While the message began its voyage to the cosmos--a 24, 000 year trip to M-13, a cluster of stars in the constellation Hercules, to be exact--visiting dignitaries listened over a loudspeaker while each bit played as a short, high-pitched tone.
Second, Kenya has undergone a revolution since 2007, when M-PESA, a mobile-payments system operated by Safaricom, a phone company, was launched (see chart).
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" Her family is behind her, she said, and "The best news that we received was that I'm a match -- a perfect match.
And we saw the national debt double during the previous administration, which is why when I hear -- generally, I'm a -- I try to be a bipartisan guy, but when I hear some folks from the other party in Congress start howling about the deficits, I'm starting to think, well, where have you been?
Griffith pulled it off seamlessly: As you watch him, you understand how the smiling, aw-shucks, I'm-just-a-country-boy Lonesome Rhodes could cynically use the then-new medium of national television to become as powerful as the president, while privately holding his viewers in utter contempt.
A. McCann, founder of Gist, a Seattle contact-organization tool acquired last year by Research In Motion, which holds a 10 a.m. stand-up three days a week.
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But there is also, equally clearly, a rather big difference between a cheap money-transfer system like M-PESA and a full lending bank like Citicorp.
A. I'm--I'm not sure exactly where I'm a resident now, but I--that's where I'm living right now.
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So, too, is the risk of overlap: a recent study by M-CAM, a consultancy which studies intellectual property, found that more than 30% of patents make duplicate claims, raising questions about their validity.
The most acute reference, however, is to John Gilbert a top lion at M-G-M in the mid-twenties but dead within a decade, liquidated by drink and the lethal demands of speech.
"I'm definitely a good player - a defensive or attacking midfielder, " the Olympic 100m and 200m champion told BBC 5 live's Sportweek programme.
Absolutely nothing beats the digital cool feeling of languidly scrawling out a handwritten E-mail to your boss over an early a.m. latte on a full-color computer the size of an eyeglass case.
"I'm not a pop fan - I'm more of a classical music person, so I think I probably didn't show the amount of enthusiasm that was expected of me, " she laughed.
We're going back in the time machine and I'm going a year ahead - or a couple of months ahead anyway.
You see, I'm a long-distance runner, a marathoner, and those pinchable, inline controls meant I could skip songs without feeling around for a button or taking my eyes off the road.
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They include Applied Solar, which also plans to build power plants for Indian cell towers, and M-KOPA, a startup created by the founders of M-PESA, the leading mobile-payment service in Kenya and Tanzania.
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Ms. LARSON: I'm hoping that we kind of take away this overt - I'm a Quaker -militarism for more negotiation and diplomacy.
Moreover, the 10-a.m. airing of a new episode of The Martha Stewart Show had just 199, 000 viewers.
Maybe I'm filled with the milk of human kindness, or perhaps I have a soft spot for supermodels--I'm a gay man, so I have at least one soft spot for supermodels--but I actually believe that it's possible for a beautiful, young woman to fall in love with an obscenely wealthy older man.
I'm also a co-editor and writer of a book commissioned by HIMSS on patient engagement.
Since I'm acknowledging everybody -- I'm in a voluble mood today -- let me go ahead and acknowledge my other members of the Cabinet who are here who are part of our energy green team and do just outstanding work on an ongoing basis.
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Take Olga Morawczynski, a 20-something University of Edinburgh doctorate student who recently spent over a year in Kenya, where she studied the use of M-Pesa, a system for transferring money by cell phones.
So one time, Senator Kerr and I were in the room together, and I told him, 'Senator, he asks for a Coca-Cola as if I'm a daggumbed servant -- and he hasn't put nothing in the kitty!'
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Gorilla day begins for me with a 4:30 a.m. wake-up call at the Serena Hotel, then a two-hour drive to the Volcanoes National Park, where gorillas live on the Rwanda-Congo-Uganda border.
Besides a brief meeting with Germany's Chancellor Merkel and France's President Hollande there was not a great deal - beyond I'm told a supply of espressos, haribos, and fruit - to fill the small hours as Brussels negotiators put pressure on other countries to accept a squeeze.
I'm just not in a position to -- maybe I'm not enough of a big thinker to go there.
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He will be challenged for the Pole's presidential candidacy by Antonio Navarro, once a leader of the M-19 guerrillas and now a senator.
In 2007, Safaricom launched M-Pesa (M for mobile and Pesa- a Swahili word for money) which lets users deposit, transfer and withdraw funds via text message.
"I'm a bit tired - it's been a long time since I've been in the ring for 12 rounds, " said Wilders.
"It's because I'm a rapper - we're all expected to like a certain genre of music, " she reasons.
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