The "this has nothing to do with Tulsa" mega-post

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MEMORIES

Oklahoma City's Color Me Badd - American Music Awards 1992





Attended OKC Northwest Classen High School home of Vince Gill & Elizabeth Warren

I Wanna Sex You UP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzvulairN1I

Arsenio Hall Show - Color Me Badd - All For Love (1992 Live:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qSjkag1lcQ

Color Me Badd - I Adore Mi Amor (Video):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92NdfSeOLA0

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18,203 spectators were asked to vacate Oklahoma City's Chesapeake Energy Arena right before Wednesday's tip between the Utah Jazz & the Thunder.


                   
The Thunder-Jazz game was postponed Wednesday night, leading to an NBA-wide suspension of play that spread across the sports landscape. [BRYAN TERRY/THE OKLAHOMAN]

Coronavirus outbreak leads to mass cancellation of sporting events Jazz players Gobert, Mitchell test positive for COVID-19 while in OKC No WCWS after NCAA cancels championships; MLB, NHL, NBA on hold

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As the 2019-20 NBA Season closed, Thunder's last game, a 105-104 win at Boston Celtics' T. D. Gardens.

                          

House of Highlights:  https://youtu.be/atAwup05tBU

                              

                Thunder's last home game, a 112-108 victory over the Sacramento Kings:  

House of Highlights:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blhAHg-3l-A

                                

Oklahoma City Thunder 14th (18,203) in NBA attendance among 30 Teams:  http://www.espn.com/nba/attendance
                               Estimated 2,500 Thunder season ticket holders are from the Tulsa area.

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Convention center scheduled to open Fall, September-November

The Omni hotel under construction adjacent to the convention center will encompass 576 guestrooms and 29 suites (605 rooms), along with a spa, a fitness center, a pool deck with bar and grill, as well as multiple dining options.

The current MAPS 3 was funded by a one-cent sales tax that began in April 2010 and ended in December 2017. The new convention center is only one of eight projects funded under this $805 million capital improvement program.

City-wide Oklahoma City had 17,166 hotel guestrooms as of March, of which 2,794 were downtown, according to Visit OKC.

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  Coronavirus in Oklahoma: OKC Memorial Marathon postponed

                                 

           A day after the Boston and London marathons pushed back their races amid the coronavirus pandemic, Oklahoma City has done the same. Saturday, race officials announced the
           race would be held October 4.

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Construction update - OU Health Patient Tower

The new bed tower will be completed in 2020. Here are some fast facts:

    450,000-square feet of additional space

    152-feet tall

    Eight floors and room to grow

    144 added beds

    32 new operating rooms

    Intensive care unit

    Medical/surgical floor

    Stepdown unit

    Large patient rooms with extra space for the family

Watch Us Grow

https://www.oumedicine.com/oumedicine/ou-medical-center/watch-us-grow


Home to our state's only Level 1 Trauma Center.
https://www.ok.gov/health/Protective_Health/Emergency_Systems/Trauma_Division/Trauma_Care_Assistance_Revolving_Fund/index.html

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Fellow Tulsans:

The Northeast area of the state (Tulsa metro) should have a Level 1 Trauma Center at St. Francis Hospital.   IIRC St. Francis was a Level 1 Trauma Center back in 2003:

St. Francis and OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City are the only trauma centers in the state to be at level one. St. John, which was working toward its ACS certification, was given a temporary level two status.

State reimbursement for unpaid health care is distributed to the trauma centers based on their levels, with level one facilities getting the most.

St. Francis officials recently looked into renewing their certification with the ACS and found that the criteria to achieve their earlier status had been raised.

Thomas said the main stumbling block was the increase in trauma-based research, which St. Francis doesn't have and can't afford.--Published: Sun, May 11, 2003 12:00 AM Oklahoman.

IMO, the state should set aside funding for a second Level 1 Trauma Center in the Tulsa area.  The area represents a big portion (quarter, 991,561) of the state's population.

Link:  https://oklahoman.com/article/1928673/two-tulsa-hospitals-facing-trauma-center-downgrades

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Be Not Afraid...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWpG7qHtB8g

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Riding the Oklahoma City streetcar part 2/3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx9WeGcSE5g

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Last crane standing...

Pics via OKCTalk.com.  View & join the discussion https://www.okctalk.com/showthread.php?t=35905&page=115

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Oklahoma City's Bricktown Canal waits the spring.

                             

The three year interval cleaning of the canal is complete.  Spring will provide a backdrop for canal activities.
Pic courtesy of the Oklahoman, March 17, 2020

 

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The three year interval cleaning of the canal is complete.  Spring will provide a backdrop for canal activities.

No, I'm thinking it won't. There's not going to be much in the way of "activities" anywhere this spring.

And please, for the love of god, stop with the huge fonts and massive pics or you are going to have to turn over your HTML for Dummies book.

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Tulsa and the U. S. Census

Many of you will receive the census by mail; you may also complete & expedite the census using the form info received by submitting online:

https://my2020census.gov/

No community can afford to be under counted.

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Get the census information completed as soon as you receive it; takes less than 5 minutes in most cases...

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Drug used to originally fight malaria showing promise in treating coronavirus, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation says: 

https://kfor.com/health/coronavirus/drug-used-to-originally-fight-malaria-showing-promise-in-treating-coronavirus-oklahoma-medical-research-foundation-says/