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This weekend I will be presenting with Rob Halpern and Robert Kocik at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Counsel about the histories and futures of commoning. The title of our presentation is "How Things Hold Together And How The Way In Which We're Currently Going About Things As A Society Is Not How Things Hold Together" and is subtitled "a practical discussion about common interest, the economy, and the social production of artwork." Rob's talk, "The Promise of Use-Value: Art at the Limits of Social Practice," or "Recovering Use from Exchange: New Enclosures / New Commons," will make special reference to artist Amy Balkin's works Public Domain and Public Smog, which grapple with the expropriation of land and atmosphere. Robert will present a brief history of the commons, and introduce "an impartial (neither capitalist nor socialist) economic commons based on reciprocal 'due' and re-portioning of our collective wealth." For my own part, I hope to talk about some different aesthetic practices and spaces in terms of ways future commons might be modeled. Approaching the talk, I am keeping in mind the various ways that poets/artists share resources, how they exchange with one another, and how they demonstrate against models of community/economy which they wish to critique/wither.
There are quite a few different aesthetic/poetic practices that I think it would be interesting to discuss in terms of commons. One is Anna Halprin's choreography, and especially her dance City Dance. Much as in the work of the Critical Mass bicyclists, in City Dance Halprin and her dancers/collaborators confronted legal issues surrounding public demonstration by giving dance performances continuously around San Francisco and other cities. The result was a carnivalesque atmosphere where dance could be seen/experienced as a public expression at the limit of the law. How, I wonder, can past performances from an "avant garde" be reactivated in public contexts to achieve particular socio-political ends, such as the demonstration against laws restricting public assembly? Given our virtual era, I am also interested in reclaiming common spaces for physicality/embodiment/affect. What can dance teach us about the potential of bodies—their coevalness and mutual empowerment? Halprin is a hero of mine for her valuable research politicizing movement research and dance. How, likewise, can reenactment (restaging a prior historical or art historical event) become a tool for the present concerns of a potential commons?
Another artist I would like to discuss, who forms a precedent for Amy Balkin's work, is Agnes Denes. In Agnes Denes' work "Wheatfield," the artist strategically intervenes in a public landfill on Manhattan's Battery Park via a Public Art Fund grant. By planting and yielding 5,000 pounds of wheat in an abandoned property (what, for a time, in England, would have been called a "wasteland") Denes simultaneously kindles the hope of reclaiming blighted land/property while drawing-out the antinomies of New York's real estate market (after Denes yielded her crop the land she had brought back to life was immediately bought by developers). How to transform spaces which have been abandoned or would appear unusable? Another artist I would like to talk about within this context is Mierle Ukeles, who founded the "maintenance" art movement, a movement of artists who foregrounded art's usefulness in producing and upkeeping public spaces.
The problem of commons, as Peter Linebaugh's book The Magna Carta Manifesto brilliantly analyzes, is one of sustainability—how we live with the land and the land with us; or, to quote Robert Kocik quoting Augustine, of "using without using." Its origins go back to the Charter of the Forest, a constitutional document accompanying the Magna (Big) Carta (Charter), which determined the common right of land use.
In the period from the 16th century to our present moment, the legal power of the Charter of the Forest has been significantly altered and eroded. A major blow to the document's legal power occurred in the 16th-19th centuries when Feudal law was overturned and a peasantry driven into emerging cities. Karl Marx called this period that of the "expropriation of a free people." How to reinstate the tenets (and tenants) of the Charter of the Forest through aesthetic practices? While many tools are available to us via the legacies of "land" and "maintenance" art, I believe we also have a new set of tools through artists such as Jodi and Cory Arcangel, whose works often "hack" information to draw out the aporias of digital expropriation. In Arcangel's work and countless other digital artists I see a movement of younger artists working for a digital commons. So this is hopefully a place my talk can end up.
Thanks to Robert Kocik, we have started to write a bibliography for commoning. I'll post that here in case any are curious what we are up to or would like to build upon it:
Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Brooklyn: Autonomedia, 2004)
Peter Linebaugh, The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All (University of California Press, 2008)
Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (Boston: Beacon Press, 2000)
Hugo P. Leaming, Hidden Americans: Maroons of Virginia and the Carolinas (Routledge, 1995)
Marcus Nevitt, Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640—1660 (Ashgate Publishing, 2006)
Retort, Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War (Verso, 2005)
Geoff Kennedy, Diggers, Levellers, and Agrarian Capitalism: Radical Political Thought in 17th Century England (Lexington Books, 2008)
Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen, The Subsistence Perspective: Beyond the Globalized Economy (Zed Books, 2000)
Christopher Hill, Winstanley 'The Law of Freedom' and other Writings (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution (Penguin, 1984)
Neil Harvey, The Chiapas Rebellion: The Struggle for Land and Democracy (Duke University Press, 1998)
Douglas Lummis, Radical Democracy (Cornell University Press 1997)
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Commonwealth (Belknap Press, 2009)
David McNally, Another World is Possible: Globalization and Anti-Capitalism (Arbeiter Ring, 2006)
Richard Price editor, Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979)
Kenneth Rexroth, Communalism: From It's Origins to the Twentieth Century (Seabury Press, 1974) [also available online at http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/communalism.htm]
Pauline Gregg, Free-Born John: A Biography of John Lilburne (Phoenix Press, 2001)
J.M. Neeson, Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700—1820 (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
John Hanson Mitchel, Trespassing: An Inquiry into the Private Ownership of Land (Perseus Books, 1998)
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What is Property (Cambridge University Press, 1994)
Charles Fourier, The Theory of the Four Movements (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
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this sounds amazing thom! i studied with rob halpern during the mfa and he is the most amazing teacher (& an amazing writer/scholar!). good luck with the presentation.
I always liked the idea of using the WTC space to plant cherry trees, something that must be tended.
an astounding post — as all yr Harriet posts have been. man, grateful as ever. wondering a couple of things. all three talks sound, to my ears, incredibly important & i wonder if they'll be available afterward for those of us that can't make it — maybe as video, sound or text files at, say, Pennsound or WHOF. i love that you make yr careful intros to the Segue Series available at WHOF &, more recently, here _after_ the events & i'm hoping something like that might happen w/ these talks for those of us locked in icy arctic environs like Bflo.
i'm incredibly excited too abt yr mention of Christopher Hill in the biblio — the British Marxist historians get such short shrift re application, usefulness — more often mentioned as a sort of footnote on the way to discussions of Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, the NLR &c. but it's really exciting seeing Hill put to use here & i'm curious to know more abt how yr planning to draw him into the conversation re method.
bear hugs! rich …
glad to see a familiar voice here Rich. man, and wish you cld make the talk which should be stellar. there will definitely be audio recording and I'm pretty sure video: will make sure to put you in touch with whoever's doing video. I will try to make audio available via PennSound though I suspect someone else will be making a more professional archival recording. you know, college years were all about British Cultural Studies, especially Stuart Hall–one of my heros. I owe the bibliography to Robert though; he gets all the credit…
thanks for doing such great stuff at Damn the Caesars lately. I've been digging all the connections you're making between Vigilance, Brenda, Rob and others… ON2 just came out. we're still figuring out how to have a launch but if we have one down in the city I hope you'll consider joining us. warmth and hugs to you too… –Thom
Rob always talks about you as being one of his favorite and most gifted students Craig…
Thanks for wishing me luck…
Some great work being done in Hawai`i on the commons by Nandita Sharma and Gaye Chan. I blogged on it a bit here:
but go directly to them for more information.
aloha, Susan
thanks for this Susan. I was teaching some commons materials over the summer and Sharma/Chan/Collis were all on the radar. I will be sure to add them to the bibliography…
hi Bhanu,
back from my whirlwind wkend of commoning. I have wanted to reply to this but just couldn't find the time to be on the internet, and needed a break from the, um… "community" at Harriet frankly. but here I am.
what you are saying about the place/body being dismembered. or not even available for reenactment once again reminds me of Toufic, who I taught last night with students at SVA in the city. his concept of "surpassing disaster" specifically which can be read about here: http://www.jalaltoufic.com/downloads/Jalal_Toufic,_The_Withdrawal_of_Tradition_Past_a_Surpassing_Disaster.pdf
because it as tho things are not available for our experience. even their spiritual emanation/subtle vibration is gone.
surpassing disaster is when something may still be materially available, but is no longer immaterially available.
to lie down at that border–I am thinking of your thresholds again. and (the) threshold as having vibratory qualities. an intensity. passing from intensity to intensity. a travel not by map but by intensities. a travel often in place.
via Deleuze I want to think about reenactment in terms of reactivation. in Nietzsche and Philosophy Deleuze discusses ressentiment in terms of felt traces. ressentiment results from a re-sensation. an inability to re-act sensations. sensations get the better of us. being re-active is different then re-acting (igniting those traces willfully). so how could your return and how could our bodily returns result in reactivations? enactments that make active the countless memory traces lodged in our bodies–impressed there. our bodies being vessels for what seems lost.
this seems one way to think about reenactment, tho there are others.
I have been wondering about commons in terms of a future anterior–a tense of what we would have wanted to have happened. how can our bodies enact such a tense for an unforeseeable future lodged in the past of our bodies? its sensations that may or may not return.
our bodies are history after all. they are reenactments whether we like it or not.
I don't know what I could possibly have to teach you about writing.
re: Sina's comment below. I have been wanting to think about the history of live performance more clearly in terms of the history of civil rights. because I know intutively that live art comes out of the Civil Rights movement in the US from 50s-70s, and that live art as such is a kind of marsh for thinking somatic practices in art via a politics of civil disobedience and bodily activity/interaction.
I think we need to start teaching classes on civil disobediance. I believe this very strongly. and that the body has to have a serious place in these classes. dancers, therapists, writers, biologists, artists should seriously unite around this problem.
how to deserve our bodies as such, where Deleuze says that the thing is to deserve the consequences of our life, echoing Nietzsche's injucntion to deserve our enemies and our friends?
how to make possible our future perfects–our future anteriors?
maybe this has something to do with your laying on the line which reminds of the phrase "to lay on the line." that is, to do something fully aware of the dangers and risks which attend what you are doing.
your grammar sizzles with this exigency (grammar/syntax being somatic–especially in writing that challenges official language usages).
the period as pulse. the period as rupture. the period–what breaks the glass of the ticket booth at the beginning of your Humanimal.
the period marking lines of flight. flights of intensities. the stimmung of universal history…
Tags: Agnes Denes, Amy Balkin, Anna Halprin, Charter of the Forest, City Dance, Commoning, Commons, Commonwealth, Cory Arcangel, Critical Mass, Jodi, Karl Marx, Magna Carta, Maintenance Art, Mierle Ukeles, Peter Linebaugh, Public Domain, Public Smog, Rob Halpern, Robert Kocik, The Magna Carta Manifesto, Wheatfield
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i grew up watching the carebears and my little pony as well. theyve changed MLP alot... ive only watched half of the G1 eps, i watched the G3 more.with that bieng said, they left out alot of my fave ponies, including minty, sunny day and the orange one with a fire work cutie mark and pink sparkly hair (forgot her name).i also miss how the g3 ponies have that magnet that activates playsets and stuff. i have but one MLP left, my purple pony with bells as her cutie mark.
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According to my friend... She said the G3 pony show was totally different from the FiM version. Rainbow Dash got changed alot... Went from all flowy nice to omg paint her pink and call her Firefly already... I haven't watched the G3 pony show at all, except for the Butterfly Island Dvd I got with a pony............
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I hope they bring some of the first G3s back into the FiM show. Lets see.... Memory serves.
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I think that was the main ones, but there might be a few more since it was a larger set.
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anyway, i was at the store 2day and i say FiM toys! there were a bit smaller then the G1-G3 toys,and came with a small animal and a saddle, wagon, etc. .
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Welcome to the family! You're going to love the new car! I'm a fairly new member myself... I've had a number of BMW's over the years, but this is my first X3. Mine is an '06 with I think every option you could get on the car for that year. Although, it did not have the alarm, I retrofitted mine myself. I bought it here http://bmw.dealerfit.com/store/bmw-x...1389_13859.php Please be guided accordingly, if you are handly at all, it took me an hour to install it in my garage one night. Also, do a little more homework, I think I read somewhere online that the '09 are not prewired for it, which if, in fact they did, thats kind of ridiculous.
Anyway, good luck with and enjoy the new ride!
Rick, thanks for the advice! I assume you are in Chicago. I am from Green Bay.....but I hold no ill feelings toward Chicago. In fact, the wife and I went to college in Madison and we visited Chicago at least once a month...great city. We actually got engaged there at Geja's Fondue Restaurant.
Re: Alarm. When was the last time you did something when you heard a car alarm (not your own) go off? Personally I think they are a waste of money, but you do get a small break on the insurance for having one.
All BMWs have the chip in the key that talks to the ignition, which means the casual thief probably looks elsewhere. I passed on the alarm...
Several months ago 9 cars in our neighborhood, including my wife's care were broken into. It was simple smash and grab. Mine has the clown nose blinking away and has not been touched.
Also, with some minor modifications I mounted 4 piezo ($20 each) tweeters in the cab. They are adjusted to 108 db (this is above the threshold for human pain). At that level you cannot keep your eyes open. You can't steal what you can't see. And believe me even the service guys are cautious around my vehicle.
So is an alarm worth it. Yup. And I don't have to shoot them to stop them.
Good points all but isn't 108db about the sound level in the Mosh Pits?:D Most of the perps that do this sort of thing seem to have diminished aural capacity among their other problems.:bigpimp:
Ironic story...went to a Halloween party last night. Decided not to take the X3....who knows if you have to give an intoxicated friend a ride home...don't want throw-up in the new Bimmer. Anyways, at about 10:30, my friends car got broken into...think they used a coat hanger. There was no alarm on the car. They took the GPS, but left an Ipod and two purses and a wallet. Don't understand the reasoning behind that. If i had to guess, even if the X3 was there, I bet they would have passed it up....assumed it had an alarm. Better safe than sorry though...will be looking into the alarm. Anybody know how much installed?
Hey man, welcome to the 'fest. The alarms run around $300 IIRC on ebay (Dealer Stores) and yo can install it your self and just take it in to be programmed. My advice is, just get the clown nose programmed to blink when the car is locked, how would somebody know there's no alarm?
To be my normal geek self---102db. I used to use a SPL meter at sound checks as local township ordinance required it to be below 105 at ground zero.
That's about the equivalent of holding that glock next to someone's ear and firing it.
Watch someone on the firing range sometime that isn't wearing ear protection. They will flinch for a split second. Now imagine that same level of sound at a sustained burst. Pretty nasty, hehehe :)
Btw I looked into dc voltage. Apparently it is illegal as someone already did it and the perp sued and won. Pretty crappy.
Thanks for the welcome! Looks like a great forum so far. When you say "clown nose", I assume you mean the red thing on the rearview mirror? This can be programmed to blink? That is a good idea...I know I need to bring it in to get the doors to lock at a certain mph also.
For an aftermarket one, doesn't make too much difference I suppose.
Your clown nose may already be set up - there is a delay of quite a few minutes before it starts blinking.
Does anyone have a list of things that can be customized through this personalization program....door locks, flashing lights, etc?
It has been posted here many times, You will find it here:
They should have given you this sheet when you bought the car, if they didn't then they are at fault. Remember that first programing of options is free, and its chargeable later on.
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In case you decide to do the alarm installation yourself, here are the instructions. BTW, according to this document 100% of X3s in USA are pre-wired for alarm.
Thanks for all the replies....very helpful information!
Check your driver's side door jamb for the build date. If it is later than Feb 2009 you like do not have prewiring and it will be IMPOSSIBLE to add the BMW alarm OR to program the clown nose to blink. Mine is June 2009 build. I am still wrangling with my dealer about this issue since my purchase order had the alarm install in writing and was informed 2 weeks after delivery that this was impossible. More to come but if anyone has a different experience on post Feb 2009 production models please help!
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MONCTON, N.B. (CP) - A review by the Atlantic Lottery Corp. has found that retail owners in the region have been winning at rates 10 times higher than their statistical odds. An internal review found that retail owners claimed 44 prizes of $25,000 or more during a six-year period.
The review concludes that, based on playing habits and the odds of winning, retail owners should have accounted for an average of 3.5 wins over the same period.
In a release, Mike Randall of the lottery corporation says there is no evidence of any wrongdoing, but the agency is introducing measures to toughen security.
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---then there was the manitoba lottery fiasco when the 'winning numbers' were printed weeks before a major lottery draw, and then when the lottery did take place, some winning tickets from secondary prizes were not being read as winners by the ticket readers in stores
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A Nation Of Cowards - Poem by Hebert Logerie
(Dedicated to you, my Brothers and Sisters)
Powerful words,
Truthful words,
Honest words,
Brave words;
This is exactly what the Doctor orders,
For a nation, who's trying to fight the horrors
Of blatant racism,
Unfairness, injustice,
Nepotism and sexism.
A man of Peace,
Without controversies,
Is not a genuine activist.
The truth is being tolled; there is no reason to apologize,
'Cause you're exercising your God-given rights.
The sickness, the maladies,
Which America has been suffering
For over five centuries,
Need to be healed as you're reading
My honest feelings.
This is painful, this is long overdue.
My brave People are tired of fighting
The ills and the stigmas of our societies.
This is hurtful, this is way overdue.
The Truth hurts, thank God Almighty;
"Another One" is unafraid to tell the Truth,
"This One" is dissecting the false myth,
And the backward ideologies, thank God Almighty!
The prisons are populated by innumerable innocents,
The Police and their cronies randomly humiliate
Our parents, siblings and cousins.
We have every reason to be mad and irate.
A more just and fair system needs to be in place now.
The Brother is using strong medicine right now:
Powerful words,
Truthful words,
Honest words,
Brave words,
To save America,
The beautiful diva,
Who stands for: "Justice, Freedom,
Liberty and Happiness for All."
We should denounce Uncle Tom
And his monkeys. Brothers, who walk tall
Like you and our President,
Are rare and almost nonexistent.
The Truth will always set free:
The men of Justice, the men of integrity,
The men of Peace, the men of honesty;
The Brothers and Sisters who will tirelessly
Fight racism, the twin-brother of slavery.
Topic(s) of this poem: nation
Poet's Notes about The Poem
Hébert Logerie is the author of four poetry books:
"Sparkles of Love and Etincelles de l'Amour"
Hébert Logerie is the author of "Mounts And Valleys of Love"
Comments about A Nation Of Cowards by Hebert Logerie
Tom Allport (5/23/2017 9:37:00 AM)
a very powerful write that also applies to a lot of other countries around the world and not just the USA? maybe one day justice and fairness will prevail..........superbly written. (Report) Reply
Abdulrazak Aralimatti (8/31/2015 2:27:00 AM)
A message to one and all
To America and all the nations of the world
A lovely poem (Report) Reply
Kim Barney (1/31/2015 5:31:00 PM)
The truth is being tolled...
Nice pun.
Or did you really mean
The truth is being told? (Report) Reply
Godfrey Morris (1/31/2015 1:21:00 PM)
Leslie Philibert (1/31/2015 11:53:00 AM)
Despite all this, I would rather live in the USA than in North Korea. (Report) ReplySandra Feldman (1/31/2015 1:39:00 PM)
Good comment.
That's right, North Korea or Cuba, our dear neighbor. Go there and see what justice you'll.receive.What a good life you'll have.
No other country in the World has so tried to mend its wrongs like the United States has.
But I am sure you will find fairness and well being far from these shores so, bon voyage.
Gangadharan Nair Pulingat (1/31/2015 9:00:00 AM)
Savita Tyagi (1/31/2015 7:43:00 AM)
Brave, honest and powerful words. Truth that speaks of our ugliness always hurts. (Report) Reply
Frank Avon (1/31/2015 2:54:00 AM)
I applaud your candor and agree with your message. How far we have to go! (Report) Reply
Claude H Oliver Ii (9/14/2009 11:38:00 PM)
Truth is a medicine that is difficult to swallow when one's diet has been candy coated lies. We
must get a 'Holder' ourselves to get well. (Report) Reply
Jessie Bernabe Cadsawan (8/17/2009 7:55:00 PM)
Hey, this is nice! I may apply this as like the thought of my poem 'No Love No Dream'. Hope any one who read this may open the mind. An eye opener piece! I lie it. This is true not only to the country relation but to a family relation that needs honesty, trust, transparency, bravery and unity for the best. I rate you 10. (Report) Reply
Almedia Knight-Oliver (8/10/2009 7:17:00 PM)
'Powerfrul words
Honest words
Spoken by a poet who dares to speak truth to power! (Report) Reply
David Orozco Jr (7/30/2009 9:45:00 PM)
Such powerful words emerging from within, the prospect of the nation claimed as cowards would tremble if only there was a consolidating theme that would create a riot.
~Dave~ (Report) Reply
Mahananda Pittle Jaswantlal (7/7/2009 8:23:00 AM)
The truth is being tolled; there is no reason to apologize... no nation can prosper if it really persists...good write (Report) Reply
Bharati Bhikhubhai (7/7/2009 7:51:00 AM)
Powerful words,
Truthful words,
Honest words,
Brave words;
This is exactly what the Doctor orders, , , , but all hollow and waste.. good work done by poet.... (Report) Reply
Nicola Borasinski (6/30/2009 6:18:00 PM)
Alen Alexander (6/5/2009 10:49:00 PM)
really powerful, truthful and brave words!
kick racism in the...! lol (Report) Reply
Deborah Cromer (6/1/2009 2:08:00 PM)
'Powerful words', that pretty much says it all! (Report) Reply
Native Pride (6/1/2009 1:11:00 PM)
i really like this poem, its a realy good one (Report) Reply
Charles Wanjohi (5/29/2009 1:19:00 AM)
I like this piece. Your expressed truth and feelings about the world, I believe not only in America this pain is felt. Its a brave approach to face the facts on evils every government has constituted in its laws and continue to. Great write. (Report) Reply
Mariam Khan (5/28/2009 2:16:00 PM)
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RCMP plan to speak with Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson after his 21-year-old former foster son was charged with drug trafficking and weapons offences.
Mounties held a news conference Friday to formally announce charges against Jinagh Navas-Rivas and four other men. Police allege the group was running a "dial-a-dope" cocaine business.
Mr. Robertson is on vacation in Hawaii but RCMP spokesman Sergeant Peter Thiessen said police will speak with him soon. Mr. Navas-Rivas is not in custody and hasn't been seen since the charges were laid.
"We will be speaking to the mayor for a variety of reasons," Sgt. Thiessen told reporters, though he wouldn't disclose what those reasons might be.
Sgt. Thiessen also declined to answer when asked if police knew one of the men they were investigating was linked to the mayor, though his response seemed to suggest they did not.
"We're not in a position to comment on the family connections of any of these individuals," he said. "Certainly, it's come to our attention through media reports in the last 24 hours that that individual may have a connection to the current mayor of Vancouver. We're certainly well aware of what's been reported and we're certainly looking at that closer."
Shortly after word of the charges first spread Thursday, Mr. Robertson issued a statement in which he detailed his relationship with his former foster son. The mayor said Mr. Navas-Rivas lived at the Robertson home for two years, but hadn't done so since 2009. However, Mr. Navas-Rivas was on stage when the mayor was re-elected in November and is listed as one of Mr. Robertson's children on his city hall profile.
The mayor also urged Mr. Navas-Rivas to turn himself in.
A spokesman for the mayor wrote in an e-mail Friday that Mr. Robertson will assist RCMP in whatever way he can.
Norman Ruff, a political scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Victoria, said he doesn't expect the charges to hurt the mayor politically.
In fact, Prof. Ruff said Mr. Robertson's explanation on why he became a foster parent in the first place – to provide support to a youth in need – might generate sympathy.
Mr. Navas-Rivas was a student at Prince Wales Secondary with one of Mr. Robertson's daughters, who became concerned when she realized he was on his own and essentially living on the street. The mayor's wife offered to take him in and the Robertsons got the necessary approvals to become foster parents.
The professor said former prime minister Jean Chrétien's adopted son had well-publicized legal troubles but that didn't have much of an impact on his father.
"To reverse the usual cliché, the sins of the son shouldn't be inflicted on the father," Prof. Ruff said.
Mounties say they received a tip in June about a drug-trafficking ring. Police raided a Vancouver home on Dec. 22 and say they recovered three handguns, 15 ounces of cocaine, one pound of marijuana, numerous vials of steroids and street level amounts of MDMA, a methamphetamine.
Mr. Navas-Rivas has been charged with one count of unlawfully transferring a firearm and two counts of unlawfully trafficking cocaine. Police say they expect three more men will be charged in the drug operation.
Sgt. Thiessen said RCMP are still probing whether there are any links to a gang.
"That's a key focus of the investigation. At this point we're not able to say that they're part of any one, or more than one, gang or organized crime group. We're certainly trying to connect the dots to make those determinations to see what affiliations they might have."
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A lawyer representing four Houston fire marshal inspectors claims city-owned buildings pose a possible safety risk due to director orders from their supervisors not to cite them for code violations. Randall Kallinen aired their concerns to the mayor and city council Tuesday.
"The fire marshal inspectors were ordered not to issue citations and not to charge inspection fees," Kallinen told council members.
"There's many addresses were there have been reports made of violations and an inspection, and in two cases a re-inspection and nothing has been done," he said.
Mayor Annise Parker dismissed the claim as untrue.
"It is the city's policy not to write citations on the first visit, but to get compliance," said Parker. She says 277 city-owned properties have been inspected since February -- only 21 had issues that needed to be taken care of.
"Records indicate that we have achieved compliance on everything they indicated was in violation, and we hope not to receive any citations," the mayor said.
Kallinen went on to raise concerns by inspectors about overtime and how assignments are doled out.
Council member "Brad" Bradford said it sounded like a collective bargaining issue.
A top fire commander also has reportedly dismissed the inspectors' claims, describing them as disgruntled employees.


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There were four Billy Blazes, the New York City Fire Department firefighter who is currently the most popular of the hit Rescue Heroes action figures from Fisher-Price, remaining on the spindle at the new Toys ''R'' Us store in Times Square at midday on Monday.
Suddenly, a young man rushed up, pulled them all down and thrust them into one of the mesh bags that serve as shopping carts at the store.
Sasha, Jade and Yasmin, three of the four Bratz dolls from MGA Entertainment, were sold out at the store and, briefly, at the Toysrus.com Web site -- although Cloe, the platinum-haired Caucasian member of the ethnically correct group, was available in abundance.
And forget about the Hogwarts Castle from Lego.
It's not even Thanksgiving, and while there is no single must-have toy this season, there are plenty of best-selling toys that may be in short supply because of the faltering economy and the events of Sept. 11. Many toy retailers kept orders light this year because of concern about the economy, but now they are betting that sales will be fairly solid during this holiday season.Continue reading the main story
History has shown that the toy business is more resilient than other retail businesses in a recession because parents tend to cut back on spending for themselves but not for their children, if they can help it.
This year, consumers are expected to travel less, which may leave more dollars for toys and other gifts, and there is an extra week between Thanksgiving and Christmas. All of that may be a boon for retailers across the board.
In the wake of the terrorist attacks, more emphasis is being placed on family and home, which also bodes well for the toy business -- although retailers say sales of traditional board games and classic toys like baby dolls were strong even before the terrorist attacks.
''We really haven't changed our outlook much following Sept. 11,'' said Melissa Comer Williams, a toy industry analyst at Gerard Klauer Mattison. ''We've always thought it was going to be a good holiday season for toys, driven by licensed toys tied to the Harry Potter and 'Monsters Inc.' movies and a variety of other products.''
No one toy has emerged as a runaway hit, as this year's Furby or Cabbage Patch doll, but that is probably positive for the industry. ''It's a better business for everyone,'' Ms. Comer Williams said, ''if sales are spread across a broad assortment of products, rather than concentrated on one or two.''
That is true, but the absence of a single blockbuster toy also has a downside. ''The thing about a hit toy is it gets people back into the stores repeatedly looking for it,'' said Tom Alfonsi, senior vice president of merchandising at K-B Toys. ''Traffic has been a little bit off, although we're looking forward to it picking up this week.''
A hit could emerge tomorrow, the start of the official holiday shopping season. ''When there are toys that are very strong, they usually make their appearance after Thanksgiving,'' said Neil Friedman, president of Fisher-Price Brands, a subsidiary of Mattel. ''Tickle Me Elmo was selling fine, but it wasn't until the day after Thanksgiving in 1996 that he sold out in one day everywhere.''
Fisher-Price has a new version of that smash hit for this year: Tickle Me Elmo Surprise.
From a parent's perspective, a wider variety of potential hits means less stress.
For instance, there will surely be a scramble for the two new video consoles, the Xbox from Microsoft and the GameCube from Nintendo, but the overall supply of game platforms will be greater than last year, when Sony ran into production problems with the hotly anticipated PlayStation 2. ''This is the first time we've had more than one new-console introduction,'' Mr. Alfonsi said.
In any case, toy industry experts say PlayStation 2 will be the hottest seller in the video games segment because it has a wider supply of games, particularly popular sports games. They note that Furby had a much bigger year in 1999, when it was not the hottest toy, than it did in 1998, when it was.
''It's funny, but with all the news about the new consoles, PlayStation 2 is going to do really well, with good supply, no kinks, good games,'' said Chris Byrne, an independent toy consultant. ''I think Sony will gain market share, and without cutting prices.''
The hit retro toy of the season is Shrinky Dinks, a crafts toy formerly popular in the 1970's. Spin Master Toys, the company that makes Shrinky Dinks, filled orders for 400,000 of the kits, but Anton Rabie, president of Spin Master, said the company could have sold 200,000 more, based on inquiries from retailers in the last few weeks.
Toys linked to characters in movies, cartoons or books continue to increase their dominance of the toy business, and the releases of two big children's movies this month, ''Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'' from Warner Brothers and ''Monsters Inc.'' from Disney and Pixar, make toys related to them a pretty sure-fire bet.
One toy that is flying off the shelves so far is Glowing Bedtime Sully, a fuzzy replica of the hairy blue monster in ''Monsters Inc.''; it is, in effect, a huggable, talking night light. Mike Wazowski, the one-eyed monster with Billy Crystal's voice, has been selling less quickly, but Babblin' Boo, based on the little girl in the movie, has sold far better than expected.
Hogwarts Castle from Lego and the Levitating Challenge game from Mattel are both linked to the Harry Potter movie and are selling like hotcakes. Professor Snape's Potions Class, a kit by Mattel for making drinkable ''potions'' with ingredients that fizz, foam, smoke and change colors, is also expected to do well.
Toy industry watchers warn that Harry Potter merchandise may be in especially short supply this season. Harry Potter products introduced a year ago did not sell well, so retailers ordered cautiously this year. ''Then the excitement with the movie started three weeks ago,'' said Jim Silver, publisher of Toy Wishes magazine, ''and the only way to describe what's happened with Harry Potter toys is that it's like a light switch suddenly got flipped on.''
Those looking for educational toys are likely to gravitate to products from Leap Frog, Mr. Silver and others said. The company introduced the Imagination Desk this season, an interactive desktop, but its Leap Pad products are also expected to do well.
Among robotic toys, the brightly colored Rumble Robots from Trendmasters, introduced in May, continue to sell well, according to retailers.
But a radio-controlled skateboard toy based on Tony Hawk, the skateboarding star, has been slow to take off, they say, contrary to expectations. ''I'm on a 20-city tour,'' said Mr. Byrne, the independent consultant, ''and the only place it has been sold out is Orange County, which is where he's from.''
At a list price of $60, that toy is also fairly expensive. But price has not dampened enthusiasm for e-kara, a karaoke toy, imported from Japan by Hasbro, that plugs into the television. It also has a list price of $60.
Toy stores are particularly interested in e-kara and other karaoke toys, as well as music-related toys like the HitClips toys from Hasbro's Tiger Electronics, which appeal to the hard-to-reach girls who are preteens or young teenagers. Girls that age tend to prefer money, music-related products and clothes to toys.
But all the debate over what's hot and what's not in the toy business may be for naught, at least when it comes to children old enough to participate in a survey. According to an online survey of 636 children 6 to 15 years old by C & R Research, a market research firm based in Chicago, clothes and sports equipment -- like bikes, scooters and skateboards -- beat out video game systems on wish lists.Continue reading the main story


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WEST LONG BRANCH, N.J. – Monmouth University softball freshman shortstop Rachel Shotzbarger (Saugus, Calif./Saugus) has been named the MAAC Softball Player of the Week, the league office today announced. With the recognition, the Hawks have claimed the award in each of the past two weeks, as Shotzbarger joins Kayleena Flores (Atwater, Calif./Buhach Colony) in being honored. Later Tuesday, the ECAC announced that Shotzbarger had also been named ECAC Division I Metro-Upstate Co-Player of the Week. Shotzbarger hit a team-leading .667 (10-for-15) with four doubles, a home run, five RBI's, four runs scored and a stolen base in the Hawks' 4-1 week.
Shotzbarger started the week with a 3-for-3 effort with an RBI against Penn on Wednesday. She then went 1-for-2 with a walk and a stolen base in Game 1 against Niagara, before erupting for a 3-for-4 effort with two doubles, a home run, three RBI's and three runs scored as the Hawks defeated Niagara, 11-3, in a mercy-rule shortened Game 2.
Shotzbarger finished the week with a double and a run scored in Game 1 against Canisius, before going 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI in Game 2. For the week, she posted a .688 on-base percentage and a 1.133 slugging percentage. For the season, she's now leading the Hawks with a .343 batting average, 23 RBI's, 13 doubles, a .529 slugging percentage and 15 walks. She's second on the team with a .427 on-base percentage.
The Hawks play their final regular-season non-conference contest Thursday, when they travel to Temple. First pitch from Ambler, Pa., is scheduled for 4 p.m.


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SAN FRANCISCO -- Quarterback Jason Campbell called Monday night "probably the worst nightmare" after taking six sacks during a 32-7 spanking of the Chicago Bears by the San Francisco 49ers.
With little time to scan the field because of poor protection and a 49ers defense that adeptly eliminated Brandon Marshall, the club's top weapon, Campbell threw for 107 yards and a touchdown but tossed two interceptions to finish with a passer rating of 52.7.
"I'm not going to sit here and say anything about one position," Campbell said. "I think we've all from the top to bottom got a lot of work to do. (We) just need to use this as some form of a wake-up call."
San Francisco certainly delivered several knockout blows to Campbell, and a Bears rushing attack that generated just 85 yards, not to mention an offensive line that could be on the way to singlehandedly destroying the team's season. With a non-existent running game that produced 36 yards through the first two quarters, the Bears went into halftime down 20-0 in Campbell's first start since Oct. 16, 2011.
The deficit forced Chicago to play one dimensionally in the second half as it needed to throw to attempt a comeback. But Bears coach Lovie Smith refused to place any of the blame on Campbell, who was filling in for concussed starting quarterback Jay Cutler.
"I was disappointed in all of our performances tonight," Smith said. "Nobody did well tonight or played well. Jason was just a small part of that. So many of us had opportunities to do something, and we didn't tonight. We're happy to have Jason here. He, like the rest of our team, didn't have a good night tonight."
San Francisco linebacker Aldon Smith sacked Campbell 5.5 times, while Campbell took several shots under duress. Sacked by Smith for an 8-yard loss in the fourth quarter, Campbell fumbled in the end zone with Chilo Rachal recovering only to be dropped for a safety by Ray McDonald.
"We are a better team than that," center Roberto Garza said.
Bears receiver Brandon Marshall said that although Cutler is an irreplaceable cog in the offense, "Jason Campbell is more than capable." The receiver indicated that Campbell's supporting cast didn't help enough. But clearly, Campbell made his fair share of mistakes as well.
"If we give him enough time to make the throws, and when he makes the throws and we come down with it, it's a different story with him," Marshall said. "He needs guys around him making better plays. We did not do that tonight, and it's really frustrating because we have a good opportunity of us and we are in good position."
Chicago appeared to be in a similar situation in 2011. Sitting at 7-3, Cutler suffered a season-ending thumb injury that forced him out of the last six games. With backup quarterback Caleb Hanie replacing Cutler, the Bears dropped five of the last six games and missed the postseason.
Smith referenced the situation when the Bears announced Cutler would miss Monday night's game, saying the team is "in better shape" with Campbell as the backup than it was in 2011 with Hanie.
Campbell, meanwhile, just wants to stash away Monday night's performance somewhere deep in the mental Rolodex.
"These games, you just have to throw away and move forward," Campbell said. "One of the toughest games in my career, but at the same time this is a tape where we look at it, we get on ourselves; I say just throw it away and move forward.
"You have to use this as a wake-up call for us to go back to work, to push each other a little harder because it's not going to be easy. Nothing comes easy. Anything worth having (is) worth working for and worth earning. You have to go after it."


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Web 2.0 tools are becoming increasingly more popular for employee use in the hospitality industry. Several hotel companies, such as Borgata Hotel, Casino and Spa, for example, provide all staff members, whether they are salaried or hourly, with full access to the Internet and to their human resources records and schedules via kiosks in the hotel. Other hotel companies may encourage the use of social networking tools within the company with the goal of increasing collaboration among employees. As much as there is good in letting employees use computers in the workplace for professional reasons, there are several large caveats: cyberloafing, liability concerns and confidentiality.
What is cyberloafing?
Cyberloafing is a term used when staff members surf the Internet, write email, or engage in other non-work related Internet activities on the employer's time. In the current age of connectivity, cyberloafing is of increasing concern, as employees use their employers' electronic resources to interact on social networking sites such as Facebook or MySpace, read blogs, instant message with family and friends, or simply surf the Internet for personal reasons.
At the recent Hospitality Law Conference held in Houston, attorney Steven Gutierrez, partner at Holland & Hart, presented a session on how to manage new electronic mediums, including blogs, instant messaging, etc. According to Gutierrez, 86% of employees use their employers' electronic resources for personal use; 51% of employees surf the Internet for personal reasons at work between one and five hours a week; and 25% of companies have dismissed at least one employee for misuse of Internet access.
Legal liability
What about in the hospitality industry; is this a problem in hotel and restaurant companies? Yes, hotels and restaurants (or any employer) may be held liable for employees' actions, including the use of electronic resources, within workplace time and space. If an employee harasses another employee using the company's intranet or networking forum, the employer may be liable. Continental Airlines was sued in 2000 by an employee for not preventing harassment in its electronic resources. Similarly, employees may be posting sensitive company information to public spaces, such as blogs or social networking sites, or misrepresenting the company. In another court case, Delta Airlines was sued by a former employee because Delta fired her due to content contained in her personal blog.
This issue becomes more important in the era of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS), as employees may knowingly or unknowingly put the company at risk. As a personal experience, I once received an email from a hotel manager asking me to write a welcome message for an incoming international guest. The manager forwarded me the reservation request of the guest, which included his full credit card number along with expiration date and credit card verification code (CVC). Even if this hotel is fully PCI compliant, this honest but wrong action by the employee put the company at a significant risk and the hotel company would be liable for the manager's action.
Proactive policies
The first step in protecting the organization is to form an inclusive policy. The policy should inform employees that electronic resources are for business purposes only. It should also state the excepted use of company materials, such as logo, name, and slogans, by employees outside of the work environment. Exceptions should be spelled out very clearly (i.e. family emergencies). The policy should also state that the employer owns the electronic resources, including the data created on or stored in the systems. The second step is to enforce the policy. Unfortunately, many companies have such policies, but they are not fully enforced, and therefore become ineffective. In unionized establishments, these policies should be included in contract agreements.
In these tough economic times, no hospitality company would welcome the complications with confidentiality or productivity. Therefore, I suggest that companies review their existing policies, refresh them, and include them in training materials. It may pay off many times over to be proactive in this regard.


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I can't recall who said that "knowledge that can't be shared is useless" but it is the first thing that came to mind when I finished reading the book.Barbara Lackritz (AKA GrannyBarb to those who have the honour to know and love her) has done a remarkable job of sharing her knowledge and personal experiences with those who seek more knowledge on adult leukemia.I strongly recommend this book, not only for patients and their families but perhaps even more so for fellow physicians. Reading the "case reports" as submitted by the patients themselves will be a wise investment of time for any physician. To know how our patients feel and how they struggle to cope with their disease is the starting point for any treatment.I wish to express my sincerest gratitude and respect to GrannyBarb for this book. Costas Giannakenas MD, PhDNuclear PhysicianDept. of Nuclear MedicineReg. Univ. Hospital of Patras - Greece
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The nay-sayers who thought Zenyatta might have been vulnerable after her comparatively plodding win in the Vanity (gr. I) last time out were left with little left to criticize when the statuesque filly blew by her rivals to capture the $300,000 Clement L. Hirsch Handicap (gr. II) (VIDEO) under wraps at Del Mar Aug. 2. Zenyatta, the top-ranked older female in the nation, remains perfect in seven lifetime races.
Since Zenyatta, the 124-pound high weight in the field of eight went off at odds of 3-5, there are presumably few doubters left.
Trainer John Shirreffs had his dark bay impeccably turned out for the race and she ran to her appearance. Zenyatta, loping along at the back of the field heading into the final turn, came from off the pace with a bold move leaving the bend while angling out for the drive to win drawn down in the final stages by Jockey MIke Smith. She scored her fifth consecutive grade I or II triumph by one length in a track-record time of 1:41.48 for the 1 1/16-mile Polytrack distance.
"She ran the way she always does," said Shirreffs, noting that Zenyatta was calm and collected in spite of a delay in the paddock while Romance Is Diane had a shoe repaired. "I wasn't worried down the backside with her being a little far back. That's the way she likes to run. She was moving beautifully throughout the race. The big field helped us, too."
It was a patented move for Zenyatta, who loves to kick into gear for the final three furlongs. A two-time grade I winner, the 4-year-old daughter of Street Cry--Vertigineux, by Kris S., has won her seven races by a combined margin of 16 1/2 lengths while banking $914,580 for owners Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Moss.
"I think it's great for the sport that we have one like her," Smith said. "They (the other riders) all know her; she's such a great, big target you can't miss her. And they all rode to try to beat her. But it was fair and square and it was classy.
"Her last race (the Vanity) was one of her 'C' races. She didn't run that well. But she still got it done. That's what the good ones will do. Today was one of her 'A' races. She was just galloping. I know she set a track record here, but if I'd have let her go, no telling what she might have done."
The winning time eclipsed the 1:41.57 run by Well Armed earlier in the meet in the San Diego Handicap (gr. II).
Silver Z, as expected, overook Romance Is Diane for the lead at the clubhouse turn and led by about two lengths through a measured pace of :23.34 and :46.53. Model, tracking the first group, which also included Dawn After Dawn and second choice Tough, moved up on the outside for Michael Baze on the final turn to open a two-length lead in upper stretch. But Model was swallowed up by the long strides of Zenyatta, who felt a couple of cracks of the whip from Smith at the eighth pole as she quickly took control. With Smith wrapped up on her for most of the final sixteenth Model drew closer in the last strides but was no threat to the winner.
"When I opened up on the turn, I thought there for a second or two I might win this thing," Baze said. "And then along she came. What are you going to do? My filly ran great."
Tough Tiz's Sis, who finished just a half-length behind Zenyatta in Hollywood Park's Vanity one month ago, struggled home third this time for jockey Aaron Gryder, 5 1/4 lengths behind Model and a half-length in front of Romance Is Diane.
Zenyatta paid $3.20, $2.40 and $2.10, topping a $2 exacta worth $57 with Model, who returned $16.20 and $7.40 in her graded stakes debut for trainer Neil Drysdale. Tough Tiz's Sis lost for the third time to Zenyatta while recording her seven consecutive in-the-money performance, all in stakes races. She paid $2.80.
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Dover, FL (The Weekly Vice) - Joshua Basso, a 32-year-old Florida man was jailed Friday after he allegedly called 911 seven times, asking to have sex with a female deputy.
According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, Basso called 911 seven times over a two-day period and requested a female deputy that he could have sex with.
Deputies finally drove out to Basso's home where he allegedly admitted to placing the calls. He was placed into custody and charged with seven counts of making false 911 calls.
If Basso looks a little familiar... well... he should. He was featured on The Weekly Vice in November, 2009 after he was arrested for the very same thing.
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/// Who Really Owns the iPad Trademark in China?
The hearing that could determine ownership of the iPad trademark in China kicked off this morning with a broad rehash of the battle we've seen play out in the media the past few weeks: Apple arguing it Proview Technology's worldwide rights to the iPad trademark several years ago, and Proview claiming it bought them from an affiliate that didn't own them. "Apple meticulously formed a band of lawyers to buy the trademark, but the transacted amount was given to Taiwan's Proview, not Shenzhen's Proview," Proview's attorneys told the court, adding that the iPad trademark therefore still belongs to Proview's Shenzhen unit, its claimed original owner. The problem with that argument, as Apple's legal team was quick to point out, is that negotiations over the iPad trademark were authorized by Rowell Yang, chairman of Proview Shenzhen, and the actual transfer agreement was signed by Ray Mai , head of Shenzhen's legal department. Proview's explanation for this according to its lawyers: " Personnel may have multiple roles or titles within the group, but the question is in what capacity were they acting? " And that really gets to the heart of the issue here: Did Apple buy the iPad China trademark from a company that didn't own it? "The ownership of the trademark when it was allegedly sold is not really in doubt; it was owned by Proview-Taiwan," Dan Harris, an intellectual property attorney at Harris & Moure, explains .
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I'm not offended by the Tebow-as-Jesus jersey; in fact, I find it liberating. If some cat wants to spend a few hundred dollars of their hard-earned money outside of a strip club, who am I to judge?
Escapism is the American way. Some folks get addicted to gambling. Some folks get addicted to drugs. Some folks buy another man's replica jersey. Raiders fans do all three.
The point is that dudes that played Dungeons and Dragons have to grow up someday. And when they grow up, they wear jerseys.
So I came up with a few jerseys of my own that all Broncos fans can get behind.
Even the nerds.
Tim Tebow
Of course I'm going to go here. Rather than customize Tebow's jersey to say "Jesus," I thought I'd just cut to the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth:
Von Miller
What's faster than a locomotive? Miller, of course. Don't turn away. He might get a sack:
Champ Bailey
What do you call a guy who has been the most consistent Bronco since, hell, I can't remember? There's only one word:
Chris Kuper
I've not been the biggest Chris Kuper fan. This year, that changed. Any guy who will punch Ndamukong Suh in the face gets my vote:
Brian Dawkins
Dawkins may not be the same guy he used to be in coverage, but on a safety blitz, he's the same old comic-book hero:


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