DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, September 14, 2016
-- posters from an angry deaf activist
Steven Heard, is a deaf New Zealander. He gets angry
when dog walkers, in a park near his home, do not
clean up dog messes. As a volunteer, he picks up
about 50 dog bags per day! Fed up, he put up
signs. As a result, hearing neighbors now hate
him and have threatened him and have called
the cops on him. Do see the signs at:
http://deafdigest.com/dog-clean-up-signs/
-- new captioning technology fails movie theater owner
New captioning equipment was delivered to a Toronto movie
house to show captions on three independent films. The
problem was that new technlogy was so confusing that the
projector operator did not know how to use it! As a
result - no captions, thus angering a group of
deaf people that arrived at the theater.
-- important comments by a police officer
At a police training workshop in Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Police Sgt. Lachlan Chronister made important
points - cops must understand deaf facial expressions
and hand gestures; cops MUST not use flashlights
at deaf persons' faces, preventing lipreading;
a shoulder tap does not mean deaf person wants
to fight; cops must understand deaf culture,
deaf communication and deaf language. Officer
Chronister knew nothing about the deaf but
learned very fast, and he teaches at workshops.
Latest deaf jobs:
http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/
Barry's collections of past articles (with today's update)
-- deaf medical doctors
http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/
09/11/16 Blue and Gold editions at:
http://deafdigest.com/newsletters/
