New: May Rattles newsletter

Also here: audio file of May 10 meeting, NMTIA bylaws

Download Rattles Latest NMTIA newsletter Rattles Adobe Acrobat format. May 2008 edition.
Many thanks to editors Mar Rodriguez and Angela Dunskus-Gulick!
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May 10 presentation by Michael Kagan -
Ethical issues court interpreters face during their daily encounters with nonEnglish speakers.

About the presenter:

Michael Kagan holds a joint M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies and Education from Brandeis University and a joint B.A. in Philosophy and Latin American Studies from the Hebrew of University of Jerusalem. He should be able to spice things up a bit because he also holds a culinary degree from the Cambridge Institute for Culinary arts. He has served as a Staff Interpreter for the Federal Public Defender in Los Angeles, California, a Freelance interpreter for the federal courts in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire, a staff interpreter, translator, and trainer for the Office of Court Interpreter Services for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and is currently an Official Spanish interpreter at the US District Courthouse in New Mexico.

The May 10 NMTIA meeting is now available as an MP3 audio file. You can download and listen to it at your convenience, or you can listen online from the NMTIA Website. The whole meeting is on one file, which will reside on this site until replaced by the next meeting.

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Download Meeting NMTIA meeting, May 10. Right-click to save the file, then listen at your leisure. If your computer or Internet connection is slow, please be patient. If the file is still loading, you will see an hourglass when you put your cursor in the title bar at the top of the window.

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Download NMTIA bylaws NMTIA bylaws Adobe Acrobat format.
You will need to read these before the special meeting on Feb. 23.
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