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A little about Playa Zipolite, The Beach of the Dead . . .

Playa Zipolite, Oaxaca, Southern Mexico, on the Pacific Ocean. A little bit about my favorite little get-away on this small world of ours.

Zipolite, a sweaty 30-minute walk west from Puerto Angel, brings you to Playa Zipolite and another world. The feeling here is 1970's - Led Zep, Marley, and scruffy gringos.

A long, long time ago, Zipolite beach was usually visited by the Zapotecans...who made it a magical place. They came to visit Zipolite to meditate, or just to rest.

Recently, this beach has begun to receive day-trippers from Puerto Angel and Puerto Escondido, giving it a more TOURISTY feel than before.

Most people come here for the novelty of the nude beach, yoga, turtles, seafood, surf, meditation, vegetarians, discos, party, to get burnt by the sun, or to see how long they can stretch their skinny budget.

I post WWW Oaxaca, Mexico, Zipolite and areas nearby information. Also general budget, backpacker, surfer, off the beaten path, Mexico and beyond, information.

REMEMBER: Everyone is welcome at Zipolite.

ivan

Monday, July 9, 2012

Huracán Carlotta desde Zipolite


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@Mazunte

Carlota Hurricane - Oaxaca Relief Please help us raise money to send food to the community of Costa Chica in Oaxaca that suffered a lot of damages because of Hurricane Carlotta.








Dear friends, 


Last week a hurricane hit the coast of Oaxaca in Mexico. It ws category 1 but it hit really hard in the small village communities where people's houses are but little huts. The wind was so strong that their roofs fell or flew away. Many people were left with nothing, no food, no electricity for a week, no clothes, they lost everything. 


This is a place that I love dearly since I have been calling my part time home for the past year. It is a wonderful place to visit because the people there are wonderful. I am collecting items to send them, they need food and clothing, but since we are kinda far away from them the packaging for food might take a long time to get there or it might be too expensive. I am collecting money to donate and to buythe food over there and then give it to them. Even a donation of 5 dlls can go a long way. If you would be able to donate some money I promise you will help these communities a lot. Whatever you can give. If you would like to donate clothing I can pick them up too. If you are interested in donating please let me know I appreciate it a lot. I can either pick up the money or you can donate it to an account. 


Thank you for your time.


Diane



Hurricane Carlotta Lashes Mexico - Gulf Development

Hurricane Carlotta Relief Fund for Puerto Escondido Lifeguard Service Hurricane Carlotta Emergency Relief Fund to Re-Establish Puerto Escondido's Lifeguard Towers.




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Hurricane Carlotta Relief Fund for Puerto Escondido Lifeguard Service

Hurricane Carlotta Emergency Relief Fund to Re-Establish Puerto Escondido's Lifeguard Towers.

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Hurricane Carlotta Emergency Relief Fund to Re-Establish Puerto Escondido's Lifeguard Service.
I have been so busy since Hurricane Carlotta hit Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca on June 15th organizing around the clock an online campaign to raise emergency hurricane relief help for the Lifeguard Service of Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca to rebuild 8 lifeguard towers that were wiped out by Hurricane Carlotta. Oaxaca is the poorest state in Mexico and Puerto Escondido is a surfing destination in a very poor rual farm area of southern Mexico. They don't have the funds to rebuild the 8 lifeguard towers for Playa Zicatela where the surfers visit from all over the world to surf Zicatela Beach.

The international surfing industry that visits Puerto Escondido is the backbone and sustenance of Puerto Escondido's economy and without the lifeguard towers re-established for the surfers to keep visiting Puerto Escondido, the people of Puerto will suffer in poverty for a long time to come. The lifeguard service is the most important public service down there and they need our help to get them re-established as soon as possible so the surfers will start returning to rebuild the economy that was wiped out by Hurricane Carlotta.


Hurricane Carlotta was a category 2 hurricane and wiped out a lot of homes, schools, family businesses, and all 8 of their lifeguard towers. I created and organized this fundraising campaign to help them re-establish the Puerto Escondido Lifeguard Service.
Here are some photo's taken by Urska Milavec, the lifeguard captain's wife, the morning after Carlotta hit. This is how they found the lifeguard towers.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.31901...

Mission Statement:
Please help us keep Playa Zicatela safe for everybody by re-establishing Puerto Escondido's Lifeguard Service.

On June 15,2012 Hurricane Carlotta wiped out all 8 of the Puerto Escondido lifeguard watch towers on Playa Zicatela, a world class surfing destination. 

Our mission is to join together with all our combined strengths to quickly rebuild the 8 lifeguard towers that were destroyed by Hurricane Carlotta and in the process of rebuidling the 8 lifeguard towers we also want to to help raise the funds for 2 new water rescue crafts that are also needed by the Puerto Escondido Lifeguard Service to save lives in one of the most heaviest and most deadliest monster waves in the world, the Mexican Pipeline! Some of these waves have been known to reach 40-50 feet during the big wave season when the big wave surfers come from all over the world to challenge themselves and inspire others like myself to live fearlessly and to push yourself beyond your limits.

Without the lifeguard towers, visibility of surfers and swimmers is at only 40% at Playa Zicatela, and 40% is just not enough to save endangered lives when in trouble. Please help us keep Puerto's surfing community safe out there in Zicatela!

We need to raise $8,000 to quickly rebuild the towers to keep the swimmers and surfers safe at Zicatela Beach. Right now they have no lifeguard towers up and there are swimmers and surfers out there in the water without proper lifeguard watch tower protection in a dangerous pipeline and lives will be lost if we do not resurrect these lifeguard watch towers quickly.

Whatever you can give will help a lot! $5, $10, $20, it all helps!

Here is our official facebook page for the Hurricane Carlotta Relief Fund for Puerto Escondido Lifeguard Service. There are lots of nice photo's of the lifeguards and warm friendly people posting here, and valuable information here. This is where I am organizing my outreach campaign to send help.
I am also doubling on my facebook page as an information link for the Red Cross connections we are trying to make from California.
Also I want to mention that if we get an abundance of contributions to our campaign then we will give all that surplus money to the lifeguards to distribute into the local native communities away from town that got hit the hardest and need to rebuild entire villages, schools, churches, and family businesses. It is going to take along time for this beautiful place to recover, even longer because they were already living in an impoverished region.

here is a video of the storm report from storm experts and how serious the storm was .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA-sVBcSbD0

Thanks for your support!
Donna Love, founder and organizer of Hurricane Carlotta Relief Fund for Puerto Escondido Lifeguard Service

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The real Juárez

The real Juárez

By Wendy White Polk Editor | Posted: Sunday, July 8, 2012 6:00 pm
Can you name a North American president who served during the 1800s, came from humble surroundings and is honored for promoting equal rights for all?
Sounds like Abraham Lincoln, right? But it also describes Benito Juárez, one of Mexico’s most revered presidents. So it’s not surprising that there was an abiding respect between the two.
Lincoln was born into a poor family on the frontier. He was president for barely four years before his assassination in 1865, but he managed to lead the nation during the Civil War, preserve the Union, end slavery and promote economic and financial modernization.
Juárez, a Zapotec Indian, was born in a small town in Oaxaca and served as president of Mexico five times, from 1861 to 1872. He resisted the French occupation of Mexico, overthrew the Second Mexican Empire, restored the republic and modernized the country.
The presidents also supported each other during trying times. According to the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation, Lincoln sent Juárez a message in 1861, expressing hope “for the liberty of ... your government and its people.” Lincoln also supported Juárez’s resistance against France, which had invaded Mexico and captured Mexico City in 1863. Juárez, in return, stood by Lincoln by refusing to support the Confederate states during the Civil War.
There are several statues of Lincoln in Latin America, including one in our sister city of Juárez, and in Tijuana. American cities like New York, Chicago and Washington D.C. have statues of Benito Juárez.
But in El Paso, there is no monument to the Mexican hero. Now sculptors John Houser and his son Ethan Houser have one in the works. When they were in town last month to unveil Ethan’s bronze of Susan Shelby Magoffin, they were also showing off a clay model of Benito Juárez.
They’ve chosen to portray the president only slightly larger than life and in a simple setting, seated on a park bench with a young boy nearby. John Houser said they’ve designed the monument so people can sit next to the president’s likeness and have their picture taken. And when they look closely at the boy’s face, Houser says, they will see that it is Juárez himself as a child.
Houser is in London this week for the installation of his bust of Francis Crick, the scientist who discovered DNA with colleague James Watson. Houser told me by email that it would take about a year and a half to move the Juárez project from maquette to the final bronze, as long as funding is available. He would like to see the statue installed at the Chamizal.
There is much that Americans and Mexicans can learn from Juárez’s leadership, but his famous quote may say it all: “Entre los individuos, como entre las naciones, el respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz.” “Among individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace.”

If you would like to help support the Benito Juarez monument, contact Pres Dehrkoop at The XII Travelers Memorial of the Southwest Inc., (915) 751-3631, emailpresdehr@elp.rr.com or write to Box 12464, El Paso TX 79913.


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Salvemos Puerto June 29, 2012 at 12:20 pm


Salvemos Puerto

Puerto Escondido, commonly referred to as “The Mexico Pipeline“, is an internationally recognized surfing paradise and desperately needs the help of the global surf community.
The town of Puerto Escondido was devastated by Hurricane Carlotta on Friday 15th June, 2012. Two children died when their house was taken by a mudslide, and one 56-year-old woman passed away when the wind from the category 2 hurricane flipped her car. The beach side town has been severely damaged and is in need of urgent assistance to rebuild this community that thrives on tourism.
The Puerto Escondido lifeguards are in need of help due to all damage cause by the hurricane. They used to have 8 towers along the beach at Playa Zicatela and now there’s not a single one of them. This is just one example of what is required to help rebuild the local community; another is to promote tourism back to the area to stimulate the local economy.
The International Bodyboarding Association (IBA) has launched a global campaign to “Salvemos Puerto” (Save Puerto).
The IBA is looking to raise US$100,000 for the base funding to stage the IBA Zicatella Pro at Puerto Escondido from August 8 – August 18, 2012. The event will be used as a platform to achieve the primary objectives of:
Driving tourism to the town of Puerto Escondido and to promote the area as a safe tourist destination in order to drive the local economy
Raise funds and mobilise resources to rebuild the 8 lifeguard towers at Playa Zicatela.
The core campaign is to sell 5000 “Salvemos Puerto” t shirts @ $30 each to raise the required funding to achieve the above objectives.
The Bodyboard Industry has also donated over $150,000 of merchandise at no cost to help raise the required funds. The following limited merchandise packs will be made available for sale with all funds raised going to the Salvemos Puerto Campaign:
$60 pack (x500 units);
$80 pack (x250 units); and
$100 pack (x500 units)
Turbo Surf Designs, Reeflex Wetsuits, Inverted Bodyboarding and Freedom Fins are donating products for each of the packs so that the retail value of each pack far exceeds the ticket price. As such it is a legitimate offering in its own right.
The campaign is to raise the first $100,000 prior to 8th July via merchandise sales through to the conclusion of the event via a viral campaign to raise awareness and funding globally.
Go to ibaworldtour.com for detailed info.

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Viva Voice Search

We started using computers when card punch readers were the order of the day – ancient times.
While working at Capitol Records in the mid-seventies we owned one of the first  IMSAI 8080computers – arguably the first microcomputer, although it was large enough to call it a mini-computer and expensive. C/PM was the operating system – later it ran FORTRAN and BASIC  as well.
During that same period we had access to a time share computer at UCLA. We used that to evaluate and determine available commercial components from actual design formula parameters. A real design to prototype time saver.
We got onboard and championed the two Steve’s (Jobs and Wozniak) Apple products over Bill Gates more structured, less user friendly Microsoft (IBM world) products; perhaps choosing the wrong horse to make the big bucks then? Back in the late 90′s we abandoned our Apple affiliation feeling the closeness of the two technologies had Gates products reluctantly a winner based on price, demand and massive amounts of software.
Here we are 37 years later from those beginnings, an older and perhaps wiser computer user – but truly less involved – “USER” is the key word. We have several years ago left development and programming to the likes of our now 22 year old son and others with youthful energy and interest
It has to be conceded that the United States engineers were in the forefront of computer technologies early development – on this July Fourth we salute them for that.
Computer technology in some respects has evolved more slowly than we had hoped and dreamed back in those early days. We had envisioned keyboard-less computers before now. We should have been successfully conversing with our computers long ago.
In that light – are you using Google Chrome as a browser? If not you are missing an advanced technology – Google’s Voice Search.
If you have a built in microphone (or an outboard installed) you merely click the microphone icon in the right corner of the Google search window and state your query (see photo below) – very cool!
Google Voice Search Screen (Red circle marks the spot to Click and talk)
Señora Calypso and I are avid Google searches.We encourage you to try Voice Search – a real time saver.
We have spent a tidy sum on voice recognition software programs over the years. Perhaps we will take a stab at one of the current favorite voice recognition programs again.  In the meantime Viva Voice Search!  Stay Tuned!

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