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• The First Withering in a Failing Economy

  
  Urban Semiotic — Authority: 413
  The first thing to wither in a failing economy are the rights of the minority individual.  Ill give you a real world example that will set the ominous tone to come for the rest of us. Law requires Federal and State agencies to provide interpreters for the Deaf .  That, unfortunately, doesnt mean ...
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• Curse you!

  
  Trouble Is A State Of Mind — Authority: 427
  Guess what I just found just lying around at the Killam Library here at Dal? A bunch more records from the NS School for the Deaf & Dumb. Which, on the one hand, is great, because my current thesis intends to expand on what I wrote last year. On the other hand: Curses! I could have used that last year! Ah ...
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• Shake N Wake Alarm Clock Will Give You A Buzz

  
  Elite Choice — Authority: 516
  It was decided many alien centuries ago when my lifestory was being writ by a bored and sleepy angel that alarm clocks and I would never be able to become good friends. This annoying little typo (or call it what you wish) means that I never reach anywhere on time. It’s not really the clocks that I hate but the ...
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• Action Deafness – comments

  
  Citizenseye — Authority: 147
  Editor: Many people will have followed the ongoing issues between some members of the Deaf community and Action Deafness. I have been a supporter of Action Deafness since first getting involved in promoting their many events and services through Sarah Vann & her IAG work. In the interest of fairness I have fully ...
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• Disney Claims "Up" DVD Missing Captions Were A Mistake [Pixar]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 795
  Many Consumerist readers wrote to Disney about the missing captions in rental editions of the Pixar movie "Up," either because they were personally affected or they found the omission offensive. In their response, Disney at least acknowledges the unique issue and promises to make up for the mistake of consumers ...
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• Saved by bureaucracy

  
  Andrea's Buzzing About: — Authority: 110
  ( A follow-up on my shaky employment status, as described in a previous post, The Catch.)So now I’ve twice seen the ENT (Ear, Nose & Throat doc, not tree-folk), to figure out if the vertigo, worsening tinnitus and hearing difficulties are related to Ménière’s, or “just” migraines.  At those visits I ...
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• Ireland admits defeat in World Cup replay bid

  
  Soccer News Info — Authority: 158
  Ireland has failed in its bid to have their World Cup play-off against France replayed, the Football Association of Ireland recognised in a statement issued on Saturday. Ireland had appealed to football’s world governing body FIFA and to the French Football Federation (FFF) to have the second leg of the play-off ...
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• Thanks to CIGNA, A Six-Year-Old Girl May Never Hear Again. Each Day’s Delay, Another Horror Story

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 162
  By Susie Madrak Crooks & Liars If they’re already admitting to causing deaths, why should they care about a little girl’s hearing? What more do we have to do to fight back against these horror stories? What will it take to get these insurance companies to see the inherent immorality of focusing on the ...
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• Google to caption YouTube videos, improving accessibility

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 481
  From the San Francisco Chronicle (with video), New York Times, BBC:Google has announced a plan to use speech recognition technology to automatically bring text captions to millions of YouTube videos, making them accessible to people with hearing impairments and making them more searchable.Analysts expect the change to ...
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• T-Mobile deaf users, make your voice heard

  
  Android and Me — Authority: 698
  The great thing about having this platform is allowing others to occasionally share their voice. I’m always willing to let individuals use our site to get their message out or ask for help. One of our readers, Robert Barrett , asked us to find out if T-Mobile has any plans to offer data only plans on Android phones ...
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• Arrests made in massive, $390/hour Video Relay Service scam

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 160
  Dealing with some technology is challenging enough for the hearing-impaired without scammers taking advantage of federal dollars meant to help them. That’s exactly what has happened with the Federal Communications Commission’s Video Relay Service (VRS), however, and 26 people were arrested Thursday for scheming to ...
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• Arrests made in massive, $390/hour Video Relay Service scam

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 758
  Dealing with some technology is challenging enough for the hearing-impaired without scammers taking advantage of federal dollars meant to help them. Thats exactly what has happened with the Federal Communications Commissions Video Relay Service (VRS), however, and 26 people were arrested Thursday for scheming to steal ...
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• YouTube introduces automatic video captioning

  
  TECH.BLORGE.com — Authority: 608
  YouTube has announced it will offer automated video captioning for clips. It will serve as an accessibility tool for hard-of-hearing viewers, but could also make clips easier to find. The site already allows manual captioning, but most clip uploaders don’t take advantage simply because of [...]
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• Vatican Conference for the Deaf

  
  Bangor to Bobbio — Authority: 134
  Jesus heals the deaf man Perhaps the most isolating physical disability is deafness. A person who is born profoundly deaf shares no common language even with his own family, much less with the wider community. Here in the Philippines many deaf children never go to school. Only larger urban centers have schools ...
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• Family Ties, Season 1! Old SitCom Guilty Pleasures FOR THE WIN!

  
  Can't Remember Diddly! — Authority: 423
  I haven’t mentioned my ears lately. Except for that trouble I had a couple months ago , they really help me get through life a little easier and allow me to be much more independant than I’d be without them. I definitely wouldn’t have this job at the shelter without them. But they don’t make me ...
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• Google adds automatic captions to YouTube (AFP)

  
  PC Mike - Tech News and Reviews — Authority: 165
  AFP – Google, in a significant development for deaf Internet users, announced it was adding automatic caption capability to videos on YouTube. Excerpt from: (AFP)"> (AFP)">Google adds automatic captions to YouTube (AFP)
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• Google Adding Automatic Captions to YouTube Vids

  
  NewTeeVee — Authority: 718
  Google is making it easier for deaf, hard-of-hearing and global audiences to enjoy YouTube today, by announcing features that make adding captions to videos much easier. The first feature uses the same voice-recognition algorithms found in Google Voice along with the YouTube caption system to create auto-captions ...
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• Early print concepts: insights from work with young deaf children

  
  COMD News — Authority: 156
  The notion that young children form and test hypotheses about early print is well established in relation to children from different cultures who use different languages. This study demonstrates that this also obtains for young deaf children still in the early stages of developing spoken language. Data collected from ...
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• Deaf Pedestrians 2009 - Were All Gonna Die

  
  Media-Club New Albums — Authority: 173
  2009 - Were All Gonna Die Deaf Pedestrians 12 tracks CD Album
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