DeafDigest Blue - April 3, 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/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- DeafDigest ASL videos moved to youtube for better viewing Last week's ASL Videos in youtube http://deafdigest.com/videos/deaf-oral-hand-gestures/ http://deafdigest.com/videos/deaf-diet-bet/ This week's ASL videos in youtube http://deafdigest.com/videos/oral-deaf-comment/ http://deafdigest.com/videos/deaf-ignore-rapid-fingerspelling/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Barry's collections of past articles (with today's update) world's #1 deaf musician (from UK) http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Award Winning Book on Sale at Harris Communications "Hurt Go Happy" tells the story of Joey, a young deaf girl who was never allowed to learn sign language. 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For more information, go to: http://bit.ly/HarrisComm_DDB040316 Contact us at: mailto:info@harriscomm.com -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 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/famous-deaf-singer/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Dedication Within a span of one week, American School for the Deaf lost two leaders. DeafDigest is dedicating this edition to these two individuals. Below is a posting by Executive Director Jeff Bravin: ASD lost two great leaders this past week! It is with deep heart that I share this news.  I was informed that Dennis Palka, our beloved alumni and faculty of ASD has passed away.  It was unexpected and I'm still in shock. Dennis Palka has been with ASD for more years that any one of us can imagine, he's a beloved Alumni and Faculty of the school.  He has undertaken so many roles at the school in our academic programs, athletic programs, international programs, alumni relations among many other activities.  He was also a former Federation President, a leader in the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community, very involved with Hartford Club of the Deaf. He sorely will be missed by everyone and may he rest in peace. ASD also lost Lillian Garcia Peterkin.  She died March 20, 2016 at Conn Hospice after a long illness. She was the wife of David V. Peterkin. Lillian was born to Puerto Rican parents in New Haven, She graduated from the American School for the Deaf in 1981 receiving a Bachelor's Degree in ASL/English Interpreting from Northeastern University in 2001. Lillian presented numerous training to deaf community members and interpreters on topics such as medical interpreting, deaf interpreting and consumers rights to interpreting services, all over the United States. She spent over 20 years as coordinator of interpreting services in Mass. and Conn. She will sorely be missed by everyone and may she rest in peace. DeafDigest also dedicates this edition to Kenneth Schaffer, Sterling, VA, that departed us. He was a long time civil servant with the Federal Government and on the side, loved railroads. He contributed many articles on railroading, basically "riding from a perspective of a deaf passenger." Top stories about the deaf: The Community Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Sarasota, FL, has closed up after 31 years of operation. The NIH is embarking on a new study - Improving the health of the deaf and hard-of-hearing population through accessible patient-reported outcome measures. What is that supposed to mean in simple English? Neil Maes, a deaf fifth grader at a school in South Carolina, has advanced to the nationals in Spelling Bee. A story about the Deaf Community in Rochester has been featured in the Syracuse Post-Standard's Empire Magazine. Deaf leaders in Slovakia are trying to make the Slovakian society more accepting of deaf people. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 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! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- MOST COMMON COMMENT BY ORAL DEAF If you bump into an oral deaf, what is their most common comment? They almost always say: I am deaf but I don't sign! http://deafdigest.com/videos/oral-deaf-comment/ DeafDigest ASL videos moved to youtube; much better viewing -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Checklist for Deaf-Friendly restaurants http://deafdigest.com/checklist-for-deaf-friendly-restaurants/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 100 MILES PER HOUR FINGERPSPELLING A restaurant waitress had a deaf couple at her table. She bragged of knowing sign language. What did she do? She fingerspelled something at about 100 miles per hour! It was too fast that the deaf person just nodded his head and ignored her. http://deafdigest.com/videos/deaf-ignore-rapid-fingerspelling/ DeafDigest ASL videos moved to youtube; much better viewing -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- WHAT DO INTERPRETERS HATE? The interpreter completed her mission with a deaf patient at a state hospital. The facilities was secured with locked sliding doors manned by remote TV surveillance. For some reason the interpreter was not formally escorted out of the premises by the uniformed personnel. She was left behind the locked facility and pretty much ignored. The interpreter ended up, screaming and yelling at the intercom, asking for assistance. In the meantime the commotion attracted the attention of patients, seeing everything through the glass divider. They were all laughing and mocking at her, and even mocking the patient that needed the interpreter in the first place.. After 10 minutes of struggling with the useless intercom, the interpreter whipped out her cell phone and dialed the hospital director asking him to take her out. This did the trick. COMMENTS FROM A CART OPERATOR - continuing series In order to be able to tell good realtime captioning from bad realtime captioning, we must understand a few things. First of all, if a program is being captioned live, there are bound to be some mistakes because the captioners are only human and they do make mistakes. When they are captioning a program live, there is no time to fix the mistakes. However, it would help to educate ourselves about what is an acceptable amount of errors. There are times when the captioning may be absolutely terrible with error after error, and we must not just settle for poor captioning. We must let the people in charge of providing the captioning know about this lack of quality. There are people who say that they know how to do realtime captioning who really aren't able to provide quality captioning, and they are being hired because they may charge less than the good realtime captioners. We cannot expect to see perfect realtime captioning, but we should strive for excellent realtime captioning. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- LOOKING BACK - OLD VIDEO with captions on youtube http://deafdigest.com/videos/words-of-insult-with-deaf/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- A PET PEEVE OF BEING DEAF hearing people constantly say never mind when you ask them what were they talking about! (Every deaf person, no matter if it is ASL, oral, Cued Speech, late-deafened, hearing aid user, CI user, etc, share these pet peeves. You may laugh or cry) -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- For postings, announcements and employment ad rates, please email mailto:barry@deafdigest.com for Special Notes, go to the bottom of the Gold section -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- DeafLaw the U.S. Attorney's office has reached settlement with hotels in Connecticut to make it ADA-complaint, and that includes deaf guests that need assistive devices. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- News of the Week - Looking Back 10 Years Ago: Will we be seeing a throng of deaf attorneys from anywhere in USA converging onto Washington, DC next month? The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), a co-sponsor of the debuting American Bar Association President's Conference on the Employment of Lawyers with Disabilities, has scheduled such a conference on May 22-23 at the Renaissance Washington Hotel in Washington, DC. Deaf attorneys' power conference? Hope so. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- News of the Week - Looking Back 5 Years Ago: If we have questions about the medicine we take, we would love to discuss these with a deaf pharmacist. At present, we have a few deaf pharmacists around. Possibly the next deaf pharmacist will be Sean Burroughs. He is now a third year student at the St. Louis College of Pharmacy, half ways towards a 6-year program. note: DeafDigest is not sure if he is still in the pharmacy field -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Deaf Apocalypse of the Week: Do read the news (above) from 10 years ago. DeafDigest editor has noticed a trend - more deaf attorneys have dropped out of their professions to pursue different careers. Fact or fiction? Or is this trend the same with hearing attorneys? -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 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. DeafDigest conditions and terms http://deafdigest.com/deaf-digest-conditions-and-terms/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Attention: the employment ads section is at: http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/ All new jobs will be immediately posted in that section