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UK Bank Investigation
The London Times says UK banks could face huge penalties for their treatment of deaf customers. The paper says the banks it investigated are “routinely discriminating against customers with hearing loss by failing to provide equal access to services.” Some deaf customers have to deal with “broken hearing aid loop systems, poorly trained and rude staff, a lack of understanding about how text phones work and an over-reliance on spoken answers to security questions.” There are even stories of people stranded overseas because the customer could not call the bank to resolve the problem. Action on Hearing Loss says a majority of the 152 banks it surveyed have no working hearing loop, a device which many deaf and hard-of-hearing people in the UK depend upon.
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NC Teen shot by Police
Law enforcement officers shot a deaf teen multiple times early this morning near Asheville. Buncombe County sheriff’s deputies say they stopped the 17-year-old for a traffic violation, but later saw him speeding in his pickup truck. During the ensuing chase, they say he backed into a patrol car. The boy's mother says he was scared and confused and tried to put the truck in park when the officers pulled him over the second time. The unnamed teen did not have a weapon and is now hospitalized with multiple injuries. His mother says he was hit five times. An investigation is underway by the FBI. The office who did the shooting has been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome. Below is a video of part of the Sheriff's news conference about the shooting.
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Switched Preview
Here's a preview of tonight's episode of the ABC Family show Switched at Birth. It's episode 18 of season one:
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Texting 911 in Canada
911 operators will take texts from the phones of people who can't use the voice service in some Canadian cities as part of a 3 month experiment. If all goes well, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission will expand the program nationally. Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto, and the Peel Region are taking part in the trial run, which involves more than 100 people who have signed up to take part.
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School Vandalized
Police caught several teens and pre-teens vandalizing busses at the Rhode Island School for the Deaf over the weekend. They caused thousands of dollars in damages while students and parents were attending a basketball tournament Saturday. The kids may have been responsible for damage to vehicles in the parking lot on previous weekend as well. Police aren't saying whether the vandals are students at the school, but officials are now re-thinking plans it had for a garage that were shelved.
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Gallaudet wants its diplomas back
Gallaudet is asking its alumni to donate their diplomas back to the school as part of its anniversary celebration to help preserve deaf history. Gallaudet is making plans to mark its 150th anniversary in July of 2014 and school officials want to include as many diplomas as possible from its 142 graduating classes in an online display and in the Gallaudet Archives. Starting with Ulysses S. Grant in 1869, each President of the United States has signed Gallaudet's diplomas because it is a federally chartered institution with the President as the patron of the university. You can see some of the diplomas here.
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Bragg at Gally
Alum Bernard Bragg will perform at Gallaudet this Saturday (Feb 25). He'll perform The World is my Stage in ASL with voice interpretation. The show is about the mistakes, misadventures, and accidents
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Coffee and a Pencil
A new documentary by deaf Japanese filmmaker Ayako Imamura will debut next month in Tokyo. Coffee and A Pencil is about competitive surfer Tatsuro Ota. The 49-year-old deaf man runs a Hawaiian goods shop in Kosai, where both pro and amateur surfers come to find new boards, order repair work or just hang out. Ota offers a cup of coffee to every visitor - and a pencil with which to write notes, since few people in Japan know sign language. He learned the value of hospitality from his parents who entertained guests in their home with magic shows. The 67 minute film includes touching moments, such as Ota consoling a young surfer who bursts into tears after losing a competition. Filmmaker Ayako Imamura has created more than two dozen short films about the lives of deaf people in Japan and her latest offering is being translated into English, so it can be submitted at film festivals in the U.S. The 32-year-old Nagoya
native studied filmmaking at the California State University at Northridge.Kohi to Enpitsu (or Coffee and A Pencil in English) will play for two weeks in Shinjuku, Tokyo starting March 10. For more information, visit here.
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"Absolutely Gobsmacked"
The first person to earn a doctorate in Deaf education in New Zealand says she is "absolutely gobsmacked" over her government's refusal to provide a note taker for the nation's first deaf member of Parliament, Mojo Mathers. The Otago Daily Times quotes Dr. Denise Powell of Dunedin as saying New Zealand is risking a violation of United Nations agreement on the rights of the disabled it ratified in 2008. Advocates of the deaf in Australia and Europe are already writing to show their concern. The Parliamentary Services expects Mathers to pay the $30,000 cost of a full-time note taker herself. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities, passed by New Zealand, upheld the rights of disabled people to hold political office and carry out all the functions of government, using "assistive and new technologies."
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