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		<title>&#8220;The&#8221; CLE Event of This Year</title>
		<link>http://bandalit.com/blog/2013/05/15/you-need-to-attend-the-cle-event-of-this-year/</link>
		<comments>http://bandalit.com/blog/2013/05/15/you-need-to-attend-the-cle-event-of-this-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Blankenship</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Navarro is a recognized expert on interpreting body language, using scientifically proven methods.  Why is the ability to interpret body language so important?  According to Mr. Navarro: &#8220;It’s estimated that as much as 80% of our interaction with others is through non-verbal communication, or body language. And the vast majority of the nonverbal cues[...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding Nonverbal Language &#8211; Joe Navarro</title>
		<link>http://bandalit.com/blog/2013/05/12/understanding-nonverbal-language-joe-navarro/</link>
		<comments>http://bandalit.com/blog/2013/05/12/understanding-nonverbal-language-joe-navarro/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 19:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Blankenship</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a conversation where one of the parties speaks only broken English.  Most of us engage in these types of conversations only when left with no other choice &#8212; or do we? It is estimated that up to 80 percent of all human interaction is non-verbal, through body language.  If the average person only hears[...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stenographers Assist Freedom of the Press</title>
		<link>http://bandalit.com/blog/2013/05/11/stenographers-assist-freedom-of-the-press/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 14:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Blankenship</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freedom of the Press Foundation uses stenographers to give journalists a virtual seat in the courtroom:  LINK &#8220;There is a court-appointed stenographer transcribing the trial, but unlike in civilian court, the military court reports are not routinely made public. The judge presiding over the trial has indicated she will make some transcripts of closed proceedings[...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monty Python&#8217;s John Cleese Almost Explains Our Brains</title>
		<link>http://bandalit.com/blog/2013/04/14/monty-pythons-john-cleese-almost-explains-our-brains/</link>
		<comments>http://bandalit.com/blog/2013/04/14/monty-pythons-john-cleese-almost-explains-our-brains/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 14:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Blankenship</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those who are in the business of words are often presented with this question:  Are you afraid that the computer will replace you in the job of instantaneously printing the spoken word? In this short skit LINK, John Cleese speaks little to no English and breaks the Google captioning software.  Although delivered in hilarious fashion,[...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hate, Hate, Hate Windows 8?</title>
		<link>http://bandalit.com/blog/2013/04/07/hate-hate-hate-windows-8/</link>
		<comments>http://bandalit.com/blog/2013/04/07/hate-hate-hate-windows-8/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 14:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Blankenship</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Luckily, a company called Stardock makes software that brings back the old, familiar Windows desktop screen.  See Start8.  And if the annoying Metro intro screen is more advancement than you&#8217;d never want, Stardock has another software called ModernMix that tames the Metro into something considerably more manageable. It&#8217;s a good thing Stardock has come to the[...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bedsheet Doubles up as a Legal Video Backdrop</title>
		<link>http://bandalit.com/blog/2013/03/04/bedsheet-doubles-up-as-a-legal-video-backdrop/</link>
		<comments>http://bandalit.com/blog/2013/03/04/bedsheet-doubles-up-as-a-legal-video-backdrop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Blankenship</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I went to Olan Mills and my family photos came out with this backdrop, I would refuse to pay for the pictures, yet law firms paying considerably more for legal videography are accepting videos that look like this on an everday basis. Incidentally, this photograph was taken from an advertisement for legal video. At[...]]]></description>
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		<title>Managing your Paper Easiest</title>
		<link>http://bandalit.com/blog/2013/02/24/managing-your-paper-easiest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Blankenship</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a simple and thorough method for keeping your paper life under control. Purchase an expanding folder, such as THIS from Office Depot. For every piece of paper, whether phone message or bill or any other item needing to be followed up by a certain date, place it in the appropriate date slot in[...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Oath According to Joe Navarro</title>
		<link>http://bandalit.com/blog/2013/01/16/the-oath-according-to-joe-navarro/</link>
		<comments>http://bandalit.com/blog/2013/01/16/the-oath-according-to-joe-navarro/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Blankenship</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Joe Navarro&#8217;s international bestseller, &#8220;What Every Body is Saying,&#8221; all lies that have ever been told or will be told will fall in to one of three categories: 1. Lies of commission; 2. Lies of omission; or, 3. Lies of influence. Did you know, though, that the oath the court reporter administers in the[...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honesty is Not an Outdated Notion</title>
		<link>http://bandalit.com/blog/2013/01/16/honesty-is-not-an-outdated-notion/</link>
		<comments>http://bandalit.com/blog/2013/01/16/honesty-is-not-an-outdated-notion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Blankenship</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Honesty Does Pay]]></description>
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		<title>Create Your Own Free, Private Transcription Service</title>
		<link>http://bandalit.com/blog/2012/12/28/create-your-own-free-private-transcription-service/</link>
		<comments>http://bandalit.com/blog/2012/12/28/create-your-own-free-private-transcription-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2012 02:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Blankenship</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now, most of you have heard about Google Voice (GV), but in case you haven&#8217;t, sign up for a free Google Voice number here: LINK. This nifty service that Google offers has many benefits. At a very basic level, this service allows the end user (you) to place and receive telephone calls from a[...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who is Joe Navarro?</title>
		<link>http://bandalit.com/blog/2012/12/15/who-is-joe-navarro/</link>
		<comments>http://bandalit.com/blog/2012/12/15/who-is-joe-navarro/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2012 22:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Blankenship</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[B&#038;A Welcomes Mr. Joe Navarro as our next featured speaker at the Annual CLE Event to be held October 2013: Neurobiology, medicine, sociology, criminology, communication studies, and anthropology, plus his quarter century of experience using nonverbal behavior in his work as an FBI Special Agent, Joe is uniquely qualified in understanding nonverbal communications. His expertise[...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Do Music and Stenography Have in Common?</title>
		<link>http://bandalit.com/blog/2012/11/23/what-do-music-and-stenography-have-in-common/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2012 19:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Blankenship</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The average stenographer receives training for two years to reach shorthand speeds of 225 words per minute. The training regimen is pretty grueling. Usually only 25 percent of all students that begin stenography training actually make it through the training. Competing methods of reducing the spoken word to writing require far less training. For instance,[...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court weighs handling of suit over DOT rules for future highways</title>
		<link>http://bandalit.com/blog/2012/09/21/court-weighs-handling-of-suit-over-dot-rules-for-future-highways/</link>
		<comments>http://bandalit.com/blog/2012/09/21/court-weighs-handling-of-suit-over-dot-rules-for-future-highways/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 23:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Blankenship</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LINK TO ARTICLE We thank Matthew Bryant of the Hendrick and Bryant Law Firm and Dahr Tanoury from the NCDOT for allowing us to provide litigation services for this important case.]]></description>
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		<title>The Inconsistency of the Legal System</title>
		<link>http://bandalit.com/blog/2012/02/18/the-inconsistency-of-the-legal-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Blankenship</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, one of my court reporters was forbidden by counsel to copy a section of a party&#8217;s medical records. It was for spelling purposes only that the court reporter was requesting that section. Counsel cited HIPAA concerns, despite the fact that the portion of the medical records the reporter wanted to copy was what the[...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Law Firms Need Smartsheet</title>
		<link>http://bandalit.com/blog/2011/11/20/why-law-firms-need-smartsheet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Blankenship</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is difficult to find good software that truly does make life&#8217;s chores faster and easier. Smartsheet is one of the useful software tools. Smartsheet is like an Excel spreadsheet, but smarter and considerably more user-friendly. The learning curve is minimal. As an example of how Smartsheet can assist law offices be more efficient, a[...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Reality of Digital Recording</title>
		<link>http://bandalit.com/blog/2011/11/12/the-reality-of-digital-recording/</link>
		<comments>http://bandalit.com/blog/2011/11/12/the-reality-of-digital-recording/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 01:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Blankenship</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Court systems everywhere are tripping over each other in the rush to hurl themselves into the arms of digital recording, citing court reporter backlog as one of the major issues that brings about such a decision. A couple of years after Sacramento made the decision to go digital, let&#8217;s fast forward to present day to[...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Impossible</title>
		<link>http://bandalit.com/blog/2011/11/08/the-impossible/</link>
		<comments>http://bandalit.com/blog/2011/11/08/the-impossible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Blankenship</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Motley Rice recently requested us to have two videographers present for the deposition of Dr. Arnold R. Brody, Ph.D.: one view of the witness and one view for interactive pictures with a laser pointer device. At the conclusion of the deposition, Motley Rice asked us to incorporate both videos into one, picture in picture, along[...]]]></description>
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		<title>Private Companies are Now Hiring Court Reporters</title>
		<link>http://bandalit.com/blog/2011/10/29/private-companies-are-now-hiring-court-reporters/</link>
		<comments>http://bandalit.com/blog/2011/10/29/private-companies-are-now-hiring-court-reporters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Blankenship</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While courts are busy replacing court reporters with expensive tape recorders, private companies, those who could more easily afford this expensive equipment, are finding that live court reporters are better for their bottom line.  It would be interesting to know what cost accounting method the accountants for this private company looked at versus what the[...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sophisticated Voice Recognition Technology</title>
		<link>http://bandalit.com/blog/2011/08/14/sophisticated-voice-recognition-technology/</link>
		<comments>http://bandalit.com/blog/2011/08/14/sophisticated-voice-recognition-technology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Blankenship</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<title>Digital Recordings &#8211; Advice for Attorneys</title>
		<link>http://bandalit.com/blog/2011/07/04/digital-recordings-advice-for-attorneys/</link>
		<comments>http://bandalit.com/blog/2011/07/04/digital-recordings-advice-for-attorneys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Blankenship</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[B&#038;A Litigation Services provides transcription services for various clients who have obtained audio recordings from the courts. The court systems have spent a considerable amount of money installing these tape recording devices. The quality of the recordings we have been receiving is 50/50, 50 percent horrible issues and 50 percent good quality. In several instances,[...]]]></description>
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