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Time Zone Conversions
- World Time Buddy
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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
- Australian Exchange Guide v3.0
- 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
- Central NSW Joint Organisation ex 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 then that went broke
  - Moreton Bay Symphony Orchestra, Inc Redcliffe QLD
  - Bundaberg Youth Orchestra, Inc - ABC story 5/24
  - Queensland Music Festival July, Brisbane, regional
  - Folkrag.org - Brisbane and South East Queensland folk gigs and dances
- Victoria
  - National Celtic Festival, Portarlington Victoria 7-10 June 2024
- 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
  - 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 (archive) - 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
    - Power to Change Resources
    - Power to Change catalytic resources for evangelism (archive)
- 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
  - Citipointe Church
    - Caboolture Moreton Bay
    - Carindale Brisbane
    - rest of Australia
    - NZ
    - USA
    - Europe
  - Hillsong Church Sydney, Brisbane
  - New Hope Brisbane
    - History Makers Radio podcast - Matt Prater
- Anglican
  - Anglican Diocese of Armidale
    - All Saints Anglican Moree
      - John Chapman curate in 1959 ran landline in Moree Anglican for Billy Graham Crusade in Sydney and ran interchurch prayer meeting for Crusade in Warrior's Chapel where SP Walker prayed from Moree Uniting (Methodist back then)
  - 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
    - Gafcon Australia
      - Diocese of the Southern Cross 8/22
        
        QLD
        
        Faith Church Sunshine Coast ex Mooloolaba Christian Church (UCA) 3/23-
        
        formation of Faith Church Sunshine Coast from dissolved Mooloolaba Christian Church of UCA 3/23
        Defrocked anti-gay Qld minister loses unfair dismissal claim 7/23
        ex ACC (Assembly of Confessing Congregations Inc) of UCA which closed in 4/23 as they gave up on the UCA and left it 3/23
        A fiery meeting as Mooloolaba UCA members support their sacked minister Hedley Fihaki 10/22
        Uniting Church conservatives call for a ‘just separation’ from progressives 9/22
        implosion of liberal UCA led to conservative UCA congregations leaving or being dissolved by UCA and joining Diocese of the Southern Cross Anglican
        Assembly of Confessing Congregations Inc of UCA dead 4/23
        
        Assembly of Confessing Congregations (Uniting Church in Australia) history and demise
        
        Northern Hope Anglican Church, Edge Hill, Cairns 1/23-
        Beenleigh Logan Southern Cross Anglican Church, Mt Warren 8/22-
        Southside Anglican Church, Mt Gravatt 9/22-
        
        formed over split over same sex marriage at Gafcon Australia
        not part of Anglican Church of Australia
        in 2020 diocese of Wangaratta went ahead with marriage of 2 gay male priests which diocese of Sydney would not agree to so in end a new diocese was formed to allow members of congregations in dioceses e.g. Southern Queensland, Wangaratta, Melbourne, North Queensland and Perth, who allow same sex marriage to start a new congregation under Diocese of the Southern Cross and transfer members to there and let the old congregation get a new minister and stay with same sex marriage diocese
        has same Anglican-like conservative liturgy and prayer book
        no same sex marriage
        evangelical
        Glenn Davies first bishop
        diocese of Sydney is still part of Anglican Church of Australia
        women ordination allowed
        Anglican Church of Australia is a mixture of non same sex marriage and same sex marriage dioceses - 10 bishops wanted non same sex marriage and 12 bishops wanted same sex marriage so same sex marriage won so big split as neither would back down
        evangelical dioceses like Sydney and Tasmania will connect to Diocese of the Southern Cross but same sex marriage dioceses like Southern Queensland and North Queensland won't so they will have a few to help them but also a lot of enemies in the liberal dioceses trying to shut them down and get the members they lost back again
        same sex marriage diocese of Brisbane sacked evangelical minister in Beenleigh so he drove buses and formed a new congregation under Diocese of the Southern Cross in another venue - quite vitriolic break up - he got kicked out when he wouldn't officiate at same sex marriage in his church - quite dreadful primate in Brisbane - Aspinall is a liberal not an evangelical so blocks evangelicals
        Ridley College and Moore College support both Anglican Church of Australia and Diocese of the Southern Cross
        USA, Canada and other countries have a split in Anglicans over liberal and evangelical
        liberal Anglican churches worldwide lost a lot of members altogether or to other churches of evangelical members - huge disaster
        this Diocese of the Southern Cross is to give safety zone for evangelical members in same-sex marriage liberal dioceses
    - The Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches (GSFA)
      - South Sudan
  - 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, 2018
      - 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
        
        Preaching the Pastoral Epistles
        The biblical meaning of righteousness and justification Part 3, with Chris Thomson @ Moore College
        The biblical meaning of righteousness and justification Part 2, with Chris Thomson @ Moore College
        The biblical meaning of righteousness and justification Part 1, with Chris Thomson @ Moore College
        Jacob: Scoundrel, wrestler and ancestor of Christ, with Philip Kern @ Moore College
        Ecclesiastes and a world in crisis, with George Athas
        How did the Reformers respond to plagues? Learning from history with Mark Earngey @ Moore College
        “He is risen! He is not here”: Comfort and hope in absence, with Peter Orr @MooreCollege
        God’s judgment and compassion in Jeremiah, with Andrew Shead @ Moore College
        Moore College, open for business: Joys and challenges during Covid-19, with Principal Mark Thompson
        
        Site: Lift Your Eyes Archives - Forget the Channel
        
        Lift Your Eyes: Please rate, review, share
        Translation of Ephesians
        Reading Ephesians (Ephesians 6:21–24)
        Prayer: the heart of evangelism (Ephesians 6:17–20)
        The importance of being a struggling Christian (Ephesians 6:14–16)
        Stand your ground (Ephesians 6:10–13)
        The gospel for the boss (Ephesians 6:9)
        The gospel: beyond freedom (Ephesians 6:5–8)
        The gospel and fatherhood (Ephesians 6:4)
        Paul the Apostle does children’s ministry (Ephesians 6:1–3)
      - 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
    - women ordination
    - two parts:
      - left wing
        
        politically motivated
        liberal
        social gospel
        nonbiblical
        white
        synod is heavily biased to this section of UCA
        larger and stronger part of UCA
      - right wing
        
        evangelical
        biblical
        multicultural
        weaker and struggling part of UCA
        Propel Network positive evangelical churches in UCA 2018-
        Assembly of Confessing Congregations Inc of UCA 2006-4/2023 dead
        
        ex ACC UCA congregations were dissolved and joined Diocese of Southern Cross Anglican Church
        Assembly of Confessing Congregations (Uniting Church in Australia) history and demise
    - Act2 2/24
    - This is my Uniting Church 2/24
    - video of 16th Assembly
  - 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
    - Brisbane
      - Newlife Church positive evangelical churches in Southeast Queensland which are part of Propel Network
      - Faithworks Uniting Community, Coorparoo and Norman Park - I went to Coorparoo UCA now Faithworks
      - Albert Street Uniting Church Bribane CBD - in Wesley Mission
      - Wesley Mission Queensland welfare services and churches
      - Oxley Uniting Church Brisbane Westside streaming
    - City of Moreton Bay
      - Caboolture Region Uniting Church - very good 12/24
        
        Girls Brigade
        Boys Brigade
        Beachmere
        Caboolture
        Upper Caboolture
    - Moreton Rivers Presbytery (Moreton Rivers Presbytery Facebook)
      - Brisbane: Coorparoo north to Bald Hills
      - Moreton Bay
    - Mary Burnett Presbytery Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) directory of churches in North Burnett and South Burnett (Bundaberg etc)
  - ACT/NSW
    - Uniting Church Synod of 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
    - Moree Uniting Church
      - SP Walker was lay preacher in 1960 or so
      - SP Walker joined Bible Society
      - Tom Webb was Bible translator in PNG
      - Rita Jones ran Christian bookshop
    - West Epping Uniting Church - streaming
    - Murray Darling Presbytery UCA
      - Dubbo UCA (new 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 radio serial podcasts from 2GB
      - 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 (Facebook streaming)
      - 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
    - 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 due to covid19 22/3/20-
      - 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
    - Queensland Baptists find a church
    - Townsville
      - Northreach Baptist Kirwan QLD Townsville Westside North Queensland streaming
    - Minden Baptist out near Gatton in Southeast Qld streaming
    - Moreton Bay Region
      - Caboolture Baptist Moreton Bay Southeast Qld
    - Brisbane
      - Greenslopes Baptist Brisbane Southside
        
        I used to go here in 1980s
        streaming
        100th in 12/20
      - City Tabernacle Baptist Brisbane CBD
        
        Facebook streaming
        Christmas Carols and Brass 12/22
        near Central station so easy to get to
      - Ashgrove Baptist Brisbane Northside
      - Bridgeman Baptist Community Church Brisbane Northside
      - Eastside Community Church Manly QLD Brisbane Eastside
        
        merger of Majestic Park Baptist (Camp Hill) and Bayside Baptist (Manly QLD)
      - Moore Park Baptist Indooroopilly Brisbane Westside near UQ St Lucia
      - Annerley Baptist Brisbane Southside
      - Fairfield Christian Family Brisbane Southside
  - ACT
    - Dickson Baptist
  - NSW
    - Wellington Baptist near Dubbo
    - Orange Baptist
- 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
- 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
Book Sellers
- ebooks Christian ebooks
- Matthias Media Christian books and ebooks - linked to Sydney Anglicans and Moore College - good evangelical material
- Koorong Bookshop Christian books and music
  - left nav: home | mykoorong - current order
  - left nav: home | mykoorong | orders - past orders
  - top nav: mykoorong | digital library (find orders under there)
- Wandering Bookseller (Katoomba NSW) Christian books
Arts and Museums
- Centre for Social Impact UNSW
  - Spiritual capital, spiritual intelligence - Zohar and Marshall (UNSW) (archive)
- 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
- ABS Census 2021 question 53 lists diseases of person - new information for handling health issues in demographics coming down pipeline 8/21
- homelessness
  - Housing crisis in spotlight The Sentinel 18/12/23 Moreton Bay homelessness crisis
  - Housing and Homelessness Plan City of Moreton Bay 1/24 PDF is well worth a read
  - Full Circle Projects homelessness in Moreton Bay Regional Council area QLD
  - Ask Izzy 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
  - Why is Wesley Mission advocating for Gambling Reform 2/24
  - Gambling Help Line
  - Queenslanders bet over $56b last year, but less than one per cent of that went to preventing further harm 2/24
  - The Alliance for Gambling Reform - councils
  - Gambling Reform - UCA and other churches
  - Australian Churches Gambling Taskforce - UCA 7/11 - to require a permit for $1000/hr poker machines problem gamblers to stop social and financial damage to the community - 11/12 (archive)
  - Australian Churches Gambling Taskforce UCA 8/3/12 (archive)
  - ACL Gambling articles
  - ACL Gambling
  - Why poker machine maker Aristocrat Leisure is splurging $5b to get into 'real money gaming' - with internet gambling problem gambler is in danger of losing house 12/21
  - 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
  - Health: Census 2021 ABS
  - Australian Bureau of Statistics National Health Survey 2018 results
  - 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
      - Home Affairs
        
        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
  - CRRMH (Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health) closed in Orange and transferred to The Peregrine Centre Wollongong and Grand Pacific Health Wollongong 12/21
    - library given to Solomon Islands or thrown away
    - 20 female jobs lost in Orange NSW in mental health research
    - drought and farmer suicide prevention
    - bushfire and farmer and resident suicide prevention
    - New Insights Into the Relationship Between Drought and Mental Health Emerging From the Australian Rural Mental Health Study, Tuyen T Luong et al, Frontiers in Psychiatry, 1 Sep 2021
    - Rural Adversity Mental Health Program (RAMHP) NSW Health
    - Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health (CRRMH) - University of Newcastle
      - Orange NSW 2001-2021, closed
    - Grand Pacific Health Wollongong NSW and Bega NSW
    - The Peregrine Centre University of Wollongong NSW
  - The O'Brien Centre - mental health, Orange NSW
  - Detox and Rehab List for NSW
  - ANZMHA (Australia and New Zealand Mental Health Association Inc) virtual conference 11/21
  - 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 - Resolution Movement - Josh McDowell
  - Help for Bullied Workers - Workplace Bullying Institute - 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 (archive)
  - 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 Australia QLD - school chaplaincy
    - chaplaincy forefather Keith Drinkall bio - he died in 12/15 aged 70 (archive)
    - A Tribute to Keith Drinkall 1/16
  - 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
  - Life Line Australia - suicide prevention service - phone 131114
  - Our Work With Men - Mental Health in Rural Australia - BeyondBlue replaced Shed Online
  - Australian Men's Sheds Association
    - helps men who are isolated or depressed
    - Member for Burrinjuck speech 6/3/08 - Katrina Hodgkinson (archive)
    - CAMSA Men's Sheds closed 5/23
  - 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's 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
  - COVID medi-hotel at drug rehab unit leaves users battling addiction at risk of relapse, client warns 1/22 Adelaide drug rehab converted into COVID-19 centre
  - Oxycodone/Oxycontin addictive opioid causing overdose havoc in USA 12/21
    - Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe - winner of Goodreads Best History and Biography 2021
  - 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 (archive)
  - Breaking the ice drug addiction therapy
  - drug info @ your library - State Library of NSW - excellent
  - Teen Challenge Queensland - 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
    - USA has rate of prisoners per 100,000 population of 531 12/2021
    - 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)
      - all prisons are now run by Queensland Government not private operators to stop corruption under private operators at Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre and Southern Queensland Correctional Centre (Gatton) 7/21
      - 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
    - NT has highest rate of prisoners per 100,000 population of 769 than anywhere else in Australia probably mainly aborigines 6/22 - higher even than USA (531)
    - GEO Group - corrupt private prison contractor in USA and Australia - overcrowded, violent
      - all prisons are now run by Queensland Government not private operators to stop corruption under private operators at Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre and Southern Queensland Correctional Centre (Gatton) 7/21
      - 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
    - domestic violence
      - Caboolture Regional Domestic Violence Service and Centre Against Domestic Abuse QFinder - Qld Health
        
        Caboolture Regional Domestic Violence Service (archive)
        CADA (Centre Against Domestic Abuse)
    - chaplaincy
      - Carinity Inside Out Prison Chaplaincy - all 17 Queensland prisons 11 high security and 6 low security
      - 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
  - Community First Development (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 (archive) - 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
    - 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/Pests
- pests
  - National Fire Ant Eradication Program
- 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- (archive)
    - Cleanaway Moreton Bay Regional Council contractor
    - TWU launches national campaign to fix waste industry as Cleanaway strikes hit Sydney and Victoria on Wednesday 15/5/2023
- 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 (dead) - 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
  - Cyclone Alfred 6-7 Mar 2025 Caboolture Queensland Australia
    - Cyclone Alfred will hit Caboolture on Thursday night or Friday morning with high winds and rain according to this video from CyclonesOz. Not good. I have enough food. Windows might smash and whirlybirds on roof get blown off and verandah get wrecked. Garage might fall and hit car. Power might go out and computer, fridge, hot water and lights not work. I will see. I lived through Cyclone Althea in December 1971 in Townsville. Memorial Hall Caboolture is meeting point if flat is unliveable. I have torch and charged phone for communication if cell tower is working. #cyclone #alfred #caboolture
    - Strong Cyclone Alfred Forecast to Smash Brisbane Queensland on Landfall on 6-7 Mar 2025 - CyclonesOz 4 Mar 2025
    - Queensland
    - NSW
      - Byron Bay NSW Emergency Dashboard
      - NSW SES
    - BOM (Bureau of Meterology) Current tropical cyclones
  - Australian Dept of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water - 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 (archive)
  - 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
War
- Geneva Conventions
  - collective punishment is a war crime
Charity/War Memorials/Aged/Foreign Aid/NGOs
- war memorial
  - VWMA (Virtual War Memorial Australia)
  - Australian 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 (archive)
- charity
  - training
    - Humanitarian Logistics - MIT course - edx.org
      - I did this course online in 7-9/2023
      - very good quality and practical
      - 2 months with weekly lessons and exercises
  - groups
    - World Central Kitchen - Gaza, Ukraine
    - World Vision
    - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - ex Impatient Optimist - 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
  - Australia Post
    - Parcel Locker
    - Parcel Collect
    - register for APCN
    - address parcel: name, APCN, local post office address
    - avoid parcels being lost by postman
  - 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
  - Why Leave Town (WLT Promotions) (based in Narrabri NSW)
    - Moreton Money (Caboolture and North Lakes) 9/22
    - gift cards only spent on registered shops with EFTPOS in local town to build economy
    - many councils and chambers of commerce in little towns all over Australia use these gift cards to promote local businesses
  - Regional Development Australia
  - 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
  - devmio - 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
      - Business.gov.au - Govt funded business training for employers to hire and train staff
    - Kate Lundy - ex Canberra ALP Senator for IT
    - StartingBlocks.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
      - Central NSW Joint Organisation ex CENTROC - Central West Regional Organisation of Councils, NSW
    - Planning Alerts - scans Local Govt DAs
    - ABS Census
      - 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
  - Fairer Schools Funding - ex 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 Programs - Dept of Education and Dept of Employment and Workplace Relations, 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
  - UQ
    - UQ Atrium, 308 Queen St, Brisbane (only for alumni) 9/22
  - UNSW
    - UNSW AGSM (business)
      - AGSM Navigator - online courses
    - students
      - UNSW Alumni - login for alumni or non-current students
      - UNSW myUNSW - login for current students
      - UNSW transcripts for current and former students
        
        UNSW Student Hub / Nucleus / Student Services
        
        issues re transcript delivery
        UNSW ticket console - transcript delivery
        
        UNSW Handbook - subjects in each course
        Fast Transcript - pickup if in Sydney
        
        UNSW pickup console
        Third-Party Authorisation for Current Students
        Third-Party Authorisation for Non-Current Students
        
        identity details of third-party person picking up transcript
        Australia/NZ Passport image uploaded (below fold)
        
        Standard service request - postal
        online payment (separate login)
        UNSW IT Support - password reset
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
  - John Lions Distinguished Lectures 3/21
  - John Lions Distinguished Lectures 6/22
Travel
- FlightsFrom.com - non-stop flights planner
Reference Books
- World History Encyclopedia - English and translations of select articles in 41 languages
- One Blood by John Harris Kindle for $1.49 3/23 - classic on mission history
- Robert's Rules of Order for running organization
Tools
- video annotations
  - tl;dv Chrome Extension for Google Meet and Zoom
- email clients
  - Open Source Android Email Clients - K-9 Mail
  - 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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