The IRS has had my passport for 120 days, and I haven't gotten it back. When I call them, they ask me to wait. I have to go somewhere soon and my visa status needs to be changed too. What should I do? Will they give me letter saying they have lost it so that I can apply for the new one?   I have asked them about this several times and every time they reply saying "I'm sorry ma'am but we can not do anything in this matter" and when I ask them to give me the location or phone number of the IRS office in Austin, they say "We cannot do that."
I have filed my 2012 tax return jointly with my wife, along with my wife's ITIN application, back in late March.  In April, I got a letter for IRS ITIN department saying that we should send my wife's original passport to them. So we sent my wife's passport on May 15th. USPS tracking number confirmed that IRS received it on May 20th.  However, last week (end of June) we have received another letter from IRS ITIN department saying that our ITIN application has been rejected, rejected because we have not sent the original identification document that they requested!  Okay, let's put our tax return and ITIN aside. Where is my wife's passport? Right now my wife does not have her personal identification, nor proof of legal status in U.S. Could IRS have lost it?  I tried to call the IRS several times. One time I waited for 1 hour and 20 minutes to talk to a person, and that person said he has only 10 minutes to talk before he has to leave. He said they'll investigate and someone(?) will call us back soon, but never called back. I wrote them a letter, but no response. I tried calling several times more, but machine is saying 'sorry too many calls right now, we can't accept your call'.  What can I do?
Efficient list intersection algorithm Given two lists (not necessarily sorted), what is the most efficient non-recursive algorithm to find the intersection of those lists? What counter balances gravity here? Lets consider a stone tied to one end of a massless and unstretchable string... Now if i'll start rotating, it will form a conical pendulum &amp; then the equilibrium is achived when the pendulum attains horizontal circular motion.... Now to maintain that state we give a constant force to string.... Here, which force counterbalances gravity? Is it the torque due to applied force cancels out the torque due to gravity?  The angle θ changes from 0 to 90° Show that the set of all finite subsets of $\mathbb{N}$ is countable. Show that the set of all finite subsets of $\mathbb{N}$ is countable.   I'm not sure how to do this problem. I keep trying to think of an explicit formula for 1-1 correspondence like adding all the elements in each subset and sending that sum to itself in the natural numbers, but that wouldn't be 1-1 because, for example, the set {1,2,3} would send to 6 and so would the set {2,4}.  Multiplying all the elements in each subset and sending that product to itself in the natural numbers wouldn't work either since, for example, {2,3} would send to 5 and so would the set {1,5}. Any ideas? Why is Outlook 2010 Changing my Embedded Spreadsheet to a GIF? Years ago I figured out how to embed a spreadsheet in an Outlook email to automate a task I do regularly.  Whenever I want to send a new quote request I open an old email, tell Outlook I want to resend it, fill in the new values in my embedded spreadsheet and then send it off.  This method worked well for years.  After switching to a new computer however, I have found that when I open the latest emails I have sent, I cannot edit the embedded spreadsheet because Outlook interprets it now as a GIF.  Saved emails that I sent with the old computer however, still work fine - I can still open, edit and resend and Outlook interprets the embedded spreadsheet correctly.  I would like to figure out how to setup Outlook in the new PC correctly so that the embedded spreadsheet is interpreted correctly when the email is reopened. Some sort of security setting, maybe?  Any help anyone could provide would be appreciated.  Edit: I developed the spreadsheet originally in Excel. Then I went into Outlook, created a new email, did Insert->Object->Excel Spreadsheet. At that point I had a blank spreadsheet in my email. Then I copied and pasted the spreadsheet from Excel into the blank spreadsheet in Outlook and it worked perfectly (until this recent problem) I'm an idiot, I was writing an image to a USB drive using dd when instead of typing /dev/sdb I typed /dev/sdd and wrote the 135mb image to my 750gb External Hardrive full of files. Is there ANY possibility of recovering the files or did dd completely zero out the drive? Please help, as this is one of the lowest points of my life EVER.  dd finished writing the 135mb image in 5 seconds, so I didn't have a chance to stop it. By the time I knew what happened to was too late. The command was as follows:   sudo dd if=generic.img of=/dev/sdd bs=1M   EDIT2: The External Harddrive's filesystem was FAT32(I've had the drive for awhile and FAT32 was the most Universal FS at the time). I also have a 2TB drive I just got which I was planning on moving most of the files to from the 750gb, If needed I can use it to transfer the Recovered files to. Suppose $\int_{[a,b]}f=0,\text{ then }f(x)=0 \forall x\in[a,b]$ Let $a&lt;b$ be real numbers. Let $f:[a,b]\to\mathbb{R}$ be a continuous non-negative function. Suppose $\int_{[a,b]}f=0,\text{ then }f(x)=0 \forall x\in[a,b]$    Proof: Suppose for the sake of contradiction $\exists x_0\in[a,b] \text{ such that } f(x_0)= D&gt; 0$  Since the function is continuous at $x_0$, we have $$\forall \epsilon&gt;0, \exists \delta&gt;0 \text{ such that } |f(x)-f(x_0)|\leq\epsilon\text{ whenever } x\in[a,b]\cap(x_0-\delta,x_0+\delta)$$ choose $\delta=\delta_1$ such that $\epsilon=D/2$, then we can say: $$-D/2 \leq f(x)-f(x_0)\leq D/2$$ $$-D/2 \leq f(x) - D$$ $$f(x)\geq D/2&gt;0$$ This implies that $\int_{[a,b]\cap(x_0-\delta_1,x_0+\delta_1)}f &gt;0$  Now since $\int_{[a,b]} f = 0$. we have  $$\int_{[a,b]}f=\int_{[a,x_0-\delta_1]}f+ \int_{(x_0-\delta_1, x_0+\delta_1)} f + \int_{[x_0+\delta_1,b]}f=0$$ $$\int_{[a,x_0-\delta_1]}f+\int_{[x_0+\delta_1,b]}f&lt;-D/2,$$ but this is a contradiction since $f(x)\geq 0$ and hence $\int_{[a,x_0-\delta_1]}f+\int_{[x_0+\delta_1,b]}f\geq 0$  Is my proof correct? Suppose you have a physical . It is true that as amplitude increases, the period increases. Can we demonstrate this fact without explicitly finding the period (which is pretty involved and pretty messy) in:    an intuitive fashion,  rigorously? How can I bring STAG back if I have 100% completion? There's a couple of the Saintsbook challenges that require you to have STAG forces available to kill.  After you complete the game, however, the STAG forces are nowhere to be found.  I believe that you can fight a few more STAG forces if you replay the final mission, but I think my save is glitched, so that's not an option.    Is there any way post-game completion to bring STAG back?  I miss their much nicer tanks and VTOLs for hijacking :( How to distribute objects in a circular pattern on a surface (Radial Array, Polar Array) How can we connect a PHP script to MS Access (.mdb) file?  I tried by including following PHP code:  $db_path = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '\WebUpdate\\' . $file_name . '.mdb'; $cfg_dsn = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" . $db_path; $odbcconnect = odbc_connect($cfg_dsn, '', '');   But it failed and I received following error message:   Warning: odbc_connect() [function.odbc-connect]: SQL error: [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified, SQL state IM002 in SQLConnect in C:\web\WebUpdate\index.php on line 41 If $a \cdot a = 1$ then $a = 1$ or $a = -1$ Can we exempt downvoted accepted answers from getting the top spot? How to change specific values in a List How to redirect complete outgoing phone's traffic to a proxy server? How to remove desktop environments? I installed few environments that I wanted to try out on Ubuntu 12.04, but none of them worked at all. It could be that I installed them all at the same time, meaning the OS didn't get a chance to work everything out, but either way, they didn't work. I would now like to remove them.   The one's that I installed are Xubuntu/Xfce, Lubuntu/LXDE, Kubuntu/KDE, Fluxbox, OpenBox, cinnamon, and MATE. I installed them. Everything seemed to have been working properly until I actually tried to use the shells and nothing loaded at all. Except for Fluxbox, I think that one worked. I want to know of any way to repair or perhaps just remove the packages entirely. I might have already removed them because I did the apt-get remove command on all of them, but they were still in the list on the login screen. Graphics crop in guest welcome window I don't expect that any user should have noticed this, since only guests will see them.  Well, it seems that the Stack Overflow welcome splash, containing the basic info of the site, is cropped from the bottom.    Please don't mind the sides, I cropped them to fit on the screen. Just on the bottom is my concern. Sharing Open Source Python/ArcPy Code and Models for ArcGIS Desktop? I will be writing scripts for ArcGIS Desktop in Python with ArcPy.   Is there a community or open source project where code and models can be shared? Good books on "advanced" probabilities Please provide a mobile-optimized captcha page Exploring ocean depths: is pressure an issue? Should it be? An upcoming adventure will have the party exploring the depths of the ocean. Breathing underwater shouldn't be an issue for them, as there are both items and rituals to take care of that, however, I was wondering what to do about about pressure, since none of these options mention it. I'll have to split my question into two, since they are closely related.   Is pressure an issue in 4e adventures? Is it mentioned in any of the published material? Has it been ruled anywhere that options that enable water breathing also grant immunity to pressure? Should it be an issue? This is somewhat subjective, but I really am wondering what other people have done. Would it be unresonable to assume that these options grant immunity to pressure? Should the players work to find another solution?