December 17th, 2014
Time: 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Location: Col. Buenos Aires

The clinic this week is in Col. Buenos Aires.
From the Tunnel road, turn at the traffic light, towards Paso Ancho.
At clinic is at the ironworkers business.

No food or water for 12 hours prior to surgery.
Free clinic, donations accepted.
Wed, Thurs, Fri - 9 AM to 2 PM
Sat - 9 AM to Noon

When was the last time you made the most of your creative skills?

Often, creativity gets overlooked amid the daily demands we face. We’re just so busy that there never seems time to think, invent, or create.

But being creative can help us be innovative, can lead us to inspire others, and can be hugely satisfying, as well as fun.
It can also help us stay productive as it gives us a chance to recharge and think differently.

Now’s the time to take your creative project, dust it off, and commit some time to it.

Maybe you’ve been meaning for the whole year to get around to writing that book – but have never quite found the time to get started.

Or perhaps your art has been put to the bottom of the list again and again this year – something else always taking priority.

Often we get caught up in a cycle of work, work, and more work. And sure enough, every time we tune into our email, social media, or smartphone, there’ll be someone asking a question, or making a demand. The information stream never stops, and if we’re not careful, we can spend all of our time listening and responding to it.

But if you want to pursue a creative project, you need to get smart and fence off some time for it.

Step back for an hour, a day, or a week, and let the creative side of yourself have some time and attention for a change.

After all, who knows what you might create?

What is it that you’re interested in creating? Do you want to write, draw, or paint? Or photograph, design, or act?

As the new year approaches, it’s a great time of year to think about what you really want to spend your time on. Where do you want to place your energy? What deserves your attention?

The end of one year and the start of the next are the perfect time for this, as another work demands gradually slow down.

We’re in the mood to set goals, reassess and get motivated. What better time to start something new and exciting?

Rather than just consuming information, as we often spend so much time doing, by stepping back from scrolling, searching and sending, we can draw on inspiration and create.

There’s satisfaction in the creative process itself, and it’s refreshing too.

Back in the workplace you’re also likely to think more creatively and be more productive.

These creative thinking skills are a valuable asset, as innovation is being neglected in many businesses as people get caught up in information overload, leaving no time and space to think.

So why not use the end of 2014 and the start of 2015 to get creative? It’s a great way to see out one year, and welcome the next.

At the end of the year, I’ll be guiding a group of writers through this process, and I can’t wait for the writing sparks to fly.

Frances Booth is running a free Winter Writing Workshop in association with Do What You Love from 29th December to 4th January. Sign up here to register to take part

Contributor Frances Booth I write about digital distraction and productivity in a digital world.

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Roam Mobility has expanded its wireless network to enable Canadian travellers to enjoy affordable talk, text, and data in Mexico and even more areas of the U.S.

VANCOUVER, Dec. 2, 2014 /CNW/ - Roam Mobility, the leading independent provider of roaming services for Canadians, announced today that they are expanding their existing coverage area—which spans the U.S. - to include Mexico.

Starting December 10, 2014, Canadians can stay connected in Mexico with talk, text, and data at rates up to 95% below those charged by major wireless carriers. Coverage is nationwide and includes popular vacation spots such as Cancùn, Playa del Carmen, Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico City, and Tijuana.

"Mexico is a very popular travel destination among Canadian travellers, second only to the US, so making affordable talk, text, and data available in this region was a priority for us," says Emir Aboulhosn, CEO of Roam Mobility. "We're excited to offer coverage in time for the Christmas holidays and spring break—two of the busiest times of the year for travel to Mexico."

Roam customers can choose from three 7-day plans:

50 talk minutes, 50 sent texts and 50MB of data for $25
125 talk minutes, 125 sent texts and 125MB of data for $50
200 talk minutes, 200 sent texts and 200MB of data for $125
All plans offer data speeds up to 4G, unlimited incoming texts, calls to Mexico, the U.S., and Canada, and extra features such as caller ID, call waiting, MMS and voicemail.

Roaming plans for Mexico can be accessed with the same rechargeable Roam Mobility SIM card used for access to Roam's U.S. roaming network. For a limited time, Roam SIM cards are on sale for $9.95 or $14.95 for two.

"As we continue to expand our network for Canadian travellers, our SIM cards will continue to offer more value and convenience," explains Aboulhosn. "Widening the network and continuing to reduce prices even further is our priority."

New Enhanced Coverage

In addition to launching a Mexico-wide network, Roam Mobility is also introducing Enhanced Coverage for its U.S. roaming network.

Starting December 17, 2014, Roam customers can purchase an Enhanced Coverage add-on to supplement their regular plan and ensure coverage in areas the network does not currently cover so they can always stay connected.

The Enhanced Coverage add-on enables travellers passing through Alaska, Michigan, Maine, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Wyoming, Kansas, West Virginia, and Eastern Washington State to stay reliably connected to Roam's network.

When scheduling a Talk+Text or Talk+Text+Data plan, Roam customers will have the option of adding the Enhanced Coverage add-on for just $1 per day for 20 minutes of talk, unlimited text, and 10MB of data per day to use in any of the Enhanced Coverage areas.

About Roam Mobility: Based in Vancouver, Canada, Roam Mobility is a telecommunications provider focused on delivering innovative, affordable solutions and products for mobile users around the world. For more information about Roam Mobility, please visit http://www.roammobility.com or visit us on Facebook and Twitter @RoamMobility.

SOURCE Roam Mobility Inc.

Puerto Vallarta, Jal.-cultural brigades of the Puerto Vallarta Institute of culture (IVC) are still present in the popular colonies of Puerto Vallarta with the aim of offering workshops and artistic dynamics for free, as part of the directions given by the municipal government, to rescue public spaces and bring the cultural offer to the population.

This time team arrived in the Green Valley of the delegation Las Palmas colony, to offer a children's painting workshop taught by Ernesto Garrigos and the colony La mine de Ixtapa, of drawing by Moisés Leiva. The response was very positive and an average of 80 people, adults and children gathered in the two events.

Also activities were also present in the Rancho shell colony, sixty students benefited directly from Jesús Ramírez classes; at the same time, in La Aguacatera, a reading by Francisco Carmona and painting by Arturo Sánchez workshop was provided to approximately 50 students.

Neighbors gathered at the workshops, with the participation, they lived and learned simple techniques to exploit their creativity in an unbeatable opportunity for turning public space into an extension of the home

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MEXICO: The federal Secretariat of Communications & Transport has awarded Alstom and CPVM, a subsidiary of OHL of Spain, a €380m contract to supply railway systems for Line 3 of the Guadalajara light rail network. Announcing the award on December 1, Alstom said that its share of the contract was worth €240m.

Alstom is to supply a fleet of 18 Metropolis train sets, high-voltage and traction substations and communications systems. Signalling and train control will be based on Alstom’s Urbanism 400 CBTC.

Expected to cost a total of €1∙06bn, Line 3 will be 21∙5 km in length and serve 18 stations. It is expected to double the capacity of the
Guadalajara network to around 233 000 passengers/day.

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Mexican passport may actually have a lot more value than what you accord it at the moment. According to the most recent global index of international passports, citizens of Mexico had visa-free access or visa on arrival access to over 130 countries and territories. This ranks the Mexican passport 23rd in the world among countries with the highest number of access to other countries and territories visa-free or with visa issuance on arrival.What this means is that you wouldn’t need to apply for visa to travel to any of the countries listed below; simply pack your bags and take off and you could stay up to the stipulated length of days.

However, it is necessary that you verify with the embassy of the country you are planning on travelling to very close to the time of your travel because visa requirements change frequently. Below is a list of countries where Mexico nationals with Mexican passports are not required to secure a visa to visit.

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Have a Facebook fan page? Looking for an easy way to engage fans and turn “likes” into leads? One way to convert “likes” into email opt-ins is to create and run a Facebook contest. Contests are an excellent way to generate virality and build your email list. Whether you are running a random draw Facebook sweepstakes or a voter-based video contest, Facebook contests can generate more buzz and create strong brand awareness via social media.

In this article, I’ll show you how to run a successful Facebook contest, as well as provide suggestions for maximizing the utility of your contest. Before we start, take a look at the Squaw Valley contest set up below.

I will be using the Squaw Valley page as an example throughout this article, because their Sochi Daily Giveaway (created by Out and About Marketing/Milena Regos on the Heyo campaign editor) was wildly successful based on its campaign goals. Check out our Squaw Valley case study for more information on how their page works.

Pre-Contest Planning: Keep Your Goals in Mind Something that will help with the following steps is starting out with a solid plan for your Facebook contest. Why are you running this contest? Are you trying to generate likes or gather contact information? Who is your ideal fan, and what are they going to be interested in? Are there any events going on in the world that are relevant to your product (like the Winter Olympics for Squaw Valley)? Planning out your goals like this will keep you on track. Always keep your goals and fans in mind when creating and launching a Facebook contest.

Step 1: Pick a (Relevant) Prize Why are your fans, well, fans? What is it that they would be interested in that would also interest potential fans? The prize is the thing; without a good prize, your contest will likely not generate the sort of feedback you want to see. There isn’t really one prize set up that will work for every business. The key to picking a good prize is a strong knowledge of your business and your audience. Wingnit Corporate has a excellent prize, shown below.

The easiest way to think about this is to work with an example, so we’ll use the Squaw Valley contest as an example. Squaw Valley is a ski resort in California. It’s average customer is likely a skier or snowboarder in the United States. They may also want to appeal to international customers, but that decision would have to be made based on data about their fan base – do they have enough of an international presence to warrant special attention given to international customers? If not, they will want to restrict the contest to the United States. Knowing this, Squaw Valley has a few options:

Run a contest offering a free day of skiing

Run a contest offering free skiing or snowboarding equipment

Both of these prize options are good, because they are relevant to both a) current customers and b) potential new customers, and they are exciting prizes. Relevant, exciting prizes generate more interest, and encourage fans to share the contest with their friends. Common Mistakes: Offering your service or product as a prize. This is a common issue our customers run into – they offer their specific services or products as a prize, but don’t see the conversion they’d like. The key is in your fan base. If you have a small fan base, you are unlikely to bring in new fans by offering a prize specific to your business. Instead, think about your audience. If you are an accountant, for instance, looking to create a contest with appeal to an audience of primarily middle-aged men, here are two ways to go:

Exciting Prize: A free day of golf at a local country club

Less Exciting Prize: A free consultation with your accounting business

The “exciting” choice here is best because it’s, well, more exciting than a free accounting consultation. This means more people will enter their email address for a chance to win and also share your contest with their friends.

Moreover, the exciting prize still addresses the target demographic by being relevant to that group and geographically limiting (which ensures that entrants are local to your area). So, while your ultimate goal is to get more business for your growing accounting agency, the ‘day of golf’ prize will bring in many more leads that each have the potential to turn into lifelong customers.

Offering a product with wide appeal outside of your business. Yes, offering an iPad as a contest prize is going to generate a ton of interest (and even a lot of likes, if you utilize a like gate). However, it is unlikely that those likes will be actual fans, leaving you with an inflated like count and empty leads.

Step 2: Pick an Entry Method There are many different entry methods possible for your Facebook contest. It is now possible to run a contest both on specific landing pages and in your timeline. The advantage to running a News Feed contest is that fans can easily enter by either commenting or liking the contest post. You can also easily involve fans in the contest by counting likes as votes for entries. If you are solely interested in generating fan engagement on your Facebook page, then this option might be the best for you. However, you won’t be able to gather contact information from fans, which is extremely valuable. Landing page contests gather information for you. Contests or sweepstakes run on dedicated pages can require one of several entry methods, including:

Contact Information: Asking the fan to submit an email address as a method of entry. You can also ask for the fan’s name or other contact information, though contests typically only require the email. This entry method works well with “random draw” sweepstakes.

Contact Information and Creative Submission: Asking the fan for their contact information, as well as a submission based on the entry rules. This is common for video and photo contests.

Like and Contact Information: Asking the fan to like the page to see the contest, as well as providing contact information. This can be done using like gates or adding a ‘like this page’ step to your entry instructions.

Contact Information and Friend Referral: Asking a fan to refer the contest or sweepstakes to their friend in order for their entry to count. This boosts both entries to your sweepstakes or contest, and increases sharing among your fans.

Of course, this is not an exhaustive list, but these methods are more common and easy to implement.

Step 3: Create Your Contest Facebook does not allow businesses to publish their own contests. Therefore, work with a 3rd party app (like Heyo) to create and publish your Facebook contest. You’ll want to create a simple campaign that attracts attention. Here are a few suggestions for creating a visually engaging campaign:

Feature your product or business. This may seem like a no-brainer, but you’d be surprised. If you are promoting a specific product, feature images of said product. Make sure the image is high quality and taken at a large enough pixel count so that you can resize the image in your campaign without worrying about pixelation.

Include a graphic of the prize. Make sure you include an informative graphic about the prize you are offering. If your are offering a service, for instance, you might want to include an image of what that service is or does. As another example, if you are offering free bike tire repair, include a relevant image of a bike, or perhaps the inside of your shop.

Make the entry form prominent. Make entering your contest as easy as looking at the page. Entry forms should ask for the fan’s email address at the very least. Other information you might want to ask for are name and contest entry (photo/video/essay/etc).

Add like and share buttons. Include steps encouraging fans to like, share, and tweet about your contest. This will bring more people to your page, increase contest entries, and increase the likes on your page.
Include “social proof”. People are more likely to enter a contest if they see that people they can trust have also entered a contest. Include a leader board, perhaps, with pictures of the current leaders, or include testimonials from past contest winners. This step is most easily implemented in referral sweepstakes and creative submission contests, as you can include referral counters and/or voting pages with pictures of fans that have already entered.

Pro Tip: Create urgency on your campaign. You can’t run a contest continually – it will have to end sometime. It’s important to create this sense of urgency on your contest, because urgency drives action in the sea of distractions that is social media. An excellent way to do this is to include a countdown clock, like the one pictured below.

Squaw Valley kept their count down clock in line with their contest graphic, so that it is among the first things a fan sees when they click on the contest page. We recommend running contests in 15 day increments, to keep this urgency around your campaigns.

Step 4: Promote Your Contest This is unarguably the most important part of running a Facebook contest. Once you’ve launched your campaign, promote it! Post about it on your news feed, mention it on your blog, and link to it on your website. The initial growth will involve sharing the contest with friends and co-workers, but you may find that you need a promotional boost. A few options include:

Send out a mass email. If you already have an email list set up, use that to get the word out to your fan base. They may already be leads, but the more you get the word out, the more consumers you have sharing your contest with their friends.

Promote the campaign on your website. Make a banner and link it to your Facebook page. Write a blog post about the contest and link to the entry form. This is a great way to ensure that people who regularly visit your site and/or follow your RSS feed get the news.

Send your contest out on social networks. Tweet, pin, and share on as many social networks as you can. Create links to your campaign appropriate to each site (i.e. a relevant picture for Instagram and Pinterest) and send the word out.

Use Facebook Ads. Using the Facebook Advertising page, create targeted ads and boost your posts based on audience demographics, as well as what your goals are (like page likes or post engagement) to generate the feedback you want to see. Facebook allows you to set your budget, as well, so that you can run ads cheaply.

You can also make Facebook ads or post the contest to contest aggregation sites, which are beneficial if they fit in with your promotional plan. Structuring your campaign so that it generates free traffic – so that it’s self-sustaining – is the best way to generate like conversion, because it turns fans into a marketing force. As mentioned before, you can generate more interest by including share, tweet, and like buttons in your contest entry steps to keep the marketing ball rolling. Tip: Promote your contest on your page’s timeline. There are a few ways you can draw attention to your contest when you launch it.

You can make a custom cover image, for example, promoting the contest, as well as visually linking it to the contest tab in some way. One way to do this is by using similar naming and color conventions for both the image and tab; another is to include an arrow pointing to the contest tab. I’ve included an example from Squaw Valley’s fan page below, illustrating this concept.

Quick Note: Monitor your campaign. Depending on your campaign goals, you may want to monitor your campaign. Below are a few suggestions on how to monitor your contest while it’s up and running.

Facebook Page Insights will allow you to see who is visiting your page and how they are engaging with your content. You can access Page Insights from your admin view on your fan page.

Google Analytics will track who is visiting your page, how long they leave your page open, what sites fans go to afterwards, and a plethora of other data. Google Analytics is free to use, and can be integrated with campaigns using the UA code provided by Google. For more information on Google Analytics and Heyo, check out our video here.

Step 5: Pick a Winner, and Follow Up The follow up on a Facebook contest is crucial. Along with announcing the winner, you can also continue to promote your fan page and keep your fans engaged. Some ideas on further promotion include:

Post a “Winner Profile” on your Facebook fan page. This works best with fan-content contests. Not only will the winner appreciate this sort of post, but it will lend “social proof” – a way of proving to fans that didn’t participate in this contest that real people do win.

Send out a follow-up email to those who entered. You collected emails – use ‘em! Sending out a follow-up email to your fans will create momentum for your next campaign. Make sure you include a link to your Winner Profile

Announce your next contest. Get your fans excited by announcing your plans for future contests. Will you be running one once a month? Twice a year? Let them know! This will help generate excitement and encourage your fans to stay involved in your fan page.

This follow up will help your next contest or sweepstakes gain momentum early and keep fans engaged with your fan page with updates on the next campaign.

That’s it! You’re ready to start running a contest on Facebook. So start thinking of a contest plan. Create an ‘ideal fan’ profile to work with, list out your contest goals, and pick your prize. You are well on your way to creating and running a successful sweepstakes or contest on Facebook.

Started fresh nights and dawns cold season - what are the high summer temperatures - in which thermometers can reach 14 centigrade degrees, what natives resent and acclimated to the high temperatures of the coast, so the sector health calls on the population to care for sudden variations of temperature to keep the air conditioning all day or use the fan on during the night.

The health sector in Jalisco announced since late October began the annual vaccination campaign against influenza, for the period autumn - winter 2014; the application of the biological starts in October and ends in March 2015, which is the season that coincides with a period of low temperatures, you favourable to the proliferation of respiratory infections such as influenza.

It is ideal to go to get the vaccine during October and November, prior to the period of December so arrival this time, the body has generated sufficient antibodies to deal with diseases that affect the respiratory system.

THOSE WHO BENEFIT MOST

The anti-influenza vaccine applies to population groups that most require, among them children six months to five years, patients with chronic diseases such as diabetic, hypertensive patients, people with HIV/AIDS or any debilitating disease of the immune system, pregnant women and older adults.

The goal established regarding dose to apply this year amounts to one million two thousand 705 doses and is expected to reach 80 percent for the month of December.

So far the vaccine demand has been lower than expected, so the health sector reiterated that pregnant women, children and the elderly are the most vulnerable need doses sufficient for all, mainly, and who can have the benefits of the biological as a preventive measure against respiratory disease.

For the winter Plan, the Federation marks that Jalisco must apply at least 200 million vaccines on their territory, but an effort to apply more, will become because you want to reach more people with risk factors, such as the obese, that it suffers from seven of every 10 Jalisco.

For more than one month, the SSJ received the first 450 thousand one million 200 thousand doses arriving in the State this year. The campaign gave began on October 14 with the application of biological to pregnant women in communities around Guadalajara its metropolitan area and municipalities of the sierra with low temperatures and greater shortcomings.

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The Mexican comedian Roberto Gómez Bolaños, also known as 'Chespirito', died Friday at the age of 85, according to the chain Televisa. The creator of characters such as ‘El Chavo del 8′ and 'El Chapulín Colorado' would have died in Cancun.

Born February 21, 1929, his fame crossed borders, becoming an icon in Latin America. The nickname comes from a hispanicization of the English author Shakespeare, and the film director put it Agustín P. Delgado, who considered Roberto Gómez Bolaños a little Shakespeare.

He even directed several movies such as ‘El Chanfle’ and ‘El Zángano’

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Puerto Vallarta, Jal. -during the first twelve days of December, for 93 years, Puerto Vallarta held the guadalupan pilgrimages. It was in 1921, with the inauguration of the parish of our Lady of Guadalupe that devotion began to take root in the hearts of Puerto Vallarta; but until the beginning of the 1940s, with the arrival of the priest Rafael Parra, the pilgrimages are made official as a popular party of draught, relevance and regional.

Rafael Parra was the main promoter of the Festival in the city, even their initiative should be brought altarpiece of Guadalajara which decorates the altar and the idea of the Crown the steeple of the Church.

Usually with a few variations to the passing of the years, the route of the pilgrimage begins at Juárez and 31 de octubre. The faithful gather to venerate the "Virgin Morena" and accompany it with songs and praises; travel always has a festive atmosphere with bands or mariachi music.

Likewise, the pilgrimage became a celebration of friendship between Puerto Vallarta and visitors, an extra attraction to the varied tourist offer of Puerto Vallarta. Verbena is the meeting point, where you can find typical food: gruel, corn on the cob, enchiladas, pozole, tostadas, churros.

The peak of the celebrations arrives on December 11, with the "Magna pilgrimage of the children away and disadvantaged". Children are joining the procession with the typical dress of the blanket. At the end of the middle of the night, becomes torch to the Church of our Lady of Guadalupe sing las Mañanitas to our Lady and performs the Eucharistic concelebration.

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Several businesses and associations joined forces with the Protección Civil y Bomberos de Bahía de Banderas (Banderas Bay Police and Fire Fighters Association) in order to teach this basic course to approximately 70 people.

The members of the Protección Civil y Bomberos de Bahía de Banderas, together with several businesses and associations, are offering this course, which is open to all citizens interested in learning basic lifeguarding techniques.

The workshop is available to approximately 70 people and will be offered over the course of four days along the bay area from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. from December 1-4, 2014: Monday in Sayulita, Tuesday in Puerto Vallarta, Wednesday in Punta Mita and Thursday in Sayulita.

Certified instructors will share lessons in classrooms, pools and beaches. Surf México announced the workshop, which will be imparted together with the Surf Instructor Academy, among others.

Using the slogan “Te estamos buscando, queremos ser más!” (“We’re looking for you: we want more of us!”), the workshop is very beneficial to bay area citizens, who can take advantage of this opportunity to sharpen their knowledge and put it to good use in a tourism destination.

The Riviera Nayarit Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) supports the event by extending the invitation to the area’s citizens, hotels and businesses, as they consider these activities both relevant and timely.

For more information and registration please call 322 123 30 34 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

When the guests around your Thanksgiving table are busy stuffing their bellies today, here's one way to break the lull in conversation: dazzle them with some tasty turkey trivia.