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Location: Ayacucho Valley, Peru
Season Dates: July 21, 2013 - August 24, 2013
Session Dates: Single session
Application Deadline: July 1, 2013
Website: http://www.ifrglobal.org/programs/current/peru-huari
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Affiliation: Institute for Field Research, MacEwan University, University of Calgary, Connecticut College
Project Director: Dr. Ran Boytner, Institute for Field Research, Dr. Lidio Valdez, MacEwan University, Mr. Danny Zborover, University of Calgary
Project Description
The archaeological site of Huari is located near the modern city of Ayacucho and it is one of the largest archaeological sites in western South America. Huari was probably the capital city of the Wari Empire, a pan-Andean polity that flourished during the Middle Horizon Period (ca. A.D. 500-1,050). Huari had been excavated in a limited fashion and as a result we still poorly understand its function as a city and its role as the Wari Empire capital. The project will focus on excavations at the Sankay Corral sector, a hill overlooking Huari and a potential location for the city gates and the main water canal feeding into the city.
Project Size: 1-24 participants
Minimum Length of Stay for Volunteers: Entire duration of field school
Minimum Age: 18 years old
Experience Required: No prior experience required
Room and Board Arrangements
During the week, students will reside and work at a field house located at the village of Quinoa, just up the road from Huari. The field house is rustic but comfortable and students should expect to share quarters with peers and project staff. Student duties will include cleaning and chores related to the proper maintenance of the field house, its equipment, facilities, and laboratories.
During the initial phase of the project and weekends, students will travel to Ayacucho, a modern and lovely colonial town that is the largest urban center of the valley. Students will stay at a local hotel (TBA) and may experience the bit of a modern Peruvian urban center lifestyle of the hinterland.
All meals will be communal events and will provide plenty of nutritious but basic food in the tradition of local cuisine. The daily diet in Peru is heavily based on rice, corn, potatoes and meat. Specialized diets (vegan, kosher, etc.) are difficult to maintain in this location. Vegetarian may attend but will find options fairly limited.
Please let us know when you apply for this program if you have special dietary needs, as well as any medical or physical conditions. We will advise you accordingly. The project is used to catering for vegetarians, those with gluten intolerance etc.
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Name of institution offering credit: Connecticut College
Number of credits offered: 8 semester credit units
Tuition: $4,800
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Toys (film)
Theatrical release poster
|Directed by
|Barry Levinson
|Produced by
|Mark Johnson
Barry Levinson
|Written by
|Valerie Curtin
Barry Levinson
|Robin Williams
Michael Gambon
Joan Cusack
Robin Wright
LL Cool J
Donald O'Connor
Jamie Foxx
|Music by
|Hans Zimmer
Trevor Horn
|Adam Greenberg
|Edited by
|Stu Linder
|Baltimore Pictures
|Distributed by
|20th Century Fox
|Release date(s)
|Running time
|121 minutes
|United States
|$43 million
|Box office
Toys is a 1992 fantasy comedy film directed by Barry Levinson and starring Robin Williams, Michael Gambon, Joan Cusack, Robin Wright, LL Cool J, and Jamie Foxx in his feature film debut.
The film failed at the box office at the time of its release, despite its impressive cast and lavish filmmaking. Levinson was criticized for a lack of plot focus. The magnitude of perceived directorial failure was such that Levinson was consequently nominated for (but did not win) a Razzie Award for Worst Director, for which he lost to David Seltzer for Shining Through. The film did, however, receive Oscar nominations for Art Direction, but lost to Howards End, and Costume Design, but it lost to Bram Stoker's Dracula.[1] It was also entered into the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival.[2]
René Magritte's art, particularly The Son of Man, is obvious in its influence on the set design, and in part the costume design, of the film. The poster for the film distributed to movie theaters features Robin Williams in a red bowler hat against a blue, cloud-lined background. Golconda is also featured during a sequence where Robin Williams and Joan Cusack's characters perform in a music video sequence rife with surreal imagery, much of it Magritte-inspired.
At the Zevo Toys factory in a lovely field of green, owner Kenneth Zevo (Donald O'Connor) is dying. He expresses to his assistant Owen Owens (Arthur Malet) that he wants control of the business to go to his brother, military man Lt. Gen. Leland Zevo (Michael Gambon). Leland Zevo himself is uncertain of his brother's wishes, instead pointing out that his nephew, Leslie Zevo (Robin Williams), would be a worthy successor as he has apprenticed at Zevo Toys his entire life. Kenneth Zevo states that although Leslie loves his work, he is also too immature to be a good business owner and deal with the corporate world.
After Kenneth dies, Leland takes over. At first he has no interest in anything at the factory until he hears of possible leaks and corporate espionage. Leland brings in his son Patrick (LL Cool J), a soldier and expert in covert military operations, to oversee security. He soon decides to make a series of war toys. This dismays Leslie, since Zevo Toys never previously made war toys because Kenneth did not like them.
After a confrontation with Leslie, Leland halts the development of the war toys. He asks Leslie for some space to work alone to develop some toys of his own and states he doesn't want Leslie to see them because they might not be good enough. In fact, Leland's plan is to manufacture military grade weapons in toy scale and sell them to the army. He attributes his failure to rise above the rank of three star General (his father never lets him forget that he was a four star General) to the fact that he never had the opportunity to participate in a large war, and it is now too expensive and run by computers rather than people. He hopes to make war more affordable in order to usher in a new era of conflict and cement his place in history.
After a disastrous meeting with the 'Washington Boys' who advise on the government's military policy, Leland becomes more unhinged and decides to move ahead with his plans independently. His continued demands for more space, rigid security and top-secret projects dismay the childlike Leslie, his innocent and childlike sister Alsatia (Joan Cusack), Owen, and a factory worker Leslie has developed a crush on named Gwen Tyler (Robin Wright), whom his father hired shortly before his death in the hope that they would be a good match and help Leslie face up to his adult responsibilities.
Leslie becomes more suspicious when Owen shows him children arriving at the factory and being ushered into the restricted area. He breaks into a research area and discovers the children playing realistic war video games in preparation for controlling Lelands micro-military vehicles. After setting off the alarm he runs through a door and falls into a well-like water tank where he sees and seems to be drowned by another toy of Leland's, the "Sea Swine" (an amphibious drone with more autonomy than the other toys). Unseen, Leslie survives and makes his way to Gwen's house where he confides what he has witnessed, unaware that he is being watched with a spy toy by Leland's security men.
Patrick decides to go against his father after he discovers that his mother did not die of appendicitis but disappeared when his father sent her on a covert reconnaissance mission. After revealing his father's true plans, Patrick, Leslie, Alsatia, Gwen and Owen launch an attack on Leland's labs to shut down his war projects.
The increasingly demented General sees this as his greatest war opportunity and attempts to destroy them all. First he sends out weapons disguised as innocent looking toys, then he sends his miniature "Tommy Tanks" and "Hurly-Burly Helicopters", each armed with lethal weapons.
An intense battle takes place between Leland's toys and the original Zevo toys.
Leslie manages to escape the battle and makes his way to the General's office, smashing through the window and destroying the military toys' control systems. He and Patrick then angrily confront Leland, but suddenly Alsatia is attacked by the Sea Swine (that Leland had activated earlier to stop Leslie), revealing that she is a robot built by Kenneth as a play-mate for Leslie after his mother died. While they are seeing to Leslie's sister, Leland tries to make his escape, but the malfunctioning Sea Swine tracks him down and attacks him as well, resulting in his defeat.
After the battle, Leslie is made the new head of Zevo Toys, Alsatia is fixed, Gwen becomes Leslie's girlfriend, Leland is hospitalized next to his father and Patrick decides to move on to other missions. Before Patrick departs, he, his cousins and Gwen visit Kenneth's grave, ensuring that peace is restored to the toy factory.
As the end credits roll, Kenneth's grave marker, a large toy elephant floats over the lush green pasture.
- Robin Williams as Leslie Zevo
- Michael Gambon as Lt. General Leland Zevo
- Joan Cusack as Alsatia Zevo
- Robin Wright as Gwen Tyler
- LL Cool J as Capt. Patrick Zevo
- Donald O'Connor as Kenneth Zevo
- Arthur Malet as Owen Owens
- Jamie Foxx as Baker
- Julio Oscar Mechoso as Cortez
- Blake Clark as Hagenstern
- Yeardley Smith as Researcher Miss Drum
- Wendy Melvoin as Choir Soloist
- Jack Warden as Old General Zevo
- Debi Mazar as Nurse Debbie
- Jack Levinson as Little Boy
The film was publicized with a trailer, which featured Williams walking through a large undulating field of green grass and breaking the fourth wall, while talking to the audience. This trailer[3] was parodied in on the TV show The Simpsons in the episode "Burns' Heir", substituting Mr. Burns for Williams.
|"Winter Reveries" (Excerpt from Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 1)
|Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, arranged by Trevor Horn
|Shirley Walker Orchestra
|"The Closing of the Year" (Main Theme)
|Trevor Horn, Hans Zimmer
|The Musical Cast of Toys
featuring Wendy & Lisa
|Enya, Roma Ryan
|"The Happy Worker"
|Horn, Bruce Woolley
|Tori Amos
|"Alsatia's Lullaby"
|Julia Migenes & Hans Zimmer
|Horn, Woolley
|The Musical Cast of Toys
|"Let Joy and Innocence Prevail" (Instrumental)
|Horn, Zimmer
|Pat Metheny
|"The General"
|Michael Gambon & Hans Zimmer
|"The Mirror Song"
|Horn, Woolley, Dolby
|Thomas Dolby with Robin Williams & Joan Cusack
|"Battle Introduction"
|Robin Williams
|"Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Into Battle Mix)
|Peter Gill, Holly Johnson, Brian Nash, Mark O'Toole
|Frankie Goes To Hollywood
|"Let Joy and Innocence Prevail"
|Horn, Zimmer
|Grace Jones
|"The Closing of the Year / Happy Workers" (Reprise)
|Horn, Woolley
|The Musical Cast of Toys (including Wendy & Lisa and Seal)
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Video game[edit]
A video game based on the film, Toys: Let the Toy Wars Begin!, was released in 1993 for the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis systems by Absolute Entertainment.[4] The game is played from an overhead perspective, and involves the player, as Leslie Zevo, attempting to destroy the elephant-head security cameras in the factory, cafeteria, and warehouse levels in order to shut down those defenses. Once the player gets to the Manhattan model, the game switches to a side-scrolling Gradius-style level, where the player must fly all the way to the General's control center, shut down the production of the war toys, and save the good name of Zevo Toys.
The game was included in an episode of Wez and Larry's Top Tens (In this case, 'Top Ten Worst Movie Licences') and came 4th. It was described by Larry as 'mind-numbingly monotonous', and ended the slot by saying: "This is one 'toy' that you definitely want to keep out of the reach of small children."
Toys received a generally negative reaction from critics and failed commercially. Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times stated that what made the film "that much sadder a failure is that everyone involved must have sincerely felt they were doing the Lord's work, care and concern going hand in hand with an almost total miscalculation of mood. Even Robin Williams, so lively a voice in "Aladdin," is on beatific automatic pilot here, preferring to be warm and cuddly when a little of his energy (paradoxically on splendid display in the film's teaser trailer) is desperately called for. The Grinch Who Stole Christmas seems to have stripped the life from this film as well, leaving a pretty shell, expensive but hollow, in its place."[5] Peter Travers wrote the following in the Rolling Stone: "To cut Toys a minor break, it is ambitious. It is also a gimmicky, obvious and pious bore, not to mention overproduced and overlong."[6] The film currently holds a 26% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 23 reviews.
- ^ "The 65th Academy Awards (1993) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-03.
- ^ "Berlinale: 1993 Programme". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2011-05-30.
- ^ "Toys Trailer". TrailerMaddness. Retrieved September 27, 2009.
- ^ Toys on Gamespot
- ^ Turan, Kenneth (1992-12-18). "MOVIE REVIEWS Overstuffed `Toys'". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- ^ A review of Toys from Rolling Stone
External links[edit]
- Toys at the Internet Movie Database
- Toys at AllMovie
- Toys at Rotten Tomatoes
- Toys at Box Office Mojo
- Toys (VG) from Gamespot


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Michael Klink, a 59-year-old civil engineer from Auburn, In., says he reported a litany of problems when he was working as a construction inspector at several pumping stations along the Keystone oil pipeline as it was being built in 2009 -- from sloppy concrete jobs and poorly spaced rebar to bad welds and poor pressure testing.
For his diligence, Klink says, he was harassed, berated and ultimately fired. The experience has left him convinced that a controversial proposal to expand the Keystone pipeline matrix, which would ultimately deliver as much as 1.3 million barrels of crude oil a day from an oil patch in Alberta, Canada, to refineries in the Midwest and the Texas Gulf Coast, should never gain federal or public support.
"They didn't care, and that's why you've seen all these leaks already," Klink said. "And I worry that it's only a matter of time before there will be another disaster like the Deepwater Horizon -- only this time it won't be out on the water. It will be right in the middle of the country.
"I'm no treehugger," Klink added. "I just think things ought to be built right, and I have no faith that these guys can do it."
Evidence supporting his skepticism isn't hard to find. In just over a year of operation, the Keystone network's existing leg, which runs through the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri before terminating in Illinois -- has leaked more than a dozen times. In most cases, the amount was small, and federal officials have suggested that such hiccups are common to new pipelines. But two incidents in May, including one that spewed more than 20,000 gallons of oil, prompted regulators to briefly block Keystone from moving oil in June. Virtually all of the spills happened at pumping stations like the ones where Klink worked.
"I feel for the people living alongside that pipeline," he said.
Klink's concerns emerge against a backdrop of increasingly bitter debate over Keystone. The Federal State Department, which is responsible for issuing permits for pipelines crossing international boundaries, has already conducted two environmental assessments of the Keystone expansion proposal, known as Keystone XL, concluding both times that the impact would be negligible. This week, State Department officials are on a listening tour in the six states -- Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas -- through which the pipeline is expected to pass.
The project has drawn increasingly vocal opposition from environmentalists and clean-energy advocates, who argue that it would spur wanton development of Canada's oil sands, also known as tar sands -- an unconventional source of crude oil that requires vast amounts of energy and produces substantial amounts of greenhouse gases during processing. They also worry that the proposed expansion route would take the pipeline directly through a large portion of the Ogallala Aquifer, which provides as much as 30 percent of the nation's ground water used for irrigation, as well as drinking water for a wide swath of the American heartland.
Even so, in at least one previous public statement, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has indicated that she is inclined to approve the pipeline, to the delight not just of TransCanada, the Calgary-based company behind the Keystone network, but to supporters on both sides of the border who argue that the environmental concerns are vastly overstated and that Canada's oil sands will be tapped whether or not the Keystone expansion is built. They also say the pipeline represents tens of thousands of potential jobs, and that it provides an important stepping stone on the road to American energy security.
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Cunha said these -- and the majority of other incidents over the pipeline's year-long operating history -- were attributable to a variety of pipe fittings that had some weaknesses. All of these, he said, have been replaced -- as have other pipe fittings at sites where no leaks were detected, out of an abundance of caution. "Unfortunately you may get 1,000 fittings and 999 will work as designed," he said. "But unfortunately, sometimes one fails. We work really hard with our suppliers to make sure we get really good equipment."
Klink says he pointed out repeatedly that the metal piping being deployed at the pump stations he inspected was of inferior quality, and that the impurities were making it difficult for welds to properly hold. His complaints, he said, were often rebuffed. He also suggested that any equipment, no matter the quality, is only as good as the people installing it, and he's convinced that other problems loom on the horizon.
The pumping stations themselves are large facilities -- a bit under an acre in size -- situated at 50 mile intervals along the Keystone conduit. Crude-carrying pipeline comes up out of the ground and into each facility, where the pressure is boosted by multiple 1,000-horsepower motors, sending the oil hurtling further down the line.
In March 2009, Bechtel made Klink a temporary inspector in North Dakota. TransCanada had contracted with the oil and gas services giant to supervise work performed by yet another company, TIC of Wyoming. Friction between the TIC construction crew and Bechtel inspectors was an issue even before Klink arrived, according to Klink's complaint with the Department of Labor.
In 2008, for example, a TIC crew member assaulted a Bechtel inspector, spitting tobacco at him and knocking him down, according to the filing. "Although that individual was later terminated," the document notes, "the attitudes of TIC employees did not change."
In an interview, Klink recalled other incidents. At the Niagara pump station site, just west of Grand Forks, N.D., for example, he says he came under pressure from his own supervisors to fudge tests designed to ensure that the soil underlying the facility was compacted properly. He did that, instructing the test takers, armed with nuclear density meters, to take four or five measurements near the driveway leading into the site where the soil was hardest. That was considered sufficient, Klink says, even though the larger part of the site never got a sufficient density reading. In his estimation, it never would have.
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Kansas City, Mo., Mayor Pro Tem Cindy Circo, Councilman Scott Wagner and Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders will hold a joint press conference on Friday, March 16 at 9:30 a.m. to discuss a new Web-based tool hosted by Jackson County that will help facilitate economic and community development. The press conference will be held at the offices of the Local Investment Commission, located at 3100 Broadway St., Suite 1100, Kansas City, Mo.
Working in a collaborative manner to improve current housing conditions in Kansas City, the City, County, University of Missouri - Kansas City and the Kansas City, Mo., Police Department have created a single system for users to access in-depth information that can be presented in a variety of ways that are useful to neighborhoods and public policy makers.
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Robert Wyatt Walter, 21, was arrested for the murder of John W. Lee Jr., 38, on Thursday.
Officers from the Orange Police Department were called to disturbance 10:30 p.m. at 570 Lilac in Orange. Lee was found unconscious in the yard with injuries to the face and head.
Witnesses at the scene told officers Lee was assaulted by his step-son, Walter, who had already fled from the scene, according to a press release from the Orange Police Department.
Several persons were at the residence celebrating Lee's birthday.
Lee was transported to the emergency room of Memorial Hermann Baptist Hospital-Orange by Acadian Ambulance Service and pronounced dead at the emergency room.
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Corsicana —
The Corsicana Independent School District Board of Trustees approved the submission of class-size waivers this week for elementary grades in the district.
State law dictates class sizes in Kindergarten through 4th grade have a maximum size of 22 students to one teacher. Some classrooms in the district have exceeded that number by one or two students.
So far, that hasn't presented an instructional problem, according to Dr. Joe Young, Deputy Superintendent. But, because of the law, the district still must go through the waiver process to receive permission from the state to continue with class sizes as they are.
Increased enrollment and reduced state funding are the cause of the imbalance, Young said. That, combined with the difficulty the district is having in hiring bi-lingual teachers has forced the district to exceed the maximums by one or two students.
"They are out there," Young said of the bi-lingual teachers, but said they either work in South Texas to be close to family, or in North Texas where salaries are beyond what the CISD can pay.
Trustees Leah Blackard and Fr. Ed Monk both expressed concern that teachers in the affected classrooms are being given extra help with teachers aides assigned to them if needed.
"I would feel better voting for this if ... teachers had been offered an aide for class and said 'no,'" she said.
Young said the teachers were "not shy" and would ask for help if they needed it. He said the administration was closely monitoring the classrooms in need of the waiver and would respond with extra help if necessary.
"I want to make sure the teachers know they can ask for an aide," Monk said. "I would never be upset spending money on a teacher."
Trustees also heard information about a change in a photography class at CHS, the planned purchase of a new bus for student transportation; the planned purchase of 375 computers for the district; proposed minor changes to the district's standardized dress policy; and heard plans for a field trip for 5th graders to an Outdoor School in May 2013 in Marble Falls.
Trustees meet again at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 12 in the school administration building.
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The rise and rise of Gilroy
Tom Hamilton
January 30, 2013
A familiar sight - Craig Gilroy sprints away from the flailing defender © PA Photos
While legendary Irish duo Brian O'Driscoll and Paul O'Connell are starting to turn their mind to life after rugby, the bright young things around the Ireland camp are starting to emerge from the shadows and into the spotlight. Much is expected of the next generation and none more so than Craig Gilroy.
The Ulster winger will look to continue a remarkable season when he takes to the Millennium Stadium turf on Saturday in just his second Test for Ireland. It has been a season packed with tries, headlines and nerves and it could yet end with a spot in the British & Irish Lions squad with coach Warren Gatland having already singled out Gilroy as one player who has pleasantly surprised him this term.
High praise indeed but Gilroy is not getting carried away. Despite his tender age of 21, his ascent has been a long time coming. Last season he scored a stunning individual try against Munster in the quarter-finals of the Heineken Cup and there was a clamour for him to get the nod on Ireland's tour of New Zealand in the summer.
As it transpired, Gilroy's summer rugby was restricted to a non-cap appearance against the Barbarians - a game where he scored a brace of tries - and the next time he pulled on the green jersey, he bagged a hat-trick against Fiji for the Wolfhounds after missing out on Test selection for the Test against South Africa. Ireland coach Declan Kidney bowed to public pressure and named Gilroy on the wing against Argentina in their final match of the autumn series and the decision paid dividends.
"I sort of knew that I wasn't going on the tour to New Zealand and to play in the Baa Baas game I had nothing to lose and it did go really well," Gilroy told ESPN. "I was really pleased with my performance and I thought that I might get another opportunity in the green shirt, after the tour of course. And then the autumn internationals came around and I wasn't involved in the South African match.
"I was frustrated as I started to think 'what do I have to do to prove myself in a green jersey?' But then I got the opportunity against Fiji and it was a great night. It was a relatively new and youngish team and we all bonded and trained well. I was then lucky enough to be brought into the senior team against Argentina and get my first cap."
And despite his pre-match nerves - Gilroy claimed he "was extremely nervous to the point where I thought about jumping in my car and driving back to Belfast" - he flourished against the formidable Pumas. He bagged the opening try of the game and looked at home in front of the 43,406 crowd. It is something that he will have to get used to.
His club side Ulster looked destined for some silverware at the end of the season having only lost two games this term, with Gilroy one of their primary attacking weapons, and more caps for Ireland beckon. But while his birth certificate will have the date March 11, 1991, next to his name, his rugby brain is far more developed with some comparing him to Simon Geoghegan and Denis Hickie.
"I'm still 21 but I've played 60 times for Ulster and have a cap," Gilroy added. "I try not to see myself as a young guy and I've had more than enough experience and game time and almost not rely on the fact of being a bit younger. You know, sometimes things go wrong and people say 'Ah he's only young, it doesn't matter.' I try not to think like that. I take criticism like any other."
And this 'old head on young shoulders' theme continues with Munster's Simon Zebo. He got his chance against the All Blacks and then against South Africa and Argentina and there are clear comparisons between the two individuals who will occupy the No.11 and No.14 shirts for Ireland on Saturday. While Zebo is a year and five days Gilroy's senior, they have the same eye for a try-line and both are blessed with impressive speed.
"I chat to Zebo all the time, he's a class player and I really rate him. We chat a bit and we only really get to see each other at Ireland camps but we're the same sort of age and we have a lot to talk about. We hang out and play a lot of table tennis."
You cannot help but wonder, however, how much longer Gilroy will be allowed the anonymity to play table tennis with his friend. Such is the case with sport that when a youngster emerges on to the international stage, media attention and supporters clamouring for autographs will inevitably increase. But he claims it is something that "he will just have to take".
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But come 1.30pm on Saturday, any thoughts of table tennis will be put to some far corner of his brain. He will be coming up against Alex Cuthbert and George North and he is fully aware of their threats.
"They are two class players and both have established themselves very well both for their clubs and for Wales. They did very well last season and we know a lot about them. I will be kept on my toes."
He will now take to the Cardiff field in the same team as the man who he grew up idolising as a child at school - Brian O'Driscoll. He admits that it does get "surreal" sometimes in training when he are receives a ball from one of the modern era's great players but it will become second nature in time. And there are perhaps greater things in store for the winger this season.
If Gilroy's stock continues to rise as it has done this season, then Gatland's hint that the Ulster winger is in the Lions reckoning may come to fruition. But in typical fashion that befits Gilroy, he will be taking it all in his stride.
"I heard that a bit (Gatland's praise) but I did not want to think too much of it. I just wanted to go back to Ulster and to keep my feet on the ground and try and improve as much as I can."
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JURIST Columnist Charles Jalloh of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that Léon Mugesera, who allegedly incited genocide in Rwanda and subsequently obtained asylum in Canada, must finally be deported to Rwanda to face trial for his role in the 1994 genocide...
Mugesera appealed the order for his deportation through several layers of federal court judges all the way to the highest court in the land. Although he definitively lost his case at the Supreme Court of Canada on June 28, 2005, where eight judges unanimously upheld the decision finding him inadmissible in Canada because of his alleged participation in inciting heinous international crimes, Mugesera has since then managed to evade his date with justice in Rwanda. He has done so by using, and some might say, abusing the generosity of Canadian law which, through a complex immigration system laden with rights of appeal and judicial review of adverse lower tribunal decisions, makes it near impossible to expel alleged war criminals like him back to his country of origin.
To many people, it would likely be shocking to learn that the Canadian government has been trying to deport Mugesera back to Rwanda even before he lost his appeal at the Supreme Court of Canada in 1995. This is no doubt partly a function of Canada's liberal democratic commitment to the rule of law, both domestically and internationally. Somehow, however, Mugesera has always successfully found a legal loophole to exploit in order to stay in the country. As part of this, he has managed to outlast the tenure of seven ministers of immigration, all of whom have kept his deportation file open but none of whom have been able to send him back to Rwanda.
Even more strikingly, he has at times not only taken on the executive branch, but also the judiciary, and in both cases, he seems to continue winning. In an infamous application, Mugesera's lawyer, while appearing before the country's highest court, accused the federal ministers of immigration and justice of manipulation, bias and conspiracy with Jewish individuals and organizations to ensure that his client would be deported. Further, he suggested that the manner in which a vacancy on the Supreme Court was filled with Justice Rosalie Abella, who was one of the most distinguished appeals court judges in the country (and also happened to be Jewish), showed the outright manipulation of the political system for problematic purposes. The Supreme Court of Canada, in an uncharacteristic decision, condemned the "unprofessional and unacceptable" motion for its "unqualified and abusive attack" on the integrity of the judges, for displaying "anti-Semitic" tendencies, and for peddling "irresponsible innuendo."
In the latest drama in the Mugesera story, a delegate of the minister of immigration, in a well-reasoned decision issued on November 14, 2011, conducted a meticulous and comprehensive risk assessment and determined that Mugesera should be deported back to Rwanda to stand trial. His continued presence in the country was basically deemed an affront to Canadian values. The minister then scheduled his removal from the country on January 6, 2012.
Of course, within a couple of weeks, Mugesera's lawyers sought judicial review of that decision as well as an injunction staying the order for his removal in the federal court. They suggested that he will not obtain a fair trial in Rwanda and that he risked being tortured as well as being subject to cruel and unusual punishment, a position that is at odds with the guarantees given by the Rwandan government, and perhaps more significantly, the judicial findings of international judges at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda as well as the European Court of Human Rights (all of which have upheld initial decisions transferring genocide suspects back to Rwanda to face trial). A single judge of the Federal Court of Canada found the reasoning in the risk assessment unassailable in his decision issued on January 11, 2012. Justice Michel Shore therefore refused to grant an injunction staying the deportation order pending judicial review of the main decision. It is difficult to imagine in the face of that judicial decision how, in the next hearing scheduled for January 20, 2012, Mugesera will fare any better. This is all the more so considering the June 2005 ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada. Moreover, given the position of the minister, whose executive decision is obviously entitled to deference from the courts, it is therefore almost certain that he will finally be deported back to Rwanda.
Mugesera, apparently stressed by the news of his pending deportation, took ill and was hospitalized for about two days last week. Upon his release from hospital over the weekend, Canadian immigration enforcement officials arrested him in Québec. He is now in detention, presumably pending his deportation from Canada.
In the meantime, according to Canadian media reports, Mugesera, having now more or less exhausted his options within the federal court system, has taken his fight to evade justice in Rwanda to the Committee Against Torture in Geneva, which has apparently requested that the Government of Canada not return Mugesera back to Rwanda before an investigation into the merits of his allegations of possible torture in his homeland.
Although a legal question now arises as to whether Canada is obligated to continue to keep the alleged genocidaire on its territory, as it awaits a ruling from Geneva, as apparently suggested by a last minute decision issued by a provincial court judge in Québec, Ottawa officials have rightly insisted that they will continue with his removal consistent with the decisions of Canada's highest court.
This is welcome news. For it is time that justice is served, not just for Mugesera, but also for the numerous victims of the 1994 genocide that he allegedly helped to foment.
Charles C. Jalloh is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He was formerly an Associate Legal Officer in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and duty counsel to former Liberian President Charles Taylor at the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Comments are welcome at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Suggested citation: Charles Jalloh, A Date With Justice: Mugesera's Inevitable Deportation from Canada, JURIST - Forum, Jan. 16, 2012, http://jurist.org/forum/2012/01/charles-jalloh-mugesera.php.


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The favorite in the AFC West could be without one of its top defensive players in the season opener. Chargers OLB Shawne Merriman won't play in Thursday night's preseason finale, and there is no guarantee he will be ready for the season opener in Kansas City on Sept. 13.
Merriman has an Achilles tendon injury and wants to be at full health before he takes the field. "There's no way you can just jump back in and go," he said on Tuesday.
The three-time Pro Bowler missed more than two weeks of training camp in protest of his status as a restricted free agent without being offered a long-term contract, and the injury has kept him out roughly the same amount of practice time.
"It's less than ideal, but it's more important to be ready when everybody needs you," Merriman said.
The linebackers are the strength of the Chargers' defense with OLB Shaun Phillips opposite Merriman. Second-year OLB Larry English started two games in 2009 and is Merriman's backup.
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Although shooting rampages are rare, it's only natural to ask: What if it happened here?
"The shooting incident at an elementary school in Connecticut today is a senseless and horrific tragedy that will rightfully raise concerns in communities around the world about school safety," said a message that went out to parents from the Newport-Mesa Unified School District. "This is a confusing situation that affects us all in different ways. Parents are encouraged to contact their child's principal with any questions or concerns."
That situation in Newtown, Conn., is still fluid as new details emerge, some unconfirmed. But .
As the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, it horrified the nation and left parents questioning how they can protect their children.
Schools are perceived as safe places for kids, although few have security measures in place against the kind of violence that happened at Sandy Hook School.
Procedures at the Connecticut School
The school's doors are locked at 9:30 a.m., and visitors are required to sign in, according to the Sandy Hook School website. When violence erupted Friday morning, the school went on lockdown, according to media reports. That means teachers and staff locked students inside classrooms rather than risk evacuation.
Stories of heroic teachers and school staffers at the school have emerged. One teacher locked all her students in a closet to protect them, the Huffington Post reported.
Parents were notified by a reverse 911 call that went out to all Newtown public school families, NBC reported.
Did It Almost Happen Here?
Newtown may be far away, but Irvine is not. A UC Irvine professor was arrested in late July before carrying out what authorities say was a plot to shoot, in his own words, 200 students at an Irvine high school. Some might say we got lucky that time.
So, what are our local school districts and law enforcement doing locally?
"Our schools are safe places," Laguna Beach Unified School District Superintendent Sherine Smith said in an email to parents Friday. "Our school staff works with parents, local police and fire departments, emergency responders and hospitals to keep your children safe," she wrote, adding that parents can help in the efforts, too. Be observant and let the principal know if you see or hear something that makes you feel uncomfortable, nervous, or frightened."
Los Alamitos Unified School District – which serves Los Alamitos, Seal Beach and Rossmoor – is passionate about protecting students and preventing future violence, so much that they've created a school Violence Prevention and Response Task Force earlier this year, said Superintendent Sherri Kropp.
"We are prepared," Kropp said."You have to stay vigilant."
Kropp added that, even before the shooting, the district's school board was considering adding more security cameras to local schools.
Newport-Mesa wanted parents to know there that "we are forever dedicated towards the safety of our children and staff," officials said in a statement, adding that today is an opportunity to reflect and shore up our campus visitor practices and protocols.
"All school sites have emergency plans in place and they are practiced," according to the statement. "In the event of a Newport-Mesa emergency, we would exercise our capacity to immediately notify all families via our phone all call system, Schoolloop webmail, websites and social media."
At Capo Unified and Beyond
Capistrano Unified, the largest school district in OC Patch territory, serving South Orange County, released a small statement Friday afternoon:
A natural response to school tragedies is an increased concern for the safety of one's own family. You should know that the Capistrano Unified School District works collaboratively with the Orange County Sheriff's Department, and other agencies, to protect our students, staff, and school communities.
At Saddleback Valley Unified, which serves Mission Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita, Lake Forest and Laguna Hills, officials were trying to help parents and students process what happened.
"Our principals and staff are working with students and families as we all work to process this tragedy," said Tammy Blakely, assistant to the superintendent.
The district does have an emergency plan in place in case the unthinkable happens.
"We work together in SVUSD to have emergency plans for the district and for our schools," she said. "Our priority is the safety of our students. We will continue to implement and refine safety procedures, and we will do everything we can to maintain the safety and security of our schools."
Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, according to City News Service, the Los Angeles Police Department is beefing up patrols around schools, just to be on the safe side.
See more coverage on Newtown Patch:
- Patch Exclusive: 'It Wasn't Me' Man Named as Shooter Writes
- Report: Gunman's Mother Was Target and School's Kindergarten Teacher
- Reaction: Sandy Hook School Shooting
- Police Raid Sandy Hook Home Hours After Shooting


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Alumni Class Notes
June 2012
11 Fowler White Burnett attorneys Named Super Lawyers and 4 Named Rising Stars
MIAMI, Florida – June 13, 2012 – Fowler White Burnett, P.A. proudly congratulates 15 of their attorneys who are recognized in the 2012 issue of Florida Super Lawyers magazine.
The recognition includes the title of 2012 Super Lawyers and Rising Stars. As per Super Lawyers, "Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The selection process is multi-phased and includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations."
The Fowler White Burnett attorneys recognized include:
Florida Super Lawyers | Rising Stars
- Michael Drahos (Personal Injury Defense) J.D. '02
- Sheryl Moore (Family Law) J.D. '00
- Michael P. McCahill, J.D. '06 has joined the firm as an Associate at the Fowler White Burnett downtown Fort Lauderdale office. McCahill comes to Fowler White Burnett from Shendell & Pollock. Prior to that Mr. McCahill was with Fulmer LeRoy Albee Baumann where as a trial attorney he gained broad experience in insurance defense including mass tort and class actions matters involving Chinese Drywall and Federal Multi-District Litigation Panel.
- Leonard A. Comma, M.B.A. '97 was promoted to President and Chief Operating Officer of Jack in the Box.
- Kimberly Kowalski Bersamin, D.B.A. '06 personnel services administrator at the Guam Housing and Urban Renewal Authority, was named the 2012 Distinguished Alumnus of Guam Community College during the GCC Foundation 35th Anniversary Gala.
- Brenda Ellis, Ph.D. '09 graduate of the Computer Information Systems doctoral program, has been named Acting Privacy Manager at NASA Glenn Research Center. Dr. Ellis is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at University of Maryland University College.
- Michele A. Finneran, M.S. '12 LMHC graduated with her doctoral degree in Conflict Resolution on June 9th. Dr. Finneran is also a licensed mental health therapist and has a clinical private practice in Coral Springs, Florida. Finneran's dissertation was about domestic violence survivors perceptions of formal and informal supports. Finneran also recieved her Masters in Mental Health Counseling from NSU Psychological Studies in 2001.
- Dayton Hibbs, M.S. '01 was named new Associate Superintendent for Marietta City Schools.
- Cheryl Hill, M.S. '11 was recently promoted to Regional Director of Education overseeing a new acquisition as well as beginning a starter school from the Dade Medical College family of schools.
- Rebecca Ingram, J.D. '92 is being inducted into the alumni hall of fame in the field of law for Miami Dade College. The event takes place on Thursday, May 10, 2012. The event takes place on Hilton Miami Downtown located at 1601 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, Florida.
- Peter Kopack, Ed.D. '10 is receiving recognition by the NJ Principal and Supervisors Association for a technology program in his school. Kopack is the vice-principal in an elementary school in Marlboro, NJ. He also serves as the technology director for the district since the completion of his dissertation that was an evaluation of a teacher training program for new teachers in his district. He developed a program that provided additional training beyond the induction stage. Bring Your Own Device is a relatively new concept in the application of technology in K-12 education, but until recently had been limited to middle and high schools. Kopack's school district took it to the next level, that of the elementary school.
- Norman J. Landry, Ed.D. '79 of Haverhill, Massachusetts, Dean Emeritus of Student Affairs of Northern Essex Community College was recognized as one of the recipients of the Making A Difference Award at the 50th Anniversary celebration event "Fifty Years of Making a Difference" on Friday, April 27, 2012. The award honors influential members of the NECC community who have made a difference in the lives of others.
- Noel Lawson, Ed.D. '03 is a special education liaison at Bronx Academy of Health Careers and train and support teachers' use of technology in the classroom. Lawson plans to open a school focusing on music and computer school next school year. Lawson also coordinates and chaperones high school students on international trips to Europe.
- Gary Rosato, Ed.D. '00 has been named principal of Fairfield Woods Middle School.
- Jonathan Sanz, B.A. '12 studied Theatre and Music. He is passionate about acting, singing, and directing. He hopes to use his love for the arts to educate future generations. He was the 2011-2012 James Farquhar Award Winner and Commencement Speaker. Go Sharks!
- Jack Wilhelm, D.P.A. '79 has just published a new novel, Resurrection Pond, on Amazon's Kindle.


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Feb. 18, 2012
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. -The 2012 ACC Women's Swimming and Diving Championships in Christiansburg, Va. came to a close this evening with the No. 25 Florida State Seminoles taking third with 460 points.
"We set the table this morning by swimming well," Head Coach Neil Harper said. "They're coming into their own and I think we may even see some fast swimming next week. I think it was just a great team effort. We had people step up and go faster this evening. The team came together when we needed it the most and I'm proud of our third place finish."
The highlight of the evening came in the diving portion of the meet when sophomore Katrina Young turned in a historic performance on the platform. Securing the victory with a 72 point final dive, Young scored a 323.05 bettering her score from prelims of 302.10, smashing her own school record she set at last year's meet as a freshman of 299.95.
"Katrina rocked her event tonight and I couldn't have been more proud of her," Head diving coach Pat Jeffrey said. "She was ready and she set herself up nicely in order to win that event. I'm very proud of the way we preformed this weekend and I'm really looking forward to seeing what the kids can do at Zones. "
The Shoreline, Wash. native becomes the first-ever female in FSU history to win the women's platform since the event was added in 2008. That same year was the last time Florida State crowned a ladies individual ACC Champion when Lauren Sprag won the 100 fly. It is also the first diving event champion since Brittany Lerew won the 3-meter springboard in 2005.
"I couldn't have been happier for Katrina," Harper said. "It's always difficult being a platform specialist and waiting to dive your main event and staying patient and try and contribute as you go through the season. Tonight she contributed in the biggest way possible."
The 1650 free proved to be a strong event for the Seminoles as all four ladies scored with senior Charlotte Broadbent leading the way, swimming to a seventh place finish with a time of 16:33.89. Sophomore Julia Henkel turned in a career best at 16:35.37, taking eighth. Junior Marissa Harrington finished eleventh with a time of 16:41.29 and junior Corey Allison placed 14th contributing a personal best at 16:45.38.
Senior Stephanie Sarandos finished her last ACC meet with a 200 back touching in fourth with a time of 1:55.75, a season high. Sophomore McKayla Lightbourn swam her career best time in the prelims with a 1:58.23. In finals, she would be just off that mark at 1:58.31, finishing in 12th place.
Two Seminoles swam in the final heat of the 100 free with sophomore Tiffany Oliver placing fifth with a time of 49.37. Making her A-final debut as a freshman, Kaitlyn Dressel finished in seventh place with a final time of 49.90, but not before she could go a career best time of 49.59 in prelims. Freshman Haley Powell swam in the bonus heat of the event, going a final time of 51.64, finishing in 21st.
Junior Kristine Polley swam a personal best time in the prelims in the 200 breast with a 2:13.39, making it the fastest FSU swim since Emma Dutton set the school record in 2004 with a 2:12.38. In finals, Polley came in sixth with a final time of 2:15.06. Senior Tori Richmond closed out her career with a 2:15.09 and a tenth place finish, while Jamie Barrett won the bonus heat, coming in 17th at 2:17.25.
Freshman Elizabeth Pepper snuck into the championship final in the eight spot in the 200 fly with a time of 1:59.30 and moved up a spot in finals, taking seventh at 1:59.63.
All four of the men's divers qualified for the final round of the platform event, with junior Nick Klein leading the way, grabbing the bronze medal in the event with the score of 394.75 in his first-ever podium performance.
Following in fourth was freshman Ford McLiney with a score of 381.00 and senior Mike Neubacher finished his final ACC meet in fifth place with a 369.85. His younger brother Tom came in seventh, scoring 348.95.
"Our divers did awesome putting four in that top heat," Harper said. "It was good to see Nick get his first-ever ACC medal. His hard work paid off and he stepped up and performed in the way he's capable of."
Seven Seminoles were garnered with All-ACC honors for finishing in the top 3 in their events. Joining Young, was junior Ariel Rittenhouse, sophomore Kelsey Goodman and Melissa Cooper. For the men, Tom Neubacher, McLiney and Klein all were named All-ACC.
Virginia won the meet with 848 points, North Carolina was in second with 615 and Florida State finished in third with 460.
"Our goal was to be a little higher than where we were," Harper said. "But with the way the competition was I thought we made the most of our opportunities."
The men's swimming portion of the event will begin next Wednesday Feb.22 and go through Feb. 25.Check back to Seminoles.com and Twitter (FSU_Swimming) for updates.
New School Records
McKayla Lightbourn- 100 back 54.27
Katrina Young- Platform (5 Dives) 323.05
Women's Swimming and Diving
Men's Diving
Tom Neubacher


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Areas of expertise: Land, Water & Wildlife Programs
Stacy Small-Lorenz holds a doctorate in Biological Sciences from University of Missouri-Columbia's Avian Ecology Lab. She is a Research Associate with the Smithsonian Institution's Migratory Bird Research Center and she is a past board member of the Board of the American Wind and Wildlife Institute. She has received awards from PRBO Conservation Science, Cooper Ornithological Society, and the Association of Field Ornithologists.
Her nearly twenty years of conservation work has emphasized wildlife population response to habitat restoration efforts, with a particular emphasis on riparian and wetland systems. She has worked in all aspects of habitat conservation, including research, habitat management, project design & implementation, and environmental advocacy. Her field work has spanned from the Pacific Northwest as far south as Argentina, with a major focus on the Central Valley of California.
Dr. Small-Lorenz currently leads EDF's work on wildlife vulnerability to climate change in agricultural landscapes. She is also a documentary photographer and plays violin with the NIH Philharmonia, which raises funds for The Children's Inn at the National Institutes of Health. In her free time, she enjoys yoga, cross-country skiing in remote places, paddling large rivers while birding, and camping on river islands.
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Berklee's Student Health Insurance Plan (BCBS Student Blue Plan) offers a pharmacy benefit program through the Express Scripts Network that includes retail chains as well as independent pharmacies.
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By DAVE MOLINARI
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
PITTSBURGH — It would be easy to get dramatic now, to breathlessly suggest that the chances of having a 2012-13 NHL season hinge entirely on the round of negotiations between the league and the NHL Players' Association that will begin today in New York.
It just wouldn't necessarily be very accurate. Not the way a number of Penguins players see things, anyway.
Oh, they recognize the importance of these talks -- "There's definitely urgency on our side, and we hope there's urgency on their side as well," Penguins player rep Craig Adams said Monday -- but they also seem to be convinced there isn't a looming drop-dead date for forging a new collective bargaining agreement. And there is precedent to prove it. "History has shown that it's not the end-all," left winger Matt Cooke said. "I mean, in '94, they went back in January, so you could still have a season."
The first three-plus months of the 1994-95 season were nuked by a lockout that limited teams to just 48 games before the Stanley Cup playoffs. Whether four dozen games are enough to establish a legitimate postseason field is a matter of opinion, but there's no question that 48 games are fewer than either side in this dispute would like to see. Such an abbreviated schedule would cut deeply into ownership's revenues and limit players to about 58.5 percent of what they would be paid during a conventional 82-game season.
Such fiscal realities might be what provides the greatest urgency to the talks.
"It's definitely an important time, considering the timing of everything, knowing in the back of all of our minds that it's probably the last chance to get anything close to a full season," center Sidney Crosby said. "I'm thinking that's on everyone's mind. That should, hopefully, create a little more discussion."
The pivotal issue in this lockout, which began after the previous CBA expired Sept. 15, is how "hockey-related revenues" are shared between the owners and players. Both have proposed plans that would lead to a 50-50 split, but the league wants that to happen immediately, while the players, who got 57 percent under the previous CBA, prefer to see it work down to that level over several years.
"Both sides have shown their willingness to get to 50-50, or close to it," Adams said. "The question is, 'How do you get there? How long does it take to get there?' And in getting there, how do you do your best to honor existing contracts?
"There are a lot of smart people on both sides. There are ways to do it. We just have to get to an agreement on how to do it."
The talks that begin today stem from traction created when NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly and NHLPA special counsel Steve Fehr had a series of face-to-face negotiations that began Saturday and spilled over into early Sunday morning. Precisely what tangible progress, if any, was accomplished in those sessions isn't known, but they clearly created some positive momentum and flickers of hope that it will be possible to find enough common ground to agree on a settlement eventually.
"I'm optimistic about it," Cooke said. "I don't know if there's (reason for) encouragement there, but I'm optimistic something will get done -- that eventually the owners will realize it's not worth it."
He was quick to add, however, that players have done most of the giving to this point in the negotiations.
"We've made concessions -- drastic concessions -- and they, up to this point, really haven't made any toward us," Cooke said.
The NHLPA could learn as early as today what the league might be willing to give as the talks move along. Whether the NHL will accept the union's plan for honoring existing contracts, for example, and whether it will be flexible on its demand for term limits on contracts or new guidelines for attaining free agency. All of which explains why Penguins players will be hoping for the best, but taking nothing for granted, while monitoring these talks, whether they last one day or go on indefinitely.
"I don't know what to think anymore," Crosby said. "A couple of weeks ago, I thought things were heating up. I thought we were going to get some traction with everything. "But that wasn't the case. This time around, I'm trying to not get my hopes up."
NOTE -- Cooke participated in Monday's player-organized workout at Southpointe sporting a large Band-Aid on his forehead, where Crosby's stick had removed a divot during a drill Friday. Cooke said he isn't upset with Crosby, but disputed stories that Crosby helped with first aid for his injury. "I should correct previous reports in the paper that he had anything to do with aiding or fixing the cut," Cooke said, smiling. "Because he did absolutely nothing except for laugh." Crosby's recollection of events: "There was a good little chunk out of (Cooke's forehead) but I knew it wasn't his eye or anything, so we had a good chuckle."
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Tax collections rose in all 50 states last year, according to the U.S. Census bureau, as our colleague Lisa Lambert reported Thursday.
"The nationwide increases in state government tax revenue are an indication of the stabilization of revenues for state governments," Lisa Blumerman, chief of the Governments Division at the Census, was quoted as saying.
Stable but not booming, according to a Rockefeller Institute analysis of that data, which finds overall tax revenue is still down significantly from pre-recession levels in 2008.
Source: Rockefeller Institute analysis of Census Bureau data.
The chart above from the Institute's report shows the percent change in total, sales and personal income tax collections in for fiscal years 2009, 2010 and 2011 compared to fiscal 2008. At the end of fiscal 2011, overall tax collections were still 2.1 percent below the peak tax collections levels.
Lucy Dadayan, author of the report, explains that results varied from state to state.


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