Monday, 22 February 2010

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The new cyber-enforcement team is being given £4.3m over three years to focus on wholesale ugg boots these fraudulent emails, as well as on websites such as those that run scams where tickets sold for ­concerts, festivals, football matches and other events are either counterfeit or non-existent. It will also look at websites that dupe customers into making what appear to be bargain purchases, but where the consumer receives either nothing at all or counterfeit products, and will crack down on traders who try to hide their identities in order to avoid giving consumers redress.

Websites selling fake tickets for this summer's World Cup finals in South Africa are to become part of the focus of a new cyber-enforcement team set up by the government to crack down on internet and email scams.

Similar scams, including those online, currently cost three million UK consumers £3.5bn a year, according to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) and email is now the most common scam approach. An estimated 73% of adults have received a scam email in the past year.

"As they [the fraudsters] get more sophisticated, we need discount ugg boots to stay one step ahead," said the consumer minister, Kevin Brennan. "Football fans will spend good money travelling to South Africa to support England in this year's World Cup. I don't want fraudsters ruining fans' chances of enjoying this huge sporting event. Our enforcers will crack down on fake websites and stop people being ripped off by these criminals."

The team, which will be made up of trading standards enforcers in every region of England, Scotland and Wales, will use "sophisticated technology to gather evidence to a criminal standard" and will make test purchases from ­websites that it suspects of acting ­unlawfully.

The latest scam alert from discount ugg classic cardy boots the OFT comes just in time for Valentine's Day. It is warning people to be on their guard against "romance fraudsters" who target singles columns and dating websites to search for victims. These fraudsters create fictitious online profiles and send out unsolicited emails or letters, said the OFT, often with fake photographs, using the trust they build up to persuade their victims to part with large sums of money in frauds that can go on for years.

The government is setting up discount ugg classic tall boots a complaints register where people can notify others of online scams. This is expected to be in place by the end of the year

"We will trace the operators of ­websites and either take action or pass details to our international enforcement partners," said a spokesman for the OFT. "In certain circumstances, we will get websites taken down."

Last year, a number of websites claiming to sell tickets for the Reading, Leeds and V festivals – as well as the Beijing Olympics the previous year – shut down, leaving thousands of fans without tickets and significantly out of pocket.

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Saturday, 20 February 2010

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Friday, 19 February 2010

Gunn choir to perform annual extravaganza next week

"Lollipop, lollipop / Oh lolli lolli lolli" the treble choir began, their Wholesale Ugg boots and Converse sneakers shuffling on the classroom's hard floor. They twirled around, holding imaginary candy in their hands.

"Smile!" choir teacher Bill Liberatore called out. "Flirt with him! It's a song about a boy — he's very cute!"

On Tuesday and Wednesday, the Uggs and jeans will be replaced by saddle shoes and poodle skirts, as Gunn's choir students stage their annual February musical extravaganza. The students, along with 50 Gunn staff members and choirs from JLS and Terman middle schools, will perform "Heavenly Bandstand," which they describe as discount ugg boots a '50s musical valentine."

The show, written by playwright Nancy Hersage, tells the story of a high school student who falls asleep in class and dreams that she's visited by a celestial musician named Johnny Angel, who is desperate to return to Earth. To do so, he has to compete on an "American Bandstand"-style competition featuring '50s music.

"It's been a hard year at Gunn, and I think this show needed to be just fun, laughs and silly," Liberatore said.

The treble choir girls last week ran through "Rock Around the Clock" and "Tutti Frutti," preparing for a preview performance at the middle schools. "I love the idea of showing little kids the fun side of high school," Liberatore told the students. "All they're hearing right now is discount ugg classic tall boots what math lane are you in."

Gunn's choir was cool long before the TV show "Glee" hit the airwaves. Liberatore has been teaching the popular classes for 20 years, and this year has about 135 students enrolled.

In addition to more formal choral performances earlier in the year, and the musical in February, the choir students each year have the opportunity to go on a trip. Last year, the students went to Vienna and Prague, and this May will go to New York, discount ugg classic boots where they'll sing in a choral festival and see Broadway shows. Tickets sales from next week's performance will help pay for students who can't afford the trip.

Liberatore says his students are "all kinds of different kids ... athletes, drama kids. We become sort of our own community."

The diversity of the group is representative of Gunn, Liberatore said, where students are encouraged to try everything.

"It's totally fine if a kid is a football player and a choir singer," Liberatore said. "It's totally cool if a kid is on robotics and in the play. ... We don't make kids choose at Gunn."

Some students said they never really sang before.discount ugg bailey button boots Malik Gill, a 15-year-old sophomore, said he and his friends decided to join after seeing last year's musical.

"At first we were singing a lot of old music, and it was kind of boring, but this show is fun," Malik said.

On the other end of the spectrum, Shivani Rustagi, a 16-year-old junior, had been in her middle school's choir and joined Gunn's as a freshman. She said she likes meeting students with "completely different interests, but they're all together for this one thing."


 
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Thursday, 18 February 2010

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