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Wed, 20 Oct 2021 08:17:19 +0000 UTC
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• Time Zone Conversions
  • World Time Buddy
  • Time and Date
• Libraries/News
  • Connecting the Last Mile: Libraries Find Innovative Solutions for Broadband Access 1/21 3 small US libraries use Wifi and fixed wireless infrastructure to bridge digital divide in rural areas
  • LinkedIn sold Slideshare to Scribd 9/20. All content from 24 Sep 2020 will be under Scribd terms and conditions controlling content. I deleted my Violin and IT presentation from Slideshare. It is only available on my Website now. 18/9/20
  • What are the characteristics of low-income households in your area? Census research in Australia
  • UK libraries lose a quarter of staff as hundreds close 3/16 - got to modernise and use wifi to attract patrons and offer more ebooks
  • Canadian government closes science libraries and destroys research 1/14
  • 1380.0.55.007 - Perspectives on Regional Australia: Population Growth and Turnover in Local Government Areas (LGAs), 2006-2011 - Australian Bureau of Statistics - very useful
  • Wikileaks - whistleblower that brings down corrupt regimes worldwide through the internet but is being attacked insatiably
  • ABC Central West NSW - news
  • NSW Public Libraries had $350,000 cut from budget forcing them to become user-pays - SMH 9/07
  • Orange Public Library being forced to become user-pays - CWD 10/07
• Broadband/VoIP/Webcam
  • Atlassian Portal Device - Webcam link between buildings in Sydney for developers
  • Sangoma Blog - VoIP PBX - ex Digium
  • ADSL2+ Exchanges in Australia
  • CENTROC on broadband in Central West NSW - CWD 23/1/07
  • Veridas wholesale ISP closing down cuts off 30,000 dialup users - story 9/06
  • CENTROC (Central NSW Councils)
• Sport
  • Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games
• Music
  • NSW
    • Fiddlers Feast ex Fiddlers Festival - very good, I went to Richmond NSW Fiddlers Festival in 1990s
    • Country Music Association of Australia (CMAA), Tamworth NSW - January country music festival, famous country artists
    • Illawarra Folk Festival
    • Mungindi Music Festival - near NSW/Qld Border - 28-30/9/07
  • Qld
    • Caboolture
      • Caboolture Community Choir
      • Caboolture Festival Caboolture QLD ex Generate Festival Oct 2017
      • Caboolture Country Music Jamboree 2019
      • Urban Country, ex festival from Caboolture QLD - went broke about 2017 and was replaced by Jamboree in 2019
    • Moreton Bay Symphony Orchestra, Inc Redcliffe QLD
    • Queensland Music Festival July, Brisbane, regional
    • Folkrag.org - Brisbane and South East Queensland folk gigs and dances
  • Victoria
    • National Celtic Festival, Portarlington Victoria 8-11 June 2012
  • NT
    • Barunga Festival, via Katherine NT - aboriginal culture, sports and music!
    • Black Cockatoo Band, Barunga, NT
  • radio and TV
    • NITV - SBS - National Indigenous TV and Radio - Volumz music late at night
    • Hope 103.2 FM Sydney - Christian music and podcasts
    • 103.5 FM Orange ex Rhema Orange - Christian music
    • 96five FM Brisbane - Christian pop
    • 4MBS - Brisbane, online, classic, jazz
    • 101.5 FM Caboolture QLD - Moreton Bay's Own Community Radio Station - election info, Sunday pm Christian music
    • 100.3 Bay-FM - Redland Bay QLD community radio
    • 2MCR 100.3 - jazz, country - Macarthur Community Radio, Campbelltown NSW
  • RooRythmics, Macarthur Sounds and Ten Penny Bit (my bush bands, past and present)
  • Barker Vale Brothers - Blackberry Blossom
  • ReverbNation - indie music
• Church
  • Power to Change catalytic resources for evangelism
    • Student Life in 1980s
      • Power to Change history - Rev Geoff Fletcher (Lay Institute for Evangelism) - my father SP Walker knew Geoff Fletcher in Townsville in 1960s
      • ex Student Life which I was in in 1980s at UQ and Uni of Melbourne
      • Power to Change: 40 Years In Queensland! 8/19 - I went to this and met many old Christian friends from Student Life at UQ in 1980s
      • Student Life was at Uni of Melbourne, Monash Uni, RMIT, Swinburne and UQ in 1980s
      • I am slowly connecting back up to Power to Change as I left uni many years ago
      • Student Life 1980s in Melbourne has had reunions in 2019-2021 in person or on Zoom in Melbourne which I have attended and met some very interesting Christian workers who came out of Student Life in the 1980s
    • on campus
    • in churches
    • very effective parachurch group
    • church growth
    • apologetics support
      • Everystudent.com student evangelism
      • GodTools app on Android and iOS - 4 Spiritual Laws, Knowing God Personally booklets
      • Stand to Reason - Greg Koukl - apologetics podcasts
  • David Pawson's Online Teaching Library sermons, books and charts on Bible (exposition)
    • David Pawson new UK site
  • Kings Church, St John NB Canada Facebook page - online church!
    • Kings Church home page
  • New Churches - podcast about church planting
  • missional communities
    • We are SOMA
    • Cornerstone Community
  • Charismatic
    • Hillsong Church Sydney
    • New Hope Brisbane
      • History Makers Radio podcast - Matt Prater
  • Anglican
    • Anglican Parish of Logan, QLD - St Marks
    • St Matthias Centennial Park NSW - very evangelical - I used to go here in 1990s and joined RooRythmics Bush Band
    • Sydney Anglican News
    • Gafcon international evangelical Anglican conference
      • Peter Jensen ex secretary of Gafcon 1/19 - ex Archbishop of Sydney and ex Principal of Moore College
    • training
      • Ridley College, Melbourne
        • I was boarder here in 1979-80 when studying medicine at University of Melbourne
        • it is no longer a residential college but sold off all the accommodation and is now only a theological college
        • Leon Morris was principal in 1979
        • Maurice Betteridge was principal in 1980
      • The Pastor's Heart - podcast and Facebook webinar
      • Cornhill Sydney - preacher training centre
      • Moore College Newtown NSW - podcasts
        • Moore College on Vimeo sermons, talks - John Woodhouse, Phil Jensen
        • Moore College Reason for Hope on Vimeo sermons, talks - John Woodhouse, Phil Jensen
        • Preliminary Theological Certificate (PTC) online course (Moodle)
        • centres
          • Priscilla and Aquila Centre conferences
          • Centre for Christian Living ethics
          • Centre for Global Mission
          • Centre for Ministry Development
        • Lionel Windsor blog: Forget the Channel - New Testament lecturer at Moore College - resources, videos, podcasts Iso-chats on theology and Lift your eyes on Ephesians

          • Site: Iso-chats: Theology

            1. Preaching the Pastoral Epistles
            2. The biblical meaning of righteousness and justification Part 3, with Chris Thomson @ Moore College
            3. The biblical meaning of righteousness and justification Part 2, with Chris Thomson @ Moore College
            4. The biblical meaning of righteousness and justification Part 1, with Chris Thomson @ Moore College
            5. Jacob: Scoundrel, wrestler and ancestor of Christ, with Philip Kern @ Moore College
            6. Ecclesiastes and a world in crisis, with George Athas
            7. How did the Reformers respond to plagues? Learning from history with Mark Earngey @ Moore College
            8. “He is risen! He is not here”: Comfort and hope in absence, with Peter Orr @MooreCollege
            9. God’s judgment and compassion in Jeremiah, with Andrew Shead @ Moore College
            10. Moore College, open for business: Joys and challenges during Covid-19, with Principal Mark Thompson
            11. Domestic abuse and social isolation: how Christians can help the vulnerable, with Louise Cunningham @ Moore College
            12. Thinking rightly about the Apocalypse, with David Höhne @ Moore College
            13. Gentleness: a crucial virtue in stressful times, with Peter Orr @ Moore College
            14. Culture shock: Why everyone’s feeling it, and how to cope, with Margie and Simon Gillham @ Moore College
            15. Emotional wellbeing in crazy times, with Paul Grimmond @ Moore College
            16. What is church when we can’t gather? Thinking theologically with Chase Kuhn @ Moore College
            17. Isolation and Christian Love, with Dan Wu @ Moore College

          • Site: Lift Your Eyes – Forget the Channel

            1. Lift Your Eyes: Please rate, review, share
            2. Translation of Ephesians
            3. Reading Ephesians (Ephesians 6:21–24)
            4. Prayer: the heart of evangelism (Ephesians 6:17–20)
            5. The importance of being a struggling Christian (Ephesians 6:14–16)
            6. Stand your ground (Ephesians 6:10–13)
            7. The gospel for the boss (Ephesians 6:9)
            8. The gospel: beyond freedom (Ephesians 6:5–8)
            9. The gospel and fatherhood (Ephesians 6:4)
            10. Paul the Apostle does children’s ministry (Ephesians 6:1–3)
            11. The gospel and marriage part 2: Husbands (Ephesians 5:25–33)
            12. The gospel and marriage part 1: Wives (Ephesians 5:22–24)
            13. Submitting to one another (Ephesians 5:21)
            14. Christian singing: Why and how? (Ephesians 5:19–20)
            15. What’s wrong with drunkenness? (Ephesians 5:18)
            16. Watch how you walk (Ephesians 5:15–17)
            17. Living light (Ephesians 5:11–14)
            18. The test that matters (Ephesians 5:10)
            19. Children of light (Ephesians 5:8–9)
            20. What do you want to become? (Ephesians 5:5–7)
            21. Holy talk (Ephesians 5:3–4)
            22. Imitators of God (Ephesians 5:1–2)
            23. The power of forgiveness (Ephesians 4:31–32)
            24. Words with purpose (Ephesians 4:29–30)
            25. The gospel for criminals (Ephesians 4:28)
            26. Grace and anger (Ephesians 4:26–27)
            27. Telling the truth (Ephesians 4:25)
            28. Become who you are (Ephesians 4:22–24)
            29. Learning Christ (Ephesians 4:20–21)
            30. Turn around and walk the other way (Ephesians 4:17–19)
            31. Playing your part (Ephesians 4:16)
            32. The truth in love: A key principle for church growth (Ephesians 4:14–15)
            33. Christ’s body: A brief history (Ephesians 4:11–13)
            34. Christ: Up there and down here (Ephesians 4:8–10)
            35. Gifted beyond measure (Ephesians 4:7)
            36. The one and only God (Ephesians 4:4–6)
            37. This unity (Ephesians 4:2–3)
            38. The truth on the ground (Ephesians 4:1)
            39. God: Beyond us—and with us (Ephesians 3:20–21)
            40. This is huge (Ephesians 3:18–19)
            41. Where does God live? (Ephesians 3:16–17)
            42. Who are you praying to? (Ephesians 3:14–15)
            43. My afflictions, your glory (Ephesians 3:12–13)
            44. God’s multidimensional wisdom (Ephesians 3:9–11)
            45. The meaning of ministry (Ephesians 3:7–8)
            46. The open secret (Ephesians 3:4–6)
            47. The prisoner lifts his eyes (Ephesians 3:1–3)
            48. Built together (Ephesians 2:20–22)
            49. No second-class Christians (Ephesians 2:19)
            50. Christ the missionary (Ephesians 2:17–18)
            51. Christ the wall breaker (Ephesians 2:14–16)
            52. The blood that brings us close (Ephesians 2:11–13)
            53. Good works and salvation: What’s the connection? (Ephesians 2:8–10)
            54. A question of security (Ephesians 2:6–7)
            55. This love (Ephesians 2:4–5)
            56. We too: the offenders (Ephesians 2:3)
            57. The root of the problem (Ephesians 2:1–2)
            58. The first thing to say about church (Ephesians 1:22–23)
            59. Strength to live (Ephesians 1:19–21)
            60. What’s the point of theology? (Ephesians 1:17–18)
            61. Prayer: What are we actually doing? (Ephesians 1:15–16)
            62. The Holy Spirit: Our security (Ephesians 1:14)
            63. The message is the mission (Ephesians 1:13)
            64. Rejoicing in the blessing of others (Ephesians 1:11–12)
            65. So here’s the plan (Ephesians 1:8–10)
            66. Are you trying to redeem yourself? (Ephesians 1:6b–7)
            67. What if it’s not about me? (Ephesians 1:4–6a)
            68. #inChrist (Ephesians 1:3)
            69. This God (Ephesians 1:2)
            70. Amazing holiness (Ephesians 1:1b)

        • 1 Timothy 1:1-2 – ‘An Extraordinary Letter’ – John W. Woodhouse from Moore College on Vimeo.

        • Dr John Woodhouse appointed Principal of Moore Theological College 6/2002-2013 - absolutely amazing preacher - knew him in Sydney via St Matthias in 1990s
    • CMS - Missionary Expo, Orange NSW, 4 Feb 2017
  • UCA
    • Assembly
      • Streaming all states
    • NCYC annual youth convention
      • Being Church Differently (PDF) - faith communities
    • Qld
      • UCA Qld
        • Project Plenty direction for next few years
        • Live Streaming Services in Qld
      • Faithworks Uniting Community, Coorparoo and Norman Park - I went to Coorparoo UCA now Faithworks
      • Albert Street Uniting Church Bribane - in Wesley Mission
      • Wesley Mission Queensland welfare services and churches
      • Mary Burnett Presbytery Uniting Church of Australia (UCA) directory of churches in North Burnett and South Burnett (Bundaberg etc)
    • ACT/NSW
      • Live streamed worship services across NSW and ACT
    • ACT
      • Canberra City UCA - I used to go to this when I visited Canberra - they have online service
        • Early Morning Centre - homeless centre, joint effort between Canberra City UCA and ACT Govt
        • St Columba's UCA Braddon - I visited this once
      • Gungahlin Uniting Church new church about 2012
    • NSW
      • West Epping Uniting Church - streaming
      • Murray Darling Presbytery UCA
        • Dubbo UCA (new site) - Dubbo UCA (old site)
      • Riverina Presbytery UCA
        • Cootamundra UCA
      • Saltbush Community - Uniting the Scattered Community - remote church services via internet
      • Wesley Mission - videos - to fill void of poor preaching in country areas
        • Gordon Moyes - late superintendent of Wesley Mission 1990s when I was violinist at 7pm service (archive, 2013-09-11)
        • The Journal of John Wesley - founder of Methodism in 1700s - excellent resource re Revival in England through faithful preaching all over England by Wesley on horseback in field-preaching
    • Vic
      • Glen Waverley Uniting Church - streaming
      • Worship Resources in COVID-19 Port Phillip East Presbytery VIC - excellent resources list! 4/20
      • Castlemaine District Uniting Church
  • Presbyterian
    • PIM Congregation Connect
      • free service for churches to stream church services
      • used during Coronavirus pandemic
      • normally used for outback and remote churches
    • NSW
      • Orange Presbyterian - online church - where I used to go
      • Nambucca River Presbyterian - PIM Congregation Connect streaming
      • Warren Presbyterian Church, NSW
        • Church in a paddock: How a church in a tiny town called Warren went worldwide 6/20
    • Vic
      • Castlemaine Presbyterian Church, Vic not streaming
      • St Johns Presbyterian Bendigo streaming
      • Ebenezer Presbyterian East Bendigo streaming
      • Reforming Church Bendigo (Presbyterian) streaming
    • Qld
      • Browns Plains Presbyterian Church streaming on Facebook 2/21
      • Gateway Presbyterian Church, Ascot QLD - Guido Kettniss
        • knew my father SP Walker in Townsville in 1960s
        • sermons livestreaming on Facebook
      • Arundel Presbyterian Church, Gold Coast, Qld (sermons)
      • CityHeart Presbyterian Church Caboolture, Qld
        • podcasts and emailed sermon notes (12 pages/week!)
        • Natural Readers Online - used to convert text to speech when sermon notes are emailed so I can listen to sermon not read long sermon 3/20
      • 
        Dalby Presbyterian Church livestream due to Coronavirus 22/3/20-
      • Below is a list of live-streaming links which churches have offered for other congregations to utilise while church services are suspended:
        • Ann Street Presbyterian Church
        • Brisbane Korean Presbyterian Church
        • Central Church (Ipswich)
        • Christ Central Church Please see links and updates through the church Facebook page.
          Live-stream services will be available on Sundays at 9.30am
        • Dalby Presbyterian Church
        • Graceville Presbyterian Church Please see links and updates through the church Facebook page.
          Live-stream services will be available on Sundays at 9.30am
        • Ithaca Presbyterian Church
        • Living Church Presbyterian, Carina QLD ex Creek Road Presbyterian
        • Mitchelton Presbyterian Church Please see links and updates through the church Facebook page.
          Live-stream services will be available on Sundays at 9.30am
        • Southside Presbyterian Church
          Podcasts ('Navigate')
        • St. John’s on Geddes (South Toowoomba) Presbyterian Church
  • Wesleyan Methodist
    • Axis Church Wesleyan Methodist, North Lakes QLD (sermons, evangelism, Troy Beer Church Growth/Impulse Director)
  • Baptist
    • QLD
      • Minden Baptist out near Gatton in Southeast Qld streaming
      • Greenslopes Baptist - Brisbane Southside
        • I used to go here in 1980s
        • streaming
        • 100th in 12/20
    • ACT
      • Dickson Baptist
    • NSW
      • Wellington Baptist near Dubbo
  • conventions
    • Katoomba Christian Convention, Blue Mountains NSW - videos of talks
    • Mt Tamborine Christian Convention, Gold Coast Hinterland QLD - videos of talks
    • Belgrave Height Convention, Melbourne VIC main site - Belgrave Heights Convention, Melbourne VIC videos of past talks
    • Darling Downs Easter Convention videos, Warwick QLD - sermons to fill gap of not getting to Christian conventions in country areas
  • book sellers
    • Matthias Media Christian books and ebooks - linked to Sydney Anglicans and Moore College - good evangelical material
    • Koorong Bookshop Christian books and music
    • Wandering Bookseller (Katoomba NSW) Christian books
  • Hour of Power - Bobby Schuller TV Channel 10 5am Sundays
    Shepherd's Grove Live
  • Bloom Asia - anti human trafficking in Cambodia
  • Out of the Pit - Christian miners group
  • MAF Australia Mission Aviation Fellowship - PNG, Arnhem Land, Timor-Leste, Cambodia etc
• Arts and Museums
  • Centre for Social Impact UNSW
    • Spiritual capital, spiritual intelligence - Zohar and Marshall (UNSW)
  • Regional Arts NSW grants and networks (2013 $393K from Australian Dept of the Arts)
  • Queensland Rail pARTnerships - art by community on Queensland Railway underpasses
  • Central NSW Museums includes Orange, Blayney, Cabonne
• Health
  • Full Circle Projects homelessness in Moreton Bay Regional Council area QLD
  • Oneplace directory of Queensland social services
  • Queensland Shelter - homelessness in Queensland
  • Betel UK drug therapy, homelessness service
  • Type 2 diabetes
  • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - health programs - inspiring health pics
  • gambling
    • The Alliance for Gambling Reform - councils
    • Australian Churches Gambling Taskforce - to require a permit for $1000/hr poker machines problem gamblers to stop social and financial damage to the community - 11/12
    • gambling - Malcolm Turnbull MP
  • doctor shortage
    • Charles Sturt University Medical School
      • La Trobe University and Charles Sturt University joint proposition
      • 3 campuses at Orange, Wagga-Wagga and Bendigo 5/17
      • Hansard 24/5/17 Andrew Gee MP for Calare
      • opposition by Sydney University
    • Skinner: no link between intern place call and CSU - Commonwealth not putting up more medical interns just more places in medical schools at CSU 6/13 - old State-Federal blame game
    • Doctors 4 the Bush - CSU Bathurst NSW
      • CSU planning second Rural Medical School at Wagga Wagga 20/2/13 - could use NBN for telemedicine
    • Rural Doctors Association of Australia - huge shortage of doctors in country NSW - one town would pay $100,000 to doctor to stay in their town (near Young)
    • NSW Rural Doctors Network - 100 doctors short
    • Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine - autism online training
    • Australian Bureau of Statistics Australian Health Survey
    • Australian Medical Association (AMA)
      • Practical plan needed to get doctors to live and work in rural Australia - AMA 12/1/12
        • AMA Submission to the Senate Community Affairs Reference Committee Inquiry into the Factors Affecting the Supply of Health Services and Medical Professionals in Rural Areas
        • Senate Inquiry: The factors affecting the supply of health services and medical professionals in rural areas - 127 submissions
    • doctor immigration
      • Streamlining of 457 Visa to Permanent Residency on select professions in Australia - from 1 July 2012 the 457 visa holder will not have to resit tests to apply for Permanent Residence
        • Employer Sponsored (ENSorRSMS)
        • Labour Agreements (LA)
        • Visa Finder
        • SkillSelect - Australian Govt program
      • Australian Immigration - Skills assessment and assessing authorities
      • foreign doctors leaving remote areas in Australia after 10 years term because of substandard housing and English test bungling 1/12 - aboriginal settlements
  • mental
    • My Mental Health - Brisbane North PHN mental health resources directory
    • Here's how to cope with stress, according to the World Health Organization 8/20
    • Five Truths to Know About Mental Health Josh McDowell
    • Definition of Workplace Bullying - form of domestic violence
    • Karuna - Brisbane - Buddhist hospice - mental health resources for elderly care
    • National Mental Health Commission
    • Suicide Prevention Australia
    • Brain Pages, Inc - Erin Matlock brain therapist
      • free online brain summit 5/16
      • SuperHeroYou: Changing Fate Facebook video of Erin Matlock on suicide attempts and prevention 9/16
    • Open Minds - agency for mental disability
    • 2017 Mental Health in the Workplace Conference, 2/6/17 Melbourne VIC
    • My Mum has depression by Nina Mitchell - book
    • Neami National ex North Brisbane Partners in Recovery - counselling and support service for mental health patients
    • Australian Institute of Family Counselling Ltd - Christian psychology training
    • SU QLD - school chaplaincy
      • chaplaincy forefather Keith Drinkall bio - he died in 12/15 aged 70
    • Headspace - mental health support to prevent youth suicides especially in country areas
    • Broken outback farmers in Queensland are at breaking point but help must be carefully managed 12/6/13
    • Psychiatry gets makeover in new manual 19/5/13
    • UNE Mental Health
      • Rural Outreach Mental Health and Resilience Study (ROMHAR), UNE, Armidale NSW - applicants required! 3/13 - identify molecules that might be reliable indicators of depression
      • Collaborative Research Network for Mental Health in Rural and Regional Communities Aug 2013
    • Lifeline Canberra - EPIC book fairs
    • The O'Brien Centre - mental health, Orange NSW
    • Life Line Australia -suicide prevention service - phone 131114
    • Detox and Rehab List for NSW
    • Mental Health in Rural Australia - BeyondBlue replaced Shed Online
    • Men's Sheds - helps men who are isolated or depressed - Member for Burrinjuck speech 6/3/08
    • Mental Health Foundation ACT - high rate of mental illness in Central West NSW
    • Asperger Services Australia - one Asperger symptom: patient has no empathy, no theory of self to perceive what another person is thinking so it a little professor and hurts people's feelings by saying outrageous statements without any feeling for the hearer; not everyone that is difficult has Asperger - this is pop psychology, not scientific
  • dental
    • Child Dental Benefits Schedule for health professionals Dept of Human Services
    • NSW has lowest public dental health expenditure in Australia - C Moore 8/8/11 Hansard - $23.40/yr/public patient
    • CSU Dentistry Implementation, Orange NSW - to fill shortage of country dentists from country students
  • drugs and counselling
    • 5 Tips On Handling A Drunk In The Workplace 4/19
      • very relevant for me as a busker in a public place
      • always being assailed by aggressive or vindictive drunks
    • Diffusion Books - books for offenders to get back on track
    • Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
    • Brisbane North PHN (Primary Health Network) - Australian Govt - supporting GPs e.g. drug addicts, opened in 2/17, only found out in 6/18
    • QNADA (Queensland Network of Alcohol and Other Drug Agencies Inc)
    • IUIH (Institute of Urban Indigenous Health - Caboolture area - people for whom I got $1M from Queensland Govt to heal drug addicts
    • Lives Lived Well drugs and alcohol rehab services Cairns to Beenleigh in 26 centres
      • Lives Lived Well received $11M funding for Caboolture area 6/18 - 4 times demand for detox services (36% of demand for 8% of population of Moreton Bay)
      • Lives Lived Well Specialist Centre Gold Coast
    • SBS Struggle Street documentary
      • ice addict unemployed with poor memory so could not get job so homeless and struggling financially, socially and emotionally 11/17
    • Ice Fight drugs
    • Breaking the ice drug addiction therapy
    • drug info @ your library - State Library of NSW - excellent
    • Teen Challenge International - drug counselling for teenagers
    • Waterbrook Church, Brendale QLD - youth outreach - Caboolture Herald 4/17
• crime
  • fraud
    • Web Development Scam re Gacillia Nut Site - disabled person scamming me 12/17
    • What is a Gacillia Nut? Web Development Scam re Gacillia Nut Site 5/21
    • Scamwatch - report a scam to ACCC
  • police
    • Queensland Policelink mobile app (Android and iOS)
    • Queensland Police Crime Map - broken 11/18, fixed 5/21
    • myPolice Moreton - Queensland Crime Statistics Bar Charts 11/18
    • Qld MyPolice Moreton - crime news
      
    • Neighbourhood Watch Queensland - Caboolture Neighbourhood Watch - crime figures right now
    • MAKO/Files Australian Paedophile/Sex Offender Registry - 4 males mentioned in Caboolture - archive 5/21
    • Crime Stoppers
  • prison
    • USA
      • GEO Group - corrupt private prison contractor in USA and Australia - overcrowded, violent, drugs
        • privatization of incarceration from 1998 leading to higher costs, violence, drugs and corruption (old boys' club)
        • Inside Australia's 'powder keg' private prison - Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre, Wacol QLD 6/18
      • Incarceration in the USA - very high levels and recidivism compared to Australia - they need better counselling and visitation program like Australia
      • Youth incarceration in USA - higher than any other country - they need heaps of prayer and visitation to deal with restless youth rather than lock them up
      • US Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
    • Australia
      • GEO Group - corrupt private prison contractor in USA and Australia - overcrowded, violent
        • Inside Australia's 'powder keg' private prison - Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre, Wacol QLD 6/18
      • Voices of the 3% aborigines for treaty not constitutional recognition to stop black deaths in custody etc
      • Aboriginal social problems
      • someone probably aboriginal stole light bulb from outside my house in Hayes St Caboolture QLD - noticed 1/10/16
      • Sodom and Gomorrah - ancient cities God razed for their sins
      • find legal answers - information about the law in NSW - State Library of NSW - excellent
      • Caboolture Regional Domestic Violence Service
      • Prison Fellowship Australia - chaplains to reduce repeat offenders by giving inmates support when they leave prison
      • Kairos Prison Ministry Australia - reduces recidivism (repeat offenders) by 21% by prison visitation to get prisoners out of crime cycle - very important in Orange where youth crime is very high compared to the NSW state average and in Caboolture where we are right next door to Woodford Prison the biggest in QLD (nearly 1000 inmates)
• Groups
  • community
    • Lions Clubs International - parks, youth engagement programs, water projects, citizen participation where councils and govt fails
    • Caboolture Neighbourhood Centre - courses, community garden, legal aid
    • ICV (Indigenous Community Volunteers)
  • computer
    • Atlassian Community - developer Jira, Confluence, Sourcetree collaboration tools etc
    • OpenStack - opensource cloud computing community
    • Brisbane Jelly - Work at Jelly - The Edge, State Library of Qld - open wifi area to work with other developers in ad hoc way
    • Qt Community - relevant to Nokia MeeGo N9/N950 smartphone developers
    • TM Forum - telecommunications industry group for standards and processes - NBN
    • Adobe
      • Brisbane InDesign User Group - designers
      • Adobe InDesign Community including EPUB
      • Online Cold Fusion Meetup
      • Bribane Cold Fusion User Group
    • IEEE QLD Section
    • Google Technology User Group (GTUG)
    • Western Sydney IT Cluster (WSITC) - WSITC Linkedin Group - Parramatta
    • Local Government Web Network - web developers in local govt in Australia
    • LG Pro SIGs local government SIGs
    • Ruby on Rails, Oceania
    • SydPUG (Postgresql)
    • SyPy (Python)
    • Microsoft Partner Network Blog
    • .NET Users Group - Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane (SSW)
    • HUMBUG - Brisbane UNIX/Linux group at UQ
    • Brisbane Web Tech
    • Brisbane Drupal Developers
    • Bathurst Wireless - wifi
    • UQ ITEE Alumni (I am one)
      • UQ saved Customs House from being overshadowed by 47 story residential tower at 443 Queen St Brisbane which Brisbane City Council permitted by changing laws to suit developer 11/16
      • UQ Graduate Contact Centenary Edition 2010
      • 1 Aug 2012 - 50th anniversary of digital computing in Prentice Centre - I attended
      • UQ ITEE Alumni - 10/2010 100th anniversary reunion
      • UQ Engineering and Technology Alumni LinkedIn Group - 3/16 replaced UQ ITEE LinkedIn Group
      • Innovation Expo
      • UQ Centenary Alumni Celebration 2-4/7/2010
      • UQ Contact Magazine - alumni magazine
      • UQ Global Connection of all alumni
    • Linux Australia
  • medical
    • Alzheimers Association - dementia carer respite and moral support - help to stop freight train of ageing population crushing us in Australia in next 20 years (2030)!
  • libraries/museums
    • OpenGLAM - open network of libraries, archives and museums
    • Koha opensource library software from NZ that runs on Linux
      • Linux Australia sponsored Koha annual conference in 2020 which is very good as I use Linux and Koha (as librarian and system admin)
• Conferences/Awards/Films
  • medical
    • World Diabetes Congress, Melbourne 2-6/12/13
  • arts
    • Brisbane Writers Festival 4-8/9/13
    • Gold Coast Writers
  • computers
    • UNSW 6U CubeSat Low Cost Space Missions Workshop 10-11 July 2018 UNSW, Kensington NSW
    • SQL Saturday - Australia - April 2012 - SQL Server
    • Cisco Live Australia 5-8/3/19 Melbourne and online
    • AIIA
    • Australian Computer Society (ACS) - computer professionals
    • developer
      • Corey Haines of CodeRetreat.org
      • Developer Developer Developer Brisbane - 1 Dec 2018, Brisbane
      • Global Android Dev Camp 17-19 Feb 2012
      • YOW! Australia Developer Conferences - Dec 2011, Melb, Bris
      • Blackberry Developer Day - Sydney Hilton 24.3.10
    • Nokia
      • Nokia Developer
    • Microsoft
      • Windows Phone Developer Workshop - 8-9 Oct 2011 Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne - dead now
      • Microsoft Australia Tech Ed
    • OpenOffice
      • Open Source Developers' Conference - all of them
      • OpenOffice.org Annual Conference
      • Apache OpenOffice Conference-Within-a-Conference: Call for Papers Open
    • open source
      • MongoDB Event, Sydney 17/3/12 UTS - opensource Python NOSQL database system
      • PyCon Australia, 24-28 Aug 2018 Sydney - Python programming language
      • FOSDEM 2013 - free and opensource software developers
      • FOSS4G, Boston 14-19/8/2017 - geospatial open source
      • linux.conf.au
      • DrupalCon - San Franciso 19-21 Apr 2010
      • Canberra BarCamp - open source 6.2.10 ANU
      • Australian Open Source Symposium till 2004
      • O'Reilly Conferences - USA - open source
    • Adobe Events
    • Web Directions South 2013 - Oct 24-25, Sydney
    • Marcus Evans Conferences Australia
    • Gitex Technology Week - Dubai UAE 18-22 Oct 2009
    • CeBIT - Sydney 20-22/5/08
    • CSIRO Data61 Calendar - Australian Technology Park, Redfern, Sydney
    • Devops Days - Atlassian, Sydney 1-2/5/10
  • church
    • Vanuatu missions
    • Tim Dyer's talk on church decline at Anglican Diocese of Bathurst Clergy Conference 28/7/11 - Anglican News August 2011 (archive)
    • Tim Dyer's talk on Church Decline at Anglican Diocese of Bathurst Clergy Conference 28/7/11 - PDFs and Powerpoints
    • Tim Dyer's talk on Conflict in Ministry 20/11/19 The Gospel Coalition - podcast
  • games
    • Canberra Games Society - CANCON 27-29/1/12
  • spatial
    • Spatial@Gov - 15-17/11/11 - Canberra
  • government and justice
    • Asia Pacific Cities Summit, Brisbane 6-8 July 2011 - 70 cities coming
    • Justice Modeling, 12-13/7/10, Griffith Uni, Brisbane
    • NatStats 15-17 Sep 2010 Sydney
  • business
    • Humble chief executives are in high demand - but good luck finding one 8/17
    • Commonwealth Bank - Business
    • Home-Based Business Week, NSW - 19-23 May 2008 - NSW State Govt
  • conventions
    • TEDxSydney 22-5-10
    • Melbourne Convention and Visitors Centre - big directory of Victorian conferences of all sorts
  • libraries
    • KM Australia - knowledge management - 4-7 Aug 2009, Sydney
    • Internet Librarian, London, UK, 15-16 Oct 2019
• Ecology/Mining/Agriculture/Forestry/Weather/Energy/Recycling/Waste Collection
  • waste collection
    • Waste collection services disrupted, but bins will be collected Moreton Bay Regional Council 11/20 TWU strike at Cleanaway
      • CLEANING UP IN THE WASTE SECTOR TWU Qld 2019-
      • Cleanaway Moreton Bay Regional Council contractor
  • recycling
    • Containers for Change 9/19 - recycling cans, bottles, containers at 10c/item in QLD
      • only refunded for certain items
        • check barcode lookup on website to verify if product with no "10c" mark is accepted e.g. alcohol
        • "10c" mark on container is enforceable by 1/12/19, before that lookup barcode to check if accepted
        • crushed cans are not accepted as no barcode to verify
    • Return It - 11/18 - recycling cans, bottles and containers at 10c/item QLD and ACT - depots include Lifeline Caboolture
  • energy
    • Energy Made Easy power comparison (Govt)
    • A clean energy future - Australian Treasury 11/18 - ex Australian ALP Govt carbon tax 7/11
    • Jackgreen Energy collapses due to heat wave in 2009 - 100% green power
  • agriculture
    • Simptech Designs - near Newcastle NSW - amazing simple inventions - O'Hara won Agquip prize 9/12 and was on display at Australian National Field Days, Orange
    • Wormboss - Sheep CRC research centre
  • weather
    • Australian Dept of Environment and Energy: Climate Change - Global Warming in Australia - 46% increase in CO2 between 1990-2004 (138Mt to 202Mt) in electricity generation
    • National Greenhouse Gas Inventory - Kyoto Protocol classifications - staggering source of alarming information about CO2 buildup
    • Sidoarjo, Java, Indonesia Mud Flow disaster from gas pipline explosion - 5/06- - Santos responsible - bad transport and communications since event according to my brother who lives up there - mobile phone SMS is best way to get through
    • Early Warning Network (EWN) - early weather alerts (SMS, email and Facebook) - all of Australia not just Brisbane based on postcode of person registering
  • ecology
    • Help save the heritage listed Jimna Fire Tower (South East Queensland) - petition to Qld Agriculture and Fisheries 2/17
    • Save the Kimberley from LNG mining in the Browse Basin, WA by Inpex (Japanese firm)
    • Shape our world - Optus/AWC (Australian Wildlife Conservancy)
    • Planet Ark - portal
    • Centre for Appropriate Technology - Derby, WA - aborigines infrastructure
• Charity/War Memorials/Aged/Foreign Aid/NGOs
  • war memorial
    • Commonwealth War Graves Commission
    • Amiens History Association Queensland - WWI soldier settlement near Stanthorpe, linked to Amiens France
    • Vivian Bullwinkel, Australian Nurse, WWII POW
  • charity
    • World Vision
    • Impatient Optimists - Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - Malaria etc
    • Partners in Health - Africa, Haiti
    • IAM (International Assistance Mission) - Afghanistan
    • Operation Mercy - Afghanistan
  • agedcareonline.com.au - large directory of aged care facilities in Australia, many run by churches
• Businesses/Banks/Finance
  • ecommerce
    • Amazon
      • 
        This item cannot be shipped to your selected delivery location SOLUTION - use pickup location! 10/20
    • Ebay
    • Gumtree
    • Facebook Marketplace
  • finance
    • Government backflips on banking royal commission 11/17
      • enquiry into banks providing risky loans without due diligence to small business causing business failure and huge profits for banks
    • Christians Against Poverty Australia - paying off debt
      • CAP Money Course - debt reduction budgeting tools
    • Financial Crisis 2009 - portal
    • The Global Financial Crisis: Causes, Consequences and Countermeasures RBA 4/09
    • The Global Financial Crisis and its impact on Australia RBA in ABS 4/09
    • RBA Annual Report 2009 (GFC)
    • The Australia Institute (TAI) - Canberra thinktank re economy
    • Kiva - microloans by individuals in the West to small businesses in 3rd world countries
    • The Wesley Report - Facing financial stress - Wesley Mission
  • fraud and bullying
    • Web Development Scam re Gacillia Nut Site
    • Scamwatch - report a scam to ACCC
    • Handling nepotism in workplace
  • business
    • Regional Development Australia
    • Too Big to Ignore - small business campaign for Federal Election 2013
    • How to come back after busting - Kochie Business Builders - Honda, Ford, Disney, Dyson - good recovery stories to make small business want to start again after collapse 6/13
    • How to build resilience in your business - Kochie Business Builders
    • Don't fail when your business fails - tips for bouncing back
    • Regional Development Australia in Northern Inland NSW (RDANI) - very useful summaries
    • business.gov.au - Australian Government advisors to grow business
    • NSW Small Business Commissioner helping businesses
    • NSW Small Biz Bus - 12/12, 5/17 - visits NSW regional and city small businesses with volunteer mentors
    • Hostelbookers.com - travel accommodation broker
    • Smolle Auction and Mart - Orange NSW secondhand merchant
    • Gold Coast Tech Space - incubator
    • Vodafone loses 378,000 customers in 3 mths for lousy service - MIS 7/11 - good!
    • MySQL takeover by Oracle
      • Oracle got Sun and MySQL after all in 1/10
      • to stop Oracle taking over MySQL and raising costs of open source software and destroying small Web developer's edge
      • Monty's blog re Oracle's takeover of MySQL when it bought Sun Microsystems late in 2009
      • MariaDB was forked from MySQL by Monty in 10/09 and is replacing MySQL as open source database
    • JAXenter - Java developer magazine
    • Flying Solo - business coach, NSW SRD speaker in Home Based Business Week 5/09
    • Australian Institute of Company Directors
    • NETT small business mag
    • Wandering Bookseller, Leura, NSW - good book reviews and source of news on local Christian events
• Government and Education
  • government
    • Gov 2.0 conference 11 Mar 2010
    • federal
      • car safety
        • Honda airbag recall VIN check
        • ACCC Product Safety Recall Check
      • grants
        • FRRR - administer government grants for rural areas for renewal
          • Drought - 25/10/18 Hansard
        • Community Grants Hub - regional portal
        • Australian Govt Economic Stimulus Plan - mashup of where money is being spent - 2009 Rudd Government (gone now)
      • jobs
        • Jobs for Locals - Mackay Ring Road, QLD, instead of southern contractors - Member for Dawson
        • Business.gov.au - Govt funded business training for employers to hire and train staff
      • Kate Lundy - ex Canberra ALP Senator for IT
      • MyChild.gov.au - childcare places in Australia - Bankstown (1000) and Parramatta (600) highest number of places, Manly, Strathfield and Woollahra lowest (10) 10/12
      • ACL - petition to keep male-female marriage instead of adding same sex marriage in Australia
      • Australian Govt Budget 2011 ICT priorities - very important!
      • The Facts Say Yes - National Referendum to let Australian Federal Government to directly fund Local Government in the Constitution
      • Open Australia Foundation
        • OpenAustralia.org.au - Australian Hansard and parliament using social media
        • They Vote For You - Australian politician voting patterns on bills
        • Right To Know - freedom of information requests of Australian government
      • Rudd sorry speech to black people 13/2/08
      • Missing Persons Australia
    • state
      • Queensland Skills Gateway - subsidised VET courses via TAFE or RTOs 10/18, ALP initiative
      • Android Housing Assist Qld app for Qld Housing and Public Works balance check, maintenance requests and bond loans
      • Drug Info - SLNSW - NSW Govt prevention strategy for drug abuses
      • Central West Police District, NSW Police - to keep hoons at bay
      • Anti-Social Behaviour in Public Housing, NSW - 28% or higher
    • local
      • ALGA (Australian Local Government Association) - very useful news tips
      • LGAM (Local Government and Municipal Knowledge Base) - wiki
      • Qld
        • Reclaim Caboolture Shire Inc - archive 25/7/17
          • deamalgamation from Moreton Bay Regional Council (Caboolture, Redcliffe and Pine Rivers 2008 merger under Qld ALP Bligh Govt)
          • Ken Park (chairman) had traffic accident in Oct 2017
          • site gone 10/18
          • 
            Reclaim Caboolture Shire interview with Ken Park on 101.5FM 13/3/13
        • Brisbane City Council - city portal
        • Moreton Bay Regional Council, QLD - city portal - merger of Caboolture, Redcliffe and Pine Rivers
        • Sunshine Coast Council, QLD - city portal
      • NSW
        • Cowra Region, NSW
        • CENTROC - Central West Regional Organisation of Councils, NSW
      • Planning Alerts - scans Local Govt DAs
      • ABS Mobile Census app
        • Run That Town (dead link to ABS) - free ABS iphone app for Census data to run own town
      • Digital innovation in local government round world 7/13
      • CityMayors.com
  • education
    • Horizons College, Caboolture QLD - for teenagers who drop out of school - run by Worklinks nonprofit job agency
    • Gonski Report into better Australian education - COAG (Commonwealth and States) meeting 19/4/13 - ALP removed $2Bn from universities to pay for schools - not a good move!
    • Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) (DEEWR)
    • Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne VIC
    • Australian Youth Programmes - Dept of Education and Training, Australian Govt
    • Cornerstone - Christian community
    • Aboriginal Independent Community Schools, WA - impressive, SP Walker my father worked in this area as a UAM missionary teacher in the 1940s in Mt Margaret and Gnowangerup WA and led to this result!
    • Christian Schools Australia
    • AGSM - UNSW
• Science/Research
  • BioLogos
    • Francis Collins scientist who is a Christian won Templeton Prize in USA 5/20
  • The Royal Society - science - Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, free online library of journals and experiments
  • Smart Enough to Know Better - science comedy podcast - Woodford Folk Festival 30/12/15 - I was there!
  • National Church Life Survey (NCLS) - every 5 years (2011)
  • The John Lions Chair in Operating Systems, UNSW
    • infamous 'Lion's Commentary on UNIX 6th ed, 1976'
    • Linux and USENIX (sysop organisation) and UNIX veterans support establishing of John Lions Chair, 29/1/2007
    • Gernot Heiser takes Lions Chair 24/2/2009
    • Code breakthrough delivers safer computing 25/9/2009
• Travel
  • FlightsFrom.com - non-stop flights planner
• Tools
  • email clients
    • Trojita Windows or Linux (Trojita Wiki) - uses Qt and IMAP
    • Mozilla Thunderbird Windows or Linux or MacOSX - uses POP3 and IMAP
  • system administration
    • Mosh - mobile shell, alternative to ssh which does not disconnect from Linux server and lose history, good for mobile internet which is intermittent
    • GNU Screen - allows user to detach and reattach sessions in case of being disconnected when logged into a Linux server using ssh
    • reptyr - bash command to reattach to session when disconnected in ssh
  • How to transfer your contacts and data from Windows Phone to Android export from Outlook.com, import to Gmail.com
  • Desktop Reminder 2 Windows
  • Ignore X-Frame-Options Header Firefox plugin 5/20 to stop false positive blocking of iframe content
  • Web Accessibility Checker WCAG
  • Mozilla Firefox NPAPI Plugins
  • User Agent Switcher for Firefox - to allow people using Firefox to open Internet Explorer-only sites
    • User Agent Switcher for Chrome
  • Nordpass password saver
    • How to View, Change or Delete Saved Passwords on Firefox - when old one is wrong

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