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San Antonio Soon To Be Synonymous With World-class Swimming
By Dr. Annette Zaharoff on December 16, 2013 at 11:07 PM
By Annette "Dr. Z" Zaharoff, M.D.
Is San Antonio ushering in a new era of success as a major elite swimming destination?
Not yet, but it is taking steps in the right direction.
Recently, officials from the Northside Independent School District and San Antonio sports announced that the Alamo City would play host to three major swim meets in 2015:
The U.S. Masters Spring National Championships from April 24-27;
The Phillips 66 National Championships from Aug. 4-8;
And the Speedo Junior National Championships from Aug. 10-14;
The setting for these events will be the Northside Swim Center at Farris Stadium off Loop 1604 near UTSA.
That would normally be nothing but great news for the city's sports ambassadors, except these events are sort of consolation prizes for what could have been a landmark moment for San Antonio athletics – hosting of the 2016 Olympic Trials, the largest swimming event in the nation. San Antonio was in the running for this gold standard event, with a retrofitted-for-swimming Alamodome proposed as the center of the swimming universe, but we lost out on that bid. Instead, the 2016 Olympic Trials will be in Omaha, Neb.
Still, proponents of the Alamo City as a competitive swimming destination have a lot to celebrate. The gleaming new outdoor competition pool at the Northside Swim Center is a first in Texas, with a 2,400-seat stadium, 25-meter diving pool and two 50-meter pools, one indoor and one outdoor.
There are only two other facilities in the nation like it – in California and Florida. For organizers of competitive swim events, the additional 50-meter pool is attractive because it allows for holding timed races in both pools concurrently, reducing the overall meet time. And, of course, the Northside Swim Center will support the area's largest school district and its 11 high schools and 40-plus swim teams.
It's not like San Antonio has not had notable swimming ambassadors. Josh Davis, a Churchill High School graduate, brought home gold at the 1996 Olympic Games and captained the 2000 Olympic U.S. Swim Team, helping bring back silver medals. Jimmy Feigen, the youngest member of Team USA at the 2012 Olympics, earned a silver with his teammates in the 4×100 freestyle and is expected to be a force in 2016.
But what does the addition of world-class swim facility here mean for the future of the sport?
The launch of the San Antonio Scorpions professional soccer team two years ago infused new life in the city's youth soccer programs. Being the hometown to NBA and WNBA franchises and playing host to three NCAA Final Four events makes basketball one of the most popular recreational activities for all ages.
The three events coming to San Antonio in 2015 are just the start of what should be a Golden Era of swimming. San Antonio Sports Chairman George Block told Swimming World magazine earlier this year that he wants a shot at luring the Pan Pacific championships to South Texas. We will no doubt make another bid for a U.S. Olympic Trials and World Championships, too.
In the not-too-distant future, passionate swimmers in this community will be joined by new fans who will take to the water due, in part, to the excitement generated by world-class swimming events in our backyard.
Annette "Dr. Z" Zaharoff, a former professional tennis player on the WTA Circuit, heads the Non-Surgical Center of Texas, focusing on non-surgical alternatives to relieve pain and repair injuries. Learn more about her at www.drzmd.com.
Dr. Annette Zaharoff


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One of my current favorite verbs is "visit" (particularly "visit with"), in the sense that is used to refer to misfortunes. May you be visited with boils, the Lord visit locusts upon your land, Europe was visited in the 14th century with a plague of epic proportions, and so on. This week, I have been visited with a project which I will pseudonymically call the Smallville Hotel (and which is also a plague of epic proportions).
Cautious bloggers use pseudonyms as a matter of course, but in this case that isn't my only reason to do so. Using the proper name of the project is, like using the name of the Devil, a surefire way to visit misfortune upon oneself. An architect who says he's relieved not to be working on Smallville will come in the next day to find his desk piled high with Smallville drawings and notes instructing him to review the catering kitchen layout. An unwise administrative assistant might sympathetically ask said architect if Smallville is stressing him out, only to find herself assigned to edit Smallville specifications the very next day. I am that administrative assistant, and the former half of my week was spent buried under a stack of documents about door hardware and paint finishes.
The locusts of this particular visitation took all sort of forms. On Tuesday the flapping of their wings kept me in my chair matching section headings until two hours past my usual quitting time. On Wednesday they chased me up and down the stairs to arrange and re-arrange deliveries, and fluttered in the face of the owner and project manager, who were so distracted that they forgot to invite me to the celebratory end-of-project lunch. It appears that they also got into the phone lines at some point, causing them to ring incessantly and disrupt my concentration. Thursday, the day that the swarm finally left our slightly tattered office in peace, couldn't come soon enough.
I've decided that, after this hardly amiable visit, I'm ready to absent myself from the world of architecture academically as well as professionally. I've unearthed the stack of paperwork that I need to submit to go back to school in the spring, made myself a list of deadlines that I won't miss again, and squared my shoulders impressively. Now if I can keep in mind the fluttering of the locusts, I think I'll manage it this time.
Posted by dianna at 12:15 PM
Anything goes?
We've been having trouble at work with one of our older laser printers. It doesn't like to take its paper nicely from the paper tray, and insists on being hand-fed from the top tray instead. The top tray is finicky and sloppy and will take five sheets to print one page, so the alert printer user should really be standing over the machine at all times and carefully feeding one sheet at a time into the tray. Since this is a ridiculous way to use a modern laser printer, particularly when it's across the room from one's desk, I failed to do it this morning while printing out a receipt.
When it inevitably jammed, I went over and started pulling out the extra sheets. At one point this required grabbing paper that was halfway through being printed, and when I touched it it left black marks on my fingers. I rubbed them off and tried again. This time when I touched the paper, I got perfect, clear mirror images of the words on the page. "latotbuS," my fingertips said, "gnippihS."
I wandered over into the boss's office to show him. He laughed and told me it looked like I'd been tattooed. It did, I agreed, although not necessarily the design I would have chosen. He suddenly got a thoughtful look on his face. "You know, I heard about this art project someone's doing," he told me. I grinned. "There's this author," he continued -- I grinned some more -- "who's taking an entire story" -- grin -- "and" --
There are times when manners fail me, even at work. I interrupted excitedly to say that I'm signed up to be part of it. The boss was curious to know how it works and how much I know about the story, so we talked for a couple of minutes. I couldn't help but notice that while he was intrigued by the project, and maybe amazed that someone had actually done it, he wasn't the slightest bit surprised to find me involved in it.
Generally speaking, I'm delighted by this. I've been trying reasonably assiduously for the past year to cover my personal interests with a facade of workplace blandness, and it's clearly been a total failure as I'm still recognizeable as myself. I suspect the boss of the same thing: he designs reassuringly beige hotels for a living but proudly displays his awards from the AIA House of Cards competition for "Most Outrageous Design". I suppose, then, I shouldn't be surprised either?
Po'
For some reason, I've discovered this weekend, I'm helplessly bewitched and wholly besotted with the city of Portland. Jacob had to borrow a crowbar to pry me out of it so that we could catch our plane home.
It could have to do with the fact that it's smaller than San Francisco and cleaner than Oakland, and that for all my best pretense of gritty urbanity I'm still a suburbanite who likes things neat and unintimidating. It could have something to do with Powell's, where I think I saw the face of God on Saturday in a clearance rack of $1 anthropology books. It could be that every surface in the city that isn't otherwise used and aggressively cleared is covered in an impenetrable tangle of my beloved blackberry vines; on a related note, it could have something to do with the fact that driving 20 minutes north to Salmon Creek means passing roadside farms selling the most incredible berries I've ever imagined. Speaking of purely seasonal delights, it could be that the unusually beautiful weather this weekend has me imagining Portland as an Eden of warmth and sunshine all year long. It could be that we spent a couple of lovely evenings wandering around the abnormally scenic downtown, the intriguingly schizophrenic Pearl District, the unsurprisingly lovely waterfront, and the hell if I know where else. It could have been the discovery of an excellent vegan restaurant located right downtown and doing an encouragingly thriving business.
But I think it is not those things.
Instead, I think I love Portland because it has so many of something I detest: bridges. I hate heights, and I fear water, and ever since I heard of the Tacoma Narrows bridge fiasco I've thought of engineering as a rather speculative and unfinished science. Trusting my physical well-being and general dryness to a strip of roadway plunked down on spindly legs that stand in the middle of a rushing torrent of water has never seemed terribly appealing to me. Portland, apparently laid out by someone who failed to notice a great big river in the middle of the city site, has 8 of these despised marvels of modern engineering, and they're of every description one could hope to imagine. Some of them are swooping concrete highways of thin crusts and plain stems, and some arch delicately in classic curves with the road laid gently across the top. One clings to horizontality by delicate suspension cables; another is a heavy, flattened steel cage dwarfed by its own massive elevator mechanism. A view of the river is a view into acrophobia and waterborne peril, over which cars, bikes and people glide serenely as though resisting gravity were as natural as breathing. Navigating the city without flying suspended from one side of the river to the other is an impossibility.
It's inescapably reminiscent of a future city from a sci-fi book, in which the last unbuilt space is the sky and humans have moved to build upon it. In the fictional metropolis the skyscrapers crowd each other to such dizzying heights that descending to ground just to move to an adjoining building is ridiculous; bridges are built to connect levels that come nowhere near the earth. Portland, where raising three new towers near downtown makes a noticeable mark on the skyline and the bridges rise higher than the buildings in any case, is hardly there. But it's close enough to be awfully compelling.
For more information on why this aesthetic municipal love affair was doomed from the start, write to the Portland university community and inquire about the lack of biochemistry postdoctoral work available therein. For more information on dazzling future metropoli, borrow a copy of the C.J. Cherryh collection Sunfall from your local library. To see the forest of bridges from the air, click here. To end this blog entry, press the star key.
Ta-da!
Attention Google searchers: you have come to the right place. Read this entry to find out why, or just skip to the end where I give you my email address and tell you to email me.
I'm still working on setting up my shiny new computery stuff. Since my natural tendency is to set things up once and never change them for ten years, I'd better do it properly while I've still got some momentum. That's why last night I was downloading and installing and configuring a shiny new email client. I told it all of my account information and got it humming along happily, then turned to my household's greater geek for help in importing my carefully saved archive of mail messages. He opened, copied, imported, declared the process finished, and then turned and gave me a look of horror.
They're gone.
The one step that I missed while saving them was the step that made sure it saved every message in each folder, rather than one message in each folder, and I never checked to see what I'd saved. Had I realized, I could have easily saved them again properly. Alternately, I could have taken the tedious but safe route and used my Gmail inboxes to store them all. I did neither, and lost five years of email.
The good news is, I've still got everything from my Gmail accounts. I've emailed the erstwhile administrator of modifiedmail to see if I can retrieve those messages as well. The only thing that's definitely gone is the mail from my school account, which I threw to the spamdogs a year ago and only occasionally checked for incoming messages. Essentially, what is lost is the email addresses of everyone who used to send mail to me at uclink.berkeley.edu.
Since I can't remember exactly who that was, I've decided to make myself unfathomably easy to find for when those people say, "Hey, Dianna hasn't emailed me in years; I wonder what she's up to." I'm already pretty Googlable. Can I become really Googlable?
Dianna Joyce Woolsey, UC Berkeley, North Hollywood High School, Wilde House, architecture, anthropology, hardware jewelry, tomato plants, and if there's anything else you'd remember me for I'm damned if I can think of what it might be. Now here's the time capsule message: if you looked for my name and found this page, bloody well email me because I can't get ahold of you otherwise! Put my first name, then a period, then my last name, then an A in a circle, then gmail.com. Just say hi, or whatever you like. Thanks.
Posted by dianna at 11:57 AM
Linuces
Yesterday I meant to check on my fridge chess game and make my move, but I forgot. Ditto the fridge Go game.
Tonight I'm going to a show in San Francisco that will involve tubas and whistling.
I have to try to leave the show early so I can line up at midnight to get my pre-ordered copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Items 2 and 3 mean that it will be a little while before I have time to set up my new Windows installation the way I want it.
My new Windows installation is actually my second computer priority, the first being my other new operating system.
You see, my previously unstable and unexciting computer is now dual-booting Windows 2000 and Mepis Linux.
Linux is more fun than Windows.
That's the geekiest thing I've ever said in my life, notwithstanding the 6 geeky things (or should I say the 110 geeky things?) that preceded it.
My best friend's a butcher, he has sixty knives...
...And yesterday he used them to cut away two things that have plagued me for years: credit card debt and Windows 98. Sorry, was I not supposed to say that W-word anymore?
The part about the knives is a lie, but the part about being gleefully rid of things is true. I paid off the last of my credit card balance all in one shot and then watched wide-eyed while Jacob reformatted my hard drive and installed Windows 2000 on it. I only managed to lose one useful thing that I'd meant to keep, which was some record of my internet bookmarks (if you have the URLs of anything interesting lying around and you think I might want to be reminded of them, please help). My excuse for what else I did with my evening is that since I lost my bookmarks I needed to fill the gaping hole in my life with delicious sushi.
The FedEx delivery driver who brings packages to my office is a friendly butch woman with cool glasses. The glasses are a non sequitur, but the delivery driver is not. Last week she came in with a package and wound up in a discussion about food with me (vegan) and the office manager (has a thing about organic food). She, meaning the driver, mentioned that she's been eating raw lately and has found some restaurants in the Bay Area that do surprisingly good raw food. It's not a diet to which I'm likely to switch myself, since it's lacking in breads and legitimate cookies, but I wouldn't mind seeing what people are doing with it. She mentioned a name, which I just looked up.
Unfortunately, I could never eat there. Not because it's not vegan (it is, actually, vegan). Nor because it's geographically or financially unfeasible. No, it's because I wouldn't be able to stop laughing long enough to actually eat. And people call me a hippie?
I can't have nice semiconductors.
This weekend I received my just desserts for casting the pearls of a new monitor before the swine of my outdated and rather schizophrenic computer. After a thoroughly typical and not unexpected blue-screen-of-death operating system freak-out, I restarted the beast, only to receive an error message I hadn't seen before. I can't remember the exact wording at the moment, but the gist was that my hard drive had just noticed a problem with its addressing. Jacob sat me down and told me tales of data loss and system crashes, and explained that the best thing to do would be to dump everything off of that drive and reformat it. Argh, I said, but okay. Maybe a new drive would be needed, he continued, at which point I arghed some more.
He had a brainstorm just then and suggested that rather than buying a new drive, I could make use of the laptop I inherited from him. The short battery life wouldn't matter if it was always connected at my desk, and it was already running a more stable operating system than what I have on my desktop. That sounded good to me, so we hooked up the laptop to its base station to see if it would play nicely.
It seemed to be playing nicely. Jacob was doing something arcane with drive diagnostics on the desktop, so I turned to the laptop and tried to think about what I'd need to make it my only computer. I opened a few folders, looked at a few programs, and decided I couldn't think about anything without music. I put in an Interpol CD and waited for it to start.
Pop. Pop. Snapkchssst!
That is not the beginning of any Interpol CD with which I'm familiar. That was the sound of the laptop's power supply shorting out, complete with sparks, a puff of smoke, and the acrid smell of burnt electronics.
This is what I've decided to do. I'll keep the power supply in a special violent-electronic-death display with my old audio card, which has an honest-to-god scorched crater in it. I'll take the laptop, which is now responsible for the destruction of at least two power supplies, and seal it up behind a brick wall Cask of Amontillado-style. And I'll take my fucking desktop computer and reformat it, wipe every trace of Windows 98 from its drives, and never speak that name again.
What did I say about kicking my butt?
Will you look at what this bastard did to me? I'm the white pieces with black icons on them; Jacob's the black pieces with white icons. It's my turn, four moves into the game, and I'm three different kinds of screwed.
I hate this game I hate this game I kind of really love this game. I did manage to win something this week, but, well, that was a round of Battleship.
Oh. Are people irritated when I make my pictures popups? If you've got popup blockers and I'm making things a hassle for you, let me know and I'll start making them open in the same window instead.
Pardon our dust, beeping noises and clumps of hair on the floor.
I've been exhausted all week, and now I realize it was because my psychic sub-brain saw today coming and dreaded it. You see, at 10:30 this morning, the power went out at my office. It was back on by 11:00 and everything appeared to be just fine, but then one of the architects came down from the third floor to tell me that the phones up there weren't working.
Oh, I thought. That's interesting. I tried calling a few extensions on the third floor. Two out of six worked. I tried the second floor, and got zero out of six. Eight phones down in an office that gets 30 calls an hour isn't good. I threw my hands in the air and wished aloud for our one-man IT department to be around, which he wasn't. The Southern architect shook her head and told me he wouldn't know what to do anyway, so I should just call customer support and sort it out myself.
I squared my shoulders and called customer support, who told me to do a thing. I did the thing, which didn't work, and then called back. They suggested a different thing that I could try, so I did that one. It didn't work either. By my third call we'd moved on to cluster reconfiguring, which is a dread procedure far beyond my communications-technology comfort level, but I did it anyway. It failed utterly, breaking things that had previously been working, leaving me alone in the office during lunch with a broken phone system.
When I got done crying in the bathroom, I came back out to my desk and took stock of the situation. I decided that the Southern architect could pretty much shove it and I'd call the one-man IT department anyway. He was out today on day two of a one-day jobsite visit, so I called him on his cell. He answered grumpily. I told him what customer support had told me and what I'd done.
"You shouldn't have been doing that," he told me. I groaned. We don't want to be messing around in the guts of the phone system, he continued, so call the phone consultant and tell him to send someone out to fix it. I called the phone consultant, who answered grumpily.
"You shouldn't have been doing that," he told me. Customer support should never have had me trying to do procedures like that, he said indignantly. I wholeheartedly agreed and asked him if we could get a technician out, and he hemmed and hawed and put me on hold for twenty minutes.
I gave up, informed my boss that I was throwing in the towel, and took my hour-late lunch break. When I came back, I called the phone consultant again. He told me he couldn't get any technicians, but he could walk me through fixing it and it would work fine. Oh, I asked him, what are you going to have me do? He named the same dread procedure that customer service had directed me to perform.
I managed to stop myself from shouting "oh fuck no!", told him to talk about it with the one-man IT department, and hung up so I could concentrate on cursing the name of all telephonic devices invented by mankind. When the one-man IT department called back an hour later, I answered the phone eagerly, hoping to hear that he'd worked things out and my role would be to hover around the service technician and ask unhelpful questions. That was hardly the case. The phone consultant had clearly poisoned his mind.
"Dianna, the phone consultant can walk you through fixing it," he told me. I informed him that no, he absolutely couldn't, since the thing he was proposing had broken the phones last time and two people had insisted to me I should never touch those settings. The one-man IT department sighed. "You know I'm going to have to drive home and come into the office tonight just to get this sorted out? It's a perfectly simple procedure; you can handle it easily."
I'm just glad to be going home, is all.
Miss the kiss of tragedy.
When I came in to work this morning the first thing one of my co-workers said to me was, "So, no strike, then?"
I spent most of yesterday staring glumly at bus schedules and ferry maps and doing calculations that always seemed to have final answers like "7:15 a.m.". My spiky-haired upstairs neighbor and I nervously agreed last night to try to catch the same miserable early transbay bus this morning. I set my alarm for 5:45 and still got out of bed at 2:00 to see if anything had happened yet. The front-and-center this-just-in headline on sfgate.com was, "No news yet on BART strike". I guess there's no better way to find out how important a transit system is to a city than to threaten to take it away and watch people scramble.
There's no better way to find out if two people are geeks than to present them with a fridgeplay Go set and watch them spend an hour sitting in the corner of the kitchen playing it. We actually got two sets, the fridgego and the fridgechess, and Jacob pleaded with me to have both matches going simultaneously. If there were ever two games that were meant to be played with exquisitely polished wood pieces in a setting of elegance and concentration, instead of with magnets on the fridge while eating macaroni and cheese and sitting on cat food canisters on the floor, well, they've sure as hell fallen into the wrong hands now. I'm kicking Jacob's butt in the Go game, which I think is almost over, and he's guaranteed to trounce me in the chess game, which just started. They both make my head hurt in the most delightful way; I can't think far enough ahead to figure out half of what's going on, but I get these flashes where one little section of the board will start to make sense and then I think I know why people love these games so much.
This from a girl who can't concentrate long enough to follow the plot of an hour-long TV show.
Play-by-play.
At 1:30 a.m., I was awake.
Between 2:00 and 4:30, I dreamt that I was at work.
Between 5:30 and 6:00, I listened to the cats running frantically around the house.
At 6:30, the alarm went off.
It is now slightly before 12:00 and I am devoting my entire available energy to being unpleasant. I figure that if my morning can do it, so can I.
Better dead than read.
I'm trying to work my way through the sci-fi movie canon, or if there is no such thing, then at least the vast category of Major Sci-Fi Movies I Haven't Yet Seen. Greencine is helping with this; in the last two weeks we've rented and watched Dune and Blade Runner. That's one faithful adaptation of a book I vaguely remember liking, and one extremely loose adaptation of a book I adored and continue to adore.
We watched Blade Runner first. It was nice to look at, and they got some important things right (for instance, there was no way Deckard could win a hand-to-hand fight against Roy Baty). Other than that, I hated it. It wasn't Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and while I realize it wasn't supposed to be, I think the parts they skipped were the best things in the book. The desperate, reflexive protection of living things, the ravaged emptiness of the post-war world, and the cult--Mercerism--that sprang up to offer what people needed most in that time and place, which was empathy. It's such a tremendously intriguing setup that some of the best scenes in the book are the ones that just set up the background. And then there's my favorite hardly-fictional science fiction invention ever, the creepy, invasive Penfield mood organ. They tossed all that out the window and made it a find-the-monster-outside find-the-monster-inside story. But at least it was attractive, right?
Then we watched Dune, and I dearly wished to be back watching Blade Runner again. I blame that squarely on David Lynch. He has an incomprehensible passion for casting Kyle McLachlan as mysteriously important and importantly mysterious characters who muse repeatedly over things until you're sick of hearing their voices. No, I wasn't turned off by Twin Peaks; why do you ask? It's been probably eight years since I read Dune, so I don't honestly remember if it was as self-important and tried as desperately to be eerie as the movie did. I suspect it wasn't and didn't. I might have to read it again to be sure. At the very least I know it had fewer shots of Sting making weird faces, and that's got to be good.
So far the Sci-Fi Canon Project has done little except convince me that sci-fi is better read than viewed. That's partly inherent in the genre; visions of the future, when made into film, are usually terminally tied to the era in which they were created instead of the era they're trying to evoke. Sometimes the books are too, but lucky and gifted authors can escape it. Somehow the movie directors don't seem to manage as well, or at least, when they're weird masturbatory bastards like David Lynch, they don't manage as well.
I'm posting this from the safety and comfort of my own home, thanks to a cheap-as-sin used monitor and two helpful men named Jacob (the other one was the clerk at Computer Renaissance in Pleasant Hill). It's spectacularly awesome not to have to share a computer, particularly when the person whose computer you're sharing is more of a computer geek than you are. It makes for not too much computer time.
Fun activity, relevant to the above entry: Google shai hulud. Then Google shai hulud dune. That's right, it's a horrendous aggro screamy band named after a sci-fi monster. I have a small handful of mp3s of their songs (acquired in a period of "oh hell my boyfriend listens to this stuff I have to at least try it"), and I must tell you that merely reading about the hilarity doesn't do it justice. Notable song titles include "The Bonds Of Those Who Have No Understanding Of Consequence" and "Eating Bullets of Acceptance". But now you know the secret: they're even bigger dorks than you or I.
Girl with plastic garden fence in Aisle 6.
I've been meaning to get a bikini. I spend too much time fully clothed for a bask-happy girl with a tattoo to show off, and I believe that the ability to be effectively naked but technically decent will help remedy this situation. (Last year's sewing experiment, the plaid flannel bikini, fails marginally to meet the technically-decent requirement on account of inappropriate hemming allowances.)
Now since this is one of the few categories of things which I will not seek first at a thrift store, and I'll spend more than $25 on a piece of summer clothing when the sun turns black and dogs and cats live together, this really only leaves Target. That's where I went today, courtesy of a spiffy four-day holiday weekend from work. I grabbed a bunch of the least objectionable tops and bottoms I could find, tried them on, and was struck by the following inescapable truths.
Every bikini bottom was weird and unflattering.
Every top was too big and padded to a totally unreasonable degree.
As any reasonable person would do in my situation, I got indignant. How can they not carry my size at all? I huffed. These tops are all made for people with boobs! Don't they realize they have a customer with the chest of a twelve... year... old... girl? Huh.
I wandered over into the little girls' section and poked through the rack of tiny swimsuits. The bottoms, I thought, will definitely be too small, but maybe the tops will work. I found something in a girls' extra-large and wandered back to the dressing room with it. I tried on the top.
It fit fine. It wasn't padded out to here and didn't hang off me.
Since that was almost too easy, I tried on the bottoms.
They fit fine. They weren't scooped up to there and didn't have any weird little sashes or rosettes on them.
$12. One classic blue Hawaiian-print bikini, the likes of which couldn't be found for love nor money in the women's section. Ass: covered. Boobs: covered. Weird little sashes and rosettes: none. I've decided to bake a cake for my chest, to show it how much I appreciate it making all this possible. At this point I'm not sure if I should reassure you that that won't be the cake I bring to 4th of July, or if I should assure you that it will be, so if you have thoughts on the matter you should feel free to share them.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


Former Federal Reserve Board Vice Chairman Donald Kohn, NPR Interview, April 6, 2019.
Rather than review President Trump's picks, in this post we enumerate the key qualities that we believe make a person well suited to serve on the Board. Before getting to any details, we should emphasize our strongly held view that there is no simple prescription—in law or practice―for what makes a successful Federal Reserve Governor. History includes examples of former chief advisers to Presidents, academics with limited policy experience, and bankers. All served with distinction.
Furthermore, no single person combines all the characteristics needed to make for a successful Board. Indeed, policymaking by committee is most likely to succeed when members resist groupthink. For that, diversity in thought, preferences, frameworks, decision-making, and experience is essential. A Board overly weighted toward academic economists, or persons exclusively with government or financial market experience, would not fill the bill. Nor would one composed predominantly of older white men (like us).
With the benefits of diversity in mind, we highlight three common characteristics that we consider vital for anyone to be an effective Governor (or Reserve Bank President). These are: a deep respect for the Fed's legal mandate; a clear understanding of an analytic framework that makes policy choices reasonably predictable and effective; and an open-mindedness combined with humility that tempers the application of that framework. In what follows, we discuss each of these, and then close with a brief description of the key benefit of an effective Fed: stable inflation and growth, and a resilient financial system.
Respect for the Mandate. The Federal Reserve Act obliges the Fed to secure the "goals of maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates." All Federal Reserve officials should view these as the ultimate objectives for which they will be held accountable every day they are in office. Nothing comes before these—least of all the short-run, political objectives that inevitably motivate elected officials.
Each year, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) reaffirms these long-run goals while refining its monetary policy strategy. Since 2012, the FOMC has confirmed that an inflation objective of 2 percent is "most consistent" with its statutory mandate. The FOMC also is highly aware that the economy and financial system evolve over the medium term. To ensure that its policy framework will remain consistent with the statutory mandate and its inflation objective, for the first time, the Fed is engaging a wide-ranging review of its strategy, tools, and communication (see the recent speech by Vice Chairman Richard Clarida).
In addition to using its monetary policy tools to maintain macroeconomic stability, the Federal Reserve is obligated to promote a safe and sound financial system. To this end, it enjoys extensive regulatory and supervisory authority over the nations' banks. While the monetary policy and regulatory mandates are distinct, they are closely related: especially in the aftermath of the financial crisis, policymakers know that a modicum of financial stability is necessary to ensure maximum employment and stable prices. At the same time, there are potentially complex tradeoffs between these complementary goals.
Finally, dedication to the Fed's mandate means displaying unwavering support for the independence that is necessary to ensure that the central bank remains effective over the long run. Advocacy that threatens that independence jeopardizes the ability of the institution to fulfill its mandate.
Analytic Framework. Effective policymakers are of many persuasions. While sharing the commitment to the Fed's mandate, they often view the economy differently. Fed Governors and Reserve Bank Presidents have different information sources, weight various forms of information differently, and come to different conclusions on the likely future path of the economy. They also view the Fed's various policy tools in dissimilar ways, differing on each tool's relative importance and usefulness. In short, officials have diverse models of how central bank policy works—both monetary and regulatory—and have different views about how to achieve their statutory mandate.
Partly as a result, as former-Vice Chairman Kohn suggests in the citation at the start of this post, to be effective, individual policymakers must be able to persuade their colleagues. This requires the skillful use of data and analysis. And, that requires a clear understanding of an analytical framework that draws policy conclusions from an evolving set of economic facts in a clear, predictable and quantifiable way. It also requires the ability to explain the resulting logic in plain language.
The analytic framework could, but need not, come from a comprehensive knowledge of economic theory and econometric methods. For example, someone with a deep knowledge of economic and financial history, or intimate experience with the workings of financial intermediaries and markets, could use their expertise to inform their analysis. But, like any set of propositions, each person's analytic framework must be subject to scrutiny and testing. Over time, only those ideas that pass the harshest examination are likely to survive and influence a committee that is committed to achieving the Fed's statutory mandate.
Embracing an analytical structure both ensures logical consistency and leads to predictability, the importance of which we cannot overstate. Monetary policymakers and bank regulators are most effective when people can anticipate their policies and act accordingly. Predictable policies anchor expectations—including those about future prices, emergency liquidity provision, and bailouts of bank creditors—that influence behavior today.
Open-mindedness and humility. Having a predictable framework for analysis is one thing. Dogmatic commitment in the face of changing facts and improved theories is another. Effective central banking relies heavily on frontier economic analysis. But the frontier is constantly moving. Researchers take theories to the data. Those that pass the test rise, while others (perhaps once dearly held) fall. Not only that but, since all models inevitably ignore some potentially important aspects of the real world, policymakers necessarily employ judgement. To that extent, central banking is as much an art as a science, and is likely to remain so for the foreseeable future.
For that reason, effective central bank officials are more passionately committed to the search for truth than they are to their own analytic frameworks. And they are humbly aware of the limitations of our knowledge of how the economy will react and how central bank policy actually works. Given the volume of information that is produced today―not only the data, but the high-quality work of both official sector and academic researchers―policymakers must make a prodigious commitment to learning. This means putting in the time to read and absorb complex technical information. It also means maintaining a profound respect for the views of others who are similarly engaged. And, most importantly, in building consensus for specific policy actions, it means relying primarily on internal opportunities for persuasion, rather than on efforts to deploy external political pressure.
Critical Achievement: Stability. Over the past 30 years, the greatest success of the Federal Reserve has been delivering price stability. By first lowering inflation, and then keeping it close to the long-term goal of 2%, officials have reduced uncertainty, anchored long-term inflation expectations, and kept long-term bond yields low. Without governors who exhibit the three key characteristics—commitment to the mandate, well-developed analytic frameworks, and broad-mindedness—it would not have been possible to build the credibility necessary for this achievement.
Note: Shaded areas denote recessions. Source: FRED.
Conclusion. An independent central bank is one of the rare free lunches in economics: it can secure low and stable inflation without sacrificing long-run economic growth. But acquiring that free lunch requires that the institution be run by high-caliber technicians who shun short-run political aims, focusing instead on the long-run goals of price stability and maximum sustainable employment. In the same way that we want military commanders, public health officials, and nuclear or transport safety administrators to be apolitical professionals, so should we aim for central bankers with technical expertise that is above partisan politics. History is replete with disasters that resulted from the politicization of such key government functions.
A transparent commitment to legally mandated goals by highly qualified specialists makes a central bank democratically accountable and allows it to earn the credibility it needs to be effective in promoting long-run prosperity. Were a central bank to be filled with political hacks, any formal independence would be meaningless and unsustainable, and we would all be the worse for it.
Like Greg Mankiw, we hope that the Senate agrees.
Acknowledgement: Without implicating him, we thank our friend and colleague, Richard Berner, for very helpful suggestions that have guided our thinking.


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Q: Jquery Load global function partially working Here is the code.
function product_analysis_global() {

    $(':checkbox:checked').each(function() {
    $('#product_' + this.alt).load(this.title);
    $('#product_quantity_PRI_' + this.alt).value = this.value;
});
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All working except the last line that is not working, any ideas. Should return the value of the current checkbox to the appropriate field '#product_quantity_PRI_' + this.alt
Many Thanks.

A: .value isn't a jQuery object property (it's a DOM object one), it should be .val() like this:
$('#product_quantity_PRI_' + this.alt).val(this.value);

Or (more for illustration), the direct jQuery-less DOM method:
document.getElementById('product_quantity_PRI_' + this.alt).value = this.value;

A: Use the val() function.
var $this = $(this)
$('#product_quantity_PRI_' + $this.attr('alt')).val($this.val());

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By Nancy Clemmons, SNJM
Genre: Religion & Spirituality
Exploring the Religions of Our World allows students to build on their understanding and experience of the Catholic Christian faith by studying different religious traditions. The text begins with a study of Judeo-Christian history, practice, and tradition before expanding to the study of other less familiar religions including Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Shintoism. The text moves on to uncover a variety of religious traditions that sprang from America's Protestant roots including Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the Church of Christ, Scientist.
Each chapter begins with an introduction that connects each religion to a contemporary person, practice, or teaching. A brief history follows, including information on the founder and other major figures in each respective religion. Other sections include those on scripture or major writings, beliefs and practices, and sacred places and sacred times. Each chapter ends with a Catholic apologetic focus and includes a look at ecumenical or interreligious dialogue between the Catholic Church and each particular religion. Similarities and distinctions in doctrines, traditions, and practices are also explored.
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Two Florida lawmakers want to make fireworks legal, sometimes
Janelle Irwin TaylorAugust 19, 20196min
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The bills would allow fireworks on three holidays.
Bills filed in both the Florida House and Senate Thursday would remedy a decades-old loophole allowing people to buy fireworks despite the fact that they're not actually legal in the state.
Sen. Travis Hutson and Rep. Ana Maria Rodriguez, both Republicans, filed bills that would create an exemption to the state's ban on fireworks allowing for their use on New Year's Day, Memorial Day and Independence Day.
"It's time to stop penalizing Floridians for wanting to celebrate American traditions," Hutson told The News Service of Florida, after filing his proposal last week.
The bills (SB 140 and HB 65) call for rules to be created to govern legal use, but does not define what those rules would be.
Florida's fireworks regulations have repeatedly come under scrutiny by legislators, with one lawmaker calling the current statute one of the "goofiest laws in the nation."
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Progressing with Tibet for 20 Years
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Participating in the construction of Tibet provided a first-hand look at its development
I have been living in Tibet for nearly 20 years. I developed a passion for culture and arts while growing up in Xuanwei City, Yunnan Province. In response to the central government's Western Development Strategy, I jumped at the chance to work as an editor for Tibet Daily and seize my dream of "writing while travelling" after graduating from college, and several classmates joined me.
Since 2001, I have travelled almost everywhere in Tibet, including Lhasa, Xigaze, Qamdo, Nyingchi Prefecture, Shannan Prefecture, Nagqu Prefecture, and Ngari Prefecture.
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the peaceful liberation of Tibet. I feel proud to have participated in and witnessed the rapid development of Tibet over the last 20 years.
National Support for Tibet
"Poetry is not easy," I thought while conducting interviews in Biejin Village, Qiumu Township, Namling County in 2012, a memory which remains fresh. I was covering a regional campaign themed "consolidating foundation for people's livelihood." To reach Xigaze from Lhasa, we took a car snaking through the bare mountains of the plateau. Days later, we reached Biejin Village in Qiumu Township and its welcoming meadow.
After entering the village, I saw that a large section of a simple road had been washed away by flooding from the mountain. Many potholes plagued the undulating sand surface. The car was thrown up and down as the ground rose and fell. Despite the appearance of roads, there didn't seem to be any anywhere. I heard from local villagers that getting in and out of the town becomes particularly difficult during the rainy season. However, several thin lines were winding through the village, creating a sublime plateau beauty. Traveling to such breathtaking natural beauty took great effort because of a lack of access. Although I have not visited the village since, colleagues informed me that it now has paved roads.
When I recall such small villages, I feel the changes and progress fostered by Tibet's vigorous promotion of infrastructure construction. The Chengdu-Lhasa Highway is an important land passage connecting Tibet to inland regions. The 20-kilometer Tongmai section, recognized as the most dangerous section of the highway, used to be nicknamed "Tongmai natural danger." Because of abundant rainfall and loose mountain soil, various geological disasters occur frequently. Across a year, I witnessed its shifts from a "natural danger" to an easy way.
In 2015, I went to Markam County in Qamdo to work in a village that could only be accessed by passing through the Tongmai section. The road offered only one lane despite two-way traffic, so vehicles often had to wait in a long queue to pass. That day, our wait to get through the Tongmai section was as long as seven hours. Today, the Tongmai section is an easy route involving modern bridges and tunnels, so passing through it takes only10 minutes.
Most of the roads around my office were still gravel roads when I began to work in 2001. Over the past 20 years, they have been paved with asphalt and expanded while gaining greenery. Lhasa City now offers smooth roads extending in all directions. The eastern suburbs of Lhasa, which have been vigorously developed in recent years, are home to some of the widest roads and most modern and complete facilities.
In his government work report delivered at the fourth session of the 11th People's Congress of Tibet Autonomous Region in January 2021, Qizhala, chairman of the regional government, stated that Tibet now has 117,000 kilometers of paved roads in the countryside and in cities. By the end of 2019, a total of 93 townships and 3,157 incorporated villages in 74 counties and districts in Tibet had gained access to asphalt or concrete roads, which facilitated people's mobility.
High-grade highway to Lhasa, capital of Tibet Autonomous Region. (PURBU ZHAXI)
Each of these changes and achievements can somehow be attributed to care from the central government and support from across the country. Statistics show that during the Tenth Five-Year Plan period (2001-2005), the central government's accumulative subsidies to Tibet accounted for more than 92 percent of Tibet's total fiscal expenditure.
At the seventh Central Symposium on Tibet Work, Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, stressed long-term commitment to the CPC Central Committee's policy to ensure Tibet's support from central authorities and assistance from the whole country. He also suggested more efforts be made in inspiring new methods of working to aid Tibet. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-2020) d, the central government planned to implement 197 projects in Tibet with a total investment of 380.7 billion yuan (US$59.6 billion), including 267.4 billion yuan (US$41.9 billion) from the central government. As of the end of October 2020, the central government had invested 313.6 billion yuan (US$49.1 billion) in Tibet during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, which is 17.3 percent above what was budged. Indeed, Chinese people from across the country worked together to pave a poetically smooth path for the progress of the Tibet Autonomous Region.
Convenient Transportation
To reach Tibet from elsewhere in China, you can take the Qinghai-Tibet Highway or the Chengdu-Lhasa Highway. But access is also afforded by the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the only train service to Tibet. Of course, many airlines now offer flights to and from major cities in Tibet including Lhasa, Qamdo, and Nyingchi.
But back in 2001, the only options to get in or out of Lhasa were by plane or road. The road trip was pretty long, so I had to fly by plane. There was only one flight per day. My monthly salary barely covered the ticket price of more than 1,200 yuan (US$188). After getting stunned by the steep price of plane tickets, I was struck that Lhasa was still using dial-up when Sichuan and other neighboring provinces were already using broadband. I had to go to a small internet cafe near my office that had four computers dialing up to the internet and pay 15 yuan (US$2.3) per hour.
On July 1, 2020, ground staff of Ngari Kunsha Airport in Tibet presents hada (traditional silk scarves) and flowers to the arriving crew of Tibet Airlines TV6008 as the airport celebrated the 10th anniversary of its air service. Over the past 10 years, Kunsha Airport had facilitated a total of 7,169 take-offs and landings, transporting 491,367 passengers and 365 tons of goods. (LI ZHENYU)
At that time, in terms of logistics, the only realistic way in and out of Tibet were highways. In 2001, most parcels sent from the inland took up to 15 days to reach Lhasa.
The opening of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway on July 1, 2006 was a sensational event for us. We had followed its trial operation closely. When it officially opened to traffic, Tibet Daily published a special issue and a special online series to cover everything related to the railway. The excitement was palpable. We closely studied pictures sent from photojournalists and carefully examined the content of reporting. Exclamations were thrown around the pressroom all the time. We were covering the news, but we were dreaming about the future. The dramatically less expensive and improved access for passenger and parcel transportation in and out of Tibet created powerful wings for Tibet to soar.
From the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, major extensions include the Lhasa-Xigaze Railway and the Lhasa-Nyingchi Railway.
The Lhasa-Nyingchi Railway will eventually become an important leg of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway, a project of the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025). The success of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway paved a future for the Sichuan-Tibet Railway and the breakthroughs it made in overcoming problems such as frozen plateau soil laid a solid foundation for easier construction of Sichuan-Tibet Railway.
The development of e-commerce has motivated people in Tibet to shop online. Earlier online shopping frequently stipulated "free shipping" except to Tibet. Generally, you had to pay a lot more for shipping than anywhere else and wait much longer. When buying a single small item, postage would always cost more than the item itself. Nowadays, nearly every large e-commerce platform and most businesses offer free shipping to Tibet.
Some do still charge more to ship orders to more remote places in Tibet. But progress has been made by some domestic e-commerce platforms opening local warehouses in Lhasa, Nyingchi, and other places. People in Lhasa can now get their goods delivered the next day for free.
I am convinced that eventually everyone in Tibet will get "free shipping" as their lives continue to improve.
Modern Lhasa
Each April and May, Lhasa gets greener, and the surrounding mountains present a picture of vitality. The high peaks of snow-capped mountains in the distance are visible from almost everywhere. Below them are gorgeous peach blossoms surrounded by green willows.
Back in 2001, many of the structures in Lhasa were one-story buildings with tin roofs, including offices and residences. Very few modern buildings could be found in the city, and something more than five stories was a major landmark. Even Qamdo, a "pearl in eastern Tibet," looked more urban than Lhasa. In other parts of Tibet, such as Nyingchi, Ngari, and Nagqu prefectures, urban areas were even smaller.
Local residents shop in a supermarket in Lhasa. (HE PENGLEI)
After years of rapid development, old urban districts of Lhasa put a stop to building tall structures for the sake of cultural heritage protection, but not so in Liuwu New Area, the economic development zone, and the eastern suburbs of Lhasa, where modern skylines already set off the deep blue skies. Commercial plazas are scattered in various commercial districts of the city. Lhasa's Zongjiao Lukang Park features waterside pavilions, facing the picturesque Nanshan Park to the south and the Lalu Wetlands, known for dancing cranes, to the north.
Lhasa now has a comprehensive modern transport system featuring bypass roads in the north and south, an expressway that leads to Nyingchi in the east, and an expressway to Lhasa Gonggar Airport and Shannan in the west. A "one-hour economic circle" between Lhasa and Shannan is taking shape.
My friends and I spent our 2021 Chinese New Year in Lhasa. We set out to have dinner to celebrate the holiday. Unfortunately, most restaurants and even shops were closed, and only a few small vendors remained open. We ended up buying a bottle of Chinese liquor and a bag of peanuts each and drinking it on the side of the road with hardly a car passing by.
However, after 20 years of development, traffic can congest the streets in Lhasa. Even during Chinese New Year holiday, the city remains bustling with people and cars.
Summer is about to break out across Lhasa. As I continue to write about these unforgettable people and things, I am moved to ponder whether the ice on the banks of the rivers and lakes in Ngari and Xigaze has melted yet. The dry and yellow grasslands on the plateau where the wind and sand are gradually receding are likely also starting to turn green, and I envision rivers turning black due to the migration of thick schools of big fish.
The year 2021 marks the 70th anniversary of the peaceful liberation of Tibetand the 62nd anniversary of the democratic reform that abolished serfdom in Tibet. I have heard many serf-to-Ph.D. stories as well as former serfs becoming high-ranking Party and government officials. I have personally met many of the people and events covered by media. Their experience testifies to Tibet's burgeoning prosperity. I have participated in the construction of Tibet and witnessed its development. We should never underestimate her energy and potential!
(The author is an associate senior editor with Tibet Daily and deputy editor-in-chief of chinatibetnews.com.)
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June 15, 2016. IFA News
On tuesday June 14, 2016, at 1 PM, our PhD student Adam Hardy Linsill Rorisang defended his thesis for opting to a PhG degree in Astrophysics in Sala Juan Mouat of the Facultad de Ciencias. Adam becomes, in this way, our first graduate from the Astrophysics PhD Program of the Instituto de Fisica y Astronomía, opened in year 2013. The student presented his thesis "Observational Constraints on the Disc Dispersal and Planet Formation Processes" to a comittee that included two external evaluators and another one from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, all of which unanimously determined to award him with a 7.0, the highest grade possible, for his work. Later, professors and students alike shared a moment of happy celebration together with Adam. Image: Adam Hardy begins his thesis defense in Sala Juan Mouat.
Dr. Nikolaus Vogt from IFA forms part of research team that discovered exotic planet system
Astronomers search for planets around other stars using a variety of methods. One of them, very succesfull, is specially effective for detecting planets in wide orbits around young stars, because the light reflected off the planet is not overwhelmed by the light of its host star, and so its easier to detect. Dr. Nikolaus Vogt, from IFA, is part of the research team that took the "picture of the week" for ESO (potw1624).
The image shows us a T-Tauri star named CVS030, distant 1200 LY from the Earth, in the 25 Orionis Group (a little to the northwest of well know Orion´s Belt). In 2012, astronomers discovered an exoplanet (CVSO 30b) orbiting around that star, by using the photometry method of light transit (the light from the star decreases slightly every time the planet passes in front of it). And, when astronomers went back to examine the star again, this time using varied telescopes, combining observations obtained from the VLT in Chile, the W.M.Keck in Hawaii and the Calar Alto Observatory in Spain, they found what would be a second planet. To produce the image they exploited astrometry information provided by NACO and SINFONI instruments from VLT. This new exoplanet, called CVSO 30c would be the small dot that can be seen in the upper left corner of the image (the bright object is the host star). Whereas the previous planet detected orbits very close to the star in less than 11 hours at a distance of 0.008 AU, CVSO 3c orbits at a distance of 600 AU, taking 27.000 years to complete a single orbit. As reference, Mercury orbits at a distance of 0.39 AU from our Sun, while Neptune does so at a little over 30 AU. If CVS0 30c is confirmed to orbit CVS030, it would be the first stellar system that has a close planet detected by the transit method as well as a distant planet detected by direct imaging. Astronomers still investigate how such an exotic system formed in such a short time period, as the star is only 2.5 million years old. Its possible that both planets had some interaction in the past, dispersing them and placing them in their current orbits. Image: Star CVS0 30 in the ESO Picture of the Week, credits, ESO/SChmidt et al.
Associated link: Scientífic paper, Schmidt et al.
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Omar Ayub Khan
Ayub Khan (general)
Ayub Khan (actor)
Omar Ayub Khan was born January 26, 1970 to an influential Hindko speaking family of Hazara region, is a former Minister of State for Finance in Pakistan. He was elected as a Member of the National Assembly from constituency NA-19 Haripur as a candidate of PML (N) in the 2013 elections.
Omar Ayub received his early education from Army Burn Hall College. He received his Bachelors and Masters in Business Administration from George Washington University, USA.
Omar Ayub served in the cabinet of ex-Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and tried to bring about changes in the economic situation of the country. The Real GDP growth at the time he took over was recorded at a healthy 6.2% for the fiscal year 2005–06
Omar Ayub Khan's father, Gohar Ayub Khan, is a former Foreign Minister of Pakistan and his grandfather, General ('Field Marshal') Muhammed Ayub Khan, was President of Pakistan from 1958–1969.
He is the son-in-law of former federal minister Anwar Saifullah Khan and his wife is a grand-daughter of former Pakistani President Ghulam Ishaq Khan.
This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - https://wn.com/Omar_Ayub_Khan
Ayub Khan is a compound masculine name; Ayub is the Arabic version of the name of the Biblical figure Job, while Khan is taken from the title used first by the Mongol rulers and then, in particular, their Islamic and Persian-influenced successors in South Asia, where the name is usually found, although Khan was being used before outside South Asia.
Ayub Khan (Kipchak leader) (died 1117), ruler of the Kipchak tribal confederation.
Ayub Khan (Indian actor) (born 1969), Indian film and television actor best known for his role in the television series Uttaran.
Mohammad Ayub Khan (Emir of Afghanistan) (1857-1914), Emir of Afghanistan who fought against the British Empire in the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
Mohammad Ayub Khan (President of Pakistan) (1907-1974), Pakistani military commander who served as President of Pakistan from 1958 to 1969 following his staging a coup d'état. Previously served as Chief of Army Staff (1951-1958) and Minister of Defence (1954-1955).
Master Ayub, a Pakistani teacher who runs an open air, free of cost, school in Islamabad since 1986.
This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - https://wn.com/Ayub_Khan
Ayub Khan (Urdu: محمد ایوب خان; 14 May 1907 –19 April 1974) was the second President of Pakistan. He was the first native four-star general and also the self-appointed and only Field Marshal of Pakistan Army till date. He became President in 1958 following a bloodless military coup removing President Iskander Mirza and served as President till 25 March 1969's resignation among a political upheaval in East Pakistan.
Trained at Sandhurst, Ayub Khan fought in World War II as an officer in the British Indian Army. He joined the armed forces of the newly formed state of Pakistan upon independence in 1947, and became its chief military commander in East Bengal. He was appointed as the first native Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army in 1951 by the then-Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan, in a controversial promotion over several senior officers. President Iskander Mirza's decision to declare martial law in 1958 was supported by Ayub, whom Mirza declared chief martial law administrator. Two weeks later, Ayub deposed Mirza in a bloodless coup and assumed the presidency. He relinquished the post of army chief to General Musa Khan the same year.
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Ayub Khan (born 23 February 1969) is an Indian film and television actor, most known for TV series, Uttaran (2008–2015) . He is the son of actor Nasir Khan and Begum Para. His father was the brother of actor Dilip Kumar. His mother was the maternal aunt of Amrita Singh's mother Rukhsana Sultana.
He has acted in over 20 films since 1992 and in several television serials.
Born in Hindko speaking of Awan tribe to former 1950s actress Begum Para and actor Nasir Khan. His mother's sister Zarina is the mother of Rukhsana Sultana, mother of actress Amrita Singh.
Ayub Khan is married to costume designer Niharika Khan, known for films like Rock On!! (2008) and The Dirty Picture (2011). They met while in college. When Niharika left to the US for her studies, they married other people. After 11 years they divorced and married each other.
Zindagi Abhi Baaki Hai Mere Ghost(2015)....Don Keith
Yeh Dooriyan(2011) ..... Abhay (special appearance)
Toh Baat Pakki! (2010) .... Surinder Saxena
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Locals stage protest against Omar Ayub, others in Haripur
The News International 23 Jan 2023
The angry residents on Sunday staged a protest against Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader and former MNA Omar Ayub Khan when he visited Ghazi to inaugurate the Rs650 million project of upgradation of the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital ... of Omar Ayub Khan and chanted slogans against him.
Why 35 members of Imran Khan's PTI resigned from Pakistan National Assembly
Indian Express 22 Jan 2023
... Ayub Khan, Pervaiz Khattak, Qasim Khan Suri, Raja Khurram Shahzad Nawaz, Sadaqat Ali Khan, Saifur Rehman, Sanaullah Khan Mastikhel, Shafqat Mahmood, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Sheharyar Afridi, Sheikh Rashid Shafique, Syed Ali Haider Zaidi and Zartaj Gul, as per a report in\u00a0Dawn.
Who are the PTI (and allied) MNAs whose resignations have been accepted so far?
Dawn 20 Jan 2023
... Qadri Omar Ayub Khan Pervaiz Khattak Qasim Khan Suri Raja Khurram Shahzad Nawaz Sadaqat Ali Khan Saifur Rehman Sanaullah Khan Mastikhel Shafqat Mahmood Shah Mahmood Qureshi Sheharyar Afridi Sheikh Rashid Shafique Syed Ali Haider Zaidi Zartaj Gul Sheikh Rashid Ahmed (AML chief).
Another move on political chessboard: NA Speaker accepts resignations of 34 PTI MNAs, AML chief
Those who were de-notified by the ECP include Omar Ayub Khan, Murad Saeed, ... Eight MNAs whose resignations were accepted were from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa — Murad Saeed, Omar Ayub Khan, Asad Qaisar, Pervaiz Khattak, Imran Khattak, Sheharyar Afridi, Ali Amin Khan and Noorul Haq Qadri.
'35 wickets' fall in bid to derail PTI's return to NA
... Hammad Azhar (Lahore), Shafqat Mehmood (Lahore), Zartaj Gul (Dera Ghazi Khan), Ali Zaidi (Karachi), Shehryar Afridi (Kohat), Ali Amin Gandapur (Dera Ismail Khan), Omar Ayub Khan (Haripur), Murad Saeed (Swat), Noorul Haq Qadri (Khyber Agency), and Ghulam Sarwar Khan (Rawalpindi).
NA speaker accepts resignation of 35 PTI MNAs
The de-notified lawmakers include Murad Saeed, Omar Ayub Khan, Asad Qaiser, Pervaiz Khattak, Imran Khattak, Sheharyar Afridi, All Amin Khan, Noorul Haq Qadri, Raja Khurram Shahzad Nawaz, Ali Nawaz Awan, Asad Umar, Sadaqat Ali Khan, Ghulam Sarwar Khan, Sheikh Rashid Shafique, ...
Financial statements not submitted: Ahsan, Asif, Swati, Asad among 271 MPs suspended by ECP
The ECP website. ISLAMABAD ... Suspended members of the Lower House include Chairman Public Accounts Committee Noor Alam Khan, PTI's Asad Umar, Murad Saeed Omar Ayub Khan, Asad Qaiser, Shehryar Afridi, Ali Amin Gandapur, Noor Ul Haq Qadri, Zartaj Gul, Andleeb Abbas, Maleeka Bokhari, Alamgir Khan, Ali Zaidi and Abdul Shakoor Shad ... Comments. Comment. .
Membership of 25 parliamentarians restored
Suspended members of the Lower House include Chairman Public Accounts Committee Noor Alam Khan, PTI's Asad Umar, Murad Saeed Omar Ayub Khan, Asad Qaiser, Shehryar Afridi, Ali Amin Gandapur, Noor Ul Haq Qadri, Zartaj Gul, Andleeb Abbas, Maleeka Bokhari, Alamgir Khan, Ali Zaidi and Abdul Shakoor Shad.
ECP suspends Asad Umar, Khawaja Asif, Khalid Maqbool, others' parliamentary membership
Suspended members of the Lower House include Chairman Public Accounts Committee Noor Alam Khan, PTI's Asad Umar, Murad Saeed Omar Ayub Khan, Asad Qaiser, Shehryar Afridi, Ali Amin Gandapur, Noor Ul Haq Qadri, Zartaj Gul, Andleeb Abbas, Maleeka Bokhari, Alamgir Khan, Ali Zaidi and Abdul Shakoor Shad ... .
Independent MPA from D.I. Khan, Ehtesham Javed, others join PTI
Urdu Point 11 Jan 2023
Besides, the provincial president PTI, Pervez Khan Khattak and former Federal minister Omar Ayub, Yousaf Ayug, Gohar Ayub, and others were also present on the occasion.
Dishonest leaders block progress: Pervez Khattak
Dawn 12 Nov 2022
The other speakers included former provincial governor Shah Farman, former federal minister Omar Ayub Khan, former National Assembly speaker Asad Qaisar, provincial ministers Shahram Tarakai and Atif Khan, MNA Uzma Riaz Jadoon and MPAs Akbar Ayub Khan, Momina Basit and Qalandar Khan Lodhi.
What former Pakistan PM Imran Khan's ex-wives said on 'assassination attempt'
Hindustan Times 04 Nov 2022
Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan's ex-wives condemned the attack on him and expressed relief that he is stable after surgery ... Imran Khan vows to continue protest march a day after attack ... Imran Khan underwent surgery at Shaukat Khanum Hospital in Lahore and his condition is stable, his party leader Omar Ayub Khan said.
Cops in Pakistan's Punjab province suspended for leaking confession of Imran's attacker
The Telegraph India 04 Nov 2022
The assailant, who opened fire at Khan during the party's long march, has confessed to the crime, saying that the former premier was his only target ... I wanted to kill Imran Khan only and no one else," he added ... Khan underwent surgery at Shaukat Khanum Hospital in Lahore and his condition is stable, his party leader Omar Ayub Khan said.
Cops suspended for leaking Imran Khan's attacker confession
The assailant, who opened fire at Khan during the party's long march, has confessed to the crime, saying that the former premier was his only target ... I wanted to kill Imran Khan only and no one else," he added ... Khan underwent surgery at Shaukat Khanum Hospital in Lahore and his condition is stable, his party leader Omar Ayub Khan said.


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Dame Margaret Hodge MP has launched a stinging attack on the Island's government and finance industry for failing to make its beneficial ownership register public.
Jersey, like other Crown Dependencies, has a register which can be accessed by other governments and law enforcement authorities if they suspect wrongdoing, but it isn't open to all.
In response, Mike Byrne of the Jersey Funds Association dismissed her criticism.


once the EDB approval letter is received and all other relevant acquisition criteria have been met, the buyer and vendor shall proceed with the signature of the sale agreement before the Notary in Mauritius.
VEFA (Vente en Etat Futur d'Achèvement) system through to the completion of construction.
by the buyer and include all taxes, fees, commissions and charges.
according to the price indicated on the price-list less the Registration Duty.
All the IRS properties are sold by the provision of a "Vente en l'Etat Futur d'Achèvement (VEFA)".
A sale in a future state of completion is the contract by which a seller transfers at once to the buyer his rights to the ground as well as the ownership of the existing structures. Construction works become the property of the buyer as they proceed; the buyer is bound to pay the cost of them. With the "VEFA", the price of the residence is payable in installments as the work proceeds, in accordance with the provision of articles 1601-1 to 1601-45.