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on the cover ‘The Room’ Megan Risi is a sophomore from Nevada, majoring in virtual technology and design. Risi said the program teaches students to create and work with everything from 3D imagery to animation. She said her love of art slowly developed into a passion for creating characters and bringing them to life. She said she is inspired by animation and hopes to someday work for a corporation like Disney Pixar or Dreamworks. Risi said “The Room� is a piece of work she created using Autodesk’s 3ds Max. Each piece in the scene was individually made and placed. Then materials were applied to the objects and lighting was used to form a visual environment. She said the purpose was to create a believable scene, and using a program like Autodesk 3ds Max to create a life-like illustration is fun. 3.4.11
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Aquarius
1/20 - 2/18
Gemini
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Being cheap is not conducive to a fun spring break. It’s time to splurge on something stupid and impractical — it’s good for you.
The person who will make eyes at you in the bagel shop this weekend is after more than your cream cheese ... proceed with caution.
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2/19 - 3/20
Your sign is the fish, and it may be time for you to make a friend with flippers. It will make Friday nights go by a little faster if you have something to make faces at. Try it, it’s fun.
Aries
3/21 - 4/19
There’s no question you’ll find fun during spring break, but make sure you don’t end up in a jail cell with someone who won’t stop screaming, “Wooo, now that was a good time!�
Taurus
4/20 - 5/20
Stop wishing for snow unless you know we’ll get a snow day out of it. It’s pissing people off.
M O S C O W
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Unlike Lady Gaga, you were not born this way. You can change, put up or shut up.
Leo
7/23 - 8/22
Now that your dreams to become “America’s Next Top Model� are over, it’s time for the next big hope. Oh yeah, I’m talking “Wheel of Fortune.� Vanna White has to retire sometime.
Virgo
8/23 - 9/22
Jazz Fest may have inspired you to learn to play the trumpet, but avoid physical harm from your neighbors and practice away from home. That’s what Ridenbaugh Hall is for.
Libra
9/23 - 10/22
Just because you have an iPhone now doesn’t mean you should use it to be a stalker. Stop it before you get slapped with a restraining order.
Scorpio
10/23 - 11/21
Though your last haircut experience was traumatizing, you have to go again soon. Dreadlocks don’t suit you.
Sagittarius
11/22 - 12/21
In case you’re in doubt, it is not normal for your apartment to smell like that. Something spoiled or perhaps died, a long time ago. Track it down before it grows friends.
Capricorn
12/22 - 1/19
You might think no one will notice if you eat that dirty snowball, but you’re wrong.
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‘Murder at Foxbluff Lake: A Coug Hawkins Mystery’ Washington State University alumnus Jesse Freels has authored a book, “Murder at Foxbluff Lake: A Coug Hawkins Mystery.� Freels said the book is the first in what he hopes to be a three-part series. The main character in the piece has connections to WSU and North Washington. Freels will promote his book with a signing from 1-4 p.m. March 26 at the Moscow Hastings.
Choral concert The University Chorus and Vandaleers are featured in a choral concert Sunday at 3 p.m. The concert will be held in Haddock Performance Hall in the Lionel Hampton School of Music. Cost is $5 for adults and $3 for students and senior citizens.
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rock star If you have you ever seen some guys partying without care and have wanted to do the same, the following will explain how to achieve rock star status.
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World of creativity Milk donor Victoria Hiley Everybody knows the U.S. has already given 30 fluid leads global innovation in sciounces to Icecreaence and art. This is mists. She said breast thanks to our superior milk is tasty and educational system. more digestible than After all, the world the bovine variety. would be a different “What could be place if the Kentucky more natural than Fried Chicken “Double fresh, free-range Down” didn’t burst mother’s milk in an with essential vitaice cream? And … mins and minerals. what’s the harm in I’m off to examine epic Greek poetry untt maw using my assets for ma der the effects of boilrawr a bit of extra cash?” Hiley said. ing gravy, and some The health screenings for other nations’ creative efforts. milk donors use the same Just like Mom used to standards as those for blood donors. make Delicious, nutritious and certified free of herbicides. An ice cream parlor in http://aol.it/gtJkkt London is selling ice cream made from breast milk. Matt Who needs a pilot’s O’Connor, founder of the Icecreamists parlor, calls it license? “Baby Gaga.” He said nobody’s done anything new with ice Breast milk isn’t all people cream for a century. have found other uses for. Re“It’s just one of a dozen cycling is important, especially radical, new flavors we’ve if it results in your own flying invented,” he said. “We want to machine. change the way people think Ding Shilu, automobile meabout ice cream.” chanic, constructed his aircraft The snack is a mixture of entirely from recycled commother’s best with lemon zest ponents. These include three and Madagascan vanilla. motorbike engines and a plas-
tic sheet for wings. The craft weighs around 287 pounds and cost about $395. Ding Shilu test-flew the aircraft at an icy reservoir in Shenyang, Liaoning province Feb. 25. Apparently, designing personal airplanes is a big hobby in China. There’s even a competition for it. I’m still trying to find all my missing Lego pieces. http://bit.ly/fs8gqM http://bit.ly/e3aPF1
Chariots of electricity Some folks in Japan proved they have serious ambition in the world’s first robot marathon. Vstone Co. LTD., robot maker, organized the event in Osaka, Japan, at the Asia-Pacific trade center. The race spanned 422 laps for 26.2 total miles. The five robots were between 11 and 18 inches tall and ran on batteries. They warmed up their circuits before the race with knee-bends and other techniques. Previous robot event organizers said the marathon will greatly test the robots’ durability and maneuverability.
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The first step to realizing a rock star dream is to consider cost, how much can be spent on such an adventure. The word “budget” does not enter a rock star’s mind, ever. If money is a concern, save up for six months to blow on one night of awesomeness or concede to a life in your mother’s basement with boxed wine or Old Crow.
Big city style Now consider the location of the adventure. Moscow is a great town but true rock star status cannot be reached in the Palouse. A late-night weekend stroll down Main Street will hold no exciting new people, mostly just groups of guys wearing hoodies or Carhartts. Dressing up beyond a decent shirt and leather jacket is often unnecessary. You will have to travel to find the proper venue for a party. Spokane is also not big enough — think Seattle or Las Vegas. Boise would be a possibility, but since it
is home to Boise State University, it loses the potential to be cool. OK, so you’ve chosen a city and decided the credit cards Mom and Dad gave you for “emergencies only” can take a hit for the weekend.
Wingman or Han Solo? With a group of friends, there will be compromises during the night steve but the possibilicarter ties are different rawr from the stag’s party. A group of friends can ride in a limo, make reservations at expensive restaurants overlooking the city and book passes to exclusive night clubs. Having a couple wingmen and a stretch Escalade is handy when trying to pick up a group of British flight attendants in Vegas. On the other hand, a partier without a wingman is going to have to gather an entourage. The stag may try to gather some temporary friends at a bar, but this approach is doubtful. Most likely, the stag will head to a high-class establishment that supports the entrepreneurial spirit of young women working their way through medical school — a strip club.
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Jennifer Eugenio said freshman year was a shock because she was one of four girls in every class she had. “In the beginning, I was definitely timid and hung around the girls in my classes,” said Eugenio, a civil engineering major. In most engineering disciplines at the University of Idaho, women are the minority. Eugenio said most of her interaction with men was through assigned projects. “As the years have gone by I have become accustomed to working with males in the program, and now I don’t even notice that I am a minority,” Eugenio said, “My experience has been positive here at the university. I have not felt disadvantaged in any way and I am comfortable and like being a woman in a mostly male field.” There is no clear-cut reason there are more men in engineering fields than women. Civil engineering major Jazmine Watson said she thinks the math and science focus of the major scares women from pursuing the career. “I feel that women think it’s a man’s job because of all hands-on dirty work and problem solving. This is what I enjoy about engineering.” Watson said. Eugenio said the only difference between being a woman in a male-dominant field is just that there are more men than women. “In actuality, you take the same classes, you learn the same material, you gain the same experiences, and the only thing that sets you apart is your work ethic and initiative,” Eugenio said. Jackie Peer is a 1996 alumnus from Washington State University and majored in electrical engineering. She is now the Research and Development manager of Time and Communications Systems for Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories in Pullman. “I started out as a pre-med student at Mt. Hood Community College in Oregon,” Peer said. “Part of the program was doing physical therapy for athletes and I got really interested in the types of equipment we used. I eventually decided to change my major to electrical engineering.” Peer said pre-med and electrical engineering are not fields that often overlap. She said it was chance that electrical engineering came to her the way it did. “(In high school) I was never once, through all my counseling, ever encouraged to pursue such a discipline,” Peer said. “There are task forces, set up to investigate why there are so few women in engineering fields. Their studies showed part of
rawr it is teachers and counselors in high school don’t encourage them to do so and part of that is they are not familiar with the field of engineering and therefore are not confident in promoting that to the student.” Peer said the study showed a lot of parents don’t encourage their children to pursue such degrees and evidence suggests this is more often the case with women than men. “With both male and female potential engineering students, they’re often not confident in their math and science skills,” Peer said. “Engineering is very math and science intensive. If they don’t have a lot of confidence in those skills they rule it out as a perspective.” Eugenio said math and science were always her favorite subjects growing up because she understood the concepts. She said this was a factor when she chose to pursue engineering and the people around her were big influences in that career path. “My parents were always encouraging me to go in the direction of something that would allow me to use and develop my math and science skills,” Eugenio said. “They always told me that I was capable of achieving anything.” She said another inspiration was a coach who was also a nuclear engineer. “He was like a second father to me and was the one who really put becoming an engineer in my mind,” Eugenio said. “His story made me realize that I would be a minority, being a woman in a male dominant field, but that I could do it and that it was something I would enjoy doing.” Eugenio’s coach was from Nicaragua and English was his second language. He received a baseball scholarship to a university in California, and she said through all the adversity, he is now a successful nuclear engineer. “I related well to my coach’s experience throughout the years because I too traveled far for my education,” Eugenio said. “I came from Hawaii on a soccer scholarship and pursuing engineering
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Jazmine Watson, left, and Jennifer Eugenio check a valve on the old pump systems in the Buchanan Engineering Lab. while playing a sport is one of the hardest things I have done so far. But because my coach did it, I knew it was possible and that it would just depend on how hard I was willing to work for it.”
Watson said she also enjoyed math and science in high school and chose engineering because of this. “I did not choose the engineering field until I was a se-
nior in high school. Before that I didn’t know what I wanted to do,” Watson said. Peer said teachers will often ask her to come speak on career days about engineering because they don’t know much about it. “(They say) ‘We would like you to not only educate us, but talk with these students who are really good in math and science or have expressed an interest in the field’,” Peer said. Peer said in a lecture hall, it becomes obvious how few women go into engineering. “There are a hundred or more students in some of the lower-level engineering classes and you may be one, or one of a few females, so then you’re considered a minority,” Peer said. Susan Branting is an administrative assistant for the College of Engineering. She said there were 1,240 students enrolled in engineering majors for the fall 2010 semester, but only 179 were women. Gradu-
ate enrollment distributions are about the same with 434 total graduates, 60 of which are women. “Personally, I don’t feel like I have experienced any challenges different from the men I go to school with,” Eugenio said. “In regards to my interaction with the male students, there is a mutual respect. The faculty is also very encouraging and I feel like they genuinely want every student to succeed and the rest (is) up to the student and how they apply themselves.” Watson said she feels she hasn’t been faced with more challenges than anyone else in engineering. “I’ve never felt like there was a challenge in the workplace as a result of being a woman,” Peer said. “Everyone has always been welcoming and receptive. They consider me a peer and we work very well together.” In the next five to 10 years, there will be a hole in government jobs as baby boomers
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reach retirement age, including jobs in engineering positions, such as the Corps of Engineers or state departments of transportation. “There’s a huge need to replace those retiring engineers,” Peer said, “and transfer their knowledge to newer engineers, male or female.” In the classroom or office, engineering may have the perception of being a man’s domain, but women are equals in every aspect, except numbers. Watson said being a woman in engineering is not as big of an issue as it used to be. “I just think that everyone has their own interests,” Eugenio said, “and engineering is just not one for many women. Peer said there aren’t a lot of females considering a major in engineering. “I think there is more … awareness now by women that engineering is a potential option for them,” Peer said.
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Chris Dyer said he chooses to be an optimist because it’s a better way to live. “It gets you through the day easier,” Dyer said. “I mean, at the end it doesn’t really change anything it just, I mean, besides you’re mood, that’s the only thing it changes really.” Dyer, a management student, said he views life in a positive way. “I have bad days just like everyone else,” Dyer said. “Optimism doesn’t mean that you’re going to have a good day all the time but it does mean that, in general, you have faith in people and you have a positive outlook — that in the end everything’s going to be fine.” Dyer said he used to be a pessimist during high school, and thinking that way made him depressed. He said there was a noticeable turning point in his life when he chose to be an optimist. “The turning point was when I was in North Carolina. I had graduated from
high school, it was about a year after I graduated, and I was living in North Carolina … working, and I was kind of depressed,” Dyer said. “I was over there not really doing a lot and I just had met somebody who … made me realize that there’s a better way to live.” Dyer said when in a pessimistic mindset, people often believe the worst about other people. He said being an optimist means you see the best in people even though you may be let down sometimes. “Of course … that’s the down side of
being an optimist — that you will end up putting too much faith in people, and in the end some people will let you down, but the highs definitely outweigh the lows,” Dyer said. Cortney Casperson, sociology student, said looking on the bright side of things helps her get through the day. “I think that I am definitely an optimist, because I think that life is just far too good to not be happy,” Casperson said. “Optimism is the best way that I can deal with the stresses of daily life without going crazy.” Casperson said being an optimist is
a choice and questioned why anyone would choose to be sad. “When you are going to school full time and working part time and maintaining a semblance of a social life, it can be hard to do, but it is even harder to do when you can’t see any happiness in life,” Casperson said, “Like being drenched at work by a cup of water in the dish room, it can suck, but it also can be a reason to laugh and release the tension of the busy situation. One way or another, it happens and there is nothing you can do about it except deal with it.” Casperson said she focuses on things that make her happy to avoid negative thoughts. “The little things are what keep me going on a bad day or a good day, my favorite cereal, having time to read a book, listening to records, watching my favorite TV show, getting a letter in the mail, pickles, the like,” Casperson said. “If I’m having a bad day, those things remind me that it isn’t all bad, there are good things, you just have to find (them).”
rawr Leona Ahles said if she thinks positive thoughts, good things might happen. “I try to view (life) in the best possible way like, no one’s truly bad and even if I lose I can always win something later,” Ahles said. Ahles said optimism is a choice and she chooses it. “Because I think that if I were pessimistic I might as well not even go outside because then everything would just be bad,” Ahles said. Ahles said being an optimist shapes the way she views life. “I think we should live it up, party and be happy ‘cause, like I said, if you don’t there’s no point to even trying to live,” Ahles said. “Like people who believe that the world is going to end in 2012, yeah, they’re doing nothing, because they figure they might as well not, because they’re going to die in a year. I think that’s really sad.” Nohemy Labra said she chose to be an optimist when her mom was hospitalized with E. coli. She said being optimistic would help her and her family more than focusing on the negative. “I needed to look at the brighter side and that’s helping me a lot now that I’m not close to my family,” Labra said. “Knowing that I can be optimistic means that I can always think ‘I always have my family back home.’ I (don’t) just think about the negative things in life because that just doesn’t get you anywhere. It … depresses me a lot more than being optimistic.” Labra said being positive has changed the way she looks at things because she doesn’t limit herself, in regards to what she can accomplish. She said instead, she pushes herself to excel and perform well. “I feel like there’s always a positive side to everything,” Labra said. Labra said her positive outlook has helped her view the world in a more realistic manner. “There’s some parts of life
that kind of suck, and if you’re not optimistic then life itself will take you down,” Labra said. “It helped me, actually, being happier with myself and happier with everybody else — not expecting things that other people can’t accomplish, so it (has) helped me in that situation.” Labra said being far from home can bring negativity out in her. “School’s so far away, sometimes I wish I could just go home, work a normal job, have a normal life, but normal isn’t always the best,” Labra said. “You always have to try and succeed for the better, and being so far from my chris dyer family makes me appreciate them and appreciate all my friends that I have close to me.” Casperson said stepping in mud can make her feel pessimistic because she loves her shoes. “I really like letters from my friend, they make me the most optimistic, and sometimes a long day of class or a long day at work or just a long day in general, can make me pretty pessimistic, or as I normally think it, just ready to be in bed,” Casperson said. Dyer said humanity is a “mixed beast” and one of the biggest differences between optimists and pessimists is the way they view humanity. “I believe that in the end we’ll be OK,” Dyer said. “I mean, we’re screwing up the environment a lot and you know there’s terrible things going on all over the world in any given moment, but in the end I think that we’re going to figure our stuff out … and I think that’s really the bottom line of being an optimist.” Dyer said thinking pessimistically is no way to live your life. “Optimism is the way to go,” Dyer said. “Eventually, I think everybody realizes that you can’t go through life being a pessimist. You have to try and see good at some point or else there’s no point in being here.”
Eventually, I think everybody realizes that you can’t go through life being a pessimist.”
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Elementary, my dear Watson Watson is a computer. In 2004, Ken Jennings Developed by Silicon Valley took American TV by storm giant IBM, Watson implewith 74 straight wins on mented the idea of gathering “Jeopardy!” In total, Jenraw information from nings has won around the globe. His $3,172,700 on the creators are respongame show and sible for a machine has only been depowerful and intelfeated twice — by ligent enough to decia human, that is. pher that information In his latest and give answers to attempt to be king any question potenof Alex Trebek’s tially posed. stage, Jennings At the end of the and Brad Rutter (one of the men to madison three day “Jeopardy!” battle, it was no surout-wit Jennings) mccord took on an unfarawr prise to see that Watson had embarrassed miliar foe, Watson. Jennings and Rutter, Watson is no but the question now is what different than any past or to do with it. future “Jeopardy!” contesIBM didn’t build a super tant. He’s smart, fast on the computer just to play a game trigger and has sharp intelbut to help people around lect. The only exception is:
the world. Imagine the possibilities with one centralized information resource center millions of people could access. Doctors in Kenya could just sign onto the Watson server, ask a question and get an instant and correct answer. How is Watson any different than simply using Google? Well, think about Google and the Internet for one minute. If typed, “What are the signs of _____,” the first 15 results will present 12 different answers, and only one or two may be correct. As great as the Internet is at helping people find information, it is still raw and unpolished. With a system like Watson there is nothing unfiltered or raw, it takes all information
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Freshman Max Holley pins up costume designs in the costume shop above the Hartung Theatre Monday afternoon. The students in Carrie Lawrence’s costume design class are creating costumes for an upcoming show.
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It was opening night at the Hartung Theatre and a sense of hustle permeated the building. Actors ran through their lines one last time, the director gave a last set of instructions and the curtain was about to be raised. Jenna Young and Max Holley sat in the crowd, waiting to see the play, but were there to see more than the actors’ talents. The two freshmen said they shared the same mix of nerves the actors experienced. Young and Holley’s experience started in the University of Idaho Department of Theatre Arts costume shop located in the upper Hartung Theatre.
In a room no bigger than a classroom, all costumes for the theater department’s productions are made. Carrie Lawrence has worked as manager of the costume shop for four years and is the boss of Young and Holley. The pair are work-study students, two of the six students Lawrence hired to work at the costume shop for the school year. Lawrence said Young and Holley could expect at work that while at work there will never be time to do homework. “There is always something going on here that needs to be done, and while some of it may not be the most glamorous it just as important to the process,” Lawrence said. “There is a lot more to costume design
than people realize.” The costuming process involves everyone from the director to actors to each work-study student. Lawrence said work on the costumes for a show takes four to six weeks, depending on how much work needs to be done. “There are a lot of variables that go into designing costumes for a show since everything has to match a certain look and be prepared a certain way,” Lawrence said. “Fitting, amount of time for costume changes and of course, budget, are just a few things that have to be taken into consideration.” Young and Holley said myths they believed about working in a costume shop
go out and buy something or were dispelled. we already have it in the shop “When I first started here than it means we have more I thought that every costume time to focus on items we was made from scratch in the don’t have, (that) need more shop and that it was going to detail,” Lawrence be like working said. “There is in a sweatshop,” simply not enough Holley said. time to make ev“I was really ery costume from surprised and rescratch.” lieved to find out Lawrence said that we reuse she tries her hardor buy certain est to make sure things.” the job is nothing Lawrence like fashion-based said if some shows on TV. part of a cos“Before I tume already started, I thought exists then carrie lawrence there was going to there is no be a lot of running point in making that everything a new one. was going to be “If we can
“There is simply not enough time to make every costume from scratch.”
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Freshman Morgan Bingle and junior Karly Jenkins trace around costume pattern pieces for an upcoming show, in the costume shop above the Hartung Theatre Monday afternoon.
definitely much more calm and collected than what I have seen on television.” Young said his perception of the job was based on these TV shows, at first. “I pictured the job involving me running errands downtown and being on a cell phone at all times,” Young said. “This job has been much more rewarding because I have had a chance to do so many different things.” The students Lawrence supervises are given a multitude of responsibilities. Lawrence said as long as the students are willing to work she will trust them to do anything, regardless of experience. “All jobs get spread out evenly here, so no one is going to be stuck doing the cleaning or organizing all the time,” Lawrence said. “From the first day here, there is a lot of hands-on job training, and everyone will have contributed to the process in a meaningful way.” This means Young and Holley create costumes to be seen on stage. This added incentive makes working hard and meeting deadlines much more important, Lawrence said. “We will occasionally get people up here who come in, look around and see that this is not for them,” Lawrence said. “The work-study students want to be
here because it is a practical job and an extremely rewarding one, not because it is easy.” Holley said there is one benefit about his job. “I remember I was working on this one costume and the actor said that he loved the costume,” Holley said. “That really means a lot because I had a chance to be part of the production, even though I have not been here a long time.” Holley said as opening night draws near, the pressure is on. “You get a little a nervous before a show because you don’t really know how everything will turn out,” Young said. “When you finally see a piece you have been working on up on stage, you really feel honored.” Once the curtain raised opening night, Holley and Young got to see the fruits of their labor. Both said they get a sense of pride making this key contribution to the production. “I remember when I saw the blue polka-dot nurse’s dress I made for ‘The Guardian’ on stage, and it was special,” Young said. “There are times during a play I will nudge the person next to me and tell them, ‘I helped make that costume.’”
The music on a road trip helps set the mood for the outing. It is crucial that music is something to keep you alert but it also has to be chill enough to handle for many miles. “Down By The Water” — The Decemberists The vocal harmony mixed with bluesy, folk ballads make this track a must for any road trip. Water is, of course, optional. “War” — Edwin Starr This song awakens any traveler. The loud vocals and timeless protest lyrics show that what Starr sang about is still applicable in today’s world. “Girl Is On My Mind” — The Black Keys This is steering-wheel-tap good. Actually, most everything The Black Keys make is, and from beginning to end, the two brothers engage the listener. “The Choice is Yours” — Black Sheep Maybe it’s because it’s in the Kia Soul commercials featuring gangster hamsters or because it’s a sweet old school hiphop song, but either way this brings out the race-car driver in everyone. “Up, Up and Away” — Kid Cudi Also known as the “wake and bake song,” Cudi captures such a happy, easy feeling in this track that it makes one wonder why more people don’t partake in the same moodaltering morning routine. “Wild Night” — Van Morrison This song makes one feel the open road is full of endless possibilities and adventure awaits in one “wild night.” The widespread instrumentals mesh nicely with Morrison’s smoky vocals. “Stuck Between Stations” — The Hold Steady The twisted lyrics tell a tale that takes the mind into interesting places. “Most nights are crystal clear but tonight it’s like he’s stuck between stations, on the radio.” “Magic Carpet Ride” — Steppenwolf Something about this song makes time fly, it’s like a personal magic carpet to move you melodically along. “In One Ear” — Cage the Elephant The band recently dropped its second album and is coming into its own. This spazzy, energetic group is sure to have everyone singing along to the semi pop-punk melody.
Tune into 89.3 FM for the Argonaut radio show tonight at 6:30 p.m.
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Megan Oldenstadt said every human being has an innate ability to create art. Oldenstadt is an artist who works with mixed media, which includes any non-toxic medium, from bees wax painting to book-binding. “I’ve been an artist since I could hold a crayon,” she said. She was born in Pullman and returned in January, after 20 years away. Oldenstadt is opening an art school called Art, Wisdom, Experience (AWE.) She ran a similar facility in Oregon after graduating college where she taught workshops on different art techniques and mediums. She said community members could use the tools and studio space to create their own work. Oldenstadt said she’s been mapping a plan for the last five years to incorporate similar services at the AWE school. She said art helps people conceptualize objects in new ways, including creative problem solving, math and science. The school will have many opportunities for people to express and learn about art from workshops, to studio space Artist Sadie Galloway works on a and summer classes. She said evident in the final product. everyone should have access to art, and she’s planning financial assistance methods under five years ago but said she has her “Art Angels” program. always liked photography. She “You don’t have to be an said photography provides her art person to participate and a different way of looking at enjoy our programs,” Oldenthings, in showing both reality stadt said. “There’s something and unreality. She for everyone.” said she has a speAWE is set to cial affection for open March 14 and old rusty cars. free introductory “I like to try classes will be ofvarious ways and fered the previous angles to make an week. old rust bucket Sadie Galloway, beautiful,” she said. co-owner of GreyGalloway enmalkin Gallery in tered some pieces Troy, said she loves sadie galloway at craft shows after being creative. having her second “It’s fun to let your creative inner child go and child and said it was because she needed something to do see what comes out,” she said. while not working. She said at Galloway works primarfirst she didn’t plan to sell her ily with stained glass and work because she didn’t think photography. She said she is people would buy it. When she able to enter a different, more became dissatisfied with craft creative world with stained glass. She started it as a hobby shows, her friend and fellow
I like to try various ways and angles to make an old rust bucket beautiful.”
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piece of stained glass art. She said the key to being an artist is to enjoy what you do. The enjoyment is
Greymalkin owner, convinced her to open an art gallery. “Being able to share other people’s art and to tell them about positive reactions to it is fun and satisfying,” Galloway said. “It’s the kicker for me.” Greymalkin Gallery is open 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and is located in Troy, at the intersection of Idaho Highway 8 and Idaho Highway 99. Cathy George works with contemporary quilts about 16”x18” and has quilted since she was 19. She said the quilts differ from traditional formats by using abstract shapes and less structure. She also does soft sculptures with fabrics and oil and watercolor paintings. “I like being able to take a blank canvas and make it into something pleasing to look
at,” she said. George said one good part of quilting and painting is the infinite color palette available and she enjoys the creative mystery in her work. “My favorite part about art is the process. The end product is usually an unexpected result,” she said. “You have to let go of control and let the spirit guide the process.” George said her primary inspiration is her mother, who taught her everything she knows about sewing and quilting, and is her mentor. She said her paintings are abstract spots of color to liven up dull environments, and plans to address social issues through her paintings in the future. She said she might explore other mediums further. “There are always things to do, multiple forms of media
(like) woodwork (and) Fimo clay,” George said, “and I love them all.”
more information To find more information on AWE, visit the website, www.artwisdomexperience.com To purchase a sampling of pieces or order art supplies from the Greymalkin Gallery, visit http://greymalkingallery.com
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Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes Radiohead - The King of Limbs Bright Eyes - The People’s Key Cage the Elephant - Thank you, Happy Birthday
Movies “Hall Pass”
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from page 3 The athletes had to run without assistance. The various groups represented at the race were only allowed to change their robots’ batteries and do running repairs.
rock star from page 3
Drunk girls At a strip club, gathering friends is easy, especially if alcohol is served. After allowing one of the girls to act like they care about you, offer to buy them a drink. Be careful though, some places jack up prices for drinks, as in more than $1,000 for cheap champagne. Buy her tequila. For your information, a lot of hot girls drink tequila and will not turn down a shot of
The idea of a robot marathon sounds exciting but it had to be boring to watch. I miss the days when a semi-sentient machine could partake in normal, healthy activities like world domination and the genocide of humanity. http://bit.ly/gwYMcq
Patron. After a drink or two, the bartender will suggest buying a bottle because it is cheaper than individual shots. Once you have the bottle, ask the girl if she has friends who would like a shot, and then you’re in like Flynn. Partying like a rock star is all about attitude. You have to present the attitude that you do not care about money or about remembering every detail of the night, but are set on enjoying every bit of life the night has to offer.
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watson from page 7
and does the work for us. By throwing out the junk and using an algorithm to produce answers (with a code IBM has probably hidden 100 stories underground,) we can become a smarter race, and we can “build a smarter planet.” Why
did IBM pick a company motto that is so apropos? Like all good technology, Watson is probably five years ahead of its time, but with new innovation comes slow implementation. We can and should expect great things out of the wormhole IBM just opened, the question is, when will we see it in action?
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Ian Corrigan, left, and Mike Siemens perform as Rhythmmemory at Mikey’s Gyros Saturday night, in promotion of their new album, It’s All Going to be Over Soon. Siemens and Corrigan record all of their own sounds and beats.
more information Listen to it: http://rhythmmemory.wordpress.com Buy it: http:rhythmmemory.bandcamp.com/album/its-all-going-to-be-over-soon
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