Hello SignWriting List!

[Bill Reese]

Val,
I've always known that you have wonderful parents and it's been evident 
through the years how much they care for you.  In turn, that means 
caring for the deaf throughout the world as you continue to do so.   I'm 
sorry to hear about what your mother and your family has gone through 
this past week and, indeed, it is wonderful that she has pulled out of it.

Hoping for the best for you and your family,
Bill


On 3/24/2011 12:32 PM, Valerie Sutton wrote:
> SignWriting List
> March 24, 2011
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> Hello SignWriting List!
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> It has been a long time since I have posted to the SignWriting List. But I am back, and the List will become active again.
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> My family has some good news yesterday. On March 8th, my 91-year-old mother had a stroke, and then a week later, a second stroke, and with good reason, the doctors were concerned and talked about end-of-life issues. But after 8 days in a coma-like state, yesterday, miraculously, my mother revived and started talking and talking and talking...like her old self!
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> So we are rejoicing today!
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> I am sure you all know that SignWriting has been made possible partly because of my wonderful large family. Several members of our family have helped with fund raising, grant writing and so forth. Without our family support, I cannot imagine how I could have raised the financing alone...Our non-profit organization, the Center for Sutton Movement Writing, does support a small staff that struggles to make a living, working on software and SignWriting books and publications, so funding is needed on an on-going basis. We began in 1974. SignWriting is now 37 years old.
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> I am grateful for the opportunity to write sign languages and to have the support to do it...and my mother, Doris Sutton, has been one of SignWriting's strongest helpers. She worked on fund raising for years, in the 1980's.
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> To give you an example, years ago, Doris found ongoing funding for our non-profit organization from a small private foundation in southern Califormia, to pay for all our internet costs... As you can see in the listing below, there are quite a number of web sites related to SignWriting on our server, and the annual fees to keep the server up and running are paid for all these years, thanks to the funding Doris found for us.
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> Our SignWriting server, hosted by DeafVision, includes SignWriting-related web sites designed by different webmasters in the US, Germany, Honduras and Norway. All sites are related to SignWriting or Sutton Movement Writing in some way:
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> 1. SignWriting Site
> Read&  Write Sign Languages
> Webmaster Valerie Sutton
> http://www.SignWriting.org
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> 2. SignBank Site
> Sign Language Databases
> Webmaster Valerie Sutton
> http://www.SignBank.org
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> 3. SignPuddle Site
> Create SignWriting Documents Online
> Webmaster Steve Slevinski
> http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle
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> 4. GebaerdenSchrift Site
> SignWriting Site from Germany
> Webmaster Stefan Woehrmann
> http://www.gebaerdenschrift.de
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> 5. SignWriter Studio Site
> for SignWriting Studio Software
> Webmaster Jonathan Duncan
> http://www.signwriterstudio.com/
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> 6. FrostVillage Site
> ASL FrostVillage Blog in SignWriting
> Webmaster: Adam Frost
> http://frostvillage.com/blog/lang/ase/
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> 7. SignWriting Image Server (SWIS)
> Open Standards of SignWriting
> Webmaster Steve Slevinski
> http://www.signbank.org/swis/
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> 8. ISWA 2010 HTML Reference Guide
> International SignWriting Alphabet 2010
> Webmaster Steve Slevinski
> http://www.signbank.org/iswa/
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> 9. SignWriting Wiki
> Wiki-style Articles in Sign Languages
> Webmaster Steve Slevinski
> http://www.signbank.org/wiki
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> 10. Binary SignWriting (BSW)
> SignWriting Script Encoding Model
> Webmaster Steve Slevinski
> http://www.signbank.org/bsw/
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> 11. TegnSkrift Site (under construction)
> SignWriting Site from Norway
> Webmaster: Ingvild Roald
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> 12. DanceWriting Site
> Read&  Write Dance Movement
> Webmaster Valerie Sutton
> http://www.DanceWriting.org
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> 13. MovementWriting Site
> Read&  Write All Body Movement
> Webmaster Valerie Sutton
> http://www.MovementWriting.org
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> 14. SymbolBank Site
> Symbol Archive for the International SignWriting Alphabet (ISWA)
> Webmaster Valerie Sutton
> www.MovementWriting.org/symbolbank
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> and some family sites...
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> 15. The SoulSite
> Spiritual Poetry by Doris Sutton
> http://www.SoulSite.com
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> 16. Paul Sutton, Composer, Physicist
> Beautiful Love Songs CD
> http://www.PaulMSutton.org
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> 17. La Jolla's Legendary Couple
> Paul&  Doris Sutton Age 89&  91
> http://www.LegendaryCouple.org
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> 18. World Medicine&  Ethiopian Journal
> Pamela Sutton, MD. Palliative Care
> http://www.PamelaSuttonMD.org
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> 19. A Global Writing System for a Global Age
> Autobiography, Inventor Sutton Movement Writing
> http://www.ValerieSutton.org
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> More SignWriting-related postings are coming...
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> Val ;-)
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