Amy Lesiewicz

Please join us for dinner at Ristorante Fratelli Milano to see old friends again and to meet new ones. WHEN Thursday, November 5, 6:15pm WHERE Ristorante Fratelli Milano 213 SE First Street Miami, FL 33131 (312) 467-7177 www.ristorantefratellimilano.com _______________________________________________________________________ MENU _______________________________________________________________________ * FIRST COURSE Choose one of the following: RUCOLA E MANDORLE Arugula, grape tomatoes, pear, goat cheese, almonds, raspberry dressing CAPRESE Fresh sliced tomatoes, mozzarella, basil, drizzled with extra virgin olive oil and balsamic reduction * MAIN COURSE Choose one of the following: FIOCCHI DI PERA & TALEGGIO Pasta stuffed with pear and taleggio cheese, sage butter sauce TAGLIATELLE …

by Marcia Riefer Johnson, Science and Technology Division Distinguished Speaker at the 2015 American Translators Association Annual Conference A version of this article originally appeared on the Confab 2015 site. Why I Talk about Tight Writing We all use too many words. In and of itself, cutting unhelpful words (or sentences, or paragraphs, or whole chapters or blog posts) doesn’t make writing good. But it always makes writing better. One reason to care about conciseness is money. Extra words carry dollar signs—especially if your company publishes in multiple languages. If you tighten before you translate, you can save staggering amounts …

by: Matthew Schlecht ATA discussion lists have recently touched on the issue of copyright of texts, but copyright extends beyond the written word. I had a recent run-in with a UK-based company, License Compliance Services (LCS), that appears to be operating out of Science Photo Library (SPL)* in Seattle, WA, ostensibly their client. An email message arrived in my inbox around mid-March informing me that I was in violation for having a copyrighted image on my web site. I was instructed to show a valid license or pay the penalty, which in this case was $510, but offered a 5% …

A review by Robert Sette  As an avid recreational cyclist and rabid cycling fan, from the time I first perused the list of presentations for ATA’s 55th Annual Conference in Chicago I had circled the presentation mentioned above, which was to be presented by Carola Berger, an English-German translator. My anticipation level was high, and the presentation certainly did not disappoint.  Berger used her experience as a cyclist and cycling coach to highlight not only some of the scientific aspects of cycling, for example the forces working on a cyclist and machine while cornering and the aerodynamic features of various …

By Kate Forster At ATA conferences I like to divide my time between sightseeing and professional activities, and among the latter I usually try to take in a wide variety of sessions organized by different divisions. In Chicago in 2014, I found myself attending a lot of Science & Technology Division events (although I’m not a division member or even an ATA member) because the lineup was so strong. Among the S&TD offerings were two presentations by Distinguished Speaker Christiane Feldmann-Leben, who has a PhD in chemistry and is a freelance translator specializing in chemistry, materials science, pharmacy, and medicine. …

By Karen Tkaczyk and Alicja Yarborough Every year we take a brief look at the division’s activity for the prior year to see how we’re meeting the criteria divisions are meant to fulfill. This year ends with the division having 2,313 members. Many of those don’t participate in activity throughout the year, as is the case with most ATA divisions, but there is a small crowd who do network and share year round. The places we do that most are an online Yahoo forum and a Facebook group. To a lesser degree we also use LinkedIn. We have a Twitter feed …

Review by Karen Tkaczyk One of the strong themes I observed at the 2014 Annual Conference was that we all need to tell our own story. I had no idea when I targeted the session named “Updating your Knowledge of Sci-Tech Innovations” by Patricia Thickstun as one of my top priorities that this session would fit beautifully into that theme, as well as giving me what I had expected. As Patricia told us her structured method for keeping up with new scientific and technical innovations, she told us her personal story in a most engaging way. Patricia began with what …

 Friday, November 7, 2014   Chicago   Division Administrator Karen Tkaczyk called the meeting to order and introduced the agenda. The agenda was accepted. Karen then introduced the Leadership Council for the year ending. This included Iryna Ashby (webmaster), who was not present, and Alicja Yarborough (Assistant Administrator), Amy Lesiewicz (blog editor), Stefanie Strobel (event coordinator), Matthew Schlecht (Yahoo group moderator), and Lebzy Gonzalez (website assistant). Brief reports were given regarding division activity in the past year, with suggestions for the coming year.  You can find the complete Annual Meeting minutes in the Resources section of this website.   

Please join us for dinner at Emilio’s Tapas, one of the most popular restaurants of Chicago (Critics’ Choice Award 5 years in a row), to see old friends again and to meet new ones. WHENThursday, November 6, 7:00pm WHEREEmilio’s Tapas215 East Ohio StreetChicago, IL 60611(312) 467-7177www.emiliostapas.com_______________________________________________________________________________ MENU_______________________________________________________________________________ TAPAS FRIAS BERENJENAS BRASEADAS Grilled Eggplant rolled with goat cheese, garnished with tomato and arugula CANELÓN FRÍO DE ATÚN Cannelloni filled with tuna, asparagus, basil and tomato, topped with creamy white wine vinaigrette PAN CON TOMATE, JAMÓN Y QUESO Tomato bread with Spanish Serrano ham and Manchego cheese PATATAS CON ALIOLI Emilio’s Famous …

by Matthew Schlecht The ATA Science & Technology Division has a solid program at the ATA 55th Annual Conference, with content that will appeal to the inner geek in all of us. S&TD includes translators working in a wide variety of language pairs with a focus on scientific and technical subject matter. Some of the S&TD presentations do have a specific language pair focus, while others discuss only subject matter, but all address the unique constellation of terminology, style, register, and background that are necessary to do translation work in this area. Our Distinguished Speaker for 2014 is Dr. Christiane …