DeafDigest Blue - March 20, 2016 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; 20th 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-hate-bumper-to-bumper-traffic/ http://deafdigest.com/videos/deaf-hearing-tax/ This week's ASL Videos: http://deafdigest.com/videos/deaf-oral-hand-gestures/ http://deafdigest.com/videos/deaf-diet-bet/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Barry's collections of past articles (with today's update) http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Super Spring Sale Extended at Harris Communications It is your lucky day! Our Super Storewide Spring Sale has been extended until Monday, March 21st. Save 15% storewide and receive free shipping!* Lucky you! You are able to save on some brand new books just added to our store: "Talk Talk", a thrilling page turner, regularly $15.00, now only $12.75! "The Mitten String", a beautifully illustrated children's book, regularly $17.99, now only $15.29! "Backspace", a fast-paced novel about a murder investigation, regularly $7.00, now only $6.79! Find huge savings throughout the store on books, DVDs, and equipment. Hurry, this sale ends March 21! *Some product restrictions may apply. Free ground shipping for orders within the contiguous US only. Go to our website at: http://bit.ly/HarrisComm_DDB032016 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 -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Saturday's Deaf Picture for your surprise http://deafdigest.com/banned-deaf-soccer-fan/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Dedication DeafDigest dedicates this edition to Katherine Lois Smith, Louisiana, that departed us. She helped found the SSP program for the deaf/blind in her community, and also founded the Contraband Bayou Deaf Club. Top stories about the deaf: ZeniPower mercury-free hearing aid batteries can be defective. This was the warning issued by an activist in Australia! The Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Education in Indiana is embarking on a new program to help deaf children obtain hearing aids. The Uganda Equal Opportunities Commission has been cracking down on those that discriminate against the disabled and the deaf. A 75-year old deaf man was refused admittance to a hospital in Saskatchewan. Reason was lapsed medical card. And because of no treatment he died. The family is furious. Deaf and Dumb is considered an obsolete language in Michigan. This is what the state House voted to have it replaced with hard of hearing. Unfortunately for the rest of the world, this language is still active, and is not obsolete. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Dr. Steven L. Rattner, P.A. & Associates Deaf Dentist; College Park. MD & Gaithersburg, MD (near Washington, DC & Frederick, MD & also Metro Washington) Complete Dental Services; assistants either know ASL or are deaf more information: http://www.drrattner.com/our-team/meet-our-team/ to contact Dr. Steven L. Rattner, P.A. & Associates: http://www.drrattner.com/contact/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 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! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- HAND GESTURES VERY IMPORTANT FOR ALL DEAF There are some oral deaf that do not understand simple gestures. There was a report from University of Chicago that said hand gestures help oral children learn better English. Is Hand Gestures same as Sign Language? - for ASL News version with captions, please visit: http://deafdigest.com/videos/deaf-oral-hand-gestures/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- RIT Sponsors National Art Competition for Students Who Are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing Rochester Institute of Technology's National Technical Institute for the Deaf announces the annual Digital Arts, Film and Animation Competition for high school students who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. Students in grades 9 - 12 compete for a $250 cash prize.  Winning work will be exhibited on the competition website. This national competition recognizes students. artistic expression with awards in the following categories: Film, Graphic Media, Interactive Media, Photo Imaging, 3-D Animation and Web Page Design. See www.rit.edu/NTID/Artscompetition for previous winners in these categories. Students may submit up to two entries. Online entry forms, contest rules and other details are available at www.rit.edu/NTID/ArtsNR.  The submission deadline is March 18, 2016. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- A BAD DIET BET MISUNDERSTANDING At a hearing college many years ago a deaf student was very fat. His hearing friends begged him to go on diet and to watch what he eats. He refused. They made a bet with him, a lot of money, that he has to lose weight to win the bet. The hearing students told him he must lose 50 pounds. The deaf student, lipread the words and thought it was 15 pounds. There was almost a big fight because the deaf student refused to pay off the bet over a misunderstood word! - for ASL News version with captions, please visit: http://deafdigest.com/videos/deaf-diet-bet/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- WHAT DO INTERPRETERS HATE? trying to translate words into signs to student with minimal English skills. And having to prompt this same attention deficiency disorder student into paying closer attention to signs that are difficult to follow! COMMENTS FROM A CART OPERATOR - continuing series One thing that many captioning viewers take for granted is the caption placement on the screen; that is, until the captioning blocks a person's face or piece of information that they want to see. Unfortunately, for much of the realtime captioning that takes place in the U.S., the captioner is not able to see the screen. They may be captioning from an audio feed only. Captions are limited to 32 characters across and 15 lines from top to bottom. It used to be that all realtime captioning was three lines at the bottom. Then the television stations started including bigger and more frequent graphics at the bottom, and captioners started trying to move the captions around. Some TV broadcasters tell the captioners specifically where they want the captions. For a sports broadcast, they may say they want two lines at the top of the screen. They may indicate exactly where the left and right margins should be. Also, some television control room operators move the captions around, independent of the captioner. They may attempt to move the captions away from the graphics. A PET PEEVE OF BEING DEAF trying to chat with another deaf person who keeps on looking away from you (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) -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 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 Kaiser has a great reputation for providing interpreters for its deaf patients - hence this shocker, that this giant health care institution was slapped with a lawsuit. A deaf patient entered the emergency room of a Kaiser hospital and asked for an interpreter and was refused! This lawsuit has been filed. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- News of the Week - Looking Back 10 Years Ago: If a person thinks he is deaf, then he is deaf; and if another person thinks he is hearing, then he is hearing? Is it that so? Well, Yale University researchers are saying that senior citizens who fell for that thinking trap would show more of hearing losses as opposed to those that thought "positively". This report was published in a recent edition of the Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- News of the Week - Looking Back 5 Years Ago: The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network scolded the National Relay Service for being "helpless" when floods struck the Queensland territory. It was so bad that Telstra, another Australian agency, had to step in and help out. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Deaf Apocalypse of the Week: A past Undercover Boss TV series featured Rocket Fizz chain in California. One of the Rocket Fizz employees said she attended CSUN, but wants to go back to college to learn sign language. Her comment was not specific. To learn sign language to become: an interpreter or a teacher of the deaf or becoming a sign language teacher or what? -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- DeafDigest Copyright 2016 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