sign language dictionary: Ocak 2013

3 Ocak 2013 Perşembe

Decorated hearing aid popular among users

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Beautifully decorated hearing aid
(photo: http://sankei.jp.msn.com/)

December 6, 2012

The specialty store for hearing-aid sale named The "Aichi Hearing Aid Center" located in Okazaki-shi, Aichi Prefecture has started the service which decorates the main part of a hearing-aid with a flower pattern, colorful beads, etc.

Since it can be done like accessories, it is gaining the popularity of the Deaf/hard of hearing persons who feels resistance in the use of a hearing-aid.

"I wanted to make the hearing-aid shown smartly rather than to have hidden." Store Manager Amano Shinsuke-san of the said store which began service in June, last year talks.

The said store keeps a hearing-aid for about one week in response to an order of its owner, and places the order with a nail salon.

The customer can order designs, such as a flower pattern, an animal, etc. Thirty or more in their 4-80's, mainly female, already use the service.

Store Manager Amano-san says, "We will make a hearing-aid accepted as a part of fashion like glasses in the future."

A charge varies with the area of a hearing aid which designs for decoration; 1000 - 3000 yen (except shipment fees).

Japanese original article:
http://sankei.jp.msn.com/west/west_economy/news/121206/wec12120617300006-n1.htm

National sign language training center awarded the Prime Minister commendation

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December 6, 2012

The recipients were announced for the 11th Barrier-free Universal Design Promotion Commendation, sponsored by the Cabinet Office on December 5, which recognized their rendering and distinguished service in 2012.

Shinano Kenshi Co., Ltd. for the digital talking book reading machine called "PLEXTALK" project for visually impaired persons, and the National Sign Language Training Center, a social welfare corporation, for sign-language interpreting training and a disability welfare service were awarded the Prime Minister commendation, respectively.

The Barrier-free Universal Design Promotion Commendation was established in in 2002 in order to commend a company, an organization, etc. which contributed to the development spread of universal design products or services easy-to-use to all people including the barrier-free products which specialized in a a person with disability, elder people, a pregnant woman, a child, etc.

Japanese original article:
http://mainichi.jp/universalon/news/20121206mog00m040039000c.html

Sign language variety show to be performed in Kumamoto Prefecture

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December 6, 2012

A show for rakugo or comic storytelling in sign language will be held in Kumamoto Prefecture on December 6.

As the professional comic storytellers will sign while telling a comic story, the audience, both Deaf and hearing, will certainly enjoy the program together.

According to the Japanese Signed Comic Storytelling Association located in Osaka which sponsors the event, Katsura Fukudanji (72), one of the professional storytellers who appear for the show, had undergone an operation on vocal cords in 1977. He thought of using the sign language to tell a comic story at the time while he was not able to utter any word. He has striven for spread focusing on classical rakugo (comic storytelling).

A Deaf comic storyteller, Uchutei Shonin (70) also will perform. He began the signed comic story, after retiring from a teaching position of an Osaka school for the Deaf. He does not do utterance, only in sign language, so when he does, another comic storyteller who sits on the seat will "interpret simultaneously" for the hearing audience.

Japanese original article:
http://kumanichi.com/osusume/odekake/kiji/20121206001.shtml

Deaf rugby football player relates his own personal history

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December 16, 2012

Kuratsu Keita-san (24) visited the preschool in the Prefecture Shizuoka School for the Deaf in Shizuoka-shi, Shizuoka Prefecture, his alma mater, for the first time in 20 years early in December.

"Who want to hang down from Kuratsu-san's arm?"
The kindergartners raised the hand eagerly to the teacher's question. When Kratsu-san presented the brawny arm, the children stuck it and raised a cheer. He smiled and said to the children, "Eat a lot and do your best with a dream."

Kuratsu-san, who was born deaf, uses a hearing-aid and does lipreading. He attended the class for hard of hearing children in public elementary and junior high schools in the city. He was on the baseball team in the junior high school. As soon as he was admitted to the private high school in the city, he became attracted to rugby football at once.

Kuratsu-san felt his heart trembled with the sound of a tackle, etc., and told his parents that he would play rugby football. They didn't accept it, saying, "It is a dangerous sport, and it may hurt you." At the end, they allowed him as he promised "to play only for three years."

Unlike baseball, a player does not always stand in the same place. Since playing rugby football wasn't safe, the hearing-aid was removed, and communication in the team was more difficult beyond anticipation.

The obstacle awaited him even not playing. When the meeting with the head coach was held after practice, he heard the practice time of the next day. When he went to the ground in the morning the next day, nobody was there. He missed to hear that the practice would be in the afternoon.

Kuratsu-san said, "I remember I was scolded by the head coach. He told me to come out more positively. I would not be who I am now if the incident did not hit me."

Then he came out more eagerly. He invented a sign used during the game as the head coach's advice, and his communication with the teammates became more possible. He won a regular post and also participated in the nationwide competition.

He is currently on two rugby teams; one is a team for adults, and another is a Deaf Rugby Japan all-star team. He was a captain of the Deaf Rugby team which competed against Australia at the international game, the first game held in Japan in November, 2011.

"If I didn't ever play rugby football, I might have been bashful. I accepted my disability and now have self-confidence. His future goal is to win one victory for the Japan team in the Deaf Rugby international match.

"I would like to show that a person with disability can play sports. For that purpose, I want to become stronger."

http://mainichi.jp/area/shizuoka/news/20121216ddlk22070099000c.html

Deaf school girl learns Japanese traditional dance

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Maki Yuina-san (left) practices Japanese dance with her hearing cousin Kato Kaon-san.
(photo: http://www.373news.com/)

Dec. 12, 2012

Maki Yuina-san (9), a fourth grader of the Kagoshima School for the Deaf in the southern island of Japan, is practicing Japanese traditional dance.

During practice, her hearing cousin Kato Kaon-san (11), who also a Japanese dance student, learned sign language by herself and interprets for Maki-san.

They are intent on "performing on various stages in the future."

Maki-san lost hearing at the age of two, and usually uses a hearing-aid.

Japanese original article:
http://www.373news.com/modules/pickup/index.php?storyid=45049

2 Ocak 2013 Çarşamba

What's New in HeinOnline

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The folks at Hein presented a "What's New in HeinOnline" update session at the July AALL conference. If you missed it (or if you want to see it again) they have recorded and posted an encore video presentation of the session available to everyone online. The one-hour presentation is designed to allow you to work through at your own pace. Links are embedded throughout the presentation to allow you to focus in on areas that are of most importance to you; or you can watch the whole presentation. Hein will also conduct a live "question forum" on Facebook and Twitter on Tuesday October 16th from 2:00-3:00 p.m. EDT when you can ask about the new content on HeinOnline.

Updated Statute Compilations Available in House Legislative Counsel's site

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Obtaining an up to date Federal statute in its section-by-section statutory form rather than its codified form in the U.S.Code can be a daunting task. Recently, however, the Office of the House Legislative Counsel has made available, on a site called Statute Compilations, selected compilations of public laws that are frequently requested. On the site, in PDF format, are some three hundred, recently updated public laws, which are either not in the U.S. Code or are part of a U.S. Code title that has not been enacted into positive law. In the site's alphabetical list of public laws are many of general interest including the very large Social Security Act broken up by title. The site cautions that these documents are not official and should not be cited as legal evidence of the law.
hat tip: Rich McKinney, Federal Reserve Board Law Library

Improved site for History, Art & Archives of the U.S. House of Representatives

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The (U.S. House of Representatives) House Historian and the House Clerk's Office of Art and Archives have a redesigned website. Together, the offices serve as the House’s institutional memory, a resource for Members, staff, and the general public. The site contains a wealth of information about the House of Representatives. For example, there is a page dedicated to the famous Bean Soup served in the House restaurant, including its history, the recipe from 1955, a video in which a former House page talks about his first encounter with the soup, and images of the entire 1955 House menu. Images, videos, oral histories, as well as plenty of pdf fact sheets about Congress are all available. There is an interactive map of the U.S. where you can find out facts about state representation. An information specialist at the CRS points out that it is "a great source for lists such as "Saturday and Sunday Sessions" and "Presidential Vetoes"."
The site has a basic search box and excellent finding aids and options allowing the user to recommend, share, print, and cite the content.

2012 Year End Report on Federal Judiciary

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Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has issued his "2012 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary," focusing on efforts by the federal courts to contain costs. Justice Roberts says "The Judiciary has been doing its part to carefully manage its tiny portion of the federal budget. Because the Judiciary has already pursued cost-containment so aggressively, it will become increasingly difficult to economize further without reducing the quality of judicial services. Virtually all of the Judiciary’s core functions are constitutionally and statutorily required. Unlike executive branch agencies, the courts do not have discretionary programs they can eliminate or projects they can postpone. The courts must resolve all criminal and civil cases that fall within their jurisdiction, often under tight time constraints. A significant and prolonged shortfall in judicial funding would inevitably result in the delay or denial of justice for the people the courts serve."

Help with New Year's resolutions

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TechCrunch offers an article on the best health and fitness gadgets and apps for helping with New Year's resolutions. These range from fancy watchlike devices that track your heartrate etc. to apps that motivate you to diet and exercise. These run from the Beekeeper app makes you pay $ if you don't reach goals you set for yourself to Zombies, Run, an app that has zombies chase you while you are jogging or using a treadmill. Unfortunately they haven't figured out a way around the need to eat less, exercise more yet.

1 Ocak 2013 Salı

GDA gets £80k to offset social exclusion..

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The way forward ? benefactors to fund our practical inclusion, whilst a law exists already, and our NHS/999/State refuses to obey it ? "A GRANT of more than £80,000 has been awarded to an organisation supporting deaf people across Gloucestershire.
Gloucestershire Deaf Association (GDA) has been awarded £80,900 over two years by the Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales. The funding will support the organisation’s My Friend Network project, providing training workshops around memory issues for older deaf people in Gloucestershire who use British Sign Language.
GDA chief executive Jenny Hopkins said the grant would help pay for trainers and interpreters a well as venue hire and technical support. “We are committed to enabling hearing impaired older people to participate fully in the community,” she said. “We work tirelessly to provide practical, as well as emotional support. “This grant will allow us to deliver the My Friend Network project so that we can continue to improve the quality of life and independence and social inclusion for older people.”

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How Charity got it all wrong....

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A recent posting (endorsed by the UK's largest online deaf/hi charity AOHL on their open forum), hits at the core of equality for us all, the poster demands deaf people justify a right of access and equality in cash terms, nothing is free, which is outrageous in my view. Where is the compassion ? the moral conscience ? or the human recognition of our right ? I am well aware of costs being used as an eternal excuse, even when the UK was in boom era they used the same excuses. 63% of deaf have no work of note, employer discrimination is endorsed by the state, and the emergency services in the UK refuse to provide access for deaf people, and private endeavour is being asked to fund access to a law that won't work without it.

Even with BSL deaf were sold this pup. In the UK we have an human rights law, and a disabled and equality law, backed by an sponsored state commission dedicated to give us basic equalities with hearing people. Meaningless waffle ? a con act, or an acceptance ? YOU decide ! The charity accused this poster angry he has to justify any form of basic equality, as 'targeting the man not the issue', and then asking opponents to play D/d games, to then 'trap' people into being accused of hate responses, or be labelled extremists what sort of charity IS this ? One that has lost its direction and is now a business itself making money from 'support' (From HI, not deaf people who they abandoned), and dedicated to creating codependency on them for the next generation, nice work if you can get it, except deaf don't at this charity, there are no deaf executives there ! Charity should be lobbying for our empowerment to self-determination, not set up themselves as jobs for life...

But why kill the goose laying the golden eggs for them, by setting them free ? We need AOHL to dissociate itself from posters that suggest equality is NOT an inalienable right. The law says it IS. Dedicated to training 300 BSL interpreters ? RIGHT !!! we got 6. 3 left Wales for England. See if AOHL's dedicated online 6 spin Dr's can sell that differently....

2013 it's still all uphill.....

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ATR Having contacted the BBC radio for ACCESS to a program about frauds targeting deaf people logging in to dating sites met with this response:

"Thank you for taking the trouble to email You and Yours. We have over a thousand emails a week which sadly means we are unable to reply to them all personally. However listener comments are regularly read out on the programme.

We often pursue listener suggestions of stories and it helps us to do so if you include full contact details in your email - including daytime and evening telephone numbers. We often keep stories on file so it may be sometime before you hear from us.

If you're looking for background information on one of our stories please visit our website at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/youandyours which also has a "listen again" facility for recent items. Or call the radio4 action line on 0800 044 044.

If you have a complaint about the programme you should register it at www.bbc.co.uk/complaints. From there it will be passed to the editor or deputy editor who will reply within ten working days.

Thank you again for getting in touch.

You and Yours"

Erm I foresee a few problems the number is oral, deaf don't hear radio and no transcript was made available.... Is there a point making radio programs about deaf people yet not giving them any access to them ? Can deaf BE 'listeners' if they don't hear ? Why should we need to complain when the access is a very basic issue ?