DeafDigest Blue – April 7, 2019
Blue Edition
Serving the Deaf Community since 1996; 23rd year
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Last week’s ASL Videos in youtube
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Top stories about the deaf:
Chandigarh, a city of one million people in India
is doing a disability audit. Included in that
audit is to see if public facilities and
public services are deaf-compliant.
Melissa Perrell Parker, who is deaf, but
functions as a hearing person, was profiled
in a magazine interview. She manages nearly
300 employees, over 2,200 volunteers on
a budget of $15 million dollars with the
Novant Health in North Carolina. Her job
title is Patient advocacy officer and vice
president of patient services.
The Malawi National Association of the Deaf
is angry that public facilities would not
hire interpreters to communicate with the deaf.
Rwanda will open a service center to help
the deaf in need. Hired staffers would use
sign language to communicate with clients.
Not just the White House trying to cut the
budgets of Gallaudet and NTID, but also of
the Helen Keller National Center being faced
with a 24 percent proposed cut.
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This week’s ASL video in youtube
A NEW LAW UNFAIR TO THE DEAF
There is a new law in Illinois that allows hearing drivers
to use cell phone while driving a car; it must either be
a speakerphone or a Bluetooth headset – both which does
not require use of hands. What about the deaf driver? Too
bad; they cannot drive and text while hearing can drive
and talk!
— This week’s ASL video in youtube:
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Lip reading tale
A deaf person was discussing a Greek theatrical play
with a hearing person
The deaf person thought the hearing person said:
The arrested actor played his act very well
The hearing person actually said:
The Orestes actor played his act very well
(Orestes was a Greek character with many personal
issues of his own)
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This week’s ASL video in youtube
A BAD SIGNED TV COMMERCIAL
  About ten years ago there was a TV commercial in
sign language.
  In the commercial, a hearing woman gave a pie to
a deaf woman. The signs should have been like this:
I baked this pie for you
  But the hearing woman’s signs was like this:
I baked your dog in this pie
  The shocked deaf woman threw out the pie and
ran away
  True or false?
— This week’s ASL video in youtube:
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COMMENTS FROM A CART OPERATOR – continuing series
Because the steno machine only has 22 keys, a common question I am asked
is:Â How do you write letters that are not on the keyboard?
What broadcast captioners, CART captioners, and court reporters do is that
they use combinations of letters to make other letters. For instance, when
a captioner sees the steno TPH written with the left hand, what he or she
sees is an N. The steno TP is the letter F, and the steno PH is the letter
M. These keys are stroked at the same time, like a chord on a piano. You
do not type them one at a time, like a typewriter.
The T is depressed with the left ring finger. The P is depressed with the
left middle finger. The H is depressed with the left index finger. You can
see that just a slight misfingering could change the meaning of what is
being written.
An announcer may say that they are going to discuss how to make your
vacation fun.
If the captioner accidentally added the H with his or her index finger,
that could be transcribed as how to make your vacation none.
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News of the Week – Looking Back 10 Years Ago:
  Is Economic Stimulus money helping the deaf?
Time will tell, but U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa)
has seen to that disabled-owned businesses are given
priority when stimulus contracts are given out by
Department of Treasury.
  DeafDigest hopes disabled includes deaf, and that
more will be coming in favor of the deaf.
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News of the Week – Looking Back 5 Years Ago:
New Zealand is broke. There is not enough money in
the budget to have all TV programs captioned. While
the government supports captions, the funds given
for captions is a joke. It comes down to $3.38 per
New Zealand citizen!
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Copyright 2019 by Barry Strassler, DeafDigest.
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