[WADNet Post] May 1, 2006: DeafNation Update
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- Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 01:45:23 -0500
DEAFNATION UPDATE
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DeafNation eNews
DeafNation continues on the tour of the Road Trip across the country.
Visit http://roadtrip.deafnation.com to follow
DeafNation online for videos and stories!
Come to DeafNation's main events:
- DeafNation Poker Tour @ Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut (June 8)
- 1st National Deaf Junior Golf Classic @ Mt. Airy, Maryland (June 26-28)
- DeafNation Golf Classic @ Hershey Park, Pennsylvania (July 11-13)
DeafNation Media Sponsors:
- National Bass Assoc. of the Deaf Tournament @ Table Rock Lake in
Missouri (June 11-15)
- 2006 World Deaf Cycling Championships @ San Jose in California (June
19-24)
- 2006 Deaf Disc Golf National Championships @ Paw Paw in W. Virginia
(July 27-29)
- 2006 Pan American Deaf Youth Games @ Washington, D.C. (Aug 1-6)
- 25th Anniversary of the World Deaf Timberfest @ Stayton in Oregon (Aug
30-Sept 5)
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DEAFNATIONTV
-New SuperDeafyWalk videos from Greensboro, Austin, and St. Louis
DeafNation Expos-- click on the videos:
-Exclusive video on Deaf Yoga, the video we have been waiting for! To
watch the Yoga techniques explained in ASL, click on the video:
-Deaf Link, based out of San Antonio, Texas, is featured with Matt
Houston, Deaf Link's National Liaison and Deaf Link CEO & President Kay
Chiodo sharing the Deaf Link vision. To see how deaf hospital patients
can be interconnected with sign language interpreters on a whim, click
on the video:
DEAFLYMPICS.TV
-In www.Deaflympics.TV, it has the press conferences with live internet
broadcasting by DeafNation. During the 2007
Winter Deaflympics games, watch Deaflympics.TV by DeafNation from Feb
1-10, 2007!-
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Schedule:
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Sept. 16 - Seattle, WA
Sept. 23 - Denver, CO
Oct. 7 - Chicago, IL
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DEAFNATION SPORTS:
2nd Annual DeafNation Golf Classic at Hershey, PA on July 11-13, 2006
with $10,000 Cash Purse Prizes, including a $25,000 hole-in-one. We are
still accepting entries into this prestige annual event! Watch the video
report of
Hershey Country Golf by Joel Barish at www.deafnation.com.
DeafNation Charity Golf Events:
April 27 in Riverside, CA (KODAWest and The Children's Storytelling in
Sign Project) - Sept. 14 in Seattle, WA
(Abused Deaf Women's Advocacy Services-A.D.W.A.S.) Oct. 5 in Chicago,
IL (West Suburban Association of the Deaf)
Oct. 26 in San Ramon, CA (DeafHope).
Join first National Deaf Junior Golf Classic benefiting the DeafNation
Foundation in Mt. Airy, Maryland from June 26-28. Check out at
http://www.deafnation.com/dnsports.aspx for more details.
WORLD DEAF NEWS
-New Zealand recently passed the New Zealand Sign Language Bill making
New Zealand Sign Language the nation's
third official language after English and Te Reo Maori. The law also
gives (more) equal rights to deaf New Zealanders,
providing more access to information. Third official language! Cheers
and hats off to the coordination of the New
Zealand Parliament and the Governor-General Dame Silvia Cartwright who
acceded to the historic bill recently.
-Gallaudet University's Presidential Search Team narrows it down to
three finalists out of a pool of 21 candidates to
replace I. King Jordan upon his retirement this coming December 31st,
2006. The three finalists are named as follows:
Gallaudet Provost's Jane Fernandes, Mexico School for the Deaf's
Superintendent Ronald Stern, and Gallaudet's
Department of Communication Studies associate professor Stephen Weiner
(Contributed by: Joel Barish, DeafNation, Inc.)
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Leslie Riggs
WADNet Post Editor & Listserv Administrator
Wisconsin Association of the Deaf
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