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Mendes' Donmar Double Sells Out Pre NY Transfer
Editorial Staff • West End • 8 Aug 2002
In London, Uncle Vanya plays from 5 September to 20 November and is joined in repertory by Twelfth Night from 11 October to 30 November 2002. As with the Donmar's recent sell-out of Proof, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, some tickets (10 seats from £15-£22 and 16 standing room spaces at £5) have been held back for each performance (excludes some dates) during Mendes' farewell season. These will only be available to purchase in person from 10.30am on the day at the Donmar box office. The two plays will transfer to BAM from 9 January to 9 February 2003.
The Donmar double boasts an impressive cast led by Olivier Award winner Simon Russell Beale and British film star Emily Watson, who are joined by Helen McCrory, Mark Strong, Paul Jesson, David Bradley and Cherry Morris. The productions are designed by Anthony Ward, with costumes by Mark Thompston, lighting by Hugh Vanstone, music by George Stiles and sound by Paul Arditti.
Mendes leaves the Donmar, to concentrate on his burgeoning film career, after ten years building the 250-seat theatre into one of London's most high-profile arts institutions. In December, he'll be succeeded as artistic director by Michael Grandage, whose recent award-winning productions there as an associate have included Passion Play, Merrily We Roll Along and Privates on Parade.
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The Central Missouri baseball team rallied to tie the game in the ninth, but fell in extra innings 4-3 to Northeastern State in their MIAA series finale on Saturday.
Trailing 3-2 with two outs in the top of the ninth, the Mules tied the game when Brad Wilson hit a solo home run to left. UCM could not score in the 10th or 11th and Cayle Shambaugh hit a walk-off home run to lead off the bottom of the 11th.
The Mules jumped on top 1-0 in the second inning whenJackson Scnurbusch drove in Barrett Noirfalise with a single. The RiverHawks (5-8, 2-6 MIAA) tied the game in the third on Braden Brown's RBI groundout.
NSU went in front 3-1 in the seventh on a pair of infield singles before Matt Molbury hit an RBI single in the eighth.
AJ Walkenhorst (0-1) took the loss for UCM, allowing one run on two hits in four innings of relief. Kyle Gehrs started the game, working six innings and allowing three runs, two of them unearned, on four hits.
Bryan McClellan got the win for the RiverHawks after tossing 2.1 innings of perfect relief with four strikeouts.
The Mules (8-7, 5-3 MIAA) host Pittsburg State in a four-game series beginning at 3 p.m Friday.


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Correia, Twins blanked 3-0 by Archer, Rays
That was about the only sequence that went right for the Twins, whose defense behind Correia was less than ideal. Example one: Thomas misplaying a double by Myers and trying to jump to catch it at the last second, only to let it glance off his glove. Myers scored on the next play.
"It's hard to overcome in any situations, no matter how good you are, especially when you're not playing up to your capabilities," Correia said. "That's the way baseball is. It's a small window between the worst and best teams in baseball. You don't have a lot of room for error so you want to make those plays. There's not many teams who can make mistakes and win a lot of games."
NOTES: Mauer felt good working out for the second straight day, and general manager Terry Ryan said the team will consider taking him on the road next week. Mauer last played on Aug. 19 when he sustained a concussion. "As soon as he's ready we're going to get him out there," Ryan said. ... Twins RHP Samuel Deduno will have minor cleanup surgery on his shoulder next Wednesday. He went 8-8 with a 3.83 ERA in 18 starts this season. ... Tampa Bay LHP Matt Moore (15-3, 3.18 ERA) will try to extend his seven-game winning streak on Saturday against rookie LHP Andrew Albers (2-2, 3.35 ERA).
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It was a proud day for Indian football as 22-year-old goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu completed his signing with Norway-based club Stabaek Football. On the occassion of India's 68th Independence Day this news comes as hope to young Indian footballers who aspire to play with top tier clubs abroad.
As per a report by Sportskeeda it was revealed that the young custodian had been on trials with Stabaek since May 20 and the former Pailan Arrows and East Bengal keeper had been training with the men's senior squad under the close supervision of head coach Bob Bradley.
The India U-23 international announced the news of his transfer on his twitter profile @gurpreetgk
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Gurpreet signed a three-year deal earlier this month but had to wait for two weeks for his work permit only afterwhich the the move would be made an official one.
He is the fifth Indian footballer to play in Europe after Mohammed Salim (Celtic), Bhaichung Bhutia (Bury FC), Sunil Chhetri (Sporting Lisbon 'B') and Subrata Pal (FC Vestsjaelland).
"I feel good and privileged to stay here and learn so much in three months already. It feels great as an Indian and I want to follow in the footsteps of our footballing greats like Mohammed Salim, Bhaichung bhai, Chettri bhai, Mistu da (Subrata)," Gurpreet told Sportskeeda.
He thanked and acknowledged the efforts of former Manchester City goalkeeper John Burridge for helping him throughout his career. Also, he appreciated television presenter Joe Morrison's contribution. Both Morrison and John Burridge were instrumental in getting him a trial at Wigan Athletic in 2012. "Thanks to Budgie as he identified my talent in Kolkata and Joe's support has been phenomenal throughout," he added.
The new signee will have to fight it out for a regular place in the playing eleven with Ivory Coast's Sayouba Mande and Norwegian youngster Borger Thomas.
Gurpreet will sport the number 22 jersey and is delighted that it all worked out in the end despite it taking long to complete the contractual formalities. "Good things take.time to happen. Just happy that it happened," he told goal.com.


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Aquino orders full, fair probe of pork scam
BIR also to scrutinize tax records of JLN
President Aquino wants the National Bureau of Investigation to exhaustively, impartially and fairly look into the P10-billion pork barrel scam that a group headed by Janet Lim-Napoles allegedly pulled off over the past 10 years using a network of bogus nongovernment organizations.
Besides the NBI probe, Napoles is facing an investigation by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR). The BIR is set to look into the finances of Napoles.
"The instruction, I believe, given to (Justice) Secretary Leila de Lima is to ensure that it is exhaustively investigated. And Secretary Leila spoke to me (Tuesday) and she told me that she could assure all parties concerned that this would be exhaustive, impartial and a fair investigation," presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said at a briefing.
Lacierda gave the assurance amid the public uproar over the alleged scam that involved the pork barrel of five senators and 23 members of the House of Representatives, and fertilizer and Malampaya funds.
The scam, exposed by the Inquirer through a series of stories this month, has renewed calls from different sectors to scrap the pork barrel system.
An official of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines and a bloc of militant House members on Tuesday sought the scrapping of the pork barrel, formally called the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), saying it was a source of kickbacks.
A senator is given an allocation of P200 million in PDAF yearly; a member of the House gets P70 million for their pet projects.
Lawmakers who took part in the syndicate allegedly received up to 60 percent of their "pork" in the form of commissions from the JLN Group of Companies.
Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago urged the five senators—Ramon "Bong" Revilla Jr., Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Jinggoy Estrada, Juan Ponce Enrile and Gringo Honasan—to go on leave while an independent panel she said, could be formed by Aquino, and made up of retired Supreme Court justices to determine their culpability.
Senators who had been accused of involvement in the scam, have accused the Aquino administration of orchestrating a "demolition job" against the opposition ahead of the presidential election in 2016.
A serious matter
Another Malacañang spokesperson, Abigail Valte, said on Tuesday that the Palace considered the issue a serious matter.
"So now it is important for us to allow the investigation to take its course and for the investigation to answer the questions that are necessary," Valte said.
She said the President had emphasized that government should never accuse anyone without evidence and that Palace officials should never proffer accusations without proof.
Valte said the investigation would settle that.
Asked at the briefing if the President had instructed certain agencies to cooperate with the NBI, Lacierda said: "We will investigate the allegations. Then, of course, if there's evidence, we will look at the evidence. If the cooperation of the agency is needed, then it would be provided."
Napoles is under investigation for allegedly masterminding the scam that has cost taxpayers P10 billion in diverted "pork barrel" funds.
The charges being prepared against Napoles are mainly based on affidavits by former JLN employees who were named by Napoles presidents of fake NGOs.
BIR probe
Internal Revenue Commissioner Kim Henares this week said the aim of the BIR investigation was to determine whether there was any income reported by the JLN Group of Companies and whether the corresponding taxes were paid.
"Our jurisdiction is to determine whether there was any income and if taxes were paid," Henares said in an interview.
Apart from looking up the tax returns of the 20 NGOs that are allegedly part of the JLN group, the BIR would also look into Napoles' personal tax returns.
The BIR investigation could add tax evasion to the growing list of charges Napoles could face for her part in the scam.
Napoles letter
In Malacañang, Lacierda belittled apparent attempts of some quarters to link the Palace to the racket.
Lacierda said he would check if the letter indeed reached the President's desk when told that Napoles had written Aquino to exonerate herself from charges that she put up bogus NGOs that served as recipients of the funds.
"We will verify the existence of that letter … with the Office of the President," Lacierda said, but he quickly added: "It's not a big thing that somebody writes to the Office of the President."
Normal process
At the briefing, Lacierda explained that the Office of the President receives hundreds of letters from citizens on a regular basis.
"It's a normal process where a lot of people, citizens, would write letters to government and this is not a special issue," said Lacierda.
"All these (letters) go through a process here … and they are not solely (sent) to the Office of the President," he said.
Letters addressed to the President are coursed through the offices of Secretaries Lacierda, Herminio Coloma and Ricky Carandang and other Cabinet members.
"These letters are forwarded to the Office of the President if they pass through us. But if they are sent directly to Malacañang, there's a process for (receiving) them," Lacierda said.
Contacted by phone, Lacierda did not respond when told by the Inquirer that Aquino had reportedly ordered the NBI to investigate the alleged complaint of Napoles against the principal whistle-blower Benhur Luy a day after receiving Napoles' letter.
Originally posted at 10:37 p.m. | July 17, 2013
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Ashe is overpowered.
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Ashe has the single best ultimate in solo queue for an AD carry.
Do not underestimate the power of forcing your coward teammates to engage a teamfight they can easily win.
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While Miss Fortune has always been my favorite champion. Ashe has always been the runner-up, followed by Varus.
no built in escape. shes pretty bad.
op is at 1400 elo.
honestly, picking a adc w/o an escape is basically saying you like to die.
Competent ADCs all take cleanse flash, what are you going to do when those are down? Assuming you have enough reaction time to even use them?
Positioning is EVERYTHING on a adc. Youre gimping yourself by playing one with no escape.
Ez / cait / vayne / corki all have some sort of escape.
Just going to wait for some incompetent 1200 elo player to reply to me and say kogmaw is the best adc in the game.
"I'm the greatest, everyone else is trash, money in the bank, pimpin ain't easy".
She just feels too gimpable early game, and twitch does that with more flat damage. I don't like the escape-lacking and average damage for utility trade, personally.
An adc's job is to deal lots of damage and stay safe. I don't want to be the team's initiator and peeler.
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no built in escape. shes pretty bad.
You honestly have zero idea what you're talking about.
Miss Fortune is one of strongest if not the strongest adc pick right now and she doesn't have an escape.
You don't die if you're even halfway decent at positioning as Ashe, I'm sorry you can only play characters with get out of jail free cards.
Also, picking Ashe allows you to take more damage in other lanes without completely gimping your team comp while still doing damage because she's an adc and that is what they do.
Her laning is extremely safe despite not having an escape thanks to a slow, free harass with W, and bush checking with E. Once she hits 6 it becomes even safer. She even has pretty decent kill potential by just poking the **** out of your lane opponent and then engaging at 6 for a free kill.
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Major cuts are being proposed for the 2012 budget - to the tune of a trillion dollars. And these cuts mean you are being asked to do more with less. So how do you manage in the age of austerity?
Tom Fox, the director of the Center for Government Leadership at the Partnership for Public Service and the Washington Post's Federal Coach columnist, explains how federal managers can keep workers motivated with a government shutdown looming.
Read Fox's article Preparing your agency for big cuts ahead in the Washington Post.


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The biggest changes to the 2012 Equinox come from improved multimedia systems. Most notably, 1LT, 2LT and LTZ trim levels now come standard with a full-color touch-screen infotainment system mounted above the climate controls in the crossover's center console. According to Chevrolet, the system also integrates the display for the Equniox's available backup camera, which was previously located in the rearview mirror. Also newly available is GM's MyLink system, which is only offered in the upscale Equinox LTZ. MyLink, which debuted earlier this year, is a voice-activated infotainment system that can integrate with a driver's smartphone to deliver web-based content like Pandora Internet Radio.
Chevrolet also updated the Equinox's navigation system. While last year's system used a 40-gigabyte hard drive and could only be ordered with the $2,145 navigation package, the new system uses an SD card and is offered on 2LT and LTZ models for just $795 extra. The new system also appears in several other 2012 Chevrolet, GMC and Buick models, and is expected to replace the hard drive-based unit throughout GM's lineup in the near future.
Other changes to the 2012 Equinox are subtler. According to Chevrolet, all versions of the crossover now feature standard Bluetooth, integrated blind spot mirrors and steering wheel-mounted audio controls, while top-of-the-line LTZ models add optional lane departure warning and forward collision alert safety features. Additionally, four-cylinder models sold in most states are now E85 capable.
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Keep tax on gold
Lawmakers calling for the scrapping of the tax on gold are barking up the wrong tree. Just because small-scale gold miners or the traders who buy their output do not pay the tax, the government should simply scrap the impost and the problem gets solved?
At least four lawmakers last week urged the Bureau of Internal Revenue to scrap, or suspend, the tax on gold sales after reports that the volume of the precious metal sold by small-scale miners to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas fell drastically to 17,389 kilos in 2011 from 25,232 kilos in 2010 when production should have increased as prices rose.
The culprit, according to the lawmakers, is the 7-percent tax on all gold sales to the BSP. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources had noted that the decline in the BSP's gold purchases began in the second half of 2011 when the BIR imposed a 2-percent excise tax and a 10-percent creditable withholding tax (CWT) on gold sold by small-scale miners and traders. Effective April this year, the CWT was halved to 5 percent. The tax payments are deducted at the BSP's five buying stations in the cities of Baguio, Davao, Zamboanga, Naga and Quezon, and later remitted to the BIR.
Cagayan de Oro Rep. Rufus Rodriguez has called on Internal Revenue Commissioner Kim Henares to immediately scrap the tax, while Sen. Gregorio Honasan suggested that it be suspended until the BIR has plugged all the loopholes in the system. "The gold tax is a glaring case of bad taxation. It is doing more harm than good because it is a big flop in raising government revenue and it is hurting our financial stability," Rodriguez claimed. Honasan, a member of the Senate ways and means committee, said: "I don't think we should continue with something that is clearly not working as expected. I agree that gold should be taxed, but I don't think it should be done this way."
The law requires small-scale miners to sell all their gold to the central bank. What does the substantial drop in the BSP's gold purchases from them indicate but smuggling?
"Obviously, smuggling accounts for the low gold inventory [of the BSP]," Isabela Rep. Giorgidi Aggabao, vice chair of the House ways and means committee, said, adding: "But the trouble with lifting the tax is it will benefit equally the big-time gold mining companies." He also said that while he believed that the tax should stay, the solution was stricter oversight, especially on small-scale mining activities.
The most plausible proof of the smuggling is the reports citing Hong Kong data showing that Philippine gold shipments to the territory averaged 81,000 kilos in 2010 and 2011. On the other hand, data from the Philippines' National Statistics Office showed legal gold exports to Hong Kong in 2010 and 2011 at just about 3 percent of the total volume recorded by Hong Kong authorities.
It's quite clear that the problem is smuggling, not the tax on gold sales. We agree with the BIR chief's position that the argument that the tax is pushing small-scale miners to sell gold to buyers outside the country is not sufficient reason for the government to stop collecting taxes. What is needed is strict enforcement of the law so that small-scale miners will stop turning to smugglers who take the gold out of the country, Henares correctly pointed out.
"Small-scale miners should sell gold to the BSP because it is what the law states," the BIR chief said. "If they don't do so, then they commit a violation. The Bureau of Customs should require gold exporters, particularly small-scale ones, to show documentary proof that the gold they are trying to bring out of the country was bought from the BSP. It must stop any shipment of gold that has no certification from the BSP and hold the exporters for questioning."
Indeed, it is the obligation of small-scale miners to pay taxes just like everyone else. A mechanism should be drawn up to ensure that the tax is imposed on as much gold as possible, and to guarantee compliance with the law requiring all small-scale miners to sell their gold to the BSP. A joint effort among the BSP, the BIR, local government units, the DENR, the customs bureau, and even the Philippine National Police is in order.
President Aquino recently issued an executive order on mining that aims to regulate small-scale mining by limiting it to especially designated zones where the government plans to build ore-processing facilities. Efforts should also be rushed in this direction.
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Posted 29 November 2011 - 03:33
Nice way to celebrate the birthday of the Prince of Peace.
Posted 29 November 2011 - 03:35
The gun is a SIG, the cartridge the .40 S&W developded for the FBI after the Florida 1980's shootout where they lost 5 agents due to their 9mm's and .38's being inadequate in stopping power. .40's are now used by most law enforcement agencies in the US, the FBI, Border Patrol, ICE, Coast Guard etc.
mmmmm smith and wesson this is the main reason i want to move to america i love guns
Posted 29 November 2011 - 03:54
Guns should be for protection ... and nothing more. Things like this glorify guns, and they're nothing but killing devices. How twisted does this photo look for crying out loud?! lol
This image is so stupid. First of all you can use a USB stick for storing any kind of data. You can use a knife to cut rope, open packages and so forth. You can use a lighter to light a ciggerate or make a camp fire.
But what can you use a gun for other than shooting? It is a weapon designed to be a weapon it is not a general use tool like the other three objects in this image. The whole point of a gun is to kill or wound humans. End of.
Posted 29 November 2011 - 03:59
The HST's big advantage is its rapid expansion to .68" or as much as .84", creating a 1,700+ lb-ft pressure wave that can cause tissue damage far from the wound, including deep concussions or strokes in the brain, or broken bones from a flesh wound to an extremity.
Posted 29 November 2011 - 04:04
I'm pretty sure its pretty well accepted that Jesus was a real guy. If he was thr son of god is the debate.
Uh...the what?
If you're talking about Jesus, he wasn't born on Christmas (assuming he was a real guy of course). The Christians just stole a pagan holiday and made it their own.
Maybe you should learn something about history.
Posted 29 November 2011 - 04:07
As I was told by the local Commissioner of Police during our concealed carry permit classes;
And you feel the need to carry such weaponry as a form of 'self-defence'
If a situation deteriorates to where you fear for your safety and the gun comes out shoot to kill, not wound. A wounded aggressor can still attack you. Doing that effectively means using the best ammunition available....
Posted 29 November 2011 - 04:26
Posted 29 November 2011 - 04:32
a bomb isn't for blowing up either so why is everyone against Iran from having one? /s