There is a silver lining in this, as explained below.

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Zynga is doing this to keep the number of shareholders below 500, says a person close to Zing, as I explained here.

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The dig itself was affected by the water table in the area which Phillip explained gets too wet in winter as from November the water rises to less than two feet below the surface which is actually higher than the items being searched for.

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