RBC painting competition: Contest paints a picture of Montrealers ...

MONTREAL ? Four Montrealers are finalists in the RBC Canadian Painting Competition, which is worth $25,000 to the winner chosen out of 15 young artists from across the country.

Honourable mentions worth $15,000 each will be awarded to a further two artists who are in the first five years of their careers.

For the RBC competition, the country was divided into three regions, each with a jury that chose five finalists; the finalists are each represented by a single work. The 15 paintings will be shown at the Power Plant in Toronto, and winners will be announced on Nov. 29.

The Eastern Canada jury includes artist Janet Werner and gallery owner Roger Bellemare, both of Montreal, and Robin Metcalfe, director of St. Mary?s University Art Gallery in Halifax. They chose Philip Delisle of Halifax and the four Montrealers: Nicolas Ranellucci, Betino Assa, Julie Trudel and Corri-Lynn Tetz.

Werner said the jurors were looking for artists with a certain level of skill and coherence and who have achieved a personal approach. And there should be an element of surprise, she added.

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Surprises are what Ranellucci finds in the details of paintings by pre-Renaissance heroes like Giotto, and in later artists like Brueghel and Mantegna.

?A snail in the foreground of a 13th-century Annunciation painting,? the UQ?M graduate said in an interview. ?Why that detail??

The details suggest a story, but Ranellucci sees them as occult phenomena whose meaning is a mystery.

For him, painting is a ritual in which he builds a collage of disparate objects, each with their own (often garish) colour. The skill with which he pulls off these seemingly childlike paintings explains his presence among the finalists.

?I?m trying to paint for everybody, to be accessible,? Ranellucci said.

To see more of Nicolas Ranellucci?s work, visit www.galeriedominiquebouffard.com.

Assa, a postgraduate student at Concordia, also creates ambiguous scenes populated by odd creatures. He injects artificial elements into natural settings to ?provoke humour, unease and contemplation,? he writes on his website. ?I?m looking for a way to create a mood that?s dark, that goes back to childhood,? Assa said in an interview.

Gathering in the Forest, 12 a.m. is populated by creatures that are scary but aren?t killing each other, he said.

Assa discovered his technique of painting on Plexiglas in a printmaking studio, where he was creating prints from inscribed Plexiglas plates. The prints lacked contrast, but when he lay the inked plate face down on white paper, he noticed how sharp and crisp the image on the plate was.

For his paintings, he cuts a drawing into the Plexiglas and then covers it with layers of transparent paint. The result is a painting of great clarity and brilliant colours.

To see more of Betino Assa?s work, visit www.betinoassa.net.

Trudel is an RBC finalist for the second time. Last year she submitted a single ?experiment? resulting from her exhaustive working process of pouring colours of ink, drop by drop, on a wood surface. Her aim is to discover ? and document ? which colours interact with the physical qualities of the medium (texture, thickness, etc.) to create an effect she can use in a painting. Her colours are heavily diluted so as to add an element of chance ? they will run unpredictably.

Her acceptance last year was a surprise, said Trudel, who has an MFA from UQ?M. She didn?t win, but judges encouraged her to try again.

This time Trudel has entered a fully realized diptych from a series based on the colours used by printers: CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, black; the latter is known as the key plate in printing). Three solo shows, including one at Optica in May, taught her how to present her work.

?There is a huge difference between the tests and the paintings,? she said in an interview. After a period of study, Trudel throws out or gives away much of her art. An exhibition is based on intuitive choices of what works together from the few paintings left after the long process of experimentation.

To see more of Julie Trudel?s work, visit www.julietrudel.ca.

Tetz uses images she finds on Face?book to, as she wrote in her submission to the RBC jury, ?create a visual metaphor for the widespread collapse of the middle class.?

Housefire 3 presents a disaster in the suburbs in an oval format reminiscent of souvenir plates. The format draws in the viewer because it mimics how our eyes see things, Tetz said in an interview.

The painting isn?t based on a professional news photo, but on a ?bad? photo taken by an onlooker with a connection to the house on fire. ?I like the more personal aspect of the amateur photographer,? she said.

Tetz has created album covers for artists including the Besnard Lakes. Her artwork for Land of Talk?s album Cloak and Cipher received a Juno nomination.

To see more of Corri-Lynn Tetz?s work, visit www.corrilynntetz.com.

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NWS confirms tornado hit Rome in July

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ROME, N.Y. -- The National Weather Service now confirms that it was a tornado that damaged an Oneida County home last month.

Officials say an EF-1 tornado touched down in Rome back on July 24th, eventually hitting a home on Lamphear Road.

The newly built home was knocked off its foundation and an attached garage suffered heavy damage, with debris blown as far as 200 yards away.

The National Weather Service estimates wind speeds reached 110 miles per hour and the tornado traveled a path about two tenths of a mile long.

No one was hurt in the storm.

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How the Internet has changed companies' marketing plans | My ...

It wasn?t that long ago when the marketing menu for businesses consisted of print, radio and television. But as the Internet took hold, and Americans began to spend larger and larger shares of their time online, businesses began to see the opportunities offered by Internet marketing.

Today, Internet marketing is huge business ? you only need to look as far as the $ 36.5 billion businesses spent on Google ads in the last year. And it?s not just that businesses are simply throwing money into online advertising. The reason they are spending their money online is Internet marketing allows businesses to reach audiences in completely new and more sophisticated ways.

Benj Arriola, an Internet marketing expert for Internet Marketing, Inc., details four ways that marketing on the Web has changed the way businesses advertise.

* Internet marketing offers the opportunity to reach a more interested and active audience. Traditional marketing through radio, TV and print offers exposure to large audiences, but there?s no guarantee that those audiences are paying attention. By optimizing their sites for search engines, companies can target individuals who are already likely seeking out their products or services. Social media also offers the opportunity for businesses to reach an engaged and active audience.

* Online marketing makes it easy to track your success. Web analytics allow you to track how long visitors are spending on your website, and what?s attracting the most attention. Other tools allow you to track how many people are reading your email newsletter and track click-through rates on online ads. If something isn?t working for you, you can change course before you spend a lot of money.

* Many online marketing platforms represent a cost savings. You can put almost unlimited content on your website for a very marginal cost. Starting a company blog can help drive traffic to your website and build trust with potential customers. Maintaining a presence on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter allows you to share information on special promotions or new products with a few strokes of the keyboard and the click of a mouse.

* Options like pay-per-click advertising help ensure that you are targeting the right audience, since you pay only when potential customers click on your ads. Through these types of models, you can also hone your sales pitch in a way that leads to more business by monitoring past successes and failures.

In short, Internet marketing has given companies a more direct link to consumers, and allowed them to deliver increasingly customized marketing content. Businesses that are Internet-savvy and spend their online marketing dollars wisely are likely to see a reward in the form of increased business.

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Incipio Silicrylic case review - hybrid protection with style

The Incipio Silicrylic case is built out of a silicone skin, hard plastic outer casing and screen protector to keep the display from suffering any dings. All of the hardware buttons, inputs, microphones, and cameras remain full accessible in the the Silicrylic case, while those more concerned about looks will be happy about the wide variety of colors available.

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Fire evacuees in Wash. and Calif. return home

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) ? Hundreds of people in Washington and California who fled encroaching flames from wildfires were allowed to return to their homes Friday, and in Washington many were to find out whether their property was spared by a huge blaze that burned out of control for much of the week.

"Some people will find their homes there and others will find homes damaged or even lost," said Mick Mueller, a spokesman at the fire command center.

Meanwhile, some residents of rural central Idaho were told to evacuate by late Friday as blazes continued to burn throughout the West.

In Washington, people were returning to the south and east sides of the 35-square mile Taylor Bridge Fire near the town of Cle Elum in the Cascade Range, about 75 miles east of Seattle. The 22,700-acre fire was about one-third contained on Friday.

"The folks will have to be working among fallers dropping hazardous trees and utility crews working to get the power back on in there," Mueller said. "And firefighters are still working in there trying to put out hot spots."

About 900 firefighters with eight helicopters continued building a line around the fire.

The fire broke out Monday at a bridge construction project and exploded through dry grass, brush and trees. Authorities said Friday the blaze had burned 48 residential properties and 15 other structures on the east side of the Cascades. The fire burned on the north side of Interstate 90. More than 400 people evacuated.

Firefighters hope to have the fire contained Sunday.

But the National Weather Service has issued a red flag warning for high wildfire danger in effect through Saturday night on the east side of the Cascades. In addition to the hot, dry conditions, there's a chance for dry thunderstorms Saturday evening with lightning that could start more fires.

"We're kind of on edge about that," Mueller said.

In other states:

? Idaho authorities have told some Custer County residents to evacuate by Friday afternoon because of a nearing wildfire. To the south, in Elmore County, firefighters were still working to protect two threatened towns from another huge blaze. The Custer County sheriff's office issued an evacuation notice Thursday night, warning residents from Sunbeam Store to Loon Creek Summit that if they don't evacuate by 5 p.m. Friday officials cannot guarantee their safety.

?In California, hundreds of people who were ordered to leave their rural homes because of San Diego County wildfires were being allowed to return. State fire officials said evacuation orders were lifted Friday for about 400 people in the communities of Ranchita and San Felipe. Flames came within a half-mile of some houses but none burned.

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Associated Press writers Doug Esser in Seattle and Jessie L. Bonner in Boise, Idaho, contributed to this report.

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India Announced Approval of Mars Probe to Launch Nov. 2013

According to a story in the Associated Press, the Indian government has approved the launch of a probe to orbit Mars. It is hoped that India's first interplanetary science mission will be launched during a window in November 2013.

Mission announced during Indian Independence Day Speech

The Mars mission was announced by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during a speech celebrating the 65th anniversary of India's independence from the British Empire, according to the Associated Press. The Indian Mars probe will be launched by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in November 2013 and will orbit the Red Planet in September 2014, according to a January article in the Asian Scientist, gathering scientific information with a variety of instruments.

Announcement comes in the wake of the successful landing of the Mars Curiosity

Singh's announcement came in the wake of the successful landing of the Mars Curiosity, a car-sized rover that will explore the Martian surface for signs of life for at least a year. Mars Curiosity is the latest in a series of probes the United States has launched to the Red Planet.

Instruments proposed for Indian Mars mission

A number of scientific instruments have been proposed for the Indian Mars mission, according to the account in the Asian Scientist. Only some of the following will be included in the final mission:

* Probe For Infrared Spectroscopy for Mars (Prism) "will study certain aspects of the Martian atmosphere."

* Mars Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyzer (Menca) "will analyze the Martian upper atmosphere-exosphere region."

* (Tis) "will measure thermal emissions from the surface of the Red Planet."

* "Using radio signals to study the atmosphere."

* "Mars Color Camera (MCC) which can image from a highly elliptical orbit of 500 km x 80,000 km."

* A Methane Sensor For Mars (MSM) to detect methane in the Martian atmosphere.

* A Mars Radiation Spectrometer (Maris) "which can measure and characterize charged particle background levels during the cruise and orbit phase of the spacecraft."

* A Plasma and Current Experiment (Pace) which will assess what is known as "atmospheric escape and processes of the Martian atmosphere and the structure of the Martian tail."

* "A microwave remote-sensing technique for sounding the Martian atmosphere."

* "A suite of instruments to detect plasma waves in the Martian atmosphere."

Indian Mars mission criticized

A number of media outlets and politicians have criticized the idea of India launching a Mars mission. The Associated Press account mentions how some Indian opponents of Singh's Congress Party suggest that an Indian Mars mission represents misplaced priorities. In their view, the Indian government should concentrate on providing electricity and safe drinking water for the Indian people. Indian scientists respond that technological spin-offs from Indian space missions are a justification for carrying them out.

According to the Daily Bhaskar, former ISRO chief G. Madhavan Nair suggested that India should concentrate on launching its own manned mission instead of conducting the robotic Mars mission. He stated that India is falling behind both Russia and China, which both have operational manned space craft.

Indian space probes to the moon

The first major Indian space mission was that of the Chandrayaan 1 that orbited the moon and helped to confirm the existence of water in deep craters at the lunar poles. India is planning a follow up mission, Chandrayaan 2, which will consist of an orbiter and a lander with a rover attached to it.

Mark R. Whittington is the author of Children of Apollo and The Last Moonwalker. He has written on space subjects for a variety of periodicals, including The Houston Chronicle, The Washington Post, USA Today, the L.A. Times, and The Weekly Standard.

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Education funds diverted to pay ZIFA's lodge debt | SW Radio Africa

The Minister of Education, Sport and Culture David Coltart

By Tererai Karimakwenda
15 August 2012

The Minister of Education, Sport and Culture David Coltart, has revealed that $90,000 from the education budget was recently diverted to bail out the country?s football association, ZIFA, who owed the money to Pandari Lodge.

Newsday newspaper had written an editorial blaming Minister Coltart and the Sport and Recreation Commission (SRC) for the failure by the Young Warriors football team to travel to Angola. The team had no money for the airfare.

In his response to Newsday Coltart said it is not the responsibility of his ministry to provide airfare for ZIFA, which is an independent organisation.

Regarding the diverted funds, Coltart said: ?It is intolerable that a sport which should be self financing such as Football, is in such a chaotic state that funds we can ill afford to divert from Education and other sports, have to be spent in this manner bailing out ZIFA.?

Asked why he would pay off ZIFA?s debt to a lodge, Minister Coltart told SW Radio Africa that he only learned that the money had been given to them, when he returned to Zimbabwe from the Olympics on Tuesday.

?I am told that ZIFA property had been attached following a debt owed to some lodge in Harare. I am waiting to meet with the permanent secretary to find out why this was done,? Coltart explained. He added that he was deeply concerned that the money was used to pay off a hotel debt, rather than buy footballs or other equipment.

?I recognize government has a responsibility to help football and other sports. I have no objection in principle because football is very important in Zimbabwe,? the Minister said.

The fact that Coltart was not advised of the ZIFA debt before the money was diverted exposes the chaos within the coalition government itself, with ZANU PF officials continuing to make unilateral decisions without consulting their partners in the coalition. The Deputy Minister for Education is ZANU PF?s Lazarus Dokora and the Permanent Secretary is Constance Chigwamba, also from ZANU PF.

Source: http://www.swradioafrica.com/2012/08/15/education-funds-diverted-to-pay-zifas-lodge-debt/

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Viewing choices through a sustainable lens

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Sustainability journal interviews ASU's George Basile

TEMPE, Ariz. Sustainability is a human decision a responsibility that relies on good information and how we choose to use it according to George Basile, a senior sustainability scientist at Arizona State University, who made that point in this month's cover story in Sustainability: The Journal of Record.

Reframing sustainability as a human decision challenge, rather than "some version of people, planet and profit coming together," was one of the subjects discussed by Basile in the "On the Record" feature with journal editor Jamie Devereaux.

"Sustainability is something that humans want. We want a future that is sustainable for us, so it is a human construct. Therefore, humans to a certain extent are in charge of making that happen, or not," said Basile, a professor of practice at ASU's School of Sustainability.

"As you frame (sustainability) as a decision challenge, you turn it into a communications challenge, too, because decisions are made up of dialogues, whether they are internal dialogues or cultural narratives," he said.

"The decisions we make are based on the stories we tell ourselves, the information we have, the conversations we have, and ultimately how actions are fed back into those conversations," Basile said. "So having the knowledge and the information out there that can be trusted and getting it to the right people becomes critical to how sustainability is framed what sorts of information and knowledge we have to act on."

Editor Devereaux came away from the Q&A with a renewed focus in the prospect of sustainability.

"One point in particular that struck me was Professor Basile's view on sustainability as a human construct, a human decision. This is really just a grounded view of sustainability and he put it in a very accessible way for both me and the audience," Devereaux said.

"He went on to say that viewing sustainability in this way 'puts the responsibility squarely in our hands.' I think this is a great way to look at sustainability not a government policy, not an activist movement, but a decision made by people," she said.

Basile, who received a doctorate in biophysics from the University of California, Berkeley, was the R&D head of The Natural Step, an accelerator of global sustainability. He has led his own consultancy, serves on the boards of nonprofit organizations and new ventures such as the ASU student-led social network and sustainability start-up eEcosphere and advises Fortune 500 clients on sustainable business practices. He also is a co-editor of the three-volume set, "The Business of Sustainability: Trends, Policies, Practices, and Stories of Success."

That varied experience led Basile to ASU's Global Institute of Sustainability where he is now part of a team developing an Executive Master's for Sustainability Leadership (EMSL) program that will prepare professionals to significantly advance sustainability practices in the workplace.

This type of executive master's degree is one of the Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives being created at ASU to develop and deliver real-world solutions for sustainability challenges in diverse geographical, political and cultural settings. Such activity at a research one university like ASU prompted Sustainability's editor to ask Basile his view of the current sustainability field within higher education.

Basile responded: "Sustainability has permeated most of our big institutions, and that is certainly true at the university level. It has been interesting to see new efforts emerging specifically around sustainability, and also sustainability being embedded into existing fields, like engineering and other areas.

"Students can either go headlong at sustainability as a new field, or they can bring it into more classic studies and efforts," he said.

And, universities are central to communicating information and knowledge about sustainability, according to Basile.

"This is a place where knowledge is shared, where people do have trust, and where trusted information comes out," he said in the article.

In describing a main opportunity for sustainability education, Basile noted that "sustainability forces us to look at the world and say what is working and what is not. When we have a planet where the majority of people are outside the global economy and where we have large numbers of people without access to meeting their basic needs, and where we do not have good solutions for that, sustainability forces us to ask: How do we solve that through decisions and our institutions?"

Basile also discussed in the article viewing choices through a sustainability lens, notably with students' entrepreneurship and innovation. "It really does open up new ways to think about things. A new perspective combined with a better understanding of reality, combined with permission to act and resources to act, you get the ingredients for innovation," he said.

"Sustainability, by giving us a better lens to view the world through and giving us a better picture of reality, really gives not just education," said Basile, "but all institutions the opportunity to innovate and be creative in improving themselves to meet the sustainability challenges we face."

###

Sustainability: The Journal of Record, which is in its fifth year of publication, aims to be a legitimate platform for the sustainability world, according to its editor, Devereaux. "We document leading-edge sustainability efforts and provide the central forum for academic institutions, the business community, foundations, government agencies, and leaders of sustainability-focused endeavors to share and learn about one another's progress and programs," she said.

More about Sustainability: The Journal of Record is at www.liebertpub.com/sus.

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School of Sustainability
Global Institute of Sustainability
Tempe, Arizona USA


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Arizona State University

Sustainability journal interviews ASU's George Basile

TEMPE, Ariz. Sustainability is a human decision a responsibility that relies on good information and how we choose to use it according to George Basile, a senior sustainability scientist at Arizona State University, who made that point in this month's cover story in Sustainability: The Journal of Record.

Reframing sustainability as a human decision challenge, rather than "some version of people, planet and profit coming together," was one of the subjects discussed by Basile in the "On the Record" feature with journal editor Jamie Devereaux.

"Sustainability is something that humans want. We want a future that is sustainable for us, so it is a human construct. Therefore, humans to a certain extent are in charge of making that happen, or not," said Basile, a professor of practice at ASU's School of Sustainability.

"As you frame (sustainability) as a decision challenge, you turn it into a communications challenge, too, because decisions are made up of dialogues, whether they are internal dialogues or cultural narratives," he said.

"The decisions we make are based on the stories we tell ourselves, the information we have, the conversations we have, and ultimately how actions are fed back into those conversations," Basile said. "So having the knowledge and the information out there that can be trusted and getting it to the right people becomes critical to how sustainability is framed what sorts of information and knowledge we have to act on."

Editor Devereaux came away from the Q&A with a renewed focus in the prospect of sustainability.

"One point in particular that struck me was Professor Basile's view on sustainability as a human construct, a human decision. This is really just a grounded view of sustainability and he put it in a very accessible way for both me and the audience," Devereaux said.

"He went on to say that viewing sustainability in this way 'puts the responsibility squarely in our hands.' I think this is a great way to look at sustainability not a government policy, not an activist movement, but a decision made by people," she said.

Basile, who received a doctorate in biophysics from the University of California, Berkeley, was the R&D head of The Natural Step, an accelerator of global sustainability. He has led his own consultancy, serves on the boards of nonprofit organizations and new ventures such as the ASU student-led social network and sustainability start-up eEcosphere and advises Fortune 500 clients on sustainable business practices. He also is a co-editor of the three-volume set, "The Business of Sustainability: Trends, Policies, Practices, and Stories of Success."

That varied experience led Basile to ASU's Global Institute of Sustainability where he is now part of a team developing an Executive Master's for Sustainability Leadership (EMSL) program that will prepare professionals to significantly advance sustainability practices in the workplace.

This type of executive master's degree is one of the Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives being created at ASU to develop and deliver real-world solutions for sustainability challenges in diverse geographical, political and cultural settings. Such activity at a research one university like ASU prompted Sustainability's editor to ask Basile his view of the current sustainability field within higher education.

Basile responded: "Sustainability has permeated most of our big institutions, and that is certainly true at the university level. It has been interesting to see new efforts emerging specifically around sustainability, and also sustainability being embedded into existing fields, like engineering and other areas.

"Students can either go headlong at sustainability as a new field, or they can bring it into more classic studies and efforts," he said.

And, universities are central to communicating information and knowledge about sustainability, according to Basile.

"This is a place where knowledge is shared, where people do have trust, and where trusted information comes out," he said in the article.

In describing a main opportunity for sustainability education, Basile noted that "sustainability forces us to look at the world and say what is working and what is not. When we have a planet where the majority of people are outside the global economy and where we have large numbers of people without access to meeting their basic needs, and where we do not have good solutions for that, sustainability forces us to ask: How do we solve that through decisions and our institutions?"

Basile also discussed in the article viewing choices through a sustainability lens, notably with students' entrepreneurship and innovation. "It really does open up new ways to think about things. A new perspective combined with a better understanding of reality, combined with permission to act and resources to act, you get the ingredients for innovation," he said.

"Sustainability, by giving us a better lens to view the world through and giving us a better picture of reality, really gives not just education," said Basile, "but all institutions the opportunity to innovate and be creative in improving themselves to meet the sustainability challenges we face."

###

Sustainability: The Journal of Record, which is in its fifth year of publication, aims to be a legitimate platform for the sustainability world, according to its editor, Devereaux. "We document leading-edge sustainability efforts and provide the central forum for academic institutions, the business community, foundations, government agencies, and leaders of sustainability-focused endeavors to share and learn about one another's progress and programs," she said.

More about Sustainability: The Journal of Record is at www.liebertpub.com/sus.

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
School of Sustainability
Global Institute of Sustainability
Tempe, Arizona USA


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