Fix for Trojan.zlob.g
December 10, 2008 by Megan · 2 Comments
Trojan.zlob.g.
The nasty little trojan was riding my computer like it was a horse, throwing up a “Buy this wonderful new anti virus protection”, and driving me to distraction trying to work out how to get rid of it. My internet kept crashing and I was seriously considering the sledge hammer approach!!
I managed to get into one page before I crashed….again!! Thank you to A Changing Life for posting about the fix.I simply followed the prompts and the fix was completed in less than 10 minutes…for FREE. I am very grateful to you, Changing Life.
If you are infected and cannot get rid of the annoying “buy protection now” propaganda on your screen (interesting that it was the only site that did not crash my connection) then get your free fix here: GeekPolice or GeeksToGo.
Cyber safety citizen action
December 2, 2008 by Megan · 4 Comments
The porn lobby and some in the internet industry are trying to scuttle the Australian Government’s plan to clean up the internet for our kids.
Are you in favour of pornography on the net or are you in favour of having voluntary filters that clean the pornography away prior to it hitting our home computers. I am in favour of the latter and have contributed toward an email campaign asking for the trial safe filters to CONTINUE. I invite you to have your say as well.
Please consider sending a simple paragraph back via the above online email campaign. There are suggestion tips to help you formulate your petition, or just speak from the heart as I did.
Use your home based power to make the pollies sit up and listen. You are a successful and responsible person if you take action, a leader, and I am grateful that you have acted positively to help keep our kids safe.
According to Hetty Johnston (comment left on my facebook note), founder of Bravehearts,
Internet filtering will not be compulsory but making sure we get a trial may mean protecting many unsuspecting kids from being exposed to inappropriate content. It cant hurt anyone. Arguments that it will slow down the internet for everyone are simply untrue. Bravehearts sits on the Federal Governments CyberSafety Working Party so we are privy to much information. It would be devastating if the Porn industry and others who are lobbying to scuttle this critical trial win. Please everyone – get involved.
We need to have the right to a ‘clean internet feed’ if we want it – just as those who chose not to take the Clean Feed option have their rights. Our kids deserve this.
I am serious about child protection and have no difficulty finding five minutes to take citizen action for a very important Australian issue. How about you?
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Sexual Violence turns Reclaim the Night into Halloween Dance
October 20, 2008 by Megan · 11 Comments
“Family Planning Queensland (FPQ) Cairns Sexual Assault Service is this year hosting the inaugural “Halloween Themed Dance Party” as part of Sexual Violence Awareness Month. The event will held Friday 31st October 5:00-9:00pm at Fogarty Park Soundshell. Originally known as ‘Reclaim the Night march’, this year FPQ hopes to attract their target group – Children and Youth – by modernising the event.
This dance party will bring together different cultures and age groups within the Cairns area to demonstrate a unified, community voice rejecting sexual violence in our region, and promoting the valuing and respect of all community members in an effort to create a safer community. This is done by campaigning for awareness and zero tolerance of sexual assault against women, children and men of all cultures, ages, and abilities”.
Given comments against Halloween on an earlier blog, Five Child Safety Tips for Halloween, I am curious as to whether readers think this is a good way to demonstrate a unified, community voice rejecting sexual violence in our region.
I am keen to support and to ensure local unification against sexual violence. It seems pointless to me to have two same night events calling for the same awareness: our Teddy Tour and Reclaim the Night gathering here at Imaginif and the FPQ Dance Party on the Cairns Esplanade. I will attend the Dance Party later in the evening as a sign of support but I wonder if we need to take all the Teddies down, at 5pm, on a physical Tour as well, rather than having them in the garden walk here? One year we pushed all the Teddies in prams on a walkathon. Pushing Tagged Teddies around the soundshell area may also have maximum affect. Mind you, I have not yet asked FPQ if they would be in agreement with this.
What do you think? Keep the Teddy Tour separate or combine it with the Reclaim the Night Halloween Dance Party hosted by FPQ?
Teddies Reclaim the Night
The Teddy Tour
invites you to a balcony road side candle ceremony to peacefully protest sexual violence against women and children.
The insurance for Reclaim the Night has made public street marches cost prohibitive for organisations and for individuals. Few agencies can staff support organisation and management and numbers of participants have slowly dwindled in Cairns over the years.This year, in conjunction with the Teddy Tour,
Imaginif invites you
to a private function to celebrate
The top front balcony of Megan Bayliss’s private residence fronts a busy and arterial Cairns road – James St (becoming Anderson St). Following the Teddy Tour around the garden of Imaginif (30 James St), you are invited upstairs to light a candle, shake shakers and sing songs in support of ending sexual violence against women and children. The visibility is HUGE, particularly with Friday afternoons peak, go home traffic time.
When: from 4 pm onwards on Friday the 31st of October (Halloween)
Where: 30 James St, North Cairns
Cost: Entry is a gold coin donation. Candles and Teddies on sale. Proceeds fund free counselling positions for survivors of sexual assault.
Food and drink: None – bring your own picnic tea to have on the front verandah or in the gardens.
Dress: Casual or Fancy Dress (it’s Halloween).
Guest speakers: None – this is an informal and unstructured event where discussions between like minded people are encouraged.
This is a private function and trouble makers will be asked to leave and police called.
For further information on how to become involved in the Teddy Tour and Reclaim the Night, please visit:
$5.00 Teddies help survivors of sexual assault
If you would like to make some Teddy or candle holder contributions, please follow these patterns and deliver to Megan Bayliss at Imaginif BEFORE the 31st of October:
- Candle Holder Tutorial.
- Knitted Teddy patterns
Any Yarn Quick Knit Teddy Bear with Pussy Cat Variation
Basic Teddy Bear
Bitsy Bear
Trauma Teddy
Square Bear - Crocheted Teddy pattern
- Sewn body outline doll: use plain or skin coloured material only
Rely on teams for safety network
August 23, 2008 by Megan · 4 Comments
To break up a serious Planning Day for a team that works with constant crisis and trauma against children, I facilitated some team building and adventure based activities: the highlight was the blindfold, cross country.
Participants had to rely on each other for describing the risks ahead and for keeping each other safe. One team member was their seeing eye dog but was unable to speak at all. She had a spray bottle and her instructions were to keep her team safe from risk by spraying their legs with a quick bolt of water. Where they were sprayed, they knew to move away from that direction.
Over different terrains, crunchy palm leaves and up and down different gradients, the team relied on their entire line to keep themselves safe. From an observers view, I was able to identify who was the maintenance, task and believing members of the team. From an observers view I was also able to laugh (silently, because the team was not to know where I was or what I was doing – I introduced them to unknown risks of attack from creepy crawly things like plastic rakes, wool, foam and squeaky toys) at their antics and their different ways of feeling the way ahead and around.
Here they are climbing down a, “huge ravine, and, oh my God, I think we’re on the road…oh no!” That’s me, to the right, laughing at the descriptions.
..It was a great team building exercise and a little bit of fun and debriefing for a team that, out of necessity, has to rely on each other for safety. Well done you woman and thanks for the opportunity to help keep you safe.
Do you know how to rely on your team? There is safety in numbers but clear communication facilitates that safety. When was the last time you touched base with your team/safety network and talked about keeping each other safe?
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