Should We Really Worry About Obama's FCC Chairperson Nomination - Wheeler ??

For past ten years, the lives of Deaf Americans got more intertwined and greatly affected by the Federal Communication Commission generally known as the FCC than in the past 70 years.

After the existence of Video Relay Service (VRS) and Videophone (VP), the FCC led the communication policy greatly affecting the use of relay service - text and video services. This agency also do the payment allocation from the Telephone Relay Services (TRS) to cover the cost of interstate and local VRS calls among Deaf VRS/VP users.

For past few months, there were such a speculation about the replacement of FCC chairman after the Obama's re-election for bringing Obama's personal stamps on the FCC policies and leadership rudders. Names were suggested among the FCC advocates and communication industry.

http://business.time.com/2013/02/21/as-fcc-chiefs-term-nears-end-speculation-mounts-over-possible-successor/

To no available, the National Association of the Deaf  (NAD) and the organizations of the Deaf seems not bother to make the efforts to see the replacement for the FCC chairperson to remain the Deaf-friendly policies.

NAD had been cowardly backing off from pushing the inclusion of low-cost monthly broad width coverage for the low-income Deaf people for the purpose of VRS/VP use at their private residence.

http://www.nad.org/issues/civil-rights/communications-act/21st-century-act

NAD sacrificed the low-income Deaf people to preserve the 21th Century Communication Access legislation from being bonked out. The low-income Deaf people got sidelined from getting the equal access for the use of VRS/VP at home which the hearing low-income people regularly benefits from the Lifeline program for years.

The hearing low-income Americans greatly benefit from the  which they would be not deprived from
the phone access in any way. The hearing senior citizens in District of Columbia usually pay only one dollar for the monthly phone service while low-income elderly Deaf people have to pay the costly service for the broad width use for accessing to the VRS/VP at their residences.

Look at what the FCC offer the low-cost phone assistance programs for hearing low-income individuals since 1985 - http://www.fcc.gov/lifeline

Is that really fair for the low-income or elderly Deaf Americans to be burdensome with the costly of broad width access?? 

The FCC under the Obama Administration vigorously fought for the Net Neutrality policies to be in place to assist the Rural America. The communication industry fought back against the costly installation of broad width line along the rural area which the Obama administration lost the major court case. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/technology/07net.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Look at Presidential candidate Barack Obama's promises in 2007 - http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9806707-7.html

The Obama administration flinched on the issue of Net Neutrality in 2010 -
http://www.care2.com/causes/the-obama-administration-flinches-on-net-neutrality.html

The main question for all of us, Deaf America - Should we really worry about President Obama's nomination of FCC chairperson replacement - Wheeler, the lobbyist for wireless and cable industry?? 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/30/obama-fcc-thomas-wheeler/2124719/

We need to think over and what to do next for ourselves within Deaf America.

ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason
RLMDEAF
rlmdeaf@hotmail.com

Need Your Immediate Help, Deaf America To Get the Dalma Lami Cancel His Trip

We, Deaf America could get the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and Animal Welfare Society, the Deafhood supporters, Audism Free America (AFA), Audism Free Zone and other mores to show our real DEAF POWER to get the Dalma Lami to cancel his visit to the University of Wisconsin campus next May 15th to protest the university's arrogant and pathological and paternalistic attitude toward Deaf people in general.

Deaf America repeatedly tell the society at large that we really do not need to be FIXED at all.

We, Deaf people have our own rich and precious language, culture, norms and way of life for centuries!

Here is the info to get in contact with listed individuals and the Dalma Lami to boycott the visit and panel discussion until the University of Wisconsin to issue out the formal apology to us, Deaf America that is not necessary to fix Deaf people everywhere with their human mechnical ears experiment on poor and long-suffering cats and other animals in name of science.

http://www.news.wisc.edu/21585

If any of you are not able to open the attached link above.

Here is the University of Wisconsin official news posting -

The Dalai Lama arrives for a visit to the Waisman Center, escorted by Richard J. Davidson, in 2010.

Photo: Jeff Miller

Event organizers today announced that the Dalai Lama will visit Madison on May 15, 2013, to lead "Change your Mind Change the World 2013," a series of panel discussions with thought leaders from a variety of fields, including neuroscience, economics and sustainability, moderated by Arianna Huffington and Daniel Goleman.
The event is co-hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center and the UW-Madison Global Health Institute.
"The dialogues at Change your Mind Change the World 2013 will revolve around how science, economics, environments, emotional intelligence and health care can combine to make the world a healthier, happier place," says Richard J. Davidson, founder of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds.
During the panel discussions, the experts will present their best work on global health and sustainable well-being, organizers say. The Dalai Lama will respond to these insights and add his own thoughts and encouragement of how to continue to bring these ideas forward in the world.
"Unsustainable consumption of natural resources now threatens the health of our planet and, subsequently, our human species," says Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute. "Attendees will be challenged to explore new and interconnected solutions to global health problems. The complexity of these issues requires it."
Panel discussions will take place at the Overture Center for the Arts in Madison and will feature:

• His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, leader of Tibetan Buddhism, internationally revered spiritual leader, Nobel Peace Prize winner, lifelong science aficionado;
• Don Berwick, national leader on health care quality, former CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, recent administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services;
• Richard J. Davidson, founder of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, named one of the most influential people in the world by Time magazine, author of The New York Times bestseller "The Emotional Life of Your Brain";
• Daniel Goleman, psychologist, science journalist, author of The New York Times bestseller "Emotional Intelligence," named one of the 25 "Most Influential Business Management Books" by Time magazine;
• Arianna Huffington, author, syndicated columnist, founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post;
• Ilona Kickbusch, director of the Global Health Programme at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva; interdisciplinary advisor on promoting health globally;
• Lord Richard Layard, professor, economist, director of the Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, co-author of the United Nations' "World Happiness Report";
• Jonathan Patz, whose work on global climate change led to a Nobel Peace Prize, director of the Global Health Institute and founding president of the International Association for Ecology and Health; and
• Mattieu Ricard, bestselling author, translator, photographer and Buddhist monk, author of "Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill," dubbed "the happiest person in the world" by popular media.

Tickets will go on sale in April 2013. For more information or to sign up for the pre-sale list, visit the Change your Mind Change the World website.

ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason
RLMDEAF

Who the FUCK the University of Wisconsin's Board of Regents Think??

That really APPALLED me most about the University of Wisconsin's Board of Regents' latest responses to the unimaginable and horrific "ongoing" experiments and mindless tortures on cats with their own dignifed names for the purpose of perfecting the human mechnical ears known as the fucking "cochlear implants".

LOOK at the UoW's Board of Regents' official response :

http://www.news.wisc.edu/21478

If any of you are not able to open the attached link above. Let me post the copy and paste of
the Regents' response -

UW-Madison response to Board of Regents PETA protest

Feb. 7, 2013

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Following today's protest by actor James Cromwell at the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, Eric Sandgren, director of the UW–Madison Research Animal Resource Center released the following statement.
"Today's events are just another attempt by outside activists to draw attention to a cause. They have attacked and distorted this research -- which has very real benefits for people who are deaf -- from every angle imaginable. Exhaustive independent investigation by the USDA, which regulates the use of animals in research, concluded that PETA's allegations are baseless."
For more information about UW-Madison's animal research program, visit http://animalresearch.wisc.edu/

Jesus Christ!  We, Deaf America and the rest of global deaf community DO NOT need any fucking medical research to restore our hearing loss (in their own terms). We, Deaf people around the world
really are doing very FINE!!!

Global warmings and climate changes are really most IMPORTANT research to prevent any chaotic factors to make our lives more unbearable without substainal foods and environmentally-comfort weathers.

ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason

Grizzly Moments

BEWARE, RIDOR !

WATCH OUT FOR HEATHER GRIZZLE & OTHERS COMING FOR YOU!

LOOK AT THIS 1970's MOVIE POSTER AS A

REMINDER SINCE YOU SHOULD NOT MESS WITH

HEATHER GRIZZLE & OTHERS INCLUDING ME.

 

 

THAT WOULD BE ME AS A POLAR BEAR SINCE

YOU CALL ME AN OLD GUY DUE TO MY PREMATURE GRAY HAIR IN LATE 20's and 30's!

NOBODY FU#K WITH POLAR BEARS AS MANY PEOPLE KNOW IT!

 

LOOK AT PHOTOS FROM BEAR MAULINGS (ATTACKS) !

 

OH BOY!

 

LOOK AT WHAT BEARS ARE CAPABLE OF DOING!

 

*CHUCKLES*  JAMIE BERKE WAS ABSOLUTELY CORRECT ABOUT YOU - ALL RIGHT FOR YOU TO DISH OUT ON OTHERS, NOT TAKING ANY INSULTS.

THIS POSTING IS JUST FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSE, NOT REAL THREATS.

 

ENJOY THE 1970S "ECO-TERROR" FILM!

 

GRRRRRRRRRRRR! ROARING!!!!

 

GOOD DAY/EVENING, RIDOR

 

Is Joseph the MetroWeekly's Coverboy Dysconscious Audist?

DC's Metroweekly glossy magazine available every week for DC area's GLBT community. The magazine usually feature the selected guy within DC area to be their coverboy of the week.

This week's Coverboy happened to be the graduate of Gallaudet University - Joseph, an Asian 20s guy. Not available at this online posting yet. His photo and Coverboy Confidential data already went out on the printed copies of Metroweekly, but not posted online yet. Joesph was adopted as a kid from South Korea and raised in the Hawkeye State (Iowa).He also raised in the farm with 14 siblings.

That Joesph seems not wanted to disclose himself as a deaf person or really the HUG (hearing graduate) himself? His study major was government and had been in the student internship for Honorable Tom Harkins, U.S. Senator, D-Iowa. Joseph greatly admired the senator for his endless advocacy for disabled people as what Joesph said within the interview.

Joesph's exact quote for MetroWeekly's Coverboy Confidential interview :

Who is your greatest influence?

Tom Harkins. He's not only been an advocate for people with disabilities, but he's voted his conscience, what he thinks is right. Since I've been able to vote, I've voted for him.

Why I bring up this guy? Joesph might have the future political career of his. From what Joseph told the interviewer -

Define good in bed.

I wouldn't mind answering something like that, but I work with the government. And I have plans to run for office someday.

Joseph did not mention anything deaf or truly proud of being a deaf person. Or the Metroweekly magazine interviewer and editor rather omit any reference to him being deaf or really hearing himself?

The past deaf individuals like Lee Trevathan and Dan and Cesar Ayala have been featured as the Metroweekly's Coverboy. Lee Trevathan and Cesar Ayala made into the final selection for the annual Coverboy of the Year few years ago.

Look at the photo of Lee Trevathan for the MetroWeekly's Coverboy of  the Year 2005 from Ridor9th's "Observe, Do Not Interfere" blog -

http://ridor.blogspot.com/2005/11/lee-trevathan-in-metroweeklys-top-ten.html

Dan, another Coverboy got mentioned about being deaf and studied to be the CDI (Certifited Deaf Interpreter)  -

http://www.metroweekly.com/nightlife/coverboy/interview/?ak=7743

More of deaf guys being featured for the Metroweekly's Coverboy of the Year 2009 like Cesar Ayala -
http://www.metroweekly.com/news/?ak=6719

RLMDEAF will keep you, readers abreast of any future online posting developments about Joseph, the graduate of Gallaudet University to be available on Metroweekly.com

ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF

Deaf Gally Professor, L. Synder-Garnder Died in Recent Fire

Regretfully informed you, RLMDEAF readers about the unfortunate incident involved Deaf Gallaudet University math professor and her daughter and ten pets died in the rented house blaze.

The name of Gallaudet University deaf math professor - It's Laura Synder-Garnder. Very sad. Her deaf daughter, Mary Ann, a junior at Gallaudet University, was killed as well as ten pets- two dogs and eight cats. Laura Synder-Garnder had very outgoing personality.

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Deadly-Falls-Church-Fire-Engulfs-Home-188019451.html

http://www.wusa9.com/news/article/239434/158/2-People-2-Dogs-and-8-Cats-Die-In-House-Fire-in-Falls-Church-Va

Laura's son taught math at Gallaudet, too.

No photo available of Laura Synder-Garnder. Just the group photo of Gallaudet University's Science, Technology and Mathematics Department. No idea of what Laura Synder-Garnder look like.

http://www.gallaudet.edu/STM.html

That assumed Laura Synder-Garnder to be the contractual employee, not the tenured or full-time professor.

Here is the individual photo of deceased Laura Synder-Garnder from Gallaudet employee file :

http://www.gallaudet.edu/images/Academic/EMGS/Portraits/FacStaff/GSR_Snyder.png

ASlize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog

Correction : Mary Ann Synder-Garnder was the Model Secondary School for the Deaf (MSSD) student, not Galladet University student as previously reported on this blog. Many thanks to Aaron Evans for the correction. Greatly appreciated for his correction, Evans.

Here is the Facebook page of Laura & Mary Ann-Gardner -

https://www.facebook.com/#!/InMemoryOfMaryannLauraGardner

Sexual Assault at Md School for the Deaf, 12/9/12

The latest sexual assault occurred at the MD School for the Deaf by male dormitory aide involved teenage girls.

 How sad about any adult violate the child's body in that manner!!  Why takes so long for the school authorities catch up with this sexual predator toward our precious deaf youth?? 

At least, someone came forward to report on the male dormitory aide's inappropriate behaviors toward students.

So the MD School for the Deaf ought to screen all school personnel more vigorously to ensure no further sexual assaults happen again to any student(s).

http://www.wjla.com/articles/2012/12/clarence-taylor-charged-with-sexual-abuse-at-maryland-school-for-the-deaf-82834.html

Hopefully, the male dorm residence aide will be brought to the justice if he is really guilty of doing to students. This blogger do not know whether this sexual predator is hearing or deaf himself.

ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason
RLMDEAF

************ LATEST NEWS UPDATE ABOUT MORE INFO ON THIS ACCUSEE (SEXUAL PREDATOR) . THIS DORMITORY AIDE IS DEAF HIMSELF WHICH HIS WIFE ALSO EMPLOYS AT MSD-FREDERICK ******************