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Starrcade var et pay-per-view-show inden for wrestling produceret af Jim Crockett Promotions (1983-1987) og senere World Championship Wrestling (1988-2000). Det var ét af organisationens månedlige shows og blev som regel afholdt i slutningen af december. Starrcade bød typisk på de største og vigtigste kampe i løbet af året og blev sammenlignet med WWF's WrestleMania, til trods for at den første WrestleMania først fandt sted i 1985.

Starrcade blev produceret af Jim Crockett Promotions, der var den største wrestlingorganisation i National Wrestling Alliance, fra 1983 til 1987. I den periode blev Starrcade afholdt i slutningen af november i forbindelse med Thanksgiving. Starrcade 1987 var det første pay-per-view-show afholdt af NWA – de forrige shows var blevet vist på tv. Ric Flair var i 1980'erne NWA's største stjerne og var at finde i showets main event de første otte udgaver af Starrcade (1983-1990) og igen i 1993 og 1995. Det var først i 1998, at Ric Flair wrestlede ved Starrcade i en kamp, som ikke var showets main event, og det blev også hans sidste Starrcade-kamp nogensinde.

I 1988 blev Jim Crockett Promotions solgt til Ted Turner og blev til World Championship Wrestling (WCW). I WCW var man tvunget til at flytte Starrcade til december, så showet ikke skulle konkurrere direkte med WWF's Survivor Series, der også fandt sted i slutningen af november og blev afviklet første gang i 1988. Fra 1988 til 1990 blev Starrcade fortsat afholdt under NWA-banner, men efter WCW trak sig endeligt ud af NWA, fortsatte organisationen med at producere pay-per-view-showet selv.

I midten 1990'erne skrev Hulk Hogan kontrakt med WCW, og det hjalp organisationen til at konkurrere direkte med WWF. WCW's to største stjerner i 1990'erne – Hogan og Sting – mødtes ved Starrcade '97, og det blev det mest succesrige og bedst sælgende pay-per-view-show i WCW's historie.

I 2001 blev WCW solgt til WWF, og i dag ligger rettighederne til Starrcade hos WWE (tidligere WWF). Det samme gør alle andre tidligere WCW-shows. WWE har dog indtil videre kun fortsat med at producere The Great American Bash (under navnet The Bash) fra 2004 til 2009. I november 2008 fejrede WWE dog Starrcades 25-års jubilæum, og organisationen udgav i januar 2009 dvd'en Starrcade: The Essential Collection. Den består af tre dvd'er med mere end 20 af de største kampe fra Starrcades historie.

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Resultater

1983

Starrcade 1983: Flare for the Gold fandt sted d. 24. november 1983 fra Greensboro Coliseum i Greensboro, North Carolina.

 The Assassins besejrede Rufus R. Jones og Bugsy McGraw
 Kevin Sullivan og Mark Lewin besejrede Scott McGhee og Johnny Weaver
 Abdullah the Butcher besejrede Carlos Colon
 Bob Orton, Jr. og Dick Slater besejrede Mark Youngblood og Wahoo McDaniel
 NWA Television Championship: Charlie Brown besejrede The Great Kabuki i en Title vs. Mask Match
 NWA United States Heavyweight Championship: Roddy Piper besejrede Greg Valentine i en Dog Collar Match
 NWA World Tag Team Championship: Ricky Steamboat og Jay Youngblood besejrede Jack Brisco og Jerry Brisco
 Angelo Mosca var dommer i kampen.
 NWA World Heavyweight Championship: Ric Flair besejrede Harley Race i en Steel Cage Match
 Gene Kiniski var dommer i kampen.
 Ric Flair vandt dermed sin anden VM-titel.

1984

Starrcade 1984: The Million Dollar Challenge fandt sted d. 22. november 1984 fra Greensboro Coliseum i Greensboro, North Carolina.

 NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship: Denny Brown besejrede Mike Davis
 Brian Adias besejrede Mr. Ito
 NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship: Jesse Barr besejrede Mike Graham
 The Assassin og Buzz Tyler besejrede The Zambuie Express (Elijah Akeem og Kareem Muhammed) (med Paul Jones)
 Manny Fernogez besejrede Black Bart (med James J. Dillon)
 Paul Jones besejrede Jimmy Valiant i en Tuxedo Street Fight Loser Leaves Town Match
 NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship: Ron Bass (med James J. Dillon) besejrede Dick Slater via diskvalifikation
 Ivan Koloff og Nikita Koloff besejrede Ole Anderson og Keith Larson (med Don Kernodle)
 NWA World Television Championship: Tully Blanchard besejrede Ricky Steamboat
 NWA United States Heavyweight Championship: Wahoo McDaniel besejrede Billy Graham (med Paul Jones)
 NWA World Heavyweight Championship: Ric Flair besejrede Dusty Rhodes
 Joe Frazier var dommer i kampen.

1985

Starrcade '85: The Gathering fandt sted d. 28. november 1985 fra Greensboro Coliseum i Greensboro, North Carolina og The Omni i Atlanta, Georgia.

Resultater fra Greensboro Coliseum

 NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship: Krusher Khruschev besejrede Sam Houston
 Ron Bass besejrede Black Bart (med James J. Dillon) i en Texas Bullrope Match
 James J. Dillon (med Black Bart) besejrede Ron Bass i en Texas Bullrope Match
 NWA National Heavyweight Championship: Buddy Logel (med James J. Dillon) besejrede Terry Taylor
 NWA United States Heavyweight Championship: Magnum T.A. besejrede Tully Blanchard (med Baby Doll) i en "I Quit" Steel Cage Match
 NWA World Tag Team Championship: The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton og Robert Gibson) (med Don Kernodle) besejrede Ivan Koloff og Nikita Koloff (med Krusher Khruschev) i en Steel Cage Match

Resultater fra The Omni

 Manny Fernogez besejrede Abdullah the Butcher (med Paul Jones) i en Mexican Death Match
 Billy Graham besejrede Barbarian (med Paul Jones) via diskvalifikation i en Arm Wrestling Match
 Billy Graham besejrede Barbarian (med Paul Jones) via diskvalifikation
 NWA National Tag Team Championship: Minnesota Wrecking Crew (Ole Anderson og Arn Anderson) besejrede Wahoo McDaniel og Billy Jack Haynes
 Jimmy Valiant og Miss Atlanta Lively (med Big Mama) besejrede Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton og Dennis Condrey) (med Jim Cornette) i en Atlanta Street Fight
 NWA World Heavyweight Championship: Dusty Rhodes besejrede Ric Flair

1986

Starrcade '86: Night of the Skywalkers fandt sted d. 27. november 1986 fra Greensboro Coliseum i Greensboro, North Carolina og The Omni i Atlanta, Georgia.

 Tim Horner og Nelson Royal besejrede Don og Rocky Kernodle
 Hector Guerrero og Baron Von Raschke besejrede Shaska Whatley og Barbarian
 Wahoo McDaniel besejrede Rick Rude (med Paul Jones) i en Indian Strap Match
 Jimmy Valiant (med Big Mama) besejrede Paul Jones i en Hair versus Hair Match med Manny Fernogez buret inde
 NWA World Television Championship: Tully Blanchard (med James J. Dillon) besejrede Dusty Rhodes i en First Blood Match
 NWA World Tag Team Championship: Rock 'n' Roll Express besejrede Ole Anderson og Arn Anderson i en Steel Cage Match
 Brad Armstrong kæmpede uafgjort mod Jimmy Garvin (med Precious)
 NWA United States Tag Team Championship: Krusher Khruschev og Ivan Koloff besejrede Bobby Jaggers og Dutch Mantel
 NWA Central States Heavyweight Championship: Sam Houston besejrede Bill Dundee via diskvalifikation
 Big Bubba Rogers (med Jim Cornette) besejrede Ron Garvin i en Street Fight
 Road Warriors (med Paul Ellering) besejrede Midnight Express (med Jim Cornette og Big Bubba Rogers) i en Scaffold Match
 NWA World Heavyweight Championship: Ric Flair og Nikita Koloff kæmpede uafgjort
 Verdensmesteren Ric Flair og US-mesteren Nikita Koloff blev begge diskvalificeret.

1994

Starrcade 1994: Triple Threat fandt sted 27. december 1994 fra Nashville, Tennessee.

 WCW United States Heavyweight Championship: Vader besejrede Hacksaw Jim Duggan
 Vader vandt dermed titlen.
 Alex Wright besejrede Jean-Paul Levesque
 WCW World Television Championship: Johnny B. Badd besejrede Arn Anderson
 WCW World Tag Team Championship: Nasty Boys (Brian Knobbs og Jerry Sags) besejrede Harlem Heat (Booker T og Stevie Ray) via diskvalifikation
 Harlem Heat forsvarede VM-bælterne trods nederlaget.
 Mr. T besejrede Kevin Sullivan
 Sting besejrede Avalanche via diskvalifikation
 WCW World Heavyweight Championship: Hulk Hogan besejrede The Butcher
 3 Faces of Fear (Kevin Sullivan, The Butcher og Avalanche) angreb Hulk Hogan og Sting efter kampen. Kort efter kom Randy Savage, der netop havde skrevet kontrakt med World Championship Wrestling, til ringen og hjalp Hogan og Sting, hvilket betød, at Mega Powers (Hulk Hogan og Randy Savage) blev officielt gendannet for første gang siden 1989.
 Da Hogan kom tilbage til omklædningsrummet, blev han konfronteret af Vader, der forlangte en titelkamp.

1995

Starrcade 1995: World Cup of Wrestling fandt sted fra Nashville, Tennessee. De første syv kampe var en del af en match mellem to wrestlingorganisationer – World Championship Wrestling og New Japan Pro Wrestling.

 Jushin Liger (NJPW) besejrede Chris Benoit (WCW)
 Koji Kanemoto (NJPW) besejrede Alex Wright (WCW)
 Lex Luger (WCW) besejrede Masa Chono (NJPW)
 Johnny B. Badd (WCW) besejrede Masa Saito (NJPW) via diskvalifikation
 Shinjiro Otani (NJPW) besejrede Eddie Guerrero (WCW)
 Randy Savage (WCW) besejrede Hiroyoshi Tenzan (NJPW)
 Sting (WCW) besejrede Kensuke Sasaki (NJPW)
 Med sin sejr kunne Sting sikre WCW en sejr på 4-3 over New Japan Pro Wrestling
 Ric Flair besejrede Lex Luger og Sting i en Triangle Match
 Både Lex Luger og Sting blev talt ud af dommeren, hvilket gjorde Ric Flair til vinder af kampen og dermed topudfordreren til WCW World Heavyweight Championship.
 WCW World Heavyweight Championship: Ric Flair besejrede Randy Savage
 Ric Flair vandt kampen med hjælp fra Arn Anderson og dermed også sin 12. VM-titel.
 WCW United States Heavyweight Championship: One Man Gang besejrede Kensuke Sasaki
 One Man Gang vandt dermed titlen.
 Pay-per-view-showet sluttede med One Man Gangs kontroversielle titelsejr. I arenaen blev kampen dog startet forfra, og Sasaki vandt kampen. Dette blev gjort, så One Man Gang på tv kunne fremstå som mesteren, og fordi Sasaki tog tilbage til Japan efter at have wrestlet i USA et stykke tid.

1996

Starrcade 1996 fandt sted 29. december 1996 fra Nashville, Tennessee.

 WCW Cruiserweight Championship: The Ultimate Dragon besejrede Dean Malenko.
 Dette var en kamp om både J-Crown Championship og WCW Cruiserweight Championship.
 WCW Women's Championship: Akira Hokuto besejrede Madusa
 Jushin Liger besejrede Rey Mysterio, Jr.
 Jeff Jarrett besejrede Chris Benoit i en No Disqualification Match
 WCW World Tag Team Championship: The Outsiders (Scott Hall og Kevin Nash) besejrede Faces of Fear (Meng og Barbarian)
 WCW United States Heavyweight Championship: Eddie Guerrero besejrede Diamond Dallas Page
 Lex Luger besejrede The Giant
 Roddy Piper besejrede Hollywood Hogan
 Selvom Hogan var den regerende verdensmester, og kampen var hovedkampen ved WCW's største pay-per-view-show overhovedet, var det af eller anden grund ikke om Hogans VM-titel.

1997

Starrcade 1997 fandt sted 28. december 1997 fra Washington, D.C.

 WCW Cruiserweight Championship: Eddie Guerrero besejrede Dean Malenko
 Scott Norton, Vincent og Randy Savage besejrede Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner) og Ray Traylor
 Goldberg besejrede Steve McMichael
 Saturn (med Raven) besejrede Chris Benoit i en Raven's Rules Match
 Buff Bagwell besejrede Lex Luger
 WCW United States Heavyweight Championship: Diamond Dallas Page besejrede Curt Hennig
 Larry Zbyszko besejrede Eric Bischoff via diskvalifikation
 Zbyzsko, der normalt var kommentator på WCW's ugentlige tv-program Monday Nitro, sikrede dermed, at WCW bevarede kontrollen over tv-showet.
 Bret Hart var dommer i kampen.
 WCW World Heavyweight Championship: Sting besejrede Hollywood Hogan
 Dommeren Nick Patrick hjalp Hollywood Hogan til sejren, men Bret Hart, der havde været dommer i kampen før, kom til ringen og sagde, at det var slut med snyd i VM-titelkampe, og han startede kampen forfra. Sting fik kort efter Hogan til at give op.
 Trods VM-titelsejren fik Sting frataget bæltet et par uger efter, og en ny VM-titelkamp blev arrangeret til WCW's SuperBrawl VIII i februar 1998.

1998

Starrcade 1998 fandt sted 27. december 1998 fra MCI Center i Washington, D.C..

 WCW Cruiserweight Championship: Kidman besejrede Rey Mysterio, Jr. og Juventud Guerrera i en Triangle Match
 WCW Cruiserweight Championship: Kidman besejrede Eddie Guerrero
 Norman Smiley besejrede Prince Iaukea
 Perry Saturn besejrede Ernest Miller (med Sonny Onoo)
 Brian Adams og Scott Norton (med Vincent) besejrede Fit Finlay og Jerry Flynn
 WCW World Television Championship: Konnan besejrede Chris Jericho
 Eric Bischoff besejrede Ric Flair
 Det var Ric Flairs første kamp i WCW i lang tid.
 Bischoff vandt med hjælp fra Curt Hennig.
 Diamond Dallas Page besejrede The Giant
 WCW World Heavyweight Championship: Kevin Nash besejrede Goldberg i en No Disqualification Match
 Inden kamp havde Goldberg en kampstatistik på 173-0.
 Mod slutningen af kampen blev både Disco Inferno, Bam Bam Bigelow og Scott Hall involveret til fordel for Nash.
 Med sejren blev Kevin Nash dermed den første til at besejre Goldberg, og Nash vandt ligeledes VM-titlen.

1999

Starrcade 1999 fandt sted d. 19. december 1999 fra MCI Center i Washington, D.C..

 Mamalukes (Big Vito og Johnny the Bull) (med Tony Marinara) besejrede Disco Inferno og Lash LeRoux
 WCW Cruiserweight Championship: Madusa besejrede Evan Karagias (med Spice)
 WCW Hardcore Championship: Norman Smiley besejrede Meng
 The Revolution (Shane Douglas, Dean Malenko, Perry Saturn og Asya) besejrede Hacksaw Jim Duggan og Varsity Club (Kevin Sullivan, Mike Rotunda og Rick Steiner) (med Leia Meow)
 Kevin Sullivan, der ellers havde indstillet karrieren i 1997, gjorde comeback til ringen i denne kamp.
 Varsity Club endte med at vende Duggan ryggen, og The Revolution havde ingen problemer med at vinde.
 Vampiro (med The Misfits) besejrede Steve Williams via diskvalifikation
 Vampiro (med The Misfits) besejrede Oklahoma
 Creative Control (Gerald og Patrick) og Curt Hennig (med Shane) besejrede Harlem Heat (Booker T og Stevie Ray) og Midnight
 Stevie Ray ville ikke wrestle, og det var derfor 3 mod 2.
 Jeff Jarrett besejrede Dustin Rhodes i et Bunkhouse Brawl
 Diamond Dallas Page besejrede David Flair i en Crowbar on a Pole match
 Sting (med Miss Elizabeth) besejrede Lex Luger via diskvalifikation
 Kevin Nash besejrede Sid Vicious i en Powerbomb match
 Dommeren gav Nash sejren, selvom Nash ikke havde udført en powerbomb på Sid Vicious.
 WCW United States Heavyweight Championship: Chris Benoit besejrede Jeff Jarrett i en Ladder match
 Scott Hall havde opgivet titelkampen mod Chris Benoit pga. en skade, og WCW gav dermed titlen til Chris Benoit. En ny titelkamp mellem Benoit og Jeff Jarrett blev i stedet for arrangeret.
 WCW World Heavyweight Championship: Bret Hart besejrede Goldberg i en No Disqualification match
 Tre dommere blev slået bevidstløs i kampen, inden specieldommeren Roddy Piper kom til ringen. Piper gav med det samme sejren til Bret Hart, selvom Goldberg ikke havde tabt eller givet op. Begivenheden var en reference til Montreal Screwjob, hvor Bret Hart blev snydt for WWF's VM-titel mod Shawn Michaels.
 Goldberg sparkede Bret Hart i hovedet under kampen, hvilket resulterede i en slem hjernerystelse til Bret Hart. Hart måtte kort tid efter indstille karrieren.
 Pga. den kontroversielle afgørelse på kampen blev WCW's VM-titel erklæret for ledig aftenen efter under en episode af WCW Monday Nitro.

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NGO Bank Account for FCRA Funds
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As per Section17 (1), every organisation, which has either registered itself with the Central Government in accordance with the FCRA rules or has obtained prior permission, shall receive foreign contribution only through one such bank account as specified in its application for registration for prior permission.
Form FC-3 and Form FC-4 which deals with the application for registration and prior permission respectively; require the mention of separate bank account number and the branch of the bank in which the Foreign Funds will be received.
No funds other than foreign contribution shall be received or deposited in the above bank accounts.
Change of Bank Account
Further, Form FC-3 & FC-4 requires an undertaking from the chief functionary of the organisation. The relevant text of the undertaking is as follows, "not to change the bank or branch of the bank without prior permission of the Central Government. The reasons for change of bank or branch of bank shall have to be relevant and justifiable". In the light of aforesaid, it seems that there can be only one bank account of the association for receipt of foreign contributions and there should not be any change in the bank or branch of the bank without prior permission of the Central Government.
Procedure for change of Bank Account
When a change of bank account becomes a necessity by virtue of relevant and justifiable reasons the following procedure may be followed:
(i) A new bank account which is proposed to be designated bank account should be opened by depositing the minimum amount required for opening of the account which should be out of local funds.
(ii) An application to the FCRA authorities should be made by citing the relevant and justifiable reasons for such change along with complete details of the old account as well as the new account should be provided in the application
(iii) After receiving the permission from FCRA authorities, the entire balance from the old designated account should be transferred to the new account.
(iv) It is not necessary to close the old account. Therefore, the organisation may use the old account as a domestic account. But it is desirable to close the old account, to ensure that even by mistake the foreign funds are not credited to the old account
The FCRA department has given a correction form for the change in bank account, which is given in Annex. 1
Change in signatory of bank account
Change in signatories of bank accounts is a routine procedural issue and therefore need not be informed to the FCRA authorities. The undertaking given by the Chief functionary in the form FC-3 for informing the changes in the bank account is only about change of the bank or branch of the bank. Any procedural changes in the same bank account do not require an approval of the FCRA authorities.
Change in account number due to computerization
Many designated FC bank account numbers have been changed due to computerization. In such cases, it is advisable to inform the FCRA authorities about such changes. The new account number should be used for all subsequent reporting and correspondence purposes.
Separate Bank Account for Separate Donors
It has been seen that some donors insist of maintenance of separate bank account specifically for their grant and utilisation thereof. But under FCRA, all foreign contribution should be received in one designated bank account only. Therefore, under no circumstances, separate bank account should be opened for receiving funds from various donors. However, for UTILIZATION purpose separate bank account can be opened for separate donors.
Having more than one account for project purposes
The person may open one or more accounts in one or more banks for the purpose of utilizing the foreign contribution after it has been received and, in all such cases, intimation on plain paper shall be furnished to the Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, New Delhi within fifteen days of the opening of any account.
Interest Earned is part of foreign contribution
The interest accrued on the foreign contribution deposited in any bank or any other income derived from the foreign contribution or interest thereon shall also be deemed to be foreign contribution.
Reporting by banks of receipt of foreign contribution
Every bank shall send a report to the Central Government within thirty days of any transaction in respect of receipt of foreign contribution by any person who is required to obtain a certificate of registration or prior permission under the Act, but who was not granted such certificate or prior permission as on the date of receipt of such remittance.
The report shall contain the following details: -
(a) Name and address of the donor.
(b) Name and address of the recipient.
(c) Account number.
(d) Name of the Bank and Branch.
(e) Amount of foreign contribution (in foreign currency as well as Indian Rupees).
(f) Date of receipt.
(g) Manner of receipt of foreign contribution (cash/cheque/electronic transfer etc.).
The bank shall send a report to the Central Government within thirty days from the date of such last transaction in respect of receipt of any foreign contribution in excess of one crore rupees or equivalent thereto in a single transaction or in transactions within a duration of thirty days, by any person, whether registered or not under the Act and such report shall include the following details:-
Creation of fixed deposits
As far as the creation of fixed deposits of FCRA funds is concerned, there does not seem to be any bar on it. All the funds are required to be received in the designated bank account but any temporary surplus funds may be placed in fixed deposits with the bank, pending utilisation for the objects for which they were received. Care should be taken that the investments are in compliance with the section 11(5) of the Income Tax Act.
In this context, it may further be noted that, since, the interest earned is considered as FC receipts such interest earning should be deposited in the designated bank account.
Any asset created out of foreign funds should be recorded in the FC books of account only. And FC asset will continue to remain an FC asset irrespective of time factor or closure of the project. At times it may so happen that a portion of the asset is funded from domestic sources.
For instance, a building constructed on a land purchased from domestic sources. In such cases, the cost of the land should be reflected in the domestic books of account and the cost of the building should be shown in the FC books of account. Only the consolidated, statement will show the total cost of land and building together.
Sale of fixed assets
If an asset purchased out of FCRA funds is sold, then the amount received on sales of such asset should be shown as foreign receipts. There might be circumstances where assets are created out of both FCRA as well as domestic funds. In such cases, apportionment of the sale receipts should be made on a suitable and reasonable basis out of the sale consideration receipt and the amount, pertaining to foreign contribution portion of the asset should be considered as foreign contribution receipt.
The funds generated from a FC asset being a FC receipt should be deposited in the designated bank account.
Annexure: 1
Application form for change of Bank Account/Bank
[Application form for seeking change in the designated Bank Account/Bank of the association granted registration/prior permission under FCRA.
No..................................................................... Date.......................................
The Secretary to the Government of India
Ministry of Home Affairs, Jaisalmer House,
26, Man Singh Road, New Delhi-110 011
Subject : Application for change in the designated Bank/ Bank Account of association registered/ granted prior permission under Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act.
I ____________________ on behalf of the Association, whose details are given below, apply for change in the designated Bank Account/Bank of association registered/granted prior permission under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act,1976/Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010.
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KL Rahul provides big update on Rohit Sharma's availability for the second Test against Bangladesh
KL Rahul has given an update regarding Rohit Sharma's availability in the 2nd Test versus Bangladesh.
Rohit was ruled out of the recently-concluded first Test, which India won by 188 runs.
KL Rahul on Rohit Sharma (Image Source: Twitter)
Under the leadership of KL Rahul, Team India registered a dominating win over Bangladesh in the first Test at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram on Sunday.
This was India's first Test match since losing to England in Birmingham in early July. Rahul, who was acting as a stand-in skipper for the match, provided a major update regarding the availability of regular skipper Rohit Sharma for the upcoming second and final Test.
Notably, Rohit, who led India in two ODIs in the preceding series, was ruled out of the first Test. Rohit had injured his thumb while fielding in the second ODI against Bangladesh in Mirpur on December 7. Abhimanyu Easwaran was picked in the Test squad as his replacement.
"About Rohit, we may be able to know (his status) in the next day or two, even I am not aware of it," said Rahul in the press conference after the first Test, which India won by 188 runs.
Speaking about the match, Rahul termed the massive 188-run victory against Bangladesh as a complete performance, stating the team did well in all departments and played as a unit.
"Everything stood out. We batted really well and bowled really well. In fielding also, we took most of the catches that came our way. That is the way you win Test matches. Only one or two people cannot win matches, this is for all formats. Everybody did well, and this was what we wanted to do as a team. The guys who performed well, in particular, also got support from others. Those who are supporting are also important," added Rahul.
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Listen: Six Percent, Two Percent, Six Hundred Billion Dollars discussed on Brian Kilmeade
"Public money yet that is a what was going on yesterday late afternoon they were talents in retaliation for Thursday's tariffs came down and many people said in a scale one to ten it was eleven the market reacted with losing seven hundred points right now it's up about a hundred and twelve the person welcome this aggressive action is a man who study this entire adult life not only North Korea but China and knows they had to be confronted Gordon Chang joins us right now Gordon is the author of the coming collapse of China Gordon were you surprised at the level of retaliation certainly Brian what China is doing right now is desperate so for instance if the last three or four trading days it is kept its currency low forcing it down and this is a really bad thing for Beijing and the reason is first of all as president trump pointed out it means that the they're paying for the terrorists from an economic point of view but more important China's number one risk to its economy to its political system is net capital outflow and in two thousand fifteen two thousand sixteen they had more than two trillion dollars of net capital outflow the way to stop that capital outflow is to have a stable or rising currency Beijing is encouraging people to take money out of the country and that could be a grievous wounds do you also believe Gordon's dead if they devalue their currency that their products become more affordable for the for the consumer they certainly do I mean that's just the liminal economics clearly that's the case and not really me and for a number of other reasons the American consumer is not going to bear much if anything of this second round poor third round of terrorists I think this is really good policy on the part of the trump administration designating China a currency manipulator that sends a signal to the world this is really good trade policy on the part of the United States very painful for the agriculture very painful for the farmers I mean they're not making a quick purchase to begin with and we're not having a level playing field when this whole negotiation began so we haven't gotten there yet but in the meantime the farmers of feeling the pain they certainly are and that's why the administration has said what two rounds now of increased subsidies for farmers and we're going to have to have more Beijing is targeting them and its actions are increasingly predatory we got to remember what this is about it's not about soybeans farmers will be able to plant different crops they'll be able to sell to different customers so at the end of the day they should moralist be okay especially with the subsidy subsidies from the administration but what this is really about Bryant is high technology president trump the ones we talk about our imposes a remedy for the sept of US intellectual property and the Chinese are stealing hundreds of billions of U. S. I. P. a year somewhere between let's say a hundred and fifty and six hundred billion dollars that's a that's a wound that we have to close fast Susan I live in this country and sometimes I don't know what goes on behind the scenes with China what was going on behind the scenes when we were basically ninety percent there on a a real good trade deal with potentially good trade deal and they backed out who pushed who to do walk do you know we don't know Brian but there's a lot of information that can lead us to some speculation and and this is the critical question the US because it points to a failing Chinese political system as you point out in April and prior months trying to made commitments to the United States on trade they returned a the draft of the trade agreement to the trump administration on may third and the draft did not include any of the commitments I think what happened is he doing playing although he looks all powerful was not able to persuade other elements of the Chinese political crisis and to accept the deal that's a specially the heads of state enterprises benefited from China's prior practices many of them violations of their trade obligations almost all of them predatory and so the gym thing just found itself isolated and alone and we've seen other symptoms of see Jim things weakness so if it's in that this really is see not being able to get what he wants going Chang with us now Gordon what I understand is there kind of a group six point two percent but I and they keep saying that China's economy is weak that's a heck of a growth would kill for that type of GDP growth will my missing they're not really growing at six point two percent in the second quarter of this year growing if they're growing at all Brian maybe one percent may be zero they could even be contracting you look at the underlying indicators for June point two eight streaming troubled economy one can make the case for contraction the first numbers for July don't look any better there was a senior senior professor at women university in Beijing in December created a sensation when he said in two thousand eighteen China was gonna grow no more than one point six seven percent and might even contract Beijing ultimately reported six point six percent growth for two thousand eighteen but China's economy wouldn't be showing these symptoms of distress if they were really growing at six percent I mean we've seen all sorts of the poor we've seen thanks being taken over that doesn't happen in a fast growing economy Brian true I just a little befuddled because I do think they're very they're very strategic and what they did and when people come back and said by devaluing their currency refusing to buy the agricultural goods they do the they sent our market into a tizzy and I'm just wondering when they go to game plan is this out why did they come back at eleven do they want to out wait they they want to wait out this president do they believe the next president if it's not president trump will be better and don't they know if president trump wins the deals going to get harder to make I think to a certain extent they are trying to wait out trump but also I think that the Chinese political system is in paralysis right now so they can't come to a trade deal even if they wanted to I think and this is just rank speculation on my part I think that they look at the present United States and they can't figure him out and so what they want is they want someone who is predictable even someone who is tough they would rather have someone that they know how to deal with rather than president trump so clearly the Chinese are going to be working during election season to get somebody else elected Leslie on the missiles they are upset that the US might be to point missiles in the region where there are thousands of missiles according to John Bolton from China and listen to what their chief arms control official said yes a code forty nine China will not stand idly by and we have full to take countermeasures shook the US deploy into medium range ground based missiles in this part of the world I wouldn't do it I think is so what I can do about it and they were you have missiles there yeah the point is that in the United States needs to say this out loud is that China has these missiles what we're doing is just evening up the balance I don't know what China will do there's going to be a lot of huffing and puffing they're already working against American interests I don't know what more they can do without actually killing an American serviceman you know we gotta remember Brian that these guys actually injured to see one thirty pilots in April of last year over there or point of Africa Djibouti and they entered our diplomats in Guang Jo with those sonic attacks injuring harming Americans so what more can they do without starting a war yeah maybe Hong Kong will be the next thing would say go in there with with tanks well Hong Kong is not tank country and they that's a last resort for them because they know that they actually introduce you the people's armed police or the people's Liberation Army they've got a long term struggle on their hands because Hong Kong people don't like them to start out with they don't want to be invaded and you got a lot of Hong Kong kids who are willing to die they've been saying that now for about four or five weeks and we've actually seen four suicides went to the protest so there's going to be a lot of blood and not all of it is going to be home on people's blood in its revenue that they did mainland China wants right so if tankan's not successful that's less revenue well it's it's so it's a lot less stuff for China the one thing they really got to worry about is the United States and other countries actually enforcing strict sanctions for whatever they do in Hong Kong there's a lot that we can do Brian prior administrations have been looked into this one is not especially as China challenges us across the board in ways which are considered to be dangerous predatory belligerent and hostile going Chang thank so much the coming collapse of China the name one of his with his books so appropriate right now the market's up a hundred forty four point so maybe things are somewhat settled after yesterday's loss of seven hundred eighty points thanks cordon thanks Brian I we come back I'm gonna go on F. E. N. with Stuart Varney and talk about things that are on the tip of your tongue including the gun control debate here in America Brian."
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Public money yet that is a what was going on yesterday late afternoon they were talents in retaliation for Thursday's tariffs came down and many people said in a scale one to ten it was eleven the market reacted with losing seven hundred points right now it's up about a hundred and twelve the person welcome this aggressive action is a man who study this entire adult life not only North Korea but China and knows they had to be confronted Gordon Chang joins us right now Gordon is the author of the coming collapse of China Gordon were you surprised at the level of retaliation certainly Brian what China is doing right now is desperate so for instance if the last three or four trading days it is kept its currency low forcing it down and this is a really bad thing for Beijing and the reason is first of all as president trump pointed out it means that the they're paying for the terrorists from an economic point of view but more important China's number one risk to its economy to its political system is net capital outflow and in two thousand fifteen two thousand sixteen they had more than two trillion dollars of net capital outflow the way to stop that capital outflow is to have a stable or rising currency Beijing is encouraging people to take money out of the country and that could be a grievous wounds do you also believe Gordon's dead if they devalue their currency that their products become more affordable for the for the consumer they certainly do I mean that's just the liminal economics clearly that's the case and not really me and for a number of other reasons the American consumer is not going to bear much if anything of this second round poor third round of terrorists I think this is really good policy on the part of the trump administration designating China a currency manipulator that sends a signal to the world this is really good trade policy on the part of the United States very painful for the agriculture very painful for the farmers I mean they're not making a quick purchase to begin with and we're not having a level playing field when this whole negotiation began so we haven't gotten there yet but in the meantime the farmers of feeling the pain they certainly are and that's why the administration has said what two rounds now of increased subsidies for farmers and we're going to have to have more Beijing is targeting them and its actions are increasingly predatory we got to remember what this is about it's not about soybeans farmers will be able to plant different crops they'll be able to sell to different customers so at the end of the day they should moralist be okay especially with the subsidy subsidies from the administration but what this is really about Bryant is high technology president trump the ones we talk about our imposes a remedy for the sept of US intellectual property and the Chinese are stealing hundreds of billions of U. S. I. P. a year somewhere between let's say a hundred and fifty and six hundred billion dollars that's a that's a wound that we have to close fast Susan I live in this country and sometimes I don't know what goes on behind the scenes with China what was going on behind the scenes when we were basically ninety percent there on a a real good trade deal with potentially good trade deal and they backed out who pushed who to do walk do you know we don't know Brian but there's a lot of information that can lead us to some speculation and and this is the critical question the US because it points to a failing Chinese political system as you point out in April and prior months trying to made commitments to the United States on trade they returned a the draft of the trade agreement to the trump administration on may third and the draft did not include any of the commitments I think what happened is he doing playing although he looks all powerful was not able to persuade other elements of the Chinese political crisis and to accept the deal that's a specially the heads of state enterprises benefited from China's prior practices many of them violations of their trade obligations almost all of them predatory and so the gym thing just found itself isolated and alone and we've seen other symptoms of see Jim things weakness so if it's in that this really is see not being able to get what he wants going Chang with us now Gordon what I understand is there kind of a group six point two percent but I and they keep saying that China's economy is weak that's a heck of a growth would kill for that type of GDP growth will my missing they're not really growing at six point two percent in the second quarter of this year growing if they're growing at all Brian maybe one percent may be zero they could even be contracting you look at the underlying indicators for June point two eight streaming troubled economy one can make the case for contraction the first numbers for July don't look any better there was a senior senior professor at women university in Beijing in December created a sensation when he said in two thousand eighteen China was gonna grow no more than one point six seven percent and might even contract Beijing ultimately reported six point six percent growth for two thousand eighteen but China's economy wouldn't be showing these symptoms of distress if they were really growing at six percent I mean we've seen all sorts of the poor we've seen thanks being taken over that doesn't happen in a fast growing economy Brian true I just a little befuddled because I do think they're very they're very strategic and what they did and when people come back and said by devaluing their currency refusing to buy the agricultural goods they do the they sent our market into a tizzy and I'm just wondering when they go to game plan is this out why did they come back at eleven do they want to out wait they they want to wait out this president do they believe the next president if it's not president trump will be better and don't they know if president trump wins the deals going to get harder to make I think to a certain extent they are trying to wait out trump but also I think that the Chinese political system is in paralysis right now so they can't come to a trade deal even if they wanted to I think and this is just rank speculation on my part I think that they look at the present United States and they can't figure him out and so what they want is they want someone who is predictable even someone who is tough they would rather have someone that they know how to deal with rather than president trump so clearly the Chinese are going to be working during election season to get somebody else elected Leslie on the missiles they are upset that the US might be to point missiles in the region where there are thousands of missiles according to John Bolton from China and listen to what their chief arms control official said yes a code forty nine China will not stand idly by and we have full to take countermeasures shook the US deploy into medium range ground based missiles in this part of the world I wouldn't do it I think is so what I can do about it and they were you have missiles there yeah the point is that in the United States needs to say this out loud is that China has these missiles what we're doing is just evening up the balance I don't know what China will do there's going to be a lot of huffing and puffing they're already working against American interests I don't know what more they can do without actually killing an American serviceman you know we gotta remember Brian that these guys actually injured to see one thirty pilots in April of last year over there or point of Africa Djibouti and they entered our diplomats in Guang Jo with those sonic attacks injuring harming Americans so what more can they do without starting a war yeah maybe Hong Kong will be the next thing would say go in there with with tanks well Hong Kong is not tank country and they that's a last resort for them because they know that they actually introduce you the people's armed police or the people's Liberation Army they've got a long term struggle on their hands because Hong Kong people don't like them to start out with they don't want to be invaded and you got a lot of Hong Kong kids who are willing to die they've been saying that now for about four or five weeks and we've actually seen four suicides went to the protest so there's going to be a lot of blood and not all of it is going to be home on people's blood in its revenue that they did mainland China wants right so if tankan's not successful that's less revenue well it's it's so it's a lot less stuff for China the one thing they really got to worry about is the United States and other countries actually enforcing strict sanctions for whatever they do in Hong Kong there's a lot that we can do Brian prior administrations have been looked into this one is not especially as China challenges us across the board in ways which are considered to be dangerous predatory belligerent and hostile going Chang thank so much the coming collapse of China the name one of his with his books so appropriate right now the market's up a hundred forty four point so maybe things are somewhat settled after yesterday's loss of seven hundred eighty points thanks cordon thanks Brian I we come back I'm gonna go on F. E. N. with Stuart Varney and talk about things that are on the tip of your tongue including the gun control debate here in America Brian.


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Asking for help is one of the hardest things for me to do sometimes. I'm not sure what's harder asking for help or being able to receive the help once it's asked for.
Being that I have always relied on my own devices in the past I find it difficult at times today to ask for help. In the past it was seen as a weakness and although I know that just about everything that I believed in the past was a lie. I still struggle in certain areas. Relying on my own devices usually had a negative impact in one way or another.
In the words of a friend of mine. How's that working out for you.
Well to be totally honest. It still has a negative impact. Not asking for help leads me to doing it my way and most of the time my way doesn't work. And asking for help but still wanting to control how I am helped doesn't work either. My way is what got me here in the first place. But I still have those moments when I get the bright idea that I know better.
Just for today. I will practice releasing myself from those fears that are holding me back and keeping me from asking for and receiving the help that I need.
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Thank you Karen. Thanks for sharing your identification also.
You're welcome Rich. Thanks for sharing your identification.


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It's Not a Rule: A Better Way to Understand the Definition of Income
Florida Tax Review, Vol. 13, 2012
Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-32
37 Pages Posted: 22 Aug 2012 Last revised: 29 Aug 2012
See all articles by Alice Abreu
Alice Abreu
Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law
Richard Greenstein
In a recent article Professor Douglas Kahn explores a particular dissonance between the positive and very broad definition of income that includes all realized accessions to wealth, and what the government can and does actually attempt to tax. He then offers two limiting principles, which he posits operate as exclusions and thus eradicate the gap. Specifically, Professor Kahn suggests that the dissonance vanishes if we understand that "the income tax operates only on commercial transactions" and, as a corollary, that "joint efforts should not be treated as exchanges of services but rather as a jointly conducted activity," which does not produce income "[w]hen the common goal has no business connection." Professor Kahn derives these principles by examining a series of provocative hypothetical problems and suggests that these principles explain why a number of items that would seem to come within the broad positive definition of income are not in fact subject to tax despite the absence of a statutory exclusion.
In Defining Income, an article we recently published, we argued that the desire for theoretical precision that prompts articles such as Professor Kahn's has led to a long tradition of interpreting the definition of income as a rule. We proposed as an alternative that the definition of income be thought of as a standard — specifically, that questions about whether a particular accession to wealth constitutes income be answered by employing an all-things-considered inquiry based on the values relevant to federal income tax. Our claim was that treating income as a standard effectively addresses the puzzling gap between what the broad positive definition of income would seem to include and what is actually taxed.
The commercial/noncommercial distinction that shapes Professor Kahn's proposed principles functions as a rule. In this Essay we propose a thought experiment: What if we were to think about the problems Professor Kahn poses from the perspective of income-as-standard? Doing so would allow us to explore the utility of such an approach concretely. We therefore consider the precise issues Professor Kahn discusses, but use an income-as-standard approach. Having contrasted the two approaches, we return to the conclusion we reached in Defining Income: standards have important virtues that make them superior to rules for resolving some fundamental questions in federal income tax law. Contemporary tax analysis often assumes that all tax formulations are rules; we believe we have shown that while many are, income is not.
Keywords: tax, income, Glenshaw Glass, administrability, definition, public law, private law, rules, standards, barter, Douglas Kahn, non-commercial
JEL Classification: K19, K29, K34, K49
Abreu, Alice and Greenstein, Richard, It's Not a Rule: A Better Way to Understand the Definition of Income (August 20, 2012). Florida Tax Review, Vol. 13, 2012; Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-32. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2132534
Alice Abreu (Contact Author)
Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law ( email )
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The Emirates Glass LEAF Awards Announce Their 2012 Shortlist
by Diane Pham
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Sou Fujimoto Architects, with House like a single Tree, Tokyo, Japan
The Emirates Glass LEAF Awards were conceived nine years ago to honor architects and their buildings which have set a new benchmark for the international architectural community. A total of 46 entries made the shortlist in each of the 10 categories that include Refurbishment of the Year, Public Building of the Year, Best Sustainable Development, and Best Future Building. This year's jury consisted of six upstanding individuals within the architectural community: Irving Brauer (chairman, principal of Brauer Associates); Phil Holden (managing director of Pascall+Watson); Lucy Bullivant (architectural curator, critic, author); Paolo Brescia (partner of Open Building Research), and Kasia Fiutowska (founding partner of Sketch Design). While the competition finalists won't be announced until the 21st of September in London, you can see the entire 2012 award shortlist after the jump.
Studiomk27, with Cobogo House Sao Paulo, Brazil
The Leaf Design Awards contains the following 10 categories: Mixed-Use Building of the Year; Residential Building of the Year; Commercial Building of the Year; International Interior Design Award; Refurbishment of the Year Young Architect Award of the Year; Public Building of the Year; Best Sustainable Development; Best Future Building; International Building of the Year
Peter Rose & Partners, with East House, Chilmark, Massachusetts, US
For the first time this year, a Lifetime Achievement in the Architectural Award will be given. No names/firms were shortlisted in this category.
Studio Daniel Libeskind, DCA Architects PTE Ltd, with Reflections at Keppel Bay, Singapore
The International Building of the Year for 2012 will be selected from the finalists.
Rafiq Azam, with SA Residence, Dhaka, Bangladesh
The shortlist for the Mixed-Use Building of the Year include: Steven Holl Architects, with Daeyang Gallery & House, Seoul, South Korea; Pollard Thomas Edwards Architects, with Tidemill Academy & Deptford Lounge, Deptford, UK
Pollard Thomas Edwards Architects, with Tidemill Academy & Deptford Lounge, Deptford, UK
The shortlist for the Residential Building of the Year, Single Occupancy, include the following: Studiomk27, with Cobogo House Sao Paulo, Brazil; Sou Fujimoto Architects, with House like a single Tree, Tokyo, Japan; Architectureburo Govaert & Vanhoutte, with House Roces, Bruges, Belgium; Sanjay Puri Architects, with Courtyard House, Rajasthan, India; Peter Rose & Partners, with East House, Chilmark, Massachusetts, US
Steven Holl Architects, with Daeyang Gallery & House, Seoul, South Korea
The shortlist for the Residential Building of the Year, Multiple Occupancy include the following: Studio Daniel Libeskind, DCA Architects PTE Ltd, with Reflections at Keppel Bay, Singapore; Rafiq Azam, with SA Residence, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Gonzalo Mardones Architecture Studio, with Ignacia Apartments, Santiago, Chile; Tabanlioglu Architects Melkan Gursel & Murat Tabanioglu, with Loft Gardens, Levent, Istanbul
Vittorio Grassi Architetto & Partners, with Koà Zambon Company Restaurant, Bresso, Italy
The shortlist for Commercial Building of the Year include: Vittorio Grassi Architetto & Partners, with Koa Zambon Company Restaurant, Bresso, Italy; Mossessian & Partners, with 5 Merchant Square, London, UK; David Chipperfield Architects, with Peek & Cloppenburg Flagship Store Vienna, Austria; WOW Architects, with Vivanta Hotel, Bangalore, India; Tabanlioglu Architects Melkan Gursel & Murat Tabanioglu, with Asmacati Shopping &meeting point, Balcova, Turkey; Peter Rose & Partners, with Housing Tower at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, Stockbridge, US
David Chipperfield Architects, with Peek & Cloppenburg Flagship Store Vienna, Austria
The shortlist for the International Design Award includes: Hironaka Ogawa & Associates, with Forest Chapel, Gunma, Japan; Billard Leece Partnership & Bates Smart with HKS, with The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; Isay Weinfeld, with Rodeio Restaurant, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Kay Elliott, with Titanic Belfast, Belfast, UK
Billard Leece Partnership & Bates Smart with HKS, with The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
The shortlist for Refurbishment of the Year includes: Pollard Thomas Edwards Architects, with The Granary, London, UK; Magma Architecture, with Masrah Al Qasba Theatre, Emirate of Sharjah, UAE; Pepe Gascon Arquitectura, with Sant Miquel Special Education School, Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain; Hugh Broughton Architects, with Maidstone Museum East Wing, Kent, UK
Isay Weinfeld, with Rodeio Restaurant, Sao Paulo, Brazil
The shortlist for the Young Architect of the Year Award include: Zai Shirakawa, with Enbutsu-do Hall & Eifuku-ji Temple, Ehime Prefecture, Shikoku, Japan; Martin Gruenanger, with Green Knot, Graz, Austria; Marco Guarnieri, with 2 Whites Grounds, London, UK
Pollard Thomas Edwards Architects, with The Granary, London, UK
The shortlist for Public Building of the Year include: Studio Daniel Libeskind, with Dresden Museum of Military History, Dresden, Germany; GPY Arquitectos, with SEGAI Research Centre, University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain; Sou Fujimoto Architects, with Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo, Japan; Billard Leece Partnership & Bates Smart with HKS, with TheRoyal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; Stephen Marshall Architects, with Rothschild Foundation Archive, Waddesdon; UK Isay Weinfeld, with Hotel Fasano Boa Vista, Porto Feliz, Brazil
Marco Guarnieri, with 2 Whites Grounds, London, UK
The shortlist for Best Sustainable Development include: Magma Architecture, with London Shooting Ranges, Woolwich, London, UK; Iotti + Pavarani Architetti, with Domus Technica (centre for advanced training), Brescello, Italy; Paolo Verducci Architetti, with New Headquarters for Archimede Solar Energy, Massa Martana, Italy; Arup Associates, with Druk White Lotus School, Shey, India
Studio Daniel Libeskind, with Dresden Museum of Military History, Dresden, Germany
The finalist for best future building include: Skidmore Owings + Merrill, with Manhattan Loft Gardens, London, UK; 3XN Architects, with Green School Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden; Aedas Limited, with CX 2-1, Singapore; Aedas Limited, with Oasis Mall, Sanya, China; Aedas Limited, with Express Rail Link West Kowloon Terminus, Hong Kong, China; Mossessian & Partners, with Place Lalla Yeddouna, Fez, Morocco; MZ Architects, with The Rock Stadium, Al Ain, UAE; Sanjay Puri Architects, with Chapel at Murcia, Murcia, Spain; Victor Sala Bori, with Landscraper, Castelldefels, Spain
Stephen Marshall Architects, with Rothschild Foundation Archive, Waddesdon, UK
Aedas Limited, with Oasis Mall, Sanya, China....

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Isay Weinfeld, with Hotel Fasano Boa Vista, Porto Feliz, Brazil
Magma Architecture, with London Shooting Ranges, Woolwich, London, UK
Iotti + Pavarani Architetti, with Domus Technica (centre for advanced training), Brescello, Italy
Paolo Verducci Architetti, with New Headquarters for Archimede Solar Energy, Massa Martana, Italy
3XN Architects, with Green School Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
Aedas Limited, with Oasis Mall, Sanya, China
Mossessian & Partners, with Place Lalla Yeddouna, Fez, Morocco
MZ Architects, with The Rock Stadium, Al Ain, UAE
The Emirates Glass LEAF Awards were conceived nine years ago to honor architects and their buildings which have set a new benchmark for the international architectural community. A total of 46 entries made the shortlist in each of the 10 categories that include Refurbishment of the Year, Public Building of the Year, Best Sustainable Development, and Best Future Building. This year's jury consisted of six upstanding individuals within the architectural community: Irving Brauer (chairman, principal of Brauer Associates); Phil Holden (managing director of Pascall+Watson); Lucy Bullivant (architectural curator, critic, author); Paolo Brescia (partner of Open Building Research), and Kasia Fiutowska (founding partner of Sketch Design). While the competition finalists won't be announced until the 21st of September in London, you can see the entire 2012 award shortlist after the jump.
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Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and More Than 50 House Dems Tell Biden the American People Need Recurring Stimulus Checks
Ishena Robinson
Photo: Evgenia Parajanian (Shutterstock)
I gotta tell you, I love the squad–i.e. Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. These four Democratic representatives in the House often feel like the only ones willing to vocally advocate for the needs of everyday people across the country, no matter how this might play politically.
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The Squad is yet again stepping up for average Americans, and this time they have a host of other House Democrats behind them. In a letter sent to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday, Omar asked the White House to consider supporting recurring cash payments for Americans during the ongoing pandemic. According to Politico, the request was signed by over 50 additional House representatives.
"It is clear that in this unprecedented time in our nation's history that we must take additional anticipated action," the letter reads. "Recurring payments would provide a long-term lifeline to struggling Americans for the duration of this deadly pandemic."
The letter doesn't specify what amount the representatives would like the recurring payments to be, but as Politico points out, progressives in the House have previously pushed for $2000 monthly checks. Last year, when she was a senator, VP Harris herself introduced a bill to give Americans $2,000 each month in coronavirus relief due to the millions of jobs lost and the many businesses that have closed due to the pandemic.
That bill failed to pass in the Republican-led Senate, and now Biden and Harris are working with Congress to pass a $1.9 trillion stimulus package that is expected to provide people with one-time $1,400 relief checks.
But the House Democrats make some convincing arguments for the White House to go even further in providing assistance to Americans (as well as immigrant workers, refugees, and their families) during this protracted pandemic—especially since every debate in Congress about the stimulus bills that have passed so far took months of negotiations that made the eventual financial assistance we received feel long-overdue, not to mention far short of what people need.
"Another one-time round of checks would provide a temporary lifeline, but when that money runs out families will once again struggle to pay for economic necessities," reads the letter sent to Biden and Harris. "One more check is not enough during this public health and economic crisis. Many families cannot afford to wait for eight months between payments. To truly build back better, families need stability and certainty through ongoing relief."
It's hard to argue with, particularly since The Appeal recently reported a poll finding that 60 percent of voters say recurring $2,000 payments are what they need until the pandemic is over. But somehow I'm confident that Republicans and even some Democrats (like West Virginia's Sen. Joe Manchin) will find a way to disagree with this approach.


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Five Raptors lineups that could define their success this season
Oren Weisfeld
·Raptors Writer
November 26, 2021, 10:14 a.m. ·10 min read
A quarter way through the 2021-22 NBA season and the Toronto Raptors are 9-10 with the seventh best offence and the 24th best defence in the league. Go figure!
The good news is that the Raptors are wrapping up a season-long 13-day, six-game road trip on Friday and will return home for seven straight games (and 10 of the next 11, 17 of the next 21), giving them a good opportunity to go on a run in an extremely competitive Eastern Conference that has 11 teams separated by just 3.0 games.
Unfortunately for the Raptors, however, they have been hit by the injury bug for the third consecutive season, with Pascal Siakam (11), OG Anunoby (5), Khem Birch (4), and Yuta Watanabe (18) all having missed at least four games, limiting head coach Nick Nurse's ability to settle on any semblance of a rotation and the players' abilities to develop chemistry, especially on the defensive end where the breakdowns have been plentiful.
After all, Nurse is at his best when he has an array of different players and lineups to experiment with, and as the Raptors look to get fully healthy for the first time all season, he will continue rotating through different lineup combinations until he discovers which players are best suited to play with one another. It might take some time.
While Nurse has drawn criticism for running through so many different lineup combinations and changing his rotations so often that it's seemingly hurting on-court chemistry, you can hardly blame him for experimenting during the regular season. After all, it was during the 2018-19 season that Nurse tried playing two nominal centres in Serge Ibaka and Marc Gasol together, and it paid off in the playoffs against the supersized Philadelphia 76ers when the Raptors depended on that jumbo frontcourt to survive.
With such a young, inexperienced and new roster in Toronto, Nurse will continue to tinker until he finds lineup combinations that work, and even then there will be matchup-based changes. Still, every team has their go-to lineups, and here are five key lineups that could determine the Raptors' success for the remainder of the season.
The Raptors are still searching for their most optimal lineups. (Photo by Cole Burston/Getty Images)
The core five
Fred VanVleet, Gary Trent Jr., OG Anunoby, Scottie Barnes, Pascal Siakam
The Raptors' five best players represent an interesting experiment in team building, bucking against the trend of depending on a traditional centre and instead favouring skill and mobility in the frontcourt, hoping that three 6-foot-9 guys with plus-wingspans and a ton of strength can collectively defend centres on one end and maybe even play them off the floor on the other.
Regardless of whether this group starts together or if one of them comes off the bench moving forward, they are guaranteed to play a lot of minutes together and need to be successful for the Raptors to feel confident in their team-building philosophy. After all, if you can't play your best five players together — and if their skill sets don't compliment each other — then they probably aren't long to be your best five players.
In 100 possessions this season, the Raptors core five has a net rating of +2.0. At first glance, it looks like they have been great defensively, allowing just 101.0 points per 100 possessions, as opponents shoot an effective field goal percentage of just 50.0 percent. Plus, they are turning opponents over on 17 percent of possessions and using it to fuel an elite transition attack.
However, a deeper dive into the numbers shows that they are committing the most egregious sins that small lineups tend to commit (other than fouling, which they have been very disciplined not to do): giving up a ton of offensive rebounds, as opponents grab 33 percent of their own misses, and allowing a comically-high amount of corner threes as they make up for their lack of a traditional rim protector by helping off the corners so much so that 20.8 percent of opponent shots are coming from the corners, where opponents have been unlucky to shoot just 30 percent. A lot of these defensive breakdowns are a result of inexperience, though, and the more this group plays together, the better they should be able to gang rebound and cover for each other with crisp rotations, especially by contesting shots in the corners.
Offensively, despite struggling out of the gate by scoring just 103.0 points per 100 possessions, this group has a ton of firepower. After all, these are the five best offensive players on the roster, and there is enough spacing and playmaking to be a lethal combination once the chemistry comes along.
All of them are willing three-point shooters and, with the exception of Barnes, all have hit at least 37 percent of their threes on the season, making the spacing really good and opening up driving lanes to attack. Plus, in VanVleet, Siakam and Barnes, this group has three really good playmakers who all like to facilitate in different ways — VanVleet from the pick-and-roll, Siakam from the post, and Barnes from the elbows — making it a multifaceted and unpredictable offence.
The big question is: can they defend? If they manage to keep opposing centres in check and finish defensive possessions with rebounds, opposing centres will be in for a long night on the other end of the floor, because stashing your centre on any of Anunoby, Barnes or Siakam is a recipe for disaster, and that is what makes this group so intriguing.
The traditionalists
VanVleet, Trent, Anunoby, Siakam, Birch
While it might be sacrilegious to put Barnes on the bench, a starting lineup of VanVleet-Trent-Anunoby-Siakam-Birch could be one of the best all-around starting groups in the league if Nurse chooses to go in this direction at full strength, allowing Barnes to be the primary ball-handler on a bench unit. This more traditional group puts everyone in their normal position and asks them to do things they are comfortable doing: VanVleet the point guard, Trent and Anunoby the spot-up shooters, Siakam the swiss army knife posting-up and facilitating, and Birch the screen-and-roller.
Due to injuries to Siakam, Anunoby and Birch, this lineup has played just 14 possessions this season, but they have all the makings of a good group on both ends of the floor. Defensively, VanVleet and Trent can contain ball-handlers on the perimeter, Anunoby can defend the best wing, and Birch and Siakam can act as rim protectors. Because this is one of the Raptors' most veteran lineups — and because they already proved they could play together last season — the defensive breakdowns should be far and few between.
Offensively, this group is primed to run spread pick-and-roll with VanVleet and Birch — who are scoring 115.0 points per 100 possessions together, developing a really nice two-man game — and Trent, Anunoby, and Siakam spotting up on the perimeter. All three of those guys can either shoot the three or attack off the dribble, making it a difficult play to defend. Swap in Svi Mykhailiuk for Trent Jr. or Precious Achiuwa for Birch, and the same tenets apply.
VanVleet, Dalano Banton, Barnes, Siakam, Chris Boucher
Any combination of VanVleet and four giants (Dalano Banton, Barnes, Anunoby, Siakam, Watanabe, Chris Boucher, Achiuwa, Birch) seems like a very odd group at first glance, but the Raptors' identity is supposed to be long and positionless, and these groups have the size and length to dominate defensively. Stylistically, they can either switch one through five or sprinkle in a zone defence to take advantage of their length, which is something they recently experimented with.
"Yeah, we've been toying around with that thing for a long time and it's taken us a long time to get to it this year once the season started.... And it was a good lineup that kind of, we kind of had the right feel out there with it with Chris, Dalano and Scottie kind of playing the outside of it, Freddy kind of plays the rover in the middle, and then Pascal's kind of got the rim protection in that thing," Nurse says of that group playing zone. "So, it is something we hope to keep developing. And it is suited to when we've got a lot of length on the floor, and hopefully we'll get all the length back together a little bit and maybe we'll be able to use it some more."
Of course, certain iterations of this jumbo lineup (say ones without both VanVleet and Siakam on the floor) will have trouble scoring the ball, but they can make up for it the same way the Raptors have made up for their offensive limitations all season: by getting out in transition and by dominating the offensive glass.
The shooters
VanVleet, Trent, Mykhailiuk, Anunoby, Birch
Defence is one thing, but what happens when you are trailing and need a lineup that will provide a scoring boost? Throw some shooters on the floor and see what happens.
The group of VanVleet-Trent-Mykhailiuk-Anunoby-Birch is actually the Raptors' fourth most commonly used lineup this season at 79 possessions, scoring 117.7 points per 100 possessions (including an amazing 104.5 mark in the half court) and outscoring opponents by a whopping 27.6 points per 100 possessions. It makes sense given that VanVleet, Trent, Mykhailiuk, and Anunoby are all elite three-point shooters, each hitting at least 35 percent on a high volume, and Birch is a great screen-setter with a knack for freeing up shooters and finding open space on the roll. Plus, that group has turned opponents over on 19.8 percent of possessions, though their transition offence could use some work.
However, some luck is baked into the group's hot start. Defensively, they are quite small and fail to match the Raptors' identity of a long and athletic team. Right now, 41.4 percent of opponent shots are coming from beyond the arc, including 20 percent from the corners, where teams have been unlucky to shoot just 25 and 15.4 percent, respectively. Those numbers are guaranteed to go up, just as they have when you swap Achiuwa in for Birch, when opponents are shooting 41.7 percent from three and outscoring the Raptors by 30.6 points per 100 possessions. While Achiuwa and Birch are different players, they're not that different, so the main question this smaller group needs to answer is whether or not they have enough juice to survive defensively, especially on the perimeter.
The (international) bench mob
Banton, Trent, Barnes, Watanabe, Achiuwa
Let's get funky.
The Raptors bench is averaging just 25 points per game, making it the lowest scoring bench in the league. Fortunately, Watanabe returning to the fold should help immensely, with no one on the bench replicating his ability to execute the defensive scheme, rebound, and knock down open threes.
A combination of Banton-Trent-Barnes-Watanabe-Achiuwa is about as funky as it gets, with Barnes the primary ball-handler and Trent Jr. the primary scorer, while Banton, Watanabe, and Achiuwa can all switch across positions defensively, pressure the ball, and protect the rim.
Offensively, this group could be lethal in transition, an area the Raptors have slowly but surely improved as the season has gone along. Banton and Barnes are both elite in transition, both as playmakers and finishers, and the two have a nice chemistry together on offence. Of course, this group is not going to have a great half court offence given the lack of spacing (only Trent and Watanabe shoot threes efficiently), but through a combination of offensive rebounds and transition buckets, they could score enough to not just survive, but ultimately change the dynamic of games.
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168. Monthly Report Prepared in the Directorate of Plans, Central Intelligence Agency1
Washington, undated.
A. General Developments
1. The operational implications of the struggle for power between Mossadeq and his political opponents are not as yet entirely clear. On the one hand, the communist Tudeh Party is rallying to Mossadeq's support while on the other, the major force behind the Shah appears to [Page 474] be the dangerous and irresponsible Mullah Kashani.2 Until the situation is clarified, the Iran Branch is devoting its main efforts to preparations for the most adverse development, namely a Tudeh attempt to seize the government if the present situation deteriorates toward anarchy. The results of the talks with the British (see paragraph 2 below) will have an important bearing on the direction of these efforts.
2. In preparation for a possible Tudeh coup in Iran: (a) the interdepartmental committee (State–Defense–CIA) has completed the draft of its first progress report which, upon obtaining interagency concurrence, will be submitted to the NSC; (b) service level talks with representatives of the British Intelligence Service were held 24–28 February in Cyprus to discuss possible joint action in the event of an emergency in Iran;3 (c) a POS specialist inspected [less than 1 line not declassified] military equipment [less than 1 line not declassified] and found a number of deficiencies mostly in connection with the ammunition supply, and steps are being taken to correct these deficiencies as rapidly as possible; and (d) statistics have been worked up relating to supplying tribal resistance forces with non-military essentials such as shoes, flour and sugar with a view to arranging for their delivery when needed.
[Omitted here is operational detail.]
Source: Central Intelligence Agency, DDO–IMS Files, Job 81–01061R, Box 1, Folder 2, Monthly Report—February 1953—Country Summaries and Analyses. Top Secret.↩
In its report for January 1953, signed by John H. Leavitt, the Iran Branch reported that "the most significant January development affecting operations in Iran was Mossadeq's successful showdown with Kashani, who for some time had been challenging the Prime Minister's authority in the National Front. Kashani, as Speaker of the Majlis, tried to keep from coming to a vote Mossadeq's request for a year's extension of his special powers. Public clamor and the militancy of the Prime Minister's Majlis adherents forced Kashani to back down on the pretext he had been 'misunderstood'. As a result, Mossadeq's request was overwhelmingly approved, and Kashani's prestige received a set-back. NEA–4 has for some time been trying to undermine Kashani because of his frenetic anti-westernism and the suspicion that he might ally himself with the Tudeh (communist) Party in a bid for power." (Ibid., Folder 1, Monthly Report—January 1953)↩
See Document 158.↩
Iran, 1951–1954, Second Edition
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Foreign Relations, 1952–1954, Iran, 1951–1954 (Documents 1-375)
The July 1952 Iranian Political Crisis and Its Aftermath, March 1952–February 1953 (Documents 67-168)
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