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The case of the black pearl : a Patrick de Courvoisier mystery
Keen to leave his controversial past behind him and enjoy a more relaxed, hedonistic lifestyle on a converted houseboat in the glamorous French resort of Cannes, enigmatic Englishman Patrick de Courvoisier is known as 'Le Limier' or 'Fixer'. People come to him with their problems - and he fixes them. However, when Camille Ager asks Patrick to find her sister, Angele Valette, star of the new movie The Black Pearl, Patrick's laidback lifestyle is dealt a terminal blow. Last seen at the film's lavish launch party on board the luxurious black yacht owned by Russian oligarch Vasily Chapayev, the funds behind the movie and owner of the famous black pearl, Angele seems to have vanished into thin air - and so has the pearl. As Patrick questions all those involved with the movie, he discovers that this is a case where nothing is as it seems. And when a dead body turns up on his boat, the investigation takes a deeply disturbing new twist.
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Working for Free in the VIP: Relational Work and the Production of Consent
Why do workers participate in their own exploitation? This article moves beyond the situational production of consent that has dominated studies of the labor process and outlines the relational production of labor's surplus value. Using a case of unpaid women who perform valuable work for VIP nightclubs, I present ethnographic data on the VIP party circuit from New York, the Hamptons, Miami, and Cannes, as well as 84 interviews with party organizers and guests. Party promoters, mostly male brokers, appropriate surplus value from women in four stages: recruitment, mobilization, performance, and control. Relational work between promoters and women, cemented by gifts and strategic intimacies, frames women's labor as leisure and friendship, and boundary work legitimizes women's work as distinct from sexual labor. When boundaries, media, and meanings of relationships do not appropriately align, as in relational mismatches, women experience the VIP party less as leisure and more as work, and they are less likely to participate. My findings embed the labor process in a relational infrastructure and hold insights for explaining why people work for free in culture and technology sectors of the post-Fordist economy.
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The case of the missing madonna
\"Brother Robert from the abbey on St Honorat, a picturesque island off the French coast, has requested Patrick de Courvoisier's help in locating a valuable painting which has disappeared from the monastery's vaults. At the same time, an old enemy from Patrick's past has arrived in Cannes in search of a different stolen painting. As it becomes increasingly clear that the two investigations are linked, Patrick's enquiries lead him to uncover a shocking wartime secret: a secret the British Royal family would prefer to keep hidden ...\"-- Amazon.com.
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Tsunami hazard perception and knowledge of alert: early findings in five municipalities along the French Mediterranean coastlines
Along the French Mediterranean coastlines, most of the studies dealing with tsunamis have focused on hazards, evacuations, or effects of awareness actions, as opposed to hazard perception and knowledge of alert declared locally by the population. To bridge this gap, in this study, data collection yielded 750 responses coming from 150 people living and/or working in the tsunami evacuation zones of five municipalities (e.g., Bandol, Bastia, Cannes, Six-Fours-les-Plages, Sanary-sur-Mer). Early findings confirmed the tendency to underestimate tsunami hazard and a misunderstanding of the alert process. Interestingly, age or location of respondents explained differences between the five surveyed municipalities – more so than gender and residency status. Discrepancies are also observed when we compare the rate of correct answers for similar questions addressed in other areas in the NEAMTWS (North-eastern Atlantic, Mediterranean and connected seas Tsunami Warning System) region, thus confirming local effects. More surprisingly, the respondents who well perceive the tsunami hazard are not those who have a good knowledge of alerts, and the awareness actions do not really impact the tsunami knowledge we evaluated. Also, the results of this study could help local authorities to develop future tsunami awareness actions and to determine more suitable strategies to be applied in the short term at local scales.
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Inventory of uncertainties associated with the process of tsunami damage assessment on buildings (SCHEMA FP6 EC co-funded project)
Within the framework of the SCHEMA FP6 EC co-funded project (http://www.schemaproject.org), we have identified the sources of errors/uncertainties that can be introduced at several steps of the damage assessment process, from post-disaster field measures up to hazard and damages maps production. Errors, for instance, are introduced when collecting post-disaster observations owing to different types of instruments/methods, water marks considered, tide correction, etc.: in extreme cases, differences of meters can be found between water heights data published by different teams for the same locations. Much uncertainty comes from difficulties in identifying and characterizing the potential tsunami sources and from numerical modelling. Moreover, the resolution of the employed Digital Terrain Models can noticeably affect the predicted inundation extent. We have also verified that the consistency of the computations on the long term varies sensitively depending on the code, raising the problem of results reliability for emergency management in dangerous coasts exposed to repeated waves. In addition, damage assessment is performed using damage functions linking the mean damage level on buildings with the maximum water elevation measured in the field without considering other tsunami parameters such as stream velocity. Finally, we examined uncertainties introduced in hazard and vulnerability mapping due to cartographic processing.
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Daniel Libeskind to Give Keynote Address at MIPIM Conference in France
[Daniel Libeskind] established his architectural office in Berlin, Germany in 1989. Upon winning the design study for the World Trade Center Site in February 2003, Studio Daniel Libeskind moved its headquarters to New York City and the office is now headquartered two blocks south of the original World Trade Center site. SDL also has two European offices based in Zurich, Switzerland and Milan, Italy; as well as a number of site offices located around the world: San Francisco, Denver, Bern, Toronto, and Hong Kong. Since 1990, the office has been fortunate to be involved in a diverse array of urban, architectural and cultural projects. SDL has won commissions for major cultural buildings and significant urban projects in Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Canada, the United States, Japan, Spain, Israel, Mexico, Korea, Singapore and China. Most recently, Mr. Libeskind's extension to the Denver Art Museum and its new residences opened in October 2006. In addition, this summer, the Extension to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada; the extension to the Jewish Museum Berlin in Germany; and the Ascent, a residential tower in the United States, will open.
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Cannes trip a big kick for E! News host
[...]as a college student at the University of Miami, Kennedy won an Associated Press award. What is your favorite vacation destination?
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Cannes Film Festival's 'Hors la Loi': How well does France face its past in Algeria?
\"Hors La Loi,\" or \"Outside the Law,\" aired at the Cannes Film Festival last month, bringing protests for being \"a partisan, militant ... film that compares the French to the SS and the French police to the Gestapo,\" as politician Lionel Luca, who had not seen the film, described it. In a tragic irony, the massacre started on May 8, 1945 - V-E Day in Europe, when allied forces were celebrating liberty, democracy, and the triumph over totalitarianism and fascism in Europe.
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Riches of the Riviera; Mediterranean playground of the elite still basks in the glory of sun, sand and stars
Once a fishing village, Cannes has evolved into the glitz capital of the Riviera, with 1,200 shops, 380 restaurants and 120 hotels. But some of its roots remain. Le Suquet, an old hilltop town, overlooks the city. I wandered up its narrow, winding streets late one afternoon to watch the sun set over the water. The flashy city on Cannes Bay turned into a beautiful medieval village as I ascended. The sense of history made me eager to see more of this side of the Riviera. Carlton InterContinental, 58 La Croisette, 06414 Cannes; 9306- 4006, fax 9306-4025, www.intercontinental.com. This is the oldest of Cannes' \"palaces,\" the luxury hotels lined up on Boulevard de la Croisette. Built in 1912, the Carlton has housed generations of celebrities and wealthy visitors. It's worth a look around, even if you don't spend the night. Doubles from $304. Map: France; CREDIT: Los Angeles Times; DEFENSIBLE: The medieval hilltop village of Saint-Paul-de-Vence was once home to artist [Marc Chagall] and American writer [James Baldwin].; MEDITERRANEAN ESSENCE: A speedboat adds a modern note to the medieval village of Saint-Tropez, its Vieux Port and the harbor's richly colored villas.; PHOTOGRAPHER: Photographs by [Rosemary McClure] Los Angeles Times; LEGENDARY: Monte Carlo's casino draws tourists and gamblers from around the world to the little country ruled by Prince Rainier III.; SEA, BE SEEN: Despite Franco-American tensions, visitors flock to Riviera beaches, including one off Cannes' Boulevard de la Croisette.; PHOTOGRAPHER: Photographs by Rosemary McClure Los Angeles Times; PLUSH: Cannes' oldest \"palace\" hotel, the Carlton InterContinental, has housed generations of celebrities.; PHOTOGRAPHER: Pascal Le Segretain Getty Images
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Max Linder Returns
The dead young woman's prominent family (her father had been the mayor of Paris) took charge of the orphaned infant, raising her under Max's real name, Leuville, and banishing any mention of Linder from her life. The most telling of all the Max Linder stills, from his feature film The King of the Curcys, places an elegantly dressed Max on the ground gazing up at a girl on a trapeze; she smiles down on him, friendly yet unobtainable, like a remote, rising moon.
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