Photography is a career that demands an eye for detail, a skilled hand for edits, and a heartfelt desire for capturing those remarkable moments that people will remember for the rest of their lives.

Most people would shake their heads in disgust and grumble at dirty toilet seats in public restrooms, and then abandon the stall altogether for one of a finer quality.

Pocatello County Clerk Robert Poleki took that type of experience while he was at the airport with his son and created something that could flush away those nasty situations.

“Aha!” moments are nuggets of gold that keep on giving, and in the health care field, these moments can open doors to better ways of life. Occupational therapists Joanne Trammel and Lisa Baxter Hong are well-familiar with those moments. Their combined experiences are what spurred their decision to create classes geared towards helping others experience more joyful moments in their lives.

Nepal’s nickname, “The Roof of the World”, is not so much of a boast as it is a truth, as it houses the highest mountain range in the world, as well as the awe-inspiring Mount Everest. It also houses flavorful concoctions of meats, vegetables, rice, and of course, scrumptious spices that promise to add some zing to people’s palettes.

Is there anything more succulent and satisfying than homemade food?

Whether it be soft bread still steaming from the oven, texturized tomato sauce mingling with spaghetti noodles, or made-from-scratch chocolate chip cookies that dissolve in your mouth, we all gravitate towards the dishes that make our mouth water.

For all you explorers out there who travel by taste, go ahead and set course for Wanderlust, where you can get a sip of the world through its unique, diverse beers on tap and its selection of savory wines.

“Let your hair do the talking” is a popular quote among hairdressers, and it speaks the truth about advertising yourself and your personality to the world around you.

What else do you expect a professional clown’s and professional magician’s shop to sell but the bombastic sizzle and snap of fireworks?

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Curiosity and creativity. These ingredients are what inspire four-year-old’s to sculpt Lego towers in the living room. They are what embolden fifth graders to hand-craft bottle rockets in abandoned parking lots, and they are the driving force in motivating high school students to engineer and program their first robot for their technology class.

Three seasons ago, the semi-pro soccer team Boise Cutthroats didn’t exist.

They hadn’t yet formed as a team with players not just from Idaho, but Colorado, Montana, Washington, and California. They hadn’t yet traveled 12 to 14 hours to play a game. And they hadn’t yet gone on to nationals not once, but twice to showcase their skills and talents to the country.

Now, as the Cutthroats approach their third season with the same talent and desire to succeed, their president seeks to bring another team to Idaho.

You would be hard-pressed to find any worker who enjoys slapping down a 200-page training guide, turning to page one, and investing the next seven to eight hours reading on how to safely operate a construction crane.

Or a worker who kicks up their feet with a popcorn bucket in hand as they watch a three-hour, 10-year-old instructional video on how to drive a bulldozer.

Not only are these training methods tiring, but roughly 52% of Americans prefer hands-on training methods to learn a new skill according to a study developed in 2014 by Everest College.

Two words: summer fever.

Many Idaho residents are familiar with the longing for hot days filled with the smell of freshly-cut grass, melting popsicles, and walking outside without layers of sweaters and coats weighing them down.

They also have the sunny, long hours of the day to look forward to. However, for some, the expanse of hours can be difficult to fill.

What do restaurants, hotels, and schools all have in common?

They all serve food. Which means their person in charge must be a certified food safety manager, according to the 2017 Food Code.

 "They muddy the water to make it seem deep."—Friedrich Nietzsche

Last summer I took my 10-week-old Labrador retriever to my sister’s middle school track meet.

While I was waiting for the runners to come around, a woman bee-lined up to me and told me, in a none-too-kind way, that no dogs were allowed on school property.

Most everyone has heard of or remembers the 1986 Chernobyl disaster that paralyzed people into nuclear fear. Or further back in 1979, when evacuations were advised within a 20-mile perimeter when the second reactor of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station experienced failures and leaked radiation.

Let's admit it. Sometimes, you don't know where to start. Whether you are a company with the desire to snag your audience with colorful communication or a growing YouTube star wanting to learn more about meshing together a stellar video, the fact remains the same—you need a little bit of guidance.

Let's face it. It seems like our cyber security is pretty horrible.

We re-use simple passwords. We download apps and click on links we probably shouldn’t. Our bank sends us a new credit card when someone makes a fraudulent transaction with our number. In fact, CSOonline, which provides security information to corporate security professionals, estimates $6 trillion in losses to cyber crime by 2021.

I like the field of science. You essentially fail your way to success. In order to discover new information and truth, you funnel your hypothesis through the scientific method, go through trials and MANY errors, and eventually come to conclusive ends.

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Homemade bread or bread on the shelf? This is the comparison owner Travis Voskamp makes between his business Leapknot Coffee Roasters and the type of coffee grounds you find at your local grocery store.

Christmas is a time of thick creamy fudge, gold and red glimmering tinsel, and compassionate and festive moods. It is also a time of transition, as we prep up for the cold winter by donning puffy coats, wool socks, and a resignation that the roads will be snow-coated frequently for at least the next three or four months.

Amidst the holiday glitter of silver snow, pine wreathes decorated on every door, and the scents of peppermint and hot cider, you may notice that you tend to fall into a sad slump as the days become shorter and sunlight fades away earlier than we'd like it to.

The winter blues, however, can be a symptom of Seasonal Affective Disorder (aptly abbreviated as SAD), which affects 4-6% of people and mildly affects about 10-20% others each winter, according to the American Family Physician website.

When I was in grade school, my family's restaurant of choice was Perkins. Each month, my family would hoard into the diner-like eatery and order a tableful of pancakes sopping in butter, cheesy omelets, and sugar-loaded pies regardless of the time of day. Specifically, I would order Teddy Bear Pancakes, which came out of the kitchen doused in whipped cream, rainbow sprinkles, and warm chocolate syrup.

As Pocatello is recognized by Forbes as a “Best Small Place for Business”, it is only natural for it be chock-full of companies that continue sprouting along the Portneuf Valley. These businesses range from décor boutiques to handcrafted sandwich shops to gritty mechanic stops—and of course, health care agencies.

Besides hard skills, what other issue adds to the dreaded skills gap crisis between employers and employees?

The exact opposite of hard skills—soft skills, which are attributes that employees seek in candidates and a term that sends said candidates to their smartphone dictionary app.

“Listen...With faint dry sound, like steps of passing ghosts, the leaves, frost crisp' d, break free from the trees and fall.”  —Adelaide Crapsey

Halloween is filled with the sweet tang of caramel green apples, the gunky innards of pumpkin guts, and the eerie frost that lines our window panels in the dark hours of a crisp morning. For many of us, Halloween is a holiday well associated with scents, flavors, and sensations of both the physical and the mental kind

In a land of Juniper trees and sagebrush-scented air, there lived a witch with silvery cobwebs for hair. She lived above a growing village called Pocatello in an abandoned shack that creaked from the harsh wind. Her garden often swelled with rotted pumpkins, buck-toothed, savage rats, and  purple-headed thistle weeds infested with squirming centipedes.

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For much of America, Halloween is a time for bags of candy, elaborate and creative costumes, and eerie tales and activities that pair off with the crisp autumn weather to bring each town a creepy package of spooky holiday spirit. Many might know that Halloween is descended from the holiday All Hallow's Eve, a Celtic festivities holiday in which the Celts believed the veil between the living and the head thinned and interactions beyond the grave were more likely.

For many people, when they hear of scams and threats attacking businesses, they think of conglomerates like Facebook or Verizon Communications, data breeches and cyber criminals, and millions of dollars stuffed into patching up the costs that come with these messy situations.

Imagine you're walking through the parking lot to your car. It's late—9:32pm—and the hazy streetlights don't give off much light. You're pushing a cart full of groceries, trying to get home before your Tillamook chocolate ice cream melts, when arms clamp around your waist and wrench you from the cart.

"Food tastes best when you eat it with your own spoon." —Danish proverb

I live on a farm. The smell of earthy potatoes, sweet corn, and harvest-ready wheat perpetually lingers in the air this season. At my parents’ house, they have a massive grapevine that cradles the deck in its leafy hands. Their rhubarb stalks are longer than a child’s baseball bat. They have an overflow of juicy, ripe peaches each year that get bottled up, dried into leather, and smashed into sticky syrups.

For most people, being new to the neighborhood tends to bring out their shy qualities. Yet for Brad Landon, the Store Manager of Chubbuck’s Home Depot, being new to the area doesn’t deter him from leaping into community service and engaging with those in need.

Everybody who attends college knows the abundance of homework and readings you are assigned each week. But the hard work pays off, evidence being in Eliecea Wheeler’s skills as a nurse and teacher at ISU’s Continuing Education and Workforce Training (CEWT).

When I was in the sixth grade, we had what our teachers would call 'literature circles.' To some students, they were forced book clubs where you had to read the entire book (grueling work for some), make notes, and then gather together to discuss the plot, characters, and themes. To me, a shy, new-to-the-school student who read more than I spoke, these literature circles were my domain.

Be it for a hobby or a job, learning how to tinker with lathes can give you plenty of life benefits. Not only can this hobby-turned-investment cut back on house items you'll have to purchase in the future, but it can potentially lead to a well-paying career.

When it comes to languages of Pocatello, many of those that are spoken in the southeast regions are English, Spanish, Shoshone, and even Arabic. These languages help enrich the culture and bridge gaps between tongues in Southeastern Idaho. Yet these are not only the languages spoken here, nor are these the only languages taught here.

Do you remember reading fifth-grade history books about journeymen and apprentices? Remember learning that apprentices trained with blacksmiths or seamstresses or tailors, those age-old crafts that have advanced and aren’t as popular nowadays thanks to modern-day robots and machines?

In the world of design, those with the most clever, most flashy, and most creative pieces win. They snag our attention with their inventive ideas and make us interested in what they have to offer.

Just like we associate apples to teachers and red fire trucks to firemen, we pair the Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) to the ambulance. And while EMTs can certainly be found anywhere an ambulance is, these workers can be found in many other settings as well. For those of you who are looking to become an EMT or those who are interested in the types of careers where they can be found, read on!

My husband learned to drive a tractor when he was 14 years old. He possessed 1500 acres of farmground alongside his dad and brother by the time he was 24. Now, at 26, he possesses 2500 acres due to entreprenual skills and work ethic.

You know how florists' flower arrangements always look like that immaculate, perfectly dressed neighbor you can’t help but get a little starry-eyed at? And when you look at your own attempted flower vase arrangement, it’s wilted over like a little kid who had their candy stolen?

Sometimes our flower centerpieces can use an upgrade and the right change can enhance and draw attention to the beauty of your home décor. Below are some suggestions that can turn your fainting flowers into eye-popping conversation starters.

With the summer sun pitching high and everyone venturing back outdoors after a particularly brutal winter, the season is ripening for those involved in the high energy of rodeoing.

But for Kolbey Hughes, the season of rodeo has already been rewarding. Waking up to work out and practice for six hours a day, Kolbey has qualified for the College National Finals Rodeo in calf roping, being one of only three men in the Rocky Mountain region who go to nationals in the category.

Imagine dozing beneath a constellation of stars, the warm summer air carrying with it a scent of pine and sagebrush.

When we usually go camping, our view from our sleeping bag or bed is either of a tent tarp or the ceiling of a trailer. It's not too often that you get the silvery view of the milky way.

This is why hammocking is such a unique experience as you get to sleep in nature with no walls and no ceilings—just you being held aloft by two trees and the supportive comfort of a hammock.

Our households are stuffed with all sorts of fabric and textile materials. And like all other household items like toasters and sinks, there is a common theme: they break, or in this case, tear or rip. But when our car has a flat tire, we don't toss out the car. We patch on a new tire and continue on our way.

When it comes to outdoor adventure in Idaho, you never have to travel far. And when it comes to the variety of activities available, it’s only growing.

Learning a new language is much like taking apart a computer. In the process, you manage to jumble up all the importance stuff, break something essential, and baffle yourself when there are extra pieces that have to fit in somewhere. This will then be followed by you stomping out of the room in frustration, cursing in your own native tongue at the impossibility of what you need to perform.

We all have things we don’t use—whether that be exercise equipment, fancy kitchenware, or obscure sweaters from our great aunt. Yet many people overlook the more essential things we don’t use often enough—our muscles.

Hacking. In some cases it can be amusing, like that time a man hacked the Los Angeles phone system to win a Ferrari from a radio competition. But in most cases it is frustrating, dangerous, and even detrimental to your business or personal information. And just as people are known to pick up unhealthy bugs, your computer can also contract a nasty virus that can harm its internal system. Because of this, cyber security is essential to keeping your personal information and computer safe.

Before I say anything else, I believe that chicken hearts can be found exclusively in Satan's refrigerator. With its lingering metallic taste and that gummy texture that never seems to break down in your mouth, a chicken heart is the perfect size to get lodged in your throat if you try and swallow it before it chooses to be done with you.

Businesses. Many of them can have an eat-or-be-eaten mentality when it comes to competition and especially when it comes to technology. And with the stellar technological advances of Apple, Google, Amazon and more, the powerhouse of the 90s is finding it a challenge to keep up. Yet, Microsoft has been playing the theoretical game of computers and technology longer than nearly any of its competitors; so it knows how to maintain itself and is finding innovative ways to stay in the ring.

College is like an airport. Full of hustle and bustle, with people lugging around large bags full of supplies necessary for the long trip. Plus the food is overpriced and there aren't any good places to sleep. I make this comparison from experience; I know college.....and airports, well.

Whether it be children learning the chirpy serenade of a ukulele, or a group of girls in calico dresses acting out A Little Princess on the stage, the Leavitt Center's Empower Humanity is often a buzz of artistic activity and creative individuality.

Love extravagant, elegant, insert-your-favorite-adjective-here, hairstyles?

Love looking at them?

Here’s an offer that your old college self would leap at: classes at 50% off.

For all ISU employees interested in professional development, continued learning, or refreshing courses of your choice, we at Continuing Education and Workforce Training (CEWT) will be offering classes at 50% off for all full-time ISU employees.

Indefatigable: adj.

1. incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
2. something I am not.

Here at Continuing Education and Workforce Training we are proud to be offering our first ever Emergency Medicine Conference in June for doctors, nurses, first responders, paramedics, firefighters, police, and anyone interested in emergency medicine. This conference includes a panel discussion, break-out sessions, and a keynote speaker to help prepare you in emergency medicine issues.

In the world of current events, businesses today are confronted with a skills gap that leaves them without the qualified workers they need. This has negative effects on their company as they need functioning and knowledgeable professionals to help manage the inner workings of their businesses.

Your name is Xerona and you are a level 12 druid. Your best friend has just spent a night in your hotel, is now in debt and had to mortgage off his little red house. You just discovered your old professor killed a man inside a cellar with a horseshoe.

When downtown shoppers and sight-seers first walk into the Elwen Cottage on Main Street, there is a unique element that may catch their eye more than the average vintage store. Those wall shelves hanging up are actually old wooden suitcases cut in half and repurposed, and the wind chimes tinkling about are composed of spoons, measuring cups, and bowls.

“Giorraionn beirt bother”.

That is to say in Irish, “Two people shorten the road”.

We get it. Pocatello doesn’t have a lot of city life. It isn’t much of a looker if you’re searching for the emerald foliage that Oregon provides, and it doesn’t contain the boisterous cluster of noise Las Vegas is reputable for. Yet locals know—or may not yet know—that there is certainly something more to its oatmeal-colored hills that proves it has just as many activities in its valleys as Las Vegas has in its streets.