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Walk for Sign

Monday, April 29th, 2013
More than a dozen ASL enthusiasts are walking to promote sign. Their 400 mile journey will take them from San Francisco down the Pacific Coast Highway to Los Angeles over the course of a month. 74-year-old Bob Walker of Frederick, Marland is quoted on the group's website as saying, "I am walking for ASL because I earnestly want the hearing Americans to recognize our basic everyday language known as ASL... We are comfortable with our language and we want the Americans to accept our language as official." Find out more here.
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New Video conferencing Option

Monday, April 8th, 2013
There's a new option for visual communications. FuzeBox is a San Francisco-based startup selling high-definition video-conferencing applications. Gallaudet University is using it to let users sign with one other--every faculty member and student has a free account. FuzeBox allows up to a dozen people to meet through video conferencing and present video, photos and presentations. The service costs about $15 a month or $828 a year for Business (the Enterprise version is a custom package that requires special pricing). Since FuzeBox operates in the cloud there is no hardware and starting sessions is quick. Here's a video introduction.

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Blast from the NAD past

Tuesday, March 5th, 2013
47 years ago the 28th NAD Convention took place in San Francisco. See what the National Association of the Deaf event looked like in this video that includes then Gallaudet President Leonard Elstad.

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NYT on Deaf-owned Restaurant

Monday, October 15th, 2012
The New York Times looks at Mozzeria, a restaurant owned by a deaf couple in San Francisco here.
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DeafNation: Pleasanton

Monday, October 8th, 2012
DeafNation comes to Pleasanton, California this Saturday. Pleasanton is just outside of San Francisco. For more information, click here.
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DeafNation: Pleasanton

Monday, October 8th, 2012
DeafNation comes to Pleasanton, California this Saturday. Pleasanton is just outside of San Francisco. For more information, click here.
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6 Flags Deaf Awareness Day

Monday, August 6th, 2012
This Saturday (Aug 11) is Deaf Awareness Day at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom near San Francisco in Vallejo, California. American Sign Language and oral interpreters will be positioned at all regularly scheduled shows selected attractions in the park.
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Japanese Pianist

Thursday, July 12th, 2012
A partially deaf Japanese pianist is performing this summer in the U.S. 80-year-old Fuzjko Hemming was declared a prodigy in her teens in Tokyo, but her music career was put on hold when she discovered she did not have citizenship to any country. Hemming eventually became a classical music star in her 60s when a documentary of her life was filmed. Her album La Campanella has sold more than 2 million copies and four of her albums have received Classical Album of the Year awards at the Japan Gold Disc Awards. She will play in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas and New York during her U.S. tour. For more information click here.
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Getting to Know.. Mozzeria

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Melody and Russell Stein opened Mozzeria in the Mission district of San Francisco at the end of 2011. The owners are deaf, as are many of the wait staff and cooks. The Neapolitan-style pizzas are cooked in a wood-burning oven. The name Mozzeria is a combination of mozzarella cheese and pizzeria.
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Deaf Rockers Play Duluth

Saturday, January 28th, 2012
Beethoven’s Nightmare played a free concert last night in Duluth, Minnesota at the College of St. Scholastica. The three-man deaf rock band from San Francisco are accompanied by sign language interpreters. Below on DeafNewsToday.com is a sample video of the group. You can see a video report from a local TV station KQDS here.
 
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