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Jesus in Bethany With His Friends
(Mt. 26:6–13; Mk. 14:3–9)
1Six days before the Passover festival, Jesus went to Bethany. That is where Lazarus lived, the man Jesus raised from death. 2There they had a dinner for Jesus. Martha served the food, and Lazarus was one of the people eating with Jesus. 3Mary brought in a pint#12:3 pint Literally, “litra,” a Roman pound, equal to 327 grams (11.5 ounces). of expensive perfume made of pure nard. She poured the perfume on Jesus’ feet. Then she wiped his feet with her hair. And the sweet smell from the perfume filled the whole house.
4Judas Iscariot, one of Jesus’ followers, was there—the one who would later hand Jesus over to his enemies. Judas said, 5“That perfume was worth a full year’s pay.#12:5 a full year’s pay Literally, “300 denarii.” One Roman denarius, a silver coin, was the average pay for one day’s work. It should have been sold, and the money should have been given to the poor people.” 6But Judas did not really care about the poor. He said this because he was a thief. He was the one who kept the moneybag for the group of followers. And he often stole money from the bag.
7Jesus answered, “Don’t stop her. It was right for her to save this perfume for today—the day for me to be prepared for burial. 8You will always have those who are poor with you.#12:8 You will … with you See Deut. 15:11. But you will not always have me.”
The Plot Against Lazarus
9Many of the Jews heard that Jesus was in Bethany, so they went there to see him. They also went there to see Lazarus, the one Jesus raised from death. 10So the leading priests made plans to kill Lazarus too. 11Because of him, many Jews were leaving them and believing in Jesus. That is why they wanted to kill Lazarus too.
Jesus Enters Jerusalem Like a King
(Mt. 21:1–11; Mk. 11:1–11; Lk. 19:28–40)
12The next day the people in Jerusalem heard that Jesus was coming there. These were the crowds of people who had come to the Passover festival. 13They took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Jesus. They shouted,
“‘Praise#12:13 Praise Literally, “Hosanna,” a Hebrew word used in praying to God for help. Here, it was probably a shout of celebration used in praising God or his Messiah. Him!’
‘Welcome! God bless the one who comes in the name of the Lord!’ Psalm 118:25-26
God bless the King of Israel!”
14Jesus found a donkey and rode on it, as the Scriptures say,
15“Do not be afraid, people of Zion#12:15 people of Zion Literally, “daughter of Zion,” meaning the city of Jerusalem. See “Zion” in the Word List.!
Look! Your king is coming.
He is riding on a young donkey.” Zechariah 9:9
16The followers of Jesus did not understand at that time what was happening. But after he was raised to glory, they understood that this was written about him. Then they remembered that they had done these things for him.
17There were many people with Jesus when he raised Lazarus from death and told him to come out of the tomb. Now they were telling others about what Jesus did. 18That’s why so many people went out to meet him—because they had heard about this miraculous sign he did. 19So the Pharisees said to each other, “Look! Our plan is not working. The people are all following him!”
Jesus Talks About Life and Death
20There were some Greeks there too. These were some of the people who went to Jerusalem to worship at the Passover festival. 21They went to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee. They said, “Sir, we want to meet Jesus.” 22Philip went and told Andrew. Then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.
23Jesus said to them, “The time has come for the Son of Man to receive his glory. 24It is a fact that a grain of wheat must fall to the ground and die before it can grow and produce much more wheat. If it never dies, it will never be more than a single seed. 25Whoever loves the life they have now will lose it. But whoever is willing to give up their life in this world will keep it. They will have eternal life. 26Whoever serves me must follow me. My servants must be with me everywhere I am. My Father will give honor to anyone who serves me.
Jesus Talks About His Death
27“Now I am very troubled. What should I say? Should I say, ‘Father save me from this time of suffering’? No, I came to this time so that I could suffer. 28Father, do what will bring you glory!”
Then a voice came from heaven, “I have already brought glory to myself. I will do it again.”
29The people standing there heard the voice. They said it was thunder.
But others said, “An angel spoke to him!”
30Jesus said, “That voice was for you and not for me. 31Now is the time for the world to be judged. Now the ruler of this world will be thrown out. 32I will be lifted up#12:32 lifted up Meaning to be nailed to a cross and “lifted up” on it to die. It may also have a second meaning: to be “lifted up” from death to heaven. Also in verse 34. from the earth. When that happens, I will draw all people to myself.” 33Jesus said this to show how he would die.
34The people said, “But our law says that the Messiah will live forever. So why do you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this ‘Son of Man’?”
35Then Jesus said, “The light#12:35 light This means Christ, as in Jn. 1:5-9. Also, it is a symbol of goodness and truth, qualities associated with Christ and his kingdom. will be with you for only a short time more. So walk while you have the light. Then the darkness will not catch you. People who walk in the darkness don’t know where they are going. 36So put your trust in the light while you still have it. Then you will be children of light.” When Jesus finished saying these things, he went away to a place where the people could not find him.
Some Jews Refuse to Believe in Jesus
37The people saw all these miraculous signs Jesus did, but they still did not believe in him. 38This was to give full meaning to what Isaiah the prophet said:
“Lord, who believed what we told them?
Who has seen the Lord’s power?” Isaiah 53:1
39This is why the people could not believe. Because Isaiah also said,
40“God made the people blind.
He closed their minds.
He did this so that they would not see with their eyes
and understand with their minds.
He did it so that they would not turn
and be healed.” Isaiah 6:10
41Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus’ divine greatness. So he spoke about him.
42But many people believed in Jesus. Even many of the Jewish leaders believed in him, but they were afraid of the Pharisees, so they did not say openly that they believed. They were afraid they would be ordered to stay out of the synagogue. 43They loved praise from people more than praise from God.
Jesus’ Teaching Will Judge People
44Then Jesus said loudly, “Everyone who believes in me is really believing in the one who sent me. 45Everyone who sees me is really seeing the one who sent me. 46I came into this world as a light. I came so that everyone who believes in me will not stay in darkness.
47“I did not come into the world to judge people. I came to save the people in the world. So I am not the one who judges those who hear my teaching and do not obey. 48But there is a judge for all those who refuse to believe in me and do not accept what I say. The message I have spoken will judge them on the last day. 49That is because what I taught was not from myself. The Father who sent me told me what to say and what to teach. 50And I know that whatever he says to do will bring eternal life. So the things I say are exactly what the Father told me to say.”
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Architectural Considerations
Don't Build Your Home Until Reading This

Think about window treatments before building a home, not after. It will enable you to consider necessary design components that will ultimately complement the overall interior design and aid in proper selection and installation of your window coverings.

There are so many things to think about when designing and building a home or an addition that it is easy to overlook window treatments as a consideration. This article will help you explain to architects and builders how to avoid the most common pitfalls:

Window Depths

Window depths should be at least 2-1/2 inches, especially when decorative casing surrounds the window. Homeowners prefer to mount treatments like shutters and plantation size (2") blinds within the window frame. When installing double-hung windows the 2-1/2 inches applies to the bottom window, where space is especially shallow. Some plantation shutters have 4-1/2 inch louvers. These, and some other treatments, require even more room.

Double and triple windows encased in one window opening usually have vertical trim strips between the windows. Do not forget to include these strips when measuring the depth. Consideration should be made of minimizing or even eliminating them, since they are usually just decorative and take up valuable space.

Sliding doors are less popular these days; however, the door's handle size should be considered when measuring the depth. Verticals usually require a 4" depth plus room for the handles.

Window Styles

Window styles such as circular, arched, eyebrow arched, and angled are aesthetically appealing, but restrict the choices of window treatments. Manufacturers have only a few blind and shade products which accommodate these windows. This is especially true for eyebrow and 1/4 arches. Shutters and arched honeycomb shades are usually the only choice for treatments mounted inside these kinds of windows.

Homeowners are reluctant to permanently cover the arched portion of an arched window, and there are few treatments that can be opened. Use care when incorporating these fashionable but difficult-to-treat windows.

Crank style windows sometimes prevent treatments from lowering completely. In a set of bow windows without sheetrock separating each window, there is usually a privacy problem because of the gap between each blind or shade. Full traversing draperies will alleviate this problem, but a long drapery is probably inappropriate in, for example, a breakfast room or kitchen.

French doors usually swing into the home, and this eliminates many types of valances that hang above the doors. Blinds and shades should normally be mounted directly on the doors. Consider allowing the doors to swing outward. Also consider the handles and dead bolt locks, which sometimes prevent optimal placement of shades, blinds, and shutters. The door handles should be installed toward the center of double French doors to allow easier stack back of draperies on both sides of the doors.

The number of glass panes across a window should ideally be an even number when you are using shutters, so that the center of the shutter lines up with the middle vertical line in the window.

Window Placement

Window placement is equally important. Chair rails and base boards should not be wrapped around into the window openings. This prevents shades and blinds from raising and lowering. Chair rails and trim from an adjoining perpendicular wall sometimes butt up against the window or its casing. This restricts the proper placement of a drapery, and does not allow the drapery to stack back sufficiently. Sometimes the outside edge of the drapery cannot even extend outside the window itself. This problem also can be caused by fireplace mantels. It is best when an equal amount of wall space is provided on both sides of a window. Center the windows on the wall whenever possible.

Make sure there is enough space between the top of the window and the ceiling or crown molding. Usually, a minimum of 2" is required for bracket placement. Wood headers should extend up to the ceiling or crown molding if the window treatment is being installed that high. Heavy treatments are best mounted into wood, instead of just the sheetrock. If there is not a stud where you need one, consider using molly or toggle bolts.

Avoid a soffet that causes the top of the windows under the soffet to be lower than the tops of other windows in the same room. It is preferable to eliminate soffets in bay or bow windows.

Access to all windows is necessary, even those in unfinished attics. Windows over tubs are sometimes difficult to reach without stepping into the tub. Front doors with smooth glass are usually covered with a gathered sheer. The sheer is not preferable in contemporary homes. Consider using beveled glass to eliminate the need for a sheer.

Other Considerations

Other considerations such as motorized treatments require special wiring and strategic placement of wall plugs. Windows in the same room should be of the same style. The bottom of windows along stairways should be high enough to allow for draperies to hang at an equal length on both sides of the window. Built-in wooden cornices should be sufficiently long and deep to handle the window treatment you are going to use.

Fire sensors and motion detectors are sometimes in the way of rod placement. Alarm contacts can be particularly tricky.

Consider giving this article to your architect, contractor, or client. Whether you are able to incorporate all of these ideas will be determined by cost, your personal aesthetic preferences, structural integrity, and the flexibility of the people who are working for you.

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A True Equine Hero

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Following My Bliss

This is the story of my second tattoo, my beautiful ribs.

I found Senses Fail early in high school. The vocalist, Buddy Nielson, has a tattoo on his chest that reads “Follow Your Bliss.” Normally I’d think nothing of this since most of the musicians I like are relatively covered in tattoos, but he references the quote in two different songs on separate albums. Most notably (for me anyway) is “Follow Your Bliss, it reads on my chest, I knew I got it tattooed for a reason, why can’t I just hold it true?”

After hearing both songs, I looked up the words, figuring they had probably come from something else, and I wanted to know what it was. That was when I found the multitude of references to it in art, music, and other people’s lives in general (lots of blog quotes). Looking a little deeper, I found that the words were initially part of a larger quote first coined by Joseph Campbell. There are several variations of it, but the one I like best is “Follow your bliss, and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”

Once I read that, it became the dogma of my life. I have journals filled with free writes examining what exactly it means to follow your bliss, and the real meaning of bliss. Whenever I needed that little extra push to keep me going, these words gave it to me. I knew I needed to have it as a permanent part of my body. Knowing me, this meant waiting and thinking about it (I tend to get a tattoo idea I think is awesome and then realize a week later that it’s actually a really bad idea). In the meantime, I searched around for a font I liked, and once I found that, I spent some time figuring out where to put it.

I liked the idea of my ribs, since I need to hide it frequently for work and from my family (I know, I’m immature, but I pay my own rent, school loans, car insurance, gasoline, phone, and groceries, and I’m 20 years old, so I justify it). Also, I think it would just look really nice there with the flow of my body. I printed out a copy of the font that I liked and practiced putting it on so I could see what orientation I wanted it. I ended up deciding I liked it so if you are standing facing my side, you can read it like a book, right to left and right side up. Then I had to wait my standard two-year period before going to have it done. There were so many times I was tempted to walk into the nearest shop and just have it done right then. Luckily, I’m super picky and I spent hours analyzing artist portfolios from the three shops near my home (really two, Pores of Color is more of a death wish dressed up as a tattoo shop) and several down at school.

I finally decided it would be best to have the artist who did my first tattoo, Matt D of No Regrets, do this one as well. I thought my idea and placement was super original, but then I saw that a ton of people have the same words, and Matt even posted a Facebook status about being sick of doing lyrics on rib cages. I was disappointed but decided that my tattoo was for me alone, so it didn’t bug me that other people would have similar tattoos. I was still worried that Matt wouldn’t want to do it, so I emailed him about a month ahead of time to ask him if he would be okay with doing it and he said he would (it had been a few months since he’d written about being sick of them).

When we got around to actually making the appointment, I was really excited, but also nervous. I’ve always heard that ribs are the most painful part of the body to get tattooed, and I’m thin, so it’s all bone there. Matt said he would give me breaks if I needed them and just to let him know how I was doing. Then after placing the stencil and getting me into position on the chair, he started in with the gun. It wasn’t bad at all! I’d say it was a 3 or 4 on a scale of 0-10. It felt exactly like what it was, a needle being dragged through my skin and the pain always stopped as soon as he the needle left.

When he was done, he cleaned it up, which stung a little, and had me check it. It was so pretty! I love it so much! He wrapped it in saran wrap and went over aftercare, making sure I didn’t have any questions. I thanked him, paid, tipped, and left. Twisting around to see out the back window in the car hurt a little, but other than that the car ride home went well, no trouble from the seatbelt. Today, it’s been fine. I’m not sore at all, and it only stings a little to put lotion on.

All in all, I’m extremely happy with my new tattoo! I hope you’ve enjoyed reading my experience!

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Monday, March 19, 2012 @9:04 p.m.
Hey man, I actually was just searching the web to see if there was a tattoo somewhere that said "follow your bliss" for an idea of where to get it, and what font. I listened to the song Can't Be Saved aswell, and thought it was an extremely good idea! Normally, I hate tattoos, I'm definitely not a tattoo kind of person, but I was really inspired by that quote, and it means a lot to me. Do you have a picture of your tattoo? I'd love to see it! Not to sound like a total creep haha, just wanted some ideas.
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Hello dear, hope you are doing great, am miss Victoria but my friends call me Vicky i must say this i developed an interest on you immediately i view your profile and you are such a nice person which every human on earth will like to have as a friend and i was moved to let you know. please i will want you to writes on me via my e-mail (Victoriayak26@yahoo.com) i have something very vital in my private life to share with you i will tell you more about my self when you writes back at me on my e-mail box. and you will get my pictures too. i awaits your response; remember love has no boundaries kisses.

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Stony Brook Opera to present program of opera scenes with piano accompaniment at Brookhaven Lab November 17

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UPTON, NY — Stony Brook Opera will present a program of opera scenes with piano accompaniment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory on Wednesday, November 17, at noon in Berkner Hall. Sponsored by Brookhaven Science Associates, the concert is free and open to the public. All visitors to the Laboratory age 16 and over must bring a photo I.D.

The program of scenes from French and German opera is centered around the theme of "Youth and Innocence Lost." The French scenes include the beautiful duet for Hero and Ursule from Act I of Berlioz's Shakespeare opera Béatrice et Bénédict, a duet for Soeur Constance and Soeur Blanche in Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites, the duet for Micaëla and Don José from Act I of Bizet's Carmen, Siebel's aria from the garden scene of Gounod's Faust, a duet and a trio from Donizetti's La fille du régiment, and the scene for the Princess and the Child from Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges. All these scenes will be sung in the original French, except for the Poulenc.

The German scene is the end of Act I of Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel: the scene in which the two children, frightened because they are lost in the forest, see and hear terrifying sounds and images before they are lulled into sleep by a sandman, and then sing a beautiful prayer before sleeping. David Lawton, Professor of Music at Stony Brook and a well-known opera conductor, will conduct, and Metropolitan Opera soprano Jennifer Aylmer will direct the scenes.

Call (631) 344-2345 for more information. The Laboratory is located on William Floyd Parkway (County Road 46), one-and-a-half miles north of Exit 68 of the Long Island Expressway.

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RHIC's Perfect Liquid a Study in Perfection

Systematic analysis of particle flow in heavy ion experiments suggests that RHIC's shear viscosity is close to ideal limit

When heavy ions (the nuclei of heavy atoms such as gold and lead) collide at high energies at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the components of the nuclei (protons and neutrons) melt to form a hot soup of their constituent particles, quarks and gluons. A new model that accurately describes the experimentally observed patterns of particles flowing out from this "quark-gluon plasma" (QGP) suggests that the effective shear viscosity, or resistance to flow, is close to the ideal limit used to define a "perfect" fluid.

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Click on the image to download a high-resolution version. Bjoern Schenke, right, chats with fellow Brookhaven Lab nuclear theorist Raju Venugopalan, at last summer's Quark Matter meeting in Washington, D.C. Schenke recently won a Young Scientist Prize in nuclear physics from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.

"Our result is consistent across finer and finer detailed analyses of particle flow patterns," said Bjoern Schenke, a Goldhaber Fellow in the nuclear theory group at Brookhaven Lab and a coauthor on a paper describing the analyses in Physical Review Letters published earlier this year.

"These findings help answer the question of how 'perfect' the perfect liquid QGP created at RHIC is—that is, how close the viscosity comes to a limit derived from quantum mechanics—and how this property varies with temperature. Our findings indicate that viscosity increases away from the ideal limit with the increasing temperatures reached at LHC," Schenke said.

The findings will also help scientists better understand how the internal characteristics of the heavy ions before they collide—particularly dense concentrations of gluons known as color glass condensate—shape the initial collision geometry and rapidly turn into the liquid quark-gluon plasma.

Schenke and his collaborators arrived at these conclusions by systematically studying the directional-dependence of particles flowing out of collisions of heavy ions at both RHIC and the LHC and applying a model and other methods to identify the viscosity that best fit the experimental data at finer and finer levels of detail.

A visual model of how particles emerging from heavy ion collisions flow from the point of impact depending on the viscosity of the matter produced. At low viscosity (left) the pattern of particles retains more of the detailed characteristics of the initial collision conditions than at high viscosity (right), where the details are blurred.

"Particle flow patterns are strongly linked to the initial 'geometry' of the colliding ions," Schenke explained. "This includes the large-scale elliptic shape of the overlap region of two spherical ions colliding not quite head on, as well as more subtle fluctuations of color glass condensate on scales smaller than the individual protons and neutrons that make up each ion."

The distribution of particles emerging from the collision—for example the number emerging horizontally vs. vertically transverse to the direction of the colliding beams—retains echoes of these initial geometries. The lower the viscosity (actually the ratio of shear viscosity to entropy density), the greater the retention of these initial-state characteristics.

These findings help answer the question of how 'perfect' the perfect liquid QGP created at RHIC is.

— Bjoern Schenke

The detailed modeling of fluctuations of initial shapes combined with viscous fluid dynamic calculations revealed that the constant viscosity value needed to describe the data at RHIC was almost half the value of that needed to describe the LHC data.

"This suggests that heavy-ion collisions at RHIC produce a perfect fluid that is initially closer to the ideal hydrodynamic limit, a theoretical scenario in which the viscosity is zero," Schenke said.

This result is in line with theoretical expectations that the ratio of shear viscosity to entropy density increases with increasing temperature, because LHC's collisions occur at higher energy and create higher initial temperatures than RHIC's.

"Higher viscosity dampens the flow of particles at large scales, and even more so at finer scales, resulting in less retention of the initial shape in particles flowing from collisions at LHC," Schenke said.

Understanding details of the temperature dependence of the viscosity will help scientists map the "transport properties" of the quark-gluon plasma created in these collisions, including how strongly interacting the particles are and how "perfect" the liquid is, and possibly explore the point at which a gas made of protons and neutrons melts to form QGP, expected to occur when the viscosity is at its lowest level.

This research was conducted in collaboration with Charles Gale and Sangyong Jeon of McGill University, Prithwish Tribedy of the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre in India, and Raju Venugopalan of Brookhaven Lab. Brookhaven Lab's role in the work was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science (Nuclear Physics), Brookhaven's Laboratory Directed Research and Development program, and a Goldhaber Distinguished Fellowship from Brookhaven Science Associates. The Canadian researchers were supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

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Posted on Monday, July 30, 2012 by Lindsey Westbrook

Before CSI the television show there was still the scientific investigation of crime, and before computer software there were other (albeit more cumbersome) ways of using fingerprints found at crime scenes to convict criminals.

"Many aspects of crime detection are timeless," observes Pablo "Paul" Cardoza (Art Education 1982). And he speaks with authority here. A deep interest in art and visuality, new technologies, and creative problem solving led Cardoza from art school to the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office, where he spent several years, to his current occupation as a private investigator specializing in computer-based forensics.

From CCA to the Sheriff's Department

"I loved CCA! I got the best grades of my life there," laughs Cardoza. "Shortly after I finished in 1982, I stumbled across an ad from the Sheriff's Department to take a test in fingerprint IDs. It was essentially evaluating our aptitude for pattern matching and negative-positive discernment. I scored really high, and was recruited for a job. I received training from the FBI and the California Department of Justice, and I also took some courses in crime scene analysis.”

Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2012 by Lindsey Westbrook

From Amber Cox's documentation of San Francisco's Financial District

San Francisco and Istanbul: Both built across seven hills, on peninsulas jutting into major bodies of water, where East meets West dramatically and literally-continentally. Their respective situations along major global shipping routes means that they have always been rich in trade, rich in a cosmopolitan diversity of cultures, and rich in ideas: Just as the Bay Area has been a center of forward thinking, from the 1960s Haight-Ashbury counterculture to contemporary entrepreneurial Silicon Valley culture, Turkey -- and especially Istanbul -- is facing the future culturally and politically in its unique position at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and the Arab world.

CCA and Istanbul: East Meets West

CCA has been engaging with Istanbul in many cultural exchanges in recent years. In 2011 Jens Hoffmann, director of the CCA Wattis Institute, co-curated the 12th Istanbul Biennial, which featured numerous CCA alumni and faculty. The Vehbi Koç Foundation of Turkey recently announced its pledge to support one full-time Turkish student each year in CCA's Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice. And in spring 2012, Mariella Poli's CCA course Locality and Global Discourses facilitated an exchange between 16 students at CCA and five students at Istanbul Bilgi University.

Posted on Tuesday, June 26, 2012 by Rachel Walther

When CCA alumni (and married couple) Kevin Krueger and Kristin Olson (both Individualized Major 2011) were looking around the Bay Area for an affordable studio the year after graduation, they found their dream space at 1158 Howard Street in San Francisco, formerly the home of leather bondage shop Stormy Leather.

There was just one problem: With its multiple ground floor rooms, basement areas, and loft, it was simply too large for their needs. "We didn't know what to do at first with that much space," remembers Krueger. But then the answer presented itself: They opened up their more-than-enough studio to a larger community of friends and colleagues. Staring in January 2012, the newly named Alter Space began hosting a series of exhibitions, workshops, and live performances.

Posted on Thursday, May 31, 2012 by Lindsey Westbrook

Oyster Culture
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This book authored by Gwendolyn Meyer (Individualized Major 2004) and edited by Doreen Schmid (MA Visual Criticism 2005) features more than 150 photographs and evocative text describing this singular aspect of food culture. It focuses on the oyster farms of West Marin in northern California, including the Tomales Bay Oyster Company, Drake’s Bay Oyster Company, and Hog Island Oyster Company. It also includes 18 delicious oyster recipes prepared for the home cook from West Marin restaurants, chefs, and oyster farmers, including Osteria Stellina, Station House, the Marshall Store, Nick's Cove, and more. The book is about the pleasures of oysters, and the rich intersection between oyster farming and culinary culture in this unique region. Oyster farming itself is in the limelight these days, particularly in West Marin, and this book is aimed at all readers who have an interest in locally sourced food.

Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 by Rachel Walther

Andrew Georgopoulos (2nd from left) on the set of "The Artist"

"People have always told me no, and I've done it anyway."

There's nowhere that Andrew Georgopoulos (Individualized Major 2007) won't go to get his image. He's photographed a nude woman in the middle of Lombard Street and documented the day-to-day exploits of Snoop Dogg and other hip-hop legends. Recently he grabbed his first Hollywood studio experience working on a film with a serious budget and an international crew that would go on to be named best picture of 2011: a production you may have heard of, called The Artist.

"It's all about access," Georgopoulos explains, of how to get the story you want. "It's the defining factor that separates you from the next person." His introduction to hip-hop musicians and lifestyles started by answering an ad soliciting photojournalists for a neighborhood magazine in the East Bay. "My body of work grew, from the next artist to the next. I was always looking to get the next big name, and I was able to come to them with a background." Eventually he spent a full year capturing the life of Snoop Dogg. This was during his sophomore year at CCA, when he was 20 years old.

Georgopoulos's work can be in-your-face, but his technique never overshadows his subject. His most engaging photos of musicians are often candid shots of their more mundane, day-to-day moments, and his travel photography is as contemplative as it is exotic. His personal work, on the other hand, captures for posterity those larger-than-life moments you see out of the corner of your eye or in your more vivid dreams.

Posted on Thursday, November 17, 2011 by Clay Walsh

Congratulations to this year's juried R.A.W. Video (real artists at work) contest winners! The contest, open to all current CCA students, challenged contestants to create a two-minute (maximum) high-resolution digital film (including audio) with “In and Out of the Studio" as the required theme.

The goal was to encourage students to pick up their digital camcorders and highlight their community at CCA—whether in the classroom, studio, residence hall—or away from the college altogether. And the goal was definitely met several times over!

2011 R.A.W. Video Contest Winners

Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 by Marion Anthonisen

Kristin Olson, "The Bellowing"

Hi all! Here on the CCA admissions blog, summertime is our special opportunity to introduce you to a few recent CCA graduates and to share stories of awesome summer internships.

Let's start with the graduates: Kevin Krueger and Kristin Olson, who each graduated in 2011 from the Individualized Major Program, moved to San Francisco to attend CCA after meeting (and getting married!) in Santa Cruz.

Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2011 by Marion Anthonisen

The only collection of its kind at any art school in the country, the CCA Materials Library is an interdisciplinary space where students explore texture and engage imagination. Within its walls, fashion students envision constructing purses from heavy-duty conveyor belt textiles. Film students see high-performance sailcloth and imagine large-scale video projection screens. The idea is to inspire through tactile experimentation, and it's a pretty awesome place. Check out the video tour above. Many thanks to CCA alum Jake Sollins for taking us through the archive!

Posted on Friday, January 21, 2011 by Lindsey Westbrook

The Really Funny Thing About Apathy
Sunnyoutside, 2011
Paperback, 68 pages, $13

Four easily digestible shorts fixate on fleeting incidents in the life of the young and fearful. Says Kevin Sampsell, author of A Common Pornography: "These stories are awesome little jigsaw puzzles that turn into a whole miraculous universe. And in this universe, Chelsea Martin (Individualized Major 2008) is yearning for the answers to life's biggest questions in the most entertaining way possible. This contemplative little book is both funny ha ha and funny peculiar." A knock on the door precipitates the nonaction of "At the End of This Story the Door Will Open and Under Eight Seconds Will Have Passed," in which the narrator mulls over who might be calling. She runs through a series of insignificant scenarios, testing out irony and earnestness, before concluding, "I half believed that the world made sense and I just didn't get it."

Posted on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 by Marion Anthonisen

This is the first in a short series of Q&A sessions with students in CCA's First Year Program, or "first years." The sequence is aimed at familiarizing prospective CCA students with our Bay Area art-making community. Maybe you’ll imagine yourself here!

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Bread and Puppet Theater's "Man = Carrot Circus" on the Cambridge Common -- September 2, 2011

Bread and Puppet Theater: "Man = Carrot Circus", with an introduction by Scott Alarik. Held outdoors on Friday, September 2nd at 6 pm on the Cambridge Common, near the intersection of Mass. Ave. and Garden St., Cambridge. Free performance [pass-the-hat donations welcome], rain or shine. For further details, call the Boston-area Bread and Puppet Theater information line 617-800-9539 or log onto

The award-winning Bread and Puppet Theater, from Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, presents their "Man = Carrot Circus" on the Cambridge Common, a space they have not inhabited since the mid-1980’s. Bread and Puppet champions a visually rich slapstick style of street-theater that is filled with huge puppets made of paper maché and cardboard, along with masked characters, political commentary, and a lively brass band for accompaniment.

"Man = Carrot Circus", for children of all ages, is based on the revelation that upright man rooted in dirt was created in the image of the upright carrot rooted in dirt. Twenty-five Vermont puppeteers and musicians will enact the issues of the day, not only in how they affect carrots, but how they affect us all. Some of the circus acts may be politically puzzling to adults, but usually an accompanying kid can explain what’s going on. The audience is welcome to examine all the masks and puppets after the performance, and cheap art will be for sale. Some examples of Bread and Puppet’s work can be found at

Scott Alarik (, who will introduce the show, is the author of the very recently published Revival: A Folk Music Novel. He is no stranger to the music, theater, and art scene that put Harvard Square on the map many moons ago. His novel, along with Bread and Puppet’s outdoor Circus on the Common, is serving as the impetus to reinvigorate Harvard Square with an entire month of reincarnations, complete with the return of the HONK! Parade: Share The Streets on Oct. 2nd, a Bread and Puppet-inspired procession on Mass. Ave. leading into Harvard Square’s Oktoberfest. For complete information on Harvard Square’s “Revival Month” visit For more information on HONK! and the parade that runs from Davis Square to Harvard Square, log onto

Special thanks to the Cambridge Arts Council and the Harvard Square Business Association for helping make this event possible.

The Bread & Puppet Theater was founded in 1963 by Peter Schumann on New York City’s Lower East Side. Besides rod-puppet and hand-puppet shows for children, the concerns of the first productions were rents, rats, police and other problems of that neighborhood. More complex theater pieces, in which sculpture, music, dance and language were equal partners, followed. The puppets grew bigger and bigger. Annual presentations for Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving and Memorial Day often included children and adults from the community as participants. Many performances were done in the street. During the Vietnam War, Bread & Puppet staged block-long precessions involving hundreds of people.

In 1970 Bread & Puppet moved to Vermont as theater-in-residence at Goddard College, combining puppetry with gardening and bread baking in a serious way, learning to live in the countryside and letting itself be influenced by the experience.

In 1974 the Theater moved to a farm in Glover in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. The 140-year-old hay barn was transformed into a museum for veteran puppets. Our Domestic Resurrection Circus, a two-day outdoor festival of puppetry shows, was presented annually through 1998.

The company makes its income from touring new and old productions on the American continent and abroad and from the sales of Bread & Puppet Press’s posters and publications. The traveling puppet shows range from tightly composed theater pieces presented by members of the company, to extensive outdoor pageants which require the participation of many volunteers.

Bread & Puppet is one of the oldest, nonprofit, self-supporting theatrical companies in this country.


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Fight Back Colorado

Coloradans have waited too long already for relationship recognition. Committed activists have worked diligently for years to educate the public and our elected officials about the need for civil unions. This May, House Speaker Frank McNulty, Majority Leader Amy Stephens, and House leadership refused to let the Colorado Civil Union Act come to the floor for a vote, killing the bill, and the chance for loving and committed gay couples to be treated fairly. Fight Back Colorado is a targeted way for Coloradans to focus their frustration and anger into action in defeating anti-gay politicians.

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Remember Lara Logan, the CBS reporter who was separated from her crew while covering the revolution in Egypt and brutally raped by a mob of men? When she spoke publicly about her attack, she bravely broke a longstanding silence on the part of female reporters assaulted on the job.

But Dan Rottenberg, editor of the online arts magazine Broad Street Review, doesn't have any sympathy for Logan or outrage on her behalf. Instead, Rottenberg says Lara Logan is to blame for her gang rape because she once showed cleavage at a US award show.

Rottenberg's editor's letter, published on June 6th, is titled 'Male Sexual Abuse and Female Naivete,' six words that from the get-go suggest if women were to act more responsibly, men wouldn't commit "sex abuse," i.e rape. The letter is accompanied by a photo of Logan (above) on the red carpet, wearing a v-line neck dress and smiling for the cameras. The caption under the photo reads, "What message was the TV journalist Lara Logan sending here?"

Rottenberg goes on, "Earth to liberated women: when you display legs, thighs, or cleavage, some liberated men will see it as a sign you feel good about yourself and your sexuality. But most men will see it as a sign you want to get laid. Forewarned is forearmed."

Rape is not "getting laid" and no one ever, ever does or wears anything that "asks" to be raped. To suggest that Lara Logan's choice to wear a dress perfectly appropriate for a US awards show sent a message to Egyptian men that she wanted to be raped while doing her job as a foreign correspondent takes rape apologism to new heights.

Rottenberg ends his column by blaming a neighbor for her attempted rape and the molestation of her daughter because she cleaned her house in a halter top and shorts.

There is nothing redeemable about anything Rottenberg said; he makes excuses and blames the victim multiple times in multiple situations. He has far overstepped the bounds of an editor of a culture magazine and appointed himself arbiter of which rapes are a victim's fault and which are not. This is unacceptable.

We call on the Publisher and Board of Directors of Broad Street Review to take Mr. Rottenberg's offensive piece off the site and remove him from his position as editor.

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Board of Directors, Broad Street Review Wilbur Bourne Ruthrauff
Editor, Broad Street Review Dan Rottenberg
Associate Editor, Broad Street Review Madeline Schaefer
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Board of Directors, Broad Street Review Gresham Riley
I am writing to ask the leadership of Broad Street Review to remove Dan Rottenberg as editor of the publication because of an inexcusable editor's letter he wrote in which he blamed journalist Lara Logan for her rape.

Mr. Rottenberg overstepped the bounds of an editor of a culture magazine to blame Logan, and other women, for being sexually assaulted and in doing so has lost the trust and respect of Broad Street Review's readership. 1 in 4 American women (and 1 in 6 American men) will be the victims of sexual assault. Attitudes like Mr. Rottenberg's make victims less likely to come forward because they feel the rape is somehow their fault and protect rapists by giving them cover for their crimes.

Readers turn to Broad Street Review for local arts and entertainment news, not to be blamed for being raped. Please take action immediately to remove Mr. Rottenberg as editor of the site.


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Teachers Reprimanded for Advocating Peace in Massachusetts

Recently two teachers from Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School were reprimanded for speaking their peace.

There was an assembly for the graduating class of 2010.  At that ceremony a school official honored six seniors who planned on enlisting in the US Armed Services.  During the announcement, two teachers, Adeline Koscher and Marybeth Verani stood in silent protest, and Verani held up an “End War” sign.

The media coverage was extremely biased against the teachers.  When asked about her actions, Verani states, referring to the students in the assembly, “I’m showing them, in a democracy, how to express dissent.”  The reporter from WBZ, a Boston TV station, finishes by saying, “Many believe she needs a lesson in supporting her students.”

The Cape Cod Times reported that many parents and students rallied for the school district to fire the teachers.  In fact a community lynching resulted.  According to The Progressive, very soon after the event, one of the teachers was even referred to as a “c_ _ t” on a Massachusetts police website.

Verani stated to the Cape Cod Times that she and Koscher were trying “to address the expansion of military recruitment of children in our schools…I want them to be home, and alive and well, and going to college, and dating, and having kids, and coaching Little League.”

According to the Cape Cod Times, as a result of their actions, both teachers were put on administrative leave until the end of the school year, and Verani will be suspended without pay for ten days at the start of the upcoming 2010-2011 school year.

Please sign the petition below to protest the unfair actions taken by the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School District located on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.  Non-violent protests advocating peace and life, rather than war and death, should never be censored in a true democracy.

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Assistant Principal Michael Grenier
I am writing the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School District to protest the unfair treatment that was mitigated out to Adeline Koscher and Marybeth Verani.

Non-violent, silent protests advocating peace instead of war, advocating life instead of death should never be censored in a democracy, and such protests should never be censored within the walls of an American public institution of learning.

By recognizing students who have decided to enlist into the US Armed Forces, the school district is opening the door to a political debate. To censor that debate is to do a disservice to those men and women who stand up and put their lives in harm’s way every day for our freedom of expression and speech.

The actions taken by the Dennis-Yarmouth School District are shameful. By presenting and honoring only one side of the coin, the school district is advocating only violence, war and death. Fortunately for the students and other members of the community, there were at least two courageous teachers who flipped that coin over to celebrate life and peace instead.

Kudos to Adeline Koscher and Marybeth Verani for seizing the moment to teach a real lesson, albeit, perhaps one that many would have rather not witnessed.

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In Memory of Thomas Francis Troy, CIA Teacher, Historian, 1919–2008

By Hayden Peake and Nicholas Dujmovic

Thomas F. Troy, a career CIA officer, teacher and lecturer, and pioneering historian of the CIA’s origins, died on 30 July in Bethesda, Maryland.

Tom grew up and was educated in Massachusetts, graduating from Holy Cross College in Worcester (class of 1941). He joined the Army and was sent to Princeton University to study Arabic. During the war he served in the Middle East monitoring communications. He returned to college after the war, taking advantage of the GI Bill to earn a masters degree in political philosophy at Fordham University. After trying his luck as a newscaster, freelance writer, and college teacher, he joined CIA in1951 as an analyst in the Near East section of the Office of Current Intelligence (OCI) in the Directorate of Intelligence. He soon married Elizabeth Cashman; eventually they had a family of eight children, six daughters and two sons.

Tom’s expertise was widely acknowledged, but he was famous for resenting the editing that analysts suffer, and he grew increasingly unhappy with OCI management. The feeling was mutual—Tom wasn’t quite fired, but he was encouraged to seek a job elsewhere in the Agency. He found his niche in the Office of Training (later the Office of Training and Education), where from the outset he was recognized as an outstanding, even visionary, teacher. Tom helped create the area training program, including the courses on the Middle East and North Africa regions. During the mid-1960s, he developed the Vietnam Orientation Course, an effort the chief of the Far East Division of the Directorate of Plans, William Colby, particularly praised.

In 1969, while still teaching, he became interested in the Agency’s history. The director of training, a former OSS officer, approved an unofficial project for Tom and worked out an arrangement that gave him time to conduct research—including money to travel—and write a history of the origins of OSS under William Donovan and its transformation into CIA. On this, Tom labored for five and a half years. His work came to the attention of senior Agency leaders, who supported and praised it, even though some in his office disapproved of it as a diversion from its training mission. The result, Donovan and the CIA: A History of the Establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency, was initially published internally in two spiral-bound volumes classified SECRET. Most of the classified material dealt with references to third-party material and personnel, which, once deleted, made possible an unclassified paperback edition in 1979.

After Tom retired in January 1982, he joined University Publications of America as editor of an intelligence book series. One of the first volumes he published was a hardbound edition of Donovan and the CIA. For cost reasons, the first printing did not have a dust jacket. But the demand was so great that one was subsequently printed and furnished on request and with new copies. The work remains the best source on the topic, a benchmark for scholarship and documentation. It was given an award by the National Intelligence Study Center in 1981 as the best non-fiction book of the year.

Tom later completed another historical study of the CIA’s creation, Wild Bill and Intrepid: Donovan, Stephenson and the Origins of the CIA, which drew heavily on Tom’s interviews with Sir William Stephenson. This volume was published by Yale University Press in 1996.

In his retirement, Tom started a bimonthly newsletter—the Foreign Intelligence Literary Scene. He originally thought to call the newsletter the Foreign Intelligence Bulletin (FIB), but he had trouble attracting authors to a journal with such an acronym and changed it before the first issue appeared. It dealt with books, personalities and events in the Intelligence Community. There was no competition and it proved a success for the next 10 years. In the early 1990s, it was published by Ray Cline’s National Intelligence Study Center until the Internet made it obsolete.

Tom continued to write articles and book reviews for Studies. His work has also appeared in the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence and in the journal Intelligence and National Security.

In 2000, a former Agency officer published a book suggesting that William Donovan’s role in the creation of the CIA was significantly less important than Tom’s work suggested. Tom attended a talk the author gave at the National Archives and raised questions that clearly annoyed the author because he couldn’t answer them. Tom’s approach in questioning the author was perfectly in character: he was smiling and friendly, yet persistent. He could make his point without giving permanent offense.

In the hours before his death, Tom told his family that he couldn’t wait to resume work on his next book, a biography of Sir William Wiseman, the MI-6 head of station in America during World War I. Tom had finished 15 chapters.

All statements of fact, opinion, or analysis expressed in this article are those of the author. Nothing in the article should be construed as asserting or implying US government endorsement of an article’s factual statements and interpretations.

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Climate Impacts

For three days in 2005, flooding from Hurricane Katrina cut off the only road to Port Fourchon. Officials had to decide: did the risk of future flooding justify the cost of raising the roadway out of the Gulf's rising waters?

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

  • The International Research Institute for Climate and Society and Google are offering a guided tour of Africa to explain the connections between climate and deadly meningitis outbreaks.


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An application for a permit for commercial sales or solicitations (and for fund-raising by persons or groups other than Registered Student Organizations) shall be filed no less than five working days prior to the start of the activity. Permits for commercial sales or solicitations activities originate in the Contracting and Purchasing Services Department. Permits for such activities in residence halls must also be approved in the Residence Life Office.

  1. Where an activity falls within the scope of the current University Policy/Procedures Affecting Advocacy Activities, those rules apply.

  2. Speakers or performers appearing on the campus under contract with the University or a Registered Student Organization who wishes to sell items in connection with their appearance will request a specific stipulation to that effect in the performance contract and will be governed by the strict conditions of the signed contract and only in areas predetermined by the Building Coordinator, and University Events in conjunction with Risk Management.

  3. University units whose assigned functions involve sale of food or merchandise or the solicitations of funds for official University purposes are exempt from these regulations as long as the selling or solicitation activity falls within the assigned function. (Example: contracted Dining Services, Bookstore, Development, etc.)

  4. Companies providing campus-wide services and who are currently under contract (e.g. vending companies) with the University are exempt from these regulations as to solicitation or sale of those services. This provision applies to vending machines on campus for the sale of newspapers and similar publications. These agreements may allow the installation and maintenance of the machines either inside or outside of buildings. The Purchasing and Contracting Services office is responsible for identifying periodically those locations where the University will and will not allow such machines.

  5. Non-University groups, who reserve or rent University facilities for an event, may engage in fund-raising or commercial sales or solicitations only as specified by the terms of their agreement with the University as determined by the Building Coordinator, University Events and Risk Management and only within the facilities or immediately outside the area where the event is engaged.

  6. Commercial solicitation materials may be left for self-distribution in designated buildings, in accord with the provisions in the University Policies and Procedures Affecting Advocacy Activities.
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Michigan Affordable Insurance Exchange Grants Awards List

Michigan has received three grant awards to build its Affordable Insurance Exchange. This includes a Planning Grant and two Level One Establishment Grants.

Summaries of Michigan’s applications for each grant are provided below:

Establishment Grant Level One Application Summary

Administrator: State of Michigan, Department of Licensing & Regulatory Affairs
Award Amount: $9,849,305; $30,667,944
Award Date: November 29, 2011; January 17, 2013
Application Due Date: September 30, 2011; November 15, 2012
Level of Funding: Level One

Summary: The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) will use Level One funding to: conduct additional analysis on the impacts of the Exchange and the Affordable Care Act in Michigan, including additional insurance market analysis; acquire contractual services to assist the State and the Exchange with legal matters, technology planning, education and outreach, financing and policy issues; and, support the State of Michigan as it works toward establishment of this new entity.

Michigan will use its Level One Establishment Grant to support the Consumer Assistance partnership program including, but not limited to In-Person Assisters, Navigator Oversight and Administration, and other assistance that will support individuals as they seek health coverage.  The grant will also help utilize contractual services to assist the State Partnership Exchange with planning, design and establishment of technology-related interfaces to ensure Michigan has the capacity to coordinate with the federal marketplace, and provide resources for Michigan to perform the Plan Management functions of the marketplace.

State Planning Grant

Awarded September 30, 2010

Administrator: Department of Community Health

Amount Awarded: $999,772

  • Conduct the appropriate research to determine those who are potentially eligible for the Exchange and to determine how the Exchange will impact Medicaid, other public programs, and other State health plans.
  • Determine how best to establish the American Health Benefits Exchange and Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP Exchange) in Michigan, considering the needs of and options available to individuals and small groups.
  • Implement a plan for stakeholder involvement to determine how Michigan will implement the Exchange.
  • Develop an initial plan for integration of applicable State and Federal programs and current State projects.
  • Develop a plan for a governance model and structure.
  • Develop an initial plan for how the Exchange will manage reporting, accounting, and auditing functions while maintaining transparency.
  • Review technical components and interoperability of technology embedded in existing State systems and plan for the introduction of possible new systems necessary to properly run an Exchange.
  • Review and determine the necessary State statutory and regulatory changes needed to establish the Exchange options

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Student Spotlight: Helena Kaminski

Helena Kaminski

Helena Kaminski
Major: Photography

When Helena Kaminski was in high school, she found an SLR film camera in the attic and started taking pictures with it.

“I loved the way I could control blur, motion and focus with its manual functions, and I just started using it as often as I could,” she said.

Kaminski began taking classes at College of DuPage after graduating from high school but put school on hold to accept a job offer. However, she returned to COD in spring 2009.

“I didn’t plan on pursuing a degree in photography full time, but I took one class that semester and fell back into the program afterward,” she said.

In addition to enjoying her studies, Kaminski has submitted her work for consideration in a variety of shows. In 2011, her work was accepted three times: in the SOHO Photo Gallery's Small Works Juried National Competition in New York City, at the Plates to Pixels Gallery in Atlanta, and at the 23 Sandy Gallery in Portland.

Kaminski graduated in 2011 with an associate’s degree in Photography. She moved to upstate New York for an administrative internship at a non-profit photo gallery, where she assisted artists in residence and exhibiting artists, helped organize the gallery’s Permanent Print Collection, and even taught the basics of black and white film photography.

“I participated in almost every aspect of the organization and networked with many local artists,” she said. “Soon after moving, I learned of another internship at a small 19th century photography school. These internships propelled me into my own business as a freelance photographer. I now work full time as an independent contractor retouching, scanning, printing, assisting artists on location and in the studio, and teaching alternative photographic processes at the photography school I interned at.”

Although Kaminski always loved art, College of DuPage helped her decide what to do as a career.

“I began taking pictures in high school, but the push to pursue big paycheck careers my senior year made me hesitate about going into any artistic field,” she said. “After going through some of the program at COD, I realized that I loved what I was doing, and if I were to pursue any degree or certificate, my priority should be doing what I love.

“The Photography program at COD was fantastic: The teachers actively participate in the field and provide great insight into a multitude of different photographic applications, in addition to being extremely helpful and encouraging. The courses are designed not only to teach you important techniques but also to grow as a creative individual, whether you are pursuing a career as an artist or as a commercial photographer. Everyone involved made it an incredibly gratifying experience.”

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Langroise Studio Theatre

This black box theatre located in the Langroise Center for the Performing and Fine Arts converts to thrust, stadium and arena configurations with movable seating sections. Langroise Studio Theatre serves as the primary playing space for mainstage theatre productions and classroom work for acting and directing classes at The College of Idaho.

Seating Capacity: 90 - 145 Dimensions: 50' X 52'


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Brazilian and Canadian leaders sign new trade agreements to strengthen international business

August 9, 2011

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is currently on his first business trip to Brazil to discuss trade policies with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. The PM of Canada feels that Brazil and his country can bond over the fact that they are both expansive countries with ethnically and culturally diverse populations and both countries have a strong focus on agriculture.

"Although Brazil is Canada's largest trading partner in South America, our two countries still did barely $6 billion in business last year, despite having combined GDPs (gross domestic products) of close to $4 trillion," Harper said in a public address, The Globe and Mail reports.

The leaders met in Brazil to go over details, and on Monday, they signed trade agreements to facilitate air travel between the nations, make it easier for Brazilian and Canadian people to retire in either country and improve cooperative efforts on foreign-aid projects.

Canada's leader made sure to praise Brazil for its ascension in the global economy, as it is quickly becoming one of the top financial powers of the world.

People in Canada can use phone cards to Brazil and vice versa to discuss international business or just talk about the blossoming relationships between the North and South American nations.

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Hellblazer #272

John Constantine's potential wife Epiphany Greaves finds herself shunted off to London in 1979 by a love-spurned Shade, The Changing Man! Back in the present, Constantine finds himself right in the path of a succubus with evil on her mind. "Bloody Carnations" part 2.
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Warlord of Mars: Dejah Thoris Vol. 4: The Vampire Men of Saturn

Dejah Thoris, the warrior princess of Mars, heads off to the northern wastes in self-imposed exile, driven by guilt over her murderous actions while under the spell of witchcraft. In the harsh wilds, she incurs the wrath of a golden-skinned Okar warrior, before drawing the attention of alien scouts. Abducted to the rings of Saturn, Dejah Thoris finds that its bloodthirsty native race plans an invasion of Mars, and that she might soon transform into a vampiric creature herself! How will one Red Woman save her entire planet, when the only possible allies hunger for her blood? Collects the complete four-issue comic book storyline from Warlord of Mars: Dejah Thoris #16-19. Bonus material includes an extensive cover gallery featuring artists Paul Renaud and Fabiano Neves.
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