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Hmm .. I see this logo as an O with some stripes from the Stars-and-Stripes ...<BR><BR>Ingvild <BR><BR><BR>
The newsletter idea is a great one if there could be funding<BR>
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Ingvild<BR><BR>> From: signwriting@mac.com<BR>> To: sw-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu<BR>> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:22:26 -0800<BR>> Subject: [sw-l] a few things...and Obama logo O plus rainbow<BR>> <BR>> SignWriting List<BR>> November 10, 2008<BR>> <BR>> > On Nov 10, 2008, at 3:53 PM, Adam Frost wrote:<BR>> >> I completely understand, and it makes sense to me as well. Most <BR>> >> Deaf in the US can't get involved with politics even if they wanted <BR>> >> to because there is no news station that is given in any form of <BR>> >> SL. In fact, most of the captioning on news stations are horrible. <BR>> >> Newspapers have been the way for Deaf people to get information for <BR>> >> a long time, but those are dying out. Now the main place to get <BR>> >> news in on the internet, but there are a lot of people who do not <BR>> >> know how to use the internet, then the is the question of where to <BR>> >> go to a trusted source, and lastly is the frustration that all of <BR>> >> the news sites all too often use videos from the TV stations......<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> We could have an ongoing "newsletter through email" to those who <BR>> subscribe, written in ASL and English. We could have different topics, <BR>> related to the daily news and other important topics that Deaf people <BR>> might be isolated from...<BR>> <BR>> There will be very few readers in the beginning, but in time the <BR>> readership might build, and maybe it would provide more information to <BR>> the Deaf Community. It could arrive on your blackberry or <BR>> handhelds...We could also post these articles in the new SignWriting <BR>> WikiMedia Plugin on the web, which can lead to a real Wikipedia later...<BR>> <BR>> Would anyone be interested in helping with this? The problem is that I <BR>> am quite overbooked and at the moment we have no funding for this...so <BR>> it really needs funding...but imagine if we could get funding to write <BR>> this ASL newsletter on the topics of the day...<BR>> <BR>> That would be a great project for all of us - and inform the Deaf <BR>> Community...it is a shame they are cut off so badly from daily news...<BR>> <BR>> By the way, the logo for the Obama campaign is an O with a <BR>> rainbow...it is a lovely logo...and that is why some of those name <BR>> signs were an O hand and then the number 4 in a curve for the <BR>> rainbow...it was "O with a rainbow" to match his logo...<BR>> <BR>> So that logo might influence the sign for him in time...<BR>> <BR>> Here it is:<BR>> <BR><BR></body>
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