Non-profits are businesses, and as such they require structure and capital. The structure comes from their articles of incorporation, bylaws and procedures manual, while membership dues, event fees and grants are responsible for most of their capital.   Click here to read the complete post.

Novice and seasoned professionals can find something of interest in this piece. Enjoy. Five Things to Take Your Translation Skills to the Next Level – Translation Knowledge Base.

Bottom line, what you should be focused on is what works for you.    Q&A: Switching from Windows to Mac | ZDNet.

Inter-Active Terminology for Europe (IATE) recently celebrated its 10 year anniversary as a vibrant and living termbank after having been used by the language services of the EU institutions and agencies since 2004. IATE Can Now Be Downloaded – TermCoord Terminology Coordination Unit.

As humans spread across the globe and population growth exploded exponentially, so too did the number of languages. In fact, it’s estimated that there were approximately 10,000 languages spoken only a couple of hundred years ago.   Read more: Here’s Why The World Can Never Have One Universal Language

The practice of translation rests on two presuppositions. The first is that we are all different: we speak different tongues, and see the world in ways that are deeply influenced by the particular features of the tongue that we speak. The second is that we are all the same—that we can share the same broad […]

We make split-second decisions about how to interpret emotionally charged recounts of he-said-she-said disputes into English for the court.[…] Add in some swear words, insults, and generally impolite conversations, and all the decorum of the court can go out the window, leaving the interpreter to handle quite a challenge. Read more in NAJIT Blog.

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