COMPLETE: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 102 - jo

[JefferySmith]

Hi Sue,

I tried to make my voice as normal as possible, but it may still be too mechanical to pass muster. If so, I will rerecord it when my health improves. I relied on Replaygain to bring me to 89db, so I'm trusting that it worked. Let me know what you think. I may have to change my mic technique as well.

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf102_ifyourbaby_deptoflabort_js_128kb.mp3

Recording time - 29:31

Jeffery

[Sue Anderson]

Hi Sue,

I tried to make my voice as normal as possible, but it may still be too mechanical to pass muster. If so, I will rerecord it when my health improves. I relied on Replaygain to bring me to 89db, so I'm trusting that it worked. Let me know what you think. I may have to change my mic technique as well.

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf102_ifyourbaby_deptoflabort_js_128kb.mp3

Recording time - 29:31

Jeffery

Hi Jeffery, Sorry to hear about your cold, and hope you are well soon. It's a lousy time of year to be under the weather.

The new microphone explains why you sounded different on this recording than the last. New mics always take some getting used to. You voice, on this last file you just sent up is much improved; it sounds very much like your voice on The Bark Kathleen.

When I ran this latest file through Checker, the dB rate was 89.6 (great!) BUT the file failed on two counts:

CHECKER's comments:
The bit rate should be 128 kbps.

The recording should use a constant bit rate rather than variable bit rate (VBR).

so, FULL STOP, as they say.

Recording technicalities are not my thing. However, there are lots of techies on LibriVox who are eager to offer advice. Here is a list of the best places to ask for help on the forum.

You can check your own Technical Specifications:
viewtopic.php?t=36489

Need Help? Got Advice?
viewforum.php?f=23

Help! I have an Audacity problem
viewtopic.php?t=40238

Video Tutorials for LibriVox
viewtopic.php?t=33439

Some more tutorial-ish videos
viewtopic.php?t=78647


If worst comes to worst, and you do not get the answers you need, we will fix up this latest file on our end of things, at the SNF. So, PLEASE, do NOT re-record the piece over again. It isn't necessary.

[JefferySmith]

Sue,

I am so sorry about these problems. In order to get up to 89db, I had to switch to Audacity because the magic 89db plugin only works with it. What I didn't know is that it would change the parameters during export. I will learn Audacity now and use it from now on.

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf102_ifyourbaby_deptoflabort_js_128kb.mp3

I pray that this is correct.

Jeffery

[Sue Anderson]

Sue,

I am so sorry about these problems. In order to get up to 89db, I had to switch to Audacity because the magic 89db plugin only works with it. What I didn't know is that it would change the parameters during export. I will learn Audacity now and use it from now on.

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf102_ifyourbaby_deptoflabort_js_128kb.mp3

I pray that this is correct.

Jeffery

Jeffery, Prayers answered! This file passed the Checker app. If you're not using the Checker app already, please do so from now on. Checker was designed by a LibriVox volunteer specifically to check files (before you upload them) against LibriVox's technical standards, and it has a help program built in. https://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/Checker

Compared to your original file, the voice quality on this file is superb. LibriVox was started with everybody using Audacity. It's a simple program to use and I recommend you stick with it. Then, if you do have problems, there are plenty of people around that are familiar with the program and can help you out.

PL OK!

[JefferySmith]

Thanks so much Sue. I'll get checker right now! No more problems of this type, I promise.

Jeffery

[lightcrystal]

Here is my submission:

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf102_typhoid_thomson_lc_128kb.mp3

Typhoid fever in Melbourne in 1878
publication year: 1879
Author: William Thomson [1833-1907]
Link to source: https://archive.org/details/b21456100/page/n1/mode/2up
length : 23:02

[Sue Anderson]

Here is my submission:

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf102_typhoid_thomson_lc_128kb.mp3

Typhoid fever in Melbourne in 1878
publication year: 1879
Author: William Thomson [1833-1907]
Link to source: https://archive.org/details/b21456100/page/n1/mode/2up
length : 23:02

Hi lightcrystal, Thanks for this article about typhoid deaths in Melbourne! Thomson certainly makes his case that "fudging" death statistics blindsides efforts to improve public health.

Maybe you've already seen this obituary? I found it interesting.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/221751577

Dr. William Thomson (1819-1883) "...his writings on typhoid fever are regarded as a valuable contribution to medical literaure. The deceased gentleman published largely in connection with professional subjects, and he also entered with great warmth into the controversy as to the authorship of Shakespeare, sustaining the theory that Shakespeare's plays were written by Bacon, in support of which he published several pamphlets."

PL OK!

[lightcrystal]

Here is my submission:

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf102_typhoid_thomson_lc_128kb.mp3

Typhoid fever in Melbourne in 1878
publication year: 1879
Author: William Thomson [1833-1907]
Link to source: https://archive.org/details/b21456100/page/n1/mode/2up
length : 23:02

Hi lightcrystal, Thanks for this article about typhoid deaths in Melbourne! Thomson certainly makes his case that "fudging" death statistics blindsides efforts to improve public health.

Maybe you've already seen this obituary? I found it interesting.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/221751577

Dr. William Thomson (1819-1883) "...his writings on typhoid fever are regarded as a valuable contribution to medical literaure. The deceased gentleman published largely in connection with professional subjects, and he also entered with great warmth into the controversy as to the authorship of Shakespeare, sustaining the theory that Shakespeare's plays were written by Bacon, in support of which he published several pamphlets."

PL OK!

I hadn't seen his obituary. Thank you! Interesting that there are differences in both life dates [1833-1907 for IA link, and 1819-1883 for the obituary] and different spelling [Thomson/Thompson]. As a Melbourne person the hospitals, Alfred, Melbourne still exist. The suburbs mentioned: Collingwood, St Kilda still exist. I am not sure of a few such as Hotham. One of the problems with disease in early Australian settlement was the use of water tanks rather than a running mains water system. I don't know what state water utilities were at in 1878.

I came across that piece yesterday. It looked like an interesting contribution.

[Sue Anderson]

I hadn't seen his obituary. Thank you! Interesting that there are differences in both life dates [1833-1907 for IA link, and 1819-1883 for the obituary] and different spelling [Thomson/Thompson]. As a Melbourne person the hospitals, Alfred, Melbourne still exist. The suburbs mentioned: Collingwood, St Kilda still exist. I am not sure of a few such as Hotham. One of the problems with disease in early Australian settlement was the use of water tanks rather than a running mains water system. I don't know what state water utilities were at in 1878.

I came across that piece yesterday. It looked like an interesting contribution.

I just now came across an extensive biography of Thomson in the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/thomson-william-4718

[lightcrystal]

I hadn't seen his obituary. Thank you! Interesting that there are differences in both life dates [1833-1907 for IA link, and 1819-1883 for the obituary] and different spelling [Thomson/Thompson]. As a Melbourne person the hospitals, Alfred, Melbourne still exist. The suburbs mentioned: Collingwood, St Kilda still exist. I am not sure of a few such as Hotham. One of the problems with disease in early Australian settlement was the use of water tanks rather than a running mains water system. I don't know what state water utilities were at in 1878.

I came across that piece yesterday. It looked like an interesting contribution.

I just now came across an extensive biography of Thomson in the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/thomson-william-4718

Thank you. It seems that the Internet Archive got his life details wrong: he lived from 1819-1883. It is PD in any case of course. Thanks again! Some reads go in unexpected directions.

[niobium]

ethics and the weather by Edwin Grant Dexter
https://archive.org/details/jstor-2376164/mode/2up
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf102_ethicsandtheweather_dexter_lh_128kb.mp3
00:25:55

High Grade Men: In College And Out by Edwin Grant Dexter
https://archive.org/details/highgrademeninco00dext
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf102_highgrademenincollegeandout_dexter_lh_128kb.mp3
00:18:24

[Sue Anderson]

ethics and the weather by Edwin Grant Dexter
https://archive.org/details/jstor-2376164/mode/2up
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf102_ethicsandtheweather_dexter_lh_128kb.mp3
00:25:55

High Grade Men: In College And Out by Edwin Grant Dexter
https://archive.org/details/highgrademeninco00dext
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf102_highgrademenincollegeandout_dexter_lh_128kb.mp3
00:18:24

Hi Niobium, Thank you for these two scholarly articles by Edwin Grant Dexter, which complement Dexter's monograph "Weather Influences," which I see you just completed for the LibriVox catalog! https://librivox.org/weather-influences-by-edwin-grant-dexter/

I found Dexter's "High Grade Men: In College & Out" of particular interest, because it shows that the debate over the value of a "liberal college education" for success in later life was already raging in 1903, when Dexter's study was published.

There are a few edits which need attention:

Ethics and the Weather:

4:49-4:57, page 483,
Text reads: "The purpose of this paper, then, is not so much to demonstrate THAT such an influence is as WHAT it is, both qualitatively and quantitatively." You left out the word "as," which changes the meaning of the sentence. If Dexter had put a comma after "influence is," it would have helped. By emphasizing the italicized words, his meaning comes clearer.

15:03, page 488, You left out the subject heading
"Wind"

16:23, page 488 In the sentence just before the heading "Character of the Day and Precipitation" which reads "He did not refer these fluctuations to different conditions of the wind ... the debilitating influence of a vitiated atmosphere not properly circulated by the wind." Please check the pronunciation of "vitiated." https://translate.google.com/details?sl=auto&tl=en&text=vitiated&op=translate

23:23, page 491, "The clear, dry, bracing days of May and June, the very ones which to a man mentally and physically sound ..."
You left out word "sound"

---------------------------
High-Grade College Men

9:20, page 134 "The next column of the table (d) shows the percentage of such for each college, which percentages form one term of a comparison." You said "which percentages form the relation of all the names in Who's Who." You misread this, then skipped all the material at the bottom of page 134.

16:29 "of baccalaureate life" Please check pronunciation of "baccalaureate" https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=baccalaureate&op=translate

When these edits are corrected, your readings will be pl ok. PLEASE GIVE ME THE TIMINGS OF ALL YOUR EDITS to facilitate my Pling. Thank you.

[karlbarks]

First submission!

Attractive Labor
Charles Fourier
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf102_attractivelabor_fourier_af_128kb.mp3

https://archive.org/details/selectionsfromw00fourgoog/page/n7/mode/1up?view=theater (p.163)
13:34
Avonlea Fisher

[Sue Anderson]

Here's one from me:
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf102_caterpillars_wagner_sa_128kb.mp3
Geometroid Caterpillars of Northeastern and Appalachian Forests, Introduction (Excerpt)
2001
by David L. Wagner, U.S. Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56248068#page/14/mode/1up

This selection is the result of a "serendipitous meet-up." One morning last September, I discovered a large, handsome brown moth taking a rest on my garage door. I took some pictures with my cell phone and subsequently identified the moth as a Large Maple Spanworm moth: https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Prochoerodes-lineola?page=1.

I have read the introduction to this illustrated U.S. Department of Agriculture publication with the exception of the paragraph at the bottom of pg. 1 beginning "Forest managers are well aware..." and the table on page 2 labeled "Geometrid Forest Defoliators"

~~~~~~ I'm looking for someone to PL the selection for me, since as dedicated proof listener (DPL) for the SNF, I can't very well PL my own work. My thanks in advance!

[lightcrystal]

Here's one from me:
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf102_caterpillars_wagner_sa_128kb.mp3
Geometroid Caterpillars of Northeastern and Appalachian Forests, Introduction (Excerpt)
2001
by David L. Wagner, U.S. Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56248068#page/14/mode/1up

This selection is the result of a "serendipitous meet-up." One morning last September, I discovered a large, handsome brown moth taking a rest on my garage door. I took some pictures with my cell phone and subsequently identified the moth as a Large Maple Spanworm moth: https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Prochoerodes-lineola?page=1.

I have read the introduction to this illustrated U.S. Department of Agriculture publication with the exception of the paragraph at the bottom of pg. 1 beginning "Forest managers are well aware..." and the table on page 2 labeled "Geometrid Forest Defoliators"

~~~~~~ I'm looking for someone to PL the selection for me, since as dedicated proof listener (DPL) for the SNF, I can't very well PL my own work. My thanks in advance!

I can PL it.