A five minute retrospective of the road safety campaigns produced by the TAC ( Transport Accident Commission Victoria) over the last 20 years has been compiled. The montage features iconic scenes and images from commercials that have helped change they way we drive, all edited to the moving song Everybody Hurts by REM.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Canadian kills father with crossbow in public library
A Canadian man was charged with first-degree murder Friday for fatally shooting his father in the back with a crossbow in a Toronto library as shocked mothers and children watched.
Zhou Fang, 24, appeared in court to face the murder charge a day after Si Cheng, 52, was killed in the library about an hour after a nearby school let out for the day. The judge ordered that Fang be held without bail.
Toronto police Const. Tony Vella said Cheng was pronounced dead at the scene and Fang was arrested later Thursday in a Toronto suburb.
"The use of a crossbow is definitely a unique case in Toronto," said Vella. "You hear about guns, you hear about knives being used, but you definitely don't hear about a crossbow."
Earlier Friday police said the two men knew each other, and Vella later confirmed the men were father and son. Police did not say what caused the altercation.
Toronto Public Library spokeswoman Anne Marie Aikins said the popular neighborhood library was busy with its after-school and mother-and-children programs at the time. Babies were among those in the branch when Cheng was killed, she said.
Although there were many witnesses, police have not yet confirmed if anyone noticed the weapon before the attack.
Leon Take Your Break at Two
Several years ago, the struggling actor scored a (very) small role on "The Sopranos." His character had just one line ("Leon, take your break at two"), but he made the most of it. Weiner created an online video, "One Line on the Sopranos," in which he pondered the various ways he could deliver the line. The clip was catchy, funny, and quickly went viral.
Flash forward a few years and HBO is casting for its new show "Boardwalk Empire." Somebody shows creator and former "Sopranos" writer Terence Winter the video of Weiner rapping and dancing, and he is quickly charmed. But Winter does more than just chuckle; he invites Weiner in to try out for the morally ambiguous Agent Sebso.
Weiner, of course, nailed the audition, got the blessing of Martin Scorsese, who is producing the show, and is now starring on a show with more than just one line to say. A lot more. According to an article from ABC News, Weiner estimates that he has about 73 lines. No need to make a YouTube video this time.
~WHIRLED GNUS~
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