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BWO wrote:Building And Managing A Compost Pile - The Colorado State University Todos Santos Center is pleased to invite you to the upcoming workshop on “Building and Managing a Compost Pile” taught by Addy Elliot from the Dept. of Soil and Crop Sciences at CSU. Come join us in a conversation about how to build and manage a compost pile and work together to assemble a compost bin. The workshop will be next Thursday October 15th 2015 at the CSU Todos Santos Center from 4 to 6 pm. We are asking for a suggested contribution of $50.00 pesos, or what you can, to help compensate workshop expenses. ☞ https://www.facebook.com/CSUTodosSantos, Todos Santos 

From Friday the settlement of workers begins: A. Martinez Vega

La Paz, Baja California Sur (BCS). With about 3,180 people on board arrived in La Paz cruiseGrand Princess , the Friday morning at the port of Pichilingue , the said Port Authority .
Tourists were for about 10 hours in the capital of BCS , from then bound for Loreto , where arrive the morning of Saturday 25.
The holder of API , J esus Robles Gonzalez , said on 29 and 30 October for the second time dock at Loreto  and Pichilingue , respectively, the Star Princess, so coordination meetings and logistics have been made ​​to the reception and care 3000 700 cruise passengers who travel on the ship
In just one week, they would BCS around 7,500 cruise passengers, which would result in a significant economic benefit for both ports reported.
In this sense, the API said, maintaining the provision of free transport to the beach The Coromuel and the center of La Paz and boardwalk area allowing service providers and traders offer their products to tourists, who on average they leave an economic impact of $ 70 per person.
For the current winter season, which together have covered 32 arrivals, we have planned for 58,000 tourists to both destinations.

This was revealed by the head of the Department of Urban Planning, Infrastructure and Ecology ( Sepuie ), Salvador Perez Adrian Ramirez , detailing the property has parking, bathrooms, kitchens, restaurants, bars, souvenir shops and a plaza designed to host shows the outdoors.
Moreover, he added, has two modules "to host different events," the largest one has a capacity for 4,000 people and can be divided into individual spaces for up to 1,000 people each; the smallest has a capacity for 1,200, and as the biggest can be divided into four meeting rooms offering up to 300 people.
"While 28 will be officially opening this important Convention Center La Paz , "said Perez Ramirez," and we had events since last year, events CTM , religious events, including events of agencies ofstate government , sports events and many more. "
About managing the Convention Center La Paz , the secretary said that until September this year will remain under the stewardship of the agency he heads, but once the new government taking office, the address of the place could pass into the hands of a particular.
"At the moment, the administration will still be in charge of the Department of Urban Planning and Infrastructure , and already when the next administration, which will not be long reach, will make the decision on who deliver it, either Administrative Office or It begins the process of a tender for a specialist operator in the theme handle it. "

from lpg wrote:Friend just drove through yesterday and said it was muddy but short.  This is at km marker 88 which would put is closer to La Paz than Constitution.  He said road was fine all the way to Guerrero Negro.  He will give me another report on  the rest of the road to TJ tonight.

It hasn't happened in 32 years, and won't for another 18 years: Sunday evening, a total lunar eclipse will coincide with a "Supermoon." 
A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth is between the full moon and the sun. The Earth's shadow covers the moon, which often has a red color, hence the "blood" moon nickname.
Although it's completely in the shadow of Earth, a bit of reddish sunlight still reaches the moon. 
"That red light shining onto the moon is sunlight that has skimmed and bent through Earth's atmosphere: that is, from all the sunrises and sunsets that ring the world at any given moment," according to Alan MacRobert of Sky and Telescope magazine.
The total eclipse will start at 10:11 p.m. EDT (7:11 p.m. PDT) Sunday evening and will last one hour and 12 minutes. It will be visible across North and South America, Europe, Africa, and parts of West Asia and the eastern Pacific, NASA said.
Weather permitting, folks in the eastern half of North America can watch every stage of the eclipse, from beginning to end of the partial phases, with the moon mostly high in the sky, Sky and Telescope reports.

Civil Protection active tsunami alert
La Paz, Baja California Sur (BCS).  In the general population of Baja California Sur, is informed that following the earthquake that originated off the coast of Chile, with a magnitude of 8.3 on the Richter scale are advised to take all precautions necessary to avoid situations that could endanger their safety, it is recommended not navigate from now until after the alert.
Similarly avoid jump into the water or being on the edge of the coast, all this in order to not take unnecessary risks.
Here we present the bulletin No. 002 issued by the Tsunami Warning Center (CAT-SEMAR) 
DATE AND TIME: SEPTEMBER 16, 2015, 19:20 HRS. R (00:20
HRS. Z) aimed exclusively at civilian and military authorities. ACTIONS IN RESPONSE TO THIS BULLETIN ARE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE RELEVANT AUTHORITIES. SEISMIC INFORMATION (confirmed by the PTWC): origin time of the earthquake: 16 September 2015, 17:54 hrs . R (Z 22:54 hrs.) from the epicenter REGION: NOR 169 km northwest of Valparaiso, Chile. LOCATION: 31,563 S, W 71 737 DEPTH: 10 km
http://octavodia.mx/articulo/61943/activa-proteccion-civil-alerta-por-tsunami

In the never-ending mobile phone wars among telecom giants, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim’s Telcel was forced by competitors to “eliminate” the Mexico-U.S. border and allow mobile users to call from Mexico to the U.S. and vice versa for just a small charge.


Telcel, Mexico’s dominant wireless telephone company, is a unit of Slim-controlled América Móvil. It said July 16 that under the plan “Telcel Sin Frontera” (Telcel Without Border), mobile users can call and text to the U.S. without paying long distance charges, and when they travel to the U.S. they will be able to use their minutes, messages and MBs just as they would in Mexico, with no roaming charges.


Telcel charges a monthly service fee of 50 Mexican pesos (around US$3) for the “Telcel Sin Frontera” plan which subscribers can activate in Mexico or the U.S.

Cyclosporiasis, a painful and uncomfortable parasitical stomach ailment, has affected more than 380 people in 26 states after a batch of Mexican cilantro was found to be contaminated with human waste, the Centers for Disease Control and FDA says.

According to the two federal agencies, the outbreak began on May 1 and is likely caused by "contact with the parasite shed from the intestinal tract of humans" in the fields where contaminated cilantro plants were grown in Mexico's Puebla state, al-Jazeera America reports.

The news comes after the FDA placed a partial ban on cilantro from the region in late July. Authorities investigated up to 11 farms and found toilet paper and feces in many of the fields. They also found that many of these farms lacked adequate toilet facilities, AJAM says.

According to AJAM, it's not the first time cilantro from Mexico's Puebla state has caused widespread illness. The herb has been linked to outbreaks of the stomach condition in 2012, 2013 and 2014 as well.

The story of a gold mine project in Baja California Sur took a strange twist yesterday when a La Paz municipal director tearfully explained she had been pressured into granting an approval for the controversial mine.


The director of urban and ecological development, challenged by mine opponents to explain why she had signed off on a land-use change to permit the Los Cardones mine to go ahead, said she had been harassed into doing so.

Members of the Citizens’ Front in Defense of Water and Life visited Socorro Icela Fiol Manríquez in her office yesterday morning after hearing the municipality was moving ahead with approvals for the mine.


She claimed that municipal general secretary Marco Antonio Núñez Rosas had pressured her into signing, but told mine protesters and reporters she intended to revoke that approval.

Today it was reported that both Núñez Rosas and Fiol Manríquez have since met with the Citizens’ Front, where the former said that no mines have been granted any authorizations for land-use change.

Within weeks the XIV City of La Paz, through the Department of Urban Development and Ecology, will grant the Change Land Use in favor of the mining company Los Cardones for it to start operations with gold mining in the village San Antonio, Baja California Sur.

According to information obtained, the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat) granted the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the mining company, document through which it is disclosed, based on studies, a significant environmental impact and potential to generate a work or activity and how to avoid or mitigate it in case it is negative.

Also, the Ministry of Economy granted the necessary permits to the company -The Cardones for the start of its work, but only remains for the City of La Paz XIV concrete Change of Land Use, which no longer depends on the vote the Cabildo.

The data collected show that the final decision to approve the mining project is in the Urban Development and Ecology, and an estimated 90 percent chance of obtaining the endorsement of the authority based on the law.

"They requested the Change Land Use since March, and that is to be resolved, and if you press me, it will be in favor of the mining company because we have no legal grounds to prevent the start of operations [...] If we deny Land use change, they put an injunction, they go to a jurisprudence and beat us, "said our source.

The Land Use Change mining company is to perform pull dam, the construction of a desalination plant, a pipeline to the sea for discarding the water used, the lifting power lines and access roads.

Apparently citizen demonstrations against this mining project, considered toxic, had no echo in the authorities, who claim that the process has been conducted right attached to respecting and taking positions in favor and against.