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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 ( http://bit.ly/9Y1PGm ).Watch previous shows on YouTube at http://bit.ly/cudJlT , and check out the backgrounds at http://bit.ly/i6RcqN . Join us at MOA's Facebook page ( http://bit.ly/9ADQv3 ) 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 at http://bit.ly/qwjDoF .) via reverbnation.com Posted via email from Moments of Awareness

The current and former astronauts who formed the crews of STS-1, the first space shuttle mission, and STS-135, the final shuttle mission, pose for a group photo in a training facility at the Johnson Space Center in Houston on Nov. 2, 2011. They are, from left, Doug Hurley, STS-135 pilot, Robert Crippen, STS-1 pilot, John Young, STS-1 commander, with STS-135 commander Chris Ferguson, and mission specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim. CREDIT: NASA/Houston Chronicle, Smiley N. Pool View full size image NASA may not have space shuttles to launch people into the final frontier anymore, but that hasn't stopped Americans from lining up in droves for the chance to join the agency's iconic astronaut corps during the latest recruitment drive. The U.S. space agency received more than 6,300 applications between Nov. 15 and Jan. 27 during the search for new astronauts – making it second-highest turnout ever and double the normal response, NASA offici...

Since the moment he dropped out of Harvard University,  Mark Zuckerberg  has stayed remarkably focused on two things:  Facebook , and being the boss of Facebook. Early on he was persuaded of the vast potential of the social network he built in his dorm room, say friends, investors and detractors. He pushed his team to be fast and take risks. He resisted efforts to change the way Facebook looked and worked, even if, in the beginning, it meant giving up revenue. Most important, he arranged the ownership of Facebook so as to give himself extraordinary power to steer the company. By the time Facebook filed for a $5 [...] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Reporting was contributed by Evelyn M. Rusli, Quentin Hardy, Nicole Perlroth and Nick Wingfield. Full article at  nytimes.com He's done well thus far. No reason a public stock offering should have a significant effect on how it runs; it hasn't hurt Google. 'Going corporate' would be a different matter, but Zuck...

Our hearts go out to the Appleton family. So sorry for your loss. Posted via email from Moments of Awareness

Share Email Comment Print Text Size - / + By ALICIA CHANG AP Science Writer LOS ANGELES January 31, 2012 (AP) A glimpse beyond our solar system reveals the neighborhood just outside the sun's influence is different and stranger than expected, scientists reported Tuesday. One oddity is the amount of oxygen. There are more oxygen atoms floating freely in the solar system than in the immediate interstellar space, or the vast region between stars. Scientists were unsure why, but they said it's possible some of the life-supporting element could be hidden in dust or ice. "We discovered this big puzzle — that the matter just outside of our solar system doesn't look like the material inside," said David McComas of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio,...

The third-person shooter game "Alan Wake" stars a suspense-thriller author in a surreal, horror novel setting. CREDIT: Remedy Entertainment/Microsoft Game Studios Playing video games before bedtime may give people an unusual level of awareness and control in their dreams, LiveScience has learned. That ability to shape the alternate reality of dream worlds might not match mind-bending Hollywood films such as "The Matrix," but it could provide an edge when fighting nightmares or even mental trauma. Dreams and video games both represent alternate realities, according to Jayne Gackenbach, a psychologist at Grant MacEwan University in Canada. But she pointed out that dreams arise biologically from the human mind, while video games are technologically driven by computers and gaming consoles. "If you're spending hours a day in a virtual reality, if nothing else it'...

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Eddy and his mom, Araminta, are producers at TVCTV, very active in the local film community, and he's on the cover of this month's TVF mag; check him out! Posted via email from Moments of Awareness