DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, January 10, 2014
-- was Dennis Rodman drunk while making the deaf promise?
Dennis Rodman was a pro basketball great. He also loves
alcohol. DeafDigest mentioned that he promised to donate
the proceeds of the all-star North Korean game to a
deaf charity. Was he drunk at the time he announced
the promise? His agent, the sponsoring agency and the
North Korean officials knew nothing about it! There seems
to be no agency of the deaf in North Korea, but there is
a North Korean Federation for the Protection of the Disabled.
Guess we will never know the truth!
-- what is the truth about Walt Disney?
Walt Disney, the world's most famous cartoonist, built
up his company to the empire it is nowadays. Was he
a bigot - discriminating against women, against
blacks and against Jews? This is what famous actress
Meryl Streep is saying right now. Did Disney discriminate
against the deaf, too? A Gallaudet graduate found a job,
working for Walt Disney during the sixties, few years
before Disney passed away. Also, he was the chief
fund raiser for the John Tracy Clinic, a program for
very young deaf children! So, was he biased or wasn't
he biased?
-- ASL to voice & text software
Could a deaf person sign in ASL and the software would quickly
translate it to either voice and or text for the benefit of hearing
people? Tarik Sayeed, not deaf and a Canadian, thinks so. He has
been working on this project and he says that there are investors
from Silicon Valley wanting to put their money in it. The name of
Tarik's start up company is Baby Taxi. Why that name? Good question!
DeafDigest suspects it is not really something new, as there have
been stories of other such ASL to voice or ASL to text devices.
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