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This post continues the thread begun with Present Zuvuya of Prophecies Future
Muwaan Mat: The Progenitor and the Avatar
Muwaan Mat is one of the key figures of both the myth and the history of ancient Palenque. As a mythical ancestor Muwaan Mat is the progenitor of the Ux Lut K'uh, Palenque's holy trinity, or "three-born-together-gods". As a historical ruler Muwaan Mat acceded to the throne of Palenque during the city's darkest hour, when, under continual attack from the formidable Calakmul and allies, it's royal bloodline had been severed and it's independence seriously threatened. Once having secured the throne, this avatar of the ancient one soon guided a young Pakal to his own accession, which took place just a few years later when the two began a joint rulership that lasted through the end of the katun (184.108.40.206.0), after which time Pakal stepped into full authority. I think we all know how that worked out.
Because the texts of Pakal's funerary chamber conflate Muwaan Mat the avatar with Pakal's mother Ix Sak K'uk', it is thought that the actual human personality behind the mythical persona was Ix Sak K'uk' herself; just as Muwaan Mat gave birth to the Ux Lut K'u, so Ix Sak K'uk' gave birth to Pakal.
As I have mentioned previously, Muwaan Mat the progenitor gave birth to the Ux Lut K'uh at the same time of year that Mawaan Mat the avatar, Sak K'uk', acceded to the throne of Palenque. In fact, Sak K'uk's accession took place directly within the short four-day window of the emanations of the triad's two firstborn, Palenque's hero twins, and this four-day window also corresponds to the piktun coronation 220.127.116.11.0.8 5 Lamat:
Ux Lut K'uh twin emanation:
184.108.40.206.2 9 Ik' = Moon 4 day 2
18.104.22.168.6 13 Kimi = Moon 4 day 6
Muwaan Mat Sak K'uk' accession:
220.127.116.11.18 9 Etz'nab = Moon 4 day 3
Piktun coronation:
22.214.171.124.0.8 = Moon 4 day 4-6
(Those not yet aware may also be interested to learn that the Dreamspell kin of the emanation of The Great One on 9 Ik' is Red Spectral Moon. The twin is 2 Skywalker. The birth of the triplet Unen K'awiil will be mentioned briefly below, and at more length another time.)
Taking a look at the 13-baktun Wave Harmonic of History, note that Muwaan Mat's genesis of the Ux Lut K'uh took place between the completion of the 38th and 39th katuns, correlate kin 38 and 39, same as the Dreamspell kin of the piktun (188.8.131.52.0.0 = Dreamspell kin 38-40):
184.108.40.206.2 = Katun 39 = correlate kin 39
Then, not long after giving birth (well, not long for someone nearly 800 years of age) the progenitor was seated in rulership on 126.96.36.199.2 9 Ik, Dreamspell kin 80 — the first occurrence of kin 80 following the completion of 40 katuns:
Muwaan Mat accession 188.8.131.52.2 (= 40 katuns + 202 days) = kin 80
80 = 40 x 2; 80 calendar rounds = 40 Venus rounds
(As noted previously this took place on Moon 2 day 14, the same time of year at which the piktun's galactic alignment currently takes place.)
Solar-Galactic Synchronization 27:53
As is well known, the piktun coronation will coincide with the completion of 80 calendar rounds, 80 x 52 x 365 days, from the day of Pakal's accession. A parallel circumstance that seems to have gone unnoticed until now is this: The piktun coronation sequence will also mark 80 solar-galactic cycles, 80 x 52 tropical years, from the accession of Pakal's predecessor Muwaan Mat Sak K'uk', which took place exactly 27 solar-galactic cycles ago today as I am writing this:
Accession of Muwaan Mat Sak K'uk' 18.104.22.168.18 9 Etz'nab = Moon 4 day 3, kin 45
+ 27 solar-galactic cycles =
Today = Moon 4 day 3, kin 45
+ 53 solar-galactic cycles =
Piktun coronation day 5-7 = 220.127.116.11.0.5 4 Manik = Moon 4 day 3, kin 45
As you can see, this puts us in very powerful resonance with the 80 cycles today and for the next few to follow, right at the harmonic position 27:53.
This is also currently the sidereal position of the beginning of the long count creation era:
184.108.40.206.0 4 Ajaw 8 Kumk'u = Moon 1 day 17
Moon 1 day 17 + 73 days (= sidereal drift over 13 baktuns) = Moon 4 day 5
Witnesses of 80 Rounds
As discussed previously in the essay "Planetary Enchantment and the Turn of the Piktun", the cycle of 80 rounds was also observed by the Mixtec Lord Eight Deer, who performed a very special New Fire ceremony to mark the completion of 80 solar-galactic cycles from the beginning of the long count era. Note that rather than timing the observance precisely to the zero day, 4 Ajaw 8 Kumk'u (Moon 1 day 17), Eight Deer's 80-cycle ceremony took place 15 days earlier on Moon 1 day 2, the solar anniversary of Pakal's accession, from which the 80 calendar rounds to the piktun coronation are reckoned:
Pakal's accession 126.96.36.199.8 5 Lamat = Moon 1 day 2 — 80 rounds begin
+ 432 years =
Mixtec New Fire 10.11.0.9.13 9 Ben = Moon 1 day 2 — 80 rounds complete
Eight Deer's nominal birth sign (8 Deer) is the Mixtec equivalent of 8 Manik, kin 47, Dreamspell sign of the piktun coronation:
188.8.131.52.0.8 5 Lamat = Dreamspell kin 46-48 = Eight Deer equivalent
(Of course the number 47 is central to the prophecy codes of Palenque as I have previously covered in detail.)
Further connecting Lord Eight Deer with this synchronization, he lived to the age of 52 years, precisely one solar-galactic cycle. For his part, Pakal lived to the age of 80 years. So we have the two factors of the 80×52 cycle coded right into the lifespans of the two cycle witnesses Pakal and Lord Eight Deer.
Into the Pyramid Hologram
This brings us to the number matrices of Valum Votan known as the Synchronotron 21:21. This information, released in the final years of Valum's life, is based on a template of 21 x 21 = 441 "Base Matrix Units" (BMUs). Of these 441 units, note that the outermost circuit is composed of 80:
Additionally, these 80 outer units are of two primary types: 52 correspond to what Valum referred to as "outer time", while the remaining 28 correspond to "radial time" — the key factors 52 and (52 + 28 =) 80 once again.
(I don't claim to have all the answers, but "outer time" might be thought of as sequentiality, and "radial time" as present awareness.)
In this light we might view the number 80 as an integration of the dynamics of "outer time" with those of "radial time", in preparation for entry into the higher dimensional 19:19: Pyramid Hologram.
As the Galactic Wizard Gar 34 has shown, the primary interdimensional hologram is actually a matrix of 19 x 19 units corresponding to the inner 361 units of the 21:21. (21 x 21 = 441; 441 – 80 = 361 = 19 x 19). It was only after the 80 years of his life, his journey through the realm of outer manifestation, that Pakal entered within his Pyramid of Ascension; just as Pakal ascended during his 81st year, so the portal into the 19:19 hologram corresponds to Synchronotron BMU 81.
As Gar has further shown, these patterns are entrained into an even more elaborate matrix — the OMG 33:33. Nested within the center of this matrix of 33 x 33 (= 1089 total) units, the 19:19 Pyramid Hologram begins on OMG unit 729. We may then draw the following equivalencies:
Pyramid Hologram unit 1 = BMU 81 = OMG 729
As discussed in Gar's previous article "The Prophecy of the Pyramid and the Cube Part 4: The Infra-Cube", the two numbers 81 and 729 happen to be, respectively, the square and cube of the number 9:
9 x 9 = 81
9 x 9 x 9 = 729
Nine, of course, is itself the square of 3:
3 x 3 = 9
This primary matrix of 3 takes us back through the proto-historical roots of these types of interdimensional wisdom teachings to the Lo Shu ("the writing of the River Lo") of ancient China, a magic square diagram said to have arisen from the waters of the Lo River on the back of a turtle. (Thanks Turtle! As if the thirteen moons wasn't enough!)
This same fractal pattern is manifest in both the Synchronotron 21 and the OMG 33 (21 x 21 = 9 x 49; 33 x 33 = 9 x 121), perfectly harmonized by the 19:19 Pyramid Hologram, which begins with the interdimensional integration of the powers of 9:
19:19 Hologram unit 1 = BMU 9×9 = OMG 9x9x9
Looking further into the relationship of the matricies of 21 and 33, note that Synchronotron BMU 33 is equivalent in the (Synchronic Matrix) Buk Xok tzolkin overlay to kin 81.
Furthermore, as explained by Valum in his Intergalactic Bulletin 3, the Synchronotron practice involves a "radial method" of meditation, in which there are "8 radially organized sets of numbers that are to be committed to memory and imprinted. … In each set of 8 there are 10 numbers. Adding the 441, means that there are 81 frequencies or master units."
8 x 10 = 80 radial units + 1 zero point 441 = 81. So again we see the outer manifestation of the 80 and an interdimensional shift at 81.
(Also, the bulletin was written by Valum on the 81st galactic return of the discovery of Pakal's tomb.)
The number 81 is also known as the "Palenque Moon Ratio" — a precise equivalence of 81 synodic lunations to 2392 days (2392 / 81 = 29.53086… days) evident in the city's inscriptions. This ratio also informs the Dresden Codex eclipse table, an almanac of 405 = 81 x 5 lunations, or approximately 33 years. (405 lunations = 32 years and 272 days.)
The Pythagorean Tetraktys, The Platonic Lambda, and Harmonic 27
Another number matrix with potential relevance to this discussion is the Pythagorean Tetraktys, especially as elaborated upon by later schools of Greek thought. Not to take anything away from their incredible mathematical achievements, but the ancient Greeks didn't have a fully developed concept of mathematical zero; the Tetraktys may be the closest they came to such a thing, and, at least from a philosophical standpoint, it's not really that far off; it is, in essence, a formal demonstration of the equivalence of the monad (one) to the decad (ten). One and ten are considered to be the same thing, not unlike the case of our modern decimal system in which the only difference between 10 and 1 is the addition of a zero (or the placement of the decimal point). There's plenty to explore with the Tetraktys, but for our purposes here, the key permutation is what's known as the Platonic Lambda, which developed out of Pythagorean interpretations of Plato's Timaeus and was codified no later (although probably much earlier) than the 2nd century AD by Nichomachus of Gersa.
The Platonic Lamda has two orders of progression, one of binary doubling (1, 2, 4, and 8) down the left side of the Tetraktys and the other of trinary tripling (1, 3, 9, 27) down the right side. While we've covered the numbers 3 and 9 and their relationship to the numbers 81 and 729 in the discussion above, note that 27 was the missing harmonic interval:
3 x 3 = 9
3 x 3 x 3 = 27
9 x 9 = 3 x 27 = 81
9 x 9 x 9 = 27 x 27 = 729
Could it then be more than happenstance that the position of the number 27 at the bottom right of the Tetraktys diagram is analagous to the position of the numbers 81 and 729 at the bottom right of the 19 matrix?
(Note on semantics: I say "bottom right" in order to facilitate the reader's ability to locate the numbers I'm talking about. In terms of Synchronotron meditation it's actually front left.)
Recall that we are, right now, exactly 27 solar-galactic cycles from the accession of Muwaan Mat, on our way to 80 at turn of the piktun. This means that the 53 cycles that we are now entering begin with the completion of 27, and reach completion at the beginning of 81.
Solar-Galactic Synchronization 27 + 53 = 80
80 + 1 = 27 x 3
As my previous essay "Planetary Enchantment and the Turn of the Piktun" demonstrates, this 81st cycle will start out with some incredible celestial synchronizations, including a full solar eclipse in alignment with galactic center and a special Lord of the Dawn Venus emergence, all before the end of the 11 Storm year.
The Cube in the Cross
Before concluding let's have a look at one more ancient source of these codes: the pecked crosses of Mesoamerica. These designs, made of small holes carved in stone, are fairly widespread throughout Mesoamerica, not specific to any one culture (although the only site I can specifically name off the top of my head is Teotihuacan), and take on a number of different shapes and styles, although the common feature is that of bisecting perpendicular lines and an outer radius, usually in the form of two concentric circles. I'm not even going to say anything about the outer radius, because I seem to get a different number every time I try to count them, but based on the photographs and drawings that I have examined, most of the crosses appear to be composed of 4 radial arms of 20 units each, plus one central point: 20 x 4 + 1 = 80 + 1. However, there seems to have been a variable version or versions, one of which was 4 radial arms of 10 units plus the center point; in other words, two bisecting perpendiculars of length 21, defining a square equivalent to the Synchronotron 21:21. Actually, if you look closely at the drawing above, the one on the right, you can see that it looks to be a hybrid of the matrix of 21 and the matrix of 19, and similar in form to the rune Gar 33. Sloppy rendering, or signs of the masters' travels through time?— you tell me.
Birth of the Bab: Sacred Day of the 19:19
Today also happens to be a sacred day for those of Baha'i faith, the solar return of their prophet the Bab. The solar return of the other central figure of the faith, Baha'u'llah, will be observed in 23 days on Moon 4 day 26. Notice that these two figures were both born within the 33-day alignment window between Spica/Arcturus and the Pleiades with which this series of posts is engaged. The timing, in terms of the anniversaries, is not unlike that of Palenque's Ux Lut K'uh:
Emanation of The Great One 22.214.171.124.2 9 Ik = Moon 4 day 2
Birth of the Bab = Moon 4 day 3
Emanation of Unen K'awiil 184.108.40.206.0 1 Ajaw = Moon 4 day 20
Birth of Baha'u'llah = Moon 4 day 26
The Baha'i faith shares many values in common with PAN, one being that of a harmonic standard of time. The Baha'i calendar is composed of a primary yearly cycle of 19 months of 19 days, the same mathematical code as the 19:19 Pyramid Hologram.


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© 1993 Richard Russo; (P) 2003 Random House, Inc.
"Russo is a master craftsman....The blue-collar heartache at the center of [his] fiction has the sheen of Dickens but the epic levity of John Irving....Nobody's Fool is a big, rambunctious novel with endless riffs and unstoppable human hopefulness." (The Boston Globe)
"...confident, assured novel sweeps the reader up in the daily life of its characters." (San Francisco Chronicle)
"A delight." (Library Journal)
"A man's book...."
First of all, the narrator was AMAZING! He brought the book ALIVE with his ability to make you "see" all the characters in a scene. He made each character sound different and even did a great job on women's voices. Kudos to Ron McLarty!
Now for the book: For the first half,I kept feeling like quitting. It is so much a "man's" story that I couldn't relate. From a woman's point of view, the men's mismanagement of their lives, both practical and emotional, just grated on my nerves. Their idiotic abuse of their health (hard-drinking, smoking, not sleeping, taking painkillers etc), their stubbornness, their incomprehension of the women in their lives, their gambling, their cheating, etc., - it was all so foreign to me that I despaired of ever "getting into" the book. Furthermore, the town itself was depressing - the poverty, the unemployment, the falling-down buildings, the decay... It made me feel sad and hopeless.
However, I persisted, and, like other readers, I became fond of the characters and loved them in their flawed beauty. I went along for a reluctant ride, and like the residents of the town, kept wishing for an escape, some hope, maybe a salvation...
Finally, the journey neared its end, and I was hoping for a revelation to put everything into perspective, but that never happened. The ending is as low-key as it gets! The book seemingly could have stopped anywhere at all and had the same effect. Things never wrapped up! You get the feeling that all these crazy people will keep doing what they're doing - just like the rest of us! They are chained to their treadmill of life.
That said, I recognize the beauty and the genius of the writing. It is truly a work of great literature, and I will definitely be "reading" this author again. (Straight Man is my next choice from him.). This was a book of substance, a dissection of life, and the kind of book that always fascinates me - a delicious voyerism
I must also mention the humour in the book. There were several scenes that made me giggle. There was a kind of Larry David humour to the drunken interactions in the bar, or Sully's gentle handling of the "old ladies" in the story. I can see why this book was made into a movie - which I would like to watch, if I can find it!
If I had it to do over again, I still would, but there was effort involved in forcing myself to finish. Maybe that's what great literature is - requiring an effort to expand your knowledge of the breadth of human emotion.
"Highly recommend"
This has been a wonderful listening experiencing. The story and the characters were captivating. Can't say enough good things about this novel and my only regret is that it has ended. Humor is difficult to write but but Mr. Russo is a master. One of the best novels I've ever read. Lived it!
I really had great expectations for this book. Years ago read Empire Falls and loved it. I have listened to other books narrated by (and written by) this narrator, and he's great. I love getting into a long novel about small town life, interesting characters, and I had great hopes when I started listening to this one, especially after reading the stellar reviews. Unfortunately, I'm now giving up, with only four hours left to go . . . I keep trying to stick with it, but I just can't do it. The characters are static, the plot is just not interesting . . . the gruff voice the narrator uses for Sully, the main character, while authentic, is grating to listen to for so many hours. Sully has a lot of dialog! I just can't get excited about listening to old men (and I'm in their age group) talking to each other at work, at the cafe, at the bar, in the car, in the truck, etc. etc. etc. etc. I keep hoping Sully's relationship with his landlady, with his son, with his grandson, with his co-workers, etc. etc., will CHANGE, and maybe this will happen in the final four hours of the book, but I realize that I just can't bring myself to listen to four more hours. I'm disappointed, but being honest. I'm sorry, Sully!
"Excellent Book (Skip the movie)"
Yes, twice already!
Sully and Will.
Sully, of course, but Mrs Beryl was essential to the story. Loved her!!
Sorry, but I thought the film was a waste of my time. Maybe if I had not read the book I would have enjoyed it, However, the film only touched on this story. I was looking forward to the film. Paul Newman was the perfect choice for the Sully character. But it was only a teaser. If you have seen the movie, don't think you have "read the book". Not by a long shot!
"You Coulda Fooled Me!"
"Nobody's Fool" was one I'll remember for a long time. Not the best, but the characters tend to linger more than most. The banter and baiting are clever and the narrative is touching.
I loved the scene where Sully and his son are stealing the snowblower from his employer's lot. The sheer suspense and yet laugh-out-loud humor of the scene are really great comedy.
Hattie, the addled old woman who owned the diner, kept cropping up to point up Sully's actual rough tenderness.
Of course Donald Sullivan, or Sully, was the one to watch as he grew and changed even though past his fifties.
I did have a little trouble catching changes in who was speaking since I don't always hear some sound ranges well and there were a number of men for whom a gruff or rough tone was a part of who they were.
Spreadhead and Biblioholic.
"Even Better Than The Movie"
This is one of the best books I listened to this year. I had thoroughly enjoyed the movie and was worried that Ron McLarty's Sully would not equal up to Paul Newman's. This was a needless fear. McLarty came through as he always does, offering up Sully in a voice that conveys the same witty, resigned gruffness so central to the character of John Sullivan. Another element of the movie I loved, the full tableaux of interesting characters in the town of North Bath, is (not surprisingly) more fully and deeply explored in the novel. Add to this a few key events in the novel that were either left out of the movie or drastically altered and the experience is fresh even for someone who has seen the film multiple times. Bravo!
"My Candidate for Great American Novel"
Absolutely! I would listen to anything Ron McLarty reads and anything Richard Russo writes and that about says it all.
Real people living real lives good and bad. I have known them all.
The last "download" of the three. Buy the book and the listener will know why.
Once In Love With Sully
Having lived in upstate NY and rural PA all my life, these people are as genuine as it gets. Sully is your annoying neighbor, uncle and yes, perhaps father. One moment you think of strangling him and the next you want to bring him in and fry a hamburger. Warning! If you do not understand men and love them stay away from this book. Richard Russo has their banter down to a fare thee well.
I love to listen or read books...I have always got one or two books on the go at any one time. I am happily married, and live a quiet life.
I love Ron McLarty's voice and the way he tells the story, but I was very disappointed in this book, its hum drum to the point I would fall asleep listening to it. I never finished it.
"Getting to know your favorite uncle"
Insightful, fun, heartwarming
When I don't realize someone is reading to me, I consider the performance very well done
The moments when the characters (in particular Sully and his landlady) faced themselves "in all their glory" and made the choice to keep going, but with a deeper appreciation of those around them
Richard Russo has such ability to take the "invisible" people of society (the old lady in the big house, the bums at the diner counter or bar) and creates rich, interesting characters with incredible depth and background. He subtly equalizes all the members of our community as beings worthy of our attention, appreciation, and respect
"Headphones on & I looked crazy laughing aloud!"
This would be one of the most memorable books I've listened to out of almost 300...because I kept laughing outloud...bursting in to jolts of surprised laughter and looking a little crazy while listening on the bus!!
Sully is a character who just grows on you...it is like a deeper journey with one of the characters from "Grumpy Old Men." This character just continued to surprise me with his reactions and one liners to the very end.
This is definately a "character" novel...not a real plot driven story. Never the less the characterization (and the audio narration in particular) was so well developed with such perfect humour, that my enjoyment and shock at this character's personality just kept growing. Have to say a little disappointed with the end of the story, but still a very entertaining listen!
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Margaret Stohl revealed the cover for Icons which is coming out on May 7th 2013 from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.
Beautiful Creatures (Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl) is now playing in theaters.
J.A. Redmerski announced on her blog that The Edge of Never will be out in print on July 2 from Forever Romance. The print version will include a bonus which will be a 'crucial scene' from Andrew's point of view. She also revealed more information about the second book Grand Central Publishing ordered. It will be a sequel titled The Edge of Always.
Kelley Armstrong's The Rising had an exclusive book trailer reveal on USAToday, they also posted the first four chapters of the book.
Molly Harper posted a Valentines Day short story on her blog that is part of the Half-Moon Hollow world.
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Most foreigners who live in China learn not to tangle with China's most notorious and widely-drunk form of alcohol, baijiu. Some acquire this knowledge vicariously, the less-fortunate through hard-bitten experience.
Run-ins with baijiu have left friends in hospital, others close to comatose, and in the case of one Briton, prone in the aisle of an aircraft. His route to inebriation was not atypical: an extended lunchtime banquet following the inking of a power station financing deal in the mid-1990s.
The Brit was an accomplished drinker but late-night negotiation sessions had weakened him, and anyway baijiu has a kick all of its own and can catch the uninitiated unawares. By the time he and his colleagues escaped the banquet for the airport they were already losing ambulatory function. The cabin crew, obviously alerted in advance by local authorities, laid him in the aisle – ready for takeoff. He was still lying there when the plane landed.
Westerners' efforts to avoid baijiu could fill a thick book. The colorless firewater, usually served at banquets in deceptively small glasses has been discretely tossed over shoulders, poured onto carpeted floors, emptied into hidden bottles, surreptitiously tipped into soup tureens or watered down on the sly in between toasts. Some of the most hardened "Old China Hands" have invoked alleged cancer conditions, esoteric liver diseases, religious restrictions and pregnancy to escape the bitter side-effects of a determined effort by the Chinese members of the banquet party to get everyone plastered in the shortest time possible. A serious baijiu session, often unavoidable in certain parts of the country, can leave you sweating noxious fumes for days.
It is of course subjective, and there are clearly those who like the drink, but for me baijiu's only redeeming quality is that every glass tastes better than the last.
Depending on who you believe, baijiu (literally "white alcohol") has been around for anywhere between 600 and 5,000 years. Made from fermented grains, there are thousands of varieties with different tastes. The best examples are said to be sorghum-based. Alcohol content generally hovers between 40 and 60 percent, which explains its considerable impact on the unwary as well as on the long-term health of dedicated drinkers.
Shanghai and the coastal regions to the south have traditionally generally passed on baijiu, preferring the more mild huangjiu ("yellow rice wine"), which is made of rice. In the north and the west and in more remote areas, however, baijiu remains a mainstay of both recreational and official entertaining. In some places baijiu has thankfully largely been replaced by grape wine at banquets, or at least offered as an alternative. But the choice of either baijiu or red wine is often a polite feint, and your Chinese hosts may really want you to allow them to drink their local variety of baijiu. Depending upon where you are in negotiations that might be the wise thing to do.
Spare a thought, however, for the officials who have long borne baijiu's brunt. Shackled by cultural mores, there is often no escape. A Western former journalist recalls working with some officials in Gansu and Inner Mongolia a decade ago who are now dead because of the stuff. An unintended consequence of President Xi's crackdown on government entertainment is that it may save others. I occasionally wonder about the longevity of the two Chinese gentlemen who introduced me to baijiu.
I was flying from Beijing to Qingdao in the summer of 1999, and I was the only laowai aboard the plane. Foreigners in China were still something of a novelty, and two fellow passengers befriended me. After landing, they drove me to the city center, found me a hotel room, and offered to take me to a harborside restaurant for dinner. It was downhill from there.
Xu Ximao, Deputy Section Chief of the Foreign Enterprise Department of the Qingdao Council for the Promotion of Overseas Investment (I still have his name card), was proud of Qingdao's beer, and ordered bottle after bottle, all of which we drank. We raised our glasses to friendship, to our respective countries, to the fraternity of nations, to international harmony, to the Allies' defeat of Japan, to the port of Qingdao, to the Foreign Enterprise Department, and so on. Each celebration was punctuated with a cry of "ganbei" and an upending of glasses. Somewhere between these liquid inhalations we ate seafood. Then Mr. Xu asked the waiter for a bottle of baijiu.
Moments like these are tipping points. The wise veterans know what lies ahead and retreat. Neophytes press on, emboldened by the alcohol and an inflated sense of self-worth. After two hours of camaraderie and back-slapping I felt as if I had single-handedly erased the Chinese memory of the Opium War; that any further Anglo-Chinese rapprochement would be traced back to this very evening. The baijiu could only make things better.
Two shots were enough to ratchet up the evening's tempo. The baijiu tasted like hell but I didn't care. Mr. Xu and his colleague stood on their chairs and sang revolutionary songs. I responded with barely remembered English hymns. The other diners watched more closely as the antics degenerated. With each additional glass, Mr. Xu became more animated, his inner Bacchus unleashed. Soon he invited the neighboring diners to share a drink with us. Next, arms spread wide like a benevolent Caesar, he began summoning all the other patrons. Table by table they marched up. Shot-by-shot, yet another laowai passed into the void.


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University of Health Sciences UHS Lahore Past Paper of MCAT Chemistry
1) it is experimentally found that catalyst is used to
a) lower the activation energy
b) increase the activation energy
c) lower the pH
d) decrease the temperature of other reactants
2) carbon exists as allotropes, which are different crystalline molecular forms of the same substance.
Graphite and diamond are allotropes of carbon. Diamond is non-conductor while graphite is conductor
a) graphite has a layered structure
b) in graphite all valence electrons are tetrahedrally bounded
c) in graphite one of the valence electron is free to move
d) graphite is soft and greasy
3) when the elements of group 2A are exposed to air , they quickly become coated with layer of oxide.
What is the purpose of this oxide layer
a) the oxide layer exposes the metal to atmospheric attack
b) the oxide layer increases the reactivity of metal
c) the oxide layer protects the metal from further attack
d) the oxide layer gives the metal a shiny look
4) hydrogenation of unsaturated oils is done by using
a) finally divided nickel
b) finally divided iron
c) vanadium pentaoxide
d) copper
5) tick the correct statement
a) chelates are more stable than ordinary complexes
b) ordinary complexes are more stable than chelates
c) monodentate ligand form chelate
d) chelates have no ring structure
6) in contact process the catalyst used for conversion of SO2 to SO3 is
a) magnesium oxide
b) Aluminium oxide
c) silicon dioxide
d) vanadium pentaoxide
7) the unpolluted rain water is slightly acidic due to reaction of rain water with
a) Sulphur dioxide
b) oxides of nitrogen
c) carbon dioxide
d) hydrocarbons present in air
8) the compound with an atom which has an unshared pair of electron is called
a) nucleophile
b) electrophile
c) protophile
d) none of these
9) 1-chloropropane and 2-chloropropane are isomers of each other. The type of isomerism between
them is
a) Cis-trans isomerism
b) chain isomerism
c) positional isomerism
d) functional group isomerism
10) benzene in presence of ACl3 gives acetophenone when reacts with
a) acetyl chloride
b) acetic acid
c) ethyl benzene
d) ethanoic acid
11) the substitution of –H group by –NO2 group in benzene is called
a) nitration
b) ammonolusis
c) sulphonation
d) reduction of benzene
12) when purely alcoholic solution of sodium/potassium hydroxide and halogenalkane are refluxed an
alkene is formed :
CH3-CH2-Br (in presence of alcoholic KOH )— > CH2=CH2
what is the mechanism of the reaction
a) elimination
b) dehydration
c) debromination
d) nucleophilic substitution
13) organic compound carbon tetra chloride is used as
a) lubricant
c) oxidant
d) plastic
14) an alcohol is converted into an aldehyde with same number of carbon atoms in the presence of
K2CrO4/H2SO4 . the alcohol is
a) CH2C(CH)2OH
15)in the mass spectrometer ; detector or collector measures the :
a)masses of isotopes
b)percentages of isotopes
c)relative abundances of isotopes
d)mass numbers of isotopes
16)how many chlorine atoms are in 2 moles of Cl :
a)2 x 6.022×10^23 atoms
b)35.5 x 6.022×10^23 atoms
c)2×10^23 atoms
d)2×6.02×10^22 atoms
17)boiling point of water is higher than petrol , because intermolecular forces in water are :
a)weaker than petrol
b)stronger than petrol
c)same as in petrol
18)DNA molecule is double stranded , in which two chains of DNA are twisted around each other by:
a)hydrogen bonds
b)Van der Waal's forces
c)covalent bonds
d)dative bonds
19)the elements for which the value of ionization energy is low can:
a)gain electrons readily
b) gain electrons with difficulty
C)lose electron less readily
d) lose electron readily
20)the nature of cathode rays in discharge tube :
a)depends upon the nature of the gas used in discharge tube
b) depends upon the nature of the cathode used in discharge tube
c)is independent of the nature of the gas used in discharge tube
d) depends upon the nature of anode in the discharge tube
21)the ability of the atom in the covalent bond to attract the bonding electrons is called:
a)ionization energy
b)ionic bond energy
d)electron affinity
22)the paramagnetic character of substances is due to the presence of :
A)bond pairs of electrons
b)lone pairs of electrons
c)unpaired electrons in the atom or molecule
d)paired electrons in the valence shell of atoms
23)lattice energy of an ionic crystal is the enthalpy of:
24)mole fraction of any component is the ratio of moles of all components in a:
25)molarity is defined as the number of moles of solute of any substance dissolved:
a)per dm^3 of water
b)in one g of water
c)per m^3 of water
d)in 100 ml of water
26)in electrolytic cell a salt bridge is used in order to :
a)pass the electric current
b)prevent the flow of ions
c)mix solutions of two half cells
d)allow movement of ions b/w two cells
27)if in AgCl solution , some salt of NaCl is added , AgCl will be precipitated due to :
c)un saturation effect
d)common ion effect
28)if Ka for an acid is higher , the stronger is the acid , relate the strength of acid with pKa:
a)higher pKa , weaker the acid
b)lower pKa , stronger the acid
c)pKa has no relation with the strength of an acid
d)both a and b
29)according to the collision theory of bimolecular reactions in gas phase , minimum amount of energy
required for an effective collision is known as :
a)heat of reaction
b)rate of reaction
c)has no effect on the reaction
d)energy of activation
30) consider the following reaction:
R-CHO + 2[Ag(NH3))2]OH —– > RCOONH4 + 2Ag + 2NH3 + H2O
this reaction represents which of the following tests
a) Fehling test
b) benedict test
c) ninhydrin test
d) tollen's test
31) a polymer in which the number of amino acid residue is greater than 100 or the molecular mass is
greater than 10,000 is called
a) protein
b) polypeptide
c) dipeptide
d) tripeptide
32) when hexanedioic acid is heated with hexamethylenediamine the compound formed is
a) polypeptide
b) ester
c) addition polymer
d) nylon 6,6
33) glucose and fructose are common example of
a) pentoses
b) hexoses
c) heptoses
d) butoses
34) the reaction between fats and caustic soda is called
a) hydrogenolysis
b) fermentation
c) carboxylation
d) saponification
35) macromolecules are defined as large molecules built up from small repeating units called
a) monomers
b) isomers
c) metamers
d) tautomers
36) PVC is an example of
a) addition polymer
b) condensation polymer
c) biopolymer
d) thermosetting polymer
37) Terylene, a polyester is an example of
a) biopolymer
b) lipids
c) condensation polymer
d) addition polymer
38) the suspected liver carcinogenic which also has a negative reproduction and developmental effects
in human is
a) iodoform
b) bromoform
c) chloroform
d) tropoform
39) peroxyacetylene is an irritant to human beings and it effects
a) ears
b) eyes
c) nose
d) stomach
40) which enzyme is involved in fermentation of glucose?
a) zymase
b) invertase
c) urease
d) diastase
41) relative acidic strength of alcohol , phenol , water and carboxylic acids is
a) carboxylic acid > alcohol > phenol > water
b) carboxylic acid > phenol > water > alcohol
c) phenol > carboxylic acid > alcohol > water
d) water > phenol > alcohol > carboxylic acid
42) in standard enthalpy of atmomization heat of surrounding
a) remains same
b) increases
c) decreases
d) increases then decreases
43) in all oxidation reactions, atoms of an element in a chemical species lose electrons and increases
a) oxidation state
b) reduction states
c) electrode
d) negative charges
44) in Haber process for manufacturing of ammonia , nitrogen is taken from
a) proteins occurring in living bodies
b) ammonium salts obtained industrially
c) air
d) minerals containing nitrates
45) in comparison to oxygen gas a strong triple covalent bond is present between nitrogen atoms in a
molecule and therefore nitrogen gas is:
a) highly reactive gas
b) completely inert like noble gases
c) very less reactive gas
d) moderately reactive gas
46) the –NH-CO group is called
a) amide group
b) amino group
c) protein linkage
d) peptide linkage
47) which of the following has an amino R group
a) lysine
b) proline
c) valine
d) alanine


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Five years ago, Petra Brandt faked her death and broke her fiancé's heart to save her brother. While she never stopped loving him, she accepted her new life as a mercenary. At least, until the day she learns Will's life is in danger. Blackmailing a few people along the way to help her, Petra devises a plan to free her former love and save his life.
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- Asked to 'pay money' for admit cards, students protest at Sharda University
GREATER NOIDA: Around 300 students of the Sharda University and members of student organizations protested against the varsity for charging money from the students to allow them to sit for the semester exams starting from Monday. The protesters got aggressive as the varsity's bouncers beat up president of National Students Union of India (NSUI) - the youth wing of the Congress - irking the students who then started a violent protest against the varsity management. Raising slogans against the varsity, the students said that those whose attendance was less than 75 per cent were asked to deposit Rs 10,000-Rs 30, 000 by the varsity. "Our semester exams were slated to begin from Monday. Usually, if the attendance is short, we hand over our medical certificates to the administration and get our admit cards. However, this time we saw a notice pasted on the boards of the varsity which said that we had to deposit money if our attendance is short," said a third year student of B.Tech (Civil Engineering). "Those students whose attendance is between 60-65 per cent had to deposit Rs 10,000. Those whose attendance is between 55-60 per cent had to deposit Rs 20,000 and those having between 50-55 per cent had to submit Rs 30, 000. This notice was issued on Saturday and we were asked to deposit the money by Monday when we have our first exam. This is equivalent to selling the admit cards," said the student. Students said that such a notice was never issued by the varsity earlier. "All those students who went to deposit the amount were handed over an undertaking by officials of the accounts department, which had to be signed by the students," said a second year student of LLB. A copy of the undertaking read that the money is to be deposited by May 6 of this year. It also said that the student has no objection "if the deposit on this account, NOT refundable in due course, is transferred to the "Students Benefit Fund" and is used solely for helping students if financial need or any students' sponsored welfare activity." "Even as the undertaking read that the students had to submit the money by May 6, students had no choice but to deposit fee on Saturday as Monday was the first exam. Why was there no prior intimation from the varsity for the same," said the student. As situation escalated, police teams from Knowledge Park police station arrived at the spot and officers tried to pacify the agitated students. A hoard of students raised slogans like "Sharda down down" etc and insisted that the varsity vice chancellor Vijay Gupta should speak to them on the matter. Even as the varsity does not allow student body elections, both the ABVP and the NSUI participated in the protest. According to students, around 300 of them were debarred due to attendance shortage. Some alleged that even as the attendance is supposed to be taken through a mobile application which automatically detects the presence of the student, some professors would take attendance physically. Police held a meeting with the students and management officials where it was decided that those students whose attendance is short due to valid reasons will be given admit cards. Ajit Kumar, spokersperson, Sharda University said that the varsity has formed a fifteen member committee including five student representatives, deans of management, engineering and law schools and administration officials to check the miscalculation in the attendance of the students.
- Jamaat-e-Islami-Hind publications under scanner
Thiruvananthapuram: As many as 14 publications by Jamaat-e-Islami-Hind is under the scrutiny of the state government for alleged anti-national content. On the basis of an intelligence report, the government has decided to scrutinise the shortlisted publications. The government, through an order issued on March 27, had set up a committee headed by intelligence chief B S Muhammed Yasin and comprising public relations department director K Ampady and former MP Sebastian Paul to go through the books and report "whether the publications contain incriminating materials which are in conflict with any law being in force, and to make recommendations accordingly". The committee has been asked to submit its report before June 27. The list of books include Indiyayile Bheekaraakramanangalum Uttaram Kittatha Chodyangalum, Oru Jaathi Oru Daivam, Prakasham Parathunna Prasthanam, Mathetharatwam Janadhipatyam Vishakalanam, Vargeeya Rashtreeyam Mithum Yatharthyavum, Buddhan Yesu Muhammad, Islaminte Rashtreeya Siddhantham, Jail Anubhavangal, Sathya Sakshyam, Al Ikhvanul Muslimoon, Jamaat-e-Islami Lakhuparichayam, Yesuvinte Patha Muhammadinteyum, Jihad and Quranile Nalu Sankethika Sabdangal. In 2013, T P Senkumar, who was additional director general of intelligence, wrote to the home department on December 26 that the contents of almost all the books published on behalf of the organisation has been verified and scrutinised. He informed that 14 books have been identified for content which propagates extreme religious fundamentalism, anti-national attitude, anti-secularism and hatred towards other religions. Abdul Samad, a native of Kochi, had filed a public interest litigation seeking to declare Jamaat-e-Islami-Hind as an anti-national organisation, on the basis of which the court asked the government to examine the matter. On the basis of the court direction, the government has now decided to thoroughly examine the content of all 14 books. Jamaat-e-Islami leaders said that there is a serious misconception regarding the content of these books and such a report was given without reading them properly. "The intelligence wing would have given such a report without reading those books. During the tenure of the previous LDF government, the government had said in the court that there are no anti-national activities on the part of the organisation. But the previous UDF government submitted a list of 14 books saying that those had anti-national content. The new government would have decided to scrutinise it on the basis of court's request," said Sheikh Muhammed Karakkunnu, assistant ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami-Hind.
- Railways to face Haryana in final of women's hockey championship
The Railway Sports Promotion Board and hosts Hockey Haryana entered the final of Hockey India's women 7th senior national championship 'A Division following wins over Hockey Madhya Pradesh and Association of Indian Universities on Saturday.
- Noise over Kupwara attack aimed to spread hate against Muslims: Farooq Abdullah
Former J&K chief minister and National Conference chief Dr Farooq Abdullah on Saturday claimed that the "beating drums" on the death of three army soldiers in north Kashmir's Kupwara district was aimed at spreading hatred against Muslims.
- India's Cannes plan of action: Promoting single-window clearance system and foreign participation at IFFI
While no Indian film has been selected for the main competition section of the Cannes Film Festival this year too, India will make its presence felt at the annual event. Apart from Bollywood actors dazzling on the red carpet and films being screened under various sections, officials from the I&B ministry will also attend the film festival.
- Full-face veil: A look at the laws in Europe
European nations have been wrestling with the issue of the Muslim veil. On Thursday, Germany joined the bandwagon after it banned wearing of full face veil for its civil servants, judges and soldiers. Here's how countries across Europe deal with the issue:
- Jet's Indian pilots reverse decision of not flying with expat pilots from May 1
The National Aviators Guild, representing local pilots of Jet Airways, had earlier this month issued a directive to its members not to fly with expatriate commanders from May 1 after one of the foreign pilots allegedly assaulted a trainer in Bengaluru.
- SpaceX set to launch US spy satellite on Sunday
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket will deliver the spy satellite, known as NROL-76, to orbit from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The two hour launch window opens on Sunday at 7 a.m. EDT. A backup launch window opens on Monday at 7 a.m. EDT, SpaceX said in a statement.
- Yenepoya University to host national integration camp for youth
MANGALURU: Yenepoya University will host national integration camp for youth (NICY) in association with National Service Scheme (NSS), National Youth Project (NYP), union ministry of youth affairs and Government of Karnataka at Yendurance Zone, university campus in Derlakatte from May 1 to 7. NYP trustee Anil Hebbar said about 500 NSS student volunteers from Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Tripura, Bihar, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu, Kerala and Karnataka will participate in the camp. "The camp will provide platform for students of different states to interact with each other and know about each other's art, culture and traditions. The camp will touch upon themes such as leadership skills, health awareness, first aid training programme, disaster management and rescue demonstrations, role of youth in nation building, explore your mind, women's empowerment, protection of environment and the importance of preserving historical monuments. The camp with a bonanza of innovative ideas and it will play a major role in creating awareness among youth and in shaping their personalities," Anil said. The camp will include service programmes like cleanliness drive at Yenepoya University campus, at Ullal beach, and from Kuthar to Yenepoya University; whitewash of Government School buildings at Babbukatte and Chetan Nagar, Kumpala; and construction of 1 km road at Pilar village near Thokkottu. There will be cultural programmes every evening where cultural diversity of India will be showcased by students of various states. Visit to historical/cultural places is also planned, he said. Pramod Madhwaraj, minister for fisheries, sports and youth empowerment, will inaugurate the camp on May 2 at 10.30am. NYP director S N Subbarao will be the guest. Nitte University chancellor Vinay Hegde will deliver the key note address. Yenepoya Abdulla Kunhi, Chancellor, Yenepoya University will preside over the function. The camp will conclude with a valedictory programme on May 7.
- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte calls for a united response to fight 'massive' drugs menace in Southeast Asia
"The illegal drug trade is massive but is not impregnable," Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said in a speech to open an Association of Southeast Asian Nations leaders summit. "With political will & cooperation, it can be dismantled. It can be destroyed before it destroys our societies," he said.
- UAE's battle-hardened military expands into Africa, Mideast
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: The United Arab Emirates is better known for its skyscrapers and pampered luxuries, but its small size belies a quiet expansion of its battle-hardened military into Africa and elsewhere in the Middle East. The seven-state federation ranks as one of Washington's most prominent Arab allies in the fight against the Islamic State group, hosting some 5,000 American military personnel, fighter jets and drones. But the practice gunfire echoing through the deserts near bases outside of Dubai and recent military demonstrations in the capital of Abu Dhabi show a country increasingly willing to flex its own muscle amid its suspicions about Iran. Already, the UAE has landed expeditionary forces in Afghanistan and Yemen. Its new overseas bases on the African continent show this country, which US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis calls "Little Sparta," has even larger ambitions. An Emirati gunner watches for enemy fire from the rear gate of a United Arab Emirates Chinook military helicopter flying over Yemen. (AP Photo) FROM PROTECTORATE TO PROTECTOR The UAE, a federation of seven sheikhdoms, only became a country in 1971. It had been a British protectorate for decades and several of the emirates had their own security forces. The forces merged together into a national military force that took part in the 1991 US-led Gulf War that expelled Iraqi forces occupying Kuwait. The UAE sent troops to Kosovo as part of the NATO-led peacekeeping mission there starting in 1999, giving its forces valuable experience working alongside Western allies in the field. Following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, it deployed special forces troops in Afghanistan to support the US-led war against the Taliban. Emirati personnel there combined aid with Arab hospitality, working on infrastructure projects in villages and meeting with local elders. Today, the UAE hosts Western forces at its military bases, including American and French troops. Jebel Ali port in Dubai serves as the biggest port of call for the American Navy outside of the United States. BULGING RANKS The UAE decided in recent years to grow its military, in part over concerns about Iran's resurgence in the region following the nuclear deal with world powers and the Islamic Republic's involvement in the wars in Syria and Yemen. In 2011, the UAE acknowledged working with private military contractors, including a firm reportedly tied to Blackwater founder Erik Prince, to build up its military. The Associated Press also reported that Prince was involved in a multimillion-dollar program to train troops to fight pirates in Somalia, a program by several Arab countries, including the UAE. "As you would expect of a proactive member of the international community, all engagements of commercial entities by the UAE Armed Forces are compliant with international law and relevant conventions," Gen. Juma Ali Khalaf al-Hamiri, a senior Emirati military official, said in a statement on the state-run WAM news agency. Media in Colombia have also reported that Colombian nationals working as mercenaries serve in the UAE's military. In 2014, the UAE introduced mandatory military service for all Emirati males between the ages of 18 to 30. The training is optional for Emirati women. "Our message to the world is a message of peace; the stronger we are, the stronger our message," Dubai ruler and UAE Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum wrote at the time on Twitter. UAE armed forces demonstrate during a military show at the opening ceremony of the International Defence Exhibition and Conference, IDEX, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo) WAR IN YEMEN In Yemen, UAE troops are fighting alongside Saudi-led forces against Shiite rebels who hold the impoverished Arab country's capital, Sanaa. Areas where the UAE forces are deployed include Mukalla, the provincial capital of Hadramawt, and the port city of Aden, where the internationally recognized government of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi is stationed. Additionally, the UAE appears to be building an airstrip on Perim or Mayun Island, a volcanic island in Yemeni territory that sits in a waterway between Eritrea and Djibouti in the strategic Bab al-Mandeb Strait, according to IHS Jane's Defense Weekly. That strait, some 16-kilometers (10-miles) wide at its narrowest point, links the Red Sea and the Suez Canal with the Gulf of Aden and ultimately the Indian Ocean. Dozens of commercial ships transit the route every day. Already, the waters have seen Emirati and Saudi ships targeted by suspected fire from Yemen's Shiite rebels known as Houthis. In October, US Navy vessels came under fire as well, sparking American forces to fire missiles in Yemen in its first attack targeting the Houthis in the years-long war there. "More incidents at sea, especially involving civilian shipping, could further internationalize the conflict and spur other actors to intervene," the Washington Institute for Near-East Policy warned in March. UAE forces and aid organizations have also set foot on Yemen's Socotra Island, which sits near the mouth of the Gulf of Aden, after a deadly cyclone struck it. It too represents a crucial chokepoint and has seen recent attacks from Somali pirates. The UAE has suffered the most wartime casualties in its history in Yemen. The deadliest day came in a September 2015 missile strike on a base that killed over 50 Emirati troops, as well as at least 10 soldiers from Saudi Arabia and five from Bahrain. Meanwhile, Emirati forces were involved in a Jan. 29 Yemen raid ordered by US President Donald Trump that killed a US Navy SEAL and 30 others, including women, children and an estimated 14 militants. EXPANDING TO AFRICA Outside of Yemen, the UAE has been building up a military presence in Eritrea at its port in Assab, according to Stratfor, a US-based private intelligence firm. Satellite images show new construction at a once-abandoned airfield the firm links to the Emiratis, as well as development at the port and the deployment of tanks and aircraft, including fighter jets, helicopters and drones. "The scale of the undertaking suggests that the UAE military is in Eritrea for more than just a short-term logistical mission supporting operations across the Red Sea," Stratfor said in December. UAE officials did not respond to repeated requests for comment on its military operations or overseas expansion. South of Eritrea, in Somalia's breakaway northern territory of Somaliland, authorities agreed in February to allow the UAE open a naval base in the port town of Berbera. Previously, the UAE international ports operator DP World struck a deal to manage Somaliland's largest port nearby. Further afield, the UAE also has been suspected of conducting airstrikes in Libya and operating at a small air base in the North African country's east, near the Egyptian border. Meanwhile, Somalia remains a particular focus for the UAE. The Emiratis sent forces to the Horn of Africa country to take part in a United Nations peacekeeping mission in the 1990s, while their elite counterterrorism unit in 2011 rescued a UAE-flagged ship from Somali pirates. The unit has also has been targeted in recent attacks carried out by al-Qaida-linked militants from al-Shabab. A UAE military expansion into Somalia is also possible, as Trump recently approved an expanded military, including more aggressive airstrikes against al-Shabab in the African nation. The UAE recently began a major campaign seek donations for humanitarian aid there.
- Maharashtra second in distance education students' strength
PUNE: Delhi attracts the maximum students and Maharashtra comes a close second in the enrolment with both public and private universities offering distance education. Over 38 lakh students have taken up distance education in India as per 2015-16 statistics. From the ease of studying at their own time while keeping a job, to availability of all kinds of courses, many factors work favourably for distance-mode educators. The Internet is a big boon for students without options to study. The all-India survey on higher education for 2015-16 report said six states provide distance education to 63% of the students. These are Delhi with 16.7%, Maharashtra with 16.5%, Tamil Nadu with 12.3%, Andhra Pradesh with 8.3%, West Bengal and Telangana with 4.9% of the share of students enrolled through distance mode. Vice-chancellor of Savitribai Phule Pune University W N Gade, said, "Distance education has many takers. We have submitted a proposal to the University Grants Commission for permission to open a distance education centre. UGC is in the process of formulating new guidelines for distance learning and will consider our proposal soon." Gade said the ease of getting a degree and the freedom from formal college timings is a boon for many who work and especially for women. "Distance education courses have no laboratory work. They do not need the presence of a teacher. Many people in India work to feed their families and have to quit education but they want a degree. Some professionals, at some point in their careers, opt for distance programmes to acquire additional skills or degrees. Lastly, it is a boon for women who were not able to continue their formal education and for rural areas where colleges are far away," he added. A large number of students stay in far-off and remote areas and access to a regular university education is a dream. Such students prefer distance education. Distance enrolment constitutes 11.05% of the total enrolment in higher education, of which 46.3% are women students. These courses are a good option especially for working women and homemakers. "Generally, after marriage or after children, education takes a backstage. It is hard to achieve a work-life balance and distance education is a boon for us as we don't have to go to a college for a certain number of hours," Nivedita Kulkarni said. She added that distance education is best if one is a working professional or has a degree in a professional course but wants to explore other areas of interest. "I am a lawyer. I took up law as an undergraduate course because I wanted to find employment and professional courses are always preferred by parents. But I always wanted to do social work and I have enrolled for a masters in social work through distance learning," Kulkarni said. Wide Field According to the ministry of human resource development, open and distance learning consists of Indira Gandhi National Open University, state open universities, institutions and universities offering education which include correspondence course institutes in conventional dual-mode (regular and distance learning) universities. In addition to the central open university, 13 state open universities and one state private open university, there are 118 dual mode universities which offer education through distance mode also. The total enrolment of students in higher education is estimated at 34.6 million, with 18.6 million boys and 16 million girls.
- Protesting 'corporatisation' of health care, 1,500 Meerut doctors don black ribbons
Nearly 1,500 doctors in the city, under the banner of Indian Medical Association (IMA), observed National Black Day on Thursday to protest against the West Bengal Clinical Establishment (Registration, Regulation and Transparency) Act, 2017 by donning black ribbons on their arm
- Yemeni national successfully treated for rare syndrome
PUNE: A Yemeni national was successfully operated on at a city hospital early this year for an extremely rare condition, developed due to chronic constipation ignored for 15 years. The patient, in his late 30s, came to Pune in January after exhausting all hopes for right treatment in his own country. After putting him through scans, doctors in Pune found that he had developed almost a football-sized loop (full of faeces and distended with gas) in his abdomen. This was caused by twisted intestines medically termed as Sigmoid Volvulous (twisting of the sigmoid colon). He was also found to be suffering from another relatively rare condition known as eventration of the diaphragm (ED), which in simple words mean abnormal elevation of the diaphragm. The size of the loop was so large that it pushed itself into the chest, starting to shift his heart towards the opposite side. This, in turn, reduced his lung capacity. After the diagnosis, a team of city doctors successfully operated on him three months ago. "There is hardly any mention of such an extreme presentation of chronic constipation with ED (weak diaphragm muscle) with cachexia (severe weight loss) in medical literature," colorectal surgeon Ashwin Porwal, one of the treating doctors, said. He said the patient had ignored constipation for 15 years. "His condition worsened over the last one year when he started complaining of pain in upper abdomen and heaviness in the stomach post meals. Gradually, he developed loss of appetite and lost about 50 kg within a year," Porwal said. Besides, he was not able to sleep on his left side because of the abdominal swelling. "Due to the chronic constipation, he would strain a lot and this made his colonic muscles grow weak over the years. Eventually, the weak colon started getting loaded with faeces, causing volvulus (twisting of the sigmoid colon)," Porwal said. As the narrowest segment of the large intestine, and the segment closest to the rectum, the sigmoid colon is often subject to constant straining and increased pressure that can weaken the colonic muscles over time. The man was admitted to Inamdar hospital under Porwal for a complicated surgery in the first week of January. "After great difficulty, I could put the colonoscope inside the colon to decompress the football-sized loop," surgeon Deepak Kulkarni, who performed colonoscopy on him, said. When laparoscope was introduced, it was realised that it is the colon that is compressing on the chest, resulting in breathlessness. Thereafter, the diaphragm was repaired to strengthen the muscle."The twisted loop (volvulus) was resected and the normal higher up colon was stapled to the rectum below. The diaphragm was sutured in layers after reducing the intestines back to the abdomen," surgeons Satish Pattansheeti and Neeraj Rayate said. After one week of surgery his chest x-ray was repeated. It showed the lung was now well expanded and the shift of the heart on the right side has improved. The patient is satisfied with his recovery after the surgery."There is no breathlessness, no constipation and I can sleep well. I have gained 15kg within three months after surgery," the Yemeni patient told TOI.
- Villagers demand study on impact of waste on health
PUNE: The villagers of Uruli Devachi and Phursungi have asked the state government to commence the study on the garbage depot's impact on their health and compensate them for it. The villagers have submitted a memorandum to district collector's office, Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) and the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to share the responsibility of creating health hazard in the two villages. About 1.5 lakh residents of the two villages and surrounding hamlets allegedly suffer because of contaminated water, foul smell and unhygienic living conditions. The villagers have been agitating against the PMC for almost two weeks demanding an end to open dumping of garbage. The village youths, who have taken an aggressive stand on the issue, want the MPCB to gauge the impact of garbage dumping on air, water and quality of life. The village youths said they were waiting for the National Green Tribunal order on the issue. "If the MPCB gives us in writing there is no harm in dumping garbage in the open, we shall allow the PMC to dispose of trash here. Also, the district collector's office must clarify its role in the matter," said Dilip Mehta, representing the villagers. The garbage depot was started in Uruli in 1981. Just 43-acre land was acquired in Uruli Devachi for it. Another 120 acres of land in the adjoining Phursungi village was brought under garbage depot in 2003. Initially, the dumped garbage was free of plastic. Hence, nearby farmers used it as fertilizer. After mixed garbage, including plastic bags and material, started coming to the depot, the farmers stopped using it as fertilizer. In the past couple of years, all processing units of the PMC in the depot have pulled down shutters for various reasons. Hence, the civic body dumps garbage without any segregation.
- Indian-origin women freedom activists receive South Africa's highest National Order awards
Fatima Meer posthumously received the Order of Luthuli in Silver; while Shantie Naidoo joined 21 others, who were part of a group that suffered at the hands of the apartheid-era security police, to receive the same award at the Presidential Guest House in Pretoria.
- Donald Trump tells NRA: 'You have a true friend' in White House
Trump, the first sitting president to address the National Rifle Association's annual convention in more than 30 years, assured the audience that he would defend their right to bear arms in a campaign-like speech reminiscent of his election rallies.


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Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi of India, ranked 109th and 231st in singles, respectively, have been the hottest doubles tandem in tennis with six straight titles on the ATP Tour since August.
Millions of people were expected to stay up past midnight tonight in India to watch them play the Americans Rick Leach and Jonathan Stark in the final of the Phoenix/ATP Tour World Championship at the Hartford Civic Center this afternoon.
''They are both as big in India as Michael Jordan is here,'' said an Indian sportswriter, Srinivasar Kannan of The Hindustan Times.
But the Indians' streak ended today when they fell to Leach and Stark, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (7-3).
Leach, 32, and Stark, 26, are far more experienced in doubles, having won 17 Grand Slam titles between them since 1989.
Paes, 24, and Bhupathi, 23, are primarily singles players. But coming into this round robin event, they had won 25 of 27 doubles matches since August after never having won a doubles title.
Leach and Stark, after winning two of three matches in the round robin, gained the final by upsetting the No. 2-seeded team of Jacco Eltingh and Paul Haarhuis of the Netherlands.
Paes and Bhupathi, seeded fifth and also 2-1 in the round robin, had advanced to the final by beating Alex O'Brien and Sebastien Lareau, who had ousted the defending champions and the world's top-ranked team, Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde of Australia.
Leach, who rarely plays singles anymore and is unranked, said, ''Jonathan and I peaked just at the right time.''
Their triumph, which earned them $145,000, also elevated them to third in the world ranking. Paes and Bhupathi, who started the year ranked 36th, rose to No. 4.
Stark had another reason to celebrate. Earlier today he accepted an invitation to replace O'Brien, who has a stress fracture in his left foot, on the United States Davis Cup team for the final round in Goteborg, Sweden, beginning Friday.Continue reading the main story


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Yo yo!
Here's the interesting new stuff from the last two weeks.
Abilty system rework
I spent most of the first week re-coding and reworking everything about the ability system. The old way was shit, designed to be used in a different way to how I wanna use it now, and it was really slow and long-winded to add new abilities. Now it's not!
The new setup is way more flexible and allows me to do things like check if you successfully hit anything using an ability, and reduce the cooldown of the next use if you did. Abilities can now be used multiple times in a row before starting the cooldown. That sorta thing. It's pretty cool and makes the whole ability system a lot deeper, and now skillful players can be rewarded.
The UI for using abilities was all tied in with the code before, and I had to make a new button for every ability I added, and then add it to a list, and then add it to another list, and then set all the properties, and then… and then…blah.
Now I can just copy a definition and change the bits I need to and it'll automatically get loaded, parsed and handled by all of the other game systems. This has made it so much easier to quickly get new abilities in – and this is super important when I want millions (well, at least a lot) of different abilities available.
I'm still not sure how to handle unlocking/awarding new abilities as you play the game. I want there to be enough available that every time you play you'll have a different set. I'm trying to design them with synergy in mind, so that they'll all work well together when used in different combination. I'm trying to avoid "press a button and everything dies" abilities as they're boring and don't require any skill. I actually made one like that this week and binned it off because it was so boring and has probably been in every shooter game ever.
There's tons of stuff still to figure out. Which buttons to use, whether to group abilities by button, should they be drops, etc. I'm gonna be trying more stuff out and asking for feedback over the next couple of builds.
For now, and so you can try the new abilities easily, every time you start a new level, you get a different defensive and offensive ability, along with the speed boost. This is not permanent – it's just until I figure out a good way of handling it.
I made a bunch of new abilities. These all have placeholder art and they'll probably all be tweaked code and gameplay wise too. I made a few more that I didn't keep as they turned out to not be fun.
Timeslow Shield
This now has two modes. If you fire it without aiming, it'll stay stationary, like it did before. But if you aim it, it'll move slowly in that direction. I also made it a bit bigger.
I made it move so you can use it to break out of corners, or approach a turret. It's a bit more versatile having both modes.
Laser Link
You fire this one (aiming it like a normal weapon/shot) and it'll shoot a mini remote out in that direction, that comes to a stop and shoots a friendly lazer beam back at
the player's ship. The laser sticks to you as you fly around, so you can launch the remote behind a bunch of enemies and then keep moving your ship to melt them all. I like this one as it emphases player movement and positioning.
Here it is in action, working well with the new version of Timeslow shield to snare the enemies first:
Speed boost
This is a simple ability that increases your movement speed by 50% for 5 seconds, with a 15 second cooldown timer. A lot of people were asking for something like this when backtracking through larger levels. It helps a lot. You always start the game with this ability, and it's bound to the A button.
Kills everything in a line. Get it? It's basically a railgun. I really have fun using this one. It takes some practice to get the hand of, but it's really powerful. If you hit something, you can use it again instantly (upto 3 times). After 3 shots, or you miss, the full cooldown kicks in.
Buzz saw / boomerang
I'm still not really sure what this one should be called, but I've increased the cooldown from 7 seconds to 12 seconds to bring it more in line with the other abilities.
I wanted to try an ability that helps you control the play space. This one creates a barrier that enemies and projectiles (yours too!) can't pass through, but the player ship can.
With a bit of practice it can really help divide a large enemy force into manageable chunks, letting you deal with the higher threat targets first and block off the others for a short while. It's also great for creating choke points… lining thing sup nicely for the Deathrow ability, as seen here:
The Great Outdoors
Space is boring. Really boring. Black everywhere, with a few stars. Everywhere looks mostly the same.
We're trying to make our "outdoor" levels a lot more interesting than you're typical space scene and bright and colourful. The first outdoor tileset (work in progress! early days!) is now in. There's no new enemy types or missions specifically for it just yet, so for now it's just another pretty place to shoot stuff in.
It's pretty open and bare, we're not spawning any props or anything inside the rooms yet. So it really is just a preview of the tileset.
We've also spent a good chunk of timing setting everything up so we can transition between indoor and outdoor tilesets, within the same level. This means we can make some really varied levels.
I only started spawning enemies in it at all this morning so there's tweaking to be done – it can be a bit hard to see the enemies clearly at the moment, but I think it's really awesome to have a change from the indoor levels!
There's lots of work still to be done, missions, enemies, more rooms, more everything, but we wanted to get it in so you can at least start flying around it :)
Thai has been making a bunch of changes to everything to get this working art wise, and I've had to make more code changes as well.
I remade the room culling system again to handle this sort of setup better and made the indoor rooms automatically create black proxy meshes for when they're visible from outdoors.
General / Gameplay
Here's the bulletpoints for stuff that doesn't need much explanation but is still noteworthy:
New build!
As usual with these blogs, I've just updated the Facepunch Prototypes build on Steam. Have fun and let us know what you think :)
Next Time
Gonna keep adding new ones and we need to decide on how we're gonna handle awarding them, and prototype a version of it.
More content – missions, enemies, props, layouts. So this'll probably be a big focus. I'd like to start trying some new enemy ideas with placeholder art (spheres and boxes) that take advantage of the extra "space" of Space.
Less blue.