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Shan Masood, Abrar Ahmed among probables for ODI series against New Zealand
Islamabad December 29 dmanewsdesk: Pakistan has recalled hard-hitting batter Sharjeel Khan into the ODI team after five years, with the new interim chief selector Shahid Afridi naming as many as six uncapped players in the 21-men probable list for the upcoming series against New Zealand.
By the next week, the final list will be trimmed to 16. Star pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi and Fakhar Zaman would not be able to find a place in the squad due to their ongoing injuries and rehabilitation.
The 21-man list also includes youngsters like Qasim Akram, Ihsanullah and Tayyab Tahir who have made an impact in domestic cricket. A top-order batter named Kamran Ghulam, who scored a record 1,249 runs for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during the last year's Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, is also part of the probables.
He is among the leading run-scorers in the ongoing Pakistan Cup with 435 runs in six matches, which also includes two centuries.
Pakistan has also called up Shan Masood, who had last played an ODI three years back against Australia. Abrar Ahmed, who recently made his international debut against England in their Test series, is also on the list. Fast bowling all-rounder Aamer Jamal, who made his T20I debut in September is in the 21-man list.
Pakistan's last ODI assignment was a three-match series against Netherlands back in August. Zahid Mehmood has been dropped from the squad and both Shaheen and Zaman are expected to return to full fitness before next year's Pakistan Super League (PSL).
The upcoming three-match ODI series against New Zealand was initially planned to be held in September last year. The visitors called it off just before the first ODI citing security reasons. Now it will be held in Karachi from January 9-13.
Pakistan's probables: Babar Azam (captain), Abdullah Shafiq, Abrar Ahmed, Aamer Jamal, Haris Rauf, Hasan Ali, Ihsanullah, Imam-ul-Haq, Kamran Ghulam, Mohammad Haris, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Rizwan, Mohammad Wasim, Naseem Shah, Qasim Akram, Salman Ali Agha, Shadab Khan, Shahnawaz Dahani, Shan Masood, Sharjeel Khan and Tayyab Tahir.
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GCP/EGG Update Dec 23 2007
In my cover note I sent wishes for the holiday season and a healthy, peaceful New Year. I also mentioned a quest for a short, strong expression of a thought that seems to be a necessary understanding, and to present an important question: What can we do about the fact that throughout history it is our leaders who have caused trouble, have made war, and who have thus created the misery that too often characterizes the lives or causes the deaths of so many people?
Leaders want war. People don't. (Most will realize this is an exaggerated form of Some leaders choose war to serve their needs, while most people don't benefit and don't want war. )
Is this so? Well, usually, yes. We can find exceptions I am sure, like simple migratory invasion of a settled territory by people from elsewhere, looking for survival sustenance. But even in such an example close examinations finds leadership that instead of cooperative intent chooses violent cooptation of land and resources—and, not insignificantly, control and power. As Teilhard de Chardin put it:
The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.
Albert Einstein put the same understanding in different words:
A human being is part of the whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences his thoughts and feeling as something separate from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal decisions and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
In the GCP/EGG project it is fair to say that the convergent evidence for something we like to call Global Consciousness continues to gather. Personally, I have had to give up a part of my skepticism. (It may surprise many readers that I am skeptical, but that is the way I was raised, and all my formal education was typical in reinforcing a show me attitude.) The independent pieces of evidence generated by my colleagues, notably Peter Bancel and William Treurniet, look at the data from different perspectives from mine, and they all dovetail. That is, we see statistically significant effects in answer to very different questions, and in all cases, there should be no effects because the data are designed to be random. Moreover, the context for these effects is what one can think of as control data which are indeed random as expected.
Some recent work has focused on separating the 250 formal events into categories, updating and extending similar work in 2004. Beyond the assignment to subsets such as War, Celebration, Sports, Politics, etc., we have been looking at a more sharply defined set of categories, attempting to collect those events that evoke or contain basic emotions like Fear, Love, Grief, or Anger. Of course assignment decisions have to be largely subjective, but they can be made with sufficient reliability to be instructive, and quite interesting. The upshot is that we find some strong differences that suggest the global consciousness we are attempting to detect responds in ways quite similar to individual humans. The strongest and most reliable GCP/EGG responses are to powerful emotions of fear and love or compassion. Events with low emotional intensity don't produce much effect. Both positive and negative events have strong influences, but if the events are neutral, non-emotional, we don't see trends in the data. I have made a small slide show of the emotion results. This is work in progress, not to be further distributed, please.
For now, let me wish you all the best for this holiday season, and for all of us peace and good health in the coming New Year. I expect 2008 to be eventful, and for many more of our leaders to take positive steps toward wise and creative stewardship of the earth.
GCP/EGG Update Nov 18 2007
The past few months have been something like a whirlwind of travel, conferences, meetings, interviews ... I am looking forward to some downtime with a slower pace and meditative moments. The metaphors of the seasons really seem especially appropriate this year. It is time for a Winter season in my schedule, and in some respects, it actually is necessary.
For example, in the last two weeks, while catching up from a month on the road, and preparing for presentations and workshops that I'll be doing next week, I have also been working to bring the Egg network back up to its full size. Eggs stop running for various reasons, and it is part of my job to keep track, and to help the hosts bring their eggs back online. Most of the time that's easy, but there are some cases that require troubleshooting and dealing with new issues (like increasingly agressive firewalls that don't know about our unique communication protocols.) Anyhow, the upshot is that the total number of Eggs in the network has fallen under 60, and I'm hoping we'll soon recover or replace the lost Eggs.
The good news is that our world is a beautiful place, and it is a delight and a privilege to be able to experience the geography and the people out there. Travel gives perspective on who we are, and enriches our possibilities by stretching our conceptions. There are lots of serious problems in the world that mostly come down to seeing others where we could see brothers. Quite by accident I came across an insightful speech by an Irish foundation official to colleagues in Washington, DC, about perceptions of the US abroad. I think it is worth a read.
We have several new events in the Results table, and the bottom line probablility for a chance explanation of the formal tests of our general hypothesis is now less than 1 in a million. Some of the recent events are samples from what seems to be a growing number and richness of broadly organized meditations and vigils for peace and a heathy future (e.g., the Global OM on Sept 15, and the International Day of Peace on Sept 21). Others are sharply focused. The Nobel Peace Prize ceremonies for Al Gore and the UN Panel on Climate Change are associated with a heartening data trend. There are great tragedies too, in our complex world. The effects of the category IV cyclone Sidr that smashed and flooded the coast of Bangladesh seem to have been noted by the Egg network, which displays steady data trends over many hours.
There are also new results in the comprehensive analyses that are mostly the work of Peter Bancel. These can be seen through links on the analytical extensions page. One of the most astonishing of these is the long-term trend examination and the apparent correlation with polling results. The results in this analysis continue to get stronger, and stimulate inclinations to attribute real-world meaning to the GCP results. The most recent update of this analysis shows that the surprisingly long, downward trend in the data that began in late 2001 still continues, and it is highly significant.
I am tempted to predict an inflection in the trend about one year from now, and a return to normal expectation (a level cumulative deviation trace). If we are really lucky and begin to recognize and accept our fundamental interconnection and interdependence, I think the trend will reverse and turn positive. This expectation is not mine alone, as you all know. For example, Positive Future Consulting has promising and provocative messages for those who look forward. I looked around there, and found much to appreciate, including Three Prayers for Humanity.
One of my favorite holidays is Thanksgiving, which will be in a few days, on Thursday the 22nd of November in the US. I think this holiday is increasingly celebrated in other countries, often with a different date, but with the same meaning. It commemorates a feast held in 1621 by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag, and now as in 1621 it is to give thanks for the things one has at the end of the harvest season. It is almost unique in retaining a non-commercial character, and bringing people together to share the blessings nature bestows. Thank you for your presence among those blessings.
GCP/EGG Update Sept 14 2007
Sometimes I am tempted to write about political and propaganda matters in these update notes. But since I want the notes to reflect the science and art of the GCP, I can't do much of that despite the deep feelings of sadness and frustration we probably all share about the difficulties we face making a healthy world.
As usual, there are interesting new bits and pieces. For example, I have developed the Conclusions page somewhat further, and it now has an extensive list of clear and well-supported findings, as well as a shorter list of recent analyses. There appears to be a moment for global consciousness on the order of 1 or 2 hours, analogous to a moment in human consciousness of something like 100 milliseconds.
Several new formal events have been added (e.g., the Fire the Grid event, and the Minneapolis bridge collapse and the Peruvian earthquake). And some recent exploratory events may be of interest, including the release of Deathly Hallows and more recently, the safe landing of NASA's teacher in space, Barbara Morgan. The former are linked to the Results table, and the latter to recent items in the list of Informal analyses.
A moment of social/political rumination: How can we actually affect the way things develop on the earth, our only home? One of the implications I see from the GCP work is encouragement to believe what we think and feel and wish for actually has a presence in the world. In other words, that holding an intention for things to change can help them do so—albeit with such subtlety it is difficult to see. On the other hand, many of the changes I wish for, and imagine you do too, are an uphill challenge because there are strong forces and influences that would rather maintain our societal structures and emphases as they are. I am thinking of, for example, the political system in the US. It is not working as we naively think it should; it no longer seems to be, as Lincoln so elegantly put it, of the people, for the people, and by the people. So—I am wishing for a change toward that old-fashioned expression of what a democracy should be. Good luck!
I had written more in this vein when I started this update note a couple of weeks ago, but the examples were of the cup half empty variety. Instead of those, here are some positive notes:
Flying to Denver on a trip to visit my brother in Nebraska last year, I sat next to Julie Speer Hunniford, who is the Executive Director of Little Voice, a non-profit making documentaries to raise awareness of social issues and inspire positive social change. The coincidental seating allowed us to discover the remarkable fit of Julie's interests and mine, so this year, Lefty and I stopped in to visit, and to talk about a film Little Voice is planning on Connections like those we document in the GCP/EGG data. Check out their website, and look for a fit to your interests and mission.
Some time ago I think I recommended Ode , a wonderful magazine for optimistic social observers. The current issue has an interview article with the Dalai Lama saying, War is old-fashioned. In Denver we discovered another one, with a similar perspective in a fresh and very young mode. Elephant is published in Colorado, I think in Boulder, but I suspect it will soon be (inter)national. The subtitle is It's about the mindful life and it can be found at organic food stores, yoga schools, etc., or at their website. In an interview in the current issue, Bill McKibben says,
Our great shortage in this country [the USA] is community. Connection. We've become a hyper-individualist, self-obsessed society, the likes of which the earth has never seen.
And in the process we're changing the earth in unbelievable ways....
But the good news is that ... we may finally be in a place where, if we get the message, we could begin to think about changing.
I agree with that—it is good news, and will be better when we individually recognize how powerful we are when we engage with each other and become a community. We are connected, and that's beautiful. It appears (if you squint) that we are changing, and that trust in our interdependence is growing. It may be too subtle to see, but the evidence is good that it's real.
My best to you all,
GCP/EGG Update July 7 2007
The deeper analysis of our data yields surprises, and sometimes even require me to re-examine the notions I have built up over a quarter century of research at the edges of what we know about consciousness. The most likely candidate explanations are differences in the state and the effects of global consciousness over the time course of a major event. Watch this space for further developments.
MoveOn, the political action organization is helping to promote a giant rally for a solution to the climate crisis this Saturday, 7/7/07. They envision two billion people around the world gathering at concerts on seven continents and at over 6,000 parties from Alabama to Zimbabwe. Al Gore is a major mover, and while it is hard to imagine 2 billion actually paying attention, it will be interesting to see how the GCP network responds. You can find more information at avaaz.org or moveon.org.
The SSE meeting in early June was fine. Lots of interesting papers and people. The invited speakers included Barbara Marx Hubbard, with whom I had really interesting connections. We agreed to engourage everyone we know to work toward creating a Planetary Smile. Nice image, and entirely possible over the next few years—maybe in time for the famous Mayan calendar year, 2012. I made a slide show of GCP materials for the poster session, and will make that available on request.
The Southwest is a draw. In addition to the Seed Dialogue in Albuquerque mentioned in the last Update, I will be going to the Sedona Creative Life Center in November. Canada is on the list too this year, with the Meeting of Minds mid-July in Vancouver, and the Parapsychology Association annual meeting in Halifax in early August. In October we will be in Europe, but no professional meetings (just relatives and friends and interesting places). Then in November, I will make a presentation on the science of intention to doctors interested in alternative perspectives at a meeting in St. Maartens.
The results table has some interesting new items. The grand scale meditations organized by Common Passion during the last half of May had striking outcomes, especially on the focal day of May 20 (see event #241 for details). World Tai Chi and Chigong day, though much smaller, also had interesting trends. But political activities continue to be of minor interest to the network, even when, as happened to Rudy Giuliani, lightning strikes nearby.
Shelley Yates, the driver behind the Fire the Grid event, is very persuasive. Whether we believe the fine details of her account, or her interpretaions of her experience, her argument is powerful. We can remake the world, and create something fine. I am not sure she says it this way, but to me it is clear that there are so many of us who want a healthier, more compassionate world that we have the power to accomplish that. In the PEAR lab we had a tiny poster on the wall that said, If we all work together we can subvert the system. True then, true now, always true. Be well, everyone,
GCP/EGG Update April 22 2007
I'm listening to Shubhra Guha singing Raga Chhayanat with accompaniment by harmonium and tabla. It is beautiful. The world is filled with such beauty, which blooms when there is peace. I have added some new links to the political and application pages of the GCP website. For example, there is access to a website called Global Citizens for Peace. While the Global Consciousness Project focuses mainly on doing the science well, it seems appropriate also to think about the implications of our work, which by now provides remarkably clear indications of human interconnections that are subtle but important. In any case, it seems most important to push strongly and persistently toward peace because peace is the necessary condition for creativity. It is an obvious underlying assumption in a no-holds-barred assessment of leadership by Lee Iacocca.
The annual meeting of the SSE 2007, which I've mentioned before, is shaping up to be interesting. There will be a whole day given to consciousness related research and theory. We'll have a presentation by Peter Bancel, whose sophisticated analyses have produced a deep understanding of the GCP data. He will preview a comprehensive paper on the evidence for structure where there should be none coming from several independent statistics. Sounds dry, but in terms of implications, the current state of the evidence is, to me, mind-boggling. Though it may not be obvious, I am a skeptic, meaning that I'm willing to consider unlikely things only if there is really excellent evidence for them. I like multiple perspectives, and independent confirming research. That's the sort of thing Peter has been developing, and it is looking good.
There are several additions to the formal event analysis sequence, and the composite result now has odds against chance of about a million to one. The average effect size is equivalent to a Z-score of about 0.3, and since we like to think of a Z-score of about 1.6 as significant, this means that we can't expect individual events to show significance. Instead, we have to patiently collect 30 or 40 likely cases to have reliable statistics. Despite this it is interesting to look at individual cases and we may be able to learn something from them. You can see descriptions and graphical displays linked from the results page. You may also have interest in new explorations added to the list of informal analyses.
There's also an interesting change in the egghosts page. I received an email from Fernando Lucas Rodriguez, suggesting we use a google map to show where the eggs are. And he had done all the hard work of translating my table into the needed format. The resulting Egghosts Map is pretty cool.
Travel season begins this week. I'll be at conferences in various places over the next months, including a talk at the Rhine Research Center in Durham on 27 April, a conference on Imagination, Consciousness and the New Science in New York May 18-20, the Society for Scientific Exploration meeting in East Lansing May 30-Jun 2, the Parapsychology Association meeting in Halifax Aug 2-5, and shortly thereafter a Seed Dialogue in Albuquerque. Let me know if you would like more information about any of these.
I wish you all well. Spring is happening in my northern hemisphere location, and blooming flowers make it look like all is well with the world. I continue to see us as filled with potential like flower buds waiting to bloom. We just need a Spring season in the world of human thought and action.
GCP/EGG Update February 28 2007
Here is an irony that I noted in a recent news item. Japan continues to hunt whales, despite wide opposition. But their primary processing ship caught fire during the hunt near New Zealand, and this season's hunt may have to be abandoned. I hope they and all other whale hunting nations will grow wiser.
I have started a new page on the GCP website. It is called Applications and will be for ideas about doing something in the world to help us move toward the potential indicated in the interconnections we see in the data. For example, one morning I woke up with the question how to understand torture, so as to do something about it. This is no new question, and it is one that, personally, I don't want to think about. But it comes unbidden, and it begs for an answer because until we learn how to cure that disease, we can't replace war with peace. Yes there are other problems, such as marketplace greed, but first things first.
Another new item on the website is a little change in the materials related to funding. The Donations link and the Participation button both lead to a page with some brief descriptions of things we would like to do and how much money is required. The GCP remains a project that runs mainly on energy and time freely given by very generous (remarkable) people. But there are always a number of very good ideas waiting for support, and I will be working more directly to find it. Your ideas, suggestions, and help are welcome.
New results have been flowing in from Peter Bancel's analyses. Among them are the clear establishment of correlations between eggs as the major source of the effects we see. This means that the eggs act more like each other than they should during the global events we identify. We also have evidence for a functional relationship of effects with the distance separating egg pairs. Results like these are powerful, objective, and independent confirmations that there is real structure in the data.
Many of you will think, well, what's new? Isn't it clear already? But we are looking at subtle things, and working at the edge of understanding, and multiple perspectives provide converging evidence of the structure, and more important, they become building blocks for models and eventually, for understanding how this strange, unexpected, and wonderful effect of human consciousness is made.
We know that the signal to noise ratio is so small that individual events won't reliably create significant effects in our analysis. But occasionally things stand out in a surprisingly persuasive way. You're familiar with the 9/11 case, and some others. A couple of recent cases you might like to look at are the TM meditation gathering over many weeks in the summer and fall, and the Burning Man event that has been going on for years. Both show enormous deviations, and both cases are composites of multiple instances. For details and illustrations, see: tm resonance and burning man 8
I can recommend Dean Radin's new book, Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality . Dean is one of the original team who helped create the GCP/EGG project. He is also famously prolific, and has an amazing array of research projects and experience. You can read up on it in his book, but also his take on how things (might) work. Along the way, he gives an intelligent and intelligible short course in modern physics, and entanglement—which works well as a description for the interconnection implied by the GCP data.
We have some new eggs—in Quepos, Costa Rica hosted by James Lindelien, in Beijing, by Peter Sallade, one just now running in Buenos Aires, hosted by Kristen Neiling, and one in Novosibirsk, by Ivan Avdeyev that we hope soon will be online.
Let me remind you again about the SSE and the 26th annual meeting, in East Lansing, Michigan, May 31–June 2. See scientificexploration.org for more details. The meeting is shaping up to be very interesting. Come if you can. The SSE provides a forum for science and research that otherwise tends to be excluded. Check it out, and join if you want to support this open minded perspective.
Days ago, when I first started composing this update, I made some notes. One was No new wars. Not sure what inspired it, but I am glad to hear that the US, Iran, and Syria will join other neighbors of Iraq for talks. No guarantee that this spells the end of violence there, but each journey begins with a single step. Standing last Wednesday with Quakers in a silent prayer for peace, I considered what peace could mean. A great gift of resources would be made free to power creativity and a flowering of social goods. What a good idea.
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Requests are relatively small (1-10K) and latency is very important (the less the better). The number of concurrent requests and "rate' (requests per second) are still unknown.
We are going to develop the server in Java. Should we use Tomcat or should we use an embedded HTTP server (e.g. Jetty) as part of the application?

A: Either one will satisfy your stated requirements.
Tomcat will require an install - or can be embedded; thanks to Jayan for the correction.  Jetty can be embedded or run in stand-alone mode.  Choose on that basis.
But if you're setting up a centralized server, you might consider Netty over both.  NIO might help your throughput.  Per Joakim Erdfelt below, Jetty uses NIO as well.  Thank you for the education and correction.  I don't know if Tomcat has followed suit.

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Reinhard Alex
Town in Saxony-Anhalt, eastern Germany, 16 km east of Dessau in the Elbe valley, and the site of Schloss Wörlitz and its extensive park, Germany's first garden of major importance in the English landscape style. This large park (112.5 ha) was created between 1764 and c. 1805 as part of the summer residence of Prince Francis Anhalt-Dessau , and it was open to the public from the very beginning. Its numerous early Neo-classical and neo-Gothic buildings, monuments and bridges in various styles are a programmatic reflection of the ideas of the Enlightenment. Thus the poplars of Ermenonville were faithfully reproduced, as was Jean-Jacques Rousseau's tomb (1782), while Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's advocacy of religious tolerance was reflected in a temple (1789–90) that was equipped as a synagogue (fittings stripped by the Nazis). The garden was largely conceived by Prince Francis himself and the architect Friedrich Wilhelm Erdmannsdorff , who were both profoundly influenced by travels in England and Italy; evidence of a lasting enthusiasm for Italy is seen in the Insel Stein (...
Dethard von Winterfeld
German city in Rhineland-Palatinate. The site was first settled by the Celts (as Borbetomagus) and later became a Roman garrison town (Civitas Vangionum) and the capital of the Vangiones region; sections of the forum walls still stand. In ad 413 Worms became the capital of the Burgundian kings, and as such was the setting for the Nibelungenlied (c. 1200), but it was destroyed by the Huns in 436. When it was rebuilt by the Merovingian kings, it also became the seat of a bishopric. In 1184 it became an imperial free city. Although Worms became very powerful and played an important role in the rivalries between the crown, the pope, and the dukes, very few buildings survive from the medieval period. The church of St Paul was built by Bishop Burchard (reg 1000–25), who was particularly influential in strengthening the bishopric. Only parts of the original 11th-century structure survive; the church was modified in the 13th century and partly rebuilt in the 18th. The cathedral (...
Anna Bentkowska
[Ger. Breslau ]
Polish city on the River Odra (Ger. Oder) in Lower Silesia, c. 300 km south-west of Warsaw. Wrocław developed on several islands in the river and on its south bank, originally as a trade centre on the amber route linking the Baltic Sea with the Roman Empire. A Slav settlement on Ostrów Tumski (Cathedral Island) is associated by some scholars with the Bohemian prince Vratislav I (reg ad 895–921). By 990 the town was ruled by the Piast princes, and a bishopric was established in 1000. Ostrów Tumski remained independent of the town, the south part of which was walled and moated. Romanesque architecture and sculpture flourished in Wrocław from the 12th century under the patronage of the magnate Piotr Włostowic (c. 1080–c. 1153), his wife Maria and Bishop Walter of Malonne (d 1169). In 1134 Maria Włostowic founded the Augustinian abbey and the church of the Virgin on Piasek Island. At nearby Ołbin, ...
Christian F. Otto
German city and capital of Lower Franconia, Bavaria. It is notable for its Baroque architecture, particularly that of Antonio Petrini in the 17th century and Balthasar Neumann in the 18th. The most notable building from this period is the Residenz, built by Neumann.
Würzburg, mentioned in a document of ad 704 as 'castellum Virteburh', is situated on the flat right bank of the River Main about halfway between Frankfurt am Main and Nuremberg. On the opposite bank rises a steep hill, the Marienberg, which takes its name from a circular church that was dedicated to the Virgin Mary in 706.
The see of Würzburg was established by St Boniface in 742, and a cathedral consecrated in Charlemagne's presence in 788. In 820 Emperor Louis the Pious granted toll privileges to the town market. As the town prospered the power of its bishops grew, and in 1030 they were granted jurisdiction over the market and the citizens' court. In the 11th century the cathedral of St Kilian was enlarged to its present external form of a Romanesque basilica with nave, aisles, transept and two west towers; two eastern towers of green sandstone, set in the angles between the transepts and the choir, modulate in section from square to octagonal....
[Wu-wei ; Liangzhou]
Chinese town in central Gansu Province, historically a major communications centre and military town on the Silk Route. From the Western Han period (206 bc–ad 9), Wuwei was an important frontier post guarding a strategic part of the Great Wall in the Hexi Corridor. A large garrison was stationed at the town, manning several outlying forts and watch-towers along the Silk Route. Many Han (206 bc–ad 220) documents written on bamboo slips have been found in several of the watchtowers around Wuwei. An important Han tomb (Leitai, nr Wumei) of ad 186–219 contained bronze figurines and models of chariots and horses, including a 'flying horse' (Lanzhou, Gansu Prov. Mus.; see China, People's Republic of §VII 3., (vi), (b) ).
During the Northern and Southern Dynasties period ( ad 310–589) Wuwei was the capital of several lesser states, including the Former Liang (313–76...
Henrik H. Sørensen
[Wu-hsi]
Chinese city situated at the confluence of Lake Tai and the Grand Canal, Jiangsu Province, previously an important centre of trade and the home of many merchant collectors of art.
During the Eastern Zhou period (771–256 bc) Wuxi was known for its deposits of tin, but by the time it had gained the status of a township and its present name, Wuxi ('without tin'), during the Western Han period (206 bc–ad 9), these deposits had been depleted. In the Three Kingdoms period ( ad 220–80) it became a sub-prefecture. From the Sui period ( ad 581–618) it was an important trade town at a junction in the network of canals and natural waterways that provided the essential means of transport in the area. The countryside around the town is highly fertile, and many kinds of crops are cultivated. From early times Wuxi was an important centre for the production of silk, although the weaving was normally done in neighbouring Suzhou....
Hans Peter Hilger
German town in North Rhine–Westphalia. It was the site of a Roman garrison and the town of Colonia Ulpia Traiana, and takes its name (Lat.: ad Sanctos) from the martyrs' tomb of c. ad 361–3, now underlying the collegiate church of St Victor (see §1 below); parts of the stone amphitheatre (2nd century ad) survive. The town prospered during the Middle Ages and the centre still retains its medieval plan and numerous medieval houses. Parts of the old enceinte also stand, including the twin-towered, double Klever Tor, dating from the 14th century. In the 12th century and later Xanten was culturally linked to Cologne, and objects in the treasury of St Viktor, including the reliquary shrine (1130) and the portable altar (c. 1175–80), are products of workshops on the Lower Rhine. A number of fine buildings in the town date from the 17th and 18th centuries....
Mary S. Lawton
[Sian, Hsi'an ; formerly Chang'an, Ch'ang-an]
Capital of Shaanxi Province, China, and most significant as the nucleus of an archeologically rich area, the artefacts of which document the remarkable continuity of Chinese civilization.
Xi'an is located in the fertile loess valley of the Wei River, which was settled as early as Paleolithic times (before c. 6500 bc). For over 1000 years the capital of the empire was intermittently located there (see fig. ). From the 2nd century ad to the 14th it marked the eastern terminus of the Silk Route and hence was especially open to new ideas introduced from Central Asia. The city was most important during the Tang period ( ad 618–907; see fig. (e)), when its cosmopolitan and tolerant cultural life reflected its significance as a trading centre. With the fall of the Tang, the city was largely destroyed; although it was rebuilt in the 14th century (f), it never regained its cultural primacy....
Haiyao Zheng
[Hsien-yang]
Town in Shaanxi Province, China, north-west of the city of Xi'an. Xianyang was the capital city of the state of Qin and then of the Qin dynasty (i.e. from 350 bc to 206 bc). The exact location of the old Qin capital is controversial. It has been argued convincingly that the remains are divided between Changling station, Yaodian Zhen and Dianshang cun, and that part of it is buried at the bottom of the Wei River, 15 km east of modern Xianyang.
Xianyang was set up as a capital by Prince Xiaogong (b 381 bc; reg 361–338 bc; d 338 bc). Qin Shi Huangdi, the 'First Emperor of Qin' (reg 221–210 bc), settled 120,000 wealthy families there and had extravagant palaces built for himself. When the Qin were defeated the city was burnt by the Chu rebel leader Xiang Yu. Under the Han dynasty (...
Alain Thote
[Hsin-yang]
City and district in southern Henan Province, China. Two large tombs, generally considered to date from the 4th century bc, were found at Changtaiguan, north of the city of Xinyang. Tomb 1 probably belonged to a dignitary of the southern state of Chu .
The two tombs, like those at Changsha in Hunan Province and at Shou xian in Anhui Province, display many features typical of Chu culture and are a testament to its widespread influence. They have wooden, compartmentalized 'outer coffins', like the tombs found in the Jiangling region. Although pillaged before they were discovered in 1956, the tombs contained a sizeable number of personal effects in a reasonably well-preserved state, those in Tomb 1 of a higher quality than those in Tomb 2. Notable are a peal of 13 bronze bells; some zither fragments painted with hybrid animals, dragons, hunters with bows and arrows, and musicians; and two wooden lacquered sculptures of guardian animals (h. 1.52 and 1.28 m) with protruding eyes, tongues hanging down on to their chests and heads crowned with antlers. The coffins were lacquered, as were many other items, such as earthenware and wooden objects (more than 200 pieces), the backs of bronze mirrors and carved figures. In addition to the commonly used black and vermilion, gold, silver and other colours were employed for some motifs. A large drum stand, typical of Chu design, is in the form of two birds with long necks, standing back-to-back and perched over two crouching tigers (1.62×1.40 m). Next to a group of bamboo strips, some of which recorded the personal effects in Tomb 1, was a collection of utensils used to shape the bamboo prior to writing....
Annemarie Esche and Pierre Pichard
[Rangoon; anc. Dagon]
Capital city and major port of Burma, on the Rangoon River in the fertile delta of the Irrawaddy in Lower, or southern, Burma. Rangoon is built on the site of the ancient Mon city of Dagon, first mentioned in chronicles of the 11th century. The city was given its present name, meaning 'end of strife', by the founder of the Burman Konbaung dynasty, Alaungpaya (reg 1752–60), after his defeat of the Mon kingdom of Pegu. It became the capital in 1885, when Burma was finally annexed by the British, and was a major colonial centre for the next half-century. Some fine houses and the Strand Hotel (1901; by John Darwood) date from the colonial period (see Burma 2.). At the centre of the city's grid plan is the Sule stupa, remarkable for the fact that the octagonal shape of the base is continued up to the bell. The ...
Jin Ying
[ Yangchow ; Yang-chou ]
Chinese city in Jiangsu Province, located on the main route between north China and the southern Yangzi delta, between the Huaihe River system and the Yangzi River. Yangzhou is also the main focus of an extensive canal system in northern Jiangsu. In 486 bc Fucai, king of the state of Wu, organized the construction of the Han'gou Canal to connect the Huai and Yangzi rivers for grain shipping and built the first city here. The city was rebuilt in 319 bc during the Warring States period (403–221 bc) under the name of Guangling. At the beginning of the 7th century ad Emperor Yangdi of the Sui dynasty ( ad 581–618) built the Grand Canal and toured the city three times in his short reign.
The combination of a mild climate, moderate rainfall and fertile soil has made Yangzhou and its surroundings a land of abundant produce, and its port on the Grand Canal made it a hub of land as well as water transport. By the Tang period (618–907) it was the most important port for domestic and overseas voyages and trade in eastern China. The monk Jianzhen set off from Yangzhou for his various attempts at the sea crossing to Japan, and the Japanese monk Ennin arrived here. Tang-period poets visited Yangzhou and wrote about it. The Song-period literary leaders Quyang Xiu and Su Shi were once mayors of the city. Through the Song (...
Yapahuva
Raja de Silva
[Yāpāhuva ; Pali: Subha-pabbata ; Sundara-pabbata ; Yasa-pabbata]
Sri Lankan site and capital city in the 13th century. Built around an outcrop of rock 90 m high, Yapahuva originated as a Buddhist cave monastery in the last centuries bc. The site came to prominence in the early 13th century as a defence station during the south Indian and Malay invasions. After the routing of the invaders, a well-fortified palace was built that served as the seat of Bhuvanekabahu I (reg 1272–84). Yapahuva was then sacked by a Pandya general, Aryachakravatti, and subsequently abandoned.
The defences exposed by excavation are roughly circular in plan and consist of two ramparts and two moats that abut the great rock on its south side. Gateways are located on the eastern and western sides. A broad flight of steps over the southern side of the outer rampart leads to the outer city. More or less in line with these steps is an ornamental ...
D. O. Shvidkovsky
City and regional centre in Russia, c. 280 km north-east of Moscow at the confluence of the rivers Kotorosl and Volga. It was founded c. 1010 by Prince Yaroslav I (reg 1019–54); from 1218 it served as the capital of the Yaroslavl' principality, which was subjugated to Moscow in 1463. In the 18th and 19th centuries it was a provincial capital.
In the 11th and 12th centuries Yaroslavl' consisted of a small fortress with earthen and wooden ramparts. Trade along the Volga led to its expansion, and in the 13th century a settlement grew up around the kremlin, including 17 wooden churches (destr.) and the monastery of the Saviour with its stone cathedral of the Transfiguration (1216). A stone cathedral of the Dormition (1215) was also built within the kremlin. In 1238 the town was ravaged by the Tatars and then restored. From the early 13th century to the early 14th Yaroslavl' also served as a major centre of icon production. One of the most colourful examples from this period is the ...
[ Yezd ]
City in central Iran on the western edge of the central desert. Dependent on a system of underground aqueducts (Pers. qanāt), Yazd was an agricultural centre that flourished in the Middle Ages as an entrepôt on the trade route between Central Asia and the Gulf. The city, which was originally called Katha, dates at least from Sasanian times ( ad 226–645) when it was an important centre of Zoroastrianism. In the 7th century ad it was captured by Muslim forces. Although never a capital, it had a long and important tradition of architectural patronage in the Islamic period, which is extensively reported in local chronicles. In the 10th century it had a fortified citadel and houses built of unbaked brick. The tomb known as Duvazdah Imam ('Twelve imams'; 1037–8) is notable for its early use of the trilobed squinch, a device that became a hallmark of architecture in Iran in the 11th and 12th centuries (...
M. I. Andreyev
[formerly Sverdlovsk]
Russian town and regional centre in the Urals, 1670 km east of Moscow. Between 1924 and 1991 it was known as Sverdlovsk. The town, named in honour of Empress Catherine I (reg 1725–7), was founded in 1721 on the Iset' River by the statesman and historian Vasily Tatishchev (1686–1750), together with the large Isetsky Metallurgical Factory, and was intended as an industrial, cultural and trading centre. Since the mid-18th century, Yekaterinburg has been renowned for the manufacture of stoneware, lamps and boxes made from jasper, malachite, rhodonite and porphyry, as well as for icons and carved iconostases by local artists. The Iset', which runs north–south through the town, now forms a series of interconnecting reservoirs, of which the largest is the Upper Iset' reservoir. Water from the river was formerly diverted to power the factory's engines. The regular street network, typical of an 18th-century fortified Ural factory-town, was reinforced in new general plans for the town proposed in ...
Russian town in Siberia on the central course of the Yenisei River, c. 3400 km east of Moscow. It was founded in 1619 by Siberian Cossacks as a military fortress on the hilly left bank of the river. Until the early 19th century the town was the administrative and trading centre of an area (kray) and a centre for bone-carving, icon-painting and silverware. Despite the town's size, only wooden houses and churches were built until the beginning of the 18th century; brick was introduced only after devastating fires in 1702 and 1730. Churches dominate the panorama from the river. The cathedral of the Epiphany (1730–50s) in the town centre has a tall, pillar-shaped bell-tower and lavishly decorated side chapel in the Siberian Baroque style. East of this lies the church of the Resurrection (1730s–40s), decorated with ribbon brickwork. The church of the Dormition (late 18th century–early 19th), situated on a hill in the west of the town, has an elegant Baroque façade. The cathedral of the Saviour (1750s) stands within the monastery of the Transfiguration (founded 17th century), which is one of the oldest in Siberia. Its windows are framed by ceramic tiles in the form of rosettes, spirals and volutes. The gates (1780s) of the monastery have Baroque decoration. Some distance from the river lies the church of the Trinity (1770s–80s), which is decorated with finely traced brickwork. From ...
Rose Kerr
Town in Jiangsu Province, China, situated c. 5 km west of Lake Tai, famous during the Qing period (1644–1911) and the 20th century for its high-quality teawares made of red stoneware. Most of the kilns lie to the south of Yixing in the village of Dingshuzhen.
It has been tentatively established that the earliest purplish-red Yixing stonewares were produced as early as the Song period (960–1279); examples include two pear-shaped vessels with dark purplish stoneware body and partial olive-brown glaze, found in a disused well in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, in 1961 (see Lo, p. 15). Excavations in that area have revealed kilns as well as sherds of coarse red stoneware, including many fragments of teaware. The production of Yixing wares is first well documented for the mid-16th century (e.g. teapot from the tomb of the court official Wu Jing (d 1533); Nanjing, Jiangsu Prov. Mus.). It was at this time that the names of individual potters were first recorded. They adopted the practice for which Yixing became famous, that of marking their wares with their own signatures (e.g. hexagonal red stoneware teapot signed by ...
J. Dumarçay
[Jogjakarta ; Jokjakarta ; Djogdjakarta ; Djokjakarta]
Indonesian city on the River Code in southern Central Java. A few kilometres to the south are Kerta, the capital of Sultan Agung of Mataram (reg 1613–45), destroyed by fire in 1634, and Plered, the capital of Sultan Amangkurat I (reg 1645–77), abandoned in 1680. The Mataram court was re-established in Kartasura, near Surakarta to the north, but disputes over succession led in 1755 to the division of the kingdom into two and the foundation of the two sultanates of Surakarta and Yogyakarta, the latter under the rule of Sultan Hamengkubuwono I (Mangkubumi). The city can be divided into two more or less concentric parts, the sultan's palace (kraton), within its grounds, and the town around it. The palace was sacked by the British in 1812 and largely rebuilt from 1814. There remain, however, several parts from the 18th century; the most complete and the only dated one is the brick Masjid Selo (Stone Mosque), built in ...
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How do you spot Alzheimer's? Neuroscientist, author behind 'Still Alice' explains
13 Feb How do you spot Alzheimer's? Neuroscientist, author behind 'Still Alice' explains
Posted at 19:40h in Uncategorized by Family Tree Cares Admin
In Lisa Genova's bestselling novel "Still Alice," a linguist with early-onset Alzheimer's navigates her symptoms with her husband and three adult children. The book has raised awareness about the disease and its film adaptation is getting its own spotlight during this year's Oscar season.
But Alzheimer's disease, which affects 5 million Americans and their families, still has no known cure. Genova, who is also a neuroscientist, joined Jeffrey Brown to discuss the disease's symptoms and how different people react to them.
Here is an excerpt from their conversation.
Jeffrey Brown: How do you recognize the symptoms of someone with Alzheimer's, someone around you? And what do you do?
Lisa Genova: Okay, well this is what everyone's terrified of, right? Because you've probably within the last day or two, walked into a room and thought "Why did I come in here?" or "Where are my keys?" or "Oh, what's his name?" So that tip of the tongue "Oh, what's his name?" The average 25-year-old experiences that three to four times a week and that does increase as we age. And yet with Alzheimer's, it's something slightly different.
So the signs are like, you can't remember the name, and then you don't have the first letter, you don't have the number of syllables. It doesn't then just pop into your head an hour while you're driving down the street. It's not going to come on the tip of your tongue ever. Keys, you can't find the keys and when you do, you don't remember what they're for. Or you find them and they're in the refrigerator or somewhere strange.
Most of us, when we can't find our keys, it actually isn't a memory problem, it's an attention problem. You're doing five things at once and you never actually paid attention to where you put them in the first place. So you start experiencing memory impairments that's really drastically different from the kinds of memory impairments than the kinds we're used to. And you recognize that.
Jeffrey Brown: Is there any point where you say to yourself, "Now I must go see a doctor or get tested?" What did you find?
Lisa Genova: Well for everyone, it's different. A lot of the people that I met with early onset who were like Alice, knowing you're lost in a place that looks familiar. This is a place I've been to a hundred times or a thousand times or my whole life.
And the words just drop out. Something that's so out of the norm for you, is usually when the conversation starts to get real. And for someone young, it's usually not a straight and narrow path to diagnosis because there are other things that can cause dementia and memory impairment and cognitive problems and you want to rule those treatable causes out first.
Jeffrey Brown: And what about family members seeing someone or watching someone? What did people tell you that you talked to? And what did you see yourself?
Lisa Genova: You know, surprisingly, for the people that I know with Alzheimer's, it was usually the people themselves with Alzheimer's that drove the decision to get an answer before other people.
Jeffrey Brown: Really?
Lisa Genova: I think this is such a hard thing to face. Internally, you know what's going on better than anyone else. I know that my grandmother probably knew that she had Alzheimer's before we did. She was just… she wasn't a complainer. And she was tough and very intellectually agile. So she moved around her symptoms in very sort of creative ways for a long time.
I think people surrounding someone with Alzheimer's, the people I've seen and had experience with, don't push the process forward. They're happier to retreat and be in denial or look the other way. No one wants this to happen to anyone that they love.
Brown also talked to Genova on what inspires her fiction.
Jeffrey Brown: You've continued writing other works that pick up on the theme of understanding disease and what's happening around us in our lives through fiction.
Lisa Genova: Yeah, so my training's in neuroscience, which is kind of a bizarre thing for a novelist. So I'm using that and it's absolutely what I care about and am passionate about. So I write stories that are accessible, about people living with neurological diseases or disorders that are ignored, feared or misunderstood.
Jeffrey Brown: And now what's the latest project?
Lisa Genova: The book that's coming out in April is called "Inside the O'Briens." It's about a blue collar, Irish Catholic family from Charlestown, Massachusetts, dealing with Huntington's Disease. So Huntington's is a neurodegenerative disease. It's 100 percent genetic, so if mom or dad have it, each kid has a fifty-fifty shot of getting it. I was 22 years old in a neuroscience lab in the Charlestown Navy Yard when the lab down the hall in February of '93 when all these nerdy neuroscientists start screaming and yelling and celebrating. They had just isolated the genetic mutation that causes Huntington's Disease.
Jeffrey Brown: Wow.
Lisa Genova: And I remember sort of being still and getting that full-body chill and knowing that I was witnessing a historic moment in science and thinking, "My God, they're gonna cure this disease." Because it's the only thing that causes it. And we're 22 years later and there's still no treatment and still no cure. Part of the issue is that there are only about 33,000 people in the U.S. that have this. So it's called an orphan disease. If you're a drug company, and you could go after Alzheimer's, which has 5 million Americans or Huntington's that has 30,000, what do you put your investment in? And yet only one thing that causes it. So it's called the most curable incurable disease. So, I wrote this book in part to raise some awareness and urgency around this disease that isn't paid attention to.
Jeffrey Brown: Alright, Lisa Genova, thank you very much.
Lisa Genova: Thank you.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/how-do-you-spot-alzheimers-neuroscientist-behind-still-alice-explains/


These are Joy's grandmother's last words—left behind on a note. A note that Joy's mother, Grace, has interpreted as instructions for her memorial service. And so, the far-flung clan will gather at their inn on Little Island, Maine, to honor her.
Joy can't help dreading the weekend. Twenty years ago, a tragedy nearly destroyed the family—and still defines them. Joy, Grace, her father Gar, and twins Roger and Tamar all have their parts to play. And now Joy, facing an empty nest and a nebulous future, feels more vulnerable than ever to the dangerous currents running through her family.
Little Island is a finely weaved but thoroughly complicated set of layered emotions. I found it initially difficult to get attached to any member of the Little family, which was unfortunate, because the story held so much promise. The delay in attachment was probably because they were all introduced a little bit at a time I didn't immediately find any of them interesting so I was worried about the rest of the novel. However, I pushed myself to keep reading and discovered that Britton had indeed written a novel with depth of character and a very intriguing plot.
The Little family is so consumed by the tragedies of the past that they're carrying around a load of baggage, it was hard to feel like there would ever be a light hearted moment and yet we were encouraged to believe that there used to be family warmth between them. The easiest character for me to relate to was the mother, Grace, as she was obviously grieving the death of her own mother and clearly needed time and space to process her loss and try to envision the next stage of her life without her support system- Britton's development of Grace was the most understandable for me, and I really liked her husband too.
The children- Joy, Roger and Tamar are all very tough to love though. Joy is lost as her only child is leaving for college and she can't fathom what to now do with her life. Roger is getting over several addictions it seems and can't stay on track and Tamar is just completely self-absorbed. I was so angry reading Tamar's portions of the novel that I started skimming her sections. Her poor daughters were literally abandoned repeatedly and I just couldn't take it. I wish her husband had been given more of a voice in the novel- perhaps it would have explained more about Tamar's lack of interest in her twins?
Had I been given each person's introduction more concisely from the start I'd probably rate this one a 4 star just because the story was well told (if a little drawn out) but the characters were, on the whole, not very likeable so I just couldn't warm to them as much as I would have liked.
I wish the family secret had been let out earlier in the story, the Little's could then have had a chance to put themselves back together and I would have had time to love them.
Thank you to Berkeley Trade for our review copy. All opinions are our own.


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Q: Browsing sessions in Opera are no longer saved on next Opera startup After a long time of using Opera web browser without any issues, a really annoying one appeared today. I had about 10-15 tabs open for my regular use when I am surfing internet. The setting that I used has always been :
On startup : Continue where I left off

But today when I started Opera, my last browsing session was not there, and only an empty "start page" appeared. History however is saved properly. I also reinstalled Opera but it didn't help. I actually don't know what version was previously ( if it auto updates then probably latest ). But current version is 23.0.1522.60 . I have Win 7 x64.
I thought it could be an exceptional occurrence, so I tried opening a few tabs, and restarting Opera. But same thing happened, and browsing sessions are no longer saved.
Has anyone experienced that before or knows how to solve this issue ?


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Interview: Dee Wallace
I really enjoyed my interview with Dee Wallace, minions. She was sweet, funny, and full of stories that I could have listened to her tell all day. I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I did doing it. The woman who says you can have it all. The incomparable actress, author and motivational speaker, Dee Wallace. Make sure to visit her site , it's truly inspirational.
Blood, Babes, and Beasties : Zombeavers
Zombeavers 1hr 17 min. Released 20 March 2015 Zombeavers is a fun and cheesy watch that's full of blood, mostly naked, over-sexed babes, and plenty of beasties in the form of zombie beavers. (That's actual, water-dwelling critters - not the metaphorical kind.) If you're into old school '80s horror camp with surprisingly good production values, as well as some cleverly written cheese, this one's for you. Zombeavers was directed by Jordan Rubin; written by Al Kaplan, Jon Kaplan, and Jordan Rubin; and stars Rachel Melvin, Cortney Palm, Lexi Atkins, Hutch Dano, Jake Weary, Peter Gilroy, Rex Linn, Brent Briscoe, Phyllis Katz, Bill Burr, and John Mayer. Once you've seen it, you'll want a sequel with even more beavers - zombie beavers that is.