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Olafur Eliasson
|Olafur Eliasson
Olafur Eliasson, still from the movie The Future of Art
|Ólafur Elíasson
Copenhagen, Denmark
|Known for
|Installation art
Olafur Eliasson (Icelandic: Ólafur Elíasson; born 1967) is a Danish-Icelandic artist known for sculptures and large-scale installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to enhance the viewer's experience. In 1995 he established Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin, a laboratory for spatial research. Eliasson represented Denmark at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003 and later that year installed The Weather Project in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern, London.
Eliasson has engaged in a number of projects in public space, including the intervention Green river, carried out in various cities between 1998 and 2001; the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007, London, a temporary pavilion designed with the Norwegian architect Kjetil Thorsen; and The New York City Waterfalls, commissioned by Public Art Fund in 2008.
- 1 Life
- 2 Works and Projects
- 3 Exhibitions
- 4 Recognition
- 5 See also
- 6 References
- 7 External links
Olafur Eliasson, born in Copenhagen in 1967 to Icelandic parents, studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts between 1989 and 1995.
In 2004, Eliasson told Berlin magazine 032c that his father was also an artist; in the same interview he also said that at one time he considered his "break-dancing" during the mid-1980s to be his first artworks.[1] In 1990, when he was awarded a travel budget by the Royal Danish Academy of Arts, Eliasson went to New York where he started working as a studio assistant. He received his degree from the academy in 1995, after having moved in 1993 to Cologne for a year, and then to Berlin, where he has since maintained a studio.[2] First located in a warehouse right next door to the Hamburger Bahnhof, the studio moved to a former brewery in Prenzlauer Berg in 2008.
In 1996, Eliasson started working with Einar Thorsteinn, an architect and geometry expert 25 years his senior as well as a former friend of Buckminster Fuller's.[3] The first piece they created called 8900054, was a stainless-steel dome 30 feet (9.1 m) wide and 7 feet (2.1 m) high, designed to be seen as if it were growing from the ground. Though the effect is an illusion, the mind has a hard time believing that the structure is not part of a much grander one developing from deep below the surface. Thorsteinn's knowledge of geometry and space has been integrated into Eliasson's artistic production, often seen in his geometric lamp works as well as his pavilions, tunnels and camera obscura projects.[4]
For many projects, the artist works collaboratively with specialists in various fields, among them the architects Thorsteinn and Sebastian Behmann (both of whom have been frequent collaborators), author Svend Åge Madsen (The Blind Pavilion), landscape architect Gunther Vogt (The Mediated Motion), architecture theorist Cedric Price (Chaque matin je me sens différent, chaque soir je me sens le même), and architect Kjetil Thorsen (Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, 2007). Today, Studio Olafur Eliasson is a laboratory for spatial research that employs a team of c. 30 architects, engineers, craftsmen, and assistants who work together to conceptualize, test, engineer, and construct installations, sculptures, large-scale projects, and commissions.[5]
As professor at the Berlin University of the Arts, Olafur Eliasson founded the Institute for Spatial Experiments (Institut für Raumexperimente, IfREX), which opened within his studio building in April 2009.
Works and Projects[edit]
Ventilator pieces[edit]
Early works by Eliasson consist of oscillating electric fans hanging from the ceiling. Ventilator (1997) swings back and forth and around, rotating on its axis.[6] Quadrible light ventilator mobile (2002–2007) is a rotating electrically powered mobile comprising a searchlight and four fans blowing air around the exhibition room and scanning it with the light cone.[7]
The weather project[edit]
The weather project was installed at the London's Tate Modern in 2003 as part of the popular Unilever series. The installation filled the open space of the gallery's Turbine Hall.
Eliasson used humidifiers to create a fine mist in the air via a mixture of sugar and water, as well as a circular disc made up of hundreds of monochromatic lamps which radiated yellow light. The ceiling of the hall was covered with a huge mirror, in which visitors could see themselves as tiny black shadows against a mass of orange light. Many visitors responded to this exhibition by lying on their backs and waving their hands and legs. (Art critic Brian O'Doherty described this as viewers "intoxicated with their own narcissism as they ponder themselves elevated into the sky."[8]) Open for six months, the work reportedly attracted two million visitors, many of whom were repeat visitors.[9] O'Doherty was positive about the piece when talking to Frieze magazine in 2003, saying that it was "the first time I've seen the enormously dismal space--like a coffin for a giant--socialized in an effective way."[8]
Light installations[edit]
Eliasson has been developing various experiments with atmospheric density in exhibition spaces. In Room For One Colour (1998), a corridor lit by yellow monofrequency tubes, the participants find themselves in a room filled with light that affects the perception of all other colours. Another installation, 360 degrees Room For All Colours (2002), is a round light-sculpture where participants lose their sense of space and perspective, and experience being subsumed by an intense light.[10] Eliasson's later installation Din blinde passager (Your blind passenger) (2010), commissioned by the Arken Museum of Modern Art, is a 90-metre-long tunnel. Entering the tunnel, the visitor is surrounded by dense fog. With visibility at just 1.5 metres, museumgoers have to use senses other than sight to orient themselves in relation to their surroundings.[11] For Feelings are facts, the first time Eliasson has worked with Chinese architect Yansong Ma as well as his first exhibition in China, Eliasson introduces condensed banks of artificially produced fog into the gallery of Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing. Hundreds of fluorescent lights are installed in the ceiling as a grid of red, green, and blue zones.
Your black horizon[edit]
This project, a light installation commissioned for the Venice Biennale by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary in collaboration with British architect David Adjaye, was shown from 1 August to 31 October 2005 on the island of San Lazzaro in the lagoon near Venice, Italy. A temporary pavilion was constructed on the grounds of the monastery to house the exhibit, consisting of a square room painted black with one source of illumination – a thin, continuous line of light set into all four walls of the room at the viewers eye-level, serving as a horizontal division between above and below. From June 2007 through October 2008, the pavilion was reopened on the island of Lopud, Croatia near the city of Dubrovnik.
Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project[edit]
Eliasson was commissioned by BMW in 2007 to create the sixteenth art car for the BMW Art Car Project. Based on the BMW H2R concept vehicle, Eliasson and his team removed the automobile's alloy body and instead replaced it with a new interlocking framework of reflective steel bars and mesh. Layers of ice were created by spraying approximately 530 gallons of water during a period of several days upon the structure. On display, the frozen sculpture is glowing from within. Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project was on special display in a temperature controlled room at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from 2007 to 2008[12] and at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, in 2008.
The New York City Waterfalls[edit]
Eliasson was commissioned by The Public Art Fund to create four man-made waterfalls, called the New York City Waterfalls, ranging in a height from 90–120 ft., in New York Harbor. The installation ran from 26 June through 13 October 2008. At $15.5 million, it was the most expensive public arts project since Christo and Jeanne-Claude's installation of The Gates in Central Park.[13]
The Parliament of Reality[edit]
Dedicated on 15 May 2009, this permanent sculpture stands at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. The installation is based on the original Icelandic parliament, Althingi, one of the world's earliest democratic forums. The artist envisions the project as a place where students and visitors can gather to relax, discuss ideas, or have an argument. The parliament of reality emphasizes that negotiation should be the core of any educational scheme. The man-made island is surrounded by a 30-foot circular lake, 24 trees, and wild grasses. The 100-foot-diameter (30 m) island is composed of a cut-bluestone, compass-like floor pattern (based upon meridian lines and navigational charts), on top of which 30 river-washed boulders create an outdoor seating area for students and the public to gather. The island is reached by a 20-foot-long stainless steel lattice-canopied bridge, creating the effect that visitors are entering a stage or outdoor forum. Frogs gather in this wiry mesh at night, creating an enjoyable symphony.
Eliasson designed the facade of Harpa, Reykjavík's new concert hall and conference centre which was completed in 2011. In close collaboration with his studio team and Henning Larsen Architects, the designers of the building, Eliasson has designed a unique facade consisting of large quasi bricks, a stackable twelve sided module in steel and glass. The facade will reflect the city life and the different light composed by the movements of the sun and varying weather. During the night the glass bricks are lit up by different colored LED lights. The building was opened on 13 May 2011.
Your rainbow panorama[edit]
Eliasson's artwork Your rainbow panorama consists of a circular, 150 metres (490 ft) long and 3 metres (9.8 ft) wide corridor made of glass in every color of the spectrum. It has a diameter of 52 metres (171 ft) and is mounted on 3.5 metres (11 ft) high columns on top of the roof of the ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum in Aarhus. It opened in May 2011. Visitors can walk through the corridor and have a panoramic view of the city.[14] Construction cost 60 million Danish kroner and was funded by the Realdania foundation.[15]
Eliasson's idea was chosen in 2007 among five other proposals in a bidding process by a panel of judges. At night the artwork is lit from the inside by spotlights in the floor.[citation needed]
In November 2013, at the Falling Walls Conference, Eliasson presented with Ai Weiwei, connected via web from Beijing, their collaboration Moon, an open digital platform that allows users to draw on enormous replica of the moon via their web browser. The platform is a statement in support of freedom of speech and creative collaboration.
Other projects[edit]
Commissioned by Louis Vuitton in 2006, lamps titled Eye See You were installed in the Christmas windows of Louis Vuitton stores; a lamp titled You See Me went on permanent display at Louis Vuitton Fifth Avenue, New York.[16] All fees from the project were donated to 121Ethiopia.org, a charitable foundation established by Eliasson and his wife.
In 2007, Eliasson developed the stage design for Phaedra, an opera production at the Berlin State Opera.
Along with James Corner's landscape architecture firm Field Operations and architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Eliasson was part of the design team for New York's High Line park.[17] Eliasson was originally supposed to create an outdoor-based artwork for the 2012 Summer Olympics; however, his proposed £1m project Take A Deep Breath was rejected due to funding problems.[18]
Eliasson had his first solo show with Nicolaus Schafhausen in Cologne in 1993, before moving to Berlin in 1994.[9] In 1996, Eliasson had his first show in the United States at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) organized Eliasson's first major survey in the United States Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson, on view from 10 September 2007 to 24 February 2008. Curated by the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Madeleine Grynsztejn (then Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at SFMOMA), in close collaboration with the artist, the major survey spanned the artist's career from 1993 and 2007.
The exhibit included site-specific installations, large-scale immersive environments, freestanding sculpture, photography, and special commissions seen through a succession of interconnected rooms and corridors. The museum's skylight bridge was turned into an installation titled One-way colour tunnel.[19] Following its San Francisco debut, the exhibit embarked on an international tour to the Museum of Modern Art, and P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center, New York, 2008; the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, 2008–09; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2009; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2009–2010.
He has also had major solo exhibitions at, among others, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, and ZKM (Center for Art and Media), Karlsruhe (2001); Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2004); Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2006); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa (2009); and Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (2010). Eliasson has also appeared in numerous group exhibitions, including the São Paulo Biennial and the Istanbul Biennial (1997), Venice Biennale (1999, 2001 and 2005), and the Carnegie International (1999).
The artist is represented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York, Gallery Koyanagi in Tokyo, PKM Gallery in Seoul/Beijing, and Neugerriemschneider in Berlin.
The Spiral Pavilion, conceived in 1999 for the Venice Biennial and today on display at Kunsthalle Bielefeld, brought Olafur Eliasson the Benesse Prize by the Benesse Corporation.[20] In 2004, Eliasson won the Nykredit Architecture Prize.[21]
In 2007, Eliasson won the first Joan Miró Prize by the Joan Miró Foundation.[22] In October 2013 Eliasson was awarded the Goslarer Kaiserring.[23][24] Ol
Olafur Eliasson was the recipient of the 2014 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). The Award celebrates individuals whose artistic trajectory reveals that they will achieve the highest distinction in their fields and continue to produce inspiring work for many years to come. The $100,000 prize represents an investment in the recipient's future creative work, rather than a prize for a particular project or lifetime of achievement. The awardee becomes an artist in residence at MIT, studying and teaching for a period of time.[25]
See also[edit]
- ^ Joachim Bessing, "Experiencing Space," 032c issue 8 (Winter 2004/05).
- ^ Peter Schjeldahl (28 April 2008), Uncluttered. An Olafur Eliasson retrospective. The New Yorker.
- ^ Michael Kimmelmann (21 March 2004), The Sun Sets at the Tate Modern New York Times.
- ^ Marc Spiegler (6 September 2007), Let There Be Light, BLOUINARTINFO, retrieved 23 April 2008
- ^ Olafur Eliasson: The New York City Waterfalls, Public Art Fund, New York.
- ^ Lauren Weinberg (11 May 2009), Olafur Eliasson Time Out Chicago.
- ^ Olafur Eliasson: Quadrible light ventilator mobile (2002–07) Arken Museum of Modern Art.
- ^ a b "Public Spectacle: Mark Godfrey and Rosie Bennett talk to Brian O'Doherty," Frieze, issue 80, Jan./Feb. 2004, p. 56.
- ^ a b Cynthia Zarin (13 November 2006), Seeing Things. The art of Olafur Eliasson New Yorker.
- ^ Ólafur Eliasson: Colour memory and other informal shadows, January 24 – May 2, 2004 Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art.
- ^ Olafur Eliasson – Din blinde passager at ARKEN Arken Museum of Modern Art.
- ^ Olafur Eliasson: Your Tempo, September 8, 2007 – January 13, 2008 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
- ^ Dobnik, Verena (22 June 2008). "NYC getting 'Waterfalls' off shore of Manhattan". Associated Press. Retrieved 25 June 2008.
- ^ "Your rainbow panorama". Retrieved 2 May 2014.
- ^ Gulstad, Hanne Cecilie (28 August 2013). "Eliasson's room with a rainbow view brings record visitors to Aros".
- ^ Jacquelyn Lewis (8 May 2007), Eliasson's "Eyes" Draw Stares on NY's Fifth Avenue, BLOUINARTINFO, retrieved 23 April 2008
- ^ Design Team High Line.
- ^ Olafur Eliasson art project rejected by Olympics bosses BBC, 11 April 2012.
- ^ Glen Helfand (6 September 2007), Olafur Eliasson, BLOUINARTINFO, retrieved 23 April 2008
- ^ Olafur Eliasson: Spiral Pavilion Kunsthalle Bielefeld.
- ^ "Nykredit Architecture Prize". Nykredit website (in Danish). Copenhagen, Denmark: Nykredit Holding A/S. 2013. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
- ^ Olafur Eliasson: The nature of things, June 20 – September 28, 2008 Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona, and Centre Cultural Caixa Girona-Fontana d'Or, Girona.
- ^ Olafur Eliasson - Kaiserringträger der Stadt Goslar 2013, kaiserring.de (incl. Press Release, 11 January 2013)
- ^ Goslarer Kaiserring - Olafur Eliasson geehrt als Künstler auf den Spuren da Vincis, zeit.de (11 January 2013)
- ^ "Olafur Eliasson receives 2014 McDermott Award | MIT News Office". web.mit.edu. Retrieved 2014-04-03.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Olafur Eliasson.
- Official website
- Video of Olafur Eliasson conference: The Sun has no money
- MoMA 2008: Olafur Eliasson: take your time
- 1998 article from frieze
- Tate Modern: The Weather Project
- SFMOMA 2007: Olafur Eliasson Survey
- 'Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson' at SFMOMA
- Olafur Eliasson: Your Mobile Expectations
- Art Info interview with Olafur Eliasson
- Olafur Eliasson at the Fundación NMAC
- Article on Olafur Eliasson in ARTnord 10
- Video of Olafur Eliasson explaining Harpa's glass facade
- TateShots: Olafur Eliasson The artist talks about his recent work, Your Blind Passenger (2010). 30 June 2011.


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Collaborating with Faculty Part 2: What Our Partnerships Look Like
Posted By Kim Leeder On July 13, 2011 @ 6:14 pm In Uncategorized | Comments Disabled
This is the second in a two-part series on librarian collaboration with faculty. Part 1, published on April 7, 2011, presents a five-step program for building collaborative relationships, while Part 2 addresses specific examples and strategies for collaboration.
On April 7, 2011, I published "Collaborating with Faculty Part 1: A Five-Step Program," a post that described my strategies for developing collaborative relationships with disciplinary faculty. To briefly summarize my "program," I identified five steps to collaboration as: (1) Be confident, (2) Make the connection, (3) Reinforce the connection, (4) Build the relationship, and (5) Go collaborate. These steps are admittedly simplified, but they do serve to remind us of the importance of cultivating relationships beyond email updates or visits to department meetings. In this article, Part 2, I'll share some of the most common and most innovative approaches to librarian-faculty collaboration that I've heard about or seen in the literature. As I was researching this post I created a spreadsheet of some of the notable projects I discovered in the literature of the past ten years that may be helpful to others. This is not intended to be comprehensive, and I invite you to review, comment, argue, and/or add to it, as you see fit (I'm drawing primarily from the published literature here, but descriptions of non-published projects are also welcome). It is my wish that these examples will help us reconsider our existing collaborative efforts, and will be useful for hopeful librarian collaborators in reassessing and expanding their own initiatives. Partnering with faculty on projects, instruction, and other initiatives offers a whole array of rewards such as improved services, greater student learning, and the ability to grow as a professional. Plus, working with others on campus allows us to extend our reach and achieve more of our goals than we could do alone.
However, "collaboration" is a broad term that can be difficult to define. In thinking about librarian-faculty partnerships, I find it helpful to consider them on a spectrum of possibility. There are two models I think are useful for this. The first is Pritchard's (2010) scale to describe various levels of librarian-faculty partnerships on information literacy instruction. Pritchard makes the following distinctions between different types of support that may be offered by librarians for information literacy instruction in coursework:
While Pritchard's criteria are specific to teaching, we can extrapolate the same concepts to address collaboration more broadly. To expand these definitions to our discussion of librarian-faculty partnerships, we can identify parallel levels at which individuals may work together, as follows:
The second model I find useful was created by Black, Crest, Volland (2001), who came up with a simple flowchart that presents a comparable scale of librarian-faculty partnership. The major difference is that they view partnerships as a progression instead of a spectrum, and assert that each step along the scale leads to the next. In their minds the process begins with relationship-building (librarian and faculty getting to know each other) and faculty development (librarian teaching faculty about library resources), leads to collaborative instructional design (both parties working together to achieve course goals), and results in tailored instruction for classes.
The fact that both of these models provide similar "levels" of partnership reinforces the idea that collaboration can be achieved in a variety of ways. While all levels of partnership have intrinsic value, this post will focus primarily upon initiatives that embody the definitions of cooperation and collaboration as described above.
Cooperation requires that the librarian and faculty member work together at some level to identify and achieve a common goal. This often involves a one-way direction of effort, as one partner becomes involved to support the other's established goals. These partnerships are more in-depth than communication partnerships as there is some combined effort between the two participants, but the two individuals generally work independently of each other. For instance, at my institution I developed a tiered instructional plan to support a series of courses in my liaison department. The plan included a breakdown of the various research assignments that were required of students in the different courses, and described my strategy for building their skills throughout the series. While I consulted the faculty member who taught these courses and ensured that she was on board with my plan, my work did not have an influence on her course content. I created the plan to support her existing curriculum, assignments, and goals.
Cooperative partnerships come in several common formats, including:
I describe each of these in more depth in the following sections.
Faculty workshops typically involve librarians planning and executing sessions intended to teach and/or raise awareness among faculty about the resources and services offered at the library. These sessions usually involve one or both of the following goals: (i) encouraging faculty to use the library more, e.g. marketing, and/or (ii) "training the trainer," with the purpose of empowering faculty to pass on deeper knowledge about the library to their students, e.g. instruction. For an example of faculty workshops in action, Lucas (2011) provides a helpful case study of the faculty in-service approach at D'Youville College in Buffalo, New York. Lucas defines the in-service as "the act of collaboratively introducing new and existing faculty to the library resources and services." The article lays out the details of what they cover in their in-service sessions.
Faculty workshops may also be targeted to specific audiences such as distance faculty, as noted by Miller et al. (2010). At the University of Maryland University College, librarians have taken a slightly different approach to the in-service model by presenting asynchronous online workshops lasting seven to twelve days that introduce distance faculty to the library. These sessions are cofacilitated by a librarian and the academic director of a given department, but content is created solely by the library. Miller et al.'s article includes detailed descriptions of the workshops that are likely to be useful for anyone considering a similar approach.
Cooperative faculty training occasionally goes beyond the typical workshop. Take, for instance the work of librarians at Jinwen University of Science and Technology (JUST) in Taiwan. They serve as a example of a library that trains faculty to serve as stand-in librarians, or "library specialists," for a semester at a time. Yu (2009) explains how, to expand the library staff's limited reach, they advanced a proposal to train one or two faculty representatives from each academic department as volunteer "library specialists." These faculty members were required to attend special library skills training, as well as to serve two hours of reference a week and function as consultants for subject-specific reference questions. The faculty become stand-in librarians for the purposes of helping students, and acted as consultants to the library on collection development and subject-specific reference. This unique program enabled faculty to become intimately familiar with their library while expanding its ability to serve a growing student body.
In some cases librarians leverage their tech-savvy to raise their profile on campus beyond the scope of research, for instance by assisting them in creating websites or media. Bailey, Blunt, & Magner (2011) describe how librarians can leverage technology skills, in this case video and multimedia creation, to support faculty goals, instruction, and conference presentations. This reasserts the importance of librarians on campus and may potentially build a foundation for greater partnerships. In addition to video creation, it is common for librarians to work with faculty in groups or one-on-one to assist them with new technologies such as blogs, mobile access, social media, and RSS.
Collection development is an area in which librarian-faculty partnerships have long been common, typically at the communication level but sometimes evolving into cooperative relationships with the intention of expanding a particular part of the collection to support relevant coursework. As one example, Ratto & Lynch (2011) describes an effort at the University of Southern New Hampshire to supplement traditional textbook access with a program to provide focused course content for a Marketing course through the use of electronic textbooks. The texts were licensed and cataloged by the library in coordination with the faculty member.
Another example of cooperative relationships in collection development is the designation of specific funds either as "new faculty funds" or as internal grants. Horava (2005) described a program at The University of Ottawa to get new faculty more involved in working with librarians to expand the collection in their research areas through the use of designated funds in the amount of $2,000 per faculty member. The program met with some success in building bridges between librarians and faculty and increasing collection development in current research and teaching areas.
The most common cooperative efforts between librarians and faculty relate to IL instruction in a wide variety of ways. The traditional "one-shot" instruction session is a classic example of this. There are also an array of variations on the "one-shot," from a similar "two-shot" to strategies that many refer to as "embedded" librarianship, in which a librarian is present as some level throughout the entire course. Kobzina (2010) describes a scenario at the University of California at Berkeley in which librarians embed in a prominent environmental studies course, with multiple library sessions, access to the online course site, and the ability to respond to course content on an ongoing basis. The only thing separating this effort from collaboration as defined in the introduction to this post is the fact that they don't contribute to the creation of the course curriculum or assignments.
Before taking this discussion further, I'd like to restate my own belief that collaboration, as distinct from communication and cooperation, requires an equal partnership between librarian and faculty member. I make this assertion because collaboration, as I define it, requires both parties to acknowledge, understand, and even embrace the other's viewpoint, with the result being a shared vision or product that is greater than the sum of its parts. This is not easy. More casual partnerships, in which participants align their goals but don't blend them, often accomplish great things but don't achieve the same shift in perception for those participating. I base this perspective on my own collaborative experiences with my institution's first-year writing program faculty, which has entirely changed my perspective on teaching research to first-year students. By working together to build a shared curriculum for our co-requisite research and writing courses, we all become more fully cognizant of the differences between our two approaches and the natural ways we could bridge them. The effects of our work together have rippled outwards into the way our two units interact and understand each other's work.
Thus, collaboration takes the initiatives described in the "Cooperation" section above and stretches them further by adding a give-and-take element to the relationship between librarian and faculty member. In collaboration we are forced to consider the other person's perspective, compromise, and often walk away with a new understanding of the project at hand. Collaborative partnerships result in a product that reflects the contributions of both parties. These efforts may take the following forms:
As I did above, I'll now discuss each of these in more depth with some examples, though there are fewer examples of collaboration as I define it.
When it comes to teaching, collaboration often involves the librarian and faculty member partnering on curriculum design and development, and often extends into co-teaching. The literature of instructional collaboration is extensive, but Mounce's (2010) literature review covering articles published in 2000-2009 is helpful in gaining a big picture perspective.
For instance, Gaspar & Wetzel (2009) describe a case study in which they participate in an Institutionalized partnership for specific programs in which librarians and writing professors collaborate on curriculum and assignment development. The beautiful thing about this example is that The George Washington University created a program requiring this collaboration and recognizing its benefits. As a result the program has central administrative support that makes it sustainable for the parties involved.
There are also models of embedded librarianship that meet the same criteria without the co-teaching element. In addition to presenting the useful model of integrated instruction that I described in Part I above, Pritchard describes an embedded experience in a nanoscience course at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Students in the course write an article for a locally published academic journal for which the librarian serves as editor-in-chief, and partners with the faculty member and students to ensure that their research and articles are up to par. This unique example of embedded librarianship involves extensive collaboration with several individuals on campus. Pritchard includes advice for collaborative-minded librarians at the end of her article, much of which echoes my Part 1 Lead Pipe post. She says:
Entering into faculty–librarian partnerships is not a simple matter of introducing oneself to teaching faculty and announcing our plans for embedding IL and AL into their courses. It involves the careful cultivation of collegial relationships, the clear and consistent communication of the specialized knowledge and expertise we bring to the curriculum development process, and a sustained commitment to staying visible, available and involved (389).
Another project area that requires deep collaboration is the librarian-faculty co-written article, conference co-presentation, or co-administered grant project. Cross-disciplinary professional contributions are challenging for any faculty, but the benefits to the collaborators and to the field can be substantial. Fonseca & Viator (2009) recommend that librarian faculty act more like faculty and cultivate multi-disciplinary expertise by entering into collaborative projects (writing, grant proposals) with non-library faculty, and by engaging in active service on campus, particularly in leadership roles. Fonseca & Viator's highly readable article is a call to action for academic librarians around the nation. While it is common for librarians to serve on campus committees, I wonder how often we actually step up to the chair or president position to assert ourselves as professionals on our campuses. Local leadership by librarians not only allows the individual librarian to increase his skill set but raises the library's profile on campus by making it clear to faculty that the library is interested and engaged in campus issues at more than an administrative level.
There are a few examples out there of librarians and faculty members co-presenting. As recently as March 2011 the ACRL Conference included a poster session by Ratto (librarian) & Lynch (Marketing professor), entitled "Collaboration unleashes e-book database potential for replacing traditional textbook options." Their poster describes the cooperative collection development described above.
The variety of possible ways in which librarians and faculty can partner together, and the spectrum of what those partnerships might look like, far exceeds this post. For instance, though I did not find examples in the literature, I could envision many projects similar to those describe above that involve graduate students as future faculty. MyLead Pipe colleague Hilary Davis described a project at her institution in which her colleague worked with a graduate student association to plan workshops for their members. This program creates the opportunity not only to help graduate students build their research skills, but also to set a foundation for future collaboration when those individuals have moved on to faculty positions.
Overall I have attempted to capture a snapshot here of the wealth of opportunities at hand to remind and inspire us to extend beyond the limits of our buildings, our offices, and our daily interactions. It can be challenging at times to find the space and the emotional energy to cultivate the relationships required for productive cooperation and collaboration. However, the benefits to students, to faculty, and to our own job satisfaction are guaranteed to make the effort worthwhile.
For information about the references cited in this post, please view my spreadsheet. You are also welcome to add to it if you know of great collaborative models that might interest our readers.
Many thanks to Brooke Ratto, Ellie Collier, Hilary Davis, and Emily Ford for their feedback that helped to shape this post.
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A guest speaker at a local middle school is accused of sending sexually charged texts to teens.
The charge against Garret Winchel, 20, is attempted sexual misconduct. Charging documents indicate he taught two gym classes at a Lee's Summit middle school in the past two months. Winchel's employer at the time said the school was Summit Lakes Middle School.
The charge cites four girls, ages 12 through 14, with whom he'd been texting to ask for nude or semi-nude photos.
Charging documents allege the following:
Winchel posted a photo on Instagram, asking viewers to text their TBH (To Be Honest) rating of him and listed his phone number. From there, the text chat progressed to the sexual. One girl, age 14, called him out, and "...asked Winchel why he wanted nude pictures of 14-year-olds." His response was to ask her where she lived.
Winchel was arrested Wednesday and admitted to both sending the texts and knowing the girls were underaged.
He got the guest spot at the school via a Lee's Summit business called YES (Youth Energy Solutions) Kids' Fitness. The owner said he was sickened by the allegations and fired Winchel the moment they arose. He added that he did a background check on Winchel before hiring and it came through clean.
A school district statement emphasized that "volunteer presenters are supervised by teachers and are not allowed to be alone with students at any time."
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PLATTSBURGH — The North Country Cultural Center for the Arts is looking for submissions for its fourth round of the Adirondack Coast ARTWays Project.
The theme will be "Adirondack Coast Outdoor Recreation." ARTWays is a collaboration between the arts center, Adirondack Coast Visitors Bureau, local businesses and artists to promote the Adirondacks through art.
All mediums are accepted. Artists may submit one work. Entries, which may be portrait or landscape, must be submitted as a high-resolution JPEG of no less than 300 dpi to firstname.lastname@example.com. Artists must include a brief bio; artist statement; and the dimensions, medium and year of creation of the original work. Submitted images must not be watermarked or signed to preserve anonymity during the judging process.
The submission deadline is 5 p.m. Monday, Sept. 2.
Entries will be judged by a diverse panel. The winner will be announced at an unveiling ceremony at the Adirondack Coast Wine, Cider and Food Festival on Saturday, Oct. 12, at the Crete Civic Center in Plattsburgh. Winners will have their art displayed publicly throughout the region on posters, magnets, cards, websites and more.


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Huntsville Police are investigating a business burglary.
Someone threw a large rock through the front glass door of Cell Tech on Oakwood Avenue to get inside. Once inside, the offender stole electronics.
This isn't the first time the business has been burglarized. In late September, 2012, someone broke into the store and stole electronics.
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released a new report that identifies the top 10, evidence-based patient safety strategies available to clinicians.
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March 06, 2013
About 450 people recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of the UCSF's Institute for Health Policy Studies, which has a record of excellence in shaping health policy on a local, national and international level.
February 15, 2013
UCSF has started offering continuing medical education credits for select Massive Open Online Courses – known as MOOCs – making it among the first universities in the nation to do so.
January 28, 2013
A UCSF School of Medicine program is developing a network of advisors, who are related to each other in a meaningful and complementary way, to help students succeed in their coursework and make the right career choices.
January 11, 2013
UCSF ranks second in the annual ranking of world universities in clinical medicine and pharmacy by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).
January 10, 2013
Gov. Brown's proposed budget is seen as positive step forward, according to Patrick Lenz, the University of California system's vice president for budget and capital resources.
January 09, 2013
What makes a good mentor? Previous studies have shown the professional benefits of cultivating a strong mentoring relationship, but a recent study co-led by UCSF researchers delved further to analyze the attributes that make a successful mentor-mentee pairing.
January 04, 2013
At the San Francisco VA Medical Center's primary care clinic, nurse practitioners and medical residents are training together in teams in what is an emerging trend in health care called patient-centered medical homes.
December 28, 2012
A singing professor is using music to teach medical students the fine details of human health and disease as they progress in their specialties at UCSF.
December 13, 2012
Award-winning scientists, university chancellors, presidents of health care organizations, chief executive officers, deans of colleges, commanding generals: UCSF has a history of producing alumni who become leaders in the health sciences.


text: I ordered my free iPhone 4 Bumper on Saturday, using the iPhone 4 case program app we reported on just at the start of the weekend. I ordered mine purely in the interests of journalism, and not because I need one! But don't tell Apple! This afternoon I got a … Read the Full Story →


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See for yourself...2016:Obama's America
Original post made by Paul on Aug 20, 2012
2016 Obama's America takes audiences on a gripping visual journey into the heart of the world's most powerful office to reveal the struggle of whether one man's past will redefine America over the next four years. The film examines the question, "If Obama wins a second term, where will we be in 2016?"
Across the globe and in America, people in 2008 hungered for a leader who would unite and lift us from economic turmoil and war. True to America's ideals, they invested their hope in a new kind of president, Barack Obama. What they didn't know is that Obama is a man with a past, and in powerful ways that past defines him--who he is, how he thinks, and where he intends to take America and the world.
Immersed in exotic locales across four continents, best selling author Dinesh D'Souza races against time to find answers to Obama's past and reveal where America will be in 2016. During this journey he discovers how Hope and Change became radically misunderstood, and identifies new flashpoints for hot wars in mankind's greatest struggle. The journey moves quickly over the arc of the old colonial empires, into America's empire of liberty, and we see the unfolding realignment of nations and the shape of the global future.
Emotionally engaging, 2016 Obama's America will make you confounded and cheer as you discover the mysteries and answers to your greatest aspirations and worst fears
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on Aug 20, 2012 at 10:26 am
I was curious. I couldn't resist. I wanted air conditioning. What can I say? There were 4 people in the audience. Two of them looked like they'd need to take off their shoes in order to count to twenty.
D'Sousa's 15 minutes of fame was over many years ago. Even with Koch brothers' backing this film is quickly destined for trash heap of film making.
on Aug 20, 2012 at 10:35 am
Typical leftist response to eliminate freedom of speech when alternatives are availble for balanced opinion.
Go see it yourself and you decide.
I don't know where Jurgen went to find that air conditioning...or at what time but it was sold out all weekend in Dublin...several confirmed this!
Don't allow the postings of naysayers prevent you from coming to your own objecive conclusions. See the movie.
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I saw the movie and thought it quite well done. The movie theater was full or very close to it. I suggest everyone see it regardless of your opinion of Obama. An informed vote is a quality vote.


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Although it was lacking in the same hype as the heavyweight slugfest that took place before it, the co-main event of UFC 156: "Aldo vs. Edgar" tonight (Sat., Feb. 2, 2013) at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, featured a compelling contest of two light heavyweights who have just sort of been floating around in space.
Rashad Evans had gone nearly a year without fighting, rearranging his entire career after his decision loss to Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones back at UFC 145. His opponent, Antonio Rogerio Nogueira, dealt with injuries over the last year and had missed even more time than "Suga."
Something had to give.
It didn't seem like it would after a couple rounds. Evans likely took the first but his general malaise led to his likely dropping the second, though to be clear, neither fighter was overly aggressive and the pace was relatively slow throughout.
In fact, one could argue for any manner of scoring.
The third round featured more of the same, as Evans failed to land the punches he was throwing while "Lil' Nog" stayed on the outside and occasionally jumped in for a jab or two and a kick from distance. Rashad's late takedown attempt failed and the boo birds came out to shower the two with a chorus of disrespect for a bizarre contest between two usually great fighters.
Then again, UFC 156: "Aldo vs. Edgar" might as well have been known as UFC 156: "Bizarro."
When the horn sounded, both fighters raised their hands while the crowd cheered only for the merciful end. The judges came in with a verdict in favor of Nogueira by way of 29-28 scores across the board.
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The return of Chinese property developers to the international bond markets in recent weeks highlights a surge in investor appetite for the sector even as the mainland housing market continues to deteriorate.
Bo Xilai, once seen as one of the rising stars of Chinese politics, has been removed from his prominent provincial post after a scandal involving one of his key deputies.
Inflation in China slowed dramatically in February, as temporary price hikes related to Lunar New Year faded.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao underlined the Asian giant's regional military ambitions and economic challenges Monday in a speech that opened the annual meeting of the country's legislators.
A school bus accident in eastern China left 15 elementary students dead and eight others hurt, the latest in a series of deadly crashes involving children, local government officials said Tuesday.
Chinese police have busted two child-trafficking rings after a six-month nationwide investigation, rescuing 178 children and arresting 608 suspects, the country's Ministry of Public Security announced this week.
Chinese police bust two child-trafficking rings, rescuing 179 children after a six-month nationwide investigation.
China's second-largest train manufacturer will recall 54 bullet trains running on the new Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway after a series of malfunctions, a company official said Friday.
Beijing is putting all new rail construction on hold. CNN's Eunice Yoon reports.
The Chinese government has announced measures to slow down bullet trains nationwide and halt approval for new construction, a move that comes amid increasing public scrutiny on the country's railway safety following a crash last month that killed at least 40 people.
Acknowledging strong public anger and skepticism over the government's handling of a deadly bullet train collision last weekend, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Thursday promised a thorough investigation into the accident and its aftermath.
When the National People's Congress (NPC), China's legislature, closes its annual session in Beijing on Monday, Premier Wen Jiabao will have had the rare chance to speak with the press -- and for the public to size up their leader.
China has suspended approvals of nuclear plants so safety standards can be revised while Japan grapples with its nuclear crisis, Chinese state-run media reported Wednesday.
China rekindled memories of the 2008 Olympics with a spectacular opening ceremony for the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou on Friday.
Parades and performances marked the final day of the Shanghai World Expo on Sunday, according to China's official Xinhua News Agency.
While China's premier called on leaders gathered at the United Nations to work with "a greater sense of urgency and responsibility" to support the world's developing countries, he also laid out plans for China to make major contributions to struggling nations.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, in New York Tuesday for the United Nations General Assembly, urged Japan to release a detained Chinese boat captain "immediately and unconditionally," China's state news agency Xinhua reported.
More than 1,000 people have been rescued from rushing flood waters in eastern China after a dike burst on the Fu river in Jiangxi province, the Xinhua news agency reported.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Sunday that Northeast Asia -- which includes the Korean Peninsula -- must push for peace and avoid violent clashes in the aftermath of the sinking of a South Korean warship, state news reported.
CNN's John Vause updates the latest rescue efforts from China's earthquake.
China hosted Japan and South Korea on Saturday for the second trilateral leaders' meeting, state-run media said.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has again indicated willingness to participate in bilateral talks with the United States and return to six-party talks over its nuclear program, China's Xinhua news agency reported.
Can Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao persuade North Korea to return to the six-party talks on its nuclear weapons program?
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will visit North Korea for two days next month, government officials and state-run media reported Monday.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao acknowledges economic challenges. CNN's Emily Chang reports.
A three-peat of advances on Wall Street helped light a fire under Asian markets Friday, with Tokyo's Nikkei average closing 5.2 percent higher, and Hong Kong's Hang Seng jumping up 4 percent near closing.
Stocks slumped Thursday morning as questions about GM's ability to survive reignited the selloff that has sent the Dow and S&P 500 toward 12-year lows.
The student protester who hurled a shoe at Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao as he was giving a speech at Cambridge University could face up to 6 months in prison or a £5,000 fine, the UK's Crown Prosecution Service told CNN Tuesday.
A human rights protester was in police custody Monday after throwing a shoe at Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during a speech at Cambridge University.
Pro-Tibet activists jumped security barriers and scuffled with police outside the Chinese embassy in London Sunday as hundreds of demonstrators gathered to protest a visit by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.
The worldwide economic recession has exposed a "crisis of global governance" that can only be addressed by the radical reform of the United Nations, former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Wednesday as the World Economic Forum got under way in Switzerland.
The worldwide economic recession has exposed a "crisis of global governance" that can only be addressed by the radical reform of the United Nations, former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Wednesday as the World Economic Forum got under way in Switzerland.
Consumers in Beijing's malls and shops are shunning the milk and poultry sections -- for good reasons.
Chinese officials dump milk, tainted with the industrial chemical melamine, after over 3,600 children become sick.
Asian and European leaders said Saturday they have reached a broad consensus on ways to deal with the global financial meltdown
China may be deeply enmeshed in the global economy, but the country's leaders are unlikely to take a direct role in solving a financial crisis Beijing believes was made in America
Below is the complete transcript of Fareed Zakaria's interview with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. The interview was taped September 23, and portions were shown on "Fareed Zakaria GPS" on September 28.
Fareed Zakaria sits down with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao for an exclusive interview.
With thousands of babies sickened by tainted-milk products, Beijing officials apologize. But after a month of bad accidents, some say it's time for action -- not more words
Authorities have detained 13 people after a mud and rock slide that may have killed several hundred people in northern China, state-run media reported.
China's Premier Wen Jiabao Saturday gave U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon a dramatic look at damage caused by the massive quake that hit Sichuan province earlier this month as the death toll from the catastrophe jumped past 60,000.
In the aftermath of the earthquake, simply being present in the disaster zone helped connect the government to the people
Chinese government officials raised the death toll from last week's earthquake past 55,000, as calls were sent out for more material to help the massive recovery effort.
Half the residents of Yingxiu were killed by the May 12 earthquake, but the fight to rescue survivors goes on
Chinese open their hearts and wallets to help earthquake survivors. CNN's Jaime FlorCruz reports.
One of the most destructive moments in Chinese history is bringing together -- at least temporarily -- this vast nation of more than a billion people, made up of disparate ethnic groups stretching across five time zones.
Graphic footage of death and destruction has been shown on China's state-run news networks in the days following the massive earthquake that hit southwest Sichuan province earlier this week.
Covered bodies are lined up as family and friends come to identify them in Beichuan, China.
Parents are waiting at schools destroyed by the devastating Chinese earthquake hoping their children will be pulled from the debris but hope is fading.
The sharp sound of firecrackers and the wails of grieving parents echoed Tuesday morning above Juyuan Middle School, where hundreds of students are still trapped 24 hours after a major earthquake in central China.
China's death toll from a massive earthquake soared by thousands Wednesday as troops rushed to a dam feared critically damaged.
Beijing authorities quickly swung into action to respond publicly -- in sharp contrast to its behavior in past disasters
China announces an increase in its defense budget for 2008. CNN's John Vause reports.
The economy topped Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's "Government Work Report" on Wednesday, as he cited the need to hold inflation at 4.8 percent and create 10 million jobs in urban areas.
Monday brought welcome relief to millions of Chinese migrant workers desperate to see their families, as the nation's transportation system seemed to be getting back on its feet after being paralyzed by a historic winter storm.
CNN's Hugh Riminton reports from Guangzhou, China where holiday travel has come to a standstill due to snow.
In a rare move for a Chinese politician, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao apologized Tuesday to the hundreds of thousands of people stranded in train stations across his country due to bad weather and a power crisis.
Chinese workers and army soldiers were racing to sweep snow-covered highways and unclog railway routes for millions of travelers trapped by cold weather.
CNN's Charles Hodson speaks with Alan Holmer, U.S. Special Envoy for China, about the dispute over industrial subsidies.
Senior officials in Beijing are now grumbling that the megaproject on the Yangtze is turning into an environmental nightmare
Gross economic inequality is one of the biggest problems threatening China's stability, and an issue President Hu Jintao has taken up as a cornerstone of his administration. In major speeches and policy addresses he has called for the creation of a "harmonious society," signaling the central government's desire to reduce the gap between the wealthy Chinese elite and the working class, who have seen far fewer benefits from the country's torrid economic growth.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has toured the city of Harbin, where water service has been disrupted by an 80 kilometer-long (50 mile) toxic spill in the city's main water source, the Songhua River, and praised efforts to get the city back on track.
Following are essential facts and figures on the People's Republic of China.
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan has appealed for $977 million in emergency relief over the next six months for the "unprecedented global catastrophe" triggered by the Asian tsunamis.
The death toll from China's Chenjiashan Coal Mine explosion continues to mount, with state media reporting the figure now stands at 63.
After patriarch Jiang Zemin's long overdue retirement, the Chinese leadership under President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao may pursue a more aggressive policy towards the United States and Taiwan.
Global resources group BHP Billiton says it will spend more than $300 million upgrading a diamond mine in Canada and an alumina plant in Australia.
Balance, not rapid growth, is the central theme of this year's session of China's National People's Congress.
As some 2,900 delegates sit down to open China's annual session of parliament, Communist technocrats are getting good reviews for passing some tough tests.
The 15-month-old administration of President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao is staking its reputation on the success of a brand-new "concept of scientific development."
Beijing has ordered a nation-wide emergency safety check after two fires in Jilin and Zhejiang Provinces killed nearly 100 people earlier this week.
Much of China's weighty agrarian problem is summed up by a figure recently revealed by Premier Wen Jiabao: the country's grain production is short by 68.7 billion jin (34.4 billion kilo) a year.
China's top leadership has given orders that protecting people's lives must be the top priority in fighting the bird flu outbreak affecting large parts of the world's most populous nation.
Beijing authorities are pulling out the stops to prevent politically embarrassing mishaps in the run-up to Chinese New Year, usually a time to invoke celestial blessings for peace and prosperity.
New ideas are urgently needed as President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao begin the second year of their administration.
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The family of a student who was tased by University of Cincinnati Police and later died has received $2 million in a settlement.
Everette Howard Jr.'s family filed a lawsuit against the University of Cincinnati and UC police officer Richard Haas.
Howard was tased during a party on the UC campus on Aug. 6, 2011 and died shortly after. After his death the UC police withdrew all of their tasers from service.
The settlement provides that:
The family is part of a group that is monitoring taser policies in law enforcement agencies throughout Hamilton County. They will continue to press all local agencies for taser reform.
"Everette's death was unjustified and unnecessary. Through this case the family is helping reform taser use throughout the region. Hopefully their investigation and advocacy for their son will prevent more taser deaths," said attorneys Al Gerhardstein and Jennifer Branch in a statement.
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First Round Playoff Game:Nov. 17 CUChicago v. Bethel University 12 p.m. CSTView Complete Game Details >>
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The nationally-ranked Concordia University Chicago Cougars (10-0, #18) are headed to their first-ever appearance in the NCAA Division III football playoffs. Alumni and friends are invited home to cheer on the Northern Athletics Conference championship team for first round competition on Saturday, November 17 at Cougar Stadium. The Cougars will take the field at 12 p.m. CST against Bethel University Royals (8-2, #23).
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Cougar Football Head Coach Lonnie Pries '93 is nominated for the Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year Award. This annual award, endorsed by the College Football Hall of Fame, recognizes coaches who demonstrate Sportsmanship, Integrity, Responsibility and Excellence both on and off the field.
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The Cougar Tailgate tradition enjoys its playoff debut this weekend as alumni, family and fans connect with players past and present. The David/Jonathan Parking Lot opens at 9:00 a.m. for tailgating and continues after the game for fans to meet and greet players.
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In looking for a solution to organize a local elementary school library, Delicious Library was my first stop. And perhaps my last... except for faceting it with Flare, of course.
I scanned a few books into Delicious Library:
And then I exported the library (to a tab-delimited format), wrote a little Delicious Library export -> Solr importer script, and my Delicious Library is now faceted with Flare:
What you see in the Flare screenshot is a filter already applied for the Grammar genre, and the Ajax term look-up drop down of me pausing after having typed "lang".
Thanks go to David Walker for letting me borrow some CSS to kick start an improved look for Flare, though the ugly bits of the look are my own doing. The UI will only improve from here.
But wait, that's not all. Like everyone else, I'm fascinated by the work going on at SIMILE (*waves to Stefano & David). One of their many cool tools is Exhibit (not to be confused with the vastly different upcoming Collex Exhibit builder). It could not have been easier to tie Simile's Exhibit into Flare:
All it took to tie the two together was to follow the Exhibit Getting Started tutorial, which simply involved copying and pasting the HTML template, adding in the facet names to be shown, and pointing the JSON link to a tiny Rails controller I added to Flare:
class SimileController {'items' => @data}.to_json } # Exhibit seems to require data to be in a 'items' Hash
The Exhibit facets entirely client-side, and as such it only gets the data given the already selected constraints of the main Flare browse interface (and also limited to the first 10 rows from Solr implicitly).
Now we're cooking!
[Delicious Library developers note: please add smart shelves, just like every other Mac OS X app currently has. I want all my signed books, for example, on a virtual shelf.]


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Wyndham Grand Desert; The Perfect Getaway! in Las Vegas
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- sleeps 4
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- hot tub yes
- pets allowed no
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The next time you plan a getaway to the exiting city of Las Vegas, Wyndham Grand Desert offers a spectacular one-bedroom suites with partial or fully-equipped kitchens, washer and dryer, dining room, large bedrooms with plenty of closet and storage space, living room with pull-out sofa; most offer a spa tub in the master bedroom. The perfect vacation home - away from home - for a weekend trip or an extended stay.
This Mediterranean-style, mega resort has three towers that allow for beautiful mountain, dramatic city and charming courtyard view of our lagoon-style pool. You can bask on the spacious sundeck, work out in one of two fitness centers, or even enjoy a relaxing massage. The resort also offers tanning beds, a sauna, 4 outdoor hot tubs, Internet access and an activities center offering a variety of recreation games, videos and activities. There is no casino on site which makes Wyndham Grand Desert the perfect resort for families looking to savor some family-time fun, or non-gambling couples who are more interested in the variety of spectacular shows Las Vegas as to offer.
Wyndham Grand Desert provides free shuttle service to the famous Las Vegas Strip; as well as a full service concierge to help you plan your off-site Vegas entertainment including tickets to sporting events, local area attractions, dinner reservations and shows. And if golf is your game, there are at four golf courses located within five miles of the resort.
This lush resort is just minutes from McCarran International Airport (3 mi), Las Vegas Convention Center (4 mi) and UNLV (1 mi). Wyndham Grand Desert is the perfect location for a relaxing vacation or conducting business.
Check-In: 4:00 PM
Check-Out: 10:00 AM
** Two Night Minimum Required**
All Reservations are FINAL, however because of all life's uncertainty's I do offer CSA Travel Insurance. The cost is $74.99. The cost is paid in addition to the rental and will be available for purchase on the contract.
I DO NOT hold any inventory unless a deposit has been collected. In order to reserve accommodations, you must fill out the contract sent to you. You are required to put 50% down at the time of booking and the remaining balance is due 45 days prior to arrival.
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Wyndham Grand Desert Amenities
3 Outdoor Swimming Pools
4 Outdoor Hot Tubs
Health Club
High Speed Wireless Internet
Complimentary Shuttle to Las Vegas Boulevard (9:00 AM-10:00 PM)
Coffee Shop
Sundries Shop
Laundry Facilities
"Play Days" Activities Program
Tanning Beds (fee)
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German carrier Lufthansa's "Queen of the Skies" or the B747-8 Intercontinental, made its debut in India today touching down at the airport here from Frankfurt.
The world's newest aircraft was given a grand water canon salute at Terminal 3 of India Gandhi International Airport.
Delhi is the second destination worldwide to receive the B747-8.
Having deployed the new aircraft on its Frankfurt-Washington route, Lufthansa chose India as the first country in Asia to introduce the 362-seat "Queen of the Skies", which has 92 business class seats with more sleeping surface and other facilities developed after years of research.
"Being the first airline to introduce this exceptional aircraft to India underlines our commitment to continue our success story here.
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The aircraft's significantly improved aerodynamics of the wings, newly developed wingtips and GEnx-2B engines achieve a 15 per cent improvement in fuel efficiency and CO2 emissions per passenger.
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The German carrier will also introduce its all new Boeing 747-8 on the Bangalore-Frankfurt route within next two months, most likely by September end.
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The Utes unveiled their core values for the program and it's set off a firestorm of mocking, ridicule and absurdity.
Who can keep up with all the real, factual news out there? Sit back and enjoy some stories that are entirely, 100% made-up.
The 20 most meaningful bowl games of the last twenty years fails to mention Utah's Fiesta or Sugar Bowl victories. Justified omission?
Rice-Eccles Stadium has proven to be a jewel for Utah fans - it's beautiful, offers a breathtaking view and is home to some great football action. Unfortunately, not every Utah fan has been given...
Playoff fever is running high and i really need some anger management classes. Every expert in the country has picked the Pittsburgh Steelers and their number one ranked defense to cream the Denver Broncos. Three key factors that can lead the Broncos to the promised land. Time for fans and players to get FIRED UP. Are you with me?
Wow! I didn't think this was possible, but I guess I have to count my blessings this isn't the kind of rant that's being heard in Cleveland, or anywhere else for that matter. Wow!
Crossposted at SpreadFarTheFame, the Zooker is feeling the heat!
"For all those people there saying it was my fault about Jim Thome, yes it's my fault. [...] If those people don't like that, [fuck] them." "Every time we had Jim Thome here, we couldn't play him against the National League," Guillen said. "Why won't anybody give me credit for that one? We won 15 games. And Jimbo had one, two at-bats every time we played those guys. And we made this run because we played good against the National League. We got hot then. "I have my head on my shoulders, and I think we did the right thing with what we did in spring training. If people don't like it, good. They don't like it, they don't have to watch the (bleeping) White Sox. "Oh and I got one more year on my contract, just make sure to tell Jerry (Reinsdorf), get it ready, this crazy (bleeping) Mexican, it's fine with me. They going to blame me about one home run, I'll take the blame.''
This doesn't directly relate to the Nuggets, but I stopped believing a while ago that the NBA was not biased. I've had enough with bad officiating, horrible fouls, and the Stern Button. I really am not surprised that Stern wants Lebron to stay in Cleveland, as he said last season that his dream would be a Cleveland-LA final, and he doesn't really seem to show any interest towards the Nuggets, possibly because he doesn't like it when our tough guys beat up on the floppers in LA, Cleveland, Utah, and You-name-it. There. That's my rant.
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Dating Archaeological Sites and Artifacts
RCYBP - Radio Carbon Years Before the Present
RCYBP (Radio Carbon Years Before the Present and abbreviated in many different ways) is a shorthand reference to the uncalibrated date recovered from carbon 14 dating.
AMS (Accelerator Mass Spectrometry) Radiocarbon Dating
AMS radiocarbon dating is a form of radiocarbon dating that is more precise and requires less carbon than conventional radiocarbon methods.
Archaeomagnetic Dating
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Fluoride Dating Service Center
From Mark Schurr at the University of Notre Dame, a website announcing their new dating service; also includes information about how the technique works.
Dendrochronology is the measurement of growth rings of long-lived trees as a calendar.
Chronological Analysis
Archaeologists use the term 'chronological analysis' to refer to the analysis of an object, set of objects, archaeological site or set of sites in terms of its temporal characteristics
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Is a dating method which uses the rate of biochemical pedogenesis, or soil growth, to determine the age of buried sediments. From Douglas Frink
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Understanding radiocarbon dating isn't difficult---it just sounds that way. From the Research Laboratory for Archaeology at Oxford University.
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Obsidian Hydration
The dating technique called obsidian hydration is a favorite of archaeologists, both because it is relatively secure and because it is relatively inexpensive.
Radioarbon Dating Method
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Paleomagnetic Dating
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Timing is Everything
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BECKLEY (WVVA)--- During Friday night's community meeting about school violence in Beckley, Raleigh County Sheriff Steve Tanner said to WVVA that he will not enforce federal laws against the 2nd Amendment.
"Should something affect the Second Amendment it would never be enforced by local laws simply because they have no jurisdiction in the state of West Virginia nor would we enforce a federal law," said Sheriff Tanner.
He says that he does not believe that there will be any major changes or laws against the 2nd Amendment.
During the same meeting Congressman Nick Rahall said that it might take time to create and pass legislation on gun control.
"This is such a complicated issue," Rahall said.
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Accompanied by your Bon Appétit Culinary Center Chef, visit the classic open fish and produce market in Catania, learn hands-on how to make delicious cannolis from a Sicilian pastry master and cap off the day with lunch and a cooking demonstration at a famed local restaurant.
Meet your Bon Appétit Culinary Center Chef in the morning and begin your day with a drive from the pier through Giardini Naxos and on to seaside Catania. Sicilians are passionate about food, and there is no better place to experience that passion than Mercato del Pesce di Catania. This ancient street market is always a wonderful cacophony of exotic sights and sounds, with locals selling everything from blood oranges to cuttlefish. Watch tuna and swordfish being fabricated by the local fish mongers and sample aged sheep cheeses and cured meats. You'll stroll though the marketplace, with an orientation provided by the chef and an experienced culinary guide, purchasing ingredients for this afternoon's Sicilian cooking class.
After enjoying the market 'like a local', you'll walk a few blocks to a nearby family-owned patisserie to make cannoli, Sicilian-style. This classic dessert consists of tube-shaped, fried pastry dough filled with sweet, creamy ricotta cheese from sheep's milk. It's often flavored with chocolate chips, pistachios or candied fruits. Under the watchful eye of the Sicilian pastry chef, you'll create your own cannolis, learning how to get the consistency just right for the filling and the crispy shell. Of course, you may eat whatever you make. It's thought that cannolis were invented in Sicily in the 9th century when Arabs introduced sugar cane as a sweet substitute for honey.
Next, you'll head to Nero d' Avola, a local restaurant so famous it was featured on the new CNN travel channel program. Here, you'll enjoy a cooking demonstration with some hands-on components as well as lunch is this enchanting and authentic Sicilian institution.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) -- A comedy festival in Grand Rapids plans to kick off this year's event in record-setting fashion.
"Gilda's LaughFest" organizers want to set a new Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people wearing animal noses. People are being asked to gather downtown Thursday for the attempt.
Those willing to give it a try will be provided with official LaughFest chicken beaks.
At last year's kickoff event, the Guinness World Record was set for the number of people tossing rubber chickens at one time.
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Croghan, NY- New York State Agricultural Education Outreach Staff, in partnership with the New York State Association of Agricultural Educators (NYAAE) Executive Council, New York State Education Department, SUNY Cobleskill Career Pathways, and the National Association of Agricultural Educators (NAAE), hosted their annual Professional Development Conference for Agricultural Educators titled, "All-In for Agricultural Education," on June 21-24, 2014 at the Oswegatchie Educational Center in Croghan, New York.
Agricultural Education Outreach Assistant Coordinator, Shari Lighthall stated, "We have worked hard to include activity-based workshops that address the needs of our constantly changing agricultural and agriscience programs. Each participant received over 26 hours of professional in-service time."