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This blog is about the relationship between organizations and the people who work for them and the communities they operate in. And, it's dedicated to the 100s of millions of people around the world who go to work every day wanting to do a great job.
Why you need to master the art of segmentation
People and relationships are at the core of all organizational strategies.
This means an adequately thorough and complete stakeholder analysis is key. If the stakeholder analysis is weak then so too is the strategy. And stakeholder analysis starts with adequate segmentation.
Segmentation doesn't start with a list of generic stakeholders. It starts with a deep understanding of who will be impacted by what you are planning, saying, doing? And how they will be impacted.
Seems so obvious, and yet it's not. In the past few weeks I was asked to pull together work of several other consultants to create an integrated strategic framework that would help identify gaps and overlaps in the work and thinking that had been done so far.
Communication was just one of 6 strategic priorities but every other priority had a significant communication component. Three consultants had already prepared three separate plans – media relations, government relations and fund development.
Each plan referred to their own key stakeholder, but not one of them adequately developed the segmentation. Instead, they were almost generic.
It's a government relations plan so the target is government. No differentiation between Federal, provincial though both could impact the outcomes for this organization. No reference to which specific ministries. No differentiation between elected and non-elected politicians, or bureaucrats [senior and junior]. Even though each of these segments would have different and important impact on the work of this organization.
None of the plans did any more than a superficial analysis of this already thin segmentation. Instead of really thinking about what the client organization was trying to achieve in relationship to each of the segmented stakeholders, again, plans fell back into generic descriptions and no real analysis.
Even cutting an orange into segments takes some thought and skill…
And, the sad thing is, this failure to segment stakeholders and do some pretty fundamental analysis is not unusual.
The result. Bland planning and a focus on tools and tactics.
No strategy at all.
If you want to be strategic, then developing mastery in the art of segmentation is a good place to start.
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Innovation. You gotta be a little bit crazy!
Looking back to an Apple ad from 1997 for a little inspiration.
Where are the "crazy ones" in your world? "The misfits? The rebels? The trouble makers? The square pegs in round holes? The ones who see things differently?" Where are the people crazy enough to change the world in your organization?
What are you doing as an institution to support and encourage their crazy world changing ideas? Â If you're looking for innovation, this may just be what it takes.
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Our preoccupation with innovation. Is it just "lipstick on a pig"?
I was walking through the McGill University campus the other day and noticed a poster that described the invention of the Kellogg cornflake. It reminded me  again of how chance has led to some of the most innovative creations of the past century: vulcanized rubber [think tires], Post-it notes, Teflon, mauve [yes, and a must read on this], the x-ray, superglue, stainless steel, and microwave ovens [for more]. But, there's more than happenstance and chance or even serendipity, to these breakthrough events. There was the 'accident' and then there was insight.
Virtually every organization I know is trying to find ways to encourage and capitalize on innovation. Big and small, customer or operationally-focused innovation is the new 'silver bullet'; a "key growth lever".
What are they doing organizationally to increase the potential for 'chance' and insight?Â
Well, they're benchmarking. Â They're designing new workspaces to support innovation – atriums and agoras, open offices, whiteboard walls and basketball hoops. Mimicking the Google and Apple campuses in the hope that they will inspire new ways of thinking. They're giving employees access to more and more collaborative tools and creating opportunities through internal innovation challenges.
But most of these same organizations – whether they are white collar knowledge workers or blue collar labourers – are designed to produce widgets. It's the nature of the work and the day-to-day deliverables. The design of the overall business operation is more like a production line in a sausage factory than a research and development team in a laboratory.
Are we just "putting lipstick on a pig"? Or are these changes – especially in older traditional businesses – really delivering the promise?
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The fall of the cubicle wall
First it was the Berlin wall. Â Now it's the cubicle wall. Â Workspaces even in the most traditional environments – banks, insurance companies and law offices are changing. And they are changing in pretty radical ways. Â Shared work stations, open space and windows, tables, couches and banquettes instead of cubicles and enclosed offices. Â Even though the initial motivation of these organizations is cost cutting, according to an article in today's Globe and Mail employees report an overwhelmingly positive experience and increased productivity.
Perhaps even more interesting, given the focus of this blog, is the implication for communication and change management. Â One would hope that there would be something equally inventive, but when faced with some issues "10% of negative comments are about noise and work behaviours that become distractions, the bank is doing training and distributing tip sheets about having consideration for others." Â Good grief! I think the walls just went back up.
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Burst your bubble
It's time to burst your bubble. Â Getting out of your office or cubicle is a good thing. Â Getting out of your organizational silo is a good thing. Getting out of your profession is a good thing. Â Breaking out of your bubble is a good thing. Â Different perspectives bring rich insight and potentially innovative new ideas.
I was struck by this again when I heard an episode of "White coat. Black arts" on CBC where Captain Scully – you know the one whose emergency "landing" in the Hudson saved all passengers and crew! – was talking about work he's doing to bring the discipline of the airline industry to the medical profession.  It's a fascinating conversation. And a great example of breaking out of our bubbles and learning from each other is a really good thing. Check it out here.
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Grey zones are costing your organization big time
There's a lot of focus in organizations on moving fast to meet customer needs and shifting market conditions.  We're encouraging employees to be more involved in defining and delivering organizational success. People from all levels and all functions of the organization are getting together to 'hack' solutions to important business problems. Collaboration is our mantra. Innovation our goal.
When the formal structures and systems of the organization aren't supporting what we're trying to do we're finding ways around them. And this is a good thing. But, in our rush to collaborate and democratize our organizations we're losing clarity.  While we're busy crowd sourcing hacks: Who's got the responsibility? Who's got the authority?  And, how do we know?  Will we only find out once whoever it is pops out of the wood work to disagree with what we've been working on/towards?
This lesson came crashing home last summer when I discovered that, on a not-for-profit project I'd been working on for several years, I had all the responsibility and no authority. Â Since, I'm in the business of clarifying, helping make the grey zones black and white, this was a shocking revelation. But it was an informal volunteer thing, so… "These thing happen".
Now I'm noticing grey zones places where I would never have expected. In a high growth, high success organization that completed a major restructuring and failed to make accountabilities clear for over a year. In a 500 year old institution where lack of clarity on roles and relationships and responsibility and authority is somehow seen as a good thing. And, in a global company where decentralization of decision taking was taken to such an extreme that their shareholders are now threatening to sue them due to lack of oversight.
The grey zones we create, intentionally or not, are costing organizations time, energy, and money.  They are increasing politics. It's more and more about who you know rather than what you know or how well you do it.
Grey zones are decreasing transparency to the point where it's virtually impossible for anyone to figure out who's doing what, why, when and how decisions are being taken.
And, they are decreasing trust in the offering, the leadership, the institutions and, if you're on the inside, in each other.
At high speeds, when we're all moving fast to meet customer needs and shifting market conditions, new ways of working are imperative but grey zones may be costing us big time. Â Are they worth the risk?Â
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Innovation & collaboration: Strategic priorities or not?
For all the talk in Canadian business about innovation and collaboration, I just read a startling and rather disappointing fact from a talk given by BDC late in 2011: Â Canadian "businesses invest $2,400 less per employee, per year, in computers, software and training than American companies do."
A few years ago that amount spent on information and communication technology wouldn't have bought you much. Today it could set an employee up with enough technology and applications to be able to connect the way they want, when they want, with colleagues virtually anywhere in the world. It could create the opportunity for innovation and collaboration that we believe is so vital.
The United States have been hit harder by the recession than we in Canada have and yet they invest $2,400 more in the stuff that will make it easier for their employees to create new and more efficient ways of doing things;Â new products and services that better meet the needs of their customers; and a competitive advantage. Â This doesn't seem right.
When we as leaders are out talking about the importance of innovation and collaboration to the future of our organizations and our country are we making it a priority? Â The numbers say we aren't.
If innovation and collaboration are key strategic priorities, then we need to invest in them. If they aren't, then we probably shouldn't keep saying that they are. Â
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Connecting for big business benefits
This morning I came across three articles. Three different perspectives. Same conclusion. The more connected we are as leaders and as organizations the better.
Perspective 1 – CEOs. A study of 65 chief executives from around the world discovered that CEOs spend an average of 6 hours out of their 55-hour work week alone. The remainder of the time is spent in business meetings [virtual and face-to-face] and lunches and on the phone. CEOs may not like it, but it is how their work gets done and confirms Henry Mintzberg's seminal study "The nature of managerial work"  [1973].
Perspective 2: Leadership teams. In their new book Strategy & Business, Rob Cross and Jon Katzenbach describe how: "In most companies, the phrase top team is a misnomer…" Instead, they go on to say:  [P]ower comes from … members' informal and social networks, their determination to make the most of those connections, and their ability to work well in subgroups formed to address specific issues… [A]s much as 90 per cent of the information that most senior executives receive and take action on comes throughout their informal networks – not formal reports or databases." The conclusion: Enriching networks enriches organizations.
Perspective 3: Organizations. "Web 2.0 … promote[s] significantly more flexible processes at internally networked organizations: respondents say that information is shared more readily and less hierarchically, collaboration across organizational silos is more common, and tasks are more often tackled in a project-based fashion." This study goes on to demonstrate that the more networked an organization the more business benefits. If you, or your leadership team, ever had any doubts it's worth taking a look.
Connecting is what we as human beings do. We're social creatures. Our organizational work gets done with, and through, other people.
Helping your employees connect. A little idea with huge potential business benefits.
It's a potentially beautiful thing.
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"How easy is it for me to do great work?"
I've been a fan of Bill Jensen's work since I read his first book, Simplicity. But, the book that really made me sit-up and take notice was "Work 2.0: Rewriting the contract". In it he asks leaders to think about how their employees would answer this question – "How easy is it for me to do great work?"Â
"Work 2.0 is not for the faint of heart… it is for those who are not afraid to stretch their thinking about work and the new contract every employer must make to keep their talent."
Jane Harper, Director , IBM Extreme Blue
In the 10 years since it was first published the pressure to find and keep the right talent has increased.  The employer – employee relationship has changed. But, organizations have not. Or not well or fast enough.
Enter "Hacking Work", Bill's most recent project. The idea is simple. As employees we have a choice.  We can sit and wait for our organizations to make it easy for us to do great work or we can take action on our own behalf, something Bill calls benevolent hacks, and make it easier for us  to do great work.Â
As a leader ask yourself what you're doing to make it easier for employees to do great work.
As an employee, don't wait for your organization to catch up to your needs on the job.
Ask: What can you do to make it easy for you to do great work?Â


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Day two of the 26th Annual High Times Cannabis Cup emerged as a time to reflect on the precarious situation we face as cannabis consumers and producers worldwide.
My 1:30pm grow seminar, also a live episode of our podcast "Free Weed" featured an illustrious panel discussing marijuana cultivation, breeding award-winning pot strains and hashish science and manufacturing techniques.
Mike Corral, formerly of WAMM in Santa Cruz talked about growing organic medicinal outdoor herb for sick patients and his new project cultivating medical cannabis in Poland. Scott, the breeder of Rare Dankness seeds illuminated the crowd on growing big (like 40,000 square foot greenhouse big) in Colorado. Don and Aaron of DNA Genetics talked about what it takes to breed and grow Cannabis Cup-winning pot such as Tangie and Kosher Kush. Finally, Bubbleman enlightened the audience on the glandular trichomes containing the essential oils we love and how to extract them properly using dry-sift and ice-water extraction techniques.
All in all, a great group of growers and connoisseurs got together to share information vital to the betterment of the gene pool and all of our buds in the future. This panel was followed by a seminar from the legendary marijuana author Robert Connell Clarke (Marijuana Botany, Hashish!) discussing his new book, Cannabis: Evolution and Ethnobotany and taking questions from an eager crowd that readily devoured the valuable information he divulged.
Following that, my esteemed cultivation colleague revealed "Secrets of Seed Breeding". Coming right up shortly our own Elise McDonough, author of the Official High Times Cannabis Cookbook presents, "The Art of Cannabis Cuisine" talking about the magic and alchemy of marijuana edibles. Tonight, Killer Mike and El-P will perform their new record "Run the Jewels" at the Melkweg. It's bound to be a packed house so get there early and enjoy the Cup!


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We have teamed up with ASRock to giveaway one of their brand new P55 Extreme motherboards!
This motherboard is based on Intel's newest chipset, the P55 Express. Most importantly it has support for Intel's latest Lynnfield Socket LGA-1156 processors, the Core i5 and Core i7. It comes with a whole bunch of cool features.
You can watch our ASRock P55 preview video that we published last week to learn more about it. You can also read more about the product at this page.
Head on over to our forum giveaway page to find out how to win it!
For this weekly prize, anyone in the world can enter!


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Two Long Island men were arrested Wednesday and charged in connection with seven robberies or attempted robberies at banks throughout Nassau County, police said Jan. 29 in announcing the felony charges.
Adam W. Baron, 18, and Jaime Rodriguez, 25, both of 1119 Court N. Drive in Melville, will face a judge Thursday at First District Court in Hempstead for arraignment.
In announcing their arrests, police said the two roommates are responsible for the following: A Dec. 26 robbery at a Bethpage Federal Credit Union at 750 Old Country Road in Westbury, where Baron allegedly passed a note to a 23-year-old teller telling him he had a gun and demanding cash; a Jan. 13 robbery at a TD Bank branch at 290 Merrick Road in Rockville Centre, when Baron allegedly wore a red bandana over his face and passed a demand note before fleeing with cash; a Jan. 17 robbery of a Chase Bank at 1542 Bellmore Ave. in North Bellmore, when Rodriguez allegedly passed a demand note to a bank teller and fled with an undisclosed amount of money; a Jan. 23 robbery at a Chase Bank branch at 1064 Old Country Road in Plainview, where Rodriguez and Baron were both allegedly involved, police said; an attempted robbery at a Chase Bank at 2122 Merrick Avenue in Merrick on Jan. 23; the Jan. 23 robbery of a Roslyn Savings Bank at 2111 Merrick Avenue in Merrick; and a robbery on Jan. 28 at a Chase Bank branch at 334 Main Street in Farmingdale.
In total, Nassau County police have charged Baron with five counts of second-degree robbery and one count of second-degree attempted robbery. Rodriguez was charged with two counts of second-degree robbery, as well as third-degree robbery and second-degree attempted robbery.
Nassau detectives said they worked with Suffolk County Pattern Crimes Unit officers during the investigation. It was unclear Thursday morning if the men are suspected in any other crimes, but officials from both agencies are expected to release more information at a press briefing later Thursday.
After a Thursday morning arraignment, Ramirez was held on $2 million bail, while Baron was ordered held on $1.5 million. They are both due back in court on Feb. 3.


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HOWEY-IN-THE-HILLS, Fla. ?- The Arizona women's golf team finished in third place after defeating Oklahoma State, 3-2-0 in the last round of the Hooters Collegiate Match Play Championship in Howey-In-The-Hills, Fla., Tuesday.
Individually against the Cowgirls, junior Cassandra Kirkland was victorious in the round by the score of 2 and 1 to defeat Mallorie Underwood. Junior Whitney Welch also grabbed a win for the Wildcats, by defeating Candie Herrera 2 up. Junior Lani Elston, also successful against Oklahoma State, defeated Ali Griffin 6 and 4. Karin Sjodin defeated senior Miriam Kraschinski 2 and 1. Oklahoma State's Annie Thurman defeated senior Mar Garcia in a 4 and 3 match.
With the completion of this tournament the Wildcats have concluded their fall season. Arizona will take the course next in February at the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge in Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.
Arizona vs. Oklahoma State ?- Round 3 (3-2-0)
Karin Sjodin defeated Miriam Kraschinski (2 and 1)
Annie Thurman defeated Mar Garcia (4 and 3)
Cassandra Kirkland defeated Mallorie Underwood (2 and 1)
Whitney Welch defeated Candie Herrera (2 and 1)Lani Elston defeated Ali Griffin (4 and 3)


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Baker is now 4-0 overall and 3-0 in the Heart of America Athletic Conference and have won six straight over CMU.
Despite giving up 306 yards rushing and turning over the ball twice, the Wildcats now set up a clash of two undefeated teams with No. 5 Missouri Valley next week, as they take on the undefeated Vikings at 6 p.m. on Sept. 22 in a Black Out game at Liston Stadium. Fans are asked to wear black to the game next Saturday.
Junior quarterback Jake Morse returned to start for the Wildcats after sitting out the last two games with an injury and he continued where he left off, completing 12-of-18 passes for 254 yards and two touchdowns.
USC transfer Dillon Baxter had his best game in a Wildcat uniform with 94 yards rushing on 15 attempts with a 35-yard touchdown run in the third quarter to give Baker the 21-14 lead.
Reggie Harris put the Wildcats on the board first with a 69-yard touchdown reception from Morse to put Baker up 7-0 with 9:15 to go in the first quarter.
Burton Iosefa tied up the game with a touchdown run of his own from eight yards out with 3:31 left in the first.
With under a minute left in the first half, junior wide receiver Tyler Hatcher caught a four-yard touchdown pass to put Baker up 14-7 at the half.
Cleave Perryman then barreled his way into the end zone on a one-yard run to tie up the game with 11:03 left in the third quarter.
Baxter then gave the Wildcats the lead with his touchdown just a few seconds later and senior kicker Steven Stewart nailed a 37-yard field goal with 7:16 to go to ice the game.
The Eagles fall to 1-2 on the year with the loss and Perryman ran for 176 yards on 25 carries for CMU and Iosefa had 82 yards on 12 carries. The Eagles only managed 33 yards through the air.
On defense, Adam Steele again led the Wildcats in tackles with 12 tackles and Andre Jolly added 11 with 1.5 sacks.
Preston Schenck had six solo tackles and recovered a fumble. Junior linebacker Adrian Pearson had eight tackles and Jesse Campbell had seven.
3-0 Missouri Valley comes into Baldwin City, Kan., next week after a 55-6 home win over Avila on Saturday. Next Saturday is also Family Day on campus. Fans can purchase Black Out T-Shirts by clicking here.


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TC TO JOHN FORSTER ; 27 August 1843; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18430827-TC-JF-01; CL 17: 86-87
Scotsbrig, Ecclefechan N.B. 27 August, 1843—
Dear Forster,
Here is a Letter waiting me from a Mr Leitch;1 of whom ransack my poor memory as I may I cannot find the slightest vestige, either in this or any prior state of existence! What in these singular circumstances is to be done?— Pray read his Letter nevertheless; pray look at him with humanity when he presents my card: examine his credentials and proposals with gentleness tempering caution,—for I do certify that Nickisson speaks of him as an actually extant man not unknown to me, that Sir Wm Hamilton's and Glasgow Lushington's2 testimonials are those of competent men; and that—on the whole you ought to let Chapman & Hall have a look at him in that state of matters!
He cannot be Leitch Ritchie? O Mnemosyne!3—
My wayfarings hitherward have been of chequered character, with as many rests intervening as I could effect, with as much of silence as was possible for me. I begin to long for Chelsea again; and know not whether I can undertake "to return by Edinburgh" or not. Returning whatever way, I hope to see you again before long, and hear good news of the whole world from you. Let that be enough.
Getting home to my Mother's here last night, I found some twelve Letters, all about as momentous as this of Ritchie Leitch's; all requiring some answer or other. May the Devil confound it!
I add not another word at present; except to bid you call at Chelsea for my Wife as you ride past, and to prosper and be of good cheer always.
Yours, dear Forster, in immense haste
T. Carlyle


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Janice K. Cunningham
Judge Janice K. Cunningham was elected on November 6, 2012 as the first woman Circuit Court judge in Eaton County and took office on January 1, 2013. The Circuit Court is the trial court of general jurisdiction with the broadest judicial powers in Michigan. The Circuit Court handles all civil cases with claims of more than $25,000 and all felony criminal cases. The Family Division of Circuit Court handles cases regarding divorce, custody and support. The Circuit Court also hears cases appealed from the District Court, certain matters from the Probate Court and appeals of decisions from local and state administrative agencies.
In addition to her normal case load, Judge Cunningham believes in the importance of utilizing "problem-solving courts" as an alternative to traditional adjudication. These specialty courts represent a shift in the way courts are handling certain offenders and working closely with prosecutors, public defenders, probation officers, social workers, and other justice system partners to develop a strategy that has proven to be effective in pressuring offenders into completing a treatment program and abstaining from repeating the behaviors that brought them to court. Judge Cunningham presides over the SAFE-T Program, which works with individuals at risk of losing their children because of drug or alcohol problems and she is the judicial volunteer for SMILE, a mandatory program for all divorcing individuals that have minor children. Judge Cunningham presides over the Priority Drug Court, a community corrections program designed to work with individuals that may be going to prison because of substance abuse issues and also presides over the newly created Swift and Sure Sanctions Probation Program, a community corrections program working with individuals that have substance or alcohol abuse issues but are not necessarily within the prison sentencing guidelines.
Prior to taking the bench, Judge Cunningham had a distinguished career in private practice for over 25 years. The following is a list of some of her awards and accomplishments:
Jeffrey L. Sauter
Served as Eaton County Prosecutor from January 1, 1991 to May, 2013.
Previously served as the chief assistant prosecuting attorney (1985–1988) and assistant prosecuting attorney (1979–1985).
Practiced as an attorney in private practice (1988–1991) with the Lansing-based law firm of Hubbard, Fox, Thomas, White and Bengston, and at Kenneth L. Swarthout P.C. in Charlotte.
Has been active in many professional organizations, including the Michigan Domestic and Sexual Violence Prevention Board, to which he was appointed in 2012.
Served on the board of directors and is past president of the Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan
Former member of the Criminal Justice Information Systems Policy Council.
Received a bachelor's degree from Central Michigan University and a degree from Thomas M. Cooley Law School.
In February 2013, he received his 30-year service award from the Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan.
Admitted to practice by the State Bar of Michigan, United States District Court (Western District, Michigan), United States Court of Appeals (Sixth Circuit)
Honors and Awards
Other Professional Service :
President, 2000-2001
Officer, 1997-2002
Board of Directors (1992-present)
Member of various committees related to legislation, child support, child protection, technology & corrections
Frequent lecturer and seminar faculty on trial advocacy, drug courts, paperless file management, etc.
Presentations Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan (PAAM):
2013 - Presenter - Advanced OWI Prosecution, Rochester, MI
National District Attorneys Association (NDAA):
PAAM representative to NDAA Board of Directors, October 2012 - present
Faculty at National Advocacy Center, Columbia, South Carolina
Pretrial Advocacy, 1999
Pretrial Advocacy, 2000
Trial Advocacy II, 2001
Trial Advocacy I, 2002
Faculty Development, 2006
Cross Examination, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010
NDAA Technology Conference, 2007
Faculty for National District Attorneys Association
Supervisory and Management Issues for the Prosecutor's Office, Lecture: "Policy Concerns with 21st Century Technology", 2010, Houston, Texas
The Executive Program - 2009, Presenter/Facilitator, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Prosecuting Drug Cases, 2005, Las Vegas, Nevada
Office Administration, 2006, Chicago, Illinois
The Executive Program, 2006, Park City, Utah
NDAA Summer Conference, 2007, Portland, Oregon
Office Administration, 2007, San Francisco, California
The Executive Program, 2008, Marco Island, Florida
Strategic Cross-Examination, 2008, Houston, Texas
Presentations for the Nation Center of DWI Courts
2011 - Presenter and Facilitator - DWI Court Planning Training, Lansing, MI
2011 - Presenter and Facilitator - DWI Court Planning Training, Holland, MI
2010 - Presenter and Facilitator - DWI Court Planning Training, Traverse City, MI
Other Presentations
2012 - Presenter - "Cross Examination", and "Ethics And The Recanting Victim" - Missouri Office Of Prosecution Services, 6th Annual Conference on Family And Sexual Violence, Columbia, MO
2011 - Panelist - Michigan Municipal League on Medical Marijuana Act and Your Community, Lansing, MI
2011 - Panelist - Michigan Municipal League on Medical Marijuana Act and Your Community, Wyoming, MI
2010 - Presenter - "Truth In Sentencing" Michigan House Judiciary Committee
2010 - Presenter - "Cross Examination" - Wayne County Prosecuting Attorney's Office
2009 - Co-Presenter - Medical Marijuana Law - Michigan Probation Agents Association, Bellaire, MI
2009 - Speaker - "Confidentiality & The Victim Advocate" - Michigan Sheriff's Association, Traverse City, MI
Michigan Judicial Institute, "FAQ's on Restitution", 2003, Lansing, Michigan
Michigan House Criminal Justice Committee, 2003, Joint presentation on Sentencing Guidelines with Frank Reynolds
Partners for Progress, "Drug Courts", 2004, Anchorage, Alaska
Utah Prosecutors Council, "Cross Examination", 2005, Park City, Utah
Pima County Attorneys Office, "Paperless File Management", 2006, Tucson, Arizona
North Carolina Conference of D.A.'s, "Cross Examination" & "Paperless File Mgt", 2006, Wilmington, North Carolina
Michigan Capital Area Chapter, Project Management Institute, "Paperless File Mgt", 2007, Lansing, Michigan
State Bar of Michigan, Prisons and Corrections Comm., "Balancing Our Priorities", 2007, Lansing, Michigan
Laserfiche Conference, "Paperless File Management", 2008, Los Angeles, California
Utah Prosecutorial Assistants Assn., "Paperless File Management", 2008, Moab, Utah
West Virginia District Attorneys Assn., "Cross Examination", 2008, West Virginia
Texas District & County Attorneys Assn., "Cross Examination" & "Paperless File Management", 2009, Austin, Texas
Iowa County Attorneys Assn., "Cross Examination" & "Paperless File Management", 2009, Arnolds Park, Iowa
Lansing Community College: adjunct professor, Criminal Procedure, 1993-1997
Other offices and publications
Eaton County Bar Association: officer
In March 2006, Jeff Sauter and Asst Prosecuting Attorney Neil O'Brien co-authored one side of a Point/Counter- Point article in the Michigan Bar Journal , entitled "The Case for Preliminary Examination Reform".


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The M.Ed. program is oriented around a fifteen credit hour pedagogical core curriculum that reflects this mission by cutting across five essential areas of knowledge and skill needed by teachers: 1) Art and Science of Teaching. 2) The Learner. 3) Literacy. 4) Foundations, Context, and Purpose. 5) Research and Inquiry. Students complete coursework in each domain as specified in the program curriculum.
The pedagogical core domains are described as follows:
Art and Science of Teaching
Teaching comprises an everchanging, unique combination of scientific reasoning and artistry intended to promote the highest level of student achievement. Skills that foster student motivation, communication, selfworth, and content mastery provide a foundation for developing artistry to further enhance the learning experience. This domain encourages students to explore the techniques of teaching, while developing effective teaching styles consistent with their individual personalities.
The Learner
At the center of all education is the learner. In order to provide effective education to all learners, teachers need to understand the specific learning needs of each student, and how those learning needs are affected by differences in development, temperament, cognitive functioning, and social, economic, and cultural contexts. In this domain, contemporary psychological theory and research is applied to learners in the context of the study of development, assessment, and learning. Study in this domain allows educators to create classroom learning communities where everyone, including teachers, are unique and respected learners who participate actively in their own education.
This domain is the cornerstone of all teaching and learning. Here teachers acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for teaching others to become critically literate in all six domains of literacy: reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing, and visually representing. Furthermore, teachers learn to appreciate how the acquisition of critical literacy is a necessary requisite for a lifetime of growth and empowerment. A wide variety of theoretical and practical matters pertaining to literacy are explored in this domain.
Foundations, Context, and Purpose
The purpose and meaning of any educational activity is not a given, but must be constructed, articulated, and justified within the particular context in which it occurs. Teachers and other educational professionals must, therefore, have a deep awareness of this context . including its cultural, historical, linguistic, technological, and philosophical roots . in order to engage in purposeful and meaningful teaching. This essential domain of study prepares teachers who are able to reflect critically on teaching practices and educational policies in light of their complex relations to the environing culture. This study aims to equip teachers to make sense of classroom practices through an understanding of the larger social context in which these classrooms are embedded.
Research and Inquiry
Teachers, in order to be effective, must be adept researchers and they must be actively engaged in meaningful forms of inquiry. Moreover, teachers must have the capacity to critically examine various research claims and to assess the relative worth of such claims to understanding their own classroom practice and environment, which includes using technology to obtain and evaluate information from the Internet. Teachers must also be able to foster research skills in their own students and create a learning environment that encourages inquiry and critical thinking. This domain gives teachers experience from which to sharpen their expertise in this key area.


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What's in a Name?
I knew I had a problem with the granny thing when it took me two years to find a name I could stand. It had to allow my 2-year-old granddaughter, Ryan, and her baby sister, Maggie, to claim me as their grandmother, as the person ready to open her fridge, her wallet, her house, and her heart to them. But it had to do this without giving me — or anybody else — the idea that I was old enough to be anybody's grandmother.
I was 51 when Ryan was born, the same age my grandmother was when I was born, so I'm not saying I'm literally too young to be their grandmother. I'm just saying the old Grandma image is no longer applicable. "Grandma" is my mother's mother, with her white braid wrapped around her head, smelling of Black Jack gum as she knitted our Christmas sweaters, one blue arm growing out of her purse as if she had somebody in there.
Last time I visited my daughter I noticed Ryan had one of those plastic early-learning toys with pictures in a circle; you pull a string and a voice says the name of the thing in the picture. Hers shows a family. Grandma is a dumpling with gray hair, an apron, and little spectacles. Fisher-Price, where are you getting your data? Norman Rockwell? Stitched pillows?
Chaka Khan is a grandmother; so are Suzanne Somers, Goldie Hawn, and Carla Wallenda. So where are the hip grandmothers on TV and in the movies? Instead, the best we get is that recent telephone commercial showing an elderly woman dressed in pastels, waiting patiently in a silent living room for her phone to ring.
The new G-Mother — that's a hipper moniker, don't you think? — has short red hair, a Mini Cooper, frequent-flier miles, and an iPod in her Kate Spade bag. The average age of a first-time grandparent today is 47, which was, incidentally, the average life expectancy just a century ago. We are the same age our grandmothers were, but we're in the middle of our lives, not at the end.
One recent Saturday morning my daughter, Morgan, and her husband, Trevor, were feverishly trying to pull their new apartment together with Ryan underfoot and the baby wailing. "Can you watch the babies while we work?" Morgan called to ask, as Trevor hammered in the background. She lives three blocks away from me in San Francisco.
Look, I'd love to nip over and whisper secrets into 1-month-old Maggie's ears, or to dress 2-year-old Ryan in the black leather jacket I bought her recently and take her to look for late blackberries in Golden Gate Park on my bike (with its deluxe new kid seat). But I have a job. I'm a reporter, I have two books to write, a husband who wants to go to France, and I just bought an investment property in Portland, Oregon. I love my grandchildren, but being a grandmother got added to my to-do list.
The truth is, I can't be the kind of grandmother my own grandmother was — available and self-sacrificing, always arriving in her red VW with her overnight bag to help Mom. I wasn't a stay-at-home mom, and I can't be a stay-at-home-grandma either.
As I pondered this, Morgan was waiting for my answer. "I can't, sweetie. I'm working," I told her. "Okay, Mom, we'll manage," she said, with that briskness she uses to cover up disappointment. I put the phone down, realizing I'm going to have to live with that guilty feeling. You may think I'm being churlish, but at least I'm not alone. One friend, also a grandmother, was recently entertaining members of her board when the call came asking her to babysit at short notice. She couldn't do it. Inevitably, her daughter was angry and fed up, saying, "You make time for other people, but not for me."
"I want time for myself and with my husband — we're young enough that we still want to enjoy ourselves," says another friend, Corrine D'Apolito. Her solution is to establish babysitting boundaries for her two grandchildren: her Wednesdays are for personal time, and she won't do Saturday nights "unless it's for a wake." But still, she, too, feels guilty. "I shouldn't but I do. When I go away as we're doing next week, I felt I had to tell my daughter and get her approval!"


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I sat across from the woman interviewing me and thought, this shouldn't be happening.
It seemed like yesterday I sat around a table where the talk was full of promise for the company. A company I'd been with for ten years. Visions of meetings being held on the beach in Cancun seemed very likely.
But life doesn't always work out the way you expect. And as a result with the twists and turns of the economy, here I was, by choice, looking for a new job.
"Let me just begin with, never in all my years have I heard such good references. I'd be a fool not to hire you," the interviewer said.
One of the references she called had worked with me for the past ten years. We'd worked together casually, sometimes closely. I'd always felt total respect for this person and the way she conducted herself, but really, with office politics, one could never be sure what someone truly thought of you.
The interviewer went on to tell me the reference ended by saying I was one hundred percent loyal to my employer.
Having just come from a meeting with my (ex) employer, it made me smile. Yes I was loyal. Loyal because he had seen things in me that no one else had. He gave me an opportunity to do things I wouldn't have ordinarily had the opportunity to do, as he did with many others over the years. He believed in me. And I believed in him. I still do.
At the sheer mention of loyalty, my eyes teared up. She offered me a tissue.
"I haven't been to a job interview in ten years. But I'm pretty sure tearing up is not a good thing," I joked.
She laughed.
She said, "It's okay. I know you're in a real transition and I've been there."
And then she told me her own story.
She had all kinds of successes and failures in her own life. But she was on the brink of something positive. She said when I'd dropped off my resume earlier that day, she'd called her husband and said sometimes people walk into your life for a reason. She repeated a quote I'd been told many times recently, "When one door closes, another opens."
There is a chance, an opportunity, that we may be able to help one another, and that's wonderful. That's really what life is all about.
Will I get the position? I will keep you posted.
But it isn't about the job.
It's about what I've discovered the last few months. And that is, we're all the same, whether we acknowledge it or not. We all want to do our best. We all desperately want to be valued. We want to believe in something or someone, and work to make it succeed. We want to be a part of something. We want to win.
But what is winning? Is it having more money than you know what to do with? Is it the prestige and adoration of being successful? I don't think so. Ask Tiger Woods.
He seemingly had everything; a beautiful wife, a family, homes, yachts, a successful career. But something was missing.
And yet, there's a woman working the night shift at a donut shop. She has a husband that loves her, children that adore her, but making the rent is a struggle. You ask her if she's happy and she instantly says yes, and you know she means it.
What's missing for the Tiger Woods of the world? What's the woman at the donut shop got that he doesn't?
Maybe if I were a better writer I could make you understand.
But my guess is, you do understand. I know you do. You know what's missing.
It isn't always about the dollars and cents. It isn't always about promotions and prestige. It's about that part of you that's unfulfilled. The part of you, you won't acknowledge to yourself, let alone the world. It's that missing piece to the puzzle.
Sometimes it's about loyalty. Sometimes it's about love. Sometimes it's about self-worth and missed opportunity. But whatever it is, we all face it and we all have to come to terms with it.


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When I get an email at night, the four notification icons at the bottom of the G2X will stay lit all night, draining my battery unnecessarily. I've exhausted myself looking through the Settings app for a way to make them flash every few minutes, or something, to conserve power.
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TechnoparkToday.com(Nov, 2014): The milma customers near Technopark – Attinkuzhy and Kazhakutom are having difficulties as old packets are re-stamped to new dates and sold. Many customers had the same complaint, but still the foul play is happening without any change. Read the experience of a techie, who bought milma milk from a shop nearby Technopark. "I bought 2 milma packets ...Read More »
How to peel pineapple clean and easy ( video )
TechnoparkToday.com > How many of you had a difficult time in peeling pineapple? for the same reason, many people won't buy it even if its one of the most nutritious fruit in market. Watch this video, and this guy is peeling a pineapple in a very clean and easy way, that too in just 50 seconds. see video:-Read More »
NeST Pista Video Goes Viral!
TechnoparkToday.com (July, 2014): Do you really think software industry is all about work and no fun? A video from technopark based NeST software company goes viral on internet. It is a common concept among the society that, there are no fun elements in IT companies, but many IT companies are bringing the fun back into work and reminding us to still keep ...Read More »
How to remove sunfilm from cars easily?
TechnoparkToday.com > Supreme court of india banned the sun films in motor vehicles. Motor Vehicle department is taking strict actions against the defaulters. Many people are still having the sunfilms in their cars because they may not get enough time to visit a car service/sun film removing center. but you know, it is very easy to remove the sun films ...Read More »
Misleading Serial In Asianet – 'Padasaram' Insults Techie Women
TechnoparkToday.com >> A new malayalam television serial, which is being screened in Asianet, is showing techies in poor light. From the very first episode, the serial 'Padasaram' portrays techies as immoral and shrewd. In order to establish the background, the serial invariably shows Technopark buildings and boards. It gives clear reference that the incident occurs in Technopark and the central ...Read More »
Bad Experience from a Private Volvo Service in Trivandrum
>>Shiraz, senior official of a Technopark company, shares his bizarre experience from Mookambika Travels. "I booked an online ticket (Rs 700) from Kazhakuttom to Madurai through the website, redbus.in. Â The departure time of the bus, as per schedule, was 6.00 p.m. from Kazhakuttom. Â Â But only when we reached Kazhakuttom, we were informed that we had to board from another point. ...Read More »
Investigative Journalism or Politically Motivated intellectual Prostitution?
When our mainstream medias are playing various roles to conceal and reveal the facts, here is an article written by a techie, about one of  such recent incidents appeared in some newspapers. Over the last 2-3 days there has been sensational and clamorous outcry against the so-called 'NCC Nagar Journalist Flat Scam' – what is being seen is nothing but ...Read More »
Car Tyre Punctured – A Lady Techie's Complaint against Security Guards
TechnoparkToday.com>> It is an account of a bad experience faced by a lady employee in Technopark. TechoparkToday shares her complaint mail that has been forwarded to us. "There are many security guys over here, who are very helpful and co-operative in the technopark and who behaves very well to the ladies, but this is about some people who are like kittens to ...Read More »
Rotten Chicken from ChicKing – a Techie's Complaint
TechnoparkToday.com >> We've got a mail from a techie working in technopark, about his unfortunate experience with one of the popular food chains. Lots of brands are coming in our city, but do they really care about their customers, or just thinking only about their profits ? we are publishing it here, to make everyone aware about some of the bad ...Read More »
DLF IT Park, Gachibowli in Hyderabad conducted Fire Prevention Exercise and Mock Drill
Building Management Services of DLF IT Park demonstrated Fire Prevention Exercise showcasing latest fire prevention machinery at DLF IT Park, Gachibowli Hyderabad, June 08,2012 >> A Fire Prevention Exercise and Mock Drill was carried out in cooperation with A.P. Fire Service Department here at DLF IT Park, Gachibowli today. The drill which lasted for about 30 minutes showcased the latest ...Read More »
No Monorail For Technopark!
TechnoparkToday.com >> The idea of Trivandrum monorail project began as a mass transit system between Balaramapuram and Kazhakkoottam. It was proposed as a solution to the two problems spiraling out of control – the perennial traffic blocks between Balaramapuram and city centre, and the transit from city of over 30,000 personnel working in Technopark. Monorail would be cheaper than the ...Read More »
Asianet Dataline Risking Its Customers Security?
TechnoparkToday.com >>The customers of the leading internet provider – Asianet Dataline ( ADL ) recently had a weird experience when they browse internet. A pop-up javascript driven advertisement window appeared in all of the web pages, the customers browsing, including the high security banking websites. Customers were panic since its appearing in every pages they access, and they thought that ...Read More »
Tech A Break 2012 Group Dance Photos
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Petrol Theft On a Rise in Technopark
>>Though several complaints were raised against petrol theft in Technopark, the unfortunate incident continues.  The latest incident is petrol theft from a bike parked in the parking area of Periyar building.  Anurag Velekkattu, an employee of NeST, is the latest victim.  "I left the bike at the building due to heavy rain and took it the next day. After ...Read More »
Big Fight between Techies in Technopark!
It is reported that there was a big fight happened between some of the employees in Technopark yesterday afternoon. Heavy blood marks were found near the Tejaswini food court ( near to the lift ). And it says that the fight happened between the TCS employees and the employees some other companies. and one of them got severely injured in the attack and ...Read More »
Dry Taps…Now AC Too Turning Off..!
TechnoparkToday.com >> Techies reeling under severe drinking water shortage had another shock at Technopark on Thursday. The air conditioning of the entire Tejaswini building had gone haywire on Thursday.  The central AC duct got leaked in Wednesday midnight and a company suffered major losses due to the water influx from the central AC on the building. This summer has become ...Read More »
Fishy Smell in Bhavani Troubles Techies!
The unpleasant fishy smell in bhavani building troubles the techies. It is reported that many techies feels difficulty and nausea after smelling it in bhavani building.  The smell is coming from a newly started restaurant in bhavani 6 th floor. It seems the restaurant haven't good ventilation in their kitchen, thus the unpleasant smell of frying fish is spreading in the entire bhavani buildig from 11.30 AM to ...Read More »
Rajinikanth Website Really Runs Without Internet
>>It may sound like another Rajinikanth joke, but a new website dedicated to the superstar runs 'without an internet connection'! Visitors to www.allaboutrajni.com are greeted with a warning that "He is no ordinary man, this is no ordinary website. It runs on Rajini Power" and are advised to switch off their internet connection to enter the website. Only when the ...Read More »


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Pam: "Everyone I loves, leaves. Everything I touch, dies."
"Jesus Gonna Be Here" is the June 22 episode of "True Blood," which was directed by Stephen Moyer. If you haven't seen the episode, beware of spoilers! "True Blood" airs Sunday nights at 8 p.m. central on HBO.
Tara's dead. Yeah, it's a little hard to process given that we don't see it happen. One second she is kicking ass, and then next we see poor ole Lettie Mae crying surrounded by vampire goop. It's strange that we don't even get to see Tara die. She's a main character, and her death is quiet and off screen. Watching Tara die would have helped with the shock and viewer impact. Yes, her death, as is, is shocking, but it's more like, wait did they really just do that? What are your views on Tara's death scene?
At least we get to see how everyone reacts and handles Tara's death. We see Jessica finding out, Jason reminiscing, and then there's Lafayette and the conversation with James, Jessica's boyfriend. Personally, the best reaction scene is Lafayette's. He doesn't react in grief because he already has grieved, and then we learn a good bit about James and his depressing views on feelings. It's a nice, quiet scene in the middle of a chaotic episode. What are your thoughts on James?
I'm not happy with the people of Bon Temps. How is any of this Sookie's fault? Maybe the good townsfolk think that if Sookie didn't catch the eye of Bill Compton, then there wouldn't be any vampires in town. I don't see how everyone blaming Sookie makes sense, and it is annoying. I do understand the people who are disgusted at Sookie for choosing to once be with a vampire and to associate with them. We could have just focused on those thoughts. Still, Sookie's speech at the church is fantastic. It is great for her to stand up for herself in front of her town.
Jessica protecting Adilyn turns out to be an interesting storyline. You would think it would get boring after a while, but the conversations the two of them have are great. This is definitely a step towards Jessica's own redemption after the fae massacre that she put on. Adilyn and Jessica have such an interesting relationship because of their history, and it would be great to watch the two of them try to work with each other and get to know each other. How upset do you think Andy will be when he learns that Jessica was invited in?
The premiere disappointed me because all I wanted to know was if Eric is alive. He is. I refuse to believe differently. Pam goes on her trek that makes little sense. She stands in a bucket playing vampire Russian roulette, and then continues to ask people questions. It would help if we knew what intel she is going off of or just a little bit more. Also, Eric has to be alive or following Pam around Africa would be a waste of a storyline. She does deliver a couple good Pam-lines though, and those are always fun.
What did you think of the episode? How come no one thought to check Fangtasia for the Hep V vamps? Leave me your thoughts in a comment below.


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Battlefield 4 Premium members will get their chompers on the upcoming Dragon's Teeth DLC on July 15. The news was announced from a now-deleted tweet from Origin's main Twitter account.
The tweet mentioned a July 15 released date in its promotion for buying Battlefield 4 Premium with 20% off. We should expect a general release date of July 29 for the rest of the community, as the Battlefield website mentions a two week head start for Premium members with the new DLC.


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And we thought Blago was corrupt? There is something rotten about these power intoxicated loons. This recent Jess Jr. story could only be the tip of the "Chicago politics" iceberg, which also could blow the lid of the "sheilla". If it bleeds, it leads. Follow the bloody money trail, it may lead to a "body" and then to a "head". Investigations are ongoing and spreading....hmmmmmm. It is bleeding and it is leading.
Connect the dots, the "inmate Gov." Blago's trial and subsequent conviction mentioned a lot of names, including Jesse Jr., who was near the epicenter of the whole "pay to play" corruption scandal that sent Blago to "Graduate school" for Illinois Democrat politicians. Other former Govs. include Otto Kerner, Dan Walker, who according to him, his time in prison is a "gut wrenching, soul searching time", and George Ryan.
Other names that came up in the Blago "movie" included, Tony Rezko, who is also currently in "Graduate School" for "Chicago politics" criminals. Tony Resko is a VERY important player in "Chicago politics", and may even become a bigger name in this Jesse jr. unfurling drama. The sweet question now is, Who were Blago and Tony Rezko's very close friends?.....hmmmmm, the plot thickens.
This Jesse jr. "thing" could the the powder keg that ignites a BIG political machine...."D" for destruction. We shall see how good these loons are at "fixing" things, aka cover up.
Fraud, that self labeled Christian calls Jesse jr.'s corruption "legal troubles!" What kind of mentality is that. No wonder this country is in trouble. (I suspect if he could he would put Jesse Jr. back in office again.) Disgusting!
That is the mirror image of the loon mentality across the board. Nothing Christian about bearing false witness against another, or calling ADULTRY and STEALING "legal troubles" Jesse stole to buy a gift for a woman, he is having an adultrous relationship with.
Daddy will "preach" Jesus said "if you love me keep my commandments", and the first of those commandments is, "Thou shall not commit Adultry", thou shall not steal, thou shall NOT BARE FALSE WITNESS against thy neighbor. Father and son disobeyed and comitted adultry. Son, stole to enhance adultry.
It is clear that they don't love GOD, but will pretend and deceive like all loons do. GOD shall not be mocked, plain and sinple. They will be exposed and shamed one after the other. Look at what happened to the self labeled christian on Dec. 22, 2012, he bore false witness against another, and issued a manifesto, but shamelessly returned.
Loons are generally liars and would co-opt a conservative position, like Faith, for the SOLE purpose of distorting, slanting to deceive, disrupt and to polarize.


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Guidance Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: GUID) today announced management participation at the 2012 Southwest IDEAS Investor Conference.
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The most populous county in Central Florida is becoming less conservative.
According to the Orlando Sentinel on April 7, the Democratic Party of Florida is touting the latest voter registration numbers that shows Democrat voters out-numbering Republican voters in Orange County.
In the latest poll numbers released by the Orange County Elections office, the county has 298,050 Democrats, which makes up over 42 percent of the electorate. Republicans now make up over 28 percent, 203,548, of the electorate, which is down from 2012, in which Republicans made up 29 percent of the electorate.
The big winners in Orange County were Independents, which now number 203,632 voters in the county, which is 48 more than the Republicans.
The biggest reason for the change is that Orange County is becoming more Hispanic. According to the 2010 Census, Hispanics make up nearly 27 percent of the overall population in Orange County. Hispanics traditionally vote Independent or Democrat, and the numbers could mean trouble for Republicans in one of the biggest battleground counties in the nation.
In an email sent to the Sentinel's "Political Pulse" section, Orange County Democratic chairman Carlos Smith wrote:
"It's no surprise that in Orange County, where Latino voters make up 1/4 of the electorate that Rick Scott's Republican Party has become about as popular as a root canal. Rick Scott and his Republican allies have barely lifted a finger to improve the lives of Central Florida's Latino population and you see that is having an impact on the GOP's dismal registration numbers."
Orange County is expected to become a battleground in the 2014 governor's race.
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We have recently had to reinstall a very unhappy Exchange 2003 server for a client, and whilst rebuilding their server we moved them onto a temporary one.
During the course of all this, ExMerge was used due to Windows being so broken that none of the backup software could run. As a number of the user mailboxes were way over 2GB, we had to do date ranges of a few months at a time to avoid ExMerge's 2GB limit.
We went back as far as 2006, as the files produced by ExMerge seemed empty that far back.
Unfortunately, one of the users has reported that around 2 3rds of their contacts are missing, and that pre-2006 sounds about right for the missing items.
Is there any way I can mount the old EDB file into Exchange, or otherwise read their contacts into a usable format?
The server is running Windows Server 2003 SBS R2 (SP2), and Exchance 2003 (SP2, I think).


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I'm no statician, but I'd bet money that less than 1% of the players in world of warcraft would be willing to try something as complicated as the Saronite Shuffle.
In building a strategy for becoming an auction house tycoon, you should keep in mind that the more steps involved in your schemes, the safer you will be against copy cats. You may be wondering what makes a scheme difficult to copy, so let me break it down for you in a quick list:
Having connections with the opposite faction (you will need friends for this since you cannot buy auctions from any of your own characters), commanding multiple professions on multiple characters, aquiring high amounts of startup cash, and managing to snag rare patterns or mats greatly distinquishes you from your fellow auction house tycoon. Less tangible and measurable assets would include: cyclical knowledge, understanding of supply vs demand, psychological understanding of buyers and sellers, as well as experience working with large amounts of auctions.
So the next time you come up with a clever way for making gold, be sure to always be on the look out for additional income paths stemming from your original idea which will complicate the way you're making gold and cover your wow auction house tycoon tracks. Work towards building up your own mini-cartel among your characters by getting them to atleast level 65 and maxed out in their professions. Something my girlfriend tried was making four alchemists and taking advantage of their gem transmutes. She makes thousands of gold each week doing almost nothing but transmutes and relying on alchemy procs for easy cash. Now how many people do you know who have four alchemists? Not many right? There's an example of covering your tracks by having complicated requirements for making gold.
I'm no statician, but I'd bet money that less than 1% of the players in world of warcraft would be willing to try something as complicated as the Saronite Shuffle.
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goth said... November 10, 2009 at 9:00 AM
I agree with you views on the auction house. While I myself don't feel that I have reached tycoon status, it is the next logical step to breaking into triple figures. I pay close attention to some of the big tymers on forums, but still feel it takes much longer for me to learn a new market. I am more the type that tries to hammer a square peg into a round hole until it finally dawns on me to try a different approach.
Hopefully, they will open up the mail system for player characters on both factions. Right now it is a major pain to get good across factions, plus the fees are a killer.
Anonymous said... November 10, 2009 at 9:05 AM
great link, thanks!
Kazim said... November 10, 2009 at 11:05 AM
I do something very much like the saronite shuffle on a regular basis. The only piece of the chain I can't do myself is enchanting, so I ship the green items off to my girlfriend who does it for a cut of the profits (and often enchants me for free).
Anonymous said... November 10, 2009 at 11:12 AM
With the patch happening soon,
do you think there will be Gold to be had in the Titanium Transmutes?
I have enough Saronite to make over 200 Titanium bars and with the CD going away...
I hope to make some G quick once the patch comes out.
Any input here guys?
Kring said... November 10, 2009 at 11:48 AM
I leveled two enchanters back in burning crusade when void shatter was lucrative. This can screw you pretty soon... The cooldown removal sucked.
Jels said... November 10, 2009 at 12:32 PM
@last Anon I think the market will be really good for Titanium bars right after that patch hits but then will tank once everyone else catches on.
@Kring I doubt we'll ever see cool downs for epic gems get removed, but then again with 5012 different ways to get epic gems in wrath I wouldn't be surprised.
Beryllos said... November 10, 2009 at 1:31 PM
For a while I was just doing the greens -> enchanting mats portion, and it slowly dawned on me that I could add new pieces to the equation.
At this point my diagram would be even a bit more convoluted, adding in some blacksmithing goods, tailoring cloth cooldowns, and some flipping of the goods I sell, and even mats I make them with.
Theres something rather pleasant about seeing my competition in the Meta market buying eternal airs from me for twice what I paid for them, even as I undercut the gems he posts.
Kring said... November 10, 2009 at 2:59 PM
I ment that having 4 alchemists is putting all eggs in one basket which can backfire.
If it's fun for you: do it. But if you do it for the money, it's risky.
Momma said... November 10, 2009 at 3:14 PM
Don't forget that alchemists have different specializations, so you don't necessarily have to make them all transmute spec.
Jels said... November 10, 2009 at 3:15 PM
the only reason why I have so many alchemist is because I love the profession, I have one for each mastery, as to say I have all my eggs in one basket is an understatement...it is not the only thing I do for making way more gold than Markco :)
Anonymous said... November 10, 2009 at 4:59 PM
1 stack of Saronite = 26G
titanium bar = 24G per
Almost double the money and selling bars cheap...
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Imagine this:
You're out for a nice relaxing walk with your dog.
Your dog is sniffing away and your deep in the middle of a pretty awesome idea and then
Somebody drives by in a car and honks their horn scaring the crap out of you and your dog.
It takes you a few seconds to make sure that you haven't went into cardiac arrest and by the time you actually have a chance to look at the person who honked their horn, they're gone, so you continue walking muttering unkind words under your breath.
This happens to me all the time when I'm out walking Sherman and Leroy and to be honest, I'm surprised that I'm not dead yet. One of these days I'm going to drop dead on the sidewalk and my dog is going to have to walk home by himself all because people use their car horn inappropriately.
I know I'm not alone here so I put together a list of things that people should never do to a person who is out walking their dog.
- Don't beep. Do you know how loud your car horn is? Do you jump if you're walking past a car and it beeps? Yup. So why do it to a person walking a dog? How about roll down your window and wave or say "What's shakin bacon?" I'm fine with that and I'm sure it will bring a smile to my face. Now, I feel I have to make a special note to my friends who are reading who have beeped at me before: It's all good, we're still friends. I know you were just happy to see me and I was just as happy to see you, after I got done shitting my pants. Here's the rule for you my totally awesome beeping friends: If I am walking my dogs on Prospect Road-no beeping at any time. The sidewalk is too close to the street, however, if I am walking east on Route 82 and you are driving west and vice versa, feel free to give a light beep. A 4 lane street and a lot of traffic muffles the beeps and doesn't make me jump 20 feet in the air. If you have any questions or need further explanation about these directions, call or text me because my health depends on it.
- Don't bark out your window as you're driving by. This is usually unruly teenagers but I have had my fair share of grown men bark at us. Really? What's the point to this? This freaks some dogs out and could lead to a dog getting injured. I don't get it and it's stupid so stop doing it.
- Don't stop your car on the street to say hello or ask questions. This is just dangerous for the driver, for the dog and for the person walking the dog. I've had an accident happen right in front of me because of this. Luckily it was just a mild fender bender and no one was injured but it's so unnecessary.
- Jog or ride a bike right up behind a person walking a dog. I've seen this happen a lot in the park and it's happened to me once or twice. Some dogs get spooked around bikes and might take a jogger who has come up behind them as a threat. Always give a warning when you are coming up behind a person walking a dog. A great way to let a dog walker know that you are coming up behind them is to say " Coming up on your left." This gives the walker and the dog a little time to prepare for you passing by, although, one time a jogger said this to me and I moved over to left and he ran right into me and said "I meant your other left." It was embarrassing.
- Don't whistle. This is totally confusing for the dog and for the dog walker. Many dogs are trained to respond to a whistle as a command so they hear a whistle and they stop walking or sit or whatever it is they were trained to do. Dogs walkers aren't sure if you are whistling at them or their dog. Just kidding. We know you're totally whistling at the dog. But seriously, a whistle is a silly thing to do to someone who us walking a dog. It's right up there with human barking.
So how about you? Do you have anything to add to this list? Is there something that someone does to you when you're out walking the dog that drives you crazy?
35 Comments on 5 Things You Should Never Do To A Person Walking A Dog
We have a couple of people in our neighborhood with Harley's and they always rev their engine right as they go past us. My dog hates motorcycles to begin with but that just sends him over the top. Rude. Even if I didn't have a dog I don't appreciate you ruining my peaceful walk.
Respect the yellow jacket or yellow ribbon. Special needs. When ppl who are interested in the dog, and the walker says ignore the dog, do what you are being told. Ignore the dog. Always have the dog come to you and not the other way around.
Don't drop food when out and about- dogs will eat it! At least my dog. I wholeheartedly agree with everything on your list.
It happened to us and mom screamed HBO words
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Walk your dog offleash, particularly if you dont have control of your dog, say, like if you are still driving your truck and your labradoodle is running like a madman up to my reactive dogs face!
Hey I walk all four of my standard Labradoodles ON leash together using voice control primarily, never off leash off my property. This is not a breed issue. I could take issue with the reactive dog owners who want to use my calm socialized dogs as training tools but I don't. I just say no thank you the best place for that is a class with a skilled trainer supervising. My boys are behavior appropriate with behavior appropriate others of any kind/age/size but won't appreciate the imposition of out of control nonsense on their pleasant walks (nor do I). I agree that dogs should be on leash and under control when off property and in public. All dogs. I even hike with longlines in the mountains. Most people don't bother when they hit the trail. Even with good recall there are other hikers, wild animals, and the concern of injury and getting lost among the possibles. We Labradoodle companions aren't anymore a clueless lot than any other. Generalizing is dangerous. Training is big in my world and for other Doodle people I know. There is training available for reactive dogs to assist with that. Unless managed it can become an aggression issue. Responsible dog ownership includes assisting the dog with his/her own behavior issues. Happy walks!
Just Tuesday night someone slammed on the brakes to gawk at me walking Moses and Alma – without regard to the car behind them. This was a #3 violation that resulted in a #1 violation, because the car behind them then honked at them (they deserved it) and sped around. And they just gawked and drove slowly by. Do people not realise how creepy that is? To slow down and stare?
Obviously, don't reach out to pet without permission and acknowledgement from the dog walker should go without saying (but happens a LOT).
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Mom has two items…when she says no, your child can't pet the dogs because they are dirty and might jump, don't let the kid run up to the dogs! We try to be well behaved but are not always and with three dogs, Mom can't hold us all back. Second, when Mom has us all in a wait while she concentrates 100% on picking up a poop pile, don't walk up to us behind Mom's back so we can meet your dog! First of all, we may not like your dog, and second of all, Mom ends up in a mess because we get surprised and take off pulling her out of her "poop scooping" concentration. People just don't think!
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Any number of these STUPID things have happened to Elka and I while walking.
Also? If you're also walking a dog? Give other walkers SPACE. Don't let your dog jump on people, don't let your dog get into other dogs' faces. Seriously.
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I'm all with all of these things, especially with Jen K. on this! Joggers/walkers shouldn't stop suddenly and say things like, "Oh wow! Can I pet him?" and automatically start reaching for him without me telling you it's okay! Didn't you see how I stopped to make the leash shorter while I'm making him sit and submit? I'm pretty sure that most people don't know what a yellow flag means, but believe me, we'll educate you fast if he's not sitting and you're reaching. Vlad's protective instincts kicked in a year ago. He thinks you're trying hurt me with your sudden motions. He might look like a bear, but it's not a teddy bear. Think more like black bear. Yes, you can pet him, but only after I have him sitting and give you a treat to bribe him with so that he'll like you too. Just don't try to pet a standing dog. Please! Just ask first!
Vlad can act like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c5OmE0grLA
OR he can act like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFN7-Sja6CM
Which do you, as a stranger, prefer?
Should I buy you new underwear for your birthday?
Please do not slow down and follow us for 2 blocks only to speed up and shout "nice looking dog". You had me convinced you were a serial killer.
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We walk in our neighborhood and yes, there are dummies who let their dogs out to do their business while they stand at the door and watch. When the dog sees us, here they come and the owner just stands there still watching! Loose dogs make me crazy!
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Girl for me it's the bike riders! They want to ride up close and have conversation. Harley has a wheel fetish and I'm telling you – it's pure chaos! Have a great weekend!
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Oh, my. If someone blew their car horn at Silas I would, I'm not even kidding, chase them down. (I have a temper that defies logic.) But, seriously, it took years of work to get where he can do so much as walk through a parking lot without panicking.
I really think you nailed it that people don't realize how loud car horns are. You think it's scary when you're on the sidewalk, try it when you're on a bike. You'd be amazed at how many cars blow the horn "to let you know I'm there."
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People – even grown men – bark? That's so weird… Anyway, I agree agree agree! Even if we've not been barked at. (Maybe that's a Big Dog thing.) I get people stopping to ask questions a LOT because we live in a freaking maze and folks get hopelessly lost. I also hate when folks KEEP advancing at you, even when (to me anyway) it should be SO obvious that I'm doing my best to steer clear of you! Rita is sometimes afraid of strange men in hats carrying things, so STOP coming at us when we're clearly trying to find an exit strategy!
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The bikes not letting you know they're coming, lifting small dogs (it just excites us) and what's with the barking?
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Great post! I'd add that people should ask before approaching your dog. Shyla is fearful, and a person who walks super assertively straight up to her and starts petting her causes *her* to come close to cardiac arrest…
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We have had all of these happen, The scariest for my dogs is when a bunch of children will rush at them. I try to use this as a teachable moment. Fortunately dogs have better hearing and I can take a different route or turn around when they hear the scary sounds of kids at play
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I so agree with all of those. And lets add, keep your dog under control.
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We were out walking this morning and the street cleaners were out going around and around our block …scaring the crap out of Ruby. It was insane!
That's why we just stay home on the couch!
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Okay, first, thank your for a good belly laugh! The one about barking at you reminds me of my own experience. My husband works in the court system in our county. The chief judge knows who I am, and he lives in our town. He has two dogs of his own that he's very proud of and attached to. I have never heard the man speak, except when I was on jury duty. Every time he sees me in town, whether I have the dogs with me or not, he starts barking. 0.o
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Awesome list & so very true! Totally agree with the reader about dogs being off leash! I have a reactive dog, and dogs being off leash who don't listen, completely ruin our walk. I also have a highly social friendly dog, so I understand the thought behind it, but I would never want to put my dog at risk of running into a reactive dog and getting hurt. Sharing your blog!
I think walking two big newfs gets you a lot more attention than some of the more "ordinary" dogs. I know when I used to walk my neighbors newf, every other car going by seemed to have some kind of reaction…..Is there ever a walk where you don't hear…"Hey lady, is that a bear you're walking?"……;-)
Great list. I will add – please don't allow your children to approach our pack without asking first. And if you see that we're all leashed up, please put your dog on the leash until you have passes and you know your dog isn't going to return.
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Wow…I have never had any of those things happen to me while walking my dogs. We worry more about run ins with loose dogs, or avoiding garbage strewn all over than anything else.
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Excellent list and I have to say that these annoying things aren't American specific. I have all the same issues as you do (except the whistle, never had anyone whistle at us) here in France. Although my dog is small, submissive and loves everyone, she can be a little shy if someone randomly comes up to pet her especially without asking. And don't get me started on dogs who are off the leash! Ugh. Love your dogs!!
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Yes to all of the above! I have two Great Pyrenees and people always stop to ask questions about them while traffic is going by! Another one that really upsets me is when people just walk right up to my dogs, especially when they have dogs with them. Thankfully, both of mine are extremely social with people and other dogs, but I have had very reactive dogs in the past. I think people just assume all dogs will be like their's. There have been a few times my husband has had to pick up our snarling dog because someone just let their dog come over to him without asking for permission.
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The worst (for a reactive dog, anyway) is when people drive by slowly with their dog barking like crazy out the window of the car. Claire HATES that. And I get so mad at the drivers because the sidewalk is close to the street and Claire's harness has spun her around into the road before — thankfully there weren't oncoming cars at the time.
I've had people bark at my dogs – annoys the hell out of me!!
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Good lord, I laughed so hard at this Jen!! I think most people do this innocently, but you're right it is stupid. But I imagine a little lady with two large dogs is hard to resist. :-0
Great list. There have been times when I have been with the dogs in the car in a parking lot and people have barked at them. I am like wtf?
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We are lucky that we have a state park near us and that is usually where we walk. No cars but some bikes. Most people are pretty much in their own zone so rarely do we have issues. Sorry you don't have a quieter place to walk the boys. You should bring them for a visit here and we'll all go to our park.
All great "Don't Dos"! And please! If I ask you to give us space, I have a DAMN good reason, so just move on – preferably at least 4 feet away! I don't want anyone, even rude & inconsiderate people, getting bitten because my dog thinks she or I or both of us are being threatened.
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Pan-seared Atlantic mackerel with warm tomato and feta compote
This recipe uses Atlantic mackerel. We also have recipes for lots of other ocean-friendly species
You will need
- 4 6-oz. Atlantic mackerel fillets
- 1 20-oz. can diced tomatoes
- 1 tbsp. garlic, minced
- 1 tsp. rosemary, chopped
- 1 tsp. savory, chopped
- 1 tsp. parsley, chopped
- 6 oz. feta cheese, crumbled
- salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
Heat canola oil in a medium-heavy skillet. Add garlic and sauté until fragrant. Add tomatoes, rosemary and savory and bring to a simmer. Cook until tomatoes are almost dry. Add feta cheese, ground pepper and parsley. Remove compote from heat and cover.
In a heavy frying pan, heat canola oil until smoking. Season fish on both sides with salt and pepper. Place fish in pan flesh side down and sear for 4 minutes. Turn fish and cook an additional 3 minutes.
Plate fish and top with warm compote. Serve immediately.
Serves 4
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Each week during the high school sports season the High School Sports Examiner and the Eastern Maine Sports Blog will announce a female and male athlete of the week. You can send your nominations to Marc at email@example.com
When you send your nominations include the athlete, name of the school, stats for the week of the nomination.
2013/2014 winter season- Week 13-February 24th-March 2nd
Mackenzie Worcester- Washburn- basketball- Scored 28 points and dished out six assists in 78-40 class D girls state championship victory over Forest Hills.
The Beavers have now won four consecutive class D state championships.
This is the second athlete of the week honor for Worcester. She earned the honor on October 27th, 2013 when she surpassed the 100 goal plateau on the soccer field.
Runner up
Carmen Bragg- Washburn- basketball- Recorded 26 points, six steals, three assists, and three rebounds in 78-40 class D girls state championship victory over Forest Hills.
Other nomination(s)
Madison McVicar- Calais- basketball- Scored 17 points in 52-40 victory over Carrabec in class C state championship game.