Matt Hamill in UFC Fight Night LIVE

Matt Hamill will fight against Tom Boetsch on Wednesday, April 2 at Broomfield Event Center, Colorado. Live 3 hour show starts at 7pm (ET/PT) until 10pm on Spike. Re-air Wednesday, 4/2 midnight, Sunday 4/6 1:30pm and Tuesday 4/6, 7pm.

UFC Light Heavyweight’s Matt Hamill and Tom Boetsch talk about their fight at UFC Fight Night. Watch video

Matt Hamill’s UFC profile

Lights Out!

We’ve turned the lights out. Now it’s your turn – Earth Hour.

Wall of Fame Live! Yahoo DeafRead Chatroom

By JFLMad

In the past month, I have been trying to take many snapshots of the user’s name in the Live! Yahoo DeafRead chat room. Overall, I think I have got about 90% of them…you might see that I have not got Amy Cohen Efron, Deaf Roger, Deb Ann (Waving With My Deaf Hands), Jared Evans, Tayler Mayer, and few of them. It is impossible to catch them all because we usually have new people coming in every week and also we all have our different schedules of when to sign in. But this one is still good enough and I am satisfied with it! Enjoy!

To go to Live! Yahoo DeafRead Chat Room, click this

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DWTS – Week 2 (Marlee Matlin)

If you have not see the first part, you can click this to view the part one before this second part.

Marlee danced very well for second week in row. The judges were awed with her deafness and were very impressed with her. Obviously, her dance partner, Fabian; had helped her very much and guided her very well on the dance floor and also danced very flawlessly. The judges gave her a score of 8 points each for the total of 24 points for night.

Update: Marlee has survived from the elimination night yesterday. She is in the fourth place overall right now out of 10 dancers left. Don’t forget to vote her if you think she did it very well.

Where’s Fookem?

Find Fookem? He was in Allstate Arena for Chicago Rush game against San Jose SaberCats. Rush stomped and won their first game of the season, 70 to 47.

The clip from Chicago Sun-Times newspaper on March 4, 2008.

Dancing With The Stars – *Marlee Matlin*

Last night Marlee Matlin danced in Dancing With The Stars show and did well. Her total score from the judges were 22 points and she is in the 3rd place standing among the women. The top scores are 28 points (Kristi Yamaguchi) and 24 points (Priscilla Presley).

I encourage you all to vote for Marlee Matlin…show them that Deaf can dance!! The scoring is divided evenly between the judges and the viewers at home, ensuring unpredictable outcomes at the end of every show. Meaning that we, the viewers, can affect the outcome of the vote..imagine if the whole deaf community vote for Marlee Matlin and she would win it easily with our votes!

Go to Dancing With The Stars website to see how you can vote. *Phone lines, text votes (AT&T customers only) and online polls will open at the top of each Monday night performance show so that viewers can vote for their favorites. Phone and text lines will stay open for 30 minutes after the end of the show. Online voting will remain open until noon (Eastern Time) on the day of the results show. Viewers can vote via phone, text message or online for their favorites ONLY on the night they perform.

Transcript:

EXCERPT (beginning at 3:31 on YouTube video above):

TOM BERGERON: Welcome back to Dancing with the Stars. (Applause) The second night of our two-night premier event continues with our final couple.

(Audience member in background:) Wooo!

(Applause and also sounds of enthusiastic cheers of young people)

ANNOUNCER (British accent, off camera): Dancing the cha cha cha…(applause continues throughout)…Marlee Matlin and her partner Fabian Sanchez.

(Upbeat, simple guitar intro with rhythm provided by high-hat symbols from drummer, plus bongos giving a slightly exotic sound. Music starts in a somewhat simple in order to set up a slow build-up of intensity.)

(Moderate cheers from audience, in expectation of dance just starting)

(Voice of popular singer Gloria Estefan on tape:)

(Singing:) You say I know it’s a waste of time
There’s no use tryin’

(Audience member in background:) Wooo!

(Moderate cheers)

So scared that life’s gonna pass you by
Your spirit’s dyin’
Not long ago
I could feel your strength and your devotion
What was so clear, is now overcast

(Cheers building in intensity)

With mixed emotions–(echo:) emotions, emotions

(Electronic drum sounds)

Deep in your heart is the answer
Find it, I know will pull you through

(Music makes uplifting transition)

(Gloria on tape and back-up singers:) Get on your feet

(Cheers)

Get up and make it happen
Oh, get on your feet
Stand up and take some action

Get on your feet

(Music coalesces into a driving beat. Some audience members clapping in sync.)

Get up and make it happen
Get on your feet
Stand up and take some action

(Music ends with slightly truncated feeling, which is understandable or expected due to the format of the television show)

(Extended and enthusiastic cheers and applause, and whistling from audience.)

TOM BERGERON: This is Jack. (pleasant laughter)

(Cheers continues, subsiding in expectation of panelists’ comments)

TOM BERGERON: Alrighty…Carrie Ann.

CARRIE ANN INABA: Ah, you know that was almost unbelievable, and I wouldn’t have believed it unless I’d seen it. What you did out there was *so* inspiring.

(Loud cheers and applause)

CARRIE ANN: That being said, so that everybody knows, we will be judging you based on what we see on the dance floor, because that is what’s fair. And I thought that was fantastic. You are so fluid. You move with such ease–(Applause drowns out Carrie’s words)–that I think you’ve got a great (indistinct) that will take you far in the competition.

TOM: Len.

LEN GOODMAN (British accent): Well, I’ve gotta say, I agree. You know, you–it was an amazing performance. You came out. You had great choreography. I think she did a very good job, Fabian. There were steps and holds, steps apart, the lovely mix.

(Applause)

LEN GOODMAN: You’ve gotta (indistinct)–just fling your arms sometimes. Just try to control your arms when you dance, but I thought you did a great job. It was very, very good. (Sincere, non-patronizing tone of voice.)

(Applause)

TOM BERGERON: Bruno.

BRUNO (thick French accent): Well. I–I sing from the same tune. It’s unbelievable and so life-affirming what I see. You may not see it, but the music is (emphatic tone of voice:) running through your blood.

(Applause)

BRUNO: I counted all the way through, and you hardly missed a beat. I counted all the song (sic). Very, very well done. I can’t believe it.

(Applause and cheers)

TOM BERGERON: Congratulations, Hun.

(Extended applause and cheers….”Woo”….”Yeah”…)

TOM BERGERON: Very good.

TOM BERGERON (reads from teleprompter): We have got some extraordinary, special guests lined up for our results show. Next Tuesday night, the hottest-selling concert act on the planet, The Jonas Brothers will perform–(applause)–Plus, the first two couples in season six will be, unfortunately….eliminated. Samantha?

SAMANTHA HARRIS: Great job out there, and Jack, nice to have you here. Marlee’s interpreter, of course.

FABIAN SANCHEZ: You can’t get rid of him.

SAMANTHA HARRIS: (laughing) You can’t get rid of him. It’s crazy.

SAMANTHA: Well, ev’rybody’s dying to know how–as you described yourself: “a profoundly deaf person”–you went out there and did what you just did?!

MARLEE MATLIN (voice of interpreter): Well, you know. I just followed the beat of my own heart. I just followed my heartbeat and I had Fabian help me listen to my heart. And you know it takes a good teacher to be able to do, and I guess I must be a good student. So there you go. But thank you so much to Fabian… I’m just having a good time!
SAMANTHA HARRIS: Well–And you know what? You look like you’re having a good time. Everybody has their reason for taking part in this show. What’s yours?

MARLEE MATLIN: Well, for me–You know, as a mother of four, I’m doing it for my kids. I–why not. Just why not? Life is short! Life is short.

(Applause)

SAMANTHA HARRIS: Alright, and Fabian welcome to the show. Your first season here. Let’s get your scores.

ANNOUNCER (British accent): The judges have their scores.

(Sound effects providing tension.)

ANNOUNCER: Carrie Ann Inaba!

CARRIE ANN: Seven!

(Tympani drums)

ANNOUNCER: Len Goodman!

LEN: Seven! (Tone of voice similar to a military person in the field at a marching review, as in a British sense of camaraderie.)

(Tympani drums)

ANNOUNCER: Bruno Tonioli

BRUNO: Eight!! (Shouts enthusiastically)

(Cheers and applause)

SAMANTHA: Alright, a twenty-two out of thirty for Marlee and Fabian. (Begins reading from teleprompter:) If you want our Oscar winner to take home another “prestigious award” (half-laugh), then you need to vote for them. Of course, numbers are on the screen. You can go do ABC dot com and vote that way. Everybody, you know they’re dancing next week, (but) still need your votes tonight. Tom?

TOM BERGERON: Thanks, Samantha.

(End excerpt.)

Jonathan Hall, 96 Taught Sign Language To Dogs

By Matt Schudel

Washington Post Service

There is no evidence that Jonathan Hall’s Labrador retrievers were smarter than any other dogs — they only seemed that way. From his earliest years, Hall was surrounded by a menagerie of dogs, hamsters, chameleons and even tame rats that he trained to do all sorts of unexpected things.

”Our dogs all could balance a cracker on their nose, toss it up in the air and catch it,” recalled one of his daughters, Stephanie Hall.

Throughout his life, Hall’s view of the world was refracted through the inquiring lens of science. He died of pneumonia Feb. 10 at age 96.

DOG TRICKS

Over the years, he taught the dogs to bark in a whisper, to shake hands and to say ”yes” by nodding their heads. (As much as he tried, though, Hall could never get them to shake their heads ”no.”) He also trained them to retrieve his hat and keys, which proved useful when he couldn’t remember where he’d put them.

But his dogs’ most remarkable skill may have been their ability to understand American Sign Language. Hall was a professor of biology and natural sciences at Gallaudet University for almost 40 years, and his talented dogs were among the many tricks of his teaching trade. They responded to sign-language commands, much to his students’ amusement, and when Hall spelled out the words ”lie down,” the dogs would do just that.

”He was incredibly entertaining,” Stephanie Hall said of her father. ‘He would do anything to capture his students’ attention. He wanted them to have hands-on experience.”

CAMPUS LIFE

Hall spent much of his life at Gallaudet and was, in fact, born on campus in ”House One,” the president’s residence, on Feb. 6, 1912. His father, Percival Hall, was the university’s second president, holding the office from 1910 to 1945. An older brother, Percival Hall Jr., taught astronomy and mathematics at Gallaudet for many years. Their grandfather, Asaph Hall, was an astronomer at the U.S. Naval Observatory and discovered the moons of Mars in 1877.

Although Jonathan Hall had no hearing impairment of his own, his mother was deaf, and he grew up as fluent in sign language as in English. He had an early fascination with the natural world and technology. As a boy, he filled the president’s house with animals, fossils and outlandish contraptions.

He also loved motorcycles, at least until he had a serious accident in his 20s and took up bicycling. He had a lifelong fascination with photography, passed down from his grandfather, who made glass-plate negatives of his astronomical observations.

His daughter said that Hall knew all the constellations by sight and had “the wildest, weirdest garden you could imagine. It was ordinary for him to refer to plants in the yard by their Latin names.”

`ADVENTURE-SCHOLAR’

Hall grew up with a strong belief in the idea of scientific progress and rationalism. He and his father ”were both interested in this idea of the new renaissance man, the adventurer-scholar,” Stephanie Hall said.

“They wanted to make a difference and do a lot of things.”

After graduating from Eastern High School, Hall attended the University of Maryland before transferring to Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla., where he was captain of the fencing team. He returned to Gallaudet for a master’s degree in deaf education in 1937.

http://www.miamiherald.com/511/story/459401.html

Dr. Cooper’s Ethereal Oil For Deafness, Aqua, Op, 1840-1855

By Bug

“For Deafness” can be seen on this rare bottle. It was used by Dr Cooper’s cure from 1840 to 1855. He believed that Ethereal Oil could cure the deafness. If you have this bottle, don’t throw it away. Do you know how much money your bottle are worth? It’s more than $300 !  It can be found  at http://www.bottlebooks.com/bottlesforsale/bottles4sale.htm  and see “Dr Cooper’s // Ethoreal//Oil//For Deafness on the right side. You will notice the written words on it as it says “For Deafness”.

 

DR. COOPER’S // ETHEREAL / OIL // FOR DEAFNESS, aqua, open pontil, mint. Very tough to find this clean.$375.00

 

Another one: http://www.antiquebottles.com/southeast/feb03.html

 
Pontilled medicine embossed DR. COOPER’S / ETHEREAL OIL / FOR DEAFNESS found in walls of an 1810 Georgia house. Implying a cure for deafness reaches a new level of ridiculous claims by the early quack medicines. Sold on eBay $242 by loualucas.

 

BIG RIVER (musical)

By Bug

The 58th Annual Tony Awards were given out at Radio City Music Hall at New York City on June 6, 2004. The Big River (muscial) was very beautiful. An American Sign Language adaptation of the 1985 musical about Huckleberry Finn, the show, with a combined cast of deaf, hard of hearing and hearing actors, showed at the Denver Center Theathre and many other places. I was lucky enough to be able to attend and watched the Big River three years ago and I must say I enjoyed watching it. Check this video and enjoy:

Charles Bright in Sun-Times newspaper

Charles Bright, who is deaf and well known in Chicago area, was on the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper today. He placed 5th in Beat The Champions bowling at Oak Forest Bowl and won 13 inch TV/DVD combo for shooting 910. He bowl in Hillside Bowl deaf league on Wednesday night at Hillside, Illinois. You can see his picture on it and his score on the list by clicking the link below. I asked him some questions and he gave me his answers. Apparently he is the first deaf bowler that have placed the top ten in Beat The Champions. I have no idea of the others however if you know of some deafies that have made in it, then please let me know. Many thanks!

I am going to post the article on our blog so want to ask you (Charles) some questions.

1) How long have you been bowling?

Since I was in Jr high then start bowling again in Chicagoland in 1974 until now.

2) What do you do for a living?

I work for Food and Drug Administration as Admin. Support Clerk and Graphic Arts Designer and I was select Nominee and made in Finalist Outstanding Community Service Employee in 2001.

3) Any deaf organizations you involve? Board members?, etc

Few years trustee for Chicago Club of the Deaf
22 years Treasurer of deaf bowling league in Super Bowl and Hillside
24 years Treasurer Division #1 NFSD (National Frat Society Deaf)
18 years Athletic Director for IAAD and CCE (Chicago Catholic Ephepheta)
4 years trustee for CCE
34 years of softball – it may be my last year
Few years in charge of Deaf Classic Bowl
President of Chicagoland Illinois School for the Deaf
Twice chairman in CAAD tourney
Several years in charge of CCE picnics
Many years in charge for Frat picnics
Two years helping Dixon Center for XMAS party

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