[Missouri-l] Fwd: [leadership] Audio Description Project (ADP) Update

[Chip Hailey]

>Delivered-To: chiphailey at cableone.net
>From: "Joel-ACB at ADP" <jsnyder at acb.org>
>To: acb-l at acb.org, leadership at acb.org
>Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:01:00 -0400
>Subject: [leadership] Audio Description Project (ADP) Update
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>TO:  State Reps for the Audio Description Project of the ACB and all ACB
>leaders
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>Thank you for your past assistance in providing information about the
>availability of audio description in all formats throughout your region.  I
>would like to once again solicit your help in improving the availability of
>information regarding audio description via the AD International website (
><http://www.adinternational.org> www.adinternational.org).
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>FIRST, it is hard to believe that so many states offer no services at all!
>Even if you know of one theater or performing arts space or museum or event
>that provides AD some of the time, that is helpful information.   We have
>essentially NO INFORMATION AT ALL from the following states (other than a
>general pointer to Regal movie theaters in some cases):
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>Alaska, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky,
>Louisiana,
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>Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire,
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>New Jersey, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, West Virginia,
>Wisconsin, Wyoming
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>We have MINIMAL INFORMATION from the following states:
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>             Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Michigan, Oklahoma,
>Tennessee, Virginia
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>Can you help?  Send a note to:   <mailto:webmaster at adinternational.org>
>webmaster at adinternational.org   There's also a link at the bottom of each
>page on the website:   <http://www.adinternational.org>
>www.adinternational.org.  Even if you can just give us a pointer to an
>organization, we can complete the research.  We greatly appreciate the
>information and pointers offered already.
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>SECOND, have you seen the summary page of activities from the first annual
>ADP Conference?  The three-day event, lead by Joel Snyder and held in the
>afternoons during the ACB Convention in Orlando, was an important event for
>ACB's involvement in the development of description.  There's a link right
>on the main page of the ADI website.  You'll find links to photos,
>transcripts, presentations, audio recordings, as well as a listing of award
>winners.
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>THIRD, we now have a FACEBOOK PAGE.  Just go to:   <http://www.facebook.com>
>www.facebook.com, sign up for your own account if you're not already a
>member, and lookup "Audio Description Project."   Become a "fan."  If you
>do, please tell us how we can best serve you via this page.
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>FINALLY, the ACB provides funding for the Audio Description Project.  You
>can help in a real way at no cost to yourself by using the links on our
>website to make purchases from Amazon, should you choose to make any
>purchases there.  While we've embedded the necessary referral codes in the
>links for purchasing DVDs with audio descriptions, it makes no difference
>what you purchase at Amazon, as anything you purchase will benefit the ACB,
>provided you start your session by clicking any Amazon link on our site.  In
>fact, you'll find a general Amazon link at the bottom right of the main
>page.  You may also use this
><http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/audiodescriin-20>  Amazon
>link.  Should you choose to do business with Amazon, we hope you'll start
>your session by "clicking through" from the ADI website.
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>Thanks.
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>Joel Snyder, Director, ACB's Audio Description Project,  and
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>Fred Brack, Webmaster, ADP's Audio Description International website