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ALA's sprawling conference leaves librarians dashing between hotels and meeting rooms, but I mostly stayed in one place--the ALA Publishing booth. I let the conference come to me. My colleagues and I were there to tell people about the RDA Toolkit, Guide to Reference and of course, ALA TechSource. ALA Editions editors used a small table for meetings with authors. The RDA Toolkit had launched only a few days before the conference, and visitors came in a steady flow. Most were familiar with RDA and had a few specific questions about functions. On the last day, folks came to gawk at the heft of the print version. Not to brag, but I'm familiar enough with any of those products to give a serviceable demo. While working on the RDA project and its RDA Vocabularies component, I learned about the NSDL Registry managed by Diane Hillmann and Jon Phipps. Karen Coyle consulted on the project and has written a two-issue series of Library Technology Reports explaining the semantic web and how the RDA Vocabularies might be deployed with its technologies (by the way,you can get that two-issue set at 50% off at the ALA Store).
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We want to offer our sincere thanks to everyone who attended yesterday's ALA TechSource Gadget Petting Zoo! The event was a major success, with dozens of people coming by the ALA Publishing booth to talk with some of our bloggers about the latest gadgets and what they can do for our libraries.
It's hard to say which gadget got the most attention. Of course we were expecting a ton of interest in the iPad and eReaders, and the interest was certainly there. But there was so much activity and discussion going on at the booth that it would be unfair to say that those devices dominated the conversation. Read More »
At the ALA Annual Conference, it seems like there's always more to do and see than you can possibly fit into your schedule. No matter how many exhibits you see, how many presentations you attend and how many interesting people you meet, there's always something that you feel like you missed.
When it comes to technology at the conference, ALA TechSource has you covered. We're happy to announce that once again, we're hosting a Webinar featuring an expert panel who'll provide a look back at ALA Annual Conference from a library technology perspective. Our panel will analyze and discuss what they learned and what trends stood out at the conference.
This Webinar will take place Tuesday, July 13th at 2:30 Eastern/1:30 Central/ 11:30 Pacific. Read More »
If you're headed to the ALA Annual Conference in Washington D.C. this year, we hope you'll join us on the exhibition floor at the ALA Publishing Booth for the ALA TechSource Electronic Gadget Petting Zoo! This unique event will take place on Sunday, June 27 from 11:00am–12:30pm at Booth #2605. Read More »
Reader participation in a blog is like a community's engagement with a public library--it's impossible to have too much involvement. The ALA TechSource blog is a place for perspectives, opinions, news and discussion of library technology trends. While the first three are obviously important, librarianship is a profession where collaboration is essential, and without discussion, its impossible for librarians to take full advantage of the new technology that is transforming our profession. We want our readers to be more than readers. We hold your comments in the highest regard, and we're always looking for more perspective, insight and criticism from those who enjoy the material on this blog. Read More »
The 2010 Electronic Entertainment Expo, better known simply as E3, took place this past week. E3 2010 is the largest video game conference and press event in the US, and is the stage from which nearly all revolutionary new products and games are announced. So what was the major announcement this year that libraries and librarians should be aware of? Read More »
A few weeks ago, Kayhryn Greenhill blogged about the sudden death of Paul Reynolds, a noted scholar and thinker from New Zealand who was Adjunct Director of the amazing Digital New Zealand project until this past February.
I was aware of him because at VALA2010 in February, he tweeted about the presentation Warren Cheetham and I gave covering our research project. He even retweeted one of my own tweets about the talk. I immediately followed him, subscribed to his blog and looked back at some of his writing and presentations. We became friends on Facebook. I was impressed with his synthesis of the possible roles for libraries, museums and cultural institutions in the social network landscape - with a strong emphasis on the people part of the equation.
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When personal computers first hit the mainstream, they presented an interesting opportunity for libraries. All of the sudden, it was possible to easily separate the content from the content-bearing device. Unlike printed books, microfilm, LP records, and other content-bearing devices, with computers it is easy to move content onto and off of the device. A few earlier devices, such as the wax tablet and stylus, along with the Etch-a-Sketch, had pointed the way to the future, but the computer really made it take off. Now libraries had the opportunity to get out of the device business. Just as hockey has been described as a good fight marred by skating, libraries may have been good information services marred by the need to shelve (and reshelve) content-bearing devices. Read More »
Marshall Breeding will be hosting the first of our ALA TechSource Online Workshops, Making the Right Choice: Software Purchases for Your Library's Needs. The event will take place on Tuesday July 20th at 1:30pm Central/2:30pm Eastern/11:30am Pacific.
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ALA TechSource is proud to announce ALA TechSource Workshops, our newest online initiative in furthering discussion, learning and information sharing for librarians and other information professionals interested in keeping up with and applying technology effectively.
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Currently, the management and presentation of digital library collections revolve mostly around the digital library systems that house them. A librarian decides what digital resources go together and then works within the capabilities of the system to present the resources in an appropriate and orderly context. The result is typically a series of webpages that human beings need to navigate to find and click on the links to the resources that meet their information needs. While the system may expose its metadata for harvesting or its index for federated searching, the digital resources themselves are tucked deeply inside proprietary silos. Read More »
I use Flickr all the time personally, and my library has two accounts, a general library account and a University Archives account. Flickr has been around for a few years now, and librarians all over the world use it to share images from their personal and professional lives. Flickr is more than a great place to post and share photos with your community; it's a community in itself, and a starting place for all sorts of activities. Read More »
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Marvin Lipofsky (b. 1938) Seattle Series #3, 1990, Blown glass, Partial gift of Dorothy and George Saxe to the Fine Arts Museums Foundation, 2005.163.44a-b, Photograph © M. Lee Fatherree
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Tuesday Tip–Chalkboard layouts!
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Chalkboard is all the rage these days and did you know that Black Magic is perfect for it? For this layout, Designer Leica Forrest used a few diffferent kind of Black Magic with a blue and pink core. This layout was in our booth at CHA and everyone LOVED it. The texture is just amazing!
Tip 1.) Make it look like it's really chalk by using the Outlining technique. New to outlining? All you do is take some removable adhesive and put your chipboard letters on your kraft mat and then sand over. You can check out the Technique Video HERE. Leica used this technqiue for the "Family" title.
Tip 2.) Sand punched pieces and layer them on your layout base it looks like it is chalk. See that scalloped piece above the Family tile? Leica punched first, sanded and then adhered it. It looks just like a colored piece of chalkboard! She used the same technique for the banner along the bottom of the photo.
Tip 3.) Use your white gel pen or marker on the Black Magic just as you would with any other cardstock. Highlight the title…add some journaling….doodle…add some Queen & Co. bling…whatever you want! Looks awesome, don't you think?


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Krista Tippett, host: I'm Krista Tippett. Today, "Restoring the Senses: Life, Gardening, and an Orthodox Easter." Theologian Vigen Guroian experiences Easter as a call to our senses. This hour, we'll explore his Eastern Orthodox sensibility that is at once more mystical and more earthy than the Christianity dominant in Western culture. And Vigen Guroian does real theology in his garden as richly as in church.
Mr. Vigen Guroian: I'm walking in my garden and all of a sudden, overnight, something has bloomed, maybe the honeysuckle, maybe the rugosa roses, or maybe it's just the cabbage in the vegetable garden. And I don't even see it, but I know it's present. I feel its presence. No, I, I smell its presence. I'm aware of it. For many of us, that's an experience like that of experiencing God in prayer.
Ms. Tippett: This is Speaking of Faith. Stay with us.
Ms. Tippett: I'm Krista Tippett. This hour, an understanding of Easter that is at once more mystical and more earthy than the traditions dominant in Western culture. Vigen Guroian is an Armenian Orthodox theologian who is attentive to grand theology and to the meaning of incarnation, death, and eternity as revealed in life and in his garden.
From American Public Media, this is Speaking of Faith, public radio's conversation about religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas. Today, "Restoring the Senses: Life, Gardening, and an Orthodox Easter." My guest this hour, Vigen Guroian, is professor of theology and ethics at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland. He also tends a large, perennial and vegetable garden at his home in central Virginia, and speaks passionately about spiritual insight he discovers there.
Mr. Guroian: Look, when I get into the garden in the spring, and I'm getting ready for it here, it comes pretty early in central Virginia what am I doing during Lent, in particular? I'm digging out weeds that have died. I'm cleaning out the garden. It's a messy business and it's not terribly pleasant. But in the task of very doing it, my senses are being brought alive. I'm attuning my body. I'm cleansing my soul. I'm making myself ready to receive the gift.
Ms. Tippett: This year, as happens two or three times each decade, Vigen Guroian and the world's roughly 300 million Eastern Orthodox Christians, celebrate Easter on the same day as Roman Catholic and Protestant Christians. Calculating the date of Easter was one of many disputes that led to the 11th-century schism between the ancient church centers of Constantinople and Rome. The use of icons or painted images in the church was another source of contention, and that controversy was the origin of the word "iconoclasm."
There are profound differences between the Orthodox spiritual sensibility and that which spread throughout the West from Rome. The Greeks built metaphysical systems, one adage goes; the Romans built roads. Eastern Orthodox theology is less doctrinal, more experiential, deeply sacramental. Orthodox liturgy engages all the senses with incense, icons, and lush hymnody. Ancient rituals and forms of worship are understood in themselves to convey Biblical truth and transcendent realities.
And so, like many Western Christians, Vigen Guroian observes the penitential season of Lent, the Holy Week's commemoration of Biblical events leading to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, and Easter celebration of the resurrection three days later. But in worship, Guroian describes experiencing these events as part of a larger cosmic drama, from the creation of the world to eternity and back again, foreshadowed by the new creation in Jesus Christ.
Mr. Guroian: In my own tradition, for example, the first Sunday would be in observance of the beginnings, creation. And in a sense, through the whole of Lent, you recapitulate the story of creation, fall, and redemption. These are circles inside of circles, repetitions inside of repetitions. For example, in the Armenian liturgical calendar, there is a kind of eight-day cycle.
Ms. Tippett: Eight-day cycle?
Mr. Guroian: Yes. Well, the eighth day is the day of the new creation. Every Sunday is not only the first day, but it's also the eighth day. We break out of the temporal week, seven days, and break into the new creation, which is on the eighth day, which is the day of the resurrection. So
Ms. Tippett: And what does that mean? I mean, is that a state of mind? It's a way you move through time differently?
Mr. Guroian: Absolutely. That's the way I move through time. So the beginning and the end are connected with one another. But it's not simply intellectual, it's, it's bodily. I mean, when we're, when we're within the liturgical service, it is happening. And that experience is going to form a way of seeing the world
Ms. Tippett: Right.
Mr. Guroian: and going through the world, which is
Ms. Tippett: Walking back out into the world out of that sanctuary
Mr. Guroian: Yes.
Ms. Tippett: out of that liturgy.
Mr. Guroian: Yeah.
Ms. Tippett: And this is so foreign, right, to the way Christianity has infused American culture? It's a different way of being Christian.
Mr. Guroian: Oh, of course it is. Well, for example, I'm not particularly interested in conflating, correlating a reading of the Genesis account of creation with the latest scientific theory. I think of the first chapter of Genesis as a divine litany. Something is happening and then God says, as a respondent, he takes both the role of liturgist and respondent. He says, "This is good," or "This is beautiful." Actually, the Hebrew word tov could mean either "good" or "beautiful." And the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament, which was the Old Testament of the early church, translates it "beautiful" in the Greek, not "good."
Ms. Tippett: So God saw what He had made, those passages, and as the Jews had translated
Mr. Guroian: And then God says, "This is beautiful." That's the response.
Ms. Tippett: Beautiful. Mm-hmm.
Mr. Guroian: So in a sense, God is singing creation into existence. I think C.S. Lewis caught this, had his own deep sense of this when he wrote The Magician's Nephew, in which Aslan, the great lion, the great god lion, sings the creation of Narnia, brings Narnia into existence in hymn, in song. It just seems to me that that way of understanding creation is different.
Ms. Tippett: Is different and, and simply would
Mr. Guroian: It means that that the song never ends. And words have been added to the song, but it's still the song. And think about throughout the Old Testament, from Genesis through the prophets, the creation itself is, is really depicted as a great temple in which worship is to be done. God sets the foundations. God stretches the heavens as a canopy. And we're here to make the song of creation, the liturgy of creation, and new creation manifest, visible, audible in the world.
Ms. Tippett: I'd like for you to talk to me about, you know, some of these huge ideas that, in fact, happen for you in worship.
Mr. Guroian: Well, if you begin to look at the Orthodox liturgies, the hymns and prayers correlate with the images that are in the church, the iconography that's in the church. And I must say that in my own tradition, the iconography can be rather sparse. We don't have an iconostasis in the Armenian church, the way the Byzantines, the Greeks, the Russians, the Romanians, et cetera do, at the front of the altar.
Ms. Tippett: And translate that for someone who hasn't heard of iconostasis.
Mr. Guroian: In most of Orthodoxy, you would have a screen or a wall that stands in front of the altar, which is in the back of that screen. And you can see through, through a door. Sometimes, you can see through. It's partly transparent. It depends on the way this has been built. But you have an image of Christ. You're going to have to have an image of the Holy Mother of God, John the Baptist, an image of the saint whose name is given to this church. You're going to have to have other saints, even scenes from the Bible.
We don't have a resurrection icon where Jesus is emerging from the tomb, sort of flying in the air because there's no description of that scripturally. What we have are two icons. One is the icon of Christ's descent into Hades or Hell, bringing Adam and Eve and all of the saints out of Sheol, out of the realm of the dead, into the new heaven on Saturday.
And we have an image of the empty tomb with the visitation of the women coming with the myrrh or the oil on Easter Sunday morning. Now, that's, if it's Easter, there is going to be a focus and attention upon those icons within the church. And they may be at the very front of the church, on the iconostasis, the screen or wall. Or they may be in other locations, in the ceiling, on the sides of this church.
Ms. Tippett: So talk to me about why, for you, those icons are important, what they do.
Mr. Guroian: Human beings are not simply oriented by one sense or two senses. They're, they're oriented by several senses. And so in order for the human being to be wholly engaged, all of those senses ought to be at work. One of the jobs of a Christian is to in point of fact, hone the senses, reform the senses, make them holy. And that process can take place within a church, certainly, where everything is focused on God.
So that the incense appeals to the sense of smell. Whole body is involved, the kneeling, the prostration on the ground, on the floor, the images that one sees, the songs that one hears. And that engages the whole human being. Well, that's consistent with the Christian belief in the bodily resurrection, the whole self, not just some disincarnate soul.
Ms. Tippett: Something I've always been intrigued by, though, in my conversations with Orthodox Christians, is how this attunement to, to the senses is also very earthy, also has a very earthy side. It's not all just about gorgeous images in worship. And, you know, I just, I wanted to read this passage that you quoted in your book Incarnate Love, which, of course, is a central theme of the Easter story. And, you know, the example you used of talking about this is, is how it was articulated in, by Dostoevsky's Ivan Karamazov, right?
Mr. Guroian: Yes.
Ms. Tippett: And you wrote, he said, "Alyosha, my boy, so I want to live and go on living even if it's contrary to the rules of logic, even if I do not believe in the divine order of things. The sticky young leaves emerging from their buds in the spring are dear to my heart, so is the blue sky, and so are some human beings, even though I often don't know why I like them. I'll get drunk on my own emotion. I love these sticky little leaves and the blue sky. That's what, you don't love those things with reason, with logic. You love them with your innards, with your belly."
Mr. Guroian: Yes. And of course, the irony, which is so often a device used by Dostoevsky is that the principal atheist who's rebelling against God in the novel is articulating precisely what the Christian experience is or ought to be. So there's an irony there. And the question is, how much Ivan actually believes that.
But, but yes. Absolutely. He is speaking a truth there. I believe he's also glossing a poem by Schiller there, the sticky little leaves. But unquestionably, there are several levels to that speech by Ivan. But, but one level, certainly, is Dostoevsky is presenting us with an image of religious experience, which is Orthodox or Russian. He would say Russian.
Ms. Tippett: You would say Orthodox?
Mr. Guroian: Yes.
Ms. Tippett: Armenian Orthodox theologian Vigen Guroian. I'm Krista Tippett, and this is Speaking of Faith from American Public Media. Today, "Restoring the Senses: Life, Gardening, and an Orthodox Easter."
Vigen Guroian is the author of several books on theology and ethics, and also two volumes of spiritual reflection by way of gardening, The Fragrance of God and Inheriting Paradise. He points out that Eastern Orthodoxy never adopted the doctrinal impulse of Western Christian theology. East and West have given different interpretations to important facets of Christian thought, including the Easter story. The Bible itself contains many metaphors for explaining the Easter event. One that has been especially dominant in Western culture is the notion that Christ paid the price for the original sin of Adam. Words like "ransom" and "debt" characterize what Vigen Guroian calls a legalistic interpretation of the meaning of Easter, focused heavily on the sacrificial drama of the crucifixion. Orthodox worship opens him to other possibilities as well.
Mr. Guroian: Now, in the East, there's less attempt to sort these metaphors out, particularly because the hymns dominate so much. And within hymn, within hymnography, within prayers, within poetry, you can get away with a variety of metaphors. In a point of fact, they enrich the poetry or the hymns. So I think that's one way of accounting for the fact that the Orthodox have not tried to separate out these metaphors. Well, anyway, there is a, a metaphor in the East, which I think is more at the center of the Orthodox understanding of what happens. That it's a physical interpretation. That Christ assumes our whole humanity, our whole human nature and restores it to a state in which it can grow into holiness without obstruction. And in fact, He makes it holy Himself by the kind of life He lives and by the death that He dies, and His resurrection again after three days. The East does not regard Adam and Eve as perfect in the garden.
Ms. Tippett: OK.
Mr. Guroian: But potentially perfect. And they can therefore grow into perfection as God has intended them to. So we're back to that potentiality. We have that potentiality, again, in Christ. We've been healed. Our wounded body has been healed. Our senses have been restored to be in tune with and in harmony with God's purposes.
Ms. Tippett: I would like to talk about your garden because it seems to me that in the writing you've done about gardening, that is a place where many of these themes, if you will, become three-dimensional, you know, take on flesh.
Mr. Guroian: Yes. Yeah. It's my favorite writing.
Ms. Tippett: It's your favorite writing.
Mr. Guroian: Oh, of course, it is.
Ms. Tippett: And it's a beautiful writing. It's wonderful writing. Let's start talking about what you do in your garden, what you learn from your garden, the insights that come to you there that also, again, illustrate, and kind of bring down to Earth some of this theology.
Mr. Guroian: Oh, that's a whole
Ms. Tippett: It's a huge question.
Mr. Guroian: Yeah.
Ms. Tippett: Where, you know, where would you start?
Mr. Guroian: Well, I would start by saying, and this, among some Christian communities, would not only sound strange, but perhaps heretical, but it certainly belongs to the imagination of the early church, and my own church, is that they are in a sense two scriptures. There is the written scripture, and that's at the very heart of the church. But there's also the imprint of God on His creation. And the fact that were not God constantly willing His creation, loving His creation into existence, it would disappear. In a real sense, creation is this: It is the will, the love, the imagination of God taking on existence and form. If God stops willing, God stops loving, we disappear, in my view. We're on that, we're on the head of a pin in that sense, and creation, the creative act of God, if you like, never, never ends. It is constant. We live inside of God's own eternity, though we count the days.
Ms. Tippett: And it seems to me that when you are in you garden, you, you feel yourself inside.
Mr. Guroian: Absolutely.
Ms. Tippett: Both eternally and, and, and temporal existence.
Mr. Guroian: It wasn't long ago that my my son has recently gotten married to a young woman from Armenia. Remarkable. Here he is third, forth generation whatever you want to call it, marrying someone right from Armenia that, they met on armeniansingles.com or whatever it's called.
Ms. Tippett: Really?
Mr. Guroian: Yes, while she was here studying, and a two-year romance overseas, across oceans and great continents. But they were leaving one evening from our home in Culpeper, and we live still in the country, so that there aren't too many lights. And they looked up at the sky, and they live in Baltimore, right inside of Baltimore City. And she commented, "My word, you can see the stars. You can see the heavens, out here." And we're all just staring up at that canopy up there, you know? People don't look up anymore. They don't have time. They sit in cars, you can't see up.
Ms. Tippett: Right.
Mr. Guroian: Unless you have your top down. That's why I have a jeep, so I can do that at least nine months, seven or eight months out of the year. Taking in the whole of it, permitting one's self to exercise one's senses again.
Ms. Tippett: Right.
Mr. Guroian: Well, we drive on a highway. But, what is it? We're on a conveyer belt, and we're not allowed to see much either. It gets even worse now because they put up these walls so that the sound doesn't get from the highway to people's homes. So what do we see? I mean that might be a metaphor of a modern life. Well, certainly that second scripture I'm talking about has been shut out from us. Though, we've shut it out in ways that gardening opens up. I'm grateful that I can garden. Now, in one of the pieces in The Fragrance of God called the "The Temple Transparent," and I think I've, I worked those metaphors up in just the way that I was explaining earlier on about the Old Testament, sort of presenting the whole creation as a temple that God has set up for us.
Ms. Tippett: Right, and that you really experienced it that way, your garden that way.
Mr. Guroian: I really experienced it.
Ms. Tippett: Mm-hmm.
Mr. Guroian: Walking down that path, which I call in my Wordsworthian walk down toward Hungry Run, the stream down at the bottom of my property, and just the bluest sky in December, and being able to see the trees reminding me of gothic, you know, the gothic arches. I felt as if I was in a great cathedral for a moment there. And, look, the images play in our minds and in our imaginations. If we don't have certain images, we're not going to see things that way. I mean if, if I wasn't reading the text, if I wasn't immersed in scripture as well, I wouldn't experience it that way. Nature and scripture interpret one another.
Ms. Tippett: OK.
Mr. Guroian: They are diptych.
Ms. Tippett: Armenian Orthodox theologian Vigen Guroian. Here's a reading from his book, The Fragrance of God.
Reader: "In spring, I cultivate the perennial bed with the magenta petals and sweet citrus fragrance of the rugosa rose in mind. In excitement, I wait also for the green bouquet of the broccoli plant and the calm, clean scent of the cucumber.
"This was not always so. In the beginning, in my first garden in Richmond, Virginia, I farmed for food on the table. But in Charlottesville, Virginia, in Eldersburg and Reisterstown, Maryland, and last, here in Culpeper, the garden has finally reformed my disposition toward it. It has entirely transfigured my vision of life.
" For the sake of beauty, I gladly leave the ruffled red cabbage to grow long beyond its time for harvest. I let the mustard reach high with bright yellow bouquets. I cultivate carefully the asparagus row not just for the taste of its buttery spears but also for the verdant fern foliage that shoots up after the spring cutting. I let volunteer sunflower, cosmos, and cleome seedlings grow where they choose. And I sneak orange nasturtiums into the hills of sweet-potato vines.
" Gardening grows from our deep longing for salvation, so that beauty fills our lives."
Ms. Tippett: This is Speaking of Faith. After a short break, more of Vigen Guroian on why sight, not smell, is the most mystical sense. Also, his understanding of why gardens can evoke large themes of life, history, and religion.
Mr. Guroian: If I remember the church, I also remember the gardens of my, my great aunts and uncles, and of people I called uncle or aunt. They were Armenian whose homes they visited. And in every case, they wanted to show you the garden. That was obligatory. The garden was a place where things came to life. It was, in point of fact, a reaffirmation of life and something to sustain faith, hope and to go on living.
Ms. Tippett: Visit our award-winning Web site, speakingoffaith.org, where you can hear and read extended passages from The Fragrance of God and other writings by Vigen Guroian, as well as others on the spirituality of gardening. And you can view images of rich iconography and rituals of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Also, subscribe to our podcast an iTunes "Best of 2006" for a free download of each week's program. Our podcast now includes audio clips from my new book, Speaking of Faith. This is my reflection on the resurgence of spiritual energy in our time and how religious and spiritual traditions speak to our deepest modern confusions, including the excesses of religion itself. Discover something new at speakingoffaith.org.
I'm Krista Tippett. Stay with us. Speaking of Faith comes to you from American Public Media.
Ms. Tippett: Welcome back to Speaking of Faith, public radio's conversation about religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas. I'm Krista Tippett. Today, "Restoring the Senses: Life, Gardening, and an Orthodox Easter." My guest, Vigen Guroian, has been describing his experience of this religious season as a theologian and a gardener. He's part of the Armenian Orthodox Church, one of the ethnic branches of Eastern Orthodoxy.
The Armenian people were persecuted and exiled under the Ottoman Empire. And during World War I, they became victims of what some call the first genocide of the 20th century. There is an intensity to Vigen Guroian that seems to come in part from the experience of his people's historic tragedy that he carries, as he says, in his bones. This mingles with the passion for beauty and transcendence that defines his life of faith.
Vigen Guroian has been a gardener for most of his life. During the Lenten season of 2001, he moved from Maryland to five acres in Virginia, taking many of the perennials of his garden with him. He finds rich substance for spiritual reflection in the fact that the Christian story begins with creation and is set in part in a garden. The New Testament story of Easter refers to Jesus as the new Adam. From his garden, Vigen Guroian has written that smell, not sight, is the most mystical sense.
Mr. Guroian: Seeing is so easy. If I'd seen the resurrection or if I'd seen this or if I'd seen that, I'd really believe, you know? We don't say if I'd smelled it. Smell keeps the mystery. It reveals the mystery, but it doesn't fool us into thinking that we would believe in it or explain it if only we could smell it. And it comes to us with surprise, doesn't it? Now, I suppose my dogs wouldn't feel the same way. They probably wouldn't describe that as the most mystical sense. Maybe sight is
Ms. Tippett: For them
Mr. Guroian: But for us
Ms. Tippett: because they live more practically with their sense of smell, don't they?
Mr. Guroian: Yes, absolutely. So there it is. I mean, I'm walking in my garden and all of a sudden, overnight, something has bloomed, maybe the honeysuckle, no maybe the rugosa roses or maybe it's just the cabbage in the vegetable garden. And it surprises me. And I don't even see it, but I know it's present. I feel its presence. No, I smell its presence. I'm aware of it. Well, for many of us that's an experience like that of experiencing God in prayer.
Ms. Tippett: You know, you wrote, "In one place much like the rose I sensed in the nursery, God is mysteriously present in our lives. Although I had forgotten the scent and the rose was out of view, its fragrance awakened me to its presence. We may not see God face to face or tangibly experience him in other ways, nonetheless, he avails himself to us as he did to Adam and Eve in the Garden."
Mr. Guroian: Mm-hmm. Yeah, Adam and Eve in the Gardens, their senses were fresh not adulterated. That's the way I read pre-fallen human existence, shall we say, is existence in the Garden in paradise.
Ms. Tippett: And I think it is so interesting that you experienced yourself there in your garden. I mean, this metaphor or this story of paradise and of - well, you know, you titled your first book about your garden Inheriting Paradise.
Mr. Guroian: Yes.
Ms. Tippett: But in your garden, that whole story becomes real to you.
Mr. Guroian: Yes. Well, look, when I get into the garden in the spring and I'm getting ready for here it comes, this comes pretty early in central Virginia well, what am I doing during Lent in particular? I'm digging out weeds that have died; I'm cleaning out the garden. It's a messy business and it's not terribly pleasant. But what is the reward for that, you know. The sacrifice is more than worth it. And in the process of doing this task, which one would rather avoid in certain days in particular when the weather isn't so great perhaps, and the task of very doing it, my senses are being brought alive.
Ms. Tippett: Right, right.
Mr. Guroian: And that means that I'm tuning my body, I'm cleansing my soul, I'm making myself ready to receive the gift, and it may be in the first blossom of a peony. What a wonderful flower. They don't last very long, but when they're there, they're something else. And they just pop up out of nowhere. Just this little bud and all of a sudden, it's huge, enormous, beautiful fragrance.
Ms. Tippett: You know, and when you write about the garden and again the beginning of the Christian story of Adam in the which begins in a garden and even again thinking about Easter and Christ as the new Adam, I mean, I feel like that story is very present to you in your garden and you often cite Armenian Apocryphal Adam Literature that also informs your thinking about that. I mean, that's quite intriguing. I'd like you to just tell me a little bit about that and how that also maybe shapes your religious understanding of what happens there.
Mr. Guroian: When we say apocryphal, we mean that it's stories that really are in one sense interpreting and trying to imagine what more there was to say that was going on
Ms. Tippett: Right.
Mr. Guroian: in the Garden or what happened when Adam and Eve were expelled and where to hence were they expelled and how do they feel about that. And those stories can be wonderful. They're wonderfully poetic and bring great feeling into one's experience of the scripture themselves.
Reader: A passage from Armenian Apocryphal Adam Literature as published in Vigen Guroian's The Fragrance of God. "After Adam and Eve were beguiled by the serpent and ate the forbidden fruit of the Tree, God commanded his angels to remove them from the Garden and to guard the paths to it with a fiery sword. And so Adam and his wife were banished from the Garden and its light and abundant life and entered a place of darkness and gloom. They remained there in misery for six days without anything to eat and no shelter. They wept inconsolably over what they had lost and where they were sent.
"But on the seventh day, God took pity on the couple. He sent an angel who removed them from the dark place and led them into this bright world. The messenger showed them trees from which they could eat and satisfy their hunger. And when Adam and Eve saw the light and felt the warmth of this world, they rejoiced with exceeding gladness saying, 'Even though this place cannot compare with the home we have lost and its light is not nearly as bright or its fruit half as sweet, nevertheless, we are no longer in the darkness and can go on living.' So they were cheerful."
Mr. Guroian: That kind of story reminds me, and is comforting, of the fact that I feel the same way in the garden, you know? That my garden isn't perfect either. I mean, it's I labor here and I would like it to be paradise, but it's not. But maybe some of paradise is inside of my garden. My favorite of all the early church patristic writers was Ephrem the Syrian who lived in the fourth century who was wrote mostly hymns
Ms. Tippett: OK.
Mr. Guroian: incredible hymns that are very much like this apocryphal literature. And it's so rich and so colorful and very unlike contemporary modern academic theology, which in my view is so dry and in many ways so impoverished because it's impoverished of metaphor.
Ms. Tippett: Is there a passage or are there some words of Ephrem the Syrian that come to mind?
Mr. Guroian: Well, for example, the notion that paradise is still there. We don't see it, but some of its fragrance wafts into my garden. He expresses it just that way. It's not entirely gone, paradise. It's we experience it in this fallen world as well.
Ms. Tippett: Armenian Orthodox theologian Vigen Guroian. I'm Krista Tippett and this is Speaking of Faith from American Public Media. Today, "Restoring the Senses: Life, Gardening, and an Orthodox Easter."
During the Lenten season of 2001, Vigen Guroian moved to five acres in Virginia taking many of the perennials of his decade-old garden in Maryland with him. Still, in his book The Fragrance of God, he writes about the sense of loss he had about that garden he had left behind. As he's done throughout this conversation, he related his own feelings about this with the biblical story of Adam and Eve. He writes, "I realized that Adam and Eve were expelled from Eden, whereas I willingly left my garden." He concludes, "I think that human beings have been living paradise and trying to grow it again ever since our first parents were sent off east of Eden."
Ms. Tippett: You know, it's kind of interesting to me when I hear, when I see you writing about the Fall. I do hear this theme coming through, I think in Jewish theology, there's not so much the Fall as the exile from the Garden. And I also hear that sense in you, that experience in your garden.
Mr. Guroian: That's quite right. Exile, I mean, in terms of my own Armenian identity, obviously, it's a fact that so much of our Armenia is in diaspora.
Ms. Tippett: Yes.
Mr. Guroian: It has been exile one century after another for one reason or another, but in modern life, certainly, that holds true.
Ms. Tippett: Mm-hmm.
Mr. Guroian: And it's probably working on me quite unconsciously. I mean, the first time I ever stepped foot in Armenia, it was next to a mystical experience. I arrived early, early in the morning as the sun was coming up. I had flown in from Moscow and I felt as if I landed on a different planet. Maybe it was just the climate or something, but there was something else going on inside of me. I've never had that quite that experience again going back to Armenia. But that first time I don't mean to make too much of it, collective memory or whatever it might be but it was like I returned home. I'd never been there.
Ms. Tippett: How old were you when you first went there?
Mr. Guroian: Forty, about 40 years old.
Ms. Tippett: And as dramatically and poignantly as any group, I suppose, Armenian Orthodox Christians have lived these great themes of suffering and resurrection that are in the Easter story this time of year.
Mr. Guroian: Well, certainly, in modern times, I mean, yes, but we can be too exclusive about claiming that for ourselves. But it, it, certainly, is true. I mean, look, I mean, there's no question that at least a million if not a million and a half Armenians died in a matter of a few years, around the time of the First World War and that was half the Armenians in the world. That's incredible, you know, an enormous catastrophe. And it's had ramifications and reverberations into the fourth generation. The great wound. It's a great wound.
Ms. Tippett: It's a great wound.
Mr. Guroian: You grow up with it. It passed onto you.
Ms. Tippett: Right. And, OK. So here's what I want to ask you about, I mean, how that pushes at your theology, because as when we began talking, you spoke about how, you know, the resurrection is happening now. It happens in worship, it happens in liturgy. And in Orthodox liturgy, there is this sense that the church transfigures the world and yet, in Armenian experience that contrasts between what happens in liturgy and what has happened in the world repeatedly is very stark.
Mr. Guroian: Yes, I suppose that is stark.
Ms. Tippett: Yeah. And I mean, so talk to me about that.
Mr. Guroian: Well, look, I mean, the human spirit is next to indomitable, in my view. And whatever that memory is of paradise that we have keeps us alive. I think Armenians are blessed with a kind of imagination that is so cosmic in a way. Is it not surprising that the ancient Hebrews produced the psalms, you know, or the Song of Solomon, you know? I mean
Ms. Tippett: These works of great beauty. These
Mr. Guroian: Yes. And, and oftentimes, reflections of those who have suffered or been in exile themselves, enormous suffering and lengthy exile and removal from that place which is inside of them and which they wish to return to. So there's nothing highly exclusive about this. But I do think in the case of Armenians, they have a treasury of poetry, and really, the theology of my church is in its hymns. Those who would read those hymns that are not familiar with the tradition, would say, 'Really, is that a hymn?' It's because it's so rich, not only in metaphor, but deep, theologically in a sense. And they can go on for a long time.
Ms. Tippett: And I, I want to press you because I think, you know, here is something you've written as a theologian about the Easter events that, you know, that you see that history and nature are shot through with God's purpose and grace.
Mr. Guroian: Yes. Well, look
Ms. Tippett: And how does, how does that, how can that be expressed? How can that be true in, within Armenian experience
Mr. Guroian: Well, you can build a garden most anywhere.
Ms. Tippett: OK.
Mr. Guroian: I mean, you know, you go to the Middle East, not just Armenia. But certainly, in Armenia, you go even into Yerevan. In the back of these horrendous apartment houses, there'll be a little plot with a, and inevitably, you'll have a grape arbor, and you'll have some fruit trees. If I remember the church, I also remember the gardens of my great aunts and uncles and of people I called uncle or aunt who weren't uncle or aunt, but they were Armenian that, whose homes they visited. And in every case, they wanted to show you the garden. I mean, that's, that was obligatory. You might go inside and be greeted. But then, you go right outside and go into the garden. And I can remember this over and over again. Now, why were they building these gardens? Or was it just simply because they, they wanted fresh fruit? I, I don't think so, ultimately. But I was too, too young to ask those survivors and these, many of these were the survivors of the genocide. Why they were doing this?
Ms. Tippett: And what is your answer to that question now?
Mr. Guroian: I, you know, I have my suspicions. I think that they were, in part, bringing part of the old country over with them there. There were memories of the garden that they had. I think that, also, that the garden was a place where things came to life, you know? It was in point of fact a reaffirmation of life and, and something to sustain faith, hope and to go on living.
Ms. Tippett: And is the answer to that question about how history and nature seems shot through with God's purpose and grace is that, that is constantly recreated in the midst of and despite and after these experiences of devastation?
Mr. Guroian: Well, remember the story I told about one particular priest who let his people out of the, the men out of the village, and they had no bread or wine, certainly. And so they were going to hold the Eucharistic commemoration, and they ate the dirt. I mean, from earth to earth, and he said, this cursed earth, but it is, you know, but it's blessed. That can be blessed. That curse can turn to a blessing. These men were being probably going to die. Either marched to death or shot.
Ms. Tippett: Right.
Mr. Guroian: But they were going to stop and do this with this priest. The resurrection is alive in the faith of those who are with us presently and have been in the past, which is to say that it's all very present.
I found in the woods in Maryland a wildflower, the bloodroot flower. It blooms very early in the spring, around the time of Lent and Easter, depending on when Easter falls. I found a grove of these in a wooded area not far from my home in Reisterstown, Maryland. And I, and I transplanted them by an oak tree in a partially shaded part of my yard. And my experience of the first blooming, I really quite never forget. The reason why it's called the bloodroot is because the root itself, if you press it, you break it, you'll get a red dye. That can be used as a dye. But the bloom itself only lasts a day. But it comes out of the sepulcher of the earth. And what it leaves is these heart-shaped leaves. And that is a microcosm of resurrection for me. I have a wild imagination. You know, I mean, I've described the stakes in my vegetable garden in the wintertime as crosses on which bodies are draped, you know. I don't mean that in a gory sense. The geese in the sky remind me of the crosses that pilgrims have carved into ancient Christian sites. I think there are signs of the cross all over creation. How do you account for that? Well, clearly, we've forgotten, we've forgotten paradise, we forget God. And that's why I think we have scripture to remind us.
Ms. Tippett: OK. And, and you mean the scripture that is written down in the scripture in nature as you're describing it.
Mr. Guroian: Yes. Absolutely. As again, I think that we cannot do without one or the look, we have to live somewhere, and that's the world that we live in, and the Creator has imprinted Himself in so many ways into that world so that we do remember. And then, then the world, again, can be an epiphany for us.
Ms. Tippett: Vigen Guroian is professor of theology and ethics at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland. His books include The Fragrance of God and Inheriting Paradise. In closing, here's a passage from that book.
Reader: "Several summers ago, my children found two turtles and put them in the vegetable garden. During a thaw the next February, as I was digging up the soggy soil where the peas go, I lifted a heavy mound with my shovel and then another. The two turtles had burrowed down for winter sleep. And I had rudely awakened them too soon. So I carried them to a corner of the garden where I would not disturb them and dug them in again. When my wife said that she feared the turtles might be dead, I said I did not think so (though I wasn't as sure as I sounded). I insisted that in spring, they would come up. And they did in Easter week.
"Lilies and hyacinths signify the resurrection, and I can understand why. But I have a pair of turtles that plant themselves in my garden each fall like two gigantic seeds and rise on Easter with earthen crowns upon their humbled heads. With the women at the tomb, I marvel."
Ms. Tippett: We'd like to hear your thoughts. Contact us at speakingoffaith.org. The companion site for this program features extended passages from Vigen Guroian's writings. And you can view images of rich iconography and rituals of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Our podcast includes an mp3 of each week's show. And now, we're adding exclusive content beginning with audio excerpts from my new book, Speaking of Faith. For years, listeners have asked me how I came to care about large questions of meaning, and how my conversations across traditions change my understanding of religion in human life and in the world. This book is my response, and it's in bookstores now. You can learn more at speakingoffaith.org.
The senior producer of Speaking of Faith is Mitch Hanley, with producers Colleen Scheck and Jody Abramson and associate producer Jessica Nordell. Our online editor is Trent Gilliss. Bill Buzenberg is our consulting editor. Kate Moos is the managing producer of Speaking of Faith, and I'm Krista Tippett.


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I find it baffling that the coaches in our sport do not understand the importance of practicing OVER the net. We take 15 minutes to set up the net - then ignore it for half an hour, letting the players pepper in front of it, throwing balls from in front of it, and generally using it as a wall, not the net that it is. In my clinics, i will put up this NET RULE sign, which you can get by CLICKING HERE, which pretty much says it all.
The thing is, when a girl hits 13 years old, and a boy hits 15, the object that we put up in their way to play over will remain that height for decades of their playing experience - 32 years for a woman and 40 years for the men. It then drops by a whopping 2 inches in height, and the women have to clear that height for another 30 years. The specificity in training core concept that means we need to TRAIN IN REALITY, thus tells us we will have to hit over this dang net which is always over 7 foot high, for all our playing lives. Yet even though this valuable "regulatory stimuli," to quote the motor skill researchers, is going to be in our way, we spend valuable minutes in practice ignoring it.
The NET is Gold, the BALL is Silver, and the LINES are bronze, in my Citius, Altius, Fortius Junior Olympic based world. So I spend alot of time putting up at least twice as many nets as the court might officially fit, and get the kids to have more chances to play OVER the net.
Another suggestion to those of you growing the game, is to work hard and campaign to KEEP A NET UP ALL THE TIME. You see, if you look around the gyms of America, even at the elementary school level, you will see how many basketball nets up? 2...no, 4, wait no, there are SIX up in most gyms. If a kid wants to practice hoops, what does it take? Just a ball and voila! they are shooting in seconds. What if that same boy or girl wanted to serve or spike a ball? It takes a quarter of an hour, perhaps more, to unlock the nets, haul out the standards, raise the basketball backboard and tighten up the net. When i was coaching at the University of Colorado at Boulder, I was able to lobby successfully to have one of the Rec Center gym courts, to have the net up all the time. Students could then just check out or bring a volleyball, and in seconds, they too could be doing more deliberate, but fun/uncoached volleyball. The basketball players? They sure could use the court, but they had to 1. lower the backboards, 2. take down the net and then when done, put the net back up, and raise up the backboards. Just like we do in the reverse all the time....
So just one court....for our lifetime, Olympic level, coed, non-contact, amazing, powerful, athletic sport deserves it, as do the kids and adults wanting to learn to get better at it. Oh, and while I am at it, since I am always getting this question, I thought a fast summary might help....
The net heights are the same for indoor and beach volleyball (and all outdoor surfaces such as grass). The net is measured from the center of the playing court with a measuring device such as a "Rite Height," or a premeasured long pole. The two ends of the net (over the sidelines) must both be at the same height from the playing surface and may not exceed the official height by more than 2 cm (3/4").
Men ************* 2.43m (7'11 5/8")
Women 2.24m (7'4 1/8") *************
Mixed Six (Coed) 2.43m (7'11 5/8") 2.43m (7'11 5/8")
Reverse Coed 2.24m (7'4 1/8") 2.24m (7'4 1/8")
Standing Disabled 2.24m (7'4 1/8") 2.43m (7'11 5/8")
Wheelchair Volleyball 1 m or 1.75m 1.15m or 1.75m
Sitting Volleyball 1m 1.15m
70 years and above 2.19m (7'2 1/8") 2.29m (7'6")
60 years and above 2.19m (7'2 1/8") 2.38m (7'9 1/8")
55 years and above 2.19m (7'2 1/8") 2.38m (7'9 1/8")
45 years and above 2.19m (7'2 1/8") 2.43m (7'11 5/8")
15 years and above 2.24m (7'4 1/8") 2.43m (7'11 5/8")
13-14 years and under 2.24m (7'4 1/8") 2.24m (7'4 1/8")
11-12 years and under 2.13m (7'0") 2.13m (7'0")
10 years and under 1.98m (6'6") 2.13m (7'0")
The indoor court size in all 220 nations of the International Volleyball Federation is 9x 18 meters. This is 29'6" x 59' The attack line is a 3 meters (9'9"). The Olympic doubles court is 8 x 16 meters, This would be 26' x 52'. The National HS Federation, and some outdoor court groups, still say the court is 30'x60', and thus have a "10 foot attack line." If you are putting up a new court, the right size to make it is 9x18m.
Courts which are 30x60' are still legal until repainting can occur. To make a larger outdoor court the official Olympic doubles size, you bring the corners in .5 meters on the endlines and 1 meter on the sideline. A minimum of 2 meters of free space must surround each court for indoors and 3 meters for outdoors. The more space you can create the better. Thus each court side by side will need to have 4 meters of space minimum to the other court, in case a divider net is also used. Some older gyms do not have walkway space behind a court or a full two meters to the endline, so a step-in line is placed for the server to have the full two meters.
Remember to use the "Hollywood Star" concept to reward the farthest successful pursuit of a ball off the court by a team player. It is important to keep all water bottles, sweat shirts and coaches clipboards up on chairs or places far from the court - and keep the FREE zone really free of anything the pursuing athelte - who is looking UP at the ball, not at the floor - might step and slip on. This is especially true in tourneys, where the players often congregate between courts, cheering and hoping to get in. These atheltes put their water bottles on the floor and when a teamate goes in off court pursuit, the subsititues scatter to make room, but leave a family of ball bearing like water bottles behind in the hustling ball pursuiing teammate's path. Keep the bottles and everything off the floor, so you can scatter and leave a safe path of pursuit for every athlete.
Thanks for helping us get more nets up, and thus grow the game better and faster.
This information was taken from the 2009-2011 USA Volleyball Rulebook, and can be bought or downloaded at our web site www.teamusa.org/usa-volleyball, where tons more information exists on growing the game.


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ACC going Pink
Numbers told the tale of the Alpena Community College men's basketball team's struggle against Henry Ford on Saturday.
The Lumberjacks committed 23 turnovers to Henry Ford's seven, ACC shot just 23 percent from the field and went 0-for-23 from three-point range.
All of it added up to a long night for the Lumberjacks, who lost 92-53 to the Hawks during a Hoops for Hope pink game at Park Arena.
Five Henry Ford players reached double figures and the Hawks imposed their will from the start, building a staggering 21-1 lead in the first seven minutes of the game.
"We weren't ready to play right from the get-go. We didn't play with any intensity all night," ACC coach Frank McCourt said.
While ACC shot blanks from beyond the arc, the Hawks buried eight triples for the game including six in the first half and four during their early run. ACC shot just 17 percent for the first half compared with 41 percent for the Hawks.
Veyon Bentley paced the Hawks with 19 points. Rodney Butler added 17 and Darryl Mobley Jr., Aveon Simmons and Javan Thomas each chipped in with 11 points.
ACC (6-19, 3-12 MCCAA Eastern) eventually found a little bit of footing in the latter part of the first half, but by then Henry Ford had a sizeable lead.
Down 30-5 with 8:30 left in the half, the Lumberjacks battled back to within 14 points of the lead, 33-19 with 4:01 left thanks in large part to the efforts of Lavario Smith, who scored eight of his team-high 16 points during this stretch. Henry Ford reasserted its authority however in the last few minutes of the period, ending with a 12-0 run for a commanding 45-19 lead at the half.
ACC regrouped and came out firing in the second half, opening the period on a 16-7 run that pulled the Lumberjacks to within 15 points of the lead, 52-37, with almost nine minutes gone.
From there however, shooting largely failed the Lumberjacks and the shots just didn't seem to fall when they were needed most. ACC fared well at the free-throw line, shooting 20-for-26, but the Lumberjacks had to settle for making free throw shots down the stretch when the majority of their shots from the field were off the mark.
Jake Strong was the only other ACC player to reach double figures, finishing with 12 points. William Gates Jr. added eight points.
McCourt was especially bothered early on by the fact that his team couldn't control the point.
"What really bothered me is 10 minutes into the game, I talked about getting the ball inside and it was like talking to that wall," McCourt said.
The Hawks recovered from ACC's offensive burst early in the second half and reestablished a big lead with a quick 7-0 run that lasted just over a minute. Henry Ford added an 8-0 run later in the half and ended the contest with a 12-0 stretch as the Lumberjacks went without a point for nearly three minutes.
ACC will play at Macomb on Wednesday and return home for its final home game of the season on Saturday against Wayne.
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HENRY FORD (92): Mobley Jr. 5 1-2 11; Bentley 7 2-2 19; Simmons 4 3-4 11; Price 4 0-0 9; Armstrong 2 1-2 5; Rodney Butler 7 1-1 17; Thomas 3 5-8 11; Roderick Butler 3 1-2 8.
ALPENA (53): Strong 5 2-2 12; Smith 5 6-6 16; Dailey 1 5-6 7; Gates Jr. 2 4-5 8; Berryman 3 0-0 6; Wickert 1 2-4 4.


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One of the many jewels on the Plainview campus of Wayland Baptist University is the Malouf Abraham Family Art Center, widely known as the Abraham Art Gallery. Designed to increase cultural awareness and artistic heritage, the Abraham Gallery was made possible thanks to the generosity of Dr. Malouf and Therese Abraham. An avid art collector and patron, Dr. Abraham designed the gallery space himself in collaboration with the Frank Lloyd Wright Institute. The result is one of the finest and most elegant University galleries in the Southwest.
Students at Wayland take advantage of the wonderful opportunities the Abraham Art Gallery provides. The gallery seasons includes a variety of exhibitions featuring a full range of media, techniques and concepts. Shows feature the works of both established professional and emerging regional artists, as well as exhibitions of nationally renowned collections.


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August's New Audiobooks
Click here for a complete list of our newest audiobooks!
The light in the ruins by Chris Bohjalian (BOOKS ON CD) -- 1943: Tucked away in the idyllic hills south of Florence, the Rosatis, an Italian family of noble lineage, believe that the walls of their ancient villa will keep them safe from the war raging across Europe. 1955: Serafina Bettini, an investigator with the Florence police department, has her own demons. A beautiful woman, Serafina carefully hides her scars along with her haunting memories of the war. But when she is assigned to a gruesome new case—a serial killer targeting the Rosatis, murdering the remnants of the family one-by-one in cold blood—Serafina finds herself digging into a past that involves both the victims and her own tragic history. Set against an exquisitely rendered Italian countryside, The Light in the Ruins unveils a breathtaking story of moral paradox, human frailty, and the mysterious ways of the heart.
This town : two parties and a funeral - plus, plenty of valet parking! - in America's gilded capital by Mark Leibovich (BOOKS ON CD/975.3 L) -- Washington—This Town—might be loathed from every corner of the nation, yet these are fun and busy days at this nexus of big politics, big money, big media, and big vanity. There are no Democrats and Republicans anymore in the nation's capital, just millionaires. That is the grubby secret of the place in the twenty-first century. You will always have lunch in This Town again. No matter how many elections you lose, apologies you make, or scandals you endure. In This Town, Mark Leibovich, chief national correspondent for The New York Times Magazine, presents a blistering, stunning—and often hysterically funny—examination of our ruling class's incestuous "media industrial complex." Through his eyes, we discover how the funeral for a beloved newsman becomes the social event of the year. Outrageous, fascinating, and destined to win Leibovich a whole host of, er, new friends, This Town is must reading, whether you're inside the Beltway—or just trying to get there.
The white princess by Philippa Gregory (BOOKS ON CD) -- When Henry Tudor picks up the crown of England from the mud of Bosworth field, he knows he must marry the princess of the enemy house—Elizabeth of York—to unify a country divided by war for nearly two decades. But his bride is still in love with his slain enemy, Richard III—and her mother and half of England dream of a missing heir, sent into the unknown by the White Queen. While the new monarchy can win power, it cannot win hearts in an England that plots for the triumphant return of the House of York. Henry's greatest fear is that somewhere a prince is waiting to invade and reclaim the throne. When a young man who would be king leads his army and invades England, Elizabeth has to choose between the new husband she is coming to love and the boy who claims to be her beloved lost brother: the rose of York come home at last.
Light of the world by James Lee Burke (BOOKS ON CD) -- Police detective Dave Robicheaux faces off with the most diabolical villain he has ever faced in the twentieth installment of the Dave Robicheaux series. Sadistic serial killer Asa Surette avoids the death penalty for murders he committed while capital punishment was banned. But when Robicheaux's daughter Alafair writes a series of articles implicating Surrette in other murders which could get him death, he decides to escape prison and make her pay. Can Robicheaux save his daughter?
The thousand names by Django Wexler (BOOKS ON CD) -- Captain Marcus d'Ivoire, commander of one of the Vordanai empire's colonial garrisons, was resigned to serving out his days in a sleepy, remote outpost. But that was before a rebellion upended his life. And once the powder smoke settled, he was left in charge of a demoralized force clinging tenuously to a small fortress at the edge of the desert. To flee from her past, Winter Ihernglass masqueraded as a man and enlisted as a ranker in the Vordanai Colonials, hoping only to avoid notice. But when chance sees her promoted to command, she must win the hearts of her men and lead them into battle against impossible odds. The fates of both these soldiers and all the men they lead depend on the newly arrived Colonel Janus bet Vhalnich, who has been sent by the ailing king to restore order. His military genius seems to know no bounds, and under his command, Marcus and Winter can feel the tide turning. But their allegiance will be tested as they begin to suspect that the enigmatic Janus's ambitions extend beyond the battlefield and into the realm of the supernatural—a realm with the power to ignite a meteoric rise, reshape the known world, and change the lives of everyone in its path.
The ides of April by Lindsey Davis (BOOKS ON CD) -- Flavia Albia is the adopted daughter of Marcus Didius Falco and Helena Justina. From her mother, she learned how to blend in at all levels of society ; from her father, she learned the tricks of their mutual professional trade. But her wits and (frequently) sharp tongue are hers alone. Now, working as a private informer in Rome during the reign of Domitian, Flavia has taken over her father's old ramshackle digs at Fountain Court in the Surbura district, where she plies her trade with energy, determination, and the usual Falco luck. Recently hired to help investigate a fatal accident, she finds herself stuck with a truly awful person for a client and facing a well-heeled, well-connected opponent. That is, until her client unexpectedly dies under what might be called "suspicious circumstances." While this is not a huge loss for society, it is a loss for Flavia Albia's pocket. Even worse, it's just one of a series of similar deaths for which she now finds herself under suspicion.


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Rios admitted he changed his batting stance too many times, "and when you do that, things get worse. You get into deeper holes. This year I'm trying to keep things simple and be positive."
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== Ongoing Projects ==
== Ongoing Projects ==
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If you are leading a project, please sign (with four tildes) when you add it.
Ongoing Projects
Player Piano Rebuild w/ Roll Printer -- Rebuilding an old player piano to working condition. Then hacking an old dot matrix printer to cut out from a continuous roll of paper to play on the piano, as well as various piano add-ons for further automation.
Player Piano Project Branch: Hard drive actuated piano -- Actuation of the hammers in the above player piano with the reader arms scavenged from dead hard drives.
DIY Musical Instruments -- a Cigar Box Guitars, Wine Crate Bass, and a Beer Growler Organ.
Hubless Motor -- A low-friction propulsion system based on Mag-lev principles
i3 Girls 2011 Maker Faire Project -- TBD.
Completed Projects (2010)
WelcomeSwitch -- Lets members indicate when they're willing to accept guests.
CupcakeCar -- A goofy testbed for electrical and mechanical ideas, an eye-catching way to zip around town, and an engineering disaster, all rolled into one!
Powerwheels Racer -- An electric ride-on toy meant for 6 year olds, hacked into a racing vehicle for adults that only have the mentality of a 6 year old.
Feedback Slider -- A musical instrument based on feedback.
ArduinoSkeeball -- a DIY Skeeball machine powered by an arduino microcontroller.
ArduinoFoamDartShootingRange -- four pop-up targets and machine that detect hits from foam darts (nerf) and is powered by an arduino.


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Javelinas edge Zias to take series
March 7, 2009
PORTALES — Right fielder Jasmine Ross drove in three runs, including two with a seventh-inning triple, and Texas A&M-Kingsville beat Eastern New Mexico University 4-2 on Saturday in the rubber game of a three-game Lone Star Conference series at Zia Softball Field.
Ross' triple, her first of the season, was a one-out shot to left-center in the top of the seventh and gave the Javelinas (16-7, 4-2 South) a 4-1 lead. Right-hander Courtney Rigamonti (13-3) surrendered Laura Thompson's RBI double in the bottom of the seventh before nailing down her second win in the series.
Rigamonti finished with a three-hitter, walking three and striking out five. The only hit she allowed through six innings was a single by Alex Mayo Otis in the third.
Kingsville broke on top in the second when Shaun Bryan doubled to left-center and scored on a two-out single to center by Ross. In the third, Cassie Anderson hit a one-out double to left-center and scored on Yvette Berianga's single to right.
Losing pitcher Kimberly Crouse (6-6) hit a bases-loaded sacrifice fly to center to get the Zias (14-10, 2-4) on the board in the bottom of the third.
Crouse retired 11 in a row from the third until the seventh, but gave up a one-out infield hit to Bryan. Melissa St. Clair then singled to left before Ross sent both runners home to give the Javs a three-run lead.
Crouse, who shut out Kingsville on two hits in a 10-0, five-inning win in Friday's second game, allowed eight hits in this one with no walks and three strikeouts.


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Charter operators, in concert with catering companies and select restaurants, are enhancing their food service to distinguish themselves in a competitive marketplace and meet customers' growing expectations. "We see catering not as an additional cost someone will have to pay, but as another way we can encapsulate our brand and positively affect the customer experience," says Ian Moore, chief commercial officer at VistaJet, an international charter service that operates Bombardier Challenger and Global jets. VistaJet recently announced that customers who sign up for at least 100 flight hours annually for three years will receive gourmet meals from leading restaurants at no extra charge.
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BJT's travel writers seem to barely unpack before they're off again to another far-flung destination; and over the years, they've been just about everywhere. We wondered which places rank as the all-time favorites for such seasoned travelers—so we asked. Here's what they told us.
August 30, 2015
Five and eight may be small numbers, but Airbus is betting they'll represent a big difference for its new A350-900 XWB (extra wide body). The model is five inches wider and, claims the manufacturer, 8 percent more fuel-efficient than Boeing's 787, with which it will compete in the long-haul, twinjet market. In 2018, Airbus expects to introduce a stretched version of the aircraft, the A350-1000, to go head-to-head with Boeing's even larger 777 twinjet.
August 20, 2015
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August 20, 2015
As soon as its first owner departs from the manufacturer's delivery center, a new airplane technically becomes used (or preowned). For various reasons, however, 10 years after an aircraft's final production date is generally considered the milestone separating "newer" used business aircraft from "older" ones.
August 20, 2015
As soon as its first owner departs from the manufacturer's delivery center, a new airplane technically becomes used (or preowned). For various reasons, however, 10 years after an aircraft's final production date is generally considered the milestone separating "newer" used business aircraft from "older" ones.
August 9, 2015
Since Gulfstream introduced the G550 in 2003, it has sold close to 500 of them for two big reasons: range and cabin comfort. Although the larger, faster and slightly longer-legged G650 has replaced the G550 as the manufacturer's flagship in recent years, the earlier aircraft remains in production and popular.
July 29, 2015
If you updated your cabin electronics more than a few weeks ago, it's probably already on the way to becoming outdated. That's how fast the technology is changing. For the latest in cabin-management systems, Internet connectivity and more, consult the manufacturers in this directory.
July 29, 2015
January 1, 2020—that's the deadline set by the U.S. FAA for most aircraft to be equipped with position-locating equipment known as ADS-B Out (Automatic Dependent Surveillance—Broadcast Out). ADS-B lets an aircraft determine its position using GPS signals, then broadcasts this data periodically to air traffic control.
July 29, 2015
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5 Ways the Election Results May Affect Your Retirement
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Between all the debating, advertising and robocalls, it can be difficult to focus on the many everyday parts of life that will be affected by a Romney presidency or Obama re-election. When it comes to finances, for most of us "Big Bird" and "big government" are less important than the things, big and small, that will influence the way we spend and save.
Retirement planning, of course, is among the most important elements of a sound financial plan, so it's critical to understand how the incoming administration's policies will make that more or less secure.
Here are the five most important ways the election can make our golden years more -- or less -- so.
1. Taxes
Tax policy is among the most uncertain outcome to the election. Democratic President Barack Obama hopes to keep the Bush-era tax cuts intact for all but the nation's top earners and raise revenue by closing loopholes. Republican challenger Mitt Romney wants to keep all the cuts intact but reduce deductions and loopholes to raise overall tax revenue. The good news: Neither candidate's plans are likely to affect the ability to deduct traditional IRA contributions from your taxes (Roth IRAs are funded with "after-tax" money). The candidates have generally talked about itemized deductions, and IRA contributions aren't among them.
2. Government spending and deficits
Talking deficits is complicated. There are many "levers" that affect a deficit, for better and worse. Both candidates have pledged to pay down the deficit significantly during their terms. To the extent they do so, it's a likely positive, but there's a big caveat. The big risk in cutting back on government spending is that it fills a hole left by the drop in private spending that follows a recession and slow recovery. Cut too much before U.S. households recover and there's greater risk of slower growth and, ultimately, another recession. The ripple effects of that scenario -- lower incomes, lower returns on investment, etc. -- are bad news for your retirement portfolio.
3. Health care
The effects of Obama's health care reform are far from clear, and if Romney is elected, it's possible we might not know. One thing is certain: U.S. spending on health care is likely to outpace inflation for the foreseeable future. As such, it will eat up a greater percentage of our disposable income, leaving less for retirement contributions and, if you're already retired, less to spend on other essentials. Either administration is unlikely to change the course of health care spending, at least in the next decade. That means it will take even more financial effort to keep your retirement account growing, without taking away from other necessary spending.