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All the Virtualization That FitsBy Tony Kontzer
Virtualization as a Tool for Agile IT
More than a decade after VMware introduced the first software that enabled x86 virtualization, the question facing most IT executives is no longer whether they plan to virtualize, but how far they plan to go.
From Wall Street to Main Street, organizations large and small now avail themselves of the benefits of virtualization. Although the lion's share of virtualization deployments has traditionally focused on consolidating servers, a shift is occurring:
A growing number of companies are turning to virtualization to readily accommodate growth and achieve added business agility.
"Virtualization is not just a consolidation technology," says Tom Bittman, vice president and distinguished analyst at IT consultancy Gartner. "It's a speed technology."
Virtualization delivers a wide range of business benefits:
- It enables single servers to run multiple applications, thereby slashing server hardware costs and reducing data center cooling and power requirements.
- It allows traditional desktop computing cap-abilities to be extended to remote machines, which can boost application performance, reduce IT's burden for supporting remote computing resources and add a layer of data security.
- It makes it possible to abstract storage systems from physical computing assets regardless of the physical location of the storage. This results in efficient use of storage resources and improves disaster-recovery capabilities.
But virtualization efforts also face numerous potential obstacles. Budget and resource constraints cause organizations to hold back: They may want to virtualize to support growth, but feel they don't have enough people to take on added projects. There are also cultural considerations. In conservative organizations, server-hugging IT folks often are resistant to having their beloved applications run on virtualized machines. "Virtualizing that resource pool requires a mindset change on the part of the technology group," says Ron Anderson-Lehman, who at press time notes that his current tenure as CIO at Continental Airlines will come to an end as the carrier's merger with United Airlines is approved by shareholders and Federal regulators. "They probably do feel a loss of control."
What's more, says Anderson-Lehman, companies that move forward on virtualization find they often have to be persistent with reluctant vendors weary of being required to support multiple enterprise virtualization platforms that may force them to tweak their applications.
Selling virtualization to other decision-makers in the enterprise can also be challenging for IT executives. Most business leaders don't understand virtualization, and IT has a hard time communicating its less-than-obvious business benefits.
"Consolidation is easy to see, visualize, grab," says Greg Schulz, author of The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC Press-Taylor & Francis Group, 2009) and founder of Server and StorageIO Group, an IT research firm specializing in infrastructure issues.
Everyone understands how trash compacting or carpooling can protect the environment, but when it comes to virtualization, the argument is more difficult, Schulz says, adding that IT managers are scratching their heads trying to figure out how to virtualize 70 percent to 80 percent of their environments.
That's the big-company view, and it speaks directly to research that Gartner's Bittman has been compiling. His findings, which have yet to be published, indicate that by 2012, SMBs probably will more than triple the amount of computing workloads they virtualize.
This growth rate is six times what's expected to occur within large companies. One reason? Small and midsize companies tend to virtualize as much as possible at once, while large companies tend to take a piecemeal approach that often coincides with planned server refresh cycles, according to Bittman.
Obstacles and growth rates aside, any way you look at it, virtualization is finding its way into IT operations of all shapes and sizes--and in all industries. What follows is a look at how three very different organizations are putting virtualization to work.
All the Virtualization That Fits
For some companies, virtualization is a fit for one part of the operation but not another. Todd Slan, director of technology for Total Wine & More, based in Potomac, Md., says the retailer has no intention of virtualizing the single server running in each of its 65 stores. But server virtualization has been a significant component of Total Wine's corporate IT environment since 2005, when rapid growth was forcing Slan's team to add a server every time it was asked to deploy a new application or service.
With no commercial software product built specifically to help wine retailers manage their supply chains, inventories or budget forecasts, Slan knew that Total Wine's application development operation would need additional resources to keep up with the demands of supporting six or seven new stores each year. In response, the company added Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization software, bringing a rapid end to hardware proliferation that had seen Total Wine's server count reach 125.
By virtualizing all the servers in the retailer's two data centers--a primary one at the company's headquarters in Potomac, and a secondary facility in Tucson, Ariz.--Slan accommodated two business needs: "We were able to double the number of stores and leave our data center footprint exactly where it was," he says. "That wouldn't have been possible without virtualizing our servers."
What's more, by virtualizing its data centers, Total Wine doubled its server utilization rates to nearly 90 percent. That, in turn, has helped the company serve its consumers.
"You can't offer the lowest prices in the business unless you optimize your costs," says Slan. "If you use 50 percent of a resource, that's not optimizing."
Slan hopes to achieve similar gains in cost containment and efficiency with a storage virtualization effort that's currently about two-thirds completed. He is also considering virtualizing the company's training environment. Really, Slan admits there's no reason for him not to consider virtualizing anything that makes sense, because without virtualization, "we'd be spending a lot more money on IT than we are today."
Traditional Approach Bears Business Benefits
Server consolidation has long been the bread and butter of virtualization, and IT executives such as Peter Wallace, CIO of the city of Chesapeake, Va., remain content with that value proposition. After all, what's not to like about being able to run your applications on a fraction of the hardware?
Wallace was hired in 2007 to help the city contend with the server sprawl that resulted from an extended period of rapid population growth. He was faced with an antiquated data center with no modern cooling capabilities that was home to an expanding farm of 135 servers. Every application had at least one dedicated server, with the PeopleSoft HR system alone hogging up seven--and there were demands for more servers.
To make room for those expected servers, the city was planning to build a second story on the existing data center, at a cost of $10 million, and co-locate a disaster recovery environment in the same building. Wallace quickly scapped those plans. When he analyzed the city's server assets, he found that only 15 percent to 20 percent of server capacity was actually being used.
Wallace embarked on a virtualization effort, and in the nearly three years since, he's reduced the server count to 20, with plans to retire five more machines by this fall. "We have virtualized everything that we can, to the point where we have addressed the replacement of servers for the next two years," he says.
That's not to say there haven't been bumps along the road. For one thing, Wallace had to change a mindset that had the city referring to IT as a "division," a word that he says encouraged a lack of communication. He changed it to a "unit." He also had to work with resistant vendors, setting up a so-called physical-to-virtual test environment that made it possible to move applications between physical and virtual machines for troubleshooting and fixes of applications that hadn't been designed with virtualization in mind.
Ultimately, Wallace's virtualization strategy achieved several benefits:
- It prevented an unnecessary data center expansion.
- It saved the city $200,000 in budgeted server purchases.
- It slashed IT's energy bills to $3,000 a month, a $2,000-per-month saving. (Wallace expects to knock another $1,000 a month off that once the last of the unneeded physical servers is retired.)
Sensing the important role virtualization will continue to play for the city, Wallace sent two of his network specialists for six months of training on VMware's technology, and had both sign agreements that they'd stay on long enough for him to recoup the training investment. "Now, we've got two virtualization experts on staff," he notes.
Representing the New Virtualization Model
In many ways, the civil engineering department at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, and its CIO, Thomas Mather, represent the new virtualization model. Mather wasn't lured to virtualization by the promise of smaller server counts. His interest was driven by a desire to serve up applications to students wherever they roam on campus, rather than limiting them to the 150 computers available in the department's undergraduate and graduate labs.
"I don't use virtualization in the traditional sense of trying to save money," says Mather. "I do it for performance. Our goal is to give our 1,400 students the lab experience, but at a distance."
Mather has set up an elaborate desktop virtualization environment. He started several years ago by virtualizing three of the department's 18 Windows servers, ensuring that his staff isn't biting off more than it can chew. He has continued virtualizing servers in small batches. Today, all 18 machines are virtualized using Microsoft's Hyper-V technology, and a connection broker lets any student running a remote desktop client access those servers, whether they're in the lab or not.
As a result, the department's modest server farm can support up to 300 concurrent users accessing powerful applications such as the three-dimensional design program Autocad from locations all over campus--including classrooms, dorm rooms, libraries and cafeterias. A program called Diskeeper is used to optimize virtualization environments by constantly defragmenting files and consolidating disk space, enabling virtualized applications to run quickly and reliably, Mather says.
Eventually, Mather says he'd like to virtualize storage-intensive assets, such as the department's backup server. He is reluctant to do so until the department can afford a large enough storage area network. Meanwhile, he plans to virtualize his Microsoft Exchange environment within the year, whether or not a new SAN is in place. "Each virtualization project out there has different motivations and different objectives," says Mather. "But if performance is one of them, which it certainly always is, then this is a good, low-cost way to get closer to your goal."
Taking the First Step Toward Virtualization
Even huge, traditionally slow-to-change enterprises, such as those in the airline industry, are finding that consolidating their server assets enables them to move on to other developments, such as desktop virtualization, to realize further benefits. Continental's Anderson-Lehman says he hopes his team's efforts--which he says have been saving the airline $1.5 million annually in hardware, software, labor, implementation and operational costs--are enough to convince a merged United-Continental organization to take that success to the next level.
"The next logical step is to let someone else do the virtualization for me, and then I can move my systems into their virtual space," says Anderson-Lehman. "That's the logical evolution toward cloud computing."
The long-term potential of virtualization speaks to an issue that transcends server spread, budget concerns and any other barriers that might get in the way of a virtualization investment: The exponential growth of data is causing IT environments to burst at the seams. Says Storage and ServerIO Group's Schulz: "There is no such thing as a data recession."


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Beware, "New Moon" fans: Hackers are taking advantage of the latest "Twilight" movie to try and bite into your computer. And that can really suck.
Much like other recent "celebrity" hackings, bad guys on the Web are trying to lure Twilighters with videos and Web links. The payoff is not the promised movie clips but rather "malware" -- hostile software code that lets hackers install messes onto your computer's hard drive. The resulting computer infections can cost big bucks to clean up. The most common links promise something called a "streamviewer."
San Francisco-based virus fighter PC Tools says depending on the day (or the hacker), all sorts of things might be pumped into your machine to gum things up. "The payload is changing all the time," says PC Tools executive Michael Greene.
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Best advice? Slow down before clicking on "Twilight-"related links like "Robert Pattinson," and "Stephenie Meyer," especially if they come from sites you don't know and trust or via unknown email addresses. PC Tools also suggests checking your antivirus software to make sure it's up to date.
Enjoy the movie, and all the endless websites dedicated to it. But remember: There are bad guys out there, and they don't wait until after dark to attack.


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Collate was developed by Peter Robinson for the collation, analysis and publication of texts preserved in multiple witnesses. The current version of the software can handle up to 2000 versions of a different text. Collate has a regularization tool which can be used to produce a file containing word equivalences without altering the original transcription files. The software uses a light tagging system which can, at a later stage, be converted to XML. Collate can produce output files for paper-based editions or electronic publications. The following are examples of projects which are currently using Collate:
- Canterbury Tales Project, directed by Peter Robinson.
- Monarchia Project, directed by Prue James.
- Commedia Project, directed by Prue James.
- Cancioneros Project, directed by Dorothy Severin.
- Nestle-Aland 28 (the electronic version of the Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament), based at the Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung INTF.
- Parzival Project, directed by Michael Stolz
Source(s): http://arts-itsee.bham.ac.uk/itseeweb/software/collate/


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For months now, there's been speculation about where Google Fiber would expand beyond Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri and their immediate surrounding areas.
Last year, the company announced plans to move into KC-adjacent small cities, including Westwood, Kansas and others. Google currently lists a total of five cities that will get Google Fiber.
There is also a test site near Stanford University in California, but Google doesn't count that on its own list. Confusingly, Google also lists "Kansas City North, MO" and "Kansas City South, MO." North Kansas City is a city, but Google shows a shaded area on its map as being far broader than just that small city of 4,000 people. Kansas City South, meanwhile, is a region in the south end of KCMO, but not a city in its own right.
The sixth site will now come from just down the road, in Olathe, Kansas.
Late Tuesday evening, the City of Olathe unanimously approved a measure that will bring gigabit service to the city. As usual, Google's rollout is dependent on signups in given neighborhoods, or as the company dubs them, "fiberhoods."
"Olathe residents have embraced innovation and technology like few others," said Mayor Michael Copeland in a statement posted to the city's website. "Our vibrant community spirit is truly second to none and I'm pleased Google recognized this in choosing Olathe as the largest Johnson County city in which to invest thus far."
Olathe is the county seat of Johnson County, and with its population of about 125,000, it's the fifth-most populous city in the state. In 2008, CNN ranked it as #11 on its list of "100 Best Cities to Live in the United States."
"We still have a lot of planning and engineering work to do before we're ready to bring Fiber to Olathe," wrote Rachel Hack, community manager of Google Fiber on a company blog on Tuesday evening. "Once we get those processes underway, we'll be able to announce more about pre-registration and construction timing. We'll be sure to publish an update as soon as we have it. This announcement doesn't change our published construction schedule for eligible homes in Kansas City, Kan. and Central Kansas City, Mo."
"Many thanks to the Olathe City Council and the people of Olathe for helping to make this happen," Hack continued. "Hopefully, this is the first of several announcements that we'll be able to make about bringing Google Fiber to additional cities in the KC metro area; so stay tuned."
(NOTE: Thanks to Ars reader Kevin Carlyle for pointing out our earlier error stating that Olathe would be the third Google Fiber city.)


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Your clients may have mastered the more obvious points of the new 3.8% tax on investment income that became effective this year, but with this complicated set of tax rules, what they do not know can hurt them. The tax is full of hidden traps that can leave your clients with a tax bill that is much higher than expected. The rules regarding the tax's application to passive activity income can be some of the most surprising and confusing; well-diversified clients will need your advice in determining whether they are in danger of being caught up in the investment income tax's clutches.
The New Investment Income Tax Defined
The 3.8% investment income tax is a tax on unearned income that became effective for tax years beginning in 2013. It affects more affluent clients, meaning taxpayers with adjusted gross income (AGI) of more than $200,000 for single filers or $250,000 for married couples filing jointly. This is an additional tax, meaning that it is added on to any other tax that is imposed on the income at issue.
Unearned income is income received from investments such as stocks, bonds and mutual funds. Net investment income includes dividends and interest received through investment in these vehicles but can also apply to income derived from a trust or, in some cases, the sale of a primary residence.
Passive Activities Defined
Under the proposed regulations, investment income that is subject to the 3.8% tax includes all income that is derived from passive activities. In many cases, your clients' ownership interests in partnerships or S corporations may fall within this category, even if the allocations that your client receives based on such ownership represent income that the entity earned through its normal operations.
According to the IRS, a passive activity is any activity (in the context of a trade or business) in which the taxpayer does not materially participate. While there are several tests that are used to determine whether material participation is present, generally the client would have to be actively involved in the business on a regular and continuous basis to support a finding that the activity was not passive.
Many of the tests center upon the number of hours that the taxpayer devotes to the activity annually, or this number of hours relative to the hours spent by others engaged in the same business. A traditional facts and circumstances test is also often applied.
If the activity is found to be passive, all of the income derived from the activity will be subject to the additional 3.8% tax, assuming the client's AGI exceeds the threshold levels.
The New Tax, Trusts and Passive Activities
In the case of a trust that owns interests in a pass-through entity, such as an S corp, the activities of the trustee are relevant in determining whether the investment is active or passive.
Recently, the IRS issued private letter ruling 201317010, in which it found that a trustee's participation in a business in which the trust owned interests was not material even though the trustee was president of the company at issue. This was because the IRS determined that the trustee was participating in the company in his role as an employee and not in his role as a fiduciary of the trust. Further, the IRS found that the trustee's activities were not "regular, continuous and substantial."
This PLR casts doubt on whether trusts that hold interests in pass-through entities will be able to escape the investment income tax even if the trustee holds a position within that entity.
Clients have been well prepared for the inevitability of the new investment income tax as it applies to income derived from their traditional investment-type vehicles. However, for this year and beyond, clients now need to be made aware of the repercussions of the new tax as it applies to income derived from passive activities, whether directly or through a trust.
For additional coverage of this issue and similar ones, we invite you to sign up with AdvisorOne's Summit Business Media partner, National Underwriter Advanced Markets, for a free trial.
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EVERY DAY we are revealing the exciting new team of bloggers lined up for this website, www.anglersmail.co.uk
Very soon (from Monday, July 30) we'll be having live blogs, one a day, covering the whole spectrum for modern coarse angling.
Here, Angler's Mail gives a warm welcome here to top carp brand Korda, who will be part of our new Carp Blog line-up. Their intro was written by their media man James Anderson.
Read on, and check back for more bloggers' introductions, in their own words…
TEAM KORDA is one of the most popular carp-fishing companies in the world. Known to many as the people's company, Korda strives to give something back to the sport.
With a long list of huge carp-fishing names involved; such as Danny Fairbrass, Damian Clarke and Ali Hamidi, it's no wonder that the products ooze class and are held in such high regard.
Unlike many, Korda prides itself in interacting with the public. Social events such as Carp Academy, Carpfests and many more, give anglers the chance to talk, and often fish with, the stars.
The award winning, Sky Sports series, Thinking Tackle, continues to mesmerise its viewers with so much carpy information you can't fail to learn. And then there's the groundbreaking Underwater Series, which reveals all the sub-surface happenings in carp angling. They really are leading the way!
Starting from now, there will be a dedicated Korda blog within the new mix of bloggers here for Angler's Mail. Including info, hints and tips ours is one that cannot be missed. There will be snippets from anglers such as Danny Fairbrass, Ali Hamidi, Darrell Peck, Tom Dove, Dave Levy, Adam Penning plus the rest of the talented Korda Team – rig sequences, bait tips, fishing techniques, watercraft and so much more will be revealed.
You will hear all the latest catch reports by the team; from venues that don't always appear in print, making it the first port of call to see some monster carp from both home and abroad.
All the latest products will be exposed too; including guides on how to employ them into your fishing, plus unique video content. To live in the wonderful world of Korda, keep an eye on the Anglers Mail website.
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Hunters wanted
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i dont get it
That makes three
Y'know, it should be possible for The Hook to find an in-house cartoonist with talent and something worthwhile to convey, but this dog just can't hunt...
Never funny and rarely connects with anything that isn't totally tangential.
I think this is a lame attempt to invite hunters to somehow join bucks during their rutting season by strapping on antlers and running across highways; therefore risking being hit by a car, much like a buck does, when he's chasing a doe. Whatever, it's a really stupid anti-hunting cartoon.
This is weak, Linda.....Real weak.
Cartoonist wanted.
Srsly !
I'll draw up some cartoons if there could be a real position. The key to good cartooning is to draw many cartoons, and then pick the funniest. borrow good ideas from friends. Throw the other ones away.
Oh, not to replace Linda, but there could be more than one cartoon in the newspaper. There used to be one called "the city".


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5.3.13 - The Incredible Shrinking Small Businessman
Gold prices inched higher Friday amid bargain hunting and a weaker dollar. U.S. Gov revises jobs data upward, stocks rocket. Gold last traded at $1,470 an ounce. Silver last traded at $24.11 an ounce.
Self-Employed Americans At Record Low - EconomicCollapseBlog
The percentage of Americans that are working for themselves has never been lower in the history of the United States. Once upon a time, the United States was a paradise for entrepreneurs and small businesses, but now bureaucrats that dominate our society have created a system that absolutely eviscerates them.
At this point, only about 7 percent of non-farm workers are self-employed. That is depressingly low. We are not fostering a spirit of entrepreneurship in America today. In fact, we seem to be doing everything that we can to kill it off.
Joblessness: Keeping Up, Not Getting Ahead - NYTimes
The share of American adults with jobs has barely changed since 2010, hovering between 58.2 percent and 58.7 percent. This employment-to-population ratio stood at 58.6 percent in April. That is about four percentage points lower than the employment rate before the recession, a difference of roughly 10 million jobs. In other words, the United States economy is not getting any closer to recreating the jobs lost during the recession.
This lack of progress has been obscured by the steady decline of the high-profile unemployment rate, which continued in April. But the unemployment rate is easily misunderstood. The government counts as unemployed only those who are actively looking for new jobs. As people have given up, the unemployment rate has declined – not because more people are working, but because more people have stopped looking for work.
Rule - What Investors Should Do With Their Money Right Now- Wall Street Journal
At the president's news conference Tuesday, when a reporter wondered whether setbacks on gun control and the sequester suggested Mr. Obama was having problems pushing his second-term agenda, the president replied, "Well if you put it that way, Jonathan, maybe I should just pack up and go home."
Whoa, big fella. The presidency is a big game. We want you suited up and on the floor. That the presidency attracts individuals focused on Number One is no revelation. But it has always been possible that one of them would disappear so far into the ethers of ego that neither he nor anyone else would know where the country was going. In an all-media world, that's not good, and even dangerous.
Fed Keeps Interest Rates Low, Continues Bond Buying Program- CNBC
Arizona lawmakers pass bill making silver, gold legal tender - Reuters
U.S. economy enters another spring swoon-Market Watch
Down on Gold? Here's Why You Should Be Buying - CNBC
More: Swiss America Gold Market News
4.23.13 - Slow Global Growth, Physical Gold Sales Surge
Gold closes weaker on Tuesday amid bearish outside markets, chart consolidation. Stocks rise for third consecutive session. Gold last traded at $1,410 an ounce. Silver last traded at $22.86 an ounce.
The global economy is losing steam - CNN Money
Last week, the International Monetary Fund cut its outlook for global growth. They now believe the world economy will grow by only 3.3% in 2013, a prediction considered overly optimistic by other economists.
The Government's across-the-board spending cuts have only just begun, and will total $85 billion through September. They are expected to prevent the U.S. economy from growing beyond 2% this year.
After the flash crash in gold: Andy Xie - Market Watch
As quantitative easing continues to occur all over the world, such flash crashes will recur. There is a possibility that mass panics, resulting from these flash crashes, could change the trajectory of some of these economies.
According to Andy Xie, "Gold has bottomed. The recent price gyration is manufactured to benefit big speculators at the expense of gold buyers in emerging economies. Physical gold demand is from emerging economies, but the financial market resides in New York and London; it is a heavily manipulated market."
Physical gold sales surge as retail investors cash in - Mineweb
Usually, gold buyers do not go to the U.S. Mint due to their hefty premiums. However, Investors end up going to the U.S. Mint because "nobody else has any physical [gold} at a lower premium to spot (or any metal in inventory)."
The US Will Be Cyprused & We Will See $50,000 Gold - King World News
These statements are confirmation that Cyprus is the blueprint in the United States for coming financial failures. According to Sinclair, "when we take out these futures markets on a failure, gold is going to go $50,000."
More: Swiss America Gold Market News
4.22.13 - U.S. Government Rewriting Economic History
Physical gold prices rose for a fifth day to $1,425/oz. Monday amid bargain hunting and strong demand. Stocks up, home sales down. Gold last traded at $1,426 an ounce. Silver last traded at $23.44 an ounce.
HEDGE FUNDS BET GOLD PRICES WILL RISE - Marketwatch
Managed money traders raised their net "long" positioning, or bets prices will go higher, by 21,675 contracts to 68,662 contracts net long, according to Gene Arensberg, editor of the Got Gold Report. Managed money, which had recently built up a record short position in gold, covered 12,411 shorts to show a "still high" 54,025 contracts of short gold futures, he said.
DATA SHIFT TO LIFT US ECONOMY 3% - Financial Times
Millions of dollars of intangible assets will enter the gross domestic product of the world's largest economy in a revision aimed at capturing the changing nature of US output.
Brent Moulton, who manages the national accounts at the Bureau of Economic Analysis, told the Financial Times that "We are carrying these major changes all the way back in time – which for us means to 1929 – so we are essentially REWRITING ECONOMIC HISTORY."
GOLD AMBUSH AT THE COMEX CORRAL - 321Gold
In his article at Sharps Pixley, "Gold Crushed by 400 Tonnes of $20 billion of Selling on COMEX", former gold trader at NM Rothschilds & Sons and Credit Suisse, Ross Norman, describes how the ambush was carried out:
The gold futures markets opened in New York on Friday 12th April to a monumental 3.4 million ounces (100 tonnes) of gold selling of the June futures contract (see below) in what proved to be only an opening shot. The selling took gold to the technically very important level of $1540 which was not only the low of 2012, it was also seen by many as the level which confirmed the ongoing bull run which dates back to 2000. In many traders minds it stood as a formidable support level... the line in the sand.
Two hours later the initial selling, rumored to have been routed through Merrill Lynch's floor team, by a rather more significant blast when the floor was hit by a further 10 million ounces of selling (300 tonnes) over the following 30 minutes of trading.
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TRANSFORMING EARTH DAY 2013 - Lowell Ponte, NewsMax
Even Earth Day's most heavily propagandized issue and leftist ideological litmus test — global warming — is losing its cutting edge among educated and informed people. Their computer models are wrong! And new research shows that carbon dioxide might not even be the most important greenhouse pollutant.
What America needs this Earth Day is separation of science and state. Politicized science that makes dishonest global warming claims to enrich and empower the government is destroying the credibility and legitimacy of science itself.
4.19.13 - Can't Keep a Good Man (or Metal) Down - Listen
Physical gold prices rose above $1,400/oz. Friday amid bargain hunting and strong demand. IBM sinks Dow. Gold last traded at $1,404 an ounce. Silver last traded at $23.26 an ounce.
Gold prices rose for a 4th day on Friday, but ended the week down 6%. Demand for physical gold has been growing since the speculative sell-off last Friday and Monday, which set the price back than $200 an ounce. But in life (and markets) you can't keep a good man (or metal) down for long.
Gold's recovery this week did not deter what our founders called the "friends of paper money" in the mass financial media from cheering their mis-perceived "death of gold" this week. Truth is, the vast majority of "experts" simply can't grasp the wisdom of owning physical gold.
Motley Fool adds, "The financial media know the real reason for the drop in gold price, they just don't want you to. What they don't want you to know is that there is no real reason that gold should be declining when we factor in all the reasons it rallied."
Kitco reports, "On April 16, Senior Managing Director of the Tocqueville Asset Management L.P. John Hathaway said that the total number of paper Comex contracts sold on Friday, April 12th, and Monday, April 15th, totaled 1 million contracts, exceeding global annual gold production by 12%. The attack succeeded when the technical support in the low $1500's/oz. easily gave way and led to waves of forced selling. The volume is without precedent and has all the characteristics of a panic liquidation driven by naked short selling."
Wise investors are cautiously buying the dip based on strong fundamentals, as articulated in featured commentaries from Craig Smith Gold Still the Buy of a Generation! and Sr. Broker Jim Carrillo Gold Bull Set to Rage: A glimpse into the past and future.
GOLD STANDARD NEWS DAILY News! - Swiss America is pleased to announce that starting next Monday, Nicole Lorenzi will take over as editor for our Gold Standard News Daily, as I turn my attention to developing new relationships to help broadcast our message of financial preparation ever further. Today will be the last of our daily 1-minute audio podcast as well. Please bookmark this page for the very latest Gold Market News Daily. Best! -db
7 REASONS WHY GOLD REMAINS THE BUY OF A GENERATION! - Craig R. Smith
GOLD BULL SET TO RAGE: A glimpse into the past and future - James Carrillo
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Word came down in stages this summer. First, the rumor that our long-exclusive planetary club was ready to expand—not only renewing Pluto's status, but adding three new members in the bargain. The world's astronomers seemed to be sending a message of inclusion: There's always room for one more.
Scratch that, they told us two weeks later. Never mind Charon and Ceres and Eris. And while you're at it, forget Pluto too. Our solar system, from henceforth, would include only eight full-fledged planets, not the nine we had all memorized in elementary school.
What happened? Why the dramatic reversal? Why did poor Pluto have to get the ax? Last month, as part of the 2006 Friedman Lecture Series in Astronomy, a panel of Penn State experts convened to take up these questions.
Truth is, said Darren Williams, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State Erie, Pluto was always a misfit—too small, too distant, and too eccentric in its orbit to be anything but an exception. Discovered almost by accident in 1930, the little anomaly was basically grandfathered in. Which was okay until the early 1990s, when advances in digital imagery allowed astronomers to see the first planetoid objects in the Kuiper Belt, a region of solar system out beyond Neptune's orbit.
Since 1992, over 800 of these objects have been noticed in the vicinity, each new discovery casting doubt on Pluto's privileged status. The last straw came in 2005, with the discovery of Eris, a Kuiper Belt object that is actually larger than old Number Nine.
Clearly, something had to be done. So, in August 2006, in Prague, the General Assembly of the International Astronomy Union (IAU) reconsidered Pluto's fate.
The process was anything but smooth, according to Mercedes Richards, professor of astonomy and astrophysics, who attended the meeting. A planet definition committee had been secretly deliberating since June. On the Assembly's first day, as astronomers gathered from 63 countries, the committee's report was leaked to the media. As a result, "There was a major uproar" among the rank-and-file members, Richards remembered. "As the kids would say, we had a hissy fit."
The committee's initial proposal was simple: A planet was any object orbiting a star that was large enough for its own gravity to make it "nearly round" in shape. (Nobody's perfect.) Astronomy graduate student Avi Mandell reviewed the advantages of this approach: "It makes it easy to assess a given object, just by looking at it," he said. "And it allows us to keep Pluto."
The disadvantages: Though the planets immediately added by this definition would be only three, there were 12 more likely candidates waiting in the wings. In fact, over 50 known objects might fit this definition. It would have opened the floodgates.
For the next week and a half, the issue was hotly debated, until finally a third criterion was agreed on. A planet, in addition to orbiting the Sun and being large enough to be round, has to have "cleared the neighborhood around its orbit," in the IAU's wording. As Mandell explained, "planets suck up most of the surrounding mass during their formation, leaving lots of little objects behind. This remaining stuff is then scattered" by the force of the planet's gravity, "and the orbit slowly gets cleared of debris."
"Since Pluto is found with hundreds of other objects in the Kuiper Belt, it clearly hadn't cleared its neighborhood," said Richards. So when the new definition passed overwhelmingly on the assembly's final day, it was a done deal. Pluto was a journeyman pitcher sent down to the minors: a dwarf planet.
The decision was controversial, to be sure. Even sad, Mandell allowed. But "It provides a natural dividing line," he said. "On one side are the planets, and on the other are the asteroids, dwarf planets, and Kuiper Belt objects. There's nothing in between."
Sentiment aside, Richards added, "There's no going back for Pluto. We're discovering more and more of these objects out in the Kuiper Belt every day."
To her, the change in Pluto's status—and the discussion that surrounds it—is cause for celebration. "It shows that astronomy is alive, and our solar system is alive, and the future is wide open."
"What is a Planet? Why not Pluto?," an event in the 2006 Friedman Lecture Series in Astronomy at Penn State, took place at University Park on November 7. Panel members from the astronomy and astrophysics department in the Eberly College of Science included assistant professor Kevin Luhman, Ph.D.; doctoral student Avi Mandell, B.A.; lecturer and outreach fellow Chris Palma, Ph.D.; professor Mercedes Richards, Ph.D., email@example.com; and from Penn State Erie, associate professor Darren Williams, Ph.D., email@example.com.


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Can you run:sudo updatedbthen post the output fromCode: [Select]locate xorg.confas catalyst doesn't apper to have created one.
Seems to me this is JUST a driver issue .. you STILL don't have an xorg.conf file in the right location.is there an option in the catalyst control center to create one .. or "save settings" or similar ?if not, we'll try manually creating one.
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Great story! Its so interesting to see how people came up with names and the stories we find behind litle things that we find, if we dig deep enough.ReplyDelete
hmmmm very interesting. Also coincidence, I'm posting soon about my girl's names and asking other's how they chose their children's names.ReplyDelete
It is interesting what influences people when they name their children. Cosmetic or famous names, etc.
I guess the Bessie Lee line wouldn't have made it long in New York. haha.
That is really amazing that there was still a tube of lipstick in with that stuff.
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Students are an important component of the Society for Historical Archaeology, representing the future of the organization. The Society provides opportunities for professional growth for students in historical archaeology. Each year, the Kathleen Kirk Gilmore Dissertation Award Subcommittee honors a student who makes an outstanding contribution to historical archaeology. In her dissertation Change and the Era of the Atlantic Trade: Commerce and Interaction in the Niumi Commercial Center (The Gambia), this year's winner, Dr. Liza Gijanto, takes a diachronic look at the impact of the Atlantic trade on the Gambia River. Dr. Gijanto completed her dissertation at Syracuse University, under the direction of Christopher DeCorse. To highlight her contributions and learn more about her work, I interviewed Dr. Gijanto on behalf of the Academic and Professional Training Student Sub-committee. Via email she answered some questions, explaining her perspective and sharing her experiences with current students.
What is your dissertation topic?
My research focuses on the nature of the impact of the Atlantic trade on the coastal Gambian polity of Niumi from the late 17th into the early 19th century. Niumi was the first point of contact for European powers trading along the river and was the Atlantic era commercial center. I examine local responses to increased commerce on the Gambia River tied to the opening of trans-Atlantic trade, situated in a long-term study comparing this period to pre-Atlantic and colonial settings. The Atlantic trade created a multi-ethnic setting where Mande, European, and Luso-African traders interacted on a daily basis through social, political, and economic exchanges. My approach incorporates theories of everyday life, value, and taste examining day-to-day happenings within the scope of larger events such as the opening and closing of the Atlantic trade.
When did you first become interested in your topic and why?
As an undergraduate, I became interested in the Atlantic world through my history courses, and Africa after taking a historical archaeology course taught by Carmel Schrire. I decided that I wanted to work in West Africa on this period, but I did not know exactly where until my master's advisor Kevin MacDonald was driving me to the airport to go to Syracuse to begin my Ph.D. He asked if I had decided on an area yet for my dissertation, and I told him that I had promised my mom I would only go places that were not dangerous. He said, "I know the perfect place no one is working in The Gambia." So I went, and thus far it has worked out well.
How do you feel your work is relevant to contemporary communities?
Before I began reading academic and historical accounts of The Gambia, all I really knew about it was from Alex Haley's novel Roots. When I first got there, I was not prepared for how engrained this story had become in the Gambian national identity, and specifically in Juffure and Albreda where I was living and working. Juffure is the village where Kunta Kinte is from in the novel. From the beginning, my work necessarily took on a heritage/community engagement aspect independent of my dissertation. I was able to help with public education days, and set up an exhibit for the Roots Homecoming Festival. I have also assisted in site preservation and interpretative efforts at James Island and in the capital of Banjul, which was established by the British to block the slave trade. The Gambia has had a unique relationship with the broader Atlantic World and the country has had a number of opportunities to really develop their sites, and present this past for heritage tourists. I am lucky that my research can be of use in this area, and that the National Centre for Arts and Culture in The Gambia has been receptive of my findings and involved me in many of their own projects.
What tips do you have for students identifying, working on, and finishing research?
This is really important. I received really great guidance from my undergraduate professors regarding graduate school. I was encouraged to take a year off working in CRM before going to graduate school and my various bosses and co-workers also influenced my decisions about projects and graduate school. I think it is important for anyone considering going into a Ph.D. program to first take some time off and work in the real world on a number of CRM projects. Everything I learned about managing a site, designing paperwork, all the basic management skills you do not get in a field school I got from CRM. I was hired as a staff member for the Feltville Archaeology Field School run by Matt Tomaso in Union, New Jersey and got to see the other side of a field school before taking on all the responsibility of its management myself. He really emphasized teaching skills students would need for CRM and involving all staff and students in all levels of the project. I do not think I could have gone out and excavated the sites I did and manage a local crew as well as field schools students in The Gambia without this experience. It is the kind of learning you cannot get in graduate school, but should have before starting your own project.
The other important thing to know early on is if you even need to excavate to answer your research question. There are so many collections housed in facilities in the US and abroad that could provide some really interesting information. I have a number of friends that have gone this route, and their projects are just as exciting and relevant as those that undertake excavation. I think there is a misconception that everyone has to find "their" site in order to be successful, but that is not the case anymore. What you really need is experience on a range of sites.
It is easy to be overwhelmed by the research process, and especially writing the actual dissertation. I had a supportive and engaged advisor that made the process flow more smoothly. In graduate school your relationship with and advisor and the faculty is crucial. In addition to this, having a strong cohort or group of graduate students at the same stage of the program with you is important. No one I know finished their dissertation at the exact time they planned or had a field experience that exactly matched their proposal. Things happen, and you often end up going to Plan C. If you have friends to help you figure things out who are going through the same thing, the process is a bit more bearable and even enjoyable.
What are current or future plans for your work?
I began working at a trading site on the south bank of the river in 2010 in order to gain a broader understanding of the trade on the river outside the formal commercial center. I am also working in the Gambian capital Banjul to help prepare for the city's 200th anniversary in 2016.
What impacts do you foresee or hope for?
One of my goals is to assist the Gambian National Center for Arts and Culture to develop archaeological protocol and to find and train Gambians to implement this. As of now there are no Gambian archaeologists.
For my research, I hope that this works adds to our understanding of the Atlantic experience in West Africa. I consider my research to be part of African Atlantic studies and Atlantic studies more broadly, not just focused one West Africa or The Gambia. I hope this work proves useful for those working with Diaspora communities as well.
Is there anyone who you did not get a chance to thank who you would like to now?
I have had a really great transition from graduate school into a tenure-track position that would not have been possible without the continued help of my advisors, and the support of my new colleagues.
Dr. Gijanto is a faculty member at St. Mary's College of Maryland. Non-student members of the SHA may nominate members who have defended their dissertations and received their PhDs within approximately three years of the award. Recent winners of the dissertation award include Gerard Chouin (2011), Meredith Lynn (2010), and Neil L. Norman (2009). To learn more, visit the SHA home page.


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When Brianna Cano and her father Robert went on a family vacation to Ecuador a few years ago, they never thought they would come back with an idea for starting their own restaurant.
While in South America, they tried a "twisted" potato, carved out, served on a skewer and decked with a variety of spices and toppings like salt, lemon pepper and Sriracha sauce.
"We thought the burger and potato would be a phenomenal mix," Brianna said. "When we got back, we thought this could work."
With her father's experience in the catering business, he is the founder of RCano Events Catering Company, and careful planning, the two launched Twist and Smash'd, a fast and casual burger joint at 72-06 Austin St. in Forest Hills.
Their selection of customizable burgers are small, but they pack a punch as they are made with 100 percent premium natural Black Angus beef and served on a miniature potato bun or whole-wheat wrap.
Along with serving their signature twisted potatoes, the new restaurant has also received rave reviews for its chicken and waffles, truffle popcorn and "Tossed and Smash'd Salads."
Sunnyside native Kelly O'Neill brought her family to the restaurant last week.
"It's pretty good," said O'Neill, a blogger for Mommy Poppins. "We travel everywhere to eat in Queens, so we will definitely come back."
Twist and Smash'd had their soft opening on Black Friday, however when the customers kept coming back for more Brianna said they decided to just stay open.
"The whole family has been really involved in getting this restaurant off the ground," Brianna said.
She added that the restaurant uses biodegradable cups and supplies as they practice composting and recycling on site.
"We're trying to give back to the environment by making this a green establishment," she said.
Brianna and her family live in Franklin Square, however when they were scouting out locations, she said there was no other place she would rather be than on Austin Street.
"There's great traffic from the LIRR, as well as the subways and it just seemed like they needed a burger place around here," she said. "It is flooded with people and they aren't heavily populated with restaurants, so we thought it would be a great opportunity."
Loretta Volpe, owner of GMLV public relations agency, taught Brianna at Pace University and is now involved in helping promote the new restaurant.
Together, Brianna and Volpe studied the neighborhood for foot traffic before settling on the location.
"As soon as she brought this to me I knew we had to work together on this because she was a great student," Volpe said.


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An awful lot of natural maps
There are a bunch of natural (in both senses) maps we can consider now. Some look all but tautological over , and we may have used them in the past without comment. In the enriched context, though, we should go over them.
- The family of arrows is extraordinarily -natural exactly when is -natural.
- For a -functor , the map is natural in both and .
- Similarly, if is a -functor, then is -natural. And it's also natural in .
- In particular, is natural in all three variables.
- Putting together naturalities 1 and 4 tells us that for a morphism , the transformation is natural.
- The "evaluation" is natural in both variables.
- Since we built compositions from evaluations and the closure adjunction, the arrow is natural in all variables.
- The identity functor on has an identity natural transformation, so by naturality 1 we see that is natural.
- All the monoidal structural isomorphisms — , , , and — are natural in all variables.
- We can start with and hit it with to get . Then we can evaluate to get . This is an isomorphism we call , corresponding to the adjunction , and it's natural in all variables.
- We can compose the following arrows:
and we get the "coevaluation" — the counit of the closure adjunction. And thus the coevaluation is -natural in all variables.
- We can compose the coevaluation , and then use the right unit isomorphism to get a -natural isomorphism .
- In general, a family is -natural in any of its variables if the corresponding variables are natural in
Whew. That's a mouthful. It can be instructive to sit down and try to interpret some of these in the context of categories enriched over , so when you recover I'd advise taking a look at that.


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The wise Dr. Seuss asks "Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head? Did you ever milk this kind of cow?" He then goes on to say, "If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good."
I totally agree - fun is good. I have yet to fly a kite in bed, walk with ten cats on my head, or milk any cow (though, i remain skeptical that walking with ten cats on your head could be considered fun, as I'm pretty sure the result would be a flurry of biting and scratching). But we did have pasta for breakfast. And that was fun. Therefore it was good!
I worry that it appears that we have a kale obsession. This is not the case. I promise! I just happened to have a ridiculous amount of the stuff around and wanted to use it up. So I made this.
For the pesto:
3 cloves garlic
1/2 cup toasted walnuts
4 cups chopped kale
1/2 cup olive oil
zest and juice from 1 lemon
smoked sea salt, to taste
freshly ground black pepper
For the breakfast bowls:
kale pesto (about 2 tablespoons per bowl) (I made this night before I wanted to use it)
cooked spaghetti (I cooked it the night before to help speed things along for the morning, you probably want about 1/2 cup -1 cup per bowl)
egg yolks (1 per bowl)
slices of bacon (1 per bowl)
chopped parsley (about a tablespoon per bowl)
grated Parmesan (about a tablespoon per bowl)
To make the pesto, place garlic, walnuts, lemon zest, and kale in the bowl of a food processor. Pulse. Slowly pour in the olive oil and lemon juice while the food processor is still running. Adjust salt and pepper to taste, then refrigerate.
Place cooked and heated pasta in each serving bowl.
Fry up bacon slices on a griddle over medium heat. Once both sides have crisped, remove from griddle and place on a paper towel. Chop. In a skillet (I used my trusty cast iron skillet) over medium heat, fry the egg yolk. It will only take about 30 seconds to a minute. You want it to be warm, but still runny.
For each bowl, toss the pasta with the pesto. Then top with fried egg yolk, chopped bacon, chopped parsley, and grated Parmesan.


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State College Crop Mobs to host two volunteer events on June 14 at local farms
State College Crop Mobs to host two volunteer events on June 14 at local farms
Crop Mobs, a project started by a small group of Penn State students in the fall of 2013, will host two unique volunteer opportunities on Saturday, June 14. Plowshare Produce CSA will host a crop mob from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, and The Piper's Peck will host volunteers from 1 to 6 p.m. in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania.
Crop Mobs aims to join those who grow our food and the community in a way that is always learning, growing and sharing. A "mob" heads out to a farm to help with a normally laborious and time-consuming project. In-turn, the volunteers learn from the farmer by shared stories about life on the farm and the practices they are integrating to work with the ecosystems around them, as well as a communal meal supplemented with fresh products straight from the farm.
The June 14 project to be completed at Plowshare Produce involves thinning parsnip and carrot beds, an excellent opportunity for conversation and learning about sustainable agriculture. The Piper's Peck crop mob will feature planting a pollinator garden and learning about the business end of the farm's products.
"It was a great experience," said a volunteer from an April mob held at Edenview Farm. "The farmer showed us around his land and taught us about farming. We helped him plant onions and learned about vegetable planting as well as enjoyed a delicious lunch."
Volunteers are asked to register online for both the Plowshare Produce and Piper's Peck crop mobs. Community members as well as students and faculty are encouraged to participate; no previous farming experience is required.
"My hope is that students, faculty and community members alike feel like they are a part of building this community centered around something so essential and enriching: sustainable agriculture and supporting local foods," said Emily Pennock, a member of the Crop Mobs team.
For more information about Crop Mobs, visit: http://statecollegecropmobs.wix.com/cropmobs
Crop Mobs is a student project funded by Penn State Sustainability Institute's Reinvention Fund. For more information about the Reinvention Fund or sustainability at Penn State, visit http://www.sustainability.psu.edu.


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A nasty cold snap has descended on the Eastern Seaboard and it's not going to get any better, if the meteorologists are right. Expect even colder weather over night and strong winds on Thursday.
Here's what NBC New York is saying:
The high Wednesday was 19, and for the evening commute, expect it to feel like about 6 degrees. When you wake up on Thursday, there won't be any relief in sight -- the morning will kick off with a real-feel temp of 2 degrees.
Highs will go back up into the 20s on Thursday, but winds will be stronger, so it's still going to feel brutally cold.
Outside of NYC, temperatures are even colder and more than a foot of snow is supposed to fall as lake-effect snow blankets the region.
The temperatures are 10 to 15 degrees below mid-winter averages, the National Weather Service says. These aren't record lows, but they can be dangerous, so make sure to cover up your hands and head when headed outside. At least it's not snowing. Things will warm up over the weekend, possibly reaching 50 degrees a week from now.


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Nice review, but just a little point...
"A reasonable attempt to follow up on a genuine masterpiece"
Hmm. I would argue that a very talented team spending the last 2 years and a small fortune on developing a sequel is anything but a "reasonable attempt". I'm sure a massive amount of effort was put into the game with every intention of making it as good or better than the original.
A "reasonable attempt" is when several guys spend a couple of months rehashing the original in their lunch hour. If the game falls short of expectations then can I suggest the words "valiant attempt" would be more accurate given the huge effort that was actually put into the sequel?
BTW, I have no connections to the developers, I just couldn't understand why a company would only make a reasonable attempt at a sequel given the massive costs involved.


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By Nathan WoodhamNorth Lake News-Register Editor-in-Chief
"The IRS is not going to contact you by phone," said Anna Sabeti, a North Lake College adjunct professor in the math and science department and recent victim of a series of phone scams.
Claiming they were from the Internal Revenue Service, the fraudulent caller told Sabeti that she had given them deceptive information and they were filing a lawsuit against her.
According to CNBC, there have been approximately 290,000 reported fraudulent contacts made since October 2013 involving 3,000 victims who collectively paid more than $14 million as a result of the scams.
"They have your first and last name," said Sabeti. "To confirm you are the right person, they ask for your address, but they don't actually know your address. That's the first sign it's a scam."
The scammers give victims the option of accepting the nonexistent lawsuit or paying a certain amount of money while they are still on the phone, Sabeti said.
IRS Acting Commissioner Danny Werfel promises the IRS will never ask for a credit card number over the phone, but according to Sabeti, the scammers never bothered asking for a credit card.
"They tell you they can't accept credit card information," she said. "And the only thing the courts are accepting are Apple iTunes gift cards. They tell you not to hang up or you will lose your chance and they are going to file the lawsuit against you, and they ask you to go to a CVS Pharmacy and buy an iTunes card."
By asking for gift cards, scam artists prevent the possibility of being tracked through credit card history. They can also trick caller I.D. to make it look like it is coming from the IRS toll-free number. Diabolical methods like this make it difficult for law enforcement to catch them.
The IRS's official website warns against the persuasive nature of the calls, stating, "Scammers use fake names and IRS badge numbers. They generally use common names and surnames to identify themselves. Scammers may also be able to recite the last four digits of a victim's Social Security number."
As for Sabeti, she plans to share information about the scam with as many people as possible.
"I still have their number," said Sabeti. "I'm actually planning to go through this conversation again, record it and put it online."
The scam will target anyone but focuses on recent immigrants. International students should take the proper steps to protect themselves and understand that if they have an issue with the IRS concerning taxes, they will be contacted primarily via mail, not through a telephone call.
"Be aware of the day that they call you," said Sabeti, "The IRS will never contact you on a Sunday. The best thing to do if you are getting a phone call from the IRS is to hang up the phone and call them directly."
If you have been the victim of an attempted scam, you can report it by calling the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration at 800-366-4484, or visit the official website at


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I have added high quality photos of Ed from 2018 to the image gallery. Sorry for the lack of updates! We've both been pretty busy the last couple of months.
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I have added high quality photos of Ed from 2018 to the image gallery. Sorry for the lack of updates! We've both been pretty busy the last couple of months.
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I have finished adding the rest of the missing events fro 2017 to the image gallery. Here's hoping to more of Ed in 2018!
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I have added some photos that were missing from 2017 events. We are still missing a few and those will be added as soon as we can get access to them.
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It's been a minute since Ed Sheeran has done any of the American Holiday radio shows. but the time has come! 99.7 Now in the bay area has announced that Ed will be apart of their 2017 Poptopia concert! Tickets will go on sale this Saturday (October 14) at 10AM PST! Ticket will be available for purchase via ticketmaster.com. Other acts performing include Taylor Swift, The Chainsmokers, Fifth Harmony, Logic, Niall Horan, Khalid & Dua Lipa! This is sure to be a fantastic show. Good luck with all your ticket purchases. 🙂
Ed has officially announced his 2018 Stadium tour dates that will hit a number of cities over August, September & October of next year. Be sure to sign up for the fan presale to help your odds in getting tickets!
August 18 – Pasadena, California (Rose Bowl)
August 25 – Seattle, Washington (Centurylink Field)
August 30 – Toronto, Ontario CA (Rogers Centre)
September 06 – St. Louis, Missouri (Busch Stadium)
September 15 – Foxboro, Massachusetts (Gillette Stadium)
September 22 – East Rutherford, New Jersey (Metlife Stadium)
September 27 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Lincoln Financial Field)
October 13 – Kansas City, Missouri (Arrowhead Stadium)
October 17 – Fargo, North Dakota (Fargodome)
October 20 – Minneapolis, Minnesota (US Bank Stadium)
October 27 – Dallas, Texas (AT&T Stadium)
October 31 – New Orleans, Louisiana (Mercedes-Benz Superdome)
November 03 – Houston, Texas (Minute Maid Park)
November 07 – Tampa, Florida (Raymond James Stadium)
November 10 – Atlanta, Georgia (Mercedes-Benz Stadium)
I have added a little over 60 images of Ed from tonight's appearance at the VMA's. Please bear with us as we fill in the other missing events!
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The singer talks canceling a week of studio time to play a Lannister soldier and why he thought his character would die on GoT.
HBO: How did you get involved?
Ed Sheeran: I was on tour with Snow Patrol in 2012, and I think the first season had just come out. Gary Lightbody [Snow Patrol's lead singer] said, "Watch the show! I'm going to guest star on it." As soon as I watched it, I was like, "Can you make me an extra at some point?" So Gary put in the word for me then, and I got an email for this season. I had a week of studio scheduled, and I just cancelled it to come and film.
HBO: What's it like to guest star on Game of Thrones?
Ed Sheeran: The overall experience was good. I like the armor. It's very, very cold. It was 21℉, so there's not a lot of warmth.
HBO: Do you know the story behind the song featured in your cameo?
Ed Sheeran: This song was in the book. It's [Symon Silver Tongue] singing to Tyrion when he and Shae are doing their thing.
HBO: What was it like working with Maisie Williams?
Ed Sheeran: It's cool to see Maisie get into character. I think people expect her to be Arya Stark, but she's just a sweet, smiley person. When I first got the scene and saw I was a Lannister soldier and playing opposite Maisie, I just assumed we'd all get killed at the end. I think the underlying theme is ‒ as in any war ‒ the soldiers are just people. We are young boys who don't have qualms with anyone. We're doing what we're told, and I think Arya realizes the human side of that. She can just chill, have some food and crack some jokes.
He rode through the streets of the city,
down from his hill on high,
O'er the wynds and the steps and the cobbles,
he rode to a woman's sigh.
For she was his secret treasure,
she was his shame and his bliss.
And a chain and a keep are nothing,
compared to a woman's kiss.
For hands of gold are always cold,
but a woman's hands are warm…
Updated production information has allowed for an additional 3,000 tickets per night to be released across the four Melbourne concerts, with new tickets available in both General Admission Front and General Admission Rear for each show.
These tickets will go on sale Monday July 17th at 11am AEST and should be available for purchase via ticketmaster
There is a four ticket limit per show per purchaser.
Ed Sheeran stopped by the plaza today to perform as part of the Citi Concert Series. Thanks to our friend Emily we've added some new photos from the performance to our photo gallery. If you'd like to watch the performances check out today.com/concertseries


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