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Social media helping to stop identity theft With the Digital Age in full swing, social media sites like Facebook, Twiiter and emails have become great ways to connect as well as great way for thieves to get a new identity with the simple click of the mouse.

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tity theft. “The next thing you know, messages are being sent to friends that you didn’t personally send.”

There are many ways to protect yourself from identity Today is an age of social media and technological theft through social media and keep yourself from feelgrowth. Facebook and Twitter are one of many ways to ing, as Jack Williams, of Spokane Community College stay in touch with another person from a different city, said “…naked, empty, and violated.” state, or even country.

“9 Ways to Protect Your Facebook” “The next thing you know But they are also tools thieves

by Mustaza Mustafa has some helpful use to steal information from users, suggestions in keeping your identity messages are being sent and students who once thought that and social media accounts secure. identity theft was irrelevant to them to friends that you didn’t Mustafa suggests creating a strong are finding out the hard way that the send.” password, confirming your accounts -David Eisenrich opposite is true. with your mobile number, activating Student at Northwest University Most students are living from secure browsing, activating login appaycheck to paycheck and also have help from Federal provals, disconnecting previous active sessions, activatfinancial aid. A case of identity theft for a student can ing private browsing, not staying logged into websites, mean the difference between paying bills and not, if avoiding spam links, and being sure to sign out after use. money is stolen that is budgeted to the last penny.

With personal vigilance and by following some of “One minute you’re you, and the next minute there those suggestions, students stand a better chance of is pornography on your page,” said David Eisenrich, a keeping their accounts secured and not becoming vicNorthwest University student and recent victim of identims of costly identity theft.

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North Korea threatening U.S. Andrew Ryan

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Rising military tensions with North Korea have people wondering whether the United States is in for full-on war.

Since Kim Jong-il’s death in December of 2011, his son Kim Jong-un has engaged in a series of increasingly confrontational and antagonistic threats and military actions, provoking preemptive defensive military mobilization from both the USA and South Korea.

Because of its proximity, South Korea is most vulnerable to attacks from North Korea should tensions escalate into all-out war.

SFCC business major Sarah Kim, from South Korea, doesn’t believe that North Korea will start a war.

“Most Koreans do not think that the war will happen,” Kim said. “North Korea has threatened us many times in the past, but it never turned into war.”

But if war does happen, she believes that both countries would have a lot of damage, both physically and psychologically.

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CCTV nets car theft suspect Shawn Peterson

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SCC cameras have aided SCC Security in apprehending a person suspected of two car thefts on campus.

The thefts occurred in Building 5 on the SCC campus when the suspect broke into the lockers in the gym and stole the car keys of the two victims while they were working out.

The first victim was a student, the second was an employee of the college. The suspect for the car thefts was identified as a man named Thomas Clemmons.

“Lockers were broken into at the gym when people were working out. The suspect broke into the lockers and took the keys that were inside, walked around the parking lot and stole the cars,” Charlie Hollen, the head of campus security at SCC , said.“The thefts were barely a week apart.

“The first theft occurred on March 4th , the second on March 12th.”

Tyler Aboles, a Campus Security officer at SCC, was one of the security officers who identified the thief.

“I was the one who followed up on the first theft, Anthony Imperial covered the second,” Aboles said. “The first car to be stolen was a Dodge Dakota and we looked at the security camera footage for the building and saw the same guy going into the locker room with both thefts.”

Aboles gives the credit of catching Clemmons to the security cameras.

“The cameras were what saved us, we would have been unable to catch him without them, and we’re lucky to have them,” Aboles said.

On March 13th a public notice bulletin was sent out by campus security asking for assistance in identifying a man in camera surviellence photos that was later revealed to be Clemmons.

Ken DeMello, the head of security for SFCC informed the sister campus of SCC that the suspect was caught.

“The suspect was arrested later that day and booked into Spokane County Jail on March 14th “ DeMello said.

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Jackson Marchant- Secular Society

As part of Civics Week, there will be a public debate regarding whether formal prayer should be allowed in public schools.

The debate will be held tomorrow, April 19 in the auditorium of the music building (building 25) on campus.

The fact that such a small community college would host a debate on such an issue is a testament to the controversy which surrounds the role of religion in society today, and in particular, how closely church and state should be separated. In fact, SFCC has among its clubs two groups which represent opposite sides of this controversy, the SFCC Christian Fellowship and the Secular Society.

“Personally, I believe God is a big part of education,” said Hector Torres, president of the Christian Fellowship. Torres believes that education today would benefit from desecularization. In particular, he believes it would benefit from prayer in school.

However, Torres also believes that the government should be indiscriminate when it comes to which religion it allows in schools.

“I don’t believe that the government or publicly funded schools should support any one religion, because that would obviously be favoritism and we live in a country of religious freedom.” said Torres.

“Every religion has to coexist peacefully. I kind of think about it as if you were playing a sport. Truth is that you’re very much into your game and you would do anything to win, but if you have a spirit of constant rivalry and competition, you are not going to be a good player. I

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legacies hang over his head. Kim Jong-il, Jong-un’s father, was able to From page 1 force the USA and South Korea into such things as providing money for cash-generating investment zones, “It would be hard to repair ourfood aid to the impoverished North, selves after the war” Kim said. and fuel used to help build the Former SFCC student Won Kyung military.

Sung, who left SFCC and returned Despite his tactics of using threats to South Korea last winter, views to get what he wanted, Jong-il was things differently. known for always backing down “Of course the threat of an atombefore his words ic bomb turned into actions. worries me,” “Of course the threat of an said Sung. atomic bomb worries me,. ” Many in the US fear that Jong-un may “The most -Won Kying Sung turn out differently.

I can hope Former SFCC student A statement by is that my President Barack family and I Obama on Feb. 12 offers insight don’t lose everything we have. into the situation with North Korea.

When Kim Jong-un first ascended “These provocations do not make to power a year and a half ago, North Korea more secure,” Obama there was controversy over whether said. “Far from achieving its stated or not he would merely be a figuregoal of becoming a strong and head; many believed true power prosperous nation, North Korea has lay with the pre-existing network of instead increasingly isolated and military generals from his father’s impoverished its people through its reign. That question was answered, ill-advised pursuit of weapons of however, when South Korea reportmass destruction and their means of ed his execution of dozens of high delivery. ranking officers in March 2012.

“The United States remains “Their ships are very old, and vigilant in the face of North Korean they have very few airplanes,” said provocations and steadfast in our Sung. “Their technology is antidefense commitments to allies in quated.” the region.”

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think it mostly boils down to people and groups of people choosing to deal with things in a mature way.” said Torres The president of SFCC’s Secular Society, Jackson Marchant, quoted the ruling of the supreme court case “Engel v. Vitale” (1962), which states that “Any kind of prayer composed by public school districts, even nondenominational prayer, is unconstitutional government sponsorship of religion.”

Another court case, however, “Wallace v. Jaffree” (1985), said that a moment of “pure silence”, with no bias in favor of prayer or any other mental process, would be constitutional.

“Prayer is a personal enterprise, the very core tenets of prayer isolate you from the person next to you because they appeal to a higher authority... when in fact you should be taking responsibility into your own hands,” said Marchant. “Essentially, you are talking to yourself.”

Marchant believes that atheists and agnostics would be disenfranchised because it would ultimately result in a lack of critical thinking and personal accountability.

“Secular education in the liberal arts benefits people by promoting critical thinking. It promotes science and the habit of asking questions, which is a skill that enables citizens to act intelligently and deal with the world rationally, objectively.” said Marchant. “If prayer were encouraged, then that would be the wrong kind of education.”

Audience members will have a chance to participate in several brief Q&A sessions with each of the debaters between sections of the debate. At the conclusion of the debate, audience members will vote for the winner of the debate by choosing which of two doors they exit as they leave the auditorium.

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Tensions have been rising in North Korea, and their threats of an attack on South Korea and the United States have become more ominous and threatening in recent weeks.

The biggest problem with the threats coming from North Korea is the lack of military intelligence information to clarify whether the threats are legitimate concerns, or just more anti-American rhetoric.

North Korea’s previous leader, KimJung Il, was notorious for making outlandish statements and threat-

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ening other countries in order to blackmail them for financial aid and survival resources.

The Communicator staff has been paying close attention to this story as it’s continued to develop, and our opinions have varied in how we think the U.S. should handle the country’s young leader, Kim Jung Un, and his behavior since taking over after his father’s death.

Do we use a preemptive strike against this nation and their new leader, and essentially bomb them before they can bomb us?

Or should we wait it out and use diplomacy as a means of negotiation?

Emily Norton and Corbin Bronsch share their opinions on this matter.

The Staff The Communicator, is a student run newspaper that hopes to maintain a forum in which students are able to voice diverse opinions on campusrelated issues.

The Communicator also aims to inform students about import events concerning SFCC and SCC, sports and other fun activities for students to check out to make their college days memorable.

Facts about North Korea North Korea spent about one third of its national income on the military, according to a 2011 report from the South Korean government.

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The U.S. should take pre-emptive action

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pre-emptive attack is when a nation or a coalition of nations takes a precautionary step to eliminate a threat before the threat carries out such attacks.

A good example of this was in the Six Day War between Israel and Arab nations surrounding the country.

Hostility and threats were building up around the nation so Israel took the first to Corbin move insure their Bronsch safety in the region.

Kim Jong Un, his father, and his grandfather have made such threats in the past without any action to back it up. So there is an understanding of reason as to why the United States haven’t made the first move yet in this long history of threats with North Korea.

But although the validity of North Korea’s threats are being questioned, these gestures of conflict should not go under our radar nor should we have to be skeptical as to whether a nuclear bomb will go off somewhere in the world or not. The only way we can get North Korea’s attention of this matter and make them understand the consequences of their words is by a pre-emptive attack against their nation.

This nation needs to understand that the rhetoric they chose to use

is unacceptable in a world where such threats are taken serious.

These threats, that are more talk than anything else, caused panic in a country that has experienced acts of terror first-hand.

North Korea has been called “a black hole” from an intelligence standpoint and it’s nearly impossible to get access into the country and once you do, you are confined to the parts of the country that they want you to see. Most of our intelligence agencies only find out about what North Korea is capable of once they do it.

Why should we be living in fear of a country that decides to be the bully of the international playground whenever it chooses?

Some may argue that since we’ve not seen any actions taken place by North Korea it’s ethically wrong to attack a country that hasn’t actually attacked them. In some cases this argument would be right but not when it comes to the situation in North Korea.

United States government officials have stated that they have tried to hold talks with North Korean leaders, which was obviously not successful. This is why the argument for a pre-emptive strike is valid. After many attempts at peace in the area, North Korea still continues to use their rhetoric to make threats at the United States.

If we really want North Korea to end their random actions against the United States we need to show them how serious we take their words and strike first before they have the capabilities to strike at us.

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North Korea is no joke

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he memes of Kim-Jong Un on Facebook are endless. He is portrayed as a tiny, immature, babbling buffoon with limited resources and technology to back up his recent belligerent threats of nuclear war against the United States and neighboring South Korea.

My question is merely one of whether or not we should be taking these threats and Emily this young Norton ruler more seriously.

A lot of Americans seem comforted by the media reports that North Korea’s missile technology is lacking in ability to reach American shores.

They seem to think, and joke, that this ruler isn’t really a threat to us.

Our government seems exasperated in dealing with the country that’s so closed off from the rest of the world.

“Our retaliatory action will start without any notice from now,” Pyongyang’s official news agency KCNA said in a statement about South Korea, published Apr.16.

It’s kind of disturbing, honestly. We

don’t know much about this young dictator, who is running a country that we barely have a cease-fire treaty with, and is making open threats against us and neighboring countries. We can’t be sure his motives are merely blackmail, we can’t be sure this is pure rhetoric or an actual concern; regardless of what it is, it’s no laughing matter.

Even a small-scale attack on North Korea’s neighboring countries in Asia would be catastrophic, and could likely launch the world into a third world war. At the least, it could thrust our country into another war we can’t afford.

“The United States has made clear many times what the conditions are for our entering talks, and they haven’t changed,” Kerry said in an interview with CNN’s Jill Dougherty in Tokyo.

“The conditions have to be met where the North has to move towards denuclearization, indicate a seriousness in doing so by reducing these threats, stop the testing and indicate it’s actually prepared to negotiate,” he said.

I think it’s time to stop cracking jokes, and start taking this seriously.

It’s not going to be as funny when we’re all nuked into oblivion and won’t have skin, or Facebook to post memes on.

I am so sad. I have no emails.

Please send me emails.

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North Korea’s missile program was first developed with help from the then-Soviet Union in the 1970s. Its Taepodong-2 missile has an estimated range of more than 4,100 miles but has yet to be test-fired. Other mediumrange missiles are capable of being fired over Japan.

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Nearly all property belongs to the state. A modern independent judicial system does not exist. Religious freedom does not exist.

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Did You Know?: Only government and military officials are allowed to own motor vehicles in North Korea.

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Catfishing: Noodling for Suckers Jacoby Flansaas | Photo Illustration

While the Internet has increased interpersonal communications and access to information, it is also opened a window for predators and other nefarious individuals.

Emily Norton

The Communicator With the growing popularity of shows like MTV’s hit “Catfish,” this new trend of cyber-bullying is gaining attention in local communities.

Catfishing is when someone pretends to be someone else on the internet, and lures another person into an “online relationship” with the false identity. While the purpose behind the impersonator may vary, the goal is always the same: convincing someone that you’re someone else by means of deception.

“I got ‘catfished’ by someone, it was really embarrassing,” said Jaime S., a second year student at SFCC. “I talked to him for four months on Facebook and texting by phone, and thought we had a connection. When I actually met him [in person], he didn’t look like the pictures he had sent me and he was a lot older than he had initially told me.”

Because most “catfish” use social media to aid in their deception, how can someone know whether the person behind the profile is sincere or not?

Some “catfishers” will steal a picture, or several pic-

tures, from a real online profile and then use the images to create their false persona. One online tool that helps determine if someone’s profile is genuine is Google Image Search. This allows the user to upload an image or link to an image and search the internet for similar pictures.

“If the person is cagey about a video chat, if the person doesn’t want to meet up, those are red flags” said Max Joseph, star of MTV’s show ‘Catfish’ in an interview with The Washington Post. “It’s virtual contraception.

You should do a certain amount of researching — 10 minutes or so is enough — on any person you’re getting involved with, to protect yourself.”

Other red flags might be a profile with very few friends added to it, or pictures with no “tags” to link them to actual profiles. Also, if the person consistently makes excuses to avoid a video chat or phone conversation, or to avoid meeting in person, it might be because they are covering a deception and may not be who they say they are.

While “catfishing” seems to be a growing trend, successful online relationships are also becoming popular

thanks to dating websites like eHarmony.com, match. com, ChristianMingle.com, and okcupid.com.

“I met my boyfriend in a Washington romance chat room on Yahoo Messenger back in 2002,” said Pamela Griffin, Airway Heights resident. “I actually didn’t like his online personality at first, and didn’t talk to him much online. We ended up getting introduced to each other through other online connections we had, and hit it off in person almost right away.

“We moved in together about 7 years ago, and we’re still very happy together and love each other very much.

If it wasn’t for the Internet causing our paths to cross, I probably would not have met him.”

Dr. Neil Clark Warren, a clinical psychologist and founder of eHarmony.com, based the website’s “29 Dimensions of Compatibility” on the characteristics he observed in successful couples during his 35 years of providing counseling services. He determined that matching singles could be successful based on the dimensions of compatibility, and the website claims responsibility for 5% of successful marriages in the United States.

MTV’s show ‘Catfish’ airs Mondays at 11pm.

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The Garland originally opened in 1945, and was purchased by Katherine Fritchie in 1999.

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SFCC presents the 8th International Film Festival on Tuesdays from April 23rd to May 21st.

The Garland theater, located at 924 W Garland Ave, will be showing movies from five different countries every Tuesday from the 23rd of April through May 21st at 7:15 p.m.

Faculty and students attending a community college in Spokane are free and all others pay $4.00 for entry. The films being shown, complete with subtitles on-screen this year, are produced in Germany, China, Israel, France, Spain, and Mexico.

Bonnie Brunt, Spanish Instructor at Spokane Falls Community College, told us that the featured films this year will be “The Wave”, “The Hedgehog”, “Aftershock”, “Yossi”, and “Even the Rain” which were chosen back in fall quarter of 2012.

The language and Alliance club faculty, along with some students, got together in the fall quarter and watched films that were suggested by all parties. The top five were chosen as, “The best films picked to show at this year’s festival,” Brunt said.

Gabriel Valenzuela is a Spanish professor at SFCC and will introduce

the entire event as a leader this year.

He is most excited for the film “Even the Rain,” which will show May 21st.

“I think it is a poignant portrayal of the harsh conditions that indigenous people of Latin America are faced with even in the 21st century and is reminiscent of its colonial past,” Valenzuela said.

Barbara Williamson will introduce the film “Yossi” on behalf of the Alliance club. “The reason for creating this event was so we could get a place to showcase what we do with the language programs, and bring the community of Spokane together through various languages in other venues,” Williamson said.

Mary Hyatt, a Film teacher at SFCC, described this event as, “So magical to be sitting in a 200 plus audience in the dark together, watching a film and going through the same emotions at the same time - (it is) a great experience.”

“I really want to encourage students and faculty to come watch the films this year,” Brunt said. “It’s a complete turnaround from students thinking it will be boring, and coming out wanting to buy the film.

“Give it a try, it’s way more fun than you think it will be, and it’s really good entertainment.”

Did You Know?: Hand-fishing or “noodling,” is where a person puts their hand in the mud to get a catfish to bite their fingers. The fisherman then pulls the fish up by hand.

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Ceramics students watch as Mardis Nenno lectures on technique.

Graduating art students display work Andrew Vanhoff

The Communicator From May 28th to June 19th, SFCC attendees will have the chance to view the art projects of Associate of Fine Arts and Certificate of Fine Arts students in Building 6’s Fine Arts Gallery as well as in the building’s hallways.

More than a dozen graduating students will each be exhibiting multiple pieces of his or her art, as well as fulfilling the final requirement for their chosen degree. This yearly exhibition gives graduating students a chance to showcase what they have learned and mastered while at SFCC. The exhibition, named “Idle Hands...,” is the product of the class Art 261, a final requirement for graduating AFA and CFA students.

Members of the exhibition class both create the art that will be on display and plan the exhibition itself.

The students have input on what art will be shown, as well as the general setup. Students also learn general skills in layout of exhibitions, such as what pieces look good, and where.

“Not only do they get a show, but they get to learn to put one together,” Carl Richardson, a veteran art instructor of the exhibition class for 18 years, said.

Richardson said that the show is good for giving closure to the students, almost all of whom are in their last quarter at SFCC. The presentation allows them a way to show all of their biggest accomplishments from the last two years at one venue.

“It gives a good conclusion to

their career here, and shows the community what the students are producing,” Richardson said.

Richardson also believes that it’s good for people to be able to see what the students have been doing throughout their time at the college.

“I think it’s important for their peers, family and the community at large to see what they’ve been working on.” Richardson said.

Seng Olsen, a graduating art student born in Thailand, who despite limited access to materials in her childhood grew up loving drawing and art, is happy to have the opportunity to present her projects.

“I feel very privileged,” Olsen said.

Students say that putting art up for all to see, while exciting, is also slightly intimidating. Krystn Parmley, a member of the exhibition class, says that it’s nice to have her art displayed, but she also says it’s an intimate thing.

“It’s personal,” Parmley said, “But when you put it out for people to see, it’s just out there.”

Parmley says the class is important because it gives students skills that they will need to have in order to continue their career as artists.

Ben Schenk, another member of the class, says that for him art is a more meaningful way of communicating.

“To have it be up on the wall, where everyone can see it, it’s kind of an odd feeling...It’s out of your hands,” Schenk said.

Be sure to visit building 6 during the exhibition and see the works of our school’s art students.

Students come to America from other countries for a variety of reasons, some economical - and some purely educational; others make the journey to experience a different culture’s lifestyle.

Many countries place a very high value on American education. Jason Tam, born in Hong Kong, says he moved to the Pacific Northwest because he disliked the education system of his homeland.

“In Hong Kong, it’s just copy, copy, copy,” Tam said, “But they don’t teach us how to use it.”

Tiffany Zhao, a student originally from China, moved to America when her mother married an American man. Though her main motive for moving was not education, she too thinks that American education teaches more things that are applicable to everyday life.

“In China we only know how to work on campus,” said Zhao, “They don’t teach us how to use it in real life, just in school.”

Zhao says she feels that American education gives more general knowledge, from fixing cars to just knowing random facts, a view shared by many international students. Zhao feels that Chinese education focuses more on book learning, not application to real life.

Sara Kim, a student from South Korea, says that most high level businesses in South Korea use English as their main language, so developing language skills is one of her main reasons for coming to America.

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Shared Homestay Student shares the kitchen by providing their own food but room is covered for 4 weeks Temporary Homestay Family provides meals and room for two weeks and helps them find an appartment.

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By Fall 2013, Spokane will have a new live music venue called The Bartlett. The venue will be all ages with a 21+ bar.

The owners, Karli and Caleb Ingersoll, have dreamed about opening a music venue of their own since they first met over 4 years ago. They’ve been looking for the right building since the beginning of 2011.

“Spokane’s music scene has really been struggling for the past couple of years and we are ready to jump into something that will give it some positive reinforcement,” said Karli Ingersoll “We are young, we don’t have any kids, and we are ready to take risks.”

During the day The Bartlett will be a coffee shop, but by evening will transform into a bar and music venue. On nights that they don’t have shows booked, they plan to host all ages open mic nights, poetry events, and other local community art focused events. Monday thru Thursday The Bartlett will open at 11a.m. and remain open until 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday they will open at 11a.m. and close at midnight and they will be closed on Sundays.

Karli and her husband Caleb have both been in the music industry for a while. Karli says Caleb’s whole family is musical, and he studied audio engineering in college and spent

a lot of time recording bands and playing the drums in bands as well.

As a kid, Karli took classical piano lessons, then in college she played in bands for fun until 2007 when she started getting more serious.She spent a couple years touring, writing, and recording music. She also created posters and album art for bands and musicians.

Karli met her husband when she booked a couple shows at the venue that Caleb was running in Tri Cities where he lived. They are now in an indie rock band together called Cathedral Pearls.

“I really admired his skills and ambition, and we immediately became friends. Not too long after that, we started playing music together and spent a lot of time travelling around the west coast performing at different venues,” Karli said.

“We really believe it takes more than one venue to sustain a great local music scene. Other venues in town are approaching what they do in ways that are very different than our vision. Our goal is to fill a gap we see in the community. “ Karli said.

“The Knitting factory is substantially bigger than us and books bands that are much more established than what we will be booking,” Karli said. “Our focus will be more on up and coming indie buzz bands from around the country. We have really worked hard to gear our business to fit into a specific niche.”

Did You Know?:China and Saudi Arabia helped pushed the number of international students in the U.S. to 764,495 last year.

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Karli and Caleb Ingersoll in front of The Bartlett on 228 W. Spraugue Ave.

“If we speak english more fluently, we have a better chance of getting a better job,” said Kim, “If we have a high GPA, we have a better life.”

Kim says that after this quarter, she plans on returning to her country to work for a year, and then coming back to America to go to a university. Kim also thinks that American education focuses more on learning than South Korean education does.

Kim says that in South Korea the focus is on lectures and memorization.

“In Korea, opinions are either wrong or right, like math.” Kim said.

Yena Kim, another South Korean student, said that in South Korea, your education controls your future.

“They see my resume, and if I don’t have a degree from a university, they reject me,” Yena said. She also says that her parents place a lot of importance on her grades. Yena agrees with Sara regarding education in South Korea.

“Most of South Korean people judge by our higher education,” said Yena, “We don’t focus on learning, but on test scores.”

Yena plans on transferring to New York State University to major in advertising before returning home.

She, like many other SFCC students, attends college halfway around the world from her homeland to better her chances at a good life.

Students interested in interacting with their international peers are welcome to visit the international club. The club, though primarily aimed at foreign students, allows American students to engage in group activities with students from other countries.

International Student Homestay Plans:

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Hannah Bean and other musicians play in front of the Garland Theater to promote Dollar Wednesdays. This deal is available every Wednesday, as is music played by these artists.

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This is an active Foucault pendulum that can be found at SFCC in building 18. It was built as a project to explain the rotation of the earth. The machine is run almost entirely by the forces of gravity.

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Jane Goodall, an anthropologist and primatologist and the worlds leading authority on chimpanzees, recently spoke at Gonzaga University Athletic Center.

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Completed in 1974, the Nishinomiya Japanese Garden at Manito Park is a continual symbol of friendship between Spokane and its sister city Nishinomiya, Japan.

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These glass sculptings named “Commerce,” made by Kelly McLain in 2007, can be found at SFCC in building 24 hanging from the ceiling.

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Tomas, an employee at Steve’s On Cannon, works diligently on a customers bicycle. He has been in the industry for over 25 years, many of those years he spent as a professional bicyclist.

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Southern comfort food

Local family restaurant in the Perry District brings southern-inspired food to Spokane at affordable prices.

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fenroth said .

Casper Fry is run by the family, with Poffenroth as the general Casper Fry is a fairly new resmanager. All of the menu items taurant located in the Perry district come from a collaboration between with Southern inspired roots. The Executive Chef Joshua Martin, Sous restaurant was started by Deb Chef Gary Johnson, and Green. All Green with the help of her son Ben the food at Casper Fry is inspired Poffenroth and daughter in 2011. from traditional southern dishes.

Casper Fry’s dining room is long “Joshua was born and in raised in and open with a bar viewed straight Detroit on southern food,” Green from the back with tables for smallsaid. er groups along the wall and party Martin’s Southern influence retables in the center. The restaurant ally shines through in the dishes is decorated with custom made prepared at Casper Fry. The menu tables and chairs made of plywood includes all and wrought iron the tradition“We consider ourselves legs. al southern On the tables sit to be more southern dishes that mismatched silverinspired. We don’t want to would be ware sets and heavy be known as ‘that southern found in the glasses adding persouth, like fectly to the laid back restaurant’,” the fried atmosphere. Instead -Ben Poffenroth chicken, of country music Owner of Casper Fry pulled pork playing over the sandwich, speakers, the band and a shrimp Mumford and Sons plays out. po-boy. The team at Casper Fry uses “We consider ourselves to be fresh produce and meat from many more southern inspired. We don’t local purveyors in Washington. want to be known as ‘that southern “All of our dishes are very fresh restaurant’,” Poffenroth said. and local,” Green said.

Casper Fry came into creation All the meat and produce that is after Green started to look into used in the restaurant is organic, her family history, specifically her the restaurant even cuts their own great-grandfather, Casper Fry, from meat in order to have the best South Carolina. Casper Fry was a choices for the dishes. prominent Baptist minister back in “We think it’s important to know his time that inspired others to do the story about the food we eat,” good and help their community.

Green said.

“We want people to understand Knowing where the ingredients that this is a family restaurant,” Pofcome from really help in how to

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Customers at Casper Fry enjoy friendly service offered by Ben Poffenroth. prepare the dish because the chefs can understand how to capture the flavors better.

At Casper Fry, many of the dishes are cooked in what is called a Josper Oven. The Josper Oven originated in Spain and is unique because it is one of 13 in the US. The oven starts at 1200 degrees Fahrenheit in the morning and then usually stays at 600 to 700 degrees Fahrenheit during the day, and is powered by apple and oak wood charcoal.

“Flavors are limited in Washington because of the Josper oven,” Green said.

To get the best flavor for the dishes, all of the meat is smoked in the Josper Oven.

Casper Fry is open Wednesday through Monday from 11 am, until whenever they want to close.

“It has been blessing to work with my two kids,” Green said. “It has been a fun family journey.”

Hours: WednesdayMonday 11:30 a.m. - CLOSE {Closed TUESDAYS} Address: 928 S Perry St Spokane 509.535.0536

Locals celebrate Superman’s 75th birthday by examining symbolism

April 18th marks the first publication date of the superhero known as Superman. Superman first appeared in comics called Action Comics.

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Debatably the most iconic feature of Superman is the giant S that he sports on his chest.

After years of fighting crime and In a article on metroplolis.com by saving to world, DC comic book sucomic book expert Brian G. Philibin, perhero, Superman will be celebratthe Superman symbol is one of the ing his 75th birthday. few superhero symbols recognized 75 years ago the first DC comic worldwide. book featuring Superman was “Superman’s symbol has become published, and then released two recognizable all over the world. Howmonth later; Action Comics was the ever, at one time, it was not even title of the series very consisSuperman first “It wasn’t until tently drawn,” appeared in.

Philbin wrote.

Mark Reynolds, 1938 when Siegel “it went through an employee at and Shuster sold a great deal of The Comic Book metamorphoSuperman to Detective Shop on North sis.”

Division, has been Comics, that he Along with reading Superbecame a hero.” the S being man comic books -John Waite drawn the for as long as he Owner of Merlyn’s Science Fiction Fantasy Store outline of the can remember S also went and enjoys his through several changes. The first iconic nature. shape was an Indian arrow head, “Superman is the most iconic until it was changed to a triangle and comic book character, and images then finally the iconic diamond shape in media,” Reynolds said. “He isn’t came and stayed. my favorite but I read his comics But the iconic figure that we know and i enjoy them. as Superman wasn’t always the good “I enjoy the symbolism for what guy who saved the day. he stands for.”

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The Superman logo hangs outside The Comic Book Shop on N. Division in Spokane.

“He was first created as a bald villain,” Craig Barnett, owner of The Comic Book Shop, said. “He was originally a bald headed villain.

“It wasn’t until 1938 when Siegel and Shuster sold Superman to Detective Comics, (now called DC), that he became a hero.”

John Waite, owner of the comic book shop Merlyn’s Science Fiction Fantasy Store, claimed that the timing of Superman's arrival played a huge role of his fame.

When Superman came into the

comic book world, he came into a Man of world at war. In 1938 wars were Steel starting in Europe, the U.S. was in the Great Depression, and WWII was coming up.

The motion “He came at a time when the picture world was broken,” Waite said. “And based on the he helped poor people and middle comic opens class people have something to look June 14. up to and gave them hope.”

Superman will continue to reach The comic new generations with the release of series his new movie, Man of Steel, as well comes out in as his new comic book series.

Did You Know?: The famous S-shield is not just Superman’s family crest. It’s also a Kryptonian symbol that means

“hope.” Interestingly, drawing the S-shield upside down changes the meaning to “resurrection.”

Source: http://www.newsarama.com/comics/superman-facts-history-100622.html

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idelines S Wake-skate-snow-dirt shop coming to Spokane

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Ricky Krieger catching air while wakeboarding on Long Lake, WA.

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Ricky Krieger, a pro wakeboarder, is paid to go around the world and wake board. Krieger also owns and operates his own business, The Shop: Wake-Skate-Snow-Dirt.

Krieger was born and raised in Nine Mile Falls, Washington. He is a father of two children, and married to Candas Krieger.

The Shop offers top quality equipment for all major water, dirt, snow, and street sports. The store started back when Krieger just finished high school. His reasons for starting the store started back in his junior and senior years of high school.

“At the time, I was teaching locals to wakeboard,” Krieger said. “When I sent them out to buy wakeboarding

gear, they were sent back with different gear than what I recommended, because the shops they went to recommended it.”

Krieger got tired of dealing with the confusion those situations created, so he opened his own shop that provides lessons, gear, and endless wakeboarding knowledge.

All employees at The Shop are required to have been, or currently be, pro-level in at least one of the sports that the store offers equipment for.

This is so the employees can offer knowledge on a professional level to meet all customers’ needs.

“Working here is a blast,” Dillon Batt, an employee at The Shop, said.

“It’s not so much for the money, but for having Ricky as a friend to work alongside and being around what I love: wakeboarding and snowboard-

ing.”

The Shop is merging with Tobler’s Marina in order to start making boats for wakeboarding and other water sports. The two companies are coming together to create a new, much bigger shop.

The new business will still be called The Shop, but the logo of ‘Wake-Skate-Snow-Dirt,’ will be changed. Due to legal reasons, The Shop has yet to reveal the new idea for their logo.

“We are looking for about 20 to 30 acres in North Spokane or Hayden Idaho.” Krieger said.

The new shop will be making custom boats for wakeboarding, custom wakeboards, and still be selling all the top and best quality gear for wake-boarding and longboarding.

“The new shop will be finished in a few months. The overhead cable will pull one rider back and forth,” Krieger said.

Inside the new building, around the walls on the inside of The Shop, will be an indoor wakeboarding track. The wakeboarders will be pulled by a zip-line while they hit all sorts of jumps and ramps that will allow people to train all year around. This is a completely new and different idea for Spokane.

Not only will the locals be excited, but this will also bring another great activity to our town. This will be great for visitors and it will bring in professional wakeboarders.

Although, Spokane will have to wait for the indoor wakeboard track to be completed.

“The track should take about a year; maybe two at most” Batt says.

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9107 N. Country Homes Blvd., Spokane 509-483-WAKE (9253) Work Hours Mon - Fri: 12:00 am - 7:00 pm Sat: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Source: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-SHOP

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Contestants train for upcoming Bloomsday race

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Doomsday hill strikes fear in the hearts of runners, as they will soon battle it during the Bloomsday Race.

The Bloomsday race is a huge part of Spokane history but it’s not stopping this year. Many people train year after year for this big event.

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The Communicator Bloomsday is right around the corner, and for the 36th year in a row the Providence Group Health Clinic is providing free training for the big race at Spokane Falls Community College.

For the past five weeks the Providence Group Health Clinic has been running free training. The

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training started Saturday, March 16th following Saturday for a close feel to the 7.46 mile race. with one mile, and each following “This training really helps to preSaturday, the length of the course pare you for the was increased “This training really helps to real trip. I’m 71, by one mile to help safely prepare you for the real trip.” and this always leaves positive and gradually -Steve Corker results for me,” prepare all parSpokane Counsil President Steve Corker, a ticipants for the former Spokane City Council PresiBloomsday event on May 5th. This dent, said.

Saturday they will be running and “We have a personal trainer come walking for six miles, and seven the

down and initiate warm-ups for the participants before we go outside, as well as a different speaker each weekend to talk about nutrition or health tips,” Anne McKeon, coordinator for Providence Health Care Marketing/Public Relations said.

McKeon was happy to see that 841 people had signed up for the training this year and regardless of the weather being what it was, people still came to run or walk with smiles and determination.

“I’ve been here for 24 years, and I love my job and being here to help run these trainings every year,” Carol Ann Cochran, a nurse for the Providence Group Health Clinic said.

“The early mornings aren’t a huge bother to me, because I always have fun seeing the participants and being involved with a great group of volunteers that help out each year,” Cochran said. She also takes pictures of people at the top of Doomsday Hill, so don’t forget to say hello and have your achievement captured in a photograph this year.

Come join the remaining training courses, at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday the 20th and 27th in building 7 on the SFCC campus. Remember this year to dress warm, eat healthy, work hard, and most of all have fun at Spokane’s 2013 Bloomsday event.

Did You Know?: Wakeboarding was actually invented in New Zealand as Skurfing.

Source: http://www.funtrivia.com/en/subtopics/Wakeboarding-335487.html

Bloomsday Information Where: Spokane When: Sunday, May 5, 2013 Distance: 12 kilometers (7.46 miles) Entry Fee: $17.00 (includes any applicable state sales tax) Late Entry Fee: $35.00 (includes any applicable state sales tax)

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