Scientists announce discovery of 3.6 million-year-old relative of ‘Lucy’

Scientists announce discovery of 3.6 million-year-old relative of ‘Lucy’
Cleveland… Meet “Lucy’s” great-grandfather. Scientists from The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Kent State University, Case Western Reserve University, Addis Ababa University and Berkeley Geochronology Center were part of an international team that discovered and analyzed a 3.6 million-year-old partial skeleton found in Ethiopia. The early hominid is 400,000 years older than the famous …

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American Sign Language Interpreter Training DVD – Receptive Skills Practice at EverydayASL.com


For more free ASL videos, join our Facebook fan page at: bit.ly New ASL Interpreter training DVD: “American Sign Language Interpreter Training: Receptive Skills Practice, Vol. 1” DVD Preview. You can order your first ASL interpreter training DVD at: everydayasl.com or at Amazon.com: www.amazon.com Details: Being an ASL interpreter is a labor of love. There are a number of steps and processes that every interpreter needs to use each and every time he or she interprets. One of the fundamental abilities that an interpreter must develop in order to work closely and efficiently with Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing consumers is the maintenance and bolstering of receptive skills. Throughout the video, there will be 5 chapters containing ASL Storytelling where Avery Posner will be teaching about several animals in the Central Park Zoo as well as a dramatic story about a successful animal rescue operation. In every chapter, viewers will first see a complete story without audio or captions. Immediately following the story, there will be over 50 training questions four main activities to aid interpreters and ASL students to develop receptive skills: – Fingerspelling Check – Fact Check – Idiom & Phrase Check – Sign-to-Voice Check As a bonus, you will learn seven additional commonly used idioms and phrases in American Sign Language. Gilda Ganezer and Avery Posner will present the idioms and then show you how to use them in complete sentences. An ASL Music video along with series of bloopers ….

NEED


This poem, “NEED” created by Deaf poet Peter Cook and hearing poet, Kenny Lerner. This was created in their usual creative places: hotels on the road. This is is about a minute long. Please pass it around as the election is around the corner..