Growth of Viral Video Leaves Deaf Community In The Dark

WASHINGTON - Viral videos may be good for sharing ideas and spreading funny foreign pop hits, but they are leaving millions of Deaf and Hearing Impaired people out of the loop.



Online video is becoming a more ubiquitous part of American life. Netflix videos made up one-third of online data used in the United States last year. YouTube expects 90 percent of online traffic to be video in the next few years. By 2016, Cisco estimates, 1.2 million minutes of video will be streamed or downloaded every second.



That video explosion has been great for small-film and TV producers, who are able to reach an audience without a big studio budget, and fans of niche programming. But in some ways, it has left the deaf and hard-of-hearing community starting from scratch after years of advocating for captions on traditional television.



“We could be back to square one,” said Christian Vogler, director of the Technology Access Program at Gallaudet University.



The rise of e-mails, instant messages and social media was a godsend to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community, which embraced the new, text-based ways to communicate.



“In the mid- to late 1990s, it was close to the ideal medium,” Vogler said. But as the Web evolved to include more video, he said, old barriers to communication resurfaced. ... Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/growth-of-online-video-leaves-deaf-community-in-the-dark/2012/11/28/4048e4ac-389c-11e2-8a97-363b0f9a0ab3_story.html



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Montreal Institute For The Deaf Ex-Students Allege Horrific Abuses

VIDEO [CC] - Montreal School for the Deaf's ex-students allege horrific abuses. Warning: This story with the video contains potentially disturbing content.

MONTREAL - Former students at a church-run institute for the Deaf in Montreal have come forward with graphic tales of sexual abuse they allege they suffered during more than four decades.



Quebec's Superior Court authorized a class-action lawsuit last March against members of the Clerics of St-Viateur who worked at the school, formerly known as the Montreal Institute for the Deaf.



The former boarding school was run by the Clerics of Saint-Viateur, a religious congregation founded in 1831.

According to students who attended the all-boys institute between 1940 and 1982, violent sexual assaults were commonplace. Denis Chalifoux, who alleges he was eight years old when the abuse began in 1968, is one of 64 claimants taking part in the class action against 28 religious staff and six lay workers.



Only four or five of the alleged abusers would still be alive today.

Most of the alleged victims' identities are protected in court documents, but Chalifoux came forward to tell his story to CBC's French-language service with the help of a sign language interpreter. He described horrific acts allegedly at the hands of a staff member. "He showed me his penis. It was in front of me, in my face. I didn't want to look," Chalifoux told Radio-Canada. "He touched my cheek with it. All the while, he was masturbating." ... Read The Full Story 

 



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Scary Ghost Elevator Prank Video Compilation

VIRAL VIDEO [CC] - Extremely scary ghost elevator prank in Brazil is a must-see!



A terrifying TV prank was from the Brazilian variety show called Silvio Santos program. Alone in a dark elevator with no power is unsettling experience for anyone. But things get creepier a ghost girl appears from nowhere, frightening the elevator riders.



The video posted to YouTube has gone viral over millions viewed. Here's the video clips of hilarious scary ghost elevator prank, but poor these people. ha!

A woman stands in an empty elevator when the power goes off. When the lights come on a pale-faced girl is standing there holding a doll. She looks like a ghost child from a horror movie scene.

Unknown to the victims, the “ghost” entered the elevator from a trap door at the side when the power went off. SOURCE

Black Friday 2012 Video Compilation

VIRAL VIDEO [CC] - Black Friday compilation from November 23rd 2012 in the United States.



Best part of Black Friday is watching the madness on video clips. Enjoy to watch the compilation of the nutcase people.

What a tradition for American people as shopping fights, shootings, pepper spray, and trampedes seem to be the new normal after stuffing our faces with Turkey.

Black Friday is the day following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season.

On this day, most major retailers open extremely early and offer promotional sales to kick off the holiday shopping season.

Sexual Abuses Children At Montreal School For The Deaf

Sexual Abuses Children by priests at Montreal School for the Deaf in Quebec, Canada.

MONTREAL -- Lawsuit alleges dozens of clergy abused children at Montreal school for Deaf. Another chapter of Quebec’s dark history of the sexual abuse of children in church-run institutions was aired this week by Radio-Canada. But this was not just any chapter. It threatens to be one of the most horrifying in an already heartbreaking record.



It deals with the sexual abuse of young boys, already vulnerable because of their age but doubly or triply so because they were also Deaf and mute. Their alleged abusers were educated men who promised to set the boys free from their silent world.



Clerical and lay members of a much-admired Roman Catholic teaching order, the Clercs de Saint-Viateur, these men did not set the boys free. The boys who say they were abused ended up in a living hell, terrified of telling anyone what was happening to them. They remained trapped in that hell in adulthood, unable to erase the grotesque images in their heads of masturbating priests and anal rape.



This case may turn out to be the worst ever seen involving the abuse of Deaf children. Unlike the previous record, held by a single Roman Catholic priest, Lawrence Murphy of Wisconsin, in Quebec more than 30 clergy are alleged to have abused the Deaf children in their care, sometimes one after another. (Murphy, who may have sexually assaulted as many as 200 children at a school for the Deaf in Wisconsin, was denounced in 1996 to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI.



Radio-Canada’s investigative program Enquête called its program The Perfect Victims. The boys came as boarders to the only school for the deaf in the province at the age of 7 or 8. Many were thrilled to be at the school, where for the first time they would be taught to communicate with other children and learn to read and write. ... Read The Full Story



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Marlee Matlin Top 5 Youngest Academy Award Winners

VIDEO - Marlee Matlin is the one of top 5 youngest Academy Award winners.



HOLLYWOOD -- Kicking things off at number five, we've got Marlee Matlin, who took home the Best Actress trophy in 1986 for her role as Sarah Norman in Children of a Lesser God. Matlin was just 21 years old when she became not just the youngest winner ever for the category, but also the first Deaf person to take home an Oscar.



Next up, the only guy on our Top Five - Timothy Hutton, who won Best Supporting Actor in 1980 for his role in Robert Redford's Ordinary People. Hutton, now a television star, was only 20 when he took home the gold.



At number three we've got our most legendary performance on the list - Patty Duke's incredible portrayal of Helen Keller in 1962 classic The Miracle Worker. Duke was only 16 years old when she stunned audiences across the country with her heartbreaking performance and won the Best Supporting Actress prize.

Number two on our list is also our most recent award - Anna Paquin's 1993 win for her Supporting role in The Piano. The actress was a mere eleven years old when she took home the Oscar, and has since gone on to star in both blockbuster films like X-Men and art-house classics like Margaret.



And finally, the youngest Academy Award winner of all time is... Tatum O'Neal, who won Best Supporting Actress in 1973 for her role in Paper Moon. O'Neal was just ten years old when she gave her award-winning performance alongside her father, Ryan - that's the age most kids are in the fourth grade! Amazing.



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Exclusive Interviews Deaf Popstar Jayne Fletcher

Exclusive Interviews: Jayne Fletcher interviews by a reporter of Paracreatives media.



Jayne Elizabeth Fletcher Jayne started her SignSong career at the tender age of 14 in a group called "A Different Beat", which was a group of 7 Deaf young people performing SignSong all over the United Kingdom. When the group split up, Jayne performed with a friend for a while and then went solo, calling herself "Fletch@".



Jaynes loves SignSong because it makes her feel proud and it makes people more Deaf aware.



Jaynes ambition is to teach famous people how to sign their songs and is aiming at inspiring hearing people to learn sign language, raise Deaf awareness and show them all that Deaf people CAN do anything except hear.



Jayne is also doing this to raise awareness of Deaf people so that Deaf people have access to music like never before...

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ParaCreatives Documentary VT's: Jayne Fletcher is a Deaf SignSong Performer, she translate the words of a song into sign language, which make it accessible to Deaf people.



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