The Huffington Post reported that years ago, when Amy Grant and her husband, Vince Gill, a graduate of OKC’s Northwest Classen High School and Oklahoma native, appeared on Today, Lauer’s attention was unwittingly pulled away from Grant’s performance and instead landed on a particularly “voluptuous” backup singer. He quickly realized Gill was also looking at […]
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Hair’s the deal
When it comes to empowering Oklahoma women, Terrainia Harris and Shekeeta Taylor put their passion to work. In 2010, they founded Resilient Soul, which aims to empower the health and culture of women. Friday through Sunday, Resilient Soul hosts its second annual Oklahoma Naturals expo, promoting organic health and beauty products and service that celebrate […]
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Metal man
You’re probably familiar with the phrase “less is more.” Whether you subscribe to this credo is another matter. But Oklahoma City-based designer and sculptor Larry Pickering believes there’s an undeniable truth in simplicity. “I’ve always been a simple person,” Pickering said. “I like simple colors. I like natural colors. I’m driven by that. I can […]
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Good gray
That next day I stopped coloring my Rogue-like gray streak in my hair (I sometimes like to think I’m actually an X-person). It didn’t fight back, as it’s been ignoring the color I’ve put on it since college. And, frankly, I was tired of only being able to part my hair a specific way to […]
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Is CNG right for you?
“I can tell you that the feeling here is different than anywhere I’ve been,” said Wright, owner of CNG Interstate, a Utah-based company that imports and distributes after-market CNG-conversion kits. CNG Interstate is opening a second corporate office in Edmond, and he wants to build on the customer base he has developed here. “We really […]
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Get a perm
A design principle first applied to agriculture, permaculture seeks to create self-sustaining food production through imitating natural ecosystems. Australian ecologists Bill Mollison and David Holmgren coined the term in their 1970s book, “Permaculture One.” The word, a contraction of “permanent agriculture,” was meant to invoke a new science where agricultural practices worked in tandem with […]
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Reporting burden
January 2010 was the starting date for the EPA’s greenhouse gas reporting program. Initially exempt from emissions reporting requirements, the oil and gas industry was included beginning Jan. 2 of this year. Tom Price, Chesapeake Energy’s senior vice president of corporate development and government relations, said his company is already recognized as a national leader […]
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Mercedes rules
So when Towns, a network engineer at HighMount Exploration & Production, decided he wanted to design his own natural gas-powered vehicle, his natural choice was a 2004 Mercedes-Benz SL600. Plenty of automakers have introduced cars that run on compressed natural gas, but Honda Civics aren’t quite as sexy as the 510-horsepower, twin-turbocharged V12 engine SL600. […]
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O tower, where art thou?
Nary a crane was in sight even though construction has been under way for more than a year. Sometimes, the universe works in ironic ways. On the very same day that The Oklahoman ran an editorial titled “Natural gas anything but ignored in state,” Josh Fox’s “GasLand,” a film exposing the health and environmental risk […]
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Evolution alternatives
Both bills rely on the language of “academic freedom,” but science professionals are concerned that science education is not the actual goal of the legislation. According to the Gallup poll, 54 percent of Americans support the idea that human beings evolved over time from lower life forms. Sixteen percent of that total believe God had […]