Waching daily Jun 26 2017

my name is Tom Nolan I'm the chair of the board of the MTA board of directors

in San Francisco and I'm here because I'm it's a great event and looking board

to a lot of fun nearly 60 years ago this event started and I think the idea is to

really celebrate some of the skills and talents that our folks have grips and

conductors who do this everyday all throughout the city it's just obviously

ringing the bells one small part of the job

but a lot of them bring little extra to it all the folks who operate cable cars

have the ability to enter the competition and we had a preliminary

bell ringing event a couple weeks ago up at the cable car barn and they have 30

seconds to warm up and then they have two minutes to perform and they're

judged on a few different dimensions of their playing and those who made it

through the preliminaries we're here today number one I look for a great deal

of passion and what somebody is doing for their creativity in what they're

doing their technique you know that something has been well thought out we

look for style originality and rhythm so if you have those three you're going to

win it's really important but there's so many great grit minutes in Cisco it's

really pepper to you today we had a special event which I am proud to be a

part of I'm one of two drivers here in San Francisco who drive the famous cable

car and every year we have a special event which is a bell ring contest and

for many years when I first started here I couldn't believe the way some of these

guys ring the bell after day I want to do that

I could never do it so I practice and I was never good and I kept doing it even

some of the guys I work with as conductors hey man it's not ringing the

bell forgive me headache but then one day it paid off I actually won the

contest I never knew I never done it for no prize you know I knew there was a

trophy I've always done it for the spirit of it the mission of that of MTA

is to enable people to get around the city and to make sure that they can do

so it's relative convenience they can do so safely and affordably and

we're doing that by changing the service by adding more service by replacing all

the vehicles except the cable cars well the Kuban car such a unique

experience because items not sure anybody else has them but certainly not

with our Hills I think you ops going up the hills spectacular views of the bay

going back downtown and you see when you watch the cable cars either cable cars

happy to you know hanging out taking pictures enjoying that experience which

isn't available in other city it's just spectacular it's a great way to get

around

For more infomation >> 53rd Annual Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest Video - Duration: 3:04.

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A Video Message from ICSD President Dr. Valery Rukhledev - Duration: 3:04.

Greetings to All!

Just a few weeks before the start of

the 23rd Summer Deaflympics in Samsun,

the world media attention is focused on the

events around the upcoming Games.

Deaflympics is a great event for all,

regardless of things like age, race or religion and etc.

For us it is an opportunity

to remind people that this sport event is not only

a performance for the medal.

This is a chance to find new friends,

this is new experience and these are the

positive emotions.

It is fantastic to promote sports and to

promote a healthy lifestyle.

Thanks to all of you,

other Deaf people have

a chance to discover new kinds of

sports and develop new relationships.

I invite everyone to come to Samsun and

see with your own eyes the beauty and

power of sports for the Deaf.

Samsun is ready for the Deaflympics and

we are awaiting all of you

at the global sports event for the Deaf Athletes!

See you all there in Samsun, Turkey!