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Horoscopes

on the cover “Role Models” Ian Corrigan is a digital media major. He said he took this photo at a wedding reception to which he wasn’t invited. He said everyone was nice but he tried to stay low profile.

Corrigan said he takes photographs of things he desires and uses photography as a way to capture secrets. Corrigan said he conspires daily to create music, media and female point-of-view pornography.

Aquarius

1/20 - 2/18

This semester will be successful and satisfying for you. Don’t give up on that robot project. Your big break is coming.

Pisces

2/19 - 3/20

Though you’re so frustrated with your academic career you’re not far from considering a life in prostitution, keep your chin up and persevere. Unless, you know, the money in prostitution is better.

Aries

3/21 - 4/19

Yet another relationship change is headed your way, and you’re probably not sad to see it go. Live up the single life.

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Taurus

4/20 - 5/20

What is up with you and your weird habits lately? You know what they are. People are starting to notice, seriously...

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Occasionally, whether it involves school, work or personal life, circumstances happen and spark rage. It could be a bad breakup or losing a job, but there are times when coming home, slamming the door and cranking up loud music feels much better than breathing exercises and yoga moves might.

Next time you feel like you want to kick a puppy (since you should never kick an actual puppy, sickos), turn on some of these tunes.

Gemini

5/21 - 6/20

Your tendency toward splitting your personality in two is starting to be a little more than symbolic. Your friends lied, they were a little freaked out by your random outbursts last weekend at The Garden.

Cancer

6/21 -7/22

Hide the money and pretend you know nothing. Your cat suspects something.

Leo

7/23 - 8/22

Now is the time for spontaneity.

Those Lady GaGa glasses you want so much? Yeah. Get them.

Virgo

8/23 - 9/22

Your invitation to Hogwarts is still on its way. Don’t worry. your kind is out there somewhere.

‘Suffocate’ — Cold With lyrics full of venom and spite, this song will help anyone who feels betrayed or deceived by someone they trusted.

‘Passenger’ — Deftones (featuring Maynard James Keenan) It takes a while for this song to build to its crescendo but the creepy mood of the first two minutes and dark lyrics will set a great tone for the listener.

‘I’m So Sick’ — Flyleaf Quality girl screamers are hard to come by, but Lacey Mosley is among the best. The track is raw and full.

‘No More Sorrow’ — Linkin Park The heavy drum beats and bitter political lyrics highlighting this song will have you pounding the steering wheel and banging your head.

‘Re-Education (Through Labor)’ — Rise Against Another political commentary kind of rock song, Rise Against has a powerful tone and message that will get you fired up.

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Libra

9/23 - 10/22

There’s a surprise with your name on it in the Sunday coupons. That’s right, I’m talking two-for-one Big Macs. Who’s loving it? You are.

Scorpio

10/23 - 11/21

Your social life is turning into one big episode of “Grey’s Anatomy.”

Scale it back to “The Office” or “Arrested Development.”

Sagittarius

Those shoes you got for Christmas that you weren’t sure you liked really are ugly. Don’t feel guilty about not wearing them.

Capricorn

‘FMLYHM’ — Seether It would be inappropriate to spell out the title of this song but trust me when I say it doesn’t get much more inappropriately angry than this one.

‘Sooner or Later’ — Breaking Benjamin Melodic rock is the best kind of rock and Breaking Benjamin consistently offers a good mix of melody and shred.

This song is one of their best from an older album.

‘Pitiful’ — Sick Puppies A classic band that teenagers crank while hiding out in their bedrooms, this Australian group is full of self-deprecation and bitterness. It’s awesome.

‘Closer’ — Burn Season After hearing this song you may feel the urge to lock the doors, but it’s worth the stalker feeling.

‘Hemorrhage (In My Hands)’ — Fuel An oldie but a goodie. This song never loses its punch.

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Let loose online The holiday season has ended and students everywhere are bored again. Some never stopped being bored and have merely substituted upcoming schoolwork for “Dora the Explorer” marathons with their nieces. The scholastic tidal wave is quickly approaching.

Internet games and videos can help stem the stress and speed on the doldrums. They may not be food for your brain, but they might keep you from gnawing your limbs off, or your clicker finger at the very least.

Adam, Eve and trampolines

Jumping up and down is one of the oldest pastimes. Scientists have proven the greatest civilizations encouraged gravitational rebellion.

Many tools have been invented to aid man in his quest for freedom from nature’s laws, such as the Pogo Stick, the trampoline, the space shuttle and the fig leaf.

YouTube documents a recorded session of a video game called “Nudist Trampolining” that shows this engineering marvel in action. Harry Ant-agonistic tendencies McBeardface stands on a trampoline People are difficult to avoid. in front of a hedge of bushes. Harry is They’re everywhere — on campus, at matt maw a nudist, as the game’s name implies, home and on the Internet. Sometimes rawr and fully utilizes the fig leaf’s technothey stay in your house and eat your logical advantages. He leaps higher food when you don’t want them to. Someand higher in search of other leaves that hang times they crawl all over your nerves. Somein the air. As he jumps, he poses in a host of times a person just wants them all to go away. split-legged ways to show off his leaf mastery.

If you’ve ever wanted to dispose of folks Naked trampoline jumping is just one of like ants, “Ant City” is your chance. The game the many uses for fig leaves. Watch the video lets you look down on a city street through and see what new uses you can come up with. the lens of a giant magnifying glass. The object Just watch out for snakes. couldn’t be simpler. Find your victim, hold http://bit.ly/etD0bn down the mouse button and watch the sunbeam do its work.

Race to the end Tiny people wander the sidewalks aimlessly It’s normal to take in the sights on a awaiting immolation. Cars meander through mountain bike through trails and streams. the streets and veer off-course when caught Most would agree a man in his mid-40’s by the beam. Their drivers jump out and shouldn’t strap himself to a wheelchair and run around in flames. The “queen” lumbers take to the obstacle course. through the right lane, carrying a giant gas In the game “Happy Wheels,” this is a reality. tank on its trailer. Train the death beam on If watching a homeless man plunge to his doom top and watch the city explode.

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Brad Selvig, co-owner of The End Zone in Boise, said most people, including Vandals, just want to go to a bar where they feel comfortable.

“You get some ripping on game day, and some back and forth during football season, but for the most part people really don’t care,” Selvig said.

Selvig and his partner Chris Gaines are Vandal alumni and have owned the bar since 1999. The End Zone is a great hangout for Vandals because it has a lot of the same amenities Vandals are used to in Moscow bars, Selvig said.

“It’s got a big outdoor seating area similar to what you used to have at Gambino’s, and cheap, big, 32 ounce beers like you have at the Corner Club ... We don’t have live music like John’s Alley, but it’s kind of dark with wood panels and has that John’s Alley feel,” Selvig said.

Selvig graduated in 1994 with a degree in public relations, and while attending the University of Idaho worked part time as a bartender at the Corner Club in Moscow. After graduating Selvig used the skills he learned at the Club to land a part time job bartending at The End Zone while he looked for a job in his field of study in the Boise area.

“I heard that the place was for sale and I knew the owner, I called him and he remembered who I was ... He gave me a pretty good deal on it. At the time, The End Zone wasn’t doing so well,” he said.

UI alum Judd Constantine

said The End Zone is one of his favorite bars in Boise because it reminds him of the Corner Club. The End Zone has a “mug club” similar to the Corner Club. Each day a different mug number is drawn and the mug owner gets to drink for free.

Constantine said getting along with Boise State University fans is easy as long as a mutual level of respect is upheld.

“Be aware that we’re all sports fans together first and foremost. We’re all just there to appreciate what’s going on.

They’re respectful as long as we are too,” Constantine said.

Current Vandal Chris Riddlemoser said he doesn’t seem to see the same level of respect from BSU fans.

“I wear my Idaho hat or my Corner Club hat every time I’m down there, and a lot of the time I don’t notice much, but there’s always at least two pain in the ass Boise State fans.

Ironically enough, the two I’ve talked to never went to BSU,” Riddlemoser said.

Riddlemoser said he avoids The End Zone like the plague on BSU game day because of

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Warm up with some dark beer anthony saia rawr

Some beer enthusiasts may agree: Holidays tend to be even better when time is spent with a good pint of beer.

The seasonal beers out right now feature diverse flavor profiles and warming alcohol content. These brews seem to be meant for slow and deliberate consumption in front of a fire along a humongous chunk of meat at the table or a magnificent spread of other holiday meal goodies.

For some students, the journey to get home for these traditions can be arduous. For one student, Alex Michelson, flying is one of his biggest fears.

“Since I turned 21 it is easy to find me in an airport bar before a flight,” Michelson said.

Michelson said he likes the flavors of holiday beers, and Samuel Adams’ seasonal collection, in particular.

The Samuel Adams brewing company boasts about a whopping 11 seasonal beers that rotate throughout the calendar year.

“I haven’t tried all of them yet, but the Winter Lager is pretty good,” Michelson said.

Jason Moore is a bartender at an airport in Kansas City, Missouri only 300 miles from St. Louis, the home of the Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. Moore said it is typical most beers served in airport bars are part of the company, or at least part of its subsidiaries.

“We’ve started to see a spike in the micro brewed beverages, a lot of them coming from Anheuser-Busch (or) from smaller companies that the company owns,” Moore said.

In a 2009 documentary

by Anat Baron called “Beer Wars,” Moore’s statement was proven. Baron is one of the former heads of Mike’s Hard Lemonade Co. She showed the Anheuser-Busch Company would buy out stock from smaller breweries and produce beer under the original brewery’s name.

In Ft. Worth, Texas, The Flying Saucer bar has a lot of suds to boast about. The bar has 14 locations spread across

the Midwest and southeast and six are in Texas. The Saucer has more than 240 beers on tap and features 100 different brewing styles.

Flying Saucer patron Brian Davis said he has tasted more than 200 beers at the Saucer and won prizes along the way.

For a mere $18.00 patrons can subscribe to the UFO Club.

Club participants are only allowed to drink three of the different drafts each visit that count toward their official tally.

“I earned a pint glass once I reached 25 or so but it is hard to do,” Davis said. “I’ve had times where I’ve tasted more than three in a night, but the thrill of getting to 200 was just awesome.”

Davis initially said he did not have an opinion about seasonal beers but later said they are good.

“I find that some breweries just produce quality beers therefore they don’t have to promote themselves further during the holidays,” Davis said.

Jerry Erdman, a beer drinker from Walla Walla, said he dislikes most seasonal beers.

“I’m partial to Keystone Light. I’ve been drinking it for quite some time now and some of those microbrews are a little too thick for me,” Erdman said.

Erdman is not the only beer drinker partial to “regular” beers since his friend Jake Dawson prefers Keystone as well.

“I’ve tried a myriad of the seasonal stuff but I can’t seem to find something I like. Why should I spend $8 on a half rack when I can spend three more and get another six for my money?” Dawson said.

So why do brewers try something new with seasonal brews?

Some might say it is because they want to try and corner the microbrew market while others feel the breweries are just trying to explore new tastes.

“A good seasonal beer is hard to come by,” Michelson said. “Instead of looking for the next best thing in beer, sometimes just trying the new flavors that come out during the holidays can be very rewarding to a beer enthusiast.”

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Seasonal beers like Alaskan Winter, New Belgium's 2° Below and Winter Solstice, are popular throughout the season and come in many different combinations of flavor and alcohol content. Although seasonals are popular among many there are some people that prefer lighter beers.

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Blue Ribbon to Dogfish Head.

Once you have the kit and beer refill, it’s time to brew.

The instructions and amount of brew time varies with the different beer level, but remember to follow the instructions to a “T” and realize making beer is not an overnight process. The company will say the beer goes from refill to drinking in just 14 days, but I wouldn’t suggest drinking the beer for at least a month.

It is plain fun to brew your own beer. Although some enthusiasts will say this is not how real beer is made, it is a starting point that teaches the basics of brewing. The more you do it and the better you get at timing, boiling and bottling, the easier the transition into a “big kid” brew set-up will be later.

So for now, get yourself a Mr. Beer kit, experiment with ingredients and refill flavors and have a beer, because after a hard day of classes, not much is better than a nice cold one.

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There are several places to purchase seasonal beers in town. For a big selection and low prices, go to Rosaeur’s. A diverse beer selection can be found at the Moscow Food Co-Op.

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An ode to Moscow It is important to take a little pride in your town. Living in a place like Moscow makes it easy. Here are the top 10 reasons to move to Moscow.

Vandals rock Let’s face it, not many universities can boast about such outrageous school spirit.

We love our Vandals.

Tailgating and attending games are reason enough to move here.

For the music lover

easy. Everyone has a role, from the elderly to college students to young families just starting out.

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Orange

Purple

Rainbow bright

Yellow

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“It’s been my favorite color since I was a kid … because it is a bright color and I love the sun,” Chelsey Michals said.

Michals said she attempts to incorporate yellow in almost everything in her life.

“There’s always yellow somewhere on my outfit,” Michals said. “I always wear yellow bracelets, and my bedroom is yellow, recently painted, and of course the house I currently live in, my parents’, is yellow.”

She said yellow reminds her of food, of freshly cut pineapples, ripe bananas, mac and cheese and lemons.

She said yellow reminded her of a parakeet making bird sounds, bees or yellow jackets buzzing, butterflies flapping their wings, birds chirping or bells ringing.

Student Melissa Flores said her favorite color is purple because “lots of great things are purple, such as grapes.”

Flores said she feels calm when she sees the color and incorporates purple into her daily life.

“My walls are purple and so are some of my jackets, and at one point, my hair,” Flores said.

Student Bailey Hescock loves purple because she said it’s unique.

“It doesn’t get used enough. It can stand for many things and when it is a deep dark purple it is so pretty,” Hescock said.

Hescock also meshes purple into her life.

“I have so many clothes that are purple and I always try to get purple decorations though I often have a hard time with that,” she said.

Hescock said purple would taste like something rich and distinct and Flores said it would be sweet.

“I associate the taste of Dips (the candy stick things with sour powder packets) with the color,” Flores said.

She said purple would sound like an Owl City song and said her favorite color has changed a lot during her life.

“I liked red when I was little but everyone else liked blue so I convinced myself I liked blue for a while,” Hescock said. “Then one day I just kind of realized that purple is amazing.”

The colors of the rainbow not only translate into stunning visual sights but music, oceans and a range of emotions for students.

Heather Schrader said she loves orange because it’s bright, stands out and because she doesn’t like to be part of the crowd.

“I have an orange dress, orange jewelry (and) for Christmas I just got orange Converse and an orange pot cooking set,” Schrader said. “I have orange Keens, flats, and heels. I have an orange coffee to-go mug and an orange retainer. I have a bright shiny orange wallet … you name it, I’ve got it in orange.”

Schrader said her favorite color has changed throughout the years. It was green at one time because it was her best friend’s favorite color, and purple is currently a favorite, but orange beats it because it’s “more obnoxious,” she said.

“When I see something orange I like, my first instinct is to laugh. I love it. Orange makes me happy,” Schrader said. “It also makes me think about being obnoxious and how much more out there I can be.”

Schrader said orange would taste and smell like, well, an orange, but would sound bold.

“Bang.” Kind of like in those old super hero movies where when they fought they shouted out with words like ‘bang’ surrounded by colors,” Schrader said. “Orange is very out there and I feel ‘bang’ would describe it very well.”

“When I see something orange I like, my first instinct is to laugh.” heather schrader

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Azure

Green “I love green because it reminds me of life — I feel like it’s symbolic of the important relationship between humans and nature,” Holly Clark said. “Especially because this relationship seems to be less and less respected over time as technology and all that jazz improve over time.”

Students Josh Strole and Jess Workman also said they prefer green because it reminds them of nature.

“When I see something green I feel happy and more inclined to like that particular object,” Workman said.

Strole said green would look and taste like lettuce, and it would probably smell “planty.”

Clark said she has worked the color green into her life completely.

“Not only does my wardrobe have tons of green in it, but one of my majors is eco-hydraulic engineering, which is part of the green field of environmental engineering,” Clark said.

Clark said green would “smell like freshly cut grass or crushed leaves.”

“It’d taste minty, like green tea or mint ice cream,” Clark said. “I think green would sound like leaves rustling in a soft summer breeze.”

Silver Lauren Moore said gray or silver is her favorite color because it’s a great, neutral color.

“I often use that color in designs for characters for my stories as well as my art,” Moore said. “One can find that color in my wardrobe as well.”

Moore said silver makes her feel mellow.

“Vanilla ice cream would probably taste like it and it would smell like the Winter Vanilla scent at Bath and Body Works,” Moore said.

She said silver would sound like, “some type of duck honk, don’t ask me why, but it would.”

Evoking the senses through color

Azure, a mix of blue and green, is the favorite of Melissa Apple, who is from the San Juan Islands.

“It’s the one color that I think of whenever I think of home, because that is generally the color of the ocean most any day of the year,” Apple said.

Apple said azure tends to work its way into her wardrobe.

“I do occasionally work it into decorations, clothes, etcetera,” Apple said. “I’ve noticed most of the time it seems to be an almost automatic thing when I shop, that I’ll look for that color.”

Apple’s favorite color used to be red because she associated it with fire and she said it reflected her personality but it changed.

“As I got older my personality changed to reflect the (favorite) color I have now, which is usually patient, laid-back, but can get pretty pissed when the time is right to,” Apple said.

Azure reminds her of the Aurora Borealis, the ocean and makes her feel calm as if she was “swimming in this giant pool, and I’ve got all the time in the world with no responsibilities at the moment.“ “I’m also synesthetic so for me, most sounds come out as color … voice, music, natural sounds, they all translate as color,” Apple said.

Azure would taste like either a snowflake or rain to Apple, and she said it would smell like “the air after a heavy thunderstorm, an ocean breeze or the air just before it starts raining.”

“Take the sound of a heavy storm, with the rain and wind hitting your window and the thunder rolling overhead, or the sound of waves crashing on the beach,” Apple said. “That is what I hear when I think of that color.”

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University of Idaho alum Mark LaMoreaux said a camera is a powerful machine. “(A camera) is a machine that makes the invisible visible and the visible permanent,” LaMoreaux said.

LaMoreaux said even though there are definitions of a technically good and technically bad photograph, it’s difficult to define a good photograph.

“Everyone has a different idea of what a good photo is,” LaMoreaux said. “I don’t think there is one right, correct or only answer.”

Student Adrianna Baumgartner said artistically she doesn’t know if a photograph is good or not until she sees it in a print or digitally.

“If you’re going for textbook (a) good photo means right lighting (and) angle …

A good photo to me personally, is an artistic idea,” Baumgartner said. “It might be the lighting or the way the wind catches someone’s hair or the way the tree silhouettes against the sunset.”

Student Chandler Abraham said photography is a hobby he can take and provide as a service.

“It’s a craft that requires both technical skill and creative skill and I really enjoy that,” Abraham said. “I can nerd out with technical aspects of high speed and astrophotography while trying to create a final image that is a piece of art.”

Baumgartner said photography is her escape.

“When I’m behind the camera it’s just what I see in the lens, nothing else. It’s peaceful and I can express my artistic side,” Baumgartner said. “When I need to get away I go take photos, when I need to think I go take photos. It’s more than just pointing and shooting.”

LaMoreaux said he has always been crazy for photography.

“I was drafted into the army in the Vietnam era,” LaMoreaux said. “While I was there, I always kind of liked the camera so I took advantage of the opportunity for the service club … where the soldiers could go and entertain themselves, and most of the clubs had a dark room.”

He came to UI for their photography program and when he finished school he worked at UI’s Photographic Services.

“A great thing about photo services was that they did every kind of photography there was, portrait and studio, location,

sports, jazz festivals, anything that the university needed photographs for, photo services was going to be there.”

Baumgartner said she has been into photography since she was 9-years old and loves it.

“There was a photograph taken by my mom’s best friend’s son and I truly fell in love with the photo,” Baumgartner said.

“It was captivating and peaceful.”

Abraham said he has been into photography for a year and a half.

“I got started when I joined the Lancaster Photography Society,” Abraham said.

“I was studying abroad in England and it seemed like a good way to meet people. I had no idea it would make such an impact on my life.”

LaMoreaux opened his studio, LaMoreaux Photography, in Moscow in the early ‘90s and said it’s been wonderful.

“It seemed so easy and fun for me to do photography that I knew that was what I was going to do,” LaMoreaux said.

Baumgartner currently shoots personal family portraits and scenic shots for cards and calendars. She also interns for the Sound of Idaho – UI’s marching band, and Supercross pro rider Jake Weimer.

LaMoreaux teaches photography workshops

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“Now-a-days the cameras are smart enough and handle most of the technical stuff for you,” LaMoreaux said. “But the knowledge of what a good image is (is) beyond that. (It’s) beyond the technical (and) something the average amateur won’t get by picking up the camera and snapping away.”

Along with the digital age came a lot of new programs to enhance photographs, but more detail and quality come with prints, LaMoreaux said.

“I prefer film most of the time. When I’m shooting digital I fall into the habit of taking hundreds of pictures and hoping for something good,” Abraham said. “Film can cost almost a dollar per picture so I put a lot more thought into each picture, getting it right the first time.”

Baumgartner said she is in love with both film and digital.

“Most people love one or the other and feel that you lose something between film and digital,” Baumgartner said.

“Now the digital photography has come really far along and so you don’t lose things from film to digital. I don’t think you see … any difference, they both make great photos.”

Both amateurs agree with the expression, “A picture is worth a thousand words.”

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from page 3 the athletic father character. He’ll travel through the fields of giant rock pillars and water-wheels-of-death like a happy homemaker with little Johnny sitting in the child seat behind him. One wrong push of the control and you can see how Johnny would look as an orphan.

This version is free, which leads the assumption there’s a version you can pay for. More characters, tracks and chances for seeing inappropriate people taking risks with their bodies and loved ones.

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“I may take a photo of a girl who is crying sweetly because she’s happy. Someone who sees it might think she’s sad, angry, hurt,” Baumgartner said.

“There’s so much someone could feel by seeing a photo I took and it means something completely different to me. My photo means 1000 things.”

LaMoreaux said there are numerous ways to distort the truth with words and photographs.

“You’re just taking a little bit of life, a little snippit, a moment with a rectangle drawn around,” LaMoreaux said.

“What’s inside that rectangle is what you’re capturing and saving, and that means that the whole truth can’t be seen from that.”

Photography’s greatest strength is its connection with the real world, LaMoreaux said.

“We believe a photograph because it started with real life, most of them,” LaMoreaux said. “It’s coupled so tightly with real life, the real experience. It’s believable and that makes it dangerous too. We might believe something that may not be true, but it just looks true.”

Baumgartner said the meaning of her photography changes on a daily basis.

“I don’t have a blog or a diary, my life and the lives of people around me are documented in my photos,” Abraham said.

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mouthy fans. He said he does have a few choice words ready for fans who say something about his Vandal gear.

“I just ask them who signs their paychecks ... because the old running joke is you might be a Bronco but you probably work for a Vandal,” Riddlemoser said.

He said the upside to watching sports in Boise is the vast selection of sports bars.

“They have more of a variety of sports bars than Moscow. My personal favorite is Busters on

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Baumgartner said if photography had never been invented society would be devastated.

“Think of all the photos that are known today that wouldn’t be possible if photography had never been made — the photos of Marilyn Monroe, the picture in New York City of the sailor and girl, or the photo of the Beatles crossing the road,” Baumgartner said.

LaMoreaux said one of his

Broadway, south of Boise State. You can always find whatever game you want and it’s pretty neutral unless it’s BSU game day,” Riddlemoser said.

Constantine said other bars where Vandals can gather are The Zone in Quest Arena and Mac and Charles downtown. Constantine said The Zone will air most UI games and Mac and Charles is Vandal owned.

“Most of us hung out there (Mac and Charles) for the Humanitarian Bowl ... On that day at the bar it was basically ‘Corner Club South,’ 90 to 95 percent of the fans were Vandals so it was alright,” Riddlemoser said.

favorite photographs is Mary Ellen Mark’s “Lillie in Seattle.” “(The photo is of) a little 12-year-old girl in the streets of Seattle — homeless, probably using drugs and (involved in) prostitution … smoking a cigarette and she’s holding a little stuffed toy,” LaMoreaux said.

“It just makes me cry. How can we let this happen? This is a very powerful photo.”

Baumgartner said taking

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boarding and hot springing.

The Palouse hills We live in an area that fascinates most geologists. The rolling hills of the Palouse are special to Idaho and make for some amazing photographic opportunities.

Watching a sea of wheat wave hello during the summer months and standing atop a high hill to catch a sunset make living here during bitter winter months worth it.

a great textbook photograph requires talent.

“You need luck to do it once, you need talent to do it consistently,” Abraham said.

Baumgartner said even amateurs could capture meaningful photographs.

“I’m an amateur and I take photos for pro Supercross rider Jake Weimer,” she said.

Get your workout on Not many people in Moscow drive a car. This may sound like a pitch for sustainability, but in reality it is just how it is. Everything in Moscow is conveniently located and easy to get to on foot.

There are opportunities to get physical without ever hitting a gym. You can walk Paradise Creek trail for a brisk blood pumping exercise or hit Moscow Mountain with your mountain bike for some awesome trail riding.

There are countless other reasons to live in our fine city — these are just the best reasons.

Let’s hope the coolest people we know will pack their bags and join us in Vandal nation.

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Coast guards talk on a pier in the background of a setting sun on Halfmoon Caye, Belize, in March 2008. Endangered sea turtles come to nest on the island every year.

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