DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, March 7, 2016
-- responsible for beer revolution
Richard Emerson, who is deaf, is a well known beer
brewer in New Zealand. He didn't like the way the
beers were brewed, so brewed beers his way, not
everyone else's way. His methods encouraged other
brewers to make better beer. His deafness? His
mother had rubella when he was born. He functions
as a hearing person and does not know sign language.
A picture of this master beer brewer is at:
http://deafdigest.com/deaf-master-beer-brewer/
-- proposed law to ban "deaf and dumb"
Hank Vaupel, a legislator in Michigan, successfully
passed a bill in House to ban use of the words
"deaf and dumb" in state language. These obnoxious
words would be replaced by deaf, deafblind and
hard of hearing. It is not known if the Senate
and/or the governor has acted on this House bill.
-- no captions on a popular social media site
Facebook is one of the world's top social media
sites, but no captions? This is what one
advocate said. Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook
boss, not care about captions??
Latest deaf jobs:
http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/ or click on "jobs"
past Mid-Week & morning editions:
http://deafdigest.com/category/mid-week-news/
03/07/16 Blue and Gold editions at:
http://deafdigest.com/newsletters/
