DeafDigest Blue - May 1, 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 -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- subscription changes, go to deafdigest.com and click on subscribe and follow the screen weekly DeafDigest Blue & Gold editions also posted at: http://deafdigest.com/ (updated every Monday) Employment ads web site is at: http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Last week's ASL Videos in youtube http://deafdigest.com/videos/canceliedci/ http://deafdigest.com/videos/deaftwilightzone/ This week's ASL videos in youtube http://deafdigest.com/videos/video-clock/ http://deafdigest.com/videos/newspapers/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Barry's collections of past articles (with today's update) -- Malcolm Norwood, the real captions pioneer http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Low Payments with Affirm Financing Big purchases are easy to manage using Affirm financing, now available on the Harris Communications website. 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Go to: http://bit.ly/HarrisComm_DDB050116 Contact us at: mailto:info@harriscomm.com if you have questions. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- DeafDigest welcomes unique deafnews tips; mailto:barry@deafdigest.com sources of unique deafnews are never revealed; always confidential -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Saturday's Deaf Picture for your surprise http://deafdigest.com/new-school-for-deaf/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Attention: Effective with this weekend is the slimmed down Blue edition DeafDigest hopes you will like it Thank you for being with DeafDigest over the years -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Dedication: DeafDigest editor dedicates this edition to Dr John Niparko, founder of the Listening Center at Johns Hopkins. He was said to be the world's best CI surgeon. Top stories about the deaf: Helen Bear, scientist with the University of East Anglia (Great Britain) is working on a computer program that can read lips for the benefit of the deaf. Is DeafDigest skeptical, yes, but it was a story in the newspapers. A deaf advocate has complained that "professional deaf victims" using the "Deaf" card constantly tell hearing people that deaf people have entitlement because of their deafness. The Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan has established a research center on Japanese Sign Language. There is an outcry in India about lack of interpreters for deaf patients in hospitals. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 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/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- For postings, announcements and employment ad rates, please email mailto:barry@deafdigest.com -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- weekly DeafDigest Blue & Gold editions also posted at: http://deafdigest.com (updated every Monday) -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 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! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- youtube video 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/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- When you go to the doctor's office..make your visit go more smoothly! You can download a card from the HealthBridges website for yourself that lists the accommodation you want (like an interpreter) to have better communication at your health care appointment http://www.healthbridges.info/?page_id=36 Please remember to like us on Facebook Happy Spring! The HealthBridges Team -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- youtube video 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/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- COMMENTS FROM A CART OPERATOR - continuing series People have asked how and when court reporters began to use computers that eventually led to the development of captioning and CART. It all began by filling a need for accurate and timely transcripts. As more court reporters began to use the machine shorthand method of making the record instead of the Gregg and Pitman pen shorthand method, it became obvious that something needed to be done to speed up the conversion of shorthand notes into final transcript form. In the early 1950s, the Air Force and IBM began research to develop a computerized system that could quickly translate foreign languages into English. This led IBM to attempt to use similar software to translate stenotype shorthand symbols into English. They needed to find a way to enter the data into a computer using the steno machine. Early attempts included modifying the steno machine so that it punched holes into the steno paper and hot-wiring the steno keys directly into the computer, and these proved to be disasters. Eventually a steno machine was built with a cord running to a box where the steno strokes were captured on a cassette or cartridge. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- For postings, announcements and employment ad rates, please email mailto:barry@deafdigest.com for Special Notes, go to the bottom of the Gold section -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- News of the Week - Looking Back 10 Years Ago: This story resurfaces from time to time on why did the California School for the Deaf move its campus from Berkeley to Fremont. At the time of the move, the deaf community was told that the school was sitting on the top of an earthquake fault. It made no sense because the neighboring University of California (at Berkeley) stayed as is without packing its own bags. Could it be that the university was greedy for the land owned by the school for the deaf? This issue was raised by Carol Shimmerling, not deaf, at a public hearing. She accused the university of wanting to push out the deaf school, using the fault as an excuse. The accusation was made recently even though the move was made a long time ago. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- News of the Week - Looking Back 5 Years Ago: The movie - Shogun Assassin - involved perhaps one of the strangest reverse interpreting assignments of all time! The original movie version was produced in the early eighties and was so violent that its showing was banned in some cities. Director Robert Houston, not deaf, wanting to remake the movie, hired a group of deaf people, as reverse interpreters. They advised the scriptwriters what the actors were saying in the original version - in order to make the remade film a much better one. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- subscription changes, go to deafdigest.com and click on subscribe and follow the screen weekly DeafDigest Blue & Gold editions also posted at: http://deafdigest.com/ (updated every Monday) Employment ads web site is at: http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- DeafDigest Copyright 2016 by Barry Strassler, DeafDigest. 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