The live television coverage of the California State Senate hearing on the "AB 2072" bill surely flunked in big time without providing any open captions for deaf non-signers and deaf television viewers at home and across the nation. The presence of ASL interpreter do not help very much when the television camera turned to the senator(s) spoke before the audience. Huh?
https://www.calchannel.com/channel/live/2
The California Channel is operated and funded by the private cable television industry. Please check out the following link for more info - https://www.calchannel.com/channel/aboutus/
That is definitely the violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other civil rights laws, especially California's own equality laws.
NAD and California Association of the Deaf and other organizations of the deaf ought to file the legal lawsuit against the California Channel and the California State Legislature for their failures of providing the equal accessibility to the deaf television viewers, especially deaf non-signers.
Guess what? Mike McConnell of the Kooknut Pundit, Gina Sutton aka Candy, the White Ghost (Karl White?), Barry Sewer of the Hooliganism and Russell the Deaf Larry Flynt never gave any damn about our rights to the equal accessibility and accommodation. Doesn't they?
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Yeh Trial Postponed Til Next Fall 2010
Just the flash news regarding the Yehs trial have been formally postponed til next Fall 2010.
The prosecutor said that this trial is too complicated to start with.
http://www.gazette.net/stories/06182010/businew174459_32554.php
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
The prosecutor said that this trial is too complicated to start with.
http://www.gazette.net/stories/06182010/businew174459_32554.php
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
Twitter Message Updates on AB 2072 Lobbying
The opponents of "AB 2072" bill sent the updated Twitter messages within their lobbying activities like the supporters had the meeting with Polomonc, the hired lobbyist for the "Stop AB 2072" this Wednesday morning at the hotel.
Mendoza's staffers took the pic of the AB 2072 opponents in their yellow t-shirts from the office of Assemblyperson Tont Mendoza.
Other more Twitter messages sent by the AB 2072 opponents.
http://twitter.com/ab2072
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
Mendoza's staffers took the pic of the AB 2072 opponents in their yellow t-shirts from the office of Assemblyperson Tont Mendoza.
Other more Twitter messages sent by the AB 2072 opponents.
http://twitter.com/ab2072
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Two Corns Planting - Poor and Rich Soil Within the AB 2072
In response to the deaf naysayers on the issue of the AB 2072 legislative bill. The naysayers ought to read the 2009 non-fiction book - "Intelligence and How to Get It - Why Schools and Cultures Count by Richard E. Nisbelt which Jim Holt, the New York Times Book Review editor called the book "A meticulous and eye-opening critique of hereditarianism.
This book is also supported by the National Science Foundation and other scientific thinktanks.
Many rational and intellectual deaf individuals from Ella Mae Lentz to Don Grunskin to Shelley Potoma to Julie Remo Smario to Barb DiGigi to John Ebgert have surely understand and know how the importance of social and linguistic development along with the cultural upbringings to be a well-rounded individual with such ability to do the problem-solving and logical approach.
That is not about the preservance of deaf culture and language. It is about the necessity of functionable skills with emotional intelligence, instead of sprouting off too many emotional damaged deaf indivudals mostly seen among the mainstreamed and oral students and students undergoing the AVT therapy.
Here are the past social and congitive psychology research works done by Dr. Richard E. Nisbelt -http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nisbett/CV.pdf
We must vigorously oppose the AB 2072 bill along with the appalling ploy of last-minute amendment by the "increasingly desperate" proponents of the illogical legislative proposal for the sake of deaf kids and their academic success.
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
This book is also supported by the National Science Foundation and other scientific thinktanks.
Many rational and intellectual deaf individuals from Ella Mae Lentz to Don Grunskin to Shelley Potoma to Julie Remo Smario to Barb DiGigi to John Ebgert have surely understand and know how the importance of social and linguistic development along with the cultural upbringings to be a well-rounded individual with such ability to do the problem-solving and logical approach.
That is not about the preservance of deaf culture and language. It is about the necessity of functionable skills with emotional intelligence, instead of sprouting off too many emotional damaged deaf indivudals mostly seen among the mainstreamed and oral students and students undergoing the AVT therapy.
Here are the past social and congitive psychology research works done by Dr. Richard E. Nisbelt -http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nisbett/CV.pdf
We must vigorously oppose the AB 2072 bill along with the appalling ploy of last-minute amendment by the "increasingly desperate" proponents of the illogical legislative proposal for the sake of deaf kids and their academic success.
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Photo of Jon Dresser with Cochlear Implant As Perfect Deaf Audist!
Here is the enclosed newspaper photo of Jon Dresser with cochlear implant (CI) -
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/features/x1602636220/Arraignment-delayed-in-driver-neglect-case
You could see that Jon Dresser perfectly looked as a deaf audist in that kind of body pose!
Let's ask an question if many people say that the cochlear implant will help the quality of life for deaf kids and adults. How come did Jon Dresser get hurt with his hand as Jon failed to use his own CI to the real opporunity of communicating verbally with the arrested officer (police officer) to prevent any bodily harm.
We could see the real birdbrain of any deaf adult to choose to get the CI. The future studies would show that the CI will lessen the IQ's of any deaf kids and adults. Hope so!
Culturally deaf people would not get their hands hurt like Jon Dresser. They know how valuable hands and eyes are. Those people would be not stupid to jeopardize their main body parts like Jon Dresser.
Look forward to learn how Jon Dresser get hurt with his hand thru the courtroom proceeding.
The newspaper had incorrectly labeled Jon Dresser's CI as hearing aid. How ignorant of that newspaper!
This deaf blogger have nothing against anyone deaf with CI if he or she have been victimized by their parents or audist guardian. Just like to mock any deaf audist with CI if he or she hurt other deaf individuals for any kind of reason. That is the kind of entertainment we really need among ourselves.
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/features/x1602636220/Arraignment-delayed-in-driver-neglect-case
You could see that Jon Dresser perfectly looked as a deaf audist in that kind of body pose!
Let's ask an question if many people say that the cochlear implant will help the quality of life for deaf kids and adults. How come did Jon Dresser get hurt with his hand as Jon failed to use his own CI to the real opporunity of communicating verbally with the arrested officer (police officer) to prevent any bodily harm.
We could see the real birdbrain of any deaf adult to choose to get the CI. The future studies would show that the CI will lessen the IQ's of any deaf kids and adults. Hope so!
Culturally deaf people would not get their hands hurt like Jon Dresser. They know how valuable hands and eyes are. Those people would be not stupid to jeopardize their main body parts like Jon Dresser.
Look forward to learn how Jon Dresser get hurt with his hand thru the courtroom proceeding.
The newspaper had incorrectly labeled Jon Dresser's CI as hearing aid. How ignorant of that newspaper!
This deaf blogger have nothing against anyone deaf with CI if he or she have been victimized by their parents or audist guardian. Just like to mock any deaf audist with CI if he or she hurt other deaf individuals for any kind of reason. That is the kind of entertainment we really need among ourselves.
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Was Bill Gate Greatly Influenced By Deaf People?
Not many people realize how much the deaf presence greatly influenced Bill Gates' own destiny of revolutionizing the computer data information transmitted over the telephone line. Gates got fascinated with the text transmission from the acoustic amplifier to the teletype known as the TTY (teletypewriter) from another teletype machine (formerly used as a rapid telegram machine for the newspaper bureaus and other media outlets). Gates saw the TTY machine and asked someone to demonstrate how it works. Gates examined the acoustic amplifier and got an idea about the future of data information highway over the telephone lines.
Bill Gates and another co-founder of the early Micro-soft (before it turned into today's Microsoft) sold the BASIC computer programming to the IBM (International Business Machine) company with sizable numbers of deaf employees with expertise in cold data processing. The IBM company was very prestigious company of its time which many people want to be hired by this very same company with excellent salaries and prestige. The IBM got stumbled in the 80s by the personal computer revolution.
Stanley Kubrick, the film director, had the hidden message about the IBM being the likely monopoly and corporate dominant within the everyday life in "Space Odyssey 2001" classic 1960s science fiction film. The villainous character in "2001" was the HAL, the computer mainframe controlled everything in the space station. HAL was subtly coded as IBM without getting any earful lawsuits from the very powerful corporation of its time. Let's deconstruct HAL after every letter = H (I), A (B) and L (M). The HAL really stood for the IBM.
Why said the cold data processing? It was an opposite to the "off the hot press" known as the time-consuming Linotype dealt with hot metal iron case to print something. The cold data processing became the nowadays' word processing (WP) in many personal computers.
After viewing the ABC-TV's "This Week" television interview with Bill Gates, the founder of "Microsoft". Gates apparently used more hand gestures than usual for any hearing Americans.
The use of hand gestures during interviews or political speeches and social conversations usually done by many Europeans, but Bill Gates was not raised in Europe or lived in Europe. Adolf Hitler of Germany was one of the fine example of hearing person overly used hand gestures along with his speech ramblings.
Let's view the video enclosure and wait for more than three minutes of video after the enclosed ads of ABC-TV's. You will see Bill Gates had his flying hands unlike many hearing Americans - http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video/interview-microsofts-bill-gates-10901308
Quick biographical glance of Bill Gates and his accomplishments -
http://www.vistaultimate.com/about_bill_gates.htm
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
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Bill Gates and another co-founder of the early Micro-soft (before it turned into today's Microsoft) sold the BASIC computer programming to the IBM (International Business Machine) company with sizable numbers of deaf employees with expertise in cold data processing. The IBM company was very prestigious company of its time which many people want to be hired by this very same company with excellent salaries and prestige. The IBM got stumbled in the 80s by the personal computer revolution.
Stanley Kubrick, the film director, had the hidden message about the IBM being the likely monopoly and corporate dominant within the everyday life in "Space Odyssey 2001" classic 1960s science fiction film. The villainous character in "2001" was the HAL, the computer mainframe controlled everything in the space station. HAL was subtly coded as IBM without getting any earful lawsuits from the very powerful corporation of its time. Let's deconstruct HAL after every letter = H (I), A (B) and L (M). The HAL really stood for the IBM.
Why said the cold data processing? It was an opposite to the "off the hot press" known as the time-consuming Linotype dealt with hot metal iron case to print something. The cold data processing became the nowadays' word processing (WP) in many personal computers.
After viewing the ABC-TV's "This Week" television interview with Bill Gates, the founder of "Microsoft". Gates apparently used more hand gestures than usual for any hearing Americans.
The use of hand gestures during interviews or political speeches and social conversations usually done by many Europeans, but Bill Gates was not raised in Europe or lived in Europe. Adolf Hitler of Germany was one of the fine example of hearing person overly used hand gestures along with his speech ramblings.
Let's view the video enclosure and wait for more than three minutes of video after the enclosed ads of ABC-TV's. You will see Bill Gates had his flying hands unlike many hearing Americans - http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video/interview-microsofts-bill-gates-10901308
Quick biographical glance of Bill Gates and his accomplishments -
http://www.vistaultimate.com/about_bill_gates.htm
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
COPYRIGHT RESERVED
Saturday, June 12, 2010
New "Non-Fiction" Book on Deaf Serial Killer
Gallaudet University Press recently published the new non-fiction book from team of husband and wife on the first known "deaf serial killer", Patrick McCullough, the former student at the Maryland School for the Deaf. http://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Charm-Story-Serial-Killer/dp/1563684438/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276307704&sr=8-1
Many former students at the Maryland School for the Deaf (MSD) in Frederick, MD, had the recollections of troubling young deaf Patrick McCullough with his frequent and violent outbursts at the residential advisors or houseparents and school staffers. The new book had many former MSD students pretty surprised to see the former alta mater being the feature subject of the book like a serial killer.
The Washington Post also published an article on the convinction of Patrick McCollough for manslaughter of his girlfriend and other victims back in December 2001:
A Deaf Man's Troubled Life, Death; Md. Carpenter With History of Manslaughter Convictions Kills Girlfriend, Then Self
The Washington Post December 27, 2001
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Patrick McCullough and Randi Lawrence were supposed to be each other's salvation. They fell in love in April, a month after McCullough had been released from a three-year prison term. Both were recovering from substance abuse, and friends said Lawrence, a 48-year-old single mother who worked at Rosecroft Raceway, was full of compassion for McCullough, a deaf and speech-impaired carpenter who had been convicted in two Annapolis homicides in the 1980s. She even began to study sign language so she could better communicate with him. "He had found Randi, and Randi was going to help …
Thanks to Scott Wilson for submitting the attached Amazon.com link at the upper part of this blog posting. If not for Scott, I would never know about this new book. I don't know why I am no longer receive any e-announcements from the Gallaudet University Press so far.
See that the Gallaudet University Press isn't doing any good job with the outreach part. I already registered for the latest e-notifications from Gallaudet University Press and used to receive theirs until last year ago. I don't know why!
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
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