DeafDigest Blue - May 10, 2020 Blue Edition http://deafdigest.com/ - updated every Monday Serving the Deaf Community since 1996; 23rd year -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Employment ads web site: http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Last week's ASL Videos in youtube: http://deafdigest.com/videos/deaf-ignore-rapid-fingerspelling/ http://deafdigest.com/videos/voice-911-better/ This week's ASL videos in youtube: http://deafdigest.com/videos/most-common-comment-by-oral-deaf/ http://deafdigest.com/videos/deaf-person-with-artificial-finger/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Top stories about the deaf: The provincial government of British Columbia is planning to close up two preschools for deaf children. Already the parents are protesting. .......... Is a jinx going on with some abandoned campuses of deaf schools? There was a story that the old campus of the Scranton State School for the Deaf has been put back on the market. Abandoned campuses such as Virginia School for the Deaf at Hampton, Northern New York State School for the Deaf, Nebraska School for the Deaf, Austine School for the Deaf and possibly others have had a hard time finding buyers! Some have continued unsold for years. ......... There is a new buzzword (actually a phrase). It is "digital ally to the deaf community" but which means the same as deaf-friendly. ......... A hearing student in Kentucky volunteered to create see-through masks for the deaf. As a result, she received over 20,000 requests for these see-through masks! ........ A clarification of deafness according to military recruitment guidelines is this - hearing loss, “that are considered ‘permanently disqualifying,’ subject to a medical waiver.” This means granting a waiver means recruit's deafness is not an issue whereas a lack of waiver means it is a permanently disqualifying. Confusing and vague? Probably so! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 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 at no cost to the user, with 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, email: sales@weitbrecht.com Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! CapTel® Captioned Telephone – See What Everyone is Talking About! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- weekly DeafDigest Blue & Gold editions: http://deafdigest.com/ (updated every Monday) -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This week's ASL video in youtube 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! This week's ASL video in youtube: http://deafdigest.com/videos/most-common-comment-by-oral-deaf/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Lip reading tale A hearing man and a deaf man were talking about old movies. The deaf man thought the hearing man said: I loved the movie - Brooklyn The hearing man actually said: I loved the movie - Crooklyn note: Crooklyn is a 1994 film directed by Spike Lee; don't know if that film was captioned, though! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This week's ASL video in youtube A DEAF INVENTOR IN FLORIDA Dan Didrick, of Florida, is a deaf inventor. He knows how to build many things as a craftsman. One day he saw his deaf friend without a finger and knew he could not sign ASL very well without full five fingers on both hands. Didrick invented an artificial finger for the deaf man and won a US patent for it. This week's ASL video in youtube: http://deafdigest.com/videos/deaf-person-with-artificial-finger/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- COMMENTS FROM A CART OPERATOR - continuing series Captioners and court reporters are continuing to look at ways to improve their skills as some parts of the country start to reopen. Because many people still have more free time, they are using that time to work on stenography at home. Steno writers are practicing and tweaking their writing to be faster and more accurate. New words are being entered in steno dictionaries every day. In order to write faster, stenographers look for ways to write fewer strokes on their machine. Before the current pandemic hit, many captioners and court reporters had the words “corona” and “virus” in their dictionaries as two separate words. Examples of how those might be written would be three strokes for KOR/OEPB/A and two strokes for SRAOEU/RUS. That would take five total strokes to write both words. Now, stenographers are thinking up new ways to write “coronavirus” in one stroke on their steno machines. Some examples would include KROFRS or KROIF or KAOEURS. Steno writers are adding other words to their dictionary and trying to think of short ways to write them. Some of those include COVID-19, CDC, quarantine, pandemic, epidemic, hand sanitizer, ventilator, and N95. Normally, these words would take a stroke for each syllable, but one-stroke brief forms are being shared. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Gallaudet men's basketball history book for sale https://app.mobilecause.com/form/LQ60XQ?vid=73t7e If you have any questions, please email kevin.kovacs@gallaudet.edu -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- For postings, announcements and employment ad rates, please email mailto:barry@deafdigest.com -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- News of the Week - Looking Back 10 Years Ago: DeafDigest dedicates this edition to Bob Wood, Dallas, Texas who departed us. Bob may not necessarily be well known nationally, but he was very much well known in the Dallas area. Said an acquaintance: Bob was what's left of the older generation of deaf club leaders, with the Dallas Association of the Deaf. He was the club mainstay, a typical bonafide deaf club leader who was the kindred one. Unlike most old deaf clubs that ceased to exist, the Dallas club was kept alive because of his presence and influence. Deaf Culture on the local level is just as important as the national level, and Dallas has continued to thrive because of Bob's efforts. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- News of the Week - Looking Back 5 Years Ago: Many deaf people in Wales said they are forced to hide their deafness while applying for jobs on-line. They said they won't be hired if the employers knew of their deafness. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- for sub/unsub options, go to deafdigest.com Employment ads web site is at: http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- DeafDigest Copyright 2020 by Barry Strassler, DeafDigest. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-