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1 Comprendium System Overview May 2004
2 Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION WHAT IS MACHINE TRANSLATION? THE COMPRENDIUM MACHINE TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGY THE BEST MT TECHNOLOGY IN THE MARKET A TRANSFER APPROACH A WIDE RANGE OF LANGUAGE-PAIRS TRANSLATION MEMORIES HOW DOES THE COMPRENDIUM MT SYSTEM WORK? THE MT SYSTEM WORKFLOW DURING TRANSLATION MT ENGINE INTERNALS The Translation Phases The MT System Building Blocks SUMMARY /13
3 1. Introduction Globalization is changing the face of business and with it, come increasing challenges associated with understanding. One of the main problems of globalization is how to overcome the very real language barriers, which divide people around the world. In practice, no one language will ever be universally accepted as the sole vehicle of international communication. The only way forward for global players is to be capable of understanding information and providing content in all the native languages of the countries in which they operate: for multinational customers, work forces, and business partners. In many applications speed is more essential than polished language: for internal communication within multinational companies and the rapid exploitation of information for business research and monitoring it is often only necessary to understand the content of documents, and having to wait hours or even days for a human translation can lead to a loss of a vital competitive edge. For company brochures and marketing information top-quality translation is a must - and human translators will always be involved in the production process. But even here, translation tools and processes can help users achieve a quicker time-to- market, reduce costs and relieve the load on translation departments and agencies. 2. What is Machine Translation? Machine Translation is a technology, belonging to the computational linguistics field that allows computer programs to translate texts from one language to another. Machine translation is an application of computational linguistics whose aim is to get a computer system to translate. This objective is achieved with the integration of a number of natural language processing techniques. From the human perspective, language is an everyday matter of fact that even very young children can master without any problem. However, the handling of human language in general, and the translation between languages in particular, is one of the most difficult tasks that can be given to a computer program. Soon after the first machine translation attempts, more than four decades ago, where native word-to-word translation approaches were used, it was clear that the problem required the use of much deeper linguistic devices. Human language is not a mere sequence of individual unconnected words; words group themselves into phrases, and phrases build sentences. Finding out the right internal structure of sentences is crucial if we want to be able to translate it into another language. 3/13
4 3. The Comprendium Machine Translation Technology 3.1 The Best MT Technology in the Market The Comprendium Machine Translation system uses one of the most highly developed linguistic approaches currently available. More than 20 years of research and millions of development dollars have gone into the development of this system, which carries out a full linguistic analysis of each sentence before translating them it into the target language. This system has extensive grammars and powerful dictionaries, and is lightyears removed from previous word-to-word translation approaches. The Comprendium MT system yields the best translation quality that can be found today in the market. Translation quality depends on a number of factors (language-pair, type of document, etc.) and is not always easy to measure. One big advantage of the Comprendium MT system is that it can be linguistically tuned to the specific needs of the customer. 3.2 A Transfer Approach The Comprendium MT system follows the paradigm of transfer-based systems, which have proven to be the only working engineering approach. It uses a tree-to-tree mapping approach. First, an analysis tree is created. This is then transformed into a transfer tree where the basic translation operations are done; finally, the transfer tree is converted into a target language generation tree, which then delivers the output. 4/13
5 Moreover, this approach makes existing analysis and generation components reusable for new language pairs and thus guarantees maximum efficiency and quality standards across different language combinations. 3.3 A Wide Range of Language-Pairs The Comprendium MT system currently uses a wide range of available language-pairs as is demonstrated below and new ones are under continuous development: English <-> German English <-> French English <-> Spanish English <-> Russian English <-> Catalan English -> Italian German <-> French German <-> Russian German <-> Spanish French <-> Spanish Spanish <-> Catalan 3.4 Translation Memories Translation Memory is a technology that leverages the results of previous human translations. It can be used in combination with the MT system. In areas such as software localisation (manuals, process descriptions), many documents are simply modified versions of previously published material that has already been translated into various languages. Translation memory technology stores source documents and their translations on a sentence-by-sentence basis. When a new version of a document is produced, this version is first compared against previously stored versions in order to ascertain what had already been translated. If the identical text is found, this is then reused for the new version of the document. So-called fuzzy matching also makes it possible to find sentences that are very close but not quite identical. Use of Translation Memory means that only the new text in a document needs to be translated and that the retrieved text is of an accepted high quality. This represents considerable savings in time and money. 5/13
6 Translation Memory is best used in combination with Machine Translation: sentences are first looked for in the Translation Memory, the remaining text is sent for re-translation by the MT system. 4. How Does the Comprendium MT System Work? 4.1 The MT System The workflow is as follows: Users start translation requests either from their Internet browsers, using a webbased client or from the stand-alone Java application on their PC. The translation environment is accessed by the mechanism, which knows which translation engines are on which machine, and activates the respective translation engine. The translation engines execute the translation jobs proper, and returns the translated documents. These documents are handed back to the user clients. For administration, two software components are available: There is a component, called LexShop, to administer the lexicon resources of the system. Lexicons change with each application and over time (as new terms are coined, old terms die together with the products they describe, like card punching machines), so special administration is offered to keep lexicons up-to-date From a Comprendium Desktop Power client, the expert user is able to create and administer the translation memory modules. 6/13
7 4.2 Workflow during translation The translation process starts with a source language file, and then continues in several phases: First, the text is unformatted. The text portions are separated from the layout information and the layout format is stored. This is done because, in the end, the translated text needs to have the same layout as the original document. Creating a new layout would take more time than the translation itself. The source text is sent to a pre-processor. This identifies parts that should not be translated (names, addresses, filenames etc.); these parts are marked Then the text is split into sentences because most translation tools work on a sentential basis, and so does the MT core engine Next, a translation memory is consulted if available. This can be seen as a large database of sentences where for each source language sentence, its target language equivalent is stored, resulting from previous translation efforts. A memory is a good supportive tool in case there are repetitive texts. If a sentence is found in the memory, it need not be sent to the MT engine. If a sentence is not in the memory it is sent to the MT engine, consisting of a software kernel that drives the translation. The translation direction is determined by the linguistic resources (grammars and lexicons) that are loaded into the kernel. The MT engine translates on a sentence basis. The MT engine also updates some elements of the format, e.g. if one boldface word is translated as a phrase in the target language, or is moved to a different position in the target sentence. The output of the MT engine (i.e. the target language sentences) is merged with the results of the Translation Memory lookup, so that all document sentences have been translated into the target language. 7/13
8 The last step is to merge the target language text with the stored layout and to reformat the whole document. This way, the target file is created. 4.3 MT engine internals The Translation Phases As we have mentioned above, Comprendium's MT system uses the transfer approach, which means that it uses the analysis transfer generation paradigm. Source and target language trees are representations of the syntactic structure of the sentence being translated. At the same time, trees contain linguistic information in form of feature-value pairs: 8/13
9 Analysis Phase The analysis phase consists of five main packages: First, morphological analysis is done. Words are looked up in the lexicon, and their specific position in the sentence is interpreted. Second, syntactic analysis is done, also called parsing. The system fires a series of grammar rules which create phrases, and combine phrases into sentence parts, and finally into an overall interpretation. The main challenge here is syntactic ambiguity. In sentences like Paul saw the man with the telescope, the telescope-phrase can refer to Paul or to the man, but in a similar sentence Paul saw the man with the children, the children-phrase can only refer to the man (you can use a telescope to see something, but you cannot use children). Disambiguation is the main task of the syntactic parsing. Part of the syntactic parsing is framing and multiword analysis. Framing means to assign certain phrases a grammatical role (like subject or indirect object), multiword analysis interprets groups of words (such as blinder Passagier in German) to be one term, and to be translated in a specific way (into a single word in English: stowaway). If the syntactic analysis fails (because the input sentence is too complex or incorrect), a special mechanism (called phrasal analysis) is triggered to try to identify meaningful phrases in the input. Finally, there are phenomena that need more than a sentential context, like pronouns referring to some previous sentence. These anaphora need to be resolved. The result is a source language analysis tree per sentence. 9/13
10 The Transfer Phase The transfer phase consists of three steps: First structural transfer is performed. This is transfer that is independent of lexical material. Complex pronominal German phrases including present participles will be translated into English subordinate infinitive clauses, independent of the words: der zu uebersetzende Satz -> the sentence to be translated. Then, contextual transfer is done, which involved words that influence their context: English like -> German gefallen, but the roles must be changed: he likes her -> sie gefaellt ihm: The English subject becomes the German indirect object. Finally, simple lexical transfer is done, replacing a source language by a target language term (German Atomkraftwerk -> English nuclear power plant). 10/13
11 The result is a target language tree: The Generation Phase The generation phase needs to perform the following steps: First, some target language specific re-arrangement of the tree are carried out. Then, the target language specific word order is created (verb into final position, subject before the verb, etc.) Finally, the target words are inflected, and the correct word forms are created (dog+plural -> dogs, go+past-> went, etc.) The MT System Building Blocks The two main linguistic building blocks of the MT System are the lexicons and the grammars. For any specific language-pair direction (e.g. German-English) the Comprendium MT System uses two monolingual lexicons (one for the source language German - and other for the target language English) and one transfer bilingual lexicon. Monolingual lexicons contain relevant morphological, syntactic and semantic information for every word known to the system. Bilingual lexicons contain all the source-to-target translations for a given word, depending on the syntactic and/or semantic context. At the same time, the system uses one analysis grammar to carry out the syntactic parsing of source sentences, one transfer grammar to map the source analysis trees into the corresponding target trees and one generation grammar, used to generate the output sentences in the target language. 11/13
12 All these components are re-usable among different language-pairs. Thus, the German- English system and the German-Spanish systems share the same German monolingual lexicon and the same German analysis grammar. 5. Summary Comprendium offers all the outstanding state-of-the-art machine translation technology described above plus a number of unique characteristics that no other system can deliver. Ease of use. High-quality output. A wide range of language-pairs available. Linguistically customizable. High performance and scalability. A choice of complementary translation technologies. Possibility of integration into workflows. Comprendium is the perfect tool to overcome language barriers within the enterprise. 12/13
13 ABOUT COMPRENDIUM Comprendium is a leading European provider of enterprise document management & multilingual content integration solutions. With its InfoStore product family, Comprendium not only covers classical application areas such as electronic archiving and document management, but with its multilingual content integration framework, it also enables the combining of documents, content and information regardless of language, company location, or system platform, thereby leveraging an organizations information assets and technology investments. Comprendium has a single focus: delivering solutions to enable customers' to meet business objectives, with measurable benefits. Whether you are a small or medium sized business with a straightforward requirement to archive and manage your business documents to meet efficiency or compliance requirements, or a large-scale enterprise with a legacy of complex content dependant systems and a growing need to accelerate your response to new business opportunities, Comprendium can support these challenges. Proving the effectiveness of Compendiums solutions are the more than 800 customers across Europe. Comprendium Deutschland Balanstrasse München - Germany Tel Fax Comprendium Austria Praterstrasse Wien - Austria Tel Fax Comprendium Schweiz Bahnhofstrasse Buchs - Switzerland Tel Fax Comprendium France 3, rue de l Arrivée, BP Paris Cédex 15 - France Tel Fax Comprendium UK 40 Portman Square London W1H 6 LT - United Kingdom Tel. +44 (0) Fax +44 (0) Comprendium ESPAÑA C/ Balmes, 114, 5è Barcelona - Spain Tel Fax /13
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Print advertisment created by Y&R, Colombia for Tampa, within the category: Transport.
the skies are safer
Art Directors: Jaime Duque, Oscar Munoz
Copywriters: Jaime Duque, Juan C. Valdivieso
Photographers: Niels Van Iperen, Flaco Jaramillo
Post Production: Oruga Studio
Highest Rated
agreed. i feel like i'm looking at a rorschach test and missing something.
| think small |
i like
nice idea, great picture, but not so good with the delivery of message!
I think the photography is fooling us into thinking there might be a bigger idea here.
agreed. i feel like i'm looking at a rorschach test and missing something.
| think small |
there is no contrast to deliver the message what is the risk down there?? is a volcano explosion?? a iceberg melting?? if you don't see next add that explain better u don't get it!!
i like idea and picture..but this one long time to understand how sea danger ,,,but i like ittt ...where 3 ides
A bit confusing. At first I thought this was about climate change.... Then I saw the other adverts and 'got it'. Maybe the 'safer' word is the one that confuses.
The post production was made by a Colombian Animation Studio called ORUGA.
it´s not clear enough.... and airplanes with safety ? it´s a little weird... but the idea is nice... I think the plane is flying too close to the earth so it doesn´t help to understand the message...
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This Week's Reading
Staff Picks: White Sands, Whit, WeinerBy The Paris Review
Weiner, man. You're going to hear a lot of people telling you to see this, so let me offer a meta service and say that you should listen to each and every one of them. The documentary follows Anthony Weiner's 2013 run for New York City mayor, which ended miserably thanks to an aftershock of the not-quite-sex scandal that had forced him from Congress two years earlier. The film makes a few diligent nods at the suggestion that the sexting scandal obscured more pressing concerns in the mayoral primary. But the real appeal here is characterological. Josh Kriegman, the former Weiner aide who shot the footage, was allowed such intimate access that he ends up, late in the film, incredulously asking Weiner why he granted it. Together with Elyse Steinberg, his codirector, Kriegman presents Weiner as a roiling tumble of contradictions: savvy and reckless, strident and insecure, charming and dickish, and never more serene, it seems, than when he's watching himself whirl into a rage during a disastrous TV interview. Huma Abedin, Weiner's wife and one of Hillary Clinton's closest aides, is in every way her husband's opposite, and there are moments in the film when her anguish is so obvious that you're almost rooting for her to show Kriegman, not to mention Weiner, the door. But the camera stays, and so does she. It's no small accomplishment of this film that you can almost imagine why. —Robert P. Baird
There are certain directors whose new movies you skip out of a kind of scared devotion, because the badness of their later work seems to reveal something that was essentially bad about their movies all along. Then there's the opposite case of Whit Stillman, whose Love & Friendship surpasses his early movies but makes you (or at least me) like them even better. He has never seemed more at home than in the slightly threadbare gentility of these country houses—somehow the sets look less "period" than antique, in a comfortable way—and his characters have never seemed so at home in their skin. Tom Bennett's first scene, playing the amiable idiot Sir James Martin, has brightened my whole week. —Lorin Stein Read More


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|Yakamo's Claw
|Created by:
|Yakamo no Oni
|First used by:
|Hida Yakamo
|Currently in the possession of:
Yakamo's Claw was a powerful weapon of the Shadowlands, once worn by the corrupt Hida Yakamo during the Clan War.
History Edit
Hida Yakamo Edit
During the Clan War, the Crab clan was tempted into an alliance with the Shadowlands by the traitorous and vile Kuni Yori. As a part of Hida Kisada's bargain, his son Yakamo accepted a fiendish metallic claw to replace the hand he had lost in a duel with Mirumoto Hitomi. Unknown to Yakamo, this claw was part of a terrible Oni that eventually took the crab hero's name, Oni Lord Yakamo no Oni. [1]
Yakamo eventually tore the claw from his arm and destroyed it with the power of the Jade Hand, but the evil of the claw persisted. When Yakamo later ascended to the Celestial Heavens as the new Lord Sun, he commissioned the Fortune of Steel to create the Celestial Swords for the Clan Champions, and so did Yakamo no Oni forge a new claw to be given to mortals. [2]
Yasuki Nokatsu Edit
For a time, this claw was worn by Yasuki Nokatsu, the Dark Oracle of Earth. When the Oracles retreated from humanity, Nokatsu left the claw behind. It dwelled in a shadowy cave where Nokatsu once lived, awaiting a new master. [2] [3]
Third Rise of Iuchiban Edit
Iuchiban knews of the Claw's existence, but he ordered his Bloodspeakers not to use it, fearing the Claw would make a pawn of its user. Sentinels guarded the cave at all time, to deny the nemuranai to any servant of Daigotsu. [2]
The Claw's Abilities Edit
Yakamo no Oni could see and hear everything the claw's user did, and reported directly back to Fu Leng. The Claw was immensely strong and radiates taint. Yakamo's Claw could be used by an individual missing a hand, who pressed the claw's empty socket to the stump. [2]
Known Wielders Edit
External Links Edit
- Yakamo's Claw (Gold)
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Scaffolding is up and waiting. Two days work repointing to finish off job. I had to stop through...
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House needs repointing. Mortar is very brittle in places especially at the front of the property....
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repointing of 3 bedroom semi front and side
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Windows Vista causes router to be unreachable during downloading
I have a strange problem and I don't know if it is specific to the Windows Vista operating system or my network configuration. Here is my scenario, I have 2 Windows Vista Ultimate clients that causes all other users on the network to not be able to connect to the internet when either of the Windows Vista clients are downloading files from the internet. During my testing I would open a command prompt from one of the clients and perform a transient ping to the inside interface of the 2651XM router that is used to terminate a DSL connection to the internet. During the download process the ping packets begin to become increasingly worse with response times until the Windows Vista client reaches over 500KB/s and then the router becomes completely unresponsive or I begin to see severe packet loss.
I have all clients connecting to a 3560G switch and their gateways are set for a PIX515E that has its E1 interface configured on a vlan'd interface (VLAN200) on the 3560G and its E0 configured on another switchport but configured for a different vlan (VLAN300). The PIX515E is configured to use the 2651XM router as its gateway to the internet and the 2651XM's Fa0/0 is configured on the same vlan as the PIX515E's E0 (VLAN300) and the 2651XM's interface Fa0/1 is configured for the same vlan as all connecting clients and the PIX515E's E1 (VLAN10). Hope this makes sense.
What kind of tools/commands can be run on each device (Vista client, 3560G, PIX515E, 2651XM) to find out what is causing this issue?


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From Piled Higher & Deeper:
A not-unrelated question: Would you rather promote your best employee or your worst?
From Piled Higher & Deeper:
A not-unrelated question: Would you rather promote your best employee or your worst?
Tags: Incentives · Just For Fun
the Peter Principle?
Promote randomly – that way you avoid deliberately promoting people until they are no longer good at their job!
You know, I still have a tinge of bitterness about the subject of "promoting your best employee".
I worked for a fairly large corporate subsidiary doing inventory management and had managed to work the company which–before being bought by the corporation–had lacked a good system for accounting inventory, let alone having a real-time inventory system at all that didn't involve calling down to the warehouse and asking if they had a part on the shelf.
Regardless, I got them on the straight and narrow, got the new system and tracking working, and a position opened in procurement that the procurement manager said I should apply for. It would have been a great promotion but my own department manager said they wouldn't let me take it because they wanted someone with a college degree in the position, despite all my relevant experience. Word got back through me that my manager didn't want to give me up because he thought the department would collapse without me in my position since I knew everything about it.
So apparently you CAN be too good at your job. But I got the last laugh because I quit the company altogether and enrolled in college. And now I'm a snarky economics/finance student.
*thumbs nose*


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This city hotel features architecture in the style of Gaud� and offers guests a great atmosphere in which to spend an unforgettable stay. It comprises a total of 77 rooms including 5 single rooms, 2 suites and 2 junior suites. Facilities on offer to guests include a lobby area with a 24-hour reception and check-out service, a hotel safe, a currency exchange facility and lift access. There is a bar, a restaurant and conference facilities as well as WLAN Internet access. Guests can also take advantage of the room and laundry services.
This hotel is located in the heart of the city, just a few steps (100 m) from the Plaza de Armas and the Templo Qoricancha, as well as many other places of interest to visitors. The San Blas district is 300 m from the hotel and it lies 500 m from the Sacsayhuaman ruins.
All the comfortable rooms come with a private bathroom with a shower/bathtub and a hairdryer and offer a double bed. They are equipped with a telephone and cable TV as well as central heating and air conditioning.
This hotel features a swimming pool.
Guests can select their breakfast from a buffet and the midday and evening meals may be enjoyed in buffet form, � la carte or as a set menu.
American Express, Diners Club, MasterCard and VISA are accepted at this hotel.
Room Facilities:
Direct dial telephone
Satellite cable TV
Double bed
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Check Point, a cyber security firm, has warned that millions of Android phones are infected with a dangerous malware known as HummingBad.
The company says it discovered the malware in February, warning that it establishes a rootkit on Android phones. The purpose of the malware is to generate fraudulent advertising revenue, but it could potentially have other sinister purposes.
Check Point said it made the discovery when its researchers gained "unprecedented access" to the Chinese cyber criminals who developed it. The group, called Yingmob, works in tandem with a legitimate Chinese advertising analytics company.
Check Point made the discovery when it followed a slender trail of data that led to the Chinese hackers' servers, giving them an inside look at what turned out to be a fairly vast criminal enterprise.
The Chinese group is described as highly organized with 25 employees. These employees are divided into four groups that are responsible for developing HummingBad.
Highly profitable
In a report, Check Point researchers say the scam generates around $300,000 a month, but financial gain is just the tip of the iceberg. When the group is successful in its attack on a phone, it can create a botnet, carry out targeted attacks on businesses or government agencies, and even sell the access to other cybercriminals on the black market.
Data on compromised devices is at risk, including enterprise data if the owner happens to be using the phone for both personal and business purposes. Being able to access this data, the researchers say, creates a steady stream of income.
"Emboldened by financial and technological independence, their skillsets will advance – putting end users, enterprises, and government agencies at risk," the authors warn.
According to technology website CNET, the most effective way to get rid of HummingBad is also pretty extreme: a factory reset.
"So backup your files and contacts, write down your favorite apps, and then reset your phone," the site advises.
The way to avoid becoming infected again is advice you probably have heard before – don't download apps from untrusted sources.


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Philip LePage (1996 BA Art History) was born in 1969 in Northern Canada but left in 1994 and remained in Europe and Asia for 13 years. He currently lives on Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Photography for Philip LePage is very centered on the contradictions inherent in ideas of home, identity and belonging. He thinks of photography as a journey between two worlds. A middle ground that separates and joins at the same time, a liminal space. That the act of photographing can expose new realms of possibility. Communication is a dialogue. It is not static and allows for misunderstandings, surprising twists, leaps of faith and unforeseen connections.
Philip is available for assignments worldwide. Contact him below or through the Blink network.


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Katakata Hakkun
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The title of this article is official, but it comes from a non-English source. If an official name from an English source is found, the article should be moved to its appropriate title.
Katakata Hakkun are Ninji toys in Mario vs. Donkey Kong. They act just like Ninjis and look like them with a keywind on their back, like all the rest of the Mini toys. They jump up and down, which can give Mario a boost at getting to high cliffs. They have few appearances in the game, first seen in Fire Mountain.
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VideoHive Business People Working on Laptop 9626639
Stock Footage \ Business \ Corporate
Business \ Computer \ Center \ People \ Project \ WorkingBusiness \ Discuss
Stock Footage - Business People Working on Laptop 9626639 by Anatar @ VideoHive
Stock Footage \ Business \ Corporate
Business people in the business center to discuss the project and work on the computer.
Alpha Channel: No; Looped Video: No; Frame Rate: 25; Resolution: 1920x1080; Video Encoding: H.264; File Size: 184mb; Number of Clips: 1; Total Clip(s) Length: 0:35.
Icon of Jesus; Icon of Our Lady; Inside the Temple; People in the Service of the Church; Church Candles in Church; Icon; Holy Icon.
Keywords: business, business graph, businessmen, colleagues, computer, cooperation, corporate, discussing, indoor, sales meeting, tablet, team, teamwork, woman, working.


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Home Policy Priorities ICI Comment Letters
- Fund Regulation
- Retirement Security
- Trading & Markets
- Fund Governance
- Taxes
- ICI Comment Letters
November 4, 2002
Ms. Suzanne Q. Bielstein
Director of Major Projects and Technical Activities
Financial Accounting Standards Board
401 Merritt 7
P.O. Box 5116
Norwalk, CT 06856-5116
Re: Accounting for Stock Based Compensation – Transition and Disclosure
File Reference No. 1101-001
Dear Ms. Bielstein:
The Investment Company Institute1 is pleased to respond to the Board's request for comment on proposed amendments to FASB Statement No. 123, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation. The proposal would require more prominent disclosures about the method of accounting for stock options and the effect of the method used on reported results in both annual and quarterly financial statements. In addition, the proposal would provide companies voluntarily electing to expense stock options with additional methods to implement the transition to expense treatment. Institute member firms, as investors in more than $4 trillion in U.S. equity and corporate fixed-income securities on behalf of millions of individual investors, have a significant interest in the Board's proposal.
The Institute supports the proposal's requirement that all issuers include a tabular presentation displaying the effects of expensing stock options on income, compensation expense, and earnings per share in the summary of significant accounting policies. We believe the prescribed tabular format will increase comparability across issuers, regardless of whether, when or how they elect to expense stock options. Disclosure of this information in the summary of significant accounting polices, typically the first footnote to the financial statements, will increase its prominence and ensure that it is not "buried."
The Institute also strongly supports the proposal's requirement to include the tabular presentation in quarterly condensed financial statements. Disclosure in interim condensed financial statements will provide investors with more timely access to this information as compared to the current annual disclosure requirement.
The proposal provides companies electing to expense stock options with three alternative methods to implement the transition to expense treatment:
Prospective – options granted in the current year are expensed;
Modified Prospective – previously granted unvested options, as well as options granted in the current year are expensed; and
Retroactive – both previously granted unvested options and options granted in the current year are expensed and further, prior periods are restated.
As a general matter, the Institute urges the Board to adopt standards that prescribe uniform treatment for like transactions so as to promote comparability across issuers. However, we understand the Board's decision to provide issuers with alternatives in this instance in an effort to encourage voluntary adoption of expense treatment. While the availability of alternative implementation methods will create comparability concerns in reported income and earnings per share for issuers electing to adopt expense treatment, these concerns will be mitigated by the tabular presentation included in the summary of significant accounting policies (which assumes expense treatment is applied to all awards granted in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 1994). Accordingly, we view the tabular presentation as a critical element of the Board's proposal.
The Institute has previously urged the Board to adopt a new accounting standard that would (1) require issuers to treat stock options as an expense and (2) ensure uniformity in how stock options are valued for this purpose.2 We continue to believe that mandatory expense treatment is necessary in order to ensure full and fair disclosure of issuers' results of operations and financial position.
We appreciate the Board's consideration of our comments. If you have any questions, please contact the undersigned at 202/326-5851.
Gregory M. Smith
Compliance & Fund Accounting
1 The Investment Company Institute is the national association of the American investment company industry. Its membership includes 8,982 open-end investment companies ("mutual funds"), 513 closed-end investment companies and 6 sponsors of unit investment trusts. Its mutual fund members have assets of about $6.373 trillion, accounting for approximately 95% of total industry assets, and over 90.2 million individual shareholders.
2 See Letter from Matthew P. Fink, President, Investment Company Institute, to Robert H. Herz, Chairman, FASB, dated August 21, 2002.
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|Roger Crompton
|First appearance
|5th August 1994
|Last appearance
|27th January 1995
|Number of appearances
|Played by
|Donald Gee
Roger Crompton was a librarian and fellow student at Emily Bishop's art class who became friendly with Mavis Wilton when she accompanied the class on an outing to Rivington Pike in 1994. Mavis found Roger attentive and enjoyed their conversations about art, a topic of which Derek was dismissive.
Roger was pleased when Mavis started going to classes regularly and soon went along to tea at 4 Coronation Street to meet Derek. Derek embarrassed the pair by showing little interest in Mavis's work and joking about a lending library for husbands and wives. Mavis allowed Roger to sketch her in her home and display it at the autumn exhibition. The drawing won second prize but a jealous Derek refused to hang it in the house.
Roger later supported Mavis when she (erroneously) thought that Derek was having an affair with Angela Hawthorne, although Roger's regular visits to No.4 only made matters worse. Once, when he caught them together innocently chatting, Derek accused them of being lovers and Mavis had to stop him from hitting Roger. The Wiltons soon reconciled, admitting that they knew they hadn't been unfaithful and that it was their pride which was driving them apart.
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Pyoderma gangrenosum is an ulcerative condition that may be associated with inflammatory bowel disease or inflammatory arthritis. In addition to local wound care, management often includes the use of systemic corticosteroids or systemically administered immunomodulatory agents.
We retrospectively analyzed 7 patients with pyoderma gangrenosum who were treated with mycophenolate mofetil. Patients were included if they had a diagnosis of pyoderma gangrenosum and were treated with mycophenolate mofetil for at least 2 uninterrupted months. Improvement was based on reduction in lesion size or decrease in concomitant therapy. Overall, 6 of 7 patients had some reduction in ulcer size while receiving mycophenolate mofetil therapy, and 4 of 7 completely healed. However, responsiveness was inadequate in 3 patients. Two discontinued mycophenolate mofetil for alternate therapy, and the third required the addition of dapsone and infliximab for complete healing. The only adverse event observed in our analysis attributed to mycophenolate mofetil therapy was transient anemia.
Mycophenolate mofetil may be beneficial as an immunomodulatory agent in selected patients with pyoderma gangrenosum. Further controlled trials are warranted to define its place among the therapeutic options for this rare disease.
Pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) is a rare disease of the skin manifesting as painful ulcers. Most commonly found on the lower extremities, PG is also seen peristomally in approximately 13% to 15% of patients. Systemic manifestations are possible and can include fever, malaise, arthralgia, and myalgia.1- 3 In approximately 50% of patients with PG, an associated condition is found. The most frequent associations are inflammatory bowel disease or arthritis (most commonly rheumatoid arthritis–like polyarthritis) myeloproliferative disease or monoclonal IgA gammopathy. The activity of the associated systemic disease may or may not reflect the clinical activity of PG.1,4
There are no laboratory findings or imaging studies that are diagnostic of PG. Testing to exclude infection, neoplasm, panniculitis, prothrombotic state, inflammatory vasculitis, or arterial or venous insufficiency is typically performed before a diagnosis of PG is made.5,6
Therapy is centered on wound care, treatment of secondary infection, and the addition of local or systemic immunosuppressive therapy. In mild cases, local topical therapy may prove effective, including cromolyn sodium, calcineurin inhibitors, or superpotent corticosteroids or intralesional corticosteroids. However, most patients will require systemic treatment, and medium- to high-dose corticosteroids are traditionally used as initial therapy. Frequently, a corticosteroid-sparing agent is used to ameliorate the adverse effects associated with systemic corticosteroid use. To our knowledge, only one placebo-controlled blinded study has been performed in patients with PG. Brooklyn et al7 evaluated the use of infliximab vs placebo in patients with PG and found that 46% of patients in the infliximab arm had improved at 2 weeks compared with 6% who received placebo. Otherwise, case series and individual case reports dominate the literature and have detailed the usefulness of cyclosporine, azathioprine, methotrexate, etanercept, adalimumab, tacrolimus, plasmapheresis, intravenous immunoglobulin, cyclophosphamide, chlorambucil, dapsone, interferon alfa, clofazimine, and mycophenolate mofetil.3,8- 10 Herein, we discuss our experience in a series of 7 patients with PG who were treated with mycophenolate mofetil.
We reviewed all medical records of patients with PG in a university-affiliated private practice. All patients had clinically typical ulcerations, histopathologic findings consistent with a diagnosis of PG, and laboratory test results that did not reveal an alternative explanation for ulceration. The study design was approved by the Institutional Review Board at the University of Louisville.
Patients were included in the study if they met criteria for the diagnosis of PG, received mycophenolate mofetil specifically for the diagnosis of PG, and underwent therapy with mycophenolate mofetil for a minimum of 2 uninterrupted months. We excluded any patients with equivocal diagnoses or those who were lost to follow-up.
Data were obtained regarding age, sex, medical history, medication use, laboratory tests and imaging, microbiologic cultures, and biopsy results. We evaluated the time of initial PG, all therapies associated with PG, and the response to any therapy before the initiation of treatment with mycophenolate mofetil. We calculated the size of each ulceration in square centimeters, and when multiple ulcerations were present, we summed the areas of all ulcers to achieve a total area. Among patients receiving mycophenolate mofetil, we evaluated the change in size of ulcerations in terms of total change in square centimeters and percentage change since the initiation of mycophenolate mofetil therapy. We noted all instances when concomitant therapy other than mycophenolate mofetil was administered. Dosages of mycophenolate mofetil were noted, as well as time to response and any toxic effects of the use of the medication. Improvement was based on a decrease in ulcer size or reduction in concomitant immunosuppression level.
Table 1 summarizes the characteristics of patients included in our analysis. Patient 5 has been previously described by one of us (J.P.C.).11 The 7 patients (4 women and 3 men) ranged in age from 18 to 75 years. Three patients had Crohn disease, and 1 patient had a history of sarcoidosis. Four patients were initially seen with lower extremity ulcerations, while 3 patients had lesions affecting the peristomal area or a midline laparotomy scar. Only 1 patient was naive to systemic therapy of any kind, and 2 patients had received only culture-directed antibiotics or vitamin and mineral dietary supplements. All other patients had received systemic treatment, including varying dosages and combinations of dapsone, minocycline hydrochloride, cyclosporine, azathioprine, and prednisone. Three of 4 patients treated with systemic immunosuppression had adverse effects related to the immunosuppressive agents before beginning mycophenolate mofetil therapy. Time from diagnosis of PG to treatment with mycophenolate mofetil ranged from 1 to 71 months.
Mycophenolate mofetil was started at a dosage of 0.5 g/d in 1 patient, and all other patients began therapy at a dosage of 1 g twice daily (Table 2). Maximum dosages of mycophenolate mofetil ranged from 0.5 g 4 times daily to 2 g twice daily (mode, 1.5 g twice daily). In addition, all patients used concomitant topical or systemic medications, which are listed in Table 2. Six of 7 patients showed reduction in ulcer size while receiving mycophenolate mofetil, and 4 of those patients completely healed. The Figure shows the response observed in patient 4 from the initiation of mycophenolate mofetil treatment through 23 weeks of therapy. The onset of response began at 4 to 12 weeks among those patients who responded to mycophenolate mofetil therapy. For 2 patients, mycophenolatemofetil was their only systemic therapy for PG. Patient 1 continued a regimen of prednisone while receiving mycophenolate mofetil treatment and was able to taper the prednisone dosage from 10 mg to 2.5 mg every other day.
Progression of mycophenolate mofetil therapy in patient 4 with pyoderma gangrenosum. A, Ulcer with violaceous border on the lower extremity before mycophenolate mofetil therapy. B, Ulcer on the lower extremity after 15 weeks of mycophenolate mofetil therapy. C, Healed ulcer on the lower extremity after 23 weeks of mycophenolate mofetil therapy.
Three patients had inadequate responses, defined as nonhealing or worsening of PG while receiving mycophenolate mofetil therapy. Patient 2 initially had minimal response to mycophenolate mofetil as monotherapy and healed in approximately 16 months after the addition of dapsone and infliximab to his regimen. Patients 3 and 6 discontinued therapy in search of alternative treatments. Patient 3 had lesions that increased in size by 186% and has responded to adalimumab therapy. Patient 6 had minimal response to a combination of treatment with mycophenolate mofetil, cyclosporine, minocycline, and prednisone, and his therapy was eventually changed to a combination of thalidomide and chlorambucil.
Mycophenolate mofetil therapy was generally well tolerated, with 6 of 7 patients experiencing no attributable adverse effects. One patient experienced transient anemia, which reversed with a lower dosage of mycophenolate mofetil.
In 1997, mycophenolate mofetil was approved by the Food and Drug Administration as an immunosuppressant to prevent renal transplant rejection. Soon thereafter, its use was adapted to treat various autoimmune conditions, including rheumatoid arthritis and lupus nephritis.12,13 During the past decade, its use in dermatology has increased, and off-label applications have been reported in treating bullous pemphigoid, pemphigus vulgaris, pemphigus foliaceus, psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, subacute cutaneous lupus, lichen planus, cutaneous Crohn disease, dermatomyositis, vasculitis, graft-versus-host disease, and sarcoidosis.12- 14
Mycophenolate mofetil is a prodrug of mycophenolic acid and was created to increase the oral bioavailability of mycophenolic acid. After mycophenolate mofetil is absorbed, esterases in the blood, liver, and kidney convert mycophenolate mofetil to the active compound mycophenolic acid. Mycophenolic acid then undergoes glucuronidation in the liver, creating a metabolite that cannot penetrate cellular membranes, rendering the drug ineffective. However, the skin and gastrointestinal tract possess beta-glucuronidase, an enzyme that converts the drug back into the active form. Mycophenolic acid noncompetitively inhibits inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase and prevents the synthesis of xanthine-5-phosphate and guanisine-5-phosphate, inhibiting the production of DNA and RNA. T cells and B cells are particularly affected because they lack a salvage pathway for purine synthesis and use a form of inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase that has a particular affinity for mycophenolic acid.12,13
Although the pathogenesis of PG is unknown, evidence suggests that it is an abnormal response of the immune system to an unknown antigen, resulting in cutaneous ulceration.15,16 It is likely for this reason that immunosuppressant medications such as mycophenolate mofetil are effective in controlling PG.
To our knowledge, this is the largest published series of patients having PG treated with mycophenolate mofetil. Lee and Cooper17 described 4 patients having PG who were successfully treated with mycophenolate mofetil. In their series, dosages ranged from 0.5 g twice daily to 2.5 g/d. Three patients received prednisone concomitantly with mycophenolate mofetil therapy, and 1 patient received mycophenolate mofetil as monotherapy. Three patients completely healed, while 1 patient showed improvement in ulceration. Adverse events associated with therapy included headaches, palpitations, gastrointestinal tract upset, and staphylococcal and pseudomonal sepsis.
Multiple case reports have detailed success with the use of cyclosporine and mycophenolate mofetil for therapy-resistant PG.18- 20 Nousari et al20 described a patient having PG that was refractory to treatment with azathioprine, dapsone, cyclophosphamide, and varying dosages of intralesional, oral, and intravenous corticosteroids. The patient began taking mycophenolate mofetil (0.5 g twice daily) in addition to her daily regimen of cyclosporine (5 mg/kg) and prednisone (1 mg/kg). The mycophenolate mofetil dosage was increased to 1 g twice daily, and healing began to occur within 5 weeks. The patient was almost completely healed by week 14. The therapy was well tolerated, without adverse effects.
Included in the present case series is a patient previously described by a colleague and one of us (J.P.C.)11 whose peristomal PG resolved in response to treatment with mycophenolate mofetil and topical tacrolimus ointment. Wollina and Karamfilov21 detailed their experience of therapy-resistant PG that improved after the use of mycophenolate mofetil, intravenous prednisolone, hyaluronic acid matrix, and subsequent autologous epithelial grafting. In 2007, Cummins et al22 published their findings with the use of intravenous immunoglobulin as adjuvant treatment with concomitant immunosuppressant therapy. Although they did not provide the exact therapeutic regimens of all patients, they described 2 patients in whom intravenous immunoglobulin and mycophenolate mofetil therapy resulted in healing.
High-dose corticosteroid therapy has been used to effectively control PG; however, adverse effects often become apparent when corticosteroids are used throughout the typically prolonged course of healing. In fact, a patient in our analysis experienced gastric ulcers and osteoporosis while receiving systemic prednisone therapy. In a series of 12 patients having PG treated with systemic corticosteroids, Holt et al23 found that 6 patients had corticosteroid-related complications and that 4 patients died as a result of therapy. Other systemic medications reported to be effective in PG have well-described toxic effects. In our series, we observed undesirable adverse effects associated with the use of cyclosporine, dapsone, and azathioprine before administration of mycophenolate mofetil. One patient in our series had a prior adverse reaction to infliximab therapy for Crohn disease, rendering it inappropriate treatment for subsequent development of PG. In a study by Brooklyn et al,7 4 of 13 patients treated with infliximab had attributable adverse effects, resulting in the death of 1 patient.
Among our 7 patients treated with mycophenolate mofetil, the only adverse effect was transient anemia that stabilized after lowering the dosage. Commonly reported adverse effects include gastrointestinal tract abnormalities (nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal cramps, constipation, and bleeding) and genitourinary tract effects (urgency, frequency, dysuria, and sterile pyuria); less common are leukopenia, anemia, increased risk of infection, and induction of malignant neoplasm, which seem to be dose related.12,13 Periodic monitoring of complete blood cell count and clinical evaluation for signs of infection should be performed. In addition, the use of antacids, oral magnesium, and cholestyramine resin decreases the bioavailability of mycophenolate mofetil.12 Increased risks of fetal loss and teratogenic effects have been noted in pregnant women receiving mycophenolate mofetil, and the Food and Drug Administration changed the pregnancy class of the drug from C to D in October 2007.
Our data suggest that mycophenolate mofetil may be a safe and effective immunosuppressant for PG and may be particularly beneficial in combination with other topical or systemic medications. We used it as first-line therapy in patients who were therapy resistant or who experienced adverse effects with prior therapies. All patients were also receiving some form of concomitant topical or systemic therapy; therefore, we cannot exclude the possibility that this treatment affected our results. Although not universally effective, the use of mycophenolate mofetil resulted in healing in most patients in this study. It is important to recognize publication bias regarding therapy for PG, because positive studies are frequently published and negative ones do not receive recognition. Our study is significant in that it details our experience with mycophenolate mofetil for treatment of PG regardless of success or failure. We acknowledge the inherent limitations of the retrospective nature of this review and would encourage a placebo-controlled double-blind study to further assess the efficacy of mycophenolate mofetil in treating PG.
Correspondence: Jeffrey P. Callen, MD, Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, 310 E Broadway, Ste 2A, Louisville, KY 40202 (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Accepted for Publication: August 27, 2008.
Author Contributions: Drs Eaton and Callen had full access to all of the data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. Study concept and design: Eaton and Callen. Acquisition of data: Eaton. Analysis and interpretation of data: Eaton and Callen. Drafting of the manuscript: Eaton and Callen. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Callen. Study supervision: Callen.
Financial Disclosure: Dr Callen receives honoraria from or serves as a consultant to Electrical Optical Sciences, Abbott Immunology, Amgen, Centocor, Steifel, and Medicis; provides analysis of legal cases related to lupus erythematosus, dermatomyositis, and systemic therapies on occasion for the defense or plaintiff; and receives book royalties from Elsevier.
Disclaimer: Dr Callen is an associate editor of the Archives of Dermatology but was not involved in any of the decisions regarding review of the manuscript or its acceptance.
Eaton PA, Callen JP. Mycophenolate Mofetil as Therapy for Pyoderma Gangrenosum. Arch Dermatol. 2009;145(7):781-785. doi:10.1001/archdermatol.2009.57
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But recently we've been having a lot more guests coming over to the house and frankly, I'm tired of having an empty dining room and sitting room (soon be to Nic's office) and mostly, I'm embarrassed to have my friends eat on the floor while the dogs gawk at them and attack when food falls on the floor. So we've been saving money to finally decorate our home.
I honestly wish Nic was more like most men in the sense that he didn't care what the house looked like or what I hung on the walls. However, he is incredibly picky about house decorations. He dislikes my girly floral paintings, Cosmopolitan magazines, and my vases filled with flowers and isn't afraid to let me know it. Simply put, our styles are polar opposites.
I enjoy a bright house with flowers everywhere and having the windows open to let fresh air flow through out the house. Nic on the other hand enjoys a darker house where he can enjoy movies without a glare, over the top wall colors and concert/movie posters scattered on the walls.
If you watch True Blood, this office will look familiar to you because it's Vampire Bill's home office. And Nic always drools over it and how it's his dream room.
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One of the two Pakistani pacers, along with Mohammad Asif, who were withdrawn from the side after testing positive for Nandrolone, Shoaib said he never resorted to any performance-enhancing drugs and revealed that Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has advised him to refrain from commenting on the issue.
''I cannot say much at this time about what has happened but I just want to assure everyone that I am innocent of doing anything I shouldn't have,'' Shoaib wrote in his website column.
''The President of Pakistan has asked me not to comment in any detail at this stage and I want to respect his wishes, so I will keep my message short,'' he said.
Stressing that he never cheated anyone and played the game fair, the temperamental speedster said, All I can say is that I have not knowingly taken any performance enhancing drugs and would never cheat my team-mates or opponents in this way.
''I have always played the game fair and I give 100 per cent and do not feel that I need to take drugs to help my bowling. I am gutted to be missing the Champions Trophy and I will return to Pakistan to see what has happened and what needs to be done,'' he said.
''That's all I have to say for now,'' he wrote.
Doc bats for Akhtar: Akhtar's personal doctor said the Pakistan fast bowler was innocent of doping and likely tested positive because of medicine he took to recover from injury.
"Akhtar is definitely innocent and I can vouch for him," Tauseef Razzaq, a reputed physiotherapist and sports medicine specialist, told to mediamen on Monday after the latest scandal to rock Pakistani cricket.
Razzaq, who worked with several US basketball clubs in the 1990s, said Akhtar "doesn't know anything about medicines" and tested negative on at least two previous occasions.
"And since he recently suffered ankle and knee injuries, he must have taken some medicines which are painkillers but come under the banned substances," said the doctor, whose hiring by Akhtar was criticised by the PCB in 2004.
"Akhtar is so valuable a cricketer and is conscious of the fact, so I don't think he would take anything intentionally. Since he bowls at a venomous pace he also knew he would always be a target for a dope test," said Razzaq.
Another problem was that some painkillers and energy drinks, which could be used by players recovering from injury have banned substances.