For the past four years, Seema and Suraj Korumilli have created libraries and donated school supplies to children around the world as part of their pledge to improve literacy.
Now the two Northeastern students have donated 30 computers to a high school in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood.
The donation marked the most recent contribution they have made through their nonprofit Literacy Movement 4 More, which they co-founded in 2013.
Students at the John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics and Science who participate in Northeastern's summer program to prepare rising seniors for calculus will use the computers to complete engineering and coding projects at school and at home.
Suraj and Seema Korumilli co-founded Literacy Movement 4 More in 2013. Photo courtesy of Seema Korumilli.
"We want to do our best for the community," said Seema, a first-year business student.
The Korumillis, who are twins, have donated more than 3,000 books, three-dozen computers, and scores of other educational tools to seven libraries around the world since 2013, including libraries in India, Greece, and the Bahamas. In July, they signed a pledge with an elected official in Mandapeta, India, to open libraries at all 17 schools in the district.
"Education is the most important thing to us," said Seema, whose family emigrated from India.
Northeastern's Bridge to Calculus program primarily serves underrepresented minorities who often lack the technology to complete their homework assignments, said Rajini Jesudason, a part-time lecturer who organizes the program.
Suraj, a first-year business and computer science student, refurbished 15 desktops and 15 laptops to help make it easier for students at the John D. O'Bryant school to do their work.
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The Korumillis are working hard to solidify their connections with the Boston community. Since enrolling at Northeastern in fall 2017, they have struck up a working relationship with City-Wide Friends of the Boston Public Library, a volunteer organization that seeks to enhance public awareness, recognition, and financial support of the BPL system through advocacy and education.


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MathOverflow first came online on September 28, 2009!
Let's celebrate five years of MO!
I bought a delicious cake from the best bakery in the area to have with dinner tonight. I'm sure you will also find your own delectable way to celebrate this anniversary.
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Excellent opportunity to say what is so difficult to express adequately - the gratitude I feel for having this fantastic place! I've been here for less than a year, and almost from the very beginning it amplified my work enormously. You, who created and maintain MO - you are truly shaping the new, different, better, stronger, brighter future of mathematics.
It allows me as a non-academic to provide a perspective that I believe is important for some of this community to consider.
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Bob Lanzetti / Dynamo
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Bob Lanzetti is a Brooklyn, New York–based professional guitarist, composer, producer, and educator.
Bob Lanzetti is a Brooklyn, New York–based professional guitarist, composer, producer, and educator. He has performed and recorded with many artists throughout the New York City area and has played in more than 40 countries with the three-time Grammy Award–winning jazz/funk collective Snarky Puppy.
Growing up on the New Jersey shore, Lanzetti had the fortune of studying music with New York City-area based guitar greats Chris Buono, David "Fuze" Fiuczynski, and Vic Juris. In
Growing up on the New Jersey shore, Lanzetti had the fortune of studying music with New York City-area based guitar greats Chris Buono, David "Fuze" Fiuczynski, and Vic Juris. In 2000, Lanzetti moved to Denton, Texas, to further his education at the University of North Texas, where he earned a bachelor's degree in jazz studies. In addition to his studies, he was fortunate enough to get involved in the thriving R&B and gospel music scene in the Dallas/Forth Worth area—and to meet the musicians who would go on to form the core of Snarky Puppy.
As a member of Snarky Puppy, Lanzetti has had the opportunity to contribute as a writer, arranger, and guitarist, playing on every recorded release and performing all over the world. The "Pups" have earned three Grammy Awards to date: Best R&B Performance in 2014 ("Something," featuring Lalah Hathaway), and Best Contemporary Instrumental Album in 2016 and 2017 (Sylva, with Metropole Orkest, and Culcha Vulcha, respectively). Since 2006, Lanzetti has been residing in Brooklyn, New York, where he has become an in-demand session guitarist performing and recording with many artists, including Tommy Sims, Bokanté, Michelle Willis, Cory Henry, Ghost-Note (Robert "Sput" Searight and Nate Werth), Lucy Woodward, Musiq Soulchild, Bilal, Banda Magda, Underground System, and many others.
In addition to sideman work, Lanzetti writes, records, produces, and performs his own original compositions with his quintet. His debut record, Whose Feet Are These That Are Walking, was released on September 29, 2017, with a tour to follow.
Dynamo is a Nashville, Tennessee–based nationally touring band whose music fuses jazz, rock, and funk with elements of soul and R&B. The culmination is a sound that's both spontaneous and composed—with an energy that's undeniably infectious. Formed in late 2012, Dynamo consists of nine core musicians. When they're not performing or recording in Nashville, the band is on the road, spreading its unique brand of feel-good music to audiences all over the world.
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Lambe, Laura, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Landon, Jason, Gambling and Addictions Research Centre, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand Department of Psychology, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
Landreville, Philippe
Lange, Gary, Certified Gambling Counselor, Rancho Mirage, California, USA
Lange, Phil, Editor.
Lange, Phil, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. E-mail: <email xlink:href="mailto:Phil_Lange@camh.net">Phil_Lange@camh.net</email>
Langewisch, Mark W.
Langham, Erika, School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, CQUniversity, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Langham, Erika, School of Human, Health and Social Sciences, CQUniversity, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Langham, Erika, School of Human, Health and Social Sciences., Central Queensland University, Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia
Larimer, Mary E, Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; University of Washington; Seattle, Washington, USA
Larochelle, Sébastien, Département de psychoéducation et de psychologie, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Gatineau, Québec, Canada
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Leclerc, Marie-Frédérique
Leclerc, Martin, École de psychologie, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada
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The Canada Pension Plan (CPP; ) is a contributory, earnings-related social insurance program. It forms one of the two major components of Canada's public retirement income system, the other component being Old Age Security (OAS). Other parts of Canada's retirement system are private pensions, either employer-sponsored or from tax-deferred individual savings (known in Canada as a Registered Retirement Savings Plan). As of Jun 30, 2022, the CPP Investment Board manages over C$523 billion in investment assets for the Canada Pension Plan on behalf of 20 million Canadians. CPPIB is one of the world's biggest pension funds.

Description
The CPP mandates all employed Canadians who are 18 years of age and over to contribute a prescribed portion of their earnings income to a federally administered pension plan. The plan is administered by Employment and Social Development Canada on behalf of employees in all provinces and territories except Quebec, which operates an equivalent plan, the Quebec Pension Plan. Because the Constitutional authority for pensions is shared between the provincial and federal governments, stewardship for the CPP is jointly shared. As a result, major changes to the CPP, including those that alter how benefits are calculated, require the approval of at least seven Canadian provinces representing at least two-thirds of the country's population.

Provinces may choose to opt out of the Canada Pension Plan (as Quebec did in 1965), but must offer a comparable plan to its residents. In addition, under section 94A of the Canadian Constitution, pensions are a provincial responsibility, so any province may establish an additional/supplementary plan anytime.

History
The Liberal government of Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson in 1965 first established the Canadian Pension Plan.

Benefits
The primary CPP benefit is the monthly retirement pension. Currently, this is equal to 25 per cent of the average earnings on which CPP contributions were made over the entire working life of a contributor from age 18 to 65 in constant dollars. The earnings upon which contributions are made are subject to an annual limit, which, in 2020, is $58,700. However, under changes being phased in by 2025, the pension benefit will rise to 33.33 per cent of earnings on which contributions were made, and the maximum amount of income covered by the CPP will rise by 14 percent from the projected 2025 limit of $69,700 to $79,400.

The CPP enhancement will serve as a top-up to the existing, or base, CPP. For individuals who work and make contributions in 2019 or later, enhanced components of benefits will be calculated and added to the base portion of the benefit. These calculations are similar, but follow different formulae.

When calculating the base portion of the CPP, there is a general drop out provision that enables the lower-earnings years in a contributor's contributory period to be dropped from the calculation of the average. Since 2014, the lowest 17 percent of earnings are dropped in this way, accounting for up to eight years of contributory earnings.

Benefits under the CPP enhancement will be calculated based on a forty-year period, taking the best 40 years to calculate the benefit. This calculation effectively allows seven years to be dropped out of the benefit calculation (for an individual who begins contributing at age 18 and ends at age 65).

In October 2018, average monthly benefits for new retirement pension (taken at age 65) was just over $664.00 per month and the maximum amount in 2019 was $1,154.58 per month. Monthly benefits are adjusted every year based on the Consumer Price Index. CPP benefit payments are taxable as ordinary income.

The standard age to receive the retirement pension is age 65, however, individuals may begin collecting a permanently reduced pension as early as 60, or defer until age 70 to increase the monthly payment. For those who take the pension early (the majority), the reduction factor is 0.6 per cent for each month you receive it before age 65 (to a maximum reduction of 36 per cent at age 60). For those who defer, the adjustment rate is 0.7 per cent for each month that one delays in receiving it up to a maximum increase of 42 per cent at age 70. There is no financial benefit to delaying beyond age 70.

The CPP also provides disability pensions to eligible workers under the age of 65 who become disabled in a severe and prolonged fashion, and a monthly survivor's pension to the spouse or common-law partners of contributors who die (having made sufficient contributions).

An application must be filed at least six months in advance in order to receive CPP benefits. If an application for disability pension is denied, an appeal can be made for reconsideration, and then to the Social Security Tribunal. All CPP benefits in pay are indexed annually to the Consumer Price Index.

Contribution rates

1966 to 1996
From 1966 to 1986, the contribution rate was 3.6 per cent. The rate was 1.8 per cent for employees (and a like amount for their employers) and 3.6 per cent in respect of self-employed earnings. Contribution rates started rising by 0.2 per cent per year in 1987. By 1997, this had reached combined rates of 6 per cent of pensionable earnings.

1996 reforms
By the mid-1990s, the 3.6 per cent contribution rate was not sufficient to keep up with Canada's aging population. and it was concluded that the "pay-as-you-go" structure would lead to excessively high contribution rates within 20 years or so, due to Canada's changing demographics, increased life expectancy of Canadians, a changing economy, benefit improvements, and increased usage of disability benefits (all as referenced in the Chief Actuary's study of April 2007, noted above). The same study reports that the reserve fund was expected to run out by 2015. This impending pension crisis sparked an extensive review by the federal and provincial governments in 1996. As a part of the major review process, the federal government actively conducted consultations with the Canadian public to solicit suggestions, recommendations, and proposals on how the CPP could be restructured to achieve sustainability once again. As a direct result of this public consultation process and internal review of the CPP, the following key changes were proposed and jointly approved by the Federal and provincial governments in 1997:

 Increase total CPP annual contribution rates (employer/employee combined) from 6 per cent of pensionable earnings in 1997 to 9.9 per cent by 2003.
 Continuously seek out ways to reduce CPP administration and operating costs.
 Move towards a hybrid structure to take advantage of investment earnings on accumulated assets. Instead of a "pay-as-you-go" structure, the CPP is expected to be 20 per cent funded by 2014, such funding ratio to constantly increase thereafter towards 30 per cent by 2075 (that is, the CPP Reserve Fund will equal 30 per cent of the "liabilities" - or accrued pension obligations).
 Create the CPP Investment Board (CPPIB).
 Review the CPP and CPPIB every 3 years.

As of 2019, the prescribed employee contribution rate was 4.95 per cent of a salaried worker's gross employment income between $3,500 and $57,400, up to a maximum contribution of $2,668. The employer matches the employee contribution, effectively doubling the contributions of the employee. Self-employed workers must pay both halves of the contribution, or 9.9 per cent of pensionable income, when filing their income tax return. These rates have been in effect since 2003.

2017 reforms
The Federal Government and its provincial counterparts moved to enhance the Canada Pension Plan to provide working Canadians with more income in retirement. These changes were principally motivated by the declining share of the workforce that was covered by an employer defined-benefit pension plan, which had fallen from 48 per cent of men in 1971 to 25 per cent by 2011. They were given additional impetus by moves on the part of the government of Ontario to launch the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan, a supplementary provincial pension plan intended to begin in 2018.

Unlike the existing, or base, CPP, the enhancement to the Canada Pension Plan will be fully funded, meaning that benefits under the enhancement will slowly accrue each year as individuals work and make contributions. Additionally, the enhancement of the Canada Pension Plan will be phased-in over a period of seven years, starting in 2019. When fully mature, the enhanced CPP will provide a replacement rate of one third (33.33 per cent) of covered earnings, up from the quarter (25 per cent) provided prior to the enhancement. Additionally, the maximum amount of income covered by the CPP will increase by 14 per cent by 2025 (projected by the Chief Actuary of Canada to be $79,400 in 2025, compared to the projected normal limit of $69,700 in the same year in the 28th Actuarial Report on the CPP). The combination of the increased replacement rate and increased earnings limit will result in individuals receiving retirement pensions 33 per cent to 50 per cent higher, depending on their earnings across their working years. (The maximum retirement pension will increase by 50 per cent, but will require 40 years of contributions on earnings at the new maximum). Workers earning the 2016 maximum covered wage of $54,900 a year would receive an additional $4,390 annually (approximately $365.83 monthly).

To finance the expanded pensions and maintain the soundness of the plan, contributions to the CPP from workers and their employers will each rise 1 per cent from current levels, to 5.95 per cent over the existing band of covered earnings. This increase will be phased in over 5 years, starting in 2019. The increase to the earnings threshold will be phased in over 2 years, starting in 2024. Workers and their employers will contribute 4 per cent on earnings in this range (which is to say earnings above the normal earnings limit and below the new increased one). To ease the impact of the increased contribution on near-term disposable income, worker contributions will become tax-deductible.

Funding

Description
The base CPP is funded on a "steady-state" basis, with its current contribution rate set so that it will remain constant for the next 75 years, by accumulating a reserve fund sufficient to stabilize the asset/expenditure and funding ratios over time. Such a system is a hybrid between a fully funded one and a "pay-as-you-go" plan. In other words, assets held in the CPP fund are by themselves insufficient to pay for all future benefits accrued to date but sufficient to prevent contributions from rising any further. While a sustainable path for this particular plan, given the indefinite existence of a government, it is not typical of other public or private sector pension plans. A study published in April 2007 by the CPP's chief actuary showed that this type of funding method is "robust and appropriate" given reasonable assumptions about future conditions.

The enhancement to the CPP will be fully funded, such that each generation will contribute and pay for the benefits they receive. Contributions made to the enhancement will be directed into a separate account.

The chief actuary submits a report to Parliament every three years on the financial status of the plan. Future reports will report on both the base and enhanced components of the Plan.

Assets
As noted in the 27th Actuarial Report on the Canada Pension Plan, if one uses the 'closed group approach', the Canada Pension Plan has an enormous unfunded liability. As at December 31, 2015, the unfunded liability was $884 billion, which is the difference between CPP's liabilities of $1.169 trillion and the CPP's assets of $285 billion.

Unfunded liability
While the unfunded liability has been increasing with every published Actuarial Report, the assets as a percentage of liabilities using the closed group approach has also been increasing since the 1996 reforms. The unfunded liability reported in the last few reports are:

Using the 'open group approach' ("one that includes all current and future participants of a plan, where the
plan is considered to be ongoing into the future, that is, over an extended time horizon") the plan is reported to have assets in excess of $2.5 trillion. This approach uses a different definition of the term "assets". "Assets" are the sum of: (i) the CPP's current assets and (ii) the present value of future contributions for the next 150 years, totalling $2.544 trillion.

Unlike most pension plans, the unfunded liability is not reported on the balance sheet of the Canada Pension Plan's financial statements. Consequently, the balance sheet reports that the CPP's assets exceed its liabilities by $269 billion as at March 31, 2015.

CPP investment board

Under the direction of then Finance Minister Paul Martin, the CPP Investment Board (CPPIB) was created in 1997 as an organization independent of the government to monitor and invest the funds held by the CPP. In turn, the CPP Investment Board created the CPP Reserve Fund. The CPP Investment Board is a crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament. It reports quarterly on its performance, has a professional management team to oversee the operation of various aspects of the CPP reserve fund and also to plan changes in direction, and a board of directors that is accountable to but independent from the federal government. The board reports annually to Parliament through the federal Minister of Finance.

Quebec Pension Plan
Quebec is the only province in Canada that opted out of the CPP in which the government of Quebec runs its own pension program. The Quebec Pension Plan (QPP; French: Régime des rentes du Québec; RRQ) is the province of Quebec's own version of the Canada Pension Plan. The QPP is managed by Retraite Québec, which was formed from a merger of the Commission administrative des régimes de retraite et d'assurances (CARRA) and the Régie des rentes du Québec (RRQ) in 2016. Closely mirroring the CPP, the QPP is a contributory earnings-related pension plan that pays benefits in the event of the earner becoming disabled, retiring, or dying. Both Quebec and the federal government tax benefits paid from the QPP.

Increase in contribution rate
The contribution rate was 9.9 per cent prior to 2012. In accordance with the 2011-12 Budget of the Government of Quebec, the contribution rates were increased by 0.15 per cent per year for six years from 2012 to 2017. Consequently, the contribution rate increased to 10.8 per cent for 2017 and subsequent years.

See also
 Fiscal imbalance in Australia
 Pensions in Canada

References

External links
 Canada Pension Plan Act
 CPP and payroll calculations
 CPP Investment Board website
 CPP website
 2017 Annual Report
 21st Actuarial Report (as at December 31, 2003)
 23rd Actuarial Report (as at December 31, 2006)
 25th Actuarial Report (as at December 31, 2009)
 26th Actuarial Report (as at December 31, 2012)
 27th Actuarial Report (as at December 31, 2015)
 The Régie des rentes website

Retirement in Canada
1966 establishments in Canada
Public pension funds in Canada
Pensions in Canada
Social security in Canada
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Friday, 5pm. 30 miles south of Blythe,CA. 94 degrees Fahrenheit. My eleven-years-old GMC-truck is going about ten mph on a desert track somewhere in the middle of nothing. Dry creeks, dry plants, dry rocks. No birds, nothing that moves. Not even clouds. The track vanishing every few minutes between black stones the shape of eggs or in scrubs armed with thorns scraping the sides of the GMC. From time to time, the horizon's gone when I'm passing something that could be a wash - in better times. I have to be careful by passing those dips, the clearance of the GMC not forgiving straight driving. And there we go - I bump my rear axle in a creek - a very unpleasant sound - some stones flying to the side.
I get up the dip - and there they are standing - behind a four feet high bush - two pink buses. Like large dried animals stopped in the middle of the move. Their bodies hanging heavy just above the ground, no air in the tyres for centuries, colours faded away by the sun that burst their windscreens. The chrome-plated foreheads frozen in the search of gasoline smell. Whatever happened here, it happened a long time ago. If there would be wind, it would be groaning and making strange noises as it passes broken windshields and roam the empty seat rows. But - nothing moves. No sound. I get out of my car, walk to the driver's door of the nearest bus, pull the handle - the door opens with a sound of many years' rust in the joints - and I look at the broken controls covered with sand, no more dreaming of the black ribbon leading to the horizon.
What happened? Why are they here? And, after all, who or what left them standing here by their own, unable to move, dissolving of drought in a place nobody can forget because nobody ever remembered it ? Whose desperate mind undertook all this hassle driving them all the way to this place in the desert nobody can survive? I saw this man. He was about thirty-five, five-foot-eight tall, long hair, face small and dry, long nose and small brown eyes hidden from the sun by eyebrows that looked burned like these brushes at the wash. 69', as they send him home from Vietnam, he was OK. Not wounded, not ill. The people in Elgin,IL gave him a job at a grocery store, but it was a lousy job, he switched for a liquor store, then for a garage, but the garage was mainly working for guys in Chicago, whom he never saw, and who were mostly after new ID numbers for their cars, that had to be stamped into the frame and behind the windshield. So he left. There was nothing anybody expected from him and nothing he could do about it.
So he bought the two 58' buses from a Greyhound depot and went to California. The people in Blythe were OK, they said he can go 30 miles south, take the Mill Wash road, and nobody will ever ask. So he did, then got back to Illinois by hitchhiking and drove the second bus and parked it next to the first one. Not that it would be a nice place by any means, but at least, the people in Blythe were right - nobody ever came to ask. So he just sat there and watched his army-bucks going less and less with every bottle of Jim Beam. One evening he decided to call all the guys he's been with in the 173rd Airborne 50 miles up the Mekong River.
They would have a party, all the old guys, all on him. They would sit and watch the sun going down behind the Chocolate Mountains, the sun heading for places like Malibu and Santa Monica, places everybody wants to be in. The next day he went to Palo Verde, called them all and bought twelve sixpacks Bud. The next Friday would be the night.


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Engrossed originals delivered to the parties on:
IN THE NAME OF THE FRENCH PEOPLE
COURT OF APPEAL OF PARIS
Pole 1 - Chamber 1
JUDGMENT OF 17 FEBRUARY 2011
(No... 7 pages)
Number recorded in the General List: 09/28533
(Joined with Nos. 09128535 and 09/28541)
Decisions referred to the Court: Arbitral awards of 26 June 2001, 19 January 2004 and 23 June 2006 of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce, Paris, composed of Dr Ghaleb Mabmassani, Chairman, Lord Michael Mustill and Dr Nassim Hasan Shah, arbitrators.
APPLICANT IN THE APPLICATION FOR ANNULMENT:
THE GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN, MINISTRY OF RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS
Plot # 20, Ramna G-6 Markaz,
4000 Islamabad,
(Pakistan)
Represented by SCP FISSELIER CHILOUX BOULAY, avoués before the Court
assisted by Maitre Jean ROUCHE, avocat at the Paris Bar, pleading for SELARL FLEURY MARES DELVOLVE ROUCHE, Court box no. P35
RESPONDENT IN THE APPLICATION FOR ANNULMENT:
DALLAH REAL ESTATE AND TOURISM HOLDING COMPANY
in the person of its legal representatives
Dallah Tower, Palestine Street,
P.O. Box 430, Jeddah 21411
(Saudi Arabia)
Represented by SCP DUBOSCQ PELLERIN, avoués before the Court
assisted by Maitre Laurence KIFFER, avocat at the Paris Bar, pleading for SCP TEYNIER PlC & ASSOCIES
COMPOSITION OF THE COURT:
The case was argued on 18 January 2011, in public hearing, and the report heard before the Court composed of:
President MATET
Appellate Judge GUIHAL
Appellate Judge DALLERY
Who deliberated on it.
Clerk of the Court at the hearing: Mme PATE
JUDGMENT:
After hearing both parties
Handed down upon being made available by the Clerk of the Court to the parties, who had been given prior notice on the terms laid down in Article 450, second paragraph, of the Civil Procedure Code.
Signed by President Matet and Mme Pate, the Clerk of the Court present when the judgment was handed down.
Dallah Real Estate and Tourism Holding Company (Dallah) is a company incorporated under the laws of Saudi Arabia, a subsidiary of the Albaraka Group, a major Islamic financial institution.
By letter of 16 February 1995, the Dallah Group contacted the Ministry of Religious Affairs of the Government of Pakistan, to propose a long-term lease of buildings intended as accommodation for Pakistani pilgrims to Mecca. On 24 July 1995, the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Dallah signed a Memorandum of Understanding, whereby Dallah undertook to acquire land in Mecca and construct housing there for the Pakistani pilgrims.
Following the Ordinance of 31 January 1996, officially published on 14 February 1996, the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan established a Trust, called the Awami Hajj Trust, the main purpose of which was to collect savings from pilgrims, invest them and take measures designed to facilitate their going on the pilgrimage. In accordance with Article 89 of the Constitution of Pakistan, a Presidential ordinance expires at the end of four months if it is not put before Parliament, unless it is repromulgated. It was repromulgated on 2 May and 12 August 1996 but not on 12 December 1996, the date on which the Trust ceased to have legal identity.
Prior to that, on 10 September 1996, an agreement (the Agreement) was entered into between the Trust and Dallah for the projected construction of accommodation in Mecca for 45 000 Pakistani pilgrims and its lease by Dallah to the Trust for a 99 year term; that contract contained the disputed clause for ICC arbitration.
Mr Luftallah Mufti, who was at the same time Secretary to the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Secretary to an organ of the Trust, denounced Dallah's breach of its contractual obligations on 19 January 1997, which amounted to repudiation, and then on 20 January applied to the Pakistani courts for a ruling that Dallah was in breach.
Dallah then filed a request for arbitration with the ICC International Court of Arbitration against the Ministry of Religious Affairs, Government of Pakistan, pursuant to the arbitration clause in Article 23 of the Agreement. The Arbitral Tribunal, composed of Messrs Michael Mustill and Nassitn Hasan Shah, arbitrators, and Ghaleb Mahmassani, President, gave a partial award on 26 June 2001 in Paris in which it held that the Ministry of Religious Affairs, Government of Pakistan, was bound by the arbitration agreement, and ruled that it had jurisdiction.
In a second partial award of 19 January 2004, the Arbitral Tribunal found that the laws of Saudi Arabia were applicable to the merits, that the Ministry of Religious Affairs, Government of Pakistan, was bound by the arbitration agreement, and that it was liable to Dallah. By its final award, given on 23 June 2006, the Arbitral Tribunal found it liable, among other things, to pay Dallah the sum of US$18,907,603 in damages, and US$1,680,437 in costs of the arbitration.
By order of 24 August 2009, the presiding judge of the Tribunal de grande instance de Paris granted exequatur of the final award.
The Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Religious Affairs has filed three applications for annulment of the three respective arbitral awards and seeks their annulment on the basis of Article 1502 (1) of the Civil Procedure Code on the grounds, according to its submissions of 10 November 2010, that the Arbitral Tribunal was wrong to rule that it had jurisdiction over the Government because it was not bound by the arbitration clause, with the result that the two subsequent awards must be held null and void. In addition, the Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Religious Affairs seeks a ruling ordering Dallah to pay it €100,000 pursuant to Article 700 of the Civil Procedure Code.
In its submissions of 6 January 2011, Dallah asks for the rejection of the three applications for annulment, which it claims are unfounded, and seeks to have the Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Religious Affairs held liable to pay it €100,000 pursuant to Article 700 of the Civil Procedure Code. Dallah argues, in essence, that the extension of the arbitration clause to the Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Religious Affairs is well founded.
As to which,
Whereas the proper administration of justice requires the joinder of the three actions listed under numbers 2009/28541, 2009/28535 and 2009/28533;
On the sole argument for annulment based on the absence of an arbitration agreement (Article 1502(1) of the Civil Procedure Code)
The Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Religious Affairs, contends that the arbitration clause in the Agreement of 10 September 1996 is not binding on it and that the Arbitral Tribunal was in error in ruling that it had jurisdiction over it in Finding that under transnational principles the Ministry of Religious Affairs was merely a ministerial department, with no autonomous legal personality of its own, of the Government of Pakistan which was, moreover, the Pakistani party to the Memorandum of Understanding that preceded the Agreement. The Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Religious Affairs disputes that, pointing out that the Memorandum of Understanding of 24 July 1995 and the Agreement of 10 September 1996 are totally independent, that the Memorandum, which had lapsed before the establishment of the Trust, was replaced by the Agreement, that it was neither the intention nor the common wish of the parties that the Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Religious Affairs should be a party to it; that arbitration clauses must be strictly interpreted, and that the Agreement was signed only by the Trust, established by the Government of Pakistan to provide financial and material arrangements for pilgrimages to Mecca by its nationals.
The Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Religious Affairs maintains that Award No. 1 reveals divergences among the arbitrators and that Messrs Shah and Mustill subscribed only after hesitation to the conclusion that it was a party to the Agreement and thus to the dispute.
The applicant for annulment adds that on the motion of the Government of Pakistan, the English court, to which Dallah had applied for enforcement of the final award, quashed the order for execution in the United Kingdom, the Court of Appeal upheld that decision by its judgment of 20 July 2009 and the Supreme Court, in its judgment of 3 November 2010, rejected Dallah's appeal.
Whereas, by letter of 16 February 1995 [informal partial English translations have been made of the documents, which have not been disputed by the parties] Dallah informed the Ministry of Religious Affairs of the Government of Pakistan that the King of Saudi Arabia and the Guardian of the Holy Places had made it responsible for the upkeep of those sites and that it was authorised to offer Islamic govermnents the long-term lease of buildings designed as accommodation for pilgrims, and offered to allocate several sites at Mecca to the Government of Pakistan on which Dallah would construct the buildings, with Dallah to provide the financing; whereas on 15 July 1995 Dallah provided to the Ministry of Finance the terms of financing for the project, which took concrete shape with the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding on 24 July 1995 entered into, on the one hand, by the President of the Republic of Pakistan, for whom Mr Luftallah Mufti, Secretary of the Ministry of Religious Affairs, signed, and on the other by Dallah, signed by Mr Nackvi;
Whereas by the terms of that Memorandum of Understanding Dallah undertook to purchase land at Mecca and build accommodation on it for Pakistani pilgrims, intended to be leased to the Government of Pakistan for a 99-year term, with Dallah also providing financing for the operation as provided in its offer of 16 February 1995; whereas according to Article 14 of that Memorandum, Dallah was, within 90 days, to submit the terms and conditions of the lease for approval to the Government of Pakistan as well as the financing plan, and, under Article 5, the financing was to be the responsibility of a borrower to be designated by the Government of Pakistan; whereas, pursuant to Article 28, the Government of Pakistan
reserved the option to entrust the management and upkeep of the buildings to one or more individuals or legal entities or to a Trust which would be the Borrower;
Whereas from the signature of the Memorandum on 24 July 1995 to the signature of the Agreement, Dallah's only interlocutor was the Government of Pakistan, to whom, on 17 August 1995, Dallah submitted the draft lease between itself and the Government of Pakistan; whereas, the financial proposal not having been approved by that Government, the Memorandum of Understanding lapsed on 17 November 1995;
Whereas the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan promulgated an ordinance on 31 January 1996, officially published on 14 February 1996, setting up a Trust called the Awami Ha]] Trust, a statutory corporation under Pakistani law, the essential purpose of which was to "mobilize savings from members" [pilgrims], "defray the expenses" of the pilgrimage, invest the pilgrims' savings in ways "yielding maximum returns", and "adopt measures for facilitating the performance of Hajj by members"; whereas Article 10 of the Ordinance provided that the Trust would have a fund, the Awami Ha]] Fund, financed by the pilgrims' savings, donations and investment income, managed by a Trustee Bank, which would be responsible for collecting savings and investing the fund's assets; whereas the Trust had legal personality, with the Ministry of Religious Affairs, the Secretary of the Ministry of Religious Affairs, Mr Luftallah Mufti, and the Minister of Finance being members of the Board of Trustees;
Whereas, during the pre-contractual phase that lasted more than six months, Dallah set out, in a series of letters, the roles assigned to its future contracting partners, the collection of pilgrims' savings and donations by the Trust, the advance granted to the Trust by Dallah, and the guarantee by the Government of Pakistan of the repayment of the financing facility of €100 million provided by Dallah; whereas, thus, by letter of 29 February 1996 from Mr Nackvi and Annex A thereof, Dallah set out its financing plan and expressly offered the Government of Pakistan a second option, for a period of five years with effect from signature of the Agreement, for the construction of additional housing for 45,000 pilgrims; whereas the Ministry of Religious Affairs put questions to it about that proposal, by letter of 4 April 1996;
Whereas the Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Religious Affairs further relies on a letter of 15 March 1996 to the Al Rajhi Banking and Investment Group, in which Dallah presented the Fund, mentioning the Trust as the Pakistani contracting partner, to maintain that Dallah had accepted the Trust as its sole contracting partner;
Whereas, however, on 4 April the Ministry of Religious Affairs wrote to the chairmen of certain banks inviting them to express their interest in acting as Trustee Bank, stating that the Government "wishes to appoint ... as the Trustee Bank", and Albaraka Islamic Investment Bank, from the Dallah Group, submitted its candidature on 14 April 1996 to the Ministry of Religious Affairs, which acknowledged receipt thereof on 23 April, inviting Mr Nackvi to attend the Ministry's offices to present his proposals; whereas, after an exchanges of several letters, including a letter from Dallah of 23 May 1996 to the Ministry of Religious Affairs describing the discussions that had been held with the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Religious Affairs informed Dallah on 30 July 1996, on Government of Pakistan letterhead, of the appointment of the Albaraka Bank and confirmed its agreement to the "Plan B" proposed by Dallah, for the accommodation, free of charge, of 12,000 pilgrims for "the Government of Pakistan", with "the Government of Pakistan" to pay "395 US dollars per pilgrim for the rest of the pilgrims"; whereas, admittedly, in submitting the contractual terms to its lawyers
responsible for drawing up the agreement, Dallah mentioned the Trust as the Pakistani contracting partner, but the negotiations took place exclusively between Dallah and the Ministry of Religious Affairs, but not the Trust, up to the eve of signature of the Agreement [letter of 8 September 1996 from Dallah to the Ministry]; whereas, in addition, on 30 July 1996 Mr Nackvi clearly indicated to the Chairman of the Dallah Group that it was for the Ministry to approve the economic operation contemplated, and told him that the Minister would be holding a meeting on that subject on 15 June; whereas, in fact, a newspaper article of 17 July 1996 gives an account of the meeting of the Board of Trustees chaired by the Prime Minister of Pakistan, who was, however, not a member of it;
Whereas the Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Religious Affairs contends that since the Trust, which had legal and financial independence, entered into the Agreement with Dallah, including submitting to an arbitration clause, "the acts of the Trust are not attributable to the Government of Pakistan", which rules it out as "the true party to the Agreement", and that such was the common intention of the parties;
Whereas, however, in the period of performance of the Agreement, two officials of the Ministry of Religious Affairs, who held no office in the Trust, wrote letters to Dallah, at an interval of six weeks, on 26 September and 4 November 1996, on the one hand concerning the savings plans to be offered to the pilgrims, and on the other, announcing the advertising campaign that Albaraka Islamic Investment Bank would be launching to inform the public that it was the Trustee Bank, and lastly requesting a copy of the agreement between that bank and the Muslim Commercial Bank about the use of its branches to collect savings; whereas there were no reasons to justify the intervention by those two State officials; whereas, moreover, after the Trust had ceased to have any legal existence as of 12 December 1996 in the absence of a new promulgation of the Presidential decree, Mr Luftallah Mufti notified Dallah on 19 January 1997, on Ministry of Religious Affairs letterhead, that: "Pursuant to the above mentioned Agreement for the leasing of housing facilities in the holy city of Makkah... you were requested within ninety (90) days of the execution of the said Agreement to get the detailed specifications and drawings approved by the Trust. However, since you have failed to submit the specifications and drawings for the approval of the Trust to date you are in breach of a fundamental term of the Agreement which tantamounts to a repudiation of the whole Agreement which repudiation is hereby accepted"; whereas there is no confusion arising from the fact that Mr Luftallah Mufti was also secretary to the Board of Trustees or that the Trust did not have its own letterhead, as everything in that letter indicates that he was acting on behalf of the Ministry in accepting the repudiation of the Agreement; whereas, in that regard, it is a matter of indifference that Mr Luflallah instituted proceedings in the Islamabad court on behalf of the Trust because, in having that senior official denounce Dallah's breach of contract on 19 January 1997, the Government of the Republic, Ministry of Religious Affairs. was acting as if the Agreement was its own; whereas, without listing the acts of the Trust, this involvement of the Government of the Republic, Ministry of Religious Affairs, like its conduct during the pre-contract negotiations, confirms that the creation of the Trust was purely formal, and whereas the Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Religious Affairs, as Dallah acknowledged, behaved as if it were the real Pakistani party during the economic operation;
Whereas, consequently, the argument to the effect that the Arbitral Tribunal was wrong to extend the arbitration clause to the Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Religious Affairs and find that it had jurisdiction is unfounded; whereas, consequently, the applications for annulment of the award on jurisdiction of 26 June 2001 given in Paris, and, therefore, the two following awards of 19 January 2004 and 23 June 2006 are dismissed;
Whereas the Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Religious Affairs must be held liable to pay Dallah Real Estate Tourism and Holding Company the sum of €100,000 pursuant to Article 700 of the Civil Procedure Code;
For these reasons
[The Court ]
Orders the joinder of the cases listed under numbers 2009/28541, 2009/28535 and 2009/28533,
Dismisses the application for annulment of the awards given in Paris on 26 June 2001, 19 January 2004 and 23 June 2006,
Orders the Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Religious Affairs to pay Dallah Real Estate and Tourism Holding Company the sum of €100,000 pursuant to Article 700 of the Civil Procedure Code,
Orders the Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Religious Affairs to pay the costs of the proceedings and grants SCP Dubosq & Pellerin the benefit of Article 699 of the Civil Procedure Code.
The Clerk of the Court The President


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Author: Cheryl Straffon
Cheryl Straffon is editor of Goddess Alive! magazine and author of several books on the Goddess, including Pagan Cornwall: Land of the Goddess, The Earth Goddess: Celtic and Pagan legacy of the Land and Daughters of the Earth: ancient wisdom for a modern age (pub. July 2007). She lives in West Cornwall, where she helps co-faciliate the Goddess in Cornwall Event. She has just had her second Saturn return and survived!
Imbolc and Bridget
Cheryl Straffon/ 1st February 2007 22nd March 2018 / issue2
by Cheryl Straffon
In rural areas, especially in the Celtic enclaves of Ireland and Scotland, a great number of customs grew up around this time, most associated with the Goddess whose festival this became, Bridget or Bride (pronounced Breed). When Christianity eventually took over, it found that such an important festival and its much-loved Goddess could not be ignored, so they changed the name to Candlemass, which still takes place in the Christian church on February 2nd, the festival of the purification of the virgin. The all-loving and nurturing Goddess, protectress of women and of childbirth, was turned into a festival in which the mother of Christ (who was still considered to be a virgin) had somehow to be cleansed of the process of giving birth, as if it were somehow unclean or shameful.
Continue reading "Imbolc and Bridget"
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Late essays and articles, D.H. Lawrence ; edited by James T. Boulton
The Resource Late essays and articles, D.H. Lawrence ; edited by James T. Boulton
The item Late essays and articles, D.H. Lawrence ; edited by James T. Boulton represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
Lawrence, D. H., (David Herbert), 1885-1930
Boulton, James T
"In his last years D.H. Lawrence often wrote for newspapers; he needed the money, and clearly enjoyed the work. He also wrote several substantial essays during the same period. This meticulously edited collection brings together major essays such as Pornography and Obscenity and Lawrence's spirited Introduction to the volume of his paintings; a group of autobiographical pieces, two of which are published here for the first time; and the articles Lawrence wrote at the invitation of newspaper and magazine editors. There are thirty-nine items in total, thirty-five of them deriving from original manuscripts; all were written between 1926 and Lawrence's death in March 1930. They are ordered chronologically according to the date of composition; each is preceded by an account of the circumstances in which it came to be published. The volume is introduced by a substantial survey of Lawrence's career as a writer responding directly to public interests and concerns."--Jacket
Cambridge, UK | New York, Cambridge University Press, 2004
xxxvii, 425 pages
Making Love to Music
[Autobiographical Fragment] ('[Newthorpe in 2927]')
The "Jeune Fille" Wants to Know (When She Asks 'Why?')
Laura Philippine
That Women Know Best (Women Always Know Best)
All There
Thinking about Oneself
Insouciance (Over-Earnest Ladies)
Master in his Own House (Deserted Battlefields)
Matriarchy ( -- And If Women Were Supreme ...)
Cue-titles
Women Are So Cocksure
Why I don't Like Living in London (Dull London!)
Cocksure Women and Hen-sure Men
Hymns in a Man's Life
Red Trousers (Oh! for a New Crusade)
Is England Still a Man's Country
Sex Appeal (Sex Locked Out)
Do Women Change (Women Don't Change)
Lawrence: journalist and essayist
Enslaved by Civilisation (The Manufacture of Good Little Boys)
Give Her a Pattern (Woman in Man's Image)
Introduction to Pictures
Myself Revealed (Autobiographical Sketch)
Introduction to These Paintings
The State of Funk
Making Pictures
Pornography and Obscenity
Pictures on the Wall (dead pictures on the walls)
Men Must Work and Women as Well (Men and Women)
Nottingham and the Mining Countryside
We Need One Another
Nobody Loves Me
Early draft of 'The "Jeune Fille" Wants to Know'
Vanity Fair version of 'Do Women Change'
'Mushrooms': an autobiographical fragment
Textual apparatus
Late Essays and Articles
[Return to Bestwood]
Which Class I Belong To
D.H. Lawrence ; edited by James T. Boulton
PR6023.A93
Cambridge edition of the letters and works of D.H. Lawrence
Includes bibliographical references (pages xvi-xvii)

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WEGNER TIME — Alex Wegner is in. UW 83-61, 2:51.
SHERRER TIME — Brendan Sherrer is in. UW 83-56, 4:09.
GANT SHOWS UP IN A BIG WAY — Well how do you do. Gant made two of the biggest plays in the game. He flushed a putback off after a N'Diaye missed layup and on the next possession finished a fast break with a high flying dunk over a HBU player. UW 81-52, 5:06.
WROTEN TO ROSS — Wroten connected with Ross with a no-look pass that led to a layup. He also hit Ross for a three-pointer. UW 72-46, 8:48.
HIGHLIGHTS — Simmons drained another three-pointer before Wroten made nice play on a fast break. Leading a 3-on-1 break, he faked the HBU defender with a behind-the-back pass and sailed to the rim for a left hand layup. UW 65-40, 11:59.
SWEET SHOT — Simmons took his second three-pointer this season and he made his second three pointer. Who knew the big guy had a sweet stroke. He made the shot from the same spot on the floor – the left elbow – that he did Sunday. UW 55-39, 14:48.
IN CONTROL — The Huskies have played more under control in the second half thanks to Wilcox who has drained two long jumpers. UW 52-31, 15:59.
SECOND HALF — Same starters.
HALFTIME OBSERVATIONS — Washington leads by 16, but it at times it was flat out ugly for the Huskies. It feels like they're nervous and maybe that's because Romar isn't allowing them to make many mistakes. When they flub defensively, he's making substitutions. When they commit silly turnovers, he's pulling the offending player. Gaddy and Wroten have rotated for each other frequently. Wilcox and N'Diaye got the hook after 90 seconds.
Gant has disappeared. He's 0 for 2 in 10 minutes. Ross (6 points and 6 rebounds) has played well. So has Wilcox, who has 11 points and five rebounds. When he plays within himself, Gaddy is doing a nice job leading the offense. He has four assists. He's also missed 4 of 6 shots. Wroten is all over the place. Literally and figuratively. He'll do something amazing like strip a player in the open court, but seconds later he'll attempt a no-look pass that bounces off a teammate's chest. You could argue the UW players need to have better hands. Or Wroten needs to take care of the ball. Wroten has seven points, three steals and three turnovers.
Washington has 12 turnovers, which is a season-high at the half.
BAD PLAY — Wroten committed another turnover on a fast break and took out Davis on the other end to prevent a layup. Wroten was a little heated after the play and started talking to a HBU player. He's out. Hikeem Stewart is in. UW 42-21, 1:39.
STREAKING — The Huskies are on a 12-0 run. N'Diaye is beating up Latas in the middle. I think he's bleeding from the mouth. Gaddy found Wilcox for a three-pointer and Gant connected with Ross for another three. UW 36-20, 3:49.
NICE OVATION — The crowd cheered when Spencer Hawes and Isaiah Thomas appeared on the jumbotron. Hawes seemed a sheepish, but Thomas stood up, raised both arms with a huge smile on his face and soaked in the love while Hawes laughed. UW 28-20, 7:00.
FINGER ROLL — Wilcox yanked a rebound and threw the ball ahead to WGaddy who finished with a finger roll over Russell. UW 28-20, 7:15.
TRAFFIC COP — Romar is moving players in out at a quick pace. One minute Wroten is in. He makes a great steal, but finishes the fast break with a turnover. Then he's out for Gaddy. Gaddy gets yanked after getting beat on dribble drives. The scorekeeper is getting a workout keeping track of the many substitutions. UW 24-20, 8:01.
MORE SUBS — Desmond Simmons makes his first appearance. N'Diaye missed two FTs.
BREUNIG ON THE BOARDS — The freshman forward has two putbacks in the last two possessions. Good job of cleaning up the glass on the weakside. UW 16-13, 11:49.
WOBBLY — Evans walked off the floor slowly with HBU trainers and went immediately to the locker room. No official word, but unlikely he'll return after a vicious (and yet clean) hit like that.
KNOCKED OUT — Breunig flattened Jonathan Evans with a screen. He's not moving and being examined by both team's trainers. UW 11-7, 14:21.
MORE SUBS — Martin Breunig is checking in. Wilcox and N'Diaye also return. It's obvious Romar has a quick hook today. If guys don't play like they're supposed to defensively, he's taking them out. UW 8-6, 14:37.
IMMEDIATE RESULTS — Kemp scores first two baskets for Huskies. UW 4-2, 17:28.
QUICK SUBS — Lorenzo Romar isn't playing around. Wilcox and N'Diaye are out. Tony Wroten Jr. and Shawn Kemp Jr. are in. HBU 2-0, 18:30.
HYPE VIDEO — Here's a little something to you pumped for the game.
STARTING LINEUPS — No change for UW: Abdul Gaddy, C.J. Wilcox, Terrence Ross, Darnell Gant and Aziz N'Diaye.
HBU: F Joe Latas, G Marcus Davis, G Ronald March, G Tyler Russell and G Marcel Smith.
SPARSE CROWD — It will be interesting to see who shows up today. There's no classes today and I took a drive through campus and the place is dead. We're about 15 minutes from tip and the Dawg Pack is half full. There's about 2,000 people in the building and that's being generous.
NO TV — Just me and you folks. No TV for this one. No streaming options either.
WHO'S THAT? — The guy wearing a UW polo and jeans taking shots during warmups is Scott Suggs, who is recovering from toe surgery. Judging by the way he's moving, the senior co-captain looks to be on schedule to return for the New York trip.
WILCOX SIGHTING — C.J. Wilcox, who suffered a concussion Sunday, is warming up and looks as if he's going to play.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS — First off thanks to everyone who organized,participated and lined the streets of Seattle this morning for the Macy's Holiday Parade. Had a great time passing out candy canes and goodies with Bob Condotta, Larry Stone and Danny O'Neil.


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Q: How to connect to Oracle-DB ODBC connection string using SQLAlchemy? I am trying to connect to oracle-db using the odbc connection string, I am able to make the connection using pyodbc
import pyodbc
import pandas as pd
connection_string = 'DRIVER={Oracle};DBQ=X.X.X.X/YY/dbname;UID=someuser;PWD=XXXXXX'
cnxn = pyodbc.connect(connection_string)

but I am not able to connect using SQLAlchemy.
from sqlalchemy.engine import create_engine
params = urllib.parse.quote_plus(connection_string)
db_engine = create_engine(f"cx-Oracle+pyodbc:///?odbc_connect={params}")

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What is the section at the beginning of many TV series episodes called where clips from the last episode are replayed?
Sometimes, the next episode begins with a retrospection of the last episode to remind viewers where the story stands. What is this called? Is there an industry term?
I am asking because I later want to ask another question about this and I want to know how I can refer this element.
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It's called a recap sequence, though many would call it a 'catch-up', or 'Previously…'
The term 'catch-up' these days could be slightly confusing, since the proliferation of streaming services where you can watch any previous episode.
Previously on… comes from the opening of each episode of the TV show 24, where the recap was always announced as "Previously on 24". This has now become ubiquitous.
TetsujinTetsujin
ER did "previously on" half a decade before 24 was even broadcast: youtube.com/watch?v=LbevxO0owQ8
– BCdotWEB
Matter of fact, this list contains several other shows from before 24 who did this as well: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PreviouslyOn e.g. Homicide: Life on the Street, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, a couple of Miami Vice episodes (1980s!), ...
Interesting. Did they use those exact words? I've tried looking at old episode of Buffy & there's no recap at all on the ones I could find. The other shows I've never seen, so don't even have any memory to cast back on.
– Tetsujin
Buffy: youtube.com/watch?v=oX1SJYXhsXg (recaps were stripped from DVD releases etc. because they often spoiled surprises in the episodes) / Miami Vice: imgur.com/a/3SaBmpN (not a video, but an excerpt from a book).
We're retiring the "trivia" close-reason
What is the technique called when series of events in a film are played in reverse order?
How did the word "Bollywood" originate?


These homemade versions of a favorite snack food are filled with healthy fruit and nuts and are very simple to make.
1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Line an 8-inch square baking pan with 2 crisscrossed rectangles of parchment paper, leaving a 2-inch overhang at 2 opposite ends. In a large bowl, combine oats, almonds and cranberries.
2. In a small saucepan, whisk together oil, brown sugar, peanut butter, cinnamon, salt and 1 tablespoon water over low heat until sugar has dissolved, about 5 minutes. Let cool slightly; whisk in egg white. Pour over oat mixture; stir until moistened. Spread evenly in bottom of pan; smooth top.
3. Bake until top is firm, about 30 minutes. Let cool 10 minutes. Lift out of pan, using paper as handles. Let cool completely, cut into bars with serrated knife.
Make sure your oven is calibrated properly: the oven temperature for this recipe is 300 degrees to prevent the bars from browning before they are cooked through. (If your oven was too hot, that could account for the bars turning out dark).
These turned out to be a nice energy bar snack and easy to make. I mixed chopped dried figs and chopped hazelnuts with the rolled oats and subbed Penzey's Pie [filtered]e for the cinnamon (Penzey's Pie [filtered]e and Cake [filtered]e are my go-to for most recipes calling for cinnamon - so much more complex). I also used almond butter. The mixture didn't really set as firm as in Sarah's video and was crumbly; maybe I'll bake a little longer next time. I also like the idea of adding a little vanilla.
I have made these peanut butter granola bars for a long time. I just read other reviews that say goopy and didn't set. I admit that I always add flaxseed meal and wheat germ which would impact the liquid. I say if anything use more slice almonds, more dried fruit(really good with mixed dried fruit ie dried blueberries, dried cherries, apricots and cranberries. So I end up with much more than 1/2 c of dried fruit. I also add a good quality vanilla & good quality orange extract.
Mine came out very very greasy. I should have omitted the vegetable oil. Furthermore, it was very crumbly. I could almost shape the bar into another shape. The taste was not bad. But it was not the best one at all. I don't recommend this recipe. You better find out another one.
My batter was not goopy or wet and baked up nice and slightly chewy. I used almond butter and made sure I really stirred in the oil that had separated in the jar. The office gang loved it.
I had the same goop problem. They never set. I followed the recipe exactly.
I have made these a couple of times, and they are always a big hit.
I followed this recipe exactly but it didn't turn out well for me at all. The mix was too wet and never set. The end result was a really goopy, saucy pan.


I meet with students for a wide variety of reasons, common to students around the world (see above list of usual topics). School counselling is not psychotherapy. When I meet with students, we focus on their goal and strategies that could help them achieve that goal.
The purpose of school counselling is to help students feel happy so they can do well in school.
If you have any concerns about your child's well-being, please feel free to make an appointment with me for a private consultation.
Please fill in this form if you wish to make an appointment with the School Counsellor, Ms. Biteena.


A quick, basic primer on Markdown and blogging in Jekyll.
This article is intended to give you a very basic rundown of some key concepts of Markdown, as well as provide insight into using Markdown/start blogging within the Jekyll website theme I developed: Simpol Theme.
Markdown is a simple, plain text formatting language. Out of the box, Jekyll - a static website generator - supports and converts Markdown into HTML.
The best way to understand Markdown? Check out a file written in it, I know you'll catch on quickly.
Here's how those headings, above, very simply came to be.
What about that ^ horizontal rule? Simple, just add 3 or more hyphens, astericks, or underscores!
Are you seeing this bolded and italicized text, throughout?
To bold some text, either add two __underscores__ or **asterisks** around the content.
Similarly, to italicize text, add a single group of _underscores_ or *asterisks* around the content.
To bold some text, either add two underscores or asterisks around the content.
Similarly, to italicize text, add a single group of underscores or asterisks around the content.
Here's how I'm adding the code/syntax highlighting throughout this post, in Markdown.
For code blocks, add 3 back-ticks around the block, like so (eliminating the quotation marks, ending up solely with 3 back-ticks ```). Look familiar, Slack users?
For general syntax highlighting and code blocks, add 3 back-ticks around the block, without specifying a particular language.
I've developed Simpol Theme to be intentionally light-weight, no syntax highlighting add-ons are included in the current version.
For inline code, simply add a single group of back-ticks `around the code`.
For inline code, simply add a single group of back-ticks around the code.
Need to add links inline or throughout your post? Here's how!
Again, this look at Markdown is intended to give you a very basic rundown of some key concepts of Markdown, alongside providing support for Simpol Theme users.
For further markdown reading, I highly recommend you check out one of the greatest reference guides/resources that I've found, to-date: markdown cheatsheet.


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Max Bavin (1954-2019)
You will be saddened to hear of the untimely death of Max Bavin from England, aged just 65. Max retired just a few years ago as Chief Tournament Director of both the EBL and WBF. He will be greatly missed – may he rest in peace.
Obituary by Eitan Levy – EBL Executive Member
World bridge has lost a giant. Max's knowledge and interpretation of the Laws of Bridge was unsurpassed.
At international events, TD discussions and consultations about rulings invariably ended with "what is Max's opinion." He had the ability to immediately get to the core of the problem and see the whole picture. A discussion of a ruling with Max often went like this: Max: "What would a bid of 3 clubs have meant in that situation in their system?". TD: "Oh, I didn't think of that." Max: "Well go and find out and then we can discuss."
In addition to his work in the field Max was always generous with his help. As a member of the EBL Rules and Regulations Committee, he was always the first to remark on a problem raised and I cannot remember when his advice or solution was not accepted. His last contribution to the Committee was in an email sent the day before he passed away. Until his retirement he was active in the training courses for EBL TDs and even after that, any exercises and test questions were always sent to Max for comments. He was a valuable member of the World Bridge Federation Laws Committee and remained an active consultant to the Committee when he gave up travelling.
Max was my mentor. It was through him and his help and encouragement that I rose through the ranks of tournament direction. We were together at many European and International Championships but my best time with him was spent when I directed, at his invitation, at many Summer Congresses in Brighton. I spent many hours with him at meals – always ending with his cognac, and later at the bar with his dark beer. Our conversations there were seldom about the niceties of the laws. We shared stories and anecdotes, swapped rumors, and talked about the other passion we shared, cricket. He often mentioned about how proud he was of his son, Ben.
Max could sometimes be impatient, especially at meetings when something was repeated many times. I, and others, were sometimes at the receiving end of a biting remark when something that he considered elementary was questioned, but none of this was ever done in an insulting way, and he gave praise where praise was due. In the over 20 years that I worked with Max I never heard one bad word said about him. He was an inspiration to all new directors and nearly all of today's top TDs were influenced and guided by him. The bridge world – players, directors and officials – will all be the poorer for his loss.
Max often quoted the 10cc Rock Band song about cricket. To paraphrase the refrain of that song, "We didn't like Max. We loved him!"
Francesca Canali


It's Friday and the weekend is calling my name, your name, our names. And we're calling it's name back. WEEEKKEEENNNDDD Sup!! But, before we shut down the week, let's get a look at this Friday Lookouts.
From top and then from left to right.
1. I've been getting my Facebook feed filled with inspirational images and ideas from this lovely blog called "For Interieur". This blog is in french, but easy peasy to translate with the google button. If your love interior design and architecture, well then this blog is just up your alley. And a very fancy alley. So, go on...go give some blog love to "For Interieur".
2. Check out one post of this week on the blog: Color palettes 2016 of Valspar paint.
3. When I saw these shoes, I wanted to get down and dance some salsa. Weekend vibe!
4. Loving these colorful chairs in shades of green.
5. A piece of art to sit on. Awesome chair.
6. Quote for the day: "Your speed doesn't matter, forward is forward". Don't look back folks!!
7. You had me at those huge beautiful windows.
Hope you liked these Friday Lookouts. Have a great and relaxed weekend, you guys!!
I'm loving the kitten heels!
Ooooh my gosh. Those shoes, though! :) Great finds!
I know right?! And they're very cheap.
Nice! Those shoes are really cool.


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There's not much I can add to the discussion about this week's decision by the Public Works Committee to kill the Fort York pedestrian bridge that hasn't been already said more fully and completely by Derek Flack at blogTO and Ford For Toronto's Matt Elliott. Except maybe to introduce a new word to the English language. Derived from a combination of despair and anger that has become the prevalent mood here in Toronto during the Mayor Rob Ford era. Angair? Desger? Despanger? (Try it with a French pronunciation. Day-PAN-jay.)
How many times and ways can we talk about myopia and short-sightedness? Pennywise and poundfoolishness. The stunted notion of 'core services' being seen as little more than roads and sewers and not the wider, longer view of all round liveability.
That the public face of the move to kill the bridge is Councillor David Shiner comes as no surprise. He is part of the core group of Team Ford whose prime motivating factor seems to be, even more than simple political ideology, exacting revenge on anyone or anything from the Miller administration for excluding them from positions of power or influence. Once the mighty budget chief under Mel Lastman, Councillor Shiner was reduced to outsider status during the David Miller years, and somebody has to pay for that slight.
He couldn't really have bagged a bigger prize, either, than the Fort York bridge. Not a big ticket item money-wise (less than the revenue the city won't see from the decision to repeal the VRT), it was the baby of Ward 19's former councillor and Miller's Deputy Mayor, Joe Pantalone. 'An attack on taxpayers', Councillor Shiner called the bridge and its 'fancy' design. Fancy's the old way of doing things at City Hall. Austerity (in both mind and matter) is the new fancy.
What's especially rich about Councillor Shiner's demand for more financial accountability in somebody else's ward is that he's one of the beneficiaries of perhaps the biggest boondoggle… I mean, investment in future development… in recent memory: the Sheppard subway line. Running through a bottom slice of his Ward 24, we have recently heard the councillor get up and defend the mayor's plan to extend the subway, extolling 'the subway to nowhere''s contribution to a construction boom along its corridor. An argument some have made about the Fort York bridge. Its fancy design would help spur interesting investment around it much more than a Gardiner Expressway version of it might.
It's also interesting to note that in justifying his decision Councillor Shiner said, "… just think about what that $23 million could do for bridge rehab, for road repair; think of the community centres it could fix up, of the children's services and child care centres it could provide." I believe that this is the same councillor who back a few months during the budget debate, grilled a representative from the Toronto Public Library about switching projects after money had been specifically allocated even if timelines and preparedness dictated a strategic change. Doesn't his rationale about using possible savings from a scaled back version of the bridge on more pressing needs use the same kind of reasoning he dismissed on the part of TPL?
While I'm sure impossible to track, it would be interesting to see how much of any savings that might arise from a new, modified bridge construction Councillor Shriner will then fight to spend on infrastructure upgrades, community centres and child care. Colour me sceptical (which is more or less teal-like) that'll be the case. Instead, I see whatever money there is being flushed down the sinkhole created by tax cuts and freezes, and the fundamental ill-will the conservative faction at City Hall bear toward generating revenue.
The fate of the Fort York bridge is the inevitable outcome that arises when politicians elected on a platform of respecting taxpayers not citizens gain power. There's no bigger picture outside the bottom line. Why do anything special or fancy when it can be done for less money? Imagine the oodles of dough saved for Paris way back when if Napolean III told Baron Haussmann that his plans were all pretty and such but let's scale it back a little, shall we. Why build a stage with a Frank Gehry proscenium arch (to use an example from one of the mayor's favourite cities, Chicago) when a concrete band shell would work just as well?
— despangerly submitted by Cityslikr
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Hello October! In a flash of an eye, we've entered the final quarter of the year. Soon it'll be Halloween, then Christmas, and before we know it 2017 will be upon us. We saw lots of family bonding moments this week — undeniably the best way to spend quality time together.
Summer's daughter Olympia reminds us that Halloween is coming up soon.
Jacqualine enjoys a hike in Taiwan with her outdoor-loving kids.
Shanel and her little one Hermione welcome October in a matching floral-themed outfits.
Paige and her daughters Happy and Bee stun at a family photoshoot. Looking good ladies!
Azzah and Alana enjoy the breeze at East Coast Park while striking a pose and looking oh-so-cool.
For last week's #Fiquestagram, click here.


U.S. stocks set more records in quiet post-holiday trading Friday as technology companies again did much of the heavy lifting.
NEW YORK — U.S. stocks set more records in quiet post-holiday trading Friday as technology companies again did much of the heavy lifting. Energy companies rose with the price of oil.
Macy's and some of its retail counterparts rose after the department store's CEO said Black Friday sales were going well. Online titan Amazon made an even bigger gain. Oil prices and energy companies rose after Bloomberg reported that a group of key oil producers plans to extend production cuts until the end of 2018.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 5.34 points, or 0.2 percent, to 2,602.42. The Dow Jones industrial average added 31.81 points, or 0.1 percent, to 23,557.99. The Nasdaq composite gained 21.80 points, or 0.3 percent, to 6,889.16. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies climbed 2.40 points, or 0.2 percent, to 1,519.16.
The Dow finished slightly below its record high from Tuesday but the other major indexes closed at all-time highs. Trading ended early after the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday.
Macy's CEO Jeffrey Gennette told CNBC holiday shopping is off to a good start with relatively few discounts and strong sales of some especially profitable products like winter clothing. Macy's gained 44 cents, or 2.1 percent, to $21.07 and other department stores climbed as well.
Experts are mostly predicting strong sales over the holiday shopping period because of increased consumer confidence and a very low unemployment rate. The National Retail Federation trade group expects sales to grow at least as fast as they did last year.
Big retailers like Wal-Mart and Urban Outfitters and Gap have also reported strong quarterly results recently. On Friday, Gap added 47 cents, or 1.6 percent, to $29.64 and electronics retailer Best Buy gained 51 cents to $57. Amazon's stock rose $29.84, or 2.6 percent, to $1,186.
Amazon, along with tech giants Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Google's parent company Alphabet, have played a huge role in the market's gains this year. Those five companies combined are responsible for more than one-fourth of the value the S&P 500 has gained this year. Amazon and Facebook closed all-time highs Friday and the other three set record highs earlier this month.
U.S. benchmark crude rose 93 cents, or 1.6 percent, to $58.95 a barrel in New York. Brent crude, used to price international oils, added 31 cents to $63.86 a barrel in London.
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn disclosed that he's acquired a 13.5 percent stake in SandRidge Energy. A week ago SandRidge agreed to buy oil and gas company Bonanza Creek Energy, and Icahn said he's opposed to the $736 million deal. Another major SandRidge investor, Fir Tree Partners, is also against the deal. SandRidge jumped $1.40, or 8 percent, to $18.90 while Bonanza tumbled $3.76, or 11.7 percent, to $28.38.
Boyd Gaming gained 15 cents, nearly 0.50 percent at $30.38.
Caesars Entertainment added 25 cents, or 1.9 percent to close at $13.40. The company's main operating unit recently emerged from bankruptcy.
Golden Entertainment gained $1.70, or 5.33 percent, to close at $33.61. Shares are up about 177 percent since the first of the year.
International Game Technology gained 13 cents, or 0.46 percent, to close at $28.10.
Las Vegas Sands dipped 5 cents, about 0.70 percent, to close at $67.65.
MGM Resorts International gained 44 cents, or 1.32 percent, to close at $33.89. Shares have recovered after initially dipping in the wake of the Oct. 1 shooting.
Red Rock Resorts, parent of Station Casinos LLC, tacked on 18 cents, or 0.63 percent, to close at $28.85.
Scientific Games lost 30 cents, or 0.58 prcent, to close at $51.70. Shares are up about 270 percent for the year.
Southwest Gas Corp. fell 56 cents, or 0.68 percent, to $81.70. The dividend yield for the Las Vegas-based company is 2.42 percent, according to Google finance.
Switch dropped 8 cents, or 0.45 percent, to close at $17.87. The company went public Oct. 6 at $17 a share.
Wynn Resorts Ltd. gained 73 cents, or 0.46 percent to close at $159.42. Shares are up 84 percent this year.


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Need not worry about missing your calls! All you need is to click one button and you can smoothly make the transition between your calls and music. The sound is adjustable, and you can do all of it without touching your phone.
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The rubber finish makes it look stylish and cool.
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Flight connector available in the box.


How did Jesus really teach? is a talk recorded at Spring Harvest - 2009 on The Church available as MP3 Download format.
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