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KGOU Newsletter for June 2007
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And the Winner Is . . .
Scott took Third Place in three categories: Government Reporting (for weekly political analysis), Investigative Reporting (for his report on legislation allowing the death penalty for convicted child molesters), and Feature Reporting (for a feature on the Buzz-o-Phone). You can see all the winners at the AP's website, and see the growing list of KGOU's awards on our awards page. Congratulations, Scott!
 Norman Celebrates 'Jazz In June'KGOU is proud to help produce Jazz in June, one of central Oklahoma's premier music festivals. For a complete schedule of concert locations and performers, visit the Jazz in June website. You have one more opportunity to listen to highlights of the 2006 festival – Monday through Wednesday evenings, June 25 - 27, from 9 p.m. until midnight. You can hear performances from the likes of Jeanie Bryson, the Sean Costello Band, the Eric Byrd Trio, and Marcus Belgrave's tribute to Louis Armstrong , as well as a preview of the artists appearing in the 2007 festival. Check out this and other special programs on our Limited Run Programs page.
Vicarious Vacations
 Not traveling the world this summer? Join the club, but don't despair! You can visit Correspondents' Choice, a new feature at npr.org. It's
a travelogue of NPR reporters' favorite restaurants, hotels, sights to see, and places to just hang out. Do some online research on great places to visit in the event you get to do some globetrotting of your own, or just live vicariously through NPR's international correspondents.
Bon voyage!
Click and Clack's Summer Driving Tips
 Maybe your vacation plans don't include a conveyance with a jet engine – maybe you're just traveling by car. You'll raise your chances of getting there without a breakdown (of the car, that is) if you take a few precautions before you hit the open road. Who better to give such advice than those experts of all things automotive, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, the Car Talk guys.
They've compiled a list of things to check before beginning your big adventure.
NPR Online Debuts Book Tour
 Looking for a good book? Check out a new feature at npr.org called Book Tour. On a weekly basis, NPR will present leading contemporary authors of both fiction and nonfiction as they read from, and discuss, their current work.
Book Tour is available as an RSS feed, which delivers a headline and a hyperlink to your e-mail inbox, or as a podcast, which delivers the audio to your e-mail inbox or your portable listening device of choice.
Finalists Chosen in PRX Talent Quest
Now it's getting interesting – Public Radio Exchange's Talent Quest, the search for the next public radio star, has been narrowed to 10 finalists. You can hear the first-round auditions they submitted, which set them apart from the other 1358 people who entered the contest.
You can also hear entries from judges' and listeners' favorites that didn't make the cut. Or read what others have to say about the auditions and get the latest news about Round 2 on the message board. By this fall, there will be three winners – each of whom will get to produce a pilot show for possible funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, plus $10,000 in cash. KGOU Staffer in Art Show
KGOU's office manager and producer Susan Shannon has photographs in two art shows. Her photography took second place in the University of Oklahoma’s 2007 Student/Alumni/Faculty/Staff Art Show, on view in the Jacobson House Native Art Center in Norman until the end of June. Susan is a member of the Osage tribe, and her photographs are also included in the group exhibition “Looking Indian” now showing at Untitled [Artspace] in Oklahoma City.
Network Highlights:
The Gift of Fatherhood ~ Web Exclusive!
 Listener Chris Huntington and his wife struggled with their inability to have a child. After doctor visits and hormone treatments left them empty-handed, the two decided to pursue adoption. Visit This I Believe and listen to Huntington’s essay on his journey towards understanding fatherhood.
The Transformative Power of Education
By getting an education, Michael Oatman catapulted himself from a life as a semi-thug to one as a future professor. Listen to Oatman’s essay on the transformative power of education, which aired on Weekend Edition on Sunday, June 10.
Destination: Tulsa
Exactly 50 years ago, citizens in Tulsa buried a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere as a time capsule.  Americana expert Charles Phoenix and NPR senior producer Steve Proffitt take a road trip from Los Angeles to Tulsa for the unearthing. Ride along on a high-octane adventure called Destination: Time Capsule, airing on Day to Day this week, June 11 - 15. So far, they've performed a wedding in Las Vegas and cooked a meal on their car's engine. What's the next stop as they get closer to Oklahoma? Mark their progress at npr.org. Europe's Carbon Trading Market Sees Brisk Business
 Europe has a new commodity on the market – carbon emission allowances. NPR Correspondent Christopher Joyce explained how it works on Morning Edition June 5. Businesses with low carbon emissions are selling their surplus allowances to businesses with high emissions. This system of trading allowances has grown quickly, and in some unexpected ways. Listen to the report at npr.org.
'Hidden Kitchens' in Space
 Who knew that bread can negatively impact a space mission? (You don't want crumbs floating around and getting into the electronics.) That's one of the revelations uncovered by the Kitchen Sisters in their visit to NASA's "hidden kitchen", as reported on Morning Edition June 7. Read a brief history of space food, get some NASA recipes and more at npr.org.
The Day Outlaws Came Calling
 Late one evening in 1933, Trudy Henry was at home in Dodge City, Kansas, with her mother and sister, when a man and a woman drove up to their house. What followed could be seen as an innocent visit, if it weren't for the names of the couple in the car — Bonnie and Clyde.
Henry recounted the tale for StoryCorps, in an interview broadcast during Morning Edition May 25.
A Bird's Eye View of America
 Arizona physician Michael Collier spends every other week combining geology, photography, and aeronautics, in a three-decade quest to tell the earth's stories with aerial images. See some of the amazing photos he's captured at npr.org; take a virtual flight with Collier via an audio slideshow.
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