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Each person is created in their own unique way and it is very hard for all people to speak in only one language. This means that in any locality one may find different people who speak different languages. This is what makes people unique from one another. Despite the different languages that exist in the world communication still needs to take place hence the importance of translating one language to various languages to ensure that communication is enhanced. There are various benefits of translation services Dallas residents can gain from.

It is not uncommon to have conferences to be organized in the city. The conference organizers invite various guests from different continents who speak quite a number of various languages. In a place where each person speaks a different language from the other, there needs to be a means of interpreting one language into the other in order to enhance communication, hence the benefits of the above service.

There are various great writers in the city whose books are read by people all over the world. In order for one to be a recognized writer, they need to have their books distributed to the whole world. The books will only be read by people who may understand the language. There is therefore the need to have the books translated into as many languages as possible to increase the number of people who will have access to the book.

Over the years the Bible has been translated into various dialects. This is because there is need for each individual to be able to access the contents. This was made possible by translating it into the different dialects. Those in charge of interpretation of the Bible are in various parts of the globe and this makes the above city no exception. There ability to have access to these services is very beneficial to them.

Quite a number of tourists visit Dallas each year. Most of these tourists do not speak English thus making communication very hard. It is however easy to communicate with them by the use of interpretation service where the interpreter is able to speak the languages of both party and thus tell one party what the other party is communicating.

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All people are not gifted with the ability to speak and hear, hence for dumb and deaf people it is important to translate what they are trying to communicate by sign language into the normal language used by people. This ensures that communication is enhanced between people who cannot speak and those who can. No one thus feels left out in process of communication.

The benefits attributed to having a language interpreted into very many languages are quite many. Owing to the advantages of translation services Dallas residents are using the above services more often. In addition various people are going back to school to learn different languages due to the lucrative nature of the one having a business that deals with interpretation of languages.

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Good Reads: gun laws, lottery winners, online education, and tech gets sensory

A round-up of this week's long-form good reads include Britain's gun laws, the burden of lottery winners, online courses vs. the college experience, and sensory developments in high-tech.

By Gregory M. Lamb,?Staff writer / December 22, 2012

Arizona Lottery officials stand next to an enlargement of the winning $587.5 Million Powerball ticket last week during a news conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. Phoenix resident Matthew Good claimed the second half of last month's record $587 million Powerball jackpot, pocketing $192 million after taxes.

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The Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut brought a deluge of media attention to gun control. One useful perspective came from the Lexington?s Notebook column in The Economist magazine. Britain?s gun-related homicide rate is drastically lower than that of the United States not only because guns are harder to purchase, but because ammunition is scarce, the writer points out. In one recent incident in a crime-plagued British neighborhood, for example, ?the gang had had to make its own bullets, which did not work well....?

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In one recent year England and Wales experienced 39 fatalities from crimes involving firearms; the US had 12,000. In Britain, ?The firearms-ownership rules are onerous, involving hours of paperwork. You must provide a referee who has to answer nosy questions about the applicant?s mental state, home life (including family or domestic tensions) and their attitude towards guns. In addition to criminal-record checks, the police talk to applicants? family doctors and ask about any histories of alcohol or drug abuse or personality disorders.?

Some US gun owners argue that they might need firearms to fight a tyrannical government. But ?I don?t think America is remotely close to becoming a tyranny, and to suggest that it is is both irrational and a bit offensive to people who actually do live under tyrannical rule,? the writer responds.

Lottery burdens

Are you eager to win the next big lottery? BloombergBusinessWeek writer David Samuels offers the cautionary tale of Jack Whittaker, a contractor in Scott Depot, W.?Va., who 10 years ago found that his $1 Powerball lottery ticket had won him a $93 million payout after taxes.

Mr. Whittaker tried to do good with his bonanza, giving away a good portion to charitable groups, especially churches. But he still descended into alcohol addiction; was divorced by his wife; became tied up (by his own count) in some 460 legal actions; and lost his beloved granddaughter, on whom he had lavished piles of cash, to drug addiction. Before his lottery ?win,? Whittaker?s contracting business had afforded him a comfortable life. ?Nobody knew I had any money,? Whittaker said. ?All they knew was my good works.? His life back then, he notes sadly, ?was a lot easier.?

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/csmonitor/globalnews/~3/AKzyBc8881w/Good-Reads-gun-laws-lottery-winners-online-education-and-tech-gets-sensory

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Two toddlers die in Chicago apartment fire

By Michelle Relerford and Alexandra Clark, NBC Chicago

Two toddlers who died in a fire early Saturday morning were left alone with two other young boys when the blaze broke out inside their Chicago apartment on the city's southside, police said.

Family and friends gathered Saturday evening for a vigil to honor 2-year-old Jariah and 3-year-old Jarvis. The boys were alone with a 7-year-old and a 4-year-old when the fire ignited.

Neighbor Tiffany Williams recounted what the boys who escaped told her: "They said they heard the baby crying, beating on the door but they couldn't go back to get her cause they were choking on the smoke."

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Authorities believe a hot plate used for heat sparked the flames, but the cause remains under investigation. When the fire started, a relative helped the two older boys to safety, but Jariah and Jarvis stayed trapped inside the apartment.

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A resident who called 911 just before 3:30 a.m. told authorities that young children were trapped inside the burning home in the 6400 block of South Paulina Street in the West Englewood area, Fire Media Affairs Director Larry Langford said. When firefighters arrived, the fire had blown out a window, with the open air feeding the flames.

?Everybody concentrated and made a frantic search to find them,? Langford said.

But ?extensive? fire made it difficult for firefighters to reach the rear bedroom where the fire started, and where the children were located.

Witnesses said the children's mother was frantic.

"She was going crazy, no one could control her," Williams said.

Firefighters used a saw to cut the bars off a basement window in an attempt to reach the children, but they were unable to rescue the toddlers in time. They later found the children's bodies in the three-bedroom apartment on the first floor of the two-story gray stone building.

Fire investigators continue to sort out what caused the fire. They are also talking with the mother, who police said left the four children home alone.

"They said their mother was getting dressed told them to go in their room and go to sleep," said Williams. "They said they were left there alone and they'd been there by themselves for a long time."

The two surviving children were taken into the custody of Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.

Crews have not found any working smoke detectors in the home, Langford said. The Chicago Fire Department canvassed the neighborhood on Saturday, starting at 10 a.m., to pass out smoke alarms and share fire safety information.

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Source: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/22/16095857-two-toddlers-die-in-chicago-apartment-fire-no-adults-were-home?lite

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Software converts your speech into Chinese -- Science ...

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Microsoft's Chief Research Officer, Rick Rashid, recently demonstrated software under development that translated his English remarks into spoken Mandarin Chinese.

Ever wondered what you'd sound like if you were fluent in Chinese, French or another language you don't know? New software that's in development might give you an idea. Microsoft has created a program designed to provide on-the-fly, spoken translations, in the user's own voice.

"We may not have to wait until the 22nd century for a usable equivalent of Star Trek's universal translator," Rick Rashid, Microsoft's chief research officer, wrote in a blog post Nov. 8. Microsoft's translator still makes errors at a noticeable rate, but significantly improves on previous speech translators, Rashid said.

"The results can sometimes be humorous," he said. "Still, the technology has developed to be quite useful."

Rashid presented the software on Oct. 25, getting some of his remarks translated into Mandarin Chinese during a conference held in Tianjin, China.

In a video Microsoft posted online, the software's Chinese voice doesn't sound exactly like Rashid, but it does have the same general tone:

One of the biggest challenges in making the software came in getting it to recognize what users say, Rashid said. Computer scientists have been working on this problem virtually since computers were invented, and the fruits of a generation of research include the automated systems that U.S. banks use for call-in customer service ("Please enter or say your account number now"). In those systems, the speech recognizer only has to understand digits and perhaps some menu options, such as "make a transfer" or "bank hours."

It's more difficult for computers to understand freewheeling conversation, however. Until recently, speech-recognizing programs could only understand 75 to 80 percent of the words a person might say during a conversation, Rashid said. Microsoft Research has been working on improving that rate, he said, by using Deep Neural Networks, which are connected networks of computer processors that act a little like the connections between cells in human and animal brains. Google used the same technique this summer to build a computer that taught itself to recognize cat pictures on the Internet.

Microsoft's speech recognizer can correctly identify 86 to 88 percent of the words in arbitrary speech, Rashid said. "While still far from perfect, this is the most dramatic change in accuracy since the introduction of hidden Markov modeling in 1979," he said, referring to a landmark moment in the history of speech-recognition research. Hidden Markov modeling, a statistical technique, allowed researchers to incorporate recordings from several people into their speech models, Rashid explained.

After identifying what the user is saying in English, Microsoft's translator then finds matching words in Chinese and rearranges the words to the grammatically correct order in Chinese, Rashid said.

To train the translator to match his voice, Rashid had to record an hour of himself speaking in English, he said. The software also required a recording of a few hours of a native Chinese speaker.

"There is still much work to be done, but the technology is very promising, and we hope that in a few years we will have systems that can completely break down language barriers," Rashid said.

Source: http://www.sott.net/article/253329-Software-converts-your-speech-into-Chinese

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Medical devices powered by the ear

Friday, November 9, 2012

Deep in the inner ear of mammals is a natural battery ? a chamber filled with ions that produces an electrical potential to drive neural signals. In today's issue of the journal Nature Biotechnology, a team of researchers from MIT, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI) and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) demonstrate for the first time that this battery could power implantable electronic devices without impairing hearing.

The devices could monitor biological activity in the ears of people with hearing or balance impairments, or responses to therapies. Eventually, they might even deliver therapies themselves.

In experiments, Konstantina Stankovic, an otologic surgeon at MEEI, and HST graduate student Andrew Lysaght implanted electrodes in the biological batteries in guinea pigs' ears. Attached to the electrodes were low-power electronic devices developed by MIT's Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL). After the implantation, the guinea pigs responded normally to hearing tests, and the devices were able to wirelessly transmit data about the chemical conditions of the ear to an external receiver.

"In the past, people have thought that the space where the high potential is located is inaccessible for implantable devices, because potentially it's very dangerous if you encroach on it," Stankovic says. "We have known for 60 years that this battery exists and that it's really important for normal hearing, but nobody has attempted to use this battery to power useful electronics."

The ear converts a mechanical force ? the vibration of the eardrum ? into an electrochemical signal that can be processed by the brain; the biological battery is the source of that signal's current. Located in the part of the ear called the cochlea, the battery chamber is divided by a membrane, some of whose cells are specialized to pump ions. An imbalance of potassium and sodium ions on opposite sides of the membrane, together with the particular arrangement of the pumps, creates an electrical voltage.

Although the voltage is the highest in the body (outside of individual cells, at least), it's still very low. Moreover, in order not to disrupt hearing, a device powered by the biological battery can harvest only a small fraction of its power. Low-power chips, however, are precisely the area of expertise of Anantha Chandrakasan's group at MTL.

The MTL researchers ? Chandrakasan, who heads MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; his former graduate student Patrick Mercier, who's now an assistant professor at the University of California at San Diego; and Saurav Bandyopadhyay, a graduate student in Chandrakasan's group ? equipped their chip with an ultralow-power radio transmitter: After all, an implantable medical monitor wouldn't be much use if there were no way to retrieve its measurements.

But while the radio is much more efficient than those found in cellphones, it still couldn't run directly on the biological battery. So the MTL chip also includes power-conversion circuitry ? like that in the boxy converters at the ends of many electronic devices' power cables ? that gradually builds up charge in a capacitor. The voltage of the biological battery fluctuates, but it would take the control circuit somewhere between 40 seconds and four minutes to amass enough charge to power the radio. The frequency of the signal was thus itself an indication of the electrochemical properties of the inner ear.

To reduce its power consumption, the control circuit had to be drastically simplified, but like the radio, it still required a higher voltage than the biological battery could provide. Once the control circuit was up and running, it could drive itself; the problem was getting it up and running.

The MTL researchers solve that problem with a one-time burst of radio waves. "In the very beginning, we need to kick-start it," Chandrakasan says. "Once we do that, we can be self-sustaining. The control runs off the output."

Stankovic, who still maintains an affiliation with HST, and Lysaght implanted electrodes attached to the MTL chip on both sides of the membrane in the biological battery of each guinea pig's ear. In the experiments, the chip itself remained outside the guinea pig's body, but it's small enough to nestle in the cavity of the middle ear.

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Report Obama Delayed Petraeus Resignation ... - Business Insider

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General David Petraeus was the director of the CIA.

In case you thought there was a chance that the startling resignation of General David Petraeus might not "go political," it already has.

Citing an FBI source, conservative site Newsmax is reporting that the Obama administration delayed the resignation of General Petraeus until after the election to avoid embarrassment.

FBI agents on the case expected that Petraeus would be asked to resign immediately rather than risk the possibility that he could be blackmailed to give intelligence secrets to foreign intelligence agencies or criminals...

[T]he FBI, Justice Department, and the White House held off on asking for Petraeus? resignation until after the election... FBI agents on the case were aware that such a decision had been made to hold off on forcing him out until after the election and were outraged.

?The decision was made to delay the resignation apparently to avoid potential embarrassment to the president before the election,? an FBI source says. ?To leave him in such a sensitive position where he was vulnerable to potential blackmail for months compromised our security and is inexcusable.?

This report is directly refuted by Jake Tapper of ABC, who reports that the White House was informed of the FBI investigation and affair on Wednesday this week, and President Obama learned about it on Thursday (yesterday).

The latter report presumably won't stop the chatter.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/report-obama-delayed-petraeus-resignation-until-after-election-2012-11

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Date ? Nov 08 ? Listing No. ? ADM166046 ? Sector ? Technical Writing & Marcom ? Region ? Center ? Tenure Type ? Full Time ? Language(s) ? Bilingual - English/Hebrew ?

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