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Data Innovation Night
French Tech Hub
Monday, September 16, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
Cambridge, MA
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
Featuring 14 Startups in Big Data & Analytics, discover the latest developments, services and products on:
- Data Management
- Analytics and visualization
- Applications
Attend our networking cocktail to meet with world-class Big Data Innovators.
Discover these Big Data Start-ups:
Who we are:
SYSTEMATIC is a world-renowned French innovation Cluster. Systematic includes over 650 Paris region leaders in the field of software-dominant systems with a strong societal dimension.
PRIME fosters business and technology partnerships between the Paris Region and the US. PRIME helps American companies innovate by connecting them with world-class scientists and research labs in the Paris region, and by streamlining access to R&D project funding.
FACCNE (The French-American Chamber of Commerce, New England) fosters good transatlantic business relationships with a main focus on innovation. With more than 250 French and American members, and over 100 corporations (life sciences, IT, cleantech, services, etc), the FACCNE provides the principal private forum for French and American business leaders to connect.
AFDEL, The French Association of Software Vendors and Internet Solutions, brings together software and Internet companies in a community and is the spokesperson for the digital industry in France. AFDEL currently has more than 330 members (representing approximately € 3.5 billion in revenue) throughout France, including major international groups, SMEs, and start-ups.
Greater Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry's mission is to advise and support innovative small and mid-size companies with their international business expansion at each stage of their developments.
When & Where
Cambridge Innovation Center
1 Broadway
Monday, September 16, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
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French Tech Hub
French Tech Hub is a growth accelerator for French High Tech Companies in the U.S. The French Tech Hub has formed an alliance with UBIFRANCE to serve IT and Life Sciences companies from all over France.
The French Tech Hub is located in San Francisco and in Boston and operates as a One-Stop-Shop to provide a wide variety of services needed for American expansion: strategic coaching, marketing support, business development, domiciliation, working desk, subsidiary creation, administrative support, etc.
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Greene County Public Schools Superintendent David Jeck has resigned from his position because he has accepted a job with the Fauquier School District. He says he was not able to tell the public why until Friday because he was not yet appointed in his new position.
Jeck says he believes the school board will begin a search quickly for his replacement. He says looks forward to the challenges his new position will bring him. The Fauquier School District has a budget of $120 million compared to Greene's school budget of $32 million.
"It was a good time for a change. I'm someone who is always looking for new challenges, that's what I've done throughout my career and this is, Fauquier is a very different challenge than my experience at Greene the last five years," said Jeck.
Jeck says he will also have more responsibility because he will be overseeing 20 schools. Jeck's last day will be May 10. He said he wanted to stay on board with the school district during the busy budget season.


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What better way to start off the new year in film than to judge and dissect the Academy Award nominations that were recently announced. We already have a list of the nominees and who the favorites are, but what about the controversy concerning the actors and titles that were left out? Every year there's a handful left behind, causing movie fans to raise their pitchforks in protest (once again) over the Academy's direction of being too old-fashioned. Whether this is true or not is irrelevant, the fact of the matter is there's only a selected amount of room for nominees.
In reality, the Academy Awards is just a glamorous way for Hollywood to show off, it's a chance for all the biggest stars to dress up and essentially promote their movies. The winners get a statue and are in the news for a couple days after, but the most important thing for them is having "Oscar winner" next to their name in movie trailers. The recognition may be set in film history forever, however, there are hundreds of actors and films that stand the test of time even without a nomination to validate their fame. Alfred Hitchcock, his movies and the actors involved in them, usually got overlooked by the Academy. Now, Vertigo and Rear Window are widely considered classics, and neither one not sporting a Best Picture nomination affects its significance.
2012 had incredible movies that will be remembered decades from now and performances that will be endlessly studied in film classes to come. Being snubbed for an Oscar causes a bitter tingle of disappointment only when the nominations are announced and when the Oscars are handed out, after that it's time to move on.
On that note, it's time to give some recognition to those actors and films that Oscar decided to overlook this year. Read on to see our top Oscar snubs for 2013.
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Moonrise Kingdom
Before the onslaught of winter movies arrived, Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom was on everyone's radar. A small movie released in summer that climbed the box-office charts, it garnered praise for its sweet and charming story of two kids in love that also featured a cast full of veteran actors who were all fantastic. There was even talk of Bruce Willis for best supporting actor, especially with him playing against type as the somber and delicate police captain who has a heart of gold.
Unfortunately, Moonrise Kingdom was forgotten way too quickly, and it looks like the Academy went with Beasts of the Southern Wild to be their "indie love child" instead. At least the film got an original screenplay nod, but that's like a pat on the back for Anderson and his eccentric style of filmmaking. Despite it's lack of nominations, we won't be forgetting about Moonrise Kingdom anytime soon.
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Javier Bardem
Often regarded as the most entertaining category of the Oscars, the Best Supporting Actor nominations are always flashy and varied among taste, and sometimes they are usually more memorable than the actors chosen for a lead role. More specifically, villains are the Academy's go-to choice in this category; a way to award exuberance and embracing a dangerous character is the best way for the Oscars to appear edgy among viewers. So why not honor the most fascinating villain to appear onscreen all year? Bane. Oops, wrong movie. It's Raoul Silva in Skyfall.
Javier Bardem transcended the usual outline for a megalomaniac villain in a James Bond movie and injected his own personal flair for theatricality and evil behavior, because of this he earned universal acclaim for his performance. He was creepy, disturbed, brilliant, seductive, lethal, sympathetic, and not to mention a little sexually confused as well. This was Bond's best chance to score any serious awards, since everything about Skyfall worked so flawlessly. While it did get a couple nominations for its technical accomplishments, ignoring Bardem is something that's hard to forgive. At least he already won the award for playing another sociopath with bad hair.
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Kathryn Bigelow
This one may be the biggest upset. Yes, Bigelow already had her moment to shine at the Oscars before, for a movie that has many similarities to Zero Dark Thirty. But just because she makes two movies featuring war as a back story shouldn't disqualify her in anyway. Before the nominations, she was easily advertized as the favorite for best director, even gaining an edge over Spielberg. She's racked up numerous awards already for her work and has basically been nominated for every major award that's out there. The Academy must have an extremely strict rule on not allowing women to win the directing award twice, let alone be nominated more than once. Bigelow was literally singled out.
Zero Dark Thirty was an excellent film brought to life by Bigelow's sharp direction. Her work here has been sadly ignored by the Academy and it really is a shame. Most say that had she not won for The Hurt Locker then this would be her year. We agree. It's unfortunate that the Academy works like that but it is what it is, right?
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Ben Affleck
Another director who was apparently a shoe in for a selection, Ben Affleck must be feeling a little bitter over his exclusion. Argo landed seven nominations but there was no love for Big Ben. It seems the Academy still haven't forgiven him for Gigli and Daredevi, it's the only explanation. Even though he's made a new name for himself as a director, and has three great movies under his belt to prove it, Affleck apparently still has to redeem himself for his past sins. With only three films as a director though, Affleck has time and we're confident that by film five or six he'll have his gold statue.
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Michael Fassbender
Prometheus may have had a polarizing effect on audiences but there was one element of it that was unanimously cherished by all: the character David. Fassbender has had some great roles over the years, but this is one of his juiciest. Eerie beyond belief, his remarkable stillness throughout the film, combined with his joyful sense of curiosity and discovery, makes Prometheus worth watching for his performance alone. Whether he's dyeing his hair blonde to look like Peter O'Toole, manipulating humans for his divine pleasure or separated from his body as a talking head, it's impossible to take your eyes off Fassbender. He steals every scene and is flawless in the role. It's a mystery as to why this man hasn't won an Academy Award yet but like Affleck, his time will come shortly.
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The Sessions
Heartwarming and touching, yet shockingly comical; The Sessions was a critical curveball this year for its blend of defined characters and the sexual content involved. On paper it seems weird and potentially awkward, but the movie works as a human drama that's mature enough to joke with its delicate subject matter. Thanks to a sensational cast who fully embrace their roles (especially John Hawkes and Helen Hunt), this picture is easily one of 2012's best films. I'm guessing not many people caught this one in theatres either, and it's a shame. It's a really wonderful film that I wish received more recognition than it did.
So there you have it, our picks for the biggest Oscar snubs. Feel free to head down to the comments below and let us know who or what you think got snubbed.Previous


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Milwaukee Brewers' fans will stand by their man, even when his own teammates abandon him. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that sales of Ryan Braun merchandise have increased since Major League Baseball suspended Braun for the rest of the 2013 season for violating the league's Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. In an interview with the Journal Sentinel's Don Walker, Brewers chief operating officer Rick Schlesinger said that the team will continue to offer Braun's apparel for sale. "It is within each fan's right to decide whether to purchase his merchandise or not," Schlesinger added. Braun has support from the Brewers' fan base, but may not have support from his fellow MLB players. Former Brewers pitcher Zach Greinke said that Braun "lied to us" and that he "threw people under the bus to help himself out." Los Angeles Dodgers star Matt Kemp said that Braun should be stripped of his 2011 MVP award. Ryan Braun's remaining fans may still purchase Ryan Braun jerseys, auto
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- Joseph City, AZ
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Discuss the ways the media influences or tries to influence your vote.
Lets not discuss the people who are seekiing office ... Lets talk about the campaign. Many have said this was the United States dirtest election campaign ever. How.
One of the examples I see is that the newspaper in our area shows one person looking very Presidential and the photo of the other one is a wild eyed wide open mouth reminder of a serial killer. These are shown side by side.
Tell me what you see. Do you think that papers should try to influence your vote .... other than running paid for ads? How about the other medias?
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Roy Bourque 30+Oct 22 2012: The problem that I see is that candidates are not saying how they are going to do what they claim they can do. They are only appealing to the concerns of people with blank promises. Added to this is the general feeling that the campaign is built on "vote for me because my opponent is a worse scoundrel than I am". I have to vote for the person that I think is going to hurt me the least, not the one that will benefit me the most, because I don't see that any of them will benefit me at all.
People need to look behind the scenes and not just suck up to what they are being fed. There doesn't appear to be any vision in where the country is headed. People are claiming that the winner of debates is not in what they said, but in how forcefully they said it. It appears that people are not really listening to the words. They are only looking at who has the most energy. That is no way to decide.
Are rich people not rich now? How does giving tax breaks to the rich allow them to create any more jobs than what they are capable of doing right now? And why does a person have to be in congress in order to create change for the better? I see pensions and candidate contributions as the main reason that people are running, not because they want to create a better America for the general populace. No one is saying what kind of jobs creation plans they are going to pursue. They are only promising more jobs, but in what?
If the common family cannot afford to take vacations or take their family out to a restaurant, then the tourist industry and restaurant businesses are going to feel the pinch. The price of oil went up considerably in the last decade, a commodity that many are dependent on. Speculators added to the price increase. How does anything that the candidates propose going to change this? I haven't heard it on either side. Until this problem is fixed, creating jobs that are liable to fail will more likely be the order of the day.
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This is an icy cold summer treat, great mango and passion fruit, and surprisingly not too sweet. I'd say it falls midway between a sorbet and an ice cream in terms of flavor, since there is both juice and creamer (I used soy) in the base.
Mango-Passion Fruit Gelato
Photo: Randy Mayor; Styling: Melanie J. Clarke
Passion fruit nectar adds a sweet, tart flavor to this creamy ice cream. You'll find passion fruit nectar in the juice section of the supermarket.
Yield: 7 cups (serving size: 1/2 cup)
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Amount per serving
- Calories: 130
- Calories from fat: 21%
- Fat: 3.1g
- Saturated fat: 1.9g
- Monounsaturated fat: 0.9g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.1g
- Protein: 1g
- Carbohydrate: 26g
- Fiber: 0.6g
- Cholesterol: 10mg
- Iron: 0.1mg
- Sodium: 12mg
- Calcium: 32mg
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup water
- 3 cups chopped peeled mango (about 2 mangoes)
- 2 cups passion fruit nectar
- 1 1/2 cups half-and-half
- Combine sugar and water in a medium saucepan, and bring to a boil, stirring until the sugar dissolves. Place sugar mixture and mango in a blender; process until smooth. Pour into a large bowl; cool completely. Stir in the nectar and half-and-half.
- Pour mango mixture into the freezer can of an ice-cream freezer; freeze according to manufacturer's instructions.
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- MAIN INGREDIENT: Dairy, Fruits
- DIETARY CONSIDERATION: Low Cholesterol, Low Sodium, Gluten-Free
- COOKING METHOD: Ice-Cream Maker
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Look to own companies for their attractive dividend yields and underlying assets. We are finding stocks outside the U.S. selling at low earnings multiples and pay dividends of 4% or 5% or more. By comparison, all U.S. stocks that have earnings and pay a dividend have a median P/E of 18 and yield 2.0%, according to Value Line. [...] more>>
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Increasing the wages of retail workers to $25,000 per year would lift roughly 730,000 workers and their families out of poverty, according to the Demos study. It would also increase the purchasing power of retail workers by $4 to $5 billion, boosting overall GDP by between $11.8 and $15.2 billion. And in doing so, it would generate between 100,000 and 132,000 new jobs as a result of this "stimulus" and its multiplier effects, while having only a small effect on prices, the report finds.
Paying retail workers better also offers substantial benefits to the companies that employ them. While this may seem counterintuitive, detailed academic research backs it up. Zeynep Ton of MIT's Sloan School of Management argues that seeing keeping wages low as the way to achieve low prices and high profits is badly mistaken: "The problem with this very common view is that it assumes that an employee working at a low-cost retailer can't be any more productive than he or she currently is. It's mindless work so it doesn't matter who does it. If that were true, then it really wouldn't make any sense to pay retail workers any more than the least you can get away with."Like the leading high-tech and manufacturing companies, the best, most high-performing retail companies benefit from having better paid, more skilled and more engaged workers. In a study published in the Harvard Business Review, Ton finds that the retail companies that invest the most in their lowest paid workers "also have the lowest prices in their industries, solid financial performance, and better customer service than their competitors."
Thirty-four years ago this week, Congress enacted the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) to remedy a long history of discrimination against pregnant workers and promote equal opportunity. The PDA opened workplace doors, making clear that employers could not fire, fail to hire or otherwise penalize pregnant women just for being pregnant. The law also requires employers to treat pregnant workers as well as other employees "similar in their ability or inability to work."
Unfortunately, the PDA's protections have proven limited. All too often, pregnant workers, especially women in low-wage and physically demanding jobs, are pushed out of their jobs and denied minor modifications to workplace duties, rules, or policies that would enable them to continue working and providing for their families. For example, a retail worker in Salina, Kansas was fired because she needed to drink water on the job to stay hydrated and prevent bladder infections. An activity director at a nursing home in Valparaiso, Indiana was terminated because she required help with a few physically strenuous aspects of her job to prevent having another miscarriage. In Landover, Maryland, a delivery truck driver with a lifting restriction was forced out onto unpaid leave after being denied light duty, even though such positions were available for other non-pregnant workers—her case is currently being heard in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Is this legal? In those instances, courts found that it was. Courts have interpreted existing legal protections narrowly, ruling that employers are not obligated to accommodate pregnant workers unless they can point to a similarly situated non-pregnant employee who was treated more favorably. Unfortunately, most pregnant workers have limited knowledge of their employer's business practices, especially in other offices and locations, and cannot meet this burden.
In addition, because pregnancy is not a "per se" disability pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), courts have found that pregnant workers are not entitled to accommodations that are readily available to workers with disabilities. Although the 2008 Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA) now obligates employers to accommodate a broader range of temporary disabilities, pregnant workers still must prove they have a pregnancy-related disability to qualify for coverage; healthy pregnancies are left out.
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After Google Improved Maternity Leave, Post-Partum Attrition Dropped by 50%
Amid all the handwringing about what technology companies can do to recruit and retain women in their ranks, we don't hear a lot of solutions. But here's an obvious thing that tech companies can do: increase the length of maternity leave and pay a full salary for its duration.
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There are too many good grafs in the post linked above to pull just one. I hope that if you think the Occupy Wall Street movement is a joke, or just the rumblings of a lazy band of social misfits, you will take a few minutes to read Taibbi's piece. I don't always agree with him, but here I think he's spot-on, and he focuses on specific acts of corporate misfeasance that have not gotten proper attention in the news.
So, since you didn't ask, here is my contribution as a member of the 99%:
I believe in capitalism, in the benefits of hard work and the benefits and uncertainties of taking big risks. But capitalism where the capitalists keep their hand on the scale; where capitalists risk big, get bailed out, and continue to preside over the decimation of the middle class isn't capitalism: it's corporate socialism.
My husband and I work a combined 100+ hours per week most weeks. We have taken 2 brief vacations in the seven years we've been married. I have paid off my undergrad student loans, and I didn't get a dime in federal loans for law school. In spite of my significant private loan debt burden, I work as a lawyer in the public interest, in which capacity I don't make as much as my private counterparts but I feel a great sense of personal satisfaction; and in which capacity I encounter the crippling effects of educational and social inequities every day. We live in a house that is worth 2/3 the face value of the mortgage (though we've made payments equal to 1/2 the face value of that mortgage over the life of the loan), thanks to the devastating effects of real estate speculation and unsound mortgage practices at every big bank in America over the last 10 or so years. We have watched our small retirement accounts be decimated since 2007, even as we continue to contribute because we don't know what else to do. We have never missed a mortgage payment, and we don't intend to, despite the fact that in today's dollars we make less than we did four years ago. In spite of these challenges, we still manage to be active participants in our community, donating our time to arts organizations and to public school children. Because that's how we were raised.
I support the Occupy Wall Street Movement. Not because I want the government to subsidize my wealth the way it does the banks'. Not because I begrudge wealthy people the enjoyment of the fruits of hard work. Not because I am a utopian naïf who believes we can live in a world full of only winners with no losers. I support it because I believe that if you enjoy the rights of corporate personhood, you owe the responsibilities attendant to that personhood. As I grew up understanding it, the central premise of capitalism is that corporations (or partnerships or individuals, really any market participants) are amoral actors, driven by market forces to achieve success through efficiency and innovation. Well, that's fine, until you say, "Corporations are people, too, my friend." You can't have it both ways. You can have soulless pursuit of profit or you can have personal accountability, just like I do. Meaning, if you don't pay your bills, you lose your stuff, just like I would. If you cheat or steal from people, you go to jail, just like I would. One set of rules for every PERSON. If, on the other hand, you want to go about your business as an amoral actor, that's fine, but you can't expect the same free speech and other rights I enjoy as an accountable, real person; you can't expect to enjoy the benefits of American citizenship while being organized under the laws of some Carribean tax haven.
Now, look. There plenty of middle class folks who don't support OWS because they don't believe (or at least they think they don't) in wealth redistribution. Well, I do. I accept that the redistribution of wealth means that sometimes those who receive the benefits of my hard work may fritter away or misuse those benefits. God knows, I came of age in the 1980s when every time you turned around there was another politician squawking about welfare mothers or some such shibboleth of allegedly endemic socialist graft. And that squawking had the ring of truth because it was rooted in anecdotal, if not systemic evidence. But you know what? I'm willing to risk a little individual misuse of my tax dollars by people who have less than me, because the benefits to the many outweigh the misdeeds of the small few. Where I live, poverty and racial and educational inequality are still alive and well. If a few of the hours I work every week go to programs designed to attack those problems, I'm happy to put in those hours. (And I'll still be happy to volunteer my non-work time, too, as I do on a regular basis.) Does that mean I will mindlessly support any program with a name that conjures social action? No. But I am happy to support those that innovate to improve the lives of individual people, one person, one community at a time. Whether that's in the form of government subsidies to non-profits or government programs that replicate the successes of non-profits; whether that's in the form of government subsidies to schools that serve the public interest (and education, pure education, is the essence of the public interest) or subsidies to individual students who demonstrate need and/or ability; whether that's in the form of aid to artists and arts groups or in the form of subsidized public art; whether that is in the form of aid to small businesses willing to hire local workers or in civilian corps-style programs; I am happy to work a few hours a week to make government and communities work better for everyone.
But what I am not happy to do is work extra hours every week to support failed businesses whose only successes seem to lie in preying on individual failure and political power to "make" money. I don't accept that my tax dollars should be redistributed to entities who don't need my money and yet still manage to waste (ahem, I think they prefer the term "invest") it on risky investments, shadowy off-book frauds, and political influence. What I don't accept is that I should work extra hours in every week to pay for bankers and equity companies and hedge fund managers to make wagers that would make a horse-betting junkie blush. What I don't accept is that my voice should be drowned out in the political process by their dollars (which is to say, my tax dollars) arguing for policies and perks that benefit fewer than 1% of the population. Sure, if their innovations and efficiencies were helping America back on its feet, I might reconsider, but everyone knows that isn't what is happening. We all know that the large financial institutions are sucking the American treasury dry and doing nothing to aid the people—the tax base—that makes their greedy feeding possible. Even if you don't support OWS, you have to recognize that this is an untenable arrangement that has to be re-aligned. There simply is not enough money or energy being reinvested in actual goods and services in this country to sustain such supports.
We subsidize every significant activity of multinational corporate finance in this country. Aren't we owed at least a modicum of accountability in exchange? Aren't we at least owed the same amplification of our concerns? This is what OWS asks. This is what I'm asking.
In today's ever-increasingly cutthroat work environment, a common notion among employees and bosses alike tends to be, "he who works latest works best." And while it seems that the 40-hour work week has been largely dispensed with in our hardworking culture, new studies show that working more very seldom produces better results. Employees work many more hours now than they have in the past, but it's coming at the expense of health, happiness, and even productivity. While it looks good to be the first to arrive and the last to leave work each day, it turns out that putting in 60 hours of work each week may do more harm than good in achieving end results. This infographic examines some of the lesser-known statistics regarding overtime work and its effects, and through it one thing becomes extremely clear: To boost productivity and foster excellent employees, the best thing businesses can do is to bring back the 40-hour work week.
Frankly, I think we should be pushing for 32 hour work weeks. Let more folks be employed and everyone enjoy a bit more time actually living.
The Only Advanced Country Without a National Vacation Policy? It's the U.S.
There's no wrong way to celebrate American exceptionalism, but this might not be the best candidate for cheering this July 4th Week: The United States is practically the only developed country in the world that doesn't require companies to give their workers time off. In Germany, workers are guaranteed a month. In the UK, they're guaranteed more than five weeks of paid vacation. In the U.S., unique in its class, there is no such guarantee.
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SOLITUDE is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. Most of us now work in teams, in offices without walls, for managers who prize people skills above all. Lone geniuses are out. Collaboration is in.
But there's a problem with this view. Research strongly suggests that people are more creative when they enjoy privacy and freedom from interruption. And the most spectacularly creative people in many fields are often introverted, according to studies by the psychologists Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Gregory Feist. They're extroverted enough to exchange and advance ideas, but see themselves as independent and individualistic. They're not joiners by nature.
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If the Knights of the Round Table ever existed in real life, it wasn't in the time of King Arthur. Medieval knights as characterised in Arthurian Legend belong to a period running from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries - the historical King Arthur is placed much earlier, around the fifth century. Nonetheless, the image of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table appeals to the imagination and has become an accepted one, if only in literature and legend.
Knights, as such, were real enough - and still are: people become knighted in Britain even today. Medieval knights were usually of noble birth: kings, princes, dukes, earls, and barons, who formed the backbone of any army of the time. They could afford armour and weapons, and the cost of training and maintaining their war-horse: in medieval times, the armoured warrior on horseback was the equivalent to the modern tank. Glory in war spilled over into peacetime, with attitude and status and knightly pursuits like jousting and heraldry, hunting and hawking, and a chivalrous way of life (especially towards the ladies, as the knight became the archetypal hero of high romance). Knights were also formed into religious or other 'Orders of Chivalry' - like the Round Table - and made an oath to protect the distressed, maintain the right, and live a stainless existence.
The consensus is that Merlin the Wizard created the legendary Round Table - in a shape symbolising the roundness of the universe - for Uther Pendragon, Arthur's father. When Uther died, it passed to Guinevere's father, King Laudegraunce, and then to King Arthur when he married Guinevere. Real or symbolic, the Round Table for the fellowship of knights has remained a powerful and appealing concept for several hundreds of years.
The Round Table was first mentioned by the French poet, Wace, in 1155 and in that account was made round so that all the knights seated around it would have the same stature - a table with no head to sqabble over. In Arthurian legend it wasn't just an actual table but represented the highest Order of Chivalry at King Arthur's court. The Knights of the Round Table were the cream of British nobility, who followed a strict code of honour and service.
There is a big Round Table hanging on the wall of Winchester Castle, which names 25 shields. Sir Thomas Malory in Le Morte d'Arthur identifies Camelot as the English town of Winchester (disputed by William Caxton, Malory's own publisher, who asserts that Camelot was in Wales) and there has been a long and popular association between King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and the actual Winchester Round Table, but its origin has been dated to around 1270, the start of the reign of King Edward I - like the knights, well after Arthur's time.
In literature, the Round Table varies in size according to which author is decribing it. The consensus is that it seated 150, with one chair - the Siège Perilous ('danger-seat') - which no-one could occupy safely except for the true Grail-Knight: the knight destined to achieve the Holy Grail, or Sangreal, a symbolism sometimes linked to the Last Supper, which had one place for Judas of ill-omen. The Grail-Knight - it was said that the Siège Perilous was reserved for Sir Perceval, then later, Sir Galahad - was required to be a hero with the purest heart, who was chaste and a virgin without sins (which disqualified Sir Lancelot from the start).
The breakdown of the seating arrangements is this: King Laudegraunce brought 100 when he gave the table to King Arthur, Merlin filled up 28 of the vacant seats, and King Arthur elected Sir Gawain and Sir Tor - the remaining 20 seats, including the danger-seat, were left for those who might prove worthy.
Arthurian legend also contains reference to lesser Orders: the Queen's Knights, the Knights of the Watch, the Table of Errant Companions, and the Table of Less-Valued Knights, which could explain, in a literary sense, why the Round Table would be so large, though it must have been ring-shaped rather than a round normal table, otherwise most of its surface would have been unreachable.
The names of the 25 knights inscribed on the Winchester Round Table are given as:
• King Arthur, Sir Galahad, Sir Lancelot du Lac, Sir Gawain, Sir Percivale, Sir Lionell, Sir Bors de Ganis, Sir Kay, Sir Tristram de Lyones, Sir Gareth, Sir Bedivere, Sir Bleoberis, La Cote Male Taile, Sir Lucan, Sir Palomedes, Sir Lamorak, Sir Safer, Sir Pelleas, Sir Ector de Maris, Sir Dagonet, Sir Degore, Sir Brunor le Noir, Le Bel Desconneu, Sir Alymere, and Sir Mordred.
In Le Morte d'Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory refers to a much more impressive force:
• Sir Aglovale, Sir Agravaine, Sir Aliduke (Book 6, Chapter 9), King Anguish,of Ireland, Earl Aristause, Sir Arrok de Grevaunt (the epiphet only occurs in the Caxton edition), King Arthur, Sir Astamor.
• King Bagdemagus (Book 13, Chapter 9), Sir Barant le Apres (also called the King with the hundred knights), Sir Baudwin (Book 18, Chapter 12), Sir Bedivere, Sir Bellangere le Beuse, Sir Bellangere le Orgulous, Sir Belleus (Book 6, Chapter 18), Sir Blamore de Ganis, Sir Bleoberis de Ganis, Sir Bohart le Cure Hardy (the son of King Arthur, also called Sir Borre), Sir Bors de Ganis, Sir Brandiles, Sir Bruine le Noire (also called La Cote Male Taile), Sir Brian de Listinoise.
• King Carados of Scotland, Sir Cardok, Duke Chaleins of Clarance, King Clarance of Northumberland, Sir Clarrus of Cleremont, Sir Clegis, Sir Cloddrus, Sir Colgrevance, Sir Constantine, Sir Crosselm, Sir Curselaine (Book 20, Chapter 2).
• Sir Darras, Sir Degrane Saunce Velany, Sir Degrevaunt (in Eugène Vinaver's Winchester manuscript only), Sir Dinadan, Sir Dinas, Sir Dinas le Seneschal of Cornwall, Sir Dodinas le Savage, Sir Durnore, Sir Driant.
• Sir Ector de Maris, Sir Edward of Carnarvon, Sir Edward of Orkney, Sir Epinogris, Sir Erminide (also called Sir Hermine).
• Sir Fergus, Sir Florence.
• Sir Gahalantine, Sir Gaheris, Sir Galagars (Book 4, Chapter 4), Sir Galahad (Book 13, Chapter 4), Duke Galahad the haut prince, Sir Galihodin, Sir Galihud (Book 18, Chapter 3), Sir Galleron of Galway, Sir Gareth, Sir Gautere, Sir Gawaine, Sir Gillemere, Sir Gingalin, Sir Griflet le Fise de Dieu, Sir Gromere Grommor's son, Sir Guyart le Petite, Sir Gromore Somir Joure (Book 20, Chapter 2).
• Sir Harry le Fise Lake, Sir Hebes, Sir Hebes le Renoumes, Sir Hectimere, Sir Helaine le Blank, Sir Hervise de la Forest Savage, Sir Hervise le Revel (Book 4, Chapter 4).
• Sir Ironside (also called the noble Red Knight of the Red Launds).
• Sir Kay le Seneschal, Sir Kay de Stranges.
• Sir Ladinas of the Forest Savage (Book 19, Chapter 1), the King of the Lake (Book 4, Chapter 4), Earl Lambaile, Sir Lambegus, Sir Lamiel of Cardiff, Sir Launcelot du Lake, Sir Lavaine (Book 19, Chapter 13), Sir Lionel, Sir Lovel, Sir Lucan the Butler.
• Sir Mador de la Porte, Sir Marhaus (Book 6, Chapter 9), Sir Marrok, Sir Melleaus de Lile, Sir Melion of the Mountain, Sir Meliot de Logris, Sir Meliagaunce (Book 19, Chapter 2), Sir Menaduke, Sir Mordred, Sir Morganore.
• Sir King Nentres of Garloth, Sir Nerovens.
• Sir Ozanna le Cure Hardy.
• Sir Palomides (Book 10, Chapter 62), Sir Patrise of Ireland (Book 18, Chapter 3), Sir Pelleas, Sir Percivale (Book 10, Chapter 23), Sir Perimones (also called the Red Knight), Sir Persaunt, Sir Persides (Book 11, Chapter 12), Sir Pertilope (also called the Green Knight), Sir Petipase of Winchelsea, Sir Pinel le Savage (Book 18, Chapter 3), Sir Plaine de Fors, Sir Plenorius, Sir Priamus.
• Sir Reynold, the Duke de la Rowse (Book 7, Chapter 35).
• Sir Sadok, Sir Sagramore le Desirous, Sir Safere (Book 18, Chapter 3), Sir Selises of the Dolorous Tower, Sir Sentraile, Sir Servause le Breuse, Sir Suppinabilis.
• Sir Tor, Sir Tristram (Book 10, Chapter 6).
• Earl Ulbause, King Uriens of the land of Gore, Sir Urre (Book 19, Chapter 19), Sir Uwaine le Blanche Mains (also called Sir Uwaine le Fise de Roy Ureine - Book 9, Chapter 37), Sir Uwaine les Avoutres.
• Sir Villiars the Valiant.
Since the King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table are all fictitious characters, there's no right and wrong answer to the question "How many Knights did the Round Table have?" It's purely a comparison between different pieces of Arthurian myth and legend - Malory's was simply a much bigger table than the Winchester Table.
More interesting are their deeds, exploits, and their social significance at the time the best and most comprehensive Arthurian legend works were written, most notably Le Morte d'Arthur, completed in the year 1470.
Regarding the origins of the Holy Grail and its relationship with the Round Table, there are three especially interesting works of Arthurian legend - a trilogy of poems by Robert de Boron (a Burgundian knight who wrote not too long after Chrétien de Troyes c.1191): 'Joseph of Arimathea', 'Merlin', and 'Perceval', and which describe the 'First Table and the Origin of the Grail', 'The Grail Dynasty', 'The Construction of the Third Table', and 'The Round Table and Perceval'. The last one provides a particularly interesting insight into the Holy Grail and the motivations behind the exploits of the Knights of the Round Table:
After Arthur is crowned king, Merlin informs the court about origins of the Round Table made by Joseph of Arimathea, and of the Grail family, and the attainment of the Grail. Perceval, the son of Alain le Gros, comes to Arthur's court and is knighted, but he is not made a member of the Round Table. At Pentecost, King Arthur proclaims a festival at which twelve knights will sit at the Round Table, leaving the thirteenth seat empty to symbolise the seat occupied by Judas at the Last Supper. Perceval asks if he may sit there, and when Arthur attempts to discourage him, the other twelve knights plead on Perceval's behalf and he is allowed to occupy the vacant seat.
But the seat cracks beneath him and a voice remontrates against King Arthur, and says that Perceval has only been saved from a terrible death by the goodness of his father and his grandfather, Bron. The voice goes on to predict that there will now be great suffering for those seated at the Round Table as they pursue the quest that Perceval has precipitated - the quest for the Holy Grail. The achievement of the quest will require one of the Round Table knights to become the 'finest knight in the world' by performing 'feats of arms and goodness and prowess'. This knight will be guided by God to the house of the Rich Fisher King (Bron), where he will achieve the Grail, and understand its purpose. The Rich Fisher King will be then healed and the cracked seat at the Round Table will be restored.
These predictions are to be fulfilled by Sir Perceval, who becomes the new custodian of the Grail after the death of Bron. But the successful quest marks the beginning of the end of the fellowship of the Knights of the Round Table, now undermined by a lack of common-purpose, and the knights plan to go overseas to seek new challenges. Sir Kay persuades King Arthur that only an invasion of continental Europe will hold the Knights of the Round Table together in his service.
France (then Gaul) is duly conquered and the army of the emperor of Rome is defeated, but before he can march on Rome, King Arthur is forced to return to Britain to supress the treachery of Mordred, who has usurped the throne of Britain and is cohabiting with Arthur's wife, Guinevere. He overcomes Mordred in Cornwall, then pursues him to Ireland where the traitor is finally killed, but Arthur is also fatally wounded, and is taken to Avalon for his wounds to be healed, but he never returns.
On King Arthur's conquest of Gaul, his forced return to Britain, and his consequent death, note Robert de Boron's consistency with the writer Geoffrey of Monmouth in the origins of King Arthur [2].
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For funlike I also took one of Glenn's images from the 7th and Flava's image from the 9th and compared it to the captures I had on the 8th, just to show how much the cloud patterns changed:
Finally, I have always wondered if I am getting the most out of my images that I have captured. So I have uploaded a stacked image of 1000 frames that can be downloaded and wonder what you guys can come up with
You can download the stacked .tif here!
Will be interested to see what you can come up with!
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UPCI / UPMC CC Press Releases
UPCI Researchers Receive V Foundation Award for Lung Cancer Clinical Trials
PITTSBURGH, October 2, 2009 – Jill M. Siegfried, PhD, co-director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute's (UPCI) Lung Cancer Program, has received a $1 million grant from the V Foundation for Cancer Research, an organization founded by ESPN and Jim Valvano, former legendary basketball coach of North Carolina State University. The grant will help support the establishment of new clinical trials for lung cancer patients at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's (UPMC) Cancer Centers.
"This award is especially exciting because it supports the translation of our work in the laboratory directly into two separate clinical trials, which we hope will benefit patients," said Dr. Siegfried. "It is particularly gratifying when the work in the laboratory moves from bench to bedside."
The first clinical trial is based on Dr. Siegfried's research, which found that estrogen acts as a proliferation agent in the lung, activating lung cancer development through pathways similar to those in breast cancer. In addition to examining estrogen's role as a lung cancer proliferation agent, Dr. Siegfried evaluated anti-estrogens to see if they could inhibit the effect of estrogen on lung tumor growth in animal models and determined which are the most effective at blocking the action of estrogen in the lungs.
According to Dr. Siegfried, her research demonstrated that it might be possible to inhibit lung cancer tumor growth in cancers that progress in response to estrogen. "We learned that some very basic, biological functions put women at risk for developing lung cancer. Now we know estrogen plays a role in the growth of some lung cancers and that gives us something to target in the clinical setting."
This research was supported by the UPCI Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in lung cancer, which is led by Dr. Siegfried. Recent results announced by the Women's Health Initiative in the medical journal The Lancet support Dr. Siegfried's hypothesis: women in that study who took hormone replacement medications containing estrogen were much more likely to die from lung cancer than those who did not. The Lancet publication cited Dr. Siegfried's research as an explanation for the findings.
The clinical trial at UPMC will be led by Athanassios (Ethan) Argiris, MD, professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and clinical associate director of UPCI's SPORE in lung cancer. The SPORE is a federal grant awarded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to assist researchers in examining innovative detection and treatment strategies designed to improve survival outcomes and quality of life for patients with early to late-stage lung cancer.
According to Dr. Argiris, the phase II trial will study the use of an aromatase inhibitor, a class of drugs designed specifically to counteract estrogen production, in postmenopausal women with advanced non-small cell lung cancer. "We hope that by targeting estrogen we will be able to extend the lives of women with lung cancer. Moreover, we will have an opportunity to understand which women respond best to this treatment by examining the estrogen receptors found in their tumors."
Additionally, the V Foundation will support a phase I trial translated from previous SPORE-funded research conducted by Olivera Finn, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Immunology at Pitt. Lung cancer patients who enroll in the trial will receive a vaccine based on the protein cyclin B1. Dr. Finn discovered that this protein is inappropriately expressed by many lung tumors and causes a strong immune response. She hopes to boost the ability of the immune system to reject lung cancer by vaccination with portions of the purified cyclin B1 protein.
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in both men and women worldwide. Non-small cell lung cancer is the most common type of lung cancer and represents about 80 percent of all lung cancer cases. Unfortunately, because symptoms don't appear in most patients until the disease is advanced, very few patients survive beyond five years.
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About the V Foundation
The V Foundation for Cancer Research was founded in 1993 by ESPN and the late Jim Valvano, legendary North Carolina State basketball coach and ESPN commentator. Since 1993, The Foundation has raised more than $90 million to fund cancer research grants nationwide. It awards 100 percent of all direct cash donations and net proceeds of events directly to cancer research and related programs. The Foundation, which has received seven consecutive top 4-star ratings from Charity Navigator, awards grants through a competitive awards process strictly supervised by a Scientific Advisory Board. For more information on The V Foundation or to make a donation, please visit www.jimmyv.org.
About UPCI
As the only NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center in western Pennsylvania, UPCI is a recognized leader in providing innovative cancer prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment; bio-medical research; compassionate patient care and support; and community-based outreach services. UPCI investigators are world-renowned for their work in clinical and basic cancer research.
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Etude numérique de l'évaporation dans un courant d'air humide laminaire et turbulent d'un film d'eau ruisselant sur une plaque inclinée
Article first published online: 4 MAY 2010
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.5450780517
Copyright © 2000 Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering
The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering
Volume 78, Issue 5, pages 994–1005, October 2000
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How to Cite
Mezaache, E. H. and Daguenet, M. (2000), Etude numérique de l'évaporation dans un courant d'air humide laminaire et turbulent d'un film d'eau ruisselant sur une plaque inclinée. Can. J. Chem. Eng., 78: 994–1005. doi: 10.1002/cjce.5450780517
Publication History
- Issue published online: 4 MAY 2010
- Article first published online: 4 MAY 2010
- Manuscript Accepted: 9 JUL 2000
- Manuscript Revised: 9 MAY 2000
- Manuscript Received: 25 MAR 1999
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Private View: Thursday 2 June 7-9pm
Exhibition Runs: 3 – 30 June
What would you find if you were to scour Transport for London's (TFL) Lost Property Office? False teeth? Wigs? A prosthetic leg? What about a priceless art collection? TFL opened its Lost Property Office to KK Outlet who have curated a unique exhibition of art that was left unclaimed on London's Tubes, buses, Overground trains and Black Cabs. This forgotten collection features creations from nameless artists; the work ranges from whole portfolios to carefully crafted drawings, paintings and photographs
A couple of weeks ago we directed the new Kilgour ad campaign and their first promo film. Moving on from last season's dark and moody 'Hollywood Cool' concept, our direction this time was a more simplistic and pure approach, focusing on the quality of the tailoring. This new film sets the tone for Kilgour and will be used for web and promotional purposes. Thanks to photographer Robert Wyatt and a great team!
View Kilgour in Work
Sunday morning marked the 10th anniversary of Apple opening its first retail store in Virginia. To celebrate this they have made some changes inside.
Most notable is the introduction of interactive iPad displays next to products. These give you all the tech spec information and allow you to compare models and see configurations available. Another feature is the ability to call over a member of staff to your location should you need one. This saves having to loiter around trying to get their attention. The iPad tells the member of staff where you are and it apparently tells you where you are in the queue.
We went to Chile last week to meet a new client, review the market, and experience some unusual yet interesting local culture.
Here are a few snaps... a full update on the project to follow shortly!
Google maps can be quite creative with directions. In this case I wouldn't recommend you to follow them…
Please follow the instructions bellow (I promise you it will make you laugh):
1. Go to Google Maps
2. Put 'Japan' as a starting point
3. Put 'China' as a destination
4. Read step number 42
And that's all!
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