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Junior guard Kenny Boynton scored 22 points, lifting No. 13 Florida to an 84-64 win over No. 22 Texas A&M in the Orange Bowl Classic in Sunrise.
SUNRISE — Florida coach Billy Donovan reminded his players all week about Texas A&M's defensive prowess.
Yet in the end, behind another stellar homecoming from junior guard Kenny Boynton, the 13th-ranked Gators had few problems in an 84-64 win Saturday over No. 22 Texas A&M at the Orange Bowl Classic.
Before a mostly orange-and-blue clad crowd of 11,262 at the BankAtlantic Center, Florida seized control early. Texas A&M came into the game with the nation's fourth-ranked defense, allowing 51.4 points per game. But Florida (8-2) overwhelmed Texas A&M (8-2) from outside, going 7 for 18 from 3-point range in the first half to build a 50-25 lead.
More highlights from the first half included nine assists and 15 points off 10 Texas A&M turnovers.
"I thought the first half was the best we've played all year," Donovan said.
Boynton scored a team-high 22 points to earn Orange Bowl MVP Classic honors for the second straight year. He finished 6 of 12 from 3-point range. A Pompano Beach native, Boynton was playing just around the block from American Heritage High School, where he starred for three seasons.
"It's always great to come back home and have a great performance," Boynton said. "This is our third year here. The first year we lost, but this past year we won, so I think I played well overall, but I'm more happy with the win."
Donovan also moved junior forward Erik Murphy back in the starting lineup. It paid dividends early. Murphy scored seven of Florida's first nine points on an inside layup, a mid-range jumper and 3-pointer.
"I don't think it makes much difference," Murphy said of starting. "Even if I come off the bench, I try to come in ready. The last couple of games, I've been trying to get my legs back. I feel good right now."
The 6-foot-10 Murphy missed three games with a bruised knee, then came off the bench against Arizona and Rider while forward Will Yeguete remained in the starting lineup.
"We do need Erik's ability to shoot the ball, stretch the defense, size, rebounding, do different things offensively. We needed to get him back in there," Donovan said. "It was nothing that Will did wrong. Will actually did a great job in his absence.
"We've got to get the frontcourt done collectively as a group, and I thought Erik really played very, very well in the first half. He made some great moves inside. He knocked down some 3s. He did a good job defensively."
Murphy finished with 13 points and five rebounds, providing some scoring production with sophomore center Patric Young in foul trouble. Bradley Beal and Erving Walker each scored 16 points for Florida.
Even with Young in foul trouble, the Gators held their own on the boards, out-rebounding Texas A&M 33-28. Florida has out-rebounded nine of its first 10 opponents this season.
Florida jumped to an early 20-4 lead, holding Texas A&M without a field goal until a layup from Khris Middleton with 12 minutes remaining in the first half.
"I looked up at the scoreboard and it was 20-4," Murphy said. "I thought 'We must be playing pretty good defense.'"
The Gators maintained that defensive intensity and hit a flurry of 3-pointers late in the first half. Boynton made deep 3-pointers on back-to-back trips down the floor, extending UF's lead to 45-23.
"When he gets his legs under him, he can get on a roll," Donovan said.
Murphy then added a 3-pointer to put Florida up 48-25 with a minute remaining.
"We shared it. We passed it. We moved it," Donovan said. "We had good inside-out action."
Florida wasn't quite as crisp in the second half, allowing Texas A&M to shoot 48.4 percent from the field in the second half. Texas A&M cut Florida's lead to 73-61 with 2:12 left on an inside layup from Elston Turner. But Boynton came up with a big steal with 1:55 left and was fouled hard by Turner driving to the basket. It was ruled a flagrant foul, giving Florida two free throws and the ball.
Boynton made both free throws, and Walker then hit a 3-pointer to extend Florida's lead back to a comfortable 78-61 with 1:27 left.
"I thought it was an OK second half for us offensively at best, and we still scored 84 points," Donovan said. "So we still have a lot of room for improvement."
The Gators were much-improved at the free-throw line against Texas A&M, making 23 of 30. Florida came into the game shooting 59.6 percent from the line.
"How good of a team are we free throw shooting-wise? I know we are better than 59 percent," Donovan said. "They've worked at it and they've put the time in. We just need to keep doing that."
FREE THROWS: Florida improved to 9-2 in Orange Bowl Classic games. … In the opening game of the Orange Bowl Classic, Miami beat FAU 93-90 in double overtime. Florida transfer Kenny Kadji scored 21points, including three 3-pointers, to earn game MVP honors. Kadji said he transferred because he needed a "fresh start" and said he has no ill feelings toward UF or the coaching staff. … FAU played without Gainesville native Greg Gantt, who sat out the game with an ankle injury. Gainesville native Dennis Mavin started for FAU had no points, an assist and two rebounds in 12 minutes.
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I can hear the piccolo playing in Stars & Stripes Forever just looking at these blocks. I used to play the flute as a kid and we all took turns on piccolo when it was time to play this song. It was fun music, but that thing was so dang tiny. Thank goodness I didn't have to play that all the time. It used to hurt your ears if the person to your left was playing it. How about that flashback? It's not even Friday! Ahhh, those band days.... ;)
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With an override vote looming THIS WEEK, the Baltimore City Council UNANIMOUSLY passed a resolution on Monday night, January 11 urging the General Assembly to OVERRIDE Governor Hogan's veto of legislation to restoring voting rights to all Marylanders who have been released from prison and are living in our communities! This legislation (SB340/HB980) passed the legislature by significant margins last spring but the governor vetoed it in May.
Today's City Council resolution states:
"In order for our community to move forward, all of its members, even, perhaps especially, those who have made mistakes in the past, must feel that they have a stake in building progress towards a better tomorrow. Denying so many of our neighbors the right to vote makes it much more difficult to engage them in this process. The General Assembly was right to open the door to meaningful participation in our society to all non-incarcerated ex-offenders, and it should complete the process by overriding the Governor's veto at the earliest opportunity in the 2016 legislative session."
Add your voice! Contact your legislators NOW and urge them to vote to override the veto and enfranchise more than 40,000 Maryland citizens live and work in our communities but cannot vote because of a criminal conviction in their past!


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Priority Enrollment is from February 26 through March 1 for the upcoming 2018-19 school year. During this time we enroll families who are currently enrolled as well as children of FUMC church members. Enrollment will be open to those on our mailing list from March 5 through March 8. We enroll on a first-come, first-serve basis. After the above dates, we enroll throughout the year as openings are available. Call our office at (405) 341-1230 for more information.
Tuition is based on a 9-month schedule. The monthly fee is required even for those months when school is dismissed for holidays, etc. There is no price reduction for days absent from school either for illness or family vacations.
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Registration/Supply Fee $100.00 - Non-refundable, Non-transferable. Children must be the class age by September 1st. Preschool children must be toilet trained and are enrolled for half-day classes 9:00 to 11:30 a.m. with the option of Extended Day until 2:45 p.m.
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Kevin J. Rubin Partner
Kevin J. Rubin has practiced family law exclusively from the beginning of his career, counseling clients in all aspects of family law.
He has developed his practice with an emphasis on complex and high-asset divorce cases, tax and other complicated financial issues, as well as drafting and negotiating prenuptial and postnuptial agreements.
Drawing from his past work experience and information systems master's degree, he has developed a niche expertise related to the intersection of technology and family law matters, a topic on which he frequently speaks and authors articles.
A native of Philadelphia, Kevin lives in Marietta with his wife and three young children. Kevin and his family are active members of Temple Beth Tikvah in Roswell.
- J.D., Emory University School of Law, 2008
- M.S.I.S.T., George Washington University, 2001
- B.B.A, George Washington University, 2000
- State Bar of Georgia's Family Law Section, Member
- Atlanta Bar Association's Family Law Section, Member
- State Bar of Georgia's Young Lawyers Division, Family Law Committee, Chair, 2011
- Cobb County Bar Association, Family Law Section, Member
- Lawyers Club of Atlanta
- Charles Longstreet Weltner Family Law Inn of Court
- State Bar of Georgia
- Supreme Court of Georgia
- Super Lawyers, Rising Stars, 2017
- "Discovery and Early Litigation Issues with Comments on Professionalism," AAML Georgia Chapter Family Law Seminar, 2016
- "Tech's Importance to Family Law," LegalTech News, 2016
- "When Family Law, Forensic Analysis and an iPad Mix," The Daily Report, March 17, 2015
- "New Evidence Code Cheat Sheet," Atlanta Bar Association's The Family Lawyer, February/March 2013
- "Interview with Hon. Gail S. Tusan," State Bar of Georgia's Family Law Section's Family Law Review Spring, 2012
- "Meet the New Evidence, Same as the Old Evidence: Changing Evidentiary Requirements for Electronically Stored Information (ESI)," Atlanta Bar Association's The Family Lawyer, October 2011
Presentations and Speaking Engagements
- "Use of Surveillance in Civil and Criminal Cases," Tropical Seminar, 2017
- "Case Law Updates," Atlanta Bar Association's Family Law Section, 2016
- "That was Then, This is Now – Examining the Consequences of Estate Planning in a Subsequent Divorce Action When Objectives of Fiduciary Law and Family Law Compete," 50th Annual Fiduciary Law Seminar, 2015
- "Hot Tips: How to Present Self-Employment Income at Trial – The Best Evidence to Present," Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys (GABWA) Succeeding in Family Law Hearings and Trials CLE, 2015
- "Hot Tips by the Rising Stars: New Business Records Hearsay Exception" Family Law Institute, 2015
- "Tips and Tactics for the Family Law Associate," Program Co-Chair, Young Lawyers Division, Family Law Committee CLE, 2014
- "iPad in Family Law Litigation," State Bar of Georgia's Family Law Institute, 2012
- "Divorce 101: Fundamental Legal and Accounting Terms and Concepts in Divorce," Atlanta Bar Association Family Law Seminar with the Georgia Society of CPAs, 2012
- "Hot Computer Tips for Family Lawyers," Atlanta Bar Association, Family Law Section CLE Seminar, 2010
- "Daubert Challenges of Expert Witnesses Before and During Trial," State Bar of Georgia's Family Law Institute, 2008


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Here are your Smackdown Live highlights from last night:
Here are your Smackdown Live highlights from last night:
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Just five days before defending his WWE Championship against Jinder Mahal at WWE Backlash, Randy Orton will face Baron Corbin on SmackDown LIVE. Will The Viper tame The Lone Wolf, or will Corbin derail Orton before his big match? Find out tonight at 8/7 C on USA Network!
Both AJ Styles and Jinder Mahal are challenging for championships this Sunday at WWE Backlash, but they'll be facing off against each other tonight on SmackDown LIVE.
Tensions have been escalating in the SmackDown LIVE Women's Division since the arrival of Charlotte Flair, who immediately established herself as the top contender to SmackDown Women's Champion Naomi. Angered by The Queen seemingly jumping them in line, the "welcoming committee" of Natalya, Carmella & Tamina joined forces to make Charlotte's life, along with anyone who sided with her, a living hell
Though Kevin Owens put a brutal cap on his rivalry with Chris Jericho two weeks ago, viciously slamming his former best friend into the ring post with a steel chair around his neck, the United States Champion does not yet seem to be done tormenting The Ayatollah of Rock 'n' Rolla.
Randy Orton is just five days away from defending his WWE Championship against Jinder Mahal on WWE Backlash, but The Viper's path to Chicago runs straight through Baron Corbin on SmackDown LIVE.
Here are your Smackdown Live highlights:
Here are your Smackdown Live results from earlier today from London England.
Keep refreshing for latest updates.
Tye Dillinger vs. Aiden English
Singles Match
Winner: Tye Dillinger
OPENER: WWE Champion Randy Orton opened the show with a promo. He talks about Jinder Mahal. AJ Styles, Sami Zayn, Baron Corbin, Mahal & Kevin Owens would all eventually walk out to the ring. Mahal showed off a photo of himself with the WWE title from last week, before Shane McMahon took it from him to return it to Orton. A brawl would break out in the ring setting up for a six-man tag match later in the night,
Natalya vs. Becky Lynch
-Charlotte, Carmella, Naomi, James Ellsworth & Tamina were at ringside-
Singles Match
Winner: Natalya
BACKSTAGE: Carmella, Tamina and Natalya challenges Becky Lynch, Charlotte & Naomi to a six-woman tag team match at WWE Backlash.
VIDEO: Another "coming soon" video for Lana.
VIDEO: "Fashion Files" Video was shown featuring Tyler Breeze & Fandango
Erick Rowan vs. Luke Harper
Singles match
Winner: Erick Rowan
IN RING: Dolph Ziggler is in the ring and delivered a promo on Shinsuke Nakamura. Nakamura would come out to address Ziggler. Nakamura challenged Ziggler to a match tonight, but Ziggler turned it down and said they would fight at Backlash.
VIDEO: Another New Day debut video package.
Tyler Breeze & Fandango vs. The Ascension
Tag Team Match
Winner: Tyler Breeze & Fandango
Jinder Mahal, Baron Corbin & Kevin Owens (c) vs. Sami Zayn, Randy Orton (c) & AJ Styles
Six-Man Tag Team Match
Winners: Jinder Mahal, Baron Corbin & Kevin Owens (c)
WWE is still in London for tonight's Smackdown Live from the O2 Arena. WWE has announced the the first match for tonight's show which will feature former WWE Smackdown Women's champion Becky Lynch going 1-on-1 against Natalya.
Dolph Ziggler and Shinsuke Nakamura has also been announced for the show. We should have spoilers later on.
Here are your Smackdown highlights from last night:
(Partial Article & images sourced from WWE.com)
Just two days removed from capturing the title at WWE Payback, Chris Jericho will defend the United States Championship against Kevin Owens. Can Y2J fight off his former best friend and hang on to the title in this huge rematch? Find out tonight at 8/7 C on USA Network!
WWE held a live event on May 1, 2017 in Stockton, CA.
Here are the results:
Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Dolph Ziggler
Singles Match
Winner: Shinsuke Nakamura
Tye Dillinger vs. Aiden English
Singles Match
Winner: Tye Dillinger
POST MATCH: Adien would say that he wants to prove himself and issues an open challenge.
Mojo Rawley vs. Aiden English
Singles Match
Winner: Mojo Rawley
Tyler Breeze & Fandango vs. The Ascension
Tag Team Match
Winners: Tyler Breeze & Fandango
AJ Styles vs. Sami Zayn vs. Kevin Owens
Triple Threat Match
Winner: AJ Styles
Naomi (c), Charlotte & Becky Lynch vs. Natalya, Carmella & Tamina Snuka
Six-Women Tag Team match
Winners: Naomi, Charlotte & Becky Lynch
The Usos (c) vs. American Alpha
-SMACKDOWN Tag Team Championship-
Tag Team Match
Winners: The Usos (retain)
Randy Orton (c) & Luke Harper vs. Erick Rowan & Jinder Mahal
Tag Team Match
Winners: Randy Orton & Luke Harper
Here are your Smackdown live highlights from last night:
(Partial article & images sourced from WWE.com)
After defeating Naomi last Tuesday in her first match on the blue brand, Charlotte will challenge her for the SmackDown Women's Championship this week. Can The Queen cap off her arrival with a huge title victory? Find out tonight at 8/7 C on USA Network!
This Sunday at WWE Payback, Randy Orton will step inside the unknown of Bray Wyatt's House of Horrors and come face to face with The Eater of Worlds. He might be cracking the front door open to take a macabre look at what lies ahead tonight on SmackDown LIVE when he faces Erick Rowan in a No Disqualification Match.
The next challengers to SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Usos will be determined tonight in the first-ever Tag Team Beat The Clock Challenge on SmackDown LIVE.


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Jumper Cables for the Mind
Published: November 1, 2013
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The first modern experiments with tDCS came in fits and starts. In 1981, Niels Birbaumer, a neuroscientist at the University of Tübingen, Germany, reported that by applying extremely low doses of direct-current electricity — one-third of a milliamp, not enough to power a hearing aid — to the heads of healthy volunteers, he could speed their response on a simple test of reaction time. The Italian neurophysiologist Alberto Priori began his own experiments in 1992, applying just a tiny bit more electricity, about half a milliamp. He found that enough of the electricity crossed through volunteers' skulls — electrons flowing from the cathodal electrode to the anodal electrode — to cause brain cells near the anodal to become excited. Despite repeating the experiment multiple times to be sure of the results, it took Priori six years to get his findings published in a scientific journal, in 1998. As he told me, "People kept telling me it can't be true, it's too easy and simple."
One of the first researchers to take Priori's results seriously was Michael A. Nitsche, a clinical neurophysiologist at the University of Göttingen in Germany. "There were two lines of criticism that I heard in those days," Nitsche said. "One line was that it couldn't work, because it's a very weak stimulation and it couldn't get through the cranium. The other was that it should be very dangerous."
In a paper published in 2000, Nitsche showed that the stimulating influence of tDCS lasts for at least five minutes after the electricity stops flowing. In 2003, he reported that the treatment could affect how well a volunteer learns a simple finger movement. Nitsche has followed up with dozens of papers on tDCS.
"I was very skeptical, but Michael Nitsche converted me," said Leonardo G. Cohen, chief of the neurorehabilitation section at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (N.I.N.D.S.) in Bethesda, Md. "It was very difficult for me to accept that simply connecting a battery that you can buy in CVS to electrodes placed on the scalp could change behavior. Then one day I said, I'm going to give it a try."
Cohen and his collaborators enlisted six people who had been partly paralyzed on one side of their bodies for at least one year following a stroke. They found that a single session of tDCS lasting 20 minutes and delivering 1 milliamp to the motor cortex of their brains significantly improved their performance on a standard test of hand dexterity. To be sure it wasn't a placebo effect, they had the participants come in for two sessions, but half were sham treatments in which the electricity came on for only half a minute and then quickly faded off. (Even during active treatment, the feeling of mild tingling that many people experience at the beginning quickly becomes imperceptible, as if the electricity had been switched off.) Although neither the participants nor the experimenters knew whether the treatments were active or sham, the improvement occurred only following the active tDCS. And the benefit was apparent 10 days later.
"The improvements were in the range of only 5 to 10 percent, but an improvement like that after only one application was really very exciting," Cohen said.
Larger, more rigorous studies are now under way to determine the purposes for which tDCS is best suited and the regimen that is most effective — precisely how much electricity, for how long, during how many days, aimed at which brain region — with the hope of eventually winning the approval of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
"tDCS will not make you superhuman, but it may allow you to work at your maximum capacity," said Felipe Fregni, the Brazilian physician and neurophysiologist who runs Harvard's Laboratory of Neuromodulation at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, where I was being treated. "It helps you achieve your personal best level of functioning. Let's say you didn't sleep well the night before. Or perhaps you're depressed, or you suffered a stroke. It helps your brain reach its peak performance."
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: November 17, 2013
An article on Nov. 3 about low-dose electrical stimulation to the brain misstated the dosage of Zoloft used in a study of people suffering from major depression. It was 50 milligrams per day, not 2 milligrams per day.


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Assembly - TSPs legislature, made up of all the current legislators. The Assembly is one of two decision-making bodies in the region along with the cabinet. It produces our laws through a process of proposal, debate and vote.
APC - Alliance for the Preservation of the Coalition, a political party.
Banject - A portmanteau of ban and eject, this is the common term used for when a delegate ejects and bans a nation from their region. Benjected nations are sent to TRR.
Cabinet - The executive body of the region and, along with the Assembly, one of the two decision-making bodies in the region. The cabinet consists of the PM, MoFA, MoMA and MoRA.
Charter - The central legal document in the region. The Charter is the basis for all of TSPs laws (which may themselves be separate Acts) and dictates the structure of the government and how it must operate.
Citizen - A player with a nation residing in the region, formerly known as resident. Previously the term Citizen was used for what are now called Legislators.
CoA - Chair of the Assembly, the leader of the regions legislature.
Coalition - The Coalition of the South Pacific, the official name of TSPs government.
CRS - Council on Regional Security - A group of nations appointed by application, whose role is to protect the region from security threats.
CTE - Cease To Exist, what happens to a nation left inactive for too long. CTEd nations can be refounded, in which case they will appear in a sinker region.
Delegate - Short for WA Delegate.
Defender - A gameplay ideology based around defending regions from invasion.
Discord - A text and voice messaging and chat service. There are Discord servers for the region as a whole, our political parties, as well as some of the ministries. Sometimes there are temporary Discord servers set-up up for festivals.
DM - Direct Message, a way of sending private messages to one or more nations on Discord.
Endo - Endorsement.
Endo Cap - The maximum number of endorsements allowed for an individual nation. This number is set by the CRS in relation to the number of WA nation and the number of endorsements received by the WA Delegate.
Endorsement - A bit like a like for a nation, sharing endorsements is an important part of being a member of the WA. The nation with the most is automatically the Delegate and having a lot of nations on, or near the endo cap helps to keep the region more secure from invaders who might try to supplant the Delegate.
Endotarting - Deliberately endorsing large numbers of nations in order to receive endorsements yourself.
Feeder - A GCR for the purpose of being where nations are founded. The five Pacific regions are the current feeders.
Forumside - The part of the game and its community which occurs on the regional forums.
FS - Short for forumside.
Gameplay - See R/D.
Gameside- The part of the game and its community which occurs on the NationStates website.
GCR - Game-Created Region, a region which has been created as part of the game to serve a particular function (see also: feeders, sinkers, TRR).
GP - Short for gameplay.
GS - Short for gameside.
Influence - A nation stat which is based on the number of endorsements and the length of time a nation has resided in a region. The higher your influence, the more costly it is for the delegate (in terms of their influence) to eject you from the region.
LC - Local Council.
Legislator - A nation which has been granted Legislator status by application. Legislators can access the Private Halls of the Assembly and vote in forum-based elections and on legislation. Collectively the regions Legislators make up the Assembly. This was formerly known as a Citizen.
Local Council - A body, consisting of three members, who serve as the local government of the in-game portion of the community - predominantly those who frequent the RMB and take part in polls.
Major - Short for the Major Update, which occurs between 0500 and 0630 GMT.
Minor - Short for the Minor Update, which occurs between 1700 and 1800 GMT.
MoFA - Ministry or Minister of Foreign Affairs.
MoMA - Ministry or Minister of Military Affairs.
MoRA - Ministry or Minister of Regional Affairs.
NS - NationStates.
NSGP - Short for NationStates gameplay. Either another term for R/D, or refers to the Gameplay forums on the NationStates website.
NSWF - NationStates World Fair, a semi-regular event in which many regions can showcase themselves on a purpose-built external forum.
PM - Prime Minister, the head of TSPs government and leader of the Cabinet, OR Private Message, a way of privately contacting another player on the forums.
Raider - A gameplay ideology, based around invading other regions.
R/D - Raiding/Defending, a term for the military gameplay of invading or defending regions using the endorsement system during updates.
RMB - Regional Message Board, a general discussion board for citizens of the region.
RO - Regional Officers. These are nations selected by the Delegate and given powers over things like communication (sending mass telegrams) and border control (ejecting other nations). Each ROs powers are listed on their nation page.
RP - Roleplay.
Sinker- A GCR for the purpose of being where nations are refounded if they have previously CTEd. Balder and Osiris are the current sinker regions.
SJ - The Southern Journal, TSPs official newspaper.
SPN - South Pacific News, an independent news provider.
TG - Telegram, a way of sending private messages to another nation in-game, or, by sending Mass Telegrams, to many nations a once.
TIL - The Island League, a political party.
TIR- The Treasure Island Report, the official newspaper of TSPs canon RP.
TRR - The Rejected Realms, a GCR created to be the place nations are sent to when banjected from a region.
TSP - The South Pacific. We always include the the as there is another region called, simply, South Pacific.
Update - One of two times during the day when all nations and regions are updated. During this time, national and regional statistics are updated, and Delegate changes occur. These times are important in R/D, as quick attacks and/or quick counter-attacks on multiple regions can be performed only during this time.
WA - World Assembly. Kinda like the UN (this was actually its former name) of NationStates, but there are lots of advantages to membership outside of voting on resolutions.
WA Delegate - The person with the most endorsements in a region. This person can vote on WA resolutions with as many votes as they have endos, expend influence to eject nations from the region, and appoint ROs to perform various duties. In the South Pacific the Delegate is the Head of State and serves as an advisor to the Cabinet.
WA Native - A nation which is a member of the WA with more influence in this region than in any other.
WFE - World Factbook Entry, the information blurb at the top of the main page of the region.


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Disclosure: I'm honored to have received an advanced copy of Lily Diamond's debut cookbook, KALE & CARAMEL: Recipes for Body, Heart and Table. I hope you all enjoy this little sneak peak!
Today's recipe is a little bit different from what you might typically find here. That's because today's recipe isn't specifically intended for eating (although I'd be lying if I said I didn't eat some of it!). Instead, today's recipe is meant to help soothe and nourish your skin. It's an effortlessly fabulous three ingredient Blackberry Basil Healing Mask that will help you "get your glow on". And it's a concoction straight from Lily Diamond's debut cookbook, KALE & CARAMEL: Recipes for Body, Heart and Table.
It's truly an honor to have a copy of Lily's cookbook in my possession. And I'm thrilled to be able to give you all a little sneak peak into it's pages here today. Although, I worry that my words won't be able to do it justice. My writing feels clunky and awkward in all the places where Lily's writing excels. Admittedly, I am no poet. Whereas Lily Diamond, most certainly is.
Lily is real and authentic in a way that the majority of people don't dare allow themselves to be for a public audience. Each week she pours her whole self into the virtual pages of her blog. And now, that journey has transcended onto the actual pages of her cookbook. From her childhood in Maui, to her Mother's death, to navigating the sometimes hilarious world of online dating, Lily's storytelling will make you feel all the things. Joy, heartbreak, frustration and every emotion in between. It's all there in a deeply personal way that I find mildly addicting to read.
KALE & CARAMEL: Recipes for Body, Heart and Table is unique from the other cookbooks in my collection. The recipes are designed to engage and awaken all five of your senses. And they are meant to be nourishing in a way that goes way beyond basic calorie consumption. This isn't just eating. This is living.
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There are eight chapters which focus on herbs, ALL of which we have in abundance on our family farm (pictures from our hydroponic greenhouse above). Which means this cookbook is going to be my Summer project. I can't wait to cook my way through those chapters. And I'm really looking forward to learning to use some of those herbs in ways which I hadn't really considered before, like in this Blackberry Basil Healing Mask. Admittedly, I haven't always been kind to my skin over the years. But as I age, I realize more and more everyday that needs to change.
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This recipe has been reprinted with permission. Copyright © 2017 by Lily Diamond from KALE & CARAMEL: Recipes for Body, Heart, and Table published by Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
- 5-6 blackberries
- 3 tablespoons raw, unfiltered honey
- 5 basil leaves, minced
- In a small bowl, crush the blackberries until they release their juices. Strain through a fine mesh strainer, pushing down on the solids with the back of a spoon to help get out as much of the juice as possible, collecting it into a clean bowl. Discard the solids.
- Add the honey and basil to the blackberry juice, stirring until fully incorporated. The mixture can be stored in an airtight container in your refrigerator for up to 1 week.
- To use, spread about 1 1/2 teaspoons onto clean skin and let sit for 5-10 minutes. Then wash off completely.
Roasted Chili Basil Lime Tofu Bowls
Disclosure: I'm so happy to be able to give you all a peek into The First Mess Cookbook by Laura Wright. Thanks for letting me share this beautiful cookbook with you!
This past week I had to say goodbye to my beautiful, smart and sweet dog, Sheri.
I found Sheri (or "Dingo" as I liked to call her) at the Oakland Animal Shelter in 2010. Her previous owner had committed suicide and she was abandoned there by the other members of his family. She was melancholy, skittish and a little aggressive when I first met her, but I knew instantly that we were right for each other. Over the years, she developed into a happy, more relaxed dog. And because of her, I developed into a happy, more relaxed human.
Sheri was my trusty companion for almost seven years. We traveled across the country together three times. We walked over 10,000 miles. And we ate all the things.
She also healed my heart after countless breakups. And she gave me strength in more ways than I ever could have imagined. I knew that adopting Sheri from the animal shelter would improve (and ultimately save) her life. But I couldn't have predicted how much she would improve mine.
I never treated Sheri like a person. And to claim her to be a domesticated dog even seemed like a stretch at times. She was wild to the core. And she was happiest when she was outside, running full speed and hunting anything that moved. She wasn't keen on snuggling. And she preferred dog treats over peanut butter. But still, she was MY PERSON. And the sadness that I feel without her is profound. There is a crushing silence in my house and a void my heart.
The next few weeks are going to be all about being kind to myself (something I usually suck at) and getting into a new routine. There are no more walks to go on. No specific times that I need to be home. And no happy face to greet me at the door. It all feels very strange.
So right now I'm focusing on doing the one thing that I know how to do: cook.
Laura Wright's cookbook, The First Mess Cookbook: Vibrant Plant-Based Recipes to Eat Well Through the Seasons, arrived at my doorstep back in February. As I opened the box and flipped through it's pages for the first time, I audibly swooned. Because the photographs are THE MOST gorgeous and the recipes are THE MOST delicious.
I'm giving away one copy of The First Mess Cookbook. Scroll down to enter!
I also enjoyed a heightened sense of giddy-ness as I held the book in my hands. I've admired Laura's blog for many years now, so it kind of felt surreal to be deemed cool enough to receive an advanced copy of her first cookbook. It was like I had achieved some level of food blogging greatness.
Laura has a magical touch in the kitchen. Her recipes are both luxurious and approachable. And she has a way of creating complex flavor profiles without the need for a long ingredient list or complicated cooking techniques. It's nourishing, wholesome food that you can make and eat everyday. The fact that everything also happens to be vegan seems like a footnote. It's not vegan food that's trying to be something else. It's just good food being good. And frankly, I can't think of anything better than that.
I've made several recipes from Laura's book so far (all winners!). And I even had a different one photographed and ready to share with you today. But then I made these Roasted Chili Basil Lime Tofu Bowls over the weekend and they provided me with so much comfort after the loss of my Dingo, that I knew this was the recipe that I should share instead.
I eat tofu fairly frequently when I'm out at restaurants. I always order it in my pho. And no vegetarian stir fry is complete without it. But as I prepared to make these Roasted Chili Basil Lime Tofu Bowls, I suddenly realized that I had NEVER actually cooked tofu at home. Shocking, right? But now I feel like a total tofu VIP, because with Laura's recipe I nailed it on the first time (hooray for crispy edges!). And I didn't even have to do any messy pan frying. That is a major win as far as I'm concerned.
The lime and oil mixture has three jobs in this recipe: it coats the tofu, it coats the broccoli and then you use the leftovers to drizzle over the final dish. I ended up making slightly more than the original recipe called for, because it was so tasty that I knew I wanted to make sure I had an extra dose for the end. If you're a "sauce person", I suggest you do the same.
Laura finishes this dish with sunflower sprouts, but I couldn't find any in my grocery store so I used pea shoots instead. Any small, fresh sprouts or shoots that you can get your hands on would be lovely here. Grain bowls are usually pretty forgiving in that way. Which is why I love them so.
I'm thrilled to have The First Mess Cookbook in my kitchen. I feels like it could be the last cookbook I ever own and I'd be happy. So of course, I'd love for one of you to have a copy as well! So I'm giving away a copy of The First Mess Cookbook to one lucky reader. All you have to do is leave me a comment below, telling me your favorite Spring vegetable. The giveaway will be open until April 3, 2017. After which I will randomly select a winner and notify them by email. The winner will have 48 hours to respond to me with their shipping address (United States and Canadian residents only, please) or I will select an alternate winner. Good luck! Update: This giveaway had ended and a winner has been selected. Thank you to everyone who participated!
Reprinted with minor adaptations from The First Mess Cookbook by arrangement with Avery Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, A Penguin Random House Company. Copyright © 2017, Laura Wright.
- 1 block (14 ounces) extra-firm tofu
- 3 tablespoons grapeseed or other neutral-flavored oil
- 3 tablespoons fresh squeezed lime juice
- 2 tsp. lime zest
- 1/2 tsp. garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp. red pepper flakes
- 1/8 tsp. salt
- 1/8 tsp. black pepper
- 2 cups broccoli florets
- 1/4 cup fresh basil, roughly chopped
- 2 cups cooked brown rice
- 1/2 cup fresh sprouts or pea shoots
- 1/4 cup toasted sunflower seeds
- Pre-heat your oven to 400 degrees. Line a large rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper and set it aside.
- Drain the tofu of it's packing liquid and pat it dry with a kitchen towel. Cut the tofu into 1-inch cubes.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the oil, lime juice, lime zest, garlic power, red pepper flakes, salt and black pepper. Gently toss the tofu cubes in the lime and oil mixture. Then using your hands, remove the tofu cubes from the bowl and place them on your parchment-paper lined baking sheet. Try to reserve as much of the lime and oil mixture as possible. Transfer the baking sheet to your pre-heated oven and roast the tofu for 15 minutes.
- Remove the baking sheet from your oven and carefully flip the tofu cubes over. Toss the broccoli florets in the reserved lime and oil mixture and then transfer them to the same baking sheet. Return the baking sheet to your oven and roast the tofu and broccoli for 20 minutes. Remove from your oven and set aside.
- Whisk the basil into the remaining lime and oil mixture.
- Divide the brown rice evenly between your serving bowls. Top with the roasted tofu and broccoli. Add some sprouts/pea shoots, sunflower seeds and a drizzle of the basil-flecked lime and oil mixture. Enjoy immediately.


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Can Management Get Us Out Of The Economic Mess It Has Created?
Can Management Get Us Out Of The Economic Mess It Has Created?
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Can management embrace audacious change? That's the bold question that Julia Kirby, editor-at-large at Harvard Business Review, posed at the launch of the Drucker Forum 2014 in Vienna Austria on March 10, 2014. Can the leaders of the world's most important organizations transform their management practices so that their organizations get on a path to growth and prosperity, instead of steady economic decline?
An absurdly romantic fantasy?
Not necessarily.
The plan
Here's how it might unfold.
Let's suppose most of the world's thought leaders on management were to come together to address and help resolve the issues facing management today at the same place at the same time.
And what if their discussion took place under the guiding spirit of a thinker like the late Peter Drucker, who enjoyed universal respect and whose wisdom brought out the best in everyone, so that the focus was less on emphasizing the differences between their individual contributions and more on how much they had in common?
Let's recognize that this already began happening at the Drucker Forum in November 2013, so that the thought leaders can build on a track record of a convergence on commonalities.
What if the thought leaders were to embrace the commonalities of their thinking explicitly, with passion and commitment?
And what if this was a common vision of an audaciously revitalized concept of leadership and management that began to be seen as a guiding beacon for organizations all around the world?
First steps taken
Time will tell, but the first steps have already been taken.
The place and date for bringing many of the world's management thought leaders together are set: the Drucker Forum in November 13-14, 2014 in Vienna, Austria.
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to the thought leaders has been issued. "We have arrived at a turning point," says Richard Straub in the conference description entitled "The Great Transformation: Managing our way to prosperity."
"Either the world will embark on a route towards long-term growth and prosperity, or we will manage our way to economic decline… the very coherence of our societies is at stake. Incremental changes won't suffice…. What does it take to reshape management as an
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Many of the world's thought leaders have accepted the invitation. The conference chair is Adi Ignatius, Editor-in-chief of Harvard Business Review, which strongly supports the Forum. The speakers constitute a veritable who's who of management thinking today, including Clayton Christensen, Gary Hamel, Herminia Ibarra, Roger Martin, Pankaj Gemawat, Lynda Gratton, Nilofer Merchant, Rita Ghunther McGrath, Vineet Nayar and Julia Kirby, among many others.
The guiding spirit for the event—the late Peter Drucker—is bound to bring out the best in everyone. His books, such as
(1973) and
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
(1985), continue to serve as guides for managers decades after they were written. That's because Peter Drucker foresaw more clearly than others what was coming and said exactly what he thought, without compromise. It's also because he had a large concept of management that was fundamental to achieving genuine social and economic progress. "Management and managers," he said,"are the central resource, the generic, distinctive, the constitutive organ of society…and the very survival of society is dependent on the performance, the competence, the earnestness and the values of their managers…What managers are doing is therefore a public concern."
The discussion begins
The discussion began at the first launch event in Vienna, Austria earlier this week amid a consensus that the failings of management have been with us for a long time.
A long-term failure of management
Julia Kirby, editor-at-large at Harvard Business Review, cited the 1980 Harvard Business Review article by Bob Hayes and Bill Abernathy: "
Managing Our Way To Economic Decline
." The piece begins: "During the past several years, American business has experienced a marked deterioration of competitive vigor and a growing unease about its overall economic well-being." This was 1980, but, she said, it's just as true today.
The article blamed management. "The reason why the economy is screwed up," she said, "is because of management. The authors blamed this contagion on short-term focus and a failure to invest in long-term competitiveness."
Shareholder value
This in turn is related to an excessive concentration on short-term shareholder value, which ironically flows from one of Peter Drucker's most famous dicta, "You manage what you measure."
"What we had with shareholder value was this really nice metric," said Julia Kirby, "As managers, we love metrics. It gives us something to manage. It had a kind of runaway effect in managing to that measure, because as we got better and better at it, we had more and more blinders on, in respect of all the other forms of value creation that we needed to engage in as organizations and as managers."
The fact that we can now measure and track of lot of variables hasn't seemed to help. Unfortunately, in many large firms, this has led to asking people to focus on many variables in a single time frame. "It's an absence of leadership," said Julia Kirby, "in failing to make clear what the focus should be in a certain time frame, instead of just flooding people with 25 or even 300 variables on their radar screen."
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It's great to have KPIs as tools, so long as we don't use them to mistreat our people, by using metrics to take away responsibility, accountability and the freedom to integrate the data to make decisions. I see that happening very often in companies: simply using the metrics as a decision-making process rather than drawing on the knowledge and experience of the people."
Demoralized workers
Angelica Kohlmann Kupper, CEO of IFITECH (Germany), pointed to the demoralizing effects of hierarchical methods of management. "In the Traditional Economy," she said, "people cared about hierarchy. Everyone, including Peter Drucker, tried to diminish the role of hierarchy within companies.
But nothing really changed. For young people in startups, it's the reverse. The most important thing for them is the innovation they can bring. They don't care so much about position. As a result, the Traditional Economy has difficulty in attracting young talented people. They don't want to work with those firms anymore."
Failure of innovation
The focus on shareholder value also tended to make firms inward looking. It led to a focus on what's good for the firm. This way of managing has difficulty with innovation and it's not very agile, which is a real problem in a dynamic marketplace. Management in the traditional economy is becoming steadily more efficient but it's less and less able to capture the gains of its efficiencies. In fact, it's getting harder and harder to make profits by managing in this way. As John Hagel noted in the Drucker Forum last November, the rates of return on assets and on invested capital of US firms are now only one quarter of what they were in 1965.
Management has fractured into sub-disciplines
When the discussion turned to what is keeping managers from addressing these issues, Julia Kirby, along with others, pointed out that "management as a discipline has effectively divided and conquered itself. The fragmentation of the discipline in the academy and in practice has robbed it of its power to take on big challenges. Management's 'progress' is to make ever smaller incursions into the weeds and down rabbit holes."
The way forward
Despite these grave problems, there was general optimism that the way forward was possible.
Participants could see many signs of what Peter Drucker called the Entrepreneurial Society, aka the Creative Economy. Richard Straub, president of the Peter Drucker Society Europe, quoted Peter Drucker who said: "I never predict, I just look out of the window and see what's visible but not yet seen."
Ever since Peter Drucker talked about the Entrepreneurial Society back in 1985, it has become steadily more prominent. It is now a vibrant rapidly growing economy made up of vast numbers of small and medium-sized startups, as well as some famous large high tech firms like Apple and Amazon, and islands of creativity even within large old firms like GE that are still mostly operating in the traditional mode.
Many participants saw this as the economy of the future and the way to prosperity. It's an economy where the principal focus is on delivering profitable customer delight. It gives customers what are increasingly demanding, namely, better, faster, cheaper, smaller, lighter, more convenient, and more personalized. It is outward-looking as compared to the Traditional Economy. The paradoxical result is that it ends up making more money for the firm than if it were tightly focused on making money.
Firms in the Creative Economy look at profitability in a different way from the Traditional Economy–it is a result, not an objective. Just last week, Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple [AAPL], was asked by a shareholder about an activity that wasn't apparently giving any direct return to the bottom line and he was pressed to say why he was doing it. His answer was, "I don't care about the bloody ROI of that activity. We don't manage Apple like that."
There are many things in Apple that don't make money in themselves. The music store (iTunes) and the App store are hugely popular but they don't make much money. Apple also loses money on free software upgrades. Apple's view is that if the overall package of things that Apple delivers delights its customers in a profitable fashion, then it doesn't matter that any individual activity doesn't make a profit. Everybody in Apple knows that the bottom line at Apple is delighting customers.
Inspiring the workforce
One participant, who worked in a traditionally managed firm, asked whether it was possible to inspire people who perform a mundane activity, like making bricks. The response was to refer to the old story of some men who are laying bricks and who were asked what they are doing. One said he was laying bricks. The second said he was constructing a wall. The third said he was helping building a cathedral.
The same activity is seen in three different ways.
The Traditional Economy, which is focused on making money, will not inspire people. It's not at all like building a cathedral. Telling people that it is will simply make them cynical. John Hagel explained at last year's Drucker Forum that at present, only 11 percent of the workforce are passionate about what they do at work. That will not lead to an inspired workforce. That will not give us a workforce that is capable of continuous innovation. That will be a workforce that is filling in time and collecting their paychecks. We need managers to formulate a worthwhile goal, akin to building a cathedral, and then enable people doing the work see their work as part of that noble goal.
Measurement for prosperity
There was a lot of support at the launch event for the focus of the 2014 Forum on prosperity. "When you use a term like 'prosperity', said Julia Kirby, "it allows you to think about other measures of well-being. There are now lots of ways in which people are getting objective rigorous metrics on things other than shareholder value. It helps them understand: am I better this year than I was last year at creating value for customers? And creating value for my own people? And creating value for my community? As we get a fuller range of metrics, we can move away from a single-minded focus on shareholder value."
Richard Straub commented that "employee engagement would give a better perspective on the longer term development of a firm than shareholder value. However, even though companies have these data, in many cases they tend not to talk about it."
Hierarchical management
Angelica Kohlmann Kupper said that the values of people in the startups of the Creative Economy were quite different from people in firms in the Traditional Economy. She said that since working a lot with young tech companies in the Creative Economy, "my view of the world changed completely. It was a big transformation. The first thing that matters for the people in those firms is: what innovation can I bring? The young people are passionate about it. They want to have fun. They want to bring something new. Of course, they also care about money. They don't mind having some good shares in the firm. But this is number two. And hierarchical position? They don't care about hierarchical position at all. It's totally irrelevant. This is a big difference. The traditional firms have a lot to learn from these young people."
Johan Roos, CEO and Dean of the Joenkoeping International Business School, Sweden, said that he had removed a layer of managers at his business school. "The people who were most upset," he said, "were those who were brought up valuing title and position. For the younger generation, they don't care."
"It is worthwhile," said Lukas Michel, Managing Director of Sphere Advisers AG, "to think about how we organize our firms around inspiration, around the ambition of people, and around purpose."
Can management get us out of the mess it has created?
Julia Kirby suggested that if management had gotten the economy into a mess, it could also get us out of it. She said that this should be the role of the Drucker Forum. "It's to create the locus of thinking about: What are the grand challenges in management? What could management do to get us back on a path to prosperity? What could create a center of gravity for management? What could create a consensus for action, with energy and commitment about it? There has been a failure on the part of the management to understand how consequential their work is. That's what we have to keep in mind. It's up to management to manage our way to prosperity."
"The Drucker Forum," she said, "can be an important locus for identifying big issues that management can tackle only collectively, and can stage the kind of discussion that can result in greater understanding, consensus on desirable action, energy, and commitment. Managers are rule-makers within their firms. They will increasingly see that they can participate in rule-making on a larger stage.
And indeed, that they must participate in it, given their unprecedented heft, pan global reach, and messaging prowess. They are too powerful not to be principled."
The choice ahead
That's the choice in front of us. The Drucker Forum in November 2014 is a historic opportunity to deepen the understanding of these challenges and help organizations and managers grasp what is at stake, and so facilitate and enable the transition from one way of running the world to a very different and more prosperous one. Organizations in the Traditional Economy may well stagger on for quite a long time, but they will eventually give way to powerful economic forces that are undermining this way of operating.
The issue is: Will the transition to the Entrepreneurial Society be slow and ugly and brutal with a lot of unnecessary liquidations and job losses? Or will it be quick and elegant and intelligent? The Drucker Forum 2014 can help us to get to the latter, more prosperous outcome.
"The current way of managing corporations," said Richard Straub in his closing remarks, "is not susceptible to bring to the surface the productive and creative capabilities of employees at a large scale. An entrepreneurial society could make all the difference. Knowledge workers and knowledge entrepreneurs who are no longer suffocated by the straight jackets that large organizations force upon them and who contribute as largely autonomous partners to the enterprise could free up huge amounts of productive and creative energy. You won't find this is any economics statistics but the impact will be profound in terms of value creation, innovation, growth and job creation. These are existing reserves (like oil reserves in the ground). They are not accounted for by any economic model but they could make all the difference in our way to prosperity."
And read also:
The Great Transformation: A Turning Point
Drucker Forum 2013: A New Center of Gravity for Management
The Copernican Revolution In Management
The Meaning of Management: The Great Awakening
The five big surprises of radical management
An earlier version of this article appeared on Forbes.com
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Steve, thanks for such a nice and very relevant article. This is true that motivation is the prime factor by which great results can be achieved. The difference among the motivated person vs. the non-motivated will be as same as the reply from the people laying bricks was- laying bricks (no motivation), constructing a wall (a bit motivated), helping building a cathedral (highly motivated). Motivated team workers make great team and great teams are generally creative and innovative.
Steve, the article is very interesting as usual. Is there any chance to learn more about Julia Kirby's works? I would like to learn more management and its chances to embrace audacious change
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I think I'm sort of an anti-Samson. When my hair gets too long I get stupid. I'm getting shaggy and today my brain is as lively as a slug (but I'm getting my hair cut this afternoon so things will look up soon).
Anyway. What this means is I have, as yet, no clue what the realistic and concrete Next Steps might be for our Burning Ted/Creative Co-op group/fizz. Instead, I think I'll restate some things and make some clarifications.
First of all, and most importantly for me, this is a game. It's serious play, yes, but it's *play*. I don't want anyone risking time or money or social capital that they can't afford. (If you're Jeff Bezos--hey, Jeff, if you're reading this--then, hey, yep, we'll take $10,000 because you can afford to lose it. If you're an award-winning writer we'll accept a previously-published story for an anthology because you can afford to not get paid again for this one small thing if the project fails miserably. And so on.) This may end up as hard work but it should begin as a pure, fizzing *delight*. We're gambling, people, but we're not betting the house. Not sweating with stress.
Second, no DRM. Ownership, yes. Copyright, yes. Silly digital protections that treat the consumer like a potential criminal, no.
Third, over the lifespan of the project, every participant's comment content should average out as constructive: if you're good at pointing out problems with particular ideas, try get good at suggesting solutions, and vice versa. Similarly, if you're good at following instructions try offering ideas, and vice versa. I doubt we'll get to a perfect 50/50 ratio on either because, y'know, people are different, but let's bear it in mind.
Fourth, assume good intent. Some of us are more experienced than others, some smarter, some more enthusiastic, some better communicators, but if anyone doesn't play nicely, I'll block their access. So for now we can assume we're all Good Eggs.
Fifth, assume everyone will do what they say they'll do--which means, please, no getting carried away with irrational, unkeepable promises.
Okay, enough of that touchy-feely crap. Now some more concrete restatements.
Whatever we publish I want it to be multi-channel: print, audio, e-book. I want a whole network of multi-media support--free downloadable text and audio exerpts, vid mashups, video interviews, music, live performance, reviews (radio, web, local newspaper, blogs) and interviews (ditto). In a perfect world I'd also really like to see international reciprocity--get overseas publishers/writers interested. (This is already happening to a degree, BTW.) I'd love the full court press of fringe publicity: web widgets, and BookCrossing-type grassroots activity, a delicious logo, temporary tattoos--anything, everything.
So this will be a community effort: we endorse a product, we make it happen, we all piggyback and/or push with our art our skills our experience, we all party, and then we all do it again for someone else or for ourselves. It will be a network game. I talk up your book, your talk up mine. You play your song before my reading, I'll review your album in my blog.
This assumes some kind of artistic parity. You don't want to support someone who can't write well. I don't want to support someone who doesn't sing/sell/design well. We all have to believe, and to be, fucking great at what we do.
So much of this can't be sorted until we have a product to work with that we're all interested in. I see two different ways to go:
Then in terms of production,
1. Something original and beautiful and fabulous that would spark our best interactive and supportive efforts--your best art, your best sell, your best music, your highest enthusiasm. Something we can all truly get behind. Downside: it would take a while to put together because, as Mahler says: interesting is easy, beautiful is difficult.
2. Something interesting and good and solid that could be produced fast as a test run project, for example an anthology of reprint stories by very cool writers (who have been paid so often for each piece they'd be happy to take a risk). Downside: creative people are easily bored, and something like this might not be superfab enough to kickstart the synergistic juices.
I also see two ways to go:
1. Do it ourselves (traditional print and/or POD/lulu as well as all the other channels). Total control. Downside: cost, distribution, fiddly bits (who here runs a recording studio or can get good rates at same?).
2. Profit share, as a kind of cooperative book packager, with an established though risk-taking publisher. The two which instantly spring to mind: HarperStudio and Soft Skull. We design and market. They produce and distribute. Downside: they take half the profits.
We have interest (here and a couple of other countries) from people who are experienced (design, typesetting, distribution, back-end solutions, writing, publicity, tech-stuff [she said brightly], editing) and enthusiastic. I'm not sure how this is all going to work out. I do know that as a direct result of these conversations I am feeling twenty times more sanguine about the business than I was a week ago. Publishing--on both sides of the producer/consumer equation--is seething with energy and enthusiasm.
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Finding and replacing is exposed by the Find and Replacement objects. The Find object is available from the Selection object and the Range object. The find action differs slightly depending upon whether you access the Find object from the Selection object or the Range object.
Finding text and selecting it
If the Find object is accessed from the Selection object, the selection is changed when the find criteria is found. The following example selects the next occurrence of the word "Hello." If the end of the document is reached before the word "Hello" is found, the search is stopped.
The Find object includes properties that relate to the options in the Find and Replace dialog box. You can set the individual properties of the Find object or use arguments with the Execute method, as shown in the following example.
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The following example performs the same result as the previous example, using arguments of the Execute method.
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