All of these sign-language-like movements, which are customizable, would control a gadget in a person's pocket through a Bluetooth connection.
Frustrated with the clinic, they enrolled Jacob in sign-language education, and then learned the language so that they could communicate with him.
According to the council, the proportion of government buildings accessible to the handicapped will increase from 40% to 90% by 2012, and all hospitals will include sign-language interpreters by the same date.
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Aside from the basics - utilities, schools, clean streets, efficient public transport - at which Tokyo traditionally excels, the Japanese megapolis provides sign-language interpreters for the deaf, home helpers for the elderly, and subsidies for single-parent households.
It's the sort of mix of appreciation and amusement that can only happen on the modern Web, evoking memories of insta-famous folks, from frustrated flight attendant Steven Slater to NASA "Mohawk Guy" Bobak Ferdowski to Lydia Callis, the hyper-animated sign-language interpreter for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg who found Web fame during Superstorm Sandy.
It's the sort of mix of appreciation and amusement that can only happen on the modern Web, evoking memories of insta-famous folks, ranging from frustrated flight attendant Steven Slater to NASA "Mohawk Guy" Bobak Ferdowski to Lydia Callis, the hyper-animated sign-language interpreter for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg who found Web fame during Superstorm Sandy.
Last December, the video of a college-level sign language project went viral on YouTube.
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Americans on the other side of the border were the intended audience for the English-language sign, then-President Felipe Calderon said at the time, saying an increase in violence in Mexico was directly connected with the 2004 expiration of the U.S. assault weapons ban.
The ambiguous language of E-Sign lets companies try different tiers of signature security.
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Though the sample Doctor Web found targeted Russians by piggybacking on an application for listening to music on the popular Russian social media site Vkontakte, screenshots of the malware show that the fraudulent installer uses English-language text, a sign that it may also be targeting non-Russians.
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The figures also showed that not all languages were spoken - with 22, 000 people using sign language.
That might mean tapping into a well-established language, like ASL or International Sign Language, or finding some other way to get a point across.
That's what the Hawaii university researchers say happened -- even if few realized that a distinctive sign language existed for decades on the island until now.
However, Obama said earlier Friday in an interview with Spanish-language television network Univision that he would not sign a bill that does not include the pathway to citizenship.
For example, the Hawaii Sign Language word for father is to wag your finger -- whereas in ASL, it's an open hand with fingers spread and a thumb to the forehead.
Tuesday's episode, which coincides with Learn To Sign Week, features a storyline using deaf characters - both of whom are played by deaf actors - together with a hearing actor who uses British Sign Language.
While she cannot actually type, the 26-year-old western lowland gorilla is fluent in modified American sign language.
Campaigners have welcomed the storyline - which features two of the characters fighting after a furious row in British Sign Language.
"Messages", an internet-based audio, text, and video conferencing application that is included with Macs, has high-quality video and frame rate capabilities and is ideal for people who use sign language to communicate.
An early sign of that, cynics say, is a decision to boot a Georgian-run Russian-language television channel off France's Eutelsat satellite.
"Tribes, " starting previews this week at New York's Barrow Street Theatre, is a lighthearted British drama by playwright Nina Raine about a deaf man who decides to learn sign language in his 20s after growing up in a family that insisted he lip-read and try to speak instead, in hopes of assimilating him into hearing culture.
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