P@SHA President Jehan Ara speaking at the Pakistan IT & ITES Sector Business Agenda launch event in October 2009. (photo: CIPE) CIPE has been supporting advocacy efforts of the Pakistan Software Houses Association (P@SHA)

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Public Hearing of E-Crime Law – P@SHA Advocacy Efforts Start Reaping Benefits

The Financial Times reports today that Ineos has postponed plans for an initial public offering. It says this “was one of a range of options that had been considered by the company to strengthen its balance sheet, which was burdened with more than €7bn ($10bn) of debt “

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INEOS postpones plans for IPO

Today’s Daily Angle comes from Martin Hutchinson of  Wikinvest Wire members MoneyMorning.com. You can read the full article on the Money Morning blog . Existing home sales surprised the markets by rising 7.4% to an annual rate of 6.54 million units in November, the highest since February 2007, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR)

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Don’t Be Fooled by the Housing Market’s False Bottom

Noozhawk caught up with Kristen Amyx, president of the Goleta Valley Chamber of Commerce , who was recently appointed chairwoman of the group for 2010. She explained what it has in store for the coming year.

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Chambers of Commerce Alliance Gets Down to Business – Noozhawk.com

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Not many Londoners can be happy as they grope through the frozen murkiness of the commute to their first days back at work after the winter break. Adding to their misery is London’s mayor, Boris Johnson, who has made their journey much more expensive with huge fare rises. By Alex Holland – The Samosa read more

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[analysis] No fare deal for London or Venezuela

As AFP notes : A BBC investigation has cast doubt on key evidence in the case against the Libyan convicted of blowing up a US jet over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988, the broadcaster said Wednesday. A tiny fragment of the timer allegedly used to blow up Pan Am flight 103 — crucial in linking Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi to the bomb — was not properly tested and was also unlikely to have survived the explosion, it said…

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Does Lockerbie Parallel 9/11?

[Editor: This is the third of a five-part series on virtualization and cloud topics from Ivo Dujmovic, an architect in our Applications Technology Integration group.] In my two previous articles, we announced the availability of our EBS Oracle VM (OVM) templates, and then announced the availability of the EBS Virtualization Kit.

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On Clouds and Virtualization in EBS Environments (OpenWorld 2009 Recap)

Downtown Winter Haven sparkles with new pavers, lighting and landscaping, a beautiful new library , a variety of great restaurants and a growing number of special shops. But quiet and little-noticed is an emerging technology sector anchored by a unique fiber optic crossroads and the USF Polytechnic technology accelerator

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Downtown’s Emerging Technology Hub …

A couple months ago, in a widely read FT op-ed , Nouriel Roubini warned that the “mother of all carry trades,” one funded in U.S. dollar denominated debt, could pump up asset bubbles around the world.

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RGE’s Wednesday Note – The Carry Trade in 2010

Last year I posted an entry calling attention to the weak evidence of an upward trend in the temperature data for Dublin. As we learned from the debates about climate data before the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, it is important for scientists to explore data that do not neatly fit their models. So I thought it would be worth adding another year to the material I posted last year

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Cool Dublin

January 6, 2010 (Housing Market Monitor) By Dean Baker January 6, 2010 Pending home sales in the Northeast and Midwest were down 25.7 percent. The National Association of Realtors reported that pending home sales fell 16.0 percent in November, hitting their lowest level since June. Remarkably, this decline appeared to surprise many analysts.

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Pending Home Sales Plunge in November, Exactly as Predicted

by Edward Hugh: Barcelona Not necessarily, but he is causing one hell of a fuss today. The Stark in question here is, of course, ECB Executive Board member Juergen Stark, who stated in an interview with the Italian Newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore that, in his opionion, the European Union would not help bail out Greece if the need were to arise. Certainly the initial reports of his statements sent shock waves round the globe

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Stark Raving Mad?

The report released today by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) on pending home sales shows that housing is down: Associated Press notes that the housing market may be headed for a “double-dip” downturn over the winter, and that the report “adds to worries industry is mostly propped up by government stimulus”. Remember that pending home sales figures are based on contracts which have been written, but have not yet closed. As NAR notes : The Pending Home Sales Index [is] a forward-looking indicator based on contracts signed …

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What Do the Pending Home Sale Numbers Mean?

Chambers of commerce in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties have announced a renewed partnership to collaborate on pro-business advocacy efforts at the state and local levels of government. Previously known as the Regional Legislative …

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Noozhawk.com – Local Chambers of Commerce Reorganize for 2010 …

I’ve earlier blogged about the slim lilelihood that Chinese immigrants are going to “colonize’ and take over the Russian Far East. In the final installment of a five-part Foreignm Policy/Slate series on China’s role in Russian border zones, Joshua Kucera suggests that the balance of power between the two countries is such that, rather than Chinese populating Russia, Russians are moving across the

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On Russian immigration to China and false common knowledge about demographics

Via Sallie James of Cato , I came across this story : Minnesota recently enacted a plan to tax electricity generated by carbon-intensive methods in North Dakota–specifically, a carbon fee of $4 to $34 per ton of CO2 emissions in addition to the normal cost of coal power. Naturally, North Dakota's utilities are none too happy about this development.

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Carbon Tariffs on Out-of-State Coal Energy

Slavery is almost over in Bolivia, yo. I mean life still sort of sucks for most of the Guarani people and it ain’t going to be easy in the next year or generation or two or whatever but can we just all take a deep breath and acknowledge that fucking race-based SLAVERY, which has existed in Bolivia since colonial times until like LAST YEAR, is just about gone now

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Why We Fight

Today, Paul Farrell quoted Barton Biggs as predicting the breakdown of civilization and anarchy: In his 2008 bestseller “Wealth, War and Wisdom” former Morgan Stanley research guru Barton Biggs warns us to prepare for a “breakdown of civilization … Your safe haven must be self-sufficient and capable of growing some kind of food … It should be well-stocked with seed, fertilizer, canned food, wine, medicine, clothes, etc ..

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Barton Biggs: 1 in 10 Chance of Anarchy in the U.S.

Here is a sample of headlines about Dick Cheney from the last 24 hours: Ron Paul slams Cheney: US ‘doing exactly what bin Laden planned’ Olbermann: Cheney ‘nothing more, nothing less’ than traitor [Congressman] Grayson: Did Satan write Cheney’s book introduction? Dick Cheney’s Role in Al Qaeda’s Yemeni Resurgence Is Cheney really that bad? To get beneath the surface of the headlines to find out, I am re-posting a roundup of Cheney’s background which I first published in February 2006 (slightly updated).

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Is Dick Cheney Really That Bad?

The 1990s was the worst that America has ever lived. The debt crisis — with its consequences: IMF, letters of intent, tax adjustments, etc… — Military dictatorships opened the way for it to impose neoliberal governments in almost every continent. We became the world region with the greatest amount of neoliberal governments and their more radical procedures.

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[analysis] Latin America’s Decade

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An Atlanta-based Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) arbitration panel has ordered SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.

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SunTrust Hit with $4.1 Million Damage Award for Terminating and Defaming a Broker who Sold Auction Rate Securities

There have been a slew of articles recently on the risk of sovereign defaults. The threat of sovereign defaults is not surprising

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"This Time, It Is Not The Usual Suspects Such As Brazil And Mexico Who Are In the Worst Positions. Instead, It Is the Industrialized…

January 2010, Dean Baker Although the national debate on financial transactions taxes has just begun, there have been a wide range of responses arguing that the tax is either undesirable or unenforceable, or both. This paper presents a brief response to these criticisms.

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Responses to Criticisms of Taxes on Financial Speculation

by Edward Hugh: Barcelona This not unreasonable question was asked today by Ralph Atkins on the FT’s Money Supply Blog : The economic news from Spain has turned more worrisome. Eurozone purchasing managers’ indices for manufacturing showed the region’s recovery humming along nicely (December’s final index reading at 51.6, up from 51.2 in November, was in line with the preliminary estimate released last month)

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Is Spain Getting Left Behind?

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VeteranOwnedBusiness.com Welcomes Spotlight Sponsor Anacapa Technologies

We’d like to wish all of you a very happy new year!  We certainly enjoyed the holidays with our families and friends, but we’re also looking forward to getting into 2010.  We are especially excited about the start of a new Lunch N’ Learn series. Held on the second Thursday of each month at the Henry & Horne Scottsdale office, we’re going to tackle one topic affecting the nonprofit community at a time and discuss it over lunch.  Throughout the year, attendees can expect to learn more about expense allocation, the Form 990, board member roles and responsibilities, and segregation of duties – all things important to nonprofit organization. The first topic on the agenda is one I write about a lot: FRAUD.  So please join us on January 14th for the first Lunch N’ Learn of 2010.  You can reserve your space at any luncheon by emailing Terri Reed at TerriR@hhcpa.com

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Happy New Year from the Nonprofit GPS Bloggers!

I am a great admirer of President Chavez, its government and what is doing for Latina America. I am however in complete disagreement on the position on Iran. I understand that “my enemy’s enemy is my friend” but the Iranian government is a dreadful religious fascist dictatorship which stands against most if not all the thing we support as socialist

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[letter] Policy towards Iran

2009 was the year that painfully reminded us about the importance of good corporate governance – and the dangers of the lack thereof. If companies do not have solid internal structures necessary to operate with fairness, accountability, transparency, and responsibility, they not only can’t ensure the sustainability of their own performance, but also endanger the economy as a whole. The global financial crisis has shown that much

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“Corporate Governance in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis: Challenges and Solutions”