DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, March 17, 2016
-- former deaf pro athlete hopes to become internet whiz
Lance Allred, who is deaf, had a very short career in the
NBA, as the league's only deaf player. He played for many
years in pro basketball overseas before retiring last year.
He has a dream - to become an internet whiz, establishing
a start-up company that will drastically change the way
web sites perform. Another Vint Cerf, a past deaf
internet whiz? See Allred's most recent picture at:
http://deafdigest.com/possible-deaf-internet-whiz/
-- a state trying to force state deaf commission
A state House of Representatives passed a bill to force
its state commission for the deaf and hard of hearing
to provide funds for services for the deaf-blind.
A deaf-blind activist explained that most state
commissions for the deaf would not provide funds
for deaf-blind, instead pointing to the state
commission for the blind as source of funding!
-- very angry at CBS TV
A deaf person is very angry at CBS TV. Everyone
is excited about the Big NCAA national basketball
tournament. Who will win this year? Anyway, he
watches CBS and the captions, during basketball
games, are always in the middle of the screen,
impossible to follow the action. He has
complained for ten years with CBS and with the
FCC - no one listens to him. Remember FCC said
captions must be placed on the right spot on
the TV screen. Middle is not the right spot.
And CBS has hated captions in the past, wouldn't
caption during the early years in the eighties!
Latest deaf jobs:
http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/
Barry's collections of past articles (with today's update)
http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/
03/13/16 Blue and Gold editions at:
http://deafdigest.com/newsletters/
