November 6 2014

The Color Codes For Case CATalyst’s Brief It Pane

I Love Steno Logo (Cropped)The entries in the Brief It pane in Case CATalyst are colored in various colors. Here are the explanations for what the colors represent:

1) Entries that are reminders of briefs with shorter strokes that are already saved in your dictionary are colored in shades of GREEN.

2) Entries of personal briefs that are held in an ASCII text file in your system files case in a file called briefs appears in shades of ORANGE.

3) Entries that are Case CATalyst created suggestions for a brief appear in shades of YELLOW.

4) Once you write a brief that is listed in the Brief It pane, that particular entry turns to GRAY.

NOTE: The more a brief in the Brief It pane is suggested and not used, the darker the shade of the color of the entry will be.

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November 4 2014

Legal Vocabulary: Motion In Limine

Nolo defines motion in limine as: “A motion made before a trial begins, asking the court to decide whether particular evidence will be admissible. A motion in limine is most often made to exclude evidence by a party who believes that evidence would prejudice the jury against him or her. For example, a defendant in a criminal trial might make a motion in limine to exclude evidence of previous crimes.”

Machine Briefs:
Option #1: limine= LIM/N*I
Option #2: limine= LIM/NAO*E

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November 3 2014

Court Reporting Requirements in Hawaii

Being a court reporter in Hawaii has the following requirements:
1) Being a good and moral individual.
2) Having a high school diploma or an equivalent.
3) Passing the NCRA’s Registered Professional Reporter (RPR) Exam.
4) Freelance reporters must be a resident of Hawaii and be a notary of Hawaii.
5) Reporters in Hawaii also apply for membership with the Hawaii Board of Certified Shorthand Reporters and pass a written knowledge test on Hawaii that includes: Hawaiian language vocabulary, geographic facts about the island,
and state history and trivia.

[SOURCE: Court Reporter EDU]

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November 2 2014

Random Briefs


disinfect= SD-FK
disinfectant= SD-FKT
interject= SBREKT
interjection= SBREKS
inject= NEKT
injection= NEKS
eject= JAOEKT
ejection= JAOEKS
nutrient= NAOURNT
nutrients= NAOURNTS
gourmet= GORMT

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November 1 2014

One Of The Best Steno Videos I’ve Ever Seen


This video is awesome! Mirabai Knight, creator of Plover, talks about the basics of steno and her open source steno program. She also poignantly explains why the art of steno is endangered and how it can be revived. (“Unfortunately, the reason why there are so few stenographers and why so many of them are so old is because the only way to learn steno these days is through for-profit trade schools that are really kind of scams…They’ll let anybody in. They’ll cost a huge amount of money in tuition, plus buying the machine, buying the software, and the national dropout rate is 85%…)

SIDEBAR: The 3-D printer printing out a steno machine is a cool idea!

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