DeafDigest Blue – October 23, 2016
Blue Edition
Barry Strassler, Editor
http://deafdigest.com – updated every Monday
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Last week’s ASL Videos in youtube
http://deafdigest.com/videos/frustrated-deaf-engineer/
http://deafdigest.com/videos/deaf-friend-avoiding-hearing-friend/
This week’s ASL videos in youtube http://deafdigest.com/videos/deaf-deaf-deaf-shouting/
http://deafdigest.com/videos/broken-captioning-device/
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Barry’s collections of past articles (with today’s update)
— levels of sign language skills http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/
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DeafDigest welcomes unique deafnews tips;
mailto:barry@deafdigest.com
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Saturday’s Deaf Picture for your surprise
http://deafdigest.com/deaf-jogger-being-nominated-for-magazine-cover/
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Dedication
DeafDigest dedicates this edition to James Dyko,
not deaf, a magician, who taught ASL at high
school in Toledo, Ohio. He performed tricks many
times for deaf students. He attended a national
convention of the Society of American Magicians
and was amazed to find deaf magicians just as
skilled, or even better, than him!
Top stories about the deaf:
American banks would not reach out to help the
deaf that participate in Deaflympics and World
Championships. But Commonwealth Bank, an
Australian Bank is – helping out the deaf cricketers when they participate in world
championships. Australia, by the way, has
a bad reputation for discriminating against
the deaf in other ways!
The Australian Justice and Community Safety Directorate isn’t too thrilled about a deaf
woman excluded from jury duty because of
her deafness. This agency is planning to look into this matter further.
Deaf leaders in Tanzania have been forced to
deal with the continuing public attitude that
deaf people “should stay home” because of their
deafness!
Richard Brading, who is deaf, has been honored
by the Justice Medal from the Law and Justice Foundation (Australia) for his legal services
for underserved people in need of professional
assistance.
ADA advocates are saying that improving the
web to help the deaf is a win-win proposition,
in that it also increases the audience for
the hearing!
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Deaf Dentist; College Park. MD & Gaithersburg, MD
(near Washington, DC & Frederick, MD & also Metro Washington)
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more information:
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to contact Dr. Steven L. Rattner, P.A. & Associates:
http://www.drrattner.com/contact/
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This week’s ASL video in youtube
DEAF, ONE TIME, THREE TIMES, FIVE TIMES
Many hearing people come to a deaf person and
say something, not knowing he is deaf.
A deaf person may say just once “deaf” and
the hearing person catches it.
A deaf person may say three times “deaf”
and it takes three times before hearing person
finally catches it.
Worst example is saying “deaf” five times
and hearing person still not catch it!
Why?
This week’s ASL video in youtube
http://deafdigest.com/videos/deaf-deaf-deaf-shouting/
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Lip reading tale
The popular boss has returned to work from his
vacation.
The deaf employee thought the hearing employee said:
Let’s hall the boss
The hearing employee actually said:
Let’s hail the boss
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This week’s ASL video in youtube
BROKEN CAPTIONING DEVICE
Some captioning devices break down during a movie
showing.
You complain to the theater manager. He is stuck
because he has no more captioning devices to loan
out to deaf patrons
This week’s ASL video in youtube
http://deafdigest.com/videos/broken-captioning-device/
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COMMENTS FROM A CART OPERATOR – continuing series
I often read articles and comments by people who really do not understand how realtime captioning is done, and they can be very critical of even minor mistakes. They sometimes cannot imagine how captioners make certain errors.
What people need to understand is that captioners are using steno machines, and so their errors may look totally different from the errors made when using a standard computer keyboard. A slight fingering error can change a word into something totally different. Steno writers are basically writing “chords” on their steno machines, and it is possible to add an extra key or what steno writers call “drag” a key. It is also possible to miss a key or what steno writers call “drop” the letter.
Many steno writers struggle with dragging the L key with the right hand. That key is depressed with the ring finger, and it can be difficult to depress keys with the middle finger and pinky finger without also dragging the ring finger.
A steno writer could mean to stroke the steno APT, which is the word “apartment” for many people, and instead the steno APLT could come up, which is the word “amount” for some steno writers.
If the nonsensical question, “How long did you live in the amount?” came up on the screen, it may just be a slight fingering error for the realtime captioner who meant to stroke, “How long did you live in the apartment?”
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News of the Week – Looking Back 10 Years Ago:
Possibly breaching the Gallaudet Board of Trustees (BoT) code of
confidentiality, one trustee disclosed the following points
at a recent informal gathering at one deaf community –
– it was the Presidential Search Committee that screened
out the presidential applications and gave the BoT these
three finalists
– the entire presidential search cost Gallaudet $200,000
(for one residential school for the deaf the superintendent
search cost $60,000)
– the president-designate was given a one-year contract
(somewhat unusual and unheard of in collegiate circles)
– the mission of the presidential-designate was to solve
these issues (audism, racism and Management By Intimidation)
during this one-year length of the contract. This BoT member
said that the designate is out of job if these issues cannot
be resolved within the year.
– the buy-out clause is less than $1,000,000
(not 2 or 3 million dollars as rumored to be)
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News of the Week – Looking Back 5 Years Ago:
A woman, whose two brothers are deaf, was
flabbergasted by a $200,000 cell phone bill.
Normally the monthly bill is around $175.00
as the two brothers are under her plan. But
when both brothers vacationed in Canada, they
never bothered to update their plan to international
data plan. As a result, thanks to excessive text
messages and video viewings, the bill jumped to
$200,000. With a big and generous heart, T-Mobile
reduced it to $2,500 but the sister has to pay it
off within six months.
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