One of the two elephants rescued by HSH Princess Stephanie in a blaze of publicity five years ago, has died of kidney failure.
“Nepal has left us following a chronic renal failure. She fought to the end with caring and dedicated care. Thank you all for your support,” the Baby and Nepal Association said in a Facebook post on Sunday, April 29.
After the Princess rescued the two elephants, which had been neglected by a series of owners and were in danger of being put to sleep, they were installed in tailor-made facilities at Fontbonne, overlooking Monaco. Veterinarians in Monaco certified that the two animals were in good health.
The Prix Monte-Carlo “Woman and Sport,” under the High Patronage of Prince Albert of Monaco and under the Honorary Presidency of Princess Charlene, is an international award aimed at celebrating women from various parts of the world and various fields, who, thanks to their personal or professional actions, have had a positive impact on their own lives or on the lives of others.
The seventh edition of the award, created by the journalist Cinzia Sgambati-Colman in 2012, will take place on Monday, May 14 in Monaco, sponsored by Walgreens Alliance Boots, the first global pharmacy-led, health and wellbeing enterprise in the world. The venue is Salle de la Mer, Fairmont Monte-Carlo.
This year the judging Committee will review the applications and will select two winning candidates, who will receive the award in a ceremony during the gala dinner.
As in past editions, the Committee will award two prizes: the first candidate will be rewarded for outstanding international projects and the second candidate will be recognised for her amazing initiatives within the Principality of Monaco.
The judging Committee of the Prix Monte-Carlo “Woman of the Year” includes: Cinzia Sgambati-Colman, President of the award committee and CEO of MonteCarloin; Stéphane Valeri, President of the National Council; Marietta Vinci Corsini, antique dealer and administrator of GIE-Point Art Monaco; Smadar Eisenberg, President of AOPMC (Amis de l’Orchestre Philarmonique de Monte-Carlo); Maria Betti, Director of the Institute for Transuranium Elements in Karlsruhe U.E; Maria Lefebvre d’Ovidio; José Giannotti, General Agent and Director of Personal Insurance at Generali Insurance; Vladimir Semenikhin, Honorary Consul of Kazakhstan in Monaco; Doriana Marzocco; Monika Assaraf, President of ERI; Beatrice Fresko- Rolfo, National Council; and Jack Anderson, international attorney.
The eighth edition of Data Centres Europe will be launched at the annual Datacloud Congress 2018, which takes place in Monaco from June 12-14.
The event is widely regarded in the industry as a definitive independent benchmark and will be fully updated with research undertaken in the spring and early summer of 2018, the organisers say. Additional new sections cover hyperscale cloud players and their strategies in Europe.
A comprehensive report researched by BroadGroup Consulting covers 19 Western European countries and will include forecasts through to 2022. It also provides a detailed analysis of ten major co-location players, an analysis of key technology, adoption and customer trends.
“The market has seen tremendous change in the last 12 months,” said Steve Wallage, managing director of BroadGroup Consulting. “It is being driven not just by hyperscale demand and M&A, but more fundamentally the way in which customers are now using co-location.”
Datacloud Congress is the premier networking and deal making event for data centre, cloud IaaS and Edge leaders, their customers, investors and senior executives, BroadGroup Consulting says.
The Vendôme Art Gallery welcomes American artist David Syre for his first exhibition in Europe: “Cards of the soul: An artist on the way”.
Time spent in Nice and Monaco years ago became “the first step of a new path” for this artist whose exhibit, which opens on May 3 and runs until May 19, is dedicated to travel. Indeed, the 23 paintings, drawings and sculpture on show and created between 2013 and 2018 will serve as a map illustrating the different stages of the artist’s life.
A self-taught artist, David Syre grew up along the Nooksack River. The son of Norwegian agricultural parents, he exhibited a remarkable resilience that would be emblematic of his life – overcoming polio at age four, going on to compete in marathons as an adult and building a successful business founding the real estate development Trillium Corporation in 1974, which became an international global investments business.
Although a talented child artist, art was deemed an unacceptable career path. Later in life, Syre rediscovered his creative passion fulfilling his childhood dream of painting, and he now has a studio on the site of his family’s 100-year-old farm in view of the Canadian Cascade Mountain.
During 2018, David Syre will exhibit in two other countries, the US and Argentina. Each of these destinations shares a common denominator: the concept of “the road” travelled by the artist. Thus, the themes of the exhibitions of Nice, Santa Fe and Buenos Aires will be different. In Nice (May) at 16 rue Emmanuel Philibert, the veil rises on the path of life of David Syre, Santa Fe (September) will explore the origins and development of humanity in time and in Buenos Aires (November), the works will be dedicated to configurations of femininity and masculinity in line with Ona culture.
Each destination will lead to “The Peace Trail”, the great project of the artist in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.
A campaign to save parrotfish in Colombia, launched on Earth Day this year, April 22, aims to help raise awareness of the importance of parrotfish to the health of the coral reefs around Isla Providencia, Colombia. Hungry parrotfish eat the harmful macroalgae that compete for space with corals, keeping the ecosystem in balance. Too much algae can smother and ultimately kill a coral reef.
Currently, the parrotfish around Providencia are being overfished, which poses great danger to the coral reefs: without the parrotfish, the reef will quickly become overgrown with algae and rapidly deteriorate.
Seacology, supported by the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, will be working with the Providencia fishing community, the regional government agency Coralina, and local NGO Fundación Providence.
Seacology’s project is a total ban on catching parrotfish in the waters around the Island. But as a ban is impossible without community support, Seacology is funding a campaign that will reach everyone on the island. It includes a video for fishermen, radio broadcasts, education for schoolchildren, and plaques for restaurants that take parrotfish off the menu.
The Monaco Red Cross will hold its traditional braderie, the annual jumbo sale that it has been organising for the past ten years, on Saturday, May 5, from 8:30 am to 5 pm.
From furniture to fashion accessories, from baby equipment to toys, and from jewellery to leather items, all monies raised will be donated to the Monaco Collectif Humanitaire for the reception of children with serious cardiac conditions that are inoperable in their home countries.
Children’s workshops and raffle prizes are also on the day’s agenda at Espace Léo Ferré.
