VI EcoTours has a stunning range of kayaking, hiking, snorkeling, and boat tours, from two locations, in St. Thomas or St. John in the US Virgin Islands. You can rent paddleboards, snorkeling gear, and kayaks, too. We took the Mangrove Lagoon Kayak Tour, which includes hiking, kayaking, and snorkeling.
Our group was small, so we had plenty of time to ask questions and get to know our guide. Tours are all about the guide, and our guide made it fun. He was animated, adding energy to the tour. (Tourists are often weary.) His friendly manner put us at ease, and he seemed to know everything about the creatures and landscape we were seeing. He was supportive about our amateur kayaking, and didn't feel like we had to be macho. He gave special attention to the kids on the tour.
Our guide taught us a lot about the local wildlife. The kayaking and hiking were easy, and the kayaks thankfully had excellent back support. Pro tip: there is zero shade on this tour, so goop up on sunblock. Learning about the mangrove trees was interesting. They require no land, putting their roots directly into the water and forming a whole root system that other sea creatures make use of. Our guide also told us about the recent hurricanes that devastated St. Thomas, and we even saw a ship that had been thrown high onto a small island, too high to get down. Our guide was generous answering questions and taking photos for us, with our own cameras, or more professionally for purchase after our tour.
We kayaked to an island, hiked it, and saw dozens of hermit crabs. We even lined them up for a race. We saw the Red Point Blowhole, where most days the waves rocket through a gap in the rocks like a geyser.
Those of us who did snorkel found many amazing things. We saw lots of local fish, puffer fish, blue tang (the Dory fish from Finding Nemo), yellowtail snapper grouper, a spotted eagle ray, and three octopuses. We saw an underwater boat with its tip sticking out, where the fish congregated in a school. I learned later that we also saw lots of very tiny (so tiny as to be harmless) barracuda.
A few nitpicks are possible. Snorkeling was easy for those of us who were real swimmers, but a couple people in the group were afraid to go when our guide warned us not to put down our feet or we'd get stung by sea life. Some of the families fell behind in kayaking and hiking, rather than the group stopping to wait for them. In-between stops, the tour sagged at times. We saw some wonderful aquatic life, but hear that we got lucky rather than this being typical.
Although there are more adventurous tours in St. Thomas, our tour was unique in teaching us about the environment. So, 4.5 stars for the VI Ecotours Mangrove Lagoon Kayak, Hike, & Snorkel Adventure.
VI EcoTours offers numerous other tours that may rise to 5 stars. They can take you night kayaking, on a historic tour of Hassel Island, or out boating and snorkeling to find sea turtles.


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Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust selects Medway from System C
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust today announced that System C has been selected to supply a new core computer system, including an integrated patient administration system (PAS), a theatre management system and business intelligence software.
The contract was awarded after an extensive competitive procurement process and deployment is due to be completed in October 2018.
Brighton and Sussex is a large acute Trust, with an annual budget in excess of £550m and 8,200 employees, 4,800 of whom are users of the PAS.
Wilson Sharpe, assistant director of IM&T at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals
A modern, efficient patient administration system is a fundamental requirement to providing good patient care. After an extensive procurement process, we are delighted to appoint System C to provide this key platform.
Ian Denley, System C's joint CEO
Brighton and Sussex is our 25th main hospital system deployment and we are really pleased that they have chosen us. The Brighton team is professional and enthusiastic and we are looking forward to going live in October.
System C will be deploying its Medway PAS and business intelligence software, integrated with the Bluespier theatre management solution.
System C's Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals contract follows similar recent contracts with St Helens and Knowsley and North West Anglia. Of the 22 Medway systems to go live in the last five years, 17 were completed in 12 months or less.
Brighton and Sussex provides the majority of its services from two main sites: The Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton and the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath. The Brighton campus includes the Royal Alexandra Children's Hospital and the Sussex Eye Hospital and is also the major trauma centre for the region.
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The Affair: Everything You Need to Know About the Fifth and Final Season
By Ryan Schwartz / June 9 2019, 2:00 PM PDT
Courtesy of Showtime (2); Instagram (@SarahTreem)
It's the beginning of the end for The Affair, which was renewed for a fifth and final season last July. Two weeks later, Ruth Wilson's Alison Bailey was killed off in a dramatic Season 4 twist.
Since then, subsequent cast departures (and one significant cast addition) have sent shockwaves through the fan base. All told, three series regulars from the penultimate run will not be back, while a minimum of six new characters will be introduced over the span of 11 episodes. That's a lot of change for a show that's about to "sink back into the ocean" and never come back up.
The Affair Season 5 Spoilers
According to the official logline, The Affair's final episodes reveal how "everything does really fall apart in the end — but somewhere in that wreckage, the seeds of change finally sprout." Hmm…
Now that a premiere date has been set — Sunday, Aug. 25 at 9/8c — TVLine has prepped a handy one-stop guide to everything we've reported thus far, along with a few additional teases doled out by series creator Sarah Treem. So flip through the attached gallery to get caught up to speed on all things The Affair, then hit the comments with your hopes for the Showtime drama's last chapter.
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Patrick PALLIER
ma vie d'adulte
famille PALLIER
mon enfance
carrière de Gabriel Pallier
Bloch 152 maquette d'expo
sujets sur Gabriel Pallier
Carrière Jacques-Georges Oules
Family PALLIER
my childhood
Career of Jacques-Georges OULE
Career of Gabriel PALLIER
Son of discussions where I men
Bloch 152, my model expo
Premier billet du blog
Career of Jacques OULES
TOULOUSE (Haute Garonne)
I would be born on the day of the capitulation of Nazi Germany, dock Tounis in Toulouse. Toulouse, which has since redesigned the banks of the Garonne in pleasant walks, hosting summer festivals which are transformed into beaches.
The dock Tounis in Toulouse
Our parents: Pierre-François (Pierrot) and Jacqueline (called Lilli by his siblings and then Jacquotte) were known at the end of the second world war, at the municipal pool in Toulouse. Dad boasted of it coming to the rescue of mother, in the deep end, a meeting that would have sealed their union.
He told me to have abandoned a training fighter pilot in the U.S., for a perilous adventure, that of becoming ... father.
My parents and me
Shortly after I was born, we joined all three FRG in Lahr, where the father exchanged his military convoy in tow (a huge truck: "Diamond"), against the gleaming Buick General Murtin. Having then "stuffed", the Buick, was perhaps the cause of his re-orientation Transmissions "air".
The inspection Hornisgrinde (1950) Papa (left) posing with the Buick (before impact) of General Murtin
My father loved dogs (especially large and wolves) and he said gladly, for him, the education of children was similar to the training of these animals. The eldest of the scope that I was then, was followed a year later a little sister: Dominique (Domy), then a year later still, our brother, Christian. Both were born in Lahr (FRG). Then, seven years later, the last two cubs were born of the litter: Gilles-François, Saint-Mande in 1953 and Pierre-Eric, in Dakar in 1955.
Domy and Christian
Bettina (cocker to Grandpa) and scope
Our dogs:
Looping 1949 Corsaire 1956 Nora 1964 Peggy 1979
Lahr after we joined Ottenhöfen near the French border, a charming little village of Black Forest, at the foot of Mount Hornisgrinde, where our father worked.
Black Forest landscape (Schwartzwald)
Lake Mummelsee (between Ottenhöffen and Mount Hornisgrinde)
The Berghotel held (by then a fellow candy) on Lake Mummelsee
The village was crossed by a small mountain stream, frozen ice in winter. We were staying upstairs in the attic of a large country house, near the woods. Behind it was an orchard of plum, which we feasted on fresh fruit fell to the ground. We also were leading the hunt for salamanders living in steep streams. The view from the top of the meadow, leaning on a tree, overlooking the valley with its miniature railway, which regularly came up against small trains hikers. Sometimes the arrival of a large steam locomotive-the-foot high, this peaceful village suddenly animated.
steam locomotive of Deutsche Bahn Ottenhöfen (the station) the main deck of the village
Before this house was a small road which we were separated by a solid gate that protected the most uncontrollable factor of attacks in our German Shepherd "Looping". We lived almost on a level with the nature and played with children German neighbors. During the occupation of Germany, our relations with the inhabitants were sometimes difficult. Especially since I had accidentally broken a single stone, the window of a store's local porcelain. This accident had cost dearly to my parents (mile mark). And my father told me to have my most wanted ... clumsiness.
Later, Domy always pushed accidentally, a neighborhood child in a cesspool. Fortunately the Germans were surprisingly tolerant with young children. I keep most of the apartment where we lived, the memory of a particularly rich parquet splinters that, whenever we jouiions, invariably planted in banderillas of stinging our hands and knees.
I remember some days spent on the grass next to a pool setting, where the sound we generously dispensed Tyrolean songs throughout the day. Is this why, or simply because they were happy that our parents and especially our father often sang arias from operettas at home.
But our long stay (nearly 7 years) in Germany ended and I remember because I was now a large, our return trip to France in 1953, for a few fleeting images, including crossing the metal bridge Kehl marking the border, our convoy by rail.
the railway bridge in Strasbourg-Kehl on the Franco-German
In Paris, we ended up at six, crammed into the two parts of a requisitioned hotel, located rue Condorcet in the 10th arrondissement. This apartment upstairs, stood near the Place d'Anvers and Montmartre. Above and left of it, a triangular plot marked the intersection of Rochechouart, Turgot and Condorcet. Vétus our gray blouses and our galoshes, we went to school in the rue Turgot.
on the way to school
the current site of the school Turgot
My class in primary school Turgot (I'm the third from the right in back row)
visiting Paris, we arrived: Alexandre III bridge and gazebo in the park of Buttes-Chaumont
We were there so many of the school, and in the back yard so small, that all classes could not be there at recess together. The hotel was very dated and smelled of furniture polish, its main facade facing the street, which sloped to the intersection of streets Turgot, Condorcet and Rochechouart. At the end of the course, we would sometimes slide down the, until Christian, stumbled to the curb and fell flat at full length on the crosswalk. We watched in horror, disappear among the tall front wheel of a Citroen Traction Avant. Fortunately, this car had a ground clearance and there were all, more fear than harm. And as then the alcohol tests were not driving, the driver was in need of one, maybe two, drinks at the local cafe, to recover from his emotions.
Square Willette and Montmartre
We would sometimes take the air with Mom, Place d'Anvers, at the foot of the hill of the Sacred Heart of Montmartre or on the slopes of the hill, at the Square Willette. We escaladiont the hill, by menacing alleys bounded by Rails concrete molded in shrubs, to the foot of the white basilica. Often we had fun, hands plunged into the pool water, trying to avoid the shrill whistles and brief the guards the square, dressed at the time, like "swallows", a cap and a cape. I do not remember that we are assembled at the time, until the place of the mound.
Before the Sacred Heart, see Paris at our feet was plenty for our happiness. In real poulbots we fund our usions panties on the stair railings parallel to the funicular, skillfully controlling the braking, our hands clenched on the ramp, before jumping on arrival.
At the other end of Paris, in the 14th district, beyond Montparnasse, our resident paternal grandparents to whom we pay regular visits. They lived in a house 160bis, invisible from the street Vercingetorix, because on the back of a building. This dwelling was set between the building and rail access to the Montparnasse station. Sometimes, a locomotive was moving slowly, we dominating its black mass, smoking and ferraillante.
Outside the pavilion, survived a rectangle of green trees and a few anemic. Facing him was the workshop of the publisher Pierre Larive, a friend of my grandparents, whose collections numbered Diderot, Stendhal and Merimee, are now highly prized by connoisseurs. Pierre Larive, orphan, was the godfather and dad would have been saved from alcoholism by my grandmother: Julia (Juliette). She had inherited her father's generosity? François Sauriac that, bassoon Radio-Limoges, said my father had brought back from a concert in the early morning, a horse, for rendering and moreover blind, at home.
Pierre was characterized by an exceptionally grave voice, a clear look and a calm that contrasted with the excitement permanent family.
Grandma, me and Peter Larive, at number 15, rue de la Convention (15th district)
For Julia, her son has always remained "Pierrot," while mom was called by her "my little Jacquotte" and his daughter Monique, "Pepee"
Julia, her daughter, Monique, Jacquotte and Pierrot (outside the pavilion, rue Vercingetorix)
1953 Birth of Gilles-François
Nos familles sont essentiellement originaires du Centre et du Sud-Ouest et j 'ai réalisé un arbre généalogique familial, consultable gratuitement (après votre inscription gratuite), sur le site généalogique geneanet, sous le nom de contact: Pat311
I remember living in the flag of our grandparents sat on the wall at the place of honor, a painting of a tall ship in the wind. This painting was done by a painter "Grand Prix de Rome." But the artist was not aware of aerodynamics, since the flames at the top of the masts followed backwards, running the boat, and not the rushing wind in the sails, in the opposite direction. Was it possible at the time, a sailboat go faster than the wind that blows?
In Paris, we traveled sometimes in the car of a grandparent, a Renault Primaquatre I think, because at that time the traffic density was not one today. It was a black sedan very square, like so many others. It was followed by a 4hp Renault model to which our grandparents remained faithful until the accidental death of my grandmother, who was killed aboard one of them. The 4hp accounted for our "Parisian" Grandfather, the ideal car to get around Paris.
Renault Prima Quatre Renault 4cv
Our paternal grandfather: OFFSET Gabriel, married to Julia Sauriac, was a former fighter pilot who participated in the war of 1914-1918, then to the "phony war" of 1939-1940. I mention that I learned of his career (mainly in History Department of Defense, Fort Vincennes), in the second part of this site.
Gabriel PALLIER and Julia SAURIAC
Our maternal grandfather: OULES Jacques (pronounced "Oulès"), which I mentioned in career third part of this site, was married to Jeanne IDRAC ("Mamette" to his grandchildren), whom he had five children. He made a military career in the colonial infantry, which stays mostly in Africa and Indochina.
He finished his career as a lieutenant in the 16th Rifle Regiment Senegal (RTS), during the campaign in France
Georges OULES Jeanne, Georges and Jacqueline OULES to Kindia (Guinée) Jeanne OULES (born IDRAC)
It was in Paris, I discovered aviation at the time. First one, calm and twirling of Issy-les-Moulineaux and the lively and thunder of air shows in Le Bourget. Especially at this time, the French pilots Dassault Mystère IV (including Colonel Conztantin Rozanoff) had just discovered how to direct sonic booms to the crowd and never did away with it.
Dassault MD-450 Mystère IVA and "Kostia" ROZANOFF
We remained only two years in Paris, including a "short" break in two summer months in Charente, in the castle of Cresse where we would find: the fields of "colonial" and the French countryside with its flowers and harvests of summer. Mom she was slowly recovering from the birth of our brother Gilles-François.
I tied in Paris strong friendships with "mates" in Paris, that distance would unfortunately quickly make me forget.
Castle Cresse and the Charente countryside summer
DAKAR (Sénégal)
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Dad was transferred to Air Base No. 160 Ouakam in Dakar for two years in 1953. He joined his assignment by means of military airlift, a DC-3 "Dakota" to enable it to cross the Mediterranean interminably.
For the family, we were better off and premiums civilian aircraft at Orly, via Marseille-Marignane and our journey was made at night without problems, on a Douglas DC6b the EU airline or air-maritime Transport (UAT to origin with TAI, UTA). The plane then continued his journey to Bamako, Conakry and Abidjan. There was talk initially, that the journey is on De Havilland Comet jet II, but this new airliner had been banned from flying after several serious accidents. Subsequently it was learned that these accidents were due to the microscopic appearance of cracks on the cell ruptures.
Douglas DC-3 and DC-6B De-Havilland Comet
During our stay of two years in Dakar, we would change three times as a dwelling. At first we built on the ground floor of a white house, alone in the middle of the medina. Unfortunately, it proved invaded by water in each storm, as built below ground level. We then compress the usefulness of the floor to pull out beds, top of which we take refuge, while our parents écopaient.
Jacquotte, Protet place - our house (in Medina), then the "SICAP Karak" with Dick - Renault Juvaquatre
Protet place
It was therefore necessary to leave this house, to get closer to Ouakam, for a semi-detached house in a subdivision named "SICAP" closest point "E". Point "E" was the public school to which we went on foot, crossing a railway line. It was a public school and mixed (sex and color). It was there that I saw in the sky off the roof of a hut away in the sky by a tornado.
Baobab of the ellipse at point E (shot in 1971) - cassava (a staple food of the time) taxi-bus
The SICAP (suburbs) hut in the Medina (1955) a pavilion at Point E
My class in primary school at Point E (I'm the 4th from the left in last place)
Dominique class at Point E (the center of the second rank)
Christian class at Point E (the first left at the top)
Our neighbors to the house and we were African SICAP offered at their festivals, through the hedge separating the garden, wonderful donuts fat as desired. We we applied hard, to "burn out" all the vegetation in our garden by watering thoroughly during the hot hours. Only, I think, a few banana trees survived this desire to do well.
1955 - The beach N'gor (1955) Short seaplane "Sunderland" Aircraft carrier "Arromanches" back from Suez
Each weekend of big white seaplane "Sunderland" were conducting air drops over the bay. Site suggesting that equipment used by the Naval Air
I was in love with my little neighbor, "Josette" the pretty face and light-skinned and freckled, dressed in a cardigan eternal.
She was the daughter of a mechanic and it would have been helpful to our car, an old black Renault Juvaquatre passed away at the entrance to the city one evening, spitting flames from its exhaust. This drama mechanics, then we forced to use military buses to get to the beach of N'Gor: to learn to swim first so then we bathe safely.
Faced with this beach was the island of N'Gor that Dad decided to swim it succeeds, but to land on ... a shoal of sea urchins.
I remember the long and patient work of the evening Mom, extracting one by one (especially without breaking them), to the tweezers, the thorns of Ursidae deep in the flesh. I also remember a carabinée pneumonia contracted by my father, there he almost did not escape.
But we take our revenge on marine animals, going to the mess of the air base, eating the delicious lobster Sunday.
At the SICAP, in hedges, we hunted chameleons, miniature dragons, making them turn color from green to gray, once he knew they were discovered.
The days of Ramadan sheep; attached to a stake in the gardens, were slaughtered according to ritual. We watched fascinated, blood flowing from the throats of animals sacrificed. The bush was directly behind our house, with its giant anthills, snakes and jackals (or hyenas) coming into our gardens, browse the night.
Sometimes we would attend competitions steeplechase, on a beautiful green lawn obtained, in English, with a lot of watering and water rationing yet existed. We were at the time regularly overflown by aircraft spreaders DTT, without knowing that these products could eventually we also be harmful.
Our parents to Dakar (1954)
Our last home in Dakar, was an apartment on the top floor of a building in the city of "airmen" new city and adjacent to the barracks of the airbase Ouakam. We were woken to the sound of the bugle, but ultimate luxury: Mom had to help him, a rifleman, "Victor" and a nanny: "Rockaya". Our nights were rocked croaking of toads buffalo and movies of outdoor cinema near where past were mostly films Fernandel, whose smiles with big white teeth were very well liked. The interior walls of the camps were lined with a bright pink bougainvillea.
Christian, Domy and me at Dakar (1955) on the beach of N''Gor screen outdoor cinema Ouakam
Sometimes we crossed the road we visit the nearby military airfield Ouakam, observe the movements of aircraft types and Leo 45 AAC-1 Toucan (French version of the three-engined Junkers Ju-52).
LéO 451 AAC-1 "Toucan"
On the huge baobab trees behind our building, were our playground and we ate fruit "monkey bread", stringy and sour taste.
the baobab tree and its fruit the monkey bread
Flags of Ouakam facing our building and Christian in front of it Ballo, Pierrot (in front of knight's armor)
Parties were frequent enough, and I remember that our parents had attended a costume ball. My father was wearing a cardboard armor he had done, including using paper plates in the joints, painted aluminum. But first prize was won by a robot equipped with colored lights, made by mechanics. The fight was uneven ...
our parents in town
Often at the end of days, we went on foot to the nearest beach at the bottom of the barracks, to capture the fry were trapped in the holes of rocks, which were taken by surprise by the descent of the tide or observe the return of colorful canoes sinners, until the "right" to the wave it gently on the sand.
canoes of fishermen
We went one day in Thies northeast of Dakar. There, during the afternoon of relaxation, I found the way to break accidentally, the calf of my sister with a blow dart. It is true that she chose the precise moment of the jet to cross between me and the target (and like everyone else is not ... Tell Gillaume).
local transport running on the track (well charged).
Our last brother Pierre-Eric was born in 1955 in Dakar.
Pierre-Eric, carried by his nanny: Rockaya N'Gaye
We all go to France, on the steamer "Djenné".
the liner "Djenné" Company Paquet
We traveled in the company of conscripts installed in the hold, which we would discover the existence arrival at Marseilles, when cast into the harbor, a huge wooden keel. During this trip, one Christian does not suffer from seasickness and, of course we envy, because he could eat their fill, including our ice cream served for dessert. With this old ship smells of paint and graillons, fortunately we did stop at Las Palmas, Casablanca and Tangier, which allowed us to take a few perks to each of them, but not for long.
I keep in Las Palmas, the memory of a water crystal clear, Casablanca and Tangier its whiteness, its beneficent coolness under the canopy of trees overlooking the harbor.
Boarding the start of the sea
The France
Aumont Aubrac (Lozère)
Dad granted leave to return overseas for six months, he chose to join us to Aumont-Aubrac, in Lozère in the middle of the Massif Central, where lived: his sister Monique, her husband and sons Gaston .
Aumont-Aubrac (Lozère)
Located approximately 1000 meters, the bracing climate of the plateau of Aubrac gave us the greatest good to our return from Africa. In addition, winter 1956 was particularly harsh and we had great snow to be cleared for access road to our house at the edge of the village. Déneigeage f'autant more necessary than Dad had bought his first new car, a Peugeot 203 sedan blue-gray (with sunroof manual and white wall tires, please).
Our Peugeot 203 Our houses in Aumont-Aubrac with our cousins and their father, Gaston
The meadow, on which stood the house was surrounded by an embankment at the bottom, which passed on the old electric motor of the railway line of the Massif Central. This proximity, exacerbating our imagination and realized in a pre-track schedule, shaded by hemlock feet, as we traveled using trains made of tin cans attached. Thus, boxes of sardines accounted for cars with side panels while the boxes represent cylindrical tank wagons. It was quite inspired by Africa, which allows for objects with few resources.
Every Sunday, we found our cousins Arnaud and Pascal, before a meal served at a local restaurant, whose menu began invariably blocked by the generous queen, served on a red gingham tablecloth. But once the meal is over, we went together, hurtling down the slopes madly to-face, rolling in the grass. This appointment Sunday was once the subject of a drama, when dad past the railway station restaurant, could not avoid a row of ducks unwary who ventured on the snowy road. Finally, the owner decided to add the victims of the daily menu, which closes the incident.
Then we went to live in the middle of the village, in a family house owned by a Miss Mallet. A house which harbored the attic full of old treasures. The furniture was as old as its owner and the bedrooms upstairs, unheated, saw beds covered with down comforters generous. In the attic, between stacks of postcards Obsolete, we found a frail heater, that we used briefly as a sledge. In the courtyard outside the house, quietly rusting the wheel of a water pump in retirement, we gave up after numerous unsuccessful attempts to revive him.
Below the house mallet, passing in a curve cashed, the tracks already mentioned. The trains would spend cautiously. How many times have we placed stones on the rail, hoping to derail the iron monster ... fortunately in vain.
Driving the Paris-Béziers Viaduct Garabit (Gustave Eiffel)spanning the valley of the Truyère
I découvrai Aumont, a religious school run by an abbot, whose name I forgot. It was located in the village center and faced the monument morts.J have kept the memory of this school the mandatory morning prayer and our crazy winter slides standing on the ice, across the courtyard. The work of art nearest and most impressive to which we went to visit was the Garabit viaduct built by Gustave Eiffel, to span Truyère.
Christian and Looping Gilles-François, Domy and Pierre-Eric Pierre-Eric Me, Corsair, Domy and Christian
But our father, moved to Aix-en-Provence, was to resume work. So we embarked all seven aboard the "203" for the laces down the Cevennes, in directions of southern France.
Lambesc (Bouches du Rhône)
We now go live to Lambesc, a charming provencal village located twenty kilometers west of Aix-en-Provence and still bears the scars of an earthquake June 11, 1909 (magnitude "6" on the Richter scale), his church has lost its steeple spire, never rebuilt since.
The center Lambesc (we lived the apartment indicated that overlooked the square of Hairy)
Our apartment was on the place of hairy, bearing in its center place a war memorial, opposite the church.
We lived in Lambesc of numerous years, and I spent my adolescence among the thyme, lavender, olives and sheep .. We were enrolled in the elementary school, a new building erected away the village, on the heights of the plateau Berthoir. To get there we had to cross many of the old streets of Lambesc. Near the school in the pine forest, was the house of M.Saule factor, creator in 1957 of the folk group "Lou Galoubet" Dominique was one group that for several years, which allowed him to travel very early, while dancing.
The folk group "Lou Galoubet" (tambourine Provençal) instead of the church from our apartment
Below, my favorite track at the start of Lambesc, with my first bike (a Peugeot, mustard metallic, sometimes borrowed without my knowledge by Domy, she confessed to me later):
Lambesc is located south and at the foot of the chain Trévaresse. Many times in the summer, we went to walk Charleval, where was created the first outdoor pool area, pool also assiduously frequented by flies. When I arrived in Lambesc, I was placed in the course of Ms. Groulet, which prepared students for entry into the sixth. This course was mixed which, after the rule of the Christian school Aumont, seemed nice. Then I continued my primary education in two years of preparation the Certificate of Primary Education (CPE), Mr. Michel's class (called "médord") com munist zealous and fervent admirer of Yves Montand.
le Jacquemart de 1646 la fontaine du centre hôtel Cadenet Charleval dit «Sévigné» le moulin de Berthoir
I loved this nature then the village, and I often walked there with our dog black Belgian shepherd Nora.
This love of nature prompted us up back in the plane of the square, tree frogs found in nearby ponds. Rainy periods, we saw turned into hunters snail, along the walls of the road Charleval. Several times, only equipped with candles, we crawled underground, along with a small hose leading to a water fountain and wash the sheep, whose walls were full of leeches foam left by them. We entered through a basement window also in the hotel of Madame de Grignan, then in poor condition
Sometimes armed with courage, we climbed up to the chapel of St. Anne Goiron and the War Memorial local resistance, killed during an operation, during the second world war. The site is majestic, quiet and offers beautiful views of the valley of the Durance. This is our next door neighbor, Peter Gazhanes, now president of the Association of "Old Lambesc" which introduced us to this remarkable place.
the war memorial and the church convent Santa Teresa (rte Pelissanne)
Lambesc and fields of daffodils in summer, its wild iris in the scrub, olive trees, pine trees and cicadas, there was good to live despite the heat. It was enough to know the streams and springs, for a simple walk is a delight. I also remember the cherry trees lining the road generous to Charleval.
Life on the place was peaceful hairy. When we arrived at Lambesc, water supply in the apartments had just been completed. But I remember a truck driver for a long time neighbor, was washing out of habit every morning the torso, the fountain of the square. We made friends with children in school, but particularly those with the neighborhood. I remember, from right to left: Family MARTY, Spanish Republican refugees poor, whose eldest son, tall, dark and thin and wore glasses was fond of crystal set radios, he kept perfect. It was a large family. Then came the cure, the cure: a theologian M.RAIMBAUD was little loved by his congregation because of its rigor. Always dressed in a cassock and a black hat, he surveyed the front of the church and down along by reading her missal. It was carrying the child of patronage in his old jalopy black. The urchins that we were enjoying particularly religious ceremonies: weddings and baptisms as participants always throw a few handfuls of loose change on a dusty place, at the end of the office. The campaign includes nearly thirteen Lambescaine oratories.
Flower parade Lambesc, Domy the chariot of the queen and that of "the fountain of love" an oratory
The Monastery of St. Theresa, Pelissanne road, I was making regular visits to a Franciscan friar: Father: "Don Buenner" who had an office and a library of exceptional richness. This well of science, inquisitive, lovingly cultivated geraniums in a small fenced garden side. On his desk sat a majestic piece of quartz, blackened by lightning, which fascinated me with his loud purple.
By attending the father, I approached unconsciously my love (platonic) time, a pretty brunette with long hair, the golden voice, like her mother who sang in the choir of the church and worked at the Joan of Arc School, girls' school located precisely in the convent Ste-Therese. This family was from, I think of Marmande, his father was a sergeant in the Air Force and married to the organist of the harmonium, both were very devout Christians. They had four children: three girls and a boy respectively prénommaient: Marie-Joseph, Chantal, and Anne-Marie Bernard, who assiduously attended the church. How many have we vespers also participated, on Sunday afternoon.
Wedged between their small house overlooking the ramp accessing the main street and the cure was a large building occupied by Dr. Sabatier, who had an only son, Christian. At the bottom of the ramp, that I had to go back in charge, was the druggist, hardware dealer with whom I went to get gas cylinders, for cooking. On the other side of the ramp and perpendicular to it, gave a narrow alley behind the pharmacy where the pharmacist's son lived and his parents that he would begin his address as vous and sentences against them, by: "Yes? ". His father imbecile, had helped to slap me in the street after an argument with his son. Even today, I gladly will slip arsenic into the jars of this shoot-cannulas pretentious.
On the square and the start of this lane, stood a lovely bakery where my parents brought every Sunday to Sunday roast chicken. I discovered the delicious focaccia with almond chips, pastries and hard chiseled leaf-shaped oval. Besides lived a young girl of Lyons who was practicing the violin at her window. A short and steep street linking the church square in the market place or place Jean Jaures.
Sur le viaduc de l'ancienne voie ferrée la pose pour tous sur la place de l'église
Left corner of this street, the shop was Broadcast Lèbre of MM and their youngest daughter Marie-Blanche who also danced to the group "Lou Galoubet".
Besides, a house that was occupied in summer by the French living in Morocco, the Manzanaresse who had a boy and a girl of our age. Beside an old maid: Odile and her elderly parents, then our building with a dark, wide corridor leading to the staircase at the back was always extraordinary coolness in summer. A first floor below us, a time lived a young couple, the Smiths whose disputes had no equal as reconciliations.
On our porch, in front of our entrance housed Marseilles: the Gazanhes Lambesc who came to the summer. Gazanhes Peter, the youngest, liked to Lambesc while his older brother engineer, painted local landscapes. Peter, the time wore thick glasses, he is now head of the old museum Lambesc and wrote a 1992 book about the city that its population has quintupled since that time (2000 to 10,000 inhabitants ).
Having spent my primary school certificate in Lambesc, I was admitted into the learning center G1550 Aix-en-Provence, "University of roller Cantan" as baptizing, mocking my father. This property was wedged between the military preparatory school, behind the technical college and school of arts and crafts, with a disused chapel in which dried the planks of wood needed to learn our carpenters. Other trades workers were trained in three years of study: fitters, boilermakers, carpenters, masons ... Being a military child, obviously does not help me much in that environment, on the contrary .
We were visiting our grandparents parent: the area of "South Paradise" in Toulon for a holiday home Mamette, his son Claude and daughter Colette and the villa "squadron" of Boulouris to meet grandpa and grandma.
Visit Mamette in Marignane (SE-200) and Christian Dad Boulouris
the villa "l'escadrille" in Saint-Raphael/Boulouris Portal and terrace (summer 1964)
On a visit to our paternal grandparents in Boulouris
Back from the beach of Pradon in Toulon, with our maternal grandmother (Mamette)
Mamette to Carqueiranne
Mamette at the end of its life
Mamette with his son René and his wife Francoise in Paris
When we went to Marseille, very often we went to the old port and passions sometimes before the "maison du fada" (the "radiant city" Le Corbusier). We went swimming in the pond of Berre, on beaches Massane or Varage. We arrived to attend to Martigues.Nous jousting sometimes we pay to the beach for the day of Lecques.
the radiant city of Le Corbusier (called "the house of the fada") Joust water
The beach of Varage in 1960 and that of Lecques
In the summer of 1962 and once my certificate of fitness professional carpenter in his pocket, I worked a month with a craftsman in Aix. But the cumulative cost of meals and daily transportation between Lambesc and Aix, rendered the operation unprofitable. I loved the job of assistant surveyor in a small consulting firm working under contract for EDF to the development of the Durance. With my fellow surveyors, under the command of M.REGNE engineer and surveyor with my focus, we conducted surveys of profiles of irrigation canals, followed by calculations of volume of soil to be removed (volume measurements). I also participated in the realization of precise leveling of the Central Salon-de-Provence. Although sometimes difficult (the days of bad weather did not exist as in the building), we would sometimes work under the snow. But this life shared between topographic outdoor and carry on planes within the remaining time, quite suited me.
canal of Provence
me at 17
The marriage of Maurice and Domy in 1967
But I was 17 then and a growing passion for modern aircraft, including jets frequently passing over our heads from Istres or Orange. Unfortunately, high myopia forbade me any hope of driving, but even so eager to get closer to this world, I enlisted September 18, 1963 in the Air Force for a period of three years and in the goal to become a noncommissioned officer.
During my military training (Platoon # 2 here at BIM-Compiègnes Royallieu in 1965)
For three months I was doing my military training at the training center of the base-School No. 726 in Nimes-Courbessac. Following this training, three "specialties" I was offered the choice: Administrative Secretary, fireman or cook, I choose the first, and found myself again on work placement-based school # 720 in Caen- Carpiquet to be trained in secretarial (typing machine included). The fact that access to the train "Mistral" I was refused as I returned from military leave end of course, made me miss the amphi final allocation basis for allocation and I found mutated the base-School No. 702 in the Cher Avord, place no one wanted, most of parcequ'inconnu.
I arrived at Avord in the heat summer, the weekend of August 15, 1964, on a near-deserted. After a short stay as harbinger of a support unit, with boss as a chief warrant officer of the former B-26 Marauder, then deputy mess manager NCOs I was finally assigned to the Department of Education (DE) School transport pilots (Groupement Ecole No. 319). At that time, the GE319 was equipped with twin-engine Dassault "Flemish" MD 312 and Douglas DC3 for navigation "astro" in favor of the bombing crews. At the DE I had the charge of quartermaster equipment for individual flight back to students (flight suit, helmet Guenault, navigation rule etc.) and sending the message of aircraft availability, every morning sent to the command of schools based in Villacoublay which we depended.
I effectuai my first flight in the Air Force on MD 312 at an air link on Villacoublay as a pilot with my direct boss, the lieutenant Butard (a "mustache" in piloting). Promoted corporal, I encadrais a section called the BIM Compiègne. This is where I discovered Paris.
Dassault MD 312 «Flamant»
Back at Avord, I was getting a few months later a permutation of the Paris area for the air base No. 104 Le Bourget-Dugny. When I arrived on this basis was stationed the 64th transport squadron. It consisted of two squadrons: the ET No. 1/64 "Béarn" fitted with twin double girder North 2501 "Noratlas" and ET 2/64 "Maine" equipped Breguet Br 765 "Two Bridges" and Douglas DC 6B.
Bréguet Br.765 «Sahara»
In 1966 I became acquainted with Annick (called "Anne"), my future wife, who was at the time, manipulative radiology to clinical radiological rue Jean Laugère Arnouville-lès-Gonesse (clinic run by Doctors and Fihey Lepic). We got married in Arnouville-lès-Gonesse in 1967. Our first child, Christopher (now a researcher at the CNRS) was born the following year and Severine (currently a professor of French literature in college), was born in 1972.
Christophe, Anne and Séverine
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The work - here a segment in a stereo version - was conceived and realized as a sound installation for four channels for the exhibition "the medium - the message", a collaboration of thirteen international artists shown at the former central office for Alpine milk in Vienna from February 22 to March 9, 1997.
This sound installation was based on and implemented the basic concept of the exhibition, which was to unite very different approaches of contemporary art in one exhibition, specifically so that these individual expressions would complement one another. The reason for this was particularly the role played by chance in the distribution and design of the entire grounds, and later in viewing it.
Ines Kargel, Born 1970 in Linz, Austria/Europe. Ballet training at the Bruckner Conservatory, Linz; learned piano, guitar and saxophone; studied acting at the Music College of Graz (diploma 1990); studied composition and saxophone at the Bruckner Conservatory, Linz (diploma 1996); training course for computer music and electronic media at the Music College of Vienna and at the Studio for Advanced Music and Media Technology, Linz.
Compositional work in the field of interdisciplinary multimedia with a particular reference to space as a determining parameter of the work: sound installations, music for film and theater, performances; performances and tours as jazz and rock saxophonist at home and abroad; has performed in and directed theater productions, readings, show productions and moderation.
Talent promotion award from the Province of Upper Austria for music (1996). Guest lectures about Austrian Elektroacoustic Music at the Sichuan Conservatory, Chengdu / China (1998). Member of GEM (Austrian Society for Elektroacoustic Music), IGNM (International Society for New Music) and ICMA (International Computer Music Association).
Valdrada is based on an excerpt from Le citta invisibili (Invisible cities) by Italo Calvino. Calvino's book is a collection of prose poems, connected by the scenario of Marco Polo telling Kublai Khan stories of the fantastic cities which he has visited. The piece is based on Marco's description of Valdrada, a city built upon the shore of a lake. Marco tells of how an arriving traveler sees not one but two cities: the "real" one above and its reflection in the water below; he then explains the peculiar awareness which the inhabitants of Valdrada have of their reflections in the lake. So great is their obsession with these mirrors of themselves that it becomes not so much their own actions and passions which are of importance to them, but those of their images in the water. Finally, Marco tells of the relationship between the city and its mirror: "the two cities live for one another, their eyes locked together; but there is no love between them."
In composing Valdrada, I wanted to draw upon the imagery, atmosphere, and poetry of the text without creating an explicit "setting" of it. In particular, the images of mirrors and water were uppermost in my mind while composing. My treatment of the spoken text proceeded in a similar fashion: although the speech is never clearly recognizable, it shapes the rhythms, timbres, and overall gestures of the music. In the opening, for example, the rhythmic texture is the result of filtering only the consonants in the speech. The middle section then focuses on the timbres of the vowels, while the final section brings these together, with the filtered consonants accompanying the song-like vowel sounds.
Valdrada was composed in 1988 at the Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music.
Frances White composes instrumental and electronic music. She has studied composition with Lawrence Moss, Charles Dodge, and Paul Lansky, and is currently a doctoral candidate in composition at Princeton University. Her music is performed regularly in concert and on the radio in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Australia. She has received awards, honors, and commissions from Prix Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria; the Groupe de musique experimental de Bourges, in France; the International Computer Music Association; ASCAP;and the Bang on a Can Festival. In 1997 her Winter aconites for chamber ensemble and tape won a prize in the 24th Bourges International Electroacoustic Music competition.
Ms. White's work has been performed at venues such as Gaudeamus in Holland; the Roulette concert series in N.Y.; the Synthese Festival in France; the Bang on a Can Festival in New York; the Other Minds Festival in San Francisco; the Music at the Anthology series in New York; the World Shakuhachi Festival 98, and multiple International Computer Music conferences around the word. Ms. White's music can be heard on CD on the Wergo, Centaur, Nonsequitur, and Harmonia Mundi labels.
Ms. White has a special interest in Asian instruments, an interest which began in 1996, when she was commissioned by the International Computer Music Association to write Birdwing for shakuhachi and tape. Among her most recent compositions involving Asian instruments are Centre Bridge I, (for two shakuhachis and tape), and While listening to the waves, (for erhu, dizi, pipa, and zheng), which was written for The Chinese Virtuosi, a group based in Beijing that performs contemporary music written for traditional Chinese instruments. This piece is scheduled for a premier in May, 1999, in Beijing. She is currently working on a piece commissioned by violinist/composer Mari Kimura for violin and electronics; this summer she will start on a work commissioned by the Groupe de musique experimental de Bourges.
"Vox Alia" is a suite of short etudes based on the voice which via electroacoustic treatment conserves the traces of the melodic, rhythmic and timbral qualities of this marvelous medium so immediately at the service of a particular character or feeling.
"Giocoso", which mixes vocal music of each non-European continent with the 'western past', is conctructed in binary form and is contrasted and reinforced by the compositional organization of space in octophony.
"Amoroso" attempts the experience of an ornamental and contrapuntal compositional style, in the perspective of sound as well as space, using the model of a Gregorian phrase.
"Innocemente" rediscovers immediate temporality with its contrasting, elusive nature and its diffuse, internal sense of space, qualities all of which are germane to childhood.
Annette Vande Gorne pursued classical music studies at the Royal Conservatoires of Mons and Brussels and with Jean Absil. Electroacoustical composition with G. Reibel and P. Schaeffer at the Paris Conservatory. Organises the First International Acousmatic Festival of Brussels (1984). Creates and leads the non-profit making association "Musiques et Recherches" and the "Métamorphose d'Orphée" studio. Wins the SABAM price in 1985 and 1996. Teaches electroacoustic composition at the Liège, Brussels and today Mons Conservatories. Presently, her music studies various types of sound energies of nature; she uses these as they are or transforms them in the studio to create an abstract and expressive non-anecdotic musical language.
Points of No Return shifts between two different environments or landscapes. To achieve this, sounds were divided into two categories according to their nature and timbre; but as the piece goes on, some sounds from one environment also occur in the other one. Points of No Return employs music concrete techniques and digital editing and processing. Only at a very late stage is electronically generated sound incorporated to color some dramatic moments. Points of No Return is divided into 5 sections, alternating between two different landscapes.
Chin-Chin Chen is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music at Millikin University, and a D.M.A. candidate in composition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her primary composition teacher is William Brooks, and she has been awarded a couple of electroacoustic music commissions from Scott Wyatt. Ms. Chen's electroacoustic works, Points of No Return (1997, for two-channel tape) and Points of Arrival (1998, for violin and tape), won First Prize and Honorable Mention respectively in the Concorso Internazionale Luigi Russolo in Varese, Italy. Her works have received performances and broadcasting in Italy, Canada, Korea, Scotland, Finland, Brazil, Australia, Czech Republic, Greece, Spain, Argentina, India, Belgium, France, and throughout the United States. She served on the music selection committee for the 1998 SEAMUS National Conference and is published by Media Press.
These pieces were composed using sounds recorded by the composer in zoos, parks, etc. This work is part of a series about animals in cages and free.
Pascale Trudel (Québec, 1964) is an artist and plays with sounds, images, animations, words and cyberspace. Since 1986, her work has been presented in concerts, on the radio, on compact disks and on the Internet.
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'Red Snow' is snow coloured rose to blood red by a growth of algae or diatoms. During seasons when there is little sunlight and temperatures are much lower than the freezing point, the algae are dormant.
'Red Snow' is the second in a series of works entitled 'microclimates'. Each work is structurally balanced, not in a symmetrical sense, but through the 'life' of one articulation resulting in a subsequent and counterbalancing reaction. Through the process of composition, the beauty and violence of a natural landscape is concentrated into the 'microclimate' of the work - forming a new 'organisational space' yet reflecting, in acoustic form, the natural world and psychological source inspiration.
The original expression behind 'Red Snow' can be found in Microclimate I: 'Snow & Instability', for live instruments and acousmatic sound. In this work the 'balancing' mechanism operates in the underlying macro-organisation - only apparent over the long-term structure - while the immediacy of the acoustic instruments articulate the surface 'ecology'. In 'Red Snow' the material has been reworked such that the source inspiration is manifest without the need for instrumental material.
I moved to Norway in January - the middle of winter. Both the meteorological and geographical climate dramatically contrasted that found in England. Combined with feelings of emotional isolation, which were the result of leaving friends and places I knew so well, I felt increasingly aware of my current environment. The variety of snow spiralling in the wind, blurring my vision; the cold; the intricate details of vegetation enhanced by a layer of crystal formations; the brightness after the snow ceases to fall; tiny ice crystals falling from branches disturbed by wildlife; footprints suggesting their own scenario... and the potential colour - lying dormant.
Natasha Barrett composes acousmatic and live electroacoustic music, works with sound diffusion, installation projects, instrumental performance and dance. Current musical preoccupations include methods of combining life performers and electroacoustic material, and techniques to model in the musical structure relationships found between the elements of the natural world.
Her work is performed regularly in concerts and festivals throughout Europe and America and has been presented at international conferences and competitions (notably Noroit 1998; Luigi Russolo 1995 and 1998; Bourges 1996 and 1998, Ars Electronica 1998, International Computer Music Conferences 1995 and 1998; International Symposium for Electronic Art 1995). Her work has been commissioned by the ICMA, Sonic Arts Network and independent film artists and choreographers. After studying for a Masters degree in composition and analysis with Jonty Harrison, in 1997 she completed her doctoral degree in electroacoustic composition supervised by Denis Smalley. A period as the guest composer at NoTAM in Oslo lead to her current position: director of the electroacoustic music studios and lecturer in music technology and composition in Tromso, Norway.


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No fewer than 36 persons have died in a road accident along Akaeze-Ishiagu highway in Akaeze Development Centre, Ivo local government area of Ebonyi state.
It was gathered that the incident occurred on Friday at about 5:45pm.
A witness told our correspondent that the accident occurred when an Enugu –bound 608 bus conveying people returning from a burial ceremony in Ebonyi state attempted to overtake a trailer just before a bridge in the area .
The driver of the bus was said to have lost control of the vehicle and veered off into the river and got submerged immediately.
As at the time of filing this report, only five persons in critical conditions had been reportedly found and rushed to the hospital for treatment.
''An accident just occurred at Akaeze Development Centre. A 608 bus carrying 36 persons returning from a burial in Ebonyi heading to Enugu while trying to overtake a trailer, the driver lost control and the bus jumped into the river .Up till now, more than 20 minutes after the incident none of them has been found'' the source said.
The Police Public Relations Officer for Ebonyi Command of the Nigeria Police DSP Loveth Odah, confirmed the incident to our correspondent ,describing it as 'very unfortunate incident '
She however disclosed that about five persons had so far been rescued from the river, adding that efforts were on to rescue others.
"It is a very unfortunate incident. The DPO of the area just told me that about five persons have been rescued and rushed to the hospital while efforts were on to see if some other persons can be rescued too. Our men are already on ground to see what can be done to help the situation" Odah said.
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The RTI Act: what part should we play?
A discussion on the effective use and consequences of the Right to Information Act
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Concurrently with its 50th anniversary, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) organized a dialogue titled 'Making the Right to Information a Reality in Sri Lanka: The Role of Non-State Actors' to discuss the effect of the RTI Act in Sri Lanka. It was held from 4.00 to 6.00 pm on 22nd February at the Committee Room C (Lavender), BMICH.
"Right to Information, Right to Live"
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The keynote address was delivered by Venkatesh Nayak, the Co-Convener of the National Campaign for People's Right to Information, India. The foundation of his speech was the slogan "Right to Information, Right to Live." He believes that the constitution cannot protect the citizens of a country if they do not have access to information. He stressed on the need to educate the masses. He also discussed cases from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and England where the RTI Act was used effectively.
Handbooks for the RTI Act
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Next to speak was Dr Ranga Kalansooriya, the Director General of the Government Information Department. He stated that there was very little evidence in the Act to motivate the public to access data. He brought to notice that the Government had conducted many seminars and mass media conferences to educate the public about the RTI Act. The rules and regulations for the implementation of the Act include-
1. Help desks at public offices.
2. Resource centres for RTI.
3. RTI handbooks.
It is important to be ready to supply the information demanded by the public, he added.
"RTI will deny my privilege"
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Dilrukshi Handunnetti, an Attorney at Law and senior journalist began by quoting a colleague who claimed that "RTI will deny my privilege." She quipped that since everyone can access information now, a journalist is useless! Nevertheless, the change in the media landscape brought about by the Act is a boon for investigational journalism. She believes that the change is both enabling and equalizing since everybody has the power to ask. She observes the Act to be a message multiplier, as more journalists publish the same news as the accessibility is higher.
The journalists work for community reasons as opposed to personal reasons, she noted. The incident where 15 women from Batticaloa demanded information of their loved ones lost in the war is a good example of how the RTI Act empowers those in need, she explained. One of the leading queries was to find out what had happened to their original complaints.
"We have to get it right from the very beginning"
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Dr Vinya Ariyaratne, the General Secretary of the Sarvodaya Shramadhana Movement, said "we have to get it right from the very beginning," and the Civil Societies should lead by example and exhibit transparency as well. In response to the panel host Chamindri's question, if it was possible for the Civil Societies to unite and convey information to the people, he said that it was impractical to make one big front, and the focus should be on addressing community issues. Since the country is transitioning from war to peace, people need information on judicial and constitutional reforms.
Combating Sri Lanka's culture of secrecy
Geoffrey Alagaratnam, the President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka, talked of the attitude change necessary to transform the culture of secrecy in Sri Lanka to a culture of transparency. To paraphrase his words – "Democracy is based on transparency. Democracy is the people. If the Government is not transparent, it is the people that suffer."
The legal fraternity bridge the gap between the state and the community. Legal aid clinics, overlooked by a panel of lawyers, are conducted to educate people with low incomes on how to make use of the RTI Act. He also pointed out that lawyers could help smoothen out the rough edges of the act and replace its ambiguity with clarity.
"The RTI Act supersedes everything"
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The Question and answer session followed. Regarding pre-existing laws that contradicted the RTI Act, Alagaratnam said that "the RTI Act supersedes everything." Chamindri invited Louis, the head of the study conducted by the UNDP on this matter, to report on his progress. He announced that 120 laws were found to be contradicting the RTI law. Around 105 laws have been settled. They have been divided into three categories –
1. Ones which are confusing and can be interpreted as contradictory to the RTI Act.
2. Ones which are ambiguous and may contradict the RTI Act.
3. Ones which clearly violate the RTI Act.
The Golden Padlock and the Tight Key
Giving a welcome break to the otherwise serious discussion, Handunnetti shared with the audience this hilarious custom in Bulgaria. Their Government awards the institution with the least transparency the 'Golden Padlock' and the funniest request for information the 'Tight Key'.
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Nayak said the above when asked if the increasing pressure on the Government to divulge information will lead to it tightening the RTI laws. He exclaimed that the "the doors of transparency must be kept wide open" and if the public and the Media should keep on pressing for this right. Statistically, at any given moment, 500 people in India are filling out a RTI application form.
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On first impression, the last scene in PATHS OF GLORY does not fit the rest of the movie. The 1957 American anti-war film, directed by Stanley Kubrick and based on the novel by Humphrey Cobb, tells the true story of Colonel Dax, played by Kirk Douglas, as the commanding officer of French soldiers during World War I, who refuses to continue a suicidal attack on a German stronghold. Col. Dax attempts to defend three soldiers against a charge of cowardice in a court-martial, and fails. By the time we reach the last scene, we have watched as Col. Dax has endured battlefield carnage pursuing a target that he knows cannot be taken, and seen him zealously defend scapegoated men in a morally corrupt court-martial hearing that he knows he cannot win. The film seems to be about terrible struggle without an exit.
The last scene, by contrast, takes place in a saloon filled with merry soldiers, banging their beer steins on the tables as the owner brings a frightened German girl (the first and only appearance of a female in the film), who is a prisoner of war, onstage. The girl is terrified standing in front of these enemy onlookers, as her chief tormentor makes cruel and threatening remarks about her body and her lack of talent. In order to draw out the sadistic play, he commands her to sing. Hoots and whistles arise from the crowd. The girl begins to sing a bedtime song in German, so simple and quiet that the men talk over it at first.
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Essay:Angry white male
This essay is an original work by ShadowUltra.
The Angry White Male is a sociopolitical term used to refer variously to a type of political belief system, a stereotype, and a voting demographic, especially in the United States and to a lesser extent the United Kingdom.
Angry White Males are traditionally conservative-voting, white, Christian, heterosexual males, and therefore are part of the most powerful sociopolitical bloc in human history. Despite this fact, the defining trait of the Angry White Male is that he believes he is actually becoming the most persecuted demographic on the planet, and must therefore fight to regain the social and political power that he dominated up until very recently.
Analysis of the Angry White Male and his impact on elections, especially in the U.S., has become a popular topic of discussion among political pundits over the last 20 years. Various events and incidents, such as the presidencies of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, political correctness, September 11, feminism, the LGBT rights movement, 24-hour cable news, and the internet have all been proposed as contributing to the rise of Angry White Males in the U.S. Whether or not this demographic is on the rise to begin with is also a topic of debate.
1 Grievances and arguments
2.1 Origins: 1970s and 1980s
2.2 Beginning of the end: 1990s and 2000s
2.3 The fall: 2008-present
2.4 Future
Grievances and arguments[edit]
The most defining aspect of an Angry White Male, the aspect that sets them apart from ordinary white males is, of course, the "angry" part. Angry White Males often feel an irrationally severe level of irritation, anger, resentment, or even outright hatred towards people, groups, laws, and social customs that do not warrant such an extreme response. Obviously, while each person is different, certain groups and concepts have been noted as a particularly common source of anger among this demographic. Some examples of common arguments, with rebuttals, include:
"Majority groups shouldn't have to apologize on behalf of their skin color/gender." This popular argument stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of modern social justice theory, which does not ask members of majority groups to "apologize" for being white/male/heterosexual, but rather to recognize that they may gain subtle benefits from society because of their race, gender, ethnicity, etc., and that they should be aware that others may not be able to reap these benefits. However, suggesting that the playing field isn't actually as level as they want to believe is extremely offensive to certain political ideologies whose basic tenet is that all people are treated equally all the time.
Jealousy of equality/pride movements. As overt racism and sexism are now culturally taboo in the Western world (with homophobia going the same way), it is common for people with subconsciously bigoted feelings to be friends with, or even marry, someone of a group they harbor a deep resentment towards. They manage to justify these contradictory mental states by rationalizing that their black/female/gay friends are a small, good minority within the minority. In turn, they often feel an internal jealousy towards civil rights movements and pride events for minority groups. "Why isn't there a heterosexual pride parade?" or "why isn't there a White History Month?" are questions asked by members of groups who, again, fundamentally misunderstand the purpose behind things like Black History Month or gay pride parades. These movements exist not to randomly brag about the accomplishments of people with different skin colors, but rather to make newer generations aware of the success these marginalized individuals made in spite of the huge societal challenges that faced them.
In contrast, white men have never been, on the basis of skin color and gender alone, systematically oppressed anywhere in the world in modern recorded history, so attempts at a "white history month" or "white pride" simply come off as historically revisionist bragging. Talking about how, for example, white people were able to make so many wonderful scientific advances during time periods when most people of color were enslaved or impoverished is like bragging that you stole candy from a baby.
Political correctness. The bane of many an Angry White Male's existence, "political correctness" is a phrase that has become so overused, demonized, and beaten in a burlap bag for decades straight that it has lost all meaning and definition, and is now simply defined as "people telling me to stop saying rude things." In a blatant misunderstanding of the First Amendment and basic logic, Angry White Males will often scream "censorship" when asked to stop saying something rude, insensitive, or offensive, apparently unaware that censorship requires the consequence of force. A popular topic that enrages Angry White Males with regularity is the seemingly monthly incidents where a media celebrity says or does something overtly racist or sexist and is subsequently fired from their job or loses endorsements (such as Paula Deen in the summer of 2013). Similarly, they find amusement and irritation in the occasional liberal boycotting of companies like Chick-Fil-A.
When these incidents occur, Angry White Males will cry "political correctness gone mad," even though a functioning free market capitalist society should be allowed to purchase products based on any metric they want, including whether or not the owner of the company is a bigot. Additionally, despite claiming that asking people to change their terminology is tantamount to government-endorsed censorship, many conservatives engage in their own brand of political correctness, as the idea of rebranding words or phrases in a more neutral manner, by definition, defies party lines and ideologies.
"Everyone else works less and gets paid more." Literally every job study and statistic ever performed in the Western world shows one unanimous conclusion: white males are paid more for the same amount of work than any other group of people. But this hasn't stopped Angry White Males from citing any sort of bullshit out-of-context statistic, or even completely falsfied ones, to support their theory that women and racial minorities earn "affirmative action dollars" in the workplace. Similarly, they are high-grade peddlers of stereotypes, many of which are completely contradictory. For example, Latino Americans are both "stealing our jobs" and are "too lazy to work" or "living off welfare." Which is it?
Christianity vs. Islam and "fatwa envy." Ever since September 11, many Angry White Males have entered the time-honored occupation of doomsday predictions, fearing a cataclysmic war between good, righteous Christians of the Western world and evil, dirty Muslims of the Middle East is coming any week now. Despite the huge number of similarities between the two religions, including literally sharing the same God, many Western Christians have invented an entire game out of jumping through hoops to explain why all Muslims should be wiped off the face of the Earth on the basis of their religious beliefs. Many also suffer from a documented concept dubbed "fatwa envy," in which they react with outrage to reports of Muslim violence supposedly sanctioned by Middle Eastern culture, while also expressing a jealousy that they cannot do the same with Christian-backed support in the Western world. The phrase "American Taliban" has been coined to refer to a particularly hypocritical breed of American Christian who supports the implementation of Bible-based law in the U.S. while simultaneously decrying Koran-based law in the Middle East.
"The media is biased against us." Like everywhere else in Western culture, news media employees are overwhelmingly heterosexual, white, and male. This has not stopped Angry White Males from insisting on the existence of a liberal media conspiracy against the entirety of white maledom. They will commonly point to isolated news stories or arbitrary anecdotes about how a particular story effecting majority groups is not receiving enough media coverage, or that the coverage it is receiving is distorted. Ironically, many of the stereotypes Angry White Males subscribe to come from inaccurate media portrayal of minority groups and emphasis on isolated news stories to give the impression of a trend among a particular group.
Unwavering support for the military and law enforcement. Angry White Males often have disdain for basic legal concepts like requiring a search warrant or allowing a criminal access to an attorney. They often believe that police officers are always right--especially when arresting a person of color--and so those people should just have all their rights suspended on account of their skin color or religious affiliation. Somehow, they manage to argue that this does not constitute blatant racism. They view the Bill of Rights as a bureaucratic obstacle to bringing down black people Muslims "criminals" and "terrorists" and so they should be ignored or abolished. Similarly, many Angry White Males and conservatives in general are strong supporters of the military and believe they should be allowed to do anything it takes to get the job done, even if it defies the Geneva Convention, national or international law, basic human decency, or commonly agreed ethics of war. For example, Angry White Males tumbled out of the woodwork to defend the military during the Abu Ghraib scandal, and often throw support behind American soldiers accused of war crimes against civilian populations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
"Everyone pays less taxes than I do!" Few things get Angry White Males angrier than the alleged mass tax evasion being committed by racial minorities in the United States. There are so many rumors, misconceptions, urban legends, and flat-out lies surrounding U.S. tax policy and the way poor people are taxed that there are entire websites devoted to debunking them. However, it becomes difficult when even presidential candidates build their platforms around falsehoods about how rich people are being oppressed by taxes.
Origins: 1970s and 1980s[edit]
The Angry White Male exists as a consequence of successful civil rights movements during the 1960s and 1970s. As women and racial minorities came closer and closer to being treated as actual equal citizens under the law, white men who were used to ruling without regard for anyone but themselves suddenly found themselves needing to cope with radically changed circumstances. While many recognized their privilege and joined these civil rights movements as allies, others reacted with anger, fear, and resentment, unhappy to be on the receiving end of criticism for once in human history.
The rise of concepts like political correctness and affirmative action as a response to the deeply-rooted racial and gender inequalities in Western society triggered even more vitriol from white men, who felt they were now being unfairly "punished" for the sins of their parents and grandparents. These reactive politics allowed Angry White Males to conquer the White House and Congress for much of the 1980s, and complete the Republican Party's transformation from moderate center-right fiscal conservatism into the ultimate bastion for older, racist, sexist white Christian men obsessed with social issues that it is known as today.
Beginning of the end: 1990s and 2000s[edit]
Many white conservatives were enraged when, in 1992, Bill Clinton successfully ended a decade of atrocious controversial Republican administrations. But two years later, Angry White Males scored a major victory in the 1994 congressional elections, in which Republicans swept the House of Representatives and Senate. It was at this time that the phrase "Angry White Male" was coined and began to appear in media analysis of the election results. These individuals were said to be angry about a number of issues, including President Bill Clinton's alleged favoring of racial minorities over white people, feminism supposedly overstepping equality and trying to grab rights away from men, political correctness and affirmative action, welfare, and tax increases on the rich.
Despite this seemingly overwhelming victory, the 1994 election was actually the beginning of the end for a rapidly shrinking demographic. Bill Clinton won re-election in 1996, and in 2000, Republican George W. Bush lost the popular vote to Al Gore, only winning based on the Electoral College and an extremely contentious Supreme Court decision. Thankfully for angry white people everywhere, September 11 happened a year later, giving them a new enemy to unite against: Muslims. Ironically, although Bush himself asked Americans not to blame all Muslims for the actions of 19 radicals, American conservatives and Republicans whipped the media and public into an anti-Muslim frenzy that would last for the rest of Bush's administration. Riding on the back of 9/11 sentiment and an Iraq War that was not yet as hated as it would eventually be, Bush handily won re-election in 2004. But over the last four years of his administration, liberal and progressive groups, along with the tens of millions of Americans who were completely disenfranchised by racist, sexist Republican behavior, finally decided to band together and put an end to it.
The fall: 2008-present[edit]
In November 2008, Barack Obama was elected president in a landslide. This was a watershed moment for multiple reasons. First, Angry White Males were now angrier than ever: a black socialist Communist Kenyan Muslim atheist terrorist had been elected president, despite their usage of what might have been the largest army of racist stereotypes, urban legends, and underhanded tactics ever seen in a presidential election. Some conservatives had a change of heart, realizing it was time to stop fighting progress and to try and rebuild their relationships with female voters and racial minorities, and to stop focusing so much on social issues like gay marriage that had no effect on their lives.
...and the Angry White Males proceeded to drag them away and stuff them in a closet where nobody could hear them. For the next four years, Angry White Males dominated the political discourse, thanks in part to a veritable army they created known as the Tea Party. Despite the fact that Obama, by all accounts, was a rather centrist and meek president, Angry White Males successfully convinced millions of white, heterosexual male Christians that Obama was about to wage war on them. Any day now...and five years later, we're still waiting. But conservative pundits everywhere assure us that it's happening. Any day now. Just wait. Obama and his evil anti-white cronies will initiate a purge of the white race...any day now...
After a decisive victory in the 2010 midterms, Angry White Males now dominated the House of Representatives and were able to block literally every piece of policy and legislation Obama and the Democrats suggested. Thankfully, when the 2012 presidential election rolled around, Americans realized that Republicans had duped them. They had made absolutely no progress on the economy, and despite claiming to be fixated on the economy, they were blatantly more concerned with issues like "socialism," sharia law, gay marriage, and abortion. And so, Obama won re-election easily, despite the best efforts of a sentient robot and a sideshow of freaks.
Future[edit]
Ultimately, Angry White Males are angry because they are dying out. As more and more Hispanic immigrants come to the United States, and as more and more women, racial minorities, and LGBT people begin to speak up and vote them out of office, it will eventually become literally impossible to get elected to federal office on a platform of supporting only white males. In fact, by some metrics, it may already be impossible. After Mitt Romney's explosive failure to defeat Obama, many Republicans began to once again do some soul-searching on the best way to rebuild their party and lessen the increasingly deafening effects of Angry White Males on their image. Only time will tell if they are successful.
...but history suggests they won't be.
Angry White Dude: a typical example of the Angry White Male. It's even in his name!
White extinction scenario: a major conspiracy theory that drives many Angry White Males
Anti-racist is a codeword for anti-white: popular internet diatribe that is a typical example of Angry White Male behavior and beliefs
Reverse racism and persecution complex: the gasoline that fuels the fire of modern Angry White Males
Political correctness and affirmative action: wicked government-sponsored persecution of white people
White History Month: one example of an idea Angry White Males have unsuccessfully tried to take mainstream
White supremacy and white nationalism: the true motive behind Angry White Males
Racialism: racist garbage repackaged in a more politically acceptable manner by many an angry white person
Men's rights movement: A related byproduct of the Angry White Male, geared more towards feminists and women than race issues. Unlike Angry White Males, who are overwhelmingly conservative Republicans, men's rights activists span the political spectrum
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