21.11.2009
Other powers of préfets: 2 examples
Other special powers/missions of préfets: 2 examples
o Plan Hiver in 2008
§ Goal:shelter 100,000 homeless people from the cold
§ Official mission:
· Préfets = endowed with that mission by (former) minister Boutin
· See to it that rescue teams would intensify crusades to meet the homeless
§ Actual action
· Préfets dispose of weather experts
· Préfets may carry out plan as soon as there are drastic temperature falls
· Préfets issue special recommendations and warnings to communes
o Critical situation in Guadeloupe in the beginning of 2009
§ Circumstances: due to economic crisis 115 gas station managers had closed their gas station as a protest against crisis
§ Action
· Reason: to put an end to ever increasing social order
· Actual action: 16 gas stations were requisitioned on February 2nd 2009 in order to deliver gas
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Préfets' career: 2 examples
- Préfets [en position hors cadre] on a special mission : a recent example
o Alain Perret
§ Previously sous-préfet of Dunkirk (2005-2008)
§ Appointed in June 2008 "directeur de la défense et de la sécurité civile" under the authority of minister of Domestic Affairs
o Main missions
§ Coordinated intervention of 8,000 firemen + 1,000 servicemen mobilised in South-Western and Southern France after storm of July 27th 2008
§ Responsible for taking steps in case of natural weather hazards
§ Chairs COGIC (Centre Opérationnel de Gestion Internationale des Crises = Centre for Management Operations of International Crises= 40 experts)
o Means avaible /Actions carried out
§ Commands 250.000 sapeurs-pompiers (upper category of firemen)
§ Sent firemen
§ Made firemen clear roads of fallen trees
§ Had firemen help EDF [Public Company providing Electricity in France] restore power
§ Had firemen convey generating sets to hospitals and old people’s homes
§ Made firemen evacuate ageing and belated people
- Préfets (de)mobilized according to failures/success: a recent example
o Jean Charbonniaud
§ Préfet in La Manche department until January 2009
o Event
§ Time&Place: Uproar in the town of Saint-Lo (La Manche) on January 12th
§ Action: President Sarkozy on a visit was whistled at by demonstrators as a sign of protest against his policies
o Consequence:
§ Action: Charbonniaud was transferred
§ Justification: préfet Charbonniaud was alledged not to have assessed appropriately the circumstances according to Minister Alliot-Marie
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16.11.2009
L3 (S5) GEO: Exemples musicaux
Dear students,
As I promised you, I am diplaying the links to the songs I used as examples for the new words we used today:
spin (V): Flo Rida, Right Round: "you spin my head right round (...)"
-ous (suffixe) comme victorious (adj) : Muse, Uprising, "(...) we will be victorious" [1:39->1:45]
knock (V): Guns'n'Roses, Knockin' on Heaven's Door [0:58]
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