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Recycling plastic and glass - why it makes a difference
With a little understanding of the issues involved, we can re-use or recycle most of the masses amount of waste we produce from plastic and glass and at the same time we can reduce costs, save energy, protect the environment and even create new jobs…
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5 Major Ways to Save Money on Gas
Gas
prices never seem to go down, do they? It just keeps getting
more expensive to buy gas. Here are 5 major steps you can
take to save money on gas…
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Greenovation Saves You Money Now And Later
We’ve
all heard often enough that it’s time to start thinking and
acting green. We’re depleting the Earth’s resources in record
amounts, and it’s becoming more and more clear that we need
to start thinking in terms of protecting and preserving the
Earth and her resources when we build…
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50 Ways To Conserve Water At Home
With
many areas of the country in drought conditions, all of us
could use a reminder list of ways to cut back on our water
consumption around the house. You can go three weeks without
food, but only three days without W.A.T.E.R.…
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Fasting
The
aim of fasting may be reduction of weight, improvement of
health or to remove a certain ailment of the body. Signs of
special improvements on account of fasting are seen in every
situation, though, in case of reduction of weight, the signs
observed are fewer…
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A Mouthful That Saves The World
Let's
start with a question. How can we improve the quality of life
by say 25% this year? If you're like most people your thoughts
might immediately turn towards having more of certain things…
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Living A Greener Life On A Shoestring Budget
It
doesn’t take a big investment to reduce your impact on the
Earth – just a little bit of forethought and attention to
the choices that you make. Here are fifteen simple things
that can make a major difference in how much energy your family
uses around the house…
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Looking at Debt Backward: An Interesting Approach to Financial Freedom
Most
people feel that the way to financial success is to earn more.
However, we have far less control over what we earn than what
we spend. By reducing our spending, we can more reliably and
predictably increase the amount of our paycheck we actually
get to keep. What's more, there are plenty of ways to trim
even up to 10% out of your household expenses without feeling
the pinch. You may even start to feel smarter…
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New Zealand in Translation: Presenting a Country's Image in a Government
Website
In
this article, we examine how the image of New Zealand is presented
in the Chinese translation of a press release titled "Film
spotlight spawns hot Kiwi destinations," which is available
at the website of the New Zealand Embassy in China. The differences
between the original and the translation reveal that the presentation
of New Zealand's image is driven by the purpose of promoting
NZ as an exciting tourist attraction…
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Going Green In Home Renovations
It's
hard to pick up a newspaper today without reading another
alarming headline about the impact global warming is having
on our planet. This growing concern has caused a number of
our clients to ask how they might be more environmentally-conscious
in their home designs and renovations…
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The Financial Equation That Can Change Your Life
Ask
a person what is the single most important thing that could
happen to improve his or her financial picture and the answer
you'll get - in various gradations - is a sudden influx of
cash. Some of us wish for pay raises, others want to win the
lottery, and more indecisive types just dream of a sudden
windfall of cash…
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Top 10 Basic Errors Among Quarkxpress Users
If you have recently started using QuarkXPress, you may find
yourself making some of the errors outlined in this article.
Take a second to read through our top ten beginner pitfalls
and spare yourself a little frustration in getting to grips
with your new software…
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How to Live Naturally
• Buy economic (fluorescent) lamps – they consume up to 5
times less energy than regular bulbs.
• Don’t drive to close distances – better walk or bike.
• Set your tap water heater to lower temperature…
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Stump the Experts
McElroy invited people to join in our recent International
Translation Day celebrations by sending in cultural questions
to try to “Stump the Experts.” All those who sent in questions
were entered into a drawing for a chance to win a handsome
gift box, Around the World in 12 Coffees…
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The Pace of Progress: The Changing Patent Landscape
The U.S. patent system is broken, says a growing chorus of
critics, and the past year has seen significant attempts to
fix it in all three branches of the U.S. government. Although
it is impossible to predict exactly how these efforts will
play out, current trends toward reform could have profound
effects on patent practice—and patent translators…
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Food For Thought
The Japanese eat little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks
than the British or Americans…
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Speed Reading Simplified!
Readers are leaders and in this article you will learn several
simple to implement Speed Reading Secrets that will assist
you in efficiently absorbing all that information out there…
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Great Technical Writing: The Two-edged Sword Of Reader Experience
When we write User Documents we rely on our Reader's/User's experience to simplify our work. This can cause problems for the Reader. This article will discuss the effects of Reader experience and how to minimize the negative effects of incompatible experience, and how to handle the writer's assumptions about the Reader…
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Kids
Can Learn Spanish
I
just got a call from my two year old granddaughter.
She wanted to sing "Los Pollitos" to me.
You can find this children's classic in most of the
collections of songs that we are recommending.
It is perfect for hand gestures. These gestures are
ideal for language learning because they imprint the
sense of the words as the child recites…
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How To Get Your Kids To Speak Your Language
This experience
had to do with preserving Spanish for our kids but
the principles are valid for anyone trying to help
their kids speak and preserve any language and culture…
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History
Of The World Intellectual Property System According
To Me
The patent system, like all good things, was invented
in what is today Italy. A system for granting patents
for inventions was first introduced in the 15th
century - the first known grant of a patent to an
inventor occurred in the Republic of Florence in
1421 and an ordinance about patents was enacted
in Venice in 1474, twenty years before Columbus
discovered America…
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Inttranews
Special Report: the Deaf Culture
Many of us have friends or family who are deaf or
hard-of-hearing, and know how frustrating it can
be to communicate under those conditions… but what
about the people with the handicap?
Kelli Deister is the new Deafness Editor for BellaOnline.
She is deaf on her left side, and hard-of-hearing
on her right side, due to an autoimmune disorder.
She began to lose her hearing in late 1998, at the
age of 35, as a result of domestic violence. Inttranews
decided to learn more about the Deaf Culture…
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the full article…
Translation
services:
Insider secrets for making an informed purchase
If your company is involved in international business,
one thing is certain – sooner or later you’ll need
to hire a translation services provider (TSP). Naturally,
you want a high quality translation at the lowest
possible cost.
The quality of translation and target texts reflects
your company’s QA system, and above all, the translation
should also be of premium quality…
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J2450 Translation Quality Metric
The aim of the metric is to be “a consistent standard against which
the translation quality of automotive service
information can be objectively measured regardless of the source language, regardless of the target language, regardless of how the translation is performed--i.e., human translation or machine translation…
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Inttranews Special Report: Birds, brains and learning
Language is presumed to be the most
distinctive characteristic of human beings, yet the
capacity for communication by sound is far from being
exclusive to Homo Sapiens. Among the most familiar
yet least-known forms of communication in other species
is that of songbirds. Michael Beecher and Eliot Brenowitz
of the University of Washington have proposed that
our understanding of how we acquire language would
be considerably enhanced by greater research into
how birds learn to sing. So is music truly the universal
language? Inttranews decided to find out more
…
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Open for Business
May 1st, when the enlarged European Union comes into effect, is a largely symbolic date. Businesses worthy of their name on both sides of the geographic divide have long been aware of the issues raised by EU membership
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From the Top (Let's Embrace Diversity)
African-Americans, Hispanics/Latinos and Native Americans represent more than 25 percent of the U.S. population. However, these three ethnic groups represent less than 9 percent of nurses, 6 percent of physicians and 5 percent of dentists, according to the Sullivan Commission on Diversity in the Health Care Workforce. Of the 16,000-plus students who entered medical school in 2003, only about 2,000 were African-American, Hispanic/Latino or Native American
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Achieving Cultural Competence: An Organizational Assessment
How culturally competent is your organization? Below is a series of questions that can help determine your organization’s ability to deliver culturally competent care:
- How does your organization involve senior management, front line staff and members of diverse communities in cultural competence planning and program development?
…
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