provinceorstate:maine

Rudologie : « Une société est à l’image des déchets qu’elle se crée »
http://quartierspop.over-blog.fr/-une-soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9-est-%C3%A0-l-image-des-d%C3%A9chets-qu

Quand on a commencé notre étude scientifique, nos enquêtes portaient sur les quartiers et les modes de vie dans la ville du Mans. Nous faisions des prélèvements réguliers dans les poubelles de l’échantillon social préalablement déterminé, représentatif des conditions d’habitat et de vie quotidienne dans la ville. Les analyses fines de ces prélèvements nous permettaient ensuite d’établir des profils caractéristiques de consommation et de suivre des évolutions. Les éboueurs, d’abord étonnés, puis rigolards, (...)

Pourquoi la France est-elle aussi crispée sur ses traditions religieuses lorsqu’il s’agit de légiférer sur des évolutions de la société :

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariage_homosexuel

Le mariage homosexuel est l’expression généralement utilisée pour désigner la possibilité pour les couples de même sexe de contracter un mariage, ce qui peut aussi, dans certains cas, donner accès à une forme de parentalité et à l’adoption. Il est rendu possible par des législations autorisant le mariage aux personnes de même sexe, par opposition aux législations qui considèrent que ne peuvent être mariés que deux personnes de sexe opposé, c’est-à-dire un homme et une femme. Après avoir été criminalisée ou considérée comme maladie mentaleN 1, l’homosexualité est plus acceptée par les sociétés contemporaines. Depuis la fin du XXe siècle, les demandes des couples homosexuels conduisent un nombre croissant d’États à faire évoluer leur législation pour que la reconnaissance légale d’unions civiles ou de mariages n’exclue pas deux personnes de même sexe.

En 2013, quinze pays disposent d’une législation rendant accessible le mariage aux couples de même sexe sur tout ou partie du territoire (dont trois sur une partie de leur territoire seulement). Si la légalisation du mariage homosexuel concerne le plus souvent le mariage civil, le mariage religieux est également pratiqué dans certains cas. Les pays ayant accordé un statut légal au mariage homosexuel ont pour la plupart également légalisé l’adoption par les couples homosexuelsN 2.

http://www.za-gay.org/actu/1327/homoparentalite-en-israel

Le Ven. 15 Fev. 2008 par Geist. Ce Dimanche, les hautes institutions de justice de l’état d’Israël ont reconnu l’adoption d’enfants par des couples homosexuels.
Le ministre israélien chargé de la Justice du pays a déclaré l’adoption homosexuelle comme légal en se basant uniquement sur « le bienfait de l’enfant ». Il ne semble plus y avoir de barrage à l’officialisation du droit à l’adoption pour les parents homosexuels. Cette nouvelle surprend dans un pays qui semble à première vue « conservateur », notamment pour cause des nombreux religieux vivants dans l’Etat et de leurs influences toujours grandissantes. Déjà en 2006, Israël avait reconnu, au regard de la loi et donc de la législation, le statut de « parents » à deux femmes lesbiennes (ce qui n’est pas le cas en France.).

et pourtant :

Le problème en Israël est que seul le mariage « religieux » existe. Il n’existe donc pas de mariage laïque, ainsi, il est tout simplement impossible aux couples homosexuels de sa marier à moins bien sûr que la Torah change son interprétation sur les points attrayant à l’homosexualité. Ce qui n’est certainement pas prés d’arriver !

C’est avec étonnement que je vois combien le fait religieux interfère avec les institutions républicaines dans notre pays supposé laïque.

#lobbying

Arrestation d’un homme des bois — aux cheveux courts et rasé de près… — vivant de rapines et de dons, n’ayant eu qu’un seul contact verbal en 27 ans.

Maine hermit living in wild for 27 years arrested
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/10/maine-hermit-living-in-wild-for-27-years-arrested/2072505

ROME, Maine (AP) — A man who lived like a hermit for decades in a makeshift camp in the woods and may be responsible for more than 1,000 burglaries for food and other staples has been caught in a surveillance trap at a camp he treated as a “Walmart,” authorities said Wednesday.

Christopher Knight, 47, was arrested last week when he tripped a surveillance sensor set up by a game warden while stealing food from a camp for people with special needs in Rome, a town of about 1,000 whose population swells with the arrival of summer residents.

Authorities on Tuesday found the campsite where they believed Knight, known as the North Pond Hermit in local lore, has lived for 27 years.

Some residents say they’ve been aware of the hermit for years, often in connection with break-ins that have occurred. He was so well known to some summer cottage owners that they left food out for him so he wouldn’t break in during the colder months, state Trooper Diane Vance said.

Le blog de Philippe Bertrand
http://www.mescarnetsdecampagne.com

Une suite plus personnelle aux carnets de Campagne diffusés sur France Inter sans impératif de temps ni d’espace et ouvert aux commentaires et contributions extérieures

Chandler Island - Maine, United States - Private Islands for Sale
Une île privée à vendre pour 40,000$
http://www.privateislandsonline.com/islands/chandler-island
http://www.privateislandsonline.com/content/listings/1456/cimage_bcbfa8981f-thumbb.jpg

Where life is tweet: Study ranks #happy places
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/02/20/happiest-cities-geotags-twitter/1933587

#:-) vs #:-(

Où trouve-t-on le bonheur et la tristesse (aux É.-U.)
Analyse du vocabulaire de 10 millions de tweets.

The study, from mathematicians at the University of Vermont, is the latest to tap Twitter’s 140-character, real-time posts to see how we’re feeling. Previous studies found that Twitter users are happiest on Sunday mornings, saddest on Thursday evenings and prone to perk up on Christmas and other holidays.

The new study used a list of 10,000 words rated on a 10-point scale as happy, sad or neutral to score tweets from 2011 that carried geographic tags. The researchers threw out neutral words (such as ‘the,’ “of” and ‘and’) and looked at how often the happy and sad words showed up in different cities and states, lead researcher Lewis Mitchell says.

Words such as ‘hate,’ “terrorist,” ‘earthquake’ and ‘greed’ were high on the sad list, he says. Happy words included ‘happy,’ “reunion,” ‘lol’ (laughing out loud) and nature terms, which helps explain how tweets from Maine, which mentioned lots of ‘forests’ and ‘rivers,’ came in only second to those from Hawaii on the happy list.

Other relatively happy states included Nevada, Utah and Vermont. After Louisiana, the least happy states were Mississippi, Maryland, Delaware and Georgia.

http://www.uvm.edu/storylab/share/papers/mitchell2013a/AppendixB_files/states_2011.jpg
Figure 1: Choropleth showing average word happiness for geotagged tweets in all US states collected during the calendar year 2011. The happiest 5 states, in order, are: Hawaii, Maine, Nevada, Utah and Vermont. The saddest 5 states, in order, are: Louisiana, Mississippi, Maryland, Delaware and Georgia.

Le papier sur arxiv : http://arxiv.org/pdf/1302.3299.pdf The Geography of Happiness: Connecting Twitter sentiment and expression, demographics, and objective characteristics of place, par 5 auteurs de l’Université du Vermont

La #cartographie des dérogations aux normes de qualité de l’#eau potable en (...) - France Libertés
http://www.france-libertes.org/La-carte-des-derogations-aux

France Libertés et 60 millions de consommateurs publient la première carte des dérogations aux normes de qualité de l’eau potable en France.
France Libertés et 60 miliions de consommateurs appellent les particuliers à interroger leurs élus sur d’éventuelles dérogations en cours et à faire remonter l’information sur le site collaboratif www.prixdeleau.fr

Il n’y a pas la Sarthe
http://www.france-libertes.org/local/cache-vignettes/L400xH400/carte_des_derogations_en_france-58cf7.jpg

L’auteur de ces photos a eu l’idée d’explorer le sous-sol d’un « datacenter » Internet et a trouvé, sur les murs, les témoignages d’un ancien locataire...

http://cabel.me/2012/12/19/the-basement

#histoire

Mapping the ’Demand’ Side of Prostitution - Jobs & Economy - The Atlantic Cities
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2012/12/mapping-demand-side-prostitution/4073

aux Etats-Unis 825 villes ont adopté diverses stratégies anti-#prostitution visant les clients plutôt que les travailleu(r|se)s du sexe

“john shaming” is far from unique. It’s just one of several tactics city and county police departments across the country routinely use to target the men who pay for sex, rather than the women who sell it.

NOM’s Post Election Freak-out: Attack Starbucks, Defend Calif.
BY Neal Broverman
November 10 2012 1:25 PM ET
NOM president Brian Brown

After the antigay National Organization for Marriage was handed four stinging defeats on Tuesday, with voters endorsing marriage equality in three states and shutting down a divisive ban in another, the group is reeling.

The American Independent got wind of an emergency conference call on Thursday where the group and its leader, Brian Brown, plotted their next moves. The group’s mission is to “defend traditional marriage” by denying marriage rights to same-sex couples, but their fortunes took a massive turn for the worse on Tuesday when Maine, Maryland, and Washington voters endorsed same-sex marriage at the polls, upping the number of states with marriage equality to nine, as well as the District of Columbia. Meanwhile, Minnesota voters rejected a divisive constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, as well.

Brown believes their failures had to do with being outspent, as well as GOP candidate Mitt Romney not pushing his opposition to same-sex marriage enough and Republican strategist Karl Rove focusing on economic issues instead of social ones; the latter point goes counter to dozens of polls that put the economy at the top of the electorate’s concerns.

According to The American Independent, Brown promised to keep up the fight against same-sex marriage and asked his followers for more money. The group is also going after corporations like Starbucks which publicly advocate for marriage equality. NOM’s plan is to garner support in the Middle East, an area hostile to same-sex marriage and an area the coffee chain is interested in expanding in.

“[Starbucks’s] international outreach is where we can have the most effect,” Brown said. “So for example, in Qatar, in the Middle East, we’ve begun working to make sure that there’s some price to be paid for this. These are not countries that look kindly on same-sex marriage. And this is where Starbucks wants to expand, as well as India. So we have done some of this; we’ve got to do a lot more.”

Brown and NOM political director Frank Schubert also believe that their losses on Tuesday will help them with Supreme Court battles. Their hope is the high court, set to decide whether to take on challenges to California’s Prop. 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act, will not consider gay and lesbian people a “suspect class” now that voters in four states refused to discriminate against them. Judges often describe groups who are routinely subject to bias as members of a “suspect class,” and legislation passed against such groups is often scrutinized. How NOM will convince the Supreme Court that gays are now free of discrimination, especially since they can be legally fired in many states and are denied marriage rights in the majority of them, is unclear.

NOM is concerned with the next wave of states looking toward marriage equality, including Delaware, Rhode Island, Illinois, and California; the latter could see marriage equality reinstated this month, should the Supreme Court accept a lower court ruling that struck down the Golden State’s narrowly-approved constitutional marriage equality ban.

Head of Catholic Church in San Francisco decries gay marriage victories | Gay Star News
http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/head-catholic-church-san-francisco-decries-gay-marriage-victories091112

Head of Catholic Church in San Francisco decries gay marriage victories
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone: Marriage is between man and woman ’or it is nothing at all’
09 November 2012 | By Greg Hernandez

It’s already known that Salvatore Cordileone, archbishop of the Catholic Church in San Francisco, is a fervent supporter of Proposition 8 which banned same-sex marriage in California.

So it’s no surprise that following voters approving gay marriage in Maine, Maryland and Washington this week, Cordileone would not be happy.

’No matter what policy, law or judicial decision is put into place, marriage is the only institution that unites a man and a woman to each other and to any children born of their union. It is either this, or it is nothing at all,’ he wrote in a letter posted on the Archdiocese website.

In addition, voters in Minnesota rejected a ballot measure that would have banned gay marriage.

’November 6, was a disappointing day for marriage, as the effort to preserve the unique meaning of marriage in the law lost by only a narrow margin in four states, even though vastly outspent by those who promote the redefinition of marriage,’ Cordileone also wrote.

His appointment to be head of a church in a city with such a large gay population and history of LGBT activism drew protests earlier this year.

Cordileone was officially installed just last month and was recently arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence.

In 2008, he helped raise funds to get Prop 8 on the ballot box and donated approximately $6,000 of his own funds in support of the referendum.

Les locaux du PS touchés par une vague de vandalisme anti-"Ayraulport" - Le Nouvel Observateur

« Trop c’est trop ! Ce sont des actes inadmissibles qui s’attaquent au fondement même de la démocratie. Le PS n’acceptera pas que certains puissent s’abriter derrière des pseudo-causes pour perpétrer des actes de vandalisme politique », a déclaré à Sipa le porte-parole du PS, David Assouline. « Il doit y avoir une réaction énergique pour ne pas que cela se poursuive », a-t-il ajouté.

Mouais... Le jour où on sera en démocratie, prévenez-moi !

http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/monde/20121107.FAP3823/les-locaux-du-ps-touches-par-une-vague-de-vandalisme-anti-ayrau

Produits dérivés de l’Ayrault-port : c’est pas gagné. Encore un vaste enfumage type aéroport d’Angers-Marcé dont l’exploitation a été confié soit dit en passant à Kéolis.

http://www.angers.maville.com/actu/actudet_-Le-tram-train-pour-l-aeroport-ne-fait-pas-l-unanimite_fil-2

La Région veut relier Nantes à Notre-Dame-des-Landes par un nouveau tram-train. Département de Loire-Atlantique et Nantes Métropole sont réticents. Décision début 2013.
Pourquoi ? Comment ? D’où vient ce projet ?

Kéolis est ton ami :
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keolis
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angers_Loire_A%C3%A9roport
#NDDL

Notre Dame des Landes : les verts de Maine et Loire demandent l’arrêt du projet d’aéroport

Les écologistes de Maine et Loire reviendraient-ils à leurs fondamentaux, à savoir la protection de l’environnement, n’hésitant plus à dénoncer les projets auxquels ils sont normalement associés sur le plan politique ? Les élus angevins d’Europe Ecologie les Verts, dont plusieurs conseillers régionaux, demandent l’arrêt du projet d’aéroport du Grand Ouest et encouragent la création d’un comité local de soutien aux opposants.

http://www.angersmag.info/Notre-Dame-des-Landes-les-verts-de-Maine-et-Loire-demandent-l-arret-du-p

Google employees speak out for gay marriage | Gay Star News
http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/google-employee-speak-out-video-gay-marriage261012

Google employees speak out for gay marriage
Google launched a video in support of marriage equality featuring its employees
26 October 2012 | By Dan Littauer
Google launched a video in support of marriage equality featuring its employees

Google released a short video this week featuring several of the company’s employees speaking out in favor of marriage equality.

The video, titled “Googlers Supporting Marriage Equality,” was as part of a partnership between Google and The Four, a campaign group working to promote marriage equality in the four US states where the issue will put to a referendum during election day — Washington, Maryland, Minnesota and Maine.

The video features several Google employees, some of whom are gay, explaining why they support marriage equality.

‘I support marriage equality, as well as many of my friends and colleagues here at Google,’ says Julio, a YouTube employee in the video’s introduction.

A gay Google employee said on the video: ‘My partner and I are actually engaged, and finding a way to get married right now is kind of tough.’

A lesbian Google employee stated: ‘Every time I fill out a medical insurance form, I have to check single’.

A gay employee said: ‘If you’re in Washington, Main, Minnesota or Maryland now you have the chance to negate fear and prejudice.’

‘Civil rights should never be up for a vote. But the fact that it is means we have to get people behind the cause as much as possible’, said another.

The Four campaign was founded by gay rights and progressive political activists Brain Ellner, Ryan Davis and Andre Banks.

Blue State Digital, a new media firm with ties to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, designed the group’s website.

The video follows a worldwide campaign by Google launched this year to advocate marriage equality rights in countries where it has offices.

Taiwanese media also reported yesterday that Google will be joning the Pride parade in Taipei for the second consecutive year and is urging its staff to participate. It will be sending cheerleaders and offering “free hugs”.

Other major technology companies, including eBay, Amazon and Microsoft, have also supported marriage equality.

http://www.numerama.com/magazine/23939-sur-itunes-un-auteur-ne-peut-pas-dire-son-livre-libre.html

Cependant, les règles de publication sont très strictes. Alors que son livre était publié sur iTunes depuis un mois, Apple a informé Yann Houry qu’il retirait l’ouvrage. Pourquoi ? Notamment parce que la couverture précisait qu’il s’agissait du « premier manuel scolaire entièrement libre et gratuit pour iPad ». Or, Apple ne veut pas que les termes « libre » ou « gratuit » apparaissent. Si l’on peut comprendre pour le terme « gratuit », puisqu’Apple veut que ça soit l’interface d’iTunes qui affiche le prix des ouvrages, il est plus surprenant qu’Apple interdise l’usage du mot « libre ».

http://sebsauvage.net/rhaa/index.php?2012/10/05/15/25/36-l-hypocrisie-d-apple

Apple, GROS HYPOCRITE. Le cœur même de ton iOs et de ton MacOSX est du logiciel libre, bordel (noyau Mach + composants BSD).
Tu as vu la quantité de logiciels libres qui entrent dans la composition de MacOSX ?

#Apple et #liberté sont incompatibles, on le savait déjà. Mais à point là, ça défie l’entendement.

Anti-gay-marriage group conceals donors in Maine - News - Boston.com
http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/2012/10/05/anti-gay-marriage-group-conceals-donors-maine/ehvuc7EB62348bhAE5FY7J/story.html

Anti-gay-marriage group conceals donors in Maine
By DAVID SHARP
Associated Press / October 5, 2012

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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A national anti-gay-marriage group that has fought to keep its donor list confidential omitted contributors’ names from its campaign disclosure filing in a referendum on gay marriage, earning criticism Friday from gay-marriage supporters who say it refuses to abide by the rules.

The National Organization for Marriage’s quarterly filing with the state ethics commission indicated its political action committee raised about $250,000, which went to a group that will soon launch television ads. NOM also declined to release donors’ names in a 2009 gay-marriage referendum, when it donated $1.9 million.

Maine’s law requiring disclosure of contributors has been upheld in the courts. For now, though, the 2009 case has yet to be resolved with the ethics commission.

Matt McTighe, campaign manager for Mainers United for Marriage, which supports the new referendum asking voters to legalize same-sex marriage, said NOM should be required to release the donor list.

‘‘Maine voters deserve to know who is trying to influence this election,’’ he said. ‘‘Maine law is clear, and NOM refuses to follow the same rules that every other campaign in the state must abide by.’’

Voters repealed Maine’s gay-marriage law in 2009, but it’s on the ballot again in the Nov. 6 election. Same-sex marriage is legal in New York, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Washington, D.C. Besides Maine, Maryland and Washington also will vote this fall on proposals to authorize gay marriage. Minnesota voters will be asked if they want to prohibit gay marriage in their state constitution.

Friday marked a deadline for campaign finance reports in Maine.

Gay-marriage supporters have raised far more money so far.

Mainers United for Marriage, which is leading the drive to legalize same-sex marriage, said $2.2 million was raised during the latest financial reporting period, pushing the total to about $3.4 million.

Protect Marriage Maine PAC, which is fighting the referendum, said it raised $370,000, which includes the NOM money, in the latest reporting period, for a total of $415,000, said Carroll Conley Jr., executive director of the Christian Civic League of Maine and a member of the PAC.

Maine’s campaign disclosure law requires groups that raise or spend more than $5,000 to influence elections to register and disclose donors. NOM has argued that releasing the donor list would stymie free speech and subject donors to harassment, but the lower court refused to throw out the law.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear NOM’s appeal, leaving the state law intact. But the ethics commission is still investigating, and NOM is fighting subpoenas in state court.

NOM Chairman John Eastman said Friday that the situation is far from resolved. He contends NOM doesn’t have to release the names of people who gave to its general treasury, and he previously suggested there was little if any money that was earmarked for the 2009 campaign in Maine.

‘‘NOM has always been willing to fully disclose any donations it receives that are earmarked for a particular campaign,’’ he said. ‘‘The issue in the 2009 case concerns how the state characterizes donations in this regard. We will be working with the state to discuss any remaining issues.’’

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Supreme Court Denies Appeal From Anti-Gay Marriage Group
http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/supreme-court-denies-national-organization-for-mar

Supreme Court Denies Appeal From Anti-Gay Marriage Group

National Organization for Marriage may be forced to disclose funders in Maine fight. No action yet on Proposition 8, Defense of Marriage Act cases.

#Minutemen - Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9EFGb5sgGo

Tenségrité (architecture) - Wikipédia
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tens%C3%A9grit%C3%A9_(architecture)

La tenségrité caractérise la faculté d’une structure à se stabiliser par le jeu des forces de tension et de compression qui s’y répartissent et s’y équilibrent. Les structures établies par la tenségrité sont donc stabilisées, non par la résistance de chacun de leurs constituants, mais par la répartition et l’équilibre des contraintes mécaniques dans la totalité de la structure.

Voir aussi : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensegrity et http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Buckminster_Fuller

#architecture #design #biomécanique #arts_martiaux

Close to Cape Cod Shore, Humpback Whales Are Far From Safe

NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/science/earth/close-to-cape-cod-shore-humpback-whales-are-far-from-safe.html

By Kelly Slivka
August 20, 2012

Tagging Along With Whales: With the help of new technology, researchers are capturing the details of humpback whale behavior on their North Atlantic feeding grounds.

WOODS HOLE, Mass. — When the whale known as Touché is hungry for a school of fatty fish, he circles below them, fashioning a net of air by streaming bubbles from his blowhole. Then he corkscrews toward the surface of the Gulf of Maine, herding the fish into an ever tighter packet with the bubbles and his 30-ton body. Finally he opens his jaw wide, takes a monstrous gulp and relaxes, breathing deeply at the water’s surface.
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Then he dives again. Over and over.

Touché’s feeding strategy, captured in June by an electronic tag attached to his back, is of keen interest to scientists tracking North Atlantic humpback whales off Cape Cod.

#Baleine #Biodiversité #Représentation #Visualisation #Itinéraires #Environnement #Mer

L’avenir c’est aujourd’hui
Cinquantième aniversaire du lancement de Telstar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKH-GijnAGk

Toi aussi prépare ta propagande : les lignes hautes tensions héberge des espèces rares de plantes... http://www.goodplanet.info/Contenu/Depeche/Ces-plantes-qui-s-epanouissent-sous-les-lignes-a-haute-tension ah mince moins qui croyait que le THT permettait surtout la nouvelle centrale nucléaire http://www.stop-tht.org , et donnait des infections aux vaches et rend leur lait invendable... http://www.terraeco.net/Je-vis-a-cote-d-une-ligne-a-tres,44809.html

« Tuez-les tous, ça ira plus vite » | Philippe Alain (Basta !)
http://www.bastamag.net/article2544.html

Des demandeurs d’asile, un campement au bord d’une gare, des cars de CRS. Évacuation, fichages… À Lyon, le préfet perpétue une politique d’un temps qu’on croyait enfin révolu. Et propose des charters pour expulser des personnes en situation régulière. La consigne ? Que les familles déplacées ne s’installent « nulle part ». Évacuer le « problème ». Ce soir, à Lyon, des dizaines d’enfants dormiront encore à la belle étoile. Source : Basta !

http://rebellyon.info/Tuez-les-tous-ca-ira-plus-vite.html

Plus de 2 mois après l’élection de François Hollande, les pré­fets sar­ko­zys­tes conti­nuent à appli­quer la poli­ti­que inhu­maine de stig­ma­ti­sa­tion des étrangers de leur ancien patron. A moins qu’ils n’appli­quent tout sim­ple­ment la nou­velle poli­ti­que défi­nie par mes­sieurs Hollande et Valls.