COMPLETE: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 095 - jo

[Sue Anderson]

Thanks to Jo for helping out! My computer did an automatic update and I stopped getting notifications when there had been posts to the SNF thread. Apologies to everyone that I didn't answer more expeditiously!

[Sue Anderson]

No reply for me?

Hi Skibum69,

Welcome to the Short Nonfiction Collection! We didn't mean to slight you. I'm the BC. My computer did an automatic update, and I stopped getting notifications when there had been a post to the SNF. I see our metacoordinator, Jo, has helped you out with the one-minute test. We look forward to your contribution to the SNF!

[Sue Anderson]

Sue,
You can mark Roget's Thesaurus, Introduction, Excerpt (1853) PL OK!
Excellent reading.

I hope to be back with a contribution for this edition.

Hi Silverquill, Thanks very much for the PL!

[Sue Anderson]

I'm currently recording an article for Rapunzelina's National Geographic collection describing an expedition to Franz Josef Land and decided to take a look at what the Encyclopedia Britannica has to say about the place. Here's the result
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf095_franzjosefland_encyclopediabritannica_pn81_128kb.mp3 duration 8:16 although I imagine it will probably be hard to follow without a map in front of you.

Hi Piotrek 81,

Your selection is PL OK! I will say I'd never heard of Franz Joseph Land, and the first thing I found out was we're not talking about New Zealand! There is, however, a Franz Joseph glacier in New Zealand, accessible, per Google maps, by an 8-hour hike or helicopter. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Franz+Josef+Glacier/@-43.4600403,170.1698186,5022m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x6d2bd15fbd26651d:0xbd07539505b2146b!8m2!3d-43.4606523!4d170.1860509

The real Franz Joseph Land, I presume, is even less accessible. An interesting group of islands, covered it seems, with glaciers. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Franz+Josef+Land/@80.3322409,49.5621888,594945m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x4517eeeff40c38cb:0x1cb42ca4f8a9baf1!8m2!3d80.799898!4d55.2478176

Thanks for this. I enjoy learning about new places! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Franz_Josef_Land

[Sue Anderson]

Obi in the Caribbean by Henry S. Whitehead
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf095_obiinthecaribbean_whitehead_bt_128kb.mp3
11:46
source: https://archive.org/details/sim_commonweal_1927-06-01_6_4/page/93/mode/1up

I contributed one Whitehead essay a few collections back where he makes an argument for the popularity of weird fiction in the marketplace and how it isn't being served by the leading publications. Whitehead himself penned quite a few seminal pieces of weird fiction over the years, using as a basis for many of them the local folklore and superstitions of the West Indies where he dwelled for many years. Here's an essay from him discussing many of those beliefs and how they have spread over time in the Virgin Islands and elsewhere in the Caribbean.

Hi flavo5000,

Thanks for this additional article by Henry Whitehead! Your other selection by Whitehead was in SNF Vol. 089 https://librivox.org/short-nonfiction-collection-vol-089-by-various/

This was an interesting discussion of West Indies beliefs. I think we all have our superstions and magical thinking, to a greater or lesser degree. I rather liked the idea of tying a string around one's big toe to allow it to "see" and prevent stumbling. I might try that myself.

PL OK!

[Sue Anderson]

Good Evening:

Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964),
The Eighty-eighth Congress of the United States of America, At The Second Session
Read by Dale Grothmann
Time 3:57

Audio at: https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf095_gulftonkin_uscongress_dg_128kb.mp3

Text at: https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/tonkin-gulf-resolution

I can remember when this was a hot issue. Fortunately, times change.

Dale

Hi Dale,

Thanks very much for reading this important document relevant to the history of the Vietnam War. "... President Johnson, and later President Nixon, relied on the the resolution as the legal basis for their military policies in Vietnam ... The resolution was repealed in January 1971 in an attempt to curtail President Nixon's power to continue the war." [ U.S. National Archives, from the commentary explaining the resolution.] https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/tonkin-gulf-resolution

PL OK!

[Skibum69]

Ok, I will get to it as soon as I can.

Here is my one minute test.

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/one_minute_test.mp3

[Sue Anderson]

Ok, I will get to it as soon as I can.

Here is my one minute test.

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/one_minute_test.mp3

Hi Skibum98, Thank you for resending your one-minute test. I listened to it. You are well on the way to a good recording style! Right now, you do still have a few technical issues that need attention, so I've sent your recording over to the One-Minute Test forum thread, where one of our LibriVox "techies" can help you out. Here is the link to that thread: viewtopic.php?t=96644. You'll see where I posted your file there.

[Skibum69]

Ok, hopefully my last one is better.

[donma03]

Hi,

In response to interest in the aggregate Presidential Inaugural Speeches, I am submitting inaugural address recordings as non-fiction topics, as suggested by mightyfelix.

Title President Bill Clinton First Inaugural Address Wednesday, January 21, 1993 from U.S. PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURAL ADDRESSES
Author Assembled by James Linden
Link to audio file https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf095_presidentbillclintonfirstinauguraladdressjanuary211993_linden_md_128kb.mp3
Link to the source https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4938/pg4938-images.html#link2H_4_0052
Length in minutes 12:41
Your name Maurice Donegan

Let me know if you need more, different, or better information.

Best Regards,

Maurice Donegan

[Sue Anderson]

Hi,

In response to interest in the aggregate Presidential Inaugural Speeches, I am submitting inaugural address recordings as non-fiction topics, as suggested by mightyfelix.

Title President Bill Clinton First Inaugural Address Wednesday, January 21, 1993 from U.S. PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURAL ADDRESSES
Author Assembled by James Linden
Link to audio file https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf095_presidentbillclintonfirstinauguraladdressjanuary211993_linden_md_128kb.mp3
Link to the source https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4938/pg4938-images.html#link2H_4_0052
Length in minutes 12:41
Your name Maurice Donegan

Let me know if you need more, different, or better information.

Best Regards,

Maurice Donegan

Hi Maurice,

Welcome to the Short Nonfiction Collection (SNF)! Thank you for your contribution to vol. 095. Presidential speeches make excellent reads for the SNF, particularly when we get to revisit moments from the (relatively) recent past. You read Clinton's speech very well!

The source you read from, a compilation of speeches made by Gutenberg volunteers, is in the public domain, but I thought you'd like to know there is also another (and probably better way) to read these inaugural addresses directly from U.S. government sources:
https://www.govinfo.gov/features/presidential-inaugural-addresses.

I proof listened your recording with both the Gutenberg compilation and the Congressional Record for January 20, 1993 in front of me. I proof listened this way because I've found that sometimes the volunteers making Gutenberg's transcriptions of original sources make slip ups. In this instance, the Gutenberg transcription has Clinton making the speech on Wednesday, January 21, 1993, when in fact he gave the speech on Wednesday January 20th!

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1993-pt1/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1993-pt1-4-2.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Bill_Clinton

I will accept your recording as PL OK if you want, but perhaps you would want to change the date? I think for accuracy's sake, that would be a good idea. Please let me know what you want to do.

Best wishes,

[donma03]

Sue,

I've uploaded snf095_presidentbillclintonfirstinauguraladdressjanuary201993_linden_md_128kb.mp3
with the corrected date in content, metadata, and the filename.
However, my userid (donma03) isn't registered with this thread's project (18697 Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 95), thus I can not edit my entry. If you can add my ID (donma03) to the access credentials, I'd do the following:

• Add the new filename with a run time of 12:40

• Delete the prior file name

Let me know how you want to proceed.

Best Regards,

Maurice Donegan

[Sue Anderson]

Sue,

I've uploaded snf095_presidentbillclintonfirstinauguraladdressjanuary201993_linden_md_128kb.mp3
with the corrected date in content, metadata, and the filename.
However, my userid (donma03) isn't registered with this thread's project (18697 Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 95), thus I can not edit my entry. If you can add my ID (donma03) to the access credentials, I'd do the following:

• Add the new filename with a run time of 12:40

• Delete the prior file name

Let me know how you want to proceed.

Best Regards,

Maurice Donegan

Hi Maurice,
Thanks for uploading the file with the correct date.

I see that your last LibriVox project was a solo. Congratulations on A Town in Drowning. https://librivox.org/a-town-is-drowning-by-frederik-pohl/ Also, congratulations on your first grandchild! -- In order to understand your present concern, I had to back track to your last project which is why I know about the grandchild!

Anyway--- solos and group projects work differently as regards access to the Magic Window (MW). As you know, in a solo, the narrator has access to the Magic Window and can change a file name. In a group project, such as the SNF, individual contributors do not have access to the MW. (You can imagine how chaos might ensue with perhaps 20 different people making changes to the MW!!!). Only the book coordinator (BC) and the metacoordinator (MC), have access to the MW.

When you upload a corrected file, if both the corrected and the original file have the same name, the corrected file automatically overrides the old file in the MW. But, if the file name has been changed, someone with access to the MW has to enter the new file in the MW. In the SNF, who does this is the BC (book coordinator), i.e. me.

So, Maurice -- IF you saved the URL link from the upload to knotyouraveragejo's mailbox, what you need to do now is post that link here, so I can change the MW. However, IF you don't have the actual "active" URL, please DO NOT re-upload the file. Our metacoordinator, Jo, will just fish your file out of her mail box and update the MW.

In future--it's standard practice, always to post the active URL link to any uploaded file here on this forum thread.

[donma03]

Sue,

Apologies for my miss-step.
I totally get the access limitation, this area could quickly become a management quagmire.

My corrections for the January 20 date correction:
Title (you did this already) President Bill Clinton First Inaugural Address Wednesday, January 20, 1993 from U.S. PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURAL ADDRESSES
Link to new audio file with corrected audio content, metadata, and file name change https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf095_presidentbillclintonfirstinauguraladdressjanuary201993_linden_md_128kb.mp3
Updated length in minutes 12:40

The audio file with wrong date, that can be deleted is https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf095_presidentbillclintonfirstinauguraladdressjanuary211993_linden_md_128kb.mp3

Thank you for the thorough explanation and your patience.

Best Regards,

Maurice Donegan

[Sue Anderson]

Sue,

Apologies for my miss-step.
I totally get the access limitation, this area could quickly become a management quagmire.

My corrections for the January 20 date correction:
Title (you did this already) President Bill Clinton First Inaugural Address Wednesday, January 20, 1993 from U.S. PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURAL ADDRESSES
Link to new audio file with corrected audio content, metadata, and file name change https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf095_presidentbillclintonfirstinauguraladdressjanuary201993_linden_md_128kb.mp3
Updated length in minutes 12:40

The audio file with wrong date, that can be deleted is https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf095_presidentbillclintonfirstinauguraladdressjanuary211993_linden_md_128kb.mp3

Thank you for the thorough explanation and your patience.

Best Regards,

Maurice Donegan

Thank you, Maurice! Magic Window updated. Selection PL OK!