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PEOPLE & ARTS Tuesday 4 sepTember 2018
Actress in 'ER,' 'Stand and Deliver' fatally shot by police

By AMANDA LEE MYERS Paramedics treated Mar- lems but that she showed
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An quez, 49, who improved no signs of depression or
actress who appeared and began talking with other mental troubles. She
on the TV medical drama three officers and a mental still talked about her dream
"ER" and starred in the film health clinician who spent of winning an Oscar one
"Stand and Deliver" was fa- an hour-and-a-half trying to day and was hopeful for a
tally shot by police officers talk her into getting medi- career comeback, he said.
in Southern California after cal help, Mendoza said. "She was looking forward
they say she pointed a rep- Marquez became unco- to life," Canote said. "This is
lica handgun at them. operative, appeared un- not a woman who wanted
Vanessa Marquez, who able to care for herself and to die."
gained attention last year seemed to have mental Marquez posted extensive-
when she said George health issues, he said. ly on Facebook and else-
Clooney helped blacklist At some point, Mendoza where about her health
her from Hollywood, died at said Marquez got what problems, saying she was
a hospital following Thurs- turned out to be a BB gun terminally ill and had sei-
day's shooting at her apart- and pointed it at the of- zures and celiac disease,
ment in South Pasadena, ficers, prompting two of an autoimmune disorder
just outside Los Angeles. them to shoot. that can damage the small
South Pasadena police of- "It looked like a real gun," intestine if gluten is ingest-
ficers responded to a call he said, adding that it's un- ed. In 2014, she said in an
from Marquez's landlord clear where the gun was This undated self-portrait posted on Instagram shows actress online post that she had
that she needed medical during her lengthy interac- Vanessa Marquez. spent her life savings on
help. When they arrived tion with police. Associated Press doctors and hospitals who
she was having a seizure, The officers were wearing didn't properly treat her
Lt. Joe Mendoza with the body cameras but foot- the investigation, Mendoza close friend of Marquez's, and that she couldn't work
Los Angeles County Sheriff's age won't be released for said. said the actress was having or "do most basic everyday
Department said Friday. at least six months pending Terence Towles Canote, a health and financial prob- functions."q

London show explores hidden world of facial recognition

By JILL LAWLESS the accompanying piece without the subject's con-
Associated Press by DuBois, director of the sent. The U.S. has no such
LONDON (AP) — Don't Brooklyn Experimental Me- limits, although California
judge by appearances. It's dia Center at New York Uni- recently passed a similar
an age-old piece of ad- versity's engineering school. law.
vice that is being roundly Visitors sit in front of a screen DuBois says he wants to in-
ignored by corporations, and are asked to display crease awareness about
governments and law- a specific emotion. Using this powerful and fast-de-
enforcement agencies technology similar to that veloping technology.
around the globe. deployed by some police "In an older era — like 10
British police use facial- forces, the system calcu- years ago — we should
recognition technology lates the individual's age, have been paying a lot
to scan crowds for sus- gender, race and emotion- more attention to what kind
pects. Owners of the latest al state. The results are both of data Facebook was tak-
iPhones can unlock their intrusive and sometimes in- ing from us," he said. "And
phones with face ID. Whole Part of the Italy exhibit "L'Architettura Degli Alberi", The Archi- accurate. One visitor, at- now it's a little too late."
tecture Of Trees, is displayed during a preview for the London
Foods and other retailers Design Biennale at Somerset House in London, Monday, Sept. tempting to project calm- Cooper Hewitt hopes to
are testing facial recogni- 3, 2018. ness, registered as afraid. take its exhibit to the United
tion as a way of eliminating Associated Press Another, asked to look dis- States after its run in Lon-
check-out tills in stores. gusted, was told she ap- don.
Modern technology means nies that are deriving in- analysis of the sitter's emo- peared happy. The Design Biennale, which
your face is both your iden- formation from us," said R. tion. DuBois said the technology runs Tuesday to Sept. 23 at
tity and a commodity — Luke DuBois, one of the ex- "It's a kind of fingerprint is only as good as the data London's Somerset House,
but as an exhibition going hibition's designers. of your facial expression," that goes into it — and the includes exhibits from 40
on display in London shows, Curated by New York's said Lieberman, who has sets of images that compa- countries, cities and territo-
that technology is far from Cooper Hewitt Smithson- helped design an eye- nies and organizations use ries under the loose theme
perfect. ian Design Museum , "Face tracking system for people to compare emotions are "Emotional States." They in-
"Face Values," the U.S. entry Values" includes two inter- with paralysis. often inadequate. clude Latvia's birch- and
at the multinational London active pieces that explore "This project involved a lot The rules governing the use pine-scented room, where
Design Biennale, explores the scope and limits of of trying to understand, of such technology vary visitors can write on a green
how computers' ability to what technology can learn how do you quantify ex- widely around the world. wall of condensation; Aus-
read faces is changing the about you from your face. pression?" he said at a pre- In China, facial recogni- tralia's rainbow-colored
world, with implications for Artist and computer pro- view of the exhibition on tion is being used with few installation celebrating
privacy and individuality grammer Zachary Lieber- Monday. "How do you turn restrictions for everything same-sex marriage; and
that we still don't fully un- man invites visitors to sit in expression into numbers," in from advertising to law-en- Hong Kong's room plas-
derstand. front of a screen as a com- order to compare one ex- forcement. In the Europe- tered with scratch-and-
"We are on camera 50 puter maps their expres- pression to another. an Union, data-protection sniff wallpaper scented like
times a day and there are sions, compares them to The limits of such technol- rules mean personal infor- roast duck, egg tarts, in-
all these software compa- others' and produces an ogy become clearer in mation can't be collected cense and opium.q