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Yes, I know Cannes is over. But sometimes the fall-out takes a few days to settle.
First of all, I got in touch with the team from DDB South Africa who won the Press Grand Prix (for Energizer batteries), which later proved to be based on the same idea as a Nickelodeon campaign.
Here is what their ECD Gareth Lessing had to say (best read in a South African accent):
Shit ya we ripped it off completely!!!
It's always shit when there is something else out there and it's only brought to your attention after it has won anything. We are not the first guys it's happened to, and trust me we won't be the last.
Are there really those out there that rip work off? If so, sad, but there are probably more who acuse people of ripping than there are who actually do rip work off.
I would never enter a piece of work into Cannes if I knew it had been done. I'm always the one to say the shit words...."Hey that's been done" but I am not psychic and would never assume or accuse the team of ripping it off.
Yip i have seen the Nickelodeon stuff "NOW" because it's been shoved in my face.
All I can say is - hey, that website that shows duplicate work [Coloribus, Joe La Pompe] now has a new entry. Than again, maybe it's already there with a piece that was done even before it...
Props to Gareth, for having the cojones to come on here and make what I think is a pretty convincing defence.
Second of all, it seems this almost completely unbranded Thai 48-sheet for Alka-Seltzer, which was originally awarded a Silver, has been withdrawn from the competition.
Philip Thomas, the Cannes Lions CEO, told Campaign journalist Suzanne Bidlake that some entries are withdrawn at a late stage and that "it's not for us to question why." That's right. Don't bother policing your rules, or sanctioning those who break them.
Thirdly of all, and worstly of all, is a scandal surrounding this lovely ad, which won a Bronze in the film category. (It's been taken down from YouTube, if that last link doesn't work, try searching under 'speed dressing').
The Wall Street Journal reports that U.S. retailer J.C.Penney knew absolutely nothing about the ad, and is pissed off because its racey message is out of line with their values.
To me, this is a new low. There used to at least be some honour amongst scammers. You could pay to make an ad yourself, and you could pay for it to run (once) yourself, but you had to at least get the client's permission.
If that rule is gone, I might as well shoot someone with a cellphone up their a***, say "Is your mobile network screwing you?" stick a T-Mobile logo on it, and send it in for a Lion. Good chance, do you think?
UPDATE - AdRants hears that the J.C. Penney ad has been withdrawn from Cannes.


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Leaders of Freemasons in Virginia and Massachusetts discuss the sectional crisis and the future of the Union.
Proceedings of a Grand Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Begun and Held in the Mason's Hall, in the City of Richmond, on Monday, the 9th Day of December, A. L. 5861, A. D. 1861 (Richmond, Va.: Chas. H. Wynne, Printer, 1861), 29–31. Collections of the Library of Virginia.
National fraternal organizations, such as the Freemasons, were important in uniting the different parts of the country in the nineteenth century. This exchange between the grand masters of the Freemasons in Virginia and Massachusetts illustrates that the leaders of Freemasonry were unsuccessful in using the influence of their national organization to save the Union.
Winslow Lewis, of Boston, Massachusetts, wrote, "Is it too late to avert the calamity? Is there naught remains of conservatism to be tried? Have we not an institution which binds us together, not only as fellow-citizens, but as brothers; and as brothers, can we lacerate those pledges the foundation of our Faith and Practice?"
John Robin McDaniel, of Lynchburg, replied, "The Union is beyond doubt dissolved, and the only hope that remains is, that a peaceful separation may be effected, and the conservative element of both sections may so exert themselves, as to secure the most friendly relations; so that whilst we may not be able to live as one family, we may nevertheless continue forever good neighbors."


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Rev. chil. anat. v.20 n.2 Temuco 2002
Rev. Chil. Anat., 20(2):193-196, 2002.
Marques, S. R.; Itezerote, A. M.; Saviolo Moreira, R.; De Angelis, M. A. & Prates, J. C. Anatomical variations of the occipital artery: relate of two cases. Rev. Chil. Anat., 20(2):193-196, 2002.
SUMMARY: Due to the great importance of the knowledge about variations occurring in the vascular system to surgeons and professionals who work with imaging, we describe in this article a variation of the origin of the occipital artery.
110 cadavers of male and female individuals had they carotid vascular tree in the region of the neck carefully dissected using loupe magnification and its origin and course were measured as well as a simple diameter.
This artery usually branches off from the posterior part of the wall of the external carotid artery at the same level of the facial artery branching however, the two cases presented showed the occipital artery branching off very close to the carotid bifurcation, which characterize it as a trifurcation instead. The occipital artery branching off too close to the carotid bifurcation is a rarity as demonstrated by our results and the its literature is insufficient.
KEY WORDS: 1. Anatomy; 2. Common carotid artery; 3. Occipital artery; 4. Anatomical variation.
Due to increasing need of finding out new safe accesses for surgical procedures in the region of neck and head, vascular variations are more and more frequently being described (Benson & Hamer, 1988).
Procedures which need a greater knowledge of the course of the occipital artery include: 1 the biopsy of this artery when one suspects of cranial arteritis with involvement of the occipital artery (Schmidt & Adelmann, 2001); 2 transfer of hair-bearing tissue blood-supplied by the occipital artery (Matloub et al., 1992); 3 surgical procedures involving flap management in the head and neck region (Sharma et al., 1996) as well as 4 angiographic studies (Gluncic et al., 2001).
Many authors describe variations of the origin of the occipital artery (Adachi & Hasebe, 1928, Altmann, 1947; Newton & Young, 1968; Matsuda et al., 1977, Benson & Hamer). Bergman et al., (2001) and Kaneko et al., (1996) describes this artery as sometimes branching off the internal carotid artery, the thyrocervical trunk and the inferior thyroid artery or its ascending cervical branch. A few authors report a variation of the occipital artery origin as a close branching to the carotid bifurcation (Adachi & Hasebe). Our study adds to the ones of the latter authors in that greater occurrence frequency and closeness difference were observed.
110 cadavers of male and female individuals who died at ages ranging from 23 to 78 years old had they carotid vascular tree in the region of the neck carefully dissected using loupe magnification. The origin and course of the occipital artery were measured as well as a simple diameter "in loco" measurement with a digital caliper (Storm -0.05 mm accuracy) was taken.
In 2 of the 110 cadavers (1,8%), the occipital artery origin was about a third of its usual length from the carotid bifurcation which could characterize a trifurcation instead.
In the cadaver of a 65 years old individual, the occipital artery originated 5 mm from the carotid bifurcation, 45 mm from the hyoid bone (figure.1). The occipital and carotid artery diameters were 9 and 20 mm respectively. The superior thyroid artery branched from common carotid artery 0,8 mm below the carotid bifurcation and the occipital artery was the first of the external carotid.
|Fig. 1. A. Common carotid artery; B. Superior thyroid artery; C. Lingual artery; D. External carotid artery; E. Occipital artery; F. Internal carotid artery. Arrow show the carotid bifurcation.
In the cadaver of a 46 years old individual, the occipital artery had its origin 9 mm away from the carotid bifurcation, 3 mm above the lingual artery and 32 mm away from the hyoid bone. The occipital and external artery diameters were 10 and 13 mm, respectively. The superior thyroid artery branched from the common carotid artery 3 mm below the carotid bifurcation and the occipital artery was the second branch of the external carotid artery.
Classically, the occipital artery arises from the posterior face of the external carotid artery Poirier & Charpy (1902), Testut & Latarjet (1945), Lasjaunias et al. (1978), Williams et al. (1995), 20 mm further the carotid bifurcation. Although many studies have supported variations of the origin of the occipital artery (Adachi & Hasebe), Benson and Hamer take this fact as rarity. Newton & Young reported 3 cases where in 2 of them this arterial vessel branched from the internal carotid artery 20 mm from the carotid bifurcation. Lasjaunias et al. showed that the occipital artery could arise either from the internal carotid artery, the vertebral artery (suboccipital part) or the faringo occipital trunk.
Anatomy treatises presents the occipital artery as usually branching off the posterior face of the external carotid artery, 20 mm from the carotid bifurcation in average at the same level of the lingual artery and a just below the hyoid bone (Sappey, 1876). It runs medially all over the posterior bundle of the digastric muscle and ends in the posterior aspect of the head, in the nape (Hollinshead & Rosse, 1991).
We agree with the authors although our results showed the occipital artery as the first branch of the external carotid artery only in one case. Its closeness with the carotid bifurcation figures out a trifurcation instead. Adachi & Hasebe studied 298 subjects and described only 2 cases of left occipital artery branching off the carotid bifurcation, characterizing a trifurcation of the carotid tripod. We agree with these authors since we found similar results.
The two cases presented here, resemble those recently described by Gluncic and Gurbuz et al.
The occipital artery branching off too close to the carotid bifurcation is a rarity as demonstrated by our results and the literature. This important variation could lead to severe complications when radiographics evaluation or surgical proceedings were done in the neck region.
RESUMEN: Debido a la importancia que tienen las variaciones musculares para cirujanos, como también para los profesionales del área de las imágenes, describimos dos variaciones de origen de la arteria occipital.
Disecamos la región del cuello en 110 cadáveres de individuos, adultos, brasileros de ambos sexos, determinándose el origen, trayecto y diámetro de la arteria occipital.
La arteria occipital que se origina generalmente de la pared posterior de la arteria carótida externa, a nivel de la arteria facial, fue encontrada en dos casos, originándose muy próxima a la terminación de la arteria carótida común, asemejándose mucho a una trifurcación carotídea. Este modo de origen de la arteria occipital, próximo a la bifurcación carotídea constituye una variación anatómica muy rara, como también lo demuestra la literatura existente.
PALABRAS CLAVE: 1. Anatomía; 2. Arteria carótida común; 3. Arteria occipital; 4. Variación anatómica.
Adachi, B. & Hasebe, K. Das Arteriensystem der Japaner. Kyobo, Maruzen, Kaiserlich Japanischen Universitat zu Kyoto, 1928, V.1. [ Links ]
Altmann, F. Anomalies of the internal carotid rrtery and its branches: Their Embryological and Comparative Anatomical Significance. Report of a New Case of Persistent Stapedial Artery in Man. Laryngoscope, 57:313-39, 1947. [ Links ]
Benson, M.T. & Hamer, J.D. Anomalous origin of the occipital artery from the cervical internal carotid artery. J. Vasc. Surg., 8(5):643-5, 1988. [ Links ]
Bergman, R. A.; Afifif, A. K. & Miyauchi, R. The Occipital Artey In: Illustrated encyclopedia of human anatomic variations. URL: http://www.vh.org/Providers/Textbooks/AnatomicVariants/Cardiovascular/Text /Arteries/Occipital.html, 2001. [ Links ]
Gluncic, V.; Petanjek, Z.; Marusic, A. & Gluncic, I. High bifurcation of common carotid artery, anomalous origin of ascending pharyngeal artery and anomalous branching pattern of external carotid artery. Surg. Radiol. Anat., 23(2):123-5, 2001. [ Links ]
Gurbuz, J.; Cavdar, S. & Ozdogmus, O. Trifurcation of the left common carotid artery: a case repot. Clinical Anatomy, 14(1):58-61, 2001. [ Links ]
Hollinshead, W. H. & Rosse, C. Anatomia. 4 ed. Rio de Janeiro, Interlivros, 1991. [ Links ]
Kaneko, K.; Akita, M.; Murata, E.; Imai, M. & Sowa, K. Unilateral anomalous left common carotid artery: a case report. Ann. Anat., 178: 477-80, 1996. [ Links ]
Lasjaunias, P., Théron, J. & Moret, J. The occipital artery. Neuroradiology, 15:31-7, 1978. [ Links ]
Matloub, H. S.; Yousif, N. J.; Ye, Z. & Sanger, J. R. The occipital artery flap for transfer of hair-bearing tissue. Annals of Plastic Surgery, 29(6):491-5, 1992. [ Links ]
Matsuda, I.; Handa, J.; Handa, H. & Mizunom, H. Bilateral anomalous occipital artery of internal carotid origin: case report. Nippon Geka Hokan, 46(1):57-61, 1977. [ Links ]
Newton, T. H. & Young, D. A. Anomalous origin of the occipital artery from the internal carotid artery. Radiology 90:550-2, 1968. [ Links ]
Poirier, P. & Charpy, A. Angèiologie. In: Traité D'anatomie Humaine. Paris, Ed Masson, 1902. V.2. [ Links ]
Sappey, P. H.C. Traité D'anatomie Descritive. 3 ed., Paris, Ed V.Adrien Delahaye et Cie Libraire, 1876. V.2. [ Links ]
Schmidt, D. & Aldemann, G. The course of the occipital artery? An anatomical investigation for biopsy in suspected vasculitis. European J. Med. Research, 6(6):235-41, 2001. [ Links ]
Sharma, R. K.; Kobayashi, K; Jackson, I.T. & Carls, F. R. Vascular anatomy of the galea occipitalis flap: a cadaver study. Plastic and Reconstrutive Surgery, 97(1):25-31, 1996. [ Links ]
Testut, L. & Latrajet, A. Tratado de Anatomía Humana. 8. ed. Barcelona, Salvat, 1945. V.2. [ Links ]
Williams, P. L.; Warwick, R.; Dyson, M. & Bannister, L. H. Gray Anatomia. 37 ed. Rio de Janeiro, Guanabara Koogan, 1995. V.1. [ Links ]
Dirección para correspondencia:
Dr. Sergio Ricardo Marques
Disciplina de Anatomia Descritiva e Topográfica
Departamento de Morfologia
Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
Rua Botucatú, 740 - CEP 04023-900
São Paulo - BRASIL
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* Department of Morphology, Discipline of Anatomy, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil.
** Discipline of Anatomy, University of Vale do Itajaí, Santa Catarina, Brazil.


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The Interpreter's Toolkit: Intragloss - a useful glossary-building tool for interpreters
Intragloss particularly excels for its glossary-building tools, which make preparing for a conference fast and easy. Its document annotation feature is innovative, but somewhat buggy.
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Created by conference interpreter Dan Kenig and software developer Daniel Pohoryles, Intragloss aims to help interpreters "cut their prep time by as much as 50%."
To do so, Intragloss offers a suite of tools for reading and comparing documents, identifying terms, searching for equivalents online, and creating term lists and multilingual glossaries. Innovative features allow you to quickly generate assignment glossaries from preparation materials and automatically annotate a document with translations of terms from your glossaries.
Intragloss also offers search features to quickly pull up terms while in the booth, but these pale in comparison to other glossary management programs, like Interpreters' Help or Interplex.
Nevertheless, Intragloss is a versatile, easy-to-use program that significantly decreases my preparation time. Despite a few minor bugs, it's my go-to tool when preparing for nearly every interpreting assignment.
The nuts and bolts
Intragloss is available for Mac computers; a Windows version is in the works. Intragloss supports over 180 languages and is Unicode-compatible, which means it can handle diacritics, special characters, and non-ASCII languages, like Russian and Hebrew. The software includes a user's guide and fast customer support via email.
Intragloss is one of the most expensive pieces of interpreting software I use; at $49 per month, $99 for three months or $269 per year, an Intragloss subscription is rather pricey. Rates drop to more manageable levels for renewals, especially if you're willing to shell out $359 for a three-year subscription. Before you take the plunge, try out the free month-long trial. Intragloss also offers a hefty discount for students enrolled in interpreting programs.
Kenig and Pohoryles argue that "Intragloss is a professional glossary-maker that gives you everything you need to prepare for assignments." While I find this claim to be slightly hyperbolic – I'll discuss some shortcomings over the course of this article – Intragloss is indeed a robust, time saving tool.
Kenig's short video provides a quick visual introduction to Intragloss.
A quick overview
Intragloss is organized hierarchically, into domains and assignments. Domains generally reflect specializations, and assignments usually represent a single interpreting job. In this example from the user's manual, "Cell Phones," "Cars," and "Psychology" are domains, while "Paris Expo 2015" and "Madrid Expo 2015" are examples of individual assignments.
The Intragloss interface
Every Intragloss assignment is by default bilingual, and includes a bilingual assignment glossary. Each assignment glossary has at least two columns, for the source and target language terms. You can customize your assignment glossary to include columns with acronyms and remarks in both the source and target languages.
Each domain has a domain glossary, which is automatically populated from the individual assignment glossaries in the domain. Since a domain can include assignments with different language pairs, a domain glossary can be multilingual.
In the example above, "Paris Expo 2015" and "Madrid Expo 2015" are two bilingual assignments – an English/French assignment and an English/Spanish assignment. Both are part of the "Cell Phones" domain, which has a trilingual English/Spanish/French glossary including all of the terms from every assignment in the domain.
Every Intragloss assignment can include one or more documents, such as the "Mobile phone.pdf" file in the example above. I usually import everything I receive from conference organizers and any other materials I find while preparing for an assignment into Intragloss, and use these documents to develop term lists and multilingual glossaries. In theory, Intragloss supports several input formats, including PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Pages and Keynote. In my experience, however, the software often struggles with formats other than PDF, so I tend to convert all my documents to PDF format before importing them.
Intragloss has a built-in web browser, which means you can import one or more webpages into a given assignment. This is an especially useful feature, since interpreters often prepare from online sources in addition to the documents provided by conference organizers.
It took me some time to wrap my head around the idea of domains and assignments, and I find it especially confusing when preparing for a multilingual interpreting job.
I've also found that Intragloss creates duplicate entries in the domain glossary when the same source language term appears in two assignments. For example, if I input "attachments" --> "pièces jointes" in the English/French "Paris Expo 2015" assignment and "attachments" --> "documentos adjuntos" in the English/Spanish "Madrid Expo 2015" assignment, instead of merging them into a single trilingual entry in the domain glossary, Intragloss creates two separate bilingual entries in the domain glossary. If you work with multilingual assignments often, like I do, this will probably get on your nerves. My workaround is to create a bilingual glossary with Intragloss, download it, add the third language manually, and upload my glossary to another glossary manager for easy reference while on the job.
Building glossaries using the online search function
Building glossaries with Intragloss is quick and easy. Create a new assignment (and a new domain if needed), open any related documents or websites in that assignment, and start reading through your documents and fleshing out your glossary.
Intragloss offers two different tools for building glossaries: online terminology search and terminology extraction from parallel documents.
The screenshot below, from the Intragloss demo video, demonstrates how the online terminology search function works.
Searching for a term
Highlight an unfamiliar term – "bi-metallic" in this example – and click on the "search" button. Intragloss adds the term to your assignment glossary, highlights it in the document, and searches for it using your pre-selected websites – which can include online dictionaries like the Collins multilingual dictionaries or WordReference.com; parallel corpora tools like Linguee; and terminology portals like IATE, Termium or ProZ.
Once you find a good translation, highlight it, click "Translation," and the translation is automatically added to your bilingual glossary.
Look through the various search sites (displayed as orange tabs above), highlight the translation, and click to add it to your glossary
You can also highlight acronyms or remarks in the source or target language and add them to your glossary, or manually edit cells to type in translations or remarks by hand.
Overall, Intragloss' online search feature is a real time-saver. It simplifies the process of searching for, copying and pasting terms and switching between programs, which can be especially time-intensive if you have to search for a term on various terminology sites.
However, the online search tool is not without its flaws. Intragloss struggles with diacritics, multi-word terms, and plural forms. Although IATE pulls up a good translation for a term like "informes periódicos," the two-word term gets converted into "informesperiodicos" on Collins and the accent gets mangled on its way to Linguee, which normally provides a good translation for this phrase. On ProZ, the source and target languages are not shared with the website, so you see translations in a variety of languages not relevant for your current project. If the way Intragloss handled multi-word terms, diacritics, and plural forms were improved, the program would end up saving you even more time.
Comparing documents and building glossaries from parallel documents
Since I do a lot of work for international organizations, I often receive sets of parallel documents in various languages.
With Intragloss, you can build a glossary from parallel documents in no time flat.
After you attach a translated file to a document you've imported, Intragloss displays the original and translated files side by side.
The process for adding a term is similar to the one described above. Highlight a given term and click "entry." Then highlight the translation in the parallel document and click "translation," and voilà – you've created a glossary entry without extensive copying and pasting or jumping back and forth between programs.
Comparing documents and adding a translation from a parallel document
Intragloss offers handy keyboard shortcuts, making the process of searching for a term and adding entries, translations, acronyms and remarks even faster. It is also cleverly programmed to eliminate extraneous punctuation when you enter a new term (although it would be even better if it could remove articles, e.g. the l' in French, and if didn't occasionally remove spaces between words).
Intragloss' synchronize scrolling feature makes it easy to scroll up and down in both documents simultaneously. This feature is useful when preparing glossaries and even more helpful when a speaker quotes from a text and you can pull up the original and translation side by side.
Comparing documents is probably my favorite part of Intragloss, and the feature I use most frequently. It works nearly flawlessly, although I have occasionally found a slight glitch in the scrolling feature. Of course, comparing documents is even better with more screen real estate, so I especially love using this feature to prepare on my desktop at home. But when I'm on the road or in the booth, it can still be a godsend.
Creating a monolingual terminology list
If you're reading through a document you just received, but don't have much time available, you can also use Intragloss to create a monolingual terminology list. Simply highlight a term, click "entry," and your term is added to your monolingual vocabulary list. You can download and print out this list, which is useful if you want to look up these terms at a later time or discuss them with a colleague.
You can also use the "merge" feature to create documents where these terms are highlighted, providing context if you'd like to ask a colleague or the speaker about difficult terms.
Merging a monolingual terminology list produces a document with terms highlighted
Downloading glossaries
You can download assignment and domain glossaries from Intragloss with just a few clicks.
The program exports glossaries in .txt and .doc formats, which the developers claim are "spreadsheet-" and "word-processing compatible."
On this front, I think Intragloss falls a bit short.
First, Intragloss exports domain glossaries with the entry, acronym and remark columns, even if you created the domain without these columns. The ability to pick and choose which columns to export would yield more visually appealing results.
Second, although spreadsheet software can open .txt files, this format isn't generally used in third party applications. I would love to download my glossaries in .xls, .xlsx, or even .csv format – which are compatible with other glossary management tools, like Interpreters' Help – instead of having to convert the format before I can open my glossaries in another application.
Importing glossaries
Intragloss also allows you to import pre-existing glossaries. Since these are imported as domain glossaries, you can import multilingual lists, too.
Intragloss can import Word (.doc or .docx, although .docx is preferred), Excel (.xlsx) and text (.txt) files. Column headers can be language names, two-letter ISO 639-1 language codes, acronyms (e.g. "English Acronym") or remarks (e.g. "English Remark").
I tested out the import glossary feature using a 500-word and a 1000-word glossary I had created for previous assignments. Intragloss imported the 500-term glossary in 26 seconds and the 1000-term glossary in 52 seconds, for an average import speed of 0.05 seconds / term in both cases. Regardless of whether I labeled column headers using language names or ISO codes, Intragloss correctly read and imported these headers.
Viewing, sorting, and searching through glossaries
You can view domain glossaries in flat and tabular layouts. Examples of both (from the Intragloss user's guide) are reproduced below.
Viewing a domain glossary in flat mode
In flat mode, click on any given term to see its translation in all the languages in your glossary. (The Spanish and French translations of "attachment" are displayed in the example above.) You can also search for a full or partial entry, acronym or remark – although your search is limited to the language displayed on the screen (in this case, English).
Viewing a domain glossary in tabular mode
Tabular mode displays all the terms, acronyms and remarks in your glossary. You can also search all the entries, acronyms and remarks in every language in your glossary. In theory, you can also sort your lists alphabetically by a given language; in practice, I've found this feature to be buggy, since the terms in one language sometimes temporarily disappear. I would also appreciate the option to hide the "acronyms" and "remarks" columns while in tabular mode.
Finally, you can search an assignment glossary by order of appearance or synchronize your document(s) to see where the term first appears. This is handy for seeing a term in context, but the search feature is slow, and alignment in parallel documents is often off.
Synchronized search with parallel documents in an assignment glossary
Although synchronized search might be useful at times, I generally find that Intragloss' search features aren't up to snuff. It tends to be slightly slow, which is the last thing you want when you're trying to come up with a term quickly. Intragloss doesn't ignore diacritics when searching, slowing you down even more, since you have to type out every accent and umlaut. Columns cannot be reordered, and you can't easily search across multiple domains at once. Intragloss' competitors offer these features, which is why I use Intragloss for preparing glossaries, but other tools for searching through them while on assignment.
Quickly preparing an assignment glossary
Once you have imported one of your pre-existing glossaries, you can take advantage of two innovative features: quickly preparing an assignment glossary and merging translations of terms into documents you have received to create an annotated PDF for sight translation or simultaneous with text.
By default, when you import one or more documents into Intragloss, the program automatically highlights all the terms that are already in your domain glossary and creates an assignment glossary including all these terms and their translations. Click on a term to see it in context, scroll through and search this glossary, see a glossary for a single document, or extract this glossary – an incredibly useful tool for quickly deriving a small, assignment-specific glossary from a much larger one.
Automatically extracting terms from a document to create a searchable assignment glossary
This feature is relatively fast, too. I tested this out with my 500- and 1000-term glossaries on a series of different real-world documents. Intragloss prepared these assignment glossaries in 16 and 29 seconds, respectively (about 0.03 seconds/term) – regardless of the length of the document!
The screenshot above is from a 73-page background paper. Intragloss processed the document and extracted a 334-term assignment glossary from it in fewer than 30 seconds – impressive indeed!
Merging documents with glossaries for simultaneous with text or sight translation
Imagine being sent a speech that will be read out during a meeting, but with translations for all of the key terms provided. That's what Intragloss' merge feature aims to do – annotate a document to include the translations of every term in your glossary.
Here's a screenshot from the Intragloss demo video:
Merging documents with glossaries
To put Intragloss through its paces, I took my 500- and 1000-word glossaries and tested out the merge feature with two 1000-word and two 2500-word speeches from a recent interpreting assignment. After importing the speeches, Intragloss created assignment glossaries with between 45 and 95 terms. I then hit the "merge" button, and … the results were mixed.
Intragloss took an average of 0.75 seconds per term (and 0.25 seconds per unique term) to merge these documents, which meant I waited between 8 and 106 seconds per merged document – on top of the 16 – 29 seconds to import the document, and a lot of other assorted clicking. All in all, Intragloss took anywhere between 90 and 180 seconds to spit out these annotated documents.
And it wasn't particularly accurate, either. Although Intragloss identified hundreds of unique terms, it only came up with their translations 32% of the time.
The merge feature identified tons of terms, but often didn't propose their translations
As you can see from the images above, this feature can be exceptionally useful when it pulls up a translation that might not roll off the tip of your tongue. But Intragloss struggled with multi-word terms (e.g. officers vs. prison officers), polysemy (e.g. report as a verb vs. report as a noun), singular vs. plural forms (worker vs. workers), and long phrases. It was inconsistent, coming up with the correct translation at times, but omitting it at others. It produced a color-coded text that was difficult to follow, and took its time doing so. It also occasionally printed the English term below the original and the translated equivalent above it.
I think that the merge feature has great potential, but would encourage the developers to fine-tune the algorithm so this feature is more reliable. For the moment, it's still somewhat helpful if you have the time to run the speech through the program, but faster, more accurate processing would make the merge feature an incredible boon in the booth.
Intragloss sets its sights high, and is packed with tons of useful features. Given the breadth of these features, and the strong implementation of many of them, it comes as no surprise that practitioners and researchers alike consider Intragloss one of the leading glossary tools for interpreters (Drechsel 2016; Rütten 2015; Costa, Corpas and Durán 2014).
Personally, I think Intragloss' strengths lie in the suite of features for reading and comparing documents, identifying terms, searching for equivalents online, and creating term lists and multilingual glossaries. These work well, are well designed, and cut down my preparation time significantly.
However, the glossary search features in Intragloss are weaker and buggier than those in other software on the market, and implementation is inconsistent for some of Intragloss' most innovative features: the assignment glossary tool is killer, while the merge and annotate function is ripe with potential but too slow and spotty to use on a daily basis.
Despite these minor glitches, I'd strongly recommend Intragloss. It does what it claims to do: cut down preparation time significantly, and make it easier to prepare glossaries for an assignment. And what busy interpreter doesn't want to prepare faster, smarter and better?
Costa, H., Corpas Pastor, G., & Durán Muñoz, I. (2014, August). A comparative user evaluation of terminology management tools for interpreters. Paper presented at the 4th International Workshop on Computational Terminology (CompuTerm '14), Dublin, Ireland.
Drechsel, A. (2016, January 29). Dan Kenig and Intragloss [Audio podcast]. Retrieved from https://www.adrechsel.de/langfm/dan-kenig-intragloss.
Rütten, A. (2015, June 30). "Booth-friendly terminology management: Intragloss – the missing link between texts and glossaries | die Brücke zwischen Text und Glossar" [Blog post]. Retrieved from http://blog.sprachmanagement.net/?p=655.
Josh Goldsmith is a UN- and EU-accredited interpreter and AIIC pre-candidate working from Spanish, French, Italian and Catalan into English. A lover of all things tech, he frequently shares his experience using technology for interpreting at conferences and courses, as well as on Twitter as @Goldsmith_Josh.
Articles published in this section reflect the views of the author(s) and should not be taken to represent the official position of AIIC.


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Thursday, July 10, 2008
Hammerin' Hyland
Today I was at it again. Abusing my body, breaking it down, so that it can recover, rebuild and become stronger than it was yesterday.
I live 70 miles from Hyland and in rush hour, heading toward Minneapolis/St Paul, is a recipe for a long frickin' commute. Sometimes two hours. Instead of facing that crap, which I left when I began to work for the school district in Big Lake, I left home at 4AM so I could skip rush hour and arrive Hyland at 5. I made it in an hour flat. Good omen.
I carried my cooler of Heed, gels, iPod, cell, ice and water up the trail from the lot to the hill. The sun rose, the birds awoke; it was a glorious morning. Up and down the hill I trudged. I do trudge. I'm not exactly graceful. As I am running down the hill it feels like my teeth could fall from my mouth. I'm bombing down as fast as I can go. Sometimes I fall. At the bottom of the hill I turn around and run up to the second ski lift pole, then the trudge is on. Up up up I go. Trudge trudge trudge.
My plan was to run repeats from 5 to 11. That I did. I counted out 60, just because I counted out 60 last week and then stopped. I figured I needed to surpass 60 in order to improve. I counted 10 more and then told myself no more counting. From now on I am only counting hours.
As I was bombing down hill I noticed a woman with a huge pack on her back running along the gravel road. She had grey hair and looked to be in her 60's. Eventually she made her way to the hill and I introduced myself to her. Her name is Rosie. She is 64 years old. She is at Hyland with a back pack, getting ready to head out to Montana to hike with her son and grandchildren. She won't have her son having to wait for her to catch up. She's going to be hiking right with him. My eyes filled with tears when she told me so. I was in awe. I told her so. I told her how much I respected her and how awesome I thought she was. She couldn't imagine going out to run 100 miles in Leadville Colorado.
I want to be just like Rosie when I'm 64. Out at Hyland with a pack on my back. Getting ready to hike in the mountains with my boys and their children. I don't think it gets any better than that. Rock on Rosie!
At 1100 I was ready to head home. It was 84F. By the time I arrived Anytime Fitness for an hour of legs it was 61F in Big Lake! A storm passed through while I was gone. I heard on the radio it went through Bloomington with golf ball sized hail, straight line winds in excess of 50 miles an hour. I'm glad I hit was hammerin' Hyland early today and was out of the area before Mother Nature hammered away.
So legs:
Barbell Squat: 210x12x4
Press: 280x12x4
Ham Curl: 105x12x4
Extension: 120x12x4
Deads: 100x12x4
And the leggies are tired. Tonight I coach my evening Beginning Runner Group. They may outrun me!
Three days running the Superior Hiking Trail is up next. Steve and Troy are limiting out on walley and northern on Lake Vermilion. They'll be home Sunday, too.
Run On!
4 comments:
- Damon said...
I'm amazed at the differences in the weights we lift. If I tried to squat 210, I wouldn't make it through one set of 12. I seem stuck on 155 these days.
Yet, on deadlifts, I could do 205 for 4 sets of 12. I know that you did your deads at the end of your workout, but the difference is quite dramatic between our squats and deads.
But, your weight workouts and your long mileage are certainly paying off. You are running amazingly well this year.
- Carl Gammon said...
Nice hill workout. Sometimes I wish I had your motivation, and I only live 10 minutes from Hyland.
- SteveQ said...
So, after Afton, you have the energy to run hills for 6 hours and lift weights! A week later, and I'm up to 1 measly mile (granted, it's more than I expected).
- Julie B said...
Hey Damon, my lower back is kind of weak, hence the baby weight on the deads. I began at 15 pounds though so have made a bit of improvement. The squats I began at 60 pounds. I always see improvement in the lower body but seem to be stuck at the upper body.
Carl, I will be at Hyland again on Sunday. Probably another 5 am-11am hill workout.
Steve, a mile is great!! It beats laying on the couch any old day. You should be taking it slow, you know? In order to fatigue my legs at weights I usually need to do a hard hill/run or stair stepper first. Otherwise I run out of 45 pound plates to add to the bar/press.


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Director Steven Spielberg, producer George Lucas and star Harrison Ford are well remembered for their obvious contributions to the high-octane, whip-cracking adventures of Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones.
But just as Indy relied on his own band of indispensable allies like Sallah, Short Round and Marcus Brody, so too did the filmmakers turn to an elite band of inventive craftsmen and technicians to create a new standard of movie magic that would elevate their action hero into an icon – key among them being visual effects supervisor Dennis Muren ("E.T.," "Terminator 2," "Jurassic Park") and sound designer Ben Burtt ("Star Wars," "Wall-E," "Super 8"), who have become legends in their own right.
Just as Indy's four memorable film escapades – "Raiders of the Lost Ark," "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom," "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" and "Indiana Jones and the Secret of the Crystal Skulls" – make their long-awaited debut on Blu-Ray within the deluxe set "Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventures," PopcornBiz set out to excavate some of the buried secrets behind the making of the original films, and Muren and Burtt provided the map.
U.S. & World
Setting new standards in SPFX and sound:
Dennis Murren: I don't know if you want to compare the images of then and now because I think the old ones hold up very well. Having been there and sort of living through it, there's something in the reality of it that sort of usurps any technical sort of problems we might've had in those days and it gives it a very handmade feel look to it. So I think the movies hold up extremely well – and not that the newer ones aren't good also, but the smell and feel of the FX material and all, I think, fit with the rest of the movie. You can tell…if these movies were all made in studios it'd be one thing, but those real locations with the reality of everything, I think it really helps the FX of all the real things also…Harrison is the movie. We were supplementary to all that, but we they're important because what George and Steven always wanted was to be able to experience a hyper-adventure that this guy is wild and crazy enough to get into.
So the FX were there to sort of supplement that, and to go beyond what was ever going on, probably, in the James Bond movies, which were pretty much rooted in reality in their times. So you can get out of reality and have a real thrill-ride adventure, and that's what they were going for in this film and that's where the FX needed to come in, to do things that just couldn't be done for real.
Ben Burtt: I started off in my career with 'Star Wars,' and of course the sound was being attached to give credibility to a highly imaginative universe of characters, places and things. Then along came 'Indy,' and of course the action-adventure genre was my favorite. The films that this series pays homage to are the films I loved growing up, the westerns and the adventure movies, the 'Tarzan' movies, 'Gunga Din,' this sort of thing. I was so excited to work on it, and I knew that the sound FX in those classic movies, as they are today, almost all the sounds in films are added after the fact.
They're not the sounds that are recorded during filming because you want control of the sounds later, most of course there was no appropriate sound on the set anyways that is right for the final movie. So my job and the team that I work with is to create all of that and add it in. I could've gone to a library at any studio and gotten face punches, fire explosions, trucks. These things had been in movies many times before and they were good recordings. What I wanted to do was not do that, but to build our own new, customized 'Indiana Jones' library which would have it's own signature.
Conceptually it would be based on my favorite sounds from the classic movies of the past. I would study the gunshots in all the movies that I loved, and I'd say, 'Well, how did they do it? How can I make something that is better, but is a legacy and owes its origins to what's been movie language up to that point?' Because so many things about the 'Indiana Jones' series were new visions of things that had existed in movies before, but now put together all under the adventures of one character. So we set out to record everything over again: new fire and new explosions, new body falls, new truck skids, whatever it might be.
And then on top of that level of reality, there was always the mystical and supernatural elements of these films: the Crystal Skull, the Sankara Stone, the Ark of the Covenant. And in order to portray the sounds for those objects, these were the supernatural things, maybe a little bit more like 'Star Wars' in the sense that they related to things that were unfamiliar, alien things that were new. We would want to give those sounds an expressive voice, those objects an expressive voice as well. So, that was also my department, to try and come up with sounds for all of that.
Favorite production memories:
Muren: 'Temple of Doom' was really, really memorable, which we had the big mine chase in that, which was very difficult: shots that go on and on going through this tunnel, and of course they couldn't do it for real. They had a nice tunnel that they could get some shots with, but not the vistas or the length of travel that they needed to carry the dramatic effect. In order to build these long sets and miniature sets, the size though was dependent on the size of the camera, of all things, because the camera had to go through the tunnel. I came up with idea of using just a Nikon still camera instead of shooting with one of the bigger movie cameras – just use a still camera to shoot still frame after frame after frame, and these shots that only ran like four or five seconds anyway, we could get that on one load on a Nikon camera. That meant that all the sets could be smaller.
It just saved a heck of a lot of money, which everyone was happy about because these films, no matter how they appear, were always done on very, very tight budgets. We always had to really work within that, and then the work came out really great in that sequence, too…It was really pretty neat, and then the other thing for my experience was I got to act in one little sequence in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark,' which was when Harrison goes on the airplane and there's the spy who's sort of in front reading this 'Life Magazine' and that's me in there. I'll tell you, that's the weirdest experience, going from behind the scenes to being in front of the camera with Spielberg looking at you here, and Harrison is over there. It's like, 'What the heck am I doing here?'
Burtt: Since we go out on expeditions to gather the sound or we invent special props, there's always a story with every sound. Dennis mentions the mine car chase: we wanted the sound of these cars clattering down the tracks and squealing around corners. We thought, perhaps, is there any place we could go and record something full size like that? And we ended up making arrangements to go to Disneyland at night when the park was closed and ride all of the roller coasters and record them. So we would go into Space Mountain, turn all the lights on and turn the music off and ride in the cars, or stand alongside the track and get the squealing around the corners. We had a wonderful, all-night Disneyland experience. Big Thunder Mountain. Space Mountain. The Matterhorn. All of them completely out of context, with the lights on so that you could see all the behind-the-scenes stuff. That was fun.
At Skywalker Ranch, at the time of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark,' there were no buildings on the ranch. It was just an empty property, and we used to come out here every afternoon, when it was quiet and there weren't birds or frogs to interfere with recordings. We would stage sound FX events here at the ranch that we needed for 'Raiders.' We spent a day laboriously carrying rocks and gravel, everything we could find to the top of a rock outcropping and then we shoved it down the rock face and recorded all the tumbling rocks and dust and grit. We have used, or derived from that recording just about every rock effect that you hear in these movies, when things are collapsing or a temple falls apart. You slow the sound down. Where the theater is today, we had a shooting range. There was a gully here and some old car was down in it. We brought out some of the explosive guys from ILM and we blew things up here for a while to get a lot of explosions.
We found that the canyon where the tech building is today had wonderful acoustics, because the sound would slap back and forth. We did all the gunshots that you hear for Indy's gun – we did it with much higher-powered rifles. Of course everything in 'Indiana Jones' is exaggerated, so his pistol isn't just a little .38 caliber pop. We would've used a Howitzer if we could've brought one in…
We brought a truck up here, and I would run and throw myself against the hood of the truck for Indy banging onto the hood. Gary Summers did the whip cracks on road, right here next to where this building is today and we could get the echo and the trees and all of that. It wasn't just a simple matter of getting the right technical recording. It's all about finding the right performance and the right acoustic location. We tend to do things outside because there'd be enough echo, especially in the trees, that when you put that sound in the movie it would really fit into the context of the location, in the jungle or something of that sort.
Secrets of the famous sounds of Indy's punches:
Burtt: There's one part that I'm not going to tell you because I have to protect a few things so I have future work, because there's always punches to be needed in the movies. Of course there's body punches, there's face punches, and they're not so simple to do because an actual face punch, if you've ever had one or delivered one, it's not very loud. It's usually the person going, 'Ugh,' or 'Ouch,' or whatever. But movies have a tradition of something enormous, going all the way back to the first punches in movies in the early 1930's. They started out using, like, clapboards and things to make a slapping sound, a punching sound.
What we did was right here on the road here. We had a setup. We got a lot of baseball gloves, like catcher's mitts and leather jackets and some football equipment, and what we would do, like for instance if you took a baseball bat, threw a catcher's mitt into the air and hit it with the baseball bat as hard as you could, you would get a good thwack. We took pumpkins and if you took – one of my favorites – a croquet ball and you put it in a sock, so that you have sort of a nunchuck sort of a weapon and you beat the pumpkin to death, every so often one of those hits, out of the five or so, is really good, meaty, kind of a choppy sound. So a library was built up of those kinds of things and used for a body blow or a kick and that sort of thing. We reserved that particular set just for the 'Indy' films because we wanted to be associated with 'Indiana Jones' every time that he swings his fist.


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DRHOOK- Crestor smile: Drug slashes health risks
Cheeseburgers, French fries, and BBQ potato chips would be my choice of foods if I were stuck on a desert island. (Hmm, sounds like Lost.) After all, my health would be my last concern if I were destined to live the rest of my life on a lonely island.
But I know some people right here in the middle of civilization who just don't care about their high cholesterol. One dude said to me there was no proof that high cholesterol is associated with heart attacks or strokes. (I also know people who don't think HIV causes AIDS.)
Many credible studies have shown that high cholesterol increases the risk of cardiovascular problems– but even Christopher Columbus didn't convince everyone the world was round.
Does cholesterol-lowering medicine save lives?
Crestor is a statin drug that is very powerful in lowering LDL, the bad cholesterol. For some funny reason, all the Crestor studies are titled with an outer space name. The "Meteor" study showed how Crestor reduces atherosclerosis in the carotid arteries (something most other cholesterol-lowering medicines can't claim). There is even a "Uranus" study (but that sounds more like a proctology investigation).
Now the "Jupiter" study is in the New England Journal of Medicine. This study was very impressive, and I don't have any financial ties with AstraZeneca.
I did an epidemiological review on the "Jupiter" study for Crestor, and it was done well. This study was actually stopped early– after a median of 1.9 years– because the study strongly showed the drug saves lives– more than any other lipid-lowering study has ever shown.
It was a very large double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial involving over 17,000 participants in 26 countries. The folks were mostly white men, but still a good percentage of women (38 percent) and non-white (29 percent).
In general, the folks were overall healthy, meaning they hadn't had a cardiovascular problem like a heart attack or stroke. Their problem was an elevated high sensitivity C-Reactive Protein (CRP). CRP is measured in the blood and is associated with heart disease.
Well, of course, in this day and age, most of the folks were overweight and 41 percent had Metabolic Syndrome X (big belly, high blood pressure, glucose intolerance). But these folks didn't have a high LDL, and so they were never on cholesterol medicine.
Guess what? The folks taking Crestor 20mg a night had 56 percent fewer major cardiovascular events than the folks taking a placebo, with a major statistical significance. In epidemiology, a 56 percent benefit is like winning by 100 points at the Super Bowl. (I can't believe I just used a football analogy.)
Showing more than a 20 percent benefit is hard to do in research. So it's amazing that Crestor showed 46 percent benefit in reducing fatal and nonfatal heart attacks, 52 percent benefit in fatal and nonfatal strokes, and 20 percent benefit of death for any reason at all. (Hmm, I'm tempted to eat a cheeseburger everyday while on Crestor, but I won't. Sigh.)
Also there's a question of how much money will be saved by Crestor's preventing cardiac interventions (such as stents and angioplasties) because there was a 53 percent benefit in the conditions that lead to those interventions.
There wasn't increased muscle breakdown or liver toxicity on Crestor, though as with other statins there seems to be a slight increase in developing diabetes.
I find it interesting when a drug has amazing results, it is touted as a "class effect" (i.e. all statins have the same benefit), but if there's a bad side effect, it's then considered a "specific drug problem" (like only Drug X is dangerous. We ain't! No, sir-ee!)
But as significant as the "Jupiter" study is compared to any other cholesterol-lowering study, I think it's going to be pretty hard to beat Crestor.
Dr. Hook cracks a joke or two, but he's a renowned physician with a local practice. Email him with your questions.
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Dr. Hook, Why are clinical trial numbers reported in "relative risks" vs "absolute risks"? And why is NNT not included? The accompanying editorial about the JUPITER trial in the NEJM written by Dr. Mark Hlatk,(N Engl J Med 359:2280, November 20, 2008) noted the NNT for 1.9 yrs(number of patients needed to be treated for 1.9yr): for 1 person to avoid a cardiovascular event, 120 patients had to take Crestor for 1.9 yrs. Since you performed the statistical analysis, I am sure you are aware of the increased rate of diabetes which occurred in the Crestor group. 3.0% vs 2.4%. Lest that sound insignificant, the real percentages of the decrease in overall Cardiovascular events were 2.8% in the placebo group and 1.6% in the Crestor group. The decrease in the most serious events, including those that were fatal and heart attack and strokes events was 1.7% in placebo group vs 0.9% in the Crestor group. Those % es are translated into the relative risks reported of "56% and 42% decreases" in cardiovascular events with Crestor. Taking Crestor to prevent 1 cardiovascular event works out to costing $285,000 (120 persons taking Crestor @ $3.45/day for 1.9 yrs). And as Merrill Goozner noted in his article analyzing this study "...for every person who didn't get a serious cardiovascular event, three-quarters of a person got diabetes"
If the objective for this study was that statins, esp. Crestor, are good for primary prevention (ie for individuals who have not suffered a cardiac event)I am not even remotely convinced. That 119 people must take a statin for 1.9 yrs and be exposed to all the potential adverse effects of this class of drugs (which are not inconsequential)for one person to benefit, is not a reassurring # to me. Thank you, I will continue eating oatmeal with cinnamon, limiting red meats, and exercising, and avoiding myalgias that could lead to immobility, abnormal liver function tests and thus liver problems, severe headaches, visual problems, cognitive decline and all the other potential side and adverse effects listed for statins.
How can we continue to countenance Mevlonate Blockading drugs in anything other than short term emergency use.
In the longer term (longer than most trials) the all mortality and ADR outcomes are appalling. Pfizer's withdrawal from such treatments has less to do with patents and more to do with the coming storm of litigation over excessive use of statins.
Be very careful using this class of drugs
(I also know of idiot doctors who will never admit that U.S. Government scientists created the A.I.D.S. virus in a laboratory, and who lovingly gobble up GMO food and chug fluorinated water for breakfast. I even know idiot doctors who will lock you up and torture you for even suggesting such. Here's a brief, non-comprehensive list of them: Collen Slipka, Jonathan Anderson, Barry Blumenthal. visit www.infowars.com and LISTEN TO THE ALEX JONES SHOW - YOU'LL LEARN MORE INFORMATION WHICH YOU NEED TO KNOW THAN YOU EVER WILL AT ANY COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY
Oops, I left an "e" out of one of the idiot doctors' first names. Oh, well.
Such negativity for a landmark trial. I thought the trial was important in understanding more about CHD and why it is still the #1 killer in America. Here was a group of patients who normally would not be treated, and it cut mortality in half. And for those whom like to focus on the small absolute differences, may I remind you that the absolute numbers for the ASCOT trial were very similar, along with many other outcomes trials for other statins. Do your homework. Moreover, other statin outcomes trials have shown increases in diabetes, increases in cancer death, decreases in cancer death as in Jupiter, etc. Physician reported diabetes (was that pre-diabetes? 100-126 glucose?)with no defining criteria, with no change in glucose levels or A1C between groups is a question mark in itself. I think if these trials were repeated with a different subset of patients, these numbers would be subject to change. Regardless, I think this was a great trial and shed new light on a grim subject of a disease that continues to kill more people than 5 of the top cancers combined.
I would have to agree with kls341, although eml256 does have some good points. Overall, if you look at other mortality trials containing thousands of patients, the absolute % risk reduction differences are within 1-3% across the board. Another trial that was similar to Jupiter due to the fact that it was stopped short was the atorvastatin ASCOT trial. ASCOT absolute % risk reduction for the primary endpoint was 2.9% (placebo) vs. 1.9% (atorvastatin), which was indeed very similar to the Jupiter trial of 2.8% vs. 1.6%. The fewer the years in a trial, the fewer mortalities. Jupiter was stopped after 1.9 years, and ASCOT was stopped after 3.3 years. I think the NNT number for projected 5 years for Jupiter was somewhere around 25, which is up there with most large secondary prevention trials.
Another thing to point out is the relative risk reduction of 44%; find me another outcomes trial that can beat it, because I could not find one.
I think that the sicker (higher risk, higher LDL) the patients are in a mortality trial, the higher the probablity that 1) you will have more CV related deaths and events, and 2) better effects with statin treatment. Are we then comparing apples to oranges here?
The Jupiter trial was indeed an interesting addition to the medical community and also showed that Crestor, too, saves lives. I don't think the idea here is that, "Everyone should be on a statin as a primary preventative treatment." But I do think it has opened some eyes as to the severity of CHD, and how important it is to fully evaluate risk factors, most importantly: family history. hsCRP, in my eyes, is another tool in the tool box, along with CIMT, homocysteine, fibrinogen, LP(a), Apo E, A, B . . . and the list just keeps getting longer as we learn more about the importance of NOT taking this disease lightly.
Recently I had my blood work draw, I fasted for 12 hrs. I take crestor (1)20mg. per night along w/ 100mg of 5 htp per night. my question is can either of these pills increase my glucose level? cause my fasten glucose was 115 level.I did take both pills crestor & 5 htp before bedtime.


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Friday, March 22, 2013
Beautiful Creatures- Cherry Fluff
In our book club we have been knee deep in the Beautiful Creatures series of books. Of course I see the mention of a food in a book and all I can think about is what is in it and what it would taste like if I did this or that. I know, it's food OCD.......This recipe is SWEET but it is light in the same way. I think this would make a good dessert for the Easter Holiday, at least it looks Springy. Did I mention that here on Beaty's Creek we ate fresh wild onions while it was snowing????? Come Spring where are you??? This is What's Cookin on Beaty's Creek!
1 can crushed pineapple
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 container Cool Whip
1 can Cherry Pie filling
Mix everything together and then chill overnight. Simple, simple, simple but sooo good!
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) Rudy Gay scored eight of his 19 points down the stretch and the Memphis Grizzlies beat the Denver Nuggets 81-72 on Saturday night.
Gay's rush was part of 10 straight points for Memphis, breaking open a 68-68 game with 4:45 left. His 18-footer on the baseline with 1:25 left gave Memphis a 10-point lead, helping the Grizzlies snap a two-game losing streak.
Zach Randolph had 12 points for Memphis, which won despite shooting 40 percent. The Grizzlies outscored the Nuggets 28-15 in the fourth, eventually building the lead to 11 points.
Andre Iguodala, Corey Brewer and JaVale McGee all had 12 points for Denver, which had its two-game winning streak end. Kenneth Faried had 11 points for the Nuggets, hitting 5 of 7 shots.
Danilo Gallinari, who was coming off a career-high 39 points Friday night against Dallas, was held to 7 points on 2-of-8 shooting.
The game was tied at 68 when Gay got took over. He scored on a pair of layups, the second coming on a feed from Randolph. He hit a 12-foot fadeaway before Randolph scored inside.
Gay capped the 10-0 stretch with an 18-foot baseline jumper for a 78-68 lead with 1:25 left.
Wayne Ellington's 3-pointer with 23 seconds remaining gave Memphis its largest lead, 81-70.
Memphis held a seven-point lead in the first half, but needed a jumper from Jerryd Bayless in the final second to hold a 37-36 advantage entering the locker room.
After Memphis built its biggest lead of the half on six straight points by Gay in the second quarter, the Nuggets answered with the next eight points for the lead.
McGee gave the Nuggets their first lead of the game on a dunk with 8.1 seconds left in the half.
Gay led Memphis with 10 points at the break, but the game was rather sloppy as Memphis shot 39.5 percent from the field, compared to 45 percent for Denver. The two teams were a combined 3 of 15 from outside the arc.
No Denver players were in double figures at the half, and Gallinari, who had hit 14 of 23 against Dallas, was scoreless, missing all three of his shots.
That slump ended immediately at the start of the second half as Gallinari connected on a 3-pointer.
The game settled into a close affair after halftime with seven lead changes and five ties in the third quarter alone.
NOTES: Gay returned after missing Memphis' last game on Wednesday with flight problems getting back to Memphis after the Christmas holiday. ... The Grizzlies play five of their next six games on the road. ... Memphis G/F Quincy Pondexter was carried off with an apparent knee injury late in the third quarter. He did not return. ... Even with the loss, Denver has won 14 of the last 20 in the series. ... With some expecting the Grizzlies and Nuggets to be jockeying for playoff positioning at the end of the season, the win was important for Memphis. Denver had won the two previous meetings this season and a third would have given the Nuggets the potential tiebreaker. ... Denver is now 13-3 when holding opponents under 100.


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In rasam uthmani, some of the ayahs begin letter (huroof)with no vocal sign, as in surah yaasin ayah #21...
In rasam uthmani, some of the ayahs begin letter (huroof)with no vocal sign, as in surah yaasin ayah #21, #64, surah al a'raf ayah #55 and in many other surahs. How to read those ayahs. Thank you.
There is a rule in the Arabic language that we can only begin with a voweled letter, never a non-voweled letters (sukoon). When a word then has its first letter with no vowel, a hamzah al-wasl or connecting hamzah, is placed in front of the word. The vowel we use to start the word (not when joining it with that which precedes it) is determined by some rules and depends on whether it is a verb, a noun, or a participle. There is a section of the site which explains the rules of hamzah al-wasl. http://www.abouttajweed.com/hamzah-al-wasl/index.php
Hamzah Al-Wasl is different than hamzah al-qata' in that the vowel we use is not written on hamzah al-wasl, and hamzah al-wasl is only found at the beginning of words whereas hamzah al-qata' can be found at the beginning of a word, in the middle, and at the end. Hamzah al-qata' takes different shapes in that it can be written on a ya', on an alif, on a wow, or on nothing. Hamzah al-wasl is only written on an alif with a small Sad over it. Hamzah al-qata' looks like the head of the letter 'ayn.
We compiled the words in the Qur'an beginning with hamzah al-wasl after stop marks in the Medinah Complex printing of the Qur'an and the vowel used to start them. The list can be found in PDF file in the following link:
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When we look at power management of an Arm system, cpuidle and cpufreq are the 1st power-saving functions that are used on the Arm core. The cpu hotpug is another one which has been introduced on Arm smp system but its use is a bit more sensitive because of the heaviness and the duration of the sequence. Even if this latter can offer some great power saving results for aggressive low-power use cases, it suffers from its slowness for being used on a high frequency basis. One feature that hasn't been used and tested yet for improving power management on Arm core, is the scheduler and more precisely sched_mc. This feature of the scheduler tries to improve power saving by filling first one core or package. This behavior is not so far from the cpu hotplug one because it aims to reduce the number of used cores but with the advantage of being able to use the other thread, core package almost immediately if necessary.
The default behavior of sched_mc is similar to the normal scheduler. You can modify this behavior through the sched_mc_power_savings entry. Each time you set a new mode, the scheduler domains' properties are updated and a new domain hierarchy is built. It also adds an additional step in the computation of the statistic of the load balancer when the power saving balance is enable. This step searches the non-idle cpu group which has got the minimum load and a busy group which can still get some loads. If the domain is almost balanced, the load_balancer tries to pull task from the nearly idle group in order to make it idle.
The 1st step for Arm platform is to describe its cpu topology. Then, we shall start to study how Arm platforms can take advantage of shed_mc.
To learn more visit:
Wiki: wiki-archive.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/PowerManagement/Specs/sched_mc
Blueprint: blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/+spec/tr-power-smp-sched-mchttps://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/+spec/tr-power-smp-sched-mc
Vincent Guittot is a Power Management Specialist for Linaro


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"If it happens within 10 meters below the surface and 10 meters above the surface, I'm probably interested in it," says James Kirchner '80 Th'83. "I work on a wide range of topics, basically concerned with how physics, chemistry, and biology interact to shape the surface of the earth." A researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research just outside of Zurich, Kirchner says, "Our institute has lead responsibility in Switzerland for such issues as response of forests to climate change, protection of biodiversity, impact of regional development patterns on natural habitats and human quality of life, and management of natural hazards—a particularly interesting issue in the Swiss Alps, of course!" After heading the institute for five years, he is now a senior scientist there and a professor of the physics of environmental systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. "I'm very interested in problems like how does the earth's surface fall apart, what controls the strength and resistance to erosion of, say, a plot of land on a hillside or an entire mountainside, how do landslides happen, how do rock falls happen?" he told the European Association of Geochemistry. He also considers questions such as: Where does rainwater go? How long do landscapes store water underground, and what regulates how quickly they release water to make streamflow? What regulates the chemistry of the water we drink? "We need practical answers so that people can decide how to handle these issues," he says. "I work in Switzerland, and half the country would be uninhabitable if we could not successfully manage the risks of living in steep mountainous regions." After majoring in physics and philosophy at Dartmouth, Kirchner earned an M.S. in systems analysis at Thayer and a Ph.D. in 1990 from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley. He serves as director of Berkeley's Central Sierra Field Research Stations—usually from nine time zones away. Kirchner was awarded the 2013 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal from the European Geosciences Union, which cited his outstanding contributions to "slicing through the complexity of earth's surface systems to uncover the underlying physics."
Jian Lu Th'93 is the new chief technology officer at Beijing-based Ku6 Media, one of China's top Internet video companies focused on user-generated content. Lu previously served as VP of multimedia technology at tech incubator Shanda Innovations, cofounded content identification provider Vobile, and led technical development of QuickTime compression and streaming at Apple Inc. Through its website, ku6.com, Ku6 Media provides online video upload and sharing services, video reports, information, and entertainment in China.
B.B.R. Medical Innovations Inc.—a startup that grew out of an ENGS 190/290 (now 89/90) capstone project by Kathryn Boucher Bi '09 Th'09, Steve Reinitz '09 Th'09, and Renée Cottle '08 Th'09—has been chosen for the 2013 MassChallenge Startup Accelerator. The company will receive mentorship and space at the MassChallenge office in Boston for four months and will compete with other teams for $1 million in funding. Bi, Reinitz, and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center anesthesiologist Dr. Corey Burchman founded B.B.R. in 2011 to develop Sanit-IV, an inline intravenous fluid sterilizer that works in less than six seconds. "My goal is to one day see one of our devices on every IV pole, since I truly believe that our technology has the potential to save thousands of lives per year while also preventing unnecessary healthcare expenses," says Reinitz, who is now in Thayer's Ph.D. Innovation Program [see "Engineering Entrepreneurs"].
After earning degrees in engineering and economics, Fernando Orta '08 returned to his hometown of Mexico City and in 2010 founded a financial services company called Podemos Progresar ("We can move forward"). "In an effort to solve the multi-dimensional problem of poverty in Mexico, Podemos has a mission to create products and services that change people's lives," Maura Pennington '08 reported in Forbes in March. Podemos offers services such as help with navigating Mexico's healthcare system, and has set up a microfranchise program that allows members to buy wholesale products to distribute to their communities. "Microcredit is not just about giving people money," says Orta. "It's about giving people a chance to pursue opportunities. We want to become the platform that provides the products and services that allow people to make rewarding transactions."
Science has again answered one of society's most pressing questions: Could the Ice Wall in HBO's Game of Thrones survive? While the 700-foot-tall ice structure could hold its own against medieval weaponry in the TV show, gravity would eventually bring it down. "Even at very cold temperatures, large ice masses deform under their own weight," Thayer Professor Mary Albert Th'84, a polar regions snow and ice expert, told Wired magazine in March. "And over long timescales, ice flows, so it would not hold its original shape for thousands of years."
The drug-authentication service Sproxil, founded by Ashifi Gogo Th'10, the first graduate of Thayer's Ph.D. Innovation Program, ranked No. 7 on Fast Company's list of "Most Innovative Companies 2013." Sproxil is lauded "For sticking it to anyone selling fraudulent goods."
Tilting Motor Works founder and CEO Bob Mighell '85 Th'86 put his motorcycle conversion package—which replaces a motorcycle's front wheel with two wheels—to the ultimate test: the annual motorcycle speed trials at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Despite 100-degree temps and variable crosswinds, Mighell broke the land-speed record for three-wheeled motorcycles by more than 10 mph last year, hitting 132.342 mph over one mile. "Anything can happen at those speeds," he says, "and every motorcyclist knows how dangerous crosswinds and rough surfaces can be. The salt was all damp and loose and pitted, so it was ideal for putting our trike solution to the test." The lifelong power-sports enthusiast has been developing the conversion for almost nine years. With the help of a Thayer student engineering team a few years ago, he patented a front-end linkage that lets him lean into corners. Tilting Motor Works is now selling the conversion package, starting at $10,000.
The Dartmouth Alumni Council recently honored Ken Johansen '60 Th'62 with an Alumni Award for "long-standing and meritorious service to the College, career achievement, and other community service." Johansen, who retired from International Paper Company after a 40-year career in paper manufacturing, served 18 years on the Montvale (N.J.) School Board, and since 1990 has served almost continually in a Dartmouth class leadership position.
Breakthrough: Biological Computers
Drew Endy Th'98 builds a computer inside a living cell
A team of Stanford University engineers led by Drew Endy Th'98, a professor at Stanford's School of Engineering and a pioneer in the field of synthetic biology, has succeeded in making a simple computer inside a living cell.
"We're going to be able to put computers inside any living cell you want," said Endy, who earned his doctorate at Thayer School in 1998. "Any place you want a little bit of logic, a little bit of computation, a little bit of memory—we're going to be able to do that."
The creation completes 10 years of work and represents the final chapter of Stanford researchers' quest to build the biological computer. It is the latest step in the new field of synthetic biology where—one gene at a time—engineers strive to design organisms unlike anything made by Mother Nature.
These tiny computers could deliver true-false answers to virtually any biological question that might be posed within a cell. For instance: Is toxic mercury present in plants or animals used for food? Scientists could introduce a detective "sentinel" organism to find out.
The internal computers could communicate by engineering cells to change. The "simplest way is to have the cells change their smell or color," Endy said.
These cellular computers also can count, providing a useful tool when treating diseases like cancer, where cells divide uncontrollably. Suppose a liver cell carries a computer that records how many times it divides. Once the counter hits 500, for instance, the cell could be programmed to die.
Conceptually, it's like electronics, where a transistor controls the flow of electrons along a circuit. But biology is the basis for what the team calls a "transcriptor," which controls the flow of an important protein as it travels along a strand of DNA like an electron on a copper wire. Transcriptors are a biological version of electrical engineers' logic gates—the building blocks of digital circuits that send and receive signals.
"Biology is not just a science of discovery, but also a technology for making things," Endy said. "We're not going to replace the silicon computers. We're not going to replace your phone or your laptop. But we're going to get computing working in places where silicon would never work."
Last year, the team delivered two other core components of their computer. The first was a type of rewritable digital data storage within DNA. Information can be stored inside cells by flipping DNA sequences back and forth between two possible orientations to represent and store the 0 and 1 that represent one bit of computer data. The other was a mechanism for transmitting genetic data from cell to cell, a biological Internet.
These new biological computers will be slow, working on a millihertz frequency, Endy cautioned. "But they'll work in places where we don't have computing now," he said.
—Lisa M. Krieger
Originally published in the San Jose Mercury News, this article is adapted and reprinted with permission.
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The Bakshi Interview: Uncloaking a Legacy
On March 28, 2015 TheOneRing.net livestreamed an interview with animation pioneer Ralph Bakshi to discuss the first-ever "The Lord of the Rings" film (1978), and to parse the differences between homage and rip-off (and the not-so-nebulous chains of inspiration from one artist to another).
Bakshi revealed to us that his Studio's "LOTR" character designs and artwork were sent down to Three Foot Six in New Zealand; elevating the conversation of his impact on the live-action epic.
The subversive director has lived through numerous controversies, yet remains undervalued by Ringer fans and feels personally slighted by Jackson. He carries on vigorously at 77 years old with a new crowdfunded animated work, "The Last Days of Coney Island" and his intent to direct a "Wizards 2" follow-up to his 1977 cult hit. (more…)Posted in Film Screenings, Headlines, John Howe, Lord of the Rings, LotR Movies, LotR Production, MGM, Miscellaneous, Out on a Limb, Peter Jackson, Ralph Bakshi, Tolkien, TORn TUESDAYS Live!


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I bike commute to work, but for other trips where I don't want to arrive covered in sweat and/or would take longer than 30 minutes each way, I generally have to drive. I'd like to be able to get anywhere in my city without a car. My city (Austin) has OK but not great public transit and the buses only hold two bikes (and are always full). We also have Car2Go, but there isn't always one nearby. I figure that if I had a folding bike, I could always get to one or the other fairly quickly and make most trips around town 30 minutes or less.
So, what folding bike would you recommend for:
- Occasional use. 5-10 times per month.
- Short trips. 1.5 miles or less each way.
- Some hills, but nothing too steep.
- Very compact size and easy transport. I need to be able to take it on a bus and fit it in a Smart Car.
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- I'm 6'3", about 200lbs
- I generally would have 10lbs+ of gear with me.
- I'll spend over $500 if necessary, but looking for the cheapest bike that will get the job done.


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UPDATE: Apparently this pic is actually a screencap from this (video below) El Hormiguero TV promo.
Not sure if we posted this picture or not, but here's a BTS pic of Kristen and Charlize cutting the host of El Hormiguero's hair. For more of Kristen and Charlize's SWATH El Hormiguero appearance, click here.
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DETROIT – Detroit police said two children were inside the house where three people were found shot to death Thursday morning on the city's west side.
Police said a baby, no age specified, and a 5-year-old girl were unharmed when two women and a man were killed inside a house in the 11300 block of Coyle Street.
The victims are all in their 20s and the two women are related. Detroit police said a 911 call was made about 9:30 a.m. about "victims found shot inside the house."
However, a 911 call was made about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday night about shots fired near a home in the 11900 block of Coyle Street. Police responded to that area, investigated but found no problems.
"There were some shots heard mid-evening yesterday and apparently some family members were notified and they came to check on them and discovered them," said Detroit police inspector Dwayne Blackmon.
The victims all appear to have suffered gunshot wounds, police said.
Mack McSwin, who said he was a friend of the man who died, said he wasn't aware of any trouble the victim was in or why someone would want to kill him.
"He stayed to himself. He was just over here with a friend of ours and got murdered. It's a hard subject to even talk about right now," McSwin said.


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There were two different wiring diagrams for Truck-Lite plow lights. One (the first version) used a 6 prong switch. The second later version used a 12 prong switch. Keep in mind the lights themselves were identical, it was just the wiring that was different. The 12 prong switch used headlight adapters that plugged into the existing vehicle headlamp wiring, to route the wires back to the 12 prong switch. Many of these headlight adapters are scarce.
Original Truck-Lite Wiring Diagram on the Meyer Products web site 6 prong - http://ww2.meyerproducts.com/upload/...9%20Kit%20.pdf
Original Truck-Lite Wiring Diagram on the Meyer Products web site 12 prong - http://ww2.meyerproducts.com/upload/...7033%20Kit.pdf
And finally, how Smith Brothers suggests wiring these lights - http://smithbrothersservices.com/sea...ht-wiring.html


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by Bryan Bergeron, Editor ;
Mobile Platforms
An advantage of using an off-the-shelf robotics
platform is that you can focus on the navigation, vision,
or other higher level challenges. However, when your
robot can't move in an environment, all the AI in the
world isn't going to help. This was highlighted recently by
the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power station in
Japan. An underwater robot was used to explore the
damage inside the spent fuel pool. Similarly, a robot was
used to measure the radiation levels within the facility.
Paradoxically, with all of the 'advanced' robotics
development in Japan, the robot used to explore the
facility was a US made iRobot PackBot. The floor was
reportedly too cluttered for a Japanese robot to operate.
My take-away lesson from this accident is that for
real world robots, you can't assume a level, smooth, or
carpeted working surface. For example, I've been
experimenting with the Freescale walker robot lately. The
walker platform is great for enabling me to work on the
electronics, sensors, and the like, but mobility is virtually
nill unless the robot is on a smooth desktop. Even a few
grains of rice on the desktop can render the walking
platform useless.
Have you tried your robot outside? I don't mean on
your smooth driveway, but on an unpaved road or even a
dry ditch. Chances are, you'll need to reconfigure the
platform to work within the environment. Even if your
robot is based on a four wheel drive R/C truck, you may
have to change tire tread to suit the environment.
My experience with underwater robots is limited, but
I have tried my hand at a few terrestrial platform designs.
For example, I worked with aluminum crawlers
( www.crustcrawler.com) for a while. Unlike many
wheeled platforms, it could overcome modest obstacles,
albeit rather slowly. Unfortunately, battery life and
payload capacity were limited. It was good for about 100
feet on carpet before requiring a recharge.
The US Army hasn't given up on multi-legged robot
platforms. You've probably heard of DARPA's MULE — a
four legged robot that runs on gasoline. It's not clear
when this robot will be ready for active duty. My only
experience with a tractor-tread robot is with an upgraded
Parallax BoeBot. Like the iRobot PackBot, it is capable of
climbing over modest rubble and isn't phased by small
pebbles or uneven surfaces. I've even used the tractor-tread BoeBot outside with reasonable success.
My best outdoor, all-terrain robot is based on a
Traxxsas E-Maxx platform. It has lots of power, lots of
speed, and great range. The plastic body pops off,
leaving plenty of room to mount an aluminum or plastic
plate with sensors. Most experimenters that use this
platform change the gearing in the transmission to
provide a more gentle start and stop, with more control
for steering. The $400 E-Maxx is a significant investment,
but you'd be hard pressed to come up with such a
versatile, waterproof platform from scratch.
Of the commercial, all-terrain, outdoor robot
platforms, there's the Parallax gasoline powered
QuadRover. The 89 pound, four-wheeled robot has a 2. 5
HP engine. At $1,500, it isn't cheap, but if you need a
real outdoor robot that can carry a significant payload,
the QuadRover looks promising. Have an idea for a new
or improved platform? If so, let me hear about it. SV
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Happy New Year!
To all our readers, thank you for making 2008 a success for the GenealogyCanada blog and website!
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