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DeafDigest Blue – July 15, 2018

Blue Edition

http://deafdigest.com/ – updated every Monday

Serving the Deaf Community since 1996; 22nd year

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Last week’s ASL Videos in youtube

http://deafdigest.com/videos/famous-gallaudet-ghost/

http://deafdigest.com/videos/best-deaf-smoker-friends/

This week’s ASL videos in youtube

http://deafdigest.com/videos/refusing-to-be-retrained/

http://deafdigest.com/videos/painful-lesson/

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Barry’s collections of past articles (with today’s update)

— Titanic’s only deaf passenger

http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/

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PRESERVING DEAF TELEVISION AND FILM HISTORY

The Silent Network, the nations first national Deaf/Hard of Hearing

television network, which started in 1979, has been hard at work on its

major preservation efforts of thousands of hours of past Deaf/HOH

broadcast TV shows for the benefit of todays viewers.

Viewers can now enjoy watching the digitally re-mastered shows

as well as brand new shows at WAWO.tv. Shows are added regularly.

Viewers can watch on their TV, tablet, mobile device, or computer.

Visit www.TheSilentNetwork.tv for more background information or

watch the shows at www.WAWO.tv.

Join and support this major historical undertaking!

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Saturday’s Deaf Picture for your surprise

http://deafdigest.com/switching-from-medicine-to-pharmacy/

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Top stories about the deaf:

Lagos has been distributing sign language booklets

for police, banks and hospitals and claimed

over 2,000 people have been trained to use

sign language.

The Oyo State government in Nigeria seized a

20-acre land owned by a deaf agency. No reason

was given for the seizure but in which resulted

in mass protests by the Deaf Community.

In the hearing world, a runaway billionaire

is John McAfee, who created a company –

McAfee Associates, that created software

that blocked computer viruses. In the Deaf

World, it is Bill Austin, the past CEO

of Starkey Hearing aids. Guess there are

rogue billionaire runaways, no matter if

they’re affiliated with hearing or with

deaf!

The Rochester Police Department is working

with a deaf organization in Rochester, NY

on a forum to improve relationships with

the Deaf Community.

The following individuals were elected to the NAD Board of Directors:

Melissa S. Draganac-Hawk, President

Richard McCowin, Vice President

Jenny Buechner, Secretary

Michelle Cline, Treasurer

Liz Hill, Region I Representative

Steve Lovi, Region I Representative

Kevin Ryan, Region II Representative

Linsay Darnall, Jr, Region II Representative

Steve Hamerdinger, Region III Representative

Holly Ketchum, Region III Representative

Amy Lucero, Region IV Representative

Martin Price, Region IV Representative

Howard Rosenblum, Ex Officio Member

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Check out the new post about how trauma can change you

on HealthBridges

http://healthbridges.info/?p=1825

HealthBridges is a website to learn about behavioral health

and social service resources for Deaf, DeafBlind and

Hard of Hearing People

Happy Summer 🙂

The HealthBridges Team

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READ WHAT THEY SAY

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CapTel shows word-for-word captions of everything a

caller says over the phone, letting you read everything

that they say – Like captions on TV â€“ for the phone!

Captions are provided at no-cost to the user, with no

monthly fees or contracts required.

For more information or to order call 1-800-233-9130

V/TTY or visit http://www.weitbrecht.com/captel.html

For more info about CapTel or any of the many assistive

listening devices we offer, email: mailto:sales@weitbrecht.com

CapTelÂ® Captioned Telephone â€“ See What Everyone is Talking About!

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This week’s ASL video in youtube

IMPORTANT TO ACCEPT RETRAINING

This is a true story. A deaf employee worked for

a company for many years. The company required all

employees to be retrained to learn how to work

with computers.

The deaf employee refused to be retrained.

The company did not like it – but did not fire

the deaf employee because he was a good worker.

But the company waited, and waited and waited

for the deaf employee to break a company rule.

Finally, when the deaf employee broke a

company rule he was immediately fired.

The deaf employee sued and lost because the

company lawyers told the court that the company

rule was in the employee manual and everyone

knew the rule.

It was easier to fire the deaf employee for

breaking a company rule than to fire him because

of refusal to learn computers!

– for ASL News version with captions, please visit:

http://deafdigest.com/videos/refusing-to-be-retrained/

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Lip reading tale

A deaf baseball fan and a hearing baseball fan

were talking about one baseball player that

plays for Miami Marlins.

The deaf fan thought the hearing fan said:

Justin Pour lacks homerun power

The hearing fan actually said:

Justin Bour lacks homerun power

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This week’s ASL video in youtube

DON’T TEASE THE DEAF

Many hearing kids are cruel, teasing the deaf and

making them feel bad.

One hearing kid did, and he was sorry for the rest

of his life.

The deaf kid’s father owned a big company that hired

many people. The father saw his deaf son being teased

and did not like it.

Years later the hearing kid grew up, graduated from

college and applied for a job at that big company.

The hearing kid did not get the job, and he was

sorry that he teased the deaf kid a lot in the past.

Too late!

– for ASL News version with captions, please visit:

http://deafdigest.com/videos/painful-lesson/

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COMMENTS FROM A CART OPERATOR – continuing series

“Why do you have to hit all of those keys at the same time to make such a

simple word come up? Wouldnâ€™t it just be easier to type on a regular

keyboard one letter at a time?”

Being a CART captioner, I have heard these kinds of questions many times.

Yes, it might be “easier” to type one letter at a time, but if realtime

captioners did that, there would be no way that they could develop the

speed that they need to provide realtime translation for the different

events and broadcasts where captioning and CART are provided.

Using a standard QWERTY keyboard, the fastest typists can sometimes get up

to around 120 words per minute. It is more common for good typists to

average 60 to 80 words per minute.

The standard rate of speech for most people is around 160 to 180 words per

minute. Many speakers consistently average over 200 words per minute.

As you can see from these numbers, if someone is using a standard keyboard

and trying to type one letter at a time, even the best of typists cannot

keep up with most speakers.

However, using the steno keyboard, someone can keep up with most speakers.

In order to be certified by the National Court Reporters Association as a

Registered Professional Reporter, which is the entry-level test for court

reporters, someone must pass a test on testimony material at 225 words per

minute.

If you can write at 225 words per minute rather than 100 words per minute,

you will be able to do a much better job of keeping up with speakers in

today’s rapid-paced world.

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News of the Week – Looking Back 10 Years Ago:

New Hearing words get into the dictionary

every year.

New Deaf words don’t. Why? Said Peter Sokolowski,

not deaf, editor-at-large, Merriam-Webster:

If somebody is using it to convey a specific idea and

that idea is successfully conveyed in that word, it’s

ready to go in the dictionary

If this is the case then why such Deaf Words like

Coda, audism, bibi, etc get rejected every year?

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News of the Week – Looking Back 5 Years Ago:

NAD & RID TO PARTNER TOGETHER

A difference a decade would make! Ten years ago

NAD and RID were at each other’s throats, in bitter

disagreement on how interpreters should be certificated.

NAD’s way or RID’s way was what the disagreement focused on.

Now NAD and RID are buddies. Both issued a joint

announcement, acknowledging each other’s goals and

missions and top it off with a Memorandum of

Understanding.

note:

What happened? Seems NAD and RID are both at odds

with each other lately!

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