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|By Ted Alford, Gwen Morton
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|October 26, 2009 02:00 AM EDT
Government Cloud Computing on Ulitzer
The President's budget for fiscal year 2010 (FY10) includes $75.8B in information technology (IT) spending, which is a 7-percent increase from FY09. Of this, at least $20B will be spent on IT infrastructure investments. [1] The FY11 budget for IT is projected to be nearly $88B. The government is actively seeking ways to reduce IT costs, and the FY10 budget request highlights opportunities for the federal government to achieve significant long-term cost savings through the adoption of cloud computing technologies:
"Of the investments that will involve up-front costs to be recouped in outyear savings, cloud-computing is a prime case in point. The Federal Government will transform its Information Technology Infrastructure by virtualizing data centers, consolidating data centers and operations, and ultimately adopting a cloud-computing business model. Initial pilots conducted in collaboration with Federal agencies will serve as test beds to demonstrate capabilities, including appropriate security and privacy protection at or exceeding current best practices, developing standards, gathering data, and benchmarking costs and performance. The pilots will evolve into migrations of major agency capabilities from agency computing platforms to base agency IT processes and data in the cloud. Expected savings in the outyears, as more agencies reduce their costs of hosting systems in their own data centers, should be many times the original investment in this area." [2]
The language in the budget makes three key points: (1) up-front investment will be made in cloud computing, (2) long-term savings are expected, and (3) the savings are expected to be significantly greater than the investment costs.
Booz Allen Hamilton has created a detailed cost model that can create life-cycle cost (LCC) estimates of public, private, and hybrid clouds. We used this model, and our extensive experience in economic analysis of IT programs, to arrive at a first-order estimate of each of the three key points in the President's budget. Overall, it appears likely that the expectations highlighted in the budget can be met, but several factors could affect the overall degree of economic benefit.
Economic Implications
The government's adoption of this new IT model warrants careful consideration of the model's broad economic implications-including the potential long-term benefits in terms of cost savings and avoidance as well as the near-term costs and other impacts of a transition from the current environment. Factors such as the number and rate of federal agencies adopting cloud computing, the length of their transitions to cloud computing, and the cloud computing deployment model (public, private, or hybrid) all will affect the total costs, potential benefits, and time required for the expected benefits to offset the investment costs.
Booz Allen developed a first-order economic analysis by considering how agencies might migrate to a cloud-based environment and what the costs and potential savings might be under a variety of scenarios. Specifically, given long-standing efforts to protect the privacy and security of the federal government's data and systems, a key variable will be whether agencies take advantage of public clouds, build their own private clouds, or adopt a hybrid approach., The focus was on Cloud Computing infrastructure services as these tend to represent a relatively more consistent set of costs/investments/operating requirements across all agencies. We made some high-level, simplifying assumptions in our initial analysis:
- There is an existing data center(s) currently operational that is a baseline for economic comparison of migrating to a cloud environment.
- Existing application software will migrate with the infrastructure to the cloud. Application software support costs remain out of scope.
- Migration decisions will be made at the department or agency (rather than bureau) level in order to aggregate demand and drive scale efficiencies.
- We assume the perceived sensitivity of an agency's mission and data will be a primary factor (though by no means the only factor) driving its decisions on which path to follow..
Next, we developed three high-level scenarios that represent potential migration paths. The three scenarios are as follows:
Scenario 1: Public Cloud Adopters
Key Agency Characteristic: Migrates low-sensitivity data to an existing public cloud.
Assumptions: Transition to the new cloud environment will occur steadily over 3 years; workload remains constant (i.e., no increase in capacity demand).
Scenario 2: Hybrid Cloud Adopters
Key Agency Characteristic: Uses a private cloud solution to handle the majority of its IT workload; also uses a public cloud solution to provide "surge" support and/or support for low-sensitivity data.
Assumptions: Seventy-five percent of the IT server workload will migrate to a private cloud, and the remaining 25 percent will transition to a public cloud; transition to the new cloud environments will occur steadily over 3 years; existing facilities will be used (i.e., no new investment is required in physical facilities); workload remains constant (i.e., no increase in capacity demand).
Scenario 3: Private Cloud Adopters
Key Agency Characteristic: Builds its own private cloud solution or participates in an interagency cloud solution (i.e., community cloud). Broad mission sensitivity results in the need to maintain control of infrastructure and data.
Assumptions: Transition to the new cloud environment will occur steadily over 3 years; existing facilities will be used (i.e., no new investment is required in physical facilities); workload remains constant (i.e., no increase in capacity demand).
Agencies publicly report only their "consolidated" IT infrastructure expenditures, which include end-user support systems (e.g., desktops, laptops) and telecommunications. Additional spending on application-specific IT infrastructure is typically rolled up into individual IT investments. In an effort to isolate data center costs, we extrapolated findings based on our experience with actual federal data centers. Specifically, we developed a "representative" agency data center profile that serves as a useful proxy for other agencies and enables us to explore the potential savings of a migration to cloud computing under the scenarios described above. Although agencies of similar size can have very different IT infrastructure profiles, we modeled an agency with a classic standards-based web application infrastructure. For our representative agency, we began with an assumption that a Status Quo (SQ) data center containing 1,000 servers with no virtualization is already operational. [3] The results at different scales are shown in our analysis.
Using a Booz Allen proprietary cloud computing cost and economic model that employs data collected internally, data from industry, and parametric estimating techniques, we estimated the LCCs for our representative agency to migrate its IT infrastructure (i.e., its server hardware and software) to the cloud under each of the three scenarios described above. We compared these costs to the LCCs of the SQ scenario (i.e., no cloud migration). [4] We also calculated three common metrics to analyze each scenario's potential economic benefits. These metrics allowed us to evaluate the three elements of the business case in the President's budget and estimate the absolute and relative benefits, as well as the time over which the outyear savings will pay back the investment costs.
The three key metrics in our analysis are as follows:
- Net Present Value (NPV) is calculated as each cloud scenario's discounted net benefits (i.e., the cloud scenario's reduced operations and support [O&S] costs relative to the SQ environment's O&S costs) minus the cloud's discounted one-time investment costs. A positive dollar figure indicates a positive economic benefit versus the SQ environment. NPV is an absolute economic metric.
- Benefit-to-Cost Ratio (BCR) is calculated as each cloud scenario's discounted net benefits divided by its discounted investment costs. A number greater than 1.0 indicates a positive economic benefit versus the SQ environment. BCR is a relative economic metric.
- Discounted Payback Period (DPP) reflects the number of years (from FY10) it takes for each scenario's accumulated annual benefits to equal its total investment costs.
The top portion of Exhibit 1 shows the analysis results. This exhibit presents the one-time investment phase costs as well as the recurring O&S phase costs for each scenario with a 13-year life cycle (3-year investment phase and 10-year steady-state O&S phase) from FY10 through FY22.
Assuming a 3-year transition period for each scenario, investment costs are expected to be incurred from FY10 to FY12 and include (depending on the scenario) hardware procurement and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software license fees; contractor labor required for installation, configuration, and testing; and technical and planning support (i.e., system engineering and program management costs) before and during the cloud migration. Because the SQ reflects an operational steady state, no investment costs are estimated for that scenario. Although the public cloud scenario does not present any up-front investment costs for hardware or software procurement, it does require program planning and technical support, support for porting applications over to the new cloud environment, and testing support to ensure programs and applications are working correctly in the new environment.
Recurring O&S costs "ramp up" for all cloud scenarios beginning in FY10 and enter steady state in FY13, continuing through FY22. For private clouds, these costs include hardware and software maintenance, periodic replacement/license renewal costs, system operations labor support costs, and IT power and cooling costs. For hybrid clouds, the O&S costs include the same items as the private cloud (albeit on a reduced scale), as well as the unit consumption costs of IT services procured from the public cloud. For public cloud scenarios, the O&S costs are the unit costs of services procured from the cloud provider and a small amount of IT support labor for the cloud provider to communicate any service changes or problems. In all three cloud scenarios, a significant portion of the O&S costs are incurred while phasing out the SQ environment during the transition. The SQ phase-out costs "ramp down" from FY10 to FY12, dove-tailing with the ramp up of the new clouds' O&S costs. Not surprisingly, the total LCCs are lowest for the public cloud scenario and highest for the private cloud scenario, with the hybrid cloud scenario's LCCs falling in the middle.
The economic analysis confirms that the projected NPV and BCR for all three scenarios are significant relative to the SQ environment. Once the cloud migrations are completed, our model estimates annual O&S savings in the 65-85 percent range, with the lower end corresponding to the private cloud scenario and the upper end corresponding to the public cloud scenario. These percentages can be applied to overall federal IT spending for data centers to estimate the potential absolute savings across the federal government. (As part of the Information Technology Infrastructure Line of Business [ITI LoB] initiative, General Services Administration [GSA] is coordinating a benchmarking effort across the government. If those figures are made public, a total dollar savings estimate will be possible).
Our model shows that the net benefits and payback periods for agencies adopting the hybrid cloud scenario are closer to those for the private cloud than the public cloud. This variation is largely a result of our assumption that 75 percent of the current server workload would migrate to a private cloud and only 25 percent would transition to the public cloud. If we were instead to assume the opposite mix (i.e., 25 percent of the workload migrating to a private cloud and 75 percent to a public cloud), the hybrid scenario economic results would be closer to the public cloud results.
We conducted a sensitivity analysis on several of the variables in our cost model to determine the major drivers for cloud economics. The two most influential factors driving the economic benefits are (1) the reduction in hardware as a smaller number of virtualized servers in the cloud replace physical servers in the SQ data center and (2) the length of the cloud migration schedule. Exhibits 2, 3, and 4 show the results of varying these factors.
In practice, several factors could cause agencies to realize lower economic benefits than our estimates suggest. One factor is underestimation of the costs associated with the investment or O&S phase for the cloud scenarios. Another factor is server utilization rates (both in the current environment and the new cloud environment). Our analysis assumes an average utilization rate of 12 percent of available CPU capacity in the SQ environment and 60 percent in the virtualized cloud scenarios. This difference in server utilization, in turn, enables a large reduction in the number of servers (and their associated support costs) required in a cloud environment to process the same workload relative to the SQ environment. Agencies with server utilization rates that are already relatively high should expect lower potential savings from a virtualized cloud environment.
The charts indicate two key takeaways:
- Scale is important: The economic benefit increases as virtualized servers replace larger numbers of underutilized servers.
- Time is money: Because of the cost of parallel IT operations (i.e., cloud and non-cloud), the shorter the server migration schedule, the greater the economic benefits.
These findings, in turn, lead us to the following recommendations for agencies and policymakers contemplating a cloud migration:
- It is more cost-effective to group smaller existing data centers together into as large a cloud as possible, rather than creating several smaller clouds.
To reduce the cost of running parallel operations, organization should properly plan for and then migrate to the new cloud environment as quickly as possible. The three lines in Exhibit 5 show (in this case, for the public cloud) that the BCR goes down rapidly and the DPP increases as the transition time increases.
Budgeting Implications
A few agencies are already moving quickly to explore cloud computing solutions and are even redirecting existing funds to begin implementations. However, for most of the federal government, the timeframe for redirecting IT funding to support cloud migrations is likely to be at least 1-2 years, given that agencies formulate budgets 18 months before receiving appropriations.
Specifically, an agency develops IT investment requests each spring and submits them to OMB in September, along with the agency's program budget request, for the following government fiscal year. OMB reviews agency submissions in the fall and can implement funding changes via passback decisions (generally in late November) before submitting the President's budget to the Congress in February. Theoretically, the earliest opportunity for OMB to push agencies to revise their IT budgets to support a transition to the cloud will be fall 2009; however, agencies typically only have about 1 month to incorporate changes to their IT portfolios during passback. To give GSA and OMB time to develop more detailed guidance, as well as necessary procurement mechanisms and vehicles, it is more likely that OMB will direct or encourage agencies to plan for cloud migrations during the FY12 budget cycle (starting in the spring of 2010).
Other Considerations with Potential Economics Effects
When deciding on moving to the cloud, agencies need to consider some additional technical aspects of cloud computing and their potential impact on their organization. Such areas include but are not limited to data security, software migration, technical architectures, and the skill set of the IT workforce.
Data Security
All government organizations struggle with ensuring that the data they have remains secure and adheres to current policies and regulations. Because data security is such a critical issue, cloud providers will be required to address it in their products and services, and should be able to tailor the level of security to meet demand. Additionally, by centralizing data and servers, a cloud environment will allow for easier detection and investigation of incidents, and allow enabling IT staff to replicate and address them efficiently.
However, there are currently no security standards for cloud computing, and until such standards have been developed, and used effectively to measure provider services and enforce accountability, any failures will fall on the agency's in-house IT organization. In awareness of this reality, organizations should be careful about putting mission-critical and core processes into a public cloud, and private cloud architectures should be designed to minimize any security concerns while realizing the benefits of cloud optimization.
Service Oriented Architecture
As the government moves towards embracing Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), cloud computing will optimize the benefits of those investments. Cloud computing is inherently a Service Oriented Architecture and implementing the private clouds will provide for more control over data, security and privacy.
Migration of Applications to the Cloud
This article identifies the financial benefits of migrating the IT infrastructure to the cloud.
Cloud architectures and service delivery models will lead to changing needs for technical skills amongst agencies' IT workforces. CIOs will need to plan to conduct or refresh workforce assessments and training, as well as set aside the necessary funding, to ensure technical staff are trained on cloud architecture, implementation and operations.
Economic Influence on Policy
From an economic perspective, GSA and OMB can take a number of steps to maximize the probability that the cloud computing business model can work in the federal government; i.e., that it can achieve its objective of enabling significant cost savings. These steps promote information sharing and transparency in the realistic costs and benefits of various cloud models, as well as establishing the necessary policy and contracting frameworks. Because scale is a key variable affecting both costs and benefits, policy guidance regarding scale considerations will be particularly critical (e.g., determining how much flexibility, if any, agencies and departments have to create private clouds at the bureau and/or interagency level).
As a cloud "storefront," GSA should conduct due diligence reviews to establish that public cloud providers, once identified, indeed offer highly efficient, highly scalable (both up and down) usage-based pricing beyond traditional managed services (e.g., by comparing proposed rates against commercial benchmarks). GSA should also work with potential providers to ensure agencies can readily understand service definitions, service levels, terms, conditions, and pricing. These steps will provide transparency to facilitate agencies' ability to compare potential provider pricing against their legacy operations costs-an essential component of building a credible business case for any type of cloud migration. In earlier shared services initiatives, such as financial management, the lack of such standardized information on pricing and service levels in the first few years proved a major impediment to progress, as agencies faced decisions about alternative solutions that were often based on unreliable cost data from potential vendors.
Finally, GSA will need to establish and communicate its own schedule for cloud services founded in the pricing for the services with different cloud venders..
Summary of Key Observations
Although cloud computing offers potentially significant savings to federal agencies by reducing their expenditures on server hardware and associated support costs, chief information officers, policymakers, and other interested parties should bear in mind a number of practical considerations:
- It will take, on average, 18-24 months for most agencies to redirect funding to support this transition, given the budget process.
- Some up-front investment will be required, even for agencies seeking to take advantage of public cloud options.
- Implementations may take several years, depending on the size of the agency and the complexity of the cloud model it selects (i.e., public, private, or hybrid).
- It could take as long as 4 years for the accumulated savings from agency investments in cloud computing to offset the initial investment costs; this timeframe could be longer if implementations are improperly planned or inefficiently executed.
Given these observations, we offer the following recommendations:
- OMB, GSA, and other organizations, such as National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), should provide timely, well-coordinated support-in the form of necessary standards, guidance, policy decisions, and issue resolution-to ensure agencies have the necessary tools to efficiently plan and carry out migrations to cloud environments. As the length of the migration period increases, the potential economic benefits of the migration decrease.
- OMB and GSA should seek to identify those agencies with the highest near-term IT costs and expedite their migration to the cloud.
- To encourage steady progress, OMB should establish a combination of incentives and disincentives; e.g., consider allowing agencies to retain a small percentage of any savings realized from cloud computing for investments in future initiatives. To monitor progress and heighten transparency and accountability, OMB could incorporate cloud-related metrics into the new government-wide IT dashboard.
- Agencies should consider which of the high-level scenarios described in this article best suits their needs, with the understanding that regardless of scenario chosen, proper planning and efficient execution are critical success factors from an economic perspective.
- Given the significant impact of scale efficiencies, agencies selecting a private cloud approach should fully explore the potential for interdepartmental and interagency collaboration and investment (consistent with emerging OMB and GSA guidance). This, in effect, leads to the fourth cloud deployment model-the community cloud. A community cloud is a collaboration between private cloud operators to share resources and services.
- Agencies should identify the aspects of their current IT workload that can be transitioned to the cloud in the near term to yield "early wins" to help build momentum and support for the migration to cloud computing.
Cloud computing has received executive backing and offers clear opportunities for agencies to significantly reduce their growing data center and IT hardware expenditures. However, for the government to achieve the envisioned savings, organizations charged with oversight, such as OMB, NIST, and GSA, will have to facilitate progress, and departments and agencies will have to carefully select and plan for future cloud scenarios that yield the best tradeoffs among their respective costs, benefits, and risks.
- Figures from INPUT data for the FY10 President's budget; of the $20B in expenditures categorized as office automation and IT infrastructure spending, about $12.2B is spent on major IT investments, with the remainder on non-majors. Additional expenditures on application-specific IT infrastructure are typically reported as part of individual IT investments.
- President's budget, FY10 (Analytical Perspectives).
- The 1,000 servers are broken down in our cost model by server processing capacity (small, medium, and large) based on proportions consistent with our experience.
- Our model focuses on the costs that a cloud migration will most likely directly affect; i.e., costs for server hardware (and associated support hardware, such as internal routers and switches, rack hardware, cabling, etc.), basic server software (OS software, standard backup management, and security software), associated contractor labor for engineering and planning support during the transition phase, hardware and software maintenance, IT operations labor, and IT power/cooling costs. It does not address other costs that would be less likely to vary significantly between cloud scenarios, such as storage, application software, telecommunications, or WAN/LAN. In addition, it does not include costs for government staff. Further, for simplicity we removed facilities cost from the analysis
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text: Man with Concealed Carry Gun May Have Stopped Oregon Shooter Print article Send a Tip by Tony Lee 16 Dec 2012 post a comment A former security guard with a concealed carry permit may have prevented Jacob Tyler Roberts, the 22-year-old who killed two people and critically wounded another when he opened fire at an Oregon shopping mall last Wednesday, from inflicting even more carnage. Nick Meli claims after Roberts, saw his gun, Roberts killed himself. "I'm not beating myself up cause I didn't shoot him," Meli said. "I know after he saw me, I think the last shot he fired was the one he used on himself." Meli told Portland, Oregon's NewsChannel 8 that as he was about to fire, he saw someone move in the background and never pulled the trigger because "I knew if I fired and missed, I could hit them." While at the mall with a friend and her baby, Meli "positioned himself behind a pillar" and took out his gun after hearing three gunshots. Meli said the gunman "was working on his rifle" and "kept pulling the charging handle and hitting the side." This break in the action gave Meli time to pull out his gun, which he claims the gunman saw before pulling the trigger on himself. Meli eventually took cover at a nearby store.


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We are using CS New Media. Very good service. http://www.csnewmedia.co.uk/
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We too are using CSNewMedia and perhaps I shouldn't say it but I actually contacted Carl recently as I needed a favour and within 15 minutes he'd done it and it's saved me a small fortune in terms of time and expense.
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x64 on a Dell Inspiron E1505.
I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 that I've upgraded with a T5600 Core 2 Duo CPU, a pair of PC5300 2gig SODIMMs and a 500 gig hard drive.
I downloaded the "media refresh" X17-59465.iso updated x64 ISO of Windows 7 and made a bootable USB stick to install it.
Partway through installing it popped an error about not having a driver. Restarted, it boots off the hard drive, gets to the Starting Services screen then pops another box saying it can't install Windows.
I know other people have installed x64 Win 7 on this exact model with a Core 2 Duo CPU upgrade so what's the trick to making it work? I also know it will use around 3.5gig of RAM.
Would going back to the 1.5gig of PC4200 that was in it get Win7 to complete its install?
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Unplug all other HD's and peripherals,
Boot into BIOS setup, reset to defaults, save changes. If an EFI BIOS you'll need to decide if you want UEFI BIOS vs. Legacy BIOS. If UEFI follow these special steps for Install, otherwise enable Legacy BIOS or Compatibility Support Module to proceed with normal install:
Set DVD drive first to boot, HD second, set SATA controller to AHCI, Save changes and Exit.
Then boot into Windows 7 installer DVD or flash stick burned or written using tool and latest ISO for your licensed OS version here. I would use a fresh ISO written with tool in Step 2 as yours is in question.
At first installer screen Press Shift + F10, or enter System Recovery Options to open a Command Box, type:
SELECT DISK 0 (after confirming Windows 7 target HD #)
Next click Install Now, then Custom install to Clean Install Windows 7 to the partition you created. If it fails then report back at which step and the verbatim error message.
In addition read over these steps to understand the tools and methods which work best to get and maintain a perfect Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7. The steps are the same for retail.
After install you can adjust partition size or Create new partitions for data, etc. in Disk Mgmt. You are creating the partition here for the purpose of wiping the HD and marking Active which overcomes certain install failures.
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|17 Dec 2013
I booted it again off the USB stick, did everything exactly as before and it Just Worked(TM) the second time around. It put the previous failed install into windows.old
Just one of those crazy things Windows does some times, eh?
First thing it did was download drivers for the video and the card reader and four other updates. I need to check if it's needing any other drivers then get IE updated and Classic Shell on there before I do anything else.
Just needs a driver for "Base System Device".
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|18 Dec 2013
Enable Automatically deliver drivers via Windows Update (Step 3)
then run all rounds of Important and Optional Updates until there are no more offered.
This will provide most drivers and many needed performance patches. Always accept all Updates. I would only hide Bing and IE11 until it resolves issues with Win7 gadgets, etc..
Any drivers missing should then be imported from the model's Support Downloads webpage. Here's how to trace Unknown Devices - Windows 7 Help Forums
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|18 Dec 2013
I used Unknown Devices which revealed the missing one to be the Memory Stick part of the Ricoh card reader. Windows update automatically found the SD card part and downloaded the driver for that, so why not the Memory Stick driver?
The official Dell support pages for the E1505 and 6400 only has 32bit XP and Vista drivers. This page has the whole lot for Vista x64 and earlier, back to Windows 2000. Drivers for Inspiron E1505 But note the complete lack of any Ricoh x64 drivers.
Found one that works here Driver Details | Dell US
This has been a PITA since 1995 where Windows knows these details about the hardware but hides it all from the user with the generic "unknown device" bullshoi. It only adds hours and hours of time to working on computers hunting for the right drivers.
Computer and software manufacturers have been doing this sort of bleep for the 30 years I've been working with them, probably did it before and will very likely continue to keep on doing it.
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The more obscure the driver, the less likely it will be provided by installer or Windows Update. I've shown you how to maximize the chances.
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Mortgage Backed Securities
What Are Mortgage-Backed Securities?
The term 'Mortgage-backed Securities' can be explained in a simple manner. People take loans when buying property. An organization buys these loans which are mostly on residential property and then 'securitizes' these loans. This means that it would issue securities which represent claims on the principal amount of the loans bought as well as interest paid by borrowers. In a nutshell, mortgage-backed securities are debt obligations which represent claims to cash flows from mortgage loan pools.
Issuers of Mortgage-Backed Securities:
Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, Ginnie Mae –do these names sound familiar? Well, these are not names of people but of organizations in the U.S. which issue mortgage-backed securities. Freddie Mac is actually Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, Fannie Mae is Federal National Mortgage Association and Ginnie Mae stands for Government National Mortgage Association.
All these organizations are sponsored by the U.S. government. Ginnie Mae has the full backing of the U.S. Government; it provides a guarantee to investors who have bought mortgage-backed securities that they would receive payments on time.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on the other hand, have been given only some special powers. They are allowed to borrow from the U.S. Treasury. Apart from these government-linked institutions some private organizations like banks, home construction companies as well as brokerages issue mortgage-backed securities which are called private label mortgage-backed securities (MBS).
Mortgage-Backed Securities :Various Types & Depending Structure:
Pass Through Participation Certificates:
These are typical mortgage-backed securities wherein the money collected in the mortgage pool is paid or passed on to the investors in the proportion of their investments in the securities.
Procedure of payment:
Every month the investor pays the interest on the principal due for that month and a part of the principal as per the terms of the loan. This payment is passed on to the investors of mortgage-backed securities. As the principal reduces over time, the interest payment component in the monthly installment keeps on increasing.
Collaterized Mortgage Obligations:
Investors were not satisfied with the plain vanilla mortgage-backed securities. There was a demand for more exotic products resulting in the creation of instruments called Collaterized Mortgage Obligations (CMOs) where the investors are paid in tranches. So, different investors would be a paid at different times and at different rates according to the terms set.
Risks Associated with Mortgage-Backed Securities:
Risk of Prepayment:
Mortgages are usually taken for a period of about 30 years. When interest rates fall, homeowners may find attractive refinance options and may decide to prepay their existing home loans. When the investors are given back the principal amount, they would find it difficult to find good avenues for investment and would have to settle for investments with low returns.
Credit Risk:
While mortgage-backed securities issued by government- backed agencies are safe, the introduction of private label mortgage-backed securities in 2000, have brought high degrees of risk to these securities. Home loans may be given to financially unsound parties who will be unable to repay the loans-the much discussed 'subprime loans'. The investors get tempted by the high returns promised and buy them. When there are loan defaults, the entire investment gets wiped out as seen in the subprime crisis of 2008.
Though mortgage-backed securities and their derivative counterparts look like attractive investment options, we have seen the dangers involved and their cascading effect on the economy as a whole.
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This Saturday, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts will celebrate Japanese paper and book art. The Harukaze Festival, a.k.a. "spring wind" fest, will feature hands-on activities, demonstrations, new art, and more. Guests both young and old can try their hand at suminagashi paper marbling, binding their own mini-ledger books, or folding paper to create shapes through origami. Calligraphy, bookbinding, and paper-cutting artists will be on hand as well to introduce people to these unique skills. The day also serves as an opening reception for three related exhibitions, featuring brush, book, and environmentally friendly arts. (Annie Bissett, American Bible Story)
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Chigaco, IL - Since its debut in 2002, the PTDA Canadian Conference has become a powerful business conclave for Canada's power transmission/motion control industry. The event features intimate business networking opportunities, unsurpassed business educational information, and an Industry Showcase, a program designed for those marketing product in Canada. This year, the 13th annual PTDA Canadian Conference, has been scheduled for June 5-7, 2014, at the Fairmont Le Château Frontenac in Québec City, Québec.
"The Canadian Conference offers unprecedented opportunities to learn from market-specific speakers," says Ajay Bajaj. Bajaj, president of Woodbridge, Ontario-based Rotator Products Ltd., is PTDA's first vice president.
"The PTDA Canadian Conference delivers thorough networking and educational opportunities in an efficient package," adds Bajaj. "It brings together the top decision-makers from Canadian distributors and their manufacturing partners, and gets us all engaged in working on creating greater efficiencies in the distribution chain.
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Chicago-based PTDA represents 172 power transmission/motion control distribution firms. Its members also include over 200 manufacturers and associated companies that supply the PT/MC industry.
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November 26, 2014
It's been almost a year since Rachel Good was last seen, and a month since investigators announced they think she was murdered. And on Wednesday came another announcement.
Starting Oct. 6, a special grand jury will convene in Rockingham Circuit Court, to hear evidence and testimony regarding the ongoing Good investigation.
"Although almost a year has passed since the disappearance of Miss Good, law enforcement continues its efforts to bring her killer to justice," Commonwealth's Attorney Marsha Garst announced at a Wednesday morning news conference.
During the search for Rachel, and now her killer, investigators have met with hundreds of people. Garst says a special grand jury is a way to get the reluctant ones to talk.
"Even though we believe we have a sizable amount of evidence, it can lead to information we have not yet uncovered," she said. "And that is a key investigative tool."
Rachel's father Cary was at Wednesday's news conference. He's among those who have received subpoenas to testify.
"I can look in this camera and say to who did this, that they're gonna get you," Cary Good told TV-3 after the news conference. "They're not gonna stop until they do."
Garst agrees. When asked if she thought the special grand jury proceedings would lead to an indictment, she replied: "I would say that I'm certain."
But Garst says there won't be an indictment until she's certain the evidence will lead to a conviction. She also won't name the primary suspect until an indictment is brought down.
A special grand jury can sit for as long as six months. But Garst doesn't expect the upcoming proceedings to last that long.
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In Kenova police say it's the smaller crimes that can escalate into larger ones. Police in Kenova are investigating a string of break-ins over the last few weeks; more than a dozen home and car burglaries. Police say these smaller crimes and drug use go hand in hand. "Electronics are very popular, they can sell them to friends or pawn shops."
Kenova Police officer C.K. Napier says "people don't think it can happen here. Because it's not Huntington, but it happens everyday."
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C-reactive protein production in HIVApparently my c reactive protien levels are quite elavated! What does this mean? Is it bad and if so how do I lower it??I am on Sustiva,ziagen,reyataz and retinovir. My cd4 are 900-1300 I am in reasonable health although my energy levels are lower...
Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.
Stanford University, School of MedicineYou don't indicate what the elevated level is, or why the test was ordered in the first place. C-reactive protein is a very nonspecific marker of inflammation. It can be increased with infections, drug reactions, heart problems, among many... Read more »
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Breaks From HIV/AIDS Drug Regimens Can Lead to Inflammation, Premature Death, Study SaysHIV-positive people who take breaks from their drug regimens are more likely to have higher levels of proteins associated with inflammation, a potentially hazardous immune system response, according to a study published Monday in PloS Medicine ,... Read more »
HIV-Infected Women Who Breast-Feed Face No Greater Risk of Mortality Than HIV-Infected Women Who Formula Feed, Study FindsIn this study summary, Shahin Lockman, M.D., of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Mass., summarizes her study on the effect of breast-feeding versus formula feeding on maternal HIV disease progression, mortality and micronutrient levels in a... Read more »
Overweight People With HIV See Lower CD4 Gain While on HIV Medications, Study SuggestsUntil the mid-1990s in the U.S., packing on a few extra pounds seemed like a good thing: It helped protect a person against the dangers of wasting and HIV's destructive effects on the immune system. But today, for people on potent HIV treatment,... Read more »
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November 25, 2014
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Polls are now open for Oklahoma voters to cast ballots in this year's primary election.
Both of Oklahoma's seats in the U.S. Senate are on the ballot, along with an open seat representing the 5th Congressional District. Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin faces GOP opposition in the primary, as does Superintendent of Education Janet Barresi.
All current members of Oklahoma's congressional delegation seeking re-election face primary opponents except for U.S. Rep. Jim Bridenstine.
Republican voters will decide winner-take-all primary elections in the races for corporation commissioner and insurance commissioner. Several statewide elected officials in Oklahoma drew no opponent this cycle, including Auditor and Inspector Gary Jones, Attorney General Scott Pruitt and Treasurer Ken Miller.
Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Stay tuned to News 12 through out the night for the latest results.
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DALLAS (AP) Operators of the state's electric grid have urged conservation after freezing weather led to power outages and forced some North Texas schools to call off classes. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas has asked consumers to limit power use this morning. Oncor (ON'-kor) reported about 7,600 homes and businesses without electricity.
CONROE, Texas (AP) A Southeast Texas man could be tried as an adult for a 1998 crime he's accused of committing as a 13-year-old. Don Willburn Collins faces a murder charge in Robert Middleton's 2011 death. Authorities say Collins poured gasoline on Middleton and set him on fire. Middleton died in 2011 from skin cancer authorities blame on the burns he suffered in 1998.
ATHENS, Texas (AP) State Fire Marshal Chris Connealy is continuing his 68-stop tour of areas with significant quantities of ammonium nitrate with a meeting in Athens today. Connealy and officials from other state agencies will meet with businessmen and officials in Henderson County. Ammonium nitrate was the chemical that detonated in West last April.
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- TimCarroll Apr 22, 2009 07:33 AM
I'm slow cooking a well spiced pork but which will be later shredded for enchiladas. My question is, after reading enchilada recipes off of the chow site, what do people put in the corn tortillas? My plan is to quick fry the tortillas in a little oil first. Next I was going to mix the shredded pork with some cilantro, corn cornels, salt, diced onion and shredded cheddar cheese. I might add some chili powder, cumin, onion powder and granulated garlic (These are some of the ingredients in the dry rub on the pork butt) depending on how the pork tastes after cooking. I have the enchilada sauce to top everything off before cooking in the oven. I'm I going in a wrong direction here?
sounds like you are right on time with what you got going on. Unless you have some home blend, however, I'd ditch the chili powder. Unless you are talking about some kind of ground chile peppers. Something like Mcormick Chili Powder or other grocery store spice blends do not belong in a real cook's cupboard. You have salt and cumin already, no need to add stale cumin, and random spices - mostly salt (which is what most chili powder is.)
re: gordeaux
The chili powder in question is ancho only, (I love making chili) but I must admit I do have a chili powder blend in my pantry. It's for my daughter to play with, when she starts "experimenting" from here cookbooks. I've seen to much stuff go down the drain. When she gets better I'll let her use my stuff.
re: Sam Fujisaka
Sounds great, I'll add a little to the meat mixture and maybe sprinkle a few in the cheese that will be melted on top of everything as kind of a garnish.
I make enchiladas fairly frequently and the only thing you are doing massively different than the method I use is not dipping your tortillas in the enchilada sauce prior to filling and rolling them.
Just for the record, the very old traditional Mexican (at least in the states of Baja California and Chihuahua) and southhwestern U.S. method of making enchiladas was to FIRST dip the tortilla in the sauce, THEN fry it in hot lard, fill and roll... or stack, as the case may be. And that method was absolutely magnifient in the olden days when the cocina was on the patio and nobody gave a damn how spattered the walls and floor became. I have tried it. It does give a different flavor than frying, then dipping, but unless you are some sort of obsessive compulsive who lives to wash down every horizontal and vertical surface in your kitchen after cooking, do the fry and dip method.
When my enchiladas are all rolled and set out in a lightly oiled Pyrex baking dish, I pour the remaining enchilada sauce over them. Sometimes it's a green sauce, probably for enchiladas Suiza, in which case I also add a layer of slightly thinned sour cream with a scattering of grated Swiss cheese and green onion rings from the greens, then bake. For enchiladas with red sauce, I usually just top with more sauce and a sprinkling of cheese before baking.
I don't think you'll really need the onion powder with the diced onions. But who knows? It might be just the right touch. Have fun!
re: Caroline1
Thanks for the advice. My wife has a house cleaning disorder so the dip then fry is out of the question. I would have to do that outside or when she's not home. I'll probably get busted anyway, she'll find the smallest minuscule trace and bring it to my attention.
re: KiltedCook
NO!!! Tim, YOU can clean up after if necessary.
On the other hand, the standard way to put together enchiladas is just heat the tortills until pliable, dip in sauce, and wrap. No need for any mess.
Personally, all I would add to the pork on filling the enchiladas is chopped onion, andd maybe some chopped cilantro, assuming the flavor is nice to begin with. Fry and dip the tortillas, fill, add the rest of the sauce and some grated cheese. I think that should do it!
I suggest adding a bit of queso fresco inside the enchiladas along with the other ingredients as you roll them. You have enough moisture outside, but not enough inside.
Sounds like you're pointed in the right direction. I'd skip the corn kernels, but hey, I'm a traditionalist.
As for other additions, my favorite pork enchiladas have some chipotle en adobo mixed with the meat. Don't know what sauce you're using, so can't speak to how they'd get along, but the flavor goes great with slow-cooked pork and the adobo sauce adds moisture.
Other than that, I'd just suggest that you provide some textural contrast. I like to top my enchiladas with shredded cabbage, sliced radishes, quick-pickled carrots, and/or other crunchy bits (either plain or dressed with a little oil, vinegar, and crumbled Mexican oregano), and a dollop of crema for something cool and creamy.
I made them tonight Red Sauce, Yes you want to dip then fry then fill. The only thing I do different is I don't top the enchilada with cheese until they are finished in the oven then I put the cheese and onion otop for about 3 min. It stays very creamy that way,. Also I would not put the corn or extra spice in the meat mixture. I would do cheese meat and chopped fresh onion. I did mine with left over taco meat tonight delosh.
Thanks all - They came out great! I dipped after frying becauce I didn't thing I had enough time before my wife got home from work to clean up that is.


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Director: Emir Kusturica
"After I scored, I started running as if I'd stolen an Englishman's wallet." - Diego Maradona
Serbian director Emir Kusturica presents an intimate portrait of Argentinean soccer star Diego Maradona. An examination of his god-like status in international football and popular culture, Kusturica also delves into the footballer's political activism, struggles with drug addiction and his infamous 'Hand of God' goal against England during the 1986 World Cup.
Mixing sport with politics - unabashedly leftist, Maradona met with Fidel Castro, and represents Argentina at anti-imperialist rallies - Maradona by Kusturica examines the soccer legend as both as folk legend and man.
The film's soundtrack features the Sex Pistols and Argentinean rockers Manu Chao.
"An original perspective brought to bear on a complex figure with a fascinatingly chequered career." - Variety


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