Maria Tomasula’s still life paintings are absolutely captivating, dramatizing luscious objects of saturated colors and meticulous details through the spotlight effect against a dark backdrop. Beyond their immediate appeal, however, the still lifes usually contain disturbing features such as flowers being sharply pierced by hooks and nails or isolated body parts such as bones and organs that seem to be fiercely alive. Although the pictures are materialistically appealing due to the illusionistic style of the artist, they lend themselves to a depth of iconography that has not been accounted for in previous writings on her art. This book is the first comprehensive monograph on Tomasula (b. 1958), unraveling her complex iconography that is founded on her Mexican American heritage and Catholicism, but also tracing the European still life tradition. It shows that her paintings reflect her feminist and philosophical leanings influenced by various intellectuals including Baruch Spinoza, Gilles Deleuze, and the proponents of New Materialism. Her still life converges the old with new interests: it pays tribute to traditional Mexican and European motifs, but also reflects ideas and mannerism that speak to the contemporary audience. This research evidences the complexity of the Mexican American experience which merges divergent cultural and ideological perspectives from Latin America, North America, and Europe in varied ways for different and unique individuals.

Théâtres coréens ? Un théâtre contemporain au pluriel, car les théâtres en Corée du Sud nous racontent, non seulement les déchirures passées et présentes dans ce pays mais aussi plongent leurs racines dans une multiplicité de traditions coréennes dont les chants et rituels chamaniques, les danses de masques, les marionnettes, les longs poèmes narratifs chantés: le p'ansori. Ce caractère pluriel du théâtre coréen contemporain où se rencontrent profane et sacré, passé et présent, ici et ailleurs, contribue à faire d'un théâtre, encore inconnu en Occident, l'un des creusets d'expériences théâtrales originales où les différents arts du spectacle traditionnels et modernes s'échangent.

As you read this book, you will love Apostolic Christianity as set forth by the Apostles of Christ in 33 A.D. with a fervor to convert the world from darkness into the Light of Freedom from sin which Jesus died for. Truth makes one free whether you want it or not - this book will make you free placing your feet on a path of understanding heretofore unknown to you. This author has presented pure Apostolic Truth and pure Apostolic heritage which must never be lost in these closing hours of time! My highest respect and regard for the author whom I have come to know personally! The annals of history have been cracked open as we look into the face of the end of mortal time... This book is a Masterpiece of scholarship, study, and experience from one who has been there... you will blink back tears as you walk through his painful, yet thrilling steps into Light from darkness. Oh what a Savior we serve - Jesus forever and always rescues those who hunger and thirst for His Righteousness! AMEN Rev. Lee Stoneking

All eighty-one fundamental power couplers for the 805 MHz superconducting cavities of the SNS linac have been RF conditioned and installed in the cryomodules successfully. The couplers were RF processed at JLAB or at the SNS in ORNL: more than forty couplers have been RF conditioned in the SNS RF Test Facility (RFTF) after the first forty couplers were conditioned at JLAB. The couplers were conditioned up to 650 kW forward power at 8% duty cycle in traveling and standing waves. They were installed on the cavities in the cryomodules and then assembled with the airside waveguide transitions. The couplers have been high power RF tested with satisfactory accelerating field gradients in the cooled cavities.