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var config = require("../config");
var restify = require("restify");
var EventEmitter = require("events").EventEmitter;

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from an Aesthetic Realism seminar, including a discussion of Mary Benson, South African anti-apartheid activist
As a person who once felt speaking to more than two people at a time constituted a crisis, I'm grateful to tell what I've learned from Aesthetic Realism about what true self-expression is. In his lecture on expression, Eli Siegel explains that it
is anything we do having an outward form, for some purpose of ourselves. . . . Whenever we do something, we show what we are and also what we want. No person can do anything without expressing himself in some way. The question is how successful the expression is.
My life—as a woman, wife, and high school English teacher—shows what Ellen Reiss writes in issue 902 of the journal The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known: "Our true expression is freed by Aesthetic Realism, as surely and sweetly as a caged lark is freed when the cage is opened and he soars into blue sky."
Where the trouble about self-expression begins
"Expression," said Mr. Siegel, "begins with our thoughts to ourselves. That is where we decide on who we are." As a child in Brooklyn, my thoughts about the world and people were of two very different kinds, arising from two opposing purposes. My desire to like and be affected by the world showed in my early care for words and language. I loved learning to read, and my favorite book was a large, colorful edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. When my 4th grade class began learning French, and later, as I studied other languages, I was thrilled seeing how people in different countries expressed themselves.
But mostly, as I looked at the people closest to me, I had another kind of thought. Like many children, I felt my parents were less refined than I was. I saw my father go from humming "Sweet Georgia Brown" and dancing jauntily to suddenly being furious. And in my snobbishness I was embarrassed by my mother because she was very talkative— even with strangers. I also didn't feel this was the same mother who made cutting remarks about a neighbor or relative. I used my impressions to be scornful, to have contempt, and to feel I'd express myself, as Mr. Siegel describes in his lecture, "by restraining [myself], by not talking." I went for the expression of feeling:
you're roving around in the clouds that make up yourself; and in this way you'll get away from all the knocks and sharpnesses and thorns that you had to meet.
I wanted to be as different from my parents as I could—including by getting rid of my Brooklyn accent—and from age 9 I worked painstakingly to eradicate any trace of Brooklyn from my speech. It was exhausting!—and it added to my feeling that talking was a burden, not happy self-expression.
For years I was puzzled by the fact that, fiercely untalkative and separate as I was, I cared so much for one of the deepest forms of human expression—language. In an Aesthetic Realism consultation, I began to understand why when my consultants said:
Aesthetic Realism says the way we use words, both to ourselves and to others, is what our life depends on. Any warfare with words is essentially a warfare with meaning. [But] the triumph of contempt is also its disaster. We find we're in ourselves and we can't get out. Do you think one of the reasons you're interested in language is a criticism of this?
Yes, it was. I learned that language stands for our deep relation to the world, for through it we are affected by and can express ourselves to other people—which I desperately needed to be and do. I'd felt encased in myself, and periodically would throw myself into activities that would bring me closer to people—at summer camp; at a new, experimental high school. But because I wanted to scorn and haughtily dismiss people as "not my type," I continued to ward them off, and would retreat once again, in pain and triumph. Mr. Siegel explains why, in these exact and kind sentences:
We have to be impressed before we can express ourselves. Part of the being impressed is the being stirred. If in the field of thought we have put up so many guards that we can be immune to anything deeply exciting, we'll never express ourselves.
I was deeply immune to what was outside myself. An instance I remember was in late spring, 1970, when I was a sophomore in high school, and the US was engaged in the Vietnam War, one of the ugliest, most brutal things in history. One day, some students came around to every classroom and made an urgent announcement: the President had just sent troops into Cambodia, escalating the war. Outraged by this invasion, they were planning a march across the Brooklyn Bridge in protest. I'd said I was against the war, but the horrors being inflicted by our country on people in Southeast Asia, who were being maimed, napalmed, and killed, were utterly unreal to me. And so, instead of joining my classmates and teachers in proudly expressing large, just anger at what the US was doing, I stayed in school, but I loathed myself for being so cold.
What is true self-expression in love
Though I tried to convince myself the reason I hadn't been successful in love was the poor judgment of men, who didn't know a good thing when they met it, I had a suspicion something in me interfered. In an early consultation, when I was asked: "Are you distressed about the men question?" I answered, "Not terribly, but somewhat." My consultants asked, "Do you think to say you're really concerned about men gives them too much importance?" Yes. I did feel showing I was affected by a man was humiliating!
I began to learn that the reason love didn't fare so well with me was that I'd made a rift between expressing myself and wanting to be affected by someone outside myself. In an Aesthetic Realism class, when I said several men I knew had been critical of my wanting to be useful to them, while not feeling they could be useful to me, Chairman of Education Ellen Reiss asked: "Do you think if we don't want people to be useful to us, we can't wholly want to be useful to them?" I didn't understand why, and she explained with thrilling logic that to be really useful to a person, we have to want him to have all the meaning he can—including for us.
What she was describing is good will, which Mr. Siegel defined as "the desire to have something else stronger and more beautiful, for this desire makes oneself stronger and more beautiful." I learned that when we love a person, we want the best thing in him to be stronger, more expressed; we want to be a kind critic of the things he dislikes himself for—and we want him to do the same for us. I'm grateful to be engaged in this happy process with my husband Alan Shapiro, jazz pianist and music teacher, as we study Aesthetic Realism together in the great classes taught by Ellen Reiss. That there is a true criterion for love, and that we can learn how to have it, is knowledge every woman deserves!
Powerful self-expression in a woman of South Africa
"The question of expression," Mr. Siegel explained, "has to do with how much we take in and how we take it in." A woman who, because she was profoundly stirred by what persons in her native land endured, responded with some of the true self-expression of the 20th century, is Mary Benson, who was born in Pretoria, South Africa, and died in the year 2000 at the age of 80. Her name, says her obituary in the Johannesburg Sunday Times, "has been synonymous with the struggle against apartheid and, more particularly, with the [African National Congress] ever since she wrote the first history of the organisation in the early 60s." For 50 years, she fought passionately to end the hideous policy of racial segregation instituted in South Africa in 1948, but unofficial, personal policy in the minds of white persons there for half a century before. Because of her work, including an early biography of Nelson Mandela, the government placed her under house arrest, banning all her books, and ultimately forcing her into exile.
Her courage was remarkable—for, as she writes in her autobiography, A Far Cry—The Making of a South African, growing up she had the racism of "a typical white South African." Born in 1919, the daughter of the well-to-do administrator of Pretoria's General Hospital, she tells with shame of the contemptuous way she and others in her family saw their black servants:
We never questioned the ludicrousness, let alone the humiliation to them, of calling these men 'boys.' From the time I had learned to write well enough, if the rest of the family was absent, they would come to me: 'Can I have a night pass, please, nonnie?' Then I would spell out on a piece of paper: 'Please pass native Alpheus …,' with our address, the date and time, and sign my name.
This is about the degrading pass laws, which forced all black persons to carry identification passes; caught without them, they could be arrested, fined, imprisoned. Aesthetic Realism explains that all prejudice, including apartheid, arises from contempt, from persons' feeling they'll express themselves by looking down on and exerting power over people different from them.
At 19, "determined to escape from a life centred on the Country Club," Ms. Benson felt she had to leave South Africa. An ardent movie fan, for a time she thought she'd be best expressed as an actress, and headed for London, and then Hollywood, only to return a year later when her attempts failed.
During the 2nd World War she joined the South African Women's Auxiliary Army Service, and in Germany in 1945, she helped administer centers for Displaced Persons: those who'd been in concentration- and labor-camps, orphans, and others who had survived the horrors of the war. This work affected her tremendously, but she writes, "It never occurred to me that millions of my fellow-citizens were treated like Displaced Persons in the country of their birth. When it came to racial prejudice, I remained a typical white South African."
Expression She Was Proud Of
The turning point in Mary Benson's life was when, at 29, she read Alan Paton's just-published novel, Cry, the Beloved Country. Citing its moving first sentences—"There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it"—she writes:
I read those words one momentous day in 1948. They still strike at my heart…. Through its revelation of South Africa, the landscape, the people—the black people—[this book] crashed open the mold in which my white consciousness had been formed.
She wrote to Paton, beginning a lifelong friendship with him. It was through speaking with him that she first heard about a courageous Anglican priest whose work exposing slave-labor conditions for black laborers made him loved by Africans and hated by the ruling white minority. His name was Michael Scott, and she determined to meet and work with him. In London, she saw Scott's films of the inhuman conditions in which native South African's were forced to live: the shantytowns, the pass laws, the vicious arrests, the decimation of tribal villages. Ms. Benson writes:
The revelations which in Paton's book had opened heart and mind were now there before my eyes and I tried to catch up on long years of ignorance by reading all the relevant books and articles I could.
"What happens to you when you know something?," asked Mr. Siegel. "Are you expressed more? Of course, because you have more reason to respond, and all expression is a response." Mary Benson responded powerfully to what she was learning, and her expression became a great source of pride, and of usefulness to many people.
What interfered with her self-expression in love
Mary Benson says she longed to "combine love. . .with [a large] purpose in life." The person with whom she got closest to this was Michael Scott. More than with any other man she knew—and she'd had several painful relationships—she had large reason to respect him. "Where principles of justice and humanity were involved," she writes, "he was totally uncompromising. . . .He had a wide intelligence and probing mind." She worked, without a salary, as Scott's secretary and associate, for the next seven years. Together, they founded the African Bureau in London, and worked to document and end the terrible injustices to black persons throughout southern Africa.
But Mary Benson also had another purpose with Michael Scott, and there was much pain between them. I wish she could have heard questions like this, which I had the good fortune to hear in an Aesthetic Realism consultation. "Do you think that even if there's a man you admire somewhat, you'd like to affect him in such a way that you can have contempt for him?" I did feel this. If I respected a man, I felt I was giving in, and had to assert myself by managing him, aggressively giving advice, feeling I knew better than he how to run his life. This was also some of the trouble in how Mary Benson saw Michael Scott. She tells, for example, of his coming to stay at the apartment she shared with a friend after an exhausting tour of the country. "[He] welcomed my affectionate attention. I tidied him up and, when his back was turned, gave his ankle-length coat to charity."
Their relationship was complex, and there is much to understand about how Scott himself saw. But the fight in Ms. Benson between respecting him and wanting to own him was intense. I think what Mr. Siegel describes in Self and World in speaking of another woman, Stella Winn, who was "noble, self-denying publicly; nervous, narrow, nagging,. . .unjust privately," explains something that was working in Mary Benson. Though in her work, she wanted to know and understand South Africa and its people, in some crucial ways she didn't want to know Michael Scott, including why he felt he could never marry, which she says, "became the theme of obsessive nagging on [her] part."
Like women everywhere, who have done much less good for the world, Mary Benson wanted something else from men. She says she "was flattered by . . . invitations to lunches or dinners" with male friends who made her very important. When, confused about how to see Michael Scott, she decided to return to South Africa, he said angrily, "How can you take possession, then throw it all away?" She writes: "Those words were to remain imprinted on my mind:…Possession? Ownership?" I respect Ms. Benson's distress about this. I wish so much she could have learned from Aesthetic Realism that love is justice, beginning with a desire to know and be fair to one person. Not knowing this, she suffered very much. Still, she said of Scott, "all we shared, all I learned from him, enriched and influenced the rest of my life."
Over the next decade she worked closely with members of the ANC, many of whom—including Nelson Mandela—were on trial for their lives, charged with high treason, and in 1961, she was asked to write a history of the ANC. She eagerly accepted, though meeting with members of an outlawed organization was prohibited, and therefore dangerous. It also involved travel, which was difficult as she had developed crippling rheumatoid arthritis. But she says, "I came to know my country as never before." In 1963 she testified before the UN Committee on Apartheid, describing the hideous injustice with which native Africans were treated, the courage of many people fighting it, and the "fantastic wave of prosperity" for American and British investors who reaped huge profits from the earth and labor of South Africa.
Two years later, she was placed under house arrest. She could hardly leave her home, could no longer write anything—even a personal diary—couldn't have visitors or speak with more than one person at a time. After much thought, she decided to leave South Africa for London, so that she could continue to have persons throughout the world know about and oppose apartheid. Her tiny apartment became an unofficial refuge for exiled South Africans. I was moved to learn that when Nelson Mandela was in London just three weeks before Ms. Benson's death, he interrupted his official duties to visit her.
True self-expression, Mr. Siegel said, "is useful to yourself and everybody else." To a very large degree, Mary Benson had this, and I'm sure she would want her life to be useful in having women understand themselves. I see Aesthetic Realism itself, the magnificent result of the way Eli Siegel was affected by and used his mind on all reality, as the greatest achievement of expression in the history of human thought. Studying it can have every person, on every continent, feel truly expressed, complete, proud.

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Dungannon has begun its busker 'recruitment drive' ahead of the town's third Battle of the Buskers event on Saturday, August 5.
Musicians, singers, bands and solo artists are being invited to showcase their musical talent in the competition, devised by Mid Ulster District Council, and which last year saw local musician, Darryl Quinn take the title.
This year, as well as £1,000 in prize money, the overall winner will move straight from the street to the stage, performing that same evening at the 'Blues on the Hill' concert at the Hill of the O'Neill and Ranfurly House, on the same bill as Grainne Duffy and Band of Friends (artists that have played with blues legend, Rory Gallagher).
The second placed busker will win £500, while £100 prizes are also on offer in other categories, including Best Young Performer and Spirit of Battle of the Buskers.
Launching the call for buskers, Chair of the Council, Councillor Kim Ashton said: "The 2017 Battle of the Buskers, now in its third year, will be the most tightly fought yet, given the wealth of talent we have in Mid Ulster and further afield, particularly now that the first prize is a once in a lifetime opportunity to share the bill with seasoned, internationally renowned performers such as Grainne Duffy and Band of Friends.
Each performer will be allocated a pitch to perform on the day, along with an opportunity to perform on stage in Upper Market Square.


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The lion is the biggest cat on the African plains by far, with the female version capable of taking on two of the next largest leopard. The power, grace and stark mane of the male has been revered throughout human history, with the lion gaining the title of King of Beasts in many cultures. In fact, the lions visage adorns the shields and royal crests of civilizations throughout Africa and the world beyond.
Lion Facts for Kids: Understanding the Pride
A familial collection of lions is known as a pride. Usually, a very small group of male lions - numbering from two to four - lead a large group of females and small lion cubs. There can be as many as 20 females in a single pride, with most of the cubs fathered by a single dominant male. The other males are often the brothers of the dominant one, and they help protect the pride from challenges from outside males.
When a lion cub is born, the mother leaves the pride for a little while, because the cubs are too small to keep up with them. She needs to hide them in tall grass, caves - wherever a suitable place exists. The danger comes from leopards, adult cheetahs, hyenas and even cape buffalo; all of these animals consider baby lions as a threat and will kill them when they can find them unprotected.
Another threat to the cubs is the male lion, himself. If an outsider succeeds in dethroning the current king, then he will kill every cub he can find. This brutal act serves two purposes: killing the cubs of the previous generation causes the lionesses to come back into heat, and it ensures that no genes from the dethroned lion survives. The new lion wants only his children to comprise the pride.
Lions and Their Duties
The lion can weigh from 450 to 500 pounds. The much smaller lioness weighs up to about 300 pounds, but she is very powerful, agile and fast. In fact, the lioness is much more suited to the hunt, because she doesn't have to carry around all that muscle. Because of her agility, the lioness does most of the hunting for the pride, although the male occasionally helps take down very large prey like giraffe and a bull cape buffalo. The lion's main job, however, is to protect the pride from challenges by other males. He does this by marking the entire territory, as a first measure. He spends most of the day sleeping, conserving his energy for explosive action when a capable threat rears its head.
Lions and the Hunt
Lions are apex predators, which means they have no natural enemies that hunt them for food. A group of lions have even been known to take down teenage elephants at night! Although very rare, this shows their ferocity and power, because an elephant can weigh as much as an SUV. Their normal prey consists of wildebeest, cape buffalo, zebra, warthogs, giraffe, small rodents as a snack, and anything else they can catch. Lions will kill other big cats - leopards, cheetah and the occasional jaguar - because they are competition on the African plains.
But most of all, there is no love lost between the lion and the hyena. Out of all the predators on the plains, the hyena and the lion are in the fiercest competition. They steal food from each other and eagerly kill each others' young when they can. Although it takes many more hyenas to chase a lion off a kill than the reverse, hyenas often have the required numbers to do so.
Lion Facts for Kids: The Lion and His Mane
The most distinctive feature of the lion is his mighty mane. The more prominent this regal crest, the more ferocious and strong the lion. Lionesses strongly prefer males with better manes, and these are the ones that usually win battles with other males anyway. A good mane is considered full and dark, with the color coming from higher levels of testosterone.
There were millions of lions in the past; however, human expansion and trophy hunting has reduced that number to dangerously low levels. There are many reserves throughout Africa that harbor good numbers of lions, but their status in the wild is dire. Three are less than 4000 lions left on the plains of the Serengeti, spread among a few dozen prides. The lion can only be preserved for the generations to come with help from the young children of today. It's one of the reasons zoos are so popular, to inspire the love of lions and nature early in life.
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Netanyahu and Gantz both fete US for changing tack on settlements »
By saying settlements not illegal, Trump seen as throwing Netanyahu a lifeline
Source: By saying settlements not illegal, Trump seen as throwing Netanyahu a lifeline | The Times of Israel
Former Mideast peace negotiator says move meant to 'dismantle the core elements' of the attempt to achieve a two-state solution
By ERIC CORTELLESSA Today, 7:33 am
US President Donald Trump, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on May 23, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
WASHINGTON — The US declaration Monday that the settlements do not violate international law — reversing decades of American foreign policy — was, according to former Mideast peace negotiators, the logical next step of the Trump administration's efforts to reframe the basis on which Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations take place.
Previous policy decisions have had a similar effect: from recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital and moving the US embassy there from Tel Aviv to withholding funding from the United Nations agency responsible for Palestinian refugees and seeking to redefine eligibility for refugee status.
"The administration has gone about dismantling the core elements that have constituted a traditional approach to a two-state solution," said Aaron David Miller, a State Department veteran who worked under both Republican and Democratic presidents. The latest move "fits within the broader context of what the administration has been involved in," he said.
But the timing of the announcement — two days before Blue and White chief Benny Gantz must form a government or see Israel face new elections — adds another dimension.
It seems, at least in part, designed to bolster Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he faces one of the toughest political battles of his life.
US President Donald Trump, left, welcomes visiting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House in Washington, March 25, 2019. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
"I tend to think this was in the works for a while, and this was something that Netanyahu wanted credit for," said David Makovsky, a special envoy to Israeli-Palestinian negotiations during the Obama administration. "He sees this as kind of unfinished business from his tenure. I think it's related to that and I tend to think there was a mind meld between Netanyahu and Ambassador David Friedman."
Friedman, US President Donald Trump's envoy to Israel, is a longtime supporter, financial and otherwise, of the West Bank settlements.
Indeed, a senior Israeli official told reporters on the condition of anonymity that Netanyahu had been pushing for the policy change "for a number of months." The issue was advanced with the Israeli National Security Council and the department for international law at the attorney general's office, the official said.
"This policy reflects a historical truth — that the Jewish people are not foreign colonialists in Judea and Samaria," Netanyahu said in a statement, referring to the West Bank by its biblical name.
The move culminated in US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo repudiating, in a news conference Monday, a 1978 State Department legal opinion that held that civilian settlements in the occupied territories are "inconsistent with international law."
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at a news conference at the State Department in Washington, November 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
The Trump administration views the opinion, the basis for longstanding US opposition to expanding the settlement enterprise, as a distraction and believes any legal questions about the issue should be addressed by Israeli courts, Pompeo said.
The decision is part of a line of others that have weakened Palestinian efforts to achieve statehood.
The effect, Miller told The Times of Israel, will send a message to Israel that it's okay to build more settlements in the West Bank — land that Palestinians see as their own for a future state.
"They have essentially green-lighted and validated — in an assertive act that was not necessary — the main transgression on the Israeli side that essentially has made the prospects of a [peace] settlement remote," he said.
"I suppose domestic politics is part of it and throwing some lifeline to Netanyahu several days before Gantz's time's up might have been part of the calculation," he added.
Makovsky said he wanted the White House to put out a statement clarifying that it is not condoning settlement expansion. "I hope the administration clarifies that this is not a call to start building settlements everywhere and make a two-state solution impossible," he told The Times of Israel.
Construction in the northern West Bank settlement of Ariel in 2014. (Flash90)
Progressive American Jewish groups accused the Trump administration of using American foreign policy to help Netanyahu politically, all the while subverting US interests in the process.
"Coming at a moment when Prime Minister Netanyahu is struggling desperately for political survival and faces imminent indictment for corruption, the timing of this announcement can only be read as last-ditch attempt to boost the prime minister's personal prospects," said Jeremy Ben-Ami, who heads the liberal Zionist group J Street.
"The president and his advisers have given the Israeli government carte blanche to expand settlements, entrench occupation and move toward formal annexation of the West Bank," he went on. "By discarding decades of bipartisan US policy and flagrantly disregarding international law, they are trampling on the rights of Palestinians and helping the Israeli right-wing to destroy Israel's future as a democratic homeland for the Jewish people."
Settler leaders and right-wing politicians, meanwhile, called for the annexation of the West Bank or at least for implementing Israeli law in the settlements, a move that Netanyahu has vowed to enact in the last two election cycles this year.
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The domain within your query sequence starts at position 824 and ends at position 859; the E-value for the VHP domain shown below is 2.12e-17.
Villin is an F-actin bundling protein involved in the maintenance of the microvilli of the absorptive epithelia. The villin-type "headpiece" domain is a modular motif found at the extreme C terminus of larger "core" domains in over 25 cytoskeletal proteins in plants and animals, often in assocation with the Gelsolin repeat. Although the headpiece is classified as an F-actin-binding domain, it has been shown that not all headpiece domains are intrinsically F-actin-binding motifs, surface charge distribution may be an important element for F-actin recognition [(PUBMED:11977079)]. An autonomously folding, 35 residue, thermostable subdomain (HP36) of the full-length 76 amino acid residue villin headpiece, is the smallest known example of a cooperatively folded domain of a naturally occurring protein. The structure of HP36, as determined by NMR spectroscopy, consists of three short helices surrounding a tightly packed hydrophobic core [(PUBMED:12095260)].
There are 6527 VHP domains in 6527 proteins in SMART's nrdb database.
Taxonomic distribution of proteins containing VHP domain.
This tree includes only several representative species. The complete taxonomic breakdown of all proteins with VHP domain is also avaliable.
Click on the protein counts, or double click on taxonomic names to display all proteins containing VHP domain in the selected taxonomic class.
UNC-115, a conserved protein with predicted LIM and actin-binding domains, mediates axon guidance in C. elegans.
Axon guidance receptors modulate the growth cone cytoskeleton through signaling pathways that are not well understood. Here, we describe the C. elegans unc-115 gene, which encodes a candidate cytoskeletal linker protein that acts in axon guidance. unc-115 mutants have defects in a subset of axons, particularly as the affected axons change environments during outgrowth. The unc-115 gene encodes a putative actin-binding protein that is similar to the human actin-binding protein abLIM/limatin; it has a villin headpiece domain and three LIM domains that could mediate protein interactions. unc-115 is expressed in neurons during their development and is required cell-autonomously in certain neurons for normal axon guidance. We propose that UNC-115 modulates the growth cone actin cytoskeleton in response to signals received by growth cone receptors.
Cloning of human erythroid dematin reveals another member of the villin family.
Dematin is an actin-bundling protein originally identified in the human erythroid membrane skeleton. Its actin-bundling activity is abolished upon phosphorylation by the cAMP-dependent protein kinase and is restored after dephosphorylation. Here we report the complete primary structure of human erythroid dematin, whose sequence includes a homologue of the "headpiece" sequence found at the C terminus of villin. This headpiece is essential for villin function in inducing microvillar development and actin redistribution. The widespread expression of dematin transcripts in human tissues suggests that dematin and its homologues may substitute for villin in villin-negative tissues to regulate actin reorganization by a phosphorylation-regulated mechanism.
This information is based on mapping of SMART genomic protein database to KEGG orthologous groups. Percentage points are related to the number of proteins with VHP domain which could be assigned to a KEGG orthologous group, and not all proteins containing VHP domain. Please note that proteins can be included in multiple pathways, ie. the numbers above will not always add up to 100%.
2rjw The crystal structure of the H41Y mutant of villin headpiece, P61 SPACE GROUP.


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John Turturro, Romance & Cigarettes
by Nick Dawson
in Director Interviews
bobby cannavale, Christopher Walken, Coen Brothers, Eddie Izzard, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, John Turturro, mandy moore, marie-louise parker, Musical, romance and cigarettes, Steve Buscemi, Susan Sarandon
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN IN JOHN TURTURRO'S ROMANCE & CIGARETTES. COURTESY UNITED ARTISTS.
John Turturro has the distinction of being both a director's actor and an actor's director. A favorite of both Spike Lee and the Coen brothers, over the past 20 years Turturro has marked himself out as one of the most interesting and talented actors in film, and whether it is a blocked writer (Barton Fink), a socially-awkward chess master (The Luzhin Defense) or a grief-stricken widower (Fear X), he adds a depth and humanity to the characters he inhabits. In 1992, he directed his first film, Mac, about three Italian American brothers who band together to start a construction firm, a story which was inspired by Turturro's own father's experiences as a carpenter. He followed it up with, Illuminata (1998), a tragicomic farce about a Manhattan theater troupe in the early 20th Century. A true multihyphenate, Turturro also co-wrote both films with Brandon Cole, and played the principal lead in each.
Apart from a blink-and-you-miss-it appearance as a dancer, Turturro does not appear in his latest directorial effort, Romance & Cigarettes, the first film he has written on his own. A musical of the common man, it uses songs by the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Janis Joplin and James Brown in the story of Nick Murder (James Gandolfini), a man torn between his earthy English mistress, Tula (Kate Winslet), and long-suffering wife, Kitty (Susan Sarandon). Alongside the leads, Turturro assembles a stellar supporting cast featuring Steve Buscemi, Christopher Walken, Bobby Cannavale, Mary-Louise Parker, Eddie Izzard and Mandy Moore, who turn up to sing and dance with gusto. Like Illuminata, Romance & Cigarettes combines moments of broad comedy and bawdy humor with ones of soulful loneliness; as a musical, it breaks the mold by both embracing the surreal nature of the genre and adding a stark realism which is alien to the form. Though it premiered in Venice exactly two years ago, the movie has had a troubled time finding a distributor because of its unique take on the musical, however audiences who give it a chance will find it a sweet, entertaining and rewarding experience.
Filmmaker spoke to Turturro about the film's difficulties, the influence of Charles Bukowski, Dennis Potter and Etta James, and working with non-driving actor Christopher Walken.
JOHN TURTURRO TALKS WITH SUSAN SARANDON ON THE SET OF ROMANCE & CIGARETTES. COURTESY UNITED ARTISTS.
Filmmaker: You must be happy that Romance & Cigarettes is getting a U.S. release after it was in the wilderness for a few years.
Turturro: Yeah. I feel like I've been flying without an air traffic controller and I've finally been brought in. [laughs] Life is bizarre, so what else is new?
Filmmaker: I believe your problems began when Sony executives screened the film, and just didn't get it.
Turturro: They didn't see it with an audience, and for a movie like this, that's an impossibility. If it had a brand name on it, like "A Pedro Almodovar Film," they would have said O.K. But the truth of the situation with this movie is that when you put it in a room it plays like gangbusters. The whole idea is that it's different, and that was the calling card to get people to see it. I'm not angry about [Sony's reaction], but it does make you scratch your head a bit when people who buy films don't think they need to see it with a group.
Filmmaker: Where did your inspiration came from for this film? It's not what we expect from you as a director.
Turturro: To me, the film is very much me. [laughs] It's probably more me than anything I've ever done. There's a real nakedness to it, and I promised myself I'd be uninhibited as much as I possibly could be [laughs], and try to get everyone else to do that. There are things in life that you witness that can be painful or harsh, but when you digest them you say, "Wow, there's something universal there." My idea was to put that into a form that was entertaining. I think if you're laughing at something, you're open, and you could also be very moved.
Filmmaker: What was your musical background growing up?
Turturro: I grew up in a very small house which was bursting with music. My mother was a very good singer, and her brothers were jazz musicians and she sang with them for a while, and my older brother's a big musician. We just had tons and tons of music in our house. To people of modest means, music is a powerful form of transportation to go to the realms of fantasy.
Filmmaker: What were your influences while you were conceiving the idea for the film?
Turturro: I was told about Dennis Potter, whose work I knew about but never had seen. I saw a little bit of his stuff, and I said, "Wow, he's really onto something!" I didn't want to do it exactly that way so I didn't watch too much, but I read some interviews with him and was very touched by some of the things he said. Then someone gave me a Charles Bukowski book they wanted me to adapt called Women. I read that and I was laughing because it was the dirtiest…. It would be rated Triple X!
Filmmaker: I've read Women, and it would definitely be difficult to adapt.
Turturro: It would be problematic to do it, but it reminded me of people — like my father, who was a builder — and I liked that postman, garbageman poetry. It reminded me of popular music. So I sat on [those ideas] for about ten years, and then one day said, "There's something here." I took a year off, I wrote it, I took it to Joel and Ethan [Coen] and they really liked it. They really like the film and are proud of it, and so am I.
Filmmaker: In the film, you really embrace the surreal aspects of musicals, even more than the classic Hollywood model, and then juxtapose that with very realistic elements.
Turturro: Musicals are surreal, and they were popular during the Depression, when people were so poor. This movie is a love story, and music is how most people get through the day, even very successful people. I think it's a great form. In early Greek plays, they used song and a chorus and dance, and they were serious plays.
Filmmaker: How did you bring together such a fantastic cast?
Turturro: I wanted people who were very grounded and not cerebral actors, and I didn't want people who were so great musically. I wanted really earthy people, and the Coens recommended that I check out James [Gandolfini]. I thought he was a little young at first, but he did a reading with us and he was brilliant. I always thought of Kate [Winslet], because Kate is from a working class family and she was so uninhibited in that strange Jane Campion movie, Holy Smoke. I needed someone who could play this girl and show you her crude side but also her tender side. I don't see how her performance could be better.
Filmmaker: How did the cast respond to the script?
Turturro: Everyone read it, and everyone liked it. We rehearsed it like a play: we did acting exercises, we did all kinds of things to make people feel foolish and relax with each other, because you can't achieve that by being professionals — you've got to get into the realm of the amateur.
Filmmaker: How easy was it to get the cast to sing?
Turturro: Well, Kate sings. I sent them all to singing lessons, and I figured that they would all sing along, like you would sing along with the radio. James was a little nervous, but James actually has a very nice voice. Everyone just embraced it. We had two choreographers and then I would come in and rechoreograph it because I wanted it to be more like regular movements and not Broadway choreography. I looked at that one big song that Ann-Margret had in Tommy, and that was an inspiration. Ann-Margret was an inspiration for Kate's whole look — and she was someone I had a thing for when I was a kid.
Filmmaker: What was it like working with Christopher Walken? He's not only a great actor, but also a very talented dancer.
Turturro: Chris is a huge talent. Now we think of him in a more eccentric way, but he's also done tremendous stage work, where he's moving and emotional in things. I told him I would love to make a movie with him about a clown, and he goes, "Oh, yeah. Clowns are scary." He's a lovely guy and I love working with him. He would say, "I don't want the choreographer to tell me things." I said, "OK, do you want to try stuff?" He said, "No, you do it and then I'll watch you. If I like what you do, I'll steal it from you." He made me dance, and he'd be "Oh, I like that, I'll do that." We get along very well, but he has the things that he needs. He doesn't like to drive and act anymore, I don't know why. "You got to be parked, that's the only thing." He likes the old rear-projection system.
Filmmaker: The two previous films you directed you co-wrote with Brandon Cole, so what was it like writing this screenplay on your own?
Turturro: It was a daunting thing, but I had so much great material. To be honest, my mother was a real big source of stories and she can be really irreverent and really funny. I would listen to a lot of things that she said and write them down. When I was a little kid, my mother would talk to all her friends and I would always be eavesdropping, crawling up the hallway to listen to them. When I was writing, I would read Bukowski's poems to charge me up, listen to Etta James, and get in there!
Filmmaker: One of the aspects of the film that might surprise people is the dialogue, which is colorful and sexual in a wonderfully inventive way.
Turturro: I asked the Bukowski estate if I could use a few quotes. My father was a builder, and when he got angry he had a wonderfully expressive foul mouth, but he never talked that way sexually. I have an appreciation of that. Shakespeare has all these bawdy things, and there's something about it that can be really liberating.
Filmmaker: You also wrote some great roles for women in this film.
Turturro: I have to say, I like women, any age. I think women are very powerful, wonderful, complicated, and in movies you don't see almost any of that. You see young girls and it's all about falling in love. But what happens when you're in it? What happens when it goes on for a while? What happens with a guy when you're caught between? I do like putting women in situations I don't see them in and I know that they have in them. When you look at great plays and great literature and old movies, the women got to do things. And in this movie, they're pretty active.
Filmmaker: What were the films that made you love cinema when you were young?
Turturro: When I was a kid, I grew up on Warner Brothers films, but I went through all different phases. Angels With Dirty Faces, On the Waterfront, The Sweet Smell of Success, Spartacus when I was a kid, but then when I saw European cinema when I was a teenager, I was blown away. The neo-realists, Bergman, Kurosawa, Buñuel — I like different people for different things. When I was young, there were a lot of things to inspire me: the movies of the '70s, movies way before that from the '50s, American films, European films. Those are the films that made me want to do this. Today, when I watch films, I don't see that as much. You don't see people like Bergman, struggling with their problems in a movie. To me, there's nothing more exciting, because it makes me feel less lonely, and included in life. When someone does that, it can be liberating — and also civilising. I'm very appreciative of it, even when it's not perfect; other movies, I have to be in the mood for.
Filmmaker: Which director that you've worked for has influenced you most?
Turturro: Certainly the Coen brothers in terms of preparation and everything, and not being afraid of doing something that they think no one is going to get. That gave me the courage to do something that I get, and they got it, which was good for me. I've worked with so many good directors: them, Spike [Lee], Francesco Rosi, who's a great compositional guy, Peter Weir, who plays music on his sets. I played music on the set all the time, even when [the scene] wasn't musical, just to get people in the mood, as something to respond to. I do a lot of things off-camera, because I know how actors are treated. If you do a little extra for an actor, they can do amazing things, so I tried to create an atmosphere that was fun and relaxed. It was serious and prepared, but irreverent. You take from different directors, say, "I like what that guy does" — but, at the end of the day, it's you.
Filmmaker: Do you have other things in the pipeline as a director?
Turturro: I have a couple of projects that I've worked on and that are done that would be very interesting to do. One based on a book by a very good writer, Roland Merullo, who now is being published more and more. It's a beautiful story, but I'm too old to be in it so I'd have to find the right actor. There's another script that I've developed with Scorsese and Spike Lee about a corrupt athlete, called Prince Jack, by Michael Di Jiacomo, who's another wonderful screenwriter. He's only directed one movie, but he's a major talent and that's a wonderful script that I'd like to do.
Filmmaker: Do you have to take on a role in a big movie if you're going direct one of your films?
Turturro: I do it afterwards. But I've made a certain amount of money and I've put it away. If you're a little short, you put in a little extra to know [a movie] is going to happen. Whether or not you get that back, you get it back in other ways. After I made my first film, I got a lot of offers to direct, but I wasn't really interested in anything they sent my way. For me, I've really gotta be in love with something.
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Finance Ministry reportedly agrees to one-time payments of 2,500 euros ($3,280) for Jewish children who were in concentration camps, ghettos or in hiding for at least six months.
A fund for Jewish victims of Nazi crimes says it has reached an agreement with the German government for additional financial assistance for child survivors of the Holocaust.
The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany says the Finance Ministry agreed late Wednesday to one-time payments of 2,500 euros ($3,280) for Jewish children who were in concentration camps, ghettos or in hiding for at least six months. About 75 thousand survivors will be entitled to the compensation.
Today all elderly, such victims of the Nazis are still suffering the effects of childhood malnutrition and psychological trauma.
It was not immediately clear how many victims would qualify for the payments and the Finance Ministry had no immediate comment Thursday.


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Despite favorable conditions, crews struggle to build containment lines along 416 Fire
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Two brush fires contained north of Durango
Two wildfires burning near Shalona Lake north of Durango had been fully contained as of Thursday afternoon. Both fires were about 100 feet by 100 feet in size, said Scot Davis with the Durango Fire...


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Antônio Carlos Fedato (São Caetano do Sul, 18 de novembro de 1948 — São Caetano do Sul, 26 de janeiro de 2000), mais conhecido como Fedato, foi um futebolista brasileiro que teve passagem de maior destaque pelo Palmeiras, durante a segunda "Academia". Centroavante, era bastante versátil e também aproveitado em várias outras posições.

Durante boa parte de sua passagem pela equipe alviverde, não foi titular, mas era uma espécie de décimo segundo jogador que sempre entrava no segundo tempo das partidas como uma espécie de "arma secreta" dos treinadores, cativando a torcida. Defendeu também o Náutico e, na década de 80, já como técnico, chegou a comandar o próprio Palmeiras.

Biografia
Na primeira metade dos anos 70, o Palmeiras pode contar com um jogador que, sem constrangimento algum, ocupou a condição de "primeiro reserva". O atacante Fedato, justamente por ter a facilidade de atuar tanto pelas pontas como no comando do ataque, era sempre a opção principal quando um titular da chamada "Segunda Academia" não podia ser escalado.

Mas era quando entrava no decorrer das partidas que este palmeirense de coração mais se destacava. Não foram poucas — ao contrário, até: foram inúmeras – as vezes em que graças à sua entrada em campo o Palmeiras conseguiu vencer um jogo que parecia fadado a não ganhar. Daí o carinho que ganhou por parte da torcida, que o elegeu como o maior talismã da história alviverde.

Descoberto por Mário Travaglini durante um jogo do Cerâmica Clube, de sua cidade natal. Fedato chegou para jogar no Juvenil do Verdão, em 1965. Assim que começou a se destacar, foi emprestado a pequenos clubes paulistas, como Nacional, Botafogo, Comercial e Noroeste, onde foi um dos heróis do retorno do time de Bauru à elite do futebol estadual.

De volta ao Palmeiras no segundo semestre de 1970, tornou-se um dos mais queridos e importantes jogadores da equipe durante 5 anos. Com o fim daquele período mágico, no qual o time se sagrou bicampeão paulista e bicampeão brasileiro, entre outras conquistas, ganhou o passe livre e foi jogar no Náutico.

Assim que encerrou a carreira de atleta, retornou ao Palestra Itália para dar início à de treinador. Primeiro das categorias de base e, depois, da equipe principal, a qual dirigiu em três oportunidades e 79 partidas.

Morte
Fedato morreu muito cedo e de forma surpreendente: em 26 de janeiro de 2000, durante um rotineiro exame cardiológico, ele sofreu um infarto. Tinha, então, apenas 51 anos.

Títulos
Palmeiras
 Campeonato Paulista: 1972 e1974.
 Campeonato Brasileiro: 1972 e 1973.

Outras Conquistas
Palmeiras
 Troféu Ramón de Carranza: 1974 e 1975.

Futebolistas do estado de São Paulo
Futebolistas da Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras
Treinadores da Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras
Naturais de São Caetano do Sul

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Nueva Musica: Di Wav - 'Mente Criminal'
Daniela Caprio, artistically known as Di Wav - a dark wave, indie-pop artist from Guatemala - releases her newest single, "Mente Criminal,"via of Afonico Music and distributed by Sony Music Latin.
The song was written in collaboration with 5-time Latin Grammy Nominee and Afonico Label owner, Marthin Chan and produced alongside Grammy winner, Reuven Amiel.
I found the song to be delightful yet a song that took me on a shadow-filled journey into the dark side of indie-pop. The song swings with electronic auras and progressive rock structures that made me feel like I was navigating through a world of evil forces, hiding like a criminal. I was able to find a guiding light and solace with Di Wav's gentle, soothing vocals.
The single is also accompanied by a music video. The video visualized similar emotions and vibes I felt while listening to "Mente Criminal." A dark, empty world with nowhere to hide, constantly running from the unknown. The only thing certain is the need to escape.
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Q: how to obtain the first record of the result of a subquery in MariaDB I have to say that I am a very "beginner" user in respect to DB-world.
I have a table with the following columns, which types are : int and timestamp, respectively:
**foreign-key** | **date**
================|=========
 fk1            | timestamp1
 fk1            | timestamp2
 fk2            | timestamp3
 fk2            | timestamp4
 fk3            | timestamp5

I would like to obtain for each foreign-key one record, that contains the most recent timestamp.
I tried this command which didn't help me get the job done:
select * from (
    select * from table1 where foreign-key in (fk1,fk2,fk3) order by date DESC
) as t group by foreign-key;

The problem with this command, that it returned the oldest timestamp, not the most recent one!
Please note that the number of the foreign-keys in the subquery is arbitrary. This is why I use the in operator.
Thank you

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use std::{
    error::Error,
    fmt::{self, Debug},
};

use super::{private::ValueInternal, Value};

use crate::{
    context::{internal::Env, Context},
    handle::{internal::TransparentNoCopyWrapper, Handle, Managed},
    object::Object,
    result::{JsResult, ResultExt},
    sys::{self, raw},
};

/// A JavaScript Date object
#[cfg_attr(docsrs, doc(cfg(feature = "napi-5")))]
#[derive(Debug)]
#[repr(transparent)]
pub struct JsDate(raw::Local);

impl Value for JsDate {}

unsafe impl TransparentNoCopyWrapper for JsDate {
    type Inner = raw::Local;

    fn into_inner(self) -> Self::Inner {
        self.0
    }
}

impl Managed for JsDate {
    fn to_raw(&self) -> raw::Local {
        self.0
    }

    fn from_raw(_: Env, h: raw::Local) -> Self {
        JsDate(h)
    }
}

/// The Error struct for a Date
#[derive(Debug)]
#[cfg_attr(docsrs, doc(cfg(feature = "napi-5")))]
pub struct DateError(DateErrorKind);

impl DateError {
    pub fn kind(&self) -> DateErrorKind {
        self.0
    }
}

impl fmt::Display for DateError {
    fn fmt(&self, fmt: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
        fmt.write_str(self.0.as_str())
    }
}

impl Error for DateError {}

/// The error kinds corresponding to `DateError`
#[derive(Debug, Copy, Clone, PartialEq)]
#[cfg_attr(docsrs, doc(cfg(feature = "napi-5")))]
pub enum DateErrorKind {
    Overflow,
    Underflow,
}

impl DateErrorKind {
    fn as_str(&self) -> &'static str {
        match *self {
            DateErrorKind::Overflow => "Date overflow",
            DateErrorKind::Underflow => "Date underflow",
        }
    }
}

impl<'a, T: Value> ResultExt<Handle<'a, T>> for Result<Handle<'a, T>, DateError> {
    /// Creates an `Error` on error
    fn or_throw<'b, C: Context<'b>>(self, cx: &mut C) -> JsResult<'a, T> {
        self.or_else(|e| cx.throw_range_error(e.0.as_str()))
    }
}

impl JsDate {
    /// The smallest possible Date value, defined by ECMAScript. See <https://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-15.7.3.3>
    pub const MIN_VALUE: f64 = -8.64e15;
    /// The largest possible Date value, defined by ECMAScript. See <https://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-15.7.3.2>
    pub const MAX_VALUE: f64 = 8.64e15;

    /// Creates a new Date. It errors when `value` is outside the range of valid JavaScript Date values. When `value`
    /// is `NaN`, the operation will succeed but with an invalid Date
    pub fn new<'a, C: Context<'a>, T: Into<f64>>(
        cx: &mut C,
        value: T,
    ) -> Result<Handle<'a, JsDate>, DateError> {
        let env = cx.env().to_raw();
        let time = value.into();

        if time > JsDate::MAX_VALUE {
            return Err(DateError(DateErrorKind::Overflow));
        } else if time < JsDate::MIN_VALUE {
            return Err(DateError(DateErrorKind::Underflow));
        }

        let local = unsafe { sys::date::new_date(env, time) };
        let date = Handle::new_internal(JsDate(local));
        Ok(date)
    }

    /// Creates a new Date with lossy conversion for out of bounds Date values. Out of bounds
    /// values will be treated as NaN
    pub fn new_lossy<'a, C: Context<'a>, V: Into<f64>>(cx: &mut C, value: V) -> Handle<'a, JsDate> {
        let env = cx.env().to_raw();
        let local = unsafe { sys::date::new_date(env, value.into()) };
        Handle::new_internal(JsDate(local))
    }

    /// Gets the Date's value. An invalid Date will return `std::f64::NaN`
    pub fn value<'a, C: Context<'a>>(&self, cx: &mut C) -> f64 {
        let env = cx.env().to_raw();
        unsafe { sys::date::value(env, self.to_raw()) }
    }

    /// Checks if the Date's value is valid. A Date is valid if its value is between
    /// `JsDate::MIN_VALUE` and `JsDate::MAX_VALUE` or if it is `NaN`
    pub fn is_valid<'a, C: Context<'a>>(&self, cx: &mut C) -> bool {
        let value = self.value(cx);
        (JsDate::MIN_VALUE..=JsDate::MAX_VALUE).contains(&value)
    }
}

impl ValueInternal for JsDate {
    fn name() -> String {
        "object".to_string()
    }

    fn is_typeof<Other: Value>(env: Env, other: &Other) -> bool {
        unsafe { sys::tag::is_date(env.to_raw(), other.to_raw()) }
    }
}

impl Object for JsDate {}


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Butler v. AT&T
CARMEN BUTLER, Plaintiff,
AT&T, Defendant.
PHILIP A. BRIMMER UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE.
The Court takes up this matter sua sponte on the notice of removal [Docket No. 1] filed by AT&T Services, Inc., William Jones, Toni Mansur, Daryl Miller, Sylvia Duncan, and Tom Balle (collectively, "defendants"). Defendants state that the Court has subject matter jurisdiction over this lawsuit pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1332. Docket No. 1 at 2, ¶ 4.
Plaintiff's petition lists only "AT&T" as a defendant in the caption. Docket No. 1-2 at 1. Thus, for the purposes of determining whether this Court has subject matter jurisdiction, the Court would ordinarily focus solely on plaintiff and AT&T. The notice of removal, however, states that AT&T Services, Inc. is the entity that employed plaintiff and that the individuals filing the notice of removal are plaintiff's intended defendants.[1] Docket No. 1 at 1 n.1. As to AT&T, it seems appropriate to focus the subject matter jurisdiction inquiry on AT&T Services, Inc. since that entity employed plaintiff and plaintiff's claims are for employment discrimination. See Docket No. 1-2 at 6-7. As to the individuals who filed the notice of removal, the Court agrees that plaintiff intends for them to be defendants since plaintiff refers to them as defendants throughout the petition. Id. at 1.
In every case and at every stage of the proceeding, a federal court must satisfy itself as to its own jurisdiction, even if doing so requires sua sponte action. See Citizens Concerned for Separation of Church & State v. City & County of Denver, 628 F.2d 1289, 1297 (10th Cir. 1980). Absent an assurance that jurisdiction exists, a court may not proceed in a case. See Cunningham v. BHP Petroleum Great Britain PLC, 427 F.3d 1238, 1245 (10th Cir. 2005). Courts are well-advised to raise the issue of jurisdiction on their own. First, it is the Court's duty to do so. Tuck v. United Servs. Auto. Ass'n, 859 F.2d 842, 844 (10th Cir. 1988). Second, regarding subject matter jurisdiction, "the consent of the parties is irrelevant, principles of estoppel do not apply, and a party does not waive the requirement by failing to challenge jurisdiction." Ins. Corp. of Ireland v. Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinee, 456 U.S. 694, 702 (1982) (internal citations omitted). Finally, delay in addressing the issue only compounds the problem if, despite much time and expense having been dedicated to the case, a lack of jurisdiction causes it to be dismissed. See U.S. Fire Ins. Co. v. Pinkard Constr. Co., No. 09-cv-00491-PAB-MJW, 2009 WL 2338116, at *3 (D. Colo. July 28, 2009).
"The party invoking federal jurisdiction bears the burden of establishing such jurisdiction as a threshold matter." Radil v. Sanborn W. Camps, Inc., 384 F.3d 1220, 1224 (10th Cir. 2004). Defendants assert that this Court has diversity jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1332. Docket No. 1 at 2, ¶ 4. Pursuant to that section, "district courts shall have original jurisdiction of all civil actions where the matter in controversy exceeds the sum or value of $75, 000, exclusive of interest and costs, and is between . . . citizens of different States." 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a). The facts presently averred are insufficient to establish the citizenship of defendants William Jones, Toni Mansur, Daryl Miller, Sylvia Duncan, and Tom Balle (collectively, the "individual defendants").
The notice of removal states that each of the individual defendants is a "resident" of a state other than Colorado. Docket No. 1 at 3, ¶¶ 7-11.[2] However, domicile, not residency or mailing address, is determinative of citizenship. Whitelock v. Leatherman, 460 F.2d 507, 514 (10th Cir. 1972) ("[A]llegations of mere 'residence' may not be equated with 'citizenship' for the purposes of establishing diversity."); see also Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians v. Holyfield, 490 U.S. 30, 48 (1989) ("'Domicile' is not necessarily synonymous with 'residence,' and one can reside in one place but be domiciled in another." (citations omitted)). Because defendants' allegations are presently insufficient to allow the Court to determine the citizenship of the individual defendants or whether the Court has jurisdiction, see United States ex rel. General Rock & Sand Corp. v. Chuska Dev. Corp., 55 F.3d 1491, 1495 (10th Cir. 1995) ("The party seeking the exercise of jurisdiction in his favor must allege in his pleading the facts essential to show jurisdiction.") (citations and internal quotation marks omitted), it is
ORDERED that, on or before 5:00 p.m. on July 25, 2018, defendants shall show cause why this case should not be dismissed due to the Court's lack of subject matter jurisdiction.
[1] Defendants' notice of removal creates a new caption that defendants believe more correctly reflects the true parties in this case. Docket No. 1 at 1 n.1. However, defendants have no authority to amend the caption. Rather, plaintiff controls the caption, at least before defendants answer; correcting the caption will need to be done by plaintiff through an amended complaint. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(a) ("The title of the complaint must name all the parties . . . .").
[2] The notice of removal also deficiently alleges that plaintiff is a resident of Colorado, but plaintiff alleges in her petition that she is a Colorado ...


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