Long distance relationships can be weird and awkward no matter what time of year it is, but being in a long distance relationship on Valentine’s Day is basically the worst

The literature of psychology is filled with poignant terms, but the most poignant of them all may be this one: miswanting. Coined by social psychologists Daniel Gilbert and Timothy Wilson, the word describes our all-too-human tendency to desire things that make us unhappy and shun things that fulfill us. We're not very good at anticipating how our choices will end up affecting the way we behave and feel. And so, again and again, we eagerly set off in pursuit of disappointment.

The affliction of miswanting may seem far removed from today's world of smartphones, robots and artificial intelligence. But it explains a lot about our rush to automate our lives -- to hand off to computers tasks we used to do ourselves. In our personal lives, we look to software to direct us from one place to the next, to recommend which movie to watch and which person to date. At work, we're quick to offload even very sophisticated skills to robots or algorithms, rendering our own jobs more routine and less challenging. We expect that automation will free us up for more meaningful and satisfying activities, only to find it has the opposite effect.

Shortly before writing his celebrated 1990 book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, the psychology professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi conducted a study that revealed how miswanting distorts our sense of the value of work. Working with his colleague Judith LeFevre, he recruited a hundred employees from businesses around Chicago. Over the course of a week, the workers filed detailed reports on their lives, documenting the activities they engaged in, the talents they exercised and the emotions they experienced.

"We're actually happiest when we're absorbed in a difficult task, one that challenges us not only to exercise our talents but to stretch them."

The researchers were surprised by what they discovered. When people were at work, they were happier and felt more fulfilled by what they were doing than during their leisure hours. In their free time, they tended to feel bored and anxious. And yet they didn't like to be at work. When they were on the job, they expressed a strong desire to be off the job, and when they were off the job, the last thing they wanted was to go back to work.

"Needless to say," Csikszentmihalyi and LeFevre concluded, "such a blindness to the real state of affairs is likely to have unfortunate consequences for both individual well-being and the health of society." As people act on their warped perceptions, they will "try to do more of those activities that provide the least positive experiences and avoid the activities that are the source of their most positive and intense feelings." That's hardly a recipe for the good life.

We're actually happiest when we're absorbed in a difficult task, one that challenges us not only to exercise our talents but to stretch them. We become so immersed in the "flow" of our work, to use Csikszentmihalyi's term, that we tune out distractions and transcend the anxieties that plague our everyday lives. Our usually wayward attention becomes fixed on what we're doing. "Every action, movement and thought follows inevitably from the previous one," explains Csikszentmihalyi. "Your whole being is involved, and you're using your skills to the utmost."

"All too often, automation frees us from that which makes us feel free."

Such states of deep absorption can be produced by all manner of effort, from singing in a choir to racing a dirt bike. You don't have to be earning a wage to enjoy the transports of flow.

And yet, given the opportunity, we'll eagerly relieve ourselves of the rigors of labor. We'll sentence ourselves to idleness. Relieved of challenge, our discipline flags and our mind wanders. We get lazy. And then we get bored and fretful. Disengaged from any outward focus, our attention turns inward, and we end up locked in what Ralph Waldo Emerson called the jail of self-consciousness.

Our bias for ease over effort makes us particularly susceptible to the seductions of automation. By offering to reduce the amount of work we have to do, by promising to imbue our lives with greater comfort and convenience, computers appeal to our eager but misguided desire for release from what we perceive as toil. In the workplace, automation's focus on enhancing speed and efficiency -- a focus determined by the profit motive rather than by any concern for people's well-being -- often has the effect of removing complexity from jobs, diminishing the challenge they present and the engagement they promote.

"The deck is stacked, economically and emotionally, in automation's favor."

Automation can narrow people's responsibilities to the point that their jobs consist largely of monitoring a computer screen or entering data into templates. Even doctors, investment bankers and other highly trained professionals are seeing their work circumscribed by artificial-intelligence systems that turn the making of judgments into a data-processing routine.

The apps and other programs that we use in our private lives have similar effects. By taking over difficult or time-consuming tasks, or simply rendering those tasks less onerous, the software makes it even less likely that we'll engage in efforts that test our skills and give us a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction. All too often, automation frees us from that which makes us feel free.

The point is not that automation is bad. Labor-saving technologies have been progressing for centuries, and by and large our circumstances have improved greatly as a result. Deployed wisely, automation can relieve us of drudge work and spur us on to more fulfilling endeavors. The point is that we're not very good at thinking rationally about automation or understanding its implications. We don't know when to say "enough" or even "hold on a second." The deck is stacked, economically and emotionally, in automation's favor.

"How do you measure the expense of an erosion of effort and engagement, or a waning of agency and autonomy, or a subtle deterioration of skill?"

The costs are harder to pin down. How do you measure the expense of an erosion of effort and engagement, or a waning of agency and autonomy, or a subtle deterioration of skill? You can't. Those are the kinds of shadowy, intangible things that we rarely appreciate until after they're gone, and even then we may have trouble expressing the losses in concrete terms. But the losses are real, and as they mount, they begin to drain our lives not only of effort but of meaning.

Automation is not an event but a process. As technology advances, we are continually called on to renegotiate the division of labor between ourselves and our machines. As a society and as individuals, we can make these decisions wisely and attentive to the sources of human flourishing -- or we can make them rashly, thinking only about what computers can do for us. The danger in taking the latter course is that we may end up creating a world in which we don't want to live.

This was adapted from Carr's new book, The Glass Cage: Automation and Us.

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Cliffside Mayan ruins and lovely Caribbean waters have long made Tulum a popular excursion site for visitors from Cancun and the Riviera Maya.

But, these days, it’s also trending as a center of Mexico’s rustic luxury movement.

“Mexico continues to be incredibly strong for us. People are looking for boutique properties in special locations,” Zachary Rabinor, director general and CEO of Journey Mexico tells Travel Agent.

He adds, “High-end travelers are making a push toward rustic luxury or what I call the ‘haute hippy’ experience. Tulum is a focal point for that.”

Properties such as the beachfront Coqui Coqui Tulum are prime draws, said Rabinor.

The seven-room mini boutique features thatched-roof limestone structures and open-air architecture. Its spa incorporates aromatherapy oils and other products made on site. And eco-friendly touches such as solar power (candles-only lighting after dark) and repurposed building materials make it a celebrity draw as well.

"Travelers come to Tulum for its beautiful ruins and beach. But they find so much more. There's an authenticity here, a sense that this is the real Mexico,” Francesca Bonato, the owner of Coqui Coqui Residences and Spas, tells Travel Agent.

Sustainability is the theme of Tulum’s Las Ranitas, which uses wind-power and solar panels to generate electricity. Rooms and terraces at Las Ranitas (“the frogs”) feature views of the ocean and lush gardens. A walkway leads to the beach and a newly-added yoga fitness studio.

The owners of the new Mi Amor Boutique Hotel wanted to create a “chic and adventurous” property that pays tribute to top Mexican designers. Rooms include Nespresso coffee machines, rain showers and wireless Bluetooth Bose speakers. But the seafront and jungle views are designed to inspire a return to nature. Another plus: hotel chef Brian Sernatinger is a veteran of New York’s Gramercy Tavern and chef Tom Colicchio’s Craft.

Of course, not every property in Tulum offers the type of amenities luxury travelers expect.

“Tulum is known for barefoot luxury. A lot of the hotels may not have air conditioning. There may be critters running around. You have to really know what you’re selling. And you have to let your client know what Tulum is all about,” said Hope Smith, owner of Born2Travel in Montrose, CA.

“The luxury that draws people there is the beauty of being right on the beach. It’s luxury insofar as you’re removed from other people and the mass-market experience of Cancun and the Riviera Maya. Another advantage is that you are closer to other Mayan destinations such as Coba and the Xian Ka’an biosphere. You’re in nature, you’re not surrounded by discos,” said Smith.

While Pacific coast destinations such as Sayulita attract a similar clientele, Tulum’s ease of access is a big advantage. Though it’s a 75 mile drive from the Cancun International Airport, it benefits from the frequent airlift.

“There are a ton of flights to Cancun. That gives the Caribbean coast a big advantage over places such as Puerto Vallarta and the Riviera Nayarit,” said Rabinor.

“The Riviera Maya is operated by one government. You don’t have the struggle for resources that you have with Puerto Vallarta and the Riviera Nayarit, which are in different states,” he added.

And though “lots of exciting developments are in the works for the Pacific coast,” Rabinor predicts Tulum will remain Mexico’s go-to spot for a while.

“Right now, Tulum feels like the most popular place on the planet,” said Rabinor.

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Threatened animals like elephants, porpoises and lions grab all the headlines, but what’s happening to monarch butterflies is nothing short of a massacre. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service summed it up in just one grim statistic on Monday: Since 1990, about 970 million have vanished.

It happened as farmers and homeowners sprayed herbicides on milkweed plants, which serve as the butterflies’ nursery, food source and home. In an attempt to counter two decades of destruction, the Fish and Wildlife Service launched a partnership with two private conservation groups, the National Wildlife Federation and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, to basically grow milkweed like crazy in the hopes of saving the monarchs.

Monarch butterflies are a keystone species that once fluttered throughout the United States by the billions. They alighted from Mexico to Canada each spring on a trek that required six generations of the insect to complete. Afterward, young monarchs about the quarter of the weight of a dime, that know nothing about the flight pattern through the United States, not to mention Mexico, fly back, resting, birthing and dining on milkweed.

The extinction of certain butterfly species is not unheard of. The blueberry-colored Xerces blue disappeared from San Francisco years ago, and recently Fish and Wildlife announced that two subspecies — the rockland skipper and Zestos in South Florida — haven’t been seen since 2004 and are probably extinct. On top of that, pesticide use has also caused a collapse of other pollinators — wasps, beetles and especially honeybees.

Fish and Wildlife is reviewing a petition filed by the Center for Biological Diversity to list monarch butterflies as an endangered species that requires special protection to survive. The agency is studying whether that’s necessary and also trying to do more to help restore the population.

The agency is granting $2 million to the federation to raise awareness about the need for milkweed, provide seeds to anyone willing to plant it and to plant the seeds in open space — roadsides, parks, forests and patio flower boxes, to name a few places. Another $1.2 million will go to the foundation as seed money to generate a larger fundraising match from private organizations.

Fish and Wildlife will chip in to plant milkweed seeds in refuges and other areas it controls to create 200,000 acres of habitat along the Interstate 35 corridor from Texas to Minnesota, where 50 percent of monarchs migrate. Fish and Wildlife will encourage other federal and state agencies to do the same on public lands and is working with the governments of Mexico and Canada to help restore the iconic butterfly.

The monarch butterfly’s round trip to and from Mexico takes it pass a killing field of agriculture. But farmers aren’t entirely to blame for the insect’s decline, said Dan Ashe, director of Fish and Wildlife. “We’ve all been responsible. We are the consumers of agricultural products. I eat corn. American farmers are not the enemy. Can they be part of the solution? Yes,” Ashe said.

“It’s not about this wonderful, mystical creature,” Ashe said. “It’s about us.”

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) underscored that point in her remarks during the announcement of the partnership at the National Press Club in Washington. Her mother, a second-grade teacher, was wild about monarch butterflies, Klobuchar said, so much so that she dressed as one each year to call attention to their return flight home. Her mother carried a sign, Klobuchar said, “Mexico or bust.”

“This is something that means a lot to my family,” the senator said. “My mother would want me to do this.” Klobuchar said her role is to help the foundation bring private partners to the effort and help the Fish and Wildlife Service however she can to persuade public entities to get involved. Minnesota, she said, has a monarch festival each year.

Collin O’Mara, president of the National Wildlife Federation, said momentum is building. Charlotte and St. Louis, he said, are two cities that declared themselves as sanctuaries for monarchs.

O’Mara said homeowners can do the same. The federation makes milkweed seeds available to people who want to plant them in gardens. O’Mara said there are milkweed plants at his home, and at his mother’s home, and they often see monarch butterflies climbing on them.

But if the new effort generates widespread interest, the federation might find it hard to keep up with demand. Not enough seeds are available, and not just any seed can survive anywhere. Milkweed seeds grow everywhere in the United States, but they grow better when adapted to local conditions, he said.

“I have a 3-year-old whose eyes pop wide open” when she sees monarchs crawling on leaves in their back yard, O’Mara said. “This is one of those keystone species. These are things that don’t make headlines, but they are indicators that something bigger is happening.”

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Nayarit’s government with DIF Nayarit System headed by Ana Lilia Lopez de Sandoval delivered more than one million pesos – close to US $ 69,000 - in groceries in Santiago Escuintla. The purpose of such donation is to provide children with good and nutritious food so that boys and girls six years and younger may grow up healthy, with the right size and the right weight according to their age.

Deliverance of this donation was made at the start of the “No Hunger” National Campaign, by Zaira Rivera Veliz, General Director of DIF Jalisco, who was accompanied by Liliana Elizabeth Gomez Meza, SEDESOL federal delegate, and other authorities. Rivera Veliz acknowledged President Enrique Pena Nieto’s and Governor Roberto Sandoval Castañeda’s hard work on behalf of Nayarit’s children.

“These are the second and third food deliveries, and we have Governor Sandoval and President Enrique Pena Nieto to thank for; this is how they respond to your needs. This is for Santiago’s children whom we should feed and nourish so that they can reach the right weight and size that goes with their age,” say Rivera Veliz.

She also added: “there are 557 boys and girls in Santiago Escuintla community who are receiving six groceries baskets. When families get home and see their six month food supplies, they realize the economic benefit they get with these donations, thanks to the work of Governor Roberto Sandoval.”

A total of six communities were beneficiaries. Angelica Maria Gutierrez, upon receiving her supplies commented: “I welcome the food donations they give us, it brings a good variety of food like beans, sugar, tuna fish, rice, everything needed for my daughter to eat nutritiously and healthy; because of this donation I save a lot of money, and with that money I can buy other things I also need.”

While touring Rosamorada accompanied by her husband Roberto Sandoval Castañeda, Ana Lilia delivered grocery baskets, wheel chairs, walkers and a vehicle equipped for disabled people and senior citizens.

She also had the opportunity to witness up front, the results of programs such as United Homes, where women are trained in a skill that allows them to bring some extra income to the family by working from home.

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The symbolic Jalisco drink, Tequila, and its millenary production process, became another one of Puerto Vallarta’s attractions with the opening of Viva Tequila Experience Tour which started its activities last Saturday, February 7.

FedEx Trade Networks, the freight forwarding and customs brokerage sector of FedEx Corp., is adding to its trade lanes with Mexico and South America. There are two new routes originating in Frankfurt, Gemany; one goes to Mexico City and Guadalajara and the other flies to São Paulo and Campinas, Brazil. Other new destinations are Hong Kong to Mexico City and Guadalajara, and Dallas to Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey.

“ Mexico and Brazil are two strong examples of key markets for the automotive, aircraft and electronic industries, and we are very focused on providing total end-to-end international freight forwarding solutions and greater market access in the area,” said John Gazitua, managing director for FedEx Trade Networks, Latin America-Caribbean region. The Germany-to-Mexico route bridges businesses to manufacturing and high-tech hubs in Mexico.

The service consolidates and moves cargo from Frankfurt International Airport to Mexico City and Guadalajara. Frankfurt to Brazil delivers goods to São Paulo and Viracopos/Campinas. The air consolidation service also includes helping customers avoid delays by having consignees and their brokers verify shipping documents before arrival. The Hong Kong flights go into Mexico City and Guadalajara five days a week. The U.S.-to-Mexico trade lane also includes moving cargo from FedEx Trade Networks in Dallas to Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey airports by truck. Additionally, in addition to airport-to-airport service, FedEx trade networks provides airport-to-door, door-to-airport and door-to-door pricing options.

This expansion is due to an increase in trade between the Asia-Pacific region and Latin America, which, FedEx reports, has grown at an average annual rate of 20 percent. Trade between the European Union and Latin America has doubled to approximately US$280 billion in the past 10 years

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USA Today, The New York Times and Yahoo News from the United States; Canada’s Vancouver Sun and the UK’s Huffington Post generated millions of impacts for the destination during the first month of the year.

The start of 2015 couldn’t have been better for the Rivera Nayarit as far as public relations are concerned: at least eight of the most important dailies in the United States, Canada and the UK have included Mexico’s Pacific Treasure in its headlines.

The sum total of the circulation and unique monthly impressions derived from these publications is well over 40 million positive impressions about the destination—all thanks to the efforts of the Riviera Nayarit Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB).

The majority of the publications were in the United States. USA Today—the country’s most important daily with over 38 million unique monthly visitors—published Mark Rogers’ 11th article on the destination, an ongoing result of the FAM trip he took in December 2013.

Yahoo Travel caused a stir with its article titled “Forget Cabo: This is Mexico’s New Playground,” referring to the Riviera Nayarit. The New York Times dedicated space to the ISA World Stand Up Paddle and Paddleboard Championship, which is set to take place in Sayulita. The New York Post and The Huffington Post—also in the US—published their own pieces about the wonders of the Riviera Nayarit.

The United Kingdom has proven to be a very important emerging market. The Huffington Post UK, with an average of 4,600,000 unique monthly visitors, declared its fascination with the region’s gastronomy. The Daily Mail, also in the UK, wrote about Gwyneth Paltrow’s recent visit to the Riviera Nayarit.

Meanwhile in Canada, that country’s most important daily—The Vancouver Sun—published an article titled “Riviera Nayarit Wonderland,” a product of the FAM trip organized by the Iberostar Playa Mita Hotel.

The CVB reaffirmed its commitment to attract more tourism that benefits the people of Nayarit through the exposure generated via these wide-reaching media, particularly in these three English-language countries, which are positioned among the top four destinations of origin for visitors to the Riviera Nayarit.

Below please find links to the articles:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/rupert-parker/mexico-travel-ideas_b_6448628.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-lifestyle&ir=UK+Lifestyle&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2929922/Inside-Gwyneth-Paltrow-s-14-500-week-beach-house-little-known-Mexican-surf-spot-s-haven-stars.html

https://www.yahoo.com/travel/punta-mita-mexicos-new-playground-107229614397.html

http://experience.usatoday.com/beach/story/mexico/2015/01/12/best-beaches-mexico-pacific-coast/21463023/

http://nypost.com/2014/12/29/3-ways-to-play-in-punta-de-mita/

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/travel/the-year-ahead-in-extreme-sports.html?_r=0

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-schulman/puerto-vallarta-riviera-n_b_6479486.html

http://o.canada.com/travel/the-laid-back-life-the-pacific-coast-paradise-of-riviera-nayarit.

http://www.vancouversun.com/travel/Riviera+Nayarit+Wonderland/10696834/story.html.

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The second annual “Brain Games” is coming this Friday, February 13. ASPV students from the primary and secondary school will participate in various events which require them to think critically & creatively as a team, to solve problems in a field-day like format. Parents are encouraged to come cheer and watch our students while they participate in their events.

Lower School competition will take place in the basketball court in front of the stage.

Upper School competition will take place in and around the secondary school area.

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After decades of successful business and community work, Scott Flores now offers apprenticeships so that young Latinos pursuing technical and vocational careers will find it easier to get a job.

For slightly more than 20 years, Flores has been CEO of Die Cut Technologies in Northglenn, a Denver suburb, where he employs 22 people, most of them disabled.

Upon learning some time ago that a young man with a certain disability was looking for a job but couldn't find one because companies had no one to supervise him, Flores hired him and then struck a deal with the Easter Seals charity to supervise him.

That supervisor soon became a recruiter and, since then, Die Cut Technologies, founded in 1961 by Flores' father and dedicated to producing industrial parts, adapted his factory to the needs of his disabled employees.

Flores, a former president of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of metro Denver, was on the board of the Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options, where he focused on studying "the high social cost" of young people who, lacking the studies to get a decent job, depend on social programs and public aid.

"Anybody who doesn't finish high school is twice as likely to need free medical assistance and have run-ins with the law," Flores said.

Due to his experience of adapting his factory to employees' needs and not the other way around, and his genuine wish to help young people, in 2009 Flores began to analyze the possibilities of educating youths in a business context, but with academically acceptable certifications and degrees.

By late 2014, that project was transformed into a new non-profit called The Master's Apprentice, whose goal was to "teach our pre-apprentices the basic knowledge they need to enter the labor force and help them obtain the certifications that employers require."

"It's something we have to do in order to help the next generation, because these young people are our future," Flores told Efe.

The organization, supervised by Flores, works with young people between ages 18-24, who are paid $150 per week to attend a 12-week course. When they graduate, they receive a $500 grant to enroll in a formal vocational studies program like plumbing, electricity, carpentry, blacksmithing, heating and air conditioning.

"Recently (Jan. 29) we graduated our first group of six young people. One was Omar, 22, whose teachers told him not to bother going to college. He had been working in a hamburger restaurant for four years when he came to us," Flores said.

"We soon discovered he had great potential - he was outstanding in math and had a great work ethic. Now he's an apprentice electrician. In a few weeks he doubled his income and when he completes the necessary certifications, he is already assured of a job paying almost $50,000 a year and with no university debts to pay off," he said. EFE

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Relatives raise their fists while holding pictures of some of the 43 trainee teachers who disappeared four months ago, during a demonstration to demand justice for their disappearance, in Chilpancingo, in the Mexican state of Guerrero, Feb. 5, 2015. President Enrique Pena Nieto's government has said the trainee teachers were killed on the orders of a drug cartel who mistook them for members of a rival gang. Reuters

The president of a Canadian mining operation in Mexico said the reports several of the company’s employees were kidnapped Saturday were false, the Associated Press reported. A state official said at least 12 people, including several miners, had been abducted by kidnappers dressed as police or military personnel. Another government spokesperson said at least some captives had been released.

However, officials for the mining operation said the company had confirmed several of its employees who allegedly had been taken had not gone missing. "One may be involved, but because of a family matter. It has nothing to do with the mine," Fred Stanford, president of Torex Gold Resources Inc., based in Toronto, told the AP. The company has about 250 employees working in the area and at least 1,000 contract workers.

At least 12 people were said to have been abducted Saturday in the southern state of Guerrero, local media reported. The alleged kidnapping took place near the city of Iguala, 120 miles south of Mexico City, where dozens of college students were reportedly butchered and burned by local police in September. The massacre sparked a series of protests directed at authorities as well as President Enrique Peña Nieto, who had promised to address widespread corruption among the country’s law enforcement communities. Police have often been accused of being in cahoots with local gangs and the country’s notorious drug cartels.

The Mexican government officially declared the 43 students dead in January. "The government of the republic profoundly laments these series of events," Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam said during a press conference Jan. 27. "From day one, we have been in solidarity with the pain of the families and the victims as well as with our responsibility to bring those who did this to justice. We are committed to hand down a punishment that is reasonable within the law, but that also serves as an example and assures that these kinds of crimes are not repeated."

Drug violence in Mexico rose sharply beginning in 2006 following former Mexican President Felipe Calderón’s large-scale effort to crack down on the country’s drug traffickers, the Council on Foreign Relations said. Homicides spiked to around 120,000 under Calderón, twice as many as during the previous president’s term. Organized crime killings made up an estimated 30 percent to 60 percent of all homicides before 2013.

Last week, the editor of El Manana, a newspaper in the Mexican border city of Matamoros, was dragged from his office and beaten by members of the local Gulf Cartel, who were reportedly angered by the newspaper’s running stories about deadly gunfights in the area. Editor Enrique Juarez Torres told the AP the beating "was a warning.”

Additionally, two Americans reportedly vanished in Matamoros, which is on the border with Texas, last week while visiting their grandmother. Investigators have tried locating the vehicle in which the men had been driving, Fox News Latino reported.

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Governor Renovates Adult Education Centers

Governor Roberto Sandoval Castañeda was present at the opening of Nayarit National Institute of Adult Education (INEA) renovated Community Center, in the community of Chilapa, Rosamorada Municipality, where young and adults 15 years and over who were not able to finish their studies in the regular school system, are able to complete their basic education.

The State official said that at this new area, young and adults will have the opportunity to either initiate or to continue their studies and is also the place where they will find the tools they need to become part of the work force; “this will be a sanctuary to many people, and this is the first one that has been renovated. I am happy this is happening in Chilapa, a town I value a lot because it is here where the future of so many people will be built,” said the official.

Furthermore, Lyda Somerville Zepeda, Director of Nayarit National Institute of Adult Education said that during 2014 last three quarters, Nayarit went from the 19th to the 14th position at national level in literacy, and informed that they have been successful in getting the approval to renovate 20 buildings, among Community Centers and state regional coordinators offices.

She also mentioned that 60 % of students attending INEA are 50 or older.

The Governor presented the town with what he considers to be a display of the campaign to renovate Adult Education Centers which is going on all over the country; he also acknowledged that three hundred thousand pesos (close to US $21,000.00) were invested in the renovation of this Center.

“I am proud – he said - of people like you who have a mission in life: to continue on preparing yourselves and acquiring more knowledge to become a better person. To all INEA educators I say, your mission is to bring back the hope, love and affection of all those who were not able to study before but today are proud to receive their certificates.”

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