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You know, as a father of an 8 year old girl and a 5 year old girl, this whole thing just disgusts me. I cannot help but wonder what is going wrong with this world right now?! How in heaven's name could a man, with children of his own that he clearly loved (he said so in his phone call to his...

My grandmother on my dad's side had many strokes during her life. Her first one was before I was born. My dad said it changed her personality some--she became more sweet and mellow, and her voice became high pitched and kind of squeeky. I remember she used to tell me how terrible that stroke...

This is a really interesting discussion to me. My wife has been signing for about a year, and she's toyed around with the idea of becoming a terp, but right now she's just doing it for enjoyment and for practice -- signing songs at church, signing the sermon as best she can, and so on. I...

Hi there CyberRed! Let's see... well, table wine tends to be around 11% alcohol by volume, and beer tends to be around 5% alcohol by volume. So, you have to drink roughly twice as much beer as wine to become drunk. Interestingly, if you think about it, the way we customarily serve wine...

Hi there Jamie! Let's try something. Go here: Labtec.com > Support > Downloads And download the Labtec camara software. I've used it with my Creative Webcam and my Labtec, and it seems to work with both, so there's a good chance it'll work with yours also. It has a program called...

I'll try... however I must admit that I don't really know many of those differences. Having grown up here in the heartland of the USA, we don't really think too much about "The Queen's English". We learn a particular spelling, and sometimes people will even go so far as to say "Hey, that...

200 and counting!! Hey Jamie! We have 200 signs now! :h5: So far I haven't seen any regional differences between your area of Canada and Iowa. Well, I take that back--I saw a minor difference. Your "sell" sign is "store" here in Iowa, and "sell" is just one wrist movement. "Shopping"...

What brand is your webcam? I'll look and see if I can figure out what you have to do for yours. Some of them don't let you change the codec, but many do. If we can get your codec changed, we can increase the frame rate on you videos, which will make them smoother. Mine's not perfect, but I...

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. We need a little place to type out text instructions for how to do the sign. It's also helpful to give learners little memory hooks to remember the sign by. I also thought it might be worth it to put a little slider knob on each sign with "ASL" on one...

True, but I was specifically talking about Heather's troubles with three syllable words. Lots of hearing 3 - 5 year-old kids stumble on three syllable words (heck, my 8 year old still says "pah-sketti" for spaghetti), so it doesn't surprise me that she'd have that particular problem. I...

Hey s_t_harvey, Have you seen this thing? Turbine Video Engine SDK It looks like it has exactly what you need, and it's not too expensive. It looks like it will allow everyone to upload in whatever codec they have, and it'll get converted to Flash. It also includes an SDK so you can...

Hey Jamie, One thing that might help your videos would be to check if you can change the "codec" when you save your files from your webcam. If you can change it, pick something everybody has like "Microsoft MPEG-4". You see, many webcams pick "Uncompressed video" if you don't tell them what...

Great Site! Hi s_t_harvey, I just signed and uploaded around 50 signs. It was very fun! Hey, I had an idea on how you could make your dictionary grow even faster. You should let people vote on whether the "also means" words truly mean the same thing as the signed video. If you get a...

I'm still just a beginning ASL learner, so I may be totally wrong, but it seems to me that the main ideas of ASL versus SEE are that ASL seems to be oriented around signing the most important topic first, and then describing that topic with additional signs (sort of like some Asian spoken...

Yes, she has been working on broadening her deaf social network. She goes to a local deaf church on Wednesday afternoons and plays cards and dominoes with some deaf senior citizens. We've also met a few deaf families around town. We wanted desperately to go to the Iowa School For the Deaf...

Yeah, there's definitely a difference between implanting at age 3, versus age 9. Clearly Heather's speech is very good, but it's not as good as the little girl in part 1. I suspect that Heather's speech will continue to improve, and maybe by age 15 or so it'll be very clear. Still, it was a...

Don't blame your parents. It doesn't matter what Billy Graham or any human being says. This is one of the areas where we get a pretty direct answer right from Jesus himself (if you're a Christian). Read John 9:3. BibleGateway.com - Passage*Lookup: JOHN 9 It's like others here have...

In pictures no, but sometimes in video, yes. I find that deaf people often have very penetrating and expressive eyes. Or, you could probably flip that around and say hearing people tend to have dull and wandering eyes. In any case, if you watch a video panning through a group of people...

I go back and forth on it really. I'm a hearing person, so naturally I don't completely understand Deaf culture, but I can almost see why Heather's grandma was SO overbearing. It seemed wrong to me that she was pressuring Peter and Nita so much (after all, Peter and Nita are the parents, not...

Yes, for anyone who hasn't seen this movie, it's HIGHLY recommended. I don't normally get that emotional watching movies (especially documentaries), but this was a big exception. I was thinking about this movie for days after seeing it the first time. The extra features section on the DVD...