We listen to music and talk to people. Watch on cable channel 11 in the Boise area or on-line at TVCTVOnline.org. Watch previous shows here, and check out the backgrounds here. Join us at MOA's Facebook page for discussion throughout the week. :)
Conversations over the dinner table with his med-student girlfriend helped Mark Zuckerberg formulate his latest big idea - harnessing the power of Facebook to help eliminate the critical shortage of organs for patients desperately in need of life-saving transplants.
And it was his friendship with Apple founder Steve Jobs, whose life was extended by years following a liver transplant, in part, that spurred the 27-year-old Facebook founder and CEO to help put that idea into practice.
"Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people [...]
We listen to music and talk to people. Watch on cable channel 11 in the Boise area or on-line at TVCTVOnline.org.Watch previous shows here, and check out the backgrounds here. Join us at MOA's Facebook page for discussion throughout the week. :)
WASHINGTON -- For computer users, a few mouse clicks could mean the difference between staying online and losing Internet connections after early July.
The problem started when international hackers ran an online advertising scam to take control of infected computers around the world. In a highly unusual move, the FBI set up a safety net months ago using government computers to prevent Internet disruptions for those infected users. But that system will be shut down this summer.
The FBI is encouraging users to visit a website run by a security partner that will inform them whether they're infected -- and explain how to fix the problem. After July 9, [...]
We listen to music and talk to people. Watch on cable channel 11 in the Boise area or on-line at TVCTVOnline.org. Watch previous shows here, and check out the backgrounds here. Join us at MOA's Facebook page for discussion throughout the week. :)
Also tonight, see 'Self Portrait' (in progress) by Jason Kiefer.
We may not have audio again this week. (The studio is working on integrating some new equipment; thanks Nathan and Anthony! New equipment is always welcome and we're well aware that it's integration is rarely glitch-free. :) ) In anticipation of that, we are playing a different background than the one we've played the last two weeks. We will be sure to air any bands and artists who've been expecting airtime on the last two shows, and this one if it takes another week, and any future shows, once the audio issues have been addressed.
Map of shaking intensity from the magnitude 5.6 earthquake that hit Oklahoma on Nov. 5, 2011.
CREDIT: usgs
SAN DIEGO — On the night of Nov. 5, 2011, as midnight approached, a magnitude-5.6 earthquake rocked central Oklahoma, the state's most powerful quake ever recorded. The shaking injured two people, destroyed 14 homes, and bent a local stretch of highway.
Research presented here at the annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America today (April 18) suggests the quake could be related to an industrial practice of injecting fluids deep into the Earth.
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We listen to music and talk to people. Watch on cable channel 11 in the Boise area or on-line at TVCTVOnline.org. Watch previous shows here, and check out the backgrounds here. Join us at MOA's Facebook page for discussion throughout the week. :)
Also this week, 'Oblivion' VC from Trevnyah (@YouTube), and Angela and Darin Smith's video 'Ask Yourself', winner of the Adult Category and Best in Show at Vale, Oregon's Drexel Heritage Foundation Film Festival 2011. (We do not have rights to the music, but you can see the video as it was produced here.) (And once again, our apologies to these artists for last week's audio malfunction. It's been brought to the studio's attention and should be rectified this week. :) )
We listen to music and talk to people. Watch on cable channel 11 in the Boise area or on-line at TVCTVOnline.org. Watch previous shows here, and check out the backgrounds here. Join us at MOA's Facebook page for discussion throughout the week. :)
SEATTLE — Capt. Mike Adams demonstrated what the future will look like at the nation’s airports as he pulled back on the throttles of his Boeing 737 flight simulator, setting the engines on idle to glide smoothly from his cruising altitude all the way down to the runway.
Starting in June, that’s exactly what actual Alaska Airlines flights will be doing when the airline begins testing the use of satellite technology to land at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport — all in the hope of saving fuel and reducing delays.
Alaska Airlines, one of the nation’s smallest airlines, has taken some of the biggest [...]
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Forty hours left on a render that's taken all week (stop laughin', Mr. Wizard and other Apple users :D ), hopin' to see ya soonly. :)
We listen to music and talk to people. Watch on cable channel 11 in the Boise area or on-line at TVCTVOnline.org. Watch previous shows here, and check out the backgrounds here. Join us at MOA's Facebook page for discussion throughout the week. :)
Also this week, 'Killers Skunks!' and 'Peace & the Dudes Come to Vale, OR', by P. Edward Booth, and Egypt (and other) photos from Mr. Wizard! (Our apologies to Paul and Mr. Wizard for last week's video malfunctions, but we're not sorry for the opportunity to share these fine musicians with you once again. :) )
Figures from a Nokia patent filing showing how a magnetic tattto could transmit smartphone vibrations.
CREDIT: Nokia
Today's best smartphones still can't alert human owners about an incoming call or text without either annoyingly loud rings or vibrations that can go unnoticed. That's why Nokia would let smartphone owners feel the vibrations on their skin through a magnetic tattoo.
The touch-based twist on cellphone alerts surfaced in a Nokia patent filing reported by UnwiredView.com. If the tattoo idea ever became reality, it could mean an end to the days when a silenced cellphone means missing calls and text messages during a movie or music concert. [...]
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(CNN) -- Mysterious explosions. Unexplained shaking. Something's going on in Clintonville, Wisconsin, but nobody seems to know what it is.
The sounds -- variously described as rattling pipes, clanging metal, thunder or firecrackers -- have continued on and off since early Sunday night in just one part of the small town of 4,600, located about 180 miles northeast of Madison.
Accompanying the sounds are vibrations that have shaken homes and household objects in the northeast corner of town, city manager Lisa Kuss said.
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Dude and I have heard these. We assume they're part of the earth's natural shifting, or, if they're unnatural, perhaps related to old mines.
We listen to music and talk to people. Watch on cable channel 11 in the Boise area or on-line at TVCTVOnline.org.Watch previous shows here, and check out the backgrounds here. Join us at MOA's Facebook page for discussion throughout the week. :)
Also this week, 'Killers Skunks!' and 'Peace & the Dudes Come to Vale, OR', by P. Edward Booth, and Egypt photos from Mr. Wizard!
LONDON — Justin Bieber, the pop star, put it bluntly to his 18.3-million Twitter army: “SO glad you’re behind this! He MUST be stopped! THANK YOU for helping spread the word. POWER IS IN NUMBERS. #STOPKONY.”
Yes, as u MUST know by now — unless u live on another planet!! — a 30-minute video uploaded to YouTube on March 5 by the advocacy group Invisible Children designed to rally global support for the arrest of Joseph Kony, a Ugandan war criminal, has gone viral, with 71 million views on YouTube as I write and no doubt MILLIONS more by the time u read this.
Kony is the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (L.R.A.), which started operations in northern Uganda more than two decades ago, kidnapping children by the thousands, turning some into sex slaves and brutalizing the civilian population. He’s top of the International Criminal Court’s most-wanted list.
But this just in: RT button and #hashtags apparently operating with 10-year delay. And esp this: the celebs of the California-based White Savior Industrial Complex are terrible reporters. I mean, rly.
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Educators are giving YouTube — long dismissed as a storehouse of whimsical, time-wasting and occasionally distasteful videos — another look. As Google, YouTube’s parent company, fine-tunes a portal that lets schools limit students’ access to selected content, the video-sharing Web site is gaining popularity as a trove of free educational materials.
Schools across the country commonly block access to YouTube, shielding students from the irresistible distractions of, say, the cat in a T-shirt playing a piano, or worse. So in December, Google started YouTube for Schools, offering schools the ability to pluck only the videos they want, scrubbed of all comments and linked only to other [...]
Ms. Sandijean Fuson will be the Citizen honoree at Vale, Oregon's 5th Annual Chamber of Commerce Banquet & Auction at Vale High School, 6PM, Friday, March 16, 2012. (She deserves it, in our experience; her community is her first priority, and 'community' for her means her family, friends, clients, and anyone else with whom she comes into contact.) Honorees also include Volunteers Dave Shira & Clayton Perry, K-8 Educator Barb Anthony, and High School Educator Mark Redmond. Tickets are available for $15 at Vale City Hall, Malheur Drug, Logan's Market & Scout's Books. Check it out if you're out Vale way next weekend!
http://www.miller-mccune.com/politics/the-practical-effect-of-cultivating-sel...
A UCLA researcher argues that rather than assuming people are basically selfish, government could more profitably encourage pro-social behavior.
Just one of many worthwhile reads at Mr. Weir's Posterous page.
GEOMAGNETIC STORM UPDATE: A CME propelled toward Earth by this morning's X5-class solar flare is expected to reach our planet on March 8th at 0625 UT (+/- 7 hr). Analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab, who prepared the CME's forecast [...]
MAJOR SOLAR FLARE (UPDATED): Big sunspot AR1429 has unleashed another major flare. This one is the strongest yet, an X5-class eruption on March 7th at 00:28 UT. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the extreme UV flash:
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THE MOON AND MARS: This week, Mars is at its closest to Earth for all of 2012. The Red Planet is easy to find: On March 7th it's right beside the full Moon. Go outside after sunset and look for the Moon and Mars rising together in the east. [sky map] [...]
This was originally posted as a response to a blog comment that expressed concern over our use of trapped beaver as bait for our camera stations. The comment also questioned the need for the project and our decision to study wolverines. We hope that this response will adequately address these issues and provide a greater insight on why we do what we do.***********
We understand and appreciate the frustration with our use of beaver as the preferred bait species for the rare forest carnivore study. They have been historically overharvested for their pelts and castor, and there have been many struggles in rebuilding a stable beaver population in our region. As wilderness advocates, we [...]
Interesting points on hunting/trapping, conservation, and roadkill reclamation (plus, wolverines are cool; there was one at the bottom of RCR a couple months ago, trundlin' around just off the road in the middle of the night, big fella - or gal I s'pose, not gonna try to find out :D - and gorgeous). While you're there, check out the rest of the FSPW site and consider donating if it seems like a worthwhile cause and if you've got a little somethin' to give.
