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Captioned Movies in Kentucky-A Success Story in the Making?
Thumpaflash Readers:Just a quick update to my fight to get captioned movies in theaters in the state of Kentucky. As you may recall from previous postings here on my blog, I contacted my representatives regarding the lack of access to captioned movies in Kentucky after I attempted several times to contact the local theater owners to get them to work with me on th...
Fri, Aug 22 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Do The Deaf Deserve Reparations?
Thumpaflash Well, we do if you believe this blogger, who posted this comment on Dr. Don G.'s blog "AGB's at it again":How about class action lawsuit by the ex-oralists for their undue suffering growing up without sign language?Please, give me a break! No, we don't deserve reparations, and that is exactly what an attempted class action suit of this nature would amount ...
Audism Culture Fri, Aug 01 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Negativism and Hate are at it again.....
Thumpaflash Here we go again....Ridor can not help himself, he must always be negative towards law enforcement...In his most recent posting, he slams police from coast to coast, hurling accusations without true facts to back them up, and supporting only one statement of his with a highly prejudicial YouTube video. He also chooses to make a statement that makes my blood boil...
Higher Education Culture Thu, Jul 31 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Captioned Movie access Op-Ed and other issues
Thumpaflash Hey all, back from my little break....Go some news to share, after attempting to contact the owner of the theater, and still no response, I submitted an Op-Ed piece to my local newspaper for publication, to call public attention to the numbers of deaf and hard of hearing in Kentucky, and my attempts to get captioned movies into our local theater. I just received...
Media Language Audism Culture Wed, Jul 23 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Alleged Deaf Man Shot by Police
Thumpaflash Lexington police are releasing more details about an officer-involved shooting.44-year-old Warren Douglas Rayburn is still at UK hospital after being shot several times, early Monday morning.At a press conference on Wednesday morning, police talked about the chain of events that led to the shooting.Police say they were called to a home on Arbor Station Road for ...
Audism Culture Wed, Jul 16 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Update on Captioned Movie Access
Thumpaflash All:I last posted a week ago today, regarding my decision to contact my State Representative and my State Senator regarding the possibility of state level legislation being drafted to require captioned movies be shown in theaters housing 5 more more screens in the state of Kentucky (see my post "Deaf Access to Movies Now"). I drafted my proposal and sent it via ...
Media Language Tech Legal Sun, Jul 13 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Deaf Access to Movies Now (D.A.M.N.)
Thumpaflash As part of my ongoing crusade to bring captioned movies to Eastern Kentucky, and the state in general, I have contacted my two legislators that represent my area on the state level.At issue, is the fact that, while the ADA mentions captioned movies in general, there is also a provision that theaters can not be FORCED to show captioned movies as a required accomodation...
Language Culture Sun, Jul 06 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Captioned Movies- Access Denied
Thumpaflash Hello all, it's been a while since I last blogged, been out and about with work and family duties. One thing I have been working on, is captioned movie access in my little corner of the world (Eastern Kentucky)Our local movie theater is part of a small chain owned by a family. It consists of 3 theaters in 3 different communities thoughout Eastern and...
Media Tech Sat, Jul 05 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Stepping Up To The Plate
Thumpaflash Below is an article I published on Mark Drolsbaugh's website, Deaf Culture Online. It describes the watershed event in my life when I learned to first begin finding my deaf identity and understanding it. Until this point, I had been merrily rolling along in life oblivious to deaf culture and fixed on "fitting in" to the hearing world's perceptio...
Higher Education Audism Education Tech Sat, Jun 21 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

McDonald's Secret Sauce Mystery Solved?
Thumpaflash As I scrolled through the blogs on DeafRead in an attempt to catch up on issues since I had been traveling the past couple of days, I came across this blog by Jamie Berke (you can read it here: [link] reason I wanted to comment on this particular blog is because of several comments posted by some readers in the comments section suggesting pros and cons of why ...
Audism Tech Legal Fri, Jun 20 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

A Deaf Dog Gone Awry
Thumpaflash While scrolling through the news this morning, I stumbled across this story: [link] guess now, we can only wait and see how long it takes before some group out there complains that the poor deaf dog is being treated unfairly and that the Oakland player is an audist... ;-)I'm assuming he probably bought the dog with the intent of it not only b...
Language Sun, Jun 15 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Of Interpreters and Thieves
Thumpaflash Recently, my attention was called to the unfortunate events surrounding an interpreter coordinator in Virginia. As I was scrolling through the various blogs related to this incident, I came across this blog entry by "The Deaf Sherlock": [link] is a situation where I agree with ALMOST everything in this post. One thing I do not agree with is t...
Higher Education Language Culture Sat, Jun 14 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

DeafVP.com Directory
Thumpaflash Hello all...Things are going great here in Kentucky, learning by leaps and bounds as I play around with my new VP-200. One of the things that I was informed of today by the installer, that I had not been made aware of before, was a really nice on-line directory for users of the Videophones.The directory can be located at www.deafVP.com, and you can simply c...
Tech Sat, Jun 14 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Gonna join the 21st Century!
Thumpaflash I just received word today, that I will be receiving my Sorenson VP 200 this weekend. I'm looking forward to getting in on this technology, after using a TDD all these years. Some of you may wonder, "What the heck? Where's he been all this time?" and that would be a good question. I've resisted using VRS for quite some time now, mainly because ...
Tech Wed, Jun 11 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Are CI Users the "Majority" among deaf children now?
Thumpaflash In meandering through various blogs today, I was particularly struck by one comment made by Jamie Berke. In her blog "Berke Outspoken", dated June 2, 2008 and titled "Update to how to stop the spread of Fourth Grade myth", she stated: "Don't forget we now have the majority of deaf students receiving cochlear implants - that may have boosted the achievement level...
Language Education Tech Tue, Jun 03 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Law Enforcement and the Deaf - A Primer
Thumpaflash Let me preface this post by acknowledging I am the son of a cop. I am trying not to let my obvious bias show here, but I am also a deaf individual. This is simply a guide, based on common sense and a lifetime's experience dealing with law enforcement from both perspectives.I have been perusing through several blogs off and on today, including some ol...
Media Legal Sun, Jun 01 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Thumpa Attitude
Thumpaflash As I picked up today's newspaper, I was greeted with a bold headline "Kid does it all on one leg". Intrigued, I settled in to read the amazing story of one Adam Bender, in Lexington, Ky.A seemingly normal 8 year old boy, full of life and a love of sports, he plays baseball, football and soccer.On ONE leg. No prosthesis, no wheelchair. ONE LEG......
Media Art and Storytelling Sun, Jun 01 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

What's in a work ethic?
Thumpaflash Reading my good buddy Surduspub's blog about his advisees who just graduated from college raised a troubling question in my mind....namely, where is the work ethic in today's youth?William Safire, speechwriter during the LBJ years, first coined this wonderful alliteration that is often wrongly attributed to LBJ himself: "the nattering nabobs of negativism have formed ...
Audism Legal Fri, May 30 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Dis and data...Deaf issues on my mind
Thumpaflash As I was scrolling through the deaf blogosphere, many different things are jumping out at me....Deaf pride, reverse deaf discrimination, etc. etc..... So here's a few thoughts of mine.1) The Matt Hamill situation: People, people, PEOPLE!!!!! Can we all take a deep breath here and slow down for a minute? My goodness, you would have thought Matt had started ...
Culture Fri, May 30 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Lighting A Candle in the Deaf Darkness
Thumpaflash As of late, a big issue that has arisen, has been the outcry against Matt Hamill's choice of using a hearing actor to portray himself in a movie about his life story. The great hue and cry that has since ensued by those in the deaf culture who feel that this choice A) stole an acting job from another deaf actor (potentially), B) marks Matt and all ot...
Media Audism Culture Fri, May 30 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post