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One key to avoiding corrosion: Do not drill or scratch the aluminum components. ... Use only the manufacturer's pre-drilled holes when installing or securing - so the corrosion resistance is only as good as the installation. Good quality manufactures treat~seal the frames with anti-corrosion coatings, but those coatings can fail when people drill holes or scratch the aluminum parts. Re the amparo's effects on small electricity generators, consider the difference between Net-metering and Net-Billing. Under Net Metering, we cannot generate a cash profit at the end of the CFE billing cycle. Fortunately, the CFE's current Net Billing system is better, because our excess solar electricity generation is valued at the higher retail rates (esp Excedente), a bonus when we use the CFE-banked kWh in the future.

For better or worse, FMM's are used for more than what the video describes, which means the video's instructions are structurally overly-narrow in the context of other requirements. Factual Context: ~ INM overall, and SRE have the stated goals of monitoring, tracking and evaluating foreigners movements in and out of Mexico. ~ Various INM offices and various INM agents have their own agendas, that subvert or contravene the overall goal of tracking & monitoring foreigners movements into and out-of Mexico. ~ Unfortunately, many INM agents and many INM offices operate in ways that inhibit or even circumvent monitoring & tracking foreigners moving into and out-of Mexico, as foreigners often walk or drive out of Mexico without being tracked. ~ There are times when the Mexican government decides to calculate & evaluate the number of days an individual foreigner has been inside Mexico. When both the foreigner's passport and their INM computer database records have gaps (missing items) in the dates when a foreigner left Mexico, it causes the Mexican Govt. authorities to assume that the foreigner was outside the country during the un-documented periods. Specifically, SRE requires that applicants for Naturalized Citizenship to prove that they were inside Mexico for at least the required minimum number of days prior to the application. ~ It's clear that SRE, INM, US Consulates, and Trump tensions have mounted over US-Mexico border crossings, which puts foreigners crossing in-and-out of Mexico right in the cross-hairs of government actions affecting us during the current & future disputes. A few questions for each of us to consider: Are gaps in a system, or incomplete only-partially-described systems (like the video above), good or valid reasons to not follow the published rules? In times of much-increased concerns and heightened scrutiny over who and when someone is crossing the Mexico-US border: Does it make better sense to follow the simple published written rules ? ... or to ignore them (and follow a video that likely has no legal standing) ?

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I have spoken with Aduana agents at 3 different border crossings on this, and called SAT in Distrito Federal on this All 4 said that a foreigner on a visitors visa is not allowed.to fly out of Mexico and leave their TIP car behind. The TIP is valid only as long as the associated visa is valid. When we fly out, we surrender the visitor's visa and INM cancels it. That makes the TIP vehicle automatically illegal to drive, unless you get a Retorno Seguro permit. Since many TIP holders carry a copy of Article 106 in their car, we can go back to our 'old friend' Article 106 of the Ley Aduanera (the section expats have used for over a decade to show police how long our TIP is good for). Article 106, section IV of the Ley Aduanera covers this nicely: Notice that the vehicle permit is only valid " Por el plazo que dure su condición de estancia ... con la condición de estancia de visitante y residente temporal". INM and Aduana interpret this to mean that when the visitor flies out of Mexico, the " la condición de estancia " ends, with the cancellation of their visitor's visa. If Article 106 used 'the expiration date' versus "la condición de estancia", then Alan's personal interpretation could work, but Article 106 specifically does not say "fecha de caducidad" . Sonia's thoughts about driving out are an entirely different matter, because driving-out is not flying-out. INM treats flying-out differently than driving-out, where visiting foreigners must surrender their visitors visa when flying out.

. " Filtration does not remove chemicals in solution; only particles. " This claim is absolutely incorrect and false. Reverse osmosis, ion exchange, adsorption (activated carbon), and adsorbents do well at removing arsenic from drinking water. When properly maintained: These kinds of filtration methods can remove almost ALL "chemicals in solution", reliably producing good clean safe drinking water. Common filtration using activated carbon works well at removing most common contaminants, as long as the filter is not overloaded with too many contaminants. Activated carbon filters have a HUGE but finite number of active adsorbant sites, which means the activated carbon filters are excellent at removing large organic molecules (like dissolved pesticides, herbicides, dyes, and industrial solvents). This same property means: Activated carbon filters are modestly efficient at removing heavy metals (like Ni, Cd. Cr, As, & Pb), but are very poor at absorbing small metal ions in water (like Na, Ca, Mg, etc). Back to Arsenic contamination in drinking water: Arsenic in drinking water typically comes from iron-bearing rocks, mine tailings, or from agricultural run-off pollution.** The chemical form of arsenic present in the water is critical in knowing if activated carbon will remove all of our arsenic in water contamination.* Arsenic exists in primarily two oxidation states (two common species) in natural water samples: arsenic+3 => As(III) ~ and arsenic +5 => As(V). As (III) is roughly 10X more toxic to animal and plants than As(V). ... Activated carbon removes As(V) more efficiently than As(III). But: When Iron +3 => Fe(III) is present in drinking water, it oxidizes/converts the As(III) to As(V) - making the Arsenic easily adsorbed by activated carbon. This means that some internet "studies" mistakenly add As*(III) to the water for their activated carbon testing - and they mistakenly report that activated carbon did not work well. => The species/form of arsenic is critical to knowing if activated carbon will work. This means that when our water has iron (from iron pyrite mineral rocks or arsenopyrites), our water contains the form of Arsenic that is well-adsorbed by activated carbon . https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=hMA70VU36qUC&pg=PA104&lpg=PA104dq=is+arsenopyrite+As%28III%29+or+As%28V%29&source=bl&ots=AN5jnkqbZY&sig=9ObrKs01Ns3VNmvCKge7PNO-Ggw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjXsIO38b_JAhUJOCYKHYMEAN0Q6AEIOjAG#v=onepage&q=is%20arsenopyrite%20As%28III%29%20or%20As%28V%29&f=false "Application of Activated Carbon for Removal of Arsenic Ions from Aqueous Solutions, RANSARI* and M SADEGH, Chemistry Department, Guilan University, Rasht, Iran POB 41335-1914, E mail: ransari@guilan.ac.ir, Received 26 August 2006; Accepted 3 October 2006" ================================ Human-caused arsenic pollution can almost always be traced to mining or mining-related activities or agricultural run-off (from fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides & pesticides). *http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18982996 **http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/trace/pubs/gw_v38n4/ ========================== Finally, to answer LCScats concerns: Small kitchen-sink faucet filters may have limited capacity to absorb arsenic, especially high concentrations of As(III). (but NOTE that our waters likely have enough Iron(III) to convert the As(III) over to As(V) that IS adsorbed by activated carbon) In any case, the little kitchen-sink faucet-filters have such small amounts of activated carbon, that they must be changed FAR more frequently than the big cartridge activated carbon filters, because the kitchen-filters adsorbent sites get "filled" by contaminated water. ... If you have fairly clean (not-heavily contaminated) drinking water, the kitchen filter lasts much longer than when it has to filter modestly-contaminated water - but typical home water-filtration system activated carbon cartridges work for a long time. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/bk-2005-0915.ch020

. "You may want to switch to reverse osmosis or other methods. These are not simple things to remove. Our normal filter systems here will not remove arsenic/fluoride from water. " Note that arsenic is very easy to remove from drinking water using the common method of using activated carbon. Only the simplest wound-string sediment-filter-only systems cannot remove arsenic. Pretty much all other drinking water treatment systems include either activated carbon or RO that easily remove ALL arsenic. e.g. The simplest Brita pitchers and Brita faucet filters remove arsenic with activated carbon, Pur's little faucet filters on your kitchen sink tap remove all arsenic using activated carbon, etc. Fluoride removal is more difficult, as activated carbon is not sufficient. It takes RO to remove fluoride.

. Yes, any spouse or family member with a legal license can drive the temporarily imported vehicle. Article 106 of the Ley Aduanera still continues to apply. It is worthwhile to carry a copy of Article 106 in the car, printed in both English and Spanish versions. If stopped by police who question who is allowed to drive the temporarily imported car, showing them a copy of Article 106, part 4, quickly resolves any issues. ~ Copy of Article 106 to Carry in Your Car

?? The last category of "Mexican immigrants repatriated" could work, unless Aduana argued (as they did in our case) that since Pedro Malo's wife is filing legal applications to only come back temporarily, ( not repatriating) in the form of applying to only temporarily import the vehicle, then she is not actually repatriating. If all Mexicans returning to Mexico qualified under the SAT clause listed above, there would seem to be no need for the Paisano Program (?) Can a Mexican wife, with dual citizenship (with one foot still in the USA and still with legal obligations to the USA), , who also has a US citizen husband, a dual citizen who is simultaneously appliing for a temporary vehicle permit, simultaneously also convince Aduana that they are not just temporarily in Mexico, instead by somehow proving that they are repatriating ? Note that the "repatriating" clause mentions returning to Mexico due being forcibly deported back to Mexico, in the same breath, meaning that SAT intends that the applicant really is not planning on a temporary life in Mexico.

Both sets of answers are correct - and I apologize for not answering all the questions about both you and your wife. When replying to multi-question posts, people on this board have generally answered only some of the questions. Not answering all questions doesn't seem to be a big issue(?) I wrote that the foreign person (husband) with the Residente Permanente could not temporarily import the car. Clearly, the Mexican citizen wife could temporarily import the car. The 2 issues are mutually exclusive. Re the remaining question bringing in a load of household goods in that TIP vehicle: Since the couple also wants to bring in a load of goods .... It's worth noting that at some border crossings, we've had Aduana agents apply duties on the load, when the vehicle is in the name of a Mexican citizen. ... It happened that way with my Mexican wife and I, where I could bring in a load of goods under a Menaje de Casa list, but because we put the vehicles in my wife's name, Aduana insisted on charging duties on the load. In the interest of offering pertinent details on all questions asked: If you put the vehicle in your wife's name, and Aduana wants to charge duties on your load of household goods, it may be easier or worthwhile to enter Mexico during one of the annual Paisano program periods to avoid paying unnecessary duties. http://www.paisano.gob.mx/ In the past, the Paisano program operated from the holidays of early November- early January, summer, and during Semana Santa. "El periodo del Programa Paisano para el ejercicio 2015, será el siguiente: Semana Santa: 13 de marzo al 13 de abril de 2015. Verano: 12 de junio al 17 de agosto de 2015. Invierno: 1 de noviembre de 2015 al 8 de enero de 2016 "

Not allowed for foreigners with Resident Permanente visas. Only Visitors and Residente Temporal visa holders can temporarily import foreign plated cars.

"So again I ask if someone wants to approximate 00, why would you want high protein bread flour? " Fair question. The topic and discussion has been about pizza flour. Pizza dough is different from baguettes and boules dough. At our pizza shop back in the USA, like other pizza places, we use a hard wheat 12.5% protein content flour, that coincidentally is a 00 grind. Generic 00 general purpose flours run about 10% protein - which changes both the dough consistency and the air bubbles, which is why the original poster and others were talking about finding good flour specifically for pizza dough. When pizza bakers can't get their hands on higher protein content pizza dough flours, like Caputo Rinforzato or Pizzeria, they can approximate those pizza flours by amending Mexican 00 flours with vital gluten.

The protein content controls the consistency, where typical cheap Mexican flour (regardless of the grind) has too low of protein contents to give the same consistency of doughs used in Italy and the USA.

Mexican plated cars are allowed into the USA for up to 1 year. Issues? It is easy to get the minimum required liability insurance coverages, but can be challenging to find insurance coverage to pay for collision damages to your car.

Mtn Mama is headed in the right direction. Have there been any historical reports of uranium in the area? Naturally occurring uranium decays to several elements that emit significant radioactivity: Radon (a gas), Radium, and Polonium: http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Publications/PIC/25figures/Fig2.jpg . . As Mtn Mama found, areas of Colorado's mountains can have strikingly large levels of uranium, radon, and radium from both groundwater and dust, while Colorado's Front Range (Denver, Colo Springs etc) have elevated levels of background radiation from uranium dust and its decay products.

True, you can buy a Geiger-Müller counter, but why would one? Geiger-Müller counters are useless for testing radioactivity in water. A gross alpha/gross beta test on water can be done for modest costs in the USA, at $50 to $100 per sample (depending on the detection limit). Gross Alpha/Beta is a good screening/diagnostic method for determining if further, more detailed testing is needed.

I've had decent luck by boosting our regular bread flour's protein content from 11% up to 14% using vital wheat gluten, the wheat protein, to get the same consistency crust as we got using hard wheat pizza flour in the states. Adding 1-1/2 teaspoons of vital wheat gluten to 1 cup of flour boosts the protein content by 3%.

Mr. Coffee's brief boiling is enough to kill fecal coliforms at Chapala altitudes, which makes it good for treated tap water, but not enough if you are drinking untreated stream, lake, or river wate. Extensive studies by Colorado State University researchers found that bringing water to the boiling point of water high in the Colorado Rockies, 185º F, showed that even 160ºF kills common pathogenic bacteria. If you have deer feces in your water that includes tough cryptosporids like giardia, then boil for 3 minutes at high altitudes. The Mr. Coffee style units briefly boil the water in a coil at the bottom, underneath the pot, to create their "pumping action" that moves the water from the tank up to the grounds. This boiling is enough to kill fecal coliform bacteria, even at Chapala altitudes, but this boiling is to short too kill cryptosporids in untreated raw water.

"1) If you wash hands with soap and tap water, are the hands really clean. " For most people, no. Consider surgeon's washing procedures. Ordinary soaps and detergents do not kill microbes - they only help remove grease, oil, and dirt (that hold the microbes). Typical women have about 250 species of bacteria on their hands. USDA/CDC/FDA studies show that water rinses and thorough scrub brushing removes 97% of typical microbes from fruit and veg - so using soap is not the magic cure-all people imagine. Expert advice says to use an antibacterial soap (with triclosan) and scrub with soapy suds, vigorously, for 20 full seconds. Next time you wash your hands, count to 20, 0ne thousand one, onethousand 2, one thousand 3... and see how long you actually wash. 20 seconds is surprisingly long. Since almost no one washes their hands this way (watch people in airport bathrooms): hand washing is generally not effective. Best advice is to wash hands properly after using the bathroom and before eating, and do not touch your eyes, nose, or mouth. "2) When showering to you need to be concerned about getting water in your eyes? " The microbiological answer says we need to know if you are using city tap water treated with chlorine or if you are using well water from a pozo that draws water from the same level as the fosa septicas, sumidoros, and other household pits for the neighborhood's waste. Consider that in many rural areas, you can dose a toilet with blue dye, flush it, and get blue water from the tap within an hour. Mexican cities with good residual chlorine levels can provide good quality tap water at the meter - at 97% rates found in past studies. Alternately, those same studies show that about 25% of Mexican households have microbial contamination introduced between the meter and the kitchen sink tap. This means that if you use treated city water, and your cistern and tinaco are clean, and you ensure clean household plumbing by routine additions of bleach (1/2 cup per 110L/275 gal tinaco), then the water is likely fine. UV sterilizers can kill or maim pretty much all microbes, spores, and cysts, as long as: the residence time in the sterilizer is sufficiently long (no high flows), and if the UV bulb is less than a year old, and if the sleeve or UV bulb envelope is clean. Note that the water from a purifying system is no cleaner than the final spigot, where only some purifier's spigots are made of antibacterial materials. When thinking about kitchens, the salad, fruit and veg, and raw meat handling practices are far more important. Human excrement sewage waste and pig waste are very common fertilizers in Mexico, making it difficult to get produce and fruit clean - especially things that cannot be scrubbed, like spinach or lettuce. Microdyne and other soaks give us emotional comfort, but in reality, they only reduce the typical counts of pathological microbes by 80% on fruit and veg, and they do not work on 20%-50% of key pathogens like salmonella typhii. This means eating salads at a restaurant is likely our biggest source of GI problems. Dilute bleach solutions (1:20 - 1:50) are the best proven solutions for soaking fruit and veg. - as they kill cryptosporids like giardia (unlike bacdyne), they kill salmonella, and pretty much all pathogens we encounter. This still leaves the common problem of 60% of Mexican meats having salmonella contamination (based on past CDC studies). This means that the raw meat that touches cutting boards, your hands, knives, plates, grilling forks, etc contaminates these things with salmonella, unless you bleach them... Touching raw meat contaminates our hands, which then often touch the fridge handle or faucet tap handles.... Water borne contamination is not our major risk for GI upsets. Past CDC and university microbiological studies have shown that women's bathrooms are the biggest sources of pathological microbes in homes - especially the toilet handle, sink tap handles, door handle, and light switches. The second major area of home microbial-based illness is in the kitchen of a person who likes to wipe things down - without using a disinfectant every time. The third major area is the laundry, where 30% typical machines carry fecal bacteria from dirty clothes - where the user does not use bleach as their last load. People who use bleach in first and last loads, effectively disinfect their machines, while people who do not use bleach leave lots of microbes multiplying in the piping and pump when the machine sits unused. The final major source of home pathogenic microbial illnesses is the folks who dry their dishes with a dish cloth. The damp cloths are marvelous at spreading contamination from one dish to all the other subsequent dishes. Air dry instead. Finally, carbon filters do nothing to remove microbes, instead they provide condos for the microbes to live and multiply and particulate filters need to filter down to the 0.2 - 0.45 um (micron) range to remove pathogens, according to decades of lab tests. This level of filtration is not practical for producing household water, which is why RO, or UV, or ozone, or electrolysis, or distillation (boiling), or bleach are used to produce drinking water.