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The School of the Art Institute of Chicago presents
Paul Durica, Pocket Guide to Hell's Haymarket Reenactment, 2011. Photo: Yoni Goldstein

A Proximity of Consciousness:
Art and Social Action

September 20–December 20
Reception: Friday, September 19, 6:00–9:00 p.m.

Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State St., 7th floor

At the core of Chicago’s intellectual and creative life stand these influential artists for whom this city itself was a springboard for a new way of thinking about art at the intersection of society. Their work has influenced generations, having made social practice a worldwide phenomenon. Now this exhibition brings their ideas alive through 10 newly commissioned projects. Exhibiting artists: Jim DuignanPablo Helguera (BFA 1993), Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle (MFA 1985), Dan Peterman, Pocket Guide to HellJ. Morgan Puett (MFA 1984), Michael Rakowitz, Tamms Year Ten and Laurie Jo Reynolds (MFA 2000), Temporary Services, and Rirkrit Tiravanija (MFA 1986).

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Joseph Beuys's lecture at SAIC in 1974. Photo © 2012 Klaus Staeck and Gerhard Steidl

Joseph Beuys
Untitled (Sun State), 1974

Through January 25, 2015
The Art Institute of Chicago, Modern Wing, Gallery 294, 159 E. Monroe St.

An advocate for the transformative potential of art through what he termed “social sculpture,” Joseph Beuys made his first trip to the United States in 1974, with the purpose of promoting his Free International University. He spoke at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago during his American tour, where he was met with an enthusiastic reception and a lively exchange. This chalkboard, created during that lecture-performance, maps the connections Beuys perceived between the spiritual, social, and natural worlds. This work returns to Chicago on the 40th anniversary of the artist’s historic trip, on loan from the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

German curator and author Leonhard Emmerling will speak about Beuys’ Free International University on Monday, November 10, 6:00 p.m., at the Goethe-Institut, 150 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 200.

This presentation is made possible with generous support by the Goethe-Institut Chicago and the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany, and in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Series covers. Design: Corey Margulis

Chicago Social Practice History Series

Published by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Distributed by the University of Chicago Press
Series editors: Mary Jane Jacob and Kate Zeller

This series of four, 225-page illustrated books examines for the first time Chicago’s thinkers and makers that have defined the intellectual and creative life of this city. With nearly 30 chapters each, these volumes locate Chicago’s critical social thought and practices within a history of modern urban change and its commensurate societal issues as played out in the complexities of its communities. The inspirational starting point is Jane Addams; our mission is to recall movements and collectives in the 20th century; and the need in the fields of art, architecture, and design is to recognize Chicago’s present-day committed practitioners, offering a depth of geographic and historical context for the work they continue around social design, including education, housing, food, ecological urgencies, prison reform, and much more.

This publication series is made possible through grants from SAIC’s Earl and Brenda Shapiro Center for Research and Collaboration, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation.

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Max Gimblett, A Glimpse of the Ox, 2009. Courtesy of the Gund Gallery

Oxherding: A Buddhist Parable

October 3–November 8
Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State St., 7th floor

Oxherding is based on a medieval Chinese Buddhist parable of self-discovery comprised of pictures and verse. The original Chinese poems tell of a herder who searches for an elusive ox.  Combined with images, these texts serve as an instructional tool, guiding Zen monks through successive stages of awareness toward enlightenment.

This contemporary American version— created by painter Max Gimblett and author Lewis Hyde—consists of ten ink drawings, ten poems with prefaces, and jointly produced artist books.

Begun in 2002 and completed in 2010, Hyde started by gathering existing translations and made his own first drafts, “translating from English to English.”  Working with a specialist adviser, he then moved character by character through the Chinese poems until he understood how they were constructed and what they had to say.  Finally, he produced three English versions: a “one-word ox” (one English word per Chinese character), a “spare-sense ox” (each Chinese syntactic unit put into a simple English sentence), and an “American ox” which takes considerable liberties while trying to be faithful to Hyde’s intuitions about the meaning of the series.

Gimblett, a Zen lay monk and student of Jungian psychology who has long viewed artistic creation as a form of meditation, brings an open mind and heart to the practice of ink drawing.  Using a Chinese brush loaded with Japanese ink, he made these images rapidly, in “one breath,” working from left to right across the handmade American paper.  Unlike the traditional Oxherding pictures, Gimblett’s drawings are not illustrations, but rather embodiments of his spiritual connection to the themes of the series.

Oxherding has been organized for tour by the Gund Gallery at Kenyon College and previously shown there and at the Japan Society, New York, where the exhibition originated.

Closing Celebration

Free and open to the public
Saturday, December 20, 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State, 7th floor

Join us for the closing celebration of our fall exhibition.

See A Proximity of Consciousness: Art and Social Action—last chance before the exhibition closes!

Shop at Temporary Services’ pop-up bookstore. Publishing Clearing House will have a full array of booklets created this fall.

Hear Hamza Walker in conversation with Ronne Hartfield, Edward Maldonado, and Robert Peters, 1:00–2:00 p.m.

Meet Publishing Clearing House authors, 2:00–4:00 p.m.

Experience Pocket Guide to Hell’s exhibition tour, 3:00 p.m.

Purchase artists’ project objects:

  • Rirkrit Tiravanija’s Thai steel lunchboxes, signed by the artist (unsigned also available)
  • Pablo Helguera’s gymnasium mats and Indian clubs
  • Morgan Puett’s Mildred’s Lane Crow Ware

Enjoy holiday cookies and hot chocolate.

Chicago Torture Justice Memorials and Amnesty International's 1st Annual Participatory Memorial Action, 2014. Photo: Sarah Ross

Creative Resistance in a Prison Nation

Thursday, December 11, 7:00 p.m.
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, 800 S. Halsted St.

In the last decade, a growing number of artists, organizations, and activists in the Chicago area have created artwork and developed responses to what is now termed a “prison nation.” The US locks up more people than any other nation in the world and exhausts more resources on confinement and punishment each year. One in 99 adults in the US is incarcerated; the financial and social costs to tax payers and communities is staggering. Conservatives, liberals, and members of the left have all called for policy changes, yet when violence and poverty rage in Chicago neighborhoods, the common response is a call to lock more people away for longer prison terms.

Creative culture has been at the forefront of changing the public perception about the realities of social segregation, poverty, violence, and incarceration. Chicago-area artists have staged performances and exhibitions, created organizations, and developed long-term projects to alter entrenched thinking and unsettle business-as-usual.

What kinds of projects are happening that create a culture of change? Can art decarcerate? Change the law? Liberate communities from violence? Envision and enact new futures?

Join us for a monthly forum to learn about creative projects happening in the city that confront, agitate, and dismantle the prison nation.

Each month, several artists and groups will give short presentations on current work and share their experiences, challenges, and successes. The presentations are open to the public and all are welcome to an “open mic” to present their own projects and events at the end of the evening. Please join us in this lively discussion as we imagine and activate collective solutions addressing the state of our prison nation.

Creative Resistance in a Prison Nation is organized by Sarah Ross and Kevin Kaempf with support by SAIC’s Sullivan Galleries and the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum.

Upcoming Events

Thursday, December 11

7:00–9:00 p.m.
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S. Halsted St.

Rachael Hudak is the National Coordinator of the Dead Man Walking School Theatre Project and Project Manager for anti-death penalty activist Sister Helen Prejean. Hudak is a poet and storyteller whose work takes up questions of violence and incarceration. She has previously worked with the Neighborhood Writing Alliance and the Prison Creative Art Project.

Tirtza Even is a practicing video artist and documentary filmmaker for more than 15 years. Her recent work includes Natural Life, an experimental documentary made in conjunction with the legal efforts of the Law Offices of Deborah LaBelle. The project challenges inequities in the juvenile justice system by depicting, through documentation and reenactment, the stories of five individuals who were incarcerated for life without parole (natural life) for crimes they committed as youth.

Eddie Bocanegra is the Co-Executive Director of Youth Safety and Violence Prevention at the YMCA of Metro Chicago. His work is chronicled in the documentary The Interrupters. In 2011 he received the Heroes Award from Governor Quinn, and had the honor to speak at the United Nations. In addition, Northwestern, Yale, University of Southern California, and dozens of universities have invited Bocanegra to present on panels and give class lectures on violence prevention and social justice around ex-offenders. He is the recipient of the 2013 Marciniak Bright Star Award from the Bright Promises Foundation. Bocanegra is currently a graduate student at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration and is a Laurence Lynn Fellow.

Past Events

Thursday, September 25

7:00–9:00 p.m.
Sullivan Galleries
33 S. State St., 7th floor

Chicago Torture Justice Memorials (CTJM) is a group of attorneys, artists, educators, and social justice activists, who have organized exhibitions, workshops, readings, screenings, and other events in an effort to honor and to seek justice for the survivors of Chicago police torture, their family members, and the African American communities affected by the torture. Currently CTJM is working on a campaign seeking reparations for the survivors of Chicago Police torture.

Temporary Services has been creating exhibitions, events, projects, and publications since 1998. The group has produced collaborative and multi-year projects addressing incarceration. These include: Angelo, Drawings (2000), an exhibition and booklet; Prisoners’ Inventions (2003), featuring two publications and exhibition featuring recreated inventions made by prisoners, replica of a prison cell, and resource library; and Supermax Subscriptions (2008), a project utilizing frequent flyer miles to provide magazine subscriptions to Supermax prisoners.

Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project (PNAP) is a coalition of artists, writers, and scholars who organize arts and humanities classes to people at Stateville prison. Each year, scholarly and creative work is developed in the prison that is then exhibited in neighborhood galleries. Over the course of an academic semester, artists and scholars on the inside and outside address key questions around ideas of mutual learning, questions of freedom, and power and the potential of creative culture.

Billy McGuinness became interested in the Cook County Jail in the fall of 2012, when he visited there as a graduate student of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His curiosity about the jail led him to the “Inmate Locator” page of the sheriff’s website, where, with any letter of the alphabet entered into the last name search field, visitors to the site could access detailed information about all current detainees, including their booking photos. Believing the images, and the conditions of their creation and display, to be emblematic of a system that demands further investigation, McGuinness felt compelled to share them; in the fall of 2013 he began contacting inmates by mail and asking to use their images. He simultaneously began contacting jail personnel and suggesting that the website be changed. Both projects came to a conclusion in the spring of 2014, when the “Inmate Locator” was altered to make detainee information harder to access.

Thursday, October 9

7:00–9:00 p.m.
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S. Halsted St.

Project NIA works to end youth incarceration by supporting community-based alternatives to the criminal legal system. Founded in 2009 NIA combines education and advocacy with direct work supporting community accountability and helping youth stay out of the criminal legal system. They host exhibitions and organize events to raise critical questions about policing, prisons, violence, and transformation.

Storycatchers Theatre is a youth development arts organization that prepares young people to make positive life choices through the process of writing, producing, and performing original musical theatre inspired by personal stories. Staffed by professional teaching artists, Storycatchers Theatre conducts ongoing multi-week programs with groups of youth who live in under-resourced neighborhoods or who are detained or incarcerated in the juvenile justice system. Workshops culminate in performances of a musical play built on a unified theme and story line.

Lucky Pierre is a collaborative group working in writing, performance, and visual forms. Lucky Pierre creates structures for engagement with various publics. In these forms, the group explores complex issues and ideas (political, aesthetic, social) in ways that accommodate a wide range of experience, styles, and approaches. Recent participatory projects include Final Meals and Actions for Chicago Torture Justice.

Thursday, November 13

7:00–9:00 p.m.
Sullivan Galleries
33 S. State St., 7th floor

96 Acres is a series of community-engaged, site-responsive art projects that address the impact of the Cook County Jail on Chicago’s West Side. They use multidisciplinary practices to explore the social and political implications of incarceration on communities of color. Through creative processes and coalition building, 96 Acres aims to generate alternative narratives reflecting on power and responsibility by presenting insightful and informed collective responses for the transformation of a space that occupies 96 acres, but has a much larger reaching outcome. 96 Acres is a project organized by Maria Gaspar.

Dorothy Burge is the Internship Coordinator for Associated Colleges of the Midwest. She teaches seminars on systematic racism, criminal justice, and social problems. As an artist and quilter, she has created a large-scale quilting project representing juveniles serving life without parole. Burge works with Chicago Torture Justice Memorials and has worked with public housing residents in Bronzeville.

Mary Patten is a visual artist, video-maker, writer, educator, occasional curator, and a long-time community and political activist. In her studio work, collaborative projects, writing, and teaching, she addresses collisions and alignments between “politics” and art making. Public, collaborative projects have included murals, billboards, and large-scale, interdisciplinary curatorial efforts. She continues to be drawn to collective forms of cultural production to reclaim language, feeling, and political passions from fundamentalist thinking, and to reclaim a utopia of the everyday.

Free Write Jail Arts and Literacy Program leads formal creative writing and poetry workshops inside the jail school, engaging students in the study of contemporary poetry and literature that is relevant to their life experience. Through increased literacy, written self-expression, exposure to and study of the performing, visual, and literary arts, they work with students to find meaningful pathways to self-expression and to further education.

Photos: Grace Johnston

Aaron Hughes and Michael Rakowitz: What Does It Mean to Consider Survival As a Part of Our Practice?

Tuesday, December 2, 5:00 p.m.
Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State St., 7th floor

The Artists in Dialogue and A Tea Performance

Artists Aaron Hughes and Michael Rakowitz discussed their work together and apart in the midst of the Iraq War, its aftermath and continuations. Discussion was followed by a participatory performance by Hughes.

When someone sits, sips, and reflects over a cup of tea, there is space to ask questions about one’s relationship to the world: a world that is
filled with dehumanization, war, and destruction; a world that is filled with moments of beauty, love, and humanity. Hughes’s Tea Project is an
ongoing dialogue that traverses a variety of these landscapes, from the tea sipped in a quaint coffee shop, to a cage in Guantanamo Bay, to a
motor pool in Iraq; tea is not only a favored drink but a shared moment that transcends cultural divides and systems of oppression. That is not
meant as a clichéd utopian statement, but as a reminder of a shared humanity that is so often overlooked.

Supporting the Expanding Practices of Individual Artists

Tuesday, December 2, 2:30 p.m.
Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State Street, 7th Floor

Held in Pablo Helguera’s Addams-Dewey Gymnasium, this conversation hosted by the organization Donors Forum considered: how does the arts community and the philanthropic institutions that support it currently serve individual artists, considering practices that extends across and beyond artistic disciplines? This discussion brought together funders, artists, and practitioners in the field, and featured panelists: Jim Duignan, Abigail Satinksy, Roelle Schmidt, and Encarnacion Teruel.
The Donors Forum is the premier resource for networking and education, information and knowledge, and leadership and advocacy on behalf of philanthropy and nonprofits in Illinois. As a membership association of grantmakers, nonprofits, and advisors, Donors Forum serves its constituents by promoting an effective and informed philanthropic and nonprofit sector. Find out more about the Donors Forum here.
Photo: "Sunset" by Alexandre Arrechea

Tokyo University of Arts: Student Lectures

Thursday, November 13, 12:00 p.m.
Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State Street, 7th Floor

Students from SAIC’s partner school presented key concepts and aesthetics of Japanese art and culture with reference to art practice characterized by approaches to nature. Lectures touched on fine art and aesthetics, traditional cultures of Noh and Kabuki, question of “Japanese-ness”, and use of “ambiguity,” self/others, inside/outside, life/death, and space/time in Japanese contemporary Art. Taking place in Pablo Helguera’s Addams-Dewey Gymnasium, this event allowed students of both SAIC and Tokyo University of Arts to exchange ideas and share their projects.

Photo credit: Robert Ellis

Lived Lives: Empathetic Encounters

Wednesday, November 12, 4:30 p.m.
Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State Street, 7th Floor

Lived Lives, started in 2006, emerged from a collaborative research process between an artist, a scientist, 104 Irish suicide bereaved families, and many others. Taking place in Pablo Helguera’s Addams-Dewey Gymnasium, this event was presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Wellness Center. With informed consent and active engagement of participating families, a series of site-specific interactive installations and public conversations were co-created, co-curated, and presented to the wider public. Through truthful collaboration and without judgment or censure, this work intended to move people towards an empathic position, creating an alternative space to understand, reflect upon, and challenge the silence and stigma around youth suicide.

Seamus McGuinness is an Irish artist, researcher and educator. He lives and works in Co. Clare, on the west coast of Ireland and lectures in Contemporary Textiles at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology. His practice is deeply rooted in life and cloth, encompassing research, durational social intervention, interac-tive installations, public conversations, and collective democratic acts. In 2010 he was awarded a PhD for Lived Lives, which was conducted within the School of Medicine and Medical Science, University College Dublin.

City Farm, Chicago. Photo: Patricia Evans

A Lived Practice Symposium

November 6–8
The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave.

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This weekend intensive program seeks to probe the reciprocal relationship of art and life: one can make a life as an artist, but we can all lead a meaningful life of heightened consciousness and awareness. So what can we glean from art practice to cultivate our own life practice? This has been a driving question throughout time and has taken many forms across civilizations. How can we address this question today? What can we learn from artists who are changing our communities and social landscape though their innovative cultural output and through the ways that they live their lives.

The symposium is presented with the support of the Goethe-Institut Chicago, Federal Republic of Germany, Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, Salzburg Global Seminar, and SAIC’s Visiting Artists Program.

Mauricio Pineda with his drawing for "Chiraq and its Meaning(s)." Photo courtesy of Temporary Services.

Project NIA: Chiraq & its Meaning(s) Release

Thursday, October 30, 6:00 p.m.
Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State Street, 7th Floor

As part of their Publishing Clearing House, Temporary Services collaborated with Project NIA to create a publication titled Chiraq & its Meaning(s), which includes visual and written submissions from youth and adults across Chicago.  Its goal is to document how some Chicagoans are thinking and talking about violence and safety in the city at this historical moment.

Project NIA and Temporary Services hosted a release party for the publication in the Proximity of Consciousness exhibition on October 30, which included readings, poetry, audio and visual contributions, along with special performances by members of Kuumba Lynx and other collaborators.

Please visit the #chiraq and its meaning(s) website for more information and the Publishing Clearing House website for images.

The publication is available for purchase here.

Photo: Emerson Granillo (BFA 2011)

Final Meals by Lucky Pierre

Saturday, October 25
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, 800 S. Halstead Street

A large group of community members including the SAIC-convened College Consortium for Art in Society, local government officials, and collaborative artist group Lucky Pierre gathered in the Residents’ Dining Hall of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. Co-organized by SAIC’s Department of Exhibitions and Exhibition Studies and the Hull-House Museum, the guests gathered around a “final meal” and conversation about prison reform.

To learn more about this event, read the full story here.

Class Convenings with Rirkrit Tiravanija

Friday, October 10, 12:00 p.m.
Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State St., 7th floor

Photo: Ricardo Phillips (MA 2015)

Photo: Abel Berumen

Artist Rirkrit Tiravanija created several shared lunches as part of his project Untitled 2014 (recycle, lunch break) for students from various SAIC, UIC, and Columbia College classes. A collaboration between Tiravanija, Ken Dunn, and Dan Peterman, these group meal took on several manifestations, each evolving in a different mode based on Dunn’s resources and the artists’ combined ingenuity. Each meal was composed of food rerouted by Dunn’s Resource Center—a South Side nonprofit that collects surplus food from local establishments and urban farms to redistributes it to places like soup kitchens and community centers. Several of the meals also involved Tiravanija creating new recipes with Dunn’s rerouted ingredients, assisted in preparation by Peterman—finding a use for these food resources that often go to waste.

Photo: Jim Duignan

Exhibition as project space led by Jim Duignan and Lavie Raven

Tuesday, October 7
Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State St., 7th floor

Artist Jim Duignan with Lavie Raven, artist and Prime Minister for Education at the University of Hip-Hop, worked with a group of students from the North Lawndale College Preparatory Charter High School’s debate team to engage topics presented in the Proximity of Consciousness exhibition. This group also worked with students from SAIC’s MAT/MAAE programs, enacting body movement exercises and collective activities in Pablo Helguera’s Addams-Dewey Gymnasium installation that explored the demonstration of democracy through lived experience.

Futurefarmers, Flatbread Society Mobile Bakeoven, 2013. Photo © Max McClure

In Dialogue: Claire Bishop and
Claire Doherty

Thursday, October 2, 6:00 p.m.
Rubloff Auditorium, 230 S. Columbus Dr.

This dialogue continues a season of critical thinking around social practice developed by SAIC to address this burgeoning and much-debated field. Claire Bishop is an art historian and critic based in the PhD program in Art History at CUNY Graduate Center, New York. Her books include Installation Art: A Critical HistoryArtificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship, and Radical Museology, or, What’s Contemporary in Museums of Contemporary Art?. Claire Doherty is founder and director of Situations, and renowned for pioneering new forms of public art in unexpected locations across the world.

For more information, visit the SAIC Visiting Artists Program page.

This event is free and open to the public, and presented in collaboration with SAIC’s Visiting Artists Program

Photo Courtesy of Northwestern University Center of Civic Engagement: NU in Chicago

Northwestern University in Chicago: Center for Civic Engagement

Sunday, September 28
Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State Street, 7th Floor

Nearly 300 Northwestern undergraduates explored Chicago’s neighborhoods through the Center for Civic Engagement’s fall NU in Chicago event. Students on the Arts in Chicago trip were given a tour of A Proximity of Consciousness, led by co-curator Kate Zeller (NU WCAS ‘02). In its third year, NU in Chicago’s interactive excursions give students the opportunity to explore various Chicago neighborhoods and civic resources. While many students were familiar with the city’s most popular destinations before the event, the specialized themes allowed freshmen and upperclassmen alike to visit parts of Chicago that often go unexplored.

Teacher Toolbox Workshop

Friday, September 26, 10:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m
Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State Street. 7th Floor

Coordinated by SAIC Admissions, this workshop focused on collaboration and the opportunity for art educators to work across disciplines and within their school neighborhoods. Discussion focused on ways to develop lesson plans that bring students’ work outside of the art classroom into the school and broader community. The 193 teachers in attendance from 120 different high schools in 7 different states had the opportunity to network, share and problem solve with SAIC faculty and high school educators, and engage with works on view in the Proximity of Consciousness exhibition.

Street Level Youth Media Gala

Wednesday, September 24, 6:00 p.m.
Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State Street, 7th Floor

Street-Level Youth Media hosted their 19th annual benefit night, “TuneIn TurnItUp” in the Proximity of Consciousness exhibition. The evening included performances by members of Street-Level.

Street Level Youth Media was established in the early 1990s by a group of artists, educators, and community activists interested in affecting change in their local Chicago West Town neighborhood.  Artist Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, who is part of the Proximity exhibition, is among the founding artists of Street-Level. Today, Street-Level remains committed to educating Chicago urban youth in using media arts for self-expression, communication, and social change. Their teaching practice emphasizes artistic excellence and challenges youth to think critically about media and how it influences their lives. Through process-oriented, socially-conscious media art-making, youth learn to develop their creative ideas, articulate their unique point-of-view, and see how their art can positively engage and change the world.

Find out more about the event and SLV here.

A Proximity of Consciousness Opening Reception

Friday, September 19 6:00 p.m.
Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State St., 7th floor

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Asteroid Hunter Gives an Update on the Threat of Near-Earth Objects

Two very different asteroids. Photo courtesy of NASA

An Earth impact by a large comet or asteroid could knock out human civilization with a single blow, as most people are now aware thanks to recent Hollywood movies and public outreach by planetary scientists. Since 1998, when NASA initiated its Spaceguard program to find comets and asteroids 1 km in diameter and larger, researchers have made some crucial inventories of the risky space rocks with orbits that come into close proximity of Earth. For instance, there are almost 1,000 of these so-called near-Earth objects with diameters of 1-kilometer or more.

However disconcerting this might seem, we can rest assured that none will make it here in our lifetimes. “We can say with a very good deal of certainty that no asteroid or comet large enough to threaten life as we know it will hit Earth in the next 100 years,” says Donald Yeomans. At NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Yeomans is a senior research scientist and manager of the Near-Earth Object Program Office. He has spent his career studying the physical and dynamical modeling of near-Earth objects, as well as tracking them down.

Yeomans works with an international network of professional and amateur astronomers who find and monitor asteroids and comets with orbits that come within approximately 0.33 AU, which is equivalent to 150 million kilometers. The team has identified 8,800 near-Earth objects as of early 2012, he noted during a talk at the American Museum of Natural History in New York on January 14 on his new book Near-Earth Objects, Finding Them Before They Find Us. The book gives readers an inside account of the latest efforts to find, track and study life-threatening asteroids and comets.

There are literally millions of asteroids and comets in the solar system, ranging in size from the microscopic to hundreds of kilometers in diameter. Both are made of rocky, metallic materials that failed to aggregate into planets during the early days of the solar system. Yeomans says the only real difference between asteroids and comets is that a comet actively loses its dust and ice when near the sun, causing a highly visible tail to form behind it.

Scientists have made exponential progress in identifying and tracking near-Earth objects in the past decade. NASA-sponsored near-Earth object surveys have found 90 percent of all asteroids and comets larger than a kilometer in diameter and projected their orbits at least 100 years into the future. Yeomans says the challenge now is finding all asteroids larger than 35 meters across, the size where one would pose a threat to a town or city, rather than all life on Earth.

Historically, Earth impacts by large asteroids and comets are rare. In addition, there is no clear record of a person being killed by one. Yeomans says that while Earth impacts by large asteroid and meteors are very low probability events, they are of very high consequence.

A prime example is just outside Winslow, Ariz., where a large crater was blasted into the Earth 50,000 years ago by a nearly 30-meter asteroid. Despite its relatively small size, the asteroid generated around 10 megatons of energy upon collision. By comparison, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II generated around 0.02 megatons.

The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago was much larger—a chunk of rock 10 to 15 kilometers across. The crater that formed when it struck near what is now the Yucatán Peninsula is 150 kilometers in diameter. The impact caused an immense explosion that deposited a layer of debris 10 meters deep as far as several hundred kilometers away from the impact and rained burning ash down on all corners of the globe. Most animals on the surface of the Earth died, and debris in the upper atmosphere launched the planet into a global winter. Many of the life forms that survived were either in the ocean or underground.

Today, if a survey detected a giant NEO headed for Earth, Yeomans says, humanity would have more than 50 years to prepare for it. He says a spacecraft could theoretically be used to divert such an asteroid off its Earth-colliding trajectory and out into space, and put in his plug for his employer, or at least organizations that support human ingenuity. “We have conceptual plans on how this could be done,” he says. “The reason the dinosaurs went extinct is because they didn’t have a space program.”

The views expressed are those of the author and are not necessarily those of Scientific American.

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On September 6, the Flipped Learning Network will host the first global Flip Your Classroom Day.

To celebrate, the network encourages teachers everywhere to pledge to  flip one lesson in the hope that the flipping experience will be a sticky one.

The campaign offers a variety of resources to  support flipping–and teaching in general–and encourages both creating and curating.

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  • TechSmith shares tutorials on how to  identify a lesson, and organize, record, review and share your screencast, as well as a 30-day free trial and a discount for their Snagit program
  • Adobe Presenter shares video instruction for creating videos using its software and offers 30-day free trials, as well.

And to support curating, or the integrating the content of others in local instruction, a group of companies and non-profits have contributed lists of lessons for Flipped Day.

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Grade Levels: 3 – 6
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Space snacking

Now that space travel has gone gourmet I'm really raring to go. It will be a costly trip, of course, but think of the food experience ..... sublime tastes that are literally out of this world.

Despite having his hands full running a trio of Michelin-starred restaurants, the French culinary czar Alain Ducasse is now earmarked as the world's first chef likely to achieve the acme of haute cuisine.

The chef's new vacuum-packed venture with the European Space Agency is primarily aimed at providing gourmet meals for astronauts living in the International Space Station and, ultimately, those making the long haul to Mars, predicted somewhere around 2033. But surely it won't take too long before a trickle-down effect significantly raises the bar for meals on upcoming space tourist flights.

The prospect of weightless fine dining puts a whole new spin on the term "lite" cooking. What sort of meals do you think would best suit travel into space?

Richard Branson, I'm sure, has already planned the celebratory gourmet feast for the first Virgin Galactic flights, which will use a five-person version of the Ansari Award-winning SpaceShipOne. Sir Dickie reckons a space flight will cost about $248,000 so you'd certainly expect a slap up meal! Virgin Galactic sub-orbital flights could launch from New Mexico by the end of 2008. Meanwhile, the rush is on to build spaceports. Australia's own astronaut, Andy Thomas, has bought into the action with plans for one at Woomera.

If all this sounds a bit too much like Star Trek then you're right on the ball. The TV series still inspires our visions of the future. Branson's first spaceship will be called the VSS Enterprise and there's no doubt Alain Ducasse could make significant revisionary improvements to the intergalactically out-of-date Star Trek Cookbook.

Posted by Rob Woodburn
May 18, 2006 10:05 PM

I guess these meals won't just be made up of good ole spacesticks then? My dad used to love them, & I personally could never understand why! It might be nice for astronauts to have something a little more appetising when they're so far from home... Don't think I'll be able to afford a trip to space anytime soon though!

  • Posted by: Mel on May 19, 2006 8:05 AM

Ah, Space Food Sticks - a delight of Aussie youth (more so the chocolate than the super-sweet caramel). And does anyone remember that crumbly-textured freeze dried ice cream, also lauded as being developed by NASA and enjoyed by astronauts?

  • Posted by: Skip on May 19, 2006 9:44 AM

I wonder how ice cream would fair

  • Posted by: mad girl on May 19, 2006 3:01 PM

one of the problems with space flight is not only what do eat, but what to do with, um, what comes out the other side as a result.

astronauts meals are designed to minimise this problem, so to speak. never look at a chewed up space food stick the same way again eh?

  • Posted by: space goat on May 19, 2006 5:19 PM

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James Delingpole is a writer, journalist and broadcaster who is right about everything. He is the author of numerous fantastically entertaining books, including his most recent work Watermelons: How the Environmentalists are Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Children's Future, also available in the US, and in Australia as Killing the Earth to Save It. His website is www.jamesdelingpole.com.

Julian Assange, Rowan Williams, John Pilger – PJ Harvey's plan to wreck the Today programme

Assange reads Thought For The Day

Oh dear. PJ Harvey is guest editing tomorrow's BBC Radio 4 Today programme. In theory this oughtn't to be a bad thing: well, not in my book for I have adored the Dorset rock goddess for many years. (With Kate Bush, she is probably our most cussedly original and consistently brilliant singer/songwriter and if you don't know her work check it out right this instant on Spotify, perhaps starting with her raw early material (Dry; Rid of Me), moving through her mid-period classics To Bring You My Love and Stories from the City; Stories from the Sea to her most recent, the elegaic and pastoral Let England Shake).

But just look at who Peej has gone and chosen to feature on her special edition: Julian Assange will be preaching; Welsh wizard Rowan Williams will do Thought for the Day and the Australian journalist John Pilger. So, the line-up so far: the weird blond-haired rat known as Wikileaks; an abstruse, bearded lefty; and a tendentious, perma-whingeing bleeding-heart hack. And we're supposed to think, what, exactly? That this constitutes bold, controversial, challenging, out-of-the-box thinking by one of our foremost creative talents?

Hardly. What Polly Harvey has just done is the intellectual equivalent of going on Desert Island Discs and choosing as her favourite songs Pavarotti doing Nessun Dorma, Celine Dion doing I Will Always Love You, the Agadoo Song and maybe a couple more tracks by Bryan Adams and Phil Collins. It's all so Occupy, so Change.org, so Russell Brand – so achingly, drearily, gag-inducingly predictable and conventional.

God it's depressing when your rock idols do this to you. I remember going through something similar, many years ago, when I discovered what Thom Yorke's politics were. (Not being generally a lyrics man, I'd always tended to just make up in my head what Radiohead's lyrics were, the better to concentrate on Jonny Greenwood's guitar breaks and the melodies and stuff….). And it's the same with comedians. There are, as far as I know, only two successful comics who aren't dyed-in-the-wool, knee-jerk lefties – and I shan't name them here because I don't want them to be lynched.

So long, of course, that they stuck to what they're good at – rock music and comedy – this wouldn't be such a problem. But they won't let it lie, will they? It's never enough that they make cool records you can get off your face to, or that they tell amusing jokes on television. No: they will insist on treating you to their political insights too, which are never remotely thought-through, and usually look as if they've been lifted wholesale from the troll section on the pages of the Guardian's Komment Macht Frei. This is especially noticeable whenever they get on to yours and my favourite topic: global warming. Whether it's Irish comic Dara O'Briaiaian, Britain's third-most-famous-celebrity-mathematician Simon Singh, perma-smile pouty Astro Boy Brian Cox, Prime Minister of Mirth Marcus Brigstocke, or whoever, you just know that these vacuous slebs – you'll have to buy my new book The Little Green Book of Eco Fascism to find out my name for them – have never given a fraction of a millisecond's original thought to the serious political, cultural and scientific issues of our time. They just stick to what all their mates think in Soho House, and what the audience thinks. You know, bold, daring, establishment-smashing stuff like the fact that they think gay marriage is really really great – and, damn it, they just don't care who knows it…

Editor's note: James's earlier blog post was based on the Press Association announcing the Assange was doing Thought for the Day.

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Titans middle linebacker Tim Shaw, who started in place of the concussed Colin McCarthy, was running on empty after Monday’s game.

He estimated he played as many snaps against the Jets as any game in his five-year NFL career. He was eating a bagel with jelly in the locker room.

“I have nothing left,” Shaw said. “This is just to help me get up the tunnel.”

Shaw was kicking himself for allowing a 17-yard touchdown pass in the third quarter. Shaw was in good position, but didn’t turn around to knock the ball down.

“That’s just a little bit of lack of experience for myself,” Shaw said. “I have to get my hands up. That’s all on me for sure.”

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I wasn’t around these parts during the 2007 draft, but I’ve heard the story a few times.

The Vikings entered that year’s draft with running back Chester Taylor locked into a long-term contract the year before. If the Vikings were basing their draft decision on filling a position, they wouldn’t have chosen Adrian Peterson seventh overall. They went with the best player available: Find the talent, make it fit later.

Peterson was, and still is, an undeniable talent. And yes, Peterson fell to them at seven. But they still could have gone another direction in an effort to fill a positional need.

That example is worth noting as the Vikings look to find a franchise cornerstone with the third overall pick in April’s draft.

I thought ESPN NFC North blogger Kevin Seifert made a good point today, that there is no step-by-step manual for building a championship team. Traditional NFL wisdom says good left tackles are paramount to on-field success, though general manager Rick Spielman has publicly downplayed the importance of needing an perennial Pro Bowler at the position. Good quarterbacks can mask left tackle deficiencies, he says.

This could be draft rhetoric on Spielman’s part — perhaps he’s been planning to take USC left tackle Matt Kalil all along — but I wouldn’t put it past the Vikings to take Oklahoma State wide receiver Justin Blackmon or LSU cornerback Morris Claiborne if they have unbelievable private workouts with the team.

My guess is Kalil is the choice, but the Vikings have been known to make things interesting.

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Hergott’s welding sparks silver medal

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UFV-trained Johnathon Hergott torched past the competition, winning a silver medal at the Skills Canada national competition recently at BC Place. The competition featured more than 40 different assigned projects in major skilled trade and technology categories.

Hergott, a Sardis Secondary student, earned his stripes in the School District #33 welding program under instructor Grant Kask at UFV’s Trades and Technology Centre.

UFV trades director Rolf Arnold said competing in the national event sets students apart as they enter into the work force.

“Only those who have exceptional skills and knowledge get to compete, and employers understand that, regardless of how they place in the competition,” Arnold said.

Other UFV-trained students impressing the national judges included: Casey Lemming (electrical, from the CTC Construction Electrical certificate program at TTC under instructor David Riel); and Davejot Sidhu (drafting, from CTC Architectural Drafting certificate program at TTC under instructor Tricia Thomson).

“Getting there is a great achievement in itself.  All competitors should take great pride in their accomplishments, including just getting to the competition itself,” added Arnold.

To qualify for the national competition, students first needed to compete in regional competitions, then win a gold medal at the provincial level.

All of the UFV students competing were secondary students involved in UFV partnership programs that allow them to take post-secondary training while still in high school.

Full results are listed here: http://skillscompetencescanada.com/en/results-of-scnc-2013/.

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Children’s Services turns up heat on Lev Tahor families remaining in Chatham

Male members of the Lev Tahor ultra-orthodox Jewish community attend prayers at their complex, in Chatham, Ont., Monday, Feb. 3, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Dave ChidleyMale members of the Lev Tahor ultra-orthodox Jewish community attend prayers at their complex, in Chatham, Ont., Monday, Feb. 3, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Dave Chidley

CHATHAM- Child welfare authorities opened new protection proceedings involving the Lev Tahor religious sect this week, but with members of the community on the move again, an Ontario court judge had a hard time Thursday making orders on the cases.

“I cannot make orders about kids that are not in the jurisdiction. It’s as simple as that,” said Justice Lucy Glenn.

Glenn, who heard the new cases Thursday, learned that at least one of the more than dozen children involved travelled to Guatemala the day after a worker Tuesday tried to notify his parents of the proceedings. The boy’s brother, also subject to the protection proceedings, was already in Guatemala before child protection workers arrived, court heard Thursday.

Publication bans under the Child and Family Services Act prohibit identifying any of the children or their parents.

Lev Tahor, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect that has made enemies in Israel and abroad for their anti-Zionist views, has been nomadic since late last year when child welfare authorities in Quebec began protection proceedings in that province. The families, who had been living in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts near Montreal, fled to Windsor, eventually settling in Chatham. In advance of the courts in Chatham ruling on whether the children would be returned to Quebec and placed in temporary foster care, the families fled again.

Some children were intercepted in Trinidad and Tobago and returned to Canada. An infant and her teenaged mother were intercepted in Calgary. One family, the subject of another case spoken to in court Thursday, made it to Guatemala.

Two children intercepted in Trinidad were the subject of a case spoken to in court Thursday. Those children, the last of the 13 who were originally ordered into care in Quebec, remain in foster care in Ontario. The rest are living with family members.

Court heard Thursday that some of the parents involved in the new files have been deported. “The parents’ whereabouts are not known,” said Ronald Burnette, a lawyer acting for Chatham-Kent Children’s Services, explaining to the court why the agency has been unable to officially serve documents on parents in some of the six files he spoke to Thursday.

Most of the parents, including some that are absent, are represented by Toronto immigration lawyer Guidy Mamann. Mamaan has in turn hired London lawyer Marnelle Dragila to speak to the child-protection issues.

Dragila Thursday did not oppose Children’s Services’ proposals to have some of the children who are still in the country ordered into their grandmother’s care under the agency’s supervision. The grandmother’s own children are also subject of child protection proceedings, but those children left the country about one month ago, the woman told the court through a Hebrew interpreter.

The judge ordered the woman to surrender her own passport and those of any of the children under her care.

Dragila said the immigration lawyer handling the case will begin preparing a list of which children and parents are still in the jurisdiction.

“They all have varying degrees of immigration issues,” Dragila told the court. While the parents are not Canadian citizens, some of the children were born here. She urged the court not to judge the parents based on the fact that they are no longer in Canada. “There is a difference between flight and deportation,” Dragila said.

All the cases return to court in July.

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A lingering problem of non-performing loans continues to weigh on Vietnam’s economy this year.                                                                                Reuters

Banks in Vietnam are struggling to boost lending, weighed down by a stubbornly high ratio of bad debt as well as weak demand, which may make it difficult to meet the economy’s growth target for the year.

Total outstanding loans rose by just 1.3% in the first five months of this year, well below the full-year target of 12%-14%, according to the State Bank of Vietnam, the country’s central bank.

“Banks are facing difficulties in finding businesses that are qualified for new loans,” Le Duc Tho, chief executive of Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade, or Vietinbank (CTG.VH), told The Wall Street Journal.

Vietnam’s gross domestic product has grown by an average of 7.0% per year over the past decade, but in the past three years the average has slowed to 5.5%. This year’s GDP growth is expected to remain sluggish — the government is projecting 5.8% growth for the year, while the IMF says 5.5% — considering that Vietnam’s economy still relies heavily on loans for growth.

GDP rose 4.96% from a year earlier in the first quarter of 2014, down from 6.04% in the final quarter of 2013. Second-quarter GDP data is due this week.

Le Tham Duong, an economist with Ho Chi Minh City Banking University, said banks are reluctant to boost lending partly because of the high ratio of bad debt, which authorities have struggled to bring down.

“The process of cleaning up bad debt in the local financial system has been taking place too slowly,” Mr. Duong said.

Last July the central bank set up the Vietnam Asset Management Company to clean up non-performing loans in the banking system. Participating banks transfer their problem loans to the management company in return for a bond that can be used as repo collateral with the central bank.

Nguyen Huu Nghia, the central bank’s chief inspector, said in late May that the company has made slow progress in purchasing bad debt in part because of the halting recovery in the property market, as most of the bad loans are backed by real estate.

The ratio of bad debt in the local banking system was 9.7% of total loans at the end of February, up from 9.0% at the end of last year, state media reported earlier this month, citing the central bank.

Weak domestic demand also is keeping banks from extending loans, according to Can Van Luc, an economist with the Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BID.VH). Ongoing tensions over the placement of a Chinese oil rig in contested waters in the South China Sea also could affect growth, he said.

“Business inventory levels remain high while investor confidence is low, making it difficult for banks to find businesses that are willing to take loans for business expansion, even though lending interest rates have fallen,” Mr. Luc said. “I think the government will likely fail to realize its growth target of 5.8% this year, and the most positive forecast now would be 5.4%.”

Vietinbank’s Mr. Tho forecast the total pool of outstanding loans would rise 2%-3% in the first half of the year, but he’s optimistic loan demand will pick up in the second half of the year, as it usually does.

“Business activity often gets more bustling and consumers tend to spend more toward the end of the year,” Mr. Tho said.

To get the economy rolling again, Mr. Tho said the government needs to consider cutting or freezing taxes for businesses, boost spending on infrastructure and seek ways to boost exports.

The State Bank of Vietnam last week devalued the dong against the U.S. dollar by 1%, the first such move devaluation in nearly a year. The central bank said in a statement that the devaluation is aimed at boosting exports — though they’ve  been a bright spot so far this year — and is in line with current macroeconomic conditions.

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    Ideological Litmus Test 101

    Are you more or less likely to buy a book that boasts, on its cover: “Preface by Mumia Abu Jamal, Foreword by Ward Churchill”?

    Eugene Volokh does not find the credibility of the author of “Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims”—who happens to be a professor at the University of South Carolina—enhanced by those associations. (In his post, he focuses mostly on the conclusion of an academic committee that Churchill falsified scholarly evidence and plagiarized.)

    I would just add that the author’s (or publisher’s?) move seems tactically unsound, as it assumes that the universe of people interested in a sympathetic depiction of American Muslims coincides with those who admire Jamal and Churchill. That’s hardly self-evident.

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    Sachin Tendulkar played a shot against West Indies during the third day of Test in Mumbai, Nov. 24.

    Forgive us for tempting fate, but we – like millions of others – can’t help feeling that this is the day Sachin Tendulkar gets to that incredible landmark of 100 centuries in international cricket.

    • It’s like the World Cup final all over again in Mumbai – the atmosphere is absolutely electric as Sachin Tendulkar, who is now joined by Virat Kohli, ticks his total towards that ton.

    • The wicket in Mumbai, Sachin’s home, is flat and friendly. That’s not, by any means, to say this is an easy task. Already the illustrious Rahul Dravid, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir and, just now V.V.S. Laxman have returned to the pavilion.

    • The crowd at Wankhede Stadium is expectant. Sachin Tendulkar, the Little Master, is on 93.

    • This is the closest Sachin has been to scoring a century since March. In the July Test vs. England at the Oval he got 91, but then was out LBW and we all cried.

    • 15 innings have come and gone since that March World Cup century against South Africa.

    • Single through covers off Edwards takes Tendulkar to 94. The Little Master looks like the most relaxed person in the stadium, perhaps India.

    • Kohli will be desperate to be there if, darewesay, when, Tendulkar gets to a hundred. He’s on 7 not out, at the moment.

    • Television adverts at the end of each over really don’t contribute to the drama unfolding in Mumbai.

    • Kohli flicks a Rampaul delivery off his legs for four runs, as India climb to 321 for 4.

      A quick single (don’t run him out Virat!) then puts Tendulkar on strike. Six runs needed.

    • Tendulkar’s scored quickly this match, taking just 150 balls to get to 94.

    • If my palms are sweaty, I dread to think what Tendulkar’s are like. Probably ice cold.

    • Youuuuch!! Noo, an edge

    • Disaster, and Rampaul, strike. Tendulkar’s edged him to Sammy in the slips and he goes for 94.

    • The nervous nineties for Sachin continue. Mumbai has fallen deadly silent. The crowd will have probably halved by the time these TV adverts are over.

    • Well, that’s that. Cricket fans the world over wanted Tendulkar to get that century, and he’d batted tremendously this morning. Now we’re all more down in the mouth than a world champion duvet eater.

    • Wankhede is silent. The crowd (and us) really thought today would be the day.

    • India 323 for 5, chasing West Indies’ total of 590. One way round this is for the remaining Indian batsmen to collapse so the team can go for a follow-on and Sachin can blast a ton tomorrow.

      That’s not going to happen.


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The ‘India Shining’ narrative no longer strikes a chord with majority of the population. Pictured, New Delhi’s India Gate.

Some argued it was gone long ago,  and India’s growth figures certainly suggested as much: India Shining is a thing of a past, a narrative that no longer strikes a chord with the majority of the country’s population.

This is the bottom line of a new public opinion poll conducted by the U.S.-based Pew Research Center. The study, released Monday, reveals that more and more Indians are pessimistic about their country – especially when it comes to its economic performance.

This year, only 45% of people surveyed are hopeful the economy will improve over the next 12 months, a significant drop from last year’s 60%. Compare this to Brazil and China, two other major emerging markets, where over 80% of people surveyed are confident their economies will improve over the next year.

Where does this pessimism come from?

“Faced with a slowing economy and political gridlock, Indians are dissatisfied with the ways things are going in their country, increasingly gloomy about the country’s economic future and also worried about their children’s economic prospects,” the study said. “Gone is the sense of well-being and optimism that prevailed just a few years ago when many private economists forecast that Indian economic growth would soon surpass that in China,” it added.

While the study didn’t mention India Shining – conceptualized as a marketing slogan for the then-ruling Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the 2004 election –   this became the unofficial motto for the country’s rapid economic growth in the mid-2000s.

But in recent years, growth figures started telling a different story.

India’s economy expanded 5.5% in the April-June period. While this was higher than the 5.3% gross domestic product growth of the previous three months, it is a sharp drop from the over 9% expansion of early 2011.

Unsurprisingly, fewer people now describe economic conditions as “good”: this figure has dropped to 49% from 56% in 2011, according to the study. The biggest economic worries were unemployment, inflation, and the rich-and-poor divide.

The study, based on a survey of 4,000 adults and conducted in March and April of this year, also looked at how India views the world.

There were few surprises when it came to Pakistan: only 13% of those surveyed said they viewed their neighbor favorably. This may change, as both sides are making efforts to improve bilateral relations. And, in India at least, public opinion seems to back this optimism: while they disliked Pakistan, most of those surveyed (70%) were in favor of improving relations.

There wasn’t much love for China, either. The study found that only 23% of respondents had warm feelings toward the other Asian giant.


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    Protesters held a banner against the gang rape of a student in New Delhi, January 13.

    Violence and discrimination against women is a widely discussed topic, but the December gang rape and subsequent death of a student in New Delhi sent shockwaves around the world. New tales of abuse still emerge every day.

    Two activists spoke with India Real Time about violence against women and what people can do to help fight the problem and change attitudes.

    Mallika Dutt is the founder, president and chief executive of Breakthrough and a co-founder of New York-based Sakhi for South Asian Women, an anti-domestic violence organization. Kavita Ramdas, is a New Delhi-based representative of the Ford Foundation and former president and chief executive of the Global Fund for Women.

    Their recommendations for the general public include creating a net of outspoken, courageous and sustainable women’s rights organizations, including those that work with male allies. Some may appear grassroots oriented, but it was movements like these that eventually helped women get the right to vote, work and choose, Ms. Dutt says.

    Here are some more suggestions on how people can take action, even far away from India in countries like the U.S.:

    Kavita Ramdas: Do something at home. Learn about violence in your own community and support the local domestic violence shelter; it really does help women in India because women and men need to acknowledge violence at home before they can be more effective in campaigning for those same rights abroad.

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    Kavita Ramdas.

    Ms. Ramdas: Learn about the vibrant women’s movement in India. There are a slew of amazing organizations that have been mobilizing and challenging violence and gender inequality in India for decades, including Manushi, Jagori , The Lawyers Collective for Women’s Rights, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, Must Bol, CREA. There are thousands of women’s organizations and a few impressive young men’s associations emerging that are determined to take on these challenges. Help share their work and raise awareness and resources to support them.

    Mallika Dutt: Support women’s groups with financial resources. Women receive very little support compared to other issues and are on the frontlines of change.

    Ms. Ramdas: Make a general support gift to either the Global Fund for Women or Mama Cash. Honor your mom for mother’s day and say thanks for all the amazing work these two funds have supported in India since they were formed 30 and 25 years ago.  They get small grants directly into the hands of women’s groups that need all the help they can get.

    Ms. Dutt: Push your government to place women’s issues as priority and especially make the resources available for implementation; and pay particular attention to the enforcement of laws on sexual assault, sexual harassment, and unequal sex ratio.

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    Ms. Ramdas: Try to shift your language and talk about survivors of violence as opposed to victims. For too long, women and children have been marginalized and further weakened by being portrayed as victims. While they certainly suffer, they are also the agents of change in their own lives and for our world.  Give them that respect along with your compassion.

    Ms. Ramdas: Work with men. Men can be and are amazing feminists. Dads of daughters care about their safety and wellbeing, so work with them to make a difference both in your own community and around the globe.

    Ms. Dutt: Encourage men to take responsibility for challenging violence against women and supporting women’s human rights.

    Ms. Ramdas: Read and understand stories about the violence against women in India from a space of humility and the perspective that all over the world this is a battle that is far from won.

    Ms. Dutt: Push for changes in inheritance and financial access for women. The devaluation of women in India is still connected to dowry and related economic issues.

    Ms. Dutt: Understand that ending violence against women needs deep culture change. And culture change needs all of us to take responsibility for our own attitudes toward women and gender.

    Visi R. Tilak is freelance writer with bylines in publications such as the Boston Globe, Indian Express, India Today and Tehelka. She can be reached via email, her website or on Twitter

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The Trojans famously feared the Greeks, even when they came with gifts.

Similarly, perhaps, we should get a little skittish when long-standing bears come with what look like quite bullish forecasts.

And here’s one now, big wooden horse and all. Strategist Bob Janjuah, now at Nomura in London, but previously a renowned gloomster at the Royal Bank of Scotland, says he wouldn’t be surprised to see U.S. equity make new 2010 highs in the year’s closing three months.

That’s quite a jolly take from a man described variously as a ‘noted bear,’ ‘the last of the permaskeptics’ and so on. Has the move to a Japanese outfit somehow turned Jeremiah into Candide?

Well, no. And, of course, there’s a sting in the tail.

Janjuah, and Kevin Gaynor, who made the move with him, just think the consensus in place since September, which they describe as pro-risk, pro-policy and pro-policy maker, will endure for a while longer.

Investors will stick with their current conviction that the Federal Reserve can and will create broad-based inflation and also, perhaps, some economic growth. So, more quantitative easing, more stock gains.

However, that sting will come six months or so down the track. By then, Janjuah thinks, it should become clear that the policy settings are not working, not driving sustainable growth in the real economy. ‘More of the same’ won’t be credible and the Fed will be seen as out of options. As he puts it, “on a six-month basis our major concern is that market sentiment will abruptly and completely flip.”

Ah, now this is more like it.

Janjuah’s point, which is in essence that the markets might be too dazzled by QE to notice its limitations, was implicitly echoed just yesterday by Federal Reserve voting members.

William Dudley, president of the New York Fed and a permanent voting member on the Open Market Committee said at Cornell University that the central bank can provide essential support for the economy in its care, but not a magic wand. Meanwhile Thomas Hoenig, the Kansas City Fed Chief said in Lawrence, Kansas that there are ‘real risks’ to quantitative easing.

Now Hoenig’s not a believer anyway, having often used his vote to dissent from the view that more stimulus is needed. But Dudley is on board. He has made the case for monetary easing in the past.

Equity markets want more QE. They’re pretty sure they’re going to get it and will probably applaud when they do. But after that, well, it’s uncharted territory. And plenty of smart people are making that point, very publicly, very obviously.

Is anyone listening?

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“Sesame Street,” (from left): Ernie, Bert, 1969-.

When I heard there was a petition circulating to have Bert and Ernie get married, my first reaction was, “Why?”

As a gay male in a two-year relationship, my biggest nightmare would be having someone hand me the signatures of thousands of strangers ordering me to marry my partner. What if we’re not quite ready? Or what if—for the sake of argument—we never want to get married?

Pressure is what ruins the pure parts of marriage, the parts that are about two people forming a deep bond that only they can understand.

Sometimes that bond will call for wedding bells and an array of legal protections. Other times it will call for many happy unmarried decades of gin martinis with a creative twist on the idea of monogamy.

I must have been busy signing an important petition on the day Bert and Ernie came out of the closet. It feels a little homophobic to assume that any two men—or muppets!–that live together or have a close friendship are gay. I think all of us have at least one straight friend or relative whose sexuality has been questioned because of their closeness to another male, or the way they dress and talk. While it’s sometimes funny, it’s never fair. (For the record, Sesame Workshop, the non-profit organization behind the production of Sesame Street, says that Bert and Ernie “do not have a sexual orientation.”)

Our society is often all too quick to push people into marriage for reasons that have nothing to do with love. An entire culture has been built around this classic heterosexual guilt trip (see the longing ladies of “Sex in the City,” or the tireless tabloid speculation on Jennifer Aniston’s presumed loneliness).

Gay marriage is such an important thing because it has the possibility to destabilize traditional notions of how two consenting adults of any sexual orientation can express their love. There’s a likely scenario in which a wide acceptance of gay marriage leads to straight men and women being better able to define their romantic relationships in whatever way they choose. If gay couples can position marriage as an option and not a necessity, maybe straight people will be able to as well. Wouldn’t that be nice? It’s a perfect example of how rights for one group can have an impact on us all.

The conservative on my shoulder also keeps whispering that this is exactly what opponents of gay marriage are talking about when they talk about the dangers of letting “the Homosexual Agenda” spread into inappropriate realms. While I consider myself a staunch advocate of helping all our youth feel safe and comfortable in their own skin, this doesn’t feel like the right place for the gay thing. Just because us homos see an opportunity, that doesn’t mean we have to take it. Some conservatives are already calling for the defunding of public broadcasting, and this isn’t going to help that.

But the real reasons Bert and Ernie shouldn’t get married? Well, Ernie is a slob and has a credit score that would make the Count scream. And according to Cookie Monster, Bert doesn’t want kids, and Ernie does.

I’ve also heard Bert has been in therapy to address his issues with intimacy, so I’m really not sure marriage is the best step for them to take right now.

So just give it a rest, okay?

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Some Republicans will go to great lengths to prove they’ve heard the clarion call to rein in federal spending.

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California Rep. Jerry Lewis, anxious to regain the chairmanship of the powerful House Appropriations Committee when Republicans return to the majority next year, embraced a bid by Arizona Rep. Jeff Flake, his conservative nemesis, to join the panel that dictates federal spending.

Messrs. Flake and Lewis once fought over money for a swimming pool in the Californian’s district. During the Republicans’ last stint in the majority, the two regularly sparred over earmarks.

But Mr. Lewis, who has since embraced a ban on those member-directed projects, needs to bolster his bona fides with fiscal conservatives to reclaim the job he held when Republicans were bounced from power in 2006, in part, for steep increases in federal spending.

Mr. Lewis needs a waiver to circumvent House Republican rules that prevent lawmakers from serving more than six years atop a committee.

“The American people have demanded a change in the spending habits of Washington, and they clearly want an end to the massive deficits and debt that are stifling our economy,” Mr. Lewis said in a statement Friday evening. “The Appropriations Committee will be ground-zero in this fight.”

“There are numerous talented and capable fiscally conservative Members and incoming freshmen who would make many valuable contributions to our Committee,” he said. “While these decisions will be made by the Steering Committee, I will encourage the addition of Republicans to the Appropriations Committee – including Congressman Flake – who are ready to roll up their sleeves and work with their colleagues to conduct critical and time-consuming oversight, and get down to the serious work of cutting government spending.”

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TRIPLE DIAMOND CHRONICLES #49 along with a 2004 NFL DRAFT Top Picks BIG Ben, ELI, FITZ, and RIVERS with a DIRECT SNAP to A QB DRIVEN League...Did anyone go wrong in the 2004 NFL DRAFT selecting SUPER ELI, RIVERS, FITZ, and BIG BEN?...Who would you have taken at #1 or does it matter?

We analyze all the Time on the Past in Sports and the biggest Thing we always refer to is the Draft. With the Pittsburgh Steelers taking on the NY Football Giants this Weekend in Met Life Blue the Argument has come up. Did Teams get it right in 2004 with their Selections of QBs and a Player or Two in the 2004 NFL Draft?

First taking a Look at the 2004 NFL Draft: Top Picks:
Note: Notable QBs Big Ben, Eli, Rivers, and Schaub

1. Eli Manning Bolts (traded to G-Men on Draft Day)
3. Larry Fitzgerald Cards
4. Phillip Rivers G-Men (traded to Bolts on Draft Day)
11. Big Ben Steelers
22. JP Losman Bills
90. Matt Schaub Falcons (3rd Round now with Texans)

The Top 4 Picks (not included Raiders OT Robert Gallery 3rd Pick) was a Huge Success as 3 of those 4 Players were Franchise Type Players. Big Ben slid to #11 and Lead Man Bill Cowher and Player Personnel Director Kevin Colbert didn't miss. J.P. Losman just didn't pan out and a perfect Example of when you miss on a High Pick especially at QB it can set s Franchise back for Years and the Bills have missed more than enough.

Big Ben 3 Super Bowls Won 2 (Beat Fitz in Super Bowl XLIII)

Super Eli 2 Super Bowls Won 2 (beat Tom Terrific Foxboro both Times)

Rivers No Super Bowls but HOF Type Numbers (Now you see why Eli requested Trade on Draft  Day as Eli and Dad Archie sniffed out something in Bolts Nation)

Fitz 1 Super Bowl vs Big Ben in Super Bowl XLIII (43) Top 40 All-Time in Receiving Yards in NFL

Losman Out of the League...not a Complete Bust but a Bust...LOL

Schaub backed up Vick now Texans Franchise QB and a Super Bowl 47 Contender

BIG BEN, Super ELI, RIVERS, LOSMAN, and SCHAUB Career Passing Yards:
Note: NFL Rank in Parenthesis

Super Eli 29,880 (36)
Big Ben 28,566 (44)
Rivers 25,931 (58)
Losman 6,271 (223)

*Schaub 19,586 (98)

*Full-Time Starter since 2007

Now with the Match Up this Weekend in Met Life Blue Big Ben and Eli will renew their Rivalry and its not so much about outplaying one another the Steelers are 4-3 and don't want to move to 4-4. The G-Men want to keep their strangle hold on the NFC East by possibly putting more distance between them in the below average NFC East.

As for the Question did those Teams miss on those 4 Picks in the Top 11..absolutely not as they all have been as advertised or even better. Losman was a Miss at #22 1st Round and Schaub like in every Draft slipped through the Cracks and has Performed of late as an Elite Level Signal-Caller.

I would have taken Big Ben or Eli before Rivers and if I had a QB there is no doubt I would have did anything in my Power to get Fitz If I was close to that #3 Pick.

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BSC is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Bluefield State College maintains 14 nationally accredited programs and graduating an average of more than 350 students annually since 2002. The College's enrollment has increased by 15.4% from fall 2006 to fall 2010.

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They share nearly identical records, but the Blue Jackets and tonight’s opponent, the Winnipeg Jets, occupy very different territory in their respective playoff pecking orders.

The Blue Jackets (14-15-4, 32 points) are just three points out of third place and an automatic playoff spot in the Metropolitan Division. The Jets (14-15-5, 33 points) are 10 points behind third-place Colorado in the brutal Central Division.

A date with Jets in Nationwide Arena should remind the Jackets to thank the hockey gods for their move to the easier East, right?

Wrong, said Jackets defenseman Jack Johnson, who isn’t so sure his club would be in hot water in the rugged but familiar Western Conference.

“To be honest, I think we match up better against the Western Conference team,” Johnson said. “I don’t think it’s a blessing we’re in the East, other than travel, and to be honest that’s overrated. I think the Eastern Conference teams throw a completely different challenge at you than what we’re accustomed to. There is definitely a learning curve.”

The Jets, in the East until this season, have had similar struggles. They are 8-3-1 against the East and 6-12-4 in the West.

The Jackets are 4-5-1 against the West this season. They are 10-10-3 vs. the East, though Johnson isn’t convinced the Jackets wouldn’t be in better position even if they were still members of the Central, in which every team but Winnipeg has a winning record.

“Last year, we owned the Red Wings,” Johnson said. “We had tough games against St. Louis. We played well against Nashville. Chicago is the only team that really gave us trouble. It’s funny how some teams match up well with others. But the East has definitely thrown a curve ball at us. I don’t necessarily think that if we were in the West that we would be in trouble.”

The Jets lineup will be full of unfamiliar faces. The Jackets haven’t faced them since Nov. 12, 2011, a 2-1 Jackets win. The Jets were still the Atlanta Thrashers for the first 13 meetings in the series.

Such unfamiliarity, coach Todd Richards said, must be countered with aggression.

“There was good emotion in the game (a 4-3 overtime loss to the Blues on Saturday),” Richards said.  “St. Louis was a team that we knew well, that we have a past with. That’s one thing that I’m finding, playing Eastern vs. Western teams, is that there is some unfamiliarity playing the Washington Capitals just based on the players or maybe the building. When we go out to San Jose or Chicago, we know their players, we know their building, we know what to expect from them.”

“Tonight’s going to be a little different. We’ve got a Winnipeg Jets team that we haven’t seen in a long, long time. The important thing for me tonight is our team getting some emotion in this game and not waiting, coming out and going after it right away.”

Side dishes

--Richards said he will make no changes to his lineup. No. 3 goaltender Mike McKenna will start a second consecutive game in the absence of injured goalies Curtis McElhinney and Sergei Bobrovsky. Nick Foligno (upper body) skated this morning and will play. R.J. Umberger was absent this morning for personal reasons but will be in the lineup.

--The Jackets have owned this series (don’t get to type that too often). Columbus is 9-5 all-time against the Jets/Thrashers and has won the past six meetings. The Jackets last lost in the series was on Dec. 9, 2005, a 5-2 defeat in Atlanta.

--Goalie Al Montoya is slated to start for Winnipeg. He is 4-2-1 with a 2.26 goals-against average and .921 save percentage in nine games this season. His only other start vs. the Jackets was brutal. The former Michigan Wolverine went the distance for the New York Islanders in a 7-3 loss in Nationwide to end the 2011-12 season.

--Defenseman James Wisniewski (upper body) and forward Marian Gaborik (knee) skated this morning. They are “day to day” and could return later this week. McElhinney skated on his own. Richards said he was told that McElhinney “looked and felt good out on the ice.” He, too, seems a prime candidate to play against Philadelphia later this week.

 --Richards said Bobrovsky is “progressing” as he recovers from a groin strain and could get back on the ice next week. Right wing Nathan Horton, meanwhile, is expected back sometime after the Christmas break. “is that 10 days, nine days?” Richards said. “So we’re getting close to (days rather than weeks). It’s tough to narrow down a specific date, but I can pretty confidently tell you that it won’t be before Christmas.”

--Jets winger Blake Wheeler has five goals and one assist in his past four games. Jackets center Ryan Johansen has four goals and six assists during a career-long point streak that has reached eight games.

--Jets left wing Evander Kane will return tonight after missing the previous six games because of a lower-body injury.

--Jets center John Albert, a Cleveland native and Ohio State alumnus, will have about 40 friends and family members in the buidling. He's played in Nationwide once before as a Buckeye. He was recalled from AHL St. John's on Dec. 1 and has played six games (one goal, no assists) for the Jets this season.

--Jets defenseman Grant Clitsome will play in Nationwide for the first time since he was claimed off waivers by the Jets on Feb. 27, 2012. He played 93 games for the Jackets from 2009-12.

--Claude is back in the building, two nights after Hitch left it. Joy.

--Shawn Mitchell