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	<description>Thoughts, opinions and observations about Spanish translation services and language based business solutions</description>
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		<title>Affinity Translation &#8216;Sound of Children&#8217; Commercial</title>
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Affinity Translation website: http://www.affinitytranslation.com
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		<link>http://www.affinityspanish.com/spanishtranslationbusinessblog/2010/02/27/affinity-translation-sound-of-children-commercial/</link>
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		<title>A Great Opportunity To Be Misunderstood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we saw the conclusion (implied in the title above) of a news article on Google&#8217;s efforts to facilitate translation, we thought it would be interesting to include it in our blog. It seems that Google is working on instantaneous translation software for phones. If you talk in English into the speaker of the phone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.affinityspanish.com/spanishtranslationbusinessblog/2010/02/08/great-opportunity-to-be-misunderstood/</link>
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		<title>American Translators Association Cautions White House on Future Language Policy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[11,000-member Association’s Letter to Obama: Technology alone is not the answer
(Alexandria, VA) October 19, 2009 &#8212; The American Translators Association (ATA), the largest association of professional translators and interpreters in North America, issued a pointed response to a call for “automatic, highly accurate and real-time translation between the major languages of the world” in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.affinityspanish.com/spanishtranslationbusinessblog/2009/12/26/american-translators-association-cautions-white-house-on-future-language-policy/</link>
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		<title>Affinity Spanish on Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To connect with Affinity Spanish on Facebook click here to visit our Facebook page.



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		<link>http://www.affinityspanish.com/spanishtranslationbusinessblog/2009/12/22/affinity-spanish-facebook/</link>
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		<title>Human Translation v. Computers &#124; Facebook v. Google</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an interesting article on the topic of translation appearing online at cnn.com today. It speaks for itself so we&#8217;ll simply provide a link to the article here. The highlights: 

Facebook and Google are finding new ways to translate the Web
Facebook favors human translation; Google leans on its computers
Google claims to be the largest translation service [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.affinityspanish.com/spanishtranslationbusinessblog/2009/10/07/humans-machines-facebook-google/</link>
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		<title>Salma Hayek In Spanish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On our blog we frequently like to mention interesting tidbits of news that touch upon language and in particular the Spanish language. So we were especially delighted to see a recent item concerning Salma Hayek, who as most people know, is a native Spanish speaker. It seems that Ms. Hayek was less than pleased about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.affinityspanish.com/spanishtranslationbusinessblog/2009/09/10/salma-hayek-in-spanish/</link>
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		<title>New York City Pharmacies Must Provide Translations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In New York City the City Council approved legislation yesterday requiring large pharmacy chains to provide translation services in the city&#8217;s most popular languages.
The bill, which was approved by a vote of 36 to 7, would apply to pharmacies with more than four locations that are under the same ownership. Opponents of the bill say [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.affinityspanish.com/spanishtranslationbusinessblog/2009/08/21/new-york-city-pharmacies-must-provide-translations/</link>
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		<title>City of Salinas Launches Spanish Web Site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently it was announced by The Californian.com that the City of Salinas has launched a new Spanish language website. According to the report:
&#8220;The city of Salinas has created a Web site that allows residents to view community information as well as submit online crime reports, maintenance requests and other forms in Spanish.
The site, http://espanol.ci.salinas.ca.us, went [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.affinityspanish.com/spanishtranslationbusinessblog/2009/08/20/city-salinas-launches-spanish-web-site/</link>
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		<title>Lawsuit Over Translation Services for Welfare Recipients</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to an Associated Press published story from the past week, New York City is getting sued over translation services for welfare clients. 
A group called Legal Services NYC filed the lawsuit in state Supreme Court in Manhattan on behalf of six clients. The suit alleges that language barriers caused lost or delayed benefits, among [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.affinityspanish.com/spanishtranslationbusinessblog/2009/08/15/lawsuit-over-translation-services-for-welfare-recipients/</link>
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		<title>Pew Hispanic Center Releases Report on Mexican Immigration to US</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Pew Hispanic Center has released a report on Mexican Immigration to the US. Citing from the report:
The flow of immigrants from Mexico to the United States has declined sharply since mid-decade, but there is no evidence of an increase during this period in the number of Mexican-born migrants returning home from the U.S., according [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.affinityspanish.com/spanishtranslationbusinessblog/2009/07/22/pew-hispanic-center-releases-report-on-mexican-immigration-to-us/</link>
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