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MAE students take on challenge to design compressor assembly for unmanned aircraft
“The Projector.”
The partnership between OSU and W9er Engineering was made possible through funding from a Small Business Technology Transfer Research grant, which provides a percentage of funding to university research.
Rouser said a turbine engine was selected for this vehicle instead of a piston engine. There are practical considerations that give turbine engines an advantage for this application, such as low-vibration and high-altitude operation.
Students in the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology’s School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering recently worked on a project to develop an engine to power a unique unmanned aircraft made by W9er Engineering.
Overseen by Dr. Kurt Rouser, an MAE associate professor, the challenge students undertook was to design a compressor assembly retrofitted to a small gas turbine engine to supply high-pressure air for an aircraft dubbed
Rouser said students were focused on crafting a way to generate airflow at a rate and pressure needed for the vehicle to takeoff, and said the vehicle is unique in how its rotors operate.
“What makes that vehicle so unique is the power and propulsion system,” Rouser said. “It has lifting rotors, so it is very similar to what has been done with other vehicles that have lifting rotors. How it drives the rotor is what is so unique.”
In a turbine engine, the turbine and compressor are on the same shaft and rotate together with the turbine driving the compressor. The combustor sits in between the turbine and compressor. The compressor prepares air flow for combustion, which flows through the turbine, which drives the compressor. It creates a cycle known as the Brayton Cycle.
“Rather than using a piston engine to drive this we are going to use
A career of commitment:
Carr named to Spears Business Hall of Fame
global destinations. Her first international flight was on a double-decker aircraft to Malaysia, she spent significant time in Belgium and one of her favorite memories is dining in a Turkish palace near a suspension bridge where Asia meets Europe.
Editor’s note: The Spears School of Business is releasing a series of feature stories to celebrate the 2024 Spears Business Hall of Fame inductees and Outstanding Young Alumni. Check back each week for a new profile leading up to the Oct. 4 ceremony.
Vickie Carr’s face lights up when she starts talking about global travel.
The Oklahoma State University accounting alumna eagerly shares stories of business trips from the past four decades, sprinkling in helpful hints only a seasoned traveler would know.
Growing up, Carr and her family never flew, but her professional life allowed her to experience the beauty of
She went on these adventures without leaving Deloitte, a Big 4 accounting firm with offices spanning the world. Amid mergers and technology changes, Carr has built a nearly 40-year career with the same organization, and it doesn’t mean she has settled for a mundane routine.
“Deloitte has done such a great job of letting its professionals raise their hand and do something different,” Carr said. “Every four or five years, I would want a new challenge or to do something different. I would raise my hand, and nearly every time they’d agree to let me do something new, so I was always energized.”
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a turbine engine,” Rouser said. “The turbine engine has a better power-toweight ratio than a piston engine. Even though a turbocharger might be more efficient for a car application for a piston engine, the problem is a piston engine has a lower power-to-weight ratio, and for the aircraft, weight and volume are critical because you must lift it off the ground.”
Students first did an analysis to figure out which air pressures, mass flow rates and shaft rotational speeds would be needed for the aircraft system. They discovered that a turbocharger from a car met the requirements but adds significant weight to the engine itself.
With a new school year weeks away, students are returning to Stillwater. Whether you are a freshman moving into your first dorm or an upperclassmen returning for another year, here are three tips to help you have a smooth movein process.
Clothes Although folding clothes and stuffing them into bags works just fine, for clothes that you want to hang up, keep them on their hangers.
Section portions of your hanging clothes and place a trash bag over them. Poke a hole in the bottom of the bag to go over the top of the hangers, allowing the open end to hang downward. If the trash bag has strings, tie it closed to keep your clothes clean. A shower rod can be used to
keep the clothes hanging, or they can be packed like folded clothes. Deep clean Before you begin moving in all of your belongings, take some time to clean up your new space. The dorms and most apartments require their previous occupants to leave the spaces clean, but that is not always the case. Sweep or vacuum the floors, wipe down door handles and drawers, and clean the bathroom.
Move into your new space with a clean start.
Pack kitchen items with care
Although it may be tedious, there’s little worse than finding broken items when moving in. With all glassware or fragile materials, use newspaper or bubble wrap to secure them. Stack them in the middle of a box, preferably with softer items lining the box. You can also use kitchen towels or bathroom towels to further pad the items.
Vickie Carr is a 2024 Spears School of Business Hall of Fame inductee.
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Dr. Kurt Rouser, associate professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology, shows parts of an air compressor assembly.
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Since her 1985 internship as an OSU senior, Carr never switched firms. Her rare commitment to one firm’s growth opened the door to world travels, leadership initiatives and, this year, induction into the Spears School of Business Hall of Fame.
Carr, the Global Tax Accounting Group leader at Deloitte, has achieved and surpassed the goal she stated to her husband, Jeff, at the start of their relationship.
The couple met as OSU students when Jeff was bartending at the Gray Fox, an Elm Avenue social hub in the brick building that today houses The Garage Burgers and Beer. Carr wanted him to understand her aspiration to become a partner in a Big 8 accounting firm.
After 38 years of marriage and counting, it’s safe to say Jeff understood. Carr said his support was one of the most important factors in her success.
OSU was also a major contributor.
Although her six older sisters didn’t attend college, times had changed when Carr, basically a full generation younger than her siblings, reached high school.
Carr expected to go to college even if it meant working to pay her way through school as her father reached retirement. She credits her youngest sister and an accounting class at Western Heights High School in Oklahoma City for piquing her interest in her eventual major.
“When declaring my major in accounting, I’m not sure I fully understood what opportunities that degree would offer,” Carr said. “But I did know I liked numbers, and I liked accounting.”
In 1985, Carr landed an internship with Touche Ross, then one of the prestigious Big 8 firms. She simultaneously dove into work life in Tulsa and finished her undergraduate degree in Stillwater so she could advance toward her goal. She started full time immediately after graduation, passed her CPA exam and, with the support of Touche Ross, took night classes at the University of Tulsa until she obtained a master’s degree in taxation.
In 1989, Touche Ross and another Big 8 firm, Deloitte Haskins & Sells, combined to form Deloitte & Touche, eventually using the name Deloitte. Carr never had to change firms, but her job sent her on the move. In 1996, she and Jeff — with their two kids, Jenna and Mitchell — headed to Memphis, Tennessee, for Carr’s opportunity to become a partner. She was admitted to the partnership in 1999.
Although she achieved her goal, the next stage of her career presented new challenges. While in Memphis, Carr often found herself as the only woman in meetings, and a client even mentioned they had never had a woman business advisor. Carr said thank-
fully, she was able to gain their respect and stay focused.
Over the years, she learned to lean on mentors and colleagues for confidence.
“You have to find your voice,” Carr said. “Sometimes, I was waiting for someone to give me permission, as opposed to saying, ‘This is what works for me.’”
Carr said she benefited from Deloitte programs that focused on men and women as colleagues and an initiative called “Small things, Big differences” that helped its professionals speak up about and keep time for personal commitments.
She knew she had to balance her career with her family. One mentor, Katy Hollister, advised Carr to treat family as if “they’re your most important client” and not let work consume everything.
While continuing to advance professionally at Deloitte and learning to speak up, Carr stayed true to her team-oriented values.
Carr began speaking at conferences and leading advisory groups. In 2018, she established Deloitte’s National Tax Accounting Group, which ballooned from 10 to almost 50 members in a seven-year span. Four years ago, she thought bigger and helped create the Global Tax Accounting Group, which now encompasses partner-led tax accounting teams in more than 25 countries.
“That’s a perfect example of what I love about Deloitte,” Carr said. “It allows our partners to be entrepreneurs if they have an idea for a service offering they believe would be well-received in the market.”
On a personal level, Carr and her family adapted to moves from Tulsa to Memphis to Dallas, where she and Jeff live today. She said she is so proud of her kids and what they have accomplished. Carr also credited Jeff for leaving his career as a special education teacher to support her career and the kids when they were growing up, and she knows
what his commitment as a stayat-home dad meant to the entire family.
Jeff and Vickie taught Jenna and Mitchell about Orange Power and shared their love for the OSU Cowboys. The siblings graduated from OSU and both now work for Deloitte — Jenna as a business advisor for meeting and event services and Mitchell as a tax manager. As much as Deloitte means to Carr, she knew as she approached 40 years, she was ready for retirement. Carr will retire in September, ready to spend more time with family, including granddaughter Palmer.
Travel is still on the agenda, but the sites at the top of the list aren’t as far as Malaysia or Belgium. The Carrs have a second home in Colorado, and they also love coming back to Stillwater.
“There are so many OSU traditions and memories that you don’t even think about when you’re going to school there,” Carr said. “Our pride in
these traditions has deepened over the years, and today it’s a huge part of our life.” With the Jeff and Vickie Carr Endowed Scholarship in Accounting, she’s constantly making a difference at her alma mater, and Spears has shown its pride in her achievements. Carr received selection for the OSU School of Accounting Wilton T. Anderson Hall of Fame and the “Spears School Tributes: 100 For 100” commemorating the school’s 100th anniversary in 2014. The next award coincidentally follows her retirement. Carr will be honored in the 2024 Spears School of Business Hall of Fame class Oct. 4 at the ConocoPhillips OSU Alumni Center.
“I’m humbled, shocked and proud,” Carr said. “My education and experiences at Oklahoma State laid the foundation for who I am and what I’ve been able to accomplish. I will always be grateful to OSU.”
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Vickie and Jeff Carr love traveling, and Vickie’s Deloitte career has carried them to many of their favorite destinations.
Vickie Carr shares her love of OSU with her family.
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Rouser said he hopes to know late this fall if the next phase becomes available.
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A car turbocharger would not make sense to use in such an aircraft, but components of one will be used to demonstrate that a turbine engine can generate the mass flow rates and pressures needed for W9er’s aircraft.
With this phase of research now complete, the required deliverables have been completed and the application for phase two has been submitted.
In the second phase, students would run the engine to demonstrate its capability, then build a lightweight version of the compression system to be compatible with the aircraft.
Rouser said a version of the turbocharger has been designed, but it is similar to an automotive one. The in-house test rig design allows for manipulation of the rotational speed of the compressor and how it maps the mass flow rates and pressures.
“We could tailor our own,” Rouser said. “We have already designed it, but our tailored design is very similar
to the automotive one. The compressor is frankly not that big of a challenge, but the housing, that is something we have not really done before. We have the know-how, but we have not actually designed a housing, but that is something we could do on our own.”
Rouser said there are many possibilities if phase two were accepted, such as potentially doing an end-to-end system with the engine for the aircraft.
“I would start with the commercial parts that we already have, work on the compression system first and then with remaining funding and capacity, maybe even design our own turbine engine so that everything is unique to the
needs of W9er engineering and their projector aircraft,” Rouser said. Rouser is proud of the work his students perform. He said their hard work and dedication are examples of OSU’s mission as a land-grant university.
“We are developing these sorts of technologies and getting them out into the world to benefit society,” Rouser said. “But the second thing we are doing is developing talent, which then graduates and goes off to work at several top companies.”
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Dr. Kurt Rouser shows the inner workings of a compressor assembly MAE students designed that would fit a small gas turbine engine for an unmanned aircraft.
Past Lives: OSU employee recalls decades-old Olympic memories News
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When you meet Mindaugas Pukštas, he might introduce himself as a father, husband, or internal auditor at Oklahoma State University, but he might not mention he’s also an Olympian.
Pukštas grew up in Lithuania during USSR occupation. While he does not remember much about what life was like growing up in his country as a part of the Soviet Union, he does remember they only had oranges on Christmas day, part of the rationing imposition caused by the occupation.
He was in the sixth grade when the Soviet Union collapsed, and he and his country entered a new chapter of history.
“When we got independence, that kind of opened the doors to the rest of the world,” Pukštas said.
The first door Pukštas opened would change his life forever. The year after independence, his school was looking for someone to run cross-country. After trying soccer and basketball, Pukštas attempted running and found he was talented at it.
“Nobody wanted to run back then, so I tried it, and I was successful. Then I progressed through the sport, and they asked me to come to the group and start there,” Pukštas said.
He continued to run throughout his school career, intending to make the Lithuanian Olympic team at some point. That dream was almost cut short. While running for his school at the university level, Pukštas was cut from the team.
“When I was cut, I realized that it kind of got me going. There were motivational things like ‘Hey, I’ll make the Olympics by myself’ and ‘I didn’t need your help,’” Pukštas said.
Pukštas’s girlfriend and now wife, Zivile Pukštas, had a friend who had moved to the United States to attend Southern Methodist University as a track and field athlete a few years prior. This opportunity intrigued Pukštas and Zivile, so they moved to Dallas, where he competed as a graduate student.
After Pukštas competed in his first season at SMU, where he was a two-time AllAmerican, he encountered another setback. The school cut the men’s track and crosscountry programs.
Pukštas’s coach at SMU, Rene Sepulveda, got a job with the OSU track and field program, so Pukštas moved up to Stillwater to compete in one final cross-country season.
After becoming a crosscountry All-American as a Cowboy, Pukštas immediately began training for the 2004 Olympic Marathon in Athens, Greece. It took him only a short time to qualify for the Summer Games. On Feb. 15, he ran a 2:14.59 marathon at the Motorola Marathon in Austin, Texas.
Pukštas continued to train for months leading up to the Olympics. The route that he would be running would be the “original” marathon path. This route commemorates the messenger who ran from Marathon to Athens in 490 B.C. to deliver
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“My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty...But I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.” (Ps.131:1,2 NIV)
“ I waited patiently for the LORD; he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit...he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear (stand in awe) and put their trust in the LORD.” (Ps.40:1-3 NIV)
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renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” (Is.40:31 KJV)
There is something definite and real about waiting on the Lord. I remember years ago when I sensed the Lord speak to me.
“Make yourself available!” I thought I was! I was reading my Bible some and going to church regularly. As I considered this challenge from Lord, I felt I should spend some quiet time daily with the Lord. With my busy days,I decided to spend a hour (5 to 6 a.m.) each day. That decision brought about important changes in my life and service to God. I was learning to wait on the Lord. What a loving and faithful God we have to help us find his best for our lives. It pays off to have a definite, daily time with your Bible and Jesus
the message “Nike!” which translates to “victory.”
Pukštas ran a 2:33.02 in his Olympic marathon race and was one of 59 athletes representing the small Baltic country in the 2004 Olympics. He was only the fourth man from Lithuania to compete in the marathon event for the nation and holds the second-highest finish among Lithuanian marathon runners at the Olympics.
After the Games, Pukštas returned home to Stillwater with Zivile to begin raising their son, Rokas. After spending most of his life at full speed, Pukštas was ready to slow down and start his family.
Zivile has been an assistant coach for the OSU track and field team for over 20 years, specializing in jump events, and she has coached
numerous All-Americans. Their son, Rokas, is a professional soccer player playing in Croatia’s top tier. He represented the United States U20 team on the international stage at the 2023 FIFA U20 World Cup. Currently, Pukštas and Zivile spend most of their free time flying around the world to watch Rokas play soccer or staying in Stillwater to watch their daughter, Gabija, run for Stillwater High School.
Running opened up a new track for Pukštas, one that he took all the way to what he thought was his dream. Although the Olympics are a special memory, nothing compares to the other path running opened up: a family.
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Mindaugas Pukštas continued to run throughout his school career, intending to make the Lithuanian Olympic team at some point.
OSU softball adds former star Factor to its staff
Ashton Slaughter Sports Editor
A familiar face got a promotion
Wednesday.
Chyenne Factor, the former outfielder who helped guide Oklahoma State softball to four straight Women’s
College World Series appearances in her five-year career, has joined the Cowgirls’ staff as the Director of Player Development.
“This place has given me more than I deserve over the past six years,” Factor said, per release. “To be able to continue to be a part of it is really special to me. The amount of love I have for this program, the people in it, and the Stillwater community really can’t
be put into words, and I am just thankful for this opportunity. Go Pokes!”
After her playing career, she joined the Cowgirls as a graduate assistant, along with Rachel Becker, who set records at OSU during her one season after transferring from Purdue. Factor served in that role last season, and now she’ll work more closely with the players under head coach Kenny Gajewski.
“I think it’s a credit to the pro -
gram any time that we can bring back one of our former players as part of the full-time staff,” Gajewski said, per release. “The experience that Chy brings, both as a player and a graduate manager, will be invaluable to the girls and our staff.”
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Chyenne Factor joined the Oklahoma State softball staff as the Director of Player Development. It was announced Wednesday.
Daniel Allen Staff Reporter
Matt Holliday asked his father, Tom Holliday, the same thing Tom’s wife, Kathy, did.
Did you see it?
Tom Holliday got word that his grandson, Jackson Holliday, hit his first major league home run on July 31 — a grand slam at that — via a phone call from his wife, Kathy. Tom was en route to Will Rogers Airport in Oklahoma City to pick up Matt, Leslee and Ethan Holliday after a baseball showcase in Arlington.
He almost wrecked Matt’s truck when he heard the news. And when he reached the OKC airport is when Matt asked him those four dang words.
“It felt like just about everyone but me in my family had seen it,” Tom joked. “It kind of stung.”
Precisely a week ago, Jackson avenged a sluggish start that sent him back to the minor leagues for nearly three months. On a 0-2 count against Toronto Blue Jays’ reliever Yariel Rodriguez, Jackson jumped on a hanging slider, launching it to Eutaw Street for his first MLB home run. It was the highlight of the Orioles’ 10-4 win against the Blue Jays that day.
According to The Athletic, in Camden Yards’ 33-year history, only 129 homers had reached Eutaw Street.
Tom’’s witnessing the
netting. In fact, Tom said he could even hear coaches in the dugout shouting instructions. Jackson, the hot commodity in Major League Baseball rated as the league’s No. 1 overall prospect, had been called up to make his bigleague debut. And as a former No. 1 overall selection by the Baltimore Orioles in 2022, Jackson carried lofty expectations. Sometimes, Tom said he worried they were “too lofty.”
A night that Tom had been cautiously optimistic for swiftly spiraled into a bland one. Jackson went 0-for-4 at the plate, despite a 7-5 win for the Orioles against the Boston Red Sox. Tom had been in this scenario before.
of lows.
Tom remembers a rough start to Matt’s MLB career after making his debut with the Rockies on April 16, 2006. Ironically, against the Cardinals in St. Louis.
During Matt’s time, Tom played parent-coach. He often tried to use his philosophies inherited from his coaching duties as a head coach at Oklahoma State. But that’s Matt’s job now. In the present day, Tom has the luxury of being grandpa.
“Which isn’t too bad,” Tom said with a laugh.
Nonetheless, the parallels were in some ways too glaring for Tom.
“Jackson is a replica of Matt in many ways,” Tom said.
name in the sport for many years to come.
Admittedly, Tom wondered how quickly such a transformation would transpire for Jackson.
“Look,” Tom said. “The truth is, Jackson’s (MLB) debut came four years quicker than Matt’s. That doesn’t happen by accident. (Baseball) plays out in ways that are so fitting, you kind of — as cliché as this may sound — just have to trust the process. Trust in yourself and your abilities as a hitter and a ballplayer, and hope it plays out in your favor.”
But Tom’s confidence in his grandson didn’t falter once.
“I expected (the home run) to happen sooner rather than later,” Tom said. “You
streak. Since returning to Big Leagues, Jackson has batted .389 through 18 at-bats.
Tom will find himself exchanging texts with Matt about Jackson’s performance. About the ever-changing landscape and rules of Major League Baseball. And most recently, about how poorly Jackson’s games are umpired, specifically by the home-plate umpires.
“Matt told me the other day, ‘Dad, these umps are horrible,’” Tom said. “And to be honest with you, I can’t say that I disagree with him.” Tom said Matt mentioned the idea of installing robotic home-plate umpires, to which Tom swiftly told his son off. But regardless, Tom finds solace in his grandson’s recent
Tom Holliday was on the way to Will Rogers Airport when his grandson, Jackson, hit his first home run in the MLB.
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sports
OSU football position preview: Special teams
Calif Poncy Staff Reporter
The O’Colly is previewing the eight Oklahoma State football position groups during the next four weeks. Next up: the offensive line.
With big names returning on both sides of the ball, Oklahoma State’s special teams have flown under the radar.
Outshined by Ollie Gordon II, Collin Oliver and others, the Cowboys kicking unit is poised to continue their unorthodox style for the 2024 season under new special teams coach, Sean Snyder.
Snyder is the son of legendary Kansas State coach Bill Snyder and was brought on to serve as a “punters and kickers coach.” His addition came after the NCAA removed restrictions on the
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number of coaches allowed on football staff’s in late June.
“He’s been good,” Gundy said of Snyder. “...The meetings that I’ve been in with him have been very impressive. Obviously, I never coached with his father, but when I listen to him talk and coach, sounds just like his dad.”
Gundy also believes this will serve as a positive moving forward for the Cowboys in recruiting special teams players, too.
“If you’re a young man who punts and kicks and you’re being recruited and somebody thinks you’re a good player, why would you wanna come to Oklahoma State if you don’t have a guy who can coach you?” Mike Gundy said. “I wouldn’t wanna come here.”
Last season, OSU used four different kickers and punters throughout the season. Three of those are back in the form of Wes Pahl, Hudson Kaak, and Logan Ward.
Pahl and Kaak are expected to revert to last season’s arrangement, with Pahl serving as OSU’s field-flipping, booming leg and Kaak filling in as the precise punter when placement is key.
Ward is inexperienced in kicking field goals at the college level. He has not attempted a field goal in his two seasons as a member of OSU’s team, but he did take over as the primary extra point kicker toward the end of last season, going 7-7. The other kicker on the roster is Drake Tabor, a redshirt junior from Edmond. He just joined the Cowboys’ roster on Aug. 4, though, via the transfer portal.
In short, OSU has someone who has never kicked a college field goal and a new face as the placekicker options, due to Sam Bubbish, a transfer from Charleston Southern, leaving the program.
On the more familiar side is Brennan Presley, who’s expected to
retain his role as both kick and punt returner, and he hopes to keep his spot as one of the best in the nation at that spot. Since sending Boone Pickens Stadium into an uproar with his 100-yard TD return against Oklahoma in 2021, Presley has been unable to find the endzone, but he has been a model of consistency and is always a threat to take it to the house if the opposing team slips. With Jaden Nixon now at Western Michigan, Presley has a stranglehold on his role as a primary returner. Punting and returning duties are all but squared away for Mike Gundy and Co., but the kicker position is probably the most notable position battle OSU will have this season, and it will be interesting to see who is kicking the field goals against South Dakota State come August 31st.
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Hudson Kaak is one of the key contributors returning to Oklahoma State’s special teams unit. Kaak is expected to fill in as the team’s punter.
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Cowboy Calendar
Friday, August 9th
Business at Launch with Stillwater Chamber of Commerce @ 11:30 am - 1 pm
Location: Stillwater Community Center
Admission: Free RSVP here https://cca.stillwaterchamber.org/EvtListing.aspx…
https://stillwaterchamber.org/
Carl Victor Moore Live @ 8 pm - 11 pm
Location: Zanotti’s Wine Bar
https://www.visitstillwater.org/event/carl-victormoore-live-at-zannottis-wine-bar/33141/
Classic Cinema at the Center: Red River @ 7 pm
Location: Stillwater Community Center
https://www.sccfoundation.org/classic-cinema-2024/red-river
Cowboy Camp @ 8 am
Location: Oklahoma State University Campus
Admission: $315
https://campuslife.okstate.edu/camp-cowboy/ Cowgirl Soccer vs. Tulsa @ 7 pm
Location: Neal Patterson Soccer Stadium
https://okstate.com/sports/womens-soccer Flyday Food Trucks @ 11 am - 2 pm
Location: Stillwater Regional Airport
https://www.facebook.com/ events/1410588236315498
Greg Dragoo Live @ 7 pm
Location: Baker & Gambill’s EM
https://curatorsofcraft.co/ Karaoke Fridays @ 9 pm
Location: The Midnight Bar
Friday Flix @ 2 pm - 4 pm
Location: OSU Museum of Art
https://museum.okstate.edu/ Work It Center International Coworking Day & 7th
Anniversary @ 11:30 am - 1 pm
Location: WorkIT Coworking Center
https://coworkit.net/
Saturday, August 10th
Adam Miller Live @ 8 pm - 11 pm
Location: Zannotti’s Wine Bar
https://www.zannottiswinebar.com/
Back to School Event with Humble Hustle Clothing
Co. @ 11 am - 7 pm
Location: Deja Vu Hair & Beauty
https://www.delorenzo.com.au/
Chels Live @ 7 pm
Location: Baker & Gambill’s EM
https://curatorsofcraft.co/
Country Dance Lessons @ 8 pm - 9 pm
Location: Outlaws
By Ed Sessa
Daily Horoscope
Nancy Black Tribune Content Agency
Linda Black Horoscopes
Today’s Birthday (08/09/24). Friends provide sustenance this year. Collaborate with steady practices for lucrative gain. Shared efforts strike gold this autumn. Listen closely to monitor changing news this winter. Raking in extra springtime profits influences a shift in summer subjects or destinations. Share teamwork, rewards and laughter.
To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is an 8 — Do something fun together. Savor common interests and a mutual attraction. Discuss collaborative ideas and possibilities. Take action for love and luck rewards you. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 9 — You’re energized. Take advantage of great conditions to advance an incredible dream. Practice your moves with renewed vigor. You can outsmart the competition.
Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is a 7 — Things come together. Love, romance and passion line up into a beautiful possibility. A mutual attraction grows. Develop and grow a matter of heart.
Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 7 — You can realize a domestic dream. Something you’ve long wanted lies within reach. Changes made now have lasting benefits. Beautify, remodel and renovate.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is an 8 — Get the word out and it reaches farther than you thought possible. Launch creative projects. Sign contracts. Create exciting possibilities and share them.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 9 — Lucrative opportunities beckon. Take advantage to forge a connection that provides long-term benefit. Monitor the budget to maintain positive balances. Harvest windfall apples.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 9 — You’re especially attractive. Put your power and confidence to good use. Step up your leadership with a cause that sings to you. Take charge.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 7 — Meditate on a dream or vision for the future that inspires you. Adjust your plans to adapt. Doors open to support this possibility.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is an 8 — Teamwork gets results. Raise the level of your participation with community groups, clubs and friends. Together, you’re a powerful force for good. Have fun. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is an 8 — A professional dream appears newly possible. Take new territory. Experience pays. Make important connections. Fortune follows your own initiative. Go for what you want. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is an 8 — Discover fresh terrain. Travels and studies flourish. Your past work reflects you well. A dreamy educational and cultural experience tempts. Get out and explore. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 9 — Manage shared accounts and initiatives. Luck shines on
