[Journalists] test messageRe: networking/general discussion

[jean parker]

I am having trouble submitting messages to this list.  Please let me know if 
this gets through.

Jean Parker
Pune, India

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Graham Downie" <grahamd at netspeed.com.au>
To: "Blind Professional Journalists List" <journalists at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 4:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Journalists] networking/general discussion


> Ben: a few thoughts. Yes, you should research world times but research is
> done in many ways. Asking someone who knows is still research. Canberra,
> where  I live, is on summer time until late March. This puts it 18 hours
> ahead of Pacific time in the US and Canada. I guess that is 15 hours ahead
> of where you live.
>
> I began as a journalist when recording interviews was generally frowned 
> upon
> by journalists and some interviewees. I wrote on a typewriter, so could 
> not
> proof my copy and often had to begin again when interrupted by telephone
> calls.
>
> But a late friend, Graeme Edwards, was a journalist on the Melbourne 
> Herald
> 10 or more years before I began. He died in 1983 and I still use his 
> Perkins
> Braille writer, but only for writing file cards.
>
>>From the US, after your international code, is it 001 or 011? my telephone
> numbers are:
>
> Home 61-2-6161-1901
>
> Work 61-2-6280-2206.
>
> I only recently began using Skype. It is an excellent method of
> communicating inexpensively.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Graham Downie
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ben Hoff" <grassroots31194 at yahoo.com>
> To: <journalists at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 9:16 AM
> Subject: [Journalists] networking/general discussion
>
>
>> Greetings to all!
>>    The overwhelming response to my E-mail has been so encouraging.  It is
>> so nice to know I am not going in to uncharted territory.  I will be
>> contacting all of you,  (via one medium or other).
>>  I thaught about asking Graham, Gary,  and Sardar timezone information,
>> However, as a good journalist, I figured it would be better to research 
>> it
>> myself.
>>  Speaking of research,  Liz is right about police and court documents
>> being accessable online.     In fact in many ways  this is the  greatest
>> time in history to be blind.  Between adaptive technology and orientation
>> and mobility, the oppurtunities for employment and productive living are
>> endless.  I am excited to be able to achieve my dream.  One hundred years
>> ago this would not have been possible.
>>    I will be contacting everyone who responded to my request.  I
>>     can't wait to interview you all.
>>     Ben
>>   PS.  I am considering cancelling  digest mode.  Is the alternative less
>> hassle?  And yes, editing the subgect line does make it less confusing 
>> for
>> all.
>>
>>
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