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Topics in this digest:
1. DATABASE: SEARCHING: TECHNIQUES: Worldcat as an Internet Search
From: David P. Dillard
2. Re: More Children Learn More Than One Language
From: David P. Dillard
3. REFERENCE: ENCYCLOPEDIAS : PUBLISHERS PUBLISHING AND PUBLICATIONS:
From: David P. Dillard
4. DATABASE: SEARCH: TECHNIQUE: Thinking About Poker Skills
From: David P. Dillard
5. Re: INTERNET: SOFTWARE: Codec Real Player Alternative and Quick Time
From: David P. Dillard
6. KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT : COUNTRIES: MALAWI: Knowledge Assets and
From: David P. Dillard
7. DATABASES: BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS : BOOKS: ELECTRONIC: Bowker's Globa
From: David P. Dillard
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1. DATABASE: SEARCHING: TECHNIQUES: Worldcat as an Internet Search
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:36 am ((PST))
DATABASE: SEARCHING: TECHNIQUES:
Worldcat as an Internet Search Engine as Compared to Worldcat as an OCLC
FirstSearch Database: A Very Rough Sketch Comparison
The comments below the line were posted to another discussion group on
which the topic of Worldcat came up in a discussion of finding a copy of a
specific source. Talking in my presence about Worldcat is like dangling
cheese in front of a mouse or dangling the mouse (not computer) in front
of a cat. I hope readers will find these comments useful, particularly in
terms of comparison of the types of searching capabilities found in better
bibliographic database search software as compared with internet search
engines searching protocols and search capabilities. Add to the comments
below the abilities such as limiting searches to specific parts of records
like subject headings, abstracts, title and so forth and there is a very
powerful tool in Worldcat in the FirstSearch searching environment.
These are the fields one can limit by in search steps in Worldcat in
FirstSearch:
Indexed in:
Keyword (kw:)
Access Method (am:)
Accession Number (no:)
Author (au:)
Author Phrase (au=)
Corporate and Conference Name (cn:)
Corporate and Conference Name Phrase (cn=)
Country of Publication (cp:)
Country of Publication Phrase (cp=)
Descriptor (de:)
Descriptor Phrase (de=)
Dewey Class Number (dd:)
Dewey Class Edition (d2:)
Genre/Form (ge:)
Genre/Form Phrase (ge=)
Geographic Coverage (gc:)
Geographic Coverage Phrase (gc=)
Gov Doc Number (gn:)
ISBN (nb:)
ISSN (ns:)
Language Phrase (ln=)
LC Control Number (nl:)
Library and Archives Canada Class Number (ca:)
Library of Congress Call No. (lc:)
Local Holdings - by city phrase (l3=)
Local Holdings - by groups (l5:)
Local Holdings - by 4-character local holding symbol (l6=)
Local Holdings - present (l7:)
Local Holdings - by institution symbol (l4:)
Local Holdings - by state/province phrase (l2=)
Material Type (mt:)
Material Type Phrase (mt=)
Music Number (mu:)
Musical Composition (mc:)
Musical Composition Phrase (mc=)
Named Corporation and Conference (nc:)
Named Corporation and Conference Phrase (nc=)
Named Person (na:)
Named Person Phrase (na=)
Natl Ag Lib Call No. (ag:)
NLM Call Number (lm:)
NLM Call Number Phrase (lm=)
Notes/Comments (nt:)
Personal Name (pn:)
Personal Name Phrase (pn=)
Publisher (pb:) Publisher Phrase
(pb=) Publisher Location (pl:)
Report Number (rn:)
Series Title (se:)
Series Title Phrase (se=)
Standard Number (sn:)
Subject (su:)
Subject All (sa=)
Subject Phrase (su=)
Subject Headings, Canadian (he:)
Subject Headings, Canadian Phrase (he=)
Subject Headings, LC (hl:)
Subject Headings, LC Phrase (hl=)
Subject Headings, LC Children's Lit (hc:)
Subject Headings, LC Children's Lit Phrase (hc=)
Subject Headings, MESH (hm:)
Subject Headings, MESH Phrase (hm=)
Subject Headings, NAL (ha:)
Subject Headings, NAL Phrase (ha=)
Subject Headings, Other (ho:)
Subject Headings, Other Phrase (ho=)
Subject Headings, RVM (hr:)
Subject Headings, RVM Phrase (hr=)
Subject Headings, Sears (hs:)
Subject Headings, Sears Phrase (hs=)
Title (ti:)
Title Phrase (ti=)
Uniform Title (ut:)
Uniform Title Phrase (ut=)
Unique Serial Title (tk:)
Unique Serial Title Phrase (tk=)
Universal Decimal Class No. (ud:)
Update Date (up:) Vendor (vn:)
Year 2 (yy:)
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Worldcat is a very powerful tool and product of OCLC. It was first
present on the public internet as a citation result of searches in Google
search results of book and other library held titles and only with the
Find in a Library feature that provided nearby library listings for
sources found in Worldcat through Google searches.
OCLC in the past year or so merged with the Research Library Group and
proceeded in November of 2006 to remove the free public RLG search of
combined research library catalogs, REDLIGHTGREEN, from the internet.
Well before doing that, for the first time ever, the entire Worldcat
database was made available with a limited search engine style software on
the internet in its entirely.
Worldcat on the Internet
<http://www.worldcat.org>
For those of you who work at an academic institution with access to
Worldcat as an OCLC First Search database, the version on the internet is
not nearly as powerful. In particular, the FirstSearch Worldcat database
facilitates searching with multiple search steps that can be combined, and
also features the use of proximity operators in searchs so that one can
find words within so many words of other words and there are more power
searching features in the professional First Search version of Worldcat.
For more discussion of Worldcat, please go to this URL:
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/msearch?
query=worldcat&submit=Search&charset=windows-1252>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/y2nvz5>
This is a brief search run in FirstSearch Worldcat:
Notice by searching round table as both one and two words one adds to the
number of sources found in step #7 as compared to step #6.
#1 kw: king w1 arthur WorldCat 5314 SAVE
#2 kw: knights or kw: roundtable WorldCat 37645 SAVE
#3 kw: knights or kw: roundtable or (kw: round w1 table) WorldCat 48636
SAVE
#4 kw: influence or kw: impact or kw: historical or kw: significance or
kw: future or kw: legend or kw: legends or kw: myth or kw: myths WorldCat
1811572 SAVE
#5 (kw: king w1 arthur) and (kw: knights or kw: roundtable) and (kw:
knights or kw: roundtable or (kw: round w1 table)) WorldCat 1487 SAVE
#6 (kw: king w1 arthur) and (kw: knights or kw: roundtable) and (kw:
influence or kw: impact or kw: historical or kw: significance or kw:
future or kw: legend or kw: legends or kw: myth or kw: myths) WorldCat
407 SAVE
#7 (kw: king w1 arthur) and (kw: knights or kw: roundtable or (kw: round
w1 table)) and (kw: influence or kw: impact or kw: historical or kw:
significance or kw: future or kw: legend or kw: legends or kw: myth or kw:
myths) WorldCat 451 SAVE
Here is a small sample of the citations found in the search results for
search step #7.
1. Shakespeare: the tragedies;
a collection of critical essays.
Author: Harbage, Alfred, 1901- ed.
Publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall 1964
Document: English : Book
Libraries Worldwide: 2261
2. The acts of King Arthur and his noble knights :
from the Winchester mss. of Thomas Malory and other sources /
Author: Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.; Malory, Thomas,
Publication: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976
Document: English : Book : Fiction
Libraries Worldwide: 1808
3. Historical romances :
the prince and the pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court,
Personal recollections of Joan of Arc /
Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.; Harris, Susan K.,; Twain, Mark,, and
others
Publication: New York : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in
the U.S. by Penguin Books USA, 1994
Document: English : Book : Fiction
Libraries Worldwide: 1456
4. The prince and the pilgrim /
Author: Stewart, Mary, 1916-
Publication: New York : W. Morrow & Co., 1995
Document: English : Book : Fiction
Libraries Worldwide: 1316
5. The kitchen knight :
a tale of King Arthur /
Author: Hodges, Margaret, 1911-2005.; Hyman, Trina Schart,
Publication: New York : Holiday House, 1990
Document: English : Book : Juvenile audience
Libraries Worldwide: 1312
6. Merlin and the making of the king /
Author: Hodges, Margaret, 1911-2005.; Hyman, Trina Schart,; Malory,
Thomas,
Publication: New York : Holiday House, 2004
Document: English : Book : Fiction : Elementary and junior high school
Libraries Worldwide: 1273
7. Sir Gawain and the loathly lady /
Author: Hastings, Selina.; Wijngaard, Juan,
Publication: New York, N.Y. : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1985
Document: English : Book : Juvenile audience
Libraries Worldwide: 1213
8. The sword and the circle :
King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table /
Author: Sutcliff, Rosemary.; Malory, Thomas,
Publication: New York : Dutton, 1981
Document: English : Book : Juvenile audience
Libraries Worldwide: 1196
9. Legends of valor /
Author: Lehane, Brendan.
Publication: [Alexandria, Va.] : Time-Life Books ; Morristown, N.J. :
School and library distribution by Silver Burdett Co., 1984
Document: English : Book
Libraries Worldwide: 1072
10. The Fall of Camelot /
Publication: Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books, 1986
Document: English : Book
Libraries Worldwide: 1022
Search results from Worldcat default from sources held by the most
libraries to sources held by the smallest number of libraries such as
dissertations which can be held by only one library.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Net-Gold
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<http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html>
General Internet & Print Resources
<http://library.temple.edu/articles/subject_guides/general.jsp>
<http://www.learningis4everyone.org/>
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html>
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2. Re: More Children Learn More Than One Language
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:44 pm ((PST))
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 01:30:51 -0000
From: cyberpg2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: More Children Learn More Than One Language
Linguists
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/>
Ask the Experts
Find:
* Dialect Readers
* Learning to Read
* ESL & Trilingual
* Tongue & Voice
* Speech & Song
* Inter Species
* Visual Languages
* Baby Sign
* Sign Writing
* Tactile Languages
* HTML Language
* Kids Programming
* Computer Languages
* Computer Keyboard
* Netglish
* Foreign Language
> When children start learning languages at birth, they
> have the capacity to learn many languages at once without
> getting confused â" because, as the brain develops, so
> too does the ability to separate one language from
> another.
More children learn more than one language
Updated 1/10/2007 8:06 AM ET
By Beth Walton, USA TODAY
<http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/
2007-01-09-language-children_x.htm>
Azure Warrenfeltz is fluent in Japanese and Spanish. She also can
understand bits of French, German, Arabic and Italian, and she soon hopes
to learn some Mandarin Chinese.
Azure is 4 years old.
"I'm smarter than my father. He can only speak one language. Muchas
gracias!" she says playfully.
In today's globalized world, Azure is one of many young American children
whose parents insist her education include foreign languages.
"It's such a global environment now, you never know what you might need,"
says Azure's mother, Julie Warrenfeltz, who started schooling her daughter
in foreign languages when she was 6 weeks old. "I wanted to make sure she
had every tool and every benefit at her disposal.
"She couldn't hold a violin, she couldn't stand upright, but I wanted her
to do something," says Warrenfeltz, owner of Petite Ambassadors Language
School in Jacksonville.
Not only is learning a foreign language easier for children than it is for
adults, but children who are exposed to other languages also do better in
school, score higher on standardized tests, are better problem solvers and
are more open to diversity, says Franois Thibaut, who runs The Language
Workshop for Children, which has nine schools around the East Coast.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
Educational CyberPlayGround
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com
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3. REFERENCE: ENCYCLOPEDIAS : PUBLISHERS PUBLISHING AND PUBLICATIONS:
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:55 pm ((PST))
REFERENCE: ENCYCLOPEDIAS :
PUBLISHERS PUBLISHING AND PUBLICATIONS: ONLINE AND INTERNET:
The Wikipedia
The Wikipedia has had both strong advocates and those who are either
deeply concerned about this source or strongly against its use.
There is incorrect information in the Wikipedia. The Wikipedia does have
problems. The creator of the Wikipedia plans to start a new work that
will be created to address some of the Wikipedia's faults. Much
ink has been spilled in criticism of the Wikipedia. One will not hear
much about that side of the picture from me as I use this free tool to
death. Errors have been found in the Britannica Encyclopedia as well.
These Google searches will provide sources of discussions of errors in the
Britannica amongst any false drops in these searches, inevitable in
searching with internet search engines.
<http://tinyurl.com/y85tva>
<http://tinyurl.com/v4x6b>
<http://tinyurl.com/y828je>
<http://tinyurl.com/y5yspo>
Indeed I have posted much about the Wikipedia and used it in posts
frequently as illustrated at this URL:
<http://tinyurl.com/ylaxmu>
Indeed just this week a Information Science and Library Science professor
confessed to having second and positive thoughts about using the Wikipedia
on the EDTECH discussion group of the H-Net discussion group network.
"I have definitely changed my tune about wikipedia. I still teach kids to
be more than a little sceptical - but you absolutely can't beat it as a
place to start researching new trends/issues/people etc. "
<http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=
edtech&month=0701&week=b&msg=2rqkHtOkpvr8SXYUnBSC4g&user=&pw=>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/ydge8w>
There has been considerable discussion on the EDTECH list which may be
viewed by going to this URL and searching the word Wikipedia in the search
dialog box on the left sidebar of your web page display.
<http://www.h-net.org/~edweb/>
Finally, the Wikipedia covers huge numbers of topics that are unfindable
in other encyclopedias, particularly those one pays for like Britannica.
How likely would one be to find this article in the Britannica?
Route 15 (SEPTA)
>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route_15_(SEPTA)>
In 1992, SEPTA replaced trolley service along Routes 15, 23, and 56 with
buses. The line has been reopened as a trolley service in September 2005
after having been served by buses for thirteen years. To prepare for the
resumption of trolley service, SEPTA spent a total of $88 million,
including rehabilitating the tracks and repairs to the overhead wires. The
rolling stock for Route 15 consists of PCC II cars, which are 1947 PCC
streetcars that had been completely rebuilt by the Brookville Equipment
Company as a cost of $1.3 million per trolley. The rebuilt trolley
includes the addition of air conditining and regenerative breaking. [1]
Even the Onion has come to admire its long standing spirit of American
independence.
Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence
Founding Fathers, Patriots, Mr. T. Honored
July 26, 2006 | Issue 4230
<http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50902>
NEW YORK
Wikipedia, the online, reader-edited encyclopedia, honored the
750th anniversary of American independence on July 25 with a special
featured section on its main page Tuesday.
"It would have been a major oversight to ignore this portentous
anniversary," said Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, whose site now boasts
over 4,300,000 articles in multiple languages, over one-quarter of which
are in English, including 11,000 concerning popular toys of the 1980s
alone. "At 750 years, the U.S. is by far the world's oldest surviving
democracy, and is certainly deserving of our recognition," Wales said.
"According to our database, that's 212 years older than the Eiffel Tower,
347 years older than the earliest-known woolly-mammoth fossil, and a full
493 years older than the microwave oven."
"In fact," added Wales, "at three-quarters of a millennium, the USA has
been around almost as long as technology."
The commemorative page is one of the most detailed on the site, rivaling
entries for Firefly and the Treaty Of Algeron for sheer length.
Subheadings include "Origins Of Colonial Discontent," "Some Famous Guys In
Wigs And Three-Cornered Hats," and "Christmastime In Gettysburg." It also
features detailed maps of the original coloniesincluding Narnia, the
central ice deserts, and Westerosas well as profiles of famous American
historical figures such as Benjamin Franklin, Special Agent Jack Bauer,
and Samuel Adams who is also a defensive tackle for the Cincinnati
Bengals.
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The complete Onion Article may be read at the URL immediately above.
To view discourse regarding the Wikipedia that is a bit more scholarly
than the coverage in the Onion cited above, and I suspect quite varied in
a range from positive to quite negative and I am certain some quite
objective, proceed to this URL:
<http://tinyurl.com/2cpof2>
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Net-Gold
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<http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html>
General Internet & Print Resources
<http://library.temple.edu/articles/subject_guides/general.jsp>
<http://www.learningis4everyone.org/>
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html>
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4. DATABASE: SEARCH: TECHNIQUE: Thinking About Poker Skills
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:23 pm ((PST))
DATABASE: SEARCH: TECHNIQUE:
Thinking About Poker Skills
WEBBIB0607
A significant amount of content has been posted to Net-Gold regarding
searching technique both using internet search engines and using
bibliographic databases.
<http://groups.google.com/groups/search?hl=en&q=%
22search+technique%22+and+%22net-gold%22&qt_s=Search>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/37d3d9>
One of my all time favorite search requests came around the middle of the
1980s decade and the request was for a literature review for a doctoral
dissertation about the impact economically, on attendence and on the
overall prosperity of college varsity athletic programs of the college
mascot, the Penn State Lion or the Temple Owl and the like. There simply
was no literature written on this subject then and I doubt there is now.
Part of searching skill is knowing when the precise topic one is studying
is so precise that there is no literature to be found there and then
deciding what is a good topical approach that would get one as close as
possible to the topic to find some literature that might be applied to the
more precise information need. Consider a recent request on another list
that seeks a literature on elite poker players and mental skills. The
first problem with this request is that a search of elite poker players,
even with truncation used to capture both the singular and plural of
player is that there are simply no citations for that phrase in a generous
group of databases selected for the search. Zero!!! The second problem
is that mental skills is a very specific phrase. Could there be some
terms that one could use to tease us in that direction without being so
precise and singular in this terminology approach.
To state this more simply, how about looking at plain old poker against
some terms for mental or thinking.
Consider these terms for the mental side of this equation:
mental or thinking or thought or memory or skills or processing or
cognitive or cognition or ability
Now searching these terms where they must be in the document title or in
the subject headings assigned for them and requiring the same conditions
for poker leads to sixteen citations of varying quality, but a better
place to start than zero for just one of your search parameters in the
original search request.
Consider these citations:
Poker-Playing Computers Face Off in Boston.
Kiernan, Vincent.
Chronicle of Higher Education
7/21/2006 v. 52 no. 46 p. 31
Sui Generis Micro Social Structures: The Heuristic Example of Poker.
Potter, Garry.
Canadian Journal of Sociology
Spring 2003 v. 28 no. 2 p. 171
Executives Ante Up, and Win Some Skills.
Nusbaum, Marci Alboher
New York Times
2/9/2003 v. 152 no. 52389 p. 14,
Attentional bias and addictive behaviour: Automaticity in a
gambling-specific modified Stroop task
Boyer, Morten; Dickerson, Mark
Addiction
v. 98 no. 1 January 2003 p. 61-70
Mental poker game based on a bit commitment scheme through network.
Jue-Sam Chou; Yi-Shiung Yeh
Computer Networks
2/5/2002 v. 38 no. 2 p. 247
Gender-related differences in the characteristics of problem gamblers
using a gambling helpline
Potenza, Marc N.; Steinberg, Marvin A.; McLaughlin, Susan D.; Wu, Ran;
Rounsaville, Bruce J.; O'Malley, Stephanie S.
American Journal of Psychiatry
v. 158 no. 9 September, 2001
Cognitive neuroscience: Who to play at poker
Johansen-Berg, Heidi; Walsh, Vincent
Current Biology
v. 11 no. 7 3 April, 2001 p. R261-R263
Skill in games.
Larkey, Patrick; Kadane, Joseph B.; Austin, Robert; Zamir, Shmuel
Management Science
May 1997 v. 43 no. 5 p. 596
Dissociative experiences scale and MMPI-2 scores in video poker gamblers,
other gamblers, and alcoholic controls
Kofoed, Lial; Morgan, Timothy J.; Buchkoski, Jerry; Carr, Robert Journal
of Nervous and Mental Disease
v. 185 no. 1 1997 p. 58-60
Winning bet.
Way, Nicholas
BRW
6/10/96 v. 18 no. 22 p. 13
Correction cognitive et habitudes de jeu chez les joueurs de poker vido. =
Corrective cognition and gambling habits of players of video poker
Sylvain, Caroline; Ladouceur, Robert
Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science
v. 24 no. 4 October 1992 p. 479-489.
Communicative Competency among Poker Players
Hayano, David M.
Journal of Communication
v. 30 no. 2 p. 113-120 Spring 1980.
Studies in Machine Cognition Using the Game of Poker.
Findler, Nicholas V.; Hanson, R.J.
Communications of the ACM
April 1977 v. 20 no. 4 p. 230-245
Model-based decision and inference in stud poker.
Lopes, Lola L.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
v. 105 no. 3 September 1976 p. 217-239.
Those skilled at counting will note that the number of articles above is
less than sixteen. One drops articles that use ones words, but are about
a totally different topic and one drops the same article in more than one
occurance from different databases, keeping only the first occurance.
This is a limited start in terms of number of citations, so where can one
go from here. Combining any mention of poker in a record with any mention
of our terms for mental skills leads to almost 300 citations, but a very
sorry lot in terms of usefulness in a glance at a sampling of those
records.
So perhaps a search of playing cards or card playing against our mental
terminology in a focused search of subject headings or titles might be a
better move, oops, sorry moves are checkers or chess, so maybe we had
better say, might be a better play, but then would examining mental skills
in checkers or chess be helpful to this search of playing and mental
skills? Perhaps.
One of the critical areas of searching is thinking through a topic in
terms of what is possible given the amount of literature available for
each parameter of a search. In the example above, there is a broad body
of literature on mental skills and much more on the approximations of this
phrase in synonomous language. This side of the search is rich in
synonyms and the amount of literature for each and for all of them.
There just were no citation hits for elite poker players, so one needs to
determine how one can get somewhat near that concept and use those
approximations in terms of the mental skill literature that relates to
those approximations. Then one will apply these citations as tools to
extract what one can to apply to the research about elite poker player
mental skills.
Your draw.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Net-Gold
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<http://www.poker-sidekick.com/images/5card-draw.jpg>
<http://www.publispain.com/poker/imgs/centro_inicio.jpg>
<http://www.bullworks.net/virtual/poker/poker.jpg>
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5. Re: INTERNET: SOFTWARE: Codec Real Player Alternative and Quick Time
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:54 pm ((PST))
The post below is a repost of a response to my post regarding Codec on the
EDTECH list and is reposted with the permission of the author of this
post.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Net-Gold
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold>
<http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html>
General Internet & Print Resources
<http://library.temple.edu/articles/subject_guides/general.jsp>
<http://www.learningis4everyone.org/>
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html>
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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:05:37 -0500
From: EDTECH Editor-Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: EDTECH - Educational Technology <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.edtech
Subject: Re: INTERNET: SOFTWARE: Codec Real Player Alternative and Quick
Time Alternative
From: "Gross, Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
David and all...
Real Alt and QT Alt have the advantage of being directshow filters,
meaning that you can use them to display Real and QT content in programs
that support DS. (Such as WMPlayer for inclusion inline in a PowerPoint
stack.)
The disadvantage is that you can not have Real or QT installed on your
computer with these filters. That isn't a huge loss (IMHO) if you don't
have Real, but QTPro is certainly a tool I like to use for splitting QT
files, and extracting tracks.
But if you have the "luxury" of having a separate laptop just for
presentation purposes, QTA and RA are "must have" codecs. I would also
suggest the excellent h.264 DivX/XviD handling of FFDShow. (Ever have an
.avi wrapper you couldn't open and it says that you don't have the right
codec installed?)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow
If you download YouTube and Google video files, they are in Flash Video
format. You'll need FLVSplitter to decode them:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303&package_id=1
83318
(G7Z is an advanced "zip" format. You have to install 7-zip to open the
packages: http://www.7-zip.org/)
(If you don't yet know how to download UTube and GV videos, use
Google...)
I do a LOT with video. I use XviD now for all of my own videos as
nothing compresses and decompresses better. I have a JVC EverIO
camcorder, and pull the videos from the camera in MPEG2 format, run them
through AutoGordianKnot (AGK) and turn them into XviDs. It's perfect for
storing videos of my kids growing up, sharing video files for work, and
creating video podcasts (vlogs) to be used on my MediaPlayers. BUT - you
have to have a filter like FFDShow installed to watch them.
I don't want to be responsible for your (the reader) following of
copyright law. So if it isn't yours, don't download it or copy it. But
if it is yours, these are really the BEST tools for handling video. I
use a TON of original video in my presentations when I speak, and this
is how I put it together...
Good luck!
> From: "David P. Dillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> INTERNET: SOFTWARE:
> Codec Real Player Alternative and Quick Time Alternative
> Codec Real Player Alternative
> <http://www.codecguide.com/about_real.htm>
> About Real Alternative
> Real Alternative will allow you to play RealMedia files without having
> to install RealPlayer.
> All RealMedia formats (.ra .rm .rmvb .ram .rpm .rv .rp .rt .rnx .smi
> .smil etc.) are supported, including streaming content and RealMedia
> content that is embedded in webpages.
> Some advantages compared to RealPlayer:
> * Quick and easy install
> * It's easy to make an unattended installation
> * Proper uninstallation
> * No background processes
> * Use a player of your own choice
> * Low on resources
> * No advertising, no registration forms, nothing annoying
> Limitations:
> * .smi and .smil files only play the first part of a clip. This is
> only a problem when the clip consists of multiple parts. These files are
> not very common. These files do play correctly when embedded in a
> browser.
> * The RealMedia DirectShow splitter does not work with streaming
> content. You must use the included Media Player Classic to play
> streaming content.
> About Quick Time Alternative
> <http://www.codecguide.com/about_qt.htm>
> QuickTime Alternative will allow you to play QuickTime files without
> having to install the official QuickTime Player.
> All QuickTime formats (.mov .qt .3gp etc.) are supported, including
> streaming content and QuickTime content that is embedded in webpages.
> Some advantages compared to QuickTime player:
> * Quick and easy install
> * It's easy to make an unattended installation
> * No background processes
> * Use a player of your own choice
> * Low on resources
> * Smaller size
> The above is not a recommendation by Net-Gold and is shared for the
> awareness of our readers. Please check additional sources or get
> opinions from computer professionals to determine the benefits and
> problems software alternatives like these may cause in ones own
> situation and with ones own equipment.
> Sincerely,
> David Dillard
> Temple University
> (215) 204 - 4584
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6. KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT : COUNTRIES: MALAWI: Knowledge Assets and
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:00 am ((PST))
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT :
COUNTRIES: MALAWI:
Knowledge Assets and Contribution to Economic Performance
Knowledge Assets and Contribution to Economic Performance
by Rhodrick Junaid
Nyasa Times
<http://www.nyasatimes.com/BREAKING-NEWS/117.html>
Over the years, the Malawi Government has been sending its people abroad,
mainly the UK, to study in various fields of excellence at the
postgraduate level through award of scholarships. In 2006, the Human
Resource Department awarded scholarships to more than 20 students to
pursue master degrees in various fields at UK Universities. This month,
(January 2006), another group of scholars will be sent to the UK to join
the February intake. Whatever the definitions of knowledge and knowledge
management are or are perceived to be, it is a known fact that economies
in this era cannot survive without implementing or adopting these
concepts. In today's knowledge economy, many tasks are being executed
through the creation of new knowledge. As already stated, in yesterday's
economy, planners and economists used factors of production which were
mainly physical in nature, such as labour, land and machines. The mix of
these factors used to generate wealth and create value in the economy.
However, the current business scenario is very different. On the business
landscape of the 21st century, knowledge or knowledge assets will take
precedence as compared to physical assets.
It is quite encouraging to see Malawi taking right steps in this
direction, especially in training and empowering people with the right
knowledge, hence creating a vast pool of knowledge assets. With the
economy's growing needs of a more sophisticated information society, it
will necessitate that all players are prepared to do business in an
innovative fashion and simultaneously ensure quality network, service and
care for the discerning Malawian consumers. At the business level, there
is need for a strategic change that will fundamentally and profoundly
affect the economy, with intellectual capital as a much more important
asset. Thus three things must be the key for the next generation Malawian
economy entrenched in our businesses: Customer Relationship Management
(CRM), Knowledge Management and Financial Excellence. All these can be
achieved by empowering our people educationally.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
Here are some article citations that prominently focus on both Malawi on
the one hand and on the other hand knowledge management, technological
skills or information science.
Factors Influencing Farmers' Adoption of Kalima Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris
L.) Variety in Malawi.
Masangano, C. M.; Miles, C. A.
Journal of Sustainable Agriculture
2004 v. 24 no. 2 p. 117-129
Integrated Pest Management for Resource-Poor African Farmers: Is the
Emperor Naked?
Orr, Alastair
World Development
v. 31 no. 5 May 2003 p. 831-845
Population, tenure, and natural resource management: the case of customary
land area in Malawi
Place, Frank; Otsuka, Keijiro
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
v. 41 no. 1 January 2001 p. 13-32
Managing protected woodlands: fuelwood collection and law enforcement in
Lake Malawi National Park
Abbot, Joanne I. O.; Mace, Ruth
Conservation Biology
v. 13 no. 2 April 1999 p. 418-421
A political ecology perspective on environmental change in Malawi with the
Blantyre Fuelwood Project Area as a case study
Kalipeni, Ezekiel ; Feder, Deborah
Politics and the Life Sciences
v. 18 no. 1 March 1999 p. 37-54
People and animals vie for Africa's ecosystems
Nsanjama, Henri
Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy
v. 12 Summer 1997 p. 136-8
Qualitative research in information studies: a Malawian study
Sturges, R. P.; Chimseu, George
Education for Information
v. 14 June 1996 p. 117-126
The Role of Information Systems in Decision-Making Following Disasters:
Lessons from the Mealy Bug Disaster in Northern Malawi.
Pelletier, David L.; Msukwa, Louis A.H.
Human Organization
Fall 1990 v. 49 no. 3 p. 245
Managerial motivation in Kenya and Malawi: a cross-cultural comparison
Blunt, Peter; Jones,
Merrick In Journal of Modern African Studies
v. 24 March 1986 p. 165-175
WEBBIB0607
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7. DATABASES: BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS : BOOKS: ELECTRONIC: Bowker's Globa
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:41 am ((PST))
DATABASES: BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS :
BOOKS: ELECTRONIC:
Bowker's Global Books In Print(TM) Named Database of Record for
Microsoft's Live Search Books Online Search Service
Bowker's Global Books In Print(TM) Named Database of Record for
Microsoft's Live Search Books Online Search Service
American Digital Networks News
<http://digital50.com/news/items/BW/2001/07/14/20070117005192/
bowkers-global-books-in-printtm-named-database-of-record-
for-microsofts-live-sear.html>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/ytlmfo>
NEW PROVIDENCE, N.J.-(Business Wire)-January 17, 2007 - Bowker, the global
leader in bibliographic information management, today announced that its
Global Books In Print database has been selected by Microsoft
(NASDAQ:MSFT) to provide the basic and value-added data that will enhance
descriptions of books incorporated in the new Live Search Books search
service from Microsoft.
Live Search Books, which was released in beta form by Microsoft in
December, is part of an ambitious project by Microsoft to scan millions of
books and index them for online searching. The search engine allows users
to search the full-texts of scanned books and is currently restricted to
out-of-copyright books scanned from the collections of leading libraries
such as The British Library, the University of California and the
University of Toronto. In a later release, Microsoft will also add
copyright works that publishers have given permission to include in the
project.
Bowker's Global Books In Print provides complete bibliographic details on
more than 14 million books that are organized in its global database
according to 30 powerful criteria. As part of the content licensing
agreement with Microsoft, Bowker is also making available its "Publisher
Authority" database, which contains company and contact information for
more than 200,000 publishers worldwide, and a wide range of other
value-added data modules that offer detailed descriptions of books, author
biographies, award citations, book review citations, cover images, tables
of contents and lists of bestsellers dating back to 1920.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
Live Books Search may be found at this URL:
Live Books Search
http://search.live.com/
This is a sample listing of books found by a search of
Spanish American War
History of the Spanish-American War
by Henry Watterson 1898 654 pages
Subject: Spanish-American War, 1898
It must be remembered, however, that there were millions of men in the
field during the latter struggle, where only a quarter of a million were
engaged in the Spanish- American War, and if actual ...
A History of the ?Spanish?-?American? ?War? of 1898 A History of the
Spanish-American War of 1898
by Richard Handfield Titherington 1900 444 pages
Subject: Spanish-American War, 1898
HISTORY OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR CHAPTER I THE EARLY HISTORY OF CUBA,
1492-1823 THE war of 1898 between the United States and Spain was the
logical and inevitable ending of a long chapter of ...
Cartoons of the ?Spanish?-?American? ?War? Cartoons of the
Spanish-American War
by Charles Lewis Bartholomew 1899 302 pages
Subject: Minneapolis Journal; Caricatures and Cartoons United States...
... is sued a large book containing five hundred and fifty of the best
cartoons of the war from twelve foreign and twenty-nine American Journals,
the leading English, American, French, German, Spanish and ...
Record of Indiana Volunteers in the ?Spanish?-?American? ?War? 1898-1899
Record of Indiana Volunteers in the Spanish-American War 1898-1899
by Indiana Adjutant Generals Office 1900 382 pages
Subject: Spanish-American War, 1898 Regimental Histories Indiana; India...
I MuTO. RECORD OF INDIANA VOLUNTEERS IN THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR ISSUED BY
AUTHORITY OF THE Sixty-first General Assembly of Indiana, GEN. JAMES K.
GORE,_Adjutant-GeneraI. MAJ.
Cubas Struggle Against Spain with the Causes of ?American? Intervention
and a Full Account of the ?Spanish?-?American? ?War? Cubas Struggle
Against Spain with the Causes of American Intervention and a Full Account
of the Spanish-American War
by Fitzhugh Lee 1899 694 pages
Subject: Spanish-American War, 1898; Cuba History
Cuba's Struggle Against Spain WITH THE Causes for American Intervention
and a Full Accounl of the Spanish-American War, including Final Peace
Negotiations. With a Story ot Santiago BY GOVERNOR ...
Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps
of the United States; In the ?Spanish?-Americn ?War?, Phillippine
Insurrection and China Relief Expedition Record of Service of Connecticut
Men in the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps of the United States; In the
Spanish-Americn War, Phillippine Insurrection and China Relief Expedition
by Connecticut Adjutant-Generals Office 1919 238 pages
Subject: China Relief Expedition (1900-1901); Spanish-American War, 189...
... of Connecticut, United Spanish War Veterans, whi resulted in the
passage of the following Act AN ACT CONCERNING A ROSTER OF SOLDIERS,
SAILORS AND MARINES WHO SERVI IN THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR ...
The 98 Campaign of the 6th Massachusetts, U. S. V. The 98 Campaign of the
6th Massachusetts, U. S. V.
by Frank E. Edwards 1899 392 pages
Subject: United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 6th (1...
Introduction THE Spanish-American War of 1898 was the justification of the
Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. When Governor Wolcott sent to Washington
to ascertain what would be required of the ...
California Volunteers in the ?Spanish?-?American? ?War? of 1898 California
Volunteers in the Spanish-American War of 1898
by California Adjutant Generals Office 1899 76 pages
Subject: Spanish-American War, 1898 Registers; California Militia
GENERAL ORDERS-) I-.The following Muster Rolls of the California
Volunteers in the "Spanish-American War of 1898" are published for the
information of all concerned:
?American? Statesmen American Statesmen
1886 - 1917 452 pages
Subject: Statesmen, American; United States Biography; V. 1. Benjamin...
For thirty-three years, following the Civil War, they reposed in fancied
security, absorbed in the pursuit of wealth, the 1 Russell A. Alger, The
Spanish-American War.
?War? in the Philippines War in the Philippines
by Joseph L. Stickney 1899 428 pages
Subject: Dewey, George, 1837-1917; Spanish-American War, 1898 Naval Ope...
... the people of the United States were eagerly watching events in Cuba,
while the attention of all was turned toward the island that promised to
be the focal point in the pending Spanish-American war ...
The Life of William McKinley The Life of William McKinley
by Charles Sumner Olcott 1916 468 pages
Subject: McKinley, William, 1843-1901; United States Politics and Gover...
... 41; loss of fleet at Santiago, 45, 46; relinquishes sovereignty over
Cuba and cedes Porto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam to the U.S., 122-23;
attitude of Europe toward, 128-36. Spanish- American War ...
Exploits of the Signal Corps in the ?War? with Spain Exploits of the
Signal Corps in the War with Spain
by Howard Andrus Giddings 1900 134 pages
Subject: United States. Army. Signal Corps; United States. Army Communi...
... as in the English Egyptian campaign, where the Imperial Army advanced
on both banks of the Nile, with no means of speedy communication between
the forces except by signals. The Spanish-American War ...
The Story of the Rough Riders, 1st U. S. Volunteer Cavalary The Story of
the Rough Riders, 1st U. S. Volunteer Cavalary
by Edward Marshall 1899 332 pages
Subject: United States. Army. Volunteer Cavalry, 1st; Spanish-American...
PREFACE. The author makes no apologies for devoting an entire book to the
story of one regiment in the Spanish- American War. The history of the
Rough Riders is really the histca^LoLtlie-war, for from ...
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