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WATCH: Angry protesters disrupt Rob Ford press conference
EXTENDED: Mayor Rob Ford's press conference regarding traffic congestion on Eglinton Avenue is interrupted by another group of shirtless protesters calling on Ford to resign
TORONTO – Mayor Rob Ford was surrounded by a handful of protesters shouting out calls for his resignation during a press conference Tuesday morning in Toronto.
Ford was on Eglinton Avenue to discuss his opposition to plans to turn the busy corridor into a boulevard but his message was quickly drowned out by angry chants.
Several protesters huddled behind the mayor during the entire press conference, many of them holding up white picket signs.
John Furr, a Scarborough businessman who spearheaded a #shirtlesshorde protest in downtown Toronto last week, stood directly behind the mayor during the event and was seen getting into a confrontation with Ford's chief of staff Dan Jacobs.
WATCH: Protesters drown out Rob Ford at a press conference. Jackson Proskow reports.
READ MORE: Anti-Ford shirtless jogger inspires #shirtlesshorde
Repeated chants of "resign" were heard throughout the press conference and at times flustered the mayor.
Ford seemed to brush off the protests when asked by reporters.
"They can protest all they want. All I'm doing is saving taxpayers money, keeping the traffic flowing. That's what the taxpayers want in this city," Ford said.
WATCH: Rob Ford's Chief of Staff Dan Jacobs got into an extremely heated confrontation with one of the shirtless protesters
The mayor later turned his attention to taking pictures with bystanders following the end of the 10 minute media event.
When questioned about the shirtless protesters, Rob's brother Doug Ford alleges they are the same people responsible for smashing his car window Monday evening.
"It's intimidation. They're a bunch of goons," Ford told Global News. "They want to intimidate my family, my kids, try to intimidate the campaign. It's not going to happen."
"Maybe you can ask Tory which goons he sent or Olivia Chow which goons they sent. It's the same four guys that are affiliated with a campaign. It's the same four guys that stood outside of 1010."
Ford returned to work last week after spending two months in rehab.
He has only given a select number of interviews, but has not taken questions from city hall journalists about the circumstances surrounding his alcohol and drug use.


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I like David Morse, since the 1980s, who seem low key but is always terrifically effective (he was great as the cop who intimidated Hugh Laurie's Gregory House, and as George Washington in [italic]John Adams[/italic]).%0D %0D I like Margo Martindale, ever since playing Hilary Swank's cold mom in [italic]Million Dollar Baby[/italic], and is versaile not just with villain roles (she was warm as an understanding relative even in a drivel of a Hallmark Hall of Fame, [italic]Silver Bells[/italic]).%0D %0D Who are some of other character actors that impress you?
Character actors we love
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David Morse was sexy as shit.
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David Strathairn.
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Some years ago, David Morse gave a superb performance Off-Broadway in HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE.
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Joan Cusack%0D %0D Teri Garr%0D %0D Siobhan Fallon%0D %0D Bruce McGill%0D %0D The late great James Whitmore%0D %0D James Cosmo%0D %0D Peter Mullan%0D %0D
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I like both the Davids.
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Reta Shaw
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David Morse played George Washington in the Adams miniseries.
Another Morse I like is Robert, who players Cooper on Mad Men.
I like Patricia Clarkson in almost anything.
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Jane Lynch, esp. in Party Down.
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I was a huge fan of ST. ELSEWHERE, one of the best series ever, and fell in love with Morse and his character of Jack almost 30 years ago. I'm so pleased to see his career has prospered in the years since the show ended.
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Charles Coburn, especially in [italic]Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.[/italic]
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Jennifer Coolidge. Catherine O'Hara. The late Peter Falk. Fred Ward. Fred Willard. Peter Dinklage. %0D %0D But I'm going to single out Chris Cooper, because of all the times I've failed to recognize him. I can think he's someone I haven't seen before, he can be so different.
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Loved Catherine O'Hara on Six Feet Under.
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This has come up every now and then over the years, and my answer never changes... David Strathairn and Chris Cooper. %0D I saw Strathairn on the Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, and when I started following his career I noticed Chris Cooper as they were both in Matewan.
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David Selby
Warren Oates
Joseph Cotten
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Much as I like everyone who's been mentioned, nobody's done it better than Charles Durning. So many memorable performances, but if I could only pick one, it would be as Jessica Lange's dad in "Tootsie".
Alan Hale Sr., who resembled Charles Durning as to type, was another great one, along with Frank Morgan. As far as the ladies go, I'd stick with Mary Astor and Joan Blondell.
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Glenn Close
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Frederic Forrest. He really should have gotten an Oscar nod for "Valley Girl."
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Stanley Tucci.
Susan Tyrrell.
Gary Cole.
Mary Woronov - she can't really act but she's got an incredible presence.
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Peter Stormare = Awsome
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The great underrated Peter Gerety.
Look him up.
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Scott Glenn
Joe Morton
Oliver Platt
C.C.H. Pounder
James Cromwell
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Definitively Oliver Platt. I loved him in the West Wing.
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Xander Berkeley. Always thought he was a terrific actor. Always thought he was hot.
Then someone I knew moved to LA and married him.
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The late Anne Haney, started late and really needed that one big role, but died before getting it.
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Mary Kay Adams.
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YES Xander Berkeley. Anyone ever met him? I'm sure he is a nice, normal guy.....
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Ed Harris and Sam Shepherd before the booze got to him. I loved him in Days of Heaven.
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Yes, Xander Berkeley is a very nice man. And the woman who married him is also terrific.
When you see character actors so frequently, you can be sure they are decent people. With so many actors to pick from for the secondary roles that do not sell the project, you usually go with people who are pleasant to work with.
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Robert Wisdom- he was Lt. Bunny Colvin on "The Wire" (Actually, "The Wire" was full to the brim with great character actors)%0D %0D Haruko Sugimura- Japanese actress who appeared in many of Ozu's movies, also some of Kurosawa's... Totally devasting as the "selfish" daughter in "Tokyo Story". I read somewhere recently that she was one the first to bring the Stanislavski method to Japan.%0D %0D Maurice Benichou- he was in "Amelie" and has been in some of Michael Haneke's movies like "Cache" and "Code Unknown". I love the scene in "Code Unknown" when Juliette Binoche is harassed on the subway.
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[quote]Haruko Sugimura- Japanese actress who appeared in many of Ozu's movies, also some of Kurosawa's... Totally devasting as the "selfish" daughter in "Tokyo Story". I read somewhere recently that she was one the first to bring the Stanislavski method to Japan.
OMG, "Tokyo Story" is one of my favorite movies of all time and that nasty daughter is my favorite character. You just hate that bitch from the moment you see her. My second favorite character is the sweet daughter-in-law whose husband had died in WWII.
Why don't Westerners react more to this movie? I've shown it to friends and few seem to "get" it. By the end of the movie, I'm crying like a baby and everyone else is sitting around dry-eyed and bored.
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I think one of the great things about her perfomance in "Tokyo Story" is that although the Haruko Sugimura character is a completely mean, selfish person, you also start to see that she is caught in the circumstances in her own life. The way she plays the character is so razor-sharp it makes me just want to laugh out loud.%0D %0D The "good" daughter-in-law, Setsuko Hara, is essentially a death-driven character who has given up on the future. Both characters embody many contradictory elements, just like in real life.%0D %0D BTW, did you know "Tokyo Story" is based on an American movie called "Make Way for Tomorrow" with Beulah Bondi (now there's a great character actress!)?%0D %0D A
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I had never heard that TS was based on an American movie. Nice bit of trivia!
It's very true that the daughter-in-law had just given up on life. Doesn't the father even recommend she remarry and just forget her dead husband, his son? And wasn't it right after his own wife's funeral?
Speaking of the funeral, I love the scene where the kids start fighting over their mother's possessions. The bitchy daughter shows a fleeting moment of sadness and humanity, and then WHAM! she's right back to her old self.
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Ruth McDevitt%0D %0D Marion Lorne%0D %0D Reta Shaw%0D %0D Mary Wickes%0D %0D Natalie Schafer%0D %0D Agnes Moorehead%0D %0D Beulah Bondi%0D %0D Kathleen Freeman%0D %0D Hermione Gingold%0D %0D Estelle Winwood
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Diane Wiest, Clancy Brown, Amy Madigan, Holland Taylor
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Got to agree with above posters on David Morse, also David Straithairn, Clancy Brown, and Stanley Tucci. Always love seeing them in any film or TV show. Always good. Allmost always sexy in that older gusy way%0D %0D %0D %0D To that I%E2%80%99ll add Joe Pantoliano. I know I'm going to like whatever I'm watching if he's in it %0D
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Grace Zabriskie%0D %0D Veronica Cartwright%0D %0D Eileen Brennan%0D %0D Madeline Kahn%0D %0D Barbara Baxley%0D %0D Cloris Leachman%0D %0D James Coco%0D %0D Charles Durning%0D %0D Ned Beatty
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Vivian Vance & William Frawley
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Gemma Jones
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Best of the best - Beverlee McKinsey and Mary Kay Adams:
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Peter Lorre
Sidney Greenstreet
Eric Blore
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Before I clicked the thread, I thought Margo Martindale and Chris Cooper among the living (Straithairn is a terrific choice, mentioned earlier).
Gladys Cooper, Teresa Wright, Thelma Ritter, Karl Malden would be late greats off the top of my head.
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One of my favorite character actors is the rugged, virile, balding Greek-Canadian actor Elias Koteas. I'm sure many of you recall from his supporting roles in films such as Some Kind of Wonderful, Look Whoâs Talking Too, Exotica, Fallen, The Thin Red Line and, more recently, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Shutter Island, The Killer Inside Me and Let Me In. He is frequently compared to both a young Robert De Niro and to Christopher Meloni of OZ and Law & Order SVU fame.
In several films, Elias Koteas shows an impressive bulge straining heavily against the fly of his pants. In the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film from 1989, back when Koteas had long flowing hair, he wears thin gray sweatpants and you can see his impressively masculine bulge swinging back and forth in a few scenes, notably when he falls off a swing on the porch. You can trace the juicy outline of his thick, musky, likely uncut endowment through the worn fabric of the sweatpants.
In the 2001 film Novocaine, Koteas has another interesting character role, as the prankster brother of Steve Martin. In his opening scene we see him playing dead, lying on the kitchen floor wearing nothing but tight red briefs and covered in fake blood that is later revealed to be paint. This scene gives wonderful coverage of both Koteas' meaty Greek ass and the fat salami-shaped mound in the front of his briefs.
In David Fincher's 2007 film Zodiac, there is a wonderful moment where Koteas â as a daddyish Vallejo police officer â answers the door to Jake Gyllenhaal in the middle of the night. Koteas strides to the door with a slow, lazy swagger in a pair of thin, beige, 70s polyester pants that reveal the delicious outline of his musky Greek sausage. To me this scene gives a clear sense of weight in space â one can feel the texture and weight of his virile, middle-aged maleness filling the warm fabric of his slacks, forming a protruding mound that begs to be caressed through the material.
Koteas may be at his sexiest in David Cronenberg's 1996 film Crash, where he plays the bisexual, suicidal car crash fetishist Vaughan. He wears tight black jeans and has a delicious swagger, though I can't recall any crotch shots as good as the aforementioned films. There is, however, a very horny scene where he sucks face with James Spader in a car and then they lick each other's car crash wounds, including a tattoo of the angry red bruise of a steering wheel he has imprinted across his ribs.
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Yet another vote for David Morse.
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I've actually worked with several of the favorites mentioned in this thread: David Morse, David Strathairn and Chris Cooper....all 3 very sweet, shy and intelligent gentlemen.
And Charles Durning, who was fun and hilarious and mischievous.
And Margo Martindale, who was earthy and caring and sincere.
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Big love for Harriet Harris!
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"In David Fincher's 2007 film Zodiac, there is a wonderful moment where Koteas – as a daddyish Vallejo police officer – answers the door to Jake Gyllenhaal in the middle of the night. Koteas strides to the door with a slow, lazy swagger in a pair of thin, beige, 70s polyester pants that reveal the delicious outline of his musky Greek sausage. To me this scene gives a clear sense of weight in space – one can feel the texture and weight of his virile, middle-aged maleness filling the warm fabric of his slacks, forming a protruding mound that begs to be caressed through the material."
I bet Jake thought the same thing
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Ann Wedgeworth
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OMG! What about...Margaret Hamilton for the Wizard of OZ and Hattie McDaniel for Gone With The Wind.
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Joanna Cassidy
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I miss J.T. Walsh.
Other favorites not mentioned are Joe Pantoliano, Steve Buscemi, Powers Boothe, Dan Hedaya, and William Fichtner.
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Peter Riegert
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Add me to the David Morse fans; he just seems like a decent guy. I also love Colm Feore for the same reason.
And Richard Burgi cause he was hella sexy back when he played "The Sentinel".
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William Fitchner - always a welome sight
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Brenda Dickson:
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CCH Pounder.
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In 70s movies: Brad Dourif, Bruce Dern, John Cazale
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Shirley MacLaine. I fucking love her!
|by Anonymous
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Amen R1.
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Remember David Warner?
|by Anonymous
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David Morse was really good in a little-seen movie called The Slaughter Rule
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Charles Lane -- worked until he was 101.
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Grace Zibriskie
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Richard Farnsworth, I always enjoyed his performances.
|by Anonymous
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Beverlee McKinsey in action:
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Peggy Rae
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Maria Ouspenskaya Franklin Pangborn David Strathairn
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The death of Eileen Brennan had me thinking. I know it's probably the "elder" bit in me peeking out that says, "Oh, we don't have any unique performers now versus then." However, it really does seem like many of the younger teen and twentysomething actors and actresses are picked solely on appearance and not on any sort of quirky, notable talent. Who are your favorite character actors/actresses? Am I missing anyone under 40 who you think fits that description?
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Thelma Ritter. She wasn't unique, but she was real.
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Chris Cooper - I have never seen a bad performance from him. He improves every movie he's in.
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I think that most of the cast on Orange is the New Black would qualify as interesting character actresses.
I mean, they might even 'go down' in history as some of the most talented.
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Patsy Kelly!
Margorie Main!
Sheree North!
Anna Magnani!
|by Anonymous
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Not familiar with her work, but what about Greta Gerwig? Or Chloe Sevigny who she looks like. Parker Posey as well maybe? But then they all knowingly go for quirky offbeat roles.
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Tracy Walter
Dandy Nichols
The odd, ugly Frenchman from Diva
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Enrico Colantoni (sp.?) - Elliot the photographer on Just Shoot Me, Veronica Mars' father, currently Elias the mob boss on Person of Interest, recently on the cop series Flashpoint.
|by Anonymous
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John C. Reilly
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Ed Harris? Too good looking maybe.
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Lizann Mitchell - Anthony Hopkins' sister in The Human Stain and various righteaous black women and judges on crime shows and procedurals. Saw her on Broadway in Having Our Say and in the FIRST and GOOD all black Trip To Bountiful.
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Geraldine Page
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Anne Dudek, Ashley Williams.
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Madeline Kahn - "just this once let Miss Trixie sit up front with her big tits"
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I miss Madeline Kahn.
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Margo Martindale
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Michael Parks
Paul Dooley
On the slightly younger list: Jeffrey Wright!! Fucking genius in [italic] Angels in America. [/italic] Fuckin' brilliant in almost any role he plays. I literally did not recognize him in [italic] Broken Flowers [/italic] with Bill Murray.
Carroll O'Connor was a very respected and recognizable character actor before [italic] All in the Family [/italic] made him a household name. Same goes for Agnes Moorehead and [italic] Bewitched, [/italic] although the latter was still, technically, a "supporting" part.
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Josh Malina, who is in everything.
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Somehow, someone took my thread and posted it here as R68.
Not that I mind, really. But now we have two threads on character actors.
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I was wondering what was going on there. I've been seeing old threads bumped that are along the same lines as new ones.
Don't mind if threads get merged at all, but the new duplicates are the problem. How many Lindsay gets out of rehab threads does one need.
|by Anonymous
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I think the other thread is asking for younger, current character actors, vs. just list your favorite character actors. I've posted in both threads.
|by Anonymous
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Ann Dowd in Compliance, and also as Channing Tatum's mother in Side Effects
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Michael Emerson. Absolutely love him.
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I see "In Cold Blood" fairly often, because of Scott Wilson and Robert Blake. They had an uncanny resemblance to the real killers.
Also agree about Frederic Forrest. He should have rec'd a nomination for "Apocalypse Now", as well.
When "St. Elsewhere" was on, I used to favor David Morse, but also loved the villanous Terence Knox. Hated Howie Mandel's character for "harrassing" my favorite. Was also interested in Ed Begley, Jr. because someone told me I walked like him. Afterwards, I made a great effort to NOT walk like him. Failed!
|by Anonymous
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Grace Zabriskie, Mary Kay Pace, Bruce Dern - yes, they were all on Big Lvoe.
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R91 - Actually the older trio in St Elswhere, Norman Lloyd, William Daniels, and Ed Flanders were really good.
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George Morfogen
Lea Michele
Martin Starr
Becky Ann Baker
Ray Abruzzo
Aaryn Gries
E.J. Peaker
Joan Prather
Ronnie Claire Edwards
|by Anonymous
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Stanley Kamel - probably best known as Monk's psychologist but he played bit parts in dozens of other shows (Golden Girls, Melrose Place) and movies.
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Stanley Kamel is rumoured to have been gay.
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James Remar
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Max Perlich
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Agnes Moorehead
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I can't believe no one has mentioned Edie McClurg. She's been in everything and she's always great.
|by Anonymous
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Re: Michael Emerson - he played a very creepy murderer on The Practice.
|by Anonymous
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Recently, Jere Burns in his very different roles in Breaking Bad and Justified.
|by Anonymous
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Speaking of Breaking Bad, David Costabile (Gale). He's done Damages, The Wire, Flight of the Conchords and Suits, among other roles.
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R101, Michael Emerson is a great actor, extremely nice in real life (have met him a few times) and VERY pro-gay.
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Loves me some Richard Burgi - pure daddy eye candy and has a great sense of humor. Seems down to earth.
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[all posts by right wing shit-stain # a removed.]
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Sam McMurray
I will always associate him, first and foremost, with "Raising Arizona" and the Tracey Ullman Show....but the guy has been working seemingly non-stop, for the past 30 years. Over 150 film and TV credits, both comedy & drama.
Most recently, I saw him in an episode of "The Fosters", and he was great as Stef's (Teri Polo) father, who has never fully accepted that she left her husband and fell in love with a woman. But still, the second I laid eyes on him, my first thought was, "Hey! Glen from Raising Arizona!"
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Gladys Cooper
Florence Stanley
Stanley Tucci (HOT HOT HOT)
Mary Bowland
Hope Emerson
|by Anonymous
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I'll watch Dana Delany in anything.
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David Morse is one sexy old man. Even when he was a little twig in Inside Moves.... All the way to World War Z. Me/10 would bang him.
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Hope Emerson
Lucile Watson
Mabel Albertson
Gladys Cooper
Gladys George
Ellen Corby
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Julian Beck has to be the BEST actor I've ever seen in my life. You may know him as Reverend Kane, the evil ghost after Corrie Anne in hat horror movie. He spent his whole life running The Living Theater with his wife Judith Malina. He appeared in one episode of Miami Vice, "The Prodigal Son". He died two weeks before his episode was aired.
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William Fichtner Gary Cole Barry Pepper Timothy Spall
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James Remar, he's incredibly sexy.
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James Remar was hot in 48 Hours and he's hot now in Grey's Anatomy.
|by Anonymous
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Flora Robson
Fay Bainter
Laura Hope Crewes
|by Anonymous
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Fresh off the "Little Women" (1949) thread:
Mary Astor
Leon Ames
Lucile Watson (though I mentioned her earlier)
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Dina Merrill
Kay Medford
Betty Field
Mildred Dunnock
(Yes, I love Butterfield 8 with the fabulous Elizabeth Taylor)
|by Anonymous
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Lynne Thigpen Juanita Moore Carol Kane Marilu Henner Patton Oswalt Michael Clarke Duncan Dame Judith Anderson Christhop Walz Victor Williams Victo Buono Ruth Gordon
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Does David Strathairn count as a character actor?
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Saul Rubinek Stephen Root
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M. Emmett Walsh
Beth Grant
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John Hawkes
James Badge Dale
Barry Pepper
William Fichtner
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This all-Russian program opens with Sergei Prokofiev's Visions fugitives, written in 1917, before the composer emigrated to the United States immediately after the Russian Revolution. The ACO and Steven Osborne share the stage, interleaving the original piano version with arrangements by Rudolph Barshai in a performance plan conceived by Richard Tognetti.
Prokofiev's fellow Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich is featured on the program with two dazzling works: his Prelude and Scherzo, and his first Piano Concerto. Written during 1924-25, the Prelude and Scherzo was originally composed for string octet. The composer himself cited the Scherzo as "the best thing I have written". Composed in 1933, the whimsical First Piano Concerto emulates the style of Prokofiev's Visions fugitives.
The concerto will feature Steven Osborne, as well as trumpeter David Elton, Principal Trumpet of the Sydney Symphony. Written, according to one account by the composer, "with the greatest enthusiasm and without the least exertion," Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence takes its name from a tune he wrote while visiting the capital of Tuscany. Originally for string sextet, it was the last chamber work Tchaikovsky composed. This performance features a realisation for the full complement of ACO strings.


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by ADAM GRUENEWALD
NYA Times
The Central baseball team concluded its season on Saturday with a 2-1 loss to Holy Family.
Earlier in the week, the Raiders defeated St. Peter at home on Tuesday, 3-1.
Central finished 13-6 on the season, including 10-4 in the Minnesota River Conference.
Central 3, St. Peter 0
Central concluded the regular season with a 3-0 win at home last Tuesday, May 20.
H.F. 2, Central 1
The Raiders season ended in a Class 2AA first round game featuring a pitcher's duel between Isaac Hormann and the Fire's Connor Herd.
Central struck first with a run in the first inning when Hormann was hit by a pitch on his helmet, but shook it off and stole second and scored on an error.
Holy Family answered with a run in their half of the first on two hits and a walk, and then scored the decisive run in the third inning, taking advantage of a leadoff double.
Hormann though kept the Raiders in it, working out of jams in the last three innings. The Fire got two on in the fourth, but Hormann got two strikeouts and a groundout. Also, Noah Peterson made a diving catch in right field for the third out in the fifth with a runner on second and Hormann got two strikeouts and a flyout after the first two runners reached in the sixth.
In his six innings, Hormann gave up seven hits and three walks while striking out five.
Central had managed just four hits off of Hurd as Casey Clemensen, Alex Eichner, Alex Meeker and Peterson all had singles.
The game marked the end of high school baseball careers for graduating seniors Clemensen, Eichner, Meeker, Andrew Cardinal, Cody Millbrett, Max Kasel and Jordan Kohls.
Holy Family advanced to face top-seeded Belle Plaine on Tuesday.
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|Intel Core i7-3770K Ivy Bridge Processor
|Reviews - Featured Reviews: Processors
|Written by David Ramsey
|Monday, 23 April 2012
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HD4000: DX10 Performance
The HD 4000 iGPU built into the Ivy Bridge processors is the first Intel integrated GPU to support DX11. The Sandy Bridge's HD3000 iGPU only supported up to DX10.1, so for my first graphics tests I stuck with DX10 software. I compared the HD3000, HD4000, and Radeon HD5770 GPUs using Unigine's Heaven 3.0 benchmark set to DX10 graphics, with shaders set to "medium", no anti-aliasing, 4x anisotropic filtering, and a resolution of 1680x1050. This benchmark takes you on a fly-through exploration of a beautifully-rendered city floating in the clouds.
I also used Futuremark's PCMark Vantage, selecting the "Jane Nash" and "New Calico" benchmarks. The former tracks a 60s-era female spy as she's discovered in the evil villian's lair and must run for her life, stealing a jet-powered flying boat to escape, while the latter shows a giant space battleship hovering outside an asteroid belt, dispatching a fleet of space fighters which mercilessly bombard the planet below. I set PCMark Vantage to the "Entry Level" presets with "optimal textures" and the same 1680x1050 resolution used in the Heaven benchmark.
As these results show, neither iGPU is suitable for serious gaming at this resolution. And in the case of PCMark Vantage, "entry level" settings mean precisely that: water is a static, unmoving texture, even as boats plow through it; cloth doesn't drape, and so forth...it's a pretty bare-bones experience. While the HD4000 does substantially better than the HD3000 in these tests, outperforming its older incarnation by 45%, 70%, and 49%, respectively, it's still nothing that any gamer would consider even close to playable. Even casual gamers would be well advised to pony up the $100 or so for a Radeon HD5770 video card, or something else in that class, as it makes the difference between playability and non-playability.
Ivy Bridge does enable the mainboard's PCI-E 3.0 features, but I don't think that your card is 3.0 compliant. If there is a huge advantage to PCI-E 3.0 as opposed to 2.0 operation, that would make me want to change over.
Thanks for the review. It was a good read.
In any case right now PCI-E 3.0 bandwidth improvements have no discernible effect on graphics performance since no card is anywhere close to saturating the bandwidth of 16x or even 8x PCI-E 2.0.
Speaks volumes for the entry-level market, though, not much for the market the 3770K is in.
I have an A8 APU and when paired with the 1GB XFX HD6670 Radeon card I have, it performs pretty good. It's a good overclocker and most of the available socket FM-1 mainboards have a ~lot~ of useable features on them. It represents excellent value for the low cost of ownership.
But, as you say, it is Apples and Oranges in the marketplace.
If you look at some of the other articles going around the net on this topic, you'd think IB is the second coming.
Hilbert Hagedoorn (Mr. GURU 3D, himself) says that the i7-3770K is an excellent overclocker, (guru3d.com/reviews) while you say otherwise.
Is there such a large difference between Engineering Samples, or is this the same-o, same-o from Intel, where there's a large gap in performance from one (supposedly) identical cpu to another?
It's fairly common knowledge that retail bought cpu's OC better than the engineering samples given out to review sites. Is this the case concerning the cpu that you tested, and that a retail version may actually OC much, much better than the one you have?
If so, then the reviewing of any free sample should never be done. Ever.
If any reviewer can't afford, or is too cheap, to buy a random retail component for reviewing, then the review is completely suspect, since it does NOT apply to what real people buy themselves off-the-shelf.
So yes, in answer to your question, there is a difference between engineering samples; in fact there's a difference between retail samples, as any overclocker knows. And as for "large difference", the 4.9GHz Hilbert reached was a mere 4.2% better than the 4.7GHz I reached, so your definition of "large" seems a little off to me.
No review sites normally buy retail samples of the products they review. Even if we did, waiting for a retail Ivy Bridge CPU would mean you'd read all these reviews weeks later than you would otherwise. And I'm not sure I could wait that long for your appreciation.
I'm not going to bother visiting his site to find out, but I presume he might have cooled it differently or simply received a better sample.
Going to hate forever?
It looks possible that even if it brings better power usage, throttling might bring overall performance down if a manufacturer isn't attentive to their cooling system design.
So doubling the potential throughput from x16 2.0 to x16 3.0 won't make any difference because no current software is trying to pump that much information across PCI-E.
The real win for PCI-E 3.0 would be with non-video card devices, like PCI-E SSDs. Of course the trouble is that with current Ivy Bridge systems only the CPU has PCI-E 3.0 lines (the X77 Express chipset is still limited to PCI-E 2.0...and two SATA6 ports...and four USB 3.0 ports...because Intel is lazy), so the only slots with this connectivity are the one or two X16 slots a board will have, and these aren't the slots you'd put a non-graphics card in. Sigh.
Where this will make a real difference, as I notice in the review, is with laptop/ultrabook/portable devices. The lower power draw should make a real difference in battery life, allowing either smaller batteries (and smaller devices), longer life with the same size batteries, or any combination. This would be hard to test since you'd need two mobile devices with the only difference being the processor...and I only had a desktop CPU anyway.
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We immediately remove comments and block IPs, but unless you want to enter a long complex code then one spam message per week isn't the end of the world.
Last week I started getting a few more and today there were three when I got home for work. There's no way to block the sneaky buggers without blocking Benchmark Reviews.
If it goes back to one a week that would make me happy. If it increases again then I don't think I would stick around. We'll see how it goes. Maybe you guys can change the character test to four or five alphanumeric characters instead of three, or two short words. If it's spam bots that might help, if someone posts the spam manually then it wouldn't.
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August 31, 2005 - Town officials let out a collective sigh of relief Aug. 23 following a study session at which council members reviewed a near-complete draft ordinance of Marana's new residential design standards.
The long-awaited standards, a 24-page document detailing how the town's residential neighborhoods should look in the future, are expected to set the bar high for new development coming into Marana.
"Almost there," said Planning Director Barbara Berlin as she slapped a high-five to KB Home's director of development, Jim Noller, after the meeting.
Several representatives from the homebuilding industry attended and were quick to acknowledge afterward that none of them were there to protest the stringent requirements that will ultimately force developers to build a product far above minimum standards and stray from creating row upon row of cookie-cutter houses.
"KB Home is excited about what the town is working on and trying to achieve," Noller said. "We've been working with staff for the past several months in the process of developing these design guidelines, and we're excited about the finished product, recognizing that it's going to improve the development that's occurring within the town."
KB Home and its joint-venture partner Empire Companies are developing the 2,500-home Saguaro Springs project north of Twin Peaks Road just west of Rattlesnake Pass. Regardless of when the ordinance goes into effect, Noller said Saguaro Springs' design will be comparable to the new standards through a development agreement.
"The latest information regarding the design standards will be considered within the development plan," he said. "I think it's going to end up very close, but it probably won't be exact."
Paula Meade, vice president of land acquisition for Standard Pacific Homes, said an Aug. 15 meeting during which homebuilders met with town staff to hammer out the last details of the ordinance was beneficial. Standard Pacific Homes is planning a residential development featuring two- and three-story homes around The Pines Golf Club in Marana.
"We applaud Marana for being visionary and trying to change the look of their town," Meade said. "The building community is willing to step up to the plate and help them with that vision."
Tom Williams, DR Horton's vice president of land, was in attendance representing his firm, which is developing the San Lucas project in northern Marana east of Interstate 10.
Depending on how the council decides to word the final ordinance, San Lucas could be grandfathered in to be exempt from the standards with its project already under review.
While the development might not fully comply with the new standards, Williams said the homes in San Lucas are going to be the latest 2006 models and will be "very attractive."
"The standards are going to be very good for the town and I think, overall, we support them," he said. "The real question is how we phase them in. There's a lot of things already in the works that we're concerned about making sure that it works correctly."
The biggest issue regarding the adoption of the new standards has been when they will take effect. Homebuilders have been asking for a six-month grace period from the time of adoption, but council members said they thought that was too long and are leaning more toward 90 days.
Mayor Ed Honea said he thought six months left a large window open for developers to rush to submit preliminary plats to "get a foot in the door" to be exempt from the standards.
"I don't care if we have to compromise, but I think six months is too long," Honea said.
Town Manager Mike Reuwsaat said there are 17 preliminary plats and 10 final plats under review by the town. The council agreed that those projects with plats under review within 90 days from the date of adoption could be exempt from the design standards.
Berlin noted that several developers already have agreed to adhere to the town's standards through development agreements, including developers of Payson Farms, Fianchetto Farms, Rancho Marana 154 and Saguaro Springs.
Since last year's council retreat, adopting a new set of residential design standards has been a priority for the town. The intent of the standards is to "foster a look of community rather than a look of production," Berlin said, adding that everything else is just a detail.
The new design standards have passed through the Planning and Zoning Commission, were subject to an initial public hearing and could be adopted by the council Sept. 19. A second public hearing has been scheduled for the Sept. 19 council meeting at 7 p.m. inside the Marana Municipal Complex.
Town Clerk Jocelyn Bronson said the meeting is being held on a Monday instead of a Tuesday because several town officials will be in Mesa attending the Arizona League of Cities and Towns annual conference the following day.
The two biggest changes from the town's existing standards are that a separate landscaped area will be required between sidewalks and curbs and the amount of garage-dominant houses in a subdivision will be limited, Berlin said.
"We're hoping that everyone buys into the vision that we have," Honea said, expressing his relief to have the standards finally nearing adoption.
"We think it will change the community," Reuwsaat said. "It is creating a whole lot of work for us … but good things require hard work."


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West's Hawes caps off great start with long putt
By TAYLOR MITCHELL - email@example.com
Jan. 25, 2013 at 10:01 p.m.
Updated Jan. 24, 2013 at 7:25 p.m.
Shannon Hawes had been playing for nearly five hours when he faced a 25-foot putt on the 18th green of the Victoria Country Club.
The Victoria West senior had no way of knowing how close his team was to first place at its own tournament.
But he knew every stroke counted.
"It was important," Hawes said. "I didn't know how the other teams did yet, but one stroke counts that much in these things."
Hawes drained the uphill putt from 25 feet away, drawing a nice cheer from both spectators and opposing players as Hawes closed out his day with a first round score of 77 at the Victoria West Spring Classic.
"I knew if I hit it firm and on the right line, the grain would just take right into the hole," Hawes said. "About halfway through I felt good about it and just raised my putter and got a cheer from the crowd. That's always exciting."
That one stroke proved critical in positioning West for a tournament victory when the venue shifts to The Club at Colony Creek on Saturday.
The Warriors ended Friday with a 339 team total, just one stroke behind co-leaders Corpus Christi Incarnate Word and San Antonio MacArthur.
Hawes' 77 turned in the third lowest score of the day. Churchill's Cole Donielson finished with a 75 and MacArthur's Alan Hockersmith was second with a 76.
"Shannon was ready to play today," said West head coach Fred Neuman. "A lot of things fell into place for Shannon. It definitely is going to boost and, hopefully, him and the team can go to Colony and have a good day."
"The driver was on today and the irons were perfect too," Hawes said. "The putter was just extra. I couldn't ask for anything much better."
Hawes, West's No. 1 golfer, knows he'll need another good showing on Saturday. However, he doesn't feel the same pressure he felt going into the first round on Friday.
"I don't feel like I have to go out and do what I did today. Of course, I have to go out there and do it, but I feel like it'll come easier," Hawes said. "I feel like, to do what I did today, I won't have to try as hard."
If the name Hawes sounds familiar when it comes to Victoria golf, it should. His older brother, Sean, was one of the top golfers for Memorial when he graduated in 2009.
"My brother was pretty good," Hawes said. "He won district a couple of times with Memorial and they went to regionals a couple times, too."
Sean, a senior at Texas A&M, and Shannon never played together on a golf team because of their age difference. But there isn't much doubt the older Hawes had an effect on his younger brother.
"Sean played on a good team and also contributed on a good team. That helped Shannon to play and have a good high school career because of what he saw from others around him," Neuman explained. "He also saw his brother do very well in the classroom and Shannon also does well in the classroom."
Hawes will have an opportunity to continue to build his own legacy as a high school golfer when the tournament shifts to The Club at Colony Creek.
"Definitely doesn't make it easier," Hawes said. "Colony has a lot of different characteristics about it. It's more open and windy. The greens are a lot different, the fairways are different and the way the ball bounces is different."
Earlier in the season, the Warriors found themselves in a similar position at a tournament at Colony Creek.
At the East Varsity Boys Invitational Tournament, West trailed the first place team by two strokes. The Warriors failed to gain any ground on Corpus Christi King on the second day, falling five strokes short of the tournament victory. Hawes, himself, finished the first day with a 77, but dropped a pair of strokes on the second day.
"We'll see if they learn from that headed in to the second day tomorrow," Neuman said after the first day scores were posted Friday. "We'll find out Saturday."


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Flashback: Drunk Larry King?
OK, so it's not clear if Larry is really drunk, but his answer to this earnest caller is definitely loopy! (Fruit Loopy, perhaps?) Gawker unearthed this awesome tape of Larry (from a while back) responding to a guy who called in to ask for tips on how to break into journalism and succeed in the career. Let's just say that his answer could've been more succinct: Booze — lots and lots of booze. (Or, to be fair, sleep deprivation. This was taped at 3 a.m., after all!) Click here for more details on the history of this tape.


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Fayette-Mom: When child's dream is unattainable, do you soften the blow?
Posted November 14, 2011
When I was 8, a local hotel was holding auditions for a dinner theater production of "Annie." I became quite excited, convinced that I would land the starring role. Finally, the freckles would pay off!
There were only two small problems: I couldn't act and I couldn't sing.
Of course, I didn't know this. I thought my rendition of "Tomorrow" was show stopping, and I couldn't wait to get in front of those casting directors and perform.
I never got the chance. My mom, very gently, told me that my "abilities" were not up to snuff.
Of course, I was crushed, but what was my mom to do? Allow me to go embarrass myself? Now that I am an adult, I know. I could have practiced every day for the rest of my childhood and my "abilities" would have only added up to wishes.
No, she did the right thing, but I wonder: as a mom, would I be able to do the same? If my child were to come to me with a dream, something I just knew was unattainable, how would I handle it? Would I take it into my own hands, trying to soften the blow? Or would I chicken out and let them put themselves out there, hoping the universe is kind but never really knowing for sure?
It's a tricky thing. I'm a big believer in following dreams — if my son or daughter expressed a wish to become, say, President of the United States, then I would encourage them to study and work hard and develop the skills necessary to become a public servant. I would tell them what I firmly believe to be true: With hard work, you can do anything you set your mind to.
Er …. unless it's something like being a pro golfer or an opera singer. Yes, hard work is needed, but the skill level has to be there, you know?
Of course, there are always exceptions. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team.
How do you handle these things with your kids? Do you intervene in order to save feelings? Or is learning the lesson for themselves an important part of the journey?
Jennifer is a mom of two and WRAL-TV assignment editor in Fayetteville. Her food obsession memoir, "Designated Fat Girl," came out in 2010. Read more about Jennifer and her book on her website. Find her here on Go Ask Mom on Tuesdays.


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At approximately 10:40 a.m. on Nov. 6, officers from the Tucson Police Department's Operations Division in Midtown acted in response to a report of a suspicious vehicle.
The vehicle was spotted north of East Golf Links Road, and west of South Swan Road in a desert area. An officer located the vehicle and determined it was stolen, but could not detain the suspect who fled on foot through the neighborhood to the north of the desert area, and climbed over a residential wall in the 4300 block of East Calle Aurora.
According to the Nov. 6 media release, Sgt. Kyle Robinson, a 15-year veteran, was advancing towards the residence when the suspect leapt over the wall. Robinson exited his patrol car, and ordered the suspect to surrender at gunpoint, but the unidentified male began to run. Although a chase ensued, the suspect circled back around and was able to get into the driver seat of Robinson's patrol vehicle.
While Robinson struggled to control the suspect, the suspect drove off the road onto the sidewalk and through a mailbox while aiming the driver's side door at a large wall. During this time, Robinson was able to pull out his issued handgun and fire one round at the suspect. The shot missed the suspect, and Robinson was then required to drop free from the moving vehicle, fearing he was going to be crushed by the wall.
Robinson has sustained abrasions and bruising, but is expected to recover.
Meanwhile, another officer approaching from the east noticed the hijacked police vehicle dragging Robinson, and attempted to block it off with her own patrol car.
However, before she was able to position herself and pull in front of the stolen police vehicle, the suspect swerved, striking the left side of her patrol car. As the stolen car accelerated from the scene, the first of two vehicle pursuits ensued.
This vehicle pursuit went northbound at a high rate of speed, during which the suspect triggered the emergency lights and sounded the siren of the stolen patrol car.
Eventually, the pursuit was terminated due to perceived risk to other motorists, when the suspect began driving eastbound at speeds of approximately 90 miles per hour in westbound lanes of Broadway Boulevard approaching Swan Road.
A short time later, another vehicle pursuit was initiated when the suspect was seen driving the stolen cop car west on Interstate 10 near downtown.
Patrolmen with the Arizona Department of Public Safety were alerted of the pursuit, which allowed them to set up in advance of the suspect, while the Tucson Police Department officers slowed down, tailing at a distance.
During the I-10 chase, authorities say the suspect's speed went past 100 miles per hour.
DPS officers engaged in the pursuit near Casa Grande by setting up road spikes that disabled the vehicle. Still, the suspect continued driving until reaching the Sacaton freeway rest area, near milepost 182. The suspect then fled on foot.
After a brief foot pursuit, DPS officers managed to Taser and arrest the suspect, who has been identified as 28-year old Steven Davis.
He has been booked into the Pima County Adult Detention Center on one count each of Aggravated Assault on a Police Officer, Theft of a Means of Transportation, and Felony Flight from Law Enforcement, all of which are felonies.
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Taylor Momsen
Whatever happened to little Cindy Lou Who? It seems like just yesterday the doe-eyed first-grader was helping Jim Carrey's Grinch find his heart in How The Grinch Stole Christmas. Today Cindy Lou Who -- or Taylor Momsen, as she's referred to in the tabloids -- is an angst-ridden teenager whose role on Gossip Girl has taken a backseat to her career as a fledgling rock star. As the lead singer of the rock band The Pretty Reckless, Momsen has done everything in her power to separate herself from the Disney-bred fembots that dominate today's tween market. Whether it's feuding with costars, talking about her love of vibrators or flashing audiences at her concerts, the raccoon-eyed, fishnet-wearing troublemaker has made a career out of courting controversy, sometimes at the expense of her own credibility.
AppealTaylor Momsen is not yet 18, so we'll tread carefully here. When she first broke out as 14-year-old year old Jenny Humphrey on CW's hit show Gossip Girl, the precocious teen had all the makings of a future bombshell. The blond hair, the impossibly blue eyes and that million-dollar smile made us feel like we were watching one of the world's cutest teenagers develop into one of the world's great young beauties. Then something went wrong. Horribly, horribly wrong. Taylor Momsen began to reject all notions of how a girl her age should behave and dress, and traded in her strapless summer dresses for booty shorts, fishnets and garter belts. Now only 17, Momsen has made the full transition from shiny, all-American girl-next-door to over-sexed, underdressed goth goddess with a foul mouth and an even worse attitude. We're not quite sure who to blame for this one, so we'll just do what everyone else does and blame Marilyn Manson.
SuccessJust 10 years ago, Taylor Momsen was one of the most in-demand child actresses in Hollywood. Her natural glow and charisma, coupled with her considerable acting chops, helped the young star earn roles in notable films like How The Grinch Stole Christmas, We Were Soldiers, Hansel & Gretel, and Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams. Momsen's career cooled off a bit before she landed her breakthrough role as spunky Jenny Humphrey on CW's breakout hit Gossip Girl. Suddenly the teenager found herself a member of one of the hottest young ensembles on television, and attracted the requisite tabloid attention that accompanies such a privileged role. Momsen also made waves as the lead singer of the rock group The Pretty Reckless, courting controversy with racy interviews and provocative performances every chance she could get. Her newfound edge -- fabricated or not -- also helped Momsen become the face of Madonna's Material Girl fashion line and the newest muse for Dior boss John Galliano. There's nothing fashion likes more than a good phony.
Taylor Momsen BiographyLooking at today's version of Taylor Momsen, it's hard to fathom that she is the product of a Middle-American, Roman Catholic family. On second thought, it makes perfect sense. Her very public rebellion may be a direct result of her religious upbringing, but then again, we're just speculating. After all, Momsen probably didn't have much time for Bible studies, what with her burgeoning acting career and all. At just 3 years old, baby Momsen starred in a national commercial for Shake'n Bake. At 7, she starred in The Prophet's Game and at 8 she beat out little girls everywhere to land the role of Cindy Lou Who opposite Jim Carrey in Ron Howard's How The Grinch Stole Christmas.
taylor momsen stars in gossip girlWhen Gossip Girl emerged as the breakout hit of television's 2007 freshman class, most media and fan obsession centered around the exploits of Blake Lively and Leighton Meester. But as the seasons progressed, Taylor Momsen -- who plays Jenny Humphrey and was just 14 when the show premiered -- became as big a star as her older costars.
But like most teenagers forced to grow up in the public eye, Momsen began to rebel, and rumours of diva-like behavior and cast in-fighting became headline news. Many perceived Momsen as an ungrateful brat who viewed her duties on Gossip Girl as a chore rather than a privilege; a theory buoyed by her remarks in a recent interview: ""Um, right now I'm trying to just finish my record and getting through the last season of Gossip Girl for right now." The statement made the rounds online, and assuming her fellow cast mates saw it too, Taylor Momsen became the most unpopular girl on the Upper East Side.
taylor momsen fronts the pretty wrecklessNo one criticized Taylor Momsen for pursuing a music career as the lead singer of rock group The Pretty Reckless for one good reason: The girl can actually sing. Though her songwriting skills may be questionable -- no songs on the band's debut album Light Me Up became a massive hit stateside -- there's no doubt that Momsen is a talented musician. But the way she's gone about portraying herself in the media and onstage (an entitled brat?) reeks of desperation, as though she's trying to overcompensate for her lack of talent. She's repeatedly compared herself to Kurt Cobain, appeared on the cover of a magazine holding machine guns while wearing next to nothing, openly talked about her love of vibrators, and joked about having sex with a Catholic priest.
She's called out Rihanna for wearing leather jackets (OK?), flashed her breasts while performing at a concert and insists on beating us over the head with cries that she's not a role model! And that she (gasp!) smokes cigarettes! She's referred to her album as a "life record and it confronts issues and goes, here's what f**king sucks about everything and I don't really know how to fix it but I'm f**king dying and I'll sing about it. It covers all the bases of life -- love, death, sex, religion, politics, murder, hate, drugs." Um Taylor, we get that you're angry at your high-paying job and your millions of adoring fans (though that number is shrinking considerably) and the constant attention, but you're 17! Just chill out and have a cigarette or something.
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Games designer and Queensland University of Technology (QUT) lecturer Penny Kyburz defies the stereotype of the reclusive, male gamer.
The Bachelor of Games and Interactive Entertainment lecturer is a trailblazer in the male-dominated gaming industry, helping design the popular XCOM and Medieval II war games during her six years at top Australian gaming companies.
Now at age 31, Dr Kyburz has her eyes set on a new challenge: to encourage more women to enter the booming gaming industry through a series of new QUT Women in Games events, starting on June 4.
"Statistics show 40 per cent of gamers are women," said Dr Kyburz, from the Faculty of Science and Technology's Computer Science discipline.
"Women really like playing games but they don't enter the industry. They are nearly half of the market and they are under-represented. There is also a disconnect between the percentage of female players and games for women."
Demand for graduates in the gaming industry is tipped to grow. New research from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI) at QUT found consumer spending on computer and online games would increase by 50 per cent, with Australians expected to splurge $5.8 billion on games over the next four years.
Dr Kyburz grew up playing computer and video games with her older brothers, but it was not until her third year studying for a computer science degree that Dr Kyburz realised the gaming industry was a good career choice.
"I always loved playing games. I loved all the old, tactical games and early fantasy games such as Dungeons and Dragons," she said.
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Dr Kyburz, who was the first woman to work at video game giant SEGA's Brisbane office and the first woman game designer at Canberra's 2K Marin, said women made up just 5 to 10 per cent of students in her classes.
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Dr Penny Kyburz wants more women to enter the gaming industry and is organising a free Women in Games event at Gardens Point campus in June.


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Residents At Senior Apartment Complexes Stand Up To Violence
A healthy dose of caution and suspicion is helping keep two senior communities safe.
William McClinton is the resident council president at Worley Terrace, a mid-rise senior citizen complex on the west side.
One of his jobs is to educate tenants on the need to look out for each other.
"I'm not going to have it any other way," McClinton, 77, said. "We won't tolerate anything suspicious. We'll call the police in a minute."
Margaret McCoy, who holds the same volunteer job at Jenkins Terrace in east Columbus said that seniors are a particularly vulnerable group.
"Number one, we can't run. Our voices have gone back, so we can't scream. And arthritis has got us, and we can't fight," McCoy joked.
Both complexes have elaborate security systems, including automatic locks on entryways, multiple peepholes on apartment doors and callboxes for visitors.
"You let no one in unless you know them," she said. "If you let them in, it's open. So, you're responsible for their actions once they get into the building."
There are 16 cameras at Worley Terrace, and they're focused on various parts of the complex – from the community room, the parking lot, the exit doors and the stairwells.
But the system is only as good as the vigilance of the people who live there.
"A lot of people cuss us out," McCoy said. "They get mad at us, but the policy is, you don't unlock that door for anyone you do not know."
The seniors said that is a good mindset for anyone to have, no matter where they live.
McClinton offered another tip for senior safety. He said seniors also should look behind and around when opening the door to their unit. He said it would not take much for a bad guy to push a person into their apartment, shut the door and rob them.
"And if you hear your neighbor in distress, call 911," he said.
Worley and Jenkins Terrace hold monthly meetings with their tenants to discuss any security concerns and ways to improve personal safety.
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- 1 medium sweet onion (Vidalia or other sweet variety), peeled and chopped
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- 1 small green pepper, cored, seeds removed, and chopped, or ½ each small green pepper and sweet red or yellow pepper, cored, seeds removed, and chopped
- 3 cups finely shredded or chopped green or red cabbage, or a combination
- 1/4 cup minced parsley (no stems) (optional)
- 3 tablespoons salad oil (canola, corn, safflower, or extra virgin olive oil) (see note)
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- 1 to 2 tablespoon(s) finely snipped fresh basil leaves (no stems)
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- Sprigs of fresh basil for garnish (optional)
In a large salad bowl, combine the first 4 to 5 ingredients. In a 1-cup glass measure, combine balsamic vinegar and sugar; gradually add oil, blending well with a wire whisk. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Gradually pour over slaw, tossing lightly to mix. Adjust seasoning to taste; toss again, mixing gently but well. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve. Just before serving, add snipped basil, tossing slaw mixture lightly to mix. May serve slaw on individual salad plates lined with crisp leaf or Boston or bibb lettuce, if desired. Garnish each serving with a sprig of fresh basil, if desired.
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In the aftermath of a disaster, community members can make a critical difference in the lives of their neighbors.
On Saturday at an East County school, more than 100 members from at least 20 Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) based throughout the County will participate in an annual disaster drill for these trained neighborhood volunteers.
"In disasters, community members may need to help each other before emergency responders arrive," said County Supervisor Dianne Jacob. "Our County's CERT volunteers are great neighbors who have taken it upon themselves to get special training and practice so they'll be ready to protect themselves, their families and their neighbors in an emergency."
This year's Countywide CERT exercise will simulate a community response to a strong earthquake. At Mountain Empire High School in Pine Valley between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., CERT members will practice responding to 100 "victims" portrayed by community members, including students from the high school.
San Diego Rural CERT is leading the exercise planning, assisted by other local CERT groups and the San Diego County Office of Emergency Services, which is responsible for coordinating emergency preparedness and emergency response readiness in the region.
As part of their training, CERT members work with first responders to learn basic disaster preparedness and response skills, including how to suppress small fires, assess the medical condition of a victim, administer basic first aid, conduct light search and rescue, and quickly organize an effective volunteer emergency response team.
Saturday's simulation will reinforce these skills with a scenario that includes victims who are injured and confused, unconscious, conscious but immobile, trapped, or only suffering from minor injuries.
San Diego Gas & Electric and Ready America are sponsoring the exercise. Local law enforcement and fire agencies staffing the drill include the San Diego Rural Fire Protection District, CAL FIRE, the Campo Fire Department, the City of San Diego Fire-Rescue Department, Poway Fire Department, San Diego County Sheriff's Department Senior Volunteers, the U.S. Border Patrol, the U.S. Forest Service-Cleveland National Forest and the Viejas Fire Department.


text: I have been a heavy contributor on other forums around the internet and decided to finally join up here at Stang Net as well. For the last several months I have been compiling tire and wheel combinations and tracking modifications made to the cars as well to develop the most comprehensive list of combinations that fit based on mods anywhere. The dbase is growing quite nicely thanks to the efforts of many on various forums who took the 30 seconds to ship me off the info on their tires, wheels, brakes, suspension, and other mods. If you can, please take a moment to check your records and input your combo. The form is here: http://www.dodgestang.com/Form/ So far the 65-6 owners have really stepped up I feel that the chart can be used to positively answer 'most' of the fit questions that come up regarding this rim and that size with this drop or that brake. Take at look and feel free to bookmark them. The URLs on these PDFs will not be changing. Every update is made right to the file keeping the same name so they will be there when you need to reference them. 65-6 http://www.dodgestang.com/Tire Fitment Guide 65-6.pdf 67-8 http://www.dodgestang.com/Tire Fitment Guide 67-8.pdf 69-70 http://www.dodgestang.com/Tire Fitment Guide 69-70.pdf 71-73 http://www.dodgestang.com/Tire Fitment Guide 71-73.pdf So far the 71-73 owners have been the quite absent and I only received very few usable submission....remember tire size, back spacing, suspension set up, fender status, and brakes are important. I do not include a combination on the chart if I do not get all the information because it would be useless then.....just cause a 295 fits on you 70 doesn't mean it will fot for someone else unless than can check how many leafs, what brakes, etc.... Thanks all.


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NASA hopes to launch space shuttle Discovery on Feb. 27, and people in the Tampa Bay region may be able to see its fiery glow on the eastern horizon. But such sightings are numbered. NASA plans to stop flying shuttles by the end of next year, ending nearly three decades as the centerpiece of the American space program. "The impacts on Florida, both tangible and intangible, are just really remarkable," said Pat Duggins, a radio reporter at an Orlando NPR affiliate and author of Final Countdown: NASA and the End of the Space Shuttle Program. Although some are pushing to keep shuttles flying for a few extra years, only nine more missions officially remain on the books. After that, Florida is likely to lose thousands of space-related jobs, not to mention an icon that has become part of the state's image.
The missions
All but one of the remaining missions will focus on completing the international space station. The May mission is for repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope. The tentative schedule:
FEb. 27: Astronauts plan to install a truss segment, plus solar panels and batteries on the space station.
May: During five spacewalks, astronauts will replace a sophisticated camera and make delicate repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope.
May: Astronauts will finish installing a Japanese-built laboratory called Kibo.
August: Carry science experiments and cargo to the space station.
November: Carry gyroscopes, pumps, tanks and other equipment to the space station.
December: Deliver a connecting chamber to expand the space station's internal living space, as well as a six-window cupola that provides a 360-degree view of the station.
February 2010: Bring up science equipment for the space station's laboratories.
April 2010: Bring up maintenance hardware for the space station, including hardware for a Russian-built research station.
May 2010: Bring up more spare parts for the space station, including gas tanks and antennas.
What's next
NASA is working to build a smaller spacecraft called Orion to send astronauts to the moon and Mars. It would launch from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, but the capsule-shaped craft probably would make parachute landings in the western United States.
Orion would not fly until about five years after the space shuttle retires. Some members of Congress say the space shuttle should continue to fly beyond 2010, so the United States does not lose its capacity to send astronauts into space in the time between the last shuttle flight and Orion's first launch.
In orbit
International Space Station: An orbiting laboratory some 200 miles above earth, the station is a cooperative effort among about 15 nations that has been continuously occupied by humans for more than eight years. The space shuttle is the only spacecraft big enough to carry up the larger components to the station.
Hubble Space Telescope: The telescope has captured images of stars some 13-billion light years away, and helped scientists rethink basic concepts of the universe. The $1.5-billion telescope launched into orbit in 1990. Astronauts hope to repair and upgrade the Hubble one final time on a mission scheduled for May.


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THE ELECTION is over.
Across the country and across Marin, people are packing up campaign offices, taking down lawn signs, turning off CNN and "going back to normal." The negative mailers, incessant TV ads, and massive field operations have disappeared. The $6 billion spent on this election seems to have vanished into thin air.
To hear the pundits tell it, the political moment has passed. Our new elected officials will now take and implement the "mandate" they received from the American people while we watch on TV or tune out entirely. And so the long lull until the next election begins.
Or are we are more than ballot-casters? More than just a pollster's percentage? What does the work of citizenship look like when the polls are closed?
The Marin Organizing Committee is doing this work. A broad-based organization of congregations and nonprofits, we are ordinary people with deep roots in this community who are acting together in the public square and negotiating a better future for our community. Over the last several years, we have leveraged more than $1 million for homeless and housing services, changed San Rafael's punitive impound policy, and engaged thousands of families in local decisions impacting their lives. We're here for the long haul and we care about the future of Marin because we all have a stake in it.
The work of citizenship does not begin and end with voting because politics is not just about elections. Elections are important moments in time when we ratify decisions shaped by months and years of political action. Politics is about coming together across differences and making decisions about how we want to live together. Politics requires relationship and negotiation and compromise.
Proposition 30 is a case in point. A product of compromise between the governor's coalition and the California Federation of Teachers, Proposition 30 stops the hemorrhaging cuts to our schools and guarantees funding for public safety. But its impact is limited: Proposition 30 only works if the work of negotiation and compromise continues on a local level.
Two weeks ago, the Marin Organizing Committee and our sister organization in Sonoma County held a public assembly with Marin Supervisor Steve Kinsey and the two candidates for Assembly District 10, Marc Levine and Michael Allen. We filled a sanctuary in Novato as leaders spoke about the organizing work in support of Proposition 30, schools, public safety, immigration, and healthcare-and got concrete commitments from each candidate and Supervisor Kinsey to work with us around these issues and raising revenue for our communities.
The most poignant moment of the evening was when Michael Vurek, a leader with Fairfax Community Church, asked everyone with children in public schools to stand, saying, "Even if what happens to these families is of no direct benefit to you, would you stand up for them?" The whole room rose to its feet. "The common good is not something that exists out there for us to discover;" he continued, "it is created moment by moment by our political actions."
Proposition 30 will prevent more budget cuts to our schools; but there is still much work to do to create the kind of funding our schools need to improve education and provide basic supplies. Measure A will bring $10 million annually to Marin parks and open space; but our county funding for critical safety net services is threatened year-to-year.
Now is the time to stand up and work for what we want as a community. Over the coming weeks and months, MOC will be building our constituency, cultivating allies, and acting together to create the common good.
Let the real politics begin.
Rabbi Michael Lezak of Congregation Rodef Sholom, Rev. Dr. Curran Reichert of Community Congregation Church and Jenny Ocon, executive director of Parent Services Project, are among the institutional leaders of the Marin Organizing Committee. The committee is a broad-based organization of religious congregations and nonprofits working to create relational power that can build and strengthen member institutions as well as shape Marin's public policy.


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Rosa Parks is one of the most familiar yet least known figures in the history of the civil rights movement. She was the woman who sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the first successful mass protest of the modern movement.
On December 1, 1955, Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a city bus and subsequent arrest resulted in a boycott led by a previously unknown, local minister, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. Parks' arrest and the community-driven protest that followed drew national and international media attention and led to the desegregation of Montgomery's buses in December of 1956, making Parks an icon of the movement.
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Mischaracterized as a simple woman who chose not to stand because she had tired feet, often Parks' long history of activism is erased from our collective consciousness. Parks served as an active member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People beginning in the early 1940s, working on a voter registration campaign, leading the local NAACP Youth Council, and attending a leadership conference organized by civil rights visionary, Ella Baker.
It would be Parks' work as a young activist in the NAACP that would lead her to investigate a horrible incident of abduction and rape that had taken place in her hometown of Abbeville, Alabama.
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A recent historical study, Danielle McGuire's At the Dark End of the Street, details how Parks risked her own life to spearhead a movement on behalf of Recy Taylor, a young African American wife, mother, and sharecropper who had been seized by seven white men and raped at gunpoint in 1944.
Although local authorities would refuse to indict anyone for the crime, this case would animate Parks' quest for justice.
Just weeks before her arrest, Parks attended a workshop at the Highlander Folk School, an egalitarian, interracial institution founded in the nineteen-thirties as a training ground for union activists, which became an important center for civil rights activists. At the workshop, attendees were asked to think about what they could do as individuals to challenge the inequalities faced by African Americans in the South. Parks found her answer on Montgomery's segregated buses just a few weeks later.
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The majority of blacks in Montgomery had witnessed or personally been harassed on the buses like Parks had been that day in 1955. The city code segregated buses by race, not only preventing black passengers from sitting next to or across the aisle from white, it also required black passengers to pay their fares at the front of the bus, disembark, and then enter at the back door. Hostile white male bus drivers would not only verbally harass black passengers; also they would frequently drive away before black passengers could reach the second set of doors.
So when news of the arrest of Rosa Parks swept through black Montgomery, the protest waged in her name received a groundswell of support from all sectors of the community. Despite the hardships of walking great distances and facing white violence and harassment, the protest was groundbreaking.
Parks' status as a respected woman within the community was crucial to the success of the movement. Just a few months prior to the December arrest, a young black woman named Claudette Colvin was also arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus. However local community leaders decided that Colvin, an unwed, pregnant teen, was not an appropriate figure to be at the center of a protest. Parks' status as a respectable, middle class woman meant that her case would be treated differently.
Historically, "respectable" black women had been the most effective warriors in the fight against the illogical practice of racial segregation. It was hard to argue that whites needed protection from black women passengers, the same women who cleaned white homes, sewed clothing for white patrons, and watched white children. But Parks highlighted the dangers black women faced at the hand of brutal bus drivers and inequitable segregation laws. In many ways, a woman was best suited for the job.
So as we remember Rosa Parks and the victory of the Montgomery boycott on this day, let's not focus on her tired feet, let's remember her as a tireless advocate for justice.


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In honor of the American Heart Association's Go Red for Women movement Swarovski has created the 2007 Go Red For Women Collection which includes this Heart Ring (left). The rhodium-plated ring with prominent, heart-shaped Rosaline satin crystal is available at swarovski.com for $170. Since 2003, Swarovski has donated more than $1 million to women and heart disease awareness and this year they are pledging $125,000 to help raise funds to educate women on the dangers of heart disease. Today, Friday, February 2, has been designated National Wear Red Day to support the cause. Celebrities like Fergie, Kelly Ripa, Angela Bassett, Vanessa Williams, Katharine McPhee, Christie Brinkley, Amerie and JoJo have bought the Heart Ring to show their support.
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COUNTRY JOE McDONALD Woody Guthrie Centennial Tribute at Times Square
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"McDonald knows Guthrie. In a two-act, 100-minute presentation, he weaves together Guthrie's best-loved songs and some writings from Guthrie's autobiography, his novel and his Daily Worker newspaper column. The piece from Guthrie's autobiography about him selling root beer during Prohibition almost sounds more like something out of Will Rogers or Mark Twain. McDonald channels this wry, compassionate man's wisdom without ever getting in the way, a refreshingly egoless performance by someone who remains as amazed by Guthrie as anyone."


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Sandra Bullock moved out on Jesse James
While the trouble in Sandra Bullock's marriage to Jesse James is news to all of us, it seems the Oscar winner knew about it a lot sooner than the rest of us. People says Sandy moved out of her home with James back on Monday. Funny, we didn't hear any reports of Jesse needing to go to the hospital.
People says Bullock took off from their SoCal home mere days before canceling her trip to London for the U.K. premiere of The Blind Side, which happened right after In Touch revealed an interview with Michelle "Bombshell" McGee, in which the tattooed menace said she had a fling with Sandra's husband for the better part of a year.
And who is this Bombshell, you ask? More details are coming out, with Radar reporting she's a mother of two who has worked as a stripper in the San Diego area and is currently going by the name Avrey at the Pure Platinum Kearny Mesa club. She also runs a Webcam at SoCalGlamourGirls.com, but you might not want to go to that site while at work (nor watch the video below, although there's technically no nudity in it).
By the way, can we note it's pretty damn ridiculous for McGee to reveal all this now? was she just waiting for Sandy to win an Oscar to do this? Besides the fact she's pretty skanky in the first place, that just makes us hate her immediately.