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May 9, 2008
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DeafDC.com's mission is to provide access to information, resources and bottom-line benefits for deaf and hard of hearing professionals living in the Washington, DC metropolitan area and around the world. In addition, we are also the official Deaf Professional Happy Hour (DPHH)® website.
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 Loving is Dead, yet Love Endures by Josh Mendelsohn
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In the late 1950's, a Virginia judge upheld a law declaring that blacks and whites could not marry each other. He sentenced Richard and Mildred Loving to one year in jail or 25 years of exile from Virginia for the simple crime of marrying each other - a ...[keep reading]
 AT&T offers "Deaf" iPhone Plan by Bobby Cox
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So, AT&T has finally offered a "Deaf/HH" plan for the iPhone. Yay! Deaf iPhoners -- go forth and changeth your plans to saveth money.
AT&T offers iPhone plan (via Engadget)
AT&T Text Accessibility Plan
Executive summary:
$40/month
Unlimited SMS & data (web, etc)
40¢ per minute voice
visual voicemail (pretty useless for most ...[keep reading]
 Preaching to the Wrong Choir by Vikki Washington
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On a recent cloudy morning, I was minutely contributing to the efforts of the conservation of the environment by taking public transit. No gas-guzzlers for me when I commute to work, especially with the way fuel prices have been steadily creeping up in the past weeks. Besides, I'm the type ...[keep reading]
 May DPHH Doubleheader! by DeafDC.com
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It'll be double the trouble this week for the DC deaf...DPHH will be held on Thursday and Friday evening!
First up is Bar Louie in Chinatown on Thursday, May 1st at 6 pm after the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Government Employment and Technology forum in Washington, DC. This DPHH ...[keep reading]
 "Sweet Nothing" Portrays Ongoing Struggle for Recognition by Allison Kaftan
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There's a plethora of things to praise about Hallmark's Sweet Nothing in My Ear, the film centering on a deaf mother and hearing father's custody hearing, which aired last night on CBS.
And at first glance, it seems as if the pervasive controversy over whether the deaf child, Adam, played ...[keep reading]
Pushing the line between style and function by Allison Kaftan
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As members of Costco, we're constantly receiving "junk mail," our favorite of which are the seasonal coupon books. Amidst bargains on toothpaste and cereal, we'll see things we really really reeeeally want at really really reeeeally good prices. It's porn for our checkbook's salivary glands. He'll ...[keep reading]
Deaf Spam? by Bobby Cox
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Sharing this with DeafDC for our collective amusement -- my first "deaf" spam (I don't read spam so I might have gotten one before now, but this one slipped through Gmail's spam filter...). Pasted verbatim, including errors.
Dearest One,
It is my pleasure to write you but first I will introduce myself ...[keep reading]
 The Amendment to the Amendment of the Amendment! by Chris Heuer
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I have a friend who used to be a mid-level manager of a bank. During a restructuring phase (not of her design), she was ordered to fire somebody--a good, hardworking guy. He hadn't done anything wrong or failed to perform his duties in any way. He was just the low ...[keep reading]
Airline Policy Experiencing Turbulence by Vikki Washington
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A friend sent me a hot-off-the-presses article about deaf people who aren't allowed to fly solo. That's the apparent policy of the Australian subsidiary of Singapore-based budget air carrier Tiger Airways.
Deaf passengers who want to fly on the airline must be accompanied by a fare-paying adult care provider, ...[keep reading]
 Satan (And More) Lives Within Our Fair Streets! by Adam Stone
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When I say "here," I mean Washington, D.C., where this blog is centrally located, not where I'm personally located.
I was very amused by this Boing Boing item, which reads that Satanic symbols exist within the street configuration of D.C.
Now, we all love D.C. roads, right? State streets ...[keep reading]
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It'll be double the trouble this week for the DC deaf...DPHH will be held on Thursday and Friday evening! First up is Bar Louie in Chinatown on Thursday, May 1st at 6 pm after the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Government Employment and Technology forum in Washington, DC. This DPHH [ more...]
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