DeafDigest Blue - September 6, 2015 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; 19th 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: http://deafdigest.com/videos/deaf-scary-name/ http://deafdigest.com/videos/3D-printing-hearing-aid/ This week's ASL Videos: http://deafdigest.com/videos/waiter-shocked-at-deaf-asl/ http://deafdigest.com/videos/deaf-tv-captions/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Save on Visit Value Pack for Phone and Doorbell Save on the Bellman & Symfon Visit Alerting System for Phone and Doorbell (Value Pack 4)! 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Remember to take advantage of free ground shipping for delivery in the contiguous U.S. To find out more, go to: http://bit.ly/HarrisComm_DDB090615 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 -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Top stories about the deaf: The Kenyan deaf education officials have said interpreter shortage is a serious issue. The New Zealand deaf community is asking that the human rights commission order TV captions of the upcoming Rugby World Cup matches, the #1 event among these sports loving natives. It is akin to the Super Bowl not being captioned! Australia says no to Gaye Prudence Lyons, a deaf woman, that wants to serve on the jury, saying laws do not permit it. Deaf Community is upset. The Staples Mill Amtrak station in Virginia has been accused for discriminating against a deaf passenger. He was not able to catch his name on the public announcement and no one cared to alert him of his turn to come to the window. Samsung is improving on its captioning technology in Europe in order to make TV watching enjoyable for deaf Europeans as well as for deaf tourists from USA. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 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! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- HOTEL TV SETS, HALF FINE, HALF NOT DeafDigest editor went on vacation for almost two weeks and stayed at several hotels. Half of the hotels had TV sets that were easy to turn on captions. Other half had TV sets that were very difficult to turn on captions. It all depends on the TV brand. Some brands are so easy - other brands very difficult. - for ASL News version with captions, please visit: http://deafdigest.com/videos/deaf-tv-captions/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- How important are agencies serving the deaf? http://deafdigest.com/deaf-service-agencies-importance/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- NOT REALIZING IT IS SIGN LANGUAGE FOR DEAF DeafDigest editor and his wife were chatting in ASL at a restaurant. The waiter saw both of them chatting in ASL and thought it was HSL - Hearing Sign Language! He was really shocked to realize that HSL was really ASL. - for ASL News version with captions, please visit: http://deafdigest.com/videos/waiter-shocked-at-deaf-asl/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Journey Through Deaf Texas http://deafdigest.com/dvd-cover-journey-through-deaf-texas/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- WHAT DO INTERPRETERS HATE? interpreting for a deaf client that does not know sign language, does not know how to lipread, and is clueless as far as body language pantomime is concerned; and even worse - does not have command of the English language COMMENTS FROM A CART OPERATOR - continuing series "How do you write that so fast?" In order to achieve the speed necessary to caption at over 200 words per minute, stenocaptioners write whole syllables or words in a single stroke. They stroke multiple keys at one time, much like a chord on a piano. This is different from someone typing on a computer keyboard, who is typing one letter at a time. The captioner uses his or her left hand for initial consonants, the thumbs for vowels, and the right hand for final consonants. If we look at the word "sat," the "S" would be stroked with the left hand. The "A" would be stroked with the thumb. The "T" would be stroked with the right hand. All of these keys would be depressed at the same time, not one letter at a time. A PET PEEVE OF BEING DEAF hearing people accidentally spelling the word deaf as death! (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) -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- DEAF HORRORS & NIGHTMARES AT RESTAURANTS - you point at menu and waiter forgets his reading glasses to see a list of past horrors: http://deafdigest.com/deaf-horrors-nightmares-at-restaurants/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 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 Australian law does not recognize the rights of the deaf to serve on the jury -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- News of the Week - Looking Back 10 Years Ago: Hurricane Katrina has impacted all of us badly. And Louisiana School for the Deaf, in Baton Rouge, is rising to the occasion by opening its doors. The school is housing students, teachers and interpreters that have lost their homes and have no place to stay. This group also includes mainstreamed students from New Orleans. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- News of the Week - Looking Back 5 Years Ago: DeafDigest dedicates this edition to Tony Wallace, who departed us tragically last week. A NTID/RIT graduate and hard of hearing, he served as a police officer in Hoonah, Alaska, a town of 800 people 40 miles away from Juneau. He and a fellow police officer was shot to death while making a police call at a residence. At NTID/RIT, he was an All-American wrestler. And as police officer he conducted several classes to teach the police on how to deal with the deaf. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Deaf Apocalypse of the Week: An article in the Scientist magazine said that hard of hearing people uses much more energy than the deaf. Reason is struggling to catch every spoken word. Well, what about deaf lipreaders? Do they use a lot of energy trying to catch each lipread word? -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- DeafDigest Copyright 2015 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