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  • Canadian Foundation on Compulsive Gambling is committed to ensuring healthy individuals, families and communities that are free of the personal, social and economic harm resulting from gambling abuse.
    www.responsiblegambling.org

  • National Youth Gang Center: The purpose of the NYGC is to expand and maintain the body of critical knowledge about youth gangs and effective responses to them. The Center assists state and local jurisdictions in the collection, analysis, and exchange of information on gang-related demographics, legislation, literature, research, and promising program strategies, and coordinates activities of the OJJDP Youth Gang Consortium - a group of federal agencies, gang program representatives, and other service providers.
    http://www.iir.com/nygc/

  • Aboriginal gangs in prairie provinces in crisis proportions.
    http://www.firstnationsdrum.com/Fall2003/CrimeGangs.htm

  • The Coroner's Report provides information and resources on gang intervention and prevention.
    www.gangwar.com

  • National Forum on Youth Gangs: a joint report of the Solicitor General Canada, Department of Justice Canada, and the National Crime Prevention Centre.
    http://www.sgc.gc.ca/Publications/Policing/199912_e.pdf

  • Project Gang-Proof was set up by the Manitoba Justice Department. Their printable handbook is a resource for families and communities who want to stop young people from joining or staying in street gangs. Gangs are not simply youth in trouble. They can be organized criminal groups who often commit violent crimes.
    www.gov.mb.ca/justice/safe/gangproof

  • Youth Violence and Youth Gangs: a report to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.
    http://www.psepc-sppcc.gc.ca/publications/policing/199456_e.asp

  • Genome Gateway provided by Nature, the international journal of science, with links to many related sites.
    www.nature.com/genomics

  • Genetics Education Center of the University of Kansas Medical Center provides education resources on human genetics and the human genome project. Links to other genetic resources on the Net.
    www.kumc.edu/gec

  • Access Excellence is a place in cyberspace for biology teaching and learning. Access Excellence assists high school biology teachers by providing access to colleagues, scientists and many other resources for teaching biology at the high school level.
    www.accessexcellence.org

  • Conceiving a Clone is divided into areas that not only contain ethical concerns, but historical and scientific facts as well. The Details section contains these items, centered around a timeline. The Details also contains scientist biographies, technical explanations of cloning and biotechnology processes, and animations of various techniques.
    http://library.thinkquest.org/24355/

  • Major Biomes of the World is part of the Virtual Geography Department Project and has been prepared for the Physical Geography Working Group of the Project. This page presents information on the world's biomes. A biome is an area with a specific climate together with the animals and plants that live there.
    www.radford.edu/~swoodwar/CLASSES/GEOG235/biomes/main.html

  • Ecozones of Canada: information pages presented by Environment Canada, including maps.
    www.ec.gc.ca/soer-ree/English/Framework/NarDesc

  • Introduction to Biomes presented by California State University. A biome is an area with a specific climate together with the animals and plants that live there. This web page includes detailed descriptions of DECIDUOUS and CONIFEROUS forest biomes, as well as grasslands, tundra, deserts, rain forests and aquatic communities.
    http://curriculum.calstatela.edu/courses/builders/lessons/less/biomes/introbiomes.html

  • National Geographic Magazine Online Index turns a collection of National Geographic magazines into an easy-to-use encyclopedia (also includes other NGS publications such as National Geographic World).
    www.nationalgeographic.com/search.html

  • National Atlas of Canada The National Atlas of Canada is responsible for the development and maintenance of an authoritative synthesis of the geography of Canada. Products, in both digital and conventional form, include base maps, and thematic maps that reflect the social, economic, environmental and cultural fabric of Canada. Customized map services are also provided.
    http://atlas.gc.ca

  • Geographic Facts about Canada presented by the National Atlas Information Service. Have you ever wondered what is the longest river in Canada? Or perhaps the highest mountain? What about the largest islands? This factbook will help you find these statistics by using tables, maps and images depicting the superlative geographical features of Canada.
    http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/facts/index.html

  • How Far is It? Enter any two cities and find the distance between them (as the crow flies). You can look by zip code, city, or latitude and longitude.
    www.indo.com/distance

  • British Literature and Anglophile Resources is dedicated to the love of the people, history, culture and literature of England as well as the countries and regions associated with her including Scotland, Ireland, Wales, New Zealand and the Isle of Man. Browse by author, country, era, medium, genre, locales,...
    www.britishliterature.com

  • The Bayeux Tapestry Viewer provides the opportunity to choose segments of the Bayeux Tapestry and view them on-line. The Bayeux tapestry depicts the Battle of Hastings and the events leading up to the Norman invasion of Great Britain.
    www.sjolander.com/viking/museum/bt/bt.htm

  • Renaissance, the Elizabethan World includes a Compendium of Common Knowledge (1558-1603), Elizabethian Heraldry, and a transcript of the trial of the Earls of Essex and Southhampton (1601) for treason. This site also includes many links to related web pages.
    http://renaissance.dm.net

  • The Victorian Web is a guide to Internet resources on literature, politics, science, and art during the Victorian age in Great Britain.
    http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/victov.html

  • Great Lakes Information Network or GLIN, is a partnership that provides one place online for people to find information relating to the binational Great Lakes region of North America. Respected across the Great Lakes region and around the world, GLIN offers a wealth of data and information about the region’s environment and economy, tourism, education and more.
    www.great-lakes.net

  • Our Great Lakes Information Resource provided by Environment Canada.
    www.on.ec.gc.ca/water/greatlakes/intro-e.html

  • United Nations site on Climate Change has useful background on global warming, UN activities, and the Kyoto agreement.
    www.unfccc.de

  • World Wildlife Federation site on climate change includes info on the Kyoto conference and a scorecard on how various countries are doing on the issue of global warming.
    www.panda.org/climate

  • GuitarSite.Com is one of the most up-to-date sources on the net for guitarists and guitar lovers and is updated daily. Links from here include chord sites and "how to play" sites. They also have "Guitar News Weekly" - a weekly zine which you can read on this site or have emailed to you.
    www.guitarsite.com

  • OLGA Search Engine can be used to search the OnLine Guitar Archive for song chords, lyrics and tablature.
    www.olga.net/search

  • Classical Guitar Music provides 300+ classical guitar tabs in plain text format, along with midi files so you can hear the music played.
    http://alt.venus.co.uk/weed/music/classtab

  • Guitar Noise is a good starting place for finding guitar information including music in tablature form.
    www.guitarnoise.com

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