DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, November 14, 2014
-- a deaf village to be built
In 2008, Laurent, South Dakota, the nation's first deaf town,
was supposed to be ready. It wasn't and the idea went dead.
And in the 19th century, an attempt was to establish a deaf
colony in Georgia. It did not succeed. And throughout the
19th century, many deaf and hearing people knew sign language
at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. And now this - a planned
deaf community in Wilson, North Carolina, not too far from
Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf. Town leaders
are pushing for it. Will it succeed? Time will tell as it
is still early in the planning stage.
-- a Zero to Hero participant
"Zero to Hero" is a British TV program. It is about two
participants facing each other in a boxing ring. The
better boxer wins and becomes a Hero. Chris Smith,
who is deaf, will be boxing on this program. He
calls himself the Silent Assassin. His real job is
with the British Post Office.
-- six years to get captions
Hard to believe, but it is true. The Japanese Internal
Affairs and Communications Ministry, which is same as our
FCC, is planning to have all TV programs fully captioned.
Their goal is year 2020. Six years from now? Not sure
why is this taking so long? Our captioning technology
does not take that long to convert a non-captioned TV
program to captions.
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