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Sunday, January 24, 2010

Hot News: Week of 1/21/10

- Thursday January 21st

Tourists at Cape Town in South Africa may enjoy riding on the water taxis at the V&A Waterfront.
These taxis would look like floating soccer balls if viewing from a distance. These soccer balls carry ads. Anyway, these soccer ball taxis were built by deaf students, that attend classes at the Whisper Boat Building Academy.
Of course the tourists would not know it unless someone tells them!



- Friday January 22nd

A result of the stimulus funds pushed by the federal government was the establishment of The Green Bank of Kentucky. The bank's first loan was to the Kentucky Department of Education.
Part of the funds will help upgrade the energy facilities at the Kentucky School for the Deaf.


- Saturday January 23rd

For the benefit of deaf households that have landline telephones, the FCC issued a ruling regarding these robocalls. Robocall operators must obtain written permission from deaf households.
Without such a permission, robocalls are banned.
This is great - but these robocall operators will still find a way to get around it!

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