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Web Marketing Tutorial & Guide Several of the major Web Marketing components discussed in this Web Marketing Tutorial include: search engine optimization search engine advertising reciprocal link programs site search email newsletters offline marketing programs affiliate marketing programs From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on September 8, 2004 at 11:09 p.m..


Web Marketing Tutorial & Guide Several of the major Web Marketing components discussed in this Web Marketing Tutorial include: search engine optimization search engine advertising reciprocal link programs site search email newsletters offline marketing programs affiliate marketing programs From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on September 8, 2004 at 11:09 p.m..


Advertising Slogans AdSlogans.com, home of the Advertising Slogan Hall of Fame, runs the world's most comprehensive advertising slogans database archive. A unique global resource for advertisers and ad agencies, comprising many thousands of English-language commercial advertising slogans, business, company, product or brand marketing slogans, taglines or tag lines, claims, straplines, theme lines, endlines, payoffs, signatures, base lines, slogos (the slogan by the logo) and catchphrases. These are often unregistered, and hard to find in standard trademark registers or directories. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on September 8, 2004 at 11:09 p.m..


The Plunketts photographs of old Norwich This web site publishes an extensive photographic collection of twentieth century Norwich, created by local historian George Plunkett. There are 3,600 black and white pictures of buildings and streets in Norwich, from 1930 to the present day. These can be browsed alphabetically by street or by category, such as alms houses, the castle, industrial architecture, churches and the cathedral. The pictures are all accompanied by excellent explanatory text, and it is a shame that some of the images themselves aren't clearer and can't be resized. There are also other local history resources, From New Humbul Resources on September 8, 2004 at 10:30 p.m..


Fire Channel 4 publishes this interactive microsite on the Great Fire of London as part of its history web site. The site explores the history of the legendary 1666 fire, and provides an excellent introduction to the topic. On the site users can read the story of the fire, tracing the course of events over the four days in September 1666 when the fire occurred. A Flash movie shows which areas the fire affected, and there is information on the legacy of the fire and London in the late seventeenth century. There is also an extremely useful queries page, where historians from the Museum of London have From New Humbul Resources on September 8, 2004 at 10:30 p.m..


Culture and Recreation Portal: Training Courses - Visual Arts and Craft This web page from the Culture and Recreation Portal (CARP) provides a list of training courses and degree courses in visual arts and craft across all states. From EdNA Online on September 8, 2004 at 3:30 p.m..


Culture and Recreation Portal: Training Courses - New Media This web page from the Culture and Recreation Portal (CARP) provides a list of training courses and degree courses in new media and multimedia across all states. From EdNA Online on September 8, 2004 at 3:30 p.m..


Culture and Recreation Portal: Training Courses - Writing, Publishing This web page from the Culture and Recreation Portal (CARP) provides a list of training courses and degree courses in Writing and Publishing across all states. From EdNA Online on September 8, 2004 at 3:30 p.m..


Culture and Recreation Portal: Training Courses - Theatre, Dance This web page from the Culture and Recreation Portal (CARP) provides a list of training courses and degree courses in Theatre and Dance across all states. From EdNA Online on September 8, 2004 at 3:30 p.m..


National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, an independent, bipartisan commission created by congressional legislation in late 2002, was chartered to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. The Commission closed on August 21, 2004. This site is the archive. From EdNA Online on September 8, 2004 at 3:30 p.m..


Reconciliation Liturgy This liturgy is produced in collaboration with the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council (NATSICC). National Reconciliation Week. This week is framed by two significant dates. May 27 is the anniversary of the 1967 referendum in which over 90% of Australians voted to give the Commonwealth the power to make laws for Indigenous people and include the original inhabitants in the census. June 3 marks the 11 year anniversary of the High Court of Australia's decision in the MABO case. The decision recognised the Native Titles Rights of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait I From EdNA Online on September 8, 2004 at 3:30 p.m..


Five Years On: Remembering East Timor August 30 marks the five-year anniversary of the independence referendum in East Timor. This referendum saw the East Timorese strongly voice their desire for liberty from Indonesia. In order for East Timor to survive and become a peaceful and prosperous nation, the issues of poverty on an individual and national scale, as well as the growing problems of political instability, must be addressed. Issue 87 of OzSpirit (Caritas) includes a timeline, the text of a speech made by Dr Jose Ramos Horta (The East Timor Foreign Minister and Nobel Prize winner 1997) and activities on tuberculosis and heal From Recent Items on September 8, 2004 at 3:30 p.m..


Ada World Background information, tutorials, free books, and code snippets are available from this Ada programming language-related web site. There are also discussion forums, details of development projects, news and events, and links to more related sites. From EEVL New Learning Materials on September 8, 2004 at 3:30 p.m..


Culture and Recreation Portal: Training Courses - Music This web page from the Culture and Recreation Portal (CARP) provides a list of training courses and degree courses in music performance, theory and practice across all states. From EdNA Online on September 8, 2004 at 12:22 a.m..


Culture and Recreation Portal: Training Courses - Museums, Heritage This web page from the Culture and Recreation Portal (CARP) provides a list of training courses and degree courses in Museums and Heritage across all states. From EdNA Online on September 8, 2004 at 12:22 a.m..


Culture and Recreation Portal: Training Courses - Libraries This web page from the Culture and Recreation Portal (CARP) provides a list of training courses and degree courses in Library and Information Studies across all states. From EdNA Online on September 8, 2004 at 12:22 a.m..


Culture and Recreation Portal: Training Courses - Film, Television, Video, Radio This web page from the Culture and Recreation Portal (CARP) provides a list of training courses and degree courses in Film, Television, Video and Radio across all states. From EdNA Online on September 8, 2004 at 12:22 a.m..


Culture and Recreation Portal: Training Courses - Design This web page from the Culture and Recreation Portal (CARP) provides a list of training courses and degree courses in Design across all states. From EdNA Online on September 8, 2004 at 12:22 a.m..


Culture and Recreation Portal: Training Courses - Community Arts This web page from the Culture and Recreation Portal (CARP) provides a list of training courses and degree courses in Community art and culture across all states. From EdNA Online on September 8, 2004 at 12:22 a.m..


Culture and Recreation Portal: Training Courses - Indigenous This web page from the Culture and Recreation Portal (CARP) provides a list of training courses and degree courses in Indigenous art and culture across all states. From EdNA Online on September 8, 2004 at 12:22 a.m..


The Paleo-Etiology of Human Skin Tone Short lecture/presentation suitable as supplemental reading for a course on the history of U.S. racialism. Uses recent findings from paleoanthropology and the decoding of the human genome to explain two puzzles of skin tone distribution: Why Europeans are lighter-skinned than other populations, even those who inhabit the same or higher latitudes. Why equatorial Native Americans are not as dark-skinned as other populations inhabiting similarly low latitudes. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on September 8, 2004 at 12:22 a.m..


The Perception of "Racial" Traits Short lecture/presentation suitable as supplemental reading for a course on the history of U.S. racialism. Summarizes in four parts how people in general and American children in particular learn to associate certain physical features with “race.” Part 1 discusses Hoetink’s “Somatic Norm Image” model. Part 2 discusses the timing of the stages through which children learn their culture’s “racial” terms and concepts. Part 3 examines the cognitive mechanisms that associate “otherness” with “racial” features. Part 4 quickly surveys the decline of the bio-race concept in the professiona From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on September 8, 2004 at 12:22 a.m..


The Rate of Black-to-White "Passing" Short lecture/presentation suitable as supplemental reading for a course on the history of U.S. racialism. Uses several methods to compute the annual rate at which European-looking youngsters raised in the U.S. Black community redefine themselves as White or Hispanic after high school. Summarizes genetic studies finding that such color-line permeability has been ongoing since colonial times and continues today. Explains that only during a brief historical period (Jim Crow) was “racial” self-identity switching considered socially reprehensible by mainstream society. Suggests that even during From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on September 8, 2004 at 12:22 a.m..


How the Law Decided if You Were Black or White: The Early 1800s Short lecture/presentation suitable as supplemental reading for a course on the history of U.S. racialism. Historical overview of the emergence of the three methods used in early American court cases to determine which side of the color line you were on. Reviews late 18-century court cases determined by physical appearance, early nineteenth-century cases that hinged on blood fraction, and mid-nineteenth-century cases swayed by class association. Explains why all three methods were found to be necessary in order to preserve the U.S. endogamous color line. Also discusses the legal connection bet From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on September 8, 2004 at 12:22 a.m..


Chinese Holidays Teaching resourse of Chinese holidays From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on September 8, 2004 at 12:22 a.m..


Applet Simulation of Properties of Sampling Distribution From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on September 8, 2004 at 12:22 a.m..


Afro-European Genetic Admixture in the United States Short lecture/presentation suitable as supplemental reading for a course on the history of U.S. racialism. Summarizes recent findings on the use of ancestry-informative genetic markers to examine the endogamous U.S. color line. Presents studies showing that, when compared to admixed Latin America, the U.S. color line has preserved two genetically distinct populations (one preponderantly African, the other mostly European). The color line is not impermeable, however, and the presentation also shows how to measure both the recent African genetic component of White Americans and the European gene From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on September 8, 2004 at 12:22 a.m..


Key Indicators 2004: Poverty in Asia: Measurement, Estimates, and Prospects The Key Indicators of Developing Asian and Pacific Countries features poverty in the Asia and Pacific region including 30 regional tables comparing the Millennium Development Goal indicators, as well as economic and social indicators across the 42 developing member countries of the Asian Development Bank (ADB); and 41 country tables, each with 8-year data series on key macroeconomic and financial statistics. The theme chapter, regional tables, and country tables with 18-year data series are also published on the ADB web site From Recent Items on September 8, 2004 at 12:22 a.m..


PovcalNet PovcalNet is an interactive computational tool that allows the replication of the calculations made by the World Bank's researchers in estimating the extent of absolute poverty in the world. It also allows you to calculate the poverty measures under different assumptions and to assemble the estimates using alternative country groupings or for any set of individual countries of your choosing. PovcalNet is self-contained; it has built-in software that immediately does the relevant calculations for you from the built-in database. From Recent Items on September 8, 2004 at 12:22 a.m..


Anglo Sikh heritage trail This web site is published by the Maharajah Duleep Singh Centenary Trust (MDSCT) with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and English Heritage. The Anglo Sikh Heritage Trail aims to highlight Anglo Sikh history and provide resources for those studying and researching this area. The site lists all of the relevant locations, institutions and artefacts in the United Kingdom related to Anglo Sikh history, which can be browsed by region or searched by keyword. Also on the site are articles about particular historical figures like Maharajah Duleep Singh, events such as the nineteenth century Angl From New Humbul Resources on September 8, 2004 at 12:21 a.m..


Original historical texts Original Historical Texts is published by an enthusiast of sixteenth and seventeenth century British history. On the site users will find a small selection of digitised texts taken from newspapers, covering the years 1588-1666. There are six articles featured, each covering an important historical event. These are Sir Francis Drake and the Armada, the execution of Guy Fawkes, the execution of Charles I, the death of Oliver Cromwell, the Plague, and an account of the Great Fire of London. All of the articles have been digitised from the original. The copies are high quality and easy to read, al From New Humbul Resources on September 8, 2004 at 12:21 a.m..


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