DeafDigest Blue - February 28, 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/crazy-deaf-fan/ http://deafdigest.com/videos/safeway-scream-at-deaf-person/ This week's ASL Videos: http://deafdigest.com/videos/geico-deaf-commercials/ http://deafdigest.com/videos/no-free-tickets-for-deaf/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- New Hot Pink MINI Watch at Harris Communications Kids will love the new hot pink VibraLITE MINI watch from Global, now available at Harris Communications. 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While she had other disabilities, it did not stop her from advocating on the needs of the deaf and the disabled. Top stories about the deaf: The comment "My classmates are twice as likely to get a job as I am when I graduate" made by a young deaf Irish woman, hit the newspaper front pages. She is just afraid that when she graduates from her university, she will be jobless. Deaf Britons that love music is being frustrated with the web sites that offer no access for them. It was a story in a British newspaper. In Michigan City, Indiana, a 8-year old deaf boy was found wandering into a gas station on an early Sunday morning. He couldn't tell the police his name or where he lived.  Parents were sleeping and unaware that their son sneaked out. Fortunately, the gas station attendant and the police worked together to locate his  parents and return him home. An angry deaf person, with a CI, posted a video explaining that he went to a hospital to get a MRI, and was not able to do so. The doctor gave him two choices - to go ahead with an operation without a MRI or to have the CI surgically removed in order to go through a MRI! FCC said that producing captions on TV is a shared responsibility among providers in the TV industry. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 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! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- FUNNY CAPTIONED COMMERCIALS The Geico commercials are funny and these are captioned. We often laugh at these commercials. Many years ago, Geico was hated by the deaf because the company refused to give automobile insurance for deaf drivers. We are thankful that Geico has changed its attitude. - for ASL News version with captions, please visit: http://deafdigest.com/videos/geico-deaf-commercials/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 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. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- SCREAMING IN THE WORK OFFICE A hearing person screams to everyone in the office - he says: I have free basketball tickets. Come and grab these tickets Hearing people run and grab these free basketball tickets. No one tells the deaf person, who is a big basketball fan. Unfair? Yes - for ASL News version with captions, please visit: http://deafdigest.com/videos/no-free-tickets-for-deaf/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- WHAT DO INTERPRETERS HATE? being constantly asked: who do you work for? COMMENTS FROM A CART OPERATOR - continuing series Many people occasionally type "teh" when they really want to type "the." Sometimes stenocaptioners also make fingering errors. Because captioners do not type one key at a time, but instead they write whole words or phrases at one time, their errors look different from the errors of someone typing on a computer keyboard. If a stenocaptioner realizes that he or she made a mistake, it can be corrected immediately. The usual method for a captioner to correct an error is to hit the asterisk key, and that will delete the immediately prior stroke. However, if the captioner has already entered two or three more strokes after the mistake, it is usually too late to go back and correct it. If a captioner realizes that he or she made a mistake two or more strokes previously, what most captioners do is enter a dash stroke (--) and attempt to rewrite the wrong words. This is also the same method most stenocaptioners use to indicate a mistake or change of thought by the speaker, so you may not be able to tell if it was the captioner's mistake or the speaker's mistake. If you see captioning that reads, "They did an analysis of the fail you.re rate among -- failure rate among students at the university," that would probably be a correction to a fingering error by the captioner. A PET PEEVE OF BEING DEAF hearing people, having never met a deaf person in their lives, get wrong impression of the very first deaf person they have met. And for the rest of their lives, they think all deaf people are the same! (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 The case of a deaf woman being kicked out of college in Nigeria because of her deafness is being picked up by the Port Harcourt High Court. Rivers State University of Science and Technology found out, in middle of an exam that the student Jane Ihuoma Otta was deaf without the administrators knowing about it. While she was working on her exam answers, she was ushered out of the classroom and ordered off the campus! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- News of the Week - Looking Back 10 Years Ago: Vote buying at its best, or worst, in Florida? The Florida Citizens For Term Limits has offered free hearing aids, no questions, asked, for state legislators that have voted to extend term limits. Two legislators turned down the offer; 125 other legislators took up on this offer of these free hearing aids. Even when these legislators do not need hearing aids they still accepted these freebies. This is troubling because there are thousands of needy Florida residents that cannot afford hearing aids. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- News of the Week - Looking Back 5 Years Ago: Interpreting at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science has become a challenge for interpreter Maureen Wagner. These sessions are heavy with terminology in science that every day interpreters do not sign for these words. Interpreters, not only must get advance copies of the speeches and then to discuss with the deaf participants their preferred signs and their preferred sign language. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Deaf Apocalypse of the Week: funny or not funny? There was a tale which went like this - a drunk deaf person came home and not knowing what he was doing, placed his hearing aid in his denture cup that had liquid solution, and placed his dentures in his hearing aid box! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- 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