Georgia, USA (PR.com): WordBloom, a newly launched online Bible study tool, brings truths and technology together by allowing users to easily cross-reference themes, words and thoughts in the Bible. Designed to provide a better understanding of the Bible, WordBloom offers a revolutionary way to see, understand and share the Bible.
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Maryland, USA (USPRwire): Legal Advantage, LLC, a leading provider of intellectual property and litigation support services, today announced that David Hemperly has been promoted as Vice President of Business Development, based in the company’s Bethesda, Maryland headquarters. Hemperly will assume business development and marketing responsibilities for the company’s award winning patent illustration, prior art search services, patent and technical translation, and trial graphics services.
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www.usprwire.com/Detailed/Business/Legal_Advantage_LLC_appoints_David_Hemperly_Vice_President_Business_Development_77675.shtml

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Cape Town, South Africa (Legalbrief Today): The bail application of two Moroccan brothers implicated in a R15m jewellery heist at the V&A Waterfront could not start in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court because the accused did not understand much of what two interpreters were saying.
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Pennsylvania, USA (EurekAlert): In response to the humanitarian crisis in Haiti, scientists at Carnegie Mellon University’s Language Technologies Institute (LTI) have publicly released spoken and textual data they’ve compiled on Haitian Creole so that translation tools desperately needed by doctors, nurses and other relief workers on the earthquake-ravaged island can be rapidly developed. Since Carnegie Mellon began to make the data publicly available last week, a team at Microsoft Research has used it to help develop an experimental, web-based system for translating between English and Haitian Creole.
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www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-01/cmu-cmr012710.php

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Paris, France (PL): The non-profit group Translators Without Borders based in Paris plans to distribute a medical triage dictionary for doctors in Haiti once the Creole language data from CMU is converted into a readable format. “This should be a big help, because if you cannot communicate, it is going to be difficult to get around and assist others,” said Leon Pampile of Stanton Heights, a native of Haiti and member of the non-profit Functional Literacy Ministry of Haiti.

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California, USA (Newswise): Hurricane Katrina. The Southeast Asian tsunami. Now the killer earthquake in Haiti, which has claimed upwards of 50,000 lives. In each case, the response to a natural disaster has been further complicated by the difficulty delivering medical care in a chaotic environment where the communications infrastructure on the ground is seriously damaged or completely destroyed.
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www.newswise.com/articles/view/560690/?sc=dwhn

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Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (Migrant Rights): Human Rights Watch’s World Report 2010 is out now, and strongly condemns the Gulf states for failing to protect the rights of Migrant Workers.
Migrants sometimes face severe delays in the immigration and justice systems, and obstacles such as lack of access to interpreters, legal aid, or their consulates. Few migrants successfully pursue criminal cases against abusive employers.
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www.migrant-rights.org/2010/01/26/new-hrw-report-slams-gulf-states-for-migrant-abuses/

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Geneva, Switzerland (Reuters): Arab members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) are pushing for Arabic to be made a fourth official language of the global trade body, diplomats and officials said Tuesday. But the heavy cost of translation, interpreting and extra printing involved in adding Arabic to the three current official languages — English, French and Spanish — means the proposal is running up against resistance.
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www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60P52H20100126

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Beijing, China (Xinhua): Chinese literature, rich in history and variety, lacks a strong presence in the West due to cultural differences, language barriers and little exposure. Several programs have recently been initiated in cooperation with Chinese and U.S. universities in an effort to introduce Chinese classics and modern works to the Western world. The Chinese Literature for Overseas Communication project was officially launched at Beijing Normal University (BNU) last Thursday.
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news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/culture/2010-01/25/c_13149739.htm

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