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Courtesy nationalturk.com (National Weather Service)

How to help Okla. tornado victims, shelter info

Posted on: 9:12 pm, May 20, 2013, by KFOR-TV and A. Edwards, updated on: 11:46pm, May 20, 2013

Moore tornado damage 8th & Ridgeway May 20

Tornadoes ravaged multiple counties across Oklahoma two days in a row.

Here are a few ways to help the tornado victims:

The Salvation Army will have a truck at KFOR-TV taking donations starting 10 a.m. Tuesday.
444 E. Britton Rd.
Oklahoma City, OK 73114
NO CLOTHES PLEASE
Donate: Text “storm” to 80888 to make a $10 donation.

The Red Cross says the best way to assist families is to make a donation to www.redcross.org/okc or www.redcross.org or texting REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation.
Red Cross shelter information

United Way of Central Oklahoma’s Disaster Relief Fund is open. Donations may be made online at www.unitedwayokc.org or by mail to United Way of Central Oklahoma, P.O. Box 837, Oklahoma City, OK  73101 with notation for May Tornado Relief.

Contributions to the Moore & Shawnee Tornado Relief Fund can be made securely online at www.TulsaCF.org. Donations can also be mailed to TCF offices at 7030 S. Yale, Suite 600, Tulsa, OK, 74136.

Safeandwell.org is the Red Cross site where you can register yourself as safe, or search for friends and family members.

Call 211 for non-emergency services and information.

GOOGLE: Okla. tornado crisis map

How to help children cope with tornadoes and disasters – Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum

Lost animals: If you find displaced animals, you can take them to the Animal Resource Center at 7949 S. I-35 Service Rd. (405) 604-2892. They are also offering displaced people shelter for the night as well.

Animal aid: The Pet Food Pantry of OKC is offering dog food, cat food, leashes, collars, food bowls, etc to those in need. (405) 664-2858 www.petfoodpantryokc.org

Other facilities open to tornado victims:

University of Oklahoma – student housing (Norman)

Oklahoma Baptist University – student housing (Shawnee)

Graceway Baptist Church, located at 1100 S.W. 104th in Oklahoma City.

Oakcrest Church of Christ at 1111 S.W. 89th Street in Moore.

Victory Church, located 4300 North MacArthur in Oklahoma City.

Journey Church in Norman I-35 and Tecumseh Road is open as a shelter.

Fifth Street Missionary Baptist Church, located at 801 N.E. 5th St. Oklahoma City.

St. Andrews Church, located at S.W. 119th and May.

Trinity Church of the Nazarene is open as an emergency shelter. It is located at 7301 S. Walker, just on the north side of I-240.

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 It’s based on Johann Sebastian Bach. It’s my Bach studies which turned the introduction to ‘Light My Fire’ into a rock and roll piece.

— Ray Manzarek (in interview alongside Robbie Krieger with Karl Dallas, UK Morning Star, Friday 30 July 2010)

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Ray Manzarek, 74, Keyboardist and a Founder of the Doors, Is Dead

By JON PARELES
© NYTimes, May 20, 2013

Ray Manzarek, who as the keyboardist and a songwriter for the Doors helped shape one of the indelible bands of the psychedelic era, died on Monday at a clinic in Rosenheim, Germany. He was 74.

The cause was bile duct cancer, according to his manager, Tom Vitorino. Mr. Manzarek lived in Napa, Calif.

Mr. Manzarek founded the Doors in 1965 with the singer and lyricist Jim Morrison, whom he would describe decades later as “the personification of the Dionysian impulse each of us has inside.” They would go on to recruit the drummer John Densmore and the guitarist Robby Krieger.

Mr. Manzarek played a crucial role in creating music that was hugely popular and widely imitated, selling tens of millions of albums. It was a lean, transparent sound that could be swinging, haunted, meditative, suspenseful or circuslike. The Doors’ songs were generally credited to the entire group. Long after the death of Mr. Morrison in 1971, the music of the Doors remained synonymous with the darker, more primal impulses unleashed by psychedelia. In his 1998 autobiography, “Light My Fire,” Mr. Manzarek wrote: “We knew what the people wanted: the same thing the Doors wanted. Freedom.”

The quasi-Baroque introduction Mr. Manzarek brought to the Doors’ 1967 single “Light My Fire“ — a song primarily written by Mr. Krieger — helped make it a million-seller. Along with classical music, Mr. Manzarek also drew on jazz, R&B, cabaret and ragtime. His main instrument was the Vox Continental electric organ, which he claimed to have chosen, Mr. Vitorino said, because it was “easy to carry.”

Read Jon Pareles’ obituary in its entirety at the New York Times source

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Manzarek, legendary Beat poet Michael McClure & Big Mix in ‘live’ performance

Pianist Ray Manzarek, poet Michael McClure and Big Mix, Mill Valley, CA, August 10, 2011

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Photo: Herman Bustamente

Maudelle Shirek, conscience of the Berkeley City Council, dies at 101

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In this powerful film, director Jean-Philippe Tremblay exposes the extraordinary truth behind American mainstream media: censorship, cover-ups, and corporate control. It has been shown at the top film festivals around the world throughout the past several years, yet Link TV’s screening was the first time it was publicly shown in the United States. While American film festivals and media outlets shrunk away from this controversial topic, Link TV could not be more proud to air it.

Shadows of Liberty is airing on KCET and Link TV regularly, and is currently available free online at Shadows.KCETLink.org 

After the screening, we live-streamed a panel discussion about the film moderated by Democracy Now!‘s Amy Goodman and featuring Tremblay, media critic Norman Solomon, and professor Robert McChesney, all featured in the documentary. The film highlights the crucial need to reform the American media system, and stresses the fact that a functioning media is necessary for a vital democracy.

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A Graduate Student Conference at UC Merced | April 12-13, 2013

The First Annual Center for Research in the Humanities and Arts (CHRA) Graduate Student conference will be held at the campus of the University of California, Merced, on April 12-13, 2013. From Monadism to Nomadism: An Hybrid Approach to Cultural Productions will focus on the intersection and interplay of cultural studies, the social sciences, and the humanities and encouraging the exploration of various theoretical frameworks, case studies and fieldwork, and research. By juxtaposing issues such as intercultural negotiation, trans-(post)modern society, migratory aesthetics, diverse understandings within liquid societies, and symbolic struggle, this conference provides a venue to explore the post-(de)colonial dilemmas created by the reinvention and promotion of culture as a coherent and diverse reality.

The aim of the CRHA Graduate Conference is to facilitate the innovative scholarship of graduate students across the nation and globe by providing opportunities for them to share academic work, receive scholarly feedback and network professionally. The event also facilitates the integration of faculty, promising scholars and colleagues in an interdepartmental intellectual dialogue. The CRHA Graduate Student Conference is a unique opportunity for graduate students to present their scholarly work at UCM in a formal conference setting. All talks and panel sessions are free and open to the public. Please see our Conference Schedule link for more detailed information about this year’s conference.

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