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From: Little Ants Inc. Date: Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:09 PM Spring is in the Air Besides great deals on BumGenius we are fully stocked on baby carriers.  Whether you prefer an Angelpack or an Ergo, the weather is getting too nice to sit around the house.   follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook Copyright © 2011 Little Ants Inc., All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Little Ants Inc. 1375 E. Chandler Ave. Evansville , IN 47714 Posted via email from Moments of Awareness

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"We listen to music and talk to people." Watch live on Cable One  Channel 11  in southwestern Idaho and eastern Oregon or  on-line  (there's an approximately thirty-second delay) and give us a call at 1-208-343-1100 between 10 and 11PM MT. Check out rising local talents OCTO & Poppa Joe  on tonight's show. Watch previous shows on YouTube  here  and background videos with music (now in widescreen HD)  here .   Posted via email from Moments of Awareness

This map shows the location of the March 11, 2011 earthquake in Japan, as well as the foreshocks (dotted lines), including a 7.2-magnitude event on March 9, and aftershocks (solid lines). The size of each circle represents the magnitude of the associated quake or shock. CREDIT: USGS View full size image The massive earthquake that struck northeast Japan Friday (March 11) has shortened the length Earth's day by a fraction and shifted how the planet's mass is distributed. A new analysis of the 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan has found that the intense temblor has accelerated Earth's spin, shortening the length of the 24-hour day by 1.8 microseconds, according to geophysicist Richard Gross at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. [...] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook . Full article at  space.com   Posted via e...

When I read posts on Circle of Moms, I notice a common thread running through the questions moms post about setting limits with their children. Over and over again, moms want to know why what they’re doing isn’t working. "The Danger Zone" just might be the answer. A battle of wills, normal as it is, is one of the hardest things a parent and child deal with. Most parents believe that the battle is the child’s fault. But when I look at a battle of wills, I see two sides, each one valid, yet destined to collide with the other. Let me explain. What is the Danger Zone? [...] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sharon Silver is a parenting educator and the founder of Proactive Parenting . She's also the author of Stop Reacting and Start Responding: 108 Ways to Discipline Consciously and Become the Parent You Want to Be . Full article at  circleofmoms.com Excellent take on the subject. :) Posted via email from Moments of Awareness

The Luck of the Irish to ye!   To celebrate St. Patrick's Day, we are helping you find the Pot of Gold at the end of the  Nature's Gift rainbow . On March 17th, enter the promotional code "shamrock" (without the quotation marks) in the box marked "Promotion" at checkout, press apply, and receive a 17% discount on our list of essential oils, absolutes, and CO2 extracts.  Bulk products, Clearance and Specials page items are not included, ordinary retail sizes only please.  Nature's Gift, Inc. | 316 Old Hickory Blvd. East | Madison, TN 37115   I love Nature's Gift  - quality all the way, from their oils to the information on their site. Posted via email from Moments of Awareness

VoIP scams can reach landlines and mobile phone lines. CREDIT: Dreamstime Criminals are putting a new voice to the traditionally anonymous world of online crime. Scammers have taken to making calls via Skype — the popular Voice over IP (VoIP) calling software — and attempting to scare victims into downloading and installing rogue antivirus software, Brian Krebs wrote this week on his Krebs on Security blog. Skype has more than 600 million users and, like other VoIP services, is very inexpensive, giving criminals an enticing new pool from which to draw. [...] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This story was provided by SecurityNewsDaily , a sister site to LiveScience. Full article at  livescience.com   Posted via email from Moments of Awareness

Fire Bomb There are few good ways to deal with living atop a supervolcano, but critics worry that drilling deep into one to study its composition could, in the worst case, cause an earthquake or eruption. Jamie Sneddon When Mt. Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, the people around it had little warning, and more than 10,000 of them died as a result. Bad as that was, an eruption of neighboring Campi Flegrei could be worse. As a supervolcano, it’s in the same category as Indonesia’s Mt. Tambora, whose eruption in 1815 killed 92,000 people and caused the “year without a summer.” Campi Flegrei’s eight-mile-wide caldera is so low and unassuming that much of metro Naples was built on top, and yet a full eruption would be one of the largest in human history, the kind of geological event capable of plunging the world into a minor ice age. This time, scientists are determined to give the three million residents of greater Naples abundant ...

Tough Gut The bacteria in a sheep’s stomach can save its life. The tansy ragwort weed kills cows, but sheep’s superior bacteria break down the poison and keep their woolly host alive. iStock, Getty Images [...] Full article at  popsci.com   Posted via email from Moments of Awareness

Dropped Connection Turning off the Internet could shut down financial networks, and it wouldn't be easy to turn them back on Jamie Sneddon The last time someone could shut down the Internet was probably in 1969, when it consisted of two computers. But in recent years, concerned with the possibility of a “cyberattack,” Congress has been exploring such an option. In 2009, senator Jay Rockefeller sponsored a bill to give the president the right to “order the disconnection” of “critical infrastructure information systems or networks.” That went nowhere, but now there’s Senate bill 3480, the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010. As its sponsor, Senator Joe Lieberman, told CNN, the bill will allow for the president to order Internet service providers to “disconnect the American Internet from all traffic coming in from another foreign country.” Constructing such a switch would be extremel...

Actual Depiction gets our own featured article in the Boise Weekly  [Wed, 03-16-2011]!! Make sure to pick one up! I'm SOOO stoked! Posted via email from Moments of Awareness

A century of agricultural innovation has vastly increased the amount of food on Earth-and with it, the total population. But the first green revolution is proving unsustainable, and hunger is on the rise. Now keeping the world fed will require an unlikely alliance between genetic engineers and organic farmers AMONG THE TREE-LINED BIKE PATHS, automated livestock pens and darkened lecture halls of the University of California at Davis, a tiny room holds a weapon of mass destruction. Here, behind locked doors, sits a chunk of Xanthomonas, a bacterial blight that has decimated rice harvests in China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and West Africa. Since the passage of the Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has deemed Xanthomonas a "select agent," which meant that in order to enter I had to produce a photo I.D., sign a series of documents, and suit up in a disposable lab coat. Withi...

You are invited to: Ruby Cruise Saturday, November 12, 2011 7:00 PM Royal Caribbean's Liberty of the Seas Posted via email from Moments of Awareness

I have this rare privilege of being able to think for a living; what's more I get paid to create things. So the regions of my mind connected to analysis, self-criticism and creativity are getting frequent exercise and development. They haven't yet atrophied through misuse or ill-use. But let me make this clear: being very bright does not equate to depression — feeling disconnected from people might. [...] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ — Wrongcards @ Reddit Full post at  notphil.posterous.com Posted via email from Moments of Awareness

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Idaho is last in the nation when it comes to doctor-to-patient ratios, but an expanded program at the Boise VA Medical Center will bring more doctors in more disciplines to the state. Three things are happening that should make a difference: [...] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anna Webb: 377-6431 Full article at  idahostatesman.com   Posted via email from Moments of Awareness

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The Boise Valley Economic Partnership has raised about $2.4 million from 26 companies over the past couple of months, according to executive director Clark Krause. But the Treasure Valley organization needs to pull in about $1.6 million of contributions over the next 60 days to meet its funding goal for the Competitive Edge Initiative, a five-year project to bring jobs to the valley. [...] Full article at  idahostatesman.com   Posted via email from Moments of Awareness

From: National MS Society Date: Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 2:43 PM People all over the nation are coming together to share, educate and build awareness about what multiple sclerosis means to them. Together, we are a powerful movement, working to create a world free of MS. Will you share what MS equals to you? National Multiple Sclerosis Society | 733 Third Avenue | New York, NY | 10017 nonprofit software Posted via email from Moments of Awareness

Idaho Gov. Butch Otter signed four bills Tuesday that give the Idaho Land Board flexibility to sign leases with geothermal developers. The four bills give the Land Board authority to reach longer-term lease agreements, negotiate rent and royalties not only for a single lease, but over a wide area. One bill also allows the board to set bonding for each phase of a geothermal project. [...] Full article at  voices.idahostatesman.com   Posted via email from Moments of Awareness

The commission is reminding Idaho taxpayers of two programs that may lighten their tax burden. Homeowners who qualify until April 15 to apply for two different programs: — The Idaho Property Tax Reduction (Circuit Breaker) program reduces property taxes on a homeowner’s primary Idaho residence and on up to one acre of land by as much as $1,320. The state pays a portion of a homeowner’s property taxes, and [...] Full article at  idahostatesman.com   Posted via email from Moments of Awareness

From: paul peterson Date: Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:55 AM Just a heads up for St. Paddy's Day! The Tavern at Bown Crossing is throwing a party, and you're invited! Best of all, JOHN NEMETH will be in the house, and entertaining his HOMETOWN fans!   Don't miss this RARE opportunity to see a World Class, World traveling R & B Sensation!   Have Fun!  See you There!   Ticket info: 208-345-2277 Posted via email from Moments of Awareness

in their little white dresses Cath-o-lic Girls and they never confess :D   I have to assume 'Godless Sharmites' intends to refer to us as residents of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, which it turns out is sometimes known as the 'City of Peace'. :D I wonder if they meant to do that, or if they were just lucky hecklers. :)     Posted via email from Moments of Awareness