"The National Child Protection Clearinghouse is funded by the Australian Government's Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs as part of the government's response to the problem of child abuse. The National Child Protection Clearinghouse, which has operated from the Australian Institute of Family Studies since 1995, collects, produces and distributes information and resources, conducts research, and offers specialist advice on the latest developments in child abuse prevention, child protection and associated violence."
Senator Coonan (Liberal) assured Internet users that the
initiatives were only to protect children from inappropriate
material and the government wasn’t dictating what adults
could access. "This is not a one-size-fits-all approach to
protecting Australia families and we are not dictating to
every Australian Internet user what they should and
shouldn’t see," she said; [Article Dated: Thursday, June 22,
2006 and accessed: Wednesday, 17 December 2008].
Government past and possible future directions in internet censorship
NetAlert is the previous
Liberal Australian Governments' initiative to allow users to control the
content of their computers. As of December 2008 the author has
discovered that the Labor Government now wants to introduce a
blanket approach to internet censorship.
The author suspect that few people down-loaded the free NetAlert
program because government is not really a trusted supplier of software.
This lack of trust would likely stem from buyers of software being used
to having software design companies being independent and listening to
customer request then following a political agenda rather then
responding to demand.
There are several good style manuals you can buy and they are as handy as a dictionary or thesaurus. The author consider them a must have Item (like a dictionary).
With the existence of the Internet there are options that were not available in the past. In time of difficulty or when you have to move around, you can still get your references to style manuals and referencing here!!!
The author considers documents as never really finished. You do a draft, Intermediate, and finalized copy (never really perfect anyway). The author does not have the time or is often stuck with primitive Interfaces where spell checking is not even possible. So some of my stuff can be a little rough at times, even on the web sites the author produce. The author supposes that is why the perfect copy writers are something every writer dreams of having...
Lightning Bug; a help for creating a story from start to end.
Emails: explanation of how to use yahoo mail. A good hint for dates is to always spell out the month and put all the digits in the year. For example 8 July 2008 or July 8, 2008 is better then: 08/08, 06/08, 08/06, 06/08/08, or 08/06/08.
WL Writers agency; For submission of your book (some type’s books are not accepted here). Check out the web site for a more detailed explanation of submission.
Triond. Triond is a way to publish your work. They find a place where your work might belong.
Get pulished online. Looking for paying writing gigs? Wondering how to get your name into print? This article offers up a list of 50 websites that will help you get published and find markets for your writing.
This site (http://www.nasa.gov) NASA home page; as of Wednesday, 03 September 2008, contained some really interesting stuff about how space exploration impacts your daily life.
I particularly liked the picture of a plant in the living room. A former NASA engineer developed a biological filtering system that pretty much to you and me looks just like a plant in a pot.
There is lots of other cool stuff also about how space exploration impacts on your daily life including tooth paste, guitars and so on.
It is well worth a look at. I have often had people say to me "what is the use of space exploration?" I am glad that NASA has provided answers about this question in such a clear manner.
NASA, the news on international space station that has been built up there (this link was previously lost in 2006-2007).
www.lovingshoes.com, Loving Shoes removed because it no longer links to shoe store in china as it originally did. I will see if I can get somthing from China here in its' place. After all, the Olympics were held there. There must be some interesting new trade links that formed since China now produces so much stuff.
Art
Queenie Chan is said to be the first female anime/manga artist in Australia. Her favourite artist and inspiration was Tezuka Osamin .
this picture is from a
gallery, but also take a look at this site:
milky-brown.
The gallery has photos International and local people mostly and
occasional snaps of animals and objects—with
people around them. The site both shock and interests me. The people,
animals and objects photographed all seem to verge on telling a story—but
what story we wonder.
Nice map of Seoul. Seoul is by Australian standards a sort of state that has a staggaring population that exceeds one half of our total Australian population. In Korea it is simply reffered to as a special city. Seoul, one of the most densly populated and digitally-wired cities int the world, is a capitol city. The government there has worked hard to clean up and prevent pollution. Seoul is divided into 25 gu (구 "wards"), which are sub-divided into 522 dong, which are sub-divided into 13,787 tong, which are further divided into 102,796 ban in total.
Hostess, but not easy to contact as the details they have about phone numbers and addresses is not correct or leads you to another company that does not represent Hostess. I suggest caution when establishing a hosting company or reseller for your web sites. Perhaps check if you can contact them before hand. Consider this: they hold receipts, your personal URL (web name: www.yoursite.com) and even may expect to re-bill you at a later date. Good communication lines will help sort out any details that might cause a headache for you later down the line. Hostess for instance seems to expect you to only contact it by email (and no other way) even though it is not explicitly stated in their adverts. Taking time to see what the communication lines are like can save you a lot of heart ache in the future!!!
http://www.crisscross.com/jp/: Crisscross news, Japan. This link seems to be no longer avialable. Crisscross news is apparently a Japanese news service that is specific to Tokyo.
Friends Renited, : can locate people you went to school, university, interest clubs or scouts with for example.
Facebook, : connecting with people you already know.
Social rights
Each of the political parties have different ways of treating people and that means exactly how and if you have social rights will vary depending on government policies. News papers have criticized the government: “In the past 11 years of the previous [Howard] government they have made the suppression of public information an art form
(Watching the Media)."
The new Labor government has also revealed how the Howard government has acted to suppress information and influence the behavior of those it dealt with.
“Routine contracts riddled with gag clauses" would make it seem that the Liberal government has lied to any people that needed to (or to non-optionally optionally as the liberals put it) use organizations that worked with the government. The lies come from ultimately not being allowed a voice in a process that one is often forced (non-optionally/optionally) to be a part of.
During the Howard years, not-for-profit groups delivering government welfare services often complained they could not speak out against general government policies for fear of losing their contracts or ruining their chances of winning work.
"There are clauses which require them to give government their media releases before they issue them, require them to give government submissions and reports on campaigns and matters to do with launches prior to them doing them," Ms Gillard said.
"It's very common for there to be a clause which says the department may, at its absolute discretion, give notice to the contractor to remove personnel from work in respect of the contract services."
I have have lost some information (links to sites) below and had to recreate it from memory.
Falun Gong or Falun Dafa
Falun Gong is difficult to understand but the short description presented here may be the necessary incentive to find out more information for yourself in the hyper links that are provided below.
In the west Falun Gong or Falun Dafa does not translate well as a practice because here in the west we have a clear distinction between religion, alternative health and activities we do in our daily life.
Falun Gong in the Chinese way of thinking is more like a way of life, the separation between health, religion and things we do in our daily life are not separate subjects. The way of raising your spiritual level does not need to have the label of religion or restricted practices attached to it.
It is obvious that the view that Falun Gong is boxed into alternative health like Yoga or the physical exercise of a good walk in a garden is not strictly correct, yet either Yoga or a good walk could possibly lift our spiritual level in the Chinese way of thinking even if we (in the west) might see one as healthy and the other as simple exercise.
