The discrepancy between these Hubble constants will likely attract a lot of attention in the scientific community and is one of the most exciting parts of the new data, said Martin White, a scientist with the Planck mission based at the University of California, Berkeley.
Because of the mission-based gameplay, you have to wait every time a new mission is accepted, which can be quite often.
Many large corporations have had grassroots shareholder-inspired initiatives that resulted in a mix of socially conscious mission-based ventures.
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The Community Advantage program is open to mission-based lenders such as Community Development Financial Institutions, Certified Development Companies and nonprofit microlenders, which tend to target lower-income communities.
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Not many of these mission-based adventures have been implemented just yet, but Haemimont Multimedia should consider creating many of these to help distinguish Tzar from its predecessors.
While countless social entrepreneurs are establishing and managing mission-based organizations around the globe, droves of social INTRApreneurs are staying put in their companies and delivering business results that score high on financial, social and environmental metrics.
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In recent memory, angels (much like venture capitalists) have been attracted to hot start-ups in fields such as technology or life sciences, although increasingly angels are branching out into other sectors and in niche, mission-based areas.
This mission is based on the philosophy that if hardworking, destitute families are given the opportunity, tools, and resources to improve their lives, they will have a stepping stone to emerge from the poverty cycle and give their children better educational opportunities in order to lead happier, healthier lives.
Ryan Arter, the president of Kansas-based Mission:Repair, has seen one iPad so far.
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At Tinian Island, in the Pacific, where mission 13 was based, Mr Ferebee and the rest of the crew trained and re-trained.
Employees want freedom from command and control bosses and task-based jobs and freedom to contribute their character and creativity and collaborative spirit in pursuit of a values-based mission worthy of their dedication.
If the whole mission of Techonomy is based on the assumption that technology today lies at the heart of economic progress, it seems fair to ask: Does it really?
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"This is going to be the largest sample of an extraterrestrial object returned to Earth since end of the Apollo missions over 40 years ago, " said Edward Beshore, deputy principal investigator for the mission, who is based at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
The finalists were chosen based on their mission and their impact from among dozens of nominees.
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They focus agencies on the really important challenges, but the agencies determine them based on their mission and urgency.
The integration has been in place since September and she says she feels her mission to develop geo-based tools has been reinvigorated.
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Sights like that motivated Haugen to start a slavery-fighting nonprofit seven years ago called International Justice Mission (IJM), based in Arlington, Va.
Sights like that motivated Haugen to start a slavery-fighting nonprofit seven years ago called International Justice Mission (IJM), based in Arlington, Virginia.
This is what makes FarmLogs, an Ann Arbor, Michigan based startup whose mission is to invent the future of farming, worth checking out.
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There is even a publicly traded company, Kingdom Ventures (otc: KDMV - news - people ), whose sole mission is to help faith-based organizations get bigger.
AgilOne is a cloud-based analytics company whose mission is to help other companies get more value out of their customers and their marketing spend through the use of machine learning algorithms.
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The U.N. mission's role in Syria was based on the premise that there would be a cessation to the violence, and failing that, "a calibration of effort in response to the situation on the ground would be appropriate, " Ban writes.
Boston-based Stomp Games is on a mission to amend your perceptions of what a Facebook game should be.
The Flash-based games in "Re-Mission 2" mimic what the patients are going through in their therapy, but in a way that gamifies the treatment and involves the patient in "destroying" their cancer.
The CRS-2 supply mission, operated by Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX, lifted off successfully on a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 10:10 AM Eastern time.
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Interestingly, two of the most vocal of critics of missile defense -- MIT's Professor Theodore Postol and IBM's Richard Garwin -- have been recently sighted recommending that AEGIS ships be adapted for sea-based missile defenses precisely to address this mission.
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Media for Christ is based in Duarte, California, and advertises its mission as promoting Christian values.
Tellem is spearheading a new L.A.-based studio called Xbox Entertainment Studios, where the mission is to create true interactive content for Xbox and other devices that will change the way entertainment content is experienced and delivered.
HidroEX is a Category II UNESCO Center based at Frutal, Minas Gerais, with the mission of implementing excellence programmes in the area of education, research and training in consonance with the UNESCO International Hydrological Programme regarding the preservation and sustainable management of water resources through actions of regional and worldwide range.
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