November 2021

You know it’s the real deal when November comes around. Temperatures drop down, Thanksgiving is almost here, the holidays are coming soon, and the end of a busy year seems just around the corner. But it’s not so bad at all. World Kindness Day, Veterans Day and, of course many people’s favorite, Thanksgiving, are days when we all can take a breather to reflect and appreciate the people and life around us. All while being cautious of COVID-19, of course!

There were quite a few ‘firsts’ that happened in this month when it comes to world history. November saw the opening of the first medical school for women in Boston. In South Africa, all-race elections were held for the first time. Britain, more specifically London, was also the place where the first electrified underground railway was opened. The first Opium War between China and Britain also began during this month. Carl Stokes, mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, was the first African American to become mayor in the U.S and L. Douglas Wilder became the first African American governor in U.S. history when he was elected as governor of Virginia. Ireland also got its first female president with Mary Robinson being elected in November of 1990. Important events also happened in the medicine field, with the first experimental blood transfusion which took place in Great Britain using two dogs. The discovery of x-rays by Wilhelm Roentgen also happened during November.

Other firsts include: the first issue of the New York Weekly Journal, Howard Hughes’ first and only flying boat’s flight, the first transcontinental flight across America, and the world’s first inhabited space capsule launched by the Soviet Russia. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to a fourth term, defeating his then-rival Thomas E. Dewey and Brazil also became a republic.

Some major political events also occurred in November. These include the establishment of the European Union, independence of Panama, end of the Franco-Spanish war (Treaty of Pyrenees) and the establishment of the U.S. Marine Corps as part of the U.S. Navy.

Birthdays of Well-known Individuals in November:

November 2, 1734: Daniel Boone: An American pioneer and folk hero. Best known for his adventures which made him popular across the United States and Europe.

November 7, 1867: Marie Curie: Famous Polish-French Physicist, one of the greatest and most influential scientists of all time. Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first and only woman to win it twice, and the only person in history to win it in two different scientific fields. She is best known for her research on radioactivity.

November 9, 1934: Carl Sagan: American Astronomer and important figure when it comes to science. He made a vast contribution in the field of extraterrestrial life and the greenhouse effect. He was an advocate for nuclear disarmament and was credited for assembling the first physical messages sent into space.

November 15, 1887: Georgia O’Keefe: American Born artist, Known as the “Mother of American Modernism”. She is best known for her abstract art, especially her amazing close-ups of flowers. O’Keefe was also known for her New Mexico landscapes and New York Skyscrapers.

Some Interesting Translation, Interpreting, & Media Projects Completed in August

November proved to be a gangbuster busy month full interesting projects, difficult deadlines and varied work for our company. Even with COVID-19 still lurking around we covered a wide variety of work in a multitude of industries and languages.

The interpreting department is continuing to see a constant increase in both On-Site and Virtual interpreting, in part, thanks to the vaccine against Covid and the rules in place to prevent it from spreading and overall business confidence of the economy.

Our interpreting department provided 3 days of on-site Japanese interpreting for a nationwide event production company in the sports industry. We also provided 3 virtual Turkish simultaneous interpreters for 4 days of online training between the US and Turkish governments for a major government agency. In addition, we provided 3 days of on-site Russian interpreting in Florida for a conference put on by a leading virtual event provider.

We supplied Cantonese, Mandarin, and Spanish on-site interpreting as well as virtual American Sign Language for a 2-day series of meetings at a major Las Vegas hotel. Another important project included the handling of 3 days on-site Japanese interpreting for a major scientific research company working in the human genome and the biology field. We also provided certified virtual remote Spanish interpreting for a nationwide court reporter for a series of legal depositions. Furthermore, we provided 3 virtual remote French interpreters for a 2-day training webinar in the biosafety and security field.

In the multi-media field, we started a huge transcription, translation, and voiceover project for the DOD, through one of our mutual Governmental NGO providers. This project involves 24 videos to transcribed and translated to Spanish, French & EU Portuguese, from over 13 hours of audio, with a 5-6 week deadline. Standard delivery of this size typically takes 12-14 weeks. We are up for the challenge and are in the process of producing high quality work within this tight deadline.

We are also working on an important Arabic video translation and subtitling project for a major Southern University in coordination with their client which is the U.S. military. This project involves the testing and handling of biological, chemical and hazardless materials.

We also transcribed multiple interviews for a television network from Spanish to English. For a Nevada law firm, we transcribed and certified four hours of English-to-English hearings for their upcoming deposition.

Our translation department continues to deliver numerous and varied projects for a wide array of industries. We translated 20,000 words of clinical research agreements into Japanese for one of the world’s biggest and well-known pharma and medical device companies. We also translated a 16,000 word on screen gaming project, in coordination with an Emmy Award winning production company, into EU French, German, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese. For the American Red Cross, we translated a 25,000-disaster action plan into Spanish with great speed.

Moreover, for a major international legal services provider, we translated a 25,000-word legal case summons and complaint for international service in Greek for Greece and Simplified Chinese for China. Our work in the medical field continues as we translated a 25,000-word medical device imaging manual into Hungarian and Slovenian. In addition, we translated 240,000 words of medical information related to numerous diseases into EU French, Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish for a project involving the Department of Defense and one of the largest Government consulting firms.

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