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ADBwatermark

Michael A. Blackledge

ADBwatermark  is an extensive collection of raw material, draft chapters, and draft Table of Contents as part of the compilation effort to create the book Blackledge Stories .  This collection was captured initially on 19 Jan 2018 following the editor/compiler's preparation of the Thesis chapter for Dorothy Forrant Blackledge (Rice University:  May 1960).  (That chapter contains only the Executive Summary of the thesis; the full 142 page content, or 176 total, all in French as submitted in 1960 and marking the approval by the Thesis Committee,  appears in this Internet Archive collection as 3 or 4 of the PDF files.) This collection is the basis for the book  Blackledge Stories , the first edition of which was planned for publication in Fall 2019 and actually published Fall 2020. Details for that book, to include its ISBN, can be found under WorldCat.org  and for a limited time was offered at the website BlackledgeBook.org  Some of the Blackledge Stories collection, viz. the audio and video files, appear only here. How to use this collection:   There are some 14 different file types in this collection. Some types of files ‘play’ or display in the Archive.org window, some can only be downloaded.  Here is a partial summary: Animated GIF:   These are some 'fancy lines' to display at the end of a chapter or article.  Click on any one; they will be displayed here.   Excel :  There are 6 Excel files, none extensive.  Originally the user had the option of downloading or displaying; however, today (May 2023) the Excel files can only be downloaded, not displayed here.  My favorite is the timeline of Dorothy Forrant as captured in Springfield (MA) newspaper clippings. JPEG and PNG :  JPEG is the most widely used image compression standard and there are over 700 JPEGs in this collection, any of which can be viewed in the window by clicking on the file name.  Many of the names provide metadata on the image.  PNG is a lossless graphic format and those images can also be viewed directly.  These images include snippets from GenealogyBank.com newspaper image and (as summarized in the file title) provide, for example, an article from the Ware River News as carried by the Springfield (MA) paper on Dorothy Forrant. OGG VORBIS :    Vorbis  is a free and open-source software project headed by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The project produces an audio coding format and software reference .   There are 14 Audio files under this category, all of which can be played on-line by clicking on the file.  All are short files; four are excerpts of Doug Blackledge as a cadet DJ on USAFA's radio station KAFA.  Those four "Doug as D.J." audio files in the item have an unusual derivation.  The three of Doug Blackledge at KAFA were extracted by Ian David Blackledge from a large collection of cassette tapes at the Nambe house; one afternoon when 'bored' Ian found a functioning cassette player and hooked it up to his computer.  It was random chance that I.D. came upon the KAFA-FM tapes, apparently captured by Doug during his years at USAFA. Ian copied the files to his computer and used the resource AudacityTeam.org to extract the DJ's voice.     The phone voicemail messages were recorded by David and Mike Blackledge of Albuquerque.  These include four Doug "Birthday Phone Messages" as left on the Stalgren Ct home phone.  Apparently it was not really Arnold Schwarzenegger.  You be the judge. PDF :  This format is one that Internet Archive treats well by converting to a 'flip-page' book on-line here with full text search capability.  This includes one-page files such as "My Name is Marcey.pdf".   This PDF sub-collection contains two (2) copies of Bonnie Stories, only one of which is current, one of which is 670KB. Quicktime :  These are movie files under an Apple format, extension  .mov  ; they can only be downloaded. These instructions were prepared by mablackledge and stored (2018) under his Box Sync > Internet archive.