DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, April 27, 2011
-- Is Netflix too slow for us?
Word is out that Netflix is listening to our requests
for more captions on their videos. Yet, this same word
is telling us that they are being slow with their
captioning work.
-- Alabama legislature threatened with a lawsuit
According to Alabama Public Service Commission, the
lawsuit will be filed against the state if they pass
the bill to "steal" $30,000,000 from state relay funds
to pay for Alabama's other bills. DeafDigest calls it
robbing Peter to pay Paul.
-- Seattle tries to be the most movie-accessible city in USA
Two national movie chains Regal and Cinemark have been making
all of their Seattle movie houses more and more accessible to
meet the needs of the deaf. While these movies are not
open captioned, these theaters are providing special
eye glasses that shows closed captions for these deaf users.
This means every movie shown in these Seattle theaters are
converted to digital displays.
What about theaters in rest of USA, asides from Seattle only?
Well, it was just announced that Cinemark will install
captioning equipment in all of their California moviehouses
within two years.
-- Elected deaf public official paying for his interpreters!
David Buxton, a deaf man, who has been elected to the
Epsom and Ewell town council in England, has interpreters for
the town council meetings. Unfortunately he pays for the
interpreters out of his pockets. He has asked the town to pay
for the interpreters and this request was refused. The town
says it is not breaking the law by not providing him with
interpreters!
-- The oldest surviving member of the greatest deaf basketball
team of them all
Nebraska School for the Deaf was the smallest high school
in the state. Yet in 1931, the school basketball team went
29-0 and won the state all-classes basketball tournament
(both big and small schools). All of these players are
dead - except for one player.
It is Edwin Spatz, who is 96. After school graduation, he
became a farmer in Bruno, Nebraska (population 112),
working on his 200 acres of farming land.
First picture of Spatz, as a kid, standing in middle of back row
Second picture of a middle-aged Spatz, describing himself
(DeafDigest thanks Jim Revell, Tucson, Arizona for
providing the material)
-- position opening in Pittsburgh
Residential Counselor
Pressley Ridge School for the Deaf
Pittsburgh, PA
details at:
