In less than five minutes on May 20, that world was turned upside down when a tornado demolished her school as well as neighboring Plaza Towers Elementary. Between the two schools, Singleton and some 80 teachers lost most of the classroom supplies they had bought, made or borrowed during their careers. Such items either were […]
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Trashed
Credit: Brad Gregg Monthly active users of Facebook numbered 1.1 billion in May. In only its seventh year of existence, Twitter boasts 640 million accounts and more than 400 million tweets per day. No doubt people are talking. What they have to say and the conversation they create are of supreme importance to businesses. What […]
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Outlaw attitude
By day, Oklahoma City bail bondsman Tom Trepagnier is responsible for making sure local outlaws follow the rules. On the weekends, he lets them run free. Trepagnier, who owns Trep’s 2Blondes Bail Bonds, has invested his time and money into the minor-league football franchise Oklahoma City Bounty Hunters. “Football has always been a love,” he […]
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Garden of eatin’
By: Shannon Cornman What type of clientele would a restaurant situated on 17 acres of gardens attract? Would there be too much competition from the yet-to-be built restaurant situated atop Devon tower? What about the glut of dining options located down the street in Bricktown? Nearly a year and a half later, a 2,000-square-foot restaurant […]
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It’s a gas
As far as the Landmark Fine Homes owner is concerned, the abode is 1.5 million British thermal units of what people will want — or should want — when buying or building their next home. A compressed natural gas vehicle filling station, a CNG-powered backup generator and tankless water heaters are among the clean-energy options […]
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Your cheatin’ heart
Travis Jones Credit: Shannon Cornman And if she doesn’t, then Travis Jones will sell someone the technology to prove it beyond a doubt. Don’t think you can outsmart them. They’ve got technology on their side. Close, a local private investigator and owner of myspousecheats.com, is perfecting the art of catching unfaithful spouses by using GPS […]
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Auto fixation
Jason Peters Credit: Shannon Cornman Then life changed for both men; Shade Tree D.I.Y. Garage was born. “We’re not like the normal auto shop,” Duong said. “Here, we’ll put it on a lift and point out why it failed, what that failure means and what possible effects it could have.” It’s a process, he noted, […]
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Locked out and loaded
Jordan Eberle and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins stepped off the plane from Edmonton, Canada, in late September and quickly found their way to Bricktown. Thanks to the ongoing National Hockey League lockout, two of the world’s best young forwards will spend the foreseeable future playing for the Oklahoma City Barons. Most NHL players are locked out of […]
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Rasslin’s Ross
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB” lang=”EN-GB”> Jim Ross WWE bouts announced by Jim “Good Ol’ J.R.” Ross are seen in 160 countries and translated into 40 different languages. His voice — and the audience for professional wrestling — are truly global. But Ross still pays homage to a career started in the Sooner State. Now living in […]
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It’s a bird, it’s a plane …
Robert Carr thinks he might have invented a way for firefighters to do just that. Carr is the founder and CEO of Supero USA, an Oklahoma company that specializes in aerodynamic technology, specifically a fixed-wing aircraft fitted with video and thermal imaging cameras designed to give users a view from the sky. His latest project […]