[nfb-talk] Time of Day Services:

[Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]]

It is local for the MD area, 301-936-1212

Terry Powers
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Sherri [mailto:flmom2006 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2011 2:30 PM
To: NFB Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Time of Day Services:

How do you access the Verizon time and weather service? I didn't even know it was available.

Sherri
----- Original Message -----
From: "T. Joseph Carter" <carter.tjoseph at gmail.com>
To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2011 7:24 AM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Time of Day Services:


>A talking watch is $10, if you can stand to use the infernal things.  $20 
>if you buy it at Radio Shack.  Having a means to tell time is considered 
>one of the prerequisites in my state for attending a training program.  If 
>someone tells me that they are stuck because they haven't got a way to tell 
>time because they're blind, my only reasonable answer is to suck it up and 
>get a watch.
>
> If truly need be, we can get a person a watch.  But for the most part, I 
> think the problem there is not the want of a watch, but rather the want of 
> the motivation to be no longer dependent upon others for something so 
> basic as knowing what time it is.
>
> Joseph
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 04:49:47PM -0400, Kenneth Chrane wrote:
>>Because not every body has a talking watch.
>>Some people don't have a Braille Watch.
>>Hope this helps.
>>Ken Chrane
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Jacobson" 
>><steve.jacobson at visi.com>
>>To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 3:27 PM
>>Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Time of Day Services:
>>
>>
>>>Ken,
>>>
>>>Why do we need these services more than anyone else?
>>>
>>>Best regards,
>>>
>>>Steve Jacobson
>>>
>>>On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:14:50 -0400, Kenneth Chrane wrote:
>>>
>>>>As many of you know, Verizon provides weather, and Time of Day Telephone 
>>>>Services.
>>>
>>>>As of June 1, 2011 These services will no longer be available to Verizon 
>>>>Telephone Customers.
>>>
>>>>The Time and Weather is convenient for blind citizens and older 
>>>>americans.
>>>
>>>>So Let us voice our objections to their removing of these services.
>>>
>>>>The blind need them.
>>>>Sincerely,
>>>
>>>>Ken Chrane
>>>
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