Mishka Zena

  This article appeared on the news yesterday. As a long time domestic violence advocate, I sighed and thought to myself ‘another one lost to domestic violence’. I do not know who this man is, nor do I know his wife and her hearing status. It’s something I’ve encountered too often. One death due to domestic [...]

Straight from the Dept of Justice website: “Anthony Mowl, the former assistant vice president of business development for Viable Communications Inc. (Viable), and Donald Tropp, the former human resources manager for Viable, pleaded guilty today to engaging in a conspiracy to defraud the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Video Relay Service (VRS) program of more than [...]

The news we have been waiting to hear: Viable executives arraigned Deaf-services company’s president, others plead not guilty to charges John T.C. Yeh, president of Rockville deaf-services company Viable, along with three other company executives, pleaded not guilty Monday in a New Jersey federal court to charges that include conspiracy to defraud the government. A [...]

“Prosecutors have said that they will seek unspecified jail time in addition to forfeiture of the contractors’ business.” More tidbits are included in the article.  Twenty interpreters were used by the prosecutors investigating this systematic fraud.   “The seven contractors who are allegedly defrauded the system account for approximately 15 percent of its total business“    Blink.  Damn, that’s a lot.  Twenty-Six [...]

The investigations conducted by FCC had resulted in arrests of over 2 dozen pepole involved in overcharging FCC for generating fake calls.   These arrests took place in New York, New Jersey, Florida, Texas, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon and Maryland. “The indictments charge owners and employees of the following seven companies with engaging in a scheme [...]

I’ve been away for a long time, doing a lot of traveling and working on other projects that produce concrete advocacy results in a healthy and positive direction.  Recently I checked out the blogs and vlogs. Seeing all these negativity in DeafRead and DVTV where certain people performed character assassinations and fabrications against other people, including [...]

I’m interrupting my long-planned break from blogging. I’ve taken short breaks before, but not an extended break since I began blogging almost three years ago. I’m also spending minimal time on the Internet. So far, the break has been wonderful and I’m loving it. I don’t know how much longer the break will last, though. Many [...]

Recently, in a newspaper article last week, Jamie Clark of Maryland, the founder of Clark.net,  was quoted in his e mail to Marvin Cooper, discussing about Marvin’s proposed moving to Panama.  ”The e-mail said that moving to Panama would allow Cooper to “resume the OPM (Other People’s Money) business without nasty headaches from those bastards from Wall [...]

Disagreements are permitted. This community is way too diverse to maintain an uniform thinking with the same beliefs, ideas, and philosophies. Unlike the other cultures, with the exception of gay culture, this culture isn’t hereditary for the majority of its stakeholders. Most join this exclusive group when one masters its language after finding out that [...]

I am disturbed by the personal attacks Amy Cohen Efron received for asking a question “Will this Presentation help hearing parents of deaf babies and children understand the situation better?” ‘in her vlog DEAF WORLD AS EYE SEE IT » A Question for DBC and Deaf Community. Several commenters claimed that Ms Efron is engaging [...]