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Riviera dreaming : love and war on the Côte d'Azur
\"In 1926 Barry Dierks, a young American architect, arrived in Paris and fell in love with France. With his partner, an ex-officer in the British Army, he built a white, flat-roofed Modernist masterpiece that rested on the rocks below the Esterel, with views across the Mediterranean. They called it Le Trident. From the moment it was built, it captivated Riviera society. As commissions for more villas flooded in, Barry Dierks and Eric Sawyer, 'those two charmers', flourished at the heart of Riviera society. Over the years, Dierks would design and build over 70 of the Riviera's most recognisable villas for clients ranging from Somerset Maugham's Villa Mauresque and Jack Warner's Villa Aujourd'hui to the Marquess of Cholmondeley's Villa Le Roc, and Maxine Elliott's Château de l'Horizon, later the home of Aly Khan and Rita Hayworth\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Riviera Dreaming
In 1926 Barry Dierks, a young American architect, arrived in Paris and fell in love with France...With his partner, an ex-officer in the British Army, he built a white, flat-roofed Modernist masterpiece that rested on the rocks below the Esterel, with views across the Mediterranean.They called it Le Trident.
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Spokane hopes to host trials: U.S. Gymnastics could be here in '08
Gymnastics would not be Spokane's first engagement on the Olympic scene. The city hosted the 1984 and 1988 Olympic cycling trials. On Tuesday, Spokane County commissioners unanimously approved spending $50,000 raised from hotel taxes to promote the event if Spokane is selected by USA Gymnastics to host the trials.
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Cafe with a difference will be cat's whiskers
A young entrepreneur is planning to launch Birmingham's first 'cat cafe' in which animal lovers can enjoy a cuppa surrounded by feline friends. Mr [Eric Sawyer] said: \"We are looking at premises at the moment. There is a big cat community in Kings Heath, so it might be there, or in the city centre. Lots of people will be interested in it. Lots of people live in places where you aren't allowed to have cats and a lot don't have time to have a pet. There has been a lot of interest on our Facebook page - there were two or three hundred people within a few days of launching it.\" \"We are launching the charity at the same time to raise donations to help look after the welfare of the cats, so even if the cafe doesn't do well, we have that there as back-up.\"
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Hearing begins on legality of LAUSD pink slips to teachers
\"The impact will be whether you will be laid off,\" [Eric Sawyer] told about 300 teachers sprinkled around a cavernous room set up in the Calmart exhibition hall at the edge of the Fashion District. \"You'll explain your case to me.\" \"I've been assigned to different schools, I've been displaced, I've been RIF'd. I'm trying to grasp how a person can teach under these conditions,\" said Echo Hampel, who teaches sixth grade at Plummer Elementary in North Hills and recently received her fourth pink slip from the district. \"This process is absolutely excessive,\" union President Warren Fletcher said outside the hearing room. \"There is no way that L.A. Unified should have issued that many pink slips. ... We understand there is a state budget shortfall. We aren't going to pretend that isn't the case.
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AIDS Activists Cautiously Hopeful Over U.S.-South Africa Medicines Agreement
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A coalition of AIDS activist organizations that has dogged Vice President Al Gore on his campaign trail for months reacted hopefully to the announcement that the U.S. and South Africa had reached an agreement today settling a trade dispute over access to medicines. Vice President Al Gore, in his role as the Chair of the U.S.- South Africa Binational Commission, and U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky have threatened sanctions against South Africa due to the nation's efforts to produce generic versions of drugs to fight AIDS and other life-threatening illnesses (called compulsory licensing), and to shop around the globe for the best price, a practice called parallel importing. \"If this agreement truly puts an end to the aggressive efforts of the U.S. to stop South Africa's efforts to save lives by providing essential medications using compulsory licensing and parallel importing, then it's a victory for the people of South Africa,\" said ACT UP New York's Mark Milano. \"Now, the U.S. must extend this policy to all nations in need of affordable medicines for people with AIDS and other serious illnesses,\" continued Milano.
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CUSD to cut 20 teaching positions
Money from the federal stimulus package should be considered to be used to save jobs, said Joe Tonan, Claremont Faculty Association bargaining chairman. \"We're going to lose a lot of young, energetic professors ... it will have a negative impact on children in the community,\" [Michael R. Feinberg] said.
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Spokane hopes to host trials; U.S. Gymnastics could be here in '08
Gymnastics would not be Spokane's first engagement on the Olympic scene. The city hosted the 1984 and 1988 Olympic cycling trials. On Tuesday, Spokane County commissioners unanimously approved spending $50,000 raised from hotel taxes to promote the event if Spokane is selected by USA Gymnastics to host the trials.
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City to address vacation quandary
The city will fully address an unfunded employee liability that built up due to unused vacation, overtime and other deferred benefits by the end of the year, city treasurer Eric Sawyer said Thursday. The issue of unfunded liabilities emerged in 2003 when a confusing report raised concerns about pensions afforded aldermen and top civic officials. It eventually came to light it wasn't the pension program that was underfunded, but vacation benefits and other money that was owed to employees. The liabilities of $71.5 million are related to vacation overtime and other retirement benefits -- an amount officials have said would only be a problem if every city employee retired or went on vacation on the same day.
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Gas prices strain city bean counters
Robust natural gas prices have civic accountants planning for a $2.2-million hike in energy costs in this year's municipal budget, making it one of the key inflationary pressures the city must contend with in 2005. \"When you look at salary, wages, overtime, some of those benefits, et cetera, they're accounting for about 60 per cent of our expenditures,\" [Eric Sawyer] added. \"So when you've got a situation of our contractual wage settlements going up in the order of 3.5 per cent, that's applying to a big, big piece of the overall budget.\"
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