Documentary trailer available on NewsOK
You may have read a story in Sunday’s edition of The Oklahoman about Horseshoe Road’s journey to Japan and Thailand, and a documentary about the band’s three-week trip that will debut statewide this year on OETA.
Did you know that a 5-minute trailer on the documentary is available for free on NewsOK? Music performed by Horseshoe Road plays as background music throughout the trailer.
Click to read the story. To watch the trailer, click the play button under “Related Video.”
The full-length documentary will be an hour long and available in high-definition.
Horseshoe Road’s members are bassist Brad Benge of Sallisaw, violinist Kyle Dillingham of Enid and guitarist Dustin Jones of Yukon. All are vocalists.
The band performs 7 to 10 p.m. every Thursday at Kamp’s Meat Market, 1310 NW 25. Daily performances are scheduled during the Oklahoma State Fair, Sept. 13-23, at the OPUBCO Pavilion. Times are 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., 4 to 5 p.m. and 8 to 9 p.m.
The band’s debut CD, “Home Fries,” is available at Inter-City Violin Studio, 1414 NW 30, and Route 66, a retail shop, at 50 Penn Place. Another CD is expected in early 2008. Some of the band’s songs may be heard in their entirety at www.myspace.com/horseshoeroad.
Click to visit Horseshoe Road’s official Web site.
Brian Sargent
Staff Writer
The news quiz
Try your hand at this week’s quiz and see how well you’ve kept up with the news in the past week.
1. What game did “ballists” play at Fort Sill, complete with period costumes and uniforms, to commemorate and educate about the post’s 19th century heritage?
a) Baseball
b) Basketball
c) Volleyball
d) Cricket
2. What prompted cancellation of 2007 Bricktown Nationals drag boat races in the Oklahoma River?
a) Too much water
b) Floating debris
c) No contestants
d) Financial dispute
3. What sporting event was selected as No. 1 in the Top 100 events in Oklahoma history?
a) OU’s 1968 Orange Bowl win
b) Oklahoman Charlie Coe’s loss to newcomer Jack Nicklaus in the 1959 U.S. Amateur title
c) OU’s 2000 national title win against Florida State
d) Pat Smith becomes a four-time NCCA wrestling champion
4. Academy Award-nominated actor Michael Dunn, who died in London in 1973, has been reburied in Norman. There was something special about him:
a) He was very short
b) His IQ was 178 and he could read when he was 3 years old
c) His singing voice was so beautiful he could draw a crowd on the street
d) All of the above
5. OU is celebrating the acquisition of a:
a) New home for the university’s president
b) Rail link between the main campus and Lloyd Noble Center
c) Collection of Southwestern art including 3,300 paintings, baskets and pieces of pottery and jewelry
d) New local pizza restaurant that promises 15-minute deliveries
6. Ford Motor Co. denied that one of its automobile units was for sale. Which unit was it?
a) Cadillac
b) Chrysler
c) Nash Rambler
d) Volvo
7. The cardinal of the Catholic archdiocese in what city offered an apology to sexual abuse victims when announcing an $660 million settlement:
a) Atlanta
b) Chicago
c) Los Angeles
d) Miami
8. Which NASCAR driver won his first Nextel Cup race of the season at the USG Sheetrock 400?
a) Stroker Ace
b) Ricky Bobby Jr.
c) Jeff Gordon
d) Tony Stewart
9. The final installment of the Harry Potter book series was released. The books are written by J.K. Rowling. Who does the illustrations?
a) Mary GrandPre
b) Bill Watterson
c)Sam Kieth
d) Emerson Spartz
10. HBO led Emmy nominations, which were announced Thursday. Which of the following HBO shows received the most nominations?
a) “Big Love”
b) “The Sopranos”
c) “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee”
d) “Extras”
11. What happened to cause Bricktown restaurant owners to question the reliability of their supplier?
a) Late deliveries of seafood
b) Multiple power outages
c) Fewer cattle on the market
d) Rain-flooded vegetable crops
12. For which lake did the Oklahoma City Council approve a plan to limit commercial development?
a) Stanley Draper
b) Overholser
c) Hefner
d) Crystal
13. IHOP agreed to buy what casual-dining chain with a $1.9 billion bid?
a) Bennigan’s
b) Harrigan’s
c) Applebee’s
d) Chili’s
14. The Dow Jones Industrial Average for the first time last week closed above what level?
a) 4,000
b) 14,000
c) 24,000
d) 34,000
15. The state Transportation Commission has approved $5.5 million in contracts for what highway project?
a) “You’re Doin’ Fine, Oklahoma” signs at all border crossings
b) Rest rooms and information centers
c) Cable barriers in seven highways’ medians
d) A trial light rail system from Edmond to downtown Oklahoma City
16. What Oklahoma City based company bought the naming rights to an Oklahoma River ferry service that will link the Meridian Avenue hotel district to downtown attractions?
a) Devon Energy
b) Sonic
c) Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co.
d) Integris Health
17. Edmond Memorial swimmer Samantha Woodward won a silver medal in the Pan American Games in which event?
a) 400-meter freestyle relay
b) 50-meter butterfly
c) 100-meter butterfly
d) 200-meter freestyle
18. The only requirement for attending a gathering and golf tournament in Shawnee last week was that your name had to be:
a) Jim Bob
b) Jim Smith
c) Billy Bob
d) Mary Poppins
19. A Blanchard resident was surprised to find a television crew from what show giving a makeover to something important to him?
a) ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”
b) Food Network’s “Restaurant Makeover”
c) Country Music Television’s “Trick My Truck”
d) The Learning Channel’s “What Not to Wear”
20. A 6.8-magnitude tremblor shook Japan’s northwest coast, killing at least nine people and spilling:
a) Oil from a refinery onto a beach in the Chubu region
b) Radioactive water into the ocean
c) A dozen cars into the water from a seaside highway
d) Lava from the crater of Mount Fuji
How did you do? Here are the correct answers:
1-A, 2-B, 3-C, 4-D, 5-C, 6-D, 7-C, 8-D, 9-A, 10-C, 11-B, 12-C, 13-C, 14-B, 15-C, 16-A, 17-C, 18-B, 19-C, 20-B
Week in review
Another week has passed, and here is your chance to catch up with what you may have missed.
- A carjacking led to some panicked moments for a woman in Oklahoma City. Her 6-month-old daughter was in the back when her sport-utility vehicle was taken. The SUV was found with the unharmed baby inside.
- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas consolidated his control of the West Bank, installing an interim government of moderates to lead indefinitely.
- Volunteers gathered at Fairlawn Cemetery north of Chickasha for a community cleanup day after record rainfall and staff shortages by the mowing contractor led to grass in some parts of the cemetery growing as tall as 3 feet.
- Chris Benoit’s murdered wife and son were mourned during a memorial service in Daytona Beach, Fla. The wrestler was to be laid to rest later in a private service in Canada.
- Thousands of National Guard soldiers made their way to Camp Gruber for a month of training before going to Iraq.
- The $50 million Eugene B. Adkins art collection will be loaned to the University of Oklahoma’s Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art and Tulsa’s Philbrook Museum of Art. It is considered one of the most important private collections of works by Taos and American Indian artists.
- Former first lady Lady Bird Johnson was buried next to her late husband at the LBJ ranch in the Texas hill country.
- U.N. inspectors verified North Korea shut down its sole functioning nuclear reactor. South Korea sent some oil northward as a reward.
- A 6.8-magnitude earthquake shook Japan’s northwest coast, killing at least 10 people and injuring more than 1,000. It set off a fire at the world’s most powerful nuclear power plant, causing a reactor to spill radioactive water into the sea.
- With record-breaking rainfall since March, cities across the state are seeing a reduction in water revenues as people use less water.
- A master plan approved by the Oklahoma City Council limits commercial development at Lake Hefner to a five-acre site along Northwest Expressway just south of Meridian Avenue.
- Hominy’s 2004 citizen of the year, Roy Westbrook, 65, received life in prison for the shooting death of Rebecca Clements, 26, a waitress who was serving lunch at a diner July 19, 2005.
- A passenger jet burst into flames in Sao Paolo, Brazil, after skidding off the runway in a rain storm and hitting a gas station. All 186 people onboard and five on the ground died.
- Andrew Speaker, the tuberculosis patient who caused an international public health scare in May, underwent successful surgery to remove part of his diseased right lung.
- State Rep. Paul Wesselhoft, R-Moore, introduced legislation to be considered in February that would allow for dog owners to be imprisoned for a year if their pet attacks a person and does serious harm.
- Nonuniformed and nonsupervisory Edmond city employees voted to join Oklahoma City Local 2406 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union.
- Water stopped flowing across the spillway at Lake Texoma’s dam as the lake level dropped to 640 feet above sea level after the runoff from recent rainfalls ceased.
- Recent Power outages in Bricktown have restaurant owners questioning whether they need to invest in generators to ensure they have a backup source of electricity.
- Stock market trading pushed the Dow Jones industrial average above the 14,000 mark for the first time in history.
- State native Michael Dunn, all 3 feet, 10 inches of him, was reburied in Norman more than 33 years after the renowned actor and piano prodigy with a genius-level IQ died in England.
- An autopsy report completed Monday confirmed Joshua Minton, 2, died of suffocation and excess fluid in the brain and lungs as a result of his mouth being taped shut to keep him quiet at an east Tulsa day care center.
- Ferry service will set sail along the Oklahoma River. Devon Energy announced it is providing $2 million toward the purchase of ferries as part of a 15-year naming rights deal. The 65-foot ferries will operate between Meridian Avenue and downtown.
- Despite the widely recognized dangers, school bus drivers in all but 13 U.S. states are free to chat on their cell phones — or even punch in text messages — while transporting children to class and back.
- One of Los Angeles’ 10 most wanted gang members, Johnathon Christopher Blackwell, 26, was arrested on a first-degree murder complaint in Oklahoma City, and is being held without bail in the Oklahoma County jail.
- Pauletta Samis, 36, was charged in Pontotoc County with animal cruelty. She stands accused of letting a pit bill terrier starve at her home.
- Enid police took a man into custody in connection with the slaying of two Enid women found dead outside their duplex earlier last week.
E-mail: The new paper clip
Here is some interesting perspective on the subject of e-mail I heard at a Growth Network event this week for corporate executives here in Oklahoma City.
E-mail, it seems, has become the new paper clip as a status symbol for busy executives.
Many people in the corporate world live with their BlackBerry attached to their hip and are constantly checking e-mail even during meetings, said David Woods, chief executive officer of Giant Partners and moderator of an panel discussion at the conference held at Gallardia Country Club.
So, how does that equate with the lowly paper clip?
Woods said as a young man he was told by his father how paper clips were once a status symbol in the corporate hierarchy.
“You can tell where somebody is in their career by paper clips,” Woods said his dad told him. “If they never run out of paper clips and just keep getting more and more paper clips, they are high up in the organization. If they are constantly running out of paper clips, they are lower in the organization.
“So paper clips was the distinguishing point, meaning that if you were getting lots of paper clips, it means that people are sending stuff to you already prepared. If you are running out of paper clips, it means you are preparing the reports and sending them to someone. I think we’ve probably translated that from paper clips now to e-mails. We are thinking that the more we have the more important we might be, and it’s probably incorrect.”
The comparison of e-mail and paper clips was sparked by the admission by Tom Hill, president and chairman of Oklahoma City-based Kimray Inc., that he has adopted the practice of not checking his e-mail until after lunch each day.
“I started doing that, and I’m still alive and people still talk to me,” Hill said to laughs from among an audience of about 200 at the event.
“I do think there is an attitude among people that the more e-mails I get and the more phone calls I get, the more important person I am. Sometimes we have this aura about us that I’m getting all these calls in this meeting and I’m getting these e-mails, and I think it gives us a false sense of position.
“Turn the thing off and let people contact us at the appropriate time.”
By the way, I can never find a paper clip around my desk when I need one.
Jim Stafford
Business News reporter
History lessons through big hair
I woke up this morning with the overwhelming desire to wear my hair big, use a lot of hairspray and sing and dance my way to work.
These are all aftershocks of having attended the prescreening of “Hairspray” last night. The film, in my humble opinion, is the film of the summer to date. It’s just good, clean fun – as you will hear in nearly every review of the film. Honestly, how could a film featuring John Travolta as a heavyweight momma not be fun?
Watch the “Hairspray” trailer.
The film focuses on the theme of segregation. But some folks, like this Newsweek reviewer, think the movie is too sugar-coated for people to take the point seriously.
For adults who grew up in the “Hairspray” generation, I wonder if any film could ever be serious enough to portray what segregation was really like. What was it like for the black students to be forced to use a different water fountain and bus than the white students? What kind of heartless words and actions from outsiders did interracial couples have to endure?
Those of us in the younger generation find it hard to imagine a world that isn’t checkerboarded. Every basketball team I ever played on had both black and white players; every choir I ever sang in was the same. I can’t imagine a world where I don’t make friends of a different color almost as naturally as those of my same shade.
But the fact of the matter is, “Hairspray” helped me at least get a taste of what segregation was like. A film doesn’t have to be a drama or a documentary for the younger generation to get a taste of what people endured during that time in history. In fact, we’re easily turned off by something that isn’t fun and entertaining.
It was when Queen Latifah’s character, Motormouth Maybelle, leads her community in a march against TV discrimination that it all hit home for me. These people had to fight for equality.
If it took a goofy musical for me to get a serious history lesson, so be it. I’m thankful for perspective, whatever platter it’s served on.
-Lindsay Goodier
NewsOK.com Editor
It’s Potter-Time
Well, the countdown is on and tonight, at 12:01 we Harry Potter fans will finally be able to buy a copy of the long awaited “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.”
Just an update, Borders and Barnes & Noble are giving out numbers as we speak. You won’t have to wait in line all day. Just go to the store, get a number and then come back for the festivities later.
Check out today’s front page for a list of some of the book release parties in Oklahoma City and surrounding areas.
And happy reading!
Heather Warlick
Staff Writer
Picking and grinning
The nation’s top stock market prognosticator may be a local chap. Edmond financial advisor Nick Massey appeared on CNBC late last year because he was the only professional investor in the nation they could find who would offer the outrageous prediction that the Dow Jones Industrial average might reach 15,000 in 2007. His bold prediction came when the Dow was hovering around 12,500.
On Thursday, the Dow closed above 14,000 for the first time. Massey is an interesting guy (a pianist, cyclist and former racecar driver) who was been quoted in the pages of our business section and has appeared on a NewsOK.com podcast. Nick’s market decisions are based on demographics. His bullish predictions arise from his observation that baby boomers are just entering their peak spending years. He expects that consumer spending, which drives much of our economy, will begin to decline around 2010. The portfolios he controls will hold few stocks by that time.
If you want to see Massey, tune into CNBC’s “Power Lunch” program on Friday. He’s schuduled to appear at 11:20 a.m. Oklahoma time. Although his earlier prediction was met with some skepticism, his current title on the CNBC schedule is “Market Maven.”
Don Mecoy
Business Writer
The importance of being nice
Cleaning off my desk this afternoon I came across a framed quote a reader gave me a few years ago — “It’s nice to be important but it’s more important to be nice.”
I don’t know who said this, there’s no attribution. I do remember the day I received it, however.
An older gentleman used to call me almost every day. Sometimes he would call with a story idea, and some of them turned into stories I wrote that were published in our paper. I even quoted him a few times in stories, as he seemed to know everyone in town. Often, though, he’d call just to talk. He’d start by saying, “That was a great story you had in today’s paper.” Or, he’d say, “That wasn’t your best work. Your heart was not in that one.”
I’d say, “Thanks” or “I’ll try harder next time,” and then we’d visit for a little while. Over the course of time, we became friends. But sometimes he’d call me at a busy time of day, or he’d call me several times a day, and I’d get annoyed. One day I snapped at him that I was busy and had to get back to work. About an hour later, a security guard in our building called to say I had a packet downstairs. In it was the above quote in a plain black frame. Humbled, I called to apologize to my friend.
Finally, one day he didn’t call. I let that go for a few days, but finally I knew something was wrong. I called everyone I could think of that he knew and finally found out he’d had a heart attack and had been in the hospital. After that his calls were more sporadic. A few months back I realized I had not heard from him in a long time. When working on a story recently, I interviewed a guy who knew my and he told me he had died.
I miss him. I miss the daily calls and even the critiques. Today the quote sits on my desk as a reminder that I should never be too busy to be nice. People like my friend are the ones for whom I write my stories.
So, thanks Steve Hallmark. I promise to remember to be nice.
Tricia Pemberton
Staff Writer
Cerebral palsy, mental retardation different
In a Thursday story about a Luther woman sentenced to prison for emailing nude pictures of her 12-year-old daughter, one line read that the woman “has cerebral palsy and an IQ that makes her borderline mentally retarded.”
Reading that, some might conclude that cerebral palsy and a low IQ are always connected. Nothing could be further from the truth.
CP is caused by oxygen being cut off to the brain while the child is in the womb, being born, or very young (usually less than 3 years old). While the young brain is developing, a shortage of oxygen can cut off development of the areas of the brain that control the muscles.
CP can not be transmitted to others and is not passed on genetically. It can never be “cured,” but with proper treatment and extensive physical therapy a person with CP can often lead a fairly normal life. The younger the child starts treatment and physical therapy, the better the prognosis.
Depending on the severity of their disability and the treatment they have received, people with CP may use wheelchairs, walkers or canes, or they may be able to get around with very few problems.
People with CP may have trouble communicating with others if they have not received proper treatment and therapy, but that does not make them mentally retarded. The woman from Luther probably has problems that have led to that diagnosis.
My wife was born prematurely and developed CP in the neonatal care unit when she went without oxygen for a few minutes. She did not learn to walk until she was 5, but still graduated with honors from high school, cum laude from college and magna cum laude while receiving her master’s degree. We have two perfectly healthy children.
Dave Parker
Staff Writer
Oh my gosh! Today is Wednesday, and you know what that means! In two days at midnight I am going to buy the new Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows!!
I am so excited, I just might scream!
Someone is supposed to die, and I’ve heard many ideas about who that will be. Personally, I think it’s going to be either Remus Lupin, a former teacher at Hogwarts and a dear friend to Harry, or Ginny Weasley, Ron Weasley’s sister and Harry’s current love interest. But that’s just an idea.
I heard that someone hacked the publisher’s computer and put copies of the new book on the Internet! And supposedly he, or she, is selling them! What kind of idiot would stoop so low as to ruin the outcome of the books in advance?
Appalling.
Anyway, I hope they are selling La-Z-Boys with built-in bathrooms because I am NOT going to stop reading when I get my copy.
By Amber Gillmore, super, mega, insanely obsessive uber-fan
Oklahoman Special Correspondent
(NOTE: Amber, 13, is the daughter of staff writer Heather Warlick.)
