VIDEO [CC] - Parody - If Deaf people acted like Hearing people.
Deaf Youtube enthusiast, writer, sarcastic bitch sharing just a little parody video of what it might be like if us Deaf and Hard of Hearing people made the same kinds of comments towards Hearing people as they do to us.
The 26-year-old model becomes the second male winner of the series - following Keith Carlos, who won cycle 21 - and the only Deaf contestant to compete on the reality competition show. He’s also the final model to land on top after creator and host Tyra Banks announced the series’ cancellation midway through the cycle.
From the beginning of cycle 22, the judges - Banks, Kelly Cutrone, and J. Alexander -- and other contestants made a big deal about his hearing, but being Deaf didn’t seem to be a disadvantage. In fact, DiMarco said it helped him in the competition.
I am.... AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL! & THE LAST WINNER & WHO HAPPENS TO BE DEAF! Thank you @tyra and #ANTM for giving me voice!!!
“The biggest advantage of me being Deaf is that my language requires me to move my body,” DiMarco told Entertainment Tonight in September, “so it's easy for me to show movement in my body and brings the best of me in photographs.”
DiMarco quickly became a fan favorite thanks to his washboard abs, piercing blue eyes and charming persona. But he also delivered fierce photos each week, winning two elimination challenges and only landing in the bottom two once.
While the competition itself may be over, DiMarco’s career is just beginning. The budding model told Entertainment Tonight that he hopes to become the next male supermodel and to create an equal space for men in the modeling world.
“America's Next Top Model changed my life because I am more aware of the modeling world and I have a great network now,” he said of the experience, adding: “I have even more fans than I did before.”
You can check out more about DiMarco in ET’s exclusive interview with him. Check back next week when we sit down with the big winner to catch up on everything that’s been going on since the competition aired.
About America’s Next Top Model - Cycle 22 of America’s Next Top Model, hosted by Tyra Banks, will feature the third “Guys and Girls” edition. Selected men and women living under one roof will battle it out to earn the prestigious title of America’s Next Top Model.
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Breaking News: 20 victims, multiple shooters in San Bernardino, California, attackers in 'military style' attire, 3 armed suspects at the large, reports.
SAN BERNARDINO -- Police in San Bernardino, California, are responding to reports of an active shooter at a social services facility and have confirmed multiple fatalities. The San Bernardino Fire Department says there are reports of 20 victims.
According to CNN, witnesses told police they saw three men with long guns, according to a law enforcement source. The source said the suspects got into a black SUV and drove away.
The incident is happening at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino. The center has 670 employees and provides social services to people with developmental disabilities.
CBS News is reporting that the bomb squad is on scene attempting to neutralize an explosive device. Dozens of people filed out of the scene, holding their hands in their air. Other people were seen being wheeled away on gurneys.
The San Bernardino Police Department confirms that there are 1 to 3 possible suspects.
Terry Petit says he got a text from his daughter saying she was hiding after gunfire erupted. Petit choked back tears Wednesday as he read the texts for reporters outside Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino.
He says she wrote: “People shot. In the office waiting for cops. Pray for us. I am locked in an office.”
Police searched people filing out of a building with their hands up before they reunited with loved ones. Ambulances and law enforcement vehicles are racing through the area with sirens blaring. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department is urging everyone to stay away from the area. Source
VIDEO [CC] - Song 'Chicken Fried' in American Sign Language for Deaf couples wedding video going viral on social media in Deaf community.
American Sign Language entertainer, Brian Guendling would like to congratulate Alejandro and Nicole on a beautiful wedding. Guendling was the guest entertainers for the night as performed a 3 song performance. Just because Alejandro and Nicole are Deaf, he believe they can enjoy music just like everybody else in a very entertaining way. He met with the family before the wedding and the bride mentioned how it was a country themed wedding.
Most of you know, Brian Guendling was born and raised in San Diego his whole life so he had to go out and buy his first pair of cowboy boots and a country hat, and couples picked the songs they wanted him to perform. He would like to thank Rob Rowland And Blue Lens Productions for another fantastic video with subtitles.
Guendling have teamed up with his Deaf friend by the name of DC Davis. DC was born and raised in Waco, Texas. He turned Deaf at the age of 2 due to high fever that burst both eardrums. He’s known sign language all his life and loves sports. He comes from a family that was involved with music especially in church. He started signing songs in his church when he was younger and its been his favorite thing to do since then.
DC memorizes music a little differently than most people do. He feels the beat and reads the lyrics off a paper over and over. Just because he’s Deaf, he still can enjoy music just like everybody else. He moved to Austin in 1999 with his family where he was a 3 sport athlete at Texas School for the Deaf. He played basketball, football, and ran track.
They want to show their audiences that the Deaf and Hearing cultures can work together. As you all know, The last sign language video, Guendling posted was 6 months ago. In the last 6 months he received a lot of messages from people asking if he was still continuing the sign language. Guendling felt like if he wanted to continue this passion of his needed to get his fluency up and get a lot more educated.
Guendling ever took was his senior year of high school which was 4 years ago. All the sign language he learned was from associating himself around Deaf Culture and hanging out with many of his Deaf friends. So he decided it was time to take it to the next level.
Guendling acquired many Deaf friends to sit down and help him with his fluency. After 4 months he had learned a lot. But, Guendling decided he needed to meet with a professional. He decided to move back to San Diego for 5 weeks where he met with a very highly professional American Sign Language coach by the name of Rebecca Coleman.
Rebecca has been teaching ASL for more then 10 years and absolutely changed his signing game. Video 3 will be posted next week!! Stay tuned! Thanks! Source
VIDEO: Ricky Taylor's rant and rave ASL storytelling, all about Syria.
The video producer by openly Deaf Gay Ricky Taylor aka Ridor9th, also known as one of the most controversial bloggers in Deaf community. The rant, Deaf, Gay and Angry sharing on social media in ASL covers everything about Syria, Syrians, Syrian Civil War, ISIS, Lebanese Civil Wars, Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinians, Israelites, Americans, climate change, Bernie Sanders, CIA, Pentagon, State Department, Russia, Refugees and Europe.
'When it comes to war on ISIS, Israel must take Putin's side'
Russia predicted the Islamic State's formation a long time ago and is right to expect to West to team up to defeat this top strategic threat; Turkey, meanwhile, is dragging NATO to defend Turkish interests rather than shared interests.
The recent tensions between Russia and Turkey reminded me of two meetings I held years ago, one with a Russian and the other with a Turk, which can provide an additional angle on the two countries' conduct.
Major-General (res.) Giora Eiland, Published: About 11 years ago, the head of a Russian research institute arrived in Israel. In his meeting with me as head of the National Security Council and other Israeli officials, he claimed that the biggest danger to world peace was the existence of ISIS. True, the name "ISIS" was not mentioned, but the phenomenon represented by ISIS was predicted in amazing accuracy.
The man spoke about the creation of an Islamic caliphate in crumbling Iraq, which would try to take over the Middle East and send its arms northward through the Islamic republics of the former Soviet Union towards Russia. Simultaneously, it would also take advantage of the West's weakness and turn to Europe. That man's conclusion was that both Russia and the Western countries and Israel have a shared enemy and a shared supreme interest to defeat it.
When I met with more official Russian elements, they repeated a similar claim, criticizing the United States' "foolish war" in Iraq and describing it as the factor which accelerated this pattern.
About a year earlier, I met with a high-ranking Turkish official - the Israel-Turkey relationship was excellent at the time - who spoke openheartedly about the Turkish national perception. "We understand that we will not be able to regain the lands controlled by the Ottoman Empire until 1917, but don’t think that we accept the borders dictated to us at the end of World War I by the winning countries - led by England and France," he said.
"Turkey will find the way to return to its natural southern borders, which are the line connecting Mosul in Iraq to Homs in Syria. It's a national and just aspiration which is also supported by the existence of a large Turkmen minority in this area."
Three insights can be concluded from the connection between those meetings and today's reality: First of all, Russia predicted the formation of ISIS a long time ago and sees the organization as a top strategic threat; second, the Russians are right to expect the West to upgrade its fighting priorities similarly - in other words, to team up to defeat ISIS first and only then find the time to solve internal disputes; third, Turkey is a NATO member state, but instead of working in favor of NATO's shared interests, it is dragging it to defend Turkish interests - including hurting the Kurds, who are the only ones fighting ISIS on the ground, and well as an unnecessary provocation against Russia and, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin's accusations, providing economic aid to ISIS.
The conclusion must be clear: The threat posed by ISIS is similar in its totalitarian ideology to the threat which was created by Nazi Germany. Coordination between Russia and the West is not a sufficient condition for winning this war, but it is a necessary condition. The person who seems to understand this properly is French President Francois Hollande, and one can only hope that he will succeed in getting NATO to both restrain the Turks and team up with Russia.
Israel allegedly has opposing interests on this issue - but we should think about our situation if ISIS grows stronger and goes on to control Syria, Jordan and Sinai. For us too, the conclusion is clear - defeating ISIS comes first. Major-General (res.) Giora Eiland is the former head of Israel's National Security Council. Source
Deaf News: Comcast's data usage caps may be a hindrance to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community.
PHILADELPHIA -- It’s hard to find a Comcast Internet customer who doesn’t loathe the idea of the company’s forthcoming data usage limits, but usage caps may prove particularly painful to one group: the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
Comcast’s data usage caps for its Internet customers will expand to eight more cities Tuesday. The caps limit users to 300GB of data monthly, with the alternative of facing fines or paying a steeper rate to get unlimited access.
And unlimited access is especially crucial for many in the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing community who use Video Relay Service, or VRS, to conduct phone calls. The calls are facilitated using a sign language interpreter on the other end - and that requires an Internet video feed.
VRS does not use that much data - 5-10 megabits per second, according to Sorenson VRS, one of the leading VRS companies - but that adds up when you're also using your connection for normal browsing.
“Hearing people can call using their phones any time they want to…they don’t have any cap like that,” said Hoffman, who is Deaf and also a Comcast customer.
For Hoffman and others in the Deaf community, equal access means that if hearing people can communicate without time limits using telephones, that the Deaf community ought to be able to also. He said rather than pay Comcast's steeper rates for unlimited use, many Deaf people would simply transfer services if a cap were in place.
The Federal Communications Commission does have protections in place to ensure the adequate provision of telecommunications services to the Deaf community, but from a cursory read, it is unclear if capping VRS use is an Americans with Disabilities Act violation. The communications agency was not able to comment on the story. Source
American Sign Language entertainer, Brian Guendling would like to congratulate Alejandro and Nicole on a beautiful wedding. Guendling was the guest entertainers for the night as performed a 3 song performance. Just because Alejandro and Nicole are Deaf, he believe they can enjoy music just like everybody else in a very entertaining way. He met with the family before the wedding and the bride mentioned how it was a country themed wedding.
The video producer by openly Deaf Gay Ricky Taylor aka Ridor9th, also known as one of the most controversial bloggers in Deaf community. The rant, Deaf, Gay and Angry sharing on social media in ASL covers everything about Syria, Syrians, Syrian Civil War, ISIS, Lebanese Civil Wars, Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinians, Israelites, Americans, climate change, Bernie Sanders, CIA, Pentagon, State Department, Russia, Refugees and Europe.
