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Vietnam Human Rights Defenders' Weekly June 20-26, 2016: Vietnam Intensifies Crackdown on Unregistered Religious Groups, Land Grabbing on the Rise
Vietnam Human Rights Defenders' Weekly | June 26, 2016
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Authorities in many localities in Vietnam have intensified persecution against local unregistered religious groups, grabbing their properties and barring followers from attending religious ceremonies, according to local social networks.
On June 19-20, authorities in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang deployed a large number of police officers and militia to attack facilities of Cao Dai Buddhist sect in Cho Moi district, beating local followers. Due to the attack, Ms. Le Thi Hong Hanh and Ms. Nguyen Thi Bich Ngoc suffered severe injuries.
On Monday, authorities in the central city of Hue sent 200 police officers and militia to attack Thien An Church, breaking a number of facilities of the church and beating followers as well as suppressing the church's leadership. The move aims to take the land belonging to the church.
Police forces in the northernmost province of Lao Cai on June 19 stormed in a Protestant church in Muong Khuong district, destroying the church and beating many followers, including the elderly and women.
Venerable Thich Khong Tanh, head of the Lien Tri Pagoda which belongs to the unrecognized Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) has informed that authorities in Ho Chi Minh City plans to seize the land on which the pagoda is located for local property development. The local government is set to evict the monks soon out of the areas and destroy the pagoda.
Vietnamese land rights activist Can Thi Theu, who was arrested on June 10, is in critical health conditions in the Hanoi-based Detention Facility No. 1 after conducting a 13-day hunger strike since her arrest to protest her illegal detention. After meeting with her lawyer, she agreed to end the fasting.
A group of several civil society organizations have issued a joint statement calling on international financial institutions and foreign government to attach human-rights conditions to their loans for Vietnam and demand the government of Vietnam show evidence of improvements on human rights before those loans are made.
The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR), a member of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has criticized Vietnam over its implementation of death penalty, calling on the Southeast Asian nation to abolish this inhuman, cruel and degrading punishment at the 6th World Congress against the Death Penalty in Oslo on June 21.
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========== June 20============
Vietnam Revokes Press Card of Journalist for "Improper Post" on Warplane Crash
Defend the Defenders: The Vietnam Journalists Association on June 20 decided to revoke a press card of its member Mai Phan Loi, saying he had used improper words in his recent social survey about last week's crash of a military airplane.
The move was taken one day before the 91st anniversary of the "Vietnam revolutionary press" according to state media.
Few days after the crash of a CASA 212 helicopter of the Vietnam Coast Guard on June 16, Mr. Loi launched a private poll on the Facebook page of the Young Journalists Forum to collect public opinions about the causes of the falling of the chopper which fell in the waters in the Tonkin Gulf while searching for a Su-30MK2 jetfighter that crashed two days earlier.
In the first incident, one senior pilot was killed while in the second catastrophe, nine military officers, including a colonel pilot, were missing.
In his survey, he asked why the aircrafts fell apart while the Vietnam Journalists Association said the words he used were "insulting" to the military forces.
On June 21, the Ho Chi Minh Law newspaper suspended the dynamic reporter, according to the Tuoi Tre newspaper.
Vietnam's security forces have reportedly interrogated the journalist in recent days, according to social networks.
Local observers said the revoking of Loi's press card may be linked to his activities in the Young Journalists Forum which is independent while all media outlets in Vietnam are under state control. Loi is the sole administrator of the forum with 12,000 members.
Mr. Loi represented the forum to attend a meeting in Hanoi on May 24 between U.S. President Barack Obama and representatives of local social groups during his first and final visit to Vietnam. Loi was one of six delegates attending the event while nine invited individuals were blocked by local security forces from going to the meeting.
The acts against Mr. Loi are suppression of the Vietnam Journalists Association and other journalists who have sought to provide true and independent journalism in Vietnam, social activists said.
Mr. Loi is the second Vietnamese journalist whose press card is revoked in relation to sensitive topics. Last September, the Ministry of Information and Communication took the press card of Do Hung, general secretary of the Thanh Nien newspaper after his Facebook message which the authorities deemed insulting to late General Vo Nguyen Giap, who was the decisive figure in the wars against France and the U.S. in the 20th century.
========= June 21============
Vietnam Intensifies Crackdown on Unregistered Religious Groups, Land Grabbing on the Rise
Defend the Defenders: Authorities in many localities in Vietnam have intensified persecution against local unregistered religious groups, grabbing their properties and barring followers from attending their religious ceremonies, according to local social networks.
On June 19-20, authorities in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang deployed a large number of police officers and militia to attack facilities of Cao Dai Buddhist sect in Cho Moi district, beating local followers. Due to the attack, Ms. Le Thi Hong Hanh and Ms. Nguyen Thi Bich Ngoc suffered severe injuries.
In order to protest the local government's suppression, Mr. Vo Thanh Liem, head of Thanh Minh Pagoda, intended to use gasoline for self-immolation, however, he was blocked from other followers.
On Monday, authorities in the central city of Hue sent 200 police officers and militia to attack Thien An Church, damaging a number of facilities of the church and beating followers as well as suppressing the church's leadership. The attack is allegedly aimed at taking the land belonging to the church.
In mid-May last year, the Hue authorities deployed police forces to take down a Jesus statue and Cross in Thien An Church and threw them into a river nearby.
Police forces in the northernmost province of Lao Cai on June 19 stormed into a Protestant church in Muong Khuong district, destroying the church and beating many followers, including the elderly and women.
Venerable Thich Khong Tanh, head of the Lien Tri Pagoda which belongs to the unrecognized Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) has alleged that authorities in Ho Chi Minh City plan to seize the land on which the pagoda is located for local property development. The local government is set to evict the monks out of the areas on June 23 and destroy the pagoda.
In addition to persecuting unregistered religious groups, the grabbing of land of churches and pagodas has taken place in many localities. The victims of state land grabbing include Thai Ha Redemptory's Church in Hanoi, Con Dau parish in Danang city, and Dong Yen parish in the central province of Ha Tinh.
Vietnam's authorities in many provinces and cities have also seized land from local residents without paying adequate compensation. Appropriated land is often given to private developers of industrial and property projects, leaving thousands of farmers nationwide without production tools. Hundreds of them have rallied in Hanoi and HCMC to demand the return of their land or compensation at market prices, but they are subjected to the authorities' discrimination and persecution.
In early June, Vietnam arrested land rights activist Can Thi Theu and charged her with causing public disorders in a bid to suppress other land petitioners.
Vietnam's new leadership, formed after the 12th National Congress of the ruling communist party, has flexed its muscles against local dissidents, social activists and human rights defenders in a bid to keep the country under a one-party regime, observers said.
Vietnam: Nuns stage sit-in to protest land grab in Hanoi
Christian Today: Nuns in the Hanoi-based Sisters of Saint Paul de Chartres have staged a sit-in to defend their property amid claims police failed to intervene in an attempted land grab.
The demonstration is held on a piece of land in Quang Trung ward, Hoang Kiem district after a local business woman attempted to build on the property. The nuns spotted building materials on the site and informed local authorities, but they allegedly did nothing to stop it.
The piece of land was seized by the Communist party in the 1950s, when authorities began taking church-owned hospitals and schools. The Hanoi authorities used the property as a school but later sold to a private investor.
Claiming the property, the nuns have asked the government to return it to them so they can continue their work, though under current legislation the authorities are under no obligation to do so.
The Sisters of Saint Paul de Chartres have had a presence in Vietnam since 1860, and were originally from France. They settled in Hanoi in 1883, and had a presence there until 1954. They were forced to abandon their work in the country almost 50 years later, until 2010, when they were allowed to return.
Vietnam's constitution guarantees freedom of religion in principle, but, like China, the Communist government tightly controls independent religious practice. According to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, it represses "individuals and religious groups it views as challenging its authority", including independent Buddhists, Hoa Hao, Cao Dai, and Christians.
Of the 93.4 million Vietnamese population more than half identifies with Buddhism. Roman Catholics make up 7%, Cao Dai between 2.5% and 4%; Hoa Hao, 1.5% to 3%; and Protestants, 1% to 2%.
Vietnam: Nuns stage sit-in to protest land grab in Hanoi
Vietnam Criticized for Its Capital Punishment at 6th World Congress against Death Penalty in Oslo
The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR), a member of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has criticized Vietnam over its implementation of death penalty, calling on the Southeast Asian nation to abolish this this inhuman, cruel and degrading punishment.
The criticism was made at the 6th World Congress against the Death Penalty in Oslo on June 21 which were attended by 1,300 delegates from 80 countries, including 20 ministers, 200 parliamentarians and numerous academics, lawyers and members of civil society. The congress, organized every three years, focused on the death penalty and terrorism, minorities and mental health this year.
During the congress, VCHR Vice-President Penelope Faulkner highlighted the case of Vietnam, one of some 25 countries that still enforce capital punishment. "The use of the death penalty in Vietnam is especially disturbing because of the lack of due process of law. In Vietnam's one-party state, the judiciary is not independent and trials are routinely unfair. Some recent death sentences were based on confessions made under torture", she said.
Ms. Faulkner presented the VCHR's new report on "The Death Penalty in Vietnam" which gives an overview of Vietnam's policies and practices regarding the death penalty, inhumane conditions on death row and cases of wrongful convictions. Until 2010, executions were by firing squad in Vietnam. The parliament then adopted legislation to use lethal injections to make the process "more humane". Following an EU ban on exports of lethal drugs, Vietnam authorized the use of untested "local poisons" to reduce the backlog of prisoners on death row.
In November 2015, Vietnam announced that it had abolished the death penalty on seven crimes in a reform of the Criminal Code, reducing the number of offences punishable by death from 22 to 15. However, the VCHR report revealed that 18 crimes still carry the death penalty in Vietnam today; one new crime has been added, and other crimes, notably drug-related offences, have simply been-worded or displaced in the text. The report published the full list of these 18 crimes. The amended Criminal Code comes into effect on 1st July 2016.
Despite strong international pressure, Vietnam did not abolish the death penalty for any of the vaguely-defined "national security" crimes in its amended Criminal Code. On the contrary, it added a new offence of "terrorist activities aimed at opposing the people's administration" (Article 113). Indeed, Chapter XIII of the Code on "Crimes of Infringing upon National Security" contains a total of six crimes carrying capital punishment, more than any other category of crimes in the Code.
"Under these spurious "national security" laws, which are totally incompatible with international human rights provisions, human rights defenders and pro-democracy activists in Vietnam could be sentenced to death simply for criticizing the Communist Party or peacefully expressing alternative political views", Penelope Faulkner said.
The VCHR report cited cases such as Phan Van Thu, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2013 under Article 79 of the Criminal Code on "activities aimed at overthrowing the people's administration" for advocating protection of the environment.
Capital Punishment in Vietnam condemned at the 6th World Congress Against the Death Penalty in Oslo
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Vietnam Eases Regulations for Detainees, Enforcement Still Under Question
Defend the Defenders: Vietnam has eased regulations for detainees in criminal cases according to a new law which will be effective from July.
According to the newly-adopted Law on Detention, people in police's custody facing criminal charges have the right to meet their relatives once a month.
Until now, Vietnamese detainees have only the right to receive material supports from their families but not meet their relatives in police detention facilities during the investigation period and the pre-trial period.
The new law will also grant detainees' right to meet with their legal representatives to settle civil cases.
The new regulations are a big progress, said lawyer Phan Trung Hoai. Until now, detainees can only receive material supports from their families, he noted.
Lawyer Nguyen The Huu Trach from Ho Chi Minh City said that under current Vietnamese law, detainees can meet their relatives only if the investigation agencies agree. In many cases, detainees are not allowed to meet with their family members during the pre-trial period, he said.
According to Article 22 of the Law on Detention, detainees can meet their relatives once during the initial detention period, and one more time during every extended detention while prosecuted detainees can receive their relatives once a month. However, the visits need to be approved by the heads of the detention facilities.
Human rights defenders have expressed concerns about the implementation of the new regulations, especially in political cases.
Human rights lawyer Nguyen Van Dai, who was arrested on December 16 last year on the charge of anti-state propaganda under Article 88 of the Penal Code, has not been allowed to meet with his relatives so far. Prominent blogger Nguyen Huu Vinh (aka AnhBaSam) has not been permitted to receive his family after being sentenced to five years in prison in the first hearing on March 24.
Currently, the Ministry of Public Security manages all detention facilities and prisons despite proposals of many legislators to hand over the oversight to the Ministry of Justice.
Vietnam Land Rights Activist in Critical Health Conditions in Detention after 13-day Hunger Strike
Defend the Defenders: Vietnamese land rights activist Can Thi Theu is in critical health conditions in the Hanoi-based Detention Facility No. 1 as she has fasted since her arrest on June 10, her lawyer Ha Huy Son informed the family.
At the first meeting with his client in the detention facility on June 22, lawyer Son said Mrs. Theu was brought to a room on a wheelchair, with support of two people.
Theu, a former prisoner of conscience, said she started the hunger strike on the very first day of being arrested by the Hanoi police to protest the detention. She said there is blood in her urine and she vomited in recent days.
On the same day, Mr. Son attended an interrogation of Theu, who was freed on July last year after 15 months in prison in a case related to Hanoi's seizure of land of her family and other families in Duong Noi commune in Ha Dong district.
Mr. Son advised his client to stop the hunger strike to protect herself and she agreed.
On June 10, Mrs. Theu was arrested and charged with causing public disorders under Article 245 of the Penal Code. She faces imprisonment of up to seven years in jail if is found guilty.
According to the warrant, she will be held up to three months for investigation. The police in Hanoi accused her of causing public disorders when she attended a peaceful demonstration in Dong Da district on April 8 to mark the 10th anniversary of the pro-democracy group Bloc 8406 and demand immediate and unconditional release of human rights lawyer Nguyen Van Dai, who was arrested on mid-December last year on allegation of anti-state propaganda under Article 88 of the Penal Code.
Mrs. Theu is a land rights defender who has been campaigning against and documenting land seizures in Hanoi and surrounding provinces since her family farm was confiscated in 2007. She has been beaten and imprisoned as a result of her activities calling for adequate compensation for the confiscation of lands in Vietnam. She has been helping others defend their land and highlighting government expropriation of land at unfair prices since 2007.
Last week, Front Line Defenders or The International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, an Irish-based human rights organization founded in Dublin, Ireland, expressed its deep concern about the recent arrest of Mrs. Theu.
Saying Mrs. Theu's detention may be directly linked to her peaceful and legitimate work calling for adequate compensation for the confiscation of lands in Vietnam, Front Line Defenders urges Vietnam's government to immediately and unconditionally release the land rights activist and drop all charges against her as it is believed that they are solely motivated by her legitimate and peaceful work in defense of human rights.
It has also asks Vietnam to guarantee in all circumstances that human rights defenders in Vietnam are able to carry out their legitimate human rights activities without undue restrictions, fear of harassment, threats or retaliation, and publicly recognize their important role in a just civil society.
All land in Vietnam is technically owned by the state and citizens only have the right to use it. This has led to thousands of people having land they have farmed for years being taken from them and being compensated with paltry sums.
Vietnamese Family Harassed, Attacked Over Religious Ties
RFA: A Vietnamese family belonging to an unsanctioned Buddhist sect was harassed this week by state-linked thugs in the run-up to the anniversary of the sect's founding in 1939, the father of the family said on Wednesday.
Vo Van Buu, who follows a registered branch of the Hoa Hao Buddhist Church, reported that local authorities have deployed 40-50 thugs to block all roads to his family's home in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang. The local government also sends men on motorbikes to intimidate and attack his wife and daughter, Buu said.
On June 22, while blocking Buu's wife Mai Thi Dung from going to take part in services observing the anniversary of the sect's founding, thugs beat Mrs. Dung, using helmets to hit her from behind and leaving her with swollen lips.
Vietnam's government officially recognizes the Hoa Hao religion, which has some two million followers across the country, but imposes harsh controls on dissenting Hoa Hao groups that do not follow the state-sanctioned branch.
Rights groups say that authorities in An Giang routinely harass followers of the unapproved groups, prohibiting public readings of the Hoa Hao founder's writings and discouraging worshipers from visiting Hoa Hao pagodas in An Giang and other provinces.
Vietnamese Family Harassed, Attacked Over Religious Ties
Vietnam Loans Must be Tied to Improvements in Human Rights: Civil Society Groups
RFA: Development assistance provided to Vietnam by foreign governments and banks helps to support security forces repressing the Vietnamese people and should be tied in future to improvements in the one-party communist state's rights record, a group of six Vietnamese civil society organizations said in an open letter this week.
Much of that money is also lost to corruption, the group said in its June 20 letter sent to the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Asian Development Bank, the European Union, and the governments of Japan, Australia, and the United States.
In 2016, New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Vietnam's rights situation as "critical," the group's letter said.
"Rights activists and dissident bloggers face constant harassment and intimidation, including physical assault and imprisonment. Farmers have lost land to development projects without adequate compensation, and there is an absence of independent unions for workers."
"About 150 political prisoners are currently imprisoned by the regime," the letter said, citing HRW figures and signed by the Independent Journalist Association of Vietnam, Former Vietnamese Prisoners of Conscience, Brotherhood for Democracy, Delegation of Vietnamese United Buddhists Church, Hoa Hao Buddhists Church Purity, and the Vietnam-US Lutheran Church Alliance.
We asking international financial institutions and foreign governments to attach human-rights conditions to their loans, demanding that the government of Vietnam show evidence of improvements on human rights before those loans are made, said Pham Chi Dung, president of the Independent Journalist Association of Vietnam.
Though donor countries require transparency and accountability in Vietnam's handling of Official Development Assistance (ODA), "Hanoi has failed in its commitments," the group letter said. "The Vietnamese people are never informed about projects and there have been no debates about injustice and corruption in ODA."
Over the last 20 years, Vietnam has received about $80 billion in ODA assistance, and now that some ODA loans are set to end, Vietnam may look to secure other, low-interest support such as International Development Association loans made by the World Bank.
Vietnam Loans Must be Tied to Improvements in Human Rights: Civil Society Groups
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Hanoi Security Forces Detain 20 Land Petitioners, Dispersing Peaceful Demonstration for Land Rights Activist Release
Defend the Defenders: On Friday, the security forces in Hanoi violently dispersed a peaceful demonstration of land petitioners in the city's center, detaining around 20 of them for interrogation.
Among the detainees was Trinh Ba Phuong, the older son of land rights activist and former prisoner of conscience Can Thi Theu, who was re-arrested on June 10 and charged with causing public disorders under Article 245 of the Penal Code.
In the morning of June 24, nearly 100 land petitioners gathered in the city's center to hold a peaceful demonstration to ask the Vietnamese government to immediately and unconditionally free Mrs. Theu and drop all charges against her.
The city's government sent police officers to disperse the demonstration and took 20 participants to custody where the police accused the demonstrators of causing public disorders. However, no official charges were made and the police released all the detainees afternoon.
This was the second suppression of Hanoi's police against land petitioners within two weeks. On June 13, Hanoi security forces detained two sons of Mrs. Theu, Trinh Ba Phuong and Trinh Ba Tu, and many other land petitioners when they held a peaceful demonstration in the front of the government building in Ha Dong district to demand for her release. Police confiscated cameras and cell phones of the detainees, erasing all data including pictures and videos before returning them.
========== June 26============
White House Responds to Vietnamese Petition on Fish Massive Death in Central Vietnam
We the People Team of the U.S. White House has expressed its deep sympathy to the people of Vietnam's central coastal provinces as they work to overcome the recent loss of fish stocks and the effects on their livelihoods, said the team at a press release in response to the petition signed by 142,751 of Vietnamese activists calling for the U.S.'s assistance to help Vietnam deal with the catastrophe.
The U.S. Government stands ready to help, the team affirmed, adding Ambassador Osius has reached out directly to senior Vietnamese government officials to offer our assistance in this manner, and the two governments are discussing potential areas of cooperation.
Public participation is a key part of addressing environmental challenges, the team said. The U.S. encourages the Vietnamese government to increase cooperation with civil society and environmental NGOs, which can help communities affected by such crises, ensure accountability and transparency in the clean-up effort, and help to design policies to prevent future problems, it noted.
During his visit to Vietnam on May 22-25, President Obama engaged directly with Vietnamese government, business, and civil society leaders, as well as students and entrepreneurs, the team said.
"When citizens are free to organize in civil society, then countries can better address challenges that government sometimes cannot solve by itself," said Obama.
Environmental cooperation is an important element of the U.S.-Vietnam Comprehensive Partnership. During Obama's trip to Vietnam, the U.S. and Vietnam launched the U.S.-Vietnam Climate Partnership, which will help the two countries implement the historic Paris Agreement. The U.S. is supporting environmental conservation efforts that bring together government, business, and civil society, such as the Ha Long-Cat Ba Alliance, to protect Vietnam's national treasures.
The U.S. will also reinforce its shared commitments to the world's marine life through the high environmental standards set by the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement, which has the most robust enforceable environment commitments of any trade agreement in history, the statement said.
Ha Tinh province is home to an economic zone which covers numerous industrial plants, including a multi-billion dollar steel plant run by the Taiwanese Formosa Plastic Group.
Tons of fish, including rare species which live far offshore and in the deep, have been discovered on beaches along the country's central coastal provinces of Ha Tinh, Quang Tri, Quang Binh and Thua Thien-Hue.
People suspects that the sewage with harmful chemicals released from the steel plants contaminates the coastline causing massive fish deaths along the country's central coast in April-June.
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CITROSOL have now released their corporate video, originally presented during the events celebrating our 50th anniversary+info
The final version of the article "Potassium sorbate effects in citrus weight loss and decay control" is now available online+info
Citrosol celebrates its 50th anniversary with a Symposium about post-harvest processing+info
The prestigious scientific Journal Postharvest Biology and Technology has accepted for publication a scientific article that has been performed by Citrosol: Potassium sorbate effects on citrus weight loss and decay control
CITROSOL will hold a Mini-Symposium on 22 May 2014 at Hotel Bayren Playa de Gandía (Valencia)+info
Great successs for Citrosol at the CRI POSTHARVEST TECHNICAL FORUM in south Africa+info
Citrosol is taking part as speaker and sponsor in the CRI (Citrus Research International) POST-HARVEST TECHNICAL FORUM in South Africa+info
PRODUCTOS CITROSOL invites you to Fruit Logistica 2014
Visit us in Hall 18 / Stand C-06
Very positive result for Citrosol at Fruit Attraction 2013+info
Productos Citrosol, S.A. has developed a comprehensive system for hygienic washing of peppers which:
CITROSOL will be present at Fruit Attraction 2013.
Visit us in hall 9 at stand 9C14.+info
CITROSOL broadens its advertising campaign with two new announcements, a corporate statement and a statement about the company's technology+info
CITROSOL consolidated three years' growth in 2012+info
Citrosol receives the "Tirant" Prize for its business achievements.
The ceremony will take place on Wednesday, 5 June, at 8 p.m., at the Casa de Cultura Marqués González de Quirós in Gandia+info
In the 8th International Citrus Seminar in Peru, CITROSOL exhibited the effectiveness of the company's methods for maintaining the freshness, quality and flavour of fruit+info
CITROSOL is collaborating and participating by giving a talk in the "2nd International Symposium on Discovery and Development of Innovative Strategies for Postharvest Disease Management" in Turkey
From 28 April to 2 May 2013+info
CITROSOL is participating as sponsor of the 8th International Citrus Seminar in Peru, to be held in Lima on 23 and 24 April 2013+info
CITROSOL is sponsoring and contributing to the 7th Post-Harvest Technology and Minimal Processing Course given by Cartagena Polytechnic University from 7 to 13 March 2013+info
Citrosol is taking part as speaker and sponsor in the CRI (Citrus Research International)POST-HARVEST TECHNICAL FORUM in South Africa+info
At Fruit Logistica we confirmed that Citrosol technology and products continue to arouse great interest.
The application systems for post-harvest treatment that Citrosol markets make an enormous contribution to controlling post-harvest decay and discolouration+info
PRODUCTOS CITROSOL will be presente at Fruit Logistica 2013
Visit us in Hall 18 / Stand C-05+info
Citrosol has launched QUACIDE PQ60 EC, a new disinfectant for cleaning and disinfection of packinghouses+info
Citrosol's presence and activities at the International Citrus Congress which ended recently were a huge success+info
CITROSOL is giving a seminar at the International Citrus Congress in Valencia on 20 November in room 5 from 18:30 to 20:30h.+info
PRODUCTOS CITROSOL will be present at FRUIT ATTRACTION 2012. Visit us at stand 3F05A+info
The European Union modifies the Maximun Residue Limit for DDAC and BAC+info
Citrosol's Annual General Meeting was held on 16 June 2012 to present the accounts for the year 2011 to the company's shareholders for approval.+info
CITROSOL still en-route for growth.
The Valencian firm maintains the progressive tendency of recent years.+info
CITROSOL will be DIAMOND SPONSOR in the XII International Citrus Congress 2012 that will be held in Valencia Conference Centre, Spain, from November 18th to 23rd 2012 under the theme "Citrus and Health".+info
CITROSOL has developed GLOCUAT PC+X3 NEBULIZER, major innovation to solve packinghouse disinfection.+info
CITROSOL will be present at the Almería Model International Fair: Agriculture and Food Safety, which will be held at the Almería Chamber of Commerce Exhibition and Conference Centre (Roquetas de Mar).+info
CITROSOL is sponsoring and contributing to the International Post-HarvestTechnology and Minimal Processing Course given by CartagenaPolytechnic University from 22 to 28 March 2012.+info
YES, the use of disinfectants and detergents in packinghouses is authorized.+info
.At Citrosol we believe in INNOVATION: Citrosol is taking part in the conference on innovation which is to be held in Gandia.+info
CITROSOL is sponsoring the Plant Health Professionals' Encounter which is to take place on 7 and 8 March at Valencia Polytechnic University.+info
FRUITLOGISTICA 2012_Great success of the CITROSOL ZERO SPILL SYSTEM® and CITROSOL UE WAXES.+info
Citrosol will be present at FRUITLOGISTICA 2012 THE WORLD OF FRESH PRODUCE+info
Discover new FORTISOL Ca Plus water-soluble salts of Ca, K and P that produce greater stimulation of the fruit's natural defences against active pathogens in postharvest treatment of citrus.
Julio Marín Borras, Director of International Operations at CITROSOL will speak at a talk organized by the Cercle de la Safor d'Economía.+info
Fruit Attraction has been the gathering place to convey the success we're having with our Zero Waste System (Vertido Cero®) since its development almost two years ago.+info
CITROSOL are to exhibit at Fruit Attraction 2011.+info
A new function for vitamin C in alzheimer´s disease.+info
"CITROSOL diversifies to other products"+info
We are trying to ensure that there is no gap between the business philosophy that we present and the way that we behave.+info


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20-Year-Old Rapper, XXXTentacion, Left His Mark on Hip-Hop
Editor's note: This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
On Monday, June 18th, the music world suffered another great loss as we learned that rapper, XXXTentacion, born Jahseh Onfroy, was shot and killed in Deerfield Beach, Florida. The Florida native was just 20 years old but had already made a huge impact on the hip-hop world in his short career.
From his first SoundCloud release in 2014, XXXTentacion's music steadily made its way to the Billboard Hot 100 charts. Today he's accumulated more than 16 million monthly listeners on Spotify. Hundreds of fans have mourned the rapper's death at the site of the shooting in Florida, as well as on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, where an estimated 1,000 people gathered.
XXXTentacion's music sales have skyrocketed on Amazon's Movers and Shakers Digital Music list, as well as on iTunes in the days following his death. One of his biggest tracks, "SAD!" was streamed on Spotify over 10 million times on June 19th, reportedly breaking the single-day record for Spotify streams.
Although XXXTentacion's image was far from squeaky clean, (he was facing domestic violence charges at the time of his death and was also was one of the first artists to have his music removed from Spotify playlists as part of the now-withdrawn "Hate Content" Policy), it seemed over the past year or so that he was taking steps in the right direction.
A few months back, XXXTentacion posted a live video from his Instagram where he talked about how he'd like to be remembered if he were to die young. The eerie post has gained attention on the internet over the past few days.
"If I'm going to die or ever be a sacrifice, I want to make sure that my life made at least five million kids happy or they found some sort of answers or resolve in my life regardless of the negative around my name, regardless of the bad things people say to me," said XXXTentacion in the video post.
XXXTentacion's passing came as a shock to many artists in the industry, including Kanye West, J. Cole, and Pusha T. A handful have expressed their condolences on social media, but one post that stood out was from Mad Decent boss, Diplo, on Instagram just after the news broke. Diplo called XXXTentacion a "genius, true artist," and said, "he texted me this weekend it was one of his goals to get me & Skrillex to finish his next album." It sounds like XXXTentacion was close to completing a new album or at least had some new tracks on the way.
This kid was a genius . true artist. He made his own rules. He has his faults and we was willing to pay for his sins.. but he was young and he worked so hard on his own self . He wanted to be better. he loves everyone so much . He lived for every kid out here. He had the biggest imagination. He texted me this weekend it was one of his goals to get me & Skrillex to finish his next album. I Invited him to La this week. I was wondering if he was gonna come ? . He used every second of his life to create . He reppped Florida to his core.. I love this kid . He was gonna do so much more he promised me ?
An official statement from XXXTentacion's management team was released on June 19th requesting privacy for the rapper's family, friends, and loved ones. It concluded by saying:
"XXXTentacion touched the lives of millions around the globe and will forever reside in the hearts of countless fans who listened to his music, attended his concerts, and felt the glow of his uncontainable, undeniable, and unique spirit."
Our sympathies go out to XXXTentacion's family and friends, as well as the entire music community mourning the loss of this young artist. We will keep you up-to-date as we learn more about this developing story. Keep XXXTentacion's legacy alive with his music found on BPM Supreme.


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by Moïra Fowley-Doyle ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 8, 2017
Everyone in a small Irish town loses something after the annual bonfire, but some losses matter more than others.
Teenager Olive loses a shoe, her jacket, a hair clip, and her cherished close relationship with Rose, her best friend. Hazel, 17, loses only her jacket, perhaps because she's already lost so much—her mother to alcohol, her grandparents to death and dementia. She and her twin, Rowan, are camping rough in an abandoned housing development, trying to survive until they turn 18. Meanwhile, Laurel went to the bonfire only because someone had stolen her diary and those of her two best friends—the three cast a spell to get the pages back. Items disappear, then reappear as Olive, Hazel, and Laurel, all white, trade off the narrative—but one of the accounts is not what it seems. Fowley-Doyle's lush, atmospheric storytelling contrasts brilliantly with her characters' teenage normalcy—drinking, skiving, and cursing while mostly loving their parents and sticking up for one another.Readers will need patience to untangle the plot's silver threads, but those who savored Fowley-Doyle's previous The Accident Season (2015) will relish this as well. (Fabulism. 13-adult)
Pub Date: Aug. 8, 2017
Page Count: 368
Publisher: Kathy Dawson/Penguin
Review Posted Online: June 5, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 2017
Categories: TEEN FICTION | TEEN SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY | TEEN SOCIAL THEMES
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by Cassandra Clare ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 3, 2020
Clare's (Ghosts of the Shadow Market, 2019, etc.) latest is set in the Shadowhunter world in the 20th century's first decade (with frequent flashbacks to the previous one).
Teenage offspring of the Herondales, Carstairs, Fairchilds, and other angel-descended Nephilim continue their families' demon-fighting ways amid a round of elegant London balls, soirees, salons, picnics, and romantic intrigues. James Herondale, 17-year-old son of Will and Tessa, finds himself and his "perfectly lethal dimple" hung up between two stunning new arrivals: Cordelia Carstairs, red-haired Persian/British wielder of a fabled magic sword, and Grace Blackthorn, an emotionally damaged but (literally, as the author unsubtly telegraphs) spellbinding friend from childhood. Meanwhile, a sudden outbreak of demonic attacks that leave more and more Shadowhunters felled by a mysterious slow poison plunges James and a cohort of allies into frantic searches for both a cause and an antidote. Ichor-splashed encounters with ravening boojums and even one of hell's own princes ensue—all leading to final hints of a devastating scheme to destroy the Nephilim in which James himself is slated to play a central role. Characters have a range of skin tones, but ethnic diversity adds no texture to the portrayals; there is a lesbian cousin who wears traditionally male clothing and two young gay men (one tortured, the other less so).Busy, busy, busy…with portents of doom. (Fantasy. 14-18)
Pub Date: March 3, 2020
Page Count: 624
Publisher: McElderry
Review Posted Online: Jan. 23, 2020
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2020
Categories: TEEN FICTION | TEEN HISTORICAL FICTION | TEEN SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY
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by Kiera Cass ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 5, 2020
In an imagined setting evoking medieval England, King Jameson of Coroa pursues Hollis Brite.
The independent teenager makes Jameson laugh, but she lacks the education and demeanor people expect in a queen. Her friend Delia Grace has more knowledge of history and languages but is shunned due to her illegitimate birth. Hollis gets caught up in a whirl of social activity, especially following an Isolten royal visit. There has been bad blood between the two countries, not fully explained here, and when an exiled Isolten family also comes to court, Jameson generously allows them to stay. Hollis relies on the family to teach her about Isolten customs and secretly falls in love with Silas, the oldest son, even though a relationship with him would mean relinquishing Jameson and the throne. When Hollis learns of political machinations that will affect her future in ways that she abhors, she faces a difficult decision. Romance readers will enjoy the usual descriptions of dresses, jewelry, young love, and discreet kisses, although many characters remain cardboard figures. While the violent climax may be upsetting, the book ends on a hopeful note. Themes related to immigration and young women's taking charge of their lives don't quite lift this awkwardly written volume above other royal romances. There are prejudicial references to Romani people, and whiteness is situated as the norm.Skip this uninspired entry into the world of medieval love and court intrigue. (Historical romance. 13-16)
Pub Date: May 5, 2020
Page Count: 320
Publisher: HarperTeen
Review Posted Online: Feb. 5, 2020
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 2020
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AUG 21 - It's the final night of Saskatoon Folkfest, and we started the evening off-site at the India, Norweigan, German and Irish pavilions. We also headed back to the outdoor pavilions at Prairieland Park and visited the Indian and Metis and Chinese pavilions. Check out our full recap video at the bottom of this gallery.
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Jessica Gerhardt has released the highly-anticipated visuals for her newest single "Be My Hands". Gerhardt is a singer-songwriter and ukelelist from Santa Monica, California. Formerly performing under the moniker 'Feronia', Jessica recently went back to her roots and began creating music under her birth name. "Be My Hands" is a beautiful and angelic song about the tensions that exist at the beginning of a new relationship- the excitement and nervousness of it all. The music video to go along with the single is filled with ethereal and mystifying shots including soft double exposure, and a large variety of creative cinematic scenes of Jessica in a dim-lit room moving in an interpretive dance-esque way. The video portrays the tensions of a new relationship in such an enigmatic and magical light. A kaleidoscope and prism effect is scattered throughout the video which adds to the angelic and ethereal feel; very art-based photographic elements. An image of two hands reaching out for each other that are emerging from what seems to be water is repeated throughout the beginning portion of the video, tying in perfectly to the lyrics sung by Jessica. We've asked Jessica a few questions about the video and song, as well as a few tips for any of you singer-songwriters out there!
Q: What was the main inspiration behind the cinematic visuals for "Be My Hands"?
Jessica: The video moves from dark to light imagery throughout the song, as the evolution of the lyrics happens as well. In the beginning "we don't touch" – there's avoidance and trepidation. By the end "we feel the calm, the energy between" – the walls come down, there's more peace, and a greater sense of lightness, willingness, and freedom. The use of mirrors and projections is symbolic of how we are all mirrors to one another – and how often when we look at someone, we see what we project onto them rather than seeing them for who they really are. The closeness of many of the camera angles on my eyes, my hands, my mouth plays on the desire for intimacy, as well as the different lyrical aspects of the song. The use of glitter and broken/stained glass all continues to be evocative of the things that reflect what's projected onto them, the glitz or things that are shiny on the surface, and yet when we move to the end of the video there's nature, greater realness and authenticity.
Q: Could you explain the meaning behind the lyrics of this single?
Jessica: "Be My Hands" is about the tension that exists at the beginning of relationship. The lyrics that refer to the "we" as in "we don't touch" or "we look" or "we don't say" are about all the apprehension, the sense of not wanting to show your feelings first, the fear of vulnerability really, and yet there's also the desire, the feeling of being drawn to the other. The excitement and the nervousness. All the things we don't say or share because we're too afraid to lay our cards out first.
The lyrics "be my hands" and "be my eyes", etc are an invocation directed at that which is greater than myself, to help me transcend the very feeble and broken aspects of my humanity. The song is about wanting to love authentically. A crying out to the universe to help me to see, and touch, and speak with truth and love, rather than with lust, power, objectification, fear, or falseness/superficiality.
Ultimately the song resolves in a desire to open one's heart, to love vulnerably. On many levels that's where I'm at. And yet in many other ways that's still a posture I'm working towards every day.
Q: Can you tell us a few of your favorite femme artists that inspire you?
Jessica: Fiona Apple and Alanis Morissette were some of my earliest influences. I was so moved by the rawness and expression in their singing styles as well as the particularity and nakedness of the storytelling in their lyrics. These are women who do not shy away from the deep, even if it's heart and gut wrenching, and that motivated me to pursue that level of depth in my own songwriting and in my life in general. Joan Armatrading's "The Weakness In Me" was one of the first songs I ever taught myself to play on the ukulele. Her voice is so rich and deep and her songwriting matches her voice. I'm also a huge fan of St. Vincent. I love how Annie Clark composes songs with unpredictable arrangements and complex chord patterns, messing around with syncopation and rhythm, and just quirky and symbolic lyrics. Listening to her music has opened me up to trying new things in my own song writing. Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak (and Flock of Dimes) is another huge influence. Her singing style is so light and yet deeply emotive and her songwriting and production is always distinctive and beautiful. A few others whose music has played a huge role in my music life are Audrey Assad, Moda Spira, Regina Spektor, Dido, Lucius, Florence and the Machine, Feist, and Marketa Irglova. That's more than a few, but there are soooo many other amazing femme artists that I didn't list here too…
Q: Do you have any tips for other female singer-songwriters out there pursuing their own musical endeavors?
Jessica: Just keep writing from your heart, from a deep place of truth within. And get to know other artists you admire. Introduce yourself. Build bridges and build community with your artist friends. Lift each other up. Make space to listen to one another and support one another. Do whatever you can to not give power to the negative voices that discourage you. Counter the negative narratives in your mind with positive affirmations and keep surrounding yourself with people who build you up. Keep leaning into the challenges that come with pursuing music with joy and lightheartedness.
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Low blood pressure condition has the potential of turning dangerous in a number of ways. Read to know about what it means to have hypertension, its symptoms, and causes and how ayurvedic remedies are relevant.
Facts indicate that hypertension-inducing high blood pressure patients are more in the risk zone of suffering from premature heart disease and stroke. Does that confirm low blood pressure or hypotension is a desirable thing? Let's find out.
Standard Low Blood Pressure Reading and What It Means
Blood pressure reading appears as a conglomerate of two numbers. The higher of the two is the systolic pressure or blood flow level in the arteries when the heart pumps blood into the channels. The second number is the diastolic reading or the measure of the blood pressure in the arteries between beats, when the heart is resting. By medical standards, 90/60, the first being systolic number and the second number being diastolic, is a reading to be wary of for clinical low blood pressure condition unless there are no significant symptoms accompanying the condition.
Often, low blood pressure is accompanied by markers like dizziness and blurry vision. That's a serious cause for concern because it proves that the blood flow to the brain has reduced so much so that it is affecting vision, balance, and overall functioning of the body.
However, it is worth noting that blood pressure can change through the day and varies from person to person. There is nothing out of ordinary in the pressure hitting the lows during sleep time and raising after waking up. On this basis, healthy is one whose body can readily adapt and regulate the demands of blood flow to different organs according to the times and situations of the day.
Ayurvedic Standpoint On Low Blood Pressure
Ayurveda marks one of the main causes of low blood pressure to be weakening of the digestive fire. In vata-dominant people, the root of it is poor circulation of blood due to arterial fat deposition and other cardiovascular dysfunctions. In Pitta-dominant people, anemia and liver dysfunctions are the causes. In case of Kapha dosha, constipative stagnation in the body is identified as the cause for a reduced blood flow.
Common Causes For Low Blood Pressure
Orthostatic Hypotension
This is a downward spiraling condition of blood pressure that ensues from standing up quickly and all of a sudden. The pressure of the force of the blood flow against the arterial walls suddenly hits the lows with standing up as gravity pulls down the blood into the legs. There is a fewer surge of nutrient-rich blood flowing to the head at this point. Therefore, it's natural to feel dizzy.
On the other hand, your body has an innate system which is supposed to compensate for the causes of hypotension. The heart adapts to the downward rush of blood and starts pumping at a faster rate to distribute the blood upwards as a reflex. Also, as a reflex, there is a constriction of the vessels to limit the pooling of blood down the legs.
Certain chemical drugs have been identified that interfere with the normal reflexes of the body leading to orthostatic hypotension. The next common factor identified to be contributing to orthostatic hypotension by reducing the body reflexes is old age. Nearly 20 percent people older than 65 years of age experience a reduction in their natural adaptive faculty to downward the blood drainage, resulting invariably in momentary lapses into orthostatic hypotension.
Feeling faint and loss of consciousness are the extreme cases of this condition.
Some doctor-recommended lifestyle changes and medication in this case are–
• Increasing fluid and water intake.
• Standing up slowly from a resting position
• Isometric exercises and inversion yoga asana exercises
• Adopt herbal ayurvedic meditation for thyroid or diabetes since continued chemical medication can be the cause
• Compression stockings
• Avoid walking or running in hot, humid weather
• Avoid carbohydrate-rich meals, refined sugar, and flour
• Add salt copiously to your diet
Severe Dehydration
Dehydration is common among athletes and physical trainees and one of the main causes of hypotension among people in general. When you work, sweat, and stress out excessively without sufficient water intake, dehydration will lead to hypotension. This is also a phenomenon among the mountaineers who are acclimatizing in high places with a thin atmosphere and atmospheric dryness.
If you are prone to dehydration-related low blood pressure, strictly follow–
• 2-4 liters water intake a day
• Avoid air-conditioned premises
• Treat with frequent ayurvedic drinks of cumin seeds, coriander seeds, and ground licorice
Rapid blood loss owing to open wounds inside or outside the body can lead to low blood pressure very fast. Besides wounds, low platelet count or thrombocytopenia, hemophilia, abnormal menstrual bleeding, and hemorrhoids are some conditions leading to hypotension.
Blood transfusion is an emergency cure for treating hemorrhage, but while in treatment the patient must follow an ayurvedically-approved blood enhancing diet.
• Items aggravating the pitta should be avoided.
• Ingredients such as raw amla are tremendously beneficial for blood and should be included.
• Fruits like apples, oranges, bananas, and dates are very good.
Above all, stress less and smile more!


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If there's anything the internet has taught us, it's that if you leave dads alone with their kids, you can't be shocked when ridiculous things happen.
I mean, there's really no way around that at this point. We've seen too much.
Mostly recently, we saw dads create a whole competition in order to see which one could be more ridiculous than the next: i.e, the Cheerio Challenge.
No, seriously. Look at these idiots:
And when Cheerios aren't around? Well...
Shea Girl does the #CheerioChallenge (I didnt have any Cheerios at home so we used Saltines)https://t.co/GVVlvcQW4U — KFC (@KFCBarstool) June 17, 2016
And they shouldn't really be expected to know how to handle babies crying either.
Why you always crying? pic.twitter.com/cKym3ZPNsf — Black People Vines (@BlackPplVines) September 16, 2015
So, this next story is not really surprising. But it's definitely still funny.
One wife gave her husband, Jeremy, a simple task to do: He had to take their daughter to daycare.
Somehow, this guy managed to forget to put a shirt on her.
The best part about this is the fact that you know this guy has no idea what he's doing as a parent, especially once he said "that thing."
But yeah. Putting "that thing" on without a shirt is definitely a dad thing to do.
Citations: This mum will never trust her husband to dress their baby again (Metro UK)


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It's a big, big massacre, says LibyanBy IANS
Sunday, February 20, 2011
CAIRO/TRIPOLI - "It's a big, big massacre", said a Libyan businessman who resides in the city of Benghazi as he recalled the brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters by security forces that has left several dead.
Ahmed told Al Jazeera that hospitals were running out of blood as they were overwhelmed with the number of the injured.
"It's a big, big massacre. We've never heard of anything like this before. It's horrible," he was quoted as saying.
The deaths took place during a violent crackdown on demonstrators.
Thousands of Libyans, emboldened by successful revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, have been calling for the ouster of Muammar Gaddafi, who has been in power for 41 years.
The numbers of dead — which ranges from 15 to 25 to 200 — appeared to be in addition to the 84 people confirmed dead by Friday by New York-based Human Rights Watch, which said its figure was based on phone interviews with hospital staff and witnesses, DPA reported.
Those who were killed Saturday were among those mourning the deaths of protesters during anti-government protests in the city during the past week, witnesses said.
Mariam, a doctor who spoke to Al Jazeera from a hospital in Benghazi, said: "It's a massacre here. The military is shooting at all the protesters with live bullets, I've seen it happen with my own eyes. The military forces are everywhere, even from the hospital I work, we are not safe. There was an 8-year-old boy who died the other day from a gunshot to the head - what did he do to deserve this?"
Ahmed, another Benghazi resident, said: "Right now, the situation is even worse than earlier today. Shooting is going until now. And at a nearby hospital, at least 150 people have been admitted, those injured and dead…the military is all over the place."
Another doctor from Benghazi said his hospital was not "well-equipped" to handle the casualties.
"…These injuries come in waves. All are very serious injuries, involving the head, the chest and the abdomen. They are bullet injuries from high-velocity rifles.
"All are civilians aged from 13 to 35, no police or military injuries," he was quoted as saying.
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New #501
Good news and bad news. Soldered up my new Explorer pHat and Pi Zero W and did a quick test using a 2.5A power supply and my rover turned Ok on a smooth surface. Stalled out on a carpet though. Put the power boost and battery back in and its back to not turning again. Just a tiny jerk moment and the motors stall out. Unplugged the power boost and plugged the power supply back in, same deal, stalls out. Removed the battery and it turns Ok. One step forward two steps back. Looks like I'll have to get a smaller lighter battery? The one I have is a brut, 6600 MAH.
This has definitely been my most frustrating projects so far. almost all the way through. I will persevere though. I'll build two, two wheel rovers if I have to, lol.
just what you waiting for i thik
Launched today: the Raspberry Pi 3B+ : an incremental performance and capability upgrade Raspberry Pi Pod
The big gains from a 3B to 3B+ to me seem to be the networking. Wireless is now dual band and a lot faster throughput. Ethernet is faster too. Still not up to full speed, compared to a PC, but a lot better. They switched to the cavity antenna like the Zero W too. Which is better than the little chip antenna on the "now" old 3B. The POA stuff means nothing to me, not something I'll ever use. I see it mentioned quit often on the Pi forum though, so some wanted it.
New Raspbian stretch images are up to support this, https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/ I'm downloading them, I'm not redoing any of my cards with them just yet though. Need to look at the cahng log to see if anything else was added on top of 3B+ support.
* Raspberry Pi 3 B+ support
* WiFi is disabled until wireless regulatory domain is set (Pi 3 B+ only)
- The domain can be done through 'Raspberry Pi Configuration' (rc_gui),
'raspi-config' or by setting 'country=' to an appropriate ISO 3166
alpha2 country code in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf.
* Default wireless regulatory domain is now unset
* Added support to desktop for different screen sizes and resolutions,
including multiple preset options in Appearance Settings and pixel doubling
option in Raspberry Pi Configuration
* Version 2.1.16 of Thonny included
* Version 220.127.116.11 of Adobe PepperFlash player included
* Version 1.2.post1 of Pygame Zero included
* Bluetooth plugin now supports connection to Bluetooth LE HID devices
* Network plugin now indicates 5G-compatible APs
* Latest changes to Bluez ALSA service merged
- service now started on CLI boot as well as GUI boot
* Latest changes to dhcpcd networking plugin merged
* Improved support for running on pi-top devices
* Small design changes to PiX theme and icons
* Bug fix - hide spurious window resize handles
* Bug fix - Scratch 2 remote GPIO state block now works correctly
* Updated WiFi Firmware
- brcmfmac43455-sdio 7.45.154
- brcmfmac43430-sdio 22.214.171.124
* New packages:
- policykit-1
- obconf
- python-buttonshim python3-buttonshim
- python-unicornhathd python3-unicornhathd
- python-pantilthat python3-pantilthat
* Linux kernel 4.9.80+
* Raspberry Pi firmware 3347884c7df574bbabeff6dca63caf686e629699


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Peep Ståle Sandbech, Sven Thorgren and Roope Tonteri crushing Cardrona's public park in preparation for the Burton High Fives kicking off in a couple of days time.
Things are getting hotter than a Mt. Tongariro sulphur spring down in New Zealand in the run-up to the annual Burton High Fives event. With a collection of some of the best slopestyle and pipe riders on the planet now enjoying a fush 'n' chups or Fergberger down in Queenstown, we're shore there will be no shortage of banger edits and shots dropping into your social media feeds over the next couple of days.
Take this one, featuring Scandi and Finnish heavyweights, Ståle Sandbech, Sven Thorgren and Roope Tonteri, for example. Hit play above for equal measures of the big, technical rail hits we've come to expect from these guys and some super fun team shred on the kickers.
And seeing that the High Fives event is a team-based contest, these guys have done well to embrace the crew mentality and hit features like one, cohesive slopestyle course murdering unit in preparation.
Look out for these guys in the event live streaming on September 19-20th 2014 at www.burton.com/highfives


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2018 Sauvignon Blanc
In Stock
Wine Specs
Sauvignon Blanc
Alcohol %
Wine Enthusiast
Winemaker Notes
"Aromas of lemon zest, and apricot, along with kiwi, citrus blossom and a hint of fresh cut green grass on the palate, combine with a mouthwatering acidity that results in a crisp, elegant wine. The long growing season, along with careful, slow and cold fermentations preserve natural varietal aromas." - Justin Carr
Vineyard Notes
The 2018 growing season started soon after the February rains. With high moisture levels in the nutrient-rich soils and days of sunshine, bud break took place early. Mild spring weather made for an extended bloom with sunshine, mild temperatures, and no wind. The fruit continued to ripen during the summer months and from June to early August temperatures were steady and warm, with no heat spikes. Ripening continued over an extended period, allowing for balanced fruit development and a steady harvest going well into October.
Food Pairing Notes
Oysters, FreshCrab, Basil Pesto, or Goat Cheese with Honey.


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Developers look to rejuvenate south Richardson and Town Central
From the Dallas Morning News
An aging office building at Central and Spring Valley is about to get an upgrade, and downtown is set for a rejuvenation as Town Central.
Retail space, offices, parking and apartments are part of both plans.
Town Central will be an urban village at the entrance of Richardson's historic downtown.
The Comerica Bank building at Central Expressway and Spring Valley will be updated and surrounded by new buildings.
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Kenwood D710 Base 96UHF Config
Reprogram the 'D' key on the mic to be ENT - that's required to use the mic to do direct frequency entry. See F-MainKnoB - AUX - 509 MIC PF1 ; change it to ENTER
For general mobile use of a D700 see TM-D700
Front Panel Controls
- Top display line should show
- APRS set by:
- BCON set by bottom row of push buttons. If bottom row is not APRS operations, then push 'KEY'
- Clear and re-enable BCON to manually force a single beacon transmission.
Memory Configuration
|600 Settings
|Callsign WA7NWP-4, type APRS
|601 Internal TNC
|Band: B, Speed: 9600, DCD: D or RxD Band, TXD 200 ms
|602 GPS Port
|Baud: 9600, Input: OFF, Output: OFF
|603 Waypoint
|Format: Kenwood, Name: 9-Char, Output: ALL
|604 COM Port
|Output: OFF
|605 My Position
|*1 Name, Lat: -, Long : -
|606 Beacon
|Speed: ON, Altitude: ON, Ambiguity: OFF
|607 Position Comment
|(your choice)
|608 Status Text
|Text: "[Freq MHz](space)(space)NWAPRS.info 96UHF", Tx Rate: 1/2
|609 Packet Filter
|Position Limit: Off, Type: …
|610 Station Icon
|Kenwood W; Symbol: K, Table: \
|611 Beacon Tx Algorithm
|Method: auto, initial: 20 min, decay: OFF, pathing: OFF
|612 Packet Path
|Type: New-N, WIDE1-1: OFF, Hops: 2, VIA: WIDE2-2
|613 Network
|APRS ALTNET: (empty)
|614 Voice Alert
|Voice Alert: OFF, Frequency: 100.0 Hz
|615 Weather Station
|TX: OFF, Interval: 5 min
|616 Digipeat My Call
|Digipeat: ON
|Time: 28 sec
|UIDIGI : OFF, Aliases: -
|UIFLOOD: ON, Alias: WIDE, Substitution: ID
|UITRACE: ON, Alias: TEMP
|621 User Phrases
|622 Auto Reply
|Reply: OFF, Text: -, Reply to: *
|623 Group Filtering
|Message: ALL,QST,CQ,KWD, BLN: -
|624 Sound
|RX Beep: message only, TX Beep: OFF, APRS Voice: OFF
|625 Interrupt Display
|Area: Entire Always, AutoBrightness: ON, Change Color: ON, Int Time: 10 sec
|626 Display Unit 1
|Speed, Dist: MILE, Altitude: feet, inch: Temp: F
|627 Display Unit 2
|Position: dd mm.mm, Grid: Maidenhead
|628 Navitra Group
|Mode: OFF, Code: 000
|629 Navitra Message
|*1: -
|630 SmartBeaconing 1
|Low: 5, High: 70, Slow Rate: 30 min, Fast Rate: 120 sec
|631 SmartBeaconing 2
|Turn angle: 28deg, slope: 26, time: 30 sec
- Status Beacon rate is set so Status shows about once an hour. With three beacons an hour, about 1 in 2 or 3 will have the Status message. Probably should be 1/1 given the 20 minute net cycle time.
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Four words: Galen Gering Eric Martsolf. You can put them in any order you want, but the gist of it is I'm a happy girl, folks. I was ready to write daytime off and start blogging prime time! I don't know if any other combination of words could have made me happier, right now.
I'm quite happy with the idea of Martsolf coming in as the new Brady Black. I've never liked believing that Brady was off, in recovery, dealing with a drug addiction without the help of the people who love him most. It bothered me more to think that it would be the last we heard of or about the character. It will be interesting to see if the writers continue with the addiction storyline. Is he coming back clean? Hiding his addiction? Is there more to Chloe's return than anyone imagined – is she hiding some huge piece of news? If he returns to apologize to Choe, and to try to win her back, I just may find myself getting ill. Chloe moved on in about the same amount of time it took for her to put on a pair of shoes – with his uncle, no less. Ok, I'm happy enough about seeing EM somewhere other than the horrid 'Passions" that I don't care. BUT, if I'm given a choice, I'd prefer a Brady-Nicole pairing. Brady returning to rekindle a relationship with Nicole? PRICELESS! What choice would Nicole make between the father of her child, and the man she's always loved?
Brady coming back for Nicole would be the splash of cold water EJ needs! It's about time for him to wake up and realize that Nicole is not at his beck and call. She is not Sami's back up. She's not a consolation prize. Even worse, given the fact that Nicole is the only shot at redemption this guy currently has, I find it offensive that he's still chasing Sami instead of getting his life together. Sorry, folks, but the man abused Sami (many call his actions RAPE, including TPTB ). Days is dangerously close to "One Life To Live" territory by having EJ continue his obsesion with Sami. They also run the risk of making Sami a completely unlikable character by allowing the man who forced her into having sex with him anywhere near her. At some point, I'm hoping that the writers decided to correct the horror of having her share a child with Ej. It's time to find out that just as he lied about his immigration status, he and Stefano fudged the results of yet another DNA test and those children are BOTH Lucas'. To lovingly share a child with the man who raped you is a sick twist of a storyline that only daytime writers could think up. (By the way, writers, I'd appreciate it if you avoided making EJ the new Stefano – a kid in every city, state, part of the globe).
As for Gering's character, he may not be so lucky. The only safe characters to portray in daytime are corporate raiders, lowlife mobsters, serial killers, sociopaths, and pitch perfect villians. Sure, I'll add physicians, fashion designers, and lawyers. Police officers/FBI agents and soldiers? Forget about it. Eventually you'll prove that you're as dumb as a box of hair, or 'bad' and yes, even worse and more pathological than <insert any fictional soap town's> biggest and most dangerous criminals. You'll have to show that your morals and ethics are as flexible as bendy straws, and that you're willing to overlook the crimes committed by people you know and love… while all other people committing the same crimes are worthless dregs and deserve to be arrested.
My fondest hope is that some writer has already fallen madly in love with Galen Gering's work. If not as an actor, with that gorgeous smile of his, or that deathly beautiful body! It may be his only hope of surviving in a genre that makes the 'Keystone Cops' series of films look like documentary masterpieces, compared to the treatment police officers receive in daytime.
Here's hoping! Martsolf, Gering? Welcome back to daytime. You've been missed!


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Thanksgiving is an amazing holiday with amazing food and a chance to make amazing memories with our amazing families… in theory. While a lot of fantastic things DO happen, and we are reminded of the blessings in our lives, there are things that Moms do NOT look forward to dealing with when Turkey Day rolls around each year. Check out some of the things that these Blogging Moms won't be mentioning during the "I'm Thankful For" game at the dinner table this year:
1) Battling the Crazies At the Grocery Store
It never fails that no matter how well a grocery list for "Thanksgiving Dinner Necessities" is planned, SOMETHING will be forgotten… this will inevitably lead to fighting it out with every other person who has forgotten items for their Thanksgiving Feast at the Grocery Store, Costco, or (God help you) Walmart, the Night Before Thanksgiving. It's basically a warm-up exercise for Black Friday with gallons of milk and Butterball turkeys being snatched up instead of televisions and Hello Kitty sleeping bags (at 75% off!). Julianna shows how far she's willing to go for the best box of Stove-Top stuffing in this picture:
2) Kids That Don't Care About Watching The Macy's Parade
I absolutely LOVE the Macy's Parade every Thanksgiving Morning…. I think a lot of women do. No matter how hard I try, I can never get my kids to watch more than one dance number and few floats IF I'm lucky. I used to just watch it alone, and they would go play/ wreck another part of the house, but now they complain about watching something else. NO, ANGRY LITTLE PEOPLE…. It's YOUR fault that you can't appreciate the majesty of a ginormous Snoopy and the Rockettes. I pity you, and you will NOT play XBox on this TV until I have had my fill! Amanda is TRYING to show her kids the importance of the biggest Hello Kitty EVER:
3) Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen
While cooking with the ones you love can be lots of fun at times, when you pack a bunch of women in ONE KITCHEN, things can get pretty stressful in a hurry. Tension builds as they attempt to accomplish different tasks, jockey to use the same appliances, criticize each others spice choices and so on… anyone with sense will stay far away. Moms are used to being able to kick their kids out of the kitchen, and you can't very well tell your cousins and great-aunt to JUST LEAVE in this situation… especially if it's not even your kitchen. Ashley gives us a peek at the madness that can occur when things get too crowded in the culinary arena:
4) Making Plates For All of the Kids
After attempting to cook in the sweltering kitchen, dodging the other cooks and smelling the amazing food for hours as it cooked, Moms are faced with another Holiday-feasting blunder; the preparing of food plates for their kids. If you have multiple kids, as I do, you can forget making your own plate at the same time as you prepare theirs, which means you will likely miss out on some of the most delicious dishes. After trying to fill their plates with items you KNOW they will eat (turkey, macaroni and cheese, rolls) and adding a few things that you WISH they would eat (lima beans, cranberry sauce, broccoli salad) and deliver the plates to their impatient selves, the Mom, will get back in line to prepare HER plate from the scraped casserole dishes and rolls that have gone luke-warm. Alyson beautifully captures my feelings about this portion of the event in this picture:
5) Guests Who Leave Before Dessert To Do Pre-Black Friday Shopping
After busting your butt in the kitchen for hours, finally getting to eat the food on your plate (amid handling kid requests for drinks etc) the time to share the pumpkin pie that you baked with love has arrived. As you walk into the dining room to serve it to the rest of the family, you notice that half of the table's occupants have gone elsewhere. The slamming front door tells you all that you needs to know… Those jerks have left before dessert to hit up the Thanksgiving DAY sales! Deva shows us this hideous indignity in her photo. Please know that chasing them down the block, pie in hand, is perfectly acceptable, and if you catch them, feel free to slam that pie in their faces…. dessert to-go.
6) Handwashing Fine China
After the rest of the family has retreated to watch TV, leaving a wake of napkins, forks and crumb behind them, it's now evident that the dishes must now be done… but these are the dishes that can't be put in the good ole dishwasher. You only use these plate a couple of times each year, but these treasured gifts from your wedding day have now become an albatross that you must bear. Even though you don't want to wash the china, you do it to prevent someone else from doing it carelessly or incompletely (i.e. WRONG). Audrey gives us a peek at this Mom-reality in her photo:
7) Stuffing the Leftovers Into the Fridge
After carefully handwashing the china and consolidating the remaining food into storage containers, it's time for the Mom-in-charge to play Refrigerator Tetris. Somehow most of the ingredients used to cook the Thanksgiving meal all managed to fit in the same refrigerator 12 hours before, but now it's like stuffing your body back into your pants after pigging out on the bounty at hand. Meredith shows us the exhaustion that occur after enduring a battle of strength with the Fridge of Doom:
8)Guests That Won't Leave… Five Hours After the Meal
Having friends and family over to reminisce and make new memories over a delicious meal is a treaured occasion each Thanksgiving, but there always comes a time when it's time for all guests to leave… and at times, it's more difficult that extracting a toddler from the Frozen display in Target to get them the heck out of your house. You don't want to be rude, because, obviously, they're your friends and family and you'll probably want to see them again at Christmas… But Mama needs wine (or Scotch) and silence NOW!
9) Post-Thanksgiving Dinner Diapers
This can be the antidote to the Guests who refuse to leave issue… Anyone who has ever had a toddler that ate table foods knows that when small children eat things they aren't used to eating that powerful gastric upsets can and WILL occur. Some of the worst diapers I've ever changed have been after Holiday meals. Moms get the pleasure of seeing the complete cycle of the Thanksgiving meal…. from the grocery store where they fought for its ingredients to the foul Pampers that contains the remnants of processed Turkey and Dressing. Sarah shows the lengths with which Moms may have to go to deal with the nuclear fallout from post-Thanksgiving toddler waste:
Even though family gatherings, like Thanksgiving, can be a lot of work and stressful for the Moms of our nation, but all in all, we know it's worth it! Find the humor in the less than pleasant parts of the preparation and clean up if you can…. and if you can't, pour yourself a glass of wine (or Scotch) and just relax…. you've got a whole month before they'll all be back for the madness of Christmas.


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When the dust settles
For the last few weeks, I have been fighting a losing battle. With dust.
A building project to extend my home has meant clouds of dust forming on a daily basis. No matter how hard I try to cover precious items of furniture and family photographs, the dust finds its way in. And settles.
At first, I would religiously wipe down and clean up at the end of the day, when the builders had gone home. But as quickly as I cleaned it up, the more dust would descend and my efforts seemed futile.
Now, I've given in to the inevitable and I'm seeing it as an opportunity for my daughter to practice her handwriting!
The dust is here to stay. For now at least. But a day will come, probably long after the builders have finished, when the pale orange layer that forms overnight on virtually everything in my home will be no more. It will be clean. Gone. Forever. Or at least until the next time we have building works…which is not something I am planning for a very long time!
But what a contrast to the way God deals with the dust in our lives. The stuff that settles and creates a barrier between us and God. It chokes us and makes us unable to breathe clearly the pure air that He intends us to breathe. The life-giving oxygen of the Holy Spirit. When we truly know Jesus and ask him to be our friend then that life-giving air breathes on our dust filled lives and blows it away – as far as the east is from the west.
Of course, we are still human and dust can and does still form in our lives if we let it. Fears, anxious thoughts and worry can quickly descend and cover us or even choke us. Only Jesus can truly wipe away this kind of dust. I love the words to this song…I'm no longer a slave to fear..I am a child of God. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8TkUMJtK5k
I believe it is possible for God to deal with fear and anxiety so that we are no longer slaves to it, just like the song says. I believe this because I am that person…I was once controlled by fear and anxiety to a point where I almost felt like I couldn't breathe. It choked me, like dust chokes. When I finally recognised that I was living enslaved to it, I gave it to God and He took away its control over my life. I'm no longer a slave to fear. I am a child of God.
Is there dust that has settled in your life? Let God reveal it to you and ask him to blow it away once and for all.
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Donner Party Survivors: The Reeds
November 12, 2008
posted by Caroline Picard
the information of this post was copied from here.
An exact accounting of the Donner Party is made difficult by deciding exactly when the Donner Party actually formed. The Party did not exist when its members crossed the Missouri River in May, 1846. George Donner was elected Captain of the Party at the Little Sandy River on July 20, 1846, but several people joined the Party later, at Fort Bridger and in the Wasatch Mountains.
Four people left the Party to ride ahead for supplies: Charles Stanton, William McCutchen, James Reed and Walter Herron. One returned with supplies and was trapped–Charles Stanton–and he brought two more with him: Luis and Salvadore.
Five people died before reaching the Sierra Nevada mountains: Luke Halloran, John Snyder Hardkoop, Wolfinger and William Pike.
Of the 83 members of the Donner Party who were trapped in the mountains, only 45 survived to reach California.
The Reeds
James Reed, who was the leader of the Donner Party in fact if not in name, arrived in California ahead of the Party, and mounted two rescue attempts. His wife and children remained with the Party, many of whom blamed Reed for their predicament. Yet, the Reeds were one of only two families to survive without loss.
- James Frazier Reed, 46, was banished after killing the Graves' teamster John Snyder on October 5, 1846, at Pauta Pass (now Goldconda Summit, Nevada). He arrived safely at Sutter's Fort, and attempted a rescue in November, 1846. After raising funds for, and leading the Second Relief, Reed settled his family in San Jose, where he farmed and was active in San Jose civic affairs. (Reed, Margaret, Virginia and Martha streets in downtown San Jose are named for the Reed family.) The Reeds had two more children. James Reed was the only adult survivor of the Donner Party to publish an extensive account, beginning with J. Merryman's newspaper article based on Reed's notes in the December 9, 1847 Illinois Journal, and Reed's own article "The Snow-Bound, Starved Emigrants of 1846" published in the Pacific Rural Press in 1871. Reed died in 1874.
- His wife Margaret W. Reed, 32, was rescued by the First Relief. She died in 1861.
- Their daughter Martha (called Patty), 8, was rescued by her father's Second Relief. She married Frank Lewis in 1856, and they had eight children.
- Son James Jr., 5, was rescued by the First Relief. In 1879 he married Sarah Adams in San Jose. They had no children, and James, Jr. died in 1901.
- Son Thomas, 3, was rescued by the Second Relief. He never married.
- Margaret's daughter from a previous marriage, Virginia Backenstoe Reed, 13, was rescued by the First Relief. Shortly after her arrival at Johnson's Ranch, she received a marriage proposal from Edward Pyle, Jr. She rejected the offer, and Pyle married Mary Graves. In May, 1847, Virginia wrote a first-hand account of the Donner Party in a letter that was published by the Illinois Journal in December, 1847. In 1850 Virginia married John Murphy and settled in San Jose. They had nine children In 1891 she wrote a more polished, but less accurate account of the Donner Party, "Across the Plains in the Donner Party" for Century Magazine.
- Margaret's mother Sarah Keyes, 75, died on May 29, 1846 at Alcove Springs, near present Marysville, Kansas.
The employees who accompanied the Reeds fared no better than the Donner employees.
- Servant, Eliza Williams, 25, was rescued by the First Relief. Six months after her rescue, she married.
- Eliza's half-brother Baylis Williams, 24, died on December 15, 1846 at the Lake cabins.
- Teamster: Milford (Milt) Elliott, 28, died on February 9, 1847, at the Murphy cabin by the Lake.
- Teamster Walter Herron, 25, accompanied James Reed after Reed was banished by the Party on October 5, 1846. Herron was a day's ride ahead with the Donners.
- Teamster James Smith, 25, died in mid-December at the Donner's camp on Alder Creek.
- Friend Hiram Miller left the Reeds east of Fort Bernard, near present Douglas, Wyoming, on July 2, 1846 to accompany Edwin Bryant's pack train. He joined Reed on the Second Relief, and carried out Thomas Reed. He then returned with Eddy and Foster on the Third Relief.
2 Responses to "Donner Party Survivors: The Reeds"
October 28, 2010 at 1:46 pm
caroline, this is great. i want to be a member of the donner party for halloween & did a google image search & this is the first thing that came up 🙂 xox


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social networks
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram... is there anyone left with no account of those social platforms? It is important to know how to use them...
Social networks have become our photo albums, our bulletin boards, even our voice. We publish what happens to us during the day, we give our opinion on news, we participate in debates... And all this, very often, publicly.
LinkedIn is the go-to social network for talent recruiters. With an online community of 500 million users, it links professionals and businesses all around the world. You probably already use it to find work, but are you really making the most of it? Learn how to sell yourself better by taking some sound advice.
During our holidays we seek to relax and disconnect from our daily lives, but we must not forget that it is the time of the year when cybercriminals can take advantage of our disconnection from the madding crowd to 'fill their boots' at our expense.
Nowadays there are applications for practically everything (instant messaging, online stores, banks, news, social networks...). From any of our devices we can have the service we want in just a few seconds. But are we doing so in a safe manner?