The Short Route to the Dove Award

Mission or Purpose of the Dove Award Program

You are on Mandatory Question 1. This is a whole page so read it carefully

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Following are 10 Mandatory Criteria for your Journey please read each one carefully. Since the short route you are to travel saves time, if you need anything just click on the Home Button on each page. This is found in our Pre-Qualification but we go into detail here. Our Number 1 is a very detailed Mandatory Criteria. Because our whole site is based around "Family". It takes up this whole page.

You will see the letters PICS on this page. If you missed it on your Journey so far click below.

What does PICS stand for? Is it a real word? It is a abbreviation Platform for Internet Content Selection. Specification from the W3C to define the content of your site for your visitors by associating labels. Want to know more? Read all about this abbreviation below.

What are labels and pics on a web site

"The truly wise man is he who always believes the Bible against the opinion of any man.

" R.A. Torrey

It is to the Bible that we owe our Legacy of the Law. It is the Bible that ushered in an area of compassion, liberty and justice. The 10 Commandments are the moral and legal foundations of Western Civilization.

Change takes preparation change brings difference! Throughout our award program you will find that there has been placed a great detail in explaining certain items. We are not looking at way's for not awarding The Dove Award to your site, but our award is by no means a 'fake' or easy award to be honored with. We want to work with you in your journey. We have placed tool's for you to use to test your site. We try to do into detail about 'family safe..family friendly because this web site is based around a children's ministry. We want to work with you. That is what the whole purpose of any award program should be...to help that site achieve a difference. For without you there would be NO AWARD Program's. So please continue your journey with honest, open eyes, and we will work with you in that difference.

You are here at our Mandatory Criteria. Ten guidelines that are explained in great detail. We have put forth a effort to greatly detail and explain each one of them for your understanding. Following will be 29 of our Disqualifying Criteria. To be honored with The Dove Award is more than just another rated award...you can be sure that you have 'made the difference" through your web site mission by the eyes of those who come to visit with you. "Change" bring's difference as you journey toward your goal.

Definitions of change deepen: become deeper in tone/ make or become different in some particular way/ an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another/the action of changing something;/undergo a change; become different in essence;/the action of changing something/exchange: give to, and receive from, one another

Water in a liquid state goes through a transition to become different, a gas or ice Water to change into ice Fundamentally, Change denotes the transition that occurs when something goes from being the same to being different. For example, water in the liquid state is not the same as water in the frozen state. Or water that becomes as the bubbles on the left in a gas state. At some point, it experienced a transition and became different. Thus, it changed.

For the most part, today's moral standards are defined by today's society and, as it changes, so does our perception of moral standards. Just think about things that were seen as unacceptable 30, 20, or just 10 years ago and are now considered to be perfectly acceptable according to today's society. Though some subjects might be considered acceptable to those who apply for our Award we reserve the right to determine if it falls outside of our Ethics and Criteria according to our Standard the Bible.

There are thousands of religious group's here in North America alone which promote systems of morality derived from their sacred texts and tradition; these are primarily Christian, Jewish, and Muslim. There are also dozens of non-religious, secular organizations which promote their own ethical and moral belief systems, as derived from social sciences and logic. Examples are the Agnostics, Atheists, and Humanists.

There are many conflicts among this great diversity of beliefs over specific "hot" religious topics like equal rights for gays and lesbians, abortion access, physician assisted suicide, etc.Some for the better and some probably not. That is why we use the one standard that remains the same. Our standard is the Bible our choice for that solid foundation that has been proven over the thousands of years.

Did you know? Did you know? 1784 Connecticut started the first law school in America, which graduated Noah Webster] In 1783 Noah also produced what is considered to be the first dictionary created in the US] Dec. 9, 1793 Noah Webster founded New York's first daily newspaper.]Noah helped to start Amherst College.

"The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all of our civil constitutions and laws. All the miseries and evils which men suffer from- crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war- proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible". Noah Webster

Please read 1. Please stop here if your site contains any of these materials in text or graphic No exception!

A word about 'ART/ART Forms :

We have found that there are some sites that post badges of memberships and do not follow the posted guidelines for the organization. We will disqualify you and band you from this program if such is found. Below is the guidelines for begin a Trustworthy site. Notice that it states no nudity? So if your site is a 'art' site and has art forms of nudity and you post this badge, it is not compliant with the membership that you agreed upon when you posted the badge. This is false posting any way that a person looks at it and that is goes against any ethical principle of any program. We will not evaluate any 'nudity sites regardless of how you might think it is art. To us it is not then Family safe or Family friendly. Please remember our PANEL that evaluates your site is different from other Award Programs. It consists of young people, seniors, and judges. The Internet SURFER'S that travel and visit sites are of all ages. We feel "FAMILY" safe sites do not contain Nude images of any kind no matter how one may deem it, or describe such as art or art forms it is still nudity.

If your site has art forms dealing with nudity and you post a Trust Worthy Site membership badge it goes against all ethics for such is not allowed by this program according to their guidelines posted.

Trust Worthy states : Your web site does not contain or promote; Pornography, hatred, propaganda, racism, warez, nudity, hacking activities, violence, degradation, harm or slander.

Here is a example of posting this membership and the Criteria: "For artist sites ( Painting or graphic ): If nude images are displayed and are not considered as extreme these will be allowed as they will be regarded as art and not pornography."

Is not nude art erotic art? So in our Criteria do we state no Erotic art?
How does Wikipedia describe erotic art: Erotic art covers any artistic work including paintings, sculptures, photographs, music and writings that is intended to evoke erotic arousal or that depicts scenes of love-making. Defining erotic art is difficult since perceptions of both what is erotic and what is art fluctuate. A sculpture of a phallus in some African cultures may be considered a traditional symbol of potency though not overtly erotic.
In addition, a distinction is often made between erotic art and pornography (which also depicts scenes of love-making and is intended to evoke erotic arousal, but is not usually considered art).
Whether or not an instance of erotic art is obscene depends on the standards of the community in which it is displayed. The fact is Porn can be art and art can be porn. The professional school teachers in our Certification program would define art as " defined all art as "that which evokes an emotional response in the viewer",good fs. bad is subjective For artist sites containing Painting or graphic. If nude images are displayed these will not be allowed as they will be regarded as pornography in our view and your site will be disqualified according to our Criteria.

We take our Award Program very seriously, our Panel consists of a number of age groups that surf the Internet. It is important that these EYES see things in the proper, ethical and moral way. This is way we try to stress this point with all who enter, also if there is a question please feel free to contact us at shalomtoyou321@aol.com

Change is built upon a solid foundation, solid ethics

Self made badges / Resizing badges [Back to Pre Qualification]

Recently there has been a discussion about W3C badges being customized to fit web sites. If your site is posted and states that it is W3C compliant, then it is by our choice to except only the W3C official badges. [Below are the official sizes and color for the W3C badges] This program has alway's considered resized badges/or changing them in anyway of organizations to be a disqualifying factor, unless the site has written proof of such. Below are the W3C official badges and the only ones we will allow in this AP if your site is claiming to be W3C. W3C will not grant anyone permission to change their badge in size, color, or such click here for their explaination.

This applies to W3C only

The badges below are not for statement that this page is compliant.

Our award program will not except self made validation buttons if you claim to be W3C compliant

Self made buttons must have permission stated to use logos of such memberships or organizations browsers and such

Pics posted within your code on your site

[A] Green Light Amber Light about Pic's and Labels] [B] Membership badge sizes [C] False posting of membership badges1. [A] [B] [C] We will not continue your journey for our award if you are not listed as a member of at least one of the following organizations that govern the quality of family viewing and standards for web sites. Your site must receive a green light to continue your journey. If you post one of these badges showing membership and your PIC'S are present but there is a problem and it brings up a Amber light we will look at your text [code] and to see if PIC' are listed. If it is just a code problem we will put your application on hold for 7 day's to give you time to correct it. [Explanation] If there are no PIC'S present [ What are pics see below] this is dishonest and to those site's that strive to make a difference and work hard to keep the Internet safe .[B]The badges for your affiliations must also be at the proper size of the issue. [Not resized like the two here which are done to illustrate our point...we check the button sizes of all posted memberships]

If the badge you have posted on your site is the wrong size then we will place your application on hold until your correct the issue. This must be done within the 7 day time period that we allow you to make repairs.

[Green light from tester] [Red light from tester]

Green light from the label tester means that all your labels and pics are as posted if you are family friendly and safe for all eyes your will recieve a greenlight if there is a problem you will recieve a amber light and we will give you time to repair your problem

We will test your pages with the ICRA label tester if you post their membership badge upon your pages if a red light comes up we will look to see if you have pics or labels if non are present you will be disqualified from our program for a period of one year

If when we test your site and you get a

red light then you will be disqualified if you post a badge and have no pics or labels present in your code. Just because you have a badge on your site page does not mean each page is labeled. We will test each page of your site and hold you to the same guidelines of this Mandatory Criteria. There are some sites that post a membership on the index page and believe that is all they need to do. Each page must have PIC' S if you represent certain memberships. Again this is dishonest and you will be disqualified as below.

[C] We will disqualify you from our program for a period of 1 year, and you will be placed on the W.O.R.D. surf list The W.O.R.D. staff will contact the organization and inform them of the false posting of a membership badge placed upon your site representing a 'safe' or family friendly. Then our staff will follow your site for a period of one year. We believe if a site post's a badge to which they by no means represent this is to us lying and against ethics. We have found sites that target youth by posting false badges upon their sites. We also contact your host to see if you are within their guidelines. By no means are we the 'Internet police' but our programs are based upon youth, kids, and family and to that we hold dear and to the highest of all standards.

[NOTICE of extended time in your evaluation: if we have to contact your membership by e-mail this may take a longer time element than the stated evaluation time for our program thus the 7 day evaluation time will be longer due to this fact] If you belong to a program which no PIC' S are used we will contact them to see if they have visited your site. If they have no record of this and you post the badge again you will be disqualified from our program for a period of 1 year.

1. ICRA 2. Safesurf 3. Family Friendly 4. Watch Dog 5. W.O.R.D. 6.Trust Worthy Site

This website has been visited and validated by both ICRA and Safesurf and gives us a green light for our mega tags

Please note that the W.O.R.D. program of this site before becoming a member and posting our badge we review the PIC's on the site that wishes to become a member. Though we do not issue PIC's for this program we do require a site to have them present by one of the other ratings they must post.

RESIZING BADGES to fit your sites design is not allowed and your journey will stop.

Changing membership badges is a copyright infringement. Some organizations with written permission will allow you to "self make" a badge. But not to resize or change their official one! Below is a example of a web site that has resized all the badges to fit their site design.

To resize any offical membership badge is a disqualification and a copyright infringement

Badge size's [ ICRA 88 Pixels X 31 Pixels] [ Safe Surf 108 Pixels X 34 Pixels ]

Test Links from these programs ICRA Family Friendly Safe Surf [We test each page of your site]

Prequalification Questions Mandatory Question 2