr. Don of an assembly of early Polynesian fabrics.  The geometric patterns are so beautiful - and ubiquitous.

This guy is rather - er - well, you make up a suitable caption...

Happy New Year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!  May the Goddess bless all of your endeavors and you and your families this new year.

The word for today is - WINDY!  Like triple windy!  Early this morning a front came through and with it strong winds and some mixed rain/snow.  The snow will not amount to anything, barely a measureable trace.  However, the winds have only gotten stronger as the day has gone on and tomorrow and Tuesday the temperatures will drop to accompany strong winds.  Brrrrr.  Wind chills will be in the single digits.  Yesterday Mr. Don and I were enjoying temperatures in the high 30's/low 40's F.  Today we're staying in (the Packers game with Detroit is on at noon), but we may have to venture out tomorrow because I'm out of eggs and we're going to need some more groceries -- I don't know how but I did manage to forget how much food Mr. D can tuck away in those hollow legs of his!  That means braving truly COLD weather for me for the first time this winter season.  Not looking forward to that.  And, get this, by the end of the week the temperatures are forecast to climb  back into the low 40's during the day AND no snow for at least the next 10 to 14 days.  In fact, we will have mild temperatures, so the weatherman said this morning, for the remainder of January.

This is just straight out strange weather for southeastern Wisconsin, people!  But I like it, I like it!

I got up early yesterday morning (before 5:30 a.m.) -- judt didn't sleep well.  I spent the quiet dark hours before sunrise cooking and reading.  I had three sirloin strip steaks that needed to be used but I felt they were too thin to try to grill or attempt to pan fry and oven-finish, so I cut them into beef tips and tossed them into the crockpot with some special secret ingredients, since Mr. D and I were going to the museum to see the Search for Cleopatra exhibit.  We were gone much longer than I thought we might be (we didn't get home until 6:30 p.m. after leaving the house shortly after 9 a.m.) so I patted myself on the back for turning the crockpot down to "warm" rather than keeping it on the "low" setting before we left the house yesterday morning. 

When we arrived back home I turned the crockpot back to "low" first thing when I got in the house.  The beef tips were soon ready but it was close to 9:30 p.m. when we finally sat down to east (Mr. Don was HUNGRY) to melt-in-the-mouth tender beef tips and a nice gravy with sour cream mixed in spoonful at a time in our own dishes as we spooned everything over noodles. I cooked up some frozen peas and we were good to go!  The secret to good cooking is making sure you're really hungry when you finally do eat.

While supper was coming together we downloaded our photographs and Mr. Don's videos from the museum to my laptops (for various reasons).  Later we drank home-made wine coolers and we actually stayed up talking, laughing, making vicious fun at Carson Daly and his guests in Times Square that we had on the t.v. (although Blake Shelton's performance beamed in from LA was good), and after celebrating midnight the tv went off and smooth jazz went on!

I'm sure Mr. Don spoke at least 10 million words yesterday... I expect by the time we get back from Spain my ears will have fallen off from over-use.

Interesting Artifact from Irikaitz (Basque Country, Spain)

From basqueresearch.com

2011/12/27

Irikaitz archaeological site: only for the tenacious

The recent discovery of a pendant at the Irikaitz archaeological site in Zestoa (in the Basque province of Gipuzkoa) has given rise to intense debate: it may be as old as 25,000 years, which would make it the oldest found to date at open-air excavations throughout the whole of the Iberian Peninsula. This stone is nine centimetres long and has a hole for hanging it from the neck although it would seem that, apart from being adornment, it was used to sharpen tools. The discovery has had great repercussion, but it is not by any means the only one uncovered here by the team led by Álvaro Arrizabalaga: “Almost every year some archaeological artefact of great value is discovered; at times, even 8 or 10. It is a highly fruitful location”.

Irikaitz lies behind the bath spa in Zestoa, on the other side of the river Urola, 14 metres from the river bank. The archaeologist from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) has been carrying out excavations here summer after summer, together with students and researchers from this and other universities and in cooperation with Aranzadi Science Society. Since 1998 they have uncovered 32 square metres; nothing compared to the eight hectares (at least) that this “gigantic” open-air site covers. This is archaeology, demanding a lot of patience, but the results are worth it: “You feel as if you have found something that has been waiting to fall into your hands for 200,000 years”.

It is like a lottery

The tasks pertaining to an archaeological site are complex and lengthy in any case, but particularly so at Irikaiz. To start with, because it is in the open air. In the case of caves, it is known that they served as refuges for our ancestors and, once their location is identified, it is highly possible that archaeological treasures are found there. Open air archaeological sites, on the other hand, are discovered when some civil engineering infrastructure has to be built, and it is difficult to predict what will be found. Moreover, in Zestoa there are remains from the Lower Paleolithic, when there are hardly any references from this period in the Basque Country. According to Mr Arrizabalaga, when they started, “it was like a lottery. We did not know what to expect – either about its chronology or about the kinds of remains likely to be uncovered”.

Precisely because of this lack of references, they were fascinated when they came across “totally exotic” raw material: volcanic stones. “In the first dig, we thought at first that someone may have brought the rocks there when they were building the Urola railway, to use them as ballast. It was all so surprising and incredible”, said the archaeologist. But no; this phenomenon had another logical explanation: “It is a geological rarity. In the Urola River valley there is a layer of volcanic stones; the river cut through these, took them to the surface and brought them to this place. This is why humans from prehistory came here – there was no other place in the Basque Country with stones like these”.

A margin of 350,000 years

The fact that the remains are so old or the features of the materials thereof so unusual make dating in Irikaitz very difficult, as most of the methods commonly used to this end are of little use here. A clear example of this is that any kind of dating with bone remains has had to be totally discarded; unlike in other sites; here there are hardly any such remains, the earth here being so acidic that it has consumed almost everything in this respect, leaving only stone tools and plant fossils.

There are, thus, few means for dating certain remains. There were two periods of human occupation in Irikaitz, the most recent being 25,000 years ago, the pendant discovered this summer being from that time. But, it is the older occupation that gives headaches in trying to date it. Yes, it dates from the early Stone Age (Lower Palaeolithic), but when exactly? There hardly exist archaeological sites similar to this one, to act as a reference. As this archaeologist explained, “there is no other case of the Lower Palaeolithic under these conditions along the strip of land bordered by the Bay of Biscay, and only a few like it in the whole of the Iberian Peninsula”. It is impossible to narrow the dating to less than an interval of 350,000 years: “We know it cannot date from later than 150,000 years ago (when that period ended), and neither can it be prior to 500,000 years ago, because the sea covered the area during that period”.

Therefore, of the 18-20 dating methods currently available, there are no more than two applicable to Irikaitz. Both involve luminescence, and with which Arrizabalaga’s team are attempting to get results. The first method acts to specify when the sun illuminated a piece of quartz for the last time; without the wished-for results, however. The second is based on thermo-luminescence, a method with which they are working currently: this is applied to certain types of stones which have undergone heating from fires, and the measurement is based on the amount of radiation accumulated.

Since 1998, more than 500 people have carried out field work at this prehistoric archaeological site of Irikaitz; without counting those who have contributed from the laboratory. This has included a considerable group of researchers who have worked tenaciously in the search for any result, no matter how small. Many of these research workers belong to the UPV/EHU, like Mr Arrizabalaga. And, although the fruit of their work is harvested little by little, they feel they are rewarded. “If you Google Irikaitz, some 7,000 entries appear. We started digging in 1998 and, by 2001, the site was mentioned as a reference not written by us, in relation to the history of this geographical area”.

Pushing Back the First Americans, a Thousand or Two Years at a Time

From the Tennesseean.com

Franklin dig evidence reveals mastodon was butchered by ancient humans
12,000-year-old butchering marks, tools show ancient Cool Springs cuisine
1:51 AM, Dec. 27, 2011

FRANKLIN — A Cool Springs archaeological dig keeps yielding details about Paleolithic man and the big game he hunted.

State archaeologists say discoveries unearthed in 2010 at a long-studied archaeological site known as Coats-Hines in Cool Springs reveal it to be one of only a few sites that show early man in this area hunted and ate “megafauna,” a term describing very large animals.

Scientists confirm finding three and possibly four mastodons — large elephant-like creatures with tusks — at the site, with one mastodon, known as Mastodon B, having “unequivocal association” with human activity in the form of butchering marks.

“(O)nly a handful of sites have been identified in the Eastern United States which provide incontrovertible evidence of humans hunting megafauna,” archaeologists Aaron Deter-Wolf, Jesse W. Tune and John B. Broster, who oversaw the excavations, reported in the Tennessee Archaeology journal.
Earlier this year, the Coats-Hines site became one of 11 places added to the National Register of Historic Places by the state Historical Commission. Excavations began at the site in 1977.

An archaeological excavation turned up the bones, artifacts and animal remains that archaeologists now say prove human activity occurred here before 12,000 B.C. The site is in the backyard of a private home and is one of the two oldest human settlements documented in Tennessee.

Archaeologists and Middle Tennessee State University students turned up human artifacts, pollen samples and more than 1,500 animal bones that can be traced to a variety of species.

Excavations at the property in 1994 revealed the only known example in the Southeastern U.S. of mastodon remains directly associated with human-made stone tools in an undisturbed context, said Deter-Wolf, state prehistoric archaeologist.

Shamans in Action

I happened across this very interesting photograph taken today in Lima Peru, of shamans conducting a "good luck" ceremony over two posters - one is the Prime Minister of Spain; the other is the new Fearless Leader of North Korea.  Is he out of diapers???

I wonder why they did this???

2011 FIDE Women's World Team Chess Championship

India fininished OUT OF THE MEDALS?  WHAT? 

My first reaction is - what kind of fix was in?  My second reaction is - it's not polite to put in writing.  If you want to accept these final standings, here they are, for what they're worth:

Rank	Team	Gam.	+	=	-	MP	Pts.	Res.	SB.	BT
1	CHINA	9	8		1	16	27½	0	131,50	2550
2	RUSSIA	9	5	3	1	13	21½	0	103,00	1991
3	GEORGIA	9	5	2	2	12	21½	0	90,75	2005
4	INDIA	9	5	1	3	11	23	0	76,00	2154
5	UKRAINE	9	4	3	2	11	21	0	94,75	1934
6	ARMENIA	9	4	1	4	9	19½	0	56,75	1820
7	VIETNAM	9	4	1	4	9	19	0	59,00	1768
8	GREECE	9	2	1	6	5	15	0	22,75	1391
9	TURKEY	9	2		7	4	11	0	22,00	1036
10	RSA	9			9	0	1	0	0,00	91

Board pairings and results:

Round 9 on 2011/12/27 at 10:00
9.1	5	VIETNAM		2 - 2	10	UKRAINE
1	WGM	Pham Le Thao Nguyen	2341	½ : ½	IM	Muzychuk Mariya	2460
2	WIM	Nguyen Thi Mai Hung	2244	½ : ½	IM	Gaponenko (Yanovska) Inna	2435
3	WGM	Nguyen Thi Thanh An	2300	½ : ½	GM	Zhukova Natalia	2427
4	WIM	Hoang Thi Nhu Y	2218	½ : ½	IM	Vasilevich Tatjana	2412
9.2	6	RUSSIA		2 - 2	4	ARMENIA
1	GM	Kosintseva Tatiana	2526	½ : ½	GM	Danielian Elina	2497
2	GM	Kosteniuk Alexandra	2439	½ : ½	IM	Mkrtchian Lilit	2469
3	IM	Gunina Valentina	2514	½ : ½	IM	Galojan Lilit	2383
4	WGM	Pogonina Natalija	2451	½ : ½	WGM	Aginian Nelly	2263
9.3	7	GREECE		4 - 0	3	RSA
1	IM	Dembo Yelena	2468	1 : 0	WIM	Van Der Merwe Cecile H	2057
2	WGM	Makropoulou Marina	2201	1 : 0	WIM	Solomons Anzel	1926
3	WIM	Fakhiridou Ekaterini	2180	1 : 0	WIM	Frick Denise	1916
4		Iordanidou Zoi	2169	1 : 0	WFM	Van Niekerk Lauren	1607
9.4	8	GEORGIA		3 - 1	2	TURKEY
1	GM	Dzagnidze Nana	2516	1 : 0	WIM	Yildiz Betul Cemre	2297
2	IM	Khotenashvili Bela	2497	0 : 1	WIM	Ozturk Kubra	2239
3	IM	Khurtsidze Nino	2440	1 : 0	WCM	Cemhan Kardelen	1881
4	IM	Melia Salome	2392	1 : 0		Kaplan Ebru	1849
9.5	9	CHINA		2½ - 1½	1	INDIA
1	GM	Hou Yifan	2578	½ : ½	GM	Koneru Humpy	2600
2	WGM	Ju Wenjun	2543	½ : ½	GM	Harika Dronavalli	2512
3	GM	Zhao Xue	2541	1 : 0	IM	Tania Sachdev	2428
4	WGM	Tan Zhongyi	2448	½ : ½	WGM	Padmini Rout	2392

Individual Performance Medals:

Board 1

No.	Title	FED	Name	IRtg	Team									9	Points	% Success	Rp	Games
	WGM	ARM	Aginian Nelly (Reserved Player)	2263	ARMENIA										0.0		2230
	WCM	TUR	Cemhan Kardelen	1881	TURKEY										0.0		2170
1	GM	IND	Koneru Humpy	2600	INDIA	1.0	1.0		1.0	1.0	0.5	0.5	0.5		5.5	78.6	2677	7
2	GM	CHN	Hou Yifan	2578	CHINA			1.0	0.5	1.0	1.0	0.5	0.5		4.5	75.00	2664	6
3	GM	GEO	Dzagnidze Nana	2516	GEORGIA		1.0	0.5	0.5	1.0	0.5	0.5	0.5		4.5	64.29	2601	7

Board 2

No.	Title	FED	Name	IRtg	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Points	% Success	Rp	Games
	WGM	ARM	Aginian Nelly (Reserved Player)	2263	ARMENIA										0.0		2230
	WCM	TUR	Cemhan Kardelen	1881	TURKEY										0.0		2170
	GM	ARM	Danielian Elina	2497	ARMENIA										0.0		2457
	IM	GRE	Dembo Yelena	2468	GREECE										0.0		2375
	GM	GEO	Dzagnidze Nana	2516	GEORGIA										0.0		2601
1	WGM	CHN	Ju Wenjun	2543	CHINA			1.0	0.5	1.0	0.5	1.0	0.5		4.5	75.00	2543	6
	WIM	RSA	Frick Denise	1916	RSA										0.0		1542
2	GM	IND	Harika Dronavalli	2512	INDIA	0.5			0.5	1.0	0.5	1.0	0.5		4.0	66.67	2519	6
3	WGM	VIE	Hoang Thi Bao Tram	2341	VIETNAM	0.5	1.0	1.0	0.5	0.0	1.0	1.0	0.0		5.0	62.50	2456	8

Board 3

No.	Title	FED	Name	IRtg	Team									9	Points	% Success	Rp	Games
	WGM	ARM	Aginian Nelly (Reserved Player)	2263	ARMENIA										0.0		2230
1	GM	CHN	Zhao Xue	2541	CHINA			1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.0		5.0	83.33	2492	6
	GM	ARM	Danielian Elina	2497	ARMENIA										0.0		2457
	IM	GRE	Dembo Yelena	2468	GREECE										0.0		2375
	GM	GEO	Dzagnidze Nana	2516	GEORGIA										0.0		2601
2	GM	UKR	Zhukova Natalia	2427	UKRAINE		0.5	0.5	1.0		1.0		1.0		4.0	80.00	2542	5
3	WIM	VIE	Nguyen Thi Mai Hung	2244	VIETNAM		0.5	0.5		0.0		1.0	1.0		3.0	60.00	2338	5

Board 4

No.	Title	FED	Name	IRtg	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Points	% Success	Rp	Games
1	WGM	CHN	Tan Zhongyi	2448	CHINA			1.0	1.0	1.0	0.5	0.5	0.5		4.5	75.00	2479	6
	WCM	TUR	Cemhan Kardelen	1881	TURKEY										0.0		2170
	GM	ARM	Danielian Elina	2497	ARMENIA										0.0		2457
	IM	GRE	Dembo Yelena	2468	GREECE										0.0		2375
	GM	GEO	Dzagnidze Nana	2516	GEORGIA										0.0		2601
	WIM	GRE	Fakhiridou Ekaterini	2180	GREECE										0.0		2101
	WIM	RSA	Frick Denise	1916	RSA										0.0		1542
	IM	ARM	Galojan Lilit	2383	ARMENIA										0.0		2268
	IM	UKR	Gaponenko (Yanovska) Inna	2435	UKRAINE										0.0		2342
2	WIM	GRE	Pavlidou Ekaterini	2176	GREECE			1.0		0.5	0.5	0.5	1.0		3.5	70.00	2313	5
	GM	IND	Harika Dronavalli	2512	INDIA										0.0		2519
	WGM	VIE	Hoang Thi Bao Tram	2341	VIETNAM										0.0		2456
3	IM	UKR	Vasilevich Tatjana	2412	UKRAINE		0.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.5		0.5		4.0	66.67	2288	6

Now I have to finish cleaning the upstairs bathroom.  I think I'll scrub the toilet again.