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Good morning. News accounts of the Capitol attack — many based on videos taken by rioters — are offering new details.
It’s hard to think of another crime that the perpetrators documented so thoroughly and publicly.
The people who participated in the Capitol attack on Jan. 6 posted thousands of videos of it to Parler, a social network. Journalists and other witnesses have released dozens of their own videos, too. Over the past several days, news organizations have been studying these videos and have begun releasing more details about what happened.
This reconstruction work is important, because the attack was a signature moment in U.S. history: A mob, incited by the president of the United States, stormed the halls of Congress in an effort to prevent it from certifying the president’s electoral defeat. During the attack, the mob killed a police officer and went looking for members of Congress.
Below, my colleagues and I have summarized the key points from the latest news accounts, and we’ve provided links for people who want to go deeper:
The mob came very close to lawmakers. At several points, rioters were within feet of members of Congress, separated by only a small group of police officers, a multimedia article in The Washington Post shows. Some rioters passed within 100 feet of Vice President Mike Pence, who was hiding with his family in an office near the Senate chamber.
Many of the attackers openly discussed committing violence, and lawmakers feared for their lives. “Drag them out!” one man yelled inside the Capitol, referring to lawmakers; another group chanted “Hang Mike Pence!” As the mob closed in, members of Congress hiding inside the House chamber called loved ones and told one another to remove their lapel pins so rioters could not identify them.
Rioters abused the police. One man, carrying an American flag, profanely yelled at a line of Washington police officers that his 5-year-old son was more of a man than they were. Others beat, knocked over and pushed past officers, and threatened to kill one with his own gun.
Police officers inside the Capitol were often outnumbered and chose not to use force. In the Post video, Officer Eugene Goodman, facing down a large group by himself, lured the mob to chase after him — away from the Senate chamber.
Later, after senators had evacuated, a lone officer politely pleaded with rioters to leave the chamber. “Any chance I could get you guys to leave the Senate wing?” the officer asks in video captured by The New Yorker’s Luke Mogelson. “Just want to let you guys know this is, like, the sacredest place.”
Only after the arrival of more backup, some from the D.C. National Guard, did officers end the riot.
Some rioters may have been collecting information. The New Yorker video shows a group of men rifling through Senate desks and snapping photos. One says he is looking for something to “use against these scumbags.”
The F.B.I. is also investigating whether a Pennsylvania woman stole computer equipment from Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office and intended to sell it to Russian agents. The woman turned herself in to the police yesterday.
The mob felt empowered by Republican leaders. As rioters pushed their way down a hallway, one shouted at a police officer, “We are listening to your boss: Trump.” And as a few men looked through documents on the Senate floor, one, referring to Senator Ted Cruz, said: “I think Cruz would want us to do this, so I think we’re good.”
Multiple military members, active and retired, were part of the mob. The F.B.I. is investigating the role of the Oath Keepers, an anti-government militia made up largely of former law enforcement and military veterans. (In response, the Pentagon says it will intensify internal efforts to combat far-right extremism.)
Another rioter was Klete Keller, a gold-medal-winning swimmer. One of Keller’s former Olympic teammates described him as an “aimless, rudderless, 30-something man who … became a perfect candidate to fall into a radical, conservative rabbit hole of conspiracy theorists and rioters involved in insurrection,” according to The Post. Since the riot, Keller told a former coach that he “didn’t mean for any of this to happen,” The Times reported.
So far, at least 70 people have been arrested and charged with participating in the attack. The authorities say they are still seeking information, as this F.B.I. poster with suspects’ photos shows.
A Morning Read: Nine years ago, the rock climbing champion Lai Chi-wai was paralyzed from the waist down in a car accident. It didn’t stop him from trying to ascend a skyscraper.
From Opinion: Jamelle Bouie and Jennifer Senior have columns.
Lives Lived: Harry Joseph Brant was a founding member of the next-generation jet set and a new-look “It” boy known for pushing the boundaries of gender stereotype in both cosmetics and clothing. He died at 24.
ARTS AND IDEAS
Canada will finally have a champion
Canada invented the sport of ice hockey, and much of the country is obsessed with it. But the country’s professional teams have had a rough few decades: No Canadian team has won the Stanley Cup — the trophy that goes to the National Hockey League champion — since the Montreal Canadiens 28 years ago. Canada’s previous longest drought was a mere six years.
This year promises to be different. Even if an American team wins the cup, Canada will at least be able to crown its own champion.
Because the Canadian government has restricted travel to and from the U.S., where the pandemic is worse, the N.H.L. has reorganized its divisions — and has placed all seven Canadian teams in the new North Division.
The Canadian teams will play only one another during the regular season, and the top four will then meet in the playoffs this spring. Whichever team emerges — the champion of Canada — will face the three winners from the U.S. divisions in a Stanley Cup bracket.
“Every night is going to feel like Saturday night, ‘Hockey Night in Canada,’ coast to coast,” the general manager of the Calgary Flames told The National Post, referring to a popular television broadcast. “It may only be one season, but I think it’s going to be awesome.”
The season began last week, and oddsmakers like the Toronto Maple Leafs, who have famously struggled for much of the past half-century.
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The pangram from yesterday’s Spelling Bee was collectible. Today’s puzzle is above — or you can play online if you have a Games subscription.
Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times. See you tomorrow. — David
A correction: Yesterday’s newsletter included the wrong location for an Egyptian hospital that had run out of oxygen. It was in El Husseineya, not Cairo.
P.S. Recent print editions of The Times have featured an usually high number of banner headlines. You can explore some of them — from the presidential election to the vaccine rollout and the Capitol riot — here.
Today’s episode of “The Daily” features conversations with Trump’s supporters about the Capitol riot. On the latest “Sway,” the actor Bryan Cranston breaks down his method.
Claire Moses, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Tom Wright-Piersanti and Sanam Yar contributed to The Morning. You can reach the team at themorning@nytimes.com.
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Good morning. Donald Trump has become the first U.S. president to be impeached twice.
Even during a scandal, a president’s own party members usually defend him. Decades later, people tend to forget how overwhelming the partisan support was and exaggerate the degree of conscience among politicians of the past.
In 1999, no Senate Democrats voted to convict Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial. Many Democrats made excuses for his affair with a 22-year-old White House intern, and some went so far as to smear her.
In the 1970s, Republican leaders spent months casting the investigations into the Nixon administration as partisan overreach. Gerald Ford, while still the Republicans’ House leader, called the Watergate investigation a “political witch hunt.” Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush defended both Nixon and his bribetaking vice president, Spiro Agnew.
In the 1860s, Andrew Johnson’s fellow Democrats stood solidly by him during his impeachment and kept him from conviction.
All of which helps puts yesterday’s second impeachment of President Trump into perspective: It was both a strikingly partisan affair — and an unusually bipartisan one.
On the one hand, dozens of members of Congress refused to break with a president who tried to overturn an election result and incited a mob that attacked Congress, killing a police officer. Only 10 House Republicans voted for impeachment, and the final tally was 232 to 197.
“The political penalties for encouraging extremism and attacking democratic norms are dangerously weak,” the political scientist Brendan Nyhan wrote yesterday.
On the other hand, Trump has suffered more defections from his party than any previous president besides Nixon, who ultimately lost Republican support and resigned before the House could impeach him. Yesterday’s vote, Daniel Nichanian of The Appeal wrote, was “the most bipartisan impeachment of a president in U.S. history.”
By comparison, only five House Democrats voted to impeach Clinton, The Times’s Carl Hulse noted — three of whom later became Republicans, while a fourth joined the George W. Bush administration. In 2019, not a single House Republican voted to impeach Trump. Only one Republican senator, Mitt Romney, voted to convict, and other Republicans disdained the process from the start.
This time, they are sending a more nuanced message. Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate leader, has put out word that he is glad impeachment is happening, and he issued a statement yesterday saying he had “not made a final decision on how I will vote” in the Senate trial.
Of course, McConnell is a crafty politician who would like both to be rid of Trump and to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from passing much legislation. So McConnell also signaled yesterday that he would not start a Senate trial before Biden took office, effectively forcing Democrats to choose between trying Trump and focusing on Biden’s agenda.
The delay seems to make conviction less likely. “People’s outrage levels recede,” my colleague Maggie Haberman wrote yesterday. “Memories fade. And I do wonder if there will be as much Senate Republican anger next month as there is now.”
Still, the existence of that anger underscores the historic nature of yesterday. Trump became the first president in U.S. history to be impeached twice — and only the second to have a meaningful number of his party members in Congress deem him unfit to be president.
The 10 Republicans who voted for impeachment included Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the No. 3 ranking Republican in the House; four others from safely Republican seats; and five from more competitive districts.
“I’m not afraid of losing my job, but I am afraid that my country will fail,” Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington, who’s in her sixth term, said. “My vote to impeach our sitting president is not a fear-based decision. I am not choosing a side. I’m choosing truth.”
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THE DAY’S OTHER NEWS
A team from the World Health Organization arrived in Wuhan to investigate the source of the virus. Chinese authorities barred two scientists because of positive antibody tests.
U.S. states are scrambling to meet the skyrocketing demand for vaccinations. Here’s the new guidance about who gets a shot.
Prosecutors charged Rick Snyder, the former governor of Michigan, with willful neglect of duty over the crisis in Flint that left thousands of residents drinking lead-tainted water.
Gunmen killed at least 80 people in an ethnically driven massacre in Ethiopia.
Morning Reads
Letter of Recommendation: Eat chips, The Times’s Sam Anderson writes. “A bag of chips is a way to defeat time. It brings temporary infinity: a feeling that it will never end. A chip. A chip. A chip. Another chip.”
From Opinion: Farhad Manjoo, Nicholas Kristof and Thomas B. Edsall have columns.
Lives Lived: Adolfo Quiñones, better known as Shabba-Doo, grew up in a public-housing project in Chicago and became a pioneer of street dance. He called it “a valid art form, on the same level as jazz or ballet.” He died at 65.
ARTS AND IDEAS
The future of gaming
The pandemic has been very good for the video-game business. Spending on games rose 22 percent last year, The Washington Post reports. The number of monthly users on Discord, a chat platform popular with gamers, doubled to 140 million.
But the boom isn’t about only the pandemic. It’s bigger than that, Sean Monahan argues in The Guardian: Video games are replacing music as the dominant form of youth culture.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Joe Biden turned to Among Us and Animal Crossing: New Horizons to reach young voters. The rapper Travis Scott had more than 12 million viewers for a virtual concert on Fortnite last year — nearly double the audience of the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards. “We’re going to see more of these events, even after regular concerts are safe to attend again,” an analyst told The Hollywood Reporter.
The cultural sway of games stems largely from interaction. Games like Animal Crossing have become places to socialize, and even to host virtual graduations, parties or protests.
“Ten years ago, younger generations were leaving behind traditional media for social media,” another analyst wrote in a 2020 Global Games Market Report. “Today, they are leaving behind social media for more interactive experiences.”
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The pangram from yesterday’s Spelling Bee was formula. Today’s puzzle is above — or you can play online if you have a Games subscription.
Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times. See you tomorrow. — David
P.S. The word “waackin’” — one of Adolfo Quiñones’s techniques — appeared for the first time in The Times yesterday, as noted by the Twitter bot @NYT_first_said.
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As the Federal Bureau of Investigations intensified its nationwide manhunt for those who broke into the United States Capitol last week, arrests of some of the over 170 suspects began to ramp up. As rioters departed Washington, D.C., and fanned out to their homes across the country, agents were sifting through over 100,000 digital tips and bringing federal charges against more than 70 people to date.
Many face charges including unlawful entry and disorderly conduct, but more grievous charges are expected for some, according to law enforcement officials — including sedition.
A number of those who law enforcement say participated in the riot came from Mr. Trump’s home state of New York.
Wearing a police vest and draped in animal pelts, Aaron Mostofsky, 34, cut a distinct figure when he was interviewed inside the Capitol while clutching a riot shield.
“We were cheated,” he said to a reporter for The New York Post, repeating President Trump’s debunked claim of widespread election fraud. “I don’t think 75 million people voted for Trump — I think it was close to 85 million.”
On Tuesday, Mr. Mostofsky, the son of Judge Steven Mostofsky of Kings County Supreme Court, who also goes by Shlomo, was arrested at his brother’s house in Brooklyn on charges that include stealing government property, which carries a maximum prison sentence of 10 years. What appear to be fur pelts were taken out of Mr. Mostofsky’s own house by F.B.I. agents, in a video of the arrest posted on Twitter.
Both Mr. Mostofsky and his father are registered as Democrats, according to election records. At a court hearing on Tuesday, Jeffrey T. Schwartz, a lawyer for Mr. Mostofsky, said he was “not part of the mob.”
“He was not rampaging,” Mr. Schwartz said in Federal District Court in Brooklyn. “He understands how the whole thing in Washington got totally out of hand.”
In a Facebook comment on Nov. 7, the day the presidential election was called for Joseph R. Biden Jr., Mr. Mostofsky wrote: “when and where are we protesting/rioting,” according to his criminal complaint.
An M.T.A. employee
William Pepe, an M.T.A. employee, was photographed inside the Capitol during the riots. He was arrested in White Plains on Tuesday.Credit…Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia
William Pepe, a Metropolitan Transportation Authority employee from Beacon, N.Y., was arrested by F.B.I. agents in the parking lot of a bank in White Plains, N.Y., on Tuesday and is facing charges of unlawful entry and disorderly conduct for his breaching of the Capitol, the Justice Department announced.
Mr. Pepe, 31, called in sick to work to travel to Washington last Wednesday. He was suspended without pay last week from his job as a Metro-North Railroad laborer at its Brewster rail yard.
A federal magistrate judge, Judith C. McCarthy, released Mr. Pepe on a $10,000 bond on Wednesday, ordering that he abide by a nighttime curfew, wear a GPS monitoring device and surrender his shotgun and hunting knife to the authorities. Mr. Pepe was “restricted from traveling to the District of Columbia for any purpose whatsoever,” except for an in-person court hearing, the judge said.
Capitol Riot Fallout
The M.T.A. is cooperating with federal law enforcement agencies. On Tuesday the agency also lodged internal disciplinary charges against Mr. Pepe, which, following an investigation, may result in termination from his job, for which he makes around $73,000 a year.
“Those who attacked that symbol of American democracy disqualified themselves from working for the people of New York,” a spokesman for the authority said in a statement.
An upstate town official
Sharon Pineo, 70, of Round Lake, N.Y., was photographed being detained by officers on the steps of the Capitol, apparently having made it past barricades surrounding the building. Ms. Pineo organized a charter bus to the protest, according to The Albany Times Union.
A member of the town of Malta’s zoning board of appeals, Ms. Pineo, a Republican, has since resigned her position, following calls for her removal, according to The Daily Gazette, which obtained a copy of her resignation letter.
“I tender this resignation with regret, but believe that in these challenging times, it is important to not all any impediment to the smooth operation of the town’s business,” Ms. Pineo wrote.
Though she was photographed in a green windbreaker, slumped as multiple officers appear to grapple with her, Ms. Pineo denied involvement beyond protesting, she said in a statement submitted to a local radio station, The Gazette reported.
“I would like the public to know that I did not enter the building nor did I commit any violence,” she said in the statement, adding she merely “exercised on behalf of the people the freedom of speech.”
She has not been charged with a crime.
Pete Harding told The Buffalo News that he was inside the Capitol during the riots.Credit…John Hickey/Buffalo News
In the interview with The News, Mr. Harding said he was in the Capitol to document what transpired. “I did nothing wrong,” he said, adding that he had contacted the F.B.I. after video surfaced of him inside the building, and many called for his arrest on social media.
Mr. Harding also was filmed participating in a group that took photographic equipment from journalists, threw it in a pile and tried to set it on fire.
“That was a symbolic gesture,” said Mr. Harding, who is seen in the video stooping over the pile and attempting to ignite it with a lighter. “Nothing burned.”
Mr. Harding has not been charged with a crime.
Gary Phaneuf was arrested in Washington and accused of violating the city’s curfew put in place after the riot last week.Credit…Joe Raedle/Getty Images
A Staten Island firebrand
Well known for protests in his home borough of Staten Island and for loudly heckling Mayor Bill de Blasio on the Staten Island Ferry, Gary Phaneuf was arrested in Washington on Jan. 7 following his attendance at the riot violating the curfew imposed by Mayor Muriel E. Bowser, according to Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department.
Mr. Phaneuf’s politics appear to have shifted over time: In 2011, Mr. Phaneuf was profiled in The New Yorker while participating in Occupy Wall Street protests and camped out in Zuccotti Park in Manhattan. At the time, he expressed worry about the risk that right-wing speech posed to President Barack Obama. “I’m scared about what I’m hearing from the Tea Party and Rush Limbaugh; they’re creating an environment where he could be shot,” he said.
In 2016, Mr. Phaneuf protested the retirement of a New York City police commissioner, citing the death of Eric Garner, a Black man who was placed in a chokehold by the police on Staten Island, according to Pavement Pieces, a local news site out of New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
This week, Mr. Phaneuf referred to Ashli Babbitt, the military veteran who was killed by Capitol Police when she tried to force her way into the United States Senate speaker’s lobby as “a martyr,” according to an interview with a D.C. radio station, WTOP News. “We have a bloody red shirt to wave around,” he told the station.
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Clean the Lint Trap – Many washers send lint directly down the drain, but some capture it in lint traps. Cleaning this trap reduces strain on your machine and makes your clothes come out cleaner. The location of the lint trap varies by appliance brand-Maytag machines typically collect lint within the center agitator, while others use lint filters located near the top of the basin.
Clean the Bowl – If your clothes are starting to smell moldy or not fresh after a wash, it may be time to clean the bowl of your washer. To easily clean your washing machine frugally with environmentally friendly products, pour two cups of vinegar into the bowl and run the machine with hot water. You may also substitute lemon juice instead of vinegar. There are other machine cleaning products as well.
Home washing machine repairs can address simple problems before they get worse. By practicing preventative maintenance, you can significantly extend the life of your washer machine. If you’re considering replacing your home appliance, first consider appliance repair. An appliance repair specialist will be able to tell you if your appliance is worth saving, or if you should upgrade to a newer model.
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Who wouldn’t be looking for ways to save money in today’s times? We live in an age that demands frugal living. With the prices soaring every day, saving a few bucks on groceries, clothes and home utility items can spread a smile across your face. The money could be put to more productive uses or simply used to buy your favorite pair of shoes; the same ones you’ve been saving up for months.
If you love to shop but feel the pinch when your bundle of cash dwindles fast, here’s how you can save money on every purchase you make. It is not only about using coupons and getting discounts. It is more about securing the best prices so that at the end of the day, you don’t feel like you’ve overpaid.
1. Couponing –
It is by far the most commonly used method to save money on purchases. It is also quite a lucrative option. Couponing involves using coupons handed out by brands as a marketing strategy to sustain old customers and attract new ones. It is a rebate on the retail price. The rebate rate ranges between 5% and 50%. It is redeemed at the store at the time of purchase of an item. There are digital and printable coupons.
Coupons enable shoppers to get quality products at a discounted price. They are available on almost all products including your groceries, restaurant meals, apparel, cosmetics and pet food. There are different places to source coupons including traditional sources such as newspapers, magazines and monthly bulletins and modern sources such as coupon sites. These coupon sites display coupons and coupon codes of various brands and items.
2. Cashback offers –
The Cashback offer is another attractive shopping offer that helps you save some money. Different vendors have different schemes in this regard. The first is the credit card cashback offer. It involves earning reward points or air miles or bonus gifts when you use your card to shop at specified locations and retailers. The points can be accumulated and redeemed at a later date. The other scheme includes getting a certain percentage of money back on your purchase.
3. Ask for a discount –
You can look at it as a more sophisticated manner of haggling. Your mother might have done it a few years ago to stretch her monthly budget, but haggling can be embarrassing. Most vendors have a margin of discount. However, they do not publish it. These discounts are given only if the customer asks. After you’ve selected your items of purchase, you can inquire politely if you are eligible for a discount at the cash counter. On rare occasions, you will walk out without one because again it is a business strategy used to beat competition.
4. Seasonal Sales –
A change of seasons brings along a good deal of discounts and offers. You can take advantage of these seasonal sales. You can save the best on monsoon sales when some of your favorite items are sold for half their price. Shopping during the holidays as well as post-holidays is a great time to get good bargains.
5. Special Promotions –
Vendors keep offering special promotions to promote their business. It could be an early-bird sale or a special offer on the occasion of a new setup. In addition to discounts, you might get free shipping for your goods.
As the world grows smaller; people travel across the globe more frequently and more business is done internationally, translation services are increasingly in demand. A translation service can now be needed for anything from the translation of an education certificate to translating a website. Due to the demand, there are now hundreds of translation agencies across the globe.
Finding a translation service can be daunting. Where does one start to look for a translation service and when they find one, how do they know if they will be able to do the job well? What questions should one ask? This article will offer some useful tips on how to find a translation service to meet your needs.
Where to find a translation service?
There are three main ways of finding a translation service.
The first port of call should be your local directory such as the Yellow Pages. If you have a specific business directory for your area then even better. Simply look up “translation” or it may sometimes be under “translators & interpreters”. Have thumb through the listings and earmark some to contact.
The second, and easiest, means of finding a translation service is through the internet. Using the main search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and MSN can bring up hundreds of listings. One added advantage of using a search engine is that you can be more specific with your searches. For example, if you are looking for a translation service local to you type “translation service London” or “translation service Oxford”. Similarly, if you are in need of a specific language try something like “German translation service”.
With search engine results you will be presented with two types of listings, paid listings (advertisements) and organic listings (non-advertised results). It is good to bear in mind that those with organic listings are there for a reason, i.e. the search engine naturally sees them as important sites for translation services. On the other hand, paid listings will be from companies that need the business. This is not necessarily a negative thing but good to consider when making a choice.
The last means of finding a translation service is to ask colleagues, friends or family. A personal recommendation is always the best.
Contacting the translation service
Once you have a list of the translation service providers you want to contact, it is then key that you are prepared with the information necessary to get an accurate quote.
Any decent translation service will want to know what languages they are translating from and into, the length of the document (especially the number of source words), the nature of the text (is it business or technical?), the format of the document (is it a paper document, an email or brochure?), when you need the translation delivered by and if necessary what format it should be delivered in. These details will help the translation service price your piece of work. However, remember that many translation service providers may not give you a concrete quote until they see the document. This is because once they see it they may realize they under-quoted you due to unforeseen elements such as the format, poor image quality, or technicality of the document. It is always a good idea to have your translation in a format that can be emailed or faxed.
When speaking to the customer service agent make sure you thoroughly explain your needs. A good translation service however will always ask the right questions so they get a decent grasp of what you will need.
Questions to ask the translation service
Once you have established the cost of your translation it is always a good idea to probe the translation service with a few more questions to gain a better understanding of their capabilities.
For example here are 10 basic questions:
1. If they gave you on price, ask what their charge is per 1000 words?
2. Will they charge you per source word or per target word? For example, if you are having a document translated from Italian to English, Italian will be the source language.
3. Is the quote they gave you fixed? i.e. they can not charge you more afterward.
4. Are all their translators qualified? What is their procedure for hiring translators?
5. Do their translators work solely in their native languages?
6. If your deadline is missed how will you still have to pay?
7. Does the price include proof-reading by another translator?
8. If your translation is specific or technical, do the translators have experience in the subject matter?
9. What format will they return your translation in?
10. If it is a large or important job it is possible to ask for a trial translation – however, this may not always be free.
These questions for your translation service should give you some insight into their understanding of the industry and their capabilities.
Which translation service?
Ultimately for many people, when it comes to the crunch they choose a translation service based on cost, location, and speed of service. There are no hard and fast rules as to how to choose a translation service and it is really up to the individual to go with what they feel it best for them.
In the general scheme of things, most translation service providers are bona fide and professional outfits. If when asking the questions above to a translation service you sense a level of uncertainty then it may be best to go with the service that seems to know what you want and how to give it to you.
Neil Payne is Managing Director of Kwintessential, a UK based consultancy providing cross-cultural solutions to todays businesses. They provide cultural awareness training, translation services, interpreters and multilingual DTP, and website design.
