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CounterpointeSRE Strengthens ESG and PACE Platforms With Leadership Appointments
- Date: 26 March 2021
- Source: CounterpointeSRE
- Author: Adam Moskowitz
CounterpointeSRE Strengthens ESG and PACE Platforms With Leadership Appointments
GREENWICH, Conn., May 27, 2021 (Newswire.com) – CounterpointeSRE is expanding with key appointments, strengthening its expertise in helping CRE investors and corporates upgrade properties and meet sustainability goals.
"CounterpointeSRE is the most experienced commercial PACE lender in the country," stated managing partner, Eric Alini. "We continue to see growth, so we are investing in ourselves with a series of significant hires with deep commercial real estate experience," he continued.
CounterpointeSRE has recently completed some of the largest commercial property assessed clean energy ("PACE") transactions in the nation, including $49.5 million for seismic strengthening and energy efficiency in California and $42 million for clean energy and COVID-19 measures in Rhode Island.
In response, the firm recently hired Mary-Stuart Freydberg as Head of ESG Research and Executive Director Retrofit Transactions and Evelyn Giaccio as MD and General Counsel. Existing directors have been promoted, with Devesh Nirmul and CJ DeSantis supporting business development and Taimur Jamil heading Project Finance to capitalize on his expertise in renewable energy. In March, the firm announced Douglas P. Harmon, a veteran in bridge and permanent CRE lending, as MD and Head of Principal Transactions to support the expanding role of PACE financing for condo inventory loans and new construction.
Mary-Stuart Freydberg joins to direct ESG research and will focus on investments as part of the Retrofit Transactions team. Prior to CounterpointeSRE, Ms. Freydberg was Senior Director at Merrill Lynch CMBS Research and advised the trading desk, sales team and institutional investors. While at Fitch IBCA, Mary-Stuart headed CMBS research, rated transactions and published extensively. She brings additional expertise from her time at J.E. Roberts Co., an Archon Group Joint Venture with Goldman Sachs.
Ms. Giaccio adds extensive experience in corporate and commercial real estate transactions, including acquisition, joint venture, private equity, financing, leasing, development, construction, project finance and private placement. At Guardian Life for almost 12 years, Ms. Giaccio advised real estate and investment teams on portfolios exceeding $18 billion. Previously, she was a senior real estate attorney at Paul, Weiss, Dewey Ballantine, and Goldman, Sachs.
We continue to see growth, so we are investing in ourselves with a series of significant hires with deep commercial real estate experience.
These appointments build on the firm's position as the most experienced commercial real estate lender in the PACE marketplace. Besides the exponential growth for the primary asset classes, the firm has seen a rising utilization of PACE for corporations and institutions, including those that are investment grade. Through the firm's program administration role in Los Angeles, Miami and Chicago, CounterpointeSRE has helped build awareness in key markets while participating as a capital provider in the roll-out of PACE in New York City and Philadelphia. The market is maturing: of the top 20 MSAs, only Atlanta, Tampa and Phoenix do not have active PACE programs (Seattle's King County is anticipated by the end of 2021).
What is PACE financing:
PACE financing makes it possible for owners and developers of commercial properties to obtain low-cost, long-term financing for energy efficiency, sustainability and renewable energy infrastructure deployed in new or existing buildings. The program, available in more than 20 states and several cities, is based on legislation that classifies energy efficient and/or renewable upgrades as well as above-code new installations as a public benefit. These "green" infrastructure elements and associated soft costs (permitting, structural support, etc.) can be financed with no money down and are repaid through the property tax bill over a term that matches the useful life of improvements (often as long as 20-25 years).
About Counterpointe Sustainable Real Estate:
Counterpointe Sustainable Real Estate (CounterpointeSRE) is a leading commercial real estate finance provider specializing in sustainable infrastructure improvements through PACE financing.
Media Contact:
Adam Moskowitz
Counterpointe Sustainable Real Estate
855 431 4400


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Not all cavities will have to be addressed via a root canal treatment. When tooth decay starts to form, it will initially only affect your enamel. However, as decay spreads, problems can reach the interior of your tooth. If you have an infection that reaches your pulp, you can develop issues due to bacteria infecting your tooth's living tissue. At this stage, your dentist needs to perform a root canal. However, if you put a stop to your cavity sooner, you can have treatment and only require a dental filling. If you want to avoid letting a cavity grow severe, make sure you have regular dental checkups. That way, you have a regular close review of your teeth from your dentist, who can recommend treatment early.
A Cavity That Infects Your Tooth's Pulp Needs A Root Canal Treatment
When tooth decay creates problems for the interior of your tooth, failing to address the problem can lead to the loss of that tooth, and more oral health complications. In order to help you manage discomfort, or any anxiety a root canal might cause, your dentist can provide you with sedation through nitrous oxide before starting.
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Dina's authority relies upon upon the mutual respect and consensus of the parties to abide by the ruling. Dina punishments are sometimes extreme and embrace capital punishment. This article will discover the regulation and authorized methods of Madagascar on the backdrop of its political instability since independence.
Many Muslim nations have developed similar guidelines about legal training and the legal occupation, but some still allow legal professionals with coaching in traditional Islamic legislation to practice regulation before personal status legislation courts. In China and different developing nations there are not adequate professionally educated people to staff the present judicial techniques, and, accordingly, formal requirements are extra relaxed.
Therefore, the president of the bench's view of the case just isn't impartial and could also be biased while conducting the trial after the reading of the dossier. Unlike the common regulation proceedings, the president of the bench within the inquisitorial system just isn't merely an umpire and is entitled to directly interview the witnesses or express comments in the course of the trial, as long as she or he does not express his or her view on the guilt of the accused. The states of Delaware, Illinois, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee proceed to have divided Courts of Law and Courts of Chancery, for instance, the Delaware Court of Chancery. In New Jersey, the appellate courts are unified, however the trial courts are organized into a Chancery Division and a Law Division. In England, courts of regulation (versus equity) have been combined with courts of fairness by the Judicature Acts of 1873 and 1875, with fairness prevailing in case of conflict.
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Drag and drop between Feathers components (Starling version)
The following description of How to use the
DragDropManageris taken from this forum thread. This text combines multiple posts into a single source, without much editing, so refer to the linked thread if some context is missing. More thorough documentation will be added in the future.
In the
examples/DragDropdirectory that comes with Feathers, you can find a simple, working example of the
You need to implement the
IDropTargetinterfaces on the appropriate objects.
DragDropManager.startDrag(), passing in the
IDragSource, the
Touchobject that initiated the drag, and a
DragDataobject which stores the data that is being dragged. You can specify data by "format" so that different targets can accept different types of data.
When the
DragDropManagerhandles the event dispatching, you just need to listen), and the
DragDataobject includes data of the correct format, it should call
IDropTargetwill dispatch
DragDropEvent.DRAG_DROPif you drop the object (stop touching or release the mouse button) over the
IDropTarget. If it does, you need to handle the drop in the event listener.
IDragSourcewill dispatch
DragDropEvent.DRAG_COMPLETEwhether the drop was accepted or not. The
isDroppedproperty of the event is a
Booleanthat indicates if the drag was successfully dropped on a target that accepted it, of if it was cancelled. If the data that was dragged needs to be removed from the source after being dropped on the target, this event listener is the place to do it. Just check the
isDroppedproperty to see if it was dropped or cancelled.
You can pass the "ghosted drag image" as the "avatar" when you call
DragDropManager.startDrag(). The avatar is what follows the mouse while you're dragging.
The format is what actually gets passed between the drag source and the drop target. This may be the same as the avatar, or it may be something more data-centric, like the data for a list item.
Usually, if you're simply dragging a display object around (that has no data associated with it like a list item would), you could add the display object itself as the drag data. Something like this is probably fine:
var dragData:DragData = new DragData();
dragData.setDataForFormat("display-object-drag-format", theDisplayObject);
In this case, I randomly called the format
"display-object-drag-format", but call it whatever you want. It just needs to be a string that both sides (the drag source and the drop target) agree on.
Then in your
DragDropEvent.DRAG_ENTER listener, you can check for that format:
function(event:DragDropEvent, dragData:DragData):void
In the
DragDropEvent.DRAG_DROP listener, you use
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A 30-YEAR-OLD woman of Lusaka's Chipata Township narrated how her former husband became violent after asking him to offer child support to his four children.
Cecilia Phiri told Senior Court Magistrate Lewis Mumba that after the divorce was granted in 2010, Kelvin Chisembe, 35, ignored a court order to pay the fine of compensation towards her as well as offer child support.
"Your honour, he has also refused to equally share the household property we had acquired together while in marriage,"she said.
Chisembe admitted not paying child maintenance due to financial problems claiming he gave Phiri K300 monthly which she denied.
Passing judgment, the court ordered Chisembe to pay K400 as child maintenance effective April month end and to also meet his children needs.


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A Steady Stream Of Savings
By Dennis Nessler | December 14, 2020
In light of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic it should come as no surprise that 'touchless' has become a key buzzword within the hospitality industry as consumers place a top priority on safety. It's for this reason, as well as its ability to conserve water, that the all-new Smart Touchless Faucet System can help produce a steady stream of savings for hotel owners while increasing their occupancy and making their hotel look smart and millennial, as well as sanitary and environmental.
Joanna Boey, CEO of Smart Touchless Faucet System, describes the patented product as the "faucets of the future." Boey launched the Beverly Hills, CA-based company—which was formerly known as iTouchFaucets—and the digital version of the product in 2015.
Just a few years later the system started gaining credibility and ultimately received government funding. As a result, hotel owners can now install the Smart Touchless Faucet System with no money out of pocket, according to Boey. The Smart Touchless Faucet System is an approved vendor for several major hotel chains such as Hilton Worldwide, MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment Hotels & Casinos.
The system simply uses a smart electronic touchpad that attaches to existing manual faucets to replace faucet handles for bathroom sinks, kitchen sinks, showers and bathtubs. It offers four pre-set temperatures and a timer to shut off the water supply. In addition, the system can be activated with a touch of the finger or knuckle.
"Hotel guests need not be touching the faucet handles to adjust water temperature and to shut off the water making it sanitary and convenient for users," said Boey.
She added that a lot of water is wasted adjusting the water temperature. Once adjusted, most hotel guests will leave their water running while they are brushing their teeth wasting water.
The Smart Touchless Faucet System has been lab tested by Marymount University of California and proven to save some 40 percent in water, plus corresponding savings that result from reduced usage of gas, electric, and paper towels or Kleenex.
Prior to the debut of the Smart Touchless Faucet System, the only electronic auto shut-off faucets were motion sensor or infrared faucets, which often fail as the lens and electronic eye get blocked with soap suds, according to most engineers. Because they must be removed and cleaned by engineers at least once or twice a year they are generally used only in public restrooms, which include a number of faucets as back up in case they malfunction.
The Smart Touchless Faucet System has also been lab tested by IAPMO (International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials) to handle one million cycles without failure giving it a lifespan of 30 years and making it the most reliable, durable and economical faucet in the long run, according to Boey.
"There's no reliable auto-shutoff faucet system except Smart Touchless Faucet System. The motion sensor is so unreliable that all the hotels continue to go with manual faucets, which are not sanitary. That's why the touchpad is a perfect solution," Boey noted.
Furthermore, a transparent label can be placed over the Smart Touchpad and changed daily to help avoid extra labor costs associated with cleaning faucet handles. In addition, hotels can also use the electronic touchpad as a means of advertising by putting their corporate name and logo on it.
Boey noted getting the system government funded in 2019 was a "game changer" for the company as it was recognized for its ability to conserve water. The government funding enables hotels to install the Smart Touchless Faucet System with no money out of pocket for approximately three years. "Things are rolling now because of the government funding and the pandemic," she said.
Boey further noted that installation of the system is fast and easy averaging 15 to 20 minutes per unit. She emphasized that the Smart Touchless Faucet System has been very well received by younger guests, particularly millennials.
"This smart touchless water & energy saving system will not only increase your profit margin, but it will raise your property image by making it look smart and millennial. This is a very attractive product for millennial customers," she said.
Boey cited a few other less obvious, but equally impactful, bottom-line benefits of the new system. For example, the programmable timer can help prevent bathtub overflow, which is a significant problem for some hoteliers. Such an issue can cost hoteliers anywhere from $20,000 to $30,000 per incident, as well as potential mold issues and high insurance costs. "Bathtub overflow is an everyday affair in Las Vegas," she noted.
Another one of the advantages of the Smart Touchless Faucet System is it helps avoid that first splash of cold water as the smart touchpad can be placed outside the shower. Users can touch the hot water button and let the water warm up first before stepping in. This allows for significant space savings as most architects and designers will generally separate the shower handles and shower heads and effectively expand the shower space. Boey noted that this system can save at least three feet of shower space, or 10 square feet in total, providing owners an opportunity to generate additional revenue.
Boey concluded by putting the new Smart Touchless Faucet System in context for hotel owners. "This is not a faucet you choose to have it is a faucet you cannot live without. Faucet handles will soon be a thing of the past!!" she said.


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First, let me just admit that I am a classic boat widow--that is, a spouse frequently left behind when a partner runs off to a spiritual soulmate of the floating variety.
Echo II being slung back into the water after a long winter of repairsThe important point here is, Pope loves sailboats and sailing. He is currently in the sunny Bahamas for a Spring fling, crewing on someone else's boat. I, on the other hand, am enjoying nights out with the girls, wine parties, gym classes, yoga teacher training, Cajun music jams. Lonely widow?? Nah! So which of us is having the more delightful experience? Judge for yourself...
Amber joins other volunteer teachers in training workshop at Yoga in Daily Life USA, Alexandria, Virginia, March 2016Remember our month in early 2014, holed up at the Rubis gas station dock in Nassau while our auxiliary engine was removed, refurbished, and reinstalled by Albert the diesel magician? Of course you do! Admit it--it was your favorite story; or maybe the only story that kept you from nodding off while slogging through my tiresome blog about misadventures in the Bahamas.
Bidding farewell to Echo II's auxiliary propulsion unit, January 2014; bye bye, see you in a month!
Albert the diesel magician in his shop, ordering essential parts from the US for Echo II, January 2014Well, what goes around comes around! Is that the appropriate phrase here? Or is it DEJA VU??! As I write this, Pope is holed up at the Rubis gas station dock in Nassau, on a broke-down boat, while Albert the diesel magician is being solicited (skids greased with some Jameson whiskey, most likely) to take a gander at its internal mechanics. Will Pope and his skipper see other islands? Will they snorkel and swim, or even sail? TBD. Pope's latest email: "I have no idea how long we will be stuck here at the good ole Rubis station. Lots of problems."
Not a day older: Albert the diesel magician, still running his shop of miracles (and illusions) in Nassau, March 2016Divine justice for running off to the islands without me? Poor planning, or poor maintenance? Or is Pope so attached to that old wooden fuel dock with its charter fishing boats and laid-back vibe that it serves as auxiliary soulmate? We did have a good time there in 2014; the gas station manager at the time, Daniel, shared his breakfast, joked with us, let us use the internet, and instructed his staff to unlock the toilet for us at all hours, on request.
Street view of our Nassau home away from home, January 2014
The infamous--and increasingly familiar--dock, January 2014; Echo II is the (only) mast on the leftThus our respective activities in the Spring of 2016 continue to unfold. Now, about those tomato seedlings: while Pope shoots the breeze with Bahamian gas jockeys and Albert's assistants, day after day, with the potential for becoming week after week, he moans that his newly planted tomato, pepper, basil, and parsley seeds in the little brown pots in our front window could die without their "parent" to nurture and nourish them. His lament: "They need love. Without me they are screwed." Well, I can only do my best. Every day I water them, gaze fondly at them, puzzle over how to keep them alive, and even sing Cajun songs to them. As far as I can tell, they are not yet screwed.
As you have probably figured out by now, Pope and I have a strange yet wonderful relationship, able to endure interesting twists and turns that could never even be conceived of by normal people.


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Jobs where former founders have unique advantage
The rare assets that former founders have and the jobs that need those assets the most
Regardless of the outcome of the startup, building a startup forces founders to develop rare and valuable skills, mindsets, and experiences which make them uniquely qualified for certain jobs.
Last week, I asked a friend who is hiring for a lot of roles at a big comapny if he put a premium on candidates with backgrounds as builders. His response was "oh hell yeah." He elaborated that for some of the highly ambiguous roles where candidates would need to be pseudo-GMs, he would prefer former founders. And even for some of the roles with less ambiguity, when it comes to candidates with similar backgrounds, he puts a premium on the candidates who have built something.
So why are former founders such strong candidates? Through their founder experience, they are more likely to have the skillset, mindset, and experiences that enable them to thrive in ambiguity. They also have some of the rare experiences that you can only get through starting a company which give them more deeper insight on the challenges of building things and credibility in the startup ecosystem.
Here are some of the valuable and rare assets that are fortified by experience building a startup:
Deeply understanding the challenges of building something from nothing
Founder empathy
Startup ecosystem fluency + network
Startup street cred
These assets make former founders uniquely qualified for certain jobs, especially these six:
Startup ecosystem growth or GTM at a company serving startups
Community builder within startup ecosystem
Venture studio operator or EIR
Venture Capital
New Project teams at BigCos
PM or GM role where the founder has relevant experience
Startup ecosystem growth or GTM at a company serving startups
B2B companies are increasingly focusing on going to market in the startup ecosystem. For developer tools, like AWS (cloud services), Stripe (payments infrastructure), and Segment (customer data platform)), their biggest customers in 5 years are likely startups today. Additionally, there are other service providers where startups are part of their target market, like MainStreet (tax credit claiming), Brex and Ramp (corporate cards and banking), and Carta (cap table management software).
These companies build out BD, Growth, and GTM functions which require partnering with players in the startup ecosystem and engaging in founder communities.
These roles leverage a unique blend of a former founder's startup ecosystem fluency + network, founder empathy, and startup street cred -- whether it be a BD role, a product marketing role (where you would need to speak the language of founders), or an evangelism role. Additionally, given how nascent and ambiguous the "Startup Ecosystem GTM" function is, these roles require ownership, humility, resourcefulness, and resilience to succeed.
To find these jobs, go to startups or companies which might be focusing on Startup GTM. Usually, if you search for something like, "startup" or "venture" you'll find some roles. AWS has a whole landing page dedicated to its startup business development roles and you can also find roles by using "aws" "startup" in a search query. Searching "startup" on Stripe's career page yields 26 roles. Using 'ctrl+F' and searching "startup" on Brex's career page surfaces a job as a Marketing Lead for their Tech Startup GTM.
Startup ecosystem community builder
Online communities are exploding. Whether it's VCs building communities within their startup ecosystem, community-focused startups like On Deck which provide community as their primary value-proposition, or companies trying to grow up their Startup GTM functions via community-building, there's a growing need for people who can build these communities.
Building a community is easier when the person kick-starting and managing the community is a member of the community themselves. They deeply understand the needs of others in the community, can speak their language, and can serve as astroturf in the community, seeding and answering questions to spark community engagement. Therefore anyone trying to build a community focused on founders or the startup ecosystem will look to someone who is a member of that community themselves -- which is perfect for former founders.
Finding these roles usually starts with identifying the companies investing in startup ecosystem community-building. They don't all use the "community" word for specific roles, but fellowship programs, alumni networks, or VC firms that are focused on community or platform services are likely to be investing heavily in ecosystem community-building right now.
Venture studio operator or EIR roles
Venture Studios are essentially startup-building factories. They have teams of operators and entrepreneurs-in-residence who work on internal projects with the goal of spinning them out into successful startups which receive external investment. Working at a Venture Studio -- either as an EIR or another internal role -- is a lower risk way of working on new early stage startups than starting your own. While some internal roles are pretty specialized (e.g. backend engineering, finance), others can be more generalist operational roles (e.g. Entrepreneur-in-residence roles, Business Lead roles, Platform roles).
These are some of the most interesting roles for former founders who want to keep applying their founder skills. These roles take full advantage of all of the skills that founders develop building a startup, but compressed into multiple ventures at the same time.
The best way to find Venture Studio jobs is to go to Venture Studio websites and look at their careers pages. Most of these Venture Studios also showcase jobs for their portfolio companies, so if you're seeing jobs for their portfolio companies, a pro-tip is to filter the jobs by company and select the venture studio itself. Examples of job boards on Venture Studio websites that have active in-house roles include AI2, Alive Ventures, Atomic (filter company = Atomic), Coplex, Create, Diagram, Founders Factory, High Alpha (filter for company = High Alpha), Human Ventures, Madrona Venture Labs, Pioneer Square Labs, Redesign Health, Science, and Share VC (to name a few).
Venture capital
There are two things that former founders are unique qualified to do in VC: (1) build dealflow and (2) due diligence.
Through former founders' startup ecosystem fluency, startup ecosystem network, founder empathy, and startup street cred, they have an inherent advantage in building deal flow compared to others trying to break into VC. Even if other candidates have stronger networks on day 1, founder empathy and startup street cred are assets that you can't fake. New founders prefer to work with someone who can relate to their experience. As one former-founder-turned-VC once told me, "founders like to work with someone who's gotten blood on their hands."
On the other hand, with their deep understanding of the challenges involved in building something, former founders can quickly and intuitively identify challenges that new founders are either underrating or obfuscating, making them invaluable for due diligence and even portfolio support.
However, jobs in VC generally don't leverage most of the unique founder/operator skills and mindset that former founders have.
One of the quickest places to start to peruse VC jobs (other than talking to VCs) is this Venture Capital job board.
New project teams
Both at scaling startups and big companies, there are often teams or individuals dedicated to special projects or new projects. These teams work on bold new bets, building new ventures within a company that already has strong resources. These teams value former founders because of their skills building things from zero to one and their ability to thrive in ambiguity. But they also value former founders for thee startup street cred and entrepreneurial DNA they bring to their teams. New project teams within bigger companies need to constantly fight the gravity of bureaucracy that comes with being a scaling startup or big company. Bringing in people who can fight that gravity and keep the company entrepreneurial is important.
Searching for roles and teams that say, "New Projects" or "Special Projects" is a good place to start for these roles. Searching for "New Projects" on Amazon's job surfaces roles on teams like Amazon Music where hiring managers value entrepreneurial backgrounds. A ctrl+F on On Deck's career page for "projects" surfaces a role for Head of Special Projects. Searching linkedin Jobs for "Special Projects" yields jobs like the Manager of Strategy and Special Projects at Codeacademy and the Special Projects Manager (New Bets) at Revolut.
PM or GM role where you have relevant experience
While founders - especially former CEOs – have a lot of the assets that would make them successful product owners (AKA product managers) business line owners (AKA General Managers), they also are often risky hires for those roles given lack of deep experience as a focused PM or GM. The way I've seen former founders overcome these risks is by finding PM or GM roles where their experience gives them relevant domain expertise for the PM/GM roles. For example, when I moved on from my startup which was in the freelancer space, I was a strong candidate for PM roles at bigger companies that were building products in the gig economy or freelancer space.
Former founders who are looking for these PM or GM roles should first reflect on what deep domain expertise they have from their founding experience and find companies building in similar or adjacent spaces, then explore product roles at those companies that would value that domain experience.


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Being the most magical and feminine of all gems, pearl jewellery is considered as one of the most romantic items that can be gifted to a lady. This beautiful sterling silver pendant is very delicate looking yet strong, it is suspended on an 18" belcher chain.
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In this design I've achieved the greatest gap yet between the floating magnet and the bismuth around it. ** The solar eclipse effect is made possible with a light behind the sculpture (light is not included). Full of possibility, this crystal pillar is reminiscent of the solar eclipse when the white hot radiance of the sun completely encompasses the cool majesty of a weightless moon. In anticipation of the total solar eclipse coming to my native land mass on August 21, 2017, I created this little marvel where a magnet can permanently escape the oppression of our massive planet's force without leaving the atmosphere. The phenomenon responsible is called diamagnetism, and bismuth is the most diamagnetic metal on earth. The first two photos show both sides of the sculpture with slightly different openings. This permanent levitation requires no electricity - ever. Handcrafted Magnetic Levitation Sculpture •Gift for the uber gadget geek! •Includes one made to order sculpture with magnets and base •Total measurements including the base are 4x4x9 inches. The metal itself measures approximately 5" tall and 1" square. •Made from bismuth metal •Three- 6.35 mm - 1/4 inch sphere magnets https://www.etsy.com/listing/567446751/spare-floater-magnets-for-my-solar •30-Day guarantee HERE'S HOW IT WORKS 1. Place the sculpture on a level surface 2. Slip the sphere magnet into the opening 3. Twist the top magnet until the little moon floats freely 4. Watch it levitate for hours…days…years or until the next solar eclipse. See this gravity-defying creation in action! https://youtu.be/7QcCcEo4CCI THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE SCULPTURE The small wonder in the sculpture is touching nothing but air in this unique kinetic piece featuring diamagnetic flotation of a 5 mm sphere magnet. This new, yet simple, technology requires no power of any kind — just a balancing of bismuth crystals and magnetism. Bismuth happens to be the metal with the greatest amount of diamagnetism. That means it repels north and south poles of magnets equally. It's a very weak push, and we didn't know about it for a long time. The top magnet attracts the small magnet with enough force to lighten it. Just a little bit. The diamagnetic force of the bottom bismuth crystal can then push the sphere off its surface without pushing it too high into the upper magnet's attractive field. That way it achieves balance in a repulsive pocket of stability between a pair of larger attractive fields, magnetism and gravity. See? Science! **Neodymium magnets are not for children. Small magnets can pose a choking hazard. If multiple magnets are swallowed, they can attach to one another through intestine walls. This can cause a severe health risk, requiring immediate, emergency surgery if correctly diagnosed. **Neodymium magnets can affect pacemakers. The strong magnetic fields near a neodymium magnet can affect pacemakers, ICDs and other implanted medical devices. Many of these devices are made with a feature that deactivates it with a magnetic field. Therefore, care must be taken to avoid inadvertently deactivating such devices. WE LOVE CUSTOM ORDERS Have something in mind and want us to design it for you? That's one of our favorite things to do. Simply send along a message and let's get your ideas made! PROCESSING TIME We will ship your item within 5 business days. Often sooner! Please see our policies for more information. THE BEAUTY OF BISMUTH As a scientist and craftsman, I'm fascinated with the astounding properties of bismuth and love to share that with you. Please check out my shop story to see more beautiful photos of these crystals and read how it all comes together. We love making maglev sculptures! See more of them here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/Element83?ref=hdr_shop_menu§ion_id=18946779 Please note that due to everyone's monitor displaying differently, the colors you see may vary. Also, each piece we make is handmade to order, so items may differ slightly from the one you see pictured. Thank you for supporting handmade and for visiting my corner of the internet. - Ernie
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Louis Vuitton, Gucci, expected to point to wider luxury sector recovery in Q1
"Gucci is on fire and its sales growth in some regions has been in the very high double digits," an industry source said on condition of anonymity. The brand's sales growth is likely to be impressive also because it is compared to last year's low base when the brand's turnaround was in its early days.
The same positive trend is expected at Louis Vuitton, which benefited from the industry's recovery and innovative designs for both accessibly priced and high-end leather goods.
Gucci and Louis Vuitton's respective parents, Kering and LVMH, declined to comment.
Global Blue, the VAT refund provider, said tourist spending in Europe accelerated in the first quarter with tourist spending up 17 percent year-on-year in February, in line with January figures.
Several executives at the Condé Nast International luxury conference in Oman said they had noticed a clear improvement in trading in the first quarter, which bode well for the rest of the year. The luxury goods industry last year was stung by terrorist attacks that kept tourists away from major European capitals while Russian and Middle Eastern buyers suffered from low oil prices.
Patrick Chalhoub, chief executive of the Chalhoub group, a major luxury distributor in the Middle East, said it looked as though luxury demand in the region had reached a trough in the autumn last year and was now picking up.
"The market reached a bottom last year and is slowly improving. By September, we should see concrete positive results," Chalhoub told Fashion Network in an interview.
He said the group estimated luxury sales in the Middle East to rise between 1-3 percent in 2017 after a 1 percent drop in 2016. Globally, the market is forecast to rise in low-single digits but analyst could revise up their forecasts after big groups such as LVMH and Kering publish their first-quarter sales later this month.
"I think there has been a rebound since President Trump was elected," Jimmy Choo Chief Executive Pierre Denis said in an interview. Denis said the news lifted stock markets and therefore consumers' net asset value and "feel-good factor" that prompted consumers to open their wallets again. Jose Neves, chief executive of online fashion retailer Farfetch, said there had been a definite up-tick in recent months.
"We have very good visibility through our network of 500 stores and 200 brands, and we have genuinely noticed a pick-up in the first quarter," he told Fashion Network in an interview at the luxury conference. Aside from Europe, Neves said there were positive trends in China, Russia, Japan and Brazil.
However, Neves, like many other fashion executives, said poor trading at US department stores, hit by online competition and an oversized network, was a major concern for the industry.
He warned the trend could be "toxic" as it meant excess inventory and a slimming down of department stores that could take two to three years to complete.
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Each pound of muscle you lose can reduce the amount of calories you burn by up to 30 per day. During perimenopause, that time in which a woman's body makes its normal transition to permanent infertility, you start losing about 1\/2 lb of muscle a year. This loss that may double once you hit menopause. So the first thing you may do to help yourself is weight training exercise. Weight\/Resistance Training – To keep your metabolism chugging in high gear, you need strength training. This will be just a must, and if you are not on board with lifting a little bit of weight, get on board and stop fighting it! weight lifting may literally reverse of the aging process, so you feel and look years, maybe even decades, younger.
How Weight Training Works – weight lifting increases your calorie burn. Almost one 3rd of the increase has been a boost in their metabolic process from the muscle they gained. The remaining calories have been burned as a consequence of their workout routines, their increased daily activity, and afterburn, that is a further incentive to strength training. Author Gary R. Hunter, PhD, of the University of Alabama in Birmingham explains, depending upon how hard you work out, your metabolic process can stay high for up to 36 hours after you have finished lifting. This also means as you sleep, and I know that whenever I train hard enough, I wake up covered in sweat.
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CLEVELAND -- If you think you've gotten to know Kenny Lofton better over the past week, it's no illusion. The TBS network keeps running that DHL commercial -- the one poking fun at Lofton's peripatetic career -- on a constant loop. The spot is almost as tired as the ad featuring the guy who's falling in love with his car's navigational system.
As the folks in Houston, Atlanta, San Francisco, Chicago, Pittsburgh, New York, Philadelphia and Texas can attest, Lofton usually doesn't hang around long enough to be more than a casual acquaintance. He'll sign his one-year deal, contribute his 150 hits, 30 steals and a little edge in the clubhouse, then hit the road for another team in a different town.
If there's a port he can always call home, it's Cleveland. In the early 1990s, Lofton was the fleet and daring catalyst wreaking havoc in front of Jim Thome, Manny Ramirez and Albert Belle. More than a decade later, he's in his third tour with the franchise and evoking memories of powerhouse Indians teams past.
It's a role that suits him well.
The Indians had a ton of fun in Game 1 of the American League Division Series, spraying line drives all over Jacobs Field on the way to a 12-3 victory over the Yankees. But it's fair to assume no one reveled in the outburst more than Lofton, the team's resident sage and grandfather figure.
When he wasn't banging out three hits and knocking in four runs, Lofton was tying Rickey Henderson's record with his 33rd career postseason steal. The appreciative sellout crowd serenaded him with cries of "Ken-ny! Ken-ny!"
It was enough to make a 40-year-old vagabond feel downright spry.
"It's kind of awesome,'' Lofton said. "Sometimes I hear it. Then once I get in the box, I don't hear it no more.''
The Indians, who went 36-20 in August and September to pull away from Detroit and win the American League Central, are a fashionable darkhorse pick to crash the inevitable Boston-New York "East Coast bias'' ALCS. If they advance, it'll be more a reflection of talent than postseason experience.
Lofton and C.C. Sabathia, Thursday's starter, are the only Indians who were around for the team's loss to Seattle in the 2001 Division Series. Only five other Indians -- Josh Barfield, Joe Borowski, Aaron Fultz, Chris Gomez and Paul Byrd -- have any postseason games on their resume.
But the Indians are buoyed by a deep, persistent lineup, two elite starters in Sabathia and Fausto Carmona, and a local populace ready to pump up the volume and go crazy in response to anything positive. Apparently, the rally towels in Cleveland are more effective than the ones they're handing out in Philadelphia.
"The fans are excited and getting fired up about what's going on,'' Lofton said. "This city needs a championship.''
The first postseason game in Cleveland in six years had an element of the surreal from the outset, when Yankees first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz arrived at the park, collided with a YES network cameraman and rolled his ankle.
Johnny Damon, the first batter of the game, hit a homer down the line only to have umpire Jim Wolf -- stationed in right field precisely for occasions such as this -- wave the ball foul. An umpire conference and a reversal quickly followed, and you got the sense the Yankees might be in for a big night.
But it was not to be, as Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada and Hideki Matsui went 0-for-12 on the evening. If there was one positive, their combined struggles and the ineffectiveness of Chien-Ming Wang took the focus off Alex Rodriguez. With two popouts and a pair of walks, A-Rod was strictly an innocent bystander to the carnage.
It was enough to make Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James, a lifelong New York fan, spin his Yankees cap around backwards and leave Jacobs Field early. You could only wonder how ugly it would have gotten if James were playing for the Boston Celtics and the scene were taking place at Fenway Park.
The Indians won despite a subpar outing from Sabathia, who threw a whopping 114 pitches in five innings and walked six batters. That's more than he walked in the entire months of June (three) and July (four).
Sabathia denied having problems with umpire Bruce Froemming's small strike zone, and pitched out of a bases loaded jam in the fifth inning to protect a seemingly fragile 4-3 lead.
The fans are excited and getting fired up about what's going on. This city needs a championship.
--Kenny Lofton
"It was [lack of] command,'' Sabathia said. "Bruce did a great job behind the plate. I was fired up. I was trying not to throw hard and I looked up there a couple of times and I was throwing 97.''
The Indians are a different team from the club that went 0-6 against New York during the regular season. They received a big lift from young second baseman Asdrubal Cabrera and right fielder Franklin Gutierrez down the stretch, and the geezer in left field proved to be quite valuable as well.
When the Indians rescued Lofton from Texas before the trade deadline, they were looking for offense from an outfielder other than Grady Sizemore. Manager Eric Wedge initially tried Lofton at the leadoff spot, then dropped him to seventh and shifted Sizemore back to the top. That combination ultimately helped the Indians take off.
When the young Cleveland players see Lofton run the bases with abandon and grind out at-bats, it's like watching an old Indians team photo spring to life.
"It makes all of us know what that whole team and that whole era was in the '90s,'' said first baseman Ryan Garko. "For us to be able to lean on a guy like that -- who's been through just about anything you could go through in this city in a baseball sense -- it's been great having him here.''
Lofton, who has 2,428 hits, 1,528 runs, 622 stolen bases and a .372 on-base percentage in his career, is a guy who should receive some Hall of Fame consideration when he finally hangs it up. But all that moving around won't help his cause.
When he takes a final inventory, New York will probably qualify as the worst experience of his career. Lofton played 83 forgettable games for the Yankees in 2004, and regrettably threw in his two cents earlier this year after Gary Sheffield made news with his Joe Torre-favors-white-players-over-blacks remarks.
Still, Lofton derived no special satisfaction from beating the Yankees. If he harbored a grudge against former employers, he'd be mad at half of baseball.
"I've been to every city there is in the States, I think,'' Lofton said.
But there's only one place where everybody knows his face and cheers his name. Of all Lofton's stops, Cleveland feels most like home.
Jerry Crasnick covers baseball for ESPN.com. His book "License To Deal" was published by Rodale. Click here to order a copy. Jerry can be reached via e-mail.


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This week's excuse for not making more progress on my book or anyone else's is that I have my first cold in two years, and staring at words makes my headache worse—which has not prevented me from reading 7,001 things on my phone, but you cannot give up your entire life just because of a virus. I've spent much of the week on the couch, where my chief activities consist of wiping my nose, refreshing Twitter, thinking about the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to, and—when I feel the need to be really productive—researching what type of winter booties to get for the dog. While there appears to be a strong correlation between how well I can breathe through my nose and how many words I can consume in one sitting, I did get a good start on A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes, which was recommended to me by a friend who knows how much I adored Madeline Miller's Circe. A Thousand Ships considers the Trojan War from the perspective of various women and goddesses, a framework that was always fated to get my money, and I am hoping to finish it before my mythology-obsessed 13-year-old realizes it's in the house. (We don't talk enough about how it feels to watch your children grow up right before your eyes and start stealing your reading material.)
I also got several chapters into Mary Laura Philpott's forthcoming memoir in essays, Bomb Shelter, which has one of the best subtitles I think I've ever seen: Love, Time, and Other Explosives. When she writes about trying to constantly guard against threats, believing that this and her powerful love for her family will somehow help keep them safe, I felt, as they say, personally attacked.
But it's her account of finding her teenage son seizing on the bathroom floor—the narrative toggling between the moment of crisis, her earliest memories as his mother, and the sort of reflexive, everyday observations a parent can't help making no matter the situation—that pulled the air from my lungs:
My son lies where he fell when he began to seize, just two steps into the bathroom when he dropped cold, his head now ricocheting against bathtub, toilet, and floor. His lips are purple, almost blue. He arches his feet involuntarily. Such big feet. He needs new shoes. I need to take him to the shoe store.
As I read about Philpott going to the hospital with her son, I found myself remembering the first time I thought something might be wrong with one of my babies, and how nothing could have prepared me for the resulting tidal wave of vulnerability, terror, and adrenaline—I couldn't have expressed all I felt in that moment, but I heard it in the unfamiliar wobble in my voice when I spoke with doctors; I saw it in the new and disconcerting expression reflected back at me in the mirror of a cold hospital bathroom. One reason we read is to know that burst of recognition when someone supplies new language for that which we once found indescribable. Mary Laura Philpott finds words for this intense experience known to so many—and she's consistently hilarious, too, even when discussing all the terrifying things in life that we can neither predict nor prevent. I'm eager to continue this book, which has so far felt like a comfort even when cutting close to the bone.
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I'm trying to write nonfiction and I'm wondering what a "brainstorming idea" looks like for you. I have way too many ideas, and I struggle to organize them in a way that can help me transition to writing my piece more smoothly. Any suggestion, process, or visual is appreciated. Also, please share your go-to books on the craft of writing!
— So Many Ideas
Dear So Many Ideas,
As writing problems go, this is truly the best one to have. I'm glad to share some of my methods, but of course every writer will have their own—through trial and error, you'll figure out what works best for you.
I keep track of my ideas in a big brainstorming document, loosely organized by theme and subject. Some are actually orphaned lines or sections removed from other works, ideas I wasn't quite ready to discard even if I couldn't make them fit where they were (I find this makes it easier to cut when necessary—you're not killing your darlings if you might use them somewhere else!). I also brainstorm and take notes related to specific projects; over the last year or so, I've amassed a collection of memories, quotes, research, etc. that I may want to work into the book I'm writing. I go into all of these brainstorming documents periodically to reread what I've collected, add more notes, move ideas around, consider whether any of them may be connected.
I will frequently run ideas by trusted readers and fellow writers, as I find it a worthwhile exercise to try to describe an idea to someone else—it helps me organize my thoughts, clarify the story's progression and the overarching point. If I struggle to do any of this clearly or succinctly, that probably means I have more work to do. And while you shouldn't base all your writing objectives on what other people think, it can be helpful to note which subjects seem to generate the most energy or conversation: If someone whose opinion I value responds to an idea with excitement and/or several interesting questions for me, that's a sign that there might be something there.
Sometimes I need to write my way into a piece; I may not know if an idea is working, or where I should take it, until I've spent time generating. This can give way to one of those magical writing experiences when everything works even better than you'd hoped, and you go from spark to draft in a matter of hours. But it's more common for me to explore a topic for a while, let it sit, then come back later to look with fresh eyes. I might try to work backwards a bit: What's the animating question or destination I'm writing toward, and what do readers need in order to understand the stakes and stay with me until we get there? Do I have all the material I need in order to guide them through this story, or do I need to do some more brainstorming or research? This line of questioning helps me identify which points and ideas might belong in a given narrative, and which are extraneous or part of a different story altogether.
By far the best way I've found to organize a number of ideas and transition to writing is the good old reliable outline, though I admit I'm not the best at outlining and, for many years, did so only grudgingly. I find an outline especially helpful when planning a longer work, or one that includes more research or reporting—it allows me to glimpse the shape and structure of the piece and gives me a kind of trail to follow, even if I veer from it as I draft. If I've outlined something, I know that I can probably write it, so there's a not-insignificant confidence boost I stand to gain as well. And if I think I won't be able to work on a project for a while (I will write you someday, novel!), I take comfort in knowing that, if nothing else, I've worked out and preserved the key plot points.
I think it's always instructive to revisit work by writers you admire, whether short- or long-form, reading with an eye toward their storytelling choices. How do they organize their thoughts and ideas, and build the connective tissue between them? How do they move between exposition and scene, or past events and present analysis, or telling and showing? Can you imagine what their outlines might have looked like? You can pick up a lot just by reading and trying to figure out how other writers construct their stories.
You asked about craft books—two current favorites of mine are Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses (focused on fiction writing and workshopping, but there's also much to appreciate if you write literary nonfiction) and Body Work by Melissa Febos (to be published in March 2022, if you want to preorder). I will always have a soft spot for The Writing Life by Annie Dillard. If you're interested in memoir, I really like Beth Kephart's books on the subject, starting with Handling the Truth.
I also deeply, deeply love E. B. White's essay "The Sea and the Wind That Blows," about his experiences as a solitary and, so he claims, not terribly skilled sailor who still feels "a memorial chill" each time he embarks on another voyage—this is precisely my relationship to writing!—and I often think of it when beginning something new. And finally, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that when I need to feel inspired or shake something loose in my own writing, I turn to poetry, which has never failed me yet.
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EARTH CITY, Mo. -- Rams quarterback Sam Bradford stops to ponder the question, searching the deeper recesses of his memory.
The question isn't difficult, it's a simple test of the mind. But considering how much information Bradford has socked away in the past six years, it's not surprising it takes a minute to locate the answer.
Talking X's and O's after another training camp practice, Bradford is asked if he remembers how Oklahoma once built the nation's most prolific, up-tempo offense around his right arm and the very brain he's now using to come up with a response.
"It's hard to remember back that far," Bradford said, a sly grin creeping across his face.
Five-plus years really isn't that far but in the mind of a quarterback who learned three new offensive schemes in his first three NFL seasons, that time might as well be translated to dog years.
When Bradford arrives at the answer, he begins retracing the steps it took him to a Heisman Trophy in the 2008 season and he begins to connect the dots between the transformation of that Sooners offense and the one the Rams are now building with him as the centerpiece.
'Play fast but don't hurry'
In the years before Bradford arrived on the Oklahoma campus, the Sooners were a run-heavy team, making the easy decision to put the ball in the hands of running backs like Adrian Peterson. Oklahoma ran the ball 61 percent of the time in 2005 and 62 percent in 2006.
Peterson departed for the NFL draft after that season and then-Oklahoma offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson & Co. began to evaluate which direction the offense would go.
Bradford was coming off a redshirt freshman season in which he impressed on the scout team and positioned himself to take over as starter. Just as the Sooners were ready to make it official, Bradford struggled mightily in a public scrimmage.
"He had probably his worst scrimmage of the whole time he was there," Wilson said. "The day we were ready to say Sam is the guy, he just had an off day."
The Sooners still decided to make Bradford the starter. From there, the evolution of the offense took on a life of its own. While in the process of determining their offensive personality, things began to turn in the team's second game of the season, against Miami (Fla.).
In the week leading up to the game, the Sooners had practiced a play-action pass designed to get receiver Malcolm Kelly open in the back of the end zone. Bradford hit Kelly six, seven, eight times for a touchdown during the week.
When Wilson called the play in the game, Miami's safeties stayed home and Kelly was not an option. Bradford calmly flipped a pass in the flat to fullback Dane Zaslaw for a walk-in 9-yard touchdown, one of five he threw that day.
"I put Sam in a position to fail but he's so bright and so smart, he made the right play," Wilson said. "I didn't expect him to play it that way. That was just what a real player does."
The first year Bradford started, the Oklahoma offense was a bit more traditional, huddling on a regular basis and sticking to basic personnel groupings. The Sooners stuck to the run, too, going to the ground 59 percent of the time. But they did begin the process of speeding things up, tallying 951 plays, up from 887 in 2006.
Wilson and his staff began to recalibrate the idea of what the offense could become. Surrounding Bradford with talented players like Kelly, tight end Jermaine Gresham, running back DeMarco Murray and an offensive line stocked with future NFL players, the Sooners quickly realized their best bet was a no-huddle offense with Bradford as the trigger man.
"Our offense changed dramatically," Bradford said. "We went no-huddle, fast break. We had 11 personnel, 10 personnel, smaller, faster and spread it out to start throwing the ball a lot more. I remember that first spring, I really wasn't sure I was going to like it because I had never run the no-huddle before. It seemed like everything happened too fast but the more we did it, the more comfortable I got with it. It turned out; it was probably the best move we made because we were really good at it."
The concept wasn't terribly complicated, though it might have seemed that way at first. Wilson wanted Bradford working from the shotgun but with elements of the West Coast offense mixed in.
Bradford would take snaps in the gun but the concepts were designed for him to make quick reads and get the ball out to the Sooners' assortment of playmakers, who could turn short catches into big gains.
"He was the point guard who was distributing," Wilson said. "He was very instinctive, very good mind."
The next step was speeding up the offense to keep opposing defenses off balance. Using a term he'd heard from Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, Wilson, now the head coach at Indiana, wanted to "play fast but not hurry."
Bradford's ability to make quick decisions combined with an up-tempo pace would allow the Sooners to keep their foot on the gas for entire games.
"[Sam's] got Wi-Fi in his brain to process real quick," Wilson said.
Oklahoma put that brain to work during the week, too. Every Friday, Bradford and quarterbacks coach Josh Heupel would have breakfast and go over the game plan, picking out concepts Bradford liked and didn't like.
"They really did listen to those because if I didn't like something, we weren't going to run it," Bradford said.
The 2008 Oklahoma offense went on to become one of the most prolific in college football history. Playing at a breakneck speed in which they snapped the ball every 22.31 seconds, the Sooners ran 1,089 plays -- the most of any team in the country.
Bradford threw for 4,720 yards with 50 touchdown passes and eight interceptions on his way to the Heisman. He would miss most of his junior season with a shoulder injury before declaring for the NFL draft but the league had already seen what he could do in the right situation.
Building something new
For the better part of the past decade, the Rams' offense has been centered on running back Steven Jackson, who holds the franchise record in nearly every rushing category. He signed with Atlanta as a free agent in March.
Even before Jackson's departure, it was becoming clear to Rams decision-makers that for Bradford to reach the potential that made him the No. 1 pick, they needed to surround him with playmakers much like at Oklahoma.
Enter tight end Jared Cook and rookie receiver Tavon Austin, who can work the middle of the field and create matchup problems. Bring on tackle Jake Long to protect Bradford's blind side.
Offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer has been planning for the offensive personality shift since before Bradford's new toys were added. He spent the spring going back with Bradford and identifying concepts that would fit an altered approach.
Schottenheimer's plans kicked into overdrive when free agency and the draft were complete. New ideas and concepts began to bloom in the spring and training camp and preseason were used to put things into place. Schottenheimer said his group is still kind of scratching the surface on what it could become.
"That's why training camp is so good because you work through and almost finalize your fingerprint or identity during the spring and then when you come back you can really dive into specifics of what you want to be and what you expect to have success with," Schottenheimer said.
The Rams made it a point of not tipping off what those specifics will be during the exhibition season, though Bradford and Schottenheimer have offered clues along the way.
Bradford says the offensive approach will be different, noting the Rams will use a lot of personnel groupings, many of which are primary components of a more spread out attack. That means more "11" and "10" personnel with just one running back and one tight end or neither of one or the other.
"Obviously there's a shift from what we were doing last year," Bradford said. "You just look at our roster and we're built different. So I don't think it would make a lot of sense to try to do what we did last year. That's not who we are, that's not the way we are built anymore. Kind of going back to when I was at Oklahoma, we have got a lot of speed now and in order to get that on the field, we have to play spread out."
Bradford and Schottenheimer have spent countless hours going back through film of last season, identifying things Bradford likes and discarding he doesn't like. Schottenheimer said the Rams wouldn't go as far as watching film of Bradford at Oklahoma but that doesn't mean they wouldn't incorporate concepts from Bradford's time in Norman.
In the team's second preseason game, one of Bradford's favorite college plays was on display against Green Bay. Bradford lined up in the shotgun with back Daryl Richardson to his right and Cook, Austin and Austin Pettis split to the left and Chris Givens to the right, Givens ran a short inside curl, drawing in the corner and clearing out space down the right sideline. The other three receivers ran similar routes on the left sideline.
Richardson ran a wheel route in the right flat that isolated him in space against linebacker A.J. Hawk. Bradford dropped in a perfect touch pass to Richardson for a gain of 24 yards. It's a play Bradford said the Sooners ran with ruthless efficiency in his college days.
"We wore it out," Bradford said. "It's basically a spot spacing play, and everyone in college football runs it. We thought we could get the halfback on a little swing pass and get the ball in DeMarco or Chris' hands in space against a corner, it was usually 10 or 15 yards guaranteed. That and then the hurry-up bubble screens, the hurry-up play-action, I think those are the things that would see every week with us."
The chance for Bradford to play in a system a second year has been beneficial. He and Schottenheimer have been consistently on the same page and building the offense to the point where it can add an element of sophistication and multiplicity.
"We are so much more advanced now," Schottenheimer said. "That's just because he's able to get us into certain plays that last year he might not have been sure how to communicate that whether it's a verbal communication or a non-verbal communication, now he's got it down. He knows what to do, how to do it and that makes all the difference in the world. That's stability."
Tempo and pace
Playing at a faster pace in a more spread-out style has been in vogue in the college game for much longer than in the NFL but it's starting to become more common across the league in recent seasons.
Defenses have become more specialized and offenses are constantly searching for ways to create mismatches. The easiest way to do that is to spread out the defense with a variety of receivers and attempt to get snaps off in short order to keep defenses from being able to match up with extra defensive backs or rotate out tired linemen.
Likewise, the simple belief around the league is the more snaps you play, the more chances you have to score.
"If you look at a lot of the offenses that have been successful in this league over the past couple years, for the most part they have all been spread offenses, pass happy, passing attacks," Bradford said. "You look at the best quarterbacks and that's what they're doing. They happen to be the best offenses in the league, too."
Since Bradford entered the league in 2010, the Rams rank 16th in total snaps, averaging 63.9 a game. Detroit, New England, New Orleans, Atlanta and Houston are the top five. Each of those teams has at least one playoff berth in that span.
Will the Rams plan to go hurry-up all the time? Not necessarily. Schottenheimer acknowledges the offense will look to go at a little faster pace, especially given the talent and speed surrounding Bradford and his comfort level in making adjustments going into his second year in the scheme.
"We just want to play at a fast tempo and that's not necessarily all no huddle or anything like that," Schottenheimer said. "We are a fast team. We have speed. We want to be able to put pressure on the defense by being in multiple personnel groupings, making them adjust to us by putting people in different spots but then not stand up at the line of scrimmage all day long and let them diagnose things.
"Up-tempo is used so much around the NFL. [Philadelphia coach] Chip Kelly comes and adds a different dimension but again, we want to play fast in general."
For now, Schottenheimer said the Rams wouldn't be fully committed to spreading it out and playing at a fast pace.
"There will be some weeks where it looks different," Schottenheimer said. "There will be other weeks where it looks the same as last year. We are going to be real game-plan specific but we have more weapons, we have more tools to use just because it is year two and so I think as you look at it, I think you will see some subtle differences."
After spending just 10 minutes discussing the shape of the offense and where it could be headed in 2013, Bradford is asked a general question about his excitement level. There's no search for answers this time. His face lights up.
"I'm really excited this year with what we are going to do and the way we are going to attack defenses," Bradford said. "I think with our speed and the playmakers that we have now, we are going to be able to put more pressure on defenses. In the past I don't think anyone has really respected our speed or our ability to run by them so they squatted on things and made it tough to get completions underneath. This year, I think that's going to be a different story."


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My short horror film Storm ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ An audio version of my short story Big Boy
Thanks for dropping by!
Ronald McGillvray is a writer from the Parklands of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. His writing credits include his new horror novel, 'Cutter's Deep.'
His short horror story collection 'Tales From The Parkland – Stories For Late At Night'.
His children's fantasy novella, 'James' Journey To Dreamland.'
His short story, "Ukrainian Chimes,' was published in the 'Screaming For Peace' anthology.
His short story 'The Garbage Collectors,' was published in Horror Library Volume 2 as well as in their best of anthology.
His story 'Big Boy' was produced as an audio version by Pseudopod and his story 'A Night Out' was published by Dark Fire Fiction.
Two of his film scripts, 'Storm' and 'The Goodbye,' were both produced by Cellardweller Projects. 'Storm' was chosen as one of the films to be screened at the 2007 World Horror Convention. It also screened at the Shocklines Film Series in New York City.
His story 'Head Case' was made into a film produced by Columbia College in Chicago.
His film script 'Magic Man' was optioned by Hyde Park Media.
His stage play 'The Line' was picked up as part of the reading series by the Saint John Theatre Company.
Venture into the Parkland.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or just want to say hi.


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The Sweet Louise Cookbook 2020
The Sweet Louise Cookbook 2020 edition is here! Featuring 40 recipes including sweet and savoury concoctions from Nadia Lim, Jacinda Ardern, Al Brown, Hannah Barrett, Kura Forrester, as well as members of the Sweet Louise community, The Sweet Louise Cookbook has something for everybody – no matter what cooking ability!
Buy the downloadable Sweet Louise Cookbook for $40.00 here and help support Kiwis living with incurable breast cancer.
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New PC administration tools from Intel
Intel completes its Microsoft Windows NT management puzzle tomorrow with the introduction of a new version of PC administration tools.
LANDesk Management Suite 6, available next month, completes the company's PC and server management evolution from its Novell-centric roots. With several market research firms pegging Intel software at or near the top in terms of market share, adding support for Windows NT is the key to maintaining the company's position vs. competitors, according to Intel officials.
But Intel executives also are promoting several functions related to remote management of PCs and help desk integration as integral to the platform, especially in light of Intel's dominant role in PC hardware. Other LANDesk components offer software distribution, hardware and software inventory, software metering, virus protection, and server management.
This core set of services for networks is augmented by add-on tools like LANDesk Client Manager, a piece of agent software that numerous PC manufacturers will include in their hardware to offer manageability.
Intel has also included data-level integration with Tivoli Systems' TME 10 enterprise systems and applications management platform.
The management software suite already manages NT desktops, as well as Windows 3.11, Windows 95, DOS, Apple Macintosh, and IBM OS/2. The latest version is priced on a per-node basis. Intel said per-node pricing can be as low as $50 per system.


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Rova at the Uptown Nightclub, Oakland, August 9, 2016. Photo: Hilda Mendez.
Rova begins its 39th season! Seems like only yesterday when…NOT! But, many yesterdays ago, the band embarked on what's turned out to be a 4-decade long adventure in making music, building community, and advancing the art of improvisation. Looking ahead to the coming year's projected schedule, we're happy to report that Rova is still on task, with plans which fit squarely into our collective vision.
In September, as part of Acoustic Habitats, a two day festival organized by David Samas, Rova will present compositions by Steve Adams, Jon Raskin and Phillip Greenlief&emdash;pieces which incorporate myriad modes of graphic notation in their design. The two-set concert will demonstrate the broad range of expression possible beyond the realm of traditionally notated scores.
In November we anticipate the release of No Favorites, our tribute to the late Butch Morris, on the New World label. The music, recording, package and brilliant liner notes by Stuart Broomer result in what we trust will be a worthy homage to an imaginative fellow artist and comrade.
We're excited about some upcoming concerts:
Along with We Players and inkBoat we're dreaming up scenarios and musical ideas for the ambitious spring 2017 site-specific re-imagining of Beowulf, dates to be set soon, and details to follow in our November communique.
On the heels of the spring collaboration, our plan is to be on the road to Europe. There are several inquiries out that could result in multiple overseas tours, all of which make year 39 appear full of creative opportunities for Rova, and our fellow travelers.
We're starting to post Rova recordings on our Bandcamp page. See more on our latest posting below.
New ORKESTROVA CD on New World honors Butch Morris
No Favorites pays homage to one of the most original creators in improvised music, Lawrence "Butch" Morris, inventor of "Conduction," a method for organizing large ensemble improvisation that he took to the world. Morris died in January of 2013, and Rova mounted their tribute at Turkey's Akbank Jazz Festival nine months later. The program represents a working relationship that Rova began with Morris in 1988 and also reflects parallel working processes reaching back to the mid-1970s.
--From the liner notes by Stuart Broomer
Graphic #35, Steve Adams 2006
Flower Power, Jon Raskin
As part of a two-day series of concerts and events marking the opening of a window display of scores at the Center for New Music, Acoustic Habitats, Rova will present two sets of music realized through graphically scored composition. The composers contributing to the evening's performance are Rova's Steve Adams and Jon Raskin, as well as fellow saxophonist, Phillip Greenlief. Complete details on Acoustic Habitats events are posted at centerfornewmusic.com.
Phillip describes his piece, SAN FRANCISCO for ROVA, this way:
SAN FRANCISCO for ROVA was composed during my residency at Headlands Center for the Arts during the summer of 2013 and is dedicated to Lenny Bruce. I began composing map scores in 2004, for 2+2, my collaboration with Jon Raskin, and have since created eleven map scores for solo instruments and 10 map scores for ensemble. Unless stated otherwise within the composition, one approaches the score the way one would use a map while visiting a new city or state: starting at any place in the composition and moving freely from one compositional element to another. Each score has its own unique range of materials, designed for the performer(s) for whom the score was originally made. SAN FRANCISCO for ROVA features traditionally notated passages and sound menus that allow the performers to prepare and utilize a distinct set of sounds. In addition to the two Bb parts (for Ackley and Ochs) and the two Eb parts (for Adams and Raskin), SF for ROVA also has individual scores, to remind the players that solo space is encouraged.
Event producer and curator, David Samas, offers the following about Acoustic Habitats:
We live in a sonic environment which is not easily notated on staff paper.
As a result of the tremendous interdisciplinary skill and creativity of contemporary performing artists, graphic notation and visual score-making have become prevalent both in new music and dance. Many composers become less fixated with expectations of what sounds/actions are made and more concern themselves with how or why actions/sounds are made; the nuance of expression where direction can be abstracted. Often these composers and performers come from a strong background in free improvisation.
To navigate this novel realm requires a map or a path that is often specific to a particular place, idiom or feeling. Coded within the visual information, more or less subjectively, are the symbols that the dancer/musician must re-express into space and time as music and movement. Often games or strategies are employed to create self-composing material.
In this exhibit we explore graphic scores from living Bay Area artists whose work reflects an almost spiritual sensitivity to this place and a deeper conversation with the local social and environmental landscapes and who, ultimately, compose their own acoustic habitats.
Center for New Music
55 Taylor Street, near Market
San Francisco
Sunday, September 25, 1:30 PM
Bassist / composer / bandleader, Lisa Mezzacappa. Photo: Heike Liss
Lisa Mezzacappa is a San Francisco Bay Area-based bassist, bandleader, composer, curator and producer. An active collaborator in the Bay Area music community for more than a dozen years, she leads her own groups Bait & Switch, the Interlopers, Nightshade, Eartheaters and the Lisa Mezzacappa Trio, and co-leads the ensembles BODABODA, duo B., Cylinder, the Mezzacappa-Phillips Duo, and the Caribbean folk band Les Gwan Jupons. Lisa has released her music on the Clean Feed, NoBusiness, Leo, NotTwo, Evander, Odd Shaped Case and Edgetone record labels, and has recorded as a sideperson for the Tzadik, Kadima and Porto Franco labels. She collaborates frequently on cross-disciplinary projects in sound installation, film/video, sculpture and public music/art. lisamezzacappa.com
The invitation to write something for the ROVA communique is a rare chance for me to find language for some of the musical processes I've been grappling with for years; gratefully, outside the context of where most of my words about music go these days: grants and promotion. To write about what I'm trying to do musically for those contexts, I have to step outside of the making and try to sculpt a companion piece, a Cliffs Notes version, to attempt to fit all the misshapen pieces together into some tidier whole. In hopes of inviting in some sense of wonder or curiosity from the outside.
But that is not where the work comes from. It comes from a messy, unfocused, overwhelming, brilliant, seductive and terrifying pool of sensations, ideas, gut reactions, intellectual concerns, moral ambiguities. From books and movies and authors and actors and landscapes and cityscapes and card games and family stories and road trips and great journalism and trashy comedy and hope and despondency and fear and a need to connect different pasts through to the present and into the future. It is one glowing thought that stands out among the others that begs you to pick it up and listen to it. And it always bubbles up from what is surrounding me in our musical community—it would be impossible to overstate the constant inspiration and influence I draw from longtime collaborators like Jason Levis, Randy McKean, Darren Johnston, Aaron Novik, Cory Wright, Phillip Greenlief, Aaron Bennett.
I've been thinking about the fallacy of the idea of "extramusical influences" in terms of what goes into making my music. It comes up a lot, since my recent projects are all wrapped up in crime novels, Victorian-era adventures, Italian vintage comics, ideas. And some seem to even self-consciously be about being about music, whether it's Bartok and the Shaggs re-appropriated for an electro-acoustic improvising group, a drums and bass duo playing a Cecil Taylor solo, or a set of original tunes built from transcriptions of free jazz records. But I don't think I've ever met an idea that wasn't musical! It's hard to explain, how the six months of library research mining obscure primary sources, or the nightly NASA tutorials clarifying some aspect of astrophysics, are just me composing.
Who are US - Thollem McDonas and Angela C Villa
SUPPORT THE ART of living, breathing creative artists. Villa creates all the images and folks – is a great editor. Yeah, turn off the sound if you want to, and just dig the montage alone. Riveting.
But I don't recommend experiencing this in silence; Thollem kills the sound side of things here. The two of them are travelling all of 2016 throughout North America. And as Thollem performs everywhere, sometimes solo and sometimes in collaboration with locals, Villa shoots lots of travel images and close-ups of people and places. I can't describe it. MORE THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS. Brilliant. I pretty much guarantee this will be noticed by the critics when the time comes for that. But you can check it out now and help them to keep it going.
Braxton plays Coltrane's Impressions
(video on YouTube)
This footage is from 1981 Woodstock Jazz Festival, commemorating 10th anniversary of the founding of the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, NY. Featuring Chick Corea, Miroslav Vitous, and Jack DeJohnette.
Long on Logic - Rova Saxophone Quartet
1991 - Sound Aspects (Germany) SAS 037 (CD)
Recorded at Different Fur Recording, San Francisco, CA, March 5-6, 1989 (#1-4); at Bay Studios, Berkeley, CA, January 25-26, 1990 (#5-8) by Robert Shumaker.
Raskin and I have been talking about for years about making certain CDs long out-of-print available again. Finally, we got some valuable help from outside the band and loaded up a page at Bandcamp with current releases and some rare CDs you can't find anywhere else. The highlight for me of this first batch is a CD that Rova put together in the early 1990's: a quartet CD, and the first one released with Steve Adams. It features compositions by Fred Frith and Henry Kaiser as well as Rova pieces. After it was mounted, I clicked on the piece "Long on Logic" just to see that everything was working correctly. But – I liked what I heard so much that I listened to the entire 10-minute piece. And then I wrote Frith via email and enthusiastically raved about this piece, which I hadn't heard in decades. Beautiful. Wrote it down on my Favorite Street list immediately.
Check it out here on our Bandcamp page
Senegal 70 (CD)
This music comes from a period of "African fusion" that I'm very partial to. And this is a compilation of unreleased music from a very strong period in the history of that locally recorded music. Includes pieces by bands you've heard of if you're in to this already, and lots of others. A great introduction too. The enclosed booklet in the actual CD is thick; full of priceless information on the history of Senegal's music, the reasons it flourished, and info on all the bands. Thus purchasing the physical CD really matters in this case.
Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition
This is a film fan's dream exhibit. The show spans Kubrick's entire career including a sampling of his photographs shot for Look Magazine, often influenced by Weegee, and his first two films: 10-minute documentary films, both of which are shown in complete form on video machines mounted on a wall. The cool thing is that most all of his completed films each have their own wall of information, stills, and samples of the films to be viewed with headphones giving the synchronized sound. There's a lot more going on too, including a room at the end of the exhibit that holds a library full of work, etc. from his unfinished films. I was there for two hours and need to get back before the show closes.
Contemporary Jewish Museum
736 Mission Street (between 3rd and 4th Streets)
San Francisco
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Where to Invade Next
Director, Michael Moore
Moore has a vision and he sticks to it. He's devoted to something that can act as a lesson or sometimes even a model of how to improve the quality of life on earth. WHERE TO INVADE NEXT is funny, it is smart, and it really makes its point over and over in ways that resonate. The picture is ultimately touching even though you laugh a lot on the way thru.
Embrace the Serpent
Director, Ciro Guerra
This film immediately entered my top 100 films of all time upon seeing it. I went back 3 months later—it was presented at a Berkeley multiplex for almost a full year—and I think it was better the second time. Shot in a glorious black and white in the Amazonia region of Colombia; incredible acting by some pros, but also a large group of one-time-only actors recruited from the depths of the local area. I have no idea how this will play on video, but I sent a copy to a friend of mine in NY, and he loved it on DVD. Some of the shots of the river and the transitional shots between the two eras that the movie takes place in are so incredible on the big screen. But I think you will love it on the small screen too. The lead character, played by 2 different actors in old age and in the character's powerful early adulthood are mesmerizing. Recommend this on Blu-ray if you have that technology.
Brute Force
A taut, searing black and white 1947 film starring Burt Lancaster. Classic dialogue, classic noir lighting in this film about an attempted jail break from an American prison. Influenced a lot of great French directors of the fifties and sixties. See this and The Naked City and White Heat, all made in the late 40's when despair was hot in Hollywood.
Directed by John Ford
Director, Peter Bogdanovich
Yeah, I actually was tearing up in the last 12 minutes of this super-informative documentary when Bogdanovich, after making the case for Ford as the greatest American director, ended the film by presenting three of his favorite endings to Ford films. Of course The Searchers was one of these, but How Green Was My Valley—beautiful. Didn't remember that ending (mainly because I found it hard to get to the end of that film; little too schmaltzy leading up to that.) Anyway, scene after scene as focused on in this film are analyzed by several talking heads in concise and revealing ways. In other words, whether or not you know Ford's films, this documentary is right up there with other great films about film-making, and I heartily recommend it for the knowledge it imparts while also introducing you to so many highlights of Ford's work. Not to mention some hilarious stories told by actors who worked often with him such as John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and James Stewart. Not to mention the incisive narration of the film by another great director named Orson Welles. Made in 1971.
Cookies for Cyrano
Steve Adams: alto and baritone saxophones, bass flute, electronics
Scott Walton: bass
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Recorded Feb. 25, 2015 at Fantasy Studio B by Jesse Nichols.
Mixed July 8 and December 29, 2015 at Fantasy Studios by Jesse Nichols.
Mastered May 5, 2016 by Myles Boisen at the Headless Buddha Mastering Lab.
The Steve Adams/Scott Walton Duo has been performing since 2013. Steve is best known as a member of the Rova Sax Quartet, with whom he has played for over twenty five years, toured internationally and released more than twenty five recordings. His compositions have been performed at the Bang on a Can and Meet the Composer Festivals. Scott Walton is a bassist and pianist whose music negotiates the terrain between jazz, free improvisation, and the classical avant-garde. He has performed throughout North America and Europe with groups he co-leads, and in a host of collaborative contexts.
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