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A recipe for my ASL III class. Woo! Welcome to cooking with Blair! Im blair. Now we make meat stroganoff Ten ingredients: 1 ½ lb beef tenderloin fillet 3 tbs butter 2 tbs flour 2 cup beef broth 2 tsp Dijon yellow sauce ¼ cup sour cream 1 tbs EVOO (olive oil) 1/2 small onion, sliced 1/3 cup coarsely chopped cornichons (small pickle {P mouth wiggle}) 1 lb extra wide egg noodles, cooked to package directions Salt, pepper Directions Slice meat ½ in thick, 2 in. long-- very thin strips. Salt, pepper, put in freezer Skillet, over medium heat. Melt 2 tbs butter and cook, pour flour, 1 minute. Stir meat broth. Wait 1 minute. Stir yellow saurce, sour + cream, Wait 2 / 3 minutes. Remove stove, salt, pepper Transition Heat other skillet, high heat. Add 1 tbs oil, 1 tbs butter, add meat, onion, cook high heat, meat brown on both sides, 3 - 4 minutes, Add chopped cornichons, stir Put meat on top of egg noodles, pour sauce, top with Stroganoff sauce, sprinkle parsley, Eat with pumpernickel bread
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Tyrone Giordano was born April 18, 1976 in Hartford Connecticut. He was born deaf, as were his parents. He attended school in Silver Spring in Maryland. He was mainstreamed, attending Montgomery Blair High School. He then went to Gallaudet, major what? English. He has done different roles, both theater, movie and school films. Some of his past theater roles include work with Deaf West theater, working in plays like The Miracle Worker, which was his first big role. He has performed on broadway, in plays like Big River and Pippin. He has also been in several Hollywood movies, like The Family Stone, where he was the main characters gay, deaf brother. He also played Ashton Kutchers deaf brother in the 2005 film A Lot Like Love. More recently, he played himself in the documentary see what Im saying. Youve probably seen him, even if you dont realize it, as he is also in the Signing Naturally book 1 videos! Now, Tyrone is 34, and I think hell continue to do different things as an actor.
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Joanna talks about her love of photography as an outlet for her creative expression.
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An ASL interpretation of The Origin of Love, from Hedwig and the Angry Inch!
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Years ago, my parents married, and a little while after that my mom got pregnant with me. Likewise, they started looking for a hosue. They looked around, and found one next to a GM car factory. It was a bad neighborhood, but the house was cheap. It was built around 1848, so my mom says. It was a two-story house that was pretty big. It had an attached porch, kind of like a hallway, with the second door going into the dining room. To the right was the living room. In the back was the kitchen, with a hallway and a bathroom to the right of that. There was also a playroom on the first floor. The second floor was kind of cool- thats where my bedroom, my parents bedroom, the guest bedroom and a bathroom were. The cool thing was that there was a hole in my closet, in the shape of a square, with a frame around it. The hole went in my parents bedroom, but they had their dresser butted up against it. They had a closet, and it was kind of like a little hallway, you could walk in it. If you went in it, there was a second door, and that door went to the guest bedroom. Playing hide and seek was awesome because, you should start at my bedroom, go into my closet, push my parents dresser out of the way and climb through the hole in the closet, walk to their closet, go through that end wind up in the guest bedroom. The other kids could never find me! Now, my dad rents the house out to another family. I sometimes wonder if the kids who live there do the same thing.
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InstaNetwork, a college-specific social networking app, would help creative-minded student network to create work. This was created for my Mobile Journalism class at Columbia College Chicago.
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Audio Arts & Acoustics major Chris Powley talks about why audio is so vital to him.
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A paper prototyping for my Mobile Journalism class with Dan Sinker. Woot.
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A few stories. Don't judge on the ABC one... I had no idea how hard it was to make an ABC story. :S
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John Trierweiler, a broadcast journalism student, talks about why he's passionate about the industry.
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Nikk talks about his interest in Tarot card and the importance they have played in his life.
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Theater major Kristin Andersson talks of her love for theater.
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Blair Mishleau ASL III ASL III Chapter 14 Video: When I little, maybe three, my mom went to college to learn to be a teacher. I was usually a good boy, but I got sick of her always studying (read book). Always, studying. She would spread out all of her books on the dining room (eat room) table and study all night. One time when I was 4, I got chicken pox. It was horrible. For a whole week- M, T, W, Th, F, S, Sun, I couldnt stop itching. But I was happy! For a week, I had my mom all to myself. She stayed home from work, and cared for me. She didnt do homework, she didnt sit behind a bunch of books, she just played with me. We did things like play board games, watch movies, build forts and everything else a little kid likes to do. I kept itching myself, so she gave me Calamine lotion. By Friday, though, I was feeling better, and my spots were going away. On Friday, I had to beg my mom to stay home from work, but she said that it was the last time, and that on Monday she was going back to work. I didnt want that- so I got mischievous. I found a red marker and gave myself more red spots. I ran up to my mom, hardly able to hide my smile, and said look, Im sick again! She couldnt stop laughing. I didnt understand. She told me that red marker wasnt quite the same as chicken pox. She asked why I wanted to stay sick, and I told her that I wanted time with her. We set up a new policy- every night, if I was good, I would get half an hour, sometimes more, to play with my mom. I was <b>...</b>
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Neale Baldyga, a Columbia College Chicago graduate, talks about why he cares about Mother Nature.
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Poet Zachary Green shares his love of words.
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Alyssa Benson, an ASL student, talks about why she's passionate about sign language.
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Rebecca Amstutz, a biochemistry student, talks about why she's passionate about her faith.
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Caro Griffin talks about why she's passionate about gender equality in comic books.
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My family has a nice little cottage, a shed and a garage next a lake up in Wisconsin. Lake name what? Lake Koshkonong. The cottage is protected by the water by a wall of concrete. Two years ago, it rained a lot all summer. The lake rose and rose, and eventually it got all the way to the door of our cottage. The water got to the garage and broke the door. It got to the shed too, and took it. My family and I saw it in the middle of the lake. My grandmother has a garden, and the water eroded the soil and took all of her flowers, too. Eventually, the water began to go down. It was a long process. Every day, it went down a little more. Finally, the water was below the sea wall, and everything went back to normal. Last summer, we started to fix everything. We planted new grass and flowers, bought a new shed and fixed the garage door. We also talked to a contractor about getting the cottage raised. They put metal rods under the cottage, and used pumps to raise it. Then they added a concrete foundation, making it three feet higher. Now the cottage has a basement. Its really nice. Now, this summer, were finally done fixing everything. My family is excited, as its the first time in three years that we can enjoy our summer without being afraid!
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When my mom was pregnant with me, my family wanted to move into a house. They looked around, and found one next to a GM car factory. It was a bad neighborhood, but the house was cheap. It was built around 1848, so my mom says. It was a two-story house that was pretty big. It had an attached porch, kind of like a hallway, with the second door going into the dining room. To the right was the living room. In the back was the kitchen, with a hallway and a bathroom to the right of that. There was also a playroom on the first floor. The second floor was kind of cool- thats where my bedroom, my parents bedroom, the guest bedroom and a bathroom were. The cool thing was that there was a hole in my closet, in the shape of a square, with a frame around it. The hole went in my parents bedroom, but they had their dresser butted up against it. They had a closet, and it was kind of like a little hallway, you could walk in it. If you went in it, there was a second door, and that door went to the guest bedroom. Playing hide and seek was awesome because, you should start at my bedroom, go into my closet, push my parents dresser out of the way and climb through the hole in the closet, walk to their closet, go through that end wind up in the guest bedroom. The other kids could never find me! Now, my dad rents the house out to another family. I sometimes wonder if the kids who live there do the same thing.
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As a pre-teen, I found American Sign Language (ASL), to be a neat thing that my peers didn’t know. I was generally a fan of anything my peers didn’t know, as I was a dejected kid with few friends. I found the language to be a fun outlet for myself, and I took a few very short courses on it in the summers when I was in middle school.

Fast-forward several years, when I was beginning college. While searching for a minor, I realized that Columbia offered had a good ASL-English interpretation program. I started with my first class, Deaf Culture, and fell in love with the language.

This time, it wasn’t just to know something my peers don’t (while that’s still pretty neat), but rather a love for learning a new language that was both complex and underrepresented.

I just returned from a cool deaf event hosted at a pizza place, and I am surprised by how much my signing has improved in the last year.

Last summer I took ASL I, and struggled to talk about simple matters such as where I grew up, what my name was and my favorite color. Now I can (still with some difficulty) talk about more complex matters such as why I chose to double major.

While minoring in a language has been very challenging, and I certainly cannot assume an easy A from any of the classes in that department, I am happy I chose the path I did.

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