There was a time, not so long ago, when Puerto Vallarta had no electricity and no running water in the houses. For the district called “Caloso and Canoas”, which follows the River Cuale in the hilly area east of the Zona Romantica, this has been a reality untill the late 90’s.

During this time the people would take advantage of the river for bathing and washing clothes, as well as for fishing its sweet water shrimps and fish (of which there was definitley a greater abundancy than there is today).

Behind most powerful myths there is a woman. There are many ladies in the origination of the worlds favorite mexican cocktail: The Margarita.  Especially a lady named Margaret Sames.

In Acapulco. during Christmas 1948. Margaret Sames, a socialite originally from Texas, is hosting a magnificent party in her summer villa.

  For this occasion the recipe was invented by her bartender as a surprise novelty for her guests.

On recent days have multiplied in Puerto Vallarta contagion of colds, coughs, and respiratory diseases. This due to temperature changes, and particularly cooler climates than usual.

Leandro Hernandez Barrio, head of Vestores and Zoonoses, reported that to date have been implemented 63 percent of the influenza vaccine in Jalisco, but acknowledged that cases of common colds, cough and some other infections are on the rise . He explained that the goal envisaged by the SSJ is applied between the inhabitants and 920,000 doses are achieving the goal at the end of this January

A growing number of cases of flu and cough among the population

The health sector clinics are full of children and some adults infected by severe colds, cough, and even severe cases of bronchitis and pneumonia.

In this situation it is recommended to cover well in the mornings and evenings, drinking plenty of fluids, especially vitamin C, eat healthily, and avoid places with concentrations of people, whether some might be infected.

Note that the flu vaccine protects against the main types of influenza AH1N1, AH3N2 and influenza type B,  the invitation to the general population is to go to the nearest health center to ensure implementation of the vaccine.

Risk groups especially those who lead the actions of the health sector in this sense, are under 5, adults over 60 and those with HIV, diabetes, asthma or any other condition that diminishes their natural defenses against disease.

Moreover the Jalisco Health Secretariat confirmed in epidemiological week number 1 not  dengue cases in Jalisco but remain eight probable cases studied and the results could be confirmed in a week.

The doctor added that the entity is monitored 33 municipalities in which there have been cases steadily.

The main actions carried out in the municipalities monitored are reading ovitraps, larval control and spray inside and outside homes to prevent the occurrence and spread of mosquito transmits dengue.

He said the program is still performed "Clean Patio" consisting of a home visit to check that in the homes of Jalisco absence of risk factors for the development of dengue mosquitoes, such as clean water tanks and stagnant. Recommendations are uncovered, pull or turn liquid containers.

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50 people were found lodged in a farm with 200 cubicles, each with dimensions just enough for a person to spend the night lying

Guadalajara City Council found a farm in Justo Sierra Street has been operating as an underground shelter to accommodate people from municipalities within the state to engage  informal trade in the city, particularly in the historic center.

The head of the Directorate of Inspection and Supervision, Salvador Orozco Santillan, who recently reported his staff, along with members of the Department of Public Safety and the Department of Civil Protection and Fire, citizen attending a report warning of a large number of people living on a farm of two levels

When entered, they found that the place was divided in 200 booths of two meters by one, dimensions just enough for a person to remain lying down for the night. The walls are drywall with small televisions in the hallways and stains on walls
of connate fire, it due to poor electrical installations and a network site wiring hanging.

Found about 50 people, including some children, the municipal authority determined that the site had to be evacuated and closed, however, the intervention of the State Human Rights Commission Jalisco (CEDHJ) led they were allowed to stay for a few days, while they find another place to go, as could be formal shelters, because their economic status is very precarious.

The unoccupied cubicles were closed to prevent to be used.  With information gathered from people, it can be assumed that other sites like these exist in the municipality where they are charged 200 to 300 pesos a week for your stay.

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Stop me if you’ve heard any of this before. As computers keep getting faster and more powerful and robots keep advancing at a breakneck pace, most human jobs will be obsolete. But instead of simply being pink-spilled, humans will get brand new jobs which pay better and give them a lot of free time to enjoy the products of our civilization’s robotic workforce, create, and invent. It’s a futuristic dream that’s been around for almost a century in one form or another, and it has been given an update in the latest issue of Wired. Robots will take our jobs and we should welcome it because we’ll eliminate grunt work in favor of more creative pursuits, say today’s tech prophets, and in a way they’re right. Automation is one of the biggest reasons why a lot of people can’t go out and get jobs that once used to be plentiful and why companies are bringing in more revenue with far fewer workers. Machines have effectively eliminated millions of jobs.

When we get to the second part of this techno-utopian prediction, however, things aren’t exactly as rosy. Yes, new and higher paying jobs have emerged, especially in IT, but they’re closed to a lot of people who simply don’t have the skills to do these new jobs or for whom no position exists in their geographical vicinity. Automation doesn’t just mean that humans get bumped up from an obsolete job, it means there are fewer jobs overall for humans. And when it comes to positions in which dealing with reams of paperwork and mundane office tasks is the order of the day, having computers and robots in them eliminates internships college students or young grads can use to build up a resume and get their feet in the door. They’re now stuck in a Catch-22 where they’re unable to get experience and more education puts them further behind thanks to a machine. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that this is not what the techno-utopians had in mind.

Of course humans will have to move up into more abstract and creative jobs where robots have no hope of ever competing with them, otherwise the economy will collapse as automated factory after automated factory churns out trillions of dollars worth of goods that no one can buy since some 70% of the population no longer has a job. And at 70% unemployment, every last horrible possibility that sends societal collapse theory survivalists screaming themselves awake at night has a high enough chance of happening that yours truly would also start seriously considering taking up gun hoarding and food stockpiling as really good hobbies. Basically, the failure to get adjusted to the growing cybernetic sector of the workforce simply isn’t an option. Companies, no matter how multinational, would be able to eliminate so many positions that the robot takeover of human jobs with no replacements in sight that it wouldn’t start feeling the economic pain as they hit maximum market saturation and can go no further because no one can buy their wares.

But all these good news aside, just because we’ll have time to adjust to an ever more automated economy and feel the need to do so, doesn’t mean that the transition will be easy and people will not be left behind. Without a coordinated effort by wealthy nations to change the incentives they give their companies and educational institutions, we’ll be forced to ride out a series of massive recessions in which millions of jobs are shed, relatively few are replaced, and the job markets will be slowly rebuilt around new careers because a large chunk of the ones lost are now handed off to machines or made obsolete by an industry’s contraction after the crisis. And this means that when facing the machine takeover of the economy we have two realistic choices. The first is to adapt by taking action now and bringing education and economic incentives in line with what the postindustrial markets are likely to become. The second is to try and ride out the coming storm, adapting in a very economically painful ad hoc manner through cyclical recessions. Unlike we’re being told, the new, post-machine jobs won’t just naturally appear on their own…

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For lack of registration, and also according to studies by the Federal Commission of Protection against Health Risks, Reumofán Plus causes serious health problems. That's why this product was recalled. Confirmed the Secretary of Health Mr. Antonio Muñoz Serrano.

He mentions that this satisfies the disposition of COFEPRIS, which issued the supension on the marketing of the product.

The Reumofán Plus he adds, contains dexamethasone, a powerful anti-inflammatory that can cause adverse effects, such as gastric ulcer with possible perforation and severe bleeding, emotional disorders, and osteoporosis.the Health Regulation Department provides Phone lines to report the existence of the product.

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finally says, that the staff of the state agency conducted verification visits to 465 different places of which over 20 of them secured 263 bottles of 30 tablets each, and  12 more creams of 150 grams.

FDA warns of dangerous dietary supplements

The Food and Drug Administration has received dozens of reports about harmful side effects - including stroke and death - linked to two dietary supplements currently on the market, Reumofan Plus and Reumofan Plus Premium.

The agency has issued a safety alert to warn consumers about the dangers of the supplements. They are both marketed as natural dietary supplements but the FDA claims they have potentially dangerous active ingredients that aren't listed on their labels. The supplements are used to treat arthritis, osteoporosis, muscle pain, bone cancer and a host of other ailments.

They are manufactured in Mexico by Riger Naturals, but sold in the United States in some stores, Internet sites and flea markets. Most are labeled in Spanish but there could be versions with English labels.

The FDA is working closely with the Mexican government and says the Mexican Ministry of Health issued a health warning to the public and ordered Riger Naturals to recall the products.

In June, the FDA issued its first initial warning to consumers about Reumofan Plus based on preliminary laboratory tests. But after receiving increased reports of health problems, confirming drug ingredients and finding similar ingredients in Reumofan Plus Premium, officials decided to issue a second warning.

"Consumers taking these products are urged to immediately consult with their doctor to safely discontinue use of the product," said FDA spokeswoman Sarah Clark-Lynn. "The hidden drug ingredients in Reumofan Plus and Reumofan Plus Premium can lead to serious, even life-threatening health consequences. The longer the product is taken, the higher the risk of these serious health consequences."

The FDA says its lab analysis found prescription drug ingredients including dexamethasone, diclofenac sodium and methocarbamol in the supplements.

Dexamethasone is a corticosteroid used to treat inflammation. It can cause high blood sugar, injury to bone and muscle and psychiatric problems. Taking high doses of the drug or stopping it suddenly can cause low blood pressure and low blood sugar, fever, dizziness, nausea and fatigue.

"Abrupt discontinuation of corticosteroids may cause serious withdrawal syndrome and life-threatening adrenal suppression," Clark-Lynn said. "These risks depend upon a number of variables that need to be assessed by a health care professional, and medical intervention may be necessary. Only a licensed health care professional can evaluate patients for the risk, or confirm the existence, of adrenal suppression."

Diclofenac sodium is an NSAID - a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug. Taken improperly, it can increase the risk of gastrointestinal (GI) problems including ulcers, bleeding, fatal rupture of the stomach and intestines and cardiovascular events like heart attack and stroke.

Methocarbamol is a muscle relaxer that can cause sleepiness and dizziness and affect a person's ability to drive a car or operate machinery. Equally concerning, the FDA says, is the fact that these ingredients could interact with other medications and cause serious health

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The Ministry of the Interior, issued on Wednesday a state of emergency for 21 municipalities of the state of Chihuahua, in northern Mexico, with the purpose of receiving and resources to serve the citizens affected by the " severe snow "that has affected that region, since December 30.

Municipalities that includes the measure, according to a statement from the Interior Ministry, are: Ahumada, Aldama, Aquiles Serdán, Ascensión, Bachíniva, Buenaventura, Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Coyame del Sotol, Galeana, Gómez Farías, Guadalupe, Ignacio Zaragoza, Janos, Juárez, Madera, Manuel Benavides, Namiquipa, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Ojinaga y Praxedis G. Guerrero.

Scholars have recorded temperatures of 11 degrees below zero in points as Bocoyna, Chihuahua.

The snow that hit 42 municipalities in the mountainous area and northwest of the state, reached a thickness from 25 cm in the region of Las Barrancas del Cobre, informed the State Civil Protection Unit (UEPC)

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Carolina Gomez Aguiñaga
Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco

On Sunday afternoon it was observed that in the inner harbor of the Port Authority (API) had a great spot on the water, appreciated a long distance as some contamination, but so far the harbourmaster is ignoring the facts .

A municipal source assured usthat it was a diesel slick  was not cruising, it came from a boat dock combs, this version is not confirmed yet.

Interviewed with the head of navigation and the person in charge of monitoring Puerto Vallarta Port,Miguel Ángel Estrada Jacob, declare, the Navy of Mexico are responsible for inspecting this type of events, "and so far the Navy has not detected anything."

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Having doubts about your man?

By: Mr. Stephen Weiss
Photographer/Journalist
Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco

On Friday January 4 in the late afternoon a crocodile swam into the bay after swollen rivers flowed into the bay caused by the heavy rains this week.

He was found by security personnel sunning himself on the beach by the Marina Vallarta golf course.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - An earthquake of 7.5 magnitude struck in the Pacific Ocean off south-eastern Alaska on Saturday.

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