Hugues de Montalembert is a painter. He is also blind.
Montalembert was born in Normandy, into an affluent family that expected him to follow tradition and become a banker or join the military. But young Hugues had other ideas and decided to leave home and live abroad, making documentaries and occasionally selling his paintings. He trudged [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, News on May 25th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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As a staple of this year’s Global Entrepreneurship Week, organizers of the first ever Global Cleantech Open -a wider scale version of the Cleantech Open – will award a $100,000 prize to the innovator who presents the best idea. The competition will be a spotlight which will help to “foster and encourage clean tech [...]
Filed under: Technology on October 16th, 2009 @ 11:27 am
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No matter how successful a business gets, it’s important not to lose sight of the strategies that have taken you there. For most that involves building strong customer relationships and consistently delivering a great product or service. In recent months, eBay, the popular online auction house has veered from that path perhaps, but its CEO [...]
This week the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation hosted its first annual benefit concert “Reeve Rocks” in New York. The foundation is at the forefront of philanthropic efforts to raise money and awareness for spinal injury research but has been suffering from something like an image crisis as of late due to the fact that [...]
Filed under: Community, Philanthropy on July 31st, 2009 @ 6:17 pm
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It’s nearly impossible these days to pick up a newspaper or read a blog and not find some discussion of the future of the media business and what it means for journalism. To say that it’s an experimental time in the way content is distributed and funded is a bit of an understatement perhaps, as [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, News on July 31st, 2009 @ 1:36 pm
Tagged with: Business, funding, inspirational, integrity, journalism, marketing, media, News, reporting, web
Already saddled with a stagnant local economy that relied too heavily on tourism and resources, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans appeared destined to be yet another broken American city without any real identity. But despite the widespread devastation and loss of population, almost four years later, the city seems poised for a [...]
Filed under: Business, Community, News on July 24th, 2009 @ 1:35 pm
Tagged with: Business, economy, entrepreneur, growth, innovation, innovative, inspirational, New Orleans, start-up, success, sustainability
In the global recession economy, the world of philanthropy has inexorably changed. Organizations once flush with funds to help those in need have now found themselves in a position of having to contract – if not fold up completely – the amount they are capable of putting up for the sake of charitable giving. However, the [...]
Filed under: Business, Community, News, Philanthropy on July 14th, 2009 @ 11:30 am
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‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.