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Zero-Day Threats Exaggerated, Says Microsoft Report
Microsoft's semi-annual security report says that the threat from software vulnerabilities is small--and from zero-day attacks miniscule. IT should protect instead from phishing and other social engineering attacks.
October 10, 2011
The importance of software vulnerabilities, and of zero-day vulnerabilities in particular, is exaggerated in the public mind according to volume 11 of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report.
The new volume is based on security telemetry gathered by Microsoft from systems the world over from January through June 2011. The most widespread and interesting source for the report is the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) that runs every month with Windows Update. From each of these, Microsoft gathers anonymous information about the system and the malware on it. The MSRT doesn't detect the vast majority of malware, but focuses on the most common variants. Another source of information is Microsoft's own security products. Focusing on the most common threats, Microsoft found that 27 malware "families" accounted for 83% of all malware detections.
The overwhelming characteristic of the threats was that they relied primarily on social engineering techniques to infect systems, generally tricking the user into clicking on something or using Autorun.
In the chart below, malware is seen as employing more than one attack technique (autorun, file infection, user intervention, etc.).
Microsoft Malware Statistics
The report found that by comparison, exploiting vulnerabilities was a fairly rare occurrence, with only 0.01% of attacks exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities. Zero-day vulnerabilities are those reported before an update can be issued.
Yet zero-day vulnerabilities garner headlines whenever they are revealed. They are frightening because users feel unprotected against them, even though in most cases there are mitigating techniques users can employ to block attacks or minimize their damage. Exploits of vulnerabilities that have already been patched--in some cases years ago--are much more common, although still just about 5%.
The point of Microsoft's analysis is to convince IT to prioritize their security efforts. Microsoft itself has made efforts along these lines to great effect. Windows 7, for instance, removed Autorun behavior that was widely exploited in earlier versions of Windows. In February, Microsoft fixed Windows XP and Windows Vista, too. As a result the number of successful Autorun exploits have steadily and substantially decreased.
Social engineering is another popular technique. The report notes that 50% of all phishing attacks targeted social networking sites--resulting in, for instance, Facebook clickjacking.
What can you do about social engineering? Experts disagree about the efficacy of training and education, but it's certainly one option. Another is to make sure your systems and applications are up-to-date and running the most recent versions. Internet Explorer 9, for example, is considerably more resistant to malware attack than any other browser, according to outside tests. Microsoft has launched the Web site yourbrowsermatters.org to spread this message.
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Horror / SciFi / Fantasy
25 May, 1979
Canadian director David Cronenberg followed his graphic vampire variation Rabid with this multi-layered, speculative horror film which addresses the way the repressed demons of the psyche can force their way to the surface. Psychologist Dr. Raglan (Oliver Reed), director of the controversial Psychoplasmic Institute and author of the book The Shape of Rage, encourages his patients to outwardly manifest their anger and fear (aided by some experimental drugs), which then takes physical shape as actual sores, cancers, or strange new organs. One of Raglan's more successful patients (from his point-of-view, anyway) is Nola Carveth (Samantha Eggar), who is undergoing therapy following a painful divorce from her husband, Frank (Art Hindle). When Frank discovers evidence that Nola may have injured their daughter, Candice (Cindy Hinds), he begins to suspect Raglan's techniques but is unprepared for the most horrifying by-product of her rage: a progeny of sexless, dwarflike mutants who are born for the sole purpose of acting out her violent fantasies of revenge. Containing only enough energy to carry out their murderous tasks, the brood is dispatched to kill Nola's parents, then a woman she believes is having an affair with Frank. By the time Frank discovers the origins of the tiny offspring, they have already abducted Candice and taken her to the institute, where Frank must confront Nola in person. Although it contains one of the most visceral and nauseating scenes in movie history (during the film's climax), this nevertheless remains the most subtle of Cronenberg's early horror projects, with a strong subtext about the devastating effects of divorce.~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide

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The federal agencies participating in the National Nanotechnology Initiative have identified focused areas of national importance that may be more rapidly advanced through enhanced coordination and collaboration of agency research and development efforts. These Nanotechnology Signature Initiatives (NSIs) provide a spotlight on critical areas and define the shared vision of the participating agencies for accelerating the advancement of nanoscale science and technology to address needs and exploit opportunities from research through commercialization.
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It is hard to talk about women and girls without dealing with the reasons we need to talk about "women and girls." I wish it were true that women and girls didn't present a special case in the world and we could just talk about humans and the human family. But, the truth is that our human family is a broken one — shattered, actually. The first break occurred in the third chapter of Genesis, and the gulf got wider with every page and every generation until finally women are widowed by war and violence, deemed to be property without rights in marriage, raped by family and kings alike, and pushed into prostitution for basic survival. It wasn't supposed to be this way.
At the end of the first creation story God, looked around at the end of the sixth day and declared that all the relationships in creation were very good.
Genesis 1:26: God created both men and women in God's image — in the tselem of God. The Hebrew word tselem means representative figure. The writer of Genesis was communicating a revolutionary truth to the original readers. To a culture where women were considered property to be traded for goods, to an ancient world where women had no rights at all, the writer of Genesis proclaimed that both men and women are divine image bearers. As God's representative figures we are both endowed with the inherent dignity reserved for royalty!
What's more, in the same verse — in the same breath — God says, " … and let them have dominion." The Hebrew word for dominion is radah, which means to tread down, or, in this agrarian society, it would have been understood to mean to steward. Genesis 2, a more intimate account of the creation story, gives us a clearer picture of what dominion looks like. Creator places adam, a gender-neutral word for human being, in the middle of the garden to serve and protect the land.
Mark this: In Genesis 1 and 2, there is no distinction between the kind of dominion the man and the woman should exercise over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the cattle of the earth and every other wild thing on earth — no distinction. Nor is there any distinction in the kind of dominion in Genesis 2, when the human being — not a guy named Adam — was placed in the garden and given work to do.
Note: Much like God separates the land from sea and sky in Genesis 1. God separates out male from female in Genesis 2. It is not until Genesis 2:23, when God takes the rib from the human and makes woman, that gender-specific language enters the text: adam (human) becomes iysh (male) and ishshah (female). And still there is no distinction between the kinds of dominion that iysh and ishshah are supposed to exercise according to the text.
Two things are clear in both creation stories: 1) both men and women are created to exercise equal dominion, and 2) according to Genesis 1:31, this relationship between men and women was "very good." This is what right relationship between men and women looks like. It is only after the fall of humanity — when we decided not to trust God's ways, when we decided to grab at our own way to peace and gratification — that women were subjected to men. And I see nothing in the text that says this is the way God wanted it. Rather, I see this is the natural result of choosing to exercise a human kind of dominion rather than one that reflects the image of God. Humanity grabs at its own peace at the expense of the peace of all.
How does this affect us today? My friend, Mimi Haddad (president of Christians for Biblical Equality), is onto something. In a recent conversation, she said there is a relationship between the theological stance a society takes on women and girls and the level of poverty and violence in that society. The more a society uses theological grounds to subjugate women and girls, the higher the poverty and violence levels will be in that society. This is proving as true in the West as it is in the Middle East, the Far East, or the Global South. It is as true in the geopolitical and economic realms as it is true in the day-to-day lives of churches.
What if this is true? What if our view of women and girls, undergirded by millennia of poor theological exegesis, is at the heart of the problem of violence and poverty today? If that is true, then there is one major remedy: We must return to the Scripture. We must allow the Scripture to examine us, down the most basic assumptions we carry about what right relationship looks like. And when we hear God speak to us — whispering "tselem, tselem" to both women and men, we must say: "Forgive us."
This post was featured in Sojourner's monthly Faith in Action newsletter, which you can join by clicking here.
Lisa Sharon Harper is Director of Mobilizing for Sojourners.
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Media coverage
Geocaching often hits the media and we even produce some 'media' of our own.
To see what the geocaching community has made have a look at Community Media
Here's mainstream media that we know about.
Please add whatever you find!
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May 2016 - ABC Radio Sydney 702
James Finger, President of Geocaching NSW on talks to Serpil Senelmis "The Weekend Warrior". (James starts at around 18:15)
May 2016 - Kidspot
Want to get your kids loving the outdoors? Try geocaching! by Amy Ahearn
July 2015: Geocaching: high-tech hide-and-seek
ABC News - Geocaching updates hide-and-seek with GPS coordinates, and ups and ante using puzzle boxes. Michael Atkin went along to discover the thrill of ferreting out shared treasure.
March 2015: "Do Something New #6 - Geocaching"
AnneMarie White on Breakfast with Spencer Howson on 612 ABC Brisbane.
August 2014: "The Geocachers Guide to the Galaxy"
ABC Radio National program "Offtrack" talks to central Victorian cachers. View the transcript or listen to the audio
July 2013: "Cache me if you can"
Article in July edition of Royal Auto in Victoria by Paul Edwards featuring Dean Barton-Ancliffe and familyJuly 2013: Geocaching: Why EVERY Outback Traveller Should Get Hooked
Article by Amanda on Travel Outback Australia
February 2012: "The secret world of Geocaching"
Off Track on ABC RN featuring tronador caching at Lake Parramatta and Cybermew3 & holyman54 in an urban environment
September 2011: "Geocaching is catching on as modern treasure hunting"
Article by Louise Merrillees on ABC News, WA.
July 2011: "Everybody's going out a'hunting"
Article in The Weekend West on July 2nd 2011 by Andrea Mayes featuring Miles Burke and kids
May 2011: "Chase the Cache"
Some have said Chase the Cache may be the coolest treasure hunt since Captain Jack Sparrow was around. Others have said it could be larger than The Amazing Race. All we know is that you better have your shoelaces tied tight because Chase the Cache will be an event not to be missed.
Chase the Cache is a charity event created by Big Brothers Big Sisters. In this hi-tech treasure hunt teams will locate caches hidden around Docklands. Sign up your team for a fantastic day and show your support for Big Brothers Big Sisters.
Geocaching Australia is a technology partner and supporter of Chase the Cache.
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December 2010: "There but by the grace of the pods"
Article in Victoria's 'The Age, Green Guide', written by Mahesh Sharma, featuring Darren Osbourne "Spindoc Bob" talking about his Geotalk Podcast [Article]
April 2010: "Play with me"
Article in Victoria's Sunday Age M section, written by James Smith and Clem Basto, featuring Rabbitto and Biggles Bear
Part 1 [Article] Part 2[Article]
And a nice audio piece with transcript from ABC Newcastle aired on 9th April, mentions of the mega event as well.
9th April [Have gadgets, will hunt]
with a nice follow up looking at promoting tourism.
21st April [Geocaching tourism potential]
August 2009: "Searching for treasure"
Article in Victoria's The Age Livewire Section column, written by David Adams, featuring caughtatwork.
Part 1 [Article Part 1] Part 2 [Article Part 2]
July 2008: "Calling all geeks"
Article in Tasmania's The Sunday Tasmanian's 'Bush' column, written by John Cannon.
June 2008: "Club Stages Ultimate Treasure Hunt"
Article in NW Tasmania's The Advocate, with colour photo taken at "The First Ever Traditional Annual NW Tas BBQ" Event.
April 2008: "High Tech City Treasure Hunt"
Follow up article on the recent Melbourne City Circle Scavenger Hunt in Techspace magazine (technology classifieds mag).
April 2008: "Geocaching in Canberra Win TV News"
short Win TV feature on Geocaching in Canberra. Featuring Tankengine and Tealby
March 2008: "Canberrans hunt for exercise" - Canberra Chronicle
Great one page article, describing the fun and exercise that can be had from Geocaching. Featuring J!/\/\/\'/ and a friend with readers directed to Geocaching Australia for more information!
17 February 2008: "Thrill of the chase" - Sunday Telegraph
Great one page article, describing the thrill of the hunt from the reporters point of view with readers directed to Geocaching Australia for more information!
6 February 2008: "Warm Warmer... found it!" - Go Magazine
Great one page article, with readers directed to Geocaching Australia for more information!
29 November - 5 December 2007: "Cache me if you can" - Coffs Harbour Independent
Article from the local rag there, mentioning real names of people I don't know. Apologies for the tears, it was given to me by someone who had torn it out of the paper!
27-28 October 2007: "Hi-tech Hide and Seek" - Gold Coast Weekend Bulletin
zactyl and Cannibal Smurf get interviewed about Geocaching.
22 June 2007: "New-age Treasure Hunt" - The Weekender
d.d.dudes interviewed for article in The Weekender, Sunshine Coast.
April 2007: ABC Goulburn Murray audio interview (MP3 4Mb)
Interview aired on ABC featuring audio from a cache hunt with Rhinogeo.
March 2007: Geoaching in Australia - A Great Scouting Activity
Issue 2 2007 Scout About
The Adelaide Advertiser
22 July 2006: Geocaching
The "Good Weekend" supplement in the Sydney Morning Herald
1 April 2006: Hide and seek in an electronic world
General article in the "Weekend" pull-out section of The West Australian newspaper.
9 February 2006: GPS treasure hunt
Informative item on New Zealand TV, featuring several prominent NZ cachers.
11 January 2006: Unique treasure hunt becoming more popular
Positive article in Clare Valley Newspaper (SA), "The Northern Argue".
10 June 2005: What On Earth Is Geocaching
Broadcast on ABC Western Plains Radio
- This is all you need to go geocaching...a GPS device to tell you where to go
- Well...we think it's a sport, or at the very least a hobby.
- It involves the planting of an item in a specific location...known as a cache.
- The localtion is published on the internet and people have to find it using GPS technology.
- It's really just a huge game of hide and seek.
- Once you find the cache you fill in the log book to say you were there and swap trinkets.
- There are over 1300 geocaching teams in Australia and it's played in over 200 countries.
- Dubbo will be hosting a huge geocaching event this weekend with twenty teams taking part.
- The trick, I'm told it to find a picturesque location so that geocachers get something extra from the experience.
Forum discussion: The Bronze on ABC Radio
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28 May 2005: Active Geocaching
Published in The Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum Magazine (pg 32).
Mind Socket took a couple of buddies geocaching for an introductory article that was published with one of his photos. Contains a minor cache spoiler (cache not named).
22 May 2005: The Treasure that's Hidden in Lost Places
The same article reprinted in the Sunday Tasmanian
8 May 2005: The Treasure that's Hidden in Lost Places
Published in The Sunday Telegraph This is a reprint of the previous article for NSW readers. Includes photos of Mind Socket, EcoNic and EcoDave.
5 May 2005: Richary's interview on 891 ABC Adelaide breakfast
Forum discussion Richary on ABC Radio
The 6 minute interview - 700k MP3 file
1 May 2005: Global game of Hide and Seek
Published in The Adelaide Sunday Mail and online at Escape.
- HUNTING for hidden treasure, David Jones found himself abseiling into a narrow Blue Mountains gorge, past moss-covered rocks and ferns to the trickling stream far below.
- They are everywhere - in fact you may have walked right past one. Dozens of caches are tucked away around the world. To get started all you need is a hand-held GPS (ranging from $200 to more than $1000) and access to the Internet. On geocaching websites you'll find the longitude and latitude and, in many cases, cryptic clues as to their location. And then there's the backpack of must-haves: torch, compass, first-aid kit, a camera for recording the event and a calculator (many of the puzzles have a mathematical bent).
- There are three rules to caching:
- take something from the cache
- replace it with something of similar value, and
- write about your visit in the container's log book.
- Suggested websites:
Forum discussions: Article in "Escape" and Adelaide Sunday Mail Article on Geocaching 01-05-2005
19 February 2005: Adult Hide and Seek Catches On
Published in the Illawarra Mercury and a few days later in MX:
- An increasingly popular game of grown-up hide-and-seek is leading adventurers on high-tech hunts for hidden treasure.
- It's called geocaching, and all you need to play is a portable Global Positioning System, access to the internet and a sense of adventure.
Forum discussion: Geocaching Article and MX article on geocaching
14 December 2004: The Australian
Forum Discussion: geocaching.com.au in The Australian
November 2003: Dubbo City News
8 July 2003: Canberra Chronicle
An accidental find by a Canberra resident, unviels Geocaching to at least one current cacher. Cache-chasing creates excitement in Canberra
18 November 2001: ABC Radio National
On 21st October, 2001 Team Chaos members Captain Chaos and The Ginger Loon were interviewed by Chris Bullock from ABC Radio station Radio National. The topic was Geocaching and GPS usage. The information gathered was broadcast as a part Radio National's "Background Briefing" program focusing on GPS, which went to air on Sunday 18th November at 9:00am and was repeated on Tuesday 20th November at 7:00pm.
- Audio stream, in RealMedia format, requires RealPlayer.
- Full transcript of program.
- RADIO K.A.O.S. locationless cache, based upon content from program. (Now archived)
August 2001: Geocaching: You Become the Search Engine
Published in Silicon Chip, August 2001. A very comprehensive article with a photo of Ideology


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The point of public involvement is to build on community capital-the wealth of interested citizens and groups-to help spread the message on preventing stormwater pollution, to undertake group activities that highlight storm drain pollution, and contribute volunteer community actions to restore and protect local water resources.
Phase II Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4)
Phase II MS4s are required to follow all State and local public notice requirements when implementing their stormwater program. However, to be effective, opportunities for public involvement should be built into the fundamental process of community stormwater management. For example, the City can offer opportunities to the public to participate in stormwater program development and implementation through catch basin stenciling.
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Groups such as watershed groups and conservation corps teams who want to participate in promoting environmental causes should be encouraged and offered opportunities to participate in the stormwater management program.
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Usually street food should bring to mind two words "tengo miedo". I am afraid - and very afraid you should often be. Sun, questionable water and questionable fish can be a problem. The street food looks great, but is best left to charming photos unless you know the vendor.
In this case I did. OK not well, but my friend vouched for their reliability. The head Maria carefully described the pure water and disinfectant type products used. She showed me the ice packs for keeping things cold. She told me of the same day trip to the coast to procure the freshest product. Shrimp, shark and faux crab were combined with onion, Worcestershire sauce, cilantro, lime juice, a little tabasco, tomato and a little salt.
My friend ate a full size portion and now several hours later is still fine. So if you are in Panajachel
make sure to go to the lake and feel confident in trying this ceviche (really a generous size portion!) It´s only going to be available until Easter.
Now if you are in New York, the street vendor hot dogs should bring to mind two words ¨"tengo miedo".


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(Also called ALAIN OF LILLE, ALANUS AB INSULIS, or DE INSULIS, ALAIN VON RYSSEL etc.).
Monk, poet, preacher, theologian, and eclectic philosopher, b. probably at Lille, whence his name, about 1128; d. at Cîteaux, 1203. Alain, there is reason to believe, studied and taught for some time in Paris. In 1179 he took part in the Third Council of the Lateran. Later he entered the Monastery of Cîteaux, where he died in 1202 or 1203. Alain attained extraordinary celebrity in his day as a teacher and a learned man; he was called Alain the Great, The Universal Doctor, etc. To this the legend alludes, according to which a scholar, discomfited in a dialectical contest, cried out that his opponent was "either Alain or the devil". Alain's principal work is "Ars Fidei Catholicæ", dedicated to Clement III, and composed for the purpose of refuting, on rational grounds, the errors of Mohammedans, Jews, and heretics. With the same view he wrote "Tractatus Contra Hæreticos" and "Theologicæ Regulæ". He wrote two poems, "De Planctu Naturæ" and "Anticlaudianus". The only collection of Alain's works is Migne's somewhat uncritical edition, P.L., CCX. The two poems are published by Wright in "Satirical Poets of the Twelfth Century", II (Rerum Britannicarum Scriptores). There are several of Alain's treatises still unpublished for instance, "De Virtutibus et Vitiis" (Codex, Paris, Bibl. Nat., n. 3238). Alain's theology is characterized by that peculiar variety of rationalism tinged with mysticism which is found in the writings of John Scotus Erigena, and which afterwards reappeared in the works of Raymond Lully. The mysticism is, perhaps, more in the style than in the matter; the rationalism consists in the effort to prove that all religious truths, even the mysteries of faith, flow out of principles that are self-evident to the human reason unaided by revelation. His philosophy is a syncretism, or eclecticism, in which the principal elements are Platonism, Aristoteleanism, and Pythagoreanism. He esteemed Plato as the philosopher; Aristotle he regarded merely as a subtle logician. His knowledge of Plato he derived from Martianus Capella Apuleius, Boethius, and the members of the school of Chartres; his first-hand acquaintance with the "Dialogues" being limited to Chalcidius's rendering of a fragment of the "Timæus". He was acquainted with some of Aristotle's logical writings and with the commentaries of Boethius and Porphyry. He derived his Pythagoreanism from the so-called Hermetical writers, Asclepius and Mercurius. Finally his mystic manner was influenced by Pseudo-Dionysius and John Scotus Erigena.
The effect of all these influences was an attempt on Alain's part to fuse into one system the various elements derived from different sources, without taking much pains to find a common basis or a principle of organic synthesis. Thus, in psychology he gives at different times three different divisions of the faculties of the soul: a twofold (ratio, sensualitas), a threefold (sapientia, voluntas, voluptas), and a fivefold (sensus, imaginatio, ratio, intellectus, intelligentia). The soul, he teaches, is spirit; the body, matter (in later Platonic sense); and the bond between them is a physical spirit (spiritus physicus). In cosmology he teaches that God first created "Nature", whose role it was to act as his intermediary (Dei auctoris vicaria) in the details of creating and organizing matter into the visible universe. At every step in this portion of his philosophy the influence of the neo-Pythagoreans appears. As a writer, Alain exhibited an unusual combination of poetic imaginativeness and dialectical precision. He modeled his style on that of Martianus Capella, though in his later years the influence of Boethius was, perhaps, predominant. He is to be enumerated among the medieval writers who influenced Dante.
BAUMGARTNER, Die Philos. d. Alanus de Insulis etc. in Beitr. z. Gesch. d. Philos; d. M.A., (Münster, 1896) Bd. II; BÄUMKER, Handschriftliches zu den Werken des Alanus (Fulda, 1894); UEBERWEG, Gesch. d. Philos., (Berlin, 1905), Bd II, 9 Ed., 214 sqq.; HAURÉAU, Hist. de la phil. scol. (Paris, 1872), I, 521 sq.; DE WULF, Hist. de la phil. scol. dans les Pays-Bas (Louvain, 1895), 41 sq.; TURNER, Hist. of Phil. (Boston, 1903), 301, 302.
APA citation. (1907). Alain de l'Isle. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01244e.htm
MLA citation. "Alain de l'Isle." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01244e.htm>.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. March 1, 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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Currently there are currently five workfare schemes in use in the UK, below we explain them
The Work Programme: Coalition's flagship workfare scheme which replaced Labour's Flexible New Deal in summer 2011. Claimants are referred to private companies who can organise mandatory unpaid work placements for as long as six months. Refusal means loss of benefits.
Mandatory Work Activity: The Job Centre can order claimants to work up to 30hrs a week for a period of four weeks without pay. Refusal to comply means loss of benefits.
Community Action Programme: Currently being trialled in some regions and due to be rolled out nationally in 2013. Similar to the Work Programme but claims to focus more on community service work; these roles will replace many of the low-level public sector jobs that are currently being cut by councils. Refusal means loss of benefits.
Work Experience: This scheme, alongside Sector Based Work Academies (below) are what the government want you to think the term 'workfare' means, because are the least offensive of the workfare schemes. They tend to describe it as voluntary work experience for 18-24 year olds organised through the jobcentre.
The degree to which the scheme is genuinely voluntary is disputed as there are countless reports of lies and intimidation to get jobseekers to participate and after one week the scheme becomes mandatory. Although recently, to save face, the government, has emphasised the voluntary aspect and stated that sanctions would no longer be used against people who refuse to participate.
- Sector-Based Work Academies: Similar to work experience but this scheme incorporates a training element alongside unpaid work placements; available through the jobcentre in conjunction with businesses and training providers. Like work experience the scheme is nominally voluntary, however once a claimant accepts a place the scheme becomes mandatory and withdrawal may result in loss of benefits.
In addition to workfare proper, there are also other ways in which the minimum wage is being undercut. A major one of these is the spread of supposed 'apprenticeships'. Increasingly, entry-level admin jobs are being advertised as apprenticeships, which means they can pay £100 per week (higher than £67/week jobseekers allowance for workfare, but lower than minimum wage). Previously these were normal, paid jobs, but now firms can get cheap labour by rebranding entry-level jobs as apprenticeships and giving a low-level NVQ in admin (which is doesn't help find work, as higher-level admin jobs require experience not NVQs).
See also our article on the Youth Contract, the means by which the government intends to expand workfare and which it hopes will revive its faltering Work Programme.
In addition to the articles on this site we have produced a 16 page guide to workfare, which you can download here.


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Andrea Dovizioso today ran an almost perfect race on the Dutch TT circuit at Assen, where the eighth round of the 2014 MotoGP World Championship was held. With an intelligent strategy, the Ducati Team rider perfectly interpreted the difficult weather conditions to take home a well-deserved second place, behind winner Marquez. With this result, the second podium of the season after a third at Austin, Dovizioso moves up one place in the world championship and is now fourth on 91 points.
Starting well from seventh place on the grid on rain tyres for the early laps in the wet, Dovizioso found himself second behind Marquez and did not even relinquish the position during the pit-stop on lap 6 to change bikes when the track started to dry. Andrea actually took the lead on lap 8 and stayed there until lap 15, when he was overtaken by the championship leader, and he finished the race in second place, with a comfortable advantage over third-placed Pedrosa.
Team-mate Cal Crutchlow did not have an easy race. Starting from fifth on the grid after a good qualifying session yesterday, Cal was able to make it into sixth position by the mid-point, but then started to lose ground and he concluded the Dutch GP in ninth place.
Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team #04) – 2nd
"The conditions today were very difficult but we managed to get a good start with the right choice of tyres and a perfect race strategy. I had a good feeling with the bike right away, there wasn't much water but the grip was good, you just had to understand which corners were wet and which were dry. Both Marc and I were able to interpret the track quicker than the others and we pulled out a good gap straight away. I followed him for the early laps, this was my strategy, then I managed to pass him when he made a mistake but his pace was quicker than mine. This second podium of 2014 is very important for us: we are all working so hard and I really want to thank my team!"
Cal Crutchlow (Ducati Team #35) – 9th
"It was a really tough race today for everyone because of the weather conditions. As far as I was concerned it was a disappointing result because I felt we should have taken more advantage of the conditions as soon as the track dried, but I had the same problems as I had in every practice. We had too much understeer with the bike and I was not competitive enough. A good job by Andrea, today he got a fantastic result for the team."
Luigi Dall'Igna (Ducati Corse General Manager)
"Obviously today we are very satisfied with Dovi's second place! We knew that our Desmosedici could perform particularly well in the wet but the conditions in this race were really difficult: the team ran an excellent strategy and Andrea was able to keep up a good pace in the rain and then maintain a high rhythm even when the track dried out. He also managed to lead for eight laps, and then when Marquez passed him, he continued to lap well to defend his position. It is a result that fills us with satisfaction and gives us confidence for the future."


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Arctic Tundra Birds
There are over 100 species of birds that occupy the Arctic tundra in the summer. Everything from geese to owls to falcons fill the air and water. Almost all of these birds head south for the winter. Only a few birds stay in the cold winter tundra.
Members of the ptarmigan family, like the bird in this picture, make the tundra their home all year round. They are a speckled brown color in the summer and change to a bright white in the winter. They eat leaves and berries.


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GE Recalls Front Load Washers Due to Injury Hazard
GE Recalls Front Load Washers Due to Injury Hazard
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.
Name of Product: GE Profile Front Load Washers
Units: About 62,000
Importer: GE Appliances, of Louisville, Ky.
Hazard: The washers basket can separate during use and break the washers top panel, posing an injury hazard to consumers.
Incidents/Injuries: GE has received 19 reports of washer baskets separating, including 10 reports of top panel breakage. No injuries have been reported.
Description: This recall involves GE Profile frontload washing machines with model numbers beginning with WPDH8800, WPDH8900 and WPDH8910. All serial numbers with these models are included in this recall. The washers were sold in gold, red and white colors. The model number is located on the washers right side near the bottom and behind the door near the door frame visible when the door is opened.
Sold at: Best Buy, Lowes, Sears, The Home Depot and other department and retail stores nationwide, from July 2008 to August 2011 for between $1,199 and $1,599.
Manufactured in: China
Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled washers and contact GE for a free repair.
Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact GE Appliances at (888) 641-9739 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday or visit the firms website at www.geappliances.com/products/recall
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