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I read a blog post the other day that really got me thinking. It was basically about what people making decisions in their lives need to hear and how selfish we all can be when the people in our lives make decisions that we don't agree with. (At least, that is my interpretation of this particular post.)
Being that my husband and myself have recently made a HUGE life change by moving 1400 miles away from our home with our young son. It has been an eye opening process in the reactions of the people in our lives. Some people that we moved away from were downright rude about our decision, while others who live here were obviously supportive. Then there were others that we were close to that were either neutral or really just could care less that we were moving. At any rate, I learned a lot about my relationships this way. Nothing speaks louder than telling "good" friends that you are moving away and hearing how sad they would be and then not taking the time to get together before you leave. When I purposefully, yet tactfully, pointed this out on Facebook, I got a lot of excuses. It hurt, it still hurts, but it has been a wonderful lesson to learn.
When you are important in the life of someone who is important to you, you know it. It seems sometimes that when you are not that important you know it even more. I am one of these people that always lets people in, and I usually get burned in the process. I am not perfect, of course, but I really do try to go out of my way. Like Sarah Jessica Parker's character, Meredith, on The Family Stone, "I try, I try, and I try..." and when Luke Wilson (Ben) tells Meridith that maybe she should just stop trying, he couldn't be more right! If you have to try that hard with someone, anyone, even if it is someone that you feel like you are (or should be) close to, it really is not all that worth it.
If you are the one always making the phone calls, or making the effort to keep a friendship or any other relationship going with little or no reciprocation, that is the time to take a step back and evaluate the friendship or relationship. Chances are, if you are like me, whenever you finally do get the chance to catch up with these people, you are left wondering why you even bothered in the first place. Or, you are left with hurt feelings when their promises to get together/talk again soon don't come through. Either way, it's not good, and we owe it to ourselves to be honest, even if it hurts at first, about these people in our lives. I've learned you can still cherish the good memories and cut your losses at the same time. It's not easy, not easy at all, but it can be done.
I've had to learn the hard way so many times that even when someone is important to me, I may not be that important to them, and no time in my life has made that more evident than the past few months. It hurt when I lost contact with my best friend in our 20s (we had been friends since 11). It really hurt when my Grandfather died, because he was one of my best friends. But, in some weird way, losing a loved one to the natural process of death seems to hurt less than losing the people in my life in whom I've invested so much time, and knowing that they are just a phone call or email away, but I don't bother anymore because I know what the end result will be... more disappointment and hurt.
I've learned some really positive lessons from all of this, though. I've learned that I really am a lot stronger than I knew. In the past few months I've done some things I never thought I was able to do. Reflecting back further, I've done some things that I never thought I'd get to do. I've also been able to see how important the relationship my husband and I have, and I'm able to be more flexible in my view of relationships. I'm learning to trust the other people in my life (who live here) that I never thought I would be able to trust, and I am enjoying the new relationships I'm forming with people that I have really missed for much of my life. I am also learning to listen to the voice that steers me away from other individuals that will more than definitely prove to be toxic in my life. I've learned that it is ultimately my decision and responsibility to not only myself, but my husband and son as well, to steer clear of or keep at arm's length the toxic people, regardless of how much we have in common or what good I can see in them on the surface. My husband has been wonderful in this learning process, even though I've had a tendency to let people in our lives that really probably should have never been so close to us in the first place.
I thought we had moved on when we moved so far away, but it's taken me about two months to actually get it. I'm glad I finally did!
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Country Music Hall of Famer Mel Tillis was amongst eight recipients of the President Obama's National Medal of the Arts on Monday. The 79- year-old accepted the honor from the president in the East Room of the White House.
"I've had a blessed career, and that has been acknowledged in many ways over the years," Tillis said, according to the Boot. "I was pleasantly surprised when I got the call because I didn't know there were any more awards left to win. I'm very thankful and what an honor!"
Other recipients included actor Al Pacino, poet Rita Dove, the United Service Organization, painter Will Barnet, art curator Emily Rauh Pulitzer, sculptor Martin Puryear and pianist Andre Watts. Also honored were nine recipients of the National Medal for the Humanities.
"The arts and humanities do not just reflect America, they shape America," President Obama said. "As long as I'm president, I look forward to making sure they are a priority for this country."
Tillis still keeps an active touring schedule, with 10 stops in the fall of 2011 and a handful scheduled for 2012. The most recent release available at his official website is 'You Ain't Gonna Believe This,' a collection of 19 stories and three new songs.


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Christopher Nolan has confirmed that next installment in the Batman franchise, titled "The Dark Knight Rises" will be filmed in the fine city of Pittsburgh, PA. I'm pretty sure the move from Chicago is happening solely because Nolan saw that same Food Network show I did about that place in Pittsburgh that makes giant sandwiches with fries on them. If I made movies I would base my locations on places I want to eat too.
I haven't seen "Wolf Creek" but Greg McLean who directed it has dreamy eyes so I feel compelled to tell you about "Crawlspace", a new underground "hey what the hell is going on here" flick. Excited? No? What if I told you the movie stars a bunch of people you've never heard of? Still no huh... How about that weather?
"It's like 'An American Werewolf In Paris' meets 'Fight Club.'" Tell me more Katee Sackhoff! I like both of those movies so I'm going to love your movie "Growl" aren't I?! Wolves fighting each other in underground tournaments while Brad Pitt commands them all to do his bidding! I assume Brad Pitt will be in this movie Katee. You can't have Werewolf Fight Club without him!
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One was pictured as a stubborn bumbler played by a chubby Philip Seymour Hoffman. The other was portrayed as a suave baseball savant -- and played by Brad Pitt.
And you wonder who's upset with 'Moneyball'?
Former A's manager Art Howe, who ran the team on the field during the real-life era of the movie, is furious with his on-screen character, according to the San Jose Mercury News.
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He says the movie is a form of "character assassination," a furious Howe told both the Oakland Tribune and San Francisco Chronicle.
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Beane, for his part, dismissed Howe's comments, before dismissing all "Moneyball"-related talk.
"I was wondering who was going to be the first guy to think I produced, wrote or directed this movie," Beane told Bay Area News Group. "Now I have my answer. [Howe's] comments are completely misguided."


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I just realised that both Rainey and Donna are back. We missed you ladies!!
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I was feeling particularly irritable yesterday (the day after Halloween) when I saw a commercial on TV with Christmas music (my husband was watching football)! I said "Turn that off, I can't deal with Christmas right now!" That's absolutely ridiculous!
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I understand that what I am giving is not good, and I try to set a good food role model for children on other days. However, the only thing most children are allowed to accept on Halloween is pre-packaged candy. Most parents look through children's bags and throw away anything home made as well as anything natural, such as fruit. I feel slightly guilty because of the artificial colors, but I am not sure that the stuff I give out that I wont eat, is that much worse than loading up on individually wrapped Snickers or Butterfingers which are also unhealthy and which I will, unfortunately, snack on myself. In fact, the lollypops I gave out this year, despite the gross colors are lower fat than the candy bars. Sadly, healthy is not an option for most children on Halloween. However, I have started throwing away all remaining candy the morning after Halloween, so that may begin giving me more options. THinking all of this over, Halloween may not be as lovely a holiday as I think it is.
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Also in schools it is becoming culturally sensitive to celebrate Halloween, because some people believe it to be a religious holiday.
Hallowe'en or All Hallows Eve
a religious holiday. It's the eve of All Saints Day which was probably put over Samhain (pronounced Sowen) the ancient Celtic festival of the dead. It was the one time of the year when demons and evil spirits wandered about. Also it was the night when witches were said to hold their most important sabbats. Bonfires were lit as protection against them. As it was believed that the dead returned to the earth on All Hallows Eve, it was once customary to leave doors open and food on kitchen tables for the souls of the dead in the family.
That info comes from 'A companion to the Folklore, Myths & Customs of Britain' by Marc Alexander.
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I know. I have participated in Samhain rituals. Here in south central Wisconsin I live in the middle of all things alternative, New Age and retro-hippy.
However, for me, the way most people in the U.S. celebrate Halloween is not religious. For me when pagans and other alternative religious groups celebrate Halloween it is religious, although it is a revival of religious customs that until recently had not been celebrated for many hundreds of years. The same could be said, although to a slightly lesser degree of the Mexican Day of the Dead, which mixes secular and religious tradition, although I think it is very possible to celebrate the day of the dead without it being religious. However, for me, when the average English-speaking U.S. or Canadian family celebrates Halloween the connection between the candy, the trick or treating and the costumes and historical religious celebrations is very tenuous if there is any at all. I was raised with an entirely secular tradition around Halloween. For me, Samhain, which only a tiny proportion of the U.S., Canadian and British population celebrates, is religious. Halloween, on the other hand, for me is secular. It is a bit like New Year's day which was, centuries ago a Catholic holiday pasted onto a Roman pagan holiday. There are some people who are deciding not to celebrate New Years because they see it as a religious holiday. I do not, because as far as I can tell, it lost most or all of its religious significance long ago. However, I like to be sensitive with my students, and I know that because Halloween was once such a sacred Celtic day, and because of neo-pagan and neo-Druid revivals, it is uncomfortable to conservative Christians, so I avoid celebrating it in the classroom.
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I mean, fer crying out loud, some schools in Toronto banned Hallowe'en in favour of Black and Orange Day!! I have over the years known a fair number of Wiccans and have never once met one who objected to Hallowe'en per se, just the characterisation of witches, and that i feel is fair.
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I think it is not Wiccans who object to Halloween (most love it) but conservative Christians who think Wicca is evil. I, personally, wish the public holiday could just stay secular. I just love seeing the kids in their costumes! The only thing I am beginning to realize from these discussions is that maybe a day of getting tons of processed junk food now is not so good now that kids are getting bombarded with horrible junk food every day. When I was a kid we got a bunch of awful food once a year. In between we got junk food only rarely. Things might be different now. I am going to think about giving out stickers next year. Nobody is going to object that they are poison because they are inedible.
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The second winner of the $587.5 million Powerball jackpot was identified Monday as Matthew Good, a married man in his 30s who moved to an affluent Phoenix suburb last year from Pennsylvania.
Good had decided to remain anonymous, but lottery winners in Arizona are a matter of public record. The Associated Press filed a public records request to learn his name.
Good took the one-time payout of $192 million from the Nov. 28 drawing, telling lottery officials the looming fiscal cliff was the reason he claimed the winnings now and not in the next calendar year. He had 180 days to claim the jackpot.
Lottery officials wouldn't say what Good does for a living but described him as a professional who has no immediate plans to quit his job.
A search of property records showed that Good paid $289,900 for his 2,500-square-foot Fountain Hills home in September 2011. The real estate listing describes the house as having gorgeous mountain views, vaulted ceilings, a backyard with an outdoor kitchen and a three-car garage.
Good previously issued a statement that said: "It is difficult to express just how thankful we are for this wonderful gift. We are extremely grateful and feel fortunate to now have an increased ability to support our charities and causes. Obviously, this has been incredibly overwhelming and we have always cherished our privacy."
He bought $10 worth of tickets and kept the winner in the visor of his car overnight before realizing he was an instant millionaire.
He gave $20 to the cashier of a Fountain Hills convenience store, and the clerk nudged him to spend the entire amount on tickets. He declined the offer.
After Good and his wife learned of their good fortune, he pulled together a team of financial advisers and decided to take his share this month to avoid potentially higher taxes in 2013.
Lottery officials said Good's wife owns half the prize because Arizona is a community property state.
A mechanic and his wife, Mark and Cindy Hill, of Dearborn, Mo., already have claimed their half of the multistate Powerball prize.
The jackpot was the second-largest in U.S. history and set off a nationwide buying frenzy. At one point, tickets were selling at nearly 130,000 a minute.
Before the drawing, the jackpot had rolled over 16 consecutive times without any winners. In a Mega Millions drawing in March, three ticket buyers shared a $656 million jackpot, the largest lottery payout of all time.


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Stop clinging to the boards! Pick up a copy of It's Okay to Fall and learn to ice skate. This uplifting story follows the first lesson of a young girl with her coach. After Kayla's first timid steps onto the ice, not only does she get to howl like a wolf and stomp on the ice but she learns that falling is the most important lesson of learning to skate.
Written by H.J. Towsley, a former competitive ice skater and coach, the technical aspects of the book give the story a duality -- that of a "how to" piece as well as a beautiful picture book.
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The Choristers, a superb choral group based in North Wales with members from all over the greater Chestnut Hill area, will present its spring concert — one that has already garnered attention in the United Kingdom — on Saturday April 28, 7:30 p.m.
The major work the choir will present is Ralph Vaughan Williams' rarely-performed, passionate prayer for peace, "Dona Nobis Pacem."
In keeping with the message of the work, the performance is dedicated to 23-year-old Army Specialist David Emanuel Hickman, the last U.S. soldier to lose his/her life in the Iraq War.
"Dona Nobis Pacem" (Grant us peace) is a plea that human beings have urgently prayed for over many centuries. According to David Spitko, artistic director of The Choristers, "Vaughan Williams' 'Dona Nobis Pacem,' composed in 1937, was a forewarning of World War II, yet is as relevant today as it was then.
"The lyrics come from the Mass, Walt Whitman, the Bible and a political speech by John Bright. It spends considerable time focusing on the bloodshed and aftermath of war; yet ends with an uplifting and positive prayer for peace."
The choir will be joined by soprano Maureen Francis (http://www.maureenfrancis.net/biography.asp) and bass Ben Wager (http://fletcherartists.com/artist.asp?ID=23). Additional works by Vaughan Williams will be performed, including "Five Mystical Songs" with East Falls resident Suzanne DuPlantis as the soloist and "Six Studies in English Folksong" for solo clarinet, harp and strings featuring principal clarinetist Arne Running, who also wrote the new arrangement. (http://www.mec-sing.com/suzanne.html and http://lyricfest.org/about/founding-artistic-directors/suzanne-duplantis/)
Why is the work rarely performed? Aside from its choral complexity, which rules out any but a very talented concert choir, the score calls for a large professional orchestra — 47 pieces — an extremely costly expenditure requiring a herculean fundraising effort.
To assist the choir in affording the $23,000 orchestra, The Choristers was awarded a $4,000 grant from the Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust based in the United Kingdom, an imprimatur from one of the guardians of Vaughan Williams' legacy.
In addition, the London-based Ralph Vaughan Williams Society has made its members aware of the concert as many of them are located in the U.S. The Society also placed the concert on its Facebook page: www.facebook.com/pages/Ralph-Vaughan-Williams-Society/202673946456879
On Nov. 14, 2011, just a month before the final U.S. troops left Iraq, South Carolinian Army Specialist David Emanuel Hickman lost his life to an improvised explosive device. Family and friends remember him as a jokester with the nickname "Zeus" because, he playfully said, his physique was so impressive that the gods would be envious.
According to Spitko, "Hickman was a high school outside linebacker who was the linchpin of a defense so complicated that his school had to scrap it after he graduated because no other teenager could figure it out. He was someone with a goal of one day joining the Special Forces. We seek to honor his service and sacrifice with our concert."
The concert will be held at Upper Dublin Lutheran Church, Susquehanna Ave. & Butler Pike in Ambler. Tickers are $25 for adults, $20 for seniors, $10 for students and free for children under high school age. Tickets will be sold in advance and at the door.
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I have posted earlier on the Rajaratnam trials and his conviction here.
One legal issue the Rajaratnam trial brings forth is the use of wiretap evidence as admissible evidence for prosecution of mainly economic crimes. In the United States, wiretap evidence is admissible ina court of law to prove offences mentioned in 18 U.S.C. § 2516. Largely, these offences are of 'wider public interest' and could have a damaging effect on the victims or society as a whole. In the Galleon Insider Trading case, in which Rajaratnam was convicted, the wiretap evidence that was collected was actually for proving a much graver offence than Insider Trading, however the judge held that evidence to be admissible, although Insider Trading in not one of the offences enumerated in the relevant provision of the U.S. Code. See this, for the proceedings of the New York court which ruled for the admissibility of this intercepted evidence in the Galleon case.
On the other hand, in India, with the commotion regarding phone-tapping to detect tax evasion, money laundering etc and economic crimes, on the request of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Cabinet Secretary opined that tax evasion would not qualify as 'public interest' or as a 'public emergency' and phone tapping was therefore, not necessary. However, he suggested improvement in the rules regulating tax evasion and tightening norms of prosecution with stricter penalties for these offences. The end result being the suggestion for the removal of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) as an authorized governmental agency that allowed telephonic interception to detect evasion.
With the rising economic status of India in the world, economic crimes such as evasion, money laundering etc. should be dealt with with a heavy hand. Also, white collar crimes have been on the rise, and new methods of prosecution should be permitted with a leeway on the kind of evidence that should be admissible in trial of these criminals. Obviously, this should not mean compromising with the due process of law.


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She's a gorgeous spider and her web is very unique. Argiope aurantia commonly known as Black and Yellow Garden Spider is an orb weaver. It was her unique web and a trick of oscillating the web back and forth that caught my attention...
Researchers believe that the vibration may either serve to scare the predators away or ensnare prey who might be trying to work free of the sticky web. Viewed up close the web is quite a work of art.
"Web construction is complicated.(source) To start the web, Argiope firmly grasps a substrate like a grass stem or window frame. She lifts her abdomen and emits several strands of silk from her spinnerets that merge into one thread. The free end of the thread drifts until it touches something far away, like a stem or a flower stalk. She then creates bridge lines, and other scaffolding to help her build the framework of the web. She builds a hub with threads radiating from it like a spokes of a wheel. She switches to sticky silk for the threads spiraling around this hub that will actually catch her prey. It may take a few hours to complete the web, then she eats the temporary scaffolding and the center hub. Black and yellow spiders often add stabilimenta, or heavy zig-zagging portions, in their webs." There is no certainty among experts about what purpose stabilimenta serves...it could be a place to hide from predators or a warning to birds that there is a web in its flight pattern.
While some Argiope spiders leave webs in place for night hunting, it is not unusual for it to be built and then eaten at the end of the day! Even if she catches no big prey like moths, grasshoppers, June Beetles, aphids or even cicadas, the tiniest insects that were stuck to the sticky web will be her dinner.
Not only is she harmless to humans, she and others of her kind do a lot of good...In addition to the prey listed earlier, they also eat mosquitoes! That's good news to me!
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Boulder, Colorado, USA - Geology doesn't stop at borders. Mexico, the U.S., and Canada share the same tectonic plate and face similar environmental and resource problems. In an effort to promote active communication among geologists from the three countries, the Center of Geoscience and the Institute of Geology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico; UNAM) are hosting the 108th meeting of GSA's Cordilleran Section in Quertaro, central Mexico, on 29-31 March 2012.
Mexico is a key region for understanding the geologic evolution of North America as well as an important tectonic element that interacted with South America and the Caribbean. Quertaro lies at the crossroads of three main geologic provinces and classic fossils sites are only 25-30 miles to the north. Historic Quertaro is a safe and modern industrial city built around a beautiful colonial center about 140 miles northwest of Mexico City.
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The scientific program is composed of oral and poster presentations organized into 17 themed sessions, a symposium, and an array of general discipline of research. Go to www.geosociety.org/Sections/cord/2012mtg/techprog.htm to learn more.
Thursday, 29 March
Environmental Geochemistry I. Mario Villalobos, Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mexico (UNAM), and colleagues Laura E. Beramendi-Orosco, Francisco Romero, Priyadarsi Roy, and Ofelia Morton, presiding. The topics considered in this session are broad and include hazardous waste management; soil, water and air pollution; environmental health risk assessment; remediation and reclamation of contaminated sites; and past climatic changes.
Abstracts: http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012CD/finalprogram/session_30213.htm, 8:30 a.m. to 12:55 p.m. (session 4).
Paper 4-5: Tracing of Pollution Sources in Urban Dust and Soils from Hermosillo City (Northwestern Mexico) Using Pb Isotopes. Rafael Del Ro Salas of Estacin Regional del Noroeste, UNAM, and nine colleagues: http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012CD/finalprogram/abstract_201797.htm.
What Fossil Ages and Distributions Tell Us about the History of the Ancient Gulf of California. Judith Smith, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, and colleagues Ana Luisa Carreo and Javier Helenes, presiding. This session aims to take a fresh look at data based on coral, echinoid, mollusk, microfossil, other invertebrate and vertebrate specimens, not published lists, in order to discover new insights on the age of the earliest seawater.
Abstracts: http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012CD/finalprogram/session_30102.htm, 2:30 to 4:50 p.m. (session 15).
Paper 15-1: Keynote: Neogene Micropaleontology and Evolution of the Northern Gulf of California. Javier Helenes, Centro de Investigacin Cientfica y de Educacin Superior de Ensenada and A. Luisa Carreo, UNAM: http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012CD/finalprogram/abstract_201564.htm.
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Ground Deformation Related to Anthropogenic Activities: Achievements in the Development of Geoscience Information System for Improved Management of Natural Resources. Dora Carreon-Freyre, UNAM, and colleagues Mariano Cerca, Devin Galloway, and Penlope Lpez-Quiroz, presiding. Deformation of the near surface and deep geological sequences can be associated with natural and anthropogenic phenomena. The intensive exploitation of subsurface natural resources and the urbanization of areas nearby steep slopes cause mechanical instabilities that are shown in the surface as land subsidence, ground fracturing and landslides.
Abstracts: http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012CD/finalprogram/session_30107.htm, 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. (session 33).
Paper 33-1: Engineering Geology Approach to the Effects of Land Subsidence in Mexico City. Mariano Cerca, UNAM Campus Juriquilla, and eight colleagues: http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012CD/finalprogram/abstract_201868.htm.
Saturday, 31 March
Ore Deposits and Ore Genesis in the American Cordillera. Antoni Camprubi, UNAM, presiding. The American Cordillera or "backbone" constitutes one of the largest and most productive regions in the world. Despite the stunning genetic type variety and economic value or potential of ore deposits in the region, the long and complex geological history of the western Americas is yet to be unraveled.
Abstracts: http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012CD/finalprogram/session_30094.htm, 8:30 a.m. to 12:50 p.m. (session 34).
Paper 34-3: Graben Type Calderas of the Sierra Madre Occidental: Potential Sites for Hydrothermal Ore Deposits. Gerardo J. Aguirre-Daz, UNAM Campus Juriquilla, and five colleagues: http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012CD/finalprogram/abstract_201534.htm.
Field Guild 25, The Southern Cordillera and Beyond, prepared in conjunction with the 2012 GSA Cordilleran Section Meeting, features eight field trips that showcase three aspects of the geology of the southern end of the North America Cordillera: Mid-Tertiary and Quaternary volcanology, environmental geology, and Mesozoic tectonics. Edited by Jos Jorge Aranda-Gmez, Gustavo Tolson, and Roberto S. Molina-Garza: http://rock.geosociety.org/Bookstore/default.asp?oID=0&catID=18&pID=FLD025.
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Find local contact information at www.geosociety.org/Sections/cord/2012mtg/contact.htm.
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Editor's Note: Rane Cortez works for The Nature Conservancy and is based in Belem, Brazil. She has just moved for two months to the highly-deforested frontier town of São Felix do Xingu in northern Brazil to work with local farmers, ranchers, landowners, indigenous groups and city officials to together promote forest-friendly sustainable growth for the area.
This post is the third in a series over the next eight weeks that will share her perspective from the frontlines of Amazon deforestation.
By Rane Cortez
I want you to stop and take a moment to think about chocolate. Or, if you're like me, I want you to continue thinking about chocolate for another moment or two. What's the first thing you imagine? I bet it has something to do with a smooth, creamy square of deliciousness slowly melting on your tongue. I can understand that; it's what I think of too. However, I recently had a conversation that changed the way I think about my favorite dessert. Now when I think about chocolate, in addition to thinking about brownies, I think about saving rainforests and fighting carbon pollution.
This week I sat down to talk with Ilson and Iron, leaders of a local agricultural cooperative in São Felix do Xingu, here in the Brazilian Amazon, that helps its members plant cacao – the fruit that eventually becomes the delicious treat you're now craving. The cooperative, known as CAPPRU, aims to help family farmers earn a good living while promoting environmental protection in the Amazon.
"When our first projects were getting started, back in 1994, many people didn't believe that cacao could be a sustainable livelihood for family farmers," says Ilson, CAPPRU's Director. "Some people even said the idea was foolish."
"The problem was that people here come from a ranching culture," continues Iron, President of CAPPRU. "So that was a major barrier."
"The culture of the people was ranching – it was to clear for pastures and raise cattle," agrees Ilson. "But not anymore."
CAPPRU managed to convince some early adopters to plant cacao on their small farms and now there is more demand for seeds and technical assistance than the cooperative can provide. Ilson explains that the economics of cacao for family farmers just makes good sense, and when people started to see that, they started to change what they were doing.
"If a farmer has about 5 hectares and he wants to raise cattle, if he wants to have a good control and management of his herd, he will have 5, maximum 8, head of cattle," he says. "On the same piece of land, the farmer could have more than 5,000 cacao trees, each producing a kilo of cacao per year."
According to Ilson, the cattle could bring in about $2,500 per year while the cacao would bring in about $10,000 per year. "And with cacao, the farmer also gets other products from the shade trees, like açai and other fruits, Brazil nuts, rubber, and wood."
"I visited a farmer this past week who hasn't deforested his land since about 2004," says Ilson. "He stopped raising cows and now his property is practically 90% restored and all the time he is planting various native tree species."
This type of forest restoration can help transition damaged and degraded pasture land back into healthy forest cover, while providing both short- and long-term income. The cacao provides income after about three years while the trees that shade the cacao can be managed for timber and other products over the long-term. If enough farmers shifted to cacao, São Felix could begin to recover important habitat for Amazonian species and help combat carbon pollution since the trees suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere as they grow.
According to Ilson and Iron, the soils throughout São Felix do Xingu are good for cacao, and the potential for expansion is enormous. However, some barriers still exist.
For starters, financing is a problem: credit lines for small farmers need to start being paid back after two years, while the first cacao fruits aren't ready to be harvested until the third year. Additionally, there aren't enough seeds to go around and farmers need technical assistance to learn to manage their crop.
To help overcome these barriers, The Nature Conservancy is helping to negotiate a deal between CAPPRU and Cargill that will provide seeds for around 100 small farms to begin planting cacao as well as assigning two technical staff to CAPPRU to help farmers learn to manage their new crop and comply with environmental legislation. It's the start of something that we hope will grow over time into an example for family farmers throughout the Amazon.


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David Cameron claims the absolute right of the British State to know and overhear absolutely everything about you, under any circumstances, through a system of bureaucratic oversight and administrative self-regulation.
Because, Charlie Hebdo.
by Emmanuel Goldstein
Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic Age, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude towards one another, have varied from age to age: but the essential structure of society has never altered. Even after enormous upheavals and seemingly irrevocable changes, the same pattern has always reasserted itself, just as a gyroscope will always return to equilibrium, however far it is pushed one way or the other.
The aims of these groups are entirely irreconcilable . . .
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He had still, he reflected, not learned the ultimate secret. He understood HOW; he did not understand WHY.
Chapter I, like Chapter III, had not actually told him anything that he did not know, it had merely systematized the knowledge that he possessed already.
But after reading it he knew better than before that he was not mad.
Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.
There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
A yellow beam from the sinking sun slanted in through the window and fell across the pillow. He shut his eyes. The sun on his face and the girl's smooth body touching his own gave him a strong, sleepy, confident feeling. He was safe, everything was all right.
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The Blizzard Bike announced its 2011 race calendar this week, with 103 road, mountain, duathlon and cyclocross events. The season opener will be March 6th with the tough, early season Baldonnel road race with the final event on October 30th.
The Blizzards will defend their Challenge Cup against Grande Prairie and Dawson Creek in 9 races, held throughout the year.
The season breakdown includes 24 time trials, 11 Cyclo cross races, 21 mountain bike races, 5 duathlons, 1 triathlon, 2 hill climbs and 19 mass start road events.
The long distance Randonneur series has 10 events with local riders doing the 1200 km Paris-Brest-Paris event in August.
Rides with the club coaches will start in June and will have 10 weekly sessions. Winter turbo training continues two days per week until the end of March and (hopefully) spring weather is here.
Club triathletes will be doing the regional short distance triathlon series as well as the Penticton Ironman. Club triathletes can practice their skills with e 5 event Duathlon run-bike-run series. A duathlon is a good way to start learning about triathlons.
The mountain bike races were greatly expanded to 21 events on the club's new 'Beatton Cactus' circuit. Wednesday weekly MTB races start at 7 pm April 6 on the Cactus Trails.
A few new Sunday race start times and new race circuits will be introduced. The King/Queen of Spring and spring 15 Mile time trials will be moved to the Old Montney Highway from the Upper Pine Road.
The Blizzard Bike Club is in its 29th year of existence, having started in 1982. Last year's membership was 84 members.
Go see 'Ferris Fast Cycles' or call 250-785-3711 for more information. All it will cost you is a $40 club annual membership to take part in these events.
Cycling is a great way to get fit and have fun at the same time. Take advantage at the excellent regional cycling routes.
If you are interesting in some fun and want to learn how to bike in a recreational atmosphere, the Blizzards are for you! The club schedule, news and events are available at www.ferrisfastcycles.com under 'Upcoming Events'.
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Mumbai special Pav bhaji recipe
Mumbai famous street food - Pav bhaji recipe
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pav bhaji is my fav too..nice colour gal..ReplyDelete
Pav bhaji looks very delicious & tempting.ReplyDelete
Bhaji looks creamy and has a lovely color. Why don't you send this to pallavi's sunday snacks-Chaats event.ReplyDelete
looks so deliciious..just like the chaat corners..yumm..ReplyDelete
Looks so good! Have never tried making it .. just step out when feel like having this. :-)ReplyDelete
Thanku all foodies:)ReplyDelete
Pav Bhaji looks delicious..i want some right now :)ReplyDelete
My fave snack to have, I even make it for dinner! Looks delicious! :)ReplyDelete
Nice photos Chitra...I love this as evening dinner, my favorite. Thanks for sharing the facts about yeast. I used to wonder if yeast is good for health. Now I can use them without all the guilt :)ReplyDelete
super, super, super!! Great pic.. feel like eating it now!ReplyDelete
I love Pav bhaji and yours look delicious! Feel like grabbing it right out of the pic!ReplyDelete
Yum my favourite for snack or lunch or dinner:-). Looks yummmmReplyDelete
I want to grab that plate from the last pic, looks so temptinly delicous.ReplyDelete
wow this looks fantastic!!ReplyDelete
wow! fanatstic very yummy !!ReplyDelete
looks very yummy! Excellent!ReplyDelete
Hi Chitra,
Ur blog looks lovely :)
Paav baaji looks super yummy, can have it at any time of the day :) very filling and tasty.nice pics.
This is one of my favorite. Very yummy.ReplyDelete
Chitra, pav bhajji looks amzing and very tempting... I love this, my all time fav...ReplyDelete
Yummy pav chitra..your template is looking nice..ReplyDelete
Anytime am ready to have pav bhaji, makes me hungry!ReplyDelete
pav bhaji is one of my favorite street foods. looks delicious, Chitra!ReplyDelete
This reminds my college days. We often have this in gangotri.ReplyDelete
looks good, love your clinic box!, west yorkshire - caught my eye as a Brit!ReplyDelete
Looks delicious...I used to stuff myself with this in Mumbai.ReplyDelete
Good work Chitra!
ur new template looks cool.
Thanku all dearies;)ReplyDelete
Pav bhaji in first attempt looks perfect, just like the one we get in Chennai. yummy.ReplyDelete
wow..pav bhaji looks perfect..ReplyDelete
lovely bhaji, looks yummy........, love it always....., i do it quite often as its childrens favourite dish !!, good for u that u did it.....ur a great cook dear......ReplyDelete
Oh yummm Chitra..you gave me some hard hunger pangs now..:P..n the new lay out is pretty neat..:)ReplyDelete
The pavs look so good but the bhaji looks like it would be delicious on rice, too!ReplyDelete
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Of course not. Or at least not yet. But we're clearly thinking along the same lines as the DMN's Rick Gosselin.
Here's what I wrote during the liveblog of Packers/Broncos game, after another questionable call by the officials on referee Ron Winter's crew.
Andy has a theory about NFL officiating. And once you hear it, I think it becomes hard to watch games without thinking it is true. He says NFL refs are like Leslie Nielsen as the umpire in Naked Gun: They make calls that will generate applause from the home crowds. Someone who has more time than I do should look it up. Do home teams get more calls than away teams? I would guess that they do.
Jason Wilde reports that Rick Gosselin is that guy with more time. "According to research done by The Dallas Morning News' Rick Gosselin, NFL officials have been harsher on the road teams than the home teams each of the past nine weeks, assessing more penalties for more yards to the visitors."
First we come up with the theory, then someone else proves it. Perfect. I have a theory that most Minnesota Vikings are bedwetters.


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AG rejects proposed marijuana ballot title
Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has rejected a proposal to ask voters to end a prohibition on marijuana.
McDaniel rejected the proposal this week, saying it contains ambiguities.
The proposal from Arkansans for Medical Cannabis calls for an amendment to the state Constitution that declares cannabis to be an agricultural commodity, medicinal product and intoxicant.
McDaniel's opinion says that group previously submitted three similar measures, which the attorney general's office rejected.
Arkansans for Medical Cannabis spokesman Robert Reed says the group will review McDaniel's opinion and resubmit a similar proposal.
McDaniel this year also has rejected the wording of a proposed initiated act by another group called Arkansans for Compassionate Care. That group that campaigned for a medical marijuana initiative that voters rejected last year.


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Brazilian President Seeks to Outlaw Spanking
By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent
BRASILIA, July 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Brazil's socialist President Luiz Lula da Silva is proposing changes to the nation's Children and Adolescents Statute that will prohibit parents from spanking their children or applying any other form of corporal punishment.
In accordance with the proposed law, parents caught spanking or pinching their children, after a warning, could be required to receive psychological treatment. The case could also be turned over to child protective services, according to the AP.
"The proposed definition is applicable not only in the domestic sphere, but also for the other caretakers of children and adolescents - in schools, shelters, prisons. The bill is seeking a cultural change," said Carmen Oliveira, National Subsecretary for the Promotion of the Rights of Children and Adolescents.
"If punishment and whipping resolve the problem, the people wouldn't have corruption in the country. There wouldn't be so much crime in the country," Lula claimed in his comments on the bill.
However, Antonio Carlos Gomes da Costa, who was one of the authors of the original Children and Adolescents Statute, disagrees.
"I would say that spanking, if it is applied with judgment and moderation, is not a violation of human rights," he said in a recent interview. "For example, a child insists in putting her finger into the light socket, and her father tells her it is dangerous, that she can't, and she nonetheless insists, to give her a little spank or a strong verbal scolding, which I find to be preferable, is not 'destructive.' Punishment is necessary."
In order to act against parents who use corporal punishment on their children, the government will need at least one third party witness, such as another family member, or a fellow worker in a daycare center.
Lula's anti-spanking initiative is only one in along line of anti-family policies, which include attempts to further depenalize abortion, to censor TV to prohibit condemnation of sodomy, and to push the homosexual agenda within international institutions.
Related LifeSiteNews coverage:
Brazilian Government Seeks to Remove "Homophobic" Christian Programming from Daytime TV
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/may/09051502. html
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/may/09051502. html
Brazilian President Will Seek to "Criminalize Words and Acts Offensive to Homosexuality"
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Brazilian President Luiz Lula Defends Abortion, Gay Unions
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Organization of American States Approves Homosexual "Human Rights" ResolutionFor many other articles on Brazil, see: http://lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com
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Please read the following guidelines carefully. If there are any questions, contact our office. Deviating too far from these guidelines will most often result in work being rejected and returned to the photographer.
The Angles: There are 6 basic angles and 3 details (minimum) that must be covered when photographing a feature bike for Tam Communications. (See images at the bottom of the page.) It is strongly suggested that the six basic angles and engine details be done with a telephoto lens, (100mm +), not wide angle. We do not want to see any wide-angle photos. Cockpit shot can be done with a normal lens (50mm+).
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Oh boy have we felt trapped this week. With two out of my three with chicken pox and one eminent we have had to conjure up all sorts of imagination to keep us occupied, from puzzles to bricks, craft, hunting for dinosaurs and out in the garden digging for worms.
Why don't pox parties happen any more? Is it considered bad parenting now to inflict your child with an illness rather than just get it over and done with? I wish they did happen, we wouldn't have felt so lonely!
So today we came up with this idea. We would go on a nature trail…outdoors but in our own back garden, and we would stick our findings to a piece of cardboard that we had covered in double-sided glue spots. I would have braved going down the trail at the back of house that leads to the park, but I just didn't have the mindset to stomach the disgruntled looks of other parents, staring at my grotspots as if we have the plague.
So our trek began… (a bit like Winnie the Pooh and Piglet on their search for heffalumps!) It was beneficial doing it in the garden because we don't have a dog, so avoided Noah's obsession with looking for dog poo and despite it being a complete mess (ignore any laundry, weeds or things we are trying to sell that may be in pictures) it does have some interesting things and a little bit of colour.
So here is our piece of card (cut from a good old Cheerios's box, covered in sticky dots.
Voila! Master piece is finished…although he does not look convinced! Maybe tweak it later!
There you have it, some easy craft, nature, science, play and the outdoors all in the comfort of your back garden. We would have loved to have explored further afield, maybe in a couple of weeks when the spots are gone!
Give it a go
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Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
The Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, informally the Presanctified Liturgy, is a liturgical service for the distribution of the Holy Gifts on the weekdays of Great Lent. Because Great Lent is a season of repentance, fasting, and intensified prayer, the Orthodox Church regards more frequent reception of communion as especially desirable at that time. However, the Divine Liturgy has a festal character not in keeping with the season. Thus the Presanctified Liturgy is therefore celebrated instead; the Divine Liturgy is only performed on Saturdays and Sundays. Although it is possible to celebrate this service on any weekday of Great Lent, common parish practice is to celebrate it only on Wednesdays and Fridays.
It consists of vespers combined with additional prayers and communion. The communion bread has already been consecrated and intincted with the precious Blood and reserved at the previous Sunday's Divine Liturgy. Unconsecrated wine is placed in the chalice. Local practice also varies as to whether or not this wine must be thought of as the Blood of Christ. The only practical effect of this variety is that the celebrant who must consume all the undistrubuted communion at the end of the service might or might not partake of the chalice when he communes himself.
The Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts was first documented by Gregory the Dialogist (AD 540 - 604), who was the papal legate to Constantinople. At one time it was supposed that he had come up with the idea himself, but now it is generally supposed that he simply recorded what was otherwise being practiced at Constantinople. In the Presanctified Liturgy itself, he is still commemorated as its traditional author.
This Liturgy is also mentioned in the Canons of the seventh century Quinisext Council:
- On all days of the holy fast of Lent, except on the Sabbath, the Lord's Day, and the holy day of the Annunciation, the Liturgy of the Presanctified is to be served (Canon 52,692).
Sources and External links
- Some differences between Greek and Russian divine services and their significance by Archbishop Basil Krivoshein
- Wikipedia article
- The Divine Liturgies Music Project Byzantine music in English for the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
- Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts from the website of the Orthodox Church in America
- Byzantines.net - Pre-Sanctified Liturgy


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The wavefunction is a fundamental concept in quantum mechanics, telling us where we're likely to find a particle—the position or momentum of an electron, for example—even though its physical meaning is rather unclear. This concept has turned out to be extremely useful.
Where the wavefunction really counts is in things like molecules, where it determines properties like structure and behavior. Yet determining the spatial properties of the wavefunction inside something like a molecule is not something that is easily done. That is what makes a paper on imaging the wavefunction of an ionized, vibrating hydrogen molecule so interesting.
The challenge with measuring the wavefunction of a molecule when it is vibrating is that it is not enough to figure out where the electrons are; you also need to make a precise measurement of where the atomic nuclei are spending their time as well. To make matters worse, this all has to be done one molecule at a time, because otherwise you just get the average of where the nuclei are, which is not much different from getting nothing at all.
Blowing up molecular hydrogen
So that's the challenge. How did the researchers from Germany meet this challenge? With a clever combination of experimental work, calculation, and a really good choice of molecule. The molecule the researchers chose to study was ionized hydrogen, which is two hydrogen nuclei with only a single electron shared between them. This very simple molecule is perfect because all its states can be calculated, and the potentials (the electric fields that hold the molecule together) are all known.
Some of those potentials are binding—that is, they hold the hydrogen molecule together— while others are not. Any hydrogen molecule is, by definition, sitting at a binding potential. If we force it suddenly into a non-binding potential, it will no longer be a molecule—it will explode as the positively charged nuclei drive each other apart. By measuring the final kinetic energy of the two nuclei, we can calculate back to where the atomic nuclei must have been when the transition took place.
To put it in blunt terms: the researcher blew the last remaining electron off the molecule, and watched it explode.
These sorts of measurements have been around for a while. But the key difference here is their accuracy and the knowledge they provide about the starting conditions. The researchers were able to measure the kinetic energy of the nuclei with enough accuracy that they could back calculate to figure out where the nuclei must have started from.
Incredible as that is, there is more. We know the exact potential and vibrational states of molecular hydrogen. By repeating the measurement many times, the researchers could figure out where the nuclei spent most of their time relative to each other, which is, essentially, the wavefunction of the vibrational states of the hydrogen molecule.
To show this, the researchers deliberately excited hydrogen molecules into different vibrational states and then measured the wavefunction, showing that it corresponded quite nicely to the theoretical predictions—well, for the groundstate at least.
Too much excitement
For the excited states, though, things seemed to go horribly wrong. The problem, it seems, lies in the back calculation to the starting position. That calculation assumes that the nuclei explode from a standing start. But, by definition, in an excited vibrational state, the nuclei are moving most of the time. The researchers attempted to correct for this by using a technique that estimated the initial kinetic energy of the nuclei, but that didn't agree with theory either.
In a move that is as dodgy as can be (but entirely understandable) the researchers then averaged the two calculations to get a great fit to the theory. Obviously, describing this as dodgy is overstating the case, because the approach can be justified. But my first reaction to that part of the paper was very cynical. Essentially, the two calculations are two extremes: nuclei starting from rest and nuclei at near maximum velocity. In the end, though, averaging these two cases is probably the only way to get a realistic starting point for the calculation.
One of the cool things in this experiment is that you can clearly see the quantum mechanical nature of the motion of the nuclei. Classically, when a molecule is set vibrating, you can think of it as a mass-and-spring system, where the nuclei swing back and forth, moving very fast through the center, and slowly at the extremes. If this were the case, then these experiments would have often found the nuclei at the edges of their motion and rarely in the middle. Most importantly, because the nuclei spend a bit of time everywhere, the distribution of their locations should have been smooth.
In quantum mechanics, things are different. The wave function—and hence the probability of finding a nuclei—goes to zero in a periodic fashion, so there are some places that a nuclei should never be found. The researchers do observe this, and that is very cool.
In the beginning of this article, I waxed lyrical about the importance of the wavefunction, and how, if we only had a picture of it, we would understand everything. So the obvious question is: how applicable is this technique to more useful molecules? The answer is, unfortunately, not very. The reason it worked in this case is that there is just a single electron to remove to get an explosion. And to make matters easier, all the states are known already. I think it would be very difficult to apply this to more complicated molecules, where none of this is true.
Physical Review Letters, 2012, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.073202 (About DOIs).


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PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande's government called on Thursday for an end to violent protests against a same-sex marriage bill being debated in parliament, warning those behind a rise in homophobic assaults would be punished.
Hollande's initiative to allow same-sex couples to tie the knot - the most significant social reform undertaken since France banned the death penalty in 1981 - has split the nation and sparked huge protests both for and against the law.
As the lower house of parliament prepares for a final vote on the law next week, the "anti" protests have turned violent and police have noted a rise in homophobic assaults.
In one such attack, a gay bar in the northern city of Lille was trashed on Wednesday night by four men shouting homophobic insults, leaving several people with injuries.
"I cannot accept ... homophobic acts and violence against property in the midst of protests, or any defiance of law enforcement officials," Hollande told reporters during a visit to Paris Charles de Gaulle airport.
"(Democratic) procedures must be respected, sensibilities must be respected, and everyone must be heard ... But the law and parliament also need to be respected," he added.
The four Lille assailants were detained by police after they smashed the bar's windows, hurled furniture and yelled insults, starting an altercation that left the assailants, the bar's owner and two bar tenders with light injuries.
The assault came days after the photograph of a gay man whose face was bruised and lacerated after a severe beating in Paris became a viral sensation on social media web sites.
"They came to beat up gays - that's exactly how they phrased it," said the proprietor of the bar in Lille.
Interior Minister Manuel Valls issued warnings by name on Thursday to four far-right groups he accused of inciting hatred against gays on the Internet and seeking to intimidate parliamentarians who support the bill.
Last week three police officers were hurt and two vehicles damaged in scuffles with anti-gay marriage protestors near Paris' Champs Elysees avenue. Twelve protestors were arrested and charged with deliberate violence.
Extra riot police will be deployed at another big march set for Sunday after recent rallies turned ugly. Two lawmakers have received anonymous death threats due to their support for the law, Valls said.
"Law enforcement and intelligence services are mobilised against this situation," Valls said. "There can be no violence against the police, there can be no violence against individuals, there can be no death threats."
Reporting By Nicholas Vinocur and Emmanuel Jarry; Editing by Catherine Bremer and Jon Hemming