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Challenges in the Brazilian Legal System and Portuguese Language Translation

August 7th, 2010

Brazil, with its vast land area rich in natural resources, a vibrant and enterprising people, and the advent of modern communication and transportation, has recently come to be center stage in world economic development. Keeping pace with the new demand, the Brazilian people have recently, in the past 20-30 years, made significant advances toward a judicial system that allows fair participation for all of its citizens as well as foreign investors

Background on the Brazilian Legal System

Emerging from a repressive military dictatorship, a National Assembly of 559 members charted the new Constitution of Brazil of 1988. The “Carta” as it is often called, is a complex, 150 page document with 245 articles and 73 transitional provisions that makes not only fundamental democratic provisions, but also specific provisions on more than 400 subjects such as environmental protection, labor relations, children’s rights, science and technology, hunting, fi » Read more: Challenges in the Brazilian Legal System and Portuguese Language Translation

Fingerprinting of children

August 6th, 2010

Further information: Biometrics in schools

Various schools have implemented fingerprint locks or registered children’s fingerprints. This happened in the United Kingdom (fingerprint lock in the Holland Park School in London,39 databases, etc.),40 in Belgium (école Marie-José in Liège4142), in France, in Italy, etc. The NGO Privacy International has alerted that tens of thousands of UK school children were being fingerprinted by schools, often without the knowledge or consent of their parents.43 In 2002, the supplier Micro Librarian Systems, which use a technology similar to US prisons and German military, estimated that 350 schools through-out Britain were using such systems, to replace » Read more: Fingerprinting of children

New Generation Web Model

August 5th, 2010

The next generation of websites will have a vastly different way of communicating information to their visitors. Websites will evolve into true communication platforms that will take advantage of the Web’s multimedia capabilities and the Internet’s broadband penetration.

The new website model will have the look, feel, and sound of your very own narrow-cast communication channel complete with audio and video programming and on-site personalities that will present and guide audiences through the maze of content. But unlike television, this humanized Web-experience will allow site visitors to make their own programming choices; audiences will be able to experience the content they want, when they want and in the format of their choice: audio and video, or text and graphics.

Why Websites Will Become Multimedia Communication Channels

1. There are millions of websites on the Internet representing millions of small and medium size companie » Read more: New Generation Web Model