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Critical contents of Eyefirevlogs.com have been fully restored.

Website will open to public on or around Friday the 27th day of January.

Tell Your Congress Representatives To Stop SOPA & PIPA

This bill would establish a system for taking down websites that the Justice Department determines to be dedicated to copyright infringment. The DoJ or the copyright owner would be able to commence a legal action against any site they deem to have “only limited purpose or use other than infringement,” and the DoJ would be allowed to demand that search engines, social networking sites and domain name services block access to the targeted site. It would also make unauthorized web streaming of copyrighted content a felony with a possible penalty up to five years in prison. This bill combines two separate Senate bills — S.968 and S.978 — into one big House bill.

AFA DENOUNCES FDA’s APPROVAL OF NEWBORN STEM CELL EXPERIMENTATION

Audism Free America (AFA), a grassroots Deaf activist network, condemns the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its approval of a study which will use cord blood stem cells on infants as young as six weeks old in an effort to eradicate the Deaf population of the United States.

More at http://audismfreeamerica.blogspot.com/2012/01/afa-denounces-fdas-approval-of-newborn.html

Support Indiana HB 1367: All Options for Children with Hearing Loss

Some important new legislation is coming to the House of the Indiana State Legislature this session: HB 1367. This bill proposes the creation of local, independent, non-biased resource center to provide children identified with hearing loss and their parents with ALL communication options.

More at http://cochlearimplantonline.com/site/4635/support-indiana-hb-1367-all-options-for-children-with-hearing-loss/

Survived week ONE

The kids had a 2 hr. delay on Friday and college did not! Oh the joys of motherhood and how we worry. I was not worried about me driving in that nasty weather to get to school.

More at http://lbre969903.blogspot.com/2012/01/survived-week-one.html

Argh. Seriously, Nolan?

The other day, Nolan had a temper tantrum. When Nolan has a tantrum these days, he usually removes his glasses and hearing aids, throwing them across the room. This is actually an improvement from the days when he would remove his glasses, hearing aids, shoes and socks for a fit.

More at http://saywhatmunchkins.blogspot.com/2012/01/argh-seriously-nolan.html

Thoughts On TTYs

In 1980s and 1990s, Deaf people used TTYs to conversation with someone. There are no videophones at that time. Deaf people had to use text to spells everything, which is hard for some Deaf people.

More at http://deaflog.blogspot.com/2012/01/thoughts-on-ttys.html

Where are our interests?

This has been on my mind for a while, so I’ll try my best in sharing my musings. I was born deaf and was raised by parents who are deaf too. We all graduated from the same school, ISD. Much of my sign language development came from my parents (in the early stages) and the deaf peers (later stages) at the school.

More at http://www.ke5ter.com/archives/2012/01/16/where-are-our-interests

Enter the Bionic World

When my brother sent me a text, “Your hospital called 8 times” two weeks ago. I was literally itching to know whether it’s time for my cochlear implant surgery or not. He called them back but wasn’t clear on whether I should come back or just finish off the rest of my vacation.

More at http://earlessgeek.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/enter-the-bionic-world/

This can’t be true

I was reading a link via Twitter which took me to The Sun newspaper website. Now after reading this story, some of this what I read surely cannot be true.

To read this story on their web page, then please click here so you know what I am on about.

More at http://lizsdeafblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/this-cant-be-true.html