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  Christy Smith | The Deaf Survivor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Christy’s mom was determined to give her daughter as much of an advantage as she could.
Christy flourished, she was on the fast track of the personal successes she had hoped for.
Christy graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in sociology/criminology from Gallaudet University.
www.amazinchristy.com /profile.htm   (282 words)

  
 Home Page 3
Christy Hardin Smith was born and raised in Williamstown, West Virginia.
Christy is happily married to her husband Bill, and shares her home with two ornery dachshunds, Tasha and PJ, and a ginger tabby named Henry.
Christy has been writing fiction and poetry since she was knee high to a grasshopper, and will continue to hold a pen until her aging hands force her to get a talk and type program for her computer.
www.sff.net /people/ReddHedd   (356 words)

  
 TVRules.net - Survivor Amazon: Office Politics — Christy
Christy has a degree in sociology/criminology, which leads me to believe that she has the ability to read people and make careful and calculated decisions about where they might stand.
Christy appears to be on the surface a very nice woman with a friendly helpful nature but also one who will be keen to know what she is doing.
Christy should never have to attempt to move up the leadership ladder as once she has gained her allies; they may be hard pressed to vote her out.
www.realitytvrules.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1252   (785 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Christy Smith: Tioga Elementary teacher was shot to death in September 2000.
Smith and former co-defendant Joseph Ward of Deville were charged with killing Christy Smith.
Smith, he said, then agreed that the plea bargain deal was in his best interest, as well as in his parents' best interest.
www.thetowntalk.com /html/0731C9F4-0632-4051-A34C-8E0CF09107BA.shtml   (610 words)

  
 Survivor - Christy
Christy attended Gallaudet University in Washington DC receiving a bachelors degree in sociology and criminology.
When Christie’s tribe went to its new home she informed the group that she was deaf and communicated with reading lips.
In the same episode Christie’s tribe sat around a campfire talking while Christy went to sleep because of the communication barriers caused by her inability to read lips, due to it being dark and noisy.
www.e-bility.com /carrie/survivor.php   (609 words)

  
 alldeaf.com v4 - 'Survivor' star plans her own show
Christy Smith, a local activist for the deaf and former contestant on the hit television show "Survivor," will launch her own TV show this Christmas.
Because she is deaf, Smith said she never watched television as a child, but the attention she received after her appearance on "Survivor" gave her the idea to use the medium to promote awareness of the challenges facing deaf children.
Smith seems to have gone the way of other ex-reality-TV stars who scrape and fight for every last morsel of attention after they fall from the spotlight forever after their shows end.
www.alldeaf.com /showthread.php?t=12716   (1137 words)

  
 Survivorfire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Christy stayed very non-committal about her vote this week, and as a result, Heidi and Rob cut a deal to save their own skins.
Christy is a sweet girl, who represented the deaf community well, but in terms of understanding and playing the strategic aspect of the game, she failed miserably.
Christy was emotionally and strategically pliable enough that she would have gone with that.
www.survivorfire.com /nuke/article.php?sid=890   (1757 words)

  
 CBS
Christy Smith attended high school and college in Washington, D.C., where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology/criminology from Gallaudet University.
Smith is deaf (she can hear minimal sounds but relies on lip-reading skills).
Smith is currently single and resides in Basalt, Colo. Her birth date is September 13, 1978.
www.cbs.com /primetime/survivor6/survivors/prof/christy.shtml   (167 words)

  
 Family in new Woodbine home with help from Homebuyers Club - Tuesday, 06/29/04   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Smith is the 500th person to graduate from the WCO's Homebuyers Club, a one-year counseling program in Nashville that assists people in buying their own home.
Smith enrolled in the fast-track program, a two-month program for people who are looking to close on a house early.
Smith and her mother, Sandra Smith, knew right when they walked in that this was going to be Christy Smith's first home.
www.tennessean.com /local/archives/04/06/53434886.shtml?Element_ID=53434886   (500 words)

  
 First Christy Harris Memorial Nursing Scholarship Awarded
Christy Harris is the mother of Daniel, David and Jenny Smith, and the grandmother of Madison Christine Smith.
She is the daughter of the late George and Lorraine Amato of Ridgeley, West Virginia, and the sister of the late Tony Amato, Jacksonville, N.C. Christy passed away on January 28, 2003, at the age of 50 after a short, courageous battle with ovarian cancer.
Christy Smith Harris was a longtime employee at Memorial Hospital.
www.wmhs.com /news/oct04/hottschol100504.cfm   (386 words)

  
 Deaf cast member survives 'Survivor' / Woman raised awareness before voted off show
Christy Smith was a survivor long before she appeared on "Survivor: Amazon." Smith, a 24-year-old from Colorado, was born with a 90 percent hearing loss.
Smith said she was often ignored and left out of tribal decisions and campfire discussions.
In retrospect, Christy wishes she had signed more, but she was "so in the hearing world" on the show that she got used to speaking.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/05/08/DD207399.DTL   (646 words)

  
 Galloping toward success, teen ropes in rodeo - Columbia Missourian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Christy Smith’s family teases her about her rodeo skills when they tell about her mom falling off a horse when she was just a few weeks pregnant with Christy.
Smith considers herself lucky to be able to compete, considering that without her contacts she is legally blind.
Smith acknowledges that she has learned more than riding and rodeo skills from competing.
www.columbiamissourian.com /news/story.php?ID=7951   (695 words)

  
 Greeley Tribune - News
Being on "Survivor: Amazon" was the hardest thing Christy Smith had ever done, but her struggles didn't have much to do with losing 25 pounds in a month or sleeping on the ground.
Even though she was frustrated to tears at times, Smith had a bitter advantage -- she was left out of the back-stabbing and plotting because no one made much of an effort to talk with her, so it was easy for her to stay in the background while the others were voted off.
Smith absorbed some criticism from a small portion of the deaf community who didn't like the fact that she only spoke and read lips instead of signing.
www.greeleytrib.com /article/20050220/NEWS/102200057   (1163 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Christy Smith, a 2000 graduate of Gallaudet University and a 1996 graduate of the Model Secondary School for the Deaf on the Gallaudet campus was selected as one of the 16 finalists for the upcoming series.
Christy also did an internship with abused women and she used some of the Discovery activities to help the women develop trust in people again.
Christy’s educational, cultural, and social experiences at Gallaudet have paid off and now the results will be seen beginning February 13 on Survivor: The Amazon.
news.gallaudet.edu /newsreleases/Article.asp?ID=2482   (544 words)

  
 Cover Story 4/99
Craig and Christy Smith are right at home in the hotel business, traveling to some 25 cities a year to visit many of the 900 hotels they insure.
Craig and Christy recognized that the hotel business required their complete attention if they wanted to be successful in that field.
Christy concludes that the really exciting part of this is that automation and "being in the forefront of how independent agents can handle a policy efficiently and effectively means we are in the position to double our hotel volume with the people we have on hand.
www.roughnotes.com /rnmagazine/1999/april99/p14.htm   (1283 words)

  
 Diet Doctor
Christy was so full all she could do was lie on the couch and rub her stretched belly.
Smith, it is okay nurse, I will see her." Christy marched into his office and threw the pills on his desk.
Christy had no problems resisting temptation sometimes (though she didn't know it, like when Dr. Ross gave her real appetite suppressants), but when the hunger came she was like a slave to the food.
www.dimensionsmagazine.com /Weight_Room/stories/diet_doctor.html   (3431 words)

  
 PressRelease2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Executive producers for "Christy" are Tom Blomquist, who served as writer and supervising producer of the original "Christy" series on CBS, and John Schneider ("Dukes of Hazzard").
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1980, Smith is the stepdaughter of a documentary filmmaker and as a consequence, she became well acquainted with a public lifestyle at a young age.
The "Christy" movies are produced in association with Canan FilmWorks, LLC with partners John Agoglia, Tony Fantozzi and John Schneider.
www.christy.tv /ChristyPressRelease2.html   (419 words)

  
 CBS
Christy, in Alex's chat, he said that you probably would feel as if you are not portrayed accurately on the show.
Christy, I was so upset last night to see you get voted out of the Amazon.
Christy, I was really hoping you would win the game.
www.cbs.com /primetime/survivor6/survivors/chat/christy/chat01.shtml   (694 words)

  
 New life for the century-old Arizona Garden :01/03
The restoration is a collaborative project between the San Francisco Succulent and Cactus Society and Facilities Operations, said Christy Smith, who works half time as a library specialist and half time coordinating work at the garden.
One such volunteer is Matthew Footer, a research associate at the Theriot Lab in the Department of Biochemistry, where he studies cell mobility by moving microscopic amounts of liquid from test tube to test tube.
Smith and volunteers are scrupulous about following the original contours of the bed ­ a misplaced rock wall was moved 8 feet when the mistake was discovered ­ and the center bed has been restored as closely as possible to the original.
www.stanford.edu /dept/news/pr/03/cactus115.html   (1379 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Washington, DC—Christy Smith, who graduated from Gallaudet University in 2000, will be one of the 16 people (eight men and eight women) on the CBS blockbuster program, Survivor.
Christy will be on “Survivor: The Amazon,” which is scheduled to begin on Thursday, February 13.
Christy, who has some residual hearing, received her Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology/criminology.
news.gallaudet.edu /newsreleases/Article.asp?ID=2464   (165 words)

  
 Christy Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christy_Smith   (124 words)

  
 [No title]
Christy Smith came up with this idea from a similar project in a town in which she lived in Ohio.
Smith loves helping students, though she was not thrilled that the program in Ohio was through a big corporation.
When Smith decided to start the Shoes for Kids project, she wanted it to be with the community.
www.sun-herald.com /headline3.cfm?DateEntered=6/21/2005   (813 words)

  
 CBS
On night 33, after a tension-packed Tribal Council, Christy Smith, the 24-year-old adventure guide for the deaf from Basalt, Colorado, had her Cinderella experience cut short as she was voted out of the tribe 4-2.
Christy's earlier indecision led to her downfall, as she couldn't commit to either alliance after the crafty Rob Cesternino led the assault against her.
Believing that she had been in a position of power, Christy was shocked by the outcome of the vote as she left Tribal Council.
www.cbs.com /primetime/survivor6/show/episode11/s6story.shtml   (372 words)

  
 CNN/SI - Christy Smith
Smith prefers to stay on the court as much as possible.
Christy Smith gets to squeeze a few more minutes out of her college career.
Since that 1994-95 season, when Smith was named the SEC freshman of the year, she has cut back a bit.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /basketball/college/events/1998/tournament/women/spotlight/smith.html   (525 words)

  
 Parents and Teens
Christy Smith, guard for the WNBA’s Charlotte Stings and point guard for Arkansas’ Lady Razorbacks from 1994-1998, is considered one of the best women basketball players in history.
During her college basketball career, Christy was named SEC Freshmen of the Year and led the nation that year in free throw percentage.
She graduated in 1998 from the University of Arkansas with a major in Exercise Science and her goal in life is to eventually become a coach or to be involved in some sort of ministry where she can use her talent to serve her God.
www.parentsandteens.com /ChristySmithBasketballStar.html   (327 words)

  
 More Historical Books and Publications Online-Cherokee County-1889
In February, 1847, he was united in marriage to Miss Ruth Christy; she was born and reared in Prince Edward County, Canada, and is a daughter of Henry and Maria Christy.
Smith rented a saw-mill; he divided his time between the mill and clearing a farm, on which he lived about nine years.
Smith's first house in the county was built of cottonwood, which he purchased from the railroad company, and the first winter was a cold one.
www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/historical/cherokee_25.html   (5519 words)

  
 Christy Information And Photos Of Christy Turlington.fashion Guide And More!
Christy History: Note to our viewers: There are a fair number of photographic images on this page, so it may take a while to load.
Lauren Christy was born in London and from an early age she wanted to be a ballet dancer living in Los Angeles, Lauren Christy released her self titled semi autobiographical.
Christy Yorke, the critically acclaimed author of Magic Spells and The Wishing Garden, talks about her books and the writing life.
www.99hosted.com /names947.html   (445 words)

  
 Articles - Hands & Voices
Hands and Voices recently had the opportunity to converse with Christy Smith, the now famous Deaf contestant on the CBS show, "Survivor" about her life after the show.
Christy:  A lot of the comments I get are how much people were rooting for me. The question I get a lot, is, "How come you were chosen to be on the show?"...(as if they were surprised I was given the opportunity).
Christy:  I felt like if I wanted to succeed in this world, I needed to merge into the deaf world and in high school I was ready to make that change...
www.handsandvoices.org /articles/misc/chrsty.html   (639 words)

  
 Lauren Lee Smith as Christy and Stewart Finlay-McLennan as MacNeill Exclusive Interview about Neil and Christy
For the sake of this discussion, let's say that Christy is to marry MacNeill and PAX springs for the couple to have a honeymoon trip.
With Christy married, will it be easier or harder to come back in a new series or new movies this year and play this character, why or why not.
However, if Mac marries Christy, then his dreams come true but due to the reality of being married, their lives will be much more intertwined and therefore complicated.
www.neilandchristy.com /interview2.html   (3011 words)

  
 Movie-Warehouse.com - DVD Christy - A Change of Seasons
Christy: A Change of Seasons is just a wonderful movie for both children and parents.
Christy is devistated by the death of her dear friend Fairlight Spencer (played by Ingrid Torrance) and begins to question her belief in God.
Christy throws herself into help Dr. MacNeill care for the ill and tries not to think about her loss.
www.movie-warehouse.com /Reviews/ItemId/B00005LQ0V/ReviewPage/2   (508 words)

  
 SurvivorWeb - All Things Survivor
Though proud of Smith and what she's already achieved, Blocker worries that her appearance on "Survivor" may be misinterpreted by some, recalling the criticism generated by Matlin's attempts to improve her speech and broaden her range as an actress.
Though she was one of the first outside Smith's family to know that Smith had applied to "Survivor" -- and had to sign a confidentiality agreement early in the interview process -- Blocker said she had some misgivings even as she encouraged Smith to pursue her goals.
Both Bob Smith and Blocker agreed that Christy -- who's not allowed to give interviews till her final episode airs -- is less interested in the show's $1 million prize than in the opportunity to bring awareness of deaf culture and encourage deaf and hard-of-hearing youngsters to realize their capabilities.
www.survivorthailand.com /archives/000017.php   (1831 words)

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