Posts published in July 2016

DeafDigest Blue – July 31, 2016

Blue Edition
Barry Strassler, Editor
http://deafdigest.com – updated every Monday

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Serving the Deaf Community since 1996; 20th year

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Last week’s ASL Videos in youtube
http://deafdigest.com/videos/video-clock/
http://deafdigest.com/videos/newspapers/

This week’s ASL videos in youtube http://deafdigest.com/videos/deaf-arguing-about-meeting-seats/
http://deafdigest.com/videos/strange-deaf-research/

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Barry’s collections of past articles (with today’s update)
— contract bridge rules changed by angry deaf player http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/

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Saturday’s Deaf Picture for your surprise

http://deafdigest.com/deaf-perfomer-on-tv-sesame-street/

This picture is a reminder of the News #2 below
(Australia)

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Dedication:

DeafDigest dedicates this edition to
Ron Emerson, Houston, TX, that departed us.

He was a role model in among the deaf people
of color in the Houston, TX and Washington, DC
communities. He graduated from Prairie
View A&M University with a degree in
Accounting. He worked as an accountant
for many years at George Washington
University, while at the same time,
holding a full time job at MSSD on
the Gallaudet campus.

He played basketball one season at Prairie
View A&M, and while he was rarely used by
the coach, he was a fan favorite. In a game
that was a blow out, the coach will would
not use him. It took a stadium-full screaming
by fans to force the coach to put Ron
into the game.

He grew up an oralist, knowing nothing
about ASL. It was basketball with deaf
Houston teams that exposed him to ASL,
a language he fully embraced for the
rest of his life! And in which it enhanced
his career at MSSD.

Top stories about the deaf:

ADA is now 28 years old and retired Iowa senator
Tom Harkin, the father of ADA, celebrated it
by teaching the Democratic delegates the
sign for the word – America.

We had Sesame Street TV series for years,
and it was an educational tool for deaf
children. Australia is coming up with
its own version of Sesame Street. It
debuted this week.

The Kentucky Commission on the Deaf and Hard of Hearing has opened a new demonstration
room for people wanting to know what
assistive devices is all about.

The Governor Baxter School for the Deaf
which is a state funded school, is now
allowed to raise private funds. It was
part of a new state law.

Deaf dogs moved to a prison! Well, there
was a bad fire in California that threatened
a kennel that held deaf dogs. For their
safety, these deaf dogs were moved to
a prison as temporary shelter. It is
understood that inmates were thrilled to
be taking care of them.

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Dr. Steven L. Rattner, P.A. & Associates
Deaf Dentist; College Park. MD & Gaithersburg, MD
(near Washington, DC & Frederick, MD & also Metro Washington)

Complete Dental Services; assistants either know ASL or
are deaf

more information:
http://www.drrattner.com/our-team/meet-our-team/

to contact Dr. Steven L. Rattner, P.A. & Associates:
http://www.drrattner.com/contact/

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A DEAF SEATING ADVANTAGE OR DISADVANTAGE
Sometimes deaf leaders, before a big deaf meeting
starts, would argue about where to pick seats around
a large conference table.
Do they seat next to the organization president?
Or do they seat across the organization president?
Or do they seat away from their enemies? Etc, Etc.
Hearing people also argue about seating. The same as
with the deaf!

youtube video with captions
http://deafdigest.com/videos/deaf-arguing-about-meeting-seats/

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Lip reading tale

A hearing person was bragging with a deaf friend.
Deaf friend thought he said:

I am a Kentucky kermel

Kernel?

He actually said:

I am a Kentucky Colonel

(for some weird reason, the word colonel
is pronounced the same as kernel!)

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A STRANGE CI RESEARCH
Some research assignments are strange. In India, the
Defense Research and Development Organization is supposed
to research better ways to make the Army stronger (weapons,
missiles, computer technology, etc).
Well, the government of India told this agency to do
a strange research.
What was that research? To find ways to make CI cheaper
for the deaf!

youtube video with captions
http://deafdigest.com/videos/strange-deaf-research/

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COMMENTS FROM A CART OPERATOR – continuing series

Most people reading this newsletter are probably aware of this, but many people in this country still do not know that the vast majority of realtime captioning on television is done by people who are using the skills of a court reporter.

The National Court Reporters Association (NCRA) is the organization that represents judicial reporters and broadcast and CART captioners across the country.

Members of NCRA are meeting in Chicago from August 4th through the 7th for their 2016 Annual Convention and Exposition with the theme of “You are the Architect of your Future.”

The schedule will be jam-packed with educational sessions, the latest in new products and services showcased on the Expo Hall floor, and an array of networking opportunities that cannot be found anywhere else. There will also be specialized programs for students and instructors, as well as a two-day Certified Realtime Captioner Workshop.

Speed and realtime contests will be held to showcase the talents of some of the best steno writers in our business.

Because people in the broadcast television industry and the business world will still continue to need our services, there will probably be some captioning and remote CART provided from hotel rooms in the Hilton Chicago, where the convention is taking place.

So when you watch your favorite live television show this week, you might wonder where that captioner is. Could he or she be in a hotel room looking out over Lake Michigan?

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News of the Week – Looking Back 10 Years Ago:

Do nation’s best deaf poker players come from
NTID? Well, NTID boasts of two poker champions –
Jonathan Rollins, class of 1993, who just won the
deaf poker championship in Nevada.
And there is tennis-playing Joe Neely who won
another deaf poker tournament in Connecticut last
month. Tennis? Joe holds the RIT record for most
doubles wins in one season (13 wins in 2002)
that he shares with deaf doubles partner
Luke Faxon-St. Georges.

(editor’s note: Joe Neely has tragically
departed us, smiling at his fellow poker
players from upstairs)

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News of the Week – Looking Back 5 Years Ago:

The Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center for Wireless
Technologies published results of weather and emergency
warnings survey that the deaf and the disabled were asked
to take part in. The conclusion was a hint that the deaf and
the disabled need to have their communications equipment
upgraded on a regular basis because of rapidly changing
technological times.

(editor’s note: this story appeared five years ago,
yet turtle-like progress has been made with the
911-text technology. We need to check again in
another five years to check on the progress)

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All new jobs will be immediately posted in
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Blue Edition
Barry Strassler, Editor
http://deafdigest.com – updated every Monday

America’s Unique Deaf Stories; subscription
at no cost to you

Serving the Deaf Community since 1996; 20th year

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Last week’s ASL Videos in youtube
http://deafdigest.com/videos/careless-people/
http://deafdigest.com/videos/caption-friendly/

This week’s ASL videos in youtube http://deafdigest.com/videos/video-clock/
http://deafdigest.com/videos/newspapers/

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Barry’s collections of past articles (with today’s update)
— popular cocktail invented by deaf bartender? http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/

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to choose from, deciding can be hard-but we’ve made
shopping easier by offering free shipping and returns.

Orders placed within the contiguous 48 states are shipped
for free. If you are not satisfied with your purchase
for any reason, return it within 30 days. We’ll give
you a full refund and even pay the shipping to send
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Saturday’s Deaf Picture for your surprise

http://deafdigest.com/deaf-involved-in-hospitality-field/

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Top stories about the deaf:

The Imdian Railways have been accused by activists
of not trying to accommodate the needs of deaf
passengers that need to know directions.

A relay service has been established in parts
of Japan.

There is a warning by the Ontario police of
fake contactors that pretend to be deaf and
demand money upfront before work can be done.

Deaf swimmer Andrew Rees became the first deaf
British man to successfully cross the British
Channel.

Ruthy Fletcher (see surprise picture above)
was praised for her successful entry into the
British hospitality industry.

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Dr. Steven L. Rattner, P.A. & Associates
Deaf Dentist; College Park. MD & Gaithersburg, MD
(near Washington, DC & Frederick, MD & also Metro Washington)

Complete Dental Services; assistants either know ASL or
are deaf

more information:
http://www.drrattner.com/our-team/meet-our-team/

to contact Dr. Steven L. Rattner, P.A. & Associates:
http://www.drrattner.com/contact/

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A DEAF CLOCK REPAIRMAN
Repairing Tower clocks is a dying vocation. Very few
individuals have the skills necessary to repair tower clocks,
those that adorn the Main Street USA towns. The New York Times,
July 27th edition, profiled a Tower clock repairman making his
rounds in these small midwest towns.
We, at one time, had a deaf tower clock repairman, though
it was not his primary occupation.
The late Lee Brody, he of the Phone-TTY, Inc fame, was a
handy man, capable of repairing anything that needed to be
repaired. One of his projects was walking up the Fairlawn, NJ
clock tower to get the clock repaired. Not too many people
in Fairlawn nowadays would remember Brody – but during the
fifties and sixties he was a valued town resident.

youtube video with captions
http://deafdigest.com/videos/video-clock/

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Lip reading tale

many years ago there was a baseball player
with the name of Matt Batts.

A hearing person could hear M and B and
figure it out.

A deaf person, trying to lipread, may not
be able to figure it out.

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AMERICAN AND BRITISH NEWSPAPERS
DeafDigest editor looks for deaf news in newspapers
every day. There have been many, many, many deaf news
in British newspapers, but few deaf news in USA
newspapers.
Why? Is it because British newspapers like to write
about the deaf while American newspapers don’t?
No. More and more American newspapers go out of
business; many American newspaper reporters are
laid off. As a result, fewer and fewer American deaf
stories.
British newspapers are different

youtube video with captions
http://deafdigest.com/videos/newspapers/

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COMMENTS FROM A CART OPERATOR – continuing series

As court reporters began to embrace computer-aided transcription (CAT), they began to see that they could save editing time at the computer screen by changing the way they wrote conflicting steno strokes.

In the past, many court reporters would try to write 100% phonetically, which would mean that words like “male” and “mail,” “sale” and “sail,” “tale” and “tail,” and “bale” and “bail” would be written the same. Each of them would be written with the long “a” sound, which would be the steno AEU, because that’s the way they sounded.

Different reporters found different solutions to writing these words the same. One of the popular solutions was that, rather than using the steno AEU, the reporters would omit the “U” and just use the steno AE for the words that had an “a” and an “e” in them. For example, the word “sale” would now be written SAEL instead of SAEUL, as it had been written before. The word “sail” would still be written SAEUL.

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News of the Week – Looking Back 10 Years Ago:

The Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota dismissed
Cecilia Fire Thunder, who is deaf, from her position
as the elected tribe president. She is fighting
the dismissal; she is saying that her rights were
violated under the Constitution. The tribe says
Oglala Sioux Tribal Constitution overrules the
US Constitution.
Interestingly enough this deaf woman was in
Iowa to seek treatment for her deafness when she
got word of her dismissal.

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News of the Week – Looking Back 5 Years Ago:

For years Japan would not allow the deaf to drive
cars. Now that they can drive cars, they may also
be allowed to drive trucks and motorcycles. The
National Police Agency is now working on a new set of
regulations to make this possible.

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All new jobs will be immediately posted in
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DeafDigest Blue – July 17, 2016

Blue Edition
Barry Strassler, Editor
http://deafdigest.com – updated every Monday

America’s Unique Deaf Stories; subscription
at no cost to you

Serving the Deaf Community since 1996; 20th year

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subscription changes, go to deafdigest.com and
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http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/

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Last week’s ASL Videos in youtube
http://deafdigest.com/videos/hearing-always-ask-same-question/
http://deafdigest.com/videos/deaf-discrimination/

This week’s ASL videos in youtube http://deafdigest.com/videos/careless-people/
http://deafdigest.com/videos/caption-friendly/

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Barry’s collections of past articles (with today’s update)
— medical researcher at big research facility http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/

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Try products from Harris Communications risk free for 30 days!

We carry an unbeatable selection of products for the Deaf,
including vibrating alarm clocks, door signalers, emergency
alerting products, books/media and much more! With so much
to choose from, deciding can be hard-but we’ve made
shopping easier by offering free shipping and returns.

Orders placed within the contiguous 48 states are shipped
for free. If you are not satisfied with your purchase
for any reason, return it within 30 days. We’ll give
you a full refund and even pay the shipping to send
it back.

Our knowledgeable customer service is here for you
during the first 30 days and beyond. Ask your toughest
questions- we’re dedicated to making sure you’re 100%
satisfied with your purchase.

Shop now: http://bit.ly/HarrisCommDDB16

Contact us at:
mailto:info@harriscomm.com if you have questions.

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DeafDigest welcomes unique deafnews tips;
mailto:barry@deafdigest.com

sources of unique deafnews are never revealed; always
confidential

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Saturday’s Deaf Picture for your surprise

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Top stories about the deaf:

According to a newspaper story, there are almost
400 schools for the deaf in India, but about
100 is in one locale – meaning 25 percent of these schools! Hint was that other areas of
India are lacking in these schools.

At the Mactan-Cebu International Airport in
the Philippines, employees have been taking
a Deaf Culture Sensitivity Training workshop.
It was given to  check-in staff, ground handlers, terminal duty officers, customer service representatives, security, and other staffers.
airport

The Upper House legislative body in Japan
has rejected a bill that would support the
rights and the needs of the deaf! It was a
big shock; no one knew it was coming!

There was a big story in the newspaper in
Sacramento, CA about medical facilities
ignoring the needs of the deaf in
hospitals and medical clinics.

Japan finally joins the list of nations
that offer video relay services for the deaf.

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Dr. Steven L. Rattner, P.A. & Associates
Deaf Dentist; College Park. MD & Gaithersburg, MD
(near Washington, DC & Frederick, MD & also Metro Washington)

Complete Dental Services; assistants either know ASL or
are deaf

more information:
http://www.drrattner.com/our-team/meet-our-team/

to contact Dr. Steven L. Rattner, P.A. & Associates:
http://www.drrattner.com/contact/

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For postings, announcements and employment ad rates, please email mailto:barry@deafdigest.com

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weekly DeafDigest Blue & Gold editions also posted at:

http://deafdigest.com (updated every Monday)

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READ WHAT THEY SAY

Unlock the phone with CapTel® Captioned Telephone! 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 – for the phone!

Captions are provided by a free service, 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

Follow us on Facebook and Twitter!

CapTel® Captioned Telephone – See What Everyone is Talking About!

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WONDERING WHY
DeafDigest editor is always wondering why
people are careless about their hearing aids
and CI. They often misplace or lose them,
and cannot afford new hearing aid or new
CI.
Same thing with deaf babies with CI.
These people are careful with their laptops
and iPads but not careful with their
hearing aids and CI.
Always a mystery!

youtube video with text
http://deafdigest.com/videos/careless-people/

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Lip reading tale

A deaf employee was complaining that her feet was getting cold.

The fellow employee said:
You can borrow my kitchen

borrow a kitchen?

The fellow employee actually said:
You can borrow my heater

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CAPTION-FRIENDLY RESTAURANTS
Deaf people love to go out and eat – no matter
if it is low cost fast food restaurant or a
bar that serves hamburgers or fancy restaurants.
These deaf people know which restaurants are
caption-friendly and which are not!
What is a Caption Friendly restaurant? Captions
always turned on restaurant TV sets are
Caption Friendly? Restaurants that never turn on
captions are not Caption Friendly!

youtube video with text
http://deafdigest.com/videos/caption-friendly/

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COMMENTS FROM A CART OPERATOR – continuing series

A stenocaptioner does not type words letter by letter.  The captioner
strokes whole words and phrases on the steno machine.  The words in
the dictionary in a computer-aided transcription program are matched
against those steno strokes to translate them into English. Erroneous
translation can sometimes occur because of other words entered in a
captioner’s dictionary.

A captioner might have meant to write the following sentence:

“As the farmer was preparing to plant his crops, he saw he could move
the row bottom any direction.”

However, because of words entered in the captioner’s dictionary, the
sentence might be displayed as:

“As the farmer was preparing to plant his crops, he saw he could move
the robot omnidirection.”

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News of the Week – Looking Back 10 Years Ago:

Tony Wallace, who is deaf, just started work as the law enforcement officer in Noonah, Alaska. This town, near the British Columbia border, has 900 residents. He will also help with the EMS and with the fire department.

editor’s note:
Tony was tragically shot to death several
years later while serving summons at a house.

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News of the Week – Looking Back 5 Years Ago:

Mark Grisanti, a senator with the New York State
legislation, has been credited by a Buffalo, NY
newspaper for saving the schools for the deaf in
the state – by getting the 4201 Special Schools
funding restored – that the governor wanted to
remove.

editor’s note:
schools for the deaf – Fanwood, St Mary’s,
Lexington, Rochester, Nill Neck and a couple
others are called “4201 schools” – these
schools are privately run but get state
funding. Politicians have for years wanted
to cut 4201 funding, but have failed to do so.

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This week’s ASL videos in youtube http://deafdigest.com/videos/hearing-always-ask-same-question/
http://deafdigest.com/videos/deaf-discrimination/

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Dedication:

DeafDigest dedicates this edition to Ellen O’Hara-Hanna,
that departed us. She was a teacher at the Utah Schools for the Deaf Blind at Jean Massieu School. Not just
standing alone as an outstanding teacher, she was also
a deaf community/civic leader, always pushing for
right and needs of the deaf.

Top stories about the deaf:

It may be ghastly but there was a story at a
funeral home in Alton, Illinois about a mummy
that was hung in a closet for 80 years. It
was William Lee, a deaf man who spent years as
a petty criminal, always getting into trouble
with the law, but pretty much a home town
legend.

Gene therapy helping fix deafness? This is
what Richard Smith, MD, director of the Molecular Otolaryngology Research Laboratories (MORL) at the University of Iowa is saying. He was
written up in a newspaper story.

A cochlear implant woman made this interesting comment
– Not all deaf people want to be fixed! Was she
criticizing deaf people’s resistance to a CI?
In a newspaper story, she was neutral with her
CI views, not 100 percent supporting cI, not
100 percent criticizing CI.

Seth Tetteh-Ocloo, a deaf Ghanian man, graduated
from Gallaudet in 1965 with a perfect 4.0 GPA
and made Deaf Education his career mission, both
in USA and in Ghana. His legacy has been honored
this week when Access Women Network has profiled
the Tetteh Ocloo State School in Ashaiman, Ghana.

The Outreach Services for Deaf and Hard of Hearing
in Wyoming is threatened with a 40 percent state
budget cut. The Deaf Community is fighting back.

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Dr. Steven L. Rattner, P.A. & Associates
Deaf Dentist; College Park. MD & Gaithersburg, MD
(near Washington, DC & Frederick, MD & also Metro Washington)

Complete Dental Services; assistants either know ASL or
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HEARING PEOPLE SELDOM ASK DEAF THIS QUESTION
A hearing person comes to a deaf person, but
often asks this question:

Can you lipread?

He never asks – what do you prefer – lipreading
or texting or notewriting or interpreter? It is
always – can you lipread?
It is very frustrating.

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DEAF DISCRIMINATING AGAINST DEAF
Deaf people discriminate against other deaf people?
We are not talking about ASL, oral, hard of hearing
that fight each other.
We are talking about almost-hearing people that
discriminate against the deaf. Almost-hearing? Yes,
many hearing people have hearing losses (age,
noise, etc). Instead of understanding the real
deaf, they discriminate against the deaf!

youtube video with text
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COMMENTS FROM A CART OPERATOR – continuing series

Computer-aided transcription (CAT) continued to gain popularity with court reporters in the 1980s and 1990s, and court reporters continued to find that the old method of writing on their steno machines totally phonetically would not always produce the translation they desired.

One of the things that reporters became aware of was what are called word boundary problems.

For example, if the prefix “en” and the suffix “en” are written the same on the steno machine because they sound the same phonetically, the computer may attach them to the wrong word, and erroneous translations may occur.

A reporter might try to write the following sentence.
“They will strengthen light enforcement of that policy.”

The CAT program could translate it as: “They will strength enlighten forcement of that policy.”

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News of the Week – Looking Back 10 Years Ago:

How much money has been allocated for
telecommunications relay services everywhere in USA?
It costs $419,724,291 right down to the very
penny.

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News of the Week – Looking Back 5 Years Ago:

Why do government programs to help the deaf and the
disabled fail in Nigeria? The reason is that these
government leaders establish programs – without
asking the deaf and the disabled or advice and
input. An example is establishing a training class
for the deaf – but without hiring interpreters,
and so on!

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DeafDigest Blue – July 3, 2016

Blue Edition
Barry Strassler, Editor
http://deafdigest.com – updated every Monday

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Barry’s collections of past articles (with today’s update)
—  Insurance executive, unusual
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Dedication

DeafDigest dedicates this edition to Steve
Ferrughelli, that departed us. He was deaf and was a
hard running ball carrier in the Canadian Football
League during the seventies. He played for Rutgers
and became a pro in the CFL, rushing for 1124
yards for Montreal Alouettes in 1973, and
then repeated it with 893 yards in 1975. He
helped his team win the Grey Cup. Altogether
he played 43 regular season games and for
2763 career yards between 1973 and 1976 with
the Alouettes and Edmonton Eskimos. Injuries
cut short his pro career. He did not know ASL
and functioned as a hearing person.

DeafDigest dedicates this edition to Amy
Hile, Greater Washington, DC area that
departed us. Deaf herself, she made Deaf
Education her full time passion and career.
Before moving to the Washington, DC area
she was busy founding the Metro School
for the Deaf in St. Paul. MN. In recent
years she was a member of the faculty at
Gallaudet University.

Top stories about the deaf:

Scotland is said to have become a leader in
recognizing sign language as a main language
and in producing new interpreters.

Because of Brexit, the British Deaf Association
has made it a priority to make sure that the
British deaf do not lose their rights that
were promised them by the EU.

The Ghana Disabled Workers Union, which has
many deaf members, are planning a demonstration
on July 13, 2016 to protest delay in distribution
of monthly disability income checks (just like
our SSDI).

Harvard, which has had a number of deaf students
in the past, is now offering ASL classes. It
was the request by ASL-advocates that prompted
the decision by the university administration.

An issue with Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) is
private schools and the ADA. He wants private
schools to be  exempt from ADA, and is proposing
legislation to this effect.

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Dr. Steven L. Rattner, P.A. & Associates
Deaf Dentist; College Park. MD & Gaithersburg, MD
(near Washington, DC & Frederick, MD & also Metro Washington)

Complete Dental Services; assistants either know ASL or
are deaf

more information:
http://www.drrattner.com/our-team/meet-our-team/

to contact Dr. Steven L. Rattner, P.A. & Associates:
http://www.drrattner.com/contact/

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REMEMBERING A DEAF CROOK
We have several deaf crooks that are in jail
for their crimes.
There is one deaf crook that DeafDigest editor
remembers very well.
That deaf person was a chairperson of a big
deaf national softball tournament. His committee
spent a lot of money for the tournament, but
it was a flop. Few people went to the tournament.
Few months later the committee had a party. The
deaf chairperson gave a short speech. Everyone wanted
to know if tournament made money or lost money.
The chairperson would not admit anything. Suddenly
he pointed to the table with delicious food and told
the committee to grab the food. The chairperson
then “disappeared” from the party. Did he steal the
money for himself?
That person is in jail but for something else.

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SIGNING A WORD 50 TIMES
If a hearing student in ASL class wants to sign
a word perfectly he must sign it 50 times. For example,
if you want to sign the word “fire”, it must be
signed 50 times before it will be perfect.
Whose advice is this? A hearing student at a high school
ASL class!

youtube video with captions
http://deafdigest.com/videos/a-deaf-signed-word-fifty-times/

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COMMENTS FROM A CART OPERATOR – continuing series

As computer-aided transcription (CAT) began to be used as a method of
transcript preparation for court reporters in the late 1970s and
1980s, there were still many court reporters who had learned steno
theories that were not “computer compatible.”

These court reporters had been preparing transcripts of proceedings
by dictating their steno notes for typists, using trained note
readers to read their notes, or typing their notes themselves. They
had been trained to write on their steno machines phonetically, and
any words that sounded the same would be differentiated during the
transcription process.

As a result, when one of these court reporters would begin to use CAT
to prepare a transcript, there would be many issues with homophones
and word boundaries.

A simple sentence for a reporter just beginning to use CAT might come
out something like this: “We/wee went from hear/here to/too/two
their/there/they’re.”

Someone editing this transcript would have to choose the correct
homophone in each case so that this sentence would read as
follows: “We went from here to there.”

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News of the Week – Looking Back 10 Years Ago:

Is Starbucks telling us “do come and drink our
coffee but do not ask us about your job
accommodations”?
There is a lawsuit in Canada; a deaf Starbucks
employee has complained of job discrimination.
Starbucks encourages these Deaf Coffee events
at their coffee places everywhere in USA; this
lawsuit is very troubling, even if it is not
in USA.

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News of the Week – Looking Back 5 Years Ago:

Ernest Garrett has been hired by the Missouri Commission
for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing as the new executive
director.

editor’s note: He only stayed on the job for a short
time for a very good reason – he is the superintendent of the Missouri School for the Deaf

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