Parliamentary Outreach offers free training to organisations wanting to know more about the UK Parliament and how they can get involved with the work of the House of Commons and House of Lords.

Each training session is tailored to the specific interests of your organisation. It could include any aspect of Parliamentary work

Numbers???especially big ones???can seem pretty abstract. One way to help people better understand them: Provide context based on numbers they do understand. Free web service NumberQuotes spits out related statistics containing any number you throw at it.

For example, if you wanted to give context to a number like “50 billion”, punching it into NumberQuotes returns things like “the 2008 GDP for Bulgaria,” or “50 billion dollars would buy a 2010 Cadillac Escalade for everyone living in Indianapolis City, Indiana.” Similarly, punching in “15” returns “the population of Friendship town, Oklahoma,” “15 iPhones would buy 1.49 MacBooks,” and, strangest of all, “15 hot dogs laid next to each other would reach as far as 1.18 dollar bills.” All you do to get a quote for your number is type it in on NumberQuotes’ home page???you’ll be instantly greeted with a bunch of other statistics pertaining to that number (or one close to it). Some of them make a lot of sense, and some are just downright random.

A talented micro-sculptor has proven you really can see the world in a grain of sand – after carving this incredible church from a single granule that fits inside the eye of a needle.

Willard Wigan, 52 made a name for himself by sculpting tiny recreations of everything from Barack Obama and his family, to Neil Armstrong on the moon’s surface.

He was challenged by his girlfriend Sarah Slade, who lives at the foot of Chosen Hill in Churchdown, near Gloucester, to sculpt the hilltop parish church St Bartholomew’s.

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Micro view: Willard Wigan carved the St Bartholomew’s church into this grain of sand and then put it in the eye of a needle. It’s so small that it can’t be seen with the naked eye

Key technologies

• Anti-virus: protection against viruses, worms and Trojans
• Anti-spyware: protection against spyware, adware and identity theft
• Administration toolkit: system recovery tools

The AVG Rescue CD is essentially a portable version of AVG Anti-Virus supplied through Linux distribution. It can be used in the form of a bootable CD or bootable USB flash drive to recover your computer when the system cannot be loaded normally, such as after an extensive or deep-rooted virus infection. In short, the AVG Rescue CD enables you to fully remove infections from an otherwise inoperable PC and render the system bootable again.

Apart from the usual AVG functions (malware detection and removal, updates from internet or external device, etc.), the AVG Rescue CD also contains the following set of administration tools:

• Midnight Commander – a two-panel file manager
• Windows Registry Editor??? simple registry editor for more experienced users
• TestDisk – powerful hard drive recovery tool
• Ping – to test the availability of network resources (servers, domains, IP addresses)
• Common Linux programs and services??? vi text editor, OpenSSH daemon, ntfsprogs etc.

Free of charge

The AVG Rescue CD is a free-to-use product that anyone can download. This also covers any new program versions and virus database updates. If you have any other paid AVG license, you are also entitled to receive our full technical support.