There are over a hundred languages in the world today. Aside from those, each country has vernacular languages, too. Given the numerous languages available, understanding each other can either be made complex or simplified.
With the introduction of the internet, communication evolved into an entirely different stage. This time, the computer screen is the only barrier in long distance conversations. Everybody converge in the internet for all purposes - business, research, education, shopping, scamming, and even love. The internet has become a common ground for everybody.
Websites offer assorted information. News can be viewed on the television simultaneously with the internet. Formats of different media are delivered on the net, too. Newspaper agencies have online versions as well. Media has elevated its style by using the internet.
Business transactions are also being made on the Internet. The birth of the e-commerce has given the world many choices. E-shopping is now becoming the trend in shopping.
Also, universities are stretching their curriculum via the online learning. College courses can be gained using the online tools. Even a foreign language course is now possible to be learned online.
Assorted websites and blogs are accessible in the internet today. But how are we going to understand the contents of a foreign site, even if that website poses to be a good read? The answer to this question is the language translation features.
Language translation features are special services incorporated in a website to strengthen its appeal. Readers from various countries can now easily read through any foreign website. Given these available advantages in our hands, language is still the universal tool in communication. Non-English speakers and readers will find the maximum benefits of the language-translation features by choosing their natural language as the website's format. The advent of the translation features has even created a wider market for internet users.
Now, an online business enterprise can facilitate transactions with foreign consumers easily. The international business meetings can be held in multi-lingual formats to accommodate the different nations attending the events. Such innovation promotes business charisma.
Shopping for international brands becomes an easy task with the aid of the language translation features. International consumers can have a wider selection of shopping materials and have the details translated easily. Shoppers can inquire information without having to speak any foreign language.
Studying a foreign language via the internet proves to be a good choice. Studying any foreign language online reduces the study expenses to almost half compared to going abroad to study a foreign language. Language translation features in websites can assist the students in constructing sentences, checking grammar, and studying foreign idioms.
These language translation boxes found in websites and blogs can be used to transmit messages in all languages. A message can be posted in any foreign language making the message universal. Thus, chatting and message posting in different languages is possible.
AltaVista Babelfish, Google, and WorldLingo are three of the famous websites that offer free language translations. Instructions are given upon the installation of the language translation devices. Check the range of the language capacity of these three websites to suit your language preference.
There are discussions as to the accuracy of the language translation features: The accuracy based on the closeness of the meaning of the word being translated to the native language. Also, there are arguments regarding the correctness of these language translation features in delivering the appropriate construction of a foreign sentence. Some websites offer accuracy results. Therefore, before taking advantage of language translation features, check the level of competency of the translation tool first.
Although some translations may be lost, it is undeniable that these language translation features give a tremendous advantage to every net user. The exact translation may not convey the real meaning, but the language translation features upgrade the level of communication. Thus, the means to understand just any foreign language is just a few clicks away.
In 1986, the California legislature enacted a statute to fund a Dispute Resolution Program. In enacting this statute the Legislature recognized that the resolution of many disputes is unnecessarily costly, time consuming and complex when achieved through formal court proceedings. As a result, the legislature intended for the funds to be directed to the community to develop an informal resolution of disputes in a non-coercive dispute resolution forum, outside of the court system. The intent of the legislature has been lost and the funds are being directed toward court programs that favor the economically well off, specifically claims over $25,000, who have the financial resources to maintain costly and protracted litigation. The Dispute Resolution Program Act must be amended to restore the legislature's intent that the funds be used for Community programs for persons of all ethnic, racial and socioeconomic backgrounds. The Legislature states in Business and Professions Code section 465 that the purpose of the program is to seek alternatives to costly legal process, by funding community-based dispute resolution programs reflective of the diversity of the communities to be served, funded partly by public funding and partly by users of these services on a sliding scale basis, but without cost to indigents.
However, some of the counties have lost sight of the Legislature's intent and have misdirected the funds away from under funded community programs to the detriment of the diverse communities and the socio-economically challenged. Some counties have chosen instead to fund court-connected programs, particularly claims over $25,000 that can generally only be accessed by economically sufficient persons.
For example, Los Angeles County ignores the legislative intent by giving priority to unlimited jurisdiction civil claims (over $25,000) by providing free services indiscriminately to all comers provided they are already in the litigation system. The Los Angeles court connected program specifically discriminates against Small Claims and low value ‘limited jurisdiction' cases (under $25,000 cases), by giving them the least priority and fails altogether to provide services ‘on a sliding scale basis'. The violation of legislative intent could hardly be clearer. Los Angeles County specifically limits funding for Small Claims and ignores the statutory purpose of racial, ethnic or socioeconomic diversity. By diverting funds to already well-funded unlimited jurisdiction cases, the County circumvents the statutory purpose by failing adequately to provide funding to programs for Small Claims and limited jurisdiction cases that involve disputes "between neighbors, domestic disputes and consumer-merchant disputes,' as specified by legislative intent.
Thus, the programs intended by the legislature to benefit from the funds, namely community programs involving disputes that have not already entered the court system and similar court-connected programs involving socio-economically challenged persons involved in low value limited jurisdiction and Small Claims disputes, and Youth Peer Programs, are suffering because funds are being diverted to programs serving economically prosperous, who receive dispute resolution services free of charge while paying handsomely for all other aspects of their litigation.
An enumeration of specific matters that may be referred to government-funded programs will prevent misuse of funds and uphold the statutory purpose. Business and Professions Code section 467.2 outlining the county's eligibility requirements for funding should be revised as follows: (b) Provision of neutral person, reflective of the diversity of the community in which they serve, adequately trained in conflict resolution techniques as required by the rules……. (c) Provision of dispute resolution programs on a sliding scale fee-paying basis, and without cost to indigents, with respect to any disputes that have not yet entered the court system, and limited jurisdiction and small claims cases.
By incorporating the Legislative intent of diversity of community volunteers and enumerating the specific disputes that can be eligible for Dispute Resolution Funds, the Legislature will finally create what it originally envisioned: a funded community-based dispute resolution forum for all persons of all ethnic, racial and socioeconomic backgrounds.
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