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The Cameron Office of Public Safety is very concerned about the safety and well being of those associated with the university.
Tornadoes are a frequent occurrence in southwest Oklahoma and can happen at any time of year, although they typically occur in the spring and summer. We cannot overstate the importance of knowing how to respond correctly to a tornado warning.
To assist everyone in developing a tornado safety plan, you are being provided both general information on tornadoes and specific information on protective areas on Cameron's campus.
A tornado's path may vary from 100 yards to one mile in width. Its forward speed will average 25 to 40 miles per hour. The following instructions for different areas and situations should be studied:
If you are in the open:
- Move at right angles to the tornado.
- Attempt to reach shelter, such as a building with a basement.
- If there is no time to escape or find shelter, lie flat in a ditch or depression, avoiding areas subject to rapid water accumulation or flooding in heavy rains.
If you are in class:
- The instructor will advise you of the building's designated protective areas.
If you are attending a university function:
- Participants will be advised of the building's designated protective areas.
The cities of Lawton and Duncan maintain Civil Defense warning siren networks that are used to signal imminent danger from tornadoes. It is a familiar sound, as sirens are tested in Lawton and Duncan every Monday at noon when the weather is clear.
A steady siren for three to five minutes means IMMINENT DANGER. Take shelter immediately in a designated protective area. Once the siren sounds, it is too late to seek shelter in a remote location.
An "all clear" signal will not be given via the siren system. This and other forecast information can be obtained from broadcast media. An "all clear" signal will usually be given over local radio and TV stations after the danger has passed. KCCU-FM (89.3) and other area stations may also be used for weather advisories or updates.
|Academic Commons
|South classrooms, restrooms, fraternity & sorority rooms 102, 103, 105 & 106.
|Basement corridor & offices.
|Aggie Gym
|Lower dressing rooms on north and south sides away from windows.
|Aggie Rec Center
|Restrooms & dressing rooms.
|Animal Science
|Men's & women's bathrooms.
|Art Building
|Interior hallway, restrooms & storage/work rooms. Rooms 111, 112, 116, 119, 120 & 121.
|Burch Hall
|Basement offices, classrooms, storerooms & basement corridor.
|Cameron Exchange
|Men's & women's restrooms.
|Cameron Village
|See below
|McMahon Center
|South Corridor - behind closed corridor's doors
Women's Restroom, No. 106
Men's Restroom, No. 107
|Suites A-B
1st Floor - East and West Corridors - behind closed corridor's doors
|Suites C-D
|1st Floor - East and West Corridors - behind closed corridor's doors
|Suites E-F
|1st Floor - North and South Corridors - behind closed corridor's doors
|Carpentry Shop
|Equipment storage rooms.
|Women's Restroom, No. 114
Men's Restroom, No. 116
|CETES Conference Center
|Conference Room B and Emergency Operation Center.
|Interior corridor, offices & Room 115.
|Transportation storage/parts room.
|Restrooms (Room numbers 119 & 122).
Administrative Office (Room 117) with all overhead doors closed.
|Cynthia S. Ross Hall
|Interior offices and conference rooms without windows.
Women's Restrooms, No. 108 & 115.
Men's Restrooms, No. 109 & 114.
|Farmhouse - Trailer
|Low-lying area outside.
|Engineering Shop/ Agriculture Classroom
|Storage room & shop area.
|Grounds Shop
|Equipment & storage rooms.
|Haggar Hall
|Interior corridor, practice rooms & restrooms.
|Howell Hall
|First floor restrooms, reception area of Room 104 & Rooms 110 and 113.
|Lounge, vault, storage rooms, first floor restrooms & mechanical rooms
|McMahon Centennial Complex
|First floor northeast (loading dock) corridor, first floor restrooms 103 (women) and 104 (men).
|Restrooms, Rooms 139, 140 & 141, offices 111 & 113 and storage Rooms 118, 119 & 126.
|Nance-Boyer Hall
Center Section
|Basement mechanical room & offices 1053, 1054, & 1062.
|Nance-Boyer Hall
North Section
|First floor restrooms (not in lobby) & interior core offices.
|Nance-Boyer Hall
South Section
|Second floor restrooms (not in lobby) & interior core offices 1078, 1078A & 1078K.
|Physical Facilities
|Carpenter shop equipment storage.
|Plant Science
|Men's & women's restrooms.
|Sciences Complex
|Interior corridor of west wing, first floor restrooms, offices 137, 138A, 138B, 139, 139C, 140 & 140B. Workroom 139A.
|Shepler Center First Floor & Mezzanine
|Basement. Go through kitchen to go to basement.
|North Shepler-2nd -10th floors
|Restrooms & lounge/conference rooms.
South Shepler-2nd-10th
|Restrooms & lounge/conference rooms.
|First floor restrooms basement & storage area.
|Parts storage room.
The National Weather Service, media and public safety agencies use standardized terminology when referring to severe weather conditions; terms most frequently used are listed and defined below:
Severe Thunderstorms Wind gusts of 50 knots (58 mph) or greater and/or hail three-quarters of an inch in diameter or larger
Damaging Winds Sustained or gusty surface winds of 60 mph or greater.
Tornado A violent local storm of short duration with very high-speed winds rotating about a vortex with a funnel extending from the base of the cloud to the ground.
Funnel Cloud A tornadic-type funnel extending downward from the clouds, but NOT touching the ground.
Tornado or Severe Thunderstorm WATCH Issued by the National Weather Service as a precautionary alert when conditions are favorable for the development of tornadoes or severe thunderstorms in the specific area.
Tornado or Severe Thunderstorm WARNING Issued when a tornado or severe thunderstorm has been sighted visually or detected by radar. The location and direction of movement, if known, are given and residents of the specific WARNING area should take immediate safety precautions.
Questions regarding Cameron University's Tornado Safety Information should be directed to the Office of Public Safety by email or at ext. 2237.
Cameron University wishes to acknowledge and thank the University of Oklahoma Police Department for information it made available in preparing this web page.


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British Medical Journal/1924/Campbell William De Morgan
many papers. During the past three years he held the position of registrar of the medical school (dean of the medical faculty); he came into contact with two generations of medical students, and helped to shape the policy of the College. Dr. O'Sullivan was a fine classical scholar, and always kept in close touch with the progress of modern mathematics; many men holding chairs in that subject to-day would acknowledge him to be their master. His interest in the development of mathematical research did not interfere with his devotion to philosophy and the classics, and he probably had few equals in his knowledge of cellular pathology. He was an inspiring teacher; his laboratory was a rallying point for medical students and newly qualified physicians in search of advice and guidance. In 1903 he was Vice-President of the Pathology Section at the meeting of the British Medical Association at Swansea. In his youth he was a fine athlete, and he rowed in the College eights and fours. He was a keen yachtsman and golfer, and loved a game of billiards. Dr. O'Sullivan was a man of the most lovable character: with simplicity he combined manly courage, as had frequently been displayed in his mountaineering adventures. He was one of the outstanding figures in the life of the College, and it is admitted by his colleagues that it will be hard to find a man to fill his place. The cause of his death was blood poisoning contracted on February 13th, whilst performing a post-mortem examination. He leaves a widow and four children.
JOHN McCAW, M.D.,
Physician, Belfast Hospital for Sick Children.
It is with much regret that the announcement of the death of Dr. McCaw has been received in Belfast and Ulster. He had an illness about a year ago, and underwent a serious operation; from this he made a wonderful recovery and resumed his work. A short illness, however, proved fatal on February 22nd.
After studying medicine in Belfast he obtained the diplomas of L.R.C.P. and S.Ed. in 1879, and graduated M.D. of the Royal University of Ireland in 1883. Dr. McCaw's chief work was in the Queen Street Hospital for Sick Children, where he had been physician for forty-two years; and only a few weeks ago he was appointed a vice-president. He was also examiner and clinical lecturer in children's diseases in the Queen's University of Belfast, and he contributed several articles to the British Medical Journal and other professional journals. His little book, Aids to Diseases of Children, ran through five editions.
He was of a retiring nature, and several times refused the presidency of the local medical societies; but in the session of 1907–08 he held office as President of the Belfast Division of the British Medical Association and President of the Ulster Medical Society.
Dr. McCaw was much respected by many, both in the profession and among the public, and was beloved by all who had the privilege of his personal friendship. He leaves a widow and a son, Dr. Ivan McCaw, who was severely wounded in the war but is happily now nearly recovered; and deep sympathy is felt with them.
Formerly Professor of Surgery, University College, Galway.
We regret to report the death of Professor William Westropp Brereton, which took place on February 5th, at the age of 80. He was the son of the late W. W. Brereton, Q.C., of Dublin, a county court judge. He took the diplomas of L.R.C.P.; and S.I. and L.M. in 1865 and M.R.C.P.I. in 1890. His first appointment was demonstrator of anatomy in Queen's College, Galway, under Professor Cleveland. Later he was appointed district medical officer at Oughterard, a short distance from Galway, where he practised for over twenty years. In 1888 he was appointed professor of surgery in the Queen's College, Galway, and surgeon to the County Infirmary, positions he held up to a few years ago; and he had a large practice as a consultant.
Dr. R. L. Roe writes: My acquaintance with Professor Brereton dates from the early seventies. He was then medical officer of a very large district, one boundary of which was formed for about twenty miles by Lough Corrib, and extended as far as the picturesque mountains of Connemara, a happy hunting ground for the tourist and sportsman. Communications were long and difficult, there were repeated outbreaks of typhus and typhoid fever, and even occasionally of small-pox and famine. He had ample field for his energy in emergency operations of surgery, and obstetrics, and his services were much appreciated. Although, so far as I know, he never sent in a bill, his patients seldom forgot him at Christmastide, and on his leaving the district to take up his duties as professor of surgery in Galway they presented him with an address and a handsome monetary gift. When not engaged in professional work he was always to be found in his workshop, well fitted up with lathes and tools for fine work, many being of his own contrivance and design. He had an inventive mind and was the inventor of a device which anticipated the present-day free wheel. In the County Infirmary with his life-long friend and colleague, Professor R. J. Kinkead, he carried on most valuable work, which stimulated the generous minded citizens of the ancient city to preserve this institution through times of agitation and grave difficulty. His wife predeceased him only a little time ago. Many students will remember him as a practical minded and ever willing friend.
Dr. John William King Mullen, medical superintendent of the Salford Corporation hospitals, died on February 17th at his residence in the Ladywell Sanatorium, at the age of 67. He was born in Dublin, where his father was resident governor of the municipal hospitals. From Bective College he went to the Carmichael School of Medicine in Dublin. He took the diplomas of L.R.C.S.I. in 1877 and L.R.C.P.I. and L.M. in 1879, and served for a time as medical officer to the North Dublin Small-pox Hospital. Then at the age of 24 he was appointed medical superintendent of the Wilton Fever Hospital, Salford, at that time a makeshift institution lodged in a number of small dwelling houses. He remained at Wilton until 1903, when he became medical superintendent of the newly built Ladywell Sanatorium, Pendleton, in the planning and organization of which he had taken a large share. His duties included also the administrative charge of the Salford Borough Small-pox Hospital at Drinkwater Park. In his earlier life Dr. Mullen was an active member of the Manchester Athenæum Dramatic Society, and played the principal parts in performances of several Savoy operas. He leaves a widow and one daughter.
We regret to record the death at St. Leonards, on January 27th, of Dr. Campbell William De Morgan. He was born in 1877 at King William's Town, South Africa, where his father, Dr. E. L. De Morgan, was in, practice; he was the grandson of the mathematician and philosopher, Augustus De Morgan, and was named after his uncle, William De Morgan, the artist, potter, and novelist, and his great-uncle, Campbell De Morgan, the surgeon, who gave the name to the "De Morgan spots" sometimes observed on the skin in cases of cancer. He was educated at St. Mary's Hospital, where he took the diplomas of M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. in 1912. After holding appointments at the London Lock Hospital and the Kensington General Hospital, he settled in general practice in London. He acquired a host of friends, especially amongst the poor, but he was never an aspirant for scientific distinction, and his happiest times were spent, undoubtedly, in the musical and literary circles of Hampstead and Chelsea, to which his family connexions gave him a ready entry. During the war he suffered greatly from overwork, and some eighteen months ago his health broke down completely. He is survived by two sisters.
This work was published before January 1, 1924 and it is anonymous or pseudonymous due to unknown authorship. It is in the public domain in the United States as well as countries and areas where the copyright terms of anonymous or pseudonymous works are 95 years or less since publication.

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I have been following economic projections from Brian Beaulieu, an economist at the Institute for Trend Research (ITR), for the past 10 years. Overall, I've found his forecasts to be highly accurate. As an example, in 2003 he predicted the 2008 recession within months. ITR's track record over the past 60 years is very impressive.
Beaulieu spoke at a meeting I attended this month and offered economic scenarios for the next 20 years. You can add his voice to the chorus expecting an era of permanent volatility. Assuming he's correct, the road ahead looks like a roller-coaster.
You might find the details of his economic outlook helpful to your marketing. I'm not suggesting you base your marketing on an outlook approach. Rather, you could use the following scenarios he described when planning your strategies.
Bad news first. Beaulieu expects three recessions by the year 2019, including the most recent one from which we have "officially" emerged. That would make three recessions in 10 years. Between World War II and 2001, we endured on average only two recessions every 10 years.
Beaulieu is hopeful that by 2020, multiple recessions will have created political motivation to change the tax code. One of the biggest problems our country faces is the tax code. If it's not improved, ITR expects to see a 10-year recession beginning somewhere in the 2025 to 2030 window, with the potential for widespread poverty and inter-city riots like we saw in the '60s.
Our budget deficit presents a severe challenge with far-reaching implications, and it could be compounded. He indicated that the current long-term projections for potential budget deficits are wholly and completely unrealistic and inaccurate. Those projections, Beaulieu said, are based on the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) using an economic growth rate of 5.04%. Yet, since World War II we have averaged 3.28%.
If you believe the next 10 to 20 years won't be nearly as economically vibrant as the past 20 years, you have to question the growth rate figures.
He estimates that budget deficits will run at least 50% higher than projected. I tend to think we're more likely to see deficits one to two times greater than projected.
Why is there disparity in the numbers? I can't say for sure. I do know the OMB derives its figure by following input from Congress and whoever the administration may be at the time. If OMB projections are wrong and the deficit doesn't subside, watch for the roller-coaster. Historically, unresolved debt fuels inflation followed by the painful cure, recession.
A recession increases unemployment, decreases spending and weakens the U.S. dollar (USD) – bad news for the economy.
On the other hand, a weak USD, relative to currencies of our agricultural trading partners, is good for exports. It could support grain and dairy prices. Beaulieu expects the USD to be weaker over the next three years against Canadian, Australian and New Zealand currencies. He says the Canadian economy is sending positive signals due to good demographics, strong natural resources and a balanced budget. Australia and New Zealand are also in this positive position, with good demographics and natural resources.
If we see high corn prices, there's still the question of profits. High corn could also help to drive up, or at least sustain, the prices you pay to rent and purchase land. Oil in the mid-$120/barrel range by 2013, driven by demand from Asia and South America, will also impact production costs.
Inflation will drive up your input costs, too. Beaulieu believes a few factors could be behind this: Our government's desire for inflation to help cover the cost of the national debt, higher labor costs here and abroad, and the high cost of our country's green movement. Other market-moving scenarios constantly lurk all around us. You're already familiar with them – drought, floods and world economic turmoil to name just a few.
Personally, I find economic forecasts compelling, and it's not because I believe they paint an accurate picture of the future. It's what you do with the information that's most important. Knowing potential economic trends and considering the possible impacts on your marketing are the first steps to preparing for whatever the market may do. If you're ready for a downturn, you can prosper through it instead of being punished by it.
I encourage you to remain knowledgeable about the big economic picture. As you may have read in this space before, I believe there are three broad keys to positioning your business for long-term success: 1.) Prepare your marketing for any scenario, 2.) Get out of debt, and 3.) Maximize the opportunities in the years ahead.
Scott Stewart is president and CEO of Stewart-Peterson, a commodity marketing consulting firm based in West Bend, Wis. You may reach Scott at 800-334-9779, email him at [email protected].
The data contained herein is believed to be drawn from reliable sources but cannot be guaranteed. Neither the information presented, nor any opinions expressed constitute a solicitation of the purchase or sale of any commodity. Those individuals acting on this information are responsible for their own actions. Commodity trading may not be suitable for all recipients of this report. Futures trading involves risk of loss and should be carefully considered before investing. Past performance may not be indicative of future results. Any reproduction, republication or other use of the information and thoughts expressed herein, without the express written permission of Stewart-Peterson Inc., is strictly prohibited. Copyright 2011 Stewart-Peterson Inc. All rights reserved.


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The Haight Ring
The Story
MapleXO's Haight Ring is handcrafted from the scraps of skateboard manufacturing. Reminiscent of San Francisco's often colorful, old Victorian row-houses, the ring is comprised of three layers of striped skateboard wood, with a sterling silver inlay atop to add to its elegance.
Available in Size 5-10. Please specify in the Special Instructions field of your checkout process!
The Story Behind the Ring: Our trip to San Francisco began with a burglary, a roof chase with the cops, a broken leg (not one of ours) and a sleepless night of defeat. This chaotic chain of events lead us to an incredible home on Haight Street, with even more incredible people. The Haight Ring embodies the moment we found the silver lining in the chaos as we walked up the house-layered street of Haight. (Thanks Ryan and Brooke!)


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CUP's core staff supports the organization from day to day, but CUP projects are designed and implemented by teams of artists, designers, educators, activists, and researchers.
CUP and CUP teaching artist Douglas Paulson worked with students from College Now at Brooklyn College on an Urban Investigation about neighborhood financial services. Those students were: Roodlyne Vilsaint, Kimberly Saintelus, Maniza Pritila, Alyssa Lau, Cynthia Dunston, Tommi Ann Davis, Shannae Braham, Alexa Betancourt.close
Fatima was born and raised in NYC and is interested in all things urban. When not working, she likes to explore and relax in different parks around the city. Fatima is completing her bachelors in urban studies at Barnard College and is teaching this fall's class on disaster planning.close
Maggie Acevedo and Edwin Rodriguez, from City-as-School, were part of the Water Underground crew in 2006.close
Ian Adelman is Director of Digital Design at The New York Times, leading the team of world-class designers and user experience professionals responsible for the Times's digital experiences. Previously, he was the Director of Design and User Experience at New York Magazine, a consultant in digital product design and business innovation, and founding art director of Slate.com. Ian graduated with a BFA in Industrial Design at the Rhode Island School of Design.close
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Shana Agid is an artist, teacher, writer, and activist whose work focuses on relationships of power and difference, particularly regarding sexuality, race, and gender in visual and political cultures. Agid is an Assistant Professor of Arts, Media, and Communication at Parsons the New School for Design where he teaches book arts, collaborative design, and service design. She has an MFA in Printmaking and Book Arts and an MA in Visual and Critical Studies from California College of the Arts. He is on the Editorial Board of Radical Teacher.close
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CUP and CUP teaching artist Heidi Neilson worked with students from Lyons Community School in Brooklyn on "Air it Out," a City Studies about NYC's air pollution. Those students were Jonathan Bryant, Jordan Byrdsell, Monica Castro, Kamani Harrell, Elijah Harris, Devale Johnson, Marcell Lopez, Matthew Lopez, Jahquon Mackey, David Mahon, Lleymi Martinez, Shearod Meadows, Devante Mitchell, Isaiah Morales, Jayda Nadal, Isabel Negron, Andrew Ruiz, Francisco Santos, Ebanny Santiago, and Destiny Soto.close
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Originally from Ethiopia, Liya's personal and professional interests include finding ways to bridge writing, creativity and a love of the world with interests in program evaluation, international development, anthropology and public health. Liya has worked in international health and evaluation for about 15 years on projects covering various countries in Africa, Asia and Central America. She is currently focused on setting up an evaluation practice centered on combining storytelling with quantitative data, culturally responsive and contextually relevant approaches and on strengthening organizational capacity to use data for decision making, planning, and program design. She is also working on a project highlighting systemic gaps within the practice of international development. Liya has a Master of Public Health from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and a Master of Science in Applied Anthropology from the University of North Texas.close
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The question above is a tough one because in the UK we have no clear winner, the best theme park we have right now is Blackpool Pleasure Beach, but only just, im going to do some reviews on each theme park soon and itll be interesting to hear your views.
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With a highly-successful career spanning karting to Formula One, including three victories at the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans and winning the FIA WEC World Championship, Allan is one of the most respected and liked personalities in the dynamic and competitive world of motorsport.
Rarely seen without a smile on his face, Allan has always been one of motorsport's most naturally engaging and entertaining characters, making him a favourite of media and fans alike. Off-track, this has led to media roles with BBC F1, BBC Radio 5 Live, Sky Sports F1 and SPEED TV, where he has shared his sporting insight with millions of viewers and listeners.
In addition to his on-track success, Allan helps companies engage their respective target audiences through marketing and communications campaigns.
One of motorsport's most interesting drivers, Allan is adept at sharing stories from his fascinating life with stakeholders from all walks of life, and has considerable experience hosting corporate events, along with motivational speaking and team-building activities.
To succeed in business, you need to be psychologically prepared, and Allan can provide a unique insight into the mental preparation required to be a winner!
Allan is at home whether behind the wheel of his high-tech race machinery, fulfilling media commitments or representing global brands such as Audi in television advertising campaigns.
Allan has supported companies in meeting their business objectives through:
Marketing campaigns
Customer loyalty programmes
Networking/corporate/VIP events
Incentivising employees & customers
Motivational programmes
"P&H has worked with Allan since 2009 and he has been invaluable in helping with our management communications and building better relationships with our key clients and customers. Allan's position at the top of elite motorsport provides a great opportunity for P&H to add real value to our events strategy. His infectious enthusiasm and drive ensures that any of our VIP guests that meet him take away a positive experience not only of Allan, but of P&H."
Marketing Manager
Palmer and Harvey
"We have sponsored Allan for eight years, firstly through Jewson and recently through Graham. We proudly have Allan attend many of our customer functions, standing in the front line for our Jewson and Graham brands, promoting internal programmes. He adds credibility to an event with his ability to connect with the audience, making them feel relaxed and involved. Allan's commitment and drive in his sport helps to encourage our team to reach their own goals."
Chief Executive
Saint-Gobain Building
Distribution UK & Ireland
"Allan was a major part of activities with our VIPs when Formula One first visited Bahrain. We invited Allan to share his insight into the sport, acting as a UBS ambassador. He was the consummate professional, effortlessly engaging the audience, many of whom were new to motorsport, adding to their enjoyment of the Grand Prix."
Corporate Activities Manager
Britain's Allan McNish will start the 61st Sebring 12 Hours tomorrow (SAT) from the front row of the 42-car grid in Florida having been denied pole-position by a mere 0.009secs.
Four-time Sebring race winner McNish and Tom Kristensen (DK), who has won at Sebring a record six times, are joined by Lucas di Grassi (BR) in a brand new 2013-specification hybrid-diesel Audi R18 e-tronquattro.
Dumfries-born McNish set a personal fastest time of 1min 43.895secs, an average speed of 129.592mph around the 3.74-mile track, in today's (FRI) brief, single 15-minute time trial.
"We knew qualifying was probably going to be a battle between the two Audi sportscars so it was a case of pushing to the absolute limit from the start," commented McNish.
"Unfortunately I came across some traffic when the tyres were probably at their peak but I had a clean lap the next time around. It was a very good lap, the maximum the car would do. But Tom, Lucas and I have a good car for the race and so I'm optimistic for a good result."
The second "factory" R18 e-tronquattro of Cambridgeshire's Oliver Jarvis, making his race debut at Sebring, plus Marcel Fässler (CH) and BenoîtTréluyer (F), set the fastest time of 1:43.886 (129.604mph) in the hands of Fässler in the time trials staged in sunny and warm weather conditions to deny McNish in the closing stages.
The "factory" Audi is contesting the opening race in the 2013 American Le Mans season in preparation of its FIA World Endurance Championship defence.
The race, which Audi has already won 10 times since its debut in 1999, begins at 1430* on Saturday.
Allan has acted as an ambassador for many diverse organisations, both large and small. His knowledge of the business environment is second-to-none and this shows in his professional and engaging dialogue, supported by his passion to get it right.
When it comes to distribution, P&H is the leader of the pack. Servicing a range of independent and franchised retail sites, they're the UK's biggest delivered wholesaler and its sixth-largest private company. Did you know there is a P&H truck in every main postcode in the UK, each and every day?


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Arvest Bank is pleased to once again sponsor the 24th annual Arkansas vs. Oklahoma Cross Country High School All Stars Meet, one of the longest events of its kind in the US. The 2017 race was held at Rogers (Arkansas) High School 5K Mountie Cross Country Course on Nov. 11 in cool, overcast conditions. The teams are comprised of top high school runners from each state, and the team results score the first ten finishers from each state.
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Kent State International Students & Scholar Services
Welcome to International Student & Scholar Services (ISSS)
Our objective is to assist international students and scholars on maintaining their visa status while studying at Kent State University. We also encourage students and scholars to attend our many programs and events, which provides them an opportunity to meet other international and domestic students. The ISSS advisors also help international students and scholars with cultural adjustment issues and other issues they may face as new students to Kent State University and living in the United States.


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New Zealand and Finland are practically on opposite sides of the planet, and quite a long way away from Alaska. Yet, they are the two starting points for Shell's fleet of rented and commissioned ships that are preparing to get together and start drilling for oil in the Arctic this summer.
They're not getting away with it. Worldwide, hundreds of thousands of individuals are writing to Shell, demanding they scrap their insane Arctic drilling plans. In New Zealand, activists occupied an Alaska-bound drill ship for several days. And now, in Finland, 20 Greenpeace Nordic activists have boarded the Shell-leased ice-breakers Fennica and Nordica.
Here's an update from Sini Harkki in Finland:
I'm standing in one of the ports of Helsinki, Finland, to witness 20 Greenpeace Nordic activists boarding ice-breakers Fennica and Nordica. Banners haven been put on Fennica's crane and on the bow of Nordica. Some of the activists ascend the drawbridge dressed in overalls and carrying buckets, brooms and shovels as they were about to clean up the deck. What is this about?
Fennica and Nordica, two Finnish icebreakers whose main task is to secure shipping in the Baltic Sea, have been leased out to Shell for the summer seasons of 2012, 2013 and 2014 to help Shell drill in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas off Alaska. The operation is unprecedented and risky. Shell is the first Big Oil company starting the rush for Arctic oil for real. The risk of an oil spill is higher in the Arctic because of floating icebergs, encroaching ice and extreme weather events. If there is a real spill, the impacts will be disastrous.
Greenpeace activists occupy a Shell-contracted icebreaker in Helsinki as it prepared to sail for the Arctic (C) GREENPEACE
In their oil spill response plan, Shell claims they could recover up to 90 per cent of leaked oil in the Arctic. In reality, there are no means to get anywhere near that. Shell has developed a mechanism to cap a leaking oil well but it has not been tested in Arctic conditions. Similar technique did not work in the Gulf of Mexico. Conventional methods to clean up oil will be crippled if there is ice or slushy water, a normal condition in the Arctic even during the summer seasons.
If oil ends up on ice, the best known method to remove it to brush it off with a broom and shovel, Brooms and shovels are given today to the crews of Fennica and Nordica to remind them of the risks their employer, Arctia Shipping, is taking when starting their cooperation with Shell. If an oil spill happens, the crew should be prepared to use their tools feverishly and for a very long time.
In the Gulf Of Mexico spill, thousands of vessels and tens of thousands of people were mobilized for the clean-up. Yet they could only recover 3 per cent of the leaked oil. There are no chances to mobilize an effort of that scale in the Arctic. Shell has only a few support vessels for the operation and US Coast Guard has almost no operational power in the area. There are no roads connecting nearby towns and ports to the rest of the country. The crews of Fennica and Nordica will be on their own, supposed to prevent what could be one of the worst environmental disasters mankind has witnessed.
Finland and Sweden are Arctic states with no coast line connected to the Arctic Ocean. As members of the Arctic Council, they could stand for the protection of the Arctic as one of the most pristine and fragile ecosystems on the earth and a vital cooler of the planet. Instead, they see the Arctic rush as a way to benefit from contracts with oil companies.
More than 250,000 people have already sent a letter to Shell, telling the company to end their Arctic destruction. With our brooms and shovels, we hope Arctia Shipping will get the message too and the crews will never have to use these tools in a desperate effort to save what can be saved of the Arctic ecosystem. You can join us here.
(Sini Harkki is an Arctic campaigner for Greenpeace Nordic, based in Finland.)
Nick has worked with Greenpeace for more than 10 years and is now Head of Digital at Greenpeace NZ.


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That's my site, I get around... It needs updating since afterall, Shout! Factory re-released many of them here in the US, "Terrahawks" has blu-rays and "Star Fleet" has a US release at last.I'm very interested to see what the quality looks like compared to the DVDs.
I see that, according to this site (does this belong to anyone here by the way?):
The 2002 Japanese DVDs are created from the laserdiscs so they might be quite good.
And I have no proof the DVD masters were laserdisc, I just assumed as much. I didn't have the DVD until you burned those copies for me in early 2012. It may not be inaccurate since the Japanese DVD quality is rather underwhelming.
Back in 2011 I downloaded all the Japanese eps somebody ripped off megaupload (all low resolution 240p) and put them on YouTube (they're long gone now thanks to Fabulous Films). Eps 1-5 were off the DVD, but the rest weren't. They all had the kanji episode titles that the 2002 DVD lacked and eps 13-25 had the second intro. The episodes had a rusty gritty color tone compared to the blue hue the eps on the DVD had. These might have come off the laserdisc.


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How do you keep consumers in the dark about the horrors of factory farms? By making it an "act of terrorism" for anyone to investigate animal cruelty, food safety or environmental violations on the corporate-controlled farms that produce the bulk of our meat, eggs and dairy products.
And who better to write the Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act, designed to protect Big Ag and Big Energy, than the lawyers on the Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force at the corporate-funded and infamous American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
New Hampshire, Wyoming and Nebraska are the latest states to introduce Ag-Gag laws aimed at preventing employees, journalists or activists from exposing illegal or unethical practices on factory farms. Lawmakers in 10 other states introduced similar bills in 2011-2012. The laws passed in three of those states: Missouri, Iowa and Utah. But consumer and animal-welfare activists prevented the laws from passing in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York and Tennessee.
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AUSTIN — One of the most sought-after college basketball transfers of the year wanted to come to Texas. But his old school had different ideas.
Tulsa's Jordan Clarkson, the former Express-News greater San Antonio player of the year who was an all-Conference USA selection last year, will transfer to Missouri, his father confirmed Monday.
Mike Clarkson said his son had interest in playing at UT, but Tulsa would not grant him a release to play for the Longhorns. Originally, Tulsa gave only three schools (Colorado, Vanderbilt and TCU) permission to talk to Jordan Clarkson, but later expanded that list to include Missouri.
"It's a positive outcome," the elder Clarkson said. "It couldn't get any worse than it started for him. At least this way he's in a stable situation."
The Clarksons are one of several families who have recently expressed their frustration with the NCAA's transfer rules, which prohibit schools from offering scholarships to transfers who have not been released to them by their old programs.
Clarkson, a 6-foot-4 wing player who averaged 16.5 points per game as a sophomore last season, will have to sit out next season, but will be on scholarship at Missouri. Had he chosen to attend UT or any other program without a release, he would have had to pay his own way.
After Tulsa fired coach Doug Wojcik earlier this spring, Clarkson asked for a release and submitted a list of nine schools. Mike Clarkson did not specify each school on the list, but confirmed Missouri and UT were on it, and that the Longhorns were never approved.
If UT had been an option, the elder Clarkson said his son would have been hard-pressed to ignore it.
"He grew up in Big 12 country, and it's close to home," Mike Clarkson said. "Who wouldn't want to go to Texas?"
The father said he and his family will continue to speak out about a rule he considers unfair.
"Jordan has gotten through the cracks," Mike Clarkson said. "But there are others who might not."


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News Release 10-023
Microsoft and NSF Enable Research in the Cloud
Agreement will offer free access to new computational and collaborative services to accelerate scientific discovery for research communities.
February 4, 2010
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Microsoft Corp. and the National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced an agreement that will offer individual researchers and research groups selected through NSF's merit review process free access to advanced cloud computing resources. By extending the capabilities of powerful, easy-to-use PC applications via Microsoft cloud services, the program is designed to help broaden research capabilities, foster collaborative research communities, and accelerate scientific discovery. Projects will be awarded and managed by NSF. More details about funding opportunities are available at http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=CISE.
Microsoft will provide cloud computing research projects identified by NSF with access to Windows Azure for a three-year period, along with a support team to help researchers quickly integrate cloud technology into their research. Windows Azure provides on-demand compute and storage to host, scale and manage Web applications on the Internet through Microsoft datacenters. Microsoft researchers and developers will work with grant recipients to equip them with a set of common tools, applications and data collections that can be shared with the broad academic community, and also provide its expertise in research, science and cloud computing.
"Cloud computing can transform how research is conducted, accelerating scientific exploration, discovery and results," said Dan Reed, corporate vice president, Technology Strategy and Policy and eXtreme Computing at Microsoft. "These grants will also help researchers explore rich and diverse multidisciplinary data on a large scale."
Today, scientists are operating in a world dominated by data, thanks to increasingly inexpensive sensors and a growing trend toward collaborative data projects. Analyzing and synthesizing this mass of data remain a challenge. The goal of the new program is to make simple yet powerful tools available that any researcher can use to extract insights by mining and combining diverse data sets.
"We've entered a new era of science--one based on data-driven exploration--and each new generation of computing technology, such as cloud computing, creates unprecedented opportunities for discovery," said Jeannette M. Wing, assistant director for the NSF Computer and Information Science directorate. "We are working with Microsoft to provide the academic community a novel cloud computing service with which to experiment and explore, with the grander goal of advancing the frontiers of science and engineering as we tackle societal grand challenges."
More information about the potential for research in the cloud is available at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2010/feb10/02-04ScienceInTheCloud.mspx.
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Founded in 1991, Microsoft Research is dedicated to conducting both basic and applied research in computer science and software engineering. Its goals are to enhance the user experience on computing devices, reduce the cost of writing and maintaining software, and invent novel computing technologies. Researchers focus on more than 55 areas of computing and collaborate with leading academic, government and industry researchers to advance the state of the art in such areas as graphics, speech recognition, user-interface research, natural language processing, programming tools and methodologies, operating systems and networking, and the mathematical sciences. Microsoft Research currently employs more than 850 people in six labs located in Redmond, Wash.; Cambridge, Mass.; Silicon Valley, Calif.; Cambridge, England; Beijing, China; and Bangalore, India. Microsoft Research collaborates openly with colleges and universities worldwide to enhance the teaching and learning experience, inspire technological innovation, and broadly advance the field of computer science. More information can be found at http://www.research.microsoft.com/.
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Los Angeles--REDCAT is collaborating with the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute to co-present two West Coast premieres, RoS Indexical (2007) and Spiraling Down (2008), from the avantgarde dance and film pioneer, Yvonne Rainer. The evening-length program opens Thursday, June 25, 2009 at REDCAT and runs for a limited engagement through Sunday, June 28, 2009.
"My return to performance in 2000, after a 25-five year career as a filmmaker, confirmed for me my true love: working with dancers and the immediacy of the physical and cerebral demands of choreography. The two West Coast premieresat REDCAT reveal two different aspects of my current work: dance history (RoS Indexical) and a kind of melancholic pedagogical vaudeville (Spiraling Down)," says Yvonne Rainer when asked about the upcoming performances at REDCAT.
The New York Times calls Rainer "an avant-garde giant" whose "humor is boundless" in RoS Indexical, her radical re-vision of The Rite of Spring which premiered at Performa 07. Drawing on the brilliant and controversial Stravinsky/Nijinsky ballet that scandalized Paris audiences in 1913 with its "primitive" movement and dissonant score, Rainer choreographs RoS Indexical for a quartet of female dancers. "Since making that first dance for Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, I have worked with the same four dancers--Pat Catterson, Emily Coates, Patricia Hoffbauer, and Sally Silvers--all consummate professionals who demonstrate a wide range of sensibilities, ages, and technical backgrounds," says Rainer. Set to the soundtrack of "Riot at the Rite," the BBC reenactment of the raucous, chaotic opening night of the modernist landmark, "Rainer not only destabilizes the notion of The Rite of Spring as an iconic achievement in dance history, she allows us to see that a work may live on in greatly altered form," writes The Hudson Review.
The second half of the program is a new commission Spiraling Down which premiered at the Festival of International Dance at Yale in November of 2008. This work draws inspiration from a variety of sources—newspaper photos, soccer moves, old movies, classic modern dance, ballet, Steve Martin, 19th-century actress Sarah Bernhardt, and even Rainer's own disinterred dances from the 1960s. These materials and others, including spoken texts, come together to create a spectacularly original work with an eerie resonance that is both melancholic and unpredictable.
"These performances represent the culmination of the Getty's long-term commitment to Yvonne Rainer's work and are an especially appropriate way to celebrate the Getty Research Institute's recent acquisition of Rainer's archive," says Andrew Perchuk, the Getty Research Institute's deputy director.
Spiraling Down was commissioned by the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute, and the World Performance Project at Yale. RoS Indexical is a PERFORMA Commission for PERFORMA 07 and Documenta.
Yvonne Rainer's RoS Indexical and Spiraling Down run June 25–28, 2009 at REDCAT. Performances take place Thursday–Saturday at 8:30 p.m. and Sunday at 3:00 p.m. Tickets are $20–25, with student discounts available. Seating is general admission. Tickets and information at the REDCAT box office, 213-237-2800 or www.redcat.org.
REDCAT, the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, is located at the corner of W.2nd and Hope Streets, inside the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex (631 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012).
In conjunction with the performances, REDCAT and the Getty Research Institute will host conversations with Yvonne Rainer, her dancers and visiting scholars. Post-performance on Thursday, June 25, dance and theater scholar Roger Copeland speaks with dancers Pat Catterson, Emily Coates, Patricia Hoffbauer and Sally Silvers, discussing the collaborative process of creating Rainer's works, and the experience of performing them, from the dancers' perspectives. Prior to the performance on Saturday, June 27, at 6:00 p.m., internationally-recognized curator, and Dean of the Yale School of Art, Robert Storr holds a conversation with Yvonne Rainer focusing on Rainer's enormous impact on postwar art, her engagement with multiple avant-garde art practices and their political and aesthetic possibilities. These events are free and open to the public.
Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling the REDCAT box office at 213-237-2800.
Yvonne Rainer was born in San Francisco in 1934. She trained as a modern dancer in New York from 1957 and began to choreograph her own work in 1960. She was one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater in 1962, the genesis of a movement that proved to be a vital force in modern dance in the following decades. Some of her better known dances and theater pieces are Terrain (1963), The Mind is a Muscle (1968), Continuous Project-Altered Daily (1969-70), This is the story of a woman who... (1973), and After Many a Summer Dies the Swan (2000), commissioned by the Baryshnikov Dance Foundation.
Since 1972 Rainer has completed seven feature-length films, beginning with Lives of Performers and more recently Privilege (1990), winner of the Filmmakers' Trophy at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, and the Geyer Werke Prize at the 1991 International Documentary Film Festival in Munich, and MURDER and murder (1996), winner of the Teddy Award at the 1997 Berlin Film Festival and Special Jury Award at the 1999 Miami Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.
Noteworthy for a wry humor and emotional candor brought to bear on the everyday intersections of private and public life, Rainer's films deal with a number of aesthetic and social issues, such as melodrama, menopause, racism, political violence, sexual identity, and notions of disease. Her films have been shown at major international film festivals. Her most recent book, A Woman Who...: Essays, Interviews, Scripts, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1999. In 2002 the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery in Philadelphia mounted an exhibition of Rainer's work consisting of video installations, film screenings, and dance photos and memorabilia.
Rainer is the recipient of a number of prestigious awards, including two Guggenheim Fellowships and a MacArthur Fellowship.
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