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WASHINGTON — House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer tiptoed into dangerous political territory Tuesday, suggesting that to cut the government's record budget deficits dramatically, popular middle-class tax reductions set to expire at year's end could be extended only temporarily.
Hoyer, a Maryland Democrat, also suggested that future Social Security benefits may have to be trimmed to contain the national debt. Those calls from the House of Representatives' second-ranking Democrat, at a Washington budget conference, were seen as an important political step as well as a legislative trial balloon.
Congressional Democrats are being pulled in two different fiscal directions. Most Bush administration tax cuts expire at the end of this year, and extending them would be popular before November's congressional elections. Voters also are signaling, however, that they want to curb federal deficits and the national debt, both of which exploded over the past decade, especially since the recession of the past few years.
Democrats in Congress are divided over how to proceed, a mission that's complicated by an increasingly popular Republican drumbeat, as GOP candidates say that the looming deficits are hurting the economic recovery, government spending should be cut and expiring tax reductions extended.
Hoyer expressed a willingness to get tough with the budget and a desire to work with Republicans.
"As the House and Senate debate what to do with the expiring Bush tax cuts in the coming weeks," Hoyer said, "we need to have a serious discussion about their implications for our fiscal outlook, including whether we can afford to permanently extend them before we have a real plan for long-term deficit reduction."
Hoyer added, however, that as long as the economy is struggling to recover, "I don't think this is the time to increase taxes" on middle-class people. Congress is expected to let tax reductions for the wealthy expire at year's end.
Hoyer also discussed ways to curb future government spending, saying, "We could and should consider a higher retirement age or one pegged to life span, more progressive Social Security and Medicare benefits, and a stronger safety net for the Americans who need it most."
He gave no further details. The age when Social Security recipients can receive full benefits varies depending on the year of birth. For those born from 1943 to 1954, for instance, the age to qualify for full benefits is 66. It increases gradually for those born starting in 1955. For people born in 1960 or later, the age is 67.
Budget experts consider slowing the growth of "entitlements," led by Social Security and Medicare, crucial to reducing future deficits and the national debt. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projects that debt held by the public will rise from 53 percent of the nation's gross domestic product in 2009 to 90 percent by 2020. It was 40 percent in 2008.
"Normally, deficits seem somewhat kind of abstract, and austerity measures hurt. But people may be so concerned about the deficit that Representative Hoyer wants to signal a serious intention to do something about it," said Andrew Taylor, the chairman of the political science department at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.
President Barack Obama has supported making the Bush-era tax breaks permanent for individuals who earn less than $200,000 a year and joint filers who make less than $250,000. Permanently extending those tax cuts would cost an estimated $2.15 trillion over the next decade, however, when the nation faces $9.76 trillion in deficits, according to the CBO.
A bipartisan commission appointed by Obama and Congress is studying ways to reduce the debt. It must report to Obama by Dec. 1, and its recommendations must be approved by 14 of its 18 members. It could outline a path forward, but only Congress and the president could enact it.
While Hoyer's proposals are the type that budget experts say the commission should consider, the political stakes quickly became clear Tuesday.
Despite his calls for bipartisanship, the GOP's congressional campaign committee put out a statement while Hoyer was still speaking, declaring "Hoyer to Middle Class Families: Tax Breaks Won't Last Much Longer."
On the Senate floor, Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said, "The House majority leader in a speech today warns that in order to do anything about the debt crisis ... President Obama will have no choice but to break his campaign pledge of no new taxes for millions of American families."
Democrats were largely silent about the notion.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., didn't comment, and a top Democratic aide, who asked not to be named lest it endanger his job, said Hoyer's tax proposal was likely to "meet with resistance from many in the Democratic caucus."
Hoyer tried to thread a political needle by urging his audience to separate long- and short-term deficit issues.
"Overreacting to short-term deficits, while we're still feeling the effects of recession, will send our economy back into a tailspin, put even more Americans out of work and increase the very deficits we are trying to reduce," he argued.
The long-term deficit, though, is another matter.
"Unfortunately, we can blame our long-term deficit on policies that are almost universally popular. We're lying to ourselves and our children if we say we can maintain our current levels of entitlement spending, defense spending and taxation without bankrupting our country," Hoyer said.
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PRINCETON -- Ruth Wiggs Eonta, 80, died Sunday at Johnston Memorial Hospital.
Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 11 a.m. in the chapel of Parrish Funeral Home in Princeton with the Rev. Dwayne Batten officiating. Burial will follow in the Princeton Cemetery.
She was born Dec. 8, 1927, in Johnston County to the late Charlie and Lula Davis Wiggs.
Surviving are her husband, Joe Eonta Sr.; son; daughter; brother; sister; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
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Australia: Keneally Pledges USD30 Million for DisabledNSW Premier Kristina Keneally has promised $30 million to help people with disabilities and their carers cope with cost of living pressures. Speaking at a disability services conference in Sydney today, Ms Keneally said people with disabilities faced tougher cost of living pressures than the rest of society. From News.smh.com, February 15, 2011
Australia: Disability Expert Backs Cuts to Pension RollThe Australian Human Rights Commission's disability discrimination commissioner has backed calls to get people off the disability pension and back into work. "I know that there are people with disabilities who are keen to get back into the workforce rather than to sit on an unemployment or welfare benefit," he said. From Abc.net.au, February 15, 2011
Podcast: UK Court 'has to look at mother's best interests'The Court of Protection is to decide whether a mentally unstable pregnant woman should be sterilised to prevent her becoming pregnant again. Prof Wayne Martin, the head of philosophy at Essex University, and Mencap's David Congdon, discuss the ethical implications of such a decision. From bbc.co.uk, February 15, 2011
UK: Concern Over Disability Benefit TestsA Cambridgeshire disability charity has said new tests to find out who is entitled to benefits are not working. Rules to tighten up who is entitled to disability benefits and who should instead receive Jobseeker's Allowance were brought in by the Labour government and are being backed by the new coalition.From bbc.co.uk, February 15, 2011
Video: How Subtitles are MadeThe 10 minute BBC video below explains how subtitles are made. Erudite and simple.From BBC Videos Archives, February 15, 2011
USA: Global Disability Rights Library, USICD Call for ApplicationsThe Global Disability Rights Library project announces a call for organizations to apply to receive a free digital Global Disability Rights Library (GDRL). Applications are open to disabled people's organizations, universities, and agencies in developing countries. Sixty organizations will receive the digital library to empower them to disseminate valuable disability rights knowledge and toolkits to their communities.From USICD.org, February 14, 2011
Australia: Cut Disabled Pensions to Pay for FloodsThe Business Council says cuts to disability services and foreign aid should be considered as alternatives to the flood levy. The Federal Government says the USD1.8 billion tax is needed to help pay for flood and cyclone reconstruction in Queensland and Victoria. From Abc.net.au, February 14, 2011
2011 Winter Deaflympics CancelledFollowing intensive meetings in the Slovakian town where the 2011 Winter Deaflympics were to have been hosted, the ICSD leadership team has been able to confirm the local organising committee's comprehensive failure to deliver on its promises. "After arriving here in Vysoké Tatry to begin our monitoring of final preparations for the Winter Deaflympics, we became increasingly concerned about the lack of readiness and the absence of key organisers," commented ICSD Chief Executive Tiffany Granfors. The Summer and Winter Deaflympics are among the world's fastest growing sports events. More than 4,000 deaf athletes and officials from 77 nations participated in the 21st Summer Deaflympics in Taipei, Chinese Taipei, in September 2009.From Ciss.org, February 14, 2011
UAE: Roads and Transport Authority Approves Discount for DisabledNew fare cards for students, the elderly and people with disabilities will be available from next month, Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) officials announced February 11. Disabled UAE residents, regardless of nationality, will be able to travel free with blue nol cards, which must be renewed every six months. Renewal will be free, but the cards come with a one-time fee of Dh70. A 50 per cent fare discount will be available for UAE citizens 60 years and older, and the same concession will be offered to students of schools and colleges based in the Emirates. From http://www.thenational.ae, February 14, 2011
India: Census Goes More Inclusive on DisabilityPeople with disabilities will have a greater representation in the 15th national census. "The number of categories of disability has been increased from five to eight so that the exact number of persons with disabilities can be enumerated," said Dipak Ghosh, the director of Census Operations, West Bengal. From The Telegraph India, February 11, 2011


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Tarek Mehanna of Sudbury, Massachusetts after he was arrested and charged with conspiring to plot terror attacks against shoppers in U.S. malls and against U.S. military in Iraq. (AP Photo/Sudbury Police Department, File)
An earlier version of this Comment appeared on the New York Review of Books blog.
Google "39 Ways to Serve and Participate in Jihad," and you'll get more than 590,000 hits. You'll find full-text English translations of this Arabic document on the Internet Archive, an e-library; on 4Shared Desktop, a file-sharing site; and on numerous Islamic sites. You will find it cited and discussed in a Senate committee staff report and in Congressional testimony. Feel free to read it. Just don't try to make your own translation from the original, which was written in Arabic in Saudi Arabia in 2003. Because if you look a little further on Google you will find multiple news accounts reporting that on April 12, Tarek Mehanna, a 29-year-old citizen from Sudbury, Massachusetts, was sentenced to seventeen and a half years in prison for translating "39 Ways" and helping to distribute it online.
As Anthony Lewis used to ask in his New York Times columns, "Is this America?" Seventeen and a half years for translating a document? That the counterterrorism imperative has put tremendous strain on freedom of speech has been evident at least since the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, which upheld the criminalization of speech advocating peace and human rights when expressed to or on behalf of a designated "terrorist organization." The threat to free expression was manifest long before that in Muslim communities, where expressing a radical idea will make you the target of informants, undercover agents and pressures to "cooperate" with entrapment schemes. But when the mere translation of a document can form the basis of a criminal conviction, without any evidence that it sparked a violent or unlawful act, we have reached a new level of speech suppression.
Granted, the document that formed the centerpiece of Mehanna's trial is an extremist text. Among the "39 ways" are "Truthfully Ask Allah for Martyrdom," "Go for Jihad Yourself," "Giving Shelter to the Mujahedin" and "Have Enmity Towards the Disbelievers." (Others, however, include "Learn to Swim and Ride Horses," "Get Physically Fit" and "Expose the Hypocrites and Traitors.") But surely we have not come to the point where we lock people up for translating a widely available document. After all, news organizations and scholars routinely translate and publicize jihadist texts. Think, for example, of the many reports over the past decade of messages from Osama bin Laden.
The Mehanna conviction represents a new front in the "war on terror": muzzling Internet propaganda. Mehanna's crime was to disseminate ideas that favored the "enemy." In addition to the "39 Ways," much of the government's case against him relied on excerpts from his chat room conversations, in which Mehanna debated jihadist ideas, engaged in sometimes disturbing banter about violent acts and expressed admiration for bin Laden and Al Qaeda. According to the prosecution, the conversations demonstrate that he did the translation intending to support Al Qaeda, and for that he will spend more than seventeen years in prison.
The case against Mehanna, who had no criminal record before his 2009 arrest, rested on two basic charges: that he had traveled with friends to Yemen in 2004 for ten days in an unsuccessful search for a jihadist training camp; and that upon his return he translated several jihadist tracts and videos for Internet distribution, allegedly to spur readers on to jihad. After a two-month trial, he was convicted of conspiring to provide "material support" to a "terrorist organization." The jury did not specify whether it found him guilty for his trip to Yemen—which resulted in no known contacts with jihadists—or for his translation. So, under established law, the conviction cannot stand unless it's permissible to penalize him for his speech. Mehanna is appealing the decision.


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although no details are currently available about these upcoming ea titles that will be using the unreal engine 3, mark rein, vice president of epic games, is positive about the joint venture. "they (ea) have extremely talented development teams, and we're excited to see how they apply our technology to their high profile game projects."
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|hmm, this could be interesting… (3:44pm est mon aug 21 2006)
i've been an unreal fan since the original unreal came out back in….what was it? 1998? anyways, the engine has only gotten better as time has gone on.
add in ea's skilled programmers, and you have very interesting possibilities popping up. i can't wait to see what they come up with.
– by pitviper
|hmmm (4:13pm est mon aug 21 2006)
i am curious what title ea will use if for. – by random
|dumb (4:21pm est mon aug 21 2006)
crappy pc developer engine for console development???
epic's ue3 engine is so bad that the main game they have been promoting for it, gears of war, has been showing nothing but massively overrezzed(5k by 5k then downsampled) and massively aaed bogus marketing shots.
the people who have seen the ue3 based game in person have universally talked of the really low framerates and jaggies all over the place.
ea has the resources to make a real next gen console engine and not another doom 3 style low poly/massively normal mapped x86 pc style engine.
dumb ea, dumb.
– by boris
|re ue3 use (4:22pm est mon aug 21 2006)
"i am curious what title ea will use if for. "
another bald space marine in bumpy/shiny armor game?
– by boris
|what (4:33pm est mon aug 21 2006)
"add in ea's skilled programmers, and you have very interesting possibilities popping up. i can't wait to see what they come up with." by pitviper
doesn't ea fire there programmers all the time – by him
|what will they come up with? (5:06pm est mon aug 21 2006)
unreal headbutt soccer? unreal sniper tennis? (go for the automatic ball launcher!) unreal wfw cage match? unreal prehistoric big game hunter (i.e. with that rocket-grenade-launcher-thingie) unreal snakes-on-a-plane? unreal nl steroidal baseball? (optional tour de france mod available in 2007) unreal chainsaw pga golf (only way to beat tiger)? unreal doping olympics (get the gold and outsmart the drug tests)? – by synthmeister
|re:boris (5:10pm est mon aug 21 2006)
hey boris quote some facts.. instead of your obviously biased opinion. or better yet stfu
– by boris is on crack
|unreal madden 2008 (5:34pm est mon aug 21 2006)
if it's in the game it's unreal.
t.o. and agent in tow running up and down the sideline in the pre-season games whining about being mis-quoted and that *terrible* hamstring injury tht's hampering the humble one's training and play.
– by highlandcynic
|cool (6:21pm est mon aug 21 2006)
there may a good fps come out of this. – by regulas
|ps (6:22pm est mon aug 21 2006)
unreal 2 was a really fun game, i thought except it had a sad ending. – by regulas
|content lagging (7:06pm est mon aug 21 2006)
as a pc gamer… as far as i can see, many games do not do justice to game engines – poor textures and models. even with todays tools, takes a long time to make good eye candy.
current engines closer to producing real life images than ever – crytek engine looks shinys too.
i guess we'll all need to be on hdtv though to see console improvements. – by hires4me
|re: (8:55pm est mon aug 21 2006)
boris is just a flamer. 12 years old at best. funny boris. sony is pushing unreal 2007 big time for the ps3. so it's a crap engine huh?
"ea has the resources to make a real next gen console engine and not another doom 3 style low poly/massively normal mapped x86 pc style engine."
unreal 3 engine has the most polygons per character model then any other game engine besides the crysis engine. so what you are saying is foolish. go back and play with your dinky cars.
"the people who have seen the ue3 based game in person have universally talked of the really low framerates and jaggies all over the place."
really? please provide proof of this. links would help. direct quotes. you 12 year old kids are moronic. press at ign that played the game said different. go look it up. unlike your opinion.
"gears of war, has been showing nothing but massively overrezzed(5k by 5k then downsampled) and massively aaed bogus marketing shots."
gears of wars was in playable beta mode at e3 2006. unlike most sony games. as for alaising in the game. it's not even finsihed yet. you're stupid kid. and for a game you claim has a shitty game engine(sony does not think so as unreal2007 is one of it's launch titles) gears of wars won best action game at e3 2006. i t also won best multi-player experience at e3 2006 also.
"whatever it was, gears of war continues to stand out as one of the most fun and addicting shooters to come along in a while.
"the high-fidelity graphics and team-based multiplayer game created an adrenaline-pumping, totally engaging experience that simply wasn't matched by any other title on the showfloor or behind closed doors. if epic is able to polish and hone this like it's capable of, gears of war is sure to dominate the action landscape this fall."
epic will polish the game engine when it's released.
– by hoops
|unreal4 (9:26pm est mon aug 21 2006)
i cant wait for unreal3 engine games but i just found out last night about the unreal4 engine that has been in development for 2 years already!
i heard rumors that shader model 5.0+ and direcx 11+ will be used in this engine. lol, talk about photo realistic in the post 2010 era.
hp?id=123639 – by jihadage
|hey there (12:13am est tue aug 22 2006)
quit your whineing.bunch of cry baby's
want some cheese….. – by bwhahahahah
|linux support? (6:44am est tue aug 22 2006)
if the unreal engine has been linux friendly (unreal/ut2003/ut2004 have all been linux nativly installable) will ea start releasing games that are possible to install nativly on linux (after downloading an installer or whatever)?
if so, i'll buy whatever they produce!!
otherwise, i'll stick with id and the unreal series… – by linuxgamer
|lets hope (10:27am est tue aug 22 2006)
that these games are not rushed out like bf2 ) – by wasd
|bf2 was rushed? (12:06pm est tue aug 22 2006)
although you have to admit that bf2 rocks big time. – by truegamer
|theres rumors (3:22pm est wed aug 23 2006)
that ea is using their unreal engine for their upcoming medal of honor airborne. cant wait. – by praetorian man!!!!
|truegamer (3:24pm est wed aug 23 2006)
i do, in a sense, feel that battlefield 2 was rushed….. for the console anyways. the pc version kicks ass bigtime.
which version are you and wasd referring to?
the consoles should have had a single player skirmish mode…. as well as the ability to actually choose your player class. – by praetorian man!!!!
|moh (4:30pm est wed aug 23 2006)
ea is definitely using the unreal engine for medal of honor. it's on ign if you don't believe, but i have no reason to lie.
is this such a big deal that ea has this engine? i mean, they make the crappiest games around, so what makes anyone think this will make a difference? – by maynard
|re: (7:09pm est wed aug 23 2006)
maynard, the difference being the game engine. the unreal 3 engine is top notch. so half the battle is done for them. – by hoops


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Senator Colby Coash of District 27 introduced two bills which may affect the Nebraska Judiciary, LB 790 and LB 862. LB 790 would amend Neb.Rev.Stat. § 24-503 by transferring the vacant County Court Judge position from District 5 (Merrick, Platte, Colfax, Boone, Nance, Hamilton, … Continue reading


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Singular Launches Best-in-Class SaaS Mobile Marketing Platform, Raises $5 Million in Seed Funding from General Catalyst Partners(July 17, 2014)
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) July 17, 2014
Singular, the most advanced SaaS mobile marketing platform, announced today the closing of $5 million in Series Seed funding and the launch of a revolutionary new platform that enables marketers to unify, analyze and optimize their entire mobile marketing operations through a single dashboard. The funding comes from General Catalyst Partners and will be used to accelerate Singulars product development, hiring, and innovation of the mobile marketing space. Neil Sequeira, managing director of General Catalyst Partners, will join Singulars board of directors.
Singulars SaaS platform enables performance marketers to uncover and act on never-before-seen insights from campaigns running across all of their mobile marketing channels. Offering an SDK-free, 5-minute setup, the platform provides analytics, workflow automation and predictive optimization tools to help marketers optimize their campaigns for maximum return on investment. Singular is the first solution capable of processing and cross-referencing marketing data from such disparate sources as ad networks, ad trackers, BI solutions, demand-side platforms, direct publishers, app stores and more in order to offer insights from the complete mobile marketing ecosystem in a single dashboard.
We are re-inventing the way companies manage and optimize their entire mobile marketing operations, said Gadi Elishavov, co-founder and chief executive officer of Singular. The current landscape for mobile marketers is very distributed and fragmented, involving lots of manual processes. We tie everything together to save marketers time and improve efficiencies, while providing the kind of insights that they never had access to beforeall in a simplified, automated manner. Partnering with a premier VC firm like General Catalyst is a strong testament to the huge market potential and our unique approach.
Singular is integrated with over a 100 different ad partners. Launched in beta just a few months ago, the platform is already being used by more than 20 customers, including Kabam, GREE, Storm8, Hotel Tonight, Big Fish Games, Perfect World and Grand Cru.
Singular delivered immediate results for our business, said Sho Masuda, vice president of marketing at GREE. The product could not have been easier to set up, and it has provided us with invaluable insights to help us optimize our mobile marketing campaigns while saving a ton of time in our day-to-day operations.
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- Easy, Immediate Setup: Singulars SDK-free setup process enables a fast and painless onboarding process. The platform connects directly into marketers existing workflow instead of replacing it and does not require any IT or engineering resources. Setup is typically completed within 5 minutes.
- Full-Funnel Analysis: Leveraging the platforms data algorithms, marketers are able to connect the dots on their marketing activities and compare spend to revenues and other KPIs, revealing the true ROI for every activity.
- Budget Management: Marketers can plan and allocate dollars intelligently with Singulars budget management tools. Includes the ability to track against real-time spend data and make budget projections.
- Multi-dimension Optimization: Singulars proprietary data algorithms generate actionable insights on dimensions including Country, Device, OS, Gender, Age, Publisher and others, enabling access to previously unreachable optimization vectors.
- Workflow Automation: Singular replaces hours of daily manual work with technology. By automating the workflow, the platform streamlines existing processes and saves marketers invaluable time.
- Media Planning and Projection: Singular unlocks historical data sets to let marketers analyze and study previous campaign performance when developing their next plan.
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General Catalyst Partners is a venture capital firm that makes early-stage and growth equity investments. The firm backs exceptional entrepreneurs who are building innovative technology companies that transform industries, including KAYAK, Demandware, Stripe, Airbnb, The Honest Company, Warby Parker, Datalogix, BigCommerce, Snapchat, HubSpot, and Datto. The General Catalyst partnership leverages its broad experience to help founders build market-leading businesses. General Catalyst has offices in Cambridge, MA, Palo Alto, CA and New York City. For more information, visit: http://www.generalcatalyst.com or http://www.twitter.com/gcvp.
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Singular is re-inventing the way companies manage their mobile marketing operations. The companys intelligent SaaS platform enables mobile marketers to unify, analyze and optimize all of their marketing channels through a single dashboard, without an SDK required. Through the platforms proprietary data algorithms, marketers can finally make informed decisions based on ROI and uncover never before seen insights that are imperative for marketing optimizations, all in an automated manner that replaces todays inefficient manual processes. Founded in 2014 by former members of Onavos senior management team, Singular is funded by General Catalyst Partners and headquartered in San Francisco, with an R&D office in Tel Aviv. For more information, visit http://www.singular.net.
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After Fukushima, Japan Reconsiders Geothermal Power
Today it was discovered that damage to the Fukushima nuclear plant was much worse than expected, and water is leaking out of the No. 1 reactor. This will likely upset officials' six month timeline for bringing the plant under control.
In the wake of this nuclear crisis, some energy experts in Japan say it's time to pursue the country's vast and much safer geothermal stores.
Japan ranks eighth in the world for installed geothermal capacity with about 540 MW already producing power and third for untapped potential, according to the 2010 Geothermal Congress at Bali, Indonesia.
Currently, Japan is home to 18 geothermal power plants, eight of which are located in the Sendai region, which was severely affected by the quake and tsunami. Despite their close proximity, media reports say only four of the plants experienced any interruption in operation during the tsunami, and it was quickly rectified.
Geothermal has an average capacity factor (how often the power plant runs) of about 73 percent though some have been recorded as high as 98 percent. And as Care2′s Jasmine Greene reports, it's not just the capacity factor that makes geothermal very attractive, but the fact that this energy source alone could potentially power the entire world.
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"If there is a major natural disaster, the main damage (to geothermal plants) will be to the pipelines carrying hot water," D. Chandrasekharam, an earth sciences professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay told Renewable Energy World. "That's much easier to control than radiation."
Despite its potential for producing clean energy, geothermal has been approached cautiously by Japanese industry. One reason for this is that hot springs are considered sacred by the culture, and people don't like to see them exploited.
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We dont' go too crazy in our city as far as Halloween goes, but we carve a few pumpkins and put out a few simple decorations.
The last few years, I have been totally cheating and using stencils for my pumpkins, so this year I decided to just go with the flow and see just how bad I could do on my own. I was pleasantly surprised at how they turned out!
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Alberta joined Confederation along with Saskatchewan in 1905, when the two new provinces were created out of a section of the Northwest Territories.
Alberta joined Confederation along with Saskatchewan in 1905, when the two new provinces were created out of a section of the Northwest Territories.
First Nations
Alberta was first occupied by several First Nations, including the Siksika (Blackfoot), Kainai (Blood), Piikuni (Peigan) and Gros Ventre. Other groups, including the Kootenay and the Crow, made expeditions into the land to hunt bison and go to war. The Tsuu T'ina, a branch of the Beaver, occupied central and northern parts of the land, while the north was used by the Slavey. People first lived in the area around 5000 BCE.
Many of the First Nations traded with the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) and the North West Company beginning in the mid-1700s, when European explorers began establishing fur-trading posts. At that time, the area was divided between Rupert's Land and the Northwest Territories — vast lands over which Britain claimed political and economic control.
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In 1870, Canada purchased Rupert's Land and the North-West from the HBC, and labelled the entire western and Arctic region the Northwest Territories. The province of Manitoba was created out of the area that same year.
In 1874, Canada began asserting its presence in what would become Alberta, sending the North West Mounted Police across the Prairies to present-day Lethbridge to establish Fort Macleod. In 1875, the Mounties also built forts in present-day Calgary and Edmonton. Meanwhile, the Canadian government negotiated land treaties with the First Nations.
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The Canadian Pacific Railway reached Calgary in 1883, but European settlement remained slow, with only about 1,000 non-Aboriginal people living in what is now
In 1897, Canada changed the way the Northwest Territories were administered, creating an executive council and granting responsible government. Political leaders such as Frederick William Haultain pushed for full provincial status.
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Canada adopted the Alberta Act and the Saskatchewan Act on 1 September 1905, and the new provinces — Canada's 7th and 8th — entered Confederation. Edmonton became
Ottawa kept control of crown lands and natural resources, arguing that unlike earlier provinces, Alberta had never owned the lands. Alberta politicians fought to change that rule and finally took control of the crown lands and resources in 1930.
Links to other sites
Two Provinces Created For The WestSee the text of 1905 news stories about the terms under which Saskatchewan and Alberta, would become two new provinces in the Canadian Confederation. From the University of Saskatchewan website.
History of Canadian parliamentary institutionsMilestones in the development of Canadian parliamentary institutions at provincial and federal levels. From the Parliament of Canada.
The formation of Alberta : a documentary historyA digitized copy of book that documents the history of the province of Alberta. From the website Our Roots/Nos Racines.
Province of Alberta Autonomy BillA digitized copy of a vintage book about the Province of Alberta Autonomy Bill. From archive.org.
Driving the Nation: The Last Spike and Faces of the CPRWatch a (silent) video featuring portraits and historical documents pertaining to the role of the CPR in solidifying and expanding confederation. From the collection of Library and Archives Canada.From YouTube.
Canadian Pacific Railway Co. - Prairie Settlement Propaganda View a series of vintage documents, images, books, and maps that demonstrate the federal government's efforts to settle the western territories and bind them to the Canadian Confederation in the latter part of the 19th century. From Saskatchewan History Online.


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It's no secret that nepotism runs rampant in Hollywood, but that apparently didn't help Aaron Taylor-Johnson nab the much-coveted lead role in his wife's latest project, Fifty Shades of Grey.
Speaking with Nylon Guys, the 23-year-old explains that Sam Taylor-Wood, who landed the E. L. James adaptation director gig just last year, didn't pick him to play Christian Grey solely because she is married to him.
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Now that the role has gone to
Charlie HunnamJamie Dornan, the father to 3-year-old Wylda and 2-year-old Romy (and 16-year-old Angelica and 8-year-old Jessie from Sam's prior marriage) focuses more of his time on his family.
"I was pretty self-destructive at one point. I used to smoke 30 [cigarettes] a day, used to f**king drink nonstop. I've always been able to be on the f**king edge — be on the line, but then pull myself back," he tells the magazine. "I stopped when I met Sam."
Trading in his bad boy ways for diaper duties, Aaron says he'd rather hang out with his kids than spend time at a pub.
"I love the f**king music class. I'm the only dad there. It's, like, mums and nannies," he says. "And you're clapping your hands. You're singing more than the kids are."


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A very blue Faux Fur Vest
Added Apr 3, 2011
by ajtak7171
Vienna, Austria
Here is my third piece for the 10 piece Winter Travel Set that I have dreamed up. If you are interested in it, please come visit my blog – I'd love to have you over!
I used a basic bodice pattern and just winged it from there. It would actually be reversible, but with the fur on the inside, it gets a bit "chunky". I just might sew another one with different fabrics though.
This is an entirely me-made outfit and the satisfaction I get from that doesn't quite compare with the one after a shopping spree. More to come…
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Very blue Faux Fur, lining, rib fabric
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