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- 11. March 2010: Are you a success or a failure??
- 3. March 2010: Thoughts for Students/New Reporters
- 3. March 2010: Your Knot Gona Belief This
- 3. March 2010: Toying with some new phrases
- 19. August 2009: Promoting ourselves to students and other thoughts
- 4. October 2008: Need an excuse to CART
- 4. October 2008: El Paso Realtime Seminar
- 4. July 2008: Thoughts on a myriad of Things
- 4. July 2008: What matters to my Record
- 4. July 2008: My Thoughts on the Record
Are you a success or a failure??
11. March 2010 by admin.
Let’s look at this quote:
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed” Quote from Michael Jordan.
Field Goals - 12192 Field Goals Attempted - 24537
Three Pointers - 581 Three Pointers Attempted - 1778
The above are just a few of the stats of Michael Jordan. Do you consider him a success or a failure? I mean, after all, he made less than half the shots he attempted. And he only made .327 percent of his three-point attempts. Is he still a failure or a success? When one looks at things this way, you could say that he’s a failure, right?
Well, most of us know who Michael Jordan is and it could be argued that he just might be the best basketball player to ever grace the court. So, where I’m a going with this?
Well, as a student, you face failure everyday….or at least you think you do. You think that not passing that test is a failure, or missing a word here and there, or dropping is a failure. Why is that? Is the culture such that we only look at the negative? Are we programmed to think that way? Perhaps so.
But everyone that has graduated from school or gone on to pass the required exams and become reporters were all in the same position that each one of you were at some point in the beginning of their start in this program. Everyone. I doubt that you will find a reporter that passed every single test they took, never dropped a word, or couldn’t read something back in class. If you do, I’d love to meet them.
So, are we failures here or are we success? My schooling was just as difficult as it has been for many of you. Others have had the same difficulty. I know some reporters that got out of school quickly, and, I know some reporters that didn’t get out so quickly. Are they failures or success stories. It took me three and a half years to get out of school. Does that mean I’m a failure? Some could say that I was. But, I push myself to keep on top of the technology and to improve myself all the time. I know others that were so gifted that they got out in sometimes around a year or just a little over a year. Are they a success? Some of those same reporters are probably scared to death to write a realtime job. Does that make them a failure? But wait, they got out of school quickly. I didn’t get out quickly and I’ve done just about all that a reporter can do. Does that now mean I’m a success? But wait, it took me longer to get out of school.
See where this is going? It’s all in the perspective of how you view your success in school and it’s also about not viewing yourself as a failure. Sure, you’re gonna miss tests. Michael Jordan missed shots….shots that could have won the game for his team. Maybe he failed at that particulare moment, but the next game, when it mattered, he was right there again looking for that shot. So, if he can do it in that arean, why can’t you? You put that test behind you. You put that bad day behind you and you “take that shot” the next time it comes up. Your failures will make you a better reporter in the long haul because you can take from your failure and learn from it and become a success.
After Michael failed to win the game, I’m sure he didn’t sit around and sulk and get depressed. I would bet that he probably took what he had learned and applied it to the next game. You should take this same example and apply it to the next test. Did you miss one or two words on the test and fail? Did you miss 10 words and fail? Well, so be it…..that test has come and gone and the only thing you can do about it is learn from that test/mistake and apply it forward so that when the next test comes along, you’re ready for it.
There are a very select few in this country that can do what we do. You’re part of that select few. Once you realize that you are part of that few, then, and only then, will you realize that you can do this. And by doing this, you will become a success. When you look back on where you’ve come from and to where you are now, how do you view it? Success or failure? I say that you’re all a success! You’re a success because you CAN do this and you CAN make it through this program. Sure, it is going to be hard. It was hard for Michael Jordan. He made it look easy because he worked his tail off behind the scenes, I’m sure. That’s why he became the success he is.
So….Prepare…..Commit….and succeed and don’t beat yourself up because you’ve failed. You didn’t fail. You’ve succeeded and you succeed each day as you go through this thing called life.
Hang in there. You can do it.
I believe in you!
(tipping hat)
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Thoughts for Students/New Reporters
3. March 2010 by admin.
Thoughts for Students/New Reporters Students/New reporters:
You are embarking or have just begun on a path in a profession that some of you may still not realize what you’re getting into. This profession is going to introduce you to some of the nicest, nastiest, best, worst, craziest and on and on and on people in the world. One never knows what the day holds when they head to their jobs. Whether you’re in court, freelancing or working in one of the fields for the hard-of-hearing, each day is a new day and most of the time, the case or hearing or whatever is different from the day before. Unless you’ve worked on the case before, one doesn’t know just exactly what to expect.
If you’re working in court, as we’ve seen over the last year or so, there could be a wild man on the street or in the courthouse that has decided he wants to kill people. If you’re working in the freelance market, you could be working on a family matter case that turns very ugly. If you’re working in the captioning field, you could be the “lucky” one to have to caption something like the World Trade Centers falling down. You could be in a hearing or a deposition where the graphic nature of the testimony just turns your stomach so that you want to be sick, whether it’s a murder case, an accident or whatever. If you’re in court, the record that you’re making could be something that you think is not very important, but put yourself on the other side where the parties are sitting. This could be the lifeblood of their existence or something very crucial to their livelihood or could mean they go to prison or not. Have you ever thought about that? We just sit there quietly and do our jobs, but put yourself in the shoes of one of the parties sometime and see if that doesn’t make what you’re about to get into or are currently doing just a bit more important.
None of the above mentions are what you signed up for, but that’s always something that is a possibility in our profession. The point I’m making here is that this profession and what we do is very important. All of the seasoned reporters in the field could probably give you at least one exampe of just how important their job is by reciting some story like ones I’ve mentioned above. You just have no idea how important sometime before you get to the job.
If some of this is scary to you, it’s meant to be …… in a kind way. Most of the reporters that start out in this field are in their early 20s…..now, that’s not to say all people are in their 20s when they do this……but the point I’m making is that because of the age, I think that sometimes you don’t realize how important your job is because you’re still young and happy-go-lucky and are still learning about things in life and may not have the cares about what you do as the more seasoned reporters do. As the older reporters get even older, we need to make sure that those after us feel the same importance about the job as we have come to. If this means I feel compelled to write an article like this as a wake-up call, then so be it. That’s exactly what this is. I’ve discussed with many of my friends about the profession and where it’s headed and we want to make sure that the hands we leave this profession in understands the importance of the job.
Now, before I make a few suggestions here, I am just as guilty as all of you students and newbies in not necessarily having the care about the profession as I do now. Sure, I knew what I was doing was important, but looking back, I realize now just how important our craft is. I’d offer a few things here that I think will help you as you progress through school as well as begin your career.
1. Alcohol or drugs should NEVER be consumed during the day, either before, after or during your job. One should never, ever be in a hearing or a depo and consume alcohol or drugs during the lunch break or any other time. I can say that after a long day or a hard week of work that I might want to toss one back to relax, but I have NEVER done that during the day….either before a job or hearing or during the lunch break or any other time. NEVER. This is totally not acceptable. You are putting all of us at risk….that’s right, all of us….by doing this. This profession is too important and we all rely on each other to protect it. 2. Improve youself in what you do. What I mean by this is that don’t just settle for getting out of school and never doing anything else to improve yourself. The exit speeds at which you graduate are just the tip of the speeds that you are going to experience in the field. Strive to get a higher certification. Strive to improve you writing accuracy. Strive to have the confidences to provide realtime to counsel upon request. I’ve said this before: “If you’re not trying to promote yourself or the profession, you’re killing all of us.”
3. Avoid reporters that have lost the desire to want to do better. You may run across reporters who have lost the “desire” to want to do better or tell you that you do not have to do anything to improve yourself. Do NOT listen to this. 4. Avoid other students who want to gossip…..and even avoid reporters who do the same….about other students or reporters. If you run across this, try to turn it into something different. Don’t get caught up in school about who’s doing better or who isn’t. You worry about your place in the school and what you’re doing. If your best friend in school leaves you in the dust, congratulate them and then get to work on what you’re doing to catch up. It’s not their fault just as it isn’t your fault. Everyone advances at different speeds. That’s just how it is.
5. Because of the nature of our profession, you want to be careful about how you talk about what you’re doing. Remember, some of this stuff is important to someone and although a lot of it is public record, I think that the less it is talked about by you, the better you look to your clients and others in the profession. I think you can mention that you worked on so-and-so case, but to get into a bunch of graphics or specifics may not be the best thing to do. 6. Many times, attorneys are going to ask you during a break in the proceedings, “What do you think about this?” Well, that is a tough thing to deal with. While you’d love to say all kinds of stuff, you probably want to avoid a full discussion on the testimony, because you never know if that attorney might say later in the day, “Well, the reporter said……..” Then, your impartiality could be called into question.
There are a ton of other things that I could say and there are even ethics put out by NCRA as well as state associations on many other matters about how to conduct yourself, but there are just a few things to think about along the way as you prepare yourself for a wonderful career. I’m hoping that others in the field will be able to offer other suggestions to students that they know or have an influence on.
Lastly, hang in there. You can do it and best of luck. Make us all proud. (tipping hat)
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Your Knot Gona Belief This
3. March 2010 by admin.
YOUR KNOT GONA BELIEF THIS
Yes, sometimes that is what can happen on the above statement when you do not check your work and proofread what you’re about to turn in. We are all human, but these are the kind of errors that one might see on a transcript from a student or a new reporter, believe it or not.
Sure, we are all trained to write these words differently, but there are still those times, because we are human, that we make little mistakes like the one above.
The point that should be made here is that if we were to see this go out and later be called on it, it would be rather embarrassing for us. Not only for the one that actually sent it out, but for the profession in general. It would appear that we do not know what in the world we are doing or one might ask if we were actually trained in the grammar field or trained in the English language.
There are several “catch words,” as I like to call them, that students and newbies should look for. Ones that I find particularly troublesome are:
Your/you’re
Its/It’s
Believe/belief
there/their/they’re
a/an
right/write
Now, the above examples are only a very short list of the many words that can throw a sentence off. One above that particularly annoys me is “its” and “it’s.” I’ve yet to see “it’s” possess anything, but this is one word that is probably misused more in the English language than any other word I’ve seen. “Its going to be a nice day.” Or, “That dog sure is taking it’s time to cross the road.” Or, “The machine, at it’s best, is perfect.” You get the picture.
Of course, the other one that drives all of the seasoned reporters crazy when they are reading papers and the like would be “your” and “you’re.” Those are misused in so many instances that the list is too long to even give examples of.
One other grammar area that I would like to discuss is when an attorney asks a question and the witness will answer the question with a “yes” or a “no” and then will add more to the answer that may not be responsive to the original question.
For instance, “Q. Did you go home last night?”
“A. Yes, I went to the store first.”
Now, that example above could possibly read that way, but I really don’t think the answer “yes” should have the rest of that statement tied in with it. Chances are, there might have even been a pause between the “yes” and the rest of the answer.
A lot of us have our software set up, perhaps, to just automatically put a comma after the “yes” or the “no” and we may not even catch these examples. But, I would say that cleary this is an example where proofing should have caught this, if nothing else.
I think the bottom line for students and new court reporters in the field is this: Yes, someone actually does read your transcript after you’ve finished it. Yes, they will probably see little errors like the ones I’ve mentioned above. Yes, those areas mentioned above could clearly have been caught during the editing process as well as the proofing process to save embarrassment later on.
So, in short, take pride in your work, whether you’re still in school or just getting started in the field. Remember that you are part of a profession that has a very important job and those before us have worked long and hard to make it what it is. Let’s continue to keep this profession a respected profession and take pride in what we do.
Otherwsie, we aer knot gonig to last long and, belief mee, known of us won’t that to hapen yet.
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Toying with some new phrases
3. March 2010 by admin.
Students/Reporters:
I’ve been toying around with some new phrases……at least for me…..that I’ve been having pretty good success with.
I’ve been using the final -RZ for “recognize.” It’s given me phrases like TKAOURZ for “do you recognize” and WAOURZ for “would you recognize.” There are several others in that group I’m using and I won’t bore you with the rest of them.
Another thing I’ve been doing is using EUPT for “I want,” of course, but if I throw in the “*” key, I can also get *EUPT for “I went.” That is also giving me options like WH*UPT for “when you went” and WHUPT for “when you want.” With the final -PT for want and then throwing in the “*” key, it’s given me “went” for some of the same strokes I was using for the “want” phrases. “Want” is definitely more common, but there are a few “went” phrases.
Also, another one I’ve been toying with is using final -RPT for “repeat.” So, “would you repeat” could be WAOURPT. Or “could you repeat” would be KAOURPT. “Can you repeat” or “will you repeat,” etc.
Another one is using final -RT for “return.” Or, you could perhaps using -RPBT for “return.” KURPBT would be tough for “can you return,” because many theories use that for “current.” Also, you could try using -RPBT for “turn.” This comes in very handy for those document-intensive cases where the question almost always begins with “Can you turn to the next page.” Or, “Would you turn to the next page.”
You might possibly want to try just using the -RPB for “turn” or “return.”
I haven’t checked all the theories and it may be that I am the one that is behind the times. Maybe not. Hopefully not. 
Lastly, you might even want to add the -D or even a -DZ for additional words to the phrases for things like “can you turn to the” (KURPBTD) or “did you return to the” (TKURPBTD).
Perhaps others will have some other ideas or thoughts.
(tipping hat)
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Promoting ourselves to students and other thoughts
19. August 2009 by admin.
I’ve always been an advodcate to student reporters when I had the chance. By that, what I mean is that when I worked in San Antonio, there was two court reporting schools there and I always tried to hire students to be my scopist. I was always very pleased to see them progress through the time they were with me and, for the most part, a lot of them went on to become reporters. It felt good to think that perhaps I had a part in helping them see what exactly they were getting into.
That being said, I didn’t have that opportunity when I went down to Brownsville, TX, as the closest school was about 3 hours away in Corpus Christ, TX. That was just too far, although I did visit the school and offer up encouragement and tried to inspire the students when I visited the school.
Now that I’m in El Paso, I have the privilege to have another school here at El Paso Community College and also have sat and chaired their Advisory Committee for the last two sessions.
I have gained some insight over the last couple of years in some of the problems the school faces as well as the problems that students face. One big problem is that for most students that are able to obtain grants or financing to attend school, those programs normally don’t understand that the students may be taking, for instance, the high-speed dictation class more than once and up to even three or four times. The financing companies and, I guess, the “Education Department” views the reporting program as any other program in that one should take the class once and they should move on up. This has been a problem for quite a long time. Also, until recently, El Paso was having to charge the three-peat students an additional fee of $40, I believe. Well, that is a direct cost to the students and many have to drop the class or have had to drop the program.
Where is all of this going? Well, I have accepted a positon on the Student Committee in NCRA and am looking forward to seeing what I can do for the students out there to try to get them out of school and into the market. That is what I’m going to do.
What can you-all do? For starters, I started a group called Encouraging Court Reporting Students that many of you have joined and for that, I am truly thankful. Please do your best to try to jump in there when you can and offer encouraging words or answer any questions that you feel are something you’d like to contribute to.
Secondly, find students in your area, if possible, and try to provide the support you are able to provide to them and encourage them to want to do this and make it through the school.
What else can we do? Well, I think it is time that NCRA put up a student section on here…..unless I’m blind and have missed it. I think that if we are going to promote NCRA, one place to start is with the students. We need to show them that realtime is the way to go. That they need to be on the top of their game and be prepared for all opportunities when called upon and that to not do that is a disservice to the profession.
We need to encourage them that they should strive to get into the mode of writing realtime on all of their jobs and have a complete knowledge of how to set up the different outputs to attorneys.
We need to show them how to work with scopists and how to find scopists. Also, we need to encourage them that they need to pull on the full knowledge base that is contained in NCRA as well as the full knowledge base of what is contained in each of our heads. We all have a lot to offer them, but we need to make them feel comfortable in coming to all of us, either personally, publically, or through NCRA.
We’ve talked a lot about students and have implemented a Total Immersion program, but let’s give the students a place to come to here where they can be comfortable chatting, asking questions, etc.
Maybe we need to have Open Chat Nights for the students every now and then for them to come in and chat with us.
We are all gonna move on and retire as we become more “seasoned” and if we don’t leave this profession in good hands, we all might was well step aside and give this over to ER/DAR. I’m not ready to do that.
We need to lead my example, which means that each one of us steps up our game. If we are just gonna sit back on our laurels, whether working in court or freelance, and don’t do what we know we should do……again, let’s just give this profession over to ER/DAR.
I personally am not ready to do that. Are you?
A very dear friend of mine is leaving the profession because of some of my brutal remarks about if we are going to sit in court and not be able to provide realtime or the services that we are paid to do, then we are doing a disservice to the profession.
Sure, some of us may never ever ever have to provide this service to clients, but, we owe it to ourselves as well as the profession to be prepared. Not be prepared to call me when, at the last minute, you’ve been asked to do a realtime job and you need to call me, or your friend in the area who does realtime, and say, “Breck, I’ve got a realtime job coming up tomorrow……can you tell me how to set up the output to attorneys????” That day has come and gone, my friends.
This is a profession and it consists of professionals……it’s time that we act like that and quit the whining and quit the complaining and step up to the plate. Please. Not for me…..for the profession.
John Madden, a famous commentator, as well as a Super Bowl winning coach has just retired from being a commentator for television.
When asked why he decided to retire, he put his remarks into two words: “It’s time.” (Okay, technically, that’s three.”
Well, in the words of John Madden, “It’s time.” Time to move ahead, inspire each other, draw from each other, promote this profession, help the students and be encouraging and respectful to one another.
We’ve just had a rather interesting convention with a very heated topic of discussion regarding testing ER/DAR. It’s been very heated over the months, it’s been eye-opening to some, it’s been frustrating for others, it’s been good for others.
Regardless of how we all feel about the subject: It’s Time! It’s time to move forward, protect our professions, protect our jobs, protect each other’s livelihood.
The Motion to Rescind is behind us now. It was a lot closer to passing than it was to failing; so, I feel that those of us that were there have made it known to the Board that we are not going to go quietly into the night. We still love what we do, we believe in what we do and that if we continue to fight for what we believe in, then, all should be good. I’m not ready to give up. Are you?
Whether you decide to leave NCRA because you don’t like what is happening or has happened, you are all still court reporters and that should weigh a lot more in your conscience than belong to an association. We need the association to have those that have the time to fight for us and represent us. Be if we don’t also represent ourselves in our own communities, then we all might as well crawl under our own little rocks and just give up.
I’m not ready to do that and neither should any one of you.
Lastly, I will close with this………IT’S TIME!!!!
(Tipping hat and grateful for what I have in this profession.)
P.S. Please come along for the ride.
Breck Record, CSR (TX, MS), RPR, CCR (NM)
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Need an excuse to CART
4. October 2008 by admin.
All:
I want to share some experiences and maybe inspire some to reconsider whether to CART or not to CART.
There are so many talented reporters in this country that are missing out on something that is an unbelieveable experience that you’ll never get to enjoy in the legal arena.
Imagine going to a job where you’re going to write for the hard-of-hearing (HOH). You’re going to walk into a setting where you may or may not have a clue of what is about to happen. It could be a meeting, a town hall meeting, a private discussion, a classroom……who knows. But, think about going to that meeting as the person on the other side of the table….the HOH person. They probably can’t hear anything that is about to happen. They look to you…..you, the CART provider that God has blessed with a talent that few ever possess. A talent that few will never get to share with anyone. You get to share your God-given talent with the person or this HOH crowd and be their ears. “See What You Can’t Hear.” That’s been my motto for what I’ve done in the past.
I’ve had the pleasure to work with many different groups over the years in the HOH arena and the one thing that you can count on…..at least a few times…..when working with these people are……TEARS OF JOY!!……from those that have never experience CART. You are going to probably get a hug and true thanks for what you’ve worked so hard to perfect and do for them.
What has been the most exciting for me is working in the church or the religious arena. I had the honor to work for the Billy Graham crusade in San Antonio. We had a section in the Alamodome strictly for the HOH. Large screens all over the place and they could participate in the full service. Ever tried to CART DC Talk’s christian rap song Jesus Freak???? Whew. What a rush!! Yeah, a rush. Well, I did have the script to help me, but still……..
Now, here’s the fun part…….Billy Graham most always ends his service with a call to “come down.” Well, for the most part, most of the section that I was providing CART for each night went down to the floor of the arena. Do you realize what that meant??????? I brought people to God!!!…..through my fingers!!! In church each week in San Antonio, I also brought the word of God to a few in my church…..through my fingers!!!
Whether you work for one person in your church or town…..or you get the pleasure to work with the big names….you’ll never get a more rewarding feeling.
If anyone can beat that or convince me that CART isn’t worth it ….. I’d love to hear it.
(tipping hat)
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El Paso Realtime Seminar
4. October 2008 by admin.
El Paso Realtime Seminar
Linda Kaiser
&
Breck Record
Why do you write realtime?
To save your career.
“Paper or plastic, ma’am?”
To provide an invaluable service to the legal profession.
Instant access to the transcript in a rough draft.
To set yourself apart from the crowd.
Who else is doing it here?
For the thrill of it. Edge-of-your-seat fun??
It is indeed a challenge.
Getting Ready
Warm up before you write. Find some MP3 files of dictated material and get yourself ready to write. (Show Popcorn files)
Get yourself in the zone. You probably write the best when you don’t think. Remember how that feels and extend it longer and longer. Learn how to control it. Learn how to get into it.
If you can only hit the keyboard 3 times each second….if you take that and multiply that by 60 seconds….you’re only writing 180 WPM, if each of those hits is one word. Do the math.
If you can hit the keyboard four times a second, you’re at 240 WPM, if each of those strokes is a word. How much “bang” for your buck are you getting?
How do you begin to write realtime?
Examine your dictionary for conflicts.
here/hear; there/their/they’re; tear/tier; peer/pier
Examine your dictionary for prefix and suffixes
-Z = {^s}
-D = {^ed}
-D -D = {^ed}
-SZ = {^s}
-TDZ = {^ed}
-G = {^ing}
-G -LT = {^ing}it
-GS = {^ings}
-GSZ = {^tions}
-L = {^le}
-LS -PBS = {^lessness}
-LT = \{^let}\it
-BLS = {^bles}
-PLS = {^ms}
-PLT = {^ment}
-PLTS = {^ments}
-PBD = \{^ened}\{#N}{^nd}
-PBS = {^ness}
-PBG = {^ening}
-RS = {^ers}
-FD = {^ed}of
-FL = {^ful}
-FPLT -FPLT = {^}:
U HROESZ = {^ulosis}
U HRAR = {^ular}
U HRAEUTD = {^ulate}{^ed}
UR REUFPL = {^eurism}
UR RO = {uro^}
URG = {^urgy}
ET = {^et}
EBG TO SEUS = {^ectasis}
EBG TO*EPL = {^ectomy}
EBGS = ex-{^}
EP = {epi^}
EP PEU = {epi^}
EPB = {en^}
EPB -G = {^ening}
EPB TKO = {endo^}
EPBS = {^ens}
EPBT = {^ent}
ER = {^er}
ERD = {^er}{^ed}
ERS = {^er}{^s}
ERSZ = {^er}{^s}
ERGS = {^er}{^s}
ERPBT = {enter^}
EUD KWRO = {idio^}
EUBGS = {^ics}
EUBLT = {^ibility}
EUPL PHU TPHO = {immuno^}
EUPL PHAOUPB TPHO = {immuno^}
EUR = {ir^}
EURPBT = {inter^}
EURPBTD = {inter^}
EURPBLT = {inter^}
EUF KAEURB = {^ification}
EUFT = {^ivity}
EUFPL = {^ism}
EUFPLS = {^isms}
*S = {^st}
*T = {^th}
*TD = {^th}
*TS = {^th}
*LS = {^less}
*LT = {^th}
*BG = {^k}
*P = {^p}
*PLT = {^ment}
*PB = {^}-in
*RD = {^rd}
*FP = {^ch}
*UP = {^}(u)
*UPB = {un^}
*URG = {^urgy}
*URGS = {^urgist}
*URL = {^urgical}
*URPB = {un^}
*URPBD = {under^}
*URPBT = {under^}
*ES = {^est}
*ESZ = {^est}
*ET = {^eth}
*EP = {^}(e)
*EPB = {^en}
*EPBD = {^ened}
*EPBS = {^ens}
*EPBT = {^enth}
*EPBG = {^ening}
*EUS = {^ist}
*EUT = {^th}
*EUGS = {^ist}
*EUBG = {^ic}
*EUBGS = {^ics}
*EUP = {^}(i)
*EURB = {^ish}
*EUF = {^ive}
*EUFPL = {^ism}
O = \oh,\to\{^}o\{^}o{^}\o{^}
OT TO = {oto^}
OLG = {^ology}
OLGS = {^ologist}
OPL PHA = {^oma}
OPBD = \on\{^ond}
ORS = {^ors}
OF THA = \{ophthal^}\off that
OEU = {#N}{^}/{^}{#N}
OEUSZ = {^iosis}
O*T = {oto^}
O*T TO = {oto^}
O*LG = {^ology}
O*LGS = {^ologist}
O*LGSZ = {^ologist}
O*LGT = {^ology}
O*LGTS = {^ologist}
O*BLGS = {^ologist}
O*P = {^}(o)
O*PB = {^on}
O*R = {^or}
O*FT PHA = {ophthalmo^}
O*UT = {out^}
O*EFR = {over^}
A PHAOEPB TPHO = {amino^}
AZ = {^s}a
AD = \{^ed}a\add
AG = \{^ing}a\agriculture
AGS = {^ation}
ABG = {ac^}
ABG U = {acu^}
ABG KU = {acu^}
ABG KRO = {acro^}
ABL = {^ble}
ABLT = {^bility}
ABLTD = {^bility}
APB TKRO = {andro^}
APBG KWRO = {angio^}
APBG SKWRO = {angio^}
AR = {ar^}
AR TER KWO = {arterio^}
AR TER KWRO = {arterio^}
AR THRO = {arthero^}
ARBL = {^erable}
AFB = {^ative}
AUD = {aud^}
AELT = {^ality}
AEPBT = anti-{^}
AEURB = {^ation}
AEURBS = {^atious}
AEURBL = {^acial}
A*T THRO = {athero^}
A*L = {^al}
A*P = {^}(a)
A*PBLG = {^age}
A*RT THROE = {arthro^}
A*F = {af^}
A*ES = {^’s}
AO O KR-FPLT SR-FPLT = {00-CV-^}
AOE = {’^}
AOES = {^’s}
AOEUZ -D = {^ized}
AOEUDZ = {^ide}{^s}
AOEUTS = {^itis}
AO*LG = {^ology}
AO*E = {^ee}
AO*EU AO*EU = {^}” ª
AO*EUZ = {^ize}
RE = {re^}
RE SUS = {resusci^}
REBG TO*EPL = {^rectomy}
RERBL = {^ent}{^ial}
REFPLT = {re^}
REURBD = {^ish}{^ed}
REUFPL = {^ism}
REUFRPBLGTS = {ri^}
R*P = {^}(r)
R*E = {re^}
R*EBG TO*EPL = {^rectomy}
RO = {ro^}
ROP THE = {^ropathy}
ROFPLT = {ro^}
ROEUDZ = {^roids}
RO*LG = {^ology}
RO*LGS = {^ologist}
RAL = {^ural}
RAB TKO = {rhabdo^}
RAP THE = {^apathy}
RAPBS = {^rance}
RAPBLG = {^rage}
RARPBS = {^rance}
RAFRPBLGTS = {ra^}
RAER = \rather\{^iary}
RAEUGS = {^ation}
RAEURT = {^rature}
RAEURTS = {^rators}
RAEURB = {^ation}
RAEUFB = {^ative}
RAOE = {^ry}
RAO* = {radio^}
RAO*PL = {^room}
H-PB = {^}-{^}
H-F = {^}-{^}
HE PAT HRO = {hepato^}
HEBGS = {hexa^}
HEPL PHO = {hemo^}
H*P = {^}(h)
HO*US = {^house}
HAOEU PO = {hypo^}
HAO*EURP = {hyper^}
HR-PBT HREU = {^lently}
HRUPL PWO = {lumbo^}
HREBG TRO = {electro^}
HRER = {^ler}
HREFRPBLGTS = {le^}
HREU = {^ly}
HREURBD = {^lished}
HREUFPL = {^ism}
HREUFRPBLGTS = {li^}
HR*P = {^}(l)
HR*URLG = {^urgy}
HR*URLGS = {^urgist}
HR*EU = {^ly}
HROL = \logical\{^logical}
HROPBLG *EUBG = {^logic}
HROESZ = {^losis}
HROEUSZ = {^iosis}
HRA = {la^}
HRAPBT = {^lant}
HRAPBTS = {^lants}
HRAR = {^lar}
HRAR KWRO = {^lario}
HRARS = {^lars}
HRAFPLT = {la^}
HRAFRPBLGTS = {la^}
HRAEUTD = {^lated}
HRAEUGS = {^lation}
HRAEUFB = {^late}{^ive}
HRAOURB = {^olution}
HRAOEFD = {^lieved}
HRAOEUZ = \lies\{^ize}
HRAOEUZ -D = {^ized}
HRAOEUZ -G = {^izing}
HRAOEUZ ER = {^izer}
HRAOEUS -D = {^lized}
HRAOEUSZ = {^lizes}
HRAOEUFR = {^izer}
HRAO*EUZ = {^ize}
HRAO*EUT = {^light}
HRAO*EUBG = {^like}
W-D = {^ed}with
W-FPLT W-FPLT W-FPLT TKOT = www.{^}
WERS = {^wers}
W*P = {^}(w)
W*EUT = {with^}
W*EULT = {with^}
WAFRPBLGTS = {wa^}
WAEUGS = {^ation}
WAEURB -Z = {^uation}{^s}
WAO*EUD = {^wide}
WAO*EUS = {^wise}
PER REU = peri{^}
PEU = {pi^}
PEUFRPBLGTS = {pi^}
P*P = {^}(p)
P*ED *EUS = {^opedist}
P*EU = {^py}
PO = {po^}
POR ROESZ = {^porosis}
POR ROEUSZ = {^porosis}
PO* = {po^}
PO*LGS = {^pologist}
PAR RA = {para^}
PAEUGS = {^pation}
PAOE = {^py}
PAOEURD = {^pired}
PRE = {pre^}
PREPB = ({^}
PREFPLT = {pre^}
PR*E = {pre^}
PR*EPB = {^})
PRO = {pro^}
PROS TA = \{prosta^}\process at that
PROT *EUBG = {^porotic}
PRAUFR = {^s}
PRAOE = {pre^}
PHULT KWREU = {multi^}
PHUFBG HO = {musculo^}
PHUFBG HRO = {musculo^}
PHUFBG KO = {musculo^}
PHET TA = {meta^}
PHET TA PWEU = {metabi^}
PHET TA PWAOEU = {metabi^}
PHET TROEUSZ = {^metriosis}
PHET THO = {metho^}
PHEG HREU = {^megaly}
PHEG HRAOE = {^megaly}
PHEPBTD = {^mented}
PHEPBTS = {^ments}
PHEPBLT = {^ment}
PHEUZ = {mis^}
PHEUD = \mid\mid{-}{#N^}
PHEUTD = {^mitted}
PH*BG = Mc{^}{|}
PH*P = {^}(m)
PH*PBT = {^}-minute
PH*ET THO = {metho^}
PH*EUZ = {mis^}
PHOPB TPHO = {mono^}
PHOR TPO = {morpho^}
PHOEULS = {^moils}
PHO*LG = {^mology}
PHO*LGS = {^ologist}
PHO*PBT PERD = \{#W}{^}-month period\month period
PHA = {^ma}
PHAT EUBG = {^matic}
PHAT *EUB = {^matic}
PHAT *EUBG = {^matic}
PHAT K-L = {^matical}
PHATD = \mad\{^mated}
PHAL = \{^mal}\{mal^}
PHAL SKWR*EUS = {^mologist}
PHAPBSZ = {^ance}{^s}
PHAPBT = {^mant}
PHAELTS = {^malities}
PHAEBL = {^eable}
PHAEUTD = {^mate}{^ed}
PHAEURB = {^mation}
PHA*LGS = {^mologist}
PHA*BG = {Mac^}
PHA*PB = {^man}
PHAOEUZ = {^ize}
PHAOEUZ -D = {^ized}
PHR = Mr.{~}{|}{^}
PHR-S = Mrs.{~}{|}{^}
PHR-GS = Mrs.{~}ª{^}
PHR-R = Mr.{~}{|}{^}
PHR-RS = Mrs.{~}{|}{^}
PHR*Z = Mrs.{~}{|}{^}
PHR*GS = Mrs.{~}{^}
PHRAS TEU = {^plasty}
PHRAS TAOE = {^plasty}
PHRAUD = {^plaud}
PHRAEPBLG KWRA = {^plegia}
PHRAEU SHA = {^plasia}
PHRAEURB = {^plation}
PHRA*S KWREU = {^plasty}
PHRAOET = \{^plete}\meet\pleat
PWER = {^ber}
PWERS = {^bers}
PWEFRPBLGTS = {be^}
PWEUD = \{^ed}by\bid
PWEURBD = {^bished}
PWEUFRPBLGTS = {bi^}
PW*P = {^}(b)
PW*EU = {bi^}
PWO* = {bo^}
PWO*EU = {bio^}
PWAPBTS = {^bants}
PWAEUGS = {^ation}
PWAEURB = {^ation}
PWA*BG = {^back}
PWAOE = {be^}
PWROPB KEUL = {broncho^}
PWRAEUT = {^brate}
PWRAEUTD = {^brated}
PWRAEUBG KWRO = {brachio^}
PWHRER = {^bler}
PWHREU = {^ably}
K-L = {^ical}
K-LS = {^icals}
KET TO = {keto^}
KERS = {^ers}
K*P = {^}(k)
KO = {co^}
KO OE = co-{^}
KOPL = \come\{com^}
KOPB = {con^}
KOPB KRA = {chondro^}
KOPB TEPL = {contem^}
KOPB TKRO = {chondro^}
KOPB TKRA = {chondro^}
KOFPLT = {co^}
KOFRPBLGTS = {co^}
KOEPLS = {^ectomies}
KO* = co-{^}
KO*LG = {^ology}
KO*LGS = {^cologist}
KO*EPL = {^ectomy}
KAR PWO = {carbo^}
KAELTS = {^alities}
KAEUFB = {^ative}
KAOUTD = {^cuted}
KAOEUS = {^ize}
KR-R = {^}-CR-{^}
KRUPB = 01-CR-{^}
KR*P = {^}(c)
KR*R = {^}-CR-{^}
KR*UPB = 01-CR-{^}
KRO = {contro^}
KROPB = {chrono^}
KROEUSZ = {^crosis}
KRO*S = {cross^}
KRO*E = 00-CR-{^}
KRA = {contra^}
KRAT *EUBG = {^cratic}
KRAOEUB = {^cribe}
KHAPT = {chapt^}
KHRUGS = {^clusion}
KHRE = {^cally}
KHRER = \{cler^}\clear
KHREU = {^cally}
KHROPB = {^}:{^}
KHROR RO = {chloro^}
KHRO*BG = {^}:00
KW*P = {^}(q)
KWA = {equi^}
KWAEUTD = {^quated}
KWAOEURG = {^quiring}
KWRUL = {^ial}
KWRUP = {up^}
KWRUPS = {^ups}
KWRUPBS = {^uance}
KWRURPB = {under^}
KWRURPBD = {under^}
KWREPBS = {^ians}
KWREPBT = {^ient}
KWREPBTS = {^ients}
KWREU = {^y}
KWREU -PBS = {^iness}
KWREUSZ = {^y}{^s}
KWREURB = {^ish}
KWR*P = {^}(y)
KWR*UP = {up^}
KWR*UPB = {^ion}
KWR*ET = {^iet}
KWR*ER = {^ier}
KWR*EUS = {^est}
KWROT = {^iot}
KWROP = {op^}
KWROFRPBLGTS = {yo^}
KWROUT = {out^}
KWROUPB = {down^}
KWROEFR = {over^}
KWROEU = {^io}
KWRO* = o{^}
KWRO*B = {ob^}
KWRO*PB = {^ion}
KWRO*EFR = {over^}
KWRABG = {^iac}
KWRAP = {ap^}
KWRAPL = {^iam}
KWRAPB = {^ian}
KWRAPBT = {^ant}
KWRAPBLG = {^age}
KWRARB = {^iation}
KWRARPBD = {^around}
KWRARPBDZ = {^arounds}
KWRAFPLT = {a^}
KWRAUPB = {on^}
KWRAUF = {off^}
KWRAE = {a^}
KWRAELT = {^ality}
KWRAEPB = {any^}
KWRAEPBT = {^ianity}
KWRAEUT -G = {^iating}
KWRAEUTD = {^iated}
KWRAEUGS = {^iation}
KWRAEUGT = {^iating}
KWRAEURT = {^ator}
KWRAEURTS = {^ators}
KWRAEURB = {^iation}
KWRA* = {a^}
KWRA*BG = {^iac}
KWRA*R = {ar^}
KWRAOT = {auto^}
KWRAOULS = {^ules}
KWRAOES = {^ies}
KWRAO*E = {^ee}
KP*P = {^}(x)
KPAT = {compat^}
KPRO = {compro^}
KPHO = {chemo^}
KPHOE = {chemo^}
T-Z = {^s}the
T-D = {^ed}the
T-G = \{^ing}the\to go
TUL = {^ual}
TEL HRE = {tele^}
TEBT = {^tent}
TEPLS = \items\Items{~}{^}{#N}
TER = {^ter}
TER KWRA = {^teria}
TERD = {^tered}
TERS = {^ers}
TEUGS = {^tition}
TEUGS TPHER = {^titioner}
TEUBG AOEUTS = {^ticulitis}
TEUBG KAL = {^ical}
TEUF = \active\{^ive}
TEUFS = {^ives}
TEUFPL = {^ism}
TEUFRPBLGTS = {ti^}
T*P = {^}(t}
T*EU = {^ty}
T*EUF = {^ive}
TOD = \{^ed}to\to do
TOLG = {^ology}
TOBG KRA SAOE = {^ocracy}
TOBGS = {tox^}
TOFRPBLGTS = {to^}
TOEPBD = {^ened}to
TOERS = {^tories}
TO*LG = {^ology}
TO*LGS = {^ologist}
TO*EPL = {^tomy}
TABL = {^ble}
TAPBS = {^ance}
TAPBT = {^ant}
TAPBTS = {^ants}
TAPBLG = {^age}
TAELT = {^ality}
TAERPB = {^itarian}
TAEUT -G = {^tating}
TAEUTS = {^tates}
TAEUGS = {^ation}
TAEUGT = {^tating}
TAEUPB = {^tane}
TAEURT = {^ate}{^or}
TAEURTS = {^tator}{^s}
TAEURB = {^ation}
TAEURBS = {^tious}
TAEURBL = {^tational}
TAEURBL TPHAL = {^tational}
TAEUFB = {^tative}
TA*L = {^al}
TAOUT = {^stitute}
TAOE = \tee\{^y}
TAOEBG = {^tique}
TAOEUTS = \tights\{^titis}
TREBGS AET = {^trexate}
TROPL TER = {^tometer}
TROEUSZ = {^triosis}
TRAPB = {tran^}
TRAPBS = {trans^}
TRAEUTD = {^trated}
TRAOEU KHROR RO = {trichloro^}
THET *EUBG = {^thetic}
THER PHO = {thermo^}
THOPL = {^thom}
THAZ = {^s}that
THAD = \that had\{^ed}that
THAOEU RO = {thyro^}
THRO* = {arthro^}
THRAD = {^ed}that
TPER RA = {ferri^}
TPEU PWRO = {fibro^}
TP*P = {^}(f)
TP*EU = {^y}
TPOFRPBLGTS = \{fo^}\{^fo}
TPO*LD = {^fold}
TPO*R = {for^}
TPAORG = {^ing}for
TPAOEU = {^fy}
TPAOEU PWRO = {fibro^}
TPAOEUD = {^fied}
TPAOEUB PWRO = {fibro^}
TPAOEUBL = {^iable}
TPR-D = {^ed}from
TPR-G = {^ing}from
TPH = {in^}
TPH TPRA = {infra^}
TPH-RT = {inter^}
TPH-FPB = {inven^}
TPHU PHO = {pneumo^}
TPHU TPHO = {pneumo^}
TPHUS = {^nous}
TPHET TEUBG = {^netic}
TPHEL = \{^nel}\{nel^}\{^nel^}
TPHEPBS = {^ence}
TPHEPBT = {^nent}
TPHEPBG = {^ening}
TPHER = \{^er}\{inner^}
TPHERS = {^er}{^s}
TPHEF RO = {nephro^}
TPHEFRPBLGTS = \{ne^}\{^ne}
TPHEUFPL = {^ism}
TPHEUFRPBLGTS = \{ni^}\{^ni}
TPH*P = {^}(n)
TPH*EUS = {^ist}
TPHOLG = {^nology}
TPHOPL KAL = {^nomical}
TPHORS = {^er}{^s}
TPHOUS = {^nous}
TPHO*LG = {^nology}
TPHO*LGS = {^nologist}
TPHO*PB = {non^}
TPHO*E TPHA = {neonat^}
TPHA = \{^na}\that
TPHA TAOUD = {^nitude}
TPHA TPAOEUD = {^nified}
TPHAS = \{^}nas\nas\that is
TPHAT = {^ate}
TPHAL = {^al}
TPHAL HREU = {^nally}
TPHAPB TPHO = {nano^}
TPHAPBT = {^ant}
TPHAPBTS = {^nants}
TPHARB SHA = {^nasia}
TPHAUT = \{^naut}\naught
TPHAELT = {^inality}
TPHAER = {^ary}
TPHAERS = {^aries}
TPHAERPB = {^arian}
TPHAEUT KR-R = 98-CR-{^}
TPHAEUTD = {^ated}
TPHAEUTS = {^ates}
TPHAEUFRB = {^ative}
TPHA*E = {^nia}
TPHAOR = {neuro^}
TPHAOUR = \{neuro^}\newer
TPHAOUR RO = {neuro^}
TPHAOEBG = {^nique}
TPHAOEUZ = {^ize}
TPHAOEUPB KR-R = 99-CR-{^}
TPHR-PBS = {^fulness}
TPHREU = {^fully}
TPHREUBGS = {^fliction}
TK-S = {^}
TKEPL KWRA = {^demia}
TKER = {^er}
TKERD = {^er}ed
TKERS = {^ers}
TKEFPLT = {de^}
TK*P = {^}(d)
TK*EL = {^}
TK*EU = {di^}
TK*EUS = {dis^}
TKOT KOPL = {^}.com
TKOT KO*PL = {^}.com
TKOT TPHET = {^}.net
TKOT TKPWOF = {^}.gov
TKORS KWREU = {dorsi^}
TKORGS = {^doration}
TKOFRPBLGTS = \{do^}\{^do}
TKO* = {^do}
TKO*T TKO*T TKO*T = {^}{~}.{~}.{~}.
TKO*LG = {^ology}
TKO*UPB = {^down}
TKAPBT = {^ant}
TKAPBTS = {^ants}
TKAFRPBLGTS = \{da^}\{^da}
TKAEU SPHREU = \{#N}{^}-day supply\day supply
TKAO KWRO* = {duo^}
TKAOE = {^dy}
TKAOEPL O*LGS = {^demiologist}
TKAOEPL KWRA = {^demia}
TKAO*U KWRO = {duo^}
TKRAPBS = {^drance}
TKRAEUTD = {^drated}
TKHREU = {^ed}{^ly}
TKHRAR = \dollar\{#N}{^}-{^}dollar
TKWAEUFB = {^ative}
TKPHEPB = {demen^}
TKPW-L = {^ing}{^ly}
TKPWEUFBL = {^givable}
TKPW*P = {^}(g)
TKPWOR RAOEUZ -D = {^gorized}
TKPWOR TKO = {^gordo}
TKPWO*E = {geo^}
TKPWA = {^ga}
TKPWAUD TKRA = {quadra^}
TKPWAEUGS = {^gation}
TKPWAEURB = {^gation}
TKPWAEUFB = {^ative}
TKPWA*S TRO = {gastro^}
TKPWAOEUTS = {^itis}
TKPWREGS TPHAL = {^gressional}
TKPWRAFR = {^grapher}
TKPWRAEF = \gravy\{^ography}
TKPWRAEFR = {^grapher}
TKPWRAEUTS = \grates\{^grates}
TKPWRAEUGS = {^gration}
TKPWRAEURB = {^gration}
TKPWRAEUFB = {^ative}
S-PBT TA TRU = {^}; isn’t that true
S-PBT THA TRU = {^}; isn’t that true
S-FL = self-{^}
SUB = {sub^}
SUP = {sup^}
SUR KUPL = {circum^}
SEL RAEUTD = {^celerated}
SEPL KWRA = {^emia}
SEFRB KO = {cervico^}
SEUF = {^ive}
SEUFL = \civil\{^ively}
SEUFPBS = {^siveness}
SEUFRPBLGTS = \{si^}\{^si}
S*P = {^}(s)
S*R = {^}, Sr.
S*UR = {sur^}
SOS KWRO = socio{^}
SAL PEUPBG TKPWO = {salpingo^}
SABG RO = {sacro^}
SABG KRO = {sacro^}
SAPBTS = {^ant}{^s}
SAEUTD = {^sated}
SAEUGS = {^ization}
SAOE = \{^cy}\see
SAOEULG = {^ciling}
SAO*EUZ = {^cize}
SREPBGS = {^vention}
SREUL = {|-}{^ville}
SR*P = {^}(v)
SRAEUTS = {^ivates}
SRAEUGS = {^vasion}
SRAEURB = {^vation}
SRAOEPBG = {^vening}
SRAOEUTD = {^vited}
SH = {sh^}
SH-G = {^ishing}
SH-L = {^ishly}
SH-PLT = {^ishment}
SH-PBS = {^ishness}
SHUS = {^cious}
SHUL = {^ual}
SHUPB = {^ion}
SHUPBS = {^ions}
SHUPBL = {^ional}
SH*EUP = {^ship}
SHA = {^tia}
SHAER = {^iary}
SHAEUGS = {^iation}
SHAORD = {^ured}
SHAOUL = {^ial}
SHR-RB = {#G}{^}/{^}{#G}
SHRUL = {^ual}
SHRAEUGS = {^slation}
SHRAEURT = {^lator}
SHRAEURB = {^lation}
SHRAOE = \{^sley}\sle
SPHEU = {semi^}
SPH* = {^some}
SPHO = {seismo^}
SPWU = {intu^}
SPWE = {inte^}
SPWEUR = {inter^}
SPWA = {inte^}
SPWR = {inter^}
SPWRO = {intro^}
SPWRA = intra-{^}
SKE = {^sky}
SKOP *EUBG HREU = {^scopic}{^ly}
SKO*EP = {^oscopy}
SKA TPO = {scapho^}
SKAF TPO = {scapho^}
SKAOEUL = {^concile}
SKRUP = {^up}
SKRO = {synchro^}
SKROPB = {synchro^}
SKRAOURB = {excrucia^}
SKHAOR = {^ture}
SKHRER RO = {sclero^}
SKHRER RA = {sclero^}
SKWR = {^},{^}
SKWRUP = {^up}
SKWRUPS = {^ups}
SKWRUPBS = {^ence}
SKWRURPBD = {^under}
SKWREPBT = {^ent}
SKWREUBG = {^gic}
SKWR*P = {^}(j)
SKWR*UF = {^}-JUV-{^}
SKWR*EPB *EUBG = {^ogenic}
SKWROF = {^off}
SKWROFS = {^offs}
SKWROUT = {^out}
SKWROUTS = {^outs}
SKWROUPB = {^down}
SKWROUPBS = {^downs}
SKWROEFR = {^over}
SKWROEFRS = {^overs}
SKWRAUL = {^all}
SKWRAUF = {^off}
SKWRA* = {^gia}
SKWRAOE = {geo^}
SKWRAOEUZ = {^ize}
SKWRAOEUSZ = {^ize}{^s}
SKP-Z = \{^s}and\and his
SKP-G = {^ing}and
SKP-L = {^le}and
SKP-PLT = {^ment}and
SKP-PLTS = {^ments}and
SKP-PBS = {^ness}and
SKPER = {^er}and
SKPERS = {^ers}and
SKPHREU = {^ly}and
STEUGS = {^istician}
STEUBG = \stick\{^istic}
ST*BG = {^istic}
ST*EUBG = {^istic}
STOE = {osteo^}
STOEPL = {^ostomy}
STO*E = {osteo^}
STO*EPL = {^ostomy}
STA = \is that\{sta^}\{^sta}\{^sta^}
STAOUTD = {^stituted}
STAOUGS = {^stitution}
STREUBGTD = {^stricted}
STRO = {extro^}
STRO*E = {osteo^}
STRAEUTD = {^strated}
STRAEURB = {^istration}
STRAEUFB = {^strative}
STPH-FPLT = {P}({^}{|}
STPH*PLT = {^})
STPH*FPLT = {^})
STKEPL = {dissem^}
STK* = {dis^}
STK*S = {dis^}
STK*P = {^}(z)
STKOEP = {^doscopy}
STKP* = {dis^}
STKPWHR-Z = {^s}{Q}
STKPWHR-FPLT = {^}!
Alphabets
Upper case – A, B, C, etc.
A-FPLT, PW-FPLT, KR-FPLT
Lower case – a, b, c, etc. (Also used for fingerspelling)
A-RBGS, PW-RBGS, KR-FPLT
Upper case with period – A., B., C., etc.
A-FPLT/FPLT, PW-FPLT/FPLT, KR-FPLT/FPLT
Parens – (a), (b), etc.
A*P, PW*P
Speakers
Two strokes are bad. Waste of time. Why? Try to re-think yourself to one-strokers.
Common:
STPHAO, SKWRAO, EUFPLT, EURBGS
EUFRPBLGTS – THE WITNESS
STKPWHR-FRPBLGTS – THE COURT
STKPWHREU – THE INTERPRETER
Extend the Common:
STPHAO-F, STPHAO-R, STPHAO-P
SKWRAO-F, SKWRAO-R, SKWRAO-P
S-EUFPLT, T-EUFPLT, K-EUFPLT
S-EURBGS, T-EURBGS, K-EURBGS
Examples:
EURBGS = {S:SPEAKER4}
EURPBLGTS = {S:THE WITNESS}
EUFPT = {S:SPEAKER2}
EUFPLT = {S:SPEAKER2}
EUFPLTS = {S:SPEAKER2}
EUFPBLGTS = {S:THE WITNESS}
EUFRBLGS = {S:THE WITNESS}
EUFRBLGTS = {S:THE WITNESS}
EUFRPLTS = {S:THE WITNESS}
EUFRPLGTS = {S:THE WITNESS}
EUFRPBGTS = {S:THE WITNESS}
EUFRPBLS = {S:THE WITNESS}
EUFRPBLTS = {S:THE WITNESS}
EUFRPBLGT = {S:THE WITNESS}
EUFRPBLGTS = {S:THE WITNESS}
AEUFPLT = {S:ATTYA}
REUFPLT = {S:ATTYR}
HEUFPLT = {S:ATTYH}
HREUFPLT = {S:ATTYL}
WEURBGS = {S:WEURBGS}
WEUFPLT = {S:ATTYW}
WEUFRPLT = {S:ATTYW}
WEUFRPBGTS = {S:THE WITNESS}
WEUFRPBLGTS = {S:THE WITNESS}
PEUFPLT = {S:ATTYP}
PHEUFPLT = {S:ATTYM}
PWEUFPLT = {S:ATTYB}
KEUFPLT = {S:ATTYK}
KREUFPLT = {S:ATTYC}
KREUFRPLT = {S:ATTYC}
KW*EUFPLT = {S:ATTYQ}
KWREUFPLT = {S:ATTYY}
KWREUFRPBLGTS = {S:THE DEFENDANT}yes
TEUFPLT = {S:ATTYT}
TPEUFPLT = {S:ATTYF}
TPHEUFPLT = {S:ATTYN}
TPWHR-FRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}
TKEURBGS = {S:TKEURBGS}
TKEUFPLT = {S:ATTYD}
TKEUFRPLT = {S:ATTYD}
TKEUFRPBLGTS = {S:THE DEFENDANT}
TKPH-FRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}
TKPWEUFPLT = {S:ATTYG}
TKPWHR-FRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}
SEUFPLT = {S:ATTYS}
SREUFPLT = {S:VIDEOGRAPHER}
SREUFPLTS = {S:VIDEOGRAPHER}
SREUFRPLT = {S:VIDEOGRAPHER}
SHEUFPLT = {S:SHEUFPLT}
SKWREURBGS = {S:SKWREURBGS}
SKWREUFPLT = {S:ATTYJ}
SKWRAO = {S:SPEAKER3}
SKWRAOT = {S:SKWRAOT}
SKWRAOG = {S:SKWRAOG}
SKWRAOL = {S:SKWRAOL}
SKWRAOP = {S:SKWRAOP}
SKWRAOPL = {S:SKWRAOPL}
SKWRAOF = {S:SKWRAOF}
SKPWR-FRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}
SKPWHR-FRPBLGS = {S:THE COURT}
SKPWHR-FRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}
STHAO = {S:SPEAKER1}
STPHO = {S:SPEAKER1}
STPHA = {S:SPEAKER1}
STPHAO = {S:SPEAKER1}
STPHAOZ = {S:STPHAOZ}
STPHAOD = {S:DSPEAKER}
STPHAOS = {S:SSPEAKER}
STPHAOT = {S:TSPEAKER}
STPHAOG = {S:GSPEAKER}
STPHAOL = {S:LSPEAKER}
STPHAOB = {S:BSPEAKER)
STPHAOBG = {S:CASE MANAGER}
STPHAOP = {S:PSPEAKER}
STPHAOPL = {S:MSPEAKER}
STPHAOPBLG = {S:STPHAOPBLG}
STPHAOR = {S:RSPEAKER}
STPHAOF = {S:FSPEAKER}
STPHAO* = {S:SPEAKER1}{Q}
STPHR-FRPBLT = {S:THE COURT}
STPHR-FRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}
STPHRAO = {S:SPEAKER1}
STPWHR-RPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}
STPWHR-FPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}
STPWHR-FRPBLTS = {S:THE COURT}
STPWHR-FRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}
STKWR-FRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}
STKWHR-FRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}
STKWHRAO = {S:STKPWHRAO}
STKPHR-FRPLGTS = {S:THE COURT}
STKPHR-FRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}
STKPHRAO = {S:STKPHRAO}
STKPW-RPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}
STKPW-FRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}
STKPWR-RPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}
STKPWR-FRPLTS = {S:THE COURT}
STKPWR-FRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}
STKPWRAO = {S:STKPWHRAO}
STKPWH-FRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}
STKPWHR-PBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}
STKPWHR-RPBGTS = {S:THE COURT}
STKPWHR-RPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}
STKPWHR-FPLGTS = {S:THE COURT}
STKPWHR-FPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}
STKPWHR-FRBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}
STKPWHR-FRPLT = {S:THE COURT}
STKPWHR-FRPLTS = {S:THE COURT}
STKPWHR-FRPLGT = {S:THE COURT}
STKPWHR-FRPLGTS = {S:THE COURT}
STKPWHR-FRPBGS = {S:THE COURT}
STKPWHR-FRPBGTS = {S:THE COURT}
STKPWHR-FRPBLT = {S:THE COURT}
STKPWHR-FRPBLTS = {S:THE COURT}
STKPWHR-FRPBLG = {S:THE COURT}
STKPWHR-FRPBLGS = {S:THE COURT}
STKPWHR-FRPBLGT = {S:THE COURT}
STKPWHR-FRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}
STKPWHR-FRPBLGTSZ = {S:THE COURT}
STKPWHR-FRPBLGTSD = {S:THE COURT}
STKPWHREU = {S:INTERPRETER}
STKPWHREUFRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}
STKPWHR* = {S: “Question}
STKPWHROFRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}
STKPWHRAFRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}
STKPWHRAO = {S:STKPWHRAO}
STKPWHRAOS = {S:STKPWHRAOS}
STKPWHRAOT = {S:STKPWHRAOT}
STKPWHRAOL = {S:STKPWHRAOL}
STKPWHRAOP = {S:STKPWHRAOP}
STKPWHRAOPL = {S:STKPWHRAOPL}
STKPWHRAOR = {S:STKPWHRAOR}
STKPWHRAOF = {S:STKPWHRAOF}
STKPWHRAOFRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}
STKPWHRAOEUFRPBLGTS = {S:THE COURT}
TYING QUESTION AND ANSWER TOGETHER
Question plus other stuff.
STKPWHR-OBG – Q. Okay.
STKPWHR-RT – Q. All right.
STKPWHR-RS – Q. All right, sir.
STKPWHR-OU – Q. Now,
STKPWHR-UPB – Q. You know
STKPWHR-US – Q. Uh-huh.
STKPWHR-UG – Q. Huh-uh.
STKPWHR-EUPBG – Q. I think
STKPWHR-EUPBD – Q. I understand
STKPWHR-EUZ – Q. I see.
STKPWHR-APBD – Q. And
STKPWHR-UR – Q. You are
STKPWHR-AUR – Q. And you are
STKPWHR-URP – Q. You were
STKPWHR-AURP – Q. And you were
Answer plus other stuff.
KWR-FRPBLGTS – A. Yes.
KWR-EFRPBLGTS – A. Yes, sir.
TPH-FRPBLGTS – A. No.
TPHO-FRPBLGTS – A. No, sir.
U-FRPBLGTS – A. Uh-huh.
Phrases
“And” phrases.
SKP -
AUFL – awful??? Why not SKPUFL for “awful”
Examples.
SKP = and
SKP -FRPBLGTS = and –{A}
SKP-S = and is
SKP-T = and the
SKP-TS = and it is
SKP-PB = and in
SKP-PBZ = and in his
SKP-PBD = and
SKP-RB = and she
SKPU = and you
SKPUZ = and you see
SKPUD = and you had
SKPUDZ = and you said
SKPUS = and you say
SKPUGT = and you got
SKPUGTS = and you get
SKPUL = and you will
SKPULD = and you would
SKPUBG = and you can
SKPUBGD = and you could
SKPUPB = and you know
SKPUPBD = and you understand
SKPUPBG = and you think
SKPUR = and you are
SKPURL = and you recall
SKPURBG = and you work
SKPURBL = and you shall
SKPURBLD = and you should
SKPURP = and you were
SKPUF = and you have
SKPUFD = and you have had
SKPUFL = and you feel
SKPUFB = and you have been
SKPE = and he
SKPED = and he had
SKPEDZ = and he said
SKPES = and he is
SKPESZ = and he says
SKPEGT = and he got
SKPEL = and he will
SKPELD = and he would
SKPEBG = and he can
SKPEBGD = and he could
SKPEPB = and then
SKPERP = and he were
SKPEFS = and he was
SKPEFLT = and he felt
SKPEU = and I
SKPEUZ = and I see
SKPEUD = and I had
SKPEUDZ = and I said
SKPEUS = and I say
SKPEUG = and I go
SKPEUGT = and I got
SKPEUGTS = and I get
SKPEUL = and I will
SKPEULD = and I would
SKPEUBG = and I can
SKPEUBGD = and I could
SKPEUBL = and I believe
SKPEUPT = and I want
SKPEUPL = and I am
SKPEUPB = and I know
SKPEUPBD = and I understand
SKPEUPBG = and I think
SKPEUR = and I are
SKPEURBD = and I should
SKPEURBLD = and I should
SKPEURP = and I were
SKPEUF = and I have
SKPEUFS = and I was
SKPEUFTS = and I was
SKPEUFL = and I feel
SKPEUFLT = and I felt
SKPEUFB = and I have been
WE
SKPWE – and we
SKPWER – and we are
SKPWEF – and we have
SKPWEBGD – and we could
SKPWED – and we had
SKPWEL – and we will
SW*E – as we
SWER – as we are
SWEBL – as we believe
SWEBG – as we can
SWEBGZ – as we can see
TKWE – did we
TKWAOE – do we
SWRE – have we
TPWE – if we
TPWER – if we are
STWHAE – is that we
STWHAOE – so that we
TWHAE – that we
TWHAER – that we are
TWHAEG – that we go
TWHAEZ – that we see
KWHER – which we are
KWHEBG – which we can
KWHEBGD – which we could
KWHERP – which we were
KWHEL – which we will
-TD - ed
ATD – added
PWAPBTD – banded
PWEPBTD – bended
PWOPBTD – bonded
TKPEPBTD – depended
EPBTD – ended
TPUPBTD – funded
HAPBTD – handed
HETD – headed
KPWOUPBTD – impounded
HRAPBTD – landed
HROETD – loaded
RA*EUTD – raided
RARTD – regarded
TRAEUTD – traded
WOUPBTD – wounded
ASTERISK
Let it work for you.
KEUPBG – kink; K*EUPBG – king
SEUPBG – sink; S*EUPBG – sing
REUPBG – rink; R*EUPBG – ring
U/T*EP – UTEP; A*US – USA; A*US – AUSA;
A*US/W*ORD – Assistant U.S. Attorney
A*FPD – AFPD; A*FPD/W*ORD – Assistant Federal Public Defender
Stroke+W*ORD – Spell out the acronym
NUMBERS
I write mine out……for the most part.
WUPB – one
TWO – two
THRE – three
TPOUR – four
TPAOEUF – five
SEUBGS – six
SEFPB – seven
AEU – eight
TPHEUPB – nine
TEPB – 10
HREFPB – 11
TWEFL – 12
THEURPB – 13
FORPB – 14
TPEUFPB – 15
SEUPB – 16
STEPB – 17
AEUPB – 18
TPH-PB – 19
TWEPBT – 20
TWUPB – 21
TWAO – 22
TWE – 23
TWOER – 24
TWAOEUF – 25
TWEUBGS – 26
TWEFPB – 27
TWAEU – 28
TWAOEUPB – 29
THEURT – 30
THRUPB – 31
THRAO – 32
THRAOE – 33
THROER – 34 (THROR)
THRAOEUF – 35
THREUBGS – 36
THREFPB – 37
THRAEU – 38
THRAOEUPB – 39
TPOERT – 40
TPRUPB – 41
TPRAO – 42
TPRE – 43 (TPRAOE – free)
TPROER – 44
TPRAOEUF – 45
TPREUBGS – 46
TPREFPB – 47
TPRAEU – 48
TPRAOEUPB – 49
TPEUFT – 50
TPWUPB – 51
….
SEUBGT – 60
SKUPB – 61
…
SEFPBT – 70
SRUPB – 71
SRAO – 72
SRAOE – 73
…..
AEUT – 80
KWRUPB – 81
KWRAO – 82
KWRAOE – 83
…..
TPHEUPBT – 90
TPHUPB – 91
TPHAO – 92
TPHAOE – 93 (TPHAO*E – knee)
TPHOER – 94
TPHAOEUF – 95
TPHEUBGS – 96
TPHEFPB – 97
TPHAEUT – 98
TPHAOEUPB – 99
WUPB/HUPB – 100 (WHUN – 100)
Down and Out Phrases
SKWROUPB - ^down
KWROUPB – down^
SKWROUT - ^out
KWROUT – out^
SKWRAUF - ^off
KWRAUF – off^
Punctuation
FPLT = .
RGBS = ,
FPLT/FPLT = :
S*RBGS = ;
OEU = /
AOEU = “
PREPB = (^
PR*EPB = ^)
AOE = ^’
Cursor Movement
STPH-F = Character left
STPH-R = Word left
STPH-B – Cursor down
STPH-P – Cursor up
STPH-G – Word right
STPH-L – Character right
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Thoughts on a myriad of Things
4. July 2008 by admin.
Ever want to make your worksheet work on your laptop instead of having to fill it on the paper with a pen?
Let me throw out a way to do that here very quickly.
Make your document the way you want it to look as best you can in your word processor. You can set some of your colums of from there as best you can.
Then, save the file in a pdf format and take it over to Adobe Professional and finish it off there by putting in your drop-down fields and other things you want in there that Word or Word Perfect weren’t able to allow for.
Then, you can email this file to your Production/Billing department if you’re away from the office, and, you don’t have to scan the document later if you are using a scanning protocol for your documents in the office. One less document to worry about.
Once the reporter fills out the file from the Master document, he/she will then Save As and name the job whatever your naming convention is in your office.
Naming conventions can be things like just the simple job number for a job such as 12345 or something with a date like 090107 or a combination like 12345_090107 or 12345090107 or 1234502CR123 or 12345JSmith. It can vary depending on your needs.
Your scanning protocol should be considered carefully because you want to decide on the best way to retrieve your infomation at a later date should it become necessary. Personally, I like to break out the exhibits and billing documents in different folders, even though I will use the same job number. I could have a Billing folder on my network and then have an Exhibits folder on my network, each containing the same job number or job name. Makes it easier to pull the exhibits up quickly and not have to sort through and cull out the billing/worksheet/etc. and then print them. Conversely, if a client calls up and has billing questions, I don’t have to cull through the exhibits to find the billing information or worksheet.
Backing up: Reporters should back up their dictionaries, at a minimum once a month…..AS WELL AS their user settings and stuff pertinent to their page settings. To not do this is just asking for problems. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had a reporter call me with problems and haven’t made copies of anything. So, when you get through reading this post, get your thumb drive, jump drive, external drive, network drive and make a copy of the important files and workfiles and front pages and dictionaries and user settings of your stuff. If you work in an office that utilizes a network drive for their backup, it doesn’t hurt to send the file to the network drive at the end of the day to back it up, even though you’re not finished with it. You can overwrite the file the next day or whenever you finish the job for production. If you’re not in a network, it takes two or three minutes to copy to a thumb drive at the end of the day. I’d much rather re-edit a few pages versus have to re-edit the whole job over again.
I’m on a roll here.
Scopists: Scopists should retain your files for you for at least a couple of weeks after they are finished with your work….just in case. Once you’re gotten the file billed, delivered and backed up on your end, then let the scopist know that it’s to delete the file on their end so they’re not backlogged storing your stuff for you. If you don’t have a good place to back up stuff, you can always get an online drive like www.flipdrive.com or www.xdrive.com. They have huge amounts of storage space for very cheap. What’s your stuff worth? You decide on how much you want to gamble with your livelihood.
Are you writing realtime? Why not???? There’s no time like the present to start. Don’t tell me, “Oh, my dictionary is not built up.” Mine isn’t either and I’ve been writing realtime since ‘90. If you value your profession, get on board and get on board fast. I have yet to have an attorney actually stand behind be and watch me write for the whole hearing or deposition; so, if you are afraid that’s going to happen or try to use that as an excuse, spare me.
I love my job. I love my career. I love the people I’ve met over the years that I would not have met otherwise. It’s up to me to protect your career by being the best I can be in my career just as much as it is up to you to protect my career by being the best you can be in your career. Let’s all work together to keep this profession what it is and protect each other the best we can. Hold your leaders accountable. Hold me accountable. Hold yourself accountable.
Lastly, again, get your thumb drive out or whatever means you use to back up your “stuff” and go do it. You’ll be glad you did.
(tipping hat)
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What matters to my Record
4. July 2008 by admin.
I’ve been sitting here over the last week and thinking about all the discussion on the topics regarding the record and Voice Recording, etc. I just have to weigh in ….a little bit here.
I’m just a country boy from a small cotton-farming community north of Lubbock, TX, and probably don’t have all the knowledge coming from a small town like that, but I’ve worked very hard to get where I’m at today. I’ve met a lot of interesting people in my profession that I never ever would have met if I were to still sack groceries at the local grocery store or be a gas station attendant in my home town. Now, I’m not putting anyone down who does that kind of work and I don’t want anyone to think I am. Shouldn’t even have to mention that, but want to be politically correct.
That all being said, we all should think that the record matters, from the court reporter down to the client who is suing or being sued. Why? Well, I know when I go to look for a new car, I look for quality and dependability and that normally leads me to a Toyota or a Honda. Why? Because they make a great product. That’s how we should be viewed in the legal community.
How has the reporting profession come to the point that we are not dependable or reliable? Yes, we are probably more expensive than ER, but we provide quality and dependability. If I didn’t want that in a car, I’d go find the cheapest car I could find, but, I would spend more time on repairs because I chose cheap over quality.
I still, to this day, am very proud to call myself a court reporter. “What do you do for a living?” Proudly, “I’m a court reporter.” I don’t hold my head down or feel sorry for that. The only thing I’m sorry for is that we are a necessity in this world in the legal community to keep the record, and to keep it correctly. That is an amazing burden and responsibilty that I don’t think a lot of new reporters realize coming out of school. I know when I got certified that I KNEW everything there was to know about court reporting and could write fast. Boy, weren’t we all amazed at just exactly how much we really didn’t know.
I remember one time a new reporter came to me and said, “Breck, what are certified questions?”
I said, “Didn’t they teach you that in school?”
“No.”
“Well, what you have to do is you edit your transcript just like normal and then you take those questions where the attorney wanted them certified and you extract them into a new transcript and then you go to the witness’s house and make them answer the questions that they refused to answer in the deposition.”
(Pause)
“Do what???!!!!”
“Yes, you have to go to their house and wait for them to answer. It sucks, but we’ve all had to do that.”
“They didn’t teach us that in school.”
You get the point here. I had a blast with the reporter getting all excited about having to go to the “bad side” of town and wait for this 6′8″ guy to answer the question.
I say all this as an aside because it just reemphasizes the fact that as a newbie we don’t know everything. How can I sit here and justify having someone that is cute, just out of high school, be my typist?? I can’t. I have had student reporters work for me as scopists as they are training in school and when they first start with me, I’m amazed at just how much they don’t know in the beginning. It’s not the fact that you can write fast or that you can type fast or edit fast; it is the fact that you have to be an “expert” right now in the field of what you’re editing. There’s is no way to be an expert and know what a seasoned reporter knows coming out of high school. Maybe editing a car accident case is an exception here, but we have got to really educate the public about the importance of why the record does matter.
I tell clients and attorneys all the time that I come across about how I have to be an expert in their field of discussion that day and I think it really gives them a new perspective on how difficult our jobs are when put that way. They never think about what comes to them so easily and whether others might have difficulty with the lingo or the words or acronyms. We only are able to do what we do by being able to say, “Wait a minute, what was that? I didn’t get that phrase you just used.” Show me a machine that can do that and I’ll embrace it, but I’m still convinced the reporter is what makes the record matter.
Whether it’s NCRA, TCRA or a local boy from a small town in north Texas, it is all of our responsibility to educate the public on what we do and how important our job is. This should be done, whether we are threatened by new technology or not. All I have to do in my office is keep messing up jobs and deliveries with one of my clients, and there’s another firm right down the street that would be very happy to take over that client’s business.
As associations, they should get out there with campaigns stressing how important the reporter is to the record in court and deposition. The firm owners should stress to their clients how important the record is to them. The reporters within the firm — yes, even them — should do what they can to promote the profession, because, again, there’s always a firm down the street or new technology on the horizon just waiting for us to mess up or sit back on our laurels and jump in and take over.
We all have a responsibility to ourselves and our profession to keep it to the standards those who came before us have it set at. Realtime is what will probably save our professions, but if all we do is hook up the writer to a computer and never try to improve ourselves or actually provide interactive realtime to clients or judges or whoever, what have we done to promote ourselves? Nothing. I’m no expert on realtime or the best realtime writer, but if I hear another person say, “Oh, but Breck, my dictionary is not ready” I’m going to scream. I’m a better realtime writer now than I was when I started trying to write realtime in ‘91……a heck of a lot better. I know how my program translates now, I watch my writing and I see right now what my problem areas are. I’ve had to change quite a few things in my writing style, but it’s for the betterment of what the client gets at the end of the day. It’s not about me; it’s about the client. Being flexible is important and if we’re set in our ways, we are going to have problems. If we’re willing to adjust, adapt and overcome, we will be better in the long run.
This is not an easy profession. I’ve said it before, you got to want it to be good and make your record matter. If we all do nothing, we are doomed.
I don’t make a distinction between freelance or official here…..we are ALL Court Reporters. We should all work together. I’ve seen too many times where officials and freelancers don’t work together in the local community. I’ve worked on both sides of the fence and it’s sad to say that there are many on both sides who are doing nothing to improve themselves. Who am I to call anyone down? I’m just an ol’ country boy, but I love what I do for a living and I plan on doing this for a long time. If that means calling anyone out to wake up, then so be it. We all need to wake up here and have a reawakening in the profession and promote ourselves the best way we can.
I’ve become a managing reporter now and have seen the other side of things from an owner’s perspective and I can appreciate the bottom line from the firm’s perspective. As a firm owner, I can see how the firm might look at digital reporting when their reporters are not servicing the firm’s clients the way the firm wants the client taken care of. I can appreciate how it’s easy to want to make a higher percentage on the profits when you’re paying the bills. We all want to make money. That’s a given. I’m sure many firms struggle with how to keep the reporters excited about the work they do and how to keep the reporters current on all their work. I don’t know the answers, but it’s going to be fun to try to figure it all out.
Now that I’m out here on a limb, hopefully others will join me and we can swing together. Doyle Brunson said, “Sometimes you have to go out on a limb…..because that’s there the fruit is.”
Hopefully this doesn’t turn out to be the “Jerry Maguire” letter like what Tom Cruise wrote.
In closing, to quote Richard Dreyfuss from “The American President” in a roundabout way: ……..My name is Breck Record and I AM a Court Reporter and my record DOES matter as well as MY profession.
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My Thoughts on the Record
4. July 2008 by admin.
I have never been averse to looking at new technology, as long as it is for the betterment of our profession. I have an analogy I’d like to share in regards to scoping that might apply to other areas. One of the problems I have with scopists is whether to pay them by the page when they work for me, or whether to pay them by the hour. Over the years, I’ve fought with that because on the one hand, if paid by the hour, they know that they are going to make so much every hour and I see the production sometimes go down because whether they do 5 pages an hour or 50 pages an hour, the pay is the same. On the other hand, I have paid scopists by the page and have seen over the years at different times the push, if you will, to get pages out and edited at the expense sometimes of being accurate because “the more pages you edit, the more you make.”
Now, I am by no means picking on scopists, but the point is if paid by the hour, are they more inclined to be more accurate? If paid by the page, are they more concerned with quantity over quality? Those are questions I always ask myself and always wonder about. Do I give a scopist a nice hourly salary to edit for me, or do I pay them a nice page rate?
This can also be applied to associations. Do we keep things as they are, or do we push to add members at the expense of the longtime members who aren’t willing to change? I don’t know. I remember the church I attended while in San Antonio and the average age of the members. The age was in the upper fifties, with a few families who were like me….in their late twenties and early thirties. Well, to try to get the majority to want to change or to do something different in church or to modify the service or the routine sometimes was about as hard as trying to get Congress to pass legislation or agree on anything. Many times, after new change was brought about, all were okay with it, but, in the beginning, it was a struggle and a fight to bring that change about.
We are probably, as a profession, at this same crossroads, whether nationally or in our own local and state organizations. Change is on the horizon, and how do we address this change? What’s best for the reporter? What’s best for the profession? What’s best for the client? These are questions that we all have to ask ourselves and figure out what direction we are willing to go and what direction we are not willing to go. What changes are tough but okay in the future? I don’t know. Should we fight ER or accept that it works? I don’t know. Is embracing ER by using backup audio media with our software okay? Was that the right thing to do? I don’t know. These are all things that have to be figured out and examined over the next few years and discussed. Knee-jerk reactions are definitely not the way to go, but in the defense of a knee-jerk, it just signifies to me the passion one feels about what they believe in.
I’m very passionate about court reporting. I hope to do this for many more years. Where does voice recognition come in? Digital? Do they scare me? Sure they do. Am I doing what I can with the technology that I have to fight it or protect myself? You bet I am. Is it something I should embrace in some form or fashion next year? Five years from now? Ten years from now? I don’t know. Am I so set in my ways that I’m not willing to look at it and examine it? Not at all. I like to know my friends, but I like to know my enemies even better. I can sit here and badger that which I don’t know all day long, but until I really look at something closely, I’m not going to be educated on what I like or don’t like about it. I’m in no way suggesting that voice or ER are the way to go here, but I’m trying to have an open mind about it and understand the enemy before I go after it and try to destroy it.
I know a couple of things about digital right now:
1. Yeah, it can make a good recording.
2. Yeah, a person can sit there and monitor it.
3. Yeah, a tape can be made from it to transcribe.
4. Yeah, there are going to be “inaudibles” if the “monitor” doesn’t speak up and say “You were talking at the same time.”
5. Yeah, the judge, attorneys, monitor, won’t know if there’s a recording until after the fact, despite the monitor wearing headphones and monitoring the recording.
6. Yeah, you can get a transcript back within a few weeks or sooner, if necessary.
7. Yeah, you have to pay someone to transcribe that tape, be it a transcriptionist, or a court reporter, who will probably charge you more just because you didn’t have them there in the first place and charge you the “rekeying” fee to have to sit there and rekey the job so they can edit it.
8. Yeah, a monitor can keep a note file of events that happened. But…
There is no way on this green Earth that a digital tape has been able to beat me on the turnaround and give the client a transcript within hours of an all-day hearing when I’m writing realtime and a scopist is right behind me; and,
There is no way that anyone is going to be able to get a rough draft of the proceedings immediately at the end of the day; and,
There is no way that a scopist can sit right there behind a digital tape and start editing it like they can sit behind me and scope on-site right now; and,
There is no way that, in a depo, an attorney is going to get a transcript within an hour or so of the depo; and,
There is no way an attorney in a depo can leave the depo with a rough draft either printed or emailed to him at that moment.
When my clients want to “See it Write Now,” they call me to the job and not Sony or Memorex. “Is it a court reporter or is it Memorex?” It’s a Court Reporter every single time
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