万花筒 Kaleidoscope2007-10-09&10-10, 美国小姐致力儿童浏览器

It's Oklahoma Lauren Nelson.

When Lauren Nelson of Oklahoma was crowned Miss America 2007, she dedicated¹ her community service platform to keeping children safe on the internet. Nelson has a very personal reason for advocating safe web browser².

When I was 13 years old, I was chatting online, uh, with a group of girl friends that I sleep over，very innocent in a chat room that we knew people in, but we were also chatting with people we didn't know，which was our first mistake. We were approached by a man, and he asked us the question ASL, which means age, sex, location, and we gave him the information, so immediately, he knew, who we were, where we were, how old we were, which is so dangerous and one, and a situation that lots of kids get into. But about a week later, he got back into correspondence with my friends, sending inappropriate pictures of himself, which then that's when we alerted our parents.

Today, Nelson is the centerpiece of the Miss America kids-safe web browser new application designed to help protect children from the dangers of on-line predators³ and inappropriate content.

I actually have an animated⁴ character that browses⁵ the web with kids, and I pop up and give random⁶ internet safety tips, parents also have full control of the included list of the websites. There are also, there're prescreened appropriate websites that children's education network has come up with, but parents have full control to add or to delete websites from that list,also if kids try to access websites that's not on the list, my character pops up and explains that they have to have mum or dad access that website for them to go to.

While technology, it like the new browser is stepping up to tackle the problem of inappropriate content, Nelson says parents need to do their part as well.

Besides from installing the browser which is the best way to do it, and it's so easy and the software is free, it’s important to be involved what your kids are doing online, ask questions, make it a conversation not an interrogation ,so your kids feel like that light of communication is open.

The Miss America Kids-safe web browser is free and available for download at Miss American kids .com

Jackie Vishara, the Associated Press

1 dedicated   

adj.一心一意的；献身的；热诚的

参考例句：

• He dedicated his life to the cause of education.他献身于教育事业。
• His whole energies are dedicated to improve the design.他的全部精力都放在改进这项设计上了。

2 browser   

n.浏览者

参考例句：

• View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
• I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。

3 predators   

n.食肉动物( predator的名词复数 )；奴役他人者（尤指在财务或性关系方面）

参考例句：

• birds and their earthbound predators 鸟和地面上捕食它们的动物
• The eyes of predators are highly sensitive to the slightest movement. 捕食性动物的眼睛能感觉到最细小的动静。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 animated   

adj.生气勃勃的，活跃的，愉快的

参考例句：

• His observations gave rise to an animated and lively discussion.他的言论引起了一场气氛热烈而活跃的讨论。
• We had an animated discussion over current events last evening.昨天晚上我们热烈地讨论时事。

5 browses   

n.吃草( browse的名词复数 )；随意翻阅；（在商店里）随便看看；（在计算机上）浏览信息v.吃草( browse的第三人称单数 )；随意翻阅；（在商店里）随便看看；（在计算机上）浏览信息

参考例句：

• The picture browses:The picture which supports JPG, BMP format browses. 嫩枝图片：图片支持规划组、嫩枝BMP的格式。 来自互联网
• NIV I am my lover's and my lover is mine; he browses among the lilies. 3[和合]我属我的2良人；我的良人也属我。他在百合花中牧放群羊。 来自互联网

6 random   

adj.随机的；任意的；n.偶然的(或随便的)行动

参考例句：

• The list is arranged in a random order.名单排列不分先后。
• On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查，发现肉变质了。