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Aw! It's so pretty! I'm glad that they are treating it.
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It's a woolly donkey! :squee:
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Concrete canoe races in Stillwater. What next, lead balloon races in Fairview?
Hey D. Scarlatti, Wisconsin wins the competition, placing first out of 22 entries floated.
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Norman, OK - University of Oklahoma professor discovers new bacteria in Norman's water and names it, in true Okie style, after the city, Cloacibacterium normanense.
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Concrete canoe races in Stillwater. What next, lead balloon races in Fairview?
You might find this article on concrete ships of interest. It even has some pictures from the National Concrete Canoe Competition. Not sure what year though.
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Among the incubators of advanced concrete technology is the national concrete canoe competition held annually in the United States. Far from being a pageant of eccentrics, it is a showcase in which engineering universities compete on canoe design and performance using ever newer, lighter, and more durable concrete materials. To win the 2001 concrete canoe competition, for example, the Hunstville team used the composite-reinforced concrete formula of its rocket hull to create a flexible canoe that could surge forward between strokes and ‘swim.’ They were able to lower the natural frequency of the hull so that the paddlers could drive it toward resonance; the hull deflects during the stroke, storing elastic strain energy that, after the stroke, is transformed into a forward propulsive force. The achievement reportedly attracted interest from the US Navy. Clearly, even if no more concrete cargo ships are ever built, the potential in this basic building block of the modern world has by no means been exhausted.
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Interesting, Angakuk. I knew of the concrete ships of WWII, but didn't realize they dated back to WWI or that there were concrete barges in service now.
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If you thought the Bosnian pyramid was odd, check out these rock formations in Oklahoma.
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It looks like there's going to be a lot of job opportunities in Oklahoma state government in the not-to-distant future: One-third of state employees will reach retirement age between now and 2011 and one-fourth of DHS nurses will reach retirement age by 2010.
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Bomb's away! Oklahoma County Sheriff's Department bomb squad started a fire by explosion, 1-1/2 acres burned before Spencer Fire Department got it under control.
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Perkins, Oklahoma man exposes himself to two women in Stillwater. My favorite line, in response to the perp's question "Have you seen this yet?": "No, and I don't want to."

Indecent exposure to adult women is a felony? Damn, I'll have stop swimming in the nude.
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Marla Peek, a director of Oklahoma Farm Bureau, can't believe that anyone could think that animal waste, "the most natural of fertilizers", is an environmentally hazardous material. Heard of nitrates, Ms. Peek? How about e. Coli?
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What kind of entertainment do we have in Oklahoma?

Well, there's always Roger Boomer and his OKXpress Band playing gospel and bluegrass on the courthouse square.*

Or...

Police Sergeant Mike Sherwood performing feats of strength and evangelizing with The Power Team.



*Note: Steve "Hambone" Hamm and his Jambalaya Jazz band perform next month. They're good and Mr. Hamm was Roxy's band director from 6th grade to 8th.
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Air service subsidy at risk for Enid and Ponca City. Hell, I didn't even know they still had air service. Back when I lived in Enid, Frontier Airlines still flew DC-3s out of Woodring International Airstrip. The subsidy amounts to $1.27 million, or about $274 per passenger flown. Why not buy them a bus ticket to Oklahoma City or Wichita? Both of those cities are only about 1-1/2 hours away by bus, for which a ticket cost about $40 or $50. It would save the taxpayers a bloody fortune.
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Oklahoma City man arrested for keeping fighting cocks. Apparently neighbors thought something besides egg-laying was up, what with 40 some roosters and only a handful of hens.
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10:30 PM, east of Stillwater, OK - Glencoe woman dies after getting run over by the back wheels of the truck she jumped out of during an argument with her husband. Her husband said he had slowed to about 10 mph, but lost his grip on her clothes. I'm gonna take a stab in the dark here and guess that alcohol was involved.
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Light plane crashes in Love County, the second time it has happened there in a month's time. Perhaps that is because they are taking off from McGeehee's Catfish Restaurant instead of an airport?
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About 20 elementary age students enrolled in Enid's Steve Sheik Memorial Summer Reading Program learned how to rope, ride and shoot like real cowboys, or at least movie cowboys.
Enid News EagleStudents met Tuesday with Rick and Larry Simpson and a handful of the co-stars in their Western movie productions. The cowboys talked about gun safety, Indian traders, roping and riding in the old West.
They never had this sort of thing when I was a kid, dammit.
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Clear up that cultural gap between Oklahoma and Norway by feeding chicken fried steak to an exchange student and then terrifying them with tales of Oklahoma weather.
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Air service subsidy at risk for Enid and Ponca City. Hell, I didn't even know they still had air service. Back when I lived in Enid, Frontier Airlines still flew DC-3s out of Woodring International Airstrip. The subsidy amounts to $1.27 million, or about $274 per passenger flown. Why not buy them a bus ticket to Oklahoma City or Wichita? Both of those cities are only about 1-1/2 hours away by bus, for which a ticket cost about $40 or $50. It would save the taxpayers a bloody fortune.
Enid: We deserve that government subsidy for that 7 or 8 passengers per day air service. They're not going to give it up without a fight. Good luck, E-nerd.
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Marla Peek, a director of Oklahoma Farm Bureau, can't believe that anyone could think that animal waste, "the most natural of fertilizers", is an environmentally hazardous material. Heard of nitrates, Ms. Peek?
Nitrates, like the town of Goltry, Oklahoma is finding in it's water supply?
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Things are not okay in Okay after the Oklahoma town's phone service to the outside world was cut off by thieves stealing conduit containing 600 pairs of copper wire. Crackheads probably stole it for the copper.
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Grand Jury indicts anti-prostitution activist who calls himself the "video vigilante".
ChannelOklahoma.comBrian Bates and his wife were named in indictments unsealed Thursday in Oklahoma County District Court. The state multicounty grand jury indictment accuses Brian Bates of five counts of pandering, two counts of preventing a witness from giving testimony, one count of aiding and abetting in prostitution and one count of unlawful use of radio equipment. His wife, Vicki Roberts-Bates, was named in one count of aiding and abetting in prostitution.
Bates was indicted on one count of pandering back in January for hiring a prostitute to do what she does on video, which they put on their antiprostitution website, but the charge was thrown out on a technicality after the prosecutor failed to respond in a timely manner.
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