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		<title>Hispanics: Business Ownership Key to American Dream</title>
		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2006/05/30/hispanics-business-ownership-key-to-american-dream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2006 09:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hispanic Marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It can&#8217;t be denied &#8212; Hispanics and hard work go together like American business and cheap labor.
This partly explains why the rate of Hispanics who start their own businesses far outpaces the national average by a 3-1 ratio.
Many Hispanics see being their own boss as the only way to true prosperity here.
In 2002, there were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worry Over English Erosion Hardly New</title>
		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2006/05/29/worry-over-english-erosion-hardly-new/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2006 03:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The way we English-speaking Americans see ourselves at home and in the world is necessarily changing. No matter how often we hear that we live in a big, diverse, multicultural country and a global economy, it still surprises us to see English as just one of our languages, not the exclusive one.
That&#8217;s because many of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Half White-collars Keep Blogs, Privacy Top Theme</title>
		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2006/02/22/half-white-collars-keep-blogs-privacy-top-theme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2006 05:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ Web Globalization]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Blogosphere]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Blogging has increasingly become more popular in China, with 52% of white-collar workers now keeping weblogs (blogs) according to CBP Career Consultants Co., Ltd., a leading career consulting firm in China.
Pictures from the Web log of a woman from Shanghai who goes by the pseudonym Mu Mu.
Unlike western bloggers who often focus on news and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Download The Virtual Handshake FREE!</title>
		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2006/02/15/download-the-virtual-handshake-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Blogosphere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tricks of the Trade]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Download The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online by David Teten and Scott Allen FREE!
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		<title>ATA 46th Annual Conference</title>
		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2005/11/14/ata-46th-annual-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[High Tech/High Touch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Translation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I presented Targeting and Profiling Customers and Vendors Online for the second time, this time at the American Translators Association (ATA) ATA 46th Annual Conference in Seattle on Saturday. The presentation was well attended and well received. Among the members of audience where my friends, Beatriz Bonnet, president of Syntes Language Group in Denver and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Common Sense Advisory Launches Global Watchtowerâ„¢ Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2005/06/09/common-sense-advisory-launches-global-watchtower%e2%84%a2-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2005 21:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Blogosphere]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Common Sense Advisory, Inc., an independent research and consulting firm, announces the launch of the Global Watchtowerâ„¢, a blog-like forum for sharing its commentary and assessment of globalization- or global business-related press releases and announcements.
The Global Watchtowerâ„¢ contains entries from Don DePalma, author of the premier book on business globalization, â€œBusiness Without Borders: A Strategic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Targeting and Profiling Customers and Vendors Online</title>
		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2005/06/06/targeting-and-profiling-customers-and-vendors-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 22:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My proposed presentation for the ATA 46th Annual Conference in Seattle, Targeting and Profiling Customers and Vendors Online, was accepted, and is scheduled for Saturday, November 12, 2005 3:30-5:00 p.m.
This is a repeat of the well-received presentation I gave at the 2005 ATA TCD Annual Conference in Philadelphia on Saturday, April 16, 2005 and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Culturally Customized Web Site</title>
		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2005/06/04/the-culturally-customized-web-site/</link>
		<comments>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2005/06/04/the-culturally-customized-web-site/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2005 21:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ Web Globalization]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Internationalization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My copy of The Culturally Customized Web Site by Nitish Singh and Arun Pereira arrived yesterday from the publisher (Elsevier). The price offered by the publisher when following the link from Nitish Singh&#8217;s homepage ($23.96) was lower than the price on Amazon.com which was list ($29.95) and the publisher shipped it gratis. It comes endorsed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Konyin, Nigeria&#8217;s Multilingual Keyboard, Hits Market May</title>
		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2005/04/28/konyin-nigerias-multilingual-keyboard-hits-market-may/</link>
		<comments>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2005/04/28/konyin-nigerias-multilingual-keyboard-hits-market-may/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2005 04:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For all those who hate the way their names are being mutilated as a result of the inadequacy of the currently available computer keyboards, a solution to such name mutilation is now in sight.
As from May, 2005, Konyin, the multilingual Computer keyboard would be on sale throughout the country. The keyboard contains not just the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Emergency</title>
		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2005/04/27/medical-emergency-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2005/04/27/medical-emergency-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2005 04:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Hispanic economy&#8217;s surging demographics are putting pressure on a healthcare industry already plagued by a shortage of qualified workers, creating increased demand for Hispanic professionals from nurses and doctors to administrative, executive, and emergency personnel.
Already grappling with a rapidly aging U.S. population, as well as mergers and cutbacks, the healthcare industry has strained [...]]]></description>
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