| 8. Falcons: Jamaal Anderson, Defensive End, Arkansas
At a time when their star player is accused of having a family that is involved in dog fighting, the newest addition to the Falcons, Jamaal Anderson, is a family man -- but in a good way. He grew up just outside the Arkansas campus because that's where his dad works, and he chose the school to stay close to his family. He has said that whatever team drafts him, his sister is going to move with him to that city. Anderson's extremely close family is led by his father, who according to Anderson was the first deaf African-American ever to earn a Ph.D. Glenn Anderson, who directs the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center for Persons who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing at the University of Arkansas, wanted his son to stay in school for another year, and Jamaal has promised that he'll get his degree.
Rally girls visit Hearing Dogs training centre.
Rally drivers Jayne Auden and Amanda Cornforth took some horsepower to Hearing Dogs for Deaf People as they visited the charity's Beatrice Wright training centre near Selby, North Yorkshire with the rally car ahead of their Jim Clark National Rally fundraising outing on May 25-26.
The pair are raising money for Hearing Dogs and promoting deaf awareness through their sport of rallying with the Hear and Now project by contesting the Jim Clark National Rally, which is based in the Scottish Borders, together.
Auden is hard of hearing herself but hears through the use of digital hearing aids and it has never held her back from achieving in life.
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US prisoners groom dogs for disabled war veterans
EDWARD PARENT, 31, is doing 10 years at a medium-security prison here for killing a teenage girl while drunk driving. Chuck, who dozes in Parent's cell, has committed no crime. Chuck is a Labrador retriever, one of dozens of dogs being trained by prison inmates in a fast-growing programme that provides "service dogs" to help US veterans who have lost arms and legs or suffered brain injuries in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. "The Iraq war is going to change the whole demographics of the disabled population in this country," said Sheila O'Brien, executive director of the National Education for Assistance Dog Service (NEADS), which has trained dogs to assist people who are deaf or physically disabled since 1976. O'Brien tapped the nation's swelling prison population for help since 1998, after some persuading by then Massachusetts prison commissioner Michael Maloney.
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