Minority Chambers of Commerce Aim to Amplify Message to the FCC: ‘What’s Next for Internet Regulation and the National Broadband Plan?’ PR.

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Remember this debate ? Atheism vs. Theism and The Scientific Evidence of Intelligent Design Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 4pm PST, Stanford University Christopher Hitchens — Contributing editor to Vanity Fair; visiting professor, New School in New York; author of God is Not Great

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The Indian economy grew 7.9 percent year on year in the July-to-September quarter, far better than most other countries. But inflation is rising, with food prices in particular rising sharply. The inflation rate in December was 7.3 …

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Market Skeptics: Violence Erupts Against Rising Food Prices In …

OLYMPIA, Wash. – In the Washington legislature, majority Democrats are looking for tax loopholes to close to balance the budget. But they’re finding that’s easier said than done

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Junk Science Update: Yesterday, I shared some links with you , links I had sitting on my desk for a while, today, we get word that more climate science shenanigans have been unearthed. First it was hide the decline, bad tree ring data, and suppression of dissenting views… now it’s bad science based on a short telephone call about Himalayan glacier melt , sloppy science about the rain-forests , mountain top ice disappearance based on student dissertation and magazine article , and now — moving weather posts! The Guardian reports: Strange case of moving weather posts and a scientist under siege In the first part of a major investigation of the so-called ‘climategate’ emails, one of Britain’s top science writers reveals how researchers tried to hide flaws in a key study -Snip- The Guardian has learned that crucial data obtained by American scientists from Chinese collaborators cannot be verified because documents containing them no longer exist.

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Return of ClimateGate™: Moving Weather Posts!

The web page of the Pennsylvania Disciplinary Board has a newly-posted feature, an attorney E Newsletter that in the January 2010 edition discusses highlights in bar discipline for 2009: In this issue we present our second annual survey of the…

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And The Winner Is…

The Board of Directors of the Winter Haven Chamber of Commerce has approved the following statement with regard to the proposed location for the high-speed rail station. You can learn more about Florida’s high speed rail plans here .

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Chamber Advocates USF Polytechnic Rail Station

The New York Appellate Division for the Second Judicial Department imposed the reciprocal discipline of disbarment based on the attorney’s New Jersey consent to disbarment.

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Consent Leads To Reciprocal Disbarment

At our first Lunch & Learn seminar of 2010 (Fraud Issues in Nonprofits), we went over some “red flag behavior” that organizations should take note of in their employees.  These indicators are so important because they often reflect some bigger problems happening within the accounting department – including errors and fraud.  I thought I’d share some of those in this week’s posting.  1. Does the employee never call in sick regardless of how physically ill they appear? 2. Has the employee stopped taking full weeks of vacation in which someone else performs their duties

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Red Flags in Employee Behavior That Should Grab Your Attention

Our editorial team concentrates on sharing timely news and information accessed from across the web, companies, economic development agencies and our global intelligent network of contacts. » Provincial Budget Advice : Control Expenses …

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Nearshore Journal | Where Outsourcing, Tech and Capital Markets …

The Census Bureau reported the homeownership and vacancy rates for Q4 2009 this morning. Here are a few graphs ..

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Q4: Homeownership Rate Declines to Early 2000 Level

Title : How to (and Why) Trade Canadian Commodity Company Warrants • Author : Lorimer Wilson • 24hGold.com.

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The Ohio Supreme Court today issued an arrest warrant for an attorney who had been publicly reprimanded in 2006 and indefinitely suspended in 2009. The court’s order notes that he was ordered to appear in person and failed to do…

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Arresting Development

Dean Baker Century Weekly (China), February 1, 2010 See article on original website (Chinese, subscription required) Ever since Keynes wrote The General Theory in the 30s economists have understood the mechanism for escaping the sort of slump the economy faced in the Great Depression. The key point was to generate demand.

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No Way Out: The Political Constraints Obstructing a U.S. Recovery

by Edward Hugh: Barcelona José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spain’s prime minister, said in Davos this week : “We are a serious country and we will fulfil our promises.” With these words Spain’s Prime Minister sought, during his visit to Davos last week to reassure international investors that Spain, despite the severity of the recession it is currently suffering, and the major challenges facing its banking system, is not about to become another Greece. Just to prove the point he had Labour Minister Celestino Corbacho and Economy Minister Elena Salgado announce in short order that a) Spanish citizens are going to work two more years each in the longer term, and b) face continuing and sweeping cuts in services and increases in taxes in the short term

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Luxury retail in India has been a fascinating journey from a socio-economic perspective. Projected as the next China for luxury goods consumption, the Indian economy has evoked a lot of interest globally given its statistics of some of …

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Story from the Heritage Foundation . (H/T The Washington Post via Neil Simpson ) Excerpt: A new study concludes that abstinence-only education had a significant and long-term effect in reducing teen sexual activity

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New study finds focus on abstinence in sex-ed classes can delay sexual activity

From Dina ElBoghdady and Dan Keating at the WaPo: Rising FHA default rate foreshadows a crush of foreclosures The share of borrowers who are falling seriously behind on loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration jumped by more than a third in the past year … About 9.1 percent of FHA borrowers had missed at least three payments as of December, up from 6.5 percent a year ago, the agency’s figures show.

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FHA to Pay Out Claims on 25% of 2007 and 2008 Loans

Merida, February 1 st , 2010 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – On Sunday, president Hugo Chavez announced the creation of a special fund of $1 billion for the strengthening of the national electricity system; implementing 59 generation and distribution projects, and 50 operation and maintenance projects.

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The 1937-1938 dip was not the product of tight fiscal and monetary policy, but of excessive government regulation and loose monetary policy. We must clear away the misconception that, without deficit spending and easy credit, the market will fail. FULL ARTICLE by Jonahtan M.

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Dangerous Lessons of 1937

One of the more legendary figures in Indiana newspaper history is Jim Barbieri, who spent more than 50 years at the Bluffton News-Banner . I had the pleasure of meeting and talking to Barbieri several times during his career that carried far beyond the publication he guided and into the communities it served

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Solving the Local Government Puzzle

Berlusconi Calls For Israel In EU | Obama Spoiling Relations With China Illinois voters: Governor: Adam Andrzejewski Twitter: @AdamForIllinois US Senate: Patrick Hughes Twitter: @HughesForSenate

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Morning Coffee Update 2 February 2010

The news that the government has negotiated a 40% reduction in prices with the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association for 300 off-patent drugs (announcements here and here ) got the warm fuzzy feel-good treatment on last night’s RTE News at 9 (the word patent did not make its way into the two-minute report).   This is, of course, undoubtedly good news, particularly for those with regular prescriptions for these drugs.

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Price Reductions on Off-Patent Drugs

[Excerpted from chapter 2 of Society Without Coercion , 1969] Government is, by definition, a “social monopoly of force.” The greatest instrumentalities of force which have ever been assembled, the police forces and armies of the world, are at the disposal of governments.

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The Nature and Morality of Government

Consumers: RT @MasterCardNews: MC A /P Economist: Rapid urbanization in China boosts consumption-led growth http://bit.ly/ahbPTU 4:53 AM Jan 28th from Echofon A question of appreciation: CNY 4 RMB ??

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Briefly…Top Ten Tweets (From Rapid Urbanisation, Rich Consumers & The 2nd Tier, To Woes for Water, Barbie Dolls & Google…& More)