[stylist] September 2011 Recording Problem

Fri Nov 4 18:58:06 UTC 2011

No worries Peter :). Thanks.

Brad

On 11/4/2011  01:27 PM Peter Donahue said...
>Hello Brad,
>
>     Robert and I are looking into to this further to determine the exact
>problem so we can correct it.
>
>Peter Donahue
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Brad Dunse'" <lists at braddunsemusic.com>
>To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 12:02 PM
>Subject: Re: [stylist] Web Site Issues
>
>
>Hi peter,
>
>I had downloaded it twice, which took much less time than it did to
>download the May conference call with Elizabeth Campbell, a 76-minute
>call and likely similar in recording size. When playing both of the
>September's call downloads, it was about 12-minutes long on both. I
>use Winamp and can see how long the file is, how much time is passed
>and how much left :). Looking at the file downloads here it is a 5.x
>MB file size.
>
>Brad
>
>
>
>On 11/4/2011  10:17 AM Peter Donahue said...
>
> >     Good morning everyone,
> >
> >     I looked at the file size on the September 2011 Telephone Gathering
> > and
> >see that it is about 42 MB in size. If Robert can send me another copy so I
> >can reuploaded in the event the file is corrupt I'll do it. Otherwise the
> >entire recording should be there. You may have encountered a long gap of
> >silence leading you to believe that the recording is too short. Please send
> >more information so this can be looked in to further.
> >
> >It's issues like this that cause me to not want to rush material to the Web
> >site until I've had the chance to go through them with a fine tooth comb to
> >be sure that inappropriate material is removed and that there are no other
> >problems. There are a number of issues with the 2011 convention recording
> >that really should be fixed before it's posted to the Web site one of which
> >occurred during my report on the division Web site.
> >
> >     I'll also look in to the problem with the
> >Webmaster at nfb-writers-division.net address bouncing. All the best.
> >
> >Peter Donahue
> >
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Bridgit Pollpeter" <bpollpeter at hotmail.com>
> >To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> >Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 1:10 AM
> >Subject: [stylist] Old English truly frustrates me
> >
> >
> >Jim,
> >
> >Actually, the King James Bible and Shakespeare are not old English but
> >early modern English. Old English doesn't sound anything like modern
> >English instead sounding like a foreign language. Not only would old
> >English be incomprehensible to most of us, but written material in old
> >English would still follow medieval writing structure which was before
> >most grammar rules existed like spaces between words, punctuation,
> >capitalization and paragraphs.
> >
> >Understanding early modern English can be difficult. Personally, I never
> >found "getting the gist" of early modern English difficult, but certain
> >words weren't familiar to me. It helps to read with a dictionary and any
> >study material you can find to supplement your reading. It may take some
> >longer to read material like this, and others can pick it up a bit
> >quicker. It's just a more archaic manner of speaking than we currently
> >speak, but it is modern English, not old English or even middle English,
> >but early modern English.
> >
> >Sincerely,
> >Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
> >Read my blog at:
> >http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/
> >
> >"History is not what happened; history is what was written down."
> >The Expected One- Kathleen McGowan
> >
> >Message: 8
> >Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 16:45:34 +0000
> >From: "Homme, James" <james.homme at highmark.com>
> >To: Writer's Division Mailing List <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> >Subject: [stylist] Old English Truly Frustrates Me
> >Message-ID:
> ><BF85B26B8ED7B647ACAD9C68E89DA554D031 at HMBREXMP03.highmark.com>
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> >
> >Hi,
> >I went to http://www.poetry.org. I found some of the poems they show
> >from famous poets. Some of them are in English old, like the King James
> >Bible, but more cryptic. How do you begin to crack the code? <grin>
> >
> >Jim
> >
> >
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