[Journalists] test messageRe: networking/general discussion

[Elizabeth Campbell]

Hello Jean,

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Liz
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From: "jean parker" <radioforever at gmail.com>
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Subject: [Journalists] test messageRe: networking/general discussion


>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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