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McCartney to headline BOK Center event

Staff Report

Paul McCartney announced today that he will give his first concert ever at the BOK Center in Tulsa, OK, Mon., Aug. 17, 2009 in celebration of the venue’s one-year anniversary.

This monumental event also marks the legendary performer’s only arena show during his current 2009 North American stadium concerts, as well as McCartney’s first Oklahoma show in nearly seven years—ever since his 2002 concert at Ford Center in Oklahoma City.

Tickets for the Aug. 17th concert go on sale Mon., July 20 at 10 a.m. and can be purchased at the BOK Center Box Office, all Tickets.com outlets, charge by phone at 1-866-7-BOK-CTR or online at www.bokcenter.com.
The BOK Center show will feature classics from McCartney’s extensive catalog, including Beatles, Wings and solo career hits as well as selections from his most recent album Electric Arguments, released under his alias The Fireman.

On the heels of Paul McCartney’s three-date, sold-out run at New York’s Citi Field in July, the Aug. 17th Tulsa performance will be among McCartney’s first U.S. appearances since headlining this year’s Coachella festival; as well as the same weekend’s record-breaking, one-off opening of the new Joint in Las Vegas.

McCartney’s additional upcoming North American concerts include two shows at Boston’s Fenway Park along with performances at Atlanta’s Piedmont Park, FedEx Field in Landover, MD and Halifax Commons in Halifax, NS.

Reactions to McCartney’s recent 2.5-hour, sold-out performances at Coachella and The Joint in Las Vegas were unanimously ecstatic from fans and critics alike:

USA Today reported that, "McCartney remains a sharp and agile performer, his voice as supple, warm and elastic as ever… Macca signatures Let It Be and The Long and Winding Road… still have the power to raise gooseflesh."

In addition, The New York Times, stated, “For almost two and a half hours, he had the attention of what seemed to be the entire multigenerational festival"

That was echoed by LA Weekly, who added, "Everything you could ask for in a McCartney set. Stunning. Beautiful"

About AEG Live
AEG Live, the live-entertainment division of Los Angeles-based AEG, is dedicated to all aspects of live contemporary music performance. AEG Live is comprised of touring, festival, exhibition, broadcast, merchandise and special event divisions, fifteen regional offices, and thirty state-of-the-art venues. The company is currently producing tours and productions including Bette Midler “The Showgirl Must Go On” and Cher at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, and The Color Purple.

The concert tour roster includes artists such as Taylor Swift, Leonard Cohen, Bon Jovi, Celine Dion, Hannah Montana, Britney Spears, Kenny Chesney, Paul McCartney and American Idols Live. AEG Live is the largest producer of music festivals in North America from the critically acclaimed Coachella Music & Arts Festival to Stagecoach and New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. For more information, go to www.aeglive.com.

TICKET INFO: Available online at www.bokcenter.com, Arby’s Box Office, all Tickets.com outlets, or by calling 1-866-7-BOKCTR.

About Live Nation
Live Nation’s mission is to maximize the live concert experience. Our core business is producing, marketing and selling live concerts for artists via our global concert pipe. Live Nation is the largest producer of live concerts in the world, annually producing over 22,000 concerts for 1,600 artists in 33 countries.

During 2008, the company sold over 50 million concert tickets and drove over 70 million unique visitors to LiveNation.com. Live Nation is transforming the concert business by expanding its concert platform into ticketing and building the industry’s first artist-to-fan vertically integrated concert platform. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, trading under the symbol LYV. For additional information about the company, please visit www.livenation.com/investors.

About the BOK Center
The BOK Center, a 19,199 – seat entertainment venue, is managed by SMG, the world leader in venue management, marketing and development. Headquartered in Philadelphia, SMG provides management services to over 200 public assembly facilities including arenas, stadiums, performing arts centers, theatres and convention, conference and trade centers.

As the recognized industry leader since 1977, SMG provides construction and design consulting, pre-opening services, venue management, sales and marketing and event booking and programming. SMG also offers food and beverage operations through our in house catering company, Savor…catering by SMG, currently servicing 65 accounts worldwide. With facilities across the United States, and in Puerto Rico, Mexico, Canada, Europe and the Middle East, SMG controls over 1.5 million entertainment seats worldwide and manages more than ten million feet of exhibition space.

 

Incredible Pizza Co. announces carry-out service

Staff Report

America’s Incredible Pizza Company based in Springfield, Missouri announced today the addition of To-Go pizza in all corporate locations.  Large cheese and one topping pizzas start at only five dollars. A specialty or supreme pizza is only seven dollars.

Pizzas will be hot and ready in 8 minutes or less. Rick Pogue, Executive Vice President of Operations says, “Our customers flat out love our pizza and you can only tell a customer you don’t offer carry-out or to-go so long before you figure out we have a great revenue opportunity that’s also good for the customer.”
The carry-out option is now available in Springfield, MO, Memphis, TN, Tulsa, OK, Victoria, TX and in the soon to be open Urbandale, IA (Greater Des Moines area) and Indianapolis, IN locations.  See www.incrediblepizza.com for specific location information.

Incredible Pizza Company is a nostalgic 1950s-themed facility featuring an all-you-can-eat buffet and over 100 stimulating video and redemption games, plus indoor go-karts, mini-bowling, mini-golf and more. Most locations are larger than 40,000 square-feet of all indoor, smoke free, family fun. Family birthday parties and group events are popular at the large facilities.

Additional information may be found online at: www.incrediblepizza.com

Guess Mrs. Butterworth’s first name and win

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MOUNTAIN LAKES, NJ 
For over 40 years, Mrs. Butterworth has made kids smile by sharing her secrets of thick, rich syrup at breakfast tables everywhere.  There’s  one secret she  never shared before: her first name!   

Contest participants have until July 17th to guess the first name of this pop cultural icon who has appeared in everything from movies and TV to Kanye West  rap lyrics, Geico commercials, New York Times crossword puzzles, and more.

Entering is easy. Go to http://www.mrsbutterworthsyrup.com/namecontest and submit your guess along with an explanation of 100 words or less as to why you think your first name guess is correct or send your entry to: Guess Mrs. Butterworth’s First Name Contest, c/o BHG PR, 546 Valley Rd., Upper Montclair, New Jersey 07043.  All mailed entries must be received by July 17, 2009. No purchase is required to win. See attached rules for details.  

The person who correctly guesses the first name of one of America  leading ladies of syrup will receive a $500.00 cash prize, a year  supply of Mrs. Butterworth’s syrup, and will be featured on the web site (ARV of $550.00).     

For more information, rules and regulations, log onto http://www.mrsbutterworthsyrup.com/namecontest.  All media inquiries should be directed to Frani Lieberman at 973.744.0707 or frani.lieberman@bhgpr.com.     

About Mrs. Butterworth     
You can enjoy Mrs. Butterworth in Original flavor, Sugar Free or Lite   all of which deliver that distinct thick, rich and buttery syrup. Lite, which delivers half the calories of regular syrups, has passed the test of time, now entering its 20th year on the market   and continuing to delight kids. Sugar Free was introduced in 2004 and meets the needs of consumers, whether kids or adults, who want sugar free syrup.    

Moreover, Sugar Free has 80% less calories and 12% the carbohydrates of regular syrups. Both Lite and Sugar Free recipes have been carefully crafted to make sure they deliver on the thick, rich and buttery syrup only Mrs. Butterworth can make.   The distinctive grandma-shaped bottle, with its label doubling as an apron, continues to be the gold standard for the thickest, richest and most buttery syrup you can buy.  There is one other way to bring the delicious fun of Mrs. Butterworth to breakfast   with  Mrs. Butterworth  Complete Pancake Mix  in Buttermilk and Home-style flavors. Her pancake recipe is the perfect combination of sweet and buttery pancakes that kids will love.        

Citizens host Universal Healthcare Symposium

Ronda Vuillemont-Smith

Wednesday, 08 July 2009
The following is an editorial and invitation from the Tulsa Glenn Beck Meetup Group.

We all recognize the need for healthcare reform, however why would we change healthcare, affecting 100% of the population when only 15% of the population is without healthcare, many by choice.

I believe that we should begin with tort reform and take care of the illegal immigration problem, then maybe look at revamping the system, which may not be quite as "broken" if we address the other.  Further where’s the money coming from to pay for this?  Is tar and feathering illegal?  I’m just saying … it has worked in the past.

The Tulsa 912 Project has put together an educational symposium on healthcare reform and how it will affect each of us.

Our guest speakers are, Dr. Mike Reitz, State Representative and physician, Dr. Eric Cottrill, Chairman of the Tulsa County Medical Association’s Legislative Committee and Glen Mulready, State Legislative Chair, OK Assoc. of Health Underwriters.  This is going to be a very informative meeting that you should not miss.

It is up to us to wake up the rest of the country and make them aware of what is going on and where our country is headed.  WE are the town criers.  WE must be informed. WE cannot sit idly by while the greatest nation ever created is destroyed from within.

WE must alarm our neighbors, friends and family.  WE must take a stand.  "WE" a small word in terms of size, a powerful word in terms of strength.  United WE stand, divided WE fall.  We’re in this together.  Arm yourself with knowledge and boldness and WE CAN bring America back to the place our forefathers envisioned.

We’d like to invite everyone to join us this Thursday evening at the Tulsa Select Hotel, located at I-44 and Yale, in Tulsa.  Doors open at 6 p.m. and the meeting starts at 6:30 p.m.  Invite your neighbors, family and friends. For more information, please visit their website at: http://www.meetup.com/Tulsa912Project/calendar/10800200/ or, sign up for the newsletter here: http://tulsa912project.com/static/2769/forms/form_2769_328.htm.

God bless you and your family. Pray for our nation. Remember, you are not alone.
United we stand!

Last Updated ( Thursday, 09 July 2009 )

Martian climate cycles found on Mars: NASA reports possibilities of life on planet

Tracy Crain

A cartoon figure, named Marvin the Martin, used to depict the idea that life on Mars existed.  It would seem that recent evidence from NASA’s Phoenix project may be supporting the notion that it did, and could possibly again.   

NASA officials report the following: Favorable chemistry and episodes with thin films of liquid water during ongoing, long-term climate cycles could make the area where NASA’s Phoenix Mars mission landed last year a favorable environment for microbes.

Interpretations of data that Phoenix returned during its five months of operation on a Martian arctic plain fill four papers in this week’s edition of the journal Science, the first major peer-reviewed reports on the mission’s findings.

Phoenix ended communications in November 2008 as the approach of Martian winter depleted energy from the lander’s solar panels.

"Not only did we find water ice, as expected, but the soil chemistry and minerals we observed lead us to believe this site had a wetter and warmer climate in the recent past — the last few million years — and could again in the future," said Phoenix Principal Investigator Peter Smith of the University of Arizona, Tucson.

A paper about Phoenix water studies, for which Smith is the lead author with 36 coauthors from six nations, cites clues supporting an interpretation that the soil has had films of liquid water in the recent past.

The evidence for water and potential nutrients "implies that this region could have previously met the criteria for habitability" during portions of continuing climate cycles, these authors conclude.

The mission’s biggest surprise was finding a multi-talented chemical named perchlorate in the Martian soil. This Phoenix finding caps a growing emphasis on the planet’s chemistry, said Michael Hecht of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., who has 10 coauthors on a paper about Phoenix’s soluble-chemistry findings.

"The study of Mars is in transition from a follow-the-water stage to a follow-the-chemistry stage," Hecht said. "With perchlorate, for example, we see links to atmospheric humidity, soil moisture, a possible energy source for microbes, even a possible resource for humans."

Perchlorate, which strongly attracts water, makes up a few tenths of a percent of the composition in all three soil samples analyzed by Phoenix’s wet chemistry laboratory.  It could pull humidity from the Martian air.  At higher concentrations, it might combine with water as a brine that stays liquid at Martian surface temperatures.

Some microbes on Earth use perchlorate as food. Human explorers might find it useful as rocket fuel or for generating oxygen. Another surprise from Phoenix was finding ice clouds and precipitation more Earth-like than anticipated.

The lander’s Canadian laser instrument for studying the atmosphere detected snow falling from clouds.  In one of this week’s reports, Jim Whiteway of York University, Toronto, and 22 coauthors say that, further into winter than Phoenix operated, this precipitation would result in a seasonal buildup of water ice on and in the ground.

"Before Phoenix we did not know whether precipitation occurs on Mars," Whiteway said. "We knew that the polar ice cap advances as far south as the Phoenix site in winter, but we did not know how the water vapor moved from the atmosphere to ice on the ground.

Now we know that it does snow, and that this is part of the hydrological cycle on Mars."

Evidence that water ice in the area sometimes thaws enough to moisten the soil comes from finding calcium carbonate in soil heated in the lander’s analytic ovens or mixed with acid in the wet chemistry laboratory.

The University of Arizona’s William Boynton and 13 coauthors report that the amount of calcium carbonate "is most consistent with formation in the past by the interaction of atmospheric carbon dioxide with liquid films of water on particle surfaces."

The new reports leave unsettled whether soil samples scooped up by Phoenix contained any carbon-based organic compounds.  The perchlorate could have broken down simple organic compounds during heating of soil samples in the ovens, preventing clear detection.

The heating in ovens did not drive off any water vapor at temperatures lower than 295 degrees Celsius (563 degrees Fahrenheit), indicating the soil held no water adhering to soil particles.

Climate cycles resulting from changes in the tilt and orbit of Mars on scales of hundreds of thousands of years or more could explain why effects of moist soil are present.

The Phoenix mission was led by Smith at the University of Arizona with project management at JPL and development partnership at Lockheed Martin, Denver.

Information and images from the mission are available online at http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu and http://www.nasa.gov/phoenix .

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 14 July 2009 )