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Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford can't seem to escape attacks on the extramarital affair that derailed his political career, which he hopes to revive in a special congressional election that is now a week away.
For months, his Democratic opponent, Elizabeth Colbert Busch, refused to criticize Sanford's affair - which was uncovered during his term as governor when he visited his then-mistress in Argentina under the guise of hiking the Appalachian Trail. Sanford seldom found himself on the defensive this spring, instead focusing on a message of redemption and seeking voters' forgiveness.
But Colbert Busch in recent days has been airing an ad blasting him for lying to the people of the state, and she criticized him during a debate at The Citadel on Monday for using taxpayer funds to "leave the country for a personal purpose." Sanford didn't respond.
On Tuesday, Colbert Busch, the sister of political satirist Stephen Colbert, stood by the criticism.
"We're just talking about the facts. We're just talking about the differences between the two," Colbert Busch said when asked about the change in strategy after speaking to an AACP group in Goose Creek. "We're talking about policy and we're talking about how differently we would lead."
The attacks came even as Sanford, a Republican, picked up the endorsement of U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, a tea party favorite who is considering a presidential run.
A new television ad from the House Majority PAC that went up Tuesday tells voters not to cast their ballots for Sanford, a man the Democratic super PAC says has values that are not those of Republicans. And a billboard on an interstate near Columbia - outside the 1st Congressional District where Sanford is running - uses Sanford's photo to advertise a website where people can meet partners for extramarital affairs.
Colbert Busch's campaign ad says she worked to provide trained workers for the Boeing plant in North Charleston and that Sanford knew it. The ad came after an earlier Sanford ad questioned her claim she "worked with Boeing."
"It's the same Mark Sanford who used tax dollars to visit his mistress in Argentina," the Colbert Busch ad says. "He disappeared for a week leaving no one in charge. He betrayed all who trusted in him and then lied to cover it up."
Before leaving office, Sanford avoided impeachment but was censured by the Legislature over state travel expenses he used for the affair. He also paid the largest ethics fine ever in South Carolina, $70,000.
Sanford did not respond directly to the new attacks or the billboard.
The ad from the House Majority PAC shows a woman who claims she is a lifelong Republican saying she could not vote for Sanford.
"I used to be for Mark Sanford but not anymore. He skipped town to be with his mistress on Father's Day. Sanford even asked his wife for permission to have the affair and wasted our taxpayer dollars on himself. I'm a Republican, but Mark Sanford just does not share our values," says the woman, Jennifer Stark of Mount Pleasant.
Sanford and his wife Jenny have divorced, and the ex-governor is now engaged to his former mistress, Maria Belen Chapur, who even appeared at his victory speech after the GOP primary runoff.
In April, Jenny Sanford accused him in a court complaint of repeatedly trespassing in her home. The revelation prompted the National Republican Congressional Committee to pull its support from Sanford's campaign. Sanford has said he went there because he didn't want his 14-year-old son to have to watch the Super Bowl alone.
Even with the attacks heating up, Sanford has some advantages going into the campaign's final week. He held the same congressional seat in coastal South Carolina for three terms in the 1990s before serving two terms as governor. On the campaign trail, he has touted his conservative credentials as a budget-cutter.
"Unless we get our fiscal house in order in Washington," he told a chamber of commerce group Tuesday, "there will be profound consequences for the American way of life."
Paul, a Kentucky Republican, praised those credentials Tuesday in issuing his endorsement, saying Sanford is an advocate for limited government and cutting spending.
"Mark has proven during his time in office that watching out for the taxpayers and holding the line on spending are his top priorities," Paul said.
"I think in looking at my own record there's been a consistent theme of looking out for the taxpayers and the bottom line," Sanford said in thanking Paul for the endorsement. "Unfortunately, with respect to my opponent, it simply isn't believable she would be an independent voice given who has been funding her campaign."
Sanford has tried to put the focus on Colbert Busch, asserting that political out-of-state interests are funding her campaign. She has said she would be an independent voice answerable only to the people of the district.
On Wednesday, Sanford gets a boost from his successor, Republican Gov. Nikki Haley. She will make her first campaign appearance on behalf of her former mentor at a Sanford fundraiser at a home on the city's famous Battery.
"Nikki believes it is critical that South Carolina speak with as much unity as possible on key federal issues facing our state, such as labor union powers, Obamacare, and deficit spending," said spokesman Tim Pearson. "Mark Sanford is clearly the candidate who will stand with our Congressional delegation in fighting Washington's overreach."
Colbert Busch, Sanford and Green Party candidate Eugene Platt are on the ballot in the May 7 special election. The vacancy was created by the appointment of Republican Tim Scott to the U.S. Senate.


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Featuring characters from The Lion King, Tarzan and Toy Story 2, Extreme Skate Adventure offers a Tony Hawk-like adventure mode with preset goals set in non-traditional skating environments, including the Elephant Graveyard, Pride Rock, Andy's Room, Pizza Planet, and Tarzan's Treehouse. Instead of skaters, you play as 12 popular Disney and Pixar characters, like Buzz, Woody, Simba, Pumba & Timon, and Young Tarzan, who grind and ollie around the levels on skateboard equivalents like bamboo rafts and frying pans. Add to that two-player split-screen challenges and plenty of recognizable enemies and friends from the movies, and this kid-friendly game can be just as fun to play for older gamers as well.
Also known as: Extreme Skate Adventure
Release Region: United States
Release Date: September 3, 2003
Publisher: Activision
Also available on: PlayStation 2, Xbox, Game Boy Advance
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Poll: U.S. Catholics back same-sex marriage
Amid growing support for same-sex marriage nationwide, a new poll from Quinnipiac University shows that most Catholics in the U.S. also back same-sex marriage, despite the church's teachings against it.
According to the poll, which surveyed 497 adult Catholics from February 27 - March 4 with a margin of error of +/- 4.4 percent, 54 percent of Catholic voters support same-sex marriage, while 38 percent oppose it. The survey shows a dramatic shift on the subject in the last few years: In a July 2008 poll by Quinnipiac, only 36 percent of Catholic voters said they supported same-sex marriage, while 55 percent opposed it.
Among 1,944 registered voters surveyed in the same poll, 47 percent supported same-sex marriage and 43 percent opposed it. A December poll asking the same question showed a statistical tie on the issue, at 48 percent in support and 46 percent in opposition.
After the recent resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, Catholics await the selection of Benedict's successor. As a CBS News/New York Times poll indicated earlier this week, most Catholic Americans are hoping for a younger, more liberal pope the next time around.
Indeed, 52 percent of Catholics surveyed in the Quinnipiac poll said current church leaders are out of touch with the views of Catholics in America today. Fifty-five percent say the next pope should move the church in a new direction.
Specifically, 62 percent of U.S. Catholics say the next pope should let priests get married, and 64 percent say he should relax the church ban on contraception. Eighty-one percent said the church should also do more to combat the sexual abuse of young people by priests.


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New food gardens and a must-see garden film
Gardens never sleep, but salvia and garden bloggers have to sometimes:
(That's Salvia greggii "Ultraviolet" — still pretty after being frost-pinched — and a "Rouge Vif d'Etampes" pumpkin.)
Right after I promised to be back on the garden beat, I got the nasty cold or flu virus that's been floating around North of Denver. Colds are like Volkswagen Beetles or baby bumps — once you have one, darned if you don't see them everywhere. People who had this plague were everywhere: My best friend's husband. The lady behind me in the checkout line at Safeway. The bottom of my lunch-hauling bag was full of cold remedies for a good two weeks.
Then, of course, there was that little election thing. No word yet on whether the President-elect will be ripping up part of the White House lawn to do a food garden, but if he does, you can likely expect Kitchen Gardeners International to be first with the story — and to continue lobbying the new Eater in Chief.
But guess who IS putting in a great big food garden? The Gardens on Spring Creek.
It's always been part of the master plan for this Fort Collins botanical and community garden. They've raised about $80,000 in cash and in-kind donations toward their $200,000 goal. In December, they'll put in the irrigation system. The plan for the "Garden of Eatin'," forwarded to me by garden Director Michelle Provaznik, is CRAZY fabulous. Click this link to see it. You can tell on the plan what the fruit trees will be: AP are apples; PL are plums; CH cherries, PE pears, etc.
It was vegetable gardening in Colorado Springs that got Michelle into horticulture in the first place, and behind her calm, cool, organized veneer, I can tell she's giddy with excitement, especially about the prospect of espaliered pear trees along the garden's west fence. You don't see a whole lot of espaliering goin' on here on the Front Range, but our high-altitude, sunny climate is a natural for it, and Michelle saw a lot of it this tree-training technique during her time in California. It involves tying the tree to conform to a narrow space and hug a wall or other barrier. Or in other words, maximum yum in minimum space — a sort of vertical, edible bonsai on a large scale — and gorgeous to boot.
What else will be in the gardens? Four big vegetable beds (Michele hopes to work with students in CSU's food crop programs to work out a rotation plan); cherry and apple and plum trees; table and wine grapes; an outdoor teaching kitchen with a high-btu burner for canning classes; an herb bed and a potager, or French kitchen garden, next to the kitchen space; a pumpkin and sunflower bed among the apple trees (combining plants that delight kids); a "perennial vegetable" bed (asparagus, garlic, onions, and maybe rhubarb); a small fruits garden with raspberries and strawberries and currants and gooseberries (oh my!) and a pollinator garden just so there's a great big neon sign to lure bees, butterflies and hummingbirds (Michelle is confident that once they find the area, they'll discover plenty of reasons to hang out and pollinate the fruit trees and tomatoes).
There'll also be an international garden and a "continental U.S. garden" — the latter bed shaped like the United States and featuring regional specialties from other areas of the country. that can be grown in Colorado. Three pergolas will be draped with vines including hops — to honor donations from New Belgium Brewing Company and O'Doull's.
I think Michelle's proudest of the fact that the majority of the food grown in this 3/4 acre will be donated to Larimer County food banks — and that once the teaching kitchen is built, the health district and CSU Extension will be able to teach healthy cooking and food preservation classes there.
Dirt Date: My Denver Post colleague Lisa Kennedy has been covering the Starz Denver Film Festival all week. If you love gardening AND film, don't miss "The Garden," at 9:30 p.m. this Friday in room SCF11 at the Starz Denver Film Center on the Auraria campus in Denver. Here's the festival's description of this powerful documentary that Lisa tells me has passed its first hurdle on the way to an Oscar nomination.
"Scott Hamilton Kennedy's [no relation to Lisa] impassioned documentary focuses on a fourteen-acre community garden in South Central Los Angeles—and the pitched battle for its survival between a group of mostly immigrant farmers and the well-connected developer who's determined to raze it. …" The box office, in the Tivoli building, opens an hour before the film day of each day. For more on the festival, click here. To see a clip, click here.


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West Nile Virus (WNV) is a member of the flavivirus genus and belongs to the Japanese encephalitis antigenic complex of the family Flaviviridae.
West Nile Virus (WNV) was first isolated in a woman in the West Nile district of Uganda in 1937. It was identified in birds (crows and columbiformes) in Nile delta region in 1953. Before 1997 WNV was not considered pathogenic for birds, but at that time in Israel a more virulent strain caused the death of different bird species presenting signs of encephalitis and paralysis. Human infections attributable to WNV have been reported in many countries in the World for over 50 years.
In 1999 a WNV circulating in Israel and Tunisia was imported in New York producing a large and dramatic outbreak that spread throughout the continental United States of America (USA) in the following years. The WNV outbreak in USA (1999-2010) highlighted that importation and establishment of vector-borne pathogens outside their current habitat represent a serious danger to the world.
The largest outbreaks occurred in Greece, Israel, Romania, Russia and USA. Outbreak sites are on major birds migratory routes. In its original range, WNV was prevalent throughout Africa, parts of Europe, Middle East, West Asia, and Australia. Since its introduction in 1999 into USA, the virus has spread and is now widely established from Canada to Venezuela.
Human infection is most often the result of bites from infected mosquitoes. Mosquitoes become infected when they feed on infected birds, which circulate the virus in their blood for a few days. The virus eventually gets into the mosquito's salivary glands. During later blood meals (when mosquitoes bite), the virus may be injected into humans and animals, where it can multiply and possibly cause illness.
The virus may also be transmitted through contact with other infected animals, their blood, or other tissues.
A very small proportion of human infections have occurred through organ transplant, blood transfusions and breast milk. There is one reported case of transplacental (mother-to-child) WNV transmission.
To date, no human-to-human transmission of WNV through casual contact has been documented, and no transmission of WNV to health care workers has been reported when standard infection control precautions have been put in place.
Transmission of WNV to laboratory workers has been reported.
Signs and symptoms
Infection with WNV is either asymptomatic (no symptoms) in around 80% of infected people, or can lead to West Nile fever or severe West Nile disease.
About 20% of people who become infected with WNV will develop West Nile fever. Symptoms include fever, headache, tiredness, and body aches, nausea, vomiting, occasionally with a skin rash (on the trunk of the body) and swollen lymph glands.
The symptoms of severe disease (also called neuroinvasive disease, such as West Nile encephalitis or meningitis or West Nile poliomyelitis) include headache, high fever, neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, coma, tremors, convulsions, muscle weakness, and paralysis. It is estimated that approximately 1 in 150 persons infected with the West Nile virus will develop a more severe form of disease. Serious illness can occur in people of any age, however people over the age of 50 and some immunocompromised persons (for example, transplant patients) are at the highest risk for getting severely ill when infected with WNV.
The incubation period is usually 3 to 14 days.
West Nile virus can be diagnosed by a number of different tests:
- IgG antibody sero-conversion (or significant increase in antibody titers) in two serial specimen collected at a one week interval by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA);
- IgM antibody capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA);
- neutralisation assays;
- viral detection by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay, and
- virus isolation by cell culture.
IgM can be detected in nearly all cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and serum specimens received from WNV infected patients at the time of their clinical presentation. Serum IgM antibody may persist for more than a year.
Treatment and vaccine
Treatment is supportive for patients with neuro-invasive West Nile virus, often involving hospitalization, intravenous fluids, respiratory support, and prevention of secondary infections. No vaccine is available for humans.
Vector and animal hosts
WN virus is maintained in nature in a mosquito-bird-mosquito transmission cycle. Mosquitoes of the genus Culex are generally considered the principal vectors of WNV, in particular Cx. Pipiens. WNV is maintained in mosquito populations through vertical transmission (adults to eggs).
Birds are the reservoir hosts of WNV. In Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia, mortality in birds associated with WNV infection is rare. In striking contrast, the virus is highly pathogenic for birds in the Americas. Members of the crow family (Corvidae) are particularly susceptible, but virus has been detected in dead and dying birds of more than 250 species. Birds can be infected by a variety of routes other than mosquito bites, and different species may have different potential for maintaining the transmission cycle.
Horses, just like humans, are "dead-end" hosts, meaning that while they become infected, they do not spread the infection. Symptomatic infections in horses are also rare and generally mild, but can cause neurologic disease, including fatal encephalomyelitis.
Preventing transmission in horses
Since WNV outbreaks in animals precede human cases, the establishment of an active animal health surveillance system to detect new cases in birds and horses is essential in providing early warning for veterinary and human public health authorities. In the Americas, it is important to help the community by reporting dead birds to local authorities.
Vaccines have been developed for horses. Treatment is supportive and consistent with standard veterinary practices for animals infected with a viral agent.
Reducing the risk of infection in people
In the absence of a vaccine, the only way to reduce infection in people is by raising awareness of the risk factors and educating people about the measures they can take to reduce exposure to the virus.
Public health educational messages should focus on the following:
- Reducing the risk of mosquito transmission. Efforts to prevent transmission should first focus on personal and community protection against mosquito bites through the use of mosquito nets, personal insect repellent, by wearing light coloured clothing (long-sleeved shirts and trousers) and by avoiding outdoor activity at peak biting times. In addition community programmes should encourage communities to destroy mosquito breeding sites in residential areas.
- Reducing the risk of animal-to-human transmission. Gloves and other protective clothing should be worn while handling sick animals or their tissues, and during slaughtering and culling procedures.
- Reducing the risk of transmission through blood transfusion and organ transplant. Blood and organ donation restrictions and laboratory testing should be considered at the time of the outbreak in the affected areas after assessing the local/regional epidemiological situation.
Vector Control
Effective prevention of human WNV infections depends on the development of comprehensive, integrated mosquito surveillance and control programmes in areas where the virus occurs. Studies should identify local mosquito species that play a role in WNV transmission, including those that might serve as a "bridge" from birds to human beings. Emphasis should be on integrated control measures including source reduction (with community participation), water management, chemicals, and biological control methods.
Preventing infection in health-care settings
Health-care workers caring for patients with suspected or confirmed WNV infection, or handling specimens from them, should implement standard infection control precautions. Samples taken from people and animals with suspected WNV infection should be handled by trained staff working in suitably equipped laboratories.
WHO response
The WHO regional office for Europe and WHO region of the Americas are intensively supporting WNV surveillance and outbreak response activities respectively in Europe and in North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, together with country offices and international partners.


text: VISITVisitor InformationDirectionsThronson CaféMuseum StorePublic ToursGroup ToursSchool VisitsNearby AttractionsEXHIBITIONSCurrent ExhibitionsUpcoming ExhibitionsPast ExhibitionsOutlooks Exhibition SeriesArt Is EverywhereCOLLECTIONSBritish Pre-RaphaelitesHoward PyleAmerican IllustrationJohn SloanAmerican Art, 19th Century – PresentCopeland Sculpture GardenThe Helen Farr Sloan Library and ArchivesNew AcquisitionsCurator CornerSearch The CollectionPROGRAMS & EVENTSCalendarAdult ProgramsTalks & ToursFamily and YouthArt CampConcerts on KentmereCalls for ArtisansConnected SeriesHoliday House TourEDUCATIONStudio Art ClassesSchool & Teacher ProgramsOutreach: Art ExcursionsHomeschool ProgramsDocentsKids' CornerRed Apple FundMEMBERSHIPWhy Membership MattersMembership LevelsDirectors CircleRossetti CircleArt Is CardReciprocal MuseumsSUPPORTAnnual GivingLegacy Giving1912 Loyalty SocietyDonor PortraitsCorporate SupportFinancial Documents2014 Annual ReportABOUTCentennial HistoryBuilding DesignGoing GreenDelArt BlogE-NewsMuseum RentalPress RoomOpportunitiesVolunteerContact UsStaff ListBoard Of TrusteesMuseum CouncilFirstPrevious12345..4647NextLastBackstage SceneDate: 1900Artist: Everett Shinn, American painter and illustrator, 1876–1953Medium: Watercolor and charcoal on paper mounted on boardDimensions: 8 1/2 x 13 3/8 in. (21.6 x 34 cm) frame: 16 1/2 x 21 1/2 in. (41.9 x 54.6 cm)Credit Line: Special Purchase Fund, 1966Object Number: 1966-78About: From a young age Everett Shinn was interested in the theater, and stage scenes are the subjects of many of his most famous pictures. Shinn decorated David Belasco's Stuyvesant Theatre in New York, which opened in 1907, and he worked as an art director for Hollywood films between 1917 and 1924.Permalink to this object: http://emuseum.delart.org:8080/emuseum/view/objects/asitem/items$0040:2676


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The famous German beer festival comes to Vail's Lionshead Mall and Vail Village. Grab yourself a stein of beer and put on your lederhosen for the Vail Oktoberfest – two full weekends of Germanic fun. Brat-eating and yodeling are included.
Details: The Vail Oktoberfest celebrates everything German, from fantastic beers, to authentic cuisine. There will be an Oom Pah Celebration, live bands, dancing, keg bowling, a brat eating contest, and beers from the famous local breweries. This year, the Town of Vail has decided to extend this fantastic festival into two weekends. The festivities begin on the weekend of September 10-12, and continue the following weekend of September 17-19. The celebration is lively and offers plenty of events and entertainment that the whole family can enjoy.
Brat eating Contest: If you have an appetite for German sausage, than you should definitely sign up to compete in this year's Brat eating contest. You can sign up for free each Saturday and Sunday at the Vail Oktoberfest. Participants will have three minuets to try to eat as many bratwursts as possible in the attempt to be named the brat eating champion!
Oktoberfest Fun Run: If you are feeling like getting some exercise after eating greasy German cuisine and drinking fantastic beer, the Oktoberfest Fun Run may be your answer. The run starts on Sunday morning, September 19th at 9:00am in front of Checkpoint Charlies. You can choose to do the 10K, the 5K run/walk/rollerblade, or there is a race especially for the kids. You can register for the Fun Run online or in person on the day of the race. Registration costs $20 online, or $25 on the day of the race. Anyone under the age of 18 who wants to participate costs only $10 to register. The first 150 people who register for the Fun Run will get a limited edition T-shirt. The Fun Run raises money for the Children's Garden of Learning, which is a fantastic cause, and yet another reason to get up and get active after a big day of eating and drinking!
Music at the Oktoberfest: You can jam out to FREE music during both weekends of this year's Oktoberfest. No tickets will be sold. But be sure to note that no glass containers, chairs, dogs, or coolers will be allowed.
Click here for a full schedule of events.
You must be at least 21 years old to enjoy the alcoholic beverages provided at the Vail Oktoberfest


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Using the grooves, slide the protrusions and attempt to complete this very complicated puzzle. The assymmetrical design will mesmerize you and bewilder your memory. The movement is definitely a twist. The theme for this puzzle is tangle. It was designed by Oskar van Deventer from the Netherlands.
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text: 花乡二手车市场_霸王龙撕咬气力不妨最大。Would Charles Darwin Have Made a Good Congressman? Darwinian politics. Biologist James Leebens-Mack is limiting his foray into politics to organizing a Facebook campaign against his Congressman. Adrien Wulff Its a good 130 years too late to answer that question empirically, but at least symbolically Charles Darwin has won support from more than 4000 voters in the 10th congressional district of Georgia, thanks to an initiative headed by James Leebens-Mack, a plant biologist at the University of Georgia in Athens. Like many others, Leebens-Mack was deeply troubled by a speech his Congressman, Paul Broun (R-GA), gave at an Athens church in October deriding teachings on evolution, embryology, and the big bang theory as "lies straight from the pit of Hell." Broun, a medical doctor, is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and chair of its Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight. The researcher decided to channel his outrage by setting up a Facebook page titled "Darwin for Congress" that invited voters in the district to vote for Darwin as a write-in candidate against Broun—who was running unopposed. Broun won comfortably. But Darwin got enough write-in votes to gladden the hearts of Leebens-Mack and other organizers of the campaign. Write-in votes of unregistered candidates are not tallied by election officials, so Leebens-Mack did the tallying himself after getting the write-in list from officials in his county. "There are 24 additional counties for which we dont have a tally," he tells ScienceInsider. "The total number of write-ins for Darwin could be a lot more than 4000." Leebens-Mack says the "protest vote should make it clear to future opponents that there are a lot of people in the district who are not happy with antiscience statements." Why doesnt Leebens-Mack run against Broun himself in 2014? "I am a scientist, not a politician," he says. "I enjoy my job as a plant biologist. It would be too big a sacrifice to give that up to run for Congress." See more coverage on science and the U.S. 2012 elections.


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Humanity has toyed with the idea of robots since well before modern times. Homer wrote in the "Iliad" that the Greek god Hephaestus created golden mechanical handmaidens. Through the centuries, inventors have spent considerable brain power and energy devising ways that machines could aid man. Originally known as automatons, or self-operating machines, the word "robot" was popularized by a 1921 play called "R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)" by Czech author Karel Capek. But long before this text was published, the road to artificial intelligence was already well-paved. Here are some of the famous robots and machines from the history books.
1. Al-Jazari's robot band (1206)
Al-Jazari was an Iraqi inventor who lived during the Islamic Golden Age. Described as a "scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer, craftsman, artist, mathematician and astronomer," he built automated peacocks, drink-serving waitresses, and servants — all of them powered by water. Pictured here is his Robot Band, which is a "boat with four automatic musicians that floated on a lake to entertain guests at royal drinking parties."
2. Leonardo da Vinci's robot (1495)
A recreation of a suit of robotic armor based on Leonard da Vinci's sketches. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Famed inventor Leonardo da Vinci created plans for this humanoid robot in 1495. It was to be a mechanical knight that could move its head, jaw and arms. According to da Vinci's drawings, it could even sit up. Pictured here is a recreation of da Vinci's robot, built in 2007 by researchers in Milan.
3. Spinning Mule (1779)
The spinning mule. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Early robots were born from the need to build machines that could assist mankind in time-consuming tasks. Samuel Crompton's Spinning Mule was a variation of the Spinning Jenny, an invention in 1764 that greatly increased production speed for the weaving industry. The Spinning Mule was the first automated, power-driven (meaning by man) spinning machine. It could weave up to 100 threads at once.
4. Difference Engine (1822)
A recreation of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2 is exhibited at the Computer History Museum (Photo: Marcin Wichary/Wikimedia Commons)
Charles Babbage designed the Difference Engine in 1822. Described as "an automatic, mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions," it is considered one of the earliest "programmable" machines. It was powered by simply cranking a handle. The London Science Museum created this machine based on Babbage's plans, completing it in 1991.
5. Gakutensoku (1929)
Gakutensoku, Japan's first robot. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Gakutensoku, translated as "learning from the laws of nature," was the first robot to be built in Osaka, Japan, in 1929. Created by biologist Makoto Nishimura, the robot could move its face, head and hands via an air-pressure system. Gakutensoku went missing during a tour of Germany in the 1930s. In 2008, the Osaka Science Museum created a replica.
6. Unimate (1961)
The Unimate was the first industrial robot. (Courtesy of Robot Hall of Fame)
In the early 1940s, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov coined the phrase robotics. Around this time, robots also became prominent in the industrial sector. Pictured here is the Unimate, the first industrial robot. The concept for Unimate was developed by inventor George Devol — who died at the age of 99 in August 2011 — and General Motors bought the device, installing it on an assembly line in 1961.
7. Shakey (1972)
Shakey the robot on display the Computer History Museum. (Photo: Marshall Astor/Wikimedia Commons)
Shakey is considered "the first mobile robot to be able to reason about its own actions." The robot was developed at the Artificial Intelligence laboratory of SRI International from 1966 to 1972. Shakey could receive instructions by keyboard and then break down the request into a series of tasks. Shakey was inducted into the Robot Hall of Fame in 2004 alongside C-3PO of "Star Wars" fame.
AIBO, Sony's robotic dog (Photo: Kate Nevens/flickr)
AIBO, which infers "pal" in Japanese, was one of several robotic pets created by Sony. AIBO could see via a camera and could recognize commands spoken in English or Spanish. AIBO and the others also had the ability to "learn and mature." With the use of a memory stick, the robot dog could learn and develop as its owner played with it. AIBO was discontinued in 2006.
9. Honda ASIMO Robot (2000)
Honda Asimo Robot on display at Expo 2005 in Japan. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
ASIMO, which looks like a child robot, was created in Japan by Honda. It is about 4 feet and 3 inches tall. ASIMO, which stands for "Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility," has a long list of accomplishments. The robot can walk alongside a human holding hands, recognize objects, interpret gestures, distinguish sounds and even be integrated into a user's network.
10. DER 01 Actroid (2005)
The Actroid on display at the 2005 Expo Aichi Japan. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Actroid is a humanoid robot, or android, meaning it has a close resemblance to a human. The first of its kind was initially revealed in Japan in the early 21st century. Designed to look like Japanese women, the robots have air actuators that allow them to have as many as "47 points of articulation" — or parts of the body that make movement look natural. In 2005, Actroids were released into the private market, selling for as much as $20,000.
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OK, my one player who has been posting the campaign journal on his blog told me I can repost them here.
So here we go here we go here we go....
The Replacement JLA: Session One
We had our first session of the DC Adventures Super hero game and it went pretty well. Jen was working late at an event, so I picked up Lily and she helped me shop for snacks.
We bought some munchies and did some last minute preparing while we waited for the guys to show up. I turned on some Avengers cartoons to set the mood.
We each had a super person we were playing:
I was Dawnfire, a 17-year-old girl with a degenerative nerve disease, who was an invalid raised in a clean room until an experimental therapy gave her super powers. She looks like Ellen Page.
Dave was a guy modeled on the Greatest American Hero, a more or less regular guy with a supersuit that gives him powers. He didn't come up with a description or background for the guy as of game time, so we all decided that he looked like William Katt.
Casey ran Blink, our teleporter. During the game, he remarked that the guy played a lot like a speedster and I agreed.
Frederick had Rächen Bloodson, the half-human son of Etrigan the Demon and Morgan Le Fey. I enjoy the exercise of designing the characters, so I built most of the guys we used, and I think his guy came out especially well. I didn't think I'd be able to make him in the system, but it's really versatile and it doesn't penalize you for playing a concept character.
Lastly, we had a guest star. Frederick's son came along and he ran Plastic Man.
While we were waiting for the last guy to show up, Lily was off to the side, playing with her little toys, apparently completely engrossed in what she was doing. She took Belle from Beauty and the Beast and put her on top of Brainiac 5, with Belle's pleated dress completely covering Brainy's head.
Lily: Belle's peeing on Brainy. Pee, pee, pee...
Me: Uhh....
Lily: ...pee. pee. pee...
Me: *Sigh* The sad part is, there's probably a picture of Belle peeing on Brainiac 5 somewhere on the internet.
Lily: (stops playing) REALLY?!
Josh's friends: *laughter*
Me: Sigh. How do I know this is getting back to Jen?
The session was pretty short. The gist of it was that the Justice League was MIA and supercrime is on the rise as the badguys realize there's no one to stop them. We opened on the scene of a museum robbery, with us watching from the skylight as a guy in power armor directed his minions to loot the place.
(Lily wanted to play as Wonder Woman, so every so often, I would have her roll a die and tell her that's how many badguys she lassoed.)
It was your run of the mill superpowered fight. We jumped down through the skylight and started punching or zapping people. Because we misunderstood the Area Attack rules, Blink was absurdly effective against the minions (he's got an area attack of quickly popping in and and out and punching all the targets in a 120 foot radius) and effectively dropped all of them before anyone else could make a move. Bloodson and the GAH zapped power armor guy with their hellfire and heat vision respectively, and as I had no ranged attacks, I closed to melee and kept punching him. Plastic Man kept transforming into Foghorn Leghorn and a putty colored Superman.
So we went back and forth and even though the guy in the power armor (Bob was his name, as it turned out) had a couple levels on us, we made short work of him. We were pounding him pretty steadily and he decided to just surrender rather than be battered unconscious, which is probably what I'd do if I had a bunch of superpeople beating on me.
After his surrender, we had this exchange:
Eric the GM: How old is your character?
Me: She's 17.
Eric as Bob the supervillain: (an aside to the Greatest American Hero) That girl over there...is she legal?
Me as Dawnfire: No, but I have super hearing!
The Greatest American Hero socks Bob in the jaw and he goes down.
Those heroes still on the roof noticed that Batman was perched there observing us. Plastic Man, the only one who knew Batman, realized that this guy was a substitute. He recruited us to his substitute Justice League, and that's where the session ended.
Overall, a very decent session. We're still learning the finer points of the system and this was essentially a prelude where we were setting up the premise for the campaign. I think I would have preferred a little more role-playing, but I think that will come in time as we all get a firmer grasp on our character's personalities. I'm looking forward to the next session in two weeks.
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I'm a player in the campaign, so I can answer that. Batman disappeared with the rest of the Justice League, but Nightwing took up the Batman mantle in his absence. It was Dick Grayson as Batman that we encountered that session.FuzzyBoots wrote:Och, the things kids say... so, if I understand your narrative, Plastic Man recognized Batman as "a substitute"? Does that have a particular meaning in your created world or is Batman on the reserve team?
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Almost all UNIX SystemV version has killall command which is used to kill all active processes i.e. terminates all processes with open files so that the mounted file systems will be unbusied and can be unmounted.
However Linux killall command used to kill processes by name (if no signal name is specified, SIGTERM is sent). If you missed old good SysV killall command, try killall5 command under any Linux distro. killall5 is nothing but the UNIX SystemV killall command. It sends a signal to all processes except kernel threads and the processes in its own session, so it won't kill the shell that is running the script it was called from.
Just type killall5 and every active process will get killed except your login session:
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 131 diseños de 42 diseñadores freelance.
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Max 5 API Reference
The Max file browser permits you to drag files to a patcher window or onto objects to perform file operations.
Your object can specify the file types accepted as well as a message that will be sent when the user releases the mouse button with the file on top of the object. UI and non-UI objects use the same interface to drag'n'drop.
Example UI object: pictmeter~. Example non-UI: TBD.
Messages to support:
acceptsdrag_locked (A_CANT)
Sent to an object during a drag when the mouse is over the object in an unlocked patcher.
acceptsdrag_unlocked (A_CANT)
Sent to an object during a drag when the mouse is over the object in a locked patcher.
Why two different scenarios? acceptsdrag_unlocked() can be thought of as an "editing" operation. For example, objects such as pictslider accept new image files for changing their appearance when the patcher is unlocked, but not when the patcher is locked. By contrast, sfplay~ can accept audio files for playback in either locked or unlocked patchers, since that is something you can do with a message (rather than an editing operation that changes the patcher).
Message handler definitions:
long myobject_acceptsdrag_unlocked(t_myobject *x, t_object *drag, t_object *view); long myobject_acceptsdrag_locked(t_myobject *x, t_object *drag, t_object *view);
The handlers return true if the file(s) contained in the drag can be used in some way by the object. To test the filetypes, use jdrag_matchdragrole() passing in the drag object and a symbol for the file type. Here is list of pre-defined file types:
or to accept all files, use file
If jdrag_matchdragrole() returns true, you then describe the messages your object receives when the drag completes using jdrag_object_add(). You can add as many messages as you wish. If you are only adding a single message, use jdrag_object_add(). For more control over the process, and for adding more than one message, jdrag_add() can be used. If you add more than one message, the user can use the option key to specify the desired action. By default, the first one you add is used. If there are two actions, the option key will cause the second one to be picked. If there are more than two, a pop-up menu appears with descriptions of the actions (as passed to jdrag_add()), and the selected action is used.
This code shows how to respond to an audiofile being dropped on your object by having the read message sent.
if (jdrag_matchdragrole(drag, gensym("audiofile"), 0)) { jdrag_object_add(drag, (t_object *)x, gensym("read")); return true; } return false;
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Found these in a thrift store for 1.00. I thought they were pretty cool. Copyright 1962, John Dritz & Sons Inc., N.Y. 10 N.Y. I thought it was interesting that they were made in Switzerland. Also had an address for a repair service in Spartanburg, S.C. Box is in decent shape, plastic front cover missing and one end flap missing. Scissors still work and cut great !The box says they are absolutely safe, even for children, cannot cut fingers. You don't see that claim very often anymore. These days, that is a perfect claim for a lawsuit !! Anybody else still have there "Dritz Electric Scissors " ? Thanks for looking.


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I'm back in Sydney working from home in February, for me going home is a holiday.
We talked, she has the same ambition as me about growing our own businesses. Her goals is to retire at $2M.
Mum is 54, and already she start losing her memory, she keeps asking the same question and forgetting the things she placed around the house such as the house keys.


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bwu001 brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 90 Designs von 22 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
logo for new internet service that will enable friends to make ad-hoc, impromptu plans with each other. the plans could be for fun- or for business-oriented activities.
We are a new internet start-up seeking a logo to promote a fun, action-oriented image. Our service willallow people to organize impromptu activities of various types with other friends who sharethat common interest. Our service will be at http://www.onshortnotice.com (right now, what's at that URL is a placeholder, so the logo need not conform to that current look-and-feel).
We desire output in a vector format that can be easily re-sized. While this contest is for a full logo foruse at top of website or other correspondences like business cards, we also want delivery of the final logo's graphic as an icon thatcould be used standalone (e.g., as a browser bookmark or desktopicon) at 16x16 pixels or greater.
- Must say "OnShortNotice" in the logo, blended with a graphic that is appropriate for our service offering.
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- Ideally promote the concept of fun, friends, activity, common interests as well as the concept of impromptu and ad-hoc
- Want a classy, yet not highbrow, image.
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- Likely website background will be white
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It's not unfair to say records easily liked are generally harder to review. Falling awkwardly into this camp, America Give Up, the debut full-length from good old-fashioned six-string Minneapolitans Howler, is a hurtling, high-octane thing, as welcoming as it is entirely unoriginal. It's "seeing double". It's "drinking in the afternoon". It "wants someone to take me home tonight". Propelled upon the sporadically wonderful Rough Trade raft, it is unquestionably a big, brash, bubbling barrel of larks. No one here's denying that.
Now, while it'd be barmy to suggest this precludes the thing from criticism, you suspect there are certain self-righteous sorts who'll insist that, as a casual listener, indulging a natural yen to delve further, to peer into America Give Up's prospective soul, is not only pretentious but elitist and bizarre. Slap on an 8/10 and turn that frown upside down, they cry; way to miss the point bro, yada yada. The temptation is to mumble in agreement, cursing the beard-strokey alternatives rife among this site's scattershot sweethearts, before hossing the retro stylings of the physical record into the used-promo drawer for scant revisits. But I mean, that would be WRONG, no? Isn't it pretentious, condescending and lazy not to delve further? To pretend, as is fashionable, that simply because there is an inebriated time and a convenient place where This Sort Of Thing could scarcely fail to flourish, it's beyond the humble listener to raise an unmoved hand of indifference?
Ours is a violently apathetic, mediocre generation, and as such, it deserves gods, poets and eccentrics for figureheads. Feisty as, oh, a vicar's washing basket, America Give Up is music for people who think 'guitar music' is dead. Music, without doubt, for people who, whether before or past their time, have given up on music. It's a lop-sided sex routine in the washed-out toilets of a washed-up toilet venue. It's McDonald's apple pie and series three of The OC and Cool Original Doritos without dip on an innocuous sick day. The great misfortune is that its occasional onsets of hangdog confessional ("sometimes my mind feels like an ashtray", ponders the pleasant 'Told You Once') needn't grate so. But Howler market themselves as a balls-out antidote to all that boohoo namby-pamby. Truth is, the boys are equally susceptible to a good brood, albeit without the broad strokes of compassion you'd expect to render such excursions worthwhile.
That aside, one prevailing concern is that America Give Up's beached, underwhelming songs tend to bypass Being Especially Memorable, instead favouring instant, buddyish amiability. For example, the incessant, floundering, song-long climax of 'Wailing (Making Out)' couldn't be more Julian Casablancas-on-youth-elixir if it tried. No bad thing. But the puzzler is, if a collection of this ilk isn't indispensably singular, baring its chest and getting its flavour-of-the-month rocks off - which, fleeting eruptions aside, this isn't - then what is it? And why, you wonder, does lead single 'This One's Different' sound like a dull sack of Hot Hot Heat leftovers, a monochrome Television, where fellow newcomer Devin Therriault's brand of Hivesy fretmania soars? It probably has little to do with creativity, which neither possesses in spades, but moreover charisma, confidence and flair. Howler boisterously notch up a timid one-out-of-three.
These ruffled runners-up masquerading as bright young hopes founded their schtick on underdog-appeal. Now, their debut offering will win top prize for naffness, while their diminutive ages - which average out somewhere between 19 and 20 - dull the subject matter but not the pain. Let's not pull punches - lord knows they'll get their sandcastle-fortress of column inches elsewhere (indeed, frontman Jordan Gatesmith, the Howler wikipedia page boasts, landed a heady forty-fourth position in NME's 2011 Cool List): the grim reality is that comparisons to The Strokes do the New Yorkers a significant disservice. Catchy, bratty and phenomenally uninspiring, America Give Up is not so much shouting from the rooftops as howling at the moon. Which is to say, much like the historic originality vs quality debate, you kind of struggle to give much of a toss either way.
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The Perfect Family, from first-time feature director Anne Renton, tells the story of suburban super-mom Eileen Cleary (Academy Award nominee Kathleen Turner), the ultimate devoted Catholic who gets nominated for the coveted Catholic Woman of the Year Award at her local parish and will go to any lengths to prove she's worthy of the title. But, needing the church board's approval is proving to be a difficult task, with her non-conformist family that includes a gay daughter (Emily Deschanel), an unhappily married son (Jason Ritter) and her recovering alcoholic husband (Michael McGrady).
At the film's press day, Collider spoke to actress Kathleen Turner, in both a roundtable and a 1-on-1 interview, about how she came to be a part of this indie film, the ways in which she identified with her character, the challenge of finding roles that are not so predictable, and how she hopes audiences will take away a sense of compassion that is reciprocal. She also talked about the roles that fans want to talk to her about the most, why Joan Wilder (from Romancing the Stone) is the only character that she's ever returned to for a sequel, how her role on Californication made her blush, and that she has two stage roles coming up next. Check out what she had to say after the jump:
How did your involvement with this film come about?
KATHLEEN TURNER: As one gets older and more experienced, one of the most exciting things is that you get more and more involved with the development of pieces, whether it's a play or a film. The script came through my agency. I have a policy that I will try to read what comes to me. I don't always manage to do it, but I read a lot of it, if it comes through the right channels at the agency. So, this was one I got to and I was intrigued by this woman and by her problem. How in the world does someone who allows this church to set all the guidelines and parameters of her life, live in the real world? That's an interesting dilemma. And then, you add the complications in the family's choices, and you've got something. So, I called Anne Renton, the director, and we talked on the phone for some time. I suggested some changes and some places where I felt I didn't have enough information or we didn't know why something was going on. And then, three months later, I got a rewrite that pretty much incorporated everything we talked about. So, I thought I should meet Anne, since this was her first time directing, and I was impressed with her intelligence and her manner. She is a fairly calm, self-contained, balanced woman. I don't want to go seeking drama in my life. I don't need that. Who does? But, it seemed to me that she had a good understanding and a good balance in herself. So, in my usual manner, I said, "Okay, let's do it." I didn't even realize, at that point, that all the creative talent in the film were women. If that's possible, I would like to help support other women's work. It wouldn't be the reason I took the job, but it would certainly be another reason to do it.
What appealed to you most about this project?
TURNER: It's a nicely balanced film. I was very glad about that, when I saw it. I thought they did a really good job in the editing, and putting the final product together because it was very even-handed.
Were there ways that you identified with this character personally, or did you take any inspiration for anyone in particular?
TURNER: She has a lot of qualities we all admire. The dedication that she brings is something that I do identify with. I do a lot of work with Planned Parenthood, People for the American Way, Citymeals on Wheels, and Child Help USA. I go to most of the affiliates in the country, and if I can, I'll have an event and raise money, and go to the clinics and meet the people. I work with People for the American Way on the protection of the First Amendment. I'll go to Congress and show up for things for intolerance. I pass out meals in New York City for Citymeals on Wheels. I think everyone has time and should spend time doing things like that. So, in that sense, I understood how important this was to her and why it would be so easy to fill up so much of your life this way. When I was married, in between jobs, my husband would say, "God, I wish you'd go back to work 'cause this saving the world stuff is just driving me crazy." And then, I'd go back to work and my world would get really intense and small for awhile, and I couldn't do all those things. She's a good woman. She really is. She has just accepted an impossible set of rules.
This character has such a complete journey in the film. Is it challenging to find roles that are so fully encompassing?
TURNER: Yeah, it is. I'm not attracted to a character that doesn't change, or go through some change, and learn to adapt to something. It doesn't mean they adapt successfully or that they win. That would just be too simple. We don't want to give answers to all these things, anyway. So much of the filmmaking I see, nowadays, is like you have to write things so that each character has a generic, known history, like "This is the love interest. This is the bitter old woman whose marriage has failed or whose husband left her for a younger babe." The characters are typecast in categories, and I just think that's so predictable.
Was it important to you that the religious aspect of this film is much more about how it affects people's lives, instead of trying to preach anything specific?
TURNER: Yes, it was very important to me. It's not my job to prosthelytize, in any way, shape or form. To suggest, to open up thought and to embody situation where you have to say, "What would I do?," that's my job. To tell you, "This is right and this is wrong," I don't do that. I don't think it has to be Catholicism. Any organized religion that says, "This is what we believe, and anyone who doesn't is on the outside," is like that. Almost any form of religion that excludes people would be fine. Catholicism was just the structure that they chose to use for this film.
How much of a challenge was it to portray this woman's devotion without mocking it?
TURNER: Well, not mocking was real important because I do not agree with her, in my own life. I should not say this, but of course, I'm going to. To me, organized religion is primarily man putting words in God's mouth. That's how I basically feel about that. But, I do believe in believing and I admire it. I just don't think it should be exclusive or judgmental.
What was this great cast like to work with?
TURNER: I was thrilled. I said yes, before they cast the rest of it. So then, when Anne called me up and said, "I've got Emily Deschanel. I've got Jason Ritter. I've got Richard Chamberlain. I've got Michael McGrady." Really, truly, my first response was, "You got all these people?!" I was thrilled. I have a daughter who's 24, and we watch Bones. My daughter has said to me, "That's one of the only real women on television," and I agree. And then, I got to work with her.
What do you want audiences to take away from this film?
TURNER: I hope, more than anything, they will take a sense of compassion that is reciprocal. The truth is that the family shows up for her, in the end. The love that the family has is unquestioned. I think that's it's strength. Even though they don't accept each other's lifestyle, it never reaches the point of destruction to the family, and I like that. I think that's imperative.
With so many memorable roles in so many iconic films, is there something that fans want to talk to you about, most often?
TURNER: Well, people love Peggy Sue (from Peggy Sue Got Married), and they love Joan Wilder (from Romancing the Stone). Essentially, what seems to have come across, through all the years now, is humor and the fact that I don't do victims. I really find them uninteresting. Being a victim means that you're hoping somebody else will come along and take care of you. I don't think so! So, I think I'm mostly appreciated for my humor and my self-reliance, which are great things.
How come Joan Wilder is the only character you've ever returned to?
TURNER: Because I signed a sequel deal, and they sued me for $25 million. I said that I had agreed to a sequel, but that I hadn't agreed to lower my standards. I thought the second script was awful. It was really crap. So, I said I wouldn't do it because it wasn't up to my standards. Rather than deal with me like adults, they sued me for $25 million, which my agent said was probably a very good thing because it made me more expensive. But, Michael [Douglas] and I worked out a deal. We went back to the original writer, Diane [Thomas], and got her to contribute some, and then we also got another set of writers. So, Michael and I sat down and, from these three versions, put together a script. He was reasonable.
Are there any other characters that you have wanted to revisit?
TURNER: No. I know too much now, with the impact of what that character did. The interesting thing is the work, not the affect of the work. Once you know the affect of the work, you take away the mystery of the work.
Did you have any idea that you'd find yourself playing a character like Sue Collini on Californication?
TURNER: No, that surprised me. She made me blush. She really did. The most embarrassing thing was the times when I had to ask what something meant. I've had this image of being this incredibly sexy woman, for all these years, but the truth is that I was a late bloomer, and then I was married for 22 years, in a monogamous relationship. I don't have all that much experience. Sorry to disappoint. The image is out the window, once again.
What is the greatest gift that acting has given you?
TURNER: Access to the world. What acting really is, ultimately, is the study of human behavior, and that goes over every age, year after year after year, no matter how old you are or where you are in your life. It's all another stage of behavior and learning. And then, you have access to all kinds of worlds and people. It's the closest thing that Americans have to transversing different levels of society, which is really a great honor.
Is there a dream role that you'd still love to do?
TURNER: For years and years and years, it was Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? And then, I got to do it and it was as wonderful as I hoped it would be, which is scary. You spend all those years thinking about something, and then it's as good as you hoped it would be? Wow, that's very frightening! I don't know if there's a dream film role that I'd want to do.
What's next for you?
TURNER: I have two roles coming up on stage. I'm playing Molly Ivins, in a one-woman play called Red-Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, that I'm taking to Washington, D.C. for September and October, so that I have a strong feminist liberal voice in the Capitol before the election, thank you very much. And then, I'm going to do a very, very odd British comedy, after that. And, I've got a great new animated film that I'm working on, where I play an evil spider.


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AUSTIN — A third person struck by a suspected drunken driver fleeing police during last week's South by Southwest festival died Monday as the 21-year-old aspiring rapper charged in the deadly rampage had his first public court appearance scheduled
Officials said Austin resident Sandy Thuy Le, 26, who had been in critical condition with head injuries, died early Monday at University Medical Center Brackenridge.
Police said Le was among 22 people who were hit by a speeding car that was fleeing police on a festival-packed section of Red River Street about 12:30 a.m. last Thursday outside The Mohawk nightclub where a concert was in progress.
"Anybody who had the privilege of knowing her would tell you she's just full of life," Stuart Gates, Le's brother in law, told reporters. "Not to sound cliché, she would just brighten up a room when she would walk in."
Outside the hospital, friends and relatives described Le as a vivacious and caring person who departed life much too soon. "She was every friend you'd ever want to have, a life that should not have been taken," one friend, Kim Lin, told the Houston Chronicle.
"I'll never forget Sandy's beautiful face and spirit," Katie Breen Jennings wrote on the online fundraising site Fundly, echoing sentiments of others. By late Monday, more than $12,000 had been raised toward a $25,000 goal to help Le's family.
Friends said Le, who worked at an Austin dental office, was the youngest of four children raised in a Vietnamese family in Pass Christian, Miss. After attending the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science, Le had moved to Austin to further her education - with an eventual goal to be a dentist, they said.
Austin boutique clerk Jamie West, 27, and Dutch musician Steven Craenmehr, 35, died at the scene last Thursday.
Six people, including West's husband, Evan, 29, remained hospitalized Monday in conditions ranging from critical to good. Among them were Gracie Nguyen, 23, a Houston pastry chef, whose condition had improved overnight to fair from serious, officials said.
Police say Craenmehr was on a bicycle, and West was on a moped with her husband when they were struck by a car driven by 21-year-old Rashad Owens. Investigators said Le was in the crowd on the street outside the club.
Authorities charged Owens, an aspiring rapper from Killeen, last Friday with a single count of capital murder. Prosecutors said additional charges are likely, particularly if additional victims died.
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