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Lee Grant is an American stage, film and television actress, and film director. From 1952 through 1964 she was blacklisted from radio, film, and most television work, but continued working sporadically in the theatre during this time.
She won the Best Actress Award at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival for her role as the shoplifter in the 1951 film version of Detective Story.[1] She won the 1964 Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress for her performance as Solange in Jean Genet's The Maids. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Felicia Karpf in Shampoo (1975). She has been nominated for the Emmy Award seven times between 1966 through 1993, winning twice.
Lee Grant was born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal[2][3] in Manhattan, the only child of Witia (née Haskell), an actress and teacher, and Abraham W. Rosenthal, a realtor and educator. Her father was born in New York City, to Polish Jewish immigrants, and her mother was a Russian Jewish immigrant.[4] The family resided at 706 Riverside Drive in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood of Manhattan.[5] Her date of birth is October 31 but the year has long been disputed, with different sourcing citing dates between 1925 and 1929.[6][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
She debuted in a show at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, and studied under Sanford Meisner. She subsequently enrolled in Actors Studio in New York.
Grant had her first stage ballet performance in 1933 at the Grant, Lee (2014). I Said Yes to Everything: A Memoir. Blue Rider Press. p. 466.
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In 2013, she returned to the stage, after a nearly 40-year-absence, to star in The Gin Game, part of a benefit for improvement programs at the Island Music Guild. Grant played Fonsia Dorsey opposite Frank Buxton as Weller Martin; her daughter Dinah Manoff directed the production.[29]
In 1992, she played Dora Cohn, the mother of Roy Cohn, in the biographical made-for-TV film Citizen Cohn, which garnered her yet another Primetime Emmy Award nomination. In 2001, Lee Grant portrayed Louise Bonner in David Lynch's critically acclaimed Mullholland Drive. From 2004-07, Carlin Glynn, Stephen Lang, and Grant served as co-artistic directors for the Actors Studio.[28]
During the 1975-76 television season, she starred in the NBC sitcom Fay, which, to her chagrin, was canceled after eight episodes. She made a guest appearance on Empty Nest, in which her daughter Dinah Manoff co-starred. In 1988, she was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award for outstanding women who, through their endurance and the excellence of their work, have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry.[27]
In March 1971, Grant appeared in the Columbo episode "Ransom for a Dead Man"', and was nominated for an Emmy as Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie. Having been nominated for two performances in the same acting category, she received the award for her other Emmy-nominated performance in the television film, The Neon Ceiling. The only other nominee was Colleen Dewhurst; in Grant's acceptance speech, she wryly noted "I must thank Colleen Dewhurst since it takes two of me to equal one of her."
In recent years she directed a series of Intimate Portrait episodes for Lifetime Television, that celebrated a diverse range of accomplished women.[1] Admiring her directing and acting skill, actress Sissy Spacek agreed to act in Hard Promises "only to work with Grant", although Grant was later replaced as its director.[26]
Grant is the only Hollywood actress of her generation to successfully move into directing. She directed the stage play, The Stronger in 1976, written by August Strindberg. In 1980 she directed her first film, Tell Me a Riddle, a story about an aging Jewish couple. She also directed several documentary films, including Down and Out in America (1986) which won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature. That same year she directed Nobody's Child, a TV movie starring Marlo Thomas about a woman confined to a mental institution for 20 years. For her direction, Grant became the first female director to win the Directors Guild of America Award.
Actor Bruce Dern, who played alongside her in The Big Town (1987), recalls working with her: "Lee Grant is a fabulous actress. Anytime she works it's a blessing you have her in your movie."[25]
I was becoming my own worst enemy as an actor, traumatized onstage and fixated on staying young so I could keep working in film. A woman of a certain age does not play in movies or TV; we're kicked to the side or out. And I was a woman of a certain age, terrified I'd be found out and unemployed again."[19]:213
Despite the success of the film, Grant was feeling less secure in Hollywood as she was now around 50 years old. She writes:
Among her most notable roles was as Warren Beatty's older girlfriend in the comedy, Shampoo (1975), for which she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. The film received mixed reviews but was Columbia's biggest hit in the studio's 50-year history.[22] After The Landlord (1970), it was the second film that Grant acted in under director Hal Ashby. Critic Pauline Kael, comparing her in both films, notes that Grant "is such a cool-style comedienne that she's in danger of having people say that she's good, as usual."[23] During the filming, however, she did have some serious disagreements with Beatty, who was also the producer, and she nearly quit. During one scene, she wanted to play it in a way she knew was more realistic from a woman's perspective, but Beatty disagreed. After thinking about the scene for a few days, she told director Hal Ashby she couldn't do it his way and was quitting. As she was walking out, Beatty stopped her and asked what was wrong. "I sat down and told him," she said. "He threw up his hands and said, 'Play it your way. What do I know? I'm a man.'"[24]
She received subsequent Academy Award nominations for the dramas The Landlord (1970) and Voyage of the Damned (1976). Her acting range extended into comedy equally well, notably in several roles as an overbearing mother. In Plaza Suite (1971), a comedy directed by Arthur Hiller and written by Neil Simon, she played the harassed mother of a bride, with Walter Matthau as the father. The film was followed by another comedy role as the mother in Portnoy's Complaint (1972).[1] Also in 1971, she co-starred with Peter Falk in the second appearance of Columbo, a pilot film called Ransom of a Dead Man before the show became a hit TV series, and with Falk again on Broadway in Neil Simon's Prisoner of Second Avenue. Simon said that his "first and only choice" for the part was Grant, whom he said was equally at home with dramatists such as Chekhov or Sidney Kingsley, yet could also be "hilariously funny" when the script called for it, as she was able to portray essential honesty in her acting.[21]
Grant's first major achievement, after House Committee on Un-American Activities officially cleared her, was in the 1960s television series Peyton Place, as Stella Chernak, for which she won an Emmy in 1966. In 1967, Grant appeared in an episode of Mission Impossible, portraying the wife of a U.S. diplomat who goes undercover to discredit a rogue diplomat. That same year she played the distraught widow of the murder victim in the Oscar-winning In the Heat of the Night.[1]
The scars and fears of the blacklist years remained imprinted on her memory and would stay there throughout her career. As late as 2002, she would freeze and go into a "near trance" when anyone asked her about her experiences during the McCarthy period.[20]
Dinah was my grail, my constant; nothing and no one could get between us. Dinah and my need to support her financially, morally, viscerally, and my rage at those who had taken twelve working, acting years from my life, were what motivated me.[19]:250
By the time Grant's name was finally removed from the blacklist in the early 1960s, she had since been divorced, remarried, and now had a young daughter, Dinah. Grant immediately tried to reestablish her television and movie career. In her autobiography, she writes:
She appeared in a limited number of stage and television shows during these years. In 1953 she played Rose Peabody on the CBS daytime drama, Search for Tomorrow.[14] In the Broadway production of Two for the Seesaw in 1959, she played Gittle Mosca. And in 1963 she won acclaim for her stage performance in the Off-Broadway production of Jean Genet's The Maids.[14]
Lee was only a kid, a beautiful young girl with extraordinary talent and a big future. You could see it. She was so good that she earned a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her very first film role. But because Eddie Dmytryk named her husband, Lee Grant was blacklisted before her film career even had a chance to begin. Of course, she refused to testify about the man to whom she was married, and it took years before anyone would hire her for another picture.[18]
, who acted with her in Detective Story, recalled that it was director Edward Dmytryk who had first named her husband at the HUAC:
In 1951 she gave an impassioned eulogy at the memorial service for actor J. Edward Bromberg, whose early death, she implied, was caused by the stress of being called before House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC). After her eulogy was published, she was summoned by the same committee to testify against her husband, playwright Arnold Manoff, but refused. As a result, for the next twelve years, her "prime years", as she put it,[17] she was blacklisted and unable to work in either television or movies.
As an actress, Grant had her professional stage debut as understudy in Oklahoma in 1944, and in 1948 had her Broadway acting debut in Joy to the World. Grant established herself as a dramatic method actress on and off Broadway, earning praise for her role as a shoplifter in Detective Story, in 1949, with Ralph Bellamy. [15] She made her film debut two years later in the film version (Detective Story), starring Kirk Douglas, receiving her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination, and winning the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival.[16] She was a regular on the CBS soap opera, Search for Tomorrow in the early 1950s.[1]
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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Citigroup disclosed Tuesday that federal prosecutors are investigating apparent improprieties in its transfer-agent business following an internal review of the company's mutual fund operations.
"Regrettably, we can now see that it was not done the way it should have been," Tom Jones, head of Citigroup Asset Management, wrote in a memo to senior executives.
New York-based Citigroup had an agreement with a subcontractor that was to provide certain unspecified benefits to Citigroup Asset Management or its affiliates. Citigroup then agreed to eliminate those benefits in exchange for arrangements including a one-time benefit.
Neither the agreement, nor an amendment to it, were disclosed to the board of Citigroup Asset Management, which has $492.5 billion in assets under management.
"These errors never should have occurred and we deeply regret that they did," Jones wrote in the memo, which was made public Tuesday.
Citigroup said it has briefed the SEC, New York's attorney general and other regulators regarding the matter. On Monday, Citi learned that the U.S. Attorney's Office is also investigating.
The company said it plans to make an independent review of its transfer agent fee structure, is making personnel changes and will pay back to the funds the $16 million it received from the revenue guarantee arrangement.
Shares of Citigroup added 17 cents to close at $46.91 Tuesday.
Security Trust to be closed
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed felony criminal charges Tuesday against the former chief executive of Security Trust and two other ex-executives, while U.S. regulators ordered that the company be shut down.
The Spitzer complaint alleges that former CEO Grant Seeger as well as William Kenyon, Security Trust's former president, and Nicole McDermott, formerly senior vice president of corporate services, acted as middlemen and helped hedge funds engage in late trading of mutual funds.
The ex-Security Trust executives were alleged to have disguised illegal trades as orders from one of their client pension funds. They also deceived mutual funds into making the trades, Spitzer said.
Seeger, Kenyon and McDermott face criminal allegations of grand larceny, falsifying business records and securities fraud. For the most serious charges, the former execs face 8 to 25 years in prison.
"Pervasive misconduct must be met with appropriate sanctions," Spitzer said in a statement. "In this case, a coordinated response by regulators will ensure that high-ranking officials of the company and the corporate entity itself will be held accountable for schemes that defrauded investors."
On Tuesday, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ordered the dissolution of Security Trust by March 31, 2004, according to a joint statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The regulator is requiring the bank to take steps to ensure that trust accounts and investment plans it administers experience minimal disruption. Last month, the OCC ordered Chicago-based Capital Management Investors Holding, the bank's controlling shareholder, to provide a "substantial capital infusion" and pledge its assets to ensure an orderly dissolution, the OCC said.
The SEC also filed civil charges against Securities Trust and the three former executives. The SEC's complaint alleges that STC facilitated hundreds of late trades over a three year period in nearly 400 different mutual funds.
"Financial intermediaries who illegally permit their customers to trade mutual fund shares at the expense of long-term investors violate the securities laws and will be held accountable," said Stephen Cutler, director of the SEC's division of enforcement.
Security Trust, in a statement Tuesday, said it continues to cooperate with all authorities to complete an orderly closure of the company. Security Trust is transferring its client businesses to another "entity," said CEO Thomas Plumb. The company's own internal investigation matched findings by regulators, that a set of individuals who are no longer with Security Trust directed the wrongdoings.
"There were things that happened at the old STC that should not have," Plumb said. "They have been stopped and will not happen again."
STC no longer has and will not accept any new relationship with hedge funds, the company said.
The first
The charges announced Tuesday are the first against third parties or intermediaries in the widening mutual-fund scandal. Last week, the SEC and Spitzer filed charges against Pilgrim Baxter & Associates and its two founding members, alleging securities fraud and breach of fiduciary duties. See full story.
In October, Seeger resigned from Security Trust, a Phoenix-based intermediary between funds and retirement plans, institutions and financial advisers. About 2,300 retirement plan administrators give the firm custodial authority over roughly $13 billion in assets. See full story.
Security Trust was implicated as a key player in Spitzer's $40 million settlement of trading abuse charges against hedge fund Canary Capital Partners. See full story.
Spitzer's complaint alleged that Canary struck a late-trading deal in which Security Trust allowed it to buy and sell mutual funds after the market's 4 p.m. Eastern close. Such trades are illegal.
Fred Hafetz, Seeger's attorney, did not return calls for comment.
Firings at UBS among disciplinary moves
Meanwhile, Swiss bank UBS has suspended nine brokers and fired two financial advisers over an apparent breach of mutual-fund trading rules.
"As a result of an internal review, UBS has terminated two financial advisers and disciplined an additional nine financial advisers for breaching firm policy regarding market timing," UBS
Also, in Europe, Amvescap maintained that it has demonstrated compliance with its prospectuses, legal obligations and fiduciary duty to clients. See full story.
Shares of Amvescap
Amvescap mounted one of the most aggressive defenses to date by a fund manager charged with illegally allowing late-timed mutual fund trades.
On the New York Stock Exchange, Amvescap shares rose by 80 cents, or 5.93 percent to $14.30 Tuesday, while UBS added 14 cents to $62.63.

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A veteran financial adviser and San Francisco's former first lady, Wendy Paskin-Jordan, will remain on the city's retirement board after the Board of Supervisors unanimously backed her reappointment.
The surprising overwhelming support came at a special board meeting Wednesday, called after questions were raised about whether she had violated city ethics rules, in one case in relation to an investment she made.
Board members asked her about those complaints, which have not resulted in any charges from the city or state ethics commissions, but most of their questions Wednesday were about fossil fuels. Supervisors John Avalos, David Campos and Norman Yee questioned why the Retirement Board has failed to divest from fossil fuel companies, as the supervisors officially urged it to do two years ago.
Paskin-Jordan, the wife of former Mayor Frank Jordan, said she is open to exploring divestment and agreed to look at how San Francisco could do so.
"I think all retirement boards are looking at this across the country," she said after the meeting. "It's a social issue, and a way we can all do better."
She noted that when she was first asked to serve on the Retirement Board, she said no.
"I thought — that's so much work, it's hard, it's controversial. I would have a lot of weight on my shoulders — retirees, pensioners, current employers. And the stock market is a tricky game. But I have been in a lot of areas of the stock market, I know how a lot things of work and don't work and I feel that there's a contribution I am able to make," she told the board.
After the meeting, she noted that her husband is a city retiree as well, and that she felt her three decades of financial expertise could be well-used on the board.
The city's Retirement Board oversees a $20 billion investment portfolio that funds retirement accounts for more than 53,000 current and former city, school district and court employees.


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China's OPPO to become first Asian sponsor in Wimbledon's 142-year history
The China Sports Column is a SupChina weekly feature in which China Sports Insider Mark Dreyer looks at the week that was in the China sports world.
If you grew up in the UK, as I did, then you'd never confuse the puma-looking logo on a certain type of tennis ball as anything other than Slazenger. Ever since 1902, those distinctive Slazenger balls appear on the equally distinctive grass courts at Wimbledon, replenished every few games like clockwork. (And for the record, it's a panther, not a puma.)
Similarly, Robinsons fruit cordial might not be the most widespread global drinks brand, but its association with Wimbledon dates back to 1935, although admittedly patrons these days are more likely to be drinking Pimms than a soft drink.
So when Wimbledon — as old school as it gets in the modern world of sport, with its long-outdated white clothing policy and stuffy traditions — signs with Chinese upstart phone brand OPPO, it's worth paying attention.
That's what happened this week when OPPO signed a five-year deal with the All England Lawn Tennis Club — Wimbledon's home — to become the first Asian partner in the tournament's 142-year history.
Much of the credit for signing this deal, which comes on the back of Chinese tennis legend Li Na's support just a few weeks ago, has to go to Mick Desmond, the Commercial and Media Director at Wimbledon, who was previously involved in a content and sports rights distribution company focused on the Chinese market, bringing both the "…Got Talent" and "The Voice" series to China.
Desmond told Forbes that two of the key drivers behind this deal were the fact that China's OPPO also has a huge presence throughout Southeast Asia, including India, and that the company's target demographic skews younger than some of its rivals.
Additionally, OPPO's camera has impressed Wimbledon, with the tournament's official photographers set to use OPPO's Find X and Reno models this summer.
But throughout the nine-month negotiation process, Desmond also said that OPPO's previous sports sponsorship deals played a large part.
OPPO — now the world's fourth-largest smartphone producer — currently sponsors the Indian cricket team in another long-term deal, has partnered with FC Barcelona, and has featured soccer star Neymar in a series of commercials.
Other Chinese brands have used this strategy to great success, with TV brand Hisense seeing a huge uptick in European sales after sponsoring the 2016 European Championships. With OPPO set to help promote Wimbledon in Asia, the joint plan is for Wimbledon to help OPPO build its brand back in Europe.
In fact, the first Chinese brand to embrace this sporting strategy as a means of going global was another smartphone maker, Huawei, although given how the current political winds have embroiled the company in various disputes around the world, OPPO execs will be hoping for a very different fate in years to come.
As a footnote, there was a quaint, posed photo at the signing ceremony, with name cards simply reading Tim, Brian, and Mick.
Some may still recognize English tennis tryer Tim Henman (left), who reached four Wimbledon semifinals in five years before being largely forgotten once Andy Murray actually won the thing twice; only sports industry diehards would recognize Wimbledon exec Desmond (right), and fewer still would recognize Brian Shen (center), VP at OPPO.
Perhaps the cards were meant to be facing the other way so the trio would know where to sit.
Elsewhere in the UK, it was a mixed bag for China's snooker stars at the World Championships this week.
With a record six Chinese players in the 32-man draw — more than any other country except England — there was plenty of opportunity to progress.
19-year-old Luo Honghao, however, made headlines for all the wrong reasons with a 10-0 blowout loss to Shaun Murphy. Not only was it just the second whitewash in the tournament's 43-year history, but Luo scored just 89 points across the 10 frames — a whopping 102 points short of the previous low mark.
If the snooker doesn't pan out, at least he's still got the piano.
.@WorldSnooker @BBCSport This is worth 30 secs. Just filmed preview with Crucible debutant Luo HongHao. Staggeringly talented teenager. Left home at 13. Toured China to learn snooker accompanied by his Gran. Learnt piano age 4. Amazing. His match is Sun 2.30pm pic.twitter.com/XE3pHDLoJ7
— Rob Walker (@robwalkertv) April 19, 2019
In other action, Li Hang lost 10-1 to Barry Hawkins, while Zhao Xintong was ousted 10-7 by third seed Mark Selby, and Tian Pengfei was agonizingly edged out 10-9 by Shaun Murphy.
But Zhou Yuelong defeated sixth seed Mark Allen 10-7 to set up a second-round clash with Ali Carter, while star man Ding Junhui beat Anthony McGill by a similar score.
Tenth-seeded Ding hasn't had the best of seasons so far, but if he can get past seventh seed Judd Trump in the second round, the draw could really open up for him.
Mark Selby and Mark Williams — both three-time winners — lost on Saturday, and more crucially, world No. 1 and five-time winner Ronnie O'Sullivan was stunned by amateur player James Cahill in the first round. Cahill was then ousted by Stephen Maguire, who awaits the winner of the Ding-Judd Trump match. Ding may never get a better chance than this.
Ding vs. Trump kicked off in the early hours of Sunday, China time, with the Englishman taking a slender 5-3 lead. It continues later today.
This column has previously referenced the fact that Chinese sportswomen have, on the whole, outperformed their male counterparts — and two more have impressed this week.
Liu Wenbo and Du Mohan, two female golfers from the China LPGA Tour, lined up against the men at this week's Shenzhou Peninsula Open, a China Tour event in Hainan.
And things have been going pretty well for the teenage stars.
Both made the cut, with Du Mohan, 17, firing a three-under-par 69 on Saturday to stand at tied for 30th place heading into the final round. Liu, 18, is tied for 77th.
Both turned pro last year after winning team bronze at the Asian Games and were able to play in this tournament after receiving a special invitation from the China Golf Association.
Liu is the daughter of former national team volleyball player Cui Yongmei, averages more than 260 yards off the tee, and plans to head to the U.S. later this year in an attempt to qualify for the LPGA Tour.
China's best golfer, Feng Shanshan, has slipped from the top spot down to No. 22 in the world rankings, but with Du, Liu, and others eager to pick up the slack, it shouldn't be too long before another top player emerges.
Also this week, China enjoyed Dame Lillard's series-winning three just as much as the rest of the world:
Chinese call of Lillard's game-winning shot pic.twitter.com/byz7h1mINf
— Mark Dreyer (@DreyerChina) April 24, 2019
And with pitches like this one in Xiamen — next door to the city's football stadium, no less — sometimes you really have to wonder just how serious China is about promoting the beautiful game:
World's strangest shaped pitch? #chinahatesfootball pic.twitter.com/zyMbXvrFuj
— Mark Dreyer (@DreyerChina) April 22, 2019
The China Sports Column runs every week on SupChina. Follow Mark Dreyer @DreyerChina.


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Mayor Bloomberg's Conference on Guns Today
Since starting his second term, the issue has been front and center for him. He has testified in Washington against legislation restricting civil use of a gun tracing database. Most recently he has created a new police task force to deal with all gun arrests with the goal of getting a better handle on how the weapons get into the city.
Mayors from Philadelphia, Trenton, Milwaukee, Dallas, Washington, D.C., and a number of other cities are all scheduled to attend the day-long event. It will include a morning symposium and a panel of "leading experts" on gun crimes.
Mr. Bloomberg is hoping the new coalition will leverage its combined force against federal legislation and what they call lax gun laws around the nation.
Gun control proponents, including those at the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, have lauded Mr. Bloomberg and said he is fighting a noble cause. Second Amendment advocates say he is going too far.
Author John Lott, who wrote "More Guns Less Crime," said the mayor is wasting his time because gun control does not lead to reduced crime. The problem, he said, is that gun control measures too often disarm law-abiding gun owners and not criminals. "At best it doesn't work," he said. "And at worst it can be counterproductive."


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From Proteopedia
Structural highlights
[DAPK1_HUMAN] Calcium/calmodulin-dependent serine/threonine kinase involved in multiple cellular signaling pathways that trigger cell survival, apoptosis, and autophagy. Regulates both type I apoptotic and type II autophagic cell deaths signal, depending on the cellular setting. The former is caspase-dependent, while the latter is caspase-independent and is characterized by the accumulation of autophagic vesicles. Phosphorylates PIN1 resulting in inhibition of its catalytic activity, nuclear localization, and cellular function. Phosphorylates TPM1, enhancing stress fiber formation in endothelial cells. Phosphorylates STX1A and significantly decreases its binding to STXBP1. Phosphorylates PRKD1 and regulates JNK signaling by binding and activating PRKD1 under oxidative stress. Phosphorylates BECN1, reducing its interaction with BCL2 and BCL2L1 and promoting the induction of autophagy. Phosphorylates TSC2, disrupting the TSC1-TSC2 complex and stimulating mTORC1 activity in a growth factor-dependent pathway. Phosphorylates RPS6, MYL9 and DAPK3. Acts as a signaling amplifier of NMDA receptors at extrasynaptic sites for mediating brain damage in stroke. Cerebral ischemia recruits DAPK1 into the NMDA receptor complex and it phosphorylates GRINB at Ser-1303 inducing injurious Ca(2+) influx through NMDA receptor channels, resulting in an irreversible neuronal death. Required together with DAPK3 for phosphorylation of RPL13A upon interferon-gamma activation which is causing RPL13A involvement in transcript-selective translation inhibition.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] Isoform 2 cannot induce apoptosis but can induce membrane blebbing.[16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30]
Evolutionary Conservation
Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf.
Publication Abstract from PubMed
We have determined X-ray crystal structures with up to 1.5 A resolution of the catalytic domain of death-associated protein kinase (DAPK), the first described member of a novel family of pro-apoptotic and tumor-suppressive serine/threonine kinases. The geometry of the active site was studied in the apo form, in a complex with nonhydrolyzable AMPPnP and in a ternary complex consisting of kinase, AMPPnP and either Mg2+ or Mn2+. The structures revealed a previously undescribed water-mediated stabilization of the interaction between the lysine that is conserved in protein kinases and the beta- and gamma-phosphates of ATP, as well as conformational changes at the active site upon ion binding. Comparison between these structures and nucleotide triphosphate complexes of several other kinases disclosed a number of unique features of the DAPK catalytic domain, among which is a highly ordered basic loop in the N-terminal domain that may participate in enzyme regulation.
Crystal structures of the catalytic domain of human protein kinase associated with apoptosis and tumor suppression.,Tereshko V, Teplova M, Brunzelle J, Watterson DM, Egli M Nat Struct Biol. 2001 Oct;8(10):899-907. PMID:11573098[31]
From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-1994?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13860388#comment-13860388 ] ASF subversion and git services commented on ACCUMULO-1994: ----------------------------------------------------------- Commit 27ee2367056e5ad0cb6175f91154cd13d49e2c95 in branch refs/heads/1.5.1-SNAPSHOT from [~ecn] [ https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=accumulo.git;h=27ee236 ] ACCUMULO-1993 ACCUMULO-1994 make proxy useful for ruby, fix getRowRange (and test it) > proxy does not handle Key timestamps correctly > ---------------------------------------------- > > Key: ACCUMULO-1994 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-1994 > Project: Accumulo > Issue Type: Bug > Components: proxy > Affects Versions: 1.4.4, 1.5.0 > Reporter: Brian Loss > Assignee: Eric Newton > Fix For: 1.4.5, 1.5.1, 1.6.0 > > > The proxy thrift IDL does not declare any default values for the Key struct. This means that timestamp will default to 0. However, in Java it defaults to Long.MAX_VALUE. This means that ranges created through the proxy may behave differently than ranges created in Java. For example, say in Ruby I create a range as follows > {code} > range = Range.new(:start => Key.new(:row => "row1"), :startInclusive => true, :stop => Key.new(:row => "row2"), :stopInclusive => true) > {code} > This range will not include any keys in row1 that don't have a column family, qualifier, or visibility since timestamp of 0 sorts last. If I created the same range in Java, those keys would be included. > Change the thrift IDL to declare 0x7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF (Long.MAX_VALUE) as the default value for timstamp so that the thrift-generated Key class behaves the same way as the Java version. > [~kturner] pointed me to the getRowRange helper method on the AccumuloProxy service. This method helps in some cases, but not the case I mentioned above since I have two arbitrary rows. Also, in looking through the code in ProxyServer, Keith noticed that the code does not seem to handle timestamps correctly. For example, the getRowRange method does not pass a timestamp at all (not even the EMPTY value). Also, the internal helper method getProxyKey ignores the timestamp on the incoming key. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.5#6160)
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I understand there's a technique in sales known as the "puppy dog close." Imagine a family going into a pet store "just to look." The sales person says "No problem, I know you don't want to buy anything today, but while you're here why not hold this just for a minute" and proceeds to put a puppy in the arms of the kid who's only too happy to play with it. Of course the kid and the puppy hit it off instantly, and the dad grudgingly gives in to the inevitable. In other words they go home with the puppy. **That** is the puppy dog close.
Shareware and try-before-you-buy software are based on the puppy dog close, but all too often I find it surprisingly easy to walk away after trying it. This past week, tho, I bought three different pieces of software as soon as the trial period ended.
The first program, Dangerous Mines, is an addicting Minesweeper type game I've been trying out for the past month. Of the three game variants, my favorite is Gauntlet, where you have to complete a level in a limited amount of time to proceed to the next level. The Hard game, which seemed impossible to play just a few short weeks ago, I now tackle in the morning while the coffee is brewing. Maybe I play it a little too much (are my mouse fingers supposed to feel numb?), but I just got a high score over a million so I'm lucky I can quit anytime. Really. The game is well done, tho a little pricey at $25 (PC version, Mac version available as well).
The second program is the fine NetNewsWire, an RSS aggregator I've got collecting feeds from about four dozen websites so I can stay on top of new posts without having to visit all those sites all the time. I love the interface, and how it can be customized, and it keeps getting better. I'm using the beta of version 2, highly recommended at $25 (Mac only).
The third program is Panic Software's Transmit, a fine little FTP client. I've been using Fetch forever to do FTP, since 1995 I think, when Robin introduced me to the internet ("Too geeky" I said, "it will never catch on with the masses." She felt differently, and Once Again, She Was Right). Fetch went commercial with the OSX version, and I ponied up for it. It's gotten a little long in the tooth and hasn't kept up with the times. Panic, on the other hand, did a fine job with Transmit, and I'm a sucker for a nice user interface anyway. Nice utility, does what it's supposed to and even looks pretty, $30 (Mac only).


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Relevance of delayed hospital admission on development of cardiac rupture during acute myocardial infarction: study in 225 patients with free wall, septal or papillary muscle rupture
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- Received March 14, 1997
- Revision received January 30, 1998
- Accepted March 16, 1998
- Published online July 1, 1998.
Author Information
- Jaume Figueras, MDa,*,
- Josefa Cortadellas, MDa,
- Francisco Calvo, MDa and
- Jordi Soler-Soler, MD, FACCa
- ↵*Address for correspondence: Dr. Jaume Figueras, Unitat Coronària, Servei de Cardiologia, Hospital General Vall d'Hebron, P. Vall d'Hebron 119-129, 08035 Barcelona, Spain
Objectives. We analyzed the possible relation between the presence of a hospital admission delay (≥24 h), undue physical effort or recurrence of anginal pain, alone or in combination, with the development of free wall rupture (FWR), septal rupture (SR) or papillary muscle rupture (PMR) in patients with an acute myocardial infarction (AMI).
Background. Physical activity as a trigger of FWR in AMI remains controversial, and its contribution to SR or PMR remains unknown. Moreover, the role of ischemia or reinfarction as an additional cause of rupture has not been explored.
Methods. The incidence of hospital admission delay ≥24 h with maintenance of some ambulatory activity and the incidence of postinfarction angina were analyzed in consecutive patients with a first AMI with (n = 225) or without rupture (n = 1,012 [control group]) over different time periods.
Results. An admission delay ≥24 h occurred in 27 (27.6%) of 98 patients with FWR, 47 (47.0%) of 100 with SR and 14 (51.9%) of 27 with PMR but in only 81 (8%) of 1,012 control patients (p < 0.0001). Information on undue in-hospital effort preceding rupture was available for 111 patients and was present in 17 (32.7%) of 52 with FWR, 9 (18.4%) of 49 with SR and 3 (30%) of 10 with PMR versus only 76 (7.5%) of 1,012 control patients (p < 0.001). Information on postinfarction anginal pain was available for 114 patients with rupture and occurred in 30 (56.6%) of 53 with FWR, 30 (60%) of 50 with SR and 4 (36.4%) of 11 with PMR versus 120 (11.9%) of 1,012 control patients (p < 0.0001). Mean age and incidence of male gender, hypertension, absence of heart failure, single-vessel disease or occlusion of the infarct-related artery were comparable among the groups with FWR, SR or PMR.
Conclusions. Delayed hospital admission or undue in-hospital physical activity appears to increase the risk of rupture in patients prone to this complication (i.e., a first transmural AMI, absence of overt heart failure and advanced age); recurrence of ischemia/infarction emerges as a potential additional trigger in a proportion of these patients.
A delay in hospital admission for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is often associated with maintenance of physical activity (1)and has been claimed to be a factor contributing to free wall rupture (FWR) (2–5). However, some investigators have questioned such a relation (6–8), and little information is available concerning the relevance of this factor to septal rupture (SR) or the papillary muscle rupture (PMR). Another frequent observation is the presence of protracted or recurrent chest pain before FWR (4,5,8–12), but its significance as well as its potential replication in patients with SR (9)or PMR have not been evaluated. Thus, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the incidence of delayed admission, physical activity and recurrence of chest pain preceding the three forms of cardiac rupture and to analyze their potential mechanistic relevance.
A total of 239 consecutive patients with rupture after AMI (102 with FWR, 106 with SR, 31 with PMR) were admitted to our coronary care unit from January 1978 to December 1995, the last 167 patients (69.9%) being evaluated prospectively. Two patients with FWR, 63 with SR and 9 with PMR were referred from other hospitals. FWR was clinically suspected in 96 patients and confirmed at operation in 16 or at necropsy, or both, in 86; SR was confirmed at operation in 63 patients and by angiography or at necropsy, or both, in 43; diagnosis of PMR was confirmed at operation in 25 and at necropsy in 6.
The clinical diagnosis of AMI was based on the concurrence of at least two of the three following circumstances: chest pain, elevated myocardial enzymes (total creatine kinase [CK] and CK-MB fraction) and acute electrocardiographic (ECG) changes (ST segment elevation or depression associated or not with pathologic Q waves). One lead of the ECG was continuously monitored in all patients while in the coronary care unit, and a conventional 12 lead ECG was recorded on admission, daily and during the episodes of chest pain. Postinfarction chest pain was categorized as anginaif it was similar in kind to that during the AMI and was not modified by respiration or postural changes. In contrast, chest pain was identified as pericarditiswhen it clearly worsened during respiratory motion and tended to be persistent. Throughout the hospital period, patients were instructed to immediately report any chest pain experienced. Physical activity, such as agitation, repeated vomiting or protracted coughing that necessitated specific medication for their control (e.g., sedatives or antiemetic agents), were considered undue exercise for patients in the acute phase of a myocardial infarction and were recorded. The eventual use of a bed pan for defecation was particularly investigated in patients with rupture but could not be sought reliably in the control group patients. Total CK, CK-MB fraction and glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase were measured every 4 to 6 h during the first 48 to 72 h.
Postmortem examination was performed in 123 patients with rupture (86 with FWR; 28 with SR; 9 with PMR, including 3 who died after mitral valve replacement). Assessment of cardiac tamponade and confirmation of FWR, SR or PMR were carried out, and the cardiac ventricles were sectioned transversely into slices of ∼1 cm thick from the apex to 2 to 4 cm caudal to the atrioventricular sulcus. A macroscopic and histologic confirmation of myocardial necrosis was also performed and, in the last 96 patients (17 with SR, 70 with FWR, 9 with PMR), serial cross-sectioning of the main epicardial coronary arteries at 5-mm intervals with gross inspection for maximal lumen narrowing and for presence of an occlusive thrombi was carried out. Coronary angiographic data were available in 79 additional patients (53 with SR, 10 with FWR, and 16 with PMR).
A subset of 1,012 consecutive patients without cardiac rupture with a first transmural AMI, admitted from January 1990 to December 1995, served as a comparison group (control group). The condition of a first transmural AMI, confirmed by persistent elevation of the ST segment, was required because it is in this setting in which FWR (3,7,13), SR (14–16)or PMR (17,18)generally occurs. Accordingly, and for the sake of direct comparison, 14 (5.9%) of the 239 patients with either FWR (n = 4), SR (n = 6) or PMR (n = 4) and a previous infarction were excluded from the analysis. Because coronary angiography was performed in only a fraction of the control group, mainly because of clinical indications (e.g., postinfarction angina, positive stress test results), the corresponding findings are not reported here.
Statistical analysis
A multivariate chi-square test was used to compare categoric variables. Analysis of variance was used for comparison of more than two mean values. The Student ttest was used for comparison of two mean variables with normal distribution and the Mann-Whitney Utest for those with abnormal distribution. Results are reported as mean ± SD.
Clinical and ECG data (Table 1)
Age, male gender and history of arterial hypertension were comparable in patients with FWR, SR or PMR. Hypertension was more often present in the three groups than in the control group, as was diabetes, except for the PMR group. The location of the infarct area was comparable between patients with SR and the control group, whereas the location was less often inferior and more often lateral in patients with FWR than in the SR and control groups (Table 1). As in the control group, all patients with FWR or SR and 23 of those with PMR presented with ST segment elevation, whereas the remaining four patients with PMR presented ST segment depression.
Admission delay and in-hospital physical effort
A delay of ≥24 h between onset of symptoms and hospital admission occurred in 88 patients with rupture (39.1%), 27 with FWR (27.6%), 47 with SR (47%) and 14 with PMR (51.9%). At least 71 of these patients remained ambulatory at home and did not have continuous bed rest, although the extent of ambulation could not be quantitated. In contrast, a similar delay in admission was observed in only 81 patients in the control group (8%, p < 0.0001). On arrival at the hospital, rupture was present in 80 patients (35.6%), all with delayed admission: 19 with FWR (19.4%), 49 with SR (49%) and 12 with PMR (44.4%). Most patients with in-hospital FWR, SR or PMR were in Killip class I or II on admission (76 [96.2%] of 79 with FWR, 46 [90.2%] of 51 with SR, 13 [86.2%] of 15 with PMR), and the day of rupture was comparable in the three groups (FWR 3.7 ± 4.4, SR 4.1 ± 3.6, PMR 3.7 ± 4.0 days). Of the 79 patients with an in-hospital FWR, 67 (84.8%) died shortly after development of acute tamponade.
Information regarding unusual physical effort before in-hospital rupture was available for 111 patients: 52 with FWR, 49 with SR and 10 with PMR. Undue effort was documented in 29 patients with rupture (26.1%) (17 with FWR [32.7%], 9 with SR [18.4%], and 3 with PMR [30%]) and in 76 control patients (7.5%, p < 0.0001).
In-hospital chest pain
Information regarding the presence of pericarditic pain during the hospital period was available for 136 patients with in-hospital rupture and for all control patients. Pericarditic pain was present in 43 patients with rupture (31.6%) (27 [37.5%] of 72 with FWR, 13 [26%] of 50 with SR, 3 [21.4%] of 14 with PMR) and in 240 control patients (23.7%) and was thus significantly higher in the subset with FWR than in the control group (p < 0.01). The presence or absence of anginal pain shortly before rupture could be analyzed in 114 (78.6%) of 145 patients with in-hospital rupture and in all control patients. Anginal pain was present in 64 patients with rupture (56.1%): 30 (56.6%) of 53 with FWR, 30 (60%) of 50 with SR and 4 (36.4%) of 11 with PMR. During chest pain a conventional 12-lead ECG could be recorded in 39 (60.9%) of the 64 patients (11 with FWR, 17 with SR, and 11 with PMR) and showed reelevation or redepression of the ST segment in 26 (66.7%) (6 with FWR [55%]), 12 with SR [70.6%], and 8 with PMR [72.7%]). However, although in these patients with an available ECG the proportion of changes was high, documentation could be obtained only for 6 (8%) of 72 patients with FWR, 12 (24%) of 50 with SR and 8 (60%) of 14 with PMR. In contrast, postinfarction angina occurred in 121 control patients (12.0%, p < 0.0001) (Fig. 1), and a 12-lead ECG performed in 112 (92.6%) showed reelevation or T wave positivity in 65 (58%). Moreover, among the 80 patients in whom a mechanical complication was already present on admission, 43 (53.8%) had experienced one or more episodes of prolonged chest pain (>30 min) before the AMI (8 [44.4%] of 18 with FWR, 30 [61.2%] of 49 with SR, 5 [41.7%] of 12 with PMR).
Histologic evidence of infarct extension was seen at necropsy in 7 of 28 patients with SR and in 3 of 9 with PMR, all without a previous infarction.
When we analyzed only the 76 patients who experienced rupture during the recruitment interval for the control group (years 1990 to 1995), the proportion with an admission delay >24 h and the frequency of in-hospital undue effort or anginal pain before rupture were comparable to that of patients admitted in the preceding years (Table 2).
Coronary angiographic/anatomic data
Although the proportion of patients with one-, two- or three-vessel disease varied somewhat among the three groups (p < 0.05), single-vessel disease had the highest incidence in each group (Fig. 2), and most patients had either one- or two-vessel disease (FWR 96%, SR 90%, PMR 75%). However, the culprit artery differed significantly (p < 0.0001) and was mainly the left circumflex or the left anterior descending coronary artery in the FWR group, the right or the left anterior descending coronary artery in the SR group and the right or the left circumflex coronary artery in the PMR group (Fig. 3). The incidence of total occlusion of the infarction-related artery was high in the three groups (73 [95%] of 77 for FWR, 59 [88%] of 67 for SR, 16 [67%] of 24 for PMR).
Admission delay and physical strain
One of the relevant findings of our work is the increased incidence of admission delay among patients who experienced some form of cardiac rupture. Delayed hospital admission was generally associated with more protracted or recurrent chest pain, the persistence of some physical activity, a delayed diagnosis of AMI and inadequate treatment. Protracted or recurrent chest pain (4,5,8,11,12)as well as persistence of physical activity (1–5)were previously observed to be associated with increased incidence of FWR, particularly in mental institutions (2). Admission delay occurred not only in our patients with FWR but also, and more frequently so, in those with SR or PMR, an observation much less established, most likely because most patients with FWR die before admission to the hospital (19,20). In fact, Jetter and White (2)found a 73% rate of rupture in 22 autopsy cases of AMI in a mental institution and attributed this rate to lack of recognition of AMI and continued patient activity. Likewise, rupture was present on arrival at the hospital in nearly 90% of our patients with an admission delay. Moreover, in an appreciable proportion of patients, undue physical strain also preceded in-hospital cardiac rupture. Undue or unusual effort was also considered in the context of an AMI and was identified as that associated with straining at stool while using a bed pan, persistent disorientation/agitation or protracted vomiting or coughing that required specific medication (e.g., sedatives, antiemetics). Although similar undue effort was much less frequently observed in the control group, it is likely that some of this activity went unreported. Thus, the lack of more accurate information about physical activity in the control patients is a drawback of the study. This limitation notwithstanding, our findings—prospective in more than two-thirds of patients—would lend further support to the role of physical strain as a possible trigger of rupture (2–5). In line with this reasoning we recently reported (21)a low incidence of rerupture in patients with a subacute FWR treated with pericardiocentesis, prolonged rest and blood pressure control. Although several investigators have disputed the relevance of physical activity in cardiac rupture, they have often failed to report on the specific activity before rupture (6–8). Moreover, in a number of patients with FWR this information is not available because they die suddenly of tamponade. Because most of these physical efforts implicate a Valsalva maneuver, we speculate that phase 4 (overshoot) is of particular risk because it entails the largest increase in systolic blood pressure, and hence in ventricular wall strain, unopposed by a parallel increase in intrathoracic pressure.
Recurrent chest pain
The second contribution of our study is the recognition that intense chest pain precedes in-hospital rupture in a sizable proportion of patients. Even though persistent chest pain or its recurrence has been acknowledged to be associated with FWR (5,7,8,11,22)and, in fewer reports, with SR (9,23)or PMR (18,24), its potential relevance has not been explored. London and London (7)reported that 26 of their 47 patients with rupture had protacted or new chest pain before rupture (55%), as opposed to 20 of 200 who died of AMI without rupture (10%). Also, in patients who developed FWR after the first 24 h, Rasmussen et al. (8)documented that a new attack of pain frequently commenced the terminal event. Moreover, Kishon et al. (23)reported a 35% incidence of persistent angina in 40 patients with SR, and Barbour and Roberts (18)reported that 21 of their 22 autopsy cases of PMR had died suddenly outside the hospital after 5 to 7 of repeated bouts of chest pain. The possibility that in some patients with FWR, chest pain was in part related to pericardial distension or pericarditis (12)cannot be excluded, but in most patients from the three subsets chest pain preceding rupture was virtually indistinguishable from that during AMI and was not infrequently associated with acute ECG changes in the leads overlying the infarcted area, suggesting that it could be caused by peri-infarction ischemia or reinfarction in at least some patients. Even though previous ECG observations during rupture are scanty and are confined to FWR and to a monitor lead (5,25), they are in line with our findings using a 12-lead ECG. These observations during the acute phase of rupture add to the recently described ECG pattern seen before rupture that includes persistent ST segment elevation (12,26)or lack of evolutionary T wave changes, or both (12). In some instances, particularly in SR and PMR where there was a delay between rupture and death or operation, reinfarction could be confirmed at necropsy. Our contention that reinfarction may be a more frequent cause of rupture, and at a much earlier interval than heretofore suspected (7), may be supported by detailed histologic studies showing that rupture tends to occur in areas of infarction with more recent necrosis (3,27). In contrast, in a number of patients with FWR reinfarction cannot be detected histologically because these patients die shortly after rupture. We speculate that in patients with FWR or SR that follows a recurrence of angina beyond the first 24 h, myocardial ischemia may affect the formerly preserved outer layer of the jeopardized area. The consequent loss of contractile force could facilitate rupture at the point of highest wall strain. In keeping with this possibility, recent experimental studies (28)have indicated that even brief periods of ischemia may cause some collagen loss, thereby weakening the supporting framework of the ischemic zone.
Study limitations
The present istudy was in part retrospective; therefore some information about physical activity before hospital admission was unavailable. However, patients with a delayed hospital admission generally maintained some physical activity at home and often went to seek medical attention, particularly after the pain had partially subsided. Another potential drawback is the reduced number of patients in whom an ECG could be performed during pain preceding FWR, thereby limiting the potential implication of ischemia/reinfarction as a trigger of this complication. One major reason for this limitation is that many of these patients died suddenly of tamponade before an ECG could be recorded. Also, and for the same reason, the nature of the chest pain could not always be determined. Furthermore, objective evidence of myocardial ischemia was only available from the ECG and involved only a small proportion of patients (26 [18%] of 145), although when patients with an available ECG were considered, the proportion with ECG changes was higher. Some of these patients complained of pericarditic pain a few hours or days preceding FWR, but this was a more consistent finding in those few who temporarily survived this event. Nevertheless, the incidence of pericarditic pain in these patients (36%) was lower than that reported by Oliva et al. (12)(86%), probably because these investigators included only "late" FWR in their series (>48 h), which allows for the pericarditis to be manifest, whereas our patients were not selected and more closely represent the early rupture subset, including the 28% who had rupture before admission.
Clinical implications
According to our data, patients who present with cardiac rupture during AMI (either FWR, SR or PMR) share several clinical features, such as a first AMI, age >50 to 55 years, history of arterial hypertension, absence of heart failure before rupture and presence of protracted or recurrent anginal or angina-like pain. An important number of them engaged in sustained physical activity after onset of AMI, particularly before hospital admission. Thus, patients with the aforementioned profile who are admitted late are at increased risk of presenting, in the emergency room, with some form of cardiac rupture. Furthermore, these patients should be cautioned not to undertake any undue physical effort, particularly during the first week, to avoid excessive strain on the infarcted wall, and should undergo strict blood pressure control. Moreover, they should be followed up closely for recurrence of chest pain because this recurrence may lead to some form of rupture. Finally, because rupture ultimately develops in an area subtended by a totally occluded artery, it is likely that early reperfusion and maintenance of an open artery may substantially reduce the incidence of these complications.
☆ This work was supported in part by Grant CRHG-02-93-58 from the Hospital General Vall d'Hebron.
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- acute myocardial infarction
- creatine kinase
- electrocardiogram, electrocardiographic
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- papillary muscle rupture
- septal rupture
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Supplementary Materials
This PDF file includes:
- section S1. Computational details to the coupled channels rescattering simulations
- section S2. Effects of adiabatic polarization on the electronic structure
- section S3. Experimental methods
- section S4. Data analysis
- section S5. Determination of the alignment distribution
- section S6. Confidence interval of the deconvoluted molecular-frame properties
- section S7. SFA analysis of photoelectron rescattering in the presence of symmetries
- fig. S1. Electric field (black line) of the 800-nm pulse with a total duration of
4.4 fs and a peak intensity of 3 × 1013 W/cm2.
- fig. S2. Channel- and polarization-resolved rescattering probability in the
molecular frame for the D0 channel (blue) and the D1 channel (red) of 1,3- butadiene.
- fig. S3. Electric field mimicking a half-cycle 800-nm pulse with a peak intensity
of 3 × 1013 W/cm2 used for the SFI simulations (see Fig. 3B in the main text).
- fig. S4. Influence of adiabatic polarization on the Dyson orbitals for the two
lowest ionization channels of 1,3-butadiene (D0 and D1).
- fig. S5. Measured parent ion (C4H+6) yield as a function of the laboratory-frame angle α′ between the linear polarizations
of the alignment and the SFI beams, for maximally aligned molecules (Δt = 58 ps).
- fig. S6. Number of counts on the ion detector as a function of the ion time of
flight and the spatial impact position in molecular beam direction (x).
- fig. S7. Determination of the alignment distribution present in the experiment.
- table S1. Overlap of adiabatically polarized cationic many-electron wave functions
D0(F), D1(F) in 1,3-butadiene with the corresponding field-free wave functions D0, D1.
- References (39–42)
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Buses in the City of Kawartha Lakes are cancelled today. Alexandra is open for all students. Freezing rain and winds are expected to continue during the day. Should you make the decision that it is not safe for your child to come to school today, please call the school to let us know that your child is home safe with you!
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Hey all! It turns out that Christmas is one of those things that's just absolute chaos stacked on absolute chaos. We had an idea of doing a Christmas special but then realised just.. everything is in the calendar this time of year.
Ok, again without the waffle? Oh right - We're taking Christmas off. It's just too hectic to find the time to record (and more specifically edit) an episode!
We sincerely hope that you have a great Christmas, Hanukkah, Pancha Ganapati, Yule, Koliada, Newtonmas, Kwanzaa, Watch Night, Hogswatch or any other holiday I missed while scrolling through this wikipedia article!
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David J. Rintoul has been named the new president of U.S. Steel Košice and at the same time takes up the post of senior vice-president for European operations. Rintoul replaces George F. Babcoke, who is returning to Pittsburgh in the USA, the TASR newswire wrote.
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I've written before about my love of the movie Dumbo here, so it's not a surprise that I'm pretty interested to see how director Tim Burton and Disney adapt the story for the live-action version that flies into theatres everywhere March 29th, 2019. After seeing the trailer (and that sweet baby elephant with the big eyes!), I'm even more hopeful that this will exceed all expectations.
This classic story tugs on my heart strings already, but knowing that the animated film is about a mother separated from her child takes on even greater significance after the news of the past week.
The hauntingly beautiful version of "Baby Mine" that plays throughout this trailer underscores that mamas and their babies belong together.From the trailer, it seems like that is included here. I think tissues will be needed for this one.
Here's what the good folks at Disney Studios say about the film:
From Disney and visionary director Tim Burton, the all-new grand live-action adventure DUMBO expands on the beloved classic story where differences are celebrated, family is cherished and dreams take flight. Circus owner Max Medici (Danny DeVito) enlists former star Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell) and his children Milly (Nico Parker) and Joe (Finley Hobbins) to care for a newborn elephant whose oversized ears make him a laughingstock in an already struggling circus. But when they discover that Dumbo can fly, the circus makes an incredible comeback, attracting persuasive entrepreneur V.A. Vandevere (Michael Keaton), who recruits the peculiar pachyderm for his newest, larger-than-life entertainment venture, Dreamland. Dumbo soars to new heights alongside a charming and spectacular aerial artist, Colette Marchant (Eva Green), until Holt learns that beneath its shiny veneer, Dreamland is full of dark secrets.
And how sweet is the poster for Dumbo?
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|This is how the tickets were sent out in the post...plastic bag and all :-)
|The Venue - The Tribal Theatre, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
|Graham Hancock's books
|Dennis McKenna
|Graham Hancock
|Me. Self portrait.
|Mitch Schultz...I wonder if we are related somehow?
|Lights on and everybody out for drinks...well not everybody.
|Darpan, Mitch Schultz, Rak Razam, Graham Hancock, Dan Schreiber Des Tramacchi.
|Rak Razam, Graham Hancock, Dan Schreiber Des Tramacchi, Dennis McKenna.
|The inside wall of the Tribal Theatre.
|Graham Hancock on top of the Great Pyramid.
|Darpan sitting on far left.
It was only when I realized the seat next to me was vacant and that there was a new guy taking part in the presentation that I realized that it was Darpan, the guy who had been sitting next to me most of the night.


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Cardi B denies claims that she wrote a diss track about Nicki Minaj
Cardi B has been too busy to release a "bonus" track. The "Bodak Yellow" hitmaker — who has a 3-month-old daughter Kulture with husband Offset — wanted to treat fans to an album outtake but they may now have to wait because her schedule is so packed.
Speaking to Ebro Darden on his "Beats 1" show, she said: "The plan was always to drop a, like, bonus. But I just didn't [think] I was going to be so busy going back-and-forth, back-and-forth things after I gave birth. It's like, oh my God, like, my schedule is so flooded. Maybe in December or just maybe January. I don't know. It's just songs that I felt were really good songs that didn't make the album."
The 26-year-old rapper also dismissed rumors she's penned a diss track about her rival Nicki Minaj, insisting she'd rather air their differences in person.
"The way that I came up, it was never about dissing nobody, and I still feel like I don't need to diss anybody for nothing. My music was never about that.
"I have a short temper, so that's like doing things that I don't stand for. I don't like when people be subbing me. So why would I sub you on music?
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"Dead girls everywhere," a character says, over a drink. That sums up the new HBO limited series Sharp Objects (premiering Sunday, July 8): in tiny Wind Gap, Missouri, almost everything is said over a drink — this town has a substance abuse problem — and there are a lot of endangered girls.
There's Anne, who was found dead in a creek a month before the action starts. There's Natalie, who's gone missing. There's Amma, who by day obeys her demanding mama, Adora (Patricia Clarkson), but at night climbs out her window looking for thrills.
And then there's Camille (Amy Adams), Adora's older daughter. She actually escaped Wind Gap and became a reporter in St. Louis; now she's back to cover Anne's and Natalie's stories; to unearth secrets about a dead girl in her own past; and to reveal — gradually, in jagged fragments — why she drifts around half-dead herself.
Sharp Objects is a snapshot of what's happening to storytelling onscreen. Based on a 2006 novel by Gillian Flynn (optioned right after her smashing success with Gone Girl), it was developed for several years as a feature film. Then TV writer extraordinaire Marti Noxon, who specializes in damaged women protagonists (she created UnREAL, To the Bone, Dietland and Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce), convinced the producers that long-form television was its more natural home.
It's a chicken-and-egg thing: the more that movie theatres fill up with Star Wars and Marvel spectacles, the more writers, producers, actors and directors who want to focus instead on character-driven drama — such as Canada's Jean-Marc Vallée, who directed all eight episodes of Sharp Objects — will turn to television. And the huge buzz and success around novels-turned-series such as The Handmaid's Tale and Big Little Lies (also directed by Vallée) guarantees that quality drama will be kept out of multiplexes for the foreseeable future.
A two-hour movie just can't compete with an eight-hour series for creating a layered, complicated world. Wind Gap is a gloriously bleak portrait of the middle America that fell for the promise of being made "great" again, but its toxicity keeps seeping through. There's a massive class divide: rich white folks own the town slaughterhouse; poor Mexicans work in it. Bored teenagers amuse themselves with OxyContin and being cruel to one another on the internet. The sheriff happily dons a confederate uniform for an annual barbecue.
Movies also can't compete when it comes to building up dread over eight hours, or to developing characters. Adams has been moving steadily away from the sweet roles that defined her early career, and a lot more people will watch her tortured, defiant, complex work here than bought a ticket for her film Nocturnal Animals. Clarkson also takes full advantage of the luxury of time to build Adora — slowly, delicately — into a truly terrifying monster-mother.
According to Deadline Hollywood, more is on the way: production companies including eOne — the company behind Sharp Objects — are combing their vaults for film scripts that can be converted to TV miniseries. Prior to this project, Vallée and Adams had been trying to make a feature film about Janis Joplin — I wonder if that will move to the small screen, too?


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Whilst most councils are closing libraries, or offering reduced hours, it looks like families in Salford will be able to enjoy more libraries, doubled opening hours, new state-of-the-art IT equipment and extra services.
The city, which launched the UK's first free public library back in 1850, has already innovatively boosted library services over the last five years by creating community hubs for families. Broughton Hub and the new Gateway Centres at Eccles, Swinton, Walkden and Pendleton bring together health and children's services as well as local libraries, enabling the buildings to stay open late into the evening.
A report will go to Salford City Council's cabinet next week (Tuesday September 26) for approval to invest £590,000 over the next four years across the service, including spending £100,000 on replacing all IT equipment and providing digital learning as requested by members of the public.
The funds will help to provide library services from seven new sites, including a watersports centre and local leisure and community centres.
The money from the council's capital programme will help the council save £1.26 million over four years through better use of technology and by locating services alongside partner organisations.
City Mayor of Salford Paul Dennett said: "This will be an investment in the future of our city. Libraries not only help people learn, gain qualifications and open up better paid jobs, they also provide free access to digital technology which helps people save money and gain new skills. They are essential for lifting people out of poverty and developing a life-long love of learning."
Councillor David Lancaster, lead member for environment and community safety said: "Over 3,600 local residents, including our ward councillors using their local knowledge and many children and young people children responded to our consultation on what they wanted from Salford libraries in the 21st century. We are very grateful to all of them and they will continue to help shape libraries in the future."
Ambitious plans for the next four years will see Salford libraries expand into seven new sites, some offering library services in that area for the first time. These are: Irlam and Cadishead, Worsley and Broughton leisure centres, and Beesley Green, The Valley and Wardley community centres and the Helly Hansen Watersports Centre bringing library services to the thousands of people who live and work at Salford Quays for the first time.
Weekly opening hours will be doubled and extra opening hours in the evenings and at weekends are also in the pipeline.
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Reed Gold Mine is the site of the first documented gold find in the United States. From this discovery, gold mining spread gradually to nearby counties and eventually into other southern states. During its peak years gold mining was second only to farming in the number of North Carolinians it employed. North Carolina led the nation in gold production until 1848, when it was eclipsed by the great rush to California.
Today, portions of the underground tunnels at the Mine have been restored for public access. Plus, discover exhibits of gold and historical mining equipment, a film about the first gold discovery and enjoy tours of a restored ore-crushing stamp mill.
Distance from Camp-Resort: 104 miles
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"Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ocean Adventures" Comes to PBS
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"We can't protect what we don't understand."
-Jean-Michel Cousteau
A generation ago, Jacques-Yves Cousteau revealed the oceans' mysteries to millions of landlocked PBS television viewers and inspired a groundswell of public awareness of the unique problems faced by the world's marine environments. Now, 30 years later, KQED Public Broadcasting and Ocean Futures Society, headed by Jacques' son Jean-Michel, will bring the Cousteau legacy back to PBS with JEAN-MICHEL COUSTEAU'S OCEAN ADVENTURES, a six-part HDTV series airing this spring.
Using state-of-the-art technology, Peabody and Emmy Award-winning Jean-Michel Cousteau and his acclaimed diving teams, accompanied by marine scientists and ecologists, will explore a thrilling array of natural phenomena, investigate little-known territories and eco-systems hundreds of feet beneath the ocean's surface, and come face-to-face with the friendly and ferocious inhabitants of the deep.
"We know more about the 'dead seas' of Mars than our own ocean," said Cousteau. "In this series, we are charting a course of human adventure and discovery of our real-life support system - our planet's ocean."
"PBS' commitment to quality marine science and ecology programming was inspired by the prescient explorations of Jacques Cousteau," said John Wilson, Sr. Vice President, PBS Programming. "Now our viewers will be able to take the next great journey into this realm with his son, Jean-Michael, and this unprecedented series."
Consistent with the Cousteau hallmarks of exploration and conservation, OCEAN ADVENTURES will share with television viewers the largely inaccessible, dangerous and spectacular locales across the globe. Through Jean-Michel's observations, the series will illuminate the great need for better understanding and sustainable management of the oceans' rich natural treasures.
The six one-hour programs included in the OCEAN ADVENTURES series are:
- "Voyage to Kure" (Part I and Part II)--The Cousteau team sets sail on the Northwest Hawaiian Archipelago. There, they discover diverse wildlife populations above and below the sea, and investigate these species' fight against extinction and the devastating effects of pollution, mining, fishing and development on the most remote island group in the world.
- "The Gray Whale Obstacle Course"-- The Cousteau team follows gray whales, unchanged for 600,000 years and under constant threat of extinction, from the nursery lagoons of Baja California north to frigid feeding grounds in the Bering Sea - through the longest and most polluted migration routes of any whale species.
- "Sharks: At Risk"--Long feared as objects of terror, sharks are gaining a new reputation due to unprecedented observation - yet their numbers are quickly dwindling. To better understand shark behavior and the impact their reputation has had on their survival, the Cousteau team observes gray sharks in French Polynesia and great white sharks in South Africa - unprotected by a shark cage.
- "America's Underwater Treasures" (Part I and Part II)--This two-part installment will take viewers to the rarely visited underwater parks that constitute the National Marine Sanctuary System - a diverse and uniquely American group of ecosystems that promise to inspire an ethic of ocean preservation that will translate far beyond any national borders.
Explorer, environmentalist, educator and film producer - for more than four decades Jean-Michel Cousteau has searched the world to document the pristine and perilous places of the oceans. Son of renowned ocean pioneer Jacques Cousteau, Jean-Michel grew up aboard the Calypso and Alcyone. As the founder and president of Ocean Futures Society, he travels the globe, meeting with world leaders, businesses, educators and children as a "voice for the ocean" and our planet's most significant ambassador of the water environment.
JEAN-MICHEL COUSTEAU'S OCEAN ADVENTURES is produced by KQED Public Broadcasting and Ocean Futures Society. The exclusive corporate sponsor is Dow Chemical Company.
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KQED Public Broadcasting operates KQED Public Television 9, one of the nation's most-watched public television stations during primetime, and KQED's digital television channels, which include KQED HD, KQED Encore, KQED World, KQED Life and KQED Kids; KQED Public Radio, the most-listened-to public radio station in the nation with an award-winning news and public affairs program service (88.5 FM in San Francisco and 89.3 FM in Sacramento); KQED.org, one of the most visited station sites in Public Broadcasting; and KQED Education Network, which brings the impact of KQED to thousands of teachers, students, parents and media professionals through workshops, seminars and resources.
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World Bulletin / News Desk
Speaking to the press on Friday, Gaziantep Governor Erdal Ata stated that the number of people detained in connection with a car bombing in Gaziantep has risen to 13.
Ata added that the blast in Gaziantep on the second day of Eid al-Fitr turned the Muslim holiday into a period of bitterness with the death of nine civilians, including four children.
"Everybody should stand against such incidents and not be involved in them. Gaziantep is a city of peace. We have lived up until now in peace. Nobody can disturb our sense of unity. Those committing such assaults cannot be the friends of anybody living in Turkey," Ata added.
Nine people were killed and more than 60 injured in a car bombing in the southern Turkish province of Gaziantep on Monday. The Gaziantep Governor's Office said in a statement that a truck full of explosives parked near the Karşıyaka Police Station in the Şehitkamil district of Gaziantep city was blown up, burning two buses and a car to the ground.Last Mod: 24 Ağustos 2012, 15:39