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The passives are usually ones that you have learnt or are multilingual in. You don't need to be able to speak fluently (even though you may), but you at least need to be able to understand what is being said.

edit: There are usually two people per pair, one for each direction.

Oh, I see what you mean. Here is how I remember it:

• There are many language pairs, from many source to many target languages.
• There is only one person per pair. Some people might handle more than one pair.
• Each person in the conference has a desired target language.
• All people with a given target language hear the translation line of that target language, which includes the input of all interpreters.

So basically:

Source languages: A B C
Target languages: A B C
Language pairs: AB AC BC BA CA CB
Interpreters:   V  W  W  X  Y  Z  # W understands both A and B but speaks C natively.
Lines: A B C
Listeners: Several dozen people each for A, B, and C.

Each group (e.g. listeners of C) listens to their target language line (Line C). Someone makes a speech in language A. V translates to B, and W translates to C. Someone from the other side replies in B. B listeners understand, but X translates to A, and W translates to C.

Not necessarily. I got a heart ultrasound within 2 weeks in Ontario. I wanted to figure out if my heart was responsible for my heat intolerance.

Turns out it wasn't. There was some slight regurgitation, but well within normal levels.

I have done everything from thyroid tests to skin tests to blood tests etc. They still don't know what is causing it. (It being an overreaction to heat; above around 28 degrees, my blood pressure drops a lot, and might lead to fainting. I am completely healthy otherwise as far as I'm aware.)

Their conclusion was "stay out of the heat, and eat salt to raise blood pressure if you feel dizzy." Will try checking again in a few years.

What about e.g. N24? My sleep is very irregular, but I tried tracking it for about a month, on my own. I slept 6 to 8 hours a night, but the time I went to sleep was very noisy, but ranged from around 3 am when I started to morning, afternoon, evening, and back to night when I finished. A linear regression showed about 24.75 hours per day over that month. (r² was about 0.8, but I lost the data. I would have loved to look at F-score etc.)

How does something like that fit in with work every day?