Every well-connected Catholic in the nation's capital has been working all their political contacts to snag an invite.

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This strategy also lends itself to distributed energy generation on local microgrids which can be smartly connected to the existing nation grid.

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"The UW, the City of Seattle and Gigabit Squared are working together to make Seattle the most wired and connected city in the nation and to continue its role as a major leader in the innovation economy of the 21stcentury, " said University of Washington President Michael Young.

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This is potentially dangerous to the American economy overall because as you are aware and I'm certain the same phenomenon exists here in Britain, companies, large companies, are going global, they are less and less connected to any particular country or nation.

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To keep the European integration process going, it has to be more tightly connected to national communities and respect the jurisdiction of nation states.

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Pluzhnikov, the majority owner of the nation's main TV channel, Inter, was well connected to "The Group of Seven, " a circle of influential Ukrainian businessmen.

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If you were wondering what was next for webOS now that it's gone all open source on us, webOS Nation chimes in with word that Gram is working with LG to bring it to connected HDTVs.

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