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The Republican National Committee released an audacious set of recommendations on Monday aimed at revitalizing the party following the drubbing suffered by GOP candidates last November, calling for sweeping changes to the party's infrastructure, outreach and nominating process to contend for the White House in 2016.
The RNC's 100-page report, the "Growth and Opportunity Project," is the election autopsy ordered by Chairman Reince Priebus last fall.
While speaking Monday at a National Press Club breakfast, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus reflects on what may have gone wrong for the GOP during the 2012 presidential campaign.
Culled from more than 52,000 contacts with voters, party consultants and elected officials, it calls for drastic changes to almost every major element of the modern Republican Party.
"When Republicans lost in November, it was a wake-up call. And in response I initiated the most public and most comprehensive post-election review in the history of any national party," Priebus said Monday morning at the National Press Club. "As it makes clear, there's no one reason we lost. Our message was weak; our ground game was insufficient; we weren't inclusive; we were behind in both data and digital; our primary and debate process needed improvement."
In essence, the report argues for a more data-driven Republican Party in which the RNC assumes increased authority for party-building efforts.
The report calls for increased outreach to women, young voters and minorities — especially Hispanics. The document acknowledges the GOP's policy on immigration has become a "litmus test" for what will be a key constituency necessary for the party's success in the next four years and beyond.
"We are not a policy committee, but among the steps Republicans take in the Hispanic community and beyond, we must embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform," the report says, nodding at other points to the bipartisan reform efforts currently before Congress. "If we do not, our Party's appeal will continue to shrink to its core constituencies only."
The report also notes a growing generational divide on the issue of gay rights, calling the issue a "gateway" for young voters deciding whether to align with the GOP.
"We can't grow the party by division and subtraction," Priebus said during a question-and-answer session at the press club. "We can only build it by addition and multiplication."
But the report is hardly focused on social issues alone. Its top recurring theme arguably involves building a robust Republican data infrastructure, and applying a commitment to testing and analysis of almost every operation of the RNC.
Priebus is advised to hire a chief technology officer and digital officer by the end of April, and give them wide latitude to inform aspects of the party from fundraising to media strategy and messaging and beyond.
"Those teams will work together to integrate their respective areas throughout the RNC and provide a data-driven focus for the rest of the organization," Priebus said. "And they will be the new center of gravity within the organization."
The GOP's digital revamp — as with most of the other elements of the report — was prompted by the Obama campaign's far more sophisticated operation in 2012.
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Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Reince Priebus, appears on ''Face the Nation'' on March 17, 2013 in Washington, D.C.
Many of the reforms proposed by the Growth and Opportunity Project, however, will encounter stiff resistance in corners of the Republican Party and broader conservative movement — because of a deep distrust of the official GOP among the grassroots.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin encapsulated the sentiment during her speech on Saturday before the Conservative Political Action Conference.
"Now is the time to furlough the consultants, and tune out the pollsters, send the focus groups home, and toss the political scripts," she said, "because if we truly know what we believe, we don't need professionals to tell us."
And some of the report's declarations are sure to ruffle feathers on the Right.
The report says bluntly at one point that "third-party groups that promote purity are hurting our electoral prospects," an indirect reference to groups like the Club for Growth, which has promoted challenges to Republicans regarded as more electable who are accused of transgressing against conservative principle.
A spokesman for the Club for Growth had no comment about the report, and Ari Fleischer, one of the leaders of the GOP project, argued that success would involve overcoming resistance from fellow Republicans.
"Successful parties learn and grow, and you do the best learning after you lose," he said at a press conference Monday morning.
The report also calls super PACs a "wild card" that threaten to weaken an eventual nominee due to the onslaught of negative advertising during primaries. (2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney suffered from this type of friendly fire during his slog to the nomination.)
The report calls for broader changes to the Republican primary system, too, especially as it relates to picking a presidential candidate. It calls for prohibiting primary debates before Sept. 1, 2015, and limiting the total number of debates to 10 or 12 -- and possibly docking delegates from candidates who ignore the rules.
The report also calls for holding the Republican National Convention in late June or July, necessitating that the primary process concludes between late April and mid-May.
To accomplish that, the Growth and Opportunity Project recommends for a major — and likely contentious — overhaul to the primary calendar in which groups of states in a similar region would vote on the same date. The so-called "regional primary system" would follow traditional nominating contests in states like Iowa and New Hampshire, for which there would be an exception.
Furthermore, the report recommends that Republicans ditch caucuses and conventions — venues in which conservative activists traditionally dominate — in favor of primaries for picking a nominee.
Among the report's assorted other recommendations:
- Establish a new "Growth and Opportunity Inclusion Council" tasked with reaching out to Hispanics, African Americans, Asians and Pacific Islanders, Native Americans and other minority communities;
- Commit an initial $10 million to improving outreach to minority communities;
- Set up an "RNC Celebrity Task Force of personalities in the entertainment industry" to attract young voters, and encourage Republican leaders to "participate in and actively prepare for interviews" on the Daily Show, the Colbert Report and other media aimed toward younger Americans;
- Place a greater emphasis on early voting in political strategy, messaging and budgeting;
- Invest in full-time field staff in states beginning at a much earlier point in election cycles;
- Convene a quarterly summit of Republican pollsters, ensure an accurate model of likely voters and turnout for polling, and recommend that GOP polls include a 25 percent subsample of respondents who can be reached by cell phone only;
- Explore making more efficient television advertising purchases, including possibly shifting resources away from paid media and toward organizational efforts and alternative methods of voter contact;
- Work with outside conservative groups (to the extent that it's legal) to better define different organizations' responsibilities;
- Encourage a well-funded conservative group (akin to Democrats' group, American Bridge) dedicated to full-time tracking and research of Democratic candidates;
- Expand the RNC's low-dollar fundraising program, and seek more efficient finance staffing;
- "Convince Congress to remove the biennial aggregate contribution limits," or, absent that, seek to increase the contribution limits for federal campaigns;
- Abolish the public financing system for presidential campaigns, including the matching funds program;
- Replace taxpayer funding of national party conventions with a system in which party committees could raise additional funds for the conventions;
- Allow party committees to raise additional funds to support the maintenance of their buildings and facilities.
This story was originally published on Mon Mar 18, 2013 6:58 AM EDT


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TiVo to Acquire Digitalsmiths, a Leading Cloud-Based Content Discovery Service
SAN JOSE, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 01/29/14 -- TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO)
- Accelerates TiVo's evolution to a device and UI independent cloud-based Software-as-a-Service, yielding a significant expansion in market opportunity for TiVo.
- Digitalsmiths' cloud-based service allows Pay-TV operators to deliver an advanced user experience integrating search, recommendations, discovery and browsing across a variety devices including iOS, Android, Roku, Xbox, PlayStation, Kindle and multiple set-top boxes
- Digitalsmiths has relationships with 7 of the top 10 US Pay-TV operators, reaching 64% of US Pay-TV households; Pay-TV Customers currently 10% penetrated and expected to grow to over 50% penetration in the next few years
- Digitalsmiths is experiencing rapid growth in transaction volume. The company's cloud service handled 90 million transactions in July 2013, growing to almost 150 million in December 2013
- High growth opportunity; Digitalsmiths revenue has experienced rapid revenue growth since launching its Seamless Discovery service; Anticipate positive Adjusted EBITDA contribution in Fiscal 2015 (begins February 1, 2014); Expect continued rapid growth in revenue and Adjusted EBITDA as well as material contribution to TiVo's financials in Fiscal 2016
- TiVo will pay $135 million in cash for Digitalsmiths
- Separately, TiVo announces it has increased its stock repurchase authorization by $100 million; Intends to repurchase $100 million in first quarter Fiscal 2015
TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), a leader in the advanced television market, today announced that it will acquire Digitalsmiths, the Pay-TV industry's most broadly adopted cloud-based content discovery and recommendation service. Digitalsmiths offers personalized video search, recommendations and browsing, social trending, and mood-based discovery which can be used to instantly connect consumers to the most relevant movies, TV shows and live events available, at any time, on any screen including set-top boxes, tablets, smart phones, computers and gaming consoles. Digitalsmiths currently works with 46 blue-chip U.S. and international Service Providers including seven of the top 10 Pay-TV operators in the United States, Content Providers and Consumer Electronic Manufacturers.
"The Digitalsmiths acquisition opens new opportunities to commercialize and deploy TiVo's cloud based services and technologies to operators, in an extremely cost effective way that can be offered either independently or in conjunction with TiVo's renowned user interface," said Tom Rogers, CEO and President of TiVo. "Additionally, Digitalsmiths contributes expertise, data opportunities, and approaches that complement and extend TiVo's extensive work in advanced television to customers seeking search, recommendations, and portability. Our acquisition of Digitalsmiths will expand TiVo's role with Tier-one U.S. Service Providers through its significant relationships with the 7 of the top ten 10 U.S. Pay-TV providers, which serve 64% of the country's Pay-TV households. Finally, we believe Digitalsmiths' revenue growth trajectory and attractive margin structure can help accelerate TiVo's long-term Adjusted EBITDA growth."
"The Digitalsmiths team is excited to be part of TiVo," said Ben Weinberger, CEO and co-founder of Digitalsmiths. "Both Digitalsmiths and TiVo share an acute focus to improve the consumers' viewing experience, and we understand the importance of the 'service' or 'cloud' to achieve this goal through next generation personalized video discovery solutions. "I look forward to working as part of the TiVo team to provide a best-in-class product set to service providers, consumer electronics manufacturer's and content providers."
"TiVo values our core mission of providing superior personalized video discovery experiences for our customers and partners," said Matt Berry, COO/CTO and co-founder of Digitalsmiths. "TiVo's acquisition of Digitalsmiths underscores the robust technology and deep customer base Digitalsmiths powers. We are confident joining forces with TiVo profoundly enhances our ability to seamlessly deliver industry leading video discovery solutions that drive superior customer satisfaction and better usage metrics for video services."
Working with leading service providers, content providers, and consumer electronics manufacturers, Digitalsmiths has revolutionized the dynamics of video discovery by delivering unified, personalized experiences that instantly connect consumers with the most relevant video content available, at any time, on any screen. Seamless Discovery, Digitalsmiths' core product, delivers superior personalized discovery experiences that drive higher consumer engagement and satisfaction, helping video service providers increase average revenue per customer and decrease customer churn. Additionally, Seamless Discovery adapts to each user's constantly changing viewing preferences in real-time, ensuring a personalized experience that is relevant and effective in any discovery context at any particular time.
Digitalsmiths Key Statistics
- Powers 7 of the top 10 US operators that serve 64 million homes in the U.S.
- Digitalsmiths powers 46 domestic and international customers and partners including Foxtel, Sharp, Univision, zeebox and i.TV.
- Currently Digitalsmiths Seamless Discovery platform is licensed to Service Providers and other providers that service more than 100 million households worldwide.
- Digitalsmiths TV Everywhere video discovery solutions are deployed on more platforms than any other solution including: iOS, Android, Roku, Xbox, PlayStation, Kindle and multiple set-top boxes.
- Digitalsmiths is experiencing rapid growth in transaction volume. The company's cloud service handled 90 million transactions in July 2013, growing to almost 150 million in December 2013.
- In October 2013, Digitalsmiths was named to the Streaming Media 100, an exclusive list of companies powering the most interesting, innovative and important work in online video.
- Continued growth of the world's largest database of proprietary scene-level, time-based and mood metadata now totaling over 11 million data sets. The database delivers an incredible level of accuracy and detail to Digitalsmiths personalized video discovery products.
During Calendar Year 2013, Digitalsmiths experienced rapid growth in both its user base and revenue. TiVo anticipates continued rapid growth from increased penetration within Digitalsmiths' current customer base and through new customer wins. Digitalsmiths' current user base represents about 10% of the total potential user base licensed under its current contracts. TiVo expects the active user base to grow to over 50% penetration in the next few years. These factors should drive significant double-digit revenue growth rates for Digitalsmiths for the next several years. Additionally, the highly efficient nature of Digitalsmiths' SaaS offering should drive strong margins and a material contribution to TiVo's overall Adjusted EBITDA in Fiscal Year 2016. Further, TiVo expects Digitalsmiths to be Adjusted EBITDA positive in Fiscal 2015 (begins February 1, 2014). Additionally, TiVo will have access to more than $20 million of Digitalsmiths' NOLs as well as Digitalsmiths' intellectual property. TiVo plans to provide additional details on the transaction when it reports its fourth quarter fiscal year 2014 results.
Under the terms of the deal, TiVo will pay $135 million in cash, subject to a working capital adjustment. The transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, is expected to close in the first quarter of Fiscal 2015.
Separately, TiVo announced that it has increased its current stock repurchase authorization by $100 million, giving the company approximately $186 million of unused repurchase capacity as of the current date. In conjunction with this increased authorization, TiVo intends to repurchase $100 million during the first quarter of Fiscal 2015 (after it can either modify its existing 10b5-1 plan or enter into an accelerated stock repurchase program).
About TiVo Inc.
Founded in 1997, TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO) developed the first commercially available digital video recorder (DVR). TiVo offers the TiVo service and TiVo DVRs directly to consumers online at www.tivo.com and through third-party retailers. TiVo also distributes its technology and services through solutions tailored for cable, satellite, and broadcasting companies. Since its founding, TiVo has evolved into the ultimate single solution media center by combining its patented DVR technologies and universal cable box capabilities with the ability to aggregate, search, and deliver millions of pieces of broadband, cable, and broadcast content directly to the television. An economical, one-stop-shop for in-home entertainment, TiVo's intuitive functionality and ease of use puts viewers in control by enabling them to effortlessly navigate the best digital entertainment content available through one box, with one remote, and one user interface, delivering the most dynamic user experience on the market today. TiVo also continues to weave itself into the fabric of the media industry by providing interactive advertising solutions and audience research and measurement ratings services to the television industry.
TiVo and the TiVo Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of TiVo Inc. or its subsidiaries worldwide. © 2013 TiVo Inc. All rights reserved. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
About Digitalsmiths
Digitalsmiths serves customers across all media channels and devices. Digitalsmiths is based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina and is privately held. Digitalsmiths investors include .406 Ventures, Aurora Funds, Chrysalis Ventures, Cisco and Technicolor. To learn more visit www.Digitalsmiths.com.
As used in this press release, the term Adjusted EBITDA has the same meaning as defined in TiVo's earnings release dated November 26, 2013.
This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements relate to, among other things, TiVo's and Digitalsmiths' future business and growth strategies including future penetration of existing customer subscriber bases and new customer acquisitions and financial expectations related to the Digitalsmiths acquisition, including future revenues, margins, and Adjusted EBITDA performance and the amount of NOLs available to TiVo in the future from this acquisition. Forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as, "believe," "expect," "may," "will," "intend," "estimate," "continue," or similar expressions or the negative of those terms or expressions. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to vary materially from those expressed in or indicated by the forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially include delays in development, competitive service offerings and lack of market acceptance, risks that the closing conditions related to the acquisition of Digitalsmiths are not satisfied, our inability to achieve the synergies expected from the Digitalsmiths acquisition, issues with the integration of Digitalsmiths, including costs and unanticipated expenditures, changing relationships with customers, suppliers and strategic partners, potential contractual or employment issues, as well as the other potential factors described under "Risk Factors" in the Company's public reports filed with the Securities and Exchange, including the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2013, our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the periods ended April 30, 2013, July 31, 2013, and October 31, 2013, and Current Reports on Form 8-K. The Company cautions you not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which reflect an analysis only and speak only as of the date hereof. TiVo disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
Source: TiVo Inc.

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Fourth-graders say potato, the NH House says yes, approving state vegetable proposal
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) � Fourth-graders from Derry are celebrating a starchy legislative victory after the New Hampshire House approved their request to declare the white potato the state vegetable.
Students watched Wednesday as their bill was debated by several representatives looking to illustrate the role of civilized debate in self-governance. One representative argued that broccoli should be the state vegetable for its nutritional merit and long patriotic history dating back to Thomas Jefferson.
The potato bill cites research showing New Hampshire was the first state to cultivate the white potato in North America when an Irish immigrant brought a sack of seed potatoes in 1719 to the area now known as Derry.
Virginia challenged that research, but has since conceded. The bill will now be considered by the Senate.


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"Will you make a declaration of war?"
Excerpts from the speech of John Janney on April 17, 1861, printed in George H. Reese and William H. Gaines, Jr., eds., Proceedings of the Virginia State Convention of 1861 (Richmond, Va.: Virginia State Library, 1965), 4:137, 138–139, 140.
On April 17, 1861, Convention President John Janney, of Loudoun County in northeastern Virginia, temporarily relinquished the chair to explain to the convention why he would vote against secession, as he had done on April 4. Janney knew that many other delegates would also vote against secession, and he asked the supporters of secession, "Will you make a declaration of war—for that is what this ordinance of secession will amount to?" He also stated, "My belief is, that if this ordinance passes here to day, and more, if it passes by the unanimous vote of this body, that it will be regarded as an act of war, and so treated by the General Government." Janney believed that Virginia was not prepared to meet the army and navy of the United States and pointedly asked former U.S. president John Tyler, who had voted for secession on April 4, whether Tyler would have asked Congress for a declaration of war if the United States was equally unprepared.


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Initiative: +9
Speed: 20 ft. (4 squares)
Armor Class: 20 (+4 natural, +5 Dex +1 size), touch 16, flat footed 15
Base Attack/Grapple: +3/+0
Attack: Claw +5 melee (1d4+1 damage)
Full Attack: 2 Claws +5 melee (1d4+1 damage)
Space/Reach: 5 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks: Acidic Venom
Special Qualities: Scent
Saves: Fort +3, Ref +8, Will +4
Abilities: Str 13, Dex 21, Con 10, Int 2, Wis 17, Cha 14
Skills: Track +4, Intimidate +12
Feats: Improved Initiative
Environment: Warm Forests
Organization: Solitary
Challenge Rating: 3
Treasure: None
Alignment: Always Neutral
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This small dinosaur looks similar to the much larger Dilophosaurus. It seems rather passive, until it reveals its frill, and starts to eject a black liquid from its mouth.
These creatures are believed to be descended from the experiments of Yuan-Ti. Their ancestors were originally bred to be guardian animals for Yuan-Ti outposts, but after they were abandoned, they had to go through major evolutionary changes to survive. Because of their reduced size, they needed to find a way of hunting and killing creatures far larger than them. For this purpose, they developed venom glands to slow down prey. To intimidate other carnivores away from their kills, they slowly developed neck-frills. While maybe not as feared as their larger progenitors, Spitting Dilophosauruses are still something to be feared.
First, Spitting Dilophosauruses try to scare their prey into a dead end using their neck-frills, so the prey cannot escape. After that, they repeatedly spit their paralyzing venom at their targets. Once the hunted is paralyzed, the Dilophosaurus tries to kill it with its claws, repeating the spitting process if necessary.
Venom (Ex): A Spitting Dilophosaurus can spit its venom at a range of 30 ft. Treat the spitting as a touch attack. If the attack is a success, the victim must make a fortitude save (DC 15), or be paralyzed for 1d4 rounds. It can spit every five rounds.
Skills: A Spitting Dilophosaurus can use its neck-frill to startle enemies, giving it a +8 bonus to intimidate checks.


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Choosing the right provider of interpreting services
A big multinational company convened a last-minute press conference in the run-up to a major product launch. Five minutes into the Q&A session that followed the CEO's address, English-speaking journalists were complaining that what they had heard through the interpreter was unintelligible.
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A big multinational company convened a last-minute press conference in the run-up to a major product launch. The CEO chose to address the journalists in his native German, in an attempt to reach out to the German media that had been rumouring less than rosy prospects for the new product line. Interpretation into English was provided for the international press. Five minutes into the Q&A session that followed the CEO's address, English-speaking journalists were complaining that what they had heard through the interpreter was unintelligible.
An internal investigation later established what had gone wrong: The booth had been manned by a translator without much experience in simultaneous interpretation techniques. He had worked for slightly under two hours on his own. He had translated from German into English, neither of which was his native language. He had arrived in the booth with no idea of what the meeting was about. He had been hired on the strength of his CV by a simultaneous equipment rental company. The rental company's client was the posh hotel where the press conference was being held. The hotel had assured the professional meeting planner contracted to mastermind the event that they had a good record in arranging simultaneous interpretation services. The professional meeting planner had believed this and had concentrated on organising the press kits, the floral arrangements and hostesses instead...
A total of four intermediaries, plus a - by now very dissatisfied - client, had unfortunately failed to understand that, as far as the English-speaking press was concerned, the CEO's address would only be as good and convincing as the interpreters in the booth. None of them realised that bad interpretation is worse than no interpretation at all.
The above anecdote shows that selecting the right provider of conference services is the key to the credibility of your international meeting. This is especially the case if you have never worked with interpreters before. However, making the right choice is easier said than done.
Since the profession of conference interpreter is not legally recognised and protected in most countries, unfortunate though that may be for such a highly specialised activity, many people claim to be conference interpreters when they are anything but, and even more people maintain that they can arrange impeccable conference interpretation services. But is that true?
Providers of interpretation services usually belong to one the following categories, (listed below in alphabetical order):
- Convention centres,
- Equipment rental companies,
- Hotels,
- Individual interpreters,
- Interpretation agencies,
- Professional conference organisers (meeting planners),
- Translation agencies
It must be said that all of them can potentially offer excellent interpretation services, but most are in no position to provide the services or vouch for quality themselves. Accordingly, what they offer will only be as good as their sub-contractors. Let's take a closer look at who does what:
Convention centres are in the business of renting out meeting facilities. More often than not, these will include rooms with ISO-compliant built-in interpretation booths and equipment. Many reputable congress centres work in collaboration with one or more consultant interpreters or interpretation agencies to whom the recruitment of interpreters' teams for specific events is hived off.
Simultaneous equipment rental companies sell, rent and operate SI hardware. The bigger ones will even be able to provide the full range of audio-visual technology for large congresses, from barcos to voting systems. Of course, state-of-the-art SI equipment and proficient sound engineers are crucial to any event with simultaneous interpretation. Some rental companies will tell you that they can also provide the interpreters themselves, along with the equipment.
More and more hotels nowadays offer comprehensive meeting facilities, including built-in interpretation booths. Sadly enough, there are many examples of hotel booths laid out at the whim of an architect who did not realise that the interpreters might one day need to stretch their legs under the table, or keep their meeting documents and laptop close at hand, or that looking at the projection screen through a pillar might prove slightly tricky. In most cases also, hotel booths have not been wired to a sound system, which means that a rental company has to come in with its own SI equipment whenever interpretation is required.
Whereas most freelance interpreters do not recruit teams of colleagues themselves, some have made a real speciality of it. In AIIC's jargon, they are called consultant interpreters. Some of them work in association with partners and have formed companies (interpretation agencies, interpreter cooperatives, partnerships, economic interest groups, etc.) Being interpreters themselves, they know how to compose quality teams, especially if they work with a large network of interpreters, such as those linked together world-wide through AIIC. Another advantage is that most of them offer totally transparent services: you will sign a contract with all the interpreters on the team, and a master contract with the consultant interpreter or company, so that you know exactly how much the interpreters and the recruiter get for their work.
Professional conference organisers, or event planners, are in the business of taking care of every aspect of any meeting, from a bar mitzvah to big fundraising events, including trade conferences and party conventions. They will sometimes offer interpretation services along with hotel bookings, attendee registration, hostesses and flowers.
Some translation agencies will claim that they are "the premier provider of a full range of interpretation services anywhere in the world" and that they manage a "world-wide network of thousands of tried and tested, competitively priced, professional conference interpreters speaking over two hundred languages". Well, for one thing, there simply aren't professionally trained, university-educated conference interpreters in 200 different languages, but 50 at the very most. And no organisation on the planet can boast a network of more than two hundred conference interpreters, except AIIC which gathers over 2500 members world-wide. So beware of overclaim if you deal with translation agencies. However, some of them do recognise that interpreting is not their core business, and will subcontract the recruitment of a team to a professional interpreter.
Whomever you decide to work with in the end, quality can only be guaranteed if a professional conference interpreter is putting the team together: Interpreters should be short-listed on the basis of their language combination, past experience, subject affinities, and availability. And even though the recruitment process can be considerably facilitated by customised software, having a big database and powerful software is not enough. The human touch remains all-important in a stress-prone profession where team-work in confined spaces is the name of the game. Knowing the interpreters personally and how they work is essential, as is being able to draw on the resources of a world-wide network of reputable colleagues.
At any rate, to make sure that you are getting real value for money and to avoid putting your CEO or keynote speaker in an uncomfortable position at your next event, ask the following questions:
- Who is the provider and how do they recruit interpreters? Are they knowledgeable enough to hire interpreters themselves or will the task be hived off to someone else? If the latter is the case, how much commission does each of the intermediaries take?
- Does the provider have a good record in organising meetings with conference interpreters or is it something they do on the side?
- Who are the interpreters? Ask for the interpreter's references, CV, professional affiliation and language combination.
- Will you be allowed to liaise directly with the interpreters or the team leader before and during the meeting? Terminological preparation requires that the interpreters receive background documents, minutes of previous meetings and speeches well ahead of the event. Will the interpreters be able to contact you directly if they have specific questions? The more intermediaries between you and the interpreters, the more difficult that process becomes.
- Is the provider willing to explain its price? Ask for a detailed breakdown of prices for the SI equipment, the interpreters' fees and the consultancy fees. Whatever your vendor says, you can only know exactly how much the interpreters are really getting for their work if you sign an individual contract with them.
And never forget that, when the big day comes, your speakers will only sound as good and convincing as the interpreters in the booth.
Articles published in this section reflect the views of the author(s) and should not be taken to represent the official position of AIIC.
Vincent Buck is a Brussels-based freelance conference interpreter. He was a member of AIIC's standing committee for the private market sector between 2000 and 2006.


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Seems like whenever Google does anything it gets big buzz. So imagine the hype over the Internet giant's super-secret barges. The first appeared in the San Francisco Bay, just off Treasure Island. What could it be? A water-based data center? A hideaway for Google execs? A high-tech showroom for its Google Glass? Alas, Google said the mysterious barges would be used "as an interactive space where people can learn about new technology."
Is the nanny state going too far? New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg doesn't seem to think so. He already banned smoking in bars and restaurants and required restaurants to post calorie counts on their menus. But many New Yorkers were up in arms when the city tried to block the sale of sugary drinks in cups of 32 ounces or larger. Some say it's a health matter as others call it an infringement on our rights. There's still a court case pending.
Flying higher than eagles is the Robertson family of Louisiana as their story is told on A&E's "Duck Dynasty." The reality show features the family that has made millions selling equipment for hunters, including "Duck Commander," one of the best duck calls around. The Season 4 premiere shattered records as it was watched by 11.8 million viewers, becoming the most-watched non-fiction series telecast in the history of cable television. It seems we just can't get enough of Willie, Phil and Uncle Si. It's one of the top rated shows of 2013, Jack!
Alarm bells rang when news of the "knockout game" hit. Reportedly part of a gang initiation rite, stories circulated of innocent pedestrians being walloped in the head and knocked to the ground. It's not clear how widespread this violent phenomenon is, but it makes us keep looking over our shoulders as we walk down the street. The "knockout game" has claimed lives of those in St. Louis, Syracuse, N.Y., and Hoboken, N.J.
A New Hampshire man lost his entire life savings on a carnival game this past April. Henry Gribbohm spent his life savings of $2,600 trying to win an Xbox Kinect at a game of Tubs of Fun where contestants toss balls into a tub. After practicing to play the game he said it was easy, but fell short when he began to play the real deal with the prize at stake. In the end, he left with no money and a stuffed banana with dreadlocks.
The manhunt of former Los Angeles Police Department officer Christopher Dorner had Southern California, along with the nation, on high-alert. Dorner claimed he was wrongly terminated by the LAPD and that the organization was racist. He wrote a scathing online manifesto detailing how the LAPD ruined his life. Dorner took his frustration and anger out by killing four people and wounding three others in a shooting rampage before turning the gun on himself in February.
A nationwide computer glitch caused a shutdown for the EBT food system sending thousands of Americans across the country in a frenzy. People in 17 states were affected by the outage caused by a system failure during a test backup of the vendor's system. A couple of Walmart stores in Louisiana were cleaned out of food because of the nationwide outage after people realized they had an unlimited spending limit. Some thought the EBT glitch was a part of the government shutdown since the federal EBT website was unavailable due to the nation's lawmakers not compromising over a budget deal.
A teenage girl was upset that her school punished her for giving a ride home to a friend who was drunk. Eleanor Cox of North Andover, Mass., was demoted from captain of the volleyball team and also suspended from playing for five games because she helped her friend get home safely. North Andover High School claimed Cox was in violation of the district's zero tolerance policy against alcohol and drug use, even though she was completely sober and cleared by the police to drive her friend home. The Cox family filed a lawsuit and her teammates at the time rallied to support her by starting a petition. Her mother argued that her daughter did what she thought was right and that she shouldn't be punished for that.
It will forever be the Super Bowl remembered as the night the lights went out. Shortly after Baltimore Ravens' Jacoby Jones returned the opening kickoff of the second half for a touchdown, a majority of the lights in the Superdome went out. For more than a half hour during the Super Bowl blackout, conspiracy theorists came out on social media, blaming Commissioner Roger Goodell for the blackout and others saying it was purposely done to stop the Ravens momentum since they were up 28-6 at the time. After 34 minutes, the lights came back on, as did the San Francisco 49ers offense, but the Ravens prevailed in the end, 34-31. An "abnormality" in the power system was blamed for the blackout.
The promising career of New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez came to an abrupt halt in June after he was charged in the first-degree murder of Odin Lloyd. Prosecutors say Hernandez planned Lloyd's murder because the Pro Bowler was upset with Lloyd over the people he was talking to at a nightclub a few days earlier. Hernandez is also connected to a double murder in 2012 near a Boston nightclub. Hernandez has pleaded not guilty in Lloyd's murder.
The Jodi Arias trial was a highly publicized court case across the country this year. She was found guilty of killing her boyfriend, Travis Alexander, who she said abused her. She initially denied killing him, but later admitted to the crime. After being found guilty, Arias wanted revenge and threatened to cut the prosecutor's throat, just like she did to Alexander's. Even her cellmates considered her a dangerous person.
"Fast and Furious" star Paul Walker died suddenly in a horrific car crash that shocked his family, friends, costars and thousands of fans. Social media accounts were flooded with tributes to the actor after his death. Walker's death put the brakes on the famous movie franchise since he was a key character to the upcoming film. Many found it ironic how a man who became known for driving fast cars in movies actually died in the passenger seat of a sports car. Thousands of people, including his "Fast and Furious" co-stars, have paid tribute to his memory at the crash site in Santa Clarita, Calif..


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Pennsylvania was founded as a place of refuge and religious freedom for many diverse groups from Great Britain and Europe. Important religious groups in colonial Pennsylvania were the Society of Friends (Quakers), the German Lutheran, German Reformed, Presbyterian, Episcopal, Baptist, and Catholic churches, and the German Pietist groups, including the Brethren (Dunkard), Mennonites, and Moravians. Before 1900 the major religious groups in Pennsylvania were the Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, Reformed, Episcopal, and Roman Catholic churches.
Because the keeping of vital records began late in the history of Pennsylvania, church records play a major roll in family history research. It is important that the researcher know the religious affiliation of their ancestor and be able to identify the church or churches their ancestor attended. County histories can help identify extinct and extant churches in the locality where the ancestor lived.
Ministers assigned to a particular church may have "rode the circuit' to outlying areas to perform marriages, etc. for their followers. Records for itinerant (circuit riders) ministers may be recorded in their personal records or the records of the church where they are assigned. County histories may help to identify pastors who served in particular counties and what churches they were assigned too.
If the records can only be viewed at the church, make an appointment with the minister or secretary to examine the records. Remember, the records are the property of the church. There may be instances when the minister or a representative will not allow you to view the record but will look at the record for you.
A detailed Historical Records Survey inventory of church records available at the State Library of Pennsylvania is Inventory of Church Archives in Pennsylvania, also available in the FHL Collection. To check for a copy nearest you, use WorldCat. It lists many Pennsylvania churches existing in the 1930s. It is arranged by county and can help you identify extant churches for that time period.
The Family History Library has extensive collections of church records for the Lutheran, Presbyterian, Reformed (United Church of Christ), and Society of Friends denominations. Many transcripts of local church records have been published.
The Family History Library also has histories of the Church of the Brethren, the Society of Friends, and the Baptist, Schwenkfelder, Evangelical Lutheran, Reformed, Presbyterian, Moravian, and Catholic churches in Pennsylvania.
Two of the largest groups were the German Lutheran and Reformed churches. For excellent information on the various congregations and their histories and records, see Charles H. Glatfelter, Pastors and Peoples, 2 vols. (Breingsville, PA: Pennsylvania German Society, 1980 and 1981) as vols. 13 and 15 of The Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society in the FHL Collection. To check for a copy nearest you, search WorldCat.
Many denominations have deposited their records in central repositories. You can write to the following addresses for more information. Additional copies of church records may be located at the county historical or genealogical societies. Records at local societies may be more accessible.
Baptist[edit | edit source]
American Baptist Historical Society
3001 Mercer University Dr
Atlanta, GA 30341
Telephone: (678) 547-6680
Episcopal[edit | edit source]
Diocese of Pennsylvania
The History Committee
240 S. 4th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Telephone: (215) 627-6434
Fax: (215) 627-7550
This diocese has records for churches that are now closed for Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties only. Churches that are not closed should be contacted for their records. The appropriate diocese holds the records for other counties.
Only a small percentage of Colonial Pennsylvania's population belonged to the Church of England.[1] Of 26 Episcopalian churches established in Pennsylvania before 1800, 12 have surviving parish registers covering that period.[2]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons)[edit | edit source]
Early church records for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Pennsylvania can be found on film and are located at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. The film numbers, for each ward, can be locate through the FamilySearch Catalog . Or by refering to Jaussi, Laureen R., and Gloria D. Chaston. Register of Genealogical Society Call Numbers. 2 vols. Provo, Utah: Genealogy Tree, 1982. (FHL book 979.2258 A3j; fiche 6031507). These volumes contain the film numbers for many (but not all) membership and temple record films.
Lutheran[edit | edit source]
A. R. Wentz Library
Lutheran Theological Seminary
61 Seminary Ridge
Gettysburg, PA 17325
Telephone: (717) 334-6286
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
The A. R. Wentz Library records are not available to the general public, but the Family History Library has filmed many of their church records.
Krauth Memorial Library
Lutheran Archives Center at Philadelphia
Seminary Ridge
Gettysburg PA 17325
Phone: (717) 334-6286, ext 2131
Tri-Synod Archives
Thiel College
75 College Avenue
Greenville PA 16125
Phone: (724) 589-2131
The archives has the records for the local congregations that have disbanded in the eastern third of Pennsylvania and in New Jersey, New England, and upstate New York. Those congregations still active will have their records or will know where their older records are located.
A helpful source is Frederick S. Weiser, Pennsylvania Lutheran Church Records, 4 vols. included in the FHL Collection. This includes records from Adams, Columbia, Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton, Lebanon, Northumberland, Snyder, and York counties.
Genealoger.com has a bibliography of Pennsylvania Lutheran Church Records and Histories
For an index to birth (baptism) information for Colonial Pennsylvania Lutherans, see:
- Humphrey, John T. Birth Index; Southeastern Pennsylvania, 1680-1800. n.p.: Brøderbund, 1998. FHL Collection CD-ROM no. 9 pt. 196.
For a history of colonial German Lutheran churches, read:
- Dubbs, Joseph Henry. "The Founding of the German Churches of Pennsylvania," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 17 (1893):241-262. For free online access, see WeRelate.
Mennonite[edit | edit source]
The Mennonite Heritage Center
565 Yoder Road
Harleysville PA 19438-1020
(215) 256-3020
Edit: email@example.com
Hours: Tuesday thru Friday, 10am–5pm, Saturday, 10am–2pm
The Mennonite Historians of Eastern Pennsylvania support the John L. Ruth Historical Library and Museum at the Mennonite Heritage Center. Located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania the records and resources of this treasure also cover the counties of Bucks, Chester, Berks, Lehigh, Northampton, and Philadelphia. The website provides a comprehensive overview of library resources, online cemetery database, manuscript collections, photo collections, archival collections, and more.
Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society
2215 Millstream Road
Lancaster, PA 17602-1499
Phone: (717) 393-9745
Fax: (717) 393-8751
E-mail: email@example.com
This Society has a genealogy card file which has been filmed and is available on Ancestry.com $. It covers the counties of Adams, Berks and Lancaster.
Moravian[edit | edit source]
The Moravian Archives
41 West Locust Street
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18018
United States of America
Phone: (610) 866-3255
Fax: (610) 866-9210
For information concerning missions to the American Indians visit The Moravian Missions to the Indians. For a map and list of missions visit Early Moravian Missions in Eastern Pennsylvania and Surrounding Areas 1740-1773.
Mission records are also available in the FHL Collection. The records are indexed in the FHL CollectionBook 970.1 F642i.
Presbyterian[edit | edit source]
Presbyterian Historical Society
425 Lombard Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147
Telephone: (215) 627-1852
Fax: (215) 627-0509
The society and the FHL Collection have "Miscellaneous Biographical Collection". This collection contains information from the 1600s up to 1960s. It includes obituaries, funeral discourses, memorial sermons, newspaper clippings, records of ministerial service, published genealogies, histories, golden anniversary of work in the ministry, church newsletters with biographical information, ordination service bulletins, installation service bulletins, biographical sketches and photographs. The collection is national in scope.
Inventory of the Church Archives of Pennsylvania Presbyterian Churches. Works Progress Administration, compiled from 1936-1940 and is available in the FHL Collection. Also try Candace Belfield's book Inventory of the church archives of Pennsylvania : Presbyterian churches.
Reformed[edit | edit source]
Evangelical and Reformed Historical Society
Philip Schaff Library
Evangelical and Reformed Historical Library
555 W. James Street
Lancaster, PA 17603
Telephone: (717) 290-8734
A guide to the records in the above named archive is, Florence M. Bricker, comp. and ed., Church and Pastoral Records in the Archives of the United Church of Christ and the Evangelical and Reformed Historical Society, Lancaster, PA Lancaster, PA: The Society, 1982; and is available in the FHL Collection. To locate the book nearest you, search WorldCat.
Roman Catholic[edit | edit source]
The beginning of the Catholic faith in Pennsylvania can be dated back to French explorers who visited the area in the seventeenth century. The first Catholic church was a chapel built in Fort Duquesne in 1754. In 1808, the Diocese of Philadelphia was organized. It covered the entire state. It was split in 1843 when the Diocese of Pittsburgh was erected to oversee Western Pennsylvania. Other dioceses were erected at later dates.[3]
At present there are eight dioceses in Pennsylvania:
Diocese of Allentown
P.O. Box F
Allentown, PA 18105-1538
The diocese consists of the counties of Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Northampton and Schuylkill.[4]
Diocese of Altoona
927 S. Logan Boulevard
hollidaysburg, PA 16648
Phone: (814) 695-5579
The diocese consists of the counties of Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Centre, Fulton, Huntingdon and Somerset.[4]
Diocese of Erie
St. Mark Catholic Center
429 East Grandview Blvd.
Erie, PA 16504
The diocese coonsists of the of counties of Cameron, Clarion, Clearfield, Crawford, Elk, Erie, Forest, Jefferson, Mercer, McKean, Potter, Venango and Warren.[4]
Diocese of Greensburg
723 East Pittsburgh St.
Greensburg, PA 15601
Phone: (724) 837-0901
The diocese consists of the counties of Armstrong, Fayette, Indiana and Westmoreland.[4]
Diocese of Harrisburg
4800 Union Deposit Road
Harrisburg, PA 17111
Phone: (717) 657-4804
Archive houses many records of genealogical value. Website includes guide Genealogy Research for Families. Professional look-up services are available.
The diocese of Harrisburg consists of the counties of Adams, Columbia, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Juniata, Lancaster, Lebanon, Mifflin, Montour, Northumberland, Perry, Snyder, Union and York.[4]
Archdiocese of Philadelphia
222 North 17th Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19103-1299
Phone: (215) 587-3600
- Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Reseach Center
100 E. Wynnewood
Wynnewood, PA 19096
Telephone: (610) 667-3394
The diocese (erected 1808) consists of the counties of Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia.[4]
Diocese of Pittsburgh
111 Blvd. of the Allies
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Phone: (412) 456-3000
The diocese (erected 1843) consists of the counties of Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Greene, Lawrence and Washington.[4]
The Diocese of Pittsburgh originally included Catholic churches throughout Western Pennsylvania, including: Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Bedford, Butler, Cambria, Clarion, Clearfield, Crawford, Elk, Erie, Fayette, Greene, Huntingdon, Indiana, Jefferson, McKean, Mercer, Potter, Somerset, Venango, Warren, Washington, and Westmoreland counties.[3]
For a centennial history, see:
- "100 Years of the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese 1843–1943," Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Summer 1990):9-33. FHL Book 974.8 B2wg. Chronology, map, county-by-county information.
Diocese of Scranton
300 Wyoming Avenue
Scranton, PA 18593
Phone: (570) 207-2238
The diocese consists of the counties of Bradford, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Lycoming, Monroe, Pike, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga, Wayne, Wyoming.[4]
The Northeast Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, Inc. located in Wilkes-Barre, PA, has digitized the Sacramental Registers of the Diocese of Scranton churches. The collection encompasses over 300 churches in eleven PA counties. Registers 70 years and older are available for research at the Society headquarters. Visit https://www.nepgs.com for more information.
For a listing of many vital records, see Albert H. Ledoux. Catholic Vital Records of Central Pennsylvania, 4 vols. (Altoona, PA: A. H. Ledoux, 1993-1996; see FHL Collection. Also check WorldCat for a copy of the book nearest you.
Russian Orthodox Churches[edit | edit source]
Orthodox Church in America
Diocese of Eastern Pennsylvania [1]
Society of Friends (Quakers)[edit | edit source]
FindMyPast[edit | edit source]
For Hicksite records:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Swarthmore College
500 College Avenue
Swarthmore, PA 19081
Telephone: (610) 328-8496
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
For Orthodox records:
Quaker Collection
Haverford College
James P. Magill Library
370 Lancaster Avenue
Haverford, PA 19041-1392
Telephone: (610) 896-1000
A card index to Quaker records is William Wade Hinshaw, The William Wade Hinshaw Index to Quaker Meeting Records in the Friends Library in Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania can be found in the FHL Collection.
For help in finding Quaker records, see:
- Inventory of Church Archives, Society of Friends in Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA: Historical Records Survey, 1941, can be searched in the FHL Collection.
- Hinshaw, William Wade. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. 6 Vols. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Edwards Brothers, 1936-1950. Volume II covers Pennsylvania Monthly Meetings. FHL Collection; digital version at Ancestry ($). To locate copies nearest you, use WorldCat.
- The William Wade Hinshaw Index to Pennsylvania Quaker Meeting Records. 8 vols. (Kokomo, Indiana: Selby Publishing & Printing, 1990; available in the FHL Collection. To locate copies nearest you, use WorldCat.
An important resource for Eastern Pennsylvania is Jack Eckert, Guide to the Records of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Philadelphia, PA: Haverford College, Records Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Swarthmore College, 1989; available in the FHL Collection. It also contains a bibliography, a glossary, and the record location for the other yearly meetings throughout the United States and Canada. The yearly meeting includes the monthly and quarterly meeting records, etc., under its jurisdiction. To locate a copy of the book nearest you, use WorldCat.
Many sources are also listed in the Place Search of the FamilySearch Catalog under PENNSYLVANIA - CHURCH HISTORY.
A few church records have been indexed for most Pennsylvania Counties in the I Dream of Genealogy website. They are indexed by County, Township and then Church.
For a history of Welsh Quakers in Pennsylvania, read:
- Levick, James J. "The Early Welsh Quakers and Their Emigration to Pennsylvania," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 17 (1893):385-413. For free online access, see WeRelate.
See also:
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Frank J. Klingberg, "The Anglican Minority in Colonial Pennsylvania with Particular Reference to the Indian," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 65, No. 3 (Jul. 1941):276-299. For free online access, see WeRelate.
- ↑ Philip Syng Physick Conner, "Registers of the Anglican Church in Pennsylvania prior to 1800," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 12 (1888):341-349. For free online access, see WeRelate.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "100 Years of the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese 1843–1943," Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Summer 1990):9-33. FHL Book 974.8 B2wg.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Map of the Roman Catholic Dioceses in the United States of America, Office of Catholic Schools Diocese of Columbus, accessed 3 Nov 2010.


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