Hawk Relay LLC
Grant Laird Jr. Hawk Relay LLC is one of the newest VRS vendors on the market. We should see few more vendors coming out of the closest in near future. I happen to know Samuel Hawk personally. He is the founder of this company. He understood deaf community and VRS industry very well. I know he will do [...]
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Closed-Captioning on Google Video
Daniel Greene This is great news for deaf and hard of hearing people — and, I think, for hearing people, too! While the world of Internet video has been hurtling forward, deaf people have been thrown backward to a time when television was not captioned. Why? Because almost none of the video on the Internet is subtitled [...]
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Benefits of Including Deaf Actors
Jamie Berke (About.com) An About visitor wrote: Hello! I have been working as an interpreter for over 25 years, however, I have a passion for the Theatre and the Performing Arts. I...
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More Examples of Exemptions
Ed's Telecom Alert All.. Cheryl Heppner did heckuva job of researching and my cap is off to her for helping us who do not have time to do extensive research understand better where these religious groups stand with closed captioning. This is second set of groups of religious groups that got exemptions [see below my signature]. I need to make a disclaimer for [...]
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Washington Post protest article
Tayler Mayer Protesters Renew Fight Over Choice Of President - Washington Post
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What's the plan this week???
Elisa Abenchuchan Wednesday, October 4(Last three lines -- Reason: Unity for Gallaudet. Ah, yah, there is a SURPRISE too!)There, very important information will be given.Also, there will be a meeting of faculty FSSA supporters from 4 to 5 pm in SAC 1212. Get the word out!Thursday, October 5Between noon and 2 PM, there will be a name building dedication ceremony in honor of IKJ and his [...]
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Today's Walkouts, Rally, Pictures
Elisa Abenchuchan You can find all this information on this website that I just heard about -- http://deafbison.net/This is a great website with pictures and summaries of what happened today. Wow, what an exciting day! So many students and teachers walked out of class and had a rally -- and they all went to the president's office! All this is in the website, go there now. Also, check [...]
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Pictures of Tent City @ October 2 @ Nighttime
Elisa Abenchuchan Noah Beckman, SBG President talks to the crowd PROTEST STILL ON -------------------- You don't need a tent to sleep at Tent City Banner in progressNew word coined by a protestor -- Doths.(not get it yet? deaf moths... the light...)Just to give you an idea of the energy here [...]
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Wasting Life Away?
Karen My cousin sent me the following: (read through it, I've got some thoughts at the end!) The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged usto get to know someone we didn't already know. I stood up to look aroundwhen a gentle hand touched my shoulder.I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with asmile that lit up her [...]
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Ooh, My Back - A Look at Hard of Hearing Tension Myositis...
Drolz Uncensored The hard of hearing lifestyle catches up to a deaf man in the form of tension myositis syndrome
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Introduction to On the Fence: The Hidden World of the Hard...
Drolz Uncensored A sneak peek at the introduction to On the Fence: The Hidden World of the Hard of Hearing
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Deafness in Armenia
Jamie Berke (About.com) A guest writer has submitted an article on deafness in Armenia. One of the more striking facts she has included is the fact that although deaf Armenians can get an...
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Gallaudet University Adminstration Sprays "Earth Juice"...
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition On October 2, 2006, in response to a formal request by Gallaudet University?s Student Body Government (SBG) to resurrect Tent City, the I King Jordan?s administration sent out an order to distribute ?Earth Juice? fertilizer on the grounds of Tent City. The first tent was set up at 7am, the ...
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Deaf Life on Moon?
DeafJoke.tv SCIENTISTS MAKE SHOCKING DISCOVERY! On February 30th, 2003, the now-defunct Lunar Orbiter VII was launched. It took thousands of pictures of an area on the dark side of the moon as it made several passes over it. Over the following months, scientists pored over these thousands of pictures. It was only recently that they made [...] [...]
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BE BOLD! Be Opened! Be Heard!
Kalalau's Korner BE BOLD! Be Opened! Be Heard!Tent City II is now history in the making! It's going to be bold, yes or no?A good common sense informs us that for more than six years, JKF had but one immediate supervisor, His Royal Highness I King Jordan, yes or no? HRH I King Jordan oversaw JKF's overall job performance, yes or no? If JKF wanted to accomplish something, she was to [...]
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Last weekend, del.icio.us, donations and momentum
Tayler Mayer In this vlog edition, I talk about meeting Jared Evans in San Diego this past weekend, a new del.icio.us feature, donations (like you, we don’t work for free!), and the importance of keeping momentum in the Gallaudet protests.I sincerely apologize for not captioning this vlog. It takes long enough to produce a vlog, and is [...]
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Poem by alumnus Curtis Robbins, ?67
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition Edward Miner GallaudetO Ghost who walked for so long the President?s House who longed for one to guide with the consciousness of being Deaf and proud ?You have been deceived and let down!How can a Ghost be rested and let rest be assured with the silence of the once anxious pacing steps haunting through the generations with great anticipation?We were once hailed at [...]
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Something to emulate... a traditional town center in...
Marvin Miller (Laurent, SD) Beautiful picutres of new, 28-acre development called Glenwood Park in Atlanta, Georgia. link Enjoy!
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5 exemption examples compiled by NVRC
Ed's Telecom Alert All.. Below is a careful and well-thought out analysis by Cheryly Heppner who is an executive director of NVRC and she did an intensive research into exemptions to religious groups by the FCC. It will give you an insight; be sure to keep in mind that religious groups had had number of years to address this issue. [...]
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352: George Allen: Macaca, Deaf people!
Deaf in the City 352: George Allen: Macaca, Deaf people!There have been some blogs about the FCC sending exemptions to people so they don't have to close caption programming on television. Now from the Virginia Young Democrats:Advocates for the deaf and hard of hearing packed the most recent hearing of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on September 26, 2006 in protest of two [...]
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Walkout
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition At 11:15am, students rallied in front of the Students Activities Center building where they were joined by faculty and staff members in a show of support for the protest.  Following brief presentations from student leaders, the group marched to the Presidents office, where they stayed for approximately 10 minutes.  The crowd ...
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Media Contact Information Enclosed: Do Your Part!
Mishka Zena We need to condemn the actions of DPS. Now they are asking for identifications of the students. See Ridor's blog, DPS Now Asking For Identification. With the scheduled walk out of the students this morning, Walk-out..., students are advised now to bring along their cameras and camcorders to record the events. Please take pictures of any DPS interfering with the [...]
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STAY TUNED for Wednesday's Rally
Bay Area Perspective on Gally
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A Little Rant About Tenure
DeafRead GUEST BLOGGERS Can I make a point quickly? On Monday I went outside with my Creative Writing class to teach them about ’setting’ in short stories. Their task? Watch the ‘characters’ in Tent City II going about their tasks and take notes on everything that was happening... the breeze in the trees, the smell of Earth Juice wafting [...]
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Walk-out...
Jesse Thomas It has been announced that there will be a walk-out tomorrow morning at 11:15 a.m. Everyone walk out of class and will converge at the Mall for a rally then go to Tent City. How many will? That's the question. I'm fully in favor of any action, because I'm tired of talking. Talking only leads to more manure. There are a stout few who are willing to break the invalid, [...]
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