In the minds of most New Yorkers, a rent-stabilized loft is a Holy Grail you'd need a time machine to access.
But as it turns out, there's a law on the books that can create rent-stabilized lofts with the stroke of a pen. It's helped keep thousands of New York artists in the neighborhoods they love and slowed the march of gentrification. It also can turn preexisting spaces into rent-regulated housing.
State lawmakers are considering an update to the Loft Law, which was first passed in the early 1980s. Depending on how negotiations in the Democrat-controlled Assembly and Republican-run State Senate go, affordable live/work spaces for New York's artists, and affordable housing in general, could suffer a devastating blow.
By the time the initial five- and ten-year leases on these spaces began running out, neighborhoods like SoHo and Chelsea were becoming hip and desirable. Landlords began jacking up the rent.
In an effort to stay in the spaces in which they'd invested considerable time and money, artists began asserting their rights. Back then, if a landlord was found to be knowingly renting manufacturing space to residential tenants without the appropriate certificate of occupancy, he could neither evict the tenants nor collect rent.
This meant tenants could stay in their spaces indefinitely, provided they didn't mind living in illegal deathtraps.
As David Frazier, a housing attorney specializing in tenants' rights, notes, the 1982 Loft Law came into this climate as "kind of a grand bargain" between tenants and landlords.
If three or more units in a building were shown to have been continuously inhabited for twelve months during the eligibility window of 1980–1981, the landlord was obligated to bring the building up to code. (The tenants could also be asked to kick in some money toward this.) Landlords also received the right to collect rent, albeit according to rent-stabilization guidelines.
Tenants received a safe, rent-stabilized dwelling and all the rights that came with official tenancy, including heat, hot water, and not having to wheel their appliances into the closet when city inspectors came by.
Between the original 1982 law and a 1987 update, roughly 900 buildings encompassing up to 6,000 units became covered. About 700 of those buildings have since been brought up to code. The law has been periodically extended by the state legislature, usually in exchange for something Republican lawmakers wanted.
In the 1990s and 2000s, artists began moving to formerly industrial areas not covered by the original law, and the window of eligibility began to make things tricky for those seeking coverage. In response, a group spearheaded by the late Assemblyman Vito Lopez updated the law in 2010 with a new window of eligibility (2008–2009), new zones of coverage (Brooklyn and Queens), and additional protections.
Filmmaker Paul Wilson is a second-generation loft dweller who moved into his filmmaker wife's Williamsburg space in 1999. He says the law made it easier to raise three kids there.
The Loft Law has also had increased the safety of the buildings, an issue that recently received national attention with the December 2016 fire at the Ghost Ship DIY space in Oakland, California, that killed 36 people.
Even so, the Loft Law has loopholes and is perpetually in danger of expiring or being amended.
When the Loft Law was updated in 2010, then-mayor Michael Bloomberg pushed through amendments designed to restrict the number of units eligible for coverage. For instance, while a lack of windows or basement location was once treated as a compliance issue for landlords, units with either are now excluded outright. He also got many of the city's industrial business zones axed from eligibility (although notably not most of North Brooklyn and Long Island City), added an application deadline, and put sunsets on the new protections. (The latest deadline passed on June 15, 2017, and has yet to be extended.) Bloomberg justified these new restrictions by saying he was trying to protect the city's remaining manufacturing industry.
The Bloomberg exclusions, as they are called, left out hundreds of units that would previously have been covered, including the long-running art space The Cave. Founded by Japanese-born artist Shige Moriya in 1996 and run in conjunction with Colombian multidisciplinary artist Ximena Garnica since 2004, the Williamsburg live/work space is a well-known hub for visual art, theater, dance, and community events like block parties. When the pair applied for Loft Law coverage in 2014, their landlord opposed them on the basis of the law's new "exterior window" rule, which requires that all spaces have at least one window that faces a street.
While The Cave has a front wall built out of cinderblocks that contains windows to the street, the landlord's legal team argued these were "internal windows," as they are recessed from the front of the building by thirteen inches. Moriya and Garnica are still awaiting a decision from the Loft Board on whether they can keep their home of 21 years.
Her own legal battle inspired Garnica to get involved in the current fight to change the law.
Along with the other members of the New York City Loft Tenants association, she has frequently gone to Albany to lobby state lawmakers to pass a measure called the 2017 Loft Law Clean-Up Bill, or Bill 8409, often wearing the "symbolic art" of homemade window costumes.
Sponsored by Manhattan Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, the 2017 Loft Law Clean-Up Bill would get rid of the Bloomberg exclusions and remove the application deadline. It would also add a new period of eligibility encompassing January 1, 2015, to December 31, 2016. It doesn't contain everything tenants were asking for — for example, the rent increase milestones and reduced size requirements added in 2010 still sunset in 2019 — but it's a start.
Brooklyn Assemblyman Joe Lentol, a co-sponsor of the bill, said he wants to do right by New York City artists.
Lentol is unsure of the bill's chances, and believes it will have a hard time in the State Senate, where Republicans maintain their razor-thin majority thanks to a group of breakaway Democrats.
While it seems unlikely that the Loft Law will be killed outright — upstate Republican Betty Little has already introduced a competing bill in the Senate that is just a "straight extender" with concessions to landlords — how it will change is far from certain.
With just a few days left in this legislative session, Lentol said it's crucial for concerned citizens to call or write their representatives to support the bill.
"People who care about keeping gentrification at bay really have to call their Assembly members," Garnica said.


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"With a string of top 40 hit singles and albums in the 1990s, epic pop pioneers, My Life Story received huge critical acclaim with their brand of grand, orchestral pop, leading many artists of the Britpop era to feature them on their records. Heading up this clever, witty and beautiful wall of sound is the charismatic frontman Jake Shillingford, famous for his sharp tongue and even sharper suits. Vocalist and songwriter Shillingford has cowritten and coproduced the highly anticipated album 'World Citizen' alongside guitarist Nick Evans creating a new and distinctly rockier sound.
'World Citizen' will be released via Exilophone Records on 6th September and is preceded by a single the inordinately catchy 'Taking On The World', released on 23rd August.
My Life Story has had a varied and illustrious past: playing the main stage at Glastonbury and the orchestra collaborating with acts such as Marc Almond, Morrissey, The Pogues and The Wonderstuff, amongst many other incredible achievements. Never ones to completely stand still, in 2016 the band released a brand new single 24 Hour Deflowerer and gained a whole host of new fans and devotees on the back of this and a two-year run of 90s nostalgia festival dates throughout the UK. Always a hugely popular and tight live act thanks to high-energy singalong favourites including 12 Reasons Why I Love Her, Strumpet, Sparkle and The King of Kissingdom. This boost in profile spawned requests for a new album.
Taking a break from writing film and TV music, Jake and the band crowd-funded their fourth studio album, the first in nearly two decades, in August 2018 through PledgeMusic. After the unexpected collapse of Pledge the band, undeterred, returned to their DIY roots and started all over again. Recording the new album was an exciting and creative period, not least because the tools of creativity have moved on a bit since the 90's. As Jake says: "It was fantastic to be back in the studio with Nick, but working away from film and TV scores and onto something more personal and visceral. Having a live orchestra on the album was very important to us but this time we recorded the strings in Budapest via Skype, which was something I'd never have imagined back in the 90s."
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Project acronym AIM2 INFLAMMASOME
Project Cytosolic recognition of foreign nucleic acids: Molecular and functional characterization of AIM2, a central player in DNA-triggered inflammasome activation
Researcher (PI) Veit Hornung
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITAETSKLINIKUM BONN
Summary Host cytokines, chemokines and type I IFNs are critical effectors of the innate immune response to viral and bacterial pathogens. Several classes of germ-line encoded pattern recognition receptors have been identified, which sense non-self nucleic acids and trigger these responses. Recently NLRP-3, a member of the NOD-like receptor (NLR) family, has been shown to sense endogenous danger signals, environmental insults and the DNA viruses adenovirus and HSV. Activation of NLRP-3 induces the formation of a large multiprotein complex in cells termed inflammasome , which controls the activity of pro-caspase-1 and the maturation of pro-IL-1² and pro-IL18 into their active forms. NLRP-3, however, does not regulate these responses to double stranded cytosolic DNA. We identified the cytosolic protein AIM2 as the missing receptor for cytosolic DNA. AIM2 contains a HIN200 domain, which binds to DNA and a pyrin domain, which associates with the adapter molecule ASC to activate both NF-ºB and caspase-1. Knock down of AIM2 down-regulates caspase-1-mediated IL-1² responses following DNA stimulation or vaccinia virus infection. Collectively, these observations demonstrate that AIM2 forms an inflammasome with the DNA ligand and ASC to activate caspase-1. Our underlying hypothesis for this proposal is that AIM2 plays a central role in host-defence to cytosolic microbial pathogens and also in DNA-triggered autoimmunity. The goals of this research proposal are to further characterize the DNA ligand for AIM2, to explore the molecular mechanisms of AIM2 activation, to define the contribution of AIM2 to host-defence against viral and bacterial pathogens and to assess its function in nucleic acid triggered autoimmune disease. The characterization of AIM2 and its role in innate immunity could open new avenues in the advancement of immunotherapy and treatment of autoimmune disease.
Host cytokines, chemokines and type I IFNs are critical effectors of the innate immune response to viral and bacterial pathogens. Several classes of germ-line encoded pattern recognition receptors have been identified, which sense non-self nucleic acids and trigger these responses. Recently NLRP-3, a member of the NOD-like receptor (NLR) family, has been shown to sense endogenous danger signals, environmental insults and the DNA viruses adenovirus and HSV. Activation of NLRP-3 induces the formation of a large multiprotein complex in cells termed inflammasome , which controls the activity of pro-caspase-1 and the maturation of pro-IL-1² and pro-IL18 into their active forms. NLRP-3, however, does not regulate these responses to double stranded cytosolic DNA. We identified the cytosolic protein AIM2 as the missing receptor for cytosolic DNA. AIM2 contains a HIN200 domain, which binds to DNA and a pyrin domain, which associates with the adapter molecule ASC to activate both NF-ºB and caspase-1. Knock down of AIM2 down-regulates caspase-1-mediated IL-1² responses following DNA stimulation or vaccinia virus infection. Collectively, these observations demonstrate that AIM2 forms an inflammasome with the DNA ligand and ASC to activate caspase-1. Our underlying hypothesis for this proposal is that AIM2 plays a central role in host-defence to cytosolic microbial pathogens and also in DNA-triggered autoimmunity. The goals of this research proposal are to further characterize the DNA ligand for AIM2, to explore the molecular mechanisms of AIM2 activation, to define the contribution of AIM2 to host-defence against viral and bacterial pathogens and to assess its function in nucleic acid triggered autoimmune disease. The characterization of AIM2 and its role in innate immunity could open new avenues in the advancement of immunotherapy and treatment of autoimmune disease.
Project acronym AsthmaVir
Project The roles of innate lymphoid cells and rhinovirus in asthma exacerbations
Researcher (PI) Hergen Spits
Host Institution (HI) ACADEMISCH MEDISCH CENTRUM BIJ DE UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM
Summary Asthma exacerbations represent a high unmet medical need in particular in young children. Human Rhinoviruses (HRV) are the main triggers of these exacerbations. Till now Th2 cells were considered the main initiating effector cell type in asthma in general and asthma exacerbations in particular. However, exaggerated Th2 cell activities alone do not explain all aspects of asthma and exacerbations. Building on our recent discovery of type 2 human innate lymphoid cells (ILC2) capable of promptly producing high amounts of IL-5, IL-9 and IL-13 upon activation and on mouse data pointing to an essential role of these cells in asthma and asthma exacerbations, ILC2 may be the main initiating cells in asthma exacerbations in humans. Thus we hypothesize that HRV directly or indirectly stimulate ILC2s to produce cytokines driving the effector functions leading to the end organ effects that characterize this debilitating disease. Targeting ILC2 and HRV in parallel will provide a highly attractive therapeutic option for the treatment of asthma exacerbations. In depth study of the mechanisms of ILC2 differentiation and function will lead to the design effective drugs targeting these cells; thus the first two objectives of this project are: 1) To unravel the lineage relationship of ILC populations and to decipher the signal transduction pathways that regulate the function of ILCs, 2) to test the functions of lung-residing human ILCs and the effects of compounds that affect these functions in mice which harbour a human immune system and human lung epithelium under homeostatic conditions and after infections with respiratory viruses. The third objective of this project is developing reagents that target HRV; to this end we will develop broadly reacting highly neutralizing human monoclonal antibodies that can be used for prophylaxis and therapy of patients at high risk for developing severe asthma exacerbations.
Asthma exacerbations represent a high unmet medical need in particular in young children. Human Rhinoviruses (HRV) are the main triggers of these exacerbations. Till now Th2 cells were considered the main initiating effector cell type in asthma in general and asthma exacerbations in particular. However, exaggerated Th2 cell activities alone do not explain all aspects of asthma and exacerbations. Building on our recent discovery of type 2 human innate lymphoid cells (ILC2) capable of promptly producing high amounts of IL-5, IL-9 and IL-13 upon activation and on mouse data pointing to an essential role of these cells in asthma and asthma exacerbations, ILC2 may be the main initiating cells in asthma exacerbations in humans. Thus we hypothesize that HRV directly or indirectly stimulate ILC2s to produce cytokines driving the effector functions leading to the end organ effects that characterize this debilitating disease. Targeting ILC2 and HRV in parallel will provide a highly attractive therapeutic option for the treatment of asthma exacerbations. In depth study of the mechanisms of ILC2 differentiation and function will lead to the design effective drugs targeting these cells; thus the first two objectives of this project are: 1) To unravel the lineage relationship of ILC populations and to decipher the signal transduction pathways that regulate the function of ILCs, 2) to test the functions of lung-residing human ILCs and the effects of compounds that affect these functions in mice which harbour a human immune system and human lung epithelium under homeostatic conditions and after infections with respiratory viruses. The third objective of this project is developing reagents that target HRV; to this end we will develop broadly reacting highly neutralizing human monoclonal antibodies that can be used for prophylaxis and therapy of patients at high risk for developing severe asthma exacerbations.
Project acronym CCMP
Project Physics Of Magma Propagation and Emplacement: a multi-methodological Investigation
Researcher (PI) Eleonora Rivalta
Host Institution (HI) HELMHOLTZ ZENTRUM POTSDAM DEUTSCHESGEOFORSCHUNGSZENTRUM GFZ
Call Details Starting Grant (StG), PE10, ERC-2009-StG
Summary Dikes and sills are large sheet-like intrusions transporting and storing magma in the Earth's crust. When propagating, they generate seismicity and deformation and may lead to volcanic eruption. The physics of magma-filled structures is similar to that of any fluid-filled reservoir, such as oil fields and CO2 reservoirs created by sequestration. This project aims to address old and new unresolved challenging questions related to dike propagation, sill emplacement and in general to the dynamics of fluid and gas-filled reservoirs. I propose to focus on crustal deformation, induced seismicity and external stress fields to study the signals dikes and sills produce, how they grow and why they reactivate after years of non-detected activity. I will combine experimental, numerical and analytical techniques, in close cooperation with volcano observatories providing us with the data necessary to validate our models. In the lab, I will simulate magma propagation injecting fluid into solidified gelatin. I will also contribute to a project, currently under evaluation, on the monitoring of a CO2 sequestration site. At the same time, I will address theoretical aspects, extending static models to dynamic cases and eventually developing a comprehensive picture of the multi faceted interaction between external stress field, magma and rock properties, crustal deformation and seismicity. I also plan, besides presenting my team's work in the major national and international geophysical conferences, to produce, with technical support from the media services of DKRZ (Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum), an audiovisual teaching DVD illustrating scientific advances and unresolved issues in magma dynamics, in the prediction of eruptive activity and in the physics of reservoirs.
Dikes and sills are large sheet-like intrusions transporting and storing magma in the Earth's crust. When propagating, they generate seismicity and deformation and may lead to volcanic eruption. The physics of magma-filled structures is similar to that of any fluid-filled reservoir, such as oil fields and CO2 reservoirs created by sequestration. This project aims to address old and new unresolved challenging questions related to dike propagation, sill emplacement and in general to the dynamics of fluid and gas-filled reservoirs. I propose to focus on crustal deformation, induced seismicity and external stress fields to study the signals dikes and sills produce, how they grow and why they reactivate after years of non-detected activity. I will combine experimental, numerical and analytical techniques, in close cooperation with volcano observatories providing us with the data necessary to validate our models. In the lab, I will simulate magma propagation injecting fluid into solidified gelatin. I will also contribute to a project, currently under evaluation, on the monitoring of a CO2 sequestration site. At the same time, I will address theoretical aspects, extending static models to dynamic cases and eventually developing a comprehensive picture of the multi faceted interaction between external stress field, magma and rock properties, crustal deformation and seismicity. I also plan, besides presenting my team's work in the major national and international geophysical conferences, to produce, with technical support from the media services of DKRZ (Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum), an audiovisual teaching DVD illustrating scientific advances and unresolved issues in magma dynamics, in the prediction of eruptive activity and in the physics of reservoirs.
Project acronym ChinaCreative
Project From Made in China to Created in China - A Comparative Study of Creative Practice and Production in Contemporary China
Researcher (PI) Bastiaan Jeroen De Kloet
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM
Summary With its emergence as a global power, China aspires to move from a "made in China" towards a "created in China" country. Creativity and culture have become a crucial source for innovation and financial growth, but are also mobilised to promote a new and open China to both the citizenry as well as the outside world. They are part of what is termed China's "soft power." What does creativity mean in the context of China, and what does it do? When both the state and profoundly globalised creative industries are so deeply implicated in the promotion of creativity, what are the possibilities of criticality, if any? Whereas creativity has been extensively researched in the fields of psychology, law and neurosciences, scholarship in the humanities has by and large side-tracked the thorny issue of creativity. Yet, the worldwide resurgence of the term under the banner of creative industries makes it all the more urgent to develop a theory of creativity. This project understands creativity as a textual, a social as well as a heritage practice. It aims to analyse claims of creativity in different cultural practices, and to analyse how emerging creativities in China are part of tactics of governmentality and disable or enable possibilities of criticality. Using a comparative, multi-disciplinary, multi-method and multi-sited research design, five subprojects analyse (1) contemporary art, (2) calligraphy, (3) independent documentary cinema, (4) television from Hunan Satellite TV and (5) "fake" (shanzhai) art. By including both popular and high arts, by including both more Westernized as well as more specifically Chinese art forms, by including both the "real" as well as the "fake," by studying different localities, and by mobilising methods from both the social sciences and the humanities, this project is pushing the notion of comparative research to a new level.
With its emergence as a global power, China aspires to move from a "made in China" towards a "created in China" country. Creativity and culture have become a crucial source for innovation and financial growth, but are also mobilised to promote a new and open China to both the citizenry as well as the outside world. They are part of what is termed China's "soft power." What does creativity mean in the context of China, and what does it do? When both the state and profoundly globalised creative industries are so deeply implicated in the promotion of creativity, what are the possibilities of criticality, if any? Whereas creativity has been extensively researched in the fields of psychology, law and neurosciences, scholarship in the humanities has by and large side-tracked the thorny issue of creativity. Yet, the worldwide resurgence of the term under the banner of creative industries makes it all the more urgent to develop a theory of creativity. This project understands creativity as a textual, a social as well as a heritage practice. It aims to analyse claims of creativity in different cultural practices, and to analyse how emerging creativities in China are part of tactics of governmentality and disable or enable possibilities of criticality. Using a comparative, multi-disciplinary, multi-method and multi-sited research design, five subprojects analyse (1) contemporary art, (2) calligraphy, (3) independent documentary cinema, (4) television from Hunan Satellite TV and (5) "fake" (shanzhai) art. By including both popular and high arts, by including both more Westernized as well as more specifically Chinese art forms, by including both the "real" as well as the "fake," by studying different localities, and by mobilising methods from both the social sciences and the humanities, this project is pushing the notion of comparative research to a new level.
Project acronym DARCLIFE
Project Deep subsurface Archaea: carbon cycle, life strategies, and role in sedimentary ecosystems
Researcher (PI) Kai-Uwe Hinrichs
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITAET BREMEN
Call Details Advanced Grant (AdG), PE10, ERC-2009-AdG
Summary Archaea are increasingly recognized as globally abundant organisms that mediate important processes controlling greenhouse gases and nutrients. Our latest work, published in PNAS and Nature, suggests that Archaea dominate the biomass in the subseafloor. Their unique ability to cope with extreme energy starvation appears to be a selecting factor. Marine sediments are of crucial importance to the redox balance and climate of our planet but the regulating role of the deep biosphere remains one of the great puzzles in biogeochemistry. The unique and diverse sedimentary Archaea with no cultured representatives, so-called benthic archaea, are key to understanding this system. Their presumed ability to degrade complex recalcitrant organic residues highlights their relevance for the carbon cycle and as potential targets for biotechnology. I propose to study the role of benthic archaea in the carbon cycle and in the deep biosphere and to explore their life strategies. This task requires an interdisciplinary frontier research approach at the scale of an ERC grant, involving biogeochemistry, earth sciences, and microbiology. Central to my research strategy is the information contained in structural and isotopic properties of membrane lipids from benthic archaea, an area of research spearheaded by my lab. In-depth geochemical examination of their habitat will elucidate processes they mediate. Metagenomic analysis will provide a phylogenetic framework and further insights on metabolism. At the Archaeenzentrum in Regensburg, we will grow model Archaea under a set of environmental conditions and examine the impact on cellular lipid distributions in order to develop the full potential of lipids as proxies for studying nearly inaccessible microbial life. Attempts to enrich benthic archaea from sediments will complement this approach. This frontier research will constrain the role of benthic archaea in the Earth system and examine the fundamental properties of life at minimum energy.
Archaea are increasingly recognized as globally abundant organisms that mediate important processes controlling greenhouse gases and nutrients. Our latest work, published in PNAS and Nature, suggests that Archaea dominate the biomass in the subseafloor. Their unique ability to cope with extreme energy starvation appears to be a selecting factor. Marine sediments are of crucial importance to the redox balance and climate of our planet but the regulating role of the deep biosphere remains one of the great puzzles in biogeochemistry. The unique and diverse sedimentary Archaea with no cultured representatives, so-called benthic archaea, are key to understanding this system. Their presumed ability to degrade complex recalcitrant organic residues highlights their relevance for the carbon cycle and as potential targets for biotechnology. I propose to study the role of benthic archaea in the carbon cycle and in the deep biosphere and to explore their life strategies. This task requires an interdisciplinary frontier research approach at the scale of an ERC grant, involving biogeochemistry, earth sciences, and microbiology. Central to my research strategy is the information contained in structural and isotopic properties of membrane lipids from benthic archaea, an area of research spearheaded by my lab. In-depth geochemical examination of their habitat will elucidate processes they mediate. Metagenomic analysis will provide a phylogenetic framework and further insights on metabolism. At the Archaeenzentrum in Regensburg, we will grow model Archaea under a set of environmental conditions and examine the impact on cellular lipid distributions in order to develop the full potential of lipids as proxies for studying nearly inaccessible microbial life. Attempts to enrich benthic archaea from sediments will complement this approach. This frontier research will constrain the role of benthic archaea in the Earth system and examine the fundamental properties of life at minimum energy.
Project acronym DIOLS
Project Long chain diols as novel organic proxies for paleoclimate reconstructions
Researcher (PI) Stefan Schouten
Host Institution (HI) STICHTING NIOZ, KONINKLIJK NEDERLANDS INSTITUUT VOOR ONDERZOEK DER ZEE
Summary "Accurate reconstructions of past climate changes are essential to understand e.g. the sensitivity of Earth's climate to global increases in atmospheric greenhouse gasses such as CO2. For these reconstructions it is vital to have proxies which are well constrained and are able to provide robust quantitative estimates. However, it has become clear that currently used proxies are sometimes associated with large uncertainties and thus more proxies are needed in order to perform reliable paleoclimate reconstructions. In my group we are developing new proxies based on so-called long chain diols. These compounds are synthesized by several groups of algae and occur abundantly in present day oceans as well as ancient sediments. Initial results have shown that one set of compounds, the 1,14-diols, can be used to reconstruct past primary productivity and upwelling conditions. Excitingly, the distribution of another set of compounds, the long chain 1,13- and 1,15-diols, show a strong relationship with sea surface temperature and can be used to reconstruct past sea surface temperatures in several parts of the oceans. Finally, culture experiments indicate that the stable carbon isotopic composition of diatoms producing 1,14-diols is strongly related to CO2 concentrations, raising the possibility that it may be used to reconstruct ancient pCO2 levels. In this ERC proposal I want to develop, test and apply these exciting new proxies in order to provide robust and accurate reconstructions of past oceans. To this end this ERC project is subdivided in several different subprojects, each designed to investigate long chain diol proxies but from a different perspective, in particular cultivation and molecular biology, organic geochemistry, (paleo)limnology and paleoceanography. The combination of these subprojects will result in a highly multidisciplinary project needed to make progress in the development of these unique proxies."
"Accurate reconstructions of past climate changes are essential to understand e.g. the sensitivity of Earth's climate to global increases in atmospheric greenhouse gasses such as CO2. For these reconstructions it is vital to have proxies which are well constrained and are able to provide robust quantitative estimates. However, it has become clear that currently used proxies are sometimes associated with large uncertainties and thus more proxies are needed in order to perform reliable paleoclimate reconstructions. In my group we are developing new proxies based on so-called long chain diols. These compounds are synthesized by several groups of algae and occur abundantly in present day oceans as well as ancient sediments. Initial results have shown that one set of compounds, the 1,14-diols, can be used to reconstruct past primary productivity and upwelling conditions. Excitingly, the distribution of another set of compounds, the long chain 1,13- and 1,15-diols, show a strong relationship with sea surface temperature and can be used to reconstruct past sea surface temperatures in several parts of the oceans. Finally, culture experiments indicate that the stable carbon isotopic composition of diatoms producing 1,14-diols is strongly related to CO2 concentrations, raising the possibility that it may be used to reconstruct ancient pCO2 levels. In this ERC proposal I want to develop, test and apply these exciting new proxies in order to provide robust and accurate reconstructions of past oceans. To this end this ERC project is subdivided in several different subprojects, each designed to investigate long chain diol proxies but from a different perspective, in particular cultivation and molecular biology, organic geochemistry, (paleo)limnology and paleoceanography. The combination of these subprojects will result in a highly multidisciplinary project needed to make progress in the development of these unique proxies."
Project acronym DRAMANET
Project Early Modern European Drama and the Cultural Net
Researcher (PI) Joachim Rudolf Otto Küpper
Host Institution (HI) FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN
Call Details Advanced Grant (AdG), SH5, ERC-2009-AdG
Summary The project pursues a historical and a theoretical objective. First, it aims at giving a comprehensive analysis of (Western) European early modern drama as the first phenomenon of mass media in human history. Second, it aims at exploring the explanatory value of the metaphor of culture as a net. In that period, drama as performance casts the basis of modern mass media; it establishes for the first time in human history the cultural practice of a public visual culture that is not bound to ritual patterns and the ensuing constraints. In terms of theory, the project will investigate the productivity of the metaphor of culture as a net. A net is a non-hierarchical structure without a centre. There is no entelechical form of a net. Nets are never complete. Nets may thus extend and branch out to regions which are completely unknown to those who set them up initially. Since they are constructed by humans, nets are subject to human will as to their transport capacity. Material may be allowed to float freely or it may be submitted to scrutiny. The control logic may be belief-driven, power-driven or money-driven. The floating material may circulate in different degrees of formal organization. The outlined approach will open up perspectives for investigating European drama beyond the boundaries of national cultures. Transculturality will thus be considered to be the standard case, while nationality of cultural artefacts will be considered the particular case. Common traits between texts / cultural artefacts stemming from different eras or from different areas will no longer be difficult to explain. Reception in later times or in other regions can be accounted for with regard to the aforementioned three basic control mechanisms. Basic formal standards, whose accomplishment can be observed in all European national cultures, can be explained as a floating of material at differing levels of formal organization.
The project pursues a historical and a theoretical objective. First, it aims at giving a comprehensive analysis of (Western) European early modern drama as the first phenomenon of mass media in human history. Second, it aims at exploring the explanatory value of the metaphor of culture as a net. In that period, drama as performance casts the basis of modern mass media; it establishes for the first time in human history the cultural practice of a public visual culture that is not bound to ritual patterns and the ensuing constraints. In terms of theory, the project will investigate the productivity of the metaphor of culture as a net. A net is a non-hierarchical structure without a centre. There is no entelechical form of a net. Nets are never complete. Nets may thus extend and branch out to regions which are completely unknown to those who set them up initially. Since they are constructed by humans, nets are subject to human will as to their transport capacity. Material may be allowed to float freely or it may be submitted to scrutiny. The control logic may be belief-driven, power-driven or money-driven. The floating material may circulate in different degrees of formal organization. The outlined approach will open up perspectives for investigating European drama beyond the boundaries of national cultures. Transculturality will thus be considered to be the standard case, while nationality of cultural artefacts will be considered the particular case. Common traits between texts / cultural artefacts stemming from different eras or from different areas will no longer be difficult to explain. Reception in later times or in other regions can be accounted for with regard to the aforementioned three basic control mechanisms. Basic formal standards, whose accomplishment can be observed in all European national cultures, can be explained as a floating of material at differing levels of formal organization.
Project acronym EARTHSEQUENCING
Project A new approach to sequence Earth history at high resolution over the past 66 million years
Researcher (PI) Heiko Pälike
Call Details Consolidator Grant (CoG), PE10, ERC-2013-CoG
Summary "One major challenge to be addressed by this proposal is to overcome fundamental obstacles to generate a first high-resolution and continuous fully integrated record of geological events, ages and durations (a 'sequence of Earth history') for the past 66 million years, anchored to the present, to extract properties of Earth's and solar system orbital motion, and then to apply this time scale to solve first order questions about Earth's climate system and Earth System sensitivity. The project will bridge the long-standing 'Eocene tuning gap', primarily using spectacular new data recovered during Integrated Ocean Drilling Expedition 342 and integrated with a new consistent and integrated approach with existing data that currently only provide time sequences floating in time, not anchored to the present. The proposal will extract astronomical parameters (tidal dissipation, dynamical ellipticity) and verify astronomical models to provide long term amplitude modulation patterns of Earth's orbital variations (obliquity and short eccentricity) beyond 40 million years before present. It will also search for the fingerprint of chaotic transitions in the solar system that will allow astronomical models to be tested. The improved geologic time scale will then be applied, exploited, and combined with modern Earth System Models of Intermediate Complexity to quantify Earth System sensitivity to orbital forcing during a world of elevated carbon-dioxide concentrations during the 'greenhouse' Paleogene. Using novel new pattern matching and recognition algorithms as well as time series analysis methods, the full record of Earth history will be fully integrated and analysed with a consistent and documented workflow. This development will have the ground-breaking potential to take 'Earth sequencing' to the next level."
"One major challenge to be addressed by this proposal is to overcome fundamental obstacles to generate a first high-resolution and continuous fully integrated record of geological events, ages and durations (a 'sequence of Earth history') for the past 66 million years, anchored to the present, to extract properties of Earth's and solar system orbital motion, and then to apply this time scale to solve first order questions about Earth's climate system and Earth System sensitivity. The project will bridge the long-standing 'Eocene tuning gap', primarily using spectacular new data recovered during Integrated Ocean Drilling Expedition 342 and integrated with a new consistent and integrated approach with existing data that currently only provide time sequences floating in time, not anchored to the present. The proposal will extract astronomical parameters (tidal dissipation, dynamical ellipticity) and verify astronomical models to provide long term amplitude modulation patterns of Earth's orbital variations (obliquity and short eccentricity) beyond 40 million years before present. It will also search for the fingerprint of chaotic transitions in the solar system that will allow astronomical models to be tested. The improved geologic time scale will then be applied, exploited, and combined with modern Earth System Models of Intermediate Complexity to quantify Earth System sensitivity to orbital forcing during a world of elevated carbon-dioxide concentrations during the 'greenhouse' Paleogene. Using novel new pattern matching and recognition algorithms as well as time series analysis methods, the full record of Earth history will be fully integrated and analysed with a consistent and documented workflow. This development will have the ground-breaking potential to take 'Earth sequencing' to the next level."
Project acronym ETHIO-SPARE
Project Cultural Heritage of Christian Ethiopia: Salvation, Preservation and Research
Researcher (PI) Denis Nosnitsin
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITAET HAMBURG
Summary Ethiopia is one of the countries with the most ancient Christian history, and the only country in Africa where Christianity became official religion as early as in the 4th century A.D. It is also the only country in the region where the history has been documented in written sources: manuscripts in possession of ca. 600 monasteries and 20,000 churches, some of which date back to early Middle Ages, have been estimated to number up to ca. 200,000. Only a minor part of these archives have so far received scholarly evaluation, only less than one tenth of manuscripts have been microfilmed or digitalized, and only those that have come in possession of European libraries have been duly catalogued and are well protected. A great part of this unique heritage is on the verge of extinction, and urgent action needs to be taken to save it from complete disappearance. A thorough research into the texts will grant insight into the mentality of this African region and provide parallels to the ways other African regions without ancient written tradition may have developed, as well as to the ways Christianity spread in medieval Europe: in monastic Ethiopia some features now lost in the civilized world may still be observed. The project will unite scholars working in the fields of philology, codicology, digital philology, religious studies, anthropology, art history, and book preservation, who will secure the most important pieces of historical written evidence and carry out first-hand in-depth research into the witnesses. Local history and oral traditions collected during field research will allow a comprehensive and complete evaluation of the sources. Focus on historiographic and legal documents will allow a detailed reconstruction of local history of selected regions.
Ethiopia is one of the countries with the most ancient Christian history, and the only country in Africa where Christianity became official religion as early as in the 4th century A.D. It is also the only country in the region where the history has been documented in written sources: manuscripts in possession of ca. 600 monasteries and 20,000 churches, some of which date back to early Middle Ages, have been estimated to number up to ca. 200,000. Only a minor part of these archives have so far received scholarly evaluation, only less than one tenth of manuscripts have been microfilmed or digitalized, and only those that have come in possession of European libraries have been duly catalogued and are well protected. A great part of this unique heritage is on the verge of extinction, and urgent action needs to be taken to save it from complete disappearance. A thorough research into the texts will grant insight into the mentality of this African region and provide parallels to the ways other African regions without ancient written tradition may have developed, as well as to the ways Christianity spread in medieval Europe: in monastic Ethiopia some features now lost in the civilized world may still be observed. The project will unite scholars working in the fields of philology, codicology, digital philology, religious studies, anthropology, art history, and book preservation, who will secure the most important pieces of historical written evidence and carry out first-hand in-depth research into the witnesses. Local history and oral traditions collected during field research will allow a comprehensive and complete evaluation of the sources. Focus on historiographic and legal documents will allow a detailed reconstruction of local history of selected regions.
Project acronym EVOKES
Project Explosive Volcanism in the Earth System
Researcher (PI) Donald Bruce Dingwell
Host Institution (HI) LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN
Summary Volcanism, is a vital factor in the Earth system. Molten silicates are a major transport agent in the differentiation and interaction of lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere. Further, the immediate consequences of volcanic eruptions on all scales - local, regional and global - are issues of direct practical relevance to mankind as they are measured in lives, infrastructure and the environment. Volcanism is the result of a complex interplay of physico-chemical processes operating at varying efficiencies during ascent, differentiation and eruption of magma. As a result, volcanic phenomena span a range from effusive to explosive. The largest explosive events are repeatedly responsible for global impact on the Earth System, yet it is precisely these events that, due to their explosive character, are relatively inaccessible for direct scientific investigation. A major opportunity in accessing such systems has been provided by recent technological advances permitting the experimental investigation of volcanism. Experimental volcanology operates directly under volcanic conditions of time, pressure, temperature, and state; a near-unique opportunity in the solid earth sciences. Based on experimental volcanology, this project aims to provide mechanistic models of magmatic/volcanic processes and their impact on the Earth System. Four priority areas are selected as those needing most urgent attention. These are: 1) Quantification of the rheology of magma/lava for parameterisation of stress-strain relationships in numerical simulations of eruptive events. 2) Mechanistic understanding explosive failure of magma for the interpretation of volcanic hazard monitoring. 3) Development of quantitative methods for inferring eruptive physics from the physico-chemical fossil records (thermal, magnetic, chemical) preserved in volcanic lavas. 4) Experimental characterisation of the physical, chemical and biological properties and impact of volcanic ash on the earth system.
Volcanism, is a vital factor in the Earth system. Molten silicates are a major transport agent in the differentiation and interaction of lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere. Further, the immediate consequences of volcanic eruptions on all scales - local, regional and global - are issues of direct practical relevance to mankind as they are measured in lives, infrastructure and the environment. Volcanism is the result of a complex interplay of physico-chemical processes operating at varying efficiencies during ascent, differentiation and eruption of magma. As a result, volcanic phenomena span a range from effusive to explosive. The largest explosive events are repeatedly responsible for global impact on the Earth System, yet it is precisely these events that, due to their explosive character, are relatively inaccessible for direct scientific investigation. A major opportunity in accessing such systems has been provided by recent technological advances permitting the experimental investigation of volcanism. Experimental volcanology operates directly under volcanic conditions of time, pressure, temperature, and state; a near-unique opportunity in the solid earth sciences. Based on experimental volcanology, this project aims to provide mechanistic models of magmatic/volcanic processes and their impact on the Earth System. Four priority areas are selected as those needing most urgent attention. These are: 1) Quantification of the rheology of magma/lava for parameterisation of stress-strain relationships in numerical simulations of eruptive events. 2) Mechanistic understanding explosive failure of magma for the interpretation of volcanic hazard monitoring. 3) Development of quantitative methods for inferring eruptive physics from the physico-chemical fossil records (thermal, magnetic, chemical) preserved in volcanic lavas. 4) Experimental characterisation of the physical, chemical and biological properties and impact of volcanic ash on the earth system.


When I was young, I wanted to play piano but my parents wouldn't drive me across town to my great aunt's house to practice on her Steinway baby grand. They let me study violin instead, and I quit after one year. Years later when the British Invasion hit, I was one of thousands of guys who saw girls go crazy over the Beatles. In 1966, I spent twenty-five dollars on a Stella Harmony guitar with strings thicker than coat hanger wire and set about cultivating terrible technique and a crop of blisters.
Since then, I've bought, sold or traded at least twenty guitars and a half dozen amplifiers. Right now, I own five guitars, two of which are for sale. Around the Millennium, I bought a used Roland keyboard and have wasted lots of time and a little money on books that promised to turn me into the next Glenn Gould, Otis Spann or Dave Brubeck. None of them did.
A few months ago, I saw a series of DVDs on playing piano at a ludicrously low price and decided to bet on one more losing hand. Surprise, the videos are excellent. After watching the first three, I understand the keyboard and music theory better than I ever have before. Piano gives you a fuller understanding of what is going on in a song because you play two separate lines. It's changing how I look at and hear the guitar, too.
The old blues players often used alternate guitar tunings, which I avoided until I bought a resonator guitar and started playing slide more often. Different tunings change the sound of a chord you've heard for years, and it forces you to think about what those tones mean. I'll never be great on either guitar or piano, but I'm thinking a lot more about what I'm doing.
Looking at your writing from a different perspective can have the same effect.
In 2005, I wrote a short story featuring Woody Guthrie (under a different name) and Megan Traine and a rock band. It was a complicated story and one of my friends commented that he had trouble keeping all the characters straight. The story was almost 7000 words long, which meant few markets would look at it, and when I cut characters and words, the whole thing became incoherent. I ran out of places to send it, and it languished on a floppy disc for about four years.
In 2009, someone told me about the Black Orchid Novella Award. Among other requirements, entries had to be between 15 and 20 thousand words. Could I expand that short story into a novella and introduce the large cast more gradually?
Over the next four days, I added nine thousand words and nothing felt padded! I'd never considered writing a novella because at that time the market was non-existent. But now I had one on my hands and I sent it out. "Stranglehold" won the Black Orchid Novella Award and appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine in the summer of 2010. I was so used to thinking "short story" that I couldn't see it was really a novella waiting for its growth spurt.
A few years later, something felt wrong near the end of a WIP and I couldn't figure out what it was. I swapped manuscripts with another writer, who suggested that I change the point of view in one of the last scenes. Both characters had POV scenes throughout the book, so the change was feasible. It also made the ending much stronger. Someone with more distance could see that right away.
The Whammer Jammers introduces Hartford detectives Tracy "Trash" Hendrix and Jimmy Byrne exploring the world of roller derby. I interviewed skaters, referees, coaches, boyfriends, announcers, spectators, and Hartford police officers before I developed an outline and started writing. After about sixty pages, I felt like I was hip-deep in quicksand.
That night, I watched a baseball game on TV, the announcers giving the play-by-play in present tense, the way they always do. It dawned on me that Roller Derby is a sport, so what if I went back and changed the book from past tense to present? Bingo. I finished the rough draft in six weeks.
I did lots of research for what I thought would be the third Woody Guthrie novel, too. The more I played with it, the more it felt like it would work better with Zach Barnes in Connecticut. From there, it evolved into a police procedural with Trash and Byrne again. Once I have an outline, I usually produce eight or ten pages a day, but this beast needed three weeks to reach page fifty. I put it aside for a month, and when I looked at it again, I saw that two crucial premises actually contradicted each other. Oops. I recycled about half the characters into The Kids Are All Right, a finalist for the Shamus Award for Best Indie Novel.
When you revise, you become more committed to what you already have on paper. You tweak, but you don't rebuild. Looking at it from a different angle helps you see other possibilities. What if the other person is the main protagonist? What if you try it as a comedy instead? Should you expand that short story? Could it become a play, or maybe even a screenplay?
Going back to music for a minute, I remember Leonard Bernstein discussing the opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and saying that the original opening, the da-da-da-DUM, included a flute in the score. Beethoven, one of music's great revisers, realized that a flute didn't belong in that "strong masculine utterance" (Bernstein's words, not mine) and removed it.
Learn from the masters. And maybe pick a different instrument.


Sanford Health is an integrated health system headquartered in the Dakotas. It is one of the largest health systems in the nation with 43 hospitals and nearly 250 clinics in nine states and three countries. Sanford Health's 27,000 employees, including 1,400 physicians, make it the largest employer in the Dakotas. Nearly $1 billion in gifts from philanthropist Denny Sanford have allowed for several initiatives, including global children's clinics, genomic medicine and specialized centers researching cures for type 1 diabetes, breast cancer and other diseases.


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13 Percent of U.S. Adults Report Serious Psychological Distress During COVID-19
MONDAY, Dec. 14, 2020 -- Serious psychological distress among U.S. adults remained fairly steady between April and July 2020, according to a research letter published online Nov. 23 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Emma E. McGinty, Ph.D., from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, and colleagues conducted two waves of the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Civic Life and Public Health Survey (April 7 to April 13, 2020, and July 7 to July 22, 2020). Changes in psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic was evaluated among 1,337 U.S. adults.
The researchers found that 13 percent of respondents reported serious distress in July 2020 versus 14.2 percent in April 2020, with 72 percent of adults reporting serious distress in both waves. The prevalence of serious distress was highest among adults aged 18 to 29 years (25.4 percent in April versus 26.5 percent in July), those with income less than $35,000 (20.2 percent in April versus 21.2 percent in July), and Hispanic individuals (17.9 percent in April versus 19.2 percent in July) at both time points. Among those with serious distress, the most common stressors were concerns about contracting COVID-19 (65.9 percent) and pandemic effects on employment (65.1 percent) and finances (60.6 percent). Educational interruptions were a stressor among adults with serious distress attending college and/or with school-aged children (69 percent).
"High prevalence at both time points suggests that the pandemic's longer-term disruptions are important drivers of distress," the authors write.
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Michael Davis is head of U.S. institutional defined contribution plan specialists for Global Investment Services (GIS). In this role, he leads the team responsible for expanding the firm's reach and strategic engagement capabilities in the U.S. institutional defined contribution investment only (DCIO) segment. He is a member of the GIS leadership team and plays a key role in guiding the group's U.S. DCIO strategy. Mr. Davis is a vice president of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc., and T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.
Diamonte joined United Technologies Corp. as Chief Investment Officer in December 2004. She is responsible for overseeing UTC's $52B in global retirement assets. This includes $24B in domestic pension plans, $7B in foreign pension plans and $21B in the defined contribution plan. Diamonte serves on UTC's Finance Council and is a trustee on pension committees in the US and the UK. Prior to joining UTC, she spent thirteen years with Verizon Investment Management.
Jason J. Fichtner is a Senior Lecturer and an Associate Director of the Master of International Economics and Finance (MIEF) program. Fichtner first joined the SAIS faculty in 2011 as an adjunct professor, teaching courses in public finance and cost benefit analysis. Previously, he was a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
Mark Iwry (pronounced "Eevry") is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Retirement and Health Policy at the U.S. Treasury Department. He was previously Treasury's Benefits Tax Counsel, Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a partner in the law firm of Covington & Burling, Of Counsel to Sullivan & Cromwell, and Research Professor at Georgetown University.
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With New York Fashion Week kicking off this week, it's a time that always represents fall to me. While what's coming down the runway might be that of Spring '18, fall energy is among us. The temps in New York might say otherwise, but you know I can't help but to stalk all things fall fashion come September. Can you blame me?!
First up on my list, fall frocks! I'm a dress girl through and through, so just because the weather changes doesn't mean I turn a blind eye to my adored styles. I actually love dresses during fall as much as any other season because you can play with layering, boots, and all sorts of accessories that we only see in fall.
With fall trends on my mind, I'm sharing 5 frocks that I cannot wait to wear over and over, and what I'd style them with. The best part? Each frock is under $200!
Sleek, flirty, and with a bit of frill, this fall's version of the maxi is bringing the drama. Think deeper colors and details like cut-outs to wear to weddings, events, or pre-holiday gatherings. Pair with dainty ankle strap heels and play on the color of the dress with accessories.
I'm forever a fan of minis and definitely don't shy away from them come fall. The perfect party or date night dress, this option is under $100 and worthy of love this fall. You can honestly do so much with this – from heels to slingbacks to ankle booties.
Floral is sticking around for fall and look for 70s styles to play a role here. With a play on boho, I'm all about pairing this ladylike style with a wide brim hat, Western accessories or over-the-knee boots.
Yes plaid blazers are still a main attraction this fall, but to mimic the style in the form of a dress, look no further than the plaid frock. Playful with a ruffle and slightly puffed sleeves, this is simply darling while being completely on trend.
Fall is about layers, it's a fact. And because of this, I like to purchase a couple dresses that can transition in a multitude of styles. Stick with neutral dresses with a detail you are feeling (again, notice the 70s floral coming through) and then pair it with everything from a leather jacket and suede booties to ankle straps and a trench. It's all about pieces that were born to layer, like this pretty frock.
Which frock is your fave?
I am in LOVE with that maxi dress!! Now I just need an occasion to wear it!
Yay, happy you like it babe!
I am such a fan of anything floral!
Ahhh ALL OF THEM! Can that be my answer? Haha!


Homestyle is a New England IPA style beer from Bearded Iris Brewing which is located in Nashville, Tennessee. And this here is my look at this beer that I found to be quite delightful. Smooth, citrusy, hoppy, fruity, tropical, and resiny are all words that I would use to describe this tasty ale. It was a treat that I found worth trying and thanks to my buddy Todd for putting me onto them. 4.25 out of 5 in my book and check out my video if you would like to see and hear more about this brew.


This spunky youth t-shirt is available in two colors: Sports Gray and Kelly Green.
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The Mazda CX-9... a roomy crossover with more volume behind its first and second rows, and more second and third-row legroom than the Honda Pilot, Toyota Highlander and Acura MDX. This 2016 CX-9 GRAND TOURING has a leather interior with heated and power assisted front seats, as well as a two person memory for the driver's seating position. There are dual front climate controls, rear heating/cooling controls, keyless entry and ignition, lane change/keep assist, a sunroof, rear side window sunshades, a power rear lift-gate, "head's up" display, and back up sensors with a camera. The infotainment system has navigation, an AM/FM/CD sound system, Bluetooth and Pandora connectivity. There are 20" dark alloy wheels with Falken tires. **One Owner** Call C & S Mazda toll free at 866-212-8718 or locally at 319-291-7321.


Wakefield AFC has today revealed its new crest.
The club, which is the city's first professional football club, is to begin playing non-league football from next season.
Today it released its badge, which is similar to Wakefield Trinity's in that it bears the fleur-de-lis and contains the rugby club's colours.
However, it also contains the white rose, symbolising its Yorkshire roots.
The club, which will also play in Trinity colours of white, red and blue, is led by a consortium which includes former Sheffield Wednesday manager Chris Turner and former Rochdale director, Russ Green.


A comparative market analysis (CMA) is a tool used by a broker to help a seller or buyer determine a property's estimated value, based on the sale of similar properties in the area. Like a broker's price opinion, a comparative market analysis isn't a substitute for a professional appraisal.
Example: Donna is considering making an offer on a home but decides to increase her bid after reviewing the CMA provided by her broker.


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Take the First Bold Step
Some of you reading this are standing at the edge of something new and contemplating your first step across the border. I want to remind you that God has already gone before you. Stepping out may stretch your faith, but God is already preparing a way.
The first bold step never comes without challenges. Crossing borders, stepping into new seasons, and walking through open doors will always stretch our faith and challenge our comfort. The moment you step out into a new environment, the adventure begins.
Some people have been crippled so long that it has warped their whole person. The gospel of Luke introduces us to a woman who was stuck for eighteen long years. For almost two decades, she was bent over with severe curvature of her spine so crippling that her daily activities were a constant challenge. No doubt eating, drinking, and even walking were extremely difficult. Constant pain was her everyday companion. Her relationships, her finances, her health, her identity, her spiritual state were all deeply affected by her condition.
While her medical issue was undeniably physical, the root of her problem was spiritual. She had a spiritual problem that affected her soul and her body as well. Luke, the author of this gospel and the book of Acts, was also a doctor, and he uses interesting words to diagnose her condition. He doesn't use the word that would mean "illness, disease, or injury." Instead he uses the phrase "crippled by a spirit."
Scripture says, "When Jesus saw her, he called her forward" (Luke 13:12). Her journey to freedom hinged on her willingness to take the difficult step or responding to the promptings of Jesus. This is one of the most important details in this moving passage. And if you read it quickly, you can miss it altogether. Jesus called her forward. No one with a deformity of any kind wants to step up to the public platform. Jesus is calling a deformed woman out of the shadows into the spotlight. This is a difficult moment, but she responds and takes the first painful step forward. She has to leave the comfort of her hiding place and take the risk of stepping into an uncertain future.
"Woman, you are set free from your infirmity," Jesus clearly says. "Then he put his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God" (Luke 13:12-13).
The woman's journey to wholeness of body, soul, and spirit began with one bold step forward. Her first step took her out of the shadows and into the vulnerability of her greatest insecurities.
We are so close yet remain so far until we take the step. All of us who are stuck have to wrestle with that first important step.
But the hard steps are where we get stuck. As a church, we had to take the hard step of releasing leaders, groups of people, and resources to start new campuses around the city. The first time we launched a group of people to another community, I had to force myself to celebrate on the outside, but I mourned on the inside. I knew it was the right step, but it was difficult to release close friends. We struggled with feeling like we did not have enough leaders, sufficient finances, or enough expertise to move forward. I have never known a person or organization moving into something new that doesn't feel nervous or uncertain about the future.
It always starts with a first bold step.
Adapted from What Now?: How to Move Into Your Next Season by Mark Jobe (© 2020). Published by Moody Publishers. Used by permission.
MARK JOBE is the president of Moody Bible Institute and host of Moody Radio's Bold Steps. He is the author of Unstuck: Out of Your Cave into Your Call. He is also the founding pastor of New Life Community Church, a Chicago-based ministry with 27 locations throughout Chicago. Mark has a Master's degree from Moody Theological Seminary and a Doctorate in transformational leadership from Bakke Graduate University. He and his wife, Dee, have three adult children.


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Beyonce Has Flirty Moment With Jay Z at Kanye West's Concert -- See the Adorable Instagram!
By Jackie Willis 8:05 AM PDT, September 8, 2016
Beyonce and Jay Z have come a long way since the Lemonade rumors.
Queen Bey has really been into Boomerang, an app that allows you share short gif-like videos on Instagram, and posted several mini vids taken from Kanye West's Tuesday night concert at Madison Square Garden.
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Bey and Jay look crazy in love as they playfully nod at one another in one of her posts.
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The "Sorry" singer must have really been feeling her outfit that night, because she dedicated two posts to her look. Beyonce tucked in a Led Zeppelin T-shirt with stylish sleeves into a thigh-baring, leather skirt. She completed the style with a pair of black heels and big earrings.
West's show followed Beyonce's Soul Train-themed 35th birthday bash. Usher, Solange Knowles, Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams, Alicia Keys, Swizz Beatz, Lala Anthony, Chance the Rapper, and twins Chloe and Halle were among the famous guests at the party.
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Suffice to say, Bey doesn't do anything half way. Here's a look at the epic disco soiree:
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Yahoo Fantasy Hockey: Here are the rookies you need to draft
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Here's the final edition of our fantasy hockey primer. Thanks to Dobber Hockey for the insight!
The sleeper pick is the ultimate fantasy owner move. Grab a player late in the draft who nobody else was even considering and he does great? Well that could win your league. And the ultimate sleeper pick is a rookie. Other than the top three or four picks in the latest NHL Draft plus a couple of the 'hyped' favorites, the average poolie has very little idea as to which rookies are close to landing a spot, let alone wasting a draft pick on them.
Luckily, I'm here to break it all down for you.
Even Johnny Casual knows about these fellas…
Jake Allen, St. Louis Blues - Brian Elliott has his hot weeks and even hot months. But he always hits that inevitable wall. If that happens early enough in the season, Allen well have a Calder-type campaign.
Jonathan Drouin, Tampa Bay Lightning - He's not going to be playing with Steven Stamkos, at least not to start. But he's good enough on his own to have a 55-point rookie season.
Aaron Ekblad, Florida Panthers - The only 2014 draftee practically assured of an NHL roster spot, Ekblad is by far the best defenseman in this year's rookie class.
John Gibson, Anaheim Ducks - Frederick Andersen will likely take the starting role in October, but if he misses time with another injury, Gibson will take over and it may be tough to get him to let go. On a strong Anaheim team, that's potentially a ton of W's.
Evgeny Kuznetsov, Washington Capitals - Mature, responsible at both ends, can hold his own playing with weaker linemates or he can hold his own playing with the likes of Alex Ovechkin.
The 2014 Draftees
Besides Ekblad (above), there are several other quality picks from the recent draft who will make a splash this season if they made their respective NHL teams. But therein lies the risk.
Sam Bennett, Calgary Flames - The Flames just had Sean Monahan make the team as an 18-year-old, so the precedent has been set. If Bennett does make the squad, look for a similar impact.
Leon Draisaitl, Edmonton Oilers - The Oilers were pretty quick to move Sam Gagner after drafting Draisaitl. On the other hand I get the sense that this team will be patient with their teenagers going forward.
Sam Reinhart, Buffalo Sabres - Two words: Mikhail Grigorenko. The Sabres won't bring another teenager into that mess again. Will they?
The Goalies
While Allen and Gibson are the obvious ones with legitimate shots at seizing the No.1 role by Christmas, there are others who warrant consideration as they are just a key roster injury away from making the jump…
Michael Hutchinson, Winnipeg Jets - Welp, he's behind Ondrej Pavelec (aka "the train wreck"). So…yeah.
Martin Jones, Los Angeles Kings - Jonathan Quick is still recovering from wrist surgery, again. If those problems persist, you know Jones is going to fill the void with some kickass numbers.
Antti Raanta, Chicago Blackhawks - If Corey Crawford struggles with inconsistency and injuries again this season, Raanta will pile up the W's by default.
The Next Wave
Whether they make a splash this year or not, their time is coming. These prospects are safe bets to have a bright NHL future sooner rather than later
Filip Forsberg, Nashville Predators - The Preds will be pushing offense a little more this year and Forsberg is probably in the top three among forwards in the organization when it comes to offensive skill.
Kevin Hayes, New York Rangers - Hayes was a superstar at the college level and he has the size, strength and skill that few other players boast - all at the age of 22.
Calle Järnkrok, Nashville Predators - After Nashville acquired him from the Red Wings, Jarnkrok put up nine points in 12 games. The team rewarded him by loading up at center (Olli Jokinen, Mike Ribeiro, Derek Roy). If he's not pushed out of the mix, he'll make his mark.
Anders Lee, New York Islanders - Lee has 10 goals in 24 career NHL games. He's 6-2, 225 pounds and at 24 he's more than ready for the NHL. He's on the shortlist to play with John Tavares and if that happens, watch out.
Tanner Pearson, Los Angeles Kings - Pearson is a staple on the second line with Jeff Carter and Tyler Toffoli. Assuming that line picks up where they left off in the postseason, Pearson will be a 45-point guy at the very least.
Ryan Spooner, Boston Bruins - With Carl Soderberg having moved back to center, Spooner could be in tough to make the team. But if somebody is moved to the wing (perhaps Spooner himself), then the 22-year-old could make a splash.
Here are a few potential stars who may not make the team this year but when they finally do - wow. Most of these guys are sure to appear on this list next year and if they don't it's because they were already nominated for the Calder Trophy.
Johnny Gaudreau, Calgary Flames - Small (5-9, 150) and immensely talented, Gaudreau is coming off a tremendous season with Boston College where he tallied 80 points in 40 games playing on a line with Hayes (noted above). The performance won him last year's Hobey Baker Award as the top player in the NCAA.
Scott Laughton, Philadelphia Flyers - Laughton nearly made the Flyers as an 18-year-old and is coming off of a 40-goal season with Oshawa (OHL). Now AHL-eligible, he'll probably be back and forth between the Flyers and Lehigh Valley.
Anthony Mantha, Detroit Red Wings - Good or bad, the Red Wings have a policy of holding prospects in the minors for a long, long time. Gustav Nyquist, for example, would have been on most pro rosters two years ago. So even though Mantha led the QMJHL with 120 points last year, he's still in tough. But if he makes it, it won't be as a penalty killer.
Derrick Pouliot, Pittsburgh Penguins - Pouliot underwent shoulder surgery early in the off-season and was expected to be out until December. He seems to think he'll be ready for October and if that's the case he makes a great dark horse. His vision and puck-moving talent rate through the roof.
Mark Stone, Ottawa Senators - An underrated winger throughout his career (drafted 178th overall in 2010), Stone continues producing at whatever level he plays. His problem since turning pro has been staying healthy.
Teuvo Teravainen, Chicago Blackhawks - A future star who could force his way onto a deep roster whether the Blackhawks like it or not. The team is afraid that with his slight frame he'll be susceptible to injury, but he may be too good to hold down.
Vince Trocheck, Florida Panthers - Trocheck didn't play his first NHL game until March 7, but he impressed so much that he quickly became a regular on the top line and ended up averaging 18:53 per game. The Panthers rewarded him by signing what seemed like two dozen forwards in the offseason and his two-way contract sticks out amongst a sea of one-way deals like a sore thumb.
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