Of course, funding a video game on Kickstarter and letting backers get a nice glimpse of the project as it emerges is something that most certainly has been done before, but never with quite this much bravado.

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Specific and international availability was sadly left out of the announcements, but its nice to finally see this project gain some steam.

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The federal government also offers a nice 30% investment tax credit for project developers.

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"Another four years would have been frosting on the cake, but we have a nice cake now, " said William Borucki, the project's principal scientist.

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Blissfully self-confident, the pension operators project that gains from private equity plus a nice showing on the less exotic securities that make up the bulk of their funds will deliver a blended return between 8% and 9%.

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So one company that has found a nice balance is Clarizen, which is a provider of cloud-based project management tools.

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Dan Sewell of the AP wrote a nice piece on Sunday describing a couple of programs, including the Hebrew Home project.

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